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CONTANNA PURNELL As an only child, Contanna Purnell was woken up early on Saturdays by her mother handing her a broom or a basket of laundry.

Even after school at Wheeler Attendance Center in Baldwyn, she had to vacuum the house.

“I just knew I had to do it, and I knew there would be consequences if I

didn’t,” Purnell said with a laugh in her meticulously neat o ice in City Hall, where she is human resources deputy director for the city of Tupelo. “My mother has always been a

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A recent quote she posted has become her favorite, summing up her view of life and work: “I will not remain silent so you can remain comfortable.”

For 18 years, Purnell charged into work with goals in mind and a sweet charm.

“When you walk in here, no matter what I’ve been thinking, you have to turn on that charm,” Purnell said. “Because you never know who is going to meet you at the front door at 8 in the morning. To me, it’s like showtime at the Miss America Pageant.”

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Typically, Purnell wakes up at 6:30 a.m. and hits the road to work by 7:45 a.m.

She drinks Red Bull, instead of co fee, to perk up before taking “at least 10 to 12 sel ies” to make sure “everything is right.”

She’s met with 50 to 60 emails a day, anything from workers’ comp iling to browsing resumes before making recommenda-

tions to the city’s department heads.

On the side, Purnell helps run the city’s PlantA-Seed program, headed

by Councilman Willie Jennings. The program hires high schoolers in city departments over the summer while also teaching them work and resume techniques to better their chances in life.

Since 2010, Purnell has counseled more than 100 students in the 20 to 30 di ferent city jobs. The program has a 90 percent success rate of Plant-ASeed members either attending a two-year college, four-year university or a trade school.

She emphasized that the teens should never let a workplace change their moral values and to stay updated in their ield.

She practices what she preaches; Purnell has too many certi ications to count.

“As long as you know who you are, don’t let a workforce change your attitude,” she said. “You keep who you are. If you’re going in there knowing something is a certain way and you have your moral values, don’t sway from that.”

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She wants to go even bigger.

“I’m a very competitive person,” she said. “If there’s something out there I feel like would make the city better, I’m going to learn it and bring it back. I can really see myself in politics in the future. I could really see myself as an elected o icial.”

Purnell loves politics and the idea of enacting change. When she retires, she doesn’t want to “push buggies at Walmart,” she wants to form policies either on the local, state or federal level.

But Purnell recognizes she might have to work harder, being a female in a predominately male atmosphere.

She loves her independence, a quality stemming from her being an only child.

“I know I will have to work harder, which is where I think my competitiveness comes from,” she said. However, I feel like from when I started when I was 25 to now, I think every job you stay long with, you’re going to mature. I think I’ve matured and learned a lot from both males and females.”

To put it simply, Purnell just really loves her job.

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MYSIE WURSTER

Designer and entrepreneur Mysie Wurster started her small business, June Arbor Designs, in March 2014.

Now, just a year and a half later, what began as a part-time creative outlet has become Wurster’s full-time job.

Using Etsy, an online marketplace, Wurster sells stationery, co fee mugs, art prints and custom wedding invitations programs, and among other products featuri n g

her original d designs.

Wurster, 226, describes her designs as “a lot of watercolor and a lot of lowers.”

She initially init paints the designs design on paper using wate watercolors and then repea repeats the process digit digitally for the inal prod product.

“I lov love lorals,” Wurster said. “It’s not your typical typ watercolor pa pastel lorals.

I like bold colors.”

doing,” Wurster said of the o ice job.

Before she took to Etsy, though, Wurster honed her skills by designing custom stationery for her friends and family. In fact, the irst stationery she designed were the invitations for her own wedding in 2013.

Wurster said she was prompted to start her business when she realized there were few options for brides looking

"It’s kind of empowering to handle the business side."

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Wu r s t e r , who now lives in Tupelo, opened her shop while workin ing as a rece ceptionist in Ja Jackson.

“It was exac actly the opposi of what I site wanted to be

for custom but a fordable wedding stationery.

“I had no idea what the market was like for invitations until I started looking for my own,” Wurster said. “… I just wanted to o fer something that was cute and a fordable.”

