🌱 COVID-19 Vaccines For Children + Miss USA In Birmingham

Hey, people of Birmingham! It's me again, Michael Seale, your host of the Birmingham Daily. We're over the hump and headed toward the end f the week, and there's plenty to talk about in and around the Magic City, like the fact that Miss USA Asya Branch is coming into town today to promote a pretty cool cause — awareness for children of imprisoned parents. Speaking of children, CVS announced that 51 of its stores in Alabama will begin offering COVID-19 vaccines for children (age 5-11) Sunday. Read more below.

First, today's weather:

A touch of rain in the morning. High: 56 Low: 46.

Here are the top stories in Birmingham today:

1. Like I was saying, CVS Health announced they will have the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine available for Alabama children ages 5 to 11 starting Sunday. (Birmingham Patch)
2. Firehouse Ministries is under COVID protocol until November 15 after 20 people tested positive for COVID-19 at the Firehouse Shelter. (WBRC)
3. On the "buyer (or seller) beware" front, a Trussville man was stabbed multiple times during a Facebook Marketplace transaction. Two women are in custody. (AL.com)
4. Jefferson County is considering putting in $500,000 to bring the new version of the USFL to Birmingham. (WBHM)
5. Miss USA Asya Branch will be in Birmingham to talk to Birmingham children of incarcerated parents. This is a pretty inspirational cause she has taken on. (Birmingham Patch)

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Today in Birmingham:

• Check out the Christmas Village Festival — the premier Christmas show in the Southeast— at the BJCC. (Details)
• Medical Apartheid and the Exploitation of Black Bodies: An Evening with Harriet Washington. (5 p.m.)
• There's a Holiday Open House at the Homewood Chamber of Commerce tonight. (5 p.m.)
• See and hear Grammy Award winner Paula Cole live at the Hoover Public Library.(7:30 p.m.)
• Southern rockers/punkers Southern Culture on the Skids plays live at Saturn. (8 p.m.)

Birmingham Patch Notebook

• Nine ways to support people without homes in Birmingham as temperatures drop. (Bham Now)
• Wild About Animals: Meet the Squirrel Monkeys at the Birmingham Zoo. (WIAT - CBS42.com)
• Flower Power: Homewood's CeCe Todd Tests Her Talents on New HGTV Show (Over the Mountain Journal)
• Birmingham City Schools thanks Mayor Woodfin for swearing in the new SGA President this morning at J. H. Phillips Academy. (Facebook)
• Birmingham Public Library: 5 Poets To Co-Host Bards & Brews Poetry Slam On November 5 (Patch)

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— Michael Seale

About me: I am a lifelong Alabama resident with more than two decades of media under my belt. I have worked for a daily newspaper, a weekly newspaper, a monthly magazine, a television station and a couple of radio stations. I also tried my hand at marketing for a little while. But I love writing news. This opportunity to bring Patch to Birmingham is a chance for my hometown to benefit from a new - and better - way to read and receive news.

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