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TODAY IN HISTORY 1860: The legendary Pony Express begins carrying mail between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif. (The delivery system lasted only 18 months, giving way to the transcontinental telegraph.) 1865: Union forces occupy the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va. 1882: Outlaw Jesse James is shot to death in St. Joseph, Mo., Jesse by RobJames ert Ford, a member of James’ gang. 1968: The day before he is assassinated in Memphis, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous “mountaintop” speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers. 1990: Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan dies in suburban Los Angeles at age 66. 2009: Tom Braden, who helped launch CNN’s “Crossfire” and whose memoir “Eight is Enough” inspired a TV show, dies in Denver at age 92.

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Gloria Hebron, right, is surrounded by family and friends at Friday’s 579th deployment ceremony. Cousins, from left, are Artimease Clayton, Alvin Jones and Charlie Tolliver.

Reactivated team gears up for Afghan trip By Tish Butts tbutts@vicksburgpost.com Gloria Hebron had been trying to get back home for 16 years, and now she’s leaving again — deploying to Afghanistan with the 579th Engineer Detachment. “This team brought me back to Vicksburg,” said Hebron, 58, a 1969 graduate of a Rosa A. Temple High School. Hebron, a contract specialist with the 579th, moved back to her hometown after serving in the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command at Fort Belvoir, Va. On Friday, she and about 200 soldiers and civilians participated in a deployment ceremony at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Vicksburg District office. “This deployment is a bit unusual with the Corps,” said Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, commander of the Corps’ Mississippi Valley Division.” Usually, we deploy individuals,” but this will be the first time a Corps unit has deployed as a team. “Our nation will not ever have to fear for its civil liberties with the men and women here today,” said Walsh, to whom the 579th reports. The 579th, reactivated in

Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh speaks Friday. He is commander of the Mississippi Valley Division, and the 579th reports to him.

Online Video at www.vicksburgpost.com 2007 after nearly 20 year of dormancy, is comprised of 36 members. It is one of two Forward Engineer Support Team units of the Army that aids engineer commands, such as the Vicksburgbased 412th, at the start of missions, including natural disasters and overseas warfighting. The other is the

Fort Knox-based 533rd Engineer Detachment. The 579th is led by Col. Richard W. Dean, who will accompany the group to Afghanistan. “You will provide the nation with highly adaptable and effective engineering and technical support wherever needed — in both domestic and international venues,” said Dean, who assumed command of the 579th March 1. Also attending Friday’s ceremony was Mayor Paul

Winfield; members of the 412th; personnel from the Corps’ Engineer Research and Development Center, Mississippi Valley Division and Vicksburg District; and family and friends. “We’re really appreciative of their service,” said Bob Anderson, a spokesman for the Corps’ Mississippi River Commission. “Their work is going to help lead to victory. They’re all stepping up and making Vicksburg and Mississippi proud.”

The death of a Vicksburg teen last summer has been officially ruled as having resulted from natural causes — a fast-moving infection in his lungs caused by a virulent form of staph bacteria sometimes called flesh eating. Wesley Husband, who was 15 and lived at 35 Round Alley, died Aug. 27 after being sick for about a week. At the time of his death, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said Wesley had been suffering from “pneumonia-like symptoms.” On Friday, Huskey called it “pneumonia run wild.” The certified autopsy report was issued March 31 by the CenWesley ters for DisHusband ease Control, which took over the case after an initial autopsy failed to pinpoint the cause of death. The CDC said Wesley’s death was due to “necrotizing tracheobronchitis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.” It’s a fast-moving, rare infection that complicates pneumonia, Huskey said. “We see pneumonia all the time, but he got the worst kind,” he said. “He got a bacteria in there that caused the infection.” It’s not a condition that’s considered contagious, Huskey said, and it would be difficult to guess how Wesley came in contact with the bacteria. Reached Friday, Wesley’s father, Wesley Evans, said the family was happy to finally know what happened. Wesley Husband was a freshman and football player at Warren Central High School. He had complained for days about not feeling well, his grandfather Wesley Brown said after the teen’s death. Family members took him to a doctor, to the emergency See Infection, Page A7.

WaLk Of ThE CROSS Utica church members carry a cross along Cayuga Street in observance of Good Friday, the day Christians mark the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ ahead of the resurrection on Easter Sunday. Leading the group, from left, are Dale Yates; Lane Dotson, 17, the son of Douglas and Melissa Dotson; and the Rev. Brad Hartzog of Utica Christian Church. Hartzog’s church and two others, Utica United Methodist and Utica Baptist, began the 1-mile endeavor they called Walk of the Cross at the Sunflower grocery on Cayuga and ended it at the Methodist church on Main Street.

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16 sentenced in Warren County Circuit Court In Warren County Circuit Court for the week ending Friday: • Sherman Brewer, 29, 119 Lovers Lane, pleaded guilty to escape from confinement and was sentenced by Judge M. James Chaney to three years in prison followed by two years of probation, plus fines and court costs of $1,822.50. Brewer was arrested Aug. 11. • Richard Kenneth Bruce, 47, 6997 Pattison Road, Pattison, was found guilty of violating probation and sentenced by Chaney to the Mississippi Department of Corrections Restitution Center in Hinds, Leflore or Jackson counties for payment of $1,707.15 in restitution, fines and costs, followed by two years of probation. Bruce was arrested April 27, 2006, for felony shoplifting. • Artilious Stacker Burnett, 36, 1203 Second North St., pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced by Chaney to four years in prison followed by three years of probation, plus fines and costs of $1.622.50. Burnett was arrested Nov. 20. • Joshua Ryan Coffee, 18, 241 Demby Drive, pleaded guilty to robbery and was sentenced by Chaney to three years of probation, plus fines and costs of $1,822.50. Coffee was arrested Aug. 12. • Christopher Hayes, 22, who gave addresses of 101 Wayne Drive and 123 Crockett Road, pleaded

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guilty before Chaney to burglary of a dwelling and, in a separate hearing before Judge Isadore Patrick, was found guilty of violating probation. He was sentenced to two, 290-day jail terms, to be served concurrently, followed by five years of probation plus restitution, fines and costs for both cases totaling $5,720. Hayes was arrested June 9 on the burglary charge. His probation violation is from an Oct. 28, 2008, arrest for two counts of making bomb threats. • Myron Maurice Henderson, 25, 1207 Jefferson St., pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced by Chaney to five years in prison followed by five years of probation, plus fines and costs of $3,622.50. Henderson was arrested July 8. • Victor Hilderbrand, 49, 10510 U.S. 61 South, pleaded guilty before Chaney to possession of burglary tools and was sentenced two years in prison; and in a separate hearing was found guilty by Patrick of violating probation and sentenced to five years in prison with credit for time served (unspecified), the sentences to be served concurrently; plus fines and costs for both cases totaling $2,625. Hilderbrand was arrested Sept. 28 on the burglary tools charge. His probation violation is from

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a June 1, 2005, arrest for grand larceny. • Fredrick Hill, 27, 1720 Martin Luther King Blvd., pleaded guilty to two counts of vehicle burglary and was sentenced by Chaney to 319 days in jail followed by five years of probation, plus restitution, fines and costs of $2,002.50. Hill was arrested May 8. • Jonathan Jolly, 39, 163 Pecanwood Drive, pleaded guilty to possession of precursor substances and possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced by Chaney to eight years in prison followed by five years of probation, plus fines and costs of $3,122.50. Jolly was indicted by a Warren County grand jury in October. • Jeffery Tyrone Langston, 21, 800 Hickory St., was found guilty of violating probation and sentenced by Patrick to 270 days in jail followed by five years of probation, plus restitution, fines and costs of $4,022.50. Langston was arrested July 5, 2009, for auto burglary and grand larceny. • Michael Dewayne Lyons, 27, 1337 East Ave., was found guilty of violating probation and sentenced by Chaney to three years in prison followed by four years of probation, plus restitution of $615.83. Lyons was arrested May 10, 2003, for auto burglary. • Edward Dewayne Mitchell, 31, 504 Melrose Ave., pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced by Chaney to five

years of probation, plus restitution, fines and costs of $3,731.74. Mitchell was arrested Oct. 18, 2008. • Jermaine Kent Sims, 25, 1001 First East St., was found guilty of violating probation and sentenced to one year and one day in prison followed by two years in the MDOC Intensive Supervision Program (house arrest) and then one year of probation, plus restitution, fines and costs of $1,622.50. Sims was arrested Sept. 4, 2007, for sale of a controlled substance. • Mary Smith, 43, 219 Clifton St., Lexington, pleaded guilty to gaming-past post betting and was sentenced to the MDOC Restitution Center at Flowood to pay $1,360 in restitution, fines and costs, followed by three years of probation. Smith was arrested Jan. 24, 2009. • Antonio Tubbs, 35, 1407 Greenhill Road, pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced by Chaney to the Ninth Circuit Court Drug Court Program for a period not to exceed five years, plus fines and costs of $4,122.50. Tubbs was arrested Dec. 14, 2008. • Algernon Williams, 24, 308 Pleasant Valley Road, pleaded guilty to shooting into an occupied dwelling and was sentenced by Chaney to eight years in prison followed by five years of probation, plus fines and costs of $3,322.50. Williams was arrested Feb. 23, 2009.

thanks & appreciation Health emphasized The Outlets at Vicksburg and Robyn Lea State Farm co-sponsored the 2010 Health and Wellness Expo and Blood Drive by Mississippi Blood Services on March 20. The Warren County Health Department provided free H1N1 flu shots, Vicksburg Warren School District offered nutrition information and counseling, and Mayor Paul Winfield and the Vicksburg Fire Department were on site to greet participants and show the children one of the fire trucks used by the department. Other vendors included River Region Medical Center, Eyeline Optical, Nu-Way Hearing, Dr. Kenya Gaskin, Anytime Fitness, The Body Shop Spa and Salon, Vicksburg Special Care Clinic and RiverPointe Dance Academy. Rogers King from Medgar Evers Home Health brought his entire team, provided outstanding free meals to everyone and provided blood pressure checks and diabetic screening. Mississippi Blood Services collected an astounding 27 units! It is so refreshing to see our great community come together in such a significant way to focus on their health, to bring their children to start educating them about the long-term effects of obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. From the numbers of participants present at the expo throughout the day, this was a noteworthy and important event for the citizens of Vicksburg. Margaret Gilmer Paige Caldwell Yolanda Martin Outlets at Vicksburg Robyn Lea State Farm agent Vicksburg

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churches Mount Pisgah Baptist — Car wash, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. today; LD’s Kitchen on Halls Ferry Road. Soul Saving M.B. — Seafood cookout, 11 a.m-3 p.m. today; $6 plate; Carolyn Smith, 601529-9864; proceeds to benefit One Father’s Children Project. Pleasant Valley M.B. — Leadership training, 10 a.m. today; egg hunt, 4 p.m.; 260 Mississippi 27. Mount Pilgrim M.B. — Play practice, 4:30 today; Mary D. Gaines, 601-638-6051; Alma Hamberlin, 601-638-4357. New Rock of Ages M.B. — Youth Easter program, 5 tonight; 2944 Valley St. Bethlehem M.B. — Seven Last Sayings of Christ from the Cross; 7 tonight; 3055 Washington St. Triumphant Baptist — Food

distribution, 9-11 a.m. Tuesday; administration building, 74 Scenic Drive; for residents of Kings, Waltersville and North Washington Street areas; must provide verification of income, utility bill and Social Security cards for all household members; 601638-8108 or 601-638-8135. St. Mark Freewill Baptist — Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays; the Rev. Billy Bennett Jr., leader; 2606 Hannah St.

clubs Ashmead Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution — 10 a.m. today; Main Street Market at Cherry and Main streets; “Katrina: Mississippi Women Remembered” by Melody Golding. Rosa A. Temple Class of 1970 — ‘70s Dance, 9 tonight; American Legion, The Hut; DJ:

J.L. “Horseman” Mitchell; $5 in advance, $6 at the door. Vicksburg Cruisers — Monthly meeting, 6:30 p.m. Monday; Goldie’s Trail Bar-BQue, South Frontage Road. Vicksburg Kiwanis — Noon Tuesday, Jacques’ Cafe; Sen. Briggs Hopson, speaker.

VAMP — Noon Tuesday; Webster Franklin, speaker; Heritage Buffet, Ameristar. River City Mended Hearts — 5 p.m. Tuesday, River Region Medical Center room C; Dr. John Agnone, cardiovascular surgeon, speaker. Warren County Republican Party — Executive committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Warren County Courthouse; visitors welcome. Lions — Noon Wednesday, Jacques’; Andy Metz, Vicksburg District’s Mat Sinking Unit, speaker. AARP Vicksburg/West Central

MS Chapter — 10 a.m. April 13, Senior Center; Vicksburg Fire Chief Charles Atkins Jr., speaker.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS Jackson Audubon Society — 8-10 a.m. today; bird walk; LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, Jackson; 601-956-7444. Levi’s — A Gathering Place; 7-10 tonight, Wright Road Band; donations appreciated. Narcotics Anonymous 100% Recovery — 7 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays, 1220 Clay St.; Nate G., 731-460-9546. Relay for Life — Team meeting, 5:30 p.m. Monday; Bowmar Baptist Church; warren_ county_relay@yahoo.com. Kitchen Gardening — Noon1 p.m. Tuesday; Donna Beliech, Extension horticulture agent, presenter; Warren County Extension Office,

1100-C Grove St.; no charge; 601-636-5442. Tuesday Vicksburg Al-Anon — Noon Tuesday; First Presbyterian Church, 1501 Cherry St.; 601-634-0152. Patricia A. Scott Memorial Scholarship — Available to young women in Vicksburg Warren or Claiborne County school districts; offered by Nu Kappa Zeta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.; applications in high school counselors’ offices; deadline, April 15.

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Feds: Houses with Chinese drywall must be gutted

Mississippi, Louisiana homeowners among those reporting health, other problems By Cain Burdeau The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Thousands of U.S. homes tainted by Chinese drywall should be gutted, say new guidelines released Friday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The guidelines say electrical wiring, outlets, circuit breakers, fire alarm systems, carbon monoxide alarms, fire sprinklers, gas pipes and drywall need to be removed. “We want families to tear it all out and rebuild the interior of their homes, and they need to start this to get their lives started all over again,” said Inez Tenenbaum, chairwoman of the commission, the federal agency charged with making sure consumer products are safe. About 3,000 homeowners, mostly in Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, have reported problems with the Chinesemade drywall, which was imported in large quantities during the housing boom and after a string of Gulf Coast hurricanes. The drywall has been linked to corrosion of wiring, air conditioning units, computers, doorknobs and jewelry, along with possible health effects. Tenenbaum said some samples of the Chinese-made product emit 100 times as much hydrogen sulfide as drywall made elsewhere. The agency continues to investigate possible health effects, but preliminary studies have found a possible link

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A chunk of Chinese drywall leans against the wall in a home in Davie, Fla. between throat, nose and lung irritation and high levels of hydrogen sulfide gas emitted from the wallboard, coupled with formaldehyde, which is commonly found in new houses. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said now the question is who pays to gut the homes. “The way I see it, homeowners didn’t cause this. The manufacturers in China did,” Nelson said. “That’s why we’ve got to go after the Chinese government now.” Southern members of Con-

gress have sought to make it easier to sue Chinese manufacturers and to get the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help homeowners pay for costs not covered by insurance. They also say the U.S. needs to pressure the Chinese government, which allegedly ran some of the companies that made defective drywall. About 2,100 homeowners have filed suit in federal court in New Orleans against Chinese manufacturers and U.S. companies that sold the dry-

wall. U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon is expected to rule soon in a pivotal case against the Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co., the only Chinese company that has responded to U.S. suits. Separate claims by thousands more homeowners against Chinese manufacturers are pending, said Jordan Chaikin, a Florida lawyer whose firm represents about 1,000 homeowners. They are “continuing to live in their homes with Chinese drywall, patiently waiting for

this thing to be resolved so they can move on with their lives,” Chaikin said. “We’re not waiting for the government to move quicker than we are in the courts.” In some cases, homebuilders have paid to gut and rewire homes. In others, homeowners who can afford it have paid for the work themselves. On Friday, Knauf Plasterboard agreed that high hydrogen sulfide levels appeared to be the main concern, but it noted the commission’s studies were preliminary and may

not reflect conditions inside a home. The company said its studies have shown that drywall should be removed, but that plumbing and wiring do not need to go. Daniel Becnel, a New Orleans lawyer representing Chinese drywall plaintiffs, including Sean Payton, the head coach of the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, said the government guidelines issued Friday were “word for word what our experts said.” He also said Congress should give homeowners grants to cover the cost of home gutting. “Get these people out of this environment,” he said. “You’re making these people sicker and sicker and sicker. You will have long-term effects.” In Cape Coral, Fla., Joyce Dowdy, 71, and her husband Sonny, 63, plan to move out of their $150,000, 1,600-squarefoot home while it is gutted to get rid of tainted Chinese drywall. Joyce Dowdy said she suffers from nose bleeds and her husband has a persistent cough. They blame the drywall. “We can’t live like this anymore,” Joyce Dowdy. They’re borrowing money to do the gutting, which means that instead of a mortgagefree retirement they will be paying monthly bills cover the costs of repair. “It’s costing us as much as we paid for the house,” Joyce Dowdy said. “But we can’t just walk away ... Our house is worth nothing at the moment.”

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Prepare the new budget within the budget From other Mississippi newspapers: • The Enterprise-Journal, McComb: As they did last year, Mississippi lawmakers have decided to take a break and go back to Jackson in hopes that the passage of a few weeks might shed more light on how to grapple with another difficult budget. They say this delay won’t cost taxpayers any additional money since some short weeks earlier in the session have allowed them to bank days they can use when they return. Before they finalize the details on a $5.5 billion budget that begins July

1, they want to see what tax collections look like for the next couple of weeks. After some 18 months of missing projections, the early numbers in March have given hope that there may be some improvement on the revenue front. In addition, the Legislature is holding out hope that Congress will pump in an extra $187 million for Medicaid. Provided lawmakers stick to the revised timetable, it is a reasonable accommodation. What should not happen, though, is what transpired in 2009, when lawmakers used this excuse for a recess, then couldn’t reach an

agreement and wound up meeting off and on until the very last day in June. Even with all that procrastination, the end product was no better than it would have been three months earlier. Gov. Haley Barbour still was forced to cut budgets five times this fiscal year — lopping off better than a half-billion dollars — to keep expenditures in line with shrinking revenues. The public has no appetite for lawmakers wasting money, as precious as it is these days, on extra sessions. It wants the Legislature and Barbour to get the budget adopted and not spend an extra penny doing it.

Tuition reciprocity would help two states The Natchez Democrat: Mississippi visitors are welcomed with buttermilk biscuits, fried chicken and iced tea so sweet that it’s nearly as comfortable on a pancake as in a Mason jar. Mississippi has truly earned its moniker: The Hospitality State. But the hospitality comes to a screeching halt if you’re a college student from somewhere else. Savoring those Southern delicacies while attending college will cost the students — or their parents — dearly. You see Mississippi, along with neighboring Louisiana and Alabama, refuse

to play well together when it comes to offering reciprocity for out-of-state tuition waivers. Since in-state tuition is heavily subsidized by state funds going directly to the colleges and universities, non-residents get left to pay the full tab. State colleges and universities charge out-of-state students as much as 150 percent more than in-state students. For years, local Sen. Bob M. Dearing has worked to get legislation passed that would allow community colleges — such as Copiah-Lincoln Community College — to waive out-of-state tuition for nearby, but technically out-of-state,

students. We applaud him for his efforts, even though his measures continue to get defeated year after year. If Mississippi and Louisiana education leaders tried, we believe the two sides could work out a reciprocity agreement that would provide each state’s wouldbe students with a tuition break, while not breaking the state coffers, either. If other states can work out the funding differences, Mississippi and Louisiana certainly can do the same. Both states would certainly benefit by raising the level of education in their states and their neighborhood.

No excuse for lack of charter schools in state The Mississippi Press, Pascagoula: Mississippi and Alabama legislators ought to pay a visit to Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy. Urban Prep Academy for Young Men is a public high school where all the students achieve above-average academic results. But the school isn’t located in a quiet, rural Lake Wobegon-like setting where all the children are above average, socio-economically speaking. The Chicago Tribune described the Englewood community surrounding Urban Prep as “one of Chicago’s most beleaguered neighborhoods.” Yet, in the midst of poverty, crime and the lowest of low expectations for young people, the school boasts this remarkable accomplishment: Every member of its first graduating class has been

accepted by a four-year college. Urban Prep is an all-male, all-AfricanAmerican charter school. It’s a public school, but with a crucial difference: Its teachers and administrators don’t have to play by all the bureaucratic rules and regulations that govern traditional public schools. There are more than 5,000 charter schools in 39 states and the District of Columbia. Charter school critics will be quick to point out that not all of these schools achieve the same results as Urban Prep. But states like Mississippi and Alabama that do not have a charter school law cannot replicate Urban Prep’s approach or try another method that flies in the face of the mandates, regulations and union-dictated rules that

weigh down public school systems. As attorney Philip K. Howard put it in a column for The Wall Street Journal, those rules and mandates have “smothered personality and individual responsibility in the schools.” It’s deeply unfortunate that lawmakers in Mississippi and Alabama refuse to see the benefits of allowing some schools to develop their own “personalities.” Charter schools bills are going nowhere in the Alabama Legislature, and Mississippi lawmakers are debating a weak bill that doesn’t even use the word “charter.” Maybe a field trip to Englewood would help the two states’ legislators see that, in education, one size does not fit all young people.

OLD POST FILES 120 YEARS AGO: 1890 The dredge boats are pumping mud on the dike. • Employees of the LNO&T machine and carpenter shops are put on half-time due to extreme high water.

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110 YEARS AGO: 1900 Twelve hundred dollars is collected for the county fair. • Father P.J. McConkey leaves for a visit in Ireland.

Former Vicksburg resident William Mike Ray of Rolling Fork injures his leg in a gardening accident while visiting his mother on Polk Street. • Andrew Mayfield dies. • Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bride Jr. of Port Gibson are the parents of a daughter, Cheryl Cassandra, born April 3.

George Yoste leaves for New Orleans to accept a position. • Abe Joseph is preparing to leave.

90 YEARS AGO: 1920 Hasie Henderson is injured when a street car and buggy hit at Clay and Second North streets. • Newellton, La., is reported enjoying a big boom.

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70 YEARS AGO: 1940 The senior class of Culkin Academy presents its class play, “Lena Rivers,” in the school gymnasium. • The YMCA fellowship banquet is a big success.

60 YEARS AGO: 1950 The Mississippi Senate in Jackson votes to more than double the state highway patrol

Cecil May is named chairman of the Warren County Chapter, American Cancer Society’s 1970 crusade. • Mrs. Malinda Crayton, former resident, dies in Chicago. • Elvis Presley stars in “Change of Habit” at Showtown USA. • Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Thomas announce the birth of a son, Jeffrey, on March 21.

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100 YEARS AGO: 1910

George Schaff Jr. makes the highest score of the day in the first practice shoot of the Vicksburg Rifle Club. • Members of the Rainbow Girls observe their eighth anniversary.

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to crack down on the traffic death toll. • Official “Straw Hat Day” is observed here.

50 YEARS AGO: 1960 Mr. and Mrs. Nat Harwood and children are visiting in El Dorado, Ark. • Straw Hat Day is observed in Vicksburg. • Mrs. Mary Beacham dies. • Ray Danton stars in “The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond” at the Strand Theatre.

Vicksburg Street Department employees put a fresh coat of paint on the fence at Cedar Hill Cemetery. • Dianna Rose Hodges celebrates her second birthday. • Claiborne County resident Audrey Montgomery dies. • A confirmed case of measles at Warren Central Junior High results in health officials immunizing students and their family members.

10 YEARS AGO: 2000 Fredrick Summers Jr. celebrates his fourth birthday. • Vicksburg High soccer standout Lane Campbell wins the National High School Athletic Institute’s All-American Scholar Athlete award. • Barbara Hamilton and her son, Matthew, fly a kite at Fort Hill.

When someone teaches you how short life is, you tend to quit wasting it. Not only is this not a dress rehearsal, it’s a very short play.

