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Yarbrough has spent his lifetime making a difference under renowned McNairy By Lucy Weber County Sheriff Buford For 29 years, W. T. Yarbrough Pusser at age 30 after his kept Selmer safe. Army service. “I was the first black man to “I got home (from the walk the streets of Selmer as a Army) and they were all telling full-time police officer,” said me about this sheriff they had,” Yarbrough, who served from 1970 Yarbrough remembered. Soon to 1999 and watched his son after, Yarbrough met Michael Jones rise to the sheriff the become police chief lawman in Bolivar, Tenn. stopped him In reflecting for a traffic on his service, violation Yarbrough said: near “I had a job to Yarbrough’s do and I did it. home but I helped peodidn’t cite ple.” him. “He During his told me to years on go on the job, home,” Yarbrough Yarbrough said he said, adding always folthat he later lowed his said to his father’s father: “I told advice to Daddy, I do unto can’t beat others. ‘em so I’ll Before join joining W. T. Yarbrough ‘em.” the Yarbrough decided to apply at the Selmer force, Yarbrough first entered police department after Pusser told him law enforcement as a part-time deputy there was an opening and encouraged him to go for it. Return Address: P.O. Box 1292 Corinth, MS 38835 “He told me he’d give me a good recommendation.” Yarbrough worked the night shift, “the only shift I POSTAL PATRON wanted” throughout his See YARBROUGH pg 4
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Hall followed the paths of police and pastor to serve others By Lucy Weber John Hall’s career paths seemed destined as a 4-year-old playing with his friends. “When we played cowboys and Indians, I always chose sheriff,” said Hall. “We used to play church, and I always had to be the preacher. I felt ordained for two things.” Hall retired as a captain in the Corinth Police Department in 2014, after 28 years of service to the community. Ten years into his law enforcement career, he answered the call to ministry. “For me, one played into the other,” Hall said. “Both are there to serve mankind.” In addition to his duties ensuring the safety of Corinth and its residents, Hall served as the police chaplain, supporting officers and the community spiritually and emotionally. He said one of his best days see HALL pge 4
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Mitchell: A life of service to the community family "by respecting the people of By Lucy Weber the city," he said. "You've got to give For 26 years, Earnest Mitchell respect to get respect." proudly served the people of Mitchell has so many wonderful Corinth as a police officer, memories of serving the people of showing them respect and Corinth in all manners, but his best keeping them safe. memory is "traveling in the car Mitchell rose to the rank behind the buses with the Corinth of lieutenant in the Corinth Warrior Football Team. I love my Police Department. Before kids. Protecting them made my his retirement and during job worth getting up for every his years of service, he day." protected and assisted the Mitchell is a veteran. "When general public and mainI went into the military, I tained the public order. became an officer as well," he "I wanted to make a difsaid. ference in my community," Mitchell's life of service is one Mitchell said. he planned since childhood. "I And he did. have always wanted to be a policeMitchell made Corinth a man since I was growing better and safer place Lieutenant Earnest Mitchell up." to live and raise a
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Every person has their own characteristics and personality traits that make them unique. We are all human and share the same anatomy and physiology, but what separates us and determines our uniqueness is our individual personalities, likes and dislikes. Some individuals are introverts, while others dominate every conversation and social setting. Rock climbing is a fantastic adventure for some, while for others it is a treacherous endeavor that they would never attempt. Some people love broccoli, others detest it. So in a world that approximately 3 billion members of the human species call home, there exist 3 billion very different people. Just as we each possess different per-
Traits and Character of Love people prefer to show their sonalities, we each possess a love through words. Have you different capacity to love. ever known that person who Famed anthropologist always leaves you notes or Margaret Mead was once writes you kind messages ranasked when the first sign of domly. Maybe that is their civilization occurred in our way of species’ history. She said it saying, “I love you.” Next was a healed femur, or thigh is receiving or giving gifts. I bone, as it is commonly used to work called. She said with a lady a healed who was femur is constantly evidence "Being deeply loved by bringing that another someone gives you me little human had things she aided the strength, while loving would find injured persomeone deeply gives in a yard son and tendyou courage." sale. Just little ed to their -- Lao Tzu “happies” as I recovery. called them. I Perhaps the had a box full in my first demonstration of car. I never really undercompassion and love. stood why she gave them to While not a dramatic display me. I do now. Then there are of hugs and kisses, nonetheacts of service. Some people less it is a profound statement don’t express their love verof our ability to love in