Community Mom: Shannon Shackelford serves as a mother figure for Decatur’s youth

Shannon Shackelford high-fives Ta’Veon Goldsmith

By Deborah Storey | Living 50 Plus On paper, Decatur’s Youth Services Department is supposed to address the “economic, social and educational challenges” of the city’s young people. That goal is great, but what really makes it work is a staff with loving hearts and compassion. One of those people is 55-year-old Shannon Shackelford. Shackelford has been at Decatur Youth

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Good Gourds: Priceville woman’s gourd art features necklaces, spaceships and motorcycle-riding snowmen

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Every time Carol Montgomery hears about a local student with art hanging in the Huntsville Museum of Art, at the capitol in Montgomery and in Washington, D.C., a twinge of pride fills her heart. “I like to think that maybe I had a little something to do with that,” the 85-year-old Priceville woman

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