WEATHER 135TH YEAR, NO. 34 Eboni Sherrod Third grade, West Lowndes High 77 Low 54 Mostly sunny Full forecast on page 2A. FIVE QUESTIONS 1 What dam regulates the flow of the Nile? 2 What did the U.S. government tax at one dollar per barrel to help finance the Civil War? 3 What Anglo-Irish writer’s tombstone has the line: “I knew if I stayed around long enough this would happen?” 4 What is the second most common element in the Sun after hydrogen? 5 Who lost to Muhammad Ali in a 1975 fight, despite connecting on 440 punches? Answers, 6D INSIDE Classifieds 4D Comics Insert Obituaries 7B Opinions 4,5A DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471 LOCAL FOLKS Kaylee Bonner is in fourth grade at Cook Elementary. CALENDAR Monday, April 21 ■ MSU Jazz Band: The Missis- sippi State University Jazz Band presents a free concert at 7:30 p.m. at Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium on campus. Visit mu- sic.msstate.edu/events for more information or call 662-325-3070. PUBLIC MEETINGS April 21: Columbus Lown- des Convention and Visitors Bureau, CVB building 4 p.m. April 24: Clay County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse, 9 a.m. April 24: Columbus Munic- ipal School Board, Central office, 6 p.m. April 30: Lowndes County Board of Supervisors, Court- house, 9 a.m. May 5: Lowndes County Board of Supervisors, Court- house, 9 a.m. May 5: Clay County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse, 9 a.m. May 6: Columbus City Council, municipal complex, 5 p.m. BY NATHAN GREGORY [email protected]Maranatha Faith Center Pastor Steve Jamison sees the $5.15 billion settlement from Anadarko Petroleum Corpora- tion as a major turning point in the 15-year fight his East Columbus church has led to remediate the contamination from the former Kerr-McGee site and protect the safety of those who live near it. The site has been handed over from the Environmental Protection Agency to Multi- state Environ- mental Response Trust and nearly $68 million of that settlement will be used to clean up the 90-acre site that was shut down in 2003, as well as other plac- es where creosote is located. Regular exposure to creosote, a wood preservative used exten- sively at the plant while it was in operation, was determined to be carcinogenic to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administra- tion set a permissible exposure limit of 0.2 milligrams of cre- osote per cubic meter of air in the workplace during an eight- hour day and required indus - tries report spills or accidental release into the environment of more than one pound. In 2006, The Dispatch spoke to three former Kerr-McGee employees who said spills were common not only at the site but Settlement brings new hope for Kerr-McGee cleanup BY SARAH FOWLER [email protected]Advisors with Im- manuel Christian School are looking forward to changes in the upcoming school. From the possi- bility of new athletic facil- ities to a new headmaster, advisors say the school is primed for growth. In addition to the new- ly formed nine-member school board, a pastoral advisory board is also be- ing considered. “One exciting consid- eration by the board is to develop an advisory board made up of area pastors who are willing to provide advice and insight,” school board mem- ber Billy Thomas said. “Two area pas- tors have already demon- strated keen interest in being involved in this community ministry. The overall atmosphere around Immanuel Chris- tian School is one of cel- ebration, strength and determination to advance the vision to be a Chris- tian school passionate about raising up the next generation to know and serve Jesus Christ as well as committed to aca- demic and athletic excel - lence.” To help steer the stu- dents toward that aca- demic and athletic ex- Immanuel Christian School charts new path forward Jamison School advisors say tuition will not increase for upcoming school year $68M set aside for clean-up of Columbus site Thomas See IMMANUEL, 6A See CLEANUP , 6A Caledonia woman extols the joys of chicken keeping BY SLIM SMITH [email protected]F or years, the approach of Easter meant to trip to the local co-op or feed store to buy an Easter Chick. In recent years, however, the prac- tice of buying live chicks as Easter gifts has fallen into disfavor in some quarters. The Humane Society of the United States discourages people from acquir- ing live chicks and rabbits as Easter gifts. Chicks and rabbits are among the most-surrendered pets in the weeks after Easter, according to the nation- al group, which says often the ani- mals are simply turned out to fend for Chicks: They’re not just for Easter anymore See CHICKENS, 8A TOP OF PAGE: Heritage Elementary kindergartner Kyleigh Havis, 6, daughter of Jarad and Jessica Havis, surveys the contents of her egg basket during Heritage Elementary’s senior kinder- garten Easter egg hunt on Thursday morning. — Mary Alice Weeks/Dispatch Staff ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM $1.25 NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY SUNDAY | APRIL 20, 2014 T HE C OMMERCIAL DISPATCH Easter Happy
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WEATHER
135th Year, No. 34
Eboni SherrodThird grade, West Lowndes
High 77 Low 54Mostly sunny
Full forecast on page 2A.
FIVE QUESTIONS1 What dam regulates the flow of the Nile?2 What did the U.S. government tax at one dollar per barrel to help finance the Civil War?3 What Anglo-Irish writer’s tombstone has the line: “I knew if I stayed around long enough this would happen?”4 What is the second most common element in the Sun after hydrogen?5 Who lost to Muhammad Ali in a 1975 fight, despite connecting on 440 punches?
Answers, 6D
INSIDEClassifieds 4DComics Insert
Obituaries 7BOpinions 4,5A
DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471
LOCAL FOLKS
Kaylee Bonner is in fourth grade at Cook Elementary.
CALENDAR
Monday, April 21■ MSU Jazz Band: The Missis-sippi State University Jazz Band presents a free concert at 7:30 p.m. at Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium on campus. Visit mu-sic.msstate.edu/events for more information or call 662-325-3070.
PUBLIC MEETINGSApril 21: Columbus Lown-des Convention and Visitors Bureau, CVB building 4 p.m.April 24: Clay County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse, 9 a.m.April 24: Columbus Munic-ipal School Board, Central office, 6 p.m.April 30: Lowndes County Board of Supervisors, Court-house, 9 a.m.May 5: Lowndes County Board of Supervisors, Court-house, 9 a.m.May 5: Clay County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse, 9 a.m.May 6: Columbus City Council, municipal complex, 5 p.m.
Maranatha Faith Center Pastor Steve Jamison sees the $5.15 billion settlement from Anadarko Petroleum Corpora-tion as a major turning point in the 15-year fight his East
Columbus church has led to remediate the contamination from the former Kerr-McGee site and protect the safety of those who live near it.
The site has been handed over from the Environmental Protection Agency to Multi-
state Environ-mental Response Trust and nearly $68 million of that settlement will be used to clean up the 90-acre site that was shut down in 2003, as well as other plac-es where creosote is located.
Regular exposure to creosote, a wood preservative used exten-sively at the plant while it was in operation, was determined to be carcinogenic to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administra-tion set a permissible exposure limit of 0.2 milligrams of cre-
osote per cubic meter of air in the workplace during an eight-hour day and required indus-tries report spills or accidental release into the environment of more than one pound.
In 2006, The Dispatch spoke to three former Kerr-McGee employees who said spills were common not only at the site but
Advisors with Im-manuel Christian School are looking forward to
changes in the upcoming school. From the possi-bility of new athletic facil-ities to a new headmaster, advisors say the school is primed for growth.
In addition to the new-ly formed nine-member school board, a pastoral advisory board is also be-ing considered.
“One exciting consid-eration by the board is to develop an advisory board made up of area pastors who are willing
to provide advice and i n s i g h t , ” s c h o o l board mem-ber Billy T h o m a s said. “Two area pas-tors have already demon-
strated keen interest in being involved in this community ministry. The overall atmosphere around Immanuel Chris-tian School is one of cel-ebration, strength and determination to advance the vision to be a Chris-tian school passionate
about raising up the next generation to know and serve Jesus Christ as well as committed to aca-demic and athletic excel-lence.”
To help steer the stu-dents toward that aca-demic and athletic ex-
Immanuel Christian School charts new path forward
Jamison
School advisors say tuition will not increase for upcoming school year
$68M set aside for clean-up of Columbus site
Thomas
See IMMANUEL, 6A
See CLEANUP, 6A
Caledonia woman extols the joys of chicken keeping
For years, the approach of Easter meant to trip to the local co-op or feed store to buy an Easter
Chick.In recent years, however, the prac-
tice of buying live chicks as Easter gifts has fallen into disfavor in some quarters.
The Humane Society of the United States discourages people from acquir-ing live chicks and rabbits as Easter gifts.
Chicks and rabbits are among the most-surrendered pets in the weeks after Easter, according to the nation-al group, which says often the ani-mals are simply turned out to fend for
Chicks: They’re not just
for Easter anymore
See CHICKENS, 8A
TOP OF PAGE: Heritage Elementary kindergartner Kyleigh Havis, 6, daughter of Jarad and Jessica Havis, surveys the contents of her egg basket during Heritage Elementary’s senior kinder-garten Easter egg hunt on Thursday morning. — Mary Alice Weeks/Dispatch Staff
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SundaySAY WHAT?“It could lead to earmarking or withholding of federal funds and increased monitoring.”
Mississippi Board of Education member Paula Vanderford on federal officials demanding a change to the way the state rates
its school districts and high schools. Story, 3A.
Title of new Hillary Clinton book: ‘Hard Choices’BY KEN THOMASThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Hil-lary Rodham Clinton’s up-coming book will be called “Hard Choices,” a title that reflects how the potential 2016 presidential candidate may try to define her re-cord as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state while she considers another White House campaign.
Publisher Simon & Schuster said Friday the new book, to be released June 10, will offer Clinton’s “inside account of the crises, choices and challenges” she faced as secretary of state and “how those experiences drive her view of the future.”
“All of us face hard
choices in our lives,” Clin-ton writes at the start of the book, according to the pub-lisher. “Life is about making these choices, and how we handle them shapes the people we become.”
Clinton’s State Depart-ment memoir will hit book-shelves as the former first lady and New York senator sits atop polls showing her as the leading Democratic contender should she seek the presidency. Since leav-ing the State Department, Clinton has traveled widely, giving speeches to industry groups, college students and others while joining the foundation led by her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
AP Photo/Ted ShaffreyIn this image taken from video, Chelsea Clinton, left, speaks to the audience as she co-hosts “Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation,” with her mother, former Sec-retary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in New York on Thursday.
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Courtesy photoA 1909 postcard view of Third Street South in Columbus showing the “cement sidewalks” whose construction began in 1898 in order to insure free residential mail delivery by the post office.
From its found-ing, the
United States has provided for mail de-livery across the country.
At first, mail was only delivered to local post offices. It was left up to people to check at the post office to see if they had any mail and pick it up there if they did. To inform people of what letters had arrived but had not been picked up, local newspa-pers would periodically publish the names of those who had unclaimed letters waiting on them at the post office.
The first residential mail delivery in the Unit-ed States did not occur until 1863 and then only in Northern cities which had a population greater than 10,000. As residen-tial mail delivery ex-panded in the late 1800s safety requirements for postmen transformed the appearance of America’s towns.
Interestingly, the first mention of Columbus I have seen in a newspaper was a June 1820 listing of postal routes in Alabama. At that time a new post road had opened from Tuscaloosa to Columbus. Many of the early roads opened or were improved in order to facilitate the movement of mail be-tween towns. In 1820 the post office at John Pitch-lynn’s Plymouth Bluff
residence had closed and a new post of-fice had been established in Columbus. It was not until late 1820 that the state line was surveyed and it was discovered Columbus was not in Alabama as
believed but was actually in Mississippi.
With the commence-ment of limited free residential mail deliver in 1863, the post office began to attach strings to mail delivery. Not only was free delivery based on population and later on a town’s postal receipts but also on improvements to streets and walkways. As the service expanded, there were requirements placed on towns before the post office would introduce residential service. Towns were required to number hous-es, have street lights, sidewalks and named streets. The demand for the new service resulted in a nation-wide boom in the installation of street lights and sidewalks.
In rural areas free mail delivery began in the 1890s and by 1902 the service had spread across the country as RFD or Rural Free De-livery. That service also came with local require-ments. There had to be all-weather roads with both roads and bridges in good repair before the post office would imple-
ment the service.By 1896, a Richmond,
Va., real estate firm was advertising lots for sale in a new develop-ment that boasted of having free residential mail delivery. The firm stated that the post office provided the service because the develop-ment had good streets with street lights and sidewalks and was thus entitled to “free United States mail delivery.”
The August 1905 Columbus Dispatch Pictorial and Industrial Edition commented on the requirement for good sidewalks before the post office would allow free residential mail delivery:
“Many Mississippi cit-ies which are entitled by their post office receipts to the convenience of mail delivery are barred from the immediate service of carriers by the lack of suitable side-walks. The United States government insists on
good sidewalks as an es-sential prior to instituting free mail delivery.”
Kelly, Pope & Rath-er began constructing “cement sidewalks” in Columbus in 1898 and by 1905 had constructed over 15 miles of side-walks. The reason given for Columbus having the excellent “cement side-walks” was to insure the continued free delivery of residential mail in the city by the post office. The Columbus Dispatch reported in 1905 that the firm was continuing to build sidewalks and curbs in Columbus and were also constructing sidewalks in Corinth and Okolona.
The next time you are walking down a well-lit street at night on a good sidewalk you might want to thank the post office.
Rufus Ward is a local historian. Email your questions about local history to him at [email protected].
No sidewalk, no mail
Courtesy photoThe July 21, 1819, Mobile Gazette listed the names of people who as of June 30 had unclaimed letters in the Mobile Post Office. Such publication of names on letters at post offices was a common practice when there was no delivery service and people had to go to a post office to pick up their mail.
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WEST POINT — A Co-lumbus woman has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the stab-bing death of a West Point in 2012.
Clay County District At-torney Lindsey Clemons tells the Daily Times Lead-er a jury convicted Shun-brica Roby on Wednesday.
Roby was one of three women arrested in the death of 27-year-old Mar-cus Payne of Hamilton.
Authorities say Payne was found outside a conve-nience store and later died at a Tupelo hospital.
Clemons says the trials for Roby’s sister and cous-in, Latwanna Roby and Natisha Roby, both of Ma-con, are scheduled during the July term of circuit court.
One convicted in 2012 West Point stabbing death
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BLUE SPRINGS — Toyota officials at the car manufacturer’s Blue Springs facility are cele-
brating the production of the first Corolla built at the plant for export.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant joined Toyota offi-cials Thursday to mark the
occasion.WLBT-TV reports that
the plant will export more than 7,500 Corollas to 18 countries in Central and South America and the Ca-ribbean this year.
Toyota Mississippi em-ploys 2,000 people.
Miss. facility making cars for export
BY JEFF AMYThe Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi is reworking its rating system for school districts and high schools after federal officials demanded the ratings put more weight on high school graduation.
The state Board of Education voted Friday to seek public com-ment on the revised rules, which would apply beginning with this year’s ratings. Those ratings will be released this fall using testing
and graduation results from the current school year.
State Superintendent Carey Wright said that when officials prepared to submit the new rat-ing system for federal approval, U.S. Department of Education officials warned Mississippi that they would reject any system where high school graduation rates didn’t account for at least 20 percent of all points. Mississippi’s original plan called for graduation to count for less than 10 percent of
the points used to calculate A-to-F grades.
Staci Curry, a liaison to the U.S. Department of Education, told state board members Thurs-day that federal officials indicated they would reject the model be-cause of insufficient emphasis on graduation rates.
“It was quite clear there’s no way they were going to approve our accountability model” Curry told board members.
The state had developed the grading system through months of meetings. It was based on what, at full implementation, would have
been an 1,100-point scale, with 11 segments including graduation rates each counting for 100 points.
Mississippi has in the past run separate grading systems to meet state and federal requirements. But with support from the de-partment, the Legislature passed a law requiring the state to unify the systems. In part because of that requirement, state officials concluded they had no choice but to rejigger the proposal.
“My takeaway is we really did not have an option,” board mem-ber John Kelly of Gulfport said Thursday.
Paula Vanderford, who over-sees accreditation, said that the federal officials could have re-stricted aid to Mississippi if they had rejected the grading system.
“It could lead to earmarking or withholding of federal funds and increased monitoring,” she said Thursday.
The new system will have 1,000 points, with graduation counting for 200 points. It will cut to 50 points the following four compo-nents: scores on the state U.S. history exam, scores on the state biology exam, ACT test scores and accelerated classes.
Miss. reworks school ratings to accent graduationFederal officials demanded the change
BY DAVID ESPOAP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON — Flip sides of the same campaign-season coin, the Republican drive in Congress to repeal the nation’s health care law and the Democratic call to close the pay gap for wom-en have much in common.
Divided government assures that neither has even a remote chance of becoming law anytime soon. Instead, they figure prominently in rival strat-egies to maximize turnout in the fall — Democrats hoping women will vote in huge numbers, while Republicans try to stoke election year enthusiasm among tea party activists and other conservatives.
More of the same is ahead, much more.
Democrats concede the stakes are higher for their party, which is laboring to retain its Senate majority, has little or no prospect of capturing control of the House, and faces a gap in voter intensity.
Democratic voters are 7 percentage points less likely than Republicans to say they are almost cer-tain to vote in the off-year election in November, according to a poll by the Democracy Corps and the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund. They propose trying to close the gap by focusing on an “economic agenda that puts working women first” and sheds any talk of re-covery.
No matter the politi-cal party, the well-worn, bipartisan script in Con-gress rarely varies: Stage a well-publicized vote in either the Republican-con-trolled House or the ma-jority-Democratic Senate. Accuse the other party of obstruction. Reassure
supporters with a promise never to give up.
And all the while, ac-cuse the other side of un-becoming behavior.
“Let’s put the politics aside, and let’s get to work to see how we can make sure, if there are prob-lems with the law being implemented, that we can address that,” House Ma-jority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said recently as President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats stressed the issue of pay equity.
Playing politics?Republicans have vot-
ed more than 50 times to repeal or otherwise neu-tralize the health care law that Obama nurtured into existence, knowing that he would never accept
anything of the sort.Not that the Democrats
are above the same sort of activity.
They sent the pay eq-uity bill to the Senate floor unwilling to consider GOP-proposed changes, and knowing full well that without them, Republicans would make sure it didn’t get the 60 votes needed to advance.
At the same time, Dem-ocrats were accusing Re-publicans of playing poli-tics with health care.
Senate Majority Lead-er Harry Reid said Dem-ocrats are eager to make improvements in the law, but, “We don’t have Re-publicans. They want this thing repealed. They don’t want to fix anything that may be made better.”
Hoping legislative defeats boost voter turnout
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FileThis Jan. 14 file photo shows House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Democrats concede the stakes are higher for their party, which is laboring to retain its Senate majority
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VICKSBURG — State archivists have recom-mended the former Monte Carlo building in Vicksburg be included on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Mississippi Depart-ment of Archives and His-tory notified local officials last month.
Owner Linda Fondren said she is also hoping to get Mississippi Landmark status for the building.
Nancy Bell, executive director of the Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation, told The Vicksburg Post owners of buildings on the national register can take advantage of certain tax incentives and grants to rehabilitate their building.
Bell said state landmark designation will allow Fon-dren to apply for special grants, but the Archives and History agency has regulations that control
changes to landmark-desig-nated structures.
“That’s done to protect the architectural and histor-ic integrity of the building,” Bell said.
Fondren wants to put a restaurant on the building’s first floor and a multicultur-al museum and interpre-tive center on the second floor. Fondren has said the museum will be called the Catfish Row Museum and feature exhibits on the ar-ea’s history, culture and people. The building was built in 1911 for Christian and Burroughs Co., which built wagons and carriag-
es. It was later occupied by a car dealership and a 7-Up bottling plant until the 1960s.
It was turned into a nightclub called the Monte Carlo in the 1970s and ‘80s. In 2007 the city razed the north section of the build-ing, which was damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Fondren and her hus-band bought it in Decem-ber 2011.
Vicksburg building up for National RegisterBuildings on the register can take advantage of tax incentives, grants
Columbus woman sentenced to life
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OUR VIEW
A rose to Mississippi Uni-versity for Women President Dr. Jim Borsig, for making an eloquent argument for the value of a liberal arts education at a time when all
the buzz words are about matching stu-dents to specific skills. Granted, a trained workforce is important, but that does not make a liberal arts education irrelevant. “I don’t think there is any time any more im-portant than now for a high-quality liberal arts education,” Borsig told Columbus Rotarians this week. “Every one of our graduates completes the same core of the liberal arts... You want our students to be able to speak. You want our students to be able to write. You want them to be able to focus on critical thinking. You want them to be able to work in groups. You want them to be able to lead a community in a civil manner. Those are the things that happen in a liberal arts education... I think that I could make the argument that in this day and age where we tend to have pretty shrill arguments about things, that being able to have more well-educated graduates who can lead civic clubs, lead other organizations, lead community kinds of activities all really helps us move this region, any region in the country forward.” Amen!
A rose to Columbus councilmen Bill Gavin and Kabir Karriem, who voted Tuesday to delay a plan to pursue a $5 million bond project to improve the city’s
infrastructure, primarily through paving, drainage and sidewalk improvements and upgrades. Neither councilman opposes the plan, but both said they wanted more time to put together a detailed plan after many citizens complained during a public hearing held earlier that the project lacked sufficient details on exactly what the money would be used for. Although they were outvoted and the city will proceed with its plans, we are pleased to note that Gavin and Karriem listened to the voices of the citizens. We see this as an encouraging sign that at least some of our city leaders will listen to their constit-uents.
A thorn to Columbus Municipal School Board member Jason Spears, who walked out of the board’s last meeting after a bitter argument with other board
members about the district’s plans to select a firm to search for a permanent schools superintendent. While we under-stand Spears’ frustration and appreciate his clear-headed approach to district challenges since he joined the board, we remind Spears that he has an obligation to meet his duties as a board member. Like it or not, that means a board member cannot simply walk out. Spears said he left because he feared he might lose his composure. We sympathize. The conduct of the board has been nothing short of embarrassing. But we sympathize only to a point. Walking out may be a temptation, but it is simply not an option.
A rose to Starkville School District’s Sudduth Elementary School, after the campus recognized as a REACH Mississippi Tier 2 Model Site for positive behavior intervention and
support from students. The accolade makes Sudduth only the second school in the state to receive the designation. The school will receive $2,500 from REACH MS to support its positive behavior pro-gram. Students and faculty alike will cele-brate with a well-deserved popsicle at 1:30 p.m. Friday during its Popping with Pride celebration. Here’s to continued success at Sudduth, SSD and all public and private school systems.
A rose to all of the folks who operate and/or support our libraries in the Golden Triangle. Last week was Na-tional Library Week, which should serve as a reminder that the mission of libraries
in today’s society have expanded greatly. They are no longer simply a repository of books but often serve as a key facilitator in our communities, campuses or schools. Libraries are deeply committed to the places where their patrons live, work, and study. Whether through offering e-books and technology classes, materials for En-glish-language learners, programs for job seekers or those to support early literacy, librarians listen to the community they serve, and they respond.
Send your suggestions for Roses and thorns to managing editor Slim Smith at [email protected].
PARTIAL TO HOME
On a recent Saturday about 40 beekeepers stood in the twilight on a cement pad outside a metal farm building in south Noxubee County.
The bay doors of the building were open reveal-ing inside rows of white tables set for dinner. In a corner of the interior space about a dozen Menno-nite men and women, the families of Clark Seiler and Wendal Giesbrecht, were scurrying about readying an all-you-can-eat meal of grilled chicken, white beans and broccoli casserole. Beyond the tables at the far end of the expansive interior, two towering pieces of farm equipment, a John Deere combine and a cotton picker, loomed over the proceedings look-ing like props for a science fiction movie.
The beekeepers were hungry. Lunch — alligator piquant, a sa-vory Cajun dish prepared by Bruce “Schawee” Scharwath — was a distant memory.
They had traveled here from the nearby home of Bud Watt, a larger-than-life character, who for the past five years in early April has hosted a weekend gathering of beekeepers. (Bud 5, last year’s event, was the subject of an article in the spring issue of Catfish Alley.)
The gathering has become some-thing of a reunion — beekeepers come from Portland, Ore., North Carolina, Kentucky and Texas, as well as the Southeast. They talk, tell stories only beekeepers could un-derstand and participate in exploits devised by their hosts, Watt, Schaw-
ee and J.P. Armstrong, a Cajun, who makes his living removing bees from New Orleans’ homes.
That afternoon a group of them had caravaned to a sagging two-story farmhouse on Deerbrook Road to remove a colony of bees that had been living in a kitchen wall for what looked to be since Nix-on was president
As the beekeepers arrived at the house, a cloud of bees happened to be swarming around a row of cedars in a neighboring field. One of the beekeepers retrieved a metal pot from his truck and began beating it with a metal hive tool as he walked toward the swirling funnel of bees. None of the eight or 10 beekeepers present wore protective gear. The bees seemed to hone in on the metal clanging, forming a tighter pattern before clustering on a branch of a cedar.
Once settled, one of the beekeep-ers, wearing nothing more than a white oxford cloth shirt and jeans, shook the bees into a hive box.
Meanwhile, a delegation had begun removing the siding on the house, a procedure that would take all afternoon and part of the next day. Unlike the swarming bees, the bees in the wall had home and trea-sure (stored honey) to protect, and as the afternoon wore on, they would force the intruders to don protective suits.
To pass the time an idle beekeep-er, who answers to the name Yap Yap, had undertaken the task of
training an unruly puppy belonging to the owner of the house. First Yap Yap was on his stomach, eyeball to eyeball to the mesmerized puppy; then he held the dog upside down by his feet; then he stroked the dog’s muzzle. By afternoon’s end, the pup-py was transformed, at least he was for Yap Yap.
After a dessert of Oreo ice cream with chocolate sauce and a brief remembrance for a beekeeper who died this past year, a choir of Menno-nites aged from young-adult to pre-teen, sang half a dozen songs for the beekeepers. Then as the evening’s highlight, Valery Seiler, Clark’s daughter, walked over to Watt, put her hand on the back of his chair and began yodeling to him. It was a show-stopper.
The Mennonites, whose frequent good works offer tangible evidence of their faith, were friends of Watt’s and simply wanted to host him and his friends. In doing so, they gave this group of beekeepers a memora-ble evening.
There is something mystical about the relationship between bees and their keepers … for that matter, there is some ambiguity about who keeps whom. In the wonderful film on the subject (You can see the trail-er on the Internet and if you have the least interest in bees and bee-keeping, I encourage you to stream it.), “Queen of the Sun,” a French beekeeper says, “Beekeepers, they are chosen by the bees.”
That being the case, the bees picked a lovely, lively group of people to visit Noxubee in April.
Birney Imes is the publisher of The Dispatch. Email him at [email protected].
An afternoon with beekeepers
Roses and thorns
Birney Imes
MISSISSIPPI VOICES
Mississippi, my adopted home state, place that I love, is reverting to its old ways, which many of us who live here had believed and hoped to be in the distant past.
Mississippi is using religion to discriminate against minorities, and politicians are pandering to the lowest common denominator of voters, making hay of hate. This time, the targets are gays and lesbians.
The bill, already signed into law by Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, is called by its out-of-state pushers and propo-nents a “religious freedom bill.” The Family Research Council, classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, says it gives people the right “to live and work according to one’s conscience.” That is, of course, only if your conscience matches that of the majority.
In other words, this law potentially gives folks the right to discriminate in the name of religion. We’ll have to see how far it gets before federal law intervenes.
I grew up in Montgomery, Ala., during the heyday of George Wallace and exclusion. The churches were the last stronghold and defenders of racial segregation. There were careful
exodus plans at my white, Southern Baptist church, for instance, if a black family dared to show up to worship.
The long legal struggle to end segregation could have been avoided, and many deaths prevented, if all churches had taken the lead instead of the unholy path of resistance.
You would have hoped we might have learned something. Mississippi,
in particular, was a bloody battle-ground in that war. Mississippi has worked for decades to overcome the image of itself that’s been seared into the national consciousness. We had, I thought, begun to celebrate the differences that make this a rich and interesting, magical and musical place like no other.
Now this. All the public-relations firms in the world won’t be able to undo for decades the harm this silly law will do. Other states are consider-ing similar “religious freedom bills,” but it will be — already is — Missis-sippi that gets the attention. Negative attention, which, in this case, is fully deserved. The Republican governor of Arizona vetoed the bill in her state after watching the resulting outrage. She had sense.
Let’s be honest. For once. If ever
there was a state where it’s safe to be a Christian, it’s Mississippi. There are more church houses than gopher holes, and no state government has ever attempted to interfere with reli-gious exercise.
Why do politicians always resort to code words, enacting legislation that says one thing and intends another? When did “freedom” and “family” get co-opted to mean “hate”? Mississippi churches are not the victim of any-thing, except, after this, much bad press.
Mississippi needs better schools, more jobs, health insurance for many of its citizens, among the poorest in the nation. Gov. Phil Bryant and the state’s lawyers have plenty on their plates. Why open this can of worms to encourage business owners to thump a Bible while refusing service to any-one perceived as different?
How much in legal fees will this cost the poorest state in the United States to defend? How many with mon-ey will avoid Mississippi — corpora-tions, tourists, fair-minded Christians from other states — because of this nonsense? Will the extremists who pushed this law pay for the damage? I don’t think so.
And how can you live according to “one’s conscience” if you don’t have one?
Rheta Grimsley Johnson, a national-ly syndicated columnist, lives near Iuka.
Making hay of hate
Rheta Johnson
The new “agree-ment” between Russia, the United States and our allies is exactly what the former KGB agent ordered.
This isn’t to say it’s not a good “prospect” for ending tensions in Ukraine, as Presi-dent Obama said. But neither should it surprise anyone that Vladimir Putin is willing to step back from that country — not to ease economic sanctions but to satisfy his own designs.
The handwriting was on the palm of Nina Khrushcheva’s hand, not that she needs notes.
Khrushcheva, who appeared recently in this space, has been right about all things Putin since anyone thought to query Nikita Khrushchev’s great-grand-daughter.
Earlier this year, when all wondered whether Putin would take Crimea, Khrushcheva said he would. When all worried that he might move into eastern Ukraine, she said he wouldn’t. Her reasoning was that Putin didn’t really want the hassle and expense of invading another country. At least not right now.
