Tuesday Jan. 10,
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Daily Corinthian Vol. 116, No. 8
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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • One section
Police search for armed robbery suspect BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Corinth police are seeking information from the public to help identify an armed robbery suspect. A man carrying a small handgun robbed the Sprint Mart at
Cass Street and Meigg Street at about 9:30 Sunday night. The man entered the store and demanded money from the cashier. She told him she didn’t have any money, and the man grabbed a single bill off the counter and fled. The cashier was about to
put the bill on the counter — a $100 bill — into a money bag. Police Chief David Lancaster said the man was captured on the store’s surveillance video. The suspect is described as a black male approximately 6 feet tall with a big build. He was wearing
blue jeans, a gray shirt, a purple mask, purple latex gloves, and black and red Air Jordan shoes. The police department would like to hear from anyone who may have seen the suspect in the area or has any information about the case.
Contact Detective Pete Smith at the police department at 2863377 or submit information anonymously through Crime Stoppers of Northeast Mississippi by calling 1-800-773tips or use the on-line form at crimestoppersnems.com.
Agencies make 7 ‘Sudafed law’ arrests MICHIE, Tenn. – There have been seven people arrested in McNairy and Hardin counties as part of a violation of the law preventing the excess purchase of pseudoephedrine. This investigation includes 67 others who have violated the “Sudafed law.” A combination of work between the McNairy County Sheriff’s Department, Selmer City Police and the Savannah City Police has been successful with the arrests over the weekend. The initial arrest was made Friday by the McNairy County Narcotics Unit when Chad and Monica Tull were arrested at their house on 100 South
Prather Road in Michie. The officers discovered an active meth lab in the house. The Tulls were charged with the initiation of meth, promotion of meth and tampering with evidence. Chad Tull was also charged with buying too much Sudafed. They are now in the McNairy County Jail. McNairy County Sheriff Guy Buck said the new law prevents anyone from buying more than two boxes of Sudafed in a month. People are legally able to buy only one box of Sudafed per day. If a person purchases too much pseudoephedrine or Please see SUDAFED | 2A
Narcotics unit arrests Alcorn County couple Staff photos by Steve Beavers
Alcorn County Relay for Life co-chairmen Philip Verdung (left) and Gentry Parker helped kick off the 2012 event on Monday. The theme for this year’s event is “Cancer Never Takes a Holiday.”
Relay for Life starts effort BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
Cancer doesn’t take a day off. Neither does the fight to find a cure for the disease. Organizers of the 2012 Alcorn County Relay of Life got in the fighting mood during the
event’s kickoff luncheon at the Alcorn County Extension Office. “Now is the time to get excited about Relay for Life,” said American Cancer Society Community Representative Kristin Chittom.
The theme for the 2012 Alcorn County Relay for Life is “Cancer Never Takes a Holiday.” Team will be able to choose a U.S. or International holiday as they prepare to raise Please see RELAY | 2A
Building permits total $21.7M BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Hospital and school construction projects helped give Corinth an above average fourth quarter for building activity. Project values for October through December totaled
$21.7 million, easily outpacing the fourth quarter 2010 total of $2.5 million. The bulk of the quarter’s total came from a single project, the new construction phase at Magnolia Regional Health Center. The city issued a permit for the $19.3 million project on Oct. 3.
The second-largest project of the quarter, valued at $842,000, was the Corinth School District’s field house project at Corinth High School. Among commercial activity, Geisha Japanese RestauPlease see PERMITS | 2A
BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
A combined effort landed a pair of Burnsville residents in the Alcorn County Jail. The Alcorn Narcotics Unit and the North Mississippi Narcotics Unit teamed to arrest the couple for purchasing items used to cook methamphetamine. Steven Nicholas Glidewell, 23, 516 Highway 365 South, Burnsville; and Jennifer Dawn Glidewell, 24, of the same address were each charged with conspiracy to manufacture a controlled substance. “Both suspects were traveling to different locations and purchasing pseudoephedrine which is a key ingredient for
BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
Volunteers are needed to help a local organization give the gift of literacy. Corinth-Alcorn Literacy Council (CALC) is looking for adult literacy tutors. Affiliated with ProLiteracy and funded by the United Way, the group’s mission is to recruit and tutor under-educated adults in reading and writing; to train and provide backup services and refresher training for tutors; and to promote interest in literacy in the community. CALC works to equip adults with the reading, writing, speaking and math skills they need to be successful in their families, in the workplace and in the community. According to the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, Mississippi has one of the highest — if not the highest — rates of functional illiteracy in the United
States. At the present, 15 percent of Alcorn County citizens function at or below fifth grade literacy levels. “Adult low literacy impacts business, healthcare, social, community, education and other cost-driven entities,” said tutor trainer Cheryl Meints. “Literacy means dollars earned for all concerned.” Currently, CALC has 22 students and 24 tutors in their program. Meints described the program as a collaborative learner-centered approach to adult literacy education. The group is seeking prospective tutors to complete the 15-hour Tutor Training Workshop and serve as volunteers in weekly one-on-one sessions with adult students who are looking to increase their level of literacy. Tutors must be at least 18 years old. The workshops, led my Meints and tutor trainer Vicki
Avery, will provide instruction on what makes an effective tutor, how adults and low-literacy adults learn, and include handson activities, role-playing and discussions of short- and longterm life goals. They will learn about goal-setting, lesson planning, the coping skills of low-literacy adults, and much more. “We try to expose the prospective tutors to what we’ve learned,” said Meints. “It’s a long process.” After completing the Tutor Training Workshop, the tutors are asked to volunteer one or two hours per week to each of their students. Most tutors only tutor one student per year, Meints explained. The year-long program’s goal is based on the adult student’s need, whether that need is learning to sign his or her name, to be able to read to his or her children, or to
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Networking group to discuss expansion BY BOBBY J. SMITH
CALC seeking adult literacy tutors
manufacturing methamphetamine,” said Darrell Hopkins of the Alcorn Narcotics Unit. “It is a crime to go to the pharmacy and purchase pseudoephedrine and take it to another person to manufacture methamphetamine.” Alcorn Narcotics officer Dennis Smith was contacted by North Mississippi Narcotics officer Jeff Palmer after he had detained J. Glidewell for purchasing items to manufacture meth. S. Glidewell was arrested in Alcorn County after he fled. “Several people have been led to believe that as long as they do not make the actual meth, that it is okay to pur-
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A local networking group will discuss ways to serve the community during its upcoming monthly meeting. The Corinth Area Young Professionals’ next event will be held Thursday, Jan. 19, at The Turn at Shiloh Ridge from 6 until 8 p.m. The group will discuss its plans for expansion and form a leadership committee, said Andrea Rose, community development director for The Alliance. “We’re trying to get a committee started to line up the locations for future meetings and to direct our community service efforts and other projects,” Rose explained. One of the possibilities for the group’s service effort is to get involved with a different service organization in the community each month. CAYP participants would volunteer with — and collect donations for — each particular month’s service organization.
Rose said this would be a way for the CAYP participants to get to know different organizations in the community. The monthly introductions to different service organizations will help CAYP members discover opportunities for service and make connections with organizations they can become more permanently involved with. Another item of discussion will be ways to grow the group. “We’ve had a pretty good response so far, and I know there are more people in the community who are interested in participating. We want to invite them to come next week,” Rose said. “There are so many good people who come to our events, and we want to invite more people to connect and network.” The CAYP group was founded in May 2011. The average number of participants for the group’s monthly events Please see EXPANSION | 2A
On this day in history 150 years ago Jan. 10 — President Lincoln loses patience with his general-in-chief and tells his cabinet, “If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it.”