Baldwin County business and industry leaders convened for the Coastal Alabama Business Chamber’s First Friday Forum late last week at the Orange Beach Event Center. The gathering, sponsored by Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism (GSOBT), focused on the economic impact that visitors have on the region, specifically through the end of the year's summer season.
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By Melanie LeCroy
Gulf Shores High School students are raising funds for a memorial dedicated to local Vietnam Veterans and they need the community’s help.
Advanced Placement History and Advanced Placement Language and Composition students are completing a cross-curricular project focused on the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Genocide. The project includes reading the nonfiction novel “First They Killed My Father,” studying Vietnam, writing essays, hosting guest speakers and planning a cross-curricular design project.
The students, moved by their studies, want to honor local Vietnam Veterans with a community art project for the cross-curricular design project. Turtle Tracks has provided a 4-foot-tall fiberglass sea turtle statue the students will design and decorate and a plaque to honor veterans.