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LOCAL FOLKS Andre Ray of Columbus enjoys painting. BY ZACK PLAIR [email protected]W hen Kaile King visited Mississippi State Uni- versity as a high school senior from Carthage in spring 1998, she had all but decided to attend Ole Miss. Then she noticed the drum- mer for the MSU Black Voices and he made enough of an impression for Kaile to enroll in Starkville that fall instead. Her hunch wasn’t wrong. By September, Kaile and Jason Minor were officially a couple. By 2000, they were married. But on Monday, in the inten- sive care unit of a Charlotte, North Carolina hospital, Kaile Minor, flanked by two of her three daughters, said goodbye to Jason, who had spent much of the previous month on a venti- lator fighting for his life against the unpredictable adversary COVID-19. “The doctor told me the virus had just ravaged his heart, and his heart gave out,” Kaile said. Jason, 41, was no stranger to health problems. He had been diagnosed with diabetes at age 12, and the condition had completely claimed his eyesight by 2008. He received a kidney transplant in 2011 and suffered a mild heart attack during the year he had waited on the trans- plant list. Still, he had bounced back from each challenge, even holding down a job and work- ing out at the gym three days a week. “He had overcome so much over the years,” Kaile said. “But this one; this was different.” A lover of music and people Jason sang tenor, quite well if you ask his mother, Charlene Minor. But his musical passion was percussion. He played the drums in school bands through elemen- tary and middle school, Char- lene said, and played football at Starkville High School, where he graduated in 1997. He continued playing drums and singing with the Black Voices at MSU, though he never joined the Famous Maroon Band. “He was a lover of music and singing,” said Charlene, who retired in 2001 from a 35-year career as an elementary school teacher at Starkville Public Schools and still lives in the city. “He was so well known around Starkville and well liked. He was just Jason.” Growing up as a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church on Ok- toc Road, he was the youngest of three brothers, all of whom ended up working in the minis- try. Jason served stints as music minister at Emmanuel Baptist and Life Church in Starkville after he graduated from college. But after he lost his eyesight, Kaile said Jason began wanting to do something other than church work. He found that opportunity in Charlotte at a Lions Services Inc. factory that specializes in employing the vision impaired. 41-year-old Starkville native, former music minister, succumbs to COVID-19 ‘He had overcome so much over the years. ... This was different.’ See MINOR, 3A Courtesy photo Jason Minor is pictured with his wife, Kaile. Jason, a 1997 graduate of Starkville High School, passed away Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, of complications from COVID-19. He spent the last month of his life in a Charlotte hospital, and for most days he needed a ventilator to breathe. CampusKnot sees business boom during pandemic Software developed by MSU alum allows students, teachers to interact online BY TESS VRBIN [email protected]In the past four weeks, the learning management system CampusKnot received 8,000 visi - tors to its website, with schools at all levels worldwide forced into dis - tance learning by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. CampusKnot offers software that allows interaction between students and teachers. Educational institutions from all across the world — from Ita- ly to Ghana to the Philippines, to name a few — reached out to the Starkville-based company seeking BY SLIM SMITH [email protected]Audrey Gregory stood at the gas pump at Kroger in Columbus Thursday afternoon filling up her SUV. She doesn’t expect to be back for a while, she said. “I’m not driving as much, so this tank will last me maybe a couple of weeks,” said Gregory, who is self-employed and lives in New Hope. “Before the virus, I was filling up about once a week.” Gregory’s story is fairly typical. With shelter in place orders throughout the country, demand for fuel has dropped by 40 percent, which knocked the bot- tom out of the crude oil market. “It went from $56 a barrel in Feb- ruary to less than $20 now, which is a 30-year low,” said Don Redman of AAA. “Gasoline prices are following suit.” In Mississippi, the average cost of a gallon of gas is at $1.52, which is 39 cents lower than it was in February and a full dollar less than it was in April 2019. The average price is slightly high- er locally — $1.66 in Columbus and $1.60 in Starkville. Nationally, the average price of a gallon of gas is 1.79. Wisconsin, with an average price of $1.19, has the lowest av- erage price in the nation. Matt Bogue of The Dutch Group, which provides Shell gas products throughout north Mississippi, mostly through its Sprint Mart stores, said fuel pricing is a complicated equation. Gas prices likely to continue to fall during pandemic Low demand already pulls Mississippi average down to $1.52 per gallon Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff Audrey Gregory of New Hope fills the tank of her SUV at Kroger in Columbus Thursday afternoon. With a gallon of gas priced a full dollar lower than it was last April, Gregory said she’s not only paying less, but buying less gas as a result of the COVID-19 shelter in place order. “I’m probably driving about half as much as I did before,” she said. See GAS PRICES, 6A See CAMPUSKNOT , 6A
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FIVE QUESTIONS1 Which ballet has a little girl named Clara as a main character?2 What does the Internet abbreviation TL;DR stand for?3 What do gravy and cheese curds adorn in the French Canadian dish poutine?4 In total area, which is the largest — the United Kingdom, Oregon or Illinois?5 Which TV teen stars of the ‘90s really “blossomed” in 2012 then she was nominated for an Emmy for “The Big Bang Theory”?
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When Kaile King visited Mississippi State Uni-versity as a high school
senior from Carthage in spring 1998, she had all but decided to attend Ole Miss.
Then she noticed the drum-mer for the MSU Black Voices and he made enough of an impression for Kaile to enroll in Starkville that fall instead.
Her hunch wasn’t wrong. By September, Kaile and Jason Minor were officially a couple. By 2000, they were married.
But on Monday, in the inten-sive care unit of a Charlotte, North Carolina hospital, Kaile Minor, flanked by two of her three daughters, said goodbye to Jason, who had spent much of the previous month on a venti-lator fighting for his life against the unpredictable adversary COVID-19.
“The doctor told me the virus had just ravaged his heart, and his heart gave out,” Kaile said.
Jason, 41, was no stranger to health problems. He had been diagnosed with diabetes at age 12, and the condition had completely claimed his eyesight by 2008. He received a kidney transplant in 2011 and suffered a mild heart attack during the year he had waited on the trans-plant list. Still, he had bounced back from each challenge, even holding down a job and work-ing out at the gym three days a week.
“He had overcome so much
over the years,” Kaile said. “But this one; this was different.”
A lover of music and peopleJason sang tenor, quite well
if you ask his mother, Charlene Minor.
But his musical passion was percussion.
He played the drums in school bands through elemen-tary and middle school, Char-lene said, and played football at Starkville High School, where he graduated in 1997. He continued playing drums and singing with the Black Voices at MSU, though he never joined the Famous Maroon Band.
“He was a lover of music and singing,” said Charlene, who retired in 2001 from a 35-year career as an elementary school teacher at Starkville Public Schools and still lives in the city. “He was so well known around Starkville and well liked. He was just Jason.”
Growing up as a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church on Ok-toc Road, he was the youngest of three brothers, all of whom ended up working in the minis-try. Jason served stints as music minister at Emmanuel Baptist and Life Church in Starkville after he graduated from college.
But after he lost his eyesight, Kaile said Jason began wanting to do something other than church work. He found that opportunity in Charlotte at a Lions Services Inc. factory that specializes in employing the vision impaired.
41-year-old Starkville native, former music minister, succumbs to COVID-19
‘He had overcome so much over the years. ... This was different.’
See MINOR, 3A
Courtesy photoJason Minor is pictured with his wife, Kaile. Jason, a 1997 graduate of Starkville High School, passed away Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, of complications from COVID-19. He spent the last month of his life in a Charlotte hospital, and for most days he needed a ventilator to breathe.
CampusKnot sees business boom during pandemicSoftware developed by MSU alum allows students, teachers to interact onlineBY TESS [email protected]
In the past four weeks, the learning management system CampusKnot received 8,000 visi-tors to its website, with schools at all levels worldwide forced into dis-tance learning by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
CampusKnot offers software that allows interaction between students and teachers.
Educational institutions from all across the world — from Ita-ly to Ghana to the Philippines, to name a few — reached out to the Starkville-based company seeking
Audrey Gregory stood at the gas pump at Kroger in Columbus Thursday afternoon filling up her SUV.
She doesn’t expect to be back for a while, she said.
“I’m not driving as much, so this tank will last me maybe a couple of weeks,” said Gregory, who is self-employed and lives in New Hope. “Before the virus, I was filling up about once a week.”
Gregory’s story is fairly typical. With shelter in place orders throughout the country, demand for fuel has dropped by 40 percent, which knocked the bot-tom out of the crude oil market.
“It went from $56 a barrel in Feb-ruary to less than $20 now, which is a 30-year low,” said Don Redman of AAA. “Gasoline prices are following suit.”
In Mississippi, the average cost of a gallon of gas is at $1.52, which is 39 cents lower than it was in February and a full dollar less than it was in April 2019. The average price is slightly high-
er locally — $1.66 in Columbus and $1.60 in Starkville.
Nationally, the average price of a gallon of gas is 1.79. Wisconsin, with an average price of $1.19, has the lowest av-erage price in the nation.
Matt Bogue of The Dutch Group, which provides Shell gas products throughout north Mississippi, mostly through its Sprint Mart stores, said fuel pricing is a complicated equation.
Gas prices likely to continue to fall during pandemicLow demand already pulls Mississippi average down to $1.52 per gallon
Slim Smith/Dispatch StaffAudrey Gregory of New Hope fills the tank of her SUV at Kroger in Columbus Thursday afternoon. With a gallon of gas priced a full dollar lower than it was last April, Gregory said she’s not only paying less, but buying less gas as a result of the COVID-19 shelter in place order. “I’m probably driving about half as much as I did before,” she said.
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Dianne Ferguson, 62, died April 10, 2020.
Services will be held Saturday, at West Me-morial Funeral Chapel. Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Saturday, at the funeral home. West Memorial Funeral Home of Starkville is in charge of arrange-ments.
She is survived by her children, Amanda Stevenson, Denise Peterson and Jocko Brooks; and siblings, Charles Ferguson, Catherine Neely, Linda Neely, Betty McCarter and Clinton Neely.
Martha SmithSTARKVILLE —
Martha Jean Smith, 58, died April 16, 2020, in Tupelo.
Services will be held Saturday, at West Me-morial Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow in First Baptist Longview Cemetery. Visitation is from 4-5 p.m. today, at the funeral home. West Memorial Funeral Home of Starkville is in charge of arrange-ments.
She is survived by her husband, Robert Smith; mother, Betty M. Carpenter; children, Lashandra J. Smith Ar-tis, Shareena D. Smith,
Alexis N. Smith and Draper N. Carpenter; and siblings, Patricia Gardner, Larnzy L. Carpenter Jr., Rita Duck, Dollie Darlene Duck, Belvin L. Duck, Tommie Duck, Antonio Duck and Bruce Car-penter.
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PARK, Ill. — Joyce Gail Hollings, 62, died April 15, 2020, in La-Grange, Illinois.
A private family will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at Tibbee Communi-ty Cemetery in West Point, with Donald Wesley officiating. Visitation will be from 2-5 p.m. Saturday, at Carter’s Funeral Ser-vices. Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus is in charge of arrange-ments.
Mrs. Hollings was born Jan. 16, 1958, in West Point, to the late Eliza and Sylvester Hollings. She was a graduate of Clay Coun-ty Schools and was formerly employed with Job Corps. She was a member of Mr. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church.
In addition to her
parents, she was pre-ceded in death by her siblings, Lizzy Harris Wright, Mary Rogers Conner, Georgia Harris and Thomas Harris.
She is survived by her children, Ameshia Odom and Yashmine Odom; siblings, Bet-
ty Webber Glynetta Hollings, Vickie Cov-ington, Sylvester Har-ris, Sherman Harris, Lloyd Hollings, Ricky Hollings, Kendrick Hollings and Darrell Hollings; and five grandchildren.
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BY ANDREW TAYLOR AND ALAN FRAM The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will be holding a signing ceremony Friday for a bill providing a nearly $500 billion infusion of coronavirus spending, rushing new relief to em-ployers and hospitals buckling under the strain of a pandemic that has claimed almost 50,000 Amer-ican lives and one in six U.S. jobs.
The measure passed Congress almost unan-imously Thursday, but the lopsided tally belies a potentially bumpier path ahead as battle lines are being formed for much more ambitious future legislation that may prove far more difficult to ma-neuver through Congress.
The bipartisan measure passed as lawmakers gathered in Washington as a group for the first time since March 27, adopting stricter social dis-tancing rules while seeking to prove they can do their work despite the COVID-19 crisis.
Lawmakers’ face masks and bandannas added a somber tone to their effort to aid a nation stag-gered by the health crisis and devastating eco-nomic costs of the pandemic.
Trump set to sign bill with nearly $500B more in virus aid
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MADISON, Wis. — The latest demonstration by right-wing groups against measures to contain the coronavirus will be held Friday in Wisconsin, where hundreds, and possibly thousands of people plan to descend on the state Capitol to pro-test the Democratic governor’s stay-home ordinance.
It’s expected to be among the big-gest of the protests that have popped up around the U.S. in recent days. But as with some earlier events, one group will be noticeably absent: the state’s most prominent Republicans.
That includes Sen. Ron Johnson, a Trump ally, who says he’ll be shel-tering in place at his home in Osh-kosh about 90 miles from Madison.
“I’m neither encouraging nor dis-couraging them,” said Johnson, 65, whose career was launched by the tea party movement, a protest ef-fort with ties to the current one. He urged anyone who decides to attend the protest to practice good personal hygiene and social distancing.
Johnson’s distance and ambiva-lence is shared by many Republicans as they warily watch the protests — with their images of gun-toting ac-tivists, the occasional Confederate flag, and protesters wearing Trump
hats but no face masks. Six months away from an election, the protests are forcing some Republicans to reckon with a restless right flank ad-vocating an unpopular opinion even as the party seeks to make gains with moderates, women and subur-ban voters.
Polls show the sentiment behind these groups is currently unpopular. A survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found only 12 percent of Americans say the measures in place where they live to prevent the spread of the coronavirus go too far, though Republicans are roughly four times as likely as Democrats to say so — 22 percent to 5 percent. The majori-ty of Americans — 61 percent — feel the steps taken by government offi-cials in their area are about right.
Still, a network of conservative groups has activated to support the efforts — seizing on the anxiety and distrust that comes with a moment of turmoil. Conservative groups with national networks, including Free-domWorks and Tea Party Patriots, have pushed the “reopen” message on social media.
