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Alabama Champion: BBQ served with peace, love and compassion (opens the original)
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Alabaster, Ala. — Paul Curcio knows his way around a smoker. With a culinary degree and more than 20 years in the business, cooking up a meal the old-fashioned way is second-nature. Curcio also knows what it's like to lose his way and find it again. For decades, his talents gained him success in the corporate food industry, but in his personal life, he was wrestling with drug and alcohol addiction. In his darkest days, he remembers hearing a voice.. "I heard a voice one night 'When you're done a
Alabama Champions: UA swimmer turns medical comeback into hope for kids with disabilities (opens the original)
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBMA) — For University of Alabama swimmer Sydney Blackhurst, every dive into the water is a win. "I was originally put in the sport just for water safety and ended up falling in love with it," she said. Even with the grueling practice schedule of a college athlete, Blackhurst is thankful for the opportunity to swim every day. In fact, she's thankful to be able to swim at all. During her sophomore year of high school, Blackhurst started experiencing fatigue and dizziness. Over t
Alabama Champion: Loretta Pettway Bennett (opens the original)
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For over 50 years, Loretta Pettway Bennett has been crafting her own piece of her family's rich legacy. She grew up in Gee's Bend, Alabama, where quilting is in the people's DNA. "So [at] about five or six, I can remember threading needles and playing underneath the quilt, like everyone there that [grew] up there in Gee's Bend," Bennett said. Growing up, Bennett remembers quilts being everywhere, but never as art. Quilts, she says, were survival. "Sometimes you could see through the floor," she
Alabama Champion: Manufacture Good (opens the original)
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In a workshop in downtown Birmingham, lives are being rebuilt. "We don't build furniture because we want to build furniture," Tim Lawson said. "We build men because we want to build men." Executive Director Tim Lawson remembers when Manufacture Good was just a few guys in his garage. He and fellow firefighter Lawrence Sheffield had the idea for a mentorship program, and in 2013, Magic City Woodworks was born. Since then, it has evolved into a 12-week paid apprenticeship program to give young men
Alabama Champion: The Maker's Child (opens the original)
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Like most five-year-old children, Archer Pollock loves the park. "This is Archer's favorite place in the world," Archer's dad Justin Pollock said. "We come here all the time." Archer has an ultra-rare neurodegenerative condition called vanishing white matter disease. Since his diagnosis at age two, Archer has lost his ability to walk, talk, stand, eat, drink and much of his movement. He's one of the children who the Maker's Child Playground, an inclusive park on the campus of Albertville First B
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