The City of Birmingham will be playing host to a prominent legal official tomorrow. APR’s Alex AuBuchon has more on the Attorney General’s national tour stop.
Recently appointed Attorney General Loretta Lynch will be visiting Birmingham tomorrow as part of a nationwide Community Policing Tour.
Lynch will speak with new cadets at the Birmingham Police Academy as well as kids participating in the Birmingham Youth Citizens’ Police Academy. She’s also scheduled to visit the 16th Street Baptist Church and will be meeting with police chiefs and sheriffs from Alabama’s northern district at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
White House officials say the tour builds on a commitment to engage with community law enforcement as well as President Obama’s new My Brother’s Keeper initiative.
Lynch kicked off the tour in Cincinnati and will head to East Haven, Connecticut after her visit to the Magic City.
Governor Robert Bentley has announced a newly created hall of fame to honor Alabama’s love of barbecue.
The Alabama Barbecue Hall of Fame will include 29 restaurants in Alabama that have been open for at least 50 years. The hall of fame was developed by the Alabama Department of Tourism as part of its “Year of Alabama Barbecue” promotion highlighting the state’s barbecue heritage.
Members of the inaugural class include… Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q in Decatur, Dick Howell Barbeque Pit in Florence, Dick Russell’s Famous Bar-B-Q in Mobile, Dreamland Bar-B-Que Ribs in Tuscaloosa, Archibald’s Bar-B-Q in Northport and Brooks Barbecue in Muscle Shoals.
Restaurants will receive a personalized plaque at a June 29 luncheon at the Golden Rule Bar-B-Q restaurant in Irondale.
Summer campers along Alabama’s gulf coast will get see how a zoo works this week.
The Alabama Gulf Coast zoo in Gulf Shores is holding its twentieth annual zoo camp. Youngsters from three to eleven years old will hear from zoo keepers and meet the animals up close and personal.
Zoo general manager Kim Dahlgren hopes the children leave the camp with a new respect for wildlife.
“At least have some sense of responsibility for the species because some of the species that we have are critically endangered and you do want campers to respect that and support them in later years, so that their children and their children’s children will also be able to see these critically endangered animals.”
Dahlgren says the zoo welcomes students from all across the state of Alabama during their annual summer camp.