Three Auburn football players were named to the SEC Coaches Preseason All-SEC Coaches' Team on July 16.
Auburn pride will soon have a new face on the road.Beginning in August, Auburn license plates will be sporting a new style.Every five years, the state of Alabama requires license plates in the state to change their appearance.
Gov. Bob Riley announced July 7th that 27 classrooms around the state will now be sites for the First Class Pre-K program.The nation's top-rated kindergarten program will now serve a total number of 3,808 children.According to the press release, since the First Class initiative first started in November 2007, 68 percent more four-year-olds are being served by the program, and there are now 213 First Class classrooms in Alabama."Alabama is providing the nation's highest quality pre-K program to more students than ever before," Riley said in the press release.
Vitamins A, B, C, D, E, and K. The list seems to be never ending, but the multiple benefits of these may be found in a single multivitamin.Steve Thompson, owner of Health Wise Foods in Montgomery, said with more fast-food places and restaurants becoming available, nutrition seems to be set aside.Thompson said multivitamins supply core nutrition that people don't get by eating processed foods."Multivitamins play a role when people do not get a combination of the six basic food groups," Thompson said.
With summer exams approaching, students need to pay as much attention to their posture as their books."Sore lower back and shoulders, tension headaches, hunching over, osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease are a few effects of bad posture," said Dr. Brad Adams, chiropractor for Advantage Chiropractic."There are muscles and ligaments that help your spine stay erect, and the vertebrae are built like bricks, so when they are stacked and you sit up straight, they're in the neutral position and they're not working hard," Adams said.For eight hours every day, Adams said people are reading, driving or using computers which aggravate posture problems.
Some Auburn athletes have not only proven their athletic ability on the field, but their academic excellence in the classroom as well.
The energy of the future has arrived in Auburn.Tiger Green Power, LLC is a renewable energy company specializing in providing electricity producing solar water heaters, day-lighting systems, energy conservation techniques, and more, said Robin Price, president and co-founder of Tiger Green Power."It's basically green building," Price said.
Regardless of whether students are staying in Auburn or traveling this Fourth of July, they need to be conscious of their safety while celebrating.Students traveling for the holiday need to pay special attention while driving because of the increased traffic flow, said Auburn Police Capt.
Two Auburn manufacturers are planning to expand their production and employee base.Cumberland Plastic Systems LLC and Donaldson Company Inc. will be adding additional employees within the next two years.Alison Petersen, human resources representative for Cumberland, said Cumberland plans to hire at least 51 employees over the next two years.Jim Noreault, plant manager for Donaldson, said Donaldson Company plans to hire 25 employees starting in January 2010.Petersen said it is not an immediate physical expansion, but a production expansion where the company will buy new machines and hire more employees to work them."We are a new company, and we've been working hard the past few years to get business," Petersen said.
Last Thursday was the ground-breaking for a new terminal at the Auburn-Opelika Robert G. Pitts Airport.The airport has been operational since 1930 and has been in need of repair since the 1980s, said Bill Hutto, airport director.He said planning for the new addition started in 2002, but once construction begins, the terminal should be completed within one year."The building is too small to accommodate the demands that we have today in personnel and the people in the community," said Hutto.