differbally, or even put it down on ent ways. 1 Corinthians 13 paper. Some people prefer to states, “If I speak with the do good deeds here and there. tongues of men or angels, I Know anybody like that? am only a resounding gong or Maybe now you know what a clanging cymbal. If I have they are saying. Quality time the gift of prophecy and can is yet another way some fathom all mysteries and all demonstrate their love. After knowledge, but do not have all, a person’s time is the most love, I am nothing.” valuable thing they can give Our capacity to love is peryou. So next time when that haps one of the greatest gifts co-worker or family member the Creator gave us. But we all love in different ways. And wants to just go out for coffee, take them up on it. Say “I love we show it in different ways. you” back. Lastly there is Author Gary Chapman wrote physical touch. Some people about the five languages of are huggers. While I certainly love. He says, “Our language of love describes how we give understand many would see that as invading your personal and receive love.” First there is Words of Affirmation. Some space, remember that may be
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1. What loving woman, a concubine of Saul, watched over the corpses of her slaughtered children, protecting them from birds and animals? 2. Though her profession was condemned by an official decree of King Saul, the king disguised himself in order to get help from her. Who was she? 3. What Persian queen upset the king and his counselors by refusing to appear before them at their drunken banquet? 4. What dancer so enchanted Herod that he offered her anything she wished? 5. Who was turned into a pillar of salt? 6. What king of Judah was Abi the wife of? 7. What sister of David had the same name as one David's wives? 8. What woman was given as a wife after her future husband brought in two hundred Philistine foreskins as a gift to her father? 9. Who offered a bottle of milk to an enemy soldier and then killed him? 10. After Even, who is the first woman mentioned in the Bible? 11. What Old Testament woman had children named L-ruhaman, Lo=ammi, and Jezreel? 12. What was Saul's wife name? 13. What wife of David was also given as a wife to a man named Phalti? 14. What woman of Corinth had a household that Paul described as being full of strife among Christian leaders? 15. What woman was, in Ezekiel, used as a symbol of wicked Jerusalem? 16. What woman with a cumbersome name was the Hittite wife of Esau? 17. Who is the only woman mentioned in Paul's letter to Philemon? 18. What Egyptian woman was the wife of Joseph? 19. Who was the mother of the Levitical priesthood? 20. What king of Judah was the husband of Azubah? Send in your answers to the following Bible Trivia Questions and take a chance at winning a complimentary bible from the Community News Flash. Random drawing will be held monthly
January Answers 1. The Phillippian jailor (Acts 16:29) 2. Gideon (Judges 7:16-21) 3. The new Jerusalem (Revelation 22:5) 4. A lost coin (Luke 15:8) 5. The Gadarene demoniac (Mark 5:3-4) 6. Rehab the harlot (Joshua 2:15-19) 7. Solomon (2 Chronicles 3:16) 8. Belshazzar (Daniel 5:29) 9. Midianites (Judges 8:26) 10. Peter (Acts 12:6-7) 11. Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 39:7) 12. Tamar (Genesis 38:28) 13. Pharaoh (Genesis 41:42) 14. Samson (Judges 16:6-9) 15. Jeremiah (40:1) 16. Satan (Revelation 20:1-2) 17. Paul (Acts 28:20) 18. Aaron (Exodus 28:14) 19. The servants of Ben-hadad (I Kings 20:31) 20. Paul (Acts 27:30-32)
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YARBROUGH..... from page 1 career. During the day, he drove a school bus while he and his now-late wife of 46 years raised their two boys. During his years, Yarbrough made a difference in so many lives, simply saying “I helped people.” “I remember a wreck at the city limits of Selmer. I was getting ready to go home at the end of my shift,” he said. A mail truck and larger truck collided and the fire was raging when Yarbrough arrived and saw a woman trapped in the smaller truck. “I got her out,” he said. He recalled an instance of arriving at a club in his police vehicle and seeing a man outside drinking. “I told him to stop drinking and said if I stop you, I have to arrest you.” Twenty minutes
HALL...from page 1 in the department was the day he was asked to serve as the police chaplain. Hall is the first in his family to answer the call of duty to serve and protect through law enforcement, but he has influenced relatives, a tradition he is proud of. “After I became a police officer, my nephew became an officer, and my greatnephew is serving now in Selma, Ala.” Growing up in Selma, Hall said the way that law enforcement treated African Americans in the community left a bad taste in his mouth and he was determined to be a beacon for others. “I wanted my service to be as someone people could turn to when they needed help. I wanted to offer that to my fellow man. “As long as I can remember, I enjoyed helping people. I wanted to make some small difference. I hope the difference I made was in the friends I made, the people I helped and being in service to our community,” Hall said about his police career. Hall opened the doors to his Christian Life Church in 2011, and he has served his congregation at 1603 Third St. full time since his retirement from law enforcement. When retirement was approaching, Hall said he built the church out of his own pocket with others offering donations also.
