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Gazebo Gazette
Volume III, Issue 16
April 25, 2008
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Pa s s C h r i s t i a n
Gazebo
Gazette
A Weekl y Ne wspaper for Residents and Friends of Pass Christian, Mississippi
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Inside this issue:
THIS WEEKEND
Blessing Of The Fleet Is
Sure To Be A Blast!
Spring Swing
See page 5
New Playground In DeLisle
Coming Soon
Look Who We Saw At
Rockin’ The Globe!
See page 6
Chamber Newsletter
See page 11
Tour of Homes Preview
See page 8
VOLUNTEERS CLEAN PASS
Pass High Students,
Teacher Honored
Please see page 21
Pass Native Authors Book On
Building A Dream Home
See page 18
Boy Scouts Attend Camporee
Please see page 19
Holy Family
Church
Design
Unveiled
Holy Family Parish last
weekend unveiled the design of the new Church if
the Holy Family on Menge
Avenue.
See page 3
Please see pages 7
Visions of the Future
What better way to enjoy these fine spring days than at the playground in our
beautiful park? The park was lively last Friday with guests from Pass Christian/DeLisle Elementary School. See page 12 for the full scoop.
DMR Extends Oyster Season Again
With the Bonnet Carré spillway still
open and local oyster reefs still under threat, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources this week
expanded its extension of the oyster
season even further last week.
The DMR said that, as of April 18,
commercial daily vessel sack limits
for oysters would be 50 sacks per
licensed vessel for commercial
dredging, and 20 sacks for commercial tonging.
The new church’s site plans
have been finalized and
submitted to the Harrison
County Zoning Board for
permitting. Over the past
several months, the Holy
Family Building Commit- Sketch
tee, with Li- Inside!
turgical ConSee
sutlant Msgr.
Ken Hedrick, page 3
and in collaboration with Barron &
Toups Architects, have
worked together to complete the conceptual phase
of the new church, the parish said on its web site
(www.holyfamilypar
ish.cc). The finalization of
the plans is now “in full
process,” the church said.
The DMR also ordered the reopening of more reefs. It had re-opened a
Holy Family, the postKatrina union of St. Paul
and Our Lady of Lourdes
parishes, will build the new
Church of the Holy Family
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the southern portions of the
Pass Marianne and Telegraph reefs, as well as Buoy
reef and the shell keys,
early last week, soon after
the spillway was opened.
Last Friday it opened more
reefs, including:
⇒ The St. Joseph’s, or St.
Joe’s, reef.
⇒ The Pass Christian reef,
Henderson Point reef
and Hornets reef.
⇒ The Square Handkerchief reef and the northern portions of the Pass
Marianne reef and Telegraph reef.
The Bonnet Carre spillway
is opened to divert rising
Mississippi River water
from New Orleans. However, the additional freshwater in the Mississippi
Sound has the potential to
severely damage local oyster reefs, which the state
just spent more than $7 million rebuilding after the
damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.
New Playground Planned At
DeLisle Community Center
The Marsha Barbour Community Center will soon
have another way for local
children to have fun and
exercise: a new KaBOOM!
playground.
KaBOOM, a national nonprofit that builds playgrounds in communities
that need them, has already
built two playgrounds in the
Pass Christian area: in War
Memorial Park and at Pineville Elementary School.
KaBOOM committed to
building 100 playgrounds in
the Katrina-affected area,
and they recently announced that their 100th
playground will be built in
Bay St. Louis in June.
KaBOOM playgrounds are
a community effort, with
local citizens involved in
the design, development,
and actual construction of
the playground. These
“Build Days” are usually
festive events, with food,
music, activities and lots of
work, all made to seem like
play, as everyone pitches in
to create the colorful, fun
playgrounds all can enjoy.
The Marsha Barbour Center’s Build Day will be July
19, and the call for volunteers is being issued now.
The Design Day will be May
20, and organizers are looking for 20 children to help
with the process from 4 p.m.
to 5 p.m. Volunteers are also
needed to lead teams. They
will also meet on May 20,
from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Dinner will be provided.
Community groups interested in volunteering during
the Build Day are also
needed. If you can help in
any capacity, please contact
Mindy Pizzetta, executive
director of the Marsha
Barbour Center, at 255-3773
[email protected].
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Put zip in your step!
Contact
Senor Juan
601-695-0472
Before 3 p.m. daily
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adjacent to the new St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School,
where Our Lady of Lourdes
Church currently stands near
the intersection with Evangeline Drive.
In unveiling the planned design this weekend, Fr. Dennis
J. Carver, the pastor of Holy
Family Parish, wrote that the
primary objective of the site
plan is “to celebrate the presence of Jesus Christ at this
place, to create a space of
tranquility, to claim this
place as holy ground, and
offer an environment of belonging to all.”
These factors were
“painstakingly considered
even in the outdoor environment,” Fr. Carver wrote.
