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on’t put me in the office,” Elise Grenley, says, smiling.

“I like being here when we’re open and running around and crazy,” she says. As general manager of CAET in Fondren, her job description includes busy evenings, large private parties and sometimes, if necessary, kicking out disturbing customers.

Grenley, who worked in restaurants throughout her college career, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management from the University of Mississippi in 2005. She moved to Jackson after college and worked at a financial firm for six years but says she didn’t like it.

“I had to sit at a desk all day, and I am a hyperactive person,” Grenley, 33, says.

At CAET, she prefers to be on the floor.

She spends only a few hours in her office before the restaurant opens and is then on her feet interacting with her team and customers for the rest of the night.

Eventually, Grenley, a Greenwood native, left the financial firm in 2011 and worked at Parlor Market for a year and a half as the manager during the day while also running their catering operations. When she got an offer to be the assistant manager at John Currence’s Snackbar in Oxford, she took it. Grenley had worked at one of his restaurants, City Grocery, during college. It was the same restaurant where her future husband, Dave Grenley, worked when she moved back to Oxford.

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She met Dave in passing. He would come to Snackbar to get liquor or equipment that the restaurants shared. Eventually, the two started dating. They were engaged in June 2014 while still working in Oxford. She was excited to get back to Jackson, and when she and Dave got job offers from Derek and Jennifer Emerson to open CAET, they jumped at the challenge. Dave is now the wine director at CAET, Local 463 Urban Kitchen and Walker’s Drive-In, and she manages CAET. CAET opened in fall 2014, and Grenley says she enjoys figuring out the restaurant’s rhythm. “We opened it thinking we were going to be a bar,” she says. “But people wanted to eat dinner, so there’s been a lot of transition and finding who we are as a restaurant.”

The original idea behind CAET was as a wine bar, which was perfect for Grenley. She says that if she could only have one alcoholic drink, it would be a nice bottle of wine.

The only girl and a middle child in her family, Grenley says her siblings picked on her, which she says gave her the tough skin one needs to work in the hospitality industry.

“I have worked in a lot of restaurants (in the past), and there’s a lot of yelling,” Grenley says. “There are nights when it’s just tense, and things don’t go right, and no one wants to take the blame for it.”

“As a woman, you have to be able to stand your ground,” she adds.

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DECEMBER 16 - 22, 2015 | VOL. 14 NO. 15

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Forgive Us Our Debts

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n the final weeks of my 11th-grade year, all students taking Karen Massie’s AP English class in the fall got a thick packet that included a summer reading list and instructions about an essay that was due on the first day of class, three months away.

I read in my spare time riding the bus to my movie-theater job, between shifts or whenever I wasn’t exchanging pager numbers with girls I met in the food court. I certainly didn’t read every word of every book assigned to me, but I gave it as much of the college try as anyone could reasonably expect from a 17-year-old boy on summer break with a pocketful of cute girls’ pager numbers.

Then there were Mrs. Massie’s instructions for formatting submitted essays: The pieces had to be handwritten on one side of loose-leaf notebook paper. She asked that everyone choose a pseudonym, presumably so she could eviscerate everyone’s essay equally and without bias. When we got our papers back, they would be covered with red proofreading marks. On the backs of each page, she used every available inch of space for her comments. She mercilessly corrected her students’ grammar, punctuation and speech.

She challenged our ideas, pushed us to make better arguments.

She was tough but never malicious. Really, she was just doing her job. Before taking her class, other teachers complimented my writing, but Mrs. Massie was the first person to say that I possessed the talent to be a writer.

For all I know, she scribbled similar words of encouragement on the backs of everybody’s essays but she, more than any other person who is neither my mom or dad, put me on the path I’m on today. In practical terms, by the time I got to college, I could BS an essay even when I half-ass studied for the test. When I wanted to, I could get busy on a research paper.

Somehow, I got involved with a stu-

dent-run magazine called The Voice and its publisher, an English grad student named Derrick Kyle. He also took me on as a protégé and introduced me to Dr. Elaine Hocks, the director of the campus writing center, who gave me a job as a tutor. I joke that I stole a Mizzou journalism education (I studied political science) because after a couple semesters reading the term papers of J-school students, I could have taught Principles of American Journalism.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

This is how I repay my debts. Even still, I wonder if it’s enough.

My connection to the campus journalism world helped forge my relationship with Monique Hairston, then a journalism major and friend I eventually fell in love with (long story). After we graduated, Monique interned for Lizz Brown, a progressive activist and attorney who had a daily morning radio show. I didn’t have a steady job, so I started showing up to the station and helping Monique with the show—writing scripts, doing promos and booking guests.

One of Lizz’s regular guests was a man named Sylvester Brown (no relation to Lizz), the publisher of a now-defunct but thenwell-respected magazine. One day, Lizz told Sylvester that I wanted to write, so he started giving me assignments. I used these clips to get on with the Riverfront Times, the alternative newsweekly in St. Louis, where I got more clips and the support from music writer

Randall Roberts and editor Tom Finkel, who now helms the Village Voice.

Those led to my getting a fellowship designed to increase diversity at alt-weeklies, many of which are just as stubbornly white and male as daily newspapers. Under the direction of Northwestern University professor Charles Whitaker, who oversaw the program, I received my first formal journalism training.

As fate would have it, my connection to that program is also how I came to meet Donna and Todd, years before they hired me to work at the Jackson Free Press.

A few months later, when a job opened up at the alt-weekly in Springfield, Ill., I figured I had a pretty good shot. Roland Klose, the editor, had been a top editor at the Riverfront Times and knew everyone I’d worked for. He took a chance on me despite the fact that my formal journalism education consisted of one summer writing about strip clubs, and I had just a handful of what could be considered serious news clips.

Working there, I listened to my coworker Dusty Rhodes, whose gossipy reporting style I learned to mimic.

I could go on and on about all loving teachers, mentors, brilliant colleagues, patient significant others and supportive friends who helped me along the way.

The bottom line is this: I owe them. It’s not just because it’s the holidays, when we’re supposed to think about the things for which we’re grateful. The fact is, I think about these people all the time and what might have become of me without their influences.

So I find myself still scratching my head over the latest U.S. Supreme Court case over so-called race-based college admissions. Lawyers for Abigail Fisher, a white woman denied admission to the University of Texas law school, argue that Fisher was rejected even as less-qualified nonwhites got into the school, which isn’t even accurate, we now know.

Ilya Somin, a law professor and blog-

ger for The Washington Post, wrote the other day of the Fisher case: “It is not about how strong her application was, but about whether the University of Texas was justified in judging it by different standards than those used to evaluate black and Hispanic applicants.” Of course, the stupidity of that statement is in ignoring all the benefits that accrued Fisher as a white American. I’ve never understood people who are incapable of seeing that, to paraphrase President Obama, they—even with their skills, intelligence and persistence—aren’t wholly responsible for their destinies.

