Margaret Brown a native of  Mobile, Alabama has her attention set on the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Brown is at work on a film tentatively titled "The Great Invisible." Brown is one of two winners to recieve a $25,000 grant from Whole Foods Market and AFI Discovery Channel. The documentary is set to explore the effeccts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and resulting moratorium and their impact on her hometown of Mobile Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico.

"The film looks at the global oil economy through the lens of characters that work in the oil and fishing industries on the Gulf Coast."

This is just one of the grants received for the "The Great Invisible," which also received a Cinereach grant.

 

Humane Society of Elmore County News – 4 Jul ‘11

Rea Cord

Director

     TODAY starts Round #3 in The Animal Rescue Site Shelter Challenge so let’s blow out of the starting gate in the #1 position like we did in Round #2.  With 30 seconds of your time and a click each day we can win another $1000 to help our animals.  Just go to this website: www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge and vote for the Humane Society of Elmore County.  You even set it up to send you a reminder email every day and you can vote on different computers to help even more.  Thanks so much to our supporters who kept us at #1 throughout the last Challenge and let’s do the same again!

The Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association is seeking nominations through July 15 for the 2012 Alabama Agriculture Hall of Honor awards.

The prestigious awards recognize outstanding contributions to Alabama agriculture in the areas of agribusiness, education and government, and production. Two pioneer awards also will be given posthumously to individuals whose lives and work had a lasting impact on Alabama’s farming community.

The 2012 Hall of Honor awards program will be Feb. 23, 2012, in Auburn.

The Alabama Agriculture Hall of Honor was established in 1984 by the AU Ag Alumni Association to recognize Alabamians who have made significant contributions to the state's agricultural industry.