It’s Tuesday. Let’s hit this week’s tidbits:

✅ CONGRATS: Us – Truitt Insurance & Bonding Inc. – on celebrating 35 years in business. In all of that time, we are not a $1b business focused on chasing the next round of private equity money. We are ALIVE & THRIVING representing a great group of insurance providers and a growing client base who prefer personalized service. Come join us.

✅ CONGRATS: Hattie B’s Hot Chicken on celebrating 10 years in business in Birmingham. Awesome addition to town, right down the street from TRUITT WORLD HQ. Bham was the first location outside of TN for the fast-growing Nashville-based chain. Big things ahead for them.

🎙️ Thanks to Eddie Lumpkin (Metro Companies, Lumpkin Development) and Dr. Anthony Leigh (President, Huntingdon College) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend. They were fantastic. Check out all the great guest interviews at TruittNewsRadio.Com.

✈️ CONGRATS: Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport on celebrating 95 years of flight.

✔️ Better Basics is accepting applications to join their Junior Board. If you are a young professional looking to get involved in something, this is a great group.

👷 CONGRATS: WatsonBruhn Builders on celebrating 15 years in business.

🎙️ Looking forward to having Blas Escarcega (Chief Development Officer, Bonchon) and Eric Rowell (Co-Founder, Grit + Grind COFFEE) with us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend. We start at 7AM every Saturday morning on Bham’s Talk 99.5. Grab the podcast if you miss us live.

❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Iowa (IA) is the only state that has a two-vowel abbreviation?

📅 JUNE 9: Birmingham Legion FC‘s Small Business Night at Protective Stadium including a one-hour pregame networking mixer.

🎲 Vegas casinos won $689,000,000 from gamblers in April – up 6.6% from last year.

✔️ Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation was held today in Westminster Abbey back in 1953.

👀 HIRING: Bham Now is looking for a Director, Social Media to join their team. That would be a lot of fun. They do an outstanding job.

✅ CONGRATS: to our friend, Shelley Rogers, on starting her new role as an Executive Middle Market Underwriter with The Hartford. She’s going to be fantastic at it.

📅 AUG 29: Childcare Resources‘ Fairy Tale Ball is back for its 20th year raising funds for their fantastic organization.

✔️ This makes sense, Alaska has the least number of homes having central heat & air with only 7.01% being equipped.

☑️ Check out DoItWithTruitt.Com for more great reports & info.

☑️ Need a new insurance agent. We want to be it. Truitt Insurance & Bonding Inc. Hit me up – tony@truittinsurance.com. Love to work with you. Home & Auto, Business Coverage, Surety Bonds.

👷 CONGRATS: Bham’s Wyatt Builds on celebrating 50 years in business.

🎥 One of my favorites, “Dead Poets Society” starring Robin Williams & Ethan Hawke premiered in the U.S. today in 1989.

🛑 Thanks for the read.