Daily Corinthian E-Edition 062812

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Daily Corinthian Vol. 116, No. 155

Orchestra plans free concert BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

The year’s only free concert by the Corinth Symphony Orchestra will celebrate America on Saturday. About 15 brass players under the direction of Maurice Weatherall will entertain beginning at 7:30 p.m. The concert is set to be held at the CARE Garden at the depot on Fillmore Street, but organizers are keeping an eye on the very hot weather and may change the venue to the coliseum on Taylor Street. A high temperature of about 104 degrees is forecast for Saturday. The gates or doors will open at 7 p.m. The annual patriotic concert held around July 4 is a free event for the community each year. “I can’t tell you how much fun this concert usually is,� said Lee Ann Story Sikora, board president. “This year, with the brass band, it’s going to have more of an old-fashioned feel. The orchestra wanted to do something more intimate, more Americana.� The orchestra is aiming for a good family event with some Please see CONCERT | 2A

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Church compiles second book BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

First United Methodist is a church of fruitful history. Those accounts are now compiled in a book. And “Are We Yet Alive? Volume 2� will soon be printed, detailing the activities of the church from 1954 to present. “The church has been an integral part of our lives,� said church historian Rosemary Fisher. “It will be nice to have a book to refer back to and cover the things that happened through today.� Mary Warriner Weaver, the grandmother of Kenneth and Sandy Williams, was the first to do a book for the church. Mrs. Weaver penned And “Are We Yet Alive?� — a collection of the church’s beginning in 1799 through 1953. She printed the book at her own expense and distributed it to everyone in the church, according to Fisher. “She was a very meticulous person and did a scholarly job of researching the book,� said Fisher. The new publication will be about 200 pages with information gathered from bulletins, newsletters and minutes of the administrative council. “It took all of last summer to go through the minutes,� added Fisher. Photos along with sections on past and present church programs and the clergy will

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First United Methodist Church historian Rosemary Fisher compiled a book updating the accounts of the church. be in the book. There will also be a list of present members along with choir members that have served since 1959.

The building of the present church, built in 1960, and the history of Fillmore Street Chapel are also included.

“It was fun going through all the information,� said the Please see BOOK | 2A

Reenactors sought for sesquicentennial Theatre-Arts holds BY JEBB JOHNSTON

jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

IUKA — Planning continues for a huge Civil War Sesquicentennial weekend later this summer in Iuka. Organizers want to hear from possible reenactors and sutlers in the surrounding areas to get involved in an event that will include a Battle of Iuka reenactment in conjunction with the annual Heritage Day festival during the weekend of Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 preceding Labor Day. “We have folks coming in from Louisiana and quite a few different areas,� said Deborah Brown, who is helping to promote the event. “We also want to get as many of the locals as we can. The more, the merrier.�

Some personalities that have joined the event lineup include period music performers Lost Cause, who will play at several times throughout the weekend, and E.C. Fields Jr., a Civil War buff who enjoys portraying Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. A former high school administrator, he has extensively studied Grant’s life and strives for a realistic presentation. Fields will participate in various events including an activity at the Brinkley home, where Grant spent some time while in Iuka. Living history events will include participation by Fielding Tyler, a descendant of Gen. Henry Little, and Phil Bozeman, descendant of Gov. John M. Stone.

Combined with the annual festival, organizers hope to have a big weekend of family activities. “Everything is going to be free to the public — the dance, the battle reenactment, and there will be no charge for parking,� said Brown. Friday’s events will include a grand illumination of downtown Iuka with 2,000 luminaries. The Heritage Festival goes on all day Saturday along with military drills, living histories, the grand ball and other events. The weekend culminates with the battle reenactment at 2 p.m. Sunday. Reenactors can register online at battleofiuka.com. Reenactors and sutlers may contact Harold Lomenick at 423-1231.

annual Maggies awards BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

It’s a night to honor the best of Corinth’s hometown theatre company. Corinth Theatre-Arts will hold its annual awards ceremony Saturday at the Crossroads Playhouse. “We’re going to have a really good time with the Magnolia Awards, like we do every year,� said Managing Director Tommy Ledbetter. The yearly night for handing out Magnolia Awards — or Maggies — is a longtime CT-A tradition, reaching back to the

1970s. Awards are given for three groups: Youth and adult (for acting and technical work); and volunteers. The youth and adult category winners are chosen by CT-A members, or those who purchased season tickets. Winners of the volunteer awards are chosen by members of the CT-A board of directors. Volunteer awards include The Bob O’Brien Award for Outstanding Long-Term Volunteer Service; The Youth Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service; Please see MAGGIES | 2A

Beauty contestant wants to be voice for victims BY CAROL HUMPHREYS chumphreys@dailycorinthian.com

Miss Mississippi 2012 contender and native Corinthian, TeNechi Temple is both beautiful and well-spoken and she intends to take advantage of both these gifts to give a voice to those who cannot or will not speak out. As a victim of abuse, herself, Temple wants to encourage victims of abuse, especially young women and girls, to speak up and confront this highly sensitive issue head on. She hopes winning the crown of Miss Mississippi will be the vehicle to deliver her message throughout the state, and if crowned Miss America, throughout the nation. Temple’s platform in the competition is titled “Finding a Voice: Supporting Victims of Abuse.� “I want to focus on an abused

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victim’s self-esteem, wanting her or him to realize who they are and identify as a victim of abuse. However, the more I’ve talked about it, I realize people are not talking about it. It’s my mission to get them to open up about this sensitive subject that is so personal. A lot of abused victims just don’t want to talk about it. But what we don’t confront, we will never change. “I want to confront this issue and bring it to light and get people to realize there are a lot of victims of abuse who have struggled with this and been affected, whether it is the victim themselves or their children or their family.� Recently Temple, who is a senior at Mississippi State University, held a phone drive sponsored by Verizon Wireless called “HopeLine.� The drive takes donated cellphones and

refurbishes them for victims of domestic violence. The phones can be used by these victims in cases of emergency to contact authorities or to seek out help. She has also spoken at several events in her community and at school. She volunteers her time with the Sexual Assaults Services and the Department of Relationship Violence and Outreach at Mississippi State University. The final competition for the 2012 Miss Mississippi Pageant is being held Saturday night at 8 p.m. at the Vicksburg Convention Center. Preliminary competitions for the event are going on this week with Tuesday having consisted of a private interview with the judges. Wednesday night was the swimsuit competition; tonight, the talent competition; and Please see VOICE | 2A

On this day in history 150 years ago Adm. David G. Farragut steams his fleet of 14 ships upriver past Confederate-held Vicksburg, but it was “to no purpose,� he wrote. “I am satisfied that it is not possible for us to take Vicksburg without an army force of twelve or fifteen thousand men.�

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