Eula Biss addressed this sort of obtuseness in an essay in The New York Times Magazine titled “White Debt,” writing of her 5-year-old son: “I knew that he would be encouraged, at every juncture in his life, to believe wholeheartedly in the power of his own hard work and deservedness, to ignore inequity, to accept that his sense of security mattered more than other people’s freedom and to agree, against all evidence, that a system that afforded him better housing, better education, better work and better pay than other people was inherently fair.”

People who know me know I’m not exactly short on self-confidence. I consider myself to be a brilliant, hard-working, excellent black man. I’m also aware of how little any of that would mean hadn’t also been for Derrick, Dr. Hocks, Monique, Lizz, Sylvester, Randall, Tom, Charles, Roland, Dusty and Mrs. Massie, who I recently learned passed away in November.

In the final line of the essay “Notes of a Native Son,” James Baldwin, someone else to whom I owe a lot, wrote: “I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done. I want to be an honest man and a good writer.”

This is how I repay my debts. Even still, I wonder if it’s enough.

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Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He took the cover photo and many photos in the issue.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her at arielle@jacksonfreepress. com. She wrote the cover story, the Jacksonian and news stories.

Web Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. He contributed to the story on holiday catering.

Assistant Editor Amber Helsel enjoys music, art, food and food-related art. She can school you in a round of obscure “Harry Potter” trivia any day of the week, except Tuesday. She contributed to the story on holiday catering.

Freelance writer Danie Matthews is Mississippi College graduate. She’s a fan of conscious hip-hop, neo-soul and classic R&B, and hopes to one day become a full-time music writer. She wrote about the band Echo Victor.

Art Director Kristin Brenemen is an otaku with a penchant for dystopianism. She’s gearing up for next convention season with inspiration from the New Horizon Pluto flyby. She designed much of the issue.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What the Religion Teachesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Feeding the Homeless in Smith Park

Wednesday, December 9 The U.S. Senate votes 85-12 to approve legislation rewriting the landmark No Child Left Behind education law of 2002. â&#x20AC;Ś German Chancellor Angela Merkel named Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Person of the Year for her leadership on everything from Syrian refugees to the Greek debt crisis.

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Friday, December 11 Mayor Tony Yarber announces a side-lot program called Neighbors First, which will let city residents acquire abandoned and ignored properties to get them back on the tax rolls and boost revenue for the City.

Bilal Qizilbash, 29, pulls together a group of volunteers to provide hot meals to homeless people every Friday at Smith Park.

bash, volunteers and their families, and periodic donations of cash and supplies. R U Hungry? also doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consider itself a ministry, even though many of the volunteers, including Qizilbash, cite faith as motivation for their service. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For as many people who claim to love Jesus and love religion, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen some of the most unreligious behavior in regard to treating the homelessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;almost like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a blight on societyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;(as opposed to) saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How do

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n honor of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakensâ&#x20AC;? premiering this week, we here at the Jackson Free Press have taken it upon ourselves to figure out how members of the Galactic Empire pay off or avoid student debt. Here are a few of the ways.

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Fly by Night Tie-Fighter training. It pays well.

Become a Death Star contractor or Mousebot engineer.

Join as an Imperial Recruiter, bribe others with dark side cookies.

Be an AT-ST handler.

Thursday, December 10 U.S. District Judge David Godbey rejects a lawsuit by Texas Republican leaders to ban Syrian refugees from entering the state, clearing the way for 21 refugees to resettle in Houston. â&#x20AC;Ś Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw is convicted of sexually assaulting eight women on his police beat in a minority, low-income neighborhood.

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Be a head janitor for Level 5 of an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer.

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Be the person that recharges Taim & Bak XX-9 heavy turbolasers.

Drive a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle.

Become Darth Vader.

Saturday, December 12 Nearly 200 nations adopt the first global pact to fight climate change, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

Sunday, December 13 Planned Parenthood sues Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health director in a dispute over how the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affiliates handle the disposal of fetal tissue in the state.

Monday, December 14 The Federal Aviation Administration announces that owners of small drones and model airplanes must register them with the government in response to increasing reports of drones flying near manned aircraft and airports. â&#x20AC;Ś The Army announces that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for five years and freed in exchange for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, will face charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in a court-martial.

Tuesday, December 15 All schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second largest, are ordered closed due to an electronic threat.

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not yet 6 p.m., and more than 20 people have formed a line under the streetlights near the southeastern corner of Smith Park. This is not their usual gathering place. Typically, the group meets under the gazebo, but tonight, a Jackson police officer says they have to clear the park because an event is taking place, but provides no details of the program.

Bilal Qizilbash (pronounced kizzleBOSH) is annoyed and says he plans to flag down the next cruiser he sees to get some answers. For now, he and his fellow volunteers are focused on scooping mounds of yellow rice and shawarma, carving off hunks of rotisserie chicken, pouring cups of sweet tea and making sure that anyone standing within earshot who wants food has a plate.

Later, although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still unseasonably warm even after the sun has set, Qizilbash also distributes mylar blankets for any unexpectedly cold nights in the near future.

Qizilbash has been bringing dinner to homeless people in Smith Park every Friday for almost nine months, but he and his fellow volunteers never ask anyone about their housing status before offering them sustenance. Everyone is greeted the same way: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are you hungry?â&#x20AC;?

The group that now calls itself R U Hungry? is not formally organized as a nonprofit nor does it receive grants or, for that matter, any other reliable stream of financing besides the $150 to $200 put up by Qizil-

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2014, found 648 homeless people living in Hinds County, which includes people living in shelters and on the streets.

When surveyors asked about factors that led to homelessness, people cited the loss of a job, substance abuse, family disruptions such as divorce or death, domestic violence, mental illness and other reported medical and physical problems, eviction and foreclosure, debt and even natural disasters.

The majority of homeless people in Hinds County are African American men.

Volunteers with R U Hungry? say they’re not under any illusions that they’re necessarily lifting people move out of homelessness.

Qizilbash simply realized about a year ago that Jackson’s unsheltered homeless population lacked a reliable source of dinner on Friday nights. At the very least, he thought, he would be able to help take care of one critical need that directly affects their health.

A woman who identifies herself only as Angel and says she recently left an abu-

Police: “The reality is that police don’t always have the luxury of time to get their most highly trained, best-equipped officers on the scene. To save lives, the first officers to arrive must sometimes be the ones to directly engage an active shooter.

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t happened as recently as Dec. 10 on the Arkansas State University campus, where police arrested a suspect after issuing an active-shooter alert.

No one was hurt, but deadlier active-shooter events at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs on Nov. 29 and at a holiday party on Dec. 2 in San Bernardino County, Calif., has prompted the Jackson Police Department to seek training on how to respond to a gunman on the loose.

Chief Lee Vance said the department recently acquired riot-style helmets and long rifles for sniper shooting ahead of the departmental training drills. Vance said while reading up on the shooting, he learned that San Bernardino, population 213,708, is only slightly larger than Jackson.

“If something crazy can happen in San Bernardino, something crazy can happen here,” Vance said.

Jackson has been without the kind of mass shooting that has gripped headlines in the past year, although some parts of the state have had some close calls. In September, a man named Shannon Lamb killed Delta State University professor Ethan Schmidt.

