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Captain recalls city’s City will seek last double homicide bids for West

BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Ralph Dance had been on the job two weeks when the last double homicide happened in Corinth.

On August 13, 1994, the new investigator with the Corinth Police Department was called in

to investigate a murder of two individuals on Crater Street.

Almost 20 years later, the detective captain and his staff of Heather Glass, Dell Green and Fred Serio were challenged with solving another double homicide in the city.

A fire investigation turned

into a crime scene after Corinth firemen found the bodies of brothers James Copeland, 67, and Jerry Copeland, 64, in the back of their burned home at 912 Second Street on Feb. 13 around 12:30 a.m.

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Perfect Attendance

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Annie Pollard has attended every regular meeting of the Corinth Board of Mayor and Aldermen since November 2010.

Activism drives Pollard to every meeting

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

(This is the third of a series of stories on black members of the community.)

When a citizen shows up at a meeting of the Board of Aldermen, it’s not usually just to sit and listen.

One Corinth woman, Annie

Pollard, is the rare exception.

Since the current administration took office in November 2010, she hasn’t missed a single regular meeting of the board.

If she keeps up the pace, she will have attended around 100 meetings by the end of the term.

“The number one thing I come to them for is because

I’m concerned about the local government and how it’s ran, because I feel like there’s a lot of things that could be done,” said Pollard, a Kossuth native who became a Corinthian in the 1960s.

Her dedication to being “in Please see POLLARD | 2A

Luncheons mix fellowship & inspiration Staff photo by Steve Beavers

BY STEVE BEAVERS

Becky Williams serves a guest in preparation of the annual Lenten Luncheons at First United Methodist Church.

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The First United Methodist Women are putting on aprons to help others.

For the 34th year, the women of the church have planned some phenomenal meals and beautiful music as part of its annual Lenten Luncheons.

“Each week a homemade meal and an inspirational message will be available in the Please see LUNCH | 2A

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BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

The city of Corinth could have a buyer for the West Corinth school property in about six weeks.

A recent closed session of the Corinth Board of Mayor and Aldermen included a vote to put the property up for bids.

The bid solicitation will be advertised in the newspaper.

“About five to six weeks from now, hopefully, bids will be opened and considered,” said City Attorney Wendell Trapp.

With the National Park Service and the Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission on record as wanting the property, the bid process is going to take their wishes into account.

“The bid solicitation will limit the use of the property to something consistent with the historical significance of that property,” said Trapp.

The vacant school sits on battlefield property across from the interpretive center on Linden Street, and the park service wants the land

to become part of the Corinth Unit of Shiloh National Military Park.

The city is still moving toward a lease agreement with the Easom Outreach Foundation for the South Corinth school property. This past week’s meeting had some further discussion of the lease in closed session, but it is still not finalized. In a prior executive session, the board had some further discussion of whether to subdivide the property.

The city can donate property in some limited circumstances, and Trapp said it is “very difficult to have a situation that does check all of those boxes.”

The west and south campuses are getting most of the attention right now.

“East has taken the back seat to these other two for now, but they are certainly thinking about all of the options with regard to it,” said Trapp.

The board has cited contract negotiations in taking most of the recent discussion behind closed doors.

Late ‘Chief’ Betts left mark as local historian

BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

The “Chief” was the unofficial historian in the area.

Charlie Will Betts left an impression which can’t be duplicated following his death in 2000.

Affectionately known as “Chief” by those who knew him best, the historical void left following his death has yet to be replaced, according to Black History Museum volunteer Freida Miller.

“Mr. Charlie was one of the greatest historians of our time,” said Miller. “His accounts of historical facts from memory were fascinating … he had the unique ability to orate in detail for great lengths of time.”

Betts and his wife, the late Ozella Richardson Betts, raised three children. He proudly served his country in World War II as a member of the United States Army.

“He loved his community and spent most of his life

teaching and shaping the lives of children in Corinth,” said Miller.

B e t t s walked several miles a day to school. He Betts was a graduate of Corinth Colored High School before earning a bachelor degree at Rust College followed by a masters degree from Atlanta University.

The father of three returned to Corinth as a teacher and football coach at Easom High School. Chief’s educational career came to a close when he retired from South Corinth Elementary School in 1982.

“Since his death in 2000, many former students have often recalled his memorable sagas and war stories,” said the museum volunteer. “ToPlease see BETTS | 2A

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fellowship hall of the church,” said Brenda Childs, member of the First United Methodist Women.

First Methodist has lunches slated each Wednesday for six weeks.

The first luncheon is scheduled for 11:45 a.m. on March 5. Cost is $6 and includes a homemade meal, drink and dessert.

Ash Wednesday kicks off the Easter tradition of spiritual renewal and fellowship. Lent is the Christian observance of the liturgical year from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday. It ends April 17 this year during the annual commemoration of

Holy Week, marking the death and resurrection of Jesus.

The list of scheduled speakers include: March 5 – Bobby Capps, Crosswind; March 12 – Rev. Ann Fraser, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church; March 19 – Rev. John Moore, District Superintendent; March 26 – Rev. Ann Kaufman, Pickwick United Methodist; April 2 – Dr. Don Elliott, First Presbyterian Church; April 9 – Rev. Ginger Jones Holland, Cornerstone United Methodist Church.

Lunches planned for the six weeks are: March 5 – Chicken Spaghetti, Salad and Garlic Bread; March 12 – Vegetable Beef Soup and Pimiento

Cheese Sandwich; March 19 – Hot Ham Sandwiches and Pasta Salad; March 26 – Potato Casserole and Chef Salad; April 2 – Mixed Beans with Ham, German Cole Slaw and Cornbread Muffins; April 9 – Chicken Salad and Congealed Fruit Salad.

“We enjoy this time of the year because the luncheons bring the community together,” said First United Methodist Women member Janet Gray.

Proceeds from the luncheons go to support local and state mission projects of the church.

Some of the local missions supported by First Methodist include AMEN Food Pantry, The Lighthouse Foundation, Sharing Hearts and World

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

First United Methodist Church pastor Roger Shock (from left) and members of the First United Methodist Women Vonceil Smith, Mary Louise Bell, Glenda Andrews, Janet Gray, Barbara Wayne and Becky Williams will be hosting the 34th Annual Lenten Luncheons beginning March 5.

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A Miami County Circuit Court judge will decide March 20 whether he’s accepted Jimerson’s plea and a proposed 30-year sentence.

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day, we regret the fact we did not grasp and retain more knowledge he so desperately desired to pass on to the next generation.”

Betts’ community mindfulness spilled over into things outside of work. The former teacher was a Scoutmaster of Yocona Boy Scout Troop 52 for many years.

“He enjoyed working

with the younger boys in the community,” added Miller.

Betts also belonged to the James A. Long American Legion Post 207, NAACP and the Mississippi Association of Educators.

“There should have been more effort to record his accounts of historical facts,” said Miller. “As we look back, we are painfully aware we allowed a part of our history to slip away.”

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the know” has not gone unnoticed.

“People actually call me because they know that I come up here,” said Pollard. “But I’m saying, ‘Why don’t you come and get involved? It doesn’t take but a few minutes.’”

She wishes more people would bring their concerns to the board.

“I tell people a lot that they should come and see what’s going on here,” said Pollard. “You will know your officials and if anything comes up, you’ll know who to talk to.”

Mayor Tommy Irwin gives Pollard a mention in every meeting.

“She exemplifies what other citizens should be doing,” he said.

Pollard has no second thoughts about sitting through the board sessions twice monthly.

“I’ve never been bored with it,” she said. “It really has helped me to see different faces and to see what’s going on.”

Between the board’s routine reports, resolutions and paying the bills, she often finds something of interest.

“You can’t go by the agenda,” said Pollard.

“You don’t know what might happen up here.”

A resident of Ross Street for more than 40 years, she came to the city board as a concerned citizen in 1998 to ask for help cleaning up her neighborhood. The area was in decline, and she faced a shack across the street and snakes coming from another run-down property nearby.

One day, she was putting some flowers out in her yard when a car stopped in front of her house. Some visitors to Corinth had become lost and asked for directions to Corinth National Cemetery.

Pollard felt ashamed of what those visitors to the city saw on Ross Street and decided it was time to go to City Hall. Armed with photos, she addressed the city board.

“I said, ‘It’s just sad the area that I live in is looking like this, and then we’ve got the national cemetery right around the corner,’” said Pollard.

Eventually, several of those properties came down.

Since she began attending in 2010, she hasn’t brought any requests to the board. She is content to listen and learn where the taxpayer money is going.

“Sometimes I’ll be feeling down, but I just say, ‘You’ve got to go to the meeting,’” said Pollard, who believes the current administration is making good progress. “It seems like it just makes me feel a whole lot better when I come to the meeting.”

She plans to keep the perfect attendance going as long as she can.

Occasionally, someone suggests to Pollard that she should go a step further and throw her hat into the ring at election time. But she has learned enough about government and the community to know that it’s a tough job.

“I think I’ll let somebody else do that,” she said.

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Today in history Today is Sunday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2014. There are 311 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of schoolchildren against polio using the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh as some 5,000 students were vaccinated.

On this date: In 1633, English diarist Samuel Pepys was born in London.

In 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.

In 1848, the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, died in Washington, D.C., at age 80.

In 1863, British explorers John H. Speke and James A. Grant announced they had found the source of the Nile River to be Lake Victoria.

In 1870, Mississippi was readmitted to the Union.

In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an agreement with Cuba to lease the area around Guantanamo Bay to the United States.

In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission.

In 1934, Leopold III succeeded his late father, Albert I, as King of the Belgians.

In 1944, U.S. forces secured Eniwetok Atoll from the Japanese during World War II. In 1945, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi.

In 1970, Guyana became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.

Local/Region Across The Region Gas station robbery suspect captured CHEROKEE, Ala. – The Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office assited the Cherokee Police Department in Cherokee, Ala., in the search of a robbery suspect.

The robbery occurred this week at the Chiska BP Gas Station on U.S. Highway 72 in Cherokee about 15 miles east of Iuka.

The suspect was captured in Horn Lake and is in custody awaiting extradition back to Alabama.

Reportedly, there were two small children in the vehicle at the time of the crime.

to potential industry.

Walker presented the board with a draft ordinance requiring any person or company offering rental property in the city to obtain a free license from the city. Any landlord who failed to comply could be charged with a misdemeanor and face up to a $1,000 fine for an individual or a $2,000 fine for a company.

The license system is designed to create a database of rental property

available in the city, explained Walker. He said if the city knows what’s available they can use the information as a marketing tool when presenting the city to potential new business.

He noted no building permits have been issued in the city in more than two years for the construction of new single-family homes costing less than $250,000 and said the lack of typical middle-income

Autopsy results completed in Jackson the following day showed the Copelands had both been shot in the head with a .410 shotgun.

“We don’t have (double homicides) here a lot,” said Dance. “What made the Copelands’ case a little difficult was the fire.”

Sirdon Capanion Greer, 28, of 1803 East Fifth Street, Corinth, was captured two days later in Tupelo and charged with two counts of first degree murder and one count of arson.

Bond for Greer was set at $1.2 million – $500,000 for each murder and $200,000 for arson – on Feb. 18 by Corinth Municipal Judge John C. Ross Jr. “Our fire department is great and was able to save valuable evidence after putting out the fire,” said the detective captain. “I also have three of the best detectives in the state … three who do not want to go home until the case is solved.”

The swiftness of putting those who commit murder behind bars has improved over the years, according to Dance.

“The science and technology is 10 times better today,” said Dance. “Ten years ago, we didn’t have DNA … the abilities of the crime lab are leaps and bounds better than it was

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back in 1994.”

In the 1994 case, Gabriel Dupree Lasley, 28, and Shrondia Fry, 24, were both shot with a .380 caliber pistol early Saturday morning.

Jaworski “Jay” Carter, 18, and Demetric L. Williams, 19, were charged in the shooting. Both are now serving two life sentences. Carter is housed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman while Williams is being kept at the South Mississippi Correctional Institute in Leakesville.

“It took a little while to solve that one,” said Dance. “We had picked up a couple of other guys before letting them go.”

Carter and Williams were arrested in September for the crime. According to a Sept. 8, 1994 edition of the Daily Corinthian, Carter was charged with the murder of Fry and Williams with shooting Lasley.

“You had to beat the streets back then to solve a case,” said Dance. “Last week, we were fortunate and developed a suspect pretty quick.”

Homicides are never easy on anyone involved, according to the detective captain.

“I have worked around 30 homicides and it’s always a bad situation,” he said. “By solving them in a timely fashion, I think it gives some closure to the families of the victims.”

Superintendent of school retires

retirement from a post he has held for the past two years.

A native of Paden, McClung has dedicated 36 years of his life to educating the children of Mississippi with 24 of those serving the children of Tishomingo County.

The school district will begin searching for a new superintendent within the next few months with the new hire to begin work in August.

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Tishomingo County warrants cleared IUKA – The Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office with the cooperation and assistance of several other agencies has been actively working to locate individuals with outstanding arrest warrants in an attempt to reduce the number of unpaid fines in Tishomingo County.

As of December 31, 2013, 148 old warrants have been cleared. This number includes 118 individuals located in Tishomingo County, 22 others in other counties in Mississippi and another eight individuals were located outside of Mississippi. This has led to over $143,500 in old unpaid fines being collected for the county.

single-family housing makes showing potential industry the availability of quality rental housing vital.

“I think it’s a move in the right direction for our community,” he said.

