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Bills aim to help special needs kids

BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

Several new laws could be created this year that would assist special needs children in Mississippi.

District 2 Rep. Nick Bain (D-Alcorn) created House Bill 814, which is aimed at providing financial help for special education students.

“The bill would provide transparency in terms of funding for spe-

cial education students in the local school districts. It would also create a statewide autism coordinator and would develop a fund to provide help with therapies, services and equipment for special education students,” Bain said. “Under the law, special needs students would stay in public school, where the state could continue to receive federal funds to help with their educa-

the Senate Education Committee earlier this week. If it becomes law, it would allow parents to use state funds for a scholarship to attend a school that best addresses their child’s needs.

Bain said parents of special needs students he spoke with in Corinth and Alcorn County did not want

tion, but the bill would create a fund within the Department of Health where parents fitting into certain income levels could go to receive financial aid to help with such items as respite care, private tutoring and other options.”

A similar piece of legislation, Senate Bill 2695 also known as the “Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs” bill, passed

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Supper offering some wild dishes

BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

A chance to live on the wild side awaits at the Crossroads Arena.

When it comes to eating.

An opportunity to try some different dishes is being offered at the 30th Annual Alcorn County Wildlife Tasting Supper on Tuesday.

The fun gets started with the registering of dishes at 5 p.m. Those who bring a dish are admitted free. If no dish is brought, cost is $10 for adults

Staff photo by Jebb Johnston

Victoria Cummings Bobo shows a piece called “Patches” in her exhibit for Black History Month at the Corinth Artist Guild Gallery. An opening reception is next Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Poet’s work springing to life

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Victoria Cummings Bobo’s art springs to life in print, on the canvas and in spoken and sung words.

The Itawamba County artist and poet is joining the Corinth

Artist Guild Gallery in a celebration of Black History Month with a display and performance of her work. An opening reception is set for Sunday, Feb. 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. at 609 Fillmore Street.

The opening will include a

recitation of her poetry.

“She has a fabulous voice and will also sing some of her work,” said Guild President Sonny Boatman. “Her performances are really outstanding.”

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and $5 for children ages 5-12.

Kids under five will be admitted free.

The supper is set for a 6 p.m. start. The competition divisions will consist of Water Critter, Feathered, Antlered, Land Critter, Hunting Club, Chili-Stew and Desserts.

“We are really excited about the supper,” said Sandy Mitchell with the Alcorn County Soil and Water Conservation District. “I would really love to Please see WILDLIFE | 3A

Town seeks roads grant

BY JEFF YORK For the Daily Corinthian

GUYS, Tenn. — The preparations for helping make road improvements in Guys is being made now with the goal of getting a state grant to help in the process.

Guys Mayor Keith Rinehart said the focus is on two roads which are well traveled and in need of highway improvements. The roads that need repair in the town are Old

Hwy. 45 and Guys-Chewalla Road.

Rinehart said the city must turn in a survey to the state by mid-Feb. to help prove the need for a Community Development Block Grant from the state. The mayor said the maximum grant would be $300,000, but he did not know yet how much Guys would request from TennesPlease see GRANT | 2A

Tennessee couple celebrates return of dog

BY BRANT SAPPINGTON bsappington@dailycorinthian.com

Four months after their beloved pet ran away while camping at Piney Grove, a Tennesse couple is celebrating the return of their furry family member.

“I’m just on cloud nine,” said Janice Stewart last week as she recalled being reunited with Gina the Shetland sheepdog.

Stewart and her husband, Mike, were enjoying a camping trip at Piney Grove on Nov. 3, when Gina slipped away from them during the night. The residents of Big Sandy in

northern Tennessee spent months searching for their pet with little success.

Janice said she had almost given up on ever seeing Gina again.

“We had just done everything under the sun to find her,” she said.

Everything included running ads, placing flyers around town and enlisting the help of Booneville’s Halfway Home Animal Shelter whose volunteers helped search for the missing canine. The shelter posted repeatedly on Facebook, put up flyers and arranged a search party headed by shelter director Sheila

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Luff. Beth Leeman and Susan Holley also helped with the search and Holley made numerous trips to the campground in hopes of locating the dog.

Gina has always been a skittish dog, said Janice, and it was that nervous nature that made her difficult to catch. Janice got advice from Central Illinois Sheltie Rescue, a Shetland Sheepdog shelter and rescue group, who told her to place items in the area Gina was familiar with and give her a chance to come to them.

Gina the Shetland sheepdog poses after being found by her owners last week after nearly four months on the loose.

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They put the crate she slept in at home near the campsite, along with some of her toys and pieces of their own clothing and left it alone. A ranger at the site spotted Gina early last week in the crate.

Last Tuesday night the

Stewarts spent the night at the site in a camper loaned to the Halfway Home Animal Shelter by Mark and CJ McCoy of Booneville.

On Wednesday morning they awoke to find Gina calmly sitting in her crate.

Janice approached her, fed her some beef jerky and was able to attach her

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leash to her collar.

“It was just amazing.

It’s hard to believe she’s back,” she said.

Though very thin after her months in the woods, Gina appeared to be in overall good shape.

“Her eyes are still bright and clear. She’s eating well,” said Stewart.

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Her artwork grew somewhat out of necessity after beginning work on a book of poetry.

“I wanted to show illustrations in a book, and it’s very expensive to try to get an artist,” she said. “I tried my hand at it and loved it.”

Her folk art often incorporates objects, which can be anything from a shopping bag to rocks to paper towels. In this exhibit, the shopping bags have been fashioned like Japanese fans in a dimensional work, and the paper towels join soda bottles and a checkerboard in a piece called “Patches.”

“I recycle everything,” said Bobo.

She enjoys painting with acrylic and oils, sometimes combining the two. The exhibit also includes some abstract paintings and some sculptures of whimsical outhouses.

Bobo finds her works often come in groups of three.

“Before I do a piece, I pray,” she said.

Bobo has multiple sclerosis.

When it comes to Black History Month, though, she doesn’t let that diagnosis slow her down.

With the help of her husband and sister-in-law, she has assembled exhibits for both Corinth and Fulton for the month.

Bobo was creatively inspired by living in New York for some time.

“I wanted to bring the arts back,” she said.

In Itawamba County, Bobo is the founder of WAM’BA (We Amend Minds By Action), a group that provides cultural activities and enrichment programs for area youth.

to remove their kids from public school, as they would have to do to be eligible for the scholarship proposal.

“They just wanted the public schools to be better equipped to provide the services their children are entitled to receive,” he said.

“The bill I created is an attempt to do that.”

Bain said he wants to provide options for parents.

“I wanted to find a compromise between the scholarship bill and those who oppose such a program,” he added.

Bain’s legislation has the support of the Mississippi School Boards Association and the Parents Campaign, a nonprofit grassroots network of Mississippi parents of public school system students.

Nancy Loome, president of the Parent Campaign, said Bain’s proposal “provides real, substantive change for children with special needs.”

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see. There is a three percent match to the CDBG amount.

The town’s aldermen hope is to do work on a two-mile stretch of highway from the state line north to the four-lane on U.S. Hwy. 45.

Rinehart said the other road would be a onemile stretch south on Guys-Chewalla Road.

“We are only able to do what we can afford on our roads because the work is so expensive,” said Rinehart. “If we do not get the state grant, we will only be able to patch our roads.”

Rinehart said he did not expect the work would be done until the spring of 2015. He did say there was a slight chance the work could be done in the fall of this year.

The mayor said the town would be allowed to use an old survey done two-years ago when trying to get a grant for a fire truck. This survey will be used to gauge the number of households and the income of residents in the town.

Guys has 16-miles of roads inside their city limits which must be taken care of by the city.

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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Today in History Today is Sunday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2015.

There are 333 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 1, 1865, during the Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman began the Carolinas Campaign as they invaded South Carolina. Abolitionist John S. Rock became the first black lawyer admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.

On this date: In 1861, Texas voted to leave the Union at a Secession Convention in Austin.

In 1943, one of America’s most highly decorated military units, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.

In 1946, Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.

In 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they’d been refused service.

In 1968, during the Vietnam War, South Vietnam’s police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head.

Richard M. Nixon announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended 15 years of exile.

In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members.

One year ago: The United Nations’ secretary-general, Ban Kimoon, pressed the U.S. and Russia to help ensure that peace talks aimed at stemming Syria’s civil war would resume soon after a week of peace talks ended in Geneva with no concrete progress.

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Across the Region Port Authority searches for new director IUKA — The Yellow Creek State Inland Port Authority in Iuka has narrowed down candidates for its executive director position from 14 applicants to four, after the longtime port authority executive director died suddenly in October.

Board president Benny DeVaughn said the board will

interview those four candidates in early February and forward the names of two finalists to the Mississippi Development Authority and Gov. Phil Bryant.

“We’ll receive their recommendation to the port board to vote for a new executive director,” DeVaughn said. “We’re probably two to three months from announcing a new executive director.”

Eugene Bishop, who held the position for more than two decades, was found dead in his home in October of natural causes at age 69, according to the Tishomingo County coroner.

Churches raise money for food banks IUKA — Members of the United Methodist Churches in Iuka are working together to raise

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BILOXI — Hope Community Development Agency, a nonprofit in Biloxi, is paying a $500 fine over alleged violations of Mississippi’s charity reporting laws.

The nonprofit agency was created by former Biloxi City Councilman Bill Stallworth after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to rebuild housing in East Biloxi.

The state secretary of state’s office and the nonprofit entered into

a consent agreement which lead to the fine.

Examiners from the secretary of state’s office reported Hope appeared to be “flipping houses” for profit rather than operating as a charity.

Hope represented that it had bought and sold only one real estate investment property since 2006.

Stallworth has said Hope was investing in real estate to raise money for its nonprofit mission.

Hope has agreed to

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report to the state any future income from investment properties.

“We have to try to get back to helping people the way that we were helping them before. At the end of the day, we did what we were attempting to do, and that was to keep the best records we know how to keep and be good stewards of the money given to us. I know we did that,” Hope’s chairman Warren Conway, a Gulfport attorney, said.

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exams in biology and U.S. history and push the state Board of Education to adopt standardized tests published by the ACT organization. It now moves to the Senate for more debate.

The Senate Education Committee endorsed Senate Bill 2161, creating a commission to recommend changes to state

academic standards as part of an effort to change or replace Mississippi’s current Common Core-based standards. The measures continue lawmakers’ assault on Common Core, meant to provide national benchmarks while helping students learn more analytically and less by memorization.

The Chronicle

LAUREL — One might sometimes think criminals wouldn’t target places of worship when it comes to the next crime. One would often be wrong.

The Jones County Sheriff’s Department is working to help church leaders keep their places of worship — and their congregations — safer from crime.

More than 100 people representing more than 40 area churches recently gathered at the Jones County Sheriff’s Department’s Training Center in Laurel to receive training and security tips.

Although the event had been planned beforehand, it was held less than a week after Aaron Haynes was captured after leading Jones County deputies on a 12-hour manhunt. Haynes was released from prison in November after serving one year of a seven-year sentence after being found guilty of burglarizing a church. At the time of his arrest earlier this month, he was a person of interest in two more church burglaries in the Hebron community.

Sheriff Alex Hodge said he is happy local churches “recognize that this is a serious matter. Sometimes we are criticized for saying too much. But people need to understand what is going on out there.”

The event covered the types of emergencies that churches should plan for, laws specific to churches, and whether and when to assemble a security team.

Maj. Jamie Tedford identified nine types of

options. Rollin’ Rumps BBQ Catering & Vending will be cooking barbecue and hot dogs for those non-adventurous types.

Some new things to look for by those who attend are a couple new events for children. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks will have a computerized shooting game available for kids.

A new bicycle will also be raffled off to go to a lucky youngster. Tickets for the bike can only be purchased by children.

An adult and youth

gun raffle will also be held.

A pair of recliners are set to be given away as grand door prizes.

“There are a lot of good door prizes coming in,” said Mitchell.

Transportation for those who need assistance in delivering dishes from the parking lot to the arena will be provided.

No store-bought dish can be entered in the contest.

Monetary awards in each division have also been increased this year.

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Lt. Robert Little advised that these incidents can affect any church regardless of congregation size or resources.

Little said each church needs several copies of a file that contains copies of local fire, EMS, and law enforcement contact information; maps of buildings with exits and utilities clearly labeled; maps with alternate locations to meet for headcounts; insurance documents and contact information for the insurance company and “anything else that you feel is relevant.”

In the event that the individual church decides that they do want to form a security team, Little said a good ratio of individuals is two or three security personnel per 100 congregants. Of the security personnel, Little recommended that churches only need one armed person per seven to eight unarmed.

For example, a church with 500 members would need a security team of 10 to 15 individuals with one or two of them being armed.

The armed individuals can be “active or retired law enforcement or military personnel with fire arms training. They can be contracted or members of the church who are volunteering,” said Corp. Scott Sims.

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Senators propose Common Core panel JACKSON — Legislators are wading deeper into determining what Mississippi students will learn and how they will be tested.

The House of Representatives Thursday passed House Bill 385, which would ban use of a Common Core-related test, end high school exit

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Children’s bills dominate first committee deadline

BY NICK BAIN State Representative, District 2

We are fast approaching the first committee deadline for the session, and my colleagues and I are working hard to make sure important measures pass on to the full House for debate.

After February 3, any bill not passed by committee will die.

Among the bills I am working on this session are several directed at children’s well-being. Officials from the Department of Human Services, law enforcement officers and various child advocacy groups are very interested in these measures. I am happy to help them become law.

House Bill 1215 creates a “Bill of Rights” for children who are called upon to testify in court. A child’s experience in court is often a traumatizing, fearful moment in his or her life.

Establishing a set of protocols on how children should be treated during the testimony process will help make sure that those who are in their tender years are protected from courtrelated emotional trauma as much as possible.

The measure also details the proper behavior of any adult that is accompanying the child.

This bill is in the Judiciary A Committee.

Two other measures, House Bills 586 and 588, provide guidance on how school officials must proceed when they discover a child has been abused.

Child abuse, child sex abuse, child neglect and sexual abuse against a minor are all required under the law to be reported to law enforcement. House Bill 586 prohibits those responsible for doing the reporting from handing off that responsibility to someone else.

House Bill 588 seeks to further clarify the reporting requirements as mandated in other statutes. I hope my colleagues see fit to pass both of these measures. No one should be too busy to pick up the phone or contact the correct supervisor in person when a child has been hurt. Implementation of these requirements should cut down dramatically on breaks in the “chain of responsibility” that occasionally result in no reports being made.

Regrettably, there are still areas of our state where facilities for mental health patients are either not available or are too crowded to take in some patients. In these instances, the only place to take a patient who is considered to be in danger of hurting either themselves or others is in the custody of law enforcement.

This means that at any time in Mississippi, a number of mental health patients are awaiting treatment from behind the bars of a jail.

In keeping with the processing protocols that require all inmates to be entered into the jail docket, these patients are often listed in the docket along with various criminals.

I have filed House Bill 497 which will prohibit the listing of these mental health patients in the public jail docket. Individuals who suffer from mental illness should be offered the same privacy protections as any person who suffers from any other disease. Just like you and I expect our medical information to be kept private and personal, these individuals should expect no less respect. This measure has been sent to Judiciary A. House Bill 351, which I co-sponsored, has passed out of committee and is on its way to the House. This measure directs the Department of Public Safety to create rules and regulations necessary to provide retired law enforcement officers with special gun permits denoting their status. Those of us who sponsored the bill recognize our retired law enforcement personnel are professionals who are certainly most capable of controlling their weapons and using them correctly. We hope our House colleagues agree.

