Alabama Gives
Feb 2nd will be Alabama Gives Day. I went to their website and saw that one Helena charity was listed. It was Two By Two Animal Rescue

Fox Valley
The very famous Helena Fox Valley Restaurant has their own facebook page and are trying to get some "likes". Sometimes they are listing as Maylene and sometimes Helena but I know they have to get all theses licenses in Helena so that makes it official. Give them some click-love at Fox Valley Facebook

Miss PHS
Congrats to all the girls from Pelham and Helena who were in the Miss PHS competition. Bethay Woods won Miss PHS 2012!

Storm Shelter
Robin Demonia wrote an article about how people are becoming more aware of the threat that tornadoes pose to homes in Alabama. They have a picture of Susan Legate of Helena in a storm shelter she had installed. I really want one of theses in my home. I would one it downstairs in the house. The photo was by Linda Stelter and it shows her 4x6 safe room installed in her garage. Here's the part that mentions her in the article:

For Susan Legate of Helena, protecting her family meant an above-ground, 4-foot-by-6-foot shelter. It was installed this past Wednesday in her garage.
She'd begun researching her options more than a year ago, as she made plans to move from a home with a basement to a home with no basement. But the April 27 storms cemented her plans for a shelter.
"I knew after April I wouldn't go through another spring without one," she said. Her decision was reinforced by tornadoes that swept across Alabama on Monday. "Those things are dropping out the sky faster than we can clean up," she said.

Task Force Grant
The Shelby County Task Force which made up of several law enforcement departments including Helena received awarded a $220,000 grant from U.S. Justice Department. Full Article

Austin Squire Still Going
The Birmingham News gave a summary of the CMT show "Sweet Home Alabama". It discusses what has happen so far and how many guys from Alabama remain on the show. Here's the part about Austin:
"And then there were: 15 bachelors remain, including two from Alabama: Austin Squires, a Helena firefighter who now resides in the Mobile area, and Geneva cowboy Bubba Thompson". You can see Austin in the picture. He is standing to the right with the blue shirt.Full article

Lost Dog
Kim lost her dog Thursday night. She is a Feist with brown and black stripes and she has white on her paws and her chest. She is only 6mo old and we had only had her for about two weeks.  If you know anything

This Date Really Blows
David has installed his new furnace at Buck Creek Stained glass in Old Town Helena and can now produce items as hot as volcanic lava! He can't really let the general public use it for insurance reasons but he can let one special person get one-on-one training. He decide to make an auction out of it and give the proceeds to Two By Two Animal rescue in Helena. No only that, he is getting businesses from all over Helena to donate something so it will be a very nice package before valentine's day! I am trying to get something for him to add to the package. Personally, I would pay just to have a t-shirt with this design. More details coming up!