Active-shooter drills grew increasingly popular after the 2013 Sandy Hook Elementary killings of 20 children and six adults. Immediately after the massacre, five states passed or updated existing laws requiring school districts to conduct shooting simulations.

Both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Justice expanded access to federal activeshooter training after Newtown as part of President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence.

Then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said at the time, speaking to the International Association of Chiefs of

The Jackson Police Department plans to receive activeshooter training in the wake of the San Bernardino shootings earlier this month. Afterward, JPD could conduct drills for other City of Jackson departments, including city hall.

That’s why all law enforcement officers must have the best equipment and most up-to-date training to confront these situations. We owe these officers nothing less.”

Civil-liberties groups warn against racial profiling when ramping up emergency drills in the aftermath of mass shootings such as the one that happened in San Bernardino, where the shooters were Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a Muslim married couple, who killed 14 people during a rampage on Dec. 2.

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sive husband, says that if was not for R U Hungry, she and her homeless brothers and sisters would have to fend for themselves or possibly go hungry until the next day.

“Everybody ate, nobody got upset.

There was no controversy,” Angel says.

Tonight’s issue with the JPD notwithstanding (later, a patrol officer tells Qizilbash that the group had been cleared to re-enter the park but moving the dwindling feast at that point would have been more trouble than it’s worth), the group has not met resistance from anyone, including city officials, businesses—most of which have closed by the time dinner starts at 6 p.m.—or other nonprofits doing similar work.

Qizilbash started by taking pizzas to homeless people in Queens, N.Y., where he grew up. In 2012, after graduating with a degree in biology from Stony Brook University, he enrolled at Mississippi College, where he is finishing his master’s degree in biomedical sciences.

One night earlier this year, he picked up 10 pizzas from Little Caesar’s and took them to the park, where they were gratefully devoured.

“We are in a first-world country, and

ence on Civil and Human Rights published a report in 2013 that concludes: “The use of racial profiling in the counterterrorism context—as in the immigration context—alienates the very people that federal authorities have deemed instrumental in the anti-terrorism fight. …

The singling out of Arabs and Muslims for investigation regardless of whether any credible evidence links them to terrorism simply alienates these individuals and compromises the anti-terrorism effort.

“In particular, to the extent that federal authorities use the anti-terrorism effort as a pretext for detaining or deporting immigration law violators, individuals who might have information that is useful in the fight against terrorism may be reluctant to come forward.”

Mike Maldonado, who owns a local company that offers firearm training to law enforcement agencies, said requests for homeland-security training has spiked in the past month after several high-profile mass shootings.

Because the U.S. is a melting pot of diverse cultures, Maldonado said it’s important for training to focus on behaviors rather than the suspects’ appearances.

“Draw me a picture of a terrorist. A terrorist could be from Ireland,” Maldonado said.

“We’re trying to (train officers) to pay attention, teaching people to be observant.”

Chief Vance said JPD officers will undergo activeshooter training between Dec. 14 and 16. Mayor Tony Yarber’s office has requested an active-shooter drill for city hall as well, Vance said.

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some of these people are living worse than I saw in Pakistan. It just blows my mind that this is the United States. I said to myself something needs to be done,” he says.

Around the same time that Qizilbash was delivering pizzas, Walid Siddig was also providing the occasional Friday meal to homeless people. Siddig, who owns a business in Jackson, would pick up 10 to 20 burgers and pass them out downtown.

Siddig, 41, and Qizilbash, who attend the same mosque, decided to combine their efforts into R U Hungry?.

Siddig, who is from Sudan and came to Mississippi to study computer science at Jackson State University, believes that his volunteering with R U Hungry pleases God and helps cleanse away sins.

“If you ask me what the religion teaches, this what the religion teaches,” Siddig said of the Friday dinners.

Over time, Qizilbash wants to be able to put homeless people to work at his business. In 2014, working with Mississippi College professor Dr. Elizabeth Brandon, Qizilbash found that juiced raw curly kale kills melanoma cancer cells in culture. The research has been widely heralded as a cancer

breakthrough but, because kale juice itself can’t be patented, Qizilbash formed a company to figure out how to produce juice on an industrial scale. That includes farming the kale, which he believes will fetch premium prices given the fertility of Mississippi’s soil.

After he completes his master’s degree, Qizilbash will start working on another master’s degree in the business administration program also at MC. In the meantime, he’s working to stabilize R U Hungry? by setting up a GoFundMe crowd-sourcing page.

Aladdin Mediterranean Grill, where R U Hungry? purchases large trays of food each week, has also pledged a portion of holiday gift-card sales to the organization.

“Don’t misunderstand me, I’m still interested in making a profit. My goal is not to forget about the homeless, but to incorporate them,” Qizilbash said Qizilbash’s master’s degree hooding ceremony takes place Friday, Dec. 18. Afterward, Qizilbash says he and R U Hungry? will serve dinner as usual at 6 p.m. in Smith Park.

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TALK | economy

Delta, Jackson Projects Receive Funding Despite Sluggish State Economy

by Arielle Dreher

governor said following the presentation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have healthier opportunities for our children in schools and for all of us to enjoy locally grown products right here in the capital city,â&#x20AC;? Bryant added.

The seven projects should create 95 jobsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;65 of which would be at the Hinds Community College skills training center.

its national and statewide economic outlook reports on Dec. 4. The national unemployment rate stayed at 5 percent in November.

Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unemployment rate has fallen dramatically over the year from 7.1 percent in January to 5.9 percent in October, but experts say this indicates little about the growth of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy.

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Gov. Phil Bryant announced the seven Mississippi project winners who received a combined $1.1 million from the Delta Regional Authority through the Statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Economic Development Assistance Program.

The Bigger Picture Economic development and growth in Mississippi, specifically, have been on a slow uptick, according to economic indicators. State economist Darrin Webb said Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy is growing around .8 percent and that the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth rate is not great compared to other statesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the national average for growth was 2.4 percent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the same as we have been for the past three or four years (for economic growth),â&#x20AC;? Webb said.

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The unemployment rate is not a reliable indication of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on in the economy, Webb said. He tracks employment numbers, insteadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;looking primarily at the jobs report to see how many jobs and in what fields are created or lost.

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growth or decline is the Kemper County power plant that saw a large increase in jobs at first and then a decrease, which has helped drive trends, Webb said.

Despite Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plummeting unemployment rate over the past year, Webb said he is skeptical and discounts the household-collected dataâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;people asked at their homes if they are employed and if they are looking for work. So far, those data show that more people are finding jobs, but Webb said he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where those jobs are because the income-tax withholdings data have not indicated similar growth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In theory, if residence-based employment is growing and the establishmentbased is not, then that would indicate that there are a lot of people getting jobs outside of Mississippi but they live in Mississippi,â&#x20AC;?

Webb explained.

Wherever those in household surveys say they are employed, the actual economic return in the form of taxes is not boosting the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy like it should be. Although Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low unemployment rate does not tell the whole story of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy, local infrastructure development can create jobs that are based here in the state.

