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Man handed DUI in fatal wreck just before pardon By Holbrook Mohr The Associated Press
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BRANDON — Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and parole officials said Saturday that they didn’t know a man was charged with DUI after a fatal wreck that happened between the time he applied for a pardon and the time Barbour granted it. The Parole Board investigated Harry Bostick’s appli-
cation for pardon from a felony DUI and sent a favorable recommendation to Barbour on Sept. 30. The crash Haley happened the Barbour next month, and Barbour signed the pardon two months later on Jan. 10.
Parole Board Chairwoman Shannon Warnock and Barbour’s spokeswoman said Saturday they didn’t know about Bostick’s most recent DUI charge or the wreck because it happened after officials investigated the pardon request. The accident killed 18-yearold Charity Smith. Bostick is charged with DUI, but not with causing her death. “The arrest did not result
in any notification to the Parole Board or to the governor’s office,” Warnock said Saturday. Neither the teen’s parents nor Bostick could be reached Saturday by The Associated Press. The pardon won’t wipe out the new DUI charge, and it’s not yet known if Bostick will face more charges related to the crash. A former U.S. attorney was
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TODAY IN HISTORY 1917: Congress passes, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, an immigration act severely curtailing the influx of Asians. 1922: The first edition of Reader’s Digest s published. 1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes increasing the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices; critics accuse Roosevelt of attempting to “pack” the nation’s highest court. (The proposal failed in Congress.) 1971: Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell step onto the surface of the moon in the first of two lunar excursions. 2007: President George W. Bush unveils a $2.9 trillion budget that proposes a big spending increase for the Pentagon while pinching domestic programs. 2007: NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak is arrested in Orlando, Fla., accused of trying to kidnap a perceived rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot.
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among those supporting Bostick’s pardon. People who supported Bostick’s pardon said he was a former IRS investigator whose life spiraled out of control after his son died in a house fire and he went through a divorce. They said he had been sober and was turning his life around. Bostick was sentenced in
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Dennis Dickson of Beaumont, Texas, looks at the Mississippi African American Monument Design Maquette on display at the the Vicksburg National Military Park visitors center Saturday.
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With the same stubbornness and determination in his face as the animal he’s freeing, the shirtless black soldier gazes into the long, tired face of the mule he just uncollared. They have too much in common. They are free to face the world, but war and countless struggles have left them dirty, gaunt and tired. Through their weariness, there’s a sense of freedom that transcends and seems to radiate
The visitors center at the Vicksburg National Military Park is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. daily. Admission is $8 per vehicle. from every inch of the small bonze sculpture in the visitors center of Vicksburg National Military Park. The statue, entitled Mugwump, is part of artist J. Kim Sessums’ private collection on loan the park for Black History Month,
ranger Dr. David Slay said. Sessums is the Brookhaven artist who designed the African American Monument at the park. The month-long Sessums exhibit also includes several realistic portraits of U.S. Colored Troops from the Civil War era, the original plaster casts of the faces of the men in the monument and several weathered, battle-weary reinterpretations of those same faces. “It’s quite a coups for us to have that,” Slay said. “It’s really quite See History, Page A8.
JACKSON — People who receive public assistance would be subject to random testing for drugs or nicotine and would have to perform community service under new requirements being considered by Mississippi lawmakers. Officials say some ideas are already being carried out, while others could be blocked by federal regulations. One bill would require people on public assistance to do 20 hours a week of community service. Another says food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, could be spent only on healthful foods or beverages. The Mississippi Department of Human Services says, however, that the state can’t put such restrictions on SNAP, which is fully funded by federal dollars. Other bills propose random drug testing of people applying for public aid. A federal judge last fall issued a temporary injunction blocking Florida’s 2011 law that required drug testing as a condition for receiving welfare. The Mississippi DHS already requires adult welfare recipients who are capable of working to perform 20 or 40 hours a week of work, school or community service, said Charlie Smith, a former See Welfare, Page A8.
Corps hires city native to guide newcomers By Pamela Hitchins phitchins@vicksburgpost.com Nathan Beane needed a place to live when he moved to Vicksburg in 2011, not just for himself and his wife, but also for his bees. Beane, a research forester, found his answers from Vicksburg native Logan Peterson Peay. “Logan was a real lifesaver by not only helping us find a temporary apartment to rent and showing us around the town, but also helping to secure a safe haven for all of
my beehives to stay until we found a home,” Beane said in an e-mail from Fort Knox, where he was conducting research. “Logan found me a place to keep the hives on land that her sister owned. It was a very nice thing for her to do for us.” Beane moved from Pennsylvania in December 2010, accepting a position with the Environmental Laboratory of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center on Halls Ferry
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Dr. Peggy B. Wright, assistant director of Human Capital at ERDC, left, listens to Logan Peterson Peay telling about her new job.
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11 injured in ‘human gridlock’ at Super Bowl concert INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Overwhelming “human gridlock” in Indianapolis’ Super Bowl Village is causing police to rethink crowd control before the game. Eleven people were injured Friday night as an estimated 50,000 people flooded downtown streets for a free outdoor concert by the band LMFAO. Two other people were injured Friday separate from the concert-going group. Indianap-
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney cruised to victory in the Nevada caucuses Saturday night, notching a second straight triumph over a field of rivals suddenly struggling to keep pace. The former Massachusetts governor held a double-digit lead over his nearest pursuer as the totals mounted in a state where fellow Mormons accounted for roughly a quarter of all caucus-goers. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul vied for a distant second. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum trailed. Returns from 12 of 17 counties showed Romney with 41 percent support, Gingrich with 25 percent, Paul with 22 percent and Santorum with 13 percent. Yet to report its results was Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and often accounts for half or more of the votes in a statewide election. Romney’s victory capped
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a week that began with his double-digit win in the Florida primary. That contest was as intense as Nevada’s caucuses were sedate — so quiet they produced no debates. A total of 28 Republican National Convention delegates were at stake in caucuses held across a sprawling state that drew little attention in the nominating campaign but figures to be a fierce battleground in the fall between the winner of the GOP nomination and Democrat President Barack Obama. The state’s unemployment rate was measured at 12.6 percent in December, the worst in the country. According to the AP count, Romney began the day with 87 of the 1,144 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination. Gingrich had 26, Santorum 14 and Paul 4. Preliminary results of a poll of Nevada Republicans entering their caucuses showed that nearly half said the most important consideration in
their decision was a candidate’s ability to defeat Obama this fall, a finding in line with other states. About one-quarter of those surveyed said they are Mormon, roughly the same as in 2008, when Romney won with more than a majority. The entrance poll was conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press at 25 randomly selected caucus sites. It included 1,553 interviews and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. From Nevada, the calendar turns to caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a nonbinding primary in Missouri on Tuesday. Maine caucuses end next Saturday, and the next seriously contested states are expected to be primaries in Michigan and Arizona on Feb. 28. Nevada caucuses, coming four days after the Florida primary, meant little time for intense campaigning.
YORBA LINDA, Calif. — A 24-year-old who spent more than three months in jail on charges of murdering his mother and brother was a free man Saturday, a day after prosecutors said they would instead charge a high school friend accused in a string of serial killings. Eder Herrera was released from jail Friday night after forensic analysis showed a spot found in his vehicle that appeared to be blood turned out not to be, and authorities encountered DNA evidence linking Herrera’s former schoolmate Itzcoatl Ocampo to the gory October stabbing deaths. Now, prosecutors in suburban Orange County plan to charge Ocampo, a 23-year-old former Marine, with the murders of Herrera’s 34-year-old brother Juan and 53-year-old mother Raquel Estrada in the family’s rented three-bedroom house on a quiet residential cul-de-sac in upscale Yorba Linda.
Marine wife dies in blast COLEVILLE, Calif. — The person killed in a propane gas explosion outside a remote Northern California training base was the wife of a U.S. Marine, and the two people seriously injured were a Navy corpsman and his wife, military officials said on Saturday. The officials did not release the victims’ names, saying they were still in the process of contacting next of kin. The explosion around 9 p.m. Friday occurred at a housing unit in the Mono County town of Coleville for the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, where Marines train for mountain operations.
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Mushroom pickers found after 6 days PORTLAND, Ore. — A family of three huddled on the edge of an old-growth Oregon forest for six days, lost and cold, unable to signal search helicopters flying low and slow overhead. Without food, water or even warm clothing, Belinda and Daniel Conne, along with their 25-year-old son, Michael, survived by drinking water from streams and taking shelter in a hollowedout tree. On Saturday, they managed to crawl to a clearing, where a search helicopter spotted them several miles outside the community of Gold Beach, roughly 330 miles south-southwest of Portland. “It’s a miracle, really,” Sheriff John Bishop said. The three were airlifted to a Gold Beach hospital, where Bishop spoke with them at an emergency room. He said the Connes told him they could see search helicopters just a few hundred feet above them while they were lost but had nothing to signal them with through the thick, coastal forest vegetation. Bishop said Daniel Conne suffered a back injury, Belinda Conne had hypothermia, and their son had a sprained foot and minor frostbite. “They just got turned around,” Bishop said.
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Iran launches new military exercises Threats target ‘hostile’ Europe TEHRAN, Iran — Iran began ground military exercises Saturday and defiantly warned that it could cut off oil exports to “hostile” European nations as tensions rise over suggestions that military strikes are an increasing possibility if sanctions fail to rein in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Tehran has stepped up its rhetoric as international pressure mounts over allegations that it is seeking to develop atomic weapons, a charge it denies. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued stern warnings against any possible U.S. or Israeli attacks against Tehran’s nuclear facilities. Western forces also have boosted their naval presence in the Gulf led by the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. The new military maneuvers came weeks after Iran rolled out its troops and arsenals in an unprecedented display of military readiness, with 10 days of naval maneuvers that included the first threats to block Gulf oil tankers in early January. Ground forces also were sent on winter war games — against what a Tehran military spokesman called a “hypothetical enemy” — with U.S. forces just over the border in Afghanistan. Plans for new Iranian naval g
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Tens of thousands rally against Putin MOSCOW — Their frozen breath rising in the brutally frigid air, tens of thousands of protesters marched through downtown Moscow on Saturday to keep up the pressure on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin one month before a presidential election that could extend his rule for six more years. The protesters have few illusions that they can drive Putin from power now, but for the first time in years Russians are challenging his control and demanding that their voices be heard. Wrapped in furs or dressed for the ski slope, as many as 120,000 people turned out for
the third and perhaps largest mass demonstration since Putin’s party won a parliamentary election Dec. 4 with the help of what appeared to be widespread fraud. The election, following Putin’s presumptuous decision in September to reclaim the presidency, was the last straw for Russians increasingly unhappy with the creeping authoritarianism during his 12-year rule. The deep freeze that has settled over the Russian capital threatened to keep many away on Saturday, when temperatures dropping to minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. An anti-Putin protest also took place in St. Petersburg on Saturday, drawing 5,000 people, and smaller rallies were held in several dozen other cities across Russia. A separate rally in Moscow in support of Putin drew no more than 20,000 people. Most of them were teachers, municipal workers, employees of state-owned companies or trade union activists, who had come with coworkers on buses provided by their employers. Many clearly had been drinking.
Masked gunman kills nine in Mexico City MEXICO CITY — A
masked man opened fire on a band playing popular norteno music Saturday in a Chihuahua city dance hall, killing five musicians, four customers and injuring 10 others. Chihuahua prosecutors spokesman Carlos Gonzalez said the attack appeared to target members of the La Quinta Banda group but the motive behind the early morning shooting wasn’t clear. The suspect, a short man wearing a gray sweatshirt, fired about 40 times with a high-caliber weapon in the Far West disco. Norteno singers in Mexico have been targeted before, apparently for getting involved with drug cartels, which pay them to compose narcocorridos, or ballads that glorify drug lords. In 2010, popular norteno singer Sergio Vega was shot dead as he road in his red Cadillac in Sinaloa, a state that has produced many of Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpins. Another Norteno singer killed was Valentin Elizalde, “El Gallo de Oro,” who was shot to death along with his manager and driver in 2006 following a performance in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas.
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The legacy of the South as it evolved from an agrarian economy in the last century was to compete for industrial jobs primarily by offering cheap labor.
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State of the City Where are the specifics? Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield on Tuesday laid out his vision for the future. Many of his points were valid, but the lack of specifics on many others is a head-scratcher. He wants to give Civil Service employees an across-the-board 50 cents per hour raise, but did not say from where the $208,000 the raises would cost would come. Budget surpluses, he said, are over $1 million for the last three years, but again he would not elaborate because audits as far back as 2008 have yet to be completed. Initial numbers on surpluses over the three years, provided by city accountant Doug Whittington, add up to about $34,000. Will audits show $966,000 in surplus? We are elated that the Washington Street bridge at Clark Street is nearly complete, even if it took nearly eight months longer than originally projected. Much of the funding for the bridge came
from a fund earmarked for a proposed recreation complex on Fisher Ferry Road. The Fisher Ferry plans have all but been abandoned, though more than $2 million in city tax money has been invested in that property. Winfield will seek to have taxes on restaurants and bars raised to fund a proposed complex somewhere in north Vicksburg. This will be the third grand plan for recreation in the city since 2003, and as of now games are still being played at aging Halls Ferry Park. Winfield pledged garbage collection fees will decrease in March or April, thanks to a new, six-year contract with Waste Management. He said rates might decrease further once a $435,000 debt in the solid waste fund is paid. Customers will see soon if that pledge comes to fruition. Developers did credit the mayor for
helping attract businesses to the city. The Vicksburg Mall brought in 11 stores in 2011 after projecting seven openings, Mall developer Andy Weiner said. The planned openings of retail stores T.J. Maxx and chicken eatery Chick-fil-A and the conversion of the Aeolian Apartments will do nothing but enhance the city. Troubling, though, is the continued lack of specifics. Numbers can be thrown around and grooved to fit any agenda, but without concrete facts — pen-topaper numbers — most of the claims really cannot be verified. Most rely on future savings and projections that, as politicians are apt to do, have been painted rosy. Kudos all around if the projections morph into truths, but, in the meantime, how about some realities instead of simple “projections”?
State will be well-represented at Super Bowl In Mississippi, Friday nights are sacred. High school football is as big a part of the state’s fabric as any other activity. From the smallest Delta school to the mammoth schools on the Coast or in Metro Jackson, the Friday Night Lights burn brightly. Many have dreams of playing football in college and eventually the professional ranks. But few will make it. A study by the National Collegiate Athletic Association showed that 5.8 percent of high school football players will play college ball on some level. Of those, 2 percent will reach the pro level. Fewer than 1/100th of 1 percent of high school football players will play professionally. When the New England Patriots and New York Giants take the field later today in the 46th installment of the Super Bowl, Mississippi will be well-represented. Six players — four Giants and
two Patriots — with Mississippi ties will suit up. An active NFL roster has 53 players, meaning that nearly 6 percent of the players will have Mississippi ties. Not bad for a state ranked 31st in population with just fewer than 3 million people. Even better, Mississippi routinely ranks near or at the bottom of most positive categories. But in football — by far America’s most popular game — Mississippi can hang with any state of any size. The star of the Mississippi contingent will be Giants quarterback Eli Manning — the youngest in the state’s First Family of Football. The Manning legacy in Mississippi extends to when daddy Archie roamed the sidelines more than 50 years ago in the Delta. Eli, who wears No. 10, cut his college teeth with the Ole Miss Rebels. The game is scheduled to kick off at 5:29 p.m. on NBC. In addition to Manning, keep an eye out
for: • New York Giants linebacker Michael Boley wears No. 59 and is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. • New England Patriots placekicker Stephen Gostkowski wears No. 3 and played at Madison Central. • Patriots running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis wears No. 42 and played at Ole Miss. • Patriots running back Stevan Ridley wears No. 22 and played high school ball at Trinity-Episcopal School in Natchez. • Patriots offensive lineman Kyle Love wears No. 74 and played at Mississippi State. So while both teams will be representing Northeast cities, Mississippi certainly will play a role in the game’s outcome. That is something to cheer about.
It’s time to be ambitious In 1961, embroiled in a space race with the Soviet Union, President John F. Kennedy famously announced that America would travel to the moon before the end of the decade. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the lunar surface. Neil Armstrong said the timeless words, “That’s one small step for (a) man; one giant leap for mankind.” And it was. By 1969, space lay as the last unexplored frontier. Americans had put their collective minds to a goal and accomplished it. No American has stepped onto the moon’s surface since the landing more than 42 years ago. Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich wants to revive travels to the moon and even said in a campaign speech that by his second term as presi-
dent, he would colonize the moon with Americans. Pundits and political challengers laughed it off as being “way out there.” His chief Republican rival, Mitt Romney, said problems on Earth easily trump those in space. That Gingrich even proposed such a colony at least shows that he is forwardthinking and a bit out of the box. Colonizing the moon, until three years ago, was official U.S. policy, and billions of dollars had been spent toward that end. Staying on the moon dates to at least 1969 when a government committee recommended NASA build the space shuttle, then a space station and eventually a lunar outpost. President George H.W. Bush in 1989 reiterated plans to return to the moon and stay there. The younger President
Bush in 2005 proposed an outpost and spent more than $9 billion designing a return to the moon program. Today, though, the NASA shuttle program is shuttered. To even get to space, Americans astronauts must ride on Russian spacecraft. Has space travel become irrelevant to Americans? Is there no “wow” factor involved anymore? Gingrich’s ideas are forward-looking. The reaction the plans have received is telling, too. The moon and other frontiers might just not be exciting enough for today’s American. Either that or we do not possess the confidence the 1960s generation had in accomplishing such an ambitious goal.
STARKVILLE — As the new Republican majority controlling state government claimed victory by passing the Children’s Protection Act with ease in the House, it’s clear that even more fundamental — and more politically difficult — challenges loom down the public policy road. The numbers make it plain that improving public education, accelerating economic development and implementing wise management of the state’s responsibilities for public health care and other assistance to the poorest people in America are the issues where voters are looking to the GOP for success where Democrats over the last century often failed. As it was for Democrats, those tasks will prove a vexing riddle. Mississippians have now received formal presentations of the legislative and budget priorities of both Gov. Phil Bryant and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves — and through the increasing availability of online legislative monitoring resources, can see the legislative priorities of individual members of the state Senate and the state House of Representatives. Jobs, education and fiscal responsibility were common themes, but partisan debate will continue during the extended 2012 legislative session. Bryant, Reeves, and House Speaker Philip Gunn propose to address those challenges. Yet make no mistake; Mississippi remains the poorest state in the union. With a median annual income of $36,850 and 21.8 percent of the population living below SID the federal poverty line, that fact is undeniable. Some 18.7 percent of our people don’t have health insurance and 10.4 percent are unemployed, the fourth highest rate in the country behind Nevada, California and Rhode Island. Not only that, but Mississippi and the contiguous states represent five of the poorest 10 states in the nation. Here’s how our neighboring states are faring: Alabama (median income $42,218, 16.1 percent poverty rate, 14.4 percent without health insurance and 8.1 percent unemployed); Arkansas (median income $38,600, 16.5 percent poverty rate, 18.5 percent without health insurance and 7.7 percent unemployed); Louisiana (median income $41,896, 18 percent poverty rate, 18 percent without health insurance and 6.8 percent unemployed); and Tennessee (median income $40,026, 16.1 percent poverty rate, 14.7 percent without health insurance and 8.7 percent unemployed). The correlation between the state’s poverty rate and the state’s education attainment numbers are undeniable. With 21.8 percent of Mississippians living in poverty, 20.5 percent of the state’s population over the age of 25 has less than a high school education. A total of 51.2 percent of Mississippians over the age of 25 have a high school diploma or less formal education. The legacy of the South as it evolved from an agrarian economy in the last century was to compete for industrial jobs primarily by offering cheap labor. That model is forever broken by the fact that cheap and plentiful labor is available overseas. To compete as a state and as a region for the jobs of the future, Mississippi and our neighbors must set about constructing a new economic development model. That new model must offer an educated work force nimble enough to utilize state-sponsored work force training and to utilize the ongoing research of comprehensive state universities as incubators for new and evolving industries. Quality jobs follow quality schools. In other words, the road to future opportunity, growth and jobs in Mississippi runs through classrooms from pre-kindergartens to graduate schools. With more opportunity, growth and jobs, there will be less poverty, more taxpayers, and perhaps an ultimate reprieve for Mississippi from the dubious title of “the poorest people in America.” •
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WEEK IN Vicksburg Vicksburg saw high temperatures inch up throughout the week from the 50s to the mid70s. Overnight lows were fickle, ranging from the 20s to the 60s. Just under .10 inch of rain was recorded during the week. The Mississippi River rose slightly on the local gauge, easing up from 28 feet to 33.1 by week’s end. Forecasters were expecting a reading of 34.1 feet for today. Pam Wilbanks, an English teacher and former Warren Central principal, was selected to serve as Porters Chapel Academy’s next headmaster. She will replace Doug Branning, who announced earlier that he will retire on June 30. About $69,000, financed by the county over time, was spent to replace the computer server at the Warren County Courthouse. The new system was expected to be fully operable after a week’s installation and will improve the speed at which clerks, legal assistants and county government employees find records, titles and court decisions. The Klondyke Trading Post and Anchuca were selected to be featured on the web-based program, “Andrew Zimmern’s Appetite for Life.” Zimmern, best known for his “Bizarre Foods” program on the Travel Channel, was on hand at both eateries during the filming. A pair of Vicksburg residents received awards at the annual Mississippi Artists Guild’s Juried Exhibition. Elke Briuer won Best in Show for an acrylic painting, and Mary Qasim won first place in the pastels category. Fred Jackson of Vicksburg was beaten unconscious as he worked a side job at a salvage yard in Jackson. Video surveillance showed two men attack Jackson from behind, and he remained hospitalized at University Medical Center. Several days after the attack, Jackson’s Wright Road home was broken into and vandalized; a $13,500 reward was being offered for information leading to the arrest of his attackers. About 150 residents attended Mayor Paul Winfield’s first State of the City address at Vicksburg Auditorium, where he discussed pay raises for police and firefighters, a reduction in garbage fees and the promotion of a sports complex. He also bragged on the city’s finances and expected surpluses to be significant after city figures are audited. Ashley Proctor, a junior at Warren Central High School, was slated to appear on the popular talent show, “American Idol,” after an audition in Denver, Colo. An agreement with the Fox network prohibited the teen from discussing her experience on the show, her father said. A dance troupe, choreographed by Chesley Sadler Lambiotte and featuring girls ages 7-9, twirled for cameras and touted Skecher Bella Ballerina shoes for a chance at a national commercial. The film will be edited and shown within the Skecher-brand shoe organization before any decision is made. Kenya Burks, Mayor Paul Winfield’s former chief of staff, filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Vicksburg charging Winfield with sexual harassment. Winfield said he did not have any sexual relations with Burks. Retired Sgt. Maj. Charles Scott Sr., 83-year-old Vicksburg native, received a congressional commendation for service during and after his 33-year military career. He served in the Korean and Vietnam wars, as an adviser to the Army Reserves, as commander of the American Legion Department of Mississippi and as vice chairman of American Council for Children and Youth. Local deaths during the week were Jerry W. Pettway, Margaret B. Hite, Katie Dowery, May Roach and Albert Lee Shorter.
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Media dynamic changing for state government fans OXFORD — This may sound like a commercial for a radio network. It’s not meant to be. It’s just that how and where state government news junkies get information has changed. Jackson-based SuperTalk Mississippi is in the driver’s seat. That’s worth talking about. And talk, of course, is what they do. The nine FM radio stations in the network blanket the state. For those who can’t pick up a signal — or who want to see the show in addition to hearing it — SuperTalk is on the Internet. The chatter starts at 6 a.m. with “The Gallo Show.” Paul Gallo’s interview and call-in program wasn’t the first in Mississippi, but has been the first to gain traction over the past few years, serious traction. Gallo signs off at 9 a.m. and “The J.T. Show,” a bit more light-hearted, starts an hour later at 10. J.T., who apparently has no last name, signs off at 1 p.m. with the show motto, “Never Trust Nobody.” “The Marshall Ramsey Show” is the third state-based show each weekday, starting at 3 p.m. and continuing until 6. For the math-minded, that’s nine hours — nine hours! — of discussion and debate about whatever is on the minds of Mississippians or what the hosts think should be on their minds. In terms of their politics, Gallo and J.T. make no pretext of balance. They are conservatives’ conservatives. Yet unlike national radio
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MITCHELL
It’s only fair to point out the obvious: Newsmakers who make themselves available to SuperTalk audiences are often there in their own interest.
icons of the right, they don’t bait or mock callers who don’t agree with them — nor do they exaggerate or spout nearly as much out-of-context jibberish on, say, President Barack Obama, as that Limbaugh guy. They get rowdy, but rarely mean. Ramsey has been better known, perhaps, as the exceptionally talented editorial cartoonist for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson. His predecessor in the afternoon time slot was Sid Salter, journalist and column-writing colleague who is now teaching and part of the executive team at Mississippi State University. Both are longtime and cherished friends. Their roots in print journalism makes them more balanced — more issue-oriented and less agenda-oriented. For listeners, the best asset of SuperTalk Mississippi is not the hosts, but the guests. Want to know what’s going on with suggested changes in Public Employee Retirement System benefits? Tune in and the chairman of the study commission is likely to be on the air explaining the findings. Want to know what’s going on
with prisons, pardons, Medicaid funding, traffic cameras — you name it — and the people in the key decision-making positions are likely to be on the air, taking questions. Access has always been a challenge for workaday Mississippians. MPB television has a long=standing show, “Quorum,” with a panel of legislators, but it’s usually so boring and self-serving even the lawmakers’ mothers find a reason not to watch. MPB radio, which also has a statewide network, has really good programs in the morning, but “Mississippi Edition” is brief. The state’s newspapers do the best they can, but fewer than ever have reporters assigned to the state capital. There are some really good websites, blogs and alternative papers reporting and jawboning state topics, and SuperTalk takes advantage of multiple platforms, including social media sites Facebook and Twitter, too. It’s only fair to point out the obvious: Newsmakers who make themselves available to SuperTalk audiences are often there in their own
interest. Haley Barbour has been a frequent guest. He did call in after cutting the ribbon to the Toyota plant. He didn’t dial up Gallo, J.T., or Marshall to let them know he might be pardoning a couple of hundred folks on his way out of town. Similarly, many of the new state officials — Gov. Phil Bryant, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn — made use of the free air time while candidates, but notably they are continuing to call in or go to the studios to explain or discuss the state’s news. It would be better if the hosts challenged their statements more, but the hosts are not sycophants. They ask pretty good questions and usually get to the nut of the issues. More than anything, SuperTalk offers a forum. That’s an asset the people haven’t had before, at least not for nine hours — nine hours! — a day. Gauging by the number of public service announcements aired free during the shows, SuperTalk Mississippi, like other commercial media, doesn’t have as many advertising customers as it would like to have. Maybe the “state news junkie” demographic is too small. But for those who care to keep up — or to try to keep up — it’s a new and different asset in a time when civil discourse is harder and harder to find. •
Charlie Mitchell is a Mississippi journalist. Write to him at Box 1, University, MS 38677, or e-mail cmitchell43@yahoo.com.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Brown cleaning up past messes in tax assessor’s office As a property owner and legal resident of Vicksburg, although I spend most of my time working out of Jackson, I wish to express my full support for our new Tax Assessor, Angela Brown. Unfortunately, she is faced with the formidable task of cleaning up a very messy situation. Since she worked in the office before being elected to take full charge and responsibility, I’m sure that she knows what she’s doing in this purported “housecleaning” process. Just about all my friends and neighbors there in Vicksburg also support her without any hint of doubt or fear for the worst. We strongly suggest that Ms. Brown and her new (hopefully) crew will pay especially close attention to the tax records of the Vicksburg casinos, focusing on DiamondJack’s and Ameristar, in particular. It seems that the more money the casinos rake in, the fewer are the benefits that redound to the people of Vicksburg. I dealt with this situation in part in a June 2009 article titled “Gamblers Beware: Don’t Take a Chance on Getting Hurt at Your Local Casino.” The article is still on my website, Earnest McBride Index Page. These casinos promised the people of Vicksburg a vast amount of wealth and a constant stream of revenues to sustain the city budget. Nobody I know is happy with the
Voice your opinion Letters to the editor are published under the following guidelines: Expressions from readers on topics of current or general interest are welcomed. • Letters must be original, not copies or letters sent to others, and must include the name, address and signature of the writer. • Letters must avoid defamatory or abusive statements. • Preference will be given to typed letters of 300 or fewer words. • The Vicksburg Post does not print anonymous letters and reserves the right to edit all letters submitted. • Letters in the column do not represent the views of The Vicksburg Post. situation with the casinos today. I emphasize: NO ONE. As late as Tuesday of this past week, a security manager at one of the local casinos threatened to bar me from his boat if I voiced any more complaints about the terrible customer service that typifies, not only his, but all five of the casinos in and around Vicksburg. I sincerely hope that the entire citizenry of Vicksburg and Warren County will make it known that they have Ms. Brown’s back covered in her effort to solve the great mystery of why so little city revenue derives from the vast amount
of money the local people spend at these places. One remaining question: Does the security chief of any casino anywhere have the right to tell a paying customer what to think or say? Yes, folks, that’s happening right here in the River City. Earnest McBride Vicksburg
A welcomed return I was so excited to see Terry Rector back. His columns in the past always educated me on his given subject for the week and also gave me a smile and many chuckles. Thank you Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District and, of course, thank you, Terry. We missed you. Joelyn James Vicksburg
Kids need help I have thought long and hard about posting this letter in fear of the criticism I may receive, but my silence will be heard. I am writing because one of us needs to speak on behalf of children who actually have good behavior in school. I am very proud of my children that my husband and I have raised. I am not saying they are perfect, but for the most part, I feel they are well-behaved.
