DOTHAN: The HOOPS CLASSIC in Dothan began on Friday. Today the games begin at 3 PM.
Unless you are royalty, as in Mayor – Dothan ASSociate Commissioners and City Manager, you can not enter the main entrance of the Dothan Civic Center from North Saint Andrews Street. The first entrance at Liddon Furniture you can enter or come in behind the Dothan Civic Center. There are barricades blocking main entrance.
You have to go in on basement floor of Dothan Civic Center, under the carport. Leave metal objects, knives, firearms, etc because you are required to enter via metal detectors and electronic wands if you go beep beep. You might be subjected to a body cavity search if goes BEEP BEEP and BEEP. Kinda like TSA!!!
Do not parking on northside of Dothan Civic Center where Mayor – ASSociate Commissioners and City Manger park. Those spaces and Administrative Staff ( on Saturday when they are off ) have pretty City of Dothan Leisure Services logo cones blocking the reserved spaces for royalty. Sorry, you the taxpayers, ARE NOT ROYALTY. Only elected and appointed public employees are royalty.
Tickets to enter are purchased on the second floor. You either climb the stairs or take the elevator to the second floor to purchase tickets.
HOOPS CLASSIC was once a Dothan Eagle thing. When Pat Thomas served as Mayor of Dothan they Dothan Eagle moved it to Ozark. So then Dothan Mayor Pat Thomas began HOOPS CLASSIC and started a Dothan sponsored event at the Dothan Civic Center. It begins each year the day after Christmas.
RSN did not have a media packet and had to research the information. RSN also does not get the paid advertising from Dothan Leisure Services. But we imported a Leisure Services Director from Enterprise because no one in Dothan is smart enough to run Leisure Services. They stole Clay Dempsey from Center Stage to manage Performing Arts.
