Pastorâs death, a Bud Light distributor, a vetâs B-day: Down in Alabama
‘An enormous impact’
The Rev. Harry Reeder III was killed Thursday morning in an automobile crash in Shelby County, reports AL.com’s Carol Robinson.
Reeder, 75, had been the senior pastor at Briarwood Presbyterian Church for more than 20 years.
You might’ve heard his voice on the radio. He had a podcast called Today in Perspective.
Briarwood has a church membership of more than 4,000 people, and Congressman Gary Palmer was one: “Harry had an enormous impact on the lives of countless men and women. I will miss his teaching and his friendship, but I’m confident in knowing that one day I will see him again.”
Tough times for Bud Light
Amid falling sales for Bud Light, an Anheuser-Busch distributor in Montgomery is sounding off about the the whole Bud Light/transgender controversy, reports AL.com’s William Thornton.
Sales of the beer have taken a tumble since a transgender social-media influencer posted a Bud Light ad on Instagram showing a custom beer can. During the week that wrapped up April 22, sales of Bud Light in retail stores reportedly fell 21.4 percent year-over-year.
Steve Tatum of Bama Budweiser in Montgomery took out a one-minute radio ad on stations around Montgomery and Selma.
“We at Bama Budweiser, an independent wholesaler, employ around 100 people who live here, work here, and our children go to school here. We do not, and as I said before, did not support this issue involving Dylan Mulvaney. There was one single can made. It was not for sale and wasn’t properly approved. As a result, the Bud Light brand has new leadership.
“Dylan Mulvaney is not under contract with Bud Light. The videos you may have seen are Mulvaney’s own social media posts that went viral and many web-based news outlets have distorted the story.”
Worth celebrating
This Sunday an Alabama World War II veteran turns 102 years old, reports AL.com’s Michelle Matthews.
Henry Burgess is the ranking resident, age-wise, at William F. Green State Veterans Home in Bay Minette.
Burgess seems to be doing well. His vision is bad, but he doesn’t have many health issues and beat COVID twice.
For that, he at least partly credits a little Evan Williams in the afternoon. I can’t vouch for how much of that is a sense of humor, but I know better than to doubt a guy who’s made it this far.
He was born in Mobile, joined the Army in ‘42 and served in Burma as an aircraft mechanic. And he was married to Mary for 75 years.
I’ll bet that’ll do you better even than Evan Williams.
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