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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A longtime Alabama environmental advocate has been honored by the Global Waterkeeper Alliance. John L. Wathen, who has served decades as the keeper of Hurricane Creek in Tuscaloosa County, has been named a recipient of the alliance’s Terry Backer Award.
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New tugboat helps modernize Parker Towing Co.'s fleet When Capt. Larry Norris pilots a marine vessel down river with barges strung out in front of his tug, he knows the river can put up a fight. "You have hours and hours of sheer boredom. It's what you get used to," Norris said Friday during the christening of Parker Towing Co.'s new tug, the Jared Phillips. "But, if you've never been over here, it's a fight. You have to fight against the bottom of the river. If the river comes up and falls out real quick, the bottom will change up. Between Oliver Lock and Fosters, the turns are real sharp. Once you get below that, they start to lengthen out, but up here they are real sharp."
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June 11, 2021 By Waterways Journal Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Parker Towing Company will be featured on National Geographic’s new show “Breaking Bobby Bones” Sunday, June 20, at 10 p.m. Eastern (9 p.m. Central). Each episode of the show features radio and TV personality Bobby Bones traveling to a different part of the United States to “find people with unique jobs, skills, hobbies and abilities,” according to the network. In attempting to learn their trades, Bones explores “the triumphs and tragedies that made these heroes who they are today,” according to National Geographic. For the episode featuring Parker Towing, Bones will join a towboat crew, learning some of what it takes to move barges on the nation’s waterways and, in the process, getting to know the crew members. The show can be watched show on live TV or streamed online; go to nationalgeographic.com for more information.
March 12, 2021 By Frank McCormack On a cold February evening—frigid by New Orleans’ standards—the mv. Jared Phillips, the newest vessel in Parker Towing Company’s fleet, motored through the Harvey Canal, down the Mississippi River past the city’s French Quarter, and through the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, bound for the Intracoastal Waterway. The 4,200 hp. towboat, built at FMT Shipyard on the Harvey Canal, made its way east to Mobile, Ala., then north to Parker Towing’s headquarters in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where it quickly entered service on the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway (BWT). The vessel is named for Parker Towing Company’s director of business operations, Jared Phillips, who has been with the company for 10 years. Phillips, a native of Huntsville, Ala., began attending the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 2002. While in college, he met the former Alison Parker Haun, daughter of Parker Towing Vice Chairman and CEO Charles Haun and niece of Chairman Tim Parker Jr. The couple have been married since August 2010 and now have two sons, Parker and Theo. Alison Parker Phillips serves as Parker Towing’s director of communications.