The Monroeville/Monroe County Chamber of Commerce used the funds received from the Ala-Tom RC&D Council to purchase photography equipment. The Nikon camera and equipment will be used for many years to promote tourism, economic development and other community events. The high quality photographs taken with the equipment will be used on the Chamber’s website, social media pages, billboards, magazines, brochures, posters, and other promotional materials.
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We bought new rugs from Central Supply, Lee Fore installed two hand rails. The handrails were purchased from Deas Building supply.
Education Outreach
November 7 and 8 2019, 1,555 students from Monroe, Baldwin, Clark, Conecuh, Escambia, Washington and Wilcox counties attended a two-day event at Rikard’s Mill in Beatrice, Alabama. The students experienced living history demonstrations and saw how rural Alabamians lived many years ago. They observed a working gristmill, blacksmith shop, cane syrup making, candle making, a potter making vessels at his wheel and other demonstrations. The demonstrators were all dressed in period clothing and the students were able to see first-hand what pioneer life was like.
4-H Educational Programs
The goal of 4-H is to develop citizenship, leadership, responsibility and life skills of youth through experiential programs and a positive youth development approach. The Monroe County 4-H is seeking to enhance the 4-H experience for the youth of our county. It is our mission to provide hands-on experiences and learning as an educational method that directly involves the learner, by actively encouraging them to do something in order to learn about it. In short, it is ‘learning by doing’. In order to provide the students of our county with the best possible education, we chose to spend our grant money on creating a Drone kit for our county youth to utilize.
National Library Week Celebration
The Monroe County Public Library celebrated National Library Week, and the 92nd birthday of the library, We had two author events, with the author, Kelly Kazek and Glenn Wills, making presentations, and signing books. At Mrs. Kzek’s presentation we have away 100 of her books. We did coloring books highlighting historic places and events to coincide with hosting Alabama Bicentennial Exhibit, and hosted a coloring contest for the 4th grade students. which would not have been possible without this funding. We also had a special event for children with a local author , Dr Margaret Murphy, doing a reading and children building their own stuffed animals. We partnered with our support organization, Friends of the Library, Alabama Coastal Community College, to celebrate all things literary.