Friday’s rally was promoted by Thomas Leager, a prominent Wis-consin gun-rights advocate. Those
who are members of the Facebook group for the event or have advocat-ed for rallying to reopen the state include Matt Batzel, the executive director of the Wisconsin chapter for American Majority, a group that helps conservative candidates get elected; Christian Gomez, re-search project manager at the John Birch Society; and Stephen Moore, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
“The polls are very clear. That’s why I think Republicans are nervous about this,” said Moore, who is on Trump’s economic task force and has promoted some of the protests provided attendees should follow social distancing guidelines. “But these things can change. That’s the point of these protests — to change public opinion.”
The many unknowns of pandem-ic — including what the death toll might be if restrictions like stay-home orders are lifted — compli-cate the political calculations. And Trump himself has positioned him-self on both sides of the divide in this party. After issuing guidelines for states to reopen, he tweeted support for protesters who were violating them, calling on them to “LIBER-ATE” three states with Democrat-ic governors. He empathized with protesters, saying they have “cabin fever” and “want their lives back,” then criticized Georgia’s governor for reopening his state too early.
‘Republicans are nervous’: Some in GOP eye protests warily‘I’m neither encouraging nor discouraging them’
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JACKSON — A Mississippi city facing freedom-of-religion lawsuits and pressure from the U.S. attorney general has revised its policy that banned drive-up church services during the coronavirus pan-demic, now saying the services are OK with windows rolled up.
The Greenville City Council made changes Tuesday — the first time it had met since May-or Errick D. Simmons prom-ised revisions. The Justice De-partment took the rare step last week of backing a church that
sued over the city’s restrictions on worship.
Greenville’s new policy erases any distinction between drive-up church services and other types of drive-up interac-tions, including picking up food at restaurants. It says, for ex-ample, that customers may roll windows down to get food but must roll them up while sitting in the car to eat.
Conflicts have arisen in sev-eral places over religious prac-tices as officials set limits on people’s movements because of COVID-19. A federal judge in California on Wednesday de-nied a request by three church-
es to have in-person services during the pandemic. A Loui-siana pastor has continued to hold in-person services in de-fiance of public health orders. A Kentucky church that held in-person services on Easter filed a federal lawsuit challeng-ing restrictions on gatherings that state.
Ryan Tucker is an attorney for Alliance Defending Free-dom, one of the groups repre-senting the Baptist church that sued Greenville over the origi-nal policy — the lawsuit backed by the Justice Department. Tucker said Wednesday that the group commends Green-ville “for dropping its unconsti-tutional ban.”
“Public officials are right to care about public health and safety during the coronavi-rus crisis, but they are wrong when they treat churches more
harshly than others in govern-ment orders related to it,” Tuck-er said.
Two lawsuits were filed against Greenville after the city’s April 7 order. It had said that churches would be closed for in-person and drive-in ser-vices while Gov. Tate Reeves’s statewide stay-at-home order remains in place to combat the spread of COVID-19. Reeves has said he doesn’t believe gov-ernment can ban types of wor-ship, but he has encouraged people to worship online or in other ways that allow for social distancing.
On April 8, Greenville po-lice issued $500 tickets to sev-eral people attending drive-in church services. Some of those ticketed said the city was vio-lating their First Amendment right of religious freedom.
The mayor later said people
wouldn’t have to pay the fines, but he wanted the Republican governor to give clear guid-ance about worship services. Simmons said Reeves weighed in during an April 15 call with mayors, saying drive-up ser-vices are acceptable. Simmons said that day that the City Coun-cil would revise Greenville’s policy during its next meeting, which happened Tuesday.
Simmons said Tuesday that the city’s interest all along has been “the health and safety of over 30,000 lives in the City of Greenville.”
The two lawsuits against Greenville remain alive.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up within a few weeks. For some, it can cause more severe illness and even death.
Mississippi city revises limit on drive-up church amid virusGreenville’s new policy erases any distinction between drive-up church services and other types of drive-up interactions, including picking up food at restaurants
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“That was really our motivation to move from Starkville (about five years ago),” Kaile said. “… After Jason lost his sight, he handled it a lot better than I did. He was never depressed or dis-couraged. It was always a motivator for him to show he could still overcome.
“He would tell me, ‘The only thing I wish I could see is my girls’ fac-es and how they grow up through the years,’” she added. “So I would tell him sometimes what they look like. The middle daughter (Kailynn) looks just like him.”
Classified as a train-er, Jason worked in just about every part of the factory, Kaile said, diligently managing his health and diet and insisting on being as self sufficient as he could.
“He worked out, he was a vegetarian and he was very serious about his health,” Kaile said. “(Before March), he hadn’t been in the hospi-tal the whole time we had been in Charlotte. … The only thing he couldn’t do was drive, so we would have to take him places sometimes. Everything else, he pretty much did on his own.”
That included minis-tering to his 400 or so coworkers, which often took lots of help from Kaile.
“Many of the people he worked with were un-married … so sometimes he would ask me to cook something that he would take to them at work,”she said. “He wanted to treat his friends to things they didn’t necessarily get all the time.”
In Charlotte, Jason also met friends and coworkers who came from other countries. For them, he tried to pick up what he could of their native language.
“He had learned some Spanish, some Manda-rin,” Kaile said. “He was even learning how to send text messages to one of his coworkers in Russian.”
The ‘rollercoaster ride’By mid-March, as
discussions had begun in earnest about busi-nesses closing, citizens self-quarantining and states enacting shelter in place orders, Jason learned Lions Services — which would be deemed essential due to produc-ing for government con-tracts — would remain open.
Because of Jason’s un-derlying health problems, Kaile pleaded with her husband not to return to work until the pandemic passed, even if that meant taking unpaid leave. Kaile, executive director for a men’s shelter in a nearby South Carolina town, was already work-ing from home, and they determined they could make it short-term on just her income. So Jason complied with his wife’s wishes.
“As far as we can tell, he had already contract-ed the virus by then,” Kaile said. “He was sick and we didn’t know it.”
For five days after Jason stopped working, he just seemed to have a minor cough and cold. By March 21, he had developed a fever of more than 101 degrees Fahr-enheit. He was admitted to a nearby hospital and tested for COVID-19, officially finding out the test was positive two days later.
“By the time we got the results, he was already on a ventilator,” Kaile said. “That’s how fast it ravaged his lungs.”
He was moved to the larger Presbyterian Medical Center where he was in-and-out of the ICU and on-and-off the ventilator. His breathing improved by March 25 when the ventilator was first removed, but four days later his condition worsened and he was intubated again. Doctors tried again to remove the ventilator around Easter, Kaile said. Jason breathed on his own for about 15 minutes before he was intubated a third time.
“During those days it was really a rollercoaster ride,” Kaile said. “One day, he would be on 75 percent ventilator, some days 60 percent and one day they got him down to 50 percent.”
Kaile called the hospital multiple times a day and kept Charlene abreast of her son’s condition, even as Jason’s breathing became 100-percent dependent on the ventilator.
“I was really optimistic until I talked to him once on the phone (during the span in March when he wasn’t on the ventilator),” Charlene recalled. “He was so short of breath, and I told him not to call me any more and to save his strength. … I couldn’t sleep well (during that time). But I could pray.”
Jason developed a
blood clot in his lungs doctors unsuccessful-ly tried to treat with medicine. They gave him azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine, neither of which seemed to help, Kaile said.
Still, on Sunday, Kaile talked to a nurse at about 11 p.m., who told her Jason was stable and had his ventilator dialed back to 95 percent.
She awoke at 5:45 a.m. Monday, though, to a call from the hospital that Jason’s situation had deteriorated.
“They said his oxygen, his blood pressure, all his vitals were dropping,” Kaile said. “The nurse told me, ‘we can’t keep him alive much longer.’”
Though family hadn’t seen Jason since he had been admitted, the hos-pital allowed Kaile and her younger two daugh-ters — Kailynn, 19, and Kariah, 17, who live in Charlotte — to come say goodbye. About 30 min-utes after they arrived, Jason was gone.
“I’ve always believed this virus was serious,” Kaile said. “I’ve been telling everyone I encoun-ter, ‘Don’t take it lightly.’ … The (medical profes-sionals) don’t know how it works because it’s so new. They’re experiment-ing on patients because we have no true answers and there is no cure.”
Moving forwardJason’s eldest daugh-
ter, Raven, is graduating from MSU next week with a degree in fashion merchandising.
The Minors had planned to arrive in Starkville this week to celebrate the accomplish-ment. COVID-19 had al-ready changed that plan, as campus closures are forcing Raven to “gradu-ate virtually.”
Instead, Raven, and Jason’s parents, all hit the road Thursday headed to Charlotte so they could celebrate Jason’s life and mourn his passing.
There will be no visitation or big funeral service. Jason’s body will be cremated.
Saying goodbye will be hard. Keeping his memory and spirit alive will be much easier, Kaile said, and especially critical for his 7-month-old grandson Kason, the apple of Jason’s eye in the six months before he became ill.
“He was an amazing family man,” Kaile said of her husband. “He loved
me and the girls, and it was evident. … We’re going to make a special effort for Kason to know how much he meant to his grandfather.”
By summer, or as soon as possible, Charlene hopes to have a “big memorial” for Jason at Ebenezer in Starkville. In the meantime, she said friends have been send-ing their condolences by phone and mail.
“All this coronavirus stuff will pass one day,” she said. “It’s all in God’s hands. We have no con-trol over it.”
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When it comes to data on the virus, we are behind other states and behind the timesSince March 11, it has been the same thing
every day. In some demented version of a tele-thon, county officials, local medical officials,
media members and residents log on to the Missis-sippi State Department of Health’s website looking for new numbers.
We wait to see how many new confirmed cases of COVID-19 are being reported statewide and in particular counties. We wait to see how many more virus-related deaths are being reported. And, we hope and pray, the number of new confirmed cases and virus-related deaths slow.
But, while the state has been routine in their reporting, and while they have provided some valuable information, they have failed to begin re-porting the number of people who have recovered from the illness, and they have failed to report the number of tests that have been performed in each county or at each medical facility.
The have reported such things as “outbreaks” in long-term care facilities, but that statistic has done nothing else than spark fear and concern in some areas, since an “outbreak” is at least one case in a hospital, nursing home or assisted living facility.
The state does not report how many are in-volved in a so-called “outbreak” and does not list which facility it is.
For all the numbers and statistics the state is reporting, they are providing far fewer details and far fewer figures than other states — including Louisiana and Alabama.
We should be better.And while the reporting is sluggish, so too is
the time it has taken for the results to be released — not just to the public, but to the individuals who the tests were performed on. There is no reason that a person who is sick enough to qualify for testing must wait more than a week to find out the results.
We deserve beer.Not only should the public have beer data to
make decisions for themselves and their families, but our elected officials — from the state level to the city level — need beer, quicker data to make beer, more timely decisions.
We have learned plenty of lessons from the on-slaught of the virus, including yet again that we as a state we are behind others and behind the times.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Voice of the peopleAn open letter to Harry Sanders
To my esteemed colleague Harry Sanders, before I share my thoughts with you, I have a ques-tion, do you really want to travel down this road of firing employ-ees, disrupting county operations and ruling by a vote of three?
I watched your interview on WCBI television. I thought, this is deja’vu from twenty years ago. There you were, knowingly passing on false information and distorting the truth to accommo-date your narrative. As always, you wanted to make the conversation about me. No, it’s about you and your disregard for the law. In 2000, you came to the board and fired countless employees and adversely impacted their lives, for no reasons other than you had two other votes. You were in your mid-fifties full of energy and listening to some of your misguid-ed supporters. Here we are 2020, you’re seventy five years old and it shows. Of course, twenty years shows on all of us. Time has a way of limiting our physical and mental faculties. Seemingly, the differ-ence with you and other people, is twenty years changes our perspec-tive on life. We’re not trying to be the “Boss” or destroy the lives of people on a whim. We are trying to add value to our well-being. Our community, like the rest of the world is in a state of crisis. Our lives have been altered. Sickness and death is ravaging our commu-nities, people are out of work, with little or no income, the economy is on the brink of collapsing, and you’re consumed with power. Does serving as President of the Board make you feel privileged or you just feel privileged anyway? Regretfully, everyone has not been afforded the good life and finan-cial stability you enjoy. Perhaps, it’s your luxurious life that gives you the opportunity to indulge in so much tomfoolery. People are filled anxiety and uncertainty, and you’re fixated on being a “delusion-al powerbroker.”
Mr. Sanders, before you ven-ture down this road of contention and disruption, stop by the mirror and reflect for a second. The year is not 2000. People are not cheering for you to get Leroy, the economy is not flowing like milk and honey and your support base is dwindling. We have all watched your shortcomings in the board room. I’ve tried to be there to help, when needed, but if you’re going to resort to your old ways, have at it. Are you sure you can trust your two colleagues to support your
plantation mindset for three years? Remember, one has been there only three months and has not been tried in the fire of politics.
Mr. Harry Sanders, I want to make it clear to you and this com-munity. I will not engage in your tomfoolery and bully behavior in the board room or anywhere else. I will spend my energy focusing on the welfare of my family, my friends and this community. We’re in the need of trusted leadership, not delusional power seekers. If you and other members of the board want to disrupt the well-be-ing of this county, so be it. I will not be a part of it. However, please note, I will not be disrespected, nor will you and your accomplices diminish my role on the board. I have served with approximately twenty men during my tenure on the board. You have been the most astute businessman. However, your good deeds will never be recognized because of your lack of empathy and compassion. Harry, you are a master of manipulat-ing others. What’s the secret in getting men to compromise their integrity? Perhaps, you recognize their lack of integrity from the beginning.
Harry, the action by you, John and Trip toward Ralph Billingsley is shameful. Even more disgust-ing, is your personal attacks on his job performance and personal character to deflect from your illegal actions. Ralph has been the most effective County Administra-tor since the implementation of the unit system of government. With his strong financial background and management skills, he has saved the taxpayers millions of dollars. His “team” as he fondly refer to his employees, are pro-ductive and the reason Lowndes County is envied by others. Your blatant lies and allegations against Ralph are unfounded, and you know it.
I hope John and Trip under-stand the implications of their actions. John has always shown an uncompromising loyalty to you. But, for him to follow you down this road is shocking. During his tenure on the board, he has been a decent man. Whether in the board room or on the street, John Holli-man has been a kind and pleasant individual. The employees have al-ways like him. Whenever needed, he has always been there for the employees. I’m sure my theory is right on his course of action, but I don’t have the space to talk about.
Harry, again your magical skills to manipulate other men
should be studied. In less than three months on the board, you were able to get Trip Hairston to buy into this heinous plot of firing the County Administrator. It’s ironic he would buy into such a move, considering his relationship with the last Administrator you pushed out. His bold and arrogant statements will stick with me, “firing Ralph wasn’t personal, but I wanted my friend to have this job.” I hope this is not a pattern he plans to follow. For the past eight years, our relationships have been harmonious. Meetings in the board room were almost like sitting around a camp fire, cook-ing marshmallows. I’m convinced it was due to the moral character of Bill Brigham and his lifelong friendship with you. At least he provided you with a moral com-pass. Bill, I miss you for more than one reason.