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John Kerry wages phony climate war Secretary of State John Kerry is reporting for duty in the war against climate change. In a speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, he declared climate change “another weapon of mass destruction.”

Indeed, in what might be news to the 50-megaton hydrogen bomb, he declared it “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.”

Rich If climate change does not Lowry consider itself duly warned, it has only itself to blame. John National Kerry has proven himself fully Review capable of supporting hostilities against dangerous enemies of the United States.

The Obama administration’s latest foray on climate change — clearly setting the predicate for a regulatory offensive on the issue — is notable for its cheap argumentation. The same people who congratulate themselves for taking climate science so seriously trample all over the facts as a matter of routine.

Nothing so annoys the alarmists about climate change nee global warming as when conservatives talk as if a cold snap or snowstorm falsifies the phenomenon. Weather, they explain, rolling their eyes, isn’t climate.

Or that used to be the mantra. Now, every bit of spectacular weather is presumed to be part of the grand mosaic of climate change.

“Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science,” President Barack Obama intoned in his second inaugural, “but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.”

“This isn’t something around the corner,” Kerry said in his WMD speech. “This is happening now.” He cited California, “where millions of people are now experiencing the 13th month of the worst drought the state has seen in 500 years.”

This sounds dire, but scientists don’t necessarily blame climate change. “I’m pretty sure the severity of this thing is due to natural variability,” climate scientist Richard Seager told The New York Times.

Climate change is endlessly flexible. The California drought is blamed on climate change, even though, as the New York Times report noted, “the most recent computer projections suggest that as the world warms, California should get wetter, not drier, in the winter.”

The severe snowfall in the Northeast is vaguely blamed on global warming, even though the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that spring snow cover will decline in the Northern Hemisphere.

Whether it’s hot or cold, dry or wet, rainy or snowy — it’s climate change.

The Obama administration’s trick is to apply a rhetoric of certainty and immediacy to inherently uncertain, far-off projections.

Contrary to Kerry, the latest IPCC report concludes mildly that “there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.”

The IPCC report’s predictions about future effects of warming are over the next century.

So, for instance, if you assume perfect clairvoyance on the part of the report’s authors, it is likely monsoon winds will weaken and monsoon precipitation strengthen ... by 2100.

Recent history counsels more caution rather than more certainty about the scientific consensus on climate change, since global warming has been underperforming during the past 15 years.

Even if Kerry were right in everything he says, he is powerless to do anything about it. Our carbon emissions are essentially flat, while those of China and India are growing at a rapid pace. Those countries aren’t going to hinder their economic development — which has done so much to alleviate human misery — in response to a far-off threat of dangerous weather.

John Kerry can man the battle stations, but he will be lonely there and, if this winter is any guide, very cold.

Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Prayer for today My Father, may I not sorrow so that I fail to comfort the sorrowing, and may I not be so happy that I fail to see that others need to be glad. I thank thee for thy providences. May I serve thee in helping others to brighter lives.

Amen.

A verse to share “And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.” — Judges 2:10

UAW loss a repudiation of 1930s unionism It is 611 miles from the United Auto Workers headquarters in Detroit to Volkswagen’s assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. It’s a long day’s drive, about 10 hours almost entirely on Interstate 75, but it turned out to be too far for the UAW. Or so one must judge from the results of the unionization election last week in Chattanooga. Volkswagen employees voted 712-626 against certifying the UAW as their bargaining agent.

That’s not an overwhelming margin. But it’s significant. Volkswagen, unlike most employers, didn’t oppose the union. It supported it, opening its factory to union organizers but not opponents, announcing it wanted the UAW as a partner in a worker’s council similar to the company’s council with its IG Metall union in Germany.

Knowledgeable analysts like Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post clearly anticipated a union victory.

Many expressed hopes that it would herald successful UAW organizing drives in other foreign-manufacturer plants in the South and Midwest.

But workers made another choice. It’s a big setback for the UAW, whose chances of organizing other foreignmanufacturer plants — where managements oppose

unionization — seem as minimal as ever.

And it’s a repudiation of the Michael UAW model Barone of unionism, which Columnist goes back to the sit-down strikes of early 1937, which enabled the union to organize General Motors and Chrysler (Ford would be organized later, in 1941).

1937 was 77 years ago.

America’s economy changed a lot in those 77 years.

The appeal of the UAW to autoworkers in the 1930s is not hard to understand.

The auto companies managed workers according to the theories of Frederick W. Taylor, whose time-motion studies prescribed the most efficient ways to perform simple operations on a moving assembly line.

Taylor believed workers should be treated like stupid animals, incapable of adaptation or initiative, who needed to be disciplined to perform the same simple function all day.

Workers hated that work.

But they knew in the Depression years that there were many unemployed men who would be happy to take their place.

The UAW argued that,

thanks to the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, it could protect workers’ jobs and that its shop stewards could protest assembly line speedups by stopping the whole assembly line.

The NLRA’s adversarial process came to dominate labor-management relations and attract other workers. By the early 1930s, 35 percent of private sector workers had union representation.

That number has fallen drastically since then. There was a slight uptick last year, according to the Labor Department, but the number is still just 7 percent.

Why the shift against unions? The auto industry is a good example. Adversarial unionism prevented the Detroit-based automakers from adopting the flexible labor relations employed by non-unionized foreign-based automakers.

In addition, the Detroit firms’ managers were themselves hooked on Taylorism.

They saw workers as a lower class of beings who needed to be bridled and saddled like horses.

As a result, foreign-owned automakers produced vehicles of much higher quality.

In adversarial-union plants, some workers delighted in sabotaging their cars. In non-union plants, workers came forward with sugges-

tions on how to make them better.

It took a long time for the UAW and Detroit management to acknowledge the problem.

UAW president, Bob King, says that his union has learned to be cooperative with management. Improved quality of Detroit-made cars and anecdotal evidence that has come my way tend to support that claim.

But Chattanooga’s VW workers don’t seem to think they need the union to cooperate with the company.

They’re already working together — and new hires make union-level wages.

And workers can’t help but notice that the UAW helped push General Motors and Chrysler — and, indirectly, Detroit — into bankruptcy.

The bottom line is that the 1930s adversarial union model has little appeal to workers today. And that few Americans want to head on the road to Detroit.

Michael Barone, senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner, (www.washingtonexaminer.com), where this article first appeared, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

Ukraine’s crisis is not ours Richard Engel of NBC, reporting from Maidan Square in Kiev, described what he witnessed as the Feb. 19 truce collapsed.

Police began to back away from their positions in the square, said Engel. And the protesters attacked. Gunfire was exchanged and the death toll, believed to be in the dozens, is not known.

In short, the reality in Kiev is more complex than the black-and-white cartoon of Vladimir Putin vs. the freedom fighters drawn by our resident Russophobic elite.

Perspective is in order.

First, though portrayed as a tyrannical thug, Viktor Yanukovych won the presidency of Ukraine in 2010 in what international observers called a free and fair election.

Second, high among the reasons Yanukovych chose Russia’s offer to join its custom union over the EU is that Putin put a better deal on the table.

Moscow put up $15 billion in loans and cut-rate oil and gas. The EU offered some piddling loans and credits, plus a demand for reforms in the Ukrainian economy monitored by the IMF, but no commitment to full membership in the EU. As for the “protesters” who came to Maidan Square in November, not all came simply to protest. Many set up tents and shacks, threw up barricades, seized government buildings, burned the

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headquarters of the ruling party, battled police and demanded the overthrow of the regime.

Patrick How many Buchanan W e s t e r n countries Columnist would permit a planned putsch in their capital city?

Still, after weeks of protest, Yanukovych offered to negotiate.

He fired his prime minister and tendered the post to the leader of the opposition Arseniy Yatsenyuk. He offered to make Vitali Klitschko, the ex-heavyweight champion and the head of another opposition party, the deputy prime minister.

His offer was rejected.

Yanukovych then had parliament repeal the tough laws against protests he had had enacted and delivered a full amnesty to those arrested during the months of occupation. In effect, Yanukovych offered peace and a coalition government with his opponents.

Does that sound like an unyielding tyrant? Why was this unacceptable?

When Mohammed Morsi, the elected president of Egypt, was ousted in a military coup last summer, backed by huge crowds in Tahrir Square, John Kerry said the army was “restoring democracy.”

Is this the new Ameri-

can concept of democracy, that when an elected government makes a major decision many dislike, the people should take to the streets and shut down the capital until the president reverses course or resigns?

President Obama is telling the Yanukovych government to respect the protesters. No violence. But how would Obama react if thousands of Tea Party members established an encampment on the Mall, burned down the DNC, occupied the Capitol and demanded he either repeal Obamacare or resign?

Would Barack Obama negotiate?

Russia has accused us of meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs.

And when we see the State Department’s Victoria Nuland in Maidan Square egging on the protesters, and hear tape of Nuland discussing with the U.S. ambassador whom we want in the next Ukrainian government, do not the Russians have a point?

Under George W. Bush, our National Endowment for Democracy helped to engineer color-coded revolutions in Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, but it failed in Belarus. We have a long track record of meddling.

And was it not interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine for John McCain to fly to Kiev, go down to Maidan Square, and do his best imitation of Mario

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If the Cold War is over, why are we playing these Cold War games?

Imagine where America would be today had the neocons gotten their way and brought Georgia and Ukraine into NATO. We would have been eyeball-to-eyeball with Russia in the South Ossetian war of 2008, and eyeball-toeyeball today over Kiev. Yet, in neither country is there any vital U.S. interest worth risking war with Russia.

What is coming in Ukraine, however, is likely to be far worse than what we have seen up to now. For this political crisis has deepened the divide between a western Ukraine that looks to Europe, and an east whose historic, linguistic, cultural and ethnic bonds are with Mother Russia.

With reports of police and soldiers in western Ukraine defecting from the government to join the rebellion, Ukraine could be a country sliding into civil war. If so, the spillover effects could be ominous. But, to be candid, what happens in Ukraine has always been more critical to Moscow than it has ever been to us.

As Barack Obama said of Syria, this is “somebody else’s civil war.”

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”

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Floridian shocked to get war medal MIAMI — Melvin Morris says he fell to his knees in shock when the Army told him he’d be getting a call from President Barack Obama to discuss the Medal of Honor he would be receiving for his actions in Vietnam.

The 72-year-old Cocoa, Fla., man will be one of 24 veterans from three wars to receive the U.S. military’s highest honor. They come after a congressionally mandated review of minorities who may have been passed over because of long-held prejudices.

In 1969, Morris was commanding a strike force that came under attack and a fellow commander was killed near an enemy bunker. Despite heavy fire, Morris retrieved the man’s body and a strategic map.

Dry Connecticut town reconsiders HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s last dry town is considering whether to give up on Prohibition.

Bridgewater is an affluent bedroom community of 1,700 people tucked into the hills of western Connecticut.

And it may have more at stake in an upcoming referendum than bragging rights as the state’s last holdout.

The town residents’ average age has risen above 50, the state is threatening to close the only school and First Selectman Curtis Read

says restaurants that serve alcohol could provide a much-needed boost.

The timing of the vote, originally scheduled for Tuesday, now remains to be determined after it was postponed last week to make sure it complies with the decades-old blue laws.

Bridgewater is taking up the issue because two developers have proposed opening restaurants, as long as they can serve alcohol.

Rural lawmakers fight to be heard MINNEAPOLIS — They’re an endangered species in state legislatures as more Americans move to cities and suburbs: the rural lawmaker who knows what it’s like to run a farm.

Lawmakers and political experts say the dwindling numbers of farmers, ranchers and others who make their living off the land affects not just agricultural policy but other rural concerns — highways, health care, schools and high-speed Internet access.

Indiana State Rep. Bill Friend, a pork producer, said it’s challenging to explain modern farming to colleagues with no personal connections with agriculture.

One Colorado representative, rancher Jerry Sonnenberg, has floated a radical idea over his frustrations at not being heard. He’s pushing a proposal for each of his state’s 64 counties to have a single House seat instead of

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Ex-coach sentenced in exploitation case

Car found 40 years later, but not owner

MERIDIAN — A judge has sentenced former Clarkdale softball coach Rick Roberson to 12 years in prison following his conviction earlier this month on two counts of exploitation of a child and one count of lustful touching of a child.

Allegations were brought against Roberson by former players in September of 2012.

Roberson’s attorney had requested probation because the 61-year-old former coach is in poor health.

Even one of Roberson’s victims said he shouldn’t have to serve prison time.

District attorney Bilbo Mitchell said the sentence handed down Friday was the minimum allowed by the state on the charges.

DETROIT — Police in Tennessee cannot find the man whose Volkswagen Beetle was recently discovered in Detroit, 40 years after it was stolen.

The 1965 car was found in January before it could be shipped to Canada and then to Finland.

Knoxville, Tenn., police spokesman Darrell DeBusk says a man named Joseph McDonald reported it stolen in 1974. He says a phone number left by McDonald no longer works.

DeBusk says McDonald may have been a college student in Knoxville at the time. The car now is white but was red in 1974.

Lawsuit says Sony cheated ‘Idol’ stars

Education board eases accreditation

NEW YORK — A federal lawsuit filed in New York charges that Sony Music Entertainment cheated “American Idol� contestants including Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood out of at least $10 million in royalties.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday by 19 Recordings, a music company founded by “Idol� creator Simon Fuller.

The lawsuit says 19 discovered the royalty issue from two separate audits of Sony’s records.