Upside down world starts smiling again A year ago today, the world turned upside down and inside out and screeched to a stop. For a long moment, there were no sounds or heartbeats, no movements or meaning, no joy anywhere. But being a stubborn, relentless and hope-fueled world, it sputtered and coughed, then cranked itself back up again. Life somehow stumbled on with its casseroles and obligations, and without my sweet husband, Don. I’ve tried today to think of things that have happened in the last long year that would have surprised him. There weren’t many. He’d been around. I think the biggest shock would have been the vicRHETA tory of the New gRIMSLEY Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl. A Saints fan forever, he sure wouldn’t have seen that coming. Maybe the passage of a health care bill would have surprised and pleased him a little. Most probably he would have shrugged and said it was a start, nowhere near the change that’s needed, and wondered what’s in it for the pharmaceutical industry. For certain he would have expected the negative unanimity of the Republicans. Most that happened from one cold March to another he’d seen before, the good and the bad, the routine and the spectacular. He’d seen his share of gutless politicians, greedy developers, hungry children, natural disasters, extreme weather. There were other things, smaller things, he would have enjoyed, and I wish he could have seen. The wet autumn that created a small and raucous waterfall in the little branch right outside our door. Sam Whigham playing his Dobro at the Bastille Day party, mastering the soulful instrument the way Don never did. The Paris parts of the movie “Julie and Julia.” Benjamin’s carefully printed thank-you letter for a book about frogs. I wish he could have been here for the early-morning February snowfall, when rare flakes big as saucers floated outside the window and settled like embroidered dresser scarves on the nandinas. And for the day the house in the hayfield was painted Monopoly red. I wish he could have sat by the creek and listened to the Louvin Brothers tribute album one more time. He would have been pleased to host our French friend Marie-Lu when she visited the Mississippi hollow back in the summer. He liked women who could talk about philosophy, about ideas, about something other than town gossip. I wish he could see the vintage travel trailer with aqua appointments I bought in a fever and off eBay late one night. He’d roll his eyes and laugh about that, no doubt. Most of all, I wish he could see that I’m smiling again, even laughing lots, going on with my life with a fervor and passion and intensity that only a great loss can make you capable of feeling. When someone teaches you how short life is, you tend to quit wasting it. Not only is this not a dress rehearsal, it’s a very short play. He wouldn’t be surprised that I have learned that hard lesson well. •

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Obama touts positive jobs report as ray of hope 162,000 positions added to payrolls in March, labor stats say CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday hailed a new government report showing the most jobs created in nearly three years. “We are beginning to turn the corner,” he told employees of a manufacturing plant that received government stimulus money. Steps taken by the government “have broken this slide and are helping us to climb out of this recession,” Obama said several hours after the Labor Department reported that businesses added 162,000 jobs to their payrolls in March. Even so, the Labor Department report was a mixed one. The overall U.S. unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.7 percent, where it has been stuck since January. And 48,000 of the new workers filled temporary government-created Census Bureau positions. Warren County’s unemployment rate, according to February figures, is 12.4 percent, and the state’s is 12 percent. Some 8.4 million jobs have evaporated since the recession started in December of 2007.

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President Barack Obama speaks at the Celgard factory in Charlotte, N.C., Friday. “That’s a staggering sum,” the president acknowledged, saying, “we’re still going through a hard time.”

But he chose to emphasize the job-creation component of the report. “I’ve often had to report bad

news during the course of this year, as the recession wreaked havoc on people’s lives. But today is an encouraging day.

Second woman charged in ‘Jihad Jane’ case WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors filed terrorism charges Friday against a pregnant American woman in the so-called Jihad Jane case, bringing the total to two American women who are accused of plotting online to attend a terror training camp. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez flew from Ireland Friday to Philadelphia, where she was arrested by agents with the joint terrorism task force there. Her 6-year-old son flew with her and was placed in the custody of child protective service workers. A U.S. official told The Associated Press that PaulinRamirez is pregnant. The official was not authorized to discuss that detail and spoke on condition of anonymity. Paulin-Ramirez made a brief initial appearance in federal court Friday, and a detention hearing was scheduled for next week. Her lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment. Last month, authorities in Ireland detained PaulinRamirez, originally from Colorado, and six others as they investigated an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist whose drawing had offended many Muslims. Those seven suspects in Ireland were linked to Colleen LaRose, a 46-year-old woman who had traveled to Europe but was arrested last fall when she returned to the United States. The new indictment charges that LaRose and Paulin-

We learned that the economy actually produced a substantial number of jobs instead of losing a substantial number of

jobs,” he said. He spoke at a Celgard LLC factory, which received a $49 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department last August. The company makes high-tech battery components, including membranes used in advanced lithium batteries The president said the grant was creating nearly 300 direct jobs for the company and more than 1,000 jobs for its contractors and suppliers. He also pledged that a new emphasis on oil and gas drilling will not undercut alternative energy work. Taking questions from the audience, Obama was asked whether his decision earlier in the week to open the door to offshore oil and gas drilling would hurt development of alternative energy sources. He said it wouldn’t, and that there was room for both. “We can’t drill our way out of this problem,” he said. Obama said a top priority remains improving energy efficiency and promoting clean energy. But during the transition, he said, the nation needs to find ways to use traditional energy sources in the “most efficient and most environmentally friendly ways.” Reversing two decades of policy, Obama earlier in the week voiced support for lifting drilling bans off the southern Atlantic coastline, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and in parts of Alaska.

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LaRose called herself “Jihad Jane” in Internet conversations, but she denied that when questioned by the FBI. She has pleaded not guilty in the case. LaRose apparently spent long hours online in recent years while caring for her boyfriend’s elderly father in a small eastern Pennsylvania town. The congressman who represents the district said she had cooperated with authorities after her arrest last fall, which went unannounced until the seven suspects in Ireland were detained in March.

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Man who lives in Weed arrested in pot bust SAN FRANCISCO — A popular California outdoors writer was free on bail after authorities said Friday they found a large marijuana growing operation in his barn in the town of Weed. Deputies served a search warrant on 55-year-old Tom t’s home last week and seized 60 plants and more than 11 pounds of processed marijuana, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said. Stienstra was arrested for

servative. Above a stack of GOP health care literature, a sign reads: “This is what the morons in Washington have done to your health care. Take one, read it and vote out anyone who voted for it.” A spokeswoman from the Florida Department of Health, which licenses physicians and investigates complaints, said Friday there was no law prohibiting Cassell from advertising himself this way. Cassell has been practicing in the area since 1988. His wife, Leslie Campione, is a lawyer and GOP candidate for the county commission.

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One of Moscow subway bombers was 17-year-old widow MOSCOW (AP) — The image is striking: a sultry teenager, partly veiled, in the embrace of a bearded man — both grasping handguns. The photo appeared Friday in a leading Russian newspaper, which reported that the teen was one of the two female suicide bombers who struck Moscow’s subway. The paper indicated she might have been out to avenge her husband, an Islamic militant killed by Russian forces. Russian investigators said one of the attackers was a 17-year-old widow named Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova. They did not confirm that the photo published in the Kommersant newspaper was that of the bomber. Kommersant published what it said was a picture of Abdurakhmanova, also known as Abdullayeva, dressed in a black Muslim headscarf and holding a Makarov pistol. The image was broadcast on all nationwide television networks. A man with his arm around her, holding a bigger Stechkin gun, was identified as Umalat Magomedov, whom the paper described as an Islamist militant leader killed by government forces in December. Federal investigators said Abdurakhmanova, who was from the province of Dagestan in the North Caucasus region, attacked the Park Kultury subway station near the famous Gorky Park. The other blast struck the Lubyanka station in central Moscow, beneath the headquarters of the Federal Security Service or FSB, the KGB’s main successor agency. In both cases, the bombs were detonated as the trains pulled

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Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, left, and her husband, Umalat Magomedov into the stations and the doors were opening. The twin attacks Monday killed 40 people and wounded at least 90. Authorities were still trying to identify the second bomber and track down the organizers of the strike, for which a Chechen militant leader claimed responsibility. Kommersant said the couple met in an Internet chat. Magomedov then set a meeting and drove her away by force when she was still 16. After her husband’s death, Abdurakhmanova might have fallen under the influence of Islamists who persuaded her that she needed to sacrifice her life

to avenge her husband, the paper said. Female suicide bombers from the North Caucasus are often called “black widows” in Russia because many of them are the wives, or other relatives, of militants killed by security forces. Alexander Ignatenko, head of the independent Moscowbased Institute for Religion and Politics, said Islamic militants persuade “black widows” that a suicide bombing will reunite them with their dead relatives beyond the grave. “They go on a mission fully confident that they will meet with their loved ones,” said Ignatenko, who has studied

the Islamic insurgency in the Caucasus. The daily Moskovsky Komsomolets said that a burned shred of a letter in Arabic found on Abdurakhmanova’s body promised a “meeting in Heaven.” It was unclear who wrote the letter. The paper said that the two bombers could have been part of a group of some 30 suicide attackers who had been trained in Chechnya. Dagestan, one of the poor, predominantly Muslim provinces in the volatile North Caucasus area, was the site of two suicide bombings on Wednesday that killed 12 people, mostly police offi-

cers. Another explosion there Thursday killed two suspected militants. Back in Moscow, Kommersant said the second subway bomber has been tentatively identified as 20-year-old Markha Ustarkhanova from Chechnya, the widow of a militant leader killed last October while he was preparing to assassinate Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, who is backed by the Kremlin. The subway suicide bombings were the first such attacks in Moscow since 2004, refocusing attention on the violence that for years has been confined to the North Caucasus. Also Friday, President Dmitry Medvedev urged harsher measures to crack down on terrorism during a meeting with leaders of parliamentary factions. Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have called for swift action to stop terrorists. On Friday, Medvedev broadened the targets to include their accomplices who help in any way. “In my opinion, we have to create such a model for terrorist crimes that anyone who helps them — no matter what he does, be it cook the soup or wash the clothes — has committed a crime,” Medvedev said. However, that is something Russian authorities have already been doing. Russian police and security forces have long been accused of seizing people suspected of aiding militants. Some people have been tortured, and many have disappeared. And rights activists trying to document the abuses have also been killed, kidnapped or threatened.

Taps heard in mine in China week after entrapment BEIJING — The governor of the Chinese province where 153 miners have been trapped in a flooded coal mine for almost a week has ordered rescuers to enter the mine by noon today, an official said, while no further signs of life came from underground since tapping was heard the previous day. Rescuers had cheered Friday after hearing the tapping noises, and possibly shouting. Footage on staterun China Central Television showed them tapping on pipes with a wrench, then cheering and jumping after hearing a response. They lowered pens and paper, along with glucose and milk, down metal pipes to the spot where the tapping was heard. But nothing new had been heard as of this morning, said Wen Changjin, an official with the news center set up at the site. “At the request of the governor, as of noon rescuers should go down the shaft, but we’re not sure if they will be able to do so by then,” he said. It was not immediately clear what risks rescuers would be taking by entering the Wangjialing mine, where 3,000 rescuers were working nonstop to pump water. Wen said the water level underground had dropped by 5.3 meters as of 6 a.m. Saturday. Government officials say the mine flooded last Sunday afternoon when workers digging tunnels broke into an old shaft filled with water.

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Three German soldiers killed in Taliban clash KABUL — Taliban fighters attacked a detachment of German troops who were on a bridge-building and mineclearing mission, triggering a gunbattle that left three soldiers dead, the German Defense Ministry said. Five other Germans were wounded in the fighting Friday southwest of Kunduz city, the ministry said. German troops and Afghan police exchanged fire with their attackers for about an hour, with fighting resuming three hours later, local government chief Abdul Wahid Omar Khil said. He estimated about 200 Taliban militants were involved. One Taliban fighter was killed and another was wounded, but the Germans and Afghan police were unable to use heavy firepower because the militants were firing from inside and on top of civilian homes, Omar Khil said. Kunduz provincial police Chief Gen. Abdul Razaq Yaqoubi said the battle began after a mine exploded under a German armored vehicle. He said the troops were preparing to build a bridge and

Infection Continued from Page A1. room at River Region Medical Center and, on the morning of his death, to the Street Clinic. On the way there, Wesley told his aunt he could not see, was too weak to walk and felt like he was going to pass out. He died in a small waiting room as medical attendants tried to treat him for apparent internal bleeding. Wesley’s death occurred four days after a 6-year-old first grader at Dana Road

Elementary School died from bacterial meningitis, and during a period when many city and county residents were concerned about early outbreaks of swine flu in the schools and community. In his initial examination, Huskey ruled out bacterial meningitis in Wesley’s illness. The state Department of Health then determined swine flu was not the cause, setting the stage for CDC to determine the official cause of death.

clear mines in the Chahar Dara area, about eight miles from the provincial capital. Berlin has more than 4,000 troops in Afghanistan — the third largest foreign troop contingent — as part of the NATO presence fighting the Taliban and seeking to establish central government authority. German forces control much of the country’s north, which is relatively peaceful. The surroundings of Kunduz, however, have recently proven increasingly volatile. Including Friday’s casualties, 22 German soldiers have been killed by fighting or attacks in Afghanistan since 2001 and another 138 wounded, according to the Defense Ministry. Another 17 German soldiers died of natural causes or accidents while on duty in Afghanistan.

Cruchaga said a landslide in the town of Porvenir killed 23 people Friday and rescuers were still hunting for 25. He said 54 people were injured and 120 houses damaged. A mudslide on Thursday killed five people in the town of Cancejos, Cruchaga said.

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LIMA, Peru — Landslides caused by heavy rains have hit two towns in northeastern Peru, killing and leaving dozens missing, regional officials said Friday. Civil defense chief Hipolito

MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 20 people were killed Friday after an intense battle between government forces and Islamic insurgents in the Somali capital, medical officials said. Friday’s fighting follows a lull of about two weeks, since scores of civilians were killed in two days of violence in the capital. Military spokesman Col. Ibrahim Kalmoy said the fighting started when insurgents attacked government soldiers in southern Mogadishu in the Taleh area. He said three soldiers were wounded during the fighting. “The enemy was forced to disappear,” said Kalmoy. African Union troops, deployed in Mogadishu to guard key government instal-

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PRECISION FORECAST BY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST BARBIE BASSSETT TODAY

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Expect plenty of sunny, warm weather today and Easter Sunday. Highs will hover in the 80s and lows in the 50s.

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 Sunday-tuesday Sunny; highs in the 80s; lows in the 60s

STATE FORECAST TOday Cloudy in the morning then clearing; highs in the upper 70s; lows in the upper 50s Sunday-tuesday Sunny; highs in the 80s; lows in the 60s

Almanac Highs and Lows High/past 24 hours............. 78º Low/past 24 hours............... 63º Average temperature......... 71º Normal this date................... 62º Record low..............35º in 1975 Record high............87º in 1940 Rainfall Recorded at the Vicksburg Water Plant Past 24 hours.........................N/A This month..........................None Total/year.............. 12.99 inches Normal/month......0.58 inches Normal/year........ 16.89 inches Solunar table Most active times for fish and wildlife Sunday: A.M. Active..........................10:35 A.M. Most active................. 4:22 P.M. Active...........................11:01 P.M. Most active.................. 4:48 Sunrise/sunset Sunset today........................ 7:23 Sunset tomorrow............... 7:24 Sunrise tomorrow.............. 6:46

RIVER DATA friday Stages Mississippi River at Vicksburg Current: 40.0 | Change: +0.4 Flood: 43 feet Yazoo River at Greenwood Current: 19.5 | Change: -0.1 Flood: 35 feet Yazoo River at Yazoo City Current: 21.7 | Change: N/C Flood: 29 feet Yazoo River at Belzoni Current: 19.5 | Change: +0.1 Flood: 34 feet Big Black River at West Current: 6.8 | Change: -0.4 Flood: 12 feet Big Black River at Bovina Current: 12.1 | Change: -1.0 Flood: 28 feet StEELE BAYOU friday Land....................................80.0 River....................................87.5

MISSISSIPPI RIVER Forecast Cairo, Ill. Sunday.................................... 44.2 Tuesday.................................. 43.4 Wednesday........................... 42.3 Memphis Sunday.................................... 28.9 Tuesday.................................. 29.0 Wednesday........................... 28.9 Greenville Sunday.................................... 46.0 Tuesday.................................. 46.1 Wednesday........................... 46.2 Vicksburg Sunday.................................... 40.4 Tuesday.................................. 40.5 Wednesday........................... 40.6

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Pope’s preacher: Accusations akin to anti-Semitism VATICAN CITY (AP) — At a solemn Good Friday service, Pope Benedict XVI’s personal preacher likened the tide of allegations that the pontiff has covered up sex abuse cases to the “more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.” But within hours, facing a storm of criticism at the comparison, the Vatican felt it necessary to distance the pope from the preacher’s remarks. Both Jewish and victims’ groups responded that it was inappropriate to compare the discomfort being experienced by the church leadership in the sex abuse scandal to the violence that culminated in the Holocaust. The Vatican has been on the defensive in recent days, saying the church has been singled out and collectively stereotyped for the problem of pedophilia, which it says is a society-wide issue. Invoking any comparison with anti-Semitism was particularly sensitive on Good Friday, itself a delicate day in a decades-long effort by Jews and Catholics to overcome a legacy of mistrust. There was a long-held Catholic belief that Jews were collectively responsible for executing Christ, and a landmark achievement of the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s was a declaration stating the Jews should not be blamed for the crucifixion. As the pope listened in a hushed St. Peter’s Basilica, the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa likened accusations against the pontiff and the Catholic church in sex abuse scandals in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere to “collective violence” suffered by the Jews. Benedict, 82, looked weary as he sat near the central altar at the early evening prayer service. Cantalamessa, in his reflections for the pope on the Catholic church’s most solemn day, said he was inspired by a letter from an unidentified Jewish friend who was upset by the “attacks” against Benedict. Jews “know from experience what it means to be victims of collective violence and also because of this they are quick to recognize the recurring symptoms,” said Cantalamessa, a Franciscan priest. Quoting from the letter, Cantalamessa said his Jewish friend was following “with indignation the violent and concentric attacks against the church, the pope and all the faithful of the whole world.” “The use of stereotypes, the passing from personal responsibility and guilt to a collective guilt remind me of the more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism,” he said, quoting from the letter. The Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, later contacted The Associated Press and said Cantalamessa wasn’t speaking as a Vatican official when he compared “attacks”’ on the

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The Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, Pope Benedict XVI’s personal preacher, delivers the Good Friday homily in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. pope to “collective” violence against Jews. Such parallelism can “lead to misunderstandings and is not an official position of the Catholic church,” Lombardi said, adding that Cantalamessa was speaking about a letter from a friend who lived through a “painful experience.” Although the Vatican said Cantalamessa wasn’t speaking as an official of the Holy See, its official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano ran the text of the homily in full. Benedict didn’t speak after the homily but chanted prayers in a tired voice. He leaned up to remove a red

cloth covering a tall crucifix, which was passed to him by an aide. He took off his shoes, knelt and prayed before the cross. Two hours later, Benedict, wearing a red cloak in the breezy night, knelt in prayer at the Colosseum as he watched the faithful carry a tall, slim wooden cross in Rome’s traditional torchlit Via Crucis procession that commemorates Christ’s suffering and death. Thousands of people clutching prayerbooks and candles crowded around the ancient arena. During the procession, “we meditated on his (Jesus’) suf-

fering and discovered how deep his love was and is for us,” Benedict said in a brief remarks at the end of the 90-minute ceremony. Then he blessed the crowd, prompting cheers and some shouts of “Long live the pope.” Victims say Benedict — both as a former archbishop of Munich and later as a Vatican cardinal directing the Holy See’s policy on handling abuse cases — was part of a culture of cover-up and confidentiality basically devised to protect church hierarchy. Cantalamessa’s likening the accusations to the Holocaust rankled U.S. Jewish leaders.

“Shame on Father Cantalamessa,” said Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, in a statement. “The Vatican is entitled to defend itself, but the comparison with anti-Semitic persecution is offensive and unsustainable. We are sorely disappointed.” Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, who said he recently had “cordial” talks at the Vatican with church and other Jewish leaders as part of efforts on both sides to improve Catholic-Jewish relations, sounded dismayed. “It’s an unfortunate use of language to make this

Pope Benedict XVI participates in Rome’s Via Crucis procession Friday. comparison, since the collective violence against the Jews resulted in the death of 6 million, while the collective violence spoken of here has not led to murder and destruction, but perhaps character assault,” said Greenebaum, U.S. director of interreligious relations for the American Jewish Committee. German Jewish leader Stephan Kramer described Cantalamessa’s remarks as unheard-of “insolence.” “It is repulsive, obscene and most of all offensive toward all abuse victims as well as to all the victims of the Holocaust,” said Kramer.

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Daughter’s small size might not be genetic Q: My wife and I are above average in height, being 6-foot-3 and 5-foot-9. We both had tall parents, too. But our daughter is very tiny. She is 9 years old and is only at the third percentile for height. Why? A: Many factors influence a child’s growth, including a deficiency of growth hormones, heredity, nutrition and general health. There is only one way to know what is causing your daughter’s failure to grow, and that is to take her to an endocrinologist or other specialist. The right FOCUS ON doctor THE FAMILY can identify her condition and even predict with a fair amount of accuracy how tall she will eventually become. In some cases, growth hormones may be administered, although I’ll leave it to your physician to make that recommendation. Since your girl is 9 years old, you have no time to lose. Get her to the right medical authority quickly. Let me ask, is your daughter anxious? Q: Yes. She is the most insecure of all our children. Why do you ask? A: Because some studies have shown that persistently anxious girls tend to be shorter than their peers. This was the finding of Dr. Daniel Pine of the National Institute of Mental Health and other research at Columbia University College of Physicians, New York. This research showed that the most insecure girls tended to be about 2 inches shorter as adults and were twice as likely to be under 5-feet-2-inches tall than girls who were less anxious. Two specific disorders in the formative years were most predictive of less height in adults: separation anxiety — seen in girls who don’t have the confidence to spend the night at a friend’s house or go away to summer camp; and overanxiousness — not just being uneasy about a problem, but a general worry. One study showed that anxious girls had high blood levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which can stunt growth. Interestingly, anxious boys were not found to have higher cortisol levels, and they did not tend to be shorter than their peers. This suggests that girls may respond to stress differently than boys. For whatever reasons, anxiety is linked to lesser growth in females alone. Once again, you need to have your daughter examined medically. There may be a more obvious and treatable reason. •

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Ministers who will lead this year’s YMCA interdenominational Easter sunrise service at Fort Hill will be, from left, Monsignor Patrick Farrell of St. Paul Catholic Church, the Rev. Carey Stockett of Crawford Street United Methodist, the Rev. Tim Brown of First Presbyterian and Fred Farrell, president

of the YMCA board of directors. Soprano soloist Clarissa Behr Davis will sing. A shuttle service to the 7 a.m. service will leave from the parking lot of the USS Cairo Museum. In case of rain, the service will be canceled.

EAstEr EvEnts TODay • Bethlehem M.B. — 7 p.m., The Seven Last Sayings of Christ from the Cross; the Revs. Isaiah Ross, Willie White, Charles Blackmore, Willie J. Jones, Edmond Gibbs, Bryon Maxwell, Dr. Michael R. Reed Sr. and David Brown Jr.; guest musician, Andre Voss; 3055 N. Washington St. • Bowmar Baptist — 9:3011:30 a.m., egg hunt; 1825 U.S. 61 South. • Bradley’s Chapel U.M.C. — 10 a.m., egg hunt; 13815 Oak Ridge Road. • Clover Valley M.B. — 3 p.m., egg hunt; 7670 Mississippi 27 South. • Gibson Memorial U.M.C. — 10 a.m., egg hunt; 335 Oak Ridge Road. • Greater Grove Street M.B. — 7 p.m., cantata; 2715 Alcorn Drive. • Lutheran Church of the Messiah — 7:30 p.m., Easter Vigil; 301 Cain Ridge Road. • Mount Olive M.B. — 7 p.m., Warren County Sunday School Convention No. 1 and Sunday School Institute Easter Pageant; the Rev. Walter Weatherby, speaker; 210 Villa Nova Road. • New Rock of Ages — 5 p.m., youth program; 2944 Valley St. • New Mount Elem M.B. — 1 p.m., egg hunt, in case of rain, canceled; 3014 Wisconsin Ave. • Oakland Baptist — 10 a.m, egg hunt; 2959 Oak Ridge Road. • Pleasant Valley M.B. — 4 p.m., egg hunt; 260 Mississippi 27. • St. Alban’s Episcopal — 10 a.m., Holy Saturday service; 10:30, children’s activi-

On B3 Special events ties and lunch; 6 p.m., Great Easter Vigil and reception; 5930 Warriors Trail, Bovina. • St. George Orthodox — 10 a.m., The Divine Liturgy of Great and Holy Saturday; 10 p.m., The Rush Procession, Matins and Divine Liturgy of the Resurrection of Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ; 2709 Washington St. • St. Mary’s Catholic — 8 p.m., Holy Saturday Mass; 1512 Main St. • St. Michael Catholic — 8 p.m., Easter Vigil; 100 St. Michael Place. • St. Paul Catholic — 8 p.m., Easter Vigil; 713 Crawford St. • St. Peter A.M.E. — 6 a.m., 24-hour prayer vigil; 409 Church St., Port Gibson. • Unity Temple Full Gospel — 7 p.m., spring camp meeting; apostle Letha Butler, speaker; Bishop Johnny E. Gibson, overseer; 2647 Roosevelt Ave.

EaSTEr SuNDay • YMCA Sunrise Service — 7 a.m., interdenominational, at Fort Hill; parking and shuttle at USS Cairo Museum; in case of rain, canceled. • Bovina Baptist — 11 a.m., “Run to the Cross” by the sanctuary choir; 5293 U.S. 80. • Bovina U.M.C. — 9:15 a.m., Flowering of the Cross; 9:30, service; egg hunt, refreshments to follow; 70 Bovina Drive. • Bradley’s Chapel U.M.C. — 7, sunrise service; 8, breakfast; 9:30, cantata; 13815 Oak Ridge Road.

• Bypass Church of Christ — 11 a.m., Family and Friends Day service and meal; 787 U.S. 61 North. • Calvary Baptist — 7, sunrise service, coffee and donuts; 2878 Old Highway 27. • Calvary Baptist — 11 a.m., Communion service; 406 Klein St. • Christ Episcopal — Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord: 8 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite I; 10, Holy Eucharist, Rite II; youths to join procession to flower the cross; 1115 Main St. • Church of God — 10 a.m., worship and lunch; 5598 Gibson Road. • Crawford Street U.M.C. — 10:55 a.m., worship with Flowers for the Living Cross; 900 Crawford St. • Eagle Lake Baptist — 6:30, sunrise service; Sunset View Pavilion; breakfast at fellowship hall.

