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Daily Corinthian Vol. 118, No. 48
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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • 1 section
Silver medalist has Corinth roots BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Former Corinthian Chris Creveling is bringing home a silver medal. The U.S. short track speed skating team had a dry spell at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, until the very last event. Creveling was part of the four-man team that took the runner-up prize over the weekend in the men’s
5,000-meter relay with a time of 6:42.371. The team finished less than threetenths of a second behind Russia. Creveling, who grew up in Kintnersville, Pa., lived in Corinth as a young boy from about 1988 to 1993 when his parents ran Skateland. Along with his siblings, he was always on skates and was often at the skating rink.
The 27-year-old, now a resident of Utah, described the experience as “incredible” in a blog post on Thursday just two days before winning the silver with his teammates. “I haven’t been to another Olympic games but this Olympics is massive … all the events I’ve watched are great,” he wrote. “I got a U.S. hockey jersey and went to a game with my dad. That was for sure a
proud moment, and hopefully not the last game I go to.” The speed skating team knew going into the Olympics that the relay would be its best medal hope. “The Olympics are almost over so I’m pouring everything into this full-on battle,” he wrote ahead of the event. Please see CREVELING | 2
McKewen benefit gets good turnout BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
“Pictures were piled everywhere. It was like walking down the memory lane of hundreds of different people,” Elizabeth Boler said after visiting the Joe McEwen photo and frame benefit sale at the Harper Square Mall. Boler was on a mission to find a photo of her grown son when he was a kindergarten escort. After 45 minutes of searching over a dozen boxes of photos, she left empty handed. “I could have spent hours looking through all those pictures,” the Kossuth resident said. “The McKewens sure did touch a lot of people with their photography.” For more than 50 years, Joe and Doris McKewen captured major life events from births, high school graduations and weddings from their iconic studio on Cruise Street. In 2013, the McKewens experienced health issues that forced them to close and sell their downtown Corinth business. Boler said she found photos of some of her church member’s children. “I have been on the phone calling and texting them,” she said. Sale organizer Bill Avery helped with the process of moving countless items out of the McKewen studio. Thousands of photos and hundreds of picture frames were moved to the mall last
Woman smuggles drugs into prison BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
Photo compliments of Bill Avery
Photo hunters search for family and friends at the Joe McKewen photo and frame benefit sale at Harper Square Mall. See related photo on page 2. week in preparation for the sale. Avery maned the sale Saturday. “We were bombarded all day long,” the avid photographer said. “It was standing room only most of the time. There was so many people in this building at one point a line stared forming outside. It was unbelievable.” Avery said the support and love for Joe and his work is mind boggling. “People were calling and tex-
ting everyone they knew telling them about the sale,” he said. Even though Avery believes over half of the photos have been sold, he said there are still piles of photos everywhere and plenty of high quality wooden frames and mats. “There are graduation photos from all the local schools from the last five decades,” Avery added. “Everyone who has ever had a photo taken by Joe should come to this sale.” All proceeds from the sale will benefit the couple.
The sale continues through Friday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at 1801-4A South Harper Road next to Sears in the Harper Square Mall. “We found my husband’s high school graduation photos,” said an excited Ashley Rider. “The only copies he had prior to this burned up in his dad’s house fire.” “Such a great find,” she said. (For more information or for an after-hours appointment, contact Avery at 415-1999.)
School’s recycling effort places third in the nation BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
MICHIE, Tenn. — Michie Elementary School is doing its part to keep Tennessee beautiful. The school’s recycling efforts had a profound effect on the community. The combination of the two produced 200,008 pounds of recycling which placed them third in the national competition in the community division of the Keep America Beautiful Recycle-Bowl. Representatives from Keep Tennessee Beautiful were on hand to deliver a $500 check to the school last week. “We got everyone in the community doing it,” said 4th-5th grade science teacher Debra Steen. Initiated by the school’s Energy Club, a trailer was placed behind the school for people in town to bring recyclable items. “Part of our curriculum involves recycling and we looked at the pros and cons of doing it,” said Steen of the monthlong competition which went from the middle of Oct. to Nov. “Then we told everyone in the community about the project.” The school got into the recycling spirit with a pep rally prior to the kickoff of the competition. “Recycling has become a big thing,” added Michie Mayor
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Staff photo by Steve Beavers
Michie Elementary School fourth graders Alex Moore (from left), Jodie Bowen and Reese Walker were part of a recycling effort that helped the school and community place third in the RecycleBowl. Anthony Smith. “Ms. Steen does a good job of teaching the students about it and it helps them learn the importance at an early age.” The total amount of recyclables recovered during the 2013 competition added up to 6.4 million pounds. Sponsored
by Nestlé Pure Life Purified Water, over 700,000 students across the country took part in the bowl. “We appreciate your hard work,” said McNairy County Solid Waste Director Cindy Kennedy to the group of fourth and fifth graders. “We are so
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proud and want others to know what you have done.” First place in the national drop-off category went to York Adventist Christian School in York, Penn. “Inspiring young people to Please see RECYCLING | 2
A woman’s prison visit turned into a stay at the facility. Officers with the Alcorn Narcotics Unit arrested Evelyn Kemp Rush, 46, of 102 Channel Street, Madison for two counts of introducing drugs to the prison. “Jailers observed her walk into jail and during a routine check found drugs as she attempted to hide them in the bathroom,” said investigator Darrell Hopkins of the Sunday arrest at the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility. Rush allegedly attempted to bring in over 2 ounces of marijuana and 16 hydrocodone pills into the prison by hiding the items under her clothes. Judge Steve Little set Rush’s bond at $6,000 professional only.
Initial court term begins next month BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
The first full term of the year is coming up for Alcorn County Circuit Court. It’s set for March 17 through April 11 with a couple of days of pleas and probation revocation hearings preceding the term on March 5 and March 7. Dozens of defendants will stand before the court facing all manner of charges from armed robbery and identity theft to voyeurism and aggravated stalking. Robert T. Sharp and Roger L. Sharp face one of the rarer charges on the docket — possession of a still. The father and son were arrested in June and accused of making illegal moonshine and building moonshine stills to sell on the Internet auction site eBay. The bust on County Road 750 followed an undercover investigation by the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control. Continued from the previous term is the murder case of Demarlen O. Davis, who was charged last April in the shooting death of Karson Stewart in a car at a residence on Martin Luther King Drive. Also on the docket is rape suspect Garnett Denzell Hughes, who faces a four-count indictment including charges of sexual battery, kidnapping, armed robbery and burglary of a dwelling stemming from an assault that police said happened at Beechwood Circle. Hughes was also charged last week in the city park rape based on DNA test results.
On this day in history 150 years ago A Union advance in Georgia confirms Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s army is entrenched around Dalton. Thousands of Confederate troops who had been sent toward Meridian to confront Sherman are turned around and marched back into Georgia.