Other artists named in the suit include Clay Aiken, Chris Daughtry and Jordin Sparks.

JACKSON — The Mississippi Board of Education has approved a temporary rule allowing greater flexibility regarding accreditation in a district placed under conservatorship.

The Clarion-Ledger reports that the rule approved Friday changes a policy that had required withdrawal of accreditation for school districts taken over by the state.

The board’s decision to allow more leeway in accreditation comes after the resignations of the Scott County district superintendent and all school board members following the state’s

takeover of the Scott district. The state cited violations and accreditation issues unrelated to academics.

The takeover had endangered student athletes’ ability to finish out the year’s sports seasons because, until Friday’s policy change, the takeover would have meant automatic accreditation loss.

The temporary rule is effective for 120 days while public comments are gathered.

Upgrades planned for Biloxi I-110 loop BILOXI — Improvements are coming to the Interstate 110 loop at Biloxi.

WLOX TV reports that the changes, including new lighting and signs, come as the area prepares for construction of a new baseball park in Biloxi.

Harrison County Supervisor Windy Swetman began working on the project more than two years ago.

Work that was done last year included the planting of palm trees and decorative lighting at the loop.

$1 million contract approved for lake LUCEDALS — The George County Board of Supervisors has approved a $1 million contract with the Pat Harrison Waterway District and Jackson-based Pickering Engineering for the next phase of work on the Southeast Mississippi Regional Water Supply Project.

The project is more commonly known as

Lake George.

The Mississippi Press reports that the 3,000acre reservoir with a $50 million price tag is intended to reinforce the water supply to Jackson County industries especially during droughts.

It also will be a source of drinkable water to the area for decades and it will provide recreational opportunities.

Court to hear school lawsuit appeals COLUMBUS — The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Lynn Wright, who is appealing a ruling that he was justly fired from his position at New Hope High School principal in 2010.

Wright is now superintendent of the Lowndes County School District, the defendant in the lawsuit.

The Commercial Dispatch reports that the Supreme Court also decided Thursday to hear an appeal from longtime New Hope baseball coach Stacy Hester over his firing.

The state Court of Appeals last year overturned a chancellor’s ruling that Wright was unjustly fired.

It upheld the firing of Hester. Both asked the Supreme Court to hear their appeals.

Wright and Hester were fired by the Lowndes County School Board of Trustees on May 17, 2010 for his purported role in Hester’s purchase of a $15,000 lawn mower.

Both sued the district in October 2011, alleging they were fired due to personality conflicts.

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Leggett chosen as Rotary student of the month Madison Taylor Leggett from Alcorn Central High School has been selected as the Rotary Club Student of the Month.

She is the daughter of Steve and Sybil Leggett and the granddaughter of Laverne Leggett.

During her high school career, she has participated in sports like basketball, track and cross country. She was involved for three years in varsity basketball, two years in varsity track and one year in varsity cross country.

During that time, she has won the Coach’s Award in basketball and Most Improved in track.

Academic Awards she has received include: ■Freshman Year Technology Discovery (2nd), Driver’s Ed (2nd), English I (3rd) ■Sophomore Year Algebra II (1st), English II (2nd), Anatomy and Physiology (2nd), World History (3rd) and the Health Science Technology Award ■Junior Year - U. S.

History (1st), Chemistry (2nd), Woodmen of the World American History Award.

Leggett’s high school years have been full of involvement in clubs. Since joining the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), she has placed sixth at the Northern District and State Leadership Conference in Business Math as well as in first place at the Northern District competition in Marketing. She has been an active member of Stu-

dent Government Association (SGA), Beta Club, and Spanish Club. She is currently serving as SGA Secretary and Beta Club Reporter. Her community service hours have included Community Connections Mentor, Little League Basketball Coach and Scorekeeper, Mississippi Blood Drive Worker and Rotary Club Food Basket volunteer.

Her classmates have selected her Class Secretary and the faculty at ACHS has voted her in the Hall

of Fame. She currently also ranks second in her graduating class at Alcorn Central High School.

Her future plans are to do the things that make her happy and that will make a difference in the world. It has been her experience that helping someone brings joy and satisfaction and that is why she has chosen to pursue a career in nursing. Not only can she make a difference in this field, but will also have the day-to-day privilege

Madison Leggett of improving the lives of others.

Emotions come from internal and external sources Where is the source of your emotions? External sources are people, events, and circumstances. Internal emotions emanate from who you are and are grounded in an understanding of yourself.

We all experience external influences on our emotions in the same way a sail boat is exposed to wind, weather, waves, and currents. How you are affected by these external factors is dependant on the degree of your internal grounding.

If you have little or no internal grounding you are like a sailboat without a rudder. You will go in whatever direction the external forces push you.

This experience is frustrating because it seems as if you have no control over your feelings.

Y o u r emotions vary from very high to disappointingly low with Bryan no warnGolden ing or predictability.

Dare to Live Your ex- Without Limits periences are a reaction to the circumstances around you. You feel happy as a result of positive situations and sad in response to negative ones.

However, when you have an internal source of happiness, your emotions have much smaller swings and recover much faster. An internal basis for your feelings provides emotional stability. An internal source of happiness gives you a solid emotional foundation.

Let’s take a look at some examples.

Todd is very sensitive to how he is treated by his friends. Even interactions with strangers impact him. Ever since he was young, Todd wanted to be accepted. Todd doesn’t like to be alone. He loves to be invited to be part of group activities.

Whenever Todd isn’t asked to participate, he takes it personally. He feels rejected and wonders if he did something wrong to cause him to be overlooked. Being invited to an event doesn’t insure Todd’s feeling accepted.

If the people he considers important don’t spend enough time with him, he becomes upset.

When strangers are rude, Todd feels put off.

He can’t help but wonder if he did something to

make them behave badly toward him. So a chance encounter can negatively affect Todd for an extended period of time, sometimes for the whole day.

Unexpected problems also drag Todd down.

When he gets caught in traffic on his way to work, Todd becomes stressed.

When his car got stuck during a snow storm, Todd became very upset.

Even minor annoyances have a major impact.

When he can’t find his favorite shirt, can’t mow the lawn because it is raining, or spills food on the floor, Todd becomes bummed out.

As you can see, Todd’s emotional state is directly linked to the behavior and attitude of other people as well as circumstances.

When he is treated well, Todd experiences happi-

ness. If he feels ignored or slighted, Todd feels hurt and rejected. When things go as planned, Todd is OK. When unexpected situations arise, he is stressed.

Irene is extremely grateful for all of the blessings in her life. She looks forward to each new day. Irene understands that the only thing she has control over are her thoughts and attitude.

Irene encounters the same types of people and circumstance as Todd but she doesn’t link her emotions to them.

Although there are things that annoy her, she has a foundation of happiness that enables her to keep things in perspective. This approach allows her to experience much more emotional stability compared to

Todd. The people, events, and circumstances that Irene encounters don’t create an emotional roller coaster.

Examine your emotional state. If your feelings are governed by external forces, begin to build an internal foundation of happiness. Start by developing an attitude of gratitude that gives you a centered appreciation for all the things you have to be thankful for. Then when you encounter adverse circumstances, you can connect to your internal feeling of happiness.

third parties threatened the economic future of the facility.

Force records obtained

by The Associated Press.

That is the opposite of what might be expected if answers were being shared as widely as officials allege.

Were they inept cheaters?

Was there, in fact, no sharing of answers during that period?

Were test questions so difficult that even the cheating by some failed to produce higher-thanusual scores for the group as a whole?

The facts of the tainted testing are still under investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. It ranks as the worst such scandal in the history of the intercontinental ballistic missile force and is among a series of security lapses and slipups that have plagued the ICBM corps over the past year. The missteps prompted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to launch two probes of the entire nuclear force to find root causes for leadership lapses and other problems — steps Hagel deemed necessary to restore public confidence.

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

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Abbott welcomes apology for slur AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott says Ted Nugent “rightly apologized� for degrading comments that resurfaced after Abbott welcomed the polarizing rocker to his campaign for Texas governor.

But Abbott in a statement Friday didn’t back away from inviting Nugent in the first place. He said “it’s time to move beyond this� after his appearance with Nugent put Abbott on the defensive for one of the first times in his campaign.

Nugent last month called President Barack Obama a “subhuman mongrel� in an interview.

He apologized earlier Friday after Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky disavowed the remark.

Staff emails pose problem for governor MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker has denied

knowing anything about illegal campaign activities in his previous office as Milwaukee County executive.

But about 28,000 pages of staff emails collected during a district attorney’s investigation and released this week present a picture of Walker that clashes with the impression of a top official above the daily fray of his office. They appear to show a hands-on manager in close touch with his staff and carefully tending his public image.

The emails could provide ammunition for political opponents challenging Walker’s candor as he runs for re-election this year and as he weighs whether to make a presidential bid in 2016.

ABC knew about Kimmel’s wolf hoax ABC News received advance warning of Jimmy Kimmel’s prank about a wolf supposedly prowling the athletes’ village in Sochi but didn’t steer other news organizations away from it, the network

said Friday. The talk show host’s hoax was so realistic that despite the tip, even one of his own network’s news websites posted a story suggesting the report was real.

One media ethicist questioned whether a company that includes a major news organization should broadcast a joke that implied security problems at an Olympic Games where concerns about safety have been, and continue to be, a major issue. “Jimmy Kimmel Live!� airs every weeknight on ABC. Kimmel posted, through USA luger Kate Hansen’s Twitter account, a video that depicted a wolf walking in the hallway outside of Hansen’s Sochi dorm room. It was nearly 24 hours before Kimmel revealed it was a joke, shot with a rented wolf on a Los Angeles soundstage constructed to look exactly like the hallway outside Hansen’s room.

ABC’s entertainment division had no immediate comment on whether Kimmel sought approval

in advance for the prank, or if anyone questioned whether it was a good idea.

Auto union appeals workers’ rejection WASHINGTON — The United Auto Workers is challenging last week’s vote by workers at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee rejecting the UAW to represent them.

The union filed an appeal on Friday with the National Labor Relations Board asserting that “interference by politicians and outside special interest groups� had swayed the election.

In particular, the appeal took aim at Republican Sen. Bob Corker, who suggested that a “yes� vote would persuade VW to take jobs elsewhere while a “no� vote would help not only keep auto jobs in Tennessee, but might also persuade Volkswagen to expand its presence in the state.

The UAW lost the vote 712-626.

UAW President Bob King says it’s an outrage that politically motivated

Christie lies low during gathering WASHINGTON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is maintaining a low profile as the nation’s governors gather in Washington.

Republican officials eagerly change the subject as Democrats link Christie’s troubles to vulnerable GOP governors in a challenging election season.

Christie is scheduled to attend just one public event over the threeday annual meeting. He avoided a media-sponsored forum on Friday, isn’t granting interviews and won’t attend a White House dinner for governors.

Tests fall flat during alleged cheating WASHINGTON — Last summer, when dozens of nuclear missile officers allegedly cheated on exams, test scores were among the lowest of the year, according to Air

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Local organizations visit Capitol (From left) Rep. William Tracy Arnold (R-Booneville), Rep. Lester “Bubba” Carpenter (R-Burnsville), Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Rep. Nick Bain (D-Corinth) welcomed a group of Alcorn County FFA students to the State Capitol.

The group was one of many local FFA chapters visiting the State Capitol as part of their annual Mississippi FFA Association Day. Students from local FFA and 4-H Clubs from around the state visited the Capitol as part of their annual association days. They had the opportunity to visit with legislators and see how state government is run. State officers for both groups were introduced to House members. Rep. Preston Sullivan (D-Okolona) is pictured with Speaker of the House Philip Gunn along with FFA officers Kayla Walters, state president from Stringer; Drew Garrett, state vice president from Mantachie; Emily Parker, state secretary from Jones County; Sayde Turner, state treasurer from Kossuth; Tony Buchanan, state reporter from Lawrence County; and Hayden West, state sentinel from Greene County.

Community Events Reminder Events need to be submitted at least two weeks prior to the event.

Community events publishes on Wednesdays and Sundays and on Friday if space is available.

Photo and frame sale Bill Avery and the Men’s Senior Sunday School Class at First Baptist Church are hosting the sale of thousands of photos taken by local photographer Joe McKewen.

The sale will take place Sunday from 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m., and Feb. 2428 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at 1801-4A South Harper Road next to Sears in the Harper Square Mall.

Photos for sale include major life events like births, high school graduations and weddings from the last five decades. The sale also includes several hundred high quality wooden frames and mats.

All proceeds benefit Joe and Doris McKewen.

Old-time country music The Lisa Lambert Band will play old-time country music and bluegrass, Friday, February 21, at 7 p.m., in Iuka at the American Legion building. Admission is $5 per person. It is a family friendly event. Call 662-293-0136 or www.

LisaLambertMusic.com for more information.

Black history exhibition he Corinth Artist Guild Gallery is hosting an exhibition for Black History Month including the works of Kimberly Bates, Anthony Legett, Edward Eugene Wade Jr., Keegan Love and Terrance Thomas. The exhibit runs through March 8 at the gallery at 609 Fillmore Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Theater Auditions AiM Youth Arts Guild will be holding auditions for their One Act Show

and Competiton on April 4,5 & 6 Both plays will hold open auditions March 10 & 11 at 6 pm at the Latta Theater in the McNairy County Visitors and Cultural Center at 205 West Court Ave. Selmer, Tenn.

