Village Living Volume 5 | Issue 11 | February 2015
Hitting home
neighborly news & entertainment for Mountain Brook
Planting a park
The effects of new state-issued autism ID cards are reaching Mountain Brook homes. Read more inside.
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Happy trails
Scout project helps complete Cahaba River Walk By SYDNEY CROMWELL
The Village 2 Village Run is moving to March and adding a trail run. Find all the details in this issue.
When 15-year-old Hunt Cochrane heard about the plans for the Cahaba River Walk, he saw an
opportunity. He needed an Eagle Scout project, and the city didn’t have funding for secondary trails on the site. As it turned out, he had an unexpected connection to the
park. The Mountain Brook Junior High student was showing the project plans to his grandparents when his grandfather, Carter Kennedy,
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suddenly recognized the property. Years before, Kennedy had bought the land as part of his construction
See PARK | page A22
Cherokee Bend’s Corgill named National Teacher of the Year finalist
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Hunt Cochrane led Troop 28 members to plant native vegetation in the new Cahaba River Walk as a part of his Eagle Scout project. The park is scheduled for completion this month. Photo by Madoline Markham.
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Ann Marie Corgill is a celebrity at Cherokee Bend Elementary. As she entered the school’s gym on Jan. 15, students cheered her name and chanted, “CBS, CBS, CBS.” The youngest ones might not have fully understood why, but they knew it was time to hold up posters and scream. The day before, Corgill, a fourth-grade teacher at Cherokee Bend, had been named one of four finalists for 2015 National Teacher of the Year. Corgill is Mountain Brook’s first-ever National Students surround Ann Marie Corgill at a pep rally held at Cherokee Bend Elementary in her honor. Photo by Madison Miller.
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