Local Job Creation One of the Delta Regional Authority project investments will go toward building the Holmes Community College GrayPartridge site, which will expand workforce training and occupational education programs. The project will create 65 jobs.

The completion of the other local project, Up in Farms Food Hub, should also stimulate local economy once it is complete.

Good said the current team is going to perform a trial run to process an clean a small amount of product though the hub while construction on the facility is finished. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to learn the process and be doing the construction at the same time.

That way construction will be done for the spring when the bounty comes in when (we) will be scaling up on employment,â&#x20AC;? Good told the Jackson Free Press.

Farmers, grocers, restaurateurs and consumers could all benefit from the hub, and UMMC plans to bring physicians to the hub to learn how to help patients with better nutrition. Bryant said the hub will create job opportunities in agriculture, the restaurant business and the medical industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The capital city has all but lost its agricultural base,â&#x20AC;? Bryant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a returning (to that) and an opportunity to market and then re-market products.â&#x20AC;?

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modern food hub for farmers and consumers will start its trial run in the coming weeks, and is scheduled to open this spring. The Up in Farms Food Hubâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a facility for farmers to bring and distribute local produce to restaurants and grocers in the Jackson areaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; was one of the seven Mississippi improvement projects that received more than $1 million in federal funding through the Delta Regional Authority. The funding is for projects that improve community infrastructure, expand existing facilities to create jobs, and start new projects in the Delta and central regions of the state.

On Dec. 10, Gov. Phil Bryant joined the Delta Regional Authority co-chairman Chris Masingill to announce the seven Mississippi projects receiving the funding at the Old Farmers Market behind Memorial Stadium in Jackson, where the Up in Farms Food Hub is located. Jeff Good, one of the founding partners of Soul City Hospitality, which will run Up in Farms Food Hub, said he hopes to see the food hub become â&#x20AC;&#x153;the crossroads of health and wealthâ&#x20AC;? for the local Jackson community and the state.

The Up in Farms Food Hub received $315,080 to help with renovation and construction costs at the facility. Hinds Community College also received $200,000 from the Delta Regional Authority to expand workforce training and occupational education programs.

Bryant said the Up in Farms Food Hub will help bring agriculture back to the capital city and provide job opportunities and learning opportunities to educate the community about healthy eating and living. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are trying to make sure we have a market for local farmers throughout Central Mississippi to bring produce here and â&#x20AC;Ś get it in local restaurants and local schools,â&#x20AC;? the

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The New Norm This is the first year Eastside has offered computer science for fifth graders, who are required to take the course. Chao said coding helps her fifth graders learn critical thinking skills and gets them focused on how processes work together. She said her class was excited about teaching coding to the younger students.

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(achieving) kids are really loving it because they get to be the helper, and the roles are reversed,” she said. “It’s good for all of them, and they’re all excited about it.”

Eastside Elementary is working to become an Apple “distinguished school,” which would enable students to be assigned an iPad or MacBook for the school year like a textbook, so they could take their pro-

our textbook online,” she said.

Assistant principal Mandy Taylor said the school is working toward a paperless initiative, using technology in all classrooms— not just computer-science classes. Taylor also said programming courses introduced in elementary grades can help students’ critical thinking development. “(Coding) is some really great probIMANI KHAYYAM

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e have to turn this way … I think,” Avery Berg said as she turned the iPad away from her, straining her neck as she and Quintaria Wright tried to figure out which directions to assign to their robot on the screen.

After a few failed sequences, Wright sighed in slight frustration—this was her first time experiencing coding.

“Why don’t we just start over?” Berg said, then deleting a few commands from their sequence by tapping the iPad screen multiple times.

Berg and Wright made up one of many groups of two or three students huddled over iPads trying to code their robot’s way to the next level last week at Eastside Elementary in Clinton.

Berg is a fifth grader in Jana Chao’s computer programming class at Eastside.

Wright is a fourth grader, and she along with all fourth graders at Eastside got their first introduction to coding as a part of Computer Science Education Week from Dec. 7 through 13. Eastside Elementary, which serves all fourth and fifth graders in the Clinton Public School District, participated in the “Hour of Code” initiative from code.org that encourages student exposure to coding nationally and around the world. Fifth-grade computer-programming classes partnered with fourth-grade classes and coached them through different coding programs for an hour each day for the week at Eastside Elementary.

On Dec. 9, Mrs. Chao’s class partnered with Kerri Burnside’s fourth-grade class to introduce fourth graders to an app called Lightbot, which teaches users to create sequences that direct the movements of a little robot as it moves through patterns.

Mrs. Burnside’s fourth-grade classroom was abuzz with quiet murmurs and the occasional “ding” from iPads, as the fifth graders guided their fourth-grade partners through different levels on the Lightbot app.

Fifth graders at Eastside Elementary are required to take computer-science courses, but for fourth graders, last week was their introduction to what they will get to do next year.

Quintaria Wright (left) and Avery Berg (right) work on a coding app called Lightbot during Eastside Elementary’s Hour of Code on Dec. 9.

gramming work home with them.

Fifth graders learn programming on MacBook Airs, while fourth graders use iPads in their classrooms—even for math lessons. Burnside teaches math and science, and mainly uses technology to teach in her classroom.

“I have textbooks in my classroom, but as far as math lessons, we do everything with

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ississippi Department of Education officials are hitting back against a report that concludes 4-year-olds in a special pilot program scored no better on kindergarten readiness tests than their peers in other public pre-K programs.

The Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review report indicates that students in pre-K collaboratives funded through the Legislature had a 6 percent lower adjusted pass rate than their peers who did not partici-

lem-solving stuff to get these kids in(to) that higher-order thinking, which is what college and career-readiness standards are all about,” she said.

Other local schools districts are also pushing technology initiatives, but in Jackson Public Schools, for example, with 28,037 students, providing technology to all students can take more time.

pate in collaboratives.

As of July 2015, MDE had not set testing benchmarks for 4-year-olds, and the PEER committee questioned funding the pre-K collaborative program without first setting guidelines.

“Establishing standards for a program post hoc (in this case, two years after initial implementation) is procedurally inappropriate,” the report states. “It opens the possibility of letting funding determine evaluative methods, rather than evaluative methods determining funding.”

State Superintendent Carey Wright disputes the findings, saying that comparing the collaboratives, which

All JPS ninth and tenth graders have access to individual laptops. All JPS elementary, middle and high schools have iPads and laptops for students to use—but not enough for each student to have his or her own individual device. This coming spring, JPS plans to launch coding classes through collaboration between high school students in the engineering program at the JPS Career Development Center and elementary school students.

Programming on iPads, even moving through levels on the Lightbot app, takes patience and time—the opposite of most apps and games students tend to use on devices.

Chao said this type of learning is teaching her fifth graders that it’s OK to fail.

“The whole idea behind it is even though you may fail, you try again and you fix whatever the problem is, so that’s been something really cool for them to learn,” Chao said.

Student Avery Berg’s favorite classes are math and computer science.

“It’s tricky and we have to have persistence to get through with it, and it’s kind of fun to have to keep doing it over and over again,” Berg said. “And you’re really excited once you finally figure it out.”

