North Bay Civitan Club of D'Iberville & St. Martin

10/26/2026

🌐🛎️🎟🛍🎅🏼🎁The Belk Holiday Charity Sale is Friday, Nov. 13, Saturday, Nov. 14, and Sunday, Nov. 15, and the North Bay Civitan Club needs your support! Give $5 (cash or check only) to have access to discounts on all your holiday gifts! Your donation will support our club's service projects in 2027 only if you get your ticket(s) directly from our members!

Here is a list of North Bay Civitans with tickets:
🎟Keith Wilson
🎟Debbie Wilson
🎟Oliver Kuttner
🎟Joyce Shaw
🎟Tina Woody
🎟Atlanti'a Lyles
🎟Allie Peden
🎟Rhonda Richard-Murray
🎟Lorene Lyons

Get your charity sale tickets from our club members at the east entrance table inside Belk at Edgewater Mall in Biloxi. We'll be surrounded by holiday decorations welcoming shoppers on Saturday, November 14 from 10 a.m. until Noon, and again on Sunday, November 15 from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. and ready to welcome you! You'll also get to ring the Civitan bell for good luck and blessings this holiday season!

10/23/2026

🌐🛎️🩵North Bay Civitans filled the D’Iberville Town Green Building on Thursday, October 22 for the second meetup of 2026-2027!

🙌🏼FELLOWSHIP: Club members officially welcomed new Civitan Lorene Fountain Lyons who joined about two weeks ago. And, we were delighted to have potential new member Haley Hill from Ocean Springs for her first visit! A former member of Vancleave High School Junior Civitan Club in the 2010s, Hill had requested more info about the nearest Civitan club to Ocean Springs via the Club Locator on the Civitan International website www.civitan.org in late September!

🏆An Abbreviated Membership Initiation was held for: Allie Peden, who was also installed as Interim Club Director fulfilling the final year of a two-year term for the late Quentin Lyles. Club President Keith Wilson, MST also presented Allie with an Outstanding New Club Member for 2025-2026

🩵KNOWLEDGE: Since October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month and we are focused on the Civitan mission impact area of EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT this quarter, we invited Program Associate Amanda Humfress to speak about how MS LIFT Resource & Referral Network at MSU Extension in D'Iberville is providing resources for families with youth who have IDDs! Per tradition, Club President Keith Wilson, MST presented Humfress with a Civitan swag bag and card for taking time speak with members! She was given the chance to ring the Civitan bell for blessings and good luck!

🎟️Members also received fundraising tickets for the 2026 Holiday Charity Sale for Belk at Edgewater Mall in Biloxi, which is Friday, November 13-Sunday, November 15! Club members should watch for an email with more details on how to sign up for a shift to sell tickets during the sale dates at the store entrance.

🇺🇸🦃The Gulf Coast Veterans Parade is happening Saturday, November 7 in the City of D'Iberville. Club members are encouraged to volunteer during the VIP Pre-Parade Breakfast from 7:45-9:45. We are finalizing plans for a possible float or walking in the parade. And, leveled giving sponsors to date for our 17th Annual Gobble Wobble Food Drive & Bridge Run were announced!!

If you missed out, our next club meetup will not be until Thursday, November 5! We’ll welcome Mr. Bill Briscoe, Biloxi Market President for Huntington National Bank, along with Danielle Jackson, Vice President of Community Development!

📋If you are looking for a volunteer organization and would like to know more about Civitan membership, we'd love to meet you! Email us at: [email protected] by NOON on Wednesday, November 4 to RSVP!

🌐🛎️Become a CIVITAN.
Feel the IMPACT.🩵🩷💚💛

10/22/2026

🌐🛎️🩵The D’Iberville Town Green Building is ready for our second club meetup of 2026-2027!

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), and North Bay Civitans are advocating for inclusive workplaces as part of our first quarter mission impact area EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT!! On Thursday, October 22, learn more about one local program that is providing resources for families with individuals who have IDDs. Program Associate Amanda Humfress with MS LIFT Resource & Referral Network at MSU Extension in D'Iberville will be our knowledge speaker!

🎟️Also come ready to pick up Belk Charity Sale fundraising tickets, and sign up for a time to sell tickets during the sale, which is Friday, November 13-Sunday, November 15!

🇺🇸🦃We’ll also be talking about the Gulf Coast Veterans Parade coming up November 7 in the City of D'Iberville. And find out some of our leveled giving sponsors are for our 17th Annual Gobble Wobble Food Drive & Bridge Run!! If you miss attending Thursday night, our next club meetup will not be until November 5!

📋If you are looking for a volunteer organization and would like to know more about Civitan membership, we'd love to meet you! Email us at: [email protected] by NOON on Thursday to RSVP!

10/20/2026

💙Celebrating Value, Talent, and Inclusion! 💙

🌐🛎️In Civitan, Education & Employment of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities is one of four core impact areas under our worldwide mission. The focus is being dedicated to opening doors so that everyone has the chance to learn, grow, and build a meaningful career. True community inclusion means ensuring people with IDD have equitable access to training, support, and real-world employment opportunities where their talents can shine.

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), and this year’s theme —“Celebrating Value and Talent” — reminds us of the incredible skills and perspectives that individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) bring to our workplaces and communities. Join us this month in advocating for inclusive workplaces and celebrating the power of a job!

