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Board member wants 1 school BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

School board approves fall fundraisers

BY JOURDAN SAMUELSON NEMCC Student Publications Staff

A slate of fall fundraisers was recently approved by the Alcorn School District Board of Education. Alcorn Central Elementary School students plan to sell 2016-17 yearbooks, sell discount cards and the PTO will host a fall festival. Alcorn Central Middle School students will pay $1 to wear a Halloween costume to school on Oct. 31. ACMS will also host a Beauty Review and cheerleaders will sell T-shirts. Alcorn Central High School FBLA will sell Krispy Kreme doughnuts to raise funds. The AC Baseball Boosters will host

BOONEVILLE — A Northeast Mississippi Community College student has his sights set on the stars. Or at least a planet. Northeast sophomore Sturgis Baxter of Corinth has been selected for a unique experience with NASA through their National Aerospace Community College Scholars Program. As part of the program, Baxter will attend a four-day workshop at Stennis Space Center near Hancock County where he will be working closely with NASA employees and other community college majors from various states on several team projects.

“I imagine this experience can only serve to inspire me, motivate me to study harder, and become a part of the solution for tomorrow’s problems,” Baxter said. For acceptance into the program, Baxter first had to submit an application along with a short essay of why he desired to enter the program, provide confirmation of academic and professional references, and complete an online course after his acceptance into the program. In a 300-word essay required on the application, Baxter wrote about his desire to use what he’s learned at Northeast and plans to later learn at a four-year university to develop, explore, and

Wrestling pioneer coming to Corinth BY BOBBY J. SMITH A barrier-breaking professional wrestling pioneer is coming to Corinth this weekend. WWE Hall of Famer Ron Simmons will be among the combatants at Halloween Monster Bash 2 on Saturday night at Crossroads Arena. Simmons’ biggest moment in the ring came on the night of Aug. 2, 1992, when he defeated Big Van Vader and became the first oﬃcially recognized black world champion in sports entertainment, paving the way for later WWE Superstars like The Rock.

People of the Crossroads Amanda Caldwell, Corinth Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith

“I like taking care of our patients, helping them with their anxiety and pain level while they’re here,” said Amanda Caldwell, a registered nurse at the Magnolia Regional Health Center Outpatient Surgery Center. “I also offer to pray with them before their surgeries. That’s a big one to help with decreasing anxiety.” Caldwell’s job takes her though the three stages of surgery: pre-op, operating room and recovery. With her husband, Alcorn County Circuit Clerk Joe Caldwell, Amanda has three children, four grandchildren (with one on the way) and four “four-legged children” — a Maltipoo, a Blue Heeler, an English Bulldog and a Great Dane/Lab mix she adopted from the shelter. “If you ask anybody what Amanda loves, they’ll say Jesus, Joe, my daughter Morgan and our dogs,” said Caldwell.

A native of Perry, Ga., Simmons grew up playing football and went on to College Football Hall of Fame glory playing defensive nose guard under Florida State’s Coach Bobby Bowden. After a stint playing pro football in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns and in the United States Football League’s Tampa Bay Bandits, Simmons brought his talents to the world of professional wrestling. Simmons trained under Hiro Matsuda — the Japanese American trainer and wrestler who coached many of wresPlease see SIMMONS | 2

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Ken Wayne Steen of Corinth is selected to represent Mississippi as a congressional scholar at the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C.

Corinth Mayor Jerry Latch is elected to a new term, his fourth as the city’s top administrative oﬃcial.

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develop new venues of computing technology and how it relates to NASA’s mission of reaching Mars by 2033. During the summer, Baxter had to submit a six-to-seven page research paper answering three-of-five questions for a final project due at the end of an online course portion required by the NCAS program. “On that essay, I wrote about the following topics: anti-matter propulsion systems for future spacecraft, how I would personally conduct a long-term mission to Mars,” Baxter said, “and ways that antimatter could be produced on a larger scale

With county school enrollment on the rise, a school board member earlier this week said he thinks Alcorn County should have only one school. Lamar Walker, who represents the third district on the Alcorn School District Board of Education, shared Superintendent Larry B. Mitchell’s updated enrollment numbers with the board on Monday. Walker then added his own idea of the direction he thinks the district should take. “I know some people were lead out of the district, but a lot has come in as well,” Walker said. “Having these numbers here, I think if Alcorn County had one school and everyone was in that school, it would make things a lot better.” According to Mitchell’s numbers, enrollment districtwide is up 16 students from last year even after the closure of two of the county’s smallest schools in Rienzi and Glen. The numbers grew from 3,252 students in 2015-16 to 3,263 students in 2016-17. Walker added, “I know everybody likes their own schools, but we have to think about what benefits the kids the most. We have to think about the education, the opportunities and the technology. All these things would help out kids more than just having a name because we went to school there.” An interim board member,

