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!

Click Henry Winkler for information about the local Montgomery branch of FGC. They do an incredible amount of work for the community and families.

It will be well worth your time to check out their site. Even if you cant use their help odds are that you know someone who can.

Here are some great pictures from the event

The gracious and unassuming FGC director Dr. White

JT and Leanne of Mix103 chatting it up with  Mr. Winkler

The food was decadent and this tenderloin was magnificent

One of the younger attendees

The Mayor and the Fonz

Working on another great video for the event right now. Check out our GreatNewsVideo channel on youtube for more awesome Montgomery videos.

We do this thing because The Family Guidance Center and Henry Winkler are Great News Montgomery!