More than 300 students will be on the campus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville this week to show off their best designs of spacecraft on a science mission to Mercury.

The Integrated Product Team (IPT) open house is scheduled on Wednesday from 1 p.m to 5 p.m. in Spragins Hall.

The (IPT) course is a unique engineering senior design experience that engages UAHuntsville seniors in mechanical and aerospace engineering and industrial engineering as well as undergraduates in the design of a spacecraft to accomplish a science mission to Mercury. The College of Charleston and ESTACA (Ecole Supérieure des Techniques Aéronautiques et de Construction Automobile in Paris, France) are also participants.

Highlands Medical Center Foundation's largest fundraiser of the year is coming up.

Denim and Diamond will be an evening with a Mardi Gras theme.

Denim and Diamonds will be held on Saturday, April 21 at the Scottsboro -Goose Pond Civic Center.

The cost is $75 per person. Tables can be reserved for an entire party or business group for $650.

The event will feature music and dinner from local restaurants in Jackson County. A live and silent auction will accompany the event.

Goosepond Cumberland Presbyterian Church will be having a non-perishable food drive for CASA on April 7th.

The drive will be set up outside the church collecting the food items from 8:00 AM until 2:00 PM.  

The church is requesting items like: canned foods, boxed dinners, pasta, canned soup and similar non-perishable items

Goosepond Cumberland Presbyterian Church is located at the end of Hancock Drive at 1155 Hancock Drive East in Scottsboro, Ala.