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Northeast Mississippi Community College’s Campus Country will hold its first Showtime of the 2016-17 academic year this week. Entitled “Hurricane,” Northeast’s Campus Country is expected to begin the year with a 23song setlist on Thursday, Oct. 13, in Seth Pounds Auditorium. Curtain rises on the initial Showtime at 7 p.m. with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free to Northeast faculty, staﬀ and students with a current identification card and just $5 for the general public. In addition to the Showtime’s title piece “Hurricane,” by Band of Heathens, Campus Country will be become quasi-meteorologists with at least seven songs on the setlist that deal with weather or traveling. “In the spring 2016 semester, I was asked by President Ford if I would be interested in taking Campus Country to play for the welcome event at the American Community College Trustees (ACCT) conference in New Orleans on October 6. Obviously, I said ‘yes’ immediately,” said Northeast Campus Country director Chris Dunn. “Knowing that we’d be performing a

Northeast Mississippi Community College’s Campus Country will hold its first Showtime of the 2016-17 academic year on Thursday, October 13 in the Seth Pounds Auditorium on the Booneville campus. Curtain rises on the program at 7 p.m. with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Admission to the Showtime is free to Northeast faculty, staff and students with a current identification card and only $5 for general public admission. Members of the 2016-17 Campus Country include (front row l-r) vocalists Molly Thorn of Belmont, Vanna Loveless of Tupelo, Mary Steadman of Iuka, (second row l-r) Ashlyn Inman of Walnut, Lane Boozer of Saltillo, Emily Elliott of Booneville, campus country director Chris Dunn of Booneville, (third row l-r) acoustic guitarist Billy Stone of Booneville, electric guitarist and saxophonist Andrew Hill of Saltillo, vocalist and keyboard player Colby Crenshaw of Rienzi, (back row l-r) electric guitarist Drew Henry of Belmont, vocalist Chance Stanley of Marietta, electric guitarist and vocalist Dillon Keith of Waynesboro, Tenn., drummer Ethan Mayo of Pinson, Tenn., and bassist Adam Chabot of Waynesboro, Tenn. Not pictured is sound technician T.K. McKinney of Amory. show in New Orleans, the group picked a few New Orleans-themed songs

that will appear on Showtime.” Campus Country’s

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weather-themed Showtime will see the ensemble perform Morgane Stapleton’s “You Are My Sunshine,” “The Night That the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” by Vicki Lawrence, “House of the Rising Sun,” by Haley Reinhardt, “I See Fire,” by Ed Sheeran and the Showtime’s title piece, “Hurricane,” by Band of Heathens for its weather related portion of the performance. Campus Country will also be traveling to high and low places during the 23-song set with Vince Gill’s “Go Rest High on That Mountain,” and will be up to no good during Sugarland’s “Down in Mississippi.” Northeast Mississippi music fans will get a treat when Campus Country performs “You Are My Sunshine,” by Morgane Stapleton. Stapleton’s husband, Chris, shot to international stardom over the last two years in the country music industry and claimed 10 major country music awards in 2015-16. Stapleton will be in Northeast Mississippi just eight days after the Campus Country performance as he takes the stage at the BancorpSouth Center

in Tupelo on Friday, October 21. It was also just announced that Stapleton will receive the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers’ Vanguard Award later this year. First-year vocalists Lane Boozer of Saltillo, Ashlyn Inman of Walnut and Emily Elliott of Booneville kick oﬀ the show with the Dixie Chicks classic “Sin Wagon” with instrumentalists Dillon Keith, Drew Henry, Colby Crenshaw, and Andrew Hill contributing solos. The songs roll on through love, heartbreak, and recovery with Colby Crenshaw performing Billy Currington’s “Don’t” and Steadman taking on Danny Gokey’s “Tell Your Heart to Beat Again.” “The first Showtime of each year is always exciting because we have new members making their debuts and audience members who may have never heard the group,” Dunn said. “We’re opening this show by featuring all of our new members on the very first song and each first-year vocalist will have their turn on the mic by the third song of the show.” Veteran male vocalist Chance Stanley of Marietta tackles Darryl Worley’s “Awful Beautiful Life” and Inman takes on Elle King’s “Ex’s and Oh’s” early in the setlist. While traveling through the country music catalog, Campus Country will also see Elliot perform Carrie Underwood’s “Flat on the Floor” and Molly Thorn of Belmont belt out Bonnie Raitt’s classic “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” Stanley and Loveless team up for Eric Church’s “Mixed Drinks About Feelings,” and Thorn returns for Kelly Clarkson’s “Don’t Rush,” midway through the 23-song set. Loveless gets to perform a song by Patty Loveless – no relation – “Blame It on Your Heart,” while Boozer croons Adele’s “Make You Feel My Love,” and the trio of Loveless, Steadman and Thorn take to the stage of Seth Pounds Auditorium with the second Dixie Chicks classic on the setlist, “Let ‘Er Rip.” Guitarist Dillon Keith of Waynesboro, Tennessee gets his turn on the microphone as he sings Ray LaMontagne’s “You Are the Best Thing,” and Colby Crenshaw breaks from the country mold with Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” featuring