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For Hall, there are parallels to serving in both law enforcement and the ministry. “Both are there to serve and to meet whatever needs there are to meet for others,” he said. “All police officers pray. Christ put me on the front line.” When the Corinth Police Department had its own jail, Hall would hold church services there on Sundays. He would skip his lunch breaks during the week so he could use that time to hold the services when he worked every other Sunday. Hall continues to serve the Police Department as its volunteer chaplain since retirement. He said he misses the daily fellowship with other officers and the opportunities to minister to co-workers. Hall said he appreciates the numerous times that he sees people he met on the job who have gotten out of jail and turned their lives around because of how he treated them or how he demonstrated God’s grace. No matter where he’s serving – as Captain or Reverend, although he prefers John – Hall said: “It’s an honor.”
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You stand back and listen.” Another later, Yarbrough saw a car weaving all thing Yarbrough stressed: “I told him to over the road so he stopped the car to get all the law enforcement training you find the man from the club. can. Every time they come up with a “I told him I would have to arrest class – I don’t care what it is – you go.” him. I put the cuffs of him,” Yarbrough Yarbrough said he raised his sons by said, recalling that the man proceeded the code: “You know the law. You obey to call him every horrible name there the law.” was. “He got in my car Yarbrough is 81 and I turned Chief Michael Jones followed in his years old, but him over father, W.T. Yarbrough, Bolivar TN, footsteps. he’s quick to to the Chief Jones has spent 30 years in law enforcement. jokingly jailer. His life of service as an officer has had a positive impact on the tell folks Two lives of many, thus causing them to come to him to let him know he is 18 or that he changed the path down which they were headed. and on his three next birthday he weeks later, will be 28. he saw me on the While he may have retired street. He stuck out his hand from the police force, he hasn’t retired to shake mine and said he didn’t drink from much else. He has a lawn mainteno more. I said I appreciate your stopnance service and owns a funeral home. ping.” He remembers as a child telling his That calm manner was the standard mother that he wanted to be a policeYarbrough set throughout his career. “I man and also an undertaker because he would tell them I didn’t break the law, was awed by a shiny hearse. Today,he you did and now you’ve got to go to jail. They would decide to go with me.” takes great pride in describing the hearse his funeral home has – “It shines Yarbrough offered advice to his son so that you can look at yourself in it.” when Jones said he was joining the police department. “Be nice to folks.
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Don’t Be Blue If You See The Blue Lights Of Chief Blue
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McNairy County Sheriff, Dameon L. Blue, Sr. ventured in law enforcement law enforcement because he had an overactive protective nature. Being the "young man of the house", he developed a sense of protection over my family. That provided a natural transition into law enforcement. He believed the largest difference he has been able to make is creating the humanity behind the badge. Chief Blue is the first African American police chief of the Sheriff’s Department of Bethel Springs,
TN. I believe the largest difference he has been able to make is creating the humanity behind the badge. He enjoys letting the community know that cops are human as well. “We are just get paid to do a job, we
are fathers, we are mothers, we are coaches, we are church members, we are the community as well , Chief Blue.” Having served as Bethel Springs Police Department/Police Chief/5yrs and having worked McNairy County Sheriff's Department/Deputy/4yrs his best memory is the ticket I didn't write. According to Chief Blue he pulled over a car over for a child restraint device violation. The driver was a single mother. She was on her way to a job interview and didn't realize her child unstrapped themselves. The mom started crying because she couldn't afford the citation; she was doing all she could to maintain it as a single Mom. Additionally, the ticket would have prevented her from employment. He let her go with a warning. She found me later & thanked me. In addition to overseeing all managerial level responsibilities, officer training , general departmental instructor, he serves as radar & lidar Instructor, DARE Instructor, School Resource Officer, Sex Offender Compliance Officer.
