503 West Canal Street
P.O. Box 1656
Picayune, MS  39466
601-799-3070
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Board of Directors
President:
   Freida Dobson
Vice President:
    Donna Seal
Treasurer:
     Bob Sargent
Secretary:
     Jo Scheel

Staff:
Manager:
     Reba Beebe


 


Picayune Main Street, Inc. is a proud member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.


 

PICAYUNE MAIN STREET, INC.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2007

  • Picayune Main Street, Inc. Manager, Reba Beebe was featured in the new Cartoon character map for Pearl River County.

  • February- Purchased fence material for fence around Shay Engine on Hwy 11- PMHS High School Student Kevin Hillery as a Senior Class Project installed the fence. Materials were paid for through fundraisers throughout the year.  

  • March- Egg Drop was held at the Picayune Municipal Airport.  Our Egg Drop was featured in the magazine- “Strange and Unusual Events Around the South” and also featured and duplicated by a community in Illinois.  

  • Picayune Item featured the Picayune Street Fair in the first edition of their new magazine Pearl River County the month of April. 

  • Board of Directors also voted to assist with sales of bricks for the Veteran’s Memorial in front of Historical City Hall. 

  • May 5- Bank Plus and Picayune Main Street, Inc. sponsored the meal for the Celebration Tea for Relay for Life Cancer Survivors. 

  • May - Met for the first time in Poplarville with community leaders to discuss forming a Pearl River County Tourism entity.  

  • Picayune, MS was invited to become a Preserve America Community- Diane Miller, City Manager Assistant and Picayune Main Street, Inc. Manager met with Michelle Jones of MSU and representative of Preserve America Community to fill out application for Picayune. 

  • July- Requested permission to re open a Farmer’s Market at Jack Read Park.  Permission was given with days and times for the market to open the first week in August. 

  • November – Purchased 12 barricades for the Picayune Police Department-Funding for purchase was raised from a golf tournament held at Millbrook Country Club in Picayune. 

  • September 9, 2007 Purchased 18 new benches for the downtown with funds raised during a Turkey Shoot at the American Legion. 

  • Picayune Main Street, Inc. was commissioned by the Mayor and City Council to sell corporate squares and bricks for the new Intramodal Station- “Train Depot”. 

  • October 18, 2007 Held the first annual Health and Nutrition Fair at Farmer’s Market.

  • Farmers Market also paid for additional lighting at Jack Read Park and purchased 2 new picnic table that can be used for events held at Jack Read Park. 

  • October 26- Picayune Main Street, Inc and Picayune Chamber of Commerce hosted FAM Tour when the tour came to Picayune. Downtown merchants donated items for the best goody bags ever handed out in FAM tours. 

  • Mayor Greg Mitchell read a letter to the group gathered at the FAM Tour from Governor Haley Barbour with the news a CDBG grant in the amount of $2,178.882.00 for Community Revitalization. 

  • Picayune Main Street, Inc. received a $25,000.00 grant from MSU – this grant was used for a Carl Small Town Workshop- Pattie Brantley a grant writer with Neel Schaffer attended the workshop and was very interested in assisting Picayune Main Street, Inc. to seek funding for our downtown revitalization efforts- hence the above mentioned grant was awarded provided the city complete environmental requirements. 

  • Assisted American Legion with a Poker Run raising $335.00 for Meals on Wheels 

  • Hosted a Christmas Luncheon for City Workers at Ryan’s. 

  • Members  Donated  $755.00 for Christmas Gifts for children in the community.  

  • Purchased 20 new trash barrels from profits raised during Bi Annual Street Fair for use during special events in Picayune . 

  • Applied for a Tourism Disaster Recovery Grant for Tourism events in Pearl River County and was awarded $76,928.50 to be used over a 2 year period for advertising tourism events.