I find that all the schools have their own issues with discipline. Although the one thing I find they have in common is when a few students misbehave, most of the time, all the kids pay the price. Ask yourself from a child’s point of view, “What is the point of doing good if I will be punished anyway?” On another note, the children with constant misbehavior get a lot of attention for misbehaving. Why? Most times this works for those children to their favor. Why are the children misbehaving being let “off the hook?” I guess being a parent it is easy to just give in because the fight is gone after long days at work and you are just too tired. I feel like the teachers and staff feel the same at times and I do not blame them, but what favors are we doing our children by just giving in? Are they not worth the fight? Isn’t it our No. 1 job as parents? Parents, wake up! Be a parent and help teachers only be teachers. They are not there to be parents. Discipline must begin at home and guess what, if you are tired of doing it how do you think the teachers and staff feel? Do your children a favor and help them be the best they can be. They will appreciate the discipline in the long run. I know I have. Kristi Pierce Vicksburg
Romney-Obama matchup will be contrast in personalities WASHINGTON — The granting of Secret Service protection following Mitt Romney’s decisive Florida victory did not prevent him from immediately shooting himself in the foot. “I’m not concerned about the very poor,” he explained. “My campaign is focused on middle-income Americans.” It is problematic for a politician to declare any group of citizens beneath his attention — either the bottom 1 percent or the top 1 percent. But those in the top 1 percent, at least, can fend for themselves. There are few things more powerful in politics than the confirmation of a stereotype, which is Romney’s main political risk. A wealthy man can prove that he empathizes with average people — see the examples of aristocrats such as Teddy or Franklin Roosevelt. But Romney has yet to prove it. He could start by making the economic advancement of the very poor a central concern of his campaign. Republicans are still getting accustomed to Romney as their nominee. For many, the failure of Newt Gingrich was like sidestepping a falling anvil. It has inspired
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GERSON
Republicans are still getting accustomed to Romney as their nominee. For many, the failure of Newt Gingrich was like sidestepping a falling anvil. It has inspired more relief than jubilation.
more relief than jubilation. Now Republicans are left to ponder the Romney-Obama matchup. Romney’s strengths: His political skills — his mastery of policy details and his ability to extemporaneously explain his views — are superior to those of recent nominees such as Bob Dole and John McCain. He is seldom stumped or flustered. He learns from his mistakes. His weaknesses: Romney has been consistently unable to manufacture excitement — the most important commodity produced by a presidential campaign. Romney himself can come across as formal and slightly plastic, particularly
when compared to Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. (Given the fact that Barack Obama is also fuzziness-challenged, this comparison is more of a draw.) So how does the Romney-Obama contest stack up? Obama is a skilled but significantly weakened political figure. The facts of economic stagnation testify against him. He has been forced off the pedestal of great, unifying ideals and now pursues a base-oriented strategy of tax increases and complaints about economic unfairness. Unlike the broad alliance of aspiration he assembled in 2008, Obama is rounding up the old Al Gore and John Kerry political coalition.
Romney does not possess George W. Bush’s more potent appeal to conservatives, which was both religious and anti-elitist. But Romney has an easier case to make than Bush had in either of his elections. In 2000, Bush ran against a humming Clinton economy. In 2004, he was weighed down by Iraq. Romney has neither of these obstacles to overcome. In this campaign, both candidates are generally viewed as skilled and qualified. Barring conflict with Iran or the collapse of the euro, the outcome of the election will be greatly influenced by the perception of economic conditions on Election Day — a bit of conventional wisdom that is conventional for good reason. But this remains an evenly divided country on the presidential level, which means that political inevitably can be confounded by the smallest things: a serious gaffe, a stirring convention speech, a strong ground game in Ohio or Florida, or even the votes of the very poor. •
Michael Gerson’s e-mail address is michaelgerson(at)washpost.com.
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Justice Scalia says ‘nickel and dime’ cases flooding court
AMERICAN DREAM SEAN MURPHY
POST WEB EDITOR
By Michael Kunzelman The Associated Press
Super Bowl is super day of excesses Few events in a year will exemplify the excesses that we Americans enjoy more than the Super Bowl. The high-priced talent, gaudy pageantry and the $7 million per minute going rate for commercials. You know, the commercials the evil corporations spend years crafting, trying to convince that this year’s commercials were better than last year’s? And what will be popular among the viewing public? Cheap beer and scantily clad women — probably in the same advertisement. Beer companies are Super Bowl kings and their superiority in sales will be well on display. The girls will be gorgeous and the horses regal, all in an effort to take the viewer’s mind off the swill in the can. Watch how many instruct the consumer to drink it as cold as humanly possible. Why? Refreshment? No, because the colder the beverage, the more numb the taste buds. If you cannot taste it, you cannot taste how bad it is. If you must imbibe, drink local. Try Lazy Magnolia from the Gulf Coast, or Nashville’s Yazoo, brewed by Vicksburg native Linus Hall. Much good beer exists, but you won’t see those advertised on the big game. Others you will not see, or maybe you will: • An ad for Paws Rescue to adopt a pet. Recently I spoke to a friend who had just bought a dog. I frowned. Dogs should be adopted, not bought from a store. Since PAWS is run by all volunteers and relies on the people’s generosity and grant money to care for pets around Warren County, they had trouble coming up with the $3.5 million for a 30-second spot this evening. • Barack Obama using a 30-second spot to announce a second Super Bowl on Feb. 12. It will pit the Indianapolis Colts against the St. Louis Rams. The worst two teams will meet next week because, as Obama said, “it is not fair that only the winning teams play for the Super Bowl.” • Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield will give a 30-second spot on building a rec complex somewhere in North Vicksburg. The City has already squandered more than $3 million on two failed rec complexes, what is an extra $3.5 million to push a third? Plus, the way he throws around dollar figures, I am sure we will realize the savings in garbage fees over the next 200 years. So live it up today. Eat to excess. Drink to excess (with a designated driver, please). And make sure to set the alarm clock.
• Sean P. Murphy is web editor. He can be reached at smurphy@ vicksburgpost.com
Eli Baylis•The Vicksburg Post
Marley Johnson, 15, left, and Anna Beth Breeden, 12, members of the Children of the American Revolution, perform the skit “The American Dream Lives On” for the Members of the Ashmead Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the Warren County-Vicksburg
Public Library Saturday. Marley, a ninthgrader at Warren Central High School, is the daughter of Tobin and Clint Johnson; Anna Beth, a seventh-grader at St. Aloysius High School, is the daughter of Lynn and Greg Breeden.
dence. He attributed the trend to lawmakers enacting new criminal statutes and bogging down the fedNEW ORLEANS — The federal courts have become eral courts with “nickel and dime criminal cases that increasingly flooded with didn’t used “nickel and to be there.” dime” crimi“This stuff nal cases is just pourthat are ing into better off the fedresolved eral courts. in state That’s not courts, U.S. what the Supreme federal Court Juscourts were tice Antonin set up for,” Scalia said he said. Saturday. Boston Scalia told an American ‘I think there’s too much University of Bar Associaroutine criminal stuff School Law dean tion meeting in New that has been pouring emeritus Orleans that into the federal courts Ronald Cass, who he’s worried that that should have been moderated forum, the nation’s left to the state courts.’ the asked highest Antonin Scalia Scalia how court is Supreme Court justice the court becoming decides a “court of which cases to hear. criminal appeals.” “Believe me, it is not hard, “This is probably true not once you’ve got it though just of my court, but of all your head that you are not the federal courts in gena court of errors, that it is eral. A much higher pernot the job of the United centage of what we do is States Supreme Court to criminal law, and I think correct mistakes,” he said. that’s probably regret“The cases you have to take table,” he said. “I think are pretty clear: the cases there’s too much routine in which the lower courts criminal stuff that has have disagreed on the been pouring into the fedmeaning of a federal stateral courts that should ute or on the meaning of a have been left to the state constitutional provision.” courts.” “On rare occasions,” he Scalia said civil dockets in added, “we’ll take a case some federal jurisdictions are lagging behind because See Scalia, Page A7. criminal cases take prece-
State rep fined for ethics violation, to pay nearly $400K By The Associated Press JACKSON — A Rankin County lawmaker has been ordered by the state Ethics Commission to repay the state $346,554 from public printing contracts that went to his family business. State Rep. Kevin McGee
Rep. Kevin McGee
was also fined $50,000 for the dealings. McGee, a Republican from Brandon, and his family own Service Print-
Trace seeks to look ‘more like a park’ By The Associated Press TUPELO — The Natchez Trace Parkway has been quietly changing the past two years. Motorist and cyclist safety has improved, bathrooms have been upgraded, signage has been changed and exhibits have been overhauled. Parkway Superintendent Cameron “Cam” Sholly has been in the driver’s seat of the movement. He took the job in August 2009 after the position had been open for three years. The 444-mile parkway made headlines that year after two cyclists were killed in collisions with vehicles. Sholly made improved safety one of his top goals. He embraced Tupelo’s three-foot passing law for cyclists and enacted a policy for the entire Trace. Two years later, the parkway hasn’t had any more bicycle fatalities. “Knock on wood,” Sholly said. “It’s pretty hard to get super excited about two years.” At the same time, cyclist usage has increased on the Trace, according to infor-
mation gathered by the parkway. Parkway vehicle fatalities also dropped 60 percent last year, but he downplayed the numbers, saying a collision on the Trace is easy, considering the traffic. Last year, 13.8 million people used the Trace for hiking, cycling, sightseeing or commuting. Car counts in Tupelo are roughly 7,000 per day. The Jackson area section of the Trace averages 13,000 per day, he said. “We have a lot going on,” he said. Law enforcement and safety improvements will continue to be a part of the Trace, but Sholly said he wants to make progress on one of his original goals — interpretation. “Now that the parkway is completed, our focus is making the parkway more like a park,” he said, during a recent interview at the Trace’s headquarters in Tupelo. “We’ve almost set up this unrealistic expectation that there is something to do every mile along the Trace.” The emphasis, he said, See Trace, Page A7.
ers of Flowood. State law prohibits legislators from doing business with state government because the Legislature dictates how the state’s money is spent . McGee can appeal to the Hinds County Circuit Court. “We’re discussing our
options,” his attorney, Rep. Jeff Smith, R-Columbus, said. McGee was elected to the Legislature in 2007. He currently serves as vice chairman of the Public Utilities Committee. An anonymous complaint came to the Ethics Commission in May. A hearing was
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held in December. “The parties engaged in a number of discussions in a good faith attempt to resolve the matter without a formal hearing,” the commission’s order states. “Such discussions did not result in a resolution of the matter.”
Chaney seeks cut in rates for homes ready for high wind By The Associated Press
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Kathy and Bruce Watson walk under an umbrella in the Vicksburg National Military Park Saturday as storms stuck around the city most of the day. The National Weather Service forecast called for the rain to continue today with a high temperature of about 59 degrees.
GULFPORT — Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said he is working with legislators on a bill that would require insurers to offer discounts to homeowners who have strengthened homes against wind damage. State officials said they hope the reinforcement of roofing, doors, windows and other components also will qualify homeowners for insurance discounts, although there are no guarantees. The Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration is overseeing a $23 million program in which FEMA would pay 75 percent of the cost to strengthen their homes against wind damage. DFA officials said the homeowner must pay a $250 inspection fee and a 25 percent of construction costs. Chaney, a resident of Warren County, said he and Gulf Coast legislators are working on construction standards that would qualify for discounts, for both new See Chaney, Page A7.
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Eli Baylis•The Vicksburg Post
Former New Orleans Saints football player Joe Horn, right, sign an autograph Saturday for County Market employee Chris Curtis, center, as John Grimes hold a Horn’s bar-
becue sauce, Bayou 87, at the store on Clay Street. Horn has been promoting his sauce in Louisiana and Mississippi grocery stores since September.
3 face charges for crack in car Three Vicksburg men face charges of possession of crack cocaine after the drug was found in their car during a traffic stop for loud music at Wahl and West Pine streets Friday night, Vicksburg police Lt. Sandra Williams said. She said Desmond Parker, 19, 1005 Stadium Drive; Felix Williams, 21, 2808 Yerger St.; and Samuel Matthews, 21, 204 Kendra Drive, were arrested at the scene. She said a fourth man ran and was not caught. Parker was released Saturday on $10,000 bond. Williams and Matthews were being held without bond in
crime & accident Tree uproots, falls from staff reports
the Issaquena County Jail, pending an initial court appearance. Williams said the Mississippi Department of Corrections has holds on Williams and Matthews involving other offenses. She said officer Wesley Miller stopped the car about 9:10 p.m. Friday. When the men get out of the car, the fourth man ran, dropping his jacket, which had crack in it. After Miller found the crack in the car, she said, he arrested the other three men.
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Continued from Page A6. and retrofitted homes. “Mitigation is the key to lowering rates on the coast,” Chaney said. “If you build a stronger home or strengthen your existing home to a stronger standard and stay out of the flood plain, that’s the key.” Several sets of standards are now in play for strengthening homes. The state wind pool applies a tiered system of discounts for retrofits, which differ from those in the DFA program. The insurance industry, through its nonprofit Insti-
where the issue is terribly important but there is not a circuit conflict.” One woman asked Scalia if his view of the Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling was influenced by his religion. Scalia said it wasn’t. “If I was following my Catholic nose, I would agree with those who think that the states must prohibit abortion. I don’t agree with that,” he said. “I think the constitution says nothing about it, as it says nothing about a lot of other things, a lot of other important things, a lot of other heartfelt things. And when it says nothing about it, it means democracy governs.” Some topics were off-limits, however. When a woman asked Scalia if he sees any constitutional basis for legalizing same-sex marriage, Cass interjected and said the justice shouldn’t talk about “questions that are likely to come before the court.” “This is out there somewhere, I think,” Scalia said, drawing laughter from the crowd. Attorney General Eric Holder also spoke at the bar association’s “midyear meeting” Saturday, expressing the Justice Department’s commitment to preserving resources for indigent defense.
public meetings this week Monday • Warren County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m., Warren County Courthouse, BOS meeting room, third floor • Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen, 10 a.m., City Hall Annex, 1415 Walnut St. Tuesday • Vicksburg Board of Zoning Appeals, 5 p.m., City Hall Annex Wednesday • Vicksburg Bridge Commission, 9:30 a.m., Warren County Courthouse, BOS meeting room, third floor Friday • Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen, 10 a.m., City Hall Annex
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Electricity at five homes on Highland Drive flickered at about 6:15 p.m. Saturday after a tree in soggy ground uprooted and fell against a utility pole at South Frontage Road and Highland Drive. Entergy spokesman Don Arnold said the tree fell against a transformer, causing a short that threatened the power. Sparks from the transformer set the tree’s top limbs on fire, but the small blaze burned itself out. An Entergy crew removed the tree from the pole, which was not damaged.
tute for Business and Home Safety, has a third set of standards. The DFA program works within FEMA’s hazard mitigation program guidelines. The program is strictly designed to protect against wind damage, not provide insurance-rate relief. “Homeowners on the Gulf Coast want to know how they can get a discount on their insurance,” said Rep. Scott Delano, R-Biloxi. “We in the state have been saying that mitigation is a way to lower insurance rates.”
Trace Continued from Page A6. is to build up and enhance key signature sites, such as the Meriwether Lewis site in Tennessee and Emerald Mound in Natchez. Sholly also said the parkway and the Chickasaw Nation have restarted conversations about building a new heritage center in Tupelo. The talks are very preliminary, he emphasized. “There’s a lot to do along the Natchez Trace corridor beyond just the scenic drive,” he said. He cited the Trace’s partnership with the Natchez Trace Compact for improving perception and visitor experiences. The compact is a marketing group of convention and visitor bureaus along the Trace. The group promotes the communities “behind the trees.” The parkway also is in the process of upgrading about 300 signs, at a cost of about $250,000. The new stone and wood signs can be seen at Highway 78 and in front of the parkway headquarters. The project should be largely done by the end of 2013, Sholly said. Bathrooms are also on the to-do list, Sholly said. He suspects Tupelo drivers will be happy to hear that the parkway has plans to upgrade the bathroom facilities at Jeff Busby, which is on the way to Jackson. The project will be done in the next few years, depending on funding, he said.
A7 Sholly also is looking at the parkway on a bigger scale, trying to see what the challenges will be in a decade or so. “One of the biggest threats to the Natchez Trace is degrading scenic viewsheds,” he said. “We support economic development, but we have to find the balance of protecting the parkway and its interests.” The parkway is in the process of assessing the entire 444-mile park in 10-mile increments. The strategic plan grades each section based on number of trees, power lines and potential for future development, among other things. Here are some of the highlights from the past two years. Safety improvements: • Parkway fatalities in vehicles fell 60 percent in 2011. • No bicycle fatalities in 2010 or 2011. Two cyclists were killed in 2009. • Bought 20 new law enforcement patrol vehicles. • Completing a $12 million radio communications system improvement for law enforcement and operations. Exhibit and information improvements: • Completed a $3.5 million site rehab of the Meriwether Lewis death and burial site in Tennessee. • Updated billboards and added Quick Response codes for visitors with smartphones. • Finished a new brochure with a new streamlined look. • Published a brochure that highlights for the first time
ever the nearly 100 miles of trails along the Trace. • Finishing new exhibits for its information center in Ridgeland. The center is in the middle of a new 5-mile paved bike trail. • Renewed conversations with the Chickasaw Nation to potentially build a heritage center in Tupelo. • Bought land near Emerald Mound near Natchez to build an access road. Visitor improvements: • Spent more than $250,000 to buy new signs for the corridor. It’s in the process of replacing nearly 300 dilapidated signs. • Built four new bathroom facilities. Jeff Busby, Pharr Mounds and Mount Locus are in the next round of bathrooms to be upgraded. The completion date is dependent on funding. • Working with Tupelo on the design and construction of a new bridge to connect Coley Road and Barnes Crossing Road. National Park Service officials approved the final design this month. Construction is expected to begin later this year. • Planted 15,000 trees. • Mowed enough grass annually to circle the world at the equator. • Added recycling options in Tupelo and Jackson. Outreach highlights • Partnered with 11 school districts to teach students the history of the Trace. Officials want to partner with 10 more school systems in the next two years. • Educated 10,000 students in 2011 about the Trace.
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Continued from Page A1. an impressive display of art.” Most of the art has not been on public display before, Slay said, and he first saw the Mugwump statue in Sessums’ living room. The art display also includes a piece by former park employee Kennith Humphrey. The painting is an bright, bold abstract re-imag-
ination of the same three soldiers depicted African American Monument. The exhibit runs though March 2. On Friday, Feb. 17 at Vicksburg Convention Center, park rangers will give hourly programs to students on the contributions of U.S. Colored Troops. The education ses-
sions continue Feb. 18 in conjunction with a walk though the park sponsored by Shape Up Vicksburg. The walk begins at 7:30 a.m. at Sherman Avenue Elementary and winds through the historic park to the African American monument. There James McNair and Slay will present information on U.S.
Colored Troops and African Americans in the Civil War. In addition to the special events, rangers have set up wayside markers along the park roads detailing the participation of black soldiers in the Vicksburg Campaign. The temporary markers are also placed near busts of officers who commanded some
of the 178,000 black troops who fought on both sides of the war. The park is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 per passenger vehicle. All applicable National Park Service annual passes are accepted. For more information on the programs, call 601-636-0583.
Corps Continued from Page A1. Road. Peay, a community orientation consultant, was awarded a contract by ERDC about six weeks ago to help potential and new employees navigate the city and get answers to their questions, whether it’s where to keep their beehives until they buy a home, which landlords will rent to tenants with giant breed dogs or where to get a Mississippi driver’s license. Before winning the center-wide contract she provided similar services for the Environmental Laboratory for about a year. “I take care of them outside the fence,” Peay said. “Logan won’t say it, but she has a natural talent for this,” said Dr. Peggy Wright, ERDC’s assistant director for Human Capital. “She always knows what’s going on. She knows a lot about the
community.” “My very first job was working at the tourist information center,” Peay said with a laugh. Peay, 50, is a 1980 graduate of Porters Chapel Academy and received a degree in education at the University of Mississippi. She is the mother of three and president of the PTO at Vicksburg Catholic School, where her youngest, 16-year-old Peter Cauthen, is a junior at St. Aloysius High School. Peay and her husband, Jim, also own Go-fer Girls, a private company that provides transportation to and from the Jackson-Evers International Airport. “Ninety-nine percent of the business is ERDC people,” she said. “I picked up someone that was moving here and he started asking questions” about grocery stores, the post office,
recreation and other newcomer concerns. A light went on in her head. Peay brought the idea to Dr. Beth Fleming, director of the EL, and soon found herself part of the lab’s pilot recruit and new employee orientation program. Wright, who signed on at ERDC about two years ago “to make sure our employees are taken care of, from recruiting to separation,” took the program centerwide, initiating a bid process for the contract, which Peay was awarded. Peay’s services include meeting with prospective employees when they come for interviews and providing information about Vicksburg, its history, culture and community services. If they get hired, she’s available to help them find their way around. In addition, she provides
packets of information that include recent publications, tourism and community guides, a brochure from the Vicksburg National Military Park and a handy list of “Things to Know When Moving to Vicksburg.” “I consider myself as a kind of clearing house,” she said. “I try to get information people might need. You don’t want to overload them with stuff, but it’s for people who don’t know a thing about Vicksburg. We want them to come. We want them to stay.” Public affairs specialist Kerry Larson took a job with ERDC a year ago, moving with his wife, Ellen, from Fort McCoy, Wisc., where he’d worked two years. Before that he spent three years in North Dakota and two in Utah, he said. “Working for the government, you always get a wel-
come packet when you go to a new place,” Larson said. “This was my first experience where they actually had a person there to help. Logan spent the whole day with us. She took us around the city, showed us neighborhoods, even the vegetable stand south of the city. We just thought that was neat.” While the Larsons leased a house in Tallulah, they’re house-hunting in the south Vicksburg area, he said. “Our mission is to hire the best and the brightest, the most talented scientists and engineers that we can, as well as support staff,” said Wright. “Logan helps us make sure they are comfortable and puts the community’s best foot forward.” “We could not have asked for a better introduction to the city of Vicksburg,” Beane said.
Parole Board’s recommendation into consideration, and he wasn’t aware of the subsequent charge,” Barbour’s spokeswoman, Laura Hipp, said in a statement. Barbour pardoned 198 people in his final days in office. Most were already out of prison, some for years or decades. Mississippi Attorney Gen-
eral Jim Hood is challenging the legality of some of the pardons, saying some people didn’t publish notifications as Hood says is required in Mississippi’s Constitution. The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments on the case Thursday. Five men — four convicted murders and a man serving life for robbery — have been
ordered to check in with prison officials every day until the legal challenge is heard. All five worked as inmate trusties at the Governor’s Mansion. Five other people are being held in jail on a temporary restraining order while the legal wrangling plays out Barbour’s pardons outraged crime victims, but he
said he’s comfortable with them because he’s a Christian and believes in second chances. Barbour, a nationally known Republican, has said Hood is playing politics. Hood, the only Democrat in statewide office in Mississippi, has scoffed at that suggestion.
Pardon Continued from Page A1. May 2010 for his third felony DUI. He was sentenced to five years in an intensive supervision program and ordered to participate in the Lafayette County Drug Court program. His pardon paperwork shows he was supposed to be in the drug program until March 2013. “In reviewing Mr. Bostick’s case, Gov. Barbour took the
Welfare Continued from Page A1. lawmaker who works as legislative liaison for the agency. He said DHS moved to that policy about six months ago for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF — the aid commonly called welfare. The number of hours required depends on the age of a TANF recipient’s dependents. Those with younger children have shorter hours. The Republican sponsors of the community service bill, Sens. Nancy Adams Collins of Tupelo and John Polk of Hattiesburg, said in separate interviews that they believe such service would help people develop job skills and make contacts that could help them find jobs to become self-sufficient. “I worked in the welfare office in the Louisiana Delta when I was young. I was a case worker,” Collins said. “I have seen sometimes a generational cycle — the government will give a handout but not a hand up in order to
encourage them to use their gifts and abilities.” Polk, who used to run his family’s sausage company, said he believes doing volunteer work helps people realize they can help others. “For some people welfare, unfortunately, has become a way of life, for whatever reason,” Polk said. “Maybe this will help them on understanding a career track, maybe they’ll have more selfesteem.” Rims Barber, who has lobbied for generations on behalf of the poor, said he believes the bill plays on worn-out stereotypes about the needy being lazy. “It’s the old ‘welfare queen’ crap,” Barber said. “I call it the ‘20 hours of slavery’ bill.” The bill, in its current form, would not exempt people because of age or physical impairment, although Collins and Polk said those changes could be made. It also does not specify which types of public assistance would
deaths The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.
Debrah Ann Butler PHILADELPHIA — Debrah Ann Butler of New Castle, Del., formerly of Vicksburg, died Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She was 53. Arrangements will be under the direction of DillonChisley Funeral Home.
Brett Walker HATTIESBURG — Brett Walker of Hattiesburg died Feb. 3, 2012, at his home. He was 21.
Mr. Walker was a 2008 graduate of Sumrall High School, where he played on the baseball and tennis teams. He was employed with his father as a petroleum land man. Survivors include his father, Bob Walker of Hattiesburg; his mother, Stacy Walker of Tarpon Springs, Fla.; paternal grandmother, Helen Walker of Vicksburg; maternal grandparents, Roger and Judy Graeber of Picayune; one sister, Haley Walker of Austin, Texas; and a half-sister, Alicia Funkhouser of Pheonix. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at HulettWinstead Funeral Home in Hattiesburg. Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery.
prompt the community service requirement, meaning it could cover a wide range of programs, including Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the needy, aged, blind and disabled and for families with young children. A significant number of Medicaid recipients are in nursing homes and others have long-term illnesses. Jackson resident Scott M. Crawford, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2002, said he enjoys doing volunteer work but he has good days and bad days with MS. Although he is not on Medicaid, he said some people with disabilities might find it difficult to commit 20 hours a week, even if their health coverage depended on it. “I wonder exactly how this proposed bill would protect the dignity of people, who, through no fault of their own,
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cannot contribute the prescribed 20 hours,” Crawford, 46, said in an email to The Associated Press. Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the nation, and its unemployment rate has long been higher than the national average. Smith said about 295,000 households, or 650,000 people, receive SNAP benefits. He said about 12,000 households are enrolled in TANF, and that rate has fluctuated between 11,000 and 12,000 the past three or four years. About one-fourth of Mississippi’s 2.9 million residents are enrolled in Medicaid. One bill filed by Republican Sen. Merle Flowers of Southaven would require Medicaid recipients to re-enroll every six months instead of once a year. Another would ban Medicaid recipients from having vanity car tags, which
in many cases cost an extra $50 a year. A bill filed by Republican Sens. Chris McDaniel of Laurel and Michael Watson of Pascagoula would require Medicaid recipients to be subject to random testing for nicotine, the addictive chemical in tobacco. Medicaid spokesman Francis Rullan would not say Friday whether leaders of the program are taking a position on any of the bills filed so far that could affect Medicaid recipients.
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WEATHER This weather package is compiled from historical records and information provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.
LOCAL FORECAST Monday-wednesday Partly cloudy; highs in the upper 50s; lows in the mid30s
STATE FORECAST TOday Partly cloudy; highs in the lower 60s; lows in the lower 50s Monday-wednesday Partly cloudy; highs in the upper 50s; lows in the mid30s
Almanac Highs and Lows High/past 24 hours............. 73º Low/past 24 hours............... 61º Average temperature......... 67º Normal this date................... 48º Record low..............11º in 1996 Record high..80º before 1886 Rainfall Recorded at the Vicksburg Water Plant Past 24 hours........................ 0.45 This month................ 3.9 inches Total/year.................8.98 inches Normal/month......0.85 inches Normal/year...........6.32 inches Solunar table Most active times for fish and wildlife Monday: A.M. Active............................ 3:21 A.M. Most active................. 9:34 P.M. Active............................. 3:46 P.M. Most active.................. 9:59 Sunrise/sunset Sunset today........................ 5:39 Sunset tomorrow............... 5:39 Sunrise tomorrow.............. 6:54
RIVER DATA Saturday Stages Mississippi River at Vicksburg Current: 33.6 | Change: 0.5 Flood: 43 feet Yazoo River at Greenwood Current: 18.0 | Change: NC Flood: 35 feet Yazoo River at Yazoo City Current: 19.4 | Change: 1.9 Flood: 29 feet Yazoo River at Belzoni Current: 17.9 | Change: 0.1 Flood: 34 feet Big Black River at West Current: 7.7 | Change: 0.7 Flood: 12 feet Big Black River at Bovina Current: 18.1 | Change: 8.3 Flood: 28 feet StEELE BAYOU saturday
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Cairo, Ill. Monday.................................. 41.5 Tuesday.................................. 41.4 Wednesday........................... 40.8 Memphis Monday.................................. 24.4 Tuesday.................................. 24.5 Wednesday........................... 24.4 Greenville Monday.................................. 39.8 Tuesday.................................. 40.1 Wednesday........................... 40.3 Vicksburg Monday.................................. 34.7 Tuesday.................................. 34.8 Wednesday........................... 35.1
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SPORTS SUNDAY, FEBRUAR Y 5, 2012 • SE C T I O N B PUZZLES B6
Steve Wilson, sports editor | E-mail: sports@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 142
College Basketball
Hot-shooting Dogs beat Auburn By David Brandt The Associated Press
Pack-tastic Green Bay QB Rodgers wins NFL’s MVP award Story/B2
Schedule PREP BASKETBALL (G) PCA at Rebul Monday, 7 p.m.
(B) Vicksburg vs. Greenville-Weston Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., at Clinton (G) Vicksburg vs. WC Tuesday, 7 p.m., at Clinton
On TV 5:30 p.m. NBC - Eli Manning goes for his second championship ring, and Tom Brady his fourth as the New York Giants face the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. Kickoff is at 5:30, but the pregame show begins at noon.