• Eagle Lake U.M.C.— 6:30, sunrise service; Sunset View Pavilion. • Edwards Baptist —8 a.m., community service at Edwards Presbyterian; 601852-8141 for details. • First Church of the Nazarene — 8:30 a.m., pancake breakfast; 10:50, service; 3428 Wisconsin Ave. • First Methodist Protestant — 6:30, sunrise service and potluck breakfast; 500 Porters Chapel Road. • Forest Grove M.B. — 10 a.m., program; Mississippi 553 West, Fayette. • Goodrum Baptist — 6:45, sunrise service and breakfast; 4569 Fisher Ferry Road. • Greater Oak Grove — 8 a.m., worship and special program by youths; 3302 Patricia St.

• Healing Place — 10:30, service and dinner; 1201 Grove St. • Immanuel Baptist — 7:30, sunrise service; 9, “I Know My Redeemer Lives,” a musical; 6949 U.S. 61 South. • Locust Grove — 7, sunrise service with New Mount Zion, China Grove and Holly Grove churches; breakfast and egg distribution to follow; 472 Stenson Road. • Morning Star M.B. — 11 a.m., youth presentation; 848 Glass Road. • Mount Moriah — 2 p.m., annual memorial service and dinner; Edwards. • Mount Olive M.B. — 11 a.m., Warren County Sunday School Convention No. 1 and Sunday school Institute Easter Pageant; 210 Villa Nova Road. • Mount Pilgrim M.B. — 12:30 p.m., program and egg hunt; 3327 U.S. 61 South. • New Mount Zion/Locust Grove — 7, sunrise service, breakfast and egg hunt; 516 Feld St. • New Popular Grove Independent Methodist — 8 a.m., worship; Mississippi 27 North, Utica. • Oakland Baptist — 6:30, sunrise service, Blooming of the Cross and breakfast; 2959 Oak Ridge Road • Pleasant Valley — 1:30 p.m., program; 2585 N. Washington St. • Pleasant Valley M.B. — 6, sunrise service and breakfast; 260 Mississippi 27. • Porters Chapel U.M.C. — 7, sunrise service; 11, cantata, “Hallelujah! Praise the Lamb,” and Communion; 200 Porters Chapel Road. • Redwood U.M.C. — 7,

sunrise service; 101 Redwood Road. • Refuge — 10 a.m., service and Communion; 6202 Indiana Ave. • Ridgeway Baptist — 11 a.m., service with Flowering of the Cross; 4684 Redwood Road. • St. Alban’s Episcopal — 8:30 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite I; 10, egg hunt and party; 11, Holy Eucharist, Rite II; 5930 Warriors Trail, Bovina. • St. George Orthodox — 3 p.m., The Agape Vespers; 2709 Washington St. • St. Mary’s Catholic — 9 a.m., Mass; 1512 Main St. • St. Mary’s Episcopal — 10:30 a.m., Sunday of the Resurrection; ECW reception and egg hunt; 900 First North St. • St. Michael — 8:30 and 11 a.m., Mass; 100 St. Michael Place. • St. Paul Catholic — 10:30 a.m., Mass; 713 Crawford St. • Southside Baptist — 7, sunrise service; covereddish breakfast; 95 Baptist Drive. • Springhill M.B. — 1 p.m., program; Kiana Pauline and the Rev. Billy Bennette, speakers; Mighty Gospel Train, guest choir; 815 Mission 66. • Travelers Rest Baptist — 6, sunrise service; 718 Bowmar Ave. • Triumphant Baptist — 8:30 and 10:30 a.m., services; 124 Pittman Road. • Wilderness Baptist — 6:30, sunrise service and breakfast; 5415 Gibson Road. • Woodlawn Baptist — 10:30, worship and special music; 2310 Culkin Road.

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Antioch Baptist Services at Antioch Baptist Church and Unity Outreach Ministries (A Full Gospel Ministry), 1800 Poplar St., behind Jones-Upchurch Realty, begin at 9:15 a.m. with children’s church, followed by worship at 10 weekly. Tuesday prayer service is at 6:30 p.m., and midweek service/Bible study is at 7. Alfred E. Lassiter Sr. is pastor.

Berachah Activities at Berachah Church, 2918 Fisher Ferry Road, begin at 7 tonight with praise and worship. Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m., followed at 10:30 by praise and worship and children’s church for ages 4-8. A nursery is provided for up to age 3. Women’s Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. Monday. Wednesday Bible study begins at 7. AWANA this week is canceled. Second Watch prayer is from 9 p.m. to midnight Friday. Roger Cresswell is pastor. Visit www.berachah.net

Bethel A.M.E. Services at Bethel A.M.E. Church, 805 Monroe St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 11. Communion is each first Sunday. Wednesday Bible study begins at 6:30 p.m. Membership training is 10 a.m. each Saturday before the first and third Sunday. Choir rehearsal is at 10 a.m. each Saturday before the fourth Sunday. Board meeting is each second Sunday, after the service. The Rev. Quincy Jones is pastor.

Bethlehem M.B. Services at Bethlehem M.B. Church, 3055 N. Washington St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Mattie Brown, superintendent. Communion service is each fourth Sunday. Covenant meeting is at 11 each third Sunday. Fifth Sunday services are at 11:30. Bible class is at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Choir rehearsals are at 7 p.m. Wednesday and at 10 a.m. Saturdays before the fourth Sunday. Usher meeting is each fourth Sunday after the service. Radio ministry is from 7:30 to 8 a.m. Sundays on station 1680 AM. The Rev. David Brown Jr. is pastor. Kevin Winters is musician.

Bovina Baptist Services at Bovina Baptist Church, 5293 U.S. 80, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school led by Larry Oakes. Worship is at 11 with the sanctuary choir, led by minister of music Jerry Stuart, presenting “Run to the Cross.” Evening services are canceled. The Rev. Jess Sumrall is pastor. Donna Harper is pianist. Bobbie Bruce is organist. Brian Parker is minister of students and education. Jo Sumrall is minister of children. Wednesday night supper is at 5, with youth choir rehearsal at 5:30. Prayer service, children’s choir and youth Bible study begin at 6. Adult choir rehearsal is at 6:45. A nursery is provided.

Bovina U.M.C. Services at Bovina United Methodist Church, 70 Bovina Drive, begin at 9:15 a.m. with the Flowering of the Cross, followed at 9:30 with a sermon and special time for children. An Easter egg hunt and refreshments will follow.

Bowmar Baptist Services at Bowmar Baptist

Church, 1825 U.S. 61 South, begin at 8:30 a.m. with classic worship followed by Bowmar University, junior and senior high and children’s lifegroups at 9:20. Creative worship for families and Stepping Stones (5-year-old worship), Kids on the Rock (grades 1-6) and junior high worship begin at 10:30. Senior high worship begins at 6 p.m. Sign language for the hearing impaired is available upon request during the classic and creative services. Adult Growth Groups meet throughout the week.

Bradley’s Chapel U.M.C. Activities at Bradley’s Chapel United Methodist Church, 13815 Oak Ridge Road, begin at 10 today with an egg hunt. Easter sunrise service will be at 7, followed by breakfast at 8. Sunday school will begin at 8:30, and a cantata led by Sandra Worthy will be at 9:30. Evening worship is canceled. The United Methodist Women and United Methodist Men meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday. A Beth Moore study is ongoing. Wednesday evening prayer begins at 6 at the Funches Road home of John and Clara Oakes. The Rev. Harry Hawkins is pastor.

Bypass Church of Christ Easter Sunday at Bypass Church of Christ, 787 U.S. 61 North, is Family and Friends Day. Bible classes begin at 10 a.m., followed by worship at 11 with Dr. Willie Nettle, minister, speaking. Worship consists of congregational and a cappella singing and observance of the Lord’s Supper. A meal in the annex will follow worship. Evening service is canceled. Bible classes are at 7 p.m. Wednesdays. For transportation or a free home Bible study or free Bible correspondence course, call 601-638-6165.

Calvary Baptist Easter Sunday activities at Calvary Baptist Church, 2878 Old Highway 27, will begin with a sunrise service at 7 on the hill across from the church. Coffee and donuts will follow. Sunday school is canceled. Worship will be at 10:30 with J. Macon Phillips, pastor, delivering the message. R.L. Sigrest will lead music. Evening activities and worship are canceled. ACTS Senior Adults will meet at the church at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to leave for Monroe. Bible drill will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Calvary Baptist Services at Calvary Baptist, 406 Klein St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Easter Communion will be at 11 a.m. Mission meeting is each third Sunday, covenant is each fourth Sunday and worship services are each fifth Sunday at 11 a.m. Bible class is at 6 p.m. each Wednesday. Toni Green is musician. Nathaniel Williams is choir director. Johnny May Marble is choir president. Rudy L. Smith is associate minister.

Cedar Grove M.B. Services at Cedar Grove M.B. Church, 3300 Grange Hall Road, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Jimmie Jefferson, superintendent. Worship begins at 11. Communion is each third Sunday. Choir rehearsal begins at 7 p.m. each Monday with Travanti Hill, minister of music, leading. On Wednesday, midday Bible study is at 11:30 a.m., and prayer meeting/Bible study is at 6:30. Wednesday Night Live worship is at 6:30 p.m. each first Wednesday. Media Ministry meetings are at 5:30 p.m. each Wednesday. Children’s choir rehearsal is at 7 p.m. each fourth Thursday. Brotherhood Ministry meets at 7 p.m. each

devotion “I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” John 9:4 • Robert Moffett, a great missionary statesman said, “We shall have all eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before the sun sets in which to win them.” • Life’s setting sun is sinking low. There are only a limited number of days in which to save souls. Are you going to spend your days investing in the things of this world, or putting up treasures in heaven? When? Are you going to start sowing seeds of salvation or are you going to plant happiness in this life alone? When? Are you going to do something nice for your wife? When? Are you going to write your father? When? • Make a promise to yourself right now that you will not put off until tomorrow what you should be doing today.

• Devotion is written by Dr. Adrian Rogers in conjunction with Love Worth Finding Ministries. The Web site is http://www.lwf.org second Friday.

Christ Episcopal Christ Episcopal Church, 1115 Main St., will celebrate the Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord with Holy Eucharist, Rite I, at 8 a.m. in the chapel and Holy Eucharist, Rite II, at 10 in the nave. The Rev. Jennifer Deaton will preach and celebrate at both services. Choir practice is at 9. Fellowship and refreshments will follow in the parish hall. The youths will join the procession to Flower the Cross. Child care will be provided during the 10 a.m. service. The Coffee/Bible study group will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday. A healing service will be at 12:15 p.m. A class of instruction for centering prayer is at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Call 601-638-5899 or visit christchurchvburg.dioms. org. The Very Rev. Chan Osborn de Anaya is pastor.

Church of Christ Services at Church of Christ, 1431 Ballground Road, in the Oak Ridge community, begin at 10 a.m. with Bible study, followed by worship at 11. Bobby Jones will deliver the message.

Church of Christ Sunday services at the Church of Christ, 725 Mission 66, begin at 10 a.m. with Bible classes, followed by worship at 11 with Silas Tolliver, minister, delivering the message. Evening services begin at 6 with Bible study, followed by worship at 6:30. On Wednesday, congregational song practice is at 7 p.m., followed by Bible class at 7:30.

Church of Christ Services at Church of Christ, 3333 N. Frontage Road, begin at 9 a.m. with Bible classes. Eric Welch will present the lessons for worship at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Ladies Bible class begins at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday, and Bible classes for all ages are at 7 p.m. For a free correspondence course or home Bible study, call 601-636-4801 or e-mail vickcofc@cablelynx.com.

Church of God Services at Church of God, 5598 Gibson Road, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school led by Glenn Lancaster. Worship is at 11 a.m. with prayer, praise, special singing and a message by Doris Leist, pastor. Easter lunch will follow. Wednesday night Bible study is at 7. Call 601-6382494.

The Church of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal Easter Sunday at The Church of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal, will be celebrated with Holy Eucharist, Rite I, at 8 a.m. and Holy Eucharist, Rite II, at 10:30. The Rev. Michael C. Nation will celebrate at both services. Easter breakfast will be served at 9. Choir rehearsal will be at 9, and Sunday school will be at 9:15. Youth

meeting at Crawford Street United Methodist Church will be at 5 p.m. The office will be closed Monday. On Tuesday, Pilates is at 9 a.m., and Lunch Bunch Group is at noon. The deadline for Wednesday supper reservations is at 1:30 p.m. On Wednesday, Pilates is at 9 a.m.; healing service is at 12:05; evening prayer is at 5:35; and supper is at 6. Wednesday is the deadline to submit articles for the e-Times to thetimes@ holytrinityvicksburg.org. On Friday, Pilates is at 9 a.m. The phone number is 601636-0542. The e-mail address is info@ holytrinityvicksburg.org.

Clover Valley M.B. Activities at Clover Valley M.B. Church, 7670 Mississippi 27 South, begin at 3 this afternoon with an Easter egg hunt. Services begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school. Communion service is at 11 each first Sunday. Covenant is at 11 each third Sunday. Worship is each second Sunday, with pantry donations taken at 11. Fourth Sunday worship begins at 11 with devotional services by the women’s ministry. Bible study is at 7 p.m. each Tuesday. Missionary workers meet at 6:30 each second Tuesday. Choir rehearsal is at 5 Monday night and at 11 a.m. each Saturday before the second Sunday. Call 601-636-6375 or 601-6382070.

Cool Spring M.B. Sunday school at Cool Spring M.B. Church, 385 Falk Steel Road, begins at 9:30 a.m. Communion is each first Sunday and regular worship is each third Sunday, both at 11 a.m. Prayer service, followed by Bible study, is each Tuesday at 6 p.m. The Rev. Byron Maxwell is pastor.

Crawford Street U.M.C. Members of Crawford Street United Methodist Church, 900 Crawford St., will participate in the 7 a.m. Easter sunrise service at Fort Hill. The chancel choir and instrumentalists rehearse at 9:30, and Sunday school and confirmation class meet at 9:45. Participants of Flowers for the Living Cross must be in the sanctuary at 10. Worship is at 10:55. The office will be closed Monday, and Play School will be closed Monday-Friday. On Tuesday, men’s breakfast and devotional begin at 6:50 a.m. On Wednesday, Bible study is at 10 a.m., and the youths will meet at 11:30 for lunch at Rowdy’s. The Amazing Race will follow. The Rev. Cary Stockett is pastor. The sanctuary and Sunday school rooms are handicap accessible in Wesley Hall. Visit crawfordstreetumc.org.

Eagle Lake Baptist Activities at Eagle Lake Baptist Church, Eagle Lake community, begin with sun-

rise service at 6:30 at the Sunset View RV Park Pavilion, 14640 Mississippi 465. Breakfast will follow in the fellowship hall. Sunday school is at 9:45, and worship is at 11. Dwight Sibley, pastor, will deliver the message. Evening service is canceled. Wednesday prayer service begins at 6:30 p.m.

Eagle Lake U.M.C. Easter sunrise service at Eagle Lake United Methodist Church, 16682 Mississippi 465, will be at 6:30 at the Sunset View Pavilion. Worship is at 9 a.m. with the Rev. Barbara Hite bringing the sermon. Fellowship time and Sunday school are canceled. The Eagle Lake Hi-Steppers walk in the fellowship hall at 8:30 a.m. weekdays. The Joy Prayer Circle will meet at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday for Patriarchs Bible study. Call 601-218-6255.

Ebenezer Baptist Services at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 2346 Grove St., begin with Sunday school at 9 a.m. Willie H. Smith is superintendent. Communion is each fourth Sunday at 5:30 p.m. David Brown Jr. is pastor.

Edwards Baptist Services at Edwards Baptist Church, 101 Magnolia St., will begin at 8 a.m. with a community Easter service at Edwards Presbyterian. Dr. John McCall, interim pastor, will deliver the message. Choir practice is at 9:15. Evening Bible study is canceled. Wednesday Bible study is at 6 p.m. Curlee Green is minister of music. Linda Dickson is pianist. A nursery is provided and managed by Debby Best. Call 601-852-8141, or e-mail edwardsbaptch@bellsouth. net.

Faith Christian Center Services at Faith Christian Center, 1100 Main St., begin with Sunday school, followed by worship at 10 a.m. Children’s church and a nursery are available. Intercessory prayer is at 6 p.m. Wednesday, followed by Bible class and teen ministry at 7. Men’s and women’s fellowship is at 5 p.m. each first Sunday. For transportation, call 601638-1600. Dr. Ollie Hardaway Jr. is pastor.

Family Life Cathedral Services at Family Life Cathedral, An Oasis of Love, 2832 Ken Karyl Ave., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Successful Living classes, followed by praise and worship at 11. A nursery is provided for children as old as 3, and children’s church is available. On Wednesday, intercessory prayer begins at 6 p.m., followed by discipleship classes at 7. Tutoring classes are from 3:30 to5:30 p.m. MondayThursday. Friday morning prayer is from 6 to 9. Call 601-629-3900, 601-6383433 or e-mail flcoasisoflove@cablelynx.com. Betty J. Young Tyler is pastor.

First Baptist Services at First Baptist Church, 1607 Cherry St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Bible study, followed by worship at 10:50 with Dr. Matt Buckles, pastor, delivering the message. Sunday school and morning worship for the hearing impaired are available. A nursery is provided. Evening worship is canceled. On Monday, Life Hurts/God Heals for students begins at 6 p.m. at the Mafan Building, 1315 Adams St. Celebrate Recovery, GriefShare, DivorceCare and Celebration Station begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Mafan Building. Wednesday activities are canceled. Celebrate Recovery will meet at 6 p.m. Friday at the Mafan Building. Visit www.fbcvicksburg. org.

First Baptist Services at First Baptist Church, 1511 1/2 Lane St., begin with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Worship is at 11 a.m. each first and third Sunday. Communion is each first Sunday. Prayer and Bible study begin at 6 p.m. each Wednesday. Choir rehearsal is at 3 p.m. each Saturday before the first Sunday and at noon each Saturday before the third Sunday. Roosevelt Smith is pastor.

First Christian Church Services at First Christian Church, (Disciples of Christ), 3005 Porters Chapel Road, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 10:45 with Dr. David Felty leading and the chancel choir presenting the anthem. The Lord’s Supper is celebrated each Sunday. Choir rehearsal will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday, followed by supper at 7. A nursery is provided.

First Church of the Nazarene Easter services at First Church of the Nazarene, 3428 Wisconsin Ave., begin at 8:30 a.m. with a pancake breakfast. Sunday school will be at 9:45 a.m., and worship at 10:50 with the Rev. Ronald Ray preaching. Music is led by Dwain Butler. Nursery workers are Patsy Fillebaum and Rebecca Strong. Evening service begins at 6. Wednesday Bible study, an NMI study, will be at 7 p.m.

First Methodist Protestant Services at First Methodist Protestant Church, 500 Porters Chapel Road, begin with a sunrise service at 6:30, followed by potluck breakfast. Sunday school is canceled. Worship is at 11, with children’s church and a nursery provided. Wednesday night adult Bible study, children’s choir and youth and young adult Bible study begin at 6. A nursery is provided during Bible study.

First Presbyterian Services at First Presbyterian Church, Cherry and South streets, begin at 9:30 a.m. with worship led by the Rev. Tim Brown. Sharon Penley is choir director. Barbara Tracy is organist. Sunday school is at 10:45. A nursery is provided. On Monday, Boy Scouts meet at 7 p.m. On Tuesday, men’s Bible study begins at 7:15 a.m., and Al Anon at noon. Visit www.fpcvicksburg. org.

Freemount A.M.E. Services at Freemount A.M.E. Church, 1190 Myles Station Road, Hermanville, begin at 10 a.m. each first Sunday with Sunday school, followed at by worship at 11. The Rev. Charles Banks is pastor.

Gibson Memorial U.M.C. Activities at Gibson Memorial United Methodist Church, 335 Oak Ridge Road, begin at 10 a.m. today with an Easter egg hunt. Children are asked to bring their own baskets. Sunday school is at 10 a.m., followed by worship at 11. The Rev. Greg Hazelrig is pastor. Paul Ballard is worship leader. The Dabney Bible Class is at 10 a.m. Sunday on WBBV 101.3. Bell choir practice is at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday. Choir practice is at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Goodrum Baptist Easter sunrise service at Goodrum Baptist Church, 4569 Fisher Ferry Road, will be at 6:45, followed by breakfast. Sunday school is at 9:45 a.m., followed by worship at 11. Mike Pennock will deliver the message. Jack Hollingsworth will lead the music. Continued on Page B3.

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church events Continued from Page B2. Special music will be by Hollingsworth and Rick McDaniel. A nursery is provided. Call 601-529-4700.

Grace Baptist Services at Grace Baptist Church, 729 Hankinson Road, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Bible study, followed by worship at 11 with the Rev. Bryan Abel, pastor, delivering the message. Hubert Stroud will lead the music. Deacons meeting begins at 4:30 p.m. Evening services are canceled. On Wednesday, business meeting will be at 6:30 p.m., along with GAs, RAs and youth-adult Bible study.

Greater Grove Street M.B. Services at Greater Grove Street M.B. Church, 2715 Alcorn Drive, begin with worship at 8:30 a.m. Fourth Sunday services are at 8:30 and 10:15. Fifth Sunday services are at 10. The Lord’s Supper is observed each first Sunday. Children’s church and a nursery are provided. Bible school begins at 6 p.m. with Hour of Power each Wednesday before the fourth Sunday. A baptismal is each last Wednesday. On Thursday, Bible class and fellowship are from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Valet parking is available for the handicapped or senior citizens. For transportation or prayer requests, call 601218-3911. C.J. Williams is music minister. The Rev. Dr. Casey D. Fisher is pastor.

Greater Jerusalem Baptist Services at Greater Jerusalem Baptist Church, 5026 Mount Alban Road, begin at 8:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship follows at 9:30. The Lord’s Supper is observed each first and third Sunday. On Tuesday, Men of Jerusalem rehearse at 6:30 p.m., and Voices of Jerusalem at 8. Wednesday night prayer service is at 6:30, followed by Bible class at 7:30. Thursday Night Book Club meets every other month at 7:30. Deacons meet at 7:30 p.m. each last Friday. Youth choir rehearsal begins at noon each third and fourth Saturday. Tapes and CDs of morning worship may be purchased from Edward Huell or Gregory Linzy Jr. at 601-634-8186. Kemp Burley Jr. is pastor.

p.m. with the praise brand leading worship and Johnny Nevels bringing the message. Saturday night, youth activities and a cookout for ages 10-18 is from 6 to 9. The event is not for children younger than 10. Visit www.vicksburghealingplace.com or call 601-2181150.

Higher Praise Services at Higher Praise, 260 Mississippi 27 South, begin at 10:30 a.m. with Worship and the Word, led by Chaz Bosarge, pastor. Growing in Grace, a Bible study led by Bosarge, is at 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Prayer and Praise is from 7 to 8 p.m. each first and third Thursday. Judah Ministries for youths, led by Renelle Bosarge, is at 7 p.m. each second and fourth Wednesday. The first Saturday Men of Destiny prayer breakfast is at 8 a.m. bi-monthly. Call 601-594-0183.

Services at Holly Grove M.B. Church, 746 Johnson St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Napoleon Newton, assistant superintendent. Worship and Communion are at 11 each first Sunday. Church covenant is each fourth Sunday after Sunday school. Choir rehearsal is at 7 p.m. Mondays. Robert L. Miller is pastor.

Holy Cross Anglican Services for Easter Sunday at Holy Cross Anglican Church (Reformed Episcopal Church), 1021 Crawford St., begin at 9 with morning prayer. Bible study begins at 9:30 and continues with the Sermon on the Mount. Holy Communion using the “1928 Book of Common Prayer” is at 10:30 with the Rev. Mark Bleakley, rector, officiating. Baptized Christians may participate in Communion. Child care is provided. The sanctuary and Sunday school rooms are accessible to the handicapped through the back gate on Adams Street. Call 601-529-4838 or visit www.holycrossvbg.com.

House of Peace

Services at Greater Mount Lebanon M.B. Church, 339 Alpine St., begin with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. weekly. Worship and Communion services are at 11 a.m. each first and third Sunday. Bible study is at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Curtis Ross is pastor.

Hawkins U.M.C.

Immanuel Baptist

Services at Hawkins United Methodist Church, 3736 Halls Ferry Road, begin at 8 a.m. with United Methodist Men’s pancake breakfast. Sunday school begins at 8:45, followed by worship at 10. Evening activities are canceled. A nursery is available. Monday, the church office will be closed. Cub Scouts meet at 6 and Boy Scouts at 7. On Tuesday, prayer group meets at 6. On Wednesday, handbells meet at 5:45 p.m. and chancel choir at 7. On Thursday, adult Bible study begins at 9 a.m.

Healing Place Easter services for Healing Place, 1201 Grove St., will begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday School, followed by worship at 10:30. The praise band will lead worship, and the message will be brought by Rick McAlister, pastor. Dinner will follow worship. A nursery for children as old as 3 is provided. Evening service will be at 6. Wednesday service is at 7

Monday • Belmont M.B. — 7 p.m., revival; the Rev. Clarence Cezar, speaker; the Rev. Phillip Burks, pastor; 4446 Charlie Brown Road, Utica.

Tuesday • Belmont M.B. — 7 p.m., revival; the Rev. Clarence Cezar, speaker; the Rev. Phillip Burks, pastor; 4446 Charlie Brown Road, Utica.

Wednesday • Belmont M.B. — 7 p.m., revival; the Rev. Clarence Cezar, speaker; the Rev. Phillip Burks, pastor; 4446 Charlie Brown Road, Utica.

Thursday

Easter Sunday at Immanuel Baptist Church, 6949 U.S. 61 South, will begin at 7:30 with a sunrise service. Worship will follow at 9 and will feature the musical, “I Know My Redeemer Lives.” Sunday school and evening services are canceled.