Mars to lighten the mood of the Showtime. “I really hope to see some members of the community or former Campus Country members at the show who might not have seen the group in a while,” Dunn said. “We’re constantly working to improve our performance and live presentation. If you have any ties to Campus Country or the NEMCC music program from years past, I’d be honored to meet and speak with you after our show.” Members of 2016-17 NEMCC Campus Country include Lane Boozer of Saltillo (vocals), Adam Chabot of Waynsboro, Tenn. (bass), Colby Crenshaw of Rienzi (vocals/ keys), Emily Elliott of Booneville (vocals), Drew Henry of Belmont (electric guitar), Ashlyn Inman of Walnut (vocals), Andrew Hill of Saltillo (electric guitar/sax), Dillon Keith of Waynesboro, Tenn. (electric guitar/ vocals), Vanna Loveless of Tupelo (vocals), Ethan Mayo of Pinson, Tenn., (drums), T.K. McKinney of Amory (sound), Chance Stanley of Marietta (vocals), Mary Steadman of Iuka (vocals), Billy Stone of Booneville (acoustic guitar) and Molly Thorn of Belmont (vocals). Also joining in on the first Showtime performance are Trevor Shoup of Ripley (trombone), Kristin White of Saltillo (trumpet) and returning crowd favorite Nathan Smith of Ripley who will be running lights for the first Showtime. Northeast Campus Country is under the direction of Chris Dunn of Booneville. In addition to its first Showtime of the year, Northeast’s Campus Country has three other Showtimes planned for Thursday, Dec. 1; Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017; and Thursday, April 13, 2017. Auditions for membership in 2017-18 NEMCC Campus Country are set for Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 9 a.m. in Seth Pounds Auditorium. Anyone interested in auditioning for the group or with questions about the audition process are encouraged to contact Dunn at crdunn@nemcc.edu.

cast a long shadow over the world of professional wrestling. He also won World Tag Team Titles three times between 1999 and 2001. Other headliners for the Saturday night showdown include TNA Wrestling champion “Cowboy” James Strom and former WWE star Eugene. The scheduled events include a double main event, the Trick or Treat Match and a ladies match.

The wrestling lineup also includes “the power couple,” Dustin “Five” Starr with Maria; “Hollywood” Jimmy Blaylock; Eric Wayne; Derrick King; “wrestling’s Bonnie & Clyde,” Francisco Ciasto with Stormie Lee; Neil Taylor with Mr. Sensational; Josh Matthews; Gary Valiant and more. Bell time is 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are available now at the Crossroads Arena box oﬃce and Rockstar Records on East Main in Tupelo. Reserved ringside seats go for $22 and general admission for $15, plus service fees.

(For Campus Country news and event updates, “like” the NEMCC Campus Country page on Facebook (http://bit.ly/ NEMCCCampusCountry).)

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Today in History Today is Thursday, Oct. 13, the 287th day of 2016. There are 79 days left in the year.

Todayâ€™s Highlight in History: On Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

On this date: In 1972, a Uruguayan chartered flight carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes. (Survivors resorted to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive.) In 1999, the Senate rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, with 48 senators voting in favor and 51 against, far short of the 67 needed for ratification. In 2010, rescuers in Chile using a missile-like escape capsule pulled 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground. One year ago: Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders clashed over U.S. involvement in the Middle East, gun control and economic policy in the first Democratic presidential debate held in Las Vegas, but in a moment of political unity, Sanders leapt to Clintonâ€™s defense on the issue of her controversial email practices as secretary of state.

