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Water laps at the edge of Mississippi 465 late Tuesday. The highway was closed that night.

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Highways, levees, rails shutting down

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Tonight: mostly clear, lows in the 40s Thursday: mostly sunny, highs in the 70s

ter run out of volunteers’ homes, Leigh Connerly said the need is dire. “We need to find homes for these animals,” she said, adding that she had fielded at least 10 calls on Tuesday, one of which came from the City of Vicksburg’s animal shelter on Old Mill Road. “They called to see if we had any room,” Connerly said. Eldridge Skinner of the Vicksburg Animal Control said this

Eagle Lake’s 800 residents were being told to get out today by Warren County deputies going door-to-door warning that evacuations were necessary because access to the community north of Vicksburg was being cut off. “With this revised forecast, even lacking an official evacuation order from the Board of Supervisors, we started telling people yesterday that for their own safety, they needed to leave,” Sheriff Martin Pace said this morning. “In the event of an overtopping or breach of the backwater levee, I would not have the boat resources to evacuate the people out of Eagle Lake,” he said. Pace said deputies will remain on patrol at the lake throughout the high water. A special meeting Steel beams are installed of Warren at City Front as braces for County wood to block water from supervisors the area. to “issue points of interest” and consider an evacuation order was called late Tuesday and is set for 8 a.m. Thursday, Board President Richard George said this morning. “It’s probably some good advice,” George said of deputies’ evacuating lake residents. With the river climbing about a foot a day over the past week, officials Tuesday closed Mississippi 465, the main paved access to Eagle Lake, and planned to close the second-most used route to the lake, the Yazoo Backwater Levee, on Thursday. Equipment at the Eagle Lake Volunteer Fire Department will be moved out starting today, starting with the two oldest of the department’s four trucks, Chief Bill Parker said. “It’ll be a few more days,” Parker said. “We’re holding out as long as we can.” The Mississippi River Mainline Levee at Eagle Lake was to be closed to the public,

See Animals, Page A7.

See Flood, Page A8.

Mississippi River:

47.0 feet Rose: 0.8 foot Flood stage: 43 feet

DEATHS • N.J. Blanchard • Maggie Lee Austin Davis • John Wesley Hunter Sr. • Billy O. Watson

TODAY IN HISTORY 1904: The United States takes over construction of the Panama Canal. 1932: Mobster Al Capone, convicted of incometax evasion, enters the Al federal Capone penitentiary in Atlanta and later was transferred to Alcatraz. 1961: The first group of “Freedom Riders” leaves Washington, D.C., to challenge racial segregation. 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen open fire during an anti-war protest at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.

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Deputy Adam McGahey and Georgia Lynn of the Vicksburg-Warren Humane Society wrestle with a goat at Eagle Lake Tuesday.

...And the animals were loaded, 15 at a time By Sean P. Murphy smurphy@vicksburgpost.com

Mississippi River

EAGLE LAKE — As traffic streamed in and out of the Eagle Lake community Tuesday, moving people and belongings, a rescue crew wrestled to corral 15 goats to be moved to drier climes. “That’s my little family,” said the Rev. Willie A. McQuay, 79, who lives on Lottie Mae Lane. He was leaving the lake for Vicksburg today, but first ... the goats. “I’ve had them since 1998. I don’t need ’em, or want ’em, but I can’t let ’em just sit here and die,” he said as Georgia Lynn, director of the Vicksburg-Warren Humane Society, driver Kenny Moore, Sherrif’s Investigator Mike Traxler, Deputy Adam McGahey and McQuay friend Preston Mann worked for 90 minutes to secure the goats in a trailer — their own little Noah’s ark — to be driven to Silver Creek Equestrian Club in Bovina, a refuge for animals who have been or will be affected by the Mississippi River as it climbs to historic levels. The goats were among 38 animals Lynn gathered Tuesday. “The phone’s been ringing off the hook,” she said. “I want people to know that if they were thinking about adopting a pet, or looked at a pet for adoption, now would be a good time.” At the equestrian club, Mary Jane Wooten said the facilities

Today’s stage: 47.0 24-hour change: + 0.8 Crest predicted for May 20: 57.5 feet Flood stage: 43 feet

Through the years

The Rev. Willie A. McQuay herds his goats towards a waiting trailer to take them to higher ground.

Help for animals Vicksburg-Warren Humane Society: 601-636-6631 Silver Creek Equestrian Center: 601-638-8988 PAWS Rescue: 601-529-1535 • For questions about an influx of wild animals, visit wildlifedamagecontrol.net also will be a refuge for displaced horses. She said there’s room for about 20 horses. At Paws Rescue, a no-kill shel-

• March 31, 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.3 • May 26, 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.8 • May 27, 2009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.5 • April 19, 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.9 • Jan. 31, 2005. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.5 • May 29, 2003. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.0 • June 3, 2002. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.4 • May 14, 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.6 • March 22, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.1 • May 27, 1983. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.3 • May 13, 1973. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.6 • Feb. 21, 1937. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.2 • June 6, 1929. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.8 • May 4, 1927. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.2 • April 28, 1922. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.5

Hunt continues for teen, vehicle missing after slaying By Manivanh Chanprasith mchan@vicksburgpost.com The search was still on this morning for a family car driven by the 14-year-old stepdaughter of a Warren County woman found dead Monday in the home they shared, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said. Multiple calls of sightings of the 2002 brown Dodge Durango with Warren County

Autopsies show both killing victims died from a single gunshot wound, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said. tag WBD 139 were reported to law enforcement authorities Tuesday, he said, but none panned out. Meanwhile, an autopsy Tuesday on Alicia Michelle Peay Vega, 32, who was found dead in her home at 100 Jones Road, Lot 19, on

Monday showed she died of a single gunshot to the head, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said this morning. Vega was found around 3 p.m. Monday by her 15-yearold son, Wesley White, as he returned from school. She

was in the home alone and pronounced dead there about an hour later. Witnesses told authorities they had seen the 14-yearold stepdaughter drive away from a south county mobile home park in the Durango minutes before her stepbrother arrived, Pace said. A weapon was recovered from the home, but Pace said Tuesday it had not been determined if it was used in

the killing. Authorities have named no suspects in the killing, but were attempting to find the stepdaughter, whose name has not been made public, for questioning, Pace said. “She is a family member who we have not been able to interview,” Pace said. Vega was the second person to be reported killed See Killings, Page A7.

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Post-Katrina shootings set for later trial date

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Traffic on South Frontage Road near El Sombrero backs up as Mark Stevens of Stevens Service Center attaches a tow line to a 1997 Buick LeSabre that had been driven off the road into high grass at about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday. Anthony Bell, 33, 905 Polk St., told Vicksburg traf-

fic officer Burt Ryan that he was eastbound on South Frontage Road when he had a mild seizure and ran the car off the road. Neither he nor his passenger, LeCrystal Jackson, 18, 905 Polk St., was injured.

Confederate flag case set for La. high court SHREVEPORT (AP) — A Confederate flag flying near the Caddo Parish Courthouse, 150 years after the start of the Civil War, will be an issue in a Louisiana Supreme Court hearing Monday in the case of a black man sentenced to death in 2009 for killing a white firefighter. The flag flies at a monument — statues of four Confederate officers and a flag — that was erected in 1902 on a small piece of land that Caddo Parish donated to the United Daugh-

ters of the Confederacy. The organization says the flag honors Southern heritage. The American Civil Liberties Union says it should be removed. “We will be arguing, along with Mr. Dorsey’s attorneys...that the flag presents an intolerable risk that African-Americans may be intimidated to serve on juries, may be excluded from juries like Mr. (Carl) Staples for having strong feelings about the flag,” said ACLU attorney Anna

Arceneaux. Staples said he was dismissed from Dorsey’s jury pool in 2009 over concerns about the flag. “This is where justice is made available to everybody. Yet we see in the 21st century, in the year 2011 there are still reminders of a vicious, ugly, degrading, racist and incomprehensible past,” said professor Charles Ogletree, director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.

NEW ORLEANS — A trial has been postponed for a Mississippi man charged with shooting at three black men trying to leave New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

the south

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Roland Bourgeois Jr.’s trial was set to start May 9, but U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon on Tuesday moved the trial to Aug. 5. Bourgeois was living in Columbia, Miss., when he was charged last year with firing a shotgun at the men and wounding at least one of them after the 2005 storm.

Grand Isle park’s beach reopens after oil spill GRAND ISLE, La. — A portion of the beach at Grand Isle State Park has been reopened for the first time in nearly a year. The beach has been closed since May 20, 2010, following the BP oil spill. The area now open stretches from the western boundary of the park to the RV area. The eastern portion of the beach remains closed, but its fishing pier is open.

dui convictions from court reports

Five found guilty Five convictions of driving under the influence were reported in Warren County for the week ending Tuesday. In Vicksburg Municipal Court: • Timothy Matthew Hazzlerigg, 37, 4407 Halls Ferry Road, Lot 27, was convicted of DUI first offense and fined $753. • Tommie Earl Thompson, 44, 3019 Madison St., Flora, was convicted of DUI second offense and fined

$1,053. In Warren County Justice Court: • Warren Keith Browning, 51, 927 National St., was convicted of DUI first offense and fined $664.50. • Jarvis Lamont Porter, age unavailable, 1609 South St., was convicted of DUI second offense and fined $514.50. • Calvin C. Savannah, 18, 548 Hillandale Drive, Jackson, was convicted of DUI first offense and fined $674.50.

boil water Culkin Culkin Water District has issued a boil water alert for customers in Foley’s Trailer

Park, Lots 1-27, at 2255 Freetown Road. Residents should boil cooking and drinking water vigorously for 2 minutes before consumption.

community calendar BENEFITS

Garage Sale/Fish Fry — 7 a.m. Saturday; benefits Ineeta Miller; Walker’s Detailing, 2764 Washington St. Best Buddies Pet Rescue — 7 a.m.-noon Saturday; yard and bake sale; 1202 Mission Park Drive. Vicksburg Homecoming Benevolent Club — 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; County Market parking lot, 2101 Clay St.; benefits scholarship program; Leon Smith, 601-636-0796, or Willie Glasper, 601-415-7540.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Walk Against Crime — 1011:30 a.m. May 14; begins at City Hall, ends at Courthouse; to register, 601-636-3411; more information, Danitta Reed, 601218-7577, or Angela Turner, 601-218-0402. Serenity Overeaters Anonymous — 6-7 tonight, Bowmar Baptist Church, Room 102C; 601-638-0011. Vicksburg Al-Anon — 8 tonight; family, friends of alcoholics and addicts; 502 Dabney Ave.; 601-636-1134. Disability Partners Community Forum — 4-6 p.m. Thursday; for someone with a disability, family members or a provider of services for the disabled; Public Library. Serenity Al-Anon — 5:30 p.m. Thursday; family, friends of alcoholics and addicts; River Region West Campus, Intensive Outpatient Group Room, 1111 N. Frontage Road; 601-883-3849, 601-883-3290 or 601-636-3229. Westside Theatre Guild “Hair-

spray” — 7:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday; The Vicksburg/Coral Room, 801 Clay St.; reservations suggested, 601-618-9349. Jackson Audubon Society — 8-10 a.m. Saturday; bird walk; LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, 115 Lakeland Terrace, Jackson; 601956-7444. Get Healthy Walk — Saturday; 8 a.m. register; 8:30, walk; Linda Fondren or Linnie Wheeless, 601-619-7277; Riverfront Park, 4100 Washington St. Town of Edwards May Day Festival — 10 a.m. Saturday; parade, food, booths and entertainment; Town Square. Narcotics Anonymous — River City Group, 8 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; Good Shepherd Community Center, 629 Cherry St.; daytime, Alvin J., 601-6617646 or 601-415-1742; evening, Jackie G., 601-638-8456 or 601415-3345.

Vicksburg Hip-Hop Show —9 p.m.-3 a.m. May 12; $5 admission; local musicians; Upper End Lounge, 1306 Washington St. Sisters by Choice — Cancer support group for patients, survivors and caregivers; May meeting canceled.

CLUBS

Vicksburg Toastmasters Club 2052 — Noon Thursday; Jeff Hensley, 601-634-4596; Toney’s Restaurant, 1903 Mission 66. Army/Navy Club — 7 p.m. Thursday; monthly steak dinner; clubhouse. John C. Pemberton Camp 1354 — 7 p.m. Thursday; William Mathews, speaker; visitors

welcome; Southern Cultural Heritage Center. Fidelity Lodge No. 507 — 7:30 p.m. Thursday; mandatory meeting with state president. Woodmen of the World — 6 p.m. Friday, monthly meeting; Fisher Ferry Volunteer Fire Department, 302 Goodrum Road; 601-638-2495. Ashmead DAR — 10 a.m. Saturday; Terry Rector, speaker, antique roses; George Washington Ball House.

CHURCHES

King David No. 1 M.B. — Revival, 7 tonight-Friday; the Rev. Ray E. Coleman, speaker; the Rev. A.L. Hines, pastor; 2717 Letitia St. St. James No. 1 M.B. — Revival, 7 tonight-Friday; the Rev. Frank Gardner, speaker; the Rev. Willie J. White, pastor; 400 Adams St. Greater Grove Street M.B. — Women’s conference, 7:30 tonight-Friday; Evangelists Shirley

Jackson, Marva McKinley Smith and Phalecia Sanders; 2715 Grove St. Travelers Rest Baptist — Young Ladies of Distinction Conference, 6 p.m. Friday; topics include education, selfesteem, health and dressing Godly; fellowship hall; the Rev. Thomas E. Bernard, pastor; 718 Bowmar Ave. Porters Chapel UMC — Stuff Sale, 6:30 a.m. Saturday; clothes, books, electronic items and more; 200 Porters Chapel Road. Mount Calvary Baptist — Women’s ministry, 10 a.m. Saturday; Melinda Johnson Blackmore, speaker; Mincer Minor, pastor; 1350 East Ave. Pleasant Valley M.B. — Mothers Luncheon and Pearls of Wisdom, 3 p.m. Saturday; 260 Mississippi 27.

Word and Worship Church — 1 p.m., Gospel Artist Showcase; registration is required for chance to sing at Jackson

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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Census: Metro New Orleans biggest people-loser in country NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The metropolitan area of New Orleans lost more people than any of the nation’s biggest urban areas, according to a new analysis of Census data. The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, a nonprofit that analyzes Census data, found that the New Orleans metro region lost 11 percent of its population between 2000 and 2010.

In 2000, about 1.3 million people lived in New Orleans and the surrounding parishes but that dropped to under 1.2 million in 2010. The analysis found that only seven of the biggest 100 metro areas lost population. The next highest rate of loss was in Youngstown, Ohio, where the area lost 6 percent of its people. The fastest growing were

Las Vegas and Raleigh, North Carolina. Both grew by about 42 percent. The data center is basing its report on Census data for individual states. Allison Plyer, the data center’s chief demographer, said the drop in population for the larger metro area of New Orleans was troubling because it underscored the problem the region faces in creating jobs

and keeping people. Between 2000 and 2010, the area lost 16 percent of its jobs. Hurricane Katrina is the main reason for the losses. The storm struck in August 2005 and the city was emptied of people after levees failed, flooding 80 percent of the city. “An 11 percent drop in 10 years is devastating,” said Patrick M. Haughey, an urban

AFTER THE STORM

Rain, chill increase tornado victims’ strife BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Rain added to the misery of those in Southern states trying to salvage what they could from homes damaged by deadly twisters, leaving them shivering in unseasonable temperatures in the low 50s. Becky Curtis sat in the bathroom, one of the dry spots in her apartment in Tuscaloosa Tuesday, sorting through items. “We’re trying to get all this stuff out of here as fast as we can Condoleezza Rice to save some mementoes,” she said. The rain “definitely does not help.” Though the sun was to be out again today in Birmingham, temperatures the next couple of days are forecast to be cooler there and in other areas of the South where many lost everything. The rain also didn’t make the search for bodies any easier. The death toll in Alabama was reduced after officials started counting again because they were worried some might have been tallied twice. Officials believe 236 people died in Alabama, accounting for about two-thirds of the 328 people killed in all, making

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A woman stands in the rain in front of her house that was destroyed by a tornado in Pratt City, Ala. it the deadliest U.S. twister outbreak since the Great Depression. The financial and economic toll is far from being calculated. Besides homes, hundreds of factories and other businesses were destroyed, and many others were left without electricity, throwing thousands out of work. It comes in an area where many people were struggling to make ends meet even before the twist-

ers flattened neighborhoods in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi. Unemployment in March ranged from 9.2 percent in Alabama to 10.2 percent in Mississippi. The tornado that obliterated contractor Robert Rapley’s house also swept away his livelihood, destroying his saws and his paint sprayer. “We lost everything,” Rapley said. “I can’t even go to work.” In Birmingham, former Secretary of State Condoleezza

Trooper grazed in head by bullet; suspect hurt PORT ALLEN, La. (AP) — A drunken driving suspect shot a Louisiana state trooper early today, grazing the trooper’s head, and was preparing to shoot the downed trooper again when he was wounded by West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies, state police said. Col. Mike Edmonson, state police commander, said the suspect was standing over

the trooper, revolver in hand, when deputies arrived. One deputy fired at the suspect through the windshield of his patrol car. Another got out of the car and fired. It was unclear how many times the suspect was hit. State police said he was hospitalized in serious condition. The trooper was hospitalized in stable condition. “He’s going to be OK,” Edmonson

said. “I told him he’s got a hard head.” Identities of all involved were not released. Edmonson and Lt. Doug Cain, a state police spokesman, said the trooper pulled the driver over around 2:30 a.m. The trooper, believing the man to be intoxicated, was about to place him under arrest. The man fought with the trooper.

Inmate asks high court to block his execution JACKSON (AP) — Inmate Benny Joe Stevens is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to block his execution scheduled for Tuesday. In a brief filed with the court Tuesday, Stevens said his previous attorneys failed to rep-

resent him properly. He calls their work “nothing more than a mockery” of justice. Stevens was sentenced to death in 1999 in the slaying of four people in the Foxworth community of Marion County.

Those killed were Stevens’ former wife, Glenda Lee Reid; her husband, Wesley Lee Reid, 38; the Reids’ 11-year-old son, Dylan; and Dylan’s friend, 10-year-old Heath Pounds.

Rice toured a damaged neighborhood. She grew up in the city. “You realize that with every home that’s flattened, there are dreams and memories that have gone with that home,” said Rice. In Smithville, Miss., the storms heavily damaged three facilities owned by Townhouse Home Furnishings, which makes furniture, said CFO Tony Watson. With 150 workers, the company was the town’s biggest employer.

studies professor at the University of New Orleans. “Katrina has pushed us down the road of urban decline, de-densification.” But he said there is reason for optimism. Though Katrina hit the region hard, he said the trends are positive for New Orleans, including an influx of newcomers, an unemployment rate lower than the national average, new eco-

nomic ventures popping up and an uptick in population growth since Katrina struck. He said the city was a mixture of trends going in the right direction coupled with old problems such as crime and poverty. But he said positive trends appeared to be gaining momentum. “I suspect we’ll be increasing (in population) rapidly from 2010 onwards,” he said.

Hearing set for today for SUNO/UNO merger bill BATON ROUGE — After months of rallies and protests, one of the most divisive proposals facing lawmakers this session is up for its first legislative hearing: the consolidation of historically black Southern University at New Orleans with the largely white University of New Orleans. The House Education Committee today will discuss the proposal by Republican House Speaker Jim Tucker. The bill, supported by Gov. Bobby Jindal, would create the University of Louisiana at New Orleans in the University of Louisiana System. The merged campuses would share accreditation and leadership, though Tucker hopes SUNO could keep its historically black college status. Supporters say the consolidation would improve education and better use available classroom space and resources. Opponents call the proposal racist and say it would diminish educational opportunities for minorities.

Legislators seek to freeze their funds Even as cuts have been levied on departments across state government, Louisiana’s legislative leaders are proposing a standstill budget

LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS for the House, Senate and other legislative agencies next year. An $89 million legislative budget was proposed Tuesday for the 2011-12 fiscal year that begins July 1, about the same amount allocated last year, before a round of midyear cuts and after several years of cuts to health services and educational programs in other agencies. House Speaker Jim Tucker and Senate President Joel Chaisson said they likely will recommend cutting the legislative agencies as the budget bill moves through the chambers. The leaders said they just haven’t decided what reduction they’ll offer and how it will compare to cuts hitting other state programs. “We’re more than willing to take our fair share (of cuts), and we’re willing to lead by example,” said Tucker, R-Terrytown. The $89 million legislative spending plans were approved Tuesday without objection by the Legislative Budgetary Control Council, a panel of legislative leaders. They head next to the House budget committee for debate.

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Founded by John G. Cashman in 1883 Louis P. Cashman III, Editor & Publisher • Issued by Vicksburg Printing & Publishing Inc., Louis P. Cashman III, President Karen Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: kgamble@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 123 | Letters to the editor: letters@vicksburgpost.com or The Vicksburg Post, P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182

JACK VIX SAYS: Help an animal today.

OLD POST FILES 120 YEARS AGO: 1891 The last brick is laid on the new Clay Street Hotel. • Benches are ordered taken off Washington Street sidewalks. • Mose Frank resigns as clerk of the steamer Hill City.

110 YEARS AGO: 1901 W.H. Bleythings is elected grand high priest of the Odd Fellows Grand Lodge. • W.R. Craig is elected president of the People’s Compress Company.

100 YEARS AGO: 1911 Mrs. Ernest Allen and daughter are at the Sanitarium for a few days.

90 YEARS AGO: 1921 Anti-jaywalking rules are in effect on Washington Street. • Sister Bernadine is showing a talent for architecture. • Nell Drake, missionary, speaks at Crawford Street Methodist Church. • John Leban, circuit clerk, is on the sick list.

80 YEARS AGO: 1931 Maj. John C.H. Lee addresses the Carr Junior High School pupils. • The Setaro Trio pleases a large audience with a concert at St. Francis Xavier Academy. • The Sanitarium nurses give a miscellaneous shower for Mrs. Vincent Canizaro.

70 YEARS AGO: 1941 Gen. Harley Ferguson, former president of the Mississippi River Commission, is here visiting Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Neill. • Mayor J.C. Hamilton attends a meeting of the Mississippi Municipal Association in McComb.

60 YEARS AGO: 1951 Vicksburg Postmaster Charles Crook conducts a tour for visiting state postmasters through the General Accounting Ofﬁce located here. • Mrs. J.A.K. Birchett Jr. is elected president of the Vicksburg Little Theatre.

OUR OPINION

Interference

50 YEARS AGO: 1961 Services are held for John F. Miller, Newellton resident. • Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Harvey announce the birth of a son, John David, on May 8. • Jean Kent stars in “Please Turn Over” at the Rivoli Drive-In Theatre.

40 YEARS AGO: 1971

Rein in the NLRB

The National Labor Relations Board complaint against Boeing, seeking an order forbidding the aircraft maker from opening a non-union production line in South Carolina, must not be sustained. The economy can’t withstand such paralyzing government interference in business decisions. The NLRB issued the complaint on behalf of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union. The government agency said Boeing was moving part of its production away from Washington State in retaliation for previous strikes by some Boeing workers. The agency’s lawyer argued that this limits the union’s right to strike, which is illegal. Boeing has vowed to ﬁght the complaint. The next step, if there isn’t a settlement, is a June hearing before an administrative law judge. Ultimately, the ﬁrm’s recourse is to the federal courts. The agency acted with typical government obliviousness to business needs. The company

has already hired 1,000 workers and had planned to begin work on a new 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina in July, the Wall Street Journal reports. The complaint and hearing process now freeze Boeing’s production plans. This, of course, creates pressure on Boeing to settle. The NLRB’s argument that Boeing’s move deprives the union of the right to strike is absurd. Yes, union workers have the right to strike. But they don’t have a right to escape the consequences of striking, which is that an employer may be persuaded to open up shop elsewhere, including in right-to-work states such as South Carolina. The NLRB argues that ofﬁcials of Boeing expressly stated that they were moving some production to South Carolina to forestall the possibility of additional strikes. If true, so what? Firms are allowed to make decisions in their best business interest, and avoiding the cost and disruption of a strike is a sound business decision.

Mr. and Mrs. Burton Crosby Jr. announce the birth of a son, Kelvin Lee, on April 30. • Jessie Crawford, Rolling Fork resident, dies.

If the NLRB complaint is upheld in the courts, it will ultimately damage not only the firms that will then be held hostage to their unions, but all heavily unionized states such as Michigan. What new firm would invest in union states knowing that its union could then block its expansion to a less unionized state such as Mississippi or Alabama? The better course would be to start a new firm in a right-towork state from the beginning. This move by the NLRB is part of its new, more aggressive tactics, including suits against Arizona and South Dakota seeking to strike down state constitutional amendments that guarantee workers secret ballots in unionization elections. President Barack Obama has made conciliatory sounds seeking to reassure business, but the actions of the NLRB illustrate the real face of his administration. Congress ought to hold hearings on reining in the NLRB.

30 YEARS AGO: 1981 Hazel G. Bourquard dies in a house ﬁre. • Michael Courteau is sworn into the practice of law by Chancellor Nat Bullard. • Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Finney announce the birth of a son, Donald Merideth Jr., on May 1.

20 YEARS AGO: 1991 The Vicksburg Police Department plans a memorial for the death of Ofﬁcer Robert Forbish who was gunned down in the line of duty while trying to apprehend a car thief decades ago.

10 YEARS AGO: 2001 Jessica Rickles receives the S.V. Brock Jr. agriculture scholarship at the Vicksburg Warren FFA awards program. • Blake Teller is elected president of the Warren County Ole Miss Alumni Association. • Raymond Gloede dies in Tallulah.

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MODERATELY CONFUSED by Bill Stahler

Vivid images of Southern racism are blurred by time WASHINGTON — Last week, Haley Barbour, the affable governor of Mississippi, became the ﬁrst to drop out of the preliminary race for the Republican nomination for the presidency. He said he didn’t have the “ﬁre in the belly” necessary to withstand the punishing rituals of the campaign trail, but political observers added other reasons, including his family’s resistance to having their lives upended. There was also this: Barbour would have been hounded by questions about his awkward answers and inaccurate recollections on the subject of race and the civil rights movement. As a fellow Southerner, I was astonished that Barbour would be so clumsy — and clearly wrongheaded — on a subject that consumed the South for much of his life. In a December interview with The Weekly Standard, for example, he defended the White Citizens’ Councils — an uptown version of the Ku Klux Klan — and downplayed the turmoil of the civil rights era. “I don’t remember it being that bad,” he said.

