City of
PELHAM
NEWSLETTER Embrace the Outdoors – Southern Style
November 2018
Official News from the City of Pelham, Alabama
A Time for Giving Thanks Thanksgiving…always a time to hurricane, she and her ambulance reflect on the things for which we are crew recovered eight bodies. thankful. For the DiFante family, this Why does it so often take the news past year has been a year of change on of a disaster to make us stop and feel steroids. My husband left his career truly thankful for what we have? As I of 20+ years, moved to Alabama (he’s write this article, it has been an never lived outside of especially tough week. Our New York), we bought a daughter returned yesterday house, my Mom entered from visiting her apartment memory care, got sick where little can be salvaged. and had to be The impact of being an agent hospitalized, and one of change has hit me full force adult child moved back and will continue to do so. My in with us (temporarily Mom, who was scheduled to be of course). Then discharged from the hospital, Hurricane Michael hit took a turn for the worse the Panama City area yesterday. Yet through the DiFante where our daughter and daily struggles, we have her fiancé are stationed choices. We can let ourselves at Tyndall Air Force Base, and we be consumed with those struggles and found ourselves figuring out how to the things we imagine cause them, or live out of boxes from our recent we can embrace them and be sensitive move, accommodate three evacuees to the struggles’ others are having from the base along with two dogs and around us. I choose the latter. I am one cat. Then, one of our daughter’s thankful for my Savior, my family, my friends who is a paramedic posted on friends, this community and the social media that the day after the opportunity to serve. I am thankful
that I come from a family of public servants and along with my husband, am raising a family of public servants. I am thankful for our freedoms; especially the freedoms to worship, obtain a great education and volunteer in countless ways. I am thankful for the participative nature and transparency of local government and for all those who dedicate their time and talents to make this community a better place. As you take time with your families and friends to remember all the things for which you are thankful, please take a moment to visit the website of our comprehensive plan via the city home page at pelhamalabama.gov. There you will be able to complete a survey and offer thanks for the things you like about Pelham and the things that are important to you that may not be available. Your input will help create a blueprint for our future…a future you will help create, and a future for which those coming after you will be thankful.
Pelham’s Annual Community Christmas Tree Lighting It is a great opportunity to come together as a community and kick-off the holiday season. A few of the items in the program have changed over the years, but the feeling of Christmas and community remains a constant. This year you can experience these feelings at our Community Christmas Tree Lighting on Thursday, November 29th at the Pelham Civic Complex and Ice Arena. Guests to the event will enjoy holiday music from the Pelham
High School Jazz Band as they enter the venue. The Pelham Beautification Board will distribute 1,000 Christmas ornaments in the main lobby prior to the event. Inside the Main Arena, Christmas Music performed by the children in our community will fill the air. Players from the Pelham Mite Under 8 Division will entertain with their hockey skills and students from the Pelham Skate School and the Birmingham Figure
Skating Club will dazzle the crowd with performances on ice. Santa Claus will be available from 5:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. and then returns for visits after the annual Pelham Community Christmas Tree Lighting from 7:30pm until 8:45 p.m. The Pelham High School Culinary Arts Program will provide hot cocoa and cookies in the ballroom with Christmas music provided by Blaze Entertainment.
UPCOMING EVENTS NOV. 3RD
Pancake Breakfast hosted by the Pelham Library Guild Saturday, November 3, 2018 Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Pelham Library. All proceeds will go towards purchasing patio furniture for the Library!
NOV. 5TH, 19TH
City Council Work Session and Council Meeting Monday, November 5 and 19, 2018
NOV. 6TH
Election Day Tuesday, November 6, 2018
NOV. 12TH
Veterans Day Monday, November 12, 2018 City of Pelham offices will close in observance of Veterans Day. Advanced Disposal will run as scheduled.
NOV. 17TH
AL.Com Pelham City Center 5K Saturday, November 17, 2018 1st Annual AL.Com Pelham City Center 5K race. Please click on the attached link for further details and how to register online.
NOV. 22ND-23RD
Pelham City Offices will close in observance of the Thanksgiving Holidays Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23 Advanced Disposal will not pick up on Thursday, November 22nd, but will run one day behind.
NOV. 29TH
Christmas Tree Lighting Thursday, November 29, 2018 at Pelham Civic Center and Ice Arena
DEC. 11TH
Residential and Commercial Light Judging by the Beautification Board Tuesday, December 11,
HOCKEY SCHEDULE
November 2 Vs. Evansville Thunderbolts @ 7:30 November 15 Vs. Quad City Storm @ 7:30 November 17 Vs. Huntsville Havoc @ 7:00 November 21 Vs. Evansville Thunderbolts @ 7:30 November 23 Vs. Macon Mayhem @ 7:30