Village Living neighborly news & entertainment for Mountain Brook
Volume 7 | Issue 6 | September 2016
John T. Natter set to speak at Patriot Day Mountain Brook to host remembrance ceremony on 15th anniversary of 9/11 By ANA GOOD and JESSE CHAMBERS
to remember that day during a combined Patriot Day ceremony. Beginning at 8:30 a.m., There are many lessons to be Mountain Brook Mayor Terry learned from the terrorist attacks Oden, Fire Chief Chris Mullon America that occurred on Sept. ins and Police Chief Ted Cook 11, 2001, but one is paramount, will join Homewood Mayor according to U.S. Navy Rear Scott McBrayer, Vestavia Hills Admiral (Ret.) John T. (Jack) Mayor Butch Zaragoza and Natter. other members of the cities’ “Always be vigilant, and don’t police and fire departments to take your liberties for granted,” welcome guests at the interNatter said Natter, now an attorney and section of Hoyt Lane and Oak a member of the Hoover City Council. Street in Crestline Village. “There are people who don’t cherish our libThe ceremony will take place next to the erties the way we do and don’t believe in the Sept. 11 memorial outside the Mountain Brook freedoms we have and would like to see them fire station. The memorial, a 1,305-pound curtailed,” he added. H-beam from the former World Trade Center Natter will help commemorate the 15th site, was dedicated on Patriot Day in 2013. anniversary of 9/11 when he serves as speaker on Sunday, Sept. 11, as the cities of Mountain See PATRIOT DAY | page A30 Brook, Homewood and Vestavia Hills pause
Above: Members of the Mountain Brook, Homewood and Vestavia Hills fire departments. Left: From left to right: Former Homewood Police Chief Jim Roberson, Homewood Fire Chief John Bresnan, Vestavia Hills Police Chief Dan Rary, Vestavia Hills Fire Chief James R. St. John and Mountain Brook Police Chief Ted Cook. Photos courtesy of the Mountain Brook Police Department.
A ministry for memory loss By ERICA TECHO
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Program Director Patti Williams works with an Encore Respite Ministry participant on an art project. Photo by Erica Techo.
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Walking into Encore Respite Ministry, it is hard to tell the difference between participants and volunteers. Instead of a segmented group, there is a collection of about 20 people playing games, doing artwork and having fun. “People will say, ‘Who is a participant?’ and I’ll say, ‘I’m not telling you,’” said Valerie Boyd, director of senior adult ministries at Canterbury United Methodist Church. Encore Respite Ministry, a program designed to empower individuals with memory loss, launched at Canterbury in
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June following nine months of brainstorming and planning. The idea developed from Canterbury’s support group for caregivers of individuals with memory loss, Boyd said. Members of the support group kept asking to develop a daycare for adults with memory loss, but Boyd said that seemed like a far-off goal. But last fall, Boyd visited an adult daycare facility in Montgomery with Miller Piggott, executive director of Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama.
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Remembering 9/11
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As 15th anniversary of attacks approches, Sgt. Patrick Weeks looks back on volunteering at Ground Zero.
Check out what the Spartans have lined up in September as they begin Region 3 play.
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