When she irst launched the shop, Wurster said sales were slow, averaging only about one order per

week.

Over the next few months, however, she continued designing and running her shop part time, and several months in, sales began to pick up.

Fast-forward to present day and you’ll likely ind Wurster splitting her time between her home o ice and the post o ice.

On a typical work day, she catches up on emails, updates orders, ills new orders, packages and ships products and works on any custom orders in progress.

Wurster also spends 2-3 hours per day promoting and monitoring sales on social media.

She said she dedicates time to scoping out her competition, too, using data to see what types of products are selling well and whose are selling better than hers.

Wurster has also recently extended her reach by allowing several boutiques nationwide to carry her products.

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The Corner Shoe Store in Tupelo carry them as well as a few stores in Colorado, Michigan and Indiana.

With all of the administrative tasks she has to keep up with day to day, Wurster admits she doesn’t get to spend as much time creating and designing new products as she would like.

She said she tries to come up with a new design or product each week.

Some are quick projects, while others she’ll take more time on.

Maintaining a balance between the creative and the business sides of her business, she said, requires organization and self-motivation, especially when working from home.

“If it were up to me, I would create all the time and have someone else do the business side,” Wurster said. “But on the other hand, it’s kind of empowering to handle the business side.”

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FROM HIBACHI TO HOSPITAL

ANGELA HUA

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Two decades ago, Angela Hua had dreams of becoming a nurse.

But as often is the case, life turned out a little di ferently, and she put her plans on hold.

At least for now.

“I still want to be a nurse,”

said Hua. “I’ve always wanted to help older people especially, and it’s something I would like to do.”

After immigrating from China in 1995, she began

working at a restaurant which was owned by her uncle in Tupelo.

She met her husband, Steven, at the restaurant.

They got married, had a

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couple of kids, then she took over A Gold Star Chinese Restaurant in 2002.

Last year, the Huas opened Super Hibachi Bu fet and she closed A Gold Star.

Her entry into the restaurant industry may have temporarily derailed her plans, but she said it’s worked out well. Even with the long hours, she’s been able to spend time with her two kids, one of whom is in college and another in grade school.

“We did it for the kids,” she said of getting in the restaurant business. “We could still be with the kids, and work with the kids while we were at the restaurant. They’re not running around, and we can keep an eye on them at the same time.”

The kids have spent countless hours in the restaurant while their parents were at work, doing

homework and helping when they could.

It’s a di ferent type of family time, but it works, Hua said.

“I like my job because I can watch my kids grow up still,” she said. “The job is lexible. And you meet different people every day, plus a lot of regular customers.

I’ve seen a lot of other kids grow up, too.

Steven Hua also has a restaurant in Columbus, but his wife spends her time at Super Hibachi.

Hua is a native of Wenzhou, in the coastal Zhejiang Province in the People’s Republic of China.

She came to America, like so many other immigrants, to ind a better life.

“I came here to go to school for my favorite job – to become a nurse,” she said. “My grandmother was a doctor. I want to help people get better, and I wanted

to be a nurse. If I have time, I still want to go back to school to be a nurse.”

Chinese culture emphasizes loyalty to family and devotion to traditions, foregoing individuality. Traditionally, children are expected to take care of their parents.

It’s with that in mind that Hua wanted to expand that notion and become a nurse to help others, particularly older people.

“I think a lot of them need to be taken care of better,” she said. “I want to help.”

But running a restaurant seven days a week isn’t exactly conducive to going to nursing school, which is another full-time job in itself.

“I still have that dream,” Hua said with a smile.

She also has a dream to go back to China.

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ANN BENTON FRASER

When Ann Benton Fraser was growing up in St. Francisville, Louisiana, she spent many of her summers working at the Episcopal church camp in Louisiana.

“I felt I had gifts for leadership and Christian community and I wondered, ‘How can I keep doing this? What would a vocation look like in real life?’” said Fraser, 36.

She went on to Louisiana State University to pursue a bachelor’s degree in public relations, but she knew deep down that wasn’t to be her chosen ield. In her senior year, she began the formal discernment process to determine if she were being called to use her gifts for the ministry.