Across the Region Booneville Unemployment falls in Prentiss County BOONEVILLE â€” Prentiss Countyâ€™s unemployment rate fell more than half a percentage point from July to August. Unemployment in the county dropped from 6.1 percent in July to 5.3 percent in August according to the latest figures released by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. The number of people employed in the county rose from 10,530 in July to 10,550 in August while the number claiming unemployment benefits fell from 690 to 590. The drop mirrored a statewide decrease in unemployment. The statewide rate fell from 6.5 percent in August to 5.7 percent in July. Prentiss County had the highest unemployment rate among immediately surrounding counties. Union County had the low-

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Tishomingo Co. Bass tournament aids fire department TISHOMINGO COUNTY â€” The Fire on the River Bass Tournament will be held Saturday, Oct. 15 at the J.P. Coleman State Park boat ramp. There will be a 4 a.m. weigh-in with a blast-off at 6 a.m. Cost is $100 per boat. Proceeds benefit the Eastport/Millcreek Fire Department. Special guest at the tournament will be

Tupelo Pet Loss Support will meet on Oct. 22 TUPELO â€” Pet Loss Support Group will meet on Saturday, October 22 from 1-3 at the Tupelo-Lee County Library in the Sue Garmon Conference Room on the second floor. For more information, please text or call 662-596-5191. Â

Savannah Man arrested for creating hoax devices SAVANNAH, Tenn. â€” Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have arrested and charged a Savannah man accused of creating hoax devices found in his home during a fire investigation. At the request of 24th District Attorney General Matthew Stowe, TBI agents, along with authori-

ties from Tennessee Fire Investigative Services, began investigating this case on Saturday, Oct. 8, shortly after the Hardin County Sheriffâ€™s Department and Hardin County Fire Department responded to a fire at 250 Burnt Church Road in Savannah. Authorities discovered two safes in a bedroom of the home, indicating both contained explosive devices. Special Operations personnel from the Tennessee Highway Patrol responded and determined the safes did not contain explosive devices. During the course of the investigation, agents, working alongside investigators from Hardin County, determined the resident, Joshua Steakley, was the individual responsible for the hoax. TBI agents arrested the 36-year-old Tuesday and charged him with one count of Prohibited Weapons (Hoax Device). Authorities subsequently booked him into the Hardin County Jail on $100,000 bond.

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Is it time for a tobacco tax increase? BY LYNN EVANS Guest Columnist

If the theme during the first meetings of the new Legislative Tax and Budget Review Panels was cutting government spending, the most succinct answer to why that is so hard to do was that Mississippi has too many low income, unhealthy people. Who need and depend on government services like drug addiction treatment, Medicaid coverage during pregnancy, and protection for children in the foster care system. Although the Legislature’s role in improving Mississippians’ health is indirect, mainly allocating sufficient state money to agencies like Medicaid and the Department of Health, there is one thing lawmakers could do guaranteed to improve the health of the state: raise Mississippi’s tobacco tax. The last successful attempt by health advocates to raise the state tax on tobacco culminated in the 2009 increase from 18 cents to 68 cents per pack. As it happened, the state tax increase came just after the federal cigarette tax was increased to $1.01 per pack, putting the current total for our state and federal taxes at $1.69. The two big reasons, then and now, for raising the state tobacco tax are, first, that tobacco use by Mississippians costs the state big money -- about $320 million a year in Medicaid expenditures alone. Second, raising the tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products is a highly effective way to decrease tobacco use, especially by teens and young adults. By now, every American should know that tobacco use is linked to a host of diseases, and even secondhand smoke can make people sick. Babies, babies in the womb, and young children are especially vulnerable to the damages of secondhand tobacco smoke. The American Cancer Society reports that smoking kills more Americans than alcohol, highway crashes, HIV, guns and illegal drugs combined. According to Gallup, the percentage of Mississippians who smoke, having declined after the 2009 cigarette tax increase, is now up to 27%. Only Kentucky and West Virginia, both tobacco producing states, have a higher rate of smoking than we do. And 37 other states have a higher state cigarette tax than does Mississippi. The state tax average among the 50 states is $1.68 a pack. Among our surrounding states, Mississippi’s 68 cent tax is roughly similar to Tennessee and Alabama, but Louisiana takes in $1.08 a pack and Arkansas $1.15. The passage of SmokeFree laws around our state has shown how decreasing smoking can improve community health. In cities like Starkville where SmokeFree laws have been put into effect, hospitals and doctors have seen a measurable 13 to 27% decrease in heart attack admissions, as well as decreases in heart and lung disease. Overall, the national rate of cigarette sales has declined sharply as cigarette taxes have increased and Americans have learned about the deathly effects of tobacco use. Unfortunately, Mississippi is bucking that trend. And we have not even talked about the added revenue that increasing the state tax on tobacco would bring. Revenue badly needed as legislative leaders look for ways to balance the state budget after previous years’ tax cuts. The multi-year effort by a united range of health advocates that resulted in the 50 cent per pack cigarette tax increase in 2009 showed how difficult it is to increase tobacco taxes in our state – even with strong public support. However, in the intervening years we have seen first-hand that decreasing tobacco use in our communities can improve everybody’s health dramatically. We know that our high rate of tobacco use – almost 1 in 3 Mississippians – is tied to our poor health status as a state. It is not a big jump to understand that increasing Mississippi’s tobacco tax can result in better health for all Mississippians – and extra money in the bank as well. Lynn Evans is a former Jackson School Board Member and a contributing columnist.

