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DMR hears
casino views
Hope Haven
...a safe home for children
At the new Civil Defense headquarters in the County Courthouse Annex, Boudin’s staff was keeping track of the slow-moving storm and assistants were reporting areas where flooding had begun.
As expected, the pounding waves and surf made most of Lakeshore Road at Clermont
BY ED LEPOMA
The fate of a proposed casino development along South Beach Boulevard near Bayou Caddy is again in the hands of the Department of Marine Resources.
The DMR held a public hearing at Gulfview Elementary School Thursday night on a request to rezone an area of waterbottoms stretching from Sand Bayou to Lakeshore Drive, about six blocks from the now-closed Jubilation Casino.
About 55 people turned out fc ^ie hearing, with opposition mostly voiced by citizen and environmentalist groups which have been fighting the proposed development since one was first mentioned four years ago.
In 1995, landowner Jim Ma-ness first got the area rezoned from “G-Residential and Recreational Use” to “C-Com-mercial Use". He is one of four property owners that control about 80 acres north of the beach roacl. They are now asking for an I-Industrial zoning of the waterbottoms area.
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had a report of an 18-wheeler that had turned over on its side on Harbor prive in the Bayou Phillips Community, and another request to rescue a cancer patient that was stranded on New Mexico Street in Shoreline Park.
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Maness successfully argued before the DMR that errors were made in the original Coastal Zone Management Plan drawn up in 1980, but the opposition filed a challenge in Hancock County Chancery Court.
In a ruling last November, Judge Thopias J. Teel overturned the rezoning designation of “C-Commercial,” and ordered the DMR to conduct a new hearing on the petition.
Maness poted that supervisors, who adopted Hancock County’s firot ever Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance last January zoped the waterfront area C-Conifnercial.
“Every agency in the county that determines the public needs supports this proposal,” said Manesj.
Besides supervisors, Maness said he has sent DMR statements' of support from Hancock Sheriff Ronnie Peterson; the Conpty Planning Commission; th* state legislative delegation; s Education Supt. Terry Randolph; the county t
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BY BETSY GAGNET
Last year in Hancock County over 100 children were given what most kids take for granted — a warm bed in a safe place surrounded by caring people.
The place was the Hope Haven Shelter, currently celebrating its one year anniversary and kicking off a membership drive.
The organization, which offers an emergency safe haven for abused and neglected children, cared for about 110 children in its first year in operation.
Director Terry L. Latham, said that all of the children are brought to Hope Haven by the Department of Human Services (DHS), explaining that the shelter does not take runaways, or kids who show up at the door.
“We are not a half-way house,” he said. “In our case, 95 percent of the children are there due to substantiated abuse and neglect.”
Children from birth to 17 years old can be placed for emergency shelter, generally for up to 45 days.
The shelter houses children
Storm surges
Hurricane Danny (top photo) sends waves crashing over Beach Boulevard at Lakeshore Friday morning. Civil Defense Director Bobby Boudin reported tides about four feet above normal as Danny skirted the Mississippi Gulf Coast. At left, St. Stanislaus Camp counselors in Bay St. Louis gather sailing craft as waves begin to build in the Sound. (Echo staff photos by Ellis C. Cuevas)
who come from hojfle situations most people either can’t conceive of or don’t want to think about, Latham Sftid-
That often mean* children who have been r^pecli sodomized, beaten and/pr severely neglected.
Other young children are what are referretj lip as ”crib kids”, Latham explained, meaning they have been confined to their cribs from q very young age for a long length of time. These children generally have developed no speech skills
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