Khrushcheva also predicted that Putin would bring things to a close when he was ready, on his terms — even if they appear to be others’ terms — with his own objectives accomplished. His overall strategy wasn’t to absorb economically stressed Ukraine (let the West pump its money into those dire streets) but to appear that he might in-vade in order to earn grace when he didn’t. The sin of annexing Crimea thus would be forgiven.
As a strategy, it seemed a circuitous route to a dubious and doubtful end, but perhaps it takes a Russian mind to
understand a Rus-sian mind. It can’t hurt either that Khrushcheva grew up listening to the former premier, who, once ousted, became persona non grata in the Soviet Union. She also bore witness to the propaganda machine that rewrote Russia’s and Nikita’s history.
For further con-text, though Khrushcheva was by lineage Nikita’s great-grand-daughter, her mother was adopted by the former premier as his daughter and Khrush-cheva was born and treated as a granddaughter. Khrushchev was especially fond of the bookish scamp who eventually left for the United States to attend Prince-ton University and today teaches international affairs, politics and propaganda at the New School in New York.
Obama is wise to reserve judgment on Putin’s sincerity — we’ll know when we know — but a betting man would do well to put his money on Khrushcheva’s crystal ball. Her understand-ing of Putin’s psyche is several notches above the talking points that news consumers have heard repeated ad nauseam. Yes, Putin wants to restore the Russian empire to its former superpower status. But to the finer points of his massive ego, Putin is a mus-cled beach boy trying to build the biggest pyramid. It actually matters to him that his dog is bigger than yours.
To Putin’s mind, he has emerged from these “diplomatic negotiations” — translated in Russian to mean “I did it my way” — as a tough statesman, generous in his restraint yet just scary enough to hold the world’s attention.
Many Russians, meanwhile,
may feel their wounded pride somewhat salved by having res-cued their brethren in Crimea. From their perspective, Putin has put their once-great nation back in play. As Putin knows (and we seem to have forgot-ten), it is helpful in the game of geopolitical chess to be a little bit feared.
This approach may not be the intellectual’s preference, but the jungle remains unschooled. Much as I hate to be the icon-oclast, the lion and the lamb aren’t ever going to lie down together, except for the latter to be eaten by the former. However, lest spirits flag in this season of rebirth, the Easter Bunny is real.
As is, alas, that wascally wabbit, Edward Snowden. The traitor/hero (take your pick) just happened to ask Putin on Russian TV whether that country spies on its citizens the way the United States does. Of course not, Putin assured his new best fugitive friend. One, Russia isn’t as rich as the United States, he said. And, two, Russia is bound by the rule of law. Such propagandist grandstanding is so comical that outrage seems farcical.
Khrushcheva, her DNA a re-pository of the propaganda gene, snickers.
“I just can’t get incensed about propaganda the way Amer-icans do,” she told me. “Here [in the United States], there is some fake Protestant belief that we engage in truth, but of course no one does. But it’s the usual dance, American media have to react, Obama has to show resolve.”
I didn’t say Khrushcheva is a diplomat, but she probably ought to at least have a cubicle in the West Wing.
Kathleen Parker is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist. Her email address is [email protected].
Has the West got Putin yet?
Kathleen Parker
LOCAL VOICES
As of the last formal census of 2010, Starkville has a population of 23,888. The most recent figure from 2012 is an official estimate of 24,360. So, in the past two years we have grown by roughly 472 people. If we project that rate of growth over the next eight years by 2020 we should have about 26,248 as our population base.
The value of a population increase in any city is mul-tifold. A few of the benefits include such things as en-hanced transportation grant opportunities, recognition in the area as the center of the region (a star on the Rand-Mc-Nally Atlas), and enhanced visibility for economic devel-opment opportunities. Brag-ging rights if you will. It also takes population to get the retail that we want so much.
During my earliest years I recall Columbus as the place that had all the fun things to do. There was a Shipley Do-Nuts on Highway 82 across from Propst Park and at that
time Starkville didn’t have one. I spent lots of time in Columbus with my mother shopping at Ruth’s and Pryor’s which were the “good dress stores” in the area or so my mother thought (much to my fa-ther’s chagrin).
Columbus had the first McDon-ald’s, then the
standard bearer for fast food. We couldn’t wait to get there for a Big Mac and fries. My first trip with my new driver’s license was for a Quarter-pounder with cheese. All Starkville had at the time was a Burger King and it just couldn’t compare. Columbus had the enclosed mall and good restaurants. It had a skating rink and a big park and my folks could buy a beer with their barbecue. Starkville couldn’t come close to that. And so in the 1960 census Columbus had 24,771 for a population count. Starkville had only 9,041.
Fast forward to today. The tables have turned and now Columbus is losing popu-
lation. Based on the same census report that shows Starkville continuing to grow, Columbus has lost people since the 2010 census. In 2010 Columbus had an official count of 23,640; as of 2012 they are down to 23,452. Am I gloating, no, but do I want Starkville to take its rightful place as the population center in the Golden Triangle Area, absolutely. The county statis-tics are still in Lowndes favor, but not so skewed as they were in previous decades. Lowndes is larger than Oktib-beha by 15,177 as of 2010.
One of the things that will quickly provide a popu-lation increase to a city is an annexation. Annexation is a complicated procedure with many steps and many hurdles to jump through to make it happen but it can reap huge benefits. The first being the automatic increase in popula-tion that will work to keep our city the center of the Golden Triangle municipal universe. The second is the increase in the value of the property that is taxable.
It has been 16 years since the city of Starkville in-creased its territory. The 1998
annexation was in hindsight not a particularly well planned maneuver. The areas annexed required more services from the city than the investment would provide in tax revenue to support it. It took us almost 15 years to get the final statu-torily required infrastructure services set for the new residents. Now is the time to move ahead with the next one. This time we need to get more commercial property in order to support the services that have to be provided to the new residents. There are a number of existing com-mercial areas just a few steps outside the city in Oktibbeha County that would fit nicely under the Starkville umbrella with very little stretching or struggle. There are also some large commercial projects coming on line in the county that should be in the city. These areas on the immediate outskirts are getting all the benefits of living in the city without sharing in some basic costs.
And wouldn’t the university be a great addition to our city limits. Starkville currently provides fire service and pub-lic service utilities through a
contractual arrangement with MSU. It would be a fine thing to be able to say that MSU is now in the city of Starkville just like Columbus can say that MUW is in Columbus.
It used to be the two sepa-rate school districts were an impediment to such a bold move, but with the impending school consolidation that is no longer an issue. By the time a proper study could be done to determine the new borders and how services should be distributed, the consolidation process would be done.
The cooperative spirit that has been strengthened between the city, county and university could be cement-ed to showcase the single largest and most potentially unstoppable growth and development step for our area that we have ever seen. How about it Starkville, let’s take it up another notch. Let’s get our population over the 30,000 mark before the 2020 census.
Lynn Spruill, a former com-mercial airline pilot, elected official and city administrator owns and manages Spruill Property Management in Starkville. Her email address is [email protected].
Annexation and growth
Lynn Spruill
I have a question for George Will.
If he can’t answer it, maybe Brit Hume can. Both men were recently part of a panel on “Fox News Sunday” to which moderator Chris Wallace posed this question: Has race played a role in the often-harsh treatment of President Obama and At-torney General Eric Holder? Wallace was reacting to a clip of Holder strongly hinting that a testy encounter with House Republicans was part of a pattern of race-based abuse of himself and the president.
Some of the panelists framed their answers in political dimensions, i.e., what does this mean for the midterms? But Hume and Will responded directly.
Has race played a part? Heck no.Said Hume: “This strikes me as kind of crybaby
stuff from Holder. My sense about this is that both Eric Holder and Barack Obama have benefited polit-ically enormously from the fact that they are Afri-can-American and the first to hold the jobs that they hold.”
“Look,” added Will, “liberalism has a kind of Tourette’s syndrome these days. It’s just constantly saying the word ‘racism’ and ‘racist.’ It’s an old saying in the law: If you have the law on your side, argue the law, if you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. If you have neither, pound the table. This is pounding the table.”
And here, let us remove Holder from the equation because, frankly, the question I’m here to ask is more pertinent to his boss than him. I just wish Mssrs. Will and Hume would explain one thing:
You say race has played no role in the treatment of President Obama? Fine. What would it look like if it did?
I mean, we’re talking about a president who was called “uppity” by one GOP lawmaker, “boy” by another and “subhuman” by a GOP activist; who was depicted as a bone-through-the-nose witch doctor by opponents of his health-care reform bill; as a pair of cartoon spook eyes against a black backdrop by an aide to a GOP lawmaker, and as an ape by various op-ponents; who has been dogged by a “tea party” move-ment whose earliest and most enthusiastic supporters included the Council of Conservative Citizens, infa-mous for declaring the children of interracial unions “a slimy brown glop”; who was called a liar by an obscure GOP lawmaker during a speech before a joint session of Congress; who has had to contend with a years-long campaign of people pretending there is some mystery about where he was born.
There’s much more, but you get the drift. So I wish those men would explain how, exactly, the treatment of the president would differ if race were indeed part of the mix. What misbehavior would make them say: “OK, this is definitely about color of skin, not content of character”? Because from where I sit, much of the behavior toward Obama would need white hoods to be more blatantly racial than it already is.
Hume, by the way, says some critics have called his comments themselves “racist.” They’ve also scored the fact that this discussion was undertaken by an all-white panel. While the optics were odd, there was nothing in what he or Will said that would seem to merit that label. Those who slap him with it are likely motivated by the same knee-jerk reflex by which my critics — depend on it — will claim that I consider any disagreement with the president to be — sigh — “rac-ist.”
That’s silly. But then, discussion of this seminal American fault line often reveals in some of us an un-fortunate fondness for clownish superficiality. And yet that silliness does not detract from the criticality of the fault line itself. Nor can I share Will’s conviction that manly taciturnity is the best way to seal that fissure.
So what I ask is not rhetorical, not abstract, not a joke. It is a serious question.
And I’d appreciate the same sort of answer.Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald.
when they would move railroad cross ties treated with creosote across 14th Avenue for drying.
The details of the clean-up plan take 18-24 months to develop through an investigation of the extent and range of the contamination and an-other six months of EPA review before it issues a record of decision(its se-lected plan for cleaning the areas), before the pro-cess can take place.
Jamison, who estab-lished the Memphis Town Community Action Group in 2012 to work with EPA and expedite the process of cleaning the affected land, said the $68 million will be helpful in finally addressing a problem that has been a major health and safety issue in the East Columbus neighbor-hood, but believes more may be needed and that the overall settlement was paltry considering the hundreds of former Kerr-McGee sites across the country that have had similar issues.
In December, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York found Kerr-McGee liable for environmental contamination worth any-where from $5.2 to $14.2 billion. The United States Department of Justice and EPA, which filed the suit, settled for the $5.15 billion from Anadarko, which bought Kerr-Mc-Gee’s major assets in 2006.
“It’s just underfund-ed,” Jamison said. “For the damage Kerr-McGee did to Columbus and oth-er areas across the nation, I think the federal govern-ment let Kerr-McGee off with a slap on the wrist. No one was made whole but Kerr-McGee.”
Who is Multistate? Multistate was creat-
ed in 2011 when the EPA designated the Columbus location as a Superfund
site. It is a trustee group of Greenfield Environ-mental Trust Group, a minority-owned, women’s business that has earned multiple awards for Su-perfund site cleanup since it was established in 1989, Cynthia Brooks, company president, said. Multistate is managing 23 other sites similar to the one in Columbus as well as more than 400 other smaller ones.
“We step in and take ownership of the haz-ardous waste sites when there are problems with the owner, either because they’re bankrupt or a site has been orphaned and nobody wants to own it for all the obvious reasons,” Brooks said. “Our prior-ities are the protection of public health and the environment. We have a duty of loyalty to the ben-eficiaries of this trust. We take a community-based approach to how we clean up and ultimately redevel-op these sites. We own, manage and clean up these sites to help facili-tate their redevelopment and long-term steward-ships. Governmental or private entities will be taking on ownership and hopefully productive reuse of the sites we’re responsible for. We are very interested in and concerned about what the communities want to see happen at these sites.”
As for the Columbus site, the 18-24 month in-vestigation is needed to assess the extent of the contamination and deter-mine every place where creosote may have ended up away from the site. Af-ter the six-month public review period ends and EPA renders its ruling, the actual work itself will probably take place over several years, Brooks said. However, work on remediating the 14th Ave-nue drainage ditch, which is considered a separate project, is in the design
process now and con-struction will begin this year, she said, and should be wrapped up in 2015. It will include widening the road to accommodate heavy trucks and equip-ment.
“Site investigation is needed to characterize the nature and extent of the contamination to understand how big the problem is and how far off site it has come to re-side,” Brooks said. “Un-til we have completed a full characterization of the contamination from the Kerr-McGee site, we don’t know what the cleanup will look like or what it will cost.”
The good news, Brooks said, is that the EPA has added this to its national priorities list of the most hazardous sites in the country, which means EPA would seek federal money to make up for insufficient funds. Brooks said Multistate will also be mindful of its budget for the site.
“We have to be both protective of public health and mindful of cost,” she said. “We have finite funds for all of these sites to get the job done.”
General procedures will include crews using excavators to dig out soil that has been identified as affected as well as drilling wells and taking soil sam-ples.
“If the hazardous wastes are going to be consolidated on site there would be construction of whatever cells there might be to contain contami-nation so that there’s no future exposure,” Brooks said. “You’ll see wells get-ting drilled. Groundwater cleanups cover the gamut from cleaning in place to extraction and treatment of contaminated water.”
Who is Tronox Tort Trust?
The $68 million that
will be used in Columbus can only be used for inves-tigation and site cleanup and is a portion of $4.53 billion of the settlement designated strictly for site remediation. A sepa-rate trust has been estab-lished to deal only with claims from people who have experienced injury or sickness as a result of exposure to the creosote. The Tronox Tort Trust is receiving $618 million to pay claims to those who have experienced these affects at all the affected sites in the country. A hotline (800-753-4280) and email address (help-l ine@t ronox tor t t r ust .com) have been set up to guide those affected on how their claims can be processed.
The Memphis Town Community Action Group’s next meeting Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Genesis Church on 23rd Street North will have EPA and Mississippi De-partment of Environmen-tal Quality representa-tives on hand to explain plans for investigation and remediation of the site in greater detail. Only site remediation will be discussed and no representatives from Tronox Tort Trust will be there to discuss personal claims.
Reusing the siteJamison said part
of the site remediation funding should include relocating residents close to the site and installing solar panels that can be used for energy. He be-lieves portions of areas have so much creosote that removing all of it would be impossible, but containing those areas so they are blocked from further public exposure would still achieve the goal of ensuring the pub-lic’s safety and welfare, he said.
“We think the best thing to do is to get the people off of it and then use the land for some-thing else. The EPA would have to contain the contaminants, define the parameters and put down retention walls to con-tain the contamination in that site. Then you cap it off and with those solar farms, they put solar pan-els out there and you can’t see the ground. There are many ways that can be used and be profitable and usable without hu-mans having to be on it.”
While the arrival of Multistate symbolizes the most significant step to-ward rectifying the issues at the site and ditch, it has been long overdue, Jami-
son said. He believes the delay was partly due to local leaders not stepping up and raising awareness as well as apathy from EPA about the nature of the environmental dam-age that has been caused in Columbus.
“The entire 15 years we’ve been fighting this fight for a community who has lost its property value and has been exposed to serious health problems and dangerous situations. The tragedy is not one politician from the com-munity has come forward and tried to fight for it. They’re coming on board now because we have the EPA in town now and we have the federal govern-ment saying ‘It’s time to do this’ and we have money on board now,” Jamison said. “I fought for it because I knew how bad it was and saw what it was doing to my prop-erty and to people. I had health effects. I got sick from it. There were meet-ings I went to and trips I took to Atlanta to talk to EPA. We spent personal money, a bunch of money to prove to the EPA that we weren’t safe. Once we spent that money, did our own testing and showed we weren’t safe, EPA was forced to come in and say, ‘You’ve got a problem.’”
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cellence, Thomas said the board expects to an-nounce the specifics of new athletic facilities, in-cluding a soccer field, in the coming weeks.
Since the school first separated from Imman-uel Christian Church last month, school board members have been con-sidering a name change. However, Thomas said that decision has not yet been finalized and board members are mulling over whether to change the name or to remain Im-manuel Christian School. Board members are also
considering whether or not to keep school uni-forms.
One thing that won’t be changing however is the tuition.
“Tuition for the upcom-ing year has been set and will not be increased,” Thomas said.
Throughout the poten-tial changes, Thomas said the focus of the school remains clear: to provide students with a quality, Christian education.
“Many decisions rang-ing from administration, whether a name change will be necessary, teacher
positions, to uniforms are being prayerfully consid-ered,” he said. “Once the legalities of the transi-tion are finalized the new school board will eagerly be making these deci-sions as well as many oth-ers. The board is made up of committed Christian men and women with a variety of gifts and tal-ents from varying profes-sional and personal back-grounds. Each shares a common commitment to Christ and an intense value for true Christian education in the Golden Triangle area.
HOLY WEEK AROUND THE WORLD
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AP Photo/Stefano Rellandini, Pool
AP Photo/Sayyid AzimChristians of the Catholic Church in Kenya carry the cross through the streets of Nairobi, Kenya during Holy Week on Friday. Easter marks the end of Lent, a for-ty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of the Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus.
AP Photo/Gregorio BorgiaNuns and faithful wait for the start of the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession to be celebrat-ed by Pope Francis in front of the Colosseum on Good Friday in Rome.
ABOVE: An actor dressed in a devil costume stands on the shores of the Rimac River in Lima, Peru, on Thursday. The actor performed for people after they attended the reenactment of Jesus’ baptism in the river as part of during Holy Week. LEFT: Pope Francis lays prostrate on the floor in prayer before presiding over a Good Friday Passion service, in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday.
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Birney Imes/Dispatch StaffFor 15 years members of Toliver Chapel in the Piney Woods community near Macon have carried a cross as part of the church’s Easter observance. Saturday afternoon five church members took turns carrying a wooden cross 8 ½ miles, walking from Brooksville to the Noxubee Courthouse. There they were met by members of Prairie Grove M.B. Church of Brooksville with whom the Toliver congregation partnered on this year’s walk. Pictured are Andrew Mayberry, Antonie Dancy, James Edward Davis Sr., Joni Davis and James Edward Davis Jr.
BY TOM KRISHERAP Auto Writer
DETROIT — General Motors waited years to re-call nearly 335,000 Saturn Ions for power steering failures despite getting thousands of consumer complaints and more than 30,000 warranty repair claims, according to gov-
ernment documents re-leased Saturday.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis-tration, the government’s auto safety watchdog, didn’t seek a recall of the compact car from the 2004 through 2007 mod-el years even though it opened an investigation
more than two years ago and found 12 crashes and two injuries caused by the problem.
The documents, posted on the agency’s website, show yet another delay by GM in recalling unsafe ve-hicles and point to anoth-er example of government safety regulators reacting slowly to a safety problem despite being alerted by consumers and through warranty data submitted by the company.
Documents detail another delayed GM recallThousands of complaints and more than 30,000 warranty repair claims
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PERTH, Australia — A robotic sub-marine looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is expected to finish search-ing a patch of the Indian Ocean seabed within a week after so far coming up
empty, and the search area may be ex-panded after that, officials said Saturday.
As the hunt for Flight 370 hit the six-week mark, the Bluefin 21 unmanned sub began its seventh trip into the depths off the coast of western Australia. Its search area forms a 6.2-mile circle around the location of an underwater signal that was believed to have come from the aircraft’s black boxes before their batteries died.
Sub search continues for airliner
BY JULIE PACEAP White House Correspondent
W A S H I N G T O N — People who have ac-counts on the enrollment website for President Barack Obama’s signa-ture health care law are being told to change their passwords following an administration-wide re-view of the government’s vulnerability to the con-founding Heartbleed In-ternet security flaw.
Senior administra-tion officials said there is no indication that the HealthCare.gov site has been compromised and the action is being tak-en out of an abundance of caution. The govern-ment’s Heartbleed re-
view is ongoing, the of-ficials said, and users of other websites may also be told to change their passwords in the com-ing days, including those with accounts on the pop-ular WhiteHouse.gov pe-titions page.
The Heartbleed pro-gramming flaw has caused major security concerns across the Internet and affected a widely used encryp-tion technology that was designed to protect online accounts. Major Internet services have been working to insu-late themselves against the problem and are also recommending that us-ers change their website passwords.
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Mary Alice Weeks/Dispatch StaffHens will lay no more than one egg per day and generally do not lay an egg every day. Debbie Lawrence says she gets six-to-eight eggs per day from her brood of 10 hens.
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themselves, which almost always turns out to be a death sentence for the an-imal.
“Rabbits and chick-ens can make wonderful companions, but those adorable babies grow up quickly into adults that will need proper socializa-tion, care and companion-ship for many years,” said Inga Fricke, The HSUS’ director of sheltering and pet care issues, said in a recent press release.
While the practice of buying chicks for Easter may be waning, the chick business overall is boom-ing for an entirely differ-ent reason: fresh eggs.
According to a sto-ry in Wall Street Journal last fall more and more people are keeping their own chickens, especial-ly in cities. Rob Ludlow, who runs the popular site backyardchickens.com, says the trend “continues to grow like crazy,” with membership recently top-ping 222,000.
Fresh eggs are a huge motivating factor in the trend.
“There’s just no com-parison,’’ said Debbie Lawrence, who began her experiment with raising chickens three years ago. “The eggs I get from my hens just have so much more flavor than the ones you buy in the gro-cery store. I’ve gotten to the point that I won’t eat eggs in a restaurant. I’m spoiled, I guess.”
As a child, Lawrence, who owns Bloomers Nurs-ery on Caledonia-Steens Road, remembered the chickens her grand-mother kept. But her de-cision to try her hand at keeping chickens, was not driven by nostalgia or a sentimental urge. She wanted the eggs.
After some research, Lawrence chose five breeds that seemed best-suited to the climate in Caledonia and ordered two hens of each breed — Columbian Wyandotte, Barred Plymouth Rock,
White Barred Rock, Am-eraucana and Welsummer.
She also ordered a rooster, but it died sooner after arrival.
“My husband said he just couldn’t take living with 10 females,” Law-rence quipped. (Note to city slickers: You you need a rooster to get chicks, but you don’t need one to get eggs. “
“Anyway, it’s just he girls now,” Lawrence said.
While Lawrence’s ini-tial motive in acquiring the chicks was for the practi-cal purpose of supplying eggs, she confesses that the “girls” have quickly become equal parts fami-ly, pet and entertainment. They have names — Thel-ma and Louise, Lois and Lola, Beyonce and Shelby, etc.
“I just love to sit out here in the late afternoons and watch them,” she says. “They make so many noises, almost like they are talking to each other. They have a hierarchy, too, and since they grew
up together, everyone knows her place. I just find them so entertaining, bet-ter than TV. They all know me. They come running to the fence when they see me. Of course, I am pretty bad about spoiling them.”
Her brood produces six-to-eight eggs per day, which come in an assort-ment of pastel shades of blue, green, yellow and beige. “They’re Easter Eggs you don’t have to paint,” Lawrence notes wryly.
Lawrence’s hens are not of the free-range vari-ety, mainly because there are plenty of free-range dogs sand free-range automobiles that would mean a quick end to the enterprise.
Instead, she and her husband Larry have used part of an old barn to build an impressive chicken complex complete with a large chicken run and a large indoor roost and lay-ing area.
After three years of raising laying hens, Law-
rence is convinced almost anyone can keep chickens.
“It’s not at all expensive — at least it doesn’t have to be unless you go crazy — and it doesn’t require a lot of time,” she said “I probably spend an hour a day and that’s pushing it because I spend at much time talking to them and watching them as I am do-ing things.”
She noted that there are some basic necessi-ties.
First, don’t get more chicks than you have room for. Lawrence said overcrowding, often leads to disease and death. Chickens need room to move about and need a clean, well-kept environ-ment. They need a good supply of fresh water and you have to protect them from the hot, hot weather. We have a fun we turn on in the summer to keep the air circulating.
She also said its best to purchase your chicks from a supplier since most of the chicks you find at co-ops and feed stores are separated by gender. As a chick, the gender is hard to determine.
“Unless you don’t care if you’re getting a hen or a rooster, you’re much better off ordering from a supplier.”
Dispatch file photoDebbie Lawrence and Bebe are pictured in this file photo.
Jerrod Bradley believes there’s an order to things.
Between football, soccer, base-ball, studies, community service work, and hanging out with friends, there hardly seems to be enough time in a day to do everything that needs to be done — let alone just take a breath and relax.
But Bradley’s plan helps him keep it simple. In his mind, there is no other way.
“Student comes first,” Bradley
said, when asked to define what “student-athlete” means to him. “You have to have all of your grades right in the classroom. As long as you are eligible to play, you can still excel on the field.”
Bradley has done that and much more since transferring to New Hope High School. In addition to being a varsity player on three sports, Bradley has been one of the school’s top performers in the class-room. His achievements were rec-ognized earlier this month when he was honored as the male recipient of the Lindy Callahan Scholar-Ath-
lete Award from District 4. Brad-ley was one of eight boys and eight girls from throughout the state rec-ognized in the 19th-annual awards ceremony in Jackson. The award is named for the Hall of Fame former Gulfport High athletic director.
Each of the district winners — chosen from more than 280 appli-cants — receives a $1,500 college scholarship with the help of the pro-gram’s supporters.
For Bradley, the award carried extra significance: He is the first from New Hope High to win it.
From Special Reports
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Before a crowd of 73,506, the White defeated the Crimson 17-13 Saturday in the Al-abama football team’s annual A-Day Game at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Running back T.J. Yeldon, play-ing for the Crimson, earned the Dixie Howell Award given to the game’s most valuable player. He had 104 yards (95 rushing, 9 receiving), including one rushing touchdown. Yeldon led all players in rushing yards. It marked the third-consecu-tive year Yeldon has won the honor.
Linebacker DJ Pettway, of the
White, and defensive lineman Jon-athan Allen, of the Crimson, were voted co-winners of the Dwight Ste-phenson Lineman of the Game Award given to the game’s most valuable lineman. Allen was credited with six tackles, including five solo stops. He also had two quarterback sacks for 10 yards, four tackles for loss totaling 18 yards, and a blocked a field goal. Pett-way had two tackles and made one of the game’s biggest plays, intercepting a pass he returned 29 yards for the first touchdown.
From Special Reports
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Mississippi State junior left-hander Ross Mitchell delivered again Sat-urday for the No. 24 Mississippi State baseball team.
With Mitchell throwing his third complete game in six career starts, MSU defeated Missou-ri 6-2 to clinch a weekend Southeastern Confer-ence series at Taylor Stadium.
MSU improved to 25-15 and 9-8 in the SEC, while Missouri fell to 17-20 and 6-11. The Bull-dogs won a conference series for the fourth time in six tries this sea-son. They have won two of their first three road series for the first time since 2007. MSU will try for its first sweep of the season at 1 p.m. to-day. MSU hasn’t named a starter for the finale. Senior right-hander Ben Bracewell (2-3, 2.80 ERA) and junior right-hander Brandon Woodruff (1-2, 5.81) are candidates. Missouri is scheduled to start senior right-hander Eric Anderson (2-2, 3.15).
“We spent the bullpen yesterday (in a 3-2, 11-inning win),” MSU coach John Cohen said. “Ross was phenomenal. We didn’t make a cou-ple of plays behind him. He helped his cause by making a couple of really great defensive plays.
“We really needed another day of rest for (Ja-cob) Lindgren and (Jonathan) Holder, so Ross’s performance was really big.”
At one time, the surgical procedure known as “Tommy John” surgery was a rarity.
First performed in 1974 by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Frank Jobe, then a Los Angeles Dodgers team physician, on Tommy John, the procedure grafts a tendon from someplace else in the body and uses it to replace the ulnar collateral ligament in the medial elbow. At the time of the surgery, Jobe said John’s chances of a full recovery were 1 in 100.
These days, Tommy John surgery has transformed from a potential medical marvel into a common occurrence. The success of John, who won 124 games before the surgery and went on to win 164 after it before retiring in 1989 at 46, and many others who have had the surgery has created a growing demand for the surgery. In 2009, prospects of a complete recovery had risen to 85–92 percent, accord-ing to Eric Rosenhek, who wrote a story “The gory details of Tommy John surgery.”
Once seen as something to avoid, pitchers are requesting the procedure after they experience pain in their shoulder or elbow. It sounds simple. A patient’s arm is opened up
This week will be an import-ant week for three Lowndes County baseball teams.
While Columbus High School already has secured a playoff spot and will begin post-season action later this week, Heritage Academy and New Hope High will have one more week to prepare for what they hope will be runs to champion-ships.
Columbus and New Hope
will kick off the week with a 6 p.m. game Monday at Colum-bus High. The Falcons (18-5, 5-4 Class 6A, Region 3) will honor seniors Trace Lee, Hunt-er Mullis, Chris McCullough, Greg Sykes, Gavonta Webb, Michael Sturdivant, Kaden Patel, Kendrick Conner, and Javonta Smith before playing their county rival. New Hope beat Columbus 3-2 on April 12 at New Hope High.
The game will come five days after Columbus beat Starkville 2-0 in eight innings
to eliminate the Yellow Jackets from the playoffs. The Falcons already had clinched the No. 2 spot in the region behind Northwest Rankin and secured a date against Olive Branch in its first best-of-three playoff se-ries. Columbus will play host to Olive Branch at 6 p.m. Thurs-day in Game 1. The second game will be Friday at Olive Branch. If needed, Game 3 will be at a time to be determined Saturday in Columbus.
Columbus coach Jeffrey
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Columbus High School senior catcher Gavonta Webb makes contact against West Lowndes in a game last month. Columbus will gear up for its Class 6A North State playoff series against Olive Branch on Thursday with games against New Hope on Monday and Caledonia on Tuesday.
