13th annual job fair draws 1,600 By Everett Bexley [email protected]Andrea Gibson is 29 years old, has a master’s degree and work experience — and she has been unemployed since June. On Tuesday, Gibson was among 1,600 job-seekers at the 13th Vicksburg Area Job Fair, and she’s hoping it will lead to a paycheck. Gibson was laid off from the Mississippi Department of Health in June. Her mas- ter’s degree from Jackson State University is in behav- ioral health promotion and education, and Tuesday she found a potential employer at the Mississippi Children’s Home Services booth. “I was born and raised in Vicksburg, and ever since high school I’ve known that I want to be in public health,” Gibson said. “I don’t want to have to leave Vicksburg to do that. I want to serve my community — Warren County.” Tara Marler, the MCHS community outreach coordi- nator, met with Gibson and explained how her agency works and that it operates a crisis shelter in Vicksburg that deals with adoptions, therapy, alcohol rehabilita- tion and intensive residen- tial services. “It’s my field, it’s what I do,” Gibson said. “When I heard crisis center, I knew I was going to visit its web- site and call to make sure they get my resume.” The MCHS was one of 59 employers taking applica- tions Tuesday, down slightly from 61 last year, said Job Fair Network Director Joe Buckner. He also said about 2,000 people attended the WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2010 • 50¢ SCHOOL & YOUTH • B1 TOMORROW, TOMORROW Classes begin Thursday TOPIC • C1 ‘CHICAGO’ Production opens this weekend WEATHER Tonight: Isolated showers and thunderstorms; lows in the upper 70s. Thursday: Sunny in the morning, then scattered showers and thunderstorms; highs around 100. Mississippi River: 28.9 feet Fell: 0.5 feet Flood stage: 43 feet A7 DEATHS • Bobbie M. Brown • Emma Lou Roberts Mc- Morris • Jeanne H. Miller • Rosie Lee Nash • D’Erick Devian Taylor Strong A7 TODAY IN HISTORY 1892: Andrew and Abby Borden are axed to death. Lizzie Borden, Andrew’s daughter, is accused of the killings and acquitted. 1944: Nazi police capture 14-year-old Anne Frank. 1964: The bodies of U.S. civil rights workers Mi- chael H. Schwerner, An- drew Goodman and James E. Chaney are found in an earthen dam in Mississippi. 1999: Letters given to U.S. President Bill Clinton by Russian President Boris Yeltsin are made public, in- cluding one written by Jac- queline Kennedy days af- ter her husband, President John F. Kennedy’s assassi- nation, asking Soviet lead- ers to maintain peaceful U.S. relations. INDEX Business ............................... A6 Classifieds............................ C5 Comics .................................. B4 Puzzles .................................. C5 Dear Abby ........................... C4 Editorial ................................ A4 People/TV............................ C4 CONTACT US Call us Advertising ...601-636-4545 Classifieds...... 601-636-SELL Circulation..... 601-636-4545 News................ 601-636-4545 E-mail us See A2 for e-mail addresses ONLINE www.vicksburgpost.com VOLUME 128 NUMBER 216 4 SECTIONS SPORTS QUARTER- FINALS Big 3 down to wire on lining up QBs D1 MEREDITH SPENCER•The Vicksburg PosT Employees of Donaldson Construction of Jackson lay asphalt at Warrenton Elementary. Qualifying opens for two seats on school board By Pamela Hitchins [email protected]Qualifying begins today for anyone interested in seeking election to either of the two Vicksburg Warren School District trustee positions that will appear on ballots in November. One incumbent, District 1’s Jerry Boland, says he will seek re-election, and the other, District 5’s Tommy Shelton, says he will not. Both are finishing their first six-year terms. The districts are the same as those for county super- visors. District 1 is an area On first day of classes, construction at 2 schools By Everett Bexley [email protected]Thursday’s start of a new academic year will be a bit bumpier than usual for the Vicksburg Warren School District — at least at War- renton Elementary where a summer project, includ- ing paving, will still be under way. Interim Superintendent Donald Oakes said the work includes preparation for an additional building that will include 10 classrooms when completed in mid-Jan- uary. Monday, a base layer of asphalt was poured in the driveway and parking area. During winter break in December, the areas will receive a top coat and be paved and completed. For the first few days of school, Oakes said police will be on campus to direct traffic and help arrival and depar- ture to and from school. “The situation is not ideal, but we are making the best of it that we can,” he said. Even though intercession weeks are not part of this MEREDITH SPENCER•The Vicksburg PosT Oil, gas drilling approved in city By Steve Sanoski [email protected]A Shreveport-based com- pany won approval from the Vicksburg Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday to begin an exploratory oil and gas drilling operation within six months on 6.8 acres of land near the convergence of North Washington Street and U.S. 61 North. Sklar Exploration Com- pany representative Joel Rice said drilling a 11,500-foot test well could begin as soon as the end of the month, far sooner than the six-month start date approved by the board. Though several com- panies have drilling opera- tions in the county, including a subsidiary of Sklar, Zoning Administrator Dalton McCa- rty said this would be the first well drilled inside the city limits. Before giving the OK to change zoning of the prop- erty to L-2 heavy industrial from C-4 general commer- cial and granting a spe- cial exemption for drilling, zoning board members ques- tioned Rice and his attorney, Landman Teller, for about a half-hour about the effect on nearby residents. The nearest home is approximately 280 feet from the proposed well site, said Teller, which exceeds the minimum 150-foot setback requirement in the city ordinance for heavy indus- trial businesses. Teller also noted no residents in the area attended the meeting to object to the operation. “My understanding is a substantial number of resi- dents in the area have leases for the production of oil and gas, and if they strike oil they’d be very happy,” Teller told the board. On Sept. 5, 1939, oil was dis- covered at Tinsley just north of Warren in Yazoo County. MEREDITH SPENCER•The Vicksburg PosT Andrea Gibson, center, gets information from Tara Marler, the MCHS community outreach coordinator, right, during the job fair Tuesday. In the foreground is LaTarsha Washington. On B1 Countdown to classes Traffic passes on Mission 66 Tuesday afternoon as the thermometer at a dentist’s office flashes 104 degrees, the day’s high, which broke the record for the second day. The previous high for the date was 99 in 1954. The extreme heat is predicted to stick around until Sunday, when some cloud cover is forecast to lower the heat to a high of about 95. HOW HOT IS IT? See Drilling, Page A7. See Job fair, Page A7. See Construction, Page A7. See School board, Page A7. Albert F. Chiempraibha M.D. AFRAID OF ENDOSCOPY? COME SEE OUR NURSE ANESTHETIST ... ASK FOR US...B Y NAME...Y OU HAVE A CHOICE! 601-638-8801 1815 Mission 66
Andrea Gibson is 29 years old, has a master’s degree and work experience — and she has been unemployed since June.
On Tuesday, Gibson was among 1,600 job-seekers at the 13th Vicksburg Area Job Fair, and she’s hoping it will lead to a paycheck.
Gibson was laid off from the Mississippi Department of Health in June. Her mas-ter’s degree from Jackson State University is in behav-ioral health promotion and education, and Tuesday she found a potential employer at the Mississippi Children’s Home Services booth.
“I was born and raised in Vicksburg, and ever since high school I’ve known that I want to be in public health,” Gibson said. “I don’t want to have to leave Vicksburg to do that. I want to serve my community — Warren County.”
Tara Marler, the MCHS community outreach coordi-nator, met with Gibson and explained how her agency
works and that it operates a crisis shelter in Vicksburg that deals with adoptions, therapy, alcohol rehabilita-tion and intensive residen-tial services.
“It’s my field, it’s what I
do,” Gibson said. “When I heard crisis center, I knew I was going to visit its web-site and call to make sure they get my resume.”
The MCHS was one of 59 employers taking applica-
tions Tuesday, down slightly from 61 last year, said Job Fair Network Director Joe Buckner. He also said about 2,000 people attended the
W E D N E S D A Y, A u g u S t 4, 2010 • 5 0 ¢
SCHOOL & YOUTH • B1
tOMORROW, tOMORROWClasses begin Thursday
TOPIC • C1
‘CHICAgO’Production opens this weekend
WEAtHERTonight:
Isolated showers and thunderstorms; lows in the
upper 70s.Thursday:
Sunny in the morning, then scattered showers
and thunderstorms; highs around 100.
Mississippi River:28.9 feet
Fell: 0.5 feetFlood stage: 43 feet
A7DEAtHS
• Bobbie M. Brown• Emma Lou Roberts Mc-
Morris• Jeanne H. Miller• Rosie Lee Nash • D’Erick Devian Taylor
Strong
A7tODAY IN HIStORY
1892: Andrew and Abby Borden are axed to death. Lizzie Borden, Andrew’s daughter, is accused of the killings and acquitted.1944: Nazi police capture 14-year-old Anne Frank.1964: The bodies of U.S. civil rights workers Mi-chael H. Schwerner, An-drew Goodman and James E. Chaney are found in an earthen dam in Mississippi.1999: Letters given to U.S. President Bill Clinton by Russian President Boris Yeltsin are made public, in-cluding one written by Jac-queline Kennedy days af-ter her husband, President John F. Kennedy’s assassi-nation, asking Soviet lead-ers to maintain peaceful U.S. relations.
merediTh spencer•The Vicksburg PosTEmployees of Donaldson Construction of Jackson lay asphalt at Warrenton Elementary.
Qualifying opens for two seatson school boardBy Pamela [email protected]
Qualifying begins today for anyone interested in seeking election to either of the two Vicksburg Warren School District trustee positions that will appear on ballots in November.
One incumbent, District 1’s Jerry Boland, says he will seek re-election, and the other, District 5’s Tommy Shelton, says he will not. Both are finishing their first six-year terms.
The districts are the same as those for county super-visors. District 1 is an area
On first day of classes,construction at 2 schoolsBy Everett [email protected]
Thursday’s start of a new academic year will be a bit bumpier than usual for the Vicksburg Warren School District — at least at War-renton Elementary where a summer project, includ-ing paving, will still be under way.
Interim Superintendent Donald Oakes said the work includes preparation for an additional building that will include 10 classrooms when completed in mid-Jan-uary. Monday, a base layer of asphalt was poured in the driveway and parking
area. During winter break in December, the areas will receive a top coat and be paved and completed.
For the first few days of school, Oakes said police will be on campus to direct traffic and help arrival and depar-ture to and from school.
“The situation is not ideal, but we are making the best of it that we can,” he said.
Even though intercession weeks are not part of this
A Shreveport-based com-pany won approval from the Vicksburg Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday to begin an exploratory oil and gas drilling operation within six months on 6.8 acres of land near the convergence of North Washington Street and U.S. 61 North.
Sklar Exploration Com-pany representative Joel Rice said drilling a 11,500-foot test well could begin as soon as the end of the month, far sooner than the six-month start date approved by the board. Though several com-panies have drilling opera-tions in the county, including a subsidiary of Sklar, Zoning Administrator Dalton McCa-rty said this would be the first well drilled inside the city limits.
Before giving the OK to change zoning of the prop-erty to L-2 heavy industrial from C-4 general commer-cial and granting a spe-cial exemption for drilling, zoning board members ques-tioned Rice and his attorney, Landman Teller, for about a half-hour about the effect on nearby residents.
The nearest home is approximately 280 feet from the proposed well site, said Teller, which exceeds the minimum 150-foot setback requirement in the city ordinance for heavy indus-trial businesses. Teller also noted no residents in the area attended the meeting to object to the operation.
“My understanding is a substantial number of resi-dents in the area have leases for the production of oil and gas, and if they strike oil they’d be very happy,” Teller told the board.
On Sept. 5, 1939, oil was dis-covered at Tinsley just north of Warren in Yazoo County.
merediTh spencer•The Vicksburg PosT
Andrea Gibson, center, gets information from Tara Marler, the MCHS community outreach coordinator, right, during the job
fair Tuesday. In the foreground is LaTarsha Washington.
On B1Countdown to classes
Traffic passes on Mission 66 Tuesday afternoon as the thermometer at a dentist’s office flashes 104 degrees, the day’s high, which broke the record for the second day. The previous high for the date was 99 in 1954. The
extreme heat is predicted to stick around until Sunday, when some cloud cover is forecast to lower the heat to a high of about 95.
How Hot is it?
See Drilling, Page A7.See Job fair, Page A7.
See Construction, Page A7. See School board, Page A7.
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M.D.
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Exchange Club — Seeking donations for school sup-plies to benefit Good Shep-herd and Central Mississippi Prevention Services; drop-off locations: B&K Bank, 2150 S. Frontage Road or 2059 Medi-cal Center; Trustmark, 3406 Halls Ferry Road or 876 U.S. 61 North; BancorpSouth, 820 South St.; Guaranty Bank & Trust, 1900 Cherry St.; Rain-bow Casino Hotel, 1380 War-renton Road. Vicksburg Toastmasters 2052 — Noon Thursday; Corps of Engineers, 4155 Clay St.; Jeff Hensley, 601-634-4596.Army/Navy — Steak dinner; 7 p.m. Thursday, clubhouse. Woodmen of the World — 6 p.m. Friday; Fisher Ferry Vol-unteer Fire Department, 302 Goodrum Road; contact offi-cers for youth outing.Elks Fidelity Lodge 507 — 7-10 p.m. Friday; back-to-school dance; $3; ages 14-18; 601-456-1330; 1916 Walnut St.Reunite Social and Civic — 10 a.m.-noon Saturday; sum-mer picnic; free school sup-plies; Riverfront Park.Rosa A. Temple High — 3 p.m.
Saturday; reunion planning; 601-634-0791 or 601-638-2898; Bethel A.M.E. Church, 805 Mon-roe St.
MS Elite Girls Softball Try-outs — 2 p.m. Sunday; 8 and under fast-pitch softball tour-nament team; must be born in 2002; team will play in 2011 tournament season; men’s softball field, City Park; Jason Smith, 601-218-4151.VHS/WCHS Class of 1991 — Reunion June 10-12, 2011; enter contact information at www.VHSandWCHS1991.classquest.com or Facebook group, Vicksburg-Warren-Central High School Class of 91-Class Reunion Info (2011); Edna Brooks, 601-415-1188, or Kenya Gaskin, 601-619-7122.
PuBlic ProGramS Grace Group Alcoholics Anonymous — 5:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays; 11 a.m. Saturdays; 601-636-5703; 1414 Cherry St.Vicksburg Al-Anon — 8 to-night; family, friends of alco-holics and addicts; 502 Dab-ney Ave.; 601-636-1134.Sisters by Choice Cancer Support Group — 6 tonight, Porters Chapel U.M.C., 200 Porters Chapel Road; Dr. Nor-
man Connell, speaker. Brain Injury Support Group — 6:30-7:30 tonight, River Re-gion West conference rooms; 601-415-4520 or 601-981-1021.Community Blood Drive — Noon-6 p.m. Friday; Walmart parking lot.Celebrate Recovery — Sup-port group, 6 p.m. Fridays 1315 Adams St.; 601-630-5070.Jackson Audubon Society — 8 a.m. Saturday; LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, Mayes Lake entrance, 115 Lakeland Terrace, Jackson.Citywide Pep Rally — 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Outlets at Vicksburg; cheerleaders and bands from area schools, Kiwanis Golf Ball Drop, refreshments, dunking booth and bounce house. Warren County Habitat for Humanity — 10 a.m. Satur-day; house dedication for Hel-en Hardges and family; 1007 Stadium Drive.Levi’s — A Gathering Place; 7-10 p.m. Saturday, music by Wright Road Band; donations accepted. Divorce Recovery —10-week workshop each Tuesday be-gins Aug. 17, 6-8 p.m.; Grace Christian Counseling, 1414 Cherry St.; Anne Sinclair, 601-636-5703.
Narcotics Anonymous — River City Group, 8 p.m. Sun-day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; Good Shepherd Community Center, 629 Cherry St.; daytime, Alvin J., 601-661-7646 or 601-415-1742; evening, Jackie G., 601-638-8456 or 601-415-3345.100% Narcotics Anony-mous Recovery Group — 7 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays, noon Wednesdays; Nate G., 731-460-9546; 1220 Clay St.
cHurcHeSCalvary Baptist — Revival, 6 tonight-Friday; 406 Klein St.Mount Pilgrim M.B. — Re-vival, 7 tonight-Friday; 1917 Heather Place.Providence M.B. — Revival, 7 tonight-Friday; 7070 Fisher Ferry Road.Pleasant Hill M.B. — Revival, 7 tonight-Friday; 11170 Halls Ferry Road. St. James M.B. No. 1/Narrow Way M.B. — Musical fund-raiser; Radical Praise for Christ, Greater Mount Zion male choir, Evangelists Geneva Douglas, Lola Sneed, Monica Walker and others, 5 p.m. Sat-urday; Willie J. White, 601-638-5913, James E. Williams, 601-218-8061, or Alonzo Webber,
601-638-0965; 400 Adams St.Greater Grove Street M.B. — Musical Extravaganza, 7 p.m. Saturday; United Men in Christ, Gospel Visionaires, and other groups, choirs and solo-ists; 2715 Alcorn Drive.Lighthouse Baptist — 11th Hour gospel group in con-cert, 7 p.m. Saturday; 601-638-4920; 1804 Sky Farm Ave.St. Paul M.B. — Revival, 7 p.m. Monday-Aug. 13; M.R. Reed, evangelist and pastor; 1413 Elm St.
BeneFitSCar Wash — 8 a.m. Saturday; Pizza Hut, 3520 Pemberton Square Blvd.; benefits Pleasant Valley M.B. Church, Mississippi 27, youth department.Golf Ball Drop — 11:30 a.m. Sat-urday; $1,000 grand prize, tickets available at mall office; Charlie McKinnie, 601-218-1754; bene-fits Vicksburg Family Develop-ment Center; Outlets at Vicks-burg, 4000 S. Frontage Road.Chicken Spaghetti Meal — 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, St. Aloysius cafeteria; $5 per plate; tickets available from the school or any football player, cheerleader or Flashette; dine in or carry out; 601-636-2256; to benefit the “A” Club.
Hinds County officials said they were awaiting autopsy results on the body of a 23-year-old Bolton man found shot to death on a road Monday night between Bolton and Edwards.
The body of Robert Earl Hill Jr. was sent to the Mississippi Crime Lab in Jackson, said Lt. Jeffery Scott of the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department.
Scott said a motorist found Hill’s body about 8 p.m. in a gravel pit next to Billy Fields Road. “We believe it was a secondary crime scene,” said Scott. “We believe he was dumped.”
Hill’s vehicle, a red 1992 Ford Crown Victoria, was found around noon Tuesday in a wooded area less than a mile from his body. Scott said the vehicle could have been stolen, but did not want to speculate.
“The interior of the vehi-cle was partially burned. We believed that was done to get rid of anything of evidentiary value,” said Scott.
