Warren Tidwell, the 32-year-old Opelika auto service center manager who organized Toomer’s For Tuscaloosa, arrived in Tuscaloosa early Saturday morning to begin turning the Facebook-fueled momentum and compassion of his grassroots organization into real world relief. And he’s convinced that the sight of Auburn and Alabama fans working side by side to restore a semblance [...]
Organizer Warren Tidwell and other volunteers of the Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa disaster relief effort have secured a 28,000 square foot warehouse for receiving and sorting supplies, which according to Tidwell have come from as far away as The Netherlands. “There’s a van coming from LSU and a group from UCLA coming,” Tidwell says. The group [...]
The whole “Toomer’s For Tuscaloosa” thing just got kind of literal. Or (even more) ironic. Or something.
I’m still counting on the flyer for that first Pine Hill Haints show paying off one day.
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A sapling from the Toomer’s oak trees will be planted on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol. It just won’t be tomorrow.
The Blessed Individual appears to be offering his hand in marriage.
Playing off the name of Tide For Toomer’s, a grassroots charity formed by Alabama fans to raise money for the efforts to save the poisoned Toomer’s Oaks, a Facebook group calling itself “Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa” is hoping to return the goodwill gesture. Just hours after a catastrophic tornado plowed through Tuscaloosa, the page had logged [...]
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If EA is smart, they’ll make this the Fairley-themed alternate cover.