Village Living neighborly news & entertainment for Mountain Brook
Volume 7 | Issue 2 | May 2016
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Standing Out
Memory Court
Senior Katie Klasing makes history by becoming the first Alabama student to earn prestigious prize for race relations.
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Journey to revive Crestline Piggly Wiggly nears its end as store readies for opening
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They say it takes a village. This month, Crestline Village will prove just that. More than two years after its beloved Piggly Wiggly shuttered its doors for the last time on Nov. 2, 2013, a new chapter in Crestline Pig history will be written: The brand-new 18,000-square-foot Crestline Piggly Wiggly will finally open its doors.
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OPENING MAY 2016 NEW LOCATION: 41 CHURCH ST.
Mountain Brook student athlete Sara Chandler Mitchell beats out competition for Bryant-Jordan award.
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INSIDE
Bottom photo: The new store’s interior takes shape ahead of its May opening. Photo by Frank Couch.
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Top photo: Residents fill the room for a 2014 City Council meeting during which rezoning for the new Crestline Piggly Wiggly was approved. Staff photo.
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After lending support to one of their own, community unites for Field of Dreams event
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Confidence gushed out of Slade, who sat back relaxed, like being interviewed Slade Anderson will turn 9 on May was his second nature. His parents, 15. Emily and Josh Anderson, sat nearby With his party theme already planned and watched him. They know they out, there’s little for him to do but sit have time to enjoy their son — time back and wait for the date. His smile, that just a few years ago, was difficult complete with a set of braces, lights up to measure. when he talks about the event. After nearly three years of battling “It’s going to be a backwards party,” acute lymphoblastic leukemia — a he said as he sat in one of the oversized form of blood cancer — Slade compurple chairs atop the Grand Bohemian pleted his last chemotherapy treatment Mountain Brook balcony. “Everyone will have to wear everything backwards — their shirt, their pants.” See ST. JUDE | page A31
Emily, Slade and Josh Anderson pose in the ballroom area of the Grand Bohemian Mountain Brook where the St. Jude Field of Dreams event will be May 7. Photo by Ana Good.
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