First Alert Weather Extra: Celebrating with Sam

SARDIS CITY, Ala. (WBRC) - Two decades ago, we first visited Bama Bucks in Sardis City, near Boaz, to meet the Big Bucks and Terry Turks who had started a deer farm with his father.

Since then, Terry has added his popular Bama Bucks Restaurant which has a growing group of people discovering their wild-game and traditional food offerings.

Wildlife has always been part of the attraction, and now Bama Bucks has a new addition, Sand Mountain Sam, who, together with lots of friends will be celebrating Ground Hog Day in their own special way.

Of course, instead of the famous Pennsylvania Rodent, our Mountain Marsupial will be the one looking ahead to the possibility of an early spring.

It’s an all-day event which begins at 7 a.m. Thursday morning and includes a little mountain music, and after Sam’s Prognostication Bama Bucks will be open for breakfast.

Bama Bucks is located in Etowah county, 292 Bryant Road in Boaz.

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