He said Hill might have been shot by someone he knew, “but it’s too early in the investiga-tion to know.”
Hill is survived by a son, Braylon, who is 1 year old.
Six found guiltySix convictions of driving
under the influence were reported in the week ending Tuesday.
Convicted of DUI first offense in Vicksburg Municipal Court:• Claude D. Berry, 50, 4798
U.S. 61 South Lot 1, was fined $694.
• Craig Donnell Buchanan, 39, 2820 Oak St., was fined $695.64.
• Theresa Litisha Odoms, 31, 2114 Pearl St., was fined $694.
• Robbie Dell Evans, 35, 1911 Martin Luther King Blvd., was fined $694.
• Frances Nicholas Patton, 26, 112 Athens Ave., was fined $709.54.
• Zaccharus Tyler, 23, 1203 Second North St., was fined $674.No convictions were
recorded in Warren County.
Across city, county, neighbors get out, visitBy Tish [email protected]
Neighbors came out in droves across Vicksburg and Warren County Tuesday to support the 27th annual National Night Out Against Crime.
This year, events were held in family-friendly loca-tions throughout the city and county to encourage neigh-bors to meet each other and discuss crime prevention, Vicksburg police said.
At Kroger on Pemberton Square Boulevard, Johnny Lewis, 50, of Fisher Ferry
Road, said while his neighbor-hood is a quiet place where residents already look out for each other, some want to start a more formal Neighbor-hood Watch organization.
He said National Night Out is “going to make people wake up and see what’s going on.”
At the Kings Community Empowerment Center on R.L. Chase Circle, Angela Lyons, who attends Trium-phant Baptist Church, said she believes bringing neigh-bors together will cut down on the problems in the area.
For entertainment, spec-tators from as far as Jack-
son stopped by the center to watch Vicksburg police and firefighters in a game of basketball.
“Our message has been consistent throughout as we want our citizens to work toward making Vicksburg and Warren County a safer place,” said Mayor Paul Win-field, praising the level of par-ticipation despite high tem-peratures. “This means the residents of our city of all backgrounds consider safety a priority in our city.”
Simultaneously, church praise teams performed, while neighbors talked.
After enduring 100-degree weather in a 20-foot-by-4-foot pool outside the Culkin Vol-unteer Fire Station for the past week promoting the campaign, retired Vicks-burg police officer Doug Arp rode around the county and city sharing information on the importance of knowing neighbors and law enforce-ment officers.
“Most of the time you meet a policeman, you’re getting a ticket. That’s not a time for a social interaction,” said Arp. “That’s what it (National Night Out) is about — meet-ing people.”
DavID JaCkSoN•The Vicksburg PosT
Doug Arp, right, and Warren County Deputy Dan Ratliff pass out balloons on Longview Street during National Night Out Against Crime Tuesday to, from left, Ashanti Warfield, 12, the son of Michael and Diana Warfield, Rich-
ard Buchroeder Jr., 15, the son of Richard Buchroeder Sr. and Cheryl Davis, and Jashua Chapman, the son of Ashley and Willie Chapman.
dui convictionSfrom court reportsGun, electronics reported missing in Vicksburg
Electronics and a weapon were among items reported missing Tuesday and today in Vicksburg, police Sgt. Sandra Williams said.
At 1:45 this morning, a Cobra CB radio valued at $70 was reported stolen from a 2005 Freightliner truck in the 4500 block of East Clay Street.
A bottle of Adipex pills valued at $8 was reported stolen at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday
from a 2000 Nissan Xterra in the 1300 block of Mission 66.
A portable DVD/CD player and a set of tools valued at $40 were reported stolen at 2:37 p.m. Tuesday from a trailer at Warren Central Junior High, 1630 Baldwin Ferry Road.
A 40-caliber Glock hand-gun valued at $450, a Sony
DVD player valued at $120, assorted coffee products valued at $100, a duffle bag valued at $50 and an Apple iPod valued at $200 were reported stolen at 11:58 a.m. Tuesday from a home in the 100 block of Cottage Row Drive.
Three men jailedfor probation violation
Three Vicksburg men
were in the Warren County Jail today charged sepa-rately with probation viola-tion, records show.
Alton Jackson, 45, 124 Pettway Road; Harvey Funches, 40, 349 Funches Road; and Richard Earl Ray Jr., 26, 2765 Birdsong Road, were taken to the jail by Warren County deputies Tuesday evening and this morning were being held without bond.
crimefrom staff reports
4 state sites added to National Register of Historic PlacesJACKSON (AP) — Four
sites in Mississippi — a bus station, a former grocery store, an antebellum home and a Gulf Coast neighbor-hood — have been added to the National Register of His-toric Places.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History rec-ommended the listings to U.S. Department of Interior, which
gave its approval in July.Added to the national reg-
ister were the Greyhound Lines Station in Greenwood; George Street Grocery in Jackson, which is now a res-taurant; the George Wash-ington Brett House in Attala County; and the Old Bay St. Louis Historic District in Han-cock County.
From 1940 until 2001, the
Greyhound Lines Station served as the center of trans-portation for Greenwood and Leflore County. The station was a daily stop on the Jack-son-Memphis route.
Built in 1909, George Street Grocery is now known as the Ole Tavern on George Street. The property was operated as a grocery store through the 1960s.
The George Washington Brett House was built in three phases beginning in 1860.
A wide variety of archi-tectural styles populate the Old Bay St. Louis Historic District.
The register is the federal government’s list of properties it considers worthy of preser-vation and recognition.
JACKSON — Mississippi politicians are gearing up to push an immigration-enforce-ment law similar to Arizo-na’s, allowing police officers to check the status of people they think might be in the country illegally.
Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant and state Rep. Becky Currie, who are both Republicans, discussed the effort Monday night during a meeting sponsored by the tea party and the Mississippi Fed-eration for Immigration Reform and Enforcement.
“We’ve got to know if we have illegal aliens that are here vio-lating our laws,” Bryant told an audience of about 150 people at the Madison County Cultural Center. “Do you want your ID stolen?”
Currie, of Brookhaven, told the crowd: “I don’t know about any of you, but I am so sick and tired of hearing Americans won’t do the jobs that illegals are doing. If I hear it one more
time, I’m going to puke.”Legislators would get their
first chance to vote on a bill during the three-month session that starts in January. Immi-grant-rights advocates say Ari-
zona’s law could lead to racial profiling of Hispanics.
“One of the problems with Phil Bryant and the other people is their mentality is still in Mis-sissippi practices of 50 years
ago and before, when they were screaming about states’ rights and opposing desegrega-tion and voting rights for Afri-can-Americans,” Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mis-
sissippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, said in an interview Tuesday.
Last week at the Neshoba County Fair, Republican Gov. Haley Barbour told report-ers he would sign a bill like Arizona’s.
“It’s not as applicable to us because we don’t have a border,” Barbour said. “But there’s nothing in that law that, to me, that offends consti-tutional standards, whether it’s the United States or the state of Mississippi.”
Barbour, who’s term-lim-ited and can’t run for gover-nor again in 2011, is a potential 2012 presidential candidate. He said the federal government is failing in its responsibility to enforce immigration laws.
The U.S. Justice Department sued to block some of Arizo-na’s law from taking effect in late July.
Bryant, who’s running for governor in 2011, said he’s not daunted by the possibil-ity of a federal lawsuit against Mississippi.
rogelio solis•The associaTed press
More timegiven to scourstate childsupport casesBy Shelia ByrdThe Associated Press
JACKSON — A judge has given a company with a $23 million contract to handle Mis-sissippi’s child support cases more time to gather informa-tion for a probe into whether some process servers lied about delivering subpoenas.
Officials are also trying to determine whether there were child support payment orders rendered against defen-dants who never received a subpoena. An order can be entered even if the defendant doesn’t show up in court.
Rob Wells, president of YoungWilliams Child Support Services, appeared Tuesday before Hinds County Chancery Judge Denise Sweet Owens.
The company is reviewing hundreds of child support cases in which questions have been raised about the actions of the process servers who deliver documents notifying people that they must appear in court.
YoungWilliams has a con-tract with the state Depart-ment of Human Services to file at least 30,000 child sup-port court cases in several counties. So far, the company has filed some 15,000 cases and about 6,000 of those are in Hinds County, Wells said.
Owens is holding hearings looking into the activity of Guy Jernigan and Michael Fisher, who have been accused of claiming to serve subpoenas to people who never received the documents.
La. man saved one teen, couldn’t stop 6 from drowningSHREVEPORT (AP) —
Christopher Patlan was hang-ing out with friends on the Red River when he heard the desperate screams coming from seven teenagers. One minute they were wading in shallow water, the next they plunged into a dropoff 25 feet deep.
Patlan bolted the three yards to the river and jumped in, saving 15-year-old DeKen-drix Warner. By the time he had dragged the boy to safety, the six others from two fami-lies — all nonswimmers —
had drowned. Family mem-bers, who also can’t swim, watched helplessly.
“Everything happened so fast. It was like a wreck,” Patlan said Tuesday.
Just minutes earlier, Monday afternoon had started out as a typical summer get-together. A large group of relatives and friends, includ-ing about 20 children, gath-ered on a sandy shore near the northwest Louisiana riv-er’s bank to cool off from the oppressive heat and to bar-becue. They hadn’t even set
up the grill.The teens were splashing
around in waist-high water when DeKendrix stepped off a slippery ledge. As he kicked and flailed, one cousin rushed to help — and found him-self plunging into the severe dropoff. Then another.
“I stepped and I started drowning,” DeKendrix said Tuesday, speaking in a low voice outside his inner-city Shreveport home, a one-story white clapboard structure with peeling green trim and an unkempt yard.
“It’s hard when you can’t save your kids,” said Maude Warner, whose 13-year-old daughter, Takeitha, and sons, 14-year-old JaMarcus and 17-year-old JaTavious, were among those who drowned.
“It’s hard when you just see your kids drowning and you can’t save them,” she said.
The other victims were three brothers: 18-year-old Litrelle Stewart, 17-year-old LaDairus and 15-year-old Latevin.
The area of the drownings is near a public park, but it’s not a designated recreational
or swimming spot and no life-guards are on duty. It’s fre-quented by swimmers and fishermen, who must walk through woods along a path to reach the river. The city had just dug a trench to limit access to it.
“The river is a dangerous place. It’s no place to even put your foot in if you don’t know how to swim,” said Shreveport Fire Chief Brian Crawford.
The lone life jacket nearby was thrown to the victims but none could reach it.
Attendees of a town hall forum by the local tea party and the Mississippi Federation for
Immigration Reform and Enforcement in Madison pray at the end of the meeting.
Mississippi cities, counties ban synthetic potJACKSON, Miss. — The
city of Kosciusko has joined the growing numbers of Mis-sissippi local governments banning the sale and posses-sion of synthetic marijuana known as “spice.”
Kosciusko Police Chief R.J. Adams said only one busi-ness sells the drug in the city. Adams said the ban takes effect immediately.
Also this week, officials in Corinth, Lafayette County, Pike County and Gulfport enacted bans.
Generally, the local ordi-nances are misdemeanors and make it illegal to buy, sell, possess or distribute the herbal mixtures or any simi-lar substances and the maxi-mum penalties are generally a $1,000 fine and six months in jail.
Murder charges filedin fatal home invasion
ALEXANDRIA, La. — Two men accused of home invasion are also booked
with second-degree murder because the home’s resi-dent shot and killed their alleged accomplice.
Alexandria police tell The Town Talk that 19-year-old Marlon Chaney and 20-year-old Warren O’Connor face the charge because they were attempt-ing armed robbery when 24-year-old Darwin Johnson was killed early Monday.
Resident Roy Harris Jr., also shot O’Conner, who was booked after hospital treatment.
Police said the three broke in while Harris, his wife and children slept.
The Rapides Parish Sher-iff’s Office has not yet released the name of a man shot during another alleged home invasion Monday.
Investigators said both residents were within rights under Louisiana’s justifiable homicide law.
Police: Holdup attemptends in suicide on I-10
SLIDELL, La. — Slidell police say a 24-year-old man apparently shot and killed himself on Interstate 10 in Mississippi after trying to hold up a fast-food restau-rant in Slidell.
Capt. Kevin Foltz says the man’s name is being with-held until his family is notified.
Foltz said the man ordered a worker at knifepoint to let him in the restaurant’s back door, then ordered the man-ager — a 44-year-old woman — to open the safe. Instead, she grabbed the man’s face and pushed him against the wall.
Foltz said the man ran out and drove toward Mississippi in a gold Grand Marquis.
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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1890Mrs. Mary E. King dies. • Dr. G.D. Trousadale and children, of Monroe, are visiting J.T. Strother.
110 YEARS AGO: 1900An emory wheel bursts and Eugene Spence is seriously injured at the Y&MV Shops.
100 YEARS AGO: 1910The infant of Charles Buck dies at Rolling Fork. • The roads in the eastern part of the county are bad, says A.J. Martin.
90 YEARS AGO: 1920Earl Lytell succeeds Aubery Russell as jailer. • Frank Artz gives a croquet set to the Bridge Street kiddies playground.
80 YEARS AGO: 1930Patrolman Mike Bodron is out following an illness. • Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Heron are here from Monroe.
70 YEARS AGO: 1940Frank Shanahan Jr. undergoes surgery for appendicitis at the Sanitarium.
60 YEARS AGO: 1950Mrs. Walter McMaster, an emergency case of bulbar polio, is rushed from Jackson to the Polio Clinic at Lutheran Hospital here via ambulance under the escort of the Mississippi High-way Patrol. The trip from Jackson city limits was made in a record time of 35 minutes.
50 YEARS AGO: 1960Dr. and Mrs. Donald Feibelman and children are vacationing on the Gulf Coast. • Lana Turner stars in “Portrait in Black” at the Joy Theatre.
40 YEARS AGO: 1970M.M. McFatter, Port Gibson resident, is a patient at Mercy Hospital. • Francis Leyens dies. • St. Aloysius High School announces the hiring of two basketball coaches for the coming school year, Sylvia Eilland and Joe Curtis.
30 YEARS AGO: 1980Mrs. Allen Wentworth Hutson dies. • Zelmarine Murphy is the speaker for the Women’s Day program at Standfield M.B. Church, sponsored by Women of the Beautification Auxiliary. • Vicksburg residents William Bart Bell and Debbie McCaf-frey participate in the sixth pre-college conference at the Uni-versity of Mississippi.
20 YEARS AGO: 1990Ceremonies take place for the ground breaking of seven miles of U.S. 61 South that will be expanded from two lanes to four. • The Mayor and Aldermen pass an ordinance banning loud music played from cars or from sidewalks. • It is announced that a Brandon firm will build the new St. Francis Xavier Ele-mentary School.
10 YEARS AGO: 2000More than 1,800 people attend Vicksburg’s third comprehen-
sive job fair. • Lindsay Clairain receives the Trustmark National Bank Scholarship during School of Nursing festivities at the Uni-versity of Mississippi Medical Center. • Jeff and Mandy Clayton Burrell announce the birth of a daughter, Mary Clayton.
WASHINGTON — Living in Indo-nesia with her second husband, Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro couldn’t afford a fancy private school for her son, Barack, but she made up for her lack of funds with discipline and dedication. Obama was only 9 years old when she supplemented his edu-cation with a U.S. correspondence course.
“Five days a week, she came into my room at four in the morning, force-fed me breakfast, and proceeded to teach me my English lessons for three hours before I left for school and she went to work,” the president wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.”
Obviously, her methods paid off. Her son won a scholarship to a pri-vate school in Hawaii, received his undergraduate degree from Colum-bia University and was selected the first black president of Har-vard Law Review during his time there. His later career has also been noteworthy.
Obama’s mother, of course, was an unusual parent, with the perspec-tive and the persistence to give her son whatever educational advan-tages she could. Most children from less affluent homes will need to rely
on teachers with skill, patience and enthusiasm to boost their academic attainment.
That makes Obama’s push to rid classrooms of bad teachers critically important. It’s all the more so for poor students, whose parents lack the knowledge and connections to demand the best for their kids.
Still, the president’s Race to the Top program, which emphasizes teacher accountability as well as charter schools, has generated controversy, especially among the traditional education establishment. That’s no great surprise since teachers’ orga-nizations see their main mission as protecting teachers rather than children.
More surprising were objections
to the president’s education reforms recently raised by several civil rights groups, including the National Urban League. While the groups claimed they were fighting for children of color, they were more likely fighting to protect the jobs of the educators — teachers, principals, education administrators — who fill their mem-bership rosters.
If the civil rights groups were wor-ried about poor children, they’d back the reforms. Impoverished kids (black and brown children are dis-proportionately poor) have more to gain from classroom accountability than anyone, as Obama reminded his audience in a speech to the conven-tion of the National Urban League last week.
“Let me tell you, what’s not work-ing for black kids ... is the status quo,” he said. “What’s not working is what we’ve been doing for decades now.”
That includes allowing bad teach-ers to shuffle from one school to the next, often ending up in the poorest neighborhoods. As a consequence, children who are already academi-cally challenged get stuck with teach-ers who are ill-equipped to help them succeed.
Let’s face it: Teachers have an easier time of it with students from affluent homes, where well-educated parents pass on a respect for books, a grasp of basic arithmetic and a mastery of the finer points of the English lan-guage. It’s no secret why the family income level is the best predictor of a kid’s success in school.
But the best teachers have dem-onstrated success in teaching chil-dren no matter whether their homes are affluent or impoverished, book-filled or broken down, disciplined or dysfunctional. Former President George W. Bush’s “No Child” policy is unwieldy and unworkable, but his memorable phrase challenging the “soft bigotry of low expectations” was dead-on.
All over the country, schools outside
the traditional public school estab-lishment are succeeding in teach-ing kids from impoverished circum-stances. Those schools include the ones in Harlem’s Children’s Zone, the SEED School of Washington, D.C., and Atlanta’s Ron Clark Academy. The Teach for America corps — dis-missed by the education establish-ment as naive, ineffective do-gooders — is also more effective than tradi-tional teachers, according to a study by the Urban Institute that measured student exam performance.
The old factory-centered jobs machine has sputtered, choked and died. In a decade or so, there won’t be high-wage jobs left for those who lack post-secondary training. With an economy that increasingly rewards the well-educated, there are few things more important than making sure that all children get a good education.
Even those without moms like Ann Dunham.
•Cynthia Tucker writes for the Washington Post Writers Group. E-mail reaches her at [email protected].
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basic arithmetic and a mastery of the finer points of the English lan-
guage.
Speech‘Chicken Littles’ insisting on limitationsAfter the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled 5-4 that the First Amend-ment means what it says, Presi-dent Barack Obama had a fit, even calling down the justices down during his State of the Union Speech. The likes of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., joined in, pledging immediate legisla-tive action to reverse the court’s ruling.
Here’s a question: Why do we need protection from the First Amendment?