CYNTHIA

TUCKER

As a fellow Southerner, I was astonished that Barbour would be so clumsy — and clearly wrongheaded — on a subject that consumed the South for much of his life.

In fact, Mississippi harbored vicious racists who perpetuated savage acts of violence against civil rights activists, including the notorious murders of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. It seems remarkable that Barbour has little recollection of the bloodshed that tainted his beloved state for decades. A few months earlier, at a journalists’ roundtable I attended, he described the mid-’60s at the University of Mississippi as “a very pleasant experience” where integration had been accomplished easily. In fact, James Meredith’s entry to Ole Miss in 1962 set off a

riot by white segregationists. Barbour’s memories were pure fantasy, vivid reminders that even accomplished public figures can fall victim to the widespread human tendency to soften the harsh edges of the past and discount facts they find disagreeable. Nowhere is that tendency more troubling than in our fractious conversations and fraught memories about the nation’s racial history and its violence, its bigotry, its injustice. Consider this: 150 years after shots fired at Fort Sumter plunged the nation into a civil war, many white Southerners still insist that slavery was not its defining cause. Myth is

more powerful than history. And memory is not a reliable archive. It is notoriously unreliable, prone to sharp revisions and subtle rewrites more favorable to current circumstances. If Barbour’s racial consciousness has evolved since the 1960s — and it probably has — he may have repressed his earlier attitudes and the era they represented. “It’s very hard for us to put on the lenses of the ways we thought and felt years ago,” Drew Westen, Emory University psychology professor, told me, “especially when we now consider those ways of thinking morally wrong and repugnant.” Having grown up in Alabama during the turmoil of the civil rights era, I don’t interpret that deepseated denial as prima facie evidence of racism. I’ve known too many well-meaning white Southerners who could not face the facts about the region’s long history of state-sanctioned racism or the toll it had taken on their black neighbors. When I was a teenager, an older white lady whom I barely knew

volunteered to help me hone my piano solo for the county Junior Miss Pageant, in which I played W.C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues.” My talent presentation included a short recitation explaining the origin of the blues — born of black folks’ suffering. Upon hearing me recite the prose I’d written, she said, “Cynthia, the Negroes never had it that hard.” I was stunned by her certitude, her arrogance and her lack of compassion. But I didn’t believe her response was born of ﬂat-out racism. It was born of a willful ignorance — an unwillingness to confront the truth about a system in which she was complicit. Nor do I believe Barbour is racist. But he showed the same blindness my piano tutor did — an inability to empathize with Jim Crow’s victims. Given his state’s history, that’s no minor failing.

• Cynthia Tucker writes for The Atlanta JournalConstitution. E-mail reaches her at cynthia@ ajc.com.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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In the end, terrorist bin Laden had no gun CIA chief Panetta says photo of body likely will be released WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A U.S. commandoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curt message to superiors signaled the end had come for the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most wanted terrorist: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Geronimo EKIA,â&#x20AC;? meaning enemy killed in action. Osama bin Laden, the alQaida leader who liked to pose with a menacing AK-47 assault rifle in his hand or by his side, was discovered without a gun by the Navy SEALs who barged into his room and shot him dead. The White House Tuesday gave a more complete picture of the assault â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and corrected some key details from earlier official accounts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as the team that pulled off the storied raid in Pakistan briefed officials and rested back at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. The administration possesses graphic images of bin Ladenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corpse, at least one of which is likely to be released, according to CIA Director Leon Panetta. Officials hope that doing so would quiet any doubts that bin Laden is indeed dead. The worry is that anti-U.S. sentiment would be inflamed as a result. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., among the lawmakers who had the images described to them, played down that con-

Mississippi 9/11 families relieved with death JACKSON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mississippians impacted by the 9/11 terror attacks say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re relieved Osama bin Laden is dead, although his demise doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t alter their memories of a day that jolted Americansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sense of security. Carolyn Hicksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 41-year-old son, Lt. Col. Jerry Don â&#x20AC;&#x153;D.D.â&#x20AC;? Dickerson of Durant, was working at the Pentagon and was killed when a hijacked plane struck the building on Sept. 11, 2001. She said bin Ladenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;pleasant shock,â&#x20AC;? but it does not bring closure for her loss. Jeff Hammond of Hattiesburg survived in the Pentagon. He said that he watched in horror on the TV in his third-floor office after two jets already had smashed into the World Trade Center. He said his phone rang with a call from Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, the Armyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chief of Staff, who was overseas and wanted to know how the Army was responding. Hammond dashed down to a secure line in the Pentagon basement to take the call. Seconds later, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building, tearing through the office Hammond had left. Among the 125 killed were two of Hammondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff and

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Newspapers showing Osama bin Laden are flashed on a giant screen in Beijing today. cern. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to scare people off,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing more than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect with a person with a bullet in his head.â&#x20AC;? White House officials initially suggested bin Laden had been holding a gun and perhaps firing at U.S. forces. The corrected account raised questions about whether the Americans ever planned to take him alive, or simply were out to kill him.

Panetta said that bin Laden â&#x20AC;&#x153;made some threatening movesâ&#x20AC;? that â&#x20AC;&#x153;represented a clear threat to our guysâ&#x20AC;? but was not more specific about what the unarmed terrorist did as the commandos engaged others at the compound in a firefight and burst into their preyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think he had a lot of time to say anything,â&#x20AC;? Panetta said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a firefight going up that compound. ... This was

all split-second action on the part of the SEALs.â&#x20AC;? Panetta underscored that Obama had given permission to kill the terrorist leader: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The authority here was to kill bin Laden,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And obviously, under the rules of engagement, if he had in fact thrown up his hands, surrendered and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear to be representing any kind of threat, then they were to capture him.â&#x20AC;?

six co-workers. Hammond, an Army major general retired from the Army in September 2010 and became the senior associate athletic director at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, where he once played quarterback. He called bin Ladenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death â&#x20AC;&#x153;a magnificent success.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen overnight,â&#x20AC;? Hammond said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We, as a nation, have had to be patient.â&#x20AC;? Hammond said that as he learned of bin Ladenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death late Sunday, he thought of the friends and staffers he lost at the Pentagon. He commanded 28,000 soldiers in Iraq. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I also thought of the 98 soldiers I lost under my last command in Iraq, most of them killed by al-Qaida,â&#x20AC;? Hammond said. Lamarris Williams, a 27-year-old Marine from Natchez, said 9/11 wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t his sole reason for joining the military in 2002. He wanted to â&#x20AC;&#x153;be a part of somethingâ&#x20AC;? and also have an avenue for paying for college. In 2004, he was sent to Afghanistan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like we have avenged the people who died in 9/11, but there are ramifications with everything,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Pakistani who aided bin Laden called modest, humble man ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A doctor who sold a piece of the land where Osama bin Ladenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final hideout was built said the buyer, a Pakistani who apparently sheltered the al-Qaida chief, was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;modest, humbleâ&#x20AC;? man who did not seem to be a militant. As Pakistan sought to coun-

ter suspicions it had been harboring bin Laden, details emerged today about the small group of men who looked after the al-Qaida chief in this northwestern town before he was killed by U.S. commandos. Chief among them was a man known as Arshad Khan, who neighbors said was one

of two Pakistani men living in the house. Property records show Mohammad Arshad bought adjoining plots in four stages between 2004 and 2005 for $48,000. The two appear to be the same person, and the names might be fake. The doctor, Qazi Mahfooz Ul Haq, said he sold a plot of land

to Arshad in 2005. He said the buyer was a sturdily built man who had a tuft of hair under his lower lip. He spoke with an accent that sounded like it was from Waziristan, a tribal region close to Afghanistan and an al-Qaida haven. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a very simple, modest, humble type of man,â&#x20AC;?

the doctor said. Arshad might have been one of the five people killed in the raid including bin Laden and one of his sons. U.S. officials said bin Ladenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most trusted courier, and the courierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife and brother also died. The courier, who eventually led the U.S. to bin Laden,

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — BP’s subsidiary in Alaska will pay a $25 million civil penalty under a settlement announced Tuesday that comes five years after more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from company pipelines on the North Slope.

The penalty is the largest per barrel civil penalty assessed, exceeding the statutory maximum because the settlement resolves claims other than the spill, said the EPA. The settlement also calls for BP Exploration Alaska Inc. to install a systemwide pipeline integrity

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Feuding factions agree to disagree in landmark pact for Palestinians CAIRO (AP) — Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas today proclaimed a landmark, Egyptian-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift. The Palestinian president seized the occasion to deliver a scathing criticism of Israel, saying he would not succumb to its blackmail over the future of Mideast peacemaking. “We forever turn the black page of division,” the Western-backed Mahmoud Abbas said at the declaration ceremony in the Egyptian capital Cairo, promising to “soon” visit Hamas-held Gaza Strip. The pact, long in the making, provides for the creation of a joint caretaker Palestinian government ahead of national elections next year but leaves key issues unresolved, such as who will control the Palestinian security forces, and makes no mention of relations with Israel. Israel had denounced the

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal speaks during a press conference today in Cairo. pact in advance of the Cairo ceremony because of the militant Hamas’ long history of deadly attacks against Israeli targets. It also equated the deal with a renunciation of peacemaking.

Gadhafi elusive, but still alive, CIA director Panetta believes TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The CIA chief says he believes Moammar Gadhafi is still alive, despite a NATO airstrike that reduced much of the Libyan leader’s family compound to rubble. Gadhafi has not been seen in public since Saturday’s attack, which Libyan officials said killed one of Gadhafi’s sons and three grandchildren. Officials have said Gadhafi was in the building, but survived. CIA chief Leon Panetta told the U.S. TV network NBC on Tuesday that the “best intelligence we have is that he’s still alive.”

Today, Gadhafi’s forces shelled a rebel town and a key supply route in a push to crush stubborn resistance in the mountains of western Libya, while France said international military intervention in the country must end. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe also said it’s not the aim of the international bombing campaign in Libya to kill Gadhafi. He spoke after a NATO air strike over the weekend destroyed most of Gadhafi’s family compound, prompting Libyan accusations that the alliance is trying to assassinate Gadhafi.

May 8th

SMART MONEY Q: I was in a wreck in 2004 during work hours. The doctors said I can no longer work a physical job, only desk jobs. When applying for a job, my ex-employer gave me a bad report when human resources called to verify past employment. They told him I had bad attendance, etc. I worked as a supervisor for this company for 15 years. They destroyed my credit score due to the fact that I couldn’t pay my bills on time. Do I have a legal case? — Ray, via e-mail A: I am surprised, even if you had a record of that kind, that your employer would share it with others. Though those things could be true, if you can demonstrate that they have done this, you may have a strong case against them. I know, with businesses I am connected with, we would only confirm references, such as time at the job and eligibility for rehire. I would think that

most businesses would do the same thing. You may very well BRUCE have a legal claim against your former employer. I think if you go to your local bar association, you’ll find that there are attorneys in your area who would review your circumstance without charge. If they feel that there is merit, take it on a contingency basis. If I were advising your former employers, I would tell them to stop this practice; they are sticking their necks way, way out. •

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management program. “This penalty should serve as a wake-up call to all pipeline operators that they will be held accountable for the safety of their operations and their compliance with the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the pipeline safety laws,” Assis-

The family of the late

Alex Washington, Sr., wishes to acknowledge with deep appreciation all expressions of love and kindness shown to us during our hour of bereavement. Your visits, phone calls, cards, and your prayers have helped to strengthen and encourage the family. Thanking you so much, may God bless you and keep you.

The Washington Family

Like the United States and the European Union, Israel considers Hamas a terrorist organization and says it will not negotiate with a future Palestinian government that includes the Iranian- and Syrian-backed group. Abbas rejected Israel’s opposition to the pact, saying the reconciliation with the militant Islamic group was an internal Palestinian affair. “They are our brothers and family. We may differ, and we often do, but we still arrive at a minimum level of understanding,” Abbas said of Hamas. In a message to Israel, Abbas added: “We reject blackmail and it is no longer possible for us to accept the occupation of Palestinian land.” Abbas said Israel cannot continue to act as “a state above the law” and called for an end to the construction of new Jewish settlements on lands the Palestinians want for a future state.

tant U.S. Attorney Ignacia S. Moreno said. U.S. Attorney for Alaska Karen Loeffler said the penalty underlines the seriousness of BP’s conduct. She said BP Alaska admitted that it failed to do what was required to maintain its pipelines.

Top Dem crafts plan to cut $4T of deficit WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Democrat in the Senate on budget matters said Tuesday that he’s preparing a fiscal blueprint to slash the deficit by $4 trillion over the upcoming decade — a plan built on the bipartisan findings of President Barack Obama’s deficit commission. Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said the plan calls for a complete overhaul of the tax code — stripping out numerous tax write-offs while lowering income tax rates — but would leave Social Security untouched. The tax reform idea would generate an overall revenue increase in the range of perhaps $1 trillion over the coming decade. Conrad briefed his colleagues on the plan. The measure could come up for a committee vote next week, Conrad said.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The Vicksburg Post

Shelters to be at auditorium, VCC Vicksburg Auditorium and Vicksburg Convention Center have been identified as the first shelters available for flood evacuees. Shelters have been identified by the American Red Cross, a release this week from the organization said. Sites will be made available to the public when the need arises, the release said.

Post ships out papers for wrapping valuables The Vicksburg Post contributed two truckloads, about 120 bundles, of old newspapers Tuesday for evacuating residents to wrap belongings as they move. The newspapers are available at Yore Country Store and Eagle Lake Volunteer Fire Department. Evacuees may contact Becky Chandler in the Post

on the water from staff reports

Circulation Department at 601-636-4545 for more papers.

N.O.-area spillway could be opened In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Tuesday the Bonnet Carre’ spillway in St. Charles Parish, about 10 miles west of New Orleans, could be opened as soon as Monday to alleviate stress on levees downriver. The spillway and the Old River Control Structure to the north prevent the Mississippi River from changing course and flowing through the Atchafalaya River. The spillway has been opened once, in 1973, to ease pressure on the control structure. Jindal also said inmates at

Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola will be evacuated beginning Monday.

Greenville casinos to close this week Two casinos in Greenville owned by Tropicana Entertainment, Lighthouse Point and Jubilee Casino, will close Thursday and Friday, not to reopen until river conditions improve, the company said Tuesday. Stages at Greenville stood at 54.9 feet late Tuesday, more than 6 feet above flood stage and up 1.2 feet in 24 hours. It’s expected to crest at 64.5 feet May 17. Last week, the Mississippi Gaming Commission ordered phased closures of casinos in Tunica County. Casinos there employ about 10,000 people. The five casinos in Vicksburg remain in operation.

Animals

David Jackson•The Vicksburg Post

The water’s mark at City Front Tuesday

not be the only ones affected by the rising river. Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks spokesman Jim Walker said wild boars will be in areas they have never been seen before. Alligators and snakes will be driven to higher ground as well, he said.

At Tara Wildlife, where Mississippi’s white-tail deer are plentiful, Gilbert Rose and his staff were packing up the office and evacuating. He said wildlife will be affected, but he couldn’t tell in what ways or to what extent until the river crests.

Continued from Page A1. on Thompson. Thompson drove himself to the hospital just after the shooting. He had been shot in the abdomen. Two other men, Jermaine Wright, 26, a resident of the complex, and Patrick Tucker, 23, 2106 Baker St., believed to be the would-be robbery victims, escaped without injury. Williams said the investigation into the shootings, believed to be a result of an attempted robbery as Wright and Tucker entered the parking lot, remains underway and no arrests have been made. The report from the autopsy on Morris, also performed Tuesday, showed he

died from a single gunshot wound to the chest, Huskey said this morning. This morning, Michael Peay, 30, of Idabel, Okla., was with other family members, awaiting the return of the 14-year-old and making plans for a funeral. Peay described his sister as a happy and outgoing person. “She was always the one who tried to keep the peace,” he said. “She worked hard to take care of her kids. She’s always calling and asking me about my children. She always wanted to do something for them and all of her nieces and nephews.” Vega, who was born in

Rolling Fork and grew up in Vicksburg, worked as a waitress at Rainbow Hotel Casino. She was a Vicksburg High School graduate. In addition to Michael Peay, she is survived by her husband, Jason Vega; her two sons, Wesley White, and Devin Vega, 8; her parents, Kathy Peay and Mike Peay; two sisters, Nikki Peay and Ashley Peay; and other relatives. Morris is survived by his parents, Telisa Morris and David Robinson; his brothers, Solomon Harris, James Morris, Roosevelt Harris and David Robinson; and a sister, Christine Morris. Morris’ death was the first

killing in the city and Vega’s death was the second in the county this year. Timothy Wayne Harmon, 25, died of a single gunshot wound to the chest Jan. 6 and Jeremy Blake Bowlin, 18, the teenage son of Harmon’s live-in girlfriend, has been indicted for murder by the Warren County Grand Jury in its January session. His trial date was set for Oct. 3. Vega’s funeral services were to be handled by Glenwood Funeral Home and Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home was to handle services for Morris.

was a member of Zion Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by a son, David Watson; his parents, Jim and Julia Estelle Watson; three brothers, Buddy Watson, Lee Watson and Banny Watson; and a sister, Hilda Peoples. Survivors include his wife, Clara Watson of Rolling Fork; one son, Ellis Watson of Vicksburg; two sisters, Mary Fasano of Vicksburg and Linda Towe of Sand Springs, Okla.; two brothers, Roy Watson and Joe Watson, both of Rolling Fork; and two grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Deer Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Clyde Pullen officiating. Burial will

follow at Mound Cemetery in Rolling Fork. Visitation will be from 5 until 8 p.m. Thursday at Glenwood Funeral Home in Rolling Fork. Pallbearers will be Ellis Watson, David Johnson, Steve White, Deanie Miller, Walter Lee Watson and Wade Watson.

deaths The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.

N.J. Blanchard N.J. “Jack” Blanchard died Monday, May 2, 2011, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. He was 94. Mr. Blanchard was a native of Crowville, La. He had lived in Vicksburg for the past 70 years. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church of Vicksburg, the VFW , the American Legion, the Vicksburg Shriners Club and the Wahabi Temple of Jackson. He retired from White’s Department Store, where he was the assistant manager and later retired as deputy tax assessor of Warren County. He was preceded in death by his wife, Anna O’Bannon Blanchard; his father, Charles Ford Blanchard; his mother, Mattie Peyton Blanchard; four brothers, C.F. Blanchard, Richard Blanchard, Harry Blanchard and Marion Blanchard; seven sisters, Edith Altazin, Eva Beckett, Eulah Grigsby, Mary Nettles, Harriet Smith, Inez Wallace and Eileen Windham. Survivors include two daughters, Jacque Lynn Heriard and Deanna Miller and husband Don, all of Vicksburg; his brother, John Blanchard of Mansfield, La.; four grandchildren, Jenanne Edmonds, Trey Miller, Jana Sikes and Jarret Heriard; two great-grandchildren, Street Miller and Peyton Sikes; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Glenwood Funeral Home with the Rev. Tim Brown officiating. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday from noon until the service at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Trey Miller, Todd Windham, Bubba Nettles, Jarret Heriard, Bill Windham, Harold Blue and Tim Dunaway. Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 1501 Cherry St., Vicksburg, MS 39180 or Vicksburg-Warren Humane Society, 6600 U.S. 61 South, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

Maggie Lee Austin Davis

Ruby Hunter of Vicksburg; a son, John Wesley Hunter Jr. of Carson, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Kimberly N. Ferguson of Vicksburg; two daughters, Jacqueline Hunter Blue of Carson and Tonya Hunter of Pasadena, Calif.; and other relatives. W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

Billy O. Watson ROLLING FORK — Billy O. Watson died Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at his residence in Rolling Fork. He was 73. Born in Mississippi, Mr. Watson had lived most of his life in Rolling Fork where he retired from M.D.O.T/Highway Department in 2002. He

TONIGHT

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WEATHER This weather package is compiled from historical records and information provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECAST thursday-friday Mostly sunny; lows in the mid to upper 40s, highs in the 80s

TONIGHT Mostly clear, lows in the lower 40s thursday-friday Mostly sunny; lows in the mid to upper 40s, highs in the 80s

Almanac

Killings by gunshot wound Monday. The body of Maurice Morris, 18, 2228 Grove St., a junior at Warren Central High School, was found near a parking lot at Confederate Ridge Apartments, 780 U.S. 61 North, at about 9:30 a.m., about 12 hours after an armed robbery and shooting had been reported there. Morris was found with a mask covering his face. A second man shot during the attempted armed robbery, Corey Thompson, 25, 4880 U.S. 80, remained at River Region Medical Center this morning, said Vicksburg police Sgt. Sandra Williams. The hospital has not released a condition report

BY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST BARBIE BASSSETT

STATE FORECAST

Continued from Page A1. morning he expects the city facility to flood and he has about 40 animals there now. “We want to make sure the animals are safe,” said Skinner. “We are making progress contacting other shelters and doing everything we can.” Domesticated animals will

PRECISION FORECAST

Highs and Lows High/past 24 hours............. 64º Low/past 24 hours............... 48º Average temperature......... 56º Normal this date................... 70º Record low..............43º in 1954 Record high...........91º in 1952 Rainfall Recorded at the Vicksburg Water Plant Past 24 hours.................0.0 inch This month..............0.49 inches Total/year.................18.6 inches Normal/month......0.74 inches Normal/year........ 22.76 inches Solunar table Most active times for fish and wildlife Thursday: A.M. Active............................ 7:10 A.M. Most active...............12:57 P.M. Active............................. 7:36 P.M. Most active.................. 1:23 Sunrise/sunset Sunset today........................ 7:45 Sunset tomorrow............... 7:46 Sunrise tomorrow.............. 6:14

RIVER DATA Stages Mississippi River at Vicksburg Current: 47.0 | Change: 0.8 Flood: 43 feet Yazoo River at Greenwood Current: 24.34 | Change: +0.38 Flood: 35 feet Yazoo River at Yazoo City Current: 29.89 | Change: +0.83 Flood: 29 feet Yazoo River at Belzoni Current: 25.95 | Change: +0.50 Flood: 34 feet Big Black River at West Current: 11.44 | Change: -2.10 Flood: 12 feet Big Black River at Bovina Current: 27.35 | Change: -1.27 Flood: 28 feet

Maggie Lee Austin Davis died Monday, May 2, 2011, at Covenant Health and Rehab of Vicksburg. She was 94. Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

StEELE BAYOU Land................................. 89.19 River................................. 95.33

John Wesley Hunter Sr.

Cairo, Ill. Thursday................................ 60.0 Friday....................................... 60.0 Saturday................................. 59.9 Memphis Thursday................................ 45.5 Friday....................................... 46.2 Saturday................................. 46.5 Greenville Thursday................................ 55.7 Friday....................................... 56.9 Saturday................................. 58.2 Vicksburg Thursday................................ 47.7 Friday....................................... 48.7 Saturday................................. 49.4

John Wesley Hunter Sr. died Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at his residence. He was 70. Mr. Hunter retired as a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. He was a veteran of the Navy, serving in Vietnam. He was a member of American Legion Tyner-Ford Post No. 213 and the Knights of Peter of Los Angeles. He was a member of St. Michael Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Vaul and Susie Hunter; his grandparents, George and Rachel Winston; and his wife, Willie D. Logan Hunter. He is survived by his wife,

MISSISSIPPI RIVER Forecast

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The Vicksburg Post

Flood Continued from Page A1. except residents and emergency vehicles, by Saturday. North-south rail traffic in Vicksburg was to end today as City of Vicksburg workers installed steel beams near City Front to build a wall to hold back rising water there. The suspension of rail traffic also was required because water was quickly approaching tracks at North Washington Street and the Port of Vicksburg. South of the city, LeTourneau Road, the only land access to LeTourneau Technologies, was to be closed to vehicular traffic Thursday. Workers there are expected to be boated in from near U.S. 61 South. The Mississippi River stood at 47 feet this morning, up nearly eight-tenths of a foot from Tuesday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Weather Service moved back to May 20 the predicted date for the crest of 57.5 feet at Vicksburg, surpassing the benchmark 1927 flood recorded at 56.2 feet. Flood stage at Vicksburg is 43 feet. Effects of the levee blast at Birds Point, Mo., on Monday caused the later crest date, said Marty Pope, senior service hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson. The levee was burst by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect Cairo, Ill., from massive flooding. Stages in Cairo, where the Mississippi and Ohio rivers meet, are at 59.8 feet and near crest this morning, nearly 20 feet above flood stage. Rain chances are low in southern Arkansas through the Ohio River Valley until next Wednesday, Pope said. Heavy rains there over the weekend spiked the crest forecast to its current level, Pope has said. “Water’s going to start inundating the South Delta

at 56.2 feet,” said Peter Nimrod, engineer for the Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, who expects water to overtop the 28-mile earthen protection for the Yazoo Backwater Area and make scouring from below more likely. “Lots of structures go underground.” Because the water is forecast to rise higher than ever recorded, officials don’t know if U.S. 61 will go under, where the water might top the north-south route or how long it would stay there. “Each flood is different,” said Mississippi Department of Transportation Central District Commissioner Dick Hall. “There’s no way to tell what is and what isn’t.” High water could enter Redwood Elementary School or cut access to the school at U.S. 61 and Redwood Road, meaning students would be forced to finish out the school year — three weeks remain — at other elementaries in the Vicksburg Warren School District. The north-south rail suspension was expected to last three to four weeks, its operator told customers Tuesday. About 21 miles of track from Redwood to south Vicksburg is leased by Kansas-based Watco Companies. “We don’t want to be out of service a day later than we have to,” said Ed McKechnie, executive vice president and chief commercial officer for the short-line operator. “When the water recedes, we’ll check the ballast and rocks that hold it in place, reinspect ties to check for any damage and come back at restricted speeds below 10 miles per hour at first.” The rail operator is a prime shipping highway for industries including International Paper’s Vicksburg Mill and facilities at the port. The businesses along the port and IP were to meet

David Jackson•The Vicksburg Post

Fishermen take advantage of rising water along LeTourneau Road Tuesday. in Vicksburg today, and the Corps of Engineers had called a meeting in Rolling Fork to address flooding scenarios there. IP will rely on the road rather than the rail for shipments to and from the Redwood mill, said Helen Hawkins, communications manager for the mill and for the firm’s Prattville, Ala., facility. “While we do not anticipate an impact to production, we do anticipate the potential to be without rail service for four to six weeks,” Hawkins said, adding trucks will become the main mode of transportation. “This will ensure suppliers can access the mill, and that customers receive their orders.” LeTourneau Technologies will complete reductions in its labor force by Thursday and will employ a skeleton crew that will be boated in to maintain the physical plant for as long as the water is high, said plant manager Bo-D Massey. The yard’s main access road will be barricaded near its intersection with Glass Road, Warren County Road Manager Richard Winans said. In the 2008 flood, the plant shut down for

Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield, at lectern, and other city and emergency officials gather at the Vicksburg Convention Center Tuesday to discuss the flood. Winfield said the city has ordered no evacuations but stands ready to assist evacuees. two months and a mile-long segment of the eastbound lane washed out. On Tuesday, Gov. Haley Barbour asked President Barack Obama to declare Warren County a disaster area and for aid for local governments and individuals, along with 10 other counties — Adams, Bolivar, Claiborne,

Coahoma, Desoto, Issaquena, Jefferson, Tunica, Washington and Wilkinson. More could be added as appropriate, the governor’s office said. All recreational boating was suspended until further notice Tuesday on lakes along the river affected by the flood.