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Tony Westbrooks Selmer police Department Sergeant Law enforcement has always been Sergeant Tony’s dream since he was 10 years old. He attributes the way he conducts himself as an officer of the law to what he learned growing up –“I learned a long time ago it's not how people treat you; but how you treat them. It’s not all about the academics that I was taught in the Police Academy. It’s about what is in your heart and the way you were raised up and the impact from that alone will make a world of difference. It’s very simple- just treat everyone like you want to be treated.” Westbrooks said a memorable moment for him as an officer was when he failed a test at the Police Academy and was sent home. Mr. Whittington, the mayor at the time, had enough faith and believed in him by giving him another chance by not terminating him but sent him back to the Police Academy and he graduated with a score of 96 on the final test. Westbrooks added, “And there’s another memorable moment at work that’s very important to me. On the day of my mother’s funeral service, Mayor John Smith and Police Chief Kim Holly closed the department and everyone came and was there for me and my family, even the McNairy Sheriff’s Department.”
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Verona chief continues work to improve his department and help community By Lucy Weber Verona Police Chief Marsenio Nunn is a leader with a strong Christian faith who works to make his community safe for all residents. In his first year on the job, Nunn has overseen a department that has added officers and improved equipment and done outreach in the community to build good relationships. “I’ve been busy getting the Police Department up to speed. I want the Verona Police Department to be well respected and looked up to,” he said. “My intention is to make the city a safe, friendly environment.” Nunn was named police chief in January 2020 at age 26. He came to the Verona department in March 2019 from the Booneville Police Department where he was a patrol sergeant. Nunn, who serves on his church’s Board of Deacons, said faith plays a role in his job as chief. “My faith is what has got me to this point in life,” he said, quoting Romans 8:28, “knowing that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. “I believe that keeping my faith in God is what has made me the man I am today and the leader I am today.” As the new police chief, Nunn met challenges right away. “At first, the department was short staffed but now we are at full strength. We got three new vehicles with car cameras and body cameras. Every officer has received new vests.
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“The mayor and board are supportive of the Police Department and they want to make sure I have the staff and equipment we need.” Also, during 2020 Nunn updated the department’s use of
force policy. “That’s important so the officers will have guidelines to go by to protect themselves and the citizens.” This year, Nunn said he wants to update the computer software that supports the department’s work both in the office and in police vehicles. Before he moved into the leadership, the perception was Verona had a crime problem. However, that negative perception is now a more positive image as the crime rate continues to go down, he said. “Positive things are going on here.” To strengthen community ties, the Police Department sponsored a Halloween drive-thru in October to hand out candy and donated toys at Christmas to Verona Elementary. The department created a calendar for 2021 with pictures of officers to give to businesses so they will know who are the people ensuring the safety of the town. In 2021, Nunn intends to get the department more involved in the community. “Our community is adapting to the Police Department. They are starting to trust our officers to protect the city of Verona.” While a large part of being a police chief is on the administrative side, Nunn said he is and will continue to be an active, hands-on chief in all aspects of the department. “I like to be on the streets, being seen by our citizens.” Nunn is the first in his family to enter the field of law enforcement. Growing up in Sunflower, which had a high crime rate, Nunn said he wanted to make a difference. “I wanted to show I could make something of myself.”
