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Vol 16, No. 3 • August 2016
Seamless Way to the Top By Nathan Weber If a person does what he or she is passionate about, they will never work a day in their, or so the old adage goes. For Sherry Miller, the passion she discovered as a young preteen became sewing. "I love to sew; it is a passion!" Miller said. "I have been sewing from an early age when my mom taught me to make my first dress around 10 or 12 years old." The current Bethel Sherry Miller Springs, Tenn. resident splits her time as a seamstress, currently sewing for Mo's Bows of Memphis, and owning two Memorial Garden cemeteries with her husband, Steve. Miller's time as a small business owner and independent seamstress divides up to about 30 to 40 hours per week sewing and designing apparel and 10 to 15 hours per week with the cemeteries. "I also work as a seamstress for other companies, in which one former client told Mo's Bows about my work and I have been working for them for the past four to five years," Miller said. "I make a lot of other things. My husband and I used to own our own sewing factory, where we made all kinds of apparel: curtains, drapes, diaper bags, and all other kinds of women's accessories." "I inherited the cemeteries from my dad. He loved them, and I am trying to carry on the family tradition," see MILLER pg 4 Return Address: P.O. Box 1292 Corinth, MS 38835
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Mo Knows Bows and Entrepreneurship By Nathan Weber Most kids dream of becoming an astronaut or fireman when they grow up. Not very often do children in elementary school find something they are interested in and follow that passion later in their professional lives, let alone start a successful business before they even get their driver's license. Fourteen year old Memphis native, Moziah Bridges, is not like most kids. Bridges is the mastermind and CEO behind Mo's Bows, a thriving bow tie company that sells products in various retail stores and through the company's website, www.mosbowsmemphis.com. Bridges can remember always gravitating towards design and fashion, harboring a passion that would establish his business. "When I rode my bike to go Moziah Bridges
meet up with friends at the playground, I used to dress up in a blue 3-piece suit," Bridges said. "I never wore normal type of attire for a little kid. I was always interested in looking and dressing more fashionable." Around nine years old, Bridges started designing his own bow ties with the help of his seamstress grandmother. He wore his new pieces to school and would barter with his classmates by selling his bow ties. "I would wear my ties to school, and people would ask where they came from," Bridges said. "I told them I made them myself and then word got around. I started selling my ties by exchanging them for a bag of chips with classmates, and now we've moved all the way up to selling my ties for $50." see BRIDGES pg 4
COMMISSION ON THE FUTURE OF ALCORN COUNTY - Helping to Bring a Brighter Future to the Community By Angela Rogalski Assessing and addressing the current and future needs and opportunities of Alcorn County is something that the non-profit Commission on the Future of Alcorn County has set a course to do each and every day. Amy Craven is the executive director of the Commission. Craven said the Commission was formed in 2010 by a group of citizens interested in helping facilitate a movement to strengthen the community for long-term growth and development. see ALCORN page 4
Commission on the Future of Alcorn County Executive Director, Amy Craven, and Chairman, Greg Williams