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FIVE QUESTIONS1 What decade sticks out as the one in which the first self-adhesive U.S. postage stamp appeared?2 What do the British call gasoline?3 What book about little creatures was Roald Dahl’s first work for children?4 Who were the first Japanese war-riors to be officially permitted to carry two swords, one long and one short?5 What is Latin America’s northern-most nation?

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Feb. 13-16 and 18-22■ “Steel Magnolias”: Starkville Com-munity Theatre presents this production directed by Paula Mabry at the Playhouse on Main, 108 E. Main St., Starkville. Play times are 7:30 p.m., except Sunday at 2 p.m. For more information, contact the SCT box office, 662-323-6855.

Thursday, Feb. 13■ Titans’ Herman Boone: Mississippi University for Women’s Gordy Honors Se-ries welcomes Coach Herman Boone, an inspiration for the movie “Remembering the Titans,” at 6 p.m. in Limbert Assem-bly Room in Cochran Hall on campus. For more information, contact Dr. Thomas Velek, tvelek@as.muw.edu, 662-241-6850, or visit web2.muw.edu/index.php/en/main-honors/.

PUBLIC MEETINGSFeb. 14: Lowndes County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse, 9 a.m.Feb. 18: Columbus City Council, municipal complex, 5 p.m.Feb. 18: Columbus Munic-ipal School Board, Central office, 6 p.m.Feb. 18: Starkville Board of Aldermen, City Hall Court-room, 5:30 p.m.Feb. 27: Clay County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse, 9 a.m.Mar. 3: Lowndes County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse, 9 a.m.Mar. 3: Clay County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse, 9 a.m.

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ROTARY RODEO: A rider catches up with a loose bron-co at the Missis-sippi Horse Park

during the annual Rotary Classic Rodeo, a Pro-

fessional Rodeo Cowboys Associ-ation event. The rodeo is hosted by the Starkville

Rotary Club, and is the club’s largest

fundraiser. Pro-ceeds go to local

projects benefiting the community.

BY NATHAN GREGORYngregory@cdispatch.com

Preliminary discussions on a potential multi-purpose are-na for local agricultural groups are ongoing. A feasibility study in the works includes possible financial assistance from the state and where the facility would be located.

Terry Brown, President Pro Tempore of the Mississippi Sen-ate, said he’s in the “early stag-

es” of working with colleagues on a bill that would provide funding for the project.

“It will be (in-troduced at) the very last of the session,” Brown said. “It will be when we see if we’ve got bonds or if we can do it with appropri-ations. Usually you ask for this thing one year and you probably don’t get it until the next year. It’s very early and we’re just looking at the possibilities.”

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Micah Green/Dispatch StaffHelen Thomas holds her GED certificate close to her heart as she sits in her Columbus home. Thomas earned her GED at age 88, more than 50 years after dropping out of school. Her immediate plans for her diploma? “I’m going to sit here and enjoy it,” she says.

too lateIt’s never

Columbus woman finally gets her GEDBY WILLIAM BROWNINGwbrowning@cdispatch.com

Mary Thomas got her GED late last year.

When her name was called during the commencement ceremony at MUW, she set out across the stage with the help of a walker. She is 88 years old, after all.

By the time she reached the other side, stooped and smiling, she was holding a diploma. In her blue cap and gown there in Parkinson Hall, she raised her thin hand into the

air. She was proud of herself. It was something she had always wanted. For a long time she thought it would never happen.

Life just would not cooperate.

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She never knew her father and her mother died before she was 5. Then the sister raising her was murdered. She ended up in Ohio with an aunt who thought she was not smart enough for school.

When she was 15 her aunt sent

her to a railroad job, which she hated. She got a job at a factory next, sweeping floors. She hated that just as much.

She began working for a hotel chain that transferred her from plac-es like Philadelphia to Connecticut to New Jersey. Years passed. She never felt fulfilled.

She wound up in Florida, where she had a pen pal from Columbus named Johnie Thomas Sr. In 1987, she married him, moved to Columbus and retired. Finally, she felt happy.

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Ridership of the Starkville-Mississip -pi State University Area Rapid Transit program is increasing as more residents be-come aware of the bus transit system, the university reported Friday.

The university reported Fri-day that the route, which links Starkville and campus, transported 15,250 riders during the first three days of the 2014 spring semester.

Since its unveiling in 2012, lead-ers have heralded the public trans-portation link between the city and its primary economic engine as a significant and progressive tool. The receipt of an almost-$2.4 million rural public transporta-tion grant through the Mississippi Department of Transportation po-sitioned the university to expand its current shuttle system to a no-charge system with numerous stops in the community.

The entire system went live on Jan. 6, MSU parking and transit di-rector Mike Harris said in a release. The university subsequently added more buses to the system a week later. Out of 32 buses in the MSU fleet, the SMART route utilizes 21.

Harris is leaving his job soon, and former Ward 5 Alderman Jere-miah Dumas will assume his job on an interim basis Monday.

SMART routes operate 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, with fewer operations on Saturdays. Drop-off locations give passengers access to shopping, banking, city services, health care facilities, rec-reation and high-density residential areas including: Vowell’s Market-place, OCH Regional Medical Cen-

University report: More riders utilizing SMART busesDumas taking over Monday as MSU’s interim parking and transit operations director

Dumas

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Sunday SAY WHAT?“It’s like a Swiss Army knife.”

President Barack Obama speaking about the farm bill’s mul-titasking efforts to help boost jobs, innovation, research and

conservation. Obama signed the bill on Friday. Story, 7A.Russian TV shows doctored video of Olympic ringsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SOCHI, Russia — Smoke and mirrors? Rus-sian state television aired footage Friday of five float-ing snowflakes turning into the Olympic rings and bursting into pyrotechnics at the Sochi Games opening ceremony. Problem is, that didn’t happen.

The opening ceremony at the Winter Games hit a bump when only four of the five rings materialized in a wintry opening scene. The five were supposed to join together and erupt in fire-works. But one snowflake never expanded, and the py-rotechnics never went off.

But everything worked fine for viewers of the Ros-siya 1, the Russian host broadcaster.

As the fifth ring got stuck, Rossiya cut away to rehearsal footage. All five rings came together, and the fireworks exploded on cue.

“It didn’t show on tele-vision, thank God,” Jean-Claude Killy, the French ski great who heads the IOC coordination commission for the Sochi Games, told The Associated Press.

Producers confirmed the switch, saying it was import-ant to preserve the imagery of the Olympic symbols.

The unveiling of the

rings is always one of the most iconic moments of an opening ceremony, and President Vladimir Putin has been determined to use the ceremony as an intro-duction of the new Russia to the world.

Konstantin Ernst, exec-utive creative director of the opening ceremony, told reporters at a news confer-ence that he called down to master control to tell them to go the practice footage when he realized what hap-pened.

“This is an open secret,” he said, referring to the use of the pre-recorded footage.

AP PhotoIn a combo of frame grabs taken from Russian televi-sion, five snowflakes float together in Fisht Stadium during the opening cere-mony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on Friday.

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Courtesy/ Drawing by H. Frank Swords A drawing of an early 1800s flatboat on the Tombigbee River at Plymouth Bluff. Flatboats were used for river transportation there begriming in 1814 and by 1833 it was a steamboat landing. Drawing by H. Frank Swords.

ASK RUFUS

I have previously written

about John Pitchlynn and Fort Smith at Plymouth Bluff during the Creek Indian War of 1813-1814, but there is much more history surrounding the bluff than just that. Historic sites associated with the bluff range from a 3,000-year-old Indian camp site in the floodplain below the north end of the bluff to a 1736 French army camp site to the 1830s -1850s Town of Plymouth.

Though lacking real evidence, it has even been proposed in the past as the place where de Soto crossed the Tombig-bee River in December of 1540.

The reality is that Plymouth Bluff is a very significant historic site. The chalk bluff is the remains of a 75-million-year-old Cretaceous sea where the fossils of shells, fish and even a hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) have been found. On top of the chalk is a soil bed which dates to the Pleistocene or Ice Age. There have been fossils of mam-moths, horses and giant ground sloths found there.

Although Paleo-Indi-ans were in the area by 11,000 years ago, the ear-liest Native American site at the bluff is a Woodland period camp or small vil-lage dating back to about 1,000 B C. There is also a

Mississippian Period Indian farmstead that dates between 1200 and 1300 A.D.

The French ex-plorer Henri de Tonti passed a few miles west of the bluff on a trade mission to the

Chickasaws in 1702. After the mission. Iberville, the governor, informed the Chickasaws that he would establish a trading post in what would be the vicinity of the Choc-taw-Chickasaw line along Tibbee Creek which joins the Tombigbee at the north end of Plymouth Bluff. However, there is no record that the post was ever established.

In the 1730s, con-flict arose between the Choctaw-French alliance and the Chickasaw-En-glish alliance. In 1735, French governor Bien-ville of Louisiana decided to invade and subdue the Chickasaws, whose principal villages were at what is now Tupelo. Bi-enville led a French army of about 600 soldiers up the Tombigbee from Mobile and French Fort Tombecbe ( at present day Epes, Ala. about 65 miles southeast of Columbus). The French force included a company of 45 black soldiers under the command of Simon, a black officer.

The French plan was to rendezvous with a force of Choctaw war-riors at the mouth of the Octibia (the French name of Tibbee Creek). The French camped

there for three days waiting on the Choctaws, who had been delayed by rain before Bienville proceeded up river with-out them. The Choctaw French rendezvous finally took place at the site known as Cotton Gin Port near present day Amory. In the fighting at the Chickasaw village of Ackia the French and Choctaw force was soundly defeated by the Chickasaws.

In 1771, British sur-veyor Bernard Romans descended the Tombig-bee River and passed Plymouth Bluff. He wrote a lengthy description of the bluff which he called “a very remarkable bluff.” He concluded by saying, “it looks as if made by art, and if placed near any town of note, I do not doubt would be much used as a walk... its being in the form of a crescent makes it have a very romantic appearance.”

John Pitchlynn moved to the bluff in 1810 and his residence became a frontier crossroad and important meeting place. During the Creek Indian War in 1813, Pitchlynn build a blockhouse and stockade which was called Fort Smith. In 1819, Pitchlynn’s became a U.S. Post Office. After the establishment of Co-lumbus four miles down river, the post office at Pitchlynn’s closed in 1820 and the Columbus Post Office was opened. In 1827 Pitchlynn moved his residence to the Robin-son Road across the river from Columbus.

In 1832 Pitchlynn’s son-in-law, Calvin Howell, had the land at Plymouth

surveyed and established the town of Plymouth. Howell described the town in 1833 as having “a considerable number of log and frame buildings...We have one store and one grocery, in town, and a young man by the name of Carver, is teaching school.” According to an 1837 county census, the town had a population of 77 free persons and 122 slaves. But by the early 1840s the town was dying and it had all but ceased to exist by the late 1850s.

Today the Bluff is home to the MUW Plym-outh Bluff Center which is both an environmental education center and a conference center locat-ed on about 190 wooded acres at the crest of the bluff with 4 1/2 miles of nature trails. The center also has guest cabins totaling 24 rooms which can be rented. The center contains a museum of natural and cultural history and offers for sale an excellent history of Plymouth Bluff that I helped write.

There is a monthly “Sundays at the Bluff” series of programs open to the public. These programs alternate between natural history, regional cultural history and archaeology. Today at 2 p.m. Dr. Jerome Goddard, a medical/veterinary entomologist at Mississippi Stare will present the “Evolution of Parasitism - from Ticks to Bed Bugs.”

Rufus Ward is a local historian. Email your questions about local history to him at rufushis-tory@aol.com.

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Ashby Barton, 24, of Winona, was arrested 3 p.m. Thursday at Commu-

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BY RAPHAEL SATTERThe Associated Press

LONDON — News organizations publishing leaked National Security Agency documents have inadvertently disclosed the names of at least six intelligence workers and other government secrets they never intended to give away, an Associated Press review has found.

The accidental disclo-sures illustrate the risks of even well-intentioned, public-interest reporting on highly secret U.S. pro-grams.

In some cases, prom-inent newspapers includ-ing The New York Times quickly pulled down gov-ernment records they published online and re-censored them to hide information they acciden-tally exposed. On one oc-casion, the Guardian news-paper published an NSA document that appeared to identify an American intelligence target living abroad. Before the newspa-per could fix its mistake, a curious software engineer, Ron Garret of Emerald Hills, Calif., tried to con-tact the man at his office.

“I figured someone ought to give him the heads up,” Garret told The Associated Press.

The inadvertent dis-closures, which include technical details and oth-er information, are an-other complication in the ethically and technically challenging coverage of the NSA’s surveillance programs. Journalists who have seen the unfiltered secrets leaked by former intelligence worker Ed-ward Snowden agree that some things are off-limits for publication. But media organizations sometimes

have struggled to keep them that way.

Glenn Greenwald, the reporter and columnist who has played a key role in publishing so many of Snowden’s revelations, has said he wouldn’t publish the names of U.S. intelli-gence workers unless they were top-ranking public officials. Greenwald told the AP that the mistaken disclosures of at least six names and other material were minor errors made by technical staff and quickly corrected.

“We reported on these documents with the larg-est and most well-respect-ed media organizations in the world, but like all hu-man institutions, none is perfect,” Greenwald said.

It was not immediately

clear what damage, if any, has come from the disclo-sures of the names of the six NSA employees and other secrets. The NSA would not discuss its em-ployees. None appeared to be working undercover.

The AP was able to lo-cate several of their home addresses and other per-sonal details about them. The NSA said in a state-ment that it asks news outlets “to redact and with-hold the names of employ-ees, given the sensitive nature of the information and concerns for the safe-ty of employees and their families.”

Media sometimes try, fail to keep NSA’s secretsOrganizations publishing leaked National Security Agency documents have inadvertently disclosed the names of at least six intelligence workers

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JACKSON — The Mis-sissippi Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a Mississippi State Uni-versity student who was convicted of having a fire-arm on campus.

Jeffrey Lance Hill was convicted at trial in May of 2012 of having a rifle

and 440 rounds of ammu-nition at the Aiken Village Apartments.

Hill argues he nev-er knew the apartments were part of the campus.

He represented him-self, but attorney Stepha-nie Mallette was appoint-ed by the court to assist him with his defense.

During the trial, a po-lice report, which named the confidential informant used by police, was given to Mallette.

She asked the trial judge to allow her to with-draw because the judge had ruled the informa-tion about the informant was not supposed to be released and she would have to instruct Hill to ask for a mistrial in order to call the informant as a witness.

New trial ordered in MSU firearm caseMan convicted of having rifle and 440 rounds of ammo on campus

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OUR VIEW

A rose to East Missis-sippi Community College, which has been chosen as one of the nation’s Top 150 community colleges by the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program. The

distinction will allow EMCC to compete for the 2014 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence and $1 million in prize funds. The Aspen Prize is one of the most prestigious recognitions in the coun-try for two-year colleges. Colleges do not apply for this recognition. Eligibility to compete comes as a result of information in federal reports as compared to criteria established by the Aspen Prize Commit-tee. The prize, awarded every two years, is the nation’s signature recognition of high achievement and performance among America’s community colleges and recognizes institutions for exception-al student outcomes in four areas: student learning, certificate and degree comple-tion, employment and earnings, and high levels of access and success for minority and low-income students.

A rose to the citizens group in charge of plans for Unity Park in Starkville for its decision to honor the late Starkville-based physician, writer and civil rights leader

Douglas Conner and the historic “Game of Change” when the Mississippi State University men’s basketball team defied the governor by stealing away to play an integrated Loyola University team in the NCAA Tournament in East Lansing, Mich., in 1963. While elected officials struggled to complete the planning of the park and determine who should be honored there, the committee of citizens took ownership of the project and has acted quickly and cooperatively in filling the two remaining plaques with tributes to Conner and the 1963 MSU basketball team. With those decisions behind them, we eagerly await the opening of the park, which is the next order of business for the committee.

A rose to Starkville Young Professionals and Starkville Main Street Association for organizing one of Saturday’s tastiest events. SOUPer Bowl 2014

let area restaurant chefs put their best soups forward as ticket holders voted for their favorites. The event held at The STAGgerIN Sports Grill also generated donations of canned soups for Starkville food pantries.

A rose to former Dis-patch photo intern Sam Gause, who recently won first place in a prestigious collegiate competition. Gause, a University of Missouri graduate won for

his submission in the category of Narra-tive Multimedia Storytelling – Features category of the national Hearst Journal-ism Awards Program. Gause’s entry was tops among 69 competitors representing 42 schools. The win qualifies him for the Hearst National Championship, which will be announced in June. Gause also received ninth-place honors in Hearst’s news and feature photojournalism cate-gory. Gause worked as a photo intern at The Dispatch during the summer of 2012. Based on his work here, we are not at all surprised to learn that Sam has excelled in his craft.

Do you have a submission for Roses and Thorns? Send your submission of 75 words of fewer to managing editor Slim Smith at ssmith@cdispatch.com by noon Friday.

SLIMANTICS

In a previous life, I was a sports journal-ist, an occupation that took me to many of the biggest sporting events in the United States. As a reporter and later, an editor, I attended the Masters Golf Tourna-ment, the Kentucky Derby, the Super Bowl, three college football championship games, the NCAA Final Four, the World Series and in-numerable professional and college sporting events that people typical-ly pay good money to see.

Twelve years ago, I attended my first and only Olympic Games — the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. At the time, I was a sports editor in Arizona and was dispatched to the Olympic Games to serves as bureau chief for Freedom Newspaper’s Olympic coverage team, which consisted of 12 reporters, three columnists and six photographers from the various newspapers owned by the Freedom chain. The largest of the papers was the Orange County Register. Another of the newspapers, the Colorado Springs Gazette, was home to the U.S. Olympic training facility.

My primary job was determine which reporters would be sent to cover the events. The Orange County staffers naturally assumed they would be given their pick of the most popular events by virtue of the fact that they worked at, by far, the largest and most presti-gious newspaper in the chain. The Gazette folks, meanwhile, assumed they would get their pick by virtue of their expertise — they covered Olympics sports on an every-day basis and knew the athletes, coach-es and staffs on a first-name basis.

Everybody wanted to cover figure skating, naturally. Hockey was a plum assignment, too. The Orange County Register had a particular interest in short-track speed skating, a sport I didn’t even know existed a month before the game. The Register had been following a budding superstar in the sport, a southern California

kid named Apollo Ohno. The Gazette reporters didn’t have a problem with the Register reporters grabbing up all the short-track speed skating assignments. That was an exception, though. The Gazette and Register reporters fought and bickered over assignments on a daily basis.

As you might sus-pect, my job required

no small amount of diplomatic skills. It also required thick skin. Every time I looked up, an unhappy reporter would be there to protest his assignment.

Another challenge was figuring out which of the events we would cover at all. Once the games start-ed, there were more events than reporters and many events were held at the same time in various venues from Salt Lake to Ogden to Park City to Deer Valley.

The other part of the my job was figuring out what to do with the two news reporters that were as-signed to me. The idea of sending news reporters to Salt Lake City emerged from the very serious concerns over a terrorist attack on the games. We wanted veteran news reporters on the scene in the event of a tragedy. Remember: These games were held just six months after 9/11 and the worries over another a terrorist attack were palpable.

The security was so tight that it took spectators as much as three hours to get through the security checkpoints at the venues. Report-ers were searched so thoroughly that even the caps of ink pens had to be removed for inspection. Every journalist was required to have a passport, even U.S. journal-ists. That’s right: I had to have a passport to travel from Arizona to Utah.

When I wasn’t busy distributing unhappy reporters to the various events and making up stories for the two news reporters to cov-er — one news reporter became obsessed about the sex traffic in Mormon-dominated Salt Lake City

— I spent hours talking to editors about what sort of coverage they wanted, putting a special empha-sis on making sure that all of the “hometown” athletes got some coverage. That was tricky, too. One guy on a four-man bobsled team that isn’t expected to be in the hunt for a medal would be easy to ignore. Unless of course, that guy was from “back home.” With 14 newspapers scattered all over the country, there was always some obscure athlete whose exploits at the game were of vital interest the readers “back home.”

Even my paper had a “local” at the games, a former women’s shot-putter whose job on the bob-sled team was to get the bobsled going really fast and then hop in and hang on.

The days were long. I arrived at the media center at 8 a.m. and usually didn’t back to the hotel until midnight. I was in Salt Lake City for 24 days.

Ironically, I saw very little of the Olympic Games I was actually assigned to be a part of.

Fortunately, I was able to get away and attend a few events — Deer Valley for the women’s downhill, Peaks Ice Arena for a hockey game, Utah Olympic Park for luge. I also made it all the way up to Ogden to see if curling is as boring in person as it is on TV. It is. Friday Night bingo at the Ameri-can Legion Hall is more exciting, as far as I am concerned.

All in all, my experience at the Olympics was a long, tedious ordeal interrupted by occasional moments of fun.

I worked with some wonderfully talented journalists and managed to stay on speaking terms with all of them.

My bosses at Freedom seemed pleased, too, so I figure it turned out pretty well.

But I have no desire to be in Sochi.

I’d rather watch it on TV and not have to worry about making a reporter cover the biathlon when he really wanted to cover hockey.

Slim Smith is the managing editor of The Dispatch. His email address is ssmith@cdispatch.com.

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Memories of the 2002 Winter Olympics

Roses and thorns

Slim Smith

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are the reasons we often lag behind when it comes to growth and development as a community. Putting “your buddy” on the board for political gain will get us nowhere!

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When my kids were little, an older and more expe-rienced mother told me that one key to raising kids safely is to limit the number of “nos” to what really matters and insist firmly on those. Motor-cycles and heroin, she said, which seems like a pretty good list. I added driving drunk or getting in a car with someone who had been drinking. I left heroin on the list, even though heroin use is totally foreign to me. I have friends and family who have struggled with alcohol (mostly) and other drugs, but heroin is outside of my life experience.

That may be why Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death hit me, and many others, so hard.

Twenty-three years clean and sober, a partner he loved, three chil-dren, an amazing career. And then he went back to heroin and died with a needle in his arm, a horror that will live with his children forever.

Why?Addiction is an

illness. I know. If you’re an addict, even if you’re clean and sober for decades, you’re still an addict. If you forget that, you die.