Teams gearing up for postseasonColumbus, New Hope, Heritage Academy have work to do before starting playoffs
Bulldogs beat Tigers to take SEC series
Tommy John surgeries rising for young pitchers
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BRADLEY RECOGNIZED AS SCHOLAR-ATHLETE
ContributedSenior Jerrod Bradley has been successful on and off the field in his time at New Hope High School. Not only has Bradley played key roles on the school’s baseball, football, and soccer teams, as seen above and below, he also has excelled in the classroom. Earlier this month, Bradley was one of 16 outstanding student-athletes recognized for being named a Lindy Callahan Scholar-Athlete. Bradley, who was the boys winner from District 4, is the first student-athlete from New Hope to receive the award.
Standout in multiple sports is first from New Hope High School to win award in its 19 years
College Football
Alabama Athletic Media RelationsAlabama running back T.J. Yeldon had 11 carries for 95 yards and a touchdown Saturday in the annual A-Day scrimmage at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The White won 17-13.
White wins annual A-Day gameWhite 17, Crimson 13
Prep BaseballMonday’s Games
Victory Christian at Marion, 4 p.m.Heritage Academy at Hamilton, 7 p.m.
Tuesday’s GamesVictory Christian at Victory Baptist, 4 p.m.Columbus at Caledonia, 6 p.m.Starkville Academy at Magnolia Heights, 6 p.m.Washington School at Heritage Academy, 6 p.m.Saltillo at New Hope, 7 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesMagnolia Heights at Starkville Academy (DH), 4 p.m.Heritage Academy at Washington School (DH), 4 p.m.Mississippi High School Activities Association
Class 6A Playoffs — Play-In RoundOlive Branch at Columbus
Friday’s GamesAckerman at Starkville, 7 p.m.West Lowndes at Eupora, 7 p.m.
Prep SoftballTuesday’s Games
Victory Christian at Victory Baptist, 4 p.m.Saltillo at New Hope, 6 p.m.Leake Central at Caledonia, 6:30 p.m.Starkville at Noxapater, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday’s GameCaledonia at New Hope, 6:30 p.m.
College BaseballTuesday’s Games
Southern Miss at Alabama, 6 p.m.Miss. State vs. Ole Miss (Pearl), 6:30 p.m.
Friday’s GamesOle Miss at Kentucky, 5:30 p.m.Alabama at South Carolina, 6 p.m.Rice at Southern Miss, 6 p.m.Texas A&M at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesOle Miss at Kentucky, 1 p.m.Texas A&M at Mississippi State, 2 p.m.Rice at Southern Miss, 2 p.m.Alabama at South Carolina, 3 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesOle Miss at Kentucky, NoonAlabama at South Carolina, 12:30 p.m.Rice at Southern Miss, 1 p.m.Texas A&M at Mississippi State, 1:30 p.m.
College SoftballTuesday’s Game
Alabama at Southern Miss, 6 p.m.Wednesday’s Games
Alabama A&M at Ole Miss (DH), 4 p.m.Thursday’s Game
Georgia at Alabama, 7 p.m.Friday’s Games
Arkansas at Mississippi State, 5 p.m.LSU at Ole Miss, 6 p.m.Georgia at Alabama, 6:30 p.m.Southern Miss at Arizona State, 7 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesGeorgia at Alabama, 11 a.m.Arkansas at Mississippi State, noonLSU at Ole Miss, 2 p.m.Southern Miss at Arizona State, 7 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesArkansas at Mississippi State, NoonSouthern Miss at Arizona State, NoonLSU at Ole Miss, 1 p.m.
College RowingFriday’s Meet
Alabama at Dale England Cup Regatta (Bloomington, Ind.)
Saturday’s MeetAlabama at Dale England Cup Regatta (Bloomington, Ind.)
College Track and FieldThursday’s Meet
MSU at Penn Relays (Philadelphia)Friday’s Meet
MSU at Penn Relays (Philadelphia)Saturday’s Meets
MSU at Penn Relays (Philadelphia)Ole Miss hosts Ole Miss Dual Meet
Junior College BaseballWednesday’s Games
EMCC at Itawamba (DH), 3 p.m.Saturday’s Games
Northeast at EMCC (DH), 1 p.m.Itawamba at Northwest (DH), 2 p.m.
Junior College BaseballMonday’s Games
EMCC at Copiah-Lincoln (DH), 2 p.m.Tuesday’s Games
Itawamba at Jackson State C.C. (DH), 2 p.m.
TodayCOLLEGE BASEBALL
11 a.m. — Georgia at Florida, ESPNUNoon — Vanderbilt at Arkansas, ESPN1 p.m. — Kansas at Oklahoma State, FS11 p.m. — South Carolina at Auburn, CSS
GOLF5:30 a.m. — European PGA Tour, Malaysian Open, final round, at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (same-day tape), TGCNoon — PGA Tour, The Heritage, final round, at Hilton Head Island, S.C., TGC2 p.m. — PGA Tour, The Heritage, final round, at Hilton Head Island, S.C., WCBI2 p.m. — Champions Tour, Greater Gwinnett Championship, final round, at Duluth, Ga., TGC
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALLNoon —Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, SportSouth12:30 p.m. — Regional coverage, N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay or St. Louis at Washington, MLB Network6 p.m. — Baltimore at Boston, ESPN
NBANoon — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 1, Dallas at San Antonio, TNT2:30 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 1, Charlotte at Miami, WTVA-ABC6 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 1, Washington at Chicago, TNT8:30 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 1, Portland at Houston, TNT
NHL11 a.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 2, Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, WTVA2 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 2, Detroit at Boston, WTVA6 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Tampa Bay at Montreal, NBC Sports9 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 2, Los Angeles at San Jose, NBC Sports
SOCCER5:55 a.m. — Premier League, Liverpool at Norwich, NBC Sports8 a.m. — Premier League, Sunderland at Chelsea, NBC Sports10:05 a.m. — Premier League, Manchester United at Everton, NBC Sports
MondayCOLLEGE BASEBALL
6 p.m. — Notre Dame at Miami, ESPNUMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
10 a.m. — Baltimore at Boston, MLB6 p.m. — Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, ESPN
NBA7 p.m. — Playoffs, first round, game 2, teams TBD, TNT9:30 p.m. — Playoffs, first round, game 2, teams TBD, TNT
NHL6 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Pittsburgh at Columbus, NBC Sports Network8:30 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Anaheim at Dallas, NBC Sports Network
SOCCER1:55 p.m. — Premier League, West Bromwich at Manchester City, NBC Sports Network
TuesdayMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
6 p.m. — Regional coverage, N.Y. Yankees at Boston or Chicago White Sox at Detroit, MLB
NBA7 p.m. — Playoffs, first round, game 2, teams TBD, TNT9:30 p.m. — Playoffs, first round, game 2, teams TBD, TNT
NHL6:30 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Boston at Detroit, NBC Sports Network9 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, San Jose at Los Angeles, NBC Sports Network
SOCCER1:30 p.m. — UEFA Champions League, semifinal, first leg, Chelsea at Atletico de Madrid, FS1
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“It is more than a student-ath-lete,” Bradley said, when asked for his definition of “schol-ar-athlete.” “It is someone who doesn’t just get by. It is some-one who doesn’t just put up with what it takes to be eligible to play in high school sports. It is someone who tries to be the best they can possibly be.”
In addition to receiving the Lindy Callahan Scholar-Athlete Award, Bradley recently was named New Hope High’s Star Student. The Student-Teach-er Achievement Recognition (STAR) program in an effort to encourage scholastic achieve-ment among the state’s high school students. Its goals are to emphasize scholastic excel-lence and to encourage greater scholastic effort among Mis-sissippi students and to recog-nize the teaching profession. Bradley credits his parents, Ai-mee and Paul, for setting the standard he has tried to follow ever since he was in elementa-
ry school. He said he has “tried his best” not to be “lazy” in the classroom or on any field he plays on. With a grade-point average of 3.96 and a spot in Ole Miss’ early entry pharmacy program, Bradley has followed a “simple” plan of taking care of his schoolwork before he can move on the next thing. Many times, that other activity — whether it was football, soccer, baseball — was more attractive than his homework. He remem-bers back to second or third grade and not seeing the big-ger picture behind his parents’ rules.
“I really thought, ‘Can I just go outside and play and get my homework done at night when it is dark and I can’t play out-side anymore?’ ” Bradley said. “But it just wasn’t the time pe-riod. They were making sure academics came first no matter what I was doing. I really appre-ciate what they did now. When I go to college, instead of hav-
ing to go out with friends, I will make sure I have all my home-work done and then I will go out if I have the time.”
Bradley said his friends have come to understand his priori-ties and that he has to take care of his homework first before he can go to the mall, a movie, or hang out. It doesn’t matter what day of the week, either. As long as Bradley has completed his homework and his chores, he is free to do what he wants to do with his friends.
“It is like brushing your teeth. Every day you have to do your homework and then you have free time,” Bradley said. “You might as well get it out of the way because you know it is coming.”
New Hope High baseball coach Lee Boyd has coached Bradley the past two seasons. Last year, Bradley saw time as a courtesy runner in the Trojans’ run to a Class 5A state title. This season, Bradley has seen play-
ing time in the outfield. He said Bradley has served as a great ex-ample for all of his players.
“He is always positive,” Boyd said. “I have never heard a neg-ative word from Jerrod. He is always rooting for our guys. He is a very intelligent young man who makes good grades and puts his schoolwork first. He is a great kid and a good stu-dent-athlete.”
Bradley said it is special to be one of 16 in the state to re-ceive the scholarship. He said it is even more rewarding to be New Hope High’s first to be hon-ored. But that honor won’t dis-tract him from the way he does things. Instead, it only reinforc-es the importance of sticking to the plan because receiving the Lindy Callahan Scholar-Athlete Award shows he has his priori-ties in order and is on the right path to achieve even bigger re-wards. He also does community volunteer work through Mount Vernon Baptist Church.
“I guess I understood I wasn’t good enough, by any means, to try to make it to the NFL or MLS and that the best path for me would be to use my brain, to use academics to go on,” Bradley said. “I have a set route there. If I was to go play football, it probably would be for only two years. That is two years compared to the rest of my life. I have had enough fun playing high school sports and I think I have had enough of it.
“I have seen the results from different people, people who felt academics was something they could just blow by. They probably don’t succeed as well as those who push themselves to be the best they can be. I guess I have tried to be the best I can be and haven’t taken no for an answer, or have been lazy in high school sports or in grades.”
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INDIANAPOLIS — Jeff Teague scored a playoff career-high 28 points and Paul Millsap added 25 as eighth-seeded Atlanta rolled past top-seeded Indiana 101-93 on Saturday night, taking a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.
The Hawks ended an eight-game road losing streak in the playoffs, which dated to May 2011. Game 2 is Tuesday in Indianapolis.
Indiana, which spent the whole season work-ing to get home-court advantage in the playoffs, wasted no time in giving it right back with a dis-mal third quarter. Paul George finished with 24 points and 10 rebounds.
Atlanta opened the third quarter on an 8-0 run, breaking a 50-50 tie, then pulled away when Teague scored nine points in a 14-0 run that made it 74-58 with 4 minutes, 8 seconds left in the quarter.
Indiana couldn’t get closer than eight the rest of the way.
n Warriors 109, Clippers 105: At Los An-geles, Klay Thompson scored 22 points, David Lee added 20 and the Golden State Warriors got Blake Griffin and Chris Paul in foul trouble to beat the Los Angeles Clippers in their playoff opener.
Stephen Curry added 14 points for the War-riors, who trailed by 11 to start the game before rallying in the third when Griffin and Paul were on the bench together.
Paul led the Clippers with 28 points, and J.J. Redick added 22 points in 30 minutes. Griffin finished with 16 points, fouling out with 48 sec-onds left and the game tied at 105. DeAndre Jor-dan had 11 points and 14 rebounds.
Foul trouble plagued both teams, but losing Griffin and Paul for stretches cost the Clippers at both ends. For the Warriors, Andre Iguoda-la fouled out with 3:04 left in the game and Lee played with four fouls.
n Nets 94, Raptors 87: At Toronto, Deron Williams and Joe Johnson each scored 24 points, Paul Pierce scored nine of his 15 points in the final quarter and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Toronto Raptors in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.
Shaun Livingston scored 10 points and Kevin Garnett had five as the Nets won despite mak-ing 4 of 24 3-pointers.
Kyle Lowry scored 22 points and Jonas Va-lanciunas had 17 points and 18 rebounds for the Raptors.
Valanciunas is the second Raptors player to have a double-double in his postseason debut. Tracy McGrady had 25 points and 10 rebounds against New York in his first playoff game in 2000. Valanciunas also set a Raptors record for playoff rebounds by surpassing Keon Clark, who had 16 against Detroit in 2002.
NHLn Blue Jackets 4, Penguins 3, OT: At
Pittsburgh, Matt Calvert banged home a re-bound 1 minute, 10 seconds into the second overtime to help Columbus earn its first playoff victory in franchise history Saturday night.
Pittsburgh’s Marc-Andre Fleury stuffed the initial shot by Cam Atkinson but Calvert stood all alone at the left post and wristed a shot into the open net to even the Eastern Conference quarterfinals at one game each.
Jack Johnson tied the game with 6:01 left in regulation for the Blue Jackets. Ryan Johansen also scored the first playoff goal of his career for Columbus. Sergei Bobrovsky overcame a shaky start to finish with 39 saves.
Brian Gibbons scored twice and Matt Ni-skanen added his second goal of the playoffs but Pittsburgh was outplayed for much of the final three-plus periods. Fleury made 41 stops but was helpless on the game-winner.
n Blues 4, Blackhawks 3, OT: At St. Lou-is, Defenseman Barret Jackman scored on a drive through traffic, giving the Blues their sec-ond straight 4-3 overtime victory over the Black-hawks for a 2-0 series lead against the defending Stanley Cup champions.
St. Louis rallied after Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook received a five-minute major and game misconduct penalty for a vicious el-bow to the head on Blues captain David Backes, who had to be helped off the ice, went straight to the locker room and did not return for the extra period.
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NEW YORK — Jordan Walden got the final out with the bases loaded af-ter Atlanta manager Fredi Gonzalez pulled star clos-er Craig Kimbrel, and the Braves held off the New York Mets 7-5 Saturday night.
Freddie Freeman had three hits and hustled his way through a weird play that brought the Braves two runs when the Mets were unable to challenge a costly incorrect call.
Ervin Santana pitched seven crisp innings for his second victory against New York in three starts with Atlanta.
Justin Upton hit a three-run homer in the ninth to make it 7-3, and that became crucial when the Mets rallied against Kim-brel.
They scored twice off the hard-throwing right-hander, who loaded the bases with a two-out walk to Lucas Duda. That’s when Gonzalez went to the mound and lifted Kim-brel, who didn’t look happy about it. He waited for an extra moment or two be-fore reluctantly handing over the ball.
Kimbrel has been slowed recently by shoul-der discomfort. He left, and Walden retired Travis d’Arnaud on a grounder to secure his first save of the season and Atlanta’s sev-enth victory in eight games.
Gold Glove shortstop Andrelton Simmons was shading toward the hole and made a strong throw to get d’Arnaud.
Santana (2-0) allowed one run and struck out sev-en, giving the Braves their latest outstanding start. Despite several injuries in spring training, Atlanta’s rotation entered with a 1.47 ERA — best in the majors by nearly a full run.
David Wright, Daniel Murphy and Chris Young all had three hits for the Mets, held to one by Aaron Harang and two relievers in the series opener Friday. Wright’s eighth-inning sin-gle off Luis Avilan was New York’s only hit in a 6-0 loss.
Bartolo Colon (1-3) gave up three runs in seven in-nings for the Mets. There was some question about whether a bad back would prevent him from pitching after he was hit hard in a 14-2 loss to the Angels on Sunday.
Young cut it to 4-2 with an RBI single in the eighth off reliever David Carpen-ter. Duda made a bid for a three-run homer with a long drive that was caught on the warning track.
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n Fred Ross, Soph., WR: The Jackson native had a breakout performance last week. He was the primary target of quarterback Damian Williams and had 10 catches and two touchdowns. It is unlikely he will have another game with numbers like that again, but his production shows he is more confident entering a season in which the second target behind Jameon Lewis in the first-team offense remains in doubt. Look for Brown to have solid games if he faces one-on-one battles and the secondary focuses on Lewis and De’Runnya Wilson in primary coverages.
2. n Is quarterback Dak Prescott ready to lead the team for a full season?: The answer Mullen and the rest of the MSU coaching staff received is a resounding yes. Prescott was 7 of 9 for 131 yards in limited action last Saturday before giving way early to freshman Nick Fitzgerald. The junior signal caller spent the 14 open practices trying to work on his communication with the offensive lineman and his receivers returning because he knows he won’t be able to rely on his athleticism to get through Southeastern Conference games. “He’s not going to depend on the physical aspect of his game; he’s depending on the skill aspect of his game and making sure he can move the offense, execute and do what he needs to do with his skills more than his physicality,” Mullen said.
n Why would Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen feel like 2014 has been his best spring season in Starkville?: The depth on both sides of the ball is finally in place. Mullen said after the Maroon-White spring game last Saturday he has never felt more comfortable with the leadership in the first- and second-team units on offense and defense. With injuries draining the resources early and often last season in a 6-6 regular season, Mullen liked being able to sit some key veterans in the spring to get players with previous game experience more repetitions with the first-string unit. “This team has pretty high expectations of themselves, and our players have high expectations of themselves,” Mullen said. “But they come out and work and try to push themselves and get better every single day. That to me is what you need to do and what you want from an experienced unit.”
4. n Is Chris Jones embracing defensive tackle?: The sophomore 300-pounder said he isn’t, but his play suggests otherwise. MSU’s defense combined for five sacks and 15 tackles for loss, as the first- and second-team defensive lines had their way with the offensive lines. Jones, in limited action, had two tackles for loss. He was in the backfield all spring.“I’ve noticed that guards can’t move very well, so they have trouble handling me at defensive tackle,” Jones said. “I’m not embracing the position because I’d rather be at end, but I can make plays and should make plays at either position.”Even with Jones’ frame, the former five-star recruit is the Bulldogs most athletic defensive lineman. His three sacks in 2013 led the group despite being played out of position — at least according to him. Jones’ desire to play defensive end has led defensive coordinator Geoff Collins to experiment with a 3-4 alignment so Jones can line up at end and be a disruptive force on the outside.“It’s no different a collective deal with our players than in our coaching room because each guy is responsible for an aspect of the game plan booth during the preparation and on the day of the game,” Collins said.
n Can the offensive line survive an injury or two?: Possibly. Senior Dillon Day missed the final week of spring with a left arm injury, which forced MSU offensive line coach John Hevesy to scramble to put senior Ben Beckwith at center and Devon Desper at guard to replace a limited Justin Malone. MSU is trying to find a replacement for Gabe Jackson at left guard, but it has the remainder of its starting offensive line intact for this season. Throughout the spring season, the MSU offensive line starters were Blaine Clausell and Damien Robinson at tackle, Day at center, and Ben Beckwith and Jamaal Clayborn at guard.Hevesy refused to say who will start at guard beside Day. He also tried to work a sixth and seventh offensive lineman into the rotation to avoid injuries taking MSU out of rhythm like in previous seasons. Hevesy is trying to rotate Malone back into the mix after he missed most of last season with an undisclosed injury.“What I’m trying to do is get myself used to contact and just get myself back in the mind-set of competing at the highest level with the offensive lineman,” Malone said.
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n Justin Cox, Sr., S: One of the missions of MSU defensive coordinator Geoff Collins was to get Cox comfortable with his safety position. With Jay Hughes still limited from his Achilles injury, Cox received ample opportunity to showcase his skills at free safety this spring.“(Jay) has really been helping me try to understand the ins and outs of playing safety in this defense,” Cox said. “What I’ve tried to do is make sure when a defense is called, I know what I’m doing immediately. When I’m out there thinking about messing up, that’s when I get caught.”Cox will share safety with Hughes and Kendrick Market this season. He will play a center-field spot similar to what he was asked to do at East Mississippi Community College, when his natural instincts were allowed to come forward. “Justin has always been interested in doing everything we ask of him as fast as he can,” Mullen said. “If I don’t have to teach you effort, then that’s a great start. Our coaches can teach you positioning, schemes and execution. We can’t make you do it hard every play.”
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5. n Has MSU solved the place-kicking problem that plagued it last season?: Sophomore Evan Sobiesk is a more consistent option for MSU than Devon Bell, who has been moved to punter for the remainder of his career. Sobiesk connected on a 28-yard field goal with time expiring to send the Maroon team to a 41-38 win. Sobiesk was 2 of 3 on field goals last Saturday, and said the fire drill action of the final kick gave him an adrenaline rush that can’t be matched during simulated sessions of the 14 spring practices.“I didn’t know we were still rolling the clock, so I had to hustle to get on the field so I was breathing heavy before I kicked it,” Sobiesk said. “Maybe I kick better when I’m exhausted.”It is unclear after spring practices if MSU will have better results in field goal kicking than last year, but punting and kick returns are a major reason why Greg Knox seems to be a solid choice as the first special teams coordinator in the Mullen era.
Numbers of the Spring
n Announced crowd of the Maroon-White spring game.
21,710
n Starters MSU returned from the 2013 Liberty Bowl that returned for the spring season. That number doesn’t include Justin Malone at guard and Jay Hughes at safety, who were out with injuries, so MSU had 22 starters this spring from one point last season.
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David Allen Williams/Special to The DispatchRunning back Jameon Lewis regains his balance after making a play in one of Mississippi State football team’s scrimmages this spring.
TOP: Dak Prescott looked like he was ready to step in and be the No. 1 quarterback for the Mississippi State football team this season. The junior, who came on last season for Tyler Russell, had an impressive showing in the team’s spring game in limited action.LEFT: Freshman Nick Fitzgerald will compete for playing time at quar-terback with sophomore Damian Williams.
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OXFORD — Right-hander Sam Smith turned in another strong start, but No. 13 Ole Miss lost to No. 12 LSU 2-0 on Sat-urday in the third game of the Southeastern Confer-ence weekend series.
The loss marked the first time this season Ole Miss (30-11, 10-8 SEC) has been shut out.
“Early on we didn’t get any hits or base runners,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bi-anco. “Unfortunately, to-day was one of those bad offensive days. It happens in baseball over 56 games. We really couldn’t mount anything. We had a few base hits but didn’t really threaten at all. We rarely, if ever, got the leadoff guy on. It was disappointing offensively.”
Smith (5-3) worked 7 1/3 innings and allowed two runs on five hits with a walk and four strikeouts. He took the loss despite turning in his eighth-con-secutive quality start of the season. Left-hander
Wyatt Short didn’t allow a hit in the final 1 2/3 in-nings. He walked one and struck out three.
Hunter Devall (1-0) picked up the win, working 2 2/3 innings in relief of starter Alden Cartwright, who went four innings. Four LSU pitchers combined to lim-it Ole Miss to six hits. They struck out four and walked one.
LSU (30-10-1, 10-7-1 SEC) scored the first run in the third inning when Connor Hale scored from third on a single to center from Andrew Stevenson. Hale reached on a single through the left side and took second on a passed ball on an intended pitch out. A sacrifice bunt moved him to third and set up the score on the Stevenson hit.
A double to left from Mark Laird put two in scoring position as Ste-venson went first-to-third
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — It was a Good Friday for the No. 24 Mississippi State baseball team.
An RBI single by C.T. Bradford lifted MSU to a 3-2, 11-inning victory against Missouri in the opening game of a three-game Southeastern Confer-ence series at Taylor Stadi-um.
In its first meeting as conference foes, MSU beat Missouri 2-1 in 17 innings last season at the South-eastern Conference tourna-ment. The rematch ended a little sooner, as Seth Heck doubled and scored when Bradford dribbled a single into right field with two outs.
“Our first 15 or so at-bats, I was pleased with the hard contact we were having,” MSU coach John Cohen said. “We did a great job with our hit-and-run segments. Jonathan Holder threw 82 pitches tonight, and he was a warrior. We had to have him tonight to give us a chance to win the game.”
MSU improved to 24-15
and 8-8 in the SEC, while Missouri fell to 17-19 and 6-10. MSU won a Friday night conference road game for the first time since April 12, 2013 at Tex-as A&M. The Bulldogs won the opening game in a conference series for only the second time this sea-son.
Holder (4-1) allowed three hits in 5 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. He struck out six and walked two in an 82-pitch effort in relief of starter Trevor Fitts (2 2/3 innings) and Jacob Lindgren (three innings).
Missouri built a 1-0 lead in the third when Kendall Keeton had a sacrifice fly after back-to-back hits.
MSU battled back for a 2-1 lead with two runs in the fourth. Brett Pirtle started things with a one-out sin-gle. Heck followed with a single. After a groundout advanced both runners, Gavin Collins followed with a two-run double.
“I think Gavin may have been the unsung hero in this game,” Cohen said.
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earned runs in his 142-pitch effort. Mitchell struck out three, walked two, and faced 38 batters.
Redshirt freshman out-fielder Cody Brown had a career-high four hits with two RBIs. Brown had a double and triple in the leadoff spot.
“Cody has worked so hard at it,” Cohen said. “He is attacking the base-ball. He has a short, quick swing. We were watching film with this morning and he made a couple of adjustments in the game. On a good club, somebody different steps up each night. Today was the day he stepped up and really carried us.”
Despite a hitless night in the series opener, Brown has hit safely in four of his last five games.
The Bulldogs struck two pitches into the game. Brown led off with a triple and scored on a ground out by Alex Detz.
Missouri answered in the third on an RBI single by Brett Peel.
Each team scored in the fifth. Derrick Armstrong started things by reach-ing on Missouri’s only er-ror. After a sacrifice bunt, Brown brought Matthew Britton, who reached on a
fielder’s choice, home with a single.
Missouri bunched to-gether two singles and a wild pitch to tie the game in its at-bat. The Tigers threatened again an in-ning later, but Mitchell worked out of a bases-load-ed jam.
MSU surged ahead with three runs in the seventh. Gavin Collins singled and Jake Vickerson walked. An intentional walk to Britton loaded the bases. Brown brought home Collins with a single. Bases-load-ed walks to Detz and Seth Heck forced in two more scores.
MSU tacked on an in-surance score in the ninth. Britton was hit by a pitch and Brown doubled to right field. A groundout by Pirtle brought home Britton with the game’s final run.
Each team had seven hits. Ryan Howard and Jake Ring each had two hits for Missouri and joined Brown as the only multiple hitters in the game.
Missouri starter John Miles (2-5) allowed five hits and four runs (three earned) in 6 1/3 innings.
“This ballpark plays really big, and that really helps us a team,” Cohen said.
Alabama Athletic Media RelationsBlake Sims was 13 of 30 for 178 yards with a touchdown and an interception Saturday in the Alabama football team’s annual A-Day scrimmage at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The White beat the Crimson 17-13.
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“Nobody ever has a bad spring game,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said. “I was very encouraged by the offseason program we had with this team. I was very encouraged by the spring practice we had, but I think everyone needs to understand that in games like today, we really limit what we do on offense and defense and we really don’t feature players. I think that may be a little bit of a disadvantage sometimes to our players. With Blake Sims, there are probably some things he can do as a quarterback we really don’t feature in this game. For him to be an effective player at his position, in fairness to him, it’s probably good for us to do things like that. We really don’t feature our skill guys very much, but Amari Cooper had a great spring, as did Christion Jones. We had three running backs that had very good springs.”
White quarterback Cooper Bateman was 11 of 24 for 156 yards and one touchdown and no intercep-tions. Crimson quarterback Blake Sims was 13 of 30 for 178 yards and a touchdown with two intercep-tions. The Crimson had 297 total yards (119 rushing, 178 passing), while the White had 219 yards (54 rushing, 165 passing). The teams combined for six turnovers, three by each team.
“Blake had a really good spring, and he did a really good job in the scrimmages,” Saban said. “I thought he was trying to speed ev-erything up a bit, and he tried to speed up with it rather than stay in his rhythm. It’s like when a base-ball pitcher tries to throw the ball a little harder and all of a sudden he can’t throw a strike. I think there’s a lot of things he could do to be an effective quarterback he didn’t do in this game today. We recruited a guy, and Blake knows this, and Blake embraced the guy before the game, but they’re going to compete through the summer and through the fall. But it’s also our goal for the quarterback to be the distributor of the ball.”
After a scoreless first half in which both teams gained 116 yards of total offense, the White broke on top early in the third quarter when defensive end DJ Pettway intercept-ed a Blake Sims pass and returned it 29 yards for a touchdown. Grif-fith’s kick gave the White a 7-0 lead with 10 minutes, 20 seconds left in the third quarter.
The Crimson responded a few moments later when T.J. Yeldon scored on a 1-yard run with 6:38 left in the third quarter. Griffith’s kick tied the game.
“It is great having a running back like that, especially as an of-fensive lineman,” Alabama center Ryan Kelly said. “To have a guy like that who can miss defenders, obviously not every play is going to be perfect but with a guy like that back there running the ball some big plays can spring up. We just wish we could have done a little bit better blocking to make those big plays happen today. ”
After a 40-yard punt by Alec Morris was downed at the White Team 9-yard line, Crimson Team defensive back Maurice Smith forced a fumble by Crimson Team running back Kenyan Drake at the White Team 12-yard line following a 3-yard gain. White Team line-backer Tim Williams recovered the fumble and returned it 5 yards to the White Team 7-yard line. After Yeldon carried for 6 yards on first down, another Yeldon carry for a yard yielded the game-tying touch-down.
The White Team’s offense re-sponded to that miscue with its most sustained drive of the game to that point, moving 46 yards in 10 plays to Griffith’s go-ahead field goal. A pass from Bateman to Ar-Darius Stewart for 27 yards high-lighted the drive. Altee Tenpenny rushed 5 times for 12 yards on the drive leading to Adam Griffith’s 41-yard field goal on the final play of the third quarter gave the White Team a 10-7 lead.