“I had a conversation with my dad and told him

I was thinking about going to seminary, not to be ordained, but to learn more about my faith,” Fraser said. “He just lit up. To be met with such joyful openness from my dad was neat.”

She ultimately enrolled in The School of Theology at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, earned her Master’s of Divinity degree in 2007 and was ordained the same year at her childhood parish, Grace Church. From there, she and her husband, Andrew, moved to Manhattan after she received a two-year Lilly Fel-

lowship at St. James’ Church.

“The parish was tremendous and the rector was a woman,” Fraser said. “It’s unusual in a parish that size for a woman to be in a position of lead-

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ership. I learned so much from her.”

In 2009, after her fellowship, the Frasers landed in Corinth, where she is rector at St. Paul’s Episco Episcopal Church.

“We very much appreciate the

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gentleness of life here,” she said. “Corinth is a delightful place to live. The congregation has really embraced us as we have raised a family here.”

The Frasers have two daughters, 5-year-old Susanna and 3-year-old Eleanor.

“We came here intending to have some roots,” she said. “But the congregation knows, and rightly so, that a priest is always passing through, even though that could mean 20 years. The congregation always precedes the priest and follows the priest.”

To describe a typical

day in the life of a rector is just about impossible, Fraser said, because no day is typical. There might be a Bible study group, time carved out to work on Sunday’s sermon, some pastoral care, updates to the church’s Facebook page and home or hospital visits.

“Things come up with people,” she said “My work is relationships. I can’t turn that o f when I go home.

T h e r e’s an open-endedness to the work I love and I have to balance that.”

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A customer or client’s experience with an employee always goes smoother when that interaction is a positive one. For Waneisha Hadley, it’s the only way she knows how to operate.

Hadley works juggling two positions in Tupelo while supporting herself and her 14-year-old daughter, R’reanna. In fact, she still works at the irst job she had coming out of Mantachie High School at Sears department store in The Mall at Barnes Crossing.

Sears has opened a lot of doors for her, as has her role as head receptionist at Animal Care Center of Tupelo.

“They give me the chance to connect with people, to see di ferent faces and to make me happy,” she said. “The clinic job was God-sent

conversing or laughing,” she said. “It’s just a better it for me to be happy. I don’t like being closed-in, I like socializing and interacting. It makes me better at my job.”

While being a single mom, Hadley knows the importance her positions play in life, but that

"My customers bless me, my clients bless me and I’m grateful for that. That’s why I’m so appreciative of these jobs."

“I started there in 1997 and it feels like home,” Hadley said. “I mainly work there on the weekends and it gives me a chance to interact with customers and meet different people. It’s always a friendly atmosphere to work in.”

Hadley feels her position as a merchandise customer assistant at

for me. I didn’t know anything about animals but now I feel like it’s always been part of my life.”

Being a people person is something Hadley prides herself on, and to that end she doesn’t like being alone if she doesn’t have to be. She’d always rather be smiling with someone else.

“I always want to be

doesn’t make them a chore to her.

“You’ve got to make money to live, but it’s never been about making money to me,” she said. “I work hard for me and my child. It’s a struggle everyday, and not everyday is a great day. But that’s why I strive hard to make sure that she and I are OK. God always opens up

those doors for me, not only for just me but for my child as well. I feel like I’m working for a reason.

“A lot of things my daughter has experienced in her life, she wouldn’t have experienced if not for my working at the clinic. I never thought I would be in the position that I am, but it has made me grow as a person. And every year it gets better and better for us. I know my life isn’t just about me; it’s about her. I have to focus on her. I’ve taught her to appreciate everything she does in life, whether something she is given or accomplished. I want her to be thankful.”

When she’s not busy with work, Hadley likes doing more of the same: Feeling happy and helping others.

“These are full days with getting up at 6 a.m. and getting home at 9 p.m.,” she said. “It makes

inding time for other things hard. But I’m at church whenever the doors are open and try to be there for my family. I am the oldest out of three kids and people say that I am the stronghold for my family. Within the last uple of years, we have couple en through a lot. But been he grace of God, by the he has gotten us rough it all.” through Hadley’s positive outlook on life can be seen in her rk ethic, and work she has those she lps to thank for helps at. that.