The police are pursuing the people who allegedly sold Hoffman the heroin. I have no sympathy for heroin dealers, much less those who sell heroin that is either so pure or so tainted that what they are really selling is instant death.

But Hoffman was not a kid

who didn’t know that heroin comes in all kinds of forms, and that every heroin addict risks dying, as he did, with a needle in his arm. Indeed, writer Aaron Sorkin, in one of the creepier posts about Hoff-man’s death, recalled a conver-sation he had with the actor some years ago. Hoffman said: “If one of us dies of an over-dose, probably 10 people who were about to won’t.”

The folks who sold him the heroin should be arrested because selling heroin is a crime. If they knew the heroin was tainted or likely to cause sudden death even more than the usual batch, the charges should be even more serious.

But they aren’t responsible for his death. Addiction is an illness, which makes it harder, much harder, to stay clean, but it doesn’t make it impossible. Every one of us has things that are hard that we struggle with

in our lives, most of us with far less going for us — in terms of talent and wealth and fame and family —- than Hoffman had.

I don’t mean to speak ill of the dead. I do mean to speak ill of heroin.

Among the descriptions that stuck with me out of all of the Hoffman stories were those of the actor in his last days by folks who saw him on a plane or at the airport or even at the ATM. Apparently, he looked awful, frightfully bad. Heroin does that. And this was before the fatal injec-tion. There is no such thing as good heroin. People saw him, saw him looking terrible, saw him hunched over an ATM withdrawing money for his buy. People saw him, but what can you do?

What can anyone do?His partner of many years,

the mother of his children,

said he was high when she talked to him. They were living separately. She was, it seems clear, trying to protect their children. At least he didn’t die in their home. But there is no protecting young children from the loss of their father.

The worlds of theater and film, and all of us who enjoy those worlds, have lost an actor of great talent. We are all poorer for that. But not nearly as much as his family, as his children and his partner.

Maybe 10 people — maybe even more — who hear of Hoffman’s horrible death will be saved by that news. Maybe, as Sorkin put it, it will “scare someone clean.” I hope so. Be-cause there is no other good that can come of it.

Susan Estrich is a nationally syndicated columnist. To find out more about her go to www.creators.com.

Hoffman and heroin

“I won’t have any money to leave behind. I won’t have the fine and luxuri-ous things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.,

Feb. 4, 1968

Maybe we should take up an offering.

Obviously, the heirs of Martin Luther King Jr. are hard up for money. That must be why they keep sell-ing off pieces of his legacy.

Have you heard the latest? King’s youngest child, Bernice, issued a statement last week after her brothers, Dex-ter and Martin III, filed suit to force her to turn over their father’s Nobel Peace Prize and his traveling Bible. She says they want to sell them to a private owner.

According to the suit, King’s heirs agreed in 1995 to turn their inheri-tance over to a corporate entity, The Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Inc., where Martin is chairman of the board. The complaint says Bernice has “repeatedly acknowledged and conceded the validity” of the agree-ment, but still refuses to surrender the items. The suit makes no mention of a sale. I called the King brothers’ lawyer for comment. He didn’t return the call.

In her statement, Bernice writes, “While I love my brothers dearly, this latest decision by them is extremely troubling.” She says she is “appalled,” “ashamed” and “disappointed” by their behavior. “It reveals a desperation beyond comprehension.” Their father,

she adds, “MUST be turning in his grave.”

Turning? Martin Luther King must be spinning like a record album.

Not just because of this, but be-cause over the years his family has missed no opportunity to pimp his leg-acy. That verb is used advisedly. I am mindful of its racial freight, but frank-ly, no other word adequately describes the behavior of this family with regard to its most celebrated member. Every year, they remind us to respect his leg-acy, but it seems increasingly apparent they don’t respect — or even fully understand it — themselves.

If they did, they could not have licensed his image for a commercial with Homer Simpson. Or put his per-sonal papers on sale for $20 million. Or demanded money to allow his likeness to grace a memorial on the Washington Mall.

What would King think of them fighting Harry Belafonte for the return

of papers King gave him as a gift — especially since Belafonte helped finance King’s movement and the upbringing of these selfsame kids?

What would King think of the fact that these bickering, tiresome chil-dren of his are forever in litigation and public squabbles with one another and that money always seems to be at the root? Especially since he famously dis-dained “shallow things” like personal gain?

So yes, let’s pass the hat. How much do you think it would take to induce these people to grow up, shut up, and stop using their daddy like an ATM?

I admit to being selective in my vex-ation. If Woodrow Wilson’s heirs sold his Nobel Prize, or Booker T. Wash-ington’s his Bible, I doubt I would even notice.

The difference, I think, is that King is nearer to us in time and of a mag-nitude of greatness those men, great though they were, do not approach.

He resides on a pantheon of American heroes occupied by the Founders, Abraham Lincoln and no one else. Moreover with him there is, especially for African-Americans but really for all believers in human dignity, a sense of communal ownership and collective investment — a sense that he is ours and his memory, sacred. His children are the caretakers of that memory on behalf of us all. To trade on it for the love of money is starkly appalling and profoundly offensive.

The fact that they either don’t understand this or don’t care speaks volumes. King’s kids may be legally entitled to sell his legacy to the high-est bidder. But the fact that a thing is legal to do does not make it right to do.

Considering who their father was, you’d think that’s something they’d know.

Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald. His e-mail address is lpitts@miamiherald.com.

For sale, the MLK legacy

I was using the free White Pages website to try to find the ZIP code for a friend’s address. An advertisement popped up, something called Instant Checkmate, which is not free.

“I found out on Instant Checkmate my boyfriend of two years is a sex offender,” the rolling ad said. Ouch.

Someone is checking up on her boy-friend after two years. The site might have been more useful before the first date. After two long years, you’d think there would have been a few heart-to-hearts and such wrenching revelations would be history.

I couldn’t help but imagine the Valentine’s Day this couple is going to have. No cellophane-wrapped hearts or

soft centers. More likely: The nut will get a lot of hard questions.

As more and more love affairs begin online, you can understand the need for instant, virtual private investiga-tions. For who paints himself in an unflattering light when trying to find a match online?

“I like sunsets, long walks, honest companions and, uh, underage girls.”

I don’t think so.I know this sort of thing also can

happen when relationships begin the more conventional way. There are more rings in coat pockets in motel lounges than there are beer bottles. A perennial news item reports a man with two families, a plane ride apart, each oblivious of the other.

The difference may be the fre-quency of such deceptions when the date-vetting occurs online. Done the

old way, you usually don’t meet some-one for the first time with romance the intention. The pace generally is slower, with a few critical steps in between “ and “yes.” Once in a while there’s something called friendship.

Now, I’m a romantic from way back. Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite celebrations. I even believe in love at first sight — if not love at first site. It is rare but happens.

What I don’t understand is falling for a photograph — or a personality on paper. I have to hear, smell, see and touch to render a romantic judgment. Except maybe in the case of Paul Newman.

The poor woman with the sex-of-fender boyfriend might have fallen in love at the Laundromat, for all I know. Or she might have sat on the church pew next to her fellow for years before

taking the leap to dating. Somehow, I suspect not.

The French say their marriages are more successful than ours because they work at keeping mystery in the equation. Couples don’t expect to know everything about a partner. While that’s a nice theory and statistically sound — divorce in France is on the rise but hasn’t reached the U.S. level yet — you still like to think you know fundamentally what your partner is about. Is he honest, kind, true? You like to think you’d suspect deviant behavior after a month, a year.

I don’t know. With stars in your eyes, maybe it takes two.

I believe all of us on this earth are searching for love. We may put it on the back burner and turn down the heat, but we crave it. Far be it from me to be too critical of how anyone achieves the warmth of companion-ship, no matter how she runs the race.

And when the bubble bursts, Philip Marlowe is at her fingertips.

Rheta Grimsley Johnson, a nationally syndicated columnist, lives near Iuka.

Cellophane hearts and soft centers

Susan Estrich

What would King think of the fact that these bicker-ing, tiresome children of his are forever in litigation and public squab-bles with one another and that money al-ways seems to be at the root?

Leonard Pitts

The French say their marriages are more successful than ours because they work at keeping mystery in the equation.

Rheta Johnson

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What is Mississippi’s Secret to Creating Thousands of New Jobs, and Adding More Than $100 Million Annually in State Revenues?

Passage of Senate Bill 2568 which ends Mississippians being denied access to their natural resources by an out-of-state company.

The Mississippi Senate will vote this week on

whether to end the monopoly that is preventing

an economic development boom in Mississippi.

For the sake of jobs and in fairness to land and

mineral owners, Senate Bill 2568 needs to pass.

SB 2568 ensures Mississippians will have

access to a pipeline network that was built

using eminent domain.

Records show that when the CO2 pipeline

was built, the company sought eminent domain

privileges at least 52 times.

Eminent domain can only be granted when

the result is for public use, public benefi t or in the

public’s interest. The company may have originally

intended to use the pipeline for the best interest

of Mississippi; however, several years ago the

company made the decision to abandon numerous

Mississippi fi elds and focus on fi elds in Texas.

As a result, 50% to 70% of Mississippi’s CO2

is now being shipped to Texas, costing the

state of Mississippi thousands of jobs. In 2000,

100% of the CO2 was being used in Mississippi.

Precious oil reserves remain untapped in

Mississippi. An estimated 280 million barrels

of oil could be produced with access to CO2

THOUSANDS of well-paying jobs would be

created, and $100 million in new revenue

would be generated annually.

To successfully extract this oil from fi elds

using Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques,

CO2 is required. Thus, if Mississippians are denied

access to the CO2 pipeline network, they are

ultimately being denied access to minerals that

are recoverable through EOR.

In other parts of the country, such as Texas,

where there is an open pipeline market for

CO2 suppliers and buyers, CO

2 mineral owners

receive up to 150% more per CO2 unit produced.

This problem has been caused by a Texas

company’s monopolistic operation of Mississippi’s

CO2 Pipeline Network.

Let’s put Mississippians fi rst. Open up the

closed pipelines built through eminent domain.

Unlock the billions of dollars of abandoned

Mississippi oil reserves. Let Mississippi mineral

owners receive market value for their precious

minerals.

Let’s pass Senate Bill 2568 and create THOUSANDS of jobs for Mississippians.

Support economic development in Mississippi, not in Texas.

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Supervisors President Harry Sanders said facil-ities that currently house the Lowndes County Ex-tension Office lack suffi-cient space for meetings and local agriculture-re-lated clubs and associa-tions have to rent other buildings. The county fairgrounds, where local 4-H Clubs and the Cattle-man’s Association show animals, “is falling apart

and not getting any repre-sentation,” Sanders said.

County leaders have spoken with Golden Tri-angle Development LINK CEO Joe Max Higgins about a possible location. One factor to consider was where the potential facility could be centrally located and have high vis-ibility. One possible loca-tion is on a county-owned, 50-acre parcel west of the

Paccar plant that Higgins said he was not consider-ing for industrial develop-ment.

“We’ve been asked to look at land we had avail-able out by the airport area for suitability and not in conflict with industri-al possibilities,” Higgins said. “I went and looked up some of the bigger (multi-purpose agricul-tural facilities) in the state

and superimposed them on a couple of sites to see if they would fit. I don’t know what the county would decide, but I think we’ve found something or multiple somethings that would work if they wanted to do it.”

Sanders said the coun-ty is looking at architec-tural plans from other similar buildings in For-rest and Pontotoc counties

that could be used if fund-ing was secured to con-struct one in Lowndes so the county wouldn’t have to use any matching grant funds it might be required to provide for engineering or design costs.

Brown said funding could be available through a grant from the Missis-sippi Department of Agri-culture but he is exploring all avenues for how to pro-

vide state assistance for a new facility.

“We are an agricultur-al state. This would be something that would be used by the county agents and the 4-H Clubs and dif-ferent things like that,” Brown said. “We’re look-ing to try to get something bigger and something that would attract more venues in here. It could be used for a multitude of things.”

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The only thing nag-ging was the fact that she never finished school. Her husband urged her to get her GED. But he got sick and she devoted herself to his care until the day in 2011 when he died. Then life got quiet.

She filled the silence

with GED classes at the Greater Columbus Learn-ing Center on Military Road. She was older than her classmates by de-cades and decades. The computer classes were hard. The math classes were harder. She stuck with it, though, and never

thought of quitting.Not too long ago she

was asked what kept her going. Nothing much, she said, just her faith and wanting to graduate.

On Dec. 19, with roughly 30 other people young enough to be her great-grandchildren, she

did just that.

■ ■ ■

She lives alone in public housing on Avenue B. On her wall, she keeps two pictures of her late husband’s grave and beneath those pictures

she has a chair where she sits a lot and knits. Beside her feet is a pile of notebooks full of her life story that she is writing.

Most people who pur-sue a GED do so to get a step up in the world and expand possibilities. How does she plan on using

hers?“I’m just going to

nurse it,” Mary Thomas said, sitting in her chair, hugging her diploma tight across her chest. “It’s something I just look at. Took me long enough.

“I’m going to sit here and enjoy it.”

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JACKSON — Mississippi is getting $5.6 million in fed-eral money to pay for efforts to improve poorly performing schools.

The U.S. Department of Edu-cation announced Friday it was awarding more than $38 million. Others getting money include

Delaware, Georgia, Nebraska, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Mississippi Department of Education spokeswoman Patrice Guilfoyle says the state expects to be able to give multi-year grants to as many as eight of 33 eligible schools, with competi-tive applications due in March. No local match is required.

“Essentially, the SIG program is designated for districts with the greatest need and greatest commitment to change,” Guil-foyle wrote in an email. “It’s de-signed for rapid turnaround of school academic achievement.”

The program has sent $33 million to Mississippi to help improve 10 schools or school districts since 2011. Most recip-ients have improved significant-ly, with Sunflower County’s Ru-leville Middle School showing perhaps the greatest progress. But some recipients such as West Bolivar Middle School in

Rosedale are still struggling.Under the program, appli-

cants have four options. They can hire a new principal and create a new evaluation system meant to help teachers improve; they can hire a new principal and replace at least 50 percent of staff members; they can hire an outside charter or other school management group to run the school; or they can close the school and send the students to better-performing school.

New applicants would get anywhere from $50,000 to $2 million per school, according

to a January presentation to the state Board of Education, with grants renewable for two more years. Grant winners must show progress to get money beyond the first year.

Nationwide, federal school improvement grants have gone to more than 1,500 schools.

“These school improvement grants are helping some of the lowest-achieving schools pro-vide a better education for stu-dents who need it the most,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a state-ment.

Miss. gets $5.6 million to help struggling schoolsProgram has sent $33 million to Mississippi to help improve 10 schools or school districts since 2011

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ter, Wal-Mart and the Starkville Sportsplex.

“Everyone who rides will benefit from a sav-ings on fuel and vehicle costs,” Harris said in a release Friday. “The pos-sibility of reducing sin-

gle-occupancy vehicles would help in many ways, such as by reducing traf-fic congestion, emissions and the amount of tax-payer dollars needed for street repairs.”

“This is a game chang-

er for Starkville. This ser-vice will enable our cit-izens who may not have reliable transportation to be able to access all parts of the city and university with ease,” Mayor Parker Wiseman previously told

The Dispatch. “That’s where the real economic development opportu-nities are. If you’re in a community that has no mass transit, then not having a viable personal vehicle can mean the dif-

ference between getting to work and not getting to work.”

Information on the SMART system, includ-ing live bus maps and arrival time estimates, can be found at smart.

msstate.edu.The route features

some Americans with Disabilities Act-compli-ant buses and is free to all passengers. Children un-der the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult.

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BY NEDRA PICKLERThe Associated Press

EAST LANSING, Mich. — President Barack Obama on Fri-day signed into law an agriculture spending bill that will spread benefits to farmers in every re-gion of the country, while trimming the food stamp program that inspired a two-year battle over the legislation.

As he penned his name on the five year measure at Michigan State Uni-versity, Obama said the wide-ranging bill “multi-tasks” by helping boost jobs, innovation, research and conservation. “It’s like a Swiss Army knife,” he joked.

But not everyone is happy with the legisla-tion and Obama acknowl-edged its passage was “a

very chal-l e n g i n g piece of business.”

The bill e x p a n d s federal crop i ns u r a nc e and ends di-rect govern-ment payments that go to farmers whether they produce anything or not. But the bulk of its near-ly $100 billion per year cost is for the food stamp program that aids 1 in 7 Americans.

The bill finally passed

with support from Dem-ocratic and Republican lawmakers from farming states, but the bipartisan spirit didn’t extend to the signing ceremony where Obama was flanked by farm equipment, hay bales and Democratic lawmakers. White House press secretary Jay Car-ney said several Republi-cans were invited, but all declined to attend.

Conservatives remain unhappy with the bill and its generous new subsidies for interests ranging from Southern

peanut growers and Mid-west corn farmers to the Northeast maple syrup industry.

They also wanted much larger cuts to food stamps than the $800 mil-lion Congress finally ap-

proved in a compromise. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told report-ers he did not expect the cut of about 1 percent of the food stamp budget to have a significant impact on recipients.

Obama signs farm bill that trims food stampsConservatives remain unhappy with the bill and its generous subsidies

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BY SUZAN FRASERThe Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey — A Ukrainian man who allegedly tried to hijack a Turkey-bound commer-cial flight and divert it to Sochi on the day of the Winter Olympics’ open-ing ceremony wanted to press for the release of an-ti-government protesters in his country, authorities said Saturday.

Turkey’s transport minister suggested the man probably acted alone and didn’t have any links to terror groups.

The 45-year old Ukrainian man, identi-fied by Turkish media as Artem Hozlov, claimed he had a bomb and tried to divert a Pegasus Airlines flight, which originated in Kharkiv, Ukraine, to Sochi, Russia, on Friday. The crew tricked him and landed the plane in Istanbul instead where he was subdued by security

officers who sneaked on board. Turkish author-ities said no bomb was found.

The foiled hijacking took place as thousands of athletes from around the world poured into a tightly-secured stadium in Sochi amid warnings the games could be a ter-ror target.

The man was being questioned by police for possible links to terror groups, according to Turkey’s state-run TRT television. It wasn’t clear when charges would be brought.

“We think it was an in-dividual thing,” Transport Minister Lutfi Elvan told reporters in response to questions on to whether the incident was a “terror-ist” act. “It may be linked to (events in) Ukraine... Our colleagues say it is not a serious issue.”

Maxim Lenko, the head of the Ukrainian Security Service’s inves-

tigative division, said the Kharkiv resident want-ed to divert the plane to Sochi where Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych were meeting on the sidelines of the Olympics.

“The passenger put forth the demand to free the ‘hostages’ in Ukraine,” Lenko said, in reference to people arrest-ed in the ongoing protests in Ukraine. “Otherwise, he threatened to blow up the plane.”

Sochi hijack attempt over Ukrainian prisoners

AP Photo/Emrah GurelPassengers leave the hijacked plane at the Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Istanbul, Turkey on Friday.

Security officers were able to sneak on board the plane to subdue man

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOWN OF BELOIT, Wis. — An hour after a woman reported her new-born son missing from a Wisconsin home, police were questioning her step-sister — found with a prosthetic pregnancy belly, baby clothes and a stroller, but no baby, according to court docu-ments.

It was more than 24 hours after Kayden Pow-ell went missing before authorities discovered the infant, less than a week old, in a plastic storage crate outside an Iowa gas station, miraculously

alive and well despite frig-id temperatures.

Kristen Smith of Den-ver had pretended to be pregnant, went to Wiscon-sin and stole her step-sis-ter’s baby from his bassi-net as his parents slept, court documents say. Then, as police closed in on her, she allegedly aban-doned the infant, who was swaddled in blankets.

Federal prosecutors in Madison charged Smith with kidnapping Friday afternoon, hours after an Iowa police chief found Kayden.

“He’s strong,” the new-born’s great-uncle, Mark

B e n n e t t , said of the boy. “I’m glad that baby is still living in-stead of in a ditch some-where on a strange highway.”

Court papers: Woman stole babyAllegedly abandoned baby in plastic storage crate as police closed in

Smith

BY BREE FOWLER AND JOE MANDAKThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — The hackers who stole mil-lions of customers’ credit and debit card numbers from Target may have used a Pittsburgh-area heating and refrigeration business as the back door to get in.

If that was, in fact, how they pulled it off — and investigators appear to be looking at that theory — it illustrates just how vulner-able big corporations have become as they expand and connect their comput-er networks to other com-panies to increase conve-nience and productivity.

Fazio Mechanical Ser-vices Inc., a contractor that does business with Target, said in a statement Thursday that it was the victim of a “sophisticated

cyberattack operation,” just as Target was. It said it is cooperating with the Secret Service and Target to figure out what hap-pened.

The statement came days after Internet securi-ty bloggers identified the Sharpsburg, Pa., company as the third-party vendor through which hackers penetrated Target’s com-puter systems.

Target has said it be-lieves hackers broke into its vast network by first infiltrating the computers of one of its vendors. Then the hackers installed mali-cious software in Target’s checkout system for its es-timated 1,800 U.S. stores.

Experts believe the thieves gained access to about 40 million credit and debit card numbers and the personal informa-tion of as many as 70 mil-lion customers.

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BY MEGHAN BARRThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Heroin was supposed to be an ob-solete evil, a blurry mem-ory of a dangerous drug that dwelled in some dark recess of American culture.

But smack never really disappeared. It comes in waves, and one such swell is cresting across the nation, sparking widespread worry among government officials and driving up overdose deaths — including, it ap-pears, that of Oscar-win-ning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Fueled by a crackdown on prescription pain killers and an abundant supply of cheap heroin that’s more po-tent than ever, the drug that has killed famous rock stars and everyday Americans alike is making headlines again.

“Heroin has this sort of dark allure to it that’s part of its mystique,” said Eric Schneider, a professor at the University of Pennsyl-vania who wrote the book “Smack: Heroin in the City,” a historical account of the drug. “What I’ve heard from heroin users is that flirting with addiction is part of the allure: to sort of see how close to that edge you can get and still pull back.”

Medical examiners have not made an official deter-mination of the cause of the 46-year-old actor’s death, but police have been inves-tigating it as an overdose. Hoffman was found in a bathroom with a syringe in his arm.