From the way people in Wash-ington are acting, you’d think that the U.S. Supreme Court had unleashed some evil mon-ster in January when it upheld First Amendment rights for cor-porate citizens in the “Citizens United” case. The opinion said that corporations could spend money on political speech, although bans on direct con-tributions from corporations to candidate committees were upheld.
Self-labeled campaign reform-ers have sounded more like Chicken Little than voices of reason. Schumer and the “con-trollers” have called for new measures that make campaign-ing more convoluted in both the nation’s and states’ capi-tals. They’ve even pushed to put more tax-financed campaign programs in place.
The sky is not falling.So far, those who follow
the money say, the “Citizens United” case has not unleashed a massive amount of corporate cash flowing into campaigns. While some think corporations will hold off in this year’s mid-term elections before push-ing ahead full-throttle in 2012, others question whether corpo-rations really have all that much money to spend on political campaigns.
Even if corporations do decide to spend on political campaigns, there’s no reason to believe that
they all jump on board with one particular candidate or party. Corporations are pretty diverse, both in their products and ser-vices and in their owners’ politi-cal leanings.
New burdensome regulations aimed at making participation in the public discourse more complicated aren’t necessary. Neither are public financing schemes, which end up forcing many taxpayers and businesses to pay for political speech for which they may disagree.
Our Founding Fathers knew what they were doing when they included the First Amend-ment freedoms in the Bill of Rights.
We should celebrate those freedoms, and we should not allow Congress, in the name of “helping us” continue to dilute rights beyond recognition.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Federal Trade Com-mission’s antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp. was the harshest yet against the world’s biggest semiconduc-tor maker, which has been battling regulators around the world over charges its tactics hurt consumers.
The severity of Intel’s pun-ishment will be revealed this morning, when the FTC reports details of a settle-ment between the two sides. The FTC could impose the strictest rules yet on Intel’s behavior, potentially leading to lower prices that people pay for computers.
Neither the FTC nor Intel would comment Tues-day beyond confirming the settlement.
The settlement, which was expected, lets Intel sweep away one of the last remind-ers of a bitter, yearslong campaign by a major rival — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. — that caused Intel a world of legal pain.
AMD helped convince reg-ulators around the world that Intel’s sales tactics harmed consumers and ille-gally injured rivals. Intel, the world’s biggest semiconduc-tor company, is accused of bullying computer makers into avoiding rivals’ chips and sabotaging rivals’ attempts to get their chips to work with Intel’s.
In the lawsuit filed in December 2009, the FTC accused Intel of wrongdo-ing in the markets for both central processing units and graphics processing units.
Mud plugs well; feds claimmuch of Gulf oil spill is gone
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — BP claimed a key vic-tory today in its effort to plug its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico while the gov-ernment said the vast majority of oil from the worst offshore spill in U.S. history was already gone.
Declaring it a milestone, BP PLC said mud that was forced down the well was holding back the flow of crude and it was in a “static condition.”
Also, White House energy adviser Carol Browner said on morning TV talk shows that a new assessment found that about 75 percent of the oil has either been captured, burned off, evaporated or broken down in the Gulf.
In the Gulf, workers stopped pumping mud in after about eight hours of their “static kill” procedure and were monitoring the well to ensure it remained stable, BP said.
“It’s a milestone,” BP PLC spokesman Sheila Williams said. “It’s a step toward the kill-ing of the well.”
The next step would be decid-ing whether to cement the well, Williams said.
The pressure in the well dropped quickly in the first 90 minutes of the static kill procedure Tuesday, a sign that everything was going as planned, wellsite leader Bobby Bolton said. Bolton said Tues-day night that the procedure was going well. “Pressure is down and appears to be stabi-lizing,” he said then.
Browner said it was good news that the static kill was working but that “we remain focused on the relief well.”
The static kill — also known as bullheading — involved slowly pumping the mud from a ship down lines running to the top of the ruptured well a
mile below. BP has said that might be enough by itself to seal the well.
But the mud that was forced down the broken wellhead to permanently plug the gusher is only half the story. To call the mission a success, crews work-ing on a flotilla of vessels on a desolate patch of water need to seal off the well from two
directions.An 18,000-foot relief well BP
has been drilling for the past three months will be used later this month to execute a “bottom kill,” in which mud and cement will be injected into the bed-rock 2 1/2 miles below the sea floor to finish the job, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on Tuesday gave up trying to pass even a scaled-back energy bill this summer that would have removed liability ceilings on oil companies, a reaction to the BP oil spill.
The bill also would have offered rebates to consumers for home energy efficiency improvements and encour-aged federal agencies to buy more electric vehicles and retrofit heavy duty vehicles for natural gas.
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GULFPORT, Miss. — The Gulfport City Council has voted 6-1 to rezone property near the Gulfport Harbor that would allow a casino to be built there.
The council also voted 6-1 to change the zoning ordi-nance to require a developer of an entertainment busi-ness to have seven acres of land instead of five, and the land must be adjacent to the harbor.
City leaders were adamant there is no contract or deal in place with any casino devel-
opers; however, a represen-tative from casino company Rotate Black was at the plan-ning commission meeting last week and at Tuesday’s council meeting.
Councilwoman Ella Hol-mes-Hines, who voted against both measures, said the company owns nearly five acres of land in that area but would have to lease the other two from the city, and she is against that.
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past two years as the annual federal deficit hit $1.41 trillion last year and is forecast to hit a new record of $1.47 trillion this year.
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Boland, first elected in 2004, is a 51-year-old roofing con-tractor who has three daugh-ters who graduated from Warren Central High School. “I am just as dedicated to the well-being of the young people in our community as I was six years, ago, if not moreso,” said Boland, who has served as board presi-dent during his tenure.
Shelton, 57 and an engi-neer, said he will bow out. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my association with the school district — and I continue to enjoy that relationship,” he said, “but I do feel it’s time to step down and let someone else have a chance.”
Candidates must be resi-dents of the districts and may
pick up qualifying papers in the Circuit Clerk’s Office at the Warren County Court-house to be returned before 5 p.m. Oct. 1.
The role of school trustees, who meet monthly, is to set policy and monitor financial accountability. Operational management is the respon-sibility of a superintendent, hired by the trustees. Terms are staggered in two-year intervals to avoid having an all-new board. Members are paid $200 per month plus travel expenses to guide the 9,000-student district which has an $80 million budget.
Other board members are president Zelmarine Murphy, District 2, whose term ends in 2012; James Stirgus Jr., District 3, whose term ends in 2014; and Joseph Loviza, District 4, whose term ends in 2014.
year’s school calendar, classes for an expected 9,000 students in the district’s 10 elementary schools, two intermediate, two junior high, two high schools and one alternative school are starting about the same time. Buses will be rolling on 170 routes at dawn.
Intercessions were remedia-tion periods held after each nine-week period to help stu-dents who needed to catch up. They were scrapped largely due to lack of participation, but the early start date was retained so the first semes-ter can be completed before winter break.
At Warrenton, Dr. Janice Hatcher, principal, said faculty will park on the grounds to provide more space as school
starts. She also prepared maps she gave to parents during orientation that direct them on how to drop off and pick up their students from the new parking and driving area.
“I realize it’s going to be new to the parents and everyone, but we’ve got everything we need to make sure that it’s not too difficult,” Hatcher said.
At Vicksburg Junior High School, an addition is also under way. However, Oakes said that adding 10 class-rooms at VJHS will not inter-fere with traffic or classes.
The VJHS construction is being done by Flagstar of Brandon for $1,558,258. War-renton’s construction was contracted to Dixon Interior
Finishing Inc. of Jackson for $1,502,769. An interest-free bond of $3 million was secured by the district to pay for the work. Both projects mean por-table classrooms or trailers long used at both schools will be scrapped.
All other area schools start classes Monday except Riv-erside Christian Academy. Classes there start Tuesday.
Oakes, a former superin-tendent, is managing opera-tions of the countywide public school district pending the arrival of Dr. Elizabeth Swin-ford, who has been tapped by trustees for the job and will be moving here from Baton Rouge.
2009 fair. This year’s attend-ees, he indicated, were more intent about finding jobs.
“Over 400 people were wait-ing to get in the fair at 9 a.m. when the doors opened,” he said. “That shows that people are more serious than ever.”
Fletcher Hawkins, an admissions coordinator for the SEC Training Center in Flowood, said he’s had an employer booth at the Vicks-burg Area Job Fair since about the time it started. Each year, he said, he’s at the fair recruiting people to enter training and eventually become professional truck drivers.
He said his firm has hired about 100 people through the Vicksburg Area Job Fair. He expected Tuesday’s fair to add to that number.
“About 30 people came to the booth in the first hour or so, and out of those, we will hire somewhere between 10 to 15,” said Hawkins. “Vicks-burg has been great as a source to find employees... We will keep coming in the future.”
Buckner said that over 400 job offers were made at this year’s fair, and considers it a success in a market of 11.9 percent unemployment, com-pared with 10.4 percent in 2009.
After discovering a possi-ble job and making progress toward employment, Andrea Gibson also said the fair was a success.
“You have all of these employers in one centralized location, and you’re really able to get your name out there,” she said. “I’ve really liked it, but hopefully I’ll be employed soon and won’t have to come next year.”
Maps still show the location of a community named Oil City.
A state historic marker at Tinsley says it was the first oil field east of the Mis-sissippi in the Gulf Coast region. During its first 50 years, 220 million barrels of oil were produced, the sign says.
In the 1970s, commercial removal of natural gas was begun near Oak Ridge in Warren County and there have also been produc-tion sites in western Hinds County.
Rice said drilling would last about two to three weeks, during which workers would be on site 24-hours a day. Once erected, the rig would be visible from the highway, and Rice said it’s possible a pair of 20-30-foot high stor-age tanks approved by the board would also be seen by
passing motorists. He said there is typically no detect-able odor from drilling operations.
As for noise caused by drill-ing, Rice said similar opera-tions in other areas by the company do not exceed 72 decibels at 300 feet. Most gov-ernment research suggests safe exposure is 85 deci-bels for up to eight hours a day. Busy city traffic typi-cally generates 85 decibels of sound, while a jackhammer or an iPod at full volume will generate about 120 decibels. Once the well is drilled, Rice said noise from the opera-tions would be significantly reduced.
Sklar already has won approval by the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board to drill on the site, Teller said. The Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen still will have to give the final stamp of
approval on rezoning the property.
Pending approval by the Mississippi Department of Transportation and the city, Teller said an access road off U.S. 61 North will be built on the site. He said “90 to 99 per-cent” of all truck traffic cre-ated by the operation will not extend into the city, but will be routed onto the highway.
Board members present were Tim Fagerburg, Warren Jones, Tommie Rawlings and Fred Katzenmeyer. Also Tuesday, the board: • Gave Lynne Brush two
years to pave the park-ing lot at 3040 Halls Ferry Road, where a consignment shop is planned. The lot will have to accommodate seven parking spaces, including one handicap space.
• OK’d meeting minutes from May 4.
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The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.
Bobbie M. BrownBELZONI — Bobbie M.
Brown died Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at Greenwood-Leflore Hospital in Greenwood. She was 79.
Ms. Brown was born in Straight Bayou, Miss., and had lived in Rolling Fork for many years. She had been a resident of Belzoni for the past 30 years. She was a homemaker and of the Bap-tist faith.
Survivors include her son, Raymond Day of Clinton; three daughters, Patrica Breazeale of Belzoni, Kathy Luckett of Vicksburg and Retta Cox of Ocean Springs; a sister, Loryce Hawn of Vicksburg; seven grand-children; and seven great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Glenwood Funeral Home in Vicksburg with the Rev. Bryan Abel officiating. Burial will follow at Mound Cemetery in Roll-ing Fork. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until the ser-vice Thursday at the funeral home.
Pallbearers will be Billy Johnson, Ben Luckett, Charles Luckett, Bryan Cox, Blake Tarnabine and Sam Maxie.
Emma Lou Roberts McMorris
Emma Lou Roberts McMor-ris passed away on Tues-day, Aug. 3, 2010, in Denham Springs, La., at the age of 81.
She was a member of Coly-ell Baptist Church.
Visitation will be tonight at Colyell Baptist Church from 5 until 9. Visitation will resume on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, from 9 a.m. until funeral ser-vices at 11 a.m., conducted by the Revs. Bill Holifield, Bill Pianki and Delmas Taylor. Burial will follow in Blount Cemetery, Satsuma, La.
She is survived by her two sons and daughters-in-
law, Ronald Wayne McMor-ris Sr. and Mary Lou Goings McMorris and Jerry Lynn McMorris and Gina Byrd McMorris; six grandchil-dren, Angelia McMorris Cornett and Shane Cornett, Dr. Ronald Wayne McMor-ris II, Jodie McMorris Knight and Richard Knight, Brad-ley Wayne McMorris, Becky McMorris and April McMor-ris; four great-grandsons, Blake Cornett, Austin Cor-nett, Carson Knight and Presley McMorris; broth-ers, Carlton and Kenneth Roberts; and a stepbrother, James Keller Jr.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 1/2 years, the Rev. Lafayette George “L.G.” McMorris; son, Michael Ray “Mike” McMor-ris; mother, Nettie Kennard Roberts; father, Truman Roberts; sister, Betty Scar-brough; half-sister, Helen Rhodes; and stepmother, Martha Ware Roberts.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Ron and Brad McMorris, grandsons-in-law, Shane Cornett and Richard Knight and great-grandsons, Blake and Austin Cornett.
Honorary pallbearers will be her great-grandsons, Carson Knight and Presley McMorris.
Services performed under the direction of Seale Funeral Service, Livingston, La.
Jeanne H. MillerJeanne H. Miller died
Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at Desoto Health Care South-aven. She was 84.
A native of Greenville, Mrs. Miller was a life-long resident of Vicks-burg. She was former owner and opera-tor of the Klondyke. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Vicksburg and of the Eastern Star Acacia Chapter 56, where she was a past matron and served over 50 years.
Mrs. Miller attended the University of Maryland. She was an avid fisherwoman.
Her passion in life was her family.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Vallery Knox Miller; her parents, Daniel and Emma Hendricks; and her sister, Mabel Walker.
Survivors include a son, Bill Landrum of Kingsman, Kan.; four daughters, Sherry Crowe and Paula Cravens, both of Memphis, Kay Ben-nett of Vicksburg and Penny Miller of Southaven; 10 grandchildren, Neal Crowe, Kelly Crowe Justiss, Scott Landrum, Leslie Landrum, Chris Clay, J.W. Bennett, Denise Miller, Brian Miller, Gideon Cravens and Cory Cravens; and seven great-grandchildren, John Crowe, Christian Crowe, Grayson Justiss, Addison Justiss, Madison Miller, Caleb Miller and Elliana Rose Landrum.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Glenwood Funeral Home with the Rev. Larry Haggard officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 tonight at the funeral home.
Pallbearers will be Wen-dell Miller, Greg Cravens, Don Miller Jr., Buster Miller, Jimmy Miller and Louie
Miller.Honorary pallbearers will
be members of Eastern Star Acacia Chapter No. 56.
Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942.
Rosie Lee NashServices for Rosie Lee Nash
will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Bethlehem M.B. Church. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Thurs-day at Williams Funeral Service with family present from 5 until 6.
Mrs. Nash died Thursday, July 29, 2010, at River Region Medical Center. She was 79.
She was a member of Beth-lehem M.B. Church where she served as an usher. She was a member of Esther Grand Chapter and Martha Chapter No. 3.
D’Erick Devian Taylor Strong
D’Erick Devian Taylor Strong, infant son of La’Shanta NaCole Strong, died Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.
D’Erick was preceded in
death by his maternal great-grandparents, William and Millie Strong.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by three sis-ters, Akima Adams, Natalie Strong and Niyoki Strong, all of Vicksburg; one brother, Nicholas Strong of Vicks-burg; his maternal grand-mother, Diane Strong of Vicksburg; his mater-nal grandfather, Ronald L. Lawyer of Vicksburg; and aunts, uncles and other relatives.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at China Grove No. 1 M.B. Church Cemetery, Rawhide Road. Burial will follow under the direction of Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying the chief of a paramilitary police force in Pakistan today, killing him and four others in an attack that ended a relative lull in violence in a city often tar-geted by the Taliban.
Sifwat Ghayur, the head of the 25,000-strong Frontier Con-stabulary, is one of the most senior security offi-cials ever to be killed by militants in the country.
The attack in Peshawar comes as Pakistan’s impov-erished northwest has been struggling to recover from devastating floods that have killed 1,500 people and affected millions of others, now looking for help from the government.
Rescue workers franti-cally tried to extinguish fires that engulfed several cars in the minutes after the bomb attack near a major market in the center of Peshawar, which was wracked by bomb-ings late last year but has been relatively quiet in recent months.
Ghayur was killed along with his driver and three bodyguards, said Shafiullah Khan, a senior police offi-cer. The explosion injured 11 others, he said.
U.N. disputes claimIsrael, Lebanon clashes
DEIR EL-ZAHRANI, Leba-non — U.N. peacekeepers said today a cypress tree an Israeli soldier was cutting down just before a border clash with Lebanese soldiers erupted was in Israeli terri-tory, contradicting Lebanese claims that their frontier was breached.
The clash Tuesday left a senior Israeli officer, two Leb-anese soldiers and a Leba-nese journalist dead and was the most serious since Israel and the Iranian-backed Leba-nese group Hezbollah fought a brief war in 2006. It was a stark reminder of how vola-tile the border remains, even though both sides appeared to be trying to restore calm
and prevent an escalation.The Israeli soldier was cut-
ting down the tree — some-thing Israel does occasionally to improve its sight line into Lebanon — when Lebanese forces opened fire. The Leba-nese army and a witness said U.N. peacekeepers intervened to ask the Israeli to stop cutting the tree, but Israel refused. UNIFIL, the peace-keeping force in southern Lebanon, has not commented on that. Both sides claimed the tree was in their territory.
Iranian media reports:President escapes hit
TEHRAN, Iran — A con-
servative Iranian website said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escaped an assassination attempt after a handmade grenade exploded near his convoy today, but Tehran state TV denied the report.
Other media reported an explosion in the area but gave conflicting accounts about the cause. Some said it was a firecracker.
The website, khabaronline.ir, said the grenade detonated near Ahmadinejad’s convoy as he was on his way to address a crowd in the west-ern Iranian town of Hamedan but did not harm him.
The president later gave his speech as planned, and it was broadcast live on state tele-vision. He made no mention of the attack in his remarks,
focusing instead on the country’s disputed nuclear program.
Smog from fires engulfs Moscow
PEREDELTSY, Russia — Wildfires that have wiped out Russian forests, villages and a military base sent the thick-est blanket of smog yet over Moscow today.
Passengers on Moscow’s subway said an eye-stinging haze was hovering above plat-forms, as City Hall warned of health risks from the smoke carrying harmful gases including carbon monoxide.