The upcoming plays and their casting needs include: • Cheating Death - Director Hunter Steele. 2 males, 4 females and 1 could be either. Ages needed 12-21. When the Angel of Death visits a mental hospital to collect someone on his list, he accidentally reveals himself to the wrong person.

After struggling to convince the patients of his identity, Death attempts to correct his potentially fatal mistake and demands to know which one of them is actually the one he came for. But the patients refuse to give up their friend’s true identity, even after Death insists that if he doesn’t perform the touch of death within the allotted time, the consequences could be disastrous.

• Shuffling- Director Houston Robinson. 1 male 1 female 1-14 flexible. Ages needed 12-21.

Lacey, a teenage girl, has finished work at the mall and is waiting – and waiting – for her boyfriend to pick her up. Left stranded yet again, she reevaluates her love life while shuffling through the songs on her iPod. Actors portraying each of the songs appear with comedic monologues that stir her emotions, offer advice, and affect her decisions. Ethan, a good-humored co-worker, offers her a ride home and the possibility of future romance.

Soup Luncheon The annual Jessee Clausel Memorial 4-H Scholarship Soup Luncheon is set for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26. Tickets are $6.

Orders may be faxed to the Alcorn County Extension Office at 662-2867754 no later than 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24.

Be sure to indicate the time orders should be

delivered. For more information call the extension office at 662-286-7755.

Miss Sunshine Pageant today Third Annual Miss Sunshine Pageant benefiting The Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse will be held today at 2 p.m. The pageant will be held at the Selmer Community Center. Fee is $25 prior to Feb. 17 or $30 at the door. This pageant is open to all girls between the ages of 0-21 years.

Admission for adults is $5, children 5-12 years $3, and under 5 years free. One adult is admitted free with each contestant.six years and up Queens qualify for the 2014 Strawberry Festival. All festival rules apply. For additional information, contact Stephanie Ray at 731453-5481.

Civil War Show The Fifth Annual Corinth Civil War and Militaria Show and Sale, sponsored by the Col. W.P. Rogers Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, is set for March 8-9 at the Crossroads Arena Convention Center.

Show hours are March 8 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and March 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is $5 and free for children under 12. For more information contact Larry McDaniel at 662-415-5676 (mgm21@avsia.com) or Buddy Ellis at 662-6651419 (bellis1960@comcast.net) or visit www. battleofcorinth.com

Sharing Hearts Sharing Hearts is an adult care program offering a one day a week daycare for adults suffering from Alzheimer’s or any other form of dementia.

The program meets each Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 501 Main Street. The program is designed to offer caregivers a day of rest and their family members a day of caring

supervision along with music, games, lunch, exercise and crafts all designed to entertain and provide social interaction.

For more information call Melinda Grady at 662-808-2206.

Kindergarten registration Kindergarten pre-registration for the Alcorn School District for the 2014-2015 school year will be held from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. March 25 at each campus. Students must reside within the boundaries of the district, be five years old on or before Aug. 31 and parents must provide immunization records, proofs of residence, a birth certificate and Social Security card. For more information contact the school district office at 662-286-5591 or the individual school offices.

Applications are also available online at www. alcorn.k12.ms.us

Pre-Kindergarten registration Pre-Kindergarten pre-registration for the Alcorn School District for the 2014-2015 school year will be held from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. March 25 at each campus.

Students must reside within the boundaries of the district, be four years old on or before Aug. 31, be potty trained (no pullups are permitted) and parents must provide transportation. For more information contact the school district office at 662-286-5591 or the individual school offices.

Applications are also available online at www. alcorn.k12.ms.us

GED Assistance Mississippi Youth Challenge is now accepting applications for its latest class beginning July 19.

Challenge Acaemey features a structured environment with a focus on job training, social skills and self discipline critical in today’s tough job market. Other academic opportunities include

high school diploma help, college classes through a local university and nationally certified construction skills. The program is designed to meet the needs of today’s youth who are struggling in the traditional school environment and accepts male and female applicants ages 16 to 18.

For more information contact 1-800-507-6253 or visit www.ngycp.org/ state/ms.

New location The Corinth Artist Guild Gallery has moved to a now location on Fillmore Street in the former Dodd Eye Clinic building.

Hours continue to be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Contact the gallery at 665-0520 for more information.

Chronic Conditions McNairy County Health Department, UT Extension, and Selmer Senior Center have partnered to offer a free program to help improve health.

Living Well with Chronic Conditions is a fun, skill-building program designed for people with chronic disease (e.g. arthritis, COPD, depression, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, fibromyalgia, etc.) This six week class will be offered every Wednesday at Selmer Senior Center, beginning on March 5, at 9 a.m. Free health screenings and door prizes will be offered to participants. For questions or to register contact Schancey Chapman at 731-645-3598.

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

New Year, New Yoga River Yoga is taking a new direction moving into a moderate, more energetic practice designed to cleanse and detox the body after all

the holiday fun with a focus on accepting where we are right now even as people grow stronger and more flexible with practice.

Classes are free (donations are accepted, but not required) and open to anyone able to begin moderate exercises.

They are located at the River of Life Worship Center behind Harper Shopping Center. Class times are Thursdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. For more information call Mary at 662-415-6216.

Excel By 5 Excel By 5 is an innovative early childhood certification that emphasizes the important roles parents and early childcare educators play in the lives of children during their most formative years, ages 0-5 years old.

It is a grass roots organization of volunteers and community leaders.

The Excel By 5 team identifies and addresses children’s health issues by support families and assisting early care and education centers. Its mission is to give every child a chance to live up to his or her potential.

Excel By 5 is looking for qualified and enthusiastic volunteers interested in art, music, literacy and early education for events at childcare centers, family community events and health fair events.

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THE WEEK IN REVIEW WEEKLY DOW JONES Dow Jones industrials

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AGRICULTURE FUTURES WkHigh WkLow Settle WkChg CORN 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Mar 14 May 14 Jul 14 Sep 14 Dec 14 Mar 15 May 15

456.50 463 466.75 466.50 469.25 478 484

444.50 450 454.25 455.25 458.50 468.50 474.75

453 459 462.75 461.50 464.25 473.25 479.75

WkHigh WkLow Settle WkChg CATTLE 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

+7.75 +8.25 +7.75 +5.25 +4.50 +3.75 +4

Feb 14 Apr 14 Jun 14 Aug 14 Oct 14 Dec 14 Feb 15

145.17 142.90 134.05 132.37 135.62 137.07 137.32

143.12 127.82 132.60 131.07 134.22 135.60 135.97

SOYBEANS 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel

HOGS-Lean 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

Mar 14 May 14 Jul 14 Aug 14 Sep 14 Nov 14 Jan 15

Apr 14 May 14 Jun 14 Jul 14 Aug 14 Oct 14 Dec 14

1371.75 1335.50 1370.75 +33.25 1361 1323.25 1360.25 +35.25 1344.75 1306 1344.75 +37.25 1299.25 1258 1299.25 +40.50 1214.75 1179 1214.75 +35 1154.75 1128.75 1153.75 +23.25 1158 1135 1158 +23.50

99.47 107.00 108.25 107.75 106.00 92.35 86.07

96.50 104.70 106.55 105.85 103.75 80.00 83.95

WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel

COTTON 2 50,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

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Mar 14 May 14 Jul 14 Oct 14 Dec 14 Mar 15 May 15

620.75 598.75 614.50 596.25 618.50 600 626.50 609 639.75 621 648.50 632 647.75 634.50

609.75 +11.25 605.50 +9.25 609.25 +8.75 617.75 +9 630.50 +9.50 639.25 +9 640.25 +10.25

88.24 89.63 89.15 81.03 78.14 78.61 78.47

86.24 87.46 87.12 80.50 77.40 77.75 78.10

144.55 141.45 132.72 131.30 134.40 135.75 136.40

+1.95 +.35 +.42 +.15 -.05 -.22 -.05

99.35 107.00 108.02 107.55 105.97 92.05 85.92

+3.18 +2.95 +1.90 +1.85 +2.50 +2.13 +2.07

87.09 88.35 88.23 80.68 78.14 78.59 78.84

-.46 -.69 -.35 +.05 +.46 +.39 +.33

Tables show seven most current contracts for each future. Grains traded on Chicago Board of Trade; livestock on Chicago Mercantile Exchange; and cotton on New York Cotton Exchange.

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10.83 46.74 168.70 46.76 169.77 96.78 168.71 43.75 20.85 46.77 58.66 45.71 36.86 65.80 167.72 43.21

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+0.9 0.0 -0.2 0.0 -0.2 +1.2 -0.2 +0.6 +0.8 0.0 +0.7 +0.5 +0.6 0.0 -0.5 0.0

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Weight Watchers ribbon cutting Weight Watchers Regional Manager Delora Holcomb cuts the ribbon celebrating the opening of their newest location in Corinth. Joining Holcomb for the celebration were Corinth Mayor Tommy Irwin, other city and local officials, representatives of The Alliance and other friends and supporters.

Renasant Bank Mortgage hires manager BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Renasant Bank Mortgage has announced that Chip Adkins has joined the company as Eastern Divisional Manager.

In his new role, Adkins will be developing relationships with community banks, credit unions and mortgage bankers in the markets of East Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Prior to joining Renasant, Adkins served as a Regional Manager of

the Southeast for a large regional mortgage com-

Renasant Corporation, a 110-year-old financial services institution, is the parent of Renasant Bank and Renasant Insurance.

Renasant has assets of approximately $5.7 billion and operates over 120 banking, mortgage, financial services and insurance offices in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. For more information please visit www.renasantbank. com or the Company’s IR site at www.renasant. com.

Number of farms declines, farmers getting older

BY MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. farms is declining even as the value of their crops and livestock has increased over the past five years, a government census of American agriculture released Thursday says.

The survey, taken every five years, shows there were a total of 2.1 million farms in the United States in 2012, down a little more than 4 percent from 2007. That follows a long-term trend of declining numbers of farms.

Also, farmers are getting older — the average age was 58.3 years. But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack points to a bright spot: a small rise in the number of farmers between 25 and 34 years old.

Vilsack says the boost in the number of younger farmers is partly due to increased interest and government support for locally grown foods and a thriving export market.

Many younger farmers work at smaller operations, where the boom in the farm economy and a rising consumer interest in where food is grown have helped them.

That boom has been good to all of farm country: According to the survey, the market values of crops, livestock and total agricultural products were all at record highs.

Farms in the United States sold almost $395 billion in products in 2012, 33 percent higher than in 2007.

Still, farmers are aging.

According to the census, a third of farmers were older than 65 in 2012.

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“The reality is, over time those folks won’t be able to continue farming, and the question for all of us is, if they don’t, who will?” Vilsack said after the report was released.

Vilsack has made the revitalization of rural America a priority at USDA. As people have moved to suburbs and cities, many communities have increasing poverty and fewer young people to take over family farms.

He has also argued that the dwindling population has led to less political clout — made evident by a recent three-year congressional struggle to enact a new farm bill.

President Barack Obama signed the bill, which provides farm subsidies and food stamps, this month.

“My question is not just who is going to farm, but who is going to defend them?” Vilsack said.

The amount of farmland in the United States also shrank over the time period, from 922 million to 915 million acres.

At the same time, farms grew larger — the average farm grew from 418 to 434 acres.

Vilsack said he is most concerned about the survival of middle-sized farms, which declined in the last five years. The number of larger and smaller farms held mostly steady.

He said he believes that decline partly came from a lapse in disaster assistance while Congress haggled over the farm bill, drought in many states and rising feed costs.

Ideally, he said, many of the younger farmers who are working on smaller farms will eventually grow their operations.

One area of growth for agriculture is farms that are minority-operated.

The number of farms operated by Hispanics, African Americans, American Indians and Asians all grew between 2007 and 2012, and the number of Hispanics who were principal operators of farms grew by 21 percent.

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David Mays, Executive Vice President and of Director of Renasant Bank Mortgage Lending, said, “We are extremely pleased to have Chip join the Renasant Bank Mortgage team. His experience throughout the Southeast compliments our strategic growth plans in correspondent and wholesale lending.”

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Parents’ responsibility could put their son at mercy of the state DEAR ABBY: When my son was 17, he met an “older girl” who was 21 and began an onagain, off-again relationship with her. Fast-forward two years: He now has a felony and several misdemeanors for fighting with her, and they have a wonderful little baby boy whom neither can take care of. I have been supporting the child.

The young woman is schizophrenic and bipolar and will not stay on her meds. I feel torn because I don’t want to be raising children at 49, but my son refuses to take care of the baby because he “isn’t ready to be a father.”

I can’t leave my grandson with a mother who can’t take care of him (her other child was taken away from her), and she can’t hold a job because she’s in and out of the hospital all the time.

She won’t feed him and treats him like a baby doll — meaning she forgets about him and leaves. I’m afraid my son would abuse the child if he’s forced to be a father. The alternative is putting the baby up for adoption, which would break my heart.

How can I make my son understand that this child is his responsibility and he needs to step up and be a dad? — DESPERATE GRANDMA IN ILLINOIS DEAR DESPERATE GRANDMA: Forgive me if this seems negative, but if you haven’t been able to do it by now, your grandchild may become a man before

your son does. If you aren’t strong enough to assume responsibility for raising the little Abigail boy, then, much as Van Buren as I hate to see another child Dear Abby go into “the system,” he should be made available for adoption. However, if you think you could manage it, then talk to an attorney about getting formal custody of your grandson, so you will be given the authority you’ll need to raise him without interference from either of his birth parents.

