Biloxi, Mississippi

NICHOLS (WENY) - With the new expansion coming to Tioga Downs, the casino is looking to build a full house. Monday, the casino hosted a career summit for potential employees to get a first hand look at what jobs may soon be available. As Tioga Downs Casino is preparing to get its full gaming license, a $195 million expansion is already underway. By July, they're anticipating 445 new jobs will need to be filled. "If you're looking for a fun job. People are coming here for entertainment and they are going to come here for a good time. Come on in and apply," says the Tioga Down Director of Human Resources, Karen Shelp. Monday afternoon, the casino hosted a career summit to announce what specific jobs might be available. Everything from table game dealers, guest services, technicians, security, wait staff for the new restaurants and more. The staff at Tioga Downs said they saw people from all over New York and Pennsylvania at the career fair. "I just moved here with my wife and am looking for a job. I saw this was posted so I thought I would show up and see what careers are available. I'm more interested in security because that's my background but I'm open to anything," explained perspective employyee, Christian Larrabee. If your're interested in a career with Tioga Downs, but don't have experience for something like a black jack dealer, no need to worry. The casino will offer a four to six week free dealer school. Shelps says as soon as the casino gets the fuill gaming…

97 km, they declared it a hurricane. In all, Hurricane Camille caused more than 200 deaths and billions of dollars was raised to repair damages. Causes: On August 13, 1969, Hurricane Camille made its first appearance in America, along the Mississippi Gulf near Waveland. It traveled west…

Introduction On the early morning of August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a category 3 storm with winds over a hundred twenty-mile winds between Grand Isle, Louisiana and the mouth of the Mississippi River. Katrina went down in United States history as the single most catastrophic natural disaster. The damage caused by Katrina were estimated at $108 billion. The most costly hurricane in U.S. history. Fatalities in Louisiana alone were 1,577 people. There were fatalities in…

The Hurricane killed a total of 1,833 people fatalities: Alabama 2, Florida 14, Georgia 2, Louisiana 1,577, and Mississippi 238 and affected some 90,000 square miles of the United States. You can see that Louisiana was affected the most by the hurricane because they had the most damages and fatalities. The Hurricane was the most destructive storm to strike the United States and the costliest storm in U.S. history, Katrina caused $81 billion in property damages, but it is estimated that the total…

First of all, the location of New Orleans is a very distinctive state in the United States Of America. New Orleans sits on the southeastern side of Louisiana where the Mississippi River 's mouth leads into. North of New Orleans is Lake Pontchartrain. New Orleans used to hold more than 450,000 people, with an additional 1.3 million located in the metropolitan area(Ouellette 22). The region is responsible for twenty five percent of the nation 's oil and gas production(Ouellette 27) . Secondly, the…

Half of the hospitals, bus routes remained closed. New Orleans Superdome was closed for thirteen months and had two hundred million dollars in damage. The coast and death roll was high in fact, there were about two thousand deaths in all and in New Orleans one thousand eight hundred and thirty six deaths were the toll. New Orleans experience the highest death toll in the U.S., Katrina affected over ninety thousand people in the U.S. . . . In Louisiana there were one thousand four hundred and…

build of Katrina. At noon the storm was considered a major hurricane and was just 460 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana. . This becoming one of the biggest hurricanes to ever hit the U.S. put everyone on high alert, and TV programs everywhere started giving hourly if not minute by minute updates on the hurricane’s progression. Sunday, August 28th came bringing the ever so strengthening storm with it. It was now classified as a category five hurricane with…

Other survivors had to relocate to other cities and states and start life in another environment. The citizens of New Orleans did not give up. It was a time for rebuilding. They knew the rebuilding process would take years and would be very expensive, but the city was not giving up easily. The rebuilding process cost was over 100 million dollars in damages. With people relocating in over 1200 fatalities. The city lost a lot of its people. New Orleans was not the only city affected by Hurricane…

Mississippi was important during America’s Civil War. It played a huge part as an aid of the south, and was genuinely excited for the war in the beginning. The first battle of the war in Mississippi, the battle of Shiloh, cited Mississippi’s resistance against the Union army and their advancements to take over a vital source of transportation in the state, Corinth. With this town, the Union would be able to take over the railroads and the Tennessee River. Unfortunately for the Union and…

A “Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a strong regional and ethically expressed story written from the perspective of a senile elderly woman named Phoenix Jackson. Ms. Jackson undertakes a journey every year around Christmas to the city of Natchez in order to attain medicine from the doctors to help heal her grandsons inflamed throat. Though she undertakes this journey in the hope of helping cure her grandson’s condition it becomes clear through the text that her grandson has died and she is still…