FROM STAFF REPORTS

Area residents participated in the prestigious White Coat ceremony recently at Samford University’s McWhorter School of Pharmacy. They are Michael Alan Denaburg Jr of Alabaster, son of Sandra and Michael Denaburg; Matt Garmon of Chelsea, son of Cindy and Paul Garmon; Katie Boyd of Hoover, daughter of Laura and Daniel Boyd; Kate Davenport of Hoover, daughter of Cindy and Alan Davenport; and Jonathan Thigpen of Hoover, son of Michele Haralson and Bill Thigpen