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Daily Corinthian Vol. 118, No. 130

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Supervisors mull upgrade to file servers BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

Alcorn Career and Technology Center Director Richard Turner (right) talks with current Manufacturing Fundamentals/Metal Fabrication instructor, Jesse Potts, about his 16 years as a metal trades teacher.

Turner tests different water following ACTC retirement BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Richard Tuner is casting his line into a different water. After 22 years in the Alcorn School District, Turner is retiring as director of the Alcorn Career and Technology Center. The next chapter of his life involves “lots of fishing” and “traveling with his wife” once he retires June 30. “I hope the kids remember me as a good teacher who helped them,” he said. “I love them all, but there are always a few who are really special.” The father of three replaced

former director Billy Griffin after teaching Metal Trades for 16 years. “I was the part-time assistant director for two years and vocational director for four,” said Turner. After earning his degree in Trade and Industrial Education at Mississippi State University and his master’s degree in Ed Leadership from the University of North Alabama, the director set out to make the center the best it could be. “I have always said ‘this is the best kept secret in the county,’” noted Turner of the center.

While under his leadership, the center was honored in three distinct ways during his last year. The ACTC housed Mississippi’s Career and Technical Student of the Year, Mississippi’s Craft Instructor of the Year, and Mississippi’s ACTE Career Guidance Award recipient. “Any one of those awards would be special for any center, but to have all three in one year is absolutely phenomenal, and has not been paralleled by any other center in the state,” said center counselor Jennifer Please see TURNER | 2

Thompson to attend Governor’s School For the Daily Corinthian

COLUMBUS — Austin Reid Thompson has been selected to participate in the 2014 session of the Mississippi Governor’s School. The Governor’s School is a residential honors program established in 1981 by Governor William F. Winter at Mississippi University for Women. The Governor’s School is designed to provide academic, creative and leadership experiences for a limited number of rising high school juniors and seniors who have demonstrated exceptional ability and achievement in their studies and who have shown high intellectual, creative and leadership potential. Thompson began the session June 1 and will be a part of the school until June 20. Austin Reid Thompson, the son of Tommy and Terri Thompson of Corinth is a 2014 graduate of The Alliance Junior Leadership Alcorn Program. “The program is a leader-

ship development program for sophomores and juniors to cultivate their leadership skills, provide a better understanding of our community and develop their interpersonal skills,” said The Alliance Community Development Director Andrea Rose. He will be a senior at Corinth High School and is planning to major in Software Engineering in college. Thompson is a member of the Corinth High School Band, tennis team, Junior Leadership Alcorn and National Honor Society. His honors include, ranked second in his junior class, First Chair in the percussion section, ranked first for AICE (Pure Math, Thinking Skills and General Paper), ranked second Honors in Algebra II, ranked third IGSCE in American History, Math II and World History, ranked third in Spanish II, SATP Advanced for Algebra I and many other academic awards.

Comedic playwright Shores comes to CT-A For Daily Corinthian

Del Shores, the playwright who created such memorable Southern characters as Bitsy Mae Harling, Wardell “Bubba” Owens and LaVonda DuPree, will bring his stand-up comedy show, “Del Shores: My Sordid Best!”, to Corinth Theatre-Arts at 8 p.m., Saturday, June 14. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $50 for VIP seats that include a wine-and-cheese reception with Shores after the show. Make reservations by calling CT-A at 662.287.2995 or stopping by the theatre, 303 S. Fulton Drive, 1-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays. A portion of the show’s proceeds will go to the theatre. CT-A recently produced Shores’ acclaimed comedy “Sordid Lives,” and the cast will

recreate some of their scenes during Shores’ show. Shores also wrote “Southern Baptist Sissies” and “Daddy’s Dyin’: Who’s Got the Will?” among other plays and screenplays and was a writer and producer for such TV shows as “Queer as Folk,” “Dharma & Greg” and “Touched by an Angel.” He has taken his stand-up show on three national tours for more than 200 performances. “I’m thrilled to present some standup in the north part of the state,” he said about his trip to Corinth. “Del Shores: My Sordid Best!” is a show appropriate for adult audiences, said Cris Skinner, CT-A artistic director. (For details, call CT-A at 662287-2995 or email corinth.theatre.arts@gmail.com)

Man accused of selling meth Staff Report

Austin Reid Thompson His activities include the Corinth High School Academic Team, Robotics Team, Science Club, Key Club, Environmental Club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Index Stocks........8 Classified......14 Comics........ 9 State........ 5

Alcorn County is preparing to upgrade its courthouse file servers and add a new backup system in a location that would be safe from tornadoes and fires. Premise, Inc., presented quotes to the Board of Supervisors Monday morning for purchase, rental and lease-purchase options. The board is interested in the lease-purchase option but wants quotes from local banks before making a decision. The outright purchase price would be $19,717. Premise consultant Brian Walls presented financing quotes from IBM of 3.54 percent on a 36-month term and 3.95 percent on a 60-month term. The county has two IBM servers running at the courthouse. One would be replaced with a new server and the newer of the current servers would become the secondary server. “The other thing we’re implementing is a virtual backup for the IBM AS/400 server,” said Walls. “That server is kind of

the backbone of the county. Right now, it is backed up with a tape drive. What this is going to do is add a supplementary backup.” That backup will occur on a server in the chancery clerk’s office on a nightly basis. Walls said the county could spend a larger sum of money to create an elaborate disastersafe file system, but “at some point you have to weigh money versus risk.” In other business: ■ The board approved a property transfer that Supervisor Jimmy Tate Waldon said will allow for work on Lone Oak Church Road, where a curve will be lessened. ■ Supervisors gave travel authorization for DARE Officer David Derrick to attend the 2014 DARE State Training Conference in Biloxi on July 20-24. ■ Supervisors went into executive session for economic development and land acquisition discussions. ■ The board’s next meeting is set for 9 a.m. Friday, June 13.

FARMINGTON — A 35-year-old Farmington man remains jailed at the Alcorn Justice Center following a Monday drug charge. Officers with the Alcorn Narcotics Unit charged Bobby Barnes, 35, of 4322 County Road 200 with sale of methamphetamine. “Officers went to his residence and issued a warrant on the charge,” said the unit’s Darrell Hopkins. “We are working on more charges in the area and expect more arrests in the future.” Bond for Barnes was set at $10,000.

On this day in history 150 years ago

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The Battle of Cold Harbor unfolds across a seven-mile front, inundated with fortifications and interlocking fields of fire. Lee won his final open field battle, for Cold Harbor marks an end to the mobile phase of Grant’s Overland campaign to Richmond.

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