Author: WAKA Action 8 News

Welcome to Spring!!!

HELLO SPRING: Spring officially started this morning at 5:29AM CDT. The weather forecast for today will certainly be making it feel like spring. It will be a very nice day with plenty of sun and highs well into the 70s, with some 80s expected. Tomorrow looks to be dry and we are expecting a repeat performance of the weather from…

“That’s My Child” Restoring Warehouse for Youth

After four years in the Chisholm Community Center, “That’s My Child” is ready for a place all of their own. “This will be the rec center over here where we have pool tables, ping pong balls, dart boards, things like that,” said organization founder Charles Lee. Lee is taking an old warehouse on West Fairview Avenue and restoring it into…

“A Living Hope”: The Legacy of Rhonda Adair

“I can feel the prayers….because I would not be able to go through this so calm and so peaceful had people not been praying for me,” Rhonda Adair. We interviewed Rhonda Adair last December right after her baby Anna Parker was born. She knew where her strength came from and she was ready for what may come. As her health…

Cool Thursday Afternoon, Much Warmer Friday

Nearly the entire state of Alabama is seeing freezing temperatures this morning, and that includes all the way down to the Gulf Coast. Freeze warnings are in place as lows are in the mid and upper 20s in most locations, but colder pockets across North/Central Alabama could very well see upper teens. WARMING TREND BEGINS: After the brutally cold morning,…

Local students Encourage Peers to ‘Kick Butts’ and Stop Smoking

Students across the country participated in projects Wednesday all in an effort to keep kids from smoking. March 15th was National Kick Butts Day. In Montgomery, a youth advisory board made up of middle school students staged a very visual scene. They posed as dead bodies in body bags to draw attention to the dangers of smoking. They want to send…

Freeze Warning Continues Tonight, Warming Trend Begins Thursday

FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT: Freezing temperatures this morning and again tonight are likely over much of Alabama. For most places, lows will be in the 20s, but colder pockets across North/Central Alabama could very well see upper teens. TODAY/THURSDAY: After the brutally cold mornings, these two days will be dry and mainly sunny, but unseasonably cold. Highs today will be…

Downtown Business Incubator to Close

The downtown business incubator in Montgomery will be closing this year after 6 years. Melanie Golson with the City Department of Development says it served its purpose to give businesses a start. CC’s Daiquiris is one of those businesses in the incubator. They tell us business has been phenomenal since they opened their doors last November. Their lease will be…

Winter’s Last Hurrah, Freeze Warnings in Effect

TUESDAY: It will remain cloudy due to wrap around moisture. It will be another cold day as highs will not climb out of the upper 40s and lower 50s. Add in a brisk northwest wind at 10-20mph, it will be feeling much colder. By the afternoon, we are likely to see some peeks of sunshine. WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY: Freeze warnings are in…

Golden Apple: Steven Washington

Our Golden Apple Award Winner this week comes from the Lowndes County School System. In his tenth year of teaching, Steven Washington, at Jackson-Steele Elementary school, takes great pride to ensure is classroom to ensure his students are learning.  Why drives Washington to be dedicated to the success of his students? “You don’t do this for attention, you do this because…