Authorities say a num-ber of factors are fueling the drug’s use, including relatively low prices and a less demonized image than it once had. Rather than

seeing heroin as the point-of-no-return drug of strung-out junkies — in his 1967 song “Heroin,” Lou Reed called it “my wife and ... my life” — some users now see it as an inexpensive alterna-tive to oxycodone and other prescription opiate drugs.

“People think that it is someone who is a bum, who’s homeless, who has no money and who is sort of liv-ing at the very bottom,” said Michael Clune, a former ad-dict who wrote the memoir ‘White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin.’ “When the truth is, it really is everywhere.”

The number of record-ed heroin overdose deaths nearly doubled from 1,842 in 2000 to 3,036 in 2010, ac-cording to the most recent statistics available from the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention. Heroin deaths still account for a rel-atively small percentage of

total drug overdose deaths: less than 10 percent in 2010, for example.

Last month, the gover-nor of Vermont devoted al-most his entire State of the State address to the state’s heroin problem, calling on the Legislature to pass laws encouraging treatment and seek ideas on the best way to prevent people from be-coming addicted.

New wave of heroin claims Hoffman and othersFueled by a crackdown on prescription pain killers, the drug that has killed famous rock stars and everyday Americans alike is making headlines again

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BY DENISE LAVOIEThe Associated Press

BOSTON — It was April 1956, and the No. 1 song was Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel.” At the Woods Hole Ocean-ographic Institution on Cape Cod, scientist Dean Bumpus was busy releas-ing glass bottles in a large stretch of the Atlantic Ocean.

Nearly 58 years later, a biologist studying grey seals off Nova Scotia found one of the bottles in a pile of debris on a beach, 300 miles from where it was released.

“It was almost like finding treasure in a way,” Warren Joyce said Friday.

The drift bottle was among thousands dumped in the Atlantic

Ocean between 1956 and 1972 as part of Bumpus’ study of surface and bot-tom currents. About 10 percent of the 300,000 bottles have been found over the years.

Joyce found the bottle Jan. 20 on Sable Island, about 185 miles southeast of Halifax.

He contacted scientists at Woods Hole and duti-fully gave them the time and place information Bumpus had asked for in a postcard inside the bottle. His reward will be exactly what Bumpus promised in 1956 to anyone who re-turned a bottle: a 50-cent piece.

“I didn’t want the re-ward, but they said they are sending it to me any-way,” Joyce said, chuck-ling.

Bottle released by Mass. scientist in 1956 found

AP Photo/Warren N. JoyceThis January 2014 photo shows a message found inside a glass bottle recovered on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, by biologist Warren N. Joyce of Canada’s De-partment of Fisheries and Oceans.

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Lady Jackets, Yellow Jackets win Senior Night

Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffStarkville High School’s Dontavius Self (23) goes up for a shot during Senior Night Saturday against Louisville. The Lady Jackets won 66-47, while the Yellow Jackets took an 83-39 victory.

BY MATTHEW STEVENSmstevens@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — Brian Johnson will finally get to work with Dan Mul-len.

Multiple sources inside the Missis-sippi State football program confirmed to The Dispatch Friday evening, John-son, Utah’s quarterbacks coach, has agreed to join the Bulldogs coaching staff. Johnson will serve in the same position in Starkville as he did last season with the Utes.

Johnson was recruited to Utah by the MSU head coach and as a freshman in 2004, John-son saw action in ten games as back-up to Heisman Trophy fi-nalist Alex Smith. However, the MSU coach never got to coach Johnson as a starting quarterback as Urban Meyer brought Mullen from Utah to Florida in

that 2004 offseason.Johnson was the starting quarter-

back for the Utes in a 31-17 upset win against Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl. Johnson led then No. 7 Utah with 336 passing yards and three passing touchdowns and was named the 2009 Sugar Bowl Most Outstanding Player.

Sources have confirmed to The Dispatch, Johnson will coach the quarterbacks at MSU but the rest of the details involv-ing the titles and restructur-ing of the rest of the Bulldogs current coaching staff is still unknown at this time. Johnson was in Starkville Thursday to in-terview with Mullen and discuss his role to fill the vacancy on the

coaching staff. Johnson, who will turn 27 on Feb.16,

was identified early as the leading can-

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Trip Burns/Special to The DispatchNew Hope High School girls soccer coach Mary Nagy addresses her squad after the Lady Trojans came up short in the state finals.

BY ADAM MINICHINOaminichino@cdispatch.com

CLINTON — Getting the ball to the endline and crossing it into the middle sounds like a simple plan.

When executed properly, that style of attacking can be deadly.

The West Jones High School girls soccer team showed Sat-urday following that plan can reap championship rewards.

Payton Roney crashed into the middle and capitalized on two quick feeds from the flanks

to lift West Jones to a 2-0 vic-tory against New Hope in the Mississippi Activities Associa-tion Class 5A State title match at Clinton High School.

“We knew if we played the game at our tempo we would be successful tonight,” West Jones coach Craig Winship said. “When you are up a goal a min-ute and a half into the game, it sets the pace.”

Meredith Follis and Julia Berry had the assists on the goals that lifted Winship and the Lady Mustangs (20-2-1) to the program’s third state title.

New Hope, which was mak-ing its first appearance in the championship game, finished 11-3-1.

Roney, who will attend Northwestern State (La.), did all of the damage on the score-board. She crashed in from the left to collect a pass from Follis and slip it into the lower left corner of the goal 1 minute, 10 seconds into the match.

Roney followed the same path on the second goal. Berry helped set it up with fine work on the right sideline to win the

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OXFORD — Marshall Hen-derson scored 29 points and Mississippi survived a 3-point attempt at the buzzer Saturday to defeat Missouri 91-88.

Henderson hit 8 of 15 from 3-point range and added five assists for Ole Miss (16-7, 7-3 Southeastern Conference), who remained in sole posses-sion of third place. Jarvis Sum-mers and LaDarius White had 16 points apiece, and Anthony Perez 11.

Missouri (16-7, 4-6) trailed 91-83 with 19 seconds left and had an opportunity to force overtime, but a 28-foot shot by Earnest Ross bounced off the front of the rim at the buzzer. Missouri trailed by as many as 17 and 50-35 at halftime before a belated rally.

Ross led the Tigers with 24 points, Jordan Clarkson scored 23, Jabari Brown 20 and Ryan Rossburg 11. The loss was the third straight for the Tigers, who have lost consecutively to the top three SEC teams - Ken-tucky, Florida and Ole Miss.

Ole Miss shot 50 percent from the field (29 of 58) and 48.3 percent (14 of 20) from 3-point range. Missouri shot 47.5 percent (28 of 59) from the field, and hit 11 3-pointers, led by Ross with five.

The Rebels out-rebounded Missouri 34-33, paced by Aar-on Jones and Sebastian Saiz, with 11 and 10, respectively.

Ole Miss wiped out an early

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Micah Green/Dispatch StaffMississippi State’s Roquez Johnson (25) attempts a shot against the defense of Kentucky’s Julius Randle (30). Kentucky won 69-59 in Southeastern Conference play Saturday in Starkville.

BY MATTHEW STEVENSmstevens@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — The depth and size issue couldn’t overcome a healthy effort from Missis-sippi State at home against nationally-ranked Kentucky.

After being more than displeased with the ef-fort in a 20-point loss at Texas A&M Wednesday night, MSU coach Rick Ray chalked up a 69-59 defeat Saturday to a lack of big bodies and physi-cality. The fifth straight loss for MSU (13-10, 3-7 in Southeastern Conference) also marked a con-tinuing of the winless streak for Ray in February to 11 straight contests.

“I was really pleased with how we competed,” Ray said. “We’re just not where we need to be as far as our bodies and a offensive skill level to not

play with that kind of effort every single time we step on the court.”

Every time MSU would build any momentum and bring the Humphrey Coliseum crowd to its feet, Kentucky (18-5, 8-2 in SEC) simply threw the basketball into the post to future National Basketball Association Lottery pick Julius Ran-dle. The highly skilled 6-foot-9 forward ended the afternoon with a game-high 16 points and seven rebounds.

“It’s a big responsibility when you have to deal with a team like Kentucky because they have big, athletic guys that can make moves in the post,” MSU sophomore center Gavin Ware said.

Kentucky coach John Calipari was the coach that actually sounded like his team lost Saturday by being frank and honest with his assessment

BULLDOGS FEELING BLUEDominant inside presence helps No 18 Kentucky hand MSU rare home loss

MSU’s Readymisses gamewith illnessBY MATTHEW STEVENSmstevens@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — Mississip-pi State freshman point guard IJ Ready missed his seventh game of the 2013-14 season due to injury or illness Saturday.

Ready was forced out of MSU’s 69-59 loss to No. 18 Kentucky due a elevated fever and flu-like symptoms. The 5-foot-11 point guard was ruled out of the game right before tip and left the Bulldogs with just seven scholarship players for the matchup.

“I don’t know if it was the flu or not but he had a fever and it didn’t come down enough for him to be able to go today,” Ray said. “It started when we got back from A&M and he didn’t practice Friday because of it.”

Ready, who is averaging 6.4 points and 3.1 assists per game, missed four games ear-ly in November with a severely strained hamstring and then sat for two more games with a concussion.

MSU leading scorer Craig Sword, who had 12 points in the loss Saturday, said the game plan didn’t change with Bloodman running the offense but it forced Sword to generate more point guard action in a similar fashion to last year’s depth problem.

In the 85-63 loss at Ken-tucky on Jan. 8, Ready went scoreless in 18 minutes but did provide two assists.

Ready’s replacement in the starting lineup Saturday was ju-nior guard Trivante Bloodman and in his ninth start of the sea-

Prep BasketballMonday’s Game

Aberdeen at LouisvilleMAIS postseason tournaments continue

Tuesday’s GamesWest Oktibbeha at ColumbusNew Hope at LouisvilleCaledonia at West LauderdaleHouston at Noxubee CountyMAIS postseason tournaments continue

Men’s College BasketballToday’s Game

Charlotte at Southern Miss, 1 p.m.

Women’s College BasketballToday’s Games

Mississippi State at Auburn, 2 p.m.Alabama at Missouri, 2 p.m.Ole Miss at Georgia, 2 p.m.

College SoftballSunday’s GamesOle Miss vs. Georgetown (Fort Myers, Fla.), 10 a.m.Southern Miss at Arizona, noonJacksonville State at Mississippi State, 1:30 p.m.Alabama at Troy, 2:30 p.m.

Men’s College TennisToday’s Matches

Oklahoma at Alabama, 11 a.m.Samford at Mississippi State, noonAlcorn State at Mississippi State, 5 p.m.

Women’s College TennisSunday’s Matches

Alabama, Ole Miss at National Team Indoor (Charlottesville, VA)

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Noon — PGA Tour, Pebble Beach Nation-al Pro-Am, final round, at Pebble Beach, Calif., TGC2 p.m. — PGA Tour, Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, final round, at Pebble Beach, Calif., WCBI2 p.m. — Champions Tour, Allianz Cham-pionship, final round, at Boca Raton, Fla., TGC

HORSE RACING4 p.m. — NTRA, Donn Handicap and Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap, at Hal-landale, Fla., FS1

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALLNoon — Michigan St. at Wisconsin, WCBI5 p.m. — Connecticut at Central Florida, ESPN25 p.m. — Clemson at Syracuse, ESPNU6 p.m. — Creighton at St. John’s, FS17 p.m. — Washington at Colorado, ESPNU

NBANoon — New York at Oklahoma City, WTVA-ABC2:30 p.m. — Chicago at L.A. Lakers, WTVA-ABC

RODEO11 a.m. — PBR, LiftMaster Chute Out, at Anaheim, Calif. (same-day tape), WCBI

SOCCER1 p.m. — Premier League, teams TBA (same-day tape), NBC Sports

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL11 a.m. — Kentucky at Florida, CSSNoon — Louisville at UConn, ESPNNoon — Creighton at DePaul, FS1

1 p.m. —Arkansas at South Carolina, SEC TV1 p.m. — Penn State at Ohio State, ESPN21:30 p.m. —LSU at Texas A&M, Sport-South2 p.m. — Iowa State at Texas, FS13 p.m. — Oklahoma St. at Baylor, ESPN2

WINTER OLYMPICSAt Sochi, Russia

All events taped unless noted as Live1 p.m. —Figure Skating - (Team Event Gold Medal Final: Men’s Free Skate); Women’s Biathlon - 7.5km Sprint Gold Medal Final; Women’s Speedskat-ing - 3000 Gold Medal Final; Men’s Cross-Country - Skiathlon Gold Medal Final, WTVA6 p.m. —Figure Skating - (Team Event Gold Medal Final: Ladies’ Free Skate, Ice Dancing Free Dance); Men’s Alpine Skiing - Downhill Gold Medal Final; Women’s Snowboarding - Slopestyle Gold Medal Final; Men’s Ski Jumping - Individual K-95 Gold Medal Final, WTVA10:35 p.m. — Men’s Luge - Singles Gold Medal Final Runs, WTVA7:30 a.m. — Men’s Luge - Singles Com-petition (LIVE), NBC Sports9 a.m. — Figure Skating - Team Event Gold Medal Final (LIVE), NBC SportsNoon — Men’s Ski Jumping - Individu-al K-95 Gold Medal Final (LIVE), NBC Sports4 a.m. — Women’s Hockey - United States vs. Switzerland (LIVE), NBC Sports7 a.m. — Women’s Hockey - Russia vs. Germany (LIVE), MSNBC

CALENDAR ON THE AIRBRIEFLYLocalHeritage Academy basketball splits with Presbyterian

Walker Brown had a game-high 26 points Friday night to lead the Heritage Academy boys basketball team to a 66-56 victory against Presbyterian Christian.

Caleb Gurley added 19 points for the Patriots.Trista Magee had a game-high 28 points to lead the Presbyterian

Christian girls basketball team to a 59-45 victory against Heritage Academy.

Mary Douglass Kerby led the Lady Patriots with 16 points. Kristen Phillips had 13 and Lauren Pole added 10.

n Starkville Academy, Jackson Academy split: At Starkville, Starkville Academy celebrated Senior night with a 43-39 win over Jackson Academy in girls basketball action Friday night.

Sallie Kate Richardson led SA with 14 points, while Nora Kathryn Carroll added 12 points. Richardson also had seven rebounds, three assists, four steals and two blocks.

Jackson Academy won the boys’ game, 61-33.n Oak Hill squads advance: At Louisville, the Oak Hill Academy

girls knocked off Tri-County Academy 33-30 in the third place game of the MAIS Class AA, District 2 tournament. The Oak Hill boys were not as fortunate, falling 68-50 to Leake Academy in the finals.

Both Oak Hill squads advance to next week’s North State tournament.

New Hope’s Golsan named to All-American teamNew Hope High School senior infielder/pitcher Will Golsan was

named earlier this week to the MaxPreps 2013 Baseball Medium Schools All-American Team.

Golsan, who will attend Ole Miss in the fall and play baseball, was one of 30 players named second-team All-American. Thirty players also were named first-team All-Americans. On Saturday, he was also chosen to the preseason Dandy Dozen by the Clarion-Ledger.

The Mississippi Association of Coaches Class 5A Player of the Year hit .541 and had 60 hits, scored 41 runs, had 18 doubles, two triples, three home runs, and 22 RBIs for the state champion Trojans. He also was named to The Clarion-Ledger’s All-State team.

Also on the Clarion-Ledger list Saturday, New Hope’s J.C. Redden and Taylor Stafford were chosen as “Seniors to Watch” as was Colum-bus High’s Trace Lee.

Miss. StateSoftball team opens season with four victories

STARKVILLE —Two more offensive outbursts helped the Missis-sippi State softball team to two more wins Saturday afternoon as the Bulldogs topped Northern Kentucky 6-1 and Jacksonville State 9-1 in six innings. It is the first 4-0 start for MSU since a 5-0 beginning in 2012.

Mississippi State was paced at the plate by senior Heidi Shape, who went three-for-five with four runs scored, three walks and three stolen bases during the two contests. Freshman Caroline Seitz also had a big day at the dish with her first career home run, two doubles and two RBI.

MSU trailed 1-0 against Jacksonville State before tying the game at 1-1 in the fourth and scoring seven times in the bottom of the fifth to take a commanding 8-1 lead. It has not been just the offense, however, as the Bulldogs’ pitching staff has surrendered just three runs on eight hits. The staff’s earned-run average sits at 0.91.

In game one, freshman Mackenzie Toler earned her first career start, tossing one-and-two-thirds innings before giving way to sopho-more Jacey Punches. Toler did not allow a hit, walked one batter and struck out two. She was taken out due to a pitch count. Punches (2-0) earned the win and yielded one hit and seven strikeouts in three-and-a-third innings. Senior Shana Sherrod came in for the final two innings and allowed a run on two hits and a walk. She also fanned one. NKU’s Alex Caudill (0-2) tossed three innings and surrendered all six runs on eight hits and two walks. Alyssa Enrique entered for the final three frames and allowed just one hit and a walk.

During the second contest, senior Alison Owen (1-0) gave up a leadoff home run and retired the next 11 batters. She finished the game allowing just three hits and one run while fanning 10. Tiffany Harbin (1-1) took the loss for the Gamecocks and tossed four-and-two-thirds innings, allowing seven runs on six hits and two walks. She fanned six. Logan Green recorded the final two outs of the contest and yielded two runs on two hits and a pair of free passes.

In the opener, Mississippi State wasted little time going ahead, tak-ing a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning, scoring all four runs with two outs. With one out, Shape walked and classmate Sam Lenahan singled to put runners on first and second. After a fly out to center, junior Julia Echols singled to right to plate Shape and move Lenahan to third. Echols stole second and Toler helped herself with a two-run single as she beat out a slow roller to the third baseman that allowed Lenahan and Echols to score. Seitz finished the scoring with a double off the wall in right center that plated Toler for the four-run cushion.

After retiring the Norse in order in the top of the second, MSU added two more runs in the bottom of the frame. Sophomore Kayla Winkfield led off with a single, stole second, moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a Lenahan sacrifice fly. Shape, who had walked, scored on a double over the head of the center fielder by senior Logan Foulks.

n Men’s tennis plays twice today: At Starkville, following a trip to Lubbock, Texas, the ninth-ranked Mississippi State men’s tennis squad (6-0) returns home to the A.J. Pitts Tennis Centre Sunday, as the Bulldogs host No. 69 Samford (1-2) and Alcorn State (0-4).

State will face the SU Bulldogs in the day’s first match, scheduled for noon, while the second match against the ASU Braves is set for 5 p.m.

Leading the way for coach Per Nilsson’s squad is the one-two punch of freshman No. 63 Florian Lakat and senior No. 39 Malte Stropp. Lakat, who is 5-1 on the season, has won his last three match-es, with two of those coming against ranked opponents. Stropp enters the weekend 3-1 in dual match play, with two of those victories coming against ranked foes.

Holding down the middle of the Bulldog order is sophomore Jordan Angus and senior Zach White. Angus, who has played his last four matches at the No. 3 position, is undefeated on the year at 6-0 and has collected two ranked triumphs. White stands at 4-2 on the year, having seen action at the two, three and four spots in the lineup.

Anchoring MSU at the five and six spots has been a trio of Bulldogs. In six matches, freshman Rishab Agarwal has collected four victories. Freshman Robin Haden is 3-0 on the year, with all matches coming at the sixth position, while junior college transfer Tassilo Schmid comes into Sunday 3-1 this spring.

In doubles, MSU’s 52nd-ranked duo of Angus and Stropp headline doubles play. A number of teams have played for State at the two and three spots, with the pair of Agarwal and White standing out, putting together a 3-0 record at the No. 3 position.

For Samford, senior Elliot Barnwell is 2-1 at the top spot in singles. Sophomores Trey Carter and Fares Kilani also stand at 2-1 in dual match play. The doubles team of Barnwell and Carter has held down the top spot for SU, earning a 2-1 record.

n Women’s tennis blanks UAB: At Starvkille, after an almost two-week break from action, the 75th-ranked Mississippi State women’s tennis team resumed its 2014 slate on Saturday, defeating the visiting UAB Blazers 7-0 while not dropping a single set the entire afternoon.

With the win, State improved to 3-1 on the season, while UAB fell to 1-3 overall.

The Bulldogs kicked off the match scoring by taking the doubles point, with the duo of Georgiana Patrasc and Naomi Tran taking their match with a 6-3 win over Amy Lowther and Catherine Ragon on court 2. Petra Ferancova also picked up a doubles win in her first match since the January 19 season opener, pairing with Rosie Dion for a 6-2 win on court 3 over Paula Castro and Pardis Kianoush. Timea Guibe and Alexandra Perper wrapped up doubles action with a 6-2 win on No. 1 over Rachel Daniell and Elaine Simon.

In singles action, Dion kept her 2014 dual match record unblem-ished, defeating Ragon 6-1, 6-0 on No. 4 for a 2-0 MSU lead. Perper made the score 3-0 with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Daniell at the top spot in the lineup. The 84th-ranked Patrasc would then clinch the match on No. 2, with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Lowther.

Freshman Rosalinda Calderon picked up her first collegiate victory in the next decision, taking a 6-4, 6-4 decision on court 6 over Castro. Tran and Guibe would complete the sweep of UAB with straight-set wins on courts 5 and 3, respectively.

“It was a challenge for the girls to be off for almost two weeks,” said head coach Daryl Greenan. “But they responded well. They played solid in doubles and were able to keep that going into singles. It was a collective effort and I’m really proud of how everyone played today.”

The Bulldogs will be back in action on Friday at 2 p.m., as they travel to Houston, Texas to face Stephen F. Austin in a neutral site match. The team will stay in Houston through Sunday, when they face the University of Houston at 10 a.m.

n Women’s golf starts slate: At Athens, Ga., spring season is underway for the Mississippi State women’s golf team as four players competed in the Lady Bulldog Individual Championship in Athens on Saturday with Rica Tse finishing in a tie for third.

“I am really proud of Rica today. She has been working extremely hard in the offseason and it paid off for her,” fourth-year head coach Ginger Brown-Lemm said. “It was critical experience for Blaise, Logan and Izel. They are not experienced collegiate players yet, but gained valuable experience for future use.”

