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06/01/2026

🔥 THE DELTA FLAME COMMUNITY AWARDS ARE BACK! 🔥

Join us for the 2nd Annual Delta Flame Community Awards as we celebrate the people, churches, businesses, organizations, entertainers, and community leaders who help make the Mississippi Delta shine!

📅 Awards Gala: August 30, 2026

This year, we’re turning up the excitement with NEW categories including:
✨ Best Dressed Male in the Mississippi Delta
✨ Best Dressed Female in the Mississippi Delta
✨ Couple of the Year
✨ Food Truck of the Year
…and MANY MORE!

This is YOUR opportunity to nominate your church, favorite deacon, usher, hairstylist, barber, DJ, choir, praise team, community activist, organization, entertainer, business, and the people who make a difference every day throughout the Mississippi Delta.

The Delta Flame Awards is all about:
❤️ Community
🔥 Service
🎉 Fun
🏆 Recognition

If someone is making an impact, serving others, inspiring the community, or simply representing the Delta with excellence — WE WANT TO CELEBRATE THEM!

👇🏽 NOMINATE BELOW 👇🏽

Please include the following information in the response line for each category you're nominating someone:
✔️ Full Name of the Person and/or Organization Being Nominated
✔️ City/Town in the Mississippi Delta where they live/established organization
✔️ Contact Information (Phone Number and/or Email Address)
✔️ Brief Reason for the Nomination



https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd--xDOfEgBjqTnnaiqBNouQderEkyhzgMUVt0dIclPx_Dwdg/viewform

05/29/2026

🚨ATTENTION MVSU FAMILY🚨

Let’s show the world the power of Valley voices! 🟢⚪️ Help the MVSU Choir, Valley Men’s Glee Club, and Valley Women’s Chorale earn national recognition by voting in the HBCU Buzz Top HBCU Choirs 2026 Poll. 🎶✨

🗳️ VOTE NOW:
https://hbcubuzz.com/107075/top-hbcu-choirs-2026/

Or visit hbcubuzz.com and scroll until you see “TOP HBCU CHOIRS 2026.”

INDIANOLA MEMORIAL DAY HEROES - "Some Gave All"1st Lt. Quitman Charles WalkerJune 21, 1919 – November 19, 1944Class: 43-...
05/25/2026

INDIANOLA MEMORIAL DAY HEROES - "Some Gave All"

1st Lt. Quitman Charles Walker
June 21, 1919 – November 19, 1944
Class: 43-A-SE
Graduation Date: January 14, 1943
Unit: 332nd Fighter Group, 99th Fighter Squadron
Service # O-796269

Quitman Walker was born June 21, 1919 in Tillman, Miss. and went to the public schools in Indianola, Miss. His last year of high school was spent at the Cohoma County Training School near Clarksdale.

After his high school graduation in 1937, Walker continued his education at Alcorn A&M College, now Alcorn State University, and in 1941 received a bachelor’s degree in Science. He left for California to find a job, but ended up enlisting in the U.S. Army on April 25, 1942

Following his graduation from Advance Flying Training at TAAF, he was assigned to the 332nd Fighter Group, 301st Fighter Squadron on February 1, 1943 which was still at TAAF. The 332nd FG was transferred to Selfridge Field, Michigan on March 19,1943. While assigned to the 301st FS In November 1943 he was found professionally disqualified from all flying duties requiring participation in regular and frequent aerial flights and subsequently he was transferred to the 553rd Fighter Squadron at Selfridge Field, MI on November 17, 1943 and later to Walterboro Army Air Field on May 6, 1944 with the 553rd Fighter Squadron.
On August 2, 1944 he was assigned to the 99th Fighter Squadron as a replacement pilot at Ramitelli, Airfield, Italy. He flew the P-51 Mustang for three months from August 1944 to November 1944 during which time he flew 29 combat mission.

His 29th mission would prove to be his last when the 332nd Fighter Group was sent on a strafing mission in Hungary and Austria on Nov. 19, 1944. Pilots from the 99th Fighter Squadron destroyed 15 horse-drawn vehicles and wagons, and damaged 100 more horse-drawn vehicles, two locomotives, 40 wagons and 10 trucks. During a pass over a river, Lt. Roger B. Gaiter’s P-51 Mustang was hit by anti-aircraft fire, and was shot down. On the way back to Ramitelli, Walker’s plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire near Lake Balaton, Hungary.

05/22/2026

Greetings Indianola,

HAPPY RETIREMENT! Last night we honored Mr. Charles McClatchy of the Indianola Cemetery, Mrs. Ruthie Hamilton of Indiano...
05/22/2026

HAPPY RETIREMENT! Last night we honored Mr. Charles McClatchy of the Indianola Cemetery, Mrs. Ruthie Hamilton of Indianola Public Works and Assistant Chief Bill Alford of the Indianola Fire Department. Your dedication to the City will be missed. We are proud of you all and we wish you all the best in life. God bless you!

05/21/2026

Be God's Man
In God's Place
Doing God's Work
In God's Way

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