DEAR ABBY: My fiance and I have been together for four years now, and we have yet to set a wedding date because he has “unresolved issues” with my mother. Is there any way I can convince him to talk to her about them, or go to premarital counseling? I’m ready to set the date.

— UNSCHEDULED BRIDE IN GEORGIA DEAR UNSCHEDULED: Four years is a long time for issues to go “unresolved.” Are you sure this man still wants to marry you? If his behavior is any indication, this may be how he will deal with problems and disagreements after you are married — and it isn’t healthy.

Before you devote any more time to this “engagement,” ask him when he plans to accompany you to premarital counseling, because if he’s waiting for your mother to die, it could be a long time before you make it to the altar.

DEAR ABBY: Year after year, people are reminded to visit elderly people in nursing homes, taking cookies and entertainment — like children’s choirs, etc.

My mother used to work in a nursing home and she said it made her sad to watch the huge influx of people during December, only to see January roll around to — nothing. Once Christmas is over, people go back to their lives, feeling good about their visit to the nursing home or shelter.

But the residents are still there come February, June, September. Perhaps the directors, volunteers and families could spread their visits over the entire year instead of focusing only on December. —JUST A THOUGHT IN LUSBY, MD. DEAR JUST: Your mother is a caring and sensitive person.

What she said is valid, and I hope it will be given serious consideration.

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

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Be choosy about your entertainment now because you’re in an impressionable mood, and whatever tone you absorb, you will, to some small degree, take on.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

There’s absolutely nothing you can do to anyone else that will make a difference, but you can change you, and without a doubt, the tendencies of the world will change because of it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

The littlest people are the ones who believe there are little people. Truly important people treat everyone with respect. Those who are nasty to their underlings are suffering from low or overinflated self-esteem.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Don’t spend too much time thinking about the series of choices that led you here — it all made you a better predictor. Focus on the choices before you now and where they are likely to lead.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The

key to happiness now is organization. This is not as boring as it sounds. The systems you create to make your life flow with greater ease and elegance will usher you into a new era.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

You know yourself pretty well, and yet once in a while you still find yourself taking on a task that you simply are not cut out for. That’s how you grow! Anyway, you’ve never been one to back down just because something is hard.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

There are times when it’s appropriate to knock yourself out in an effort to please people to the best of your ability, but this is not one of them. Know a no-win situation when you see it, and run the other way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Socializing will teach you about yourself, especially when you pay attention to the way you feel around certain people. Bonus: The time you spend with oth-

ers today will show you just how unique you are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). The difference between theories and practices will prove substantial now, so don’t hesitate to take things from idea form to reality. Action will be your best teacher.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You are in the mood to take a risk, but there are some aspects of your life that you shouldn’t leave to chance. Think things through thoroughly. It will help to talk or write them out.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It’s clear that to achieve your goals you will have to involve other people. The ones around you now may not be the best support team you could find. Keep looking!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

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Prep basketball Friday’s Games

Division 1-3A Championship (G) Booneville 66, Kossuth 55 Booneville 15 22 13 16 -- 66 Kossuth 5 17 19 14 -- 55

BOONEVILLE (66): Adallice Young 27, Dashiyah Agnew 12, Maria Lauderdale 10, Kabrina Hill 8, Cora Geno 5, Maleeka Patterson 2, Dee Friar 2.

KOSSUTH (55): Parrish Tice 18, Marlee Sue Bradley 11, Baylee Turner 11, Rachel Winters 6, Lacy Essary 5, Brooke Switcher 2, Carleigh Mills 2.

3-Pointers: (B) Hill. (K) Winters 2, Tice, Bradley Records: Booneville 23-5, Kossuth 22-6

Region 7-AA Tournament (G) McNairy 58, Obion Co. 36 at Chester Co. Obion Co. 11 5 10 10 -- 36 McNairy 23 14 7 14 -- 58

MCNAIRY (58): Porsha Chappell 18, Mallorie Sweat 13, Kaitlyn West 12, Haven Phelps 9, Margie Coleman 5, Rebekah Lowrie 1 Note: McNairy Central will play Westview in the Region 7-AA semifinals Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Chester County.

North Half Tournaments County Girls (Monday) Ingomar @ Biggersville, 7 Charleston @ Kossuth, 7 Central @ Holly Springs, 7 Corinth @ Ripley, 7

County Boys (Tuesday) Lafayette Co. @ Corinth, 6 West Union @ Biggersville, 7 Kossuth @ Holly Springs, 7

Class 1A Girls Hickory Flat @ Pine Grove Houlka @ Ray Brooks Wheeler @ Ashland Coldwater @ Vardaman TCPS @ Mound Bayou Ingomar @ Biggersville Shaw @ Coffeeville Tremont @ West Union

Class 3A Girls North Panola @ Booneville Nettleton @ McClain Central @ Holly Springs Ruleville @ South Pontotoc Kemper Co. @ East Side Charleston @ Kossuth O’Bannon @ Louisville Belmont @ Independence

Class 4A Girls Byhalia @ Pontotoc Kosciusko @ Gentry Corinth @ Ripley Cleveland @ Leake Central West Lauderdale @ Yazoo Co. Senatobia @ Itawamba Greenwood @ Noxubee Co. Shannon @ Lafayette Co.

Texas A&M forges past Tennessee Associated Press

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Antwan Space sank a 3-pointer in overtime to lift Texas A&M to a 68-65 win over Tennessee on Saturday.

Space had only made 2-of-6 shots over the previous two hours in Reed Arena, but the sophomore forward oozed confidence when letting a 3-pointer fly in the final seconds of overtime against Tennessee.

“I felt that one,” Space said of his heave. “I knew that was going in.”

Space was awfully familiar with the feeling, having helped defeat Tennessee 57-56 on Jan. 11 on a last-second 3-pointer that hushed a ThompsonBoling Arena crowd.

“That’s his shot, and I don’t love it all of the time,” A&M coach Billy Kennedy said of Space’s fondness for long-range offerings. “But it’s been good against Tennessee for a last shot.”

Space, who began his college career at Florida State before sitting out last season following a transfer to A&M, entered the contest having made 7-of29 3-pointers. He hadn’t scored in the overtime prior to receiving the pass Please see AGGIES | 11A

Sports

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Girls open North Half play Monday

BY H. LEE SMITH II lsmith@dailycorinthian.com

All four Alcorn County girls basketball teams will take the hardwood on Monday as North Half Tournament play opens up for Classes 1A-4A. Teams must survive the opening-round bout, then follow up with wins on Thursday and Friday to reach the State Tournament.

It’s been over five years since the entire local contingent advanced past Division Tournament play. Half the group will open at home, with the back end hitting the road.

There are some familiar matchups with Divisions 1 and 2 facing off in the first

round. Alcorn Central and Corinth face off with former league foes, while Kossuth battles its postseason nemesis.

Kossuth and Biggersville earned homecourt advantage for the first round by reaching the title game in their respective divisions. Both finished as runners-up.

• The Lady Aggies (22-6) will host the No. 3 seed from 2-3A in the form of Charleston. Kossuth has advanced past the first round just once since 2003, coming within one win of a state berth in 2011.

Kossuth opened play on the road the previous two

seasons, falling 64-61 at Ruleville in 2013 after suffering a 67-28 loss at Charleston in 2012.

• Biggersville (11-12) and Ingomar will meet for the second time this season, with the Lady Lions ahead following a win in November. The Lady Lions beat Houlka 37-31 on the road last season before falling 55-47 to Coffeeville in quarterfinal action at H. W. Byers.

BHS has opened North Half play at home three times in the last four seasons, failing to get out of division in 2012.

• Alcorn Central (17-13) and Corinth (11-15) must travel to

league champions following their fourth-place finishes in their respective division tournaments.

Both will face familiar foes.

The Lady Bears travel to Holly Springs, which competed in Division 1-3A the previous two seasons, while Corinth faces Ripley -- a league foe from 1995-96 through 20092010.

Central didn’t qualify for the North Half Tournament after going 13-16 in 20122013.

Corinth is making its fourth straight North Half appearance after missing out in Please see TOURNEY | 11A

Northeast’s Buntin rebounds in home opener

BY BLAKE D. LONG NEMCC Sports Information

BOONEVILLE — Chelsea Buntin returned to her normal self on Tuesday after a rough start to her collegiate career two days earlier.

Buntin struck out 10 and walked just two in 6.1 innings of work, but Dyersburg State (Tenn.) Community College scored each of its runs in the final frame to win the opener of a doubleheader 5-2.

The visiting Eagles also claimed the nightcap 6-1 to sweep the set of games played at Booneville High School’s Wayne Michael Memorial Field.

Buntin, an Alcorn Central High School product, lasted less than four innings in her first appearance as a Tiger at Calhoun (Ala.) Community College.

The freshman was much more pleased with her work on this evening.

“It felt good because I was struggling after Sunday,” she said. “We came in and coach (Jaisa Emerson) worked with me on where I need to locate my pitches and I did it in the game.”

Buntin aided her own cause in the second inning with an RBI single to score Haleigh Moffett that gave Northeast (0-4) a 1-0 advantage.

The Tigers added to that two frames later when Bi-

Photo by Michael H. Miller/NEMCC

Northeast’s Chelsea Buntin receives instructions from the Tigers’ dugout. Buntin struck out 10 in a 5-2 loss to Dyersburg State (Tenn.) Community College. anca Chagolla led off with a base hit and scored when a pitch hit Bre Agnew with the

bases loaded.

Buntin (0-2) recorded three-up, three-down in-

nings in the fifth and sixth before Dyersburg State’s sticks came to life.

The Eagles batted around in their final frame. A Taylor Moore 2 RBI double and three errors led to all five runs for Dyersburg State (20).

Laura Bell (1-0) sat Northeast down in order in the bottom half to earn the complete game victory with seven hits allowed and four strikeouts.

Yasmeen Cooper and Bianca Chagolla had two hits apiece to pace the Tiger offense. Chagolla, a native of Riverside, Calif., is off to a hot start with a .455 batting average and .500 on-base percentage.

“We’ve got to find a way to finish games,” said Tigers headman Jody Long. “We had them on the ropes early and we didn’t capitalize.

We’ve got to grow up and grow up quick.”

Just three of Dyersburg State’s six runs were earned in the final game of the day.

Northeast made six errors behind four pitchers with Chagolla (0-2) drawing the loss after 5.1 innings and only four hits allowed.

Trenisha King, Erica Clifton and Abigail Rish combined for 1.2 frames of relief work in the circle with zero Please see BUNTIN | 11A

Ole Miss, Henderson fall to No. 2 Florida Associated Press

OXFORD — Marshall Henderson’s early hot shooting helped put Mississippi in position to pull off an upset victory over No. 2 Florida.

But his touch disappeared in the second half and so did the Rebels’ chances at a galvanizing victory.

The Gators fought off Henderson and the Rebels for a 75-71 victory on Saturday afternoon at Tad Smith Coliseum. Scottie Wilbekin scored 18 and Michael Frazier II added 17 as Florida extended its school-record winning streak to 19 games.

Henderson led the Rebels with 22 points, but all of them came in the first half. Jarvis

Summers scored 20 and Anthony Perez added 10.

“We gave a winning effort,” Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy said. “But we’ve got to make plays and we didn’t make plays.”

Ole Miss (16-11, 7-7 Southeastern Conference) has lost four in a row and its chance at an NCAA tournament atlarge bid looks extremely bleak.

The game was tied at 59 with eight minutes left, but Florida scored the next seven points to take control. Henderson missed all six of his shots in the second half.

The Gators (25-2, 14-0) could very well be the No. 1 team in the country when

the new polls are released on Monday. The current No. 1 Syracuse lost on Wednesday to Boston College.

But Frazier and Florida coach Billy Donovan said that won’t mean much.

“This team understands that the whole is greater than its parts,” Donovan said. “But we need to play better and I’m talking about that from an effort standpoint.”

Ole Miss badly needed a quality win for its mediocre NCAA tournament resume and played like a desperate team for much of the afternoon.

But the Gators steadily put the Rebels away with quality offensive possessions late in

the second half.

Florida had to survive Henderson’s impressive barrage in the first half just to have a chance.

It’s not the first time Henderson has had a big moments against the Gators.

He scored 21 points against Florida last season in the SEC tournament championship — adding a memorable Gator Chomp motion as the Rebels ended up winning 66-63.

And it was quickly apparent on Saturday that the 6-foot2 senior was feeling good again. He shot 7 of 14 from the field — including 5 of 11 from 3-point range — as the Please see LOSS | 11A

Arkansas hands Bulldogs 9th straight loss Associated Press

STARKVILLE — Before Saturday, Anthlon Bell had scored two baskets in Arkansas’s last seven games. He was in a funk, and nothing seemed to be helping.

“But I knew that a slump can’t last forever,” Bell said.

And it didn’t. Bell scored a career-high 19 points to lead Arkansas to a 73-69 victory over Mississippi State on Saturday, their first win in Starkville in 12 tries.

“I just stuck with it and made sure I took lots of shots practice,” Bell said. “My dad told me just to stick with it, keep God first and the shots would come.”

Arkansas (18-9, 7-7 Southeastern Conference) shot 44 percent (28-of-64) from the

field and hit 8 3-pointers, 7 in the first half. The Razorbacks have now won five of their last six.

“This time of year, a win anywhere is good,” Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson said. “I like where our confidence is.

This team is trending in the right direction.”

