9th Annual Mayor’s Neighborhood Conference November 6, 2009

It GREAT NEWS for  those interested in the vitality of Montgomery’s neighborhoods. The ninth annual Mayor’s Neighborhood Conference
is November 6, 2009 from 5:30pm-8:30pm at the Capital City Club.

The conference, sponsored by the office of the mayor and BONDS
(Building Our Neighborhoods for Development and Success), will focus on
the accomplishments and challenges of Montgomery neighborhoods.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Weaving the Fabric of OurCommunity.”

The guest speaker is Mayor Todd Strange, Montgomery’s 47th Mayor.
Mayor Strange will sharethe “State ofthe City” and provide information on the city’s Organizational Structure.

The highlight of this year’s conference will be the program’s transition
and how the partnership will help further the capacity of the program;
thereby strengthening our
neighborhoods…”weaving the fabric of our community”!

This was an awesome event and we will put up some more pictures soon. In the meantime the video of the Mayor breakdancing that Regina Berry talked about can be found in this article

It was part of a story about the Carver High school basketball players who were honored by Mayor Strange and Congressman Bright for not participating in a fight that made national headlines a while back. Click here to read that article

Here is the first set of pictures. Working on the video documentary right now

English Village

Regina and WSFA

Aristotle Kirkland

Happy Grant Recipient

Capitol at night

We have over 100 pictures of the evening and cant post all of them. Here is a

publicity check. If Eddie took your picture and you would like it published just send a note to editor@greatnewsmontgomery.com with a description of when the picture was taken and what you look like. He will put it up with a caption.

BONDS is Great News Montgomery!

In the meantime, Eddie just signed up to be on the   BIG Ballers team

Here are some pics from the last “free pick up game” opportunities that WAKA and EMERGE provided the community  on Thursday 30.July.2009

Fellow Big Baller Brandon

I Call above  my ” looks like it has been photoshopped but its not ” effect

He just designed our logo and it is sure to destroy the psyche of all  small ballers out there.

Suzanna Wasserman on right is with EMERGE and is a big part of the organization of this league

Call her at 262-2261 for more details

Some people getting ready in the Kicking Cage

Step into the Watermelon Express Transporter and visit other colorful parts of our community

This “transporter  takeoff image”  was taken at lagoon park and clicking it will take you to another version of same picture on the “transporter landing” page and more great pictures. Try it out

Can you spot the differenes in the two pictures?

We plan on covering our time having fun and playing WAKA Kickball in the coming weeks!!

Perhaps WAKA and EMERGE would like some additional coverage as well. Get in contact with editor@GreatNewsMontgomery.com  if you have some or need some collaboration ideas.

Small bag of tricks for busy and non profit publicists follows:

Here are two small things to do to spice up simple photos.

I added a poloroid picture effect and some text in very little time using free software. You dont have to be perfect. (Normally the speech bubble would be placed a little higher and closer to mouth)

These 2 quickies could add a big bang to a stale photo.

Visit this link for detailed info if you want to play WAKA registration

Held July 11 ,2009 . Excerpt from MAJ and Alvin Benn…

Peach growers and tomato pickers from across central Alabama were kept busy Saturday during the 40th anniversary of Farmers Market Day.

Mixed in with the produce selling and musical entertainment was recognition of talented youngsters who have won competition to represent Alabama’s peach, watermelon and other agricultural interests.

A huge crowd turned out at the State Farmers Market on Federal Drive in Montgomery to honor Alabama farmers by purchasing their produce and other items ranging from goat cheese to flowers.

Farmers Market Day is a joint effort of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, the Alabama Farmers Federation and the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries….end excerpt

Here are some picture that we took. If we forgot your name send a comment and we will add it into post!

Alabama Watermelon Queen

Kids on Antique tractor

Bubbles Bailey had some great haberno goat cheese and hooked us up  with a  green tea soap sample

Parsons Pantry enthusiastic to be on GreatNewsMontgomery.com

Will post some other pictures including Miss Agriculture later.