Prayer for today Gracious Father, may the world speak to me of thy gifts, and of the peace and power which it freely oﬀers. May I not pass by thy great appeals, and prefer to purchase at a great cost my indolence and dissipation. Amen.

A verse to share “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” –Mark 8:36

The year of the normal Republican Mike Pence’s vice-presidential debate victory was a striking blow for normality. In fact, beneath the sound and the fury of the Trump campaign, normal Republicans are having a pretty good year. Pence had an exemplary introduction on the national stage. GOP Senate candidates are holding their own. House Speaker Paul Ryan, flying the banner of a traditional Republican agenda of uplift, could well minimize Republican losses in the House. Of course, normal Republicans lost in a rout to Donald Trump in the primaries, and their fate is intertwined with his. He is still running close to Hillary Clinton, which keeps everyone in the game. If the bottom falls out for him, it will inevitably sink other Republicans, too. But Trump’s incendiary populism is represented only at the top of the ticket, where it is losing a winnable race, while more conventional down-ballot Republicans are so far hanging in there. Republican Senate candidates consistently outperform Trump. According to the latest batch of Quinnipiac polls, Marco Rubio is at 48 percent in Florida

and Trump is at 44. Rob Portman is at 55 in Ohio and Trump is at 46. Pat Toomey is at Rich 50 in PennLowry sylvania and Trump is National at 43. RichReview ard Burr, though, is even with Trump at 46 in North Carolina. According to the RealClearPolitics average, Kelly Ayotte is running 10 points ahead of Trump in New Hampshire. Even an embattled incumbent senator like Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson is doing 3.3 points better than Trump in his state. This is not typical. A Republican consultant who looked at data going back to 1996 found that swing-state Senate incumbents tend to run even with the presidential candidate and no more than 2 points ahead, except in a couple extraordinary cases. Consider Rob Portman. He is no one’s idea of a bomb-thrower. His political hero is George H.W. Bush. But he is doing better than Trump in a Trump-friendly state. Portman has a strong

and trusted political brand that he has carefully protected this year, endorsing Trump while distancing himself from him at the same time. And the Ohio senator has done the fundamental blocking and tackling of a serious, disciplined candidate determined to win. In a year when all the rules are supposed to be suspended, the rules are still highly useful. Mike Pence prepared for the debate in boringly conventional ways. He studied up. He held mock debate sessions with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. He had a strategy and executed it, deflecting things he didn’t want to talk about (i.e., most of Trump’s controversial statements and heterodox positions) and pivoting back to things he did want to discuss. If Trump had done the same in the first presidential debate, the race might look diﬀerent today. His highly combative and unorthodox campaign style, coupled with a focus on trade and immigration almost to the exclusion of anything else, is proving to be an obstacle to overcome, rather than a boost for the party and himself. In other words, the

question is whether Trump can win despite his abnormality rather than because of it. This isn’t to say that Trump doesn’t have distinctive strengths. Surely, if Mike Pence had run for president this year, Trump would have squashed him like a bug just like he did everyone else -festooning him with an unflattering nickname and belittling and unmanning him at the debates. Nonetheless, Trump has been at his best this campaign when he has tried hardest to attain a simulacrum of normality. His new discipline after his August swoon was the reason -- together with Hillary Clinton’s struggles -- that he nearly pulled into a tie before the first debate. If he is going to come back again, it won’t be with 3 a.m. tweets and attacks on ordinary people who have crossed him. It still wants to be a change election, which is another way of saying that it wants to be a Republican year -- if Trump can somehow act the part. Daily Corinthian columnist Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Singing a traveller’s lullaby of worry, anticipation FISHTRAP HOLLOW, Miss. — I’m getting ready for a holiday trip, and sleep is evasive. At 1 a.m. I dream Canada builds a wall. At 2 a.m. the coyotes start howling, sounding so close that I suspect they are convening in my living room. I get up and blow a referee whistle that sometimes scares them away, or at least makes them play fair. This time it only excites, and murderous howls reach a crescendo of frenzy. At 3 a.m. I awake worried that I’ve promised two diﬀerent groups of friends they can use my small house while I am gone on the same week. I imagine the confusion as they play musical beds, a Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice kind of scene. Where did I put my calendar? At 4 a.m. I wonder if the address on my passport has to match the one on my driver’s license. Sup-

