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This is the Mobile Voice

Editor: W. Wertelecki, M.D. 

We publish views, articles, interviews. and videos concerned with issues impacting the quality of life in Metropolitan Mobile and the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay.

The Mobile Voice is a communication platform to disseminate views held by citizens and community representatives, elected or not. Community organizations (official or civic) can publish columns dedicated to their organizations, as for example, the Mobile Kiwanis Club does. Students, aspiring journalists and writers can post articles or sustain columns on particular themes; e.g. "Just for Fun", "Bon Appetit", etc. 

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SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY – JOIN THE MOBILE KIWANIS CLUB

JOIN US!            You are INVITED to hear outstanding guest speakers sharing their views how each of us can help to improve the quality of life in Metropolitan Mobile.  

The Mobile Kiwanis Club was founded at the Kiwanis National Convention in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1919, making it one of the oldest Kiwanis Clubs in the country.  Kiwanis became a service organization of business men at that time.  The Mobile Club met at the Battle House Hotel for many years until it closed.  It then moved to the Constantine’s Restaurant on Government Street.

I joined the club in 1979 when it was still meeting at Constantine’s.  The club was at that time finishing a $250,000 grant to the USA Medical School to fund research in childhood leukemia.  I remember the researchers reporting on a steady decline in the mortality rate for the disease as a result of the research.

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FIRST SURPRISE! - YOU ARE DUE TO SPEND $ 1.8 MILLION ON A BEACH HOUSE - SURPRISE 2! - IT IS A RESPONSIBLE "INVESTMENT"

$1 Billion is to fund early Gulf Coast Restoration Project ... according to a Press release posted on the News Room on Governor Bentley's website - governor.alabama.gov - "to address injuries to natural resources caused by the (BP oil) spill ..."  but ... recently, Jennifer Ardis, speaking on behalf of Governor Bentley, indicated that $1.8 million will be spent on a proposed restoration of a State beech house (mansion) in Gulf Shores by the Co. of Phil Harris, a member of the Gulf Shores City Council ... in order to "enhance economic development opportunity to help Mobile and Baldwin counties"

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TRANSPARENCY and CORPORATE KIDS?  STINKY KIDS?   THREE STRIKES OUT?   PONDER!

When confronted with their lies and misdeeds, children are fond of invoking “I forgot” or “I did not know” and ask for forgivenes by promises “I will not do it again” - in ancient Greece such misdeeds concerned “Mnemosine”, a deity who stood for mind and memory. Recently, three major Mobile corporate citizens committed misdeeds – illegal storage of sulfuric acid, shipping coal, and cutting heritage oak trees prior to securing a permit - once caught (not by authorities but alert citizens) lawyers invoked circumstances falling in the sphere of Mnemosine - and the consequences were minimal and "public shame" of stinky kids or corporations is generally avoided ... but a larger question stands - are these signs of abuse or contempt by some corporations a portent of more to come?
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