Who’s hot NICOLE HAYES
Soccer player at McMinn County High School in Athens, Tenn., signed to play at Tennessee Tech. Nicole is the daughter of former Vicksburg residents Kevin Hayes and Nancy Dickson Hayes, and the granddaughter of Everett and Mary Dickson of Vicksburg and Jeanie Hayes Mankin.
STARKVILLE — The first 3-pointer was within the flow of the offense, but the next two were executive decisions by Dee Bost. The high-arching shots splashed through the hoop, Humphrey Coliseum erupted and No. 22 Mississippi State was on its way to a 91-88 victory over Auburn on Saturday afternoon. “I was feeling it so I just pulled it,” Bost said. It was that kind of shooting night for Mississippi State. Arnett Moultrie led the team with 21 points and Renardo Sidney added 17 as the Bulldogs won for the fifth time in seven games. While the big men were productive, it was Bost’s three consecutive 3-pointers to open the second half that turned Mississippi State’s 44-43 halftime deficit into a 52-44 lead. The Bulldogs never trailed again, shooting a torrid 60.4 percent (29-of48) from the field, including 63.2 percent (12-of-19) from 3-point range. That kind of shooting touch usually indicates an easy game. But Mississippi State still had to sweat out the final minutes due to some missed free throws and defensive lapses. “We got the ball around the hole a bunch and we got fouled a bunch,” Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury said. “We just didn’t make our (free throws) and get separation like we needed to.” Bost finished with 15 points, making 4 of 6 from beyond the 3-point line while also adding seven assists. Rodney Hood added 11 points. Mississippi State (18-5, 5-3 Southeastern Conference) got off to a good start on its three-game homestand that continues Thursday against rival Ole Miss. But Auburn made things interesting in the final minutes — and Mississippi State seemed almost intent on helping the Tigers back into the game.
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Hood got a technical foul while Bost and Moultrie fouled Auburn shooters on 3-point attempts. The Bost foul was particularly harmful, because it meant he fouled out with 3:26 remaining. The Bulldogs don’t have another healthy true point guard, making do with Brian Bryant and Steele handling the responsibilities. Then there was the Bulldogs’ sometimes shaky defense. “Offensively, Auburn can get on a roll, and they got on a roll tonight,” Stansbury said. “They got to the free throw line against us more than any other team (this season) and that’s a bad
Auburn center Rob Chubb knocks the ball away from Mississippi State’s Renardo Sidney (1) in the first half of Saturday’s game in Starkville. At left, MSU’s Arnett Moultrie tries to shoot around Auburn’s Kenny Gabriel. Sidney scored 17 points and Moultrie had 21 as 22nd-ranked Mississippi State won, 91-88.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The shot clock was dwindling when Andrew Steele found himself with the ball and only one option: Shoot in a hurry. Steele drilled the long jump shot with 31 seconds left in the second overtime for a three-point lead and then hit 1 of 2 free throws on the next possession, lifting Alabama to a 69-67 victory over Ole Miss on Saturday night. “Trevor (Releford) did a great job penetrating the defense,” Steele said. “He lost it but I think he had got such great position that when I got it, it put me in a good spot to take a good shot. “I looked up as I picked it up and I thought it was about 3 (seconds to shoot). I just tried to put it up toward the goal before the shot clock went off.” It went in for the Crimson Tide (15-7, 4-4 Southeastern Conference), who have won two straight after a fourgame losing streak. Jelan Kendrick then missed a shot for the Rebels (14-8, 4-4) and they sent Steele to the line. His first foul shot bounced off the rim and back in to make it a two-possession game with 15 seconds left. Releford also made 1 of 2 from the line after that, and Jarvis Summers hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer for Ole Miss for the final margin. “I can’t express enough how proud I am of our guys for the effort they showed tonight, the fight they had and the will to win,” Crimson Tide coach Anthony Grant said. “That was all about heart and passion tonight. We had a lot of guys that really put it all out there on the line.” JaMychal Green led Alabama with 16 points and 12 See Ole Miss, Page B3.
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Sidelines INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Running back Curtis Martin and four linemen were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, along with one senior committee choice. Martin is the fourth-leading rusher in NFL history. He is joined by defensive linemen Chris Doleman and Cortez Kennedy, offensive linemen Willie Roaf and Dermontti Dawson, and senior selection Jack Butler, a defensive back with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1950s. Jerome Bettis, Cris Carter and Bill Parcells were among the finalist who didn’t make it. A panel of 44 media members voted. The inductions are in early August in Canton, Ohio.
Alabama tops Rebels in overtime
New York Giants vs. New England Patriots Today, 5:30 p.m., NBC
Super Bowl QBs share same fire By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — He was always being compared to someone. That’s what happens when you’re the youngest son of a great quarterback and the baby brother of an even better one. It wasn’t until he compared himself to Tom Brady, though, that people began taking Eli Manning seriously. That was in August, when Manning was asked whether he considered himself an “elite” quarterback like Brady. Manning said simply that he belonged “in that class.” But in New York, where blowing things out of proportion is practically a civic duty, even most Giants fans regarded it as heresy. By tonight, it could be fact. It’s time for the “other” Manning vs. Brady, Part II. Both are back in today’s Super Bowl, four years after they first clashed, each with plenty still to prove. “It’s not my job to list quar-
terbacks,” Manning said this week. “He’s obviously a future Hall of Famer.” Yet Brady has looked like anything but that in his last 11 postseason games, posting a 6-5 mark, including a 2008 Super Bowl loss to Manning and the Giants. For most of those, he’s been knocked around a lot, picked off more than usual and tagged with a quarterback rating that wouldn’t qualify as a low-grade fever. Measured against the nearly impossible standard that Brady set at the start of his career — 10 straight postseason wins and three Super Bowl titles — merely average would be a more accurate description. Perception still lags behind that reality, in no small part because everything else about Brady still screams “winner.” Now 34, he is still boyishly handsome, still the most sought-after endorser and the one athlete even his peers would kill to be. He returns home every night
with two sons to look after — and a supermodel wife. Yet those who know Brady have long marveled at how well he hides a competitive streak even Michael Jordan would admire. And despite outward appearances, they wonder how Brady is managing it now, coming up short of his ultimate goal every season since 2005, after winning three in four years. Patriots backup quarterback Brian Hoyer ticked off a laundry list of things he’s been studying in the three seasons he’s sat behind Brady: mechanics, poise, and attention to detail, even the tone of voice he uses to command respect in a huddle. But the one thing Hoyer worries will never rub off is Brady’s raw desire. “At the end of just about every practice, I run out there and try to get the last few reps with the first team,” Hoyer said. “And just about See Super Bowl, Page B3.
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Quarterbacks Tom Brady, left, and Eli Manning talk after their regular-season game in November. Brady’s New England Patriots and Manning’s New York Giants will meet again today in Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GOLF 7:30 a.m. TGC - European PGA Tour, Qatar Masters (tape) 2 p.m. CBS - PGA Tour, Phoenix Open COLLEGE BASKETBALL Noon CBS - Michigan at Michigan St. Noon Big Ten - Minnesota at Nebraska 1 p.m. ESPN - Villanova at Pittsburgh 2 p.m. Big Ten - Northwestern at Illinois 2 p.m. ESPNU - Miami at Duke WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Noon FSN - Wake Forest at Boston College 10 a.m. ESPNU - Dayton at Xavier Noon ESPNU - DePaul at Notre Dame 3 p.m. FSN - Washington at Southern Cal NBA 11 a.m. NBATV - Memphis at Boston NFL 5:30 p.m. NBC - Super Bowl XLVI, N.Y. Giants vs. New England NHL 11:30 a.m. NBC Sports Network Boston at Washington SOCCER 9:30 a.m. Fox - Premier League, Manchester United at Chelsea
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Remembering Johan, Brownspur’s own Viking I did a speaking and book-signing event last month in a community whose local newspaper has run my weekly syndicated column for most of these 25 years. A lady buying a book complimented as I was autographing it, “I think your best column was about your foreign exchange student’s comment about the bump in the road.” That was maybe 20 years ago. Others asked me to relate that story, so I reiterated that Johan, our personal Viking, had noted a highway sign on one of our trips, which proclaimed the warning, “Bump Ahead.” Sure enough, we then hit the bump before I had slowed down enough. Rubbing the top of his head, Johan observed in a puzzled tone, “In America, you haff a bomp in de road, you put op a sign dat say, ‘Bomp?’” “That’s right,” I replied as we gained speed again. “What do y’all do in Norway?” “Vell,” he declared vehemently, “In Norvay, ve fix de bomp!” We all got a laugh — and maybe a lesson? — as I then recalled that our Viking had been volunteered as one of the South’s earliest high school soccer-style kickers, playing
INDIANAPOLIS — Drew Brees set the NFL’s single-season passing record. Aaron Rodgers got the MVP. Rodgers, the quarterback who led the Green Bay Packers to a 15-1 record this season, won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award in a landslide Saturday. Rodgers earned 48 votes to two for New Orleans quarterback Brees in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the NFL. Rodgers led the NFL in passing with a 122.5 rating built on 45 touchdown passes, six interceptions and a 68.3 completion percentage as the Packers went 15-1 and won the NFC North. Brees didn’t leave the NFL’s awards ceremony empty-handed. He won the AP’s Offensive Player of the Year award for a season in which he threw for a single-season record 5,476 yards and completed 71.6 percent of his passes. It’s the second time Brees has won the award. He also got it in 2008. Other award winners from Saturday’s ceremony included: • Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs was picked as the league’s Defensive Player of the Year by the AP. He earned 21 votes, seven more than Minnesota defensive end Jared Allen. Suggs had 70 tackles, including 14 sacks, and was a threat all over the field from his hybrid linebacker-end position. He also forced seven fumbles and had two interceptions. • Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton was the Offensive Rookie of the Year and Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller the Defensive Rookie of the Year. • Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, who fought through injuries his first two seasons and threw for more than 5,000 yards in 2011, was the Comeback Player of the Year. • Jim Harbaugh, who led the San Francisco 49ers to a 13-3 record and the NFC Championship game, was picked as Coach of the Year.
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Feb. 5 2005 — Steve Young and Dan Marino are elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Senior committee nominees Benny Friedman and Fritz Pollard are also elected. 2006 — Pittsburgh wins a recordtying fifth Super Bowl, but its first since 1980 with a 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL. 2009 — Tennessee’s Pat Summitt becomes the first Division I basketball coach — man or woman — to win 1,000 career games after her Lady Vols beat Georgia 73-43. 2011 — Cleveland’s losing streak reaches an NBA-record 24 games with a 111-105 defeat to the Portland Trail Blazers. The Cavs own both the single-season mark for consecutive losses and matched the record for overall losses in a row they previously set over two seasons (198182, 1982-83).
in the first football game he had ever seen. That team won the state championship, and he probably still holds some of the kicking records there. He missed one — robert hitt only his first extra point — because no one had told him that the other team would surge forward to try to block his kick. He had only practiced with a center and holder before the game, and Washington School scored first. He had gotten permission to play from his parents after assuring his mother by long distance that “no one will try to kill” him, in just his role as kicker. Johan actually learned to drive on a tractor. He had been too young to drive in Norway when he came to Mississippi for a full year, and it was in his contract that if someone reported that he had even sat behind the steering wheel of a car or truck, he was gone back to Scandinavia pronto. Yet there was no mention of a farm vehicle, so I put him on an International 1066 pulling a harrow
on a land-planned 200-acre field, once I’d taught him the essentials of driving it. He still holds the Brownspur record for hitting the left lock-brake and spinning around at full speed, without flipping the tractor. That was before I attached the harrow. That was back in 1984-85. Once we got e-mail out here at Brownspur, I struck up a fairly regular correspondence with our personal Viking, who has only come back to visit once. After graduation from high school in Mississippi, he went on to college, a year as a Norway ski-paratrooper, then on to medical school in Germany, marriage to a Swedish girl, two kids, and a doctor’s career. About three years ago he wrote me that his foreign exchange student experience had been so good that he wanted his whole family to have that same opportunity, so he had volunteered for one of those “Doctors without borders” organizations. He and his wife, with a 10-year-old son and an 8-year-old daughter, were assigned to a medical practice in the Australian outback for a full year. They all enjoyed it so much that he extended for six months, when the year was up.
——— Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 98, Atlanta 87 Orlando 85, Indiana 81 L.A. Clippers 107, Washington 81 Cleveland 91, Dallas 88 Detroit 89, New Orleans 87 New York 99, New Jersey 92 Minnesota 100, Houston 91 San Antonio 107, Oklahoma City 96 Chicago 113, Milwaukee 90 Phoenix 95, Charlotte 89 Utah 96, L.A. Lakers 87 Golden State at Sacramento, (n) Denver at Portland, (n) Today’s Games Memphis at Boston, 11 a.m. Toronto at Miami, Noon Monday’s Games L.A. Clippers at Orlando, 6 p.m. Toronto at Washington, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Phoenix at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Chicago at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m. Utah at New York, 6:30 p.m. Sacramento at New Orleans, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Memphis, 7 p.m. Houston at Denver, 8 p.m. Oklahoma City at Portland, 9 p.m.
No. 12 Florida 73, No. 25 Vanderbilt 65 Northern Iowa 65, No. 13 Creighton 62 No. 14 Georgetown 75, South Florida 45 Notre Dame 76, No. 15 Marquette 59 No. 21 Florida St. 58, No. 16 Virginia 55 No. 17 San Diego St. vs. TCU, (n) No. 20 Indiana 78, Purdue 61 No. 22 Mississippi St. 91, Auburn 88 No. 24 Gonzaga at Pepperdine, (n) Today’s Games No. 7 Duke vs. Miami, 1 p.m. No. 9 Michigan St. vs. No. 23 Michigan, Noon Monday’s Games No. 4 Missouri at Oklahoma, 6 p.m. No. 15 Marquette at DePaul, 8 p.m. ———
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It was nice to know that he had enjoyed Mississippi so much. During that year he not only played football (that was before Southern schools had soccer teams; that sport was still suspected as being vaguely communistic then) and drove a tractor, but he hunted doves, ducks, deer, and turkeys; handled the family’s wild pets, such as screech owls, raccoons, possums, and a full-grown great horned owl; enjoyed our swimming hole in the pasture; and discovered Southern Belles, three of which tried to go back to Norway with him when the year was up. Johan affected us for life, too: I still get my Vs and Ws mixed up, as in “Wolwo” or “Wolksvagen” or “VereVolf” or “Wampire.” In return, his letters still include an occasional “Y’all” or “Ain’t.” Betsy still hangs out the Norvay wreath at Christmas on our door, saying “Velcomen.” Having our own personal Viking here at Brownspur was a great experience, for both families, even with a few “Bomps in de road” along the way.
• Robert Hitt Neill is an outdoors writer. He lives in Leland, Miss.
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NFL NFL Playoffs
Wild-card round
Jan. 7 Houston 31, Cincinnati 10 New Orleans 45, Detroit 28 Jan. 8 N.Y. Giants 24, Atlanta 2 Denver 29, Pittsburgh 23, OT
Divisional Playoffs
Jan. 14 San Francisco 36, New Orleans 32 New England 45, Denver 10 Jan. 15 Baltimore 20, Houston 13 N.Y. Giants 37, Green Bay 20
Conference Championships
Jan. 22 New England 23, Baltimore 20 N.Y. Giants 20, San Francisco 17, OT
Pro Bowl Jan. 29
AFC 59, NFC 41
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NFL MVPs
By The Associated Press The NFL Most Valuable Players named by The Associated Press in balloting by a nationwide panel of the media: 2011 — Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay, QB 2010 — Tom Brady, New England, QB 2009 — Peyton Manning, Indianapolis, QB 2008 — Peyton Manning, Indianapolis, QB 2007 — Tom Brady, New England, QB 2006 — LaDainian Tomlinson, San Diego, RB 2005 — Shaun Alexander, Seattle, RB 2004 — Peyton Manning, Indianapolis, QB 2003 — Peyton Manning, Indianapolis, and Steve McNair, Tennessee, QBs 2002 — Rich Gannon, Oakland, QB 2001 — Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB 2000 — Marshall Faulk, St. Louis, RB 1999 — Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB 1998 — Terrell Davis, Denver, RB 1997 — Brett Favre, Green Bay, QB, and Barry Sanders, Detroit, RB 1996 — Brett Favre, Green Bay, QB 1995 — Brett Favre, Green Bay, QB 1994 — Steve Young, San Francisco, QB 1993 — Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB 1992 — Steve Young, San Francisco, QB 1991 — Thurman Thomas, Buffalo, RB 1990 — Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB 1989 — Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB 1988 — Boomer Esiason, Cincinnati, QB 1987 — John Elway, Denver, QB 1986 — Lawrence Taylor, New York Giants, LB 1985 — Marcus Allen, Los Angeles Raiders, RB 1984 — Dan Marino, Miami, QB 1983 — Joe Theismann, Washington, QB 1982 — Mark Moseley, Washington, PK 1981 — Ken Anderson, Cincinnati, QB 1980 — Brian Sipe, Cleveland, QB 1979 — Earl Campbell, Houston, RB 1978 — Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB 1977 — Walter Payton, Chicago, RB 1976 — Bert Jones, Baltimore, QB 1975 — Fran Tarkenton, Minnesota, QB
NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division
W Philadelphia...................17 Boston...........................12 New York.......................9 Toronto..........................8 New Jersey...................8
L 7 10 15 16 17
Pct .708 .545 .375 .333 .320
GB — 4 8 9 9 1/2
Southeast Division
W Miami.............................17 Atlanta...........................16 Orlando..........................15 Washington....................4 Charlotte........................3
L 6 8 9 20 21
Central Division
W Chicago.........................20 Indiana...........................16 Milwaukee......................10 Cleveland.......................9 Detroit............................6
L 6 7 13 13 20
Pct GB .739 — .667 1 1/2 .625 2 1/2 .167 13 1/2 .125 14 1/2 Pct .769 .696 .435 .409 .231
GB — 2 1/2 8 1/2 9 14
WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division
W San Antonio...................16 Dallas.............................14 Houston.........................13 Memphis........................12 New Orleans.................4
L 9 11 11 11 20
Pct GB .640 — .560 2 .542 2 1/2 .522 3 .167 11 1/2
Northwest Division
W Oklahoma City...............18 Denver...........................15 Utah...............................13 Portland.........................13 Minnesota......................12
L 5 8 9 10 12
Pacific Division
W L.A. Clippers..................14 L.A. Lakers....................14 Golden State.................8 Phoenix..........................9 Sacramento...................7
L 7 10 12 14 15
Pct .783 .652 .591 .565 .500
GB — 3 4 1/2 5 6 1/2
Pct .667 .583 .400 .391 .318
GB — 1 1/2 5 1/2 6 7 1/2
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE
Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCT Kentucky............. 9 0 1.000 23 1 .958 Florida................. 7 1 .875 19 4 .826 Mississippi St... 5 3 .625 18 5 .783 Vanderbilt........... 5 3 .625 16 7 .696 Arkansas............. 4 4 .500 16 7 .696 Alabama............. 4 4 .500 15 7 .682 Ole Miss............ 4 4 .500 14 8 .636 LSU..................... 3 5 .375 13 9 .591 Tennessee.......... 3 5 .375 11 12 .478 Auburn................ 3 6 .333 13 10 .565 Georgia............... 1 7 .125 10 12 .455 South Carolina... 1 7 .125 9 13 .409 Saturday’s Games Florida 73, Vanderbilt 65 LSU 71, Arkansas 65 Mississippi St. 91, Auburn 88 Kentucky 86, South Carolina 52 Alabama 69, Ole Miss 67, 2OT Tennessee 73, Georgia 62 Today’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games No games scheduled ———
CONFERENCE USA
Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCT Southern Miss.. 7 1 .875 20 3 .870 Tulsa................... 7 2 .778 14 9 .609 Memphis............. 6 2 .750 16 7 .696 UCF.................... 6 3 .667 17 6 .739 Marshall.............. 5 4 .556 14 9 .609 Rice.................... 4 5 .444 13 11 .542 UAB.................... 4 5 .444 9 13 .409 Tulane................. 3 6 .333 15 8 .652 UTEP.................. 3 6 .333 10 13 .435 East Carolina...... 3 6 .333 12 10 .545 Houston.............. 3 6 .333 10 11 .476 SMU.................... 2 7 .222 10 13 .435 Saturday’s Games Memphis 72, Xavier 68 Central Florida 59, SMU 52 East Carolina 82, Rice 68 Tulane 75, Houston 54 Tulsa 79, Marshall 70 UAB 61, UTEP 60 Today’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games No games scheduled ———
SWAC
Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCT MVSU................. 10 0 1.000 11 11 .500 Southern U......... 8 2 .800 12 11 .522 Texas Southern.. 6 4 .600 7 15 .318 Prairie View........ 6 4 .600 10 13 .435 Alabama St......... 5 5 .500 8 14 .364 Alcorn St........... 3 7 .300 6 16 .273 Alabama A&M.... 3 7 .300 5 14 .263 Jackson St........ 3 7 .300 5 17 .227 Ark.-Pine Bluff.... 3 7 .300 4 19 .174 Grambling St...... 3 7 .300 3 17 .150 Saturday’s Games Mississippi Valley St. 70, Alabama St. 58 Southern 57, Grambling St. 53 Alcorn St. 57, Jackson St. 46 Ark.-Pine Bluff 81, Alabama A&M 75 Prairie View 73, Texas Southern 67 Today’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games Alabama St. at Ark.-Pine Bluff, 7:30 p.m. Southern at Jackson St., 7:30 p.m. Alabama A&M at Miss. Valley St., 7:30 p.m. Alcorn St. at Grambling, 8 p.m. ———
Top 25 Schedule
Saturday’s Games No. 1 Kentucky 86, South Carolina 52 No. 2 Syracuse 95, St. John’s 70 No. 3 Ohio St. 58, No. 19 Wisconsin 52 No. 4 Missouri 74, No. 8 Kansas 71 No. 5 North Carolina 83, Maryland 74 No. 6 Baylor 64, Oklahoma St. 60 No. 10 Murray St. 65, UT-Martin 58 Wyoming 68, No. 11 UNLV 66
Mississippi college schedule
Saturday’s Games Mississippi St. 91, Auburn 88 Mississippi College 81, Texas-Tyler 75 Belhaven 63, Auburn-Montgomery 59 Mississippi Valley St. 70, Alabama St. 58 Alcorn St. 57, Jackson St. 46 Delta St. 72, West Florida 70, OT Alabama 69, Ole Miss 67, 2OT Tougaloo 69, Dillard 44 Mobile 59, William Carey 54 Today’s Game Oglethorpe at Millsaps, 3 p.m. Monday’s Games Fisk at Tougaloo, 7:30 p.m. Southern at Jackson St., 7:30 p.m. Alabama A&M at Miss. Valley St., 7:30 p.m. Alcorn St. at Grambling, 8 p.m.
MISSISSIPPI ST. 91, AUBURN 88
AUBURN (13-10) Payne 3-5 4-4 10, Gabriel 7-14 4-4 22, Chubb 4-12 0-2 8, Wallace 1-3 0-0 2, Sullivan 4-8 7-10 16, Ward 7-14 9-12 24, Denson 1-2 1-2 3, Johnson 0-2 0-0 0, Forbes 1-1 1-2 3, Kouassi 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-61 26-36 88. MISSISSIPPI ST. (18-5) Sidney 5-5 6-9 17, Moultrie 7-13 7-11 21, Bost 4-6 3-7 15, Hood 4-8 0-0 11, Bryant 3-6 1-4 7, Steele 4-8 2-2 13, S. Smith 1-1 2-2 5, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, Lewis 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 29-48 21-35 91. Halftime—Auburn 44-43. 3-Point Goals—Auburn 6-20 (Gabriel 4-8, Sullivan 1-4, Ward 1-5, Denson 0-1, Johnson 0-1, Wallace 0-1), Mississippi St. 12-19 (Bost 4-6, Hood 3-5, Steele 3-6, Sidney 1-1, S. Smith 1-1). Fouled Out—Bost, Forbes, Ward. Rebounds—Auburn 34 (Gabriel 11), Mississippi St. 32 (Bryant, Moultrie 7).
ALABAMA 69, OLE MISS 67, 2OT
OLE MISS (14-8) Henry 5-10 3-3 14, Buckner 4-8 3-6 11, Holloway 4-9 0-0 8, Williams 8-15 1-3 19, Summers 2-8 1-2 7, Cox 2-4 1-2 5, Kendrick 1-7 0-0 3. Totals 26-61 9-16 67. ALABAMA (15-7) Green 6-12 4-7 16, Jacobs 2-6 2-2 6, Lacey 0-4 0-0 0, Releford 3-11 1-2 7, Randolph 3-10 0-0 6, Hankerson Jr. 4-7 1-1 10, Mitchell 6-12 2-2 14, Eblen 0-0 0-0 0, Gueye 0-2 0-0 0, Cooper 1-1 0-0 3, Steele 2-3 2-4 7. Totals 27-68 12-18 69. Halftime—Ole Miss 33-26. End Of Regulation— Tied 54. End Of 1st Overtime—Tied 61. 3-Point Goals—Ole Miss 6-11 (Summers 2-2, Williams 2-5, Henry 1-1, Kendrick 1-3), Alabama 3-17 (Steele 1-1, Cooper 1-1, Hankerson Jr. 1-3, Mitchell 0-2, Releford 0-3, Lacey 0-3, Randolph 0-4). Fouled Out—Buckner, Green. Rebounds— Ole Miss 40 (Holloway 9), Alabama 42 (Green 12). Assists—Ole Miss 12 (Summers 4), Alabama 11 (Releford 4).
ALCORN ST. 57, JACKSON ST. 46
ALCORN ST. (5-16) Sullivan 5-8 4-5 14, McDonald 1-9 0-0 2, Oakley 3-9 1-2 9, Nieves 2-2 4-6 8, Rimmer 3-7 4-4 12, Hawkins 0-3 0-2 0, Sanders 1-3 0-0 2, Francis 0-1 0-0 0, Starks 4-6 2-2 10. Totals 19-48 15-21 57. JACKSON ST. (5-17) Jones 2-4 2-2 6, Taylor 3-6 3-6 9, Howard 5-13 2-4 14, Williams 3-15 1-2 8, Lewis 2-4 0-0 6, Ballard 0-0 0-0 0, Stewart 0-7 0-0 0, Coleman 0-1 1-2 1, Readus 1-5 0-0 2, Gregory 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 16-55 9-18 46. Halftime—Alcorn St. 21-13. 3-Point Goals—Alcorn St. 4-12 (Rimmer 2-4, Oakley 2-5, Hawkins 0-1, McDonald 0-2), Jackson St. 5-15 (Lewis 2-4, Howard 2-6, Williams 1-4, Stewart 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Alcorn St. 34 (Sullivan 7), Jackson St. 39 (Taylor 11). Assists—Alcorn St. 14 (McDonald, Oakley, Sanders 3), Jackson St. 8 (Williams 3).
Women’s Basketball Women’s Top 25 schedule
Saturday’s Games No. 1 Baylor 70, Kansas St. 41 No. 3 Connecticut 66, No. 13 Rutgers 34 No. 4 Stanford 91, Arizona 51 No. 10 Green Bay 85, Milwaukee 39 West Virginia 66, No. 14 Louisville 50 No. 17 Georgetown 65, Cincinnati 54 No. 18 Texas A&M 62, Kansas 51 No. 20 Gonzaga 69, San Diego 58 No. 22 BYU 83, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 47 Today’s Games No. 2 Notre Dame vs. DePaul, Noon No. 6 Kentucky at LSU, 2 p.m. No. 7 Miami vs. Clemson, 1 p.m. No. 8 Tennessee vs. Auburn, 1 p.m. No. 12 Delaware vs. VCU, 1 p.m. No. 15 Purdue vs. Illinois, 1 p.m. No. 19 Penn State at Minnesota, 2 p.m. No. 21 Georgia at Alabama, 2 p.m. No. 25 Texas Tech vs. Missouri, 1 p.m.
No. No. No. No.
Monday’s Games 1 Baylor vs. Oklahoma, 8 p.m. 5 Duke vs. No. 23 North Carolina, 6 p.m. 9 Maryland at No. 24 Georgia Tech, 6 p.m. 11 Ohio St. vs. Wisconsin, 6:30 p.m.
NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division
GP N.Y. Rangers...49 Philadelphia.....51 Pittsburgh........52 New Jersey.....51 N.Y. Islanders..51
W 32 30 30 29 21
L 12 15 18 19 22
OT 5 6 4 3 8
Pts 69 66 64 61 50
Northeast Division
GP Boston.............50 Ottawa.............55 Toronto............52 Buffalo.............52 Montreal...........52
W 32 27 27 22 19
L 16 21 19 24 24
OT 2 7 6 6 9
Pts 66 61 60 50 47
Southeast Division
GP Florida..............51 Washington......51 Winnipeg..........53 Tampa Bay......51 Carolina...........54
W 24 27 24 23 20
L 16 20 23 23 25
OT 11 4 6 5 9
Pts 59 58 54 51 49
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division
GP Detroit..............52 Nashville..........53 St. Louis..........51 Chicago...........53 Columbus........52
W 35 32 30 29 14
L 16 17 14 17 32
OT 1 4 7 7 6
Pts 71 68 67 65 34
Northwest Division
GP Vancouver.......52 Minnesota........52 Colorado..........54 Calgary............52 Edmonton........51
W 32 25 26 24 20
L 15 19 25 22 26
OT 5 8 3 6 5
Pts 69 58 55 54 45
Pacific Division
GP San Jose.........50 Los Angeles....53 Dallas...............51 Phoenix............52 Anaheim..........51 NOTE: Two points time loss.
