What's Up Waveland - March 2015

by Jeremy Burke
-  This month - Street projects near completion, upcoming events and new tree sculpture!

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Editor's Note:  After more than nine years, LiLi Stahler Murphy is taking a break from writing a monthly newsletter for the residents of Waveland.  LiLi served as a Waveland Alderman for eight years and her extraordinary volunteer service on behalf of her community was recognized when she won the coveted 2014 Hancock County Citizen of the Year award. Her many accomplishments will continue to benefit the citizens of Waveland for many generations to come. 
Thank you, LiLi!  

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The massive Jeff Davis Avenue and Gulfside Street Sewer and Water Improvement project now has a foreseeable end in sight.  After over a year of hard work, headaches, detours and muddy automobiles it appears that the  contractor has almost completed the project.  Unless something completely unexpected happens this month, HRL Contracting should have pavement on the street by the end of March and will be putting the finishing touches on this project.

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Upcoming Events in Waveland

On March 14th the Waveland Civic Association’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade will roll down Coleman Avenue.  The 2015 WCA St. Patrick’s Day will be the 51st time the Waveland Civic Association has paraded in Waveland the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day.   The parade will also include the new hit marching club, The Raw Oysters.

Hope to see everyone lined up on Central Avenue and Coleman Avenue ready to catch beads, cups and cabbage.

At the Waveland Civic Center (335 Coleman Ave) on March 21st  from 11:00-3:00 the Bay-Waveland Garden Club will celebrate its 75th anniversary of service to the communities of Bay St. Louis and Waveland by hosting their annual Spring Pilgrimage Home Tour.  The pilgrimage is complimentary and open to the public.

Featured this year will be historic buildings which were in existence in 1938 when the Garden Club was officially organized along with a number of other beautiful properties in Bay St Louis and Waveland.  Come down to the Waveland Civic Center to pick up your pilgrimage map and have fun on March 21st admiring the charm of Hancock County.

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What Is That? 

If you have driven by Elwood Bourgeois Park, you may have noticed a dying oak tree as it evolved into a piece of art.  The Waveland Civic Association commissioned tree sculptor James Seal to carve the oak tree into a softball player.  The tree was carved not only to add beauty to the park, but also to commemorate the recently deceased Waveland Civic Association member and longtime Waveland youth sport supportor, Herb Sires.

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Jeremy Burke is a Millennial, the Waveland Ward 1 Alderman,  a husband, father, pragmatic idealist who loves the Saints, the Pelicans, the Chicago Cubs, the University of Southern Mississippi, Mardi Gras, Hemingway, and WAVELAND.