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The Elba Theatre sponsored two movies in June: "Grease Sing-A-Long" and "Teen Beach Movie." Grease, shown inside the theater on June 13, was a hit for all ages and featured a fun photo booth.
The party was moved outside the next weekend, with "Teen Beach Movie" shown at TIger Town :Park. The event included an inflatable water slide,popsicles from Pop 154 and a whole lot of fun!
Check out all the pictures from both our summer movies at the
Elba Theatre Past Events Photo Gallery.
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 Last week Justin Maddox and I traveled to my alma mater, Auburn University, where we spoke to an audience of Civic Engagement students led by Mark Wilson. Mark and Nan Fairley run the "Living Democracy" program which sends students into a rural community for a summer internship-of-sorts where the students participate in community service endeavors, live with a resident of the community and write about their experiences. Elba has been fortunate enough to have received students for the past three summers. Jelani Moore, our student from this past summer, joined us in class where we shared the story of Restoration 154, our mission, our dreams, our challenges and our motivations.
We also had an opportunity to attend a "campus conversation" meeting where we discussed the book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind". It's a great story about a boy from Malawi who grows up with very little, but manages to teach himself how to construct a windmill, which provided electricity to his home and later to construct another one that provided irrigation to crops. His story parallels our own in that we are trying to building something where there are so few resources. I'm so proud of Philip and Justin and the work they have done with Pea River Outdoors. It's bringing in TOURISTS to ELBA! Again, creating something where before there was very little... I had such a nice time visiting Auburn and hope that we can continue to strengthen the relationship with them in the future. ~Laurie  The Giving Garden - Elba, Alabama  The Elba High School FFA, under the direction of Jamie Hudson, built the first seven raised beds. Seven more will be added in the spring. We are beyond thrilled with the progress that has been made at The Giving Garden to date! The garden site is located on Putnam Street in downtown Elba behind the old jail and Folsom House. The project has been in the works for some time now and started with the donation the land to Restoration 154 by the City of Elba. A committee of community activists and seasoned gardeners was formed to work out the details. A matching funds grant was secured, which helped to provide the funds for the garden along with the following sponsors: Westside Baptist Church, Covenant Community Church, Elba Church of Christ, Tim Williams, Wiregrass Weddings, Coffee County Extension Service, Master Gardeners, Charlie Hayes and Heath Wyrosdick and Black Gold Soil.  The raised beds were lined with newspaper from The Elba Clipper office to help deter grass growing up from under the boxes Soil was purchased and delivered to the site last week and then Saturday, the planting began! We had groups from the Enterprise High School FFA, Elba High School FFA, 4-H, Coffee County Extension Service, Master Gardeners, Restoration 154, Elba Church of Christ, Wiregrass Weddings and Covenant Community Church that came together to work at our first Planting Day. Crop signs were donated from Rusty's Feed and Seed and seeds from the Coffee County Coop in Curtis. People came from Brantley, Enterprise, New Brockton and, of course, Elba, to get the garden off to a good start.  Dirt was loaded into the boxes with the help a tractor belong to David Garrett from the extension office.  The Master Gardeners pose for a group shot in front of their completed bed of collards.  A 5 year old pecan tree was donated to The Giving Garden by Sharon Emfinger and was planted behind the Elba Chamber of Commerce.  The fall crops that were planted include lettuce, onions, carrots, collards, and turnips.  A member of the Master Gardeners Club plants turnip seeds after marking off the rows and preparing the soil.  Enterprise High School FFA and 4-H Club members help to dig the trench for the irrigation and fill the boxes with soil.  Irrigation was run to each box, so that each team can attached a soaker hose and individually turn their water source on and off.  We finished out of day of work by erecting the new Giving Garden sign, which was donated by Pam Maddaloni from Williams Signs in Elba.  The corners have been marked for the next seven boxes, which will be put into place by the Spring Planting Day, March 21st. |
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