W L 29 15 25 18 27 22 23 21 19 24 for a win,
OT 6 10 2 8 8 one
GF 136 171 159 144 125
GA 100 151 133 146 150
GF 176 161 161 126 134
GA 110 171 152 154 145
GF 131 144 129 147 137
GA 145 145 147 173 165
GF 167 149 126 169 120
GA 121 136 105 158 174
GF 167 121 135 124 133
GA 130 133 151 141 148
Pts GF GA 64 145 117 60 115 116 56 136 144 54 136 141 46 132 154 point for over-
——— Saturday’s Games Vancouver 3, Colorado 2, SO Buffalo 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, SO Dallas 2, Minnesota 1, SO Pittsburgh 2, Boston 1 New Jersey 6, Philadelphia 4 Washington 3, Montreal 0 Toronto 5, Ottawa 0 Carolina 2, Los Angeles 1 Tampa Bay 6, Florida 3 Nashville 3, St. Louis 1 Phoenix 5, San Jose 3 Detroit at Edmonton, (n) Today’s Games Boston at Washington, 11:30 a.m. Pittsburgh at New Jersey, Noon Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, Noon Winnipeg at Montreal, 1 p.m.
LOTTERY Sunday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 2-8-9 La. Pick 4: 9-7-8-2 Monday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 0-6-4 La. Pick 4: 6-0-7-6 Tuesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 2-9-8 La. Pick 4: 8-7-7-5 Mega Millions: 9-17-18-28-43 Megaball: 9; Megaplier; 3 Wednesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 8-3-0 La. Pick 4: 1-2-0-1 Easy 5: 5-11-12-31-3 La. Lotto: 3-20-21-24-28-35 Powerball: 8-13-17-34-59 Powerball: 35 Thursday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 8-0-4 La. Pick 4: 0-0-8-0 Friday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 7-8-4 La. Pick 4: 5-6-6-0 Mega Millions: 7-19-21-49-53 Megaball: 35; Megaplier: 4 Saturday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 1-5-0 La. Pick 4: 0-3-4-1 Easy 5: 19-21-25-32-33 La. Lotto: 6-15-17-19-21-36 Powerball: 15-23-43-45-56 Powerball: 7
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Continued from Page B1. stat.” Auburn (13-10, 3-6) was led by Varez Ward, who scored a season-high 24 points off the bench. Kenny Gabriel added 22 points and 11 rebounds. Bost is a 6-foot-2 senior who is moving higher on Mississippi State’s career record lists with each passing game, but his final season has been a bit of a struggle, especially when it concerns his shooting touch. He was making just 38.6 percent from the field this season, including 32.9 percent from 3-point range before Saturday’s outburst. Moultrie was his usual productive self, going 7-of-
13 from the field and 7-of11 from the free-throw line. He also grabbed seven rebounds. Sidney had one of his most productive games of the season, making all five of his shots, including a 3-pointer. Mississippi State led for much of the first half, shooting 63 percent. But Auburn was nearly as good, making 53.6 percent (15-of-28) of its field goal attempts, including a 3-pointer by Gabriel at the buzzer that gave the Tigers their lead. The Bulldogs had a week of rest coming into Saturday’s game, and needed it considering injuries and ineffective
bench players have limited Stansbury’s playing rotation to seven players. Auburn’s 88 points were a season high. The Tigers fought back from a 13-point deficit, but simply couldn’t make enough stops on the defensive end to get a road victory. “We made shots but we didn’t defend,” Auburn coach Tony Barbee said. “Hopefully this kind of output will lead to more confidence and spark more offensive production like this. But we can’t give up 60 percent shooting to win a game.”
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Mississippi State guard Dee Bost, right, drives against Auburn’s Varez Ward in the first half Saturday.
Ole Miss Continued from Page B1. rebounds before picking up his fifth foul just 24 seconds into the second overtime. Tony Mitchell scored 14 points after coming off the bench for the first time this season. He had made just 15 of 50 shots over the previous five games, and Grant said the decision resulted from “just the week of practice.” He went with a starting lineup that included three freshmen but had 11 players on the court for at least 8 minutes. Charles Hankerson Jr., whose status was uncertain after having a minor procedure on his knee Monday, supplied a second-half spark and finished with 10 points. “The passion he played with energized our team and helped us take it to another level,” said Steele, who attempted three shots and had seven points. Releford had seven points, five steals and four assists. Nick Williams, a Mobile, Ala. native, led Ole Miss with 19 points. Terrance Henry added 14, while Reginald Buckner collected 11 points, eight rebounds and three blocked shots before fouling out in the first overtime. In the first overtime, Henry blocked a Nick Jacobs shot to give the Rebels the ball with 16 seconds left. Ole Miss had to inbound the ball when Releford knocked
it away with 4.2 seconds left. Henry fired it in to Summers, who had the ball poked loose from behind by Releford while streaking toward the basket. “I thought the Red Sea parted, then he just knocked the ball out of his hands,” Kennedy said. “Our Achilles heel is our inability to make plays with the ball.” The Rebels shot 56 percent (14-of-25) in the first half but made 12 of 36 attempts (33 percent) the rest of the way. “Our defense really turned up in the second half,” Grant said. “As the overtimes continued, I think we got stronger defensively. We got more determined and more locked in.”
LSU 71, Arkansas 65 Ralston Turner had 16 points to pace four scorers in double figures as LSU beat Arkansas. Justin Hamilton registered a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds for LSU (13-9, 3-5 SEC). Anthony Hickey contributed 12 points and Eddie Ludwig came off the bench to match his career high with 12. Mardracus Wade had 15 points as the leading scorer for Arkansas (16-7, 4-4), which has yet to win a game away from home. Nobles had 14 points, while reserve Rashad Madden had 10.
Golf Association season starts Feb. 25 from 10 a.m. until noon at the Clear Creek clubhouse. All women golfers are encouraged to attend and register for membership. Beginning golfers are welcome, with no skill level requirement. Following registration, ladies may choose to play a round (weather permitting). For more information, visit www.clearcreeklga.com or call Linda McHann at 631-6300406. The associated press
Alabama center Moussa Gueye, right, attempts a shot while being defended by two Ole Miss players in the first half Saturday. Alabama won in double overtime, 69-67.
Alcorn St. 57, JSU 46 KeDorian Sullivan scored 14 points, grabbed seven rebounds and blocked four shots as Alcorn State beat archrival Jackson State (5-17, 3-7 SWAC). Sullivan scored on a dunk and a layup to start a 16-3 second-half run that gave the Braves (6-16, 3-7) a 43-26 lead with 7:22 remaining. Xavian Rimmer scored 12 points for Alcorn. Former Vicksburg High star Kelsey Howard led Jackson State with 14 points.
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady hugs his mother, Galynn, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday. “that’s when I just started screaming for my mom or dad to come save me.” Contrast that with the story Brady told about growing up with three older sisters. “I didn’t have to share clothes. I didn’t have to fight over the bathroom. They were pretty easy on me. They dressed me up a few times in their clothes and painted my nails once, but it was nice,” Brady said without a shred of embarrassment. “They’d bring all of their girlfriends over to the house. It was pretty cool.” Brady is as smooth on the field as away from it. He had success almost from the moment he slipped into the starting lineup in New England in the second game of the 2001 season, an opportunity that came after frontliner Drew Bledsoe suffered a sheared blood vessel
The Clear Creek Women’s Golf Club will accept registration for its nine-hole golf league through Feb. 27. The spring league will begin March 5 and end June 10. Registration fee is $10 per player. Handicaps and flights will be established by April 1. All ages are welcome. To register, sign up at the Clear Creek clubhouse, call Karen Carroll at 601-831-1522 or e-mail her at ccwgc9@aol. com
payable to the Zeke West Memorial Foundation to Bill Deweese at 1206 Carroll Street, Tallulah, La., 71282. For information, call Deweese at 318-341-3161, or after 5 p.m. at 318-574-0832.
Vicksburg-WC alumni football There is an alumni football game planned for April, which will feature former players from Vicksburg High and Warren Central. An organizational meeting will be held Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Pizza Hut on Clay Street, and anyone interested in playing should attend. There will be a $100 registration fee to play in the game, which will be used to cover the cost of equipment and referees. For more information, call Deonta Selvy at 601-529-9443.
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Super Bowl every practice, whether it’s a steamy day in training camp or a short walk-through after watching film, he runs out there, grabs me and says something like, ‘Get the hell out of here!’ — only it’s not always even that nice. “Everybody outside this team looks at him and thinks ‘pretty-boy QB.’ But Tom doesn’t try hiding it from us,” Hoyer said. “He’s a killer.” Manning shares that trait and has been honing it for nearly as long. Like Brady, he was the baby of the family and quickly learned he could get his way by being demanding one moment and wheedling the next. Like his father, Archie, the longtime Saints quarterback, and older brother Peyton, who almost single-handedly vaulted the Colts to the top of the NFL heap, Eli burned to win all the time, too. But he wasn’t above playing the trump card — his mother, Olivia. “He would pin me down,” Eli, now 31, recalled growing up with Peyton, “and take his knuckles and knock on my chest and make me name the 12 schools in the SEC. I didn’t know them all at the time, but I quickly learned them. ... I don’t suggest anyone else try it out, but it definitely made me learn the schools of the SEC. Once I figured those out, he moved on. “There were 28 teams in the NFL at that point, so all teams in the NFL. I had to get my studying on for that. Then once I figured that out, the one I never got was the 10 brands of cigarettes. When he really wanted to torture me and knew I had no shot of ever getting it,” he added,
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in his chest following a hit from the Jets’ Mo Lewis. In a sense, Brady was still seething about being platooned with Drew Henson during his final season at Michigan and falling all the way to the sixth round — No. 199 — in the 2000 draft. Once he got the job, Brady wasn’t going to let go. Manning, on the other hand, was drafted No. 1 overall in 2004 by the Chargers. They promptly traded him to the Giants for quarterback Philip Rivers, the No. 4 pick, a swap that rumor had it was engineered by Archie. Either way, Manning arrived to much fanfare and not a little resentment. It didn’t help that Eli struggled early in his career. Manning threw a leagueworst 20 interceptions in 2007. That same season, however, he threw six TD passes and just one pick in four postseason games and was named Super Bowl MVP in the upset of the Patriots. Asked this week why the Giants stuck with Manning through a rough start, owner John Mara explained the organization prided itself on taking the long view. Then someone asked Mara if he remembered the scouting report then-general manager Ernie Accorsi filed on Manning. “Just that he has something that very few players have: the ability to put a team on his shoulders and carry them,” he recalled. “The one line I remember from the report is, ‘He can’t really run with the football. It’s just not in them unless it comes from Olivia and I never timed her.”’
Miss. Valley St. 70, Alabama St. 58 Kevin Burwell scored a career-high 23 points to lead Mississippi Valley State to its 10th consecutive victory. The Delta Devils, once 1-11, are now 10-0 in the SWAC and 11-11 overall. Paul Crosby and Terrence Joyner scored 15 points apiece for Valley, and Crosby also had seven rebounds. Alabama State (8-14, 5-5) lost for the fourth time in the last five games.
Zeke West Bass Tournament The fourth annual Zeke West Memorial Bass Tournament is scheduled for March 3 at Lake Providence, La. Launch will be at safe daylight from airport landing and the tournament will conclude at 3 p.m. The tournament is a team format with a fee of $110 per boat, with an optional $10 big bass pot. Payout is a guaranteed $2,000 for first place. The tournament benefits a scholarship in the memory of Zeke West for a deserving area high school senior going to college and majoring in an outdoors field. To register, send a check
The 33rd annual Run Thru History is scheduled for March 3 at the Vicksburg National Military Park at 8:30 a.m. The fees are $25 for the 10K run, $25 for the 5K walk and $12 for the onemile fun run for ages 15 and under before Feb. 27. After that, it is $30 for the 10K and $30 for the 5K walk. Raceday registration begins at 7 a.m. and concludes at 8 a.m. Race packets can be picked up from 5 to 8 p.m. on March 2 at the Battlefield Inn or at registration on race day. For information, visit runthruhistory.org, call Casey Custer at 601-638-1071 or e-mail him at caseycuster@ vicksburgymca.com.
Parks and recreation softball umpires The Vicksburg Parks and Recreation Department is looking for softball umpires for both the youth fastpitch and adult slow-pitch season. Prospective umpires need to fill out city employment forms, which can be picked up at the Parks and Rec office on 100 Army-Navy Drive. For information, call Joseph Graves at 601-6344514.
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‘Smash’: A TV drama mashed up with original songs By Frazier Moore AP television writer NEW YORK — As TV series go, “Smash” does a smashing job of abstaining from the usual: no courtrooms, no operating rooms, no interrogation rooms. Meanwhile, this new NBC musical drama puts a bright, sexy sheen on one of filmdom’s most timeless tropes: Hey, kids, let’s put on a show! Which “Smash” does, embedding original songs and dance into the TV drama’s narrative. P r e m i e r i n g M o n d a y, “Smash” tracks the genesis of a Broadway musical from multiple perspectives, including those of composer and lyricist, producer and directorchoreographer, and the two rival actresses competing for its title role: Marilyn Monroe. Ah, Marilyn! “There was something about her — how much she wanted to love and be loved,” says Debra Messing, who plays the lyricist, getting all dreamy-eyed as she imagines the project’s possibilities. Her early vision of Marilyn is soon turned into a number called “Let Me Be Your Star” (“To do what she can/ For the love of one man/ And for millions who love from afar”), with both would-be Marilyns performing it in an explosive finale to the first episode. But “Smash” is no more single-minded about charting a Broadway show’s long journey from raw concept to opening night than “The West Wing” was about obsessing over how a bill wends its way from Congress to the president’s desk. “Their day job happens to be putting together a show, but their lives aren’t really about that,” says Craig Zadan, who, with partner Neil Meron, is among the many “Smash” executive producers. “We also have adoption, divorce, infidelity and disapproving parents from the Midwest in our story lines. We’ve put in as many human, universal qualities as we can: It’s a story about wish fulfillment.” Rest assured, no one solves a crime or diagnoses a disease. Even so, Meron suggests that “Smash” could still be called a procedural. “The goal would be to have a
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Christian Borle and Debra Messing in “Smash”
On TV “Smash” premieres Monday on NBC at 9 p.m. Broadway show created every season, and have our characters involved with creating each of them,” he says. What “Smash” won’t be, he quickly adds, is a sort of “Glee”-for-adults, as some viewers may have assumed. “We don’t think that it’s anything like ‘Glee,’” Meron declares. “But we thank God for ‘Glee,’ because it got viewers used to watching people sing on TV dramas.” One big difference: While “Glee” does covers of popular songs, “Smash” will introduce and compile original songs (splendidly conceived by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman of “Hairspray”) for the “Marilyn the Musical” show-withina-show. Then, possibly, that pretend musical might be mounted for real. “By season’s end, we’re going to have at least 15 songs,” Meron says, “and if we really like how the ‘Marilyn’ musical is turning out, we might actually put it on Broadway. Why not?”
Presumably, this attempt would go better than the first shot, “Marilyn: An American Fable,” which opened in 1983 and ran for 17 performances. “A huge flop!” composer Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and his collaborator Julia Houston (Messing) say in unison. And yet they can’t resist giving Marilyn another chance. In the large “Smash” ensemble, Messing plays perhaps the series’ central character in Julia, who is torn between her happy domestic life with a loving husband and son, and the addictive, all-consuming demands of the musical. “I hate the theater, I really do,” says Julia’s schoolteacher husband (Brian d’Arcy James) when he learns she has broken her promise to take some time off for the family, and instead has plunged into the Marilyn project. As a youngster, Messing, best known for the long-running comedy “Will & Grace,” had her own dreams of being a Broadway musical star. She remembers seeing “Annie” when she was 8 “and wanting to jump on stage and be in ‘It’s the Hard-Knock Life’ with all the other girls.” Then she
sang in high school musicals. On “Smash,” she finally has a taste of that professional world: “I got to sing a song my character wrote, and it was thrilling and terrifying, especially considering the company I’m keeping with this cast. “The rest of the time, I get to watch the really talented singers, and enjoy.” Initially proposed a couple of years ago by Steven Spielberg (another “Smash” executive producer along with his DreamWorks colleagues Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank), the show quickly became a passion project of Robert Greenblatt, then head of pay-cable network Showtime, for which it was being developed. But when he jumped to NBC as its chairman last January, he wasn’t about to leave “Smash” behind. Greenblatt unveiled the fin-
ished product at a gala premiere party last week at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, in a refreshingly unguarded moment, he told the gathered what “Smash” means to him and the rest of the team: “You work hard on every single show, but your heart isn’t always in it. Well, with ‘Smash,’ everyone’s heart is in it.” Of course, it’s Greenblatt’s best shot at redeeming his first year at NBC, which remains in the ratings cellar after a slate of lackluster fall premieres. There’s no mystery why NBC is hyping “Smash” like mad. Greenblatt’s arrival with “Smash” at NBC pleased Zadan. “Sometimes you have a series that you wish to be on cable, because you want the edge,” he says. “But this is a universal-appeal show, and really works better on a net-
work than on cable.” Zadan (whose many credits with Meron include the musical films “Hairspray” and “Chicago” and the Lifetime series “Drop Dead Diva”) is talking with a reporter at “Smash” production headquarters in a converted factory in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. He is in the rehearsal studio, which is both a set for the show and the actual rehearsal space where “Smash” dance numbers are created by the series’ choreographer, Josh Bergasse. (As often happens with “Smash,” reality and make-believe are intertwined.) “This,” says Zadan, “is a Cinderella story.” But just who will be crowned, launched from unknown status to Broadway royalty, remains in flux the first season, as the characters Ivy (played by Megan Hilty) and Karen (played by Katharine McPhee) go headto-head for the Marilyn role, their prospects alternately rising and falling. Week after week, viewers will surely be rooting for their favorite, as if this were a scripted version of “American Idol” (on which McPhee, of course, was runner-up in 2006). “The show gives viewers a chance to see the behind-thescenes deal when producers and writers have to choose between two people they think are both great,” says McPhee. She has been on the receiving end of such torturous choices. “Karen is more naive than I am,” McPhee says, “but her struggle — trying to get attention, better representation, a casting person to see you, callbacks — I know what that’s like. I’ve lived it.” While Karen is talented but green, Ivy is experienced — maybe a little too experienced — but has never been able to escape the chorus line.
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TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE “Jersey Girl” — A young woman, Liv Tyler, changes the life of a single father, Ben Affleck, who used to be a successful New York music publicist./7 on LMN n SPORTS Super Bowl XLVI — More than 100 million people are expected to tune in to watch Eli Manning and the New York Giants against the New England Patriots./5:30 on NBC n PRIMETIME “Numb3rs” — After a sinkhole collapses under a school playground, Don and his team Liv Tyler investigate a trail of illegal waste-disposal; Charlie’s new boss, Kathy Najimy, orders him to spend less time helping the FBI and more time in their department at Cal Sci./7 on MNT
THIS WEEK’S LINEUP n EXPANDED LISTINGS TV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost. com
MILESTONES n BIRTHDAYS Stuart Damon, actor, 75; Jane Bryant Quinn, financial writer, 73; Michael Mann, movie director, 69; Barbara Hershey, actress, 64; Christopher Guest, actor, 64; Tim Meadows, actorcomedian, 51; Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress, 50; Laura Linney, actress, 48; Chris Parnell, actor-comedian, 45; Bobby Brown, rhythm-andblues singer, 43; Sara Evans, country singer, 41.
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peopLE Don Cornelius remembered as inspiring Fans and friends including Roberta Flack paid tribute to “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius in Harlem on Saturday, calling the producer a fearless pioneer who brought black music to television and gave hundreds of dancers and musicians their start. “He didn’t have a great big light telling him ‘Go over here, don’t go over there, watch where Don you step, there’s a hole right there,”’ Flack told Cornelius the crowd. “He stepped.” Cornelius, 75, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday. He had suffered from health problems, a difficult divorce, and had pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor spousal battery charge in 2009. But on Saturday fans praised Cornelius’ vision in creating, hosting and selling “Soul Train” to television stations that were originally skeptical about programming aimed at blacks. The show aired from 1971 to 2006.
and one more Hippity-hop, little sheep Champis the bunny doesn’t only hop — he also knows how to herd his masters’ flock of sheep, possibly having picked up the skill after watching trained dogs do the job. The 5-year-old pet rabbit from the small village of Kal in northern Sweden shot to online fame last week, having garnered more than 700,000 YouTube hits so far, after a clip of his sheepherding skills surfaced on a blog. The June video shows a persistent Champis running back and forth on the farm, trying to keep Nils-Erik and Greta Vigren’s sheep together. Greta Vigren said she first noted his talent last spring when they let out the sheep to graze for the first time after the long Swedish winter. “He just started to behave like a sheepdog,” she recalled, adding that while he likes to round up the sheep, he is consistent about leaving the farm’s hens alone, treating them more gently. “He’s like a king for the whole group. He thinks he rules over both the sheep and the hens. He has a very big ego.”
TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE
BY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Be polite and listen to advice being given to you by someone who believes that he or she has the answers you’re looking for. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — You’re likely to be more comfortable issuing orders than following them, but if the latter be your fate, grin and bear it. Aries (March 21-April 19) — If you find yourself facing a financial shortfall, you can probably blame it all on one recent foolish purchase. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Your views are likely to mean more to you than they will to your listeners, while their outlook will be what counts to them. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — You could lull yourself into a false sense of security by believing you’re in a stronger position than you actually are. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Be realistic and pragmatic about the resources you have at hand instead of depending on what you believe to be coming in. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — The only folks you can expect to come through for you will be the little people in your life, not the big shots. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — If you feel you’ve been taken advantage of, the blame could actually fall on you, for making a commitment you shouldn’t have made in the first place. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — You should know that no one is likely to give you anything without you contributing the initial favor. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Make certain that unrealistic objectives aren’t a contributing factor to a downfall. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — When you set your mind to acquiring something, you can be an extremely industrious person. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — There is a strong possibility that you could be tempted by a tantalizing challenge in which the odds are tilted against you.
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Removal of Ryman Auditorium stage begins NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Workers have begun stripping away history at Ryman Auditorium. A crew began gently removing the Nashville landmark’s 61-year-old oak floorboards with pry bars Saturday morning. That’s the first step in a two-week renovation that will leave the storied “Mother Church” of country music with a new Brazilian teak stage. “We’re going to take it off with kid gloves,” said Mike Bohler, senior project manager with Beech Construction Services. “We’ll remove it as easy as we can and save as much as we can and try not to damage it.” The old floorboards will be taken to a new location and stored. Gaylord Entertainment officials have not yet announced what will be done with them. The stage at the National Historic Landmark needs replacing because of age. It’s just the second stage in the Ryman’s 120-year history and it won’t stand up to another refinishing. The boards have become permanently scuffed and marked, and the ones pulled
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Jay McClellan removes a piece of the stage at the Ryman Auditorium Saturday. up for reporters on Saturday were just a half-inch thick. An 18-inch strip of the blonde oak will be left at the front of the stage to commemorate the auditorium’s rich history. The teak, already stacked in a corner, is slightly darker. Dierks Bentley talked fondly of the stage during the final
standalone concert Thursday, placing a piece of duct tape over a few loose boards. “There, it’s fixed,” he joked. Keith Urban, Charley Pride and Steve Wariner were among the final performers to walk the floorboards Friday night during a Grand Ole Opry performance.
The Oak Ridge Boys got some of the evening’s loudest applause when they laid down “Elvira” one last time before the renovation. “That’s one more ‘oom poppa oom poppa mow mow’ for this stage,” Joe Bonsall said of the song’s memorable chorus. “It’s history.”
Popular character actor Ben Gazzara dies at 81 NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in such iconic productions over the decades as the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and the film “The Big Lebowski,” has died at age 81. Longtime family friend Suzanne Mados said Gazzara died Friday in Manhattan. Mados, who owned the Wyndham Hotel, where celebrities such as Peter Falk and Martin Sheen stayed, said he died after being placed in hospice care for cancer. She and her husband helped marry Gazzara and his wife, German-born Elke Krivat, at their hotel. Gazzara was a proponent of method acting, in which the performer attempts to take on the thoughts and emotions of the character he’s playing, and it helped him achieve stardom early in his career with two stirring Broadway performances. In 1955, he originated the role of Brick Pollitt, the disturbed alcoholic son and failed football star in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” He left the show after only seven months to take on an equally challenging
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Ben Gazzara in the 1968 file “The Bridge at Remagen” role, Johnny Pope, the drug addict in “A Hatful of Rain.” It earned him his first of three Tony Award nominations. In 1965, he moved on to TV stardom in “Run for Your Life,” a drama about a workaholic lawyer who, diagnosed with a terminal illness, quits his job and embarks on a globetrotting attempt to squeeze a lifetime of adventures into the one or two years he has left. He was twice nominated for Emmys during the show’s three-year run. Gazzara made his movie debut in 1957 in “The Strange One,” Calder Willingham’s bitter drama about brutality at a Southern military school. He
had previously played the lead role of the psychopathic cadet, Jocko de Paris, on Broadway in Willingham’s stage version of the story, “End of Man.” He followed that film with “Anatomy of a Murder,” in which he played a man on trial for murdering a tavern keeper who had been accused of raping his wife. After “Run for Your Life” ended in 1968, Gazzara spent the rest of his career alternating between movies and the stage, although rarely with the critical acclaim he had enjoyed during his early years. In the 1970s, he teamed with his friend director John Cassavetes for three films, “The
Woman irked by man who won’t fix what’s broken Dear Abby: My live-in boyfriend is a total ditz when it comes to challenges. He claims it’s because he’s a city boy, but I think it’s just plain laziness. When something needs to be repaired, he looks the other way and expects me to be “Miss Fix-It.” It doesn’t matter what’s wrong — the car, the washer, plumbing, even issues with bills. It becomes my job. I want him to challenge himself sometimes. I’ve never known a man who won’t venture into something that’s not familiar. Is there anything I can say or do to let him know I want him to help, or am I stuck with a male damsel in distress? — Role-Reversal in Bridgeport, Conn.
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Dear Role-Reversal: I’m sure you have told your boyfriend more than once that you want him to help. If he is as lacking in mechanical and organizational ability as you have implied, perhaps it’s better that you be the fixer than have him destroy whatever needs to be repaired. Because you feel you’re being taken advantage of, have him call a repairman and pay for
the service calls. And while you’re at it, start a list of the positive things he adds to your relationship. If you come up with a minus instead of a plus, perhaps you should throw him back and keep fishing.
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Killing of a Chinese Bookie” and “Opening Night.” In another Cassavetes film, he appeared with Falk, and the two became friends (it was Cassavetes who introduced them to the Wyndham Hotel, according to a 1982 article in New York magazine). Gena Rowlands appeared with Gazzara in “Opening Night,” which also starred Cassavetes. Cassavetes and Rowlands were married; he died in 1989. Falk died last year. “It breaks my heart to have this era come to an end. Ben meant so much to all of us. To our families. To John. To Peter. To have them gone now is devastating to me,” she said in a statement. Rita Moreno, who played Gazzara’s wife in the 2000 film “Blue Moon,” said, “He was a wonderful man, and I so enjoyed working with him. I wish I could have had the pleasure more often.” Other Gazzara films included “The Bridge at Remagen,” “The Young Doctors,” “They All Laughed,” “The Thomas Crown Affair,” “If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium,” “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Stag” and “Road House.” He also made several films in Italy.
