Published: November 18, 2008 06:47 pm         

This Week in History: Nov. 19, 2008

By Melanie Patterson

The North Jefferson News



The following events were reported in The North Jefferson News during this week in 2003, 1998, 1988 and 1978.



Five years ago

• The Alabama Department of Post Secondary Education has approved a request by Jefferson State Community College to start a satellite campus at Warrior High School.

• The Jefferson County Commission gives the City of Warrior $6,000 for basketball goals to go into the former National Guard armory. The city would benefit by renting out the facility.

• Gardendale residents are upset because the city removed a buffer of trees, shrubs and ground cover that separated their homes from the future site of the new fire station.



10 years ago

• Gardendale City Council members proudly announced that the city has been awarded another beautification grant for its new civic center, in the amount of $171,000.

• The City of Gardendale has taken a virtual leap into cyberspace with a website of its own. Computer nerds worldwide can log on to www.gardendale.com and learn megabytes galore about the city, community, businesses, social activities and more.

• Gardendale’s Fieldstown Road, which is also becoming known as Restaurant Row, will welcome another fine choice of dining next week when Ruby Tuesday opens its doors.



20 years ago

• A 24-year-old woman being held on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol apparently hanged herself early Saturday morning in the Warrior City Jail.

• A Hayden councilman may have violated the Alabama Ethics Law. He is accused of working for the town reading water meters for $67.50 a month. Until recently, he had done the job for $55 a month.

• Gardendale’s City Council Monday voted 5-1 to rezone a five-acre track off Shugart Ridge Road to allow construction of a Serra Chevrolet dealership.



30 years ago

• Area policemen kept busy this week. A man was arrested for passing a forged prescription at Payne’s Drugstore in Gardendale; a Gardendale man was shot in the leg with a 22 caliber rifle by a suspect known as “Fudge,” and a Warrior policeman was injured in an automobile accident.

• Both Gardendale Municipal Judge Norman Winston and Fultondale Municipal Judge George Young agree that local courts have a positive effect on crime in north Jefferson County.

• Warehouse Groceries in Cullman advertises Elf Saltines for 38 cents for a 1-pound box; a 15-pound bag of white potatoes for 98 cents; a 5-pound bag of oranges for 88 cents; and a 16-count box of Tetley tea bags for 25 cents.