Date: July 11, 2022
Location: Alabama Power Building Auditorium
600 18th Street North
Birmingham, Alabama

Time: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Lifestyle Speaker: Amy Capps,
Service Dogs of Alabama

Keynote Speaker: Paula Marino
Executive Vice President
Southern Company’s
Technical and Project
Solutions (T&PS)

SPEAKERS – JULY 11, 2022 RETIREE MEETING

Lifestyle:
Our Retiree Lifestyle speaker will be Amy Capps with Service Dogs of Alabama. Service Dogs of Alabama (SDA) is dedicated to providing medical and psychiatric assistant dogs to children, adults and veterans with disabilities.

SDA places dogs for diabetic and seizure alert, autism, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and stability and wheelchair assistance. SDA trains facility dogs for school interventions involving counseling and learning disabilities. SDA also trains dogs who can assist children when they are testifying in court.

Keynote:
As executive vice president of Southern Company’s Technical and Project Solutions (T&PS), Paula Marino leads a workforce of approximately 1,700 individuals across the areas of new generation and environmental strategy development, major project design and construction execution, technology due diligence, power delivery engineering and O&M support.

Marino began her Southern Company career in 1993 and progressed through various roles in distribution, transmission, fossil-hydro generation and nuclear generation. She served as the assistant to the president of Southern Company Generation and managed multiple departments within Engineering and Construction Services (E&CS), including environmental and retrofit projects supporting Alabama Power. Marino also served as vice president of engineering at Southern Nuclear.

Hope to see you there!

Parking information: (Updated 7/8/2022)

Parking for the meeting will be in Lot #5 ONLY which is located on the corner of 17th Street North and 6th Avenue North. This is behind the Alabama Power Building. You will enter the parking lot from 6th Avenue North. A gate is at the entrance to the parking lot. An Alabama Power Security person should be at the gate to open it for you.

Parking lots #1 and #2 will not be available due to street closings to support the World Games. Streets that will be closed are 17th Street North to 25th Street North and avenues north of 6th Avenue North. 6th Avenue North will be open.

You will enter the Alabama Power Building through the main entrance on 18th Street North. Go to the Welcome Desk where you will be given a temporary pass to go to the Auditorium.

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The Southern Company is presenting a Post-65 retiree medical webinar Tuesday June 28, 2022 from 1-2 P CDT (2-3 PM EDT).

You can access the webinar link at southerncompanymapd.com and logging in to your account.  Or you can listen in by calling 470-705-0860 and entering conference ID: 381 932 338.

Instruction for joining the webinar can be found by clicking here.

Kenneth Steedly Folk, Jr. of Hoover, Alabama passed away on Saturday, June 18, 2022, at the age of 72. He was born on December 25, 1949, in Bartow, Florida to Kenneth Steedly Folk, Sr. and Marion Ann Durrance Folk. While growing up, he had the opportunity to live in St. Petersburg, FL; Clemson, SC; Corning, NY; Corinth, MS; and Orlando, Florida; where he graduated from Boone High School. In 1971 Ken earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at Duke University, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He then served two years in the U.S. Army at Ft. Huachuca in Arizona. After completing his military service, he enrolled in graduate school at the University of Florida, where he met his future wife, Nancy Sturkie. He earned a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering Sciences in December, 1974. After they married in January, 1975, they left for an adventure in San Jose, California where they worked for General Electric’s Nuclear Energy Division. After three years, they moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where he began a career with Southern Company that spanned more than 30 years. Before his retirement in 2009, Ken was Manager of Core Analysis in the Nuclear Fuel Department of Southern Nuclear Operating Company with responsibilities for Southern Company’s six nuclear units.

Ken was a loving and devoted father, who spent years coaching softball and basketball teams and being a tennis practice partner for his daughter. He developed a love for sailing, and he and Nancy spent many vacations sailing the Caribbean islands. He chose to retire early from Southern Nuclear to have more time for hunting, fishing, sailing, traveling with his loving wife, and enjoying beach time in Orange Beach with his family, friends, and especially grandchildren. Time with their grandsons became his top priority. He and Nancy even enjoyed being their virtual school coaches during the pandemic.

Left to cherish his memory are his devoted wife of 47 years, Nancy Folk; his daughter Julia Zimmerman and her husband Steven, grandsons Neal Zimmerman and Reed Zimmerman, all of Hoover, Alabama, and several nieces and nephews.

Ken was preceded in death by his mother and father, Ann Durrance Folk and Kenneth Steedly Folk, and his brother William Folk.

A funeral service is planned for June 28, 2022, in the chapel at Currie-Jefferson Funeral Home in Hoover, Alabama. Visitation will begin at 10:00 AM, followed by a service at 11:00 AM. Burial will be at 2:00 PM at Forrest Cemetery in Gadsden, Alabama. Donations in his memory may be made to the Shades Crest Baptist Church Building Fund at 452 Park Avenue, Hoover, AL 35226. http://shadescrest.org/

Click here to link to the funeral home obituary.

Eric Steven Likos, 65, of Hoover, AL, passed away peacefully on June 16, 2022, in his home with his son by his bedside. Eric was born March 31, 1957, to Steven and Shirley Likos of Huntsville, AL. After graduating from Lee High School, he attended Auburn University for his Bachelors in Finance. After graduating from Auburn, he was employed by Georgia Power Company in Atlanta for 10 years. In 1990, he relocated to the Birmingham area to continue his career with Southern Company Services.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his son, Matthew William Likos. He is survived by his son, Nicholas Steven Likos (Pamela Jones) of Hoover, AL, sister Linda (Ken) Lyles of Huntsville, AL, brother Mark (Sharon) Likos of Birmingham, AL, nieces, Kelly Likos-Davis, Christie Norris, nephew Paul Brubaker and his beloved black lab, Roxie. He leaves many friends and family who will cherish his memory.

A Celebration of Life service will be held Sunday, June 26, 2022, at 3 pm at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Birmingham, AL.

Click here to link to the AL.COM obituary.