Islamic Center Activities at the Islamic Center of Vicksburg, 6705 Paxton Road, include Fajar, or morning prayer at 6:30; Maghrib, or sunset prayer at 7:30; and Jummah, or Friday prayer and sermon, from 12:45 to 1:05 p.m.

Jones Chapel M.B. Services at Jones Chapel M.B. Church, 1340 Bay St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school weekly. Worship and Communion are at 11 a.m. each fourth Sunday with Joseph L. Brown, pastor, delivering the message.

King David M.B. No. 1 Services at King David M.B.

Mount Ararat M.B.

• Belmont M.B. — 7 p.m., revival; the Rev. Clarence Cezar, speaker; the Rev. Phillip Burks, pastor; 4446 Charlie Brown Road, Utica.

Services at Mount Ararat M.B. Church, Eagle Lake community, are at 1:30 p.m. each second Sunday. Dr. L.A. Hall Sr. is pastor.

Friday

Mount Calvary Baptist

• Belmont M.B. — 7 p.m., revival; the Rev. Clarence Cezar, speaker; the Rev. Phillip Burks, pastor; 4446 Charlie Brown Road, Utica.

Holly Grove M.B.

Services at The House of Peace Worship Church International, 2372 Grove St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship is at 11. Intercessory prayer is at 6 p.m. Mondays and at 5 p.m. Tuesdays. Bible class is at 6 Tuesdays. Men of Prosperity is at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, and choir rehearsal is at 7. Perfect Peace is broadcast at 6 a.m. Sundays on WAPT16, at 6 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays on Channel 17 and at 6 a.m. Monday through Friday on WUFX-11. Linda Sweezer is founding pastor. Visit www.houseofpeacechurch.com.

Greater Mount Lebanon M.B.

Special events

Mount Alban Road, begin at 9 a.m. with Sunday school directed by Leonard Knight, deacon and superintendent. Worship with Communion is each first Sunday; praise and worship is each second Sunday; youth service is each fifth Sunday; all start at 11. Praise and worship are at 10 a.m. each third Sunday. On Wednesday, prayer/ Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. On Thursday, choir rehearsal begins at 5:30 p.m. Women of Faith is at 10 a.m. each second Saturday. The Rev. Henry Lee Taylor Jr. is pastor.

April 11 • Mount Carmel Ministries — 4 p.m., Family and Friends Day; Henry W. Bolden III of Perfecting Faith Church in Detroit, speaker; 2015 Grove St. • Greater Mount Lebanon Baptist — 5:30 p.m., revival kickoff; the Rev. Curtis Ross Sr., pastor.

No. 1 Church, 2717 Letitia St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Jannie Dishmon, superintendent. Communion service is at 11 a.m. each second Sunday. Choir rehearsal is at 6 p.m. each first, third and fourth Monday. Bible study is at 6 p.m. each Wednesday. Usher Board meeting is at 11 a.m. each second Saturday. Creative Women’s Ministry is at 9 a.m. each fourth Saturday. The Rev. A.L. Hines is pastor.

King David M.B. No. 2 Easter services at King David M.B. No. 2, 1224 Bowmar Ave., will begin at 9 a.m. The Rev. Johnny L. Williams is pastor.

King of Kings Services at King of Kings Christian Center, 4209 Mount Alban Road, begin at 9 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 10. Evening services are at 5 each first and third Sunday. Children’s ministry for ages 2-6 is Sunday. Ages 2-10 meet Thursday. Bible class is at 6:30 p.m. each Thursday. Girl Scouts meets at 3:30 p.m. each second Sunday. At 6 p.m. April 17, the play “Silly Women” will be presented by Break the Curse Ministries. Admission is free. Call 601-661-6444 or 601629-7791. Willie P. Taylor is pastor.

Lighthouse Assembly of God Services at Lighthouse Assembly of God Church, 1790 Sherman Ave., begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 10:30 with the Rev. George Farris, pastor, delivering the message and Debbie Quimby leading worship and praise. Kids church, led by Harry and Vickie Ogle, will have an egg hunt during worship. Evening service is canceled. Wednesday Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. Adults meet in the sanctuary, youths 12 to 19 in the fellowship hall and children in the first classroom.

Lighthouse Baptist Activities at Lighthouse Baptist Church, 1804 Sky Farm Ave., begin with Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Mike Sharp will lead the adult class. Women’s intercessory prayer is between Sunday school and the 11 a.m. worship, which includes an Easter message by Dr. E.L. Sharp, pastor. Baptism of new members and converts will follow. Men’s prayer is at 5:30 p.m., and worship is at 6 with observance of the Lord’s Supper.

Bible study and prayer service are at 7 p.m. Wednesday. A nursery is provided for all services.

Living Word Baptist Services at Living Word Baptist Church, 2845 Clay St., Suite 13 (in the Emmich Building), begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school and new members orientation. Worship is at 11. Morning Glory worship services are at 8:30 a.m. each first and third Sunday. Bible study is at 7 each Wednesday night. W.I.T.N.E.S.S., a women’s ministry, is at 10 a.m. each first and third Saturday. Man II Man, a men’s ministry, is at 8:30 a.m. each second and fourth Sunday. Dr. Stevie C. Duncan is senior pastor. Visit www.thelivingwordbaptistchurch.com or e-mail livingwordbless@ aol.com.

Locust Grove M.B. Easter sunrise services at Locust Grove M.B. Church, 472 Stenson Road, begin at 7 with Holly Grove, New Mount Zion, Pleasant Valley, Nitta Yuma and China Grove Baptist churches. The Rev. Robert L. Miller, pastor, will deliver the message. Breakfast will be served, and Easter eggs will be distributed to the children. Communion is at 10:30 a.m. each second Sunday and at 8:30 a.m. each fourth Sunday. Fifth Sunday worship begins at 8:30 a.m. Sunday school is at 10 a.m. weekly except the second. Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

Mercy Seat Baptist Services at Mercy Seat Baptist, 5 Dos Casas Lane, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school led by Grace Brown. Communion services are at 11 a.m. each third and fourth Sunday. Covenant is during third-Sunday services. Choir practice led by Mattie Lacey begins at 6:30 p.m. each Thursday before the third and fourth Sunday. Musicians are Shirley Coleman-Harris and Charlie Gross. The Rev. Rudy Smith is pastor.

Morning Star M.B. Easter services at Morning Star M.B. Church, 848 Glass Road, will be at 11 a.m. and feature youth presentations. Holy Communion is at 11 each third Sunday. Sunday school is at 9 a.m. weekly. Prayer meeting is at 7 p.m. each Wednesday, followed by Bible class at 7:30. The Rev. James C. Archer is pastor.

Mount Alban M.B. Sunday services at Mount Alban M.B. Church, 2385

Services at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 1350 East Ave., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Al Evans, superintendent. Worship is at 11 with Mincer Minor, pastor, delivering the message. Communion is at 11 each second and third Sunday. Services are at 8 a.m. each fifth Sunday. Children’s ministry for ages 1-7 begins at 9:30 a.m. Sundays. Brotherhood meets at 6 p.m. each first Tuesday. Ushers meet at 6 p.m. each Tuesday before the second Sunday. Wednesday’s youth Bible study and intercessory prayer begin at 6 p.m., followed by adult Bible study at 7. Senior choir rehearses at 6 p.m. Thursdays. Junior choir rehearses from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. each Saturday before the first and third Sunday. The trustee board meets at 9 a.m. and deacons at 11 a.m. each Saturday before the second Sunday. For transportation, call 601636-4999.

Mount Carmel M.B. Services at Mount Carmel M.B. Church, 2729 Alma St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Keafur Grimes. Worship and Communion are each first Sunday; Sunday school enhancement each second Sunday; worship and testimony service each third Sunday; and youth services are each fourth and fifth Sunday. All are at 11 a.m. Wednesday’s Bible study/ prayer service is at 6:30 p.m. Male choir rehearsal begins at 7 p.m. Friday before the third Sunday. Senior choir rehearsal is at 4 p.m. Saturday before the first Sunday. Youth choir rehearsal is at 1 p.m. each fourth Saturday. Mission Society meets at 3 p.m. each second Monday at the church and at 2 p.m. each fourth Saturday at Carmel Manor on Bowman Street. Dr. Franklin L. Lassiter is pastor.

Mount Carmel Ministries Services at Mount Carmel Ministries, 2015 Grove St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school and new members training. Worship with Communion is at 11 each first Sunday. Musicians rehearse at 6 p.m. Monday. Praise and worship choir rehearses at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Youth choir rehearses at noon Saturdays before the first and third Sunday. Bible study is at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Bible class (bring lunch) is at noon Thursdays, and men’s fellowship is at 7 p.m. Family and Friend’s Day will be at 4 p.m. April 11. Henry W. Bolden III, pastor of Perfecting Faith Church in Detroit, will be the guest speaker. Call 601-638-9015 or e-mail mtcarmelministri@bellsouth.net.

Mount Hebron M.B. Services at Mount Hebron M.B. Church, Bovina, are at 11:30 a.m. each first Sunday and include Communion. Willie J. White is pastor.

Mount Heroden Baptist Services at Mount Heroden Baptist Church, 1117-19 Clay St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Hilda Y. White, acting superintendent. Worship is at 11. Communion is at 11 each first Sunday. Youth service is at 11 each second Sunday. Prayer meeting/Bible study is at 5 p.m. Wednesdays. Senior choir rehearsal is at 2 p.m. each first Saturday. Youth choir rehearses at 12:30 p.m. each second Saturday, followed by youth activities. Dr. Louis A. Hall Sr. is pastor.

Mount Olive M.B. Services at Mount Olive M.B. Church of Villa Nova, 210 Villanova Road, in the Oak Ridge community, begin with Sunday school at 8:30 a.m. and worship at 10 weekly. Communion is each third Sunday. Tuesday Bible study begins at 6:15 p.m. The church is hosting the annual Easter pageant, presented by the Warren County Sunday School Institute. Services will be at 7 tonight and Sunday and will feature a different speaker each night. The Rev. Richard Hopkins is pastor.

Mount Pilgrim Services at Mount Pilgrim, Freetown, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school. First Sunday services begin at 11 a.m. and are led by Gracie Daniels, evangelist. Communion is each second Sunday and worship is each fifth Sunday; both begin at 11. Bible class is at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Joseph L. Brown is pastor.

Mount Zion M.B. No. 1 Activities at Mount Zion M.B, No. 1 Church, 920 Fifth North St., begin at 8:30 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 10. Holy Communion is each first Sunday. Wednesday prayer meeting begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by Bible study, led by Larry Brown, pastor. Call 601-638-1982 or 601-6194978.

Narrow Way M.B. Services at Narrow Way M.B. Church, 400 Adams St., begin at 11 a.m. each first and third Sunday. Communion is observed each first Sunday. The Rev. James E. Williams is pastor. Call 601-218-8061.

New Dimension World Services at New Dimension World, 2011 Washington St., are at 11 a.m. Sundays. Morning services can be watched on www.NDWorld.org. Family prayer is at 6:45 p.m. each Tuesday, followed by Tuesday Night Touch, a question and answer Bible study, at 7. Bishop George Tyler Straughter is founder and senior pastor. Call 601-4150215.

New Mount Elem M.B. Activities at New Mount Elem M.B., 3014 Wisconsin Ave., begin at 1 this afternoon with an Easter egg hunt. The event will be canceledin case of rain. Resurrection services begin with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., followed by worship at 11. Intercessory prayer is at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, followed by Bible class at 7. Dr. Leonard Walker is pastor.

New Popular Grove Independent Methodist Easter services at New Popular Grove Independent Methodist Church, Mississippi 27 North, Utica, will be at 8 a.m. James O. Bowman is pastor. T.L. Moore is associate minister.

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church events Continued from Page B3. ton St., begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school. Children’s church and worship are at 11. Dr. Frank Lescallette, pastor, will deliver the message, Into My Father’s Hands. Evening services are canceled. Wednesday evening activities begin at 6:30 with Mission Study, men’s Bible Study and GAs, followed by Bible study and prayer time at 7. A nursery is provided.

Oak Chapel Services at Oak Chapel M.B. Church, 8140 Freetown Road, begin with Sunday school led by Charles Winston, deacon and superintendent. Worship is at 11 a.m. each first, third and fifth Sunday. Holy Communion is each third Sunday. Youth church is each fifth Sunday. Choir rehearsal begins at 11 a.m. each Saturday before the fifth Sunday and at 6 p.m. each Wednesday before the first and third Sunday. Dellie C. Robinson is pastor.

Oakland Baptist Activities at Oakland Baptist Church, 2959 Oak Ridge Road, begin at 10 a.m. today with an Easter egg hunt. Easter Sunday activities begin at 6:30 a.m. with a sunrise service and Blooming of the Cross, followed by breakfast. Sunday school is at 9:45, and morning worship is at 10:45. Music is led by Lanny McCann, with special music by Barbara Rhinehart. Justin Rhodes, pastor, will deliver the message. Evening activities are canceled. Ladies Night Out is at 7 Tuesday. SWAT Youth and AWANA will not meet Wednesday. Prayer service is at 7 p.m. A nursery is provided.

Open Door Bible Services at Open Door Bible Church, 4866 Mount Alban Road, begin at 10:15 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 11:15. Youth and adult classes are offered. Call 601-638-2536.

Pentecostal Explosion Services at Pentecostal Explosion Ministries, 2130 Washington St., begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by praise and worship at 10:45.Wednesday Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. Corporate prayer/Bible study is at 7 p.m. each second and fourth Friday. Leonard and Paula Calcote are pastors. Call 601636-4978.

Port Gibson U.M.C. Easter Sunday breakfast will begin at 9 a.m. at Port Gibson United Methodist Church, 901 Church St. Worship is at 11 with the Rev. David Harrison bringing the message. Communion will be served. Professional counseling is offered through Grace Christian Counseling Center, 907 Church St. The phone number is 601-437-5046.

Porters Chapel U.M.C. Easter sunrise services at Porters Chapel United Methodist Church, 200 Porters Chapel Road, begin at 7 a.m. The Good News Discussion Group will meet at 9:45 and Sunday school at 10. Traditional worship, featuring the choir’s Easter cantata, “Hallelujah! Praise the Lamb,” will be at 11. Communion will be celebrated. The Rev. D.R. Ragsdale will deliver the sermon, and Ken Warren will lead the music. A nursery will be provided for children 5 and younger. On Monday, Boy Scouts will meet at 7 p.m. On Tuesday, Cursillo will meet at 6:30 p.m. On Friday, dominoes will be played at 6 p.m. in the fellowship hall. Call 601-636-2966, or e-mail pcumc_vicksburg@yahoo. com.

Redbone U.M.C. Sunday school at Redbone United Methodist Church, Redbone Road, begins at 10 a.m. Worship is at 11. The Communion program will be “Faith in the Risen Christ.” The Rev. Thomas M. Shreve is pastor.

Redwood U.M.C. Easter sunrise service at Redwood United Methodist Church, 101 Redwood Road, across from Redwood Elementary, will be at 7. The Rev. Barbara Hite will bring the sermon, and the youths will have a special time. Colt and Jordan Lee will be acolytes, and Johnny and Christopher Lee will be ushers. A nursery is provided, and breakfast will follow worship. Sunday school and 11 a.m. worship are canceled. Adult choir practice is at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Call 601-218-6255.

Refuge

Services at Pleasant Hill M.B. Church, 11170 Halls Ferry Road, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school weekly. Worship with Communion is at 11:15 each second Sunday. Worship without is at 11:15 each fourth Sunday. Prayer and Bible study are at 6 p.m. each Wednesday. The Rev. Joseph Brisco is pastor.

Easter Sunday at Refuge Church, 6202 Indiana Ave., will begin at 10 a.m. with a special service and Communion. Praise and worship will be led by Bethany Winkler, music pastor. Tony Winkler, senior pastor, will bring the message. Kidz Konstruction for ages 4 to 9 begins at 10. Sunday night activities are canceled. Wednesday Family Night begins at 7 in the Family Life Center. The adults are studying Exodus. A nursery is provided children as old as 4. Call 601-6384439 or visit www.myrefugechurch.com.

Pleasant Valley M.B.

Ridgeway Baptist

Services at Pleasant Valley M.B. Church, 260 Mississippi 27, begin with a sunrise service at 6, followed by breakfast and Sunday school. A nursery for children up to age 4 is provided. Tuesday, Covenant Nursing Home Ministry is at 6 p.m. Bible Institute is at 7. The Rev. Joe Harris Jr. is pastor.

Services at Ridgeway Baptist Church, 4684 Redwood Road, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship and children’s church at 11. The Rev. Gene Jacks, pastor, will deliver the messages of the day, followed by the Flowering of the Cross. Evening service is canceled. On Tuesday, group prayer begins at 10 a.m. Bible study/ prayer meeting begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Pleasant Hill M.B.

Pleasant Valley M.B. Services at Pleasant Valley M.B. Church, 2585 N. Washington St., begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school led by Silas Bright. Worship with Communion is at 11:30 a.m. each first Sunday. Worship is at 11:30 each third Sunday. On Tuesday, prayer service begins at 6 p.m., followed by Bible study at 6:30. Choir rehearsal is at 5:30 p.m. each Friday before the first Sunday and at 11:30 a.m. each Saturday before the third Sunday. Ladies auxiliary is at 6:30 p.m. each Friday after the first Sunday. The Rev. Edmond E. Gibbs is pastor.

St. Alban’s Episcopal Holy Saturday events at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 5930 Warriors Trail, Bovina, begin at 10 a.m. with a service, followed by children’s Easter activities and lunch at 10:30. Great Easter Vigil is at 6 p.m., followed by a reception. Easter Day services begin at 8:30 a.m. with Holy Eucharist, Rite I. Choir rehearsal led by Joan H. Leese, organist and choirmaster, is at 9:30. An egg hunt and party will

be at 10. Holy Eucharist, Rite II, is at 11. The Rev. Billie Abraham, rector, will celebrate at services. Child care is provided at 11, and coffee and fellowship follow both services. Call 601-636-6687 or visit www.stalbansbovina.org.

St. George Orthodox Services at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church, 2709 Washington St., begin at 10 this morning with The Divine Liturgy of Great and Holy Saturday. The Rush Procession, Matins and Divine Liturgy of The Resurrection of Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ (Pascha) will be at 10 tonight. On Sunday, The Agape Vespers will be at 3 p.m. The Very Rev. John W. Morris is pastor. Visit www. stgeorgevicksburg.org.

St. James M.B. No. 1 Services at St. James M.B. Church No. 1, 400 Adams St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Robert Hubbard, superintendent, and Walter Bell, assistant superintendent. Worship is at 11 a.m. each second and fourth Sunday. Communion is each second Sunday. Bible study is at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Willie J. White is pastor.

St. Mark Free Will Services at St. Mark Free Will Baptist Church, 2606 Hannah St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Oscar Denton is superintendent. Worship and fellowship services begin at 11 a.m. each second Sunday. Communion is at 11 a.m. each fourth Sunday with music by the senior choir. Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. each Tuesday with the Rev. Billy Bennett Jr. leading during April. Judith T. Hodge is musician.

St. Mary’s Catholic Services at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 1512 Main St., will begin at 8 tonight with Holy Saturday Mass. Easter Sunday Mass will be at 9 a.m. Daily Mass is at 6:30 a.m. Monday-Saturday. Devotion to the Blessed Mother is at 7 p.m. Mondays. Choir rehearsal is at 6 p.m. each Wednesday. The Rosary is recited at 8:30 a.m. each Sunday before Mass. The Sacrament of Penance is at 8:45 a.m. each Sunday, or by appointment. Youth Mass is each fourth Sunday. CCD/ CYO classes are each Sunday after Mass. The Rev. Malcolm O’Leary, SVD, is pastor. Call 601-6360115.

St. Mary’s Episcopal

information about the RCIA program.

Shady Grove Baptist Services at Shady Grove Baptist Church, 61 Shady Grove Circle, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school weekly. Worship is at 11 each first and fourth Sunday. Bible class is at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday. Adult choir rehearsal begins at 11 each Saturday before the first and fourth Sunday. Youth choir rehearsal begins at noon each Saturday before the first Sunday. Richard Johnson is pastor.

Shiloh Baptist Services at Shiloh Baptist Church, 920 Meadow St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by George Kennedy Sr., superintendent. Communion is at 11 each third Sunday, and covenant is each second Sunday. Bible Study is at 5:30 p.m. each Wednesday. Choir rehearsal is at 6 p.m. each Tuesday after the second Sunday. The Rev. Willie Jones is pastor.

Shiloh Primitive Sunday services at Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church, Warriors Trail, begin at 10:30 a.m. with singing, prayers and a sermon. Dinner will be served at noon, followed by Communion and a baptism. Elder Charles Holden is pastor.

Soul Saving M.B. Services at Soul Saving M.B. Church, 522 Locust St., begin at 12:30 p.m. with Sunday school led by Carolyn Smith, superintendent. Worship is at 1:30. Communion services are each fourth Sunday. The Rev. Jessie L. Jones is pastor.

Southside Baptist Easter Sunday at Southside Baptist Church, 95 Baptist Drive, begins at 7 with sunrise services, followed by a covered-dish breakfast. Sunday school is at 9:45 a.m., followed by worship at 11. The Lord’s Supper will be at 5 p.m. No other evening activities are scheduled. Call 601-631-0047, or visit www.southsidebcvicksburg. com.

Springhill M.B. Services at Springhill M.B. Church, 815 Mission 66, begin with worship at 9 a.m. each second, fourth and fifth Sunday. Communion is each second Sunday. Bible study is at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Reginald Anderson is pastor.

Easter Vigil will be observed at 7 tonight with the lighting of the Paschal Candle and first Communion of Easter at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 900 First North St. The Rev. Denny Allman will celebrate, and a reception will follow in the parish hall. Sunday of the Resurrection services will begin at 10:30 a.m. with Allman bringing the message. The Eucharist will be served. A reception hosted by the ECW and an egg hunt will follow.

Standfield New Life

St. Michael Catholic

Sunrise services at Travelers Rest Baptist Church, 718 Bowmar Ave., will begin at 6. Sunday school begins at 9, and worship at 10. Baptism is at 10 a.m. each first Sunday. Children’s church for grades 1-6 and a nursery are provided. Music will be provided by Perfect Praise/inspirational choir. The missionary ministry meets at 10 a.m. each first and third Saturday. The ushers and wellness ministries meet after services each third Sunday. The deacons ministry meets at 7:30 p.m. each second Monday. Youth tutorial meets at 7 each Tuesday night. Boy Scouts meets at 6:30 p.m. each second and fourth Tuesday. Bible study/ prayer is at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Midweek Bible study/prayer

St. Michael Catholic Church, 100 St. Michael Place, will begin Easter weekend services with Mass at 8 tonight and at 8:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday. The Sacrament of Penance is celebrated from 4:30 to 5 p.m. each Saturday. Daily Mass is celebrated at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Daily Mass the week after Easter will be prayer services because the the Rev. P.J. Curley will be on priest retreat. At 2 p.m. each Sunday is a Eucharist service in Spanish. Anyone interested in learning more about the Catholic faith call 601-636-3445 for

Services at Standfield New Life Christian Church, 1404 Lane St., begin at 10 each Sunday morning. Bible study is at 6 p.m. each Wednesday. Outreach is Mondays and Fridays. Men and women ministries meet each Monday and Tuesday after the fourth Sunday. Angel Food orders are taken monthly; call 601-6385380.

Travelers Rest Baptist

begins at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Perfect Praise choir rehearsal is at 6 p.m. each fourth Wednesday. Inspirational choir rehearsal is at 6:30 p.m. each second Wednesday. United Voices of Worship rehearsal is at 7 p.m. each Wednesday. Call 601-636-3712 on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Thomas E. Bernard is pastor.

Wooley, pastor, leading. The Lord’s Supper will be observed. Evening worship begins at 6. A nursery is provided. Wednesday prayer meeting/Bible study begins at 7 p.m. A nursery is not provided for this service.

Trinity Baptist

Services at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 3601 Halls Ferry Road, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school. Adult I and II classes are taught by Scott Reiber, pastor; Adult III class is taught by Jeff Brannen and will focus on the Book of Esther. Worship is at 11 and will include The Lord’s Supper and preaching by the pastor. Elder Terry Warren will assist. Mary Claire Allison is choir director. Dr. Gwen Reiber is organist. A nursery is available. Hannah meets at 7 p.m. Monday. On Wednesday, adult choir is at 6. Esther meets at 7 p.m. Thursday. The youth will meet at the church at 4 p.m. Friday to attend Against the Flow.

Easter services at Trinity Baptist Church, 3365 Porters Chapel Road, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 10:45. Evening activities are canceled. On Wednesday, The Gathering begins at 3 p.m. A meal will be served at 5. The Gathering and age-graded studies begin at 6, and choir rehearsal at 6:45. The Rev. Ron Burch is pastor. Tim Goodson is minister of music and youths.

Triumph Services at Triumph Church, 136 Honeysuckle Lane, begin with pre-service prayer at 8:15 and 10:15 a.m. Worship is at 8:30 and 10:30 with Mike Fields, pastor, bringing the message. Kingdom Kids Church and a teen class are available. Corporate prayer is at 6 a.m. Tuesday and 6 p.m. Saturday. Men’s Fraternity is at 8 a.m. each first Saturday. Wednesday services begin at 6 p.m. and include Elevate Your Life classes, 24/7 youth ministries and Kingdom Kids church.

