Legals for 5/30/2025 – 6/05/2025
FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness described in and secured by that certain mortgage executed by Shawniqua K. Patterson, as Mortgagor, to Plimpton Construction & Development, Inc., as Mortgagee, dated the 14th day of February, 2013, and recorded in Instrument Number 3381643, Probate Office, Etowah County, Alabama. With the default […]
Memoir Musings: Dust clouds, passports and Psalm 46
By Sandra Bost In December 2001, when our first attempt to see Jebal Al Lawz in northern Saudi Arabia was cut short by the “random” 10-foot fence and highly guarded security gate, we went home to Jeddah to investigate. Apparently, we had glossed over the part of the story in *The Gold of Exodus that […]
Memoir Musings: Sock-feet, Saudi tea and the peace of God
By Sandra Bost Have you ever gotten yourself into a situation that felt impossible? Twenty-four years ago, my husband and I, along with our five-year-old daughter and 21-month-old son did just that. We had joined our friend, an ex-member of the South-African Special Forces, and his wife and 22-month-old to see the mountain in Northern […]
Memoir Musings: Foster care, Dora the Explorer and panty angels
By Sandra Bost May is “Foster Care Awareness” month. It is very near to my heart. My husband and I were “Mom” and “Pop” to 10 boys in a children’s home over the course of three years with ages ranging from 11-18. After resigning in 2005 and taking a few years to rest, our daughter […]
Memoir Musings: Mother’s Day, Social Media and Mental Health
By Sandra Bost Mother’s Day was two weeks ago. I always love special days like that on social media. I also hate them. What I love about Mother’s Day on social media is the outpouring of love for the mommas in our lives: the birth ones, the foster ones, the adoptive ones, the spiritual ones, […]
Memoir Musings: Faith and fear in a foreign land
By Sandra Bost Standing in the emergency room in a foreign land, holding the lifeless body of my 9-month-old is an image that still haunts me nearly 25 years later. I remember it almost like it was yesterday. Our son had not been well for weeks. Usually a happy boy, he just seemed a little […]
Memoir Musings: Baboons, bougainvilleas and messed up plans
By Sandra Bost In October 1998, only 19 months after we moved from Auburn, Alabama to our beloved Gallatin, Tennessee to begin our professional careers, me as a speech-language pathologist and my husband as a studio drummer, our little family of three packed up and moved to the other side of the world. My dad […]
Memoir Musings: Kalashnikovs, Cliff Hangers and Helen Keller
By Sandra Bost It was the year 2000 when our family first explored the shore on the Saudi Arabian side of the Gulf of Aqaba where Ron Wyatt and his sons claimed to have found Egyptian chariot wheels encrusted with coral on the seafloor. They dove along the underwater land bridge between Egypt and Saudi […]
Rainbow City council honors war hero
Local war hero Col. Ola Lee Mize was honored at the Rainbow City City Council meeting on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. The Etowah Patriots Association and members of Mize’s family were in attendance to receive the proclamation on behalf of Mize who passed away in March of 2014. “He did a lot of stuff for […]