The Douglas Park-Marcus Bottom Community Fund Committee wants to thank everyone who helped make our second annual festival a success.

A number of churches gave money and other assistance. Also a number of businesses and others, including the faculty at Dana Road Elementary, AmeriCorps volunteers and the local affiliate of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women, donated products and time. We also thank the Vicksburg police and fire departments and the Warren County Sheriff’s Department for providing a safe environment and words of encouragement.

Approximately 300 people came, and we supplied our youths with food, fun, school supplies, school uniforms and information. If all communities held such an event on the same day, at the same time each year, there would be fewer children roaming the streets and more doing something positive and constructive.

Pearline Williams

Committee chairman