After posting the lowest first round score of 73, Tse followed up with a 75 in her second round to give her a 148 final score to earn her first top-10 finish of the season and fourth of her career.

—From Staff, Special Reports

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ball, to push it forward, and to send it into the middle. Roney did the rest, tucking it into the lower left corner.

“Our backs stayed up in the cross-ing tonight,” Winship said. “We worked hard on runs behind the balls so it wasn’t just one girl running into the box, but we staggered two or three runs. I thought they were there tonight. Hats off to New Hope for putting a head on a lot of those balls and getting them out, but it was fantastic.”

West Jones controlled the midfield and won the majority of the 50-50 balls in the first half. The Lady Mustangs connected passes crisply and moved like they were right at home on the ar-tificial turf surface.

Winship said the Lady Mustangs played on artificial turf three or four times this season. He said the current group of seniors — four in all — has played at Clinton High five times in state title matches, so none of the play-ers were going to use the surface as an excuse not to come home with the crown.

New Hope attempted to counter West Jones’ dominance in possession by moving junior Effie Morrison from a flank midfield position into the mid-dle, but that did little in the first half to change the momentum, as West Jones had a 15-0 edge in shots. MacKenzie Harvey made four saves.

“We learned we could compete,” New Hope coach Mary Nagy said. “I think we all had jitters. We knew about their two dominating players in the middle (Roney and Coleman), and on the two goals she slipped right behind our midfield. We tried to fix that at halftime, which apparently we did, but we couldn’t string balls together like we wanted to.

West Jones held such a controlling edge thanks to the midfield play of senior midfielder Beth Coleman, who will play at Southern Mississippi in the fall.

Winship, the former girls soccer coach at Ridgeland High, said Roney and Coleman, who are captains, are the engine behind the Lady Mustangs’ attack.

“They are fantastic,” Winship said. “They are great leaders. They are great players off the field and they are great players on the field.”

New Hope’s first “first “shot” on goal came in the opening minute, when Morrison directed a left-footed strike on goal that was handled well to the left of the frame.

Still, New Hope didn’t stop press-ing. The Lady Trojans moved defender Abby Wilson from defender to forward in an attempt to gain a foothold.

The move nearly paid dividends thanks to some fine work in the mid-field by senior Ashley Martian. Mar-tian took a page from West Jones by possessing the ball for an instant and making a quick transition pass forward to the right. The diagonal pass didn’t allow the defense to recover and gave Wilson a chance to run onto the ball. Wilson beat the defender to the ball and sent New Hope’s best shot on goal, but the goalkeeper smothered it and didn’t allow Morrison a chance at a re-bound.

“Mary Nagy has this team going in the right direction,” Winship said. “To see where they have been over the last couple of years and take the huge step to come to state and win North State, it is a fantastic job by her and her staff.”

New Hope junior midfielder Madi-son Thrasher and Morrison connected on another quick transition later in the

half, but the Lady Trojans couldn’t con-nect enough passes to be a consistent threat in the attacking third.

“Abby is such a physical force,” Nagy said.

“She has played forward for us for most of the year. We dropped her back when we needed some more defense, but we knew we needed someone to match up with their defender and Abby wouldn’t be afraid to put a body on them. We have all of the trust with (defenders) Kayla (Smith), Brooke (Younger), and Bethany (Vaughan). It kind of spurred a little comeback. We had some good passes up there with Abby and Effie and Ashley had a real good one from the midfield.”

New Hope, which had its first cor-ner kick with 12 minutes remaining, was outshot 21-2.

“It was indescribable,” Morrison said of playing in the state title match. “There is a first time for everything and you have to take advantage of it, suck it in, and be happy with it no mat-ter the outcome.”

That stat line didn’t discourage Nagy or Morrison after the match. Both talked about using the trip to Clinton as a learning experience and motivation to get back there next sea-son. With only Martian and Erin Rob-ertson as key losses to the team, Nagy

and Morrison know the 2014-15 squad can play for another title if it takes the lessons learned from West Jones and applies them to its game.

“We just have to work on little things that we have mastered before and we have to master them,” Morrison said. “We worked on everything they exe-cuted tonight, like ball control, first touch is always your best, talking on and off the field.

“It is an experience, and it is going to help show us what level of play we need to be at and what mentality we need to have when we come to this place next year. Hopefully, we will be prepared to play a quality team like them. We are not far away at all. I think we are right there with them.”

Said Nagy, “We expect to be back. It is just a big experience. I am still a little overwhelmed because my family drove three hours to be here. ... It has been a long time since we have had a trophy in the case, so it is a proud mo-ment. I am just even prouder of the fans who filled the stands: former play-ers, coaches, administrators, the boys team, and friends from other schools. It was a huge community involvement. It was wonderful for the girls to see that support.”

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New Hope High School’s junior de-fender Bethany Vaughan (21) battles for possession Saturday. RIGHT: New Hope sophomore forward Farris Brad-ley (8) pushes the ball on to the attack for the Lady Trojans.

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BRIEFLYAlabamaWomen’s basketball back in action at Missouri

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama women’s basketball team (10-12, 3-6 SEC) returns to the hardwood following an off week on Sunday to take on the Missouri Tigers (14-9, 3-7 SEC) in Columbia, Mo. The game is slated to tip at 2 p.m. today in Mizzou Arena.

Alabama’s Power of Pink event will, once again, run in conjunction with the Play 4Kay initiative, which is an opportunity for women’s basketball across the nation to raise awareness for breast cancer. Since its inception in 2007, the Play 4Kay initiative has raised over $2.8 million to support women’s cancer research. The Crimson Tide will be a part of both Missouri’s and Arkansas’ Play 4Kay games on Sunday, Feb. 9, and Thursday, Feb. 13, respectively, before holding its home event against Texas A&M on Sunday, Feb. 16. Alabama will wear several pink accessories including shoes, socks and headbands, as well as the “United We Fight” Nike shooting shirts, and will wear its pink uniforms at home against the Aggies.

n Alabama softball opens with wins: At Troy, Ala., Alabama softball got off to an explosive start Saturday afternoon against North-western State, shutting out the Lady Demons 16-0.

The Alabama (3-0) offense had another stellar performance in Saturday’s first game, scoring 16 runs on 12 hits including six doubles and a pair of triples. It’s the seventh time in Alabama history that the Tide has hit six doubles in one game, last doing so on Feb. 11, 2012 against Lipscomb. Offensive production was spread evenly throughout the Alabama lineup, highlighted by freshman Peyton Grantham who went 3-3 in her collegiate debut finishing one home run shy of hitting for the cycle. Leslie Jury (2-0) earned her second win of the season with her second two-hit shutout of the weekend.

Northwestern State (1-3) earns its third loss of the young season while starter Skylar Cagle (0-3) took the loss after 2.0 innings pitched with four earned runs allowed.

Jadyn Spencer put Alabama on the board in the top of the first with two outs, as she smashed a hard-hit double to the left-center gap to drive in Haylie McCleney from second to make it a 1-0 game early. A pair of doubles in the top of the second stretched the lead to 4-0, as McCleney drove in a pair with two away before Hawkins followed with another two-bagger in the next at-bat.

A walk and back-to-back singles loaded the bases for Alabama to lead off the top of the third. Danae Hays earned an RBI the hard way, being hit by a pitch to make it 5-0 and a wild pitch advanced everyone 60 feet as Danielle Richard crossed the plate to make it 6-0. After a pitching change, a walk loaded the bases yet again as McCleney drove in a pair with a standup double to the center field wall to make it 8-0. Andrea Hawkins tacked on another with an RBI groundout and Kaila Hunt made it a double-digit lead with an RBI double.

After a leadoff triple and a walk in the fourth inning, Chaunsey Bell drove them both in with yet another triple to stretch the Tide’s lead to 12-0. Later in the inning, Molly Fictner stepped in to pinch-hit for McCleney and made the most of the opportunity, blasting a two-run homer to stretch Alabama’s lead to 14-0.

The Tide added two more runs in the top of the fifth with a Peyton Grantham RBI double and a RBI groundout by Bell. Alabama headed into the bottom of the fifth leading 16-0 as Jury shut down the side in order to preserve the convincing shutout win.

Alabama was scheduled to play Middle Tennessee in Saturday’s late game at the tournament.

Alabama softball got the 2014 season off to a great start, outscor-ing Kennesaw State and North Florida by a combined score of 16-1 to earn two wins on opening day.

n Gymnastics tops Georgia: At Tuscaloosa, Ala., the No. 7 Alabama gymnastics team won a tight back-and-forth battle against No. 5 Georgia Friday night in front of 12,381 fans at Coleman Coliseum, 197.500-196.825.

“I feel like some teams might have been discouraged after losing by almost a point at LSU - and we didn’t have a bad meet at LSU – but I think for them to come in and step it up like this I think mentally that is what we need right now,” UA head coach Sarah Patterson said.

Down by five-hundredths of a point going into the final rotation, Alabama turned up the heat on the floor exercise. Sophomore Lauren Beers and senior Sarah DeMeo brought an appreciative crowd roaring to its feet with matching career-best scores of 9.925. The crowd grew even louder when seniors Kim Jacob and Diandra Milliner closed out the rotation and the meet with huge routines that both went for 9.95, matching both women’s career-best marks.

“I think we took a big step forward tonight,” Milliner said. “But I think we need to figure out how to start meets how we end meets, because we’re ending them really great. We just need to have the momentum through the whole meet.”

While Alabama was going on its tear on the floor, scoring a 49.625, Georgia had some trouble on the balance beam, scoring a 48.900, extending the final margin to .675.

The Tide’s floor score was the fourth highest in school history, just .025 shy of third place. The victory extended the Crimson Tide home win streak to just shy of five years. Alabama’s last loss in Coleman Coliseum, regular or postseason, came on Feb. 13, 2009.

Alabama opened the meet with a 49.300 on the vault, anchored by a huge vault from Milliner that went for a score of 9.925. On the uneven bars, the Tide tallied a 49.350 led by a 9.9 from Jacob and a 9.925 from junior Kaitlyn Clark. The Tide posted a 49.225 on the balance beam paced by 9.875s from Clark and freshman Aja Sims.

It was “Alumni Night” in Coleman Coliseum and more than 60 for-mer Tide gymnasts were introduced prior to the meet, including Penney Hauschild Buxton, Dee Foster Worley and Meredith Willard Luber, the Tide’s first three NCAA all-around champions.

n Women’s tennis falls to Southern Cal: At Charlottesville, Va., the 12th-ranked Alabama women’s tennis team came within one point of advancing to the quarterfinals of the ITA National Team Indoor Cham-pionships, but came up just shy, falling 4-3 to No. 6 Southern California on Friday at the Boar’s Head Sports Club. The loss was the Crimson Tide’s first of the season, putting Alabama at 3-1 overall, while the win brings the Trojans to 4-0.

The Tide came out blazing in doubles to earn the first point of the match. On court three, juniors Emily Zabor and Luicelena Perez domi-nated the No. 3 team in the nation of senior Brynn Boren and freshman Zoe Katz, 6-2, just before Alabama’s duo on court one clinched it as sophomore Maya Jansen and freshman Erin Routliffe posted a 6-3 victory over the 2013 NCAA Doubles Champion duo of senior Kaitlyn Christian and junior Sabrina Santamaria.

UA got off to another quick start in singles, leading on four courts, but USC battled back in all the matches and would even the score at 1-1 after Boren secured a 1-6, 6-2, 10-8 win over Tide freshman Danielle Spielmann on court two. Zabor then put Alabama back on top with a 6-2, 6-1 victory against junior Gabriella DeSimone on court five, and senior Mary Anne Daines followed with a huge win from the No. 1 spot, beating Santamaria, 6-4, 4-6, 10-5. The Trojans would go on to win the next three straight, clinching the team victory on court six.

n New pole vault record set: At Birmingham, Ala., University of Alabama senior pole vaulter Alexis Paine set a school record in the women’s pole vault while winning the event Saturday afternoon at the Samford Multi and Invitational at the Birmingham CrossPlex. Paine’s winning mark of 4.35 meters (14 feet, 3 1/4 inches) broke the previous Alabama indoor record of 4.25 meters (13-11 1/2) that she set at last year’s SEC Indoor Championships in March of 2013.

Paine entered the competition at 4.00 meters (13-1 1/2), which she cleared on her first attempt, them cleared 4.10 (13-5 1/4) on her second attempt. She cleared 4.20 (13-9 1/4) on her first try, then cleared 4.30 (14-1 1/4) on her second attempt before winning the competition with a clearance at 4.35 on her first attempt.

Paine edged Kat Majester, who competed unattached and a field of more than 20 competitors. Majester cleared 4.30 (14-1 1/4) before failing to clear 4.35.

n Men’s tennis falls to Oklahoma State: At Tuscaloosa, Ala., in its closest match of the season from top to bottom, the Alabama men’s tennis team was outlasted by Oklahoma State, 4-0, on Saturday at the Roberta Alison Baumgardner Tennis Facility. With the loss, the Crimson Tide dips to 4-3, while the win lifts the Cowboys to 7-0.

In the 15 sets combined across doubles and singles that finished, six were played out in a tiebreaker, including two in doubles to decide who won the first point of the match.

Southern MissMen’s basketball wins at buzzer against Marshall

HATTIESBURG — Neil Watson drilled a 3-pointer with three seconds left to play and Aaron Brown tacked on a pair of free throws a second later, allowing Southern Mississippi to snatch a 60-57 victory away from upset-minded Marshall Friday Night.

Watson’s trey gave the Golden Eagles their only lead of the second half and only their second lead of the game — a brief, 3-2 first-half lead.

Marshall was bidding for its first win in seven starts in Hattiesburg. The victory was the seventh straight for Southern Miss, which remains tied with UTEP atop the Conference USA standings, each with just one loss.

Brown finished with 13 points and Michael Craig added another 12 to lead the Golden Eagles (20-3, 7-1), with Jerrold Brooks and Neil Watson each contributing 10.

Ryan Taylor paced Marshall (8-16, 22-7) with 17 points, with Kareem Canty adding another 11 and Chris Thomas 10.

n Women’s basketball wins at Charlotte: At Charlotte, the Southern Miss women’s basketball team improved to 17-5 overall and 6-3 in Conference USA play with a 72-52 road win at Charlotte Saturday night.

The Lady Eagles return home to face Marshall and Tulsa next week at Green Coliseum.

—From Special Reports

Movie inspiration Boone to speak in ColumbusLocal

BY ADAM MINICHINOaminichino@cdispatch.com

The timing turned out to be better this year.

A year ago, Dr. Thomas Velek, director of the Ina E. Gordy Honors College at the Mississippi University for Women, tried to coordinate schedules to get Herman Boone to speak at the Gordy Honors College Forum Se-ries.

If the name Her-man Boone doesn’t sound familiar, the movie “Re-member the Titans” might be more fa-miliar. Boone,

the head football coach at T.C. Williams High School, was the inspiration behind the movie, which came out in 2000 and starred Denzel Washington.

Unfortunately, Velek wasn’t able to coordinate a good time to have Boone come to Columbus last year.

At 6 p.m. Thursday, though, Boone will deliver a presentation titled “Remem-bering the Titans: Coaching Success.” The event, which is free and open to the pub-lic, will be in the Limbert Assembly Room in Cochran Hall on the MUW campus.

Velek said Boone will speak about his time with the Titans and about his longtime career as a coach. He said Boone will show clips from the film and dis-cuss the things he believes

make a successful coach. Boone will hold a meet-and-greet after his presentation.

“This year is one of those things that worked out bet-ter,” Velek said. “It fits in better with our program-ming this year.”

Boone is the second in a lineup of speakers that will focus on athletics. On March 6, Dr. Katharine Kittredge, of Ithaca College, will offer a presentation “My So-Called Sporting Life: What Women Can Gain (and Lose) from Playing Sports.” On March 27, three-time Olympian swimmer Amanda Beard will deliver a presentation titled “Striving for Excel-lence: Olympic Success and Real-Life Challenges.” On April 3, Dr. Dorothy Ber-glund, of MUW, will offer a presentation “Ice Flow: Posi-tive Psychology in Coaching and Training Athletes.”

Velek, who is a Histo-ry professor at MUW, also is a coach and director of competitive soccer for the Columbus United travel soccer program. He said he is extremely excited to hear Boone’s insights about coaching. He also expects a good crowd, so he encour-ages those interested in at-tending to get there early.

“I talked to (MUW Pres-ident) Dr, (Jim) Borsig and we thought it would be a good semester to have coach Boone come to our school because looking own the road we are looking at bringing athletics back to the school,” Velek said. “Since I have been there, we

always have had a presen-tation during Black History Month that features a major African-American.”

Boone gained fame in 1971 for being the head coach at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., Three schools were inte-grated to form T.C. Williams High, and Boone faced the task of trying to unite black and white players from schools that had been rivals.

Boone worked with Bill Yoast, who was passed over for the head coaching job, to lead the team to a 13-0 record and a state title. The coaches worked together to stamp down intolerance and build team chemistry and unity in the small Virginia community.

Boone wasn’t available to comment because his agent said he doesn’t give inter-views. Velek said Boone will

be able to offer a wide-rang-ing perspective on the racial aspects of coaching in 1971 and the issues he encoun-tered as a coach in trying to blend black and white play-ers into a cohesive unit.

“I am very interested to hear what he says about coaching and about a very interesting time in Ameri-can history,” Velek said.

Past speakers at the Gordy Honors College Fo-rum Series include: Bill Roseman, editor of Marvel Comics, activist and author Dick Gregory, Marine veter-an Rudy Reyes, Lt. General Russel Honore, the com-mander of Joint Task Force Katrina, and Mark Zupan, a gold medal Paralympian and star of the movie “Murder-ball.”

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BY ADAM MINICHINOaminichino@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — Vic Schaefer knew the reality of the situation prior to the season.

Entering his second year as Missis-sippi State women’s basketball coach, Schaefer knew his 2013-14 squad was going to be improved, but he also re-alized it was going to be hard-pressed for a team with four newcomers in key roles to build on that maturation in the Southeastern Conference.

The numbers show Schaefer was spot on in his thinking.

Through 10 SEC games, MSU (3-7) right where it was on paper a year ago. The difference, as Schaefer has said numerous times before and after games, is the Bulldogs are a much bet-ter team than the one that finished 13-17 and lost to Alabama in its first game in the SEC tournament last season.

Coming off another hard-fought performance that turned into a disap-pointing loss, Schaefer said now is the time for MSU to take the next step.

“I could have gone into the locker room (after the game) and told them, ‘Great effort. We’re just a little short. No worries,’ “ Schaefer said. “But I re-ally think there is more inside these kids. I think they can win these games. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t ask it of them. I have been around long enough to know who can and who can’t, and I really have a lot of confidence in these kids.

MSU (16-8, 3-7) will try to make that move at 2 p.m. today when it takes on Auburn (12-10, 3-6) at Auburn, Ala. Auburn beat MSU 82-74 on Jan. 5 in Starkville, so a victory would be crucial for the Bulldogs as they try to climb the conference ladder. MSU already holds the tiebreaker against Arkansas and Missouri, who are tied with MSU at 3-7, and a victory against Georgia, which is 3-6 in the league en-tering a home game against Ole Miss today. MSU will play Sunday, March 2, at Georgia to close the regular season.

Those tiebreakers could turn out to be very important. Last season, MSU lost to Auburn 74-65 in its regular-sea-son finale. It dropped MSU into a tie with Auburn at 5-11 in the league and cost it a tiebreaker. That loss came on the heels of the team’s best victory, a 50-38 win against then-No. 11 Geor-gia in Starkville. Unfortunately, MSU wasn’t able to build on that momentum. It followed the loss to Auburn with one of its poorest efforts of the season, a 63-36 loss to Alabama. MSU defeated Alabama 75-51 in the regular season.

Those ups and downs have been less frequent this season. In fact, sev-eral coaches, including South Caroli-na’s Dawn Staley, have praised MSU for being in nearly every SEC game this season. Staley’s No. 6 Gamecocks fought off MSU on Thursday in a 71-64 victory at Humphrey Coliseum.

After the game, Schaefer and the players talked about missing another opportunity for a program-defining victory that offered tangible evidence of the progress the team has made from last season.

“I loved our energy, effort, and pas-sion. We just lack a little bit of execu-tion and have some plays were we are not smart,” Schaefer said. “Y’all can fig-ure that out at what times in the game where we would have a bad foul or an il-legal screen or whatever. At the end of the day, you lose to No.6 in the country and I am sure everybody in the arena walked out and thought, ‘Man, we are close and the kids played hard and had a chance to win.’ We’re not very happy in our locker room because we felt like again, just like against Tennessee, this was our night to beat No. 6. To beat No. 6, you can’t have the plays happen that we had with taking plays off, you can’t get a rebound, have an illegal screen, or miss a wide-open jumper.”

MSU missed a chance to earn the program’s victory against Tennessee on Jan. 16 in a 67-63 loss. The Bulldogs also have lamented missed opportu-nities in losses at Florida, at home against Auburn, and at Ole Miss (an 87-85 overtime victory).

Junior guard Jerica James, who had 11 points and four assists in 19 minutes against South Carolina, tried to get the Bulldogs to “take advantage” of oppor-tunities in that game. The Bulldogs nearly did, cutting the deficit to 54-53 in the second half. They failed to capi-talize on three chances to take the lead and committed key mistakes down the stretch that eliminated other chances.

James said MSU “played without any worries” with four bench players on the floor when it made its run. She said after the game it is important for the Bulldogs to cast aside another what-could-have been moment and

re-focus on taking that next step.“I think every game we have had that

feeling of we are right there,” James said. “I don’t think anyone leaves the locker room happy because tonight and Tennessee are games we should have won. It comes down to one possession and everybody thinks about the things they could have done. I think about things I should have done that possi-bly could have made a game-changer or turned things around. For me, the feeling is the same. I just want to win. I think that is what we all want to do.”

Schaefer agreed and said MSU has seen improved point guard play from James and senior Katia May. He also likes the progress freshmen Breanna Richardson, Dominique Dillingham, and Ketara Chapel and junior college transfer Savannah Carter have made. Now it is time for everyone to elevate their games and play harder, smarter, and more together.