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Metal Roofing • Metal Building • Pole Barns Reed’s Metals of Tupelo started with business partners Jeremy Butler, Daniel Butler, and Bernie Reed six years ago. Since then, their team has grown to almost 50 members.

Growing at this pace in such a short time is only made possible through hard work and dedication of their team. Reed’s Metals is extremely proud of the women who make up a small portion of the their diverse, hard-working team.

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Eight years into her teaching career at Amory High School, Laura Gibson started a side photography business.

Ashley Berthay, Operations Manager, has been part of the team for 3 years. She started her career eager to learn and worked as the receptionist before being promoted to Human Resources Manager and, finally, Operations Manager. Her dedication and leadership has led to, not only her personal success, but overall success of the company.

Jennifer Gresham, Sales Manager, has been part of the team for 5 years.

She was the first team member hired by the owners, and has done a bit of everything at Reed’s. She leads the eight-person sales team and pushes them to be their best every day. The sales team continuously breaks sales records, and, like a good leader should, Jennifer gives all the credit to her team.

Malaya Easterling, Residential Sales Rep, has been with Reed’s for 3

years. Malaya started as the receptionist and excelled at her position.

She grew in knowledge and in experience and was promoted to Residential Sales Rep this year.

Malaya has improved in her knowledge and skill over the past nine months in her position and she doesn’t plan to slow down.

Darah Knighton, Human Resources, has been with Reed’s for one year.

She came in to her position with zeal and has maintained the same effort.

Darah has grown the training program and interviews potential team members on a weekly basis. Thanks to Darah, the newest team members are provided with the best training to ensure their success.

Jessica Bond, Purchasing/Accounts Payable, has been with Reed’s for 2 years. Jessica is responsible for keeping inventory stocked and research-

ing to find the most competitive prices. Thanks to Jessica, Reed’s Metals is able to provide competitive pricing to customers. Jessica has grown the purchasing program, and will now be pioneering a new Data Entry position to maximize efficiency.

Heather Stiles, Building Administrator, has been with Reed’s for a year and a half. During her time at Reed’s Metals, Heather has grown and improved the building process in order to fabricate and deliver buildings in 4 weeks- the fastest turnaround time in the industry.

Brianna Pharr, Receptionist, is one of Reed’s Metals newest team members. Brianna is the first face you see when you walk in and she is known for welcoming all customers with a smile. Brianna has learned her position quickly and is already improving her skills and growing in knowledge.

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It’s something she had dreamed about since she was a child growing up in rural Smithville.

She spent hours looking through her grandmother’s photo albums, examining the poses and catching the emotions captured in a lash.

Gibson, who teaches English III and journalism, started her photography business by accident. She started participating in a social media photo challenge where she took a picture of her family – her husband Justin, her sons Lex, 10, and Jax, 7, and her daughter Annie Rhea, 4 – once a day, calling the project #AGibsonADay. “People started liking what I posted,” Gibson said. “The mother of one of the kids I teach asked me to take pictures of her daughter before a pageant, so I posted those pictures. Now, I’m completely booked right now through December.”

In the year since she started her photography business, Gibson has worked with more than 150 clients from high school seniors to members of wedding parties

to family portraits.

As a self-taught photographer, Gibson took only one photography class in college, where she majored in communication and public relations. She taught herself by watching YouTube videos, reading about trends and studying the works of famous photographers.

She spends about 8 to 10 hours a week learning new photography styles and honing her own.

“I was talking to one of my friends about the old cliché, ‘Anybody can do it if you put your mind to it,’” Gibson said. “That used to make me gag. I got tired of hearing that, but now, I’m like, ‘Oh crap, I kind of proved that.’”

She tries to stray away from the traditional, posed family portraits.

“It’s candid,” she said. “I think people see that emotion and those moments, and that’s what they want to see. ”

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Gibson talks to the students in her journalism class as if they are her equals.

“She’s very laid back, but she gets stu f done,” one of her students said during Gibson’s journalism class.