To the east, firefighters focused on beating flames back from a top-secret nuclear research facility, while in Moscow President Dmitry Medvedev fired sev-eral high-ranking military officials over what he called criminal negligence in fires that ravaged a military base.
Russia is suffering its worst heat wave on record, help-ing to ignite forest and bog fires across central and west-ern regions. Over the last 24 hours, firefighters have extin-guished 293 fires, but another 403 have been spotted while more than 500 continued to rage over large swathes of countryside, some of them out of control, the Emergencies Ministry said.
The fires have killed at least 48 people in the past week.
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Family: Racial bias to blame in killings at beer distributorshipMANCHESTER, Conn. (AP)
— Omar Thornton sat calmly in a meeting with union repre-sentative and his supervisors as they showed a video of him stealing beer from the distrib-utorship where he worked.
Busted, he didn’t put up a fight, company officials said. He quietly signed a letter of resignation and was headed for the door when he pulled out a gun and started firing — “cold as ice,” as one survivor described it.
In the end, Thornton killed eight people, injured two, then turned the gun on himself in a rampage Tuesday at Hart-ford Distributors that union and company officials said they would not have antici-pated from someone with no history of complaints or disci-plinary problems.
Yet, relatives say Thornton, 34, finally cracked after suf-fering racial harassment in a company where he said he was singled out for being black in a predominantly white work force.
“Everybody’s got a breaking point,” said Joanne Hannah, the mother of Thornton’s long-time girlfriend.
After shooting his co-work-ers, Thornton hid as police moved in. He called his mother, who tried for 10 min-
utes to talk him out of killing himself, his uncle Will Holli-day told reporters.
“He said, ‘I killed the five rac-ists that was there that was bothering me,”’ Holliday said. “He said, ‘The cops are going to come in so I am going to
take care of myself.”’Authorities said they found
him dead.Thornton had said he found a
picture of a noose and a racial epithet written on a bath-room wall, said Hannah, of Enfield, whose daughter Kristi
had dated Thornton for the past eight years. Her daugh-
ter told her that Thornton’s supervisors said they would talk to his co-workers.
Brett Hollander, whose family owns the distributor-ship, denied any racial bias. And a union official said Thornton had not filed a com-plaint of racism with the union or any government agency.
“I can assure you there has never been any racial discrim-ination at our company,” Hol-lander said.
Teamsters official Christo-pher Roos said, “This is a dis-gruntled employee who shot a bunch of people.”
Company vice president Steve Hollander said he was stunned by Thornton’s ram-
page after a meeting in which he calmly agreed to resign instead of being fired:
“He was cool and calm. He didn’t yell. He was cold as ice. He didn’t protest when we were meeting with him to show him the video of him stealing. He didn’t contest it. He didn’t complain. He didn’t argue. He didn’t admit or deny anything. He just agreed to resign. And then he just unex-plainably pulled out his gun and started blasting.”
Hollander said he thinks Thornton had guns stashed in his lunch box. The executive said two people standing near him were fatally shot in the head, but he was only grazed in the jaw and the arm.
“He shot at me twice and hit me a couple times,” he said. “By just the grace of God, I don’t know how he missed (killing) me.”
‘Everybody’s got a breaking point.’Joanne HannaH
Mother of suspect’s girlfriend
the associated press
People comfort each other at Manchester, Conn., High School, a staging area set up after Tuesday’s shootings at Hartford Distributors in Manchester.
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Democrats seek GOP’s help in last-ditch effort to pass jobs billWASHINGTON (AP) — A
$26 billion measure to help states and local school boards with their severe budget prob-lems faced a make-or-break vote today as Senate Dem-ocrats try one last time to advance their faltering jobs agenda.
The bill would extend pro-grams enacted in last year’s stimulus law to help preserve the jobs of tens of thousands of teachers and other public
employees.The vote to break a GOP fili-
buster comes after Democratic leaders made final tweaks to the measure in hopes of winning the votes of moder-ate Maine Republicans Olym-pia Snowe and Susan Collins. Snowe and Collins provided the key votes last month to pass a six-month extension of jobless assistance for the long-term unemployed.
A vote scheduled for
Monday was postponed after an analysis by the Congres-sional Budget Office showed the measure would add to the deficit. Snowe and Col-lins also had been concerned about cuts to Navy shipbuild-ing accounts since the Bath Iron Works is so essential to their state’s economy. Major-ity leader Harry Reid got rid of the proposed cuts Monday night.
The measure is scaled back
from versions that stalled ear-lier this summer as part of a larger tax-and-spend mea-sure extending jobless ben-efits and a variety of expired tax breaks. The first piece is $16 billion to help states with their Medicaid budgets in the first six months of next year.
It’s less generous than the help provided under the stim-ulus law but is still desper-ately sought by governors, who have already made big
budget cuts as tax revenues have plummeted in the reces-sion — and warn of even worse cuts if the federal help is not continued.
“We’ve made bitter choices,” said Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat. “In the last three years Pennsylvania has raised more than a bil-lion dollars in new revenue and we’ve cut spending by over $3.5 billion. It’s not like we haven’t done anything and
we’re coming to Washington and saying, ‘Bail us out.”’
Democratic Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter said he had already accounted for a six-month increase in federal funding for Medicaid when putting together the state’s budget for the coming year.
If Congress does not provide that additional money, “that means making $211 million in cuts immediately,” Ritter said.
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Blast kills paramilitary force chief in Pakistan
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Pakistani police officers examine a burned car today after a suicide bombing in Peshawar.
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AChIEvEmENTS• Vicksburg High stu-
dents Mark Sills and Madelyn Briggs have been accepted to the Mis-sissippi School of the Arts in Brookhaven, where they will complete their junior and senior years. Mark, the son of David and Kathie Sills, will be part of the vocal music program. Madelyn, the daughter of Matthew and Laura Briggs, will be part of literary arts.
• Graduates of the 16-week UA Acceler-ated Training Program by Plumbers & Pipefit-ters Local 619 were Law-rence Jergins, Carl Cronin, Derrick Howard, Ricky McClendon, Chris Wilson, Jeffrey Crews, Damion Morris and John Hodge.
hONOR ROLLS• Antoinette Ander-
son is on the dean’s list for the spring semester at Texas Woman’s University. She is the daughter of Cher-lyn and Charles Waller of Vicksburg and James Anderson of Garland, Texas.
hONOR SOCIETIES• Betsy Jeanette Craw-
ley has been selected for mem-bership in Sigma Phi Alpha dental hygiene honor society. She is a 2010 graduate of the University of Louisi-ana at Monroe, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in dental hygiene. She is employed by Johnston Dental Clinic in Ruston, La., and is the daughter of Susan Craw-ley of Vicksburg and the late Don Crawley.
IN ATTENDANCE• Lea Bivens and Quin-
ton Fields, both of Vicks-burg, were among Hinds Community College fash-ion marketing technology students who completed internships at Dillard’s.
SChOLARShIpS • Amber Breland of
Vicksburg has received a $1,500 schol-arship through the Schol-arships for Mili-tary Chil-dren Pro-gram. She attends Hinds Community College and is a member of Phi Theta Kappa, band and color guard. She is the daughter of Randy and Marianne Breland.
•Students who were named recipients of $1,500 Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarships were Alli-son East of Vicksburg High, Miranda Shugars of Mississippi School for Mathematics & Science and Ann Avery Burrell of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Ridgeland.
Haircuts, school suppliesup for grabs on Aug. 13By Tish [email protected]
A block party and school supplies giveaway is set for Aug. 13 on South Street.
The event will begin at 7 p.m., organizer Derrick Wince said.
The Revs. John Carroll and Michael Wesley of Jackson Street M.B. Church, along with ministers and youth leaders from Jackson Street and King Solomon M.B. churches will speak about the importance of school, good behavior and obeying the law, Wince said.
South Street will be blocked off from Farmer to Second
North, and tunes from DJ Doctor Feel Good will be played while backpacks, notebook paper, pencils and other school supplies donated by local businesses are given away. Area barbers will provide free back-to-school haircuts, Wince said.
Wince came up with the idea for the back-to-school block party after witnessing two teens breaking into his car. They told him they were looking for change.
In light of the downward spiral of the economy, Wince said, “I had to do something.”
The 12th annual citywide pep rally at the Outlets at Vicksburg will ring in the school year Saturday.
This year, the event will be used to make the public aware of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initia-tive, a $1.46 million grant awarded to the Vicksburg Warren School District, and some of the programs offered through it.
“The event will serve as our kickoff for Project SYNC (School and Youth in a Net-worked Community),” a project of the grant, said Tracie Young, early interven-
tion grant coordinator. “We want the public to be aware of the grant and some of the things we’ll be offering to our students.”
Funded through the grant will be mental health and early intervention programs, as well as alcohol and drug, teen pregnancy and bullying prevention.
“This year’s will be a lot larger than in the past,” and for the first time will feature a mini-carnival, said Paige Caldwell, marketing and spe-cial events manager of the Outlets at Vicksburg.
Spirit squads, athletic teams, marching bands and clubs from the two public high schools, Vicksburg
and Warren Central, and the parochial high school, St. Aloysius, will perform from 9:30 to 11 a.m. After, the Vicksburg Kiwanis Club will sponsor a fundraiser, during which golf balls will be dropped from the WLBT Skycopter.
The three balls closest to the pin will win cash prizes. Balls are $5 each.
Activities are free, but food will be sold.
Squad shows, fundraiser among Saturday events
If you goThe Outlets at Vicksburg’s 12th annual citywide pep rally will be from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Ad-mission is free. Also, on Aug. 13, a block party and school supplies giveaway will be at 7 p.m. on South Street.
Pep rally, block party will usher in new school year
Ethan Katzenmeyer, who will be a senior at Warren Central High School, tries out the combination to his locker during locker distribution day Fri-day. Ethan is the son of Luke and Debra Katzenmeyer.
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ThursdayVicksburg Warren School District• Elementaries: 8:20 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.• Junior highs: 7:32 a.m. to 2:20 p.m.• High schools: 7:40 a.m. to 2:40 p.m.For bus assignments, call 601-636-1478.
MondayAgape Montessori Christian Academy — 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.Porters Chapel Academy• Elementary: 8 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.• Junior high and high school: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Travelers Rest Christian Academy — 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Vicksburg Catholic School• St. Francis Xavier Elementary — 7:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. • St. Aloysius High — 7:55 a.m. to 2:53 p.m.Vicksburg Community School — 8 a.m. to noon on first day; 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. thereafter
TuesdayRiverside Christian Academy — un-available
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Members of Boy Scout Troop 638 of Vicksburg visited with U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, both Repub-licans from Missis-sippi, while in Wash-ington, D.C., for the 2010 Boy Scouts National Jamboree. Standing, from left, are Wicker, Cameron Gates, Tyler Tunnell, Scout leader Burh-man Gates, Austin Mann, William Hahn, Ryan Van Den Akker, Scout leader Mike Rasch and Cochran.
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What’s for dinner, Mom? Book takes on the biggest food questions
By Rasha Madkour The Associated Press
“Eating for Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food From Chefs, Farm-ers, and One Picky Kid” by Melanie Rehak starts with a stark statistic: 61 percent of Americans are confused about what to feed their family.
What follows is a cross between “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “The Girl-friends’ Guide to Tod-dlers” — an exhaustively researched and delightfully witty account of author Melanie Rehak’s adventur-ous year working at a local restaurant and tracing its
food supply to the sources, as well as grappling with her young son who won’t eat a thing.
Through her visits to dairy, produce and animal farms, Rehak gains a deeper appreciation for the diffi-culties facing local farmers — and the need to support them.
Organic food seems more expensive because the costs are more visible, one of her sources tells her. But the costs of conventionally grown food include public funding of irrigation proj-ects and crop subsidies, not
to mention pollution and food-borne illnesses.
Back on the homefront, readers can track the bud-ding language skills of Rehak’s son, Jules, in the myriad ways he refuses almost every edible thing she offers him — from “No” to “No this” to “No chicken. No pasta. No fish.”
The juxtaposition between
these dual tracks in Rehak’s life — food and parenting — makes for an amusing read. After methodically describ-ing how to butcher a duck, and the struggle involved in clipping a baby’s nails, Rehak dryly concludes: “You genuinely feel it’s easier to butcher a duck.”
Despite her conviction that local is the way to
go, Rehak (author of “Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her”) is reasonable and flexible in the belief, knowing that it’s not always possible to be choosy.
The general issue of acces-sibility of local produce and livestock, however, is unfor-tunately not addressed, a gaping hole in the book.
“Eating for Beginners” is funny, informative and relatable. And if you find your mouth watering at some of the dishes men-tioned, Rehak is considerate enough to include recipes at the end of each chapter.
The juxtaposition between these dual tracks in Melanie Rehak’s life — food and parenting — makes for an amusing read. After methodically describing how to
butcher a duck, and the struggle involved in clipping a baby’s nails, Rehak dryly concludes: ‘You genuinely feel
it’s easier to butcher a duck.’
“Eating for Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farm-ers, and One Picky Kid” by Melanie Rehak
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Grapes, Fresh Fruit Bowl, Milk, Fruit JuiceFriday: Steak Fingers, Hot Dogs, Oven-BakedPotato Wedges, Seasoned Green Beans, PineappleTidbits, Orange Smiles, Whole Wheat Roll, Milk,Fruit Juice
Secondary Schools BreakfastMonday:Biscuit, Sausage Patty, Fruit Juice, MilkTuesday: Breakfast Pizza, Fruit Juice, MilkWednesday:Blueberry Mini Loaf, Fruit Juice, MilkThursday: Corn Smokie, Fruit Juice, MilkFriday: Donuts, Fresh Fruit Bowl, Milk
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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — Six-year-old Queen Epps is decked out in her Spongebob Squarepants bathing suit and goggles, ready to learn how to hold her breath.
She is one of 17 students from Liberty City — one of Miami’s most impoverished and crime-ridden neighbor-hoods — sitting along the edge of the pool, splashing their legs in the water and holding the sides as they learn to blow bubbles and get in and out of the pool.
All are part of the major-ity of African-American and Hispanic children across the country who don’t know how to swim — and here at the Swim Gym along the banks of Biscayne Bay, they’re part of the outreach effort to help get kids into the water.
“It’s a safety issue. We say, you don’t send your son out to play football without wear-ing a helmet, yet people go to the beach and they don’t know how to swim,” said Sue Anderson, USA Swimming’s Director of Programs and Services.
USA Swimming commis-sioned a study conducted by the University of Memphis and released in May that showed 69 percent of black children and 58 percent of His-panic kids either had low or no swimming ability.
Anderson said USA Swim-ming is working to develop a network of partners under the Make A Splash initiative to help children learn to swim, and are giving some of them
grants that will provide free or reduced-priced lessons.
Parental fear and lack of parental encouragement were the top two reasons chil-dren and parents gave for not swimming, she said.
“I think we figured out the level and how embedded the fears are in many populations. It’s like this legacy of fear that keeps getting handed down,” said Carol Irwin, an assistant professor at the University of Memphis who carried out the study with her husband, Rich-ard, a professor in health and sport sciences.
Recreational swimming became popular in the 1920s
and ’30s with the construction of resort-style public swim-ming pools across the coun-try, said Jeff Wiltse, author of the book “Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America.” Competi-tive swimming followed in the 1950s and ’60s — but at private club pools, where black Amer-icans were denied access.
Wiltse said the swimming disparity continues now because poor and working class Americans have limited access to pools.
“What we need are large, desirable swimming facili-ties and swim lessons in poor and working class neighbor-
hoods,” Wiltse said.The Swim Gym swimming
school was founded by Robert Strauss, who competed in the 1972 Olympics in swimming and has since dedicated his life to teaching the sport. He is a local partner and a spokes-man for USA Swimming in trying to do outreach to the Hispanic community.
“I wish I could go into the community to show them their children will not drown if they go into the water,” he said.
Jacqueline Clenance, chief program officer at the Bela-fonte Tacolcy Center Inc. in Liberty City, which sent
today’s 17 students to the pro-gram, said it’s the second year they have teamed up with Swim Gym. Ironically, many of the children at the center who live in downtown Miami will never go to the beaches that line Florida’s coasts, she said.
“It’s very often that they live in a limited circle, a limited geographical area,” she said.
But the swimming lessons will have a lasting effect, she added.
“Let’s face it, it could save their lives in a situation,” Clenance said. “It has a life-long impact. ... Hopefully, it will encourage them to spend more time in the water.”
At the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco, aquatics direc-tor Becky Wildman-Tobri-ner has been using the grant from USA Swimming to pay for gas and transportation to bring children to the facility for their swimming lessons. Their program — called Star-fish Aquatics — has a sliding scale for fees. Children can pay as little as $5 for eight half hour classes.
Wildman-Tobriner says she wants to make swimming accessible to everyone.
“What we are trying to do is create a culture of swim-ming in the African-American community,” she said. “I think that the kids that are learn-ing now will probably grow up and say, ‘Oh yeah my kids should learn how to swim.’ Like most things, it takes a few generations to become part of life.”
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Jonas, Sparkstapped to leadRonald Reaganyouth panel
LOS ANGELES (AP) — They weren’t even alive when he was president, but 18-year-old Jonas brother Nick Jonas and 21-year-old “American Idol” champ Jordin Sparks are big Ronald Reagan fans.
Jonas and Sparks are leading a committee of 35 promi-nent young people touched by the life of the Gipper, the nation’s 40th president who left the White House in 1989.
The group was formed to commem-orate Rea-gan’s 100th birthday on Feb. 6.
The National Youth Lead-ership Com-mittee of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration includes athletes, entertain-ers and stu-dent lead-ers who are younger t h a n 2 5 . They have been inspired in a personal way by Reagan’s vision of freedom and his leadership.
“My father and my family were supporters of Reagan,” Jonas said. “I’m proud to be a part of this. It’s amazing.”
Sparks says she also a d m i r e s t h e p r e s i -dent dubbed the Great Communicator.
“It has been really cool to tell my friends I’m a part of this,” she said. A good many of my friends have positive things to say about him.”
Together, committee members have 18 Olympic medals, 2 platinum records and a Miss USA crown. There are sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, professional foot-ball players and a student from Illinois’ Eureka Col-lege, where Reagan was a student in 1932.
Reagan died on June 5, 2004, after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Hinds Community Col-lege summer graduates
Stacy McInnis, left, of Brandon, pins a ribbon
on Brandy Goodwin of Edwards. The rib-
bons were in memory of Vashti Muse, the wife
of Hinds president Dr. Clyde Muse who died July 9 in a car wreck.
McInnis and Goodwin received dental assistant degrees in the ceremony
Friday at Hinds’ main campus in Raymond.
A total of 376 degrees were awarded in two cer-emonies, which Dr. Muse
attended.
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Instructor Juan Sebastian Barreneche encourages 6-year-old Queen Epps during a Swim Gym class in Key Biscayne, Fla.
