5 Years of Memories for Patrolman Byrd

HURLEY -- This Sunday, March 27, will mark five years of memories of the too-short but full life of Patrolman Terry Micheal Byrd.

The Pascagoula motorcycle officer was killed in 2006 when he tried to avoid a vehicle waiting to turn in traffic and instead was thrown into the path of an oncoming dump truck. The truck subsequently ran over Byrd during the traffic accident on Chicot Road.

April 11 will mark the birthday of the young officer, who was 27 years old when he died while on his way to visit a sister and her newborn son. He was born in 1979.

Hog Wild Party Set for National Guard

LUCEDALE -- This coming weekend will bring on a Hog Wild Homecoming for the 287th Engineering Company when the National Guard unit returns from a year-long tour in Afghanistan.

City officials said Saturday's event will take place at Lucedale City Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to media report

The 130-member unit left the city and their families in March 2010, and will return to a feast of barbecue, ceremony, and gathering of family, city officials and residents.


Lucedale National Guard Unit's Return to be Marked with 'Hog Wild' Party
March 01, 2011 The Mississippi Press

Honor Flight Meets with Volunteers in OS

OCEAN SPRINGS -- Mississippi Gulf Coast Honor Flight organizers have about three weeks to gather final monies needed to send some 90 veterans to the nation's capitol May 11.

The call for more volunteers garnered about 30 residents at a meeting Wednesday night in this city, according to reporter Harlan Kirgan at www.gulflive.com/themississippipress.

"Basically what this meeting is about is fundraising," said MGC Honor Flight President Kim Foster. "all the money to be raised needs to be raised by April 1."

She said $15,000 has been collected in the last two weeks.

Honor Flight Ramps Up Fundraising