For Quintaria Wright, “Hour of Code” week was her first time experiencing coding. Wright’s favorite subject is math, but she is excited to take computer programming next year.

“You can use your mind to figure how to get the robot to get to all the blue tiles, when you finish you get excited,” Wright said.

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are part of a pilot program, to well-established pre-K collaboratives is unfair.

Wright defended the importance of measuring yearly improvement in the collaboratives, saying that a fair system of evaluation should include “multiple indicators, including both status and growth/ improvement.”

In her letter, Wright said PEER does not understand the process for setting such standards. She wrote, “The process of setting a minimum rate of readiness is a complicated one that required MDE to first establish a measurement of school readiness.”

Legislators on the PEER

committee essentially want to see results before throwing more money at the collaboratives but MDE says the PEER report is premature.

The Legislature allotted $9 million to fund the earlylearning collaboratives for fiscal years 2014 through 2016.

MDE asked for $6 million more for fiscal-year 2017 in the Legislative budget hearings back in September. Wright and MDE contend that the PEER report fails to follow national standards for evaluating educational programs and, therefore, she said: “Any conclusions or recommendations contained in this PEER report lack merit.”

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ransparency is a priority of this administration. We felt it necessary to respond to the Jackson Free Press editorial to ensure the public was aware of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s process when it comes to contractual projects.

It is a universal practice for the contractual relationship to be between the owner and the prime contractor or consultant. The prime contractor is ultimately responsible for the completion of a project. From a project delivery standpoint, it would be inefficient to channel efforts into managing multiple contracts and teams for one project instead of focusing on delivering the outcomes of the project. The owner would also have added risk.

As far as the City of Jackson â&#x20AC;&#x153;crafting its contractsâ&#x20AC;? under this administration, the following is our process: The City negotiates professional services contracts with the prime by identifying scope, schedule and budget. We prepare the budget using man-hour derivation. We review rates, overhead and profit for reasonableness given the work to be performed.

While we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get involved in negotiating the prime contractorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subcontracts, we do require roles and responsibilities of all subcontractors and a utilization plan so that it is understood how those subcontractors and subconsultants will be used. The utilization plan is tied to the Equal Business Opportunity Plan, if applicable. Additionally, the contractor must submit progress reports, including the percent complete and the EBO status report, to the City with invoices.

If the EBO status report is not in compliance with the original EBO plan submitted, then EBO notifies Public Works and the primeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s invoices are at risk of being held until they come into compliance.

We have also established a Project Stat process where we are tracking on the monthly basis the work that primes and subs perform on a contract.

If there are performance issues, we hold the prime responsible, and he or she has to remedy the issue no matter who is assigned to do that particular work, or he or she risks having the invoice withheld.

Lastly, we reference past performance when considering a contractor or consultant. As it relates to the Siemens contract, the following is in place with this administration: On the Siemens contract, we have bi-weekly progress meetings, which all of the subcontractors must attend and provide an update on the work they are performing.

Due to the nature of this contract, monthly scheduled payments with predetermined amounts were specified in the contract over a 30-month period.

This administration has kept close watch over the progress on each activity under the contract to make sure that the City is not paying for services that have not been rendered; however, the payments and payment schedule were not contractually tied to progress. It is important to note that a significant portion of the monies paid on this contract covered materials, which included purchase of all meters being installed.

We have a responsibility matrix and detailed project schedules with ownership of tasks and activities by firm, which is part of the documentation we required of Siemens to end the stop-work period.

As an administration, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking bold steps when it comes to transparency and open government. We were selected as a partner in Bloomberg Philanthropiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; What Works Cities open government and data initiative. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re moving forward with the creation of a data portal that will provide our citizens with real-time updates and information about city spending, economic development and programs.

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hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fine line between Gov. Phil Bryantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tacit assent of Donald Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anti-Muslim rhetoric and Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complete abdication of its responsibility to educate its children.

Let us explain: Following what is being investigated as a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, public blame was directed largely at Islam and even more so when we learned that the suspected shooters were Muslim.

Predictably, Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner for president, started moving his mouth before consulting his brain and suggested closing the border to Muslimsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is as impractical as it is bigoted.

When asked to respond to Trump, Gov. Bryant hedged: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I agree that we need to be very careful letting anyone into this nationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;anyone.

If we begin to say thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opportunities (for) tens of thousands to come in to the U.S., I think at this time we need to double all of our efforts to make sure whoever comes into these states is a citizen or has been properly vetted.â&#x20AC;?

In other words, and contrary to the smallgovernment philosophy he ostensibly follows, Bryant is suggesting that bureaucrats should decide who is worthy to come into the country and who is not.

The same arrogance is evident in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refusal to fully fund public schools, which continued this week with the legislative budget committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent recommendation to keep underfunding schools. This is true despite

the fact that nearly $400 million is sitting in reserves doing nothing but earning interest.

America and, indeed, Mississippi have an ugly past of discriminating against non-whites and non-Protestants even though the great irony is that the first white settlers to arrive on these shores did so to escape religious persecution in Europe. Maybe someone should have vetted them, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll set that aside for now.

The history of our country since those massive ships carrying slaves and pilgrims came ashore is now with us. That history is ugly and painful, but we have to deal with it, and we have to try to get it right. In Mississippi, that history is still playing out as state officials continue dictating which children (affluent, white) receive good educations and which donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t (poor, black).

Our national values that tend to evolve slowly over time but eventually end up on the right side of history say that all peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;regardless of color, religion, race, nationality, gender, sex, etc.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;living and breathing in this country deserve basic human dignity and respect from our government.

Last year, we had a whole debate about the government getting out of the way of religious freedoms. This year, we had a debate about the importance of education to our stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future.

The election is over, for crying out loud. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past time for Gov. Bryant and the rest of the legislative decision-makers to stop pandering and start respecting the human rights of all Mississippiansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; from refugees to schoolkids.

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20th state on Dec. 10, 1817. A centerpiece of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bicentennial celebration will be the 2017 opening of two new museums standing side-by-side on North Street: the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first state-sponsored civil rights museum, and the Museum of Mississippi History.

This should be a proud moment for the state, an opportunity to assess the past and aspire to the future, a time for speeches and parades and music and ... flags.

As this bicentennial approaches, however, Mississippi is the only state that still has the Confederate battle flag as part of its official state flag. If the flag flying in front of these new museums features the Confederate battle emblem, it will say that Mississippi is still mired in its racist past while refusing to acknowledge it.

It will represent ongoing willful denial that â&#x20AC;&#x201D;as Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1861 Declaration of Secession provesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mississippi seceded from the Union to maintain the continued enslavement of African Americans, bringing on the devastating war that followed.

Failure to change Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flag will signify that Mississippi continues to ignore that the introduction of the current flag in 1894 was a contemporaneous and integral part of this stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enactment of Jim Crow laws segregating its black citizens and denying them basic constitutional protections.