Whenever the next individual assumes the role of County Ad-ministrator, I hope he recognizes the citizens elected five Supervi-sors and not three. As a retired Military Colonel, I would hope he would still cherish the idea of honor and duty and not be misled by you, my esteemed colleague, Mr. Harry Sanders.
Leroy BrooksLowndes Supervisor
District Five
Columbus National Day of Prayer to be held online
Yes, the annual National Day of Prayer will be observed this year. However, like other things that have changed in our daily lives — school, jobs, shopping, socializing, church — observing this national event for the 69 th year must also change. For those of us in the Co-lumbus area, the presentation and location has changed.
Thanks to today’s technolo-gy, the Christian Community in Prayer Committee will be hosting a Facebook Live event at Noon, May 7 th , on the Columbus National Day of Prayer Facebook page. Please note that this event will also be available for replay on our Facebook page after the initial noon time setting. We invite our friends, neighbors, fellow citizens to join us for this special time of prayer and praise. Our communi-ty, our world could certainly ben-efit from an opportunity to pause and enjoy the blessing of praying together.
Nell BatemanChristian Community in Prayer Committee
Columbus
A MOMENT OF CALMWhen we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
— Paul Coelho (“The Alchemist”)“
TODAY IN HISTORYToday is Friday, April 24, the 115th day of 2020.
There are 251 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:On April 24, 1877, federal troops were
ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.
On this date:In 1800, Congress approved a bill establishing
the Library of Congress.In 1913, the 792-foot Woolworth Building, at
that time the tallest skyscraper in the world, offi-cially opened in Manhattan as President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button at the White House to signal the lighting of the towering structure.
In 1915, in what’s considered the start of the Armenian genocide, the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian political and cultural lead-ers in Constantinople.
In 1961, in the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the White House issued a state-ment saying that President John F. Kennedy “bears sole responsibility for the events of the past few days.”
In 1967, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft smashed into the Earth after his parachutes failed to deploy properly during re-entry; he was the first human spaceflight fatality.
In 1980, the United States launched an unsuc-cessful attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.
In 1986, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, for whom King Edward VIII had given up the British throne, died in Paris at age 89.
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Jai Shree KrishnaOur beloved mother
Gomatben Motirambhai Patel, Gaam Baben passed away peacefully in Columbus, Mississippi on April 23, 2020, at 1:05 AM.
Born in Bhuvasan and married to late Motirambhai Becharbhai Patel.
Born on March 25, 1923 (age 97) her life spanned four continents – in India, Tanzania, England, and America.
She leaves behind:4 children:Son Rameshbhai M. Patel & Daughter-in-law
Hansaben, Collierville, TN, Son Sureshbhai M. Patel & Daughter-in-law Manjuben, Madison, MS, Son Arvindbhai M. Kumar & Daughter-in-law Monaben, Columbus, MS, Son Babubhai M. Patel & Daughter-in-law Jayaben, Clinton, MS
Given the current unfortunate national and global COVID-19 health crisis and the shelter-in-place orders from the governor, funeral service will be limited to the allowed 10 people only.
Also in line with the Shelter in Place order, NO visitation or Prathna will be conducted at the residence. Just your blessings!!
Om Shanti
Ruth PiguéServices:
A memorial service will be held in Biloxi at a later date.
2nd Ave. North Location
Faye MullicanServices:
A family graveside service will be held at Egger Cemetery.
2nd Ave. North Location
Kenneth SanderockServices:
A memorial service will be held at a later date.
College St. Location
Larry CarneyIncomplete
2nd Ave. North Location
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Mary SissonMary Frances Sisson, 85, of Columbus, MS,
passed away Thursday, April 23, 2020, at Baptist Memorial Hospital – Golden Triangle, Columbus, MS.
A family funeral service will be Saturday, April 25, 2020, at 2:00 PM in Lowndes Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Tim Lee officiating. Interment will be at Beersheba Cemetery, Columbus, MS with Lowndes Funeral Home directing. Friends may view service at www.lowndesfuneralhome.net.
Ms. Sisson was born April 7, 1935, to the late Clifton and Lavader Jones Ayers in Millport, AL, and was a member of Beersheba Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Columbus, MS. She retired after 30 years as a bookkeeper with Dill and Norris in Columbus, MS. Ms. Sisson enjoyed quilting, crocheting, sewing, crafts and collecting glassware and antiques. She loved cooking Thanksgiving and Christmas meals for her family, going to and having garage sales, and her pets.
In addition to her parents, Ms. Sisson was preceded in death by her sisters, Grace Cannon and Maudine Hall; and daughter, Cynthia Sisson.
Ms. Sisson is survived by her sons, David (Gwen) Sisson and Doyle (Blair) Sisson; grandchildren, Clifton (Caree) Sisson, Andrew (Amanda) Sisson, Daniel Sisson, Mary Katherine (Nick) Howard and Patrick Sisson; two great-grandchildren; and sister, Sherlene Graham.
Memorials may be made to Beersheba Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery Fund, 1736 Beersheba Rd., Columbus, MS 39702.
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Jeremiah HarrisonCOLUMBUS — Jere-
miah Hezekiah Har-rison, 67, died April 18, 2020, at Baptist Memorial Hospi-tal-Golden Triangle.
Visi-tation is from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, at Carter’s Funeral Ser-vices. Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus is in charge of arrange-ments.
Mr. Harrison was born Jan. 9, 1953, to the late Freddie Baker and Martha Coleman. He was formerly employed with Graham Roofing.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Cynthia Wright.
She is survived by her children, Felicia Wright, Lamarcus Wright, Timothy Wright, Lawanda Wright all of Columbus, Jerry Harrison, Tom Harrison and Lawonda Harrison all of Panola, Alabama; and sister, Martha Key of Colum-bus.
Melinda McShanCOLUMBUS — Me-
linda McShan, 58, died April 15, 2020, at her residence.
Service will be at 11 a.m. Sat-urday, at Brick M.B. Church Cemetery, with the Rev. Everett Little. Visitation is from 2-5 p.m. today, at Carter’s Funeral Ser-vices. Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus is in charge of arrange-ments.
Mrs. McShan was born Nov. 4, 1961, in Columbus, to the late Eddie Griffin and Classie Griffin. She was a 1979 graduate of S.D. Lee High School and was formerly employed
as a general manager of Hardee’s Restaurant. She was a member of Brick M.B. Church.
In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by her brother, George Griffin.
She is survived by her husband, Sammy McShan; children, Kim-berly Griffin McShan of Houston, Texas and Kyara McShan of Hat-tiesburg; siblings, Jean Griffin, Sammie Ball, Billy Griffin, Henry Lee Griffin all of Columbus, Eddie Griffin Jr. of Landover, Maryland, Steve Ball of McGee and Johnny Ball of Musket, Michigan; and three grandchildren.
Gloria HawkinsCOLUMBUS — Glo-
ria Hawkins, 64, died April 23, 2020.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus.
Mattie CrowellCOLUMBUS — Mat-
tie Crowell, 78, April 22, 2020, at Saint Francis Hospital in Barlett, Tennessee.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus.
Xavier JohnsonCOLUMBUS —Xavi-
er Markeece Johnson, 20, died April 20, 2020,
A pri-vate family graveside service will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, at Sand-field Cemetery, with the Rev. Jimmy Rice officiating. Visitation is from 2-5 p.m. today, at Carter’s Funeral Ser-vices. Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus is in charge of arrange-ments.
Mr. Johnson was born Feb. 23, 2020, in Columbus, to Mario
Mason and Angel John-son. He was a graduate of Columbus High School and formerly employed with PECO Foods. He was a mem-ber of 4th Street M.B. Church.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by his siblings, Mario Mason Jr., D’Asia John-son, Marion Mason and Kashayla McCoy.
Henry TuckerSTARKVILLE —
Henry H. Tucker, 62, died April 15, 2020.
Graveside services will be Saturday, at Oddfellow Cemetery. West Memorial Funeral Home of Starkville is in charge of arrange-ments.
Sarah Fisher COLUMBUS — Sar-
ah J. Fisher, 54, died April 17, 2020, at Baptist Memorial Hospi-tal-Golden Triangle.
Private family graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Oak Grove M.B. Church Cemetery, with the Rev. Therman Cun-ningham. Visitation is from 2-5 p.m. today, at Carter’s Funeral Ser-vices. Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus is in charge of arrange-ments.
Mrs. Fisher was born Dec. 4, 1965, in Co-lumbus, to Emma Jean Jennings and the late Henry C. Jennings. She was a graduate of Lee High School and was formerly employed with Dale Personal Care, Au-rora Nursing Home and as a dietary supervisor for Vineyard Court Nursing Home. She was a member of Northside M.B. Church.
In addition to her mother, she is sur-vived by her husband, Tommy Lee Fisher; children, Najee Rashad Fisher of Nashville,
Tennessee, Thomas Christopher Fisher of Columbus and Tomme-sha Shelton of Gulfport; and siblings, Henry L. Jennings, Patricia A. Brooks, Willie Jen-nings, Barbara Ferrow, Steven Jennings, Renee Green all of Columbus and Elizabeth Sherrod of Florence, Alabama.
Larry CarneyCOLUMBUS —
Larry Carney, 77, died April 23, 2020, at Bap-tist Memorial Hospi-tal-Memphis.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Memori-al Gunter Peel Funeral Home and Crematory Second Avenue North location of Columbus.
Gary SpeedCOLUMBUS —
Gary Don Speed, 73, died April 21, 2020, at his residence.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lown-des Funeral Home of Columbus.
Emanuel Dale NOXUBEE COUN-
TY — Emanuel Dale, 20, died April 15, 2020, in Little Rock, Ar-kansas.
A pri-vate family graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Satur-day, at New Jerusalem M.B.C. Cemetery, with Leroy Horne officiating. Private family visitation is from 4-5 p.m. today, at Carter’s Funeral Ser-vices. Carter’s Funeral Services of Macon is in charge of arrange-ments.
Mr. Dale was born Sept. 26, 1999, in Nox-ubee County, to Danny Dale and Tedra Bester Dale. He was formerly employed as a painter with Phoenix Fabrica-tors and was a member of New Jerusalem M.B.C.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by his siblings, Phil-lip Dale of Chicago, Illinois, Tonnie Dale of Newport, Virgin-ia, Danny Dale Jr., of Newton, Georgia, Dandranesha Dale of Shuqualak, Kayla Ivory of West Point and Davi-on Dale of Dekalb.
Frank MooreCOLUMBUS —
Frank Dean Moore, 81, died April 21, 2020, at Anderson Region-al Medical Center of Meridian.
A family graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Memorial Gardens, with Gilbert Eaves officiating. Lowndes Funeral Home of Columbus is in charge of arrange-ments.
Mr. Moore was born Jan. 21, 1939, in Fayette, Alabama, to the late Charlie S. and Addie Lou Godfrey. He was formerly employed as an electrician with IBEW and was a member of First Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Jackie B. Moore; children, Boyd Dewayne Moore of Concord, North Car-olina, Carol N. Moore Byard of Simpsonville, South Carolina, Linda G. Moore Walsh, Dar-rell Ray Moore, Frank Dean Moore Jr., all of Concord, North Caro-lina, Phillip Lee Moore of Livingston, Alabama, Gerald Hasty of Rin-con, Georgia, Denise
Hasty Long Oglesby of, Reform, Alabama and Jarvette Hasty Glass, Savannah, Georgia; sisters, Faye Moore Weathers of Colum-bus and Helen Moore Webster of Kennedy, Alabama; grandchil-dren; and great-grand-children.
Memorials may be made to Causeyville Baptist Church, 6192 Causeyville Clarke Rd, Meridian, MS 39301.
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JACKSON — Symp-toms of the new corona-virus have subsided for Blues legend Bobby Rush, and now he’s warning oth-ers about the seriousness of COVID-19.
“Stay in and sanitize…because it saves lives,” Rush told fans in a Face-book post Tuesday. He began feeling sick in February and was told to quarantine after falling ill following a performance
in Nashville, Tennessee, news outlets reported.
Rush, 86, was never of-ficially diagnosed with the coronavirus, but told news outlets that he experi-enced weakness, a cough and a high fever.
A doctor recently gave him a clean bill of health, but according to Rush, people shouldn’t let their guards down.
“I know they are in the house and ready to party, (but) if they don’t stay in the house, they won’t have
no party to go to,” Rush told WREG-TV in a phone interview.
Rush said he’s looking forward to getting back on stage once it’s safe for peo-ple to gather again. He’s
nominated for the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award at this year’s Blues Music Awards, which will be held online next month due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Blues legend Bobby Rush recovers from coronavirus symptoms
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Gas pricesContinued from Page 1A
“It’s almost impossible to boil it down to a simple answer,” said Bogue, who said the lower demand has led to many retailers dropping prices dramatically to compete for customers. “As a local Mississippi business, I can say that when de-mand is dramatically impacted by an outside force — like COVID-19 — those retailers in the hardest-hit markets are often compelled to price fuel more aggressively in a fight for their share of rapidly dwin-dling demand.”
In effort to prop up prices, oil executives are cutting refinery pro-duction, Redman said.
“In addition to crude oil, market analysts are also watching refinery rates,” Redman said. “The U.S. re-finery utilization average is down to 82percent, a low not seen since September 2017 (when Texas re-fineries were shut down because of Hurricane Harvey). Given the drop in crude oil prices and in gasoline demand, which is expected to push even lower, refineries are reducing
production in hopes this could help to balance the amount of gasoline supply in the country.”
Redman said the trend isn’t like-ly to change in the immediate fu-ture.
“Prices are likely to push lower as Americans are urged to stay at home at least until the beginning of May,” he said.
No problem, said Gregory.“I’m liking the price right now,”
she said. “It’s nice to see something that’s cheaper for a change.”
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to use their social me-dia-like platform’s teach-ing tools. CampusKnot has been “hit up right and left” by professors across the country and works with them individually or with institutions as a whole, co-founder and CEO Rahul Gopal said.
“We’re operating in full gear, and we’re ex-cited about the exposure and excited about serv-ing all of these people,” he said.
Such fast growth and widespread reach was be-yond imagination when Gopal and two other Mis-sissippi State University students began forming the company in 2012, he said, or when they se-cured their first investors in 2015.
“There are two im-portant things the pan-demic has done for us: it’s definitely expedited our roadmap for (devel-oping) the online side of things, and it’s given us some real exposure that we should be able to bank on moving forward,” Go-pal said.