With 3:42 left and holding onto
that lead, the White Team took pos-session at the Crimson 45-yards line after a punt. On the first play, Tenpenny broke free for 16 yards to the Crimson 29. After another Tenpenny run on the next play lost three yards, Bateman connected with ArDarius Stewart for a 32-yard touchdown pass with 2:37 remain-ing. Griffith’s kick gave the White a 17-7 lead.
After an interception by the White’s Reggie Ragland on the next possession seemed to seal the out-come, the Crimson forced a punt by the White Team with 1:14 left. Sims and the Crimson engineered an ex-plosive drive in response, marching 79 yards in four plays to pull within 17-13. Sims connected with wide receiver Chris Black on a 55-yard pass play with 21 seconds showing on the clock. Griffith’s kick was blocked.
The onside kick by the Crimson was successful, setting them up at the White 40. Sims and Black con-nected again, this time for 20 yards to the White 25, but the clock ex-pired and the game ended there.
White linebacker Reggie Rag-land of the Crimson team had a game-high 10 tackles (2.5 for loss-es) and an interception. Crimson linebacker Dillon Lee had nine tackles to lead his squad. Other top tacklers were Jonathan Allen (Crimson) with six tackles, two sacks (10 yards), four tackles for loss (18 yards), a blocked field goal, and a quarterback hurry; Trey De-Priest (White) with seven tackles, one-half tackle for loss (1 yard), and defensive back Maurice Smith (Crimson) had six tackles and forced a fumble.
Chris Black led all receivers with 78 yards and a touchdown on three catches. Robert Foster led all receivers with four catches for 50 yards. Amari Cooper (Crimson) had three catches for 45 yards, Cyrus Jones (Crimson) had three catches for 22 yards and ArDarius Stewart (White) had two catches for 59 yards and a touchdown.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Madison Shipman and An-nie Aldrete had three RBIs apiece Saturday to lead the No. 4 Tennessee softball team to an 11-5 victory against Mississippi State.
The teams will wrap up the series at 12:30 p.m. today. MSU (34-15, 6-11 Southeastern Confer-ence) will go for its sec-ond-straight SEC series victory against a ranked team. Last week, it beat then-No. 3 Alabama in Starkville.
Tennessee hit five home runs Saturday at Lee Stadium to even the series at one game apiece.
Senior Alison Owen (16-9) took the loss, throwing 1 2/3 innings, allowing 10 runs on eight hits and two walks. She struck out four. Senior Shana Sherrod en-tered for two innings and allowed a run on two hits and a walk. Sophomore Jacey Punches threw the remaining 2 1/3 innings, yielding three walks and striking out one.
Tennessee’s Erin Ga-briel tossed an inning-plus and gave up three runs on two hits, a walk, and hit batter. Cheyanne Taran-go (3-1) earned the win, throwing the next 4 2/3 innings. She surrendered two runs on five hits and two walks while striking out four. Rainey Gaffin pitched to one batter and walked her. Ellen Renfroe came in for the final four outs and yielded two sin-gles and struck out three.
n On Friday, Lenahan’s two-run home run was the difference in MSU’s 2-0 victory.
With no hits through the first six innings, MSU broke through with four hits and two runs in the top of the seventh. Lenahan capped the uprising with a one-out, two-run home run off the scoreboard in left center to give Vann Stuede-man her 100th victory as the Bulldogs’ coach.
Freshman Alexis Silk-wood (11-5) picked up the win in the complete-game performance. She struck out 11, tied for the third most in a Southeastern Conference game in pro-gram history. Silkwood allowed just three singles and walked a trio.
Renfroe (23-4) took the loss, allowing two runs on four hits and two walks. She also fanned eight in the complete-game perfor-mance.
The teams will play the finale at 12:30 p.m. today.
n No. 13 Missouri 9, Ole Miss 1, six innings: At Columbia, Mo., the Reb-els (22-25, 3-15 Southeast-ern Conference) lost the series finale to the Tigers (35-12, 12-6) on Saturday.
Ole Miss scored in the sixth inning on junior third baseman Allison Brown’s sacrifice fly that allowed senior outfielder RT Can-tillo to score her 32nd run of the year and the 123rd run of her career.
n On Friday, Ole Miss lost to No. 13 Missouri 5-3 and 2-0.
After taking a one-run lead in the top of the sev-enth, Ole Miss lost the series opener on a walk-off three-run home run. The Rebels then fell 2-0 in game two despite allow-ing just four hits against the Tigers, who entered the game with the second most hits in the Southeast-ern Conference.
Senior pitcher Carly Hummel threw a complete game in the nightcap, al-lowing one earned run and four hits. She didn’t walk a batter and struck out two.
Ole Miss will play host to LSU on Friday in Game 1 of a three-game weekend series. It will recognize its six seniors in the series, with two seniors honored prior to the start of each game. Cantillo and Shel-by Jo Fenter will be rec-ognized prior to Friday’s game, Carly Hummel and Londen Ladner will go Sat-urday, and Natalie Nimmo and Marina Parra will be honored prior to the finale Sunday.
n Alabama’s game Saturday canceled: At Chapel Hill, N.C., Inclem-ent weather Saturday forced No. 7 Alabama’s game against North Caro-lina to be canceled.
n On Friday, Alabama broke its three-game losing streak with a 6-4 victory against Georgia Southern and a 4-3 victory against North Carolina.
Alabama (39-8) needed a walk-off home run to de-feat Georgia Southern (30-15). It held off late rallies by North Carolina (22-23) to earn the one-run victory.
Kallie Case and Jadyn Spencer each earned four hits between the games, while Spencer, Kaila Hunt, and Marisa Runyon each hit home runs.
Alabama will play Tues-day at Southern Miss (22-23).
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Cook said the Starkville victory was a “big game” for his team, not only be-cause it was against one of the school’s biggest rivals, but also because it helped bounce back from losses to Northwest Rankin, Madison Central, and New Hope.
“A lot of people around the state were wondering how we would react to a game that really didn’t mean anything for us in the division, but it was the next game for us and we needed to play better,” Cook said. “We didn’t play bad last week, but we didn’t play Columbus baseball. It was a big game and a chance to play your rival and to knock them out of the playoffs. It also was a chance to get back on track to doing things we have done all season.”
Cook credited second baseman Tyler Harmon for helping turn a key dou-ble play in the fifth inning when Starkville had the bases loaded. Although they weren’t able to score against Colbey Rivers un-til the eighth inning, Cook said the Falcons were able to do a better job getting bunts down and moving runners. He said Colum-bus will have to keep doing that this week and against Olive Branch, the team that eliminated it from the postseason last year.
First, though, Colum-bus will face New Hope and Tuesday against Caledonia. Cook said the Falcons, who are ranked No. 19 in the USA Today
Super 25 rankings, have relied on pitching and de-fense all season. A staff led by Lee, Mullis, and McCullough has thrown five no-hitters this season. As pleased as he has been with his senior stalwarts on the mound, Cook said the contributions of Patel, Sturdivant, Smith, and Bryan Ezell have been equally valuable.
“(Trace and Hunter) have set good examples for everybody by throw-ing strikes and not walk-ing people, which puts them in the right frame of mind to get the job done,” Cook said. “The last time I looked, I think our strikeout-to-walk ra-tio was 3-to-1. I think it is a little higher now, but we’re making teams hit the ball.”
Columbus’ defense has backed the pitching up on most nights. Cook praised the play of Isaiah Farmer and Patel in the outfield and Harmon and Deonteau Rieves in the infield. He said all four players have filled in de-pending on who is on the mound and when one is hot at the plate. He also said Sykes (third base), McCullough (first base), and Webb (catcher) have been anchors at their po-sitions.
Still, Cook feels his team has work to do this week to get ready for the second season.
“We need to get in there and take pitches and have quality at-bats,” Cook said. “I think we will be ready (for the play-
offs). Olive Branch put us out last year, and our kids are excited to play against them again.”
New Hope will have to wait to see who it will play in its first step on the way to trying to defend its Mis-sissippi High School Ac-tivities Association Class 5A title. A year ago, New Hope finished second to Oxford in Region 2, but a win Tuesday at Oxford and an 8-0 victory Friday at West Point helped New Hope (21-3, 7-1) wrap up first place and secure a first-round playoff bye.
J.C. Redden pitched six strong innings to get the victory. Josh Stillman closed the game, which featured only three hits by the Trojans. Wells Da-vis, Will Golsan, and Jake Hollis had the hits on a day New Hope coach Lee Boys said his team had a lot of hard-hit balls. He praised West Point’s out-fielders for tracking down all of them, including sev-eral that went all the way to the wall.
“It is a big step for us,” Boyd said of winning the district title. “That is al-ways the first step to win the division. Oxford is always good, and Saltillo and West Point have good teams, too. We didn’t want to leave it up for grabs. We wanted to make sure we took care of our business. We’re excited.”
New Hope will take on Saltillo on Tuesday to complete its region slate. Boyd said the Trojans are trying to play another game he hopes will help
keep them sharp for the start of the postseason.
“A lot of coaches don’t like (having extra time off with a bye) and some don’t have a problem with it,” Boyd said. “I don’t know if it is good or bad. It will give us a chance to fresh-en up and get healthy and a chance to work on some things. But if you’re play-ing well you want to con-tinue to roll. We’re going to do some intrasquad things to make sure we see as many live at-bats as best we can. After play-ing four games a week and then not playing for a week or maybe a week and a half, it will be tough on the guys.”
But Boyd feels good about where the Trojans are entering the final week of the regular sea-son because the pitching staff and the defense have performed well. He said Stillman has done a solid job stepping in to the void left by the graduation of Landon Boyd. He also said Taylor Stafford and Redden have done “fan-tastic” jobs filling out the region rotation. On the weekends, Boyd said Pay-ton Lane has “exceeded” expectations. And while the offense has been up and down, Boyd said the Trojans had 11 hits against Oxford in their third meeting and “bat-tled well” against West Point despite only getting three hits. He hopes the offense will find its stroke just like it did last year when it came alive to pow-er the team to the cham-
pionship.“We have picked it up
the last two weeks,” Boyd said. “I hope we will pick it up and that it will sink in fairly well.”
Just like New Hope, Heritage Academy has a week to prepare for its first-round playoff series. Heritage Academy’s 9-8 victory against Jackson Academy on Thursday helped it secure the No. 2 seed for the North in the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools Class AAA, Division II playoffs. Heritage Acade-my (16-11, 10-8) will take on Louisiana’s Oak Forest Academy, the No. 1 seed from the South, in Game 1 of the best-of-three series April 29. Game 2 of the se-ries will be at Oak Forest Academy.
Heritage Academy coach Bruce Branch said the Patriots knew they had to win one more game to clinch a postseason berth. He said the frustration of losing 6-5 and 6-4 to Jack-son Academy in the first two games of the series didn’t distract the team from getting that victory.
“Our guys never lost focus the whole time,” Branch said. “The night before we had the bases loaded with no outs and didn’t get a run across. We gave them six un-earned runs in the second game. We knew we could compete with them. We stayed focused and up-beat and knew what we had to do and our guys did it. I commend them for staying focused and
getting the job done.”With only seniors
Mark Thatcher, Jace Caldwell, and Cody Mor-decai, Branch said this season has been “fun” in mixing and matches new faces and having other players in bigger roles. He said all of the players have “bought in” and the team has received contri-butions from a number of players, including Tyler Anderson (third base), Brandon Jones (second base, designated hitter), Thomas Cooper (first base), and Logan Sneed, who pitched 1 2/3 innings against Jackson Academy to help the team clinch a playoff spot.
“It has been so exciting to watch the kids mature and get better throughout the year,” Branch said. “We could have gone into the season not having a whole lot of expectations not thinking we were go-ing to be good or have any success. Our seniors have rose to the occasions and they want to leave their mark at Heritage Acade-my. They know the expec-tations we have and we set for them. They have kept everybody up. The atti-tude and everything has been good.”
Heritage Academy will play Monday at Hamilton. It will play host to Washing-ton School at 6 p.m. Tues-day and wrap up the regu-lar season at 4 p.m. with a doubleheader Thursday at Washington School.
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Ole MissContinued from Page 4B
on the play, but the Rebels es-caped the jam in the next at bat. Jake Fraley flew out to left and Braxton Lee gunned Stevenson out at home for a double play to end the inning and keep the Ti-ger lead to one run.
The Rebels couldn’t get any-thing started down the stretch, putting runners in scoring posi-tion in the fourth, but a double play ended the attempted rally for the best chance to get a run home up to that point.
LSU added an insurance run in the eighth, when Hale hit a solo shot into the bullpen in left field.
Ole Miss again got a man in scoring position in the eighth with a double to right center from Sikes Orvis, but couldn’t get him home as a groundout ended the potential two-out rally.
n On Friday, Ole Miss took an early lead and responded to a rally by LSU with four unan-swered runs in a 5-1 victory.
Christian Trent (5-0) picked up the win, working seven in-nings. He allowed one unearned
run on seven hits, two walks, and five strikeouts. Right-hander Scott Weathersby didn’t allow a hit and struck out four in the final two innings.
Jared Poche’ (6-3) took the loss, allowing four runs — two of them earned — on seven hits with two walks and two strike-outs in six innings.
“Christian (Trent) was ter-rific,” Bianco said. “I’m really proud of him because he pitched similar to the way he’s pitched for nine weeks. He was very ef-ficient and attacked the strike zone.
“The first six at bats Lee and Bousfield got hits or got on base. Braxton Lee has been swinging so well for the last few weeks or so. He has so much confidence and when he gets on, something is going to happen. He can take the extra base, steal or hit and run.
Ole Miss will face Mississip-pi State in the annual Governor’s Cup Game at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Trustmark Park in Pearl.
n No. 8 Alabama 7, Ten-nessee 6: At Knoxville, Tenn.,
the Crimson Tide scored the fi-nal six runs to erase a five-run deficit and beat the Volunteers at Nelson Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Alabama (28-11, 12-5 SEC) will go for the sweep at 1 p.m. today. Alabama is slated to start left-hander Jon Keller (5-1, 1.86 ERA). Tennessee (24-13, 6-11 SEC) will counter with right-hander Kyle Serrano (3-2, 4.91).
Alabama scored the first run in the top of the first, Tennes-see took a 6-1 lead after five in-nings. Trailing by five, Alabama responded with two runs in the sixth and three runs in the sev-enth to tie the game at 6-6 before scoring the winning run in the ninth. The game-winning run came when Tennessee’s Josh Pe-terson hit Chance Vincent with two outs and the bases loaded.
Jay Shaw (2-3), Alabama’s third pitcher, threw 2 1/3 in-nings and didn’t allow a run. He surrendered one hit, walked one, and struck out one. Thomas Burrows threw a scoreless ninth to pick up his second save of the series, and eighth of the season.
Any Cox (3-1) allowed four runs on five hits. He walked two and struck out four.
The Crimson Tide recorded their 22nd game of the season with 10 or more hits. Wade Wass and Kyle Overstreet accounted for half of the Tide’s hits in the game. Wass was 3-for-5 with a home run and his team leading 14th double of the season, to go along with an RBI and two runs scored. Overstreet was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored
Ben Moore was 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored, Casey Hughston had a pair of singles, and Vincent was 1-for-3 with two RBIs. He drove in the game-ty-ing run in the seventh and the game-winning run in the ninth.
Tennessee had nine hits. Pierce Bily was 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs. Christin Stewart was 2-for-5 with a double, a run scored, and an RBI, and Nick Senzel was 2-for-5 with a triple.
n On Friday, Alabama had 10 hits for its fifth-straight game with double-digit hits in an 8-5 victory.
Hughston was 2-for-4 with two singles and two RBIs. Moore was 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI, Wass extended his hitting streak to six games with a 1-for-4 night, and Georgie Salem also hit in his sixth-straight game with a 2-for-3 performance. Will Haynie hit a solo home run and scored two runs.
Junior Spencer Turnbull (5-2) started and went 6 1/3 innings, allowing four runs on three hits with a career-high eight strike-outs. Three of the four runs came in the seventh, as Turnbull allowed a run on two hits before giving up two hits and two walks in the bottom of the inning.
Tennessee starter Nick Wil-liams (4-4) took the loss. He al-lowed eight runs on 10 hits with six strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.
Alabama closer Thomas Bur-rows entered the game with one out and the bases loaded and the tying run at the plate in the eighth. He retired all five batters he faced, including three strike-outs. It was Burrows’ seventh save, and the sixth save in his last eight appearances.
PGA RBC HeritageSaturday
At Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head, S.C.Purse: $5.8 million / Yardage: 7,101; Par: 71
At Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Purse: $2.75 million / Yardage: 6,967; Par: 72Third Round
Lee Westwood, England ...................65-66-71—202Andy Sullivan, England .................... 70-67-66—203Julien Quesne, France .....................68-69-69—206Nicolas Colsaerts, Belguim...............66-69-72—207Danny Willett, England ......................70-66-72—208Masahiro Kawamura, Japan .............68-70-70—208Eduardo de la Riva, Spain.................69-68-71—208Ricardo Santos, Portugal .................. 67-71-70—208Garth Mulroy, South Africa .............. 71-68-69—208Rikard Karlberg, Sweden ..................72-69-67—208Scott Jamieson, Scotland .................68-71-70—209Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa ....... 72-68-69—209Tom Lewis, England ..........................70-71-68—209Anirban Lahiri, India ..........................72-72-66—210Bernd Wiesberger, Austria ................ 69-71-70—210Matteo Manassero, Italy.....................71-72-67—210Wade Ormsby, Australia ...................70-71-69—210
AlsoJason Knutzon, United States ..........75-67-69—211Thongchai Jaidee, Thailand .............. 72-70-70—212Francesco Molinari, Italy ....................71-74-73—218Anthony Kang, United States ............ 71-74-75—220
By The Associated Press
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Luke Donald believes he has the right game on the right course — and is ready to make up for so many near-misses at the RBC Heritage.
Donald had an eagle and six birdies to shoot 66 on Saturday and take a two-stroke lead over John Huh after three rounds at Harbour Town Golf Links. The Englishman has done just about everything on Harbour Town the past five times he’s played — except win.
He fell in a playoff to Brandt Sne-deker here in 2011, part of a run of four top-3 finishes since at the tricky, Pete Dye design. Now, he’ll carry the lead into the final day and is ready to make it stand up today.
“If I can go out as relaxed and confident as I was today tomorrow,” he said. “If I can control the trajec-tory (of shots) as well as I did today, then hopefully I’ll be sitting here as the winner.”
It has been a long time since Donald has been able to say that.
Once the world’s top-ranked golfer, Donald has changed coach-es and the transition back to the top has not come as quickly as planned. The last of his five PGA Tour wins came in 2012, his best showing this year was a tie for fourth at the Val-spar Championship last month and he was quickly bounced at the Mas-ters after shooting 79-70.
Donald acknowledged he has grown anxious waiting to win again.
“I was the former world No. 1 and was there for a long time and obviously slipped down,” said Don-ald, currently 29th. “But I haven’t felt my game had gotten that much worse.”
Certainly not at Harbour Town.Donald’s round got started with
a 25-footer for eagle on the par-5 second hold. He added four more on the next six holes. Donald then tied leader Nicholas Thompson with a birdie on the 14th before stretching his lead with a final one by rolling in a 15-foot putt on the par-3 17th.
Donald nearly closed with a flourish when his approach on the closing, lighthouse hole nearly landed in the cup on the fly before bouncing to the edge and settling for par.
Donald’s not the longest hitter on tour and said some layouts are dragons he can’t slay.
“But this one I feel like I can plot my way around with low wedges,” he said. “If you miss greens, you need to be pretty good at the short game. Certainly a course that fa-vors my style of play.”
n Jimenez leads Langer by one shot in Greater Gwinnett: At Duluth, Ga., Fun-loving Miguel Angel Jimenez might turn the Champions Tour into his personal cigar-and-wine club. Ever-serious Bernhard Langer keeps churning
out sub-par rounds. Bad back and all, Fred Couples is thriving in the wind and cold rain.
It makes for an enticing last group in Sunday’s final round of the Greater Gwinnett Championship.
Jimenez, continuing his impres-sive tour debut, shot a 2-under 70 Saturday and leads by one stroke after two days at TPC Sugarloaf.
Langer and Couples each had a 68 in the second round. Langer is one stroke back of Jimenez and Couples is two back, setting up to-day’s all-star final group.
“That’s about as good a pairing as you’re going to get,” Couples said. “I’m thrilled about that, to have a shot at winning.”
Added Langer: “It should be an exciting shootout. ... Whoever is go-ing to win tomorrow is going to play some good golf.”
Jimenez, Langer and Couples carried over their momentum af-ter strong finishes last week in the Masters. Jimenez was fourth, Langer tied for eighth and Couples tied for 20th in Augusta.
“When you come in from a major like the Masters and you are play-ing well there, you are like in tune, you know?” Jimenez said.
Jimenez began the day with a three-stroke lead following his tour-nament-record 65 on Friday. After the round he said he couldn’t wait for “a nice, warm shower, a nice fat cigar and a glass of (wine).”
Donald shoots 66 to take lead at PGA Heritage
around the elbow and holes are drilled in the ulna and humerus of the elbow to ac-commodate a new tendon. The tendon, normally from a human cadaver, replac-es the damaged ligament. The misconception is that even though some pitchers return from the surgery throwing harder, others aren’t able to come back af-ter the surgery or the pro-cedure makes them more susceptible to suffering the injury again.
“It’s your fault in the media,” a National League scout told The Dispatch this month. “The media re-ports all the success stories about how a guy in the big leagues is throwing harder than he ever has before af-ter Tommy John. They ig-nore all the guys that can’t stay off the training table after they get it done the first time.”
The debate will continue in an attempt to find ways for pitchers from 12 years old to college age to avoid the surgery and to find a more efficient method of pitching that eliminates the injuries that lead to the surgery.
Overuse of young pitchers
Many believe overuse of pitchers is the leading cause of ligament damage that leads to Tommy John surgery. Dr. Jobe has said in multiple interviews that parents have asked him to give their child the sur-gery immediately after they felt any pain in their throwing arm. However, surgeons are hesitant to use the procedure and will do everything they can to follow a more conservative approach.
Dr. James Andrews, the orthopedic surgeon to many athletes and the man considered the go-to surgeon for the procedure, said April 12 in a interview with MLB Network Radio that kids competing all year in baseball is a leading cause to UCL injuries.
“We’ve researched it in our lab as well as our foun-dations in Birmingham and Pensacola, and the big risk factor is year-round baseball,” Dr. Andrews said. “These kids are not just throwing year-round, they’re competing year-round, and they don’t have any time for recovery.”
Andrews has found once a player becomes a teenager, he likely will fin-ish his high school season and then begin play with a travel ball team, so his arm doesn’t get a chance to re-covery.
“Year-round baseball is the number one prob-lem,” Dr. Andrews said in terms of Tommy John risk factors. “Number two is playing in more than one league at the same time where rules don’t count (presumably innings limits or pitch counts). In show-cases for scouts, they try to overpitch and they get hurt.”
Little League Baseball imposed strict per-game pitch limits five years ago, but Andrews told The New York Times he has per-formed about seven times the number of arm opera-tions on young pitchers he did 15 years ago.
“It’s a trend and an epi-demic (because) I’m inun-dated from January, Febru-ary, March, and into April with Tommy John injuries,” Andrews said on MLB Net-work Radio. “We used to not see these injuries until they got into high level pro-fessional baseball, but the majority I’m seeing now is ninth, 10th, 11th grade in high school.”
The idea of a pitcher be-ing overused before he is 18 is a problem for profession-al scouts and college coach-es. The Mississippi State baseball team already has had pitchers Paul Young, John Marc Shelly, and Will Cox undergo Tommy John surgery this season. Young won’t throw a pitch in a game at Dudy Noble Field until at least 2015. The junior college transfer
continually threw more than 100 pitches in starts while at Central Alabama Community College. He led CACC to the national championship in 2013 with a 2.44 ERA and 57 strike-outs in 55 1/3 innings. He ended his junior college career with a 140-pitch complete-game victory in the 2013 NJCAA National Championship game. The Cleveland Indians selected Young in the 21st round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player draft. The 6-foot-3, 205-pound right-hander was expected to compete for a starting spot in the weekend rotation after he chose MSU over Florida, Florida State, Mis-souri, Ole Miss, and LSU.
In his first preseason outing this spring with MSU, Young experienced pain in his throwing arm and was referred to Dr. Andrews. Andrews per-formed Tommy John sur-gery on Young in early March. MSU restricts me-dia access to athletes who are injured or recovering from injury, so Young was unavailable for comment. MSU shut down Young in the fall and prevented him from throwing and long tossing.
MSU coach John Cohen and the rest of the MSU coaching staff has declined to comment about players’ injuries due to concerns about violating the HIPPA Privacy Rules.
Four years ago, Ben Bracewell pitched the fi-nal month of the season with a labrum injury of his pitching shoulder. The Dis-patch was told at the end of 2010 season the injury involved the front part near the biceps tendon being damaged, but unlike most cases in this injury, the right shoulder remained strong. Bracewell was told by MSU team doctors and Andrews that limited pitch-ing throughout May wasn’t going to damage the injury any further or create a lon-ger rehabilitation process after the surgery was per-formed.
Cohen suggested Brace-well’s injury likely was due to a freak arm problem that they were aware of before he arrived at MSU. Former Briarwood Christian base-ball coach Lee Hall strong-ly denied he overused Bracewell during his final year of high school.
“He never threw more than 90 innings for me in a 15-week season any of the four years he played for me at the varsity,” Hall said. “When somebody gets to 90-100 pitches I get ner-vous. That’s not abuse.”
Since Bracewell has had labrum surgery and then Tommy John surgery two years later, Hall has stayed in close contact with the Bracewell family. He said he has full confidence in the throwing/conditioning program of MSU pitching coach Butch Thompson, who Hall calls a very good friend.
“I’ve got two sons, and the first coach I’d want them to play for is Butch Thompson,” Hall said. “The arm is not made to throw overhand, and ev-erything MSU is doing, I would trust 100 percent.”
Baseball America na-tional college baseball writer Aaron Fitt said a program that needs three of its pitchers to have Tom-my John surgeries doesn’t prove anything irresponsi-ble is being done with the young arms.
“Pitchers have a likeli-hood of breaking down and getting hurt,” Fitt said. “I tend to be in the camp that with some pitchers it’s just part of the reality of throw-ing that hard for so long.”
After having several pitchers go down with inju-ries in their first couple of years at MSU, Cohen and Thompson have become more conservative with how they use young arms in their program. The Bull-dogs have shut down soph-omore right-hander Pres-ton Brown after he had shoulder pain three weeks ago in a bullpen session.
Freshman Dakota Hudson was scratched less than an hour after his scheduled start Tuesday against Al-corn State after he report-edly had back and shoulder tightness.
ESPN baseball senior writer Keith Law, formerly a writer for Baseball Pro-spectus and an employee in the front office for the To-ronto Blue Jays, has been critical of college coaches for abusing pitchers before they get a chance in pro-fessional baseball. Most recently, he was critical of North Carolina State’s us-age of Carlos Rodon, the projected No. 1 pick in the 2014 MLB draft.
In a start April 11 at Duke, Rodon returned to the mound for the eighth inning after having thrown 118 pitches.
“This was a clear ex-ample of a coaching staff putting their own interests over those of a pitcher, a perfect example of moral hazard at work in amateur baseball, one that calls for regulation by the NCAA,” Law wrote in his blog for ESPN.com “The Wolfpack, despite having two of the best college players in the country this year, are 5-11 in the ACC (19-14 overall) and in danger of missing the NCAA tournament, a result that would be dev-astating given their talent level. The potential cost of missing the tournament is so high that the coaching staff has the incentive to try to win at all costs, in-cluding asking players to do things that may not be in their own best interests, such as throwing 134 pitch-es in one outing.”
Law said later in the blog that only one MLB pitcher — San Francisco Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum — threw 134 pitches in an outing last season. Lincecum did that July 13 in a no-hitter.
In last year’s NCAA Regionals, ESPN analyst Kyle Peterson, who was an All-American at Stanford and was selected in the first round by the Milwau-kee Brewers, openly ques-tioned the use of a North Carolina pitcher as a reliev-er during a nationally tele-vised game against Florida Atlantic. Peterson, serving as a studio analyst that night, said the time had come to institute a pitch count in college baseball. North Carolina coach Mike Fox called left-handed pitcher Kent Emanuel out of the bullpen in a 13-inning victory against Florida At-lantic that sent his team to the Super Regional against South Carolina, and even-tually to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb.
Emanuel threw 51 pitch-es in 1 2/3 innings. His ve-locity was down, according to Peterson and John Man-uel of Baseball America, who was providing color commentary for ESPN’s telecast of the game. Eman-uel had thrown 124 pitches in 7 2/3 innings two days earlier in a start against Towson. After being se-lected days earlier by the Houston Astros in the third round, the club reached an agreement with Emanuel for $747,700, a source con-firmed to MLB.com.
“My arm feels great,” Emanuel said. “Believe it or not, I just got done get-ting an MRI, and the doc-tor said my shoulder and elbow look as good as any he’s seen in this draft class. I’m good to go.”
Emanuel threw nine in-nings in four games with the Astros rookie league team last year. This sea-son, he has two starts with the team’s Class A affiliate Quad Cities River Bandits in Iowa.
“To have pitch counts for college pitchers would be a terrible idea,” Fox said. “I’m a little surprised it’s even being discussed. I would not agree with that. I think pitch counts are over-rated.”
Radar gun = damage Andrews said on MLB
Network Radio his re-search shows a correlation
with young pitchers trying to throw hard and UCL in-juries.
“The radar gun is a prob-lem because these kids are all trying to throw 90 mph,” Andrews said. “The red line for the Tommy John ligament in high school is 80 to 85 miles per hour. The ones that throw be-yond that are going beyond the development property of their normal ligament and they’re getting hurt.”
