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Education Local students named FFA North District Stars

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Daily Corinthian Vol. 121, No. 129

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• Corinth, Mississippi • 18 pages • Two sections

Public input needed for city growth BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

A couple of public meetings are coming up for Corinth’s long-range planning process for the future development of the city. Envision Corinth 2040 continues with a session on Monday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Corinth Elementary School gym. It is a Community Futures Workshop in which participants will begin to map the future of the city based on prin-

“Data indicates Corinth has very strong potential to be an exceptional place, and the input thus far only confirms our impressions.” Bob Barber Orion Planning + Design ciples and priorities developed to date, along with market data, development patterns and infrastructure capacity.

The results of the community’s work and refining discussion will be shared with the public on Thursday, June 8, from 6

to 7:30 p.m. at the CES gym. “The data indicates Corinth has very strong potential to be an exceptional place, and the input thus far only confirms our impressions,” said Bob Barber, partner with Orion Planning + Design. “It’s time to get the vision mapped so that implementation strategies can be developed. With solid underlying economics and demographics, some outstanding ideas on the Please see INPUT | 2A

Chili cook wins after 10th visit Lottery committee meets for first time BY MARK BOEHLER

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An Illinois chili cook has not missed a Crossroads Chili Cookoff. His 10th visit to Corinth proved to be a keeper as the cook punched his ticket to the International Chili Society (ICS) World Championship. Bob Hall of Taylorville, Ill. won the ICS Red Chili competition on Saturday, giving him the Mississippi championship, an extra $1,000 and a shot at the world title. The local competition may be Hall’s lucky charm. He won ICS Chili Verde in 2009 and went on to win the world title that year. The Crossroads Chili Cookoff got a big surprise from this year’s ICS Chili Verde winner. John Blackwell of Kennesaw, Ga. gave his $300 check to the Crossroads Museum, this year’s non-profit group who gets proceeds from the People’s Choice chili testing. Blackwell’s gesture is actually a $600 gift as all money raised this year for the museum’s “Save the Fire Truck Campaign” will be matched dollar for dollar Please see COOKOFF | 2A

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Staff photo by Mark Boehler

Fabian and Ali Maricle of Fillmore Street Cafe serve up homemade salsa during the 10th Annual Crossroads Chili Cookoff held on Saturday in downtown Corinth.

The Mississippi House Lottery Study Working Group convened for its first meeting late last week as the state takes a new look at the game of chance as a potential revenue source. The ninem e m b e r Bain committee is tasked with a fact-finding mission on various aspects of lotteries. It will not make a recommendation. Thursday’s meeting “was basically just an agenda setting — laying out a roadmap for what is to come,” said Rep. Nick Bain (D - Corinth), who is part of the committee. He said the group will present its findings in the fall. The group plans to study the 44 states with lotteries and the types of games offered and consider the pros and cons of joining the Multi-State Lot-

tery Association. The group will look at the time required to launch a lottery, and the members plan to visit Arkansas and Louisiana to assess the good and bad aspects of the lottery in those states. Thursday’s session included a “Lottery 101” overview, with a history of the games and recent statistics. Despite the growth of state-run lotteries, participation in lotteries has decreased somewhat from 57 percent to 50 percent among Americans, the group was told. Fiscal year 2016 sales totaled $80.5 billion nationwide, ranging from $33.4 million in Wyoming, the newest lottery state, to $9.7 billion in New York. Sales in bordering states were $455.6 million in Arkansas, $507 million in Louisiana and $1.6 billion in Tennessee. In addition to Mississippi, only Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah do not have state-run lotteries. Other members of the study group are Rep. Richard BenPlease see LOTTERY | 2A

Gospel group to honor Frazier BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

A legendary gospel music group will return to Corinth this weekend for the 20th Annual Leon Frazier Memorial Concert presented by the Corinth Kiwanis Club. The Kingsmen Quartet will headline the concert. The show will also include Gold City Quartet, The Perrys, Josh & Ashley Franks and Dujuana Frazier Thompson and family. Advanced tickets and Artists Circle reception tickets are currently available for the memorial concert, set for 6 p.m. on Saturday at the Historic Corinth Coliseum Civic Center in downtown Corinth. Touring for more than half

a century, the Kingsmen’s legacy is far reaching, much like Leon Frazier. One of Leon’s closest friends was Ray Dean Reese, who joined the Kingmen as bass vocalist in the mid-60s. “Leon was a good friend to all of us in the group,” Reese told the Daily Corinthian. “Being able to come back to Corinth for this concert is one wonderful way that we get to remember Leon and honor his legacy.” The North Carolinabased group is one of the most awarded groups in Southern Gospel Music history. They’ve had 14 Singing News Top 40 number one songs, several Dove Awards, Grammy nominations and appearances at some of the

nation’s most prestigious venues including the Grand Ole Opry and The White House. They are also members of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, Christian Music Hall of Fame and Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame. “The group has quite a history,” said Reese. “We’ve been spreading gospel and song for more than 50 years.” The group’s dynamic live performances, beginning with 1973’s “Big And Live”, set a standard for the genre. The Kingsmen have come to be known for big, booming voices, high tenors and a low bass with tight, intricate Please see GROUP | 6A

The Kingsmen Quartet will headline the 20th Annual Leon Frazier Memorial Concert on Saturday at the Historic Corinth Coliseum Civic Center.

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Hitchhiker, an English Pointer owned by Richard Dobbins of Corinth and Bill Fisk of Holly Springs, is selected for the Bird Dog Museum Field Trial Hall of Fame.

Bill Avery, Leigh Stephens and Marcus Simmons are among the amateur photographers whose work is exhibited at the Corinth Artist Guild Gallery in an exhibit of photos by students in the photography class at the Alcorn Career and Technology Center.

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