It Tuesday so let’s get to this week’s tidbits, kudos & events:

✅ CONGRATS: Marion Community Bank recently celebrated the ribbon-cutting of their new Wetumpka branch and is open for business.

🎙️ Thank you to Matt Heaton (Alabama Community College System Innovation Center) and Nick Pacino (Purple Wave Auction) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend. Great info. Grab the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast and hear it all.

👀 OPENING: On May 3rd, my favorite, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World, is reopening with a new 38-inches & taller height requirement, meaning even more families will be able to enjoy it. Love that ride!

🏈 Auburn University is hiring Equipment Student Managers. Must be an AU Student. Get in contact with Will Couey – wcc0066@auburn.edu if interested.

🎵 CONGRATS: Huntsville’s The Orion Amphitheater on being a finalist for Outdoor Venue of the Year by the Academy of Country Music. Winner will be named May 17th.

🎙️ Looking forward to having Skip Powe (Alabama Road Builders Association) back with us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend talking about National Work Zone Awareness Week.

📅 APRIL 21: To all the drinkers out there, Bham-based LeNell’s Beverage Boutique (coolest place ever) is having Ashley Coston in town from Ohio’s Middle West Spirits, LLC for a bourbon tasting from 5pm – 7pm.

🏀 Today in 1962, the Los Angeles Lakers‘ Elgin Baylor put up 61 points in Game 5 of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals against the Celtics. That’s still the highest scoring game by a player in the NBA Finals.

✅ CONGRATS: to Auburn’s Ware Jewelers on celebrating 80 years in business.

👷 Trussville-based Oil Equip Co. is working on a new convenience store on McFarland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa.

👀 CONGRATS: Jack’s Western Wear in Cullman, AL on celebrating 50 years in business.

✅ President Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater in D.C. by John Wilkes Booth today in 1865.

📅 APRIL 22: the 25th Anniversary Celebration for Alabama Coastal Foundation‘s “Share the Beach” Program at the OWA Parks & Resort Theater in Foley.

👀 HIRING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Recruiting Event at Alabama Works Birmingham Care Center, May 5th-7th.

🎵 In 2016, Price played his last concert today, at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. He passed away a week later.

🎵 APRIL 18 & 19: Old 280 Boogie is taking place at the Standard Deluxe in Waverly, AL.

👷 The AGC Student Chapter at Auburn University on being the recipient of the Student Chapter Impact Award by the Associated General Contractors of America.

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✅ The Titanic struck the iceberg late today in 1912 before sinking in the early morning hours of April 15th.

🛑 Thanks for the read.