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'Good Morning America'visits Coast today
- Pass Christian - ABC News' "Good Morning America" today will showcase the work of two North Mississippi businesses.
Anchor Robin Roberts will broadcast live from her hometown of Pass Christian for the grand opening of the Boys amp& Girls Club. It's expected to be around 7 a.m.
Michael Jones of the Tupelo office of JBHM Architects was the architect for the club's building. Co-worker Chris Root was the project manager and designer.
Century Construction and Realty, based in Tupelo, was the general
contractor.
LEE COUNTY
Garden classes feature tomatoes, ferns, palms
- TUPELO - If you're interested in growing the best-ever tomatoes in Northeast Mississippi, plan to spend some time with Master Gardener Bill Fisher on Saturday morning.
Fisher will show the proper way to plant tomatoes, give tips on care and maintenance of the plants and detail pests and diseases.
The free hands-on demonstration will be at Tupelo Creative Commons, the new community garden just south of the Tupelo Farmers' Market on Spring Street.
For more information, call (662) 841-6510.
Also, two Master Gardeners will give a program on growing palm trees, ferns and other tropicals on Tuesday, May 12, at 6 p.m. at the Lee County Extension Office at 5338 Cliff Gookin Blvd. in Tupelo.
Reginald Rose will present a program on palm trees and other tropicals, while Bill Fisher will present a program on ferns.
Call (662) 841-9000 to sign up for this free program.
Keep America Beautiful awards Sherrie Cochran
- TUPELO - Municipal Environmental Coordinator Sherrie Cochran recently won the Pat Fordice Affiliate Award from the Keep America Beautiful program.
The honor is given to an affiliate director who has distinguished himself or herself by going above and beyond the basic requirements to be an affiliate.
Tupelo is an official affiliate of the national program.
"The 2009 recipient has distinguished herself and is an outstanding example of the perfect director," said Barbara Dorr, executive director of Keep Mississippi Beautiful.
Century Construction and Realty’s Project Receives National Recognition
Tupelo, MS – Local Tupelo company, Century Construction and Realty, was instrumental in the construction of the newly rebuilt Boys & Girls Club of the Gulf Coast in Pass Christian. Thursday, May 7 the Boys & Girls Club is set to receive national media coverage on Good Morning America, a program of the ABC networks.
After Hurricane Katrina’s tidal surge hit the United States coast in 2005, eighty percent of the coastal town of Pass Christian was destroyed. Included in this devastation was the newly remodeled Boys & Girls Club of the Gulf Coast, which at the time was serving 200 to 300 children daily. Though the city suffered from physical and economic loss, the Club continued to meet using an available school auditorium and classrooms.
In 2008, Century Construction and Realty was awarded the general contractor position for the Boys & Girls Club of the Gulf Coast. The work had significant meaning for the construction company in several ways. One being Century Construction’s continued work expansion along the Mississippi Coast, but the most important being their key role in rebuilding a much-needed facility that stood to help hundreds of coastal youth each year.
“This was more than your standard construction job,” says Clay Evans, Project Manager for the Boys & Girls Club in Pass Christian. “It is a great feeling to be a Mississippi-founded company helping to rebuild a facility on the Mississippi Coast that will touch the lives of so many youth.”
The National Broadcast on Good Morning America will be celebrating the grand opening of the Boys & Girls Club at the Qatar Center in Pass Christian. The broadcast begins at 6 a.m. followed by the ribbon cutting at 7 a.m. and an open house until 5:30 p.m.
“Boys & Girls Club of the Gulf Coast is proud to showcase our new state-of-the-art facility – the Qatar Center – in Pass Christian,” says Samuel J. Burke, Executive Director of Boys & Girls Club of the Gulf Coast. “The design and construction of the building ensure an environment that will promote creativity, learning and, most importantly, fun for the youth that we serve.”
The Boys & Girls Club of the Gulf Coast conservatively estimates that the number of youth and teens utilizing the Club each year will be over 1,300.
About Boys & Girls Club of the Gulf Coast: The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to become productive, responsible and caring citizens. We engage over 3,000 youth, ages 5-18, annually in life changing after school programs in six clubs spread across the Gulf Coast. For more information about the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast, visit their website at www.bgcgulfcoast.org.
About Century Construction and Realty: Century Construction and Realty was founded in 1997 and has continued to expand in their first ten years. The company has evolved from construction to include a full-service demolition unit, a real estate division and increased specialization in both design-build and green construction approaches. Century Construction and Realty is a member of the US Green Building Council and is helping to pave the way in green building for Mississippi as one of the few green-certified construction companies in the state.
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