Firefighters take a break as dozens of large wildfires burn across the western U.S.
The biggest, the Bootleg Fire in the Fremont-Winema National Forest northeast of Klamath Falls, Oregon, along the Oregon and California border, had burned nearly 400,000 acres as of July 22.
Southern Baptists are responding. Baptist Church on Homedale in Klamath Falls is reaching out to those in need by providing two meals daily to those displaced by the fire.
The idea was so uncomfortable at first. Emma Kate Taylor didn’t even know if it would work. “I didn’t want to be seen as weird,” she said.
It’s not something you see every day — even at an airport. A routine security screening at Alabama’s Gulf Shores International Airport led to the recovery of five stolen Civil War-era cannonballs hidden in a passenger’s checked suitcase.
Ask many young adults why they are going to college, and they’ll likely say something along the lines of “to get a job.” Ask them what kind of job — and why that’s the one they want — might give them pause.
Calvary Baptist Church, Prattville, will host a back to school “bash and splash” Aug. 8, 9–11 a.m.
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