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Daily Corinthian Vol. 118, No. 262
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Rotary begins basket drive BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
Corinth and Alcorn County families will get the opportunity to receive much needed groceries and supplies this holiday season when the Corinth Rotary Club and the Daily Corinthian team up for the 19th annual Christmas Basket Fund giveaway. The annual program provides approximately 1,000 boxes filed with food and paper goods to
The beanie baby to the left shows how small Daniel Dodd was at birth.
selected needy families. Applications will be accepted starting Monday at the Daily Corinthian office or by mail. “The basket giveaway is truly a community project,” said Rotary member and basket chairperson Rob Skelton. “The citizens of our community make it possible through their donations, which can be made in memory of or in honor of somePlease see ROTARY | 2A
Family honored as March Bread of Life Food of Dimes ambassadors Ministry seeks help BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com
The journey of Nixon “Daniel” Dodd Jr. of Corinth will be celebrated during 7th annual Elm City Legends event in New Haven, Connecticut, where he and his family will be honored as the March of Dimes Ambassador Family. Born premature on April 14, 2009, in Danbury, Connecticut, Daniel weighed only 1 pound, 14 ounces and was at 24 weeks gestation. He was transferred to YaleNew Haven Hospital where he received care for 85 days. Parents Nick and Kimberly Dodd were living in St. Louis,
Missouri at the time, but were visiting relatives in Connecticut when his mother went into premature labor. The family moved to Corinth in 2011 after Nick Sr. finished Optometry school and began working at Dodd Eye Clinic. “We hope to continue to share the story of Daniel’s birth as well as raise awareness for the March of Dimes,” said Nick Dodd. Chosen as this year’s Ambassador family, Daniel will be celebrated as his parents tell his story and accomplishments through the years. The family was selected based on the dedication they
demonstrated to their son through his premature birth. Hosted by the March of Dimes, the gathering will take place on Thursday, Nov. 13 at Anthony’s Ocean View in New Haven, Connecticut. The purpose of Legends is to honor accomplished individuals from the Greater New Haven area that have contributed to the March of Dimes community. Seven individuals will be honored during the evening, which will include a meal, live and silent auctions and the Fund the Mission initiative. The leading nonprofit orPlease see MARCH | 2A
BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
One person can make a difference. Bread of Life Food Ministry Director Tim Alvis believes just that in his mission to see people fed both physically and spiritually. Bread of Life is looking for people who want to have an impact in helping others. Since the ministry partnered with Tate Baptist Church in 2007, 18,663 individuals have been helped. “The need is much greater during the holidays,” said Al-
vis. “We have to make things stretch as far as we can.” Each Thursday at 10 a.m. at Tate Baptist, Bread of Life delivers not only food but the word of God. One-on-one counseling is also provided by volunteers each week. “They get to hear the gospel at least twice before receiving the food,” said Alvis. Bread of Life, which falls under the Alcorn Baptist Association, requires no referrals or identification. Please see MINISTRY | 2A
‘Mr. Henco’ shares life story in book BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Many Mid-South residents remember Tom Hendrix’s enthusiastic invitation to visit Henco Furniture because “it’s worth the drive.” Now, reflecting on many decades of entrepreneurship in his memoir, he assures the book is worth the read. With the hope of inspiring others, Hendrix details his climb from the family farm 5 miles east of Bethel Springs, Tenn., to a furniture business bringing in a million monthly in sales. “We lived in basement apartments, did without and sacrificed for eight years before the sun peeped through the clouds,” said Hendrix, who is 82. “We had started two businesses from scratch that became national in scope.” His time on the farm during the Depression years had a
big role in shaping the man he would become. “It was tough times, and [my father’s] barn burned right in the middle of it, burned up everything he had harvested that year, plus his car and what have you, so we just started out in the hole,” said Hendrix. “But my father, with a third-grade education, was a fantastic teacher. He had some benchmark things he thought a successful life was built around. One of the things he was just really focused on was he wanted all his children to see work as an honorable thing to do. It’s the way we do our good in life. The other thing he did was he wanted us to take responsibility for our life — be responsible for every decision you make. I got the basic framework of a successful life sitting there at that kitchen table or working with him digging the ditch.”
The middle of nine children, two of whom died in infancy, Hendrix attended the University of Tennessee, paying his own way by going door-to-door selling bibles during the summertime. “We would start knocking on those doors at 8 in the morning and knock till 8 that evening, six days a week, all the way through the summer,” he said. “Every time we knocked on the door, it was a lesson in human nature. It was a lesson in communication, developing empathy for people, being able to communicate with all the different kinds of people out there. I learned that that was worth more than my college studies when I became an entrepreneur and started working with truck drivers, manufacturing people, office people, accountants, a
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Tom Hendrix poses with his book “Worth the Drive,” which details his 55 years as an entrepreneur.
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On this day in history 150 years ago Sherman has ignored Hood’s movement to the west. He reorganizes his army into two wings, but with almost no supply wagons. Sherman has decided to turn to the southeast and strike for Savannah, Georgia. It is the March-to-the-Sea.
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