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Lighthouse planned for Ulman Street
BY MARY G. SEILEY
1 Plans for an artistic—but functional—lighthouse near the Ulman Street pier were endorsed Tuesday by Bay St.
| Louis City Council.
Council also called for bids on a new fire truck, agreed to hire welfare recipients in a new “workfare” program, and went on record urging construction of a barrier down the middle of the Bay St. Louis bridge.
Action on the lighthouse came at the urging of Elizabeth Veglia, who appeared at a Monday workshop and Tuesday night’s meeting. She said the project will cost a minimum of $50,000.
The “striking entrance” to the city, she said, will serve as “a symbol of local pride.”
Rising some 24 feet off the city’s bluff, the lighthouse will be decorated with a mosaic designs depicting significant
historical events of the last 300 years, she said. Local citizens will be asked to help design and build the mosaic.
City officials earlier had set aside some $17,500 to help Veglia with her original idea for a Tricentennial mosaic monument at the Depot. But she convinced city leaders that project should be scrapped and replaced by the waterfront lighthouse.
In addition to the city’s
donation, Veglia said she’s expecting to win a Mississippi Arts Commission grant of $7,500 to help finance the project. Local fund raising efforts could finance the balance of the cost, she said.
She’s hopeful that Mississippi Power Co. will supply and maintain the light fixture, and the city will help construct a protective barrier around it.
Plans drafted by local architect Allison Anderson show the
lighthouse with an eight-foot diameter that will be decorated with the help of community participants. Veglia said aside from a light at the peak, the lighthouse will sport a weather vane.
The lighthouse would sit near the Ulman Street pier, a wooden structure which is being replaced by a concrete pier. Workers have done preliminary
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