Month: July 2013

Opelika Participating in Sales Tax Holiday

Friday, August 2 – Sunday, August 4 is Alabama’s eighth annual sales tax holiday for school-related items begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday, August 2 and ends at midnight Sunday Aug. 4, giving shoppers the opportunity to purchase certain school supplies, computers, books and clothing free of state’s four percent sales or use tax.  The City of Opelika is also participating and will waive the sales tax.  For more information, call (334) 242-1490 or (866) 576-6531… Read More

Go APR – Racing at Indy

Jeff and his APR teams are at the Brickyard this weekend as part of a weekend that sees a sports car challenge, a Rolex Race, and both a NASCAR Nationwide and Sprint race.  Fan Walk is going on now. Good luck to the #171 and #181 Volkswagon GTI’s. Unfortunately for us, we won’t be able to watch the race until Saturday, August 3rd on Speed at 3 PM Central time! From the Archives — originally… Read More

Media – Duck!

A&E‘s Duck Dynasty returns for season four with clean-shaven older Robertson brother Alan, who’s given up his job as a preacher. The most-watched reality show on cable, Duck’s finale in April drew a record 9.6 million viewers, the most in the net’s history. Premiere is Wednesday, August 14 at 10p Eastern.

From the Archives — originally published on the Opelika Daily News on July 25, 2013. View the original page.

Something Good with Last Weeks Rain

Rain and more rain last week. Kind of depressing somewhat. But one rainy day last week the maleman, okay, so mine is a mailwoman brought a stuffed envelope from Hampton, Georgia.  Yep, my tickets of the Labor Day Races in Atlanta have arrived, with some extras. Since I’m a member of the Insider Club, also included two tickets to a Q&A session with the #2 Miller car’s Brad Keselowski.  It was just two weeks ago… Read More

Zombie Run – 5K Race

I suspect you are probably wondering how I discovered this, since I am not an avid runner, so credit goes to one of the client stations of BroadView Software and their Twitter Feed.  Colorado Public Television had a Tweet about this little run, so I followed the link. And it’s not just in Denver, but 14 cities total, including, yes you guessed it, Atlanta! The Zombie Run is just your typical hometown 5k. That is… Read More

Something for Your App-etite from Jawbone

I recently purchased one of those bands you wear on your arm to track your activities.  There are several out there, but I got the one from Jawbone   – I wasn’t so surprised to see my lack of activity the first day, after all, I sit in front of this computer all day and half the night. I stopped walking when I ended my diet a little over a year ago.  Interesting fact, you can… Read More

Datacount’s Jerry Johnson Dies of Cancer

Probably the best job  had in my life was working at Datacount in Opelika for Jerry Johnson.  I remember going to Jerry and telling him of my experience in Radio and how I could be a benefit to his company, heck, I had been using his product for years! (He even believed me!)  Despite the objections of some in the company, he hired “another radio guy” for the staff. You know, Radio Folks are a… Read More

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