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BALDWIN LIVING: Students compete for Baldwin Pops Memorial Scholarship, PAGE 5 Athletes of the week PAGE 14 Baldwin Bone & Joint expands The Courier PAGE 23 INSIDE FEBRUARY 6, 2019 | GulfCoastNewsToday.com | 75¢ AARP Smart Driver classes coming Fairhope Museum of History Director fired to Fairhope By CLIFF MCCOLLUM director/event The AARP Safe Driver [email protected] manager of Ca- classes for seniors will thedral Square move from Homestead Fairhope Museum of His- Gallery in Mo- Village to the Nix Senior tory Director Phillip Bolin bile. Center in Fairhope for 2019. was fired by the City of In an email To find out more about this Fairhope last week. sent the the Bolin great opportunity, turn to On Tuesday, Jan. 29, a now- Fairhope Mu- Page 19. deleted post on the Friends seum’s board of the Fairhope Museum of of directors the day after the History’s Facebook page told firing, Jan. 30, Economic and the news, saying: “It is awful Community Development news, but the City has fired Director Sherry-Lea Blood- our director Phillip Bowlin worth Botop outlined the (sic) for no reason.” situation. Bolin had served as direc- “As you may know, Phillip Original Oyster House tor of the museum since Sept. Bolin was dismissed yester- 2018, following the retirement day afternoon,” Botop wrote. hosting job fair Feb. 7 of longtime director Donnie “The decision was not a rash Are you interested in work- Barrett. Previously, Bolin one, rather, over the past SUBMITTED PHOTO ing at one of our area’s had served as an archeolo- several months concerns News of the firing of Fairhope Museum of History Director Phillip Bolin best known res taurants for gist for Five Rivers in Span- first broke on this now-deleted Facebook post from the Friends of the great seafood, scenery and ish Fort and the assistant SEE FIRED, PAGE 2 Fairhope Museum of History’s Facebook page. southern hospitality? Learn more about tomorrow’s job fair on Page 17. Poster chosen Daphne for 67th annual ranked in Fairhope Arts Top 10 safest Mystic Mutts of Revelry cities in Parade set to roll in the and Crafts streets of Fairhope Festival Alabama The 16th annual Mystic The 67th Annual Fairhope By The COURIER STAFF Mutts of Revelry parade Arts and Crafts Festival benefiting The Haven for poster artist is Georgie ‘Gigi’ The City of Daphne Animals, Fairhope’s No-Kill Hackford. A local fixture in was No. 6 on a list of Animal Shelter, will be held Fairhope for twenty years, safest cities in Alabama on Feb. 23 at 3 p.m. To regis- Gigi says she was always an PHOTO BY STEPHEN SAVAGE compiled by the Na- ter your pup in the parade, artist at heart. tional Council for Home Georgie “Gigi” Hackford, pictured right is the artist of this year’s “My mother was an accom- Safety and Security. head to Page 18. Fairhope Arts and Crafts Festival poster. The winning poster was unveiled plished artist. When I was last Friday night during First Friday Art Walk in downtown Fairhope. Helena, Hoover, growing up my parents in- Vestavia Hills, Pleasant stilled in me the importance ing,” Gigi continues. “My me to look for the artistic and Grove and Northport of visual beauty and its ap- childhood was surrounded beauty in everything.” were ranked above preciation. Our first boat was by visuals (my Father was Gigi has a M.S.Ed from Daphne. Baldwin Coun- called ‘Optical Illusion.’” the creator of aviator sun- Sarah Lawrence college. ty’s only other entry, DEATHS PAGE 21 “Mother always had her glasses), and I would say my After a teaching career she Foley, came in at No. 8. sketch book with her and was childhood was a charming In a post on his of- Patricia Ann Day constantly drawing and paint- visual experience and taught SEE POSTER, PAGE 19 ficial Facebook page, Pedro Mandoki Daphne Mayor Dane Candice Ann Pearson Haygood said he was Joyce A. Shackle pleased with the results. “Our city is consis- Fairhope Film Festival opens new office in downtown Fairhope tently in the top 10 an- nually,” Haygood wrote. INDEX The Fairhope Film Festival “It speaks volumes for Office is now located at 122 the quality and charac- BALDWIN LIVING, 5 Fairhope Avenue Suite No. 1. ter of our community CLASSIFIED, 27 The Eastern Shore Chamber and special thanks to HEALTH, 23 of Commerce welcomed them our men and women in to their new location with a blue from the Daphne LEGALS, 29 ribbon cutting Jan. 28. Police Department who OPINION, 3 The Fairhope Film Festival are there to respond is held annually during the when duty calls. The OUT & ABOUT, 9 second weekend of Novem- presence, professional- PUZZLES, 4 SUBMITTED PHOTO SEE FILM, PAGE 19 SEE DAPHNE, PAGE 2 SPORTS, 14 TV LISTINGS, 10 Gulf WHAT Coast YOU IN Media STORE VOLUME 125 • ISSUE 28 IS NOW 1 SECTION • 36 PAGES ONLINE! • Freshest Quality All Departments • Hand Selected by Our Personal Shoppers • Delivery or FREE Same Day Curbside Pickup • Beer & Wine NOW Online! Order & Pay In Store! GREERS.COM/SHOP 2 • The Courier • February 6, 2019 • Gulf Coast Media Point Clear Rotary salutes Fairhope High students, teacher of the month SUBMITTED PHOTO The Point Clear Rotary Club recently saluted the January students and teacher of the month from Fairhope High School. Welcoming the group is back row, second from right, Vice President Buddy Bates and his son, Gaines. Standing left, is senior Jermaine Bullard who will attend Coastal Community with an interest in construction. Seated are Elaine Thomas, event coordinator, and pat-on-the-back Spanish teacher Ashleigh Russell. Not pictured is senior Madison Sheil who has an interest in theater. The Point Clear Club meets every Thursday at the Grand Hotel’s Sweetwater Café on Old Battles Road. that all employees fall this,” Botop wrote. “The FIRED under when hired.” Fairhope Museum of CONTINUED FROM 1 According to Botop’s History is a wonderful letter, Darby Wiik will asset for our citizens were communicated to serve as interim direc- and visitors and I know him regarding expected tor of the museum and you share our dedica- behaviors and processes the City will find “tem- tion to ensuring that we defined in our Person- porary help for her as have the right leader- nel Policy Handbook. we plan next steps.” ship to move the mu- Unfortunately, it was Botop told the mu- seum forward. We will felt that adequate prog- seum board the decision keep you updated and ress was not achieved was not taken lightly. appreciate your contin- during the standard “It is never easy to ued support of this in- probationary period take an action like valuable city facility.” DAPHNE cities in Alabama, the moved cities with popu- National Council re- lations under 10,000. CONTINUED FROM 1 viewed the most recent Overall, data from FBI Uniform Crime Re- 8,793 law enforcement ism and community po- port statistics. A total of agencies that repre- licing model of our DPD 7,639 cities were factored sented more 193 million are major deterrents into this ranking with of the US population to crime and help keep populations ranging helped us draw interest- Daphne the safe and from 7,639 to 4,007,147. ing insights between the family-oriented commu- The group eliminated size of the police force nity on which we pride any cities that failed to and incidence of crime. ourselves.” submit a complete crime There are two broad To identify the safest report to the FBI and re- classifications of crimes: violent crimes and non- violent crimes. Accord- ing to the FBI, “Violent The Courier crime is composed of four offenses: murder 901 N. McKenzie St., Foley, AL 36535-3546 and non-negligent PHONE: (251) 943-2151 | FAX: (251) 943-3441 manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggra- [email protected] vated assault. 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