I look forward to hearing from you, and welcome you to come visit us at the Capitol. It is always good to see a friendly face from home.

Last week, I had the pleasure of welcoming Christy Burns with Corinth Tourism, Pam Verdung with the American Cancer Society, Jim Nanney and Eddie Howard with Alcorn County Electric and Sandy Mitchell with the conservation district.

Please feel free to contact me on these or any other measures before the Legislature. Please call me at (662) 287-1620, email nbain@ house.ms.gov, message me on FaceBook at Nicholas Ryan Bain or follow me on Twitter @ StateRepBain.

(State Representative Nick Bain represents Alcorn County.)

Prayer for today Creator of all, lead me to see the light, and instruct me that I may be able to reason.

Guard me against spectacular endeavors, that I may be genuine. Amen.

A verse to share “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,” Jude 1:24

The White House’s Emily Post moment The White House has now become a stickler for protocol, especially when it comes to relations between the two political branches.

The new persnicketiness arises from House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress in March. The invite is being denounced as a major breach and new low in Washington because he didn’t, as had been the traditional practice with such invitations, coordinate with the White House.

As far as violations of the separation of powers in the Obama era, it’s hard to see how this even comes close to registering. Maybe Emily Post wouldn’t approve, and with a different administration it would be worth honoring every courtesy, but we are far beyond that now.

President Barack Obama has a notoriously piratical attitude toward Congress.

He deliberately and gleefully trampled all over its role as the lawmaking branch, and cast aside his own as the executor of the laws.

He has distorted the constitutional order to suit his whim, and now his allies are

peeved that John Boehner made a wayward speaking invitation?

AccordRich ing to David Lowry Rogers of Politico, the National Review speaker’s office had tried to coordinate with the White House on a prior 2011 invitation to Netanyahu and got no response.

But more to the point: The speaker leads a coequal branch of government.

He can invite or not invite anyone he wants, up to and including the president, who is only invited to give the State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress as a matter of tradition. He can invite Phil Robertson or Neil deGrasse Tyson, or the pope, just as he pleases.

The speaker shouldn’t have to wait for White House sign-off for his invitations to address the House any more than the White House should coordinate with him whom it invites into the Oval Office.

The invitation kerfuffle

is all the more ridiculous because it involves a friend of the United States. David Rogers recounts a tussle over a potential invitation to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987; Democrats played with the idea of having him speak before Congress, before relenting.

But Gorbachev represented a committed enemy – albeit one that was changing and on the verge of collapse – while Netanyahu represents an embattled ally.

The context of Netanyahu’s visit is, of course, the nuclear talks with Iran. The administration is in a panic to get a deal with Iran, any deal. At this point, it doesn’t want to hear a discouraging word from anyone, least of all Netanyahu, who is such a powerful communicator.

It’s not as though the White House opposes on principle interventions by foreign leaders into our Iran policy.

The same White House huffily standing on protocol over the Netanyahu invitation happily hosted British Prime Minister David Cameron a couple of weeks ago.

At a press conference with President Obama, the British leader spoke out against a bill to impose further sanc-

tions against Iran and even called members of Congress to argue against the idea.

The legislation in question is bipartisan, and reasonable enough. Sponsored by Sens. Robert Menendez, DN.J., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., it would restore sanctions that have been loosened on Iran in the event there is no deal by the new June deadline for negotiations. It would steadily tighten them thereafter. The White House is worried that the prospect of more sanctions will destroy its delicate dynamic with Iran, although Iran has continued to extend its tentacles in Yemen, Syria and Iraq without any fear of spooking us.

In a congressional hearing last week, Sen. Menendez lambasted the administration line on the sanctions bill that “sounds like talking points that come straight out of Tehran.” That is from a leading foreign-policy voice of the president’s own party. At least the unwelcome guest, Bibi Netanyahu, will be more polite.

(Daily Corinthian columnist Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.)

Phillips changed state’s culture of corruption STARKVILLE — Can it be that the “Pretense” scandal is now 30 years in Mississippi’s political rear-view mirror?

During the 1980s, 57 of Mississippi’s 410 county supervisors from 26 of the state’s 82 counties were charged with corruption.

The FBI’s ploy to catch the criminals was code-named “Operation Pretense.”

“Pretense” wasn’t a hightech scandal. It was pretty pedestrian kickback scheme driven by fraudulent invoices. Since county supervisors then controlled both the purchasing and receiving of things like culverts and motor grade blades, they could totally control the transaction and skim or steal public funds as they pleased.

The groundbreaking prosecutions of the cases developed by that FBI sting operation came under the directions of a slow-talking, no-nonsense lawyer named George Phillips. Phillips served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi from 1980 to 1994.

George would become a friend and was a trusted and reliable source. In the 1980s, it was difficult for a weekly newspaper publisher 50 miles away from the federal courthouse to cover

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complex federal investigations and the resulting court proceedings.

After a peSid Salter riod of give take, Columnist and Phillips began to help keep me in the game. He knew I was talking to an FBI agent source that I had come to know during the early days of the “Pretense” probe.

As he told the Associated Press in 1987, Phillips wasn’t impressed with talk that the “Pretense” scandal fundamentally changed the culture of local government in Mississippi – which it did without question. George saw it in a simpler light – the difference in right and wrong.

“We’re not some sort of white knights running around trying to change the form of government in Mississippi. We’re doing our job,” said U.S. Attorney George Phillips. “We’re not out to change the form of government, to be so presumptive as to tell the state’s political leaders how their seat of government ought to be run. We just know that taking kickbacks and busted (fraudulent) in-

voices and that sort of thing is against the law.”

While “Pretense” was certainly the case that brought Phillips and his prosecutors (a group The Clarion-Ledger dubbed “Mississippi’s Untouchables” in a story that chronicled “Pretense” and other high profile public corruption prosecutions) the most notoriety, Phillips led other high impact public corruptions prosecutions of powerful public officials including members of the Transportation Commission and members of the Public Service Commission.

It is not an exaggeration to note that those federal public corruption prosecutions in Mississippi in the late 1980s dramatically changed for the better how state government operates and how the state’s elected commissions – Public Service and Transportation – operate.

“Pretense” also was the forerunner of the more aggressive enforcement function of the state auditor’s office that began under former governor and current Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, continued under current Gov. Phil Bryant and remains under the leadership of current State Auditor Stacey Pickering.

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still emerge in Mississippi in 2015, both in local and state government. But in most cases, those investigations don’t rely as heavily on federal prosecutors has they did in the era that George Phillips served as U.S. Attorney.

After leaving the Justice Department, Phillips would later serve as head of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and a Commissioner of Public Safety. Former Gov. Haley Barbour often noted what he called the “heroism” Phillips demonstrated as part of the state’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

I greatly admired Phillips for his courage and tenacity in taking on public corruption cases in an era when that rarely happened in Mississippi. I also truly enjoyed the fact that while he took his work very seriously, he never took himself seriously.

Phillips was one of the good guys, the white hats – and should be remembered for his work making government at all levels more transparent and accountable.

(Daily Corinthian columnist Sid Salter is syndicated across the state. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or sidsalter@sidsalter.com.)

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Attorney in rape case seeks mistrial NASHVILLE, Tenn.

— An attorney for one of the ex-Vanderbilt University football players convicted of raping an unconscious fellow student says he will ask that a mistrial be declared after learning that a jury member was a rape victim.

Fletcher Long says the juror was asked during jury selection about past experience with the criminal justice system, as either a victim or defendant. Long says the juror failed to disclose the rape.

Long said the person “lied to get on the jury” and “got on with an agenda.”

The juror’s attorney, Sunny Eaton, said her client did not make misrepresentations. Eaton said the juror’s past had “no impact whatsoever” on decisionmaking at trial.

‘Mafia cops’ case reaches settlement NEW YORK — Nicholas Guido was showing off his new car outside his mother’s home on Christmas Day 1986 when he was gunned down because he’d been mistaken for a mobster with the same name. The bad information, prosecutors said, came from two decorated police detectives who would later be convicted of moonlighting as hit men for the mob.

Twenty-nine years later, the city has reached a $5 million settlement with Guido’s family in

part of the fallout from one of the most stunning police corruption cases in New York history.

“This tragic matter involves the murder of an innocent man. After evaluating all the facts, it was determined that settling the case was in the city’s best interest,” the Law Department said in a statement.

The family’s lawyer didn’t immediately return a call Friday night seeking comment.

Guido’s mother, Pauline Pipitone, was washing dishes after Christmas dinner when gunfire erupted outside her Brooklyn home.

She ran over to the car and found her 26-year-old son sitting up at the wheel, she testified at the exdetectives’ 2006 racketeering trial. “I went to touch his hand, and he must have just died,” she said. “His fingertips were cold.”

Super Bowl to have 15 new advertisers NEW YORK — More Super Bowl ad rookies will be trying to score a touchdown this Sunday.

There will be 15 new Super Bowl advertisers this year, the most since 2000, before the economy fell into what would be the first of two recessions since. Advertising experts say the rookie interest in Super Bowl ads is a positive sign that companies are feeling good in the most recent economic recovery.

New advertisers like Carnival cruises and Skittles candy are hoping to capitalize on the

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massive size of the Super Bowl audience: The game is advertising’s greatest showcase, with more than 110 million people expected to tune in to watch to the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots. And more than the sheer size of the audience, ad experts say new advertisers also are hoping to draw from the goodwill people feel toward Super Bowl ads.

Cars recalled a 2nd time for air bags NEW YORK — More than 2 million Toyota, Chrysler and Honda vehicles are being recalled for a second fix for faulty air bags that may inadvertently inflate while the car is running.

The recall includes some Acura MDX, Dodge Viper, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Honda Odyssey, Pontiac Vibe, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Avalon models made from 2002 to 2004.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says all of the vehicles covered in Saturday’s announcement had already been under a recall for the faulty air bags, but the carmakers’ original attempts to fix the defects only worked about 85 percent of the time.

The new recall will fully replace the faulty electronic control unit, which is made by TRW Automotive Holdings Corp of Livonia, Mich. In the previous recall the unit was only partially replaced. The new remedy will be available to all affected vehicles by the end of the year.

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Bill: Name bridge after Sen. Brown JACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers are working to name a bridge in Lowndes County in honor of a colleague who died last year.

The U.S. Highway 82 span over the Tombigbee River would be named the “Senator Terry W. Brown Memorial Bridge.”

Brown was a Republican from Columbus and was president pro tempore of the Senate from January 2012 until his death this past September.

He served in the Mississippi House from 1988 to 2000, and ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1999.

He started serving in the state Senate in 2004.

USM unveils options to renovate coliseum HATTIESBURG — University of Southern Mississippi officials have unveiled renovation plans for Reed Green Coliseum, the school’s basketball arena which has largely gone unchanged since it opened in 1965.

Athletic director Bill McGillis says the project likely would cost up to $45 million. He says how it would be funded, as well as a timetable for the project and its completion, have not been determined.

McGillis wants a multipurpose facility that can better serve the region’s needs.

“I think people in our community recognize that the coliseum, while located on campus, is

a community asset — more so probably than a university asset. That’s why, to me, it’s not about when we want to go forward (with the project), because it’s going to be a determination by a lot of folks,” McGillis said.

The arena currently has a capacity of about 8,000. McGillis says that number would drop to somewhere between 6,600 and 7,000 depending on the renovations.

Crews is education development officer OXFORD — The University of Mississippi has hired former newspaper executive Billy Crews as its new development officer in the School of Education.

Ole Miss officials say in a news release that Crews will head fundraising efforts from within the school in collaboration with the UM Foundation.

Crews, an Oxford native, is the former publisher of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo. He retired in 2010.

Crews spent more than two years working for Teach for America’s Mississippi region, where he served as vice president for strategic partnerships. He is a former member of the board of trustees for the Tupelo Public School District.

Man pleads guilty in cocaine conspiracy GULFPORT — A second man has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a conspiracy to buy more than 500 grams

of cocaine in Jackson County.

Damian Lamar Reese, 36, pleaded guilty to conspiracy this week before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. The Sun Herald reports Reese is scheduled to be sentenced on April 21.

Monteial Chaikeno Stubbs pleaded guilty to conspiracy earlier this year. Stubbs is serving a 43-month sentence followed by five years of supervised release. Stubbs was fined $7,500.

Federal prosecutors said Reese and Stubbs were arrested last year after being involved in an undercover deal to buy $31,000 of drugs.

MDEQ may fine county over silt CANTON — State regulators are asking Madison County officials to show why they should not be fined $20,000 for violations at the Sulphur Springs Park project.

The Madison County Journal reports that Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality notified the county in January about problems at the site north of Canton.

The county has the option to accept a penalty — if assessed — propose an alternate penalty or request a hearing before the Commission on Environmental Quality.

MDEQ said there was improper silt fencing at the site. The first violation referred to the sediment barrier and lack of timely maintenance. The other three violations were conditions of the water quality certification with the project.

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Deaths Jessie Whirley Lewis

Funeral service for Jessie Mae Whirley Lewis are set for 3 p.m. today at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Ricky Hutson officiating. Burial will be in the Faulkner Cemetery.

Mrs. Lewis died Friday, January 30, 2015 at McNairy Co. Health Care.

She was born July 2, 1936 in Guys, Tenn. to the late Lonnie and Carrie Whirley. She was a garment worker and a homemaker. She was a member of Gospel Tabernacle Church and enjoyed gardening and flowers.

She was preceded in death by her granddaughter, Jenna Rose Lewis; her parents; brothers, Commodore, Sherman, Joe Lee and Eddie Whirley; and a sister, Birdie Mae Matthews.

Gladys McCord

Gladys McCord, 95, died Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 at Cornerstone Health and Rehab.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Magnolia Funeral Home.

Hattie F. Baker

RAMER, Tenn. — Funeral services for Hattie F. Baker, 83, are set for 2 p.m. today at Antioch Church of Christ in Ramer with burial in Lake Hill Memorial Gardens in Bethel Springs, Tenn.

Mrs. Baker died Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 in Ramer.

Born Jan. 3, 1932 in Ramer the daughter of the late James Edgar Lee and Violet Mae Leatherwood Martin. She was united in marriage to Eugene Houston Baker on December 6, 1956. She was a member of the Antioch Church of Christ and was also a member of the Ramer Ruritan Club, Ramer Senior Citizens and McNairy County Democratic Party. She loved caring and seeing to the needs of others.

She is survived by her husband of 62 years, Ivin Lewis of Guys; sons, James (Penny) Lewis, Jerry (Theresa) Lewis, Jackie (Vicki) Lewis and Jason (Laura) Brown; daughters, Janice Brown, Carrie Jeanette Miller and Ganevia (Anthony) Dickey; grandchildren, Jennifer Dickey, Jeremy Dickey, Josh Lewis, Elizabeth Lewis, Jerome Lewis, Jessica Lewis, Justin Lewis and Jenni Grace Lewis; 6 great-grandchildren; and a host of other family and friends.

Pallbearers will be Jeremy Lewis, Josh Lewis, Jerome Lewis, Justin Lewis, Brylen Butler and Clayton Brown.

Family will receive friends from noon until service time today at the funeral home.

Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

She is survived by her children, Peggy Berryman and husband Jimmie, Kathie Berryman and husband Dennis and Tim Baker and wife Susan all of Ramer; her siblings, Lillie Emerson and husband David of Henderson, Tenn., Elizabeth (Bug) Carter and husband J.V. of Pocahontas, Tenn., Andrew Martin and wife Linda of Ramer, Dorothy Winters and husband Jimmy of Ramer, Tommie Carter and husband Albert of Pocahontas and Shirley Wren and husband Larry of Chewalla, Tenn.; her grandchildren, Anthony Berryman and wife Paige, Stephen Berryman both of Ramer, Josh Berryman and wife Elizabeth of Selmer, Allyssa Baker and Alexis Baker both of Ramer; and four great-grandchildren.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Eugene Houston Baker; two sisters, Iller Teague and Mildred Thomas; and two brothers, James A. Martin and Pete Martin.

Darrin Stapleton and Dr. Brian Jackson will officiate.

and pastor, who were so kind to her. She was a homemaker, who loved caring for her family and did that for as long as her health allowed. She worked diligently in her vegetable and flower gardens. She also loved to quilt and do all kinds of needle work. In later years, her passion was sending friends and loved ones birthday, get well and thinking-of-you cards.

Survivors include a daughter, Patricia Jean Nelson and husband Travis Nelson of Corinth, who were her caretakers for the past 9 years; grandson, Rodney Nelson, who was the light of her life, and wife Tanya Nelson of Corinth; special lovable pet, TomTom; a brother, Keith Gardner of Corinth; sisters, Lucille Woodall of Corinth and Rita Kay Brueck and husband Les of Cordova, Tenn.; sisters-

in-law, Bernice Gardner of Sheffield, Ala., Oral Gardner of Collierville, Tenn. and Marjorie Newcomb of Portage, Ind.; brother-in-law, Bobby Lothernore and wife Kay of Anna, Texas; and special friends, Sue Rogers and Sarah Ferrell.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 61years, Cecil Newcomb; her parents, Colonel and Emily Craig Gardner; a sister, Pauline Dellinger; and brothers, Neal Gardner, Harold Gardner, Haryse Gardner and Stenson Gardner.

Pastor Donald Sculley will officiate.

Visitation is 5-8:30 p.m.

Monday and from 11 a.m. until service time Tuesday at the funeral home.

Honorary pallbearers are the men of Grace Bible Baptist Church.

Visitation is noon until service time today at the church.

Memorials may be made to American Heart Association, American Cancer Society or Antioch Church of Christ of Ramer, Tenn.

Shackelford Funeral Directors of Selmer are in charge of arrangements.

his parents; five sisters; and a brother.

He is survived by his son, Ronnie Lee Chastain of Corinth; five grandchildren; and a host of great-grandchildren.

Family will receive friends Monday from 11 a.m. to service time.

his wife, Joanna Jones Martin; parents, Leo and Ella Mae Reynolds Martin; two brothers, Bill Martin and Jim Martin; and a grandchild, Michelle Melino.

Bro. Jim Estes will officiate.

Charles Chastain

BURNSVILLE — Graveside services for Battie George Martin, 75, are set for 2 p.m. Monday at Martin-Melino Cemetery.

Mr. Martin died Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015 at his residence.

Born April 4, 1939, he was a retired mechanic and member of Berea Church of Christ.

Survivors include children, James George Martin of Midway and Janie Church of Burnsville; a brother, Gene Watson of Pontotoc; two sisters, Pauline Douglas of Saltillo and Stella West of Adamsville, Tenn.; and three grandchildren, Andrea Vandergriff, Deanna Melino and James Thomas Church.

He was preceded in death by

Alene Mae Newcomb

Funeral services for Alene Mae Newcomb, 87, of Corinth, are set for 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3 at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial in Memorial Park.

Mrs. Newcomb died Newcomb Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 at Magnolia Regional Health Center.

Born Feb. 16, 1927 to Colonel and Emily Craig Gardner, she was a Christian and a member of Grace Bible Baptist Church.

She loved her church family

Funeral services for Charles Edward Chastain are set for 1 p.m. Monday at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Bill Wages officiating. Burial will be in Forrest Memorial Park.

Mr. Chastain died Friday, January 30, 2015 at Magnolia Regional Health Center.

He was born April 23, 1930 in Texas to the late George C. and Maddie Lou Chastain. He was retired mailman after 37 years with the US Post office.

He served in the US Navy during the Korean Conflict and was a member of West Corinth Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Jo Chastain;

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Challenger disaster’s poignancy remains decades later I was truly part of the space shuttle generation.

I vaguely recall being in first grade April 12, 1981, and watching the very first space shuttle, Stacy Columbia, off Jones blast into space.

The T h r o u g h Dowtowner out my years in school, it simply seemed like a normal activity, as if students had always watched shuttle missions from their classrooms.

Each time a space shuttle takeoff was scheduled, the teacher rolled in a TV cart, and for at least 20 minutes or so, we might as well have been at Cape Canaveral ourselves. It was an event. The anticipation increased each time we heard the announcement of T-minus

X number of minutes or seconds—and counting.

This week marked 29 years since the Challenger explosion in 1986. It’s difficult to believe that almost three decades have passed since that incident occurred. I vividly recall sitting in my sixth grade classroom eyeing a flickering television perched on a rolling cart as I watched the shuttle break into pieces in the sky on January 28th at 10:39 a.m. No one knew immediately what caused the unexpected occurrence, but later we learned that the explosion of fuel in the external tank destroyed the craft.

The event, of course, did not seem real. It was almost as if we were watching a movie when deceleration began 73 seconds after liftoff, and the shuttle, 10 miles above the earth, traveling at 2000 miles per

hour, became an orange and white fireball that crumbled into diverting trails of smoke. There were seven astronauts on that shuttle, all of whom died, but the nation was especially focused on one in particular.

Christa McAuliffe, a teacher, was actually a non-astronaut. One of 11,000 candidates, she was a private citizen specially trained for that specific mission. Watching her as she prepared had sparked in me the longing to be an astronaut. I had dreamed of attending Space Camp. And some part of me, even then, also harbored the desire to be an educator, intensified by her public image.

At 12 years of age, I admired McAuliffe, America’s first teacher in space.

I looked forward to seeing that shuttle blast off, watching updates during the mission as she taught

lessons to over a million students via closed circuit television, and hearing of her return to share what she had discovered on her odyssey with her own students in her New Hampshire social studies classroom.

I have no recollection of what we did in class that day afterward. I’m sure that for quite a few minutes we were in awe of what he had just witnessed and probably spent some time talking about it before returning to our math or social studies lessons before lunch.

That evening, President Ronald Reagan was supposed to have delivered his State of the Union address. Instead, he consoled a nation that had thought we were going to see the first private citizen embark on a journey into space. Perhaps we all put a bit of ourselves

into Christa McAuliffe, living vicariously as we wondered what it would be like to train vigorously and ultimately “slip the surly bonds of earth,� as Reagan phrased it in his speech.

The president transcended the normally logical appeal of the annual address and instead resorted to pathos to speak to the country. Perhaps we were all a bit surprised because by 1986, as Time magazine reported in a February issue that same year, the U.S. had spent 25 years sending humans into space at the average rate of about two crafts per year. Furthermore, Challenger was a $1.2 billion workhorse, helping bolster public belief in its infallibility.

Much has changed in the U.S. space program in those 29 years. The space shuttle generation has made way for new gener-

ations, as NASA terminated the program in 2011.

Christa McAuliffe, who was 38 when she died, would now be 67 years old. Her catchphrase became a mantra for many 1980s educators: “I teach.

I touch the future.� Those students who were part of that well-quoted “future� are now in their 40s.

It was, however, a milestone that none of us who witnessed will ever forget.

It was one of those moments indelibly etched in our national consciousness, one for which people will recollect where they were when it happened and ponder others’ consciousness of the event.

(Daily Corinthian columnist Stacy Jones teaches English at McNairy Central High School and UT Martin and serves on the board of directors at Corinth Theatre-Arts.

She loves being a downtown Corinth resident.)

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every Friday at the post on Purdy School Road in Corinth. Karaoke begins at 8 p.m. with music by D.J. Lanny Cox. Lanny Cox also provides music at the VFW on Saturday Dance Night which begins at 8 p.m. â– VFW Post No. 3962 will hold its monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month with brunch at 6 p.m.

VFW ladies and men’s Auxiliary will have a joint meeting at 7 p.m. ■The VFW Post 3962 will hold a singles/’50s Dance from 8 p.m. until midnight every Thursday.

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Community Events Free Clinic The Living Healthy Free Clinic will open at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11 and Saturday, Feb. 28.

Walk-ins are welcome.

Tree Giveaway The annual Arbor Day Tree Giveaway is set for Friday, Feb. 13, in front of the Alcorn County Courthouse from 8:30 a.m. until all the trees are distributed. Some pines and mixed hardwoods will be available.

It is a project of the MSU Extension Service in Alcorn County, the Mississippi Forestry Commission, and the Alcorn County Soil and Water Conservation District. Â

Art Exhibit The Mississippi Painters Society will exhibit its artwork at Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville through Monday, Feb. 16. The paintings will be exhibited in the art gallery of Anderson Hall.

Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Â

Crape myrtle workshop The MSU Extension Service office will host a crape myrtle pruning workshop on Wednesday, Feb. 18, from 1 until 3 p.m. It will include a discussion and a demonstration on the

grounds. RSVP by Monday, Feb. 16, at 662286-7755. Â

Wildlife Supper The 2015 Alcorn County Wildlife Tasting Supper is set for Tuesday, Feb. 3 at the Crossroads Arena.

Doors open at 4:45 p.m.

Door fee is one wildlife dish per person or $10 each for adults, $5 each for children ages 5-12 and free for those under 5. Dish contest registration begins at 5 p.m. The event will also feature gun raffles and a utility trailer raffle. For more information call 287-7223, ext. 3 or 662-286-7755. Â

Community Dinner The Easom Community Center, located at 700 S. Crater Street, will hold its monthly community dinner from noon until 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8. The cost is $10 for adults $5 for children 9 and under (dine-in). All carry-outs will be $10.

The meal will include dressing, roast beef/ gravy, Southern fried chicken, green beans, creamed potatoes, cabbage, key lime pie, strawberry cobbler, buttered rolls and a beverage. For tickets or more information, contact Ernestine Hollins, 662-643-8024, or Sam Crayton at 404386-3359.Â

CWA Wrestling CWA Championship Wrestling will be held at

the old Action Apparel building, located next to the railroad tracks in Ramer, Tenn., on Sunday, Feb. 8. Bell Time will begin at 2 p.m. with the doors opening at 12:30 p.m. The event will be a benefit for Marty Cooksey. All proceeds will go to help pay his medical expenses. There will be a live taping with over 20 CWA superstars and legends on the card for that day. For more information call 662-6646271. Â

Republican Meeting The Alcorn County Republican Party will be meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12 in the Corinth Library. The guest speaker will be Trent Kelly, District Attorney. There will be a meet and greet at 5:45 p.m.

All meetings are free and open to the public. Â

Senior Connectors The Senior Connectors, a group consisting of senior citizens from the Alcorn and surrounding counties, will meet for their monthly luncheon at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12 at Ryan’s Cafeteria. The luncheon is Dutch Treat.

This month’s guest speaker will be Chief Ralph Dance of the Corinth Police Department.

All local seniors are invited to attend the luncheon on the second Thursday of each month

and signup for the free monthly newsletter. Â Â Â

Retired Railroaders There will be a meeting for retired railroaders at 8 a.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at Martha’s Menu Restaurant in downtown Corinth. Active railroaders are welcome. Â

Mothers & Son Dance The Bright Star Twirlers present the first annual Mother and Son Dance on Feb. 21 from 7 p.m. to 11 p .m. at the Considerate Care Building at 1110 Proper Street in Corinth. Tickets can be purchased at United Print, Parkway Christian Academy or the Boys and Girls Club. Tickets are $15 for one mother and son and $5 for each additional son. For more information contact Leola King at 662-212-2784 or leolaking79@gmail.com or Angela Dilworth at 662-603-5844. Â

Gospel Fest

Legacy Hospice Legacy Hospice is looking for volunteers from the age of 17 and up. Legacy Hospice offers three types of volunteers: Direct patient volunteers do things directly with the patient and caregiver. Indirect volunteers help with clerical work in the office.

Bereavement volunteers help families and loved ones on their journey through the grieving process. For more information contact Sherry Dalton at 662-286-5333 or by email at sherry.dalton@legacyhospice.net. Â

Food Pantry/ Clothes Closet Antioch Baptist Church food pantry and clothes closet is open every 3rd Wednesday of the month from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Â

Alliance Hospice The second annual Easom Outreach Foundation Gospel Fest is set for Sunday, March 22 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Easom Community Center Auditorium.

The event will feature the Celestial Nightingales of Ripley, the Hopewell Men’s Chorus of Rienzi, Gloria & Lee Carswell of Olive Branch, the Mount Olive Men’s

Alliance Hospice seeks volunteers from 16 to 85 to interact with local senior citizens. For more information contact Sabrina Hall at 662286-9833 or sabrina@ alliancehospice.net. Â

VFW Post 3962 â– VFW Post No. 3962 hosts a Karaoke Night

Checkers Players Checkers players are needed, especially Intex retirees, to play from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Mondays at the American Steel Builders Union building across from Ability Works. For more information, call 662728-5498. Â

American Legion Post 6 Bingo American Legion Post 6, located on South Tate St. will have bingo every Friday. Doors will open at 4 p.m. with sales starting at 5:30 p.m. Games will begin at 6:30 p.m. Â

Lions Club The Corinth Breakfast Lions Club meets the first and third Monday of each month at 7 a.m. at Martha’s Menu.

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Couple kiss and make up, but family tension remains DEAR ABBY: A few years ago, my husband and I had problems. Our marriage was going downhill, but we have recently managed to work things out. My problem is, I sounded off to my mother, who had never held him in very high esteem to begin with.

She told me she never Abigail wanted to him Van Buren see again.She has finally Dear Abby accepted that we are a package deal and she’s happy that things are working out. She lives far away, so I don’t see her often, and I’d like to pay a visit with my husband and children.

When I approached my husband with the idea of seeing Mom, he told me that a few years ago she had sent him an email telling him she didn’t like him. He is justifiably uncomfortable with going to see her.

My husband is contemplating going for my sake, but I don’t want to add any stress to the situation. Should I talk to my mother about it and ask

her to apologize? Or should I just let things go? I don’t like the idea of taking the kids and not my husband, and Mom wants to see her grandchildren.

-- DON’T WANT TO BE THE MIDDLEMAN DEAR DON’T WANT: By all means speak privately to your mother about this.

If she can smooth things over by explaining to your husband that when she sent the email she was a “mother bear defending her cub,” it may make the visit less uncomfortable for your husband.

Fences need mending here, and it will take cooperation on everyone’s part. In the future, I hope you will resolve your marital problems like the adult you are and not go running to your mother.

DEAR ABBY: I am a 20-yearold woman who works in an office with people who are in their 30s and older.

I’m nice to everyone and treat them equally. Many of my coworkers have children who are about my age. I take my job seriously and carry myself with respect.

Lately, one of my male coworkers seems to be getting a little “too nice” with me. He

brings me treats in the mornings and sometimes pays for my lunch. Sometimes he gives me these uncomfortable backpats and sometimes even on my lower back. He is married with two kids.

I have been turning down the breakfast and lunch offers, but he still seems to want to be around me. I’m not sure how to make these things stop. I don’t want to get any supervisors involved because I don’t want to jeopardize anyone’s job. Please help me. -- TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT DEAR TOO CLOSE: The next time this man puts his hands on you, tell him to stop because it makes you uncomfortable. Say it in a firm, clearly audible tone that can be overheard by anyone close by. Then document the incident with date and time. This should stop him.