Gates are open on the Muddy Bayou Control Structure, filling Eagle Lake to 90 feet from its ideal level of 76.9 feet and relieving pressure on the Buck Chute levee while a berm to enclose sand boils is built below. The lake’s stage was 81.3 feet this morning, up 1.3 feet.

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SCHOOL & YOUTH WEDNESDAY, m ay 4, 2011 • SE C TI O N B w w w.4kids B2 | COMICS B4 Karen Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: newsreleases@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 137

BULLETIN BOARD We welcome items for Bulletin Board. Submit items by e-mail (schoolnews@vicksburgpost.com), postal service (P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182), fax (6340897), or delivered in person to 1601-F N. Frontage Road by Monday for publication Wednesday. Be sure to include your name and phone number.

Achievements • Katelyn M. Jones, a sophomore at St. Aloysius High School, has been selected for membership Katelyn M. into the Jones National Society of High School Scholars. Selection is based on academic excellence. She is the daughter of Michael and Karen Jones. • Latoya Trunell of Warren County has completed the Holmes Community College Occupational Latoya Therapy Trunell Assistant Program. • Dr. John D. Calhoun of Jackson has been named by the Hinds County Board of Supervisors as the newest Dr. John D. member of Calhoun the Hinds Community College Board of Trustees. Calhoun is currently the chief executive officer of Integrated Management Services. He has served as senior adviser to the mayor of Jackson, been a faculty member at Jackson State University and served on various boards,.

In attendance

25 winners in library’s creative writing contest From staff reports

Prose

The Friends of the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library has announced the winners of its annual creative writing contest.

Fifth-sixth grade • First — “My Hunting Adventure” by Bailey McMillan, sixth grade, Redwood Elementary • Second — “The Police Catchers” by Dalton Arnold,

fifth grade, South Park Elementary • Honorable mention — “Summer” by Jason Benard, fifth grade, South Park Seventh-ninth grade • First — “Homework” by Chipper Leech, ninth grade,

P a n c a k e T o s s

ninth grade, Warren Central; and “Beaksy” by Alexis Murrell, ninth grade, Warren Central

Poetry Fifth-sixth grade See Library, Page B3.

Play-A-Day kicks off at VCS Friday By Terri Cowart Frazier tfrazier@vicksburgpost.com

KATIE CARTER•The Vicksburg Post

Dylan O’Brien, above center, 7, tosses a pancake during a party at Redwood Elementary. Students who met Accelerated Reader goals attended the event, themed after the “Nate the Great” mystery series, which features a pancake-eating character. At left, students, from left, Amanda Reeves, 7, Catherine Adcock, 8, and Haley Cummins, 8, wait their turn. Dylan is the son of Christopher and Angie O’Brien. Amanda is the daughter of Tucker and Stephanie Reeves. Catherine is the daughter of Alvin and Renee Adcock. Haley is the daughter of Jason and Glenda Cummins.

• Hinds Community College Raymond Campus Department of Housing and Residence Life summer orientation leaders from Vicksburg who attended the Southern Regional Orientation Workshop at Louisiana State University were Rocio Aguilera, Samantha Linzy and Michael Battle.

Upcoming events • Leadership Studies Program — June 12-17 for grades 6-11, Frances A. Karnes Center for Gifted Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi; tuition includes room, board, recreation and limited insurance; 601-2665236 for more information. • Russian and Chinese Summer Language Institute — June 6-July 29 for Alcorn State students, faculty, staff and community members; free; exposure to language basics, culture and cuisine; registration open until June 1 by calling 601-877-6533. • BancorpSouth Road Dawgs Tour — 11:30 a.m. May 11, Vicksburg Convention Center; Coach Dan Mullen, Mississippi State University football, special guest; tickets, $12, available at UPS Store on Pemberton Boulevard or by contacting Tom Kendall, 601-631-3206.

Warren Central High • Second — “BLOBS” by Austin Tello, ninth grade, Warren Central • Honorable mention — “Gold in the Hills” by Gray Cordes, ninth grade, Warren Central; “Backhand in Extra Innings” by Mason Jarabica,

Vicksburg Catholic School is continuing its celebration of the 150th anniversary of Catholic education in Vicksburg with what organizers are calling a bigger and better Play-A-Day-InMay-Away. “The carnival has 10 more activities than in the past,” said Patty Mekus, director of Development and Alumni Affairs for VCS, which is comprised of St. Francis Xavier Elementary and St. Aloysius High. Both schools enroll about 570 students. The 41st annual festival, set for Saturday, will feature a 40-by-60 foot laser tag spaceship; an oversized race track and tricycles; “Dance Dance Revolution,” a danceoff for two; a two-way bungee jump; a football and baseball speed cage with radar tracking; a human gyroscope; and a toilet-paper toss designed by St. Aloysius eighthgrader Luke Eckstein. Also new this year will be a Build a Bear Mill. “Each bear will be sold for $15,” said Mekus, “and we ordered 100 bears.” Each year, VCS students are asked to submit festival T-shirt designs. Senior Lauren Rabalais won first place, and second-grader Sarah Jane Pierce won second. Lauren’s design will be on the back of the Play-A-Day shirts, and Sarah Jane’s will be on the pocket and the bear shirts. Saturday’s activities will start later this year, running from noon until 5 instead of 10 to 3. “The time change was done to allow children involved in early morning sports activities to be able to now come and enjoy,” Mekus said. Vendors, mostly food booths run by nonprofits See VCS, Page B3.

Area high school, college graduations High schools

• Porters Chapel Academy —3 p.m. May 14 at Vicksburg Auditorium. • Vicksburg — 7 p.m. May 19 at VHS football field, Vicksburg Auditorium if it rains. • Warren Central — 7 p.m. May 20 at WCHS football field. • St. Aloysius — 10 a.m. May 21 at Vicksburg Convention Center. • Vicksburg Community School —2 p.m. May 21 at Vicksburg Convention Center.

Colleges and universities

• Hinds — Academic, technical and career certificate graduates of Jackson Campus-Academic/Technical Center and Rankin, Raymond and Vicksburg-Warren campuses: 1

p.m. May 12 for graduates with last names A-L, 4 p.m. for M-Z; at Hogg Auditorium in Cain-Cochran Hall on Raymond campus; Nursing: 8:30 a.m. May 13 at Hogg Auditorium; Allied Health: 11:30 a.m. May 13 at Hogg Auditorium; Utica grads: May 15 at J.D. Boyd Gymnasium. • Alcorn — 8:30 a.m. Saturday at David L. Whitney HPER Complex, Lorman. • Delta State— 10 a.m. Saturday at Walter Sillers Coliseum. • Mississippi College — 10 a.m. and 2 p.m Saturday at A.E. Wood Coliseum. • Mississippi University for Women — College of Arts & Sciences: 10 a.m. Saturday at Rent Auditorium inside Whitfield Hall; Colleges of Nursing & Speech-Language Pathology and Professional Studies: 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, Rent Auditorium. • Mississippi Valley State — 10 a.m. Saturday at R.W. Harrison HPER Complex. • University of Mississippi — Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College: 4 p.m. May 13 at Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts; Doctoral Hooding Ceremony: 7:30 p.m. May 13 at Ford Center; Convocation: 9 a.m. May 14 at The Grove; College of Liberal Arts: 2 p.m. May 14 at Tad Smith Coliseum; College of Liberal Arts, master’s degrees: 11 a.m. May 14 at Fulton Chapel, Nutt Auditorium if it rains; School of Law: 11 a.m. May 14 at The Grove, 5 p.m. at Ford Center if it rains; School of Engineering: 11 a.m. May 14 at The Lyceum Circle, Fulton Chapel if it rains; School of Education: 11 a.m.

May 14 at The Grove, 5 p.m. at Tad Smith Coliseum if it rains; School of Pharmacy: 2 p.m. May 14 at Indoor Practice Facility; School of Business Administration: 11 a.m. May 14 at Tad Smith Coliseum; Patterson School of Accountancy: 11 a.m. May 14 at Ford Center; School of Applied Science: 11 a.m. May 14 at Indoor Practice Facility; Meek School of Journalism and New Media: 2 p.m. May 14 at Ford Center. • University of Southern Mississippi — Colleges of Arts & Letters and Health: 10 a.m. May 13 at Bernard Reed Green Coliseum; Colleges of Business, Education & Psychology and Science & Technology: 2:30 p.m. May 13 at Reed Green; Gulf Coast campus grads: 10 a.m. May 14 at Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi.

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The Ocean Over Time, http://ocean.si.edu/oceanover-time/top-predators-timeline, introduces you to the most dangerous creatures that have prowled the seas. Click on Begin Journey Through Time and spiral into the murky depths to discover what you should watch out for. Each animal class, such as the Anomalocaridids and the Ammonites, comes with a size comparison so you can see how big they were compared to humans. From razor-sharp teeth to creepy claws, these super-predators will rock your world.

How many countries are in Africa?

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A Terrific Tour Welcome to the Museum of Art Masters, www.kyrene.k12.az.us/ schools/brisas/sunda/art/arthome.htm, where you can read what third-graders have to say about 11 of the “greatest artists of all time.” Choose one of the color-coded artists to begin. Did you know that Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec met Vincent Van Gogh in art class? You might also be surprised to learn that Henri Matisse tried law school and found it boring. Next time you try to draw animals, remember that Leonardo da Vinci, a great painter and draftsman, began his craft in the same fashion.

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Dear Amy: Can you give me some websites to find out how to make a volcano and build a jet pack? — Keyon, Moncks Corner, S.C. Dear Keyon: I have always been fascinated by volcanoes, like many kids. It would be so cool to see one erupt – from a safe distance, of course. Since real eruptions can be dangerous, making your own model volcano is the next best thing. You can find great instructions for how to build a volcano at www.stormthecastle.com/how-to-make-a/ how-to-make-a-volcano.htm. If you prefer instructions in video format, check out www.mahalo.com/how-to-make-a-modelvolcano. Whether you choose dough, papiermâché or plaster of paris, this project is a fun way to get your hands dirty. As for the jet pack, they're pretty popular in science fiction, and some people assumed we would all be flying around with them by now. Real jet packs do exist but are hard to come by, since they cost over $200,000, and they're too complicated to make at home. If you want to learn how real jet packs word, visit http://science.howstuffworks.com /transport/engines-equipment/jet-pack.htm. You can dream!

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school by school Agape Montessori • Kathy Abbott’s kindergarten-third grade wrote and drew profiles of their mothers in preparation for Mother’s Day. • Kim Carson’s toddler Montessori class read stories about Dexter the Donkey. They made donkeys and a spring collage. • Tina Sowell’s primary Montessori class read stories, played games and made a shark book, watercolor pictures and other crafts as part of a study of sharks.

Beechwood • As part of a transportation unit, Dara Hendrix’s kindergartners sorted magazine and newspaper pictures into land, air and water and shared toy transportation for show-and-tell. • Ann Haden’s GATES classes are collecting used inkjet cartridges and cell phones as a fundraiser. Items may be sent to Beechwood’s GATES Room. • The school celebrated Child Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week in the cafeteria.

Bovina • Pledge leaders were Dylan Solomon, Ma’Kaya Jackson, Alanna McKay, Tyree Sims, Ja’Darrious Williams, Hailey Gray, Dakota Cook, Ma’Kayla Jackson, Laila Evans, Jase Poole, Breanna Qualls and Dylan Solomon. • Students and teachers raised more than $3,200 for the American Cancer Society in Relay for Life. “A School Divided” was Bovina’s theme. • Grades 3-5 presented “The Jungle Book” at Warren Central High School. • Students named to the Accelerated Reader Millionaires Club for reading more than 1,000,000 words were Skyler Gibson, Jack Shelton, Lauren Hughes, Colin Standish, Lauren Davis, Caydee Schweitzer, Callie Schweitzer, Clayton Thurman, Cheyenne Hines,

Peyton Rushton and Dalen Bush. They will be rewarded with a limousine ride and lunch at Roca. • Students participating in the Vicksburg District’s Black History Month poster contest were Marcus Williams, Destiny Walker, Santa Fe Bunch, Skyler Gibson, Lauren Bardwell, Gabriel Bowman and Maiya Prevot.

Art for children Jason Alford, foreground, and Clint Boleware look at art by students from Beechwood, Dana Road and Redwood elementary schools and Warren Central Intermediate during a fundraiser for the Warren County Children’s Shelter. The art was on display at Hinds Community College. About $500 was raised, shelter officials said.

Bowmar • Students who read to the principal were Jaiden Odom, Breshanna McDowell, Hope Pownall, Payton James, Peyton Feagin, Bree Butler, Bryce McGarrh, Lexi Kistler, Taylor Stamps and Victor Barnett. • Pledge captains were Natalie McMillian, Joshua Floyd, MeKayla Burns, Selby Springfield, Rekia Williams, Timothy Ross and Karlisle Madison. • Top Accelerated Readers: first grade — Brandon Gilliam, Elijah Gonzales, Madison Jones, James Pendleton, Destini Sims, Malik Butler and Mary Katherine Archer; sixth grade — Kyle Boyd, Charlie Martin, Dillon Little, Derrick Davis, Madilyn Green, Sarah Hunter Fordice and Asher Carson.

Dana Road • Pledge leaders from the second-grade class of Corley Ross and Mary Griffin were Kendall West, Abigail Wren, Shamarian Smith and Chloe Hynum. • Dana Road Elementary received the following awards at the Relay For Life: Site Baton, first place; Midnight Snack, first place; and Scavenger Hunt, winner. Volunteers who assisted faculty and staff members at the Vicksburg Convention Center were Miss Vicksburg Elyssa Lassiter, Daniel Dunn, Michael Thomas and Dane White. Cindy McCarley presented the school with a trophy for participating in the Pennies For Patients campaign to benefit the Warren County Children’s Shelter. • Pre-kindergarten classes

Vicksburg Warren school District menu for Week of may 9 thru may 13 MEAL PRICES: Elementary School Breakfast, 75 Cents; Reduced Breakfast 25 cents; Lunch $2.25; Reduced Lunch 40 Cents Secondary School Breakfast, $1; Reduced Breakfast 25 cents; Lunch $2.25; Reduced Lunch, 40 cents In accordance with federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture Policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or disability.

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of Uretka Callon, Amanda Dunn, Rachel Dean and Jennifer Funchess visited the Jackson Zoo. Parent volunteers were Charlotte Atkins, Sandra Atkins, Maurice Brooks, Sue Campbell, LaShondra Coleman, Stephanie Figures, Carl and Bridgette Harris, Carrie Mitchell, Christy McCoy, Kathy Morgan, LaKeisha Perkins, Debra and David Tillman, Samuel and Shonda Semi, Mary Smith, Surrenda Davis and Charles Vaughn. • After reading “On The Job with Dr. Martha Smith,” Carolyn Radar spoke to the first-grade class of Mary Lindsey and Gwendolyn Strong about pet care. Firstgrade students of Brooke Hughes and Pam Elam made recycled paper from newspapers to complete an Earth Day unit. • Parents are invited to the annual federal programs meeting at 10 a.m. Monday or 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, when they will have an opportunity to review the school’s learning compact and parental involvement policy, review the schoolwide program plan and staff/parent surveys, discuss Title allocations for the

school and plan for the next school year. More information is available by calling Rebecca Pace at 601-619-2340.

First Presbyterian • After a discussion of bird species, Gloria Sullivan’s kindergartners made red birds for their classroom tree. Top readers were Sara Crane, Callie Campbell, Drake McClure, Kat Blalack, Aiden Walker, John Banks and Brooke Rhodes. John Banks was named Star Student. • Lynnette Smith’s prekindergartners concluded a unit on measurements by making rulers and measuring items. Noah Harrington won the prize for tallest, and Eric Lingle won the prize for shortest. Mathew Jinkins was named Student of the Week. • Kari Dupree’s 3-year-olds made handprint crabs, seashells and a sandy beach after a unit on the ocean. • After a unit on the ocean, Jessica Wicker’s 2-year-olds made paintings with salt paint and a starfish with Cheerio suction cups. • As part of a study of

Elementary Schools Breakfast Monday: Breakfast Bagel, Fruit Juice, Milk Tuesday: Corn Smokie, Fruit Juice, Milk Wednesday: Breakfast Chicken Patty, Biscuit, Fruit Juice, Milk Thursday: Biscuit w/ Ham, Fruit Juice, Milk Friday: Cereal, Graham Crackers, Fruit Juice, Milk

human-made things in the sky, Teri Conerly’s toddler class played with airplanes and helicopters, pretended to fly in a hot air balloon and chased bubbles in the wind.

Jacob’s Ladder • Julie Nelson was leader of the week. • Students have been watering and tending their vegetable garden. • Employees of International Paper Company painted a classroom at Jacob’s Ladder as part of the 2011 Day of Caring. • Renea Setser developed Easter pictures for students to give their parents. • Students made collages with pressed flowers they had gathered from a nature walk.

Porters Chapel • Top Accelerated Readers: first grade — Macey Bufkin, Madison Combs, Christian Lancaster, Mary Claire Lovins, Olivia Masterson, Peyton Sikes and Hannah Claire York; third grade — Nathan Bullock and Michael Hall; fourth grade — Reed Buys; fifth grade — Kyle

Guider. • Jenny Stinson’s secondgraders and Mike King’s fourth-graders visited the Vicksburg National Military Park. • Students named to Who’s Who: Mr. and Miss PCA — Dana Rinicker and Montana McDaniel; Most School Spirit — Dana Rinicker and Caze Brewer; Friendliest — Dana Rinicker and Chris Marshall; Most Likely to Succeed — Brittany Godwin and Matthew Warren; Most Intellectual — Brittany Godwin and Matthew Warren; Most Courteous — Paige Emfinger and Patrick McGuffie; Most Athletic — Winter Alexander and Montana McDaniel; Best Personality — Dana Rinicker and Caze Brewer; Most Dependable — Paige Emfinger and Stephen Purvis; Most Christ-like — Paige Emfinger and Matthew Warren; Best Dressed — Katy Burton and Jarad Tompkins; Most Dignified Seniors — Brittany Godwin and Matthew Warren; Jolliest Juniors — Lacey Sheffield and Jacob Smithey; Silliest Sophomores — Morgan Ross and Peter Harris; Greenest Freshmen — Taylor Smith and Justin McDaniel; Mr. and Miss Junior PCA — Anne Elizabeth Buys and Jonah Masterson; Class Favorites — seniors Dana Rinicker and Montana McDaniel, juniors Heather Sit and Sam Staggs, sophomores Allyson Sykes and Richie Bufkin, freshmen Claire Mims and Jonah Masterson, eighth-graders Mary Katherine Kraemer and Jon Jon Lynn and seventh-graders Allison Nunnelee, Shelby Powell and Hunt Hale.

Redwood • Pledge leaders for the week were Will Thigpen, De’Ja Dudley, Brendon Barker, Nick Harmon, Jamie Lee Boyd, Justin Hasty and Brooklyn Hart. • Third-grade GATES students of Andra Bonelli and Letitia Fitzgerald completed a study of the “WonContinued on Page B3.

Calico Fruit, Fruit Bowl, Rice Krispie Treat, Milk, Fruit Juice Wednesday: BBQ Pulled Pork Burger, Chicken & Sausage Gumbo Over Rice, Chef Salad, Ham & Cheese Wrap, Tossed Salad, Vegetable Sticks, Baked Beans, Baked Potato, Pear Slices, Fruit Bowl, Pineapple Secondary Schools Breakfast Tidbits, Southern Mississippi Cornbread, Monday: Breakfast Burrito, Fruit Juice, Milk Elementary Schools Lunch Tuesday: Biscuit w/ Egg, Fruit Juice, Milk Monday: Steak Fingers, Chef Salad, Rice, Assorted Jello w/ Whipped Topping, Milk, Oven-Baked Potato Wedges, Seasoned Green Wednesday: Corn Smokie, Fruit Juice, Milk Fruit Juice Thursday: Biscuit w/ Ham, Fruit Juice, Milk Beans, Pineapple Tidbits, Orange Smiles, Thursday: Chili Con Carne w/ Beans, Chicken Friday: Cinnamon Roll, Fruit Juice, Milk Whole Wheat Roll, Fruit Juice, Milk Quesadillas, Cheeseburger, Chef Salad, California Tuesday: Chicken Patty Sandwich, Tuna Veggies, Whole Kernel Corn, Garden Salad, OvenSalad w/ Crackers, California Veggies, Secondary Schools Lunch Baked Potato Wedges, Apricots, Pears, Bananas, Seasoned Lima Beans, Kiwi Wedges, Banana Monday: Chicken Nuggets, Cheeseburger, Berry Blend, Yeast Roll, Fruit Juice, Milk American Sub Sandwich, Chef Salad, Baked Texas Toast, Chocolate Pudding, Mozzarella Wednesday: BBQ Chicken, Chef Salad, Quick Potato, Seasoned Cabbage, Tossed Salad, String Cheese, Milk, Fruit Juice Baked Potatoes, Cheesy Broccoli, Vegetable Peach Slices, Fruit Bowl, Mandarin Fruit Cup, Friday: Fish Nuggets, Chef Salad, Sticks, Peach Slices, Fruit Bowl, Whole Wheat Southern Mississippi Cornbread, Rice Krispie Southwestern Chicken Sandwich, Chicken Roll, Fruit Juice, Milk Treat, Fruit Juice, Milk Thursday: Fish Sandwich, Sliced Turkey w/ Tuesday: Stromboli Supreme, Spicy Chicken Salad Salad, Garden Salad, Southern Greens, Oven-Baked Potato Wedges, Pasta Salad, Brown Gravy, Whipped Potatoes, Tossed Sandwich, Fruit & Yogurt Plate, Tuna Salad Nectarines, Apples, Hushpuppies, Mozzarella Salad, Cinnamon Apples, Blushing Chilled Salad, Green Beans, Oven Fries, Broccoli & String Cheese, Fruit Juice, Milk Pears, Mixed Fruit, Whole Wheat Roll, Cauliflower Polonaise, Cinnamon Apples, Fruit Juice, Milk Friday: Chicken Nuggets, Loaded Baked Potato, Seasoned Cabbage, Cheesy Broccoli, Cherry Apple Frozen Juice Bar, Orange Smiles, Fruit Bowl, Whole Wheat Roll, Gravy, Fruit Juice, Milk

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school by school Continued from Page B2.

Warren Central High

‘Jungle Book’

ders of the World” by conducting research, writing a report, creating a replica and making a presentation to the class. • Students who read three mystery books and scored a 100 on all three Accelerated Reader tests were treated to a pancake party . • The school raised $3,000 for Relay for Life. • Kindergarten registration for 2011-2012 is ongoing. Parents are encouraged to register before school ends. A copy of the child’s birth certificate, Social Security card, immunization records and two proofs of residence are required.

• Teacher Appreciation Week is being observed. • Senior Picnic will be Friday at Clear Creek Golf Course. • WCHS Athletic Banquet will be May 12; tickets for the banquet are $10. • Staff Members of the Week were Cheryl Ashby and Rena Beth Burton. • Students caught doing something good were Mason Thomas, Lanesha Turner, Aaron Galloway, Shelby Green, Jeremy Johnson, Ben Porter, Brock Barnes, Paige Fowler, Rachel Green, Haley Sellers, McKenzie Pollock, Mary Heath, OunJanese Roper, Dominique Washington, Jalen Dagher, Trina Lloyd, Paige Richardson, Joseph Davis, Rachel Daene, Chesley Parr, Charli Perrier, Allison Thomas, Ryan Kelly, Alex Wright, Lonnie Means and Delisha Nelson.

Sherman Avenue • First-grade students of Sheila Scott and Theresa McCain participated in jelly bean activities and Earth Day activities. • Students are creating inkblot paintings using squeeze bottles. • Students recognized as members of the Shining Star Celebrity Club for demonstrating perseverance were Ca’Nia Campbell, Madison Cloud, Jazlyn Coles, Dezmen Davis, Jasmine Davis, Habilee Day, Zar’ke Doyle, Maryellen Dunaway, Skylar Etheridge, Kay Ann Goultette, Benicia Gross, Onterrio Hooker, Jayden Jackson, Erin Lambert, Lelah Madison, Serenity Montgomery, Hunter Moore, Jaylen Parker, Alexis Prescott, Marcus Shorter, Isaiah Smith, Patrick Stephens, Justin Stewart, Logan Thomas, Sahara Thomas, Timeshiana Weathersby, Jo’Erica Williams and Tyzaih Williams. • The school’s Relay for Life team is sponsoring antique photo sessions, $10 each, in the gym Saturday and Sunday. The donation includes a 10x13 portrait of family, children or pets. More information is available by calling 601-606-7740. • Kindergarten students of Cheryl Ricks and Felicia Chriss who were named Eager Readers for completing 10 Power Pak stories were Kathryn Wong, Kierra Minor, Nicholas Mickey, Vansh Chauhan, Hallee Moore, Amya Cage, Ariana Stewart, Aniyah Williams, Neo Valenciano, Christal Alexander, Jaylenn Coleman, Devinn Evans, Lea Hoeft, Shauna Brooks, John Ross and Dayzasia Snow.

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Sydney Stuart, center, performs during Bovina Elementary’s presentation of “The Jungle Book Kids.” Sydney, 11, is the daughter of Jerry and Shirley Stuart.

South Park • Kindergarten students of Angelia Donaghe and Susan McKinnie are preparing to host a Mother’s Day tea. • Marlene Jenkins’ class received a popcorn party as a reward for being top donor in the canned food drive earlier this year. • Annual federal programs meetings were held in April. Parents unable to attend may call Nellie Hopkins, 601-6360176, for information.

