🌱 Saraland Beats Mountain Brook: Championship + Holiday Decorations

Hello all! I'm here right on time with your fresh copy of the Mountain Brook Daily, filled with everything you need to know about what's happening in town. Including updates on:

• Football championship: Mountain Brook comes up short against Saraland
• The Megan Montgomery Foundation
• Tips for holiday decorations on the dinner table

But first, today's weather:

Cloudy with showers. High: 62 Low: 59.

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Here are the top three stories in Mountain Brook today:

1. The Mountain Brook High School football team lost to Saraland 17-38 in this year's championship game in Auburn. Despite the outcome not turning out how they would have preferred, players are still excited to have reached the state championship for the first time since 1996. Senior linebacker Vaughn Frost shared, "I’ve dreamed about something like this since I was 5 or 6 years old." (Village Living)
2. Friends and family of Megan Montgomery held the first 'Gingerbread Jam' this weekend. Montgomery was found shot dead on Mountain Brook High School's campus in 2019. The family has since then formed the Megan Montgomery Foundation, which raises funds for healthy relationship education. (WVTM13 Birmingham)
3. Kathy G. Mezrano, a Birmingham caterer who runs the Gardens Café at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, is sharing her tips for how to be present food at holiday parties this season–from a charcuterie board to which types of greenery to use as decoration. (Over The Mountain Journal)

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Today in Mountain Brook:

• Monday Matinees - Levite Jewish Community Center (1:30 p.m.)
• Filmmaking 101 - Storysmith Station - Levite Jewish Community Center (3:30 p.m.)
• Teen Advisory Board Meeting - O'Neal Library (5 p.m.)
• Boys Freshman Basketball at Homewood Homewood High School (5:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Here's some pictures from last Thursday's Mountain Brook Village and English Village holiday open house. (Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce via Facebook)
• Check out these five properties on the market in and around Mountain Brook. (Mountain Brook Patch)
• Civil Rights leader Mamie King-Chalmers has died at 81. Back in 1963 she was one of three Black people that were pictured in a photo being forced to brace themselves against a wall they were blasted by a firehose. (WVTM 13)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Monday off right. I'll see you soon!

— Dashiell Allen

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