However, if he continues, you must immediately discuss the problem with a supervisor.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19).

A German proverb states, “Charity sees the need, not the cause.” You see both now, as long as you put your sights on both. Stay clear and give judiciously.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Hobbies are not extracurricular -- they are the curriculum of life.

The more time you spend on hobbies this weekend the more fortunate you will be. Scorpio and Gemini people will be lucky partners.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

If you are not a religious person, this will be enough to get you through: What is right will eventually triumph. Believe it.

Religious or not, right has an undeniable power to it.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Your current mood has you honoring the things you didn’t pay attention to yesterday. On a deep level, you know there is purpose to each and every life on the planet -- spiders count, too!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You don’t have to go full-throttle all the time. Your gentle attempts will be successful as long as you follow through to the logical conclusion. The only way to fail is to quit too soon.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

At the moment, it might feel as though you are the more loving one, and that is fine with you.

You’d rather admire than not.

It makes you richer to realize what is wonderful about others.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

You need relief from the thing that you have too much of, even if it’s a good thing. Today brings the reprieve, and tomorrow it’s back to normal. Enjoy the rest.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Voting happens in many forms, and today it’s mostly financial -each dollar is a vote. Note that today people are more likely to vote against what they don’t like than to vote for what they believe in.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Communication will

happen whether or not you’re trying, so you might as well try. When you feel you have nothing to say, but you say it anyway, you will connect with someone special.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Strike out in a new direction. Don’t worry about whether you have a talent for it. Don’t worry about whether it will be lucrative. Don’t worry about whether it’s sensible. You’ll be better for having experienced something new.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’re at your charming best today. Even though this will be a low-key day, you’ll find a novel way of presenting events as though they were newsworthy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

This is a happy time because you are getting back something that you thought was lost for good. Celebrate in your own quiet way. Acknowledging the goodness of this attracts more of it.

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Seahawks close to first Super Bowl repeat since Patriots

BY HOWARD FENDRICH AP Pro Football Writer

PHOENIX — A year ago, Pete Carroll stood at a podium in a New York City hotel, less than 12 hours after his Seattle Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl. He spoke about what would happen next.

“The first meeting that we’ll have,” Carroll said, “will be tomorrow.”

Sounded a bit over the top, even from the ever-enthusiastic coach. A moment later, he continued the theme, insisting: “We really have an eye on what’s coming, and we don’t dwell on what just happened. We’ll take this in stride.”

Turns out he knew what he was talking about. Fast forward to Sunday, when Carroll’s Seahawks will face Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots in the Super Bowl with a chance to do something that, for many reasons, was thought to be too tall a task in today’s NFL: win a second consecutive championship.

“It’s tough to win it once. That’s the hard part. Winning twice doesn’t happen (anymore),” said Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, whose team went back-to-back 10 years ago, making for the longest drought without a repeat champion in the nearly half-century of Super Bowls.

“The NFL is built for parity — the way the draft is set up, the way the schedule plays out, the hard salary cap. All those things trying to level the playing field,” Brady said. “It’s hard to get here. It’s tough to win it. It’s certainly tough to win it two times in a row.”

It has happened only eight times in league history but used to be a semiregular occurrence. Indeed, the first two Super Bowls — well, it wasn’t called that back then — were both won by the Green Bay Packers.

Then the Miami Dolphins won consecutive trophies five years later, followed by the Pittsburgh Steelers (who did it twice), the San Francisco 49ers, the Dallas Cowboys, the Broncos and the Patriots.

“The hardest thing in terms of repeating is not the focus of repeating,” said Seattle’s Russell Wilson, who can become the first starting quarterback to win a pair of Super Bowls within his first three seasons. “It’s: How do you get to the Super Bowl in general?”

There are all the ways mentioned by Brady that the NFL legislates competitiveness.

And there are other factors. Reigning Super Bowl champions have a shorter offseason. Successful teams lose players and assistant coaches (Seattle’s top receiver, Golden Tate, left as a free agent, as did defensive lineman Red Bryant, for example). Champions often are filled with veterans who might feel satisfied.

Last season’s Seahawks, though, had the fourth-youngest roster for a Super Bowl winner, with an average age of 26 years, 175 days, according to STATS. The Steelers who won the 1975 Super Bowl were the youngest champions, and they followed that up by earning rings again a year later.

“It’s always hard to match the intensity ... of every opponent, especially after you’ve won one Super Bowl,” said Pro Football Hall of Famer Michael Irvin, a wide receiver on Dallas’ 1993 and 1994 Super Bowl champions. “After you win the Super Bowl, you need to go play 16 more ‘Super Bowls’ the following season, and then go through the playoffs to get back to the Super Bowl. So it’s a tough go.”

As if setting out to prove that point, the Seahawks did not start this season particularly well.

“The pressure was there early in the season,” defensive end Cliff Avril said, “but then we just forgot about it ... and I think that’s what let us take the next step to be able to get here — not thinking about it.”

Seattle’s record was 3-3 in mid-October, then 6-4 after a loss at Kansas City in mid-November. That’s when Carroll held a meeting with a dozen players to air out a few things.

“It was a huge impact, for us to be in a room together and openly and freely express our concerns about the team and not hold anything back,” receiver Doug Baldwin said. “I thought that was crucial for our growth as a team.”

Seattle has not lost since.

“They’ve dominated the NFC the last two seasons, so we’ll be playing the best team,” Patriots safety Devin McCourty said.

As for how much motivation New England derives from trying to prevent Seattle from winning another Super Bowl, McCourty added: “Leading into it, it doesn’t matter what they did last year. It doesn’t really affect us. But if we stop them, then it’s a cool story to talk about.”

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Bulldogs come up big vs. LSU Associated Press

STARKVILLE — A rivalry was renewed on Saturday as old SEC West foes, LSU and Mississippi State, clashed in a battle.

The Bulldogs used a late second-half surge, hitting 13 of their 14 free throws down the stretch, to pull off a 73-67 victory over LSU. Fred Thomas scored 18 points, including 7 of 7 shooting from the line, as Mississippi State hit 11 of its first 21 free throws but finished 23 of 35.

“Obviously, that’s a great win for our guys and the program,” MSU coach Rick Ray said. “There’s no question in my mind that LSU is a NCAA tournament team and they have some guys that are going to be playing in the NBA. I think they’re probably the second most talented team in

the SEC.” The Bulldogs and Tigers both had their struggles in the first half as LSU managed just 29 percent shooting but held a 27-17 advantage on the boards to stay within striking distance of MSU, trailing 3027.

“The first half, there were several things that hurt us,” Ray said. “The offensive rebounds, they killed us on the boards so we had to address that. I thought if we fixed those things in the second half, we’d have a chance to win the ball game.”

LSU scored the first six points of the second half to take a 34-31 lead and by the 10 minute mark, the two teams were knotted at 47.

After LSU took a threepoint lead with over five minutes remaining, the Bulldogs began to get a lift from

Roquez Johnson who scored six quick points to flip the game over to MSU at 53-50.

The Bulldogs wouldn’t relinquish the lead.

“The Auburn game and Vanderbilt game, we had success down the stretch but the last two games we struggled to finish,” point guard I.J. Ready said. “We really wanted to put that behind us and when the second half came around, we said we had 20 minutes to give it all we got.”

Craig Sword had 14 points for Mississippi State (10-11, 3-5 SEC), and Gavin Ware and Ready added 12 apiece.

Ware and Johnson each grabbed 10 rebounds.

Thomas became the key down the stretch for MSU, hitting all seven of his free throws and making some big shots in transition to spark to Bulldogs.

Thomas scored just nine points combined in the last two losses.

“I thought Fred Thomas gave us some life in the second half,” Ray said. “There was nothing I said at halftime, there was nothing I did differently. I didn’t give him a Vince Lombardi speech. Fred practices well all the time.”

Jordan Mickey, a sophomore, had 25 points and a career-high 20 rebounds for LSU (16-5, 5-3). Keith Hornsby added 15 points and Josh Gray 13.

“Jordan Mickey affects the game on both ends of the court,” Ray said. “Defensively he’s a rim protector trying to block shots. On the other end, we’ve got to keep him off the glass and we didn’t do a good job of that, obviously. That happens when your defense breaks down.”

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The Kossuth Aggies won their sixth straight Region 1-3A Powerlifting title on Friday.

Aggies dominate regional meet Staff Reports

KOSSUTH — The Kossuth Aggies have become a Region 1-3A power.

KHS dominated the region powerlifting meet on Friday in taking nine of the 12 classes en route to their sixth straight region crown.

Kossuth posted a state re-

cord 71 points to easily outdistance runner-up North Pontotoc by 35 points.

Belmont was third with 26 points in the nine-team competition.

Two-time state champion Logan Morton paced the Aggies with a win in the 114-pound class. Hunter

Switcher, the defending state champion in 132-pound class, took the event in the region meet on Friday.

Other first place finishers for the Aggies were: Luke Osborn, 123-pound class; Garret Mansel, 165-pound class; Daniel Martin, 181-pound class; Jaley Adams, 198-pound class;

Brett Holley, 242-pound class; Blake Arnold, 275-pound class and Ty Dickson, 308-pound plus class.

Dylan Hight finished runner-up in the 114-pound class behind Morton.

Kossuth moves onto the North Half competition on March 6 in Charleston.

Moody scores 23 points in Ole Miss win

BY JAKE KREINBERG Associated Press

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Leading by two points with 9:37 remaining in the first half at Missouri on Saturday, Mississippi’s Anthony Perez launched a 3-point attempt that bounced high off the back rim only to be palmed by teammate Stefan Moody in midair.

The 5-foot-10-inch junior dunked it with his right hand before landing on his feet and flexing his arms in front of the Tigers’ student section.

“I think that not only invigorated him but our whole team,” coach Andy Kennedy said after the Rebels won 6747. “We see that quite often.

He is a special player off the bounce.”

Ole Miss (14-7, 5-3 SEC) outscored the Tigers 50-32

the rest of the way, including runs of 8-0 and 7-0 in the first half to build a 37-25 lead at the break. The Rebels led by at least nine points throughout the closing 20 minutes.

Moody finished as the only Mississippi player in double figures with 23 points, while Perez and M.J. Rhett each added eight. Martavious Newby grabbed nine rebounds.

Johnathan Williams III scored 14 points for Missouri (7-14, 1-7), which lost its seventh consecutive game for the first time since 1993. The Tigers, who lost 69-53 to No. 1 Kentucky about 40 hours before Saturday’s tipoff, shot just 19 of 61 (31.1 percent) from the field.

“We missed a lot of open shots early that I thought we had, and then it kind of

snowballed,” Missouri coach Kim Anderson said. “I’m disappointed in the effort, and that’s probably one of the few times I’ve said that this year.”

Mississippi ranks first in the country with a 79.9 percent conversion rate from the free-throw line, and finished 13 of 15 as a team. Moody leads the SEC at a 90.7 percent clip and made all 10 of his attempts.

“I came out a lot more calm, and then I got the tip-slam and I just kind of went off of that,” Moody said.

Missouri trailed by at least 10 points for all but 73 seconds in the final 25:50 after Anderson said Thursday that his team had been playing better despite its record.

There were few bright spots Saturday, though.

Wes Clark scored eight

points after netting a careerhigh 19 against the Wildcats while Williams grabbed seven rebounds. Anderson suspended freshman Tramaine Isabell for the game because of “unacceptable” behavior toward his coaches and teammates.

When asked how to stop the team’s losing streak, Williams despondently said, “Don’t put your head down. That’s about it.”

The game seemed to be a sideshow at times for Missouri, which recognized football coach Gary Pinkel and his team for its Citrus Bowl win against Minnesota on New Year’s Day. Clapping and snapping pictures in the audience was heralded recruit Terry Beckner Jr., who was Please see MOODY | 11A

Last-minute Super Bowl tickets near $9,000

BY TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer

PHOENIX — In previous years, the scenario for getting Super Bowl tickets at a reasonable price was simply waiting until the last possible minute to buy.

That was how it played out last year in New York where many fans got into MetLife Stadium by purchasing tickets the day of the game for less than the listed price.

But Sunday’s matchup be-

tween New England and Seattle is on pace to be the most expensive Super Bowl ticket in history. A shortage of tickets made available to brokers on the secondary market has driven prices into five figures even for nosebleed seats.

It’s left ticket companies having to offer refunds to buyers because the tickets never came through. And it’s left thousands of fans wandering around Phoenix without entry to University of Phoenix Sta-

dium.

“I don’t have $10,000 that I want to give away,” Seahawks fan Mark Blair said.

As of midday Saturday the NFL Ticket Exchange, the league’s official ticket re-sale website, didn’t have tickets for less than $9,000. The cheapest ticket on StubHub was nearly the same. One listing on Craigslist in Phoenix was selling tickets for $8,000 each with the seller willing to meet the buyer at their bank to complete

the transaction.

Cameron Papp, spokesman for StubHub, said the only other event that came close the level of ticket cost fans are seeing was the BCS championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama in Miami two years ago. Papp said the average ticket price sold on their site for this year’s game is currently $3,700. Last year it was $2,500.

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on an official visit to the school.

The defensive tackle from East St. Louis, Illinois, toured Ohio State last weekend and Auburn the week before, along with Florida State in November. Students showered him with praise as he walked to his seat pregame, holding up signs and T-shirts with Beckner’s name on them.

Beckner Jr. is expected to announce what school he will attend on National Signing Day on Wednesday.

TIP-INS Mississippi: The Rebels shot 24 of 55 (43.6 percent) from the field.

Missouri: A layup by Williams narrowed the

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB 33 15 .688 — 18 28 .391 14 16 29 .356 15½ 10 38 .208 23 9 38 .191 23½ Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta 40 8 .833 — Washington 31 17 .646 9 Miami 20 26 .435 19 Charlotte 20 27 .426 19½ Orlando 15 35 .300 26 Central Division

W L Pct GB Chicago 30 19 .612 — Cleveland 29 20 .592 1 Milwaukee 25 22 .532 4 Detroit 18 30 .375 11½ Indiana 17 32 .347 13 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB Memphis 35 12 .745 — Houston 33 15 .688 2½ Dallas 32 17 .653 4 San Antonio 30 18 .625 5½ New Orleans 25 22 .532 10 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Portland 32 16 .667 — Oklahoma City 23 24 .489 8½ Denver 19 29 .396 13 Utah 17 30 .362 14½ Minnesota 8 39 .170 23½ Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 36 8 .818 — L.A. Clippers 33 15 .688 5 Phoenix 28 20 .583 10 Sacramento 17 29 .370 20 L.A. Lakers 13 34 .277 24½ ___ Friday’s Games Philadelphia 103, Minnesota 94 Atlanta 105, Portland 99 Houston 93, Boston 87 Toronto 127, Brooklyn 122, OT Cleveland 101, Sacramento 90 New Orleans 108, L.A. Clippers 103 Dallas 93, Miami 72 Utah 110, Golden State 100 Phoenix 99, Chicago 93 Saturday’s Games Toronto 120, Washington 116, OT Dallas 108, Orlando 93 Sacramento 99, Indiana 94 Atlanta 91, Philadelphia 85 Detroit 114, Houston 101 Memphis 85, Oklahoma City 74 Cleveland 106, Minnesota 90 Milwaukee 95, Portland 88 Charlotte 104, Denver 86 L.A. Clippers 105, San Antonio 85 Phoenix at Golden State, (n) Today’s Games Miami at Boston, Noon L.A. Lakers at New York, 1 p.m.

