city of tuscaloosa

P.O. BOX 2089 • TUSCALOOSA, AL 35403 • (205) 248-5001 • FAX (205) 349-0209

Web Site Address: www.tuscaloosa.com

City of TuscaloosaCOUNCIL

BOBBY E. HOWARD District 1

HARRISON TAYLOR District 2

President Pro Tem CYNTHIA LEE ALMOND

District 3

WALTER MADDOX Mayor

COUNCIL LEE GARRISON

District 4 KIP TYNER District 5

BOB LUNDELL District 6

WILLIAM TINKER District 7

MEDIA NOTIFICATION Office of the Mayor For Immediate Release 205-248-5001 April 26, 2012

Lake Tuscaloosa-North River Waterfest

The Lake Tuscaloosa-North River Waterfest is a two day event including the Watershed Festival and the Lake Clean-Up Day. The Watershed Festival will be held at the MaryAnn Phelps Activity Center on Friday, May 4, 2012 from 9 am to 4 pm. The Lake Clean-Up Day will be held on Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 8 am to 2 pm at the Rock Quarry boat landing, the Binion Creek boat landing, and the Lake Nicol Park boat landing. This event is being hosted by the City of Tuscaloosa, the University Of Alabama Museum Of Natural History, and the Black Warrior River Clean Water Partnership. The Watershed Festival is a primary education event that focuses on educating and involving the community about what our water resources are, where they come from and how to protect and enjoy them safely. The event will include an educational expo, an information fair and activities for the public to enjoy. This is the fourth year of the Clean-Up, with past participation boasting over 500 volunteers who cleaned over 50,000 pounds of debris from Lake Tuscaloosa. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their boats to help remove debris. Lake Nicol boat landing will be for non-motorized boats only. Alabama Outdoors has teamed up with UA Outdoor Recreation Program to provide different types of paddle boats on site with instruction for safe operation. The overall goal of the weekend is the continued education and awareness of how important our water resource is and where it comes from, and how everyone can be actively involved with protecting it and ensuring it will be here for a long time. Registered volunteers for the weekend have the opportunity to win prizes such as a signed football from Coach Saban and gift cards to The Athletes Foot, Alabama Outdoors, Hudson Poole, and others. For more information on the Watershed Festival, please contact Mary Wallace Pitts at [email protected]. For more information on the Lake Tuscaloosa Clean-Up Day, please contact Dana Willingham at 205-349-0279, or [email protected].

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District 3

WALTER MADDOX Mayor





MEDIA NOTIFICATION Office of the Mayor For Immediate Release 205-248-5001 March 16, 2012

Fayette Area Chamber of Commerce Donates to Tuscaloosa Storm Recovery Fund

The Fayette Area Chamber of Commerce donated $1,000 to the Tuscaloosa Storm Recovery Fund on Thursday, March 15, 2012. The check was presented to Mayor Maddox following a presentation the Mayor gave to the Fayette Area Chamber of Commerce about Tuscaloosa’s on-going tornado recovery. Mayor Maddox expressed his gratitude for the City of Tuscaloosa having a neighbor as supportive and generous as the City of Fayette. “Fayette holds a special place in my heart, and our family’s roots run deep in this wonderful community. The City is honored to accept the Fayette Chamber of Commerce’s donation of $1,000 to the City’s Storm Recovery Fund. It was touching and powerful, and just another example of how Alabamians stand together in our time of need. I also want to thank Mayor Ray Nelson and Probate Judge William Oswalt for their support, partnership and friendship on so many issues impacting our region.”

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District 3

WALTER MADDOX Mayor





MEDIA NOTIFICATION Office of the Mayor For Immediate Release 205-248-5001 January 6, 2012

Mayor Maddox v. Mayor Holden Friendly Wager

This afternoon, Mayor Walter Maddox and Mayor “Kip” Holden, of Baton Rouge, LA, spoke about the challenges of disaster recovery as well as the upcoming BCS National Championship Bowl. Mayor Holden wagered Mayor Maddox three gallons of Raising Cane’s infamous “Cane’s sauce,” should LSU lose to Alabama. Raising Cane’s is a chicken restaurant started in Baton Rouge by an LSU alumnus, and is a love of Louisiana residents across the state. In return, Mayor Maddox has wagered three gallons of Alabama’s beloved Dreamland’s barbeque sauce. Mayor Maddox expressed his excitement about the game and how much it means to the citizens of Tuscaloosa. He also wishes everyone, whether you wear crimson and white or purple and gold, to have safe and enjoyable time.

