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Main Street hunts for new director BY MARK BOEHLER editor@dailycorinthian.com
Main Street Corinth is searching for a new director. The application and resume deadline is next Friday at 4 p.m. The Main Street board is
hopeful to have its new director hired by the first of the year, said John Orman, board member and past president. “We’re looking for someone outgoing and organized,” said Orman. “Someone who can go
out into the community, talk with people and further enhance the Main Street image.” Former Main Street Director Susan Joiner has been helping out the past month, serving as an interim director. She has
been working to make Main Street’s next signature event — Celebrate Corinth — a success, he said. The food, music and silent auction social event will be Nov. 15. Joiner also helped make Hog
Wild a success, noted the board member. The new director will fill the position vacated when former director Montana Hill resigned Please see SEARCH | 2
Daughter dies, mother seriously hurt in collision BY BRANT SAPPINGTON bsappington@dailycorinthian.com
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
Memphis, Tenn., photographer Bill Piacesi explains his ‘Their Last Supper?’ art piece to Corinth librarian Brandon Lowrey. Piacesi’s Forgotten Faces of Memphis will be on display at the library beginning Nov. 10.
A Booneville woman is dead and her mother seriously injured after a two-vehicle crash on the new Mississippi Highway 30 bypass in Booneville early Friday. Becky A. Hatfield, 35, of Booneville was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, said Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop F Spokesperson
Trooper Ray Hall. Hatfield was killed when she was ejected from a 2005 Dodge Caravan driven by her mother, 71-year-old Betty Turvaville of Booneville after the van was struck in the passenger side by a dump truck at the intersection of Prentiss County Road 5031 (Meadow Creek Road) and Highway 30. Please see CRASH | 2
Exhibit puts faces on the homeless Church hosts prayer BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
Bill Piacesi views life through a lens. The professional photographer was moved to refocus on the living conditions of some fellow human beings following a move to Memphis. It was in the Bluff City that Piacesi and wife, Marie, saw for the first time the homeless existence of numerous men and
women. “We came face-to-face with poverty and it was hard for both of us,” said the photographer. “I was inspired to get involved in some way.” Piacesi decided to do something to bring more awareness to the homeless plight. He started the non-profit organization Focus for the Good as his way of bringing much-needed attention to the impoverished.
His goal is “Focusing on a better world ... one photograph at a time.” “Photographs can be a powerful tool,” he said. “My idea was to use my experience as a photographer to create fine art portraits where people could see the faces of the homeless in a public setting and bring more attention to those who have Please see EXHIBIT | 2
meeting for community BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
First Presbyterian Church wants America to cast its support behind Jesus Christ this election season. The church will host a 6 p.m. Sunday prayer meeting, focusing on the country and
the Tuesday local and national election. “I guarantee it’s not going to be anything political,” said church pastor Dr. Don Elliott. “It will be a time of prayer and the reading of Scripture.” Please see MEETING | 2
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Farmington installs Christmas decorations on power poles BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
FARMINGTON — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Crews from ACE Power began work this week installing 70 snowflake Christmas decorations on utility poles along some of the main roads running through the Farmington community. The decorations will be the first of their kind for Farmington. “It’s going to be nice,” said Farmington Mayor Dale Fortenberry. “We’re going to turn them on the week before Thanksgiving
and they’ll be here ’til Santa Claus goes home.” The mayor said installing the Christmas decorations is something he and the board of aldermen have been wanting to do for a long time and were only prevented in the past due to the project’s costs. The board approved the project back in the summer. The 4-by-4 snowflakes will be installed along County Road 200 and down County Road 218 toward Alcorn Central High School. “It’s to add a little bit of Christmas spirit to the community,” said Fortenberry.
“A lot of people have been wanting to do this for a long time, and we’ve already been getting a lot of calls at City Hall from people looking forward to seeing them turned on.” ACE Power Engineer Jason Grisham said the power company crews are getting an early start installing the Farmington decorations because they have to put up brackets to hold the snowflakes in place. Farmington will mark another first this holiday season in the form of a ChristPlease see HOLIDAY | 2
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ACE Power’s Don Arnold installs one of Farmington’s new utility pole Christmas decorations. ACE personnel will install the lights as their workload allows in order to have them all installed, hopefully, by Thanksgiving.
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On this day in history 150 years ago A Union amphibious landing on the Georgia coast includes the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first African American unit to be committed to combat operations.
November is DIABETES Awareness Month Diabetes is the leading cause of new blindness among adults under 65! x x x Dr. John Shipp, M.D.
40-45% of Americans with diabetes have some stage of diabetic retinopathy People with diabetes are 25 times more likely to become blind than people without it 90% of vision loss can be avoided with yearly eye exams and control of blood sugar level
Call 662-286-6068 to schedule your diabetic eye examination.
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Eye Care Specialists 3302 W. Linden St. Corinth, MS 38834 (662) 286-6068