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Officer Friendly is on the job in Corinth ing to those in all situations and letting By Lucy Weber them know he and the entire police There’s a good chance that department are their friends and a most every kid in Corinth place they can turn to. He was a knows Officer Fred Washington. frequent guest at the Boys & Girls He’s the Officer Friendly of Club and the Easom Center, the Corinth Police Department among others, doing activities and for a reason. During his six talking with children. “I’d do a lot years with the department, he of things with them so they hands out candy and teddy could interact with a bears to children who police officer,” he need a friend, stops said, to make sure by daycares and children knew Corinth Head that the police Start to visit, are here to drops in at the help them. Boys & Girls Since Club to offer January, a friendly he’s now smile or patrolling stops during all areas of his patrols on the city but the streets to he’s still offer an encourworking for aging word to the betterment the children out of children in playing. Corinth. He contin“I just love kids,” ues to make speechsaid the father of two es on behalf of the sons, ages 21 and 11. children and to be a Named the Corinth good example for Police Department’s those who want to go Officer of the Year in 2020, Officer Fred Washington into law enforcement. Washington sees his duty Outside his patrol car, to protect and serve he continues his good work through his while building good relationships place on the board of the Boys & Girls between the community and law Club. “I get to be around them and enforcement. cheer them on,” he said. Growing up in Tupelo, Washington’s Washington enjoys his job. “I get to early job was to deliver medicine for a local pharmacy. A Tupelo police officer, interact with different people and meet new people every day.” who worked as a security guard at the To raise money for local children’s store during off hours, offered organization and to continue to build Washington a ride-along on his police relationships between the department beat. “I had so much fun that I haven’t and the community, Washington in looked back since,” he said. 2019 organized the first annual policeHe started his law enforcement men’s Charity Ball, that was a big succareer working for the Mississippi cess. The coronavirus pandemic meant Department of Corrections in 2005. He there was no ball last year, but moved on to serve as assistant police Washington said he plans to go forward chief in Nettleton. Six years ago, a with the next one as soon as it’s possifriend in the Corinth department talked ble. to him about joining the department “I want to do it again. I have busihere. nesses still asking to donate,” he said. “I’ve loved it since I’ve been here,” Washington said he wants to continWashington said. ue “making sure everyone is safe in this For the past four years, Washington community” until his retirement. patrolled the south end of the city and worked with children in the area, tend-
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Boyd approaches policing at a Ten Speed pace Jerry Boyd has been an officer with the Mississippi Highway Patrol 23 years and 14 years with the Corinth Police Department. He serves as Lieutenant at the police department and supervises patrolmen and enforces all the laws for the city of Corinth. Boyd said he became a police officer because he wanted to serve the public, “I’ve been a public servant to the state of Mississippi and the citizens of Corinth. I’ve made sure people are safe in their homes, communities and on the high-
way.” Lt. Boyd recalls when he was a young trooper, he stopped a fancy Lincoln going 74 miles an hour. An older man got out the car and said, “I’m George Jones”. Boyd said the gentleman was very nice and polite, but he had to write him a ticket for speeding anyway. “I didn’t know who George Jones was until I was watching tv one day and learned he won the Country Music Award that same year. I then realized I wrote a speeding ticket to one of the most famous country music stars and legend", recalled Boyd. Lieutenant Jerry Boyd
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Are Organic Foods Really Better? Many consumers are confused about the nutritional quality of organics versus conventionally grown foods. The American Academy of Pediatrics recently weighed in on the importance of organic food for children, setting off a firestorm. The AAP released a report in October stating that: "Current evidence does not support any meaningful nutritional benefits or deficits from eating organic compared with conventionally grown foods, and there are no well-powered human studies that directly demonstrate health benefits or disease protection as a result of consuming an organic diet." It appears that the confusion in the minds of many consumers about the nutritional benefits of organics is linked to the use, or lack thereof, of pesticides. Conventional food producers argue that pesticide residue is reduced substantially by routine and safe food handling practices such as washing, peeling and cooking, and that there is no significant difference in the nutritional quality of organic and conventionally grown foods.
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produce immediately and on-site, thereby increasing both quality and preservation of nutrients. In a study published in the "Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture" in 2007, University of California-Davis researchers reviewed the variable nutrient content of fresh, frozen and canned vegetables and fruits. Frozen spinach goes through a flash-freezing process that preserves it within hours after it leaves the soil, so it retains more of its vitamin C content than fresh spinach. Both forms of spinach (fresh
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1/2 (8-ounce) package shredded ColbyMonterey Jack cheese 1 cup small curd cottage cheese 1/2 (10-ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained 1 (4-ounce) can chopped green chilies 1/4 cup melted butter 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Whisk flour, baking powder, poultry seasoning, salt, pepper and nutmeg together in a small bowl and set aside. 2. Beat eggs in a mixing bowl until smooth. Stir flour mixture into the eggs until no lumps remain. Stir in Colby-Monterey Jack cheese, cottage cheese, spinach, green chiles and melted butter until evenly blended. 3. Spray a 9-inch pie pan with non-stick cooking spray. Spread the quiche mixture evenly into pan. Bake quiche in preheated oven for 15 minutes at 400 F, then reduce temperature to 350 F. Continue baking until the quiche is lightly browned and a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Makes one (9-inch) quiche.