Monday’s Games Charlotte at Washington, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Memphis at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Tigers’ deficit to 48-39 with 9:39 remaining, but they watched Ole Miss gradually extend its lead to as many as 24 points the rest of the way. . The Tigers finished 3 of 10 from the free-throw line.

QUOTE OF THE NIGHT “I think for us to win, we have to have energy and passion and toughness,” Anderson said.

“I thought Ole Miss was probably tougher than we were. That’s disappointing as a coach. But you know what? You still go out there and try to coach them next week.”

UP NEXT Mississippi returns home to face Texas A&M on Wednesday.

Missouri plays at Alabama on Wednesday.

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“This is unprecedented really. We’ve never seen prices this high,” Papp said. “We have much lower inventory this year than we did in the past. A lot of people bought tickets early as compared to last year.”

The other factor is the higher demand because of the popularity of the two teams. Seattle fans have flooded the Phoenix area making the short 2 ½ hour flight from the Northwest.

Aside from chants of “Sea ... Hawks!” the most popular phrase heard in downtown Phoenix late in the week was, “Anybody got extra tickets?”

Erik Olberg and his large group of friends from Seattle — numbering more than 30 — planned

to follow the conventional pattern of getting tickets after arriving in Arizona.

Olberg didn’t go to New York last year and heard the stories of how so many achieved success getting last-minute tickets at or below list price.

His group passed on buying tickets for $2,200 the day after the NFC championship game, convinced the prices would be lower. When they started to see the prices climbing earlier this week before leaving Seattle, checking websites became an hourly chore.

“I was checking every hour on StubHub, looking at where it’s going, trying to find an anomaly, just trying to get lucky,” Olberg said. “It’s just not happening. You hear of someone selling a ticket, but then you hear the price.”

Saturday men’s scores EAST Albany (NY) 77, Maine 59 Binghamton 76, Mass.-Lowell 69 Bryant 71, Robert Morris 68 Colgate 71, Bucknell 69 Columbia 86, Brown 65 Delaware 71, Coll. of Charleston 68 Drexel 85, UNC Wilmington 76 Duquesne 62, George Mason 53 Harvard 63, Penn 38

Iona 68, St. Peter’s 61, OT La Salle 66, St. Bonaventure 56 Lafayette 74, Navy 65 Lehigh 89, Boston U. 86 Loyola (Md.) 77, Army 71 Mount St. Mary’s 77, Sacred Heart 71 New Hampshire 63, Stony Brook 48 Northeastern 80, Elon 61 Pittsburgh 76, Notre Dame 72 Princeton 64, Dartmouth 53 Rhode Island 59, George Washington 55 Saint Joseph’s 75, Davidson 70 Seton Hall 90, Xavier 82 St. Francis (NY) 81, LIU Brooklyn 64 St. Francis (Pa.) 68, Fairleigh Dickinson 63 St. John’s 75, Providence 66 Temple 55, Tulane 37 Vermont 65, Hartford 46 Wagner 86, CCSU 55 West Virginia 77, Texas Tech 58 Yale 65, Cornell 57 SOUTH rk.-Pine Bluff 65, Grambling St. 53 Belmont 71, Tennessee Tech 53 Bethune-Cookman 61, Florida A&M 44 Charleston Southern 74, Liberty 62 Chattanooga 78, The Citadel 73 Clemson 64, Boston College 49 Duke 69, Virginia 63 E. Kentucky 66, Morehead St. 57 ETSU 61, NC Central 59 FIU 78, Charlotte 70 Florida 57, Arkansas 56 Florida Gulf Coast 74, N. Kentucky 64 Gardner-Webb 66, Coastal Carolina 64 Georgia Southern 76, UALR 61 Georgia St. 74, Arkansas St. 43 Howard 64, Morgan St. 48 Incarnate Word 69, Nicholls St. 58 Kennesaw St. 51, Jacksonville 50 Kentucky 70, Alabama 55 Longwood 71, Presbyterian 67 Louisiana Tech 81, Marshall 57 Louisiana-Monroe 67, South Alabama 61 Louisville 78, North Carolina 68, OT MVSU 75, Jackson St. 62 McNeese St. 68, New Orleans 61 Md.-Eastern Shore 92, Coppin St. 82 Mississippi St. 73, LSU 67 NC A&T 62, Savannah St. 59 NC State 81, Georgia Tech 80, OT Norfolk St. 63, Hampton 60 Old Dominion 68, FAU 57 Radford 73, Winthrop 66 Richmond 64, VCU 55 SC State 78, Delaware St. 74 SC-Upstate 79, North Florida 74 SE Missouri 70, Austin Peay 64 Samford 68, Furman 58 South Carolina 67, Georgia 50 Southern U. 65, Alcorn St. 56 Stetson 75, Lipscomb 73 Tennessee 71, Auburn 63 UNC Asheville 70, Campbell 63 W. Carolina 78, UNC Greensboro 73 W. Kentucky 73, Southern Miss. 62 Wake Forest 73, Virginia Tech 70 William & Mary 84, James Madison 65 Wofford 49, Mercer 46 MIDWEST Akron 69, Bowling Green 68 Butler 72, Marquette 68, OT Cent. Michigan 74, Ohio 69 Cleveland St. 76, Green Bay 62 Drake 70, Evansville 65 E. Illinois 57, SIU-Edwardsville 54 E. Michigan 69, W. Michigan 63 Georgetown 67, Creighton 40 IPFW 75, Nebraska-Omaha 65 Illinois 60, Penn St. 58 Illinois St. 48, Loyola of Chicago 45 Indiana 72, Rutgers 64 Indiana St. 64, Bradley 58 Iowa St. 83, TCU 66 Kansas 68, Kansas St. 57 Miami (Ohio) 79, Ball St. 73 Milwaukee 78, Detroit 74 Minnesota 60, Nebraska 42 Mississippi 67, Missouri 47 N. Iowa 70, Wichita St. 54 North Dakota 80, Idaho St. 69 Oral Roberts 73, South Dakota 72 Purdue 68, Northwestern 60

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S. Dakota St. 69, Denver 39 UMass 60, Saint Louis 56 Valparaiso 70, Ill.-Chicago 65 Villanova 68, DePaul 55 Wisconsin 74, Iowa 63 SOUTHWEST Baylor 83, Texas 60 Lamar 84, Abilene Christian 74 Louisiana-Lafayette 72, Texas St. 63 Prairie View 89, Alabama A&M 63 Sam Houston St. 63, Houston Baptist 52 Stephen F. Austin 61, Texas A&M-CC 51 Texas A&M 69, Vanderbilt 58 Tulsa 78, South Florida 71, OT FAR WEST Colorado St. 80, Fresno St. 57 E. Washington 98, Idaho 95, OT Long Beach St. 65, Hawaii 50 Loyola Marymount 76, Pacific 71, OT Pepperdine 67, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 62 San Diego St. 62, Utah St. 42 UC Riverside 75, CS Northridge 52 Wyoming 63, Nevada 55

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Saturday women’s scores EAST Army 62, Loyola (Md.) 53 Brown 85, Columbia 76 CCSU 83, Wagner 67 Colgate 54, Bucknell 41 Duquesne 56, Fordham 46 Fairleigh Dickinson 78, St. Francis (Pa.) 65 Holy Cross 67, American U. 61 Lehigh 78, Boston U. 71 Marist 63, Iona 58 Navy 65, Lafayette 60 Niagara 53, Manhattan 46 Penn 74, Harvard 69 Princeton 83, Dartmouth 65 Robert Morris 87, Bryant 84 Sacred Heart 71, Mount St. Mary’s 64, OT St. Bonaventure 77, UMass 57 St. Francis (NY) 62, LIU Brooklyn 53 SOUTH Arkansas St. 61, Georgia St. 47 Austin Peay 70, SE Missouri 62 Belmont 59, Tennessee Tech 53 Bethune-Cookman 70, Florida A&M 57 Campbell 68, Longwood 56 Charlotte 81, FIU 62 Chattanooga 71, Mercer 59 ETSU 48, Samford 46 East Carolina 67, Tulane 63 Florida Gulf Coast 67, N. Kentucky 46 Furman 84, W. Carolina 72 Gardner-Webb 71, Coastal Carolina 65 George Washington 87, George Mason 52 Grambling St. 75, Ark.-Pine Bluff 56 Jacksonville 78, Kennesaw St. 64 Jacksonville St. 63, Tennessee St. 50 La Salle 74, VCU 65 Liberty 58, High Point 41 Louisiana Tech 68, Marshall 67 Louisiana-Monroe 55, South Alabama 53 MVSU 74, Jackson St. 71 McNeese St. 82, New Orleans 58 Md.-Eastern Shore 66, Coppin St. 58 Middle Tennessee 74, UTEP 53 Morehead St. 76, E. Kentucky 58 Morgan St. 77, Howard 64 NC A&T 53, Savannah St. 48 Nicholls St. 67, Incarnate Word 34 Norfolk St. 71, Hampton 66, OT Old Dominion 72, FAU 44 SC State 64, Delaware St. 62 SC-Upstate 61, North Florida 49 SE Louisiana 58, Northwestern St. 52 Saint Joseph’s 57, Davidson 52 South Florida 57, Memphis 53 Southern Miss. 63, W. Kentucky 61 Southern U. 59, Alcorn St. 51 Stetson 82, Lipscomb 77 UAB 73, UTSA 57 UALR 58, Georgia Southern 44 UNC Asheville 59, Presbyterian 46 UT-Martin 95, Murray St. 85 Winthrop 77, Charleston Southern 40

Wofford 77, UNC-Greensboro 64 MIDWEST Akron 74, Kent St. 67 Buffalo 75, E. Michigan 53 Cincinnati 69, Houston 66, OT Cleveland St. 72, Oakland 64 Dayton 87, Saint Louis 72 Grand Canyon 76, Chicago St. 51 IUPUI 68, Nebraska-Omaha 49 N. Illinois 65, Ball St. 62 Ohio 74, Cent. Michigan 66 Oklahoma St. 63, Iowa St. 62 SIU-Edwardsville 65, E. Illinois 48 South Dakota 93, Oral Roberts 70 UMKC 61, Utah Valley 58 W. Illinois 59, IPFW 55 W. Michigan 61, Miami (Ohio) 53 Youngstown St. 87, Milwaukee 64 SOUTHWEST Kansas St. 41, Texas Tech 38 Lamar 76, Abilene Christian 72 Louisiana-Lafayette 83, Texas St. 81, 2OT New Mexico St. 74, Texas-Pan American 71 Prairie View 81, Alabama A&M 64 Sam Houston St. 74, Houston Baptist 67 Stephen F. Austin 64, Texas A&M-CC 55 Texas Southern 67, Alabama St. 51 Texas-Arlington 70, Troy 67 Tulsa 70, UCF 61 FAR WEST BYU 58, Santa Clara 56 CS Bakersfield 69, Seattle 62 Cal Poly 74, UC Irvine 58 California 82, Washington 58 Fresno St. 53, Colorado St. 49 Gonzaga 85, Portland 63 Idaho 71, E. Washington 58 Idaho St. 75, North Dakota 69 Montana 94, Sacramento St. 86 Montana St. 63, Portland St. 46 New Mexico 64, San Jose St. 62 Oregon 67, UCLA 65 Oregon St. 68, Southern Cal 35 Pacific 84, Loyola Marymount 61 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 53, Pepperdine 49 San Diego 74, San Francisco 69 San Diego St. 70, Utah St. 59 Stanford 75, Washington St. 56 UC Davis 60, UC Santa Barbara 54, OT UNLV 91, Air Force 79 Weber St. 59, N. Colorado 52 Wyoming 61, Nevada 45

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Today is the day that you should start doing things Today is the day to start doing all those things you have been putting off. Today is the day to begin making the changes necessary to get you moving in your desired direction. Today is the day you acknowledge your responsibility for your life.

“I’ll get to it later. I’ll do it someBryan day. I’m waiting Golden for the right cirDare to Live cumstances. I’m Without Limits not ready yet.

I’ve had some bad experiences. I don’t know what I want.” The excuses for putting things off are many. Yet, the results are always the same; nothing changes and nothing is accomplished.

You’ve heard it before and it’s true. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Today is the day to make changes, grow, and improve. Life is not a practice run. If procrastination was

Time goes by much too fast.

Truly appreciate all the things you have to be thankful for. Focus on abundance, not lack. an effective strategy, everything you have been putting off would have gotten accomplished by now.

Make each day count. Live life to its fullest. Enjoy each moment. Don’t look at life as an endurance test. Time goes by much too fast. Truly appreciate all the things you have to be thankful for. Focus on abundance, not lack.

In order to get what you want, leave your comfort zone.

Accomplishment requires risk.

Although success is never guaranteed, failure is ensured by doing nothing or giving up.

Learn something new. Your education is a lifelong pursuit.

With knowledge comes freedom. With freedom there are options. The more you know, the better your decisions will be. Starting today, make a commitment to spend 20 minutes each week learning just one new thing.

Continually looking for ways to improve is an investment in yourself that constantly pays off. There is always something that can be fine-tuned and enhanced. Strive for excellence in everything you do.

Define your goals. Decide what you want out of life. Without specific destinations, you will drift and flounder. You will always wind up somewhere.

Goals help ensure it’s where you really want to be.

Shake things up a bit. Change your routine. Do something different. Do what you are afraid

of. Take the first step toward a goal you have been putting off.

Nothing different will happen in your life until you take action to make it happen.

Once you get started, keep going. Never, ever give up. Learn from your mistakes. There is a solution for every problem.

Forward is the direction that matters. Persistence is the key to success. Intention only works when combined with action.

Stop worrying. It’s draining, useless, and a waste of time that never accomplishes anything positive. Replace worry with action. Identify what needs to be done and then start doing it.

Don’t complain. Whining prolongs agony. Identify a problem only once and then spend all of your time and energy working toward a solution.

You will feel so much better once an issue is resolved.

Treat everyone with courtesy and respect. Say please and thank you. Show your appreciation for the things others do for

you. Say you’re sorry when you are wrong or make a mistake.

Your interaction with others has a direct impact on what you attract.

Live in the present. Don’t waste time lamenting the past.

You can’t go back in time. The past teaches you what to avoid and what to repeat. The actions you take today determine where you will be tomorrow.

Your age doesn’t matter. You will never be as young as you are today. Today is the day you take control of your life. Today is the day you move into the driver’s seat and take the wheel.

Today is the day that matters.

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Visit www.BryanGolden.com or your bookstore. Bryan is a management consultant, motivational speaker, author, and adjunct professor. E-mail Bryan at bryan@columnist.com or write him c/o this paper. © 2013 Bryan Golden.

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BY JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

NEW YORK — Weeks removed from an open revolt from his own police force that had officers turning their backs on him, Mayor Bill de Blasio now declares he has moved past the rift, striking a tenuous truce with a strategy to stay above the fray and public opinion that eventually soured on the cops’ behavior.

While he acknowledged much work remains to repair the hard feelings over the chokehold death of Eric Garner, de Blasio told The Associated Press he has regained the footing to move on to other matters, including an agenda he plans to outline in next week’s State of the City address.

“It was a perfect storm.

It was based on two tragedies. The death of Eric Garner and the murder of these two officers. People felt pain all around,” de Blasio said in an interview Friday. “I do believe things are much better.

I believe the dialogue is moving forward.”

