Inside today: Candidate Questionnaire McNairy County Woman dies after head-on collision in Eastview.
Tishomingo County Extension of natural gas services under discussion.
Sports Lawmakers praise service of radio man Jimmy Anderson.
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Back-to-school tax holiday arrives The 7-cents per dollar tax is forgiven on the same items as in past years — clothing and footwear items meant to be worn next to the body and costing less than $100 per item. The sales tax holiday does not apply
BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Mississippi adds fuel to the back-to-school shopping season today and Saturday with the annual sales tax holiday on clothing items.
to a long list of items including school supplies, backpacks, computers, cleats and other athletic items. Fashionable accessories such as jewelry and handbags are also excluded. For a new business owner
such as Casey Wegmann Dunn, who opened the children’s boutique Lee Beau’s on North Fillmore in downtown Corinth earlier this year, the weekend presents an opportunity to try to make a splash with a big sale
and promotions. “I’m introducing tweens and juniors, and I have a new jeans line that I’m introducing for this fall,” said Dunn. Please see HOLIDAY | 2A
City schools plan no change in taxes BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
The Corinth School District will request no change to its ad valorem tax levy in the 2015-2016 budget. The millage rate taxed to city residents for schools will continue to be 59.2. The district held a public hearing on its budget on Tuesday, and the board will adopt it in a special meeting next week. State revenue sources are increasing about $590,000 for the district to $14.386 million. “That more than covered the state-mandated increase
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Customer Service Representative Tonya Mitchison sets out merchandise.
Lighthouse store makes thrifty move the upscale thrift store. “We’ll get a lot more foot traffic here.” Open in their new home for approximately three weeks now, employees at the store are still in the process of getting everything unpacked and organized. “There is still a lot of work to be done, but the store is coming along nicely,” said Hurst. “The transition to our new building has gone well and everyone seems to be pleased with our new location.” “The community as a whole
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Continuing their mission of giving back to the community, The Lighthouse Family Thrift Store has relocated in order to better serve customers. “We had a wonderful relationship with the Stockton’s and very much enjoyed our time in the Harper Square Mall, but we saw an opportunity to be in with the Antique Mall and Open Market and couldn’t pass it up,” said Store Manager Sheila Hurst as she gestured around
has been very supportive,” she added. “We are so thankful for all the nice donations we’ve received.” Containing everything from A to Z, the Lighthouse carries furniture, clothing, appliances, jewelry, electronics, movies, books, games, toys, shoes, purses, glassware, bedding, home decor and more. In addition to various other items, the thrift store also has a large selection of back-toPlease see STORE | 2A
BY STEVE BEAVERS Prayer is the answer. The Alcorn Baptist Association is coordinating the 15th Annual School Prayer Walk at each campus in Alcorn County on Saturday from 9-11 a.m. “If we ever need our children and teachers covered in prayer, it’s now,” said association prayer coordinator Kat Chapman. “It only takes one tragic event or person to bring death and destruction to our schools.”
In the last two events, around 300 have attended across the county. “God expects us to take a stand and let people know whose side we are one,” said Chapman. “Our children need to know people are praying for them.” Event coordinators are slated to be at each school campus in both the city and county. “The risks and dangers get higher every year,” said Chapman. “Every day it seems we are losing more and more of
Dear reader: The Daily Corinthian presents its Candidate Questionnaire 2015 inside today’s edition. Many candidates took advantage of this free public service to let voters know more about them, why they seek office, why they are qualified for the office, what they plan to do and where they stand on various issues. Some candidates chose not to participate. Questionnaires were mailed to the addresses submitted to the circuit clerk’s office. When we didn’t receive any response, we made at-
our religious freedoms … this could be the last year we can come together and pray at our schools.” Chapman believes local schools have reaped the blessings of God over the years. “This isn’t only a Baptist thing,” she said. “The event is for everyone to come pray for the upcoming school year.” (For more information about the School Prayer Walk call Kat Chapman at 287-2091.)
25 years ago Alcorn County supervisors approve the sale of a tract of land to the Corinth Alcorn Chamber of Commerce. The land, located on Golding Drive, will be made available to USA Classics, a clothing manufacturer planning to locate in the county.
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for salaries,” said Finance Director Casey Palmer. Rising student enrollment has helped the district maintain an increase in per-pupil revenues coming from the state. Local taxes make up about 20 percent of the district’s revenue, and 57 percent comes from the state. The district’s largest expense is salaries and benefits, at $16.586 million, or 56 percent. Several staffing recommendations also came before the
tempts to reach candidates via the phone number submitted to the circuit clerk’s office. Any candidate who claimed they did not receive a questionnaire was given a second chance. Even then, several chose not to participate. We just want the reader to know at what length we went to get as much participation as possible. The questionnaire is our attempt to help every voter make an informed decision. Please vote on Aug. 4. Sincerely, Mark Boehler Editor
“The risks and dangers get higher every year. Every day it seems we are losing more and more of our religious freedoms … this could be the last year we can come together and pray at our schools.” Kat Chapman Alcorn Baptist Association prayer coordinator
10 years ago A half million dollars each is approved for development of the Corinth Contraband Camp Historic Site and an interpretive video for the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center. The camp funds will be used for the second phase of development at the North Parkway site.
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Stripes and geometric designs are currently big in children’s clothing, she said. The Better Business Bureau of Mississippi cautions shoppers not to confuse general back-to-school sales with the tax-free items and to check on refund and exchange policies for purchases
•1969 graduate Kossuth High School •1974 graduate Mississippi State University • Wife: Patricia Burleson Coleman Children: Rosaline and Joe • Retired: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Skills acquired with NRCS that make me a qualified candidate: • Worked with diverse groups of people •Experienced in engineering, hydrology, and soil characteristics •Completed annual courses in governmental ethics, computer security, and civil rights •Skilled in supervision of contractors in project installations. •Practiced extensive decision-making in problem solving •Maintained impeccable record of trustworthy management of federal, state and local tax dollars My pledge: •To give this position my full-time attention to serve the people, rather than protecting self-interests •To protect taxpayer dollars and provide practical experience in preventing fraudulent activities •To serve as a strong, committed leader with the courage to make tough decisions and the creative thinking to solve today's problems and ensure future job opportunities for our children and grandchildren •To work with local and surrounding government officials to re-establish the trust that a thriving community needs
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school clothing and accessories. A fundraising project for the Lighthouse Foundation Ministry, the store has been a community asset for over four years now. All proceeds from their sales go right back into the community by way of the projects such as Toy Store, after-school tutoring and summer camps. “We receive donations daily and new items are put out hourly,� said the store manager. “We do not currently have a drop box here at our new location, but those wishing to donate my bring their items to the front or back door.� As an added convenience for customers, the thrift store can also come out and pick up larger items such as furniture and appliances. Smiling warmly to greet
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Assistant Designer Tammie Heavner and Store Manager Sheila Hurst work on a display. yet another customer walking through the door, Hurst paused to thank the many people who’ve helped make the store a success.
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Today in History Today is Friday, July 31, the 212th day of 2015. There are 153 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: On July 31, 1715, a fleet of Spanish ships carrying gold, silver and jewelry sank during a hurricane off the east Florida coast, scattering most of their treasure along the ocean floor. Of some 2,500 crew members, more than 1,000 died.
On this date: In 1972, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment. In 1989, a pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a grisly videotape showing the body of American hostage William R. Higgins, a Marine lieutenant-colonel, dangling from a rope. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.
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Across the Region Officials discuss extending gas services
It was not immediately clear if Herring has an attorney.
TISHOMINGO — The Town of Tishomingo is in the beginning stages of extending natural gas services. Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley hosted a community meeting this week for residents and officials who were interested in the service. Mayor James Tennyson said residents without the utility recently expressed interest after propane prices went up. According to Tennyson, he hopes to seek funding to install new lines.
Union City woman dies in McNairy County wreck
Tupelo woman charged with trying to sell infant TUPELO (AP) — A Tupelo woman has been accused of trying to sell her unborn child. Multiple media outlets report that 31-year-old Kathryn Herring could be facing up to 10 years in prison after being charged Wednesday with offering to sell a child. The Department of Human Services says Herring went to many families across Tupelo and Lee County offering her unborn child for adoption in exchange for payment. Tupelo Police Lt. Lynette Sandlin says the arrest was the result of an investigation that began in February. The child, now 18-monthsold, was taken into custody with by the Department of Human Services after the accusations emerged.
EASTVIEW, Tenn. — An Obion County woman died after vehicle collided head-on with an 18-wheeler Wednesday afternoon in Eastview. Gwen Wright of Union City, Tenn. was driving on U.S. Hwy. 45 when she crossed the turn lane and hit the 18-wheeler head-on, based on a report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Wright was traveling alone in a Ford Fusion when the wreck happened just after 1:30 p.m. north of Tenn. Hwy. 57 in Eastview. She was traveling north on Hwy. 45 when she pulled into the path of a southbound Ryder tractor-trailer. The driver of the truck was not injured in the wreck.
Oxford leaders make use of tree fund OXFORD (AP) — When a developer builds a home, or several homes, despite good intentions and work of engineers, trees generally have to be removed from a plot, provided you’re not building on an empty field. To preserve Oxford’s tree canopy to the best of their ability, city leaders passed a tree mitigation ordinance in 2014, requiring developers to replace trees they’ve had to remove. However, some large developments sometimes require hun-
Missing man’s wife, mother-in-law arrested Associated Press
NEW HOPE — Lowndes County authorities say a missing man’s wife and mother-in-law are in custody. Christina Martinez Vasquez, 37, and her mother, Lydia Martinez, were arrested last week in connection with the disappearance of 40-year-old Manuel Vasquez. Vasquez’ mother reported him missing July 13. But others said he left June 24 for a retreat, without saying where it was. Investigators believe Vasquez was killed in a house in New Hope, and
that his body was burned in a container in the backyard. Authorities say bone fragments and ashes were found last week. Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant says the bones and ashes have not been identified. Manual “Manny” Vasquez was a general manager for Air Masters, a San Antonio-based business that designs, installs and repairs air conditioning and heating units. The family moved about two years ago from San Antonio, Texas, where Vasquez often went on business trips.
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board. For Corinth High School, trustees approved Lanny Jones, assistant football coach; Pakamas Warren, special hygienist; and Jordan Watts, assistant basketball coach. Jones had been assistant football coach at the middle school. For CMS, trustees approved Mary Anne Clardy, nurse; Joshua Matthews, assistant football coach; Jordan Watts, assistant baseball coach; Courtney Montgomery, physical
education teacher and assistant football coach; and April Cole, Math Counts coach. Hires approved for Corinth Elementary are Brandi Greene, teacher; Samantha Bobo, teacher assistant; and Diane Young, speech therapist. Approved under the Project Esteem Grant are Kolisha Strickland, Amy Flora and Melissa Thompson. Resignations include Lindsey Woodruff, CES teacher; Ive Toomer, CES custodian; Kayla Manley, CMS teacher; and Chelsea Morton, CMS nurse.
dreds, if not thousands, of trees be removed and there simply isn’t enough room on the site to replace the number of trees lost. In that case, developers are now required to pay into the city’s new Tree Escrow Account. The amount of money paid is based on fair market value of materials and labor at the time of planting. Funds contributed to the escrow account are paid prior to the issuance of a building permit. The escrow currently has about $8,642, said City Clerk Lisa Carwyle. Funds in the account may be used for tree canopy management, replacement and preservation including tree acquisition and planting promotions; canopy replacement site identification, acquisition and preparation; tree acquisition, planting and maintenance utilizing either city staff or contract labor. The city will use the funds to plant trees to appropriate sites within a one-mile radius of where the development is located; however, if that’s not possible, the trees will be planted in a city park closest to the development, and if that can’t occur, anywhere in the city limits. In some cases, a developer may have to pay $5,000 or less. But big developments could wind up paying six figures if they can’t mitigate the trees they take down. Recently, landowners Andy Callicutt and Brian Hill were told they would have to pay almost $192,000 into the tree
escrow fund if they couldn’t mitigate enough trees. They asked the Oxford Planning Commission to allow them to count the trees in a three-acre preservation area they essentially donated which would have reduced their cost to about $23,000; however, the commission denied the request. The landowners are still working on plans and do not have to pay the city until the project is further along. Cowan Hunter, co-chairman of the Oxford Tree Board, said the city has not yet used any of the current funds to purchase trees. “We on the tree board have just recently had some very preliminary discussions about starting to use some of those funds,” he said. “But, no specific projects are yet under consideration.” Hunter said while it’s always preferred that developers retain as many existing mature trees and wooded areas, the board also favors mitigation by planting on site if space allows. “When sufficient tree retention or mitigation is not possible on site,” he said, “the escrow account is a resource that provides funding to benefit the city’s tree conservation efforts in other places or ways.” Hunter said the city is considering using some of the funds for a possible tree project at the old National Guard Armory site that is now a community pavilion and additional safety pruning of trees around town to better protect them against storm damage.
AiM announces 2015-16 season For Daily Corinthian
SELMER, Tenn. — Arts in McNairy (AiM) has officially announced its 2015–2016 theater season. Celebrating the 15th year entertaining local audiences, AiM’s theatre lineup is one of the most ambitious to date. The season includes several youth and adult productions, a smash Broadway musical for all ages, and the ever-popular, dinner theatre. AiM will also break new ground this year by taking up temporary residence at the Marty, in Adamsville, for a Halloween youth production. Additionally, the AiM Youth Arts Guild’s one act play festival, and second stage offerings by the newly organized improv troupe, The Laugh Riots, will mean local theater goers may have as many as 10 shows to choose from in the new season. “It is our goal to produce an outstanding season of entertainment for all ages,” said Performing Arts
Committee Chairwoman Christy Whitten. “Whether in the theater seats, on the stage, or behind the scenes, we want the whole community to come out and enjoy this outstanding season.” The Arts in McNairy 2015-2016 theater season includes: ■ “Lizzie Borden of Fall River” — Written by Tim Kelly and directed by Hunter Steele. Show dates are: Friday, Sept. 18-Sunday, Sept. 20 at The Latta in downtown Selmer. ■ “Arabian Nights” — Written by Lowell Swortzell and directed by Joanna Potts. Show dates are: Friday, Nov. 6-Sunday, Nov. 8 at The Latta in downtown Selmer. School shows are TBA. ■ “The Curse of the Werewolf” — Written by Tim Kelly and directed by Jared Walters. Show dates are Friday, Oct. 23-Sunday, Oct. 25 at The Marty in Adamsville. School shows are TBA. ■ “The Christmas Express” — Written by Pat
Cook and directed by Kevin Binger. Show dates are Friday, Dec. 11-Sunday, Dec. 13 at the Latta in downtown Selmer. ■ “Fred & Ethel Remember” — Written and directed by Brad Woolworth. A Dinner Theatre will be presented on Friday, Feb. 12. Show dates are Friday, Feb. 12-Sunday, Feb. 14 at The Latta in downtown Selmer. ■ “Deadman’s Chest” — Written by Craig Sodaro and directed by Christy Whitten. Show dates are Friday, April 8-Sunday, April 10 at The Latta in downtown Selmer. ■ “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the Musical” — Written by Howard Ashman, Alan Menken & Tim Rice and directed by Joanna Pitts. Show dates are Friday, June 24-Tuesday, June 28 at The Latta. (Follow Arts in McNairy on Facebook and Twitter or call 731-645-2671 for more information about the 2015-2016 theater season.)
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Earth to Kepler-452b NASA has discovered the answer to all of our problems. It is another planet, a possible twin to Earth that could theoretically sustain life. This revelation could be bigger than Columbus “discovering” America, or Lewis and Clark finding the Northwest Passage. It offers the possibility of starting over. Hasn’t the thought crossed the mind of every adult of a certain age that Cal if we could time travel back to Thomas our youth and know what we know now, we would not have Columnist made the mistakes we made? The first step in boldly going where no one has gone before is to re-name the planet. Kepler-452b won’t do. How about Krypton? That name is already widely known as the fictional planet from which Superman came, thus giving it cultural standing. Steven Spielberg could make a film about our new second home. ET might even be there to welcome us. Then we have to figure out a way to get there. Kepler-452b is 8,400 trillion miles away. Using present technology it would take 25.8 million years to get there. To reach the planet, people would have to reproduce in space, creating multiple generations of descendants. How would the new arrivals find materials to build anything? We’d be starting over like cavemen, though that should not deter us. Early pioneers didn’t give up when they encountered obstacles. What is really interesting is that Kepler452b is not the only planet with an environment thought capable of sustaining life. The Kepler spacecraft has found more than 4,000 planets in the so-called “Goldilocks Zone,” meaning they have temperature ranges that could support at least plant life and possibly more advanced life forms. This could be the solution we have been looking for. Republicans and Democrats could have planets of their own, which could settle once and for all the argument over whether big or small government is best; not that one would be able to convince the other, even if verifiable proof could be presented. The same goes for global warming proponents and climate change deniers. Criminals would have their own planet where they could prey on each other instead of the rest of us, thus “solving” the crime problem. And the gun control crowd could inhabit a planet where all guns would be banned, though sticks and stones, mankind’s first weapons, would remain. It would be left to the peace-loving citizens of “gun-free-opolis” to work things out amongst themselves, but they would have achieved their ultimate goal – no guns. There is just one overarching challenge for those who might like to travel to this new world. How do you solve the problem of human nature? Travelers would take that nature with them, as illustrated in William Golding’s classic novel “Lord of the Flies” in which a group of children crash on a remote tropical island and, cut off from civilization, slowly turn into savages. Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner recently announced a $100 million, 10-year project to search for intelligent life in the universe. Stephen Hawking, the physicist, has signed on to work with him. They are wasting their time and money. However, given the lack of intelligence on Earth, I can’t blame them for looking elsewhere. (Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.)
Prayer for today Merciful and just God, I pray that I may regulate my life by thy standards and conform my life to thy laws, that thy goodness and mercy may not be wasted on me. Help me to bear in mind, that willingness is the power that starts the hands to work. May I have thy presence while I wait in quietness, that I may be helped through the anxious moments. Amen.
A verse to share 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” — John 5:6
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Trump and the high priests of the press Having decided that Donald Trump is unworthy of his popularity, the grandees of journalism are hardpressed to explain why he is so popular. “It came slightly ahead of schedule,” The Wall Street Journal gleefully wrote last week, “but Donald Trump’s inevitable self-immolation arrived on the weekend when he assailed John McCain’s war record.” Uh. Hold the fire extinguishers – because Trump did not burst into flame. His poll numbers actually went up after he attacked McCain, a man whose political base is largely made up of Sunday TV show bookers. The Huffington Post was also in a snit. It declared it was not going to report on Trump’s campaign in its political section but rather going to include it in its entertainment section. “Trump’s campaign is a sideshow,” HuffPost sniffed. “We won’t take the bait. If you are interested in what The Donald has to say, you’ll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette.” In any case, the American electorate has thus far decided that the difference between politics and entertainment is too fine a line actually to be drawn and is unconcerned as to where The Huffington Post stuffs what. But The Des Moines Register nearly came down with
the vapors. “By using his considerable wealth, his celebrity status, and his mouth to Roger draw attenSimon tion to himself, rather Columnist than to raise awareness of the issues facing America, he has coarsened our political dialogue and cheapened the electoral process,” it wrote of Trump. The paper went so far as to demand that Trump drop out of the race, a decision, I always thought, the American people should make at the ballot box rather than a newspaper on its editorial page. RealClearPolitics’ polling shows Trump leading the Republican field by 4.5 percentage points. He is at 18.2 percent. Jeb Bush is at 13.7 percent, and Scott Walker is at 11.7. Everybody else is in single digits. So Trump is not doing too badly for “a sideshow.” In fact, he is beating the guys in the center ring. And they have taken a close look at him and decided the only way to vanquish him is to become more incendiary and more buffoonish than he is. So Mike Huckabee says Barack Obama wants to take the Israelis and “march them to the door of the
oven” with his Iran deal. (Will HuffPost banish Huckabee to its “Stuff That Makes Us Want To Vomit” section? Let’s wait and see.) Rand Paul – remember him? – brandished an actual chain saw. Lindsey Graham bashed his cellphone with a baseball bat and dropped it into a blender. And Rick Perry said, “Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.” This is the dignity The Wall Street Journal yearns for. There are at least two reasons for Trump’s current popularity. Though the high priests of the press find Trump oafish and vulgar, the public finds him unscripted and refreshing. Some voters may also like Trump for his rabblerousing attacks on immigrants who are here illegally – “people that are from all over that are killers and rapists” – but the Republican Party can hardly pretend to be much less incendiary. Trump goes overboard, but many in the Republican field are not far behind him. Maybe if the press ignored Trump, he and his supporters would simply evaporate. “This is the strongest field of Republican candidates in 35 years,” Charles Krauthammer said on Fox News Channel. “You could pick a
dozen of them at random and have the strongest Cabinet America’s had in our lifetime, and instead, all our time is spent discussing this rodeo clown.” (Actually, I think you could pick a dozen of the Republican contenders at random and have an FBI “most wanted” poster, but that’s another story.) But what is the real problem, the rodeo clown or the people coming to the rodeo in order to see the clown? And if the people are gathering, should the press keep that a secret? “I have always felt that whatever the Divine Providence permitted to occur I was not too proud to report,” Charles Anderson Dana, a 19th-century newspaper editor, once said. Some look at Trump and see an evil clown. Others look at Trump and see a candidate not part of the same weary political establishment. I think Trump is flawed on many counts. But I don’t think he has “coarsened our political dialogue and cheapened the electoral process.” I think it was coarse and cheap by the time Trump got here. (Roger Simon is chief political columnist of politico. com, an award-winning journalist and a New York Times best selling author.)
Dealing with Donald Trump A businessman once told me that in business, when things are not working, sometimes you have to “throw a brick through the window.” Sometimes shock is the only thing that will shake up an entrenched status quo. A brick smashing through glass might be the only thing that will get attention. Donald Trump is a businessman who understands this. This is what he is doing and it’s working. There’s a lot of frustration in America today, and there should be. America is a nation with enormous problems. And practically all of them trace back to politicians kicking the can down the road. Republicans could have dealt with escalating healthcare costs, and large numbers of uninsured Americans, before Barack Obama was elected. They didn’t. Republicans could have dealt with government policies that led to the huge financial and real estate collapse in 2008. They could have dealt with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Department of Housing and Urban Development — government programs that use taxpayers’ money to subsidize the purchase of housing. They didn’t.
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Republicans could have dealt with the enormous problems with our Star broken enParker t i t l e m e n t s programs Columnist – Social Security and Medicare. President Bush added another trillion dollars in commitments to Medicare with the prescription drug program. To his credit, President Bush tried to reform Social Security, but, despite Republican control of both the Senate and the House, failed. However, that doesn’t mean one should stop trying, which is what happened. The changing demographics of the nation were obvious years ago. Republicans could have been aggressive in reaching out to poor minority communities to help them understand that freedom and markets would solve the problems that the welfare state was making worse. They didn’t. And, of course, we didn’t get more than 10 million illegals in America overnight. This is the result of years of Washington ignoring this problem, as it got worse and worse.
In response to neglect, in response to lack of real vision for the nation, Americans opted for change in 2008. But change in the wrong direction. So now, for the past seven years, we have had the hard left running America, taking some of our major problems and enacting left-wing, big-government “solutions,” making these problems worse. We now have government-run health care that is already making health care even more expensive, less innovative and more of a drain on taxpayers. We have major new government control of our banking and financial services industry, creating more protection for big banks and less innovation. We sit with government more bloated than ever, growth rates below historic averages, employment below historic averages, no solutions in sight for the, by some estimates, $100 trillion of unfunded liabilities of our entitlement programs. And now the USA is about to conclude a nuclear deal with a nation that chants “death to America.” No wonder we have frustration. But Trump’s campaign bluster, a cross between a
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15-year-old appears on murder charge SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The 15-year-old California boy charged with murdering and raping an 8-year-old neighbor has made his first court appearance. Adrian Jerry Gonzalez, who is charged as an adult, did not enter a plea at the Thursday appearance. The Santa Cruz district attorney’s office says the teen’s arraignment is continued to Sept. 21. KNTV reports Gonzalez, of Santa Cruz, was led into the courthouse by an attorney, his hands cuffed in front of him. Gonzalez faces a maximum of life in prison if convicted of charges that he bound, raped, sexually assaulted and killed the girl. Police say the teen lured Madyson Middleton into his family’s apartment from a courtyard at an artists’ complex where both lived with their mothers. Police say he then hid her body in a recycling bin.
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BALTIMORE — Maryland’s governor announced plans Thursday to immediately shut down Baltimore’s state-run jail, where inmates and guards ran a criminal conspiracy inside vermin-infested, 19th-century walls and thwarted decades of attempted reforms. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan said the state would save $10 million to $15 million a year by closing the Baltimore
City Detention Center, which houses hundreds of inmates awaiting trial or serving short sentences. Current employees and inmates will be reassigned to other facilities, he said. “There is plenty of capacity elsewhere in the system to meet this need,” Hogan said. “Given the space that we have, it makes no sense whatsoever to keep this deplorable facility open.” A sweeping federal indictment in 2013 exposed a sophisticated drug- and cellphonesmuggling ring involving dozens of gang members and correctional officers at the jail. The investigation also exposed sexual relations between jailhouse gang leader Tavon White and female guards that left four of them pregnant. Forty of the 44 defendants charged in the racketeering conspiracy were convicted, including 24 correctional officers. Thirty-five defendants pleaded guilty; eight defendants went to trial and one defendant died.
Great white shark thwarts marathon SAN FRANCISCO — A great white shark thwarted a Northern California man’s quest to become the first person to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands. Corte Madera marathon swimmer Simon Dominguez was trying to swim about 28 miles when his teen daughter, in a support boat, spotted the great white just 3 1/2 miles from his
goal, KPIX-TV reported Thursday. After 18 hours in the frigid ocean, he reluctantly climbed into his support boat as the 12-to-15-foot shark circled it. Out of the water, the 49-year-old, blood streaming down his chest from chafed skin around his neck, said he was disappointed that he didn’t finish the swim. “It was hard. But a shark is a shark,” Dominguez said. Four swimmers have swum from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco, but Dominguez would have been the first to make the trip in the other direction.
‘Exorcism: Live!’ to air in October BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Destination America is upping its scare factor for Halloween by scheduling what it describes as a live exorcism to air Oct. 30. “Exorcism: Live!” was announced Thursday at a news conference in Beverly Hills, California. The event will be held at the St. Louis-area house where teen Roland Doe underwent the ritual in 1949. It became the inspiration for 1973’s “The Exorcist” movie. The paranormal investigators featured on Destination America’s series “GHOST ASYLUM” will appear on the show with psychic medium Chip Coffey. Cameras will roll as they explore the home to find whatever is believed to have haunted it for years.
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Summer graduation ceremonies planned COLUMBUS — Dr. Pamela Lacy, a Columbus obstetrician/gynecologist, will be the keynote speaker Saturday at Mississippi University for Women’s summer graduation ceremony. The commencement is 10 a.m. in Rent Auditorium in Whitfield Hall on the Columbus campus. MUW officials say about 200 students will receive degrees. Lacy is medical director of obstetrics and chairwoman of the Department of OB/GYN at Baptist-Golden Triangle Regional Hospital. She received her bachelor of science degree in pre-med/biology from Mississippi State University in Starkville. She earned her doctorate from MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
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pay old fines. Final autopsy results are pending. Waddell declines to say what happened in the cell pending further inquiry by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
Police arrest man for kidnapping, rape LAUREL — Laurel police have arrested a 35-year-old man accused of kidnapped his ex-girlfriend at knife-point on Sunday. Police say the victim was held against her will at the man’s home until Tuesday when she was able to make her escape. Authorities say she ran to a neighbor’s house, who then took her to the police station. WDAM TV reports Christopher McCarty has been charged with kidnapping, rape and aggravated domestic assault. He made his initial appearance Wednesday before Laurel Municipal Court Judge Kyle Robertson, who set his bond at
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$250,000. Police says there was an order for McCarty not to have contact with the alleged victim before the attack took place.
Election highlights maintenance deficit JACKSON — Highway funding is the main focus for candidates seeking seats on Mississippi’s Transportation Commission. With the Mississippi Economic Council conducting a study of transportation needs and funding sources, 2016 could see debate over raising taxes. Officials say Mississippi needs $400 million more each year to maintain current roads and bridges. Tuesday’s Republican primary in the northern district will choose a nominee, with incumbent Mike Tagert of Starkville facing challenger Jimmie Mills of Tupelo. The winner will face Democrat Danny of Winona in the Nov. 3 general election.
PHILADELPHIA — The cellmate of a Philadelphia man has been charged with murder in his death in the Neshoba County jail. Sheriff Tommy Waddell says 34-year-old Justin Schlegel was arrested this week in the death of Rexdale Wayne Henry. Waddell says Schlegel was in the cell with Henry when Henry died. The 53-year-old Henry, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was found dead about 10 a.m. on July 14. Waddell says Henry was jailed for failing to
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HINTON First District Supervisor I’m Lowell Hinton and I’m running for re-election as your First District Supervisor. Thank you for your support during my first term. Keeping Alcorn County moving forward for our children and grandchildren is important to all of us. I’ve worked closely with local and state organizations to secure jobs and make road and infrastructure improvements so Alcorn County will continue to grow and prosper.
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Deaths Jim Johnson
Funeral services for James Clay Johnson, 71, of Corinth, are set for 3 p.m. Saturday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial at Henry Cemetery. Visitation is Saturday from 12 noon until the service. Mr. Johnson died Wednesday, July 29, 2015, at his home. Born Jan. 22, 1944, he was a selfe m p l o y e d Johnson general contractor and a member of Meeks Street Church of Christ. He served in the U.S. National Air Guard for six years and was a member of the Alcorn County Electrical Review Board. He also served on the Corinth
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Minnie Shepard, 67, of Corinth, died Thursday, July 30, 2015, at Magnolia Regional Health Center. Patterson Memorial Chapel will have the arrangements.
Juanita Davis
Funeral services for Juanita Davis, 91, of Corinth, are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Holly Cemetery.
Library Commission, served three terms as the president of the Corinth-Alcorn County Home Builders Association, and served as building inspector for the City of Corinth. He was one of the founders of Magnolia Funeral Home in Corinth. Survivors include his wife of 49 years, Mary Janalee Keaton Johnson; his sons, Dr. James Clay Johnson Jr. and his wife, Roan, and children Olivia, Julie, Clay, Leah, and Sam of Saltillo; Dr. William Russell Johnson and his wife, Megan, and children Millie Janalee and Smith of Tupelo; his daughter, Virginia Kathryn Johnson Mansel and her husband, Jeff, and children Will and his wife Elle, Seth and Grace of Corinth; his mother, Emily Dean Johnson; his three younger brothers, Samuel (Sherry), Fredrick (Dianne) and Paul (Debbie) Johnson; “Third Son” Kelly
Visitation is Saturday from 12:30 p.m. until the service. Mrs. Davis died Thursday, July 30, 2015, at Sanctuary Hospice in Tupelo. She was a member of Maranatha Baptist Church. Survivors include her sisters, Eunice Wallace, Dimple Mitchell and Ora Winters, all of Corinth, Oral Gardner of Collierville, Tenn., and Genelle McDoniel of Rossville, Tenn., and brothers Donald Rencher of Milling-
Mims and his wife, Lynn, and family; one aunt, Kathleen Pett of Phoenix; a sister-in-law, Julie Keaton Farris; and a host of nieces, nephews and friends. He was preceded in death by his father, William Warren Johnson Sr.; his brother, William Warren Johnson II; his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Price Johnson; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dean; and his beloved friends, Waymon White, A.L. Barner and Bill McPeters. Pallbearers are James Clay Johnson Jr., William Russell Johnson, William Robert Mansel, Noah Seth Mansel, James Clay Johnson III and Jeffrey Lewis Mansel. Honorary pallbearers are Samuel Johnson, Fredrick Johnson, Paul Johnson, William Johnson III, Victor Pett, Hank Farris, Kent Farris, Doug Farris, Cody Malone, Kelly Mims, Neal Starnes and Lanny
ton, Tenn., Bill Rencher of Madison, Ala., and Kenneth Rencher of Cordova, Tenn. She was preceded in death in by her husband, Leslie Davis; her parents, Edgar and Effie Ballard Rencher; and a sister, Wilma Fulghum. Bro. Scotty Wood and Bro. Karl Mills will officiate the service. Memorial contributions may be made to the Maranatha Baptist Church Building Fund,
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Paul Wayne Maddox
Funeral services for Paul Wayne Maddox, 53, of Corinth, are set for 1 p.m. today at Memorial Funeral Home. Burial will be in Henry Cemetery. Mr. Maddox died Monday, July 27, 2015, at his residence. Born in Memphis, Tenn., on January 11, 1963, he was the chief security officer at Magnolia Regional Health Center and had previously worked as a code enforcement officer for the City of Corinth. He enjoyed guitars and guns and was an Elvis fan. He was preceded in death by
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RIPLEY — Funeral services with military honors for Doug Hall, 62, are set for 2 p.m. today at Ripley Funeral Home with burial at new Hope Cemetery in Blue Mountain. Visitation begins at noon. Mr. Hall died Tuesday, July 28, 2015, at his residence. He was a lifelong Tippah County resident and retired head mechanic for Industrial Harvest Co. in Tupelo. He was a Christian and an Air Force veteran who served two tours during the Vietnam War. Survivors include five daughters, Tammie Hal (J.W.) of Myrtle, Mary Hall (William) of New Albany, Brandy Edding (Brian) of Nashville, Tenn., and April Hall (Dennis) and Amy Hall, both of Corinth; 12 grandchildren; and one greatgrandson.
his parents, Paul D. Maddox and Dottie Brumley Maddox; his uncles, Troy and Quitman Maddox; and his aunts, Essie Cato and Carolyn Kiddy. Survivors include one son, Chris Maddox of Corinth; one daughter, Misty (Arun) Iyengar of Atlanta; brothers Mike (Angie) Maddox of Corinth and Patrick (Bryant Birr) Maddox of Memphis, Tenn.; a sister, Susan (Randy) Caldwell of Bartlett, Tenn.; nephews Hunter and Luke Maddox and Logan Caldwell; and aunts Eulene Lancaster and Ann Craig. Pallbearers are Mike Lutz, David Lancaster, Logan Caldwell, Mike Maddox, Hunter Maddox and Luke Maddox. Honorary pallbearers are Lex Mitchell, Ronnie Cato, Benny Miller and the Magnolia Regional Health Center security officers. For online condolences: www.memorialcorinth.com
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“Friend Day” MEMORIAL BILLY H. CURTIS This is A CELEBRATION of the LIFE of Billy H. Curtis He ended his journey on this life plane on July 31, 2014. First and foremost, he was a devoted family man. He was proud to be a Mason who went through all the Chairs and on to become a Shriner. Bill loved his home town "Corinth" He made a contribution by developing, owning and operating several businesses. He also served our country for four years in the Air Force. His passion was fishing, dancing and enjoying the company of his many friends. He was an accomplished Steel Guitar player who enjoyed his country music. To know Bill Curtis is to have loved him. He is greatly missed by all who knew him. Thanks for the wonderful 18 years YOU, ME & the little critters spent together. By: Jane August
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‘Polite’ society struggles with cell phone integration Before graduating from college in 1996, I often pondered an axiom that I learned in an introductory journalism class: “The medium is the Stacy message.” Jones In other w o r d s , The the way in Dowtowner which a message is delivered, including the technology used to deliver that message, impacts the message itself. When Marshall McLuhan made this statement in his 1967 book of the same title, I wonder if he knew exactly how prophetic that statement would ultimately be. In the mid to late ’90s, though, our lives changed when our technology changed. Not only did the Internet become an everyday mainstay, but we began walking around
with phones in our pockets. Even though we’ve been doing it now for almost 20 years, half of my life, the idea of carrying a device that connects us to the world still sounds a bit futuristic. In education, we still struggle with how to incorporate technological devices in the classroom without disrupting learning. Progressive school systems use student devices to enhance learning, employing the BYOD system, an acronym that stands for “Bring Your Own Device.” More skeptical, cautious districts restrict technology use in the classroom, and some even ban all student devices, including cell phones, on campus. However, for those Luddites who are a little behind on the latest technology, what we call cell phones are now essentially small computers. Starting in 2010, with
the proliferation of smart phones, consumers began using cell phones more for data access than for making phone calls, according to the New York Times. We started recording our grocery lists, listening to music, tracking our calorie intake and daily steps, getting our news, doing our banking, submitting our job applications, searching the web for information, texting our friends, and regularly posting updates to our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Today, two-thirds of Americans own smart phones, according to the Pew Research Center. In our daily lives, we struggle with how to balance face-to-face interaction with the use of our smart phones. In a 2009 column, Emily Post, better known as Miss Manners, advises a woman who has invited a couple over for dinner. She po-
litely asked them to turn off their cell phones for the duration of the visit. However, while at the dinner table, their son called, and without leaving the table, they spoke with him, passing the phone back and forth. They even told him that their host sent him her regards, which she did not. She decided that she would extend no further invitations to the couple, nor accept any invitations from them. Miss Manners gave a great response: “You are not a victim of the cell phone,” she said. “You are the victim of rude people, whom you have sensibly ejected from your life.” We should all be aware of how cell phones impact our interactions with people—or lack thereof—in our daily lives, myself included. Texting shouldn’t replace calling, and calling shouldn’t supplant the immediacy of conver-
sations with people who are already present. More recently, this week, in the Theater section of the New York Times, an article titled “Theaters Struggle With Patrons’ Phone Use During Shows” relayed the story of how actress Patti LuPone snatched an audience member’s cell phone at the Lincoln Center during a performance of Shows for Days. It wasn’t the first incident for LuPone, who stopped in 2009, during the middle of a song to chastise an audience member trying to get a photograph during the Broadway production of “Gypsy”: “I’m at my wit’s end,” she said. She’s not the only actor to have broken the fourth wall of theater, however. Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne and Hugh Jackman have all responded to the annoying cell phone ring that
interrupts productions. The greatest cell phone interruption anecdote I have heard in a while also occurred at the theatre. Last week, Nick Silvestri, a 19-year-old Long Island college student, jumped onto a set at the Booth Theater on Broadway during a production of “Hand to God” and tried to plug his cell phone into a prop electrical outlet. It needed to be charged, he told Playbill, and he needed to do something about it quickly. “Girls were calling all day,” he said. “What would you do?” Perhaps stay home and charge your phone? (Daily Corinthian columnist Stacy Jones teaches English at McNairy Central High School and UT Martin and has served on the board of directors at Corinth Theatre-Arts. She enjoys being a downtown Corinth resident.)
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Jurors in the Colorado movie theater trial received instructions Thursday before their next round of deliberations to decide if there are any reasons to override a potential death penalty and sentence James Holmes to life without parole for 12 murders and 70 attempted murders. The lengthy instructions were the last step before closing arguments in this phase of his sentencing, which focused on Holmes’ childhood, his mental illness, his connections to people who love him and other potentially mitigating factors that would reduce his
“moral culpability” and make him worthy of their mercy. Last week, jurors unanimously agreed that James Holmes’ 2012 attack was cruel enough to justify the death penalty. Now, their focus is on whether his life should be spared nevertheless. If they decide the death penalty is still an option, they would move to a final phase in which they would hear from victims and survivors. Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. described the potentially mitigating factors as any facts or circumstances in his personal history, background or mental health that make capital punishment inappropri-
ate, despite the horrific nature of his crimes three years ago. The judge reminded jurors that they already agreed that aspects of his crimes justify capital punishment, including the fact that he killed multiple people, created a grave risk of death to others, acted in a cruel or depraved manner and laid in wait for his victims. But he said Holmes has asserted factors that could point to mercy, including his age and emotional state at the time of the crime, his limited capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct, his cooperation with authorities, and any other evidence introduced by
his defense. Then, he enumerated more than 50 such factors, including that: ■ All experts agree that Holmes suffers from schizophrenia, is not faking the illness that caused the events, and if he had been healthy, the crimes would not have taken place. ■ “Holmes was genetically loaded to experience a psychotic disorder,” given the extensive history of schizophrenia on his father’s side of the family. ■ He was 24 in 2012, the age when schizophrenics most frequently experience the onset of mental illness. ■ He was never arrested before on a crime. ■ He was raised in a lov-
ing home, surrounded by caring friends and neighbors. ■ Many people who encountered him later in Colorado missed signals that his mind was deteriorating. ■ the drugs he was prescribed before the attack could have increased his mania and other dangerous symptoms. ■ He remains on antipsychotic and anti-depressive medicine today to treat brain diseases for which there is no cure. ■ Holmes still struggles to explain, even years later, why his “mission” took such irrevocable control over his mind. ■ His mental illness was, and still is, the sole
cause of his shooting. ■ Committing the attack was not an act he enjoyed or took pleasure in. ■ Despite the horrific crime, Holmes has friends and family who continue to love and care about him. The nine women and three men were to hear closing arguments from the defense and prosecutors later Thursday before beginning deliberations in this much more subjective phase of the trial. “This is an individual decision and not a group decision,” Samour stressed, and each juror must give each aggravating and mitigating factor as much or as little weight as they alone determine.
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Hot prospect? Buffalo Wild Wings reported quarterly earnings that fell short of Wall Street expectations Tuesday, yet the stock is having one of its best weeks ever — shares were up 15.1 percent through Thursday. On a per-share basis, the Minneapolis-based company posted a profit of $1.12 for the second quarter. The average estimate of 15 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.25 per share. Even so, in a note to clients analyst Robert Derrington of
Wunderlich Securities wrote that there were “rays of sunshine,� in the second quarter, including strong same-store-sales growth at the start of the third quarter — at company-owned restaurants, sales grew 4.8 percent. That number impressed many because a year prior the company had benefited from the men’s World Cup finals. Some analysts remain cautious. Jason West of Credit Suisse maintains an “underperform� rating, expressing concern about a few factors, including potential customer pushback from planned price increases.
Revenue 2014: est. 2015:
Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD) $200 Thursday’s close: $195.19
Net income 2014: est. 2015:
175 Dec. 31 $180.38 150
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Still feeling good?
sliding again lately.
Consumers have been feeling better about the economy. Will July’s reading of the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, due out today, show a similar trend? In June, the index surged to its highest level since January. That increase coincided with growing spending by consumers. Consumer sentiment in the first six month of this year has increased at the fastest pace since 2004.
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XOM $83.01 Exxon Mobil reports its $120 $103.55 second-quarter financial results 100 today. Lower oil prices have hurt the 80 company’s earnings and ’15 60 revenue this year. When world est. oil prices collapsed from about Operating $1.66 $1.11 $100 a barrel to less than $50 a EPS barrel over the second half of 2Q ’14 2Q ’15 last year, it made some drilling Price-earnings ratio: 13 projects unprofitable. While oil based on past 12-month results prices recovered somewhat Dividend: $2.92 Div yield: 3.5% earlier this year, they’ve been
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Royal Caribbean has had to navigate the effects of a stronger dollar and rising fuel prices this year. Those factors prompted the cruise ship operator to lower its full-year earnings forecast in April. Has the recent slide in oil prices helped turn around the company’s fortunes? Find out today, when Royal Caribbean reports its second-quarter results.