Failure to change Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flag will demonstrate that Mississippi willfully embraces this emblem that was usedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; officially and unofficiallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;throughout the civil-rights era of the 1950s and 1960s and beyond as a powerful symbol of opposition and often violent resistance to desegregation of public schools, protection of voting rights and equal treatment in public accommodations.

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% ) 6C?6DE A 3C62FI 6=64EC:42= centennial the time for Mississippi to expeHiring an experienced substation rience a new birth of freedom under a new foreman and journeyman â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Should have experience in steel flag as our state begins its third century. erection, switch and equipment installation, conduit and control By deciding now on a plan to change cable installation, ground grid the official state flag in 2017, Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s installation, and have experience working in energized substations. leaders and its citizens will have ample time Also hiring an experienced to prepare for this change by (1) planning Distribution and Transmission Lineman. and carrying out the necessary legal actions We are also in need of Civil to retire the current state flag and (2) designForeman & Carpenters experienced in heavy concrete pouring and ing and adopting a new official state flag that Ă&#x20AC;QLVKLQJ RI GULOOHG SLHUV VSUHDG footers, large pads, containment represents and symbolizes this state in a healwalls, etc. This position also ing and unifying manner. requires experience with anchor bolt placement and site layout I call on the Mississippi Legislature using survey instruments. to follow the lead of House Speaker Philip CVdf^Vd ^Rj SV dfS^ZeeVU e` [`j dZXfV1VaScVRfi T`^ Gunn and move forward promptly in the coming session to retire the current state flag and adopt a new one in which we can all claim a heritage.

I call on Gov. Phil Bryant, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and other state officials to commit to support these efforts. I call on all Mississippians to come together to contemplate our full history in the time remaining between - Exclusive Invite to the now and the Bicentennial.

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Mark Wiggs is an attorney and writer who lives in Belhaven.

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ProPublica study analyzed federal student financial aid and loan data from 2013 (the most complete and available data set) and compared students who receive Pell grants to their peers on the same campuses who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get Pell grants. The results revealed the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pell Grant gapâ&#x20AC;? that has forced many students who were unlikely to be able to afford college in the first place to take out additional onerous loans just to complete

their degrees. In the 2015-2016 school year, the maximum Pell grant award is capped at $5,775.

Student Debt in Jackson ProPublica data on local Jackson institutions show that Pell grantees on the whole have less federal debt than their peers, but they have higher non-repayment rates of their federal loans even three years after

Keeping on Track With Federal Loan Payments 1. Change when your payment is due. Talk to your loan company about switching your payment to coincide with your paycheck from work.

2. Change your repayment plan. If you need to have lower payments every month, you might think about an income-based repayment plan thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s based on how much your earn.

3. Think about loan consolidation. If you have student loans from several different lenders, you might be able to apply for a Direct Consolidation Loan, which would allow you to combine all your federal student loans into one for one monthly payment.

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graduation. The number of undergraduates with Pell grants is much higher at the local HBCUsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jackson State University and Tougaloo Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;than at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Mississippi College or Millsaps College. Eighty-five percent of Tougaloo undergraduates received Pell grants in 2013, compared to 22 percent of Millsaps undergraduates.

Pell grantees are probably taking out more loans than in previous years because college tuition is rising, Corey Wiggins, director at the Hope Policy Institute, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at a place where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing tuitions for colleges rising, and part of the necessity of it rising is because of issues around funding for our public universities,â&#x20AC;? Wiggins told the Jackson Free Press.

Some tuition hikes may be necessary as schools try to ensure their budgets provide a high-quality education, despite the limited funding they receive from the state and federal government. But making college more affordable should be a priority, Wiggins said, because higher education leads to better, higher-paying jobs. And those jobs ideally help college graduates become home owners, taxpayers and contributors to the economy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Making college more affordable actually helps support a stronger economy here in Mississippi,â&#x20AC;? Wiggins said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And it helps to provide a competitive workforce.â&#x20AC;?

Two-year colleges and HBCUs in the Jackson area have much higher percentages of Pell grantees than other universities.

Wiggins said students at community colleges may come from lower-income backgrounds and opt for a more affordable education that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take four or more years.

In the state and nationally, African Americans are more likely to have lower incomes and go to college to improve their economic position, Wiggins said.

HBCUs, he said, are more likely to have lower-income students who, according to several studies, still have median earnings lower than the average college graduate once theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the workforce.

African American students with bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degrees earn 20 percent less than whites, according to a Georgetown University study on education, occupation and lifetime earnings. Mississippi ranked last on the Corporation for Education Developmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2015 Scorecard of poverty, credit, low-wage jobs and educated citizens. While Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s average college graduate debt is $27,571â&#x20AC;&#x201D;below the national averageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the

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A 2014 Pew Research analysis called millennials the â&#x20AC;&#x153;most educated generation in historyâ&#x20AC;? and found that earnings for college graduates with bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and advanced degrees have increased by 13 percent since 1984. Of course, these numbers only reflect graduates who found work.

Higher education is often seen as the pathway to equity or a way out of cycles of poverty. In order for students from lowincome backgrounds to attend universities of high caliber without paying high tuition rates, the federal government established the Pell Grant Program in 1965.

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Inside the Financial Aid Office When students apply for college, they request financial aid through the free application for federal student aid (otherwise known as FAFSA), providing familyincome information to help the government estimate each applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s qualified amount.

Once students are accepted to a college and send that college their FAFSA, those eligible for federal loans must receive â&#x20AC;&#x153;interest counselingâ&#x20AC;? as their â&#x20AC;&#x153;first-time awardâ&#x20AC;? is explained to them. Universities package all the awards the student receives after the FAFSA is processed with state and federal grantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including Pell grantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and scholarships for which they qualify. When grants and scholarships do not cover the cost of tuition, which is most of the time, students are offered federal loans to help pay for the rest of their tuition.

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Wiggins said that it is important to ask: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are there enough well-paying jobs available for those students to enter into (so that they are) able to adequately pay off their student-loan debt at the same time as being able to be self-sufficient professionals?â&#x20AC;?

The data suggest Mississippi could improve in this area: The Assets and Opportunity Scorecard indicates that 37.9 percent of working Mississippians are in low-wage jobs.

Universities can create strategies to increase public funding through needbased federal and state financial aid, Wiggins said. Mississippi could look at offering more needs-basedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not merit-basedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; scholarships and grants to students as well, for instance.

Financial aid offered through the state comes mainly in the form of forgivable loans and a few grants. Forgivable loans are primarily program-specific for students looking to become teachers, nurses or health-care professionals. Other grants are available to students through the state based on need or good grades.

Students from across the state compete for these funds, however, and federal aid is more reliable to access funding for students who qualify.

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SATURDAY 12/19

TUESDAY 12/22

The Farish Street Christmas Tree Lighting is at Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center.

The CARA Pet Adoption Event is at SuperMax Northtown.

The Vamps perform at Duling Hall.

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(Left to right) Amy Pfrimmer and Jay Warnock performed in the Mississippi Opera’s previous take on “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” which takes place Sunday, Dec. 20, at Madison Square Center for the Arts.