Vicksburg Catholic • During a study of the Civil War, fifth-grade students of Kristy Ehrgott and Ashley Coomes visited the Vicksburg National Military Park, Southern Cultural Heritage Center, Old Court House Museum and The Duff Green Mansion. • Kindergarten students of Lori Tzotzolas and Zena Phillips made posters in cooperative groups as part of a study of living and non-living

things. • Brandi Hoxie’s preschoolers weighed and measured each other and used dye and celery to demonstrate how roots use water. • Cindy Calais’ Montessori students celebrated the Royal Wedding by having a royal wedding party in the classroom.

Vicksburg High • Key Club officers for 20112012 are Hayden Quimby, president; Brennen Coomes, vice president; Dianna Kariuki, secretary; Matthew Price, treasurer; Kya Huell, historian; Cameron Cooksey and Daniel Sluis, senior board representatives; Garrett Watson, junior board representative; Gunnar Daquilla and Norman Price, sergeants-at-arms. Club members attended the Vicksburg Kiwanis’ K-Family Cookout at Hopping H Ranch and are serving as volunteers with Challenger/Buddy Ball softball league at City Park each Saturday.

VCS If you go Play-A-Day-In-May-Away activities will kick off at 6 Friday night with $7 catfish and chicken dinners at the St. Aloysius High School cafeteria, followed by bingo at 6:30. Bingo cards are $1 per play, with prizes valued at $25 and above. Activities will continue from noon to 5 Saturday. Admission is free. An iPad 2 and a $1,000 tuition reduction are being raffled. Tickets are $2 each or $10 for six. Call 601-636-4824. If it rains, Saturday’s activities will move indoors. dinners served at 6 for $7. “Play-A-Day was originally started to help the school financially and to get the community to come on campus,” said Mekus.

“We usually make between $13,000 to $15,000, and some of the money goes to supplement teacher salaries.”

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Central; “Tracks of Terror” by Tana Elizabeth Starnes, ninth grade, Warren Central; and “The Angel of Death” by Sarah Young, ninth grade, Warren Central

Library Continued from Page B1. • First — “Creatures of the Sea” by Abbie Bell, sixth grade, St. Francis Xavier Elementary • Second — “The Earth” by Sydney Mathis, sixth grade, St. Francis Xavier • Honorable mention — “Spring” by Kendrick Burks, fifth grade, South Park; “My Parents” by Nicholas Crasta, sixth grade, Vicksburg Intermediate; “The Sunflower” by Victoria Daily, sixth grade, St. Francis Xavier; “Summer” by Kate Shelton, sixth grade, St. Francis Xavier; and “Life” by Hannah Storey, sixth grade, St. Fran-

Vicksburg Junior High • Events for the week: Today — Favorite Team Jersey Day; Thursday — Geek Day; Friday — Jean Day with College T-Shirt ($1 cost) and MCT pep rally. • Beauty and Beau Pageant will begin at 6 p.m .Friday. • Best Dressed Day and Honor Society induction ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. Monday. • MCT2 tests will be given Tuesday, May 11 and May 12. • Sharon Caldwell, school nurse, spoke to Rhonda Battle’s health classes.

Warren Junior High • Seventh-graders inducted into the Fultz-Cotton Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society were Taylor Ballard, Jaycob Barlow, Brooks Boolos, Elizabeth Boyd, Carly Bunch, John Austin Burris, Mya Chappell, Aquarius Crook, Constance Daene, Jamerica Dixon, Joel Erves, Jesse Fuller, Dominique Harris, Lashunte Hubbard, Jarvis Johnson, Brandon Jones, Kiara Jones, Macy Joseph, Madison Kendall, Amarra Kennedy, Jasmine King, James Kinnebrew, Sara Lloyd, Lanissa Magee, Nathan Madsen, Kailyn McCarley, Kylie McMaster, Angel Nealy, Brianna Pickering, William Pratt, Matthew Register, Victoria Ross, Regan Russell, Pyria

Warrenton • Top 3 Accelerated Reader classes were Angeline Baker’s fifth grade, Heather Gordon’s second grade and Katie Emfinger’s fifth grade. Top readers: first grade — Michaela Franklin, Carlos Rollins, Michyla Redden, Khalia Ross and Terri’Aunce Edwards; second grade — Amanda Wright, Jeremiah Shelby, A’niyah Hughes, Brelynn Beck and Jonothan Nowell; third grade — Ian Gordon, Benjamin Holmes, Kameren Batty, Cayla Parson and Kristina Tillett; fourth grade — Andre Ranis, Asia Brown, William Tankson, William Shelby and Tyrese Robinson; fifth grade — Zachary Moore, Jon Bantugan, Faith Meredith, Destinee Shaiffer and Kiona Patton; sixth grade — Jacob Cochran, Esdgar Loyola, Jason Lee, Brandon Shaiffer and Alexis Avila. • PTO sponsored an MCT2 party for all students who scored proficient and advances on the test last year. • Teacher Appreciation Week is being observed. • Year-end Accelerated Reader parties were held for students in grades 1-6 who met goals for the year. • Right on Target award winners were Jesse Chapin, Khalia Ross, Quintin Powell, Yahir Valdez, Tyree Robertson, Rhonda Doyle and Preston Wester.

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Continued from Page B1. not affiliated with the school, will display their wares at this year’s festival. “Organizations were required to pay a nominal fee,” Mekus said, “and then whatever proceeds they raise they can keep.” Play-A-Day activities are also planned for Friday night. A Celebrity Bingo event featuring B.J. Smithhart, football coach; and Richard Hodges, basketball and track coach; Sheriff Martin Pace; and the Rev. Malcolm O’Leary, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, will begin at 6:30 with chicken and fish

• Results of the Belle and Beau Pageant: 2011 Belle — Roslyn Younger and Cherese Pendleton (tie); Miss Congeniality — Alexis Stevenson; 2011 Beau — Alton Brown; Senior Belle — Shequita Royster; Junior Belle — Rebeca Velazquez; Sophomore Belle — Tiffany Carroll; Freshman Belle — Faye Quizzagan.

• Field Day will be May 17. • Awards Day will be May 19. Third and fourth grade will convene 9-10:30 a.m., followed by fifth grade, 10:3011:15. • Art classes created houses made from wooden sticks. • School will dismiss at 11:45 a.m. on May 25. • Nine weeks test schedule: today — reading and social studies; Thursday — language/science; Friday — math/spelling. MCT2 schedule: Tuesday — language arts reading; May 11 — language arts writing; May 12 — math.

Sanipara, Timothy Shively, Marlee Stewart, Brayden Stokes, Savannah Thomas, Kiera Thomas, Emily Tingle, Alex Turner, Ethan Vroman, Kalynne Wallace, Max Wamsley, Blake Watkins, Kelby Westcott, Sydney Wooten, Nicholas Wright and Kaylin Young. Eighthgrade inductees were Alexis Guy, Hardik Maghat and Keyonia Torrain. • Girls Club sponsored a dance Friday for students with good behavior. • April Students of the Month were Katie Brown, Caitlyn Jeffers, Kimberly Williams, Jesse Fuller, Bergeron Fink, Torri Ross, Saren Voelkner, Tiara Wince, Elizabeth Martin and Samantha Clark. • Leslie Horton of Mississippi Tobacco Free Coalition spoke to health classes of Curtis Watkins. • Students will take the MCT 2 May 10-12. Parents are encouraged to make sure students are prepared and arrive on time.

Seventh-ninth grade • First — “School” by Austin Tello, ninth grade, Warren Central • Second — “I Wonder Sometimes” by Jareeshia Devonche Shelby, ninth grade, Warren Central • Honorable mention — “Soldier’s Duty” by Andrew West Bishop, ninth grade, Warren Central; “Sportsmanship” by Bobby Dunbar, ninth grade, Warren Central; “The Change of the World” by Nathaniel White Smart, ninth grade, Warren

10th-12th grade • First — “To Each His Own” by Hunter Lynch, 12th grade, Vicksburg High • Second — “Macbeth” by Chunceia Buckhaulter, 12th grade, Vicksburg High • Honorable mention — “Lackluster” by Hunter Lynch, 12th grade, Vicksburg High

• Avery Galtney, son of Leslie Galtney, has received the 2011 T.K. Soul Undisputed No. 1 Fan Club Scholarship. A student at Vicksburg High, he will pursue a nursing degree at Alcorn.

• Recipients of the Joe and Feeney Elliott Scholarships provided through The Auxiliary at River Region are Joshua Kees and Sha’kyra Thomas of Vicksburg High School; Cicily Chiarito and

Taylor Hasty of St. Aloysius; Brittany Godwin and Dana Rinicker of Porters Chapel Academy; and Lindsay Boolos and Amarri Robinson of Warren Central High School.

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On the calendar: • Fourth annual Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary Luau — 11 a.m.-2 p.m. May 24 at Riverfront Park; Hawaiian chicken or Kalua pork with macaroni salad, green beans, fresh mixed fruit, homemade rolls and iced tea or water; $10 in advance only; 601638-7999, 601-631-0038 or 601-529-8500.

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Coconut French Toast Start mom’s day off right with these recipes from Food.com. • 1 (13-ounce) can unsweetened coconut milk 1 cup soy milk 3 tablespoons garbanzo flour 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 tablespoons olive or canola oil 1 loaf Italian or white bread

If using an Italian loaf, slice into 1 to 1 1/2-inch thick slices and leave out during the day. The dry bread will soak up the coconut mixture better. Before bed, empty the can of coconut milk into a medium-sized bowl. Whisk until well emulsified. Add the soy milk, garbanzo bean flour and cornstarch and stir until the ingredients are blended. Empty the mixture into a large glass dish, enough for all the bread pieces to fit. Dunk the bread, making sure all pieces are covered with the mixture, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate. In the morning, heat 2 to 3 tablespoons of olive or canola oil in a large flat pan or griddle over medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the slices of French toast and sauté for 10 minutes. Flip and sauté the other side for 10 minutes. Turn up the heat to medium-high and flip again, for five minutes more on each side or until brown. Top with whatever you like — honey, syrup, butter or powdered sugar.

Juicy Fruit Salad 1 (15-ounce) can pineapple chunks in juice 1 apple, peeled and diced 1 banana, peeled and sliced 1 orange, peeled, diced and juice reserved 1 cup seedless grapes, halved Toss all ingredients together and chill until ready to serve.

Mix lemon, honey for 3 layers of yum

Lemon Honey Triple-layer Cake

By The Associated Press Instead of giving your mother a bouquet of flowers for Mother’s Day, consider a flowered cake. This beautiful and easy-to-make cake features the flavors of lemon and honey and is swathed with a cloud-like blanket of honey meringue. It then is crowned with masses of sugared edible flowers. Be sure to buy flowers that are safe to eat, as many are sprayed with pesticides. Most grocers sell edible flowers with the herbs in the produce section.

Lemon Honey Triple-layer Cake Start to finish: 1 hour 20 minutes (40 minutes active), plus cooling Servings: 12 For the cake: 2 cups sugar

1 cup honey 6 eggs Zest of 1 lemon 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter, melted and cooled 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 1/2 cups ginger ale For the filling: 1 cup water 1 bag Earl Grey tea 1/4 cup lemon juice 1/4 cup honey 2 tablespoons cornstarch 3 eggs yolks (reserve the whites for the frosting) 2 tablespoons butter For the honey meringue frosting: 1/2 cup honey 4 egg whites 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar For the sugared flowers:

1 egg white Pinch of salt Edible flowers or petals Ultra-fine sugar Heat the oven to 325. Coat three 9-inch cake pans with baking spray, then line the bottom of each with a round of parchment paper. To make the cakes, in a large bowl use an electric mixer to combine the sugar, honey, eggs, lemon zest, vanilla and salt. Beat until well combined, about 1 minute. Add the butter and beat again. In another bowl, stir together the flour and baking powder. With the mixer on, beat the ginger ale and flour into the honey-sugar mixture in 2 additions, alternating. Divide the batter between the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean. Allow

to cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. To make the filling, in a small saucepan over medium-high, combine the water, tea bag, lemon juice and honey. Bring to a simmer then remove from the heat and steep for 3 minutes. Discard the tea bag. In a small bowl, whisk together the cornstarch and the 3 egg yolks. While whisking, add a small amount of the hot lemon water to the egg yolks. Continue to whisk while adding small amounts of the liquid until half the lemon water is incorporated. Pour the yolk mixture into the pan and whisk to combine. Continue to cook until the mixture returns to a simmer and thickens. See Cake, Page C3.

Give mom a main course that’s anything but dainty By The Associated Press This hearty Mother’s Day dinner is as beautiful as it is delicious. While moms like pretty things, it doesn’t mean they don’t also want a dinner that leaves them satisfied. To round out this recipe and make it a meal, a quick salad or some green beans and rice pilaf would be perfect.

Orange Pistachio and Goat Cheese Crusted Pork Chops Start to finish: 45 minutes

Serves: 4 Zest and juice of 2 oranges 1/2 cup finely chopped pistachios 4 ounce log soft goat cheese 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper Four 6-ounce bone-in or boneless pork chops 1/2 cup white wine 1 cup chicken broth 1/2 cup orange juice 1 tablespoon cornstarch Salt and ground black pepper, to taste

Heat the oven to 375. In a small bowl, combine the orange zest and juice, the pistachios, goat cheese, allspice, salt and pepper. Arrange the pork chops in a small metal roasting pan. Spread a quarter of the pistachio mixture over the top of each chop. Roast for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the chops reach 155° at the thickest part. Transfer the pork chops to a plate. Cover with foil to keep warm while preparing the sauce. See Chops, Page C3.

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Orange Pistachio and Goat Cheese Crusted Pork Chops

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A breakfast not lost on youth

Whip up a French toast that’s ready to roll By The Associated Press Portability and appeal are equally important when cooking for kids, especially teenagers. French toast can be a wholesome, heart-warming breakfast, but the need to sit down with a plate and fork can sometimes hinder their too-cool-to-be-bothered attitude. Cooking French toast in muffin cups is one solution. This version includes a layer of maple breakfast sausage, but you can leave that out if you prefer, or substitute a few berries or thinly sliced apples.

French Toast Muffins Start to finish: 45 minutes Servings: 12 7-ounce package maple breakfast sausage 12 slices whole-wheat sandwich bread 4 eggs 3/4 cup milk Pinch salt 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 cup maple syrup 2 tablespoons maple sugar Heat the oven to 350. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners. In a large skillet over medium-high, cook the sausage until lightly browned and cooked through, 5 to 7 minutes. Allow to cool slightly. Using a round 2-inch cookie cutter, cut 4 rounds from each

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French Toast Muffins slice of bread. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, salt, cinnamon and maple syrup. Dip the rounds of bread in

the egg mixture and place 2 rounds in the bottom of each muffin cup. Crumble about 1 tablespoon of the sausage into each cup. Add 2 more rounds

of egg-dipped bread to each of the muffins. Sprinkle the tops with maple sugar. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until puffed and golden brown.

Serve warm. Nutrition information per serving: 140 calories; 45 calories from fat (32 percent of total calories); 5 g fat (2 g sat-

urated; 0 g trans fats); 83 mg cholesterol; 15 g carbohydrate; 9 g protein; 2 g fiber; 271 mg sodium.

Western Omelet Bake packed with flavors for everyone By The Associated Press The light and fluffy texture of this baked omelet comes from the addition of a few ingredients borrowed from the baking cabinet. It is flavored with the classic combination of ham, bacon, peppers and onions, appealing to both kids and adults. If you’d prefer, other fillings — such as mushrooms and Swiss cheese — work fine, too. Whatever you choose, be sure to cook any vegetables or meat before adding to the recipe. To get a jump on this the night before, the vegetables can be cooked ahead of time. For single servings, the mixture can be baked in individual ramekins.

Western Omelet Bake Start to finish: 1 hour (15 minutes active) Serves: 8 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 medium yellow onion, chopped 1/2 green bell pepper, cored and chopped 1/2 red bell pepper, cored and chopped 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded

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Western Omelet Bake and minced 4 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled 1/2 cup chopped ham

16 ounces cottage cheese 1/3 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 10 eggs

1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick)

Cinnamon-Raisin Pancakes will satisfy By The Associated Press The classic breakfast combination of cinnamon and raisin doesn’t have to be limited to cereal and toast. Pancakes are the perfect base for the tasty blend. Whether you’ve got a house full of teenagers, or just a house full of your own kids hungry for breakfast before school, this is a seriously special treat. The batch is large enough to feed a crowd, but is easily cut in half. You also can cook the pancakes and freeze them between layers of waxed paper. Though the recipe makes a cream cheese glaze, warm maple syrup is nice, too.

Cinnamon-Raisin Pancakes Start to finish: 20 minutes Serves: 12 For the pancakes: 1 cup raisins 1/2 cup water 3 cups all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons sugar

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Cinnamon-Raisin Pancakes 2 tablespoons cinnamon 3 1/4 cups milk 2 eggs 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted For the glaze: 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup orange juice 1/2 cup maple syrup In a small microwave-safe bowl, combine the raisins and water. Microwave on high for 1 to 2 minutes, or until the water boils. Set aside to cool while

you combine the rest of the ingredients. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cinnamon. Add the milk, eggs, and melted butter, then whisk just until smooth. Drain the raisins, then mix them into the batter. To make the glaze, in a food processor combine the cream cheese, orange juice and maple syrup. Process until smooth. Set aside. Coat a large skillet with cooking spray, then heat over medium. Working in batches, pour the pancake batter into the skillet using about 1/4 cup for each pancake. Cook the pancakes for 3 to 4 minutes, then flip and cook for another 3 to 4 minutes, or golden brown. Arrange the pancakes on a platter and serve with the cream cheese glaze. Nutrition information per serving: 325 calories; 114 calories from fat (35 percent of total calories); 13 g fat (8 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 71 mg cholesterol; 46 g carbohydrate; 8 g protein; 2 g fiber; 512 mg sodium.

butter, melted 1 1/2 cups shredded Monterey Jack or pepper jack cheese, divided

Heat the oven to 375. Coat a 9-by-9-inch baking pan with cooking spray. In a skillet, heat the oil over medium-high. Add the onion, both bell peppers and the jalapeno. Saute until the onion is translucent and the peppers are tender, about 5 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl. Mix in the bacon and ham, then set aside. In the bowl of a food processor, process the cottage cheese, flour and baking powder until completely smooth. Add the eggs, salt and pepper, then process again. With the processor running, add the butter. Add this egg mixture to the large bowl with the meat and vegetables. Add 1 cup of the shredded cheese and stir to combine. Pour into the prepared baking pan and sprinkle with the remaining 1/2 cup of cheese. Bake for 45 minutes, or until puffed, set and golden around the edges. Nutrition information per serving: 380 calories; 250 calories from fat (66 percent of total calories); 28 g fat (13 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 322 mg cholesterol; 10 g carbohydrate; 23 g protein; 1 g fiber; 789 mg sodium.

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For Mother’s Day, give springtime bouquets — in a bottle NEW YORK (AP) — Flowers are lovely, especially in the springtime, but there are the obvious limitations of shelf life and mobility. A floral perfume? Now that’s something with fragrance power to last an entire day on the go — and the next day, and the one after that. “Flowers are really the basics for all women’s fragrances,” says Veronique Ferval, creative center manager for International Flavors & Fragrances in New York, one of the primary manufacturing sources of the extracts or “juices” that perfumers use. It’s typical to create a perfume with a bouquet that combines the notes of many flowers, even if it ends up being dominated by one. “Historically in the fragrance industry, there are the classics — rose, gardenia, jasmine, muguet — really classic flowers that we’ve used for many years and continue reinventing,” Ferval explains. Part of the allure in those scents is familiarity, but they also can be easier to bottle than, say, daisies and lilies of the valleys (as muguet is commonly known in the U.S.), she explains. “A big factor is the olfactory delivery,” says Jennifer Mullarky, scent consultant for retailer Perfumania. “Some flowers don’t smell or you can’t extract them. Having a well-known fragrance gives the emotional factor that many people relate to. There’s comfort in knowing what you are smelling, and that attracts people to a perfume.” She adds, “When you are out and smelling a flower, you’re not smelling a straight oil, which is not always as nice as the mixed bouquet.” Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, known to be an enthusiastic gardener, is relaunching his Esprit d’Oscar perfume from the 1970s that is rooted in jasmine, orange blossom and tuberose. In an interview in New York with The Associated Press, de la Renta said that as a young boy in the Dominican Republic, he imagined himself as a perfumer. He’d wake up in the morning with the air of his open window carrying the smell of dewy flowers.

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He first thought the dew was what captured the scent, he recalled with a laugh, but after a few failed attempts at bottling that, he realized it was the combination of flowers that was important. “I still remember it — it’s what I wanted in the perfume,” he said. White flowers, including tuberose, gardenia and orange blossom, are popular in modern perfumes, although they’re not used nearly as much as jasmine, rose and violet, Mullarky says. They are complex scents with many facets — fruit, freshness and creaminess, she describes. You’ll find some men’s fragrances use lavender to infuse a light floral note without being too flowery. Around Mother’s Day, there is a big spike in fragrance sales, says Kevin McCall, vice president of sales for Perfumania. Husbands and sons are buying for their mothers, but there are also many women shopping for themselves, inspired by their new season of gardening, he says. “Spring really kicks florals into people’s minds.” McCall says he can see the shift away from heavier perfumes that largely dominate winter sales as the weather warms. Florals are popular all year in California, Arizona and Nevada, for example, he says, but the Northeast comes to floral scents around Easter, followed by the Midwest. Where flowers originate figures into the actual smell of a floral note, too.

Mullarky says there can be a big difference between a Bulgarian rose (considered the finest quality rose), an African rose or run-of-the-mill American garden rose. They’re all lovely, she says, but they give off different scents and blend differently with other notes. Even the type of soil or the time of day the juice is extracted can affect the scent. Sometimes it takes consumers time to warm up to a more exotic flower, says IFF’s Ferval, but even if the exposure only comes from a perfume bottle, people can develop a taste for it over time: That’s what happened with the mimosa flower, which has more spicy than sweet accords. Green notes naturally complement heady florals — like they would in a vase — and woodsy notes add a modern twist to very classic florals, Ferval explains. For something cheerful and bright, she recommends adding a fruit note, especially a citrus. Elizabeth Arden has a new perfume, Pretty, that experiments with a new capturing technology that combines floral, fruit and woodsy scents into one, without separating individual ingredients. Some other options with strong floral hearts: • Daisy Eau So Fresh by Marc Jacobs. Daisy with wild rose, raspberry, apple blossom and violet. • Calvin Klein Beauty. Lily with ambrette seeds from hibiscus, jasmine and cedarwood.

• Flora by Gucci Eau Fraiche. Rose petals and osmanthus with bergamot, water notes, sandalwood and patchouli. • High Line by Bond No. 9. Grape hyacinth, Lady Jane tulips and red-leaf rose with grass and sea moss. • Dolce & Gabbana Rose The One. Bulgarian rose with

peony, geranium, peach, muguet and musk. • Portrait of a Lady by Frederic Malle. Oriental rose with cinnamon and clove. • Roberto Cavalli Just Pink. Tiare flower (gardenia), white lily and peony, with Bulgarian rose and rosewood.

• Giorgio Armani Acqua di Giora. Jasmine and peony with a “mojito” blend of mint leaves, brown sugar and Italian lemon. • Black by Bijan for Women. Gardenia and rose petals, with pomegranate, jasmine and musk.

pan, stirring until thickened. Strain the sauce through a mesh strainer, if desired. Adjust the seasoning with salt and black pepper. Serve the sauce with the pork chops. Nutrition information per serving: 477 calories; 196

calories from fat (41 percent of total calories); 22 g fat (8 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 108 mg cholesterol; 18 g carbohydrate; 47 g protein; 2 g fiber; 982 mg sodium.

peaks. Frost the cake with the meringue, swirling it with the back of a spoon. To sugar the flowers, in a small bowl beat the egg white and salt until frothy. Using a small, clean paintbrush, paint the flowers with the egg white. Sprinkle with sugar. Decorate the cake

with the flowers. Nutrition information per serving: 679 calories; 255 calories from fat (38 percent of total calories); 29 g fat (17 g saturated; 1 g trans fats); 226 mg cholesterol; 100 g carbohydrate; 10 g protein; 1 g fiber; 325 mg sodium.

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Chops Continued from Page C1. Place the pan on the stovetop over medium heat. Add the wine and scrape the bottom of the pan to loosen any browned bits. Add the chicken broth and bring to a simmer. In a small glass, mix the orange juice and the cornstarch, then add to the

Cake Continued from Page C1. Remove from the heat and whisk in the butter. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and press plastic wrap directly onto the surface. Refrigerate until cold. Once the cakes and filling have cooled, assemble the layers. Use a large, serrated knife to carefully slice the top dome off each layer horizontally to create 3 level layers of cake. Be sure to remove the parchment paper from the bottom of the cakes. Place one layer of cake on a serving platter, then spread half of the filling over the cake. Add a second layer and repeat with the filling. Top with the third layer of cake, overturning the final layer so the bottom is up. Set aside. To make the meringue, in a small saucepan over medium, heat the honey until simmering. In a large bowl use an electric mixer to beat the 4 egg whites and the cream of tartar until very foamy. Slowly add the hot honey while continuing to beat. Continue to beat the whites until they form stiff, glossy

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TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE “Frankie and Johnny” — An ex-convict short-order cook, Al Pacino, chases a Manhattan waitress, Michelle Pfeiffer, who plays hard to get./6:30 on Reelz n SPORTS NBA playoffs — The surprising Atlanta Hawks can take a 2-0 series lead on the top team in the Eastern Conference, the Chicago Bulls, when the teams get together tonight at the United Center./7 on TNT n PRIMETIME Al Pacino “Happy Endings” — Brad plays matchmaker to a co-worker; Penny regrets inviting Jane to her martial-arts class; Dave helps Alex with odd jobs, leading his friends to think he’s not over their relationship./9 on ABC

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Nagin releasing Katrina memoir in June

Former mayor’s book will discuss ‘institutional issues of race and class’ NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ray Nagin, the outspoken New Orleans mayor when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005 and i n the years after, is releasing his storm memoir in June. He sent an e-mail and Twitter notes Tuesday about the book, titled “Katrina’s Secrets: Storms after the Storm.” “Book release June 8. Year to complete. Discovered lot of truth missing from K experience,” his tweet read. “Our story is provacative (sic) & inspirational. Hidden secrets are finally revealed.” Nagin’s press release said the book will discuss “institutional issues of race and class that secretly conspired to control and slow down the recovery” and “the former

MILESTONES n BIRTHDAYS Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt, 83; Dick Dale, rock musician, 74; Nick Ashford, singer-songwriter, 69; Jackie Jackson, singer, 60; Randy Travis, country singer, 52; Mary McDonough, actress, 50; Ana Gasteyer, comedian, 44; Will Arnett, actor, 41; Kimora Lee Simmons, TV personality-fashion designer, 36; Lance Bass, singer, 32. n DEATH Hillyer Speed Lamkin — A writer and socialite once described as “the poor man’s Truman Capote” is dead at 83. Mulhearn Funeral Home in Monroe, La., said Lamkin died Tuesday and will have a private family service Thursday at Old City Cemetery. Composer Ned Rorem called Lamkin “the poor man’s Truman Capote,” and that Tennessee Williams was quoted as saying, “He doesn’t write as well (as Capote) but is more agreeable.” Lamkin’s first novel, “Tiger in the Garden,” was published in 1950, when he was 22; it was reviewed by Time magazine. He won the O. Henry Award for short stories that same year; his second novel, “The Easter Egg Hunt,” was published in 1954.