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BOBBY E. HOWARD

District 1

HARRISON TAYLOR

District 2

President Pro Tem

CYNTHIA LEE ALMOND

District 3

WALTER MADDOX

Mayor

COUNCIL

LEE GARRISON

District 4

KIP TYNER

District 5

BOB LUNDELL

District 6

WILLIAM TINKER

District 7

MEDIA NOTIFICATION Office of the Mayor For Immediate Release 205-248-5001 May 16, 2012

Phone Book Recycling Winners Announced

The City of Tuscaloosa Environmental Services Department held the 2012 Phone Book Recycling

Contest, “Project Re-Directory,” in January and February. Tuscaloosa City and County schools

were asked to collect phonebooks for recycling, keeping them out of landfills, for a share of

$3,000 in cash prizes donated by AT&T. Almost 20,000 phonebooks were collected for recycling

throughout the county. Recycled phone books are made into useful products such as animal

bedding, home insulation, bathroom tissue, cereal boxes, roofing shingles, and new phone

books.

The winning schools were selected by those that collected the most phonebooks per student

enrolled. First place winners in each system will earn $700, second place winners $500, and

third place winners $300. Individual students who collected more than 100 books will earn a

"Little Ricky", a stuffed animal of the Tuscaloosa recycling mascot, Ricky the Recycling Raccoon.

This year's winners are:

Tuscaloosa City Schools

1st: Arcadia Elementary

2nd: Verner Elementary

3rd: MLK, Jr. Elementary

The six students that collected more than 100 books were Peyton Cobb, Cameron Lake, Brenna

Logan Ledbetter, Hayes Stabler, Hill Stabler, and Zane Turner.

For additional information about the Phone Book Recycling Contest, contact Stacy Vaughn at

205-248-4900 or [email protected].

Tuscaloosa County Schools

1st: Buhl Elementary

2nd: Flatwoods Elementary

3rd: Westwood Elementary







District 3

WALTER MADDOX Mayor





MEDIA NOTIFICATION Office of the Mayor For Immediate Release 205-248-5001 January 31, 2012

COURAGE UNDER FIRE: The 1961 Burning of the Freedom Riders' Bus

a photographic exhibition

The City of Tuscaloosa is pleased to announce the “Courage Under Fire” exhibit at the The Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum is open until February 29, 2012. The exhibit is available to the public Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10 am to 4:30 pm. This exhibit, curated by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, is the first of Tuscaloosa’s new museum’s traveling exhibitions. Twenty-three photographs chronicle the Congress of Racial Equality Freedom Riders’ journey through the southeast by bus. This is accompanied by an educational brochure that outlines the Civil Rights Movement events related to transportation from 1892-1961. The museum is also proud to host seven pieces of the Westervelt Art Collection. For more information about scheduling educational programming and group rates, please contact the museum directly at (205) 759-9603, or visit the website at www.mwwtm.com.

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District 3

WALTER MADDOX Mayor





MEDIA NOTIFICATION Office of the Mayor For Immediate Release 205-248-5001 May 22, 2012

Memorial Day Garbage, Trash, and Recycling Changes

The City of Tuscaloosa Environmental Services Department will change the start collection time for garbage, trash and recycling to 6:00 am during the summer months from Memorial Day through Labor Day. For the summer of 2012, the 6:00 am start time will be in effect from May 28, 2012 until September 3, 2012. After Labor Day, collections will resume at 7:00 am until the following Memorial Day. This change reduces the potential heat-related illnesses suffered by Environmental Services crew members during the summer months. This change only applies to those with City of Tuscaloosa curbside solid waste collection services, and not to those with private dumpster services or residents outside of the Tuscaloosa city limits. Please place your garbage carts, recycling bins and trash at the curbside by 6:00 am for collection between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Items placed out after 6:00 am may not be collected until the following scheduled collection day. Further, the City of Tuscaloosa Environmental Services Department will not be collecting garbage, trash or recycling on Monday, May 28, 2012 in observance of Memorial Day. Due to the holiday, collection will be delayed one day: Regular Monday routes will be collected on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Regular Tuesday routes will be collected on Wednesday, May 20, 2012. Regular Wednesday routes will be collected on Thursday, May 31, 2012. Regular Thursday routes will be collected on Friday, June 1, 2012. If you have any questions, please contact Stacy Vaughn at 205-248-4900, or at [email protected].

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