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Laughter = Stress Relief mones and increases immune cells It's fun to share a good laugh, and infection-fighting but did you know it can antibodies, therefore improve your overall enhancing your chalhealth? Learning how lenge to disease. to use the powerful Laughter activates benefits of laughter the delivery of endorand humor could sigphins, the body's nificantly reduce your organic feel-good stress level. chemicals. Endorphins Some benefits of boosts a total feeling of laughter are that it draws well-being and can even people together in ways momentarily relieve pain. that ignite healthy physical Laughter shields the heart. and emotional changes in the Laughter improves body. Laughter improves the role of blood and strengthens your vessels and immune system, increases blood enhances mood, flow, which can reduces pain, and help safeguard you safeguards you from against a the harmful April Bailey, Clinical Therapist heart attack effects of and other stress. cardiovascular complications. Nothing works more rapidly or Laughter burns calories. Okay, more consistently to bring your so it's no replacement for going to mind and body back into balance the gym, but one study discovered than a good laugh. Humor eases that laughing for 10 to 15 minutes a your burdens, stimulates hope, conday can burn roughly 40 calories nects you to others, and keeps you grounded, centered, and alert. It also which could be enough to lose three or four pounds over the span of a helps you release anger and forgive year. sooner. Laughter alleviates anger's heavy With so much ability to repair load. Nothing counteracts anger and and rejuvenate, the ability to laugh easily and frequently is a wonderful conflict faster than a shared laugh. Looking at the funny side can put source for overcoming problems, problems into view and allow you improving your relationships, and to move on from conflicts without strengthening both physical and holding onto hostility or bitterness. emotional health. Best of all, this Laughter may perhaps even help invaluable medicine is enjoyable, you to live longer. Studies have free of charge, and easy-going. found that people with a great sense As children, we would laugh at of humor live longer than those who least a hundred times a day, but as don't laugh as much. The difference adults, life tends to be more serious was especially significant for those and laughter more uncommon. But by taking out more opportunities for fighting cancer. All in all laughter is the best humor and laughter, you can medicine. So go ahead and give it a increase your emotional health, try! Turn the corners of your mouth strengthen your relationships, find up into a smile and then give a greater happiness, and still add laugh, even if it feels a little forced. years to your life. Once you've had your giggle, take Laughter is excellent for your note of how you're feeling. Are your health. Laughter relaxes the entire muscles a little less tight? Do you body. A good, hearty laugh relieves feel extra comfortable or cheerful? physical anxiety and stress, which That's the natural phenomenon of allows your muscles to be relaxed laughing at its best. So, it's true: for up to 45 minutes after. laughter is strong medicine! Laughter improves the immune system. Laughter reduces stress hor-
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How Well Do You Know Your Partner? We have 28 Trivia Questions To Test Your Knowledge they share with a parent? 14. Of all the ways there are to die, which does your partner fear the most? 15. What type of music does your partner secretly like? What's a musical taste they have that most people wouldn't know they enjoy? 16. What does your partner typically look forward to most about the weekend? 1. What’s your partner’s least favorite body part? 2. When your partner was a child, what did they want to be when they grew up?
17. Who is someone your partner considers to be a mentor, or who has been a strong positive influence on their professional development?
3. Name a country your partner would love to visit.
18. How did your partner spend their summers as a child?
4. Did your partner have a nickname as a child? What was it? Bonus point: Did they like the nickname? Why?
19. What are your partner's favorite and least favorite aspects of their work?
5. Which of your partner's aunts or uncles are they closest to? [Skip if not applicable]
20. Does your partner consider themselves more like their mother or their father in terms of personality? In what way?
6. What disappointment or rejection from your partner’s past still stings? 7. Which of your partner's achievements are they most proud of? 8. What is your partner’s least favorite housework task? 9. Name two of your partner's grandparents. Bonus point: Can you name all their grandparents?
21. What purchase is your partner currently considering? What's on their wish list? 22. What is your partners’ favorite candy bar? 23. Who would your partner like to see live in concert? 24. Who is your partner’s closest friend? Why are they close to them?
