Easter Celebrations Continue Despite Virus
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Covering all of Baldwin County, AL every Friday. Year ends quietly for SALUTE YOUR Baldwin seniors PAGE 4 The Baldwin Times GraduateWith a personalized parent ad in your hometown newspaper’s Graduation Section! APRIL 10, 2020 | GulfCoastNewsToday.com | 75¢ Fern Avenue It’s Easy! Empty pews, full hearts: Easter extensionJust is send in your thoughts now openand photos and we’ll design celebrations continue despite virus an ad to salute that special By JESSICA VAUGHN graduate in your life. By MELANIE LECROY celled. not handle the weight of using state to host a drive-in wor- [email protected] [email protected] “Nothing can stop us from today’s strength to worry ship service. Reserve a spot celebrating the resurrection about tomorrows possible for the services held, Sat- FOLEY — The long- Pews in church sanctuaries of Christ, the single greatest troubles. Jesus told us to not urday, April 11 and Sunday, awaited two-milePublication Fern Ad may be empty on Good Friday event in history,” Bell said. worry. The book of Lam- April 12, online at https:// Avenue extension and Easter Sunday but their “Of course, it will look quite entations tells us that God’s www.fbcgulf.com/driveinwor- in Foley has finallyDate Deadline altars are active: livestream- different this year. Our Easter mercies are new every morn- ship. opened, connectingWednesday, Tuesday, ing services and hosting drive- Sunday gatherings will be ing. If we will trust God each Senior Pastor Dr. Lawrence Highway 59 and the in sermons and drive-thru fully online.” day, we will have the grace H. Phipps said changing their Foley Beach Express.May 6 April 23 confession. Bell added, “I would say to and strength we need to get method of worship has taught The project began in 3Circle Church Pastor Chris our community to take this through this.” staff and parishioners alike to May 2018, and faced Bell has been asked how it situation one day at a time. Leaders at First Baptist thrive in times of trouble. a number of delays feels to “not have Easter.” He God created us to live life a Church of Gulf Shores, re- including weather and Ad Cost said Easter was never can- day at a time. We simply can- ceived permission from the SEE EASTER, PAGE 3 the installation of new Starts at $45 lights at the Highway 59 (Determined by size) intersection. Now completed, the new extension will Boil, mix, repeat: Baldwin serve the community in Contact: two ways: as an alter- native east/west route distillery works around the and as a faster meansLindsay Walker clock to craft hand sanitizer SEE FERNat, PAGE 15251-943-2151 or By ALLISON MARLOW latory agencies pull the plug,” OUR [email protected] [email protected] said Chief Distiller Ross Centanni. “It’s the biggest TO OUR READERS The smooth, 190 proof mus- compounding job we’ve ever Wind, rain or quarantine, we’ll keep cadine brandy crafted at Boo- done.” you updated. In the event that we gie Bottom Spirits in Perdido The crew’s first batch of 66 are unable to deliver newspapers, ULF OAST EDIA can soothe the soul. It may jugs was sent to first respond- G C M we can deliver the full edition right also help save the world. ers. The next batch sold out to your inbox. PleaseTHE COURIERsend us your • THE ONLOOKER • THE ISLANDER • THE BALDWIN TIMES Last month when hand to the public in less than six email address so we can add you sanitizer disappeared from minutes. They are working to our electronic delivery list if store shelves, every employee around the clock to produce, needed as developments continue at Baldwin County’s largest locate sparse ingredients and in the COVID-19 pandemic. wine crafter, Perdido Vine- purchase bottles. Send your email to yards, turned their efforts Perdido Vineyards, is nes- [email protected]. to making the much needed tled in the northeast corner In an effort to help keep our neigh- commodity. of the county amid 50 acres of bors safe, you can read the most up-to-date information about the “We’re just going to keep former vineyard. 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Stay at home when sick until your symptoms are gone. Tested from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) Deaths Page 5 Gulf Jerry Martin Milton Coast Media VOLUME 129 • ISSUE 48 1 SECTION • 20 PAGES 2 • The Baldwin Times • April 10, 2020 • Gulf Coast Media SANITIZER The Baldwin Times CONTINUED FROM 1 901 N. McKenzie St., Foley, AL 36535-3546 it catered to celebrities, top restaurant venues PHONE: (251) 943-2151 | FAX: (251) 943-3441 and locals sitting on the [email protected] back porch with bottles of Rose Cou Rouge, Allison Marlow Classified Advertising French for “Redneck Managing Editor Lindsay Walker Rose.” allisonm@gulfcoast lindsay@gulfcoast Boogie Bottom Spirits, media.com media.com a subsidiary of the win- ery, distills rum from lo- Tony Whitehead Legal Advertising cally grown sugarcane. Sports Editor April M. Perry Centanni said in early tony@gulfcoast legals@gulfcoast March, many consum- media.com media.com ers began searching for ways to make their own sanitizer and the Food Parks Rogers and Drug Administra- ALLISON MARLOW / STAFF PHOTO Publisher tion worried that the Rep. Harry Shiver (R-Bay Minette) helped deliver hand sanitizer to the William F. Green [email protected] homemade concoctions Veterans Home. Here he hands it to Executive Director Brian McFeely. wouldn’t be safe. The To subscribe, make an address change or vacation delivery federal agency loosened Supply in Robertsdale stances in the liquid rise He says they will make stop, you may call our office at (251) 943-2151, go online at the rules so that other was able to source many at various boiling points. it for as long as they are www.gulfcoastnewstoday.com and click on the “e-edition” link in entities, like the dis- of the ingredients at When the alcohol rises, allowed. the black toolbar. Under “don’t have an id’ there is an option for tillery, could produce cost. it is collected and its “This is something how to become a subscriber, or email amber@gulfcoastmedia. their own, providing WHO requires hand proof is measured by a that is incredibly needed com. they used the World sanitizer is made with hydrometer. right now,” he said. ©Gulf Coast Media 2019. No part of this newspaper may be Health Organization 80 percent alcohol, not When the hydrometer “We don’t have a need reproduced without the prior written consent of the group formula which includes a problem for Centanni hits 190 proof ethanol, to be producing rum or publisher or associate publisher. Opinions of editorial or prescribed volumes of who produces 190 proof the pot is emptied and brandy for the moment general columnists or those reflected in submitted letters alcohol, glycerol, hydro- Muscadine brandy. Nor- the process begins again. when we can be contrib- do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of this gen peroxide, and sterile mally the concoction is The ethanol removed uting to our community newspaper. water. used to fortify the wines. from the brandy is di- by making hand sani- The Baldwin Times (USPS 040-560) is published weekly, Now as the number of When the coronavirus luted with water. Glyc- tizer.” with its office located at 901 N. McKenzie St., in Foley, AL 36535. Periodicals postage paid at Foley, AL 36535. Subscription coronavirus cases con- crisis struck, the vine- erin is added to keep rates: In-county annual, $40.00 plus local sales tax; six-month, tinues to rise, hand sani- yard shifted its entire users’ hands from dry- If you have questions $24.00 plus local sales tax; senior citizen annual, $38.00 plus tizer is the only product production line to mak- ing.