“I know we are young in certain spots and we are still learning as we go, but we are not young in some other spots, and that is where I need those kids to step up,” Schaefer said. “That is something we have to take care of in that locker room. They know what I am talking about, but there is some ac-countability that comes with being a ju-nior and being a senior. We don’t have much of a sophomore class. Sherise (Williams) is doing all she can do. Our freshmen, for the most part, are doing all they can. They are still learning that this league is brutal. It is physical.

“I just think there is more in this team. I really do. I believe in them. You get effort like we are getting, and e are getting great effort. Now we have to get execution.”

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Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffMississippi State’s Savannah Carter (51) scored 10 points and pulled down sev-en rebounds in Thursday night’s 71-64 loss to No. 6 South Carolina.

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Prep Basketball

BY ADAM MINICHINOaminichino@cdispatch.com

Whyatt Foster has a new plan for special occa-sions: new shoes.

The yellow, navy, and teal sneakers Fos-ter sported Friday night for the New Hope High School boys basketball team’s game against Ox-ford weren’t pristine. The senior center had broken in the tri-color low-top sneakers in practice, but he hadn’t worn them in a game, so technically they fit the bill.

Foster might want to reconsider wearing those sneakers from here on out because every game is go-ing to be special.

Foster scored 14 points, while Shemar Johnson added a game-high 22 to help New Hope cap a rousing Senior Night per-formance with an 86-63 victory against Oxford in the Class 5A, Region 2 fi-nale for both teams.

“They are our biggest rivals, so we have to put on a show for the crowd,” Foster said. “It is a differ-ent atmosphere (when we play Oxford). We had the crowd on our side. When we get it done on defense, we can score easy buck-ets.”

In the girls game, D.J. Sanders scored 21 points

to lead four players in double figures in a 69-34 victory. The win allowed New Hope (22-2, 6-0 re-gion) to wrap up an unde-feated district slate.

In the boys game, De-myis Mayberry had 18 points, Jaylon Bardley chipped in with 13, and se-nior Tae Latham followed with six to help the Tro-jans (10-11, 4-2) record a season-high point total.

The victory also al-lowed New Hope to se-cure the No. 2 seed in the district tournament at Saltillo High. West Point, New Hope, and Oxford tied for first with 4-2 re-cords, but West Point, which lost both its games to Oxford, earned the top seed based on point dif-ferential. West Point beat New Hope twice in the regular season. Saltillo will be the No. 4 seed.

New Hope has games next week against Louis-ville (Tuesday) and Cale-donia (Thursday). Those gams will be warmups for the district tournament, which kicks off next Tues-day.

New Hope coach Drew McBrayer hopes New Hope can build on the en-ergy and unselfishness it displayed Friday night.

“We shot the ball well tonight,” McBrayer said. “We did a pretty decent

job defending, especially in the first half. I think we let a little bit get away in the second half. We played well against West Point on Tuesday night, but we couldn’t make a shot when we needed to.”

New Hope didn’t fold after Oxford (17-8, 4-2) hit two 3-pointers to start the second half. The Chargers first cut the 40-23 halftime deficit to 13 points and then used a 12-2 run later in the third quarter to trim the Tro-jans’ advantage to 56-45 on a 3-pointer by KT Mc-Collins with 2 minutes, 6 seconds remaining in the quarter.

McBrayer called time-out and chastised his play-ers for being “selfish.” New Hope missed jumps shots early in offensive sets on the three prior offensive possessions, so McBrayer challenged his players not to “jack up shots” and to “turn the energy back up.” He also encouraged the Trojans to get the ball back inside to exploit their size edge. New Hope responded by getting the ball to Terry-onte Thomas for a layup off a pump fake. Latham then converted a basket off a drive-and-dish as-sist from Bardley. Those buckets were part of a

BY ADAM MINICHINOaminichino@cdispatch.com

“Many parts but one body.”As much as Immanuel Chris-

tian School boys basketball coach Greg Watkins stresses a team approach, he realizes there are times when one player has to make a difference.

Last week against Kemper Academy in the title game of the district tournament was one of those times. Faced with a dif-ficult matchup, Watkins hoped eighth-grade RJ Deloach could use his scoring and playmaking ability to turn the tide. Deloach did that and more, scoring a team-high 16 points to lead Im-manuel Christian to a 46-37 vic-tory in the championship game.

“I was really proud of how RJ took control of the game,” Wat-kins said. “We rely on every-body, but that night he stepped

it up and took over the game and really turned the momen-tum our way.”

Dawson Shaw had 14 points for Immanuel Christian, which led Kemper Academy 42-22 entering the fourth quarter. Watkins said his team battled foul trouble in the final eight minutes, so it pulled the ball out and attempted to slow the game down.

The victory helped the Rams finish the season 18-3. In the semifinals, Deloach had 11 points in half a game as Imman-uel Christian rolled to a 45-25 victory against Calhoun Acad-emy.

Deloach enjoyed being named MVP, but he said he didn’t go out trying to earn an individual honor. He said he only wanted to look for the open space and not force the action.

“I felt we did pretty good,” Deloach said. “We did the best we could.”

Watkins said Deloach and Shaw were starters on last year’s team that came up short to Oak Hill Academy in AA. The year before, he said the team won one game, but he said it wasn’t satisfied with just get-ting to the title game in Class A.

“Those two really worked hard,” Watkins said. “RJ grew a lot over the summer. He has the ability to just take over a game. Dawson is our defensive pest. He will wear you out all over the court. RJ is real good defensive-ly, but offensively with him we can do a lot of isolation.

“(Kemper Academy) tried to take us out of our game from the outside and we were able to iso RJ. He made them do a whole lot of adjustments at half-

time that opened some of our outside game with Dawson and Jack Baker. I think between the two of them they hit about five

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Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffNew Hope High School’s Demyis Mayberry (20) works around the Oxford defense for a layup at-tempt during Friday night’s Region 2-5A basketball game at New Hope. RIGHT: New Hope’s Taylor Baudoin (23) drives to the basket against the Oxford defense.The New Hope boys won 86-63 to earn a share of the region’s regular-sea-son championship. The New Hope girls won the region title outright and completed region play undefeated with a 69-34 win.

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Coyote hunting has its share of controversy. Some view these animals as furry and cuddly, while many see them as snarl-ing, vicious carnivores. A number of influences have caused coyote densi-ties to change significant-ly over the years. While numbers have been im-pacted, some of the old hunting methods used by the early settlers are still the best tactics.

The simple fact that hu-mans have encroached on their turf has had a huge impact on predator den-sities. The way it was ex-plained to me was before humans entered the pic-ture an area would have 1 wolf, 2 coyotes, 4 fox and on down the chain. Obvi-ously, these numbers are fictitious, but the larger predators kept the others in check and on down the line.

In my view, one of the major problems that we have had in the past thirty years is the anti-hunting/trapping public. Although they are the minority, they are very vocal.

Through the 1980’s and 90’s their push to ban trapping caused fur pric-es to plummet.

Back in the early 80’s when I ran my trap-line I could get $120 to $160 for a prime “Christmas fox.” Fur costs have rebound-ed some in recent years, but they’re still a fraction of what they were thirty years ago. My sugges-tions to hunters and trap-pers are to be more vocal than the opposition and use your vote!

How you “feel” about predators is more than likely influenced by “where you come from.” If predators affect your live-lihood or local economy like they may for ranch-ers, farmers, outfitter’s or a person trying to man-age a property for other game animals (the preda-tors’ prey), then you prob-ably have a very negative view of them. If humans are “butting heads” with a predator species, guess who wins? Most folks in larger cities are neutral to the topic, but you do have a small amount of people who are totally against predator hunting, or any hunting for that matter. With people being more educated on the subject these days you find that most people realize that there can be, and should be, a balance - and that hunting and trapping are about the only logical,

economical way to help control populations.

Coyotes make up a high percentage of the predator hunting oppor-tunities throughout the country. They can be found in all states (ex-cept Hawaii), Canada and Mexico. Clever and very adaptable, they can live almost anywhere includ-ing farmlands, forests and urban areas. Adult males have large territo-ries that typically range from 15-25 square miles; adult females typically occupy areas of 6 to 10 square miles. The avail-ability of food affects the territory size.

Tracking, stalking slow, sitting over a car-cass/bait or drives may all produce at certain times, but calling is by far the most popular method of hunting coyotes. Either with an electronic caller, a blown into call or by mouth, howling or imitat-ing an animal in distress is a proven method no matter where you reside. They have uncanny eye-sight, hearing and smell so certain steps must be taken if you wish to get close.

To begin, you first must find a spot where there are predators. Food is the biggest factor here.

Look for areas that hold a lot of mice, pheasants, rabbits or other smaller animals that make easy prey. I find that calling gets better when there’s a blanket of snow cov-ering the ground which makes their meals harder to come by or when cold temperatures mean they must take in more energy to stay warm. A hungry coyote is easier to call than one with a full gut.

Some like to try and lo-cate a coyote with the use of a “howler.” This call will imitate their barks and shrill howls. Ideally, you want a response. Then, judging by the distance you either move closer or set up. Let me caution you, coyotes are very curi-ous animals and they can cover a lot of ground fast. More times than I care to admit I’ve received a re-sponse to a howl and tried to move closer but end up being busted as the coy-ote runs into me.

Concerning calling, I could try to explain sounds to you all day and unless you could actual-ly hear them it probably wouldn’t do much good. Rent a CD or DVD and experiment on your own. When imitating an an-guished animal (usually a rabbit in distress), I like

to start off soft incase there’s something close. Call for a couple minutes and wait for several more. Build the intensity and volume with each series. If nothing shows up with-in twenty to thirty min-utes it’s time to change spots.

Their sense of smell is phenomenal. For all pred-ators I suggest a strict regime of scent elimina-tion - I use the Scent Kill-er system. Similar to the way you would prepare for a whitetail hunt; shower-ing in Scent Killer Soap, treating your boots and clothes with Scent Killer Spray and paying atten-tion to any foreign odor is of the utmost importance.

If they circle down-wind and smell you the gig is up. The use of some coyote urine placed out crosswind from your po-sition can aid as a confi-dence booster.

A coyote’s eyesight is exceptional, especially for picking up movement, so I suggest camouflage from head to toe. Match your camo to your back-ground. Mossy Oak’s pat-terns replicate a number of settings, from a snow covered landscape to ma-ture timber.

Decoys can also help. It gives them something to

hone in on so it takes the attention off of you. Some will use animal pelts or mounted rabbits, or there are decoys specifically made for predator hunt-ing. I have had luck with both commercial decoys and with my own home-made inventions. Move-ment is a big key. I used to tie fishing line to a rabbit pelt. It worked great; how-ever, it was a pain having to deal with tangled fish-ing line when changing spots. A chicken feather tied to a string and then the string taped to your decoy will add plenty of motion with the slightest breeze.

Calibers and guns are much a matter of opinion. You’ll want something fast, flat shooting and that will knock them down to stay. I like a .223 or 22-250 but there are many acceptable calibers that will work. Accuracy is more important than the caliber.

With the recent cold temperatures throughout the country it makes for the absolute perfect con-ditions to hunt predators. It’s fun, exciting, good exercise and gives you a reason to get outdoors after all the other hunting seasons have closed.

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10-0 run that pushed the lead back to 21 points and allowed New Hope to shift into cruise control.

Oxford coach Drew Tyler credited New Hope for its fast start. He said the Trojans have shot the ball well in both meetings (the Trojans won 67-53 on Jan. 17 in Oxford). He also said his team didn’t do enough defensively to make things difficult for New Hope. Af-ter the fast start, Johnson, Bardley, and Mayberry fueled New Hope by playing in rhythm and creating shots for them-selves off the dribble or in transition.

“We have to disrupt their offense and give them a reason not to shoot the ball well, and we haven’t done that,” Ty-ler said. “We haven’t been the aggres-sor both times, and they have. It is a little frustrating, but maybe there is a win coming in the district tournament in the semifinals.”

Even though Oxford broke out to a 3-0 lead, in part thanks to Josh Gibbs hitting 1 of 2 free throws due to a tech-nical foul on New Hope (dunking in warmups), New Hope used a 16-2 run to seize control from the start. Tyler said that has been the case in both meetings. He said the fast starts have forced Oxford to play man-to-man de-fense, which makes things a little easi-er for New Hope because it can create matchup problems.

“Man for man they are able to have a lot of driving lanes,” Tyler said. “At the same time, they do a good job of finding the open man on the perime-ter. As far as our game plan, we really haven’t been able to get into it because we have been trying to cut a deficit. We will do some things different in the district tournament. In my 17 years as a head coach, I have been in this spot numerous times and we have been able to get in there and win the district tour-nament.”

It also helped that Foster played as many minutes as he did. Arguably the team’s strongest and best inside play-er, Foster has been plagued by foul problems this season. On this night, he stayed on the floor and showed how he can use his athleticism to control the backboards and anchor the paint.

The added time on the court helped Foster “go out with a bang” in his last home game. Foster, who will go to Morehouse College in Atlanta, was able to show off the sneakers he or-dered at the beginning of the year and saved for Senior Night. He said he wore the Nikes off the court and in practice, but he wanted to preserve them for the special night.

“They stood out from what I was wearing,” Foster said. “I like them, but I probably will finish out with the team shoes.”

McBrayer likes the confidence his team will have from its two victories against Oxford. He knows the old adage about how difficult it is to beat a team three times in a season. He hopes that confidence doesn’t turn into overcon-fidence. Facing a season-ending loss in the district tournament, McBrayer

will try to build momentum in the final week of the regular season. Looking at the roller coaster ride that has been the New Hope season — with point to-tals of 28, 42, and 44 in losses and 82 and 83 points in victories — McBrayer knows his team has been up and down. He feels his team has figured out how to play at a faster pace and to utilize its pieces in the best way.

“It has been a process,” McBrayer said. “We’re definitely a different team. We just have to keep working to get better.”

In the girls game, Mercedes Mat-tix (12 points) and Taylor Baudoin and Kaitlin Bradley (11) also scored in dou-ble figures. Those three players joined Sanders, Allison Newton, Silvia Sarto-ri, Moesha Calmes (eight points), and Taylor Blevins joined in the postgame Senior Night celebration.

“I think we are playing really well,” Holman said. “Our defense is really creating a lot of shots for us. We still have a lot of work to do in the half-court, but it is getting better. Their focus and mentality in practice at prac-tice is about as strong as I have seen it. Hopefully, we can build on that every day. It is just part of having a senior-lad-en group. I think they know what is at stake.”

A trip to Jackson is at stake. New Hope is on pace to make another run to The Big House in Jackson. The only blemishes on the Lady Trojans’ ledger are losses to Northwest Rankin (53-51)

and Brandon (58-52). Those defeats have served as motivation following a 62-50 overtime loss to Lanier in the Class 5A North State tournament at Canton High last year.

Holman feels the seniors are “real-ly locked in” and know what they have to do to overcome any hurdles in their way to Jackson.

“They really have a vision,” Hol-man said. “They know are weaknesses and what we have to get better at, and they’re walking into practice every day and looking at me and saying, ‘What you got?’ I really like the way we are practicing.”

Opponents know defense is the Lady Trojans’ calling card. New Hope likes to use its athleticism and depth to press teams full-court so it can dic-tate the pace and create offense from steals and turnovers. Holman feels her team’s ability to fine-tune its execution on that end of the floor will play a big part in punching her team’s ticket all the way to the state’s biggest stage

“I love defense,” Holman said. “I love teaching it and I love coaching it. I think it creates a lot of offensive for us. The stronger it is the more it is going to create for us.

“Their activity on defense is really good, their rotations are really good, and when our defense is on it is cre-ating transitions for us that make us tough to beat.”

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BRIEFLYOle MissSoftball wins twice Saturday, evens record at 2-2

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Ole Miss softball team bounced back on day two of the FGCU/Four Points by Sheraton Invitational with a pair of wins over Georgetown and Liberty at the FGCU Complex in Fort Myers, Fla., on Saturday.

Behind a fantastic pitching performance from redshirt-freshman Emily Gaitan, Ole Miss opened the day with a 2-1 victory over the Hoyas. Ole Miss (2-2) then topped Liberty (0-3) in its second game of the day 5-1.

“It was great to bounce back today and pull out a couple of wins,” Ole Miss head coach Windy Thees said. “RT Cantillo really led the way for us offensively and we need to continue to score the runners once we get them on base. We still aren’t where we need to be, but we are heading in the right direction.”

Against the Flames, senior pitcher Shelby Jo Fenter went 6.1 innings, striking out eight batters and allowing just one run on four hits.

For the fourth consecutive game Ole Miss outhit its opponent, this time by an 8-4 count.

Sophomore designated player Madi Osias got the Rebels off to a strong start in the first inning with a three-run home run well over the left field fence.

Ole Miss added to its lead in the fourth inning with a sacrifice fly from redshirt-freshman second baseman Alyssa Invergo that scored freshman left fielder Miranda Strother.

Invergo and Strother connected again for the Rebels’ final run of the game when the Peotone, Ill., native ripped a standup triple into the right-center field gap that scored Strother from first base easily.

With the score now at 5-1 and the tying run on deck in the seventh, Ole Miss head coach Windy Thees went to Osias to get the final two outs, earn the save and secure the 5-1 win for the Rebels. It was the first save of the season for Osias.

The Rebels will face Georgetown (1-3) Sunday at 10:15 a.m. in the tournament’s third-place game.

On Friday, Ole Miss outhit each of its opponents but too many runners left on base proved to be too much to overcome in a pair of 3-2 losses to Western Kentucky and Florida Gulf Coast.

n Track and Field sets pair of records: At New York, Ole Miss athletes knocked off another school record and recorded several more season-best marks on the final day of the 2014 Armory Collegiate Invitational Saturday from the New Balance track at the Armory.

When the elite-level meet was all said and done, Ole Miss had broken two school records (men’s distance medley relay, women’s 4x200-meter relay) and recorded some of the best marks in the nation this year.

“Overall, we took a step forward this weekend as a team,” head coach Brian O’Neal said. “One of the things we learned is that to achieve our goals we have to learn how to close out meets. That’s part of the growing process, but I’m fully confident that we can use this moving forward as we get to the championship events. Now we have to get back, rest up and get ready for another big meet next weekend in Albuquerque.”

The No. 21-ranked Ole Miss men had another solid day on the track on Saturday.

Freshman Trevor Gilley burst onto the scene by winning the college division mile run with a season-best time of 4:08.65 that ranks him ninth in school history.

In the championship mile, Robert Domanic won his section in 4:12.73, but was just seventh overall. Domanic’s section came out slow to begin the race and made it difficult for anyone to post a fast time.

Freshman dual-sport athlete Kailo Moore continued his strong college track debut in the 200 meters on Saturday. He placed seventh in the finals in 21.93, but only after racing to a fantastic 21.68 in the prelims that ranks him seventh among football players this indoor track season.

Fellow freshman Jalen Miller was one spot shy of reaching the finals after running a prelim time of 21.70.

n Women’s basketball travels to Georgia: At Oxford, the Ole Miss women’s basketball team (10-14, 1-9 SEC) travels to Georgia in Southeastern Conference play today. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m.

Junior Tia Faleru posted her second consecutive double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds in a 77-65 home defeat to Tennessee Thursday. It was Faleru’s second consecutive double-double ad her 12th on the season. Faleru’s 12 double-doubles are the most for an Ole Miss player since 2011-12 when Nikki Byrd had 12. Faleru is set to surpass that number this season.

n Rifle defeats Navy: At Oxford, powered by a school record in air rifle, the No. 12 ranked Ole Miss rifle team rallied to defeat No. 13 Navy 4629-4610 here Saturday at the Patricia C. Lamar National Guard Readiness Center.

The Rebels found themselves trailing the Midshipmen by nine after smallbore, but came out strong in air to overtake Navy for the second straight year and win their second GARC match in a row. Ole Miss defeated No. 9 Memphis by one on Wednesday.

“It’s another great day to be a Rebel,” head coach Valerie Boothe said. “The team continues to impress me with their air rifle. Today was another clue that our smallbore needs to be stronger. I know we have the talent, and now we just need to put it all together at the same time. As always, we’ll keep working towards the finish.”

Led by Dan Jonas with a 577, the Midshipmen fired a 2285 in smallbore to come out of the gates with the lead. Rebel senior Melissa Quartarone led the Rebels with a 572, but their total 2276 left them nine back.

Junior collegesEMCC softball sweeps Hinds C.C. in home opener

SCOOBA – The East Mississippi Community College softball team successfully opened its 2014 home slate with an 8-1, 4-2 doubleheader sweep over Hinds Community College Saturday afternoon on the Scooba campus.

Bouncing back from dropping their season-opening twin bill, 10-3 and 8-0, at East Central Community College Thursday afternoon in Decatur, the EMCC Lady Lions evened their season record to 2-2.

In Saturday’s opener, EMCC grabbed its first lead (2-1) of the game by taking advantage of a two-out Hinds miscue in the bottom of the third inning. After Kristen Mitchell reached on an infield error and Corey Dawkins moved her over with a fielder’s choice, Kasey Stanfield laced her first of two run-scoring doubles of the game with a two-run two-bagger to center field.

The Lady Lions followed with two more scores the next frame, as Pepper Baker doubled home pinch-runner Beth Hull and then later scored on a double-steal to increase the lead to 4-1 after four innings. EMCC doubled its run total by plating four additional runs in the fifth on five hits. Stanfield, a New Hope High School product, began things by driving home her third run of the contest with an RBI-double to right field. Baker later added a run-producing triple and scored on Elizabeth Barnacastle’s base hit to account for the final margin.

With two hits apiece, Stanfield, Baker, Barnacastle and Meri Mor-gan Fortune combined for eight of the team’s 10 total hits in the opener.

Meanwhile in the circle, EMCC sophomore right-hander Taylor Hackney got stronger as the game progressed after escaping un-scathed from a no-out, bases-loaded jam in the opening frame. Setting down the visitors in order in the third, fourth and fifth innings, the former Bayou Academy standout gave up only one run on just two hits while striking out three and walking a pair in five innings of work. Freshman pitcher Logan Smith threw the final two innings for the Lady Lions in the first game.

