Thursday, August 31, 2023

Awards Passed Out for Water Crisis Service

 One JXN issued the following press release yesterday. 

Last night at the Jackson Convention Complex, an event was held to honor Jackson’s community champions and commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Jackson water crisisDuring the event, 25 outstanding Jackson residents and organizations were honored with awards for their spirit of generosity, resilience, and collaboration during the 2022 water crisis.

The award recipients include:
  • Northtown Pharmacy - Dr. Andrew Clark
  • Christ United Methodist Church - Pastor Eddie Rester
  • Socrates Garrett
  • Nancy Gaynor
  • Pastor James Henley
  • Pastor RK Moore
  • Pastor Sam Thompson
  • Frank Figgers
  • Sirena Wilson, Shady Oaks Homeowners and Community Neighborhood Association
  • Seymore Bell
  • Johnnie Byrd
  • Rev. Calvin Day
  • Ramesh Patel
  • Earnest Ward
  • JPS schools in Ward 5
  • Derrick Kelly
  • Robert Martez Hopkins
  • Tina Wallace
  • Courtney Warner
  • Putalamus White Jackson Resource Center
  • Northminster Baptist Church Wider-Net
  • Rosemont Missionary Baptist Church
  • Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign
  • Andy Boone
  • New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church

The commemoration dinner is just one event of a monthlong series of activities that One JXN announced earlier this month to honor the heroic contributions of Jacksonians.  


47 comments:

Anonymous said...

We all knew ole Socrates was going to get an award.

Anonymous said...

Did Chuck award himself anything??

Anonymous said...

what have they done?

Anonymous said...

What is One JXN?

Anonymous said...

What in the hell??

why would you have an awards banquet for a water crisis?

Anonymous said...

Was an award given to Tater and the State of MS for actually resolving the crisis by bringing in a qualified team to repair the O.B. Curtis treatment plant? Just wondering.

Anonymous said...

Look at all the pastors, churches, and Revs. Probably a few clergy sprinkled about.

Anonymous said...

9:41 - reading comprehension isn't for everyone. They provided lots of water to people without water.

Anonymous said...

Where is Ted Heffin's award for actually fixing the problems?

Anonymous said...

What about the construction company that stepped in and worked around the clock to get it fixed? They just awarding the local grifters? That seems about right. Chokwe, Rukia, and everyone associated with them or any of their organizations is a clown.

Anonymous said...

One JXN is another astroturf organization efforting to mislead the community and the gullible content-starved TV Newsers.

What is a misdirecting commemoration of a crisis directly attributable to the massive incompetencies of the Lumumba administration if it is not an effort of public deception?

Anonymous said...

9:55. The BOZO'S are attempting to control their dismal narrative....and the dumbed down electorate left in the sh*thole will buy it.

Anonymous said...

Where is my award for the hard work I did to pay taxes and dump them into the shithole that is Jackson?

Anonymous said...

Isn't "MS PoorPeoples' Campaign" a Rukia Rabble Rouser outfit?

Anonymous said...

I looked at the list before I read the article. I first thought it was a list of the con artists and grifters in Jackson. After reading the article I knew I was right.

Anonymous said...

What we have here is a self-licking ice cream cone.

Anonymous said...

During this time you couldn’t find any distilled water in Richland, Pearl, Brandon, and Flowood. Plenty of regular bottled water but these people bought up all the distilled water. Why in heavens name buy up the distilled water? That stuff leeches the minerals from your bones and teeth! I only use it with my CPAP. Never drink the stuff!

Anonymous said...

Well, it seems very few commenting have ever volunteered their time, labor, or skills, to help out in a crisis or done more than write a check to charitable organization or buy a ticket to a charity fundraising party with entertainment and food. In a water crisis, it's not JUST toting bottled water to designated pickup sites. And, just showing up once and handing out water wouldn't get you honored at a banquet and since you don't know jack about charitable work or fund raising, you also don't know how the banquets to honor anyone would be handled.

Some of you are so self-centered and hard to get along with and unpleasant, you don't understand how it's possible anyone whose not exactly like you get honored, included, rewarded unlike they are white or rich. If you are both, it's no guarantee you'll be invited or even anyone you invited to anything would want to attend. There are many white folks with loads of money that nobody likes so they invite employees to their parties and just lengthened those poor invitees' workday when they'd rather have overtime.

Tip O’Neill said...

Well then, I can’t wait till the summer of 2024 when the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office hands out the “Goonies” .

Anonymous said...

What is a misdirecting commemoration of a crisis directly attributable to the massive incompetencies of the Lumumba administration if it is not an effort of public deception?

+1,000,000

Anonymous said...

@ 10:55

thank you for that bunch of nonsense

I was having a bad day, felt stupid, read that, and now I feel ok about myself

Anonymous said...

Damn. Seems like Henifin tried to cover all the 'bases' in the Bold New City, but he failed to list the real champions:

MS State Department of Health; could name some specific individuals including the few that spent 18 hour days at the treatment plants.

Or the State Health Officer who brought the impending disaster (caused by the flood???) to the Governor's office five days before the flood, knowing that the City had not repaired the broken pumps and the failure was imminent.


OR MAYBE, just maybe, the Governor who stepped up and managed the disaster caused by the ineptness of the city. Some folks blame the Governor for letting the disaster happen - not accepting the fact that in every other city -- large and small -- the water systems are run by local entities, NOT BY THE STATE.