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College-bound kids don’t mean it’s the end for family vacationsBy Beth J. harpazThe Associated Press
NEW YOrK — My eldest son, who’s heading off to college in the fall, recently informed me that he plans to spend just a few days with us this year on our annual summer vacation.
“But it’s our last vacation ever as a family!” I pouted.
He reminded me that I’ve been guilt-tripping him with that line since 2008.
All too true, I’m afraid. But that’s because, as in many families, our travels have been so much fun that I hate the thought of taking a trip without him. And I’m sure my younger son is not looking forward to traveling with two boring old people (also known as his parents) once his big brother leaves home. Sure, we’ve had our share of meltdowns on the road after too many days away, but some of our best times ever as a family were spent on vacation.
Eileen Ogintz, who writes a syndicated column and blog at TakingtheKids.com, says a child going off to col-lege “does change the vaca-tion dynamic — a lot. Right now it is all about them and
they couldn’t care less about family time.”
Sensing my disappoint-ment at the thought of a treasured family ritual so easily discarded, she added: “Don’t sweat it! When they are homesick at school, they will probably think fondly on those happy times.”
This was probably a dan-gerous thing to tell me, because it immediately got me fantasizing about collect-
ing photos of our trip to the Grand Canyon, taken when my son was 12, to put up in his dorm room. Or maybe sending pictures to his cell phone from our legendary 15-hour drive to Florida.
But Ogintz added that col-lege doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the family travels.
“When they realize how much traveling costs, they will rethink traveling with you,” she said, as long as the trip is “something they think is fun and exciting.” And eventually, even col-lege-age kids “realize what a good deal it is to have mom and dad pay the freight,” especially because they get to stay in nicer places with their parents than they could ever afford on their own.
She also pointed out an aspect I hadn’t considered. “Suddenly, you will be fol-
lowing them!” Ogintz said. “As they study abroad or spend a summer abroad, you will think, ‘What a per-fect time to visit Costa Rica, Thailand, Madrid, Paris, etc.,’ and they will lead you in directions you never anticipated.”
Holly Hughes, author of Frommer’s “500 Places To Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up,” was in my situa-tion last year, the summer before her eldest went off to college. With her husband and two younger kids, the family did a road trip.
“We rented a minivan and we did the drive across country for 2 1/2 weeks,” she said. But “it did not feel like a last hurrah,” she said, and in fact, it wasn’t. After finishing his freshman year, her son got a week off from his summer job this year and joined the rest of the family for a week on Mar-
tha’s Vineyard. One way she made the vacation enjoy-able for all of them was to let the teenagers — 19, 17 and 15 — “make decisions about what they wanted to see and do,” whether it was picking the restaurants or the activities.
“There was less pushback against it that way,” she said.
I remember looking through Hughes’ book when it first came out in 2006, making my own list of places I wanted to take my kids. It was fun to dream: “500 Places To Take Your Kids” is both inspirational and aspirational. But it was also fun to prioritize and plan. There were places my husband and I had been that we wanted to take the boys while they were young, but
there were also places we’d never seen.
The short list of destina-tions we managed to get to includes places that have been classic family vaca-tion spots for generations of Americans, like Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone and Yosemite. Some of our expe-ditions were a little closer to the East Coast, where we live: We escaped the cold weather one winter by driving to Myrtle Beach, S.C., spent a memorable Christmas vacation explor-ing Mammoth Cave, Ky., and had a magical spring break visiting wild ponies at the Chincoteague wildlife refuge in Virginia. But we also managed a few once-in-a-lifetime splurges for big adventures in Alaska and Hawaii.
‘When they realize how much traveling costs, they will rethink traveling with you,’ she said, as long as the trip is “something they think is fun and exciting.’ And
eventually, even college-age kids ‘realize what a good deal it is to have mom and dad pay the freight.’
EilEEn Ogintzcolumnist, blogger
“Frommer’s 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up” by Holly A. Hughes
upcoming events• vicksburg high Senior
Portraits — Retakes, Aug. 14; see Kristen Nutt for more information.
• Alcorn State Saturday Science Academy — Appli-cations open to fifth-graders
from Claiborne and Jeffer-son counties for the 2010-2011 program year; classes meet three Saturdays per month throughout the fall and spring semesters; con-tact Port Gibson or Fayette middle schools or call 601-877-6119.
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Mexican on menufor SA fundraiser
First Church of the Naza-rene will host Fiesta Time, a fundraiser for The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary.
The event will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 14 at the church at 3428 Wisconsin Ave. Served will be chicken enchi-ladas, Mexican rice, refried beans and a drink for $7.
A total of 300 tickets are available, and are being sold in advance only. Call Kathy Jones at 601-638-5931; Sue Tolbert at 601-529-7574; Ron Anderson at 601-831-4003; or The Salvation Army at 601-636-2706.
Clash in the Kitchenpostponed one month
The second annual Clash in the Kitchen, a cook-off event, has been postponed until September. No date has been set.
It had been scheduled for Aug. 12 at the Vicksburg Convention Center. The event featuring local chefs is a benefit for the Mississippi Firefighters Memorial Burn Association.
For information, call 601-540-2995.
Lunch, tunes series setat Southern Cultural
Classics in the Courtyard, a food and music event at the Southern Cultural Heri-tage Center, has been set for Fridays in October and November.
The first installment will be Oct. 15, and the last Nov. 15. Local entertainers and restaurants will provide music and food. Lunch is $9 per person, and reserva-tions must be made by 5 p.m. Thursdays.
A Chicken Spaghetti “Spirit” Meal hosted by the St. Aloysius High foot-ball team, cheerleaders and Flashettes, will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
Plates are $5 each and include chicken spaghetti, salad, bread and tea. Tickets may be purchased at the St. Al office or from a student. Proceeds will benefit the St. Al “A” Club.
The meal will be served at the St. Al cafeteria, and par-ticipants may dine in.
The Westside Theatre Foundation is gearing up for a show that will be “unlike anything Vicksburg has ever seen,” says director and pro-ducer Jack Burns.
This weekend and next, members of the 2-year-old theater group will perform the musical “Chicago” — a story of scandal, justice, celebrity and music — at the Coral Room inside The Vicksburg on Clay Street.
“It’s going to be pretty fun,” Burns said. “We will put on a great show, and I believe audience members are going to be pleasantly surprised.”
Starring in the lead role will be Kelda Bailess as Roxie Hart, a young woman who dreams of being a famous performer, but finds herself instead in Chicago’s Cook County Jail. Bailess, 30, has been acting for about six months, and this will be her debut in a leading role.
“I’ve had to learn lots of choreography and singing,” she said. “It’s been challeng-ing, but awesome. I love the dance numbers; I love the music; I love the show.”
The supporting lead role of
Velma Kelly, a popular night-club singer and dancer who kills her husband and sister, will be played by Tessa Scan-dizzo, 18.
“This is about my 15th
play,” Scandizzo said. “It has been the hardest and most challenging of all, but the cast is like a family so we have so much fun together.”
Scandizzo said that cama-
raderie will shine through, offering the audience something distinct and entertaining.
If you go“Chicago,” performed by the
Westside Theatre Foundation, will open at 7:30 Friday night and continue at the same time Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday. The show also will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13 and 14 and at 2 p.m. Aug. 15. Tickets are $15, and reser-vations are required. Call Jack Burns at 601-618-9349, visit www.acmestageshows.com or drop by The Klondyke on Washington Street.
the characters• Roxie Hart (Kelda Bailess)
— A wannabe vaudevillian and murderess who kills her ex-boyfriend after a spat and is sent to jail.
• Velma Kelly (Tessa Scan-dizzo) — A vaudevillian and murderess on trial for mur-der.
• Billy Flynn (John Tinsley) — Velma and Roxie’s lawyer who has a perfect track re-cord and makes celebrities of his clients.
• Amos Hart (John Paul-Gibson) — Roxie’s faith-ful and good-natured, but incredibly simple, husband to whom nobody pays at-tention.
• Matron “Mama” Morton (Shellon Wilson) — The matron of the Cook County Jail who believes that all fa-vors she gives should be re-ciprocated.
• Mary Sunshine (Joel An-gle) — The newspaper re-porter who follows the trials of Roxie and Velma.
opens Friday at downtown locale
“Chicago” is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. It is based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Mau-rine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported.
The original Broadway production opened June 3, 1975, and ran for 936 performances. “Chicago” was revived
in 1996, and holds the record for the longest-running musical revival on Broadway. It is also Broadway’s sixth longest-running show, logging more than 5,400 perfor-mances. An Academy Award-winning film version of the musical was released in 2002. It starred Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere and Queen Latifah.
Play will be ‘unlike anything Vicksburg has eVer seen’
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Kelda Bailess, as Roxie Hart, sings while John-Paul Gibson, left, as husband Amos Hart, and Jason McKellar, as a police officer, rehearse a scene from “Chicago” at the Coral Room inside The Vicksburg.
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“It’s very different,” she said. “It’s risky; it pushes limits; it has so much pizzazz.”
It has 14 musical numbers and a cast of about 20 people. The play is technically com-plex, Burns said, from the lighting and stage to the music and audio.
“It has been a huge job, a labor of love, that’s taken more effort than any other play I’ve done,” he said. “But we have a dedicated group of people all pulling in the same direction. The results of the
cast’s hard work should be evident on stage.”
Two years ago, Burns began vying for the perform-ing rights for “Chicago.” In March, after obtaining those rights, he began audi-tions and, over the next few
months, built the cast. Prac-tices and rehearsals have been going on for months.
“It’s been a dream of mine for a long time to do this show,” Burns said. “All the work has nearly killed me, but it will be a tour de force
of community theater.” The original “Chicago”
opened on Broadway in 1975 and was revived in 1996.
The show in Vicksburg will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday. It will be performed again at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13 and 14 and at 2 p.m. Aug. 15. Res-ervations are required.
The show contains adult themes and is not suggested for those younger than 17, Burns said.
Sweet, light moscato making a splash for summerNAPA, Calif. (AP) — Call it
moscato momentum.An old grape is winning new
fans as more people turn to the sweet, floral wine that’s easy on the purse and the palate.
“It’s kind of hitting that tip-ping point,” says James Nunes, managing director of market-ing at Sutter Home Family Vineyards in the Napa Valley. Sutter Home has been making a moscato since the 1950s and it has always sold well, but in the last year sales have taken off, he says.
Nationally, in the last year sales of moscato were up nearly 79 percent to just over 1 million cases in food store sales, says wine industry con-sultant Jon Fredrikson of Woodside-based Gomberg, Fredrikson and Associates. That’s still only a fraction of the market; chardonnay sales, for instance, amounted to almost 16 million cases for the same period.
But it’s a significant increase, and welcome news for an industry that hasn’t had a lot to cheer about lately.
“It’s exciting,” says Fredrik-son. “People are always on the quest to find the latest new thing and it’s caught
on because it’s a drink that almost everyone is going to appreciate.”
Sweet and light with over-tones of citrus and orange blossom, moscato is known as a crowd-pleaser. It’s also picked up some pop culture
buzz with a mention in a song by the popular rapper Drake.
Moscato is Italian for muscat, a grape that is believed to be one of the world’s oldest. There are several different types of moscato; in Italy, moscato d’Asti is the base wine for the sparkling wine Asti, formerly called Asti spumante. Califor-nia moscato wines are usually still, not sparkling, and pair well with fruit desserts.
“It’s a secret weapon wine because it allows you to please the people who want a little bit of sweetness in their wine, but knowledgeable folks can also appreciate the beauty of moscato,” says Leslie Sbrocco, wine writer and founder of Thirsty Girl.
There are light, low-alcohol
“frizzante” style sparkling wines from Italy. Major pro-ducers in California include Sutter Home and Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi, which still make versions that go for less than $10 a bottle.
Moscato also is available at the higher end. Heidi Peterson Barrett, former winemaker for the famous “cult winery” Screaming Eagle, makes a dry version, Moscato Azul, under her La Sirena label.
“It is uber high-end and cov-eted,” says Sbrocco. “It’s abso-lute elegance in a bottle.”
Barrett is known for her red wines — the Screaming Eagle cabs she made to sell for hun-dreds of dollars a bottle. But she’s “always had a soft spot in my heart for those kind of tropical, perfumey flavors.”
So, some years ago she started making a dry moscato, using grapes grown on a rocky hillside near Calistoga. The wine smells sweet and floral but is crisp on the palate. Pro-duction is small, about 500 cases a year, and the price is $30.
“It really is a labor of love,” she says. “We make a lot of friends with that wine.”
Sweet and light with overtones of citrus and
orange blossom, moscato is known as a crowd-
pleaser. It’s also picked up some pop culture
buzz with a mention in a song by the popular
rapper Drake.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ordering wine by the glass used to mean scant choices and bland options. And only your tastebuds would tell you how long the wine had lan-guished in an open bottle.
That’s changed, with restau-rants amping up the volume on what’s available by the glass and making sure that the wines poured are at opti-mal freshness.
“It’s one of the most exciting times to be drinking wines by the glass,” said Talia Baiocchi, U.S. wine editor at winechap.com who recently researched and profiled wine-by-the-glass programs at 30 New York City restaurants.
Why is wine breaking through the glass (serving) ceiling?
Reasons range from the economy — who has the wherewithal to spring for a bottle these days? — to an increasingly educated public not content with ordering the traditional “house red, house white,” as well as new serv-ing systems that keep wine fresher longer.
The result: “Restaurants have gone from being safe to being experimental,” said Baiocchi. “It wasn’t a place for the sommelier to necessarily show off their personality, which I think now it is.”
Take the Prohibition-Speak-easy Wine Club in Healdsburg, which offers about 30 wines by the glass, rotating the wines regularly and including “cult” favorites such as vintages from Sonoma County’s Wil-liams-Selyem winery.
The club is physically invit-ing, guests enter the bar by going into a phone booth and picking up the phone, which opens the bar’s “secret” door. But owner Richard Rosenberg says the wines are the real attraction.
“The public has become more interested in different wines and different produc-ers of different varieties and
there are more varieties avail-able than in the past. That’s the intrigue and that’s what the big draw is.”
Prohibition uses a Cruvinet
system which can handle up to 16 bottles at a time, keep-ing the wine fresh for up to 40 days.
Other restaurants are going to systems that can serve wine on tap, similar to beer delivery systems.
Kimpton Hotels & Restau-rants, which has 55 restau-rants and bars across the country, has launched a new Wine On Tap program. Emily Wines, master sommelier and director of wines at Kimpton Restaurants, (yes, her name is wildly apt for the job) is lead-ing the draft wine program through a partnership with Free Flow Wines.
The idea is to provide fresh wine by the glass, strengthen relationships with local vine-yards and reduce waste. No bottles, no corks, just refillable
kegs, generally made of stain-less steel or food-grade plas-tic, that use a mixture of argon and nitrogen gas to push the wine out.
“Every glass that we pour is just as fresh as the first one,” said Wines.
It’s a learning experience all around. Winemakers have been coming by restaurants to see how the wine is tast-ing, and wait staff are being educated on how to explain the wines. The idea is so new that in some cases winery officials have been dropping off and picking up the kegs themselves.
Among the winemakers working with Kimpton is Paul Dolan of Paul Dolan Vineyards in Mendocino County.
“The kegs are just amaz-ingly fantastic,” says Dolan,
a longtime supporter of eco-friendly winemaking and growing practices.
At Frances restaurant in San Francisco, two wines are served on tap, with the blends, one red, one white, supervised by beverage director Paul Ein-bund, who works with nearby wineries to create the finished product.
Using a keg system means he can adjust the blend for the seasons, richer and heavier in the winter, lighter and crisper in the summer, as well as the
elimination of having to recy-cle bottles and corks.
Customers get the wine in pitchers etched with measur-ing marks and are charged $1 an ounce. Which fits the res-taurant’s goal of serving as a neighborhood hangout as well as a destination restaurant.
Einbund, who previously worked at a 2-Michelin star restaurant, jokes that he’s “super snob sommelier boy,” but “I am so excited to have a wine that’s a buck an ounce that is delicious.”
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Restaurants beef up choices with wines on tap
A waiter at Frances draws the house red wine from a tap.
Melissa Perello pours a glass of the house white wine available on tap at her San Francisco restaurant, Frances.The associaTed press
A bottle of Sutter Home moscato
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THIS WEEK’S LINEUPn EXPANDED LISTINGSTV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost.com
MILESTONESn BIRTHDAYSRichard Belzer, actor-comedian, 66; Billy Bob Thornton, actor, 55; Michael Gelman, producer, 49; Marques Houston, singer-actor, 29; Dylan and Cole Sprouse, actors, 18.n DEATHSBobby Hebb — The singer whose 1966 pop music classic “Sun-ny” described a sincere smile from a woman that lifted the sing-er’s burdens died Tuesday. Family members and a funeral home spokesman said Hebb, 72, died at Centennial Medical Center. Friends said he had lung cancer. “Sunny” also was recorded by many other singers, including Marvin Gaye, Wilson Pickett and Jose Feliciano. Bill Lane — The former Sunset magazine publisher who do-nated millions of dollars to Stanford University and environ-mental causes, has died. Lane, 90, also served as U.S. ambassa-dor to Australia and Nauru. Stanford says he died of respiratory failure Saturday at Stanford Hospital. Lane was born in Iowa and moved to California in 1928, when his father bought the fledg-ling travel magazine Sunset.
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Palin calls it quits with fiance JohnstonThe on-again, off-again en-
gagement between Bristol Pa-lin and Levi Johnston is off — again.
The 19-year-old daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called off her wedding plans after Johnston told her he may have fathered a baby with an-other woman.
Bristol Palin did not identify the woman. A pregnant ex-girlfriend of Johnston has publicly denied he is the father.
Palin said Johnston told her about the baby on July 14, the day the couple announced their re-engagement. Palin and the 20-year-old Johnston have a toddler son together, Tripp.
Representatives for Palin and Johnston did not immediately return requests for comment Tuesday.
Obama turns 49 without wife, kidsHome alone, President Barack Obama turns 49 today.First lady Michelle Obama has taken their youngest daughter,
Sasha, to Spain. Their other daughter, Malia, is away at summer camp.
Obama hasn’t shied away from talking about his birthday, noting that his hair is getting gray-er and his metabolism is slowing down as an-other year passes. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that while there’s no doubt that the presidency comes with enormous physical and mental strain, Obama “greatly en-joys” the job.
Obama is heading home to Chicago for a birthday celebration dinner this evening with friends. He’ll spend the night in his own house
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Attraction to father-in-law in danger of overheatingDear Abby: I’m 25 and have
been married to “Bob” for five years. The problem is, I’m in love with his 53-year-old father. I have always been attracted to “Charlie,” but my feelings have escalated since Bob’s mother died last year.
After the funeral, Charlie was lonely and started coming to our house. Most of the time Bob was at work, so Charlie and I became very close. At one family get-together, Char-lie kissed me passionately in the kitchen when no one was around.