The reality of the situa-tion, though, is 80-85 mph probably won’t attract col-lege coaches. With Tom-my John surgery being so common, the risk of devel-oping a UCL injury in the throwing elbow or a shoul-der injury doesn’t outweigh the reward of a professional contract or spot on a Divi-sion I college roster. At one point last year, MSU had 15 pitchers who could hit 90 mph or better on their fast-ball and had reached that point in high school. MSU’s philosophy about stockpil-ing power arms is the norm in college baseball.
It used to be believed that the contortion of the mechanics of a curveball caused injury to a pitch-er’s arm, but scouts and college baseball analysts aren’t positive there’s a cor-relation to young pitchers throwing a breaking ball and getting injured.
A recent major study shows curveballs pose no greater risk than other pitches. In fact, many stud-ies have shown that the greatest threat to young arms is throwing too many pitches.
“Science is banging heads with intuition and gut instinct,” Glenn Fleisig, the research director of the American Sports Med-icine Institute, told the New York Times in 2012. Fleisig has conducted studies on breaking balls and young arms since 1996.
“For years, we told peo-ple that curveballs were bad,” Fleisig said. “Then we set out to prove it. We did not prove curveballs are safe, but we could not prove they were dangerous.”
Andrews, who is the team surgeon for Auburn, Alabama, and several professional franchises,
agrees with Fleisig’s re-search in theory.
“What we found out in the lab is true,” Andrews said. “For pitchers with proper mechanics, the force of throwing a curve-ball is no greater than for a fastball. But that’s not what happens in reality on the baseball field. Many kids don’t have proper mechan-ics or enough neuromus-cular control, or they are fatigued when throwing curveballs. Things break down.”
No solution but restAndrews admits there’s
no program, protocol, or plan to cut down on the number of UCL injuries. He said all the medical community can do is edu-cate parents, coaches, and players in hopes of limiting the injuries.
“You can’t prevent them,” Andrews said on MLB Network Radio. “We can probably cut down the early injury rate, but kids are throwing so hard and are so competitive now. There’s a dollar sign on top of them pushing them-selves so hard.”
Twenty pitchers sched-uled to be on MLB rosters in 2014 already have had Tommy John surgery this spring. Studies and statis-tics have shown the first-round high school pitcher from 2010-12 is five times more likely to get Tommy John surgery than the top high school pitcher from the preceding eight years.
Fitt suggested trying to prevent pitchers from get-ting hurt would be “similar to trying stop football play-ers from getting ACL inju-ries” because science has proven the overhand mo-tion of a pitch being thrown isn’t a natural movement.
“It’s impossible,” An-drews said. “We’d just like to control it better. If we could keep these kids clean through high school then we could see less injuries when they become mature college players and profes-sional players. You have to prevent it at a young age.”
The only solution ap-pears to be rest. Most ath-letic research centers have proven playing multiple
sports and not specializing in one keeps the body fit and allows for rest in spe-cific areas and muscles. In one of the biggest studies of youth pitchers, the Ameri-can Sports Medicine Insti-tute in Birmingham, Ala., tracked 481 pitchers ages 9-14. The 10-year study published in 2011 found pitchers who threw 100 innings or more in a cal-endar year were three and a half times more likely to be injured than those who pitched less. The study rec-ommended that no youth pitcher pitch more than100 innings in a year and “no pitcher should continue to pitch when fatigued.” The research showed high school pitchers who keep pitching when fatigued are 36 times more likely to need surgery.
“In one of my patients I saw today, he has an ossifi-cation (bone tissue forma-tion) in his ligament that probably occurred when he was 12 years old,” Andrews said. “You can usually go back and see how a minor injury in youth baseball set them up for a major injury down the road.”
This is why Thompson and the MSU coaches tend to respond cautiously when pitchers come to them say-ing they have a problem instead of following the old school mentality and tell-ing them to pitch through soreness.
Brown hasn’t thrown a baseball since injuring his shoulder. It is unclear when he will return to the mound. MSU will get an authorization from team physician Dr. Rusty Linton and a second opinion, most likely Andrews, before Brown resumes a throwing program this season.
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Kenneth Lowry
Kenneth Evans Lowry, 88, of Montgomery, Alabama, died April 5, 2014. He was born September 19, 1925, in Sunny South, Alabama, the son of the late Cornelius Benjamin Lowry and Lillian Florrie Walker Lowry. He was a graduate of Pine Hill High School, the University of Alabama and received his Masters Degree at Vanderbilt University. Primarily an educator, he taught English in several Alabama high schools and also taught at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN, Troy State University in Montgomery and served as an instructor and text reviewer for over 26 years at Air University’s Extension Institute at Gunter Air Force Base.
A veteran of the Korean War, he was stationed at several bases, but the lengthiest tour was at Fort Myer, in Arlington, Virginia.
His most cherished memories included growing up in the country, enjoying the wonders and beauties of nature - turkey hunting, fishing and walking through the woods. He said many times that he would not trade those experiences for anything. He thoroughly enjoyed his beloved Crimson Tide.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by four siblings, Cornelius Walton Lowry, Curtis Grayson(Cy) Lowry, Eula Grace Lowry Hughes and Florrie Alice Lowry; and a beloved son, Lowell Kenneth Lowry.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Beatrice “Bee” Dozier Lowry of Montgomery, Alabama; a son, Slater Benjamin Lowry, M.D. (Robin), of Columbus, Mississippi; a daughter, India Beatrice Lowry Collins (Keith), of Alabaster, Alabama; four grandsons, Tyler Brock, Dallas Brock, Mason Collins and Michael Collins; granddaughter, Victoria Brock; daughter-in-law Diane K. Lowry; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Ken was a devoted husband, father, and grandfather. He was a longtime member of Morningview Baptist Church in Montgomery. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 10, 2014, at Leak Memory Chapel in Montgomery, Alabama. Interment was at Choctaw Corner Cemetery in Thomasville, Alabama at 3:30 p.m.
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Lawrence LewarkLawrence Kenneth Lewark,
93 of Columbus, MS passed away Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at Mississippi State Veterans Home, Kosciusko, MS.
Visitation will be Saturday, April 19, 2014 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at Lowndes Funeral Home, Columbus, MS. Funeral services will follow at 7:00 PM
in the Chapel with Dr. Gene Gillis and Dr. Bill Hurt officiating and Lowndes Funeral Home directing.
Mr. Lewark was born February 4, 1921 in Clarksburg, West Virginia to the late Eddie and Ethel Cunningham Lewark. He graduated from Victory High School in North View. Mr. Lewark served in the Army Air Corp during WWII flying 36 missions over Germany. He worked at Rolland Glass Company as a young man. Mr. Lewark enjoyed being a Boy Scout leader in Clarksburg for many years. While working full time, he attended Salem College, graduating Magna Cume Laud. Mr. Lewark moved his family to Canton, Ohio while working for Grissum Russell. He later took a position with Babcock & Willcox in Barberton, Ohio. Mr. Lewark was transferred to Babcock & Willcox in Wilmington, N.C. He also worked for Masonite Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Lewark and his wife Naomi retired and moved to Lost Creek, WV, where he was active in the community of Lost Creek. He was a member of Stonewood Alliance Church where he served in many offices and was a current member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. Following the death of his wife, Naomi, he moved to the Columbus area to be close to family. In addition to his parents Mr. Lewark is preceded in death by his wife of 64 years-Naomi Yeager Lewark, grandchild-Kenneth Adam Lennon, brothers-Issac Lewark, Frank Lewark and Howard Lewark, sister-Gertrude Lewark, daughter in law-Mary Lewark and son in law-Kenny Lennon.
Mr. Lewark is survived by his wife- Claudine Hickey Lewark, Columbus, MS; daughters-Linda(Boyd) Lennon, Millport, AL and Donna Lennon, China Grove, NC; son-Dayton (Liz) Lewark, Lubbock, TX; step daughters-Cathy (Frank) Weathers, Plano, TX and Carolyn (Don)Barnett, Chesapeake, VA; step son-Kurtis (Laurie) Hickey, Columbus, MS; grandchildren-Lawrence Aaron Lewark, Jenny Wren, Lunell Sims, Amanda (Jerry) McCrary and Amy (Bennett) Goodman; great grandchild- Jackie (Chris) Adamson, Shelby Wren, KD Lenn McCrary, Bo McCrary, Dalton Sims, Gage Sims, Kara Goodman, Clayton Goodman, Amber Goodman and Austin Goodman; 6 step grandchildren; 8 step great grandchildren; great great grandchild-Keegan Adamson.
In Leiu of flowers send donations to Hispanolia Mountain Ministries, HMM Office, 6530 Dogwood View Pkwy, Jackson, MS 39213 or on line at www.gohmm.org.
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Connie RichardsMILLPORT, Ala. —
Connie Taylor Richards, 91, died April 17, 2014, at Fayette Long Term Care.
Services were Satur-day at Dowdle Funeral Home Chapel in Mill-port. Burial followed at Ebenezer Church Cemetery.
Mrs. Richards was formerly employed as the owner and operator of Connie’s Dress Shop.
She was preceded in death by her par-ents, Marvin and Delta Thomason Taylor; hus-band, Jessie Edmond Richards; brothers, Buddy, Dock, Murray, Otha, Bill and Otis Taylor; sisters, Lucille Alexander, Ruby Smith and Martha Strickland.
She is survived by her daughter, Phoebe Robertson of Millport; sons, Byron Richards and Dwayne Rich-ards, both of Mill-port; sister, Charlene Davis of Tuscaloosa, Ala; six grandchil-dren, 14 great-grand-children and two great-great-grandchil-dren.
Pallbearers were Tim Richards, Brad Rich-ards, Blake Richards, Josh Kemp, J.J. Baswell, Taylor Murphy and Judd Murphy.
Carolyn JacksonINGLEWOOD, Calif.
— Carolyn Madison Jackson, 81, died April 6, 2014, in Inglewood.
Services were Sat-urday at St. Matthew MB Church in Artesia, with the Rev. Nathaniel Best officiating. Burial followed at Sessums Cemetery. Visitation was Friday 2-6 p.m. at West Memorial Chapel in Starkville.
Ms. Jackson is survived by her daugh-ters, Effie Jean Gandy of Virginia Beach, Va., Patricia Faye Jackson Deloach of Ohio, Peggy Lynn Bell of Inglewood and Lisa Bell Hart of Starkville; brothers, Dennis Madison of St. Louis, Lloyd Madison of Starkville and Nash Madison of Jackson; sisters, Lucille Rice of Starkville, Earnestine Howard of St. Louis, Pearl Jones of Jackson and Lois Lowery of St. Louis; and 11 grandchil-dren.
Geneva CunninghamEUPORA— Geneva
Johnson Cunningham, 86, died April 14, 2014, in Eupora.
Services were Satur-day at New Bethel MB Church in Maben with the Rev. Bruce Guyton officiating. Burial fol-lowed at Spring Valley Cemetery in Mathiston. Visitation was Friday at
West Memorial Chapel in Starkville.
Ms. Cunningham is survived by her daugh-ters, Sandra Bluitt of Starkville, Erline Foy, Mattie Bedford, Patri-cia Cunningham and Brenda McQuiller, all of Maben; brothers, Jake Johnson of Eupora, Willie Earl of Starkville, Jessie Johnson, Frank Johnson, Walter John-son and Eddie Johnson, all of Tenn., Archie Johnson of Starkville, John Johnson of Maben and Leroy Johnson of Okolona; sisters, Helen Culpepper of Maben and Babara Freeman of Macon; and 16 grand-children.
Deborah GrayWEST POINT —
Deborah Janet Moore Gray, 57, died April 14, 2014, in West Point.
Services were Satur-day at Brownridge MB Church in Crawford with the Rev. Fredrick Hairston officiating. Visitation was Friday at West Memorial Chapel in Starkville.
Ms. Gray is sur-vived by sisters, Mattie Moore and Jaqueline Rice of Crawford, Gloria Conley and Clara Jones of Starkville, McKay Wells of Den-ham Springs, La., and Lisa Sykes of St. Louis; Brothers, Bobby Rieves and Wendell Rieves of Crawford, Kenneth Rieves of Waterloo, Iowa and Freddie Brooks Jr. of Starkville.
Margaret TackettABERDEEN — Mar-
garet Scott Tackett, 96, died April 18, 2014, at the Pioneer Hospital in Aberdeen.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Tis-dale-Lann Memorial Funeral Home.
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Bobby BrumfieldLAUREL – Bobby
Ray Brumfield, 75, died April 18, 2014, in Dallas.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by New Ha-ven Memorial Funeral Home in DeKalb.
Lizzie PhillipsCOLUMBUS — Liz-
zie Phillips, 72, died April 18, 2014, at Bap-tist Memorial Hospi-tal-Golden Triangle.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lee-Sykes Funeral Home.
J.P. Conner Sr.MACON — J.P. Con-
ner Sr., 76, died April 15, 2014, at Noxubee County Nursing Home.
Ser-vices are Monday at 2 p.m. at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Abdule Finner officiat-ing. Burial will follow at Oddfellows Cemetery in Macon. Visitation is a half hour prior to the service at the Chapel.
Mr. Conner was born June 15, 1927, in Macon, to the late Earl and Maggie Lee Conner. He was former-ly employed by Carlton Wooden Mill Company. He graduated high school in Robbinsville.
In addition to his parents, he was preced-ed in death by his wife, Carrie Mae Lockett.
He is survived by his children, Lenora Stubbs, J.P. Con-ner Jr., Glenda Faye Conner and Sammie Conner, all of Brook-lyn, Everette Conner and Rochelle Shaw, both of Bronx, N.Y., Carrie Lee Gunn and Juanita Finner, both of Bellwood, Ill., Mevin Conner of Macon; 20
grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers are Mel-vin Conner, Fredrick Hopkins, Amin Finn, John McMillan, Nejee Finner and Roy Lee Taylor.
Floyd SmithCOLUMBUS —
Floyd Smith, 79, died April 17, 2014, at Wind-sor Place Nursing Home.
Ser-vices were Saturday at Nowell-Massey Funeral Home Chapel in Louisville. Burial was at Murphy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation was Friday at the funer-al home.
Mr. Smith was preceded in death by his wife, Frances Kelly Smith; and his parents, Joy Lynn and John E. Smith.
He is survived by daughters, Sandra Wing, Cindy Butters, and Lynn Kemp, all of Columbus; sons, Floyd Perry Smith Jr. and Michael Smith, both of Columbus; broth-er, James Smith; five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Pallbearers were Wayne Luke, Tim Luke, Chris Smith and Scotty Butters.
Charles EdgeworthCOLUMBUS —
Charles H. Edgeworth, 70, died April 19, 2014, at his residence.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Gunt-er and Peel Funeral Home.
Robert WebbWINFIELD, Ala.—
Robert Chester Webb, 75, died April 15, 2014, at UAB Hospital in
Birmingham, Ala.Services were Satur-
day at Norwood Fu-neral Home Chapel in Guin, Ala., with Heath Webb and Grant Webb officiating. Burial was in Webb Cemetery.
Mr. Webb was born in Hamilton, Ala., to the late Rochester Sander-son and Albert Webb Sr. He was a veteran of the US Air Force.
He is survived by his wife, Carol Williams Webb of Winfield; daughters, Debra Webb Shepherd of Coates-ville, Ind., Kathy Webb Pittman of Winfield and Sara Webb Bibb of Leeds, Ala.; sons, Kenneth Wade Webb Sr., James Robert Webb and Michael Kevin Webb, all of Guin; sis-ters, Corrine Pritchard of Silver Springs, Fla. and Judy Roberts of Haleyville, Ala.; 18 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Richard MyersSULLIGENT, Ala. —
Richard Lee Myers, 65, died April 16, 2014, at his residence.
Services are Sunday, April 27, at 2 p.m. in the garden of the Myers home with Dwain Cantrell officiating. Norwood Funeral Home of Sulligent is entrusted with arrange-ments.
Mr. Myers was born in Sulligent on Feb. 22, 1949, to the late Rob-ert Lee and Llewellyn Grace Knight Myers. He was a member of the Union Ridge Free-will Baptist Church and a 1967 graduate of Sulligent High School. He was also a graduate of Auburn Universi-ty, where he studied veterinary services and received a degree in agriculture.
In addition to his parents, he was preced-ed in death by brothers, James Robert Myers and Jerry Myers.
He is survived by
sisters, Grace Rush-ing, Juanita Butler and Cynthia Myers, all of Sulligent; brothers, Larry Myers of Vernon, Ala. and Wayne Myers of Montgomery, Ala.; and a special friend, Jane Davidson.
Phyllis BullardCOLUMBUS —
Phyllis Bullard, 67, died April 19, 2014, at Aurora Health and Rehabilitation.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lowndes Funeral Home.
Howard Shelton Sr.JACKSON — How-
ard Lee Shelton Sr., 56, died April 15, 2014, at University Hospital in
Jackson.Services
are Monday at 11 a.m. at Greenfield Baptist Church in Brooksville with Leroy Shelton officiating. Burial will follow at Union Ceme-tery. Visitation is one hour prior to service at the church. Lee-Sykes Funeral Home of Macon is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Shelton was born Nov. 29, 1957, in Noxubee County, to Cherry and the late F.L. Shelton. He was former-ly employed as a pastor and convenience store manager. He was a 1976
Graduate of Niddell High School.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by his wife, Virea J. Shelton of Jackson; Children, Latotsha L. Ellis of Jackson and Howard L. Shelton Jr. of Las Vegas; sisters, Pearl Peterson, Mel Ward and Hilda Ruth Robinson, all of Jack-son, Elezena Ivy, Mary Ella Davis and Cherry L. Jones, all of Brooks-ville, Lubertha Orr of Macon and Danella Perkins of Ridgeland; brothers, Richard Lee Shelton of Gluckstadt, Leroy Shelton and John Walton Shelton, both of Brooksville; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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ContributedMississippi State football coach Dan Mullen, above, will play with Fred McCrary in the Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament April 27-29 at the Reynolds Plantation resort on Lake Oconee outside Atlanta.
From Special Reports
GREENSBORO, Ga. — An 11-team field of NCAA coaches and celebrity alum-ni will compete April 27-29 in the eighth-annual Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge char-ity golf tournament at the Reynolds Plantation resort on Lake Oconee outside Atlanta.
Alabama coach Nick Sa-ban, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier, Mississip-pi State coach Dan Mul-len, Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze, Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer, and many others will hit the links in an attempt to win the $125,000 first prize. All of the teams will receive a share of the $520,000 scholarship purse for their universities.
Saban will be paired with Mark Ingram, while Spurri-er will play with Sterling Sharpe, Mullen will play with Fred McCrary, and Freeze will be paired with Sean Tuohy. Auburn’s Gus Malzahn (Bo Jackson), Cin-cinnati’s Tommy Tuberville (JK Schaffer), Clemson’s Dabo Swinney (Steve Full-er), Georgia Tech’s Paul Johnson (Jon Barry), North Carolina’s Larry Fedora (Roy Williams), and North Carolina State’s Dave Do-eren (Terry Harvey). Beam-er’s playing partner will be announced.
Mullen will play in golf event
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Columbus set to host state convention of garden clubsSPECIAL TO THE DISPATCH
Columbus, Where Ideas Take Flight”is the theme for the 85th An-
nual Convention of The Garden Clubs of Mississippi to be held in Columbus April 22-24. The convention, hosted by The Council of Columbus Garden Clubs, has been coordinated by Chairman Doris Ebner and Co-Chairman Eulalie Davis, along with a host of volunteers.
The convention is held in var-ious cities throughout Missis-sippi. It has been more than 10 years since it has convened in Columbus.
More than 200 garden club members from across Missis-sippi have already registered and will begin arriving in Columbus Tuesday, when con-vention activities begin with meetings and a festive early arrival reception and dinner.
On Wednesday, convention
attendees will tour Whitehall and Rosedale an-tebellum homes. Garden tours of the Colonnade Garden and Pratt Thomas Home Garden will be available, as well as a bus tour of historic Southside including Friendship Cemetery. Other activities are workshops, a design banquet, flower show awards and an awards luncheon.
“A variety of workshops will
be available and are designed to be beneficial to the indi-vidual as well as their com-munity,” Davis said. “Some of the workshops offered will be Gardening Sustainable with Native Plants, Designing for a Xeriscape Garden and The Importance of Pollinators-Bee-keeping in Mississippi.”
Community improvementThe Council of Columbus
Garden Clubs has for many years worked diligently to fur-ther interest in gardening, con-
servation and beautification. This active group of volunteers has planted gingko trees in the downtown area of Columbus and planted 5,000 daffodils at the Riverwalk as part of the Plant The Town Project. They have planted trees in the medians and along roads and highways. Flowers at the Stephen D. Lee Home during Pilgrimage are provided by the Council.
Future projects planned are landscaping of the Tennessee Williams Home and Welcome
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85th annual convention begins Tuesday
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Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff From left, Carole Summerall, Will McReynolds, Billy Bob Phillips, Matt Jones and Tabitha Barham, all of Columbus Fire and Rescue, show how a “Stuff the Boot” fundraiser works Wednesday. It’s just one of the creative ways Relay for Life teams around Columbus are raising funds for cancer research. Lowndes County’s Relay for Life event is Friday, April 25, from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. behind Columbus High School. The public is invited to an evening of remembrance and celebration, featuring live music, food and a variety of activities.
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Team spirit
For Relay for Life teams, it’s more than just raising money — it’s personal
For Carol Summerall, it’s personal. And for Jean Bailey, Herod Granderson and Laura Brownlee. In fact, for the great majori-
ty of Relay for Life team members, the fight against cancer is personal. It’s why volunteers are motivated to stuff firefighters’ boots with money, make bake sale brownies, take orders for Boston butts and craft wooden crosses to sell. It’s why they plant pink plastic flamingos in yards under dark of night, polish face paint-ing skills and clean cookers and grills so they can prepare everything from fish to ribeyes at Lowndes County’s Relay for Life event April 25.
More than 50 Relay teams in Columbus — from churches, banks, health care facilities, schools, clubs, businesses — are busy raising dollars for American Cancer Society research. The Lowndes County goal is $165,000.
From the opening ceremonies at 6 p.m. Fri-day on the track behind Columbus High School, to closing ceremonies at 1 a.m., Relay night is filled with remembrance and celebration. It brings together people of every background, age and race to rally with purpose, to walk laps, enjoy games, live music and food — and honor those no longer by their side.
Raising hopeSummerall lost her father to lung cancer
many years ago. It spurs the fire life and safety educator to co-captain the Columbus Fire & Rescue Relay Team with department adminis-trative assistant Tabitha Barham.
“We’ve had firefighters that have had cancer, and firefighters’ wives that have had cancer — everybody knows somebody that has been touched by cancer. In the fire department, we’ve all been affected,” Summerall said.
Columbus Fire & Rescue’s fundraising goal is $3,500. They’re getting there by hosting
“Stuff the Boot” drives and in-house raffles. On Friday night, their booth will be fish fry central.
“The firefighters have really gotten on board; they have an awesome plan to have red lights to make (the tent) look like a fire truck,” said Barham. “The guys have been very involved.”
First Christian Church team captain Jean Bailey is a 16-year breast cancer survivor. She lost her husband to cancer three years ago and
Courtesy photoLuminaria in honor or memory of those who have been diagnosed with cancer will line the walking track Friday evening. The luminaria ceremony begins at 9 p.m.
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TodayLiving Pictures — Fairview Bap-tist Church, 127 Airline Road, Colum-bus, presents this unique music and drama event depicting the Easter story. About 400 congregation members, including a choir and orchestra num-bering about 150, make the production possible. There is no admission charge to attend the 6:30 p.m. program. For more information, contact the church office, 662-328-2924.
Monday, April 21MSU Jazz Band — The Mis-sissippi State University Jazz Band presents a free concert at 7:30 p.m. at Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium on campus. Visit music.msstate.edu/events for more information or call 662-325-3070.
Thursday, April 24Underground Railroad quilts — Sara Deloach and Elizabeth Simpson present “Underground Railroad Quilt Stories” at 2 p.m. at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, 314 Seventh St. N. Learn how quilt patterns may have been a means of communication during a difficult time in history. Free to the public. For more information, call 662-329-5300.
Thursday through Saturday, April 24-26“Pirates of Penzance” —
Mississippi State’s Theatre MSU presents “The Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera, at McComas Hall at 7:30 p.m. Tick-ets are $10 at the door or at comm.msstate.edu/theatre/tickets. For more information, contact Melanie Harris, 662-325-9162.
Friday, April 25Relay for Life — Lowndes County’s Relay for Life for the Amer-ican Cancer Society is 6 p.m.-1 a.m. at the field behind Columbus High School, 215 Hemlock St. All are invited. Please bring a canned good for local food pantries. For more information, contact Mott Ellis, email [email protected] or call 662-574-1104.Piano duo — Mississippi Uni-versity for Women presents Dr. Julia Mortyakova and Dr. Valentin Bogdan in recital at 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on campus. Free. For more in-formation, contact the Department of Music, 662-241-6399.
Saturday, April 26 Jeans & Jewels — See details at top of page. Crawfish boil —Tickets for Starkville Main Street Associa-tion’s King Cotton Crawfish Boil at Maxwell Street and Page Avenue in Starkville are $30 and include a 5-pound bucket of crawfish, corn and potatoes plus unlimited bever-ages. Children 12 and under admit-ted free. Get tickets at the Greater
Starkville Development Partnership, 200 Main St. or go to visitstarkville.org. For more information, contact the GSDP, 662-323-3322.
Sunday, April 27“To Please the Masses” — The Columbus Choral Society presents a concert featuring Franz Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G Major at 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on the Mississippi University for Women campus. Admission is free; donations are welcome. A reception follows. For information, go to face-book.com/ColumbusChoralSociety.
Monday, April 28MSU Choir concert — The Mississippi State University choirs are in concert at 7:30 p.m. at Starkville’s First Baptist Church, 106 E. Lampkin St. For more infor-mation, call the MSU Department of
Music, 662-325-3070.
Tuesday, April 29MUW Faculty/Alumni re-cital — Mississippi University for Women’s Department of Music presents Dr. Cherry Dunn, soprano, and Zane Lynn, tenor, in a voice recital at 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on campus. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 662-241-6399.
Thursday, May 1Lowndes Day of Prayer — In conjunction with the National Day of Prayer, the privately-funded Christian Community Organization invites citizens of Columbus and surrounding areas to join in an observance outside the Lowndes County Courthouse at 502 Second Ave. N.
MUW Choral Concert — Mississippi University for Women’s University Chorus, Chamber Singers and Chorale are in concert at 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on campus. Free and open to the public. Call 662-241-6399 for more information.
Friday and Saturday, May 2-3Market Street Festival — Columbus’ annual festival kicks off May 2 at the Riverwalk with a free concert featuring Shawna P and the Earth Funk Tribe at 7 p.m., followed by Almost Famous of Memphis, Tenn., at 9 p.m. Saturday features arts and crafts vendors, live music and fun activities all day downtown. See the schedule at marketstreet-festival.com or contact Main Street Columbus, 662-328-6305.
CALENDAR Saturday, April 26Jeans & Jewels — The Co-lumbus Arts Council’s 30th annual gala begins at 6:30 p.m. at Milton Sundbeck’s Town Creek Pavilion, 32476 Highway 50 East. Tickets are $60 and include heavy hors d’oeuvres, open bar, music and live and silent auctions. Tables for 10 or more may be reserved. Auction items include original art, round trip airline tickets, hot air balloon rides, trips, hunts and more. For tickets or information, contact the CAC, 662-328-2787.
OUT AND ABOUT
April 24 – Mercy Me (with Jamie Grace, Citizen Way), Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. 205-248-5280 or tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.
April 25-26 – Double Decker Festival (Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Wild Feath-ers, Rosco Bandana, Garry Burnside, Bo-Keys, T-Bird & the Breaks, Infamous Stringdusters, more), Oxford. doubledeck-erfestival.com.
April 25-May 4 – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Clapton, Springsteen, Plant, Fogerty, Santana, Lovett, Aguilera, Avett Brothers, Phish, Arcade Fire, more). nojazzfest.com.
April 26 – North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra with pianist Andreas Klein, The
Link Centre, Tupelo. 662-842-8433.
May 1-3 – “9 to 5,” the musical, Tupelo Community Theatre, Lyric Theatre, Tupelo. 662-844-1935.
May 2 – Eric Clapton (with ZZ Ward), Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, Birmingham ($80-136). livenation.com.
– Amy Grant, Riley Center, Meridian ($53-59). 662-696-2200 or msurileycenter.com.
May 2-4 – Beale Street Music Festival (Patti LaBelle, Chick Corea, Fitz & the Tantrums, Alabama Shakes, more), Tom Lee Park, Memphis. (3-day pass $85; single day $35). memphisinmay.org/mu-sicfestival.
– Blue Suede Cruise, car show/live en-tertainment, Tupelo (free). bluesc.com or 662-842-4242.
May 3 – Tony Joe White, Workplay The-atre, Birmingham, 18+ ($15). 205-879-4773 or workplay.com.
May 6 – Moscow Ballet “Cinderella,” Riley Center, Meridian ($24-38). 662-696-2200 or msurileycenter.com.
May 10 – Bill Cosby, BancorpSouth Arena, Tupelo ($56-77). 662-841-6528 or bcsare-na.com.
– Pioneer Day at French Camp (square dancing, crafts vendors, live music), 9 a.m.-7 p.m. frenchcamp.org.
May 10-11 – GumTree Festival (juried arts, music, children’s activities), Court-house Square, Tupelo. gumtreefestival.com or 662-844-2787.
May 11 – “Mama Mia” National Broad-way Tour, Ford Center, Oxford ($56-66). 662-915-7411 or fordcenter.org.
May 23-25 – Delta Countr y Jam Music Festival (Keith Urban, Florida Georgia Line, Dierks Bentley, Lucero, many more), Big River Park, Tunica (special pricing through April 15). 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.
May 29 — Styx, Foreigner and Don Felder, Tuscaloosa Amphitheater ($16-71). 205-248-5280 or tuscaloosaam-phitheater.com.