CampusKnot imple-ments “feeds and discus-sions” like a social media outlet and is completely accessible via mobile devices, Gopal said. It’s designed to make course material easy to access and aid communication between students and their teachers or profes-sors, whether the class is online, in-person or a hybrid of both.
The platform receives between 300 and 600 users daily, but not the same users every day, and currently has 5,000 active users, Gopal said. He anticipates an in-crease of “three to four times the current user base” for the summer and fall semesters, he said.
About 15 to 20 institu-tions, including the Mis-sissippi University for Women and the Universi-ty of Southern Mississip-pi, are using the platform now and plan to do so in the fall semester. Gopal predicts a total of be-tween 20,000 and 30,000 active users by then, both institutions and individu-al professors.
Some of CampusK-not’s new customers, thanks to the pandemic,
are vocational schools, ranging from cosmetolo-gy to insurance licensing, Gopal said. The platform is free for all users until July 31 so they can finish the spring and summer semesters.
Gopal said every fea-ture and tool on Campus-Knot is being used four times more now than they were before educa-tion went entirely virtual.
Bringing in new us-ers is much easier at the beginning of a semester than in March or April, and most of the spike in use came from existing CampusKnot customers, Gopal said.
“The people we al-ready had definitely used our platform a lot more than they would be using it on a normal day,” he said.
CampusKnot antici-pates about a threefold increase in all three of its revenue streams: institu-tional licensing, profes-sor and student subscrip-tions and app creation for local clients, Gopal said.
Useful during the transition
Gopal, Hiten Patel and Perceus Mody, all from India, launched Cam-pusKnot through MSU’s Center for Entrepreneur-ship and Innovation in the College of Business. The company was based in MSU’s business in-
cubator building at the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Econom-ic Development Park and now operates out of an of-fice downtown and has an office in India.
West Point High School implemented CampusKnot in the fall as part of a statewide pi-lot program funded by the Legislature.
A few professors at MUW also started using CampusKnot as a pilot program, and Gopal said it was “extremely suc-cessful” and the software will most likely be used campuswide starting this fall.
MUW biology profes-sor Ross Whitwam said CampusKnot made for a “really smooth transi-tion” from in-person to online classes in March. He already used the poll function to quiz students in real time during lec-tures, he said.
“When I switched to online, I still wanted to do that, but I couldn’t just throw it in the middle of a lecture, so what I can do now is make the (ques-tions) open for 36 hours,” Whitwam said.
MSU does not work with CampusKnot as an institution, but several in-dividual faculty members use it, Gopal said. One of them, chemistry lab co-ordinator Teresa Brown, uses the poll function as well, but since classes
went online she has used it mainly for student feed-back, such as when would be the most convenient time to hold office hours, she said.
CampusKnot is inte-grated with the video conference tool Zoom and makes it easy for Brown to start her office hours and for students to access the video, she said.
The documents fea-ture in CampusKnot “saved” Brown during the transition to online learning, she said, when she needed to upload a week’s worth of videos and PDFs for her 1,000 chemistry students, and MSU’s learning manage-ment system of Canvas was not working.
Brown has been using CampusKnot since the fall 2019 semester and “loved it from the intro-duction,” she said.
“It’s more like an ed-ucational social media platform, so students tend to be a little more relaxed when using it,” she said. “They’re more apt to jump on that first, and they know I check it first before I even check Canvas. It creates a lit-tle bit of a relaxing envi-ronment they’re used to using with their phones, apps, social media and things like that. It’s kind of a happy medium be-tween casual life and ac-ademic life.”
Courtesy photo/Logan KirklandFrom left, Sagar Shetty, Clint VanCourt, Ana Gonzalez, Rahul Gopal and Blake Tarver worked in CampusKnot’s American office in the fall of 2018 when this photo was taken. The online learning management system company has 25 employees and two offices, one in downtown Starkville and one in India.
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BROTHER OF FORMER MSU QB PRESCOTT DEAD AT 31STARKVILLE — The
b r o t h e r of former Mississippi State quar-t e r b a c k and current Dallas Cow-boy Dak P r e s c o t t has died, according to multiple re-ports.
Jace Prescott, 31, re-
portedly passed away Thursday morning, ac-cording to The Shreve-port Times, who con-firmed the death with Northwestern State as-sistant athletic director for media relations Jason Pugh. His cause of death is unclear at this time.
Prescott played foot-ball for the Demons af-ter a standout career at Haughton High School in
Louisiana. The Cowboys released
the following statement on Prescott’s passing to NFL.com reporter Tom Pelissero:”It is with great sadness and support that we share the news of the passing of Jace Prescott today. The loss of Tad and Dak’s brother is dev-astating. At this incred-ibly difficult time, the Prescott family asks only
for prayers and respect for their privacy.”
Ado declares for draft, likely to return
Mississippi State’s Ab-dul Ado has entered the NBA Draft process, but the intent is mostly for in-formation-gathering pur-poses, sources tell The Dispatch.
A source close to the
situation said Ado, a 6-foot-11 forward, fully in-tends to return for his se-nior season, but wanted to receive f e e d b a c k from pro scouts.
M S U r e g u l a r s R o b e r t Woodard II, Reggie Perry and Nick Weatherspoon
have announced their in-tentions to go pro. Only Woodard II has the option of returning to school.
Ado, known for his defensive prowess, aver-aged 5.7 points and 6.7 rebounds per game while making 31 starts for the Bulldogs in the 2019-2020 season.
SOURCE: From Special Reports
J. PrescottAdo
NFL DRAFT
Ranking MSU’s best value picks since 2010 ahead of Day 2BY BEN [email protected]
STARKVILLE — While no Mississippi State players heard their names called during the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night, there remains ample pro-fessional talent among the Bulldog contingent.
Since 2010, 26 former MSU players have been taken in rounds 2-7. For the purposes of this piece, we’re qualifying “value” as anyone not selected in the first round relative to their eventual NFL fu-tures.
With that in mind, let’s dive right in:
QB Dak Prescott — Dal-las Cowboys
Round 4, Pick 135 (2016)
Five years on from MSU’s magical run to the first No. 1 ranking in the College Football Playoff poll’s brief history, quar-terback Dak Prescott has become synonymous with the program. In four years in Starkville, Prescott threw for 9,376 yards, 70 touchdowns and just 23 in-terceptions.
A dynamic runner, he also finished just 14 yards shy of the 1,000-yard mark in 2014 and totaled 2,521 yards on the ground during his career.
Entering the 2015 draft, Prescott was seen as a bit of a project, but he
quickly blossomed into the Cowboys’ franchise quarterback. A two-time Pro Bowler and the 2016 Associated Press Offen-sive Rookie of the Year, Prescott has blossomed into one of the elite signal caller’s in the game.
DL Chris Jones — Kansas City Chiefs
Round 2, Pick 37 (2016)
To call Chris Jones a complete steal is proba-bly overselling it given that he was the fifth pick of the second round in
2016. A college teammate of Prescott’s, Jones has started 41 of his 61 ca-reer games for the Chiefs — totaling 136 tackles and 33 sacks. A major snub following his 15.5 sack campaign in 2018, the Houston, Mississip-pi, native earned his first Pro Bowl nod in 2019 while helping the Chiefs to a Super Bowl title.
A bit of a late bloomer in NFL circles, Jones was projected as a first- or second-round pick fol-lowing his junior season at MSU. Falling out of the
draft’s first night, he has been a stalwart for the Chiefs ever since.
CB Darius Slay — Detroit Lions
Round 2, Pick 36 (2013)
Like Jones, it’s hard to call Darius Slay a sleep-er as the fourth pick of the second round, but the Brunswick, Georgia, native has lived up to his billing and then some during his NFL career.
After playing two seasons at Itawamba Community College in
Fulton, Slay appeared in all 26 games during his time at MSU. As a senior, his five intercep-tions led the Southeast-ern Conference, and his 101 interception return yards were fourth in the league.
Since MSU, Slay has been to three Pro Bowls and earned All-Pro hon-ors in 2017. His 24 career interceptions also rank 19th among active NFL players.
Slay was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in the offseason.
LB K.J. Wright — Seattle Seahawks
Round 4, Pick 99 (2011)
K.J. Wright was one of four former Bulldogs selected in the 2011 draft. Playing in 47 ca-reer games, Wright was elevated to a starting role as a sophomore, record-ing 251 tackles and nine sacks over the final three years in Starkville.
As a prospect, he was the 13th linebacker tak-en in the 2011 draft but blossomed into a key cog in the Seahawks’ “Legion of Boom” defense that helped the franchise to the 2014 Super Bowl.
Durable throughout his NFL career, Wright played in 107 games over his first seven profession-al seasons, earning his lone Pro Bowl selection in 2016.
LB Benardrick McKin-ney — Houston Texans
Round 2, Pick 43 (2015)
Benardrick McKinney was a staple in the middle of the Bulldogs’ defense during the Dak Prescott years in Starkville. As a junior in 2014, he earned first-team SEC and first-team All-American honors while racking up 71 tack-les and three sacks.
Mel Kiper Jr. rated McKinney as a top-30 prospect in the 2015 NFL
Raj Mehta/USA TODAY SportsIt’s hard to call Darius Slay a sleeper as the fourth pick of the second round, but the Brunswick, Georgia, native has lived up to his billing and then some during his NFL career. Slay was traded to Philadelphia this offseason.
Throughout Wednes-day, she’d been receiving texts from relatives and family friends. Texts with weird questions: What’s your favorite candy? What do you like to drink?
But at 6 p.m., when her mother Krystal asked for her help outside their house in Elk Grove, Cal-ifornia, Moreno had no idea what was coming.
As she stepped out, cars began to roll down the street in front of her — friends and family members come to cele-brate her recent signing with the Mississippi State softball program. Twenty or 30 in all, compressed into 15 vehicles, they bore signs, streamers and the sweets Moreno liked best.
“I was just so over-whelmed with emotion, I instantly started crying,” Moreno said.
“There were big old streams of tears just com-ing down my face.”
She wasn’t the only one getting emotional. Her relatives and the “soft-ball family” — friends of Krystal’s who supported Moreno throughout her standout career at Shel-don High School in Sacra-mento — teared up, too.
“They’ve all seen my journey,” Moreno told The Dispatch.
Joining the Bulldogs was just the latest step in a path that took the catch-er and infielder through the highs and lows of college softball. After signing with powerhouse UCLA — her dream school — out of Sheldon, Moreno redshirted and transferred to the College of San Mateo, a junior col-lege in the Bay Area.
Moreno getting ‘second chance’ with Bulldogs
MISSISSIPPI STATE WOMEN’S GOLF
Gilliam shows promise in shortened freshman seasonBY THEO [email protected]
As the final minutes of her freshman season un-knowingly slipped away, Ashley Gilliam calmly strode toward the 18th green.
The Mississippi State golfer was as serene as ever despite the frantic-ness of the moment as the Bulldogs battled Okla-homa in the final round of the Westbrook Spring Invitational on Feb. 24 in Peoria, Arizona.
Mississippi State faced a five-stroke deficit head-ed into the back nine of that decisive third round, but unbeknownst to Gil-liam, her team had closed the gap.
The freshman, who would finish in a tie for second place in the indi-vidual standings, made her par putt to finish a round of 5-under 67. As Gilliam stepped off the green, she had one question for her fellow Bulldogs: “‘Where do we stand?’”
Gilliam’s teammates embraced her, happy to deliver good news: Mis-sissippi State and Oklaho-ma were tied.
Not long after, Mis-sissippi State found out something even better: Thanks to solid play by Gilliam and freshman teammate Abbey Daniel and a late charge by ju-nior Blair Stockett, they’d edged the powerhouse Sooners by a stroke to win as a team for the first time since 2014.
“We came out on top, so it was a really cool feel-ing to finally get the win,” Gilliam said.
It was a fitting last hur-rah for the Bulldogs and their star freshman. Two and a half weeks later, just before heading back to Arizona to compete in
the Clover Cup, Missis-sippi State’s season was suspended due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Soon after-ward, the rest of the sea-son was canceled.
“Obviously, it’s not what we all wanted to hap-pen, but I think we all un-derstand the reason why it had to end that way,” Gilliam said.
Gilliam, whose show-ing in Peoria earned her SEC women’s golfer of the week honors, lost out on a chance to compete in three more tournaments and excel in postseason play.
Named an honorable
mention all-American by the Women’s Golf Coach-es Association on Tues-day, the freshman still has plenty of room to im-prove in three more sea-sons with the Bulldogs.
“You’re talking half a shot here, a quarter of a shot there, and you’re looking at first-team all-American,” Missis-sippi State coach Ginger Brown-Lemm said. “The sky’s the limit.”
Making a BulldogGilliam didn’t come
out of nowhere to have the freshman season she did, finishing in the top 10 four times in a row and setting the Mississippi State record for stroke av-erage at 70.64.
The Manchester, Ten-nessee, product was a well-regarded junior golf-er before she ever came to Starkville. She tied for eighth in the 2018 Amer-ican Junior Golf Associa-tion girls championship, then qualified for the 2019 U.S. Women’s Amateur in August at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point.
“That was probably one of my favorite events that I’ve ever played in,”
Mississippi State AthleticsMississippi State freshman golfer Ashley Gilliam is pic-tured with her coach, Ginger Brown-Lemm. Gilliam set the Bulldogs’ record for stroke average this season.
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Gilliam said. “It felt like I was home.”
By then — just two weeks before her first semester of college start-ed — she already was. Gilliam and the Bulldogs train at The Barn across the street and have ac-cess to Old Waverly and Mossy Oak golf courses.
Those resources and the “family” ambience Gilliam found at Mis-sissippi State were her reasons for picking the Bulldogs in her fresh-man year of high school, back when the NCAA still permitted for golfers that young to commit to col-leges.
“She’s just been a Bull-dog since then,” Brown-Lemm said.
During her high school career, Gilliam also made trips to West Point to work with Old Waverly teaching profes-sional VJ Trolio on her swing. Watching Gilliam hone her skills, Trolio could tell the Tullahoma High School star’s talent was real.
“She’s just a hardwork-ing girl that loves the game and is a real role model for young junior golfers out there,” Trolio said. “She’s been good at every level she’s played at.”
But in Mississippi State’s first two tourna-ments of the season — the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invita-tional and the Mason Ru-dolph Invitational — Gil-liam struggled a bit more than usual, tying for 23rd place in each event.
Realizing she wasn’t eating enough to stay strong on the course, she started working with Brown-Lemm and the Bulldogs’ strength and conditioning staff to im-prove her nutrition hab-its. By taking in more car-bohydrates and calories, adding protein to help with workouts and eat-ing more than just three meals per day, Gilliam began to swing faster and send balls flying farther.