“Parking lots will be well
disguised, traffic flow will be
highly dispersed and multifaceted, walkways will create
a sense of direction and place
of entrance, meditation gardens holding our former
churches' stations and statuary will connect us to the
past and lead us to the resurrected now of our new
church.”
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A sketch of the planned Church of the Holy Family
on Menge Ave., released last week by the parish
The site plan also includes
covered walkways, a porte
cochere, and special-needs
ramps. “The celebration of
weddings, baptisms, funerals,
confirmation, school masses,
special masses … and regular
Sunday Masses are all taken
into consideration in the
placement of buildings,
walkways, roads, and parking,” Fr. Carver wrote.
Some parishioners continue
to fight the church’s plan to
close St. Paul’s in downtown
Pass Christian; they’re appealing their lawsuit against
the church, which was recently dismissed in chancery
court.
This week, Fr. Carver declined to comment further on
the building plans and on
plans for the St. Paul’s site,
which had been slated to become a community center.
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234-0527 or 452-9073
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Gardening Is Theme Of Next Week’s Market
Next Saturday’s Market in
the Park, on May 3, will
feature a gardening theme,
with Master Gardeners, the
“Gardening Mama” and
special guests, Akia and
Rebecca Chabot, permaculturalists from Vicksburg.
Market in the Park continues every Saturday in War
Memorial Park, from 8 a.m.
to 11 a.m., rain or shine.
Regular participants include
fresh produce vendors, and
vendors offering honey,
cheeses, art, plants, jewelry
and much more, all locally
grown or made. (Get there
early for the cheese — it
was all sold out when the
Gazebo Gazette rolled up
last Saturday around 10:30
a.m.)
delicious breads. Mr.
Jenson is an artisan breadmaker from Waveland; if
you’ve ever had a sandwich
at the Mockingbird Café in
Bay St. Louis, you’ve tried
his bread. (We enjoyed the
rosemary garlic bread last
week).
Another popular food vendor is Al Jensen of "Serious
Bread,” offering a variety of
Joining the Market last
week was Dena Ladner, a
local potter whose wide
variety of work includes
many baking dishes and
other ceramics for the table.
For more information about
Market in the Park, call
228-324-2109 or email mar
[email protected].
Photo: Free lemonade is
just one of the many perks
of Market in the Park!
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Blessing Of The Fleet Will Be Fun For All Ages
The Blessing of the Fleet is
back this weekend, better
than ever. For kids, there will
be a fishing rodeo, spacewalks and slides, a clown and
balloons. For all ages, there
will be a great boat parade, a
live band, and lots of crawfish and hot dogs.
The Blessing will be this
Sunday, April 27, on the
west side of the Pass Christian Harbor. The kids’ fishing rodeo starts at 10 a.m. —
with free rods, reels and bait
while supplies last — and is
for children ages 3 to 10
years old.
At 12:30 p.m., the blessing
boat, Four Kings, will leave
the harbor, with the procession of boats following.
Around 1 p.m., the annual
memorial wreath toss will
take place. The decorated
wreath is donated every year
by Baxter Jones and will be
tossed into the water in memory of lost fishermen at sea.
The Pass Christian Blessing
of the Fleet shirts are selling
fast — order yours by calling
800-333-2252 — and the
money raised goes toward
the annual Blessing of the
Fleet scholarship for a student at Pass Christian High
School. There will also be a
50/50 raffle to raise funds for
the scholarship.
The Jolene
BLESSING OF THE FLEET SCHEDULE
SUNDAY APRIL 27, 2008
WEST SIDE OF HARBOR AT SHAGGYS
10 A.M. – 1 P.M. CHILDREN’S FISHING RODEO
(Free rods & reels with bait given away until gone
— ages 3-10 years old)
10 A.M. All boats participating in the Blessing need
to sign in with Harbor Master Willie Davis
12:30 P.M. Blessing boat (Four Kings) leaves
Harbor, Procession of boats to follow
1 P.M. MEMORIAL WREATH TOSS
1:30 P.M. PRIZES AWARDED AT SHAGGYS
There will be prizes for pleasure and commercial
boats — $300 for 1st Place, $100 for 2nd Place.
Lots of merchandise prizes for boats and fishing
rodeo participants too!
BRING YOUR CHAIRS AND UMBRELLAS FOR
A WONDERFUL TIME IN THE PASS!
There will be cash prizes for
decorated boats, both pleasure and commercial. Decorated boats need to arrive by
10 a.m. to register.
built. It is still an active
working boat.
For more info or to register,
contact Harbor Master
Willie Davis at 216-1307.
Crawfish, hot dogs and
drinks will be sold downstairs at Shaggy’s (the upstairs will be open too).
Shaggy’s is also sponsoring
the band, Stars. Bring your
own chairs and umbrellas to
watch the boat parade.
As of this week, 25 boats had
already signed up to participate in the blessing, including the
Jolene, the second-oldest boat in
the Pass Christian
Harbor. Owned by
Otis Easterling,
the Jolene was
built in Biloxi in
1948 and is one of
the last Biloxi
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