May 31 – Clint Black, Riley Center, Meridian ($48-54). 662-696-2200.
July 18 — Peter Frampton and The Doobie Brothers, Tuscaloosa Amphi-theater ($16-71 on sale now). 205-248-5280 or tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.
The Golden Triangle is within easy traveling distance of some of the best entertain-ment in the South. Support arts and entertainment at home, and when you’re on the road, these might pique your interest. Be aware that some venues add facility/conve-nience charges to ticket prices.
Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffRalph Null, left, and Jerry Hodson look over a few silent auction items destined for the Columbus Arts Council’s Jeans & Jewels.
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
The final production of the 50th the-atrical season of
Mississippi State’s com-munication department will open April 24. Two longtime MSU communi-cation department faculty members will be honored on the same night.
Theatre MSU pres-ents “The Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular comic opera on the McCo-mas Hall mainstage on campus for three nights April 24-26, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the door or online at comm.msstate.edu/theatre/tickets.
Cody Stockstill, a visiting assistant profes-sor in the department, directs the two-act mu-sical in another collabo-ration between Theatre MSU and the music department. An irrever-ent farce that debuted in 1879 at New York’s
Fifth Avenue Theatre, “Pirates” involves a cast of characters morally bound to the ridiculous dictates of honor and duty.
“Come celebrate with the pirates, the major general and his lovely daughters as we bring our 50th season to a close,” said Stockstill, in issuing a personal invi-tation to residents of the Golden Triangle commu-nity and beyond.
At a reception follow-ing the opening night performance, Professor Emeritus Wayne Durst will be honored with a portrait unveiling in the McComas Hall lobby. His wife, Betty “Jo” Durst, a university instructor concluding 34 years of service, also will be honored with a retirement reception at the same location.
Wayne Durst retired last year after 37 years as theater area coordi-nator, technical director responsible for scenery
and lighting of produc-tions and related respon-sibilities. In apprecia-tion, the department’s Theatre MSU program will unveil his portrait to be hung permanently in the building’s lobby.
Over her more than three decades at MSU, Jo Durst has directed countless depart-ment-sponsored plays, in addition to her teaching and advising responsi-bilities.
John Forde, head of the communication department, said the Dursts have made many significant contributions over the last few decades of service to the univer-sity.
“It is very appropriate for them to be recog-nized and for his portrait to hang in the lobby along with (founding theater director) Dom-inic Cunetto’s portrait, especially because they worked for so long to-gether,” Forde said.
For more information, contact Melanie Harris at 662-325-9162 or [email protected].
‘The Pirates of Penzance’ concludes Theatre MSU’s 50th seasonWayne and Betty Jo Durst to be honored opening night
Courtesy photoMississippi State University Professor Emeritus Wayne Durst and his wife and long-time MSU faculty member Betty “Jo” Durst will be honored following Theatre MSU’s April 24 opening night performance of “The Pirates of Penzance.”
Elizabeth Marie Andol Demetrius Andol and Rebecca Andol
of Starkville announce the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth Marie Andol, on March 26, 2014, at Baptist Memorial Hospi-tal-Golden Triangle.
She weighed 7 pounds and six ounces.The infant’s mother is the former Re-
becca Rice of Starkville.Maternal grandparents are Tim and
Robin Rice of Starkville.Paternal grandparents are John and
Anna Andol of Starkville.Also welcoming Elizabeth are Draco
Andol, her brother; Felicity Andol, her sis-ter; William and Lucia Rivers, her maternal
great-grandparents; and Mildred Andol, her paternal great-grandmother.
Ruby June WillcuttJason Willcutt and Shannon Willcutt
of Columbus announce the birth of their daughter, Ruby June Willcutt, on November 21, 2013, at Gilmore Memorial Hospital.
She weighed 6 pounds and 12 ounces.The infant’s mother is the former Shan-
non Hollis of Columbus.Maternal grandparents are Clyde and
Janice Hollis of Columbus.Paternal grandparents are Hal and Mary
Willcutt of Columbus.Also welcoming Ruby are her sisters,
Macy Willcutt and Lucy Willcutt.
BIRTHS
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 20). Your imagination is whipped up and ready to aid you in the creation of a new kind of personal life in which you are freer to express your-
self. Next month brings a fortu-itous love connection. Couples embark on a joint business endeavor. You’ll become an authority figure in June. Con-tracts will be signed in August. Taurus and Sagittarius people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 22, 33, 11 and 28.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). You will be drawn to elegance but repelled by ex-travagance. The day’s events will impress you by striking a perfect balance, seemingly effortlessly.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It’s not what you say; it’s the way you say it that will delight your audience. Whether confiding in one person or en-tertaining dozens, you’ll inspire smiles and laughter.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The spirit of rebirth is alive in you. You’ll have the energy to pursue something you chased unsuccessfully in the past, only this time you’ll be much smarter and luckier.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Each moment you spend in preparation is time well in-
vested. You will burst onto the scene and attract all the atten-tion you need to win friends, earn support and generate the right kind of excitement.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). If you don’t have nearly enough of what you need, consider this to be a blessing. It’s bet-ter to be a little hungry than too full. Hunger is exciting. It causes action. Gluttony is repulsive and causes inertia.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It feels to you like the whole world is a garden, and you are the master gardener with a thumb as green as Midas’ was gold. Whether you’re growing friendships or ferns, you’ll be wildly successful.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Faith is not solely tied to reli-gion, though it may help you to create some kind of ritual around whatever you believe in order to weave it into your psyche and let it shape your daily life.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It’s been said that you can’t hunt two hares with one dog. Then again, maybe you’re not in it for the rabbit
stew. You’d rather celebrate the bunnies and the dogs and somehow make them all get along.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ll be in the mood to start something in-teresting and include as many people as possible. When you plant the seeds of friendship and fun, you will get results in unexpected places.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There’s a time for discipline and a time to enjoy life in a more relaxed way. You can trust yourself to know the limits without standing guard inside your own head.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). A kind of spring-cleaning is happening in your person-al life. A clearing has taken place, and you now will feel free to enjoy the empty space for a while before anything else comes to fill the opening.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). This is one of those days when it really doesn’t matter what you choose; it only mat-ters that you choose. Make it easy on yourself. Investigate the choices of those you admire.
Horoscopes
DEAR ABBY: It has been a
year since my mother passed away. The month of February was especially tough because it was the month of her birthday and also the month in which she died.
Mother’s Day will be here soon, and I’m already feeling bitter, anticipating all of the commer-cials, advertising, brunches and everything. I don’t want to be bitter about Mother’s Day, but I am. How do people typically celebrate Mother’s Day when they have lost their mother? — JODY IN KEARNEY, NEB.
DEAR JODY: Please accept my condolences for the loss of your mother. If you have siblings, you might find it com-forting to talk with them about your feelings. If not, then spend the day quietly, being grateful for the precious time you had with your mother and the many lessons she taught you. I can’t speak for others, but that’s how I have coped with the loss of my mother, and I’m sure others do it, too.
DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend, “Glen,” and I have been dating for two years. Over the past few months he has been push-ing me to open a joint checking account with him.
I have tried explaining that I don’t feel like it’s a good idea until we are engaged. But every time I say no, he gets up-set and angry. Am I wrong for not wanting to put our finances together, and how do I make him see my side? — CAREFUL IN THE MIDWEST
DEAR CAREFUL: You are absolutely NOT wrong, and you should not have to justify your discomfort with the idea of pooling your money with anyone to whom you are not married. In fact, Glen should be trying to explain why he is pushing you into making such a foolish decision.
His “anger and upset” are either attempts to bully you into doing what he wants, or a sign of desperation to get access to your hard-earned
money. If you are at all tempted to relent, I URGE you to first talk to a lawyer about what the ramifi-cations could be if the relationship went sour.
DEAR ABBY: I have a 15-year-old next-door neighbor who loves to come to my house and visit when my preschool-age grandchildren are here. She always
overstays her welcome, staying past the girls’ bedtimes.
I know the girl is lonely and doesn’t have many friends, but I want some private family time with my grandchildren. I don’t want to hurt her feelings, but it is starting to interfere with my visits with my grandchildren. Please help. — GRRR-ANDMA IN TERRE HAUTE
DEAR GRRR-ANDMA: I feel sorry for your lonely neighbor, who not only doesn’t have many friends, but may also not have a grandmother in her life. Your relationship with your granddaughters may be the only taste she has of what this special, loving bond is like.
I don’t think you should cut her off completely. However, it is important that you have a private chat with the girl and explain that you would prefer she limit her visits to once a week (or two) because your grandchildren need alone time with you.
TO MY CHRISTIAN READ-ERS: A happy Easter to all of you!
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The Friends of the Co-lumbus-Lowndes Public Library welcomes Aber-
deen native Caroline Buffington Pugh to its April 23 Table Talk presentation. The author will read from and discuss her debut novel “Something Bigger,” a thriller/romance set in New York City and Washington, D.C.
A 1990 graduate of Mississippi State University, Pugh majored in communications. She presently resides in Tupelo where she is a copywriter for an advertising agency. “I have always wanted to be a writer,” she revealed. Although her university studies and professional writing offered her opportunities to explore that craft, she related that “I had my own story inside that wanted to come out.”
Her “own story” turned out to be an examination of crimes committed and revenge taken. In her novel, Pugh explores the effects of this retribution, which in the end can prove even more dangerous than the original transgression.
“I wrote the novel because I simply love to write. It started out as some cathartic writing, then ... I decided to get serious about it,” she explained. “I had started a dif-ferent story, but scrapped it and began a new one. I love New York City and decided that would be the setting. I’m also a huge fan of Broadway and any kind of theater, so naturally I made that fit, too!”
“It’s been a great experience, but in a way, it’s rather strange, knowing people are reading what
has been inside your head,” she concluded.
Favorably reviewed by avid Amazon readers, Pugh’s debut effort is praised for its fast pace, well-drawn characters and the “unexpected twists and turns that make ‘Something Bigger’ some-thing better.”
“It should be fascinating to watch how an author pulls from herself and transforms personal interests into a realized work,” said Friends member Jo Shu-make. “We are looking forward to discussing this creative process with Caroline.”
Table Talks are presented on Wednesdays in April at the Co-lumbus-Lowndes Public Library, 314 Seventh St. N. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. for those wishing to bring their lunch and socialize be-fore the program begins at noon. The Friends will serve iced tea.
Pugh’s ‘Something Bigger’ is Table Talk topic
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Kat Lawrence/MSU Ag CommunicationsNEW YOUTH COMPLEX: Mississippi State University Extension Service 4-H representatives, state and local officials and industry representatives take part in a ribbon-cutting for the Jimmy Bryan 4-H Youth Complex in West Point April 10. In front, from left, are Paula Threadgill, Angela Turner-James, Hobson Waits, Jimmy Bryan, Floyd McKee, Barney Jacks, Robbie Robinson, Paige Lamkin and Amy Berry. In back are Lynn Horton, Shelton Deanes, Preston Sullivan, Russell Jolly, Gary Jackson, R.B. Davis, Gary Dedeaux, Dwight Dyess, George Hogancamp and David Waide. The $1.2 million 63-acre complex behind Mossy Oak includes the Eliza-beth A. Howard Therapeutic Riding and Activity Center, the Mississippi Farm Bureau 4-H ATV Training Center, a shooting range under development, the Southern Ionics 4-H Environmental Center, and a wildlife nesting and bedding area. For use of the property, contact the Clay County Extension Service, 662-494-5371.
Evans graduated Air Force Reserve Airman 1st Class Quin-
ton M. Evans graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare
principles and skills.Airmen who complete basic training earn
four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community Col-lege of the Air Force.
Evans is the son of Kathy Hampton of Ashland and nephew of Elizabeth Evans of Aberdeen.
He is a 2012 graduate of Ashland High School. Evans
MILITARY BRIEF
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Transitions: Area Weddings, Engagements and Anniversaries
Leah Kathryn Campbell and Timothy James Anzenberger Molly Ellis Tyner and Jonathan Derrick Boland
Campbell/Anzenberger
Mr. and Mrs. John William Campbell of Amory an-nounce the engagement of their daughter, Leah Kath-ryn Campbell, to Timothy James Anzenberger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter James Anzenberger of Concord, N.C.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Powell of Hickory Valley, Tenn., and Mr. James Lee Campbell and the late Margaret Ann Camp-bell of Columbus.
She is a 2002 graduate of Amory High School and a graduate of the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority and re-ceived a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice in 2006 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater arts in 2007.
She graduated from the Mississippi College School of Law in 2011 and is licensed to practice law in Missis-sippi. She formerly worked for the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office Cyber Crime Unit and is now a State Office attorney for the Mississippi Department of Hu-man Services.
The prospective groom is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Counihan of Acton, Mass., and the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anzenberger of Wake-field, R.I.
He is a graduate of Northwest Cabarrus High School in Concord. He graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 2007, and was president of the Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity.
He also attended Mississippi College School of Law and graduated summa cum laude in 2011. He clerked for Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Jess H. Dick-enson and is an associate attorney at Copeland, Cook, Taylor and Bush, P.A. in Jackson.
Vows will be exchanged May 17, 2014, at Oak Hill Stables in Oxford.
Tyner/BolandMr. and Mrs. William E. Tyner of Clinton announce
the engagement of their daughter, Molly Ellis Tyner, to Jonathan Derrick Boland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Boland and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Patterson, all of Nettleton.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mrs. Rob-bie Triggs and the late Gene A. Triggs Sr. of Clinton, and the Dr. and Mrs. Fred H. Tyner of Starkville.
She is a 2010 graduate of Clinton High School. She will graduate in May from Millsaps College with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and a minor in mathematics. At Millsaps, she was selected for Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Univer-sities, selected for Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society, and Pi Mu Epsilon Math Honorary. She was president of Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and a four-year starter and letterman as a pitcher for Ma-jors Softball. She has been accepted into the doctoral program of pathology and molecular medicine at the University of Alabama Birmingham.
The prospective groom is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Joe Finney, Mr. and Mrs. John Robert Pat-terson, and Mr. Boyd Boland Sr. and the late Glenda Boland, all of Nettleton.
He is a 2003 graduate of Nettleton High School and a 2008 graduate of Millsaps College where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in education and a minor in political science. He was a four-year starter and letterman as the catcher and designated hitter for Majors Baseball and was selected to the All Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Team. He is currently a history teacher and the head baseball coach at St. Aloysius High School in Vicksburg.
The couple will exchange vows on June 7, 2014, at McClain Lodge in Brandon.
Weddings, engagements and anniversaries
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announcement. The charge for an announce-
ment with a photograph is $25. The charge for an announce-ment without a photograph is $15. All photographs will be printed in black and white.
(The fee includes a one-month subscription to The Dispatch; this can be a new subscription or added to an
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Photos can be returned by mail if a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included with the form, or they can be picked up after the announce-ment runs in the paper.
Anniversary announce-ments will be printed for couples who have been married
25 years or more. Forms should be submitted three weeks prior to the event. Couples submit-ting a picture may include an original wedding picture at no extra cost.
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Any questions concerning announcements should be directed to Carol Boone, the editorial assistant, at 662-328-2471, or [email protected]
For complete details contact Main Street Columbus at 662-328-6305 or visit www.marketstreetfestival.com
hands on marketSaturday, May 3rd, 9 am until 5 pm
5th Street North Yarn Buddies/Dolls Kids will make their own yard dolls
Origami Inspiration Wall A project involving writin on large sticky notes and putting them on the Columbus Arts Council window.
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BEING BEAUTIFUL
Timeless love of mothers and sons, at Easter and alwaysAs a little boy step-
ping on my mama’s heels, holidays were
the most exciting time. I had the kind of mama that moved Heaven and earth for her children, especially at Easter. With just a few dollars, the TWL store in downtown Richton and de-termination, she filled our baskets with delights each and every year — fluffy grass, chocolate bunnies and memories.
A few weeks ago, I had the idea to surprise my “mother-in-love” with a painting of a photograph of her and her son embracing and smiling. And so it began. There were long chats with my friend and artist, Brenda Hinson, about the details — eye color, facial expressions, the hollyhocks in the background. All of it came together rather quickly, I must say, as I kept the gift a surprise as long as I could stand it.
It was to be quite dramatic, with all the theater you might expect from me. The family and friends would gather underneath a blooming Lady Banks Rose in my garden on Easter Sunday surrounded by an array of colorful blooms and foliage from potted hydrangeas, towering irises and imposing ferns. The tables were to be set with a mix of Ma-ma’s pink rose china and Granny’s white hand-cro-cheted angels, and, of course, music and a reading from the classic book “The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes.”
We would toast with peach Bellinis in cham-pagne flutes as I unveiled the painting for all eyes under the gazebo that afternoon. It would be magi-cal indeed. Well, I’m not good at keeping surprises, and when I returned to my senses, I realized an outdoor dinner in the South is just asking for disap-pointment — Easter cold snap, rain, unseasonable heat? I scratched that idea, moving the event inside, and was perplexed about how to reveal my Easter gift.
I went about my business gathering up every-thing Minnie Mouse to stuff into my 3-year-old niece’s basket, found some charming napkins at Pier 1, and had dinner with my friend Hope. The next day, my second mother got an excellent re-port from her doctors after a long and grueling few seasons, and just like that, I knew it was time to reveal my gift. Fresh from the framer and wrapped in plain brown paper taped together with the word “Creel” on the side, the gift was presented.
It was not in a giant basket, no bows or frills, but it was as God intended. She smiled from ear to ear, gave me a big hug, and somehow I just knew that my Easter gift, much like all those baskets from my mama growing up, had touched many hearts in the making.
You see, I learned later that a husband got to see his wife “get lost” in the talent and joy of paint-ing again. My friend Hope had been feeling blue, and being part of the surprise lifted her spirits. And me? Well, I got to immortalize the timeless love of a mother and a son in watercolor forever. I think Mama is smiling down from Heaven saying, “Job well done!”
Happy Easter to you and yours from me and mine.
Former Columbus resident David Creel owns Beautiful With David salon in Ridgeland. Contact him at [email protected].
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Courtesy photoALL-STATE HONOR: Area musicians from Columbus and Starkville were recently selected to participate in the 2014 Belhaven University All-State Orchestra. In front, from left, are Scott Sandifer, Abbey Swartzendruber and Aidan Dunkelberg, all of Columbus. They are members of the Columbus Suzuki Strings Orchestra, under the direction of Diane Ford. In back are Daniel Jones and Lilli Fulgham of Starkville, instructed by Shandy Phillips. The All-State Orchestra is a prestigious event made up of students chosen by audition from across the state. The final concert was con-ducted by Dr. Timothy Bergman and included “Three Pieces in Old Style,” by Henryk Gorecki,” “Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 20,” by Edward Elgar,” “Romanze in C, Op. 42,” by Jean Sibelius, and “Simple Symphony,” by Benjamin Britten.
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immersed ourselves in a journey of literacy. Although we only traveled to nearby Starkville and Caledonia, our short excur-sions spanned generations, and intro-duced us to many smart people with a passion for reading.
Friends of the Starkville Library invited me to speak about my second book, “Witch Ball,” released this past Tuesday. This group, like me, grew up in a time when there were no com-puter games, high-tech toys or hundreds of tele-vision stations to distract us. Their love of reading is bone-deep, so much a part of life that literacy is a kind of nourishment.
Dutch philosopher
and human-ist Erasmus said, “When I get a little money, I buy books. And, if there is any left over, I buy food.” This group under-stood that way of thinking — up to a point. Their approach to
book talk was to lay out a feast of tasty munchies and settle in for a chat. It was a great audience, in a charming setting. So much fun, and over far too soon.
The next day we went to Caledonia Middle School for Career Day. Our pretty escort, Cassi-dy, guided us through the maze of halls decorated with brightly-colored posters and construction materials for major proj-ects. I was beginning to think that some classes were building a village
(or, considering recent weather, an ark).
We spent the entire day moving from class-room to classroom, talking about writing and the twisted path that led me to my current career. Much of my discussion was about making lemon-ade out of some extreme-ly sour incidents.
I was quite impressed with the students and their thoughtful ques-tions. Although they were only in their early teens, many already had career goals. Some were headed to law school or a branch of the military. Several won my heart by expressing an interest in veterinary medicine. But, no matter whether they aspired to go on excursions to far away lands or remain close to Mississippi, everyone was a reader.
This group was differ-ent from the “Starkville-ians,” probably acquiring some of their love of
poetry and prose from Dr. Seuss, whose advice to youngsters was, “The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” (From “I Can Read with My Eyes Shut.”)
I was totally flattered that some of the students have added me to their Facebook “friends,” and plan to attend the book signing for “Witch Ball” on May 1.
I left a signed copy of my first book, “Friend-
ship Cemetery,” with Caledonia School Librari-an Mrs. Emily Bates, and with Virginia Holtcamp, director of the Starkville Public Library. I prom-ised to send them copies of “Witch Ball” just as soon as they arrive.
From the junior high students, looking forward to high school and col-lege, to those a bit more “senior” (perhaps grad-uating just a few years ago), everyone I met had a love of books. It was re-assuring to see this and
ease any worries about the next generation.
Many thanks to Starkville Public Library and Caledonia Middle School for inviting me to speak. Keep reading — and thank your teachers for starting you on a path that will help throughout your life, no matter what direction you choose.
Adele Elliott, a New Orleans native, moved to Columbus after Hurricane Katrina. Email reaches her at [email protected].
Book tour
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Courtesy photo70th AND COUNTING: From left, Ann Alford, Vernon Davis, Betty Jo Backstrom, Fayette Burns, Dot Langford and (standing) Sammie St. John and Sam Jaynes work on plans for the 70th class reunion of the S. D. Lee High Class of 1944. The event will be at the S.D. Lee Home in Columbus on May 22. Fellow classmates, as well as friends from the classes of ’43, ’45 and ’46, are invited to join the celebration. For more information and reservations, contact Pat Shackelford, 662-327-1457. For the past 15 years, on the third Thursday of each month, many members of the Class of ’44 have met for a luncheon.
S.D. LEE CLASS OF ’44 PLANS REUNION
Mississippi Univer-sity for Women music professor
Dr. Julia Mortyakova and Dr. Valentin Bog-dan will perform a duo recital in Poindexter Hall on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. Fittingly titled “Touring The World,” the free concert features a mixture of piano duet music from various eras and geographical regions. Timeless masterpieces such as the “Fantasy in F Minor” by German com-poser Franz Schubert, or “Pieces Romantiques” by the French composer Cecile Chaminade, are on the program, as well as two new works written for the two piano medium by U.S.-based composers Olga Harris and Bog-dan. The program also features the Columbus premiere of Bogdan’s piano four-hands arrange-ments of Argentinean tangos, which have been hailed by critics across the country as “charm-ing” and “outstanding.”
About the pianists Mortyakova current-
ly teaches and serves as chair of the MUW Department of Music. Originally from Moscow, she has given solo piano recitals, appeared as a soloist with orchestras and performed in music festivals across the coun-try and abroad including the Aspen Music Festival, Eastern Music Festi-val, Natchez Festival of Music, South Carolina
Governor’s School for the Arts, Musica Nueva Malaga (Spain), Assisi Music Festival (Italy), Zhytomyr’s Musical Spring (Ukraine), and Symphonic Workshops International Piano Mas-terclass (Bulgaria). She is the 2012 winner of the Sigma Alpha Iota Career Performance Grant.
She is a published author in the U.S. and Ukraine, and her first independent solo piano album has sold interna-tionally.
Mortyakova is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, Vanderbilt University, New York Uni-versity, and the Universi-ty of Miami. Learn more at juliamortyakova.com.
Bogdan serves as assistant professor of music at MUW. A native of Romania, he toured as a teenager with the Tudor Ciortea Music School Orchestra of Bra-sov throughout Europe and Asia in countries like Netherlands, Great
Britain, France and Jor-dan. An award-winning pianist and composer, he has performed solo and chamber music recitals in North America and Europe.
Among others, he was a soloist with the Varna Symphony (Bulgaria) and Wayne State Symphony (Michigan). His music was performed at Festival Miami, Music at MOCA Concert Series, the Oregon Bach Festival, the St. Joseph Catholic Church Concert Series in New York, and New Music concerts in Arizo-na, Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mich-igan, New Mexico and numerous other states. He was the 2010 Florida State Music Teachers As-sociation commissioned composer of the year.
Bogdan is a graduate of University of Miami, Michigan State Univer-sity and Wayne State University with degrees in piano performance and music composition.
When nominations opened for the 2014 Governor’s Initiative
for Volunteer Excellence — or GIVE — Awards earlier this year, Leslie Peel, director of the United Way Volunteer Columbus, was eager to seek recognition for some of the many “doers” in Lowndes County.
GIVE was established through the Office of the Gov-ernor and Volunteer Mississippi to recognize individuals and organizations that have made an impact through service, advo-cacy and outreach. In a ceremo-ny April 14 at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Judie Granderson Holmes earned the Outstanding Service to Veterans and Military Families, and Shaw Pit Bull Rescue (Shaw PBR) won the Outstanding Achievement by a Grassroots Volunteer Initiative.
Roberta Weeks earned a distinguished honorable mention for making a significant impact on school improvement efforts in the Lowndes County School District. Peel said, “I feel it’s important that volunteers in our community who have done an
outstanding job are recognized. Sometimes their efforts aren’t necessarily out there for every-one to see, but they are doing good work.”
The recipientsWhen Judie Holmes’ son,
Richard E. Holmes II, 28, lost his life to an overdose, Judie and her husband were determined to try to help other veterans from suf-fering similar fates. Eight years of military service, a divorce and
the death of his own child took a toll on Richard; he struggled with an addiction. After four months in a substance abuse re-habilitation program, he seemed to be improving. Unexpectedly, he took his own life.
The Holmes believe their son may have lived if more resources to help veterans reintegrate into civilian life had been available. They founded the Richard E. Holmes Memorial Foundation and committed to addressing mental, physical and emotional
needs of veterans. Judie pushed to establish the Memorial Day Walk/Run for Veterans’ Causes in Columbus. She also frequently volunteers with Loaves and Fish-es Soup Kitchen, United Way, Boys and Girls Club, Veterans Heath Fair and other organiza-tions.
Since the summer of 2012, Shaw Pit Bull Rescue has found homes for 100 dogs, operating under the motto “American Pit Bull Terriers: love them, or leave them alone.”
Kenneth and Aimee Shaw founded the grassroots orga-nization with the intention of saving one or two dogs at a time. They quickly realized the need was larger than the two of them. Shaw PBR’s “PitCrew” now has Lesley Bailey as a third partner, a board of directors and loyal vol-unteers. The collective goal is to seek to foster responsible pit bull ownership through a low-cost veterinary spay/neuter program, education, adoption and breed advocacy.
Columbus volunteers earn recognition at state GIVE Awards
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Center and assisting with the Columbus Cultural Foundation’s garden club event held during the Decorative Arts & Preservation Forum An-tique Show and Sale. The Council also supports the Mississippi State Univer-sity Horticulture Summer Camp for high school students.
There are approxi-mately 12 active local garden clubs in Colum-bus. They work on many community improvement and beautification proj-ects. They have worked with various city and county schools, maintain
an area of the Gen. Ste-phen D. Lee family plot at Friendship Cemetery and planted and maintained maple and crepe myrtle trees at Friendship Cem-etery. They have worked on garden projects at Brighter Days Senior Day Center, maintain planters at The Good Samaritan Clinic and assisted with the Blue Star Highway Marker and The Blue Star Byway Marker for the historic Vaughn Cemetery. Garden club members serve as host-esses during the annual Columbus Pilgrimage.
Trotter Convention
Center will be headquar-ters for the convention. Additional activities will be held at the Stephen D. Lee Home, Lion Hills Center and Fairfield Inn & Suites.
“The City of Colum-bus, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, local garden clubs and the entire business communi-ty have been assisting in every way possible.” said Ebner. “We’re extremely grateful for their coopera-tion and efforts in making the convention guests from across the state feel welcome in the Friendly City.”
Courtesy photoShaw Pit Bull Rescue was recognized for Outstanding Achievement by a Grassroots Volunteer Initiative at the GIVE Awards Monday. Representatives of the organization are, from left, Hailey Faulkner, Kenneth Shaw and Leslie Bailey.
Courtesy photoJudie Holmes of Columbus, left, is presented an award for Out-standing Service to Veterans and Military Families by Mississippi’s First Lady Deborah Bryant at the GIVE Awards in Jackson April 14.
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her brother seven years ago.
“It’s important to me. I jumped on it when our pastor brought it up because I’d wanted us to have a team,” she said. First Christian’s main fundraisers this year have been a chili supper and cake auction.
“Our members really go wild for that auction,” Bailey laughed. So wild, the church is already close to reaching its stat-ed $5,000 goal. Booth sales Friday for hot dogs, nachos, popcorn and brownies should put them over the top.
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Team kicked off Relay fundraising by selling Valentine candy bou-quets. Since then, there have been Boston butt and bake sales. Laura Brownlee serves as team captain. She lost her grandfather, Joseph Kinard, to cancer in 1999 and has participated for years.
“Relay for Life is a family event for us,” she said. Her children, ages 9 and 13, invite their friends and make an outing of it. “It’s a lot of fun, and the cause is im-portant.” Brownlee has helped generate about $600 of the more than $3,000 already raised by the team by making art items to sell.
Herod Granderson and the Thunderbolt Men’s Christmas Sav-ings Club meet every Sunday evening at the Elks Lodge. They put aside some money for the end-of-the-year, talk about community news and look for ways to lend a helping hand. When Granderson became president of the group, he took it upon himself to talk to the guys about Relay for Life. Grander-son lost Wilma, his wife
of 43 years, to cancer in 2008. She was sick for three and one-half years.
“I was a caregiv-er, and after my wife passed away I got really involved in Relay for Life,” he said. “When she developed cancer, it just opened my eyes to a disease that’s really incredible.”
The club’s goal is $3,000. “We’re getting there,” Granderson said, adding that the group hopes to raise a substan-tial sum Friday selling ribeye steaks, rib tips, chicken, hot dogs and drinks.