Andrew Peterson performs at 7 p.m. at Morrison Heights Baptist Church (3000 Hampstead Blvd., Clinton). The contemporary Christian artist from Nashville performs on his Behold the Lamb of God Tour. Doors open at 6 p.m. $20, $25 VIP (includes early entry); call 800-965-9324 or 601-924-5620; itickets.com.

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THURSDAY 12/17

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APPLAUSE! Featuring Marshall Ramsey is from noon to 1 p.m. at Willie Morris Library (4912 Old Canton Road). Illustrator and radio host Marshall Ramsey discusses his new book, “Chainsaws and Casseroles.” Books sold on site through Lemuria, including copies of “Banjo’s Dream.” $24.95 for “Chainsaws and Casseroles,” $18.95 for “Banjo’s Dream;” call 601-9878181. … The Museum After Hours Pop-Up Exhibition is from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum

FRIDAY 12/18

“A Christmas Carol” is at 7:30 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is based on Charles Dickens’ classic tale about a miser’s encounter with three Christmas spirits. Visit the website for SchoolFest Matinee show times. Additional dates: Dec. 17-19, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 20, 2 p.m. $28, $22 seniors and students, $18 per person for groups of 15 or more; call 601-948-3533, ext.

222; newstagetheatre.com.

SATURDAY 12/19

Jackson’s Most Incredible Christmas Fest is from noon to 8 p.m. in downtown Jackson, on West Street next

BY MICAH SMITH to Thalia Mara Hall. Includes choirs, a living Nativity, a visit from Santa, crafts, a snow maJACKSONFREEPRESS.COM chine, food and craft vendors, FAX: 601-510-9019 and more. Additional date: Dec. DAILY UPDATES AT 20, 1-6 p.m. Free admission; call JFPEVENTS.COM 601-366-0901; parents-kids. com. … Santa’s Sloppy Sleigh Ride is at 6 p.m. at Jaco’s Tacos, One Block East, Underground 119, Iron Horse Grill and Martin’s in downtown Jackson. Sample five beers from five bars during the holiday pub crawl. Sign in at Jaco’s Tacos starting at 6 p.m. The bus leaves at 7 p.m. $20; call One Block East at 601-944-0203.

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Actress, director, dancer and singer Jasmine Guy makes a special guest appearance in “Clare and the Chocolate Nutcracker” on Tuesday, Dec. 22, at Thalia Mara Hall.

of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). See works from Elizabeth Robinson and the artists of Spirit House Glass in addition to current exhibitions. Includes daniel johnson’s Pop-Up Art Trivia at 7 p.m., the illumination of the Festivus Bottle Tree Art Orchard, a cash bar and food 24 for sale. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

SUNDAY 12/20

“Amahl and the Night Visitors” is from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at Madison Square Center for the Arts (2103 Main St., Madison). The Mississippi Opera presents the story of a

crippled shepherd boy whose life is changed after seeing a star “as big as a window.” $5-$20; call 601-960-2300; email exdir@msopera.org; msopera.org.

MONDAY 12/21

Author Taylor Kitchings signs copies of the book “Yard War” at 11 a.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). $16.99 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com. … Deck the Trails is from 5 to 8 p.m. at Clinton Community Nature Center (617 Dunton Road, Clinton). Walk along the nature trails to enjoy Christmas displays, carols, concessions, crafts and pictures with Santa. An admission charge applies to the light show. Additional dates: Dec. 18-23, 5-8 p.m. Free admission; light show: $3, children under 3 and members free; call 601-926-1104; clintonnaturecenter.org.

TUESDAY 12/22

“Clare and the Chocolate Nutcracker” is at 8 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The modern adaptation of the popular classical ballet includes a guest appearance from actress/singer Jasmine Guy (“A Different World.”).

Discounts for seniors and students. $29-$49; call 601-3530603 or 800-745-3000; email universalpac1@gmail.com; clareandthechocolatenutcracker.net.

WEDNESDAY 12/23

The Da Vincis perform at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The pop band from Jackson gives their farewell performance after a nine-year run. Knowlton Bourne also performs. $5 in advance, $10 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; ardenland.net.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Christmas Carolâ&#x20AC;? Dec. 17-19, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 20, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is based on Charles Dickensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; classic tale. $28, $22 seniors and students, $18 per person for groups of 15 or more; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

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Options include â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lasers in Space,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let It Snowâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winter Holiday (Laser Adventure).â&#x20AC;? $6.50; $5.50 seniors; $4 children (cash or check); call 601-960-1550; thedavisplanetarium.com.

Events at Mississippi Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum (2145 Highland Drive) UĂ&#x160;*Â&#x153;Â?>Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x160; Ă?ÂŤĂ&#x20AC;iĂ&#x192;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;Dec. 18, 5-8 p.m. Includes a reading of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Polar Express,â&#x20AC;? a train ride, holiday tunes with Mr. Snowman and more. Holiday pajamas welcome. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months free); call 601981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

UĂ&#x160;->Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;>Ă&#x160; Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x152;iĂ&#x160;Dec. 19, 5-8 p.m. Learn the science behind Santa Claus. Includes music from Jimmy Turner. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months free); call 601-9815469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com. >VÂ&#x17D;Ă&#x192;Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;½Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2DC;VĂ&#x20AC;i`Â&#x2C6;LÂ?iĂ&#x160; Â&#x2026;Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Â&#x201C;>Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; iĂ&#x192;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160;Dec. 19, noon-8 p.m., Dec. 20, 1-6 p.m., in downtown Jackson, on West Street next to Thalia Mara Hall. Includes choirs, a living Nativity, a visit from Santa, crafts, a snow machine and more. Free; call 601-366-0901; parents-kids.com.

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Teddy Bear Tea Dec. 19, 3-4 p.m., at King Edward Hotel (235 W. Capitol St.). Includes storytelling, photos with Santa and treats. $25, children under 12 months free; call 601-969-8544.

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Richard Grant signs books. $16 book.

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Every 20-pound donation of pet food is a raffle entry for an iPad Mini, a free month of storage rent or a SuperMax Wash Club three-month membership. Donations welcome; call 601-9771124 for directions; stomax.com or carams.org.

Check jfpevents.com for updates and more listings, or to add your own events online. You can also email event details to events@jacksonfreepress.com to be added to the calendar. The deadline is noon the Wednesday prior to the week of publication.

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Wednesday 12/16 4-9pm $12.99 SIRLOIN STRIP

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Karaoke w/DJ Stache @ 9pm

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Wednesday, December 16

Thursday 12/17 TAMALE THURSDAY

SPECTRUM JAZZ

Ladies Night w/ DJ Glenn Rogers

Thursday, December 17

$9.99 4-9pm

LADIES DRINK FREE! 9pm - Close

Friday 12/18 MUSIC THERAPY

DVDJ REIGN w/ Special Guest DJ:

violator ALL STAR DJ Saturday 12/19

EUROPEAN THEATER

CD RELEASE With Young Valley and Ethel Sunday 12/20

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Monday 12/21

Pub Quiz

w/Daniel Keys @ 8pm

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STEVIE CAIN 5:30 PM

HONEYBOY AND BOOTS 7:30PM

Friday, December 18

TIME TO MOVE 9 PM

Saturday, December 19

MR. SIPP 9 PM

Tuesday, December 22

$9.99 ROYAL RED SHRIMP BOIL 4-9pm

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Tuesday 12/22 $2 TALLBOY TUESDAY 7pm-close Daily 4-7pm

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(Left to right) Jackson-based electronic artist Tre Pepper and Seattle-based multi-instrumentalist Walter Young of Echo Victor release their self-titled album Saturday, Dec. 19, at Offbeat.

to find out that the city had an expansive music scene. As he began connecting with other musicians, he met multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Walter Young, who played with groups such as Alexanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dark Heart and The Try-Force. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was involved with the local music scene at that time, and I really respected his music and sort of just wanted to be friends,â&#x20AC;?

