Birmingham Alabama’s Compass bank cuts 200 jobs in city 100 more …
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- Birmingham Alabama’s Compass bank cuts 200 jobs in city 100 more …
- Upcoming seminar in Birmingham aims to help faith communities …
- ‘Wolf’ author ex-Birmingham-area minister Martin Bell dies
- Blackpool v Birmingham preview
- Birmingham ABC affiliate lays off 20 staffers citing declining ad …
- Birmingham site of first of four regional New Baptist Covenant …
- More sublease space hitting Birmingham market
Birmingham Alabama’s Compass bank cuts 200 jobs in city 100 more …
al.com AL
Alabama will also lose 100 jobs outside Birmingham spokesman Ed Bilek said. The cuts will happen across all job classifications and business units he said. Compass employs about 3000 people in the Birmingham area. The job cuts come almost two years after Compass Bancshares — founded in Birmingham in the early 1960s as Central Bank — agreed to sell to Spain-based BBVA Group for $9.
Related from Lasilla: BBVA’s Compass Bank to cut 1200 US jobs
Upcoming seminar in Birmingham aims to help faith communities …
Anniston Star (subscription) AL
Regaining perspective and sharing ideas to stem the tide of poverty is the subject of an upcoming free symposium by the New Baptist Covenant Regional Meeting. Sponsored by the Alabama Poverty Project and the Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship the Jan. 31 meeting in Birmingham’s Civil Rights District will feature 13 education programs presented by some of the state’s most respected scholars advocates and religious leaders. Among them will be Malcolm Marler longtime chaplain at University of Alabama at Birmingham’s 1917 HIV clinic who will lead a presentation titled “Being the Hands and Feet of Christ: Ministry to the Terminally Ill Who Struggle with Poverty. The idea Marler says is to invite discussion. “We’re not coming with all the answers not even close” he says. “Because some of the best ideas come when people just get together and talk.
‘Wolf’ author ex-Birmingham-area minister Martin Bell dies
The Birmingham News – al.com AL
Martin Bell 71 former priest at St. Francis ofAssisi Episcopal Church in Indian Springs Village diedSunday in Michigan. He was the author of popular inspirational books including”Wolf” “The Way of the Wolf” and”Return of the Wolf” which used a wolf as anallegorical figure for Christ. Bell was pastor of St. Francis from 1989 until 1995 whenhe left Alabama to return home to Michigan.
Blackpool v Birmingham preview
SkySports
With everyone else in the Championship affected by the FA Cup Birmingham can muscle into the automatic promotion spots. But stragglers Blackpool will be keen to avoid such an outcome considering there are just four points separating themselves and the relegation zone. Unfortunately for them strikers Ben Burgess and Stephen McPhee are both out with knee problems which could mean that on-loan Leicester frontman DJ Campbell will team up with Gary Taylor-Fletcher to lead the Blackpool charge. There is a light at the end of the tunnel though after Stephen Crainey and Jermaine Wright both managed 90 minutes in a behind-closed-doors friendly after long-term injuries.
Birmingham ABC affiliate lays off 20 staffers citing declining ad …
al.com AL
The station initially said about 20 staffers were let go but this evening it revised that number to 15. The cuts affected all areas of the station — including producers and sales representatives — but Lee and Peters were the only on-air personnel let go the official said. “We regret that it had to take place.
Birmingham site of first of four regional New Baptist Covenant …
Associated Baptist Press FL
(ABP) — Planners of a Jan. 31 gathering of diverse Baptist groups hope a national mood set by the election of America’s first African-American president will spill over into renewed relationships between black and white Baptists. “We are very excited in this time of a new atmosphere in the entire country to do some work to bring together a larger sense of the Baptist family” said Gary Furr co-chairman of a steering committee planning the first of a series of regional gatherings of an interracial network known as the New Baptist Covenant. Former President Jimmy Carter who spearheaded the movement that prompted some 15000 Baptists from 30 organizations representing 20 million Baptists across North America to attend a national meeting a year ago in Atlanta is keynote speaker for the first of four regional repeats of the gathering scheduled for 2009. It will be held in Birmingham Ala.
More sublease space hitting Birmingham market
Birmingham Business Journal AL
”According to Sandner Commercial Real Estate’s ffice Market Survey for 2008 there was more than 210000 square feet of sublease space available. This article is for Paid Print Subscribers NLY. If you are already a Birmingham Business Journal subscriber please create or sign into your bizjournals. com account to link your valid print subscription and have access to the complete article.
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