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State Arts Center to honor Freeman The Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center on Thursday will unveil a Walk of Fame star honoring Morgan Freeman in front of the Mississippi State University Riley Center in Meridian. Freeman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2005 for “Million Dollar Baby.” He also received Oscar nominations in the 1980s for Best Supporting Actor in the films Morgan Freeman “Street Smart” and “Driving Miss Daisy,” and was nominated Best Actor for his 2009 portrayal of South African President Nelson Mandela in “Invictus.” The center’s honors artists in dance, drama, literature, music and the visual arts. The first Walk of Fame star — for Jimmie Rodgers — was unveiled on Feb. 15, 2009. Other stars honor B.B. King, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Marty Stuart and Sela Ward.

Comedian Andy Dick arrested Comedian Andy Dick has been arrested in Southern California for being drunk and disorderly in a restaurant. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said the 45-year-old comic actor was arrested Monday night at Marie Callender’s after reports that he was causing a disturbance in the bar. A sheriff’s statement said Dick appeared to be drunk and was unable to care for his own safeAndy Dick ty. He was booked for public intoxication and released. Messages left Tuesday for his attorney weren’t returned. Dick has a history of arrests. In 2008, he pleaded guilty and received probation after being found drunk outside a Riverside County restaurant. Last year, he was charged with sexual abuse after allegations that he groped a bouncer and a patron at a West Virginia bar.

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‘Marijuana grannies’, facing charges Two women described by a prosecutor as “marijuana grannies” were jailed on allegations that they were growing hundreds of pot plants in their San Bruno home, authorities said Tuesday. Aleen Lam, 72, and Virginia Chan Pon, 65, were arrested Friday after neighbors called police to report a burglary, said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. When officers arrived, they found the door had been kicked in and nobody was home. Through the broken door, police could see marijuana growing inside the house, Wagstaffe said. Police obtained a search warrant and found 800 marijuana plants, $3,000 in cash and an electrical bypass that allowed the women to tap into a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power line to steal electricity, Wagstaffe said. “This has not happened in the 34 years that I’ve been here,” he said in describing the operation and the suspects’ ages. During an arraignment Monday, Lam and Pon pleaded not guilty to cultivation of marijuana, maintaining a house for the sale of marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale and unlawful theft of electricity from a utility, Wagstaffe said. Both were ordered to return to court May 13 for a preliminary hearing. Neither woman had retained a lawyer, but they would be provided with court-appointed attorneys, Wagstaffe said. With bail set at $100,000 each, Lam and Pon were still in custody late Tuesday, Wagstaffe said.

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president’s hesitations that led to Kanye West’s provocative statements, the Governor’s indifferences, Ray racial profilNagin ing, social reengineering plots and federal disaster capitalism.” The press release didn’t identify a publisher but said the book will be published June 8 “via Amazon” with a suggested price of $17.99 for a paperback or $9.99 for an e-book. Amazon owns a print-ondemand self-publishing company. As recently as January, Nagin said he hadn’t decided

whether to write a book about Katrina, The TimesPicayune reported Tuesday. The newspaper quoted an e-mail message from Nagin: “Not sure about a book. What I have done is put together a personal library that connects a lot of dots and tells an amazing story of perseverance and resiliency. Many have been encouraging me to write one, but I have not fully decided yet.” Publicist Pat Heno-Smith did not answer a call and e-mail. Nagin was first elected mayor in 2002, winning a runoff against Richard Pennington, who was then police chief, with strong white voter support. In the days after Katrina, Nagin grabbed the national

spotlight with a desperate public plea to federal officials to “get off your asses and do something” as the city stood under water. While supporters praised him as a man of compassion and faith, critics described him as ineffective and out of touch. Nagin was re-elected in 2006 with strong black support at a time when many lowincome African-Americans feared that they were being left out of the Katrina recovery and losing their voice in city politics. New Orleans mayors are limited to two consecutive terms. Mayor Mitch Landrieu, elected last year, said he arrived to a $67 million deficit caused by “mismanagement from top to bottom” before his inauguration.

The royal treatment

Prince Charles visits D.C. farm, Supreme Court WASHINGTON (AP) — A relaxed and smiling Prince Charles resumed his public duties following his son’s wedding with a trip to Washington, where he offered words of praise and encouragement Tuesday to the operators of a small urban farm that grows produce for low-income residents. The Prince of Wales spent about 35 minutes touring Common Good City Farm on Capitol Hill. Wearing a gray, double-breasted suit on a muggy, windy day, he shook hands and made small talk with farm staffers, volunteers and dozens of onlookers who crammed against a picket fence. He did not speak to reporters or address the crowd, but he chatted with children about composting and the members of a jazz band about their equipment. A longtime advocate of sustainable agriculture, Charles picked up a piece of spinach grown at the farm and popped it into his mouth. “He talked about the food,” said Lonice Queen, 15, who lives near the farm and volunteers there. “He tried it; he loved it.” Charles’ trip to Washington is his first U.S. visit since 2007. Today, he is scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama and will also deliver the keynote address at a conference on “The Future of Food” at Georgetown University. His older son, Prince William, married Kate Middleton Friday. Charles flew to the United States on a private jet

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Britain’s Prince Charles talks with a group of children during a tour of the Common Good City Farm on Capitol Hill Tuesday. donated by Texas billionaire Joe Albritton, a close friend and supporter of the prince’s charities. Earlier Tuesday, Charles visited the Supreme Court and met with Justices Stephen Breyer, Antonin Scalia and Sonia Sotomayor before attending a reception for past Marshall scholars. The scholarship program gives American students a chance to do graduate work in the United Kingdom. Breyer greeted Charles at the curb, and the two strode across the court’s plaza to its imposing front steps, waving

to onlookers. But not even the prince, it seems, can enter the court through its front doors, beneath the words “Equal justice under law.” The court closed the front entrance last year over security concerns. Breyer led Charles around to a new side entrance for visitors. After about an hour at the court, Charles and Breyer exited through the front door. The prince made his way over to onlookers, where he had his picture taken, chatted and shook hands. Breyer, whose wife is English, said he had met Charles

before. The prince’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II, visited the court in 1951, before she became queen. Charles arrived at Common Good City Farm late Tuesday afternoon. The farm sits on the former baseball diamond of a razed elementary school in a low-income community near the campus of Howard University. At least one in five residents of the LeDroit Park neighborhood is overweight, and nearly one in 10 has diabetes, according to the farm’s executive director, Pertula George.

Holocaust Museum to digitize vast archive for web WASHINGTON (AP) — Joseph Finkelstein had never seen a photograph of his grandfather. The family had no idea when he died or where he was buried. Finkelstein’s father last saw him on April 28, 1945, when they were separated at Mathaussen Concentration Camp in Austria. For decades Finkelstein’s father, who’s now 85, had carried an enormous load of guilt because they got split up. It took years of poring over microfilm and original documents for them to begin to find answers, but a Washington museum is hoping to use the Internet to make the process go faster for other families. Persistent research at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum — and even a trip to Poland and Austria — helped the family learn in the last two years that Jakob Finkelstein had survived to see the camp’s liberation but died four days later, simply too sick and weak. And he had a real burial spot in a municipal cemetery in Austria. It’s resources like those that the museum hopes to make available to people around the world with the ease of a few keystrokes. “I’m stunned. I thought everything was lost, that there

Online www.worldmemoryproject.org/ was no way to find anything more,” said Joseph Finkelstein, 59, of Bala Cynwyd, Pa. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry. com announced Tuesday that they are recruiting the public to help build the world’s largest online database of information on victims of the Holocaust. The World Memory Project aims to make the museum’s 170 million docu-

ments easily searchable for free online. Curators say the records contain information on at least 17 million people targeted by the Nazis. About 50,000 of those records are currently searchable by name on the website, but much more work needs to be done, said Lisa Yavnai, director of the museum’s Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center. “You might have a collection of 700 microfilm reels from Poland, but if you’re looking for one person, it’s really hard to find,” she said. Predating its project with the

museum, Provo, Utah-based Ancestry has built a network of 60,000 volunteers who index records that include genealogies and municipal records to make them searchable. Anyone can join the effort now to help index Holocaust records that include German occupation records, community records from across Europe and displaced persons records from the Allied forces after the war. The project’s organizers plan to enlist survivors, teachers, students and museum visitors to help.

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Webby awards Officials try to ID body Galifianakis, Funny or Die lead Internet winners in home of ex-Playmate LOS ANGELES (AP) — DNA tests might be needed to identify a badly decomposed body found in the home of a former Playboy playmate and B-movie actress who appeared in “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,” a coroner’s official said Tuesday. The body was discovered last week in pack-rat conditions in the neglected Benedict Canyon home of Yvette Vickers. It was unrecognizable as a man or woman and listed in records only as a “Doe.” It could take a week to determine the identity. A neighbor found the body in what was initially reported as a mummified state. It appeared to have gone undiscovered for several months to a year, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said. Neighbor Susan Savage said she saw letters and cobwebs in Vickers’ mailbox before going into the house and discovering the body upstairs in a room with a small space heater in the “on” position. “The letters seemed untouched and were starting to yellow,” Savage said. “I just had a bad feeling.” The 82-year-old Vickers had appeared in cult movies such as “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman” in 1958 and “Attack of the Giant Leeches” in 1959. She was a Playboy magazine playmate in July 1959. Savage described her neighbor as an elegant woman with flowing blond hair and warm smile. Born Yvette Vedder on Aug. 26, 1928, in Kansas City, Mo., she attended the University of California, Los Angeles, before discovering acting and leaving school to pursue it. Her first film role was as a giggling girl in “Sunset Boulevard” in 1950.

NEW YORK (AP) — As a mock interview show host, Zach Galifianakis is accruing awards at the rate of a “60 Minutes” correspondent. Galifianakis led the 15th annual Webby Awards Tuesday with four awards for his Web series “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.” He won best Web personality/host, best comedy short and best online variety show. He won the latter in both the voter-chosen “People’s Voice” category and the proper Webby Award category. The Webbys, which celebrate Internet achievement, are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a group of 750 Web experts as well as other Internet professionals. Galifianakis’ irreverent, sporadically released show, which appears on FunnyOrDie.com, is done in the style of a cable access show. Galifianakis, who was honored last year by the Webbys as best actor, belligerently and absurdly interviews celebrity guests. Lisa Kudrow won two awards for her “Web Ther-

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Will Ferrell in a Funny or Die skit apy” series. Arcade Fire’s innovative “The Wilderness Downtown” music video also won two awards, as did the interactive “Johnny Cash Project.” Both Web-based music videos were directed by Chris Milk. Justin Bieber took the People’s Voice award for best comedy video for his April Fool’s takeover of FunnyOrDie.com as “Bieber or Die.” The site’s home page was remade with clips featuring Bieber in famous viral videos.

The comedy site, co-founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, earned a total of nine awards. That included the Webby for best humor site and a People’s Voice award for Jim Carrey’s performance as Ronald Reagan in the site’s star-packed “Presidential Reunion” video. The app sensation “Angry Birds” was chosen for best game, for both the Webby and the People’s Voice award. The New Yorker’s website won the Webby for best magazine site and for best copy/

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writing. PBS’ iPad app was picked for best entertainment for a tablet. Conan O’Brien’s TeamCoco.com won the Webby for best celebrity or fan website. The New York Times, which recently began charging readers for access to its site, won three awards in how-to, travel and mobile. NPR won for best news site and for best radio/podcasts. Pandora won for best music site. A full list of winners is available at WebbyAwards.com. Special recognition awards will be announced later. The awards will be handed out in a ceremony in New York City on June 13. The Webbys are famous for their trademark brevity, with acceptance speeches limited to just five words.

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BY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION If tomorrow is your birthday: Because the year ahead is destined to contain an excellent growth cycle, keep your head out of the clouds and your feet squarely on the ground. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — If an associate at work tries to copy what you are doing, find a quiet corner off by yourself where you can perform your job. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Should you find yourself smack up against someone who always tries to upstage others, don’t let this person steal your spotlight. Protect yourself, don’t wreck yourself. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Don’t let self-doubt fill you with pessimism regarding outcome of events. If you can maintain a can-do spirit, everything will work out just fine. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Although there is little doubt that you will be a welcome addition to a social gathering, a friend of yours who tags along might not feel so embraced. Help him or her to feel included. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’re not likely to get things by merely snapping your fingers, but you will get what your work entitles you to receive. It’ll be in your hands as to how much or how little you make. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Today is not likely to be without its frustrations, so it will be important to keep a cool head. By holding things together, you’ll be able to overcome any impediment that bars your path. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — One of the most admirable things about you is your helpfulness to those who need assistance. Don’t be surprised if people who can’t manage on their own lean on you. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Before attempting something new, you should think through all the things that could go wrong and try to avoid them as much as possible. It’ll help you get off to a good start. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — When you’re working with a clearly defined objective, impressive achievements become far more probable. Don’t mar this clarity by taking on a lot of inessential side projects. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Avoid discussing exciting plans with someone who is a negative thinker and is apt to put a damper on them. Tell a pal who’ll add pizzazz on your ideas. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — As long as you and your associates don’t have unrealistic expectations, you can make a joint endeavor successful. Be grounded and realistic, and avoid enticing yet false utopian goals. Aries (March 21-April 19) — You can add a substantial amount of productivity to your work simply by showing a willingness to cooperate with colleagues. You’ll accomplish much by sharing.

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BY DR. ROBERT WALLACE • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION Dr. Wallace: I don’t like my English teacher. She’s too strict and gives too much homework. She is also a very hard grader. A person needs to do A work just to get a B. My sister had this teacher two years ago and feels the same way that I do. I went to my counselor and asked for a transfer to another English class, but my counselor refused my request. I told my counselor that he’d be hearing from my mother about this. And he told me he wouldn’t change my class, even if my father was the premier of Canada. What’s the big deal about changing a class when student and teacher don’t see eye to eye? If I’m not learning in this class, why can’t I have a chance at learning from another teacher? No wonder most kids hate school. — Nameless, London, Ontario. Nameless: Counselors rare-

ly remove a student from a class because the student doesn’t like the teacher. If that were permitted, high school scheduling would be chaos. It looks like you’re stuck where you are — but be aware that learning is possible, even under circumstances that seem unpleasant at first. Instead of stewing in frustration all semester, give the teacher a chance and see what she has to impart. There are far worse faults than being a tough grader. • Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@ Copley News Service.

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Sundowner’s syndrome linked to Alzheimer’s Dear Dr. Gott: Please write something on sundowner’s syndrome. It seems as though this is fairly common. Thank you for all the great information I have read. Dear Reader: Sundowner’s, or sundowning, is confusion that generally occurs late in the day, although it has been known to occur during earlymorning hours as well. The cause appears elusive and is often misunderstood. The disorder is commonly seen in hospital or nursinghome settings where an older individual might be forced to adjust to a different setting. Or, in some cases, it can manifest following illness or surgery. Sundowner’s might be temporary for some but prolonged in other instances. It is seen primarily in Alzheimer’s patients, in those with Parkinson’s and with other forms of dementia. As a matter of fact, up to 25 percent of all diagnosed Alzheimer’s patients have been found to exhibit sundowner’s as well. As the day progresses, a patient becomes fatigued and less able to deal with stress. In the case of hospital or nursing-home placement, it is likely all visitors have gone home for the day and there is less to occupy a person’s mind. Perhaps medications have been administered prior to sleep. The patient who was stimulated earlier in the day has nothing to occupy his or her mind and appears increasingly forgetful and agitated. Memory loss seems greater. Blood-pressure readings might be lower. Patients might see things that aren’t there or perceive things to be other than what they actually are. These visions can be extremely frightening. Treatment might include establishing a repetitive routine that a patient can rely on. Continuity is good. Noise from the radio and television during evening hours might exacerbate agitation in some but help others. Allow the patient’s sleeping area to remain lit during the night such as with a nightlight. Review all medications to be assured they don’t have insomnia or disrupted sleep patterns as a side effect. Ask the doctor about the use of over-the-counter melatonin or St. John’s wort as a possible sleep aid. Avoid giving food items later in the

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day that contain caffeine, such as coffee and chocolate. Monitor the patient’s diet to determine whether any specific foods trigger agitation. While not always possible to accomplish, family members or caregivers who can spend nighttime hours with a patient in a nursing home or hospital setting will provide a comforting sense of familiarity that might avoid symptoms. Keep in mind that with those patients able to ultimately return home to familiar surroundings, sundowner’s can disappear completely, making the process of providing appropriate care easier. The fact that the condition might appear out of the blue is no reflection on the quality or capabilities of a facility where a patient might be placed.

• Write to Dr. Peter Gott in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th fl., New York, NY 10016.

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The Vicksburg Post

01. Legals SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, on September 21, 2001, Petroleum Realty, L.L.C., a Mississippi limited liability company, as Debtor, executed that certain Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents and Leases, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing ("Deed of Trust") to Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation, as Trustee, in favor of GE Capital Franchise Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation, as Beneficiary, which Deed of Trust was recorded on October 5, 2001 at 4:10 p.m. in Book 1277 at Page 840 in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, State of Mississippi; and WHEREAS, said GE Capital Franchise Finance Corporation, the legal holder of the said Deed of Trust and the note secured thereby, substituted James J. McNamara IV, as Trustee therein, as authorized by the terms thereof, by instrument recorded in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk as Instrument Number 286090 in Book 1520 at Page 511; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the performance of the conditions and stipulations as set forth by said Deed of Trust, and having been requested by the legal holder of the indebtedness secured and described by said Deed of Trust so to do, notice is hereby given that I, James J. McNamara IV, Substitute Trustee, by virtue of the authority conferred upon me in said Deed of Trust, will offer for sale and will sell at public sale and outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, during the legal hours (between the hours of 11 o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clock p.m.) at the front door steps of the County Courthouse of Warren County, Mississippi, located at 1009 Cherry St., Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the 31st day of May, 2011, the following described land and property being the same land and property described in said Deed of Trust, situated in Warren County, State of Mississippi, to-wit: A parcel of land containing 0.39 acres, more or less, situated in the North 1/4 of Irregular Section 20, Township 15 North, Range 3 East, of the County of Warren, State of Mississippi, being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the East Right-of-Way margin of the Illinois Central Railroad and the North boundary line of Lot 13 of the Mattingly-Magnolia Plantation Survey, thence run along said North line of said Lot 13, S 75 degrees 30'00" E for a distance of 738.00 feet to a point on the West right of way margin of U.S. Highway 61; thence run S 11 degrees 35'00" W, along said West right of way margin of U.S. Highway 61 for a distance of 60.00 feet to an iron pin, said point being the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; thence continue S 11degrees 35'00" W, along said West right of way margin of U.S. Highway 61 for a distance of 150.00 feet to an iron pin on the North right of way margin of Magnolia Street; thence run N 74 degrees 54'00" W for a distance of 111.40 feet, along said North right of way margin of Magnolia Street, to an iron pin; thence run N 09 degrees 56'00" E for a distance of 150.00 feet to an iron pin; thence run S 75 degrees 30'00" E for a distance of 115.71 feet to an iron pin and back to the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature, on this the 28th day of April, 2011. /s/ James J. McNamara IV JAMES J. MCNAMARA IV SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE PREPARED BY: Jim McNamara (MSB #100690) Adams and Reese LLP 1018 Highland Colony Pkwy, Ste. 800 Ridgeland, MS 39157 601-353-3234 Publish: 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25(4t)

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Vicksburg Housing Authority, Vicksburg, Mississippi will receive bids for their "2010 Capital Fund Program" at the Management Office at 131 Elizabeth Circle, Vicksburg, MS until 2:00 pm, Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at which time they will publicly opened and read. The work will generally involve the replacement of exterior aluminum windows and security screens. Drawings and Specifications are available in the office of Jones-Zander, Architecture Planning, P. O. Box 1365, 1500 Gate Way, Grenada, Mississippi 38901-1365 to each General Contractor upon deposit of $40 per set. Deposits will be refunded to bona fide bidders on return of the bid documents in good condition within ten (10) days after opening of bids. Subcontractors and material suppliers may secure documents upon deposit of $40 of which $20 will be retained for reproduction and handling costs, whenever plans are returned to the Architect within ten (10) days after bid opening date. Each bid must be submitted in duplicate on forms furnished by the Architect and must be accompanied by a certified check or bid bond in an amount not less that 5% of the Base Bid; the successful bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the Contract. The work will be awarded under one prime contract. For bids in excess of $50,000, bid envelopes shall contain, on the exterior side, the Contractor's Certificate of Responsibility number. NO EXCEPTIONS All bids shall be written on the form provided and shall be sealed in an envelope. All other methods of bidding, except telegraphic

they will publicly opened and read. The work will generally involve the replacement of exterior aluminum windows and security screens. Drawings and Specifications are available in the office of Jones-Zander, Architecture Planning, P. O. Box 1365, 1500 Gate Way, Grenada, Mississippi 38901-1365 to each General Contractor upon deposit of $40 per set. Deposits will be refunded to bona fide bidders on return of the bid documents in good condition within ten (10) days after opening of bids. Subcontractors and material suppliers may secure documents upon deposit of $40 of which $20 will be retained for reproduction and handling costs, whenever plans are returned to the Architect within ten (10) days after bid opening date. Each bid must be submitted in duplicate on forms furnished by the Architect and must be accompanied by a certified check or bid bond in an amount not less that 5% of the Base Bid; the successful bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the Contract. The work will be awarded under one prime contract. For bids in excess of $50,000, bid envelopes shall contain, on the exterior side, the Contractor's Certificate of Responsibility number. NO EXCEPTIONS All bids shall be written on the form provided and shall be sealed in an envelope. All other methods of bidding, except telegraphic modifications, will be considered non-responsive. NO EXCEPTIONS The successful bidder will be required to furnish and pay for satisfactory Performance and Payment Bonds or a 20% cash escrow. Attention is called to the provisions for equal employment opportunity, and payment of not less than the minimum salaries and wages as set forth in the Specifications must be paid on this project. This project is subject to the provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act, and HUD Section 3 requirements. No bidder may withdraw his bid within 45 days after the date set for the opening thereof, and each bidder must comply with the laws of the State of Mississippi and all local laws relative to the performance of said work. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and to waive any and all formalities and informalities. Submitted by: Mr. Dannie Walker Executive Director Publish: 4/27, 5/4(2t)

01. Legals

NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ESSIE RUCKER DURMAN, DECEASED CAUSE NO. 2010-0140PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS Letters Testamentary having been granted on the 11th day of October, 2010, by the Chancery Court of Warren County, Mississippi, to the undersigned Executor upon the Estate Of Essie Rucker Durman, Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to the clerk of this court for probate and registration according to the law within ninety (90) days from the first publication of this notice or they will be forever barred. This the 9th day of April, 2010. /s/ Maurice Durman EXECUTOR Publish: 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18 (3t)

INVITATION FOR BIDS FOREST PRODUCTS FOR SALE NOTICE Sealed bids will be received by the Vicksburg Warren Schools up to and no later than 10:00 a.m., May 19, 2011 for the right to cut and remove all timber, standing or down, designated for that purpose on Section 16, Township 8 North, Range 4 West, Warren County, Mississippi. Before bids are submitted, full information concerning the material for sale, conditions of sale and submission of bids should be obtained from Tommy Walker, Mississippi Forestry Commission Office, Vicksburg, Mississippi, phone number 601-927-9383. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Please send invoice and proof of publication to: Vicksburg Warren Schools P.O. Box 820065 Vicksburg, MS 39182 Please send an additional proof of publication to: Mississippi Forestry Commission Capital District 3139 Highway 468 Pearl, MS. 39208 Publish: 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18 (4t) ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Board of Trustees of the Vicksburg Warren School District will receive bids until 1:00 p.m., May 24, 2011 for the purchase of Sanitation & Safety Training, Service, Materials and HACCP Development & Training. Specifications may be obtained from the Office of Child Nutrition, School Services Building, 1814 Baldwin Ferry Road, Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids and to waive any informailities. Dr. Elizabeth Swinford, Superintendent Vicksburg Warren School District Publish: 4/27, 5/4(2t)

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

02. Public Service

06. Lost & Found

07. Help Wanted

KEEP UP WITH all the local news and sales...Subscribe to The Vicksburg Post TODAY!! Call 601636-4545, Circulation.

FOUND ON RING Road. Pitbull with collar. Call to identify.601-629-4371

AVON LETS YOU earn extra money. Become an Avon Representative today. Call 601-454-8038.

LOST A DOG? Found a cat? Let The Vicksburg Post help! Run a FREE 3 day ad! 601-636-SELL or e-mail classifieds@vicksburg post.com

OLD RECYCABLE TIRES with rims. 601-6388134 after 12 Noon.

05. Notices

LOST! MISSING FROM FREETOWN Road/ Openwood area. Male Bloodhound, 16 months old, red, family pet. 601-278-8628.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Credit problems? No problem!â&#x20AC;? No way. The Federal Trade Commission says no company can legally remove accurate and timely information from your credit report. Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc.gov/credit A message from The Vicksburg Post and the FTC.

LOST! SHIH TZU. 2 years, 8 months old, white with black patches, missing from Amber Leaf/ Highway 80 vicinity. 318-341-9204, 601-6297522.

Center For Pregnancy Choices Free Pregnancy Tests

07. Help Wanted

(non-medical facility)

Âˇ Education on All Options Âˇ Confidential Counseling Call 601-638-2778 for appt www.vicksburgpregnancy.com

NEEDED!!! ACCOUNTS MANAGER

Must be computer literate, long term care medicaid/ medicare billing experience preferred, must be able to multi-task, work with deadlines, have good people skills.