Triumphant Baptist Services at Triumphant Baptist Church, 124 Pittman Road, begin at 8:30 a.m. with New Sunday Connection/ New Members Transition Classes at the Kings Empowerment Center. Partners in Prayer begins at 9:30 a.m. in the sanctuary, followed by worship at 10. Women’s ministry is at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the administration building. Activities at Kings Empowerment Center include aerobics at 6 p.m. Monday and Thursday and Bible study at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Mass choir rehearsal is at 7 p.m. Thursday at the church. Elders’ Bible study is at noon Friday in the administration building. Usher/Helps Ministry is at 4 p.m. each fourth Saturday at the administration building. For transportation, call 601218-1319, 601-638-8135 or 601638-8108. The Rev. Dexter Jones is pastor. The Web site is www.triumphmbchurch.com.

WC Ministers Alliance Warren County Ministers Alliance meets at 9:30 a.m. each Saturday at the E.D. Straughter Building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The aim is to benefit ministers and discuss Sunday school lessons. Robert L. Miller is moderator.

Warrenton Services at Warrenton Independent Baptist Church, 829 Belva Drive, begin at 8 a.m. with breakfast. Sunday school is at 10, followed by worship at 11 with Marvin E. Curtis Jr., pastor, delivering the message. P.J. Griffing will lead the singing. Junior church is during worship with Scott Audirsch, youth pastor. Communion will follow and an offering will be taken. Evening worship is canceled. On Wednesday, prayer meeting begins at 7 p.m., with Curtis delivering the message, and a special time of prayer. The Web site is warrentonbaptist.net.

Wayside Baptist Services at Wayside Baptist Church, 6151 Jeff Davis Road, begin with Sunday school at 9:45 a.m., followed by Easter service at 11 with Jason

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Wilderness Baptist Sunrise services at Wilderness Baptist Church, 5415 Gibson Road, will begin at 6:30. Breakfast by the men of the church will follow. Sunday school is at 9:45, and worship is at 11 with the Flowering of the Cross, congregational singing and a message by the pastor, Bob Conrad. Evening services are canceled. On Wednesday, old-time prayer begins at 6:30 p.m. Business meeting will follow. A nursery is provided for bed babies and toddlers.

Woodlawn Baptist Services at Woodlawn Baptist Church, 2310 Culkin Road, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 10:30. The Rev. Kent Campbell, pastor, will preach, and the choir will sing Easter music. Evening services are canceled. A nursery is provided for children as old as 3. Midweek services are at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. each Wednesday, but regular activities have been canceled due to spring break. They will resume April 14 with supper at 5 p.m., followed by children’s mission and music at 5:40. Underground Connections for youths is at 6, and the sanctuary choir rehearses at 7. Call 601-636-5320. The Rev. Mike Barber is music minister, and Devin Rost is student minister.

Word of Faith Services at Word of Faith Christian Center, 3525 Wisconsin Ave., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 10:30. Children’s church and a nursery are provided. Corporate prayer is at 10:15 a.m. Sunday and 6:45 p.m. Wednesday. On Wednesday, Glorify God youth ministry begins at 7 p.m. The Rev. Reginald L. Walker is pastor. Bishop Kevin E. Wright is founder. Call 601-638-2500 or visit www.wofcc-vicksburg.com.

Worship Christian Center Services at Worship Christian Center, 3735 Fisher Ferry Road, begin with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., followed by worship at 11. On Wednesdays, G2R Praise Choir practice is at 4:30 p.m., and Bible study is at 6. Praise practice is at 9 a.m. each Saturday. Malcolm Goodman is pastor.

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MUSIC REVIEW

2010

Mississippi Medallions

Erykah Badu’s “New Amerykah Part 2: Return of the Ankh”

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Erykah Badu beguiles again on new CD By The Associated Press Just when you’ve lost faith in the music industry to do the right thing, along comes Erykah Badu with another deliciously strange album. Since her debut 13 years ago, Badu has walked a path unlike any other, an intensely personal mix of pulsating midtempo grooves and seductive/ aggressive lyrics. Her latest CD, “New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh,” continues Erykah her eclecBadu tic tradition, as she uses one of music’s most recognizable voices to create a moody, belligerent yet vulnerable tapestry. Badu wrote and produced most of the songs, and is executive producer of the album, so the vision is firmly in her control. That’s no surprise coming from a woman who gets paid under the banner of “Divine Pimp Publishing.” What you get is a woman who needs yet fears love, a “recovering undercover over-lover” unafraid to reveal her soft spots, as she does on startling, guerilla-style video for “Window Seat.” She’s also not afraid to bring back an old beat or a classic sample and put her stamp on it — “Turn Me Away (get MuNNY) reworks the infamous Junior M.A.F.I.A. tune from a woman’s point of view, and “Fall In Love (your funeral)” relies on the popular “Intimate Friends” lick used by Alicia Keys’ “Unbreakable,” among others. But Badu’s clever, multilayered reinventions make everything sound fresh, like on “Fall In Love,” when she channels Notorious B.I.G. again and warns, “It’s gone be/Some slow sangin’ and flower bringing/If my burglar alarm starts ringing/You don’t wanna fall in love with me.” It’s too late for the fans, though. They’ve been head over heels for a while now, and the new “New Amerykah” is another shot straight to the heart. “Umm Hmm” simmers with the passion of a humid summer night, and Badu tiptoes beautifully through “Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long.”

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Newest winners are stunning — and showy Winners of the Mississippi Medallion Program can be counted on to be high performers in the landscape. They are well-equipped to withstand the high humidity, temperatures and sometimes drought conditions that are just part of every Mississippi summer. Not only are they tough as nails but they must be attractive, colorful, pest- and disease-resistant selections. The 2010 Mississippi Medallion Plant Winners are guaranteed to brighten any garden with color and include Fireworks gomphrena, Electric Lime coleus, Purple Flash ornamental pepper and Gulf muhly grass. Developed by PanAmerican seed, Fireworks gomphrena is nothing like the gomphrena or bachelor button with small round blooms of purple, pink or white that many of us have known as a popular annual choice. This gomphrena has hot pink iridescent blooms with yellow tips that resemble small firecrackers. Taller than other varieties, it can grow to be 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide by the end of the season and blooms nonstop from spring until frost. It was a super hit at the Mississippi State University Truck Crops Experiment Station at Crystal Springs and is an excellent choice for a butterfly garden. Flower arrangers will also find it to have long lasting cut flowers that work well in arrangements and can be dried. Southern gardeners love coleus and there have been so many great new introductions added to the market in the past few years. Electric Lime coleus, an All-American Selection, is an outstanding choice for flowerbeds or container plantings. It captivates gardeners with its bright lime green leaves and yellow veins that resemble a yellow net or window pane throughout the leaf. Growing 14 to 20 inches tall and up to 24 inches wide, the developer, Ball Seed Company, calls them A Simply Beautiful Made for the

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Shade Plant and a Hot Summer Survivor. They are particularly attractive used in conjunction with purple foliaged plants, lavender Sunpatiens, blue petunias or bright yellow rudbeckias. The iridescent, variegated purple leaves of Purple Flash ornamental pepper make this one of the most attractive and useful ornamental peppers on the market today. The compact mounded plants will grow to be 15 inches tall and 19-21 inches wide with clusters of small, glossy, deep purple, almost black fruits. The fruits are extremely hot and not recommended for eating. A layered, scaffolding growth habit makes it a sturdy and somewhat exotic looking plant that fits in well with tropical themed plantings. It, like other peppers, should never be planted any deeper than it is growing in the nursery container when it is purchased. This is the first year that we have a Mississippi Medallion Native Plant Selection. Many will already be familiar with Gulf muhly grass. It has dazzled all who have attended the October Flower and Garden Feast at Crystal Springs with its cotton candy, pink, fluffy plumes. Native from Texas to Florida and Kansas to Massachusetts, this ornamental grass can be used in perennial beds and as an accent when planted in drifts in sunny spots of a landscape. Ornamental grasses, extremely tough and drought tolerant, can be used in any type landscape. Planted in permanent beds at Crystal Springs next to peachy-pink roses, the See Garden, Page C3.

Mississippi Medallion Past Winners The Mississippi Medallion Program aims to identify plants that perform well throughout the state and to promote the proper use of them in landscapes. Past winners: 1996 Blue Daze evolvulus New Gold lantana 1997 Melampodium New Wonder scaevola Little Gem magnolia 1998 Narrow Leaf zinnias Victoria Blue salvia Natchez crepe myrtle 1999 Indian Summer rudbeckia Biloxi Blue verbena Tonto crepe Myrtle Sioux crepe myrtle 2000 Petunia Wave Series Yellow shrimp plant Oakleaf hydrangea Japanese red maple Panola Panache 2001 Butterfly pentas Burgundy fringe flower Kathy Ann Yaupon holly Bouquet purple dianthus 2002 Shishigashira Lilac chastetree

Dragon Wing red begonia Mississippi Summer Sun coleus 2003 Abelia Edward Goucher Autumn Blaze red maple Sonset lantana Costa Rica Blue salvia 2004 “Port Gibson Pink” verbena “Purple Ruffles” basil Purple leaf plum “Mini Charm” tomato 2005 Chinese Snowball Mona lavender Purple Knight 2006 Kong coleus Profusion Apricot and Fire zinnias Knock Out rose 2007 Frostproof gardenia Serena angelonia Tequila bell pepper Titan vinca 2008 All Around Purple Diamond Frost Rush Varieties Cardoon 2009 “Slim Jim” eggplant “Senorita Rosalita” cleome “Flambe” chrysocephalum “Limelight” hydrangea

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Author Nicholas Sparks goes Hollywood again for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Last Songâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; By David Germain AP movie writer SANTA MONICA, Calif. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The romantic melodrama machine that is Nicholas Sparks keeps running at full capacity. The prolific author, whose weepy love stories include the Hollywood hits â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Notebookâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dear John,â&#x20AC;? returned to the big-screen Wednesday with â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Last Song,â&#x20AC;? which he wrote specifically for Miley Cyrus. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a case of writing an original movie script for Cyrus. Though the screenplay did come first, Sparks developed the story with the same detail he applies to his books. Working backward, once the script was done, Sparks sat down to write the novel. Having already written the movie version, Sparks thought the novel would be a breeze.

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Nicholas Sparks No such luck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After I wrote the screenplay, I thought, oh great, this is it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to do a novelization. Nope. That novel was so challenging to write on a number of levels that had nothing to do with the screenplay,â&#x20AC;? Sparks

said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You want to make it its own unique work, because primarily, I am a novelist. I wanted a really good novel.â&#x20AC;? Sparks, 44, finished the book as production was ready to start on the movie last year.

Gretchen Wilson aims for return to the top By Chris Talbott AP entertainment writer L E BA N O N , Te n n . â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gretchen Wilson the country singer has a lot riding on her new record, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Got Your Country Right Here.â&#x20AC;? Gretchen Wilson the CEO has so much more on the line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like pretty much everything is at stake,â&#x20AC;? Wilson said in a recent interview at her sprawling farm about 30 miles east of Nashville. Wilson has taken the ultimate gamble as she prepares to launch her fourth album and tries to plant a rebel flag at the top of the charts again. The 36-year-old Grammy winner split with Sony and started her own record label, the aptly named Redneck Records. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a long journey since the release of her last album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the Boys,â&#x20AC;? in 2007, with plenty of highs (Wilson earned her GED and testified before Congress on the importance of education) and lows (she had to lay off employees and right a career that teetered off-kilter after a blazing start with her signature hit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Redneck Womanâ&#x20AC;?). The decision to split with Sony has given the single mother of an 8-year-old daughter a new sense of empowerment, though. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in complete control. Wilson been singing the songs, lining up the musicians, designing the album cover, picking the singles, brainstorming the T-shirt ideas, planning the tour and, most importantly, signing the checks for a venture aimed at making a two-fisted return to

the top. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I parted ways with my record label, it was the first thing on my mind,â&#x20AC;? Wilson said. Gretchen â&#x20AC;&#x153;The agenda Wilson that I had was to work as quickly as I could and get this music out. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken a lot of energy and a lot of time, but it feels wonderful to work for myself and to be in control of everything.â&#x20AC;? Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bartender-turnedqueen of the trailer park success story remains a beacon to country music aspirants everywhere. But hidden behind the hit records and the full houses of adoring fans was a little tidbit that might surprise a lot of people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve not seen any money on royalties from anything Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done yet,â&#x20AC;? she said. Wilson has sold more than 6.2 million albums, Nielsen SoundScan says. But she says she split costs with Sony for everything required to send all three of her albums to the top. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kind of makes you wonder what that number that we spent is, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it?â&#x20AC;? Wilson asks with a wry smile. A Sony rep said officials were unavailable for comment on Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claims this week. Wilson did all right on concert ticket sales and other sources of revenue, but as album sales declined, the venues got smaller and the recession took hold, she was forced to lay off about 12 employees in her business and touring group.

The novel was published last fall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Last Songâ&#x20AC;? casts â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hannah Montanaâ&#x20AC;? star Cyrus as a sullen teen reluctantly spending a summer with her estranged father (Greg Kinnear), a pianist and composer who hopes his gifted daughter will resume her own studies at the keyboard. Sparks let Cyrus choose her characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name, and he wove in a few other themes and attributes in which she was interested. Cyrus never was looking over Sparksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shoulder as he wrote, though. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I let him do his thing. I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want someone to do that to me when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m songwriting. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very difficult when somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not finished, and people are giving you advice,â&#x20AC;? Cyrus said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the end, I was definitely thrilled. If there was anything, I would have told him, but there was nothing

wrong.â&#x20AC;? As usual for Sparksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stories, romance and tragedy mix throughout â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Last Song.â&#x20AC;? Sparks has endured his own misfortunes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his mother died in a horseback-riding accident, his father in a car crash, and his sister died of cancer. The beefy former college track star looks more the sort to turn to action thrillers than love stories. Yet since â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Notebookâ&#x20AC;? came out in 1996, Sparks has owned the teary romance genre. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Notebookâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;was a story I thought I could write, and I had some success. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve literally kept doing that over and over, and I found that it is a genre that is immensely difficult,â&#x20AC;? Sparks said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really hard to make a career out of it. And why is that? Because you read these novels with a different goal than you read

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n MOVIE “Duplicity” — Spies, Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, for rival corporations carry on a clandestine love affair while trying to find the formula for a product that will earn a fortune for the company that patents it first./7 on HBO n SPORTS College basketball —Upstart Butler takes on Tom Izzo’s MichiClive Owen gan State team in the opener while Duke battles West Virginia in the nightcap./5:07 on CBS n PRIMETIME “Parenthood” — Drew helps Adam out when Max rejoins the baseball team; Sarah makes friends with Amber’s English teacher; Julia tries to teach Sydney to stand up for herself./7 on NBC

‘Dynasty’ oil tycoon dies of cancer at 92

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 Doris Day, actress-singer, 87; Wayne Newton, singer, 68; Tony Orlando, singer, 66; Mick Mars, Motley Crue bassist, 54; Alec Baldwin, actor, 52; David Hyde Pierce, actor, 51; Eddie Murphy, comedian-actor, 49; Sebastian Bach, rock singer, 42; Amanda Bynes, actress, 24. n DEATHS Jerald terHorst — A press secretary to President Gerald Ford who resigned over the pardon of Richard Nixon has died. Jerald terHorst was 87. A longtime Detroit News journalist, he served for about a month as Ford’s spokesman in 1974 before resigning to protest the president’s decision to pardon Nixon. TerHorst’s son Peter said his father died at his Asheville, N.C., retirement community of congestive heart failure on Wednesday night, attended by his children. Tzannis Tzannetakis — Former Prime Minister Tzannis Tzannetakis, who led a short-lived coalition government in 1989 while the country was rocked by corruption scandals and political turmoil, has died at 82. Tzannetakis’ office said he died in an Athens hospital Thursday but gave no other details. During his threemonth tenure as prime minister, Tzannetakis headed a coalition government that included his conservative New Democracy party and the Greek Communist Party.

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Longtime ‘Law & Order’ actress leaving S. Epatha Merkerson, the senior member of the “Law & Order” cast, is leaving after the show’s current 20th season. Merkerson, who joined the NBC drama in 1993 as New York police Lt. Anita Van Buren, has decided to exit after 16 years, said a person close to the show. Merkerson, who held firm on a series that has seen literally dozens of cast members come and S. Epatha Merkerson go, has played a strong, no-nonsense supervisor in a Manhattan police precinct, primarily overseeing two detective characters (currently played by her costars Jeremy Sisto and Anthony Anderson). But this season, Van Buren’s story line has taken a personal turn as she battles cancer, an illness that may figure into her departure from the show. Will Van Buren die? “Not necessarily,” Merkerson told Entertainment Weekly, which first reported her planned exit. “How ever they decide to take her out, it’ll be worthy of the character. Either way, it’ll be great for me because I get to act it.” Early in the 57-year-old Merkerson’s career, she played Reba the Mail Lady on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” She won Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for her performance in HBO’s 2005 film “Lackawanna Blues.” In February, she won an NAACP Image Award for her role on “Law & Order.”

Part of stage for John concert collapses Part of the stage being set up for a concert today by singer Elton John at Mexico’s famed Chichen Itza ruins collapsed during construction, injuring three workers, authorities said. Two of the workers were treated for slight injuries and released, and the third was hospitalized with a broken leg. The British singer was not present when the accident occurred Wednesday night. Elton John “There has been no discussion of canceling the event” scheduled for today, said Francisco de Anda, a spokesman for Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, which is in charge of the country’s pre-Hispanic sites. The institute said there was no damage to the 1,200-year-old Mayan ruins. De Anda said the stage was put up at a distance from the pyramid and temples, precisely to avoid any potential damage. De Anda said the upper lighting rails of the metal structure collapsed onto the stage area. The rails are used to hold spotlights and other technical equipment.

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Officer told to ditch giant bunny outfit Glendale, Calif., police who used a bunny costume to decoy bad drivers at crosswalks have abandoned the outfit after it made a city councilman hopping mad. An officer wore the Easter outfit Wednesday in crosswalks. Drivers who didn’t yield to the furry pedestrian were ticketed. But City Councilman John Drayman harshly criticized the head-turning costume, calling it “breathtakingly dangerous” and a poor use of city resources. Glendale police continued the crosswalk sting, but the officer wore shorts and a T-shirt. A city spokesman said the city is re-evaluating the use of costumes for enforcement campaigns.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Forsythe, the handsome, smooth-voiced actor who made his fortune as the scheming oil tycoon in TV’s “Dynasty” and the voice of the leader of “Charlie’s Angels” has died after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 92. Forsythe died late Thursday at his home in Santa Ynez from complications of pneumonia, publicist Harlan Boll said Friday. “He died as he lived his life, with dignity and grace,” daughter Brooke Forsythe said. Despite his distinguished work in theater and films, Forsythe’s greatest fame came from his role as Blake Carrington in the 1981-89 primetime soap opera “Dynasty.” Forsythe lent dignity to the tale of murder, deceit, adultery and high finance, which often brought Carrington into conflict with his flashy, vengeful former wife, Alexis Colby, played to the hilt by Joan Collins. Forsythe was an important part of another hit series without being seen. From 1976 to 1981 he played the voice of Charlie, the boss who delivered assignments to his beautiful detectives via telephone in “Charlie’s Angels.” Forsythe evidenced little of the ego drive that motivates many actors. He viewed himself with a self-effacing humor, considering himself “a vastly useable, not wildly talented actor.” In a 1981 interview by The Associated Press, he also said: “I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I’m in the next bunch.” With his full head of silver hair, tanned face and soothing voice, Forsythe as Carrington attracted the ardor of millions of female television viewers. “It’s rather amusing at my advanced age (mid-60s) to become a sex symbol,” he cracked.

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John Forsythe with actresses Joan Collins, left, and Linda Evans in 1986 While he had small roles in a couple of films in the early 1940s, Forsythe’s first successes were mainly on the stage. While serving during World War II, he was cast in Moss Hart’s Air Force show “Winged Victory,” along with many other future stars. After the war, Forsythe became a founding member of the Actors Studio, recalling it as “a wildly stimulating place for a guy like me who was a babe in the woods. I never suspected there was that kind of artistry and psychological approach to acting.” Declining a return to Warner Bros., Forsythe began appearing in television plays as early as 1947, and he continued his Broadway career. A role in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” led to the awesome task of replacing Henry Fonda in “Mister Roberts.” He was next able to create a role of his own, as the naive Army officer in occupied Okinawa in “Teahouse of the August Moon.” The play was a huge success, winning the Pulitzer Prize. “It gave me a sense of worth as an actor,” Forsythe remarked. The call to Hollywood was

irresistible, and Forsythe came west to star in such films as “The Captive City,” “The Glass Web” and “Escape from Fort Bravo.” His best break came in 1955 when he starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s one attempt at whimsy, “The Trouble with Harry,” about a corpse that kept turning up in a New England town. But Forsythe’s film roles were limited because he was already busy in television. The comedy “Bachelor Father,” in which he played a Hollywood lawyer who cared for his teenage niece, lasted from 1957 to 1962, appearing successively on CBS, NBC and ABC. His later films included “Madame X” (opposite Lana Turner) and “In Cold Blood,” Hitchcock’s spy thriller “Topaz,” “The Happy Ending” and “Goodbye and Amen.” “And Justice for All” (1979) marked a departure for the actor. Director Norman Jewison cast him as a judge with a kinky sex life. “He wanted to create suspense on whether the judge was guilty of such dark deeds,” Forsythe said. He credited the role for causing him to be considered as

the unscrupulous Carrington in “Dynasty.” “The producers didn’t know what the hell they wanted,” Forsythe recalled. “They talked to me in terms of J.R. in ‘Dallas.’ I said, ‘Look, fellas, I don’t want to play J.R. Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I’ve learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.” He was born John Lincoln Freund on Jan. 29, 1918, in Penn’s Grove, N.J. He won an athletic scholarship to the University of North Carolina, had a stint as public address announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers, then launched his struggle to become an actor against the wishes of his father. Having had his name mispronounced all his life, he adopted the name of Forsythe, which came from his mother’s family. His first marriage ended after the birth of a son, Dall. During the run of “Winged Victory,” Forsythe married another actress, Julie Warren. They had two daughters, Page in 1950, Brooke in 1954.

‘Modern Family’ gives iPad a starring role LOS ANGELES (AP) — The iPad snagged a starring role in an episode of “Modern Family” on the brink of the tablet computer’s retail debut. Apple Inc.’s latest device figured prominently in Wednesday’s episode of the ABC series as a sought-after birthday gift for one of the characters. The iPad goes on sale at Apple stores Saturday. On “Modern Family,” Claire, Julie Bowen, is eager to buy an iPad for husband Phil’s, Ty Burrell, birthday and sets her alarm to make sure to get one. She snoozes past the opportunity, enlists her family’s help and, by episode’s end, is able to get hold of the prize item. “It’s like Steve Jobs and God got together to say, ‘We love you, Phil,”’ says her tech-geek husband.

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Ty Burrell uses an Apple iPad in an episode of “Modern Family” Walt Disney Co., ABC’s parent company, announced Thursday that it would offer applications for all its businesses on the iPad. About 20 ABC series

will be available to iPad users through a Wi-Fi connection, the company said. Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is the largest indi-

vidual shareholder of Disney Co., with a 7.1 percent stake worth nearly $5 billion, and is on its board of directors. The “Modern Family” showcase for iPad may have had the appearance of masterful product placement, and Apple did provide an iPad for the episode. But the company doesn’t pay for product placement, said Apple spokesman Steve Dowling. The iPad’s TV debut may have won over at least one person — “Modern Family” actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who plays Mitchell. “I will say that no ‘Product’ has been ‘Placed’ in my itchy little palm,” Ferguson said in a Twitter posting. “I am excited about the iPad & will probably break down and buy one.”

Palin special shown after interview disputes NEW YORK (AP) — After an uproar by two big-name subjects of canned interviews, Sarah Palin’s first TV special aired Thursday on Fox News Channel. During “Real American Stories,” the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate narrated heart-tugging profiles of Americans overcoming adversity and helping others. “Heroism, courage, generosity and a warrior spirit — these are things that unite all Americans,” said Palin, clad in a bright red blazer, at the top of the hour. Stories included that of George Weiss, a wealthy businessman who helps prepare underprivileged students for college and pays for their education. After the profile, Palin introduced her studio audience to a group of grade-school students

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being helped by Weiss’ Say Yes to Education Foundation. “There’s such power in this idea of the voluntary private-sector contribution that George and others now are making,” Palin said. Other stories told of Jason Dunham, a heroic Marine who gave his life to save his comrades in Iraq, and by Cole Massie, a child with cerebral palsy who was inspired to walk by his service dog. Palin welcomed Cole, his parents and, of course, the beloved dog for a follow-up

studio interview. “I don’t know what my next goal is,” Cole told her. “With this dog ... the sky is the limit.” But earlier in the week, actor-singer LL Cool J had complained when he learned about Fox News’ plans to use an interview in the show he said he gave to another outlet two years ago. The network consented to drop his segment. Country singer Toby Keith did appear, as announced, in footage focused on his hit song, “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.” But on Wednesday Keith’s publicist had said he was similarly caught by surprise on discovering that his year-old interview had been included in the program. It is unclear when or if Palin will host future editions of “Real American Stories.” She joined Fox News as a

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TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE

BY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION If tomorrow is your birthday: Be prepared to switch your objectives in the year ahead, if you spot something being offered that would be far better for you. Sometimes going off in a new direction and establishing fresh goals can be a smart thing to do. Aries (March 21-April 19) — If you’re looking to be successful today, you might have to try several times to get what you want. Should your initial efforts fail, stop, regroup your forces, and charge once again. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — It isn’t that you lack the desire or even good reasons to do something worthwhile today, you simple may not have the ambition or motivation to do so. It might take a swift kick to get you going. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — A bothersome financial arrangement to which you must comply is likely to stop you from getting what you want. If it’s worth it to you, focus on working out new terms if you can. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — You’re motivated all right, but your friends or associates might not be in harmony with your objectives and, conversely, you’re not likely to be in tune with theirs. Compromise will be called for. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t lock in on thinking there is only a single way to do something today. Just keep in mind that your initial idea might not be your best one, and you may need to look for another solution. Keep an open mind. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Double trouble could result today if both you and your mate are more extravagant than your budget can handle. Don’t expect your spouse to cut down if you have no intention of doing so. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Give and take will be called for when it comes to reaching an agreement with a friend or a family member today. Be realistic, patient and willing to hash things out. You’ll both come out ahead. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Be prepared to keep an open mind and learn, but do not let a less-informed person sway you from your position on an important issue, if what they’re saying doesn’t add up. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — It is never a favorable time to get involved in a risky financial situation, so don’t take any unnecessary gambles now. There are other types of possibilities, however, that can pay off. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Assertiveness must only be taken so far when there are other things at stake, such as the consideration of people and their needs. Things will work out well when you can recognize the difference. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — You’re born with a certain amount of tenacity, but know when and where to use it today, or you could get in your own way and impede your progress. Be daring, not doubtful. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Possessing a short memory could produce losses for you once again today. Don’t break down and get involved with someone who treated you badly in the past, regardless of how enticing the person is.