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pose I get to the airport and the security person looks from one document Rheta to the other, Johnson notes my disheveled Columnist and sleepdeprived look and hauls me away to the super-secret interrogation room? I toss. I turn. I get up. At 4:30 a.m. I check and realize a passport only has your country, not a street address. But just so you’ll know, these days a passport not only has to be current, it has to be six months to the good or you’re going nowhere. At least that’s what I heard ... At 5 a.m. I feed the dogs and get all tearyeyed about leaving two old hounds and one relative newcomer defenseless amongst the coyotes. Suppose Lucinda, the newbie,

wanders oﬀ without Hank to chaperone and runs into those loud and wily creatures? What if Boozoo, I don’t know, moves from his spot on the floor? At 6 a.m. I start writing this, one of many columns I’ve written ahead, to be released after I am too far from home to care if it makes much sense. As impossible as it seems this moment, when you read this, I’ll be sitting on the porch of a Dordogne house with the name -- a name! -Maison Bleu, sampling the local grapes and the labors of force-fed geese. I won’t mind if you find this silly. Silly this. But until then, I will be this way, fretful and deranged, until I am on that airplane and there’s nothing else I can do about anything, unless it’s something happening in France. The one thing I haven’t lost sleep over is what clothes to take, the quandary that concerns most

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travelers. I know that at the end of the trip I’ll be tossing my old clothes and filling my suitcase with French oilcloth, grapevine corkscrews, signs that say “Vicious Dog” in French, that kind of thing: treasures. You don’t worry much about old clothes you intend to throw away. I have been worrying a lot about a sore heel that pestered me all summer long. In France you walk a lot. Would I be able to keep pace? But one recent morning I woke up, put my feet on the floor and the ice picks that had been sticking in the contrary heel had disappeared, as if by magic. France may not be the curative for all that ails you, but it works for me. To find out more about Daily Corinthian columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson and her books, visit www.rhetagrimsleyjohnsonbooks.com.

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City of Hospitality plans Fall Festival BY BRANT SAPPINGTON For the Daily Corinthian

Downtown Booneville will be buzzing this weekend as the 25th Annual Booneville Fall Festival brings fellowship and fun to the streets of the City of Hospitality. Booneville and Prentiss County Main Street Manager Trudy Featherston said they’re expecting great weather and are excited about the busy lineup of music, vendors, food and more. “It’s going to be a great weekend,” she said. The fun gets rolling on Thursday with the opening of the Mize PBJ Happee Days Shows Carnival in the parking lot beside Daniel Tucker’s law office on College Street behind the courthouse. The carnival runs from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday with $15 arm bands each night. Friday night’s activities are centered on the main stage in the Triangle with a talent competition at 6:30 p.m. Tumbleweed brings its unique brand of country music to the stage at 8 p.m. and features Booneville’s Greg Michael and Billy Pickens and Randy Tucker of Corinth in the lineup. Saturday is the biggest day of the event and Featherston said this year there really is something for everyone. She said they’ve got one of the biggest groups of vendors in recent years along with a great mix of music and the traditional activities including the turnip green cookoff, soapbox derby and singing convention everyone has come to love. Saturday’s fun gets underway at 7 a.m. with registration for the Booneville Community Pharmacy 5K Run/Walk at the Triangle. The race begins at 8:30 a.m. Main stage entertainment begins at 9 a.m. and continues throughout the day. Vendors will also be setup throughout the downtown area beginning at 9 a.m. The Booneville Lions Club Soapbox Derby is set for 10 a.m., the International Turnip Green Courthouse will be on the square at noon and the Singing Convention begins at 1:30 p.m. in the main courtroom at the courthouse. A political speaking for all local, state and other candidates is set for 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on court square while the evening’s entertainers set up on the main stage. Featherston is especially excited about this year’s evening entertainment lineup featuring a mix of local and national acts. Kicking things off at 5:15 p.m. is Northeast Mississippi Community College’s Campus Country. Booneville’s own Breaking Grass takes a break from their busy national performing schedule to take the Triangle stage at 6:30 p.m. and headliner Logan Mize will close out the festival starting at 8 p.m. Mize is one of Nashville’s most talked about up and coming stars and has found success with several songs including his current single “Can’t Get Away from a Good Time” which brings a fun

