OVER THE MOUNTAIN JOURNAL
Gregg Wadsworth to Lead Homewood Rotary Club
Gregg Wadsworth has been elected Homewood Rotary president for the 2022-2023 club year. He was installed by Rotary International Assistant District Gov. Derek Brown at the club’s June 23 meeting. Wadsworth, regional accounting support manager with Buffalo Rock, has been a Rotarian since 2008. Other newly installed officers are Gregg Wadsworth Jennifer Kyle, program chair/president-elect; Jo-Ann Bradley, secretary; Kathryn Henry, treasurer; and Peter Bradley, sergeant-at-arms. The leadership team also includes RI Foundation Director Michael O’Kelley, club foundation Director Bo Duke, youth service Director Mike Hathorne, club service/membership Director Mary Lou Reynolds, grants Chair Laura Tucker and immediate past President Rhett McCreight. Homewood Rotary supports local, national and international projects through service and financial commitment. Its annual college scholarship program has assisted hundreds of Homewood High School graduates over five decades. The club awarded scholarships totaling $20,000 in 2022. Third-graders at Homewood’s three elementary schools enjoy receiving dictionaries personally presented by Rotarians. The club also supports varied other projects and services that impact area residents of all ages. To meet these financial needs, the club is
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PEOPLE known for its Chalk Art Festival at We Love Homewood Day each May, a St. Patrick’s Day auction and other fundraising opportunities throughout the year. Homewood Rotary meets at noon on Thursdays at Homewood Library. Learn more at homewoodrotaryal.org and #homewoodrotary.
Hoover Resident Elected Vice-Chair of the National Wildlife Federation
The National Wildlife Federation, the nation’s oldest and largest wildlife conservation organization, has elected Rebecca Wright Pritchett of Adams and Reese as eastern vice-chair of its board of directors. “I am honored to have been elected by NWF’s affiliates as the Rebecca Pritchett federation’s eastern vice chair representing the eastern third of the country,” Pritchett, a resident of Hoover, said in a statement from her law firm. “As an affiliate-based organization with independently governed, local affiliates in the states and several U.S. territories, the federation has a unique advantage among national nonprofits,” she continued. “We have boots on the ground and local perspectives to guide our actions at the federal level. Our affiliates set the federation’s national conservation policy, ensuring that we focus on the things that are important to them. “I look forward to continuing to work
with and represent the affiliates on the NWF board and advocating on their behalf at the national level,” she said. Pritchett, a Jackson native, served as president of the Alabama Wildlife Federation, one of NWF’s oldest state affiliates, from 2004 to 2005. She has chaired multiple resolution committees and participated on several bylaws committees. She has served on the NWF board of directors as Region 4 director since 2017, representing Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. One of her most notable projects as a member of the organization was traveling to the Dakotas with NWF to help resolve affiliate conflict over the Garrison Diversion Project, an interbasin water transfer project, in 2001. Pritchett has more than 29 years of experience in environmental and natural resources law. As special counsel at Adams and Reese, she
focuses on assisting clients across the country with regulatory compliance, enforcement actions and civil litigation in all aspects of environmental and natural resources law, as well as brownfield redevelopment and formation of habitat mitigation banks. Pritchett has received some of the legal community’s most coveted honors, including a ranking in Chambers USA for environmental law. She is admitted to practice in Alabama and California.
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