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BY DR. ROBERT WALLACE • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION Dr. Wallace: Two months ago, my mom’s mother moved into our house because of financial difficulties. Before she came, I was a normal, happy teen living with a wonderful mother and father. Now my life is miserable, and our family is dysfunctional all because dear old grandmother won’t mind her own business. Grandmother doesn’t like my hairstyle, my clothes, my friends, and worst of all, my boyfriend. No matter what I do, she finds something negative to say. I’m spending a lot more time in my bedroom with the door closed, so I don’t have to listen to her negative comments such as, “You dress like a lady of the night walking the streets looking to pick up a man,” or “Your boyfriend looks like a hoodlum.” When she is not in her usual nasty disposition, she will merely say, “When is the last time you took a shower? You smell ripe.” Dr. Wallace, I shower every day. The ripeness she is referring to is my cologne. I need your help and please make it fast! — Nameless, Hackensack, N.J. Nameless: Your family lifestyle should not be allowed to change for the worse because grandmother has moved into the house. Her addition to the family should help create a positive addition, not one that is negative. It’s your mother’s responsibility to make sure grandmother doesn’t overstep her role as a house guest. I hope, in time, that grandma and you will come to respect and love each other. Do your part to see that this happens. • Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.

Dear Lonesome: You and your husband are overdue for some serious discussions regarding priorities, goals and values because it appears you are far out of sync. Tell him that while you admire his drive and ambition, successful marriages take work, too. While many people can hold down two jobs, trying to hold down three is a challenge. A person can’t put forth his best effort if he’s exhausted all the time — and fatigue leads to mistakes and inefficiency. For the sake of your husband’s health, he should rethink what he’s doing. P.S. Speak up now, because if you truly believe you’re just there so he can get the material things he wants, it doesn’t take a crystal ball to see this marriage may not be one of long duration. Dear Abby: Two years ago I met someone who became larger than life to me. I was happier than I ever dreamed, but it wasn’t to be. He was

killed six months later in a car accident. His best friend, “Tom,” was driving. I went to visit Tom in the hospital and from then on we became inseparable. At first, it was to soothe each other’s pain of losing someone we both loved, but it grew into something more. I currently live with Tom’s family and work in their business without pay. Essentially, I’m one of the family. I could not ask for a more loving adoptive family, but I don’t want to be “family.” I lie awake at night thinking about Tom, blush if our hands touch and have to catch my breath when he looks at me. How do I tell the man I love that I have fallen for him when he considers me like a little sister? Is what I’m feeling even appropriate? — Unsure in New York Dear Unsure: I think so. You suffered a devastating loss. Tom and his family have filled the void, so your

feelings are understandable. You will never know whether Tom feels the same way about you if you don’t bring up the subject. If you’re afraid to do that, then talk to his mother. She’ll be able to give you some insight — and perhaps some encouragement. But don’t wait much longer, because if he doesn’t feel the same, you

Reader should talk to doctor about depression conerns Dear Dr. Gott: I am wondering if there is a test for depression. I’m always lethargic and drained, even though I get regular sleep and eat well. I was told by someone that there are two reasons for being tired — too little rest and depression. I get enough sleep but have been incredibly sad for years. Dear Reader: Your brief inquiry could require farreaching answers, since there is no single known cause for depression, which can be mild or so severe it heavily affects a person’s ability to function from one day to the next. It is my guess that you have never spoken with a physician about your concerns. If this is the case, you join the vast majority of people who never seek medical treatment. There are a number of types of depression, including a psychotic form that accompanies delusions, hallucinations or some other form of psychosis. Postpartum depression affects women within a month following delivery. While quite common, it presents for a relatively brief period. Seasonal affective disorder presents in the winter, when there is less natural sunlight. As you might have guessed, SAD remains under control during the balance of the year and can be treated with light therapy. Milder forms of depression aren’t as severe in intensity, and people may not be as disabled as with other types, but they will have an ongoing complaint of not feeling up to par, and they fail to function normally. The severity, duration and frequency of symptoms will vary. Some people may experience a loss of appetite, a loss of interest in things once pleasurable, become irritable, have insomnia, aches, pains, headache, a feeling of hopelessness and a great deal more. As can be expected, depression may co-exist with other medical conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease, cancer, diabetes, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol or drug abuse, and a family history of depression. Fatigue can also stem from a number of causes. The first one that comes to mind is iron-deficiency anemia. Then there’s hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), a viral infection, hypotension (low blood pressure), abnormal thyroid function and an immune-system deficiency. You might experience muscle pain, occasional irregular heartbeat, headache, an inability to concentrate, morning stiffness and shortness of breath. If other causes cannot be found, perhaps you are suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The key to diagnosing chronic long-standing fatigue is that the symptoms remain, despite adequate sleep. If we couple this with the mild form of depression I mentioned

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above, these symptoms outwardly fit your profile to a T. Having said this, I must strongly recommend that you make an appointment with your physician for a complete examination to include blood work, EKG, chest X-ray and anything else he or she recommends. If no abnormalities exist, and perhaps even if they do, request a referral to a therapist or psychiatrist to determine whether the cause is depression.

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Dear Abby: I broke up with my girlfriend of almost two years last July because I thought I was going to be getting a job overseas and she would be staying in the States. We have always had a long-distance relationship (me being from New York and she from New Hampshire), and it didn’t look like it would be any different for the next five or so years what with graduate school, etc. I was becoming more and more distant in our relationship because I’d see her only for a weekend every other month or so, and the lack of physical contact left me feeling single but unavailable. It has been many months now, and it turned out I didn’t get the job after all. She’s now living two hours away, and we’re still on good terms. We talk occasionally but never about us. Our families loved each other, and we never had any deal-breaking fights. Part of me wants to see if

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Saturday, April 3, 2010

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TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE “Duplicity” — Spies, Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, for rival corporations carry on a clandestine love affair while trying to find the formula for a product that will earn a fortune for the company that patents it first./7 on HBO n SPORTS College basketball —Upstart Butler takes on Tom Izzo’s Michigan State team in the opener while Duke battles West Virginia Clive Owen in the nightcap./5:07 on CBS n PRIMETIME “Parenthood” — Drew helps Adam out when Max rejoins the baseball team; Sarah makes friends with Amber’s English teacher; Julia tries to teach Sydney to stand up for herself./7 on NBC

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

PEOPLE

Source: Merkerson leaving ‘Law & Order’ S. Epatha Merkerson, the senior member of the “Law & Order” cast, is leaving after the show’s current 20th season. Merkerson, who joined the NBC drama in 1993 as New York police Lt. Anita Van Buren, has decided to exit after 16 years, according to a person close to the show. Merkerson, who held firm on a series that has S. Epatha seen literally dozens of cast members come and Merkerson go, has played a strong, no-nonsense supervisor in a Manhattan police precinct, primarily overseeing two detective characters (currently played by her co-stars Jeremy Sisto and Anthony Anderson). But this season, Van Buren’s story line has taken a personal turn as she battles cancer, an illness that may figure into her departure from the show. Will Van Buren die? “Not necessarily,” Merkerson told Entertainment Weekly, which first reported her planned exit. “How ever they decide to take her out, it’ll be worthy of the character. Either way, it’ll be great for me because I get to act it.” Early in the 57-year-old Merkerson’s career, she played Reba the Mail Lady on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” She won Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for her performance in HBO’s 2005 film “Lackawanna Blues.” In February, she won an NAACP Image Award for her role on “Law & Order.”

John stage in Mexico partly collapses Part of the stage being set up for a weekend concert by singer Elton John at Mexico’s famed Chichen Itza ruins collapsed during construction, injuring three workers, authorities said Thursday. Two of the workers were treated for slight injuries and released, and the third was hospitalized with a broken leg. The British singer was not Elton present when the accident occurred WednesJohn day night. “There has been no discussion of canceling the event” scheduled for Saturday, said Francisco de Anda, a spokesman for Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, which is in charge of the country’s pre-Hispanic sites. The institute said there was no damage to the 1,200-year-old Mayan ruins. De Anda said the stage was put up at a distance from the pyramid and temples, precisely to avoid any potential damage. De Anda said the upper lighting rails of the metal structure collapsed onto the stage area. The rails are used to hold spotlights and other technical equipment.

AND ONE MORE

Giant bunnies get right of way Glendale, Calif., police who used a bunny costume to decoy bad drivers at crosswalks have abandoned the outfit after it made a city councilman hopping mad. An officer wore the Easter outfit Wednesday in crosswalks. Drivers who didn’t yield to the furry pedestrian were ticketed. But City Councilman John Drayman harshly criticized the head-turning costume, calling it “breathtakingly dangerous” and a poor use of city resources. Glendale police continued the crosswalk sting on Thursday but the officer wore shorts and a T-shirt. A city spokesman said the city is re-evaluating the use of costumes for enforcement campaigns.

The Vicksburg Post

‘Dynasty’ oil tycoon dies from cancer at 92 LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Forsythe, the handsome, smooth-voiced actor who made his fortune as the scheming oil tycoon in TV’s “Dynasty” and the voice of the leader of “Charlie’s Angels” has died after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 92. Forsythe died late Thursday at his home in Santa Ynez from complications of pneumonia, publicist Harlan Boll said Friday. “He died as he lived his life, with dignity and grace,” daughter Brooke Forsythe said. Despite his distinguished work in theater and films, Forsythe’s greatest fame came from his role as Blake Carrington in the 1981-89 primetime soap opera “Dynasty.” Forsythe lent dignity to the tale of murder, deceit, adultery and high finance, which often brought Carrington into conflict with his flashy, vengeful former wife, Alexis Colby, played to the hilt by Joan Collins. Forsythe was an important part of another hit series without being seen. From 1976 to 1981 he played the voice of Charlie, the boss who delivered assignments to his beautiful detectives via telephone in “Charlie’s Angels.” Forsythe evidenced little of the ego drive that motivates many actors. He viewed himself with a self-effacing humor, considering himself “a vastly usable, not wildly talented actor.” In a 1981 interview by The Associated Press, he also said: “I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I’m in the next bunch.” With his full head of silver hair, tanned face and soothing voice, Forsythe as Carrington attracted the ardor of millions of female television viewers. “It’s rather amusing at my advanced age (mid-60s) to become a sex symbol,” he cracked.

The associaTed press

‘Modern Family’ gives iPad starring role LOS ANGELES (AP) — The iPad snagged a starring role in an episode of “Modern Family” on the brink of the tablet computer’s retail debut. Apple Inc.’s latest device figured prominently in Wednesday’s episode of the ABC series as a sought-after birthday gift for one of the characters. The iPad goes on sale at Apple stores Saturday. On “Modern Family,” Claire, Julie Bowen, is eager to buy an iPad for husband Phil’s, Ty Burrell, birthday and sets her alarm to make sure to get one. She snoozes past the opportunity, enlists her family’s help and, by episode’s end, is able to get hold of the prize item. “It’s like Steve Jobs and God got together to say, ’We love you, Phil,”’ says her tech-geek husband.

The associaTed press

Ty Burrell with the Apple iPad in an episode of “Modern Family” Walt Disney Co., ABC’s parent company, announced Thursday that it would offer applications for all its businesses on the iPad. About 20 ABC series

will be available to iPad users through a Wi-Fi connection, the company said. Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is the largest indi-

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24. Business Services

29. Unfurnished Apartments

CLEANUP TIME! WILL remove junk and etcetera. 601-218-7839, leave message.

SPRING CLEANING ON your list? Let us do the work for you! Quality Cleaning, painting, power washing. Free estimates, 601-2149805.

1 bedroom apartments, $400. 2 bedroom townhouse, new paint/ carpet, $500, $300 deposit. 601-631-0805.

D&D Tree Cutting, Trimming & Lawn Care For Free Estimates, call “Big James” at 601-218-7782. DIRT AND GRAVEL hauled. 8 yard truck. 601638-6740.

18. Miscellaneous For Sale ENDURANCE E4 ELLIPTICAL Trainer $500 or best offer. Ab Lounge $50. Call 601-831-5507, after 5pm. FOR THE BEST prices on furniture at 7059 Fisher Ferry Road, Sandy's 3 Way Convenience Store and Deli, factory direct furniture corner of Fisher Ferry and Jeff Davis Road. 601-6368429. HITACHI 65 INCH big screen T.V. with HD. Asking $700. 601-218-6653. INVACARE MODEL 5000IIVC fully electronic hospital bed, $1500. Invacare Model 9000SL wheelchair, $200. 601-5295314. RIDING LAWN MOWER, $250. Call 601-831-5507, after 5pm. SMITH & WESSON Victory Model .38 Caliber, good condition, $275. Ruger Mini 30 with many accessories, $700. 601-638-7706.

THE PET SHOP “Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique” Bring Your Best Friend to our NEW LOCATION, 3508 South Washington Street Not so far, just 1 mile south of Belmont St. Same Great Pet Merchandise, Just More Room!

Fresh Seafood, Fresh Sack Oysters,

Live Crawfish $2.25/ lb Cheapest Prices in Town

19. Garage & Yard Sales HUGE REMODELING/ GARAGE sale, 704 Belmont Street, Saturday, 7am, window air conditioning unit, ceramic tile, light fixtures, burglar bars, vanity, lamps, gifts, holiday and decorative items, lots of kitchenware, linens, books, frames, clothes, miscellaneous. What's going on in Vicksburg this weekend? Read The Vicksburg Post! For convenient home delivery call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.

20. Hunting 20 gauge Montefeltro Super 90 Benelli. Made in Italy. 2 ¾ or 3 inch shells. Call 601-636-0158. 2008 POLARIS 500 HO 4x4. Like new, only 7 hours. $5500. 601-618-6716.

21. Boats, Fishing Supplies 2006 BAYLINER SKI Boat. 4.0 Mercruiser, many accessories, excellent condition. $13,000. 601-2181714. What's going on in Vicksburg this weekend? Read The Vicksburg Post! For convenient home delivery, call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.

22. Musical Instruments

STRICK’S SEAFOOD

601-218-2363

Crawfish Cooking Every Sunday

19. Garage & Yard Sales 107 ROBINHOOD DRIVE, Saturday 7am-12 Noon. Proceeds to benefit Paws Rescue. 110 SKYLINE DRIVE. Saturday 7am-12 noon. Mirrors, Hampton Bay Tiffany chandeliers, clothes, fashion jewelry, home décor, more. 117 STARLIGHT DRIVE. Enchanted Hills, Saturday 7am-11am. No early birds. Shoes, 50 -$1 per pair. Name brand purses, $1- $3 each. Clothes, 50 -$1. Furniture, home décor, bedding, computer equipment, etcetera. 1225 WARRIORS TRAIL. Wednesday through Sunday 8am- until. Prom dresses, new condition. Antique glassware, dresser, clothing (sizes 4, 6, 10, 12, ladies, some junior, assorted). Gas heater, too much to list. 601415-6454 for information.

EPIPHONE JUMBO ACOUSTIC guitar. Hard case, electronic tuner, extra set of new strings, $300 firm. 601-415-0874.

24. Business Services Toni Walker Terrett Attorney At Law 601-636-1109 • Bankruptcy Chapter 7 and 13 • Social Seurity Disability • No-fault Divorce Classified Advertising really brings big results!

29. Unfurnished Apartments

GOODWIN FLOOR FINISHING. Install, sand, refinish hardwood floors, 98 percent dust free, commercial equipment used. Free estimates. 601-636-4128, 601529-1457. GRASS CUTTING SERVICE. Hedges, pruning, flower bed cleaning, planting, mulching, gutters, pressure washing, general yard cleanup. Call 601-218-4415.

LOGUE LAWN & DIRT SERVICES

Grass cutting, general yard clean up, erosion and drainage repair. Call 601-630-7085 QUALITY PAINTING and Pressure Washing for the lowest price. Call Willie Walker at 601-638-2107. River City Lawn Care You grow it - we mow it! Affordable and professional. Lawn and landscape maintenance. Cut, bag, trim, edge. 601-529-6168.

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27. Rooms For Rent CENTRAL HEAT/ AIR, cable, convenient location. Deposit $200. 601-529-7146, leave message.

28. Furnished Apartments

CORPORATE APARTMENT. Fully furnished. $800 monthly, utilities, weekly cleaning, off street parking. 601-661-9747. NEWLY RENOVATED. Completely furnished corporate apartment. All utilities provided including cable and internet. Laundry room, courtyard, security entrance. Great location. $750 - $900 month. 601-415-9027, 601-638-4386. PRE-VIEW VICKSBURG'S FINEST furnished apartments on-line at www. vicksburgcorporatehousing. com 601-874-1116.

29. Unfurnished Apartments SPRING INTO SAVINGS at

CONFEDERATE RIDGE 780 Highway 61 North

Call for Details, 601-638-0102

609 LOCUST STREET yard sale! Friday 2pm-6pm, Saturday 7am-Noon. Multi-family, antiques, women clothing, girl's size 4-6, Motown albums and much more. 85 LAWLAND ROAD, off Jeff Davis Road. Friday, 1pm-6pm, Saturday, 7am4pm, summer clothesbaby's, lady's plus size, household items, much more Call 601-629-9873. 904 CHOCTAW DRIVE, Openwood Plantation, Saturday, 7am- until, riding lawn mower, men's clothing, suits- 46 long, lots of miscellaneous.

BLESS TO BE a blessing! Back by popular demand! Huge Pantry and yard sale, 314 Pleasant Valley. Many great buys! Friday and Saturday, 9am-12 noon.

30. Houses For Rent

Spring

3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS. New carpet, paint, washer/ dryer hookups. $525- $550. 601-631-0805.

111 BROOKWOOD DRIVE. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, large den, formal areas, breakfast room. $1400 monthly, deposit required. 601-618-0911. Totsiew@aol.com

Move-In Special • 1 & 2 Bedroom Studios & Efficiencies • Utilities Paid

APARTMENTS FOR RENT. 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms available. Autumn Oaks. 601636-0447.

No Utility Deposit Required

• Downtown Convenience Vicksburg’s Most Convenient Luxury Apartments!

to Fine Restaurants, Shops, Churches, Banks & Casinos

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DOWNTOWN, BRICK, Marie Apartments. Total electric, central air/ heat, stove, refrigerator. $500, water furnished. 601-6367107, trip@msubulldogs.org

• Cable Furnished! • High Speed Internet Access Available! 601-636-0503 2160 S. Frontage Rd. Vicksburg, MS 39180

Secure High-Rise Building • Off Street Parking • 9 1/2 Foot Ceilings • Beautiful River Views • Senior Discounts •

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Classic Elegance in Modern Surroundings

601-630-2921

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• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts. • Beautifully Landscaped

• Rent Based On Income

1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

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29. Unfurnished Apartments

APARTMENTS FOR ELDERLY & DISABLED CITIZENS!

Commodore Apartments

• Lake Surrounds Community

CALL 601-636-SELL AND PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.

MAGNOLIA MANOR

801 Clay Street • Vicksburg

Voted #1 Apartments in the 2009 Reader’s Choice

1626 BROADHILL DRIVE. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1900 square feet, 2 story, redecorated, double garage, fenced yard, central heat/ air. $840 monthly. Ready May 1st. 601-6383974.

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29. Unfurnished Apartments

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

1, 2, & 3 bedrooms and townhomes available immediately.

• Glass

• Construction

Barnes Glass

CONSTRUCTION

Quality Service at Competitive Prices #1 Windshield Repair & Replacement

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We accept VISA

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601-631-0400 CABINETS, ADDITIONS, METAL ROOFS, 1601 N. Frontage Rd. VINYL SIDING, PATIO DECKS, Vicksburg, MS 39180 DOZER & EXCAVATOR WORK, SEPTIC SYSTEMS, • Dirt LawnServices Care LOT CLEAN UP Services LICENSED

Dirt For Vicksburg Fred Clark Heavy Clay, 610, Clay Gravel, Fill Dirt Trackhoe, Dozer, Box Blade, Demolition Work Driveways: Repair, Form & Finish House Pads: Concrete, Clearing & Grubbing Licensed & Bonded • Construction

New Homes

Framing, Remodeling, Cabinets, Flooring, Roofing & Vinyl Siding State Licensed & Bonded

RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL New Construction & Remodeling

BUFORD

601-638-9233

ROSS

ROY’S CONSTRUCTION

• Bulldozer & Construction

Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt, Rock & Sand All Types of Dozer Work Land Clearing • Demolition Site Development & Preparation Excavation Crane Rental • Mud Jacking

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For those adults who like a safe community setting with the best neighbors in Vicksburg.

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and

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BUSINESS & SERVICE DIRECTORY

Vans • Cars • Trucks •Insurance Claims Welcome•

317 PLEASANT VALLEY, Saturday 6am-2pm. Comforters, clothing, household items, much more.

512 NEWITT VICK Drive, Openwood. Saturday 7amuntil. Car-port sale! Junior clothes sizes 4-10, purses, shoes, household and Christmas items, miscellaneous!

29. Unfurnished Apartments

READ THE CLASSIFIEDS daily! 1 BEDROOM WITH kitchen and bathroom, utilities furnished. 601-5299804.

3120 MT. ALBAN Road, Saturday, 6am-12 noon, household items, comforters, clothes, appliances.

4808 HALLS FERRY ROAD, Saturday 9am-2pm. Baby items, household items, clothing (newborn to 4X large), odds and ends. Multi-family sale.

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• BONDED • INSURED

DWAYNE ROY 601-415-6997 JOSHUA ROY 601-831-0558

McLaughlin Construction & Remodeling Serving Vicksburg since 1989. MS State licensed. New construction, additions, custom cabinets, flooring, siding, roofing & decks. Free estimates! 601-831-2073 or 601-638-0927

WE ACCEPT MOST MAJOR CREDIT CARDS .

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River City Landscaping, LLC

• Dozer / Trackhoe Work Dump Truck • Bush Hogging Box Blade • Demolition Lawn Maintenance Deliver Dirt•Gravel•Sand•Rock Res. & Com. • Lic. & Ins. Robert Keyes, Jr. (Owner) 601-529-0894

• Lawn HandyMan Care Services

RIVER CITY HANDYMAN Joe Rangel - Owner 601.636.7843 • 601.529.5400

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Visit us online at www.vicksburgpost.com 30. Houses For Rent 2517 OAK STREET. 2 bedrooms, all appliances, off street parking, storage building. $650 monthly, deposit required. 504-400-6758. 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath house. $800 monthly, $800 deposit. 601-636-9591. 3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS 2300 square feet, remodeled, 3 car carport. $900 monthly, $900 deposit, references required. Serious inquiries only. 601-301-0878. 3/ 4 BEDROOMSRent $1,100 and Up! • 721 National. 732-768-5743. COMPLETELY FURNISHED, 1 bedroom cottage. Laundry room, kitchen, living room and bath. Hi-Def DRTV. Inground pool available. All utilities furnished. Off Nailor Road, 4 miles out of town. References required. 601529-1827.

32. Mobile Homes For Sale I BUY USED homes! All makes and models. Big payoff, no need to apply! Darren, 228-669-3505. LAND/ HOME DEALS! 3 left in Pearl, 1 in Florence, and 1 in Vicksburg area. No credit needed! Darren, 228669-3505.

33. Commercial Property I-20 AREA, INDIVIDUAL office suites, conference room, kitchen, lobby and reception area. Starting at $300 including utilities. Call 601-218-9631.

34. Houses For Sale BEVERLY MCMILLIN

LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage. Close in, nice. $795 monthly. 601-831-4506.

34. Houses For Sale

39. Motorcycles, Bicycles

4022 HIGHWAY 27. Owner financing, 15 percent down. 3 bedroom, 2 bath new home. Ward Real Estate 601-6346898.

HOME FOR SALE. Cary, Ms, adorable 3 bedroom, 2 bath home, 1200 square feet, front/ back porches. 662-907-0619.

NEW HOME ON 2 acres, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, never lived in. 108 Chandlers Cove, Vicksburg, MS. 601301-1773 or 601-672-8325

2009 HARLEY DAVIDSON Night Ride Special. $16,000. 601-629-9947, 601-415-6269.

LAKE BRUIN. 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath brick home, great location, double lot, deep water, 150 foot lake front. Asking $298,500. 832-215-7976.