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9A • Daily Corinthian
Variety
BEETLE BAILEY
Friday, July 31, 2015
Crossword Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
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54 Playground retort 56 Mad as __ hen 58 Algonquian language 59 Bit 60 Sun. message 61 Animal house 62 It turns out lts. 64 Nats’ former stadium 65 Symbol of peace 66 Eastern Nevada city
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Working with others is easier said than done she wants and a betDear Annie: Our ter relationship with daughter recently beAnnie’s her in-laws. Isn’t that came engaged and we couldn’t be happier. She Mailbox what counts? is our only child and is marrying a great guy. While we are excited about all of the planning for the big event, it appears that the groom’s mother, “Dolores,” is trying to take control. For nearly every detail that my daughter and I agree upon, Dolores steps in and wants to make changes. While I appreciate her enthusiasm, is this the way that things are supposed to be? She is putting my daughter in the middle and making the situation terribly uncomfortable, especially since the groom is in the military and the wedding won’t take place for another 18 months. I’m not sure how long this can go on before we have words. My husband and I have given the bridal couple what we considered to be a generous budget, but Dolores keeps offering to pay for any additional expenses so she can make it be the day she wants. While we can afford to give our daughter more money for the wedding, we would like them to spend wisely for this one-day celebration. Dolores has already married off a daughter. I’m only going to be the mother of the bride once
in my life. Is it too much to ask that this day belong to me? How do I keep peace with my daughter and make this the day that we have dreamed of without constant conflict with her mother-in-law? — Once in My Life Dear Once: These days, the bride’s family doesn’t get to control every aspect of the wedding. Grooms also get a say. And many families split the costs right down the middle, giving each an equal voice in the planning. This day does not belong to you. Your daughter is the one who decides how to handle her future mother-in-law and what compromises she is willing to make. For your sake, as well as hers, please take one step back and be as gracious and accommodating as possible. It’s a good lesson to teach your daughter. It may not be the wedding you dreamed of, but it could ease the way for your daughter to have the marriage
Dear Annie: Recently a reader complained that you never write about the good stories. Here’s one I hope you will share. I want to publicly thank my husband’s ex-wife for being a dear and special person. For the first 10 years of my marriage, I experienced the animosity that many ex-wives inflict on the new wife (and vice versa). Then I extended an olive branch, and we both put away our resentful and angry feelings and found out we had a lot in common, in addition to the man we both had married. We “grew up,” and our relationship flourished over the next 15 years as we shared birthdays, graduations, marriage, a grandchild, holidays at each other’s homes, even family vacations. We recognized that jealousy and hate only destroy one’s self, and that harmony brings peace and contentment to the soul. It’s a wonderful feeling to have such a treasured friend. — Truly Grateful Friend Dear Grateful: We love this. Please make a copy to show your husband’s ex-wife. It will make her day.
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Boyfriend reveals that his soul mate died years ago D E A R ABBY: I have been close to my best friend for three years. A year ago we deAbigail cided to date. have a Van Buren We wonderful relationship on Dear Abby almost every level. The only issue I have is that he’s reluctant to open up about his past. He is a very private person, and I know it’s because of his upbringing. This has sparked many debates between us that have ended less than pleasantly. Recently, he did open up, and when he did, he dropped a bomb. He asked me if I believed in soul mates, and I said yes. Then he told me about how in his past there was a girl he loved very much. Sadly, she died. He said he sees this girl as his soul mate, but he doesn’t think it lessens any of his love for me. This was the first time he opened up to me. Now that it has sunk in, I’m hurt. I already have self-confidence issues, and I worry that since I am not her, I’m not enough. I can’t live up to a dead
woman. I always thought I could change his closed ways, but now, knowing the cause, I fear there is nothing I can do to help him. Maybe he’s just too messed up for me. I don’t know what to do. Can someone have two soul mates? -- NOT HIS SOUL MATE DEAR NOT HIS SOUL MATE: Please do not allow your self-confidence issues to ruin your relationship, because from where I sit, it appears you’re looking for a way to push this man away. So what if he had a romance that ended tragically? She’s dead -- gone! And you’re very much alive. Stop competing with her. If there is one thing I have learned, it is that we cannot change other people. He doesn’t need your help; he needs someone who will accept him the way he is and love him for it. DEAR ABBY: I am the treasurer for my high school’s upcoming 50th reunion. My senior class was large -- more than 550 students. My problem is, 280 students have not responded to our monthly emails or newsletters. It takes a lot of time and effort to put on a reunion. We have been working on it for two years. I realize some classmates hated their senior year.
Not all of us had a perfect time. But would you remind people that a simple yes or no works well? Frankly, I don’t know why anyone would say no, unless medical or financial issues prevented them from attending. I don’t look like I did at 18, and neither does anyone else. The clique clubs are gone, and the captain of the football team looks just like any other guy. Can you comment? -- READY FOR THE REUNION DEAR READY: Yes. There may be other reasons why some graduates don’t wish to attend their high school reunion. They live far away, or there is no one they particularly want to see. Rather than work yourself into a lather, in your next communication to the graduates, specify that only those who have responded to the invitation can be accommodated “because the committee is making arrangements for which they need an exact head count.” If you don’t hear from someone, do not plan on seeing him or her. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19). Having dealt with uncertainty before, you are now more able to deal with uncertainty in a different area of life. This is the ability that makes you a superhuman! TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ve made indelible memories in the mind of another without trying at all. So why start trying now? Perhaps the work you do to make an impression would best be applied to your own enjoyment. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’re so capable that lazy people may try to rely on you for everything they need. That’s why saying “no” is a sanity saver. Happiness is doing only what you really want to do. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Rare and magical happenings will touch your personal life. Preserve the sacred nature of this by refusing to overanalyze or even talk very much about it. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There
are times when you grow so world-weary that you believe you’ve seen it all. That’s what makes days like today so special -- the grandeur of the undiscovered unfolds before you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Sometimes the game changes after you make a move, but today it changes before you make the move. So hang back, watch the other players, stay aware, and be ready to act on opportunity. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Another lovely thing about you is that when people aren’t treating you right, you tend to look at your own behavior first. Did you misstep? Is there something you could have done differently? This is the winner’s way. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There’s nothing quite so inspiring as seeing others doing something similar to what you’d like to be doing (but not nearly as well as you could do it). SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Seek not fame or fortune, as they bring only fleeting pride compared to the more lasting confidence that comes with building your character. Strive instead to become better, wiser and more loving. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Once you put your mind to it, you’re unstoppable. So the question is: How do you put your mind to it? Visuals help. Inspiring role models help. High stakes help. Assign rewards and consequences. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Wealth flows to those who provide great value to others. It also flows to those who manipulate and enslave others, though, so keep your eyes open. Don’t empower evil by buying into it. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The luck that drops into your world is a magic key that will get you out of your current bind with a twist and a click. Accept the cosmic gift, say thank you, and move along!
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Wing part is solid clue in search for MH370 The Associated Press
SAINT-ANDRE, Reunion — A sea-crusted wing part washed up on an island in the western Indian Ocean may be the first trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 since it vanished nearly a year and a half ago, and a tragic but finally solid clue to one of aviation’s most perplexing and expensive mysteries. Malaysia’s prime minister said Thursday the debris found on the French island of Reunion will be sent for investigation to the French city of Toulouse, hub of the European aviation industry. “We have had many false alarms before, but for the sake of the families who have lost loved ones, and suffered such heartbreaking uncertainty, I pray that we will find out the truth so that they may have closure and peace,” Najib Razak said on his personal blog. Najib promised to make any new information public quickly. Air safety investigators — one of them a Boeing investigator — have identified the component as a “flaperon” from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777
wing, a U.S. official said. Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing. The piece could help investigators figure out how the plane crashed, but whether it will help search crews pinpoint the rest of the wreckage is unclear, given the complexity of the currents in the southern Indian Ocean and the time that has elapsed since the plane disappeared. “It’s the first real evidence that there is a possibility that a part of the aircraft may have been found,” said Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss, whose country is leading the search for the plane in a remote patch of ocean far off Australia’s west coast. “It’s too early to make that judgment, but clearly we are treating this as a major lead.” Flight 370 had been traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, but investigators believe based on satellite data that the plane turned south into the Indian Ocean after vanishing from radar. If the wing part is from the
Malaysian plane, it would bolster that theory and put to rest others that it traveled north, or landed somewhere after being hijacked. The wing piece is about 6 feet long. Investigators have found a number on the part, but it is not a serial or registration number, Truss said. It could be a maintenance number, which may help investigators figure out what plane it belongs to, he said. Flaperons are located on the rear edge of both wings, about midway between the fuselage and the tips. When the plane is banking, the flaperon on one wing tilts up and the other tilts down, which makes the plane roll to the left or right as it turns. French law enforcement authorities are on Reunion island to examine the piece, according to an official close to an investigation of the debris. A French law enforcement helicopter is scouring the waters around the island in hopes of spotting more debris, and U.S. investigators are examining a photo of the debris. The wing part was found on a desolate, rocky
beach in the small town of Saint-Andre and was transferred to the civil aviation authority’s offices in the island’s main airport, a local police official said. The French and U.S. officials spoke on condition that they not be named because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly. France’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday that the piece is currently under the authority of French judicial officials who will cooperate with international authorities investigating the disappearance of MH370. A massive multinational search effort of the southern Indian Ocean, the China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand has turned up no trace of the plane. The last primary radar contact with Flight 370 placed its position over the Andaman Sea about 230 miles northwest of the Malaysian city of Penang. Reunion is about 3,500 miles southwest of Penang, and about 2,600 miles west of the current search area. It was well understood after the aircraft disappeared that if there was
any floating debris from the plane, Indian Ocean currents would eventually bring it to the east coast of Africa, said aviation safety expert John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. But the debris is unlikely to provide much help in tracing the ocean currents back to the location of the main wreckage, he said. “It’s going to be hard to say with any certainty where the source of this was,” he said. “It just confirms that the airplane is in the water and hasn’t been hijacked to some remote place and is waiting to be used for some other purpose. ... We haven’t lost any 777s anywhere else.” Reunion authorities have asked France’s aviation investigative agency, known as the BEA, to coordinate with international investigators, notably Malaysian and Australian authorities. The discovery is unlikely to alter the seabed search, said Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan, who is heading up the hunt. If the find proved to be part of the missing air-
craft, it would be consistent with the theory that the plane crashed within the 46,000-square-mile search area, 1,100 miles southwest of Australia, he said. “It doesn’t rule out our current search area if this were associated with MH370,” Dolan told The Associated Press. “It is entirely possible that something could have drifted from our current search area to that island.” Dolan said search resources would be better spent continuing the seabed search with sonar and video for wreckage rather than reviving a surface search for debris if the part proved to be from Flight 370. Robin Beaman, a marine geologist at Australia’s James Cook University, said there is precedence for large objects traveling vast distances across the Indian Ocean. Last year, a man lost his boat off the Western Australia coast after it overturned in rough seas. Eight months later, the boat turned up off the French island of Mayotte, west of Madagascar — 4,600 miles from where it disappeared.
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Shorts Hunter’s Education Class Oakland Baptist Church in Corinth will host a Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Hunter’s Education Class on Saturday. The free class is open to anyone 10 years of age or older. The 10-hour course begins at 8 a.m. with a 1-hour break for attendees to each lunch at the place of their choice. All must know their social security number and preregister at www.MDWFP.com.
AC Boosters The Alcorn Central Football boosters for middle and high school will meet Monday at 6:30 at Farmington Town Hall. Every parent/guardian needs to be there to discuss some important topics for this upcoming season. Also, all ads will need to be turned in as well.
Little Cheerleader Camp The Corinth High School Cheerleaders are sponsoring a Little Cheerleader Camp for students in Kindergarten through 6th grade. The camp is set for August 3-5 from 12-3:00 p.m. at Corinth Elementary Gym. Registration is Monday, August 3 at 11:30 am. The cost is $35, which covers the cost of the camp and a camp t-shirt.
5K Walk/Run The Booneville Kiwanis Club will host its third annual Back to School 5K Walk/Run on Saturday, Aug. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at West Side Park on Third Street in Booneville. Preregistration for the race is $10 for those 10 and under and $20 for 11 and over. Raceday registration is $15 for 10 and under and $25 for 11 and up. All those who preregister will be guaranteed a t-shirt and entered to win a cash prize. Online registration is available at http://racesonline.com/events/3rdannual-back-to-school-5k-glow. For more information contact race director Brandi Reese at 662-663-0308 or breese@transportationins.net.
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3 schools leaving for the MAIS The Clarion-Ledger
JACKSON — Mississippi high school athletics experienced a major tremor Wednesday, almost three weeks before the start of football season. Natchez Cathedral, St. Aloysius in Vicksburg and St. Joseph (Greenville) have left the Mississippi High School Activities Association, the state’s largest governing body of high school athletics, for the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools. The moves came in response to a recent ruling by the MHSAA that upholds a ban on out-ofstate students participating in athletics at private and parochial schools. The move by the three schools has sent several public schools scrambling to fill their athletic schedules. On Tuesday, St. Aloysius applied for and was granted membership to the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools. Cathedral and St. Joseph (Greenville) were approved for membership by the MAIS on Wednesday. “We have a commitment that every parent who sends
a child to this school that they will have full access to everything we do,” St. Aloysius principal Buddy Strickland said. “We regret that we had to leave. We don’t leave the MHSAA with any anger, any animosity. In a perfect world we wanted to stay where we were. The fact is, we couldn’t guarantee full access to all of our students.” The news of these three schools leaving for the MAIS comes a week after the MHSAA’s executive committee voted to uphold a rule banning out-of-state students from participating in athletics. An MHSAA spokesman said the organization had only heard from St. Joseph, but not from Cathedral, St. Aloysius or the Diocese. In a statement released Wednesday, the MHSAA said: “We also recognize each school must find the best fit for its athletic and activities programs. The Executive Committee consists of 15 school administrators from across the state. The committee members felt limiting participation in MHSAA athletics
and activities to students who reside in Mississippi was a matter of fairness and consistency for all of our public, parochial and private schools.” Cathedral chief administrator Pat Sanguinetti said he has not reached out to his school’s former association. “I have nothing to talk to them about,” he said. “What exactly do we have to speak on?” Per Bishop Joseph Kopacz’s request, the four schools part of the Diocese of Jackson were to have met with their stakeholders this week and provide him with an input and recommendation on what was felt was in the best interests of the students. “We looked at every option that was available to us,” Strickland said. “Do you go to court and seek a legal remedy? We would not prevail in court. That was not an option. We decided to seek membership in the MAIS. With all of our stakeholders, there was not a single dissenting opinion to do anything other than what we’ve done.” St. Aloysius will be clas-
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Sen. Rita Parks, Rep. Bubba Carpenter and Rep. Nick Bain presented a proclamation by the Speaker of the House Phillip Gunn, commending the remarkable service of Jimmy Anderson. Anderson retired after 50 years in the radio business, but will continue to broadcast Alcorn County basketball and football games.
Adult Fall Softball The Corinth/Alcorn County Parks Department is offering a Fall League for adult softball. League divisions could include; Men’s Open, Women, Coed, Church, Senior, Wooden Bat and a One Pitch League. There must be a minimum of 4 teams registered Please see SHORTS | 13A
ATLANTA — The firstplace Los Angeles Dodgers bolstered their pitching staff on the eve of the trade deadline, completing a 13-player deal with the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins. Clinging to a half-game leader over San Francisco, the Dodgers acquiring right-hander Mat Latos from the Marlins and lefthander Alex Wood from the Braves, two pitchers who can move right into the rotation behind aces Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke. Also, Los Angeles obtained relievers Jim Johnson and Luis Avilan from Atlanta. The rebuilding Braves kept up their massive overhaul, also surrendering top infield prospect Jose Peraza to the Dodgers largely to land 30-year-old Cuban defector Hector Olivera.
As for the Marlins, it was another familiar salary dump. Out of contention in the NL East, Miami rid itself of Latos and first baseman Michael Morse for three minor leaguers. The deals worked like this: The Dodgers got Wood, Johnson, Avilan, Peraza, and pitcher Bronson Arroyo from the Braves, along with Latos, Morse and cash considerations from the Marlins. Atlanta received Olivera, along with injured lefthander Paco Rodriguez and minor leaguer Zachary Bird, a right-handed pitcher. The Braves also received a draft pick from the Marlins. Miami acquired minor league right-handers Kevin Guzman, Jeff Brigham and Victor Araujo from the Dodgers, none of whom has pitched above Class A.
Still relieved about daughter as camp opens CINCINNATI — Devon Still was trim and upbeat when he arrived for the start of the Cincinnati Bengals training camp. Good news about his 5-year-old daughter put him in the right frame of mind. Leah Still’s latest scan found no trace of the cancer that she’s been fighting for more than a year. Still said on Thursday that she has to get treatments to strengthen her immune system, but the worst of it should be behind her. They had an emotional
goodbye when he headed to Cincinnati to try to earn a spot in the Bengals’ line rotation. “It was emotional and I didn’t want to show that part because we both make ugly faces when we cry, but it was definitely an emotional part,” Still said, before the team’s meeting. “But she understands what I have to go out here and do, I understand what I have to go out here and do.” Leah Still was diagnosed with cancer 14 months ago and has undergone surgery
and bouts of chemotherapy. Her most recent scans came back negative, an indication the treatment has worked. She has to get treatment for several weeks to help her immune system recover from the effects of the chemotherapy. Still is entering his fourth season. Back problems and the concerns about his daughter, who has been treated on the East Coast, weighed on him last season. His back is healed, and he lost 27 pounds as he got in shape in the offseason. He’s
on a one-year contract, so he’s running out of time to show the Bengals he can be an integral part of the defensive line. “My daughter’s battle with cancer has given me a stronger ‘why’ than I’ve ever had in my life,” Still said. “I’m just looking forward to going out there and showing the coaches what I’m about. I spent last year showing everybody the type of father I was and the type of person I was, and now it’s time to show everybody what type of football player I am.”
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The Corinth/Alcorn County Parks Department is offering a fall league for boys Dixie Youth baseball and girls ASA softball. Registration has started and will run through August 21. Player cost is $35. Age groups will be divided as 5/6, 7/8, 9/10 and 11/12. There will be a player observation day and a volunteer coaches’ meeting after that to draft teams. Games will begin the week of September 14th and finish up by November 6th. Teams will play 7-8 games and a single elimination tournament. Call the Park Office for more information at 286-3067.
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The Boys and Girls Club of Corinth will hold a 4-Man Scramble on Friday, Aug. 7 at Shiloh Ridge Golf Course. Shotgun will start at 8 a.m. To register call 662-286-6662. • The Owen B. Whitehurst 15th Annual Memorial Scholarship Tournament is set for 9 a.m. on August 15 at Shiloh Ridge Athletic Club. Cost for the four-person scramble is $60 per player. Golf package includes tournament comfort color shirt and tote bag, 18 holes of golf (cart included), Subway lunch and awards ceremony. Flights and prizes will be determined by number of entries. Sponsorships are available. For more information contact Mike Whitehurst 662-415-5514, Winners Circle 662-287-7678 or fax 662-287-7679.
sified in District 3-AAA in a division with Riverfield Academy (Louisiana), Manchester Academy, Hartfield Academy, Central Hinds Academy, Park Place Christian Academy. School starts on Aug. 7 at St. Aloysius. With the move to the MAIS happening so close to the start of the 2015-16 athletics season, Strickland said all of the Flashes coaches will meet with their staffs Friday to finalize changes to their schedules, but he does anticipate that St. Aloysius will be able to keep several of their scheduled MHSAA opponents. “We assume and we hope that they will allow that practice to continue with us,” he said. “The MHSAA has set a precedent that allows crossorganization competition between MHSAA and MAIS schools. We have been assured by the MAIS that we will be given a competitive schedule within our class in the organization.” The MAIS scheduled a transition meeting with the three schools for Friday.
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Football League The Alcorn County Football league will hold registration at the Crossroads Youth Ministry Association through Friday, Aug. 14 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Divisions are available for 5 and 6-year-olds, 7 and 8-year-olds, 9 and 10 year-olds and 11 and 12 year olds. The cost is $75 per child which includes the use of a helmet, mouth piece, shoulder pads, and a personalized NFL jersey with their name on it which they can keep and carry home. In addition to registration, the league will hold an evaluation day on Saturday, Aug. 15. The new season will kick-off on Saturday, Sept. 12. For more information contact Shane Barnett at 662-415-1524.
Friday, July 31, 2015
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Gary Kubiak sure has the blueprints. He helped guide the Denver Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowls in the late 1990s as John Elway’s backup-turned tutor and now he’s trying to steer them back to the top of the NFL behind 39-year-old Peyton Manning. On the eve of his first training camp as Denver’s head coach, Kubiak said: “I can remember some of the conversations we’re having now are some of the same conversations we had as coaches going into John’s last year or two, how we were going to approach his work, how we were going to go about things.” Bottom line: plenty of rest for Manning, a notorious workhorse who’s long been loath to give away any snaps. With Manning coming off a thigh injury that hampered
him down the stretch last season, Kubiak gave backup Brock Osweiler lots of work this offseason and he plans to do that again through camp and into the season. “I think (Manning) responded really well in the offseason program to not working every day. I thought his arm looked really good. I thought physically he looked really good. And I want to stay that course,” Kubiak said. “I know he’s going to be beating my door down to be out there every day. But I think it’ll be good for him. It’ll be good for the team and for Brock to be able to go out there every third or fourth day and prove to the guys he can run the football team also.” Watching from his office balcony above the football fields at the UCHealth Training Center, Elway has flashbacks as he watches Kubiak manage Manning’s snaps.
“Our mind thinks our body can always do it,” Elway said. “No matter if you’re 55 like I am or 39 you still think you can do certain things and you know, you just can’t do that. So, I think he understands that situation and he’ll be good with it.” Elway said Manning might not notice the benefits of a lighter workload until the winter. “He’ll never feel it but obviously we get to December, we get to January, if we haven’t taken care of that in August, September and October that could hurt him — and us,” Elway said. The ancillary benefit of giving Manning some snaps and even full days off is getting Osweiler more work. Manning’s backup has thrown just one TD pass in his three seasons in the NFL, but he’s entering a contract year still needing to prove
he’s a worthy successor to the five-time MVP. Kubiak can certainly relate. He was Elway’s career backup before taking up coaching and becoming his offensive coordinator. “I have the feeling of what it’s like to be that guy. So, there are a lot of things I can relate to (Osweiler), but I’ve been very impressed with him,” Kubiak said. “Work is not a problem. He likes to play and he wants to lead. So, that’s all you ask of a player.” Kubiak, who revealed he’ll call the offensive plays, also will keep close tabs on middle linebackers Danny Trevathan (knee) and Brandon Marshall (foot), tight end Virgil Green (hamstring) and star receiver Demaryius Thomas, who missed all of the offseason program before signing a five-year, $70 million contract earlier this month.
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jersey and insurance. Players will be required to form the division. If to wear a mouth guard. 80% of the team’s play- Registration is open ers live in Alcorn County, and runs through Friday, August 14. There will be the cost per team is a league clinic/observa$300 and $350 for all others. Players must be tion day. Coaches will 16 years of age as of draft teams and games September 1 and teams will begin the week of September 14 and finmust wear numbered ish up on November uniformed tees. Team registration is open and 6. Call the Park Office goes through August 28. for more information at Play is ASA sanctioned 286-3067. and games will begin the week of September Adult Flag Football 7th. Teams will play The Corinth/Alcorn 8 games and a single County Parks Departelimination tournament to end the season. Call ment is offering a fall the Park Office for more flag football league for adults, 16 years and information at 286above. The team fee 3067. is $250, in county or Youth Flag Football $300 outside the county. Games will begin the week of September The Corinth/Alcorn 9 and finish up by NoCounty Parks Department in partnership with vember 6. Teams will play 7-8 games. Call the the NFL’s Play 60 proPark Office for more ingram is offering Youth Flag Football. Encourag- formation at 286-3067. Other Fall programs to ing 60 minutes of exerbe offered by the Park, cise weekly, this is the most recognizable youth if interest is sufficient, includes; Adult Kickball, flag football program in Ultimate Frisbee/Disc the USA. Open to girls Golf, Tennis Leagues and boys, ages 5-10 years old, the player fee and a Walking program. is $55. Fee includes an Call for more information. NFL branded reversible
NASCAR SPRINT CUP WINDOWS 10 400 Site: Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Schedule: Today, practice (NBC Sports Channel, 10 -11:30 a.m.), qualifying (NBC Sports Channel, 3:30 p.m.); Saturday, practice (NBC Sports Channel, 8-9 a.m., 10:30-11:30 a.m.); Sunday, race, 12:30 p.m. (NBC Sports Channel, Noon5 p.m.). Track: Pocono Raceway (triangle, 2.5 miles). Race distance: 400 miles, 160 laps. Last year: Dale Earnhardt Jr. completed a season sweep at the track for the third of his four 2014 victories. Last week: Kyle Busch won the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to complete an Xfinity-Cup weekend sweep. He has won three straight Cup races and four of the last five. Fast facts: Busch has worked his way to 32nd in the standings in nine races since returning from a broken right leg and left foot. He must be in the top 30 after the regular-season finale at Richmond to qualify for the 16-driver Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
Baseball A.L. standings, schedule East Division W L Pct 57 43 .570 51 50 .505 52 51 .505 51 52 .495 45 58 .437 Central Division W L Pct Kansas City 61 40 .604 Minnesota 52 48 .520 Detroit 50 52 .490 Chicago 49 51 .490 Cleveland 46 54 .460 West Division W L Pct Houston 58 45 .563 Los Angeles 55 46 .545 Texas 48 52 .480 Seattle 46 56 .451 Oakland 45 57 .441 Wednesday’s Games Detroit 2, Tampa Bay 1 Cleveland 12, Kansas City 1 Pittsburgh 10, Minnesota 4 Arizona 8, Seattle 2 Baltimore 2, Atlanta 0 Toronto 8, Philadelphia 2 Chicago White Sox 9, Boston 2 Texas 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Houston 6, L.A. Angels 3 L.A. Dodgers 10, Oakland 7 New York Baltimore Toronto Tampa Bay Boston
GB — 6½ 6½ 7½ 13½ GB — 8½ 11½ 11½ 14½ GB — 2 8½ 11½ 12½
Thursday’s Games Detroit 9, Baltimore 8 Toronto 5, Kansas City 2 Boston 8, Chicago White Sox 2 Houston 3, L.A. Angels 0 N.Y. Yankees at Texas, (n) Seattle at Minnesota, (n) Cleveland at Oakland, (n) Today’s Games Detroit (Farmer 0-2) at Baltimore (W.Chen 5-6), 6:05 p.m. Kansas City (Cueto 0-0) at Toronto (Hutchison 9-2), 6:07 p.m. Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez 8-4) at Boston (E.Rodriguez 6-3), 6:10 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 11-5) at Texas (N.Martinez 5-6), 7:05 p.m. Arizona (R.De La Rosa 8-5) at Houston (Feldman 4-5), 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Undecided) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 4-3), 7:10 p.m. Seattle (T.Walker 7-7) at Minnesota (Milone 5-2), 7:10 p.m. Cleveland (Salazar 8-6) at Oakland (Graveman 6-7), 8:35 p.m. L.A. Angels (Santiago 7-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 8-6), 9:10 p.m. Saturday’s Games Kansas City at Toronto, 12:07 p.m. Tampa Bay at Boston, 12:35 p.m. L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 3:05 p.m. Detroit at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m. Arizona at Houston, 6:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. Seattle at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. San Francisco at Texas, 7:05 p.m. Cleveland at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.
N.L. standings, schedule East Division W L Pct 54 46 .540 52 50 .510 46 56 .451 42 60 .412 39 64 .379 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 65 37 .637 Pittsburgh 59 42 .584 Chicago 54 47 .535 Cincinnati 46 54 .460 Milwaukee 44 59 .427 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 57 45 .559 San Francisco 56 45 .554 Arizona 49 51 .490 San Diego 49 53 .480 Colorado 43 57 .430 Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 10, Minnesota 4 Chicago Cubs 3, Colorado 2 Arizona 8, Seattle 2 San Francisco 5, Milwaukee 0 Baltimore 2, Atlanta 0 Toronto 8, Philadelphia 2 Washington New York Atlanta Miami Philadelphia
GB — 3 9 13 16½ GB — 5½ 10½ 18 21½ GB — ½ 7 8 13
San Diego 7, N.Y. Mets 3 Washington 7, Miami 2 Cincinnati 1, St. Louis 0 L.A. Dodgers 10, Oakland 7 Thursday’s Games San Diego 8, N.Y. Mets 7 Washington 1, Miami 0 Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 1 Cincinnati 15, Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 9, Colorado 8 Chicago Cubs 5, Milwaukee 2 Today’s Games Atlanta (Wisler 5-1) at Philadelphia (Hamels 6-7), 6:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Locke 5-6) at Cincinnati (Lorenzen 3-5), 6:10 p.m. San Diego (Kennedy 6-9) at Miami (Phelps 4-7), 6:10 p.m. Washington (G.Gonzalez 8-4) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 9-7), 6:10 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 11-5) at Texas (N.Martinez 5-6), 7:05 p.m. Arizona (R.De La Rosa 8-5) at Houston (Feldman 4-5), 7:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Hammel 5-5) at Milwaukee (Jungmann 5-2), 7:10 p.m. Colorado (K.Kendrick 4-11) at St. Louis (Wacha 11-4), 7:15 p.m. L.A. Angels (Santiago 7-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 8-6), 9:10 p.m. Saturday’s Games L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 3:05 p.m. Atlanta at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m. Arizona at Houston, 6:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m. San Diego at Miami, 6:10 p.m. Washington at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m. Colorado at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m. San Francisco at Texas, 7:05 p.m.
Friday, July 31, 2015 ATLANTA BRAVES — Acquired INF Hector Olivera, LHP Paco Rodriguez and RHP Zachary Bird from the Los Angeles Dodgers and Miami’s 2016 competitive balance draft lottery selection A for LHPs Luis Avilan and Alex Wood, RHPs Bronson Arroyo and Jim Johnson and INF Jose Peraza. CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled LHP David Holmberg and RHP Keyvius Sampson from Louisville (IL). Optioned C Kyle Skipworth to Pensacola (SL). Placed RHP Nate Adcock on the 15-day DL. MIAMI MARLINS — Acquired RHPs Kevin Guzman, Jeff Brigham and Victor Araujo from the Los Angeles Dodgers for RHP Mat Latos, 1B Michael Morse and cash considerations. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Designated RHP Vance Worley for assignment. Activated RHP Joe Blanton. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Acquired OF-1B Brandon Moss from Cleveland for LHP Rob Kaminsky. Placed OF Matt Holliday on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Greg Garcia from Memphis (PCL). Designated 1B Dan Johnson for assignment.
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BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Designated OF Daniel Nava for assignment. Recalled RHP Jonathan Aro from Pawtucket (IL). Optioned LHP Tommy Layne to Pawtucket. HOUSTON ASTROS — Activated InF Jed Lowrie from the 60-day DL. Designated RHP Roberto Hernandez for assignment. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Activated INFOF Ben Zobrist. Optioned OF Paulo Orlando to Omaha (PCL). NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP Michael Pineda on the 15-day DL. SEATTLE MARINERS — Acquired OF Ramon Flores and RHP Jose Ramirez from the New York Yankees for OF Dustin Ackley. Recalled 1B Jesus Montero from Tacoma (PCL). TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Acquired LHP David Price from Detroit for LHP Daniel Norris, LHP Matt Boyd and LHP Jairo Labourt. National League
AUTO RACING 11 a.m. (NBCSN) – NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Windows 10 400, at Long Pond, Pa. 2 p.m. (FS1) – NASCAR, Truck Series, final practice for Pocono Mountains 150, at Long Pond, Pa. 4:30 p.m. (NBCSN) – NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Windows 10 400, at Long Pond, Pa. 7 p.m. (NBCSN) – NASCAR, XFINITY Series, final practice for US Cellular 250, at Newton, Iowa CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE 9 p.m. (ESPN2) – Saskatchewan at Edmonton GOLF 9 a.m. (ESPN2) – Women’s British Open, second round, at Scotland 9 a.m. )TGC) – European PGA Tour, Paul Lawrie Matchplay, round of 32, at Aberdeen, Scotland Noon (TGC) – Champions Tour, 3M Championship, first round, at Blaine, Minn. 2:30 p.m. (TGC) – PGA Tour, Quicken Loans National, second round, at Gainesville, Va. 6:30 p.m. (TGC) – Web.com Tour, Utah Championship, second round, at Lehi MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. (MLB) – Regional coverage, Washington at N.Y. Mets or Kansas City at Toronto SPECIAL OLYMPICS 7 p.m. (ESPN) – World Games, at Los Angeles
ities Association, you gain perspective. Do they want Catholic schools in the association, and I’ve come to the stark realization they don’t. They want their own play toy, and they’ve certainly got it. And they can have it,” he said. Artman also said these talks did not heat up until the Fighting Irish baseball team won the 1A championship in 2013 and since St. Aloysius and Cathedral
played for the 1A football championship last year. The Diocese of Jackson confirmed that St. Joseph (Madison) is staying in the MHSAA for the 2015-16 academic year. The school did not have a meeting with its stakeholders this week due to the fact that it does not have any students affected by the MHSAA’s ban of out-of-state studentathletes.
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“We’ve got to do what’s best for our students,” St. Joseph (Greenville) headmaster Paul Artman said. “Yes, the MAIS has been very warm and welcoming and accommodating toward us, especially with the change in the football schedule that’s got to happen. They’ve bent over backward.” Artman was told that St. Joe would be able to play part of its non-region schedule against MHSAA schools. The Fighting Irish already have two MAIS schools on its schedule — Greenville Christian and Bayou Academy — as well as St. Joseph (Madison) and St. Aloysius. St. Joe will be in District 1-AAA with Bayou, Indianola Academy, Kirk Academy, Lee Academy and North Delta. Artman received confirmation that the school would be allowed to participate in the postseason immediately as well. “That was offered on the behalf of the MAIS, and we’ve accepted that,” he said. Cathedral will join District 4-AAA with Adams Christian, Brookhaven Academy, Columbia Academy and Simpson Academy. “It’s going to be a headache but when you have a group of people at the MAIS who said over and
over and over again that they want us and want to work with us, they’re going to make sure we have all of our schedules,” Sanguinetti said. New schedules are expected to be formed by the end of the week. Outside of football, the biggest scramble will be girls’ soccer and softball, which are both played in the fall in the MAIS compared with the spring in the MHSAA. On Tuesday, MHSAA’s District 5 approved a 1.5 multiplier for private and parochial schools. It was proposed by public schools to help aid with competi-
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tive equity. The proposed multiplier would multiply the attendance of each of the 13 private/parochial members by 1.5. That new number would likely bump those schools up one or two classifications, forcing them to play bigger programs. Several states, including Alabama, have a multiplier in place. The proposal will now be voted on by the legislative counsel in October. Artman said that raised a bigger question. “To me that only shows how unreasonable this association is getting to be when dealing with Catholic
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schools,” he said. “We try to be reasonable at every turn. That’s all we’ve asked for. I don’t think the Mississippi High School Activities Association has been reasonable at all. I think these wild actions coming out of that is proof. “When you sit in this chair and in this position and what has all gone on the last three years and the relationship with the Mississippi High School Activ-
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Community Events Family Reunion The Dodds families of Will, C, Lee, Charlie, Robert and sisters Lena Mae, Audie, Pearl and relatives and friends will hold a family reunion from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8 at the Booneville City Park. Guests are encouraged to bring a covered dish for lunch. For more information, call Dorothy Dodds Crum at 662-4625580 or Joy Forsythe at 662-462-7325.
Free Medical Clinic The Living Healthy Free Medical Clinic, where residents with no way to pay can get free medical treatment, welcomes adults and children age 12 and up with no income and no health insurance. The clinic, now located at 2668 South Harper Road Suite 3 next to Physicians Urgent Care in the former Oasis Medical Center, is open 1-5 p.m., on the second Wednesday and fourth Saturday of each month. The clinic is always looking for both medical and non-medical volun-
teers. They can contact Ann White at eaw3@ comcast.net or 662415-9446.
Hunter’s Education Oakland Baptist Church in Corinth will host a Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Hunter’s Education Class on Saturday. The free class is open to anyone 10 or older. The 10-hour course begins at 8 a.m. with a 1-hr. break for attendees to each lunch at the place of their choice. All must know their Social Security number and pre-register at www.MDWFP.com.
Political Speaking The Alcorn County Democratic Executive Committee will hold a political speaking at 2 p.m. on Saturday on the courthouse square. Local and state candidates will be in attendance. This will be the last chance to hear candidates before the Aug. 4 primary. Concessions will be available. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and enjoy
NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Crossroads Arena of Corinth, Mississippi will receive sealed bids for the following described project until 10:00 a.m. CST on the 20th day of August, 2015, and shortly thereafter the bids will be opened and read aloud. Crossroads Arena Floor, Concourse, Seating, and West Room LED (wireless) Lighting, Electrical, and Installation Upgrade Project Complete and detailed specifications may be obtained from the office of the Crossroads Arena, 2800 South Harper Road, Corinth, Mississippi, 38834. Telephone 662-287-7779. All bid envelopes should be clearly marked “BID for Crossroads Arena LED (wireless) Lighting, Electrical, and Installation Upgrade Project”. The Crossroads Arena reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Done by the direction of the Crossroads Arena Board on July 22, 2015. Tammy Genovese General Manager
the afternoon. For more information, contact Tom Sweat at 662-287-5549 or Kirk Wigginton at 662665-1178.
Bridal Engagement Party Belk of Corinth will have a Bridal Engagement Party from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. Gift bags will be given to each registered bride who attends. Belk will also have an instore prize. Brides can register for the grand prizes. There have been two past winners at the Corinth store.
Back-to-school Reflections At 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 1, the Easom Community Center Day Camp will conclude its summer program with a finale entitled “Reflections of Integrity”. This summer’s program which began on Friday, June 1, focused on pre-k through fifth grade. The Finale will be held in the banquet hall of the Community Center and is open to the public. The kids will show through various activities what they learned this summer. Volunteers and teen helpers will be recognized and the children will be provided with backpacks containing school supplies thanks to Crosswinds Ministries. Refreshments will be served following the program. If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact the program director, Paulette Justice at 662603-4712.
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Grandparenting Workshops The Mississippi State University Extension Service will offer a series of three workshops for concerned grandparents called “When Grandparenting Doesn’t Feel Grand.. Free of charge, the workshops will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 4; and Tuesday, Aug. 18 at the MSU Extension Service in Alcorn County. Jaylene Whitehurst, Licensed Professional Counselor, will facilitate the series which will include the topics of legal rights, protective services and maintaining adequate self-care under stressful circumstances. Participants may preregister confidentially by calling 662-286-7756.
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adults and $6 for students. The Crossroads Playhouse is located at 303 South Fulton Drive in Corinth. For tickets and more information, call 662-287-2995.
NARFE Meeting The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Jacinto Chapter 1879,will meet at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6, at Ryan’s Restaurant in Corinth. All active and retired federal employees are invited to attend.
Golf Tournament The Boys and Girls Club of Corinth will hold their 1st Annual Golf Outing – Four Man Scramble on Friday, Aug. 7 at Shiloh Ridge Golf Course. Shotgun will start at 8 a.m. Shiloh Ridge Golf Course is located at 3303 Shiloh Ridge Road in Corinth. To register call 662-2866662.
Benefit The MSU Extension Service in Alcorn County is offering a Quilting Class for Beginners. The classes will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays, August 5, 12, and 26. Mrs. Sharon Beene will be the instructor. The registration fee is $10 and the deadline to sign up is Friday, July 31. Participants will need to bring a sewing machine and supplies. A supply list is available at the Extension office. Space is limited, so register today. Call 662-2867756 with any questions or to reserve your spot.
CT-A Corinth Theatre-Arts will present the popular musical “Into the Woods” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6–Saturday, Aug. 8 and Thursday, Aug. 13–Saturday, Aug. 15. Matinée performances will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 9 and Sunday, Aug. 16. Tickets are $12 for
There will be a benefit for Rebon Junior Settlemires at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8 at the Union Center Gym, featuring food, door prizes, a cake walk, auction and Gospel and Bluegrass Music. The benefit will help pay for Rebon Junior Settlemires’ funeral expenses. Attendees will have an opportunity to purchase chances on a 5X8 tilt trailer for $100. Donations can be made at CB&S Bank on Alcorn Drive under Kelly Bates/ Memorial fund for Rebon Junior Settlemires. For more information contact Kelly Bates at 662-6641838.
Annual Meeting The Friends of the Siege and Battle of Corinth will hold its annual meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 10 at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center. All interested persons are welcome.
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Senior Connectors The Senior Connectors, a group consisting of senior citizens from the Alcorn and surrounding counties, will meet for their monthly luncheon at 11 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 13 at The Dinner Bell. The luncheon is Dutch Treat. Senior Connectors was formed under the auspices of the Community Development Council at The Alliance. The group, in addition to the monthly luncheon, also conducts an annual fall day trip and The Spring Fling each April. Each month the group invites a guest speaker in line with items of concern and/or interest to senior citizens. This month’s guest speaker will be, Nita Parsons from the Veranda-Curlee House. All local seniors are invited to attend and signup for our free monthly newsletter. Come join us on the second Thursday of each month.
Community Fellowship Dinner There will be no Community Fellowship Dinner in August. The Easom Outreach Foundation will resume their Community Fellowship Dinner s in the Banquet Hall of the Easom Foundation from noon until 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 6. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children 9 years old or younger who dine in and $10 for all carry-outs. Items on the September menu include fried chicken, meatloaf, dressing, purple hull peas, corn, chilled cucumber salad, peach cobbler, chess squares, cornbread and beverages. Other scheduled dates are Sunday, Oct. 4, Sunday, Nov. 8 (2nd Sunday), Sunday, Dec. 6 and Sunday, Feb. 7.
KES T-shirts The parents of Kossuth Elementary School 1st-graders are selling t-shirts for kids and adults. The shirts are lime green with black writing. The front will say “KES 1st Grade” and the back will say “I’m all about 1st grade.” The cost is $7 plus tax. There will be an additional charge for larger sizes. The money for the shirts is due upon ordering. Those who would like to purchase a shirt are asked to contact Michelle Brooks or Ashley Burse at 662-603-5766. The deadline to place an order is Friday, Aug. 21.
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From 4 to 6 p.m. every Friday, the Easom Foundation will sell eat-in or carry-out farm-fed catfish dinners for $6 to support its hot meals program. The meal includes coleslaw or salad, French fries or roasted potatoes, a dessert, juice and catfish. Dinners are also available from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday at the same price. Side items on the menu for the day may also be purchased. Stop by the Easom Community Center and pick up a monthly menu or contact Chef Ben Betts at 662-415-4003 or Ernestine Hollins at 662643-8024. The menu can also be faxed each month.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Mustering hope for a “best-case scenario� in the face of countless unknowns, search crews braced for a seventh day and night at sea Thursday in the hunt for two teenagers missing from their capsized boat. Five things to know about air-and-sea search for 14-year-old friends Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos, who went missing last Friday off Florida’s Atlantic coast:
They could be alive The Coast Guard, which is leading the rescue mission, says it wouldn’t continue searching if it didn’t believe the boys could still be alive. Much remains unknown, including whether the teens are wearing life jackets, might have a cooler or some other object to cling to, or have drinking water or food. Chief Petty Officer Ryan Doss said its decision errs on the side of the “best-case scenario� while balancing the limits on human survival.
who reported the boys missing at 4:23 p.m. Friday, triggering the Coast Guard’s search. In a calm voice, Korniloff said the 14-year-old boys hadn’t been heard from since about 11:30 a.m. and said calls to a cellphone went unanswered. “Usually he checks in and he’s told to check in on a regular basis,� the stepfather said. The dispatcher replied, “And you know we had a storm before, too?� Korniloff said the boys went offshore, outside the bounds of their expected trip, though it’s not clear how he knows this. “We had no idea they were going offshore,� he said.