EMERGENCY CA$H BORROW $100.00 PAYBACK $105.00 BEST DEAL IN TOWN VALID CHECKING ACCOUNT REQUIRED FOR DETAILS CALL

Mail resume to: P.O. Box 820485 Vicksburg, MS 39181

â&#x20AC;&#x153;ACEâ&#x20AC;? Truck Driver Training With a Difference Job Placement Asst. Day, Night & Refresher Classes Get on the Road NOW! Call 1-888-430-4223

601-638-7000 9 TO 5 MON.- FRI. ENDING HOMELESSNESS. WOMEN with children or without are you in need of shelter? Mountain of Faith Ministries/ Women's Restoration Shelter. Certain restrictions apply, 601-661-8990. Life coaching available by appointment.

Is the one you love hurting you? Call

Haven House Family Shelter 601-638-0555 or 1-800-898-0860 Services available to women & children who are victims of domestic violence and/or homeless: Shelter, counseling, group support. (Counseling available by appt.) KEEP UP WITH all the local news and sales...subscribe to The Vicksburg Post Today! Call 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.

Runaway Are you 12 to 17? Alone? Scared? Call 601-634-0640 anytime or 1-800-793-8266 We can help! One child, one day at a time.

06. Lost & Found $200.00 REWARD Lost! (04/21/2011) BLACK & WHITE Shih-TZU. CULKIN Road area 601-529-18987. NO QUESTIONS ASKED. BLACK MALE DOBERMAN Grey Female Bulldog. Oak Park area. 601-6380900, 601-618-3147.

REWARD!! Lost Black male cat wearing silver collar. McAuley Drive area. 601-630-7837.

07. Help Wanted

MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124

Capital Projects Manager Lake Providence, LA The Capital Projects Manager oversees all aspects of the specification, design, permitting, and construction/implementation of various capital project subsystems. The Capital Project Manager is responsible for completion of the project on time, on budget and on spec. The PM performs a variety of tasks including, but not limited to, coordinating all resources and stakeholders; setting deadlines; assigning responsibilities; tracking progress; identifying, developing, and implementing effective and timely solutions to team, technical, and resource constraint related problems; summarizing and communicating the status of the project. Qualifications â&#x20AC;˘ Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering â&#x20AC;˘ 5 years minimum relative experience in petroleum, ethanol, or biochemical industries. â&#x20AC;˘ 5 years experience in conceptual development, design and implementation, planning and scheduling, and project management of major capital projects with a total project budget of greater than $100 million. â&#x20AC;˘ Experience in environmental and construction permitting. â&#x20AC;˘ Experience communicating and collaborating at a variety of levels with customers, vendors, equipment suppliers, and operations staff â&#x20AC;˘ Possess strong leadership and communication skills, work well in a team environment, and be able to react to changing business needs â&#x20AC;˘ Experience at managing multi disciplined technical staff and experience supporting biochemical manufacturing operations is desired â&#x20AC;˘ Excellent organization and communication skills with demonstrated ability to execute projects on time and on budget Must be familiar with MS Office Applications, MS Project or Primavera, a n d have good accounting practices. Please forward resumes to jgary@myriant.com Classified Advertising really brings big results!

We are seeking professional, enthusiastic, caring & compassionate nurses for case management positions to work within our excellent TEAM environment.

REGISTERED NURSE POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Pick up application, fax, or bring resume to: 1825 I-20 N. FRONTAGE RD., SUITE A VICKSBURG, MS 39180 PHONE: 601-634-8836 FAX: 601-634-6546

BE YOUR OWN boss! Process medical claims from home on your computer. Call The Federal Trade Commission to find out how to spot medical billing scams. 1-877-FTC-HELP. A message from The Vicksburg Post and The FTC. DUMP TRUCK DRIVERS Kanza Construction is seeking experienced dump truck drivers. Applicants must possess Class A CDL and proficiency operating 2-axle or 3-axle trucks. Must pass drug screening , and background check. Fax resume to 785233-3558 or email it to kkirksey@kanzagroup.com call 785-233-5347 or 601-634-8979.

!! " # $%&'$($' )*)* # ' + " LOOKING FOR LABORERS to start in the Maritime Industry. Entry level positions start at $690-$790 per week. Sign up for training today. Call 850-424-2606. MECHANIC NEEDED. 5 years experience, must have own tools, be DRUG FREE. NO PHONE CALLS. Apply in person Stevens Service Center Inc. 800 Hwy 80. NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for Papa Johns. Pick up and return applications to F&G Beverage 1707 Washington Street. MondayFriday 8am- 10pm.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every Day of Life Countsâ&#x20AC;? We are a Dynamic skilled nursing facility seeking an energetic individual.

â&#x20AC;˘CHEF Covenant Health & Rehabilitation of Vicksburg, LLC 2850 Porters Chapel Road Vicksburg, MS 39180-1805 Phone: (601) 638-9211 Fax: (601) 636-4986

What are your dreams?â&#x20AC;? EOE

AKC/ CKC REGISTERED Yorkies, Yorkie-Poos, Maltese, Malti-Poos. $400 and up! 601-218-5533,

CHIHUAHUA BABIES. MOMS day ready. 6 weeks, Tiny to bigger. Wormed, registered. Delhi 318-6802100. 318-282-0437. CKC SHIA-A-POO. 1 female, 3 males, various colors, 7 weeks old, shots, wormed. $200 each. 601218-3132.

Vicksburg Warren Humane Society & MS - Span Low Cost Spay & Neuter Program CATS: Male . .$25 Female ........$35 DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS): Male . .$55 Female ........$65 â&#x20AC;˘ For the above category of animals, pick up applications at the Humane Society DOGS (OVER 40 LBS): Male . .$70 Female ........$80 â&#x20AC;˘ For dogs over 40 lbs, call 866-901-7729 for appt.

Hwy 61 S - 601-636-6631

www.pawsrescuepets.org

Foster a Homeless Pet!

SMALL TOY POODLE babies. Ready for Mom. Shots, wormed, registered. $200 and up. 318-680-2100 318-282-0437.Delhi

15. Auction

TO BUY OR SELL

LOOKING FOR A great value? Subscribe to The Vicksburg Post, 601-6364545, ask for Circulation.

CALL 601-636-7535

17. Wanted To Buy

AVON

$10 START UP KIT

12. Schools & Instruction AIRLINES ARE HIRINGTrain for high paying Aviation Career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualified â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 866-455-4317. ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE from home. *Medical, *Business, *Paralegal, *Allied Health. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial aid if qualified. SCHEV certified. Call 888-210-5162. www.Centura.us.com

14. Pets & Livestock 50 ACRES PASTURE boarding. Barn, round pen, wash rack, 250 riding acres. $100 monthly per horse. 601638-8988. AKC DOBERMAN PINCHERS! 6 weeks old, males and females, shots given, tails docked. $285 each, 601-8702903.

READ THE CLASSIFIEDS daily!

24. Business Services

Barnes Glass Quality Service at Competitive Prices #1 Windshield Repair & Replacement

Vans â&#x20AC;˘ Cars â&#x20AC;˘ Trucks â&#x20AC;˘Insurance Claims Welcomeâ&#x20AC;˘

$ I BUY JUNK CARS $ I will pickup your junk car and pay you cash today! Call 601-618-6441. GOOD, USED ALUMINUM CANOES. Call Vicksburg YMCA, 601-6381071. JUNK CARS: GET rid of those snake dens and rat dens. Bring them to us or we'll pick them up! 601-218-0038. WE BUY ESTATES. Households and quality goods. Best prices. You call, we haul! 601-415-3121, 601-661-6074. www.msauctionservice.com WE HAUL OFF old appliances, lawn mowers, hot water heaters, junk and abandoned cars, trucks, vans, etcetera. 601-940-5075, if no answer, please leave message.

18. Miscellaneous For Sale Horseback Birthday Parties

Silver Creek Equestrian 601-638-8988 silvercreekarena.com

Classifieds Really Work!

24. Business Services

â&#x20AC;˘ Dozer / Trackhoe Work â&#x20AC;˘ Dump Truck â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ Bush Hogging â&#x20AC;˘ Box Blade â&#x20AC;˘ Demolition â&#x20AC;˘ Debris Removal â&#x20AC;˘ Lawn Maintenance â&#x20AC;˘ Deliver Dirt -13 yd. load $85 locally â&#x20AC;˘ Gravel â&#x20AC;˘ Sand â&#x20AC;˘ Rock Res. & Com. â&#x20AC;˘ Lic. & Ins. Robert Keyes, Jr. (Owner) 601-529-0894 Professional Services & Competitive Prices â&#x20AC;˘ Landscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Septic Systems â&#x20AC;˘ Irrigation: Install & Repair â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial & Residential Grass Cutting Licensed â&#x20AC;˘ Bonded â&#x20AC;˘ Insured 12 years experience Roy Simmons (Owner) 601-218-8341

NEW MATTRESS SETS. Twin- $189, Full- $259, Queen- $289, 4 drawer chest- $75. Discount Furniture Barn, 601-638-7191.

6 FOOT FINISH mower. $750 or best offer. 601-218-3252 CERAMIC BUSINESS. 1000 molds with large kiln. $800. 601-634-8199. FOR LESS THAN 45 cents per day, have The Vicksburg Post delivered to your home. Only $14 per month, 7 day delivery. Call 601-636-4545, Circulation Department. LOTS OF QUALITY Furniture! Stretch your $$$ *Great Prices, layaways, All About Bargains, 1420 Washington, Downtown, 601-631-0010.

Fresh Seafood, & Sack Oysters, Live Crawfish $1.99/ lb

â&#x20AC;˘ BACK ROADS â&#x20AC;˘ Playing Saturday 9pm-1am C heapest Prices in Town

STRICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SEAFOOD 601-218-2363

07. Help Wanted

THE PET SHOP â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vicksburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pet Boutiqueâ&#x20AC;? 3508 South Washington Street Pond fish, Gold fish, Koi, fish food aquarium needs, bird food, designer collars, harnesses & leads, loads of pet supplies! Bring your Baby in for a fitting today!

USED TIRES! LIGHT trucks and SUV's, 16's, 17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A few matching sets! Call TD's, 601-638-3252. WAHER/ DRYER $75 each, 2 year old Gas hot water heater $75. 601-6299972.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t send that lamp to the curb! Find a new home for it through the Classifieds. Area buyers and sellers use the Classifieds every day. Besides, someone out there needs to see the light. 610-636-SELL

07. Help Wanted

The City of Vicksburg is now taking applications for

FIREFIGHTER To qualify you must: â&#x153;° be a United States Citizen â&#x153;° be at least 21 years of age â&#x153;° have a valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license â&#x153;° have an ACT score of 17 or COMPASS score of 70 (reading) or be a Nationally Registered EMT/Paramedic â&#x153;° You must submit to a background check; cannot have a felony conviction There are other qualifications you must meet which are not listed due to limited space. Application packets may be obtained at The City of Vicksburg Human Resource Office, 1415 Walnut Street, Vicksburg, MS 39180 beginning April 18, 2011 and must be returned by 5:00 p.m., Monday, May 16, 2011. The agility test will be held May 20, 2011 at 8:00 a.m. The written exam will be May 27, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. Also, looking for Paramedics For further information call 601-631-3710, ext 1

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BOSK & BOWER

River City Dirt Work, LLC

2 BURIAL PLOTS in Green Acres Memorial Park. Please call 601-2183830 or 601-638-2671.

New Homes

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2006 16x80 Three bedroom 2 bath, mint condition. $22,900. 601-941-9116.

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SPORTS WEdn e sday, May 4, 2011 • SE C TI O N D

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Trains on time Former Mississippi State star Keith Fitzhugh is glad he passed on the NFL and is still working on the railroad. Story/D4

By The Associated Press

tackle Nick Fairley. “I remember seeing Fairley, but I don’t think I had to go up against him,” Newton said. “I mainly had to worry about their defensive ends. It was a good test for me to go up against a team from the SEC. I felt I did pretty good against their D-line.” While on the sideline, Newton got to watch another Newton, a unrelated quarterback named Cam, go to work against the Red Wolves’ defense. “He was crazy good,” Derek Newton said of the Auburn quarterback. “A couple of wide receivers had big games, too.” Auburn earned a 52-26 win. Cam Newton won the Heisman Trophy and was the first player taken in last Thursday’s NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers. Arkansas State, meanwhile, struggled to a 4-8 record. “We just couldn’t finish

CHICAGO — In his decadelong professional career, Francisco Liriano had never thrown a shutout or even a complete game. Not at any level, not in any league. So much for those old stats. Now, he’s Mr. No-Hitter. The struggling Minnesota lefty pitched the first no-hitter in the majors this season, hanging on Tuesday night for a most unlikely gem and a 1-0 win over Chicago White Sox. “It’s an opportunity for him that he will remember for the rest of his life,” said former Twins ace Bert Blyleven, who’s headed to the Hall of Fame. Liriano (2-4) began the game with a 9.13 ERA and had been getting tagged so much that there was speculation he’d lose his spot in the Twins’ rotation. Liriano dodged six walks and struck out only two. Of his 123 pitches, just 66 were strikes. “To be honest I was running out of gas,” he said. “I just thank my teammates that they made some great plays behind me tonight.” The final out came on perhaps Chicago’s hardest-hit ball of the evening, with shortstop Matt Tolbert taking two quick steps to snare Adam Dunn’s line drive. “When I go out there I try to think positive,” the 27-year-old Liriano said. “I don’t want to think about, ‘They’re going to put me in the bullpen.”’ After lasting just three innings in his previous start against Tampa Bay, Liriano excelled on a cold night at U.S. Cellular Field. The Twins ended a six-game losing streak in a matchup of shaky teams. Liriano mixed fastballs, sliders and soft stuff, kept the

See Newton, Page D3.

See Liriano, Page D3.

Schedule SPRING FOOTBALL Vicksburg at Taylorsville May 12, 5 p.m. WC at Yazoo City May 13, 5 p.m. St. Aloysius at Ridgeland May 13, 5 p.m.

On TV 7 p.m. TNT - The Atlanta Hawks face off against the newly named and hobbling MVP, Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose, in Game 2 of their second-round series. Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers hope to draw even in Game 2 of their series against the Dallas Mavericks in the nightcap.

Who’s hot TRE WILSON Warren Central soccer player signed with East Central Community College on Tuesday.

Sidelines Court fast tracks NFL request

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday to fast track the NFL’s request to put its labor lockout in place until a new deal is finally worked out. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis set a June 3 hearing, with 30 minutes of oral argument for each side, before Judges Duane Benton, Kermit Bye and Steven Colloton. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson issued her injunction stopping the lockout on April 25 and denied the NFL’s appeal two days later. The league appealed to the 8th Circuit, and the same three-judge panel issued a temporary stay of Nelson’s order on Friday. The lockout was put back in place by the owners a few hours later. The 8th Circuit is still deciding whether to make the stay more permanent, until the appeals process can play out. Under the appeals schedule set up Tuesday, the league’s opening brief is due May 9 and the players must file their response brief by May 20.

LOTTERY Pick 3: 5-0-8 Pick 4: 2-8-4-7 Weekly results: D2

Arkansas State sports Information

jeff byrd•The Vicksburg Post

Former Hinds AHS tackle Derek Newton started all 12 games at right tackle for Arkansas State and was named to the AllSun Belt Conference team.

Hinds AHS football coach Michael Fields, left, has gotten a player from his program drafted. Derek Newton, right, was picked by the Houston Texans with the 214th selection.

A dream delayed for Newton Drafted by the Texans, former Hinds AHS lineman waits for NFL lockout to end By Jeff Byrd jbyrd@vicksburgpost.com UTICA — A dream was realized late Saturday when the Houston Texans called Arkansas State tackle Derek Newton to tell him that he was their seventh-round draft pick. Unfortunately, fulfilling the dream for the No. 214 overall pick will have to wait. The former Hinds AHS standout is locked out like the rest of the NFL players by the owners unless the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ultimately sides with U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson, whose ruling last month had lifted the lockout for a day. So Newton, all 6-foot-5, 315 pounds of him, must sit. “Yeah, because of the lockout, all you can do is wait,” Newton said on a rainy Tuesday morning at his old high school gym. Newton said he expected to get a call from a team. He

had a standout senior season for the Red Wolves and was named to the first-team AllSun Belt team at right tackle. “For me, it wasn’t a matter of if, but when I would be drafted,” a confident Newton said. “I had heard from a lot of teams. Chicago showed a lot of interest. So did Houston and Miami. The Redskins were kind of so-so.” In the end, it was the Texans that made the call. New Arkansas State coach Hugh Freeze, who served as the Red Wolves’ offensive coordinator during Newton’s three years in Jonesboro, felt the Texans liked what they saw on film. Arkansas State opened its 2010 season against eventual Bowl Championship Series national champion Auburn. “We run a very similar offense to what the Texans run, especially in the passing game,” said Freeze, who was former Ole Miss left tackle Michael Oher’s high school coach. “Derek was very good

on his one-on-one protections. He’s a good ft in their scheme.” Newton said just because he played in the Sun Belt Conference, his playing ability should not be overlooked. “We played some good teams while I was at Arkansas State,” Newton said. “We opened last year at Auburn. We played Louisville twice. Navy had a good team. We also played Nebraska and Iowa. We may not have played in the SEC, but every team has got some good athletes. The ones who separate themselves are the ones who play their hearts out.” Freeze said that Newton made an impression against Auburn. “Three of their linemen were taken in the draft and, yet, we still managed to get 370 yards in offense against them,” Freeze said. “Derek held his own against a talented front.” One of those was Detroit’s first round pick, defensive

Brees: Bush can still play a key role in Saints’ success By Brett Martel The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees says he has been in touch with Reggie Bush and hopes the running back will see that he can still play a key role with the Saints even though the club made a trade to acquire Alabama running back Mark Ingram in the first round of last week’s NFL draft. Brees said he saw a Twitter post in which Bush wrote, “It’s been fun New Orleans,” shortly after Ingram was drafted. Brees said he texted words of encouragement to Bush soon after. “I think that’s just frustration a little bit, just because they draft a guy at your position,” Brees said. “But I think the message that was sent to him was,’By no means look at that as ... you’re getting shown the door, that we don’t want you,’ or anything like that.” Brees spoke Tuesday before one of a series of workouts he’s organized at Tulane with Saints teammates, who are prevented from using team facilities or

having contact with coaches during the NFL lockout. Bush was not among the nearly 40 Saints who showed up. Brees said he saw a parallel between the drafting of Ingram and the Saints’ decision to draft Bush in 2006, when running back Deuce McAllister was one of the club’s featured players. “Deuce handled that situation better than anybody ever could have and he had one of his best seasons in 2006,” Brees said. “He was a huge part of our success. I think Reggie has that same potential to be that big a part of our success this year despite the fact that we’ve got three other guys.” Before the lockout, the Saints signed Pierre Thomas to a four-year contract. Chris Ivory, who led the Saints in rushing as a rookie last season, also will be back. Brees, who was in San Diego when the Chargers made a trade to draft quarterback Philip Rivers, said he was sympathetic to Bush’s initial reaction. “He’s a young guy, he’s very prideful and wants to be great. He wants as many

opportunities as he can get,” Brees said. “I think you immediately see (drafting of Ingram) as, ‘Oh, well, that’s taking opportunities away from me.’ But in reality, I think you’ve got to find the positive in it.” Brees said more depth at running back will reduce the need for the Saints to have Bush carry the ball on traditional, bruising rushes into the line and allow him to focus more on his strengths, such as his elusiveness in the open field and his ability to play receiver. As for the decision to draft Ingram, Brees added, “I think it’s great.” “He adds an awesome element to an already impressive backfield that we have,” Brees continued. “When you have three physical backs like you’re talking about with Pierre and Ivory and Mark Ingram, you need that many guys to be able to pound the ball. And then you throw in Reggie, (who has the) ability to be split out and catch the ball and run the ball in any situation, that’s four guys that are pretty lethal.”

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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, center, works out with teammates at Tulane University in New Orleans, Tuesday.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

on tv

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOCKEY 10 p.m. Versus - IIHF World Championship, U.S. vs. Sweden (tape) HORSE RACING 4 p.m. Versus - Kentucky Derby Post Position Draw MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. WGN - Minnesota at Chicago White Sox 6 p.m. FSN - Milwaukee at Atlanta 6 p.m. ESPN - L.A. Angels at Boston NBA PLAYOFFS 7 p.m. TNT - Atlanta at Chicago, Game 2 9:30 p.m. TNT - Dallas at L.A. Lakers, Game 2 NHL PLAYOFFS 6 p.m. Versus - Philadelphia at Boston, Game 3 8:30 p.m. Versus - San Jose at Detroit, Game 3 SOCCER 1:30 p.m. FX - UEFA Champions League, semifinal, second leg, Schalke at Manchester United

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BASEBALL M-Braves will play doubleheader today Tuesday night’s game between the Mississippi Braves (9-16) and the Chattanooga Lookouts (13-12) at AT&T Field in Chattanooga was rained out. The two clubs will play a doubleheader today, with first pitch scheduled for 10:15 a.m. Both games will be seven-inning contests.

Indians’ outfielder Choo arrested for drunken driving OAKLAND, Calif. — Shin-Soo Choo spent the afternoon talking to each of his teammates, one by one, to express how sorry he is for his off-field arrest on suspicion of drunken driving and the embarrassment it caused. The Indians outfielder was arrested Monday after a breathalyzer test showed he had a bloodalcohol level of .201 — more than double Ohio’s legal limit of .08.

NFL Jurors will hear Simms drug case NEW YORK — Jurors should soon get to debate the drivingwhile-high case against Tennessee Titans backup quarterback Chris Simms. Closing arguments are set for Wednesday in the misdemeanor case. The 30-year-old Simms was arrested at a police sobriety checkpoint early on July 1. A police officer says Simms was “zombie”-like and said he’d been smoking marijuana. Simms denies it. His lawyer says the officer misunderstood him when he said a passenger had been smoking the drug.

SPORTS BROADCASTING Pac-10 gets new TV deal with Fox, ESPN SAN FRANCISCO — The Pac-10 agreed to a 12-year television contract with Fox and ESPN worth about $3 billion, allowing the conference to quadruple its media rights fees and start its own network. The contract, which will begin with the 2012-13 season, will be worth about $250 million per year.

flashback

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS May 4 1968 — The Pittsburgh Pipers beat New Orleans Buccaneers 122113 in Game 7, to win the first ABA championship. 1993 — Dale Hunter of the Washington Capitals receives a record 21-game suspension without pay from the NHL for a blindside check on the New York Islanders’ Pierre Turgeon in a playoff game April 28. 2000 — Keith Primeau ends the third-longest game in NHL history by scoring at 12:01 of the fifth overtime to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins, tying their Eastern Conference semifinal series at two games apiece. 2006 — Kobe Bryant scores 50 points for Los Angeles, but the Lakers lose to Phoenix 126-118 in overtime, forcing a Game 7 in the first-round series of the NBA playoffs.

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scoreboard college baseball SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE East

All Games W L Florida............................34 10 South Carolina..............35 8 Vanderbilt......................38 5 Georgia..........................24 21 Tennessee.....................22 20 Kentucky........................20 25

West

All Games W L Alabama........................28 19 Arkansas........................29 13 Auburn...........................23 21 Ole Miss.......................24 20 Mississippi St..............26 18 LSU................................28 17 Tuesday’s Games Mississippi State 15, South Alabama Florida 11, Bethune-Cookman 0 LSU 6, Tulane 2 Arkansas 10, Southeast Missouri 0 Today’s Games South Carolina at Wofford, 6 p.m. SE Missouri St. at Arkansas, 6:35 p.m. Thursday’s Game Florida at Arkansas, 6:30 p.m.

SEC W 17 17 17 13 5 4

L 4 4 4 8 16 17

SEC W 10 10 9 9 8 7

L 11 11 12 12 13 14

CONFERENCE USA

All Games C-USA W L W L Southern Miss.............32 11 11 4 Rice...............................28 16 9 6 Houston.........................22 23 9 6 Memphis........................25 19 8 7 UAB...............................25 19 9 9 East Carolina.................28 16 9 9 Tulane............................26 18 6 9 UCF...............................27 17 7 11 Marshall.........................17 24 4 11 Tuesday’s Games UCF 10, South Florida 4 LSU 6, Tulane 2 Today’s Games Southern Miss at South Alabama, 6 p.m. Stephen F. Austin at Rice, 6:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games No games scheduled

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Mississippi schedule Tuesday’s Games Mississippi State 15, South Alabama 9 Brewton-Parker 12, Belhaven 5 Today’s Games Belhaven vs. William Carey noon Southern Miss at South Alabama, 6:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games No games scheduled

AMERICAN LEAGUE

American League East Division L 10 13 15 15 16

Central Division

W Cleveland.......................20 Kansas City...................16 Detroit............................13 Minnesota......................10 Chicago.........................11

L 8 13 17 18 20

West Division

W Los Angeles..................16 Texas.............................16 Oakland.........................15 Seattle...........................14

L 14 14 15 16

Pct .630 .552 .483 .464 .448

GB — 2 4 4 1/2 5

Pct GB .714 — .552 4 1/2 .433 8 .357 10 .355 10 1/2 Pct .533 .533 .500 .467

GB — — 1 2

Tuesday’s Games Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 2 Detroit 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Boston 7, L.A. Angels 3 Kansas City 6, Baltimore 5, 10 innings Minnesota 1, Chicago White Sox 0 Cleveland 4, Oakland 1 Seattle 4, Texas 3 Today’s Games Minnesota (Blackburn 1-4) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-4), 1:10 p.m. Toronto (Morrow 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 1-3), 5:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 1-1) at Detroit (Scherzer 4-0), 6:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (E.Santana 1-3) at Boston (Beckett 2-1), 6:10 p.m. Baltimore (Arrieta 3-1) at Kansas City (Davies 1-3), 7:10 p.m. Cleveland (Tomlin 4-0) at Oakland (Cahill 4-0), 9:05 p.m. Texas (C.Wilson 3-1) at Seattle (Pineda 4-1), 9:10 p.m. Thursday’s Games N.Y. Yankees (A.J.Burnett 4-1) at Detroit (Porcello 1-2), 12:05 p.m. Toronto (R.Romero 2-3) at Tampa Bay (Price 3-3), 12:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Pineiro 0-0) at Boston (Lackey 2-3), 12:35 p.m. Baltimore (Tillman 1-2) at Kansas City (Chen 3-1), 1:10 p.m. Cleveland (J.Gomez 0-1) at Oakland (Anderson 2-2), 2:35 p.m. Texas (Lewis 2-3) at Seattle (Vargas 1-2), 9:10 p.m.