I don’t know what to do. I think I am seriously in love with Charlie, but my hus-band is a wonderful man and I would never want to hurt him. If I tell Bob the truth, not only will it destroy our mar-riage, but forever ruin Bob’s relationship with his father.
Should I ignore my feel-ings for Charlie and pretend it never happened? Or should I tell Bob what happened, hoping he’ll understand? — In Love With the Older Version
Dear In Love: Charlie may have been lonely and griev-
ing when he started coming over, but when you both rec-ognized that you were becom-ing attracted to each other, a stop should have been put to it. That he would actually hit on you “when no one was looking” is disgraceful. (Was he sober?)
If you tell your husband, he will indeed “understand,” and I don’t recommend it. You need professional coun-seling, and Charlie needs to be told that poaching on the family preserve is not allowed, so he should spend his lonely hours looking for company that’s available. What you have described isn’t love; it’s a scandal.
Dear Abby: Two years ago I placed my second child for adoption. I was a single mom with a 3-year-old boy to raise
and the father was in the mili-tary for an extended mission. I thought long and hard before I did it and decided that the gift I could give to another couple was better than the life I could offer a child as a single parent.
I am still in contact with the father. We speak often, com-fort each other and just talk. Some people — mainly men I have dated — find this rela-tionship disturbing. It has caused two relationships to end.
Abby, am I wrong to continue a friendship with the father of a child I gave up for adoption? I know that at some point the past needs to be the past, and I’ll have to deal with it for the rest of my life. Is it wrong to want to have that other person there to connect with me and understand firsthand what a hard life decision I went through? — Given Up So Much Already in Pennsylvania
Dear Given Up So Much: No, but if you are trying to cul-tivate and maintain a relation-ship with someone else, you need to recognize that cling-
ing to the father of that child and talking to him “often” was somewhere between threat-ening and a turn-off for the men you were involved with. THEY should have been the ones providing understanding and comfort — not him.
Dear Abby: I have been living with my boyfriend for three years. We have often talked about a future together, complete with a house, kids, etc. I am the breadwinner while he is working hard to achieve success as an artist. The role reversal suits us just fine except for one thing. I would like to become engaged, but I feel I can’t expect him to propose when I know he has very little money. Abby, should I propose to him? — Bread-winner in New York, N.Y.
Dear Breadwinner: I don’t see why not. It happens every day!
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Cigarette smoke exposure puts fetus in dangerDear Dr. Gott: My daughter
is about to have her first child. Both she and her husband smoke, which is of great con-cern to me. Is my future grand-child in any danger because of their tobacco habits?
Dear Reader: Yes, he or she is. Research has been ongo-ing for quite some time on this very subject. An asso-ciate professor of pediatrics affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital co-wrote a commentary that accompa-nied the research report.
Physicians, specifically obstetricians, have been advising pregnant women for years of the dangers of smok-ing to their unborn babies. A woman’s body does not act as a filter system protecting her fetus from the toxins in tobacco. The first trimester is most critical, but the consen-sus is that pregnant women should not smoke. The habit can cause low birth weight, and possibly aggressive and disruptive behavior. I say “possibly” because the jury is out on whether there is a connection.
Researchers did find that children whose fathers smoked were much more likely to be heavier at ages 7 and 11. There has always been a thought that a person who smokes will be thinner than one who doesn’t. Smoking may actually increase a per-son’s weight in the midsection and hips, and that trait is seen
in children exposed to tobacco smoke.
While your daughter carries a possible burden by smok-ing, the secondhand smoke from her husband is equally to blame. She inhales what he exhales. Her fetus falls right into line and can suffer the consequences. What isn’t often discussed is thirdhand smoking — that is, the smoke that enters her lungs and their baby’s lungs from couch cush-
ions, draperies, carpets, pil-lows, car seats and the like.
Kicking the habit is a diffi-cult one, but there is help for anyone willing to try. There is counseling, over-the-counter patches, medications and step-by-step instructions through the website www.Smoking-Cessation.org.
Circulation will improve, blood-pressure readings will return to normal, the senses of taste and smell will improve, and the simple act of breathing will be easier when a person quits. What’s most impor-tant is that the risk of cancer will decrease each hour, day, month and year the habit is kicked. That sounds like a good legacy to pass on to your grandchild.
Dear Dr. Gott: Sometimes when I have a bowel move-ment, my feces goes to the bottom of the toilet. At other times, it floats. Why the difference?
Dear Reader: “Floaters” have an increased level of air and gas, making them less dense. There’s also a con-nection with gastrointestinal infections causing buoyant feces. Diet enters the pic-ture here and makes a differ-ence that can vary the results from day to day. Overall, more people have “sinkers” than “floaters,” but don’t ask me who performed that survey!
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Dr. Wallace: I graduated from high school this spring and have a full-time job as a food server at an up-scale restaurant. I love my job and I’m also working with my best friend. She has been working here for two years and has helped me get this job. I’m living at home with my parents and a younger sister. Fi-nancially, it helps that I live at home, but I’m not sure it’s worth it. I’m at “odds” with both parents. I have told them that I am thinking about moving in with my friend at her parents’ home.
I’ve already been accepted, but I would have to pay for “room and board. Both of my parents said that they didn’t want me to leave home. I’d like your opinion, please. — Connie, Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.
Connie: Since your parents don’t want you to move, they must be willing to work things out with you so that you can stay and be happy. I don’t know the reasons for your animosity to-ward your parents, but an open and honest family discussion can help resolve the problems and misunderstandings.
After the family discussion, if you still don’t feel comfortable at home, move in with your girlfriend’s family, but be sure to stay in touch with your mother and father by telephone and drop-by visits.
It’s natural for teens to strive for independence after high school graduation, but it’s much better to leave home when the move is not caused by family friction.
•Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.
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SEALED BIDS for furnishingLandscaping Supplies;Asphalt will be received inthe office of the City Clerk ofthe City of Vicksburg,Mississippi until 9:00 o'clocka.m., Monday, August 16,2010. They will be publiclyopened and read aloud bythe Mayor and Aldermen ofthe City of Vicksburg in aRegular Board Meeting at10:00 o'clock a.m.,Monday, August 16, 2010.Bidders are cautioned thatthe City Clerk does notreceive the daily U.S. Mail onor before 9:00 a.m.Bids will be time-stampedupon receipt according toCity Clerk's time clock.Specifications and instruc-tions for bidding are on file inthe office of the City Clerk,second floor, City Hall, 1401Walnut Street, cornerCrawford and WalnutStreets, Vicksburg,Mississippi.The Mayor and Aldermen ofthe City of Vicksburgreserve the right to reject anyand all bids and to waiveinformalities./s/ Walter W. Osborne, Jr.Walter W. Osborne, Jr., CityClerkPublish: 7/28, 8/4(2t)
SEALED BIDS forfurnishing Police Uniforms;Fire Department Uniformswill be received in the officeof the City Clerk of the Cityof Vicksburg, Mississippiuntil 9:00 o'clock a.m.,Monday, August 16, 2010.They will be publicly openedand read aloud by the Mayorand Aldermen of the City ofVicksburg in a RegularBoard Meeting at 10:00o'clock a.m., Monday,August 16, 2010.Bidders are cautioned thatthe City Clerk does notreceive the daily U.S. Mail onor before 9:00 a.m. Bids willbe time-stamped uponreceipt according to CityClerk's time clock.Specifications andinstructions for bidding areon file in the office of the CityClerk, second floor, City Hall,1401 Walnut Street, cornerCrawford and WalnutStreets, Vicksburg,Mississippi.The Mayor and Aldermen ofthe City of Vicksburgreserve the right to reject anyand all bids and to waiveinformalities./s/ Walter W. Osborne, Jr.Walter W. Osborne, Jr., CityClerkPublish: 7/28, 8/4(2t)
NOTICEOFINTENTION TO DIVERTOR WITHDRAW FORBENEFICIAL USETHE PUBLIC WATERS OFTHE STATE OFMISSISSIPPINotice is hereby given thaton the 22nd day of July,2010, Melvin Hinson,300 Bell Bottom Road,Redwood, MS 39156, filedan application for a permit todivert or withdraw the publicwaters of the State ofMississippi for beneficial use,from the Mississippi RiverAlluvial aquifer, in the countyof Warren, for Wildlifemanagement purposes,subject to existing rights, thefollowing amount of water atthe indicated location:Application No.MS-GW-16753Volume: 264 AF/YRate: 410 GPMLocation: SE SW S1,T18N, R4EAny person, firm, associa-tion, or corporation, deemingthat the granting of the aboveapplications will be trulydetrimental to their rights toutilize the waters of saidsource, may protest inwriting to the Permit Board ofthe State of Mississippi, c/oLisa A May, PO Box 2309,Jackson, Mississippi39225-2309, setting forthall reasons why saidapplications should not beapproved. Letters of protestmust be received within ten(10) days of this publication.If not protested, the permitswill be issued on/after tendays following publicationdate.If protested, the applicationswill be taken for considera-tion by the Permit Board ofthe State of Mississippi in itsoffices at 515 East AmiteStreet, Jackson, Mississippi,on, or after, Tuesday, the14th day of September,2010, at which time allinterested persons may ap-pear and be heard by thePermit Board.OFFICE OF LAND ANDWATER RESOURCES/s/ Lisa A MayLisa A May, RPGPermitting Branch ChiefPublish: 8/4(1t)
IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIRONALD GLEN POWERSAND MARYELIZABETH POWERS,MOTHER ANDFATHER OFCHRISTOPHER CHASEPOWERS,DECEASED ANDCAMERONASHLEY POWERS,SISTER OFCHRISTOPHER CHASEPOWERS, DECEASEDPETITIONERSVS.ALL KNOWN ANDUNKOWN HEIRS-AT-LAWOF CHRISTOPHER CHASEPOWERS, DECEASEDDEFENDANTSNO. 2010-257GNSUMMONS BYPUBLICATIONSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WARRENTO: All Known and UnknownHeirs and Wrongful DeathBeneficiaries of ChristopherChase Powers, DeceasedNOTICE TO DEFENDANTYou have been made aDefendant in the Petition toDetermine Heirship and forOther Relief filed in thisCourt by Ronald GlenPowers, Mary Elizabeth
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Powers and Cameron AshleyPowers, Petitioners, seekingdetermination of any and allknown and unknown heirsand wrongful death benefi-ciaries of Christopher ChasePowers, Deceased. Defen-dants other than you in thisaction are: none.You are summoned to ap-pear and defend saidPetition 10:30 o'clock a.m.on the 8th of September,2010, in the Warren CountyCourthouse in Vicksburg,MIssissippi, and in case ofyour failure to appear anddefend a judgment will beentered as requested bythe Petitioner.You are not required to filean answer or other pleadingbut you may do so if youdesire.Issued under my hand andthe seal of said Court, thisthe 16th day of July, 2010.Dot McGee, Chancery ClerkWarren County, Mississippi(SEAL)BY: /s/ Denise Bailey, D.C.Publish: 7/21, 7/28, 8/4(3t)
ADVERTISEMENTFOR BIDSNOTICE TOCONTRACTORSSealed bids will be receivedby the Board of Supervisorsof Warren County,Mississippi, until 10:00 a.m.,local time, August 27, 2010at the Warren CountyCourthouse and shortlythereafter publicly opened forthe construction of stripingfor the following countyroads known as CountyProject No. 75(306), 2010WARREN COUNTYSTRIPING PROJECT:Jeff Davis RoadRedbone RoadNailor RoadGoodrum RoadIndiana AvenueOld Highway 27Culkin Road*And other Roads asdesignated, including, butnot limited to, BeechwoodRoad, Mallet Road andDana Road.Bidders must be qualifiedunder Mississippi State lawand possess a Certificate ofResponsibility issued by theMississippi State Board ofPublic Contractors.The contract time for thework included in this contractis thirty (30) Calendar days.The Contract will be subjectto liquidated damages of twohundred dollars ($200.00)per calendar day for eachday in default after thestipulated completion date.The contract time will beginon the date specified in thewritten Notice to Proceed.Plans, specifications, andcontract documents are onfile and open to publicinspection at the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty. One (1) copy of thePlans, Specifications, andContract Documents may beprocured upon payment of$100.00 (by check madepayable to John E. McKee,Jr., Warren CountyEngineer) from John E.McKee, Jr., Warren CountyEngineer, 901 JacksonStreet, Vicksburg,Mississippi 39180. Thepayment is non-refundable.Each bidder must depositwith his proposal a Bid Bondor Certified Check in anamount equal to five percent(5%) of the total bid payableto Warren County as bidsecurity. The successfulbidder shall furnish aPerformance Bond and aPayment Bond each in theamount of 100% of thecontract amount awarded.Bidders shall also submit acurrent financial statementif requested by WarrenCounty.Attorneys-in-fact who signBid Bonds or PaymentBonds and PerformanceBonds must file with eachbond a certified and effectivedated copy of their power ofattorney.Proposals shall be submittedin duplicate, sealed anddeposited, with WarrenCounty prior to the hour anddate above designated.Each bidder shall write hisCertificate of Responsibilitynumber on the outside of thesealed envelope containinghis proposal. For bids lessthan $50,000, a Certificate ofResponsibility number is notrequired. Bidder shall note
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ADVERTISEMENTFOR BIDSNOTICE TOCONTRACTORSSealed bids will be receivedby the Board of Supervisorsof Warren County,Mississippi, until 10:00 a.m.,local time, August 27, 2010at the Warren CountyCourthouse and shortlythereafter publicly opened forthe construction of, baserepair, and asphalt overlayfor the following countyroads known as CountyProject No. 75(305), 2010Warren County PavingProject:Old Jackson RoadNewmans RoadColumbus RoadBlossom LaneRedbud CircleCottonwood PlaceKirkland Road*And other Roads asdesignated, including, butnot limited to, Poole Road,Freeman Road, CarverDrive, Judson Circle,Tiffintown Road andNailor Road.Bidders must be qualifiedunder Mississippi State lawand possess a Certificate ofResponsibility issued by theMississippi State Board ofPublic Contractors.The contract time for thework included in this contractis ninety (90) Calendar days.The Contract will be subjectto liquidated damages ofthree hundred dollars($300.00) per calendar dayfor each day in default afterthe stipulated completiondate. The contract time willbegin on the date specifiedin the written Notice toProceed.Plans, specifications, andcontract documents are onfile and open to publicinspection at the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty. One (1) copy of thePlans, Specifications, andContract Documents may beprocured upon payment of$100.00 (by check madepayable to John E. McKee,Jr., Warren CountyEngineer) from John E.McKee, Jr., Warren CountyEngineer, 901 JacksonStreet, Vicksburg,Mississippi 39180. Thepayment is non-refundable.Each bidder must depositwith his proposal a Bid Bondor Certified Check in anamount equal to five percent(5%) of the total bid payableto Warren County as bidsecurity. The successfulbidder shall furnish aPerformance Bond and aPayment Bond each in theamount of 100% of thecontract amount awarded.Bidders shall also submit acurrent financial statement ifrequested by WarrenCounty.Attorneys-in-fact who signBid Bonds or PaymentBonds and PerformanceBonds must file with eachbond a certified and effectivedated copy of their power ofattorney.Proposals shall be submittedin duplicate, sealed anddeposited, with WarrenCounty prior to the hour anddate above designated.Each bidder shall write hisCertificate of Responsibilitynumber on the outside of thesealed envelope containinghis proposal. For bids lessthan $50,000, a Certificate ofResponsibility number is notrequired. Bidder shall noteon the outside of the enve-lope containing the bid thatthe ibid is less than $50,000,CR No. not required._______________________Richard George, PresidentWarren County Board ofSupervisorsPublish: 7/28, 8/4(2t)
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Shaq talking dealwith Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics are making progress on a deal that would bring Shaquille O’Neal to the defend-ing Eastern Conference champions, a person with knowledge of the negotia-tions told The Associated Press.
The person spoke with the AP on the condition of anonymity because the deal was not yet final.
Earlier Tuesday, the four-time NBA champion said he will be in the league next season and would rather retire than play in-ternationally.
The 38-year-old O’Neal spent last season with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He won three NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers and another with the Miami Heat.
But he has struggled to find a contract from a team that can guarantee him playing time, enough money and a chance for one more championship. He has all-but ruled out joining LeBron James in Miami or a return to Or-lando, where he began his career in 1992.
The Celtics have also signed Jermaine O’Neal.
By Barry WilnerAP football writer
The joke going around Tuesday after the latest round of will-he-or-won’t-he with Brett Favre was that the three-time MVP should open a Waffle House in his home-town of Kiln.
Favre sure has waffled on the decision before, and it’s difficult to believe his latest “see ya” will stick.
A source with knowledge of the situation has told The Associated Press that the NFL’s most prolific passer is citing his injured left ankle as the reason he won’t return for a second season with Min-nesota. But the Vikings aren’t taking his latest pronounce-ment as gospel, even after Favre texted some players to explain why he is MIA and won’t BRB during a training camp that is in full swing.
Coach Brad Childress, who not only orchestrated the Vikings’ acquisition of Favre last year but picked up his new/old quarterback at the airport, wasn’t fully swallow-ing this news.
“I gotta hear it from the horse’s mouth,” Childress said.
The old warhorse — Favre is 40 — has used the retire-ment gambit often enough that there are as many doubters today as there are folks wearing purple No. 4 jerseys in Minnesota.
“I don’t know. It’s like believing in Santa Claus,” former teammate Nick Bar-nett of the Packers said. “You get gifts, but you ain’t seen Santa Claus. So we don’t know whether it’s true or not. We’ll see what happens.”
Dolphins coach Tony Sparano was just as skeptical.
“Well, I’ll believe it when the season starts and he’s ...
State SchoolS face QB BattleS
By Chris TalbottThe Associated Press
In the state that spawned Brett Favre, Steve McNair and Archie Manning, thoughts quickly turn to quarterbacks when college football season nears.
And in Mississippi this year, there’s plenty of reason to focus on the signal callers at the Mag-nolia State’s three Football Bowl Subdivision schools.
From Houston Nutt’s last-minute decision to invite former Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli to Ole Miss to steep competition at Mis-sissippi State and Southern Miss, quarterbacks should dominate the headlines this August.
Masoli’s surprise entry into the discussion came after the Rebels lost Raymond Cotton, who decided to transfer just two weeks before preseason practice begins. The move started a scramble in Oxford that ended when Masoli announced on his website he is joining the Rebels.
Nutt can’t talk about Masoli under NCAA rules until he practices, but the coach acknowledged he was in a bind after Cotton decided to go to South Alabama instead of competing for the starting job with Nate Stanley and junior college transfer Ran-dall Mackey.
“Usually when you’re recruiting in July and August there’s a problem,” Nutt said.