But in Jackson's case, the State had to step in and take over so that the residents could not only have daily drinking watter (the city's so-called distribution of bottled water was not enough to provide one bottle per household for a single neighborhood, as opposed to the 11 million bottles distributed once the Governor stepped in.

How about the folks at MEMA who movilized forces from around the country to come to Jackson and get the Curtis plant in operation.

No, none of those folks need recognizing because they aren't pastors of the kush or community organizers.

Must be this is an effort to improve the 'transparancy' that Sista' says didn't exist; so give her and all hers an award hoping they will go away.

Anonymous said...

Frist Baptist Church Jackson gave out many pallets of Dasani water during the water crisis. They weren't invited to the table. Wonder why? "Maybe", because of the racial makeup of the congregation.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Kingfish said...

Northtown Pharmacy is good people.

Anonymous said...

It was the Mississippi National Guard that saved the citizens of Jackson!!!

Anonymous said...

A one year anniversary of a 10 year old problem?

Smoke, Mirrors, Deflection, Marxist Style said...

It Figgers that Frank got a trophy.

Anonymous said...

10:55 sounds pretty racist.

Are there no wealthy black people that nobody likes, hosting employee parties that employees begrudgingly attend in lieu of OT cash?

Anonymous said...

I wonder who paid for this free meal and party for their buddies? It's almost like a free campaign dinner disguised as an awards banquet. I would be interested to know what all went on and what was served and who was "hired" to cater?

Anonymous said...

Andy Boone is also good people runs 311.

Anonymous said...

My water utility sent workers to OB Curtis to help get it back operating. We were requested to do so. We haven't gotten a simple "thank you" from anyone at the City.

Anonymous said...

“ with loads of money that nobody likes so they invite employees to their parties and just lengthened those poor invitees' workday when they'd rather have overtime”

Is that what Sista did in this awards meeting, with her pseudo astroturf organizations?

Anonymous said...

In honor of the parody post @August 31, 2023 at 10:55 AM, I would like to nominate it for post of the day. What? You don't think that was intended to be a parody post? Well, it sure reads like one.

Anonymous said...

8/31 @11:37
Good point!
This administration picks and chooses who they feel best serves their agendas, I mean the poor people.
Where is Mr.Henefin ‘s award? He came in and actually did something to correct the water problem. What is with these people who celebrate folks that uphold the ones that talk and talk and never arrive at a workable solution

Anonymous said...

Was 10:55 the Lil Choke administration's obfuscation and subterfuge to dilute Gov Reeves' masterful leadership? How does enabling already bloated bureaucrats, grifters and pulpit hustlers to chow on a buffet line full of fried food and mac-n-cheese change what really caused the water (and ongoing sewer) crises? Which was lazy,
neglectful, radical marxist weasels and wastrels.

Anonymous said...

When will the sewer crisis and garbage crisis be held? I would like to have a front row seat. Wonder if your enter the awards show on a red carpet or a brown carpet?

Anonymous said...

Everyone wins a trophy - that's right out of the Marxist playbook. Right Chowke?

Anonymous said...

@11:25 this was not a party hosted by Henifin. He wasn't even invited.

Anonymous said...

@3:22 PM has a firm grasp on the obvious.

Anonymous said...

@3:22 -- thank you for the correction. I saw One Jxn and mistook it for JxnWater. Bad mistake. Bad!!

Makes much more sense now - this is the kush's award ceremony, thanking those that fit their mold.

Little did these people who did whatever - passed out water, provided water, or provided a place to pass out water provided by someone - know that the EPA order from two years earlier REQUIRED that the City of Jackson prepare a plan and implement ALL NECESSARY STEPS to provide potable drinking water to ALL residents if there were ever a failure of the system as the one that occurred during the ice storm.

THE CITY'S PLAN?? It didn't have one. It didn't prepare one (as required by the EPA order). And if it had prepared one, it did nothing to implent the non-existent plan.

What they put into place was to deliver a pallet of water - once a day - to a fire station. A pallat of bottled water that they got donated by local distributors.

One pallet - probably conains 60 or so 24 bottle cases - maybe 1,500 bottles of water. One every day. to provide water for the 153,000 residents of Jackson.

Hell, kinda like the same plan the city has to run the zoo. Or maybe more like the plan the city has to open the old county jail as a misdemeanor holding facility.

Yeah - the Bold city should be proud of the 'accomplishments' of some citizens after its failed management of the water system, and its failure to prepare and be able to implement a required EPA order - left the entire population without one of life'smost basic needs.

Glad we have a ONE Jxn on hand to give us this entertainment.

Anonymous said...

I’m flabbergasted EPA wasn’t given a special award for bringing the problem to Antar’s attention about a year before the crisis.

anonymous said...

Winchester Street ...wom we got the worst.. glad Ted here

Anonymous said...

Textbook delusions of grandeur.

Anonymous said...

The only thing Jackson leadership is good at, slamming Cadillac doors and giving each other awards.

Anonymous said...

Keep seething bigots. Your apoplectic unhinged rage fuels our movements success.

Anonymous said...

6:43 Please share with us any of those successes. We're sincerely pulling for some.

Anonymous said...

11:34PM, you forgot one other thing, changing the names of streets.


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