Service Care Blog

From the Shelby County Reporter:

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade has been a family tradition for the Burnside family for many years.

The family watches the parade on television each year, but this year they will have a much closer view this Thanksgiving as daughter Kaitlyn, a Pelham High School senior, has been chosen as the first-ever student drum major, while brother Andrew, a PHS freshman, will also march in the parade.

“I’m ecstatic,” said father Jeff, who is the PHS band director and will serve as a parent chaperone alongside wife Katy, who is also a teacher at PHS.

Read the entire article here.

Labels: events, Pelham

From the Pelham Reporter:

"Two suspects have been arrested in a string of burglaries after a female suspect unexpectedly broke in to an off-duty Pelham Police officer’s home in the Wild Timber subdivision."

Oh dear. Wow.

Well, that wasn't the plan, I'm sure. If there was a plan.

Read more about Suspects arrested after breaking into off-duty officer’s home

Labels: Pelham, Wild Timber

Residents of Pelham, Hoover, and Vestavia (and anywhere else, I suppose)...

If you paid upfront money to Andrew Carlton Gannett of Gannett Tile for services that were not performed and don't know where to turn for help, please read this article:

Police looking for residents scammed by tile business

Labels: Hoover, Pelham, Vestavia Hills

Six Pelham, Alabama firefighters were grandfathered into a program that gives firefighters pay incentives to further their education. The incentives were temporarily withheld since the firefighters received the education at an unaccredited institution.

Read about the Pelham firefighters school pay issue here.

P.S. Service Care loves the fire department.

Labels: Alabama, Pelham

Apparently, the city of Pelham, Alabama turned 45 last Friday.

Pelham, you don't look a day over 41, I swear it.

Service Care says Happy Birthday!

Labels: Alabama, Pelham, Service Care

Looks like they're going to do it again, many cities in Alabama to eliminate sales taxes August 7th through the 9th for back to school shoppers.

Read about the tax holiday here.

From the al.com blog entry:

"Some of the participants in the 2009 sales tax holiday, according to the Alabama Department of Revenue

Alabaster
Bessemer
Birmingham
Calera
Center Point
Chelsea
Columbiana
Fultondale
Gardendale
Helena
Homewood
Hoover
Hueytown
Irondale
Kimberly
Pelham
Springville
Tarrant
Trussville
Vestavia Hills
Warrior
Wilsonville
Shelby County
Jefferson County (will exempt the regular 1 percent sales tax but not the 1 percent education sales tax that took effect in 2005)"

Labels: Alabama, Alabaster, Bessemer, Birmingham, Center Point, Chelsea, Fultondale, Gardendale, Helena, Homewood, Hoover, Irondale, Jefferson County, Pelham, Shelby County, Trussville, Vestavia Hills

According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, 77 percent of cities and towns with more than 20,000 people had income drops since 2000. Not so for Birmingham metro.

"None of the eight cities in metro Birmingham with populations of more than 20,000 had a decline. They saw increases between 9 percent and 26 percent, according to a Birmingham News analysis of the Census data, collected from 2005 to 2007. " These included Birmingham, Homewood, Hoover, Bessemer, Mountain Brook, Pelham and Vestavia Hills and others.

I think we're doing something right.

Labels: Alabama, Bessemer, Birmingham, Homewood, Hoover, Mountain Brook, Pelham, Vestavia Hills