Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Sending off the soldiers

Today the City of Opelika is celebrating 206th Transportation Company Day in honor of 170 soldiers from a U.S. Army Reserve unit headed to Iraq for a year. On Thursday, these soldiers will board on bus en route to Fort Bragg, N.C., and then on to Iraq.

The soldiers will be responsible for providing transportation of containerized, non-containerized, palletized, dry and/or refrigerated containerized cargo, bulk water products and bulk petroleum products.

You will find overage of today’s ceremony and pictures from the soldiers’ departure on Thursday in the newspaper.

Also in tomorrow’s paper, we will examine what comes next for Camp Hill now that the mayor, Chester Carroll, and a city council member have resigned their duties. At the end of May, Carroll also retired as the head of Lyman Ward Military Academy in Camp Hill.

Find out a little more about these stories and more by viewing the video blog. Just click the play button in the window to the right. And as always, you can read more in tomorrow’s Opelika-Auburn News.