Private efforts Even as the Coast Guard’s intense hunt has covered more than 40,000 square nautical miles, and other agencies have helped, the families of the
Initial report The Jupiter Police Department released the 911 call placed by Perry’s stepfather Nick Norniloff,
Interest from afar More than 140,000 people have joined the “Find Austin & Perry� group on Facebook group and Twitter analytics site Topsy counted nearly 40,000 tweets with the hashtag FindAustinAndPerry in the past week. Followers of the story are among those who pumped more than $230,000 into a GoFundMe account to finance private search efforts.
Acting coach Katelyn Nichols of K. Nichols Studio is a New York actor originally from Hernando. She has been an acting coach for kids/teens over the last several years and when she moved to New York City, continued to teach through FaceTime and Skype. Tucker Brown, a native of Corinth, has been studying and training with Katelyn over the last eight months and recently went to New York City with Bob Westbrook Productions. He was given a callback and a New York agent offered him a contract to sign.
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The Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, called placing the flags on church grounds a “terroristic threat.” “This act by a cowardly and misguided individual or individuals is provocative to say the least. It ought to get the attention not only of black people but of freedom-loving people,” he said. “To place Confederate flags on the campus of Ebenezer Baptist Church after this horrific act in Charleston, in the wake of all this happening in our country, whatever the message was, it was clearly not about heritage, it was about hate.” King preached at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Avenue, once a bustling center of commerce for Atlanta’s African-American businesses and residents. The area is home to the historic church and a new church building where the congregation now meets and where the flags were placed. Nearby is the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and all of those buildings are just a short walk from the home of King’s grandparents, where he lived for the first 12 years of his life. Atlanta police Officer Gary Wade said a maintenance worker discovered the flags at 6 a.m. Thursday and notified the National Park Service, which operates the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, which is adjacent to the church. “Our grounds men were so upset, they took pictures and then they moved them,” said the Rev. Shanan Jones of Ebenezer Baptist. The flags weren’t stuck in the ground but instead laid flat. One was placed near a bell tower under a poster that said: “Black Lives Matter.” The slogan, which has been spray-painted on Confederate monuments across the South this summer, has become part of a movement of civil rights supporters who say police treat blacks unfairly. Warnock said black clergy from around the country were gathered at Ebenezer on Thursday to discuss the role of black churches in social justice issues, including mass incarceration. The placing of the flags only strengthens their resolve, he said.
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Worship Call New Summer Hours Chewalla Baptist will have new starting times for Sunday services during the summer. The Sunday School classes will begin at 9 a.m. with worship starting at 10 a.m. On Sundays, S3 and Bible study will begin at 6 p.m. and worship will begin at 10 a.m. Church Meeting Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church, located south of Burnsville on CR 265, will hold the following meetings: • Today – Supper at 6 p.m. and services at 7 p.m. • Saturday, Aug. 1 – A morning service at 10:30 a.m. followed by lunch and a supper at 6 p.m. followed by a night service at 7 p.m. The guest minister will be the Elder Tim McCool of Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church in Echola, Ala. Special Singing The Kellys of Lawrenceburg,
Tennessee, along with Heaven’s Journey, will be singing at Gospel Tabernacle on Glover Drive at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 1. Josh Hodum is pastor. Annual Usher Day East Fifth Street M.B. Church will hold its Annual Usher Day at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. The guest speaker will be Pastor Blake Scales of Greater Life M.B. Church. Pastor Scales will be accompanied by his choir and church family. The Rev. Richard A. Wade is pastor. The church is located at the corner of Meeks and Fifth Street in Corinth. Homecoming 2015 The Kossuth Worship Center, located at 825 Highway 2 West in Kossuth will hold its 2015 Homecoming from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed by a luncheon on Sunday. Music will be provided by “The Lovelace Family�. For more information contact Bro. Larry Murphy at 662-2875686.
Lecture Series Fraley’s Chapel of Corinth, located at 3701 County Rd., will hold a series of lectures comparing and contrasting Christianity and Islam on Sunday–Wednesday. The series will be presented by Duane K. Estill, a published author and lecturer with a background in the study of world religions and graduate level studies in philosophy and religion. The free lectures will give non-political historic and practical information about the similarities and differences of these two major world religions. Sunday lectures will be given at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. followed by lunch at no cost and another lecture at 1 p.m. Monday night lectures will be at 7 p.m. each night. For more questions, more information or transportation needs, call 662-287-3351. Pastor and Wife’s Love Day The Macedonia M.B. Church will hold a Pastor and Wife’s Love Day at 2:30 p.m. on Sun-
(Suggested daily Bible readings: Sunday – Ecclesiastes 3:1-14; Monday – Matthew 9:27-34; Tuesday – Hebrews 4:1-3; Wednesday – Ezekiel 18:21-32; Thursday – 1 Timothy 2:1-6; Friday – Ephesians 2:11-22; Saturday – Judges 6:7-10.) ize what we have and the opportunities that are lying in front of us and waiting for us to absorb them. We see and hear what God can and will do for us and all He asks is that we believe on Him and accept Him as our Lord and Savior. Once we do this our lives will change and the old sinful nature that we are used to will not be important any more. Every day that my friend works he will notice something that has been discarded by individuals or hauled in by a trash truck that will catch his attention. On many occasions he has found valuables such as jewelry, piggy banks with money, furniture, clothes, and many other items that have worth being discarded by someone who didn’t take the time to realize what they really had. All of us have valuable items that will be left behind when we leave this earth. These valuables will be discarded by someone who is not willing to check out their worth and will
Revival Mt. Pleasant M.B. Church will have revival at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 3–Wednesday, Aug. 5. The speaker for Monday will be Pastor Tim Haddix of Christ Victory. The Rev. James Williams will speak on Tuesday and Pastor Arlanders Colyers of St. Matthew M.B. will wrap up the event. For more information call Neely Eckford at 662-4625744 or 662-415-2828. Annual Revival Oak Grove CME Church, located at 196 CR 514 in Rienzi/ Biggersville, will holdi ts Annual Revival on Sunday, Aug. 9–Tuesday, Aug. 11. Sunday night services will be held at
6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday night services will be held at 7 p.m. The special guest will be the Rev. Kenneth Miller. All churches, choirs and pastors are invited. The Rev. Ida Price is pastor. For more information contact Sis. Kolisha Strickland, Sis. Mary Young or Sis. Doris Patterson. Special Bible Discourse Jehovah’s Witnesses will soon hold their annual conventions at the Landers Center, located at 4560 Ventura Dr. in Southaven. The theme of this year’s program is “Imitate Jesus!� “Jesus, the founder of Christianity, is widely considered as one of the most influential and significant men who ever lived. As Christians, a core belief of Jehovah’s Witnesses is that Jesus lived his life as a model for us to follow,� said Convention Spokesman James Rambo. “The “Imitate Jesus!� conventions will examine Jesus’ life, as outlined in the Bible, and emphasize how
all – regardless of their background, lifestyle or religion can benefit in practical ways from his example and teachings.� A highlight of the event will be the keynote address, titled “Concealed in Him are All the Treasures of Wisdom.� The first of two three-day events will begin Friday, Aug. 7, through Sunday, Aug. 9. The second three-day event will begin Friday, Aug. 21, through Sunday, Aug. 23. The program time for both events will begin at 9:20 a.m. all three days. The program will conclude at about 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 4 p.m. on Sunday. There is no admission fee. Conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses are supported entirely by voluntary donations. Back-to-school Service There will be a special back-toschool service at 7:15 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, at Eastview Pentecostal Church, located at 7810 Hwy 45 South in Ramer, Tenn.
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Throwing away valuables It is amazing what people throw away and don’t realize what Gary they have Andrews gotten rid of. I have Devotionals a friend t h a t works for a landfill as a bulldozer operator. His sole responsibility is to push trash into areas that will be covered by dirt so the land can eventually be used again. This concept of landfill is a good idea because we have so much trash on this earth that we need to put it somewhere. Why not bury it in the earth and cover it up. One would have to guess what the earth will look like and have inside its confines a 1000 years from now. As my friend works each day he helps individuals that bring their own trash or personal belongings to this landfill. Many will back their cars or trucks up to certain areas and dump what they do not want any more. It is strictly amazing at the products and items brought to this landfill. The old saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure� is a very true statement. I really have to believe that some people have no idea of what they are throwing away. The same holds true for our personal lives also. So many of us walk this earth and don’t real-
day. The special guest for the day will be the Rev. Kelvin Cummings of the Central Grove M.B. Church. He will be accompanied by his choir and church family. The day has been set aside to show Pastor and Lady Morris how much they are loved.
Since many of us grandparents have spent some memorable days with grandchildren this summer, I think it appropriate to share some grandparent quotes worthy of review. I got to spend time with only two of my grandparents because two of them passed away before I was born, but the two living were very special to me. Many of the following quotes, sayings, and proverbs are by unknown authors and were compiled in a group on the Internet. Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. (or maybe white hair) Grandmothers are just antique little girls – and grandfathers are antique little boys. Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world. Rudy Giuliani says, “What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life – and most importantly, cookies.� There’s no place like home – except Grandma’s. If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers. Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother; the next, you are all-wise and prehistoric. Grandma always made you feel she had been
throw them away. All of us need to realize that we are valuable to God and all He asks us to do is accept Him through faith and our reward will be eternity with Him. It is a shame that so many of us do not realize what God offers us through Jesus and we throw away the opportunity of eternal salvation. Once we accept Jesus into our hearts, then nothing else on earth has the value we put on it. Missing out on eternity is missing out on God’s plan for us. We have become so entwined into what the world is telling us that many are not willing to let go of the old sinful nature and accept God’s amazing grace. Many people are discarding the most precious possession you can have by throwing it away just as people have thrown out good objects into a landfill. We need to remember what the Psalmist tells us in Psalm 78:32, “In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of all his wonders, they did not believe.� Prayer: Father God thank you for each day of life that you allow me to have. I pray that my life will a valuable asset to someone else because of your amazing grace and they will come to know you personally. Amen. (Daily Corinthian columnist and Corinth native Gary Andrews is retired after 35 years in the newspaper and magazine business. He may be contacted at gary@ gadevotionals.com.)
waiting to see just you all day and now the day was comLora Ann plete. It is as Huff g r a n d mothers Back Porch that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart. Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things. Gene Perret said, “My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.� Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you may start to age quickly. Grandmas don’t just say “that’s nice� – they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money’s worth out of grandmas. Sam Levenson says, “The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap. I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It’s the liniment
working. Alex Haley said, “Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.� No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet. One lady says, “My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, “You mean you can do all that, but you can’t play my Game Boy?� If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. The last one reminds me of something my older daughter said one day not long after her Grandmother Huff had passed away. She was dismayed and going through a trying time with decisions to make. With tears in her eyes, she looked at me and said, “I just wish Grandma Huff was here and we could go to the north end and everything would be okay.� Cherish those days with the grandkids, pass down your stories, and love away their hurts and fears. They need us and we need them to make life complete. (Lora Ann Huff is a Wenasoga resident and special columnist for the Daily Corinthian. Her column appears Friday. She may be reached at 1774 CR 700, Corinth, MS 38834.)
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Antiques & More BIG MOVING SALE, Thur.Fri. 9am til, Anything 7 till 4 Fri. & 7 till 12 Sat. 0107 SPECIAL NOTICE f r o m h o u s e h o l d & Hwy 72 then left 604 right 617 clothes, 1205 West BUTLER, DOUG: Founda- C l o v e r L a n e FRI., SAT. & Mon. 8 until, tion, floor leveling, 899 N. Parkway St., bricks cracking, rotten FRI & SAT 6-4, 210 ForMOVING SALE!!! w o o d , b a s e m e n t s , rest School Rd., Freezer, shower floor. Over 35 Furn. Tools, Saws, TV's, Furn., TV's, Entertainyrs. exp. FREE ESTIM- Glassware, 55 gal Fish ment Center,Glassware, ATES. 731-239-8945 or tank w/ pumps & light GIGANTIC SALE, Sat. 662-284-6146. 48 CR 229, FRI & SAT 7 until, 11 CR Graceland Acres by 60'S Boomer BAND NOW 410A, INSIDE MOVING FORMING. English Front SALE! CLOTHES, SHOES, Cheryl's Beauty Salon. MANY ITEMS!! Man is seeking all quar- PIANO, 14FT FLAT BOTtet positions for High TOM BOAT, TOYS, MISC HUGE ESTATE TAG SALE Energy Dance 60's POP 1323 Jackson St. FRI & SAT Rock Band. No other Kossuth off 604 CR662. Corinth, MS. s t y l e s o f m u s i c i n - DON'T MISS SOME GOOD Friday July 31, 2-6 PM, cluded Call 219-201-4350 BUYS. 4 wheeler, scoot- Sat., Aug 1, 10AM-6PM er, pics & good clothes facebook.com/ milltownenterprises or GARAGE /ESTATE SALES FRI & SAT, 56 CR 619, see estatesales.net Kossuth, Name Brand Clothes, Dishes, House- INSIDE SALE, Wed-Fri 7hold Items, A Little Bit 5, Sat. 7-12, clothes kids, ladies, men, uniof Everything. forms, Glassware, lots FRI & SAT, 7-3, of misc items. 40 CR 405 1307 E Clover Lane Estate Sale, EVERYTHING LOTS OF TEEN GIRLS CLOTHES. 15 LAKE MUST GO! HEIGHTS DR. FRI. & SAT. House For Sale.
Coroner Jay Jones Ron Strom
District Attorney Arch Bullard John Weddle
Justice Court Post 1 Luke Doehner Chris Grisham George Haynie Steve Little
Justice Court Post 2 Lashunder Blanchard Randle Castile Aneysa “Neicy” Matthews Jimmy McGee
Sheriff
Billy Clyde Burns Ben Caldwell Ned Cregeen David Derrick Mike LaRue David Nunley Keith Settlemires Roger Voyles
State Representative District 1 Lester “Bubba” Carpenter Lisa Benderman-Wigginton
State Representative District 2 Nick Bain Billy Miller
State Senate District 4 Rita Potts-Parks Eric Powell
Superintendent of Education Larry B. Mitchell Gina Rogers Smith (Inc)
Supervisor District 1 Jeremy “Jerry” Fields Lowell Hinton Jerry Miller
Supervisor District 2 Rufus “Jaybird” Duncan, JR. Scotty Little Brodie McEwen Dal Nelms (Inc) Jon Newcomb J.C. Parker James Voyles
SAT. 7 to Noon, 327 S, Tate St., Household Items, Furn., Industrial Items, Compressor. SAT. 7 until, Brush Creek Church area 7 mi. W. of Kossuth on CR 600. Furn., A Little of Everything. SAT. 7-2, 706 Hwy 45, Clothes all sizes, Cabinets with sinks, Countertops, Generators and Misc.. SAT. 7-3, 1803 Alcorn Dr. N. of Hospital, NameBrand Clothes, all szs, Toys, Furn. School Supplies, Back-Packs SAT., CR 252 off Central School Rd., 7th House on Right. 4 Fam., Nice Clothes, Tools, Baby Items, Lots of Misc. THUR., & FRI. 8 to 5, 3161 Kendrick Rd., Misc. Items.
is looking for
Certified CNA’s for all shifts &
Belinda Michelle Huggins Mathis is proud to announce the birth of her son,
Braxton Millard Rorie
born June 23, 2015 5lbs 2oz at Germantown Methodist Hospital. He is welcomed by his big brother Will Huggins and many other friends and family. GRISHAM INSURANCE
662-286-9835 662-415-2363
CHRIS GRISHAM Finall Expense Fi Expense Life Insurance Long Term Care Medicare Supplements Part D Prescription Plan Are you paying too much for your Medicare Supplement? “ I will always try to help you” Harper Square Mall. Corinth, MS 38834
Buddy Ayers Rock & Sand • • • • •
• • • • •
We Haul:
Lime Rock Iuka Gravel Masonry Sand Top Soil Rip-Rap
We also do: Dozer Back-Hoe Track-hoe Demolition Dig Ponds and Lakes
662-286-9158 or 662-287-2296
& Business
Bill Phillips Sand & Gravel Structure demolition & Removal Crushed Lime Stone (any size) Iuka Road Gravel Washed gravel Pea gravel Fill sand Masonry sand Black Magic mulch Natural brown mulch Top soil “Let us help with your project” “Large or Small” Bill Jr., 284-6061 G.E. 284-9209
We Clean Roofs!
ELITE
Pressure Washing
Professional Pressure Washing Residential & Commercial High-grade mold inhibitor chemicals & Soft wash system used to clean roofs Churches • Warehouses Houses • Roofs • Driveways Fences • & More WE DO IT ALL! References Available Licensed & Insured. No Job too large or too small.
Chad Cornelius - Owner
662-665-1849 FREE ESTIMATE
DANNY
Pressure Washing
662-396-1175 TIM
662-284- 6542 COMBINED 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE LICENSED & BONDED
Supervisor District 4
Mike Coleman Keith “Dude” Conaway (Rep.) Steve Glidewell Danny “Shorty” Mincey Reed Mitchell Gary Ross
Supervisor District 5 Jimmy Tate Waldon
Tax Collector Jeff Rencher Larry Ross
FERROUS METAL TRANSFER IN IUKA, MS IS HIRING FLATBED OTR TRUCK DRIVERS Clean background, 25 years old and min. of 6 months experience flatbed a plus but not required. 401K, Vacation, Insurance. Bonus's, Home every weekend. Apply in person at: 38 CR 370 Iuka, MS or call 662-424-0115 for more info. Gross pay between, $775$1200 per week.
Complete Package $295.00
Loans $20-$20,000
1. Clean off Entire Roof 2. Thorough Inspection (roof and fascias) 3. Replace any missing shingles 4. Seal around pipes, chimneys, and sky lights 5. Locate and Stop Leaks 6. Clean out gutters We can also install H.D. leafguards. JIMCO is your full service roofing company with 38 years experience and 1 Million in liability insurance.
40 Years
662-665-1133
PLUMBING & ELECTRIC
Crowell Services, LLC.
Jason Roach’s
Tree Experts
Plumbing & Electric
• Home Repair & Remodeling • Backhoe
• Lot Clearing • Tree Removal • Tree Trimming • Cleanup
662-396-1023
Licensed and Insured
JASON ROACH
Free Estimates
OWNER
Cacey Crowell
1159 B CR400 CORINTH MS 38834
256-627-8144
45
AUTO REPAIR & USED TIRES
HWY 45 @ BIGGERSVILLE 662-415-6375
Help Wanted-Mechanic
45 WHOL WHOLESALE LESALE CARS
LOCATED HWY 45 @ BIGGERSVILLE
662-415-6375
Apply in Person
Licensed & Fully Insured
‘07 CHEVY MALIBU 193K MILES
$2150
‘07 CHEVY IMPALA
FREE ESTIMATES 662-603-7751 Rhonda & Bubba Stevens Owners
approx 130K MILES
$3995
FREE DIAGNOSTIC SCAN BRAKES AIR CONDITIONING USED TIRES CHANGE & BALANCE
Supervisor District 3 Tim Mitchell (Inc) Shane Serio
0244 TRUCKING
ROOF TUNE-UP
1299 Hwy 2 West (Marshtown)
STEVENS LAWN MOWING & MAINTENANCE, LLC
TRACY
Corinth, MS and surrounding areas. 662-594-5133
Please apply in person. Apply At: 3701 Joanne Dr. • Corinth BRIGGS, INC Mon.This – Fri 8Page – 4:30 For504 S. CASS STREET Ad On $165 Mo.• CORINTH, – MS 38834 662-286-3312 E.O.E.
ROACH PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL OF CORINTH 662-603-5465
Experienced Electricians needed
Class A CDL required with clean driving record. Home nights and weekends. Insurance available. Benefits.
Full-time Environmental Services
– Run Your
0232 GENERAL HELP
LOCAL FOOD DISTRIBUTOR NEEDS DELIVERY DRIVERS
MS CARE CENTER
Constable Post 2 James Bryant Daniel Cooper Paul Copeland Wayne Duncan Jason Willis
SAT 8-4, 168 CR 171, Furn. Clothes, Antique Bathtub. Misc.
EMPLOYMENT
The
Hat
Lady
Mary Coats
Is still here!!! Thank you for 15 years and counting!!! Still here to serve you with your vehicle needs, new, certified and pre-owned. Come by, text or call today!!! Long Lewis Ford Lincoln of Corinth (662)664-0229 Cell / (662)287-3184 Office mcoatsllf@yahoo.com
‘09 FORD FUSION
approx 130K MILES
$3995
Home Maintenance Services • • • • •
Decking Flooring Tile Plumbing Electrical and more!
Call 662-212-3287 Free Estimates
Daily Corinthian • Friday, July 31, 2015 • 5B
0533 FURNITURE
PETS FARM
0480 FARMS FOR SALE 300 ACRES forty miles West on Hwy 72. Call 662-216-6444
MERCHANDISE LAWN & GARDEN
0521 EQUIPMENT
YARD MACHINE RIDING MOWER. 42" cut. 17 HP, $375.00 662-664-2113
BASSETT FLORAL print couch with claw foot 1 YR Old Rider Mower, legs $125. 731-239-9898 No Motor, Paid $1000.00 To Sell For Parts $100.00 662-260-6722 0536 MISC. TICKETS
30" WHIRLPOOL Ceramic Cook Top, Excellent Condition $175.00 662-286-0725 or 662-664-3530
CLASSIFIEDS be the KEY to listing your home!
662-287-6111
0536 MISC. TICKETS
0536 MISC. TICKETS
0536 MISC. TICKETS
MISC. ITEMS FOR 0563 SALE
ANTIQUE PIANO ANTIQUE GATELEG Table METAL GLASS Top Table w/bench $150.00$50.00 415-1282 with 4 chairs $150.00 662-427-8425 415-1282 MEN REEBOK Shoes Size UTILITY BUILDING, 8x12 10 $20.00 662-212-2080 Used. To be moved. Loc- DITTOS FOR KIDDOS, LLC DAVIS 32 Cal Semi-Auto 120W. 6,000 BTU Air PRIDE SCHOATER JAZZY ated in Corinth area. Pistol $200. Children’s Conditioner $125.00 SELECT 6 FOUR WHEEL $100.00 662-594-5775 Call 662-720-6855 Consignment Sale 662-212-2080 VERY LITTLE USED. 286August 1-8 VICTORIAN OVAL Marble 2661 $500.00 Top Coffee Table $175. North AL Fairgrounds DUKE MANUFACTURING Woodward Ave, 415-1282 JIMENEZ ARMS Co., Restaurant ConvecROYAL CRAFT Tull Size Muscle Shoals, AL 2 SLIDING Top Drawer 2 2 S e m i A u t o P i s t o l Mattress Box Springs, WHITE KENMORE STOVE, tion Oven. Natural Gas, Everything for Kids Restaurant Beer Cooler, $140. Call 662-720-6855 Head Board $100. 415Not Self Cleaning. www.dittosfor 58T x 38D x 38.25W Edesa Brand 110V, Keep kiddos.net 1282 $100.00 415-1282 $500. OBO 665-1133 Ice Cold Beer, 33.5T x 26.5D x50.5W, 250.00 OBO 665-1133 PROPERTY/HOMES FOR SALE/RENT 30" STAINLESS Vent Hood $25.00 662-2860725 or 662-664-3530
Let the
0536 MISC. TICKETS
4 GOODYEAR Wrangler Good Used Tires 265/70R/17's All For $150.00 Call 662-287-4370 4 X 8 TILT TRAILER, $325.00 415-1281
AIR CONDITIONER Good Condition $60.00 287-7424
Liquidation Sale
FOR SALE BY OWNER
3 bed, 2 bath, $750 3 Bed, 2 Bath - $675 3 Bed, 2 Bath - $650 12 Month Lease, Deposit required
52 CR 713
(2 miles from the hospital) Beautiful 4 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath Custom Built home. Hardwood, Vaulted ceilings, Designer Ceramic tile showers. Lots of high end details in this home. Sitting on 2 acres with 2 additional acres available.
$228,500
Call Ronnie: 662-287-8111
662-279-7453
RECONDITIONED APPLIANCES Refrigerators, Stoves, Washers & Dryers. Excellent Cond. ! 731-6959050 or 731-225-9050 MOSSBURG 22 SemiAuto Rifle. $110. Call 662-720-6855
REAL ESTATE FOR RENT
BURNSVILLE 40 ACRES OF WOODED LAND
HOME FOR SALE
Farmington/ Central
Beautiful, 2 story 2300+ sq ft. 3 BR, 2 baths, Bonus room, including fridge/freezer combo, gas oven/ stove, dish washer and full size washer and dryer. Cherry hardwood floors throughout, new laminate flooring in kitchen and bathrooms, new windows on upper story. Central heating and air also has gas heaters throughout home. Lg. fenced-in back yard and lg. front yard on corner lot. Gift card from Walmart upon successful closing!!! 131 N 8th St., Selmer, TN 38375 $65,000 Contact: Ann McLain (731) 632-1246
$80,000 CALL 662-808-9313 OR 415-5071
FOR SALE BY OWNER SOUTHERN REAL ESTATE
Everything must go! See great deals on office furniture, computers, camera equipment, video and audio equipment, TV's, printers, fax machines and so much more.
Property Directory
HATCO THERMO Finisher Model TF-2045 220V, Table Top Model. 14"T x 26"D x 16.5W Cooks Pizza, Toast Sandwiches Etc. Very Quick 200.00 OBO 665-1133
Patti's Property Rentals
MISC. ITEMS FOR 0563 SALE
3901 Worsham Drive
Desirable Farmington Area 25 CR 217
Spacious, well-maintained 3600 square foot trilevel home that offers country style living 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths in the city. 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 Private Office, baths, kitchen, den, sun room, The sale will be Saturday August 1st 9am to 5:00pm. Large Open living room and dining room. and Sunday August 2nd 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Large elevated deck in back. Concept Living New energy efficient windows. It’s first come, first serve at 119 E Front St, in Fenced Yard Roof only one year old. downtown Iuka. Don’t miss out on this once in a Flat Lot. All major appliances included. lifetime opportunity to get great deals on everything Only $109,000. Large lot with lots of you need for your home or office. Advertise your CAR, TRUCK, SUV, BOAT, TRACTOR, MOTORCYCLE, RV & ATV here for beautiful flowers. 662-415-2285 CASHSOLD! ONLY please. Call 662-279-3679 for $39.95 UNTIL Ad should include photo, Call description and price. PLEASE NO for an appointment. Private Viewing. Call Jeff McDaniel at 662-422-1809 for more DEALERS & NON-TRANSFERABLE! NO REFUNDS. Price just reduced by $10,000!
s e l a S GUARANTEEDAuto information! Cash and Carry.
Single item only. Payment in advance. Call 287-6147 to place your ad.
816 RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
VEHICLES FOR SALE
‘07 Dolphin LX RV, 37’
1999 ENDEAVOUR
REDUCED REDUCED Sportsman Camper Queen Bed, Couch sleeps 2, lots of cabinets, pulled 6 times, non-smoker, clean as new on the inside.
2011 Coachman 28’ Catalina Camper Sleeps 6 (Memory Foam Mattresses), 32” Flatscreen TV w/DVD, Bathtub/Shower, Range/Stove/ Microwave, & More.
William Whitaker 662-660-4298 for More Info
$9,500.00 $8500.00 287-3461 or 396-1678
2006 WILDERNESS CAMPER
2011 AR-ONE Star Craft, 14ft. Fridge/AC, Stove, Microwave, Full bath, immaculate condition. Refinance or payoff (prox. $5300) @ Trustmark, payments $198. Excellent starter for small family. 284-0138
29 FT.
36ft, 2 Air conditioners, Generator, 30K miles
$27,000 $25,000 808-0653
SOLD
5TH WHEEL LARGE SLIDE OUT FULLY EQUIPPED NON-SMOKING OWNER IUKA
gas burner, workhorse eng., 2 slideouts, full body paint, walk-in shower, SS sinks & s/s refrig w/im, Onar Marq gold 7000 gen., 3-ton cntrl. unit, back-up camera, auto. leveling, 2-flat screen TVs, Allison 6-spd. A.T., 10 cd stereo w/s.s, 2-leather capt. seats & 1 lthr recliner, auto. awning, qn bed, table & couch (fold into bed), micro/conv oven, less than 5k mi.
ED C U D RE $65,000 662-415-0590
CALL 662-423-1727
2005 AIRSTREAM LAND YACHT
30 ft., with slide out & built-in TV antenna, 2 TV’s, 7400 miles.
$75,000. 662-287-7734
Excaliber made by Georgi Boy 1985 30’ long motor home, new tires, Price negotiable.
662-660-3433
470 TRACTORS/FARM EQUIP.
1990 Allegro Motor Home
Excellent Condition Brand New Refrigerator New Tires & Hot Water Heater. Sleeps Six 7,900 ACTUAL MILES $12,500. OBO Must See!! Call 662-665-1420
30' MOTOR HOME 1988 FORD 2003 CHEROKEE 285 SLEEPS 8 EXCELLENT CONDITION EVERYTHING WORKS 5TH WHEEL W/GOOSE NECK ADAPTER CENTRAL HEAT & AIR ALL NEW TIRES & NEW ELECTRIC JACK ON TRAILER
$8995 Call Richard 662-664-4927
SLEEPS 6 51,000 MILES $4300 662-415-5247
WINNEBAGO JOURNEY CLASS A , RV 2000 MODEL 34.9 FT. LONG 50 AMP HOOKUP CUMMINS DIESEL FREIGHTLINER CHASSIS LARGE SLIDE OUT ONAN QUIET GENERATOR VERY WELL KEPT. ,500. 662-728-2628
CAMPER & TRUCK 2007 F250 Super Duty Power Stroke Diesel Truck
SOLD
2006 Forest River 30 Ft. Camper.
Both for $10,000 Call 662-462-3754
WINNEBAGO MOTOR HOME 1989 40' Queen Size Bed 1 Bath Sleeps 6-7 people comfortably
$8500 662-808-9313
1997 New Holland 3930 Tractor 1400 Hours
$8500.00 731-926-0006
KUBOTA B7100 HST 4 W/D WITH LOADER 4 FT. TILLER BOX BLADE
OLD S $5250/OBO
NEED TO SELL CALL 662-287-7403 OR 415-4561 COMMERCIAL
1993 John Deere 5300 Tractor
w/ John Deere loader. 2900 Hours
$10,500
731-926-0006
Tractor For Sale!
TRACTOR FOR SALE JOHN DEERE 40-20 NEW PUMPS, GOOD TIRES RETIRED FROM FARMING $14,000 662-419-1587
2009 TT45A New Holland Tractor 335 Hours 8 x 2 Speed, non-Synchro Mesh Transmission. Roll over protective structure, hydrolic power lift. Like New Condition, owner deceased, Kossuth Area. $12,500- 662-424-3701
John Deere 16-30 New injectors & Fuel Pump Good Tires
1979 GMC DUMP TRUCK GRAIN BED $
4,000
GOOD CONDITION
$6500.00 731-645-8339 OR 662-419-1587 731-453-5239
W & W HORSE OR CATTLE TRAILER ALL ALUMINUM LIKE NEW $7000.
1956 FORD 600
5 SPEED POWER STEERING REMOTE HYDRAULICS GOOD TIRES GOOD CONDITION
$4,200 662-287-4514
Hyster Forklift Narrow Aisle 24 Volt Battery 3650.00 287-1464
804 BOATS
HAULER
53' STEP DECK TRAILER CUSTOM BUILT TO HAUL 3 CREW CAB 1 TON TRUCKS.
00
BUILT-IN RAMPS & 3' PULL OUTS @ FRONT & REAR.
Clark Forklift $ 8,000 lbs, outside tires Good Condition $15,000
CALL FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
662-287-1464
662-808-9313 OR 662-415-5071
1989 FOXCRAFT
Bass Tracker Boat
18’ long, 120 HP Johnson mtr., trailer & mtr., new paint, new transel, 2 live wells, hot foot control.
$6500.
662-596-5053
17 foot with console, foot control trolling motor, 2 new batteries, depth finder, live well, life jackets, no leaks, carpet in good shape, 40 hp Johnson, good boat.
ALUMINUM BOAT FOR SALE 16FT./5FT. 115 HP. EVINRUDE. NEW TROLLING MOTOR TRAILER NEWLY REWIRED ALL TIRES NEW NEW WINCH
Big Boy Forklift
Toyota Forklift
BOOMS, CHAINS & LOTS OF ACCESSORIES
Great for a small warehouse
5,000 lbs Good Condition
$10,000/OBO
662-287-1464
662-287-1464
CALL 662-603-1547
ASKING $7500.00 Or Make Me An Offer CALL 662-427-9591 Call (662)427-9591 or Cell phone (662)212-4946 Built by Scully’s Aluminum Boats of Louisiana.
2012 Lowe Pontoon 90 H.P. Mercury w/ Trailer Still under warranty. Includes HUGE tube $19,300 662-427-9063
14 Ft. Aluminum Boat & Trailer, 25 HP Johnson Motor. New Battery $2400. REDUCED Call for More Info: 662-286-8455
$
1250
15 FT Grumman Flat 1992 SPECTRUM Bottom Boat PONTOON 24 FT. 2003 -D 90HP 25 HP Motor OLMOTOR, MERCURY S GOOD TRAILER $2700.00 NEW TIRES Ask for Brad: $5500/OBO $ 2800.00 284-4826 662-286-1717 662-415-8425
Loweline Boat
2000 MERCURY Optimax, 225 H.P. Imagine owning a likenew, water tested, never launched, powerhouse outboard motor with a High Five stainless prop,
for only $7995.
Call John Bond of Paul Seaton Boat Sales in Counce, TN for details.
731-689-4050 or 901-605-6571
Starcraft Semi V Boat
15' Long, 5.5' Wide 50 hp Mercury outboard motor Motor guide trolling 30 pound thrust 3 Seats + 2 Bench Seats, Canopy
SOLD
$2000
Call 662-415-5842 or 415-5375
14’ flat bottom boat. Includes trailer, motor and all. Call
662-415-9461 or
662-554-5503
6B • Friday, July 31, 2015 • Daily Corinthian
Smith Discount Home Center
MOBILE HOMES 0675 FOR RENT
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF
0955 LEGALS SALE
cord in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk on June 26, 2015, as Instrument No. 201502504; and WHEREAS, on August 5, 2011, Tabitha M. Andrews executed a certain Deed of 0955 toLEGALS Trust Farmers and Merchants Bank as shown in Instrument No. 2011 03252, recorded on August 9, 2011, in the Chancery Clerk's Office, Alcorn County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, John D. Haynes was appointed Trustee in said Deed of Trust which authorized the appointment and substitution of another Trustee in place of the Trustee named in said Deed of Trust or subsequently substituted therein, and Farmers and Merchants Bank appointed and substituted GREG E. BEARD as Trustee therein, by instrument dated June 19, 2015, and duly filed for record in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk on June 26, 2015, in Instrument No. 201502504; and WHEREAS, on May 15, 2014, Tabitha M. Andrews executed a certain Deed of Trust to Farmers and Merchants Bank as shown in Instrument No. 2014 02243, recorded on June 2, 2014, in the Chancery Clerk's Office, Alcorn County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, John D. Haynes was appointed Trustee in said Deed of Trust which authorized the appointment and substitution of another Trustee in place of the Trustee named in said Deed of Trust or subsequently substituted therein, and Farmers and Merchants Bank appointed and substituted GREG E. BEARD as Trustee therein, by instrument dated June 19, 2015, and duly filed for record in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk on June 26, 2015, in Instrument No. 201502504; and
WHEREAS, on November 27, 2009, Tabitha M. Andrews executed a certain Deed of Trust to Farmers and Merchants Bank as shown in TRANSPORTATION Instrument No. 200906666, recorded on December 11, 2009, in the Chancery Clerk's Office, Al0876 BICYCLES corn County, Mississippi; and ELLIPTICAL MACHINE and WHEREAS, John D. a Stationary Bike, Both Haynes was appointed Trustfor $125.oo ee in said Deed of Trust 662-415-1697 which authorized the appointment and substitution of another Trustee in place of the FINANCIAL Trustee named in said Deed of Trust or subsequently sub2 X 4 X 92 5/8” Stud ..... each stituted therein, and Farmers LEGALS and Merchants Bank appointed and substituted GREG E. Cross Ties. ................................. each BEARD as Trustee therein, by instrument dated June 19, 0955 LEGALS 2015, and duly filed for re5/8” T-1-11 Siding........... cord in the office of the SUBSTITUTED aforesaid Chancery Clerk on TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF June 26, 2015, as Instrument SALE Corrugated Metal ............. li. ft. No. 201502504; and WHEREAS, on August 5, WHEREAS, on November 27, 2009, Tabitha M. An- 2011, Tabitha M. Andrews 4 X 8 Masonite ........ Starting at each drews executed a certain executed a certain Deed of Deed of Trust to Farmers and Trust to Farmers and MerMerchants Bank as shown in chants Bank as shown in InNew Shipment Porcelain Tile. Starting at sq. ft. Instrument N o . strument No. 2011 200906666, recorded on 03252, recorded on AuDecember 11, 2009, in the gust 9, 2011, in the Chancery Vinyl Floor Remnants .. sq. yd. Chancery Clerk's Office, Al- C l e r k ' s O f f i c e , A l c o r n corn County, Mississippi; and County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, John D. WHEREAS, John D. Laminate Floor From sq. ft. Haynes was appointed Trust- Haynes was appointed Trustee in said Deed of Trust ee in said Deed of Trust which authorized the appoint- which authorized the appointment and substitution of an- ment and substitution of another Trustee in place of the other Trustee in place of the New Load of Trustee named in said Deed Trustee named in said Deed of Trust or subsequently sub- of Trust or subsequently subArea Rugs .................Starting at stituted therein, and Farmers stituted therein, and Farmers and Merchants Bank appoin- and Merchants Bank appoin3/4” Plywood each ..................... ted and substituted GREG E. ted and substituted GREG E. BEARD as Trustee therein, by BEARD as Trustee therein, by instrument dated June 19, instrument dated June 19, 1/2” Plywood each..................... 2015, and duly filed for re- 2015, and duly filed for record in the office of the cord in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk on aforesaid Chancery Clerk on 25 Year 3 Tab Shingle . JuneSize 26, 2015, in Instrument June 26, 2015, as Instrument Small & Mid Car No. 201502504; and No. 201502504; and 35 Year Architectural 7 & 15 Passenger Vans WHEREAS, on May 15, WHEREAS, default having WHEREAS, on August 5, 2011, Tabitha M. Andrews 2014, Tabitha M. Andrews been made in the terms and Rental executed a certain Deed Department of executed a certain Deed of conditions of said Deed of Shingle ........................................... Trust to Farmers and Mer- Trust, and the entire inTrust to Farmers and Mer-To 8:00AM 5:00PM chants Bank as shown in In- chants Bank as shown in In- debtedness secured thereby r u m e n t N o . 2 0 1 4 having been declared to be ument N o . 2 0 1to 1 s tAdventure Croft Windows ...................................................... s t rYour Keys 03252, recorded on Au- 02243, recorded on June 2, due and payable pursuant to gust 9, 2011, in the Chancery 2014, in the Chancery Clerk's the terms of said Deed of 38834 Office, AlcornMS County, Missis- Trust and Farmers and MerC l e916 r k ' sHWY O f f i 45 c e , SOUTH A l c o r n | CORINTH, Tubs & Showers.. starting at chants Bank, the holder of the and662-287-7373 County, Mississippi; and sippi; PHONE 662-287-8773 | FAX WHEREAS, John D. note and Deed of Trust, havWHEREAS, John D. 2 x 4 x 16 Utility ................................. Haynes was appointed Trust- Haynes was appointed Trust- ing requested the underee in said Deed of Trust ee in said Deed of Trust signed Substituted Trustee so which authorized the appoint- which authorized the appoint- to do, I will, on the 5th day ment and substitution of an- ment and substitution of an- of August, 2015, offer for other Trustee in place of the other Trustee in place of the sale at public outcry and sell Trustee named in said Deed Trustee named in said Deed during legal hours, being Advertise your CAR, TRUCK, SUV, BOAT,ofTRACTOR, MOTORCYCLE, & ATV here for the hours of 11:00 or subsequently sub- between Trust or subsequently sub- of Trust RV stituted therein, and Farmers stituted therein, and Farmers o'clock a.m and 4:00 o'clock $39.95 UNTIL SOLD! Ad should includeandphoto, description and price. PLEASE NO Merchants Bank appoin- and Merchants Bank appoin- p.m. at the main door of the ted and substituted GREG E. ted and substituted GREG E. County Courthouse of AlDEALERS & NON-TRANSFERABLE! NO REFUNDS. BEARD as Trustee therein, by BEARD as Trustee therein, by corn County, Corinth, MissisSingle item only. Payment in advance. Call 287-6147 to placedated your ad. 19, sippi, and being more particuJune June 19, instrument instrument dated 2015, and duly filed for re- 2015, and duly filed for re- larly described as follows, to868 wit: SALE of the FOR cord in the office of the cord in the officeVEHICLES AUTOMOBILES aforesaid Chancery Clerk on aforesaid Chancery Clerk on June 26, 2015, in Instrument June 26, 2015, in Instrument Parcel 2 Commencing at the SouthwNo. 201502504; and No. 201502504; and est Corner of Section 2, WHEREAS, on May 15, Township 3 South, Range 6 2014, Tabitha M. Andrews East, Alcorn County, Missisexecuted a certain Deed of 4Cyl, Automatic sippi; thence Easterly, 1320 Trust to Farmers and MerTransmission feet, more Cadillac or less; thence 2004 White 2006 Wrangler X chants Bank as shown in In300 feet, more or s t r u m e n t N o . 2 0 1 4 WHEREAS, default having Northerly, Mint Condition! Straight 6- auto32 MPG Seville SLS 2008 CHEVY MALIBU matic- with 44,100 miles. 02243, recorded on June 2, been made in the terms and less at an iron rod found; Loaded, leather, Trail Certified, but never been off-road. All New North, 119.95 feet to said Deed of thence 2014, in the Chancery Clerk's conditions of BEIGE Mickey Thompson wheels with BF Goodrich Tires sunroof, NewCounty, TiresMissis- Trust, and the entire in- an iron rod set chrome for the Point Electrical System (35’s)- less than 15K miles on them. Black Hard Office, Alcorn DOOR thereby of Beginning; thence West wheels. debtedness4secured sippi; and100K Miles top currently on it & Bikini top comes with it. Tan 938.64 feet to an iron rod set been declared to be WHEREAS, John D. having Leather Interior, Stereo Sound Bar, Custom Jeep 89,000 Miles Never BeeWrecked 78,000 MILES APPROX. Cover, and Custom Bumpers. Serviced regularly. Haynes was appointed Trust- due and payable pursuant to on the eastern right-of-way County Road $5900. 4\” lift with 2\” body lift. Title in Hand- $22,000. ee in said Deed of Trust the terms $7900. of said Deed of line of Alcorn $7500 Cashier’s Check or Cash only, extra North 04 dewhich authorized the appoint- Trust and Farmers and Mer- No. 533; thence Call pictures available. Serious Buyers Only, CALL 662-286-9316 Bank, the holder of the grees 46 minutes 30 seconds ment and substitution of an- chants located in Corinth, MS. 662-603-1290 120.37 feet along said other Trustee in place of the note and Deed of Trust, hav- East, Call Randy: 662-415-5462 Trustee named in said Deed ing requested the under- right-of-way line to an iron of Trust or subsequently sub- signed Substituted Trustee so rod set; thence East, 928.62 stituted therein, and Farmers to do, I will, on the 5th day feet to an iron rod set; and Merchants Bank appoin- of August, 2015, offer for thence South 119.95 feet to ted and substituted GREG E. sale at public outcry and sell the Point of Beginning, con1989 Mercedes Benz BEARD as Trustee therein, by during legal hours, being taining 2.6 acres, more or instrument dated June 19, between the 300hours CE of 11:00 less. ! 2015, and duly filed for re- o'clock a.m and 4:00 o'clock REDUCED at the miles, main door of the cord in the office of the p.m.145K Rear Black New tires, paint,Clerk seats, on County Courthouse of Alaforesaid Chancery bucketCorinth, seats,Missis- I willLike & door convey onlyon such title as corn County, Juneand 26, window 2015, in Instrument new the seals. Engine and like new, sippi, and being more particu- is vested in me as Substituted No. 201502504; 01 JEEP 4.0 Champagne color, inside and out. 3 speed, 4x4, roll-bar, larly described as follows, to- Trustee. New top wench. wit: Excellent Condition. Runs Great, good WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, Great Shape! front & rear bumper 00 Miles, Red day ofmiles July, 2015. this tires, the 1st 114K Parcel 2 Diligently Garage Kept, it has Custom Jeep radio at the SouthwCommencing maintained. been babied. WHEREAS, default having est Corner of Section 2, $ and CD player All maintenance 3 South, Range 6 been made in the terms and Township records available. $5000.00 $9,800 $9,800 conditions of said Deed of East, Alcorn County, MissisCall or Text: thence Easterly, 1320 and the entire in- sippi;662-415-2657 662-643-3565 662-594-5830 Trust, debtedness secured thereby feet, more or less; thence GREG E. BEARD, Substituted having been declared to be Northerly, 300 feet, more or Trustee due and payable pursuant to less at an iron rod found; the terms of said Deed of thence North, 119.95 feet to Trust and Farmers and Mer- an iron rod set for the Point chants Bank, the holder of the of Beginning; thence West PUBLISH: note and Deed of Trust, hav- 938.64 feet to an iron rod set 2005 FORD ing requested the under- on the eastern right-of-way 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31 of Alcorn County Road signed Substituted Trustee so lineEXPEDITION to do, I will, on the 5th day No. 533; thence North 04 de- Greg E. Beard, P.A. of August, 2015, offer for grees 46 minutes 30 seconds Post Office Box 285 1996 MERC sale at public outcry and sell East, 120.37 feet along said Booneville, MS 38829 SABLE 1976 F115 during legal hours, being right-of-way line to an iron 662-720-8340 SILVER between the hours of 11:00 rod set; thence East, 928.62 428 Motor Am/FmtoCd an Playeriron • 4X4 Wheel rod set; 14927 o'clock and 4 4:00 o'clock •feet 139,000 Miles Ext.a.m Cab, DR, • 144,O00 Miles Drive Very Fast p.m. at the main door of the thence South 119.95 feet to Newer radiator, tires, • Third Row Seat • Automatic Loaded, 218k mls, Point of Beginning, con$3,500. County Courthouse of Al- •the Towing Package Transmission suspension & much 2.6 acres, more corn County, Corinth, Missis- •taining New Tires Leather Interior • Cruise Controlor more! sippi, and being more particu- •less. Keyless Entry $ 662-808-9313 larly described as follows, to$995 $7,000 wit: 662-415-5071
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
412 Pinecrest Road 287-2221 • 287-4419
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289 $ 59 9 $ 1895 $ 19 1 $ 1195 69¢ $ 00 1 39¢-$109 $ 00-$ Pad for Laminate Floor 5 1000 $
6995 $ 2195 $ 1650 $ 4695 $
King Rental
of August, 2015, offer for sale at public outcry and sell during legal hours, being between the hours of 11:00 o'clock a.m and 4:00 o'clock p.m. at the main door of the County Courthouse of AlLEGALS 0955County, corn Corinth, Mississippi, and being more particularly described as follows, towit: Parcel 2 Commencing at the Southwest Corner of Section 2, Township 3 South, Range 6 East, Alcorn County, Mississippi; thence Easterly, 1320 feet, more or less; thence Northerly, 300 feet, more or less at an iron rod found; thence North, 119.95 feet to an iron rod set for the Point of Beginning; thence West 938.64 feet to an iron rod set on the eastern right-of-way line of Alcorn County Road No. 533; thence North 04 degrees 46 minutes 30 seconds East, 120.37 feet along said right-of-way line to an iron rod set; thence East, 928.62 feet to an iron rod set; thence South 119.95 feet to the Point of Beginning, containing 2.6 acres, more or less.