WOW! 65 PINE HAVEN Lane. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths appliances included, 2½ acres. 1761 square feet. $146,000. 601-994-3414.

40. Cars & Trucks

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443 Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512 Jake Strait...........601-218-1258 Bob Gordon........601-831-0135 Tony Jordan........601-630-6461 Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274 Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318 Kai Mason...........601-218-5623

Eagle Lake Waterfront homes and lots for sale

McMillin Real Estate 601-636-8193 VicksburgRealEstate.com

Big River Realty

DAVID A. BREWER 601-631-0065

600 Blossom Lane 3 BR, 2 BA home with inground pool & large workshop.

Realtor “Simply the Best”

601-415-9179 31. Mobile Homes For Rent

Mc Millin

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths. 61 South area, deposit required. 601-619-9789.

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32. Mobile Homes For Sale 121 IMPALA. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths. All offers will be considered! Ward Real Estate, 601-634-6898. 16X80. IN GOOD shape, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. Setup $15,900. Darren, 228-6693505. 32X80. NEW APPLIANCES, fireplace, big tub, 2 living rooms. Setup with air conditioning, $39,900. Darren, 228-669-3505.

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40. Cars & Trucks

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Move-In Ready-1 mile from Warren Central, 4 BR/2BA, fresh paint, updated throughout, new wood laminate floors, new carpet, new ceramic floors and countertops in kitchen & baths, 12x20 wired workshop, 1 acre lot on cul-de-sac. For appointment, 601-415-3022.

601.630.8209

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Open Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm

601-634-8928

Mary D. Barnes.........601-966-1665 Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134 Rip Hoxie, Land Pro....601-260-9149 Jill Waring Upchurch....601-906-5012 Carla Watson...............601-415-4179 Judy Uzzle.................601-994-4663 Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490 Broker, GRI

601-636-6490

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40. Cars & Trucks

Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869 Catherine Roy....601-831-5790 Rick McAllister..601-218-1150 Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893 Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

ARNER

36. Farms & Acreage

REAL ESTATE, INC

JIM HOBSON

REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

601-636-0502 Classified Advertising really brings big results!

40. Cars & Trucks

WANTING TO LEASE 100-300 acres of land for family, hunting only. Prefer Claiborne, Warren or Hinds counties. Call 985-212-9119 or ken_smith53@charter.net

Classifieds Really Work!

40. Cars & Trucks

1988 HONDA PRELUDE SI, 5 speed, JDM engine, $1500 or best offer. Call 601-994-3332. 1993 S-10 PICKUP with camper top. V6, 5-speed, new tires. $1400. 601-8300833, 601-630-8434. 1999 NISSAN MAXIMA, wrecked, new tires, sold as is. Best offer. 601-618-9297 or 601-636-7623. 2000 TOYOTA AVALON XLS. Clean, one owner, great for student. 84,000 miles. $10,995. 601-400-7292

Call 601-636-SELL to sell your Car or Truck!

40. Cars & Trucks

1998 MERCURY LESABRE, selling body. Green. $650. Call 601-218-1051.

2010 MERCEDES-BENZ GLK 350. 11,000 miles. $39,500. Perfect condition. Pearl white. 601-218-1732

2000 VOLVO S-40. $5,995. Call Vicksburg Toyota at 601-636-2855. 2002 FORD F250 Extended cab, 4x4 Off Road. Loaded, leather, 7.3 Power Stroke diesel. Excellent condition. $10,750. 601218-1941. 2008 HONDA ACCORD LXP. Stock #600181TA. $17,995. Call Vicksburg Toyota at 601-636-2855. 2008 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5S Coupe. $16,995. Call Vicksburg Toyota at 601636-2855. 2008 TOYOTA PRIUS. Stock# 600135A. $16,995. Call Vicksburg Toyota at 601-636-2855. 2009 CHEVROLET COBALT LT. $13,995. Call Vicksburg Toyota at 601636-2855. 2009 CHEVROLET COBALT LT. $13,995. Call Vicksburg Toyota at 601636-2855.

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SPORTS saturDaY, april 3, 2010 • SE C TI O N D

Steve Wilson, sports editor | E-mail: sports@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 142

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TRaCk & fIELD

Collins shines at Relays By Jeff Byrd jbyrd@vicksburgpost.com

Contrast in styles Coach K, Huggins take different paths to the Final Four Story/D3

SCHEDULE PREP BASEBALL WC hosts Natchez Today, 1 p.m. VHS hosts NW Rankin Monday, 6 p.m.

PREP SOFTBALL Warren Central at Brookhaven Tuesday, 6:15 p.m. VHS hosts Lawrence Co. Thursday, 6 p.m.

ON TV

5 p.m. CBS - The Final Four is chopped down to the Terrific Two. Michigan State faces Butler, followed by Duke vs. West Virginia in the NCAA Tournament semifinals. The winners advance to Monday night’s championship game.

WHO’S HOT KAWAYNE GASTON Vicksburg High infielder hit a three-run homer to finish off a 16-2 rout of Port Gibson in the second game of a doubleheader Friday.

SIDELINES Varnado picked as NCAA’s top defender INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mississippi State center Jarvis Varnado has won the inaugural Lefty Driesell Award as the nation’s top Division I defender. Varnado won the award Friday during Final Four festivities in Indianapolis. The 6-foot-9 Brownsville, Tenn., native finished his career as the NCAA’s blocks leader with 564 and is the only player to have 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 500 blocks. Varnado called the award “humbling.” This season he led the Bulldogs to 24 wins and the Southeastern Conference Western Division title, and finished with 170 blocks to tie his own SEC record. Earlier this month, Varnado was named the SEC Defensive Player of the Year for the second striaght season. He is also a finalist for the Howell Trophy, awarded next week to Mississippi’s top college player. The award is named for Driesell, a Hall of Fame coach whose 786 wins rank ninth among Division I coaches.

LOTTERY

La. Pick 3: 1-8-9 La. Pick 4: 5-0-9-9 Weekly results: D2

mErEdiTh spEncEr•The Vicksburg PosT

Port Gibson’s Dominic Savage tags out Vicksburg’s Travis Haas at third during Friday’s game at Bazinsky Field. Below, Port Gibson’s Deairton Simmons waits on

the ball as Vicksburg’s Keaton Jones slides safely into second. Vicksburg won both games of a doubleheader, 13-0 and 16-2.

Gators take two from Blue Waves By Steve Wilson

swilson@vicksburgpost.com

A wild six-run first inning started it and a Kawayne Gaston moonshot ended it. Talk about a way to bookend a doubleheader. Vicksburg pounded visiting Port Gibson 13-0 in the first game and 16-2 in the second in a pair of run-rule shortened games at Bazinsky Field on Friday. “It was good to see some other guys get some time and do some things at the

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plate,” Vicksburg coach Jamie Creel said. “It’s hard to get in rhythm because of all the walks and the game is kind of sloppy for both teams, but I was glad coming off the emotion of last night’s game (a 6-3 loss to Clinton) to see us bounce back and get a couple of wins today.” The Gators (11-8) get a much-needed week’s rest See VHS, Page D3.

Butler enjoying role of hometown hero By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — They’ve snarled traffic, made cheesy mustaches fashionable and drawn a bigger crowd for practice than their fabled fieldhouse can hold. One of the players even got asked to prom. Butler is enjoying the kind of lovefest that Michigan State saw at last year’s Final Four — and then some. Playing a mere 5.6 miles from their campus, the Bulldogs have brought what seems like the whole Hoosier state along for their first appearance on college basketball’s biggest stage. Who knew there were that many Butler alums out there? “Just turning every corner and seeing Butler shirts, Butler jerseys, Butler hats, any kind of Butler apparel on every corner, I don’t think it gets much better than that,” point guard Ronald Nored said Friday. “I think that could be the case if we were playing anywhere, but for it to be here in Indianapolis makes it even more special.” Butler (32-4) plays Michigan State (28-8) in the first semifinal today. On paper, playing at home would seem to be a huge advantage: you’re the overwhelming fan favorite; a long red light on the trek from campus is the extent of your travel drama; and there’s no need to scout out restaurants or practice sites. All that enthusiasm also can cause a headache. When Michigan State made

The associaTed Press

Butler coach Brad Stevens directs his team during a Final Four practice session Friday in Indianapolis. Butler plays Michigan State today.

On TV All games on CBS Today 5 p.m. - Butler vs. Michigan State 7:45 p.m - Duke vs. West Virginia it to last year’s Final Four in recession-battered Detroit, 90 miles from campus, almost 10,000 fans showed up just for a pep rally at a suburban mall. “It comes with a lot of fun and excitement. But it also comes with distractions, as well,” said Draymond Green, whose hometown of Saginaw, Mich., is two hours north of Detroit. “You know everyone. Everyone just wants to be around, from someone you knew in kindergarten to someone you just met last week.

“It’s a big difference from just being in town for a regular-season game.” Of the 10 previous schools who played in a Final Four in their home state, five won it all. But it hasn’t been done since 1975, when UCLA won in San Diego. While wanting his players to savor the experience, Stevens also has done his best to contain the hoopla surrounding his team. He kept the Bulldogs on their regular schedule early in the week — including those 6:30 a.m. practices. While the

Michigan State, Duke and West Virginia players only had to worry about practices and interviews Thursday and Friday, the Bulldogs shuttled back and forth to campus so they could get to a class or two. “One of the things we try to do is do the exact same routine we did in San Jose and Salt Lake,” Stevens said, referring to Butler’s destinations the first two weekends of the tournament. “We didn’t want to change it. We didn’t want to become something now that we haven’t been.” But that’s tough to do when an entire state is treating his players like rock stars. Several hundred people were waiting in the rain outside Hinkle Fieldhouse when the Bulldogs returned from Salt Lake City early Sunday. Butler president Bobby Fong body-surfed among students, Lollapalooza-like, at a campus rally. The entire lower bowl of the Lucas Oil Stadium was filled for Friday morning’s practice, with most of the people in Butler blue. One teenage girl held up a sign asking Gordon Hayward, the team’s leading scorer and a promising NBA prospect, if he’d go to prom. “It’s sort of overwhelming, sort of awesome to see so many people come out just to support us,” said Matt Howard, he of the mousy mustache left over from the team’s lucky charms in its push to the NCAA tournament. “The city’s been awesome.”

Condrea Collins wants to have a better senior season than last year when she struggled to complete the 1,600-meter run at the state track and field meet. If Friday’s Gator Relays are any indication, she’s off to great start. The University of ArkansasPine Bluff Condrea signee was Collins named the meet’s Most Valuable Performer after sweeping the distance events. Her wins in the 3,200-, 1,600- and 800meter runs also helped the Lady Vikes take the team title over Natchez, Vicksburg and Port Gibson. “I feel real good about this year,” Collins said after wrapping her day with a third-place showing in the 4x400 relay. “My goal is to go to state in all three events and I think we can go in the 4x400 relay once we get our other two girls back.” WC coach Matt Lum had five girls missing but the 11 that showed managed to roll up 181 points. Natchez was second with 154, followed by Vicksburg with 121 and Port Gibson with 63. Natchez won the boys meet with 171 points while Warren Central took second at 154. VHS was third with 153 and Port Gibson 125. “We’ve got 16 on the team but we were without five today because of the holiday. We went to St. Andrew’s and we won the one at our place. I had to move some people around in the relay events because of the absences,” Lum said. Having Collins there was enough. She won the 1,600meter run in 5:57.17 and the 800 run in 2:36.80. The Lady Vikes also got a win from Sh’Qulla Neal in the 100meter dash at 12.75 seconds. “In order to do well at state, I’m going to need to get down to 12 minutes in the 3,200, about 2:18 in the 800 and 5:20 in the mile,” Collins said. Vicksburg girls coach Dedra Robinson said her team continues to make progress. Alexis Cosby won the 300 hurdles in 57.01 seconds while Robin Cooper won the discus. “We’re improving. We’re better with each meet and we’ve done that by working on our times,” Robinson said. “Jazmine Washington had a good day getting second in the triple jump and the 100 hurdles and she did well on both our 4x100 and 4x200 relays.” The Warren Central boys needed to win the 1,600meter relay to edge out the rival Gators for second place. Walter King won the 1,600meter run in 5:04.38. Mykel Gibson was second in the 1,600 run and won the 800meter run in 2:12.70. “The 1,600-meter relay has been our best event this year,” WC coach Larry Tyrone said. The Gators’ highlight was Demond Calvin winning the 100-meter dash in 11.03 seconds and teammate Rashun Thomas finishing second in 11.07. The pair then helped the Gators win the 4x100 and 4x200 relays.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

on tv

SCOREBOARD

NASCAR 3 p.m. ESPN - Nationwide Series, Nashville 300, at Lebanon, Tenn. BOXING 9 p.m. FSN - Featherweights, Miguel Angel Garcia (20-0-0) vs. Tomas Villas (22-6-4); welterweights, Mike Alvarado (26-0-0) vs. Lenin Arroyo (20-11-1) GOLF Noon NBC - PGA Tour, Shell Houston Open 6 p.m. ESPN2 - LPGA, Kraft Nabisco Championship HORSE RACING 4 p.m. NBC - NTRA, Wood Memorial and Santa Anita Derby MLB PRESEASON 3 p.m. WGN - Chicago Cubs at Arizona COLLEGE BASEBALL 3 p.m. FSN - Georgia at LSU COLLEGE BASKETBALL 5 p.m. CBS - Final Four, Butler vs. Michigan State 7:45 p.m. CBS - Final Four, Duke vs. West Virginia NBA 7 p.m. WGN - Charlotte at Chicago NBA D-LEAGUE 10 p.m. Versus - Erie at Maine (tape) PREP BASKETBALL 10:30 a.m. ESPN2 - Girls’ Invitational, championship 12:30 p.m. ESPN - Boys’ Invitational, championship SOCCER 6:30 a.m. ESPN2 - Premier League, Manchester United vs. Chelsea TENNIS 11:30 a.m. CBS - Sony Ericsson Open, women’s championship

major league baseball

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

sidelines

from staff & AP reports

NFL Cowboys release veterans Adams, Hamlin IRVING, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys have released five-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle Flozell Adams and safety Ken Hamlin two years after both signed long-term contracts. Adams was coming off his 12th season and was the longest-tenured player on the team, having started 178 of his 182 games for Dallas. All of his Pro Bowl selections came between 2003-08. Hamlin was a Pro Bowl pick in 2007, his first season in Dallas after spending the first four years of his career in Seattle. Adams, who turns 35 in May, was due a $2.5 million roster bonus in June and a $5 million base salary for the 2010 season. Hamlin’s base salary this season was to be just over $5.5 million.

Baseball Conrad, Reyes make Braves’ 25-man roster ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves set their 25-man roster for the regular season, keeping left-hander Jo-Jo Reyes for the final spot in the bullpen and Brooks Conrad as a backup infielder. Manager Bobby Cox announced Friday that Reyes had beaten out left-hander Jonny Venters, while Conrad was kept over fellow infielder Joe Thurston. The Braves’ 12-man pitching staff will also include right-hander Jesse Chavez, who had a terrible spring but a bit of a track record: 73 relief appearances for Pittsburgh last season. Reyes appeared in six games for Atlanta last season — five of them starts — and went 0-2 with a 7.00 ERA. Conrad hit .204 with two homers and eight RBIs in 54 at-bats with the Braves last season, but this is the first time the 30-year-old has broken camp with a big league team.

flashback

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS April 3 1988 — Louisiana Tech wins the NCAA women’s basketball championship with a 56-54 come-frombehind victory over Auburn. 1994 — The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-4 in major league baseball’s first Sunday night opener, sending baseball into a new era with three divisions and a new playoff format. 2006 — Joakim Noah dominates UCLA with 16 points, nine rebounds and a record seven blocks to key a 73-57 blowout for Florida’s first national title in men’s basketball. 2007 — After a nine-year title drought, Tennessee and coach Pat Summitt are NCAA champions. The Lady Vols capture an elusive seventh national title, beating Rutgers 59-46.

Spring Training

Friday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 6, Baltimore 6, tie Boston 7, Washington 2 Tampa Bay 4, N.Y. Mets 2 St. Louis 8, Minnesota 4 Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 3 Colorado 11, Seattle 11, tie Chicago White Sox 7, Atlanta 2 Houston 3, Toronto 3, tie, 10 innings Texas 2, Kansas City 1 Milwaukee 3, Detroit 2 Chicago Cubs at Arizona, (n) L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, (n) Cincinnati vs. Cleveland, (n) Oakland at San Francisco, (n) Today’s Games Chicago White Sox at Atlanta, 11:05 p.m. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 11:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets vs. Baltimore, 11:05 p.m. Kansas City vs. Texas, 1:05 p.m. Toronto at Houston, 1:05 p.m. Colorado vs. Seattle, 1:05 p.m. Detroit at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m. St. Louis at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m. Cleveland vs. Cincinnati, 3:05 p.m. Boston at Washington, 3:05 p.m. San Francisco at Oakland, 3:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 3:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Arizona, 3:10 p.m.

West

Team Overall SEC LSU................................22-3................................6-1 Ole Miss.......................21-6................................5-2 Auburn...........................17-9................................4-3 Arkansas........................20-6................................4-3 Alabama........................18-7................................3-4 Mississippi St..............14-12..............................2-5 Friday’s Games Florida 3, Vanderbilt 2 South Carolina 10, Mississippi State 2 Alabama 10, Auburn 5 Ole Miss 7, Tennessee 3 Kentucky 12, Arkansas 8 LSU 4, Georgia 3 Today’s Games Kentucky at Arkansas, 2:05 p.m. Vanderbilt at Florida, 3 p.m. Mississippi St. at South Carolina, 3 p.m. Tennessee at Ole Miss, 4 p.m. Georgia at LSU, 4 p.m. Alabama at Auburn, 4:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games Vanderbilt at Florida, Noon Georgia at LSU, Noon Mississippi State at South Carolina, 1 p.m. Kentucky at Arkansas, 1:05 p.m. Tennessee at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m. Alabama at Auburn, 2:05 p.m. ———

Conference USA

Team Overall C-USA Tulane............................18-9................................3-1 Rice...............................16-12..............................3-2 UAB...............................15-9................................2-2 Memphis........................11-15..............................2-2 Central Florida...............18-10..............................2-2 Houston.........................12-13..............................2-3 Marshall.........................11-13..............................2-2 Southern Miss.............14-10..............................1-2 East Carolina.................17-10..............................0-1 Friday’s Games Marshall 7, Memphis 4 Central Florida 16, UAB 7 Tulane 10, East Carolina 5 Rice 11, Houston 2 Southern Miss 4, Saint Mary’s 3 Today’s Games Memphis at Marshall, 10:30 a.m., 1st game Memphis at Marshall, 2 p.m., 2nd game Tulane at East Carolina, Noon, 1st game Tulane at East Carolina, 4:30 p.m., 1st game Saint Mary’s at Southern Miss, 1 p.m. UAB at Central Florida, 1 p.m., 1st game UAB at Central Florida, 5:30 p.m., 2nd game Houston at Rice, 2 p.m. Sunday’s Games No games scheduled

Mississippi college schedule Friday’s Games Miss. College 17, East Texas Baptist 6, 1st game Miss. College 13, E. Texas Baptist 11, 2nd game Spring Hill 17, Tougaloo 6 Delta St. 10, Henderson St. 6, 1st game Delta St. 14, Henderson St. 6, 2nd game Jackson St. 10, Mississippi Valley St. 3 Millsaps 5, LaGrange 2, 1st game LaGrange 7, Millsaps 4, 2nd game Southern Miss 4, St. Mary’s 3 South Carolina 10, Mississippi St. 2 Ole Miss 7, Tennessee 3 LSU-Shreveport 13, William Carey 3 Today’s Games Millsaps at LaGrange, 11 a.m. Prairie View at Alcorn St., Noon and 3 p.m. St. Mary’s at Southern Miss, 1 p.m. William Carey at LSU-Shreveport, 1 and 4 p.m. Mississippi Valley St. at Jackson St., 1 and 4 p.m. Spring Hill at Tougaloo, 1 and 4 p.m. Henderson St. at Delta St., 2 p.m. Mississippi St. at South Carolina, 3 p.m. Tennessee at Ole Miss, 4 p.m. Sunday’s Games Prairie View at Alcorn St., 1 p.m. Mississippi St. at South Carolina, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m.

nba Pct .789 .697 .640 .627 .553 .547 .533 .500 .480 .368 .351 .347 .307 .293 .133

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W x-L.A. Lakers.................54 x-Dallas..........................50 x-Phoenix.......................50 x-Utah............................50 x-Denver........................49 Oklahoma City...............46 San Antonio...................46 x-Portland......................46 Memphis........................39 Houston.........................38 New Orleans.................35 L.A. Clippers..................27 Sacramento...................24 Golden State.................21 Minnesota......................15 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

L 21 26 26 26 27 28 29 30 36 37 42 48 52 53 60

GB — 7 11 1/2 12 1/2 18 18 1/2 19 1/2 22 23 1/2 32 33 33 1/2 36 1/2 37 1/2 49 1/2

Pct GB .720 — .658 4 1/2 .658 4 1/2 .658 4 1/2 .645 5 1/2 .622 7 1/2 .613 8 .605 8 1/2 .520 15 .507 16 .455 20 .360 27 .316 30 1/2 .284 32 1/2 .200 39

At Indianapolis National Semifinals Today Michigan State (28-8) vs. Butler (32-4), 5:07 p.m. West Virginia (31-6) vs. Duke (33-5), 7:47 p.m. National Championship Monday Semifinal winners, 8:07 p.m.

women’s basketball NCAA Women’s Tournament FINAL FOUR

At San Antonio National Semifinals Sunday Stanford (35-1) vs. Oklahoma (27-10), 6 p.m. Connecticut (37-0) vs. Baylor (27-9), 8 p.m. National Championship April 6 Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE W 50 43 44 44 43 38 35 38 35 34 33 32 31 31 29

L 15 24 26 26 30 32 30 34 32 32 35 35 34 35 36

OT 12 10 7 7 5 8 12 6 10 12 10 10 12 12 13

Pts 112 96 95 95 91 84 82 82 80 80 76 74 74 74 71

GF 298 223 204 237 214 206 191 225 206 228 215 205 198 201 208

GA 220 195 186 219 223 210 190 217 206 244 241 240 226 245 255

WESTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-San Jose......78 48 20 10 106 251 205 x-Chicago........77 48 22 7 103 249 196 d-Vancouver....77 46 27 4 96 251 204 x-Phoenix.........78 47 25 6 100 212 193 Nashville..........79 45 28 6 96 217 216 Detroit..............77 41 23 13 95 215 203 Los Angeles....77 44 27 6 94 228 205 Colorado..........76 41 28 7 89 227 212 Calgary............77 39 29 9 87 196 194 Dallas...............78 35 29 14 84 227 242 St. Louis..........77 37 31 9 83 209 210 Anaheim..........76 37 31 8 82 216 229 Minnesota........78 37 35 6 80 210 233 Columbus........78 32 33 13 77 210 249 Edmonton........77 24 46 7 55 197 266 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference Friday’s Games Chicago 2, New Jersey 1, SO Montreal 1, Philadelphia 0 N.Y. Rangers 5, Tampa Bay 0 San Jose 3, Minnesota 2 Dallas 6, Edmonton 3 Calgary at Colorado, (n) Vancouver at Anaheim, (n) Today’s Games Atlanta at Pittsburgh, Noon Ottawa at N.Y. Islanders, 1 p.m. Nashville at Detroit, 1 p.m. Boston at Toronto, 6 p.m. Buffalo at Montreal, 6 p.m. New Jersey at Carolina, 6 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Florida, 6 p.m. Washington at Columbus, 6 p.m. Dallas at St. Louis, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Anaheim at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m. Sunday’s Games Detroit at Philadelphia, 11:30 a.m. Calgary at Chicago, 2 p.m. San Jose at Colorado, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

nascar Sprint Cup Schedule

Through March 29 Feb. 14 — Daytona 500 (Jamie McMurray) Feb. 21 — Auto Club 500 (Jimmie Johnson) Feb. 28 — Shelby American (Jimmie Johnson) March 7 — Kobalt Tools 500 (Kurt Busch) March 21 — Food City 500 (Jimmie Johnson) March 29 — Goody’s 500 (Denny Hamlin) April 10 — Subway Fresh Fit 600, Avondale, Ariz. April 18 — Samsung 500, Fort Worth, Texas April 25 — Aaron’s 499, Talladega, Ala. May 1 — Crown Royal 400, Richmond, Va. May 8 — Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. May 16 — Autism Speaks 400, Dover, Del. May 22 — x-Sprint All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. May 22 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord, N.C. May 30 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. June 6 — Pocono 500, Long Pond, Pa. June 13 — Heluva Good! 400, Brooklyn, Mich. June 20 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. June 27 — Lenox Tools 301, Loudon, N.H.

Sprint Cup Points Leaders

Through March 29 1. Jimmie Johnson............................................. 898

Tank McNamara

Through March 20 Feb. 13 — DRIVE4COPD 300 (Tony Stewart) Feb. 20 — Stater Bros. 300 (Kyle Busch) Feb. 27 — Sam’s Town 300 (Kevin Harvick) March 20 — Scotts 300 (Justin Allgaier) April 3 — Nashville 300, Lebanon, Tenn. April 9 — Bashas’ 200, Avondale, Ariz. April 17 — O’Reilly 300, Fort Worth, Texas April 24 — Aaron’s 312, Talladega, Ala. April 30 — BUBBA burger 250, Richmond, Va. May 7 — Darlington 200, Darlington, S.C. May 15 — Heluva Good! 200, Dover, Del. May 29 — TECH-NET 300, Concord, N.C. June 5 — Federated Parts 300, Lebanon, Tenn. June 12 — Meijer 300, Sparta, Ky. June 19 — Road America 200, Elkhart Lake, Wis. June 26 — New England 200, Loudon, N.H.