Bell was 8-of-15 from the floor and 3-of-8 from 3-point range.

“He stays in the gym,” teammate Coty Clarke said. “Today was one of those games where he could put it on display. I’m proud for him.”

Michael Qualls scored 15 points on 6-of-14 shooting and Bobby Portis added 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting for the Razorbacks.

Mississippi State (13-14,

3-11 SEC) also shot 44 percent (26-of-59) from the field, but struggled with turnovers and failed at times to defend the perimeter. The Bulldogs have lost nine games in a row.

Colin Borchert led Mississippi State with 21 points and 7 rebounds.

Roquez Johnson added 11 points and Trivante Bloodman and Craig Sword both chipped in 10 points.

“Colin is really good when he lets the game come to him,” MSU head coach Rick Ray said.

Arkansas opened the game 4-of-5 from beyond the arc and led for most of the first half.

“We started off the game with great energy,” Anderson said. “We made shots, and really put Mississippi State on

their heels out of the gate.”

MSU took a brief 15-14 lead, but the Razorbacks immediately hit another 3-pointer, stole the ball twice and hit two quick layups to open back up a six-point lead. Arkansas led 39-35 at the half.

“I thought we were having some success against their full court press,” Ray said. “But then they went to the 2-2-1, which is a softer press, and then shifted into a 2-3 zone.

We just weren’t able to penetrate.”

In the second half, MSU pulled to within two points early, but Arkansas never surrendered the lead. MSU made a late rally and trailed 73-69 with 40 seconds remaining, but missed a 3-pointer on its final possession.

Sunday, February 23, 2014 Auto racing Sprint-Daytona 500 lineup After Thursday qualifying; race today at Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Fla. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 196.019.

2. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 195.852.

3. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 194.574.

4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 194.477.

5. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 194.544.

6. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 195.042.

7. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 194.894.

8. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 194.078.

9. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 195.211.

10. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 194.919.

11. (98) Josh Wise, Ford, 192.061.

12. (33) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 194.776.

13. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 194.658.

14. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 194.334.

15. (47) A J Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 194.108.

16. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 194.41.

17. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 193.736.

18. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 193.732.

19. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 195.707.

20. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 194.523.

21. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 193.365.

22. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 192.695.

23. (26) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 192.538.

24. (32) Terry Labonte, Ford, 192.135.

25. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 195.818.

26. (52) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 191.493.

27. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 194.38.

28. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 194.582.

29. (23) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 189.685.

30. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 195.712.

31. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 192.798.

32. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,

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194.637.

33. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 195.296.

34. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 195.004.

35. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 194.582.

36. (7) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 194.574.

37. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 194.502.

38. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 194.422.

39. (36) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 194.066.

40. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 193.815.

41. (30) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 193.594.

42. (66) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 193.428.

43. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 192.328.

Failed to Qualify 44. (83) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 190.347.

45. (95) Michael McDowell, Ford, 192.291.

46. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 190.48.

47. (93) Morgan Shepherd, Toyota, 189.542.

48. (35) Eric McClure, Ford, 192.905.

49. (77) Dave Blaney, Ford.

Basketball NBA standings, schedule EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 30 25 .545 Brooklyn 25 27 .481 New York 21 34 .382 Boston 19 37 .339 Philadelphia 15 41 .268 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 39 14 .736 Washington 26 28 .481 Charlotte 26 30 .464 Atlanta 25 29 .463 Orlando 17 40 .298 Central Division W L Pct Indiana 41 13 .759 Chicago 29 25 .537 Detroit 23 32 .418 Cleveland 22 34 .393 Milwaukee 10 44 .185 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 40 16 .714 Houston 37 18 .673 Dallas 33 23 .589 Memphis 31 23 .574

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No. 15 Kentucky edges LSU in OT Associated Press

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Julius Randle scored in the lane with 3.9 seconds remaining in overtime to give No. 15 Kentucky a hard-earned 77-76 victory over LSU on Saturday.

After Andre Stringer’s jumper with 12 seconds left gave LSU a 76-75 lead, James Young’s shot on the other end was blocked. Randle was able to grab the loose ball and hit the game-winning short jumper, sparking a delirious celebration with his Wildcats teammates piling on top of him on LSU’s end of the court.

Randle’s shot provided a fitting end to a tight, tense game symbolized by the back-and-forth overtime period before Kentucky (21-6, 11-3 Southeastern Conference) made good use of its last possession for an emotional win that earned a season split with LSU (1610, 7-7).

Randle finished with eight points and 15 rebounds for Kentucky, which got 21 points from Aaron Harrison and 20 from Young.

Johnny O’Bryant III and Anthony Hickey both had 20 points for LSU. Kentucky once again

won the rebounding battle (43-40) along with dominating the paint (50-28), but this time the Wildcats won after squandering those advantages in last month’s loss in Baton Rouge when the Tigers shot nearly 52 percent.

LSU shot just 40 percent this time, slightly worse than Kentucky’s 42 percent. The Tigers were 7 of 17 from 3-point range with Hickey making four.

And while Kentucky struggled to keep up with the physical O’Bryant — who had 12 rebounds — and Hickey, the Wildcats gave themselves chances to go ahead and eventually win by denying both players the ball at key moments.

Kentucky forced Stringer into a turnover as the seconds ran out, much to the delight of a sellout Rupp Arena crowd that endured more than its share of nervous moments.

Here’s why: the game featured 11 ties and 11 lead changes and even when either team seemed on the verge of making it a two-possession game, the momentum and score quickly swung the other way.

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2009-2010. The Lady Warriors opened with a 60-49 win at Houston last year -- the program’s first road playoff win and second overall -- before falling 51-34 to Gentry in the quarterfinals.

• Biggersville, Corinth and Kossuth open boys’ play on Tuesday with the

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Lions and Warriors at home. Kossuth will travel to Holly Springs for its first-round matchup.

The Lions host West Union in the first step towards repeating as Class 1A champions. Corinth hosts Lafayette County -- with a tip time of 6 p.m. -- as it attempts to reach the state championship game for the fourth straight season.

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23 31 .426 16 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 43 13 .768 — Portland 37 18 .673 5½ Minnesota 26 28 .481 16 Denver 25 29 .463 17 Utah 19 35 .352 23 Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 37 20 .649 — Phoenix 33 21 .611 2½ Golden State 33 22 .600 3 L.A. Lakers 19 36 .345 17 Sacramento 18 36 .333 17½ ––– Friday’s Games Orlando 129, New York 121,2OT Dallas 124, Philadelphia 112 Charlotte 90, New Orleans 87 Toronto 98, Cleveland 91 Detroit 115, Atlanta 107 Chicago 117, Denver 89 Memphis 102, L.A. Clippers 96 Phoenix 106, San Antonio 85 Portland 102, Utah 94 L.A. Lakers 101, Boston 92 Saturday’s Games Washington 94, New Orleans 93 Charlotte 92, Memphis 89 Dallas 113, Detroit 102 Atlanta 107, New York 98 Indiana 110, Milwaukee 100 Minnesota 121, Utah 104 Boston at Sacramento, (n) Brooklyn at Golden State, (n) Today’s Games L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, Noon Chicago at Miami, 2:30 p.m.

Washington at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Denver, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Portland, 8 p.m.

Houston at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Monday’s Games Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at New York, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Boston at Utah, 8 p.m.

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Olympics Medals Table The Associated Press At Sochi, Russia Through Saturday, Feb. 22 (95 of 98 events) Nation G S B Tot Russia 11 10 8 29 United States 9 7 11 27 Norway 11 5 10 26 Canada 9 10 5 24 Netherlands 8 7 9 24 Germany 8 6 5 19 Austria 4 8 5 17 France 4 4 7 15 Sweden 2 6 6 14 Switzerland 6 3 2 11 China 3 4 2 9 South Korea 3 3 2 8 Czech Republic 2 4 2 8 Slovenia 2 2 4 8 Japan 1 4 3 8 Italy 0 2 6 8 Belarus 5 0 1 6 Poland 4 1 1 6 Finland 1 3 1 5 Britain 1 1 2 4 Australia 0 2 1 3 Latvia 0 1 2 3 Ukraine 1 0 1 2 Slovakia 1 0 0 1 Croatia 0 1 0 1 Kazakhstan 0 0 1 1 AALPINE SKIING Men Slalom GOLD–Mario Matt, Austria SILVER–Marcel Hirscher, Austria BRONZE–Henrik Kristoffersen, Norway BIATHLON Men 4x7.5km Relay GOLD–Russia (Alexey Volkov, Evgeny Ustyugov, Dmitry Malyshko, Anton Shipulin) SILVER–Germany (Erik Lesser, Daniel Boehm, Arnd Peiffer, Simon Schempp) BRONZE–Austria (Christoph Sumann,

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Hockey NHL standings, schedule EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 57 37 16 4 78 176 125 Tampa Bay 58 33 20 5 71 168 145

Transactions Saturday deals BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with LHP Chris Capuano on a one-year contract. Placed RHP Ryan Dempster on the restricted list.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with SS Erisbel Arruebarruena on a five-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Signed C Hilton Armstrong to a 10-day contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled Fs Tomas Jurco and Riley Sheahan and D Gleason Fournier from Grand Rapids (AHL).

two teams fought to an entertaining 42-all tie by halftime.

The Gators’ vaunted defense, which is easily the best statistically in the SEC, had few answers for Henderson early. He made several difficult shots with a hand in his face.

It didn’t last.

Henderson cooled off in the second half — missing those tough looks that had gone in during the first half — and Florida did enough offensively to win.

possession and the Gators never trailed again.

Florida was relentlessly efficient down the stretch, scoring on nearly every possession in the final minutes.

Young added 12 points and five rebounds for the Gators. He made four straight crucial free throws in the final minutes to help Florida keep its lead.

Henderson finished 7 of 20 from the field, including 5 of 16 from 3-point range. He tied Pat Bradley’s SEC record by hitting a 3-pointer in a 60th consecutive game.

Kennedy said he hasn’t given up hope for the Rebels making second straight NCAA tournament. The Rebels had a similar February swoon last season before winning the SEC tournament and making the Big Dance for the first time since 2002.

“Based on what we’ve done right now, we’re not relevant to the NCAA tournament as far as the conversation is today,” Kennedy said. “But let me point out that at this time last year, we weren’t relevant to the conversation either.”

launch a 3-pointer - but in the end the Aggies were thrilled with the outcome.

“I felt he didn’t really want to take that shot,” said Stokes, who scored 16 points and tallied a game-high 16 rebounds in the loss. “The entire game he wasn’t a threat at all. Anybody we wanted to take (the shot) would have been him, statistically speaking. I feel like he only took the shot because he had to.”

Tennessee (16-11, 7-7 Southeastern Conference) had erased an eightpoint deficit with 3:20 remaining in regulation, but Stokes missed a free throw with less than a second remaining after tying the game on a dunk (and foul by Alex Caruso) that would have won the game for the Volunteers.

Earlier on that key possession, Tennes-

see’s Antonio Barton had sank a 3-pointer as time ran down that would’ve doomed the Aggies, but Volunteers coach Cuonzo Martin had called a time out just prior to Barton releasing the clutch shot.

“I wanted to get our guys a good look at the basket,” Martin explained of what turned out to be his ill-timed time out.

While Space only finished with six points, Caruso and Jamal Jones each scored 14 points for the Aggies, including 10 in the second half by Caruso, who fouled out on Stokes’ final basket of regulation.

Jordan McRae led Tennessee with 20.

The Volunteers led 27-24 at halftime, but a strong effort by A&M’s substitutes kept the Aggies afloat for Space’s heroics. A&M’s bench outscored Tennessee’s

subs 21-2, and the Aggies also capitalized overall in points off turnovers (14-6) in earning the last-second victory.

Both teams, with their identical records, are clinging to postseason hopes. The Aggies visit LSU on Wednesday, while Tennessee plays at Mississippi State the same night.

“I would love to tell you we’ve arrived again, but we’re just going to take it one day at a time,” Kennedy said. “We’ve got to build on this and continue to grow.”

Added a subdued Martin, “That was a hardfought game. We just came up short.”

The teams played past regulation in College Station for a second consecutive year, as the Volunteers prevailed 93-85 in four overtimes last February.

dies crossed home plate.

Marley Dyess had a RBI single in the inning.

Moffett led off the bottom of the seventh with a double over the

head of centerfielder Kacie Daugherty. She later scored on Whittney Gee’s groundout for Northeast’s only run of the matchup.

The Tigers look to rebound this weekend with five games in their annual TigerFest Tournament at Booneville City Park.

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to the right of the top of the key following an A&M time out.

He calmly dribbled twice, and with Tennessee forward Jarnell Stokes on defense, pulled up for the shot about a foot behind the 3-point line. The result was the loudest Reed Arena has been this season for the Aggies (16-11 overall, 7-7 SEC), who’ve won four straight at home and two overall in trying to make the postseason for the first time in Kennedy’s three seasons.

Following Tennessee’s desperation inbounds pass, Space stole the ball - launching it toward the Reed rafters in jubilation - in preserving the victory. In the time out, Kennedy had designed a play for Space to drive to the basket on Stokes - not

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“We had a heightened sense of urgency to start the second half, especially on (Henderson),” Frazier said. “We did a better job of staying locked in on him and staying locked in as a whole.”

The Rebels stayed in the game thanks to a big second half from Anthony Perez and Summers.

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Features

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Local teachers spend four years in Malaysia

BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com

According to an old Malay proverb, “’Tis better to suffer in the beginning for the pleasure that comes later.”

