It’s go time for another TUESDAYS WITH TONY:

🎙️ Thanks again to John Dersham (Executive Director, Visit Lookout Mountain Alabama) and Rick Oates (State Forester, Alabama Forestry Commission) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend (8/16/25).

🍕 The Food Network has recently named Tortuga’s Pizza as having the best slice in the state.

☑️ CONGRATS: Vision Hospitality Group, Inc. has opened their new Embassy Suites property in downtown Chattanooga.

❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Ferruccio Lamborghini started off repurposing combat vehicles into tractors, then ventured into heating & cooling systems before focusing on the automotive industry?

🎵 Fast-rising country singer Myles Morgan will be on TRUITT NEWS RADIO August 30th. Catch him this Friday at Sand Mountain Park & Amphitheater and November 13th at Gallettes in Tuscaloosa.

👀 HIRING: Peachtree Entertainment in Nashville is looking for a Festival Marketing Manager. How cool is that?!

🏌 AUG 19, 1984: Lee Trevino won the PGA Championship at Shoal Creek.

👷 SEPT 3: Alabama AGC is hosting a joint meeting at Montgomery Country Club featuring officials with both the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security about the Immigration employment issues and how this is impacting the construction industry.

👀 HIRING: Alabama School of Fine Arts needs a Resident Assistant for their dorm program.

📅 OCT 9 – 12: The National Shrimp Festival is coming up in Gulf Shores. Check out myshrimpfest.com or info.

👀 HIRING: The Ohio Valley Conference in Brentwood, TN is looking for an Assistant Commissioner for Championships.

📅 AUG 30: Follow Your Art – Mentone, AL Art Festival – MERF Community Walking Trail – 10AM – 3PM

✅ Alabama State Parks is welcoming guest to the brand new Lakeside Cottages at Wind Creek State Park. Make a reservation at 256-329-0845.

🎙️ We are looking forward to welcoming David Carrington (Former Jefferson County Commission President) and Glenn S. Phillips (President, Lake Homes Realty / LakeHomes.com) to TRUITT NEWS RADIO this coming weekend (8/23/25).

❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Tennessee’s tallest waterfall is the 256 ft tall Fall Creek Falls at Fall Creek State Park?

☑️ Check out my favorite website: DoItWithTruitt.Com.

👀 Ronald McDonald House Charities of Alabama is accepting applications for their Junior Board through October 31, 2025. Great group to support. More info at rmhca.org.

🎵 SEPT 8: The Pixies are playing Avondale Brewing Co. in Bham.

☑️ CONGRATS: Warner Bros. Entertainment has become the first studio to deliver six consecutive films open to $40m+ domestically: A Minecraft Movie, Sinners, Final Destination: Bloodlines, F1: The Movie, Superman, Weapons.

✅ Send me all your business coverage, builders risk & surety bond requirements and the Truitt Insurance & Bonding Inc. team will jump on it.

🛑 Thanks for the read. Come back next Tuesday.