Tag: Featured Stories

By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus Whenever Doris Achenbach Alewine shares her story, she almost always begins with her early life in Germany during World War II. “I always say, I almost got killed by the Americans in 1945, and then in 1967, I became one of them,” she shares the anecdote with a small laugh. Though she’s proud

By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus In the next couple of weeks, John Norton will begin putting out tomato and pepper sprouts he’s been nurturing and monitoring in his basement since February. Though his home garden boasts several raised beds that produce a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs and berries all year long, Norton is known locally among

By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus Master Gardeners Paula Kelley and Jenia Bradford have been members of the program long enough to find areas they specialize in, but both gardeners credit Betty and Dennis Balch for building the Shoals Association into the organization it is today. Bradford said the Shoals Master Gardeners owe some of their biggest ongoing projects,

By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus When Bobby Aday is asked why he opened Pop Pop’s Boxing Gym in Tuscumbia after retiring from owning a construction company for 25 years, his answer is straight if not a little ambitious. “My goal is to change the world through the sport of boxing,” Aday said. Aday — who earned his nickname,

By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus Mary Calvert Smith knows it’s never too late to find love. However, if you had asked her whether getting hitched was still an option for her four years ago, she might have had a grimmer outlook. “I had determined that I would be single the rest of my days. I had already concluded,”

By Preston Sparks | For Living 50 Plus If not for a course offered 80 years ago by Auburn University — then Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) — the fate of Rock ‘n’ Roll might have forever changed. An aged and yellowed API document framed and displayed proudly on a wall inside the Sun Studio control room in Memphis, Tennessee, represents

By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus Steve Price turned 70 years old in November, but he said he’s no closer to retirement than the day he turned 60. As manager of the Shoals Community Theatre, he said he’s content with his not-so-routine line of work, which ranges from meetings with local and national celebrities to sweeping floors in the