It was the biggest crisis of the Democrat’s year-old administration. Rank-andfile police had already been distrustful of him over his plans to reform such enforcement tactics as stop and frisk, and for his ties to the Rev. Al Sharpton, a fierce police critic.

Those seeds grew early in December when the streets filled with protesters angry over a Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer for the chokehold death of Garner.

Then on Dec. 20, two police officers were ambushed by a gunman who said he wanted to “put wings on pigs.” The head of the city’s largest police union declared de Blasio had “blood on his hands.”

On the very night of the slayings, police who gathered at the hospital where the slain officers were taken turned their backs on the mayor, a searing rebuke caught by television cameras.

De Blasio’s planning on

how to handle the crisis began the next day when shaken members of his inner circle devised a playbook.

Unveiled for the first time to the AP, that plan involved three parts: ■ Stay on the moral high ground and maintain focus on the grieving families of the slain officers.

■ Empower carefully chosen surrogates to speak on the administration’s behalf, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Police Commissioner William Bratton, who allied himself closely with de Blasio but remained in good standing with the police unions.

■ Avoid engaging in verbal warfare with the unions, hoping that the passage of time would dissipate the rank-andfile’s anger.

For a while, the strategy failed.

Some police officers who had turned their backs on de Blasio at the hospital repeated that act at both funerals. The mayor was also heckled at a police graduation ceremony, and appeared tired and angry at his first news conference with reporters after the shooting.

Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association head Patrick Lynch criticized the mayor for revealing that he told his son, who is biracial, to be wary of encounters with police. And union leaders blamed the mayor for supporting the Garner protesters, which they believed created an anti-police atmosphere that led to the killings.

While most of the protests were peaceful, some demonstrators called police murderers and compared the NYPD to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.

A Quinnipiac poll showed that de Blasio’s approval rating held steady during the crisis, numbers that were mirrored in City Hall’s own internal polling. And another poll showed that two-thirds of New Yorkers did not approve of the police unions’ behavior.

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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Smith names Rotary student of the month Hack Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orma Smith, has been selected the Corinth Rotary Student of the Month for February for the Corinth School District. Smith has a GPA of 3.96, an ACT score of 26 and is ranked 10th in his class.

While at Corinth High, Smith has been involved in many areas of leadership both at Corinth High School and in the community. During his freshman year, Smith was treasurer of his class. While a sophomore, Smith was class representative. In his junior year, Smith was

Hack Smith vice-president of the class and his senior year he was elected as president of the Student Council. Smith

was also a member of National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, CHS Academic Team and the Mayor’s Youth Council. He also earned the rank of Eagle Scout and was awarded the Comcast Leader’s and achievers Scholarship.

Smith has also received many awards including Corinth High School Hall of Fame as selected by the faculty and “Best All Around” as selected by his peers. He also earned AICE honor cords in World History, American History and Mathematics from the Cambridge University at CHS. In

addition he has earned 6 hours of college credit awarded from Northeast Mississippi Community College in mathematics.

Smith has also been an active member of the Corinth High School basketball and baseball teams. He was chosen as team captain for the basketball team his senior year. Hack has been a letterman in basketball as well as a three year letterman in baseball. His on the field awards include newcomer, All-Division, ERA and Pitching Award winners.

During his high school

career, he has been a member of several clubs, including president of the Corinth High Sports Wi-Fi team, C-Club, FCA, Foreign Language Club, Pep Club, Historical Society and Science Club. He was the co-chairman of the Powder Puff Football Tournament benefitting the Susie Coleman Scholarship Fund.

Within the community, Smith is an active member of First Presbyterian Church where he has been involved with Youthhouse ministries and Vacation Bible School.

He was a chaperone for

Youth Conference Ministries Great Escape. He was also a member of the Great Escape Work Crew.

He has volunteered with the Lighthouse Toy Store, Sharing Hearts and Crosswinds/Farmington Arms.

Smith has been a guest speaker at the Corinth Middle School FCA meetings on several occasions.

This Summer he will be volunteering with Ubuntu Sports in Capetown, South Africa for 6 weeks.

After graduation, Smith plans to attend the University of Mississippi where he has been selected a Provost Scholar.

UMMC bound by thousands of bodies buried on campus

BY JERRY MITCHELL The Clarion-Ledger

JACKSON — Thousands of bodies of mental patients remain buried on the grounds of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and officials are stymied about what to do.

They asked the attorney general’s office for permission to cremate the more than 2,000 bodies found east of the dental school. The office’s opinion was no.

They asked the attorney general’s office for permission to move the bodies, most believed to be from a cemetery outside what was known as the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum. The office said in an opinion that the bodies could be moved — but only on campus.

The problem? There is no room for that many.

“It’s fair to say that it’s impracticable to relocate

all of them on the campus as it’s currently configured,” said Tom Fortner, a UMMC spokesman.

In its opinion, the attorney general’s office cited state law, which gives UMMC permission to rebury bodies in the potter’s field on campus. Another state law declared that all archaeological sites are “Mississippi landmarks,” which are not to be altered without permission from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees.

In 2013, while constructing a road on the 164-acre campus, UMMC officials discovered 66 graves. Mississippi State University and the state Department of Archives and History played roles in recovering the bodies.

When the hospital began work last year on a parking garage, underground radar revealed

1,000 bodies were buried there. North of there, radar revealed more bodies — this time more than 1,000.

As a result, UMMC officials had to move not only the parking garage, but also the $11 million American Cancer Society Gertrude C. Ford Hope Lodge, now being built at the former site of Schimmel’s Restaurant.

Officials are hoping to construct the new Children’s Safe Center farther east of the dental school, where Fortner said there would be “minimal contact with existing gravesites.”

Finding these graves “on a prime part of the core campus has already impacted our plans,” he said, “so we expect that to continue to be something we have to work around until we can find an acceptable alternative.”

UMMC officials are

now working with experts on a plan “to evaluate the archaeological and historical importance of the gravesites and anything else that might be on the property,” Fortner said.

“To some extent that will influence what our options are, but we also want to document and preserve whatever might be there for its own inherent value.”

Dr. Luke Lampton, chairman of the state Board of Health, who has researched and written about the asylum’s history, said old maps of the area showed cemeteries “everywhere. They went for miles.”

One way to preserve the history and dignity of these patients would be to rebury them at the cemetery at the State Hospital in Whitfield and build a memorial to honor them, he said.

To simply keep them

beneath the ground does a disservice to these patients, he said. “Where they are now, they’re forgotten. It would be a way of recognizing their humanity.”

In 1855, the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum opened after schoolteacher-turned-mental health reformer Dorothea Dix rallied support for construction of the $175,000 asylum — a far cry from the attics and jails where the mentally ill were often being chained.

Of the 1,376 patients admitted between 1855 and 1877, more than one in five died. MSU students and professors are now studying the reasons for those deaths.

In addition to those from the asylum, graves on the UMMC campus could include those buried in a church cemetery and possibly Civil War soldiers, Lampton said.

James Owen Stubbs fought in Mississippi’s 33rd Infantry and was captured and sent to a prison in Alton, Illinois.

Shortly after being released home to Panola County, the 33-year-old man returned to war.

He was wounded, apparently in the Battle of Champion Hill on May 16, 1863.

His great-granddaughter, Mary Burton, believes he was taken to the asylum since it “had the best known surgeon.” He lived almost a month before dying.

She suspects his grave is there and has made her family’s DNA available.

After the Civil War ended, the mental facility expanded to house 300 patients, and the area became known as “Asylum Hill,” a neighborhood that included houses, a school Please see UMMC | 2B

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Assistance Free Yoga Weekly chair yoga classes taught by Certified Yoga Instructor Karen Beth Martin are held every Thursday at 10 a.m., in the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church fellowship hall. Each class is 40-45 minutes in length and are tailored to the abilities and limitations of those attending with the goal of improving strength, flexibility and balance. The class, geared toward seniors, is open to the public.

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Holland—Gray Christian Hope Holland and Anthony James Gray were united in marriage in a double ring ceremony at 1 p.m. Jan. 5, 2015, in New Orleans, La. The bride is the daughter of Gregg and Gina Holland of Savannah, Tenn. Her grandparents are Elbert and Connie Holland, Paul Hunninen and Tommy and Judy Kennedy, all of Corinth.

The groom is the son of Anthony Gray of Savannah, Tenn.

Golden pillars and decorations with an array of deep, colorful tones were scattered throughout the majestic ballroom.

Given in marriage by her father, Gregg Holland, the bride wore a beautiful white empire waist, straight lined dress falling to the floor with a small train in back. It was made of crochet, lace and sequins with a diamond belt and headpiece complimenting outfit.

She carried a bouquet of beautiful white roses laced with Queen Anne’s lace and ivy.

The bride’s attendants were Victoria Falcon of Pittsburgh who served maid of honor; Sarah Grace Holland of Savannah, Tenn., sister of the bride; Hannah Holland, sister of the bride, walked the ring bearer down the aisle. All the ladies wore beautiful lace black dresses allowing the golden bodice of the dress to

peek thru lace.

Ring bearer was Kieran Pickle, nephew of the groom.

The groom’s attendants were Colton Grammes, best man, from Adamsville, Tenn., who wore a black tuxedo with golden patterned tie and vest; Michael Pickle, brotherin-law of the groom, of New Orleans.

The bride’s mother wore a tea length golden sequin dress with white corsage.

A reception was held on the Elation cruise ship with cruise ship attendants serving as servers.

There was a multiple array of colors with deep tones for background color. A red velvet cake with cream cheese icing in two layers was topped with the traditional wedding bride and groom on top.

Twenty-four attendants cruised with the bride and groom on a 4-day trip to Cozumel, Mexico and the Yucaton Plateau.

A rehearsal dinner was hosted by their parents with 27 attendees in New Orleans at Deanie’s Seafood and Steak Restaurant.

Out-of-town guests attended from Corinth, Hattiesburg, Savannah, Pittsburgh, Pa., Adamsville, Tenn., and Walnut.

A bridesmaid lunch was hosted by Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, Tenn.

The couple reside in Martin, Tenn.

UMMC CONTINUED FROM 1B

and a church for former slaves, Cade Chapel Missionary Baptist Church.

The area eventually saw construction of a fertilizer factory, a Baptist orphanage and a sanatorium for those suffering from tuberculosis.

In 1935, Mississippi moved the asylum to its present location at Whitfield.

Burton said she hopes officials will put up a sign to remember those buried at the asylum.

“Any of those people that went through that needs to be remembered as somebody who lived and died,” she said.

Fortner said UMMC has begun discussions about creating a memorial to recognize that “the individuals who are buried there are properly remembered.

We don’t know what form that might take, but I feel sure this is something we will do.”

Jackson-area consultant Pam Johnson, who has called for a memorial, welcomed the news.

She envisions a medita-

“It’s difficult to think that some 2,000 people have been buried there with little or no evidence of their existence to those of us who have scurried around them all this time.”

Pam Johnson Consultant tion garden there.

“It’s difficult to think that some 2,000 people have been buried there with little or no evidence of their existence to those of us who have scurried around them all this time,” she said.

Whatever UMMC decides to do about the graves, Fortner said, “we will afford the remains of these individuals the utmost dignity and respect.”

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Mississippi Youth Challenge Academy features a structured environment with a focus on job training, social skills and self-discipline.

Other academic opportunities include high school diploma, college classes through a local university and nationally certified construction skills. The academy is designed to meet the needs of today’s “at risk” youth. Both males and females, 16-18 years old, can apply.

Applicants can earn their GEDs. Tuition is free. For more information, call 1-800-5076253 or visit www. ngycp.org/state/ms.

to allow the caregiver a break, grocery shopping, reading to a patient, craft opportunities, bereavement/grief support and in-office work.

For more information, contact Lila Wade, volunteer coordinator at 662-293-1405 or 1-800-843-7553.

• Legacy Hospice is looking for volunteers.

Legacy needs special people with special hearts and volunteers who are wanting to help others. Their duties will be helping with the support of patients and caregivers, writing letters, making phone calls, and community activities. There is a training period involved at no cost. If interested, contact Julie Hutchins, volunteer coordinator at Legacy Hospice, 301 East Waldron St, Corinth or call 662-286-5333.

• Alliance Hospice is looking for volunteers in the area that enjoy visiting and giving back in the community. If interested call 662-2869833 or e-mail sabrina@alliancehospice.net.

east Mississippi can call the Tupelo headquarters during office hours at 662-842-6101. The tollfree after hours phone line is 1-855-891-7325.

The Red Cross’ service line for the armed forces is 877-272-7337.

They also offer health and safety training, including first aid, babysitting and CPR, as well as disaster training for businesses.

To learn more about the Red Cross health and safety training call 1-800-733-2767.

Senior activities

The Corinth Downtown Group of Alcoholics Anonymous meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at First Baptist Church at 501 Main Street, Corinth.

The First Presbyterian Senior Adult Ministry has two fitness classes available to senior adults. Judy Smelzer leads a stretching/toning class on Mondays at 9 a.m. in the fellowship hall. There is no charge.

FPC is also hosting a Wii sports class for senior adults on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. There is no cost to participate.

Call the church office at 286-6638 to register or Kimberly Grantham at 284-7498.

Volunteers needed • Hospice Advantage in Corinth is looking for volunteers in the surrounding area: Corinth, Tippah, Tishomingo and Prentiss County. Volunteering is a wonderful way to give back to your community and lend a helping hand to the elderly.

For more information, call Carla Nelson, volunteer coordinator with Hospice Advantage on becoming a volunteer at 662-665-9185 or 662279-0435. The website is hospiceadvantage. com.

• Magnolia Regional Hospice is currently seeking individuals or groups to be trained as volunteers. Hospice is a program of caring for individuals who are terminally ill and choose to remain at home with family or a caregiver.

Some of the ministry opportunities for volunteers are sitting with the patient in their homes

Al-Anon Meeting Al-Anon meetings are held monday nights at 7 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Corinth. Enter on the courtyard side.

The meetings are for all those affected by alcohol. For more information call 662-462-4404 or 662-287-7819.

Friendship class The Friendship Class meets weekly on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall of the First Presbyterian Church on Shiloh Road.

This group of mentally challenged adults and mentors enjoy sharing time together, games, crafts, singing and refreshments. For more information, call the church office at 2866638.

Alcoholics Anonymous

The Northeast Mississippi Chapter of the Red Cross offers a wide variety of assistance and services, including disaster relief.

The Northeast Mississippi Chapter includes 16 counties. It is headquartered in Tupelo, with offices in Tishomingo, New Albany, Starkville and Columbus. Although Red Cross no longer has a Corinth office, the organization wants to stress it continues to offer services in Alcorn County.

People seeking disaster assistance in North-

The Alcorn and Corinth School Districts are participating in an ongoing statewide effort to identify, locate and evaluate children birth through the age of 21 who have a physical, mental, communicative and/or emotional disability. Early identification of children in need of special educational experiences is important to each child. The information gathered from contacts with parents other agencies will also be used to help determine present and future program needs as progress is made toward the goal of providing a free, appropriate public education to all children with a disability.

Contact Stephanie Clausel at the Alcorn School District or Linda Phillips at the Corinth School District with information on any children who may have a disability by calling or writing to: Alcorn School District, Special Services, 31 County Road 401, Corinth, MS 38834, 662-286-7734 or Corinth School District Special Services, 1204 North Harper Road, Corinth, MS 38834, 662-287-2425.

Genealogy society Story Hour Pre-school Story Hour is held each Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Corinth Library. Year-round art exhibits are also on display and educational non-profit groups meet in the auditorium monthly.

