Tag: Boat People SOS

Fishing boats docked at a Gulf Coast harbor

Bayou La Batre Refugee Advocate Sees His Own Journey in Mediterranean Migrant Crisis

James Bullard, April 20, 2015

A Bayou La Batre nonprofit director who fled Vietnam by boat as a child says he recognizes his own story in today’s Mediterranean migrant tragedies.

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A high school athletic field house beside a football field

A Fundraising Letter, a Field House Debt and a Commissioner’s $200,000 Promise

James Bullard, March 28, 2008

A supporter’s letter told the men who co-signed a loan for the Alma Bryant field house that Commissioner Mike Dean would steer $200,000 in county money toward the debt if re-elected. Both men denied any deal.