An estimated three hundred school-age children are homeless right now in Baldwin County. The new Baldwin Family village is a thirteen-unit facility for transitional housing and homeless support services.
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Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival returns with all-Alabama lineup
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
Posted Apr 29, 2021
Prior to COVID-19, the annual Fairhope Arts and Crafts Festival regularly drew massive crowds to the Eastern Shore city. After being shut down by COVID-19 in 2020, the festival returns April 30-May 2. Changes made in response to the pandemic include a smaller roster of artists with a new focus on Alabama creators.Mike Kittrell/Press-Register
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The Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival, the flagship event of its kind, returns this weekend after being canceled in 2020, and an organizer says it’s no exaggeration to say that the occasion is like Christmas.
Child ministry assistant Kristin Capstraw tried to keep church traditions alive during COVID
Updated Mar 07, 2021;
Posted Mar 07, 2021
Gift bags are assembled for delivery to Sunday school children at Fairhope United Methodist Church. The bags included birthday items for families to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ ahead of December 25, 2020. (photo provided by Kristin Capstraw).
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The children’s ministry at Fairhope United Methodist Church is slowly getting back to a sense of normalcy. Sunday school classes, canceled for in-person sessions during the pandemic, resumed in November. Teachers and children wear face coverings and socially distance.
“Everyone wants it like it was before, and that is not going to happen,” said Kristin Capstraw, 50, of Daphne and a children’s ministry assistant for newborns up to sixth-graders. “There are so many different views to the pandemic, and the politics surrounding it and the medical information around it. And chu