country party vibe to his down home country rock. Mize has been seen on a nationally aired cotton commercial with Hayden Panettiere and in an episode of the CW drama “Hart of Dixie”. He’s also opened shows for some of the biggest names in country music including Lady Antebellum, The Band Perry, Eric Church, Dierks Bentley, Little Big Town, Blake Shelton and more. For any questions about the festival, contact the Booneville and Prentiss County Main Street oﬃce at 662-728-4130. Saturday’s entertainment schedule includes: (All are on the Main Stage at The Triangle unless otherwise noted) • 8:30 a.m. — 5K Run Starts at the Triangle • 9 a.m. — Michelle Down’s singing students • 10 a.m. — 5K and Decorating Contest awards presentations • 10:30 a.m. — Hobo Highsteppers • 11 a.m. — Showstopperz • 12:30 a.m. — Booneville High School Blue Devil Band Drumline • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. - Political Speaking on Court Square • 2:30 p.m. — Downs Family • 3:15 p.m. — The Rust Bucket Roadies • 4:15 p.m. — Two Broke College Girls • 5:15 p.m. — Campus Country • 6:30 p.m. — Breaking Grass • 8 p.m. — Logan Mize

Lisa Lambert shares this July 1957 photo of her grandmother with her sisters and their mother. The group includes (front row, from left) Reba Bauer, Lula Woodis, Marie Foust, (back row, from left) Edna McNeely, Edma Thompson, Ether Wilkins and Katie Foust. Have an old photo you want to share? Send a digital image and information to news@dailycorinthian.com or drop the old photograph by the newspaper office at 1607 North Harper Road. Be sure to include information about the photo.

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sions and merchandise during the 2016-17 basketball and baseball seasons. Kossuth High School FCCLA will sell popcorn and chocolate. The softball team will sell BBQ plates and the art class will sell hamburger plates. KHS cheer plans to host a Beauty Review, while the math and science club plan to host a Spirit Nigh at Zaxby’s for a percentage of profit.

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Funeral services for Sharon Marie Haynie, 63, of Corinth, are set for 1:30 p.m. Friday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial at Precious Memories Cemetery. Visitation is Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. and Friday from 12:30 p.m. until service time at Magnolia Funeral Home. Mrs. Haynie died Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, at her residence. Born May 9, 1953, she was of the Christian faith. She enjoyed spending time and taking care of her grandchildren. Survivors include her husband of 45 years, Jimmy Haynie of Corinth; her sons, Joseph Haynie (Amy) of Corinth, and Lonnie Haynie (Lisa) of Corinth; five grand-

thew Haynie, Jimmy Brentner, Robbie Meeks and Billy Byrd. Bro. Jimmy Lancaster will oﬃciate. Visit www.magnoliafuneralhome.net to send condolences.

children, Jessie Haynie (Samantha), Brandon Haynie, Shawna Smith, Matthew Haynie and Lilly Haynie; one great-granddaughter, Bridget Brentner; her brothers, Gary Shouse (Pam) of Corinth, and Kenneth Shouse of Indiana; and her sisters, Peggy Byrd of Corinth, Tammy Barfoot (Kenneth) of Chicago, and Elizabeth Shouse (Bruce) of Corinth. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Christy Smith; two grandchildren, Brittany Smith and Courtney Smith; her father, Virgil Shouse; her mother, Mildred Thompson Kuta; her brothers, Thomas Shouse and Virgil Shouse; and her sisters, Linda Wiginton and Barbara Clanch. Pallbearers will be Brandon Haynie, Jesse Haynie, Mat-

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Funeral service for Susan Kay Lail McCoy, 74 is set for 1 p.m. Friday in the Chapel of Memorial Funeral Home with Charles Curtis oﬃciating. Burial will follow in the Henry Cemetery. Susan passed from this life on Tuesday Oct. 11, 2016 at Magnolia Regional Health Center with her family member by her bedside, after an extended illness. Susan was born Oct. 5, 1942 in Newport, Arkansas, the third daughter of Lemuel Leon-

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ard and Pearl May Looney Lail, who preceded her in death. She was a member of Foote Street Church of Christ. A 1960 graduate of Corinth High School, Susan was very active in the school band. She was the first female drum major and featured twirler for the CHS band. Many remember her gold sequined uniform and her spectacular performances at football games, parades and state band competition. After high school, Susan was employed at Corinth Community Hospital and later at Tyrone Hydraulics from which she retired after 28 years in the Accounting Dept. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother-in-law Bob Webb, nephew Jimmy Webb.

then he’s got to be the one. John Thune of South Dakota, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate told the Rapid City Journal he had “reservations about the way (Trump) has conducted his campaign and himself.” However, he said, “I’m certainly not going to vote for Hillary Clinton.” Also back on board after calling on Trump to resign: Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska and Reps. Scott Garrett of New Jersey and Bradley Byrne of Alabama.

