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‘W e ’r e a ll b e tte r fo r h a v in g m e t h e r ’ Community remembers Mary Anne Glazner, owner of Smith’s Variety By S Y D NEY CR OM W
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She entered rooms with a song and left conversations with an “I love you.” Those who met Mary Anne Glaz ner, even just once, could see she was “one of these people that they really don’t make anymore,” said Mountain Brook
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Chamber of Commerce Ex ecutive D irector Suz an D oidge. “ he definitely knew how to light up a room,” D oidge said. “I don’t know anybody more beloved than Mary Anne Glaz ner.” Mary Anne Glaz ner, who bought Smith’s V ariety with her husband, Lytton, in 1976, died April 7 at 76 years old. It was two days before her birthday and only a week before Easter, her favorite holiday. She was the undisputed queen of Easter baskets and ribbons for every season and every community cause. “No one could do the baskets like she
could,” said her son, Jim Glaz ner. Mary Anne Glaz ner’s bows adorned storefronts and houses throughout Mountain Brook for Sid O rtis’s and Sam H odnett’s battles with cancer, the recent bomb threats at the Levite Jewish Community Center and other causes. But the everyday stories of people who came into Smith’s V ariety interested her just as much. Longtime employee K at Sudduth recalled a woman who had a fender
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With police force now fully staffed, number of arrests rises
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By LEXI COON In the past year, statistics for arrests by the Mountain Brook olice epartment have fluctuated only slightly, but in the past five years, numbers have changed more dramatically. Since his time as police chief, Ted Cook has helped grow the department from officers to a fully staffed force of officers. ook said this ensures all patrols and beats are covered at all times, which has affected arrest numbers and increased the safety of the community. “A few years ago, we were pretty short-handed, and we had to leave a beat open from time to time,” he said. “We’re getting to the point, again over this past year, we’re being able to put the ext ra folks out and about.” By including more patrols, officers are more visible to criminals and are able to make more arrests, Cook said.
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