Events

“None of us have all the ‘pieces’ to build something truly wonderful, but collectively… when we work together, can produce something far greater.”

“We had the idea of doing something different, playing off the themes of dark and light, a force we deal with in the trafficking industry.”

“Jackson,” he explained, “is already home to change makers who are poised to pour the gasoline of hope on the fire.”

The groundbreaking for a state-of-the-art early childhood center on the South Campus on Old Canton Road in Fondren will begin on September 18, at 9:00 a.m.

Awards consisted of four categories rather than one best of show this year, in painting, printmaking, art & craft and photography.

“I’ve been wanting to come back for a visit for quite some time and to get to play a show with my friends is just icing on the cake,” Bertram says of next weekend.

“It’s validation that the efforts of FRF on behalf of the neighborhood and the businesses over the last nearly 15 years have brought us to where we are.”

Decorated two-wheelers, a bag piper and a bounty of covered dishes bring a neighborhood together to celebrate independence – and each other.

The two-day, family-only event is being sponsored by the descendants of Richard and Ella Douglass Fondren, the first Fondrens in the Jackson area.

A 3 on 3 basketball tourney, Felder’s street garden, yoga, dancing, music and Operation Shoestring benefit and more were highlights of this month’s event.