The Maggie Street Community Development Corporation (MSCDC)  will be holding its Second Annual College Fair on February 19, 2011 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm. The event will be held at The Maggie Street Dream Center at 642 Maggie Street, Montgomery, AL.

This coming Saturday, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is holding a major event to honor the sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, of the beginning of the Civil War. The festivities will “commemorate” events that most Americans see as a terribly dark period in American history: “the founding of the Confederate States of America, the inauguration of Jefferson Davis and the raising of the first Confederate Flag.”

The celebrations will include a march up Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue to the Capitol, with participants festooned in hoop skirts, battle flags and other period dress. On the steps of the Capitol, the group will reenact the swearing in of Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the CSA. The march begins at 11:00 a.m. and will be immeadiately followed by a speech at noon and the swearing-in at 1:00 p.m.

There will be a candidate’s forum for the District 7 City Council seat on Thursday, February 24th at 6:30 pm. The forum will be at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 315 Clanton Street (corner of Clanton  and S. McDonough). The meeting will be in the Ascension Hall at the far north end of the complex. Enter in the McDonough St. entrance. Everyone is welcome to attend.