“There’s just a lot that goes into playing this
elite-level golf, and she embraced it,” Brown-Lemm said. “It took a lit-tle while, as any kind of new skill takes, but the result stands very, very clear.”
Gilliam tied for third place in her next two tour-naments — the Schooner Fall Classic in Norman, Oklahoma, and the Mag-nolia Invitational at Old Waverly.
On a windy day in Par-adise Island, Bahamas, she tied for sixth against a strong field to close out the Bulldogs’ fall sched-ule; at the Westbrook, she shot a 13-under-par 203 even after rain wiped out her practice round for the first time all season.
For her coach, look-ing back, the midseason improvements Gilliam made were tantalizing as to what she could have of-fered had the season been played as scheduled.
“To see her move for-ward like that as a player, kind of coming into her own — her own confi-dence level at the elite collegiate level of the SEC; shooting 13-under par for the Westbrook — one can only dream about what the finish was,” Brown-Lemm said.
‘Firing on all cylinders’For Gilliam, the best
way to stay positive — and stay in shape — in the absence of regular competition has been to keep things as normal as possible. At home, she’s training and working out to maintain a schedule similar to the one she had before her season was canceled and her classes moved online.
Every other week, she’s even making the 4.5-hour trip to West Point to work with Trolio on her swing. Accustomed to the drive, Gilliam said she always heads straight to Old Waverly and back to Manchester without stay-ing overnight.
To her coach, Gilliam’s unwillingness to forgo her lessons is part of the inimitable competitive
drive she possesses.“She wants to be a
great player,” Trolio said. “She has all the stuff that I’ve seen in people before her that were really good players.”
And with the NCAA’s recent ruling that spring sport student-athletes will receive an extra year of eligibility to compete, Gilliam could have four years left in Starkville to make her mark.
She’ll do it alongside a talented group of team-mates at Mississippi State, too. Stockett, who will have two years of el-igibility remaining, tied for third at the Magnolia Invite and excelled late with four birdies on the back nine to help her team make a charge at the Westbrook.
Senior Clara Moyano, whom Brown-Lemm is excited to get back next season, finished in the top 20 four straight times before the team’s final two events.
Junior Aubree Jones and freshman Abbey Daniel will likely round out the Bulldogs’ start-ing lineup next season, giving Gilliam plenty of support when Mississip-pi State finally hits the course again.
Just take the West-brook for example: Be-hind Gilliam’s tie for sec-ond place, Daniel tied for sixth, and Stockett tied for 12th.
“That’s when you win: when everybody’s firing on all cylinders,” Brown-Lemm said. “It took ev-erybody, and everybody contributed.”
Gilliam said she’ll be ready the next time she’s called upon to play a tour-nament, whenever that is. Until then, she’ll be preparing at home, set for the stellar future she’s sure to have — and still remembering the mo-ment of triumph on which her first college season ended.
“It was a really cool event to see everyone come together and finally get a win,” Gilliam said.
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draft before he fell into the second round. In five professional seasons, he earned a Pro Bowl selec-tion in 2018 and has start-ed 73 of 76 career games for the Houston Texans.
P Logan Cooke — Jack-sonville Jaguars
Round 7, Pick 247 (2017)
While Logan Cooke doesn’t fall into the slew of defensive talent MSU has produced in the past decade, he’s been one of the NFL’s most productive punters over the last two seasons.
Cooke’s 46.8 yards per punt average ranked sixth in the league in 2019, while
he’s ranked in the top 10 in total punts and punt yards in each of his two profes-sional campaigns in Jack-sonville.
And though he has yet to receive a Pro Bowl nod in his young NFL career, the Columbia, Mississippi, product figures to remain among the league’s best at the position given the early returns.
OL Elgton Jenkins — Green Bay Packers
Round 2, Pick 44 (2019)
I’ll concede putting El-gton Jenkins on this list could be slightly prema-ture. That said, in his one professional season to
date, Jenkins was a bona fide stud on the Green Bay Packers’ offensive line.
Starting 14 of 16 games last season, the former first team All-American didn’t allow a single sack on 571 pass-blocking snaps. He was rewarded with a spot on the Pro Football Writ-ers Association All-Rookie team.
Like Cooke, Jenkins’ sample size is small, but he looks the part of a budding star in Green Bay.
23. L.A. Chargers (from New England), Kenneth Murray, lb, Oklahoma.
24. New Orleans, Ce-sar Ruiz, c, Michigan.
25. San Francisco (from Minnesota), Bran-don Aiyuk, wr, Arizona State.
26. Green Bay (from Houston through Mi-ami), Jordan Love, qb, Utah State.
27. Seattle, Jordyn Brooks, lb, Texas Tech.
28. Baltimore, Pat-rick Queen, lb, LSU.
29. Tennessee, Isaiah Wilson, ot, Georgia.
30. Miami (from Green Bay), Noah Ig-binoghene, cb, Auburn.
31. Minnesota (from San Francisco), Jeff Glad-ney, cb, TCU.
32. Kansas City, Clyde Edwards-Helaire, rb, LSU.
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Comics & PuzzlesDear AbbyDILBERT
ZITS
GARFIELD
CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
HoroscopesTODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April
24). Love is the star this year. You want a deep relationship and you’ll get it; you’re able to be vulnerable and open to enrichment. You’ll connect with the emotions of others because you take the time to understand your own emotions better. You’ll soar on the confidence of a personal or professional win in late August. Libra and Aquarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 30, 22, 31, 45 and 17.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). If you feel that a relationship has an imbalance of power, shore up the difference. There are many different ways to account for power and points of
leverage that are not immediate-ly obvious.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll fill needs that people didn’t even realize they had. It’s also possible that you create need by providing something very interesting and getting people used to having it in their lives.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’re like a hybrid car today, except you’ll toggle between more than two kinds of fuel to keep your wheels spinning. En-ergy sources may be emotional, inspirational, nutritional and caffeinated.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Among the most primal body
language cues for engendering trust and projecting charisma is the often-overlooked show of hands — open palmed, proving the lack of a rock or spear. Use this and make a friend.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Try-ing to change too many habits at once almost always fails, especially if the environment stays the same. Your winning move involves taking on one behavioral change at a time.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). When things seem harder than they should be, figure out why. Ask, “How can I make this eas-ier?” You might be surprised at how a few decisions can change the whole game.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Don’t ask other people for green lights. Green lights don’t work that way. Usually, they are on timers. And often, when you hit one, you’ll start to hit them all. Or you can always take the backroads.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It’s fortifying to spend time with people who appreciate you or to spend time doing the things that really make you ap-preciate yourself. The opposite is detrimental.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). As much as you’d like to re-lease something into your past, it’s not going to happen until you’re really ready. Accept your emotions. Feeling them fully is part of becoming ready.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Relationships don’t fix the problems of individuals, though they may distract from those problems or cloak them in a different garb. Each individual must ultimately solve for their own soul.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You sense when people aren’t telling the whole truth, but you often don’t press the issue out of a respect for priva-cy or a realization that there’s little to gain by making people uncomfortable.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your positive attitude is grounded in this: Everyone is ca-pable of improving. So whether a person is innately talented or disadvantaged is really beside the point and certainly not worth dwelling on.
SOLUTION:Tear jerker
FAMILY CIRCUS
DEAR ABBY: I am a 39-year-old
woman, recently separated. I have been seeing a 45-year-old man who is also separated, but not divorced from his wife. We have been a couple for about a year. I don’t understand why he doesn’t get a divorce.
When his wife (who has also been seeing someone for more than a year) found out we were seeing each other, it got ugly. She came to our place of employment (her ex and I work in the same place, different departments) and tried to get me fired. Fortunately, she was unsuccessful, and she tried to get physical. She told me she is his wife — she told him as well — and said she tells him what to do, and she “owns him.” At that point I had to stop seeing him.
After a month apart, I be-came really depressed, and we hooked back up. We go out and enjoy each other’s company, and the sex is AMAZING. He told me he has never felt like this with any other woman nor has he ever introduced anyone to his daughter (who loves me dearly). We are taking things slower and more carefully, but I
am falling in love.He tells me he
misses me when we are intimate and how grateful he is for me, but it isn’t enough. I want more, but I don’t want to scare him away. Is this a dead end? Should I be patient, or should I just walk away? — IT’S COMPLI-CATED IN THE EAST
DEAR COM-PLICATED: I have
to wonder why, after a year, you are not in the process of being divorced. You also need some straight answers about what keeps this man under his wife’s thumb. The woman appears to have serious mental issues. Is the reason financial? Emotion-al? Once you know, you will have a better idea of what to do.
I am troubled by the fact that your boyfriend’s wife is so volatile. As it stands, that woman is controlling not only him but also you, and that’s not healthy.
DEAR ABBY: I was raised in a very strict household. At 19, I left home and never looked back. Today, I am 54, divorced and own my own home.
My mother passed away, and my father moved in with me a few months ago because he didn’t like living alone. I have
had to make several adjust-ments to accommodate him.
The problem is, he’s ex-tremely traditional and refuses to change his way of thinking where I am concerned. In his eyes, I am still his child, and I should respect and abide by his rules.
I have a boyfriend who lives several miles away. When he visits, I would like him to spend the night with me in my room. My dad insists (demands) that my boyfriend sleep on the couch or in the guest bedroom. He has informed me that it is my choice, but if I don’t abide by his wishes (demands), he will refuse to talk with my boyfriend, which undoubtedly will cause stress in my relationship.
I have told my father that I am a grown woman and that I refuse to give up my freedom to accommodate him in this area. After all, this is my home. How should I handle this? — ALL GROWN UP IN ARKANSAS
DEAR ALL GROWN: If you knuckle under to Dear Old Dad’s demands, you are making a big mistake. Sit him down, “remind” him that you are no longer a little girl and if he cannot accept that you are an adult with needs of your own and be respectful to your boyfriend, he will no longer be welcome to live under your roof. Do not try to placate him or you will be living the rest of your father’s life in a second childhood, and it won’t be a happy one.
Dear Abby
For all the changes, NFL draft kind of looked, well, normalTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
For all the uniqueness of this NFL draft, includ-ing the angst over a po-tential communications fiasco, things looked and sounded pretty normal Thursday night.
Quarterbacks were in demand. Ohio State and the Southeastern Con-ference dominated. The Patriots traded out of the first round.
And Commissioner Roger Goodell even got booed, if only digitally.
“I do believe this draft is going to be the most memorable we have ever had,” said Goodell, noting that it is accompanied by a “Draft-A-Thon” to ben-efit six organizations on the front lines battling the
coronavirus pandemic, which is what forced the NFL to cancel all in-per-son draft events.
The first round wasn’t all that remarkable for the picks. Beginning with Joe Burrow of national cham-pion LSU, three quarter-backs went in the top six. Hardly unusual.
For months, the Heisman Trophy winner from LSU was linked with the Bengals. Cincinnati began the draft by send-ing his name to Goodell in the basement of his home.
This digital/remote/virtual draft — take your choice — was up and run-ning. With no apparent glitches.
Of course, there were no fireworks on the Las Vegas Strip. No bear hug
between Goodell and Bur-row; the commissioner said he would miss those, even if his body wouldn’t. This most basic selection show had team personnel making picks from their homes and players sit-ting on their own couches while learning their fu-ture employers.
The NFL canceled all draft activities in Las Vegas when the national shutdown of large gath-erings began. The league had gone full bore into free agency last month and, now, seven rounds of the draft through Sat-urday.
“I just believe that our job is to continue on and operate within whatever guidelines are necessary to keep our personnel
safe, whether it’s players or coaches or their exec-utives or league person-nel,” Goodell said. “We need to make sure that we’re doing things safely and put public safety No. 1, but we also need to car-ry on. We need to move to-ward the future. We need to make sure that we’re prepared when we come out of this to be in a posi-tion to start our season on time and play our season. That’s our role.”
Normalcy, at least among the picks, was the order of the evening, though.
First came Burrow: In his spectacular senior season, he threw for 60 — yes, 60 — touchdowns with only six intercep-tions. The Tigers beat six
top 10 teams on their way to the national title.
“To jump up to No. 1 overall is crazy to me,” Burrow said.
He joins a team that went 2-14 last season and desperately needs a jolt of energy.
The second overall selection, Ohio State All-America edge rusher Chase Young, also was predictable. Washington fielded several offers for that spot, but many scouts and personnel executives felt Young was the best player in this crop.
At 6-foot-5, 264 pounds, Young led the nation with 16 1/2 sacks and forced fumbles with six last season. The All-Ameri-can won the prestigious Bednarik and Nagurski
awards in 2019, leading the Buckeyes to the Big Ten title.
If not for the NFL’s obsession with finding the latest, greatest quar-terback prospect, Young might have been the top overall selection. That QB infatuation led Miami to Tua Tagovailoa and the Los Angeles Chargers to Justin Herbert — no sur-prises there. But Green Bay took a chance at No. 26 by taking Utah State QB Jordan Love.
Alabama’s Tagovailoa went fifth, followed in the next spot by Herbert. They were preceded by Ohio State’s Jeff Okudah, the highest-rated corner-back, to Detroit and Geor-gia tackle Andrew Thom-as to the Giants.
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RELIGIOUS BRIEFSHistoric Church Homecoming Canceled
Historic Mt. Pleasant Meth-odist Church, Wright Road, Caledonia, MS Annual Home-coming on May 10, 2020 has been canceled due to the current Coronavirus Pandemic shutdown orders and it has not been rescheduled.
School of Ministry Enrollment
Mississippi State School of Ministry is now taking ap-plications for enrollment. Earn a certification, associates, bachelor, master or doctoral degree in divinity. For more information, call Dr. Michael T. Boyd, 662-425-8443.
CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Forgive and Live
Forgive and Live meets from 6-7 p.m. every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month in the downtown YMCA Board Room and every 3rd Wednes-day at Vibrant Church Cafe. Inquire and seek informa-tion to succeed spiritually, physically and financially and
be eager to be a blessing to the community, churches and families through the Word of God. The public is invited to attend. For more information, call Pat Fisher Douglas, 662-251-5899.
Fellowship Dinner, Youth Service
Pleasant Ridge Faith Cen-ter, 923 Ridge Road, hosts a fellowship dinner and youth service every 3rd Sunday.
Gospel Book ClubFriendship M.B. Church,
1102 12th Ave. S., invites the public to join its Community Gospel Book Club from 6-7 p.m., on the fourth Friday of each month, to study and share views of the Holy Bible. Open to all ages and ethnic-ities. For more information, call Barbara Mattison or Lillian Murray, 662-570-5595.
Grief Support GroupThe Oil of Joy for Grief
and Mourning offers a grief support group at 6 p.m. every 2nd Thursday of the month at United Christian Baptist Church, 232 Yorkville Road
East. “Making your grieving journey easier.” For more in-formation, call 662-327-0604 or e-mail [email protected].
