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Vol. 118, No. 133
• Corinth, Mississippi • 20 pages • 2 sections
Interns want more park feedback BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
Early results are in from Mississippi State University’s Carl Small Town Center’s recent visit to the Crossroads. Carl Small Town Center interns Hannah Waycaster and Anthony Penny collected sur-
See survey on page 12A. veys from the public at Crossroads Regional Park on Tuesday. “Our setup was a success. We received 51 surveys while setup
at the city park,” said Waycaster, a fourth-year architecture senior at MSU. “Before we start analyzing the data, we would love to get more surveys from people in the community.” Waycaster is asking everyone who has an opinion about city park to complete a survey and
mail it to the university. “We have created a condensed version of the survey we handed out at the park on Tuesday,” said Waycaster. “It is a quick and easy 10 question survey.” The survey appears on page 12A of today’s Daily Corinthian.
“One of the questions we’re asking is what outdoor activities do you or your children participate in regularly,” said the intern. “We’re trying to find out if people are participating in a sport or activity that the park Please see SURVEY | 12A
Storms drop heavy rain, damaging winds on area BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
A band of severe thunderstorms moved through the Crossroads late Thursday afternoon. The storms produced heavy rainfall, flash flooding and damaging winds. Numerous downed trees and limbs were reported around the city moments after the first round of weather moved through. Witnesses said a possible lightening strike contributed to a massive tree being uprooted by the storm. The tree was reported as falling partially on a home on North Parkway. Downed trees were also reported on Gaines Road, Norman Road and Bunch Street.
The Cass Street underpass near Cruise Street was blocked by street department employees shortly after 3:30 p.m., due to flooding. In the county, a tree was reported blocking the road on County Road 246. “We got reports of some of the culvert road construction signage being blown into the roadway on Farmington Road,” said District Two Supervisor Dal Nelms. “There was also a one vehicle wreck on County Road 300 where the rain and wind appeared to of been a factor. The vehicle hit a power line pole and the impact snapped the pole in half. No one appeared to be Please see RAIN | 2A
State approves funding for Meigg Street upgrades BY JEBB JOHNSTON Southern Gospel group The Steeles will headline Saturday night’s 17th Annual Leon Frazier Kiwanis Memorial Concert at the Historic Corinth Coliseum Civic Center. The Steeles feature the husband and wife team of Jeff and Sherry Steele who along with Andrew Ishee travel the country spreading God’s word through music.
Return to Corinth thrills gospel group BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
One of Southern gospel’s brightest shining groups will sing their popular worship ballads this weekend at the Leon Frazier Kiwanis Memorial Concert. The Steeles will join The LeFevre Quartet for the 6 p.m., Saturday night concert at the Historic Corinth Coliseum Civic Center.
The Steeles feature the husband and wife team of Jeff and Sherry Steele who along with Andrew Ishee travel the country spreading God’s word through music. “We are thrilled to be back in Corinth,” said Jeff in an interview with the Daily Corinthian. “We have sung here several times back in the day and I have actually preached several revival meetings in this general area.
Corinth is such a friendly city and we are native Mississippians anyway so it will be good to re-visit our friends in Corinth.” Originally formed in 1991, Jeff acts as the lead vocalist and song writer for the group. In 1995, the group released “God Kept His Promise” and “I Got Up and Went.” The popularity of those two hits helped Please see STEELES | 2A
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The Mississippi Transportation Commission has approved funding for a pedestrian improvement project on Meigg Street. Mayor Tommy Irwin reported Tuesday that the city has been notified the commission on May 13 approved the city’s request for up to $554,208 in Transportation Alternative Program funds for sidewalks and attractive street lighting. The city will contribute a match of $246,712. The sidewalk and lighting improvements will be on Meigg Street between Cass Street and South Parkway, creating an improved pedestrian corridor from Cass to Crossroads
Regional Park. Most of the walking route will be on the south side of Meigg Street, although the route will shift to the north side of Meigg Street from Penn to Cass. Existing sidewalks will be utilized if they meet the specifications for Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant routes, and ADA-compliant ramps will be installed along the route and at select intersections to permit access to areas north of Meigg Street. Driveways along the route will be reworked as required to assure that the sidewalk route does not have excessive side slopes. Pole lighting will Please see MEIGG | 2A
Playwright scheduled to do ‘Sordid Best’ BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com
Playwright Del Shores is set to take the CT-A Stage at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 14 with his stand-up comedy show, “Del Shores: My Sordid Best!” Shores, a native of Winters, Texas is best known as a writer and producer for popular television shows such as “Queer as Folk”, “Dharma & Greg” and “Touched by an Angel”. His acclaimed comedy “Sordid” lives, which debuted in Los Angeles in 1996, was recently performed at the CT-A playhouse. “I’m excited that the actors from the Corinth Theatre-Arts
production of “Sordid Lives” will perform a few scenes during my show,” said Shores. The stand-up comic said that life often serves as the muse for his plays. “I have been inspired by my family, myself, friends and just by observing,” said Shores who now lives in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. “I have often said that I’m not really a writer, I am a thief.” Many of the playwright’s characters are reminiscent of people he knows or has encountered during his journey. “My first play “Daddy’s Dyin (Who’s Got The Will?) which became an MGM movie was in-
spired by my mother’s family. “Sordid Lives” was about my coming out story to my mom (“Latrelle”) and my real aunts inspired “Sissy” and “LaVonda”,” he said. “But then there’s “Brother Boy” who is complete fabrication, although his obsession with Tammy Wynette (a Mississippi legend by the way) was my own obsession.” A humorist and a storyteller, Shores comedy is not pure stand-up. “”It’s more like we are sitting down at my dinner table and I am holding court,” he said “Every show is different.”
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Del Shores performs stand-up.
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