“With reminders,” she added. “I can be a little scatterbrained.”

Gibson allows open creative expression in her class, letting the students brainstorm among each other to come up with yearbook theme ideas and potential photo shoots, oftentimes adding in her own ideas through quips dipped in dry humor.

As her photography business grows, people are constantly asking her if she is going to continue teaching.

“I do love teaching.

There’s no doubt that I’m passionate about it,” Gibson said. “It’d be super hard to leave these kids, but at the same time, I wonder if I did one of them, like photography, if I could give more time to my family, which is the most important thing in the long run.”

Right now, she’s just “taking it easy” and “letting things play out.”

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A fresh perspective is rewarding, inspiring T

here is a joke about a Cub Scout being asked what three things he would need if he had to survive in a desert. The boy responded that he’d want a canteen full of water, a compass and a deck of cards. When asked the importance of the cards, he responded, “As soon as I start playing Solitaire, someone is going to come up behind me and say, ‘Put the red nine on the black 10,’ and I can follow them out of the desert.”

There is a lot of free advice available. There is a lot of unsolicited advice available. Sometimes it is

di icult to discern how good the advice is. I tend to disregard TY ROBINSON unsolicited advice unless it comes from someone I trust and who dispenses the advice sparingly.

Besides my parents, I have had a few mentors in my life.

When I met Bob Skelton, he was the business manager for the Georgia State University Alumni Association, and I had been hired in the information resources department.

Bob had worked at Mercer

University in Macon, Georgia and found employment at Georgia State due to cuts at Mercer. We actually met at the cafeteria. I was living in Marietta at the time and would get to school early to beat the Atlanta tra ic. Bob lived in Alpharetta and would take MARTA – the rail system – to work. I recognized him from the alumni association, and he recognized me. We would meet for breakfast and discuss everything – school, home, current events, sports, dining and anything else we could think of. We had a similar since of humor.

Bob was later promoted to the head of internal auditing at Georgia State.

Bob always had time for me, and he would introduce me to his friends.

Usually he would call me “The Whippersnapper.”

Bob’s advice would always be in a positive way.

“You’ve tried it one way, now try it this way to see if it its.” He wasn’t about his way being the correct way.

When I irst heard that minds are like parachutes and work best when they are open, I thought about Bob. He taught me a lot about business from another perspective, and I appreciate having my

horizons broadened to see another side.

I don’t mind asking for advice. I seek it out from those who I wish to emulate. I have learned a lot by (a) asking and (b) listening. The second part is most important. I may not necessarily agree with the advice that I am getting, but I’ve asked for it. And, as Bob recommended, I try it to see if it its. Many times I realize that my stubbornness has kept me from realizing what would seem to be obvious.

I have people that I count on to be a inancial adviser, a health adviser, a spiritual adviser, a busi-

ness adviser and a marketing adviser, to name a few.

I respect those who give me the courtesy of listening to my request and then thoughtfully replying with an answer that I asked for and with additional information that they heard me asking by “reading between the lines.” That is the practice and the kind of advice that I hope I am giving when asked.

It’s good to have a fresh perspective. It is a renewal.

And it is rewarding.

TY ROBINSON is president and COO of Robinson and Associates, a marketing agency in Tupelo.

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Here we go again with election’s impact on markets

en Franklin is famously quoted saying, “There are no certainties in life other than death and taxes.”

In America, you can add a third leg to that table by saying, “Every fourth year, when the hot winds of presidential politics blow, someone will say that the inancial markets are doomed if X gets elected.”

We voters are constantly bombarded by all media telling us that this time is di ferent and the stakes couldn’t be higher. While it is true that the past is not a 100 percent indicator of future results, it is helpful to look at previous tumultuous election cycles and see how it a fected the return of investors over a period of time.

• 1940: Franklin Roosevelt was the sitting president and t he big CHRIS COLE question was whether he would seek a third term, something that was not constitutionally prohibited till the 25th amendment in 1967. Up until this point, it was customary for the occupant of the white house to not seek a third term, but with the outbreak of World War II in Europe, and with the country still reeling from the Great Depression, Roosevelt was nominated by his party for a third term and re-elected despite the warnings of various individuals

who believed by giving a person a third term, we were in a sense crowning a king. Investors were naturally worried, but $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 index grew to be worth $23,992 between 1940-1949.

