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Mobile dining room, Gladys Knight, virtual dance marathon: News from around our 50 states

Mobile dining room, Gladys Knight, virtual dance marathon: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports, USA TODAY Alabama © Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Actress Julie Andrews sent a personal letter to Prattville Christian Academy theater students after the death of their director Joey B. Fine. Prattville: Mary Poppins is well-known for swooping in unexpectedly to lift the spirits of young people in need – just what the woman who played her in 1964 has done for a group of Prattville Christian Academy students in mourning. Joey B. Fine, 48, who died in January from complications of COVID-19, was the founding pastor at Seasons Church in Prattville and Prattville Christian’s benefit play director. He’d been working with a student cast from grades 6-12 on a production of “Mary Poppins Jr.” “As high school students, for a lot of them this was their first big loss,” said Rebecca W. Thomas, marketing and communications directo

Mobile dining room, Gladys Knight, virtual dance marathon: News from around our 50 states

'Beverly Hills, 90210' star Jennie Garth helps Springfield food bank win big on ABC's 'Celebrity Wheel of Fortune'

A food bank in central Illinois is $168,000 richer thanks to actress Jennie Garth.