10. Outside of their career, what's something your partner considers themselves naturally talented at?
25. What is one your partner’s favorite things to do?
11. What is your partner's favorite smell?
26. What is your partner’s favorite place to go out for breakfast, lunch or dinner?
12. What is your partner’s favorite flavor of ice cream?
27. What is your partner’s favorite color?
13. What is a personality trait your partner dislikes about themselves, and that
28. What is your partner’s favorite bible verse?
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Little Known Black History Fact February is our 28-day time to shine and I fully intend to make the most of it. I love Harriet Tubman, I adore Frederick Douglass, but there is so much more to Black history than them, the Emancipation Proclamation, and sports trivia. So here you go — impress your friends with this more wellrounded list of facts about Black-dom. 1. Cathay Williams was the one and only female Buffalo Soldier, posing as a man named William Cathay to enlist in the 38th infantry in 1866. She served for two years before a doctor discovered that she was a woman, leading to her discharge. 2. Both Condoleezza Rice and Martin Luther King, Jr. started college when they were just 15 years old. She studied political science at the University of Denver; he majored in sociology at Morehouse College in Atlanta. 3. Journalist Ida Wells-Barnett refused to give up her railcar seat for a white man in 1884, and bit a conductor on the hand when he tried to force her. She was dragged off the train. She sued the railroad and initially won, but the decision was overturned. 4. In 2008, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt became the first man to ever set three world records in a single Olympic games. 5. The media made the Black Panthers notorious for their Afros, dark apparel, and willingness for armed self-defense,
but their manifesto for change launched programs that benefited Black communities nationwide, like free dental care, breakfast for low-income children, even drama classes. 6. Lincoln University in Pennsylvania is the first institution of higher education founded for African-Americans. It paved the way for the 104 other historically Black colleges, which have produced distinguished alums like Thurgood Marshall, Spike Lee, and the almighty Oprah. 7. Black ingenuity helped devise creative — and effective — plans to escape enslavement. In 1848, husband-and-wife team William and Ellen Craft made it to the North, and eventually England, when she dressed as a white man and he posed as one of her slaves. A year later, Henry “Box” Brown literally mailed himself to freedom in a shipping box during a 27-hour trip from Richmond to Philadelphia. 8. Liberia was founded and colonized by expatriates. The West African country is one of two sovereign states in the world started as a colony for ex-slaves and marginalized Black people. Sierra Leone is the other. 9. Jesse Jackson does more than make up words: he negotiated the release of Lt. Robert O. Goodman, Jr., a Black pilot who had been shot down over Syria and taken hostage in 1983. 10. Before he was a blockbuster actor, Will Smith was The Fresh Prince and, along with partner Jazzy Jeff, won the firstever Grammy for Best Rap Performance. They boycotted the awards because the category was barred from television. 11. The hair brush, lawn mower, cellphone, refrigerator, and — thank heavens — the air conditioner were all the fruits of African-American inventors’ creative laboring. 12. Baseball legend Jackie Robinson had an older brother,
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Matthew Robinson, who was also a star athlete in his own right. He won a silver medal in the 200-yard dash in the 1936 Olympics — coming in second to Jesse Owens. 13. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first Black major-party presidential candidate survived three assassination attempts during her 1972 campaign. 14. Eatonville, Florida, the childhood home of writer and cultural anthropologist (and my all-time favorite author!) Zora Neale Hurston, is also the first town in the country to be incorporated by African-Americans. 15. in 1948, multitalented actor, singer, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson was considered for a U.S. vice presidential spot on Henry A. Wallace's Progressive Party ticket. 16. The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, snagged several Guinness World Records, including highest annual earnings for a pop star, best-selling album of all time for his classic, Thriller, and most Grammy Awards won in a year (he took home 8). Incidentally, Beyonce holds that record for the ladies — she took home six in 2010. 17. Tice Davids, a runaway slave from Kentucky, was the inspiration for the first usage of the term “Underground Railroad.” When he swam across the Ohio River to freedom, his former owner assumed he’d drowned and told the local paper if Davids had escaped, he must have traveled on "an underground railroad." (Davids actually made it alive and well.) 18. In 1739, the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina became the largest slave revolt in colonial America — some of the men who participated had been soldiers in Africa before being sold into slavery.
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