Last week, the new American Cruise Lines ship named American Song made its first stop in Natchez as part of the company’s new New Orleans to Memphis cruise.

It is a welcome addition to the Natchez tourism market.

The American Song is one of several cruise ships that make Natchez a regular stop, introducing new boatloads of tourists to everything Natchez has to offer, including historic architecture in antebellum houses and buildings, great restaurants, a craft beer brewery and plenty of mom-and-pop shops within walking distance of the dock.

Those tourists get a glimpse of all that Natchez has to offer and then go home and tell their friends.

Other good news from last week in the Miss-Lou:

* Hundreds of people turned out to support the second-annual Paint Natchez Pink event in downtown Natchez.

That event was just one of several events designed to raise awareness of breast cancer; the need for regular examinations and to raise funds for breast cancer research, and it is all a part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

* Amuré Harris, a gifted student at Joseph L. Frazier Elementary School, has not only a bright future but also a great imagination and the youngster has already put her imagination to good use, penning her first book about a candy land in which candy rains from the sky.

She balanced the candy land with a vegetable land and made the two worlds co-exist, a metaphor for a balanced diet we all should appreciate.

Harris wrote the book last year, as a fourth-grader, and we are sure she will accomplish many great things in her life with such a rich imagination and intellect.

Those are just a few of the good news events from last week, and we look forward to more this week.