News Briefs
Ida B. Wells
Banquet July 10 at Hudsonville
Tickets
are on sale for the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Commemorative Banquet.
It
will be held at the Hudsonville C.M.E. Church Family Life Center on
Saturday, July 10, at 7 p.m. Guest speaker will be Tiana L. Ferrell,
great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells.
Tickets
are $25 each.
For
more information on the banquet or the museum in Holly Springs, contact
Rev. Leona Harris at 662-252-3232.
County school
board plans July 6 meeting
The
Marshall County Board of Education will conduct its next meeting on
Tuesday, July 6.
It
will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the board room of the supervisors, 103B
Market Street, Holly Springs.
Kudzu Festival
slated mid-July at fairgrounds
The
Holly Springs Chamber of Commerce and Marshall County Fairgrounds will
present the Kudzu Festival July 14-17.
The
fun-filled festival is designed with families in mind. Activities
include a daily carnival, barrel racing, pet show, entertainment,
pie/cake contest and a firefighters demonstration.
City school
board meets July 6 in library
The
July meeting of the board of trustees of the Holly Springs School
District has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 6.
The
meeting will begin at 6 p.m. and will be held in the high school
library, 165 North Walthall Street.
Nine-year-old
dies in drowning accident
Nine-year-old
Michael Anthony Nunnally Jr. of Holly Springs drowned Thursday
afternoon while attempting to save the life of his 6-year-old cousin,
according to coroner James Richard Anderson.
The
accident occurred around 5 p.m. June 24 while four children and two
adults were fishing under a bridge on Beale Road at Pigeon Roost Creek,
he said.
One
of the adults went into the water
and saved the 6-year-old but Nunnally slipped away in currents. His
body was found near where he went in – in 10 to 12 feet of water – by
divers with the Holly Springs Fire Department around 6:45 p.m.,
Anderson said.
“He
was a victim, but he was
also a hero in trying to save his cousin and in that act he lost his
own life,” said Maj. David Cook, sheriff’s deputy who worked the
tragedy.
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