For Travis Smith Jr. and wife Lisa, their time spent overseas has been an experience unlike any other.

“Neither of us had ever been out of the country or flown before,” said Lisa. “We started traveling by short term mission trips at Oakland Baptist Church and through the Alcorn Baptist Association.

After traveling solo to Belize, Lisa returned to the states and shared her colorful stories and experiences with her husband and three sons, Josh, Jonah and Jake.

“I decided it was my turn,” said Travis Jr. “So, I took the boys to Ecuador.”

The couple fell in love with the cultures and people they encountered through their mission trips and decided to make a drastic change. On June 17, 2009, they packed up their two youngest sons and settled into a new life in Penang, Malaysia, a journey that would take them 9,374.86 miles from the United States.

The island of Penang is located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca.

“It was like going home,” said Lisa with a wistful smile. “We lived there and taught at Dalat International School for four years.”

The two Corinthians taught children of all backgrounds and ethnicities at the school.

Lisa described it as a tolerant place where children were taught the importance of community, how to get along with others and respect for cultural differences.

“Penang is such a melting pot of culture,” said Travis Jr. “At the school, there was everything under the sun – Christians, Atheists, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists ... it was neat to see how we could all get along. We celebrated everything.”

Lisa taught the younger kids in first grade while Travis Jr. taught Social Studies to seventh and eighth-graders.

“I went there thinking I was going to impress them and be the best teacher I possible could be,” said Travis Jr. “God sat down on me and said, it’s not about you.

It’s about those kids you stand in front of everyday.”

While English was the predominant language at Dalat, teaching in a foreign country wasn’t without its challenges.

“I learned to pronounce words better and more clearly,” said Lisa. “Slang meant nothing to my students. They didn’t understand.”

Dalat is a small, sheltered school with roughly 520-525 students. It is also a boarding school where 60-70 students live on campus year round.

“The best thing about our school was the com-

munity we had there. It was also the worst thing,” said Travis Jr. with a laugh. “We got on each others nerves after a while because Penang is such a small island that we were together all the time.”

“The school could be all consuming if you let it,” added the 47-year-old.

Living in a foreign soil caused the Smiths to make some serious mental adjustments.

“You had to change your way of thinking,” said Lisa. “Their way isn’t wrong, just different.”

The two agreed that shopping proved to be quite the undertaking.

“You had to plan your trips because it took much of the morning to get there,” said Lisa. “Here we take for granted the ease of going shopping.

If you forget something you can just run back to Walmart and get it, but the Tesco was quite a bit away.”

Living in Penang presented the opportunity to learn not only about other cultures, but also about themselves.

“It drew us closer as a family,” said Lisa. “We went hiking together, ate lunch on the beach and para-sailed.”

In addition to teaching, the two also shared their faith with others.

Lisa participated in street ministry, witnessing to sex workers while Travis Jr. coached and participated in sports ministry.

“They couldn’t believe you were actually talking to them,” said Lisa.

“When I handed out cookies and other items, they were stunned. They would say: ‘For me? You made that for me?’”

Ministering the people of Malaysia proved to be difficult.

“When you tell them Jesus is the only way, you are essentially telling them everything they’ve been taught their entire lives is wrong and everyone they’ve loved and lost is now in hell,” said Lisa. “You had to live your faith to help them understand. Once they knew you taught at the school, they watched you. You witnessed by the way you lived.”

Emotions ran high as the two talked about leaving Penang on June 12, 2013.

“Moving home was so much harder than moving there,” said Lisa. “We made life-long friends there.

“I never felt the draw to come home. I was perfectly at peace there,” said the 41-year-old as she dabbed her eyes with a napkin.

She admitted the hardest thing for her was leaving those she ministered on the streets of Malaysia.

“It’s the people you met outside the school that you feel like you abandoned. I wonder how they are and worry that something I said didn’t get through to them,”she said.

The couple has never stopped teaching. Now back home, Lisa teaches a multi-aged special needs class (ages 6-12) at Kossuth and has enriched the lives of children for 21 years, 17 of which have

The Smith family cuts loose at a tea farm in Malaysia, above. Right, Lisa Smith stops to get her bearings in front of a post office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh’s portrait is in the background.

The Smith family poses for a picture in the breathtakingly beautiful Cameron Highlands in Malaysia.

Lisa Smith with students from Dalat International School. been in Alcorn County.

Travis Jr. currently serves as the assistant principal at Alcorn Central Middle School. He has taught for 18 years and has invested 14 years shaping the minds of local youth.

The two travelers shared the following revelations as they summed up their journey.

“You can teach pretty much anywhere in the world if you are willing to go,” said Travis Jr. “Find out how God wants to use you and allow yourself to be used.”

From earthquakes to tsunamis ... countless blessings and stinky fruit, it’s been quite a ride for the Smith family, but one they would do over again and again.

The Smiths visited an orphanage in Cambodia while on break from Delat International School. The family and other volunteers helped to build a playground and took the children to a local fair. The photo shows Travis Smith Jr. playing with Cambodian orphans.

The Smith family takes in the sights of Malaysia from a street buggy.

2B • Daily Corinthian

Celebrations

Engagement

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Big arena, big events New wedding, entertainment venue coming to coast

BY MARY PEREZ AND PATRICK OCHS Sun Herald

Kayla Kyle, Jeff Richardson

Kyle — Richardson Russell and Connie Kyle of Corinth announce the engagement of their daughter, Kayla Elizabeth Kyle, to Jefferson (Jeff) William Richardson, son of Harry and Lana Richardson of Ripley.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Maxine Kyle of Corinth and Geneva Jones of Rienzi, and the late Lane Kyle and Frank Jones.

Miss Kyle is a 2006 graduate of Kossuth High School and a continuing student at Northeast Mississippi Community College. She is employed by Region IV in Corinth.

The prospective groom is the grandson of the late

Lavaughn and Eula Davis of the Dry Creek Community and the late Jeff and Sarah Richardson of the Spout Springs Community.

Mr. Richardson is a 2006 graduate of Pine Grove High School and a 2008 graduate of Northeast Mississippi Community College. He is employed by the Mississippi Department of Transportation and operates a small cattle operation.

The couple will exchange vows on March 8, 2014, at 6 p.m. at the Crazy K Ranch in Michie, Tenn. A reception will follow. Friends and family are invited to attend.

BILOXI — Kress Live will bring new life to Vieux Marche when the entertainment venue opens this summer.

The building that started as S.H. Kress & Co. “five and dime” store at 814 Howard Ave. in Biloxi and was covered with art two years ago to improve the appearance of the vacant buildings in the once vibrant downtown is now being transformed to host 120 live performances a year.

Chase Taylor and Nick Quave, friends since high school, worked for three years on the concept that combines a stage “with a media system that is second to none,” said Taylor; five bars, a recording studio and an American Heritage Museum for Music.

Taylor said another partner from Las Vegas can’t yet be identified.

“Every genre of music you know and love; world-class acts from around the world will be coming to Biloxi to play at Kress Live,” Taylor said.

Blues, rock, classic rock, country, reggae and electronic will be among the types of acts that he said will appeal to all ages.

“You might see comedy

“Every genre of music you know and love; world-class acts from around the world will be coming to Biloxi to play at Kress Live. You might see comedy on the top floor with dueling pianos on the bottom floor.”

Chase Taylor Kress Live partner on the top floor with dueling pianos on the bottom floor,” he said.

He envisions a place where women will feel safe coming in by themselves and young rockers also will feel welcome.

“It’s got to be a space for everybody,” he said.

They plan events for kids, for Cruisin’ The Coast, symphonic orchestras, burlesque and theater, and will rent the space for weddings, fashion shows and other functions.

Planning for Kress Live started before Biloxi approved the nearby minor league baseball stadium, but with the stadium helping bring people downtown, Taylor said they expect 400,000 people at Kress Live every year.

“It’s going to change downtown Biloxi atmosphere almost overnight,” he said.

The Kress stores were built in downtowns across the country.

He said customers at Kress Live will feel the culture of Biloxi from the exposed bricks and artwork throughout the building.

Much of the art on the exterior of the building will move inside. Taylor said they want to return to the building to its original appearance and will use an historic tax credit to complete the planned work.

The business is expected to create about 50 jobs, he said.

The 20,000-squarefoot building will provide space for a “Harts Full

of Soul” foundation that will be established to donate musical instruments to local schools and to host academies to teach music.

The American Heritage Museum for Music will be an interactive tour where visitors can see the memorabilia and discover the history of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Buffett and other great musicians from Mississippi.

Harrison County Supervisor Windy Swetman III said Wednesday that it is not an accident that the $2 million investment is being made at Vieux Marche.

“That’s because baseball is coming to downtown Biloxi and these are already dollars and already programs and already investors nationwide who are looking at Biloxi, Mississippi and want to be here,” he said.

“There will be more to come.”

Community Development Director Jerry Creel said there is interest in the Mike Hutter building that burned several years ago and other properties at Vieux Marche and more developers looking at properties throughout the downtown since the City Council agreed to build the stadium last week.

Assistance Retiree breakfast The Caterpillar Retiree Breakfast is held the first Monday of each month at 7:30 a.m. at Martha’s Menu in Corinth.

Youth Challenge 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 details, call 1-800-507-6253 or visit www.ngycp.org/state/ ms.

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 details, call Carla Nelson, volunteer coordinator with Hospice Advantage on becoming a volunteer at 662-6659185 or 662-279-0435.

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 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 1-800843-7553.

■ 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, call Lanell Coln, volunteer coordinator at Legacy Hospice, 301 East Waldron St, Corinth or call 662-286-5333.

Senior activities 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.

Red Cross 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 Northeast 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, baby-sitting 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.

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 details, call the church office at 2866638.

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 287-2441.

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

ment 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.

GED information

Support groups

GED test-takers can find out information by visiting the local adult education or GED class.

In the Corinth area, contact the adult education instructor at 662-6962314 or visit 1259 South Harper Rd. in Corinth.

■ 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 St. 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-FordMitchrell Community Center, 707 Spring St. in Iuka. Call 662-279-6435 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 St., Corinth.

For more details for all area AA groups, please call 662-212-2235.

■ An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting is held in Iuka at the old Chevy dealership building off old Hwy. 25 each Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common welfare is to stay sober and help others achieve sobriety. The Iuka meeting is an open meeting, anyone who has a problem with alcohol or other substances is welcome to attend.

For more information, call 662-660-3150.

■ The Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group in Corinth is partnered with the Alzheimer’s Association Mississippi Chapter. Keri Roaten is the facilitator. The group

Youth with disabilities 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, 662-2872425.

Genealogy society The Alcorn County Genealogical Society is located at the southeast corner of the Alcorn County Courthouse base-

meets every first Thursday of each month at the Corinth Public Library, from 6-7 p.m.

The group discusses the hardships of those caring for people effected by the disease and offer several different resources as well. For more information, contact k_roaten@hotmail. com or 662-594-5526.

■ The “Good Grief” ministry of the HopewellIndian Springs United Methodist Charge is a collaborative effort of both churches and meets every Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. in the dining room of the Arby’s Restaurant, 706 Highway 72 East, Corinth.

The ministry was established to support those who have experienced a devastating life event such as the death of a loved one, diagnosis of a terminal illness or condition, the loss of a spouse or parent through divorce, even the loss of a job or home. The ministry is non-denominational and open to all.

There is no cost to attend and no obligation to continue. For details, call Bro. Rick Wells, pastor of Hopewell and Indian Springs United Methodist Charge and facilitator at 662-587-9602.

■ Mended Hearts is a support group open to all heart patients, their families and others impacted by heart disease. Its purpose is to inspire hope in heart disease patients and their families through visits and sharing experiences of recovery and returning to an active life.

Healthcare professionals join in the mission by providing their expertise and support.

Mended Hearts meets the second Monday of every month at 10 a.m. at the Magnolia Community Service Complex in the Cardiac Rehab Conference Room, 1001 South Harper Road in Corinth.

Daily Corinthian • Sunday, February 23, 2014 • 3B

Making a ‘Late Night’ difference with Seth Meyers

BY DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer

PASADENA, Calif. — The difference between Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers in the days before their first talk shows began is evident in what they spent the most time on, said the man who guided both programs to birth. With Fallon, who took over “Late Night” in 2009, it was the performance. Meyers worries about the writing.

Producer Mike Shoemaker’s observation is worth remembering as NBC’s new late-night lineup settles in.

Fallon, the new “Tonight” host, and Meyers, who takes over in the 11:30 p.m. Central “Late Night” slot starting Monday, are known more for their similarities. Both are in Lorne Michaels’ orbit, came to be known through “Saturday Night Live” and hosted that show’s topical “Weekend Update” before moving to weeknights. They work in

the same building.

Their success moving forward will hinge on shaping their own personalities — and identities — for shows that NBC hopes will run backto-back in late-night for years to come.

“They’re actually rather complementary of each other,” said Paul Telegdy, NBC West Coast executive in charge of late-night.

“People say, ‘Aren’t they two versions of the same thing?’ They couldn’t be more different.”

Fallon’s persona is energetic and goofy, with a gift for music and mimicry and an ability to guide celebrities into poking fun at themselves. Meyers, 40, is more cerebral and topical, and he enjoys playing the straight man.

He knows his strengths.

“I mean, I’d like to be up there with Bruce Springsteen,” Meyers said of Fallon’s occasional duet partner, “but no one else would enjoy it.”