Stanley, a redshirt sopho-more, was expected to be the starter thanks to Jevan Snead’s departure to the NFL a year early — with Cotton has been pushing
him. Mackey has the skills to be
Nutt’s Wild Rebel quarterback, but with no official practices yet, coaches aren’t sure if he’ll be ready to contrib-ute this year.
The prospect of having two inexperienced quarterbacks wasn’t a pleasant one.
“It’s nerve-racking because you can’t scrimmage the two in preseason,” Nutt said. “You can’t take that chance.”
How Masoli will fit in at Ole Miss remains to be seen. He was available because Oregon coach Chip Kelly kicked him off the team fol-lowing two brushes with the law in six months. Can he stay out of trouble at Ole Miss? Can he contribute with just a month to learn the offense?
Masoli can play right away under NCAA rules and he seems a perfect fit for Nutt’s Wild Rebel offense. And he has an advantage over the competition because of both
experience and success. The 5-foot-11, 220-pound quarter-back last season led Oregon to its first Pac-10 title since 2001 and first Rose Bowl appear-ance since 1995.
Stanley, a dropback passer,
doesn’t have the experience of Masoli with just limited action last season, includ-ing a brief time on the field in the Cotton Bowl while Snead was
shaking off a hard hit. But Nutt showed there was room for both styles and more than one signal caller in his offense the last two seasons
at Ole Miss.The Rebels will start finding out what their future
Signal caller derby time
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St Aloysius football players lift weights before football prac-tice Tuesday.
The Flashes will be a nearly new team on the field this upcoming season. They lost their quarterback, Regan Nosser, their leading rushers, Brendan Beesley and Ryno Martin-Nez and their leading receiver, Luke Burnett.
But coach B.J. Smithhart has reasons for optimism as the Flashes continue camp in preparation for their Aug. 20 opener against Pelahatchie.
The Flashes are entering their second week of two-a-days, and the impact is start-ing to weigh on the team.
“We had a week of it last week,” Smithhart said. “They know what to expect, but they’re starting to get heavy
legs. The freshmen, they’re still learning. But I’m pretty pleased with the effort and that’s all you can ask for.”
With such a young team, fundamentals have been key. After last week’s drills cen-tered primarily on condition-ing, the Flashes are begin-ning to install bits and pieces of the offense.
“We’re getting back to basics,” Smithhart said. “We’ve been installing a run (play) a day and a pass here and there. We don’t have everything installed, but I think after our jamboree, we should everything installed except for a wrinkle here and there.”
For the third year in a row, the Flashes will have a senior under center. Ford
Biedenharn is taking the reins after holding off sev-eral other candidates, led by Carlisle Koestler and Judson Gatling, to entrench himself at quarterback.
Biedenharn played cover corner last season for the Flashes.
“Ford is way ahead of them right now,” Smithhart said. “He went through the spring, he’s older and until the other guys learn the offense, Ford is pretty far ahead. They’ve got a lot of growing to be the man back there. He’s (Bie-denharn) getting pushed, but he’s more comfortable.”
As for the heat in the triple digits, the Flashes can do little in two-a-days to beat it except avoid practice during the heat of the day.
“There’s really no beating
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Ole Miss quarter-back Nathan Stanley
passes during Grove Bowl last spring.
Southern Miss quarter-back Austin Davis pre-
pares to pass in the first quarter against Central
Florida last season.
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Today’s GamesToronto (Marcum 10-4) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 12-4), 12:05 p.m.Kansas City (O’Sullivan 1-1) at Oakland (Bre.Anderson 2-2), 2:35 p.m.Chicago White Sox (E.Jackson 0-0) at Detroit (Galarraga 3-3), 6:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (E.Santana 10-7) at Baltimore (Matusz 3-11), 6:05 p.m.Cleveland (Masterson 3-10) at Boston (Lester 11-6), 6:10 p.m.Minnesota (S.Baker 9-9) at Tampa Bay (Price 14-5), 6:10 p.m.Texas (C.Wilson 10-5) at Seattle (Fister 3-7), 9:10 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesMinnesota (Slowey 10-5) at Tampa Bay (W.Davis 9-9), 11:10 a.m.Chicago White Sox (F.Garcia 10-4) at Detroit (Scherzer 7-8), 12:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Haren 0-2) at Baltimore (Arrieta 3-3), 6:05 p.m.Cleveland (Tomlin 1-0) at Boston (Matsuzaka 7-3), 6:10 p.m.Texas (Tom.Hunter 8-1) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 7-8), 9:10 p.m.
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Today’s GamesCincinnati (Cueto 10-2) at Pittsburgh (Karstens 2-6), 12:35 p.m.Milwaukee (M.Parra 3-8) at Chicago Cubs (Demp-ster 8-8), 2:20 p.m.San Francisco (Bumgarner 4-3) at Colorado (Jime-nez 16-2), 2:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 10-5) at Atlanta (Medlen 6-2), 6:10 p.m.Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 6-4) at Florida (Ani.San-chez 8-6), 6:10 p.m.Houston (Happ 2-0) at St. Louis (C.Carpenter 11-3), 8:15 p.m.Washington (Stammen 3-4) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 6-8), 9:40 p.m.San Diego (LeBlanc 5-9) at L.A. Dodgers (Padilla 4-3), 9:10 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesColorado (Francis 4-3) at Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 0-1), 6:05 p.m.Philadelphia (Oswalt 6-13) at Florida (Volstad 5-8), 6:10 p.m.San Francisco (Lincecum 11-4) at Atlanta (Jurrjens 3-4), 6:10 p.m.Washington (Detwiler 0-1) at Arizona (Enright 2-2), 9:40 p.m.San Diego (Correia 7-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Billings-ley 9-5), 9:10 p.m.
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P.Feliz 1b 6 2 3 2 YMolin c 3 0 0 0CJhnsn 3b 3 2 2 3 LaRue c 1 0 0 0Blum ph-3b 2 1 2 1 JGarci p 2 0 0 0JaCastr c 5 3 2 0 Boggs p 0 0 0 0Norris p 2 1 1 0 DReyes p 1 0 0 0Wallac ph 1 0 1 1 MacDgl p 0 0 0 0Byrdak p 1 0 0 0 Winn rf 1 0 0 0Fulchin p 0 0 0 0 B.Ryan ss 4 0 2 0GChacn p 0 0 0 0 Totals 45 18 22 17 Totals 37 4 11 4Houston ............... 051 004 440 — 18St. Louis .............. 100 201 000 — 4E—Miles (3). DP—Houston 1, St. Louis 1. LOB—Houston 8, St. Louis 8. 2B—Bourgeois (3), Ang.Sanchez (5), Ca.Lee (17), C.Johnson (11). 3B—Ang.Sanchez (2). HR—Rasmus (18), Holliday (21). S—Norris. SF—Pence, C.Johnson. IP H R ER BB SO HoustonNorris W,4-7 6 7 4 4 1 6Byrdak 1 1 0 0 0 1Fulchino 1 1 0 0 1 2G.Chacin 1 2 0 0 0 0 St. LouisJ.Garcia L,9-5 5 10 8 4 0 3Boggs 1 4 5 5 2 0D.Reyes 1 4 3 3 1 0MacDougal 1 3 2 2 2 2Miles 1 1 0 0 0 0J.Garcia pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.Boggs pitched to 3 batters in the 7th.D.Reyes pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.WP—J.Garcia. PB—LaRue.
mAJOR lEAGUE lEADERSAMERICAN LEAGUE
G AB R H Pct.Hamilton Tex ................. 102 402 69 144 .358MiCabrera Det ............... 103 382 74 132 .346Morneau Min .................. 81 296 53 102 .345ABeltre Bos ................... 103 397 55 133 .335DelmYoung Min ............. 100 361 51 119 .330Cano NYY ..................... 105 411 74 134 .326Mauer Min ...................... 92 352 60 112 .318DeJesus KC ................... 91 352 46 112 .318Butler KC ....................... 105 397 51 123 .310AJackson Det ................. 96 393 63 122 .310
BATTING—Hamilton, Texas, .358; MiCabrera, Detroit, .346; Morneau, Minnesota, .345; ABeltre, Boston, .335; DelmYoung, Minnesota, .330; Cano, New York, .326; Mauer, Minnesota, .318; DeJesus, Kansas City, .318.RUNS—Teixeira, New York, 79; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 78; Youkilis, Boston, 77; Jeter, New York, 75; MiCabrera, Detroit, 74; Cano, New York, 74; MYoung, Texas, 72.RBI—MiCabrera, Detroit, 93; Guerrero, Texas, 85; ARodriguez, New York, 85; JBautista, Toronto, 84; DelmYoung, Minnesota, 81; Teixeira, New York, 78; Hamilton, Texas, 75.HITS—Hamilton, Texas, 144; ISuzuki, Seattle, 136; Cano, New York, 134; ABeltre, Boston, 133; MiCabrera, Detroit, 132; MYoung, Texas, 129; Scutaro, Boston, 124.DOUBLES—MiCabrera, Detroit, 36; Markakis, Baltimore, 35; Hamilton, Texas, 34; Mauer, Minne-sota, 34; VWells, Toronto, 34; DelmYoung, Minne-sota, 32; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 31.TRIPLES—Crawford, Tampa Bay, 7; AJackson, Detroit, 7; Span, Minnesota, 7; Pennington, Oak-land, 6; Podsednik, Kansas City, 6; Granderson, New York, 5; FLewis, Toronto, 5; EPatterson, Boston, 5; Youkilis, Boston, 5.HOME RUNS—JBautista, Toronto, 33; MiCabrera, Detroit, 26; Konerko, Chicago, 26; Hamilton, Texas, 23; CPena, Tampa Bay, 23; Teixeira, New York, 23; DOrtiz, Boston, 22; Swisher, New York, 22; VWells, Toronto, 22.STOLEN BASES—Pierre, Chicago, 40; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 38; RDavis, Oakland, 32; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 31; Gardner, New York, 30; Podsed-nik, Kansas City, 30; Andrus, Texas, 27; Figgins, Seattle, 27.PITCHING—Price, Tampa Bay, 14-5; Sabathia, New York, 13-5; Pavano, Minnesota, 13-7; PHughes, New York, 12-4; Verlander, Detroit, 12-6; 7 tied at 11.STRIKEOUTS—JerWeaver, Los Angeles, 162; Lester, Boston, 150; Liriano, Minnesota, 150; FHernandez, Seattle, 149; Verlander, Detroit, 138; CLewis, Texas, 134; Morrow, Toronto, 134.SAVES—RSoriano, Tampa Bay, 31; Soria, Kansas City, 30; NFeliz, Texas, 29; Papelbon, Boston, 25; Gregg, Toronto, 24; Jenks, Chicago, 22; MRivera, New York, 22.
NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R H Pct.Votto Cin ....................... 100 370 74 119 .322CGonzalez Col ............... 94 391 68 124 .317Byrd ChC ....................... 104 389 58 123 .316Polanco Phi .................... 79 339 51 107 .316Furcal LAD ..................... 76 307 57 97 .316Prado Atl ....................... 101 438 75 138 .315Pagan NYM .................... 99 370 58 115 .311AHuff SF ........................ 104 374 69 116 .310Pujols StL ...................... 106 398 66 120 .302Rolen Cin ....................... 87 313 48 94 .300
BATTING—Votto, Cincinnati, .322; CGonzalez, Colorado, .317; Byrd, Chicago, .316; Polanco, Philadelphia, .316; Furcal, Los Angeles, .316; Prado, Atlanta, .315; Pagan, New York, .311.RUNS—BPhillips, Cincinnati, 79; Prado, Atlanta, 75; Weeks, Milwaukee, 75; Uggla, Florida, 74; Votto, Cincinnati, 74; AHuff, San Francisco, 69; CGonzalez, Colorado, 68.RBI—Howard, Philadelphia, 81; DWright, New York, 77; Pujols, St. Louis, 75; Hart, Milwaukee, 73; Votto, Cincinnati, 72; AdLaRoche, Arizona, 70; Weeks, Milwaukee, 70.HITS—Prado, Atlanta, 138; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 128; CGonzalez, Colorado, 124; Byrd, Chicago, 123; Braun, Milwaukee, 122; Pujols, St. Louis, 120; Weeks, Milwaukee, 120.DOUBLES—Werth, Philadelphia, 36; Torres, San Francisco, 33; Byrd, Chicago, 29; BPhillips, Cincin-nati, 29; Prado, Atlanta, 29; ADunn, Washington, 28; Loney, Los Angeles, 28; DWright, New York, 28.TRIPLES—Victorino, Philadelphia, 8; SDrew, Arizona, 7; AEscobar, Milwaukee, 7; Fowler, Colo-rado, 7; Pagan, New York, 7; Bay, New York, 6; Morgan, Washington, 6; JosReyes, New York, 6.HOME RUNS—Votto, Cincinnati, 27; ADunn, Washington, 26; Pujols, St. Louis, 26; Reynolds, Arizona, 25; Fielder, Milwaukee, 24; Uggla, Florida, 24; Hart, Milwaukee, 23; Howard, Philadelphia, 23.STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Houston, 33; Morgan, Washington, 29; Pagan, New York, 24; CYoung, Arizona, 22; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 21; HRamir-ez, Florida, 21; JosReyes, New York, 20; Victorino, Philadelphia, 20.PITCHING—Jimenez, Colorado, 16-2; Wain-wright, St. Louis, 15-6; Halladay, Philadelphia, 13-8; THudson, Atlanta, 12-5; Nolasco, Florida, 12-7; CCarpenter, St. Louis, 11-3; Lincecum, San Francisco, 11-4; Latos, San Diego, 11-5; Arroyo, Cincinnati, 11-6.STRIKEOUTS—Halladay, Philadelphia, 158; Lincecum, San Francisco, 152; JoJohnson, Florida, 151; Wainwright, St. Louis, 147; Kershaw, Los
Angeles, 144; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 142; Haren, Arizona, 141.SAVES—BrWilson, San Francisco, 31; HBell, San Diego, 30; FCordero, Cincinnati, 29; Capps, Wash-ington, 26; Nunez, Florida, 26; Wagner, Atlanta, 25; FRodriguez, New York, 23.
mINOR lEAGUE bASEbAllSouthern leagueNorth Division
Today’s GamesBirmingham at Jacksonville, 12:05 p.m.Carolina at Huntsville, 7 p.m.Mobile at Mississippi, 7:05 p.m.Tennessee at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m.West Tenn at Chattanooga, 7:15 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesCarolina at Huntsville, 7 p.m.Birmingham at Jacksonville, 7:05 p.m.Mobile at Mississippi, 7:05 p.m.Tennessee at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m.West Tenn at Chattanooga, 7:15 p.m.
Nfl2010 New Orleans Saints schedule
Date Opponent Time/TVSept. 9...............Minnesota ............. 7:30 p.m. NBCSept. 20 ............ at San Francisco 7:30 p.m. ESPNSept. 26.............Atlanta ............................Noon FoxOct. 3...............Carolina ...........................Noon FoxOct. 10...............at Arizona ...............3:05 p.m. FoxOct. 17...............at Tampa Bay ...............Noon FoxOct. 24...............Cleveland ..................... Noon CBSOct. 31...............Pittsburgh ............. 7:20 p.m. NBCNov. 7...............at Carolina ......................Noon FoxNov. 14...............BYE Nov. 21...............Seattle ...........................Noon FoxNov. 25...............at Dallas .....................3 p.m. FoxDec. 5...............at Cincinnati ....................Noon FoxDec. 12...............St. Louis .......................Noon FoxDec. 19...............at Baltimore ..................Noon FoxDec. 27...............at Atlanta ........... 7:30 p.m. ESPNJan. 2...............Tampa Bay ......................Noon Fox
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2010 Nfl Preseason ScheduleSaturday
Cincinnati vs. Dallas, 7 p.m. (NBC)Week 1Aug. 12
New Orleans at New England, 6:30 p.m.Carolina at Baltimore, 7 p.m. (ESPN)Oakland at Dallas, 8 p.m.
Aug. 13Buffalo at Washington, 6:30 p.m.Jacksonville at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.Kansas City at Atlanta, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 14Tampa Bay at Miami, 6 p.m.Detroit at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.Cleveland at Green Bay, 7 p.m.Houston at Arizona, 7 p.m.Minnesota at St. Louis, 7 p.m.Chicago at San Diego, 8 p.m.Tennessee at Seattle, 9 p.m.
Driving Distance1, Robert Garrigus, 318.2. 2, Bubba Watson, 306.7. 3, Dustin Johnson, 306.6. 4, Graham DeLaet, 306.3. 5, J.B. Holmes, 305.5. 6, Angel Cabrera, 304.6. 7, John Daly, 304.2. 8, Charles Warren, 301.9. 9, Phil Mickelson, 300.5. 10, Aaron Baddeley, 299.0.
Driving Accuracy Percentage1, Omar Uresti, 75.76%. 2, Joe Durant, 74.26%. 3, Brian Gay, 73.91%. 4, Tim Clark, 73.15%. 5, Craig Bowden, 71.95%. 6, Heath Slocum, 71.43%. 7, Zach Johnson, 71.04%. 8, Justin Leonard, 70.73%. 9, Jim Furyk, 70.60%. 10, 2 tied with 70.55%.
PGA Tour FedExCup LeadersThrough Aug. 1
Rank Name Pts 1. Ernie Els 1,751 2. Steve Stricker .....................1,575 3. Jim Furyk ............................1,545 4. Justin Rose .........................1,542 5. Phil Mickelson ....................1,541 6. Jeff Overton ........................1,436 7. Tim Clark ............................1,370 8. Matt Kuchar ........................1,286 9. Ben Crane ..........................1,265 10. Anthony Kim .....................1,215
BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL7 p.m. ESPN2 - World Series, championship gameMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL6 p.m. ESPN - Chicago White Sox at Detroit
COllEGE fOOTbAllHornsby pleads guilty in simple assault case
STARKVILLE — Former Ole Miss football signee Jamar Hornsby and two others have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor simple assault in a 2009 attack on a man at a McDon-ald’s restaurant in Starkville.
The three — Hornsby, Dar-rell Cartez Simmons and Robert Nelson Jordan — entered the pleas Monday in Oktibbeha County Cir-cuit Court.
The Starkville Daily News reported that Circuit Judge Jim Kitchens sentenced each of them to six months in jail, fined each $200 and ordered each of them to pay $2,362 to the victim for his medical bills.
LSU football players report to camp today
BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU foot-ball players report to campus today for preseason camp, with the first practice Thursday morning for veterans.
Freshmen and selected veterans will practice Thursday afternoon — the first of three days of split-squad workouts. The first full-squad prac-tice will be Sunday. LSU returns 12 starters — six on offense, four on defense, and two on special teams — and 42 letter winners from the 2009 squad that posted a 9-4 over-all record and played in the Capital One Bowl on New Year’s Day.
NflNo conditioning test for Redskins’ Haynesworth
ASHBURN, Va. — On the seventh day, Albert Haynesworth rested again.