The Corinth Friends of the Library hold their ongoing book sale inside the library. Hardback, paperback and audio books, and VHS and DVD donations to the library are always appreciated.

For more information, call 662-287-2441.

Quilt Guild meets Red Cross

Children with disabilities

The Cross City Piecemakers Quilt Guild meets on the third Thursday of each month at the Homemakers Extension Office (beside the arena) at 1 p.m. Anyone interested in quilting (learning or collecting) is invited to attend. For more information, contact Sharon at 287-0987.

Marine Corps meet The Corinth Marine Corps League meets the first Tuesday of every month at Martha’s Menu, downtown Corinth, at 6 p.m.

The Alcorn County Genealogical Society is located at the southeast corner of the Alcorn County Courthouse basement in the old veterans’ services office. It is open Tuesday-Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

The Society can be contacted at 662-286-0075 or email acgs2@att.net.

Support groups • The Crossroads Group of Narcotics Anonymous meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday at noon, and at 7 p.m., seven days a week, at 506 Cruise Street in Corinth. All meetings are non-smoking.

The Northeast Mississippi area of Narcotics Anonymous Hotline is 662-841-9998.

• A Narcotics Anonymous meeting is held on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at the Johnson-Ford-Mitchell Community Center, 707 Spring Street in Iuka. Call 662-2796435 for directions.

• The “Downtown Corinth” of AA meets Sundays at 8 p.m. for speaker meetings and Tuesdays at 7 p.m. for closed topic discussion meetings at the First Baptist Church (side pavilion) at 501 N. Main Street, Corinth.

Plan ahead for wedding limo rides Every bride and groom will need his and her transportation from home to the wedding ceremony and reception. Although there are several options to get couples to and fro, many choose a limousine or another fancy rental car as the preferred mode of travel.

It may seem like little work goes into renting a limo. Though transportation might be one of the more hands-off components of wedding planning, that does not make it any less important. After all, if something goes awry, you can be left stranded with no manner of getting to the wedding.

It is important for you to get the best service and the right vehicle for the occasion, which requires some comparison shopping. The car service also will need some information from you. Here’s how to start.

Initially, seek word-of-mouth recommendations, which can be the best way to narrow down potential limo companies. Ask others which business they used for their

special events -- be it weddings, proms, Sweet 16 parties or other important events. If you work at a company that often relies on hired cars for business meetings or transportation to the airport, you may already be familiar with a reliable service -- and they might be familiar with you.

Not all limousine services are the same. Price should not be your only method of comparison. Much like a hotel room or a meal at a restaurant, there may be different levels of service among companies.

It’s important to compare apples to apples. Figure out a package that will work for you, including size of car, duration of time and any other special features, such as a stocked bar, and then compare this package among the different limo companies you’re considering.

The right vehicle also can make all the difference -- and may help you narrow down your choices among companies. For instance, a business might not have the model

you want or that vehicle isn’t available the day of your wedding. Also, be sure there will be enough room and if there is trunk space for luggage for honeymoon essentials.

Check whether there are certain add-ons, such as fuel surcharges or tolls that are not factored into the base price. Also, some companies include a driver tip in the cost, while others will leave that to your discretion. Here are some other things to keep in mind.

• Book early. Limos, like services from other vendors, will book fast, especially during peak wedding or other seasons.

• Consider a package. Most companies have put together a package for special events, like weddings.

They may be the best value.

• Check registration. Limo companies need to have a license to operate and proper insurance.

• Confirm the details. Be sure that the duration of the service, how many people will be transported and all costs are spelled out in a contract for everyone’s protection.

Daily Corinthian • Sunday, February 1, 2015 • 3B

Rod McKuen was mega-selling poet, performer

BY HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer

NEW YORK — Rod McKuen, the huskyvoiced “King of Kitsch” whose avalanche of music, verse and spokenword recordings in the 1960s and ’70s overwhelmed critical mockery and made him an Oscarnominated songwriter and one of the best-selling poets in history, has died.

He was 81.

McKuen died Thursday morning at a rehabilitation center in Beverly Hills, California, where he had been treated for pneumonia and had been ill for several weeks and was unable to digest food, his half brother Edward McKuen Habib said.

Until his sabbatical in 1981, McKuen was an astonishingly successful and prolific force in popular culture, turning out hundreds of songs, poems and records. Sentimental, earnest and unashamed, he conjured a New Age

spirit world that captivated those who didn’t ordinarily like “poetry” and those who craved relief from the war, assassinations and riots of the time.

“I think it’s a reaction people are having against so much insanity in the world,” he once said. “I mean, people are really all we’ve got. You know it sounds kind of corny, and I suppose it’s a cliche, but it’s really true; that’s just the way it is.”

His best-known songs, some written with the Belgian composer Jacques Brel, include “Birthday Boy,” ‘‘A Man Alone,” ‘‘If You Go Away” and “Seasons In the Sun,” a charttopper in 1974 for Terry Jacks. He was nominated for Oscars for “Jean” from “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and for “A Boy Named Charlie Brown,” the title track from the beloved Peanuts movie.

Frank Sinatra, Madonna, Dolly Parton and Chet Baker were among the

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His best-known songs include “Birthday Boy,” ‘‘A Man Alone,” ‘‘If You Go Away” and “Seasons In the Sun,” a chart-topper in 1974 for Terry Jacks. He was nominated for Oscars for “Jean” from “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and for “A Boy Named Charlie Brown,” the title track from the beloved Peanuts movie. many artists who recorded his material, although McKuen often handled the job himself, in a hushed, throaty style he honed after an early life as a rock singer cracked his natural tenor.

McKuen is credited with more than 200 albums — dozens of which went gold or platinum — and more than 30 collections of poetry. Worldwide sales for his music top 100 million units while his book sales exceed 60 million copies.

He was especially productive from 1968 to 1969, releasing four poetry collections, eight songbooks, the soundtracks to “Miss Jean Brodie” and “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” and at least 10 other albums. Around the same time, his “Lonesome Cities” album won a Grammy for best spoken word recording and Sinatra commissioned him to write material for “A Man Alone: The Words and Music of Rod McKuen.”

With his sharply parted blond hair, sneakers and jeans, McKuen was recognized worldwide and thrived in every medium: movies, music, books, television, stage. When not writing or recording, he appeared on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson and other talk show programs, formed a film production company with Rock Hudson and toured constantly until he took an extended break in 1981.

“I was tired. I peaked.

I left when I was on top,” McKuen told the Chicago Tribune in 2001. “One year, I did 280 concerts.”

He had no formal musical or literary training, but often turned out a

song or poem per day and prided himself on writing verse that anyone could understand. The work seemed to call for accompaniment by a single, sad guitar or a sobbing chorus of strings. Among his most quoted phrases: “Listen to the warm” and “It doesn’t matter who you love, or how you love, but that you love.”

The words written about McKuen were as notable as his own. Often compared to “Love Story” author Erich Segal, he was dubbed “The King of Kitsch” by Newsweek, while the magazine Mademoiselle preferred “Marshmallow Poet.” A National Lampoon parody interspaced mock verses with dollar signs.

The escapism of his work was contrasted by an early life well in need of escaping. Born in Oakland in 1933, he hardly knew his father, who left the family when he was a baby, and McKuen recalled being terrified of his alcoholic stepfather.

By age 11, McKuen had run away and he would spend his teens doing everything from ranching to roping horses in a rodeo, while writing poetry in his free time.

After serving as a propaganda writer in the Korean War, McKuen wound up in San Francisco, where his friend Phyllis Diller helped him find work in the growing nightclub scene. He went on to sing with the Lionel Hampton band, acted in a handful of movies and TV shows, read poetry on the same bill as Jack Kerouac and other Beat writers and had a minor hit single

in the early 1960s with the dance parody “Oliver Twist.”

Without critical approval or a book or recording contract, McKuen proved that an artist could thrive on word of mouth alone. He sang in bowling alleys to promote “Oliver Twist,” and his self-published collection of poems and lyrics, “Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows,” sold tens of thousands of copies before Random House acquired it.

McKuen slowed down over the second half of his life, and many of his books fell out of print. But he continued to publish poetry, remastered old musical recordings and gave occasional concerts.

He provided voiceovers for the Disney movie and TV series “The Little Mermaid” and appeared at Carnegie Hall in 1995 for an 80th birthday tribute to Sinatra. Artists continued to record his songs, including the former Gene Ween, Aaron Freeman, who in 2012 released an album of McKuen covers called “Marvelous Clouds.”

McKuen did at times take on social and political issues. He opposed the Vietnam War, wrote a poem about the Watergate scandal and supported civil rights and equal rights for gays. Often described as a loner, he was reluctant to discuss his own romantic preferences beyond saying he did have them.

“Cats have it all,” he once wrote, “admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”

Miranda Lambert leads ACM Awards with 8 nominations

BY MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer

NEW YORK — Miranda Lambert is continuing her reign as contemporary country queen with eight nominations at this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards.

The ACMs announced Friday that Lambert is the top contender, including a nomination for entertainer of the year, pitting her against top-billing male stars Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line.

Lambert is also nominated for album of the year for “Platinum,” female vocalist of the year as well as vocal event and video of the year for “Somethin’ Bad’” with Carrie Underwood. “Automatic,” Lambert’s hit single, earned her a nomination for song of the year and two nominations for single record of the year since she also co-wrote the song.

The ACMs reflect next month’s Grammy Awards, where Lambert is nominated in all four country categories, including best country album.

The 31-year-old’s main competition at the ACMS — to be held April 19 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas — is Dierks Bentley, who earned seven nominations, including male vocalist, album, single record, song, video and vocal event of the year.

Last year George Strait won entertainer of the year, but if Lambert takes the top honor home she will be the first woman to do so since Taylor Swift in 2012. Lambert has won female vocalist of the year for five consecutive years and is the current record holder in the category.

Chart-topping duo Florida Georgia Line earned five nominations, while Luke Bryan, Kenny

Chesney and Eric Church earned four apiece. Glen Campbell, who earned Oscar and Grammy nominations for “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from the documentary, “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me,” is up for video of the year for the song’s music video. The 78-year-old is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Brandy Clark, who is nominated for two Grammys including best new artist, will compete at the ACMs for female vocalist of the year and song of the year since she co-wrote Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow,” a song about acceptance.

Musgraves, Aldean and Underwood are up for three awards each.

The ACMs are celebrating their 50th year, and Bryan and Blake Shelton will help bring the party to life as the show’s hosts.

The show will air live on CBS.

Hallmark Channel’s Kitten Bowl teams vie for purring rights

BY LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer

LOS ANGELES — Football tampering is inevitable when felines take the field Sunday in Hallmark Channel’s Kitten Bowl — a four-team playoff to promote the adoption of shelter animals.

The channel says kitties simply can’t help the fact that claws and balls don’t go together.

“Our issues tend to be more related to the size of the ‘yarnage’ markers on the ‘kitiron’ and, of course, the length of their milk breaks,” said Bill Abbott, president and CEO of Hallmark parent Crown Media Family Networks.

In other words, cute

trumps controversy when fluffy, big-eyed kitties are involved, just as it should.

“Kitten Bowl II” kicks off at 11 a.m., starting with semifinal matches between the Northpole Panthers and Hallmark Channel Hearties, and the Good Witch Wildcats versus the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Mountain Lions. The winners then play for ultimate purring rights.

Hallmark goes for giggles as well, with “quartercats” dubbed Tawny Unitas, Ryan Fitzcatrick and Joe Montuna.

John Sterling and Mary Carillo host the big game, with Boomer Esiason serving as Feline Football

League commissioner.

The kitty contest isn’t the only televised alternative to Sunday’s Super Bowl match between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots.

Fish Bowl II is on the Nat Geo WILD channel (5 p.m.) and there’s Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl (2 p.m.) that kicked off the trend and is in its 11th year. The latter also promotes pet adoption.

Viewers lap it all up.

Last year’s Puppy Bowl drew 13.5 million viewers, with the inaugural Kitten Bowl watched by 1 million. That’s not the 2014 Super Bowl’s 112.2 million viewers, but it beats a bowl of kibble.

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0710 HOMES FOR SALE

LAND FOR SALE 925 5th Street 3BR/1BA 1600 Sq ft 115x105 ft lot included. new floors, storm windows, Children could walk to school.

16x16 bedrooms, New Central Heat and Air System & Alarm System.

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467 CR 306 Strickland 2 Bed - 1 Bath Lge Garage & Storage Shed. $600 Mo./$500 Dep.

2 Bedroom- $450 3 Bedroom9 CR 128 $675

3 Bed - 1.5 Bath Central School District Large Garage $675 Mo/$500 Dep.

4 Bedroom- $850 Both Have Central Heat & Air

662-279-7453

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868 AUTOMOBILES

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864 TRUCKS/VANS SUV’S

2002 Saturn 4Cyl, Automatic Transmission 32 MPG All New Electrical System

$1500.00 662-423-8449

White 2006 Wrangler X

Mint Condition! Straight 6- automatic- with 44,100 miles.

Trail Certified, but never been off-road.

Mickey Thompson wheels with BF Goodrich Tires (35’s)- less than 15K miles on them. Black Hard top currently on it & Bikini top comes with it. Tan Leather Interior, Stereo Sound Bar, Custom Jeep Cover, and Custom Bumpers. Serviced regularly.

4\” lift with 2\” body lift. Title in Hand- $22,000.

Cashier’s Check or Cash only, extra pictures available. Serious Buyers Only, located in Corinth, MS. Call Randy: 662-415-5462

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Frontier Desert Runner 2x4 4 door, Silver 1350 Miles

$22,000 $26,000

662-415-8881

864 TRUCKS/VANS SUV’S

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1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee 283,000 Approx.

Miles $3000.

662-396-1182

CE U D E R 500 $6,

New Tires 100K Miles Never BeeWrecked

$8200 OBO

2011 Nissan Sentra SL Super Black, beige interior, 80,000 miles, Super Clean, Sunroof, loaded, navigation system, blue tooth

$12,900 662-401-2474

662-664-0357

2000 GMC Jimmy

4x4 • 150K leather, sunroof, 4.3 vortec good tires $1,600.00 OBO

662-319-7145

2007 White Toyota Tundra double cab, 5.7 V8 SR5, Aluminum wheels, 64,135 miles, lots of extras, $19,000.

Call 662-603-9304

804 BOATS ALUMINUM BOAT FOR SALE 16FT./5FT. 115 HP. EVINRUDE. NEW TROLLING MOTOR TRAILER NEWLY REWIRED ALL TIRES NEW NEW WINCH

1996 VW Cabrio Convertible 178,000 Approx.

Miles $3000.

KUBOTA TRACTOR TRACTOR KUBOTA

Hyster Forklift Narrow Aisle 24 Volt Battery 3650.00 287-1464

CED REDU 2006 Jeep LibertyD

470 TRACTORS/ FARM EQUIP.

L4630 L4630 46 HP, 4wd, 295 Hours HP,Bush 4wd, 6’46LMC Hog 295Cutter Hours 5’King Tiller All$13,750 $17,500.00 Will Separate 662-415-2340 Call: 662-415-2340

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Clark Forklift 8,000 lbs, outside tires Good Condition $15,000

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2013 KUBOTA 3800 SERIES TRACTOR BUSH HOG, BACKHOE, FRONT LOADER AND BOX BLADE

$23,500

WILL TRADE

662-643-3565

804 BOATS

2000 MERCURY Optimax, 225 H.P. Imagine owning a likenew, water tested, never launched, powerhouse outboard motor with a High Five stainless prop,

ASKING $7500.00 CALL 662-427-9591 MADE IN LOUISIANA. THIS IS WHAT SWAMP PEOPLE USE.