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Love, betrayal are focus in this week’s reviews The Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library reports on new books regularly. • “Say Amen, Again” by ReShonda Tate Billingsley takes us back to the spirited congregation featured in “Let the Church Say Amen.” As the first Lady of Zion Hill, Rachel is not only Pastor Lester Adams’s wife, she’s pregnant and going toe-to-toe with Lester’s one-time mistress, congregant Mary Richardson, also pregnant. Her baby might or might not be Lester’s, but Mary’s doing all she can to win sympathy and turn her fellow churchgoers against Rachel — even threatening to blackmail Pastor Adams with a paternity lawsuit. After all, where can an unmarried mother-tobe go but to the Lord? Rachel has a few choice answers for exactly where Mary can go but as these expectant moms do battle, hostilities erupt into a drama
unlike anything Zion Hill has ever seen! Something has to give, and while Rachel contemplates everything from transferring her lifelong church membership to packing up and leaving Lester, she knows deep down God is calling her to forgiveness. Will the arrival of the new babies bring a new understanding? Or harden forever the anger that’s dividing them? • “Love on the Dotted Line” by David Talbert tells what happens when love and litigation collide. Morgan Chase, a 34-year-old contracts lawyer, is pushed to her romantic wit’s end when she discovers that her boyfriend of nine months, investment banker Marcus Alexander, has been diversifying his “portfolio” with another
woman. After a few hours of venting with her girlfriends, and more than a few drinks, Morgan decides that the only way you can guarantee that a man will act right after you’ve been intimate is if you make him sign a contract before you’ve been intimate. Sparks fly, tempers flare and emotions hit the fan when the man Morgan finally convinces to sign her contract is caught red-handed with another woman. • “L.A. Blues” by Maxine Thompson is Z’s story. Growing up in foster care, Zepporah “Z” Saldano never dreamed of becoming a police officer, but after she’s rescued from a hostage situation during the Los Angeles riots, she chooses a career in law enforcement. After 10 good years on the force, Z is involved in a domestic homicide case gone awry. Her partner is killed, and Z is fired when alcohol is detected in her system. It’s two long years before she gets sober and opens her own private
new on the shelves investigation firm. Now Shirley, her former
foster mother, is in need of Z’s help. Someone has murdered her grandson, and she wants Z to find out who did it. Z soon finds herself in deeper trouble than when s h e wa s kicked out of the LAPD. What she discovers is a conspiracy much deeper than anyone would believe, and she finds her own life in danger. • “Quiet as It’s Kept” by Monique Miller is the story of Will and Morgan. Will Tracy has been praying about and patiently waiting for the perfect woman and wife. He’s found her in Morgan. She has a beautiful body, no children, and best of all, she’s saved. Will couldn’t have asked for a better blessing — or so he thinks, until h e st a r t s noticing an abundance of unexplainable accidents that all seem to center around him. After one nearfatal accident, Will realizes that when it comes to his wife, things are not always as they appear. Morgan Tracy is living the life she’s always wanted. She’s found a handsome man who makes six figures and is kind, loving, and faithful. What woman could ask for more? Well, Morgan can. Will starts to wonder if the good thing he has was really sent by God, or if the devil has a hand in putting their union together. • “Message from a Mistress” by Niobia Bryant is a tale of friendship and betrayal. Through good times and bad, longtime friends Jaime, Renee, Aria and Jessa have shared just about everything. But everything breaks loose when Jessa texts them a shocking revelation: she’s been sharing her bed with one of their husbands. To make matters worse, she refuses to name which husband, and all three wives believe they have reason to worry. Jaime wonders if her own past infidelity drove her man into Jessa’s waiting arms. Renee thinks her busy career opened the
door for Jessa to step in and fulfill her wifely duties. Aria fears her competitive relationship with Jessa pushed her so-called friend to claim the ultimate prize in revenge. The betrayed trio vow to stick together. But before the identity of Jessa’s lover is revealed, e a c h wo m a n ’s deepest secrets will be exposed for all to see — and they’ll need each other more than ever. • “Redeeming Waters” by Vanessa Davis Griggs explores the choices we make in life. Brianna was 10 years old when she first met 25-year-old David R. Shepherd, a devout and gifted gospel recording artist who would ultimately become world renowned megastar, King d.Avid. He left an impression on Brianna she would never forget, and they were destined to meet
again. Brianna’s best friend, Alana Norwood, hasn’t had the best encounters with men, but she’s always been a good friend to Brianna. But despite their bond, the next time Brianna encounters King, she’s a lonely young wife seeking solace in religious studies. While Alana’s quest for fame has her living a life that seems to be going nowhere fast, King’s companionship offers Brianna the deep emotional connection she longs for. But when both a tragedy and a blessing enter Brianna’s life, she finds herself wrestling with questions of faith, fidelity, forgiveness and the sovereignty of God like never before. • “Back on Top” by Angela Winters is set in Washington, D.C. Sherise, Billie and Erica will do anything to penetrate the capital’s shimmering social circle of movers and shakers, even if it means engaging in some risky business. Sherise’s dangerous game with a ruthless power broker is putting her on the White House fast track, and derailing her marriage. High-powered lawyer
Billie will use any weapon to battle her sexy ex-husband between the sheets so she can m ove o n after heartbreak. Erica’s prestigious new promotion at the Pentagon means bad news for her former-hustler boyfriend that might wreck her dreams for good. And when drama even these divas never saw
wives knew about the affair all along. Now she’s furious and hungry for revenge. And what better way to exact that revenge than to air everyone’s dirty laundry in a juicy tellall book!
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coming turns explosive, they’ll have to fight fire with fire, and prove their loyalty to each other — because in D.C. you always need someone to have your back. • “Football Widows” by Pat Tucker is a glimpse into the lives of the women behind NFL coaches. During football season, when NFL coaches gear up for war on the gridiron, their wives are left to fend for themselves. NFL wife B.J. Almond has had enough. When she walks in to find her head coach husband in bed with one of his assistant coaches’ wives, she is livid. But what really sets her off is when she discovers the other
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Paris certified by analysts group John Paris, a certified public accountant with May & Company of Vicksburg, has received his certified valuation analyst certification from the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts. Certified valuation analysts John are trained Paris and certified to perform business evaluations for consultants and lawyers. Paris, who joined May & Company in 1991, is the firm’s managing partner. He specializes in traditional tax services, agriculture, optometric practices and information technology. A native of Lake Providence, La., he is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, where he received a bachelor’s degree in marketing. He is a member of the Warren County Historical Society, Southern Heritage Air Museum and St. Michael Catholic Church.
Chamber to honor RRMC’s anniversary The Vicksburg-Warren County Chamber of Commerce will hold a special business after-hours from 5 until 7 p.m. Thursday at River Region Medical Center, 2100 U.S. 61 North, for the hospital’s 10th anniversary. Doctors will present displays outlining some of the medical center’s accomplishments. Light hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served, and music will be provided by Patrick Smith. To register for the program or for more information, go to www.vicksburgchamber.org, or call the chamber at 601-6361012.
Mild temps cut sales for TVA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Valley Authority said a mild winter so far has reduced electricity sales by 5 percent in the first quarter of the fiscal year and will cause the utility to reconsider expenditures for the rest of the year. The utility said in a news release on Friday that its first quarterly report to the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that total revenues declined by 9 percent or $260 million compared with the same period last year.
Lyle tapped as Warren County Welcome Center head By Danny Barrett Jr. dbarrett@vicksburgpost.com B.J. Lyle hopes childhood memories of Vicksburg help her promote tourism and visitorship in her new gig at the Mississippi Welcome Center. “My uncle would bring me with him all the time to Vicksburg,” said Lyle, 48, supervisor of the Mississippi Development Authority’s Warren County Welcome Center, which overlooks
the Mississippi River bridges. “One of my fondest memories as a child is being in Vicksburg National MilB.J. itary Park Lyle leaning on a monument,” Lyle said. Lyle began Jan. 23 at the center, said Jennifer Spann, a spokeswoman for MDA’s
Tourism Division, which staffs the state’s 13 welcome centers. The state’s individual welcome center buildings are owned and maintained by the Mississippi Department of Transportation. Including Lyle, the local staff is two, Spann said. Ten people worked there two years ago. A travel counselor post is advertised on the state’s job website, Spann said. A worker’s compensa-
tion claims agent for eight years for Irvine, Calif.-based CorVel Corporation’s Jackson office, Lyle said she’ll bring customer service skills to the job from a previous career as a flight attendant for American Airlines, and, previously, now-defunct Eastern Airlines. “It’s about the customers,” she said. The 1981 Provine High School grad has one daughter, who attends fourth grade in the capital city.
Vicksburg’s welcome center opened in 1980 and was last renovated in 2005 to upgrade fixtures in the restrooms, replace cabinets and retouch paint. In 2010, the center closed for about two months while contractors replanted flower beds and installed benches and an irrigation system. The $74,534 job was funded by the federal stimulus.
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Patricia Heaton and Atticus Shaffer in a scene with a Volkswagen Passat from “The Middle.”
Products hogging spotlight in TV shows By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Frankie Heck settled into the driver’s seat of a new Volkswagen on a recent episode of ABC’s “The Middle,” caressing the steering wheel as celestial music played. Her face was a mask of such pure pleasure that you almost wanted to avert your eyes. The gleaming Passat appeared throughout the half hour. Dad Mike found it a comfortable refuge for a nap, daughter Sue studied for driver’s ed and the whole family used it as a restaurant by driving around with a bucket of chicken. Welcome to the world of product “integration” on prime-time television. Advertising within programs has gone beyond the mere placement of soda bottles on the table in front of “American Idol” judges. The Passat didn’t just pass by on the street during “The Middle,” it was a key part of the comedy’s story line. Public Citizen president Robert Weissman, who has long protested the encroachment of unmarked ads within entertainment pro-
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Neil Flynn, from left, Patricia Heaton, Atticus Shaffer and Charlie McDermott in “The Middle” gramming, called the episode “astounding,” and he wasn’t being complimentary. Final reviews of consumer attitudes aren’t in yet, but ABC and VW considered the placement very effective, illustrating another way to satisfy advertisers who are concerned about the growing number of people watching programs on their DVRs and fast-forwarding through commercials. Product integration isn’t difficult to find. On “30 Rock”
on NBC, Jenna posed for paparazzi in front of a restaurant, saying, “Make sure you get the ‘Outback’ sign in the picture or I don’t get paid.” In “Desperate Housewives” last year, a woman suspected her husband was cheating. She spied on him with his new Sprint phone, checking through it for missed calls, text messages and calendar items. Even to the experts at ABC, “The Middle” episode that
was shown Jan. 18 stretched the concept to an unusual extent. Frankie, played by Patricia Heaton, was asked by neighbors to back their new Passat from the driveway into the garage because they were going to be away for a week. Enthralled by the vehicle, Frankie instead puts it in her own garage and the Heck family secretly finds ways to enjoy it, driving around together by the end of the week. Throughout the epi-
sode, family members show off the car’s features such as its sound and navigation systems. Son Brick pops open the trunk, exposing dozens of books. “It can hold my entire library,” he said. “Darn this roomy trunk.” By contrast, their own car is dirty, dented and the driver’s side door creaks when it opens. “It’s amazing how one nice See Product, Page B8.
Beware of getting too close to those new trees with the mower Hopefully most of Friday’s free tree seedlings are in the ground and soaking up this February warmth. And between now and “real” spring, a lot of purchased baby shade trees, fruit trees and just plain pretty trees will be planted in home landscapes. It is the right time for planting trees. So find what you want, buy ’em and plant ’em. Back In the day, I spent quite of bit of time helping folks determine why young trees died or were obviously unhealthy. Human nature, I suppose, is for us to suspect disease, bugs, gnawing animals or wayward herbicide for the loss of young yard trees. And trees occasionally do fall victim to those causes
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as well as being planted in a spot too wet or too shady for the species. But in my humble opinion, the leading cause of young tree demise is the organism homo sapiens. Yep, and usually the male of the species is the culprit. It’s a guy thing; man and his lawn machines. There seems to be an unspoken code amongst us men; let’s see how close we can get to the tree trunk and not quite
hit it. Oops, nicked it that time. Sorry about that. I learned long ago the need to protect my new plantings from myself. And it is not difficult or costly to do. It is just a matter of putting a protective wrap of some kind around the trunks right after planting. Plastic spiral wraps are available most everywhere plants are sold. I have used scrap plastic pipe split down one side, spread around a trunk and closed up with duct tape. My homemade wrap for new peach trees is a full section of newspaper loosely wrapped around each trunk, covered by a layer of visqueen and tied on with cotton or hemp string that will rot away over time. The wrapped trunks
have decent protection from rodents, peach borer moths and me armed with Weed Eater. Another good tree preventative health practice is to mulch new plantings. The main reason for mulching is to hold soil moisture in the root zone. But a thick layer of mulch negates the need to mow close to the trunk. The mulch becomes sort of a Do Not Enter zone for man with engine. A mower bump or Weed Eater strike against the mature bark of a 30-year-old oak is not a good thing but it is not going to kill the tree. Just don’t make a habit of it. Cutting the tender bark of a young tree, however, destroys a section of the tree
cambium. Remember cambium from high school biology? Simplified, it is the thin layer just inside the bark that carries water and food back and forth between the roots and the leaves. Just a few whacks of the cambium over a few years can doom a young tree. Women mowers are likely to heed this tree trunk advisory. And so will a lot of men. For those guys who just don’t have it in them for mower reform, at least do this: drive a metal stake in the middle of the lawn, hop on that zeroturn and go practice!
• Terry Rector writes for the Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District, 601-636-7679 ext. 3.
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Trump offers golden graves for the wealthy NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — They say you can’t take it with you when you die, but that’s not necessarily true for the wealthiest Americans — like Donald Trump. He has announced he is considering building a 1.5-acre cemetery next to his high-end golf course in Bedminster, where members pay a lifetime fee of as much as $300,000. If they want to stay beyond that, they most l i ke l y w i l l pay a membership fee that includes burial. It might be Donald Trump among the pricier final resting places, but if it gets state and local approval, it’d be a bargain compared with some of the country’s other swank cemeteries. Putting one’s name on the most permanent of marquees can reach several million dollars at the most exclusive cemeteries — a far cry from the median $6,560 for a funeral in 2009, the most recent yearly figure from the National Funeral Directors Association. At Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass., a National Historic Landmark renowned for its landscaping, the choicest piece of pondfront property costs upward of half a million dollars, said Sean O’Regan, vice president of cemetery services and operations. “While you’re not purchasing real estate — you’re purchasing burial rights — it’s definitely location, location, location,” O’Regan said. The Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, which was designated last year as a National
Product Continued from Page B7. thing actually made us a better family,” Frankie says. “More compassionate, more considerate. We were in better moods.” The Hecks find out with five minutes’ warning that their neighbors are returning home early, and rush to clean garbage out of the car. The episode’s other central story involved Frankie volunteering to help at the Super Bowl (the show is set in Indiana and the Super Bowl is being held in Indianapolis this year). That also worked well for Volkswagen, which used a real commercial break for a sneak preview of an ad they plan to run during the game. ABC and VW began working on the product integration last spring when they were negotiating an overall deal for advertising this TV season. The example is more valuable than a traditional ad, although neither ABC nor Volkswagen would say how much. “The Middle” seemed like a perfect venue, said Justin Osborne, Volkswagen’s general manager for marketing strategy. Its characters are solid middle class from middle America, for whom a new Passat would be nice enough to want but not so expensive that it’s out of reach, he said. Even though VW worked with ABC, writers had some latitude. Osborne said the scene about the trunk came as a surprise and wasn’t something the car company requested. “We’re very into authentic and organic integrations that don’t seem too heavy-handed or obvious,” he said. ABC discusses potential integrations with show creators and does not force situations upon them, said Jerry Daniello, the network’s senior vice president for integrated marketing. More requests are turned down than approved. Regular, bigticket advertisers are those considered for integration opportunities, as opposed to one-shot clients, he said.
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A stone sphinx at the entrance to the Woolworth mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Historic Landmark, is popular among the wealthy and famous. Burial arrangements can range from $600 for cremated remains to $3.5 million for historic private mausoleum more than 100 years old, Woodlawn President John Toale said. The Frank E. Campbell funeral home in New York’s Manhattan is the go-to place for celebrity funerals. In its 115 years of business, the home has arranged final rites for the titans of New York industry, famous sports figures, politicians and countless celebrities, Vice President Dominic Carella said. “We fulfill any request, from private jets, to horse-drawn carriages,” Carella said, adding that no request surprises him — from arranging Dixie Land bands to a funeral procession with the rarest of collectible Ferraris. “We’ve had funerals from $20,000 or $30,000, to a couple hundred thousand dollars.” Wealthy clients who wish to go quietly know the company’s
fee includes keeping personal details from the media and providing undercover security guards to keep the paparazzi at bay, Carella said. For a public funeral, as when tens of thousands of mourners attended viewings in Miami and New York for Latin music legend Celia Cruz, the company can organize the crowds, control the information flow, and take care of special requests from the family. And as in life, those accustomed to keeping commoners at arm’s length can do so in death. “I have families that come in to me and say, ‘I want a family plot, but I don’t want anyone next to me,’ so they’ll buy the six plots around them,” Carella said. He recently sold 12 grave plots to a man in East Hampton, N.Y., who wished to be buried in the center of the property and surrounded by landscaping. Large family plots and mausoleums have gone the way of many a celebrity marriage.
“We like to do things in a very streamlined, very classy, very strategic and very focused way,” Daniello said. “It has to make sense. There’s really not much value in seeing a product just placed on the counter.” Some advertisers seek a very seamless integration so that it is almost subliminal. In other cases, such as the “30 Rock” riff on “Outback,” networks call attention to the pitch by essentially mocking it. That’s an approach Volkswagen will take on IFC later this year, with an in-show ad considered so ridiculous it ends with a fiery crash of a VW into the company logo, Osborne said. For ABC, however, there’s less value in characters that are seen primarily as shills. Network programmers help create fictional worlds and hope viewers can get lost in them. They make the characters less real to viewers at their own peril. The Writers Guild of Amer-
ica, West has publicly supported proposed federal regulations that would make it more explicit to viewers that they are the targets of advertising by, for example, running a printed message on the screen identifying an advertising pitch. “People are being advertised to when they don’t realize it,” Weissman said. “One of the core principles of fair advertising laws is you can’t
While wealthy and famous figures of the past customarily would be surrounded in death by family members, a modernday mogul may be torn over which relatives or ex-relatives will share the burial plot. “It’s the changing dynamics of the family. Going back 20 years, if someone came in and said they had five children, they’d buy a grave for 15,” Carella said. Campbell used to build 12 to 15 mausoleums a year but now erects only one or two. “People are moving. There are mixed marriages, interfaith couples. The number of people buried together is fewer,” Carella said. “A lot has to do with the changing dynamics of what’s going on in society.” Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y., is another East Coast “destination” resting place. Carella recently arranged a funeral there. He said the plot cost $450,000 and the mausoleum nearly $1 million. Forest Lawn, which has cemeteries in and around Los Angeles, is one of the most well-known burial spots for Hollywood celebrities. Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson are buried there. Spokesman Ben Sussman said prices start as low as $2,000. He declined to say how much the “distinguished properties” retail for. The spots include a private garden and sarcophagus or statuary. But lavish burials or A-list cemeteries aren’t the only way to go out with a bang. For about $4,000, California-based Angels Flight will custom-design 210 fireworks containing the deceased’s ashes, which can be fired off in a beach-front display, set to music. be lied to. You have to know when someone is pitching you.” The proposal, however, has been kicking around for several years with no action, and the trend away from live television viewing would seem to make the Volkswagen episode a harbinger of more things to come.
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casino tax revenue Vicksburg’s five casinos pay a 3.2 percent revenue tax to the State of Mississippi that is divided — with 10 percent going to schools, 25 percent to Warren County and 65 percent to the city. A second revenue tax is a 0.8 percent share of the state’s 8.8 percent
revenue tax. It is split based on population proportions between Vicksburg and Warren County. Each casino is also required to pay $150 for each gaming device annually to the city. To date, two casinos have paid the gaming device fee. These are the latest receipts:
December 2011 City...................................$454,021 County............................$211,911 Schools..............................$58,213
December 2010 City...................................$404,244 County............................$190,925 Schools..............................$51,754
Fiscal year 2011-12 to date City............................... $1,361,472 County............................$658,198 Schools..............................$58,213
Fiscal year 2010-11 to date City............................... $1,327,072 County............................$596,768 Schools...........................$162,254
sales tax revenue The City of Vicksburg receives 18.5 percent of all sales taxes collected by businesses in the city limits. Revenues to the city lag actual sales tax collections by
two months, that is, receipts for April reflect sales taxes collected on sales in February. Here are the latest monthly receipts:
November 2011........$610,313 Fiscal year 2010-11 to date... $1,212,325
November 2010........$563,786 2010-11 fiscal year to date..... $1,132,403
land transfer The following commercial land transfers were recorded in the Chancery Clerk’s Office for the week ending: Feb 3, 2012. • Church of Christ Scientist to James E. Williams, Section 19, Township 16N, Range 3E; 1507 Monroe St. • Guaranty Bank to Malcolm and Rose Carson; parts of Sections 13, Township 16N, Range 3E; .96 acres off Washington Street
• Karl W. Hatten and Geriatric Services Inc. to River City Limited Partnership; 2 acres off Wisconsin Avenue
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SUNDAY, Febr uar y 5, 2012 • SE C T I O N C LOCAL EVENTS CALENDAR C2 | WEDDINGS C3 Karen Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: newsreleases@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 137
THIS & THAT from staff reports
Media workshop planned for SCHC The Southern Cultural Heritage Center is planning a Social Media 101 workshop March 3. From 10 to 11:30 a.m., software designer Joel Angle and senior business analyst Candace Merrick, both of Mav6, will lead the workshop on the basics of how to use free social media websites to advertise, plan events, know what activities are going on and stay in touch with friends and family. Wireless Internet will be provided. Class is limited, and reservations are required. Registration is $15 for members and $25 for nonmembers. For more information, call 601-631-2997 or e-mail info@ southernculture.org. The SCHC is at 1302 Adams St.
Chamber event to honor hospital The Vicksburg-Warren County Chamber of Commerce is scheduled to host a special Business After Hours, to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of River Region Health System. From 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday the event will include displays from physicians outlining accomplishments of the past 10 years, light hors d’oeuvres, wine and music by Patrick Smith. For information, e-mail vjoerg@vicksburgchamber. org. River Region is at 2100 U.S. 61 North.
Roca to host mystery theater An interactive comedic theater event is planned for Roca Restaurant Feb.10. The Detectives Mystery Dinner Theatre is scheduled to present “The Monster Bash,” a crowd-interactive mystery in four acts. Show time is 7 p.m. with cocktails at 6. Tickets are $45 and include a three-course meal. For reservations, call 601-937-1752.
Toneys to teach Lebanese cooking A cooking class to make tabooli and kibbee is planned for Saturday. “Tabooli with the Toneys” is scheduled for Saturday, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at a private residence. “Tabooli with the Toneys” includes preparing and making tabooli and kibbee. Students also will be served an appetizer and a sweet treat. Cost is $50 and is limited to eight. For information, call 601-2184320, or e-mail lmhand@live. com or ctoney20@gmail.com
Paws seeks help fixing animals Paws Rescue is seeking support from Warren County residents during February. For the fifth year, residents are asked, as a part of the international World Spay Day campaign, to help by having pets spayed or neutered, by sponsoring a Paws Rescue pet for spay/neuter surgery, contributing to Paws Rescue’s Spay It Forward program, which provides assistance to pets whose owners cannot afford to fix their pet or by raising general awareness of the importance of spaying and neutering to help control pet overpopulation. For information, call 601-5291535 or visit www.petfinder. com/shelters/MS65.html.
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st i t r a a c i inspire Ut UTICA — As David Pollard watched a TV special about the children’s hospital in Jackson, he was so moved, so saddened that he wanted to do something for the youngsters to make them smile and laugh, “to bring some excitement into their lives.” But all he had, he said, was his art. That was all he needed. He called the hospital, told them his story, made an offer and his plan is in the works. Soon he’ll be greeting the patients with gifts of his paintings. David paints cartoon characters, all bright and colorful and happy, all on poster boards that measure 22-inches by 28-inches, They’re as vivid as the smaller ones in the comic strips, books or TV. He’s completed 165 in the past 2 1/2 years. The walls of his home on Old Highway 3 near Utica are covered with them. There’s Mickey Mouse and Charlie Brown, the Roadrunner and the Coyote, characters from the Smurfs — just about any that have marched across the printed page or been on Saturday morning TV. Some, like Superman, which is David’s favorite, are icons in American culture. There are others that have been around for decades, such as Tarzan and Popeye the Sailor Man. David never had a lesson in art, has never been to an art show or gallery. He grew up on Cook Road near where he lives and went to school in Utica. It was about 31 years ago, when he was 13, that he began drawing in PE
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David Pollard adds the final touch, his signature, to a painting on Tuesday at his home near Utica.
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class, competing with three of his friends to see who was the best. They began by drawing
little cars, then went on to comic books. Soon the school’s personnel were using their talents to draw logos and decorations. His art came pretty much to a standstill when he graduated from high school and, at 18, went to work in construction. At the end of a 12-hour day there wasn’t energy or interest to pursue his artistic talents, so it was put on hold.
As in painting, though, he also taught himself to operate big equipment, and he did it by watching the other operators. For months he watched as a bulldozer operator ran the machine. Then one day when he was sitting on the dozer, and a big hole needed filling, his supervisor said, “David, crank it up and fill See Pollard, Page C2.
Deciphering the Super Bowl: XLVI is Greek to kids By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Kids LOL and OMG each other all the livelong day, but ask them to decipher the XLVI of today’s Super Bowl and you might as well be talking Greek. They may know what X means, or V and I, but Roman numerals beyond the basics have largely gone
On TV 5:29 p.m. NBC - New York Giants vs. New England Patriots the way of cursive and penmanship as a subject taught in the nation’s schools. See XLVI, Page C4.
Roman numeral refresher With Super Bowl XLVI approaching, a primer on Roman numerals: I equals 1 V equals 5 X equals 10 L equals 50 C equals 100
D equals 500 M equals 1,000 Roman numerals are usually arranged in descending value and added up from left to right. But when a smaller number is placed before a larger one, the smaller value
is subtracted from the larger one to the right. For example: IV is 4, XL is 40 and CM equals 900. So MCMXLIV is 1944. There are certain restrictions when subtracting. For example, 45 is written as XLV, not VL. And 49 is XLIX, not IL.
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Veterinary camp set for Mississippi State University Mississippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine is planning to hold camp programs for students interested in animals and veterinary. Camp sessions are scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m June 7-9 and June 14- 16. Registration fee is $150 and includes lunch, a scrub top and all lab activities. Space is limited and applications must be postmarked by March 1. Applicants will
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from staff reports be accepted in the order in which applications are received. Campers ages 13 to 15 will participate in interactive labs including anatomy, microbiology, radiology and physical exams. A limited number of needbased scholarships are available. For information, call 731-
513-0181 or e-mail vetcamp@ cvm.msstate.edu. Registration forms are available online atwww.msuvetcamp.com.
‘Cats’ coming to Monroe, La. The longest continuously touring Broadway musical in history is scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Jack Howard Theater at the Monroe Civic Center.
“CATS,” based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s “Book of Practical Cats” and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, won seven 1983 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Lighting and Best Costumes. Tickets for the only running production in North America are $54, $44, $34 and $24 and may be purchased at the civic center box office which is located at 401 Lea Joyner Memorial Expressway.
For information, call 318329-2338.
Monroe museum plans painting class The Masur Museum of Art in Monroe is planning a sixweek beginner still-life painting class. Classes are scheduled for Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting Feb. 16. Classes end on March 22. Cost is $110 for members
and $150 for nonmembers and classes are set for the Masur Museum Carriage House. Students are responsible for bringing their own supplies. To register, call 318-329-2237 or e-mail Jenny.Burnham@ ci.monroe.la.us or info@ masurmuseum.org. The museum is at 1400 S. Grand St.
local happenings In town
out of town
Southern Cultural Heritage Center
Poverty Point Tool Demonstration
4-day beginner stained glass workshop: Rev. Mark Bleakley, instructor; 5:30 beginning Monday; $160 members, $170 nonmembers; West Coast Swing: James Frechette, instructor; 5-6 p.m. Feb. 12 and 26; $10; Mardi Gras mask workshop: 4-5:15 p.m. Feb. 15; Karen Biedenharn, instructor; $10; reservations required; Cooking with Herbs: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Feb.21; William Furlong, instructor; $20 members, $25 nonmembers; reservations required; For information, contact 601-631-2997, e-mail info@ southernculture.org, or visit www.southernculture.org.
1-4 p.m. today; $4, senior citizens and children under 12 are free; park open 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; West Carroll Parish on Louisiana 577; 888-926-5492.
Lorelei Books book-signing and reception
Glenn Campbell “Goodbye Tour”
Book-signing: 4- 8 p.m. Friday; Leslie Criss, author; 1103 Washington St.; Reception: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Attic Gallery; 1101 Washington St.; 601-634-8624.
6:30 p.m. Feb. 26; Thalia Mara Hall, 255 E. Pascagoula St.; $39, $49, $59 plus fees; ticketmaster.com;
Battlefield Inn seeking vendors for shows 83rd semi-annual Vicksburg Coin Show: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. today; free; 601-638-1195; 20th annual Civil War Show of Vicksburg: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 14; admission $2; vendor tables $35; 601-8798196, 601-638-1195; 4137 N. Frontage Road.
Warren County Extension Office one-day computer classes Computer classes: Dr. John Giesemann, instructor; $20, preregistration required; Adobe Photoshop elements, Feb. 16-17; Intro to Word & Graphics, April 19-20; Merge in Word, May 9-10; Introduction to Excel, June 4-5; Data Management in Excel, July 1112; Powerpoint, Aug. 8-9; Photos in Powerpoint, Sept. 6-7; Microsoft Publisher, Oct. 17-18; File and Folder Management, Nov. 14-15; 1100 C Grove St., 601-636-5442, warren@ext.msstate. edu.
11th annual Mardi Gras Parade 4 p.m. Feb. 18; $25 for nonprofit and civic groups, $50 for businesses by Feb. 3; $50 and $100 after Feb. 3; 601-634-4527, kimh@vicksburg.org.
The Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation Carnaval de Mardi Gras and gumbo cookoff 5-11 p.m. Feb. 18; $5; entry for gumbo cook-off $40, includes three team members; $200 first place prize; 1302 Adams St.; 601-636-5010.
Mississippi College Evangelism Lectures 7 p.m. Monday; Provine Chapel, 200 W. College St.; 10:50 a.m. Tuesday, First Baptist Church, in Clinton; Dr. Gene Wilkes, speaker; 601-925-3292.
Mississippi Children’s Museum Dr. Seuss birthday party 11 a.m. -3 p.m. March 3; children’s activities and chef demonstration; 2145 Highland Dr.; 601-709-8964.
Mississippi State University Rural Medical Scholars summer program Applications due by March 21 for high school juniors with an ACT composite score of 25; program runs May 30-July 2; $60 registration fee, after acceptance; www.RMS.msucarees.com.
Poverty Point 4th annual Health walk Afternoons through May 31; West Carroll Parish on Louisiana 577; 888-926-5492.
Narratives: Inside and Out 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays through Feb. 18 at Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center of Arts and Education; works by local artists Ellen Langford, Earl Wayne Simmons, Kennith Humphrey, Lesley Silver and Jean Blue; Duckett Gallery, 1600 Government St., Ocean Springs; free; 228-369-4967, mhardycre8@cableone. net.
Performances: “Gold in the Hills,” March 16-31; “The Foreigner,” May 4-13; Auditions: “The Foreigner,” Feb. 11-12 for May 4-6 and 11-13 shows; “Fairy Tale Theatre,” to be announced, for June shows; Tickets for main-stage plays: $12 for adults, $10 for 55 and older, $7 for students and $5 for younger than 12; tickets for “Gold in the Hills,” and other shows vary; Contact: Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; 601-636-0471 or www.vicksburgtheatreguild.com.