Like most comics of

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his generation, Meyers worships at the altar of David Letterman, but a more enduring influence is Conan O’Brien.

O’Brien was a writer before going in front of the camera. Meyers attended Northwestern University and worked in improvisational theater in Chicago, but always saw himself creating jokes more than telling them. He joined “Saturday Night Live” as a performer in 2001 and took a unique career trajectory, becoming the show’s head writer in 2006.

“Seth is the most brilliant writer to come out of ‘SNL’ in my time,” said Shoemaker, a trusted Michaels lieutenant.

An important step in Meyers’ transition to a daily show was hiring “Weekend Update” writer Alex Baze as head writer for “Late Night.” Meyers has been putting his writing staff through drills for weeks, preparing pitches as if the show were up and

running.

“It’s not so much to have things to use, but for the writing staff to learn the things that I like or don’t like,” Meyers said.

“The pitches have been an education in my taste.”

Until it got to be too much, he enjoyed being able to continue on “Weekend Update” while prepping the new show.

There are only so many jokes you can write and toss aside — it keeps you sharper to have an onthe-air outlet.

In broad strokes, his show is taking shape. Former “SNL” colleague Fred Armisen will lead the band. Meyers will have no sidekick, but regular foils taken from the writing staff and New York’s comedy community. Amy Poehler, Vice President Joe Biden, Kanye West and Lena Dunham are among his first week’s guests.

Meyers can’t decide whether the second show or second week will be

atively get refreshed by the new casts. But this came up and all of a sudden you realize you’re the resident gray hair at ‘SNL’ and it makes sense to move on.”

He was instantly identified in media reports as the leading candidate to replace Fallon, but Meyers didn’t quite know how to take that. He remembered media reports that he was the leading candidate to be Kelly Ripa’s partner in the job that went to Michael Strahan.

Then one day, when Meyers was staying at a Red Roof Inn in Iowa, there came a phone call from Michaels’ office saying the ever-inscrutable late-night impresario wanted to speak to him.

“It was one of those great cryptic Lorne calls where he was saying, ‘I think this will be good for you and you’ll be good at it,’” Meyers recalled. “And I’m thinking, ‘What? Is he offering me this job?’”

He was.

‘Office’ alum Novak compiles his ‘Stories’ for a new book

BY ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press

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the most fun, when the pressure of a premiere is off and the machinery is up and running. That’s where an experienced hand like Shoemaker is important; to remind him of the fluid nature of these programs.

“All of the bits that became big on Jimmy, even right away, were not planned,” Shoemaker said. “They happen and you do more of them. Our show next year, and I’m not being coy, I can’t even imagine how it is going to go. It will be fun getting there, but there is no way to guess.”

Unlike those who moved on fairly quickly from the show, Meyers wasn’t necessarily in a hurry to leave.

“I was on my third generation of people at ‘SNL’ but it felt like a perfect fit for me,” he said. “Other than the fact that people don’t stay there forever, there was no downside.

I had never gotten bored with it. You always cre-

NEW YORK — B.J. Novak says his plan of action following nine seasons of writing, producing and acting on NBC’s popular workplace comedy “The Office” was a bit random.

He decided his next project would be to write, not a film or another series, or a memoir or even a novel. Instead, it would be a book of short stories.

“It sounded like a crazy thing to do,” Novak said in a recent interview. “‘Oh, what are you doing after ‘The Office’? Are you doing a movie? Are you writing a new TV show?’

To say, ‘No, no. I’m writing a book. Just odd little short stories.’ It sounds like you’ve lost your mind and no one’s ever gonna hear from you again. It sounds like, you know, a crazy, old man in a cabin.

And I wondered if I was a crazy, old man in a cabin.”

Novak, 34, said the ideas for “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories” (Knopf), which debuted at No. 4 on The New York Times bestseller list, had been floating around in his head for a while. Still, the guy responsible for writing some of the funniest episodes of “The Office” was apprehensive about shar-

ing those ideas.

“I didn’t know if they would ever be worth anything to anybody,” he said. “But I just really wanted to write them, so at first I would email them out to a friend or two at a time. One story to one friend. One story to another. Very shyly.”

To keep himself on track, he set up gigs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where he would read his stories to an audience. From there, he would gauge what worked and what needed work.

“I was so used to this regimen where scripts had deadlines and had to be filmed and Steve Carell is waiting for the new pages that I didn’t know what it would be like to just sit in a house with no one expecting anything from me and write something. So I think scheduling those shows for me was a great bridge between being on ‘The Office’ and writing on my own.”

Novak took other interesting approaches for this book.

He directed a black-andwhite Parisian-themed trailer that can be seen on YouTube, in which he plays a version of himself trying to impress friend Mindy Kaling because he, too, had written a book.

Kaling’s book “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)” was also a New York Times best-seller.

“At first I wanted to look cool,” he laughed. “Then I thought, ‘Maybe make fun of the part of you that wants to be that.’”

Then there’s the audio book, where he enlisted actors Carey Mulligan, Julianne Moore, Katy Perry, Lena Dunham, Rainn Wilson and Jason Schwartzman to read some of the characters.

“I consider this book a work of entertainment and so I wanted (the audio book) to be entertaining,” he said.

Novak has a deal for another book and says he has “hundreds” of ideas for stories.

And he wants to do more acting, although feeling comfortable oncamera didn’t happen overnight.

“I read an interview once where a director said that you have to be two things in front of a camera, completely focused and completely relaxed.

That sounds like a paradox and the best actors are the ones who can do that. I think that’s why we can all agree I’m one of the best actors alive,” he deadpanned.

Game review: Donkey Kong stumbles in his latest outing, ‘Tropical Freeze’

BY LOU KESTEN Associated Press

Donkey Kong: He jumps. He punches. He swings on vines and swims with sharks. He wears a monogrammed necktie.

He’s kind of boring.

Still, “Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze” (Nintendo, for the Wii U, $49.99) provides all the action that fans of the big galoot are probably looking for. As with its predecessor, 2010’s “Donkey Kong Country Returns,” you guide the gorilla across a series of two-dimensional landscapes, collecting bananas, jumping over pits and stomping on enemies. Every now and then you encounter barrels that blast DK across huge gaps, or mine carts that take him on a rickety roller-coaster ride. You can even hop on the back of a rhinoceros and rampage through the jungle.

A few members of the Kong family are here to help. Diddy Kong’s jet pack and Dixie Kong’s propeller-like ponytail help Donkey make longer jumps, while Cranky

Kong’s cane transforms into a deadly pogo stick.

If you let a second human control your sidekick, Diddy shoots peanuts, Dixie shoots bubble gum and Cranky throws his dentures.

The primary enemies are the “Snowmads,” a horde of walruses and penguins. Pillaging DK’s banana stash isn’t enough for these Viking wannabes — instead, they want to transform his home into frozen tundra.

DK’s journey takes him across six islands, beginning with your classic tropical paradise. Each island is divided into about a half-dozen levels, which get chillier and more ominous until you return to Donkey Kong Island.

Right from the start, though, players expecting a laid-back island vibe will discover that “Tropical Freeze” is hard. Some veterans will regard the difficulty as a throwback to the days when only the toughest players made it to the end of a game. Me, I found it frustrating, with the difficulty too often exacerbated by DK’s slug-

gish movement. If you’re used to the tight controls of Nintendo’s Super Mario games, steering this big, dumb gorilla around feels like a drag.

And then there are the wretched “boss battles” at the last stage of each island. The formula is way too familiar: dodge projectiles, jump on or throw things at the boss, rinse and repeat. It’s a formula that crosses the line between retro and archaic, and each time the tedium made me want to give up the game for good.

Nintendo has done its best to turn Donkey Kong into a marquee name since his switch from princess-kidnapping villain to banana-hoarding hero. And at times his island paradise has held the promise of becoming a fully realized world.

But the gorilla’s latest adventure, while competent, feels repetitious and uninspired. In an age when other lovable mascots are bringing fresh ideas to the genre, “Tropical Freeze” is underripe.

Two-and-a-half stars out of four.

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1552 Call 731-645-0049 FOR SALE: 3 Point 1 Row WANTED TO Middle Buster, $125. Call 0554 RENT/BUY/TRADE 287-1552 FOR SALE: 5' Box Blade M&M. CASH FOR JUNK CARS & TRUCKS. 662-415$100. Call 287-1552 5435 or 731-239-4114.

FOR SALE: 6' Bush Hog, WE PICK UP! $550.00. Call 287-1552

FOR SALE: 7' Heavy Duty 0563 MISC. ITEMS FOR SALE Blade $450.00. 662-2871552 1265 FISHER metal deFOR SALE: Ford 3 Bot- tector with head hones. t o m B r e a k i n g P l o w , Good condition. $325. $ 3 5 0 . C a l l 2 8 7 - 1 5 5 2 Call 731-327-1026 FOR SALE: International 300 ROUNDS OF .223 Disk, $900.00. Call 287- SHELLS FOR $100. 731645-0049 1552

0747 HOMES FOR SALE

2003 GREAT condition 16x80 3 Bed 2 Bath $16,900 Includes Delivery & set up CASH ONLY CALL 662-401-1093

MISC. REAL 0780 ESTATE

60 ACRES, CR 639 Kossuth area, mature timber, stocked pond, small stream, building sites, food plots & hunting houses. 901-8501835

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO/TRUCK 0848 PARTS & ACCESSORIES

22" STROTZ Rims and FOR SALE: Massey Fer- BLACK CONVERSE ALL Tires, good cond. 1 Rim guson 5' Bucket, $150. STAR HIGHTOP SHOES. SZ missing centerpiece, 13, ONLY WORN A Call 287-1552 $800. 662-643-5655 COUPLE OF TIMES. $35.

Call 662-286-5216 PART TIME help needed MERCHANDISE FINANCIAL in warehouse. Must be LADIES BLK ORTHOPEDable to work weekends IC SHOES. SZ 10 1/2, & have a valid drivers liMUSICAL NEW, NEVER WORN, $15. cense. Must apply in 0512 LEGALS CALL 662-286-5216 MERCHANDISE person. No phone calls.

Ask for Ray. Casabella S A L E OR T R A D E METAL TOOL BOX, FITS Furniture s o m e t h i n g o f e q u a l SMALL TRUCK, $85. 731value. Wurlitzer baby 239-8668 OR 731-453- 0955 LEGALS grand butterfly electric 4615 LEGAL NOTICE PEOPLE SEEKING piano. $300. 287-6993

0272 EMPLOYMENT

VENTURE KARAOKE. 2 C A R E G I V E R . W I L L S I T slots for cassette (1 rewith sick or elderly. 25 cords/both play) 1 Mic. yrs. exp. 662-284-6788. AM/FM radio. $35. Call 662-808-0-118

TEKNETICS OMEGA 8000 The Mississippi DepartMETAL DETECTOR, $450. ment of Corrections is CALL 731-645-0049 soliciting proposals to

WESLO PRO 10.X heart workouts, variable resis., fan, dig. display, 0518 ELECTRONICS $65. 731-239-8668 or 25" (NOT Flat Screen) 731-453-4615 0320 CATS/DOGS/PETS Color Sanyo TV. Works great. $50. Call 662-808REAL ESTATE FOR RENT FREE, 2 kittens left, 0118 black/gray mix, 9 wks old, 662-415-6954 SONY PLAYSTATION 2.

UNFURNISHED Doesn't play disks is the 0610 APARTMENTS condition. Cost is $50.

FARM Call 731-327-1026 WEAVER APTS. 504 N. Cass, 1 BR, scr.porch, SPORTING FARM w/d. $375+util, 284-7433.

0527 0470

PETS

EQUIPMENT

GOODS

F O R S A L E L i f t P o l e VIP MCGREGOR CLUBS. $150.00. Call 287-1552 M A T C H I N G D R I V E R , LEATHER BAG. EXCELFOR SALE: 10' Section LENT CONDITION. $250.

Har, $250. Call 287-1552 CALL 731-645-0049

MOBILE HOMES 0675 FOR RENT

1.5 yrs. Old Siberian Husky Seen 2/12 in Corinth High School & Tate St. Baptist Church Area John Taylor @ 662-286-2835 or 212-2362

AUTO/TRUCK PARTS & ACCESSORIES

lease approximately 2,000 square feet of office space in Corinth. Interested parties should contact Bill Brand at (662) 489-4595, P.O. Box 30, Pontotoc, MS 38863. Deadline for receipt of proposals is February 28, 2014.

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

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Free Electronic Filing with paid preparation.

Fully computerized tax preparation.

Office hours: Mon-Fri 8am-7pm Sat. 9 am-4pm Sun. By appt. only 2003 Hwy. 72E., Corinth, 662-286-1040 (Old Junkers Parlor) 508 W. Chambers St., Booneville, 662-728-1080 1210 City Ave., Ripley, 662-512-5829

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MOBILE HOMES 0741 FOR SALE 14'X70' 2 BR 2 BA, AS IS $3300, 14 x70' 3 BR 2 BA, AS IS $3300, 14'x60' 2 BR 1 BA, Great Value $6500, View Pictures Of Homes at www.lemmondmobilehomes.net Many Other Homes to Choose From! LEMMOND MOBILE HOMES 1085 HWY 20 East Tuscumbia, AL 35633. 1-888-300-6775 1998 16X80 single-wide, 3BR/2BA, needs repairs, must be moved $9500 OBO. 662-415-1154

HANDYMAN'S HOME CARE, ANYTHING. 662-643-6892.

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