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lace them in clusters and sur-ound them with periwinkles.? ?Yesterday the mayor joined is in trimming the oleanders, ind we will be planting more.
?We have received one gener->us donation, so far, which we ,vill use to purchase live oak ,rees for the medium.
Haney intends to approach businesses and individuals llong Highway 90for donations ind/or physical assistance.
?We want Highway 90 to have an attractive appearance, so that when visitors drives by, they are enticed to stop.? Haney reported on February 25 he and his people will meet with the Chamber of Commerce, along with Bay St. Louis? highway and agriculture department for spring plans.
He explained Waveland intends to join hands with Bay St. Louis, so that ?there will be a unified appearance of beauty from Waveland corporate limits to the Bay Bridge.?
As a future project Haney would like to see more emphasis placed on lettingpeople driving along the highway know that there are beaches right here, for their enjoyment
?Too many people drive through thinking there are no beaches until they cross the bridge,? said Haney.
He said thathewould like see some way to lei the visitors know as they drwe through that they have alreadyarrived at the Coast.
He said Ward 3 Alderman Curtis P. ?Phil? Colson is helping to draw plamfor a new sign to mark the mtrance into Waveland.
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Pioneer woman banking VP Ruth Cazeneuve dies at 98
BY TRACI BONNEY
Our Lady of the Gulfs ?godmother of the bells,? Ruth Lucille Cazeneuve, died Thursday in Pass Christian at the age of 98.
A member of Hancock County?s pioneer Cazeneuve family, she was a native and lifelong resident of Bay St. Louis, a lifelong member of Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church and a member of the church?s Altar Society.
Miss Cazeneuve?s father, Joseph F. Cazeneuve, was one of the organizers of Hancock Bank, where she started to work when she was 16 years old. She was an employee and officer of the bank in Bay St. Louis for 58/a years, serving as bank vice president during part of her career and retiring at the age of 74.
Princess Fahey, a longtime friend of Miss Cazeneuve, recalled her as someone whose aim in life was giving of herself to help others.
?She more or less lived for the bank. It was her life.
?She will always be remembered by many adults today because she always had a stick of gum for them when they came into the bank as children. She told me she bought the gum herself. The bank didn?t buy it.?
She will also be remembered for her hats, Mrs. Fahey said. ?She always wore a hat to and
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from work. You know, they were wearing hats for a time, but then it became less and less popular to wear them. But she always wore a hat.?
Mrs. Fahey said Miss Cazeneuve was a devout member of Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church all her life. After the church burned around the turn of the century, Miss Cazeneuve, then a teenager, was made godmother of the bells for the new church building.
She also was the only mem-
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Harrison/Hancock Dixie Youth girls softball will hold a coaches meeting for anyone interested in working with young people, 4 p.m., today at West Harrison Ball Park.
ber of her class when she graduated from St. Jos( Academy at the age of 1> Mrs. Fahey said Miss C neuve handled Hancock Bz bond account from the tirm bank purchased its first boi the time of her retiren After she left the bank, account was moved to Gulf ?She and her father als< probably the first branch b ing to be done. When c banks started oper branches, she told me it we big surprise to her.
?She and her father w take the train from Ba> Louis to the mail boat whicl to Pearlington and Logt They got on the boat, wei Pearlington and did the b ing for the people there, we Logtown and did the ban there, then came back wit the money.
?I asked her if she was ried that someone might t rob them and she said th; far as she knew, her ft didn?t even have his gun him when they went out Miss Cazeneuve?s fat prior to helping found the t had served as Hancock Cc sheriff twice.
Mrs. Fahey said of Cazeneuve, ?She was a brilliant woman. Truly I
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