In the nightcap, the two teams traded unearned tallies in the open-ing frame. EMCC took a 3-1 lead after four innings on an RBI-double by Jade Albritton in the third and a run-scoring infield out off the bat of Whitney Lowe that plated pinch-runner Sarah Lolley.

The Lady Eagles managed to trim the deficit to 3-2 by scoring a run in the top of the sixth, but sophomore starter Halie Green stranded the bases loaded after getting Monica Wade to ground out to third for the final out of the inning. The Lady Lions wasted little time getting the insurance run back when Hull doubled to left-center and later scored on Lowe’s grounder to third.

Stanfield added two more hits in the second game and was joined by Mitchell and Albritton in the multi-hit club.

Green, from Lafayette, La., also evened her pitching mark to 1-1 on the year with the complete-game victory. The sophomore right-hander allowed two runs on only four hits over the seven innings while striking out five and also walking five.

Coach Kyndall White’s EMCC Lady Lions are slated to play their next 10 games away from the home over the next two weeks, beginning with Tuesday’s road doubleheader against Pearl River Community College in Poplarville.

n EMCC baseball starts 2-2: At Niceville, Fla., the EMCC baseball team dropped a 1-0 decision to Georgia Perimeter College Saturday on the final day of the Carl McInnis Classic.

EMCC then followed that with a 4-1 win over Northwest Florida in Saturday’s late game.

In its season-opening play Friday, EMCC dropped a 6-1 decision to Northwest Florida, before bouncing back for a 7-4 win over Georgia Perimeter.

n ICC baseball wins twice on opening day: At Fulton, Itawam-ba Community College opened the 2014 baseball season with 3-0 and 9-3 wins over Calhoun Community College (AL) on Saturday.

The Indians (2-0, 0-0 MACJC North) got on the board in the first inning when Tanner Poole (Amory) scored on a double steal before Drew Wheeler (Mooreville) added the second run of the inning on a single by Cameron Coker (Germantown, TN).

ICC tacked on an insurance run in the sixth when Ethan Gill (Pontotoc) scored on a single by Russ Johnson.

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David Miller/Special to the DispatchPickens County High School senior Jermarcus Brown accepts his MVP award for his performance in a 38-18 victory against Maplesville on Dec. 5, 2013, in the Alabama High School Athletic Association Class 1A State championship game at Alabama’s Bryant Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Brown set a Super 6 record with 329 yards rushing in the victory. He finished the season with 38 rushing touchdowns and a single-season state record of 51. Last week, he and teammate Den-nis Finch signed to play football at Stillman College, while quarterback Devonte’ Simon signed to play at Alabama A&M.

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candidate to fill the MSU coaching staff vacancy left when Les Koenning left Starkville to become the new wide receivers coach at Texas on Jan. 15.

Mullen said in a text mes-sage to the Dispatch MSU Sports Blog that nothing of-ficial had been decided yet in terms of filling the vacancy or restructuring of the titles of current staff members. An official announcement by the university of John-son’s hiring and the titles of the entire staff is expected to take place Monday.

The Dispatch reported last week that Johnson was on a list of possible candi-dates to take over the open

vacancy on the staff. Mullen still has to decide what he’ll do with a offensive coordina-tor title for one or multiple members of his staff and if anybody on the current MSU staff will be named special teams coordinator.

In his National Signing Day media conference, Mul-len made no secret about how the offensive play call-ing happened during the 2013 season and will contin-ue to operate in the future.

“I called all the plays for us last year. I spent a lot of time with the quarterbacks,” Mullen said Wednesday. “The two quarterbacks who are coming in know that I was sort of the quarterback

coach anyway. They didn’t have to wait and see who it may be. Fortunately how that worked out it allowed us to take our time. Hopefully within the next week we’ll have something in place.”

Johnson, Utah’s winnin-gest quarterback in history with a 26-7 record, became the youngest offensive coor-dinator in the Football Bowl Subdivision when coach Kyle Whittingham appoint-ed the then 24-year-old to the position in 2011.

Johnson served as the Utes offensive coordinator at his alma mater for two seasons 2012 but after a dis-appointing 5-7 season his offense was called into ques-

tion after just averaging 29.2 points per game, good for just ninth in the Pac-12 Con-ference. Subsequently, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham hired former Miami and NFL head coach Dennis Er-ickson as its new offensive coordinator and reassigned Johnson back to just coach-ing the Utes’ signal call-ers in 2013. Whittingham hired former Wyoming head coach Dave Christensen as its new offensive coordina-tor this offseason and it was after that move where John-son began looking at other coaching situations around the country.

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of what he considered a lackluster effort by his talented group of young-sters. Kentucky got a 6 of 18 performance from the Harrison twins and a six point effort from Alex Poythress.

“I thought everybody just went through the mo-tions today and I just don’t get it,” Calipari said. “I don’t think our guys grew in this game but because we had enough depth, we were able to win. They’re 18 and 19-year olds and their whole lives they were told they poop ice cream.”

The only shining light for the Wildcats, who was projected as a four-seed by ESPN.com analyst Joe Lunardi Saturday, was the play of seldom used senior guard Jon Hood. The fifth-year senior, who had just 23 total minutes of playing time this sea-son before Saturday, had 13 minutes that included solid defense and a three-point shot. The Wildcats were plus-13 as a team when Hood was the on the floor as compared to minus-4 when the reserve guard was watching on the bench.

“I just tried to come in and bring enthusiasm,” Hood said. “When coach came down and told me to go in, I understand what that means. You go in, play hard and bring enthusiasm and you’re supposed to do as a bench guy is bring hustle plays.”

Ray admitted after the

loss Saturday Hood, a for-mer Mr. Basketball selec-tion out of high school in Madisonville, Ky., wasn’t even in the Bulldogs pre-game scouting report be-cause of his lack of action.

Calipari is now 8-0 against MSU in his coach-ing career. The fifth-year Wildcats coach said he tried to warn his club about MSU’s 11-2 record in Starkville coming into Saturday but couldn’t avoid a battle with the host Bulldogs.

“Don’t take away from what Mississippi State did here today and what Rick got them to do,” Calipari said. “Rick Ray gave them a chance to win today and that’s all you can ask of him to do. They had their chance.”

MSU freshman point guard IJ Ready missed his seventh game of the season because of injury or illness Saturday as the 5-foot-11 speedster was hampered with a fever. Ray said Ready’s symp-toms started when the team got back from its 72-52 loss at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas.

Without the size and athleticism to handle Kentucky’s frontline, MSU gave up 13 offensive rebounds and its foul-plagued forward of Ware and Colin Borchert only grabbed two offensive put backs. The Wildcats came to Starkville ranked first nationally with a offensive rebounding percentage of .432 and was one bucket

short of its second-chance point average of 16.

“The difference for me is they shot 48 percent in the second half but if you eliminate the second chance opportunities they got off offensive rebounds or loose balls, then our de-fensive field goal percent-age is pretty good,” Ray said. “We just got to make sure we get all those loose balls and then we could get in transition.”

Saturday’s loss marked only the fourth time this season Kentucky has scored under 70 points and it was just another in-consistent offensive effort that led to MSU’s demise.

MSU hit just 1 of 8 shots from three-point range but the Bulldogs were able to find chances at the charity stripe by going 22 of 28 shots from the foul line. With just seven scholarship players on the floor, Ray said he likes the improve he saw in terms of effort as MSU approaches a home game Wednesday at 8 p.m. ver-sus Georgia.

“I’m not satisfied with the loss or have the mis-conception that I look at this as a moral victory,” Ray said. “I want my team to play hard, compete and play hard. We got to find a way every time we step on the court to play with this competitive spirit.”

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son he had a team-high 12 points in 32 minutes. The transfer from Olney (Ill.) Central College was 6 of 6 from the foul one and had three assists.

“I think Trivante is somebody that is always going to give us a solid ef-fort and what I thought he did well was finding those holes to drive,” Ray said.

n Calipari praised Rick Ray for his 2013-14 coaching perfor-mance: In Saturday’s post-game media confer-ence, the first words out of the mouth of Kentucky coach John Calipari were in praise of his coaching counterpart on the other bench.

“I want to say that Rick Ray is doing a Yeoman’s job here,” Calipari said. “His point guard is out and he’s got depth issues and his guys get in early foul trouble and he still has a chance to beat us late in the game.”

After the win Saturday, Calipari is 8-0 against Mississippi State and 3-0 against Ray but said he likes what he sees out of the effort level of his MSU team during the 2013-14

campaign. “I look a coach and I try

to see what kind of effort his kids show and his kids are playing hard that’s for sure,” Calipari said. “And they’re playing hard for him.”

MSU, who was just playing with two post players and seven schol-arship players, was able to disrupt Kentucky’s offense with their suffo-cating half court defense that held every Wildcats starter below its season scoring average.

“We knew this would be a tough place to go play and they had a very good record here at home for a reason so we were happy to get out here with a win,” Kentucky center Dakari Johnson said.

n Ray looks at up-coming stretch as crit-ical for MSU: The MSU coaching staff now look fondly at a final eight-game stretch to the 2013-14 season where they don’t play another team in the Top 50 of the latest ratings percentage index.

The Bulldogs will have another chance to win its 400th all-time win

at Humphrey Coliseum when they host Georgia at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Ray stressed after the loss to No. 18 Kentucky that his team needs to look past this season-long stretch of five straight losses to ensure a over .500 record.

“We were a man down and we did this today, so we knew we were in a tough stretch here but if we play with type of enthusiasm and competi-tiveness, we can beat any-body,” Ray said.

MSU will have four games on the road and ending the program’s 14-game losing streak away from Starkville is a must to get this season turned back around to the posi-tive vibes of middle Janu-ary.

“First and foremost, they’re kids,” Ray said to the explanation of the team’s road woes. “We’re talking about freshman and sophomores that are our leaders. It’s human nature to see this progres-sion.”

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Missouri advantage with a 14-3 run that built a 22-14 lead with 12:24 in the first half. The Rebels hit four 3-pointers, including a pair from Henderson, who added a nifty as-sist to Perez for another 3-pointer to highlight the go-ahead outburst.

The Rebels led the rest of the way, although Mis-souri rallied in the second half to pull within two points on four occasions and at 79-78 on a 3-point shot by Brown with 3:18 left.

Ole Miss outscored Missouri 6-0 in the fol-lowing minute, all by Summers, and built a seemingly insurmount-able 91-83 lead with 19 seconds remaining. Mis-souri scrambled within 91-88 and forced a turn-over with 0.9 remaining, setting up a final opportu-nity for Ross.

Ole Miss has defeated the Tigers in three of four meetings over the past two seasons, including two wins in the final five seconds.

n Florida 78, Ala-bama 69: At Gainesville, Fla., No. 3 Florida has won with defense most of the season.

The Gators showed Saturday they can pull out games on the other end of the court, too.

Scottie Wilbekin scored 16 points, leading all five starters in dou-ble figures, and Florida beat Alabama for its 15th straight victory.

The Gators handled the Tide for the second time in 16 days and ex-tended a school record for consecutive home wins to 29.

“If you play defense the way we did tonight, you’re not going to win,” coach Billy Donovan said. “Thank God we had some offense today that helped us.”

Florida (21-2, 10-0 Southeastern Confer-

ence) shot a blistering 62 percent from the field and finished with a sea-son-high 22 assists.

The Gators trailed by seven late in the first half before taking over the game in the paint and in transition. That opened things up on the perime-ter for Wilbekin and Mi-chael Frazier II.

Wilbekin was 3-for-5 shooting from behind the arc, making all three in the second half. Fra-zier was 3 for 8 from the 3-point range.

Frazier finished with 14 points, joining Wil-bekin, Casey Prather (15), Will Yeguete (12) and Pat-ric Young (11) in double figures. It was the first time all five of Florida’s starters topped 10 points since Nov. 21 against Mid-dle Tennessee.

“We have a balanced team, and anyone can beat you on any given night,” Prather said.

Prather, the team’s leading scorer, failed to reach double figures the last two games while dealing with a sprained left ankle. He returned to form against Alabama even though Donovan wasn’t sure he would play a few hours before the tip. Donovan gave Prather the option of playing or rest-ing, and he chose to give it a go.

“It’s got nothing to do with him not being a tough kid or he can’t play through pain,” Donovan said. “It gets more into the fact that he doesn’t feel confidence-wise that he’s capable of doing the things he knows he can do. When he gets to that place, he really gets men-tally taken out because he knows he can’t do certain things.

“When he knows he can do things physically, it adds to his confidence. When he can’t move like he wants to move, I think he knows he’s putting our

team in jeopardy, and that eats him alive and kills him.”

Trevor Releford led the Tide (9-14, 3-7) with 25 points on 7-for-10 shoot-ing. He was 4 for 6 from behind the 3-point line and perfect on seven free throws.

Releford scored 16 points in the first half, car-rying Alabama for much of the afternoon. His 3-pointer put the Tide up 28-21, silencing the sold-out O’Connell Center.

Alabama shot 61 per-cent in the opening half and went 5 for 7 from be-hind the arc, giving the defensive-minded Dono-van plenty to talk about at halftime. The Gators re-sponded with an effective press, made 3-pointers and a heavy dose of post play that seemingly wore down the Tide.

“They’re at their best when they’re in transi-tion,” Tide coach Antho-ny Grant said. “From an offensive standpoint, they took us out of some things that we were able to get there in the first half.”

Florida went on a 25-8 run that turned a deficit into a double-digit lead. The Tide ended up losing its four straight and sixth in the last seven games.

“This program can’t do anything but go up,” Releford said. “It’s just a process. Right now we’re losing a game, but I feel as a team we’re getting bet-ter and Coach is helping us with that.”

Micah Green/Dispatch StaffMississippi State’s Trivante Bloodman (4) attempts a shot in early first-half action Saturday at the Humphrey Coliseum against Kentucky.

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Courtney PatrickCourtney Andrew Patrick, age 36, lost his

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Courtney has resided in Booneville, MS for the past nine years after moving there from his hometown of Columbus, MS. He was a con-trols engineer with Cooper Electric Controls, Inc., New Albany, MS. A member of the NRA, he enjoyed shooting, listening to music, read-ing, yard work and collecting Legos. Courtney was an animal lover who had done volunteer work for the Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary in Caledonia, MS for many years.

A Celebration of the Life of Courtney was held Saturday, February 8, 2014, 2:00 p.m. at The Orchard, Northside, 341 Hwy. 45 North, Baldwyn, MS 38824. Coleman Funeral Home of Oxford was in charge of local arrangements.

Survivors include his wife, DeLane Patrick of Booneville, MS; his parents, Dennis and Linda Patrick of Columbus MS; one brother, Tony Gray (Leah) of Columbus, MS; two dogs, Pete and Rilee; and two cats, Sherbert and Ma-genta.

Donations in memory of Courtney Patrick may be made to the Cedarhill Animal Sanc-tuary, 144 Sanctuary Loop, Caledonia, MS 39740.

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Claudette CoxClaudette Mills Cox, age 84, died Sunday,

February 2, 2014, at her home in Columbus. Claudette was born November 12, 1929, in Ackerman, MS to Mamie Nee’ Harrington and John S. Mills. Claudette lovingly donated her body to help further medical research.

She is survived by her four daughters, Carolyn Jernigan (Canty) of Bay City, TX, Gina Cox (Dean Swartz) of Columbus, MS, Cathy Donnell (Gene) of Colorado Springs, CO and Linda Farr of Columbus, MS; granddaughters, Callie Jernigan (Morgan Hannabuss) of Los Angeles, CA, Kendall Jernigan of Bay City, TX and Ellen Farr of Ridgeland, MS; grandsons, Jeff Jernigan of Los Angeles, CA and Henry Farr of Ridgeland, MS; great-grandsons, Cooper and Evan Jernigan of Bay City, TX; and brother, John Harrington (Harry) Mills of Madison, MS.

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Joe Allen GrayJoe Allen Gray, 78, of Plano, TX passed away

Thursday, February 6, 2014 at Medical Center of Plano, Plano, TX.

Funeral services will be held Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 3PM at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Columbus, MS with Bro. Steve Lammons officiating. Interment will be in Mt. Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Columbus, MS with Lowndes Funeral Home, Columbus, MS directing.

Mr. Gray was born September 12, 1935 in Ingomar, MS to the late William and Velma Mar McDonald Gray. He was a member of Hunter Glen Baptist Church, Plano, TX and former member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Columbus, MS. Mr. Gray was a veteran of the United States Air Force and retired as Master Sergeant in 1978 after 23 years of service. During his military service, he was the recipient of two commendation medals and was a member of the USAF Marksmanship Team. After retirement, Mr. Gray served as security for the United States Air Force for 22 years, retiring in 1993.

Mr. Gray is survived by wife of 54 years – Lou Ella (Susie) Gray; daughters – Sharon Gray Rioux and Sandra Jo Gray; son – William Allen Gray; sister – Sammye Ruth Pearcy; brother – Donald Gray; and grandchildren – Mathieu Rioux, Catherine Rioux, Michael Gray, Natalie Gray, Grace Cunning, and Madeline Cunning.

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Jim GorrellJames Clyde “Jim” Gorrell, 58 of Columbus,

MS passed away Friday, February 7, 2014 at Baptist Memorial Hospital- GT, Columbus, MS.

Visitation will be Saturday, February 8, 2014 from 6-8 pm at Lowndes Funeral Home, Co-lumbus, MS. Funeral services will be Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 2 pm at Fairview Baptist Church with Bro. Sammy Crawford officiat-ing and Bro. Breck Ladd assisting. Interment will be at Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, MS with Lowndes Funeral Home, directing.

Mr. Gorrell was born October 11, 1955 in Waynesville, NC to Jesse Clyde and Jean Met-calf Gorrell. He worked as a Team Coordinator for Weyerhaeuser for 28 years. Mr. Gorrell was a member of Fairview Baptist Church, Ken Al-dridge’s Sunday School Class and AOPA. He enjoyed flying his Cessna 150 Airplane, hunt-ing, fishing and gardening. Mr. Gorrell got great pleasure in helping people in need.

Mr. Gorrell is survived by his parents; wife- Nena Sims Gorrell, Columbus, MS; children- Chad Gorrell, Rogersville, AL and Taylor (fi-ancé-Leslie Franklin) Gorrell, Atlanta, GA; brother-Joel (Sherry) Gorrell, Dublin, GA and a sister- Judy (Greg) Palmer, Rogersville, AL.

Pallbearers will be Zack Palmer, Wayne Smith, Andy Owens, Kent Walker, Henry Mc-Queen, Johnny Frisby, Mark Young, Mark Caldwell and Jimmy Hildreth.

Honorary pallbearers will be Ray Crane, Donnie Brown, Gary Winklepleck, Brad Sims and Greg Palmer.

Memorials may be made to Fairview Baptist Church, c/o Area Living Pictures Ministry, 127 Airline Rd., Columbus, MS 39702.

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Jennifer BrownWEST POINT —

Jennifer Yvonne Brown, 42, died Feb. 3, 2014, at Coliseum Medical Center in Macon, Ga.

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Ms. Brown was born Jan. 30, 1972, to George E. Brown Jr. and the late Ruthie P. Brown. She was formerly em-ployed as an educator with Applied Middle School in Macon and was a veteran of the U.S. Army.

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via R. Higginbotham, 72, died Feb. 8, 2014, at

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Wesley AbramsWEST POINT —

John Wesley Abrams, 89, died Feb. 7, 2014, at North Mississippi Medical Center.

Services Monday at 10 a.m. at Calvert Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Roy My-ers officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Garden Cemetery. Visitation is today from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Wesley was born January 16, 1925, in Noxubee County, to the late Joseph Jasper and Maggie Lee Bry-ant Abrams. He was formerly employed as a machine operator at Babcock and Wilcox Corporation. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and a veteran of the U.S. Army.

In addition to his par-ents, he was preceded in death by his sisters, Irene Denton and Trudy Thomas; and brothers, James Douglas Abrams and Willie Joe Abrams.

Survivors include his wife, Thelma Abrams of West Point; daugh-ters, Darleen Pearson of Raymond and Dale Mobarak of Oviedo, Fla.; son, Randy Thom-as of Meridian; sisters, Frances Bell of Macon, Lynette Morgan of Rossville, Ga., Barbara Edmondson of Louis-ville and Donnie Nix of Jackson; brother, Charles Abrams of Columbus; six grand-children and eight great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers are George Jolly, Ricky Boykin, Gary Moore, George Simmons, Darrell Shows, Shawn Thomas and George Pearson.

Memorials may be made to Calvary Baptist Church, 460 McCord Street, West Point, MS 39773.

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Mark Tigues pleaded guilty Aug. 21 in U.S. Dis-trict Court in Oxford. He was sentenced to one year.

Court records say he must report to a federal prison in Butner, N.C., by Monday afternoon.

The indictment says Tigues and others sold hundreds of pounds of copper for scrap in Lake Village, Ark., in 2010.

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Micah Green/Dispatch StaffWMSV 91.1 Station Manager Steve Ellis of Columbus, right, visits with DJ Trevor Pruitt in the on-air room at the radio station located on Mississippi State University’s cam-pus, behind The University Florist. The station celebrates its 20th anniversary this spring. Ellis has been the manager since its inception. Pruitt, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., is one of many MSU students who have gained radio and broadcast experience at WMSV.

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Station Manager Steve Ellis remembers that morning 20 years ago. The time was just before 6 a.m., March 21, 1994,

and he was about to flip the switch for the first broadcast from WMSV 91.1, a new radio station on the Mississippi State University campus. It was a big moment — the result of a student-centered movement, including a petition and referendum. An earlier campus station had been off the air for a long time; people were ready.

A lot of thought went into the debut. What listeners first heard was Ellis’ voice: “The next sound you hear will be one you’ve been wait-ing for for three years — WMSV-Starkville” and then a brief clip of Pink Floyd asking the world, “Is there anybody out there?” Turns out, there was.

The first full song was Jesus Jones’ “Right Here, Right Now,” appropriate for the occa-sion. Nancy Bigelow Cheney, then a graduate student from Columbus, DJ’d that first morn-ing. She remembers another song played, “These Are Days” by Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs.

