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BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
Two K-Mart employees no longer have jobs after being charged with embezzlement. Xavier Blathers, 27, of East Waldron Street, Corinth, and Nicholas Rojas, 23, of Highway 350, Corinth, are both free after posting bonds of $5,000. According to Corinth Police Department Detective Captain Ralph Dance, the two individu-
“A Community Tradition�
Basket fund tops $9,000
als were caught by store security concealing items taken from the store for their own use between Dec. 4-6. Items taken were video games and gaming equipment, according to the report. Detective Heather Glass is in charge of the investigation. Corinth Police also arrested a pair of Savannah, Tenn. men for stealing scrap metal from the railroad.
Steven Matthew Hicks, 34, of Highway 69 South, Savannah, Tenn., and Christopher Hartney, 29, of the same address, were caught with 156 tie plates used to fix rails to ties. Both men were charged with grand larceny after a call to the police department alerted law enforcement to the crime at the Fillmore and Cox Street yard on Dec. 3. Cost of each plate is valued at
The Miracle Worker
The spirit of giving is alive and well in the Crossroads area as donations are arriving daily for the 18th Annual Corinth Rotary Club / Daily Corinthian 2013 Christmas Basket Fund. The civic club and newspaper have set a $25,000 community fundraising goal this year so 1,000 food baskets could be given away to local families on Saturday, Dec. 7 at the Crossroads Arena. Baskets were given on faith and hope the goal will be reached. The total increased to $9,035 after the most recent donations arrived. They are $150 from Mr. and Mrs. Percy R. Boggan Jr.; $25 from Thomas C. Holland in memory of Viola Holland Wallace and Milton C. Holland; $50 from Sammy and Mary Rowsey; $200 from Bob and Janet Krohn in honor of Ms. Corrine Pierce; $100 from Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Miller in memory of Clarence and Grace Lamberth and Austin and Donnie Miller; $500 from Martha and Wayne Lamberth in memory of Mary Emma and Herman Hardin; and $200 from Sam and Barbara Tull. Donations can be the perfect time to make a holiday tribute to a special person. Contributions can be made “in honor of� someone living or “in memory of� someone who has passed. They can be family or friends, co-workers, employees, bosses or even groups who have made an impact on a person’s life. All tributes will be published in the Daily Corinthian until Christmas Day. Donations can be brought to the newspaper office at 1607 Harper Road or mailed to the Daily Corinthian, Attn: Christmas Basket Fund, P.O. Box 1800, Corinth, Miss. 38835.
Vacated school buildings are city’s BY JEBB JOHNSTON
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
A doctor (Richard Ribble) tries to help young Helen (Riley Budny) and her mother (Katelyn Mathis) during the production of “The Miracle Worker.� See additional photos, 14A
Lastest CT-A production opens Thursday BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
A story of hope is what audiences can expect to see when “The Miracle Worker� takes stage Thursday at the Crossroads Playhouse. The Corinth Theatre-Arts latest production is scheduled for a quartet of showings over the weekend. In the William Gibson play, 20-year-old Annie Sullivan is determined to break through the dark and silent world of young Helen Keller. Helen, portrayed by CT-A newcomer Riley Budny, loses her sight and hearing following an illness at 19 months. “Helen is lost and her parents, who don’t have a lot of help at the start, are looking for all or any kind of resource,� said CT-A Artistic Director Cris Skinner. Desperate for help, the parents hire Sullivan, a Boston teacher, to come in and work with Helen in March of 1887. There is a struggle over control
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of the young girl as her parents fail to correct her behavior, which worsens as she gets older. Sullivan, also visually impaired, teaches Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand. Frustrated at times, Keller’s breakthrough comes one day while Sullivan runs cool water from a pump over her hands. “The important thing about the play is there is a sense of hope,â€? said Skinner. “You can see the transition between a lot of characters in the play and they all have redemption in the end ‌ it’s a well-written story on hope.â€? Sponsored by Caterpillar and Cooley & Labas Financial Advisors, performances for the play are slated for Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. A Sunday showing of the production is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students. Tickets can be reserved by calling the CT-A at
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662-287-2995. Tickets are also available by emailing corinth. theatre.arts@gmail.com or going by the theatre between 1-6 p.m., Tuesdays-Fridays. If available, tickets can also be bought at the door one hour prior to curtain. The cast includes: Anagnos/A Doctor – Richard Ribble; Kate Keller – Katelyn Mathis; Capt. Keller – Randy Duke; Helen Keller – Riley Budny; Martha – Amyia White; Percy – Brianna Patterson; Aunt Ev – Lesley Petty; James – Xavier Taylor; Annie Sullivan – Leah Petty; Viney – Melody Credle; Blind Girls at Perkins Institute – Grace Ann Davis, Lenleigh Dobbs, Macy Ivy, Olivia Lee, Atalie Kate Logue, Augustina Messori and Julianne Parker (Amyia White -- understudy); Phantoms – James Sullivan and Will Senf; Phantom “Crones� – Courtney Chaffin and AlyssaBeth Nunley; and Phantom Doctor – Caleb McKenzie.
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The future of three vacated Corinth school buildings now rests in the hands of the Corinth Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Following the Corinth School District Board of Trustees’ authorization Monday to convey a quitclaim deed to the city, a special meeting of the city board is set for 11 a.m. today to discuss the vacated properties of East Corinth, West Corinth and South Corinth. A reverter clause in each property deed states that when the property stops being used as a school, it returns to city ownership. An attorney general’s opinion sought by the city states that the reverter is a valid clause. The city requested a quitclaim deed, although it appears the campuses have already legally reverted to city ownership. Aldermen have expressed reluctance to take on the properties and asked the AG’s office for an opinion on relinquishing the reverter clause. Superintendent Lee Childress said the opinion proposed some options that the city and school district did not find viable. The reverter came to light as the Easom Outreach Foundation moved toward taking ownership of the South Corinth campus, where it runs a feeding program. The school district had been looking into sale of the East and West campuses. Superintendent Lee Childress said the district retains ownership of a lot across the street from the old East Corinth Elementary and a
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$6.39 apiece. Hicks and Hartney had $996.84 worth of stolen items in their possession when caught. “They were going to sell the plates for scrap,� said Dance. “What they didn’t know is most scrap yards won’t take metal from the railroad because it’s so easily stolen.� The two are free on bonds of $3,000. Glass is also in charge of this investigation.
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