I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substituted Trustee. WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 1st day of July, 2015.
GREG E. BEARD, Substituted Trustee
PUBLISH: 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31 Greg E. Beard, P.A. Post Office Box 285 Booneville, MS 38829 662-720-8340 14927
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2002 Saturn
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1973 Jeep Commando
2012 Jeep Wrangler 4WD
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2001 Dodge 1500 4X4
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662-665-5679
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2007 Yamaha 1300 V-Star Bike
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662-396-1232 Leave message if no answer
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662-808-9662 or 662-808-2020
Parcel 2 Commencing at the Southwest Corner of Section 2, Township 3 South, Range 6 East, Alcorn County, Mississippi; thence Easterly, 1320 feet, more or less; thence Northerly, 300 feet, more or less at an iron rod found; thence North, 119.95 feet to an iron rod set for the Point of Beginning; thence West 938.64 feet to an iron rod set on the eastern right-of-way line of Alcorn County Road UTILITY SERVICE TRUCK No. 533; thence North 04 degrees 46 minutes 30 seconds $4000. East, 120.37 feet along said IN GOODline CONDITION right-of-way to an iron thence East,OR928.62 rod set; 731-645-8339 feet to an iron rod set; thence 731-453-5239 South 119.95 feet to the Point of Beginning, containing 2.6 acres, more or less.
1987 FORD 250 DIESEL
2012 Banshee Bighorn
SOLD
662-416-6989
I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substituted Trustee.
2003 Mustang SVT Cobra Tuned 4.6 Engine 5 Speed Lowered 4:10 Gears All Power & Air $7000. Call/Text 662-286-7977
832 Motorcycles/ATV’S
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 1st day of July, 2015.
SOLD
Air Raid air intake, CD changer, power windows. locks, mirrors, cruise control, auto transmission, V-6, Alloy wheels, side steps, PUBLISH: towing pkg, excellent tires, silver w/grey interior. Second owner.
07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31
$7950 Reduced
662-286-0725 or 662-287-8252 Greg E. Beard, P.A. after 6 pm Post Office Box 285 Booneville, MS 38829 662-720-8340
$2500/OBO 662-286-1717
14927
4 X 4 w/ Wench AM/FM w/ CD
$7200.00 OBO
GREG E. BEARD, Substituted Trustee
662-664-0357
PUBLISH:
2006 Kawasaki Vulcan 1600
13,500 Miles, Serviced in November, New Back Tire, Cobra Pipes, Slingshot Windshield
$4295 OBO 662-212-2451
$2500
1991 TOYOTA EXT. CAB 4WD
2010 Chevy Equinox LS
$10,000 $10,500
1987 FORD BRONCO WHEREAS, default having ALL ORIGINAL 1949 Harley been made in the terms and VINTAGE! Davidson conditions of said Deed of RUNS & DRIVES Trust, Panhead and the entire inGOOD debtedness secured thereby
I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substituted Trustee. WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, Side-by-Side this the 1st day of July, 2015.
WHEREAS, on November 27, 2009, Tabitha M. Andrews executed a certain Deed of Trust to Farmers and Merchants Bank as shown in Instrument No. 200906667, recorded on December 11, 2009, in the Chancery Clerk's Office, Alcorn County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, John D. Haynes was appointed Trustee in said Deed of Trust which authorized the appointment and substitution of another Trustee in place of the Trustee named in said Deed of Trust or subsequently substituted therein, and Farmers and Merchants Bank appointed and substituted GREG E. BEARD as Trustee therein, by 1996 dated Toyota instrument June 19, 2015, Avalon and duly filed for reLS cord in the office of the 316,600 miles, aforesaid Chancery Clerk on Runs June 26, 2015,Great! as Instrument No. 201502505; Everythingand is in WHEREAS, on August 5, working condition. 2011, Tabitha M. Andrews executed a certain Deed of Trust to Farmers and Merchants Bank as shown in Ins t r662-212-3883 ument No. 2011 03253, recorded on August 9, 2011, in the Chancery Clerk's Office, Alcorn County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, John D. Haynes was appointed Trustee in said Deed of Trust which authorized the appointment and substitution of another Trustee in place of the Trustee named in said Deed of Trust or subsequently sub1991 TOYOTA stituted therein, and Farmers EXT. CAB and Merchants Bank appointed and substituted GREG E. 222,000 miles BEARD as Trustee therein, by 4 cylinder, 5 speed instrument dated June 19, Paint Job 2015,New and duly filed for reOBOof the cord $4000. in the office 662-223-0428 aforesaid Chancery Clerk on June 662-415-6004 26, 2015, in Instrument No. 201502505; and WHEREAS, on May 15, 2014, Tabitha M. Andrews and Barrett Ward executed a certain Deed of Trust to Farmers and Merchants Bank as shown in Instrument No. 2014 02242, recorded on June 2, 2014, in the Chancery Clerk's Office, Alcorn County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, John D. Haynes was appointed Trustee in said Deed of Trust 130K Miles, which authorized the appointLoaded of anment Fully and substitution other Trustee in place of the GREAT Condition! Trustee named in said Deed of Trust or subsequently substituted therein, and Farmers and 662-415-8343 Merchants Bank appoinor substituted 415-7205 ted and GREG E. BEARD as Trustee therein, by instrument dated June 19, 2015, and duly filed for record in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk on 1990 June 26, 2015,Harley in Instrument No. 201502505; and Davidson
Custom Soft-Tail $9000
2006 Nissan Xterra SE
111,444 Well Maintained Miles. GREG E. BEARD, Substituted 4WD, High flow cat back exhaust. Trustee
- SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
2007 Harley-Davidson STREET GLIDE 23,710 MILES $13,500 662-665-1044
OBOto be having$9000 been declared due and payable pursuant to the terms of said Deed of 662-808-2994 Trust and Farmers and Merchants Bank, the holder of the note and Deed of Trust, having requested the undersigned Substituted Trustee so to do, I will, on the 5th day of August, 2015, offer for sale at public outcry and sell during legal hours, being between the hours of 11:00 o'clock a.m and 4:00 o'clock p.m. at the main door of the County Courthouse of Alcorn County, Corinth, Missis2006 YAMAHA 1700 sippi, and being more particuGREAT CONDITION! larly described as follows, APPROX. 26,000 MILEStowit:
Deed of Trust to Farmers and Merchants Bank as shown in Instrument No. 200906667, recorded on December 11, 2009, in the Chancery Clerk's Office, Alcorn County, Mississippi; and LEGALS John D. 0955 WHEREAS, Haynes was appointed Trustee in said Deed of Trust which authorized the appointment and substitution of another Trustee in place of the Trustee named in said Deed of Trust or subsequently substituted therein, and Farmers and Merchants Bank appointed and substituted GREG E. BEARD as Trustee therein, by instrument dated June 19, 2015, and duly filed for record in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk on June 26, 2015, as Instrument No. 201502505; and WHEREAS, on August 5, 2011, Tabitha M. Andrews executed a certain Deed of Trust to Farmers and Merchants Bank as shown in Instrument No. 2011 03253, recorded on August 9, 2011, in the Chancery Clerk's Office, Alcorn County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, John D. Haynes was appointed Trustee in said Deed of Trust which authorized the appointment and substitution of another Trustee in place of the Trustee named in said Deed of Trust or subsequently substituted therein, and Farmers and Merchants Bank appointed and substituted GREG E. BEARD as Trustee therein, by instrument dated June 19, 2015, and duly filed for record in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk on June 26, 2015, in Instrument No. 201502505; and WHEREAS, on May 15, 2014, Tabitha M. Andrews and Barrett Ward executed a certain Deed of Trust to Farmers and Merchants Bank as shown in Instrument No. 2014 02242, recorded on June 2, 2014, in the Chancery Clerk's Office, Alcorn County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, John D. Haynes was appointed Trustee in said Deed of Trust which authorized the appointment and substitution of another Trustee in place of the Trustee named in said Deed of Trust or subsequently substituted therein, and Farmers and Merchants Bank appointed and substituted GREG E. BEARD as Trustee therein, by instrument dated June 19, 2015, and duly filed for record in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk on June 26, 2015, in Instrument No. 201502505; and
WHEREAS, default having been made in the terms and conditions of said Deed of Trust, and the entire indebtedness secured thereby having been declared to be due and payable pursuant to the terms of said Deed of Trust and Farmers and Merchants Bank, the holder of the note and Deed of Trust, having requested the undersigned Substituted Trustee so to do, I will, on the 5th day of August, 2015, offer for sale at public outcry and sell during legal hours, being between the hours of 11:00 o'clock a.m and 4:00 o'clock p.m. at the main door of the County Courthouse of Alcorn County, Corinth, Mississippi, and being more particularly described as follows, towit:
2008 2012 Nissan Versa
TAKE OVER PAYMENTS!
662-462-8274
A 2.50 acre tract being cut out of the John Bonds etal tract as referenced by deed recorded in Deed Book 244 at Pages 592-594 in the Chancery Clerk's Office of Alcorn County, Mississippi, lying in the Southeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 2 South, Range 7 East, Alcorn County, Mississippi, and being further described as follows:
cord in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk on June 26, 2015, in Instrument No. 201502505; and
0955 LEGALS WHEREAS, default having been made in the terms and conditions of said Deed of Trust, and the entire indebtedness secured thereby having been declared to be due and payable pursuant to the terms of said Deed of Trust and Farmers and Merchants Bank, the holder of the note and Deed of Trust, having requested the undersigned Substituted Trustee so to do, I will, on the 5th day of August, 2015, offer for sale at public outcry and sell during legal hours, being between the hours of 11:00 o'clock a.m and 4:00 o'clock p.m. at the main door of the County Courthouse of Alcorn County, Corinth, Mississippi, and being more particularly described as follows, towit: A 2.50 acre tract being cut out of the John Bonds etal tract as referenced by deed recorded in Deed Book 244 at Pages 592-594 in the Chancery Clerk's Office of Alcorn County, Mississippi, lying in the Southeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 2 South, Range 7 East, Alcorn County, Mississippi, and being further described as follows:
Commence at a steel post f o u n d at t h e N ort h e ast corner of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 2 South, Range 7 East, Alcorn County, Mississippi; Thence run South 471.58 feet to a PK nail found in the centerline of Alcorn County Public Road No. 510; Thence run along the centerline of said Public Road the following: South 87 degrees 44 minutes 15 seconds West 80.66 feet; North 88 degrees 42 minutes 52 seconds West 276.92 feet; North 88 degrees 28 minutes 42 seconds West 258.82 feet; North 88 degrees 27 minutes 02 seconds West 226.88 feet; Thence leaving the centerline of said Public Road run North 20.00 feet to an iron pin set on the North right-of-way line of said Alcorn County Public Road No. 510 for the point of beginning; Thence run along the North right of way line of said Public Road the following: North 88 degrees 27 minutes 11 seconds West 30.00 feet; North 86 degrees 41 minutes 04 seconds West 94.65 feet; North 87 degrees 01 minutes 58 seconds West 113.83 feet; North 87 degrees 36 minutes 29 seconds West 89.28 feet to an iron pin set; Thence leaving the North right of way line of said Public Road run North 324.91 feet to an iron pin set; Thence run East 327.36 feet to an iron pin set; Thence run South 340.81 feet to the point of beginning. Containing 2.50 acres, more or less. 35000 miles, 4 cylinder, auto, ipod ready, cd player, power windows I will convey only such title as and locks, runs and isdrives vestedlike in me as Substituted new, Perfect Trustee. graduation present! $10,650.00 WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 1st day of July, 2015.
2012 Nissan Sentra SR
662-665-1995 864 TRUCKS/VANS/ SUV’S
GREG E. BEARD, Substituted Trustee
PUBLISH:
2006 Express 2500
07/10, 07/17, 07/24,Runs 07/31 6.6 Diesel
and drives great.
Greg E. Beard, P.A. 172,000 miles. Post Office Box 285 A/C Booneville, and MS new38829 tires 662-720-8340
MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS 2004 Well serviced! LOW MILEAGE OWNER Commence at - aONE steel post EXCELLENT COND. f ou n d a t $5000. t h e No rt h e ast 14928 $8500.00 corner662-284-6768 of the Southeast 662-594-1860 Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 2 South, Range 7 East, Alcorn County, Mississippi; Thence run South 471.58 feet to a PK nail found in the centerline of Alcorn County Public Road No. 510; Thence run along the centerline of said Public Road the following: South 87 degrees 44 minutes 15 seconds West 80.66 feet; North 88 degrees Antique 1986 FORD 42 minutes seconds7.3 West F350 XL- 52 Dualley, 276.92 feet; North 88 deDiesel, tires, grees 28new minutes 42Paint, seconds West of 258.82 feet;164,803 North 88 Lots Extras, degrees 27 minutes 02 Miles, Motor runs well, seconds West 226.88 feet; 2nd Owner, Thence leaving $4000.00 the centerline of said662-287-8894 Public Road run North 20.00 feet to an iron pin set on the North right-of-way line of said Alcorn County Public Road No. 510 for the point of beginning; Thence run along the North right of way line of said Public Road the following: North 88 degrees 27 minutes 11 seconds West 30.00 feet; North 86 degrees 41 minutes 04 seconds West 94.65 feet; 2001 Honda North 87 degrees 01 minutes Shadow Spirit 58 seconds West 113.83 feet; North 87 degrees 36 minutes Great bike with only 32,000 miles 29 seconds West 89.28 feet White in color with new tires and a to an iron pin set; Thence Mustang Seat. leaving the North right of way Very Good Condition line of said Public Road run $2000.00 North 324.91 feet to an iron 662-396-1232 pin set; Thence run East 327.36 feet to an iron pin set; leave message if no answer Thence run South 340.81 feet to the point of beginning. Containing 2.50 acres, more or less.
2001 Nissan Xterra FOR SALE Needs a little work. Good Bargain! Call: 662-643-3084
1500 Goldwing Honda
78,000 original miles,new tires.
$4500
662-284-9487
E-Z- Electric Golf Cart
I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substituted New charger Trustee.
and new
SOLD
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, batteries this the 1 st day of July, 2015.
Back seat Rain enclosure windshield GREG E.$2000. BEARD, Substituted Trustee 662-212-4450
$4350 A 2.50 acre tract being cut (NO TRADES) out of the John Bonds etal tract as referenced by deed 662-665-0930 recorded in Deed Book 244 662-284-8251 at Pages 592-594 in the Chancery Clerk's Office of Alcorn County, Mississippi, lying in PUBLISH: the Southeast Quarter of Sec-
SOLD
point of beginning; Thence run along the North right of way line of said Public Road the following: North 88 degrees 27 minutes 11 seconds West 30.00 feet; North 86 degrees 41 minutes 04 0955 LEGALS seconds West 94.65 feet; North 87 degrees 01 minutes 58 seconds West 113.83 feet; North 87 degrees 36 minutes 29 seconds West 89.28 feet to an iron pin set; Thence leaving the North right of way line of said Public Road run North 324.91 feet to an iron pin set; Thence run East 327.36 feet to an iron pin set; Thence run South 340.81 feet to the point of beginning. Containing 2.50 acres, more or less.
I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substituted Trustee.
DED IN THE PETITION.
ginning; thence run South parallel with the centerline of the main tract 153.5 feet; thence run West at a right angle to the last described course, 175 feet to a point on the East right-of-way line of the Illinois LEGALS 0955ISSUED 0955 LEGALS under my hand Central Gulf Railroad Comand seal of said Court, this 13 pany (Southrail); thence along day July, 2015. said right-of-way line, being along the line that lies paralBOBBY MAROLT, lel with and 25 feet normally CHANCERY CLERK distance Easterly from said ALCORN COUNTY, centerline of main tract, MISSISSIPPI North 153.5 feet; thence run C O R I N T H , M I S S I S S I P P I East parallel to the South 38835-0069 right of way line of U. S. HighBY: Karen Duncan, D.C. way 356, 175 feet along the Deputy Clerk Arthur Thomas Gann line, to the true point of beginning, 3tc 7/17, 24, 31 containing .616 acres, more or less. 14944
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 1st day of July, 2015. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI COUNTY OF ALCORN
GREG E. BEARD, Substituted WHEREAS, on July 26, Trustee 2007, Janet L. Thacker, single, executed a deed of trust to L. Bradley Dillard, Trustee for the benefit of Vanderbilt PUBLISH: Mortgage and Finance, Inc., which deed of trust was re07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31 corded on July 26, 2007, in Instrument# 200704478, in the Greg E. Beard, P.A. Office of the Chancery Clerk Post Office Box 285 of Alcorn County, Mississippi; Booneville, MS 38829 and 662-720-8340 14928
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI ALCORN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, BY MARGIE SHELTON, AND CLINTON HUMPAHRIE BRIGGS, A MINOR, BY AND THROUGH HIS NEXT FRIEND, MARGIE SHELTON PETITIONERS VS REBECCA A. BRIGGS AND UNKNOWN PUTATIVE FATHER RESPONDENTS CIVIL ACTION, FILE NO. 2014-0499-02-L CHANCERY COURT SUMMONS THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI TO: Unknown Putative Father, who is not to be found in the State of Mississippi on diligent inquiry and whose post office address is not known to the Petitioners after diligent inquiry made by said Petitioners. You have been made a Respondent in the suit filed in this Court by the Alcorn County Department of Human Services by Margie Shelton, Social Services Regional Director, and, Clinton Humpahrie Briggs, a minor, seeking to terminate your parental rights as those rights relate to said minor and demanding that the full custody, control and authority to act on behalf of said minor be placed with the Alcorn County Department of Human Services. Respondent other than you in this action Rebecca A. Briggs.
Substitute Trustee
You are not required to file an answer or other pleading, but you may do so if you desire.
WHEREAS, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc., the holder of said deed of trust and the note secured thereby, substituted Lori M. Creel as Trustee therein, as authorized by the terms thereof, by instrument dated June 17, 2015, and recorded June 24, 2015 in the Office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk as Instrument #201502451; and
WHEREAS, default having been made in the terms and conditions of said deed of trust, and the entire debt secured thereby having been declared to be due and payable in accordance with the terms of said deed of trust, and the legal holder of said indebtedness, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc., having requested the undersigned Substitute Trustee to execute the trust and sell said land and property in accordance with the terms of said deed of trust for the purpose of raising the sums due thereunder, together with attorney’s fees, substitute trustee’s fees and expenses of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Lori M. Creel, Substitute Trustee in said deed of trust will, on the 14th day of August, 2015, offer for sale at public outcry for cash to the highest bidder, and sell within legal hours (being between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.) at the south main door of the county courthouse at Corinth, Alcorn County, Mississippi, the following described property situated in the County of Alcorn, State of Mississippi, towit:
Subject to: A reservation by Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company, it's successors and assigns, of all coal, oil, gas, sulphur and other minerals (whether similar or dissimilar to the minerals herein specifically mentioned, and whether now know to exist or hereafter discovered) and any interest, right or title of any kind or character whatsoever in said minerals in, under, upon or produced from any of the property hereby conveyed, and subject to the reservation by Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, its lessees, successors or assigns of, the right of ingress and egress over, on or upon any and all of the above described property at any and all times for the purpose of developing, mining, drilling, exploring for and removing said minerals in, under or upon the above described property, but not through the surface nor in any manner which will disturb the surface or any improvements located thereof. Also, subject to a release from David Lee and wife, Martha Lee to Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, from any and all liability for any and all damages of whatever kind, character, or nature that may or might be attributed to mining and removing said minerals, including but not limited to damage due to subsidence.
Subject to: A reservation by Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company for the right for continued maintenance, replacement and use of all existing conduits, sewers, water mains, gas lines, electric power line, wires and other utilities and easements on said premises whether or not of record including the repair, reconstruction and replacement thereof and Grantee agrees not to interfere with the rights herein reserved or any facilities used pursuant thereto.
This being part of the same property conveyed to Janet L. Thacker, a single person, from Michael Wayne Lee and wife, Jilison Lynn Lee, by deed dated July 25, 2003, recorded July 25, 2003 in Book 326, Page 512, recorded in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Alcorn County, Mississippi.
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Commencing at the Northeast Corner of the Northeast Quarter of Section 2, Township 4 South, Range 7 East, Alcorn County, Mississippi, thence run West 392.48 feet; thence run South parallel with the centerline of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad WITNESS my signature this Company's district main tract the 14th day of July, 2015. (now known as Southrail), 1235.99 feet to the South right-of-way line of U. S. Highway 356; thence run South parallel with said centerline of main tract, 643 /s/ Lori M. Creel_ feet to the true point of beginning; thence run South par- Substitute Trustee allel with the centerline of the You are not required to main tract 153.5 feet; thence file an answer or other plead- run West at a right angle to ing, but you may do so if you the last described course, 175 desire. feet to a point on the East right-of-way line of the Illinois To be published on July 17, ISSUED under my hand Central Gulf Railroad Com- July 24, July 31 and August 7, and seal of said Court, this 13 pany (Southrail); thence along 2015. day July, 2015. said right-of-way line, being along the line that lies paralBOBBY MAROLT, lel withFOR and 25 feet normally SALE: CHANCERY CLERK distance Easterly from said LAKESIDE NEIGHBORHOOD PROPERTY ALCORN COUNTY, centerline of main tract, Lori M. Creel (MS Bar No. MISSISSIPPI North 153.5 feet; thence run 104145) C O R I N T H , M I S S I S S I P P I East parallel to the South 38835-0069 right of way line of U. S. HighBY: Karen Duncan, D.C. way 356, 175 feet along the Deputy Clerk Arthur Thomas Gann line, to the true point of beginning, ROSEN HARWOOD, P.A. 3tc 7/17, 24, 31 containing .616 acres, more Post Office Box 2727 Tuscaloosa, AL 35403 or less. 14944 10 Owl Cv., Iuka, MS...located in a unique cove off CR 378 across from Aqua Yacht Harbor... Excellent location for this 5 BR, 3.5ba, 2.5 story home nestled on 2 lots and ready for immediate occupancy. Telephone: Custom designed(205) inside and out with 344-5000 hardwood floors, new cabinets, 9ft ceilings, crown molding and decorative paint thru-out. home 758-8358 features a large master Fax:This (205) suite with luxury master bath. Private quarters for the guest in mind add to the vast appeal of this home. WAIT... there’s more: wrap around porch, circle driveway, pull thru garage, to: open A concept living space...by only steps from beautiful Pickwick Lake... Subject reservation Call for a private viewing. MLS#3289634.Illinois Owner/Agent Central Gulf Railroad 14945
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Candidate Questionnaire 2015 1st District Supervisor
Name: Jeremy “Jerry” Fields Age: 37 Address: 64 CR 170, Corinth Office Seeking: 1st District Supervisor Family: I am married to Liz Fields and we have 3 children; Tucker, Colt and Shyloh. My parents are Travis and the late
Brenda Marlar Fields. Education: Alcorn Central High School graduate 1997; Alcorn County Vo-Tech- two years of building trades; OSHA Competent person training 2009 1) Why are you seeking this office? I am running for supervisor, because I want to improve our county with better roads, safer bridges and create more jobs for our children and grandchildren. I also want to eliminate the wasteful spending. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? At 17, I owned and operated my own construction business through which I developed an appreciation for hard work and money management. I currently work as a back-
hoe operator and line tech for Corinth Sewer Department. I am on-call with the Corinth Sewer Department and will continue to be on-call as your supervisor. I am also a licensed and bonded plumber with Sewer Drain Solutions, which I own and operate. I am OSHA certified as a competent person. I know first-hand how important it is to respond to people’s needs as quickly as possible. I will use all my training and knowledge to ensure the best decisions are made for all of Alcorn County. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Wasteful spending and mismanaged funds. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest as-
set? Our highways and railroad systems when used at their full potential. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. Managing tax dollars – I will monitor the way our tax dollars are spent and ensure they are not used for illegal or corrupt purposes. I will handle this responsibility with pride, integrity and with your best interest in mind. More jobs – I will work hard with other county and city officials to contact potential employers and have them come to Alcorn County to see if we would be a good fit for their business. We need more jobs in Alcorn County. Board meetings – I will
make all efforts necessary to move board meetings to 6 p.m., so that the citizens of Alcorn County are able to voice their concerns. County infrastructure – I will work hard maintaining our roads, bridges and ditches so they are safe for all citizens of Alcorn County. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? No. I don’t support the county unit system, because each district has special needs. Therefore, each district needs their own supervisor. 7) Do you support establishing a countywide building code? Yes, I do support county wide building codes because I believe every person should be confident when buying a home
knowing that it has met certain standards. 8) The Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. I will ensure that the county and state are each paying for their respective inmates housed at the correctional facility. Furthermore, this money should be applied to the $1 million deficit. I will also ensure the appropriate amount of tax dollars are allotted and actually spent on solid waste collections and not wasted. Finally, I’ll be vigilant in how county money is really being spent. Wasteful and corrupt spending must be stopped.
Name: Lowell Hinton Address: 419 CR 702, Corinth Office seeking: 1st District Supervisor Family: Spouse, Frances Lee Hinton; children, Lee Hinton and Greg Hinton; parents, deceased, Brown and Ruby Hinton; four grandchildren Education: Kossuth High School, Continuing Education courses through Mississippi State University Extension Service 1) Why are you seeking this office? From personal experience, I understand the impact the office of supervisor can have on each person in this county. This office is not only responsible for road maintenance, it is the governing arm of the county and it reaches out to industrial prospects to bring in new jobs, encourages expansion with existing industries to create more jobs and leads the effort to improve the overall quality of life for our citizens. When I ran four years ago, I felt I could make a positive contribution to
that effort and I hope the voters will look at the increase in jobs, the park expansion, and other positive actions taken and see that’s what I’ve done. Going forward, I want to build on these accomplishments and keep this county moving in a positive direction. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? The past four years has been great on-thejob training. I’ve worked closely with state officials and local industries and have a better understanding of what is required to keep Alcorn County on the radar for new jobs and local expansions. I have also gotten a chance to meet a large majority of the first district residents and I feel I have a good understanding of what they expect from their Supervisor. In addition to this, I am a deacon in my church and I worked for the Alcorn County Extension Service for many years, plus I’ve served in leadership positions on the state and local Farm Bureau Boards and Soil and Water Conservation Service, and I have been a farmer all my life. All this has taught me how to reach out to people and listen, work hard – even when you’re bone-tired, and stretch a dollar until it hurts. And that’s really what being a good supervisor is all about. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Securing good paying jobs should always be a number one priority for
any government official and I’m proud to say the unemployment rate has gone down from 12% to 5% over the last four years, but we are still in active pursuit of good, high paying jobs for this area. Besides bringing in more jobs, I feel our number one problem is the burden the justice center is creating on our tax base. The justice center was already in place when I took office, and not to second guess the reasoning for building it. but the cost over-runs and actual operating costs are not what the original budget called for. By legislative mandate, we, as a board, do not have any jurisdiction over the day-to-day operations at the justice center and this limits our ability to control the costs. It has been and will continue to be a drain on the county finances until a solution is found -- and we are reaching out to our legislators and other officials to see what options might be available. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? That is a challenging question, because I feel we have so many. Number one is the fact we have a ready workforce, eager to work and we have some great industries already in place. We have a great location that is easily accessible for railroads and four lane highways and we are within driving distance of the TennesseeTombigbee Waterway. We have a great education system in the city and the county and the Northeast
Mississippi Community College satellite campus here. We still have a small town sense of community with some big city perks, like the Crossroads Regional Park, the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, the Contraband Camp, the Crossroads Arena, Corinth Theatre Arts, the Art Guild and Crossroads Museum. We also have the new industrial park location that gives us a great marketing tool for job creation for generations to come. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you will get it done with each idea. I would like to see a Fortune 100 industry go into the new industrial park and drive unemployment to 0 percent. We will continue to work with our state officials to make the right contacts to make that happen. I would also like to see the expansion at the Crossroads Regional Park completed. We have secured the financing for this now and construction should begin any time. This will be a great asset to our community and I really look forward to its completion. As I mentioned earlier, the justice center is a problem that I hope we can get under control in the near future. I plan to continue to work closely with our officials in Jackson and the new sheriff to see what we can do to get back to the original budget and what cost containment processes can be put in place immediately. 6) Do you support a
conversion from the beat system to the unit system? I personally don’t feel the unit system provides the accountability that each supervisor has to his district under the beat system. I know the roads in my district and understand the priorities based on the traffic, the budget, etc. If there is a problem, the residents in my district know they can call me and I will respond. I don’t have to wait on someone else to tell me when I can replace a culvert or resurface a road. That falls on me to decide and that accountability is what I believe the voters expect from their supervisor. 7) Do you support establishing a countywide building code? No. 8) The Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. The solid waste collection deficit has been growing for 18 years and several years ago, the previous board reduced the millage collected for solid waste from 6 mills to 4 mills. This also increased the deficit. By bidding out the solid waste collection to Waste Connections and ridding the county of costs associated with garbage truck maintenance, labor costs, landfills, environmental fines, etc., we should see a significant reduction in that amount
over the next four years. As I mentioned earlier, the justice center which includes the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility is a challenging issue. While I was not part of the board of supervisors when it was built, I believe everyone can agree there were some things that could have been managed better. As I’ve researched this issue, it appears the financial success was based on a certain budget and number of prisoners from the state. The original budget for the correctional facility has not been adhered to and the cost overruns make it challenging to meet that budget. Partner that with the state pulling the prisoners and it is absolutely on a bad path and quite frankly, I’m not sure anyone has all of the answers. While it falls under our budgeting process, the board has little say in the day-to-day operations – it is a legislative mandate that the sheriff manages it and since the sheriff is also an elected official, we have little oversight or authority to overrule his decisions. This presents many challenges. I feel our best course, at this time, is to continue to work closely with our state officials, MDOC, and the sheriff (current and incoming) to understand our options and see how we can get back to the original budget the correctional facility was based on. At some point, we may also be able to re-finance the bonds at a lower interest rate and we could possibly look at other uses for that building.
Name: Jerry Miller Age: 57 Address: 176 County Road 157, Corinth Office Seeking: 1st District Supervisor Family: Susan Jones Miller (spouse); Jason Miller 37 (son); Jamie Price 27 (daughter); F.H. “Omer” Miller (father) deceased; Juanita Jackson Miller (mother) deceased; and 4 grandchildren Education: 1976 graduate of Alcorn Central High School; NEMCC EMT 2007
1. Why are you seeking this office? I believe the supervisors have a responsibility to work to better Alcorn County. I want the opportunity to work with the other board members to improve our county and help our citizens prosper and make them proud of where we live. Money is being spent where it should not be. This wasteful spending has left many agencies in dire need and barely surviving. Reevaluation of where the taxpayer dollars are being utilized is needed. I want to work on getting industry into the county. If something is not done, my grandchildren will have to seek work elsewhere in order to make a living. I have lived in Alcorn County my entire life, but my grandchildren may not have that opportunity. 2. What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? For 30 plus years I made my living by se-
curing business, keeping that business and making sure it was profitable. During those 30+ plus years I also owned and operated my own business and managed over a dozen employees. Anyone who has a business knows you have to make sure you can pay bills, and pay employees with any funds left after that to be used as profit to pay yourself. 3. What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Number one has to be corruption, which has been brought to our attention very recently through audits. Next would be lack of jobs, wasteful spending, and a board of supervisors that does not work together for the best interest of Alcorn County. 4. What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? It’s people, location, major highways and waterways 5. Mention things you would like to see accomplished while
in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. I want to end wasteful spending and corruption. I will work to do everything within my power to ensure that the annual audit is adequately funded. We need the problems discovered by those performing the annual audit, not the state audit department. This is a huge weakness in the system. Jobs -- I will talk, meet and work with every possible source to achieve assistance. Funding -- Look at where funding is being spent and where it is needed most. One is the veterans service office. Funding is so inadequate they cannot assist those in need. If it wasn’t for those brave men and women, I might not be here asking people to vote for me. Several programs and agencies have had their funding cut drastically. We need a board of supervisors who will and can work together. Roads -- Even though
this is a small part of the supervisor’s job, it still has to be addressed. Some have fallen so far behind they are dangerous. 6. Do you support a conversion from the beat to the unit system? At this time my thoughts would be no. Our roads have fallen so far behind and our management oversight has been so weak. I believe we must correct our existing problems before we can think of changing to any system. I believe that individual supervisors, dedicated to improvement and efficiency, and committed to honesty and integrity are the best answer. With that said, until the people of this county decide to elect people who have the best interest of the county at heart, we are fighting a losing battle. A divided board of supervisors with selfserving interests will never get done what we need. A divided board can and will influence a unit system. I would be in favor
of appointing a committee to visit counties that use the unit system, making sure you visit counties that report success as well as those counties that are not happy with the unit system. While a member of the board of supervisors should be on the committee, I feel it should include city and county officials and members of the business community. 7. Do you support establishing a county wide building code? As for a general building code, I would have to say no at this time. 8. The Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. As for as the correctional facility, how can any of us give an answer until we get an unbiased report on exactly what has gone on Please see MILLER | 2C
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at this facility? We have had turnover in wardens and general personnel.
We were told in the beginning that housing state inmates would provide sufficient revenue to fund the facility. What happened there? I have more questions than answers. The
State Audit Department is supposed to be looking at this. After we hear from the audit, we should have a better understanding of management and expenditures. Upon receiving
this report I would be in favor of a detailed study of the report by the board of supervisors along with city and county law enforcement officials followed by firm, enforced action to
correct the problem. As for as solid waste collection, there appears to be little anyone can do about waste collections at this point. The current supervisors just approved
a 6-year contract with a company to provide this service. This ties the hands of the next administration. But I will commit to efficient, cost effective collections when elected.
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Name: Rufus (Jaybird) Duncan Jr. Age: 70 Address: #33 CR 336 Rienzi Office seeking: 2nd District Supervisor Family: I am mar-
ried to Roberta Jackson Duncan. We have two children, Gary Duncan of Rienzi and Tammy Duncan Nichols of Corinth, and five grandchildren. I am the son of the late Rufus and Reedie Lou Duncan of Glen. Education: I am a 1963 Alcorn Central High School graduate. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I would like to be the supervisor to put this office back in the hands of the people. Not just some of the people, but all of the people. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have been a business man for many years, owning
my own trucking business. I’ve had my own ICC Authority for 32 years. In 1968, 1969 and 1970, I worked in Pascagoula for Whitehead Construction Company. I worked on building Interstate I-10 across the Gulf Coast and worked on the fourlaning of Highway 72. I have operated all kinds of equipment. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? The management of our tax dollars is our biggest problem. It seems like all the supervisors have other interests and do not have the time to spend on our problems. I do not have any other interests.
4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Our factories are our greatest asset. We need more of them to employ more people. It is bad when our children finish school then have have to go 900 miles away from home to get a job. I am 100 percent in favor of jobs. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. A. Repair roads. I would need to get more money into our road budget. B. Balance the books on this $2,000,000 debt. C. Find out where our
tax dollars are going. Put our foot down and say no to waste. Until we get this done, we are going nowhere. D. We are going to have to stop overspending. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? I do not think we need to put our district money together. Each supervisor should control his own budget. 7) Do you support establishing a countywide building code? No. I do not think the county people need to be told what to do with their property. 8) The Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility is over
$1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. This is a question for the supervisors in office. Not having been able to sit down and look at this problem, it would be hard to make any kind of statement. I would suggest hiring an accountant to keep up with incoming and outgoing money. If we kept our own trucks on the solid waste collection, we would have to hire six new hands. That would have given six young people jobs to make a living for their families. I am a strong believer in jobs.
Name: Scotty Little Address: 315 County Road 300, Glen Office seeking: 2nd District Supervisor Family: I am the son of the late Bobby and Wanza Little. I am the grandson of the late TA (Arch) and Velma Little and the late
J.E. (Jess) McKinney and the late Troy Lee and Mildred Setliff. My wife of 40 years, Amanda, and I raised two daughters, Kristy and Lisa. Both of our children live in Alcorn County with their families. We have been blessed with two grandsons, both of whom attend Alcorn County schools. Education/Continued Education: 1974 graduate of Alcorn Central High School; 1982 graduate of Fort Smith Auction School; 1997 graduate of Realtor Institute - Mississippi Association of Realtors 1) Why are you seeking this office? The people of the second district deserve better. 2) What experience
do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? Having been self-employed for over 30 years, I fully understand how to run a business. I have the experience it takes to manage a budget and employees. I have had prior experience double surfacing and sealing roads, which is a major concern and is long overdue. I always take my responsibilities seriously and use the abilities God gave me to do the very best I can. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Corruption resulting from a lack of accountability is our greatest problem. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn
County’s greatest asset? We are privileged to be located in an area with railroads, major highways and a nearby waterway. However, our greatest asset is the people of our county, who are ready and willing to work. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. My goals, if elected to this position, will be to work with all city, county and state officials to promote our area and try to get desperately needed jobs for our county. By careful spending and stretching every dollar, I will repair and seal the neglected roads in the
second district, as soon as funds allow. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? I would support allowing the voters of Alcorn County to decide this issue. I understand there are benefits if all districts were combined. It would eliminate duplicate purchases and allow the county to obtain other needed equipment. Also, this could possibly allow us to start doing a lot of much needed road work. 7) Do you support establishing a countywide building code? At this time, our county does not need to grow government. Our county needs to be on solid financial ground before adding
any new burdens to our taxpayers. 8) The Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. I will work with the other board members and the newly elected sheriff to find someone qualified to run the correctional facility and make it pay its own way, as we were led to believe it would do when built. As to waste collection, which has recently been privatized, the current board claims the issue has been resolved without the need to raise taxes. Only time will tell.
Name: Jon Newcomb Age: 51 Address: 38A County Road 226, Corinth Office seeking: 2nd District Supervisor Family: I am the son of the late Jim William Newcomb and Emma Clara Hill Taylor Newcomb and the brother of William A. Newcomb and the late Cleo Marshall Taylor. Education: I attended Farmington Elementary School and graduated
from Alcorn Central High School in 1983. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I believe it is time for the board of supervisors to forget special interests and personal gratification and get to work with the business of the county. That business should be to maximize usage of tax dollars, be willing to do the job for what you are paid, treat every citizen with the respect they deserve and honor the trust placed in them by the citizens of this county. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? My work history has been with the original Halls of Mississippi and Quebecor World until the plant was closed in 2010. Probably the best education and experience concerning our county government has been sitting in on board meetings and listening to bickering and game playing. I have watched firsthand the
negative effect of a board of supervisors unwilling to work together. I have seen issues voted down just because of the person who made the motion. This is the experience and education every voter in Alcorn County needs. I have been educated while watching our board in action. I have learned a lot about how to conduct myself as a supervisor. A person can have all the education in the world, but nothing replaces the school of “hard knocks”, “common sense” and honesty. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? In my opinion, our number one problem is corruption. Until we elect people who are willing to work together, work with city and state officials, and commit to honesty we cannot succeed. This has held us back for years. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset?