You'll be able to learn more about one local program during our next club meetup on Thursday, October 22. We'll welcome Program Associate Amanda Humfress as our knowledge speaker who will talk about MS LIFT Resource & Referral Network at MSU Extension in D'Iberville! If you'd like to attend, we'd love to meet you! Email us at: [email protected] by Thursday at NOON to RSVP!

10/20/2026

Club Meetup Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m.
Knowledge Speaker:
Amanda Humfress from MS LIFT Resource & Referral Network at MSU Extension

10/19/2026

🌐🥳🌐❤️🥳Happiest of Happy Birthdays to our Club Builder, Charter Life Member, and Club President Keith Wilson, MST (October 19)!

🐝Keith has been a member of Civitan International beginning as a Junior Civitan his senior year at St. Martin High School in 1999-2000. (He was also the first Buzzy the Yellowjacket mascot!) While an undergraduate, Keith joined Campus Civitan International at The University of Southern Mississippi in 2003, became a Club PR Director and later elected Club President in 2004, and was named Outstanding Campus Civitan in 2005. He then served on the International Growth & Development Committee for Campus Civitan from 2005-2007, and was the club builder and adviser for the former Ole Miss Campus Civitan Club at The University of Mississippi - Ole Miss in Spring 2007.

Since April 2007, Keith has been a Civitan member — first joining the former Biloxi-Edgewater Civitan Club where he served as President in 2008-2009. He helped charter the North Bay Civitan Club of D'Iberville & St. Martin in September 2010 as a certified club builder and has served as Club President since day one.

As of October 2026, Keith has sponsored 107 members into Civitan; he previously earned permanent member sponsorship team (MST) status. His involvement in growth includes helping build the former Bay St. Louis Civitan Club, which chartered in 2015, and helping charter the former Junior Civitan clubs at St. Martin Middle School in 2015 and Long Beach High School in 2014. He has helped lead the club to achieve Civitan's Honor Club status multiple times as well as the Civitan Candy Box Project's H.O.P.E. Award in 2012.

He has been recognized with a Civitan Club Honor Key from the North Bay and the Biloxi-Edgewater clubs as well as a District Honor Key from the former Magnolia District of Civitan International. The Magnolia District also recognized Keith as Outstanding Civitan for 2012-2013; an Outstanding Club President four times (three for North Bay and once for Biloxi-Edgewater); and an Outstanding First Year Civitan for 2007-2008!

Keith also leads the D'Iberville Historical Society as President (first in 2018, and again 2020-present). He is the immediate past president of Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers. He also served one term as Board President for the Mental Health Association of South Mississippi in 2019.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Keith received a One Coast Award for Top 10 Business Leaders under 40. And in 2022, the Harrison County TRIAD/S.A.L.T. Council named Keith recipient of the 2021 Mary Lou Buchanan Community Service Award for service, dedication, and the promotion of goodwill to the community of D'Iberville. was named 2025 Local Program Board Member of the Year by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety's Crime Stoppers Division. In 2026, the North Bay Area Mardi Gras Association named Keith their parade grand marshal, and the City of D'Iberville awarded him a Key to the City.

🙌🏼Thank you, Keith, for your loyal membership and dedicated leadership as a and in Civitan! Have a great birthday!

10/18/2026

🌐❤️🛎️🐚🦪MISSISSIPPI COASTAL CLEANUP: Hundreds of volunteers traversed beaches, bayous, and bays for the 2026 Mississippi Coastal Cleanup on Saturday, October 17. A few North Bay Civitans took time to volunteer from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m. at two sites Coastal Mississippi. And, all walked away knowing that their time and efforts are keeping junk out of local watersheds!

Club President Keith Wilson and Rhonda Murray walked the water’s edge and along the parking area for the City of D'Iberville Marina under the Walter L. Nixon, Sr. drawbridge for I-110. Together, two buckets were returned full of litter! One bucket during the first hour contained about 3.78 lb. while a second bucket before things ended at 10 a.m. had nearly 4.38 lb.

Over in Ocean Springs, North Bay Civitan Joyce Shaw manned the cleanup site near the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Weeks Bayou, and along East Beach Drive. About 100 lbs of litter was removed at East Beach by 25 volunteers, Shaw reported.

Thank you to these amazing club members who volunteered between two and three hours, each!! Your efforts don’t go unnoticed!!! Until next time! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️

10/16/2026

🌐🛎️KNOWLEDGE SESSION: Meet the world headquarters staff for Civitan International!

📲Click this link: https://civitan.org/staff to learn more about each staff member’s role and how they assist leaders in all Civitan Clubs!

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10/14/2026

🌐🛎️The 2026 Mississippi Coastal Cleanup is this Saturday, October 17 from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m.

📋North Bay Civitans should click this link and signup here to participate: https://coastalcleanup.extension.msstate.edu/events/annual-mississippi-coastal-cleanup-event

🏖⛵We will be at either D'Iberville Marina (under I-110 bridge) or Ocean Springs East Beach near USM-GCRL at East Beach Drive and Halstead Road where Club Director Joyce Shaw is the site captain!

👕Wear your Civitan shirts and/or namebadges! Temps will feel like FALL!! 🍂

10/12/2026

Excited for Parade Day! We'll have club members volunteering for the pre-parade events.

Let’s show our veterans how much they mean to our Coast! 🇺🇸 Bring your family, invite your friends, and help us fill the parade route with cheers and gratitude.

Join us for the Gulf Coast Veterans Parade on Saturday, November 7, at 11 a.m. in D’Iberville.

Tag someone you want beside you along the route!

Details: msveteransparade.org