The Sheffield Roundup - Check out the Pics!!!

 

From an informed source:

We realize Sheffield City officials have been silent on Inspiration Landing, so we plan to have a Free roundup event this Spring.

SPRING KICK OFF EVENT: "SHEFFIELD ROUND UP - KEEP THE SHOALS BEAUTIFUL"

 

The Shoals Chamber will not be invited. Their "activities" and "parties" are held behind locked doors after hours with SEDA where only a couple of people are allowed.

Steve Stanley will be the head of the round up.

Steve Hargrove will be holding portable lights and guarding the porta-potties.

City Council Members will be handing out trash bags, gas masks and campaign signs/literature.

John Elkington - well, he won't be present. He is busy spending millions of our tax payers' money & "bilking" the next gullible little podunk city.

The rules:

Wear comfortable clothes, work boots, safety gloves and gas masks.

If it's dead, the vultures beat you to it.

If it doesn't move, it is trash.

If it moves, grab it before the vultures do.

If you care, vote in August to get rid of all the vultures and trash.

Promo Pictures of  2025 event area, known as "the" INSPIRATION LANDING:

A Negligent NAMC ER Situation

 

Note: The following blog concerns only complaints against the administrative staff in the North Alabama Medical Center ER. We have never heard anything but excellent reports concerning emergency department physicians and nurses. If you should, for whatever reason, believe you have a complaint concerning professional personnel, comments on this blog are not the place for such a discussion.

The ambulance arrives at the NAMC emergency department, and EMTs wheel the patient into receiving. Then they wait...and wait.

These responders can't just dump a patient. They have to wait until the patient is officially admitted to an ER room before they can retrieve their equipment and leave. It happens multiple times a day and should be pretty straight forward.

Lately, these EMTs say this process has been anything but quick. Some crews have reported wait times as long as two hours. At times, as many as five ambulances have been backed up, unable to leave until they can officially hand over their patients.

When five units are backed up, that's five units that can't go out on calls. In the Shoals area, that is a problem, a big problem.

The ambulance personnel feel that these delays are unnecessary. In short, they feel the administrative staff at the NAMC emergency department are not doing their jobs, perhaps even enjoying making the EMTs wait.

We're sure administrative support is also stressful, but it seems something is very wrong in the NAMC ER. Whatever it is, it needs to be sorted.

We welcome any comments from NAMC employees, both administrative and professional. You may send to Shoalanda.Speaks@gmail.com.

"Rescue Ukraine" is Not "United Help Ukraine"

 

When we recently recommended Rescue Ukraine, a reader sent us some info on United Help Ukraine. Knowing this reader's isolationist position, we believe he intended to discourage any monetary contribution to a pro-Ukrainian organization.

United Help Ukraine obviously has taken in a great deal of money, and we can find little or no negative information about that organization. In fact, Charity Navigator gives it a 100% score, stating you can give with confidence.

However, as we have previously, we ask our caring readers to contribute to Rescue Ukraine, a work grounded locally and one which we believe will give you a lot of bang for your buck.

Take a look at its website: Rescue Ukraine

If you're inclined to donate, you can do it via PayPal to Jeff Abrams:

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Modified Language Policy

 

We live in a world where even the Florence mayor's wife feels free to appear on a livestream and spout vulgarities. If you don't find this troubling, you should.

For years, we've had a language policy complete with a list of words that should be avoided. Ideally, Facebook will filter out these posts, but sometimes they're missed. In the humor department, FB has often hidden posts about Dick Jordan. Yes, really.

Today we've had several complaints, mainly from the same person, about those who find a way around our policy. For instance, many may type a$$.

Therefore, in future, these types of hybrid vulgarities will also be deleted. Anyone using this language may or may not be banned; it will depend upon our interpretation of the poster's intent.

Trust us, it's much easier to filter your language in type than in spoken words. Try it; we believe more will take a look at your viewpoint.

Shoalanda