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Vol. 119, No. 152

• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • One section

Parks remove flag products BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Shiloh National Military Park and the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center were among places to remove Confederate flag merchandise from its gift shops last week. The National Park Service made the decision to end sales of the flag in gift shops and bookstores located inside parks. “We had only a couple of items we had to remove,” said Dale Wilkerson, Shiloh National Military Park Superintendent. “Both items were considered to be trinkets.” The Confederate Battle Flag and coasters with the standalone emblem were pulled from

shelves on Wednesday, June 24 at Shiloh and the Interpretive Center. NPS decided to remove any stand-alone depictions of Confederate flags from bookstores and gift shops following the murder of nine church members at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. In a news release, Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis stated the murders “galvanized a national discussion that includes symbols and relics from our nation’s past such as the Confederate Battle Flag.” “We strive to tell the comPlease see FLAG | 2

Staff Photo by Steve Beavers

Books, DVDs and other educational and interpretive media where the Confederate flag image is depicted in its historical context will continue to be sold at Shiloh National Military Park and the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center. The National Park Service made the decision to end sales of the Confederate Battle Flag in gift shops and bookstores located inside parks last week.

Trash collectors start Wednesday BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Alcorn County is looking forward to a clean transition to garbage collection by Waste Connections this week. The contractor for household garbage collection will start running the county’s routes on Wednesday. “Nothing should change except better service,” said Board of Supervisors President Lowell Hinton. “These people have dealt with garbage systems for

many years.” The county has routes Monday through Friday, and no changes will be made to the existing routes initially. Changes might be made later for efficiency. Trash is due at the roadside by 7 a.m. on a resident’s designated pickup day, and the trash must be bagged. Limbs and debris will not be picked up, but those things can be taken to the Please see TRASH | 2

Tax collection marks CSD goes to Cambridge system high after local sales Corinth Elementary School teachers learn hands on math skills during Cambridge International Examinations system training earlier this month.

BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

Corinth Elementary School teachers are changing the way they teach. When the new school year kicks off in August, teachers of grades K-5 will join the rest of the school district to begin teaching students using the Cambridge International Examinations system. “Our teachers have really

embraced the change,” said Curriculum Coordinator Dana Bullard. “Some of them have actually already been teaching more this way, while others are seeing how fun it can be.” The Cambridge system requires teachers to teach students how to reason and analyze when learning a subject. Launched during the 2011 school year at Corinth High School Academic and Perform-

ing Arts Center and at Corinth Middle School in 2013, the Cambridge curriculum closely resembles the Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards used by other schools in the area. Earlier this month three trainers from the University of Cambridge in England spent two days in Corinth showing Please see CAMBRIDGE | 2

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Sales and tourism tax collections set high marks in funds returned to the city at midJune. Reflecting sales made in local businesses during April, the latest deposits raised the bar with new high totals for the month. The city’s share of sales tax totaled $498,237.82, rising about $17,000, or 3.6 percent, from a year earlier. The 19th consecu-

tive monthly increase pushes the fiscal year total to $4.62 million, an increase of 8 percent from the same point a year earlier. Across the state, collections grew by 3 percent during the month, and eight of 11 northeast Mississippi municipalities posted gains for the month. The city coffers will see three more deposits before closing out the Please see TAXES | 2

Clinical, faith-based approaches maximize life-saving effort BY LUCY SCHULTZE For the Daily Corinthian

If drugs or alcohol are destroying your life, you may not know what kind of help you need. You just know you can’t get better on your own. In the Corinth community, a positive relationship between clinical and faith-based orga-

nizations is helping make the right connection for those who have substance abuse problems or addictions. “At the end of the day, we all have the same purpose: We all want to help people who are struggling,” said Tommy Wilson, executive director of Living Free Ministries, a Christian

nonprofit that provides support and resources to those in recovery from addiction. Over the past year, Living Free has added to its resources a relationship with north Mississippi-based addiction treatment provider The Oxford Centre. A former Living Free board president, David Carpen-

ter, MS, LPC, serves as a clinical therapist in The Oxford Centre’s Tupelo Outpatient Office. That relationship is helping both Carpenter and Wilson tap the strengths of each other’s organizations in order to get people the help they need. “Knowing David personally has made it easy to refer people

to him, and for him to refer people to us,” Wilson said. “For some people, coming to our groups is the right amount of support they need. For others, they really need to get out of their everyday environments in order to begin recovery.” Please see THERAPY | 2

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National Industries announces the purchase of factories in Corinth, Burnsville, Belmont and Cherokee and Carbon Hill, Ala. Owner Jane Collins plans to reopen the former Winfield Plants under the National Apparel name.

Will Bradley, a junior at Kossuth High School, qualifies for the National High School Rodeo Finals. He and his quarterhorse Duke will compete in the finals in Gillette, Wyoming.

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