COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Ongoing and Upcoming Events, PAGE 4 BCLC hosts Bookmobile tour PAGE 11 Growing herbs The Islander PAGE 6 INSIDE APRIL 18, 2018 | GulfCoastNewsToday.com | 75¢ Use Caution: Gulf Shores restricts public Beach forums at Gulf Place highway median work Fire Department By CRYSTAL COLE “The beach has historically levels of use of Gulf Place and
[email protected] been a place for the restorative the public beaches generally to ramp up 25th anniversary and recreational enjoyment of going forward, staff is also rec- Fire Chief Justin Pearce An ordinance restricting pub- the public and has not been a ommending that the threshold and the Orange Beach Fire lic forums at the new Gulf Place public forum by tradition or des- requirement for obtaining a pub- Courtesy of THE CITY OF Department invite the com- was passed by the Gulf Shores ignation,” the memo read. “With lic assembly permit for group ORANGE BEACH munity to come out to Fire City Council at its most recent the soon to be dedicated new im- activities both at Gulf Place and meeting. In a memorandum provements at Gulf Place, staff at the public beaches generally Beginning the week of Station No. 1 from 11 a.m. to the City Council from Grant is recommending the Mayor be set at 35 participants.” April 9, preparations for to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April Brown, the ordinance was pro- and City Council adopt an Or- Mayor Robert Craft said this landscaping began on the 21 to celebrate the depart- posed as a continuation of pro- dinance confirming the charac- was just an extension of the re- medians of Perdido Beach ment’s 25th anniversary.