FOR FOODIES 52nd annual Lebanese Dinner 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. Monday at St. George Anitochian Orthodox Christian Church, 2709 Washington St.; cabbage rolls, kibbee, Lebanese green beans, tabooli and Lebanese pastries; $10; tickets, from church members, 601-636-2483, at the door for the first serving; 601-638-5779, 601-415-7273;
Nightlife Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge 4451 Clay St., 601-636-3761 On stage, with a cover charge, at 9:15 p.m.: • U.S. — Saturday. . • Snazz — Feb. 17-18. • Trade Mark — Feb. 24-25. • Stone Cold Country — March 2-3. • Easy Eddie — March 9-10. • Snazz — March 23-24. • Back 40 — March 30-31
Ameristar Casino 4116 Washington St. 601-638-1000, www.ameristar.com Free at Cabaret Lounge: • Area Code — Variety; Friday-Saturday. • Nu Corp — R&B/Variety; Feb. 17-18. • Sinamon Leaf — Variety; Feb. 24-25.
Eddie Monsour’s at the Biscuit Company 1100 Washington St., 601-638-1571 • 8-11 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays — Karaoke. • 8 p.m. Wednesdays — Biscuit & Jam; open mic. • Thursdays — Ladies night.
Jacques’ Cafe at Battlefield Inn 4137 N. Frontage Road, 601-661-6264 • 9 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday — Karaoke.
Mississippi Invitational winners
LD’s Kitchen
Noon-5 p.m. today; Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S. Lamar St., Jackson; $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students, free for museum members; 601-960-1515, 866-843-9278, or www.msmuseumart.org.
1111 Mulberry St., 601-636-9838 • 8:30 p.m. each second and fourth Tuesday — Central Mississippi Blues Society Band, local artists; free. • 8:30 p.m. each first and third Tuesday — Soul Unlimited and Sounds Unlimited; free.
For kids
Vicksburg Theatre Guild
Mondays for ages 4-9; fee $35, registration $25; Handspring: 6:15-7:15 p.m. Mondays for ages 6 and older; fee $65, registration $25; Open gym play: 4:15-5:15 p.m. Wednesdays, for ages 3-11; fee $9 per session; Thursdays-Feb. 16; cheer tryout prep class: 6:15-7:15 p.m. for ages 11 and older; fee $125; Location: next to Tantastic in the Big Lots parking area; 601 638-3778, www.fitzonegym.com.
River Kids 3:45-5 p.m. Thursdays through May 10; Karen Biedenharn and Regina Renot, instructors; first-sixth grades; free; Southern Cultural Heritage Center; 601-631-2997, info@southernculture.org, www.southernculture.org, also on Facebook.
Roca Restaurant & Bar 127 Country Club Drive, 601-638-0800 • 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays — Ben Shaw. • 7-10 p.m. Fridays — Dustin.
The Upper End Lounge
Intro to Spanish for Kids 4:15-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through March 6; Olivia Foshee, instructor; $70 members, $75 nonmembers; Southern Cultural Heritage Center; 601-631-2997, info@southernculture.org, www. southernculture.org, also on Facebook.
1306 Washington St., 601-634-8333 With a $3 cover charge: • 7-11 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays — Karaoke. • 7-9 p.m. Thursdays — Ladies night. • 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays — D.J.
FitZone Elite Cheer Spring Schedule Through May 24; cheer and tumble: various times MondaysThursdays; fee $55, registration $25; POWERKIDZ: 4:15-5:15 p.m.
Pollard Continued from Page C1. that hole.” David cranked it, pushed and pulled a few levers to make sure he had the hang of it, “and then I put that blade down and filled that hole.” From the dozer he went to the track hoe, left that for the back hoe, and then such farm equipment as cotton pickers, learning “a lot of stuff, but I never learned to run a motor grader.” In some ways, he said, it was just like “being a kid all over again,” and in some ways it was also like art: “You have to have a steady hand. You’ve got to have a feel for it, from the lever to the line to the bucket.” His livelihood was heavy equipment — it was fun, he said, “and I love it.” But when you mess up, you have a problem, and his problem was several ruptured discs, one pressing against a nerve. The result was early retirement.
He had to have something to do, and going back to his painting “kept me from going crazy.” His work had gone basically unnoticed until recently, he said, for “nobody knows I do this except the people around here.” He’s given some away, to children and to the elderly, but he said he usually just hangs them on the wall. Friends have recently encouraged him to show his work. David uses water-based paints — not an artist’s water colors, but the type of paint one would buy at a hardware or decorating store. He has painted on glass and wood but usually uses poster board because canvas costs too much. In addition to cartoon characters, he paints logos, such as the Saints, and advertisements. He’s done a few Bible scenes, some flowers, “but I can’t get into portraits,”
admitting that cartoons are more fun and also relaxing. The time he puts into each painting depends on several things, including his physical condition and how complicated the subject is, because he doesn’t leave any area unpainted. It also takes a lot of patience. “I don’t go fast,” he said. “I like to take my time so that I can do it right.” Enlarging the subject requires patience as well as a steady hand — and a good eye. He begins by making a sketch with a pencil, then outlining it in black, painting it, and then outlining the subject once again in black. It takes a lot of time — usually two or three days. Sometimes he gets frustrated, can’t get it right, “and I have to get up and walk away for a while. Sometimes until my mind gets straight
Eli Baylis•The Vicksburg Post
Local artist David Pollard stands inside his workroom I get up and walk outside and then come back to it and figure out what I was doing wrong. As long as you’re
frustrated, you’re not going to get it right. Relax, you can focus on it, then come back and straighten it out.”
For inspiration, David watches cartoons and buys comic books, and “when they come out with a new comic book, I get it.” He changes the characters enough to the way he wants them and uses bright colors because “I like for them to stand out so I can see them.” He wants to share his art with the less fortunate, with the children, he said, because, “It ain’t just about me in this world. It’s not about money. It’s about helping people.” He paints for grown folks, too, he said, but “I mainly draw for the kids.” And he laughingly admits, “I’ve still got a lot of kid in me.” •
Gordon Cotton is an author and historian who lives in Vicksburg.
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Mr. Harris, Miss Dent recite vows on Dec. 31
Mary Elizabeth Roland Engaged to marry Ashley Simmie Halterman Jr.
Miss Roland to wed Halterman March 24 The engagement of Mary Elizabeth Roland of Vicksburg, formerly of Transylvania, La., to Ashley Simmie Halterman Jr. of Tallulah is announced today. Vows will be exchanged in a private ceremony March 24, 2012, overlooking Lake Providence. A reception will begin at 8 p.m. at Lake Providence Country Club. All relatives and friends are invited to attend the reception. Miss Roland is the daughter of Liz Roland Fillebaum and Kevin Fillebaum of Vicksburg. She is the granddaughter of the late Shirley and Clint Fortenberry of Transylvania and Patsy and Roger Fillebaum of Vicksburg. She is the great-granddaughter of Jacqueline Fillebaum of
Vicksburg. Mr. Halterman is the son of Linda and Ashley Halterman Sr. of Tallulah. He is the grandson of Adeller Welch of Tallulah and the late James Machen and Evelyn Halterman and the late Clyde Halterman of Crowville, La. The bride-elect is a 2010 graduate of Briarfield Academy. She received a degree in business management from Mississippi College. Miss Roland is employed at Coach LLC of Vicksburg. The prospective groom is a 2008 graduate of Tallulah Academy. He received a degree in construction from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Mr. Halterman is manager of Bar-JS Ranch in Tallulah.
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Brandy Nichole Richardson Engaged to marry Holly Renee Ann Hart
Leonard Charles Harris III and Denise Nicole Dent were married at 4 p.m. Dec. 31, 2011, at Vicksburg City Auditorium. The Revs. Mitchell Dent, Kenneth Fairley and Willie Thomas officiated at the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of the Rev. Mitchell and Dr. Deborah Dent of Vicksburg. She is the granddaughter of Inez Dent and the late Lee Dent and the late Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Fairley, all of Hattiesburg. The groom is the son of Leonard Jr. and Emma Harris of Vicksburg. He is the grandson of Rosie Lee Griffin of Vicksburg and the late Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Harris Sr. Given in marriage by her parents, the bride’s chosen colors were purple and Turkish blue. Musicians for the ceremony were Kenneth DeShields II of St. Louis, Mo., and Patrice Greer of Dallas, Texas. Maid of honor was Ashley Smith of Vicksburg. Matron of honor was Stephanie Parris of Elizabethtown, Ky. Bridesmaids were Deidra Dent and Dionne Dent, both of Hattiesburg; Danielle DeShields of Moss Point; Starlette Dent of Greenwood; and Stephanie Harris and Jessica Griffin, both of Vicksburg. Corey Williams of Vicksburg
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Charles Harris III The bride is the former Denise Nicole Dent served as best man. Groomsmen were Jericho Harris of Starkville and Darryl Carson, Johnny Clark, Joseph Griffin, Curtis Lloyd, Steven Randle and Kevin Tillman, all of Vicksburg.
Ushers were Kenny Baker Fairley, William Fairley, Vaston Fairley and Deon Thomas, all of Hattiesburg; and Adarryll Dent Sr., Adarryll Dent Jr., Ashton Dent, Sharod McDonald and Willie Thomas Jr., all
of Vicksburg. Flower girls were Morgan Bailey and Romireya Knight, both of Vicksburg, and Marley Parris of Elizabethtown. Ring bearer was J’Vaugh Griffin of Vicksburg. Bible bearer was Beau Harris of Vicksburg. Stefen Harris of Vicksburg served as bell ringer. Kailey Seymour of Hattiesburg was miniature bride; Dwayne Fairley Jr. of Birmingham was miniature groom. A reception followed at the auditorium. Hostesses were Tawana Alexander, Renae Fairley, Nessa Kingdom, Tracey Seymour and Jasmine Dozier, all of Hattiesburg; Janet Sims, MaQurisa Williams, Brae Griffin and NaShonda Griffin, all of Vicksburg; Brandi Payne of Moss Point; and Jessica Smith of Atlanta. Tea girls were Ja’Keria Dent, Jamesha Britton, Nijor May, Jeremis Smith, Courtney Williams, Kianna Abraham, Kristen Sullivan, Myra Alezander, Arylan Thomas, Ja’Kyla Dent and Raven Thompson. The couple will make their home in Vicksburg. The bride is a graduate student at the University of Southern Mississippi, and the groom is employed with C&E Harris Trucking Co.
Grant, White to wed at First Presbyterian Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Lee Grant of Vicksburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Lauren Olivia, to Parker Alan White. Mr. White is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Glen White of Vicksburg. Miss Grant is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Louis Yarbrough of Tylertown and Mr. and Mrs. George Graham Grant of Water Valley. Mr. White is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Parker Goldsmith of Augusta, Ga., and Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Cecil White of Greenwood. The bride-elect is a 2007 graduate of Warren Central High School. She received a degree in accounting and management information systems from Mississippi University for Women, where she was a member of Lockheart Social Club, Student Government Association, Alpha Beta Gamma business honor society and the Lantern and Phi
Theta Kappa honor societies. Miss Grant is a contract specialist intern at the Engineer Research and Development Center. The prospective groom is a 2006 graduate of Warren Central High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Mississippi State University, where he received a degree in biological engineering. He was a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Theta Kappa honor societies and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. Mr. White is an emergency room technician at River Region Medical Center and will attend the University of Mississippi Medical Center in the fall. Vows will be exchanged at 5:30 p.m. April 14, 2012, at First Presbyterian Church. A reception will follow at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center. All relatives and friends are invited to attend.
Lauren Olivia Grant Engaged to marry Parker Alan White
Ashley Claire Soverns Engaged to marry Richard Ozell Hearn
Miss Soverns to wed Richardson and Hart Mr. Hearn March 24 Murphys to celebrate to recite vows in Iowa 50th anniversary The engagement of Brandy Nichole Richardson to Holly Renee Ann Hart, both of Vicksburg, is announced today. Vows will be exchanged June 12, 2012, in Iowa. Miss Richardson is the daughter of Alan and Stephanie Richardson of Yazoo City and Donnetta and Mitchell Furr of Vicksburg. She is the granddaughter of Lane Stevens of Bishop, Calif., and the late Glen Stevens and the late J.W. and Doris E. Richardson. She is a 2011 graduate of
Ridgeland High School, where she played fastpitch softball and was a member of the Beta Club and Mu Alpha Theta. Miss Hart is the daughter of Michael C. and Tammy L. Hart and Wanda Purvis, all of Vicksburg. She is the granddaughter of Jimmy and Shirley Hart of Vicksburg and Holly Kuhn and the late John Kuhn of Carthage. She is a 2006 graduate of Warren Central High School, where she was a member of the ROTC.
Newell and Althea Murphy in 1962
Sam and Lisa Soverns of Vicksburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Claire, to Richard Ozell Hearn. Mr. Hearn is the son of James S. and Edna Hearn of Redwood. Miss Soverns is the granddaughter of Harold and Shirley Soverns of Vicksburg and William and Linda Parrett of Clinton. Mr. Hearn is the grandson of the late Claude and Mary Hearn and the late Buford and Vallie Coody. The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate of Vicksburg High School. She received certifi-
cation as a license practical nurse from Hinds Community College. Miss Soverns is a clinic nurse at River Region Medical Center. The prospective groom attended Warren Central High School and is a member of Union Carpenters Local No. 318. The wedding will be at 2 p.m. March 24, 2012, at Bovina Baptist Church. A reception will follow in the Christian Life Center at the church. All relatives and friends are invited to attend. No in-town invitations will be sent.
Newell and Althea Murphy will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Feb. 13, 2012. They will be honored Saturday with a gathering at 5:30 p.m. at Roca Restaurant. All relatives and friends are invited to attend. They were married in Vicksburg in 1962. Mr. Murphy is a retired colonel from the 412th Engineers Theatre Command and a retired commander of the 475th Military Intelligence Detachment. He retired as chief of the Mobility Systems
Division at Waterways Experiment Station. Mrs. Murphy was a homemaker and served as a volunteer for a number of church, school and civic organizations. The Murphys have five children, Deb Murphy Forbes, Jody Murphy, Rogers “Doodle” Murphy, Carr Murphy Brown and Kitty Bridges, and they reared a number of others in their home and served as foster parents to some. They also have numerous grandchildren.
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XLVI Continued from Page C1. Students in high school and junior high get a taste of the Roman system during Latin (where Latin is still taught, anyway). And they learn a few Roman numerals in history class when they study the monarchs of Europe. But in elementary school, “Roman numerals are a minor topic,” said Jeanine Brownell of the early mathematics development program at Erickson Institute, a childdevelopment graduate school in Chicago. That’s not how Joe Horrigan remembers it. “I went to Catholic school. I still have bruised knuckles from not learning them,” said the NFL historian and spokesman for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. What’s wrong with good ol’ 46 to describe this year’s
Super Bowl between the Giants and the Patriots on Sunday? “‘Number 46,’ it just kind of sounds like an inventory. ‘Inspected by Joe,”’ said Joe, who is LX years old. “Those Roman numerals, they’re almost like trophies.” Any football fan worth his weight in nachos will find a way to figure out the Super Bowl number from one year
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Celebrity pot busts put Texas county on map SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (AP) — Nestled among the few remaining businesses that dot a rundown highway in this dusty West Texas town stands what’s become a surprise destination for marijuana-toting celebrities: the Hudspeth County Jail. Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg and actor Armie Hammer have been among the thousands of people busted for possession at a Border Patrol checkpoint outside town in recent years, bringing a bit of notoriety to one of Texas’ most sparsely populated counties. “Once I was in Arizona, and when I said where I was from, they said, ‘That’s where Willie Nelson was busted,”’ said Louise Barantley, manager at the Coyote Sunset souvenir shop in Sierra Blanca. Hudspeth County cameos aren’t only for outlaws: Movie star Steven Seagal, who’s already deputized in Louisiana and Arizona for his reality show “Steven Seagal Lawman” on A&E, has signed on to become a county officer. Locals already have found ways to rub shoulders with their celebrity guests. Deputies posed for pictures with Snoop Dogg after authorities said they found several joints on his bus earlier this month. When Nelson was busted here in 2010, the county’s lead prosecutor suggested the singer settle his marijuana charges by performing “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” for the court. Nelson paid a fine instead, but not before county commissioner Wayne West played one of his own songs for the country music legend. West acknowledged he’s a big fan of Nelson and wanted to capitalize on a golden chance to perform for such a noted “captive audience.” “Willie loved the song, he is a real outgoing individual,” he added. The once-thriving town of Sierra Blanca began to shrink to its current 1,000-person population after the construction of nearby Interstate 10 — a main artery linking cities from California to Florida — offered an easy way to bypass the community. Now the highway is sending thousands of drug bust cases Sierra Blanca’s way, courtesy of a Border Patrol checkpoint just outside of town where drug-sniffing dogs inspect more than 17,000 trucks, travelers — and tour buses — daily for whiffs of contraband that may have made its way
inland from the border. Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West, younger brother of the musically inclined comSnoop missioner, Dogg said his office handled about 2,000 cases l a s t ye a r, most of them having to do with drugs seized at the checkpoint. Border Willie Patrol agents Nelson s ay p e op l e busted with small amounts of pot often say t h ey h ave medical marijuana licenses from California, Arizona Armie or New Mexico Hammer — three states along I-10 that, unlike Texas, allow for medicinal pot prescriptions — and claim to believe the licenses were valid nationwide. Nelson’s publicists declined to comment about the specifics of the singer’s case. Representatives for Snoop Dogg, who will pay a fine and court costs after being cited for possession of marijuana paraphernalia, did not return several messages seeking comment. County authorities have not yet decided whether to prosecute or issue a citation for Hammer, who starred in the 2010 film “The Social Network” and more recently played the FBI’s number two man in “J. Edgar” He was arrested in November on his way to his wife’s bakery in San Antonio after authorities said they found marijuana-laced brownies and cookies. His attorney, Kent Schaffer, has called the case a “total non-issue.” Local officials say they’re not on a celebrity witch hunt, but some residents are enjoying the publicity from the highprofile arrests. They say the once forgotten town of Sierra Blanca should take pride in not pandering to famous people caught breaking the law. “We get attention because something is being done right,” resident Adolfo Gonzalez said while shopping at a local convenience store. “It’d be worse if we’d let them go because they are celebrities.”
to the next, but shouldn’t kids have some sense of the Romans as an actual numbering system? “My son is in first grade and this recently came up when we were clock shopping,” said Eileen Wolter of Summit, N.J. “He couldn’t believe they were real numbers. They only ever get used for things like copyrights or sporting events, which in my humble opinion harkens even further back to the gladiatorial barbaric nature of things like the Super Bowl.” Gerard Michon isn’t much of a football fan, either, but he keeps a close eye on Super Bowls over at Numericana.com, where he dissects math and physics and discusses the Roman system ad nauseam. Starting with Super Bowl
XLI in 2007, he has been getting an abnormal number of game-day visits from football fans with a sudden interest in Roman numerals. On the day of last year’s Super Bowl XLV, so many people visited that Michon’s little server crashed. When the dust cleared, he had logged 15,278 hits, more than 90 percent landing on “XLV.” “Last year was total madness,” Michon said, in part “because so many people were wondering why VL isn’t a correct replacement for XLV.” When the Super Bowl started, the games were assigned simple Roman numerals “that everybody knows,” he said. Now “it looks kind of mysterious.” The use of Roman numerals to designate Super Bowls began with game V in 1971, won by the Baltimore
Colts over the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 on Jim O’Brien’s 32-yard field goal with five seconds remaining. Numerals I through IV were added later for the first four Super Bowls. “The NFL didn’t model after the Olympics,” said Dan Masonson, director of the league’s corporate communications. Instead, he said, the Roman system was adopted to avoid any confusion that might occur because of the way the Super Bowl is held in a different year from the one in which most of the regular season is played. Bob Moore, historian for the Kansas City Chiefs, credits the idea of using Roman numerals to Lamar Hunt, the late Chiefs owner and one of the godfathers of the modern NFL. (History also credits Hunt with coming up with
the name “Super Bowl” for the big game.) “The Roman numerals made it much more important,” Moore said. “It’s much more magisterial.” Or as Michon put it: Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur — “Anything stated in Latin looks important.” Linsey Knerl, who is homeschooling her five children in Tekamah, Neb., is teaching them Roman numerals, showing her oldest — who is 13 — how to decipher chapter numbers while reading “Oliver Twist.” “I realize that it may not seem to be the most culturally relevant thing you can teach kids these days,” she said. “But if kids can get what LOL and ROFL mean, things like XXII should be a piece of cake.”
‘The Woman in Black’ summons suspense By Jake Coyle AP entertainment writer “The Woman in Black” very nearly suffocates under the mounting weight of its gothic kitsch — an abandoned house, child ghosts, spooky dolls, oh my! — but nevertheless summons ornately crafted, oldfashioned suspense. This is the second film for British director James Watkins, whose previous “Eden Lake” gathered an intriguing story about class out of a confrontation in the woods between a vacationing couple (Michael Fassbender and Kelly Reilly) and a violent gang of youths. Watkins prefers the term “thriller” to “horror,” and by these two films, it’s obvious he’s interested in using fright for more than just shock and something closer to real life. In his first post-Potter film, Daniel Radcliffe stars as the struggling, widowed London lawyer Arthur Kipps. With a little facial scruff and clad in an early 20th century suit of the time, Radcliffe looks respectably adult. Kipps is a morose young man, still grieving the loss of his wife in childbirth. His now 4-year-old son (Misha Handley) already has him down, in caricature, drawing him as a stick figure with a giant frown. Yes, young Harry Potter is now a (believable) dad, which means we can all collectively sigh and pretend to shoot ourselves. He’s dispatched to the (fictional) remote eastern British village of Crythin Gifford to put in order the estate of the recently deceased Alice Drablow. The sense of foreboding comes quickly and thickly, as the townspeople eye him suspiciously and Kipps is placed in an inn room where three young sisters killed themselves. Death hangs over the town so heavily that whimpering comes even from a parrot, which no doubt had plenty of chances to mimic the sound. The ivy-covered Eel Marsh House, which Kipps is to sort, is classically menacing in the Victorian way. Set back from the village down the ominously named Nine Lives Causeway, it’s an island in a
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Daniel Radcliffe in “The Woman in Black”
film review On screen “The Woman in Black,” a CBS Films release, is rated PG-13 for thematic material and violence, disturbing images. Running time: 95 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four. cold marsh that ebbs with the tide. Inside the cobwebbed home, reflections, apparitions and shadows steadily increase as Kipps digs into the history of the Drablows as well as the village. Tragedies of the town’s children populate its past and present — occurrences that seem connected to a lurking, dark figure. As he always does, Ciaran Hinds considerably helps the film. (He also played the lead in another fine film that mixed grief with the supernatural, 2010’s “The Eclipse.”) Hinds plays Samuel Daily, the only friend in town to Kipps and, himself, one of those who has lost a child. His wife (an enjoyably loony Janet McTeer) has gone off the deep
end, to the point that her two small dogs dine at the table with them like Paris Hilton Chihuahuas. Daily is the staunch holdout in the superstitious town. Declaring paranormal worries “rubbish,” he warns Kipps not to “go chasing shadows.” But even he, when Kipps declares he’ll stay overnight at Eel Marsh, raises an eyebrow and says, “Take the dog.” “The Woman in Black” is adapted from Susan Hill’s 1983 novel, which was earlier turned into a long-running play in London. It’s the second film from the reconstituted Hammer Film Productions, the famed British house of horror best known for the lush gothics it churned out in
the ‘60s and ‘70s. Watkins’ film, nifty and taught, is a worthy enough heir to that tradition. It’s a film, ultimately, about the trappings of grief wallowing. As a wand-less detective, Radcliffe comports himself well. He plays Kipps with downcast desperation, striving simultaneously after the memory of his wife and the future of his son. The basic clichés on which the film is built threaten to overwhelm it. And it could certainly use a little more dialogue and a bit less creaky hallways. But the appeal of a good ol’ ghost story is strong, and the simplicity of “The Woman in Black” suits the tradition.
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Brazilian bikinis burgeon to fit the fat RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tall and tan and young and ... chunky? The Girl From Ipanema has put on a few pounds, and for many sunbathers on Brazil’s beaches the country’s iconic itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny bikini just doesn’t suffice anymore. A growing number of bikini manufacturers have woken up to Brazil’s thickening waistline and are reaching out to the ever-expanding ranks of heavy women with new plussize lines. That’s nothing short of a revolution in this most body-conscious of nations, where overweight ladies long had little choice but to hit the beach in comely ensembles of oversized T-shirts and biker shorts. “It used to be bikinis were only in tiny sizes that only skinny girls could fit into. But not everyone is built like a model,” said Elisangela Inez Soares as she sunbathed on Copacabana beach, her oiledup curves packed into a black size 12 bikini. “Finally, it seems like people are beginning to realize that we’re not all Gisele,” said the 38-year-old mother of four, referring to willowy Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen. Clothing designer Clarice Rebelatto said her own swimwear-hunting travails prompted her to found Lehona, an exclusively plus-size beachwear line. “Honestly, the problem went way beyond just bikinis. In Brazil, it used to be that if you were even a little chunky, finding any kind of clothes in the right size was a real problem,” said Rebelatto, herself a size 10. “And I thought, ‘I’m actually not even that big compared to a lot of women out there, so if I have problems, what are they doing?”’ Since its launch in 2010, the line has become a hit. In brash leopard spots and flower prints not meant for wallflowers, the label’s 14 bikini styles aren’t what you’d normally associate with plussize swimsuits. The necklines plunge dramatically. Straps are mere strings. And while the bottoms provide too much coverage to qualify for the famed “fio dental” or “dental floss” category of Brazilian string bikinis, they’re significantly more audacious than the standard U.S. cut. “We’re working from the principle that bigger women are just like everyone else: They don’t want to look like old ladies, wearing these very modest, very covering swimsuits in just black,” said Luiz Rebelatto, Clarice’s son and director of Lehona. He said that recent publicity of the brand and several other new swimwear lines catering to plus sizes has triggered an overwhelming number of calls and e-mails from wouldbe customers. “They’re all excited and they say, ‘I’ve been looking everywhere for a bikini like that. Where can I get one?”’ said Rebelatto. Lehona is currently sold exclusively at big and tall specialty stores throughout Brazil. Its bikinis retail for about 130 reais or $75 — a relatively high price-point here, but Rebelatto said sales have grown at a galloping pace, though he did not provide any figures. It’s the same story at Acqua Rosa, a conventional swimwear label that added a plussize line in 2008. Now, plus-size purchases account for more than 70 percent of the brand’s total sales, said director Joao Macedo. It makes sense. For centuries, large swaths of Brazil were beset by malnutrition, and in 1970, nearly 10 percent of the population in the country’s poor, rural northeast region was considered underweight, according to Brazil’s national statistics institute. But the phenomenal economic boom that has lifted tens of millions out of pov-
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Women sunbathe in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ine anyone over a size 6 actually managing to fit into any of the brand’s minuscule twopieces. Luis Rebelatto of Lehona
People shop for bikinis in Rio de Janeiro. erty and into the burgeoning middle class over the past decade has also changed the nation’s once-svelte physique: A 2010 study by the statistics institute showed that 48 percent of adult women and 50 percent of men are now overweight. In 1985 those figures were 29 percent for women and 18 percent for men. (Still, there’s been no rash of plus-size male swimwear lines, as men here wear Speedo-style suits that don’t impinge on big guts.) Analysts attribute Brazil’s rapidly widening girth to changes in nutrition, with chips, processed meats and sugary soft drinks replacing staples like rice, beans and vegetables. And while the country’s elite are widely known to be fit-
ness freaks — and also among the world’s top consumers of cosmetic surgery — those recently lifted out of poverty and manual labor are becoming increasingly sedentary. A 2008 study showed that barely 10 percent of Brazilian teens and adults exercise regularly. Still, despite their growing numbers, not everyone is eager to embrace “gordinhas” — or “little fatties,” as chunky women are affectionately known here. Many high-end bikini-makers have turned a seemingly deliberately blind eye to the burgeoning plus-size market. Rio-based upmarket brand Salinas, for example, offers five sizes, from extrasmall through extra-large. But their sizing runs notoriously small and it’s hard to imag-
chalked it partially up to snobbery. “Some brands, they don’t want their image to be associated with chunky women,” he
said. “Only the thin, the rich and the chic.” While Brazilians’ increasing heft is a public policy preoccupation for the government, growth in the ranks of the overweight population has given them increased visibility in Brazilian society. Extrawide bucket seats for the obese have been installed in Sao Paulo’s metro system, and today the city will host Brazil’s first ever Miss Plus Size beauty contest. “It used to be that people would stare at me,” said Soares, the voluptuous sunworshiper on Copacabana beach. “Now when I come to the beach I see women who are much bigger than me — and lots of them are wearing bikinis — so I’m not self-conscious any more. “God makes some people thin but he made me like this,” she said, rubbing down the well-oiled bulge of her stomach and thighs. “So who am I to think that he was wrong?”
