Let’s get going with the Tuesday tidbits:
✅ The Birmingham Zoo has a cool, new jaguar named Diego.
🎙️ We appreciate E.J. Brophy (VP & Director or Athletics, University of Tampa) and Elaina Burt (Miss Jefferson County 2026) being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO show this past Saturday. Check it out at truittnewsradio.com or download the podcast version.
✅ CONGRATS: to anyone who made it all the way through the Los Angeles Dodgers big 18-inning win over the Blue Jays in the World Series last night. Wow!
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Apache Indian leader Geronimo’s birth name was Goyahkla (The One Who Yawns)?
🏃♀️➡️ CONGRATS: to the Mississippi College Women’s Cross Country team on winning the 2025 Gulf South Conference Championship! The GSC is headquartered in Birmingham!
🎙️ We are looking forward to having McKay Ivers (Alabama 811) and Jill Nash Malool (Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts) on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend (11/1/25). Show starts at 7am on Bham’s Talk 99.5 or grab the podcast version.
🏀 OCT 28, 1973: Elmore Smith set the NBA record for blocked shots in a game, rejecting 17 for his Los Angeles Lakers in their win over Portland.
📺 NOV 12: New “Being Eddie” documentary about Eddie Murphy’s career debuts on Netflix.
⁉️ How ’bout Floriana Restaurant, based in Washington, DC, announcing Huntsville’s MidCity District will be home for their 3rd location. Fantastic news!
👷 HIRING: Shelby General Contractors is looking to add a Financial Controller.
‼️ The entire programmatic advertising market is projected to hit $2.75 trillion by 2030.
🎵 CONGRATS to the Mobile-based Red Clay Strays on being nominated for Vocal Group of the Year at the 2025 CMA Awards.
👀Abbeville, AL-based Great Southern Wood Preserving‘s big new facility in Tyler, TX is nearing completion.
🍸 The Volstead Act was passed by Congress today in 1919, establishing the Prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. I think organized crime may still be celebrating!
📅NOV 8: The Lower Wetumpka Shotgun Sports Club is starting back with their Neon Nights. Go do some night-shooting! Check out LWSSC.com for more info.
🏈 The Buffalo Bills were awarded a franchise in the American Football League today in 1959.
✅CONGRATS: Andrewnetta Adams on being named Homecoming Queen at The University of West Alabama.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Alabama’s original capital building in Montgomery was destroyed in a fire in 1849?
We have had our current capital building since it was completed in 1851.
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✅ CONGRATS: Bham’s Kennedy Whisenant, Miss USA Alabama, on making the Top 10 in the Miss USA National competition this weekend in Reno.
🎵 “KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park” premiered on NBC today in 1978. I was watching.
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