Our number one asset is and should be our people. Along with our people we have major highways north and south, east and west, Tenn.,–Tom Waterway and progressive minded individuals who need the support of our elected officials. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. A. I would like to see honesty and integrity restored to our board of supervisors. The best way for me to help in this is for me to work and lead by example. B. Get our budget and finances under control. I will work to ensure we have the checks and balances in place to eliminate waste. C. Improve the working relationship between city and county. I will work to show the city that we want to work with them for the common good. D. I would like to see our road system at work all of the time, not just in
election year. I will work to ensure that the roads of the 2nd District are maintained on a regular basis. I will work to address problems before they arise. To accomplish legitimate and honest goals, we all must work together to end corruption. We must have county employees who are held accountable. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? No. Based on limited knowledge and complaints in the counties where there is a unit system, I cannot vote for a change. I am open to a study of the unit system and visiting counties where the system is used. We must solve existing problems before we can think about making any kind of change. 7) Do you support establishing a countywide building code? I do not support a county-wide building code. 8) The Alcorn Coun-
ty Regional Correctional facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. The board of supervisors recently approved a 6-year contract with at third party for garbage service. There is nothing incoming officials can do at this time. Most of what we have heard since the correctional facility began operation has been bad. We hear of personnel turnover and shortage of funds. Most everything is negative. My thoughts at this time would be to privatize the correctional facility. With all the issues being brought forward through audits, we need to back up and get our house in order. One way would be to put the correctional facility in the hands of professionals who are experienced in this area.
Name: JC Parker Age: 73 Address: 21 CR 333, Corinth Office seeking: Second District Supervisor Family: I am married to Carlean Hill Parker, daughter of Dallis Carl and the late Earlean Vanderford Hill. My parents are the late John Conner and the late Ruby Martin Parker. I have two daughters and three sons. I have 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Education: I attend-
ed Alcorn Central High School through my junior year and went on to continue my education at Fort Riley, Kansas to obtain my G.E.D. in 1963. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I am seeking the office of supervisor in the second district because I believe the people deserve someone who will serve with respect, honesty and fairness to all. Someone who will make sure the people receive the most benefit from every tax
dollar spent. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have worked in construction most of my adult life except for approximately five years in which I owned and operated a full service station/garage with towing service in Downers Grove, Ill. My duties there were management skills which included overseeing employees, payroll and purchasing, etc. In the line of construction work, I
have experience in all types of dirt work, drainage, tunneling, building and road preparations, all of which are required in performing the duties of this office properly. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Lack of good jobs and community outreach by government, getting people informed and involved. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest as-
set? Alcorn County is located at a crossroads with easy access to large cities in all directions. Access to railroads, the waterway ports and waterway, major highways for any type of transporting goods across the country. Lots of acreage that merely needs developed and marketed to all types of industry. Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done Please see PARKER | 3C
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with each idea. I would like to see more industry come to Alcorn County with good paying jobs. I will work closely with all county and state government to see if we can together make this happen. Improvement of our county roads and drainage systems. These are two of the most serious and costly things to be considered. I will make every effort to see the drainage is corrected by clearing and removing all brush and de-
bris from the ditches and shoulders and cut in the right type ditch to carry the drainage in all areas. Then address the potholes which as of now are just filled with cold mix repeatedly every month which in turn costs the taxpayers more money and the problem still exists. The secondary roads in my district are in the poorest condition ever. Some are down to one-lane traffic due to potholes and over hanging limbs, causing dangerous situations for the transporting of our children and grandchildren to and from school and people who travel these roads to and from
work on a daily basis. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? No, absolutely not. With the past corruption in Alcorn County, why open the door to put another fox in the hen house? We are all adults and we need to work together and maintain the best budget possible. The right hand needs to keep watch over the left hand and vice versa. Problems need to be addressed before they get out of hand. If a flag goes up and something is not right, address it then and not four years down the road. 7) Do you support
establishing a countywide building code? I would support adding this question to the election ballot for the people to decide. This is not something a select few should make a decision on. I would support the results of the ballot. 8) The Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. This is something I would need more time and information on be-
fore addressing. There is no doubt they need immediate addressing. Four years ago, the people of Alcorn County were told repeatedly the correctional facility would not cost the taxpayers anything, but it would in fact bring funds into the county. If it doesn’t cost the taxpayers, then where does the money come from? The waste situation: I would look into a recycling and processing facility with the okay of the people. We might be able to solve the waste problem and create jobs at the same time. This is a situation that will only continue to get worse if a cor-
rective action is not taken soon. With today’s technology and equipment, surely somehow this can be done without affecting the air quality. This may be something that would qualify for government funds as well as help in building such a facility. If elected I will provide a place for monthly meetings with the citizens of the Second District to inform them and keep them up-to-date on what is going on in their district and county. And this will give the voters a chance to have their opinions heard and considered. I will keep an open door policy and you will matter to me.
Name: James Voyles Age: 47 Address: 136 CR 300, Glen Office seeking: 2md District Supervisor Family: Married almost 30 years to Missy Voyles; we have two children; Joshua Voyles, 29, married to Shannon Bain Voyles and MaKayla Voyles, 20; Josh has blessed us with two grandchildren. Education: I’m a 1985
graduate of Alcorn Central. I’ve also had some vocational training classes in construction. In addition, I have attended several management and leadership seminars over the last 20 years. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I am seeking the office of supervisor (2nd District), because I love the people of Alcorn County. There are about 38,000 residents who live in this county; 7,600 live in the 2nd District. I want to serve them by helping make our county a better place for all of us to live and work. I want to build a lasting relationship with every elected official in this county/state and create an environment of growth that would bring greater opportunity to every family. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? My experience as a member of the Alcorn
County School Board for the past three years and especially my experience as a pastor in this community for over 20 years have helped me stay in touch with the needs of our area. I’ve also worked in construction (from site preparation to foundations and building) as a small businessman. These experiences have given me a great understanding and qualify me for this office. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? For whatever reason or reasons, we have not been successful at attracting new commerce and industry to our county at a level that will allow us to grow into a thriving, self-sustaining economy. We must change this. This is causing our loved ones to travel out of this county/ state to support their families. Our children are moving hours away to use their education
in order to repay college loans and start families. The other problem that ties deeply to the lack of industry is underemployment. With limited opportunity, it takes long hours and a second job to make ends meet for many of us. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Our greatest asset is our families, the people of Alcorn County. We are a community of people with a strong work ethic and even stronger faith. We learn quickly and can offer qualified hard working people to any industry that would come here. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. 5a) Build a strong, flexible development plan. We have to make ourselves more attractive to people and businesses,
and develop great credibility within our great state so that it is easy for our leaders to tell new businesses that Alcorn County is the best place for them to locate and / or expand. 5b) Build relationships, starting with our communities to the state capital, that are even stronger than they have been in recent years. We will do this by listening to their input and partnering with them to build their confidence in us. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? No. In a unit system, the board of supervisors appoints a county administrator and also requires a road manager. This extra administrative cost will take away from our already limited resources to plan and budget for much needed repairs. 7) Do you support a county wide building code? No
8) The Alcorn county Correctional Facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. Our county - and that means every department, agency, and district must be run with strict fiscal responsibility and absolute integrity before God and the laws of our land. Sometimes difficult decisions will have to be made, but it is critical to recognize and deal with problems early so they do not escalate out of control. We will seek out the most qualified, capable person to manage our correctional facility. Concerning waste collection, it is my belief we cannot hire anyone to do this job more cost effectively than we can do it ourselves. Bad decisions have caused big deficits. Better decisions can correct this.
need it more. This would take funds accumulated for 3rd District away from our district. Since elected, I have worked to be a steward of taxpayers’ money and I am glad to report that the road fund for 3rd District has grown significantly over the last four years. This is money that can be used strictly for 3rd District. In addition, the unit system would require hiring a road manager which would be additional cost to taxpayers. 7) Do you support a county building code? I do not support a county building code. 8) Address correctional facility and Solid Waste Collection: As I mentioned earlier, the correctional facility is losing more money than it is making. As a businessman, I want these financial issues to be addressed in a business like manner. It is not acceptable to run a facility where the ex-
penses are more than the income generated. This has been an issue since I have been elected. The board of supervisors are going to have to work closely with a new sherriff to cut costs and maximize efficiency. Before I was elected four years ago, the county also faced financial hardships with the garbage collection services. The previous board dropped the tax rate related to garbage collection which was a major cause of the deficit in this fund. Since being elected, I have worked with the current board to negotiate contracts thereby reducing cost related to these services. We were also able to cut the disposal fee and also closed a landfill in order to save taxpayers’ money. The board recently found it more cost effective to contract out garbage collection for the county which should also help reduce the current deficit.
tractors in project installation. Most importantly, I learned procedures in protecting the tax dollars. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Alcorn County’s number one problem is the lack of industrial development. Our county’s local officials need to determine why other counties are successful in industrial growth, but Alcorn County is not. A cooperative effort with adjoining counties, as was done with Pontotoc, Union and Lee counties, would be a positive step. However, the first step to industrial
growth is to improve the image of our county government. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? I consider the citizens of this county to be its greatest asset. The people, who get up everyday, get to work on time and conscientiously complete their assigned tasks are the essential element in industrial growth. According to the head of the Pontotoc, Union and Lee County Alliance, the human resource was one
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3rd District Supervisor
Name: Tim Mitchell Age: 45 Address: 125 CR 516, Rienzi Office Seeking: 3rd District Supervisor, reelection Family: I am married to the former Stacey Dobbins of Corinth. We have two children, Logan (16) and Dalton (12). I am the son of Ely Mitchell and
the late Jane Mitchell of Rienzi. Education: I am a 1988 graduate of Biggersville High School. I then attended Northeast Mississippi Community College. 1) Why I am seeking this office? I want to continue to serve the people of the 3rd District and Alcorn County. I want to see Alcorn County continue to prosper not only now, but in the future for our future generations. It has been an honor and a privilege for me to serve this county for the last four years and I am asking for your continued support and vote. 2) Experience: I have served as 3rd District Supervisor for the last four years. During this time, I have worked diligently to maintain our current tax base and work within our budget. I have a proven track record and have been instrumental
in working to retain local jobs and also bring new jobs right here to Alcorn County. 3) Number one problem: I believe that one of the major issues we face in this county is the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility. This facility was constructed under a previous board. Since elected, I have seen the facility cost taxpayers more money than it is making. This is a serious issue that the board of supervisors will have to work closely together in order to develop a plan of action for sustainability. 4) Greatest asset: I believe one of Alcorn County’s greatest assets is Magnolia Regional Health Center. This is one of the only county/ city owned hospitals that has operated profitably in the state of Mississippi. In addition, the hospital is one of Alcorn County’s largest employers.
5) Things to see accomplished: I will continue to work to see new job growth. As in the past four years, I will continue to work with local employers and government agencies to promote the abilities of our residents to attract new business. Four years ago, one of my items I wanted accomplished was working towards expansion of the Crossroads Regional Park. I believe our hard work on this project will be finalized very soon. I believe this project will increase tourism and bring additional tax revenues to the county. 6) Do you support conversion from beat system to unit system? I do not support the unit system. With the unit system, all of the districts’ road and maintenance funds would be accumulated into one fund to be used by districts that
4th District Supervisor
Name: Mike Coleman Age: 63 Address: 35 CR 614, Corinth
Office seeking: 4th District Supervisor Family: I am the son of the late Thomas Hill and Evelyn Coleman. I have been married for 40 years to Patricia Burleson Coleman. We have two children, Rosaline Coleman Harvell and Joe Coleman. We have three grandchildren. Education: I am a 1969 graduate of Kossuth High School and 1974 graduate of Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture. I completed several ethics courses and computer security courses while em-
ployed with United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). 1) Why are you seeking this office? This county needs a leader who is willing to put citizens above personal needs or gain. It needs a leader who can perform his duties in a statesmanlike matter. My entire career was spent serving the landowners of this county, and now with my retirement, I can continue my services to all citizens in a full-time manner without other job distractions.
2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? My career with the United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service has given me much experience with the skills necessary to effectively serve as supervisor. My training in governmental ethics is needed in this county. My position gave me experience in engineering, hydrology and soil characteristics. I worked with diverse groups of people, used extensive decision-making skills and supervised con-
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of the major factors that attracted Toyota to Blue Springs. The other was confidentiality. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. Talking with people, I find there is a lack of knowledge as to what transpires in county government, especially with younger generations. They obtain information through Internet and social media. The county has a website, but has
only pictures and names of officials and employees -- no real information. I will pursue having budgets, board minutes and money sources for operating the county government posted on a website and social media sites. Roads are a concern. There has been an inadequate effort in the 4th District to obtain funds from outside sources for needed projects. If elected, I would begin the process for procuring those additional funds. The supervisor must be willing to exert the time, effort and cooperative spirit to procure those funds. Job growth is another concern. Growth of local businesses is the quickest
way to achieve that goal. As supervisor, I would patronize local businesses whenever possible. I would also encourage other entities which use taxpayer funds to do likewise. This would have an immediate positive effect on job growth. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system. The unit system has been approved by other counties in the state. There are both positive and negative sides to the unit system. However, if the unit system has potential to save a substantial amount of money, the county can not overlook any savings opportunity.
7) Do you support establishing a countywide building code? Yes, I will support a county-wide building code limited to new home construction. With my experience with NRCS, I have seen homes that were built without adequate foundation based on the soil types which contractors cannot overlook. Most contractors follow building code standards; however, there is the occasional contractor who builds inferior homes to cut cost. The home owner then has an inferior home and it harms contractors who try to build quality homes. 8) The Alcorn County Regional Correc-
tional Facility is over $1 million in the red as of June, and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. From the beginning, the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility was an ill-conceived idea. To correct the problem, the county government must first stop the hemorrhaging of dollars. Hopefully, thorough examination of accounting and collection of outstanding debts, this debt burden can be reduced. I would work with knowledgeable personnel to determine if the facility is experiencing more ex-
pense than projected and if there are income shortfalls and to correct deficient areas. When the curbside waste collection began, the supervisors did not implement any new revenue systems to cover this service. Others counties successfully charge its customers a fee for waste collection. As bitter as this solution sounds, this county may have reached a point that it has no other option. Certainly, I would work with other officials to prevent this fee from becoming a necessity. However, termination of the service due to inadequate funding will indeed be the disaster.
Name: Keith “Dude” Conaway Age : 51 Address: 23 C.R. 607, Corinth Office Seeking: 4th
District Supervisor Family: Spouse Kathy Austin Conaway; one son, Robbie, 29; parents, the late J.C. and Evon Conaway Education: Union Center; attended Northeast Miss. Community College; Mississippi State for Continuing education in business, and management 1) Why are you seeking this office? Because I know if elected I am qualified to help the 4th District to move forward and together we can make Alcorn County be number one in the state of Mississippi. 2) What experi-
ence do you have that qualifies you for this position? I have been self-employed for 30 years. I am president of West Tennessee Land & Timber Inc. and owner and manager of Keith Conaway Logging LLC, where I have had as many as 30 employees and I have owned up to $2.5 million worth of equipment at a time. I also have owned and managed up to 10,000 acres of land and timber. I also have served seven years on the board of Kossuth Water Association. I served as Sunday School director and discipleship training teacher at Beth-
lehem Baptist Church. I served as vice president for the Mississippi Logger Association North District. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Lack of leadership, need more jobs so we could get more tax revenue coming in. All we hear is we have to raise taxes and we can’t keep doing that. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? We have room to grow. We have four lane highways 72 & 45. We have an airport with a 6.500-foot runway, railroads coming through
Corinth and great schools. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. I would like to bring trust back to Alcorn County. I would like to see more jobs, better roads and less taxes. I would start with prayer. Putting God first is the key, then hard work and the people seeing they can put their trust in you and the county again. I want a better place for our kids and families to live. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? No. Alcorn County is not set up to go to the unit system
at this time. We need to get the county back on its feet. We need to get honesty and trust back in the county. We need to get the money back in place and get the bills paid up. 7) Do you support a county-wide building code? No 8) Regional Correctional facility and solid waste operating in the red: There is no way to really say at this time without knowing what is on the books and without seeing the assets. A debt that has done and got this big, you will have to sell some assets or get a bond passed to get debt down. It is way out of hand.
Name: Steve Glidewell Age: 43 Address: 55 CR 615, Corinth Office seeking: 4th District Supervisor Family: Spouse Michelle Glidewell; 15-yearold daughter Julia Glidewell; parents Christine Glidewell and the late Wayne Glidewell Education: 1990 Kossuth High School graduate; 1995 Bachelor of Science Degree from the College of Engineering at Mississippi State University 1) Why are you seeking this position?
Since a young age I have had a strong desire to serve the people of Alcorn County. I feel at this time in my career I have a unique background that would be an asset to this team of supervisors. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I feel my education coupled with the experience I have gained in my 20-year manufacturing career would be a key asset to the board of supervisors. Industrial growth is something we must do to make Alcorn County a better place for our citizens. I have spent my career in an industrial setting and have a strong understanding of what companies need to make them successful. I also feel that my money management skills are top notch and my records in the workplace and on a personal level prove this to be true. There is nothing more exciting to me than taking on challenges of situations that are “financially broken” and fixing them while putting
fixes in place to prevent it from happening again. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? I think Alcorn County’s number 1 problem is the lack of strategy to promote and generate industrial growth. Addition of industry is an absolute must to generate additional revenue to Alcorn County to place us back on a strong financial foundation. We cannot subsidize our budgets with loans and raise taxes on the citizens to mask poor decisions. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? I have traveled all over the country in my career, and it is more apparent to me than ever that the resources Alcorn County can offer is our number one asset. From the hospital to the existing industrial base and from general labor to professional labor, Alcorn County has much to offer. We have many individuals leaving our county every morning traveling to make a living
for their families. We are coming into an era where companies are looking to transition to the south for many reasons -- work ethic, operating costs, etc. We have to be in position to take advantage of this. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. 1) I would like to see an industrial revolution take place in Alcorn County. I would work hard with our local officials and put ourselves in the right places to make this possible. We have to spend time researching and visiting potential businesses to sell our resources. We cannot wait on people to come ask us. We have got to be aggressive and make our presence known. 2) The road conditions have to be improved. This road improvement must be steady and ongoing year after year. Also, roads must be fixed right the first time. We waste entirely too much money on short term fixes. 3) I would like to see
more transparent management of the funds of our county. I feel like we should have more feedback and ideas from the citizens. One possibility would be to have more board meetings after normal working hours. I think any board can get great ideas from the public and also people would have an opportunity to ask questions and understand the decisions of the board. 6. Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? I am a supporter of the beat system. I think the problems Alcorn County faces today have nothing to do with the beat system vs the unit system. It is the person in charge of each district that makes the system effective or ineffective. The unit system would take additional labor and investment money and would also allow for scenarios where one or more districts could be “left out in the cold.” 7. Do you support establishing a countywide building code? I do not support a coun-
ty-wide building code. 8. The Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. A) We must put the right person in charge of the Alcorn County Correctional Facility who will run it like a business and get it back in the black. I would also recommend visits from the management staff to successful facilities that are similar to ours to see what they are doing right. We cannot afford this facility to continue to be a financial liability to you the taxpayers. B) The simplest way to handle the garbage pickup deficit is to continue the outsourcing of the residential garbage and charge a monthly fee to the residents similar to the way the city handles this situation. This would eliminate the 4 mill tax the residents of Alcorn County currently pay to help offset the cost.
Name: Danny (Shorty) Mincey Age: 58 Address: 66A CR 620,
Corinth Office seeking: 4th District Supervisor Family: Spouse, Genia Mincey; children, Angelia Huff (Jesse), Danah Mincey, Danny Mincey II and Dewey Mincey (Liz); four grandsons; parents, Albert Reid Mincey (deceased) and Margaret Louise Mincey Education: Kossuth High School, 1975 1) Why are you seeking this office? I am seeking this office because I am very concerned about our county and want to work to improve it.
2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I am serving as president of the Kossuth Water Association where I have been in that position for 11 years which requires me to communicate with officials on the state and federal level. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Industry 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Our greatest asset is the
citizens of our county and our existing industries. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. 1. Working with county government, which consists of all county officials, placing everything out on the table and everyone have their own opinion. 2. Work with municipalities, place ideas on the table before everyone in order to get all opinions. 3. Keep roads and bridges maintained, work closely with the leaders of
our county and engineers on our budget which consists of the finances of our county. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? No. I want to represent the citizens of my district. They will be able to come to me with concerns. 7) Do you support establishing a countywide building code? No. 8) The Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid
waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. I will work with the elected sheriff of Alcorn County, as well as the consultant for the justice center, in order to keep the amount of money coming in balanced with what is being spent on the justice center. As far as the waste collection system is concerned, I will work closely with the current garbage collection agency in order to be sure our county is only paying for the exact services we are receiving.
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Name: Reed Mitchell Age: 41 Address: 13 Underwood Lane, Corinth Office Seeking: 4th District Supervisor Family: Julie Hinton Mitchell wife of 22 years; John (21), Zack (16), Anslie (10), Ethan (8); parents: Lionel Mitchell and the late Janis Smith Mitchell; father and mother-in-law: Ray and Lynn Gant Hinton; grandson of the late Lionel and Letha Mitchell and the late Glen and Sybil Smith Education: Kossuth High School graduate 1992; attended Northeast Mississippi Community College 1) Why are you seek-
ing this office? I determined after attending the Alcorn County Board of Supervisors’ meetings for the last 3 years that the 4th district was not adequately represented from a business standpoint. I observed missed opportunities because of disagreements and unwillingness to compromise for the betterment of our county and motives that are lacking for the best interest of the county. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have successfully owned and operated a local business for over 20 years with an annual budget of over $1 million. I have been elected as Alderman of Kossuth and served the 2000-2004 term where I worked to secure a fire truck and equipment for the town of Kossuth. In 2004 I was elected to the U.S. Department of Agricultural Alcorn and Tishomingo County Committee (COC) where I served three terms and held the position of chairman and vice chairman. The COC are the supreme decision makers in Farm Service Agency
with county offices, nationwide. All program approvals, as well as staffing issues, must be approved by the COC and county executive director. Executive directors nationwide are directly accountable to the COC. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? The inability to take a budget and live within that budget while still not meeting the needs of the county. In my own business I get paid once a year. My budget must be followed precisely. There is no room for mistake or misuse of funds. That is what determines the success of the business. 4) The greatest asset of Alcorn County is the people. It would be hard to single out just one attribute within the many valuable characteristics of our people. We are blessed to live in a county composed of those who have a very giving nature and a strong work ethic. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. 1. Operating within the budget. One way to operate within the budget
is to expand the budget. The way to expand the budget is to bring new industry and help expansions of existing industries to grow our tax base. Each dollar spent inside the county grows that tax base and the velocity of the dollar grows exponentially. Each dollar spent outside of our county kills the velocity of our tax dollars, because we lose the opportunity to re-spend that dollar and to tax it. 2. Bring new industry to revive the county tax base. My goal is to introduce multiple 100 employee businesses as opposed to only going after the over 500 employee businesses. While I am not against the larger corporations, I believe the value of the smaller business and the diversity that they bring is something that would be more beneficial to our county and the already established businesses that can service them. I have already spoken to and received preliminary commitments from two businesses that fall in the 100-250 employee range that are willing to be a part of Alcorn County’s business industry. 3. Road and bridge infrastructure brought up to adequate standards and
maintained. The influx of new tax dollars that will accumulate from the new industry will help meet the needs of the shortfalls in our roads and bridges. Grants that are available need to be aggressively pursued. 4. Raise the standard of integrity and character that is expected of our county office and elected officials. In my personal and business life I strive to conduct myself in a moral, honest manner. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? No I prefer the beat system because it is more efficient, personal and with less administration. As a land owner in Lee County and observing the unit system there for 20 years, it seems that they have all the administration and government of the unit system but the county is still run as if the beat system is in place because people expect their needs to be meet locally. The beat system will offer the citizens of each district the same representation whereas the unit system would not. Costs can be mitigated by sharing large equipment that is not used daily within each
district. 7) Do you support a county-wide building code. In the future, I would like to see commercial buildings in the county to be scrutinized with at least a fire and electrical code for the safety of our citizens, one that does not excessively grow government bureaucracy. 8) As far as the jail is concerned, it must operate within its budget. Over staffing issues and restrictions on the number of inmates must be addressed and resolved. From the earliest planning stages, the jail was projected to be self sufficient. Since completion it has never been operated with the intention of being self sufficient. The board of supervisors in years past issued a two mil tax break to the citizens of the county when the garbage was in the black. Due to inflation of garbage and disposal fees, four mils was no longer sufficient but the tax was not reapplied. Two mils will be reapplied when the new fiscal year takes effect and further negotiations need to take place when the garbage and transfer station contracts are up for renewal.
Name: Gary Ross Age: 71 Address: 3203 CR 402, Corinth Office seeking: 4th District Supervisor Family: I am married to Cathy Blassingame Ross. We have two children, Tonya Renolds and Jennifer Donnelly and three grandchildren. I am the son of John Ross and the late Mae Del Ross. Education: I am a 1962 graduate of Biggersville High School and was the salutatorian of my class. I enhanced my
skills by taking courses, such as Dale Carneige to improve my public relations. 1) Why are you seeking this office? To operate within a budget and curb waste of county funds. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I served 22 years as a manufacturing supervisor at ITT and 12 years as 4th District Supervisor. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s
number one problem? I would say drugs are the number one problem in Alcorn County. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Our trainable workforce and educational facilities. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. Balancing of the county budget. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat system to the unit system? No. In a unit
system, all funds are controlled by three votes. In a beat system, all road districts share equal funds. 7) Do you support establishing a countywide building code? No. 8) The Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems. Alcorn County Correc-
tional Facility – Simple: Alcorn County pay their bill for housing inmates. Alcorn County billed from Sept. 2011 to April 2015 $2,149,775 for housing county inmates. Only paid $624,975 during same period. Alcorn County still owes $1,524,800. Alcorn County line item budgeted in 2012, $400,200 for county inmates. Same amount in 2013 and 2014 for a total of $1,200,600. Solid waste: Increase millage to 6 mill. There has been a history of bad management in this area.
5th District Supervisor
Name: Jody Crum Age: 40 Address: 26 CR 601, Walnut Office seeking: 5th District Supervisor Family: Son of Doyle and Carolyn Crum Education: 1995 graduate of Kossuth High School 1) Why are you seeking this office? I am seeking the office of 5th district supervisor to work with the people of the 5th district to better both our district and the county as a whole. As a citizen who loves his county
greatly, I feel that it is my duty and responsibility to offer myself for service in these unfortunate times that have we have been forced to endure. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position that you are seeking? I have worked in the community, among the hard working people of our community for over 25 years. I have listened to people’s ideas, needs and problems; therefore, I feel that I am in tuned with the people. As a farmer and a cattleman, and as the foreman of a building and supply company, I have the knowledge of machinery, irrigation, road grades and budgets. The growth of our county is imperative, and with my work with the consulting firm BIG, I have worked on best practices for organizational efficiency and grant writing. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Jobs and opportunities for growth and development should be the main
focus of our county supervisors. We must have our county supervisors take more active, hands on role in laying the foundation and then locating and bringing in high paying jobs for our deserving citizens. We must make sure our supervisors be ever aware of the county’s business, so that the embarrassment that we have had to endure lately never ever happens again. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The people of Alcorn County are our greatest asset. We have the finest people in the state, and they deserve leaders who will work hard every day for them. The people of our county are hard workers and they deserve the opportunity to earn a decent living without having to drive out of the county for employment. They deserve leaders with a servant’s heart, who will listen and be responsive to their needs. Most importantly, they deserve leaders who they never have to be ashamed of.
5) List things like to see accomplished and how you’ll get it done. 1. Get our house in order fiscally. We must ensure that the checks and balances are in place to know where, why and to whom the taxpayer’s money is going. We must remember we are just stewards of the taxpayer. 2. A comprehensive plan to address bridges and roadways. We must work with our citizens, engineers and contractors to improve and maintain the roadways of our county in general and districts in particular. I will have a committee of citizens from each area of my district to help monitor and make recommendations for their area. 3. An energetic and well funded mission to bring new and better jobs to our county. We must be creative, think outside the box, and not be afraid to embrace change as we bring new opportunities to our people. 4. Less job titles and more community growth and development. It seems we have enough di-
rectors and chairmen with multiple secretaries, to be the largest, most developed county in the state. Well, unfortunately we are not, so something must be done. I believe that with a comprehensive growth plan, and accountability reports, we can make sure we are making leaps in our growth rather than baby steps. 6) Conversion from beat system to unit system. I believe the beat system, with hard working men with integrity, definitely makes each supervisor more responsible to his particular constituents. The unit system, which is very productive in many counties of our state, provides more oversight for the taxpayers. Regrettably, if we don’t see more integrity and demands of accountability, we may not have any option other than the unit system. 7) Do I support county wide building code? At this time, a building code is not foremost on my list of measures that are in urgent need. I will
not say that in the future this measure should not be addressed, because I know that with growth and development our needs will surely change. Building codes are important, but I feel like we have important areas that have a greater immediate impact on our citizens that should consume our attention at this time. 8) Correctional Facility and Solid Waste Collection in the red. In both situations, I think we should bring in auditors and consultants to help us analyze the magnitude of the situation, why we got to that point, and further and most important, what are our options on getting out of the situations. As the leaders of the county, and stewards of the taxpayer’s money, we should find the smartest people we can with the best understanding and ideas when we find ourselves in such dire situations. It is the job of the supervisor to make the best decisions for the county, but we should never be afraid to seek the best advice.
Name: Jimmy Tate Waldon Age: 62
Address: 549 CR 600, Walnut Office seeking: 5th District Supervisor, reelection Family: I am married to Faye, and we have three children; Suzanne, Justin and Emily; and five grandchildren. My parents are Louis and Betty Glover and the late Ernie Lee Waldon. Education: I received my GED in 1987, and I graduated from the Mississippi Law Enforcement Academy in 1994 and completed numerous college classes and training throughout my 14 years of
law enforcement. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I am seeking re-election to continue to be a voice for the citizens of Alcorn County and the 5th District, to continue the infrastructure improvements and complete the projects already started, and to maintain the current jobs and to attract new industry to our county. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have been the 5th District supervisor for almost eight years. I also served
on the Alcorn County Board of Education for 14 years. I was an officer for the Mississippi Department of Transportation for 14 years. I have owned and operated my own business, Waldon Used Cars, for 30 plus years. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? A lack of trust in county government and jobs. Alcorn County has several problems, but one of the main ones is competitive paying jobs for our people. 4) What do you consider Alcorn County’s
greatest asset? Our number one asset has been and continues to be our people. We have a qualified work force of hard working people in this county, many of whom travel out of the county each day to work. In addition, we have a great four-lane highway system going north and south, as well as, east and west, and we have the Tenn-Tom Waterway. The new city of Corinth water system is geared to handle any major industry that comes to our county. 5) Mention things
you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you will get it done with each idea. A. We need to restore the faith and trust in our board of supervisors. If re-elected to this post I will continue to work for a united board. B. United effort between the city and county. I will do all within my power as a board member to encourage and promote a strong working relationship with the city. C. We need to get our Please see WALDON | 6C
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finances in order, and implement better financial controls, and ensure that the money is spent wisely and properly. D. Keep our road sys-
tems up to date. I will continue to assess our roads and address problems as they occur. As part of the assessment of our roads, I will always try to be ahead of the problems when possible. 6) Do you support a conversion from the beat
to the unit system? No. To do this would be adding another layer of administration to an already strained budget. 7) Do you support establishing a countywide building code? I do not support a county-wide building code.
8) The Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility is over $1 million in the red as of June and solid waste collection is over $800,000 in the red. Explain how you will address these problems.
Steps have already been taken to reduce the deficit in our waste collection. The board has entered into a contract with a 3rd party to provide this service. The correctional facility has had its problems. I feel the audit that is continuing in our coun-
ty will give us a better understanding of the problems and give us direction as to how to correct those problems. When that report is received, I believe the board of supervisors should take every appropriate action to remedy the problems.
Superintendent
Name: Larry B. Mitchell Age: 71 Address: 1033 Hwy 2, Corinth Office Seeking: Superintendent of Education Family: spouse: Barbara Newcomb Mitchell; children: Larry Brad Mitchell, 50; Marla Beth Mitchell Shettles (deceased); Mikki Lane Mitchell Moore, 42; grandchildren: six; parents: Lionel D. Mitchell (deceased) and Letha Letson Mitchell (deceased) Education: Kossuth High School – 1961; Mississippi State University: BS Agriculture Education-1965; Mississippi State University: Master’s degree in Entomology-1967; Mississippi State University: Educational Specialist-1985; other graduate level courses in School Administration: University of North Alabama, University of Mississippi 1. Why are you seeking this office? I have a great love and concern for the children, youth and schools of Alcorn County, and I have a strong desire for the betterment of the Alcorn School District. 2. What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? Mississippi Agriculture Experiment Station at Mississippi State University - 2 years; teacher at Alcorn Central High School – 3 years; Alcorn County Schools Vocational Director – 8 years; Kossuth High School Principal – 19 years; self-employed farmer – 18 years 3. What do you consider Alcorn County’s
number one problem? Alcorn School District children and teachers deserve appropriate instructional supplies, current textbooks, updated technology, and modern facilities and equipment. It is difficult to accomplish these things due to what I consider to be the greatest issue facing the Alcorn School District. That is the lack of adequate funding. While I fully recognize that money is not the answer to all things, it is difficult to run a home, business, or school district if adequate funds are not available. This funding shortfall is the result of two factors: 1. The Mississippi Legislature not fully funding the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP), the financial formula that drives public school funding. For this upcoming year, if the formula had been fully funded then the Alcorn Schools would have received $1,483,647 more to operate the schools. Since 2009 the Alcorn schools have been shortchanged nearly $13 million by the Mississippi Legislature. That’s enough money for: 37 first year teachers for 10 years, or 134 school buses, or 126,927 textbooks, or 35 school counselors for 10 years, or 42,309 computers. Imagine what our schools would look like if these funds had been available and properly managed by Alcorn School District leadership. Everyone has been told that education has received more dollars than the previous year. Yes, that is correct but the true story is that these funds have not been sufficient or barely enough in the Alcorn School District to cover the muchdeserved state-mandated teacher salary increases. Our children and schools deserve better! 2. The Mississippi Adequate Education program formula is driven by student attendance not enrollment. While it is attendance that drives the formula, student attendance is (in large part) driven by enrollment and efforts must be undertaken to prevent the continued enrollment slide in the Alcorn School District.
The Alcorn School District enrollment has declined by 260 students over the last four years (https:// reports.mde. k12.ms.us/ report/ report14.aspx State District or School Data). The decrease in enrollment results in the Alcorn District losing approximately $1.4 M just for a one-year period. These students leaving the Alcorn School District has resulted in those state funds being devoted to neighboring districts. The district must have visionary executive leadership if the enrollment slide is to be reversed. Alcorn School District children deserve a better education than what they are receiving today as a result of these funding shortfalls. I will commit to you as your Superintendent of the Alcorn School District to explore all avenues to increase funding to provide our children and teachers with the supplies, materials, equipment, and buildings they need to be successful. 4. What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The Alcorn School District has, for decades, been blessed with outstanding students, dedicated teachers, and parental and community support that are the envy of other areas. With these assets and effective leadership, Alcorn schools can accomplish much and ensure academic, extracurricular, and instructional excellence within the next four years and onward. 5. Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. 1. Provide financial stability for the Alcorn School District through • Implementing procedures to address the annual decreases in student enrollment for the past four to five years • Implementing costsaving practices while maintaining a high quality and quantity of services; • Examining the District/schools for inefficiencies and duplication of costs and services; • Working toward hav-
ing a District Fund Balance of at least 10% of annual budget; • Applying for state and federal competitive grants to provide funds for creating innovative programs/services, such as after-school tutoring, extended year schooling, additional computers and other technologies, etc. 2. Improve the educational opportunities for all students in the Alcorn School District through: • Additional Advanced Placement courses at the high schools • Pre-Advanced Placement courses at the middle schools • Rigorous ACT preparation sessions for high school students planning to attend college • Ensuring the content taught in the classroom is relevant and challenging enough to thoroughly prepare students for college and career readiness • Emphasis on preschool for four-yearolds with all elementary schools having at least one pre-kindergarten classroom. 3. Provide leadership in making equitable decisions for schools throughout the District by ensuring each school has a qualified, hard-working administrator – people who are invested in the local school and the community it services. Additionally, as Superintendent of Education I will “lead by example.” 4. Improve school and district climate through the implementation of programs that support quality instruction for students and professional development opportunities to help teachers grow and thrive. • Introduce a community service learning course (elective) at the 11th and 12th grades; • Strengthen emphasis on “peer academic tutoring teams” at the middle school; • Emphasize a strong Induction and Mentoring program for beginning teachers; • Promote teacherlearning groups (currently called Professional Learning Communities) for increasing teachers’ professional skills 9. If economically
feasible would you support the construction of two new K through 12 schools – one on the east side of the county and one on the west side of the county – to serve all county students? The Alcorn School District presently does not have the financial ability nor will it have the ability in the foreseeable future to construct new schools on the east and west sides of the county. Before any decisions are made on school realignment, a comprehensive review and study should be conducted of instructional and curriculum programs along with facility needs. While this will take time and have an associated cost, it is what needs to happen as the Alcorn School District has operated for too many years without a plan and spent money here and there to address needs that have never really solved the true facility and instructional problems that plague the district. These studies will provide the district taxpayers, who would eventually have to pay the taxes for the improvements, with a clear understanding of the needs and issues facing the school district if it is to remain competitive with other Mississippi school districts. It also will provide the district leadership with the information needed to develop a comprehensive facilities and instructional improvement plan that outlines clear objectives, needs, cost estimates and time lines for implementation. The district can then explore various financial methods for completing this plan and determining what courses of action need to be taken to address both immediate and future needs. 10. Do you support Common Core? There has been a great deal of discussion about the implementation of Common Core across the country. The Mississippi State Board of Education currently supports the Mississippi College-andCareer-Ready Standards and statewide achievement tests will be based on these standards. The
Mississippi Department of Education is presently seeking feedback from the public to determine if revisions or additions need to be made to these standards. I would encourage Alcorn School District educators and parents to participate in this process as it is an opportunity for “your voice to be heard.” (www.mde. k12.ms.us See menu on homepage in upper right corner – “click” to go to Mississippi College- and Career-Ready StandardsFeedback Forum – follow instructions to participate) The Alcorn School District has invested considerable financial resources in teacher training and instructional materials to support this process. Teachers have invested considerable time in attending training and preparing new lessons based on these standards since these are the standards that will be used for the mandatory statewide achievement testing program (3rd through 12th grades). The issue before the Alcorn School District is do we want our high school graduates to be able to compete with other students from across Mississippi and the United States in colleges and the workplace. As Superintendent of the Alcorn School District, I believe it will be my responsibility to implement the curriculum framework standards approved by the Mississippi Department of Education and to see that our children have the curriculum, materials and skills needed to be successful on the mandated statewide end-ofyear tests that determine graduation, third grade promotion, and school accountability ratings. Currently the Mississippi College-and-Career Ready Standards is what the state of Mississippi has determined to be the framework of study and as Superintendent I will work with administrators and teachers to develop instructional strategies for these standards that are compatible with the traditions and belief systems that are important to our community.
Name: Gina Rogers Smith Age: 50 Address: 41 CR 636, Corinth Office seeking: Superintendent of Education Family: Alan B. Smith, husband of 31 years; children, Audriana E. Smith (28) and Slater Smith (24); Collin and Bettie Rogers, parents; Edwina Smith and the late James Otis Smith, in-laws
Education: 1983 Graduate of Kossuth High School, 1991 Bachelor of Science of Social Science, Blue Mountain College, 1997 Master of Arts Educational Leadership, University of North Alabama, 2006 Attended Delta State Superintendent Academy, 2012 Attended MASS New Superintendent Training 1) Why are you seeking this office? I am seeking re-election to this office to continue the success which the Alcorn School District team has accomplished so far. Since 2012, the team has improved and maintained a “B” district rating while tightening their belts to reduce the debt of the district from $10,000,000 to a little over $5,000,000. The budget is now in the black and the district is considered one of the rising academic districts in the state. 2) What experience
do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? My experience includes 10 years as a middle and high school classroom teacher (in a tested area), nine and a half years as the principal of Biggersville Elementary, and in the three and a half years as Superintendent of Education, I have acquired comprehensive knowledge of the current workings of a school district and the ever changing policies which impact student learning. Each of these positions has afforded me the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience in the different capacities of the school system. Professional Development sessions and networking with other superintendents and administrators across the state has kept me abreast of the current educational challenges and opportunities available for stu-
dents, faculty/staff and administrators so the Alcorn School District has been able to move in the right direction. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Job opportunities in Alcorn County are what I consider to be the number one problem. This is an issue in which all citizens must take an active role whether they are elected officials or voters. Industry analyzes many components of an area before considering a location for operational development. An educated workforce plays a vital role in this decision process. Both the county and city school systems work diligently to aid in the economic improvement of our county by offering classes which will guide the students’ choices about their future vocations. The Alcorn School District’s State Accountability rating is a “B” which
has been maintained during my term. The individual school ratings have improved each year during my time in office. This rating demonstrates the students, faculty/staff, and the administration’s willingness to promote academic success. The Alcorn School District offers multiple diploma routes to motivate students to graduate from high school and be productive citizens. The diploma routes are: Traditional Diploma, a college preparatory route; District Diploma, a college or career route diploma; and Career Pathways Diploma, an emphasis in vocational classes and certifications. We want what is best for every child in Alcorn County. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The people of Alcorn County are the county’s
greatest asset. When disaster or tragedy occurs in Mississippi or surrounding areas, the citizens of Alcorn County are some of the first to step up to help or send aid. These acts of kindness are qualities that are taught and ingrained in Alcorn Countians which makes each of us proud to call Alcorn County home. In this ever changing world, this quality is one which does not need to change. The Alcorn School District is pressing forward for more technology use and a stronger educational system which is willing to adapt to meet the academic needs of every child. The citizens of Alcorn County are more educated today than ever before and have embraced the idea that we cannot return to the past. We have to educate today while preparing for toPlease see SMITH | 7C
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morrow for every child. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. Improve the funding of the district through state allocations, grants and business partnerships. This task may be accomplished by lobbying the legislature to increase school funding and applying for grants in which our local demographics would be competitive. Continue school and business partnerships by having more collaborative meetings to increase business awareness of school accomplishments as well as needs. Three campuses in the district have Pre-K
classes which came to fruition during my administration. Multiple Pre-K classes on school campuses are needed. This would be accomplished with additional funding and availability of space which meets the state and federal guidelines for housing the programs. Kossuth does not have a Pre-K because of lacking accessible entrance and exit to a building according to the guidelines. A building is available for renovation but lacks an accessible entrance for traffic flow which is a must for current daily operations as well. Students seeking a Traditional or District Diploma have the availability of more dual credit and dual enrollment courses allowing these students to complete their college degree earlier after graduating
high school. This idea would be accomplished with additional staff which would be based on the availability of funds. Increase the number of Vocational courses offered to students seeking a Career Pathway Diploma more choices and the opportunity to receive more certifications. This is also an idea dependent on funding because the Career Center would need additional classroom space for these courses. The Alcorn School District’s goal is to have an 85% or higher Graduation Rate. This feat can be accomplished by motivating students’ interest concerning college or career planning at an earlier age. School Leadership teams comprised of teachers and administrators are viewing and exploring different ideas pres-
ently to incorporate new units into the elementary curriculum. Security and facility upgrades are continuously taking place and more is needed. This is an area of need which is also pending the availability of funds. Wireless Internet access will be implemented district-wide in the fall of 2016 with the combining of E-Rate funding, awarded grant money and district set aside funds. Students and teachers will have easier access to the Internet and more technology will be needed to utilize this upgrade. Once again, the upgrade in technology equipment is another possibility according to funding. 6) If economically feasible, would you support the construction of two new K through 12 schools— one on the east side
of the county and one on the west side of the county – to serve all county students? By the use of the term economically feasible, hypothetically if the citizens of Alcorn County have: conducted community meetings, voted to pass a bond issue and agreed to a tax increase -- then I would support this idea because the citizens have spoken and are willing to absorb the cost of this tax increase. Pre-K classrooms would have to be included in this consideration. 7) Do you support Common Core? No, I do not support this mandate in the way which it was given to the state. Education of the citizens is a fundamental right which was given to the states by the Constitution. I support the rigor and the accountability
which is expected by the Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards. I do not agree with amount of testing which our students have been involved in this year. However, we must comply with the testing policies of the Mississippi Department of Education Accreditation Standards. After providing a safe environment conducive to learning, the main job of each teacher is to educate every child with a strong content foundation and the skill set to apply this knowledge for real life situations in college or career settings. I do support student lead learning, engaged activities which meet different learning styles, and high expectations with rigor which prepares the student for future challenges in adulthood.