Nationwide Series Points Leaders

Through March 20 1. Carl Edwards................................................ 2. Brad Keselowski........................................... 3. Justin Allgaier............................................... 4. Kyle Busch.................................................... 5. Kevin Harvick................................................ 6. Greg Biffle..................................................... 7. Paul Menard................................................. 8. Steve Wallace............................................... 9. Mike Wallace................................................ 10. Brian Vickers............................................... ———

670 644 639 594 569 563 528 472 458 457

Camping World schedule

nhl GP z-Washington...77 x-Buffalo..........77 x-New Jersey..77 x-Pittsburgh.....77 x-Ottawa..........78 Montreal...........78 Boston.............77 Philadelphia.....78 N.Y. Rangers...77 Atlanta.............78 Carolina...........78 N.Y. Islanders..77 Florida..............77 Tampa Bay......78 Toronto............78

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Nationwide Series Schedule

FINAL FOUR

Team Overall SEC South Carolina..............21-5................................6-1 Florida............................19-6................................5-2 Vanderbilt......................23-5................................4-3 Kentucky........................18-9................................2-5 Georgia..........................9-16................................1-6 Tennessee.....................13-14..............................0-7

L 16 23 27 28 34 34 35 37 39 48 48 49 52 53 65

2. Greg Biffle..................................................... 3. Matt Kenseth................................................. 4. Kevin Harvick................................................ 5. Jeff Burton.................................................... 6. Kurt Busch.................................................... 7. Jeff Gordon................................................... 8. Tony Stewart................................................. 9. Clint Bowyer.................................................. 10. Dale Earnhardt Jr....................................... 11. Paul Menard............................................... 12. Brian Vickers............................................... 13. Joey Logano............................................... 14. Carl Edwards.............................................. 15. Denny Hamlin............................................. 16. Kyle Busch.................................................. 17. Mark Martin................................................. 18. Martin Truex Jr........................................... 19. Jamie McMurray......................................... 20. Kasey Kahne.............................................. ———

NCAA Tournament

Southeastern Conference East

EASTERN CONFERENCE

——— Friday’s Games Charlotte 87, Milwaukee 86, OT Miami 105, Indiana 96, OT Chicago 95, Washington 87 Houston 119, Boston 114, OT Memphis 107, New Orleans 96 Phoenix 109, Detroit 94 Cleveland 93, Atlanta 88 San Antonio 112, Orlando 100 New York at Golden State, (n) Utah at L.A. Lakers, (n) Today’s Games Toronto at Philadelphia, Noon Detroit at Atlanta, 6 p.m. New Orleans at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m. Charlotte at Chicago, 7 p.m. Miami at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Phoenix at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Denver, 8 p.m. Portland at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Sunday’s Games Cleveland at Boston, Noon San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 2:30 p.m. Houston at Indiana, 5 p.m. New Jersey at Washington, 5 p.m. Golden State at Toronto, 5 p.m. Memphis at Orlando, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. New York at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

college basketball

college baseball

W y-Cleveland....................60 x-Orlando.......................53 x-Atlanta........................48 y-Boston........................47 Miami.............................42 Milwaukee......................41 Charlotte........................40 Toronto..........................37 Chicago.........................36 Indiana...........................28 New York.......................26 Philadelphia...................26 Detroit............................23 Washington....................22 New Jersey...................10

The Vicksburg Post

Feb. 13 — NextEra Energy 250 (Timothy Peters) March 6 — E-Z-GO 200 (Kevin Harvick) March 27 — Kroger 250 (Kevin Harvick) April 2 — Nashville 200, Lebanon, Tenn. May 2 — O’Reilly 250, Kansas City, Kan. May 14 — Dover 200, Dover, Del. May 21 — North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Concord, N.C. June 4 — WinStar 400k, Fort Worth, Texas June 12 — VFW 200, Brooklyn, Mich.

Camping World Series Points Leaders

Through March 20 1. Timothy Peters................................................ 501 2. Aric Almirola.................................................... 442 3. Todd Bodine................................................... 413 4. Kevin Harvick.................................................. 390 5. Matt Crafton.................................................... 388 6. Jason White.................................................... 371 7. Ricky Carmichael............................................ 360 8. Tayler Malsam................................................ 357 9. Austin Dillon.................................................... 334 10. David Starr.................................................... 333

golf PGA Tour Shell Houston Open Par Scores

Friday At Redstone Golf Club, Tournament Course Humble, Texas Purse: $5.8 million Yardage: 7,457; Par: 72 Second Round Bryce Molder..............69-66—135.........................-9 Cameron Percy..........67-69—136.........................-8 Alex Prugh..................70-66—136.........................-8 Joe Ogilvie.................70-67—137.........................-7 Lee Westwood...........69-68—137.........................-7 Anthony Kim...............68-69—137.........................-7 Kevin Stadler..............67-70—137.........................-7 Vaughn Taylor............68-70—138.........................-6 James Driscoll............68-70—138.........................-6 Padraig Harrington.....69-69—138.........................-6 Omar Uresti................69-69—138.........................-6 Graham DeLaet..........71-67—138.........................-6 Adam Scott.................69-70—139.........................-5 Jeff Maggert...............70-69—139.........................-5 Bubba Watson............73-67—140.........................-4 Martin Laird................70-70—140.........................-4 Lucas Glover..............73-68—141.........................-3 Woody Austin.............70-71—141.........................-3 Kevin Sutherland........68-73—141.........................-3 Matt Kuchar................69-72—141.........................-3 Steve Marino..............70-71—141.........................-3 Roland Thatcher.........70-71—141.........................-3 Chad Campbell..........70-72—142.........................-2 D.A. Points.................71-71—142.........................-2 Paul Goydos...............72-70—142.........................-2 Jason Bohn................70-72—142.........................-2 Justin Rose................70-72—142.........................-2 Stuart Appleby............70-72—142.........................-2 Michael Connell..........71-71—142.........................-2 Josh Teater................73-69—142.........................-2 Shaun Micheel...........70-73—143.........................-1 Jeff Overton................76-67—143.........................-1 Charl Schwartzel........71-72—143.........................-1 Justin Leonard............69-74—143.........................-1 Bob Estes...................73-70—143.........................-1 Rickie Fowler..............72-71—143.........................-1 Chris Riley..................71-72—143.........................-1 Fredrik Jacobson........73-70—143.........................-1 Michael Allen..............71-72—143.........................-1 Tag Ridings................73-70—143.........................-1 Ben Crane..................75-68—143.........................-1 Brett Wetterich...........73-70—143.........................-1 J.P. Hayes..................72-71—143.........................-1 Soren Kjeldsen...........71-72—143.........................-1 Spencer Levin............71-72—143.........................-1 Fred Couples..............71-73—144......................... E Ernie Els.....................70-74—144......................... E D.J. Trahan................78-66—144......................... E Matt Bettencourt.........72-72—144......................... E Rich Barcelo...............75-69—144......................... E Chris Tidland..............72-72—144......................... E Simon Dyson..............73-71—144......................... E Ben Curtis..................73-71—144......................... E Johnson Wagner........71-73—144......................... E John Merrick...............72-72—144......................... E Ricky Barnes..............73-71—144......................... E Chris Baryla................71-73—144......................... E John Rollins................73-72—145......................+1 Jimmy Walker.............73-72—145......................+1 Nicholas Thompson...69-76—145......................+1 Phil Mickelson............69-76—145......................+1 Y.E. Yang...................74-71—145......................+1 Alex Cejka..................72-73—145......................+1 Tim Petrovic...............77-68—145......................+1 Rich Beem..................71-74—145......................+1

Garrett Willis...............72-73—145......................+1 David Lutterus............74-71—145......................+1 Brian Stuard...............70-75—145......................+1 Blake Adams..............73-72—145......................+1 Aaron Baddeley..........73-73—146......................+2 Derek Lamely.............73-73—146......................+2 Chris Wilson...............73-73—146......................+2 Brendon de Jonge.....72-74—146......................+2 Scott Piercy................71-75—146......................+2 Webb Simpson...........75-71—146......................+2 Carl Pettersson..........71-75—146......................+2 Angel Cabrera............71-75—146......................+2 Scott McCarron..........73-73—146......................+2 J.J. Henry...................74-72—146......................+2 Andrew Svoboda........73-73—146......................+2 ———

LPGA Tour Kraft Nabisco Championship Scores

Friday At Mission Hills Country Club, Dinah Shore Tournament Course Rancho Mirage, Calif. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,702; Par 72 Second Round a-amateur Song-Hee Kim............69-68—137.........................-7 Cristie Kerr.................71-67—138.........................-6 Karen Stupples...........69-69—138.........................-6 Lorena Ochoa............68-70—138.........................-6 Stacy Lewis................71-68—139.........................-5 Karrie Webb...............69-70—139.........................-5 Yani Tseng.................69-71—140.........................-4 Suzann Pettersen.......67-73—140.........................-4 Sakura Yokomine.......70-71—141.........................-3 Sandra Gal.................72-70—142.........................-2 Michelle Wie...............71-71—142.........................-2 x-Jennifer Song..........71-71—142.........................-2 Katherine Hull.............72-71—143.........................-1 Brittany Lang..............72-71—143.........................-1 Morgan Pressel..........71-72—143.........................-1 Sophie Gustafson.......70-73—143.........................-1 Karine Icher................70-73—143.........................-1 Vicky Hurst.................69-74—143.........................-1 Hee Young Park........73-71—144......................... E Kristy McPherson.......72-72—144......................... E Jiyai Shin....................72-72—144......................... E Brittany Lincicome......70-74—144......................... E Na On Min..................69-75—144......................... E Becky Morgan............75-70—145......................+1 Gwladys Nocera.........75-70—145......................+1 Yuko Mitsuka..............74-71—145......................+1 Laura Davies..............74-71—145......................+1 Chie Arimura..............73-72—145......................+1 Hee Kyung Seo..........72-73—145......................+1 Haeji Kang..................72-73—145......................+1 Grace Park.................71-74—145......................+1 Angela Stanford.........78-68—146......................+2 Katie Futcher..............76-70—146......................+2 Stacy Prammanasudh.75-71—146......................+2 x-Alexis Thompson.....74-72—146......................+2 Anna Nordqvist...........74-72—146......................+2 Alena Sharp...............73-73—146......................+2 Jimin Kang.................72-74—146......................+2 Candie Kung..............75-72—147......................+3 Shi Hyun Ahn.............74-73—147......................+3 Mi-Jeong Jeon............74-73—147......................+3 Na Yeon Choi............74-73—147......................+3 Michele Redman........74-73—147......................+3 Carin Koch.................74-73—147......................+3 Hye Jung Choi...........74-73—147......................+3 Inbee Park..................73-74—147......................+3 Catriona Matthew.......73-74—147......................+3 So Yeon Ryu..............73-74—147......................+3 Seon Hwa Lee...........72-75—147......................+3 Hee-Won Han............71-76—147......................+3 Pat Hurst....................71-76—147......................+3

transactions BASEBALL American League

BOSTON RED SOX—Optioned 2B Tug Hulett to Pawtucket (IL). CLEVELAND INDIANS—Purchased the contract of RHP Jamey Wright from Columbus (IL). Reassigned RHP Saul Rivera, C-1B Chris Gimenez, INF Brian Buscher, INF Luis Rodriguez and INF Niuman Romero to their minor league camp. TEXAS RANGERS—Agreed to terms with RHP Scott Feldman on a three-year contract. Traded RHP Luis Mendoza to Kansas City for cash considerations.

National League

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Placed RHP Brad Lidge and LHP J.C. Romero on the 15-day DL.

FOOTBALL National Football League

ARIZONA CARDINALS—Agreed to terms with PK Jay Feely on a two-year contract. DALLAS COWBOYS—Released OT Flozell Adams and S Ken Hamlin. OAKLAND RAIDERS—Re-signed OT Langston Walker. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Signed RB-KR Darren Sproles to a one-year contract tender. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Signed LB Ahmad Brooks to a two-year contract. WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Agreed to terms with RB Willie Parker on a one-year contract.

LOTTERY Sunday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 0-8-2 La. Pick 4: 3-5-4-3 Monday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 1-1-9 La. Pick 4: 5-6-1-8 Tuesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 0-3-0 La. Pick 4: 8-6-6-6 Wednesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 2-1-6 La. Pick 4: 4-3-1-7 Easy 5: 02-11-19-23-26 La. Lotto: 01-02-09-20-22-23 Powerball: 5-13-17-45-54 Powerball: 12; Power Play: 5 Thursday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 8-5-6 La. Pick 4: 4-7-0-5 Friday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 1-8-9 La. Pick 4: 5-0-9-9 Saturday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 7-5-1 La. Pick 4: 7-1-2-7 Easy 5: 4-5-14-15-26 La. Lotto: 3-4-12-24-35-39 Powerball: 7-21-32-44-52 Powerball: 10; Power play: 4

Saturday, April 3, 2010

The Vicksburg Post

Southern Miss rallies in ninth to beat Saint Mary’s From staff reports After digging itself a hole in the top of the ninth inning Friday, it didn’t take long for Southern Miss to climb out. The Golden Eagles scored three runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth — after giving up three runs in the top of the inning — for a come-from-behind, 4-3 victory over Saint Mary’s. B.A. Vollmuth hit a two-run homer to tie the game, and Anthony Doss singled home Mark Ellis with the winning run two batters later. The rally started with a two-out walk to Kameron Brunty, and continued with Vollmuth’s homer and Ellis’ double. In the top of the ninth, Saint Mary’s took a 2-1 lead on a

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eight innings plus, but got a no-decision. Wisdom went 2-for-3 with two RBIs for Saint Mary’s (8-13-1), which had only four hits total in the game.

South Carolina 10, Mississippi State 2 Anthony Doss

Matt Smith

single by Patrick Wisdom. He later scored when Donald Collins was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and two outs. Doss and Taylor Walker had two hits apiece for Southern Miss (14-10). Todd McInnis allowed two hits and two runs, and struck out eight in

South Carolina scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning and cruised past Mississippi State. Brady Thomas went 3-for-4 with two home runs and four RBIs for South Carolina (21-5, 6-1 Southeastern Conference), and Jeffrey Jones was 2-for-5 with two RBIs. Blake Cooper held the Bulldogs to two runs in 8 1/3 innings to get the win. Luke Adkins hit a solo

homer in the first inning for Mississippi State (14-12, 2-5), but South Carolina answered with the four-run rally in the bottom half and never trailed again. A two-run single by Jones gave the Gamecocks the lead. A two-run homer by Thomas in the fifth made it 7-2, and his second two-run homer in the eighth sealed the win.

Ole Miss 7, Tennessee 3 Tim Ferguson and Matt Smith both hit home runs to power Ole Miss (21-6, 5-2 SEC) past Tennessee (13-14, 0-7) in the opener of a weekend series in Oxford. Drew Pomeranz (5-0) held Tennessee to three runs and five hits in seven innings to

earn the win. He walked six batters, but struck out seven. Smith’s leadoff homer in the fifth inning snapped a 3-3 tie, and Ferguson’s two-run shot to left field in the sixth inning made it 6-3. The Rebels added an insurance run in the seventh on Taylor Hightower’s RBI single. Chris Fritts hit a solo homer for Tennessee in the fifth inning. Kevin Mort went 4-for-4 with two runs scored for Ole Miss.

Delta State 10-14, Henderson State 6-6 Cade Hoggard went 2-for-3, including a two-run homer, and drove in three runs to lead Delta State to a 10-6 victory over Henderson State (18-12,

3-6 Gulf South Conference) in game one of a doubleheader Friday in Cleveland. In game two, Michael Vinson went 3-for-3 with a double and four RBIs as Delta State (2310-1, 7-3) completed the sweep with a 14-6 victory. Former Warren Central star Josh Gordon scored two runs in each game for the Statesmen.

LSU 4, Georgia 3 Austin Nola singled in two runs in the bottom of the seventh, and LSU held off a late rally to beat Georgia. Nola’s hit gave LSU a 4-1 lead. Georgia scored twice in the eighth to get within a run, but left the tying run at second base.

Coach K, Huggy Bear take different roads UConn not focused INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — On one bench, there’s Bob Huggins, a coach who has dealt with an NCAA investigation, suffered a heart attack, been arrested for DUI, endured the stain of a zero-percent graduation rate and the tumult of two contentious job changes. On the other, there’s Mike Krzyzewski, a coach making his 11th Final Four appearance who has more or less defined modern-day stability — and solid citizenship — in college sports. So why is it Coach K who’s taking all the heat lately? Well, such is life when you’re the coach at Duke and your program — the one you built and recruited all the talent to — doesn’t make the Final Four for five straight seasons. “People expect us to always be at this stage,” Blue Devils forward Lance Thomas said Friday, the last day of practice before the games begin. Duke’s return to the Final Four, where the Blue Devils (33-5) will play West Virginia in today’s second semifinal, has quieted a growing cadre of skeptics. Since 2004, when the Blue Devils lost to Connecticut in the national semifinals, Krzyzewski has kept the talent coming in and won four ACC tournament and two regularseason titles. But during that span, Duke hadn’t advanced past the NCAA regional semifinals until this year. That, combined with the two national titles North Carolina has won in the same span, has certainly made it easier to criticize a program that already has its share of haters. Job security is of no concern to Coach K, in his 30th year at Duke. He insists he’s listened to very little of the critiquing outside of what the people in his own circles tell him. “I think pressure is when you’re asked to do something you’re not capable of doing,” Krzyzewski said. “So you should train and be in a position where you’re capable of doing what people ask of you. And if you’re continually feeling pressure, you should probably try to do something you can do.” Duke has done it this year with a very un-Duke-like combination — one that includes lots of height, starting with 7-foot-1 Brian Zoubek, plenty of rebounding and defense and nary a superstar.

on winning streak By Doug Feinberg AP basketball writer

The associaTed press

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski watches his team during a Final Four practice session Friday in Indianapolis. Duke faces West Virginia today.

college basketball The man who turned it into Final Four material: Krzyzewski, who insists he never let the criticism get to him. “I think everyone feels pressure, but not the pressure from the outside,” he said. “It’s the pressure from within, to do as well as you think you can do.” Facing Krzyzewski on the other bench will be Huggins, who has brought West Virginia (31-6) back to the Final Four for the first time since 1959 and is making his first appearance since 1992, when

he was with Cincinnati. An 18-year drought would gnaw at most coaches. But the 56-year-old Huggins insists he hasn’t spent much time — any time, really — wondering if he would make it back or worrying about his shortcomings. “I can’t say I worry about our guys, because our guys are really good guys. I want them to be successful and do well. But I’ve never lived my life worrying,” Huggins said. If he did, there’d be plenty of material to choose from. An abridged look at the list includes the 0.0-percent graduation rate at Cincinnati for several seasons and the heart attack in 2002. He ran

what was widely viewed as a rogue program, cited by the NCAA for the dreaded “lack of institutional control” in 1998. But “Huggy Bear” didn’t get chased from the Cincy sideline until he started fighting with the school president after his 2004 DUI arrest was caught on video. It’s a matchup of two coaches who have ended droughts — long by Coach K’s standards, nothing to worry about the way Huggins sees it. “They say it balances out,” Huggins said. “If it balances out, we should be in great shape — if the people who say that know what they’re talking about.”

As John Wooden led UCLA on its vaunted 88-game winning streak, he knew just the right time to talk about his team’s accomplishments — never. “Wooden never talked about winning or losing,” Bruins great Bill Walton says. “He talked about today, living in the present, human development, being part of a special team, all the attributes and personal characteristics delineated.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, Wooden’s model has set a template for some of the most successful collegiate coaches ever. Geno Auriemma and his Connecticut women don’t talk about their streak, despite being just 12 wins shy of UCLA’s all-time basketball record. They’ll make it to 78 victories if they win out in the Final Four starting Sunday. Connecticut plays Baylor on Sunday, while Oklahoma and Stanford meet in the early game. Neither does the Penn State women’s volleyball team, winner of its last 102 straight matches, nor did the North Carolina women’s soccer team, victorious in 92 straight games in the early 1990s. “It’s pretty much never brought up. That’s the quickest way to get the next ‘L,”’ said Stanford women’s tennis coach Lele Forood, whose team won 89 straight matches from 2003-07. “If you’re not looking at the next match something is going to go wrong.” Auriemma has been through it twice now. The Huskies won 70 straight games from 200103 before the current run of 76 consecutive victories over the past two seasons. Taking a page from Wooden, Auriemma and his team never rest on what they’ve accomplished. “The average person out there thinks we get up every morning like we’re in a prison cell,” Auriemma said. “Go up to the wall and carve out another X and say that’s one less day I’ve got to worry about this. That’s so far from what the reality is. I don’t think there has been one day when I’ve gone to practice thinking how many games we’ve won.”

VHS Continued from Page D1. going into the stretch run as they aim for a playoff berth. Creel is very happy with how his young team is responding to its trial by fire. “If we iron some things out, we’re going to be tough to beat,” Creel said. “If we hit the ball and make plays like we’re capable of doing, we are tough to beat. We’ve got a lot of talent, but we haven’t gotten over that hill yet.” In the first game, Vicksburg jumped to an early six-run lead and scored in all four innings played. Cameron Cooksey earned the win with seven strikeouts. Cooksey and Justin Pettway each had RBI sin-

women’s basketball on tV Sunday 6 p.m. ESPN - Stanford vs. Oklahoma 8 p.m. ESPN - Connecticut vs. Baylor That attitude reminds Walton of his former coach. He is among those rooting for UConn to keep winning, even if it means the Huskies end up breaking UCLA’s record. The Bruins star was immediately impressed with Auriemma when they first met at Michael Jordan’s fantasy basketball camp a few years back. “I know firsthand what a class act he is and you don’t have the success that this team’s experiencing without a brilliant coach,” Walton said. “I had the great privilege to be on a special team and my congratulations go out to UConn. I’m a big fan.” Walton and many other UCLA players would welcome company up top. “The women leave better than when they enter,” Walton said of the UConn program. “We couldn’t be happier for them and couldn’t be more proud. I encourage them to enjoy it while it lasts.” What’s been impressive during UConn’s current streak is not only that they’ve won so many games, but the level of domination they’ve had over every opponent. No team has come within single digits of the Huskies during the entire streak. They’ve only trailed for a handful of minutes and rarely have had to worry about the outcome of the game in the final 10 minutes. Even UCLA had a few nailbiters during its run. Walton can’t remember hearing talk of UCLA’s dominance being bad for college basketball in the 1970s and thinks it’s crazy that people would assault UConn’s feats. “That’s ludicrous,” Walton said. “It’s not Connecticut’s or coach Geno’s fault. They have built a remarkable program there. It’s fun, it’s productive, it’s successful.”

QUEST - FOR THE PERFECT YARD gles, but the Blue Waves yielded most of the Gator runs off five errors. The Blue Waves struck first in the second game as Adarius Barnes reached on one of Vicksburg’s four errors in the twinbill and was doubled home by Deairton Simmons. But the Gators bounced back with two runs in the first and three apiece in the second and third innings. Clyde Kendrick’s two-RBI single in the second and Jonathan Clay’s RBI double in the third were the highlights. In the fourth, Keaton Jones had a two-run single and Justin Pettway added an RBI single as the lead swelled to

12-0. After an error allowed another run to score, Gaston checked into the game for his first at-bat. Demonta Hedrick’s fastball up and in was easy pickings for the burly sophomore, who blasted it over the left-field fence to end the game. Mack Middleton earned the win with three strikeouts. He gave up one earned run. The Blue Waves also get a week’s worth of rest before returning to the heart of their division schedule. Port Gibson (7-11, 3-6 Division 7-4A) is in fourth place in its division and faces third-place South Pike on Tuesday and

Friday. The top two teams in each division make the playoffs. “There was defense being played out here today. We hit the ball pretty good, but no defense,” Port Gibson coach Dan Smith said. “We’ve got a tough district. We’re still getting better and we’ve come a long way.”

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Taylor’s Audit & Tax Service Carlis Abney & Staff 4402 Halls Ferry Road 601-636-7268 or 601-636-1661

River City Body & Wrecker Service David Vanderberry & Staff Foreign and Domestic 2005 Highway 61 South 601-636-1493

Ricky’s Welding & Machine Shop 1721 Levee Street 601-638-8238 Rick Lowery & Employees

Leech Real Estate of Vicksburg Vanessa Leech, Broker/Owner www.VanessaLeech.com 601-636-5947

Easterling Enterprises, Inc. dba

T.D.’s Tires & Accessories 2704 Clay Street Vicksburg, MS 39183-3131 601-638-3252

George Carr Buick • Pontiac • Cadillac • GMC 2950 S. Frontage Road 601-636-7777 • 1-800-669-3620 www.georgecarr.com

Vicksburg Telephone Systems, Inc. Robert Henley & Staff 955 Hwy. 61 N. Bypass 601-634-1838 www.vicksburgtelephone.com

Battlefield Discount Drugs John Storey 3040A Indiana Avenue 601-636-3374

Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals, Inc. Port of Vicksburg Vicksburg, Mississippi 601-636-6643

Speediprint & Office Supplies More than just printing 1601 N. Frontage Road Post Plaza 601-638-2900 Fax 601-636-6711

Signs First

Banners • Real Estate Signs Vehicle Lettering 1601 North Frontage Road Post Plaza 601-631-0400 Fax 601-638-9849

“In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid. ” – Psalm 56 : 11