“Some day there will be a cure for cancer and everything we do, the effort we put in, will pay off,” he said.
New featuresRelay veterans will
notice a few new twists Friday — food pantry do-nations, a silent auction and new finishing time.
“This is awesome: We’re asking everybody, for admission, to bring a canned good. They’ll be used to weight the lumi-naria and then be donat-ed to local food pantries, which are really running low,” said Relay Team Development Chair Mott Ellis. There will also be a silent auction, with each team donating one or more items. Look for the display by the stage and make bids throughout the night. Winners will be announced during closing ceremonies; you do not have to be present to win.
In years past, Relay has been an overnight event, lasting until 6 a.m. the following morning. The new finish time is 1 a.m., a move designed to encourage more teams and the public to remain and take part in closing ceremonies.
“I think the time change is good,” said
Brownlee. “It will help people make the commit-ment to stay.”
Focus The 2014 drive has
faced a few challenges. City schools are no lon-ger allowed to fundraise for Relay for Life, said El-lis, a cancer survivor and a tireless Relay warrior.
“It breaks my heart. It’s so discouraging because we’ve lost people who had a heart for it,” she said. However, some county schools, such as New Hope, are partici-pating.
The American Cancer Society itself is currently undergoing some chang-es in structure and staff-ing. But local organizers and team members are focused on the goal and counting on a generous community
For people like Eddy Doyle, that means a lot. He’s been to a few Relay events in years past, supporting his school teacher wife who was part of a team. This time out will be different.
“I’m going to start finding out what it means to be involved. I was just diagnosed in December, and all this is kind of new,” said the New Hope resident who lost his father to the same type of cancer 15 years ago. To Doyle, the emotional support at Relay is as vital as fundraising for research.
“It’s important for me to keep positive,” he said. “I think so much of your success in taking treatments and beating cancer is due to positive attitude and that, to me, is one of the biggest parts of Relay for Life.”
That empathy and strength will come in many forms Friday night — the survivors’ lap, caregivers’ lap, luminar-ia ceremony, hugs and smiles.
First Christian Church team captain Jean Bailey explained, “It’s just so inspiring.
The survivors are treated royally, and they’re ask-ing caregivers to bring a photograph of their loved
one. ... We’d love it if can-cer was cured altogether, if there was no cancer any more. Certainly rais-ing this money can help.”
Editor’s note: Do-nations to the Lowndes County Relay for Life may be mailed to the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, P.O. Box 5093, Co-lumbus, MS 39704. For information, contact Mott Ellis, 662-574-1104, or event co-chair Tina Perry, 662-497-4084.
The Oktibbeha County Relay for Life is May 9-10 at the Starkville Sports-plex. Clay County’s Relay event is May 16 at Sally Kate Winters Park.
Lowndes Relay for Life schedule summaryFriday, April 25
n 6 p.m. – Opening ceremonies (includes survivors’ lap, caregivers/memory lap and parade of teams)n 6:45 p.m. – MSMS Blue Notesn 7:30 p.m. – Keith and Margien 8:15 p.m. – Hope Street Band, New Salem Baptist Churchn 9 p.m. –Luminaria ceremony (includes Joe Cook School Show Choir)n 9:30 p.m. – Shane Tubbs Bandn 10:15 p.m. – New Age Relicsn 11:15 p.m. – Charles Shelton, aka Elvisn 1 a.m. – Closing ceremonies and victory lap
Please bring a canned food item for Columbus food banks as “admission.”
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ASSEMBLIES OF GODCALVARY ASSEMBLY OF GOD — Lehmberg Rd. and Bennett Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eric Crews, Pastor.EVANGEL CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday 9 a.m., 10:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Grove Coffee Cafe 8 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. The Grove 6:30 p.m. Nursery provided through age 3. Ron Delgado, Pastor. 662-329-2279FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 2201 Military Road. Christian Education 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Nursery Church (2-3 yrs.) Super Church (children)10:30 a.m. Worship 6 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. Nursery provided for all services. Jody Gurley, Pastor. 662-328-6374 NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 4474 New Hope Road. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Children’s Church 10:30 a.m., Evening 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Jack Medley, Pastor. 662-328-3878
BAPTISTANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Dr. Edward N. Knox, Pastor. 662-328-4765ARMSTRONG BAPTIST CHURCH — 1707 Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. William Vaughn, Pastor. 662-328-0670ARTESIA BAPTIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Jeff Morgan.BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 3232 Military Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Choir Rehearsal 5 p.m., Worship, 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Nursery provided. Walter Butler, Pastor. 662-327-2111BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH — 2096 Bethesda Rd, Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 6:00 p.m., Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Allan Dees, Pastor. 662-272-8734BORDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 15949 Hwy. 12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Kids for Christ 5 p.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David Westmoreland, Pastor. 662-356-6870BROOKSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — Main Street, Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe Road, Caledonia. Sunday Men’s Prayer Service 9:30 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Bible Study 4 p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Bob Burch, Pastor. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 295 Dowdle Dr. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir rehearsals and Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Steve Brown, Pastor. 662-328-6741CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 385 7th St. SW, Vernon, Ala. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. (6 p.m. - Daylight Savings Time), Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Wil Corbett, Pastor. 205-270-1845CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1008 Lehmberg Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Service and Children’s Church 10:30 a.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Danny Avery, Pastor. Russell Flood, Worship Leader.CANAAN MB CHURCH — 2425 Bell Ave. Sunday School 8:15 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Jimmy Pounds, Pastor. 662-327-1226COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 2490 Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Wes Jones, Pastor. 662-327-5306CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — 844 Old West Point Rd., Starkville. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Greg Upperman, Pastor. 662-323-6351 or visit www.cornerstonestarkville.comEAST END BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 50 and Holly Hills Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Discipleship Training, Pre-school, Youth & Children’s Choirs 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Prayer Service 6:30 p.m., Sanctuary Choir 7:30 p.m. Albert Wilkerson, Pastor. 662-328-5915EASTVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 1316 Ben Christopher Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Junior Eads, Pastor. 662-329-2245 FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 127 Airline Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. Breck Ladd, Pastor. 662-328-2924FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621 Mike Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 7th St. and 2nd. Ave. N. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m. (Worship televised at 10 a.m. on WCBI-TV, Columbus Cable Channel 7), Contemporary Worship 11 a.m.; Sunday 6 p.m. Worship at 3000 Bluecutt Road, Midweek Prayer Service, Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Dr. Shawn Parker, Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.orgFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STEENS — 40 Odom Rd., Steens. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST — 125 Yorkville Rd. W. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. John Gainer, Pastor. 662-328-6024 or 662-328-3183GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Charles Whitney, Pastor.GRACE COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — 912 11th Ave. S. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pastor Sammy Burns. 662-328-1096GREENWOOD SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 278 East between Gattman & Amory. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:15 p.m. Rev. John Walden, Pastor. 662-356-4445IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military Rd., Steens. Bible Study 8:45 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-328-1668KOLOLA SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., AWANA 4:45-6 Ages 2-12th grade (Sept. - May), Worship 5 p.m., Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 252 Basics Children’s Ministry an Cross Training Youth Wednesday 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Don Harding, Pastor. MCBEE BAPTIST CHURCH — 2846 Hwy. 50 E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Jimmy Ray, Pastor. 662-328-7177LONGVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 991 Buckner Street, Longview. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.; Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Pastor Larry W. Yarber, or email [email protected], 662-769-4774 MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH — Holly Hills Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Prayer Service every Saturday 6 p.m. Rev. Denver Clark, Pastor.MOUNT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH — 2628 East Tibbee Rd., West Point. Sunday Worship each week 8 a.m., 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Donald Wesley, Pastor.MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1791 Lake Lowndes Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Steve Lammons, Pastor. 662-328-2811MT. VERNON CHURCH — 200 Mt. Vernon Rd. Sunday Worship 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Service Life Groups for all ages 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Connection Cafe 10 a.m., Discovery Zone. 662-328-3042 mtvchurch.comMURRAH’S CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 9297 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — Highway 50 E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Ed Nix, Pastor. NEW JOURNEY CHURCH — 3123 New Hope Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Small Groups 5:30 p.m., Kevin Edge, Pastor. 662-315-7753 or thenewjourneychurch.orgNEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe Rd., 3 miles south of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:17 a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Sunday Evening - Youth Drama & AWANA 4 p.m., Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Evening Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday - Kids Drama 6 p.m., Bible Study, RA’s,
GA’s & Mission Friends 6:30 p.m. 662-356-4940NORTHSIDE FREE WILL BAPTIST — 14th Ave. and Waterworks. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Pat Creel, Pastor. PLEASANT GROVE MB CHURCH — 1914 Moor High Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Riley Forrest, Sr., Pastor. 662-272-8221PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill Rd. Sunday Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Bill Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH — 187 Plymouth Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Randy Rigdon, Pastor. Neil Shepherd, Music.SOVEREIGN FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH — 7852 Hwy. 12 E., Steens. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Service 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Charles Young, Pastor.SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 12859 Martin Road Spur, Northport, Ala. Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Bible Study noon. Todd Bryant, Pastor. sovereigngrace.netSTATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282 E. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Christian Development Wednesday 7 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-329-2973TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST CHURCH — 4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and7 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-2580UNITED CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 2 blocks east of Hwy. 69 on Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. Steven James, Pastor. UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH — East Lee Blvd., Starkville MSU campus (new building behind the Wesley Foundation) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bert Montgomery, Pastor. 662-312-6778 or starkvillebaptist.orgVICTORY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH — Victory Loop off of Mill Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Pastor, Al Hamm.WOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — 3033 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship 6 p.m., AWANA Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Shelby Hazzard, Senior Pastor. Brad Wright, Director of Student Ministries.10TH STREET FAIRLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1118 7th St. S. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Youth Ministry Wednesday 4:30 p.m. Rev. Brian Hood, Pastor.
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST BETHESDA CHURCH — 1800 Short Main. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Nathaniel Best, Pastor. E-mail: [email protected] BAPTIST CHURCH — 5860 Hwy. 50 E., West Point. Sunday School 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — 1720 Hwy. 373. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Martin “Buddy” Gardner, Pastor. LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5030 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy Banks, Pastor. 662-327-1130SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — Yorkville Rd. Sunday Bible study 10:15 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Raymond Spann, Pastor. sgrace.com
MISSIONARY BAPTISTANDERSON GROVE MB CHURCH — 1853 Anderson Grove Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:20 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6:20 p.m. David O. Williams, Pastor. 662-356-4968.ANTIOCH MB CHURCH — 2304 Seventh Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Jimmy Ellis, Pastor.BETHLEHEM MB CHURCH — 293 Bethlehem Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 1st and 4th Sundays 8 a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 9:30 a.m., Worship 1st & 4th Sundays 9:30 a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 11 a.m., Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev. Willie James Gardner, Pastor. 662-356-4424BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Pastor M. Martin. For prayer call 662-722-1884BRICK MB CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. each Sunday, Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays only 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Everett Little, Pastor.CALVARY FAITH CENTER — Hwy. 373 & Jess Lyons Road. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Robert Bowers, Pastor. 662-434-0144CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr. Worship Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor. 662-434-8283CHRISTIAN HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 14096 MS Hwy. 388, Brooksville, MS. 39739, Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Bobby Bowen, Pastor. 662-738-5837/549-6100CHRIST MB CHURCH — 110 2nd Ave. S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., B.T.U. Program every 1st & 3rd Sunday 6 p.m.EL BETHEL MB CHURCH — 2205 Washington Ave. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7:00 p.m., Rev. Leroy Jones, Pastor.FAITH HARVEST MB CHURCH — 4266 Sand Road. Sunday 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-1057FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Glenn Wilson, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or 662-251-4185GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856 Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Donald Henry, Pastor. HALBERT MISSION MB CHURCH — 2199 Halbert Church Rd., Ethelsville, Ala. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Ernest Prescott, Pastor. HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 4892 Ridge Rd. Worship 9 a.m., Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Rev. Charles Davison, Pastor.JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 129 Brickerton St. at Wingate Inn. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Wednesday 5 p.m. Rev. Willie Petty, Sr., Pastor.MAPLE STREET BAPTIST — 219 Maple St. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Joseph Oyeleye, Pastor. 662-328-4629MILLERS CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 425 East North
St. Macon. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Ron Houston, Pastor.MISSIONARY UNION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1207 5th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Baptist Training Union 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Tony A. Montgomery, Pastor.MOUNT ZION M.B. CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979MT. ARY MB CHURCH — 291 S. Frontage Rd., Lot #4. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Erick Logan, pastor.MT. AVERY BAPTIST CHURCH — 12311 Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. every Sunday except 5th Sunday. Rev. Johnny Hall, Pastor. Min. John Wells, Assistant Pastor.MT. OLIVE MB CHURCH — 2020 Atkin Rd., Millport, Ala. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m. Pastor Benny W. Henry. 205-662-3923NEW HOPE MB CHURCH — 271 Church St., Artesia. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Thomas E. Rice is pastor. 662-494-1580NEW BAPTIST TEMPLE MB CHURCH — 5937 Nashville Ferry Rd E. Sunday School 9 a.m. each week except 5th Sunday, Worship 10 a.m. each week except 5th Sunday, 5th Sundays: Ushers Board Fellowship. Rev. L.A. Gardner, Pastor. 662-329-3321NEW ZION PILGRIM MB CHURCH — 5253 New Hope Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Services 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Christopher Wriley, Pastor.NEW ZION STEENS MB CHURCH — 3301 Sand Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Rev. John C. Edwards. 662-329-5224OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal - Tue. before 1st and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus Rehearsal - Thurs. before 3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir Rehearsal - Wed. before 4th Sun. 5 p.m. Rev. Sammy L. White, Pastor.PLEASANT GROVE ROBINSON MB CHURCH — 9203 Hwy. 389 N., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Service/Bible Study 7 p.m. Pastor George A. Sanders. 456-0024PLEASANT RIDGE MB CHURCH — Ridge Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. A. Edwards, Sr., Pastor.PROVIDENCE MB CHURCH — Old Hwy. 69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. James A. Greenlaw, Pastor.SAINT MATTHEWS MB CHURCH — 1213 Island Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Curtis Clay, Sr., Pastor.SALEM MB CHURCH — Hwy. 86, Carrollton, Ala. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. David J. Johnson, Jr., Pastor. SECOND JAMES CREEK MB CHURCH — 4898 Baldwin Rd., Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Michael Tate. 662-738-5855SOUTHSIDE MB CHURCH — 100 Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Rayfield Evins Jr., Pastor.SIXTH AVENUE MB CHURCH — 1519 Sixth Ave. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Bobby E. Woodrick Sr., Pastor.SPRINGFIELD MB CHURCH — 6369 Hwy. 45 S. (1st & 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., (1st & 3rd Wednesday) 7 p.m. Robert Gavin, Pastor. 662-327-9843STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 514 20th St. N. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. & 11 a.m. B.T.U. 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Joe Peoples, Pastor.ST. JAMES MB CHURCH — 6525 Hardy-Billups Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6:15 p.m. Rev. Chad Payton, Pastor. ST. JOHN MB CHURCH — 3477 Motley Rd., Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Otha Rockett, Pastor. 327-7494.ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — Robinson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Mays, Pastor.ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — 1800 Short Main St. Disciple Training/Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:00 a.m. Rev. John F. Johnson, Pastor. 662-241-7111UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver Rd. (Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Coy Jones, Pastor.TABERNACLE MB CHURCH — Magnolia Drive, Macon. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.UNION HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 150 Spurlock Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Thursday 6 p.m. Michael Sampson, Pastor.WOODLAWN LANDMARK MB CHURCH — 8086 Hwy. 12. East, Steens. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David Retherford, Pastor.THE WORD CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 366 Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. John Sanders, Pastor. ZION GATE MB CHURCH — 1202 5th St. S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. and 10:45., Children’s Church 10:15 a.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. James A. Boyd, Pastor.
PRIMITIVE BAPTISTABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-4937HAMILTON PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Flower Farm Rd., 2 miles South of Hamilton, just off Hwy. 45. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jesse Phillips, Pastor. 662-429-2305 SPRINGHILL P.B. CHURCH — 3996 Sandyland Road, Macon, MS. Walter Lowery Jr., Pastor. Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6 p.m. 662-738-5006.SULPHUR SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — North of Caledonia on Wolf Rd, Hamilton. Sunday 10:30 a.m. & 1st Sunday Night at 6:30 p.m. Herman Clark, Pastor. 662-369-2532
ANGLICAN CATHOLICSAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew Rd., Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-5939 or anglicancatholic.org
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CATHOLICANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 808 College St. Mass Schedules are as follows: Sunday 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8 a.m., Tuesday 5:30 p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m., and Annunciation Catholic School (during the school year). Father Robert Dore, Priest.
CHRISTIANFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary. Ed Maurer, Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 6 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCECHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave. N. and 8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRISTCALEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — Main St., Caledonia. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.CHURCH OF CHRIST — 4362 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday Worship 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Shobal Johnson 662-241-5376 or E-mail: [email protected] OF CHRIST — 437 Gregory Rd. Sunday Bible class 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Richard Latham, Minister. 662-328-4705COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Billy Ferguson, Pulpit Minister and Paul Bennett - Family & Youth Minister.EAST COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Highway 182 E. at Gaylane. Sunday Worship 9 a.m., Bible Study 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. http://eastcolumbuschurch. comHWY. 69 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2407 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. LONE OAK CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1903 Lone Oak Rd., Steens. Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.MAGNOLIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — 161 Jess Lyons Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Doug English, Minister.NORTH HILLCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST — 900 North Hillcrest, Aberdeen, MS 39730, Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m., Bro. Arthur Burnett, Minister, 662-304-6098. Email: [email protected] CHURCH OF CHRIST — Steens Vernon Rd. 9:15 a.m. Bible Study, Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Larry Montgomery, Minister.10TH AVE. N. CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1828 10th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Bible Class 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Robert Johnson, Minister.WOODLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST — Woodlawn Community. Sunday 9 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Willis Logan, Minister.
CHURCH OF GODCHURCH OF GOD IN JESUS’ NAME — Hwy. 12. Sunday 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. David Sipes, Pastor. CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 7840 Wolfe Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Tony Hunt, Pastor. 662-889-6570LATTER RAIN CHURCH OF GOD — 721 7th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday 6 p.m. Brenda Othell Sullivan, Pastor.NORTH COLUMBUS CHURCH OF GOD — 2103 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Clarence Roberts, Pastor.YORKVILLE HEIGHTS CHURCH — 2274 Yorkville Rd., Life Groups 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.; Evening Worship & JAM Kids Night 6 p.m.; Wednesday: Worship, Called Out Youth, Royal Rangers, Girls Clubs 7 p.m.; Tuesday: Intercessory Prayer 7 p.m. Nursery Available for all services (newborn- 4). Bobby Richardson, Paster. 662-328-1256 or [email protected] ZION ASSEMBLY CHURCH OF GOD — 5580 Ridge Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Byron Harris, Pastor.
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRISTBIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 606 Military Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Evening, 2nd & 4th Sunday 6 p.m., Monday 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Tommy Williams, Pastor.FIFTEENTH ST. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 917 15th St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion C. Bonner, Pastor.GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 1601 Pickensville Rd., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Monday 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. Ocie Salter, Pastor.MIRACLE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 5429 Hwy. 45 N. Sunday Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 2nd Sunday Holy Communion, 4th Sunday Youth Sunday, 4th Sunday Family/Friends Sunday and Fellowship Dinner. Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-328-7159OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer Ave., Aberdeen. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m., Wednesday Luncheon 11 a.m. Johnnie R. Bradford, Pastor. 662-889-3820 or 662-798-0282.VICTORY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Minnie Vaughn Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 12 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Donald Koonch, Pastor. 662-243-2064
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASECAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Catholic Priest Fr. Vince Burns. 662-434-2500
EPISCOPALCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD — 321 Forrest Blvd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Holy Eucharist 10 a.m., Tuesday and Thursday Braille Bible Workers 9 a.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest. 662-327-1953ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College St. Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Rev. Anne Harris. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.com.
FULL GOSPELBREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.BEULAH GROVE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 8490 Artesia Rd., Artesia, MS. Sunday Service 8:30 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Timothy Bourne, Senior Pastor.CHARITY FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1524 6th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m. Charles Fisher, Pastor.CHARITY MISSION FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 807 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:40 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Prayer Hour Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m., New Membership Class 9:30 p.m., 5th Sunday Worship 6:30 p.m. 662-272-5355 COVENANT LIFE MINISTRIES CHURCH — W. Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11a.m., Evening 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Jerry Potter, Pastor. FAIRVIEW FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1446 Wilson Pine Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Bobby L. McCarter 662-328-2793 GREATER MOUNT ZION CHURCH — 5114 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday Corporate Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. Doran V. Johnson, Pastor. 662-329-1905GOD’S ANNOINTED PEOPLE MINISTRY FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP — 611 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Jerome Gill, Pastor. 662-244-7088 HARVEST LIFE CHURCH — 425 Military Rd. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. F. Clark Richardson, Pastor. 662-329-2820NEW BEGINNING FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 318 Idlewild Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. 662-327-3962NEW LIFE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor.PLUM GROVE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Samuel B. Wilson, Pastor.
SHILOH FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 120 19th St. S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Missionary Service every 2nd Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Freddie Edwards, Pastor.
JEWISHB’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-monthly. Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple B’nai Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday. 662-620-7344 or uua.org
LUTHERANFAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (WELS) — Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible Class 3:45 p.m., Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH — L.C.M.S. 1211 18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 p.m. Rev. Mark Steiner, Pastor. 662-327-7747
METHODISTARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev. Walt Porter, Pastor.COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 618 31st Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev. Dr. Jonathan Speegle, Pastor.CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 811 Main Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Choir Rehearsal Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Todd Lemon, Pastor.CLAIBORNE CME CHURCH — 6049 Nashville Ferry Rd. E. 2nd and 4th Sundays - Sunday School 10a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Sundays - 3 p.m., Geneva H. Thomas, Pastor.CONCORD CME CHURCH — 1213 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev. Robert Hamilton, Sr., Pastor.CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Main St, Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10 a.m. Buddy Carrol, Pastor. CROSSROAD CHAPEL C.M.E. CHURCH — Steens. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Carl Swanigan, Pastor.FIRST INDEPENDENT METHODIST — 417 Lehmberg Rd. Sunday bible study at 10:15 and morning worship at 11 a.m. Minister Gary Shelton.FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 602 Main St. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m., Vespers & Communion 5 p.m. Rev. Raigan Miskelly, Pastor.FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Sunday Worship Service 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St. S. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael Terry, Pastor. 662-328-1109HEBRON C.M.E. CHURCH — 1910 Steens Road, Steens. Meets first, second and third Sundays, Bible class each Wednesday at 7 p.m. Earnest Sanders, Pastor.MILITARY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Hwy. 12, Steens. Sunday School 9:45, Service 11 a.m.. Meet on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m. Rev. Antra Geeter, Pastor. 662-327-4263NEW HOPE CME CHURCH — 1452 Yorkville Road East, Columbus. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship service first, third and fourth Sunday (Youth Sunday) 11:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 5:00 p.m. Rev. Cornelia Naylor, Pastor. 662-328-5309NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 2503 New Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham, Pastor. 662-329-3555ORR’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Nicholson Street, Brooksville. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Saturday 9 a.m.PINEY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 102 Fernbank Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m., Sunday School 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 pm. Rev. James Black, Pastor.SANDERS CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 521 15th St. N. Sunday School 8 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m., Tuesday 11:45 a.m. Rev. Dr. J. W. Honeysucker, Pastor.SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional Worship Service 9 a.m., Praise and Worship Service 10:45 a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Eighth Ave. and Military Rd. Breakfast 9:30 a.m., Devotion 9:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Sunday 3rd Sunday Evening Worship 6:30 p.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Fred H. Brown, Pastor.ST. PAUL INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH — Freeman Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Services 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Youth activities 5 p.m. Jeff Ruth, Pastor.ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 307 South Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Robert Scott Sr., Pastor.ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 800 Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Rev. James Black, Pastor.TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Rt. 2, 6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Robert Hurst, Pastor. 205-662-3443TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610 Carson Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Dr. William Petty, Pastor. 205-399-5196TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St. S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5 p.m. Jeffrey Williams, Pastor.WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday 5 p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Sunday 6 p.m. Rev. Diane Lemmon.WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Tyrone Ashford, Pastor. 662-726-5396
MORMONCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 10 a.m., Gospel 11 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 12 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Bishop Tyrel Reed. 662-356-0833
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENEFIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — 2722 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Stephen Joiner, Pastor.
NON — DENOMINATIONALABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 611 S. Frontage Road. Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Craig Morris, Pastor. ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH, INC. — 1560 Hwy. 69 S., Sunday 9 a.m., Wednesday 6:45 p.m., Friday Corporate Prayer 7 p.m. Pastor James T. Verdell, Jr. crosswayradio.com 9 a.m., 11 a.m., & 7 p.m. on Fridays only.CALEDONIA OPEN DOOR WORSHIP CENTER — 3288 Cal-Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Randy Holmes, Pastor. 662-574-0210COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN CENTER — 146 S. McCrary Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Kid’s Church 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Kenny Gardner, Pastor. 662-328-3328CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109 Maxwell Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday Bible Class 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 7 p.m. Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98 Harrison Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship Services 10:30 a.m., 1st Sunday Evening 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba) Dees, Pastor. 662-327-4303EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH — 1608 Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 133 Northdale Dr. Sunday Worship 5:30 p.m. Les Pogue, Pastor. 662-889-8132 or fccnppa.orgFIRST CALVARY FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN CENTER — 247 South Oliver St., Brooksville. Prayer Saturday 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor David T. Jones,III. 601-345-5740FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Maxine Hall, Pastor.GENESIS CHURCH — 1411 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Darren Leach, Pastor. HOUSE OF LIFE FREEDOM MINISTRY — 1742 Old West Point Rd. Worship 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Donnell Wicks, Pastor. HOUSE OF RESTORATION — Hwy. 50. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 a.m., Pastors, Bill and Carolyn Hulen. JESUS CHRIST POWERHOUSE OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 622 23rd St. N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m.; Service 11:45 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Prayer Mon., Wed. and Fri. noon. For more information call Bishop Ray Charles Jones 662-251-1118, Patricia Young 662-327-3106 or 662-904-0290 or Lynette Williams 662-327-9074.KINGDOM VISION INTERNATIONAL CHURCH — 3193 Hwy 69 S. Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Pastor R.J. Matthews. 662-327-1960LIFE CHURCH — 3918 Hwy. 45 N. Sunday 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information, call Delmar Gullett at 662-570-4171LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311NEW COVENANT ASSEMBLY — 875 Richardson. Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Bruce Morgan, Pastor. NEW HORIZONS GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 441 18th St. S. Sunday 10 a.m. Dr. Joe L. Bowen, Pastor.PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP — 2651 Trinity Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Every 2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097REAL LIFE CHURCH — 4888 N. Frontage Rd. Sunday 10 a.m., RLC Kids Ministry Sunday 10 a.m. Pastor Martin Andrews. 662-328-2131 or www.reallifems.comTHE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 p.m. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.THE POINT (POINT OF GRACE CHURCH) — 503 18th. Ave. N. Sunday Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Xtreme Kids - 10 a.m. for ages 4-11, Tuesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Highpoint Kidz ages 4-11. Shane Cruse, Pastor. 662-328-7811TRIBE JUDAH MINISTRIES — 730 Whitfield St., Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m. Rev. Greg and Rev. Michelle Mostella, Pastors. 662-617-4088TRUE LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — 597 Main St., Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor.TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES — 5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Francisco Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTRIES — 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus. Sunday Worship 8:30 a.m. -10 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.-7 p.m. Rone F. Burgin, Sr., Pastor/Founder. 662-328-0948WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN CENTER — 2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wedneday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis, Pastor. 662-230-3182 or [email protected]
PENTECOSTALFAITH AND DELIVERANCE OUT REACH MINISTRIES — 118 S. McCrary Road, Suite 126. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Christian Women Meeting Friday 7 p.m.LIVING FAITH TABERNACLE — Shelton St. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11a.m. and 7 p.m. Youth Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. James O. Gardner, Pastor.LIVING WATER MINISTRIES — 622 28th St. N. Elder Robert L. Salter, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 922 17th St. N. Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor, VICTORY TABERNACLE — 324 5th St.S. Granville E. Wiggins, Sr., Pastor. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTALAPOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North McCrary Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny L. Obsorne, Pastor.JESUS CHRIST POWERFUL MINISTRY OF LOVE — 1210 17th St. S., behind the Dept. of Human Resources. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. Gloria Jones, Pastor.SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 267 Byrnes Circle. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor. 662-324-3539THE ASSEMBLY IN JESUS CHRIST CHURCH — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:45 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m.THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL WORD — 120 21st St. S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234THE GLORIOUS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Billy Kidd Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.. Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m. Ernest Thomas, Pastor.
