Pascagoula High School hosted a school-wide assembly in the gym to kick off the school year and also honor a local hero.
Corion Evans, a senior at Pascagoula High School, saved a group of girls and a police officer from drowning in July.
Today, the City of Pascagoula presented Evans with a proclamation and the YMCA presented Evans with a lifeguard certification training voucher that will allow him to become a certified lifeguard.
Evans learned how to swim at three-years-old and says at that moment he was just glad he was able to help. “It was also other people there…