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‘Watchmen’ rewound
DC eyes comic, plans prequels to 1986 series By Matt Moore The Associated Press PHILADELPHA — More than a quarter of a century after “Watchmen” intrigued readers with tales of lessthan-heroic and all-too-human — save for Dr. Manhattan — crime-fighting vigilantes, DC Entertainment is revisiting them in a series of original prequels this summer. The publisher of DC Comics said last week that it will launch seven interlocking and inter-connected miniseries — each focusing on a specific character — as it revisits the world first and last seen in the 1986-1987 12-issue series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, which has remained a staple of critics and consumers and a near-constant best-selling graphic novel. “It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” DC Entertainment co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee said in a statement. “After 25 years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told. We sought out the best writers and artists in the industry to build on the complex mythology of the original.” Moore is not participating, but Gibbons noted that their original series was “the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC’s reasons for this initiative and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work.” In that vein, the publisher said that the writers and artists bringing the miniseries about Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, Nite Owl, Ozymandias, Silk Spectre, Comedian and the Minutemen include writers Len Wein, who edited the original series; Darwyn Cooke; Brian Azzarello and J. Michael Straczynski. Artists include Amanda Conner, Andy and Joe Kubert, Adam Hughes, Jae Lee, J.G. Jones, Lee Bermejo and Cooke. Wein, who is writing “Ozymandias,” is also penning a two-page backup feature in each of the series dubbed “The Curse of the Crimson Corsair,” which is illustrated by John Higgins, who did the colors on the original “Watchmen” series. “‘The Curse of the Crimson Corsair’ was actually my idea when we first started talking about doing these new stories,” Wein said. “Since, in the world of the Watchmen, DC stopped doing superhero comics early on and started a line of pirate comics instead, I thought it might be fun to see what one of the other books in the line looked like.” That’s akin to the similar pirate comic that played out in the pages of “Watchmen” that Moore wrote called “Tales of the Black Freighter,”’ Wein said. “‘Crimson Corsair’ introduces a new character to follow from the beginning of his adventure to its grisly end. I must say I’m having a lot of fun getting creeped out by what I’m writing here.” Higgins said he and Wein have kept the sense of foreboding and darkness that permeated the “Black Freighter” story. “What we are trying to achieve with the Crimson Corsair pages within the regular new series is to create a graphic ‘buffer’ and to use the darkness of the Crimson Corsair stories as a literary counterpoint to the regular book,” he said. Looking ahead, Higgins said that even though the Watchmen has become a touchstone for comics and graphic novels, the new series can expand on its mythology. “The challenge is to make the stories modern and relevant to 2012 and to show what can be done with respect and consideration for the source material that has inspired so many people over the years.
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The cover of “Watchmen,” a graphic novel
‘The challenge is to make the stories modern and relevant to 2012 and to show what can be done with respect and consideration for the source material that has inspired so many people over the years. By adding to the mythos and not to detract from it. John Higgins ARTIST
By adding to the mythos and not to detract from it,” he said. “‘The Watchmen’ had such an influence on graphic storytelling since it first appeared and is a timeless classic. If we can
create a new set of stories that can be enjoyed 25 years on, that would be an achievement and a reward in itself.”
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07. Help Wanted
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“ACE”
AVON- NEED INCOME now? Start your Avon Business! Earn good money! Call 601-259-2157.
DRIVER. LOOKING For a new job for the New year? Tango has immediate openings for Regional and OTR Drivers! Top Pay, Excellent Benefits and Great Hometime. CDL-A and 15 months OTR experience required. Apply by phone. MondayFriday 8am- 5pm and Sunday 1pm- 5pm CST. 877826-4605 or online at www.drivefortango.com. Please email resumes to: recruiting@tangotransport.com
CDL-A Driver. BIG FLATBED RUNS $500 Sign-On Bonus Benefits after 30 days • High-Quality freight • Dependable hometime • Start right away! Also hiring recent grads. Will train for fladbed 866-863-4111 drivewithwestern.com
Truck Driver Training With a Difference Job Placement Asst. Day, Night & Refresher Classes Get on the Road NOW! Call 1-888-430-4223 MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124
Classified Advertising really brings big results!
AMIkids NORTHEAST LA is currently seeking certified teachers. Please contact Executive Director KarVan Powell or Business Manager ChaQuita Richardson 318-574-9475 or email northeastla-bm@amikids.org
Classifieds Really Work!
PROFESSIONAL LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT Company seeking experience individuals for grass cutting, landscaping and irrigation. Starting pay $10$12 per hour based on experience. Must have at least 2 years experience and pass monthly drug screens. College highly valued. Current drivers license, good driving history and clean background check required. Send professional typed resume and photo with work history, references and contact information to Dept. 3781, The Vicksburg Post, P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182.
READ THE CLASSIFIEDS daily!
06. Lost & Found
SHOW YOUR LOVE!! Messages to your sweetheart will be published on Valentine's Day, Tuesday, February 14th. Cost is $1 per word, and $7 per picture. Come in to The Vicksburg Post Classifieds department today and show your love!!! 1601-F North Frontage Road, Vicksburg.
Brown and white Male SHELTIE (11 inches tall) Chris is a certified Therapy Dog. He visits in nursing homes, schools, and hospitals.
IF SEEN CALL 601-618-5457
T h e Vi c k s b u r g P o s t C l a s s i f i e d s .
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06. Lost & Found
STILL MISSING! $300 REWARD!!
Disc ove r a new world o f o p po rt un it y w i t h
07. Help Wanted
07. Help Wanted
If he comes to your house, offer him food so hopefully he will stay nearby!
Do You Love History and Books? A great job opportunity is now unfolding in a great environment amidst a
National Park full of Civil War history! OPEN POSITION Part-Time and Full Time Position Store Associate Vicksburg National Military Park – Vicksburg, MS Eastern National is a non-profit organization and Equal Opportunity Employer that currently serves as a partner to the National Park Service. We are seeking a store associate with merchandising and retail experience, ability to communicate effectively, provide excellent customer service, and have good mathematical and problem-solving skills. A strong working knowledge of personal computers and Point of Sales Systems is preferred. This position will involve working weekends and holidays. This is NOT a government position although Eastern National is located within a National Park. Interested parties should send their resumes to Shanna Farmer at shannaf@easternnational.org or pick up an application at the visitor’s center book store located at 3201 Clay Street, Vicksburg, MS. Deadline – February 20, 2012
COMPUTER GRAPHICS DESIGNER
Qualified applicant should have good grammar skills, experience with MacIntosh computers, ad layout and design. Knowledge in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign. Responsibilities include creating and composing advertisements to customer specifications. Must be creative, organized, self-motivated, able to meet deadlines. Send resumes to: Dept. 3782 The Vicksburg Post P.O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182
PART TIME CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED Must be computer literate, have a pleasant telephone manner and be good with customers. Please send resume to: Dept. 3779, The Vicksburg Post, P.O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182 or e-mail to classifieds@vicksburgpost.com Please note Dept. 3779 in the subject line.
VICKSBURG VIDEO has an opening for INSTALLER VICKSBURG VIDEO offers excellent benefits, which include the following: Health Insurance Dental Insurance 401(k) Retirement Plan Profit Sharing Plan Additional Supplemental Insurance Paid Vacation and Sick Leave Paid Training and Education in the National Cable Telecommunications Institute Complimentary Cable Service & High-Speed Internet Service for applicants living in our service area and discounted phone service Interested applicants may fax a resume to (601) 636-3797, or mail a resume to or come in and fill out an application at our office at 900 Hwy 61 N, Vicksburg, MS 39183. VICKSBURG VIDEO, INC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is a drug and tobacco free work environment.
Vicksburg’s First Casino has immediate openings for: IT APPLICATIONS SUPPORT SPECIALIST SENIOR SURVELLIANCE OPERATOR EXECUTIVE CASINO HOST PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR CASINO SERVICES SUPERVISOR SLOT SHIFT SUPERVISOR DUAL RATE DEALER We are looking for qualified applicants who have work related experience. We offer Competitive Wages and Excellent Benefits. Interested applicant may apply Tuesday through Thursday from 9:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. or send resume to: Sandy Cowart Director of Human Resources DiamondJacks Casino & Hotel-Vicksburg 2920 Washington Street Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180 Office 601-630-4480 Fax 601-636-4089 SCowart@DiamondJacks.com EOE/Drug Free
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$10,000 PRICE REDUCTION!!
JUST LISTED! 17783 Hwy 465
306-A EAST DRIVE
The Vicksburg Post
118 Singing Hills Cove 4.2 acres 3 bedroom, 2 bath with screened porch on lake. Extra lot for garden included, covered shed for boat.
10836 HALLS FERRY ROAD
201 Signal Hill
Peace & quiet on 2.3 acres with pond, outside Heating and Air, wired workshop, heated pool. Custom designed inside with 3 bedroom, 3 bath, fireplace, open kitchen/ eating area, and huge dining room.
JONES & UPCHURCH, INC. Call Andrea at
Don't let this one get away. Well maintained family home with 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. Large fenced backyard. Close in location.
3 bed, 2 bath, on 1.9 acres, 160' pier, boat house. This is the house you have waited for!
Cindy Roberson 601-415-5880
601-831-6490 Over 34 years of experience put to work for you! EMAIL: ANDREA@JONESANDUPCHURCH.COM Andrea Upchurch WWW.VICKSBURGHOMES.COM
111 BRANDI LANE
Godfreyandivy.com
Leech Real Estate
What a Buy! 4 Bedrooms
& Coldwell Banker All Stars 601-831-1742 601-634-8928
Vanessa Leech, Broker • 601-415-4114 Andrea Lewis • 601-218-0644 Nina Rocconi • 601-415-4503 Mindy Hall • 601-631-4144 Tommy Shelton • 601-415-2507 Richard Engel • 601-831-2597 Cathy Mitchell • 601-218-2763
07. Help Wanted
BECOME A CERTIFIED pharmacy technician today! Call 601-540-3062 for more information.
CHEF/ COOK FOR full service restaurant. Experience required. Send resumes to: Dept. 3780, The Vicksburg Post, P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182.
07. Help Wanted
07. Help Wanted
HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC needed. Engine experience required. Sam Estis, 318-348-7947.
LPN, CNA, PCA NEEDED as soon as possible for home care. Call Nursing Management Inc. 800-448-3634 or website www.nminursingmgt.com.
11. Business Opportunities
11. Business Opportunities
11. Business Opportunities
Sanders Hollingsworth Builders
Best Buy in Openwood. Now only $159,900! Beautiful lot on cul-de-sac accents this newly inside painted and carpeted 4 bedroom, 2 bath home.
Jimmy Ball
Johnny Sanders 601-629-7808
Regional Drivers Home Most Weekends Medical, Dental, and Vision Direct Deposit, Credit Union and Bonus Class A CDL w/2 year verifiable Call Dancor M-F 8-5pm @ 866-677-4333 www.dancortransit.com
fewball@cablelynx.com
SEATRAX MARINE CRANES now hiring field service technicians, machinists and electricians. Apply at 218 Gunther Lane, Bell Chasse, LA 70037 or call Cindy at 504-394-4600 extension 233.
TO BUY OR SELL
AVON
CALL 601-636-7535 $10 START UP KIT Classifieds Really Work!
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S HAMROCK A PA RT M E N T S SUPERIOR QUALITY, CUSTOM CABINETS, EXTRA LARGE MASTER BDRM, & WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS. SAFE!! SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT
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Great Staff Great Location, Location, Hard-Working Hard-Working Staff
601-638-7831• •201 201Berryman Berryman Rd 601-638-7831 Rd.
10. Loans And Investments
14. Pets & Livestock
“WE CAN ERASE your bad credit- 100% guaranteed.� The Federal Trade Commission says the only legitimate credit repair starts and ends with you. It takes time and a conscious effort to pay your debts. Any company that claims to be able to fix your credit legally is lying. Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc.gov/credit A message from The Vicksburg Post and the FTC.
VICKSBURG WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY Hwy 61 S. • 601-636-6631
11. Business Opportunities
Quality Service at Competitive Prices #1 Windshield Repair & Replacement
Vans • Cars • Trucks •Insurance Claims Welcome•
AUTO • HOME • BUSINESS Jason Barnes • 601-661-0900
BUFORD CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. 601-636-4813 State Board of Contractors Approved & Bonded Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt, Rock & Sand All Types of Dozer Work Land Clearing • Demolition Site Development & Preparation Excavation Crane Rental • Mud Jacking
Simmons Lawn Service
Professional Services & Competitive Prices • Landscaping • Septic Systems • Irrigation: Install & Repair • Commercial & Residential Grass Cutting Licensed • Bonded • Insured 12 years experience Roy Simmons (Owner) 601-218-8341
SPEEDIPRINT & OFFICE SUPPLY • Business Cards • Letterhead • Envelopes • Invoices • Work Orders • Invitations (601) 638-2900 Fax (601) 636-6711 1601-C North Frontage Road Vicksburg, MS 39180
DEAN CO
13. Situations Wanted NEED A SITTER? Call 601-497-5144, 601-400-1290. Over 25 years of experience.
14. Pets & Livestock Vicksburg Warren Humane Society & MS - Span Low Cost Spay & Neuter Program CATS: Male . .$25 Female ........$35 DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS): Male . .$55 Female ........$65 • For the above category of animals, pick up applications at the Humane Society DOGS (OVER 40 LBS): Male . .$70 Female ........$80 • For dogs over 40 lbs, call 866-901-7729 for appt.
& finishing Free Estimates Dean Cook • 601-278-4980
PATRIOTIC • FLAGS • BANNERS • BUMPER STICKERS • YARD SIGNS
Show Your Colors!
$2.83 per day,
601-636-SELL (7355)
Call the Shelter for more information.
HAVE A HEART, SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR PETS!
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NEED AN APARTMENT?
All Business & Service Directory Ads MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE !
Enjoy the convenience of downtown living at
The Vicksburg Apartments UTILITIES PAID! 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Studios & Efficiencies 801 Clay Street 601-630-2921 www.the-vicksburg.com
17. Wanted To Buy
WE HAUL OFF old appliances, old batteries, lawn mowers, hot water heaters, junk and abandoned cars, trucks, vans, etcetera. 601940-5075, if no answer, please leave message.
WE PAY CASH for junk. Cars, trucks. Vans, SUVs, and old dump trucks. 601-638-5946 or 601-529-8249.
Look for us on www.petfinder.com
If you are feeding a stray or feral cat and need help with spaying or neutering, please call 601-529-1535.
15. Auction OUR ON-LINE SUBSCRIPTION keeps you “plugged� in to all the local news, sports, community events. Call Circulation, 601-636-4545. ESTATE SALE SERVICE AUCTION SERVICE KATZENMEYER'S MISSISSIPPI AUCTION SERVICE 601-415-3121 www.msauctionservice.com LOCALLY OWNED SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES
17. Wanted To Buy
PLEASE CALL THE Gentleman of Junk for all your junk vehicle needs. Make like a magician and turn your junk vehicles into cash. Please leave message if no answer. 601-868-2781. WE BUY ESTATES. Households and quality goods. Best prices. You call, we haul! 601-415-3121, 601-661-6074. www.msauctionservice.com WE BUY GOOD quality used items. Including furniture, antiques, tools, lamps, pictures and miscellaneous household items. Pays cash! Call 601-638-3070 or send picture of items to fannysfinds@att.net
35 years experience
To advertise your business here for as little as call our Classified Dept. at 601-636-7355.
Adopt Today!
Hwy 61 S - 601-636-6631
PAINTING
•Residential & Commercial •Pressure Washing •Sheetrock repair
DON’T SHOP...
www.pawsrescuepets.org EXISTING LIMOUSINE BUSINESS. 2000 Stretch Limo. Seats 8. $12,000 firm. 601-661-9747.
MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTS Elderly & Disabled 3515 Manor Drive Vicksburg, Ms. 601-636-3625 Equal Housing Opportunity
Barnes Glass
Licensed by the State of MS & the City of Vicksburg
REALTORÂŽ
07. Help Wanted
SH
Specializing In: Remodeling, Additions, Storm & Fire Damage Repairs, Drainage & Erosion Control
601-218-3541
www.leechrealestate.net
07. Help Wanted
2735 Washington Street, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • 601-638-6243
114 ROBERT E. LEE
601-636-5947
reathacrear@aol.com
CERTIFIED TEACHERS, TEACHER assistants and volunteers needed for after school program. Resumes to: P.O. Box 1131, Vicksburg, MS 39181.
601-415-9179 Home for Sale? Show it to the world at www.vicksburgrealestate.com
A Reputable Real Estate Company with Proven Results
110 Clifton Drive
REATHA CREAR
Beverly McMillin
of Vicksburg, Inc.
And 3 Full Baths, Situated on 3.6 Acres. Formal Dining Room With Hardwood Floors, Fireplace, Gourmet Kitchen With Ceramic Floors, Island, Whirlpool Tub, Huge Bonus Room, Screen Porch 2-Car Garage And More...$273,500 Lovely Brick Ranch Home With 3 Bedrooms And 2 Full Baths. Hardwood Floors, Granite Counter Tops, Fireplace, Whirlpool Tub, Two Car Garage, Sprinkler System. City Utilities! County Taxes!
Real Estate McMillin And
Country living and great location. Brick. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, separate den. Good condition. Recently painted and updated. 20' X 20' Shop/storage. $95,000
What's going on in Vicksburg this weekend? Read The Vicksburg Post! For convenient home delivery call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.
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Bienville Apartments The Park Residences at Bienville 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms and townhomes available immediately.
and
VICKSBURGS NEWEST, AND A WELL MAINTAINED FAVORITE. EACH WITH SPACIOUS FLOOR PLANS AND SOPHISTICATED AMENITIES. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
FOR LEASING INFO, CALL 601-636-1752
www.parkresidences.com • www.bienvilleapartments.com
18. Miscellaneous For Sale 52� RCA HDTV wide screen, $285. 52� RCA Standard Definition TV $175. Call 601-634-6898. BANDSAW BLADES. ONE Ÿ inch x 80 inch metal cutting, one 3/16 inch x 80 inch skip raker 4 TPL wood blade, one ½ inch x 80 inch hook rake 3 TPL wood blade. Brand new, all three for $25. 601-634-6121. CEMETERY PLOT. GREEN Lawn Gardens Cemetery (1 space). 225294-3061 or e-mail: thomp son4815@bellsouth.net ELECTRIC HOSPITAL BED. $250. 601-638-7721.
HOME COMPUTER SERVICE and repair. Reasonable prices. Pick up available .601502-5265, 601-636-7376. THE BEST WAY to bargain hunt is to check the Classifieds Daily. We make it easy with our convenient home delivery. For details call 601-636-4545, Circulation.
TWIN MATTRESS SETS. $175. Full sets, $199. New sofa, love seat, $675. 601-6387191. Discount Furniture Barn. USED TIRES! LIGHT trucks and SUV's, 16's, 17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A few matching sets! Call TD's, 601-638-3252. VALENTINE GIFT SAVE 15% ON Elke Briuer's original art displayed (and 25% off on framing it) at Riverbend Galleries, 1915 Mission 66, until Valentine's Day. 601-636-5068.
19. Garage & Yard Sales STILL HAVE STUFF after your Garage Sale? Donate your items to The Salvation Army, we pick-up! Call 601-636-2706.
No need to go hunting around town to place your garage sale signs...just place an ad in the The Vicksburg Post Classifieds. Call 601-636-SELL.
There’s no easier way to attract customers and make extra cash!
20. Hunting
Call our Circulation Department for CONVENIENT Home Delivery and/ or our On-line Subscription. Monday- Friday, 8am-5pm, 601-636-4545.
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If you’re finding too much of this and that cluttering your house, sell it fast. Call and place your classified ad today.
601-636-SELL
Bradford Ridge Apartments Live in a Quality Built Apartment for LESS! All brick, concrete floors and double walls provide excellent soundproofing, security, and safety. 601-638-1102 • 601-415-3333
21. Boats, Fishing Supplies REFURBISHED CLASSIC. 1964 Jet Star Starcraft with 1985 50 horse power Johnson motor and trailer. Runs great! $3500. 601218-1143. What's going on in Vicksburg? Read The Vicksburg Post! For convenient home delivery, call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.
22. Musical Instruments DULCIMER DONATIONS NEEDED to begin groups in local nursing homes and retirement centers. Call Ginger Rebert 601-456-4993.
READ THE CLASSIFIEDS DAILY!
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24. Business Services Toni Walker Terrett Attorney At Law 601-636-1109 • Bankruptcy Chapter 7 and 13 • Social Seurity Disability • No-fault Divorce
24. Business Services
24. Business Services
DIRT AND GRAVEL hauled. 8 yard truck. 601638-6740.
I-PHONE REPAIR. Buy, sell and repair. Arcue Sanchez - 601-618-9916.
FREE ESTIMATES
PLUMBING SERVICES24 hour emergency- broken water lines- hot water heaters- toilets- faucetssinks. Pressure Washingsidewalk- house- mobile homes- vinyl siding- brick homes. 601-618-8466.
TREY GORDON ROOFING & RESTORATION •Roof & Home Repair (all types!) •30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref Licensed • Insured 601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133
D & D TREE CUTTING •Trimming • Lawn Care • Dirt Hauled • Insured For FREE Estimates Call “Big James” 601-218-7782
I CLEAN HOUSES! Well known, excellent references. Will also iron by the hour. Reasonable. 601-6312482, 601-831-6052. LEAVES, GUTTERS, HEDGES, exterior window cleaning, and mowing. General yard, patio and driveway clean-up. Good rates. Free estimates. 601-2184415.
Don’t miss a day of The Vicksburg Post! Our ePost now available! Call 601-636-4545, Circulation for details!
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(INCLUDING CORPORATE APARTMENTS) CALL 601-618-5180 caldwell@vicksburg.com
27. Rooms For Rent 3 ROOMS AVAILABLE. In Vicksburg, separate private entrances, furnished, free linens and washer/ dryer use. $330 and up per month. 773-719-6529.
✰✰FOR LEASE✰✰
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1911 Mission 66
Classified Advertising really brings big results!
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BRIAN MOORE REALTY, LLC Connie Moore Brewer, Owner/ Agent
FEBRUARY SWEETHEART SPECIAL: 1 & 2 BEDROOMS RATES STARTING AT $450 AND UP
RICHARD M. CALDWELL BROKER SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS
PURVIS UPHOLSTERY AND repairs. 36 years experience, specializing in antiques. 601-634-6073.
Suite B-Apprx. 2450 sq. ft. Suite F-Apprx. 1620 sq. ft. Office or Retail! Great Location!
The Ridge Apartments 601-636-8592
26. For Rent Or Lease
2 BEDROOM APARTMENT for rent. Section 8 welcome. Recently remodeled. 601-6364338, 601-218-1210.
318-322-4000
CALL 601-636-SELL AND PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.
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28. Furnished Apartments CORPORATE APARTMENT, DOWNTOWN Vicksburg. 1 bedroom, 1 bath, washer/ dryer. Includes linens, fully stocked kitchen. $900 monthly, includes utilities and cleaning. 601-529-0825 or email to: fsuziewong@cablelynx.com
29. Unfurnished Apartments 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT. $375 monthly, deposit required. 601-8314703. 2 BEDROOM ALL electric. Water furnished, $450 monthly. 4 BEDROOM duplex Both $200 deposit, $500 monthly. Refrigerator, stove furnished. 601-634-8290.
THE COVE Stop looking, Start living! Paid cable, water and trash. Washer, Dryer and built-in microwave furnished.
Ask about our Holiday special! 601-638-5587 1-601-686-0635
Bring in this ad and receive
$50 OFF
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CROSS OVER Please call one of these Coldwell Banker professionals today: Valorie Spiller 601-618-6688 Reatha Crear 601-831-1742 Marianne Jones 601-415-6868 Kim Steen 601-218-7318 Kellye Carlisle 601-529-4215 Katherine Crawford 601-218-0020 John H. Caldwell 601-618-5183 Jimmy Ball 601-218-3541 Herb Jones 601-831-1840 Connie Norwood 601-415-3738 Brenda Love 601-415-2039 Angela Williams 601-415-6805 Harley Caldwell, broker 2170 I-20 S. Frontage Rd www.homesofvicksburg.com
601-634-8928
INTO THE GOOD LIFE! BEAUTIFUL LAKESIDE LIVING
Apartment Homes
Spacious 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apartment homes! • CABLE FURNISHED • HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS AVAILABLE • NUMEROUS LAVISH AMENITIES • SPARKLING SWIMMING POOL • BASKETBALL COURT • VOLLEYBALL COURT www.gfprop.com
601-636-0503
• 2160 S. Frontage Rd.
• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts. • Beautifully Landscaped • Lake Surrounds Community
• Pool • Fireplace • Spacious Floor Plans 601-629-6300 www.thelandingsvicksburg.com
501 Fairways Drive Vicksburg
CONFEDERATE RIDGE 780 Highway 61 North Fall In LOVE With
Our 2 Bedroom SPECIAL! Call for Details 601-638-0102 COUNTY 2 BEDROOMS, 2½ baths. Openwood Townhouse. 1,400 plus/ minus square feet, cheap county car tags. 601-831-8900. Leave message.
Commodore Apartments 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms 605 Cain Ridge Rd. Vicksburg, MS 39180
601-638-2231
30. Houses For Rent 1455 PARKSIDE, 3/ 2. 1865 Martin Luther King, 3/ 1. 123 Roseland 4/ 2. 2606 Oak Street, 2/ 1. $750 and up! 732-768-5743. 2 BEDROOM HOME. Partially furnished, 108 Sullivan Cove, Eagle Lake, $700 month. 601-218-5348. 213 SECOND AVENUE. 2 bedroom, $450 monthly, deposit/ references or buy for $23,000. 601-415-5954. 4 BEDROOMS, 3 baths. County, Burnt House Road, 3 acres. $1300 monthly, deposit/ references. 601-2181172, 601-218-9191. CONVENIENT FOR ENTERGY Employees. 2 or 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, partially furnished, with TV and microwave No pets, deposit required. 601-415-5046.
31. Mobile Homes For Rent
4 RENTALS AVAILABLE Eagle Lake area. Call 601-279-4723 for more information. MEADOWBROOK PROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bedroom mobile homes, south county. Deposit required. 601-619-9789.
32. Mobile Homes For Sale $6000 DOWN, $600 per month on land/ home in Vicksburg area. 3 to choose from. Other mobile homes available. 662-417-1209. ½ ACRE LAKE front property with 2 decks, and covered back porch. 4 bedroom, 2 bath fixer upper house. $45,000. 601-5725300, 601-573-5029. 2005 28x64. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths. Tons of upgrades. $34,900. 601-572-5300, 601-573-5029. CALL 601-636-SELL AND PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.
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PHOTOS BY OUR READERS Joseph Jackson
Melissa Madura
Joseph Jackson of Vicksburg captured a bird’s-eye view of a hawk about to take flight.
Melissa Madura found a crisp January morning to be just the right time to snap a photo of a crop duster near Eagle Lake.
Rad Styron
Debbie Kennedy McMullen
Rad Styron of Vicksburg found this eagle perched in December near Dogwood Lake in Bovina.
Debbie Kennedy McMullen found a sign of spring in an iris blooming in late January in her Vicksburg yard.
GIVE US YOUR BEST SHOT! The Vicksburg Post will accept for publication photos submitted by readers. The photos should be current and of interest to the public, either because of their subject matter or their oddity, or the photographic skill shown. These are the criteria that will be used in determining which photos will be published. Submitted photos should be accompanied by complete caption information and include a phone number for the photographer, which will not be published. Photos may be submitted electronically at newsreleases@vicksburgpost.com, in person at Post Plaza or by mail to The Vicksburg Post, News photos, P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182.
32. Mobile Homes For Sale KEEP UP WITH ALL THE LOCAL NEWS AND SALES... SUBSCRIBE TO THE VICKSBURG POST TODAY! CALL 601-636-4545, ASK FOR CIRCULATION.
33. Commercial Property 7800 SQUARE FOOT office/ multi purpose building. On-site parking. $6.75/ square foot. 601-634-6669. 960 SQUARE FOOT Deluxe office space on Wisconsin Avenue. $675 monthly. Call 601-634-6669. FOR LEASE. WAREHOUSE space, 12,000 square feet, south county, zoned for manufacturing. 601-638-3214.
34. Houses For Sale
34. Houses For Sale
34. Houses For Sale
Licensed in MS and LA
Kay Odom..........601-638-2443 Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512 Jake Strait...........601-218-1258 Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274 Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318
Jones & Upchurch Real Estate Agency 1803 Clay Street www.jonesandupchurch.com Jill WaringUpchurch....601-906-5012 Carla Watson...............601-415-4179 Mary D. Barnes .........601-966-1665 Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134 Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490 Broker, GRI
601-636-6490
Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549
Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869 Catherine Roy....601-831-5790 Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893 Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211
V
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REAL ESTATE, INC
JIM HOBSON
REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER
601-636-0502
FIND THE HOME YOU HAVE HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR IN THE VICKSBURG POST CLASSIFIEDS!
40. Cars & Trucks
40. Cars & Trucks
36. Farms & Acreage ACREAGE 21.5 ACRES/ Barn Northeast of Edwards. 5.5 ACRES- 3 bedroom home, deck, greenhouse, lake, lots of extras, near Edwards. 376 ACRES- hunting land – Holmes County. Joan Vickers Real Estate, 601-969-2042.
40. Cars & Trucks 1990 FORD RANGER XLT. Excellent condition, V6, 5-speed, tool box, bedliner. $2000. 601-754-3676.
Finding the car you want in the Classifieds is easy, but now it’s practically automatic, since we’ve put our listings online.
40. Cars & Trucks
40. Cars & Trucks
1996 BUICK RIVIERA, $1600. 1995 Chevy II Blazer. $1600. 601-529-1195.
2000 MAZDA MILLENIUM. Super Charger, clean, fully loaded, good condition. $3800. 601-618-4344.
1999 BUICK PARK Avenue. Very good condition. $2500. 601-636-7996, 601529-7654. 2000 HONDA CRV. 2 wheel drive, 131,400 miles, good condition. $6,000. 601-529-0102.
2003 VOLKSWAGEN NEW Beetle GLX 1.8T. One owner, 20,000 Miles, leather, great condition. $10,200. 601-415-1525.
40. Cars & Trucks
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dishes—chocolate cream pie for my son and red velvet cake for my daughter. This year, I think I’ll make the scones on page 6, the split pea soup on page 22 (my son, Sam, loves puréeing it with the immersion blender) or pot roast and mashed potatoes (which my daughter, Nora, can eat her weight in). What else am I cooking this month? Find my February editor’s picks at relish.com/
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Very fresh eggs can be difficult to peel, so buy and refrigerate them a week to 10 days in advance of cooking. This brief “breather” allows the eggs time to take in air, which helps separate the membranes from the shell.