Celebrate RecoveryThe Assembly Church,
2201 Military Road, and Meadowview Church, 300 Lin-den Circle in Starkville, host Celebrate Recovery at 6 p.m. every Sunday at The Assem-bly Church (next to Lowe’s) and at 6 p.m. every Tuesday at Meadowview Church. Get help, healing and support for any habit, hurt or hang-up using the Christ-centered 12 steps.
Prayer for YouthEvery 2nd and 3rd Sat-
urday, Pleasant Ridge Faith Center hosts a prayer for the youth from 2-3 p.m.
Prayer, Free CoffeeMount Zion Missionary
Baptist Church, 2221 14th Ave. N., hosts free coffee and a prayer community outreach service from 8-9 a.m. every 5th Saturday. For information, contact Jesse Slater, 662-328-4979.
Radio Program Apostles Patrick Perkins
invites the public to tune in to WTWG, radio 1050 AM for Per-fecting the Saints Broadcast, Wednesdays 8:30 a.m.
Women Prayer, Worship Service
Church of the Eternal Word, 106 22nd St. S., holds a prayer and worship service every Thursday from 5-6 p.m. Call Marie Nabors, 662-549-4322 or 662-329-1234, for prayer requests.
Prayer MinistryNew Beginning Everlasting
Outreach Ministry invites the public to call in with their prayer requests at 662-327-9843.
Prayer ServiceChurch of the Eternal
Word, 106 22nd. St. S., Co-lumbus, holds prayer service Thursday nights 5-6 p.m. Contact Marie Nabors, 662-549-4322. Church service times: Sunday school 10 a.m.; Sunday worship 11:15 a.m.; Tuesday Bible study 7
p.m. For information, call Pas-tor District Elder Lou Nabors, 662-329-1234.
Fitness Transformations
The Transformational Church, 2301 Jess Lyons Road, hosts boxing lessons Mondays and Wednesday from 5-7 p.m., weight-loss boot camp Tuesdays and
Thursdays 5-7 p.m. and both on Saturdays 9-11 a.m.
Youth FellowshipThe Transformational
Church, 2301 Jess Lyons Road, hosts Youth Fellowship from 7-8:30 p.m. every Tues-day. Games, prayer, service, food, & more. Transportation available. For information, call Iris Roberson, 662-295-7456.
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BY ASHRAF KHALIL The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It started in late March with a self-pro-fessed high school “news junk-ie” and a lone 3D printer.
Georgetown Day School se-nior Jonah Docter-Loeb was transfixed by television footage
of the “suffering on such a large scale” caused by the coronavi-rus pandemic.
After learning that supplies of protective medical gear were being depleted, Docter-Loeb sought a way to help. He tapped into the online community of “makers” — 3D printer enthu-siasts — and found an open-
source design for a welder’s mask-style face shield he could print at home.
Things moved quickly from there.
In less than a month, that idea has mushroomed into Print to Protect, a network of around 100 3D printers, most in individual homes, producing face shields for distribution to Washington area hospitals. The group says it has printed 3,000 shields so far with a goal of completing 10,000 in April.
“For a lot of us, it can be over-whelming what’s happening,” said Emily Scarrow, a junior at
the private school and part of a collective of students running the project. She said working on the campaign helped her deal with the feelings of “helpless-ness and isolation” of the ongo-ing stay-at-home orders.
The supplies are much need-ed as Washington and the larger capital region of southern Mary-land and northern Virginia brac-es for a looming surge.
Twice a week, volunteer driv-ers such as William Olsen gath-er up the printed materials from people’s homes. To maintain social distancing and reduce personal interactions, residents
leave the newly printed parts in a sealed bag or box on their porches.
“I have a car and I have a bunch of free time. I’m privi-leged and this is the least I can do,” said Olsen, a Georgetown Day junior who is thinking of studying medicine.
The parts are delivered to Eaton DC, a communal work-space downtown that’s serving as a distribution hub. There, more volunteers assemble the two basic components — a plas-tic headband and a clear sheet of flexible plastic that hangs in front of the face.
DC’s high school ‘makers’ fire up 3D printers to create PPEPrint to Protect, a network of around 100 3D printers, most in individual homes, has printed 3,000 face shields so far with a goal of completing 10,000 in April
BY TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer
DETROIT — Cindy Parkhurst could have stayed home collecting most of her pay while the Ford plant where she normally works remains closed due to coronavirus fears.
Instead, she along with hundreds of workers at Ford, General Motors, Toyota and other com-panies has gone back to work to make face shields,
surgical masks and ven-tilators in a wartime-like effort to stem shortages of protective gear and equip-ment.
“I didn’t give it a second thought,” said Parkhurst, 55, a tow motor driver who is now helping Ford and its partner 3M manu-facture and ship respira-tors. “It’s a neat thing to do for the community, for the first responders who definitely need this kind of protective gear.”
All over the country,
blue-collar and salaried workers have raised their hands to make medical equipment as companies repurpose factories to an-swer calls for help from be-leaguered nurses, doctors and paramedics who are treating patients with the highly contagious virus. Workers also are making soap and hand sanitizer, which early in the crisis were in short supply.
At Ford, over 800 peo-ple returned to work at four Detroit-area sites.
General Motors, which President Donald Trump had alternately criticized and praised for its work, has about 400 at a now-closed transmission plant in suburban Detroit and an electronics factory in Kokomo, Indiana, work-ing on shields and venti-lators. About 60 Toyota workers, both salaried and blue-collar, are mak-ing protective equipment in Kentucky, Texas, Mich-igan and Alabama.
Most automakers in the U.S. temporarily stopped making vehicles about a month ago after work-ers complained about the risks of infection at the factories. Many white-col-
lar workers are being paid to work remotely but members of the United Auto Workers who don’t have that option are still collecting pay and unem-ployment benefits that equal about 95 percent of regular take-home wages.
Those workers making medical gear will get their full base pay, but that’s not what’s motivating them to keep coming to the facto-ries. Many simply want to help.
Jody Barrowman has been making face masks at a repurposed former General Motors transmis-sion factory near Detroit since early April.
“Instead of being home
and not helpful, I thought I’d be productive here,” she said.
She jumped at the chance to work because GM is donating the masks to hospitals and first re-sponders “which is where it needs to go,” she said.
Barrowman said that the operation has been so efficient that workers have been allowed to take masks home for family members.
“I dropped some off at my grandparents. My parents took a full packet of masks at my house. So, it’s not just helping the first responders. It’s help-ing me and my family feel safe,” she said.
Despite risks, auto workers step up to make medical gear‘It’s a neat thing to do for the community, for the first responders who definitely need this kind of protective gear’
Detroit Ford plant worker Cindy Parkhurst
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
IN RE: THE ESTATE OF ANNAMAE WILSON DRAPER, DE-CEASED
RUTH DRAPER RECTOR, AD-MINISTRATOR
CAUSE NO.: 2018-00017-RPF
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS ATLAW OF ANNA MAE WILSONDRAPER, DECEASED
You have been made a Defend-ant in the suit filed in thisCourt by Ruth Draper Rector, ina suit to allow sale of real es-tate, disburse funds and de-termine heirship of Anna MaeWilson Draper. Defendants oth-er than you are unknown.
You are to mail or hand delivera copy of a written Answereither admitting or denyingeach allegation in the Petitionto COURTNEY B. “CORKY”SMITH, whose address is PostOffice Box 648, Columbus, MS39703-0648.
YOUR ANSWER MUST BEMAILED OR DELIVERED NOLATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYSFROM THE DATE OF FIRST PUB-LICATION.
You must also file the originalof your Answer with the Clerk ofthis Court within a reasonabletime afterward and you aresummoned to appear and de-fend against the suit at 9:00o’clock a.m. on the 3rd day ofJune 2020, in the courtroom ofthe Chickasaw County Chan-cery Courthouse at Houston,Mississippi, before the Honor-able Rodney P. Faver and incase of your failure to appearand defend, a judgment will beentered against you for thethings demanded in the Com-plain. You are not required tofile an answer or other plead-ing to the Complaint, but youmay do so if you desire.
ISSUED UNDER MY HAND ANDTHE SEAL OF SAID COURT, onthis the 22nd day of April2020.
Cindy Egger GoodeCINDY EGGER GOODE, Chan-cery ClerkLowndes County, Mississippi
By: Tina Fisher , D.C.
PUBLISH: 4/24, 5/1, &5/3/2020
Cellco Partnership and its con-trolled affiliates doing busi-ness as Verizon Wireless (Veri-zon Wireless) proposes to builda 221-foot self-supporting lat-tice tower communicationstower. Anticipated lighting ap-plication is a medium intensitydual red/white strobes. TheSite location is 104 Antler Way,Columbus, Lowndes County,Mississippi, 39701, (33 2836.31 N, 88 32 29.36 W). TheFederal Communications Com-mission (FCC) Antenna Struc-ture Registration (ASR, Form854) filing number isA1158182.
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS – In-terested persons may reviewthe application by entering thefiling number(www.fcc.gov/asr/applications). Environmental concerns maybe raised by filing a Requestfor Environmental Review(www.fcc.gov/asr/environment-alrequest) and online filings arestrongly encouraged. The mail-ing address to file a paper copyis: FCC Requests for Environ-mental Review, Attn: RamonWilliams, 445 12th Street SW,Washington, DC 20554.
HISTORIC PROPERTIES EF-FECTS - Public comments re-garding potential effects on his-toric properties may be submit-ted within 30 days from thedate of this publication to:MPH (RE: EBI #6120001746),6876 Susquehanna TrailSouth, York, PA 17403,(504) 458-4444,[email protected].
Legal Notices
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING,LLC PLAINTIFF
V.
LARRY SMITH, MYKLE K.SMITH, JUDY K. SMITH, DAISYFLOWERS HAWKINS, SARAHFLOWERS SYKES, TOMMIE LEEFLOWER, Jr., a/k/a TOMMIELEE FLOWERS, Jr., EDDIE B.SMITH, III, THE UNKNOWNHEIRS OF EDDIE B. SMITH,SR., DECEASED, THE UN-KNOWN HEIRS OF EDDIE B.SMITH, JR., DECEASED, andTHE UNKNOWN HEIRS OFPEACH FLOWERS SMITH,a/k/a PEACH FLOWER SMITH,DECEASED DEFENDANTS
CAUSE NO. 44CH1:20-cv-00080-RPF
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES
TO: Eddie B. Smith, IIIP.O. Box 222Addis, LA 70710-0222
Eddie B. Smith, III4652 Jaselyn Ann AvenueAddis, LA 70710-29311
You have been made a Defend-ant in the suit filed in thisCourt by Bayview Loan Servi-cing, LLC (the “Plaintiff”) seek-ing a judgment in favor of thePlaintiff for confirmation of titleand reformation of certain in-struments in the chain of title.Defendants other than you inthis action are Larry Smith,Mykle K. Smith, Judy K. Smith,Daisy Flowers Hawkins, SarahFlowers Sykes, Tommie LeeFlower, Jr., unknown heirs ofEddie B. Smith, Sr., deceased,unknown heirs of Eddie B.Smith, Jr., deceased, and un-known heirs of Peach FlowersSmith a/k/a Peach FlowerSmith, deceased.
You are required to mail orhand deliver a copy of a writ-ten response to the Complaintfiled against you in this actionto: G. Dewey Hembree, III,McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC,1020 Highland Colony Parkway,Ste 702, Ridgeland, MS39157, the attorney for thePlaintiff.
YOUR RESPONSE MUST BEMAILED OR DELIVERED NOTLATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYSAFTER THE FIRST PUBLISHDATE, WHICH IS THE DATE OFTHE FIRST PUBLICATION OFTHIS SUMMONS. IF YOUR RE-SPONSE IS NOT SO MAILED ORDELIVERED, A JUDGMENT BYDEFAULT WILL BE ENTEREDAGAINST YOU FOR THE MONEYOR OTHER RELIEF DEMANDEDIN THE COMPLAINT.
You must also file the originalof your response with the Clerkof this Court within a reason-able time afterward.
Issued under my hand and sealof said Court, this 16th day ofApril, 2020.
Cindy E. Goode, Chancery ClerkLowndes County, Mississippi
BY: s/Shantrell W. GrandersonD.C.(Seal)
SUBMITTED BY:G. Dewey Hembree, III (MSBNo. 2247)MCGLINCHEY STAFFORD, PLLC1020 Highland Colony Pkwy,Ste 702Ridgeland, MS 39157(769) 524-2300; (601) 510-5609 (fax)
Publish: April 24, 2020May 1, 2020May 8, 2020May 15, 2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
KIMBERLY DAVIS SANDLINAND JONATHAN SANDLINPETITIONERS
VERSUS
JOSHUA W. EGLER AND COM-MONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYCABINET FOR HEALTH ANDFAMILY SERVICESRESPONDENTS
CAUSE NO:2019-0258-S
SUMMONS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES
TO: JOSHUA W. EGLER, whosewhereabouts are unknown
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT
THE DOCUMENT THAT IS AT-TACHED TO THIS SUMMONS ISIMPORTANT AND YOU MUSTTAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TOPROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.
Your are summoned to appearand defend against the Peti-tion for Termination of Parent-al Rights at 9:00 o’clock a.m.,on Friday, the 15th day of May,2020, in the Lowndes CountyChancery Court, at the Chickas-aw County Courthouse,Okolona, Mississippi, and incase of your failure to appearand defend, a judgment will beentered against you for themoney or other things deman-ded in said Petition.
You are not required to file andAnswer or other Pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and sealof said Court, this 1st day ofApril, 2020.
Chancery Court Clerk ofLowndes County, MississippiCindy E. GoodeBy: Tina Fisher, D.C.(SEAL)
PUBLISH: 4/10, 4/17 74/24/2020
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
KIMBERLY DAVIS SANDLINAND JONATHAN SANDLINPETITIONERS
VERSUS
JOSHUA W. EGLER AND COM-MONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYCABINET FOR HEALTH ANDFAMILY SERVICESRESPONDENTS
CAUSE NO:2019-0258-S
SUMMONS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES
TO: JOSHUA W. EGLER, whosewhereabouts are unknown
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT
THE DOCUMENT THAT IS AT-TACHED TO THIS SUMMONS ISIMPORTANT AND YOU MUSTTAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TOPROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.
Your are summoned to appearand defend against the Peti-tion for Termination of Parent-al Rights at 9:00 o’clock a.m.,on Friday, the 15th day of May,2020, in the Lowndes CountyChancery Court, at the Chickas-aw County Courthouse,Okolona, Mississippi, and incase of your failure to appearand defend, a judgment will beentered against you for themoney or other things deman-ded in said Petition.