National League East Division

W Philadelphia...................19 Florida............................18 Atlanta...........................15 Washington....................14 New York.......................12

L 9 10 15 15 17

Central Division

W St. Louis........................17 Cincinnati.......................14 Pittsburgh......................14 Milwaukee......................13 Chicago.........................13 Houston.........................12

L 13 15 16 15 16 17

West Division

W Colorado........................17 Los Angeles..................15 San Francisco...............14 Arizona..........................13 San Diego.....................12

CARDINALS 7, MARLINS 5

Florida St. Louis ab r h bi ab r h bi Coghln cf 4 0 0 1 Theriot ss 4 0 0 0 Infante 2b 5 0 0 0 Craig 3b 1 1 1 1 HRmrz ss 4 1 1 0 Punto 2b 1 0 1 0 GSnchz 1b 5 1 4 1 Pujols 1b 5 0 0 0 Stanton rf 5 1 1 0 Hollidy lf 5 2 2 2 Dobbs 3b 4 0 1 1 Brkmn rf 1 0 0 0 Hensly p 0 0 0 0 Greene rf 0 0 0 0 J.Buck c 3 1 1 1 Rasms cf 4 1 2 1 Bonifac lf 3 1 1 0 YMolin c 4 1 1 0 AnSnch p 2 0 0 0 Descals 2b 3 2 2 3 Mujica p 0 0 0 0 McCllln p 2 0 0 0 Cousins ph 0 0 0 0 Jay ph 1 0 0 0 R.Webb p 0 0 0 0 Salas p 0 0 0 0 Helms 3b 1 0 0 0 MHmlt ph 1 0 0 0 Motte p 0 0 0 0 ESnchz p 0 0 0 0 Totals 36 5 9 4 Totals 32 7 9 7 Florida.......................................002 200 100 — 5 St. Louis...................................210 010 30x — 7 E—H.Ramirez (6). DP—Florida 2, St. Louis 1. LOB—Florida 9, St. Louis 9. 2B—Craig (2). HR— Holliday (4), Descalso (1). SB—H.Ramirez (4), Theriot (4). IP H R ER BB SO Florida Ani.Sanchez 4 1-3 6 4 3 6 2 Mujica 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 R.Webb L,0-3 1 2-3 2 2 2 1 2 Hensley BS,2-2 1 1-3 1 1 1 1 0 St. Louis McClellan 5 6 4 4 2 2 Salas W,1-0 2 3 1 1 1 1 Motte H,5 1 0 0 0 0 0 E.Sanchez S,2-2 1 0 0 0 1 1 HBP—by E.Sanchez (Coghlan). WP—McClellan, Salas. Umpires—Home, Jerry Layne; First, Bob Davidson; Second, Hunter Wendelstedt; Third, Vic Carapazza. T—3:13. A—32,689 (43,975).

MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS

mlb W New York.......................17 Tampa Bay....................16 Boston...........................14 Baltimore.......................13 Toronto..........................13

6:40 p.m., 2nd game Florida (Vazquez 2-2) at St. Louis (Carpenter 0-2), 7:15 p.m. Colorado (Chacin 3-2) at Arizona (Enright 1-2), 9:40 p.m. Thursday’s Games Houston (Myers 1-1) at Cincinnati (Bailey 0-0), 12:35 p.m. San Francisco (J.Sanchez 2-1) at N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 1-3), 12:10 p.m. Florida (Jo.Johnson 3-0) at St. Louis (Westbrook 2-2), 12:40 p.m. Washington (Lannan 2-3) at Philadelphia (Halladay 4-1), 6:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Marcum 3-1) at Atlanta (Beachy 1-1), 6:10 p.m. Colorado (Hammel 3-1) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 3-1), 9:40 p.m.

L 10 16 15 15 18

Pct .679 .643 .500 .483 .414

GB — 1 5 5 1/2 7 1/2

Pct .567 .483 .467 .464 .448 .414

GB — 2 1/2 3 3 3 1/2 4 1/2

Pct .630 .484 .483 .464 .400

GB — 4 4 4 1/2 6 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia 4, Washington 1 Houston 10, Cincinnati 4 San Francisco 7, N.Y. Mets 6, 10 innings Milwaukee at Atlanta, ppd., rain St. Louis 7, Florida 5 Arizona 4, Colorado 3 San Diego 6, Pittsburgh 5 Chicago Cubs 4, L.A. Dodgers 1 Today’s Games Houston (An.Rodriguez 0-0) at Cincinnati (T.Wood 1-3), 12:35 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Zambrano 3-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 2-2), 2:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Estrada 1-0) at Atlanta (Hanson 3-3), 4:10 p.m., 1st game Pittsburgh (Correia 4-2) at San Diego (Richard 1-2), 5:35 p.m. Washington (Marquis 3-0) at Philadelphia (Worley 1-0), 6:05 p.m. San Francisco (Lincecum 2-3) at N.Y. Mets (Capuano 2-2), 6:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Greinke 0-0) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 3-2),

G Bautista Tor..................... 25 MiCabrera Det................. 30 Kubel Min........................ 28 Joyce TB......................... 26 Betemit KC...................... 22 MIzturis LAA.................... 23 MiYoung Tex................... 30 Gordon KC...................... 28 Butler KC......................... 29 AdGonzalez Bos............. 29

AB 84 105 100 81 79 94 121 116 104 117

R 25 24 12 12 13 9 15 21 17 15

H 30 37 35 28 27 32 41 38 33 37

Pct. .357 .352 .350 .346 .342 .340 .339 .328 .317 .316

BATTING—Bautista, Toronto, .357; MiCabrera, Detroit, .352; Kubel, Minnesota, .350; Joyce, Tampa Bay, .346; Betemit, Kansas City, .342; MIzturis, Los Angeles, .340; MiYoung, Texas, .339. RUNS—Bautista, Toronto, 25; MiCabrera, Detroit, 24; Ellsbury, Boston, 21; Gordon, Kansas City, 21; HKendrick, Los Angeles, 21; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 21; Andrus, Texas, 20; Teixeira, New York, 20. RBI—Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 25; Beltre, Texas, 24; Konerko, Chicago, 24; MiYoung, Texas, 24; Francoeur, Kansas City, 23; Lind, Toronto, 23; Aviles, Kansas City, 22; MiCabrera, Detroit, 22. HITS—MiYoung, Texas, 41; ISuzuki, Seattle, 40; Gordon, Kansas City, 38; MiCabrera, Detroit, 37; AdGonzalez, Boston, 37; MeCabrera, Kansas City, 36; Francoeur, Kansas City, 35; HKendrick, Los Angeles, 35; Kubel, Minnesota, 35. DOUBLES—Gordon, Kansas City, 13; Quentin, Chicago, 13; MiYoung, Texas, 13; AdGonzalez, Boston, 11; Betemit, Kansas City, 10; Encarnacion, Toronto, 10; MIzturis, Los Angeles, 10. TRIPLES—Bourjos, Los Angeles, 4; Crisp, Oakland, 3; SRodriguez, Tampa Bay, 3; 12 tied at 2. HOME RUNS—Bautista, Toronto, 9; Cano, New York, 8; Granderson, New York, 8; Konerko, Chicago, 8; Teixeira, New York, 8; Beltre, Texas, 7; MiCabrera, Detroit, 7; NCruz, Texas, 7; Francoeur, Kansas City, 7; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 7. STOLEN BASES—Fuld, Tampa Bay, 10; ISuzuki, Seattle, 10; Andrus, Texas, 8; Crisp, Oakland, 8; Dyson, Kansas City, 7; Ellsbury, Boston, 7; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 7. PITCHING—Weaver, Los Angeles, 6-1; Masterson, Cleveland, 5-0; Britton, Baltimore, 5-1; Tomlin, Cleveland, 4-0; Scherzer, Detroit, 4-0; Cahill, Oakland, 4-0; Lester, Boston, 4-1; Pineda, Seattle, 4-1; AJBurnett, New York, 4-1; Haren, Los Angeles, 4-2. STRIKEOUTS—Weaver, Los Angeles, 55; Verlander, Detroit, 51; Lester, Boston, 46; Haren, Los Angeles, 46; FHernandez, Seattle, 45; Sabathia, New York, 42; RRomero, Toronto, 41. SAVES—MRivera, New York, 11; League, Seattle, 8; CPerez, Cleveland, 8; Fuentes, Oakland, 7; Valverde, Detroit, 6; Soria, Kansas City, 6; 6 tied at 5.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

G Holliday StL..................... 23 Berkman StL................... 27 Wallace Hou.................... 28 Polanco Phi..................... 28 Ethier LAD....................... 31 Kemp LAD....................... 31 Votto Cin......................... 29 Freese StL....................... 25 Braun Mil......................... 28 Phillips Cin...................... 25

AB 88 97 94 112 119 118 102 87 105 100

R 24 24 17 18 15 21 24 12 24 22

H 36 39 36 42 44 43 37 31 37 34

Pct. .409 .402 .383 .375 .370 .364 .363 .356 .352 .340

BATTING—Holliday, St. Louis, .409; Berkman, St. Louis, .402; Wallace, Houston, .383; Polanco, Philadelphia, .375; Ethier, Los Angeles, .370; Kemp, Los Angeles, .364; Votto, Cincinnati, .363. RUNS—Berkman, St. Louis, 24; Braun, Milwaukee, 24; Holliday, St. Louis, 24; Votto, Cincinnati, 24; Phillips, Cincinnati, 22; Pujols, St. Louis, 22; 7 tied at 21. RBI—Howard, Philadelphia, 29; Berkman, St. Louis, 27; Fielder, Milwaukee, 26; Braun, Milwaukee, 23; IDavis, New York, 22; SDrew, Arizona, 22; CJones, Atlanta, 21; Pence, Houston, 21; ASoriano, Chicago, 21; CYoung, Arizona, 21. HITS—Ethier, Los Angeles, 44; Kemp, Los Angeles, 43; Polanco, Philadelphia, 42; JosReyes, New

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York, 41; SCastro, Chicago, 40; Berkman, St. Louis, 39; Braun, Milwaukee, 37; Votto, Cincinnati, 37. DOUBLES—Beltran, New York, 10; Ethier, Los Angeles, 10; Fowler, Colorado, 10; JosReyes, New York, 10; 7 tied at 9. TRIPLES—12 tied at 2. HOME RUNS—ASoriano, Chicago, 11; Braun, Milwaukee, 10; Berkman, St. Louis, 9; Heyward, Atlanta, 7; Pujols, St. Louis, 7; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 7; CYoung, Arizona, 7. STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Houston, 11; JosReyes, New York, 11; Desmond, Washington, 10; OHudson, San Diego, 10; Kemp, Los Angeles, 10; Stubbs, Cincinnati, 10; Bourgeois, Houston, 9; Tabata, Pittsburgh, 9; Venable, San Diego, 9. PITCHING—McClellan, St. Louis, 4-0; De La Rosa, Colorado, 4-0; Hamels, Philadelphia, 4-1; Lohse, St. Louis, 4-1; Halladay, Philadelphia, 4-1; Harang, San Diego, 4-2; Correia, Pittsburgh, 4-2. STRIKEOUTS—Garza, Chicago, 51; Halladay, Philadelphia, 47; Lincecum, San Francisco, 45; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 45; ClLee, Philadelphia, 44; Norris, Houston, 43; Hamels, Philadelphia, 40; JSanchez, San Francisco, 40. SAVES—Street, Colorado, 10; LNunez, Florida, 10; BrWilson, San Francisco, 9; Hanrahan, Pittsburgh, 9; Marmol, Chicago, 8; Putz, Arizona, 7; Broxton, Los Angeles, 7; HBell, San Diego, 7.

minor league baseball North Division

W Huntsville (Brewers)......15 Tennessee (Cubs).........16 Jackson (Mariners)........13 Chattanooga (Dodgers).13 Carolina (Reds).............8

L 9 10 11 12 18

South Division

W Mobile (Diamondbacks).15 B-ham (White Sox).......13 Jacksonville (Marlins)....12 Montgomery (Rays).......11 Mississippi (Braves)...9

L 9 12 13 15 16

Pct. .625 .615 .542 .520 .308

GB — — 2 2 1/2 8

Pct. .625 .520 .480 .423 .360

GB — 2 1/2 3 1/2 5 6 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Jacksonville at Huntsville, ppd., rain Jackson 4, Birmingham 3 Mobile 8, Tennessee 6 Carolina 7, Montgomery 0 Mississippi at Chattanooga, ppd., rain Today’s Games Jacksonville at Huntsville, 12:03 p.m. Birmingham at Jackson, 12:05 p.m. Mississippi at Chattanooga, 11:15 a.m., 1st game Tennessee at Mobile, 12:35 p.m. Mississippi at Chattanooga, 1:45 p.m., 2nd game Montgomery at Carolina, 7:15 p.m. Thursday’s Games Jacksonville at Huntsville, 5:43 p.m., 1st game Tennessee at Mobile, 8:05 p.m. Birmingham at Jackson, 8:05 p.m. Jacksonville at Huntsville, 8:13 p.m., 2nd game Mississippi at Chattanooga, 7:15 p.m. Montgomery at Carolina, 7:15 p.m.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlanta 1, Chicago 0 May 2: Atlanta 103, Chicago 95, Atlanta leads series 1-0 Today: Atlanta at Chicago, 7 p.m. Friday: Chicago at Atlanta, 6 p.m. Sunday: Chicago at Atlanta, 7 p.m. x-May 10: Atlanta at Chicago, TBA x-May 12: Chicago at Atlanta, TBA x-May 15: Atlanta at Chicago, TBA Miami 2, Boston 0 May 1: Miami 99, Boston 90 Tuesday: Miami 102, Boston 91, Miami leads series 2-0 Saturday: Miami at Boston, 7 p.m. Monday: Miami at Boston, 6 p.m. x-May 11: Boston at Miami, TBA x-May 13: Miami at Boston, TBA x-May 16: Boston at Miami, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Dallas 1, L.A. Lakers 0 May 2: Dallas 96, L.A. Lakers 94, Dallas leads series 1-0 Today: Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Friday: L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Sunday: L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 2:30 p.m. x-May 10: Dallas at L.A. Lakers, TBA x-May 12: L.A. Lakers at Dallas, TBA x-May 15: Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 2:30 p.m. Oklahoma City 1, Memphis 1 May 1: Memphis 114, Oklahoma City 101 Tuesday: Oklahoma City 111, Memphis 102, series tied 1-1 Saturday: Oklahoma City at Memphis, 4 p.m. Monday: Oklahoma City at Memphis, 8:30 p.m. x-May 11: Memphis at Oklahoma City, TBA x-May 13: Oklahoma City at Memphis, TBA x-May 15: Memphis at Oklahoma City, TBA

HEAT 102, CELTICS 91

BOSTON (91) Pierce 5-11 2-2 13, Garnett 8-20 0-0 16, J.O’Neal 2-7 4-5 8, Rondo 7-16 6-8 20, Allen 2-7 2-2 7, Davis 2-7 2-3 6, Green 4-6 1-2 11, Krstic 0-1 0-0 0, West 4-4 0-0 10, Wafer 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-79 17-22 91. MIAMI (102) James 14-25 5-8 35, Bosh 5-10 7-11 17, Ilgauskas 1-5 0-0 2, Bibby 3-6 0-0 8, Wade 8-20 11-13 28, Anthony 1-2 4-4 6, Jones 0-1 0-0 0, Miller 1-1 0-0 3, Chalmers 1-5 0-0 3. Totals 34-75 27-36 102. Boston 26 16 25 24 — 91 Miami 27 20 25 30 — 102 3-Point Goals—Boston 6-11 (West 2-2, Green 2-2, Allen 1-2, Pierce 1-4, Rondo 0-1), Miami 7-16 (Bibby 2-4, James 2-4, Miller 1-1, Wade 1-3, Chalmers 1-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Boston 49 (J.O’Neal 9), Miami 51 (Bosh 11). Assists—Boston 18 (Rondo 12), Miami 15 (Bosh 4). Total Fouls—Boston 24, Miami 22. Technicals—Boston Coach Rivers. A—20,104 (19,600).

THUNDER 111, GRIZZLIES 102

MEMPHIS (102) Young 6-11 0-0 12, Randolph 2-13 11-12 15, Gasol 3-9 7-8 13, Conley 10-15 1-1 24, Allen 2-5 5-6 9, Battier 2-4 0-2 4, Mayo 6-13 3-3 16, Arthur 4-9 1-2 9, Vasquez 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-79 28-34 102. OKLAHOMA CITY (111) Durant 8-18 8-10 26, Ibaka 4-7 0-0 8, Perkins 1-2 0-0 2, Westbrook 9-20 5-6 24, Sefolosha 1-2 0-0 3, Collison 2-3 3-4 7, Harden 5-9 11-11 21, Maynor 6-7 0-0 15, Mohammed 0-1 0-2 0, Cook 2-3 0-0 5. Totals 38-72 27-33 111. Memphis 17 27 24 34 — 102

Oklahoma City 28 26 22 35 — 111 3-Point Goals—Memphis 4-11 (Conley 3-5, Mayo 1-4, Battier 0-1, Young 0-1), Oklahoma City 8-14 (Maynor 3-4, Durant 2-2, Sefolosha 1-1, Cook 1-2, Westbrook 1-2, Harden 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Memphis 47 (Gasol 10), Oklahoma City 43 (Collison 7). Assists—Memphis 19 (Conley 8), Oklahoma City 17 (Westbrook 6). Total Fouls—Memphis 23, Oklahoma City 27. Technicals—Arthur, Perkins, Oklahoma City defensive three second. A—18,203 (18,203).

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

Tampa Bay 3, Washington 0 April 29: Tampa Bay 4, Washington 2 May 1: Tampa Bay 3, Washington 2, OT Tuesday: Tampa Bay 4, Washington 3, Tampa Bay leads series 3-0 Today: Washington at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. x-Saturday: Tampa Bay at Washington, 11:30 a.m. x-May 9: Washington at Tampa Bay, TBA x-May 11: Tampa Bay at Washington, TBA Boston 2, Philadelphia 0 April 30: Boston 7, Philadelphia 3 May 2: Boston 3, Philadelphia 2, OT, Boston leads series 2-0 Tuesday: Philadelphia at Boston, 6 p.m. Friday: Philadelphia at Boston, 7 p.m. x-Sunday: Boston at Philadelphia, 2 p.m. x-May 10: Philadelphia at Boston, TBA x-May 12: Boston at Philadelphia, TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Vancouver 2, Nashville 1 April 28: Vancouver 1, Nashville 0 April 30: Nashville 2, Vancouver 1, 2OT Tuesday: Vancouver 3, Nashville 2, OT, Vancouver leads series 2-1 Thursday: Vancouver at Nashville, 7:30 p.m. x-Saturday: Nashville at Vancouver, 7 p.m. x-Monday: Vancouver at Nashville, TBA x-May 11: Nashville at Vancouver, TBA San Jose 2, Detroit 0 April 29: San Jose 2, Detroit 1, OT May 1: San Jose 2, Detroit 1 Tuesday: San Jose at Detroit, 7 p.m. Friday: San Jose at Detroit, 6 p.m. x-Sunday: Detroit at San Jose, 7 p.m. x-May 10: San Jose at Detroit, TBA x-May 12: Detroit at San Jose, TBA

nascar Sprint Cup schedule May 7 — Showtime Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. May 15 — Dover 400, Dover, Del. May 21 — x-Sprint All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. May 21 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord, N.C. May 29 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. June 5 — STP 400, Kansas City, Kan. June 12 — Pocono 500, Long Pond, Pa. June 19 — Heluva Good! 400, Brooklyn, Mich. June 26 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. July 2 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach, Fla. July 9 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky. July 17 — Lenox Tools 301, Loudon, N.H. July 31 — Brickyard 400, Indianapolis

Sprint Cup standings 1. Carl Edwards.................................................. 335 2. Jimmie Johnson............................................. 326 3. Kyle Busch..................................................... 305 4. Dale Earnhardt Jr.......................................... 301 5. Kevin Harvick................................................. 300 6. Kurt Busch..................................................... 289 7. Clint Bowyer................................................... 284 8. Ryan Newman............................................... 277 9. Matt Kenseth.................................................. 276 10. Tony Stewart................................................ 275 11. A J Allmendinger......................................... 263 12. Juan Pablo Montoya.................................... 262 ———

Nationwide Series schedule May 6 — Royal Purple 200, Darlington, S.C. May 14 — 5-hour ENERGY 200, Dover, Del. May 22 — Iowa 250, Newton, Iowa May 28 — Top Gear 300, Concord, N.C. June 4 — STP 300, Joliet, Ill. June 18 — Michigan 250, Brooklyn, Mich. June 25 — Bucyrus 200, Elkhart Lake, Wis.

Nationwide Series standings 1. Justin Allgaier................................................. 305 2. Elliott Sadler................................................... 299 3. Jason Leffler.................................................. 296 4. Reed Sorenson.............................................. 292 5. Ricky Stenhouse Jr....................................... 288 6. Aric Almirola................................................... 288 7. Trevor Bayne................................................. 260 8. Brian Scott..................................................... 257 9. Kenny Wallace............................................... 247 10. Josh Wise.................................................... 216

LOTTERY Sunday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 9-8-5 La. Pick 4: 8-9-2-7 Monday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 6-8-8 La. Pick 4: 4-8-8-6 Tuesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 5-0-8 La. Pick 4: 2-8-4-7 Wednesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 0-5-0 La. Pick 4: 7-7-2-7 Easy 5: 1-7-23-24-30 La. Lotto: 2-6-20-22-26-39 Powerball: 4-24-40-44-55 Powerball: 5; Power play:3 Thursday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 8-4-1 La. Pick 4: 4-8-5-6 Friday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 9-7-5 La. Pick 4: 1-5-6-4 Saturday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 4-6-8 La. Pick 4: 1-7-5-4 Easy 5: 1-3-9-28-36 La. Lotto: 4-5-14-28-29-32 Powerball: 6-13-15-32-41 Powerball: 3; Power play: 2

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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Bulldogs erase huge deficit in win over Jaguars From staff reports It’s hard to say if Mississippi State has turned a corner in its third season under coach John Cohen. It can, at least, say it’s reached a milestone. The Bulldogs scored 10 runs in the seventh inning Tuesday and went on to beat South Alabama 15-9 in Mobile. It was MSU’s 26th win of the season, its most under Cohen and the most since the 2007 team that reached the College World Series won 38 games. “This was a really big win for us,” said Brent Brownlee, who went 3-for-3 with two triples, a double and five RBIs for Mississippi State. “South Alabama is always a team that comes out hitting the ball hard. We knew they would score some runs. However, our pitching

settled down and we were able to have the big inning. A night like this is good and will give us some confidence going into a really big series this weekend at Tennessee.” Mississippi State (26-18) finished with 17 hits, including six in the decisive seventh inning. The Bulldogs sent 14 batters to the plate and erased a 9-5 deficit. Brownlee had a two-run triple and a two-run double in the inning. Earlier, South Alabama erased a deficit of its own by scoring four runs in the bottom of the third inning to take a 5-4 lead. After Mississippi State tied it in the fifth, the Jaguars scored four more runs in the sixth to go up 9-5. Taylor White went 5-for-6 for South Alabama (22-22) and Jordan Patterson was 2-for-4

with three RBIs. Jaron Shepherd, Nick Vickerson and Adam Frazier all had three hits apiece for Mississippi State. Shepherd scored three runs and Vickerson doubled twice and scored two runs.

LSU 6, Tulane 2 LSU starter Ryan Eades held Tulane to one run on two hits over six innings, and the Tigers (29-17) beat Tulane (2619) for their fifth straight victory. It was also LSU’s sixth win over Tulane in their last eight meetings. Five different batters drove in a run for LSU, including Raph Rhymes and Tyler Hanover who had two hits apiece. Mikie Mahtook hit a solo homer.

Jeremy Schaffer went 2-for-4 with a home run and two runs scored for Tulane.

Brewton-Parker 12, Belhaven 5 Derrick Fox went 3-for-5 with a solo home run, Josh Palmer drove in three runs and Brewton-Parker College (35-15) beat Belhaven (42-16) at the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament in Columbus, Ga, Derek Tortorich drove in four runs for Belhaven, while Anthony Doss and Jimmy Gilford had three hits apiece. despite the loss, Belhaven’s first of the tournament, it will still play for the tournament title today at noon in-state rival William Carey.

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James paces Heat past Celtics By The Associated Press LeBron James scored 24 of his 35 points in the second half and the Miami Heat used a late 14-0 run to pull away and beat the Boston Celtics 102-91 in Game 2 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series on Tuesday night. Dwyane Wade added 28 points and Chris Bosh finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds for Miami, which leads the best-of-seven series 2-0. Boston tied the game at 80 on a pair of free throws by Paul Pierce with 7:10 left. The Celtics missed their next six shots and Miami pulled away, taking command of both the game and the series — which doesn’t resume in Boston until Saturday night. Rajon Rondo had 20 points and 12 assists for Boston, which got 16 points from Kevin Garnett and 13 from Pierce. Boston has rallied from an 0-2 deficit in a best-of-seven series only once. Jeff Green scored 11 and Delonte West added 10 for the Celtics, but Ray Allen was limited to seven points on 2-for-7 shooting.

Thunder 111, ]Grizzlies 102 Kevin Durant scored 26 points, James Harden led an

Gasol combined to make just five of 22 shots for 28 points — just over half their total from the opener.

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Oklahoma City Thunder guard James Harden, right, knocks the ball away from Memphis Grizzlies guard Tony Allen in the second quarter Tuesday. outburst by Oklahoma City’s bench with 21, and the Thunder evened their series with Memphis at one game apiece. After scoring just 16 points in a Game 1 loss, the Thunder’s bench tripled that amount and put Oklahoma City firmly in control with an 18-6 run to

start the fourth quarter. Russell Westbrook scored 24 and his backup, Eric Maynor, added 15 for the Thunder. Mike Conley scored 24 for Memphis, which cut a 21-point, fourth-quarter deficit to six in the final minutes. Zach Randolph and Marc

Derrick Rose officially became the NBA’s youngest MVP on Tuesday and joined Michael Jordan as the only Bulls player to win the award, which was no surprise given his spectacular season and Chicago’s leap to a leagueleading 62 wins. He has a ways to go before he catches Jordan, who won five MVPs and led the way to two championship threepeats, but he sure is off to a good start. The 22-year-old Rose got 1,182 points and 113 first-place votes from a panel of media voters, supplanting Wes Unseld as the youngest to win the award with a runaway win.

Griffin to be named NBA’s top rookie Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin will be named the NBA’s Rookie of the Year today, a person familiar with the news told The Associated Press. The person spoke Tuesday night on condition of anonymity.

