🌱 Patch AM: How a new accessibility park could transform downtown Birmingham life

Hello again Birmingham! We're bringing you the latest town highlights. Don't miss out, keep going! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• How a new accessibility park could transform downtown Birmingham life
• Want your Birmingham love story featured in the Birmingham Times?
• Why Birmingham's tiniest patients are getting story time in the NICU

Also on today's calendar: Love In The Club and 7 more events.

Today's riddle: How fast is milk when you pour it? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Monday: Turning cloudy; less humid, with a high of 92 and low of 69 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Tuesday: Mostly cloudy with a t-storm, temps: high: 92, low: 72.
• Wednesday: Humid; an afternoon t-storm, with a high of 89 and low of 72 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• KultureCity unveils plans for National Accessibility Park in Birmingham (abc3340.com) — Plans are underway for a first-of-its-kind National Accessibility Park at the historic Powell Steam Plant in downtown Birmingham, bringing a disability learning center, technical college, museum and sensory-friendly park space to the city. The project aims to guide families after diagnoses, create workforce pathways, and offer inclusive gathering areas like playgrounds, splash pads and an amphitheater, all designed to strengthen Birmingham's accessibility and community life.
   

• You Had Me At Hello: The Love and Legacy of Grace Nail and James Weldon Johnson (birminghamtimes.com) — Birmingham readers are invited to share long-lasting marriage stories for the Birmingham Times' "You Had Me at Hello" column, highlighting couples married seven years or more. The feature is framed by the inspiring love and civil-rights legacy of James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson. If you or a couple you know fits the bill, you can email the paper to be considered.
   

• UAB and Children's of Alabama Celebrate Five-Year Anniversary of NICU Bookworms (birminghamtimes.com) — Families with babies in UAB and Children's of Alabama NICUs are benefiting from the NICU Bookworms reading program, now marking five years in Birmingham. Mayor Randall Woodfin joined staff and families to celebrate how early shared reading supports development, strengthens parent-infant bonding, and helps some of the city's most vulnerable newborns build stronger language and reading skills from birth.
   

📸 Around Birmingham

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Birmingham

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★ Featured events ★

Friday September 18
• Ashley McBryde →
  Alabama Theatre, 1817 3rd Ave N, Birmingham
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Tuesday August 25
• Work Session
  Birmingham City Birmingham, AL 35215
  5:30 pm
Wednesday August 26
• Beginner Tai Chi for Seniors
  Pratt City Branch Library
  10:30 am
• Chair Yoga with Erin Williams
  Five Points West Regional Branch Library
  10:30 am
Thursday August 27
• Jewelry Making
  East Ensley Branch Library
  1:00 pm
• Stitch & Chat
  East Ensley Branch Library
  1:00 pm
Friday August 28
• Line Dancing
  East Ensley Branch Library
  1:00 pm
• Parker vs. James Clements
  Bush Hills Academy Major Brown Memorial Stadium, 308 9th Ct N, Birmingham, AL 3520
  6:00 pm
Friday September 4
• Love In The Club →
  Saturn, 200 41st St S, Birmingham
  8:30 pm
Saturday September 12
• Emo Night Brooklyn →
  Saturn, 200 41st St S, Birmingham
  8:30 pm

📣 Birmingham Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Monday August 24
• Back-to-School Scavenger Hunt
  Inglenook Branch Library
  9:30 am
• Malleable Monday
  Inglenook Branch Library
  3:30 pm
• 8/7 VB vs. Hewitt @ MBJH
  Mountain Brook Junior High Birmingham, AL 35223
  4:30 pm
• 9 FB vs. Hoover (MBHS)
  Mountain Brook Junior High Birmingham, AL 35223
  5:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• I'm posting this lost dog for a friend.
  He is missing from the Moody area. His name is Stanley. He is a Golden Doodle with a deformed nose. He is very skittish, if you see him just please… (Nextdoor Crestwood South)
• Update: owner found and he is getting picked up
  Dog found along 280. Hoover animal control had him sent to Vestavia Animal Clinic. 2058237485. (Nextdoor Lee branch)

• Siegel Suites posted a job opening for Housekeeper in Birmingham. Apply here.
• Naphcare posted a job opening for Pharmacy Administrative Coordinator in Birmingham. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Birmingham here.

🗞 Nearby News

Mountain Brook

• Mountain Brook Demolishes Hueytown in Season Opener, 60-18 (otmj.com)
• Here are the 10 wealthiest suburbs in America (miamiherald.com)

Homewood

• Friday Night Roundup: Fyffe completes 'miracle' comeback; Briarwood blitzes defending champ Moody (al.com)

Tarrant

• Montevallo overcomes slow start to defeat Tarrant (shelbycountyreporter.com)

Ok Birmingham! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: It's "Pasturized" before you know it! (Thank you Judy M. for sending it in!)
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