2003 FORD VAN

15 Passenger 41,000 Miles Excellent Condition $8500.00

662-286-6662

for only $7995.

Call John Bond of Paul Seaton Boat Sales in Counce, TN for details.

731-689-4050 or 901-605-6571

1989 FOXCRAFT

18’ long, 120 HP Johnson mtr., trailer & mtr., new paint, new transel, 2 live wells, hot foot control.

$6500.

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2010 Chevy Equinox LS 2006 Hyundai Tuscon Limited Sport Utility Dark Blue with Tan interior 4 Door, V-6, sunroof, power everything!

95,600 Miles Great Condition New Tires, New Battery

$7000 662-286-6301

130K Miles, Fully Loaded GREAT Condition!

$10,000 $10,500 662-415-8343 or 415-7205

2008 Nissan Altima 2 door coupe 103K Miles, power seats, automatic trans, sunroof, new tires, miles are hwy. Car is in great shape.

$9200.00 OBO 415-6310

2005 Chevy 1997 Van New Holland 15 Passenger 3930 Tractor 71,000 Miles Excellent 1400 Hours Big Boy Forklift Condition $ 1250 $8500.00 Great for a small $11,500 warehouse 662-286-6662 662-287-1464 731-926-0006

Loweline Boat

14’ flat bottom boat. Includes trailer, motor and all.

Call

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662-554-5503

‘07 Dolphin LX RV, 37’

gas burner, workhorse eng., 2 slideouts, full body paint, walk-in shower, SS sinks & s/s refrig w/ im, Onar Marq gold 7000 gen., 3-ton cntrl. unit, back-up camera, auto. leveling, 2-flat screen TVs, Allison 6-spd. A.T., 10 cd stereo w/s.s, 2-leather capt. seats & 1 lthr recliner, auto. awning, qn bed, table & couch (fold into bed), micro/conv oven, less than 5k mi.

CED U D $85,000 E R662-415-0590

864 TRUCKS/VANS SUV’S

2007 Dodge Ram

73,000 Miles, V-6, Auto, CD Player, New Tires and Battery, Excellent Truck!

8000

$

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662-665-1995

2006 Wilderness Camper

Antique 1986 FORD F350 XL- Dualley, 7.3 Diesel, new tires, Paint, Lots of Extras, 164,803 Miles, Motor runs well, 2nd Owner, $4000.00 662-287-8894

5th Wheel 29.5ft w/ large one side slide out non-smoking owner fully equip.

IUKA 662-423-1727

2001 Nissan Xterra FOR SALE Needs a little work.

Good Bargain!

Call: 662-643-3084

1993 John Deere 5300 Tractor

Toyota Forklift 5,000 lbs Good Condition

662-287-1464

w/ John Deere loader.

2900 Hours

$10,500

731-926-0006

1993 BAYLINER CLASSIC

19’6” LONG FIBERGLASS INCLUDES TRAILER THIS BOAT IS KEPT INSIDE AND IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION NEW 4 CYL MOTOR

PRICE IS NEGOTIABLE CALL 662-660-3433

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30 ft., with slide out & built-in TV antenna, 2 TV’s, 7400 miles.

$75,000.

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Tractor For Sale!

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$6500.00 662-419-1587

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$3800 OBO 662-212-2492

TRACTOR FOR SALE JOHN DEERE 40-20 NEW PUMPS, GOOD TIRES RETIRED FROM FARMING $14,000 662-419-1587

1991 CUSTOM FORD VAN 48,000 ONE OWNER MILES POWER EVERYTHING

$4995.

CALL: 662-808-5005

SOLD TOYOTA FORKLIFT

5,000 lbs, Good Condition

$6500.00

662-287-1464

Excaliber made by Georgi Boy

1985 30’ long motor home, new tires, Price negotiable.

662-660-3433

Bass Boat 2005 Nitro 882 18’+ w/ 150 HP Mercury upgraded electronics, low hours Nice condition $14,000 OBO 665-0958 Leave a message

CED U D E R 2005 Yamaha V-star 1100 Silverado

Loaded with Chrome, 32,000 Miles, factory cover with extras

$2,700.00

662-396-1098

804 BOATS

1999 Dodge Ram 1500 V-8 Extended Cab Long Wheel Base Auto Transmission Runs Good

2012 Jeep Wrangler 4WD 9,600 Miles, Red Garage Kept, it has been babied.

All maintenance records available.

Call or Text:

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662-594-5830

1997 Mustang GT 2006 Kawasaki Vulcan 1600

13,500 Miles, Serviced in November, New Back Tire, Cobra Pipes, Slingshot Windshield

$4295 OBO 662-212-2451

2011 Toyota Sienna Van

Built for handicap.

Power lift gate, lowered floor, power side doors, sunroof, leather. Only 3000 miles. Cost $53,000 new, asking $28,900- Only Serious Inquiries415-1989

Black Like new on the inside and out.

Runs Great, good tires, 114K miles

$

5,900.00

662-664-0357 91’ Chevy CK1500 4x4 Step Side w/ topper Recently Completed full service.

186,711 Miles

$3500 OBO 731-727-5573

VERY SHARP TORCH RED C-4 CORVETTE 1984 MODEL W/ TARGA TOP DAILY DRIVER GOOD TIRES. $7500.

662-462-8391 OR 662-279-1568

2010 Black Nissan Titan Pro4x

Off Road 5.6 V-8 4 Door 93,000 Miles

$25,000 662-415-8869 or 662-415-8868

53’ GOOSE NECK TRAILER STEP DECK BOOMS, CHAINS AND LOTS OF ACCESSORIES $12,000/OBO 731-453-5031 1989 Mercedes Benz 300 CE 145K miles, Rear bucket seats, Champagne color, Excellent Condition.

Diligently maintained. $5000.00 662-415-2657

SOLD

1984 DODGE RAM CLASSIC CUSTOMIZED CALL FOR DETAILS 731-239-8803

2001 Volvo S40

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3850.00

662-665-1995

662-462-8274

662-750-0199

2009 TT45A New Holland Tractor 335 Hours 8 x 2 Speed, non-Synchro Mesh Transmission. Roll over protective structure, hydrolic power lift. Like New Condition, owner deceased, Kossuth Area. $12,500- 662-424-3701

2012 Lowe Pontoon 90 H.P. Mercury w/ Trailer Still under warranty.

Includes HUGE tube $19,300 662-427-9063

CED U D E R 1996 CROWNLINE CUDY

78,000 original miles,new tires.

$4500

662-284-9487

2007 Yamaha 1300 V-Star Bike

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23’ on trailer & cover 5.7 liter engine runs & works great.

FIRM

$10,000 $6,000.00

w/removable (three bolts) trike kit., new back tire, new battery.

6400 miles, excellent condition. $

731-607-3172

662-808-9662 or 662-808-2020

$

8500.00

662-287-2703 or 662-415-3133

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1994 Ford F-150 302 Auto 163K Miles $3200 OBO

2004 F & F 17.5 ft.

2008 Nissan Versa

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1500 Goldwing Honda

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$7200.00 OBO

662-664-0357

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7500.00

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Build the perfect wedding registry Many once-popular wedding traditions have fallen by the wayside. But one wedding tradition that has withstood the test of time is the wedding registry. Couples about to tie the knot still build a wedding registry so their guests know what to buy them as wedding gifts. This saves guests the trouble of agonizing over what to buy the couple getting hitched and also ensures that couples won’t receive two or more of the same item.

Building a registry can be fun, as couples can act like kids in a candy store and add items they might otherwise not be able to afford. But there is a method to building a registry that can ensure the process of giving and receiving gifts is comfortable and convenient for everyone involved.

• Choose a national chain. Many stores will allow couples to establish a registry, but it behooves couples to choose a national chain or chains for their registry. A local boutique store might sell several items you would love to have, but that store may only be accessible to guests who live nearby, and such stores may be more expensive than larger national chains that can afford to charge less for similar products.

Choosing a national chain ensures all of your guests will be able to access and purchase a gift from your registry, and make those purchases without breaking the bank.

• Choose a store with an online presence. When choosing a store for your registry, it also helps to choose a store with an online presence that’s userfriendly. Ideally, pick an online retailer you have already had positive experiences with. This not only will make it easier for your guests, but also for you should you decide to return items down the road.

• Choose more than one store. You also want to choose more than one store when building a registry. Some guests will prefer to shop in-store rather than online, so you want to give them some options so they don’t have to drive far and wide to find the lone brick and mortar store for your registry.

• Visit the stores and do your homework. Though some stores allow you to develop a registry entirely online, it still helps for couples to visit the store together and build their registries in the more traditional way. Visiting a store as opposed to browsing the store website allows you to touch and feel products, which can give you a more accu-

G i f t r e g i s t r i e s t a ke the guesswork out of wedding gift buying for guests.

Revisit your registry after the wedding to see if you can find great deals on those items you never received, and continue to do so until the registry expires. rate idea of their quality.

In addition to seeing the products in person, read online reviews of products before putting them on your registry so you can ensure you’re getting quality items.

• Choose items that vary in price. Many couples are sheepish about putting expensive items on their registries. That’s not surprising, as the cost of attending a wedding, especially one that features lots of out-of-town guests, can be substantial.

But some guests, such as the bride and groom’s parents and siblings, may want to give a more high-end gift, so don’t be afraid to include items in a range of prices, from the inexpensive to the more costly, on your registry.

• Don’t abandon the registry after your big day.

You won’t end up getting everything you include on your registry, but that doesn’t mean you should just forget about those items that never made their way into your home.

Many retailers offer couples significant discounts on items from their registries that were never purchased, and those discounts may extend for as long as a year after the big day. Revisit your registry after the wedding to see if you can find great deals on those items you never received, and continue to do so until the registry expires.

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Unique foods can make reception special Once a couple has officially tied the knot, the newly recognized man and wife and all of their guests will retire to a party room where they can mingle, dance and enjoy a good meal.

In the past, standard fare like prime rib and roasted chicken dominated wedding menus. But today’s weddings cater to people of various culinary tastes, and couples and their guests can expect more upscale and creative cuisine to be rolled out for wedding receptions. The following are a handful of the more popular trends.

Miniature bites Many people say good things come in small packages, and when it comes

to miniature versions of favorite foods, they may be right. Instead of large meals that fill guests up fast, they can munch on smaller bites of their favorite dishes. How about a piece of meatloaf topped with whipped mashed potatoes? A cherry tomato with a small piece of mozzarella cheese makes a mini caprese salad. Turning favorite foods into bite-sized adventures can add a touch of whimsy to the reception.

breakfast table fare can be enjoyed any time of the day.

Gourmet comfort food People love familiar comfort foods, but now gourmet comfort foods are shaking up wedding receptions.

Mac-andcheese with gouda and brie or chicken pot pie with a puff-pastry crust are a few offerings that can add glamour to downhome cooking.

a cheese lover’s dream.

These stations also can be appetizing focal points around the room and ensure all guests get a bite of what they like best.

Food and beverage pairings Food-forward wedding couples are offering guests mouthwatering appetizers matched with a cocktail. A slider and a craft beer or a dumpling and a shot of saki are examples of this trend.

Breakfast for dinner Brunch-themed weddings are a big hit with those who would much rather dine on a stack of pancakes than a dish of pasta. Omelet stations, croissants and other

Interesting buffet stations Keep guests on their toes with various meal stations. A bountiful display of artisanal cheeses, fruits and breads will be

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When offered along with dessert stations, guests can certainly get their fill of sweet delights.

Family style Rustic and informal weddings have grown in popularity. Rather than food being brought to the guests or participants lining up in buffet lines, family-style dining allows guests to share conversation and pass the peas at the same time. Larger, rectangular tables allow more guests to sit with

one another and serve themselves food from community plates located in the center of the tables.

Vegan and glutenfree options Chances are one or more people attending the reception will be on a restricted diet. Rather than relegate these guests to dining on side dishes and patchwork meals, certain couples are building entire offerings around vegan and glutenfree foods.

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Simple solutions can help save on weddings Couples in the midst of planning a wedding often find themselves overwhelmed by the cost of such a meaningful yet expensive undertaking.

The average wedding is as expensive as a new car or a down payment on a new house, so it’s no surprise many couples experience sticker shock when they first begin to negotiate with vendors.

But as shocking as the cost of saying “I do” in front of family and friends can be, there are some tried-and-true ways to drastically reduce that cost without making the big day any less special.

Guests Many couples save the most money by reducing the number of people they invite to their wedding.

Couples who come from large families may not be able to cut family members from their guest lists without causing a significant stir, so such men and women can look for other areas to trim. Professional colleagues and old acquaintances who you no longer keep in touch with are unlikely to be offended if they don’t make the cut, and removing them from the guest list can save couples substantial amounts of money.

Venue Perhaps no element of wedding planning is more open to negotiation than the venue where the reception will take place.

Many couples now choose venues that can host both the wedding and the reception, and that can save couples the cost of booking two separate locations and transporting out-of-town guests from one location to another.

Venues are typically open to negotiation with regard to the price per person for the reception, and few will not have some wiggle room built into their initial quote. If young children and teenagers will be attending the wedding, negotiate lower rates for their meals, as they won’t be drinking alcohol and

Plan ahead for trying on gowns Many brides-to-be look forward to the day when they visit a bridal salon and are able to try on gowns for the first time.

There are certain tips that can make the day go much more smoothly and potentially reduce the amount of time it may take to find the perfect gown.

• Wear a supportive, well constructed strapless bra or corset in your correct size. If you will be wearing a petticoat, also have the right size available.

• Go without face makeup when trying on gowns so they remain clean.

• Tryv to wear your hair similar to the style you have in mind for your wedding.

• Note that the size of the wedding gown you will wear is typically one to two sizes larger than your day-to-day clothes.

Proper measurements can be matched to designers’ size charts.

• It’s best to limit the number of people with whom you shop to 1 or 2 trusted friends or family members. An entourage can be confusing.

• It’s always better to order a slightly larger gown and leave room for alterations if you are between sizes.

Certain locales, such as large cities, are more expensive than others. Couples who come from small towns may benefit from tying the knot close to home, as vendors tend to charge less the further they are from large metropolises. therefore won’t cost the venue as much as adult guests.

Location Where a couple decides to tie the knot will have a significant impact on their bottom line. Certain locales, such as large cities, are more expensive than others. Couples who come from small towns may benefit from tying the knot close to home, as vendors tend to charge less the further they are from large metropolises.

Waterfront venues, regardless of which city they happen to be in, also tend to be more expensive than venues with less impressive surroundings.

Couples willing to sacrifice city lights and breathtaking views of the water are likely to find more affordable venues for ceremonies and receptions.

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Timing The timing of a wedding also affects a couple’s bottom line. Couples hoping to get married when wedding season hits its peaks, which is generally considered the months of May and June and then also late-September into October, can expect to pay substantially more than couples willing to get married at other times of the year. Couples also can save money by choosing to get married on Friday or Sunday nights or Saturday afternoon, when many venues charge considerably less per person than they do on Saturday night, which remains the most popular night of the week to get married.

The cost of a wedding is considerable, but couples can cut those costs in several ways if they’re willing to be flexible and negotiate with vendors.

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Couples who host their wedding receptions on weekend afternoons instead of Saturday nights can save substantial amounts of money.

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