UNITED PENTECOSTALCALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 5850 Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia. Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, Pastor. 662-356-0202FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-1750
PRESBYTERIANBEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community. Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) — 515 Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p.m. Bob Wilbur, Pastor.FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Bible Study 5 p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Tue. 6 p.m.), Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: Exercise Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke Lawson, Pastor. 662-328-2692FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Youth Group-Sundays 5 p.m., Adult Choir-Wednesdays 6:30 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev. Tom Bryson, Minister.MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA) — Main and 7th St. N. Sunday 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m. Chad Watkins, Assistant Pastor. MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
SALVATION ARMY CHURCHTHE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy. 82 East. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Holiness Meeting 11 a.m., Puppets & Timbrels 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday Supper 5 p.m, Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m., Women’s & Men’s Ministries 7 p.m., Corps Cadets (Teen Bible Study) 7 p.m., Friday “Supper Club” 5:30 p.m., Friday Youth Meetings 6 p.m., Friday Character Building (Ages 5-18) 6 p.m. Captain John Showers, Commanding Officer.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTCOLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH — 301 Brooks Dr. Saturday 9:30 a.m., Bible Study 11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Larry Owens, Pastor. 662-329-4311SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th St. N. Saturday Sabbath School 9:15 a.m., Divine Worship 11a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Roscoe Shields, Pastor. 662-327-9729
INDEX0 Legals100 Service103 Air Conditioning & Heating106 Appliance Repair107 Asphalt & Paving109 Automotive Services112 Building & Remodeling115 Carpeting/Flooring118 Childcare121 Chimney Cleaning124 Contractors125 Computer Services127 Electrical130 Excavating132 Fitness Training133 Furniture Repair & Refinishing136 General Services138 Housecleaning139 Insulation140 Insurance141 Interior Decorators144 Jewelry/Watch Repair147 Lawn Care/Landscaping150 Locksmiths153 Machinery Repair156 Mobile Home Services159 Moving & Storage162 Painting & Papering165 Pest Control168 Plumbing171 Printing174 Roofing & Guttering177 Saws & Lawn Mowers178 Sitting with Elderly/Sick179 Stump Removal180 Swimming Pools183 Tax Service186 Tree Service189 Upholstery191 Welding200 Announcements205 Card of Thanks210 Fraternal & Lodge215 Good Things To Eat220 In Memorial225 Instruction & School230 Lost & Found235 Personals240 Special Notices260 Travel/Entertainment
300 Employment305 Clerical & Office310 Data Processing/ Computer315 Domestic Help317 Engineering320 General Help Wanted325 Management Positions330 Medical/Dental335 Opportunity Information340 Part-Time345 Positions Wanted350 Professional355 Restaurant/Hotel360 Sales/Marketing365 Trades370 Truck Driving400 Merchandise403 Air Conditioners406 Antiques409 Appliances412 Auctions415 Baby Articles418 Bargain Column421 Bicycles424 Building Materials425 Burial Plots427 Business Furniture & Equipment430 Camera Equipment433 Clothing436 Coins & Jewelry439 Computer Equipment442 Farm Equipment & Supplies445 Firewood446 Flea Markets448 Furniture451 Garage Sales454 General Merchandise457 Household Goods463 Lawn & Garden466 Merchandise Rentals469 Musical Instruments470 Satellites472 Sporting Goods475 Stereos & TV’s478 Wanted To Buy500 Pets & Livestock510 Free Pets515 Pets520 Horses/Cattle/Livestock525 Pet Boarding/Grooming530 Supplies/Accessories535 Veterinarians540 Wanted To Buy
600 Financial605 Business Opportunity610 Business Opportunity
Wanted612 Check Cashing615 Insurance620 Loans625 Mortgages630 Stocks & Bonds635 Business for Sale700 Rentals705 Apartments710 Commercial Property715 Houses718 Hunting Land719 Land for Rent/Lease720 Mobile Homes725 Mobile Home Spaces 730 Office Spaces735 Resort Rentals740 River Property745 Rooms750 Storage & Garages752 Vacation Rentals755 Wanted to Rent760 Waterfront Property800 Real Estate805 Commercial Property810 Farms & Timberland815 Houses - Northside820 Houses - East825 Houses - New Hope830 Houses - South835 Houses - West845 Houses - Caledonia850 Houses - Other852 Hunting Land855 Investment Property860 Lots & Acreage865 Mobile Homes870 Mobile Home Spaces875 Resort Property880 River Property885 Wanted to Buy890 Waterfront Property900 Transportation905 Auto Accessories/Parts 910 Auto Rentals & Leasing915 Autos for Sale920 Aviation925 Boats & Marine930 Camper/R.V.’s935 Golf Carts940 Motorcycles/ATVs945 Trailers/Heavy Equipment950 Trucks, Vans & Buses955 Wanted to Buy
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ST. JAMES UMC, 722Military Rd, Columbus,seeks a Building &Ground MaintenancePerson. For more infocall 662-327-4978 onTues. or Thurs. between10:00am & 2:00pm
PT EMPLOYEE w/flexi-ble schedule. Duties:cashier, stocker, unloadtrucks, store mainte-nance. Bring resume toSears Store. Must havegreat customer serviceskills
CALEDONIA UNITEDMethodist Church seekspianist for Sunday morn-ing worship service &choir practice on Wed.nights. Salary commen-surate with experience& ability. To auditionemail resume with “pi-anist” in the subject to: [email protected]
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NOTICE OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
THE CITY OF STARKVILLE, MSJOB VACANCYJob Title: Crew Chief
Department: ElectricPosting Period:
April 21, 2014 through April 29, 2014
Duties: Must be highly skilled in all aspects of construction, operation, and maintenance of electrical lines. Must be able to do switching in substations in accordance with prescribed procedures. Must have good supervisory skills and communication skills; be able to motivate, train, and evaluate assigned personnel. Legible handwriting required. Must be able to organize work to meet deadlines. Must be able to work under pressure. Must be able to read and interpret maps and draw sketches and diagrams. Must be physically able to perform duties of the position.Requirements: High school diploma or GED required. Should have good math background in order to successfully complete job related technical training. Course in basic electricity desirable. Should have completed all parts of formalized Apprentice Lineman Training Courses or equivalent. Must possess a valid Class “A” Commercial Mississippi Driver’s License. Must have a minimum of five (5) years progressively responsible experience and performed as Lineman in the construction and maintenance of electrical distribution and transmission lines, including the installation of meters, and transformers, transformer banks, capacitors, and oil circuit re-closures and the ability to carry out the essential job junctions.
Job Title: Maintenance Worker Department: New Construction/
Rehab-Public ServicesPosting Period:
April 21, 2014 through April 29, 2014
Duties: To assist in the installation, repair and maintenance of water and sewer lines, install fire hydrants, maintain facility and all equipment, make sewer and water taps, perform light maintenance on trucks and perform other duties as directed. This is a limited, semi-skilled manual labor position which does not ordinarily require a high degree of manipulative skill or a significant amount of previous experience. Assignments include the use of standard hand tools and power operated devices. Persons holding this employment classification may at times, be required to operate heavy duty trucks, tractors and other similar automotive equipment with moderately complex operating requirements. Physical work involved with position includes, but is not limited to, lifting (up to 75 pounds), walking, shoveling digging and climbing. The person in the position is on call for a seven (7) day period every four (4) weeks.Minimum Qualifications: At least eighteen (18) years of age, possess a Class B Commercial Driver’s license or the ability to obtain within six (6) months of employment, an acceptable MVR, high school diploma or its equivalent and the ability to perform the essential job functions.
Duties: The purpose of this position is to perform duties associated with the maintenance and care of the City’s Landfill and the supervision of other employees to carry out the purpose. The Crew Leader I will coordinate the disposal of solid waste at the Landfill in accordance with State and Federal regulations. The Crew Leader 1 must be skilled in the operation and maintenance of construction equipment including, but not limited to, bulldozers, garbage compactors, and general earth moving equipment. The Crew Leader 1 supervises a small crew of equipment operators/laborers and other Landfill personnel and will report directly to the Lead Foreman of Sanitation and Environmental Services. The Crew Leader 1 is responsible for ensuring that all safety devices are in place and safe work practices are followed by all Landfill personnel and is responsible for compliance with all applicable regulations for proper landfill operation. The Crew Leader 1 will maintain accurate daily time records and maintenance records; be available to work during city emergencies to assist with clean-up and repairs; assist other city crews and perform other duties as directed. Working conditions include exposure to extremes in weather conditions, subjection to hazards associated with hands and power tools, tractors and related equipment and exposure to pesticides when treating fire ants and when spraying herbicide. Physical work involved with the position includes, but is not limited to, operating equipment, lifting, walking and bending.Minimum Requirements: At least 18 years of age, possession of valid Class A Commercial Mississippi driver’s license (or obtain such within six months) and acceptable MVR, must be able to be covered by the City’s insurance, good interpersonal skills, and the ability to perform the essential job functions, proficiency in the operation and maintenance of heavy equipment, experience and ability in performing routine mechanical repairs to heavy equipment, and some supervisory experience in a construction-related field. Must possess the ability to exercise tact and discretion with employees, City officials and the public, including reasonable standards of personal appearance and to perform the essential function of the job. This job requires certification as a MS Class I Rubbish Site Operator. The Crew Leader must either have the certification or be able to complete the certifications within six months. The successful candidate must be able to maintain accurate records and generate reports of operations.Salary: Grade 7, Range is step 1, $22,879.11 ($11.00 hour) to a maximum rate of $30,449.09 ($14.64 hour). The actual starting rate will be determined based on the qualifications of the individual selected.
Qualified candidates may apply at City Hall, 101 Lampkin
Street, Starkville, MS 39759 or apply on-line at
www.cityofstarkville.org.The City of Starkville, Mississippi, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminateupon the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or veteran status. TheCity of Starkville is a smoke-free working environment. When the qualifications of applicants for
transfer and/or promotion are essentially equal, preference will be given to existing city employees.
The duties and qualifications listed are intended as illustrations of the types of work thatmay be performed. The omission of specific job duties or qualifications does not exclude
them from the position requirement.
MEDICAL TECHNICIANneeded for busy clinic.Fax resume to 328-9918
General HelpWanted 320
HOUSEKEEPERS NEEDED
Must be able to passbackground check. Ac-cepting applications on4/16 & 4/22 from 12-4pm. Bring resume to402 Wilkins Wise Rd.Suite #44, Columbus,
MS 39705. No phone calls
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ADOPT: A loving, estab-lished couple with closefamily dream of a homefilled with the sounds ofa child. Please contactat 855-884-6080;[email protected]; or www.jennandjonadopt.info. Expensespaid
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50TH ANNIVERSARYFriends & family are
invited to help celebratethe 50th wedding
anniversary of Mayo &Betty Ruffin. A reception
will be held at the activity center at LakeLowndes State Park onSunday, May 4, 2014,
from 1:30-3:00 p.m. Nogifts please, your
presence is gift enough
Personals 235
REWARD OFFERED Lost diamond ringw/wide band & severaldiamonds. Call 662-244-5837
LET US HELP find yourlost pet. Email, fax, mailor bring your informationby the office and we willrun your lost & found adin the Pet Finder for 6days FREE!
Licensed & BondedFirewood 4 sale LWB$100. 662-574-1621
J&A TREE REMOVALWork from a bucket
truck. Insured/bonded.Call Jimmy for a free estimate 662-386-6286
A&T TREE SERVICE.Senior citizen & previ-ous customer discountsavailable for the monthof April. You tell us yourbudget & we will workwith you. No job too bigor too small. Call Alvin242-0324/241-4447“We'll go out on a limbfor you!”
Tree Service 186
EXPERIENCED CAREGIVER
seeks client. Reliablewith references.
8 years experience. Call 662-630-5001
DEPENDABLE, HON-EST, trustworthy femaleseeks work as home-maker/caretaker incl.special needs. 30 yrs.exp. Call 662-574-1560
Sitting WithElderly/Sick 178
QUALITY PAINTING.Int/ext, sheetrock repair
& finishing, pressurewashing. No job too
large or small. Free est.662-435-0882
SULLIVAN'S PAINTSERVICE
Certified in lead removalOffering special priceson interior & exteriorpainting, pressure
washing & sheet rockrepairs. Free Estimates
Call 435-6528
Painting &Papering 162
SAM'S LAWN Service.No lawn too large or toosmall. Call 243-1694
LAWN CAREMow, trim, edge & blowoff hard surfaces. Freeest. 662-574-1225
AAA TWINS Lawn Care.Yard work, lawn mowing,weed eating, mulching,flower beds, limb re-moval, you name it.Call Will or Bryant 242-2220 or 242-1968.Free estimates
A cut above the rest.Cutting, edging, blowing,weedeating, fertilizer ap-plications. Will match orbeat all other prices.251-0009
Lawn CareLandscaping 147
Piano Tuning & Repair Featuring the RayburnCyber -Tune Program. Call for information
Bill Davis 662-323-1075
Reasonable Rates
SOUTHERN PRIDEPainting & Home Re-pairs, specializing inresidential painting,faux painting, murals byBetty Andel, your hometown artist, & forplumbing, electical & allyour handyman servicescall Tim the handyman,Kudzu.com Handymanof year 2 years running,satisfacation garanteed& free estimates. Tim,404-328-8994 or Betty,662-312-6775.
SCRAPPER'S Scrap Metal Removal. Caledonia/Columbusarea. Tired of seeingthat old junk in your
yard? Call us. We willcome remove scrap
metal from your yard. Examples:
Appliances, tin, waterheaters, lawnmowers
662-549-4541. Brian & Justin
PAINTING/CARPENTRY25 years experience.Great prices. Call Leslie.Call 662-570-5490
MR. PIANO. Best piano& organ service. Sales,rentals, moving, tuning& service. Call 465-8895 or 418-4097
all of your printingneeds. No job too largeor too small. Call today.
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TOM HATCHER, LLCCustom Construction,Restoration, Remodel-ing, Repair, Insurance
claims. 662-364-1769.Licensed & Bonded
TODD PARKS CONSTRUCTION
New Construction, Re-modeling, Repairs, Con-crete. Free est. Call oremail 662-889-8662 [email protected]
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PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICEthat the Honorable Allan L. Grop-per of the U.S. Bankruptcy Courtfor the Southern District of NewYork has scheduled a hearing toaddress this matter on MAY 28,2014, AT 11:00 A.M., ONEBOWLING GREEN, NEW YORK,NY, 10004-1408.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICEthat any objecting parties are re-quired to attend the hearing andthat failure to appear may resultin relief being granted upon de-fault.
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the Anadarko Released Partiesrelated to the claims, issuesand subject matter of the Adver-sary Proceeding which wereheld, owned and/or controlledby one or more Debtors beforethe Plan Effective Date. Sincethe Plan Effective Date, the Liti-gation Trust has not sold, as-signed, transferred, encum-bered, hypothecated, aban-doned, conveyed or otherwisedisposed of any claims receivedby the Litigation Trust fromDebtors pursuant to the Plan.
Proposed Permanent Injunction:The movants have requestedthat the following permanent in-junction be issued by the DistrictCourt: Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§1367 & 1651, § 105(a) of theBankruptcy Code and Bankrupt-cy Rules 7001 and 7065, (i) anyDebtor(s), (ii) any creditor of anyDebtor who filed or could havefiled a claim in the Chapter 11Cases, (iii) any other Personwhose claim (A) in any way aris-es from or is related to the Ad-versary Proceeding, (B) is aTrust Derivative Claim, or (C) isduplicative of a Trust DerivativeClaim, and (iv) any Person actingor purporting to act as an attor-ney for any of the preceding ishereby permanently enjoinedfrom asserting against anyAnadarko Released Party (I) anyTrust Derivative Claims or (II)any claims that are duplicativeof Trust Derivative Claims,whether or not held or controlledby the Litigation Trust, orwhether or not the LitigationTrust could have asserted suchclaims against any Anadarko Re-leased Party. The injunctionherein shall not apply to or barthe following: (i) any criminal lia-bility; (ii) any liability arising un-der Title 26 of the United StatesCode (Internal Revenue Code) orstate tax laws; (iii) any liabilityarising under federal or state se-curities laws; (iv) any action toenforce a covenant not to sue,release, or agreement not toseek reimbursement containedin the Settlement Agreement; (v)any liability that an Anadarko Re-leased Party might have thatdoes not arise from or through aliability of a Debtor; (vi) any lia-bility of an Anadarko ReleasedParty due to its status or acts oromissions since November 28,2005 as a/an (A) owner, (B) op-erator, (C) discharger, (D)lessee, (E) permittee, (F) li-censee, (G) person in charge,(H) holder of a right of use andeasement, (I) arranger for dis-posal or treatment, (J) trans-porter, or (K) person who gener-ates, handles, transports,treats, stores or disposes of sol-id or hazardous waste; (vii) anyliability relating to the E&P Busi-ness or the stored power or bat-tery business (including, but notlimited to, as owned or operatedby U.S. Avestor LLC and Kerr-McGee Stored Power CompanyLLC ); and (viii) any liability thatany Anadarko Released Party re-tained, received or assumed pur-suant to the Assignment Agree-ment or Assignment, Assump-tion, and Indemnity Agreement.For the avoidance of doubt, tothe extent that a liability of an
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jointly litigated in Tronox Inc., etal. v. Kerr-McGee Corporation, etal. (In re Tronox Inc.), Adv. Proc.No. 09-01198 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.):
1. the Second Amended Adver-sary Complaint [which is filed atCase No. 09-01198 (ALG), Dkt.No. 233]; and 2. the Complaint-in-Interventionfiled by the United States [whichis filed at Case No. 09-01198(ALG), Dkt. No. 5-2]. The Plan,LTA, and Environmental Settle-ment Agreement assigned, asprovided in the Confirmation Or-der and the LTA, all of theDebtors' respective rights andinterests in the Adversary Pro-ceeding (excluding the Com-plaint-in-Intervention), which in-cludes any claims or causes ofaction of the Debtors related tothe Adversary Proceeding,whether or not asserted in theAdversary Proceeding, to the Liti-gation Trust for the benefit ofthe entities listed in Section 1(d)of the LTA, which include theTort Claims Trust, the CimarronEnvironmental Response Trust,the Multistate Environmental Re-sponse Trust, the Nevada Envi-ronmental Response Trust, theSavannah Environmental Re-sponse Trust (collectively, alongwith the West Chicago Environ-mental Response Trust, the “En-vironmental and Tort Trusts”),and certain governmental enti-ties that had asserted Bankrupt-cy Environmental Claims againstthe Debtors (collectively, “Litiga-tion Trust Beneficiaries”).
Pursuant to the Plan, LTA, Envi-ronmental Settlement Agree-ment, and Environmental andTort Trust Agreements (otherthan the West Chicago Environ-mental Response Trust Agree-ment), the Litigation Trust Bene-ficiaries and beneficiaries of theEnvironmental and Tort Trusts(together with the LitigationTrust Beneficiaries, the “Benefi-ciaries”) are entitled to havepaid, on account of theirBankruptcy EnvironmentalClaims and Bankruptcy TortClaims, specified allocations ofa share of the net proceeds ofany recovery from the AdversaryProceeding.
On December 12, 2013, theBankruptcy Court issued itsMemorandum Opinion, After Tri-al, finding the Anadarko Trial De-fendants liable under the Sec-ond Amended Adversary Com-plaint for actual and constructivefraudulent conveyances, but notliable for breach of fiduciary du-ty. The Decision is not a finaljudgment and the BankruptcyCourt did not enter final judg-ment.
On April 3, 2014, the Parties en-tered into the Settlement Agree-ment that resolves the Adver-sary Proceeding and provides forreleases, covenants not to sue,and the issuance of an injunc-tion by a U.S. District Court en-joining certain persons from as-serting Trust Derivative Claimsand any claims that are duplica-tive of such Trust DerivativeClaims (as defined in the Settle-ment Agreement).
On April 3, 2014, the UnitedStates lodged the SettlementAgreement with the BankruptcyCourt. On approximately April14, 2014 the United States willpublish a notice for public com-ment thereon in the Federal Reg-ister. On April 9, 2014, the Liti-gation Trust and Anadarko fileda motion (the “9019 Recom-mendation Motion”) with theBankruptcy Court, seeking theReport and Recommendation.
The Settlement Agreement set-tles, compromises, resolves andcloses the Adversary Proceedingand settles, compromises, re-solves, and extinguishes theTrust Derivative Claims, anyclaims that were asserted orthat could have been asserted inthe Second Amended AdversaryComplaint, and the claims as-serted in the Complaint-in-Inter-vention and the claims thatcould have been asserted in theComplaint-in-Intervention relatingto the subject matter of the Ad-versary Proceeding, together andon a global basis to the extentprovided in the SettlementAgreement. Pursuant to the Set-tlement Agreement, within twoBusiness Days after the Effec-tive Date, Anadarko shall causeto be paid to the Litigation Trust$5.15 billion plus Interest. TheLitigation Trust shall cause theSettlement Proceeds to be allo-cated and distributed to the Liti-gation Trust Beneficiaries con-sistent with the LTA. The Litiga-tion Trust succeeded to, as ofand after the Plan EffectiveDate, any and all claims against
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UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
In re: Chapter 11 TRONOX INCORPORATED, et al., JointlyAdministered ReorganizedDebtors.
Case No. 09-10156 (ALG)
NOTICE OF MAY 15, 2014DEADLINE FOR FILING OBJEC-
TIONS TO TRONOX/KERR-MCGEE SETTLEMENT AGREE-
MENT
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, onApril 9, 2014, the Anadarko Liti-gation Trust (the “ Litigation�Trust”), as successor to DebtorsTronox Incorporated, TronoxWorldwide LLC, and Tronox LLCin the above-captioned adversaryproceeding, and AnadarkoPetroleum Corporation, Kerr-McGee Corporation, Kerr-McGeeOil & Gas Corporation (n/k/aAnadarko US Offshore Corpora-tion), Kerr-McGee Worldwide Cor-poration, KM Investment Corpo-ration (improperly named asKerr-McGee Investment Corpora-tion), Kerr-McGee Credit LLC,Kerr-McGee Shared ServicesCompany LLC and Kerr-McGeeStored Power Company LLC (col-lectively, “Anadarko”), filed amotion with the U.S. BankruptcyCourt for the Southern District ofNew York (the “BankruptcyCourt”) seeking a report and rec-ommendation (A) recommendingapproval of the SettlementAgreement between and amongthe Anadarko Litigation Trust,the United States of America,and Anadarko resolving theabove-captioned adversary pro-ceeding, and (B) recommendingissuance of an injunction enjoin-ing certain persons from assert-ing against any Anadarko Re-leased Party (i) any Trust Deriva-tive Claims, or (ii) any claimswhich are duplicative of TrustDerivative Claims (all capitalizedterms not otherwise definedherein shall have the meaningas defined in the SettlementAgreement).
PURSUANT TO THE MOTIONFILED WITH THE COURT:
“THE DEADLINE TO FILE OBJEC-TIONS TO THE TRONOX SETTLE-MENT AGREEMENT IS MAY 15,2014, AT 4:00 P.M. EASTERN
A HEARING ON THE MOTION(AND ANY OBJECTIONS TIMELY FILED) HAS BEEN SCHEDULEDFOR MAY 28, 2014 AT 11:00A.M. EASTERN AT THE U.S.BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THESOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEWYORK (SEE ADDRESS BELOW)
Brief Recitation of Facts: On Jan-uary 12, 2009, Tronox Incorpo-rated and certain of its affiliates(collectively, the “Debtors”) com-menced chapter 11 cases (the“Chapter 11 Cases”) in theBankruptcy Court. On November30, 2010, the Bankruptcy Courtconfirmed the Debtors' Plan. OnFebruary 14, 2011, the Plan be-came effective. In the Chapter11 Cases, the United States,other governmental entities, andother Persons filed Proofs ofClaim against the Debtors on ac-count of, among other things, al-leged environmental claims, obli-gations, and/or liabilities at cer-tain of the Covered Sites. Vari-ous tort claimants filed Proofs ofClaim against the Debtors on ac-count of alleged tort liabilities,including for personal injury andproperty damage. Those claimswere or will be resolved pursuantto the Plan, related tort and envi-ronmental agreements, the Liti-gation Trust Agreement (“LTA”),and other prior proceedings ofthe Bankruptcy Court.
There are two complaintsagainst Anadarko currently being
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The following vehicle was abond-ed at McRae's Hobby Shop,1150 Wolfe Rd, Columbus, MS39705.
2008 Ford MustangVIN #1ZVHT80N7851255932
If not claimed by April 27th,2014, it will become the proper-ty of McRae's Hobby Shop,1150 Wolfe Rd, Columbus, MS39705.
By: /s/ Margie McRae
Publish: 4/13, 4/20 &4/27/2014
RFP TO FURNISH FOOD SERVICEFOR THE MS SUMMER FOOD
SERVICE PROGRAM
The Initiative CDC in collabora-tion with the MDE is taking bidsfor our 2014 Summer Food Ser-vice Program. The Program willoperate from June 2, 2014 toAugust 8, 2014 from 8am to2pm. The Program address isCharity Village, 806 Tarlton Rd.,Crawford, MS 39743. We areexpecting 300 youths to beserved breakfast and lunch dai-ly. Vendors are expected to pre-pare the meals in bulk, serve onplates, provide utensils, and pro-vide milk with each meal. To seea copy of the meal pattern re-quired by the Mississippi Officeof Child Nutrition, go towww.initv.org. Interested ven-dors please submit your bids toCharity Village, P.O. Box 174,Crawford, MS 39743, Attention:Robert Howze, no later than12:00pm on April 30, 2014.
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF LOWNDES COUNTY,
MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATEOF FLORENCE LITTLE MCCULLY,DECEASED
CAUSE NO. 2014-0012-B
RULE 81 SUMMONS (SUM-MONS BY PUBLICATION to UN-KNOWN HEIRS)
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: All known and unknownHeirs of FLORENCE LITTLE MC-CULLY, Deceased You havebeen made a defendant in thesuit filed in this Court by Admin-istrator DARNELL MCCULLY, Pe-titioner, seeking a Determinationof Heirship in the Estate of FLO-RENCE LITTLE MCCULLY, De-ceased.
You are summoned to appearand defend against said Deter-mination of Heirship at 9:00 o'-clock on the 20th day of May,2014 in the Courtroom of theChancery Court of WebsterCounty in Eupora, Mississippi,and in case of your failure to ap-pear and defend a judgment willbe entered against you for therelief demanded in this petition.
You are not required to file ananswer or other pleading but youmay do so if you desire. Issuedunder my hand and the seal ofsaid Court, this the 15th day ofApril, 2014.
Lisa Younger Neese,Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-sissippi
BY: Shantrell W. GrandersonD.C.
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Job Title: Police Officer Department: Police
Posting Period:April 21, 2014 through April 29, 2014
Duties: A Police Officer is required to patrol an assigned area on foot or in a vehicle; control traffic; prevent crime or disturbances of the peace and to arrest law-violators; enforce laws and ordinances of the municipality; provide service and assistance to the public in non-law enforcement situations.
Typical Tasks (Illustrative Only): Respond to calls and complaints involving criminal and non-criminal incidents; administer first aid at the scene of an accident; conduct preliminary and/or follow-up investigations; interview witnesses and gather evidence and information; direct traffic; issue traffic and parking citations; speak to school, civic, and church groups; operate motor vehicles; write and file reports and perform related tasks as assigned.
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Salary Grade: Grade 5, (2990 hours), annual salary of $27,578.52 ($9.22 per hour) for entry level.Grade 5, (2990) hours), annual salary of $28,405.88 ($9.50 per hour) for certified.
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Posting Period:April 21, 2014 through April 29, 2014
Overview This job will encompass the performance of individual duties and the supervision of others to ensure quality customer service and administrative operations of the Starkville Electric Department. Responsibilities include planning, coordinating and supervising office operations including customer service, new service, and administrative activities. Ensures compliance with all applicable areas of responsibility comply with appropriate standards, requirements, regulations, and procedures. This position is responsible for the resolution of customer issues regarding payment and service issues. This position reports to the General Manager.
Duties: Supervise and conduct departmental business office activities by overseeing the daily activities of cashiers, customer service and administrative personnel. Meet with customers to discuss billing discrepancies, prepare bill adjustment for corrections of customer billing. Assists with departmental money and checking procedures by examining returned checks for process of NSF (Non-Sufficient Funds) notices and collection activities, supervises the completion of daily deposit for issue to the bank and summary sheets. Issues lists of cut-offs and checks cut-off notices to make sure mailings are on time and correct. Responds to customer questions and/or concerns regarding areas of responsibility, including service rules, regulations, and requirements; billing; bill extensions; utility connects/disconnects; interpretation and application of rates, and similar issues along with energy efficiency program offerings. Performs duties involved with and supervises office personnel involved in administrative services to ensure timely and accurate preparation of materials, reports, correspondence, and other related records. Plans / coordinates activities associated with customer education and outreach.
Qualifications Must possess a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Marketing, or related field, at least two (2) to five (5) years of supervisory experience in a small office environment including proactive customer service responsibilities in a business office setting; the ability to operate customary office machines. Proficiency with Word, Excel, e-mail, and Internet. Leadership experience supervising employees and projects. Effective communication (oral and written), interpersonal, conflict resolution, analytic, administrative, and public relations skills. Experience (minimum of four years) in preparing and maintaining accurate administrative, and other reports and statements for informational and operational use. Ability to review and understand reports, transactions, and legal documents. Must have a valid MS driver’s license and acceptable MVR.
Salary Grade: Grade 13
Qualified candidates may apply at City Hall, 101 Lampkin
Street, Starkville, MS 39759 or apply on-line at
www.cityofstarkville.org.
The City of Starkville, Mississippi, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminateupon the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or veteran status. TheCity of Starkville is a smoke-free working environment. When the qualifications of applicants for
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4BR/3BA. Elm LakeGolf Course. In groundpool. $289,000. 662-550-5095. For moreinfo & pics go to: forsalebyowner. com.Listing#23980405
3BR/2BA. LR, formalDR, kitchen, breakfastrm, lg. den, fireplace, lg.Sun room, 1 yr. old cen-tral unit, new fridge,beautiful hw floors, ½basement, new roof,completely remodeled.2540 sf. 331 5th St NWVernon, AL. $159k. Call662-574-2820
RENT A fully equippedcamper w/utilities & ca-ble from $135/wk -$495/month. 3 Colum-bus locations. Call 601-940-1397
MOBILE HOMES. By thewk/mo. 2BR start @$100/wk or $325/mo.$99 move in special formonthly rentals! CallShawnie 662-315-8595
2BR/1BA. Front porch,walking distance toCaledonia schools.$300/mo. plus dep. &lease. Call 352-4776
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2BR/2.5BA in Steens,plus separate roomw/half bath, 2 carportsplus 20x22 workshop.Completely renovated.New central h/a.$850/mo. plus dep.Owner pays water &garbage. Call 386-8618
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2 & 3 BR. No HUD ac-cepted. Call 662-617-1538 for more info
NEWLY REMODELED3BR/2BA. Central h/a,stove, d/washer, dbl.garage. Exc. location.Conv. to shopping.$725/mo. $500 dep.No HUD. 662-352-4776