Three Cheese Spinach Lasagna • Biscotti with Apricots • Bourbon-Basted Salmon • Beef and Black Bean Burgers • Tangy Barbecued Lentils • Pear and Dried Cherry Crumble • Apples with Parmesan and Honey • White Beans with Sun-Dried Tomato Vinaigrette
Hard-boiled eggs are easiest to peel right after cooling, which causes the egg to contract slightly in the shell. To peel a hard-boiled egg: Gently tap egg on countertop until shell is finely crackled all over. Roll egg between hands to loosen shell. Start peeling at large end, holding egg under cold running water to help ease the shell off.
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Nutrition Facts Serving Size 1 egg (50g) Serving per Container 12 Amount Per Serving
Calories 70
Calories from Fat 45 % Daily Value*
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that cholesterol levels in eggs are lower than previously thought. After reviewing the nutrient composition of standard large eggs, the USDA results show the average amount of cholesterol in one large egg is 185 mg, 14% lower than previously recorded. Consuming an egg a day fits easily within dietary guidance, which recommends limiting cholesterol consumption to 300 mg per day.
large egg now contains 64% more Vitamin D than last reported in 2002. Eggs are one of the few foods that are a naturally good source of Vitamin D, which plays an important role in calcium absorption, helping to form and maintain strong bones.
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The amount of protein in one large egg remains the same – 6 grams of protein or 13% of the recommended daily value. And at 70 calories per egg and just 15 cents a serving, eggs are nutrient-dense, affordable and the perfect choice for breakfast.
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Total Fat 5g Saturated Fat 1.5g Polyunsaturated Fat 1g Monounsaturated Fat 2g Trans Fat 0g 14% LESS Cholesterol 185mg Sodium 70mg Potassium 70mg Total Carbohydrate 0g GOOD SOURCE Protein 6g
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Vitamin A 6% • Vitamin C 0% Vitamin D 10% • Calcium 2% Iron 4% • Thiamin 0% Riboflavin 10% • Vitamin B-6 4% Folate 6% • Vitamin B-12 8% Phosphorus 10% • Zinc 4% Not a significant source of Dietary fiber or Sugars * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 Calorie diet. Your daily volumes may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs. Calories Total Fat Less than Sat fat Less than Cholesterol Less than Sodium Less than Potassium Total Carbohydrate Dietary Fiber Protein
2,000 65g 20g 300mg 2,400mg 3,500mg 300g 25g 50g
2,500 80g 25g 300mg 2,400mg 3,500mg 375g 30g 65g
Calories per gram Fat 9 - Carbohydrate 4 - Protein 4
Prep Time: 1 minute Cook Time: 45 to 60 seconds Makes: 1 serving
WHAT YOU NEED 2 EGGS 2 Tbsp. milk 2 Tbsp. shredded Cheddar Cheese Salt and pepper
HERE’S HOW 1. COAT 12-oz. microwave-safe coffee mug with cooking spray. ADD eggs and milk; beat until blended. 2. MICROWAVE on HIGH 45 seconds; stir. MICROWAVE until eggs are almost set, 30 to 45 seconds longer. 3. TOP with cheese; season with salt and pepper Microwave ovens vary. Cooking times may need to be adjusted.
In 2010, a random sample of regular large shell eggs was collected from locations across the country to analyze the nutrient content of eggs. The testing procedure was last completed with eggs in 2002, and while most nutrients remained similar to those values, cholesterol decreased by 14% and vitamin D increased by 64% from 2002 values. Average amount of cholesterol in one egg is 185 mg, down from 215 mg.
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and salt together in a medium bowl. 4. Combine butter and granulated sugar, beat until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add chocolate and beat until combined. 5. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to butter mixture and beat to combine. Add vanilla and mix well. 6. Fill muffin tins half full with batter. Spoon about ½ tablespoon of peanut butter mixture on top of batter (don’t spread). Spoon remaining batter over peanut butter. Bake 18 to 20 minutes Cool and frost with your favorite peanut butter icing. Recipe by Jennifer Perillo.
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Hi Ho!Cherry-O Unlike raisins, which have never reached celebrity status, dried cherries are exotic, luxurious, indulgent, and super healthy—and those from Door County, Wis., are unrivaled.
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here are nearly 28,000 full-time residents of Door County, Wis. Add 20,000 part-time residents and 1 million summer tourists to that, and you have 1.5 million people, still not enough to make a dent in the roughly 12 million pounds of fresh cherries that come in fast and furious each July. To prolong this precious bounty, residents dry them and pack them in bags to use all year. Plump and scarlet, tart and sweet, dried cherries make everything taste better. They’re perfect for Valentine’s Day, too. Toss them in a salad with toasted walnuts, greens and feta cheese, or tuck them into buttery scones.
Dried Cherry Scones These are the specialty of the Pink Bakery in Door County’s Egg Harbor. 3 ½ 2 ¼ ½ 4 ½ ½ ¾
cups all-purpose flour cup sugar teaspoons baking powder teaspoon baking soda teaspoon salt ounces cold butter, cut into small pieces cup whole milk cup sour cream or yogurt cup dried cherries Coarse (turbinado) sugar
1. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder,
baking soda and salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse to combine. Add butter; pulse until mixture is the consistency of coarse meal. Add sour cream. Pulse. Add milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, and pulse until dough comes together. Remove from processor; divide dough in half
and cover each piece with plastic wrap. Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight. 2. Preheat oven to 375F. 3. Place one piece of dough on a floured surface. Shape into a 12-inch log. Roll until dough is a 12 x 5-inch rectangle. Place half the cherries on dough, pressing them gently into the dough. Fold in half lengthwise. Cut into triangles and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Repeat with remaining dough. Sprinkle tops with coarse sugar. Bake 18 to 20 minutes, until lightly browned. Makes 1 ½ dozen. Per serving: 176 calories, 7g fat, 17mg chol., 3g prot., 28g carbs., 1g fiber, 153mg sodium.
Recipe adapted from Kim Jensen’s Pink Bakery, Egg Harbor, Wis.
Arugula Salad with Walnuts, Dried Cherries and Feta This salad is the ultimate in flavor contrasts—peppery arugula, crunchy walnuts, tart and chewy cherries, and creamy, salty feta cheese. Any nut will work, along with most any dried fruit and goat cheese for the feta. 1 ¾ ¾ 4 3 2 ¼
(11-ounce) container baby arugula cup dried cherries cup toasted walnuts ounces feta cheese, crumbled tablespoons sherry vinegar or balsamic vinegar tablespoons olive oil teaspoon salt Freshly ground black pepper
1. Toss together arugula, cherries, walnuts and feta
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well. Drizzle over salad and toss well. Serves 5. Per serving: 298 calories, 22g fat, 20mg chol., 8g prot., 24g carbs., 3g fiber, 390mg sodium.
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Ricotta Pie Candied lemon slices (see page 4)
You can serve this pie with marmalade, but we made quick candied lemon slices, which provided just the right tart, sweet note to the cheese pie. For the recipe, see page 4. Crust: 1 ½ cups crushed almond or hazelnut biscotti 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
Per serving: 359 calories, 17g fat, 177mg chol., 13g prot., 40g carbs., 1g fiber, 250mg sodium.
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When it comes to fish, Alton Brown wants you to buy American.
lton Brown is best known for his colorful food antics on the long-running Good Eats show. But when he isn’t deconstructing a turkey or analyzing gelatin, he’s thinking about seafood—particularly the dwindling supply in our oceans. To bring that message to our plates, Brown teamed up with the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga to promote his program “Serve and Protect.” His quest: To get Americans eating fish raised and caught in the United States—particularly the species of small fish that are native, sustainable and renewable. ALTON BROWN’S “Americans like steak, and they like to “GOLD” FISH eat fish that resemble a steak, which is why Eat these small, we eat big slabs of things like swordfish and renewable fish for tuna and salmon,” says Brown. As a result, your health and the according to Brown, we’ve depleted these health of the oceans species and upset the balance of nature at and rivers: a great cost not only to the ocean, but land Channel catfish animals as well. The solution? Eat small species that are renewable and native. Rainbow trout
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Pecan-Crusted Trout 2 1 1 1 ½ ¼ 2 4
ounces finely chopped pecans ounce panko breadcrumbs teaspoon chopped fresh parsley teaspoon chopped fresh dill teaspoon coarse salt teaspoon freshly ground black pepper tablespoons unsalted butter, cold and cut into small pieces (4- to 6-ounce) U.S. farmed rainbow trout fillets, boneless, skin-on
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1. Preheat oven to 400F. 2. Place pecans, panko, parsley,
dill, salt and pepper in a small mixing bowl and stir to combine. 3. Mix butter into pecan mixture, using your fingers, until well incorporated. 4. Place fillets on a parchmentlined rimmed baking sheet. 5. Sprinkle pecan mixture evenly onto fillets and press down to cover. 6. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, until fish is opaque, firm and flaky. The pecan crust should be lightly browned. Serves 4. Per serving: 334 calories, 22g fat, 82mg chol., 26g prot., 7g carbs., 2g fiber, 360mg sodium.
Recipe courtesy of Alton Brown.
Alton Brown launched his campaign at the Tennesee Aquarium in Chattanooga with a seminar and cooking demo on sustainable seafood, followed by a dinner prepared by area chefs using those fish. With 10,000 animals and 13 major exhibit areas, the aquarium draws 1 million visitors a year. Freshwater and saltwater fish are the main attractions. The aquarium is housed in two buildings in Ross’s Landing Park and Plaza on the banks of the Tennessee River in downtown Chattanooga. For more information on “Serve and Protect” and recipes from the program, go to tnaqua.org.
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Chocolate Chai Pudding Chocolate pudding becomes exotic with chai spices and can be made in a moment’s notice in the microwave. Kids can even prepare it as an after-school treat. 2 4 3 ⅓ ⅛ ½ 1 ½
cups 2 percent reduced-fat milk, divided bags chai tea tablespoons cornstarch cup sugar teaspoon salt cup semi-sweet chocolate chips teaspoon vanilla cup whipped cream (optional) Cinnamon (optional) 1. In a microwave-safe bowl, heat
1 ½ cups milk on HIGH 1 to 2 minutes until very hot but not boiling. Place tea bags in milk, cover with a towel or plastic wrap and let steep 5 to 6 minutes. Remove tea bags, gently squeezing out milk; discard bags. 2. Meanwhile, mix cornstarch, sugar and salt. Whisk in remaining ½ cup chilled milk until combined; stir in chocolate chips and warm milk tea. Cook on HIGH, uncovered, in microwave 4 to 5 minutes until thick and bubbly, stirring every 2 minutes. Stir in vanilla. Serve warm, or cover with plastic wrap (let wrap touch top of pudding) and let cool before serving. Sprinkle with cinnamon and top with whipped cream, if using. Serves 4. Per serving: 309 calories, 14g fat, 30mg chol., 5g prot., 43g carbs., 1g fiber, 146mg sodium.
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Green Tea Asian Chicken This recipe is perfect with chicken thighs, but you can use chicken breasts as well. 2 ¾ 1 ½ ½ 2 1 3 2
tablespoons sugar cup hot brewed green tea teaspoon ground coriander teaspoon salt teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper teaspoons finely chopped, peeled fresh gingerroot large garlic clove, finely chopped tablespoon canola oil, divided pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs Fresh cilantro and mint, chopped (optional) Arugula or spinach (optional)
1. Stir sugar into tea while hot; let cool. Combine
tea with coriander, salt, pepper, ginger, garlic and 2 tablespoons canola oil. Place chicken in a large ziptop plastic bag and pour in half of marinade. Seal bag and let chill 1 to 6 hours. 2. Heat remaining marinade over medium-high heat about 4 minutes, or until reduced by one-third. 3. Remove thighs from marinade; discard marinade in bag. Heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in large skillet. Add chicken to skillet without crowding and cook until browned, 3 to 4 minutes on each side. Serve chicken with sauce and fresh herbs over greens. Serves 6. Per serving: 245 calories, 12g fat, 125mg chol., 30g prot., 4g carbs., 0g fiber, 260mg sodium.
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cups 2 percent reduced-fat milk bags English Breakfast tea cup all-purpose flour cup whole-wheat flour cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, divided teaspoons baking powder teaspoon salt egg, beaten cup canola oil tablespoon lemon juice teaspoons finely grated lemon peel cup dried apricots, chopped
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease bottom of a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan. 2. In a small saucepan, heat milk over medium heat until hot but
not boiling; remove from heat and add tea bags. Cover and let steep 6 to 7 minutes; remove tea bags, gently squeezing out milk, and discard bags. Let cool. 3. In a medium bowl, stir together flours, ¾ cup sugar, baking powder and salt. In another medium bowl, combine egg, oil, lemon juice and 1 cup cooled milk tea. (Mixture will curdle slightly.) Add egg mixture to dry mixture stirring just until moistened. Fold in lemon peel and apricots. 4. Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake 50 to 55 minutes, until a wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. 5. Meanwhile, stir remaining milk tea with 2 tablespoons sugar. While bread is still in pan, brush tea-sugar mixture over top of loaf. Let cool in pan 10 minutes then remove to wire rack. Serves 16. Per serving: 142 calories, 4g fat, 14mg chol., 3g prot., 24g carbs., 1g fiber, 82mg sodium.
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Beach Walk Cafe Key Lime Pie Beat the egg yolks until theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thick and pale yellow (about 8 minutes), then the condensed milk for 7 minutes. Crust: 2 cups graham crackers crumbs 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg 1â &#x201E;16 teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted Filling: 4 large egg yolks, room temperature Finely grated rind of 1 lime 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk ½ cup freshly squeezed lime juice Whipped cream (optional) 1. Combine crumbs, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg in
a bowl. Stir in melted butter. Press mixture into a 9-inch glass pie plate. (Crust will be thick.) Refrigerate 15 minutes. 2. Preheat oven to 350F. 3. Combine egg yolks and lime rind in a mixing bowl. Beat with a mixer on high speed 8 minutes (the eggs should be pale yellow and ďŹ&#x201A;uffy). Gradually add condensed milk and beat 7 minutes, or until ďŹ&#x201A;uffy. Add lime juice, beating well, about 2 minutes. Pour ďŹ lling into chilled pie shell. Bake about 12 minutes, until ďŹ lling is set. Refrigerate 3 hours. Top with whipped cream, if using, before serving. Serves 8. Per serving: 385 calories, 17g fat, 145mg chol., 7g prot., 53g carbs., 37g sugars, 2g ďŹ ber, 274mg sodium.
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few weeks ago, I found a split pea in my bed. I had made Split Pea and Ham Soup the night before, and a dry one must have hitched a ride in my shirt to bed. Split peas are not the hippest, most romantic food, but there’s nothing like a bowl of creamy, thick pea soup. With ham hocks in the freezer and a bag of peas in the pantry, I was inspired by a recipe from Ken Haedrich’s book Soup Makes the Meal (The Harvard Common Press, 2001). To give the soup a smoky flavor and keep it vegetarian, Haedrich uses uses barbecue sauce instead of a ham bone. I used both—after all isn’t a meaty ham bone the star of split pea soup? The barbecue sauce provided a welcome sweet note, just as sherry or malt vinegar might do. I cut naan bread into strips, tossed them with olive oil and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, baked them until crisp and served on top. You can use crushed pita chips or even corn chips instead. The soup was perfect—fit for a princess or a prince. —Jill Melton, Editor
Split Pea and Ham Soup For a vegetarian version, omit the ham. The barbecue sauce provides a smoky, sweet note. Have your kids use the immersion blender (at right) to purée the soup. It’s the most fun part for my 11-year-old son. What kid doesn’t like electronics? 2 1 2 2 3 1 10 1 2 1 ¼
tablespoons olive oil large onion, chopped stalks celery, chopped carrots, chopped garlic cloves, minced pound green split peas cups water ham bone or ham hocks medium potatoes, peeled and chopped teaspoon salt cup barbecue sauce or sherry
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celery, carrots and garlic. Sauté 5 minutes. Add split peas, water, ham bone. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 1 hour. Add potatoes; simmer another 30 minutes. 2. Remove ham bone from soup, pull meat off bone and set aside. Discard bone. 3. Using an immersion blender, purée soup. Add meat, salt and barbecue sauce. Serve with crushed pita or corn chips. Serves 10.
Per serving: 248 calories, 5g fat, 9mg chol., 14g prot., 37g carbs., 13g fiber, 365mg sodium.
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to focus on her record and stuff. Then I heard about [the elopement] on Twitter! Kellie was like [adopts southern accent], “Girl, I’m so sorry.” I was bummed. What was your worst pre-fame gig? Cold-calling for a small refinance company. That only lasted a month because I’m not a pushy person. I stayed longest at [clothing store] Planet Funk. I got really good at folding jeans. One time, though, this guy bought a pair of jeans for $100 and later the manager said, “You rang this person up for $1.” I thought, “Kat, you’re an idiot!” How do you like to spend your Sundays? I enjoy going to church. I also enjoy days where I just sleep in, go grocery shopping, and [have friends over]. I love entertaining. I get so much joy out of serving people, like, “I’ll take your coat.”
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acolytes, alongside other legendary NFL superfans like Ed Anzalone (a.k.a. “Fireman Ed”), a retired New York City firefighter who has led Jets fans in a “J-E-T-S!” chant at games since 1986, or John “Big Dawg” Thompson (he legally changed his name), for two decades lead pup in a group of Cleveland Browns fans known as the Dawg Pound. On Super Bowl Sunday, we’re all football fans, but for these men—and women—supporting their team is a 365-day-a-year obsession.
IT’S A HIGH THAT CAN LAST ALL WEEK” Every sport—and sports team—has its devotees, but when it comes to embodying the chest-beating, face-painting loony id of the American sports world, nothing can match the NFL fan. There’s a reason: Major League Baseball teams play 162 games each season; the NBA calendar is 82 games long; but NFL teams play only 16 games—every one is a major event. “Each game becomes the centerpiece of your week,” says s Brown veland ON Cle S P M THO AWG” “BIG D JOHN
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Ed Hirt, a professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University who has studied the psychology of sports fans. With so few games, “every one can be critical to the team’s potential for a playoff run, so fans have a lot of emotional investment in the outcome,” says Adam Earnheardt, associate professor of communication at Ohio’s Youngstown State University and an expert on fan behavior. That investment can even cause chemical changes. “Researchers from Georgia State University studied soccer players and extreme soccer fans and found that both groups exhibited the same increase in testosterone levels after a victory, and decrease in testosterone after a loss,” says Robert Cialdini, a professor of psychology and marketing at Arizona State University. “These fans are almost physically merged with the team in terms of their hormonal states.” And the intense emotions of game day don’t fade after the clock ticks down. “When the team wins, it’s a high that can last all week,” says Joey Liner, 34, a devoted Baltimore Ravens fan who has held season tickets since 2001. “But on the occasions they don’t win, you can’t sleep; you keep replaying every moment in your mind. It can take a toll on you.”
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Lorin Sandretzky, 46, known as “Big Lo,” is a Seattle Seahawks fan, but that’s a bit like calling Albert Einstein a math hobbyist. His body is a tattooed shrine to the team. Up and down his legs are the immortalized faces of Seahawks luminaries like quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, fullback Leonard Weaver, and safety Jordan Babineaux—none of whom even still play for the team. If you think about it, “the biggest fans are more devoted to their team than the players are,” says Daniel Cavicchi, an associate professor of American studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. “An NFL player loves football; if he gets traded, he switches his allegiance. A die-hard fan loves the team.” In fact, that’s one of the biggest ways that superfans differ from casual fans, according to Cialdini. He says that most fans will trumpet their connection to a team when it’s victorious (“we won!”), but distance themselves after a defeat (“they lost”). But a superfan stays committed no matter what. “They’re grateful to the star player for bringing a victory, but if that player leaves the team, their allegiance doesn’t travel.” Permanent gestures
ARE YOU A SUPERFAN? Sure, you eat, breathe, and follow the tweets of your favorite team, but are you a true-blue fanatic? Take our quiz to find out where you stand. By Hilary Sterne
1
If your team wins their next game, they’ll make the playoffs—but it’s an away game. The farthest you’d be willing to drive to see them is: (a) Two hours (b) Five hours (c) Across the country. Even if it meant sleeping in your car.
2
The total number of items in your house that bear your team’s logo is: (a) 0 to 5 (b) 6 to 10 (c) Too numerous to count. And anyway, does the matching toilet seat and tank cover count as one item or two?
3
You’re watching the last half of a playoff game on TV when your wife announces she’s gone into labor. You: (a) Grab her overnight bag and hop in the car. (b) Wait until the next commercial break and set your DVR to record the rest of the game before heading out. (c) Call a neighbor to ask if he can drive her to the hospital. It’s not like the baby will be there in half an hour, right?
4
You are allowed to take one thing with you to a desert island. You choose:
(a) Angelina Jolie (b) A raft. If you start paddling now, you might make it home in time for draft day. (c) A hand-crank radio. Who needs civilization if there’s a chance you can still tune in to games?
5
The Baltimore Colts quiz scene in the movie Diner is: (a) Kind of offensive. Who would humiliate his girlfriend like that? (b) Hysterical. One of the funniest movie scenes ever. (c) True to life. In fact, you administered a similar pop quiz before agreeing to marry your spouse.
6
When your neighbor sees you outside on a Sunday morning in November, he says: (a) “Good morning!” (b) “Nice jersey! Did you get that at nfl.com?” (c) “Wow! Is that you
under all that paint? The logo shaved into your head is a nice touch. Let me help you with those kegs.”
7
A storm hits your neighborhood the day of the big game. The power and landline go out, and you realize your cell isn’t charged. You: (a) Spend an hour looking for flashlights, batteries, and bottled water. (b) Finish reading America’s Quarterback: Bart Starr and the Rise of the National Football League before the light fades. (c) Ignore the warnings to stay inside and drive around looking for a friend with a batteryoperated radio so you can follow the game.
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You pride yourself on knowing the following information about your team: (a) Their win-loss record,
along with ea each final score from last season. (b) The name of every player in the Hall of Fame. (c) The make, model, and color of the car driven by the team’s original owner. Which you bought on eBay and have parked in your garage.
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You would name your first child after your favorite player, if that player was: (a) Tom Brady (b) Hines Ward (c) D’Brickashaw Ferguson
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When you die, you would like: (a) To be buried in your team jersey. (b) To have your team’s highlight video played at the wake. (c) To have your corpse decked in head-to-toe team gear at the funeral parlor, holding a remote and propped in a recliner.
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Give yourself one point for each “a” answer, two for each “b,” and three for each “c.” Then see where you rank on the scale. 10–15: Piker status. Don’t quit your day job. 16–20: An aboveaverage fan. You try to catch most of the games on TV and have a team jersey in the back of your closet.
21–25: A devout fan. Your Rain Man–like recall of your team’s stats is spooky, and if you don’t have season tickets, you scour StubHub months before the season starts.
26–30: A bona fide superfanatic. Your perfect Sunday involves donning a crazy wig and no shirt in subzero weather while bellowing for three hours straight.
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Buck, Jackson, and J. D. in Masai robes in Kisii, Kenya
their Russian peers. “We played games, like Ping-Pong and gymnastics, where you don’t have to talk,” Buck says. “The other kids became my friends.” The boys’ father, J. D. Lewis, 53, had a more poignant encounter, with a teenager whose parents had died of alcoholism. J. D., who lost his own mother to alcohol abuse and his father to suicide when he
STORIES
The brothers at a school in Sattahip, Thailand
One Family, Six Continents, Twelve Good Deeds From a Beijing orphanage to an elementary school in Rwanda, the Lewis family of Charlotte, N.C., is on a trip that’s out of this world BY ANDREA COOPER
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ackson Lewis, 14, stood before the steel door of Transit, an organization for homeless youth in St. Petersburg, Russia, anxiously wondering what awaited him on the other side. Would he and his brother, Buck, 9, be able to communicate with the kids? Would it be frightening? This was the first stop on their family’s quest to volunteer in a different country every month for a year— and they had no idea what to expect. But within minutes of entering the building, the boys were wrestling and laughing with
The Question That Started It All
Buck and pal Marina in Mangapwani, Tanzania
The Incredible Journey
The Lewis family’s journey began with a single question. One day in the fall of 2010, Jackson asked his dad, “Why aren’t we doing more to make a w difference?” Taken aback, JJ. D. suggested they volunteer llocally. But as he pondered his son’s query that night, he h rrecalls, “I thought, ‘Let’s do 12 in 12—12 projects, 12 countries, 12 months.’ ” An acting coach and singgle dad who adopted both boys at birth, J. D. was a b strong believer in exposing his children to other culh ttures, but he knew that taking a yearlong trip would require special expertise. Among the people he consulted was Esther Benjamin of the Peace Corps, who suggested safe destinations and worthy organizations. Next, he had to figure out the trip’s cost—and continued on page 17
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how to pay for it. He calculated a $100-perday budget for food, lodging, and other necessities, plus $25,000 for transportation. J. D. used his savings and took out a loan. Friends organized fundraisers, and through the family’s website, TwelveinTwelve.org, strangers contributed as well. “People who’d been out of work for two years were sending us $10,” J. D. marvels. Kids Helping Kids
Since leaving Russia, the Lewis family has worked with children with Down syndrome in Thailand, taught English to Tibetan refugees in India, spent Thanksgiving in Rwanda, and worked with kids in Kenya who have HIV. The family volunteers three weeks a month (the other week is for travel), and four hours a day are devoted to homeschooling. Both boys keep journals, and Jackson and J. D. also blog. They all sample the local food, though in China they passed on the snake-on-a-stick. (Buck did say yes to a donkey burger—it
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The boys can say “thank you” in Russian, Chinese, Thai, Hindi, Rwandan, and Swahili,
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RALPH MARRERO Green Bay Packers
AGE: 57 LIVES IN: Dover, N.J. OCCUPATION: Phone
company technician DEVOTION LEVEL: The
first game Marrero ever watched as a kid was a Packers game, and he was hooked. Today, his home office is stuffed with hundreds of team tchotchkes, including Packers snow globes, a helmet phone, a Christmas village, a Pez dispenser, and, of course, a cheesehead. He wears something from his Packers collection (which includes silk underwear, sunglasses, and patent-leather sneakers) every day. “I could have bought a small house for what I spent on this stuff,” he says. Pointedly moved to storage: anything related to Brett Favre. DREAM: “To go to the Super Bowl and watch the Packers win. Maybe one day I’ll have the chance.” —H. S.
“one year became two became 10 years.” Now known simply as “License Plate Guy,” he hasn’t missed a Giants game— home or away—in nearly a decade. “The most dedicated fans hate to miss a game and go out of their way to travel to away games,” says Christian End, an associate professor of psychology at Xavier University in Cincinnati. “Part of it is about demonstrating their loyalty, but they’re also more superstitious. Compared to passing fans, they’re more likely to believe that watching (or not watching) a game could have an impact on the outcome.” This sometimes means placing the team above other social commitments. “I’ve missed countless baby showers and wedding showers because they’ve conflicted with Eagles games,” says Kelli Gail, 41, a communications consultant and lifelong Philadelphia Eagles fan. When a good friend got married during the playoffs a few years ago, she spent the majority of the wedding reception in the coat closet watching the game on a handheld TV. “I’ve always said that the only way I’ll miss a game is a death or a birth in the immediate family,” says Liner, a vice president of sales for an online marketing firm. “This season my wife was in the hospital with multiple infections after surgery, and the Ravens were playing. I was so antsy, she told me to go to the game. I like to say, ‘Family first, then my business, and then the Ravens,’ but my wife jokes it’s the other way around.”
THE FRIENDSHIPS WITH OTHER FANS ARE THE BEST PART OF ALL OF THIS” There is something about a team sport that brings out the collective; it encourages us to mentally place ourselves on
the field, says Cialdini. There’s a sense of belonging to a larger community, whether it’s the team itself, the city that the team represents, or fellow fans. “I work odd jobs to pay for the tickets and the travel,” says Ruback. “After this long, moneywise, I’m cutting it pretty tight.” Ruback admits he probably can’t do this forever, but hates to think about losing the extended family of Giants fans he’s met. “Those friendships are the best part of all of this,” he says. For some, fandom can also be a way to connect with family. Dustin Holmes, a Kid Rock look-alike who goes by the name “KidStallyn,” is a former air force captain who attends every Arizona Cardinals game with his 12-year-old twin sons and father. Earlier this season, for the first time, his wife joined in. “She always wondered why I left at 6:45 a.m. for a game that started at 2 p.m.,” says Holmes, 40. She enjoyed the experience so much, she wants to go to more games. In the case of Packers fan O’Neill, he and his wife are a bona fide superfan power couple. After Johnson, 59, helped him design his St. Vince costume, she decided to create her own game-day persona. Today she appears at games dressed as “Cheese Louise.” In Green Bay, where game-day temperatures can drop into the single digits, Johnson decks herself out in green John Lennon hologram glasses, a Packers beret, and a foam cheese bikini. “It’s very, very cold,” she says. “We’ve been married 27 years, and we’ve been dressing up for games for 15 of those years,” O’Neill says. “We’re hoping to do it for 15 more.” And that’s really what superfandom is all about. The sacrifices fans make— paying an arm and a leg for tickets, planning their schedules around the games—they reap in their connection to the team and to fellow fans. These people may be crazy, but if they’re gonna be crazy, they’re gonna be crazy together. As Big Lo says, if you’re gonna love something, love it.
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JOHN AMRAEN Chicago Bears
AGE: 49 LIVES IN: Fairfax, Va. OCCUPATION:
Corporate director DEVOTION LEVEL:
Amraen, who was born and raised in Chicago, spent 12 years on the waiting list before scoring Bears season tickets in 1998—but then his career took him to New Jersey and later to Fairfax. Rather than give up his hardwon prize, he flies back to Chicago for home games. He has made the round-trip nearly 50 times in 10 years, often in under a day. DREAM: To visit every NFL venue to see his beloved Bears play. “Sure, I’d like to see them play in the Super Bowl, [but] this is something special— to watch them in every stadium. Well, maybe not Lambeau [Field, Green Bay’s stadium]. I’m not sure I want to go there.” —H. S.
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