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SPRINGVILLE — The City of Springville celebrated its sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, Thursday night, December 8, with events in the city’s historic downtown. “We had a great time last night celebrating The City of Springville’s 150th See SPRINGVILLE, Page 6
Moody Council awards parade winners, accepts bid for police station construction By Nathan Prewett For The Tribune
MOODY – The Moody City Council awarded the winners of the recent Christmas parade and then accepted a bid to construct a new building for the police department See MOODY, Page 2
Truss Bus, Cahaba Project Monuments discussed during Trussville council workshop By Hannah Curran Editor
TRUSSVILLE — The Trussville City Council heard from Stanley Wormely discussing the Truss Bus, and See WORKSHOP, Page 5
Kemp’s Kitchen & Bakery, Golden Rule BBQ & Grill in Trussville announces grand opening From The Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE — Kemp’s Kitchen & Bakery and Golden Rule BBQ & Grill, two greatly missed Trussville See RESTAURANT, Page 4
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to show the characters develop emotionally,” he also said it has some hard edges, such as characters possibly going off to war, due to the World War II setting. The film takes place in a fictional Alabama town and centers around a boxer named Henry DeVito, played by actor Thomas Gagliano. “He was a young boxer in a fictional boxing league, that we created for the purpose of the story, who falls in love with a night club singer named Tabitha Sanders,” Scarborough said. Kate Hindman, who plays Sanders in the movie, won an award for her performance in the film at the Texas Faith and Family Film Festival. “(It) was a real surprise to us,” Scarborough said. “She’d done such a good job, but we’d had so many delays in the release of our film (after) we first entered the movie into various film festivals across the country, we had
By Crystal McGough Associate Editor
TRUSSVILLE – A passionate group of young adults from Trussville and the surrounding communities teamed up while in high school to create their own film production team, which would later grow into the company now known as Chog Media LLC. Chog Media CEO Austin Scarborough, along with CFO and production manager Anthony Berneche, Creative Director/Director of Photography Josh Hale and Composer/Department of Music head Ryan Owens, are proud to announce the official DVD and streaming release of their second feature film, “New South Cottage,” just in time for the holidays. According to Scarborough, “New South Cottage” is a period piece, set in the 1940s, that will appeal to fans of movies such as “The Notebook.” While Scarborough called it a “sweet movie with a goal
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ACTA brings holiday rom-com to its stage with The Holiday Channel Christmas Movie Wonderthon By Hannah Curran Editor
TRUSSVILLE — Once you’ve seen one Hallmark Channel movie, you’ve seen them all, but you’ve never seen a Holiday Channel movie like this one. ACTA presents The Holiday Channel Christmas Movie Wonderthon, a comedy by Don Zolidis directed by Curtis Frost. The performance is brilliantly narrated by two Christmas-loving, hot chocolate-sipping, whipped creamslurping holiday romance enthusiasts, so don’t be discouraged; they will help you along the way with various cues IF they are paying attention. But, on the other hand, their hands-on approach may have you throwing snowballs at an unconscious man in a wheelchair for the purpose of true love? That’s not the only questionable decision the audience will be making throughout the night. Your choices
Carol (Jana Hoffman), a psychopath, and Jackson (Josh McDaniel), a veterinarian. (Photo by Hannah Curran)
during the performance may leave one of the couples fighting for their life as wild wolves attack them; holiday romance is no joke. “Two years ago, some ACTA Boardmembers wondered if there was a play that made fun of Hallmark movies,” Curtis Frost stated. “After a short search, we found The Holiday Channel Christmas Movie Wonderthon by Don Zolidis. I laughed out loud reading the script, and I
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felt the urge to direct my first show.” With a hilarious assembly of actors consisting of familiar faces alongside newcomers, the cast is comprised of Angela Forehand, Brian Allison, Jana Hoffman, Josh McDaniel, Kathryn Gilmer, Zach Skaggs, Lynn Kalchik, Mike DiLaura, Christa McCrorie, Soren Klinger, Olivia Reeves, Connor Hart, Leslie Price, Stacy Lowery, Teriann Cox, and Carter Sanderson,
with Hailey Lowery and Sean Frost in the role of dual-narrators. “Directing this cast has been both fun and challenging, as I roped in the barely contained chaos that is this cast, who have plenty of stage experience and are surprisingly professional when they want to be,” Curtis Frost stated. As the narrators open the performance, they drop you into Hopewood Falls, Vermont, where the Christmas spirit is everywhere. But will this lovely town survive evil city slickers trying to destroy the Inn and Christmas Tree Farm? Only in a holiday movie can two princes from two very different royal families be found in the same town, and what’s a Christmas movie without a meet-cute to depend on one person being in a coma? This is just the play for you for those out there who love holiday romance movies.
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Pinson City Council announces Christmas Parade float winners By Crystal McGough Associate Editor
PINSON – The Pinson City Council has a longstanding tradition of holding one meeting each year at the Palmerdale Homestead Community Center. This year, the See PINSON, Page 3
Trussville council approves bond sale for Civic Center, Fire Station Project By Hannah Curran Editor
TRUSSVILLE — The Trussville City Council approved the adoption of an ordinance respecting the issuance by The Public Building Authority (PBA) of its $7,700,000 See BOND, Page 3
Irondale City Council discusses redistricting, new fire facility at meeting By Nathan Prewett For the Tribune
IRONDALE – During a meeting on Thursday, Dec. 6, the Irondale City Council authorized the purchase of a property for a new fire station and training facility. See IRONDALE, Page 4
Christmas came early this year for the Boys and Girls Club By Hannah Curran Editor
TRUSSVILLE — The Second Annual Holiday with Heroes took place on Wednesday, Dec. 7, and over 20 children from The Boys and Girls Club of Central Alabama received an early Christmas. Enterprise Holdings Foundation hosted Holiday with See CHRISTMAS, Page 5
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