Tax Collector
Name: Larry Ross Age: 66 Address: 56 CR 417, Corinth Office seeking: Reelection to Alcorn County Tax Collector Family: I am the son of the late Jim Henry and Ludie Ross; I am happily married to Sherry McNeil Ross. We have three daughters; Holly and husband Chris Garner of Iuka; Katie and husband Matt Daughtry of Charlotte, N.C.; Lauren Ross, graduating senior at MSU. We have three grandsons. Education: I am a 1967 graduate of Biggersville High School and at-
Name: Jeff Rencher Age: 48 Address: 660 CR 500, Corinth Office seeking: Tax Collector Family: I am the son of Cleda Rencher and the late Ronnie Burt Rencher. I am married to Sherry Glidewell Rencher, daughter of Helen and Billy Glidewell. We have one son Taylor, who is 20. Education: I am a graduate of Kossuth High School. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I am seeking this office
because I have a passion and a deep desire to help lead this county. I know with the right leadership, this county can be a wonderful place to raise a family and enjoy the employment opportunities that are available. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? Between 2008 and 2011, I had the privilege to serve as the 3rd District Supervisor of this county. During this time I took a lot of pride in this job. I tried to do my very
best to lead and help this county. Working together with the other supervisors, we worked tirelessly and together fixed many problems the county had. During this time, I taught myself about taxes and millage to better understand the jobs that the tax collector, chancery clerk and supervisors did to put together the budget for the county, that at that time was over $17. I used this knowledge to save the taxpayers money and to help the different entities better serve the people. 3) What do you con-
sider Alcorn County’s number one problem? At this time I do not feel like we have a county government that works together to solve the county’s problems. If we had that, everything else would fall right in place. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? I have seen first hand the county’s workforce come together and make a company, restaurant or any other business a success. This is one of the greatest assets that a
county can have. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. I would like to see the tax collector’s office work closer with the board of supervisors. This would allow them to make a budget that would save tax money and spend tax money in a better way. Though this job may have its limitations, I would like to see it become a better office to serve the people of the great county.
tended North Mississippi Community College. I have completed the Collector of Revenue 1, 2 & 3, attaining the certification of Collector of Revenue from the Mississippi Department of Revenue. 1. Why are you seeking this office? I was elected tax collector by the voters of Alcorn County in 2011 and I am seeking to continue to serve the taxpayers of Alcorn County with courteous and efficient service. 2. What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? A. I have over 40 years of experience in management and customer service in the private sector. B. During the last 3 ½ years I have completed all training offered by the Mississippi Department of Revenue (The agency charged by law to do such training). C. I am a fully certified Collector of Revenue. D. Each year that I have served, my office has successfully completed audits by the state auditor’s department. E. I have submitted and stayed within all of my
budgets each year I have been in office. F. I have worked with the board of supervisors, chancery clerk and the tax assessors offices on maintaining and updating the records of the tax collectors office. G. I have improved the security of the office by installing video cameras. H. I have made the funds secure by installing a safe. I. I have improved the safety of the office by making the entrance safe in the event of a fire or other emergency. J. I have used my cell phone (at no cost to the county) as fourth phone line making accessibility and better communication available to the taxpayers. K. I have aided the elderly and disabled by going to them at their home or car on tax collector related activity. L. As I promised when I was elected, I have continued to serve my church, civic and fraternal organizations so that I might help my fellow man and improve myself spiritually. M. I have assisted vet-
erans, the disabled and those 65 years of age and older by making them aware of the laws that benefit them. N. I have assisted business and industry to make them better aware of the tax liability that they face under the statues and laws of the state of Mississippi. O. And finally, I have offered formal training and education to the staff of the tax collectors office while I have been your tax collector. 3. What do you consider Alcorn County number one problem? The knowledge of the people that there is not enough industry that can maintain an adequate tax base to support educational cost in our county and other county services. 4. What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The family oriented spirit of its people and its businesses along with the spiritual strength of its churches makes Corinth and Alcorn County a great place to live. 5. Mention things you would like to see
accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. I would like to build on the foundation that has been laid by myself and my staff: A. Security of the office: Install a security access door between the public and private areas of the office. B. Accessibility to the tax collector: I will continue to make myself available to the people by phone, cell phone, email, fax or Internet while operating under an open door policy. C. Formal training: I will continue to get formal training for myself and staff through the Mississippi Department of Revenue. D. Ease of use: Make available to IPhone users an app to enable them to pay their property taxes and license plate renewals without coming to the office. E. Controlling fees: Keep exploring for a way to relieve the taxpayer from paying a fee when using their debit or credit cards. F. Cooperation: coop-
erate with the board of supervisors to get them to move the interface allotment money in the general fund budget to the tax collector budget so that I can use it for what the law intends for it to do (Section 27-19-99) This will allow me to have the funds available (Larry Ross) to upgrade and keep up with the modernization implemented by the department of revenue. G. Equipment and computer updates: The Mississippi Department of Revenue will begin a two-year process of upgrading their 40-year-old computer system in 2016. It will be necessary for my staff and I to become familiar with the changes that will occur and to be properly trained on new programs and computer apps. H. Knowledge: upgrade the tax bills to make them easier to read and explain. I. Transparency: keep the public aware of the activites of the tax office by reporting to the board of supervisors and local newspaper and/or social media if necessary.
ments are not bad by no means, but if we could train together and communicate more when an emergency happens it would be that much better. There is always room for improvement and learning in all areas. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The people of Alcorn County and especially our children, because the children are our future of Alcorn County. Every resident lives here by choice, a choice to live in a community who has the most caring and hardworking people around. As a community leader, lets focus on keeping Alcorn County a great place to live, work and raise
our children. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. Help the sheriff’s office get more officers patrolling especially at night. As your constable, I will be out patrolling as often as possible. I will assist the sheriff ‘s office in any way possible. I want every resident to be proud of his or her elected officials. I will strive to be the best constable Alcorn County has ever seen. School functions, funeral processions, house fires, medical emergencies - I will be there. I am now and will be if elected a phone call away at 662415-7300.
Constable Post 2
Name: James Bryant Age: 47 Address: 296 CR 512, Corinth Office seeking: Constable Post 2 Family: I have been
married to Jamie Moses Bryant for 23 years. We have four children. Brandy, 27, works in home health; Heather, 26, who is employed at Gingers; Tyler, 19, is a sophomore at Northeast Mississippi Community College and is employed at Taylor’s; and Lane, 10, is our little miracle who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. My parents are James A. “Jimmy” Bryant and the late Nada Robbins Bryant. My son-in-law is Willie Starnes Kirk and the late Homer Kirk. Education: I am a 1986 graduate of Kossuth High School, EMT from Northeast Mississippi Community College and numerous classes at the State Fire Academy, which will help me to con-
tinue to give back to my community. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I am seeking the office for the citizens of Alcorn County and Post 2. I want to be a constable everyone can trust and be proud of. I want to help make Alcorn County the best it can be. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have 18 years working with the public with the Corinth Fire Department and have the ability to treat everyone with the utmost respect. I also have 10 years with the Magnolia Regional Health Center Ambulance Service. I see people at their worse time in their
life. Whether it is a house fire, car accident, sickness or death. I have the compassion knowledge and ability to assist my neighbors during these difficult times. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? We have a lot of great departments in Alcorn County such as the Corinth Police Department, Corinth Fire Department, Alcorn Sheriff’s Department, Magnolia Ambulance Service, many Volunteer Fire Departments and the 911 office, all of these services are great and have super employees or volunteers. I would like to see more communication and training between these departments. The depart-
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Candidate Questionnaire 2015 Constable Post 2
Name: Wayne Duncan Age: 57
Name: Daniel Cooper Age: 35 Address: 454 CR 430, Corinth Office seeking: Constable Post 2 Family: wife, Tarea Andrews Cooper; sonKadan, 17; son- Kason, 15; father- Wayburn and Olivia Cooper; motherPeggie Settlemires Bundy and Bobby Bundy Education; Kossuth High School 1998; North Mississippi Regional Training Academy 2005 1) Why are you seeking this office?
I love Alcorn County. I want you the citizens of Alcorn County to have a safe place to live, own a business and for our children to go to school. I also want to ensure our elderly’s safety and well being. I will be a friend to Alcorn County, so when you call 662-415-4769, I want you to know that I’m coming. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? A big part of the constable’s job is process serving. I own and operate my own
process serving business. I also graduated from North Mississippi Regional Training Academy. I work for the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility with the current rank of sergeant. I am very familiar with our laws and our courtroom procedures. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Drugs are our number problem in Alcorn County, and from the drugs other problems arise such as burglaries, assaults, murders and etc.
4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest assets? The citizens of Alcorn County. Our children most importantly because they are our leaders of tommorrow. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. 1. I want to work closely with Constable Post 1 on the many warrants that we serve.
2. I will serve process in a professional manner. I will not serve you at work or place of business if at all possible. 3. I will be patrolling our streets, homes and business as much as possible. 4. I will be consistently doing walk throughs at our schools and I will be visible at our schools sporting events. 5. I will be bringing honesty, dependability, along with hard work to make our constable office one that you can be proud of.
Name: Paul Copeland Age: 41 Address: 72 Robbins Street, Rienzi Office seeking: Constable Post 2 Family: I am married to Tammy Copeland and we have three children and one grandchild. My father was the late Larry Copeland and my mother is Belinda Copeland. Education: I graduated from Kossuth High School in 1992. I was among the original members of the Mississippi Association of Profession-
al Process Servers and received training from them. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I have a strong desire to serve the people of Alcorn County as the next Constable for Post 2. I believe the citizens of Post 2 deserve an honest, hardworking, full-time constable and I know that I can get the job done. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have worked for the
public all of my adult life. I am a lifelong resident of Post 2, and I know the people and the area. I have been a professional process server for the past five years and I am very familiar with the legal aspects of this part of the job. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? From the viewpoint of law enforcement, I feel the number one problem in Alcorn County is the abuse of illegal and prescription drugs. We must do everything in our pow-
er to eliminate the sources for these drugs and to help the people who have drug abuse problems to overcome their addiction. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? I think our greatest asset is our children. As a father and grandfather, I want to do everything in my power to make sure Alcorn County is a safe haven for our children. I hope they can grow up here without fear, receive a great education and then find jobs
so they can support their own children. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. I will be a full-time constable. I will work with the court system to make sure tall process documents are served in a timely manner. I will work with other law enforcement personnel to patrol the county and to protect the people’s property and lives.
Address: 140 Hwy 356, Rienzi Office seeking: Constable Post 2 Family: I have been married to my wife, Regenia Duncan for 38 years. We have five children and four grandchildren. I am the son of Harry and Ruth Duncan and the grandson of the late John and Dora Searcy Duncan and the late Clarence and Cora Belle Sanders Greene. Education: I attended Rienzi Elementary School and Biggersville High School. In addition
to completing my GED, I have also taken a firearms training course and studied private law. 1) Why are you seeking this office? There are several reasons why I am seeking the office of Constable Post 2. I have lived all of my life in Alcorn County and have received so much from its people. This office will give me a great opportunity to serve the community that has meant so much to me in my life. 2) What experience
do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? In addition to studying private law, I served as a reserve deputy in Alcorn County, worked with the former Prentiss and Alcorn County constables and was an armed security officer for 14 years, 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Drugs, burglaries and not enough law enforcement. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn
County’s greatest asset? Our citizens, our children, our businesses, churches and schools. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. More visible law enforcement – I will accomplish this by being a fulltime constable, by being available to the people at all times, by patrolling our businesses, churches, schools and neighbor-
hoods, and by doing the best job I possibly can. Serving processes with dignity and respect – by treating everyone like I would want to be treated. To reduce the risk of traffic accidents during funeral processions. I will accomplish this by leading funeral processions when needed. I would like to see the people treated with fairness, honesty and respect. I will accomplish this by treating everybody the way I would want to be treated myself.
Name: Billy Wayde Mathis Age: 61 Address: 148 CR 533, Corinth Office seeking: Constable Post 2 Family: I have three children with Patsy Sue Mathis. Their names are Billy Shane Mathis, Christopher Lane Mathis and Nicholas Stephen Mathis. I am the son of the late Gladys O. Mathis or G.O Mathis and Annie Dee Mathis. I have eight
grandchildren. Education: I attended Kossuth schools K–12 and finished in 1975. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I really want to give back to the county which I have lived all my life. To go forward in order to help our county grow with the help of citizens. To give back to our county as it has freely given to me. I love our county and with help from our citizens want to make it an even
better and safer place to live. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have been a reserve deputy in Alcorn County. I have good people skills. I have also been an investigator for the Corinth Housing Authority. I have had training as a swatt medic and have been a process server. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s
number one problem? Drugs are our number one problem. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The people. When push comes to shove, we all ban together for our county. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea.
I would like to think of our county as number one in the state with less violence – a good and even better place where our kids and grandkids are safe. I would be professional and courteous. I would do my job with fairness, be highly visible and available 24/7 to work with other law enforcement to be a servant of the good citizens of Alcorn County. It is time for a change for the better.
Name: Jason Willis Age: 39 Address: 309 CR 614, Corinth Office seeking: Constable Post 2 Family: Married to Shea Crabb Willis; children - Jaden, 12 and Zoie, 6; parents - Donna Willis Russell and late Jimmy Willis; stepfather - Billy Russell Education: Corinth High School 1993; hundreds of hours of continuing education and
training in law enforcement. 1. I am seeking this office because I have a desire to serve the people of Alcorn County. My father was a constable post 1 and I heard him say many times that was the best job in his law enforcement career. I also think the office of constable should have someone who can bring experience, pride, and above all, honesty. 2. Experience: I have
17 years of real, hands on law enforcement experience. In those 17 years, I have held different positions from patrol to investigator. The constable’s main duty is working the court system. I have a vast knowledge of the court system due to being involved in hundreds of cases during my career. A constable is also a law enforcement officer. I am the only Post 2 candidate that is a full time certified law enforcement officer
accredited by the State of Mississippi. 3. Problems? Working at the sheriff’s office as a narcotics investigator, I see first hand the problems caused by drugs. Drugs are probably the main catalyst to a lot of other crimes. I have seen drugs tear families apart and ruin a lot of good people. 4. Alcorn County’s greatest asset is the people. I have lived in a couple of different places and
could not wait to get back home to Alcorn County. That is one of the reasons I want to serve them as their next constable of post 2. 5. The main thing I would like to accomplish while in office is to show the people that they can have a person who they can say they were proud they elected. I will do this by serving them with pride, dependability, and most of all, honesty.
Coroner office has always been held to a high standard. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I offer proven knowledge, integrity and passion. I would like to let the citizens know that I have fulfilled those qualifications. Serving the Alcorn County Coroner office for the past 19 years, for the past three years as coroner and deputy for 16 of those years. I have the knowledge and have worked over thousands of death investiga-
tions including natural, accidental, suicide and homicides. Integrity for being honest and having strong moral principles. My record speaks for itself. Passion is something that not everyone has. Serving as Alcorn County Coroner has been a life calling for me, dealing with death on a daily basis. Serving as your full-time coroner, which means being on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one prob-
Coroner
Name: Jay Jones Age: 46 Address: 2211 Hickory Road, Corinth
Office seeking: Coroner, re-election Family: Married to Jamie Evans Jones; four children, Sarah Grace Jones (Senior at Ole Miss, majoring in Elementary Education), Cooper Jay Jones (1st grader) and John Henry Jones (PreK), both will be attending Corinth Elementary School and Oliver Tipp Jones; son of Harold and Teri Jones and the late Janice Jones; brother, Kirk (Mary Katherine Butler) Jones; in-laws, Sharon Evans and Stan Wigington; sister-inlaw, Penny Evans (Matt) Dean.
Education: Corinth High School 1987; John A. Gupton College in Nashville 1993; Mortuary Science, Mississippi State Medical Examiner Death Investigation Class 1995, Basic Death Investigation with over 500 Hours of CEU, which includes medical training, death investigations, crime scene, polypharmacy investigation; Advanced SIDS death investigation; Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer Training Academy; Southeastern Law enforcement training seminars; Mississippi Coroner and Medical Examiners Seminars. While
serving in the coroners office, I have worked thousands of deaths in the past 19 years, including natural, accidental, suicide and homicides. 1) Why are you seeking this office? Serving as coroner has always been a lifelong passion of mine. In the 8th grade I did a report on serving as coroner. Being raised around death my whole life. I know what it takes to serve the citizens of Alcorn County. I have shown, not just the past 19 years, but my whole life has been around death and helping families. The Alcorn County
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Candidate Questionnaire 2015 Coroner
lem? As for the coroner office, that’s somewhat difficult to answer in some ways. This office deals with death on a daily bases. One thing that comes to mind is the deaths that involve polypharmacy overdose death. This is a problem that not only af-
fects Alcorn County, but the every area throughout this region. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? As citizens of Alcorn County, we live in a great community and we help each other when needed. Law enforcement is great to work with -- both local and state agencies. 5) Mention things you would like to see
accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. A. I have upheld the coroner’s office in the most respectful way. B. I have had an open door policy for the county coroner office. It is important for citizens to have a place to come and feel comfortable dealing with the loss of their loved one. C. I have worked with
area law enforcement, fire departments and EMA in training for crime scenes and disaster preparedness. D. I would like to have a county morgue -- this one is still a work in progress. E Being a steward of your tax dollars. The past three years I have stayed below our budget and have always been very conservative of spending your tax dollars. Al-
ways remembering that, I represent the citizens of Alcorn County throughout the state of Mississippi. As being a part of the Executive Board for the Mississippi-CoronerMedical Examiner Association to work with the State Medical and Mississippi Legislature to see about getting a crime lab, somewhere on the north end to the state. This will save time and expense for doing autopsies.
F. Being re-elected coroner. I promise to uphold the coroner office in the most respected way -- for the deceased, their families and the citizens of Alcorn County. I humbly request your vote and confidence in being reelected as Alcorn County Coroner. For information of my qualifications of my knowledge, integrity and passion, please give me a call at 662-284-6470.
Name: Ron Strom Age: 53 Address: 4412 CR 200, Corinth Office Seeking: Coroner Family: Son of Richard & Myra Strom; Married to Myra Massengill Strom, who is the daughter of the late Raymond and Juanita Massengill of Rienzi. Myra and I have two grown sons, Steven and his wife Kathryn and Bradley and his wife Abigail. Education: 1980 graduate of Iuka High School; EMT Basic at Northeast Mississippi Community College 1996; EMT Intermediate at Northwest Shoals Community College 1999; Paramedic at Northwest
Shoals Community College 2001; Became Flight Paramedic certified by the Board for Critical Care Transport Paramedic Certification (BCCTPC) in 2014 1) Why I’m seeking office: Twenty nine years ago my friend, Dave Lutz, encouraged me to join the Farmington Volunteer Fire Department. After joining, I immediately developed a passion for helping people in need. Around 1996 I was told of a new program that was going to be implemented in Alcorn County that was called “First Responders”. The First Responder program was developed to help get emergency medical treatment to the sick and injured prior to the arrival of an ambulance. Which in turn, has improved the long term outcome for those in need of emergency medical treatment. I was among the first group of volunteers in Alcorn County to sign up for this new program. I then decided to go a step further, become an EMT and apply for a position at Magnolia Hospital Ambulance Service. In 1996 Dan Leeth, who was the EMS director at the time, brought me on board to be part of a great team of EMS professionals at Magnolia Ambulance
Service, which then led to me becoming a full time paramedic. While working on the ambulance for the last 19 years, my passion for helping people has only become stronger. Because of this, I would like to expand my service to the people of Alcorn County by becoming your new coroner and bringing back to the coroner’s office, the medical training and experience that was lost when Dan Leeth retired in 2012. 2) What experience qualifies me for the office of coroner? The hundreds of hours of classroom and clinical training that is required to become a paramedic and the never ending continuing education required to maintain my certification along with the specialized training to become a flight paramedic, plus 19 years of working on an ambulance and helping in the ER has prepared me to be your next coroner. The coroner is not someone who simply goes to the scene of a death and says “Yes he’s dead”, then loads up the body and leaves. Your next coroner should be able to answer the many questions that will be asked by the family on a cause of death. In my opinion, without any medical training, experience and knowledge, I
believe this would be difficult if not impossible. While the official duties of the coroner are mainly focused on the death of a person, we must also remain aware that the deceased is a dearly loved family member or friend. Therefore I personally believe your next coroner should also possess a unique level of compassion and understanding for the surviving family members and be prepared to respond to their immediate needs by helping them in any way possible. Over the years, I have learned to do this, because a reality of working as a paramedic for as long as I have, there have been times when I have arrived at a residence only to realize that death was certain and medical treatment could not change the outcome. At that point, my priority has always been to shift into a different mode and respond to the needs of the surviving loved ones. 3) What is Alcorn County’s number one problem? No answer. 4) Alcorn County’s greatest asset: The many citizens of Alcorn County who volunteer their time, talents and assets to make life better for all. These men and women work hard for long hours and ask for nothing in return.
There are many groups of volunteers in Alcorn County who make life better for all, but the one group of volunteers I would like to point out for dedicated service is our volunteer firefighters / EMRs (Emergency Medical Responders). If the county had to pay for their vital services, it would put a great burden on the county’s budget, not to mention that without their services our home insurance rates would be much higher. These folks do not get the recognition that they deserve. 5) Things I would like to accomplish: I would like to see more technology used within the coroner’s office. First I would like to see a cardiac monitor placed in the coroner’s vehicle. This would be used on the deceased, that have not already been examined by EMS and attached to their monitor to ensure no electrical activity is still being produced by the heart. By utilizing this, a situation such as the one that occurred last year in Lexington, Mississippi, where a man was pronounced dead by the coroner, placed in a body bag and sent to the funeral home only to be found alive by funeral home employees, could be avoided. Affordable used monitors can be easily found at hospitals
and other agencies that have recently purchased new monitors. I would also like to see an electronic death certificate system put into use in Mississippi. This could eliminate mistakes by making the death certificates more legible than hand written certificates and speed up the process of getting the certificates delivered. This in turn would allow families to receive death benefits in a more timely manor. If elected, this is something I would immediately start lobbying our state officials to implement. I can not promise anything that is dependent of being implemented by the state, but I can promise a cardiac monitor will be purchased and utilized, even if I have to personally fund the purchase of a cardiac monitor. I believe your next coroner should have a medical background. I also believe the additional staff members of the coroner’s office should receive some basic medical training. With my prior experience of being an assistant paramedic instructor at Northwest Shoals Community College and presently being a preceptor for paramedic students, I will be able to provide this medical training without causing additional cost to the county.
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4th District Election Commissioner
Name: Sandy Coleman Mitchell Age: 45 Address: 95 CR 633, Corinth Office seeking: 4th District Election Com-
missioner Family: Married 17 years to Billy Hugh Mitchell; parents, Norbert & Diane Coleman; brother, Brian Coleman; niece, Eryn Coleman Education: 1988 graduate of Kossuth High School; Northeast Mississippi Community College, majored in Agribusiness from 1988-1990 1) Why are you seeking this office? I have the desire to make the election process in Alcorn County more efficient. I have many years of experience working the polls and I feel the firsthand knowledge I have gained from being there will help me tremendously in carrying out the
duties of an election commissioner. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have attended every session of the required poll worker training and worked at the Kossuth precinct for over 15 years. I started out registering voters and most recently served as returning officer. I have served in every position at the Kossuth precinct and know what it takes to get the job done during an election. I have worked with the election commissioners, circuit clerk’s office staff, Democrat and Republican committee officials and the Secretary of State’s office
to ensure that the Kossuth Precinct poll workers perform the duties according to law. I am confident in working with the new TSX voting machines and look forward to future advancement in voting machine technology. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? The lack of jobs available for the county’s workforce is a great concern of mine. I appreciate the existing industries we have, several of which have recently expanded creating new jobs. However, we have several vacant lots within the Industrial Park area and other areas in the county that could be home to new industries
which could provide jobs to local citizens. Infrastructure is also of importance to me, because it plays a vital role in attracting desirable industry to our county. There are many roads, bridges and buildings within our county that need significant attention. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Alcorn County has been blessed through the years with good leaders and community-minded organizations. Many people have volunteered their time to making our county successful and more attractive. Tourism, industry, civic organizations,
sports and entertainment venues have all played a part in our county’s achievements. I believe some of the best people in Mississippi live right here in Alcorn County. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. If elected 4th District Election Commissioner, I would like to help educate youth and young adults about the structure of county government and encourage them to get involved in the voting process by visiting local schools and civic organizations to promote election education.
Justice Court Judge Post 1
Name: Luke Doehner Age: 62 Address: 924 Fillmore Street, Corinth Office Seeking: Justice Court Judge – Post 1 Family: wife – Char-
lotte Brandt Doehner ; 3 step-children and 3 stepgrandchildren Education: University of Dayton – Graduated in 1975; Bachelors Degree in Science – Criminology; minored in psychology and sociology; Pittsburgh Institute of Technology graduated in 1977; Associate Degree in Computer Analysis; Associate Degree in Criminal Research 1) Why are you seeking this office? To bring honesty and integrity to the court system. I feel it is very important that justice court judges be educated in the law even though it is not a requirement now. Judgments in our court system reach beyond the court-
room and require not only knowledge of the law but also wisdom developed through years of experience in the public sector. I want to provide the citizens of Alcorn County with a justice system that is fair and unbiased, and tough on criminals who threaten our community. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? Interned and worked at the Probation and Parole Department for the City of Dayton, Ohio. Worked with the Dayton Police Department in various capacities, including training films. Worked with the Alleghany County Sheriff’s Department
(Pittsburgh, PA). Have helped provide the legal assistance to the Corinth Alcorn Animal Shelter required for the prosecution of Animal Abuse Cases. Attended seminars through the ASPCA and the Humane Society on Animal Rights Laws. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Lack of economic development and growth. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Our county’s greatest asset is the people who live here. With the correct leadership in place we can work together to solve all our problems.
5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. There are many opportunities for accomplishments while in office but here are a few things I would like to start with: A. Bring honesty and respectability to our court system. I will accomplish this by treating everyone equally and fairly. Decisions will be made according to the laws and their applications to each case. I will treat each person in my courtroom with respect. B. Expedite trials – be prepared. Be on time, and move proceedings for a swift hearing, get law enforcement back out on the
streets, respect taxpayers’ dollars. C. Help reduce crime – make correct and viable decisions, be tough on repeat offenders, parole violators, domestic and child abuse offenders, and repeat drug and alcohol offenders. D. Help people turn their lives around – provide solutions through compassion and the law. E. Educate children to respect the law – be available to the community and provide counseling – work through our police department to build better relationships with law enforcement. Provide creative solutions within the law to rehabilitate the lives of juvenile offenders.
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Candidate Questionnaire 2015 Justice Court Judge Post 1 Name: Chris Grisham Age: 42 Address: 3698 CR 100, Corinth Office Seeking: Justice Court Judge Post 1 Family: spouse: married 17 years to Angela Chittom Grisham; children: Sydney Grisham 12, and Shiloh Grisham 10 Education: 1991 graduate of Alcorn Central High School, 1993 gradu-
ate of Northeast Community College and graduate of the State Police Academy in Pearl Why are you seeking this office? I believe I can make a difference in Alcorn County by making this community a better place to live and raise a family. What experience do you have that qualifies you for the posi-
tion you are seeking? I have over 16 years of law enforcement experience in both state and local law enforcement agencies. I have the education, experience, and the willingness to serve the citizens of Alcorn County to help make our community a better place to live and raise a family. What do you consider Alcorn County’s
number one problem? I believe we live in the best city and county in the state of Mississippi. However, as in any city or county, there exists undesirable elements of people who prey upon the law abiding citizens. These undesirable elements should be dealt with, not ignored. What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest assets?
The greatest assets in Alcorn County are the citizens of this county. We live in an area where people are kind, loving and have a generous heart. Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. I would like to bring honesty, integrity and fairness to the office of Justice Court Judge Post 1.
Name: George S. Haynie Age: 55 Address: 522 CR 306 Corinth, MS 38834 Office seeking: Justice Court Judge Post 1 Family: I am the father of Keith Haynie, 36, and Jake Kely (Whitney), 31 and the grandfather of three. I am the son of the late Stanley and Betty Haynie. Education: I am a 1977 graduate of Alcorn
Central High School and have also attended Northeast Mississippi Community College. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I am seeking this office because I feel like I can build a trusting relationship between the court system and the fine people of Alcorn County. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking?
I have owned and managed my own business (Complete Mobile Home Service) for 15 years and worked with the public for an additional 15 years. Because of this, I’ve learned how to manage, operate and oversee difficult and unexpected situations which call for professional decision making. I feel like I am a good judge of character and this will overflow in helping to make the right
decisions as a Justice Court Judge. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? I don’t feel like one problem supersedes other problems. Like any community we have a host of issues that need addressing and need to be eradicated by not just one person, or one position and can only be done by elected officials, community leaders and
all citizens working together. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Without a doubt, the county’s greatest asset is the fine people who reside here. Our older citizens have a wealth of knowledge that can be passed down to our children who are our future. Working together we can continue to make this a place to be proud of.
5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. Fairness – To listen to each case with an open mind and judge accordingly and fairly within the guidelines of the law. Integrity – To be the judge that people will know their case has been handled with respect and professionally.
Name: Steve Little Age: 56 Address: P.O. Box
360, Glen Office seeking: Justice Court Judge Post 1 Family: Rita Hill Little, wife of 38 years; son, Chris Little (37); daughter, U.S. Army Captain Casey Little Moen (35); five grandchildren; mother, Ann Troxell; and father, T.J. Little (deceased) Education: 1976 graduate of Alcorn Central High School; graduate of Mississippi Realtors Institute; over 380 hours of continuing education with Mississippi Judicial College 1) Why are you seek-
ing this office? To continue to honestly and respectfully serve the people of Alcorn County 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have been humbled to serve as Justice Court Judge Post 1 for almost 20 years. Over these years not only have I gotten experience on the bench, but attended all required continuing education classes with the Judicial College as well as continuing education with the Mississippi Realtors
Institute, which covers some tenant/rental laws in Mississippi. I have over 38 years experience as a business owner as well as over 38 years with rental property. Business experience includes Realtor/ broker, property manager and contractor. All of this has allowed me to know how to deal with people on a day to day basis in varied situations. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? As it is across the nation, I believe drug abuse is the number one problem in
Alcorn County. It is like a cancer in our society and crosses all social and economic barriers, ruining not only the drug abusers life, but also their families and friends suffer. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? I believe our children is our greatest asset. If we as a community can work together to keep our children on a straight path, in school and away from drugs, we stand a chance of having some great and productive leaders in our
future. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. First, I want to continue to work with local elected officials to do my part to make our county safer and more productive. Second, I think the people deserve to feel confident that if they should find the need for Justice Court, it will not be an intimidating process and they can find fairness and unbiased judgments.
Justice Court Judge Post 2 Name: Jimmy McGee Age: 54 Office Seeking: Justice Court Judge Post 2 Address: 156 CR 420, Corinth (Live at Biggersville) Family: married to Cathy Benjamin McGee 31 years; son - Cody McGee (Courtney Vaughn McGee) - 27, Meghan McGee Vaughn (Graham Vaughn) - 23; parents - Rheuben and Glenda McGee of Biggersville; inlaws - Dorthy Benjamin and the late Joe Benjamin of Rienzi; three grandchildren
Education: graduated 1979, Biggersville High School; graduated 1981 Northeast Mississippi Community College; graduated from Mississippi Department of Corrections Training Academy; all required courses by state statue through the Mississippi Judicial College 1) I am seeking reelection as Justice Court Judge Post 2 to ensure fair and equal treatment to all citizens. I also want to continue the work I’ve been doing these past 15 years
to make sure the Justice Court System maintains the highest degree of integrity. 2) Experience matters! Based on my past 15 years of public service as Justice Court Judge Post 1, I’m fair and honest and have served the people of this community well. My education and work experience when combined with common sense will enable me to continue to make good decisions as your judge. 3) I consider Alcorn County’s number one problem to be the lack
of industry/low paying jobs/corruption by those entrusted by the people. The last point goes hand in hand with the others. Crime and corruption in turn deter corporations from bringing businesses into an area, therefore, if there is no competition, low paying jobs will be all there will be offered to the people. 4) I consider the greatest asset of Alcorn County to be the hard working, strong willed citizens who have continuously worked toward making this community
a better place for everyone. 5) I think all judges should run non-partisan (not having to declare a party). Circuit, chancery and county judges do not have to declare a party and do not run during the same year as the rest of your county elected officials. I believe it would be in the best interest of the people to do the same. I would like to work close with our lobbyists that represent the Mississippi Justice Court Judges Association to accomplish this.
Classification, Distinguished Expert, Combat Pistol; US Army, Expert M-14 Rifle Commendations: FBI Director Louis Freeh, Service Rendered; Mississippi State Tax Commission and ABC Director Arnie Rhoden, Service Rendered; Commander William Callagan, Chicago Detective Division, Chicago, Service Rendered; Joseph E. Digenova, United States Attorney, Washington, D.C., Service Rendered 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s greatest problem? When it comes to politics and government, we’ve done things the same way for far too long. We’ve arrived at a point where we can’t afford “business as usual” any longer. Alcorn County has suffered serious damage to the credibility of our county that will affect our ability to attract industry, jobs and residents for years to come. The list of problems is long. However, our jail is on the brink of bankrupting the county, and the constant security issues and inmate escapes are placing the lives of our citizens in danger and exposing the
county to potential legal liability. Getting the jail under control has to be our number one priority. 4) What do you consider Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Alcorn County is a great place to live with a lot of character and tradition. Our greatest asset is, without question, our citizens, and in particular our children, because they are our future. The people who live here create our community every day and give it a unique personality and voice that makes Alcorn County such a great place to live, work, raise our families, and eventually retire. Our citizens want and deserve a safe, efficient and wellmanaged county, and it is our responsibility to protect our children’s future. Good people can make great things happen. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you will get it done with each idea. My first priority as sheriff will be to perform a complete audit of every aspect of operations at
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Name: Billy Clyde Burns Age: 74 Address: 37 CR 750, Corinth Office seeking: Sheriff Family: Married to LaWanda Moody Burns for 46 years; son, Alan Clyde Burns; father, Clyde Burns, deceased; mother, Velma Jackson Burns, deceased Education: High School Diploma, Glen High School; two years, Northeast Mississippi Community College 1) Why are you seeking this office? As a retired law enforcement officer and life-long resident of Alcorn County, I’m concerned about
the future of law enforcement for my family and for our community. Our county is plagued with drug violence, corruption scandals, prison escapes and financial instability. I have the training and experience, along with a proven track record of results, to lead the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department to be the most professional, respected and efficient law enforcement agency in the region. Anyone can make promises and claim to be qualified, but I have a track record 30 years long that speaks louder than any promise. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? Experience: eight years, ABC Enforcement Agent, Mississippi State Tax Commission; one year, Chief Deputy Sheriff, Alcorn County; 21 years, Captain of Criminal Investigation, Corinth Police Department; one year, Jail Administrator, City of Corinth; Over 500 hours of formal classroom training in seven states; Over 100 hours of in-service training in more than 20 specialized areas Training: Advanced
Criminal Investigation, Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer Training Academy; Advanced Drug Enforcement, Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer Training Academy; Narcotics Officer School, M.B.N., Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer Training Academy; Child Abuse and Exploitation Investigation, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Ga.; Criminal Profiling: Investigative Analysis, Arkansas Highway Patrol, Little Rock, Ark.; Crime Scene Management: Tactical Communication, Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer Training Academy; Law Enforcement Instructor Development, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jackson, Tenn.; Kinesic Interview Training, Level I & II, Itawamba Community College, Fulton; Kinesic Interview Techniques, Level III, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Ky.; Kinesic Interview Techniques, US Marshals Service, Memphis; Kinesic Interview Training: Detection and Interrogation Phases, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Tupelo; Interviewing & Cogni-
tive Interviewing, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Clarksville, Tenn.; Reid Techniques of Interview, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Advanced Interview and Interrogation, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Ga.; Neurolinguistic Programming, Sid Jacobson, Ph.D., South Central Institute, New Orleans; Narcotic Dog Detector Training, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Parchman; White Collar Crime Investigation, Law Enforcement Officer Training School, Biloxi Accomplishments: Taught criminal investigative techniques of interrogation classes at the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer’s Training Academy, Mississippi Department of Corrections and US Justice Department Probation and Parole Officers; invited to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., to create training videos and help develop a training course for FBI agents and other law enforcement officers; seven years, ABC Enforcement Pistol Team; competed five years in NRA National Police Combat Pistol Championships, Master Class; NRA
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the jail, from staff training and security policies to vendor contracts and inmate conditions. We need to implement highlevel training for our correctional officers and be sure that we have the best people. This is not expensive training, and having examined the budget, I believe there is money for training available; we just have to take advantage of it. Once the jail is under control, we need to crosstrain our patrol officers in crime scene management, criminal investigation, and drug enforcement, and identify those individuals who have the
desire and ability to be career officers. Only by creating an environment of teamwork and cooperation combined with cutting-edge training and strong leadership can we develop the sheriff’s department we deserve. 6) The sheriff’s office has the county’s third largest annual budget at just over $1.15 million, and the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility has an annual budget of just over $3.17 million. Please explain what experience you have in managing a budget of this size. I’ve served as Chief Deputy Sheriff of Alcorn County, so I’m familiar with the budgeting and day-to- day operation of
the department. When I served in that role, one of my first official acts was to perform a complete audit of the department’s daily operations and institute numerous procedural reforms to streamline its efficiency without increasing the budget. I have also served as Jail Administrator for the City of Corinth and fully understand the complexities of operating a jail within a budget without compromising its security or its compliance with state and federal guidelines. 7) The Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility continues to operate at with a large deficit. Explain how you would fix this problem. The justice center oper-
ates with a total budget of approximately $3.1 million, of which over $1.3 million, or 41% of the budget, goes toward payroll. Of that amount, the budget allocates almost $1 million, or $2,700 per day, for jailers, guards and security personnel, with the remainder going toward administrative and service staff. Anyone who reads the newspaper regularly knows that the taxpayers clearly aren’t getting their money’s worth for this level of expenditure. We can significantly improve the facility’s efficiency with a smaller number of highly trained and qualified personnel at a more competitive pay rate. I also believe that we can realize significant savings by opening
up competitive bids on other large budget line items such as food service, dry goods, uniforms, maintenance and other contract services. 8) What do you consider the biggest problem facing Alcorn County law enforcement? The issues can be summed in one word, professionalism. I have a vision of an efficient, professional sheriff’s department where our officers have careers like the one I’ve been fortunate enough to have, instead of simply having jobs; a vision in which our citizens can feel safe and be proud of their Sheriff’s Department for years to come. We have to grow a new generation of law en-
forcement professionals to take the reins for the future. No officer should lose his or her job because of politics, the wrong arrest or the next election. By the same token, officers should be hired and promoted on merit and hard work, not the political allegiances of the sheriff. How can our officers be expected to perform their duties when they don’t have the training and don’t know from one day to the next whether they will have jobs? Professionalism begins with leadership, and if I am elected sheriff, I will provide that leadership and put our officers on the path to the professional law enforcement careers they – and our citizens – deserve.
Name: Ben Caldwell Age: 36 Address: 20 CR 505A, Corinth Office seeking: Sheriff Family: I am married to the former Christy Baird of Corinth. We have two children, Noah (7) and Chloe (6). My parents are Joe and Amanda Caldwell, and Leo and Donna Putt Meyer. I am the grandson of Dimple and the late Bobby Caldwell, and Era Mae and the late Billy Putt. Education: Law enforcement training is vital. I am a 1997 alumnus of Kossuth High School and, in 1999, the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, Calif. I graduated from the Mississippi Delta Community College Law Enforcement Training Academy in 2004 and the Mississippi Law Enforcement Training Acad-
emy Certified Investigator Program in 2007. I have successfully completed courses in evidence collection, homicide investigations and advanced narcotic investigations. I have 160 hours of training in Officer Safety in High Risk events. I am certified in processing, dismantling and disposal of methamphetamine labs. I am also a National Rifle Association law enforcement firearms instructor for pistol, shotgun and rifle. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I have served our country, our community and our state. My education and my training have been geared toward law enforcement. There would be no higher privilege than to serve you as your sheriff. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? My entire career has prepared me to serve as your sheriff. While serving as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps assigned to the National Security Agency in Afghanistan, I learned the importance of working as a team. During my time with the Corinth Police Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, I have forged relationships with many local, state and federal agencies. These relationships are vital to serving Alcorn
County better. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Our largest obstacle is making Alcorn County and it’s workforce attractive to employers that bring not only jobs, but also career opportunities to the county. Our county is meeting this challenge with good quality education and a first-rate medical community. Despite these qualities we still have issues with drugs, teen pregnancy and the ability to gain capital to start small businesses. Alcorn County faces competition for job creation not just from surrounding counties, but from everywhere in the country. As a community, we must build on our strengths and address our weaknesses. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Our greatest asset is our citizens and their desire for healthier and more prosperous futures for our children and our grandchildren. We need look no further for an example of the character of our community than the fact that over $18,000 was recently raised for Havis’ Kids, or that a recent fun run to increase awareness for autism overflowed with participants. These things and more like them make me truly proud to be a part of
Alcorn County. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. My goals are to have a professionally trained and respectful workforce at the sheriff’s office. I will seek cost effective training methods such as sending one officer to be trained as an instructor who can train other officers in the department. I will work with the Northeast Mississippi Community College training center in Corinth to maximize opportunities. I want to make the sheriff’s office more responsive and accountable to the citizens that require assistance. I will personally follow up with individuals who contact the office to ensure they were treated in a professional and respectful manner. I would also like to see more opportunities for career advancement for employees at the regional prison and county jail. Key in this is to ensure that employees understand the expectations placed upon them in such vital positions. I will ensure that they meet those expectations and are recognized when they exceed those expectations. 6) The sheriff’s office has the county’s third largest annual budget at just over $1.15 million and the
Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility has an annual budget at just over $3.17 million. Please explain what experience you have in managing budgets of this size. Budgeting at any level is a matter of using historical data and expectations to project expenditures. Living within a budget is a matter of routinely making decisions that preserve resources while meeting immediate needs. While the dollar figures of these budgets are substantial, the process for budgeting is similar and requires the same expertise as maintaining personal financial integrity. My wife and I have managed our personal finances well. For the sheriff’s department, I would expect to use that experience and employ professional talent to find efficiencies in this area. 7) The Alcorn County Regional Corrections Facility continues to operate with a large budget deficit. Explain how you will fix this problem. The first step is to work with the members of the board of supervisors to ensure transparency. With any budget the size of the correctional facility comes purchasing leverage. I would look for those areas and maximize that leverage to save money. I would further explore
with other sheriffs and the state potential opportunities for group purchasing that has proven effective for hospitals in minimizing increases in costs. Also, I would study the processes used in the facility, seeking to identify unneeded, duplicative and wasteful steps. Streamlining these processes would lead to great efficiencies. In addition, I would use my network of contacts at the state level and beyond to identify other correctional facilities that have done indepth studies of the process and find resources to make our facility more efficient. 8) What do you consider the biggest problem facing Alcorn County law enforcement? As an agent with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, I am extremely aware of the struggles we face in Alcorn County with drugs. I am also aware of the large number of burglaries in the county. However, I believe our largest challenge is the public’s lack of trust for law enforcement. As a current law enforcement officer, I recognize I already have a responsibility in this area. Trust can only be built with top quality leadership at the highest levels of local law enforcement. As your sheriff I would eagerly assume a greater responsibility.
