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POVERT'S
WORST NIGHTMARE : Pete Johnson is using his years of
political experience and the resources of the federal government
to combat poverty and despair in the Delta region. |
CURRENT
ISSUE - NOVEMBER 03
DRA
leader
faces challenges with grace, vision
Obstacles
seem to only
strengthen Pete Johnson’s resolve
Pete
Johnson is a fighter.
Not in the brash, arrogant way of an insecure instigator.
Johnson’s fight is that of a strategist, a man of
faith, one who has faced death on several occasions and
won; one who faces misery, poverty and despair and is helping
plan its eventual defeat. The fight is one of bravery, not
of anger—and Pete Johnson fights to win.
FULL
STORY
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Delta
Regional Medical Center announces major expansion
plans
| LAYING
THE GROUNDWORK : Local dignitaries,
state officials, and DRMC representatives
at the site of the new DRMC health
complex. |
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New
medical complex to be developed on 182-acre
site
by Robert McFarland,
Jr.
DBJ Contributing
Writer
On
October 29, 2003, officials with Delta
Regional Medical Center in Greenville
announced the purchase of a 182-acre site
in the southern part of the city, east
of Highway 1 South. They also unveiled
plans for construction of the first phase
of a long-range program to develop the
property into a comprehensive, state-of-the-art
medical campus.
FULL
STORY
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| Newly-appointed
Secretary gets first look at pump, hears from
citizens
by
David Lush
DBJ Contributing Writer
At
the request of Mississippi District 1 Congressman
Roger Wicker, the newly appointed Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, John
Paul Woodley Jr., flew to the Yazoo Backwater
Project pump site at the Steele Bayou drainage
structure on an MH-60 Blackhawk helicopter
to see firsthand the impacted area under
discussion on Friday, October 24.
Residents and landowners in the south Delta
area have been waiting since 1941 for the
federal government to construct a previously
promised pumping station, now expected to
cost around $191 million. The pumping station
(a part of Mississippi River and Tributaries
Project) will pump millions of gallons of
rain and floodwaters, over the levee during
high stages on the Mississippi River. Over
4,000 square miles of Mississippi Delta
relies on the Steele Bayou structure as
the outlet for flood waters. FULL
STORY
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