• 1968: Lyndon Johnson had come into the presidency in 1963 after the assassination of John Kennedy, and was reelected in 1964 by one of the largest landslides in presidential political history. By 1968, his popularity in both the country and with his own party was waning to the point that he announced he would not seek the nomination for another term. The election became a microcosm of the turmoil in the country due to both

international and domestic issues. Some investors in 1968 were quoted in various publications as being so distressed, they worried if the U.S. was going to be in existence in 10 years. However, $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 index grew to be worth $14,240 between 1968-1977.

• 1980: By 1980, the U.S. was in an economic slump.

In lation was rampant and interest rates were reaching record highs. Jimmy Carter was the incumbent and running for re-election against Ronald Reagan.

Reagan was viewed with skepticism by many in the country as he was campaigning on a platform that went against the so-called economic experts of the

day. Many of them predicted the country’s demise if Reagan were elected.

“The country couldn’t afford voodoo economics,” was the rallying cry against him. Even so, $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 index grew to be worth $50,324 between 1980-1989.

An interesting note is that market performance does not seem to depend on what party is elected.

There have been 22 election years since the S&P 500 index began. Eighteen of those 22 years, or 82 percent, provided positive perfor ma nce.

W hen a Democrat was in o ice and a new Democrat was elected, the total return for the year averaged 11 percent. When a Democrat

was in o ice and a Republican was elected, the total return for the year averaged 13.2 percent.

Over the next few weeks, the political rhetoric will heat up even more than it is now. For investors, the prudent course is not to try and guess market swings based on political outcomes, but remain focused on their investment goals and use investments that have weathered all types of political environments. Republican, Democrat, markets; in the words of the Four Tops. “It’s the same old song.”

CHRIS COLE is a Chartered Wealth Advisor and vice president of Hilliard Lyons in Tupelo.

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“I haven’t been back since I left,” she said. “It’s been a long time ago.”

Through the years, however, she has sent her kids to visit relatives in China to have them connect with their cul-

tural roots. There, they submerged themselves in learning Chinese.

But now that her grandmother lives in Houston, Texas, and other relatives have moved to the U.S., those trips aren’t needed

anymore.

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When she has family time, Fraser said Andrew is good about getting the family outdoors, maybe to a hiking trail.

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“People open up their lives to me in ways that are amazing, to let me

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Topic: Business Basics. This seminar is designed to assist in preparing a business plan. The parts of the business plan are explained, i. e., industry research, description of company products and services, identifying target customer groups and a marketing plan. Financial components discussed are startup costs and preparation of a projected cash flow statement.Location: MSU Business Incubator Building, Thad Cochran Research, Technology & Economic Development Park.

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Burger King celebrated the grand opening of its new location at 3820 S. Eason Blvd. in Tupelo with a ribbon cutting. The original Home of the Whopper, Burger King’s commitment to premium ingredients, signature recipes and family-friendly dining experiences has defined its brand for more than 50 successful years. For more information about Burger King, visit bk.com or call (662) 841-0091.

Core Cycle & Outdoor celebrated the grand opening of its new location at 1697 N. Coley Road with a ribbon cutting. In addition to bicycles, Core Cycle & Outdoor offers a unique assortment of merchandise for the outdoor enthusiast including equipment for fly fishing, rock climbing, water sports and more. Contact Core Cycle & Outdoor on Facebook or call (662) 260-5266.

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In celebration of its new location at 1602 W. Main St. in Tupelo, Howie Chiropractic held a ribbon cutting. Howie Chiropractic offers affordable, convenient chiropractic care while finding and helping the body correct spinal subluxations – relieving pressure on the brain and spinal cord. To schedule an appointment with Howie Chiropractic or for more information, visit howiechiropractic.com.

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Sew Sassy celebrated its grand opening at 132 S. Industrial Road with a ribbon cutting.

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