Name: Ned Cregeen Age: 43 Address: 1902 Meadowbrook Rd., Apt #52, Corinth Office seeking: Sheriff Family: I have two beautiful daughters, Sadie, age 20, and Caylee, age 13. I’m the son of Donnie and Maynette Cregeen. Education: I am a 1990 graduate of Corinth High School. After graduation I attended NEMCC and UNA for 2 years. In 2012 I received my bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in Homeland Security and a minor in sociology. I went back to college to further my education because I knew how valuable it would be
in running the day to day operation as sheriff. 1) I am running for the office of sheriff because I have and always will have a strong desire to serve the community that I have lived in my whole life. I have always taken pride in being able to say I was from Corinth and I have never had a desire to live anywhere else. Alcorn County has so many amazing people and has always been a wonderful place to raise our children but recent events with gangland shootings, jail escapes, and the serious drug problem our community is facing has led to concerned citizens and friends asking me to run for office to make our community safer by having a professional department as I did when I was chief of police. I have always put the best interest of the citizens before my own. 2) I have served the citizens of Alcorn County my entire adult life. I began with the Corinth Police Department as a police officer at the age of 21. During my career I made a name for myself by being hard on drug dealers and criminals all while treating people with respect and being a man of my word. After three years on patrol I was placed on the DUI Unit and eventually was
named the commander of the unit. In 1998 I was promoted to detective sergeant and was assigned to work narcotics and assist in criminal investigations. I was deputized by Sheriff Jimmy Taylor to work in a joint task force with the city and county. During my time working narcotics we were able to make a major impact on the drug problem the city and county faced. We either led or was in the top five in the state in cases made and successfully prosecuted during that time. We worked closely with the DEA and they had no problems adopting our cases. Our cases led to numerous drug dealers being convicted to long sentences in the federal pen. In 2002 the citizen of Corinth honored me by electing me as their chief of police at the very young age of 30. I successfully ran a largest law enforcement agency in the county and was responsible for a city jail that was under a federal mandate but due to the policies and procedures that I put into place we were able to come out from under the mandate. During that time we didn’t have problems with jail escapes. I was also able to provide necessary training, weapons and duty belts to our officers all while the
board made necessary budget cuts due to the decline of our local economy. I currently work as a probation/parole agent with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. I supervise convicted felons and non-adjudicated offenders who are on probation and parole. We are also responsible for conducting prison searches to look for weapons and contraband. These searches have given me a wealth of knowledge concerning officer safety as well as inmate safety. As sheriff I would use this knowledge and train our officers how to conduct a proper shakedown and we would conduct regular shakedowns to ensure a safer working environment for the staff. We need our leaders to stop making excuses and start making things happen. 3) It has always been my professional opinion that the drug problem that is plaguing our community is the root of almost all of our crimes. Not only are we dealing with local drug dealers, we now have drug dealers from Marshall County and Memphis coming into our community selling to our children. To make matters worse, our jail is flooded with drugs. I currently work as a probation/parole agent
for the Mississippi Department of Corrections. I recently received a letter from an inmate in the Regional Jail that I once supervised. In this letter he congratulated me for running for sheriff and that he hoped I got elected because he said the amount of drugs in the facility was outrageous. He went on to say that he had been in every facility in the state at some point in time during his times of incarceration but that he has never been in a facility that had more drugs available. He went on to say if a person didn’t have a drug problem before being in the facility that they would when they left. There have also been similar things said by offenders that I supervise about the county side of the Alcorn County Corrections Facility. This will be addressed from day one if you honor me by electing me as your sheriff. 4) I have always said that the people of Alcorn County are the greatest asset. The people of Alcorn County care about each other and are willing to do whatever it takes to make this the best place to raise our children. The downtown area of Corinth is a prime example of an asset and is considered one of the best in the state but without
the nature of our citizens it would just be nice store fronts. The people of Alcorn County deserve to have leaders who put the needs of the people before their own interest. Our leaders should be selfless servants, not selfish servants. 5) It is my goal to have a sheriff’s department that is rivaled by no other agency in the nation for the right reasons. I will do so by providing your deputies and correctional officers with the training and tools they need in order to do their job of protecting the citizens in a professional manner. I will not make excuses of lack of funding being the reason officers aren’t trained. Money does matter when it comes to training, but there is free training provided in this county that officers from all over the state come to for training that is not currently being utilized. Training and sound policy will eliminate jail escapes and drugs and weapons from entering the correctional facility. I would like to see the jail not breaking the budget of the county. This is possible through sound oversight and management. There are no problems that can’t be solved with proper lead-
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ership. I would love to see the sheriff’s department and Corinth Police Department working together to address the needs of our citizens and I pledge to you that if elected. I will work with all agencies to ensure we are provided this happens. I did so as your chief of police and I will do so as your sheriff. 11) As your chief of police for the City of Corinth, I successfully managed a budget of approximately $2 million. I did so at a time when our city and counties economy was shrinking and our overtime was cut. However, I got creative with the budget when the board told me I could provide weap-
ons and duty belts to the officers if I could find the money. Prior to me being chief, officers had to furnish their own at a cost $800 to $1,500.00 depending on the weapon of choice while only earning a starting pay of just over $9 an hour. I went to the superintendent of the Corinth School District and asked if they could get by without crossing guards doing what the teachers were already doing working the car and bus lines. The school system agreed they could do so without any added risk to the children. I also asked them if they could pay our officers salary for coverage at the sporting events. At the time the school system was paying private security to work the games at close to the same pay it would take to have all
certified full time officers doing the same duties. We were sending officers and paying overtime at a time when our overtime was cut or limited. The school system agreed to this measure as well and began paying the city back for the services we provided. This allowed me, for the first time, to provide officers with duty belts and weapons, which later allowed the police department to provide uniforms as well. This was greatly appreciated by myself and the officers and goes to show that you can find ways to get the things you need if you are diligent. I also spent many nights patrolling with the officers, after working all day, to ensure they had backup and our city was being adequately covered. The only issues we had
with the budget was fuel costs. Our country was at war and fuel costs skyrocketed but this was addressed citywide. 12) The first thing I would do is get with the state auditor’s office to find out exactly where the money they discovered missing went and the findings of the audit to ensure that it didn’t happen again. Inventory control is vital. An independent audit of the whole sheriff’s office budget and inventory would be needed to protect the next sheriff and the finding should be made public. Through transparency the new sheriff could show the citizens where things stand on day one and from that point on I or whoever is elected would be held accountable. Once this is done, I would search all avenues
and make necessary cuts to ensure I remained within the budget. Turning the deficit around won’t be easy and likely won’t be a quick fix, but as chief of police for the City of Corinth I did successfully manage a large budget and would do the same as your sheriff. This county cannot afford for the Correctional Facility to fail. I will work tirelessly to work with Commissioner Fisher of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and lawmakers to ensure that MDOC continues to pay for the housing of state inmates. I still think this is an open matter despite what has been said so far. 13) Aside from the gang and drug problem, I would say it would be the public image and trust. Times have changed and a lot of people don’t trust
or respect law enforcement. This is disturbing to me because law enforcement relies heavily on information provided by the public and lack of trust ends with crimes going unsolved because witnesses won’t come forward. We as law enforcement officers have to be diligent about earning the trust of the people we serve. I have always been professional and courteous to all people from all walks of life and in return I have always had a reputation as an man and officer of integrity, honesty, and one who has no problem taking people to jail but being fair while doing so. I would expect the same for the deputies and corrections officers that work for me. I humbly ask that on August 4th vote Ned Cregeen for your next sheriff.
Name: David Derrick Age: 46 Address: 206 County Road 248, Glen Office seeking: Sheriff Family: Wife, Carol Troxell Derrick of 28 years; son, Scott Derrick; three grandchildren; mother, Elise Spears Grammer; father, Late Richard Derrick Education: 1987 Graduate of Kossuth High School, 2007 Graduate of Mississippi Delta Community College Law Enforcement Training Academy, 2008 Graduate of D.A.R.E. Officer Training 1) Why are you seeking this office? After prayerful consideration for several years, I am seeking to be your next sheriff. With the support from family and friends I am seeking this office not for personal gain, not to support an agenda and not to work toward my retirement. I am seeking this position to make a difference in Alcorn County, a difference for all the people. Having lived my entire life here and dedicating my life to law enforcement to serve the people, I have found that my desire to serve more has grown. I am here to move Alcorn County forward with a drive and passion to see us continue to thrive as a community. The office of sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer in the county and will be held accountable to the people. Accountability is for myself, deputies and office as a whole. Simply put, I am a man of my word. I say what I mean and mean what I say. I am not going
to make promise I cannot keep. I am not an outsider looking in. I am on the inside fighting to make the changes that the people of Alcorn County deserve to be served and protected by the sheriff’s department. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? Having worked in law enforcement for many years, I can personally speak for the ethics, common sense, integrity, accountability and character that it takes to be successful in this position. Sitting behind a desk or having a collection of training certificates does not necessarily qualify you to do a job. Although I have undergone hundreds of hours in advanced law enforcement training, true qualification comes with putting that knowledge and experience to work. I am on the road on a daily basis and personally see the areas that need improvement and how your sheriff’s department needs to make changes to run more efficiently. Being the only candidate that actively works within your sheriff’s department, I see the areas that need improving and where savings could be achieved. If elected, I will not need a month or so to evaluate how to fix the problems we face, I will hit the ground running the first day to ensure that your department is working for you. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? The largest problem that I see, not specifically related to law enforcement, is our lack of jobs. Currently we stand at just below five person and it has been on a steady decline since the beginning of 2015. This is a little better than the national average, but still leaves many people in Alcorn County without work. Finding ways to support the Board of Supervisors and other entities bringing industry and jobs into our community is paramount. Having a lack of jobs allows additional problems to creep into our communi-
ties including property theft and domestic issues as people that are seeking jobs deal with financial problems and struggle to make ends meet for their families. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Without question, Alcorn County’s greatest asset is our children. Having worked with the D.A.R.E. Program for several years, I have had the privilege to work in each of our county schools on almost a daily basis. If elected, I pledge to still remain actively involved in continuing to grow the D.A.R.E. Program and keep it as part of our school system. This is a vital tool to help teach our children to resist against drugs and violence. Continuing to invest in our children will insure that we invest in our own future. These young men and women are being raised in a culture very different than I saw when I was raised. It is our responsibility to instill the morals and attitude of respect for our elders, our country and our beliefs. Unfortunately, we will not always be around and by allowing our children to grow up in a community that nurtures them, regardless of the direction that the future holds for our country, we will see Alcorn County continue to be great for generations to come. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. There are many areas that I would like to see improvement: Adding additional deputies to the streets and increasing visibility, increased training of all personnel and the development of a Special Response Team to address growing threats to our schools and churches. All of these goals are able to be achieved through proper planning and working hand-in-hand with the Board of Supervisors to identify these goals and work toward modifying the existing budget to meet them. Unfortunately
some of these things will take more money than we currently have available. This can be addressed by drawing from the many local and proven grant writers that have brought millions of dollars into Alcorn County already. With direction and assistance, monies can easily be identified and brought in through local, state and federal grants programs with little or no cost matching to the tax payers of this county. To increase involvement and communication with the sheriff’s department, community meetings will be scheduled for citizens to take part in. Alcorn County is blessed with many wonderful and individual communities. The problems that residents face in Kossuth may not be the same as those in Rienzi. By hosting these meetings, deputies and citizens can sit down together to identify problems and work toward goals to make all of Alcorn County safe. This will also allow citizens to remain updated on the latest prevention and effort the sheriff’s department is undertaking. In addition, this will allow your sheriff’s department to be held accountable for actions or inactions to you. Further training for deputies and personnel at the regional Correctional Facility can also be assisted by utilizing the Northeast Mississippi Law Enforcement Training Center in Corinth to receive advanced training at no cost to you. Very soon, the Center will also be offering certification courses directed at advanced training for jail employees to operate safer and more efficiently. 11) The sheriff’s office has the county’s third largest annual budget at just over $1.15 million and the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility has an annual budget at just over $3.17 million. Please explain what experience you have in managing budgets of this size. Balancing a budget of any size requires the same
principle: You can’t spend what you don’t have. It is important to remain conservative and depend heavily on team work and consultation. Budgets do not mend quickly and with time, proper documentation and accountability, the current budget can be directed to address defined goals that have been thought unreachable before. Other areas can be addressed such as no longer putting additional money into repairs of older equipment that could be purchased new. Careful planning is the key to a successful budget and finding ways to decrease and increase spending according to the needs identified. The most important thing about either budget is transparency. This money belongs to the people of Alcorn County, requested by the sheriff and approved by you Board of Supervisors. You have a right to know where and how your money is spent. This allows for true accountability to everyone involved and for a scale to measure the progress of reaching the goals that we are working toward. 12) The Alcorn County Regional Corrections Facility continues to operate with a large budget deficit. Explain how you will fix this problem. I don’t believe there is a singular reason that the jail is currently operating in a deficit, but a combination of several things allows us to continue to struggle with this problem. It is important that we understand that the Regional Correctional Facility was never intended to “make money” for Alcorn County. It is not a profit center and was expressed brought here to increase opportunities for Alcorn County at a state level. That being said, it is also not something that should be supported by Alcorn County. The jail has the capability to be self-sufficient without constant funding from the public coffers. One of the main ways to combat this is to invest in our employees. A warden with strong experience and the
management capabilities that this job requires has to be a top priority. The warden must be held accountable for their actions and the action of all the employees. Minimum wage is unacceptable for the boldest enforcement officers we employee. By investing in people that are looking for a “career” and not just a “job” will help insure that they are vested in their job and care about the good of the facility. 13) What do you consider the biggest problem facing Alcorn County law enforcement? In one word, drugs. Whether it is abuse of prescription medications or synthetic illegal drugs, the daily fight that we seem to address is drugs. These tie back to the demographics of our community. For those that struggle in other areas of life, drugs offer an easy out and a way to avoid problems that they face. Drugs are a gateway to many other challenges law enforcement officers face including domestic violence, theft and property damage, but the root of most problems always boils down to drugs. I feel that this is contrary to the spirit and culture of Alcorn County. We are built on the hard work, drive and determination of Mississippians that work hard for what we have. There is a growing divide between those that participate in a drug lifestyle and those that want their communities rid of it. Naturally, by dedicating more training to deputies in interdiction and fighting drugs, we will take back the areas that are now being sullied by drugs in our county. In addition, continuing to grow the D.A.R.E. Program in our schools along with other community outreaches and local ministries, we will equip the citizens of our county to combat drug problems near them. Drugs are a large challenge for our law enforcement officers, but not a challenge that can’t be overcome with dedication and teamwork between all people in Alcorn County.
Name: Mike Larue Age: 60 Address: 52 CR 448, Rienzi Office Seeking: Sheriff Family: I have been married to Linda Jean (Whitfield) since 11/1/1989. Between us we have four children: Melody LaRue Vail (40 of Mooreville); Daniel Rogers (34 of Corinth); Sara LaRue Davis (33 of Fulton); and Bree LaRue Burnett (25 in the USAF). Together, we enjoy five
grandchildren. My inlaws are Linda Calvery Whitfield and the late Morris Cleston Whitfield of Corinth. My parents are George and Alice Bates of d’Iberville. Education: I attended d’Iberville High School in d’Iberville and Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton. In May of 1982 I graduated with honors from Itawamba County Junior College with an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts.
In December of 1984 I graduated with honors from the University of Southern Mississippi with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social and Rehabilitation Services. 1. I am seeking the office of sheriff because I have the vision needed to develop the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department into an outfit composed of law enforcement professionals dedicated to public service and protection. I have the integrity, the broad range of experi-
ence, the work ethic, the character, the education, the common sense, and the “fire in my belly” to successfully address the concerns of my fellow Alcorn Countians. 2. My qualifying experiences begin with my faith in God. I am a Christian man. I served six years in the United States Air Force. I traveled around the country and overseas which afforded me the opportunity to experience different peoples and different cultures. I utilized
the G.I. Bill and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors. The primary coursework was in counseling psychology with an additional 12 semester hours each in Psychology, Sociology and Spanish. While earning my undergraduate degree I worked for Ellisville State School for 2.5 years in a program for mentally challenged juvenile offenders. Thus began my first experience with the criminal justice
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system. Upon graduation from Southern Miss I took a job in the management program of the K&B Drug Store chain. After six months of management training, I decided to reenter the criminal justice arena and took a job as a probation/parole officer with the Mississippi Department of Corrections in Hattiesburg in June of 1985. In June of 1988, I transferred to Alcorn County and became the first parole officer to live here. Working in that capacity I dealt with probationers, parolees, jails, institutions and prisoners until December, 2002. During that same time period, between 1994 and 2002, I also worked in Alcorn County as a deputy sheriff. In December 2002, I was hired by District Attorney John R Young as a criminal investigator. For the next nine years, until December of 2012, I worked as the District Attorney Criminal Investigator serving the northern half of this district to include Alcorn, Prentiss and Tishomingo counties. I worked on cases ranging from drug possession/ sales to murder. In April of 2013, I accepted an invitation by Circuit Judge Jim Pounds to join his Drug Court team. I have been employed there for the past three years. In summary: I have 2.5 years juvenile experience, 17.5 years probation/parole experience, 8 years deputy sheriff experience, 9 years as a District Attorney Criminal Investigator, and 3 years Drug Court experience. The totality of my education and experiences uniquely qualify me for sheriff. 3. Currently, I consider Alcorn County’s number one problem the lack of industrial development. Industrial development brings with it the higher paying jobs and career op-
portunities. With significant additional industrial development would come a broader tax base which would mean more monies available to help fund and improve services. 4. The greatest asset in Alcorn County is our people. We, God fearing, hard working, warm-hearted, patriotic people, are the very fabric of this county. Our children are the future of Alcorn County. 5. Several issues come to mind when thinking about my goals for Alcorn County during my term in office: A. Increased Patrol Service Currently, Alcorn County has eight patrol deputies providing service to about 38, 000 people covering approximately 400 square miles. Many times in Alcorn County we have only one deputy on duty. Data from the National Sheriff’s Association reports that, on average, a sheriff’s department is manned by one deputy per shift per 10,000 people. When we apply that information to our circumstance (and rounding up to 40,000 residents) it yields that we would need a minimum of 16 deputies. Add four more deputies to cover sick days, vacation days, and that brings the number to 20 deputies. Right now, we know that is not a fiscal reality. I will hire two additional deputies which would give us two full-time deputies 24/7. Our current certified part-time reserve program deputies will be expanded from the current four to at least 10, so that we will have two certified part-time deputies on duty 24/7 which would bring us to the minimum desired four deputies on duty at any given time. This method would be cost effective and would result in proactive law enforcement, quicker response times, and a host of other benefits. Before long, the criminals would understand that we are amongst them. B. Alcorn County Re-
gional Correctional Facility Career Ladder Another very important goal of mine is to develop a career ladder for our employees of the regional jail. We currently hire an entry level correctional officer at $8 per hour. We offer them little training, if any, and no career ladder. There is very little hope of career advancement. The Mississippi Department of Corrections will hire that same trainee at $10.57 per hour and will provide complete training with a built in progressive career ladder. We are severely under paid, under staffed, under trained, and under equipped. My goal is to secure a working budget so that we can offer competitive pay rates, provide professional inhouse training utilizing a train-the-trainer type program and to develop a career ladder so employees will have hope for future advancement. Some may even develop career goals of becoming chief of security or warden. That’s how we build a team who works and stays together. That’s how we develop the professionalism which provides public safety. C. Enhanced Narcotics Enforcement Very important to me is the enhancement of our narcotics department. We currently have two full-time narcotics investigators who dedicate many, many hours to the identification and arrest of narcotic violators in our county. My goals are to add one additional narcotics officer and keep our narcotic officers trained with cutting edge information, technologies and tools. We must develop additional training opportunities for our patrol deputies so they stay abreast of the latest information and tactics. We will develop working, professional relationships with the Corinth Police Department, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, and our surrounding law enforcement agencies for shared assistance, intelligence, tools and training.
D. Community Contact Program It is essential the sheriff’s department maintain a close relationship with the people of the county. We will do this by developing a Community Contact Program. It will consist of two parts. Part 1: Patrol duty is like any other job in that some days you are very busy and some days are slower. On the slower days/times, at least weekly, a deputy may see you working in your yard. He will stop and approach you dressed in a professional uniform. He will hand you a professional business card. He will ask you how things are going in your community and if you have any suggestions/comments for us. This confidential information will be documented on a Community Contact Report form and will be forwarded to my desk for action as necessary. Part 2: Because volunteer firemen and rescue squad personnel reside in every community in our county and respond regularly to emergency situations, they often hear and see what others do not. We will open a pipeline of communication between the sheriff’s office and each of the county’s volunteer fire departments and rescue squads. E: School Resource Officer(s) In these changing times I think it is of significant importance that our children and our educators receive the benefit of implementing an enhanced school resource officer program. My plan involves the resource officer(s) utilizing a “rotating float” type work schedule designed to minimize the predictability of their presence. Because the DARE program will remain intact, the resource officer(s) will be supervised by the DARE program coordinator. My goal is to implement this program with grant monies and other available funding sources. F: Accessibility The people of Alcorn
County deserve law enforcement service when they need it, regardless of the day of the week or the time of day. As your sheriff, my plan is to have a person at the front desk to greet you personally when you call for information or when you walk in the front door. You will not have to wait any extended period of time for assistance. We will be accessible, 24 hours per day, seven days a week. G: Accountability My goal is to accomplish all the tasks I have been speaking about during this campaign for sheriff. I invite accountability. Once elected as your sheriff, I will hold an open house community forum at the justice complex courtroom at 7 p.m. on the last Friday of each quarter. During these meetings I will openly discuss our progress toward the achievement of our goals and will gladly accept public’s input for consideration. 11. While I have had great success managing budgets, I have never been exposed to a budget of this size. However, I understand that the same administrative principles apply. Monies can not be spent that are not authorized by the budget. Continuous monitoring is required to ascertain: (1) the revenues are being received from the various sources and are within the anticipated range, (2) all line item expenses are within expectations, (3) all expenditures are itemized, and (4) all vendors are held accountable. 12. The large budget deficit at the Alcorn County Regional Corrections facility can be explained only after a forensic analysis/audit. It needs to be determined if the deficit is due to revenue shortfalls , excessive expenditures or both. Until that is determined, I will do the following: (1) I will make certain that revenue amounts are being paid exactly as due based on the daily MDOC headcount (per inmate/
per day); (2) I will make certain all other sources of revenue are forthcoming as contractually agreed; (3) I will examine all vendor contracts to be certain we are getting the best deal for the money and to be certain all contracts were openly and competitively bid; and (4) I will examine each and every line item expense to identify areas of financial concern. We must strictly monitor all revenues and expenditures to be absolutely sure we are maximizing our opportunities. I will share my findings and ideas with our board of supervisors. I will be speaking to other sheriffs across the state who have successful regional jails. We will implement those policies and procedures that have proven successful. I will actively recruit a warden with a proven track record of managing correctional institutions and I will submit that person to board of supervisors for their consideration. 13. The biggest problem facing Alcorn County law enforcement is a lack of manpower and equipment which is directly tied to the sheriff’s administration budget. We need to provide service and protection 365 days a year for an area of approximately 400 square miles. The sheriff’s office must earn the faith and trust of our communities by stepping up the patrol services, being more visible, being more proactive and having quicker response times. We need more officers so we can effectively coral the drug problem that breeds the development of crime in every form. Alcorn countians need to know we will be pro-actively patrolling their neighborhoods while they are at work and while they are resting. They need to know for certain that we will be there when they need us. We simply need more manpower in the form of dedicated, prepared, humble, public service professionals.
Name: David Nunley Age: 52 Address: 4 County Road 170, Corinth Office seeking: Sheriff Family: Married to Derinda Fowler Nunley; son, Jacob (15); father, the late James Nunley; mother, Molly Nunley; grandfather, the late D.P. Nunley Education: 1982 Graduate of Corinth High School; Continuing Education, Public Service Commission through University of Oklahoma 1) Why are you seeking this office? After 31 years of law enforcement experience, I want to bring honor and integrity back to the Alcorn County sheriff’s office. In addition to giving back to the community
in which I have lived all my life, I want to make a positive change for the deputies, officers and employees of the department and the Alcorn County Regional Jail. Our citizens deserve no less than this. I am the candidate to restore the department. 2) What experiences do you have that qualifies you for the position? I am simply the most qualified candidate in this field. I have 31 years of law enforcement experience with the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department, Farmington Police Department, the Mississippi Public Service Commission and the Mississippi Highway Patrol Motor Carrier Safety Division. I currently serve as a patrol officer for Farmington Police Department, and I recently resigned my position with the Highway Patrol Motor Carrier Safety Division so I could legally seek the office of sheriff while avoiding the obvious conflict of interest. I’ve served on numerous inter-jurisdictional task forces and have been involved in some of the largest law enforcement efforts in Mississippi’s recent history. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? The biggest ongoing
problem we have since it opened is the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility. The staffing has never been sufficient to ensure safe operation of the state and the local jails, and as sheriff, I will assure that we will have adequate jail staffing. I will put immediate focus on the hiring of a permanent experienced warden and we will train and staff better than we’ve seen and we will operate the facility up to local, state and national standards. We will make sure that the facility is safe and secure for our residents and our correctional officers and that it will return the level of revenue it was designed for. And I will make it the profitable facility it was designed to be. 4) What do you consider Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Alcorn County has always been the kind of place where your neighbors and friends had your back. We have always looked out for one another and taken care of our community. We’re friendly, personable, hard working and we care. We have a lot of assets in our community – businesses, Magnolia Regional Health Care Center, churches, schools and service organizations.
But their greatness is all linked to one thing – the people of Alcorn County. 5) Mention things you would like to accomplish while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea? Get the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility back on its feet operationally and financially. As sheriff, I will first ensure proper management with a trained, experienced warden who has good experience operating jails such as ours. We will focus the relationship with the state and earn back their trust by training and staffing the facility properly. We will finally lock down and secure the jail so that our community has confidence in the facility. We will give regular updates to the board of supervisors on our progress and our ultimate successes. We will train and equip our sheriff’s deputies to adequately do their job properly on a daily basis. From patrol cars to radios, duty weapons to uniforms and situational training, our deputies deserve the absolute best in order to protect our county from the criminal element. We will make sure we have a good working relationship with other police departments and
law enforcement agencies. We will utilize our state partners when necessary, but we will have earned their full faith and confidence as a partner in law enforcement. There is a need for reinstating our county’s neighborhood watch programs. Partnering with our concerned and vigilant citizens, our sheriff’s department can effectively ward off crime before it starts. As sheriff, I would like to put resource officers in our schools so parents and our students have a safe environment for learning while also educating them on the dangers of drugs and crime. 6) The sheriff’s office has the county’s third largest annual budget at just over $1.15 million and the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility has an annual budget at just over $3.17 million. Please explain what experience you have in managing budgets of this size. In my previous role as Safety Investigator with the Mississippi Highway Patrol’s Motor Carrier Safety Division, I was part of a $92 million statewide budget. We had 1,055 people working with this department, and I’ve worked with every
single one of them over my career through training, safety education, immigration enforcement, inter-jurisdictional task forces and investigations. I’ve served as officers in three other local and state departments with budgets of various sizes and complexities. However, I have a thorough knowledge of the sheriff’s budget and the jail’s budget and I have identified several areas in which we can be more efficient in our spending. I’ve worked with chiefs of police, sheriffs and state law enforcement agencies to manage budgets and effectively police communities. It can be done, and it will be done when I am elected sheriff. 7) The biggest problem facing Alcorn County law enforcement is: Inadequate training, lower pay and insufficient equipment to do the job that our deputies want to do. We simply have to manage our resources better so we can improve the enforcement of our county’s safety and laws. We have to use the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility as a revenue source, not a revenue drain. And we need to support law enforcement now more than ever before.
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Name: Keith Settlemires Age: 60 Address: 60 County Road 502, Corinth Office seeking: Sheriff Family: I am married to Sheila Galyean Settlemires and we share three children; Brittney, Danny and Pat. I am the son of Alyene, a homemaker, and the late Loward Settlemires, a WW II veteran. Education: I am a 1974 graduate of Kossuth High School and attended Northeast Mississippi Community College where my major was Criminal Justice. I am a Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer Training Academy graduate of 1998. I am a certified Hunter Education Instructor. I am also certified in interview and interrogation, courtroom procedures, officer safety, active shooter training, vulnerability of senior adults, exploitation of minors and numerous others. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I want the people of Alcorn County to have a better and safer place to live and raise their children. I also want them to be proud of and have trust in their law enforcement. I feel I can accomplish this by giving the sheriff’s office a new face, one that is
not connected to the present administration, who will take it in a different direction for the future. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? In 1990, I worked as a reserve deputy at the sheriff’s department under the administration of Bill O. Gant. This position required me to be involved with many duties such as working with traffic accidents, domestic violence cases, DUI cases, serving papers and testifying in court cases. My public service of serving on three separate boards of directors in this county has helped me to relate to people. For the past 17 years, I have served the state of Mississippi with the Agricultural Theft Bureau as a criminal investigator and have been involved in all aspects of agricultural related crimes such as theft, conspiracy and embezzlement. The last five years, I have held the title of senior investigator and this year was chosen as Investigator of the Year, because of my work ethic, character, and ability to solve crimes. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? In my opinion the number one problem facing this county is the need for industry, which brings jobs to this area. This will allow our citizens to be able to work here instead of having to leave Alcorn County to find a job. Alcorn County wants and needs qualified, honest, hard working, Christian people in positions that can accomplish this task. We need elected officials and others in leadership roles, which will work together to find ways to make this happen. I am prepared to do just that.
4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The greatest asset of Alcorn County is the people who live here. Most of the people of this county are good hard working people; honest people who love Alcorn County and want it to be better in all aspects. The people of this county pull together in times of hardship, fellowship and need creating a force that can bring about great changes. I want to be in a leadership role that allows me to have a bigger part in improving this county and making our future better. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. I would like to see the sheriff’s office remove the negative stigma that it currently has. I can take care of this by being an honest leader with integrity who is true to my word and holds those who work with me to the same standards. The sheriff’s office needs equipment to work with and this is a must. I feel I can accomplish this by working carefully within the given budget to identify cuts that can be made in order to apply those funds to areas of greater need. Better training for officers and staff is needed and much of this is available at no cost to taxpayers at the Northeast Mississippi Community College training center right here in this county. I will ensure that, if elected, my employees will attend this. The regional jail employees are going to have to be paid more than $8 an hour. I will work hard in communicating this need to all those involved along with the board of supervi-
sors, the governing body of this county, at every opportunity. 6) The sheriff’s office has the county’s third largest annual budget at just over $1.15 million and the Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility has an annual budget at just over $3.17 million. Please explain what experience you have in managing budgets of this size. I am not going to mislead the people of Alcorn County and tell them I have experience managing cumulative budgets of in excess of $4.32 million. If you have someone who claims they can fix a $4 million problem on their own, hire them. What I can tell you is that we need to examine the budgets of both. I have past experience managing budgets including serving on the Farmers Home Administration Board of Directors, Alcorn County Co-Op Board of Directors and Kossuth Water Association Board of Directors, where I served 12 years as president. I do believe I am the only candidate in the race with experience dealing with budget administration. I intend to also bring in experienced personnel who have a history of managing governmental budgets to make a thorough review of the incoming funds and the expenditures. During this process, I want to determine where all of the money is going. I’ve spent many years in my career investigating theft and recovery of funds. I believe that my experience in this role with the Mississippi Department of Agriculture for 17 years will serve me greatly in making sure that every tax dollar earned from the citizens of Alcorn County will be
accounted for and will be spent wisely. 7) The Alcorn County Regional Corrections facility continues to operate with a large budget deficit. Explain how you will fix this problem. There are two ways to fix a budget shortfall. One is to raise taxes and cover the shortfall by making taxpayers pay for higher land taxes. The sheriff can’t raise taxes and I’m glad he can’t. I’m opposed to any additional tax increases to repair this problem. The supervisors are charged with handling setting the millage rate for the county and determining how much money will be needed to cover the budget items. I want to work with the board of supervisors to reach a solution on how to repair the budget issues that have plagued this facility from the beginning. The second way of handling a budget shortfall is to examine where the money is going and cut expenses. The people need to understand that according to state law the way the budget year falls, the first year the sheriff is in office, he is stuck with the budget that is set this year. If I’m elected, the first thing I’m going to do is take a look at expenses, determine if we have any areas where we can cut back and make those cuts immediately. Hopefully, this will create some areas where we have a budget surplus and we can apply that money to those issues where we have had critical shortfalls. I believe we need a long-term solution to this budget problem. I don’t think borrowing money and throwing money at this issue will fix this problem. We have to make the facility self-supporting with the incoming revenue and not make it a
burden to the taxpayers of the county. 8) What do you consider the biggest problem facing Alcorn County law enforcement? I think the biggest problem facing Alcorn County Law Enforcement is how do we enforce the laws of the state and county, protect our youth and our elderly when we have had so much public corruption in the past few years? Public trust has to be restored to the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department and to Alcorn County in general. We do that by conducting the office of the sheriff with integrity and respect as well as being willing to go above and beyond to reach out to other agencies, especially the Corinth Police Department, to collaborate efforts when needed in order to get the job done and ensure the safety of our county without concern for who gets the recognition. The job of law enforcement is to “serve and protect” and I take that charge seriously. You have to employ deputies and personnel in the sheriff’s department who share the same philosophy about public service as you do. Reputation is what people think about you. Character and integrity are what you are. I was once told to take care of character and integrity and reputation will take care of itself. I intend to apply this philosophy to the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department. We, as citizens of Alcorn County, have to insure that the future of our children and grandchildren is protected by protecting the public trust. If elected as sheriff of Alcorn County, I will restore public trust and integrity to the office of sheriff.
Name: Roger Voyles Age: 56 Address: 3401 Hunter Lane, Corinth Office seeking: Sheriff Family: I am married to Paula Voyles. We have four children: Matthew age 40, David age 38, Stephenia age 37, and Christopher age 31. Education: I have a G.E.D. I attended Donaldson Law Enforcement Training Academy in Tennessee and North Mississippi Law Enforcement Training Academy in Tupelo. I have training in many aspects of law enforcement and have listed just a few of the classes and training I have received: Crime Scene Management and Tactical Communication, Mississippi New Law and Courtroom Procedures, U.S. Department of Justice – Search and Seizure and Officer Survival, Community Response to Domestic Violence Harrison County Sheriff’s Department – Law Enforcement Training Academy. Instructed in
Testifying in Court and Kinesic Interview Techniques. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I love law enforcement and I’ve been in law enforcement for over 28 years. I have enjoyed working with and serving the people of Alcorn County. The safety of the citizens of Alcorn County is my top priority. I will accomplish this by the following: A. I will be an in charge sheriff, available to the public to answer their questions and address their concerns. B. I will implement changes in the office I feel will better allow my office to serve the public. C. I feel that through my experience, training, dedication to serve and my being a business owner, that I can make a difference. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I am currently serving as Alcorn County Constable Post 2. I was elected in 2000 and have held this office for 15 years. I have been employed by the Savannah, Tenn. Police Department as a patrolman and also the Corinth Police Department under the administration of M.W. Baggett and Fred D. Johnson as a patrolman. I have worked for the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department under the administrations of Bill O. Gant and James R. “Jimmy” Taylor as a deputy sheriff and K-9 officer. I have handled budgets through being a business owner for 15 years and I will be a hands-on sher-
iff who will answer to the people. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? There are several problems, not just one. Theft and drugs are always some of the top priorities, but the management of the regional jail and justice center must be addressed. This facility can be a great burden on the taxpayer, if it is not managed efficiently. The sheriff’s job description has changed with the building of this facility, not only must we have strong effective law enforcement, but we must have sound management abilities. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The people of Alcorn County are by far, the greatest asset. Most of the people in Alcorn County get up every day, go to work, to provide for their families and do the right thing. They don’t want to come home and their property is gone. If elected sheriff, I will work hard to make sure our citizens are safe in their homes and their property is protected. I will reach out to our citizens for their help and input. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. Presently, the sheriff’s office is closed after 5 p.m. Monday thru Friday and on weekends. I will keep the sheriff’s office open 24 hours a day, so our citizens can come to the office, any time, to pick
up reports, file reports or speak to a deputy. I will accomplish this by shifting duties from the personnel already employed, without any additional cost to the taxpayers of Alcorn County. A. I will place computers in each patrol car so my officers can be more efficient and to save time. this will be done with grant money or drug money seized, at little or no cost to the taxpayer. B. I will purchase vehicles through the state bid process and “Will Not Purchase Salvaged Vehicles” which are a danger to our officers and the public. This will be accomplished through the regular budgeting process. C. I will cross train all deputies, so they will be able to investigate certain crimes, which will lift some of the burden off our investigators. This will be done through training at very little cost to the taxpayer. D. I will form a narcotic unit that can and will work with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, in order to better enforce the controlled substance laws of the state of Mississippi. This should actually save the taxpayer money, since at the time, there is very little cooperation between the two agencies. E. I will hold community meetings on a regular basis to receive input from the citizens of Alcorn County, in order to better serve and address their concerns. This will not be an additional cost to taxpayers. F. I will demand that my officers answer all
calls in a timely fashion, in order to prevent whatever the situation is, from becoming a larger problem. This will be at no additional cost to taxpayers. G. I will share all information about crimes committed with the proper agencies. This will better allow us to solve crimes in a faster manner. This is not being done now and will be done through my leadership and commitment to the office. 6) The sheriff’s office has the county’s third largest annual budget at just over $1.15 million and the Alcorn County Regional Correctional facility has an annual budget at just over $3.17 million. Please explain what experience you have in managing budgets of this size. I have operated a successful security company for 15 years. I employ 28 people. I know how to prepare a budget and how to live within a budget. It is so very important for everyone to live within their budget to save taxpayers money. 7)The Alcorn County Regional Corrections facility continues to operate with a large budget deficit. Explain how you will fix this problem. I will fix this problem through my leadership. I will employ only the best qualified people for the jobs. This will include the warden and the fiscal officer. My office, if elected, will work closely with the state auditor’s office to make sure our purchases for supplies and equip-
ment are at the lowest possible rate and they comply with the purchase laws. I will eliminate duplication of services and make sure we receive an hour’s work for an hour’s pay, from the employees. I will instruct the warden and fiscal officer to look closely at each purchase made for the the Regional Correctional Facility. I will look at each job to make sure that job is necessary for the operation of the facility. I will stay in contact with the Mississippi Department of Corrections, to make sure that payments due to Alcorn County are remitted in a timely manner. 8.)What do you consider the biggest problem facing Alcorn County law enforcement? A. Lack of leadership. I will be a hands-on sheriff. I will have a staff of courteous, professional and dedicated men and women, who will be proud to work for the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department and serve the citizens, young and old, of Alcorn County. B. Lack of proper equipment. I will do everything in my power to get the equipment this department needs to function as a top-rated sheriff’s department. This can be done through grants and seized drug money. C. Lack of cooperation between other agencies and county sheriff’s department. If elected, the first day, I will be contacting these agencies, offering my help and asking for theirs. Together we can reduce any type of illegal activity.
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Candidate Questionnaire 2015 Chancery Clerk
Name: Karen Burns Duncan Age: 50
Address: 28 County Road 602, Office seeking: Alcorn County Chancery Clerk Family: I am married to a retired police officer, Larry Duncan of Booneville. We have 3 kids and 5 grandkids. My parents are Jerry (ACE meter reader) and Tina Lorene Burns. Education: 1982 Graduate of Kossuth High School 1). Why are you seeking this office? I have had the privilege
to serve the people of Alcorn County for 21 years as I have worked in this office and I want to continue to serve you, the people, as your chancery clerk. 2). What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? Larry McCollum hired me to work as his deputy clerk in 1994 and I continue to work there under Bobby Marolt, who is retiring. With my 21 years experience, I know the
ins and outs of everything that goes on in this office. I work with the judges in our district, I know the attorneys in our county and the surrounding counties and I have a good working relationship with them. I have worked with some of the past supervisors, done bookkeeping and accounting. Working hands on for 21 years gives me the best experience. 3). What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Financial growth and
jobs – but the chancery clerk can only lend a hand to other agencies in getting this done. 4). What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? We are a small southern town with good people. Despite what’s going on all around us, we can still pull together and make it “What a Place to Live.” 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how
you’ll get it done with each idea. All land recording information, court records to be available over the Internet for a fee. Working in the office already, I know the people to contact for help on this. E-filing of court records. This is offered already and other Mississippi counties are using it. I would like to see Alcorn County get back in good with its financial abilities and be trust worthy.