You are not required to file andAnswer or other Pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and sealof said Court, this 1st day ofApril, 2020.
Chancery Court Clerk ofLowndes County, MississippiCindy E. GoodeBy: Tina Fisher, D.C.(SEAL)
PUBLISH: 4/10, 4/17 74/24/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
KIMBERLY DAVIS SANDLINAND JONATHAN SANDLINPETITIONERS
VERSUS
JOSHUA W. EGLER AND COM-MONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYCABINET FOR HEALTH ANDFAMILY SERVICESRESPONDENTS
CAUSE NO:2019-0259-S
SUMMONS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES
TO: JOSHUA W. EGLER, whosewhereabouts are unknown
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT
THE DOCUMENT THAT IS AT-TACHED TO THIS SUMMONS ISIMPORTANT AND YOU MUSTTAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TOPROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.
Your are summoned to appearand defend against the Peti-tion for Termination of Parent-al Rights at 9:00 o’clock a.m.,on Friday, the 15th day of May,2020, in the Lowndes CountyChancery Court, at the Chickas-aw County Courthouse,Okolona, Mississippi, and incase of your failure to appearand defend, a judgment will beentered against you for themoney or other things deman-ded in said Petition.
You are not required to file andAnswer or other Pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and sealof said Court, this 1st day ofApril, 2020.
Chancery Court Clerk ofLowndes County, MississippiCindy E. GoodeBy: Tina Fisher, D.C.(SEAL)
PUBLISH: 4/10, 4/17 &4/24/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF JANICE STONE, DE-CEASED
CAUSE NO.2020-0066-RPF
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES
Letters Testamentary havebeen granted and issued to theundersigned upon the Estate ofJanice Stone, Deceased, by theChancery Court of LowndesCounty, Mississippi, on the17th day of April, 2020. This isto give notice to all personshaving claims against said es-tate to probate and registersame with the Chancery Clerkof Lowndes County, Missis-sippi, within ninety (90) daysfrom the first publication dateof this Notice to Creditors. Afailure to so probate and re-gister said claim will foreverbar the same.
This the 20th day of April,2020.
/s/ James Blake BruceMcBrayerJAMES BLAKE BRUCE MCBRAY-ERA/KA/ BLAKE MCBRAYER, Ex-ecutor
PUBLISH: 4/24, 5/1,5/8/2020
Legal Notices
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF JANICE STONE, DE-CEASED
CAUSE NO.2020-0066-RPF
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES
Letters Testamentary havebeen granted and issued to theundersigned upon the Estate ofJanice Stone, Deceased, by theChancery Court of LowndesCounty, Mississippi, on the17th day of April, 2020. This isto give notice to all personshaving claims against said es-tate to probate and registersame with the Chancery Clerkof Lowndes County, Missis-sippi, within ninety (90) daysfrom the first publication dateof this Notice to Creditors. Afailure to so probate and re-gister said claim will foreverbar the same.
This the 20th day of April,2020.
/s/ James Blake BruceMcBrayerJAMES BLAKE BRUCE MCBRAY-ERA/KA/ BLAKE MCBRAYER, Ex-ecutor
PUBLISH: 4/24, 5/1,5/8/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF LULA PEARL TURNERLEIGH (DECEASED)
CHESTER LEIGH, PETITIONERPETITIONER
vs
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAWOF LULA PEARL TURNER LEIGH(DECEASED) WHOSE STREETADDRESSES AND POST OF-FICE ADDRESSES ARE UN-KNOWN AFTER DILIGENTSEARCH AND INQUIRY, ANDWHO ARE UNKNOWN AFTER DI-LIGENT SEARCH AND INQUIRYRESPONDENTS
CASE NO:18-238-RPF
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAWOF LULA PEARL TURNER LEIGH(D),WHOSE STREET AD-DRESSES AND POST OFFICEADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWNAFTER DILIGENT SEARCH ANDINQUIRY
You have been made Respond-ents in a Petition filed in thisCourt by Chester Leigh, Peti-tioner, seeking to DetermineThe Unknown Heirs of LulaPearl Turner Leigh (d).
You are summoned to appearand defend against said Peti-tion at 9:00 a.m. o’clock onthe 21st day of May, 2020, inthe Chancery Courtroom of theOktibbeha County Courthouseat 101 E. Main Street, Stark-ville, Mississippi, in case ofyour failure to appear and de-fend a Judgment will beentered against you for themoney or other things deman-ded in the Petition.
You are not required to file ananswer or other pleadings butyou may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and offi-cial seal of said Court, this the3rd day of April, 2020.
CINDY GOODECHANCERY CLERKLOWNDES COUNTY,BY: Shantrell W. Granderson,D.C
PUBLISH: 4/10, 4/17 &4/24/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
IN THE ESTATE OF ROBERTTHOMAS ROBERTSON
CAUSE NO.:19-00059-RPF
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS ATLAW OF ROBERT THOMASROBERTSON, DECEASED
You have been made a Defend-ant in the suit filed in thisCourt by VERNON TADROBERTSON, in a suit to de-termine heirship of ROBERTTHOMAS ROBERTSON. Defend-ants other than you are un-known.
You are to mail or hand delivera copy of a written Answereither admitting or denyingeach allegation in the Petitionto COURTNEY B. “CORKY”SMITH, whose address is PostOffice Box 648, Columbus, MS39703-0648.
YOUR ANSWER MUST BEMAILED OR DELIVERED NOLATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYSFROM THE DATE OF FIRST PUB-LICATION.
You must also file the originalof your Answer with the Clerk ofthis Court within a reasonabletime afterward and you aresummoned to appear and de-fend against the Application forDetermination of Heirs at 9:00o’clock a.m. on the 28th day ofMay 2020, in the courtroom ofthe Lowndes County ChanceryCourthouse at Columbus, Mis-sissippi, before the HonorableRodney P. Faver and in case ofyour failure to appear and de-fend, a judgment will beentered against you for thethings demanded in the Com-plain. You are not required tofile an answer or other plead-ing to the Complaint, but youmay do so if you desire.
ISSUED UNDER MY HAND ANDTHE SEAL OF SAID COURT, onthis the 22nd day of April2020.
Cindy Egger GoodeCINDY EGGER GOODE, Chan-cery ClerkLowndes County, Mississippi
By: Tina Fisher , D.C.
PUBLISH: 4/24, 5/1, &5/8/2020
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
IN THE ESTATE OF ROBERTTHOMAS ROBERTSON
CAUSE NO.:19-00059-RPF
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS ATLAW OF ROBERT THOMASROBERTSON, DECEASED
You have been made a Defend-ant in the suit filed in thisCourt by VERNON TADROBERTSON, in a suit to de-termine heirship of ROBERTTHOMAS ROBERTSON. Defend-ants other than you are un-known.
You are to mail or hand delivera copy of a written Answereither admitting or denyingeach allegation in the Petitionto COURTNEY B. “CORKY”SMITH, whose address is PostOffice Box 648, Columbus, MS39703-0648.
YOUR ANSWER MUST BEMAILED OR DELIVERED NOLATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYSFROM THE DATE OF FIRST PUB-LICATION.
You must also file the originalof your Answer with the Clerk ofthis Court within a reasonabletime afterward and you aresummoned to appear and de-fend against the Application forDetermination of Heirs at 9:00o’clock a.m. on the 28th day ofMay 2020, in the courtroom ofthe Lowndes County ChanceryCourthouse at Columbus, Mis-sissippi, before the HonorableRodney P. Faver and in case ofyour failure to appear and de-fend, a judgment will beentered against you for thethings demanded in the Com-plain. You are not required tofile an answer or other plead-ing to the Complaint, but youmay do so if you desire.
ISSUED UNDER MY HAND ANDTHE SEAL OF SAID COURT, onthis the 22nd day of April2020.
Cindy Egger GoodeCINDY EGGER GOODE, Chan-cery ClerkLowndes County, Mississippi
By: Tina Fisher , D.C.
PUBLISH: 4/24, 5/1, &5/8/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF ROSIE MAE LEWISCLAY, DECEASED
KIMBLER GEAN DAVIS PETI-TIONER
CAUSE NO. 44CH1:19-pr-00212-RPF
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES
By the Chancery Court ofLowndes County:
Letters of Administration havebeen granted and issued to theundersigned upon the Estate ofRosie Mae Lewis Clay, de-ceased, by the Chancery Courtof Lowndes County, Missis-sippi, on the 30th day ofMarch, 2020. This is to givenotice to all persons havingclaims against said estate toprobate and Register samewith the Chancery Clerk ofLowndes County, Mississippi,within (90) days from the firstpublication date of this Notice.A failure to so Probate and Re-gister said claim will foreverbar the same.
THIS the 31st day of March,2020.
/s/Kimber Gean DavisAdministrator of the Estate ofRosie Mae Lewis Clay, De-ceased
BRANDI E. SOPER,MSB#105026WEBB SANDERS & WILLIAMS,PLLCP.O. Box 496TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI 38802-0496PH: (662) 844-2137FAX: (662) 842-3863Attorney for Administrator
Publication Dates: 4/3, 4/10,4/17 & 4/24/2020
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S NO-TICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
WHEREAS, on November 6,2006, Samuel Lance Luckeyand Tammy Luckey executed acertain deed of trust to VinhPham, Trustee for the use andbenefit of Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc. act-ing solely as nominee for BNCMortgage Inc, a Delaware Cor-poration, which deed of trust isof record in the office of theChancery Clerk of Lowndes,County, state of Mississippi, inBook 2006, Page 31982; and
WHEREAS, Wells Fargo Bank,National Association, as Trust-ee for Structured Asset Securit-ies Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series2007-BC1, the current holderand/or assignee, substitutedJauregui & Lindsey, LLC asTrustee by instrument recor-ded in the Chancery Clerk’s Of-fice on November 5, 2018 inBook MORT 2018, Page23508; and
WHEREAS, Default having beenmade in the terms and condi-tions of said deed of trust andthe entire debt secured therebyhaving been declared to be dueand payable in accordance withthe terms of said deed of trust,Wells Fargo Bank, National As-sociation, as Trustee for Struc-tured Asset Securities Corpora-tion Mortgage Pass-ThroughCertificates, Series 2007-BC1,the legal holder of said in-debtedness, having requestedthe undersigned SubstituteTrustee in said deed of trust,will on May 21, 2020 offer forsale at public outcry and sellwithin legal hours (beingbetween the hours of 11:00a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at themain front door of the CountyCourthouse of Lowndes Countyin Columbus, Mississippi, tothe highest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty situated in LowndesCounty, Mississippi, to wit:
TRACT 1:Lot Number Twenty-Two (22) ofMyers Estates, LowndesCounty, Mississippi, as shownby plat recorded in Plat Book 3,page 61, in the ChanceryClerk`s Office, LowndesCounty, Mississippi.
SUBJECT TO those restrictivecovenants and conditions con-tained in deed from Donald F.Myers and Sid Myers, Jr. toJohn B. Dexter and wife, Cyn-thia L. Dexter, dated Novem-ber 5, 1978, filed for recordNovember 14, 1978 and ap-pearing of record in Book 600,page 495, of the land recordsin the office of the ChanceryClerk of Lowndes County, Mis-sissippi; and
SUBJECT, ALSO, to the reserva-tion or easements for utilityand drainage installation as setforth in said restrictive coven-ants and as shown by said re-corded plat.
TRACT 2:Beginning at the Southeastcorner of Lot 22 of Myers Es-tates, a residential communityin Lowndes County, Missis-sippi, as shown by plat thereofrecorded in Plat Book 3 Page61 in the office of the Chan-cery Clerk of said county (saidcorner being in the centerlineof a ditch) as the POINT OF BE-GINNING; thence North 44 de-grees 47 minutes East alongthe East side of said lot for79.7 feet; thence South 59 de-grees 38 minutes East for 34.6feet; thence South 29 degrees03 minutes East along theSouth side of a public roadknown as Sanders Lane (asbuilt) (20 feet from centerline)for 67.8 feet; thence South 44degrees 56 minutes East alongsaid South side of road for 57feet; thence South 39 degrees49 minutes West for 30 feet tothe centerline of a ditch;thence North 59 degrees 10minutes West along saidcenterline for 163 feet to thepoint of beginning, containing0.2 acres, more or less, and ly-ing in the Northeast Quarter ofthe Southeast Quarter of Sec-tion 8, Township 16 South,Range 17 West, LowndesCounty, Mississippi.
I will convey only such title asvested in me as SubstitutedTrustee.
Jauregui & Lindsey, LLCSubstituted Trustee
Jauregui & Lindsey, LLC244 Inverness Center DriveSuite 200Birmingham, AL 35242(205) 970-2233
Publication dates: April 24,2020, May 1, 2020, May 8,2020, May 15, 2020
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S NO-TICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
WHEREAS, on November 6,2006, Samuel Lance Luckeyand Tammy Luckey executed acertain deed of trust to VinhPham, Trustee for the use andbenefit of Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc. act-ing solely as nominee for BNCMortgage Inc, a Delaware Cor-poration, which deed of trust isof record in the office of theChancery Clerk of Lowndes,County, state of Mississippi, inBook 2006, Page 31982; and
WHEREAS, Wells Fargo Bank,National Association, as Trust-ee for Structured Asset Securit-ies Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series2007-BC1, the current holderand/or assignee, substitutedJauregui & Lindsey, LLC asTrustee by instrument recor-ded in the Chancery Clerk’s Of-fice on November 5, 2018 inBook MORT 2018, Page23508; and
WHEREAS, Default having beenmade in the terms and condi-tions of said deed of trust andthe entire debt secured therebyhaving been declared to be dueand payable in accordance withthe terms of said deed of trust,Wells Fargo Bank, National As-sociation, as Trustee for Struc-tured Asset Securities Corpora-tion Mortgage Pass-ThroughCertificates, Series 2007-BC1,the legal holder of said in-debtedness, having requestedthe undersigned SubstituteTrustee in said deed of trust,will on May 21, 2020 offer forsale at public outcry and sellwithin legal hours (beingbetween the hours of 11:00a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at themain front door of the CountyCourthouse of Lowndes Countyin Columbus, Mississippi, tothe highest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty situated in LowndesCounty, Mississippi, to wit:
TRACT 1:Lot Number Twenty-Two (22) ofMyers Estates, LowndesCounty, Mississippi, as shownby plat recorded in Plat Book 3,page 61, in the ChanceryClerk`s Office, LowndesCounty, Mississippi.