Susan married Marcus L. McCoy on Nov. 2, 1963, who survivors her. She is also survived by daughters Suzette (Suzy) Smith her husband Jack, Salina Switcher, Melissa Edmondson her husband Joey and Jamie Clemmons her husband Michael; sisters Shirley Watkins, Geneva Webb, Mary Jane Shiplett and Brenda Kemp; grandchildren Hunter Richardson, Connor Richardson, Robert Massey, Tyler (Jessica) Switcher, Britney Switcher; nine great grandchildren. Host of nieces, nephews, family and friends. Family will receive friends Thursday from 5 to 7 and Friday noon to service time. Condolences can be left at www.memorialcorinth.com.

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in space using conceptualized ideas I personally developed while writing the research paper.” Baxter initially discovered the program from Northeast division head of math and sciences Michelle Baragona, who gave him the information he needed to apply to the program. Mathematics instructor Melanie Walker encouraged him to apply. Baxter found out he had been hand selected for an additional on-site experience at Stennis Space Center this past June while working at a summer camp in Connecticut teaching robotics and basic programming. “I hope to learn a lot more about prospective engine designs for future spacecraft, what new technologies astronauts are using in space, and how scientists and researchers at NASA plan to develop systems for innovative propulsion resources like antimatter, hydrogen, or Solar Elec-

tric,” Baxter said. Baxter is already looking forward to his fourday workshop in south Mississippi and being able to attend such a prestigious program in his home state. “I’m so excited to be a Mississippi resident and have the opportunity to work together with other STEM majors throughout the United States while still being so close to home,” Baxter said. “Hopefully this will allow for me to have a bigger opportunity to come back and share what I’ve learned while I was there with kids in the local community and other students at Northeast.” Baxter also sees a connection between his educational career at Northeast and what he will be learning during his four days at Stennis. “The relationships I’ve developed at Northeast with both faculty and other students have impacted my life the most,” Baxter said. “At Northeast, instructors care about you and are filled with a pas-

“HAVE A BLESSED DAY” It is not uncommon at all for people in our day, usually when they are leaving our presence, to say to us, “Have a blessed day.” A customer who regularly came to the store where I once worked, would always say it, and I knew he meant it. WOW! What a great thing to wish for others!! What a great thing to pray for others. With all the bad we hear, isn’t it refreshing to hear something good!? Psalm 1 begins with the phrase “Blessed is the man who….,” and then proceeds to inform us about those who are truly blessed, not only in this life, but in the life to come. The psalmist says to be blessed I must not listen to the advise, or counsel, of the ungodly, stand in the way of sinners, or “sit in the seat of the scornful.” Be cautious about what we hear and heed, and our association with those who could lead us astray. Paul warned, “Evil company corrupts good habits “(I Corinthians 15:33 New King James Version) Conversely, the psalmist says of the blessed man, “but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” (verse 2) By reading what God tells me in his word, meditating upon it, and then putting that into action in my life, I am bringing upon myself the blessing of God. James says, He who looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.”(James 1:25) “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Psalm 1:3) A life “rooted” in God’s will, and “watered” by the wellspring of divine wisdom is a life that will ﬂourish spiritually and bring forth an abundance of fruit to the glory of God. Jesus said in John 15:8, “Herein is my Father gloriﬁed, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.” In the last three verses the psalmist shows what happens in the end to those who do not have the blessings of God in their life. They are ’like the chaff which the wind driveth away”, and “ the way of the ungodly shall perish.” It is our prayer that we would all listen to God and “have a blessed day” We invite you to study and worship with us at the Danville church of Christ.

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sion for seeing students succeed. Also, Northeast’s incorporation of technology in the classroom has propelled me forward in my ability to learn, study, and has provided a sound foundation for me to continue my education at university level.” However, being a sophomore, the student knows his time at Northeast is drawing near. But he has a plan for that as well. “I have plans to attend either Mississippi State University or the University of Alabama to pursue

a baccalaureate degree in Computer Science,” Baxter said. “After that, it is my hope I can gain acceptance to the University of Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or Rice University to continue my exploration of the sciences and complete my graduate studies with a Masters of Computer Science coupled with an MBA. A Ph.D. is also on Baxter’s bucket. “We will see how things move along,” he said. Baxter’s exploration of

the world around him began at an early age by him asking questions about everyday things. “I’ve always been the person who enjoyed asking questions and understanding how things worked,” said Baxter. “My mom will tell you that I was always that kid who enjoyed pushing buttons and testing boundaries to their breaking point. I’m sure she tired of me continually asking her, ‘Why?’” However, Baxter says this inquisitive nature is

not a bad one to have. “As long as it’s directed toward something productive,” Baxter pointed out. “I plan to use that trait to break the boundaries of today’s limitations and, alongside numerous colleagues and other students, create a way for people to live in a reality where going to Mars will be like catching a plane from the United States to China. There’s a whole universe out there to explore and I’m determined to find what’s out there.”

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