Pepper says.

While the two musicians remained close over the years, life took them in different directions. Pepper, 29, who performs as electronic artist Loki Antiphony, put much of his focus on producing his own music and other Jackson artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recordings, such as AJC & the Envelope Pushersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; upcoming album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fallen Star.â&#x20AC;? Meanwhile, Young, 31, moved to Seattle to work in the technology industry in June.

Despite busy schedules, the duo decided to take on a shared venture as Echo Victor, a studio project that combines Pepperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talent for electronic instrumentation with Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more rock-oriented sensibilities.

The collaboration began in Pepperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studio in midtown while Young was finishing his masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in computer science at Jackson State University in summer 2014. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would start on a new song every day until we developed it into a large body of work,â&#x20AC;? Pepper says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went and picked our top 15 favorite tracks and refined those for the album.â&#x20AC;?

Although the music draws compari-

Noiseâ&#x20AC;? that Clay Hardwick directed.

Even with 12 years of production experience, Pepper says he and Young came across creative hurdles such as the ever-looming writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s block during the recording process, but ultimately, the obstacles to completing Echo Victorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut album were positives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a part of how you learn thingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not being so stuck in your ways and being open to new ideas,â&#x20AC;?

Pepper says.

Listeners can expect the tracks such as Echo Victorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first single, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Follow the Radio,â&#x20AC;? to bear some connections to Pepperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous tracks as Loki Antiphony.

The producer says he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn to past descriptors while working on the latest release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try to avoid genres,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like different styles of music. I like to go for whatever I feel emotionally connected to at that time. That can be anything from mellow folk music to electronic-dance music.â&#x20AC;?

Pepper says the goal for Echo Victor is simply to get the music to the people who will enjoy it and to evoke an emotional response from all who are willing to listen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully, I can inspire in them the same kind of feeling I have every day when working on music,â&#x20AC;? he says.

The Echo Victor album release party is Saturday, Dec. 19, at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave., 601-376-9404). Admission includes a copy of the album with a suggested $10 donation. For more information, find Echo Victor on Soundcloud and Facebook.

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Celebration Bowl Preview ALCORN ATHLETICS

It is a long shot, but at 5-8, the New Orleans Saints are still alive in the playoff race.

They will need to win out and get help to get into the postseason.

THURSDAY, DEC. 17 NFL (7:25-11 p.m., NFLN): Former MSU star Johnthan Banks will try to help the Tampa Bay Buccaneers get a road win over the St. Louis Rams.

FRIDAY, DEC. 18 College basketball (7-9 p.m., ESPNEWS): The University of Mississippi will face a tough test on the road against a normally strong basketball school in the Memphis Tigers.

SATURDAY, DEC. 19 College football (11a.m.-2:30 p.m., ABC): The first-ever Celebration Bowl will feature the Alcorn State Braves against the North Carolina A&T Aggies.

SUNDAY, DEC. 20 NFL (7:30-11 p.m., NBC): Former MSU star Fletcher Cox leads the Philadelphia Eagles defense against one of the best teams in the NFC, the Arizona Cardinals.

MONDAY, DEC. 21 NFL (7:30-11 p.m., ESPN): The Saints will try to keep their playoff hopes alive at home against the Detroit Lions who have already been eliminated from any chance of postseason play.

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23 College basketball (7-9 p.m., SECN): Mississippi State looks to get on track before SEC play with at match against Northern Colorado at Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson.

This week has plenty of bowl games to feast on with 11 from Saturday to Wednesday to check out as you get ready for the holidays.

Follow Bryan Flynn at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports and at facebook.com/jfpsports.

For SWAC champion Alcorn State University’s game against North Carolina A&T University in the Celebration Bowl, it has a few weapons, such as running back Darryan Ragsdale, at the ready.

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he first-ever Celebration Bowl will feature this year’s SWAC champion, the Alcorn State University Braves, against this year’s MEAC champion, the North Carolina A&T University Aggies. This matchup of two historically black universities will provide national exposure for both conferences, as it is the first bowl game this season.

In a partnership with ESPN, the Celebration Bowl, at least in its first year, will be televised at 11 a.m. on ABC. Another college football game will not be on until 1 p.m. This is also one of two bowl games on a non-cable channel on Dec. 19, the other being the Las Vegas Bowl with University of Utah and Brigham Young University.

It features two of the best defenses in the FCS division of college football. North Carolina A&T is ranked No. 2 in total defense, allowing just 268.2 yards per game; Alcorn State is No. 3 in total defense, allowing 273.9 yards per game.

The Aggies are also one of the best teams in the FCS in scoring defense, ranking No. 5 and allowing just 15.6 points per game. Alcorn State isn’t too bad in scoring defense, either, allowing 21.2 points per game and ranking at No. 26 in the FCS. Alcorn State’s defense will try to contain Aggies running back Tarik Cohen, the MEAC Offensive Player of the Year, who has 1,248 rushing yards and averages 113.5 yards per game. Cohen has rushed for 1,000 yards for three straight seasons and owns the school rushing mark for career yards.

Overall, the North Carolina A&T offense averages 305.6 yards per game and ranks No. 100 in the FCS. It is tied with the University of Northern Colorado for No. 36 in scoring offense with an average of 30 points per game.

The Braves are one of the best rushing offenses in the FCS. They rank No. 3 with 309 yards on the ground per game. Alcorn State has plenty of weapons to get the job done on the ground, including in running back Darryan Ragsdale.

The quarterback for Alcorn State is one of the questions heading into this game. The Braves started the season with quarterback John Gibbs Jr., but he was injured in a game on Halloween, and the spot went to Lenorris Footman. Footman has kept the Braves’ offense motoring along, as he has been a balanced quarterback with 961 rushing yards and 962 passing yards. Footman’s play has helped ASU finish No. 6 in scoring offense with 40.1 points per game.

The Braves are one of the top offenses in the FCS with a No. 11 current ranking in total offense, as they average 472.3 yards per game.

An Alcorn State win in this game means the Braves win 10 games for back-to-back seasons.

The Celebration Bowl features two all-around good teams, which normally means the team who wins the turnover battle wins the game. In turnovers, North Carolina A&T is plus seven and Alcorn State is minus five. I’m going with my gut on this one: Braves 28, Aggies 24.

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