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Huff snaps skid in Giants’ win over Mets By The Associated Press Aubrey Huff ended an 0-for-20 slump with a leadoff homer in the 10th inning and San Francisco snapped out of its offensive slumber, beating New York 7-6 on Tuesday night. Nate Schierholtz homered for the Giants, who had lost eight of 11. The defending World Series champions, shut out three times in their previous six games, entered with the second-worst offense in the National League. Javier Lopez (1-0) and Francisco Rodriguez escaped dicey jams in the ninth before Huff sent a 2-0 pitch from Taylor Buchholz (1-1) off the facing of the right-field overhang for his third home run. Before that, Huff was in a 3-for-37 rut with one RBI during that stretch. He entered the game batting .190. Brian Wilson got three outs to earn his ninth save in 10 chances. Carlos Beltran hit a threerun homer and Ike Davis a two-run shot for the Mets.

Phillies 4, Nationals 1 Cole Hamels pitched a fivehitter for Philadelphia and Raul Ibanez doubled twice as he stopped an 0-for-35 slump. Hamels (4-1) struck out six and walked one in his eighth career complete game.

Michael Morse homered for the Nationals.

D-backs 4, Rockies 3

Left-hander J.A. Happ singled home a run during Houston’s six-run fourth inning — its biggest of the season — and Cincinnati has its first losing record in nearly a year. The defending NL Central champs fell to 14-15, the first time they have been below .500 since they had an identical mark last May 7.

Justin Upton hit a tiebreaking homer to lead off the eighth inning and Arizona roughed up Jorge De La Rosa for one inning. Henry Blanco hit his first homer in nearly a year, Xavier Nady drove in two runs and the Diamondbacks knocked De La Rosa around for three runs in the third inning to prevent him from becoming the NL’s first five-game winner.

Cardinals 7, Marlins 5

Tigers 4, Yankees 2

Daniel Descalso hit his first career home run, a go-ahead three-run shot in the seventh inning, to lead St. Louis. Matt Holliday hit a two-run homer in the first and had two hits, dropping his National League-leading average one point to .409.

Scott Sizemore had three hits in his return to the major leagues, helping Detroit snap a seven-game losing streak. Sizemore was called up from Triple-A Toledo to try to bolster the top of Detroit’s struggling lineup. Leadoff man Austin Jackson hit a double and a triple, and Sizemore hit a double and two singles batting behind him .

Astros 10 , Reds 4

Padres 6, Pirates 5 Rob Johnson hit a solo homer in the eighth inning and Heath Bell tied Trevor Hoffman’s club record with his 41st consecutive save to lead San Diego.

Cubs 4, Dodgers 1 Geovany Soto hit a tiebreaking two-run double in the ninth inning for Chicago and Los Angeles’ Andre Ethier extended his hitting streak to 29 games.

Rays 3, Blue Jays 2

B.J. Upton hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning, giving Tampa Bay the victory. After Ben Zobrist singled to start the ninth off Jon Rauch (1-2), Upton hit an 0-1 pitch into the left field seats.

Red Sox 7, Angels 3 Jon Lester struck out 11,

Adrian Gonzalez and David Ortiz hit consecutive homers and Boston pulled within one game of .500.

Royals 6, Orioles 5, 10 innings Jeff Francoeur drove home the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning after hitting a tying homer in the sixth to lift Kansas City to its fourth straight victory. Alex Gordon walked on four pitches from Jason Berken (0-2) to leadoff the 10th and went to third on Billy Butler’s single to center. Francoeur then lofted a fly to right for the winning run.

Indians 4, Athletics 1 Orlando Cabrera hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth in his lone at-bat, Fausto Carmona won for the third time in four starts and Cleveland won its seventh straight. Matt LaPorta and Jack Hannahan hit consecutive one-out singles off Brian Fuentes (1-3) in the ninth before Cabrera delivered against his former club. Asdrubal Cabrera followed with a two-run single.

Mariners 4, Rangers 3 Justin Smoak’s RBI single in the eighth inning, his third hit of the game, pulled Seattle even and Jack Cust followed with the go-ahead RBI single.

Newton Continued from Page D1. games at the end,” Newton said. In March, Newton shined at his pro day and that got the NFL scouts’ attention. “I ran a 4.9 40-yard dash and a lot of people said that was good enough to play in the league,” Newton said. Hinds AHS coach Michael Fields felt Newton had the ability. “All you had to look at was his athleticism,” Fields said. “Still, he’s the first player I’ve had drafted by the NFL. I’ve got one, Marcell Young, playing in the Canadian Football League with the Hamilton Tiger Cats.” Fields said Newton came out of a group of talented War Dawg players that won plenty of games from 20032005. “In 2005, we went 10-0 in the regular season and averaged 50 points a game,” Fields said. “Marcel, Derek, Albert Williams, Austin Divinity and Anthony Mayes were all on that team.” Williams was Nicholls

State’s leading rusher for two seasons. Mayes was a standout wide receiver at Jackson State and helped the Tigers to an 8-3 record in 2010. Divinity was a starter at wide receiver at Mississippi College. Newton, however, was the only one to play at the Bowl Championship Series level. “Besides his size, Derek has a great work ethic, always had,” Fields said. “And he has a lot of intelligence. That goes a long way. His mom did a great job with him and he’s a great kid.” Freeze echoed Fields’ comments about Newton’s desire to work. “It starts with his dedication,” Freeze said. “Getting a redshirt year after we got him from Hinds did wonders for him. Derek was able to learn under Coach (Darren) Hiller, who is very technique driven. He also got dedicated to our weight room. He stayed all summer last year and that helped him increase his foot speed.”

Liriano Continued from Page D1. White Sox off-balance and showed the talent that he’s always possessed. “He was using all of his pitches. It was such a nice thing to see him smile like that,” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. “We’ve said that Liriano has electric stuff, no-hitter stuff. And, he did it tonight.” Liriano made history more than four years after he underwent Tommy John surgery, hoping to recover from an elbow injury that threatened to take away his eyepopping repertoire and end his career. It’s been a long climb back — last season, he was picked as the AL comeback player of the year. This year, the Twins have told Liriano to forget the strikeouts, try to pitch to contact, let the defense do the work. With two outs in the seventh, third baseman Danny Valencia went behind the bag and into foul territory to grab Carlos Quentin’s hard hopper and then made a strong throw to first. And on Liriano’s final pitch, Dunn hit a liner that appeared headed to left field. But Tolbert moved to his right, made the catch, spun around and raised the ball in triumph with his bare hand. “I thought it was a base hit,” Liriano said. “When I saw him catch it, I was so excited.” Tolbert sprinted to the mound, where the pitcher was being mobbed by teammates, to personally deliver the prize. A season after the Year of the Pitcher featured six no-hitters, there had been a few close calls in the opening months. Liriano, making his 205th career start in the majors and minors, finished off his bid. Liriano survived a rocky ninth inning that began when Brent Morel grounded to shortstop, with Tolbert

making a one-hop throw that first baseman Justin Morneau neatly scooped. Juan Pierre walked and Alexei Ramirez popped to shortstop. Liriano fell behind Dunn 3-0 in the count, then got a pair of strikes. After a foul ball, Dunn followed with his liner. Dunn dropped to 0 for 16 against left-handers this season. “As soon as I hit it, I saw him, and it was right to him,” Dunn said. “That’s pretty much the story of the day. There were some balls that, again, they made some great defensive plays.” For Tolbert it was the end of an unforgettable experience. He got the start at shortstop as the Twins moved Alexi Casilla to second base. “I was excited and a little nervous. It’s not every day that you get to play behind a no-hitter,” Tolbert said. “I was thinking somehow we had to get this guy (Dunn) out. I know he’s so dangerous. I was playing him up the middle a little bit, and he hit it in the right spot.” Liriano was backed by Jason Kubel’s fourth-inning homer. He won in a game that took just 2 hours, 9 minutes. Liriano, 3-0 against the White Sox last season, walked Pierre leading off the first and Quentin with one out in the second, but both were erased on double plays. Chicago put two on in the fourth, and center fielder Denard Span raced into leftcenter to grab Quentin’s long drive. Minnesota turned its third double play in the eighth, when Morneau took an offline throw from Casilla and umpire Paul Emmel called Gordon Beckham out — replays appeared to show Morneau missed the tag. “I didn’t feel him tagging me on the shoulder,” said Beckham.

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Mendenhall tweets draw fire from Steelers PITTSBURGH (AP) — Rashard Mendenhall has created a stir with comments made on his official Twitter page regarding Osama bin Laden’s death. The Pittsburgh Steelers running back on Monday tweeted: “What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We’ve only heard one side...” Mendenhall didn’t hold back, even making a reference to the Sept. 11 attacks. “We’ll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could Rashard take a skyMendenhall scraper down demolition style.” The Steelers felt compelled to act. On Tuesday, team president Art Rooney II released a statement. “I have not spoken with Rashard, so it is hard to explain or even comprehend what he meant with his recent Twitter comments.” Mendenhall, who profiles himself as a “conversationalist and professional athlete” on his Twitter page, turned some heads in March, as well, when he supported a comment by Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson comparing the NFL to “modernday slavery.” Mendenhall is coming off a tremendous season, as he led the AFC champions in carries (324), rushing yards (1,273) and rushing touchdowns (13).

Fitzhugh is glad to be working on the railroad NEW YORK (AP) — Some people called Keith Fitzhugh crazy. Others praised him for his admirable decision. Turning down the Jets for trains? Yep, and he’d do it again in a heartbeat. “I’m so happy,” the free-agent defensive back recently told The Associated Press from his home in Atlanta. “It turned out just right for me.” It sure did, especially with NFL players locked out and in a bitter labor dispute with the owners. He has a secure job and a steady income, things he might not have if he had put his football dreams ahead of taking care of his parents. Fitzhugh gained national attention last December when he declined an offer to join the New York Jets to remain a conductor with Norfolk Southern Railroad and stay on track financially. His parents needed him, he said, and he couldn’t let them down. The decision landed the 24-year-old former Mississippi State star a guest spot on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and national television interviews with ABC and CNN, among several others. “It was really a blessing because when I played football and was giving it my all, I never got the opportunity to do the things I got to do when I was just trying to do the right thing,” he said. “Never. Not one time. Going out to L.A., going on Jay Leno and going on all these major networks, I feel like I was the hottest nonfootball-playing football player in the world.” And, he was. Not that he couldn’t play, though. Fitzhugh simply chose not to. “I really didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal, to be honest,” he said. “It kind of blew me away.” Fitzhugh ponders what would have happened if he

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Keith Fitzhugh, warming up before a 2009 preseason game, left, gained national attention last December when he declined an offer to join the New York Jets to remain a conductor with Norfolk Southern Railroad and stay on track financially. Fitzhugh, right, works on the railroad at the McDonough Training Center in McDonough, Ga. had left the job with Norfolk Southern, and knows his decision appears awfully smart now. “I have a lot of buddies out there and they’re ready to go back out and play,” he said. “In a way, I could be like, ‘Ha!’ and be laughing at them, but these are my buddies and what if the shoes were on the other foot? What if I had went and the Jets signed me? I would’ve been sitting around and wouldn’t have known what was going on.” Not only that, but get this: Some of his friends in the NFL have even asked him during the lockout if he might be able to get them jobs. “They’re like, ‘Hey, Keith, if this doesn’t work out for me ...’ and I just tell them, ‘Just

go ahead and apply, just like I did,”’ he said. “No big-name guys, but guys who are straddling that line like I was. When they hear about what I do, it’s kind of exciting to them, too, because you turn into a kid all over again. You’re riding a train that has 4,000 or 5,000 horsepower and you really can get into the thrill of it. It’s a fun job, man.” But, he acknowledges, so is football. That’s what made his choice so difficult. Jets coach Rex Ryan wanted Fitzhugh to help with New York’s banged-up secondary, likely on the practice squad, after safety Jim Leonhard broke a leg and backup James Ihedigbo sprained an ankle. The Jets also called defensive back Emanuel Cook with the idea that he and Fitzhugh,

both of whom had spent time with the team in previous camps, could compete for a spot on the active roster. Cook said yes, and joined the team. Fitzhugh declined, and was back on the railroad. “It was really tough,” Fitzhugh said. “I can tell you this, I really teared up and cried because I wanted to go and do it, but I thought, ‘Keith, this might not be your best decision to go out there and leave this job you already have.”’ Fitzhugh spoke to Ryan a few weeks later and explained his decision, telling him he couldn’t just leave the security of a full-time job, not when he needed to help take care of his mother, Meltonia, and his father, Keith Sr., who’s disabled and can’t work. “He said, ‘Hey kid, I’m

proud of you,”’ Fitzhugh recalled Ryan telling him. “He understood.” It wasn’t easy watching the Jets advance to the AFC championship game as the ‘what-ifs’ crept in. “I was sitting there just shaking my head,” he said. “At the same time, I was thinking deep inside, ‘You know what, Keith? You made the best decision for you and your family and who says you would’ve been there with them anyway?’ That’s what I had to keep telling myself, that there wasn’t anything guaranteed.” Fitzhugh has been working at Norfolk Southern since last September and has become a full conductor, often working on the main line from Atlanta to Chattanooga and delivering freight — not passengers.

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Warren Central tennis tryouts Warren Central will conduct tennis tryouts on May 17-18 from 3:30 until 5:30 p.m. at the Halls Ferry tennis courts. Players must have a current physical and complete additional paperwork available from a school counselor. For information, call coach Paige Pratt at 601-6383981.

Vicksburg, WC athletic banquets Tickets for Vicksburg High’s athletic banquet are on sale now at the school. The banquet will be held Thursday at the school, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 each, and everyone must have a ticket to attend. Warren Central’s athletic banquet will be held May 12 at 6 p.m. at the school. Tickets are $10 and are also on sale now. You must have a ticket to attend.

Mississippi State Road Dawgs Tour Mississippi State football coach Dan Mullen will be making a stop in Vicksburg as a part of the 2011 Bancorpsouth Road Dawgs Tour on May 11. The event, hosted by the Warren County Chapter of the Mississippi State University Alumni, will begin with registration starting at 11:30 a.m., followed by lunch and the program at noon. The event will be held at the Vicksburg Convention Center, 1600 Mulberry Street. Tickets for the event are $12 per person and can be

purchased in advance at the UPS Store on Pemberton Boulevard, or by contacting Tom Kendall, chapter president, at 601-631-3206 or TKendall@trustmark.com.

Tryouts for Warren Central girls’ soccer The Warren Central girls’ soccer team will conduct tryouts at the school today and Thursday starting at 3 p.m. They will be held at the top field at Warren Central on state highway 27. Any student entering grades 7-12 for the 2011-2012 school year can try out. Players must have a current physical and shin guards. For information, call coach Trey Banks at 601-6383372.

Tryouts for Vicksburg girls’ soccer team The Vicksburg girls’ soccer team will conduct tryouts at Memorial Stadium on May today and Thursday starting at 7 p.m. Players must have a current physical and shin guards.

Tryouts for Vicksburg boys’ soccer team The Vicksburg boys’ soccer team will conduct tryouts at the Vicksburg practice field today and Thursday starting at 3 p.m. Players must have a current physical and shin guards.

Paul Geer Memorial Bulldog Classic golf The Warren County Chapter of the Mississippi State University Alumni Association will hold the 21st annual Paul Geer Memorial Bulldog Classic scholarship golf tournament on May 18 at Vicksburg Country Club. The entry fee for the tournament is $85 per player. Registration and lunch will begin at noon and there will be a 1 p.m. shotgun start

for the four-man scramble format. For information, call Tom Kendall at 601-631-3206.

Tryouts for WC boys’ soccer The Warren Central boys’ soccer team will conduct tryouts at the school on May 16-17 starting at 3 p.m. They will be held at the top field at Warren Central on Mississippi 27. Any student entering grades 7-12 for the 20112012 school year may try out. Players must have a current physical, parental consent and shin guards. For information, call coach Greg Head at 601-636-8082.

Vicksburg Eagles youth football The Vicksburg Eagles Youth football team is currently accepting applications for players and cheerleaders ages 6-12 and coaches for the 2011 season. A copy of the participant’s birth certificate is required. All practices are held at the Vicksburg Junior High stadium. For information, call Perri Johnson at 601-456-1104 or Betty James at 601-415-7299.

Soccer camp at Hinds CC Hinds Community College will host its annual youth soccer camp June 6-10 on the Raymond campus. The camp is open to boys and girls ages 7-14, and will run from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each morning. Instructors are Hinds men’s coach Doug Williams, women’s coach Marcille McLendon, and current and former Hinds players. The cost of the camp is $130 if registered before May 15, and $150 after that date. For information, call Williams at 601-857-3342, McLendon at 601-857-3331, or visit sports. hindscc.edu and click on the soccer links.

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The St. Aloysius girls’ track team won the regional title and are headed to the South State meet Saturday. First row from left, are Tori Thomas, Lyndsey Cowart, Alyssa Engel and Katie Martin Second row, from left, are Shelby Bottin, coach Richard Hodges, Grace Burnett, Elizabeth Counts, Alexa Engel, McKaylan Gray, Maggie Waites and coach Keiko Booth. Also on the team are Madison Lumbley, Ann Garrison Thomas, Katelyn Jones and Haylee Prescott.

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Gem Community Rock hounds and hidden treasures abound in Franklin, N.C REBECCA SCHEIDT, 30, Story and photos by dumps a bucketful of creek Stuart Englert, senior editor gravel into a screened tray at the Cherokee Ruby and Sapphire Mine in Franklin, N.C. (pop. 3,490), and dips the loaded tray into a stream of water flowing through a wooden chute. Using her hand, the Auburn, Ala., woman gently washes the dirt-covered rocks, eyeballing each one for colorful hues, hexagonal shapes and smooth surfaces that reflect the sunlight. “Sometimes they jump out at you, and sometimes they don’t,” says Scheidt’s husband, Dan O’Brien, 58, washing his own tray of gravel. “Here’s a sapphire,” exclaims Scheidt, plucking a small stone from among the pebbles. “See the bluish tint and the classic shape?” People have been plucking gemstones from the streams and hillsides in and around Franklin since the Appalachian Rebecca Scheidt and her husband, Dan O’Brien, scour creek gravel at Cherokee Ruby and Sapphire Mountain community was the Mine in search of deep red rubies (below), which can be found in the Gem Capital of the World. site of Nikwasi, a Cherokee Indian village. In 1870, colorful stones three annual gem shows, and the Franklin Gem discovered on the Hiram Crisp & Mineral Museum. farm southeast of town sparked a search for the Housed in the 1850 Macon County Jail, the source of the gems and led to commercial mining museum exhibits thousands of animal and of rubies, sapphires and garnets for jewelry and plant fossils, Ame American Indian artifacts, and industrial abrasives. spe geological specimens from around the “That’s why we call it the Gem Capital world, including a 2.25ner, 71, of the World,” says Fred Plesner, pound ruby unearthed mber a spokesman for the 120-member at the nearby Corundum ociety. Franklin Gem and Mineral Society. Hill Mine, which produced re “It’s not because we have more t tons of gem-quality and gems, but because we have ind industrial-grade stones a greater variety.” th through World War I. Tucked amid the While commercial mining h mountains of western North c ceased in Mason County in Carolina, Franklin is home t 1930s, Franklin remains the ven to six recreational mines, seven (Continued on page 6) es, rock shops and jewelry stores, PAGE 4 • A M E R I C A N P R O F I L E .CO OM

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More than 300 gem and mineral varieties can be found in North Carolina, according to the state’s Geological Survey.

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Adoptive Moms Sowing and growing the seeds of love // BY LINDA WASMER ANDREWS

counts her blessings. Like any mom, she loves her family, but the joys of motherhood are all the more sweet, she says, because for years she wasn’t able to have children.

// At left: Sitting around their dining room table, Craig and Becca Hill supervise a homeschooling session with their four daughters. Above: Becca with Lizzie, Molly, Madeline and Stephanie at home in Key Largo, Fla.

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“I was consumed with wanting a child— and with not being able to have one,” says Hill, of Key Largo, Fla. (pop. 11,886). Today, she and her husband, Craig, 40, are parents of four adopted daughters, and they view their years of infertility as a blessing in disguise. “We wouldn’t have the children that we have in our home now had we not gone down that road,” Becca says. “Had I known the blessing of adoption,” she adds, “I think I would have gone straight to adoption.” She shares that message daily in her work with Charis, an adoption-focused Christian ministry she co-founded to assist and support other adopting parents and to provide assistance to orphans. “In 2003, when I first started the paperwork to adopt from Ukraine, I didn’t have anywhere to go for help,” Becca says. The experience was fraught with frustration, but she and her husband persevered. In 2004, they adopted their daughter Molly, now 8. Becca shared her experiences on a blog and through local media. Soon she was fielding e-mails and phone calls from other people seeking advice on the adoption process. “When we adopted Molly, my motive was simply to become a mom after struggling

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with infertility,” Becca says. “But after I went to Ukraine and saw firsthand the hundreds and hundreds of children waiting, my motive changed drastically. It was no longer about me. It became about children finding homes.” In 2007, Becca teamed up with friends Stephanee Potts and Camille Wheelock to form Charis, named for the Hebrew word that means “grace.” In 2008, the Hills adopted daughter Madeline, now 3, in a private domes-

tic adoption. In the process, they got to know the birth mother, which introduced Becca to another method of adoption. Now, when birth mothers call Charis seeking information or support, Becca often takes the call. “I had a very good relationship with Madeline’s birth mother,” Becca says. “It gave me a fondness and a sympathy for birth moms and the huge sacrifice they make.” Another focus for Becca is organizing twice-yearly trips by older adoptable children from Ukraine for visits with interested host families in Texas—where the Hills lived

in New Braunfels until earlier this year. So far, 11 of these children have been adopted and five more are in the process of joining American families. Charis also has helped 22 additional children, from the United States, Ukraine, Guatemala, Haiti and Ethiopia, find adoptive parents. Charis co-founder Stephanee, 31, and her husband, Zach, 32, of San Marcos, Texas (pop. 34,733), already parents of three, hosted and then decided to adopt 10- and 12-year-old sisters. “Adoption is one of the greatest gifts we’ve had, but it can be very challenging, too,” Stephanee says. “Having a support system makes all the difference.” Last October, Becca and Craig finalized the adoption of sisters Stephanie, 16, and Lizzie, 11, who first visited on a hosting trip. In New Braunfels, the girls found a ready-made circle of friends adopted from the same orphanage. “There are all these Ukrainian kids running around a small town,” Becca says. “People start asking questions, and before you know it, we’re having a conversation about adoption.”

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// Jannie McNeil-Hayes and her husband, Dennis, of Upper Marlboro, Md., adopted Laura and April as well as their two older siblings in 1991 and 1992.

April, but also April’s three siblings. Today, McNeil-Hayes, 64, and her husband, Dennis, 53, are parents of five grown children: Jonathan, 43, and adopted siblings Phillip, 30, Jerrika, 28, April, 23, and Laura, 20. Their two youngest children have

special needs—April is blind, Laura doesn’t speak, and both have developmental delays—and live at home. Since adopting, Jannie has devoted herself to helping other foster children find families. “Everybody deserves a mom,”

she says. For years, she has volunteered for One Church One Child, a national organization that works with churches to find permanent homes for AfricanAmerican children in foster care. “People were always coming to me with problems they ran into when trying to get a child or once the child was placed,” Jannie says. So in 2003, she founded the Coalition of Adoption Programs, a nonprofit organization that provides moral support and resource referrals for adoptive and foster families. Jannie is the type of person who sees what needs to be done and does it. Once, when a couple was running into roadblocks adopting a foster child, Jannie took their story all the way to then-Gov. Robert Ehrlich Jr.’s office. The governor intervened, and the adoption went through. Today, that couple’s son calls Jannie “grandmother.” “If you ever need assistance, Jannie is going to pull out every resource she has,” says Gisele Booker, of Clinton, Md. (pop. 26,064), mom of two

adopted daughters. “She’s going to call everyone she knows. And she’s going to see it through to the end. Jannie is an excellent networker— and an excellent friend.”

One child at a time When Gwen Oatsvall, 40, and Suzanne Mayernick, 40, of Brentwood, Tenn. (pop. 23,445), met in 2004, both were in the process of adopting for the first time. Gwen already had two birth children, and

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Suzanne had four, yet each felt moved to reach out to children who weren’t fortunate enough to have parents who could care for them. “Worldwide, there are millions of children waiting to be adopted,” Suzanne says. “My husband and I knew there was a need, so we felt called to open up our heart and our home.” Both families’ households have expanded rapidly in the years since. Gwen and her husband, Scott, 41, adopted Emily, now 6, and Maggie, 5, from China, and Daisy, 3, and Joseph, 4, from Uganda. Suzanne and her husband, Mike, 44, adopted Joshua, 5, and Caleb, 3, domestically, and Josie Love, 5, from Uganda. Both families know that adopting a child can be an expensive proposition, averaging around $30,000, so in 2009, Gwen and Suzanne founded 147 Million Orphans, a business that helps families raise money for adoptions by selling apparel and bags. When families sell 147M gear, they keep $10 from each sale. Half of the profit goes to support child feeding programs and other worthy causes, such as aiding children displaced by last year’s earthquake in Haiti. During its first 18 months, 147M helped American families raise nearly $80,000 for adoptions and fed about 400,000 meals to children in Uganda, Haiti, Honduras and China. The program helped ease the financial burden of adoption for Dick and Leslie Overby, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., who (Continued on page 14) A M E R I C A N P R O F I L E .CO M • PAGE 11

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Hanging Feeders. 1 mesh • the unit stable in high • 2sided for peanuts and winds) and plant with 1 for seeds (both 6½” x 2¼”) with 4 feeding ports. mesh-based Feeding • ATray and a Bird Bath (both 7” x 1”). Both can be fixed anywhere on the support pole. Hook Support for round • 4mesh fat feeders. Support Bars • 4forDecorative the hanging baskets and feeders. Base (9” diam. & • Planter 6¼” high). Fill with some stones and soil (this keeps

flowers. Baskets • 2(7Hanging /8” diam.). • Decorative Solar Light! coated steel con• Black struction – waterproof, 1

strong and good-looking. The unit measures 47” from the base to the top of the lamp. Easy assembly. the Multi-Feeder • Place almost anywhere in your garden, patio, yard or veranda.

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I Attractive solar-powseasons! ered lighting at night! I Durable steel construc- I The planter base can be tion – very stable! used for flowers in the summer and sprigs of I The lamp is charged by spruce in the winter! sunlight during the day and illuminates autoI Attract a wide range of matically at night! birds to your home! Mail to: Four Corners Direct, Inc, Dept MDF 349, PO Box 72872, Rockford, MN 55572-8072

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