Monday, July 18, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Another Woods Fire Endangers Homes
(Jackson County Board of Supervisors voted Monday to extend the county burn ban to July 18.)
GAUTIER -- For the third time this summer, a woods fire has endangered homes in a Jackson County city.
Media reports said Monday's fire covered a 10-acre area in north Gautier. The fire lasted about two hours as it burned woods on Francis Street and Kingfisher Drive, where six homes were threatened, and other roadways.
Gautier Homes Have Close Call with Woods Fire
The Sun Herald/July 12, 20110
Agencies helping to fight the 3:30 p.m. blaze included the Gautier Fire Department, Jackson County Central Volunteer Fire Department, Mississippi Forestry Commission, U.S. Forest Service, and Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge.
Back to the Woods: Fire Threatens Neighborhood
The Mississippi Press/July 12, 2011
GAUTIER -- For the third time this summer, a woods fire has endangered homes in a Jackson County city.
Media reports said Monday's fire covered a 10-acre area in north Gautier. The fire lasted about two hours as it burned woods on Francis Street and Kingfisher Drive, where six homes were threatened, and other roadways.
Gautier Homes Have Close Call with Woods Fire
The Sun Herald/July 12, 20110
Agencies helping to fight the 3:30 p.m. blaze included the Gautier Fire Department, Jackson County Central Volunteer Fire Department, Mississippi Forestry Commission, U.S. Forest Service, and Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge.
Back to the Woods: Fire Threatens Neighborhood
The Mississippi Press/July 12, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Hornets Enjoy Time Together, Roll Down Market Street
PASCAGOULA -- The Hornets were doing their best to make use of the time they have together this Fourth of July weekend.
"It's going great," said Sandra Burton. "Everybody seems to be excited and happy."
At War Memorial Stadium, she walked among former schoolmates preparing floats and decorated cars for their school reunion parade this morning. President of the Pascagoula Negro/Carver High School Alumni Association, she talked about the history of the all-black school, which at one time included first to 12th grade students. She said alumni include those from 1930s to the school's closing in 1971.
"We've got a special shuttle bus for those from the 30s, 40s and early 50s. It's a shuttle bus but it's decorated. They will ride in the parade on the bus."
Burton rejoiced at seeing old friends, though tired from all the details needed to help organize the biannual event. And she noted the reason for the reunion of the historically black school, which first opened during the 1860s. "We are the legacy of Jim Crow," Burton said.
This year's theme is "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away."
Pascagoula Negro School later became Carver High before integration in 1971. Some 800 alumni, their descendants, associates and other residents are expected to participate during the four-day school reunion.
Evette Anderson, Dorothy Lee and Renather Edwards waited on their float for the parade to start, huge amplifiers blasting old school songs. They are members of the Jackson County Ladies 4 Wheelers.
"One of our ladies went to the school in Pascagoula. She's in it," said Anderson.
The heat measured 95 degrees as time neared the 10 a.m. start of the reunion procession.
Digital cameras and videos worked over time. A huddle of friends dressed in the blue and white colors of the Carver Hornets repeated itself for numerous snapshots and video memories.
"We are having a ball ," said Shirley Woodson, Class of 69. "Our class came in third place in the Motown Showdown last night."
Roy Stewart, a graduate of Pascagoula High, attended Carver High two separate times. When the school was combined first grade to senior students, he attended as a first-grader. When Fair Elementary School was built to house black students, he attended there from second to sixth grade before returning to Carver High as a seventh grader.
After integration, Carver was renamed Pascagoula High Annex, and housed only 10th grade students before a new high school was built farther west on Tucker Street.
The historic school building is located at Tucker and Market Street.
After a new PHS was built, the school became an alternative school and learning center. Now, the Pascagoula High Interactive Center
Tours of the building were made following the parade.
"Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away" for the 2011 theme.
Festivities started with Thursday with a meet and greet at the Grand Magnolia Ballroom.
A Motown Showdown was held at the Gautier Convention Center on Friday; reunion parade from War Memorial Stadium on Tucker Avenue and the reunion ball at the B.E. "Mac" McGinty Civic Center at 7 p.m. were highlights Saturday. A worship service will be Sunday at 8 a.m. at Union Baptist Church with Rev. Larry Hawkins officiating. A picnic is set for 11 a.m. at Beach Park.
"It's going great," said Sandra Burton. "Everybody seems to be excited and happy."
At War Memorial Stadium, she walked among former schoolmates preparing floats and decorated cars for their school reunion parade this morning. President of the Pascagoula Negro/Carver High School Alumni Association, she talked about the history of the all-black school, which at one time included first to 12th grade students. She said alumni include those from 1930s to the school's closing in 1971.
"We've got a special shuttle bus for those from the 30s, 40s and early 50s. It's a shuttle bus but it's decorated. They will ride in the parade on the bus."
Burton rejoiced at seeing old friends, though tired from all the details needed to help organize the biannual event. And she noted the reason for the reunion of the historically black school, which first opened during the 1860s. "We are the legacy of Jim Crow," Burton said.
This year's theme is "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away."
Pascagoula Negro School later became Carver High before integration in 1971. Some 800 alumni, their descendants, associates and other residents are expected to participate during the four-day school reunion.
Evette Anderson, Dorothy Lee and Renather Edwards waited on their float for the parade to start, huge amplifiers blasting old school songs. They are members of the Jackson County Ladies 4 Wheelers.
"One of our ladies went to the school in Pascagoula. She's in it," said Anderson.
The heat measured 95 degrees as time neared the 10 a.m. start of the reunion procession.
Digital cameras and videos worked over time. A huddle of friends dressed in the blue and white colors of the Carver Hornets repeated itself for numerous snapshots and video memories.
"We are having a ball ," said Shirley Woodson, Class of 69. "Our class came in third place in the Motown Showdown last night."
Roy Stewart, a graduate of Pascagoula High, attended Carver High two separate times. When the school was combined first grade to senior students, he attended as a first-grader. When Fair Elementary School was built to house black students, he attended there from second to sixth grade before returning to Carver High as a seventh grader.
After integration, Carver was renamed Pascagoula High Annex, and housed only 10th grade students before a new high school was built farther west on Tucker Street.
The historic school building is located at Tucker and Market Street.
After a new PHS was built, the school became an alternative school and learning center. Now, the Pascagoula High Interactive Center
Tours of the building were made following the parade.
"Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away" for the 2011 theme.
Festivities started with Thursday with a meet and greet at the Grand Magnolia Ballroom.
A Motown Showdown was held at the Gautier Convention Center on Friday; reunion parade from War Memorial Stadium on Tucker Avenue and the reunion ball at the B.E. "Mac" McGinty Civic Center at 7 p.m. were highlights Saturday. A worship service will be Sunday at 8 a.m. at Union Baptist Church with Rev. Larry Hawkins officiating. A picnic is set for 11 a.m. at Beach Park.
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