Camille presentation is Sunday afternoon

“When’s the last time you heard of more than 140 tickets being sold in advance for a movie?” Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art Director Kevin O’Brien says of this Sunday afternoon’s “Camille: The 45th Anniversary Remembrance.”

“We’re expecting to see a really good turnout at the Saenger Theater for something that will be memorable for longtime residents,who went through Camille in August 1969, and it will be educational for those folks who thought Katrina was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Make no mistake: Camille was the original monster storm.”

The presentation, which begins at 2 p.m., will feature a ’70s documentary about the Category 5 hurricane, and a storm-preparation message from Mayor A.J. Holloway that originally aired on Aug. 17, 2005, a mere 12 days before another storm, Katrina, decimated the coastline.

Highlight of the afternoon is expected to be a never-before-seen interview with Daniel D. Guice Sr., mayor of Biloxi when Camille struck. Guice will reminisce about what he saw in Camille and how the city went about recovering.

Tickets for the event are $10 each and can be purchased at the Biloxi Visitors Center or the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art. Said O’Brien: “We’re encouraging folks to drop by the Visitors Center or the Ohr-O’Keefe to get tickets now so they can just walk right in the theater Sunday afternoon.”
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Redeemer to host annual memorial Sunday

The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer will host its annual Camille Memorial Service on Saturday, Aug. 17 at 4:30 p.m. at the Camille memorial. To see pictures from years gone by: 2009, 2008  and 2007.

The Camille memorial is at 610 Water St., off U.S. 90 at Bellman Street.

Free Excel by 5 health fair is Saturday at Snyder 

Biloxi Excel By 5 will hold its annual Ready Set GO Children’s Health Fair from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Donal Snyder Community Center, 2520 Pass Road, Biloxi.

Other activities will be a health-and-fitness obstacle course, proper hand-washing techniques demonstrated by Mr. Germ Glow, and families will be able to put their own home first-aid kits together.

Details: Susan Hunt, 297-6808, or susan.hunt@biloxischools.net; or Emily Burke, 436-1644, or emily.burke@hma.com.
 
Biloxi Sports Hall of Fame to add 14 new members

A legendary sports promoter, a highly respected basketball coach, a well-traveled professional boxer and two brothers who starred on the football teams at Biloxi High School and the University of Southern Mississippi head the 14 players elected to the 2014 class of the Biloxi Sports Hall of Fame.

A crowd of more than 300 is expected to attend the induction banquet in the Biloxi Civic Center on Sunday, Aug. 31.

“This may well be the strongest class of inductees since I’ve been in office,” said six-term Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway, also a member of the city’s Sports Hall of Fame. “The new members come from a wide variety of sports and include several posthumous honorees whose inclusion was long overdue in my estimation.”
Meet the Class of 2014