The fitness of the Washing-ton Redskins defensive lineman remains unresolved one week into training camp. Haynesworth did not attempt the team’s condition-ing test Wednesday morning for the second straight day.
The Redskins say Haynesworth won’t be allowed to practice until he passes the test. He’s been ham-pered in recent days by a sore left knee and isn’t expected to try the test again until the problem subsides.
bASEbAllCardinals third basemanFreese out for season
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Cardinals rookie third baseman David Freese will miss the rest of the season with a tendon injury in his right leg that will require surgery. Freese was hurt rounding third base in his first rehab game for Double-A Spring-field on Monday night.
Aug. 41982 — Joel Youngblood becomes
the only player in major league his-tory to play and get hits for two dif-ferent teams in two different cities on the same day. In the afternoon, his hit drives in the winning run for the New York Mets in a 7-4 victory at Chicago. After the game, he’s traded to the Montreal Expos and plays that night in Philadelphia. He enters the game in right field in the fourth inning and later gets a single.
1985 — Tom Seaver, 40, becomes the 17th 300-game winner in major league history with a six-hitter — all singles — as the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 4-1.
1996 — The Atlanta Olympic Games end with U.S. boxer David Reid’s stunning gold-medal knock-out, and the women Dream Team’s romp over Brazil. Reid captures America’s only boxing gold, knock-ing down Cuban Alfredo Duver-gel, while the U.S. women roll to a 111-87 victory behind Lisa Leslie’s 29 points. A record 11,000 athletes from 197 countries make it the big-gest Olympics.
2007 — Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees becomes the young-est player in major league history to hit 500 home runs.
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Detroit Lions sign draft pick Ndamukong SuhDETROIT (AP) — The
Detroit Lions’ wait to get Nda-mukong Suh signed and on the field is almost over.
Suh and the Lions agreed to terms on a five-year contract worth $40 million guaranteed and as much as $68 million, a person familiar with the nego-tiations told The Associated Press.
The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were con-fidential, said both sides were working on the language of the deal Tuesday night.
Suh was scheduled to fly from Nebraska to Michigan on
Wednesday morning to sign his contract and practice with the Lions during the after-noon, according to a person familiar with his itinerary. The person spoke on the con-dition of anonymity because both sides were not publicly discussing Suh’s plans.
Detroit drafted the former Nebraska defensive tackle with the No. 2 pick over-all in the NFL draft, hoping he would bolster a defense that has ranked among the league’s all-time worst in
points allowed the past two seasons. The Lions won two games last year after becom-ing the first team in league history to go 0-16.
Suh didn’t report to train-ing camp with his teammates Friday night and missed four days of practice.
Detroit coach Jim Schwartz said Monday he was disap-pointed Suh lost some oppor-tunities in training camp that were gone forever. The next day, center Dominic Raiola told reporters Suh should tell his agents to make a deal.
Suh’s holdout was half as long as Calvin Johnson’s in
2007.The 6-foot-4 Suh, whose
weight hovers around 300 pounds, was the first defen-sive player to win The Asso-ciated Press College Football Player of the Year award since its inception in 1998 and was a Heisman Trophy finalist. His breakout game was a 41⁄2-sack performance against Texas in the Big 12 title game. He fin-ished with 12 sacks.
Suh was the first defensive tackle to be drafted among the top two picks since Oakland took Darrell Russell in 1997.
M-Braves fall flat vs.BayBears at TrustmarkFrom staff reports
The Mobile BayBears rode a three-run second inning to a 4-1 victory over the Missis-sippi Braves at Trustmark Park on Tuesday.
Erik Cordier (9-7) took the loss, yielding eight hits and three runs, all earned, in five innings of work. After pitching out of a runners on second and third with no outs situation in the top of the first, Cordier fal-tered in the second.
Bryan Byrne doubled on a fly ball and Cordier hit Taylor Harbin to put two on.
Ed Easley singled to load the bases. Jake Wald’s sacrifice fly scored Byrne. Evan Frey singled up the middle to score Harbin and Easley to give the BayBears a 3-0 lead.
The M-Braves replied in the fourth, as Eric Duncan led off the frame with a double. One batter later, Michael Daniel drew a one-out walk and Donell Linares cashed in, driv-ing in Duncan with a single. But it’d be all the runs the M-Braves could manage
Wade Miley (4-1) earned the win for the BayBears, scatter-ing four hits in five innings.
Francoeur’s big swing sinks BravesATLANTA (AP) — The last
two seasons have been a drag for Jeff Francoeur.
For one night, Atlanta’s former hometown star was able to relish a big moment.
“That was the best swing I’ve had in a long time,” he said. “Most of the time, I can keep my emotions in check, but I had to let out a little smile on that one.”
Francoeur hit a go-ahead solo home run in the ninth inning off Braves closer Billy Wagner and the New York Mets snapped a two-game losing streak with a 3-2 vic-tory over Atlanta on Tuesday night.
The Braves have lost three of four and now lead sec-ond-place Philadelphia, a 6-1 winner at Florida, by two games in the NL East. Atlan-ta’s 35-14 record at home, where they had won 25-of-32, leads the majors.
Fourth-place New York avoided falling under .500 for the first time since May 23.
Francoeur, who was traded by Atlanta to the Mets last year, is hitting .125 in 40 at-bats since the All-Star break. The homer was his 10th.
Growing up in Atlanta, Francoeur was a standout at nearby Parkview High School and was drafted by the Braves in the first round of 2002.
He made a national splash as a rookie and was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated before the Braves grew tired of his free-swinging approach at the plate and dealt him to the Mets on July 10, 2009.
Francoeur has recently been mentioned in trade specula-tion with New York.
“It’s been a tough 31⁄2 weeks,” Francoeur said. “To do some-
thing right to help the team out felt really good. I know this team needs me to step up.”
Reliever Manny Acosta (2-1) earned the win after allowing one hit and three walks in 1 2-3 innings.
Mets closer Francisco Rodri-guez pitched a scoreless ninth to earn his 23rd save in 28 chances.
Wagner (5-2) gave up one hit and one run with one strike-out. The left-hander had earned three straight saves after blowing his previous two chances July 21 and 23.
Francoeur used an inside-out swing on a fastball that landed in the right-field seats.
“I made a good pitch. He hit it,” Wagner said. “I mean it was a really, really, really good pitch. If anything, I’m mad because I threw it so good, on the black. It’s going to come down to a big hit, and that’s
exactly what happened.”Melky Cabrera drove in
Atlanta’s first two runs with an RBI fielder’s choice grounder in the second and a RBI triple in the sixth.
Reliever Kyle Farnsworth, pitching in his first game since the Braves acquired him in a deadline deal with Kansas City, spoiled Derek Lowe’s chance to win for just the second time in eight starts.
Farnsworth blew a 2-1 lead when Francoeur walked on four pitches, moved to second on Luis Castillo’s sacrifice bunt and scored on Chris Cart-er’s pinch-hit RBI single.
The Mets are 6-16 in their last 22 road games.
“For Carter to come off the bench and get a big hit for us, that was huge,” New York manager Jerry Manuel said. “Hopefully, this will be the beginning of something big.”
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somewhere out there in (Mis-sissippi). All I know is we’re going to Minnesota in Week 2, so I’m hoping (he’s retired).
“We’ll see,” a chuckling Sparano added.
And Jaguars safety Gerald Alexander even tweeted his skepticism:
“Favre’s coming back people cmon don’t believe the hype.”
All along, most people have dismissed retirement talk, figuring the past is indeed prologue with Favre. He gave it up after the 2007 season and left the Packers in March 2008. By June, he was itch-ing to play again, and when the Packers said the job Favre held for every game from 1992-2007 belonged to Aaron Rodgers, he was only reinstated to their active roster by order of the NFL in August.
A few days later, he was traded to the Jets.
Favre’s Meadowlands career lasted through one 9-7 season during which he had right arm problems as the Jets were dropping four of their last five games. Five weeks after that season, he said his shoulder was too sore to keep playing and he waved goodbye to the Big Apple.
By May, he was talking with the Vikings about another return, only to announce in late July that was staying put on the farm.
“It was the hardest deci-sion I’ve ever made,” Favre said then. “I didn’t feel like physically I could play at a level that was acceptable. I would like to thank every-one, including the Packers, Jets and Vikings — but, most importantly, the fans.”
Three weeks later, Favre signed with the Vikings.
If, at age 39, his shoulder healed enough for him to come back and lead Min-nesota to a 12-4 record, a division title and nearly to a Super Bowl berth after he turned 40, why can’t the ankle come around, as well? Who’s to say once training camp breaks on Aug. 12, or after the Vikings’ second exhibition game 10 days later, that Favre won’t add another No. 4 to his resumé — a fourth unretirement?
“Nah, I’m not buying it all, man,” Cowboys receiver Pat-rick Crayton said. “They’ve still got, what, a month left in training camp? Give him about a week and a half, he’ll change his mind.
“Is that big news? It’s every year. It’s like Groundhog Day with him, isn’t it?”
the heat,” Smithhart said. “Just taking a lot of water breaks, practicing at 6 in the morning and 6 in the evening and try to cool down things that away. You’ve got to get acclimated to it.”
One sad note and key loss for the Flashes this season will be the blocking of Hunter Matherne, who was injured against Mt. Olive last year with a broken vertabrae in his back. While he won’t be returning, his presence has been a key morale boost for what promises to be a very young squad.
“He’s tried to come back,” Smithhart said. “He’s been at every practice, every work-out, encouraging everybody. I know it’s hard on him, being it’s his senior year. He’s still a part of this team.”
looks like Wednesday when Masoli says he’ll return to Oxford to start conditioning workouts. The Rebels report this weekend. The competi-tion is already under way at Mississippi State and South-ern Miss with both teams starting practice Tuesday.
In Starkville, Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen declares the competition wide open. He’s got essen-tially two real contenders and a newcomer with a last name that keeps you from ruling anything out.
Chris Relf is expected to be the starter after an up-and-down season that ended with the 6-foot-3, 230-pounder run-ning all over Ole Miss in a 41-27 Egg Bowl victory.
That game was a peek at what the possibilities could be. Relf rushed for 131 yards and one touchdown, and completed two TD passes.
Not a bad game to mark as a breakout moment, but don’t make the mistake of calling it a dominant perfor-mance. Mullen — the offen-sive coordinator at Florida for three of Tim Tebow’s four seasons — will quickly refute that description with some heady numbers.
“I’ve had some quarter-backs dominate a game
before,” Mullen said. “Domi-nating a game would be Josh Harris (at Bowling Green) dominated a game against Northwestern when he had 490 yards of total offense. Tebow against South Caro-lina accounted for seven touchdowns in one game. Those are dominating per-formances. I thought Chris played solidly, and how he played in that game to me that’s the base expectation level of what we expect from the quarterback.”
Mullen says Relf has taken up the challenge in the off-season, and that he is a better passer, a better leader and has done the work it takes to be the starter. But he’s still got to outperform his challengers in preseason camp. He’ll be competing against redshirt freshman Tyler Russell, a dropback passer with an impressive high school resumé. Mullen says Russell is ready to com-pete for the job after watch-ing from the sidelines for a season. And don’t forget Dylan Favre, Brett Favre’s nephew. He’s a longshot, but he rewrote the Mississippi high school record book has shown he’s a lot like his uncle when it comes to meeting challenges.
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Atlanta Braves shortstop Alex Gonzalez avoids a sliding New York Mets infielder Angel Pagan as he turns a double play on a Carlos Beltran ground ball Tuesday.
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Mississippi State quarterback Chris Relf avoids a sack by Ole Miss cornerback Cassius Vaughn last season.
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Clear Creek Senior Men’s golf Shamble
The Clear Creek Senior Men’s Golf Association will host a Golf SHAMBLE on Thursday at Clear Creek Golf Course. A sign-up sheet will be posted on the bulletin board and tee time will be at 8:30 a.m.
Vicksburg YMCAfootball/cheerleading
The Vicksburg YMCA is currently taking registra-tion now thru Aug. 21 for its grades 3-4 and grades 5-6 football/cheerleading leagues. Also needed are vol-unteer coaches, cheer spon-sors and referees. For infor-mation please call 638-1071 or visit the Purks Branch YMCA to register today.
Fall baseballregistration
Registration for the Vicks-burg Parks and Recreation Department’s fall baseball league will begin on Friday and continue until Sept. 6. The league is open to chil-dren ages 5-15, and the regis-tration fee is $25 per person.
Registration forms are available at the Parks and Rec office on Army Navy Drive, Just Duet Sports, and The Sports Center. For more information, call 601-634-4514.
Co-ed softballregistration
Registration for the Vicks-burg Parks and Recreation Department’s co-ed softball league will continue until Aug. 23. The registration fee
is $175 per team, plus $5 for each non-city resident and $10 for each non-county resi-dent. Non-county residents must be from Claiborne, Sharkey or Issaquena coun-ties only. Registration forms are available at the Parks and Rec office on Army-Navy Drive. A mandatory coaches meeting will be held Aug. 18 at 6:30 p.m. the Parks and Rec office. For information, call 601-634-4514.
MS Elitesoftball tryouts
Tryouts for the MS Elite 8-and-under fast-pitch soft-ball tournament team will be held Sunday at the men’s softball field at City Park. Players must have been born in 2002, and the team will play in the 2011 tournament season. For information, call Jason Smith at 601-218-4151.
YMCA soccerregistration open
Registration is open for the Vicksburg YMCA’s Little Kickers Soccer program. The league is open to children ages 4-6, and the registration deadline is Aug. 21. Games will be played on Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. beginning Aug. 24. Parents can register their children at the Purks YMCA from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on weekdays, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Registra-tion fee is $40 for YMCA members and $60 for non-members. For information, call 601-638-1071.
VHS, WC footballtickets now on sale
Tickets for Vicksburg High and Warren Central football games are now on sale to past season tick-etholders at the Vicksburg Warren School District ath-letic offices on Mission 66. Reserved seats will go on sale to the public on Aug. 16.
Season tickets for the five home games at each school are $25 if purchased before the first game, and reserved seat tickets are $6 per game or $30 for the season.
Gator and Viking “A” club memberships are also on sale. “A” club membership cards are good for admis-sion to all scheduled sport-ing events within the Vicks-burg Warren School District except the Red Carpet foot-ball and basketball events, state playoff games and out-of-town events. For informa-tion, call the athletic depart-ment at 601-631-2822.
VSO fallsoccer registration
Register is open for the Vicksburg Soccer Assoca-tion’s fall season. Registra-tion forms are available at Just Duett Sports, the Sports Center, or www.vsosoccer.org. Registration is open to players ages 3-18 and ends Aug. 14. For information, e-mail [email protected].
Vicksburg 12Usoftball tryouts
Vicksburg will host a ages 12 and under fastpitch soft-
ball tournament team tryout for girls for the upcoming 2011 season. The tryouts will be held on Aug. 28 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Bazinsky fields behind Home Depot. All practices will be held in Vicksburg. For information, call 601-618-7021.
Central Miss. 10U baseball team tryouts
The ages 10 and under USSSA Central Mississippi Cyclones will hold a tryout for the 2011 season on Aug. 14 at 2 p.m. at Raymond Road Baptist Church. For informa-tion, call Steve Waddell at 601-842-8913.
Gaited horseFUN event
The Gaited Horse FUN Event is scheduled for Aug 14 at 5 p.m. at the Silver Creek Equestrian Club cov-ered arena on 5025 Bovina Cut-Off Rd. Events include stick horse, lead line and 10 flat-shod classes. Admis-sion is $5 without a horse. For information, call 318-547-3082 or 601-668-4866. All pro-ceeds will support the Small Farmer Network, a non-profit cooperative helping family farmers.
Georgia faces QBdepth chart of frosh
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Mark Richt isn’t afraid of starting a freshman quarterback.
Having only freshmen at the position is a different matter.
Richt acknowledged it is “scary” to have only four fresh-men quarterbacks, including new starter Aaron Murray, in team meetings.
“The quarterback room has got to be the youngest room maybe in the history of col-lege football,” Richt said Monday before Georgia’s first practice.
“You’ve got a redshirt fresh-man, a true freshman on schol-arship and then two walk-ons. That is all that is in that quar-terback room right now, so it’s scary in there.”
Murray found some humor in quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo’s challenge.
“I feel real bad for coach Bobo but he has, what, five kids under the age of 5, so he has a little experience dealing with this,” Murray said.
Bobo’s five children, includ-ing triplets, are 6 or younger.
Bobo said Murray is “self-motivated and driven.”
“He’s not a guy who is just going to sit back and say ’I’m the starting quarterback at the University of Georgia,”’ Bobo said. “He’s working his tail off and he’s fully dedicated. He’s preparing and part of having confidence is preparing well in what we do.”
The only player on Georgia’s roster who has game experi-ence at quarterback is Logan Gray, a junior who was the backup to 2009 senior starter Joe Cox.
Gray requested a move to receiver after Murray was named the starter at the end of spring practice.
With Gray at his new posi-tion, Hutson Mason of Mar-ietta’s Lassiter High joins Murray as the only scholar-ship quarterbacks.
Murray, from Tampa, was held out last season a s a r e d -shirt. Mason and walk-ons Parker Welch of Jesup, Ga., and Greg Bing-ham of Colum-bus are new to the team.
Another 2009 redshirt, Zach Mettenberger, was dismissed from the team in April before pleading guilty to two counts of misdemeanor sexual bat-tery in May. Murray entered preseason drills as the only quarterback who had even been through a practice.
“It’s very weird, especially coming from last year with two older guys,” Murray said. “Now I’m the older guy and I haven’t taken a snap yet and I’m still considered a freshman.”
Richt said he has asked Gray to keep up with his playbook at quarterback while working at his new position.
“Right now we’re asking him to mentally get the work (at quarterback),” Richt said. “We’re not giving him any physical reps right now. A lot will depend on how we feel Hutson is coming.”
Richt has started two fresh-men — David Greene and Mat-thew Stafford — at the posi-tion in his first nine seasons as Georgia’s coach.
Stafford started as a true freshman in 2006 before becoming the No. 1 overall pick in the 2009 NFL draft.
Murray, who enrolled early in 2009, went through the 2009 and 2010 spring practices.
Murray worked with receiv-ers, tight ends and running backs on passing routes in vol-unteer workouts without the coaches this summer. Richt said those practices were key in Murray winning over his older teammates.
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The St. Michaels Church softball team was the church league champions for 2010 with a 16-1 record. First row, from left, are Connor McHan, Joe Stubbs, Sherman Simpson, Greg Curro, Jerry Bourne, John Weaver and Aaron George. Sec-ond row, from left, are Brandon Carr, Greg Head, Joe Loviza, Al Cialone, George Threadgill, Paul Naya and Kyle Richards. Also on the team were Jerome Curro, Steve Castallane, Chris Curro, Pat Griffith, Craig Theriot, John Bull and Will Vollor.