Name: Kevin Harvell Age: 39 Address: 75 CR 604, Corinth Office Seeking: Chancery Clerk Family: Married to the former Rosaline Coleman; three children, Anisten (14), Ashton (11) and Aikley (9); son of Frank and Johnnie Harvell Education: graduated from Kossuth High School 1994; obtained Business Administration Degree with emphasis in Marketing from Mississippi State University, conferred 1998; obtained a Master’s of Science Degree in Construction Engineering Technology from the University of Southern Mississippi, conferred 2001 1) Why are you seeking this office? The reason I chose to seek the position of chancery clerk is because I believe our county needs new energy for this position. Our county is struggling at this point in time morally and economically, and we need a qualified candidate to excel us in a positive direction. Not all elected positions require a college educated person, but this is one position that does. How can we compete with or excel above our neighboring counties when we start the race behind. Our surrounding counties have college educated people in this position and the results speak loud and clear. I am the only college
educated candidate seeking the position of chancery clerk. If allowed this opportunity, I will use my education and business qualifications to increase industry in Alcorn County and bring back the high moral standards our public offices require. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? Since 2003, I have owned a business. When I became part of the ownership in 2003 annual revenues for the business averaged $10.4 million per year. Within five years of becoming part of the ownership, revenues were $28.6 million in 2008. This was done by recreating the image of the company, traveling across the southeast portion of the United States marketing the company and the willingness to go the extra mile for the customer. Our county needs the same efforts if we are going to move forward. The chancery clerk is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the county. We need someone that can manage the money of the county. It’s one thing to work with someone else’s money, but if you have been in business for yourself then you understand the importance of making sure things are done correctly. I will use my financial background to utilize our county dollars for the greatest productivity and with the highest integrity. The chancery clerk’s position also has a humanitarian side. I’ve unfortunately had to deal with that in my family on two occasions. I have an aunt, and my wife’s uncle, that were involved in tragic accidents that caused them to need conservatorships. I’ve witnessed this devastation first hand, and I know the importance of having a compassionate heart and the common sense to handle the situation for all those involved. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s
number one problem? Our county’s number one problem is lack of industry. The word “industry” can be perceived wrongfully. Although, all new jobs are great for our county, I feel that our number one problem is industrial type jobs. Jobs that are performed in the factories and goods are shipped out of this county to locations all across the United States and beyond. These are the jobs that create a good family atmosphere, pay $15 - $20 per hour and allow our citizens the ability to go out and spend money here locally, in turn creating sales tax dollars for our county. To recruit new industry, we must first correct the image that potential businesses perceive when they inquire information on our county. Once the county image has been corrected, business men and women will view our county as “capable” to carry this new growth. The issue with our county has a simple fix. Once these jobs are secure, the tax base for the county increases and therefore land taxes for citizens decrease. Family life for our citizens will be greatly improved if these industry jobs are here. Travel time to get to and from work is too long and takes those individuals away from their families for too much of the day. We get the industry here in Alcorn County, and we keep our residents closer to home and family. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest assest? Alcorn County does not have one great asset, it has many great assets and I will name three in no particular order. Great public school systems - People of this county should be appreciative of the Alcorn School District and the Corinth School District. We are blessed to be able to send our kids to public schools and know they
will get a good education and come home safely to us. If you have a child or grandchild in either of the two school systems think about how different it would be if you lived 60 miles in any direction. To get a good education you would send your children or grandchildren to a private school which in turn would cost an additional $12,000 to $16,000 per year, while still paying taxes for the public school that you are not using. Our school systems are one of the greatest assets we have to offer someone that is considering relocating to Alcorn County. Great healthcare facility - Magnolia Regional Health Center is a prime example of what good marketing skills and hard work will do for you. It was not many years ago that our healthcare facility was not highly thought of, but today it is home to some of the best doctors in the nation and services many people from surrounding counties. The former CEO and the current CEO should be commended for their efforts over the past several years. Not only has the facility’s image been corrected, but they are continuously expanding to offer a greater variety of services to the public. The staff at the healthcare facility has a different attitude than what everyone was accustomed to. They are proud to work for our healthcare center and you can see it on their faces and how they care for their patients. People - The citizens of this county know what work is. I’ve traveled all over this country and I have not found an area of people that are willing to put forth the effort that our people do. The citizens of Alcorn County just need a chance to perform up to their abilities. We have smart, willing, and dedicated people willing to go the extra mile for their county. 5.) Mention things
you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. Develop a new website - The first pathway people or potential new industry will view before traveling or moving to Alcorn County is our website. The Alcorn County’s website at this present time is outdated and non-productive for our citizens. One of my opponents, Mr. Younger, admitted during his May 2nd speech that he created the website and that it was not what it should be. Many counties use their websites not only to inform potential investors of our assets, but to keep the taxpayer informed of financial activity by posting financial reports. For very little money, a new website can be created and made useful for the citizens of Alcorn County as well as potential new industry. A county’s website also demonstrates the ability of professionalism that it possesses. A candidate’s web presence is a good example of how he or she not only markets themselves, but how they will eventually market our county. Research your candidates’ websites to see the level of marketing and professionalism you will be electing. To view my website, please go to www.kevinharvell4chanceryclerk.com. If elected, the day I take office a new county website will be up and running so the citizens of this county will benefit from it from day one. Rebrand our image Alcorn County’s image is at a major decline due to lack of past marketing and recent criminal investigations. Together we can change that image with rebranding ourselves and promoting the positives that our county has to offer. As referenced earlier, Magnolia Regional Health Center is a prime example of rebranding. They changed everything from how the
staff dresses to their stationary. With hard work and time, our image can become what it should be. We will conduct and present ourselves with the upmost professionalism. Attitude change is contagious and the positive attitudes will start in the Chancery Clerk’s office, with your support. Recruit new industry As mentioned previously, recruiting new industry is the simple fix for our county. New industry puts people to work, lowers taxes, creates a better family environment, and more sales tax dollars for the county. To accomplish this, we must step out from behind the computer screens and put forth a day’s work. The industry will not come to us; we must go get it. I will utilize my two college degrees and travel to any destination to recruit this industry. It takes a candidate that has this ability to complete these tasks as we have seen happen among our neighboring counties. Until we elect the most qualified person for each position, we will continue to lose to the competition. Our neighbors may be our friends in every other aspect, but when it comes to industry recruitment they must be classified as our competition, because they will be seeking the same goals and potential as we are. We have a lot to sell in our county, but we need someone in the Chancery Clerk’s office that can sell Alcorn County for what it truly is. Integrate a checks and balances system - Our elected officials must be held accountable, financially and morally, when having the responsibility for our tax payers’ dollars. With the recent investigations, these positions need to report expenditures and revenue through a checks and balance system to account for accurate records and legitimate spending of our counties’ money.
Name: Greg Younger Age: 53 Address: 2125 N. Hickory Rd., Corinth Office seeking: Chancery Clerk Family: I have been married for 27 years to Jeannine Younger; she is the bookkeeper at the Bishop Senior Center. We have one son, Marc age 21, he just graduated from the University of Mississippi. My father was the late George Younger, a
long time employee of Tyrone Hydraulics and Church of Christ Minister. My mother is Martha Younger, who was employed at ITT Telecom for over 30 years. I have one sister, Nan Nabors, who has worked at a local bank for over 40 years. Education: I graduated from Corinth High School in 1979 and attended Northeast Mississippi Community College and the University of Mississippi, majoring in Business Administration. I completed the IBM VAR Computer School in 1985. I attended the two week Assessor Certification School at Mississippi State University in 2005, and I have attended the annual re-certification school required to maintain this certification every year since. I have over 200 hours of training in county government accounting and procedures in classes from the Mississippi Department of Revenue and the Missis-
sippi State Auditor. I represented Alcorn County at the Auditors Conference on Cyber Security and I was designated by the board of supervisors at that time to implement the recommendations from the conference. 1) Why are you seeking this office? I believe my experience and education make me the most qualified person for the office of chancery clerk. Alcorn County is at a critical time in its existence. We must take the steps now to get our financial house in order and restore confidence in our county government. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? In 1987, I was elected to the office of Alcorn County Tax Collector and I was re-elected five times for a total of 24 years. In 2012, I formed my own business, County Office Accounting/Staffing/Technology, LLC (COAST). As tax col-
lector and as the (unofficial) IT Director for the County, I developed an extensive knowledge of all county offices. Over the years, I assisted the board of supervisors, chancery clerk, circuit clerk, justice court clerk and tax assessor with budgeting and financial reports, installation and training on computers and software and many other issues. Over the past four years I have assisted 18 counties in Mississippi and Alabama in training of personnel and with technology issues. The chancery clerk is the county treasurer and the county auditor. For years, I have assisted boards of supervisors and former chancery clerks in estimation of tax revenue, calculation of millage rates and budgeting. I have completed 24 regular annual audits without a major exception and I know what auditors need and look for and how to get that information.
The chancery clerk is the clerk of the board of supervisors. I have worked with supervisors for years and I can and will work with them in the future to rebuild the trust and confidence in our county government. The chancery clerk is the Registrar of Deeds. In 2005, I assisted former Clerk Larry McCollum in evaluating, choosing and implementing the imaging system that is still in use in the office today. The chancery clerk is the clerk of the Chancery Court. I will work with the public, the existing personnel, attorneys and judges to make sure the business of the court is handled in a courteous and efficient manner. I have had close family members who have suffered from mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction and I will always be available to you if you have a loved one with these problems. The chancery clerk’s office is also responsible for
Redemption of Property Tax Sales. I am among the most knowledgeable people in the state about this complicated issue. The clerk’s office also has an extensive involvement in Homestead Exemption and this is another subject upon which I have extensive knowledge. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Although it is difficult to pin this down to one specific thing, I would have to say that the erosion of our manufacturing base is our number one problem. Over the last 20 years, the number of people employed in manufacturing jobs in Alcorn County has been cut in half. Although many of these jobs have shifted to health care and retail, the loss of the manufacturing facilities has led to a stagnation of our Total Assessed Value. Without an increase in our Total Assessed Value, Please see YOUNGER | 16C
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we may be forced to raise taxes to maintain the level of government service. I will work with the board of supervisors, municipal governments and The Alliance to recruit new in-
dustry for our county. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Without a doubt, I think our greatest asset is our people. They are friendly, kind, hardworking and compassionate. Our schools and our health care facilities and
our businesses are among the best in the nation. We have had our share of problems like the rest of the country over the past 15 years, but I firmly believe we live in one of the greatest places in the United States. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while
in office. List how you will get it done with each idea. I will conduct internal audits on all county departments and report the findings regularly to the board of supervisors. This information will be available to the public. I will make the completion of the scanning of all old
deeds and records a priority and I will make this information available on the Internet. I will institute a community outreach program in which myself, other elected officials and representatives of other county departments go out into the various communities at regular intervals to make government
more accessible to the people. I will reach out to the leaders of all municipalities in Alcorn County with the goal of cooperating on industrial and community development. I will always be available to citizens and will strive to make county government open, honest and effective for them.
Constable Post 1
Name: Scotty Lee Bradley Age: 29 Address: P.O. Box 605, Corinth Office seeking: Constable Post 1 Telephone number: 662-643-5115 (Candidate requested number be published.) Family: parents, Ralph Bradley and the late Mary Bradley; grandparents, Margaret Bradley & the late Rady Bradley (Bradley’s Feed Store) Education: Kossuth High School graduate; Northeast Mississippi Community College, Criminal Justice; Northeast Mississippi Community College, Emergency Medical Technician, EMT-B; State of Mississippi E.V.O.C Instructor; North Mississippi Law Enforcement Training Academy, Tupelo; - Full-Time Certified Law Enforcement; U.S. Department of Homeland Security- (training);
Training through Louisiana State University, National Center for Biomedical Research and Training; Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education; Computer System Technology; and Regional Counter drug Training Academy, Meridian 1) Why are you seeking this office? Being constable is a lifelong dream of mine and a job that I hold near and dear to my heart. I am certified and definitely qualified to be your next constable in post 1. My passion is to be your next constable, and I ask for your prayers, support and vote during this election. I am a graduate of the North Mississippi Law Enforcement Training Academy in Tupelo and I am a Mississippi state certified full-time law enforcement officer. I am seeking the office of constable because I believe everyone in life has a calling and that mine is serving the public in the area of law enforcement. Even though I enjoyed my role in EMS, law enforcement is an area of true joy for me and one in which I feel I excel. I love meeting new people, but more importantly, spending time with them. The primary job of the constable is to serve legal papers for court cases. The constable executes the arrest warrants that come out of the justice court, handles evictions, and serves orders of protection. The constable also does some bailiff work and court security at
the justice court. As you can see it is more than just serving papers, it involves interacting with the community to help promote prosperity and peace. With my training, experience, age, energy, determination, education and commitment to Alcorn County, I believe I am the right man to fill the office of constable. I believe everyone has the right to be treated equally regardless of race, wealth, religion, family and age. My aim is to treat everyone the way I want to be treated. I truly enjoy dealing with the public on a daily basis. I have learned through my years as an EMT and police officer that there is always someone in need. I want to be there to help them. That’s why I am asking to be your next constable. I believe in law enforcement and am passionate about protecting lives and property and serving my constituents. If elected as your constable, I vow to serve you and the law with honor, integrity, and respect. I am a hard worker and willing to do everything possible to help the people of Alcorn County by being available whenever needed. I will talk to you personally and do everything possible to help you. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I first sought the position of constable in 2011, where the voters of Post 1 most graciously supported me to a 2nd place fin-
ish in a field of seven worthy candidates. Since that time, I have held many positions in the EMS field, including Sergeant, Captain, Education Coordinator, Driving Instructor and IT Director of Transcare Ambulance Service. I am currently the D.U.I. Enforcement officer for Guntown Police Department and have recently been promoted to S.R.O. I am the only candidate with 6 years of process server and constable duty experience. I am a Mississippi State Full-Time Certified Law Enforcement officer with the following certifications: SSGT-Strategic Self-Defense and Grappling Tactics, Oleoresin Capsicum Course, Grade Crossing Collision Investigation, Doppler Radar Operation, Police Emergency Driving Course, National Academy For Professional Driving, Advanced Pursuit Driving, Graduate of the Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, Traffic Occupant Protection Strategies, Proactive Criminal Patrol, Emergency Response to Domestic Biological Incidents- Certification, U.S. Department of Homeland Security- ICS Initial Action Incident, ICS200, U.S. Department of Homeland Security- National Incident Management System, ICS-700 and U.S. Department of Homeland Security- Incident Command System ICS-100 Through my training, I have gained an in-depth understanding of law enforcement and the ju-
dicial system. I believe my experience, dedication and training qualify me for this important office. I have dedicated my life to serving people and will work diligently to serve the people of Alcorn County with courtesy and discretion. Please consider my experience and cast your vote for me. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? There are areas of corruption which need be addressed by the voters of Alcorn County. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The citizens of this great county, the growing businesses and the wonderful youth of tomorrow. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. A. Professionalism - I guarantee to always dress in uniform when on duty, represent this office with honor and respect and serve all the people of Alcorn County. B. Youth education - I want to be active in our youth events and become friends with them so that they will feel comfortable to turn to me for advice to avoid making bad decisions or poor choices. C. Visible - I want all the voters of Alcorn County to know my name and how to reach me. I am a person you can call at any time 662-643-5115. My website is www.Scot-
tyBradley.com. D. Privacy and trust One of my main goals is to build trust between the citizens of Alcorn County and myself. I am a person who keeps others’ confidences and try hard to earn their trust. E. My guarantee is to work closely with all local and state law officers to provide a safer county for all the citizens of Alcorn County. F. Elderly awareness I plan to visit and attend events involving the elderly and aging to stay informed of their concerns and to seek their advice on the best ways to serve them. G. Be active in fund raising campaigns for the humane society. I feel we could do more to help these defenseless animals who cannot help themselves. H. DARE or 4-H education - I will volunteer whenever needed to assist in these programs. I feel they are vital to the youth of today and the future of our county. I. Funeral details - I will escort as many funeral details as possible. J. If elected to this position, I will serve you, the voters, in a way that you will be proud to say in four years that you voted for Scotty Bradley as your Constable Post 1. K. I will work with and beside other law enforcement agencies, but not for or under the control of any other department. I will only answer to you, the voters, who elect me to this position.
Name: Johnny Butler Age: 42 Address: 78 County Road 164, Corinth Office seeking: Constable Post 1 Family: spouse Brandi (Russell) Butler, daughter of Patsy Lee and
the late Bryant Russell; parents – John and Cindy Butler; children – Bailey 17, Ethan 8, Hudson 5, Audree 4 Education: 1991 Graduate of Corinth High School; Attended Northeast Mississippi Community College; Certified Mississippi Firefighter; Certified National EMT 1) Why are you seeking this office? After 20 years of service to the City of Corinth as an employee of the Corinth Fire Department, I would like to continue my service to the city and extend my services to Alcorn County by seeking the position of Alcorn County Constable Post 1. I believe I have developed a reputation of honesty, integrity, and dependability amongst my family, co-workers, and peers and plan to extend those values in all
that I do in this office, if elected. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for this position you are seeking? Through hard work and dedication, I have successfully worked my way through the ranks as a firefighter, engineer, lieutenant and now as captain. My role as captain has allowed me to improve my planning and leadership skills by managing four stations and 15 men. This has not only been my career, but it has also been my passion. I am very much a “people person” and live for helping others, serving my community, and making a difference. Being a fireman is definitely very challenging, but the rewards far outweigh the challenges. In addition, for the past 14 years, I
have been employed part time at Handy Man Rentals where I interact with the public on a daily basis. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Employment – I believe Alcorn County has come a long way in terms of industry and jobs, but still has a long way to go. Alcorn County has a lot to offer, and I believe the county leaders and tourism department have done a lot of great things to attract business to the area. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Tourism – as previously mentioned, Alcorn County has a lot to offer, and I am proud to call it home. From its rich history and the downtown area, which is packed
with beautiful homes and unique shops and restaurants, Corinth and Alcorn County have the perfect mix of small town atmosphere with city conveniences. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. The primary duty of a constable in Mississippi is, “To keep and preserve the peace with his county, by faithfully aiding and assisting in executing the criminal laws of the state”. I would like to see that grow to include safety by requiring at least First Responder status for all constables. I am a Nationally Certified EMT, and if elected, plan to use my skills whenever needed while performing other Constable duties.
I believe the constable is in the perfect position to reach out to the community, and I would like to start this with our children. I am a father of four, and my top priority personally and professionally is the safety and protection of children. I plan on visiting local schools and community centers to introduce the children to the office of constable and to also talk to them about things that they and their families can do to stay safe in school and in their neighborhoods. If elected constable, I plan on becoming a familiar face at all school campuses, sporting events, etc. I believe the office of constable belongs to the people of Alcorn County, and they have the right to know who the constable is and what he/she can do for them.
Name: Landon Tucker Age: 37 Address: 1705 West Borroum Circle, Corinth Office Seeking: Constable Post 1 Family: (wife) Kate Simpson Tucker; (children) Carter 9, Allyn 6, Ella Kate 4 and Mason 2; (parents) Ray and Debra Tucker Education: Graduated Kossuth High School 1998; Northeast Mississippi Community College 1999-2001 (Studied Criminal Justice), Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer Training Academy
(2006), United States Army School of Field Artillery (2013), Over 100 hours of continuing education in criminal justice 1) Why are you seeking this office? Law enforcement is not just a job; it is a passion of mine. Being a constable is more than just “serving papers.” As constable you are charged with serving warrants, bailiff for justice court as well as having full law enforcement authority. I want to use my abilities to make Alcorn County a better place for all citizens.
2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have served in the Mississippi Army National Guard for 16 years. In 2005 and 2009 I was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I was a staff sergeant before receiving a commission through Officer Candidate School where now I serve as a first lieutenant. Over my career I have received numerous awards such as the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Action Badge. I have also been
with the Corinth Police Department since 2006 and I am now a captain with the Corinth Police Department. I also serve as the Commander for the Corinth Police Department Special Response Team. I have already established a good working relationship with the officers of the Corinth Police Department and the deputies of the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department. A constable should not require on the job training, rather should be someone who has a proven tract record in law enforcement,
working knowledge of the law and a good rapport with the citizens in which he/she serves. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Illegal narcotics are the number one problem of this county, and to combat this problem you need a strong proactive law enforcement and the necessary training to be able to understand what you are dealing with. 4) What do you consider Alcorn County’s Please see TUCKER | 17C
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greatest assets? The people are
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doubt the best asset in Alcorn County. The military has given me the opportunity to travel all over the world and I can say that the people of Al-
corn County are the most generous, caring and loving people, which makes me proud to call Alcorn County my home. 5) Mention things
that you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you would get them done. I would like to see an
Inter-Jurisdictional Task Force set up between the Corinth Police Department and Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department that is dedicated to com-
bating narcotics throughout the city and county. If called upon I would offer my expertise and be available to assist in any way possible.
House District 1
Name: Lester “Bubba” Carpenter Age: 44 Address: 8 Carpenter Drive, Burnsville Office Seeking: Mississippi House, District 1, re-election Family: I am married to Niesha Carpenter and we have a 12-year-old son, Noah. I am the son of the late Lester and Mary Lou Carpenter. I am invested in this area. I have lived in district 1 all of my life and will continue to live here. My wife and I are proponents of community service, and we strive to
instill this trait in our son. Ultimately, I have the desire to help others have a better life in our area. Education: I am a graduate of Burnsville High School, 1988. I attended Wallace State Community College in the Paramedic Program and received National Emergency Medical Technician – Paramedic Licensure in 1994. 1) Why are you seeking this office? Eight years ago I ran for this office because I recognized a need for jobs in our district. During the last four years, I am proud to say that more than 1,500 jobs have been created in Tishomingo and Alcorn County through expansion of current industries such as Caterpillar and recruitment of new industries to our area such as Mississippi Silicon. Unemployment rates are the lowest they have been in the past 15 years. By cutting taxes on small business and providing tax credits to offset the inventory tax, I have voted and helped pass legislation to encour-
age businesses to stay and locate here in Mississippi. The momentum for job creation is here. My work during the past eight years has opened doors for the future, and I would like the opportunity to continue these endeavors to recruit industry and businesses to our district. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 2008 and again in 2012 and served in that capacity for eight years. I have been a member of the Mississippi House Conservative Coalition for the past eight years and president for the past two years. This has allowed me to be in an advantageous position to push for conservative legislation. I have been recognized as a Business and Jobs Champion by the Business and Industry Political Education Committee (BIPEC) during each year I have served in the Mississippi House of Representatives. I have been endorsed by Missis-
sippi Right to Life and the Mississippi Realtors Association. Mississippi House of Representative Committee Assignments: Fees and Salaries of Public Officers - Chairman, Banking and Financial Services, County Affairs, Judiciary A, Judiciary En Banc, Municipalities, Universities and Colleges, Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Prior to be elected State Representative, I was an alderman for the Town of Burnsville from September 2005 until I resigned in December of 2006. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Unfortunately, Alcorn County has been in the news more lately in a negative light than a positive one. Corruption in government must be addressed, and the trust of the citizens of Alcorn County needs to be restored. I am saddened that the citizens of Alcorn County have been let down by people in whom they have put their trust and faith. I feel that an elected official should be
held to a higher standard; they have taken an oath and given their solemn promise to do what is right for the citizens they represent. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The accessibility to transport goods by ground, rail, and water from Alcorn County and District 1 is the greatest asset we have. Two major highways converge through Corinth making travel through Corinth easier and more assessable. Three railroads/ rail lines transports goods through Corinth on a daily basis. The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is within 25 miles of Corinth, and provides port access. Alcorn County has a strong work force, low crime rate, and wonderful schools. As an elected official, we must create a job friendly environment so businesses and industries will continue to locate in our area and Alcorn County can continue to grow. 5) Mention things
you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. My goals have always been jobs and economic development, funding education, expansion of infrastructure, public safety, and family values. My goals are intertwined and equally important. By creating jobs, the economy will be stimulated and become more stable as a result. By spending wisely and conservatively, more funding will be available for education and the expansion of infrastructure. The expansion of buildings and roads, will help bring job opportunities to the area. I will not be satisfied until every person who needs and wants a job, has a job. I will keep the task of recruiting new industry to this area at the forefront of my endeavors. As evidenced through my personal life, I will continue to promote public safety and good family values so, that we all have an area to live in which we are proud to consider home.
Name: Lisa Benderman Wigginton Age: 51
Address: 72 CR 183, Corinth Office seeking: House, District 1 Family: Married to Kirk Wigginton with three children and three grandchildren Education: Graduate of Alcorn Central High School in 1981; Blue Mountain College in 1990 with a Bachelor’s in Elementary Education; University of North Alabama in 2001 with a Masters in Educational Leadership; University of North Alabama in 2003 with an
Education Specialists in Educational Leadership I am seeking this office because I believe we should be fully funding education. Our children deserve an education that is first class yet Mississippi continues to rank 50th in the nation. Our roads and bridges are crumbling and nothing is being done to repair them. Our state is giving away billions of dollars to attract industry yet doing nothing to help our struggling locally owned business. I believe that my expe-
rience working in education and in administration both at the school and district level has prepared me to address many of the issues I will face. Having served in various leadership roles has given me the knowledge and skills to work with people to accomplish goals. I believe that drugs are Alcorn County’s biggest problem and much of that can be traced back to lack of quality education. If we can keep students in school and train them with skills for jobs, we
can begin to address this problem. Alcorn County’s greatest asset is its people. Time and time again, we have shown than when someone needs something, we band together to achieve that goal. It is where we raised our family and I believe that it is the best possible place to live. There are many things I would like to see accomplished while in office. I would like to see education fully funded. We cannot say that MAEP doesn’t work when it has
only been fully funded twice since it was passed. I would like to see our state benefit from the Affordable Health money. Instead of our federal tax dollars going to another state, I would like to see our people getting quality healthcare. I would like to see us to begin to invest in our roads and bridges starting with repairing those. I believe that the voters in this district deserve a representative who will listen to them and work for a better Mississippi.
4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Our people - Alcorn County is home to the greatest people on God’s Green Earth. We are a hard working group that continues to seek the best for our families and communities. This is an asset that is evident and I believe one that separates us from the rest of Mississippi. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with
each idea. Fund education - public schools must be fully funded. I will fight for public education and listen to the school administrators and employees.. Jobs - I will work with local, state and federal leaders to promote our area and attract business and industry. Balanced budget - I will ensure our state has a balanced budget and we live within our means. State employees - I will protect the state retirement system, because our workers deserve our support.
only fair for the state to hold up their end of the deal. I will also work to ensure that healthcare remains accessible by supporting our community hospitals. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I come from a long line of public servants. I grew up in the center of county government at the Prentiss County Chancery Clerk’s Office and Courthouse as my father served as chancery clerk for 16 and a half years. My great-great-grandfather George Mathis Denson of New Site served this district as state representative in the 1930s after
working as a schoolteacher for 40 years in Prentiss County. As a teenager, I paged in the Mississippi House of Representatives under our Speaker Billy McCoy. I also interned in Washington, DC at the United States Capitol as a legislative correspondent. I have seen firsthand the inner workings of both state and federal government. I currently work with marketing and communications at the Landmark Community, Inc. and Landmark Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. While obtaining my Masters degree, I worked with the Office of Admissions at Ole Miss recruit-
House District 2 Name: Nick Bain Age: 35 Address: 1514 Fillmore Street, Corinth Office seeking: Mississippi House District 2, re-election Family: I am married to the former Lesley Lewis and we have three children, Baylee Anna (8); Brooks (5); and Baker (2). I am the son of Tommy and Patricia Bain and the brother of Hope Bain. Education: Alcorn Central High School 1998, University of Mississippi 2002 BBA and Mississippi College School of Law 2006 J.D.
1) Why are you seeking this office? Alcorn County has given so much to me and my family, and I want to continue to give back to this area. Because I am a native of Alcorn County, I know the people here, I know House District 2, I know the area’s needs and I’m ready to continue the progress we have made. I told the voters four years ago that I would not be beholden to any group except the people of Alcorn County, and I want to continue to be that voice for Alcorn County.
2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? I have held this office for the past four years and because of my training as a lawyer and my experience as a lawmaker I know the ins and outs of how the system works. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Jobs - I will continue to work with local, state and federal leaders to promote our area and attract business and industry.
House District 3
Name: Lauren Childers Age: 26 Address: Post Office Box 475, Booneville Office seeking: House, District 3 Family: I am the
daughter of Travis and Tami Childers. Education: I am a proud product of public education and have spent many years preparing myself for this job. I have both a Masters Degree of Business Administration and Bachelors Degree of Business Administration in Marketing Communications with a Public Relations Emphasis from the University of Mississippi. I attended Northeast Mississippi Community College and am a proud graduate of Booneville High School. 1) Why are you seeking this office? My decision to run for the House of Representatives is not something
that I take lightly. It is my belief that members of our legislature should be working together instead of fighting against each other. Their disagreements have placed public schools, rural hospitals, access to affordable healthcare and the state retirement system in jeopardy. Every year that our legislature fails to fully fund education, they fail every child in this state. For far too long, Mississippi’s children and schoolteachers have been forgotten. As a proud product of public education, I am deeply committed to the success of every student. When it comes to public education, from the
young to the young-atheart, students are at the center of everything I value, and everything I do. As your representative, my moral responsibility will be to fully fund our children’s public education, which means to provide all of our students regardless of their zip code with the tools, resources and time to learn. I vow to be a strong voice for every student and every teacher in Prentiss and Alcorn Counties. I will stand up for those who have served this state by protecting our state retirement system. We are only as good as our word. Our teachers and all other state employees selflessly served this state and it is
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ing high school students and helping families with the college search process. My parents instilled in me at a young age the importance of hard work. I am not afraid of hard work. If so honored to be your state pepresentative, I will work tirelessly every day for the residents of District 3. People are looking for a good place to live, work and raise a family. I want to make District 3 the best place to do just that. For me, it’s not about right or left. It is about right or wrong. Doing the right thing should never be a partisan issue. Education knows no political party. Unemployment knows no political party. This race is about
supporting the values I was taught here in District 3 not the political agendas of those in Jackson. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? I believe that many problems we currently face stem from an underfunded education system. Without the funding our schools need, we are setting our children up to fail. Since 2009, our legislature has failed children in District 3 by enough money to hire an additional 86 teachers. Imagine what 86 additional teachers could do for our schools in terms of smaller classes and access to the arts and athletics. Imagine what it would do for our local communities and economic growth. It has been said that the road to better jobs goes right through the front door of the schoolhouse.
Better schools equal greater student performance, a more qualified workforce, better jobs and a better economy. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest assest? Alcorn County’s greatest asset has and always will be the wonderful people who live here. From the sportsmen, hunters and fishermen that utilize our wonderful natural resources to those who work to maintain our highways and roads, each of you contributes to the success of this county. We have wonderful teachers who have dedicated their lives to the bettering of the young to the youngat-heart. The Civil War Interpretive Center serves as a means to attract visitors to the area and helps protect valuable pieces of our state’s history. The
best things about Alcorn County can all be traced back to the people who work everyday to make them possible. These things serve this county well and stage it for a bright future. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. My top three priorities if elected would be education, jobs, and healthcare. I believe many problems we currently face can be solved by investing money into our public school system, working with local officials to create jobs, and working towards more affordable healthcare for working families. Our public schools have many needs and we have a moral obligation to fulfill those needs. We must ensure that our
students have up-to-date textbooks, state-of-theart libraries in order to expand their knowledge, buses to safely transport our students and technology to prepare them for the years to come. Public schools are the lifeblood of our communities and the foundation to economic success. On average, Mississippi teachers spend $400 out-of-pocket each year to meet the needs of their students in the classroom. Teachers should not be asked to fund their classroom supplies. My family and I are small business folks. I understand firsthand the important role that small businesses play in economic growth and development. I am committed to working with local officials to bring and keep jobs in District 3. Businesses want to locate in
towns with good schools where their children can get a quality education and quality healthcare where they can get medical treatment when needed. Businesses grow and flourish when they have a well-trained workforce. We need to invest in our roads, bridges and projects that provide jobs and economic development. The pathway to new businesses investing in our communities is to invest in our people. Healthcare is a crisis in Mississippi. Rural hospitals are in jeopardy of closing all across the state. Working to create our own version of affordable healthcare for working families would bring billions of dollars to our state, provide insurance to hundreds of thousands of people and create 9,000 new healthcare jobs.
Senate District 4
Name: Rita Potts Parks Age: 52 Address: 150 County Road 632, Corinth Office Seeking: District 4 State Senate Family: Married for 29 years to Mike Parks; daughter, Hannah (20) Education: Graduated from Alcorn Central High School in 1980 and the University of Mississippi in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree; Industrial Engineering Degree from State Technical Institute, 1990 1) Why are you seeking this office? Four years ago when the citizens of District 4 and I began this campaign journey, my number one priority was to bring jobs to the district. The citizens of our district believed in me and we were able to bring more than 1,500
job opportunities home to our area through Mississippi Silicon, Alumaform, Tiffin and expansions at Caterpillar and Avectus. Because of these efforts, unemployment rates have dropped by six percent. As your senator, I will continue to work hard for North Mississippi to promote job growth, reduce taxes and explore all available resources for economic development and growth. As a parent and an advocate of education, I believe that all of our children should have the opportunity to develop their talents and passions. The path toward a college education is available to everyone, but what about those students whose choice is not college? We must provide a path for the fulfillment of their dreams and passions and that is why I support the dual track in high school education. With dual track, each student has the opportunity to achieve success in a career of his/her choice. The goal of education is to nurture, cultivate, develop and expand the minds, knowledge and experiences of our children. Without dedicated teachers that goal will not be realized. That is why I have voted for record education funding of $2.5 billion for K-12 education, supported the $2,500 pay
raise for our teachers and promoted an increased starting pay for all new Mississippi teachers. I also supported the “A – F” Rating System which created the transparency for every parent to track the efficiency and progress of his/her child’s school. As you Senator, I will continue to work hard for education to develop the full potential of each child and to increase the national education ranking of Mississippi. The financial realities of government affect all of us. Throughout my term in Jackson, I have supported a balanced budget and have worked to reduce debt by ending the practice of long-term borrowing for short-term expenses. As your Senator, I will continue to work hard for financially efficient and responsible government to include both tax and debt reduction. Pro – 2nd Amendment, Pro-Life, Pro-Family. Recent Supreme Court rulings have affected the state of Mississippi and its Constitution. As a 2nd Amendment advocate, I supported legislation to protect the privacy of concealed-carry permit holders and to reduce the fees for obtaining and renewing the permits. I coauthored a bill which created a sales tax holiday for sportsmen. My work in
Jackson will be to uphold our rights, our values, and our traditions within the law and according to the oath of my Senate office. I will work hard to uphold the freedoms and liberties as expressed in both the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of the state of Mississippi. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position you are seeking? Serving on the following committees has provided the experience and opportunities to help support District 4: Vice-Chair of Insurance, Business and Financial Institutions, Economic Development, Finance, Highways and Transportation, Public Health and Welfare, and Veterans and Military Affairs. My record in the State Senate states my advocacy for jobs, education, families, children with special circumstances, and protecting our Second Amendment rights. The past four years I have proven to the citizens of District 4 that my word and my promises are kept. Today, we have 1,500 more job opportunities and we have created business partnerships which will continue to benefit our area. I have developed relationships with fellow legislators that benefit education, economic growth, and increased accountabil-
ity for State government. It is this experience that qualifies me for this position. As your Senator, I am able to combine my experience as a private industry Director of Quality with that of serving on 7 legislative committees to promote economic growth and improvement in the quality of life for Alcorn County. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Alcorn County has many opportunities to lead and present itself as a model for industrial development and economic growth. To enhance that position, we must have a skilled workforce to offer prospective investors in our community to demonstrate that we are prepared to successfully move into the next decade. Therefore, to support this goal, we must expect more responsibility and accountability from our elected officials, from our schools, and from ourselves. We all must strive and focus our time, talents and resources toward that goal. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Without hesitation, the people of Alcorn County are its greatest asset. Because my family has lived here for 6 generations, I know the hearts
and minds of all who call Alcorn County home. I know the commitment to faith, family and friends. I believe in the people of Alcorn County. As your senator, I will continue to uphold the trust that Alcorn County has placed in my hands and I will continue to nurture our greatest asset – our people. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. Serving as your senator is an honor and a humbling responsibility because of the trust that you have placed in me. That is the mindset that I bring with me to Jackson as I work to serve you in each legislative session. Together we have begun a journey that has reaped the seeds of success that have been sown: job growth, education advancement, improvements to the quality of life. You have been a part of the process for these successes because you have shared with me your needs, your challenges, and your desires and I have listened to them. There is more work to do: more jobs, more economic development, quality of life and education and these will be my focus throughout the next four years.
Name: Eric Powell Age: 49 Address: 11 CR 173, Corinth Office seeking: District 4 State Senate Family: wife, Gwen Powell; children, Ebria, Austin and Kianna Education: Tishomingo High School, Northeast Community College (AA) degree Physical Education 1988 and Wingate College, Bachelor of Science degree Park and Recreation 1991 1) Why are you seeking this office? I’m seeking this office
to represent the people of Senate District 4. I believe this district and Northeast Mississippi has the best group of people in the world. I enjoyed representing this District when I served for four years as their Senator. I believe by working with the state, county and municipal officials, we can improve the quality of life for the citizens of District 4 by improving our funding for education and by utilizing State and local incentive packages to bring new and better paying jobs to the citizens of Northeast Mississippi. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for this position you are seeking? I served as senator for the people of this district from 2008 to 2012. While in office I introduced two major pieces of legislation that impacted the lives of the citizens of this district and both were signed into law by the governor. I’m the only candidate in this race to have been successful in having legislation passed and signed into
law. I don’t necessarily believe that we need to be passing laws just for the sake of passing a new law. I believe we need to remove some of the old or antiquated laws from the books that are no longer applicable to this day and age. I also believe we need to make sure our State and local officials have the resources to enforce the laws that are passed in Jackson. I believe it is unfair and goes against common sense for the lawmakers in Jackson to pass laws that require small towns and counties to enforce laws if these mandates are unfunded. This places the burden on the small towns and counties to raise taxes to fund the mandates passed in Jackson. I believe if they pass the law in Jackson then those same lawmakers should make sure the financial resources are available to enforce those laws. I believe my past experience in the Senate will make a big difference in my ability to effectively protect the interests of the constituents of this
district. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? The number one problem I see for Alcorn County is that we presently lack good paying jobs with benefits in sufficient numbers which allow our youth to remain in the area after they have completed high school and college. I believe we have great resources in our area to attract business and industry which will provide high paying jobs with benefits in sufficient numbers to improve the quality of life in Alcorn County and Northeast Mississippi. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? The greatest asset that we have in Alcorn County is our people. As I always say, “The best people in the world live in Northeast Mississippi and this area.” As for Alcorn County specifically, I would say outside of our people, we have a great school sys-
tem and very educated and professional group of teachers, faculty and administrators who take a high level of responsibility in making sure our schools remain at the highest quality of any school system in the area. If elected, I will continue to make sure that we can get the funds that is needed by voting to fully fund our schools. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while you are in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. We need to get a regional plan for each region of the state to fund infrastructure repairs and upgrades. We have to be able to travel over safe roads and bridges to get to work, school and church. It is a mission critical component necessary to attract quality business and industry to our area. I will work with our local, state and federal officials to come up with the best way to fund these projects and will introduce legislation to establish these
regional plans for infrastructure upgrades. I will work to attract higher paying jobs with benefits in sufficient numbers to retain our youth in our area once they complete high school and colleges. We have a great workforce here and we need to make the most of it and our local community college to utilize workforce training, to attract business and train our citizens for these jobs. I will work to maintain our high quality schools by voting to fully fund our educational system. We have great schools and that is not the case everywhere we travel. These schools are good because the county and cities here have chosen to invest in education and the key to a better future for our children as well as our area. I will work to maintain a low tax rate for our citizens. Our citizens are paying a lot of taxes already and they need more from government than another bill asking for more money.
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Candidate Questionnaire 2015 District Attorney
Name: Arch Bullard Age: 51 Address: 4146 North Harper Road, Corinth Office Seeking: District Attorney, First Judicial District
Family: Wife, Dana Miller Bullard, originally from Aberdeen; daughters, Sarah (22) and Frances (19); mother, Betty Bullard of Vicksburg; father, Honorable Nathaniel W. Bullard, deceased Education: Vicksburg High School, 1982; Undergraduate degree in history from Millsaps College, 1986; Juris Doctorate from Ole Miss Law School, 1990 1) Why are you seeking this office? As an assistant District Attorney for 15 years, I rose to become the lead attorney prosecuting in Alcorn, Prentiss and Tishomingo counties. It was a tremendous honor to work with our local law enforcement to protect victims and our commu-
nities. I know the hard work and long hours that are required to be the DA and believe that it is important to aggressively seek to incarcerate violent and repeat offenders. 2) What experience do you have that qualifies you for the position which you are seeking? I have practiced law for 25 years starting with a small law firm in general practice. I then worked as a law clerk for Chief Judge L. T. Senter on the federal bench in Aberdeen. I moved to Corinth in 1996 and for 15 years was an assistant district attorney under John R. Young. I became the lead attorney supervising other attorneys and staff in the prosecution of all of
the felony cases in Alcorn, Tishomingo and Prentiss counties. I am currently a partner in the law firm of Clayton O’Donnell, PLLC, with offices in Corinth, Tupelo and Oxford. I have been actively involved in Northeast Mississippi serving on many boards and community organizations. 3) What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? Overall, the law enforcement in Alcorn County is well trained and dedicated to preserving the peace. Unfortunately, the District Attorney’s office has failed to develop a strong working relationship with them. The present DA’s office does not work with law enforcement, and fails to listen to victims regarding how
they believe their case should be handled. 4) What do you consider to be Alcorn County’s greatest asset? Alcon County is blessed with an abundant population of hard working and community minded citizens. We have great schools. It is a wonderful place to live and raise our children. It deserves a professional aggressive District Attorney willing to dedicate the time necessary to maintain our quality of life. 5) Mention things you would like to see accomplished while in office. List how you’ll get it done with each idea. 1. Increase the length of sentences for violent offenders by being pre-
pared to try cases before any jury. 2. Force longer sentences for habitual/repeat offenders by not agreeing to needlessly reduce the charges. 3. Reduce the number of offenders placed on the DA’s pretrial diversion program limiting it to first time, nonviolent offenders. 4. Build stronger relationships and lines of communication with law enforcement throughout the seven-county district by working with officers, not against them, and understanding that they need a prosecuting attorney on their side. 5. Actively lead and train a professional legal team of prosecutors who will aggressively enforce the law.
Name: John Weddle Age: 46 Address: 133 Courtland Dr., Saltillo Office seeking: District Attorney Family: Married to Karen Edwards Weddle for 25 years; children:
Andrew Weddle, 18, Anna Grace Weddle, 14; parents are William and Elizabeth Weddle Education: Eupora High School, 1987; Mississippi State University, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, 1991; University of Mississippi School of Law, Juris Doctor Degree, 1994 Why do you seek this office? 1) There is no better way to serve my community and all the communities of this seven-county district than to continue serving as your District Attorney. This office gives me a chance to truly make a difference in the lives of our citizens by doing my best to prevent crime; and to make a difference in crime victims’ lives and their families lives by making
sure defendants are prosecuted in a just manner. 2) Experience: I bring unique experience to the office of district attorney. Having served as a public defender, private attorney, a judge, an assistant district attorney, and presently as district attorney, I have seen the criminal justice system from all perspectives. I am the only conservative choice for this office. I am a dedicated family man. I currently serve as chairman of the deacon body at Belden Baptist Church. As an assistant district attorney, I was lead prosecutor overseeing the Special Victim’s Task Force focusing on crimes against women and children. I am committed to serving as district attorney with honesty, integrity and
fairness. I am committed to keeping our communities safe and to fighting corruption. What do you consider Alcorn County’s number one problem? 3) Alcorn County shares the same problems with crime in many ways as other counties in the district. However, there are a couple of recent developments causing me concern. Because of its geographic location, Corinth particularly has experienced violent criminal activity from non-citizens. Also, the state auditor’s office through its investigations and working in conjunction with our office, has exposed instances of alleged corruption by public officials. 4) What do you consider Alcorn County’s
greatest asset? The reaction I see from the citizens of Alcorn County to the problem in the previous response is an indication of Alcorn County’s greatest asset. The people of Alcorn County as a whole are peaceful, law-abiding citizens who are anything but complacent with the status quo. I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of people from Alcorn County and am satisfied they are genuinely concerned with the safety and welfare of Alcorn County citizens. 5) Mention what you will be accomplished. 1. I am committed to making sure defendants indicted for violent crimes, sex offenses, those who are habitual offenders, and those who break in our homes serve prison
time. I will spare no effort in working closely with all law enforcement agencies and make sure cases are ready for trial and that our office uses all resources available to prosecute these crimes. 2. I am committed to fighting corruption and fraud in our district. I will continue to work closely with our state auditor’s office and other agencies to keep our tax dollars where they belong. 3. I am committed to keeping an open and professional office. The office of the district attorney belongs to the district. I will be accessible to the victims of crimes, law enforcement and to the public. I want to make sure I am fully informed before making decisions that affect our district.
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