THE VICKSBURG POST
TOPIC SUNDAY, august 28, 2011 • SE C TIO N C
LOCAL EVENTS CALENDAR C2 | WEDDINGS C3 Karen Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: newsreleases@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 137
THIS & THAT from staff reports
Celebrity waiters set for Tuesday event Ameristar Casino’s second annual Celebrity Waiter of Vicksburg event to benefit the American Cancer Society will be Tuesday night. Cocktails will be served at 6 and dinner at 6:30 at Bourbon’s Restaurant inside the Washington Street casino. Last year’s event raised $14,000. Local celebrities will include Mayor Paul Winfield, Rep. George Flaggs, Shape Up Sisters owner Linda Fondren and Blackburn Motor Co.’s Jeb Blackburn. Tickets are $45 per seat or $80 per couple. Call Ali Hopson at 601-831-6566 or Lori Burke at 601-618-1060.
VTG unveils new website The Vicksburg Theatre Guild has unveiled a new website that features online ticket sales. The former web address had been www.e-vtg.com. The new one is www.vicksburgtheatreguild.com. Typing in the old address will automatically route Internet users to the new site. The VTG is the oldest chartered theater guild in the state. It was chartered in 1936, but began presenting plays in ’33. Its headquarters is the Parkside Playhouse on Iowa Avenue. The group produces “Gold in the Hills,” the world’s longest-running melodrama, according to “Guinness World Records,” and other plays.
Bricks and Spokes back for 2nd ride The second annual Bricks and Spokes, a bike ride through and around Warren County, will be Oct.1 The 10-, 30-, and 50-mile bike ride will start at China and Washington streets. Bikers of all skills may participate. The cost is $30 before Sept. 9 and $35 afterward. Riders may also sign up the day of the race. To register, call the Vicksburg Main Street office at 601-634-4527, visit www.getmeregistered.com or e-mail mainstreet@vicksburg.org.
Downtown fall fest will be Oct. 1 Vicksburg’s 17th annual downtown fall festival will be Oct. 1. The Vicksburg Main Street event, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., will feature downtown merchant sidewalk sales, food, live entertainment and children’s activities. Call 601-634-4527 or visitdowntownvicksburg.org.
The associated press
Brownie Wise, the original Tupperware saleswoman, shows off products during a home party in the 1950s.
...of Kevin Farrell, dressed as Dee W. Ieye, sells Tupperware in Bellflower, Calif.
Same company, same values; new look, new style By The Associated Press Cindy Hallman-Morris grew up with Tupperware’s burping bowls, gelatin rings and pickle keeper, but she considered herself a casual buyer of the brand once she had her own kids. Until this year, when she was sucked — happily — into the Tupperware vortex. “I attended a party and then hosted a party and then
Sister Paulinus says...
SCHC offers classes on wreaths, drawing The Southern Cultural Heritage Center will offer a fall wreath workshop and a two-day drawing workshop. From 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sept. 20, Beau Lutz, owner of Belvedere & Co. will teach students to make a fall wreath. From 5:30 to 8 p.m. Sept. 26 and 27, the Rev. Mark Bleakly will teach drawing. The cost for each is $55 for members and $60 for nonmembers. Call 601-6312997.
it seemed everyone I knew was giving a Tupperware party,” said the 44-year-old high school math teacher in Asheville, N.C. “It’s never ending!” Tupperware, it seems, is enjoying a renaissance 65 years after it first hit the market with Wonder bowls, Bell Tumblers and Ice-Tup molds for homemade frozen treats. Long gone is the signa-
ture burp, that whoosh of air from pressing on the center of a lid to tightly seal in the goodness. Also gone is the color goldenrod, fussy floral accents and the soft pastels of the 1950s and ’60s. Today’s Tupperware is drenched in edgy shades of “purplicious” and “fuchsia kiss,” or crisp in greens dubbed “margarita” and “lettuce leaf.” You can buy contemporary takes on Won-
• “If you don’t return my pictures, I won’t kill you — but I might maim you.” • “Pope John canonized and made saints out of everybody you could think of. He took a Gypsy and made him a saint. I think he did that because they were such a persecuted minority. In Europe they’ve always persecuted the Gypsies — and other people, too. They need to back off from us Southerners.” Sister Paulinus Oakes
derlier bowls and those little salt and pepper shakers, but Tupperware Brands Corp. also sells an appetizer tray that looks like a caterpillar, fancy chef’s knives, bakeware and heavy stainless steel pots and pans. The company has choppers, whippers and microsteamers. Updated FridgeSmart containers with the two familiar vents are embedded with
dishwasher-resistant charts recommending how much See Tupperware, Page C3.
Sister Paulinus’ career has covered much ground The last in a two-part series on Sister Paulinus Oakes of the Sisters of Mercy:
• “We’re going to play ball,” the nun announced to the girls gathered on the volleyball court at the Catholic high school in Biloxi, and years later Virginia Boudreaux, who was a student at the time, vividly recalled the scene: the nun reached down, grabbed the bottom of her ground-sweeping file•The Vicksburg Post skirt, tucked it in her belt
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and the game began. After a few years at Biloxi and enduring the horrors and rebuilding after Hurricane Camille in 1969, she was sent to Jackson for
a while. She heard they were looking for a principal at a school in Oklahoma City, and by then rules had been relaxed a bit so that nuns had some choices of where they would go, or as Sister Paulinus said, “I kind of called the shots.” The Oklahoma school was a mixture of people and was a “wonderful experience.” She had her work cut out for her — the preSee Sister, Page C2.