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Company Commitment: McDade’s Market

Company Commitment: McDade’s Market

Every spring is an anniversary for Greg and Kathy McDade. May 15 to be exact, but it’s not the flowers and roses kind. Kathy says, “We’ve been married to each other for 28 years, but we’ve been married to our neighbors for 17.”

It’s a match made in heaven for the customers they serve at McDade’s Markets. The flagship store was purchased by the McDade’s at Maywood Mart in 1996. The Fondren store came in 2004.

Creative Community Champion: Meet Attorney David Pharr

Creative Community Champion: Meet Attorney David Pharr

An attorney and community activist with a soft spot for the creative world, small business and the future of Jackson development is calling a historic Fondren landmark home. David Pharr, a lifelong Jacksonian with large downtown law firm experience has branched out and opened his own law practice in the front of the Pix-Capri. And there’s no reason why he shouldn’t claim a space.

Color Me Rad 5k SOLD OUT

Color Me Rad 5k SOLD OUT

“Sorry you missed out on the Color this year, if any more spots open up we’ll let you know.”

If you waited to register for the Color Me Rad 5k coming to Fondren as part of Zippity Doo Dah® on March 23, that’s what you are seeing at colormerad.com under the Jackson race tab.

Read more at finditinFondren.com.

Mississippi Children’s Museum becomes NASA for a day

Mississippi Children’s Museum becomes NASA for a day

From the Mississippi Children's Museum

Jackson, MS – The Mississippi Children’s Museum will welcome members of the John C. Stennis Space Center on the Mississippi Gulf Coast to the museum on Saturday, March 9 from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The team from NASA will show visitors all about different aspects of living and working in space and other out-of-this-world activities!

Visitors will be able to engage with the robotics team and learn how robotics are used in space and create an edible Mars rover.

Blooming: Meet Chad Mars

Blooming: Meet Chad Mars

Art is a struggle- just like the flowers of spring that burst forth from a hardened winter soil to see life and give life to a world around them. So is the case for creative Chad Mars who is bursting forth in his own right, becoming the artist he never thought he could be.

Mars vividly recalls his first artistic experience as an elementary schooler. “I remember walking through our house and seeing a drawing on canvas in my brother’s room,” he remembers.

Accidental Passion: Meet Melanie Schade

Accidental Passion: Meet Melanie Schade

When Y101's Bob and Bender needed coffee during the 2005 Mississippi Miracles Radiothon at Batson Hospital for Children, they never knew they were launching a new passion for someone who had planned to be a television broadcaster. “I wanted to be the next Melanie Christopher,” says Melanie Schade, the program administrator for Friends of Children's Hospital. It was after Schade's first television test at Belhaven University that she says she turned green – and changed her major to radio.

Radiothon Benefiting Batson Begins Wednesday

Radiothon Benefiting Batson Begins Wednesday

Radio stations from across central Mississippi are joining forces for the 12th annual Mississippi Miracles Radiothon beginning tomorrow in Fondren. The event benefits the Blair E. Batson Hospital For Children through Friday, March 1 at 7 pm.

Joining the Radiothon this year are Jackson’s Jack FM station and Vicksburg stations KHits and River 101. These stations, along with Jackson radio stations Y 101.7, US 96.3 and Mix 98.7. will broadcast live from the lobby of Batson Children’s Hospital.