“It kinda of captured the spirit, that this is what we’ve been looking for — these are days you’ll remember,” said Cheney, who today works with show choirs and choral students at Jackson Academy. She was one of the original believers. One of more than 80 student volun-teers who signed up for two-hour on-air shifts.

“I remember the call for volunteers. I’ve always loved having a mic in my hand, always loved the stage — and this was an opportunity to have a microphone with nobody looking at me!” recalled Cheney.

20th anniversaryTwo decades later, it’s time to remember.

WMSV is celebrating its 20th anniversary with concerts and a reunion for former staff-ers and DJs. It began Feb. 8, with a show by Paul Thorn. A concert with John and Jacob, Los Colognes and Big Country’s Empty Bottle is set for Saturday, March 22 at Rick’s Café.

In the meantime, friends of the station are getting their commemorative anniversary

T-shirts and hoodies, swapping anecdotes on a staff alumni Facebook page, making travel plans for the reunion and, for those near enough, stopping by the station to dust off memories in front of a wall of photographs.

Offering an alternativeEllis was charged with “building” the non-

commercial community station from pretty much scratch. He’s still at the helm today.

Micah Green/Dispatch StaffWMSV News and Public Relations Director Anthony Craven, in red, checks in with Tage Philamlee, a junior broadcast major from Red Bay, Ala.

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Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 10-11“Freedom Riders” — Mis-sissippi State University Libraries and African-American Studies hosts “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle,” with a screening of the film “Freedom Riders” at 7 p.m. in the library auditorium on campus Monday. A film discussion and seminar Tuesday at 3 p.m. fea-tures Freedom Riders Dave Dennis, Hezekiah Watkins and Hollis Wat-kins. For more information, contact Lynda Graham, 662-325-6634.

Wednesday, Feb. 12Table Talk — Oxford authors Katherine and Margaret King present their latest book, “Which Is Which?” The twins, engaging in their classic banter, continue their adventures in the follow-up to “Y’all Twins?” Bring lunch at 11:30 a.m.; iced tea provided by Friends of the Columbus Library. Or join friends from noon-1 p.m. for the program at the library, 314 Seventh St. N. For more information, contact the library, 662-329-5300.

Thursday, Feb. 13Chamber music — A Missis-sippi State faculty recital features Shandy Phillips on violin, Sheri Fal-cone on clarinet, Denise Rowan on bassoon and Rosangela Sebba on piano at 7:30 p.m. in the Giles Ar-chitecture Building on campus. Free to the public. For more information, contact the Department of Music, 662-325-3070.

Saturday, Feb. 15A Hollywood Affair — The Starkville-MSU Symphony Associ-ation hosts its annual fundraiser at 6:30 p.m. at the Hunter Henry Center on Mississippi State’s campus. Enjoy music by the State Messengers, heavy hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction. Tickets are $65 at The Chalet and The Book Mart. For more information, call 662-323-8075.

Feb. 13-16 and 18-22“Steel Magnolias” — Starkville Community Theatre presents this production directed by Paula Mabry at the Playhouse on Main, 108 E. Main St., Starkville. Play times are 7:30 p.m., except Sunday at 2 p.m. For more infor-

mation, contact the SCT box office, 662-323-6855.

Thursday, Feb. 13Titans’ Herman Boone — Mis-sissippi University for Women’s Gordy Honors Series welcomes Coach Herman Boone, an inspiration for the movie “Remembering the Titans,” at 6 p.m. in Limbert Assembly Room in Cochran Hall. For more information, contact Dr. Thomas Velek, tvelek@as.muw.edu, 662-241-6850, or visit web2.muw.edu/index.php/en/main-honors/.

Thursday and Saturday, Feb. 13, 15Friends’ book sale — The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library host a book sale Feb. 13, 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., and Feb. 15, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at the library at 314 Seventh St. N. For more information, contact the library, 662-329-5300.

Friday, Feb. 14Lee Home Valentine Gala — This Valentine fundraiser from 7:30-10 p.m. in Columbus features elegant desserts, floral designs and more, to benefit the S.D. Lee Foundation. For reservations and more information, contact Eulalie Davis, 662-328-3088.

Monday, Feb. 17Imagining Ireland — Mississip-pi University for Women’s Interna-tional Series presents “Imagining Ireland after 1916: Postcolonial Irish Literature” with Dr. Kelly Marsh at 7 p.m. in Martin Hall on campus. Free to the public. For information, visit the Series’ Facebook page or email Kim Whitehead, kmwhitehead@muw.edu.

Tuesday, Feb. 18Philharmonia — Mississippi University for Women’s Department of Music presents MSU Philharmonia with “Listen to the Movies” at 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on the MUW campus. Free to the public. For more information, call 662-241-6399.

Wednesday, Feb. 19Table Talk – Dispatch columnist Adele Elliott discusses her first novel, “Friendship Cemetery.” Southern gothic and the paranormal join hands

to walk through “the quirky city of Co-lumbus.” Bring lunch at 11:30 a.m.; iced tea provided by Friends of the Columbus Library. Or join friends from noon-1 p.m. for the program at the library, 314 Seventh St. N. For more information, call 662-329-5300.

Thursday, Feb. 20“Aladdin” — The Columbus Arts Council presents the Enchantment Theatre Company’s “Aladdin” at 7 p.m. in Mississippi University for Women’s Rent Auditorium. A tale for all ages. Adult tickets are $10 in advance; $12 at the door. 18-and-un-der are $4 advance; $5 at the door. MUW faculty, staff and students attend free with ID. For information or tickets, contact the CAC, 662-328-2787.Baritone recital — The Leslie F. Threadgill Lecture and Artist Series at Mississippi University for Women presents Chris O’Rear at 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on campus. Free to the public. For more information, call 662-241-6399.Exhibit reception — A recep-tion from 5-7 p.m. at the Visual Arts Center Gallery, 808 University Drive, Starkville, honors the Mississippi State Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, displayed Feb. 4-March 29. For more information, call 662-325-2202.“Othello” — The Mississippi State Lyceum Series presents the American Shakespeare Center’s “Othello” at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium. Tickets are $15 at lyceum.msstate.edu or call 662-325-2930.

Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 20-22Magnolia Independent Film Festival — The 17th annual “Mag” Film Festival showcases independent films from around the world at Hollywood Premier Cine-ma, Starkville. The schedule will be posted soon at magnoliafilmfest.com. Follow The Mag on Facebook.

Friday, Feb. 21Big Band music — Gill Harris and the Big Band Theory, with vocal-ist Denise Reid, present a big band concert/dance at Trotter Conven-tion Center, Columbus. The all-pro orchestra provides dinner music from 7-8 p.m. (dinner option available; reservations required: $19 advance, $27 at door, if available). Concert/

dance begins at 8 p.m. Advance table seat tickets are $30 ($35 at door) at the Rosenzweig Arts Center, 501 Main St. Reserve tables for eight in advance, $180. For tickets, call 662-328-2787.Rick of “Rick and Bubba” — First Baptist Church of Columbus presents Rick Burgess of “The Rick and Bubba Show” at 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Ministry and Activities Building, 3000 Bluecutt Road. Tickets are $10 (includes a meal), available at First Baptist Church, 202 Seventh St. N. and New Life Supplies, 1920-2 Highway 45 North. For more information, contact FBC, 662-328-3915.

Sunday, Feb. 23MSU spring concert — Mis-sissippi State University Bands pres-ent a spring concert at 6:30 p.m. in Lee Hall on campus. For more information, contact the Department of Music, 662-325-3070.

Tuesday, Feb. 25Piano program — The Leslie F. Threadgill Lecture and Artist Series at Mississippi University for Women presents Fabio Parrini at the piano at 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on campus. Free to the public. For more information, call 662-241-6399.MSU University Chorale — Mississippi State’s University Cho-rale presents “Reflect and Rejoice: Celebrating African-American History

through Music” at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Memories on campus. For information, contact the Department of Music, 662-325-3070.

Wednesday, Feb. 26 Table Talk — Deborah Johnson discusses her new novel, “The Se-cret of Magic.” Set just after World War II, the book weaves an enthrall-ing story of the complex relationship between a young African-American Northerner and a middle-aged white Southerner. Bring lunch at 11:30 a.m.; iced tea provided by Friends of the Columbus Library. Or join friends from noon-1 p.m. for the program at the Columbus Public Library, 314 Seventh St. N. For more informa-tion, contact the library, 662-329-5300.

Thursday, Feb. 27Koresh Dance Co. — The Mis-sissippi State Lyceum Series pres-ents this dance troupe at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Hall on campus. Tickets are $15. Purchase at lyceum.msstate.edu or call 662-325-2930.

Friday, Feb. 28Happy birthday, MSU — The Mississippi State University Alumni Association hosts a 136th birthday party at the Bull Ring by Colvard Student Union beginning at 11 a.m. Complimentary cake and drinks while they last.

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Tuesday, Feb. 11“Both Sides of the Lens” — The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library hosts a gallery talk at noon by curators of the “Both Sides of the Lens” exhibit of African-American photography at the library, 314 Seventh St. N. Free to the public. For more information, contact Mona Vance Ali, 662-329-5304.

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Feb. 11 – Broadway musical “Million Dollar Quartet,” Ford Center, Oxford ($56-67). 662-915-2787 or fordcenter.org.

Feb. 12 – John “JoJo” Hermann (of Widespread Panic), Ford Center, Oxford ($10 general admission). 662-915-2787 or fordcenter.org.

Feb. 13 – Florida-George Line, Bancorp-South Arena, Tupelo ($30-40). 662-841-6528 or bcsarena.com.

Feb. 14-15 — Valentine’s Musical Tribute to Whitney Houston, Samford Theatre, Birmingham ($25). 205-251-1206 or virginiasamfordtheatre.org.

Feb. 15 – Claremont Trio, Ford Center, Oxford. 662-915-2787 or fordcenter.org.

Feb. 18 – Tupelo Concert Association presents Jesse Lynch Jazz 101, Tupelo Civic Auditorium. 662-840-7505 or tupelo-concertassociation.com.

Feb. 21 – Women of Ireland, Riley Center, Meridian ($34-40). 601-696-2200 or msu-rileycenter.com.

Feb. 21-23 – Alabama Ballet’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Alys Stephens Center, Birming-ham ($20-55). 205-975-2787 or alysste-phens.org.

Feb. 23 – The Bama Theatre’s Acoustic

Night with the Rob Alley Quintet with guest Jil Chambless, Tuscaloosa. 205-758-5195 or tuscarts.org.

Feb. 24 – Touring production of “Driving Miss Daisy,” Riley Center, Meridian ($29-35). 601-696-2200 or msurileycenter.com.

Feb. 26 – Harlem Globetrotters, Bancorp-South Arena, Tupelo ($21-64). 662-841-6528 or bcsarena.com.

Feb. 27 – Winter Jam Christian Music Tour (Newsboys, Lecrae, Tenth Avenue North, Thousand Foot Krutch, Plumb, more), Ban-corpSouth Arena, Tupelo ($10 at door). 662-841-6528 or bcsarena.com.

Feb. 28 – Carolina Chocolate Drops, Alys Stephens Center, Birmingham ($40). 205-975-2787 or alysstephens.org.

March 7 – Birmingham Ballet’s “Hansel & Gretel,” BJCC Complex, Birmingham ($24-49). 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

March 11 – Widespread Panic, BJCC Complex, Birmingham ($47-57). 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

March 14 – Gala of the Royal Horses, BancorpSouth Arena, Tupelo ($27-37; group discounts). 662-841-6528 or bcsarena.com.

March 15 – Elton John, BJCC Complex, Birmingham. 800-745-3000 or ticketmas-ter.com.

March 19 – Elton John, BancorpSouth Arena, Tupelo ($69-99). 662-841-6528 or bcsarena.com or ticketmaster.com.

The Golden Triangle is within easy traveling distance of some of the best entertain-ment in the South. Support arts and entertainment at home, and when you’re on the road, these might pique your interest. Be aware that some venues add facility/conve-nience charges to ticket prices.

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MSU UNIVERSITY RELATIONS

Shakespeare’s popular tragedy that plums the depths of jealously

and rage launches the 2014 spring Lyceum Series at Mississippi State.

“Othello” will be per-formed at the university Feb. 20 by veteran actors of the Virginia-based American Shakespeare Center. The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium.

To provide some plea-sures enjoyed by playgoers of Shakespeare’s time, the program will feature uni-versal lighting that enables actors and audience mem-bers to see each other.

Both at its home — the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton — and on the road, the American Shakespeare Company

regularly employs staging conditions similar to those used during the English Renaissance of the late 15th and early 16th cen-turies. The goal is to help break down the traditional barriers between perform-ers and those who’ve come to appreciate their work.

Because of continuing Lee Hall renovations, all Lyceum seating this year is general admission only.

Tickets are $15 each and may be purchased at lyceum.msstate.edu/#!series-events.

While on campus, members of the ASC troupe also will lead workshops for students and teachers at both MSU and Golden Triangle secondary schools. The outreach is made possible through a Cross College Research Award spon-sored by MSU’s Office of Research and Economic Development and funded by the Shackouls Honors College.

The two other Lyce-um Series events of the 2014 spring semester will include a Feb. 27 produc-tion by the Koresh Dance Company and a special April 6 performance of “The Miracle Worker” by the Montana Repertory.

For additional informa-tion on all Lyceum events, contact series director Amelia Treptow at 662-325-2930 or atreptow@saffairs.msstate.edu.

MSU Lyceum event to feature bard-inspired ‘green-eyed monster’“Othello” set for Feb. 20

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 9). Everyone appreciates your sense of justice, but as you portion out the good will, you sometimes unfairly forget

to include yourself in the split. Step up and claim life’s bounty! One special interest will open opportunities for love and money. March features a move and a makeover. April brings back something lost. Li-bra and Leo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 1, 9, 29 and 16. ARIES (March 21-April 19). When you think of someone, it draws that per-son to you in the spirit of your thoughts. This principle will be clearly represented in today’s rather uncanny events.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You will become healthier and feel better, and not be-cause of a magic pill or a wish granted, but because of hun-dreds of little decisions you’ll make in the days to come.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The best situations offer you a challenge. Let your natural optimism lead the way. You’ll sense you can somehow get on the inside, even though you can’t readily see the way.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Winston Churchill said, “Success is the ability to go

from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Don’t give up. You’re very close to winning this one.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Were you cut out for this job? Probably not. Most people are not “cut out” for the modern world in general. But to be human is to adapt. Assume you have what it takes, and go for it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Send your mind ahead of you by visualizing the top three priorities of the day. This exer-cise will help you stay focused on what’s important instead of being overly reactive to the stimulus of the moment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Getting people to like you isn’t a problem you possess. Managing the people in your life — that’s a skill set you’d like to bone up on. Note: If your friends get along with one another, it will be easier for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You are who you choose to be. If your choice is aligned with your natural abilities,

you’ll achieve success faster. But success is possible either way as long as you do consis-tent work and don’t give up.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Emotions are fleeting. That doesn’t make them any less real, but when you take into account that they eventually will drift on by, it makes the bad ones bearable and the good ones all the more precious.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ve been so hard on yourself lately. What you call a mistake would actually be an acceptable outcome for others. You’ll achieve your own high standards once you relax.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The magic will happen soon enough. Until then, focus on building some momentum. It can be created through small, completed tasks. Five tasks ticked off the list, and life will start to lift you up.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your future happiness depends on nailing the specif-ics of an arrangement. Think through the deal you want now while you have the luxury of time. When the details pop to mind, write them down.

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DEAR ABBY: I have an extremely

bright 7-year-old daughter, “Amy,” from a previous marriage. Her biological father, “Jake,” and I sep-arated when she was an infant. He lives across the country, so while we shared custody, Amy usually saw him only once a year. For a while I called him “Dad” when talking about him to her, but when it became apparent that he wasn’t going to be in-volved in her life (and because I was going to be remarried), we switched to using his first name.

My current husband formally adopted Amy last year, and she couldn’t have been happier. Now there’s a baby sister, and Amy is overjoyed.

Recently, though, Amy has started asking me why Jake never visits and when she’s going to see him again. I don’t know what to tell her. I feel it would be crushing to her to say that Jake isn’t interested in her anymore, but I also don’t want to lie to her.

How do you tell a 7-year-old she should just forget her biological father because he’s never going to be there for her? — ANXIOUS IN HOUSTON

DEAR ANXIOUS: Your daughter needs to come to this realization in stages, and her questions should be answered in an age-appropriate way. Understand that Amy may always be interested in knowing about her biological father, and by the time she is in her teens, she will be computer savvy enough to search him out on the Internet.

For now, tell your daughter that the reason Jake doesn’t visit is because he is “busy,” and you don’t know when he plans to visit. It’s the truth.

DEAR ABBY: My brother “Jared” is dating a woman, “Dawn,” who is about 10 years younger. They have been seeing each other for about a year. She seems nice and is polite at family gatherings.

I have noticed, however, that whenever I’m spending time with my mother, Dawn is

constantly texting or calling her. I’m a grown woman, too, but I never communicated to that degree with any of my boy-friends’ mothers.

Jared has told both Mom and me that he isn’t even close to wanting to pro-pose marriage. Do you think it’s peculiar that Dawn contacts my mother

multiple times daily? — TAKEN ABACK IN GEORGIA

DEAR TAKEN ABACK: Dawn may not have a mother of her own and need a mother figure, which is why she does this. Or she may be attempting to ingra-tiate herself to her boyfriend’s mother because she thinks it will help her land your brother. Not knowing Dawn, I can’t say for sure — but this technique has worked for other women in the past.

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary this year and I have a question. We’d love to invite a group of our friends to celebrate with us at our favorite restaurant, but we won’t be able to pick up the tab. Is there a sensitive way to ask friends to celebrate with us, but get across the message that it’ll have to be dutch treat? — ON A BUDGET IN SAN ANTONIO

DEAR ON A BUDGET: If these are close or longtime friends, I’m sure they won’t be shocked that you’ll be celebrating your 50th — espe-cially if some of them were at your wedding. I think the best way to approach this would be to be honest. Tell them that as much as you’d like to entertain everybody, you are unable to, but that you would love it if everyone could meet for dinner at your favorite restaurant and go dutch treat. And be sure to mention that although it’s your anniversary, the only gift you would like would be their pres-ence at this happy time.

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Courtesy photoCHRISTMAS AGAIN: The United Methodist Men of First United Methodist Church in Columbus recently presented three charitable organizations with contributions of $4,000 each from the Christmas for Columbus concert with David Phelps, held Dec. 21 at Rent Auditorium. Pictured at the presentation, from left, are First UMC United Meth-odist Men President Bob Reeves; First UMC Chairman of Missions Lee Burdine; First UMC Lead Pastor Rev. Raigan Miskelly; Good Samaritan Medical Clinic Executive Director Kathy Tentoni; David Ikerd representing Last House on the Block; Rev. Sandra DePriest, with the Loaves and Fishes Community Soup Kitchen; and Floyd McIntyre, repre-senting Last House on the Block. Concert proceeds also fully funded the 2014 UMM college scholarship.

BY JAN SWOOPEjswoope@cdispatch.com

Rick Burgess’ humor and antics are well documented on radio airwaves around

the country virtually every day. His Christian faith is equally well-known. On Friday, Feb. 21, the popular talk radio personality from the “Rick and Bubba Show” will entertain and inspire a Gold-en Triangle audience at an event hosted by First Baptist Church of Columbus.

The evening begins at 6 p.m. at the FBC Ministry and Activities Building at 3000 Bluecutt Road.

While the program will enter-tain, one of its goals is to also help strengthen families.

In a phone interview with The Dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday, Burgess said, “The family is in a mess right now, and if we can fix the family, we can fix a lot of things. And, believe it or not, God has told us how that should be.”

“Rick has a great testimony about what he’s been through,” said Bobby Sanderson of First Baptist Church, “but he’s also a guy who is in the workplace every day and is uncompromising about his faith.”

Finding strengthBurgess was raised with what

he calls a “cultural faith.” He explained, “Church was the ap-propriate thing to do, but it really wan’t the center of every decision I made.”

He is candid about his past. Growing up in Oxford, Ala., he wanted to be a pro football player, lead a rock band and have his own radio show. But an injury in his senior year of high school derailed a scholarship to Auburn. He ended up with a scholarship to play at Troy State.

“As arrogant as it sounds, at the time I thought it was a step down from where I should be,” he said.

He started drinking the summer before college. “Once I cracked the door to that world, for the next 13 years it was a drunken mess, with divorce and every-thing else you could think of.”

Life started to alter course af-ter he met Shari Bodine and even-tually began to plan a wedding. The problem was, the pastor he asked to perform the ceremony — Rev. Rick Cagle — said “no.”

“He told me I’m not gonna mar-ry you because of the way you live your life ... you’re lost,” Burgess recounted. “It broke my heart, and it broke my spirit, and I knew that he was right.”

That encounter sent Burgess to the Bible and then to coun-seling. He realized he had never truly submitted to the authority of God, he said.

“It changed everything,” Bur-gess stressed. By the time of the wedding ceremony — which was officiated by Cagle — he could “feel the presence of the holy spirit.”

The Burgess’ faith would be called on many times, but never more so than in January 2008, when the couple’s 2-year-old son, Bronner, drowned in the family’s swimming pool. Their hearts were crushed. But Rick Burgess felt led to share testimony at his son’s service; his words reached

YouTube and have since impacted many, many others in a positive way.

He encourages anyone com-ing to the Feb. 21 event to bring a friend, to join in laughter and hopefully be uplifted by “that guy they hear on the radio.”

Sanderson remarked, “We want to encourage the body of Christ and strengthen families at this evening sponsored by our Covenant Men’s Ministry and Women’s Ministry. It will proba-bly hit closely with parents who are raising children.”

How to goTickets are $10, available at

the First Baptist Church office at 202 Seventh St. N. and at New Life Christian Supplies, 1920-2 Highway 45 N. A boxed meal catered by Mugshots is included. For more information, contact the church office, 662-328-3915.

Rick of ‘Rick and Bubba’ to share humor, hope with local audienceFirst Baptist Church hosts radio personality Feb. 21

Courtesy photoRick Burgess of the nationally syndicated “Rick and Bubba Show” will be on stage Feb. 21 at the First Baptist Church Ministry and Activities Building at 3000 Bluecutt Road in Columbus.

