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The 10th Annual John R. Blossman YMCA Humanitarian Award and Charity Banquet is set for Nov. 1. Tickets and sponsorships are now available.

A lot of thought and planning went into the formation of the Kiwanis Club in Hurley.

Samantha Schwartz, 17, of Gautier has earned the highest recognition the American Heritage Girls offers to Girl Members, the Stars & Stripes Award.

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Lana Watts, a Pascagoula High School nurse, recently earned her National Board School Nurse Certification and was celebrated with a surprise reception. 

PAY IT FORWARD FRIDAY: WES EUBANKS

Some of the major needs for Texas victims right now are bottled water, and cleaning supplies. Drop your flood buckets off at any of these locations.

or the past 44 years, “Mrs. B” has been instrumental in teaching Jackson County students. The past 17 years she has been the principal at Resurrection Catholic Elementary School, which has two campuses in Pascagoula.

This week’s Pay It Forward Friday is Jenafer Gurley, a 36 year-old artist from Pascagoula.

The JaxCoHome “Pay it Forward Friday” recipient is Pastor Larry Hawkins of Union Baptist Church in Pascagoula.

PAY IT FORWARD FRIDAY: “I’ve been so blessed to be able to serve. I do wear many different hats, but it’s easy to wear them when you enjoy what you’re doing.”

“Especially as adults, we are spending so much time on phones or computers and it is really important to have screen-free time. Kids and parents don’t spend a lot of time outdoors, meaning we don’t get to use our senses to explore. Now we feel like the world has changed, and we can’t let kids out of our site, but this is such an amazing place to grow up because there’s so many different habitats and it is always changing.”

“That first day 20 people came for lunch, and we though that was a lot. Now we serve up to 250 meals a day.”