Six students from Bryan High School - and 20 from Bryan Collegiate High - have received national recognition for reaching a 3.5 or higher GPA and other academic benchmarks.
CONWAY â âThis could be the start of a career, you never know,â said RN Marta Ramsey, clinical educator for Memorial Hospital in North Conway as she and Nurse Practitioner Charisse Hirschfeld guided six teenagers as they sutured supermarket chicken thighs on their own operating table outside the hospital s emergency room.
It was all part of the five-day Mount Washington Valley School to Career Partnershipâs Health Camp, which wrapped up last Friday.
The School to Career Partnership is a day camp program for students heading into grades 7-9. Seven different camps are offered during July, and they are free this summer due to ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) funding for the Conway School District because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The cause of a fire that destroyed the petting zoo barn at Noccalula Falls Park remains undetermined, according to Gadsden Fire Marshal Jason Talton.
The destruction of the building was so complete that an exact cause couldn t be found, but Talton said the investigation found nothing to indicate foul play.
Also undetermined at this point is the future of the petting zoo. Parks and Recreation Director Jen Weathington said the loss of the animals is still tough for the staff.
After the May 2 blaze destroyed the zoo, Falls Park Supervisor Christina Richardson said roughly 75 animals that were inside the barn perished in the fire. Among them were birds, baby alligators, a tortoise, 10 turtles and 20 to 25 guinea pigs.
Fire that Killed 75 Animals at Alabama Petting Zoo Under Investigation May 5, 2021
Investigators continue to seek the cause of a fire that destroyed an Alabama petting zoo barn and killed roughly 75 animals.
Park Supervisor Christina Richardson tells The Gadsden Times that Noccalula Falls Park remained closed Monday, partly because of stormy weather, but will reopen by the end of the week.
The Sunday blaze killed birds, turtles, a tortoise, a lemur, baby alligators, snakes, guinea pigs and others housed in the Gadsden city park barn. Animals that lived outside weren’t harmed.
Fire Marshal Jason Talton said determining a cause will be difficult because so much of the structure burned away, but said investigators have seen nothing suspicious so far.
Noccalula Falls Park remained closed Monday largely because of the weather but is expected to reopen by the end of the week, Park Supervisor Christina Richardson said, after a fire Sunday destroyed the petting zoo barn in the park s animal habitat.
The fire killed roughly 75 animals birds, turtles, a tortoise, a lemur, baby alligators, snakes, guinea pigs and others all that were housed in the barn. Other animals in outdoor enclosures or pastures were not harmed in the blaze.
Gadsden Fire Chief Wil Reed on Monday morning said the fire marshal s report from the investigation into the fire s cause isn t in yet.