NEMCC offers a variety of events for the "Spooky" season

by Michael H. Miller

BOONEVILLE, Miss. -- (10/24/2023) — Northeast Mississippi Community College will help to usher in the 'spooky' season with a myriad of events on campus to help connect the college to the community that it serves.

Northeast's TigerTown Tailgate, in its third year, will kick off the events in TigerTown on Thursday, October 26 as the campus opens its arms for employees, their families, students and community members to all come to the lawn in front of the Ramsey Student Services Building between 4:30-6 p.m. for one of the largest community college Halloween events in the state.

Northeast's TigerTown Tailgate is a way of giving back to the community and is open to anyone free of charge and will lead into the final Northeast home football game of the 2023 regular season against the Coahoma Tigers later that night.

In previous years, approximately 20-25 organizations have come together to participate in the TigerTown Tailgate, providing a structured event for Northeast employees, their families, students and community members of all ages.

During the first year of the event, inclement weather caused it to be moved inside the Haney Union but brisk temperatures and a balmy 64 degree evening in 2022 allowed the event to go on outside on the lawn around the fountain and the Ramsey Student Services area where approximately 500 participants took part.

As part of the TigerTown Tailgate, organizations have giveaways, exhibits and other activities to keep those in attendance fully involved in the event. Northeast's golf team has set up a putting green in the past for participants to prove their putting prowess. Northeast's volleyball program has had a volleyball activity and the college's Development Foundation and Alumni Association has passed out color-changing cups and Northeast-labeled crayons.

Northeast president Dr. Ricky G. Ford's office is returning with college-labeled bags for the participants as in the past years for those participating in the TigerTown Tailgate.

In addition to the giveaways, activities and exhibits, the President's office provides vouchers for free entry to the Northeast football game versus Coahoma that night. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m., just as the TigerTown Tailgate wraps up.

Action continues on Halloween as events continue to mark the college's Booneville campus.

Northeast's Sodexo cafeteria will celebrate a decade of costume contests with its annual costume contest in the Haney Union at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, October 31. As part of the celebration, Sodexo's Halloween costume contest will harken back to its first event on campus, 10 years ago, as part of the Sodexo Northeast bookstore on October 31, 2013.

Northeast's softball team keeps the Halloween-themed events alive with its community-wide trick-or-treat that night (Tuesday, October 31) from 6-7:30 p.m. at The Plex at 306 N. Third Street as participants from birth to fifth graders get to partake in a variety of fun and exciting activities.

During its first year at The Plex, the Northeast softball team welcomed over 50 participants onto the turf field for games, activities and candy. As part of the almost two-hour event, the softball team and participants, all in costumes, took part in a softball hitting contest, kickball, balloon volleyball and dodgeball to help the children engage with each other in fun competition and also see the college's $8.4 million baseball/softball complex. Even concessions were provided to those in attendance at the softball team's community-wide trick-or-treat event.

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