It’s Tuesday so it’s is time to RELEASE THE TIDBITS!

✅ CONGRATS: to everyone who headed to the Alabama Independent Insurance Agents, Inc. convention held in Gulf Shores this week.

🎙️ Thanks so much to Elliott Cook (Retail Strategies) and Tracy Bennett Smith (Make-A-Wish Alabama) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend. Listen to all the great guest interviews at TruittNewsRadio.com.

🎙️ We are looking forward to having James Palmer (Taylor Sales and Service) to TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend and welcoming back our friend Stephanie Stuckey (Stuckey’s). We start at 7AM on Bham’s Talk 99.5. If you miss us live, grab the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast.

👀 HIRING: Our friend (and TRUITT NEWS RADIO alum) Sarah Engle, MPA and the University of Alabama at Birmingham‘s Transfer Admissions Team has an opening on their team. Great opportunity for recent college grad.

🏃 BIG FOOT 5K & 10K TRAIL RUN is coming up this Saturday at Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville.

✅ CONGRATS: Elba, AL based insurer, The National Security Group, Inc., on receiving an encouraging report with the latest A.M. Best Rating update.

🚗 Henry Ford incorporated Ford Motor Company today in 1903.

✔️ There is a cool new exhibit, “Illustrating the Native Southeast”, at the Poarch Creek Indians Museum in Atmore.

✅ CONGRATS: Deborah McGill Smith with Bham’s Cushman & Wakefield | EGS Commercial Real Estate on being elected to be the South Regional Director of SIOR Global‘s National Board of Directors.

❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: U.S. Aircraft Carriers built since World War II are too big to go through the Panama Canal?

👷 HIRING: Wiregrass Construction Company is looking for a VP of Personnel to be based in Birmingham.

📅 JULY 25: ROCK THE DOCK 2026 at Lake Guntersville.

☑️ Check out DoItWithTruitt.Com fo rmore great reports & tidbits.

✔️ The new Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers flagship location in Inglewood, CA across from the Intuit Dome and near SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park looks flat-out amazing. You need to check it out.

✅ CONGRATS: Alan Truitt, Bart Turner, and Chris J. Williams of Bham’s KMCL Law (Kazmarek Mowrey Cloud Laseter LLP) – one of the nation’s leading Environmental Law Firms – on being recognized by Chambers and Partners for their achievements in environmental law field.

☑️ We want to be your insurance agent – Truitt Insurance & Bonding Inc. – HOME & AUTO, BUSINESS COVERAGE – SURETY BONDS – send it to me – tony@truittinsurance.com. Great options for you with The Cincinnati Insurance Companies, Travelers, The Hartford, Sentry, Penn National Insurance, UFG Insurance, Foremost Insurance and others.

🏀 The Milwaukee Bucks traded Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the Los Angeles Lakers today in 1975. Turned out great for LA.

🎵 Today in 1989, the very first night of the very first City Stages Music Festival premiered in downtown Birmingham. The festival returned annually for the next 20 years.

🛑 Thanks for the read.