SUBJECT TO those restrictivecovenants and conditions con-tained in deed from Donald F.Myers and Sid Myers, Jr. toJohn B. Dexter and wife, Cyn-thia L. Dexter, dated Novem-ber 5, 1978, filed for recordNovember 14, 1978 and ap-pearing of record in Book 600,page 495, of the land recordsin the office of the ChanceryClerk of Lowndes County, Mis-sissippi; and
SUBJECT, ALSO, to the reserva-tion or easements for utilityand drainage installation as setforth in said restrictive coven-ants and as shown by said re-corded plat.
TRACT 2:Beginning at the Southeastcorner of Lot 22 of Myers Es-tates, a residential communityin Lowndes County, Missis-sippi, as shown by plat thereofrecorded in Plat Book 3 Page61 in the office of the Chan-cery Clerk of said county (saidcorner being in the centerlineof a ditch) as the POINT OF BE-GINNING; thence North 44 de-grees 47 minutes East alongthe East side of said lot for79.7 feet; thence South 59 de-grees 38 minutes East for 34.6feet; thence South 29 degrees03 minutes East along theSouth side of a public roadknown as Sanders Lane (asbuilt) (20 feet from centerline)for 67.8 feet; thence South 44degrees 56 minutes East alongsaid South side of road for 57feet; thence South 39 degrees49 minutes West for 30 feet tothe centerline of a ditch;thence North 59 degrees 10minutes West along saidcenterline for 163 feet to thepoint of beginning, containing0.2 acres, more or less, and ly-ing in the Northeast Quarter ofthe Southeast Quarter of Sec-tion 8, Township 16 South,Range 17 West, LowndesCounty, Mississippi.
I will convey only such title asvested in me as SubstitutedTrustee.
Jauregui & Lindsey, LLCSubstituted Trustee
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Publication dates: April 24,2020, May 1, 2020, May 8,2020, May 15, 2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF SHIRLEY ANN BAR-RETT, DECEASED
STANLEY BARRETTPETITIONER/PLAINTIFF
V.
UNKNOWN HEIRS OF SHIRLEYANN BARRETT, DECEASEDRESPONDENTS/DEFENDANTS
NO. 2019-145-JNS
SUMMONS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF SHIR-LEY ANN BARRETT, DECEASED
You have been made a Re-spondent/Defendant in the suitfiled in this Court by STANLEYBARRETT, PETITIONER/PLAINTIFF, seeking to summonall unknown heirs of ShirleyAnn Barrett, deceased. Defend-ants other than you in this ac-tion are unknown.
You are summoned to appearand defend against the com-plaint or petition filed againstyou in this action at 9:00o'clock A.M. on the 23rd day ofJune, 2020, in the courtroomof the Lowndes County Court-house Columbus, Mississippi,and in case of your failure toappear and defend a judgmentwill be entered against you forthe money or other things de-manded in the complaint or pe-tition.
You are not required to file ananswer or other pleading butyou may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and theseal of said Court, this the20th day of April, 2020
Cindy E. GoodeCHANCERY CLERK OFLOWNDES COUNTY,MISSISSIPPIBY: Tina Fisher, D.C.(SEAL)
Issuance requested by:Janice T. Jackson, Esq.Jackson Law Firm, PLLCPO Box 24044Jackson MS 39225
PUBLISH: 4/24, 5/1,5/8/2020
Legal Notices
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF SHIRLEY ANN BAR-RETT, DECEASED
STANLEY BARRETTPETITIONER/PLAINTIFF
V.
UNKNOWN HEIRS OF SHIRLEYANN BARRETT, DECEASEDRESPONDENTS/DEFENDANTS
NO. 2019-145-JNS
SUMMONS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF SHIR-LEY ANN BARRETT, DECEASED
You have been made a Re-spondent/Defendant in the suitfiled in this Court by STANLEYBARRETT, PETITIONER/PLAINTIFF, seeking to summonall unknown heirs of ShirleyAnn Barrett, deceased. Defend-ants other than you in this ac-tion are unknown.
You are summoned to appearand defend against the com-plaint or petition filed againstyou in this action at 9:00o'clock A.M. on the 23rd day ofJune, 2020, in the courtroomof the Lowndes County Court-house Columbus, Mississippi,and in case of your failure toappear and defend a judgmentwill be entered against you forthe money or other things de-manded in the complaint or pe-tition.
You are not required to file ananswer or other pleading butyou may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and theseal of said Court, this the20th day of April, 2020
Cindy E. GoodeCHANCERY CLERK OFLOWNDES COUNTY,MISSISSIPPIBY: Tina Fisher, D.C.(SEAL)
Issuance requested by:Janice T. Jackson, Esq.Jackson Law Firm, PLLCPO Box 24044Jackson MS 39225
PUBLISH: 4/24, 5/1,5/8/2020
Public Notice
Mississippi EnvironmentalQuality Permit BoardP. O. Box 2261Jackson, MS 39225515 East Amite St.Jackson, MS 39201Telephone No.(601) 961-5171
Public Notice Start Date: April24, 2020
MDEQ Contact: Jeffrey Bland
Southern Natural Gas Com-pany’s Muldon Storage Facilitylocated at 10156 Old Magno-lia Highway, near Prairie, MS,(662) 319-6777, has appliedto the Mississippi Departmentof Environmental Quality for thefollowing permitting action(s):Renewal of Title V OperatingPermit Ref. No. 1840-00039.The applicant's operations fallwithin SIC Code 4922 – Natur-al Gas Transmission. A State-ment of Basis has been pre-pared that contains a discus-sion of the decision-makingthat went into the develop-ment of the permit andprovides the permitting author-ity, the public, and other gov-ernment bodies a record of thetechnical issues surrounding is-suance of the permit. TheStatement of Basis also ad-dresses any changes to emis-sions and/or discharges result-ing from any modification of thefacility.
Southern Natural Gas Com-pany owns and operates itsnatural gas storage facility de-signed for injection, storage,and withdrawal of natural gas.The facility operates three (3)7,250 HP natural gas-fired re-ciprocating compressor en-gines, two (2) 930 HP naturalgas-fired emergency backuppower generator engines, one(1) 1.5-MMBTUH natural gas-fired boiler, three (3) 7.38-MMBTUH natural gas-fired with-drawal heaters, two (2) 15.38-MMBTUH natural gas-fired with-drawal heaters, one (1) 15.29-MMBTUH natural gas-fired with-drawal heater, two (2) 15.0-MMBTUH natural gas-fired re-generation heaters, one (1)21.76-MMBTUH natural gas-fired withdrawal heater, one (1)11.3-MMBTUH natural gas-firedwithdrawal heater, and six (6)natural gas condensate stor-age tanks. The facility also hasfacility blowdowns, truck load-ing operations, fugitive emis-sions, as well as, insignificantactivities.
The staff of the Permit Boardhas developed this draft per-mit based on information sub-mitted to the Permit Board bythe applicant, appropriateState and Federal agenciesand other interested parties.The staff of the Permit Board issoliciting all relative informa-tion pertaining to the proposedactivity, including public com-ment, to ensure that the finalstaff recommendation on thedraft permit complies with allState and Federal regulations.Public review and comment onthe draft permit and support-ing documentation is an import-ant element in the staff evalu-ation and resulting recommend-ation to the Permit Board. Thedraft permit conditions havebeen developed to ensure com-pliance with all State and Fed-eral regulations but are sub-ject to change based on inform-ation received as a result ofpublic participation.
Persons wishing to commentupon or object to the proposeddeterminations are invited tosubmit comments in writing toJeffrey Bland [email protected] or to thePermit Board’s address shownabove if email is not available,no later than the end of thethirty (30) day public notice. Allcomments received by thisdate will be considered in theformulation of final determina-tions regarding theapplication(s). A public hearingwill be held if the Permit Boardfinds a significant degree ofpublic interest in the proposedpermit(s). Persons wishing torequest a public hearing maydo so by submitting that re-quest to Jeffrey Bland at [email protected], or to thePermit Board’s address spe-cified shown above if email isnot available, or the Chief ofthe Environmental Permits Divi-sion [email protected]. ThePermit Board is limited in thescope of its analysis to environ-mental impact. Any commentsrelative to zoning or economicand social impacts are withinthe jurisdiction of local zoningand planning authorities andshould be addressed to them.
After receipt of public com-ments and thorough considera-tion of all comments, the staffwill formulate its recommenda-tions for permit issuance and aproposed permit if that is therecommendation. The Title VPermit to Operate is a permitthat is required by Title V of theFederal Clean Air Act and theMississippi Air and Water Pollu-tion Control Law. The Title Vpermit is a Federally-enforce-able permit as well as a Statepermit. Therefore, the U.S. En-vironmental Protection Agency(EPA) will also be allowed anopportunity to review the ap-plication, proposed permit, andall comments received duringthe public comment period pri-or to Permit Board action onthe application.
The status regarding EPA’s 45-day review of this project andthe deadline for citizen’s peti-tions can be found at the fol-lowing website address:https://www.epa.gov/caa-per-mitting/mississippi-proposed-title-v-permits.
Additional details about the ap-plication(s), including a copy ofthe draft permit(s), are avail-able by writing or calling thePublic Records Request Officerat the above Permit Board ad-dress and telephone number orby completing the form at thefollowing website:https://www.mdeq.ms.gov/about-mdeq/public-records-re-quest/public-records-request-form/. Additionally, a copy ofthe draft permit and statementof basis may be found on theMDEQ’s website at:http://opc.deq.state.ms.us/publicnotice.aspx. This informa-tion is also available for reviewat the office of MDEQ at theaddress specified above dur-ing normal business hours;however, should the MDEQ of-fice be closed, the applicationand related information will bemade available athttps://www.mdeq.ms.gov/en-search/epd-permits-at-public-notice/ upon request. Pleasebring the foregoing to the atten-tion of persons whom you knowwill be interested.
PUBLISH: 4/24/2020
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Mississippi EnvironmentalQuality Permit BoardP. O. Box 2261Jackson, MS 39225515 East Amite St.Jackson, MS 39201Telephone No.(601) 961-5171
Public Notice Start Date: April24, 2020
MDEQ Contact: Jeffrey Bland
Southern Natural Gas Com-pany’s Muldon Storage Facilitylocated at 10156 Old Magno-lia Highway, near Prairie, MS,(662) 319-6777, has appliedto the Mississippi Departmentof Environmental Quality for thefollowing permitting action(s):Renewal of Title V OperatingPermit Ref. No. 1840-00039.The applicant's operations fallwithin SIC Code 4922 – Natur-al Gas Transmission. A State-ment of Basis has been pre-pared that contains a discus-sion of the decision-makingthat went into the develop-ment of the permit andprovides the permitting author-ity, the public, and other gov-ernment bodies a record of thetechnical issues surrounding is-suance of the permit. TheStatement of Basis also ad-dresses any changes to emis-sions and/or discharges result-ing from any modification of thefacility.
Southern Natural Gas Com-pany owns and operates itsnatural gas storage facility de-signed for injection, storage,and withdrawal of natural gas.The facility operates three (3)7,250 HP natural gas-fired re-ciprocating compressor en-gines, two (2) 930 HP naturalgas-fired emergency backuppower generator engines, one(1) 1.5-MMBTUH natural gas-fired boiler, three (3) 7.38-MMBTUH natural gas-fired with-drawal heaters, two (2) 15.38-MMBTUH natural gas-fired with-drawal heaters, one (1) 15.29-MMBTUH natural gas-fired with-drawal heater, two (2) 15.0-MMBTUH natural gas-fired re-generation heaters, one (1)21.76-MMBTUH natural gas-fired withdrawal heater, one (1)11.3-MMBTUH natural gas-firedwithdrawal heater, and six (6)natural gas condensate stor-age tanks. The facility also hasfacility blowdowns, truck load-ing operations, fugitive emis-sions, as well as, insignificantactivities.
The staff of the Permit Boardhas developed this draft per-mit based on information sub-mitted to the Permit Board bythe applicant, appropriateState and Federal agenciesand other interested parties.The staff of the Permit Board issoliciting all relative informa-tion pertaining to the proposedactivity, including public com-ment, to ensure that the finalstaff recommendation on thedraft permit complies with allState and Federal regulations.Public review and comment onthe draft permit and support-ing documentation is an import-ant element in the staff evalu-ation and resulting recommend-ation to the Permit Board. Thedraft permit conditions havebeen developed to ensure com-pliance with all State and Fed-eral regulations but are sub-ject to change based on inform-ation received as a result ofpublic participation.
Persons wishing to commentupon or object to the proposeddeterminations are invited tosubmit comments in writing toJeffrey Bland [email protected] or to thePermit Board’s address shownabove if email is not available,no later than the end of thethirty (30) day public notice. Allcomments received by thisdate will be considered in theformulation of final determina-tions regarding theapplication(s). A public hearingwill be held if the Permit Boardfinds a significant degree ofpublic interest in the proposedpermit(s). Persons wishing torequest a public hearing maydo so by submitting that re-quest to Jeffrey Bland at [email protected], or to thePermit Board’s address spe-cified shown above if email isnot available, or the Chief ofthe Environmental Permits Divi-sion [email protected]. ThePermit Board is limited in thescope of its analysis to environ-mental impact. Any commentsrelative to zoning or economicand social impacts are withinthe jurisdiction of local zoningand planning authorities andshould be addressed to them.
After receipt of public com-ments and thorough considera-tion of all comments, the staffwill formulate its recommenda-tions for permit issuance and aproposed permit if that is therecommendation. The Title VPermit to Operate is a permitthat is required by Title V of theFederal Clean Air Act and theMississippi Air and Water Pollu-tion Control Law. The Title Vpermit is a Federally-enforce-able permit as well as a Statepermit. Therefore, the U.S. En-vironmental Protection Agency(EPA) will also be allowed anopportunity to review the ap-plication, proposed permit, andall comments received duringthe public comment period pri-or to Permit Board action onthe application.
The status regarding EPA’s 45-day review of this project andthe deadline for citizen’s peti-tions can be found at the fol-lowing website address:https://www.epa.gov/caa-per-mitting/mississippi-proposed-title-v-permits.
Additional details about the ap-plication(s), including a copy ofthe draft permit(s), are avail-able by writing or calling thePublic Records Request Officerat the above Permit Board ad-dress and telephone number orby completing the form at thefollowing website:https://www.mdeq.ms.gov/about-mdeq/public-records-re-quest/public-records-request-form/. Additionally, a copy ofthe draft permit and statementof basis may be found on theMDEQ’s website at:http://opc.deq.state.ms.us/publicnotice.aspx. This informa-tion is also available for reviewat the office of MDEQ at theaddress specified above dur-ing normal business hours;however, should the MDEQ of-fice be closed, the applicationand related information will bemade available athttps://www.mdeq.ms.gov/en-search/epd-permits-at-public-notice/ upon request. Pleasebring the foregoing to the atten-tion of persons whom you knowwill be interested.
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