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Transitions: Area Weddings, Engagements and Anniversaries

Devin Lee Davis and Kayla Brooke McCormick Jimmy Palmer and Briley Milfeld

McCormick/Davis

Tony and Judy McCormick of Oxford announce the engagement of their daughter, Kayla Brooke McCor-mick, to Devin Lee Davis of Oxford, son of Jerry Davis of Columbus and the late Tina Davis.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvis McCormick of Bruce and the late Jim-mie Nell McCormick, and the late Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Groner of Oxford.

She is a 2005 graduate of Lafayette High School and a 2008 graduate of Northwest Mississippi Community College, where she earned a degree in nursing.

She is currently employed with Oxford Urology Associates.

The prospective groom is the grandson of Willie Menotti of Columbus and the late Melba Menotti, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Milford Davis of Columbus.

He is a 2000 graduate of New Hope High School. He attended East Mississippi Community College and Mississippi State University. While at EMCC, he was a member of the golf team.

He is currently employed with Frito Lay.Vows will be exchanged March 1, 2014, at 5 p.m. at

the Paris Yates Chapel on the University of Mississippi campus.

Milfeld/PalmerTodd Milfeld, and Lance and Lori Sprenkel, all of

Farmington, Mo., announce the engagement of their daughter, Briley Milfeld of Park Hills, Mo., to Jimmy Palmer of Park Hills, son of Paul and Susan Palmer of Olive Branch.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Jackie Jarnigan of Farmington, Paul and Margaret Boyer of Festus, Mo., and the late Kenny Mell.

She is a 2007 graduate of Farmington High School and she attended Mineral Area College where she played basketball and Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tenn., where she earned a Bachelors Degree in English.

She is currently employed as the womens basketball team assistant coach at Mineral Area College in Park Hills and as a sales representative for Skeeter Kell Sporting Goods.

The prospective groom is the grandson of Racheal Scott of Columbus and the late Jimmy Scott, and Faye Palmer of Columbus and the late Charles Palmer.

He is a 2008 graduate of Hernando High School and a 2012 graduate of Christina Brothers University, where he earned a degree in business marketing. While at CBU, he was on the basketball team.

He is currently employed as a fifth-grade math teacher and as assistant basketball coach at Central High School in Park Hills.

Vows will be exchanged Oct. 4, 2014, at New Heights Church in Park Hills.

BEING BEAUTIFUL

Recently, I was go-ing through boxes of my mama’s old

photographs when I found all the valentines she had tucked away from years gone by. Most of them were from my daddy, her sweet-heart, all of them signed in his slanted, familiar handwriting —“Love, Jimmy.”

I wonder where all his valentines were kept hidden, or do men long for valentines at all? Socks and neckties? Surely men want more, I thought, so I asked a few famous guys what would make their hearts beat a bit faster on Valentine’s Day.

“A homemade dinner of my favorite things: filet with Cabernet mushroom sauce, asparagus and mashed potatoes. Maybe crème brulee for dessert and a great bottle of wine (1988 Caymus Cabernet Savignon).” That’s what Hilton Hollis, Mississippi-reared New York fashion designer would love from his valentine, and it sure as heck beats underwear.

Ever felt the pressure to come up with the perfect gift for the man who has it all? Christo-pher Radko, for example, might be known as the international “Czar of Christmas,” but his take on what to get the man in your life will delight you. “Men want full frontal freedom. Freedom from any judgment and fear, to express them-selves creatively and joyfully. Men long to be seen, heard and understood fully, and encour-aged. That’s the best and most meaningful gift you can ever get from your own true love,” says Christopher. Put that in a snow globe!

And then there’s Mississippi’s iconic Inky the Clown. All he wants is a set of training wheels for his unicycle. Now, that doesn’t sound like too much to ask. The verdict is in. Guys do want to be remembered on Valentine’s Day, and now you have some ideas to add to your own. As for me, I’ll just take the chocolates if anyone is listening!

Former Columbus resident David Creel owns Beautiful With David salon in Ridgeland. Contact him at beautifulwithdavid@gmail.com.

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MISSISSIPPI STATE —

Websites and social media are providing couples with creative ideas

for reception foods and themes reflecting their personalities and love for friends and family.

Sylvia Byrd, professor of food science, nutrition and health promotion at Mississippi State University, said fewer receptions offer only the cake, nuts, mints and punch that were popular in the 1950s and ’60s or the heavy appetizers of the 1970s and ’80s.

“Tradition is giving way to per-sonal tastes and ideas that cou-ples see online,” she said. “Some choices are motivated by health issues, and some are themes that appeal to the personalities of the bride or groom.”

Byrd said specialty bars or stations are among the biggest trends. Those options may in-clude baked potatoes, pancakes, biscuits, tacos, milkshakes, fro-zen yogurts, flavored coffees and candy. Instead of punch, couples are opting for iced tea, carbonat-ed beverages and flavored waters.

“Many of the changes in receptions reflect international influences, either in our commu-nities or from social media,” Byrd said. “Years ago, very few people would consider serving sushi or hummus at a reception, but they are not unusual today.”

Byrd said the layout of the reception also has changed to reflect trends that can be found in cafeterias. Guests experience a “scramble system” instead of a single food line.

“Several tables will offer food and beverage options and allow guests to be served quicker,” she said.

Brent Fountain, nutrition spe-cialist with the MSU Extension

Service, said receptions should be an expression of the bride’s or groom’s personalities.

“If a wedding cake is not your style, then look for other options that incorporate your tastes and style into the presentations of the food,” he said.

Fountain said nostalgic themes are popular and include vintage popcorn machines or cot-ton candy machines to go along with photo booths that provide a “throwback” feeling. Other ways to communicate old-fashioned sentiments include decorations or service items, such as small bot-tles or Mason jars for beverages.

“The goal is to make the event memorable for both participants and the couple,” he said. “Some of these options increase the need for workers, including specially trained servers, and professional servers will run up the costs.”

Fountain said if couples know some guests have dietary restric-tions, they could offer a designat-ed station for foods without nuts, gluten or sugar.

“Make sure special items are clearly labeled and located away from products that could contam-inate them,” he said. “In addition to food costs, you also want to consider food waste. It’s thought-ful to plan for special diets, but you don’t want to overdo it and waste food.”

Fountain said the green theme related to preserving the environ-ment is also visible at weddings and receptions.

“Edible centerpieces are popular,” he said. “Couples are choosing cakes that look like flowers, and fruits and vegeta-bles designed into ornamental displays, instead of the standard fruit or vegetable tray.”

For more do-it-yourself wed-ding ideas, visit the MSU Exten-sion Service Pinterest board at pinterest.com/msuextservice.

Social media drives reception food trends

On the road againChris and

I have been

without a car, on and off, since Thanks-giving. The only reason that we had food in the house (espe-cially pet food), is because of our generous neighbors, Jyl Barefield and Greg Nayden. They chauffeured us to the grocery, to the Miller Marine party, and to the drugstore to pick up my meds.

Fortunately, we both work at home, so being cabin-bound was not as much of a calamity as if we had to be somewhere important every day. Our four-legged children loved having us home.

I was extremely disap-pointed to miss the launch of Rebecca Austin’s jewel-ry line, ARA. My husband calls Rebecca and me “girly girls,” because we are both feminine. Our taste runs to all things pretty — jewelry, hats and art. She posted a photo of a lovely bracelet on Facebook. I hope it is still available.

I suppose that I should be happy that we were stuck in Columbus. It could be worse — a lot worse. Reports from the Olympic Village in Sochi in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, are absolutely shocking.

We knew that the country would not warmly welcome our gay athletes. That is something diffi-cult for most Americans to understand. I applaud

our president for including Billie Jean King and Brian Boitano in the U.S. delega-tion, although King was not able to go to Sochi because of her mother’s illness. Every time I see pho-tos of the mul-

ticolored Olympic rings, I think of the rainbow flag.

However, humans fared only slightly better than dogs. “The city of Sochi has quietly hired a private company to kill as many of its stray dogs as possi-ble ahead of the upcoming Winter Olympics” (ABC News, Jan. 31). Alexei Sorokin, owner of the company, told ABC News that he did not know how many dogs his company has culled. “Let’s call things by their real name. These dogs are biological trash,” he said. The dogs are being poisoned. (Note to animal lovers: do not read the descriptions of their deaths.)

Journalists, arriv-ing a few days before the events, have found numerous problems with accommodations. Their complaints range from no hot water to broken elevators, and to rooms generally in shambles. I saw one photo that looked like there had been a fight in the room.

Stacy St. Clair, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, wrote, “My hotel has no water. If restored, the front desk says, ‘Do not use on your face be-cause it contains some-thing very dangerous.’”

Maybe that framed portrait of Vladimir Vladi-mirovich Putin, president of Russia, included in some rooms will compen-sate for the lack of ameni-ties. The reporters should probably be thankful they are not dogs.

You would think that at least the athletes would be treated like royalty. You would be wrong. Shaun White, our star snow-boarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist, has pulled out of one event because the course is especially dangerous. He said, “The potential risk of injury is a bit too much for me to gamble my other Olympics goals on ... (AP, Feb. 5).”

The city of Sochi was awarded the honor of hosting the 2014 Winter Games in July of 2007. (I wish I had that kind of heads-up before guests arrive.) According to In-stitute of Modern Russia, Sochi has spent $50 bil-lion in preparation for the events — more than the cost of all previous Winter Olympics combined! (NEWSMAX, Feb. 3). Surely, with all that time and money, they should have done a better job of staging this extravaganza.

I am glad to have my car back in the driveway, and am looking forward to catching up on my missed shopping. I am happier still that I am in Colum-bus, Mississippi, and not in Russia. My pets agree.

Adele Elliott, a New Orleans native, moved to Columbus after Hurricane Katrina. Email reaches her at adeleelliott@bellsouth.net.

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tales about growing up in Oxford.

The further ad-ventures take them through their pre-teen years where they con-tinue to test boundar-ies and get away with things that non-twins only dream of doing. Writer William Faulk-ner reappears in the memoir, and Kather-ine bets her cat-eye marble shooter that he can’t figure out “which is which.” He takes up Katherine’s challenge; join the Friends to find out the rest of the story.

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Table Talks will be presented on Wednes-days in February at the Columbus-Lown-des Public Library, 314 Seventh St. N. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. for those wishing to bring their lunch and social-ize before the program begins at noon. The Friends will serve iced tea.

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sale at the library from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

n Feb. 15: Book sale at the library from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

n Feb. 19: Dispatch columnist Adele Elliot discusses and reads from her first novel, “Friendship Ceme-tery.” Southern gothic and the paranormal join hands to walk through the “quirky city of Columbus.”

n Feb. 26: Friends of the Library board member Deborah Johnson takes us to Revere, Miss., in her second novel “The Secret of Magic.”

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BY JAN SWOOPEjswoope@cdispatch.com

Gill Harris and the Big Band Theory will resur-rect the lush harmonies

of saxes, trombones, trumpets and a rhythm section at Trotter Convention Center in Columbus on Friday, Feb. 21. The sounds that first became so popular in the 1920s and ’30s will begin at 7 p.m.

“We’ve got some really pow-erful talent,” said Harris of Co-lumbus, who has been putting bands together since the 1960s. “The band is largely made up of top professionals. About half of these are musicians who play coast to coast for artists like Wayne Newton, Natalie Cole and The Temptations.” The other half of the band hails from Mississippi, and many of those hold PhDs in music. Denise Reid of Columbus is the featured vocalist. Special musical guests include Miss Mississippi and Roger Burlingame.

“We want you to hear this band,” emphasized Harris.

The audience can anticipate a repertoire influenced by iconic band leaders like Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Count Basie

and Stan Kenton. Area musicians will include

Dr. Rick Montalto of the Mis-sissippi University for Women Department of Music and Dr. Michael Brown, Dr. Bob Damm and Dr. Clifton Taylor of the Mississippi State University Department of Music. Brown is conductor of the Starkville-MSU Symphony Orchestra and head of MSU’s music department.

“To have a true big band outside a college campus is almost unheard of anymore,” said Brown, who plays trumpet. “It should be exciting. The local players in the group are all the best in the area, and some of the musicians coming in I know of by reputation as being top flight.”

Harris said, “Cliff Taylor on trombone will be a featured soloist on a very special tune — one that took me 10 years to get my hands on the arrangement.” The song is “Poinsiana,” by Nat Simon, with lyrics by Buddy Bernier. “It has a trombone quartet that will put chills on your back,” said the band leader.

Harris himself began playing trumpet as a teenager in his school band and went on to play in the Army Band in Atlanta.

Music wasn’t his only focus. He studied civil engineering and moved to Columbus in 1962 to join Ceco Building Systems as the firm’s director of engi-neering. Many of the 200 or so arrangements or charts for the classic big band numbers he treasures were discovered in music stores he visited while traveling.

On Feb. 21The band will provide soft

background instrumental

ballads at 7 p.m. for dinner am-bience before launching into a concert and dance near 8 p.m.

A dinner option is avail-able; dinner tickets are $19 if purchased in advance. Dinner tickets at the door, if available, are $27.

Tickets for table seats are $30 in advance, or $35 at the door. Tables for up to eight people may be reserved in advance for $180. A cash bar with soft drinks, set-ups and ice will be open.

“We’re asking that everybody comes at 7 p.m. whether you’re dining or not, so you won’t miss the music,” urged Harris. “And feel free to dress as you please.”

Purchase tickets at the Rosenzweig Arts Center, 501 Main St., Columbus, Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 662-328-2787 for more information.

The event is made possible in part by Cable One, Ceco Build-ing Systems, Robert’s Apothe-cary Ltd. and Trustmark.

Big Band Theory returns to Trotter Convention Center

Courtesy photoGill Harris and the Big Band Theory, featuring vocalist Denise Reid, will be in concert at Trotter Con-vention Center Feb. 21. Tickets are available at the Rosenzweig Arts Center.

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It is a shame that I cannot write about something

that I have done be-fore I do it, so that if it is good, I can recommend it to readers. I do not get to go to sneak pre-views very often, however; I just have to write after the fact. One example is a performance I saw recently, a concert of eight pianos. Peggy Cantelou and I went to Jackson to hear them as a benefit for the Mississippi Symphony, presented by the Jackson Symphony League. It was hosted and narrated by mezzo-soprano Lester Sent-er Wilson, a friend who had urged me to attend. The least I can do is to say that, if you ever have an opportunity to hear such a concert, take it!

We were nearly late arriving and had to slip in a side door of the huge First Baptist Church of Jackson, almost getting lost in its expanse of halls and elevators. We would probably never have made it without the guid-ance of an especial-ly nice young se-

curity guard who, praises be, not only guided us from our parking spot on the outskirts of nowhere, but appeared at our exit from the auditorium to escort us back to the parking lot when the concert was over. If you ever doubt “the kind-ness of strangers,” this young man would dispel it.

The flip side of having to sneak in a side entrance was that we got to sit on the third

row to the right, where we could see the hands of at least some of the pianists. (We could almost read, and did see, where they had highlighted their parts of the music. It had been professionally arranged for that number of pianists.) Great seats! If we had sat in the center section, we would have seen nothing but the backs of eight grand pianos arranged in a big semi-circle.

But, of course, it was the sound, not the sight, that was the attraction. It was well worth the drive to Jackson. Unlike many performances, this concert was comprised completely of music nearly anyone would recognize. One did not have to wait until the conclusion to hear familiar melodies.

Millsaps College professor Tim Coker conducted. Pianists were from several educational

and religious institutions in Jackson. They played a lively program that included easily recognized works such as Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre” and “Carnaval des Animaux” with verses by Ogden Nash, Rossini’s “William Tell Over-ture” and Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.” For the familiar Lone Ranger music, Coker donned a cowboy hat and black mask.

The artists were so skillful that I could have sworn I heard actual brass instruments, and the piccolo solo in Sousa’s march sounded for all the world like the real thing. Twen-ty-two other pianists joined the eight for the Sousa finale; one of them was former Columbus resident Ken Roberts. The entire performance was im-pressive. The auditorium was full, except for the balcony. I wished I could have magically

transported the music lovers of Columbus to those seats.

Mass piano concerts have a long history in Jackson, going back to the 1950s at least. There were two in the 1990s. The future may not be so promising. One commenta-tor observed that there is not as much music emphasis in the schools any more. Not as many youngsters are learning to play the piano. In bygone years many more students had an opportunity to learn how to play. It is devoutly to be hoped that we will still develop a new generation of musicians capable of giving this much pleasure. And, I might venture to add, experiencing the plea-sure of performing programs like this one.

Betty Boyls Stone is a free-lance writer, who grew up in Columbus.

Eighty-eight times eightA STONE’S THROW

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His biggest priorities early on were determin-ing a format, getting mu-sic, and putting together a staff. Ellis met with every group he could to see what music people were hungry for. The for-mat eventually selected was AAA — adult album alternative.

“We looked at doing something that wasn’t al-ready in the market,” said Ellis. “Alternative means alternative to what’s out there.” The station’s Top 100 list at wmsv.msstate.edu today offers a good profile of what listeners are tuning in for: art-ists from Bonnie Raitt and Beck to Pharrell Williams and Imagine Dragons.

Ellis sent hundreds of letters to record labels to get on their serving lists and initiated a relationship with a local record store for the loan of music to get started with. He interviewed students sometimes eight to 10 hours a day. And even though the station is noncommercial, under-writers were needed. Rick Welch of Rick’s Café was the station’s very first underwriter, said Ellis. “And he’s been one for 20 years.”

Community basedCompared to the old

10-watt radio station on MSU’s campus, WMSV’s 14,000 watts is a heavy-hitter. It’s radius is 70 miles. That reach makes it an important part of, not just campus life, but community life.

“Most college cam-pus radio stations look ‘in’ to the campus; they program primarily for college populations,” ex-plained Ellis. “Because of our size and strength, we look ‘out’ and really try to entertain the community at large. And we’re really focused on promoting MSU to the outside com-munity.”

Krista Vowell of Starkville was with the station from 2000 to 2007

and served as news di-rector. WMSV has been and is a vital partner in community life, helping reach out to the area and serve, keeping listeners informed as well as enter-tained, she said.

That community includes a worldwide audience now. Since the station began a webcast in 2007, distant listeners — many of them former MSU students — have messaged in on the station’s site from places like Canada, Belgium, Ireland, Alaska and New Zealand, not to mention most every state in the union.

Spinning tunesIn 1994, getting the

music out was a lot more labor intensive than it is today. There were two turntables, a cart ma-chine that resembled an old eight-track player and an array of other gadgets.

“My goodness, in the on-air room you need two things and that’s it these days: You need a board (microphone, etc.) and a computer,” said Ellis.

Staffing has substan-tially changed, too. It’s moved from a volun-teer-base to paid. While the station is professional-ly run by Ellis and News/Public Relations Director Anthony Craven, it is entirely student-staffed. Ellis estimates about 250 staffers have come through WMSV in its first two decades. For some of them, it changed the course of their lives.

“I never realized at the time exactly how import-ant it was going to be for my career,” said April Hill who did newscasts as a student in the late 1990s. Now 38, she is news di-rector and anchors broad-casts at a radio station in Tulsa, Okla. “I never imagined I would end up in radio. I told Steve on Facebook that he might just be responsible for my career.”

Chelsea Castoria, 26, was a DJ from 2005 to

2007. She’s working in radio in Memphis, Tenn., now. “I’d never given ra-dio a serious thought un-til I got the job at WMSV, and once I got there and got trained, I fell in love with the radio lifestyle. It was a sweet little gig.”

The crew of Castoria’s era called Ellis “Papa Steve,” she said. And she well remembers staff meetings about correct pronunciation of names, like singer-songwriters Bruce Cockburn (Co-burn) and Edie Brickell (Brick-ell) — “the two most mispronounced names,” laughed Ellis.

Shaping futures“Steve Ellis was the

consummate mentor and leader, but more than anything else, an encourager,” said Barbie Bassett of Madison, who did weathercasts at the station in the mid-1990s while working on a mas-ter’s degree. Today she’s a well-known meteorologist with WLBT in Jackson and is the national mete-orologist with American Family Radio Network, on 190 stations across the country.

“Steve was so intent on making sure I was successful and that I sounded professional on the air. He taught me things I probably would have been made fun of for ... ” As a “typical country girl,” Bassett had a hard time with “get” and “git,” “dubya” and “double-u,” “pitcher” and “picture,” she said. Ellis pointed these out, as he did for many staffers over the years, in an encouraging way.

“Broadcasting one semester at that one radio station opened up a door (for me) to broadcasting every day since,” said Bassett.

Eric Fritzsius was part of the original crew. He’s 41 now, an actor and freelance writer in Lewis-burg, W. Va. He grew up in Starkville. If he could tell those working at the

station now anything, it would be to value the creativity WMSV affords, because it is a rare thing in commercial radio.

“I would not have trad-ed those two and a half years there for anything,” he said. “I didn’t go to my high school reunion, but I’m coming to this one.”

Breaking groundThe greatest thing

about those days was that “no one knew what they were doing, so none of us could do anything wrong — there was a lot of space to explore and experiment,” said Suehyla El-Attar. The Starkville na-tive was at the station for three of the early years. She became its news director in 1997. She’s now an actor, writer and audio book narrator in Atlanta.

An abnormal amount of talent seemed to coalesce in that place at the same time, she said. “But there was a desire to be professional, to grow within it. So many that I worked with went on to stay in that field, in music or creative broadcasting ... it was really kind of phenomenal.”

It was a time when everyone was asserting their independence and identity all at once, El-At-tar continued. “Every-thing I got from WMSV I incorporate into my entire profession. Steve Ellis can look back and look at what we’re doing now, and he can know he’s a part of that.”

Keeping onFrom time to time,

Ellis may think of

retirement; he’s been with the university for 30 years, after all. But he relishes the opportunity to be involved in artistic endeavors, the music and to be around “real-ly talented, energetic college students.” His hope is that those who have come through the doors have had a positive experience.

“I’m real proud of our folks. It’s good to know we’ve created a good product, and I think we’ve represented MSU and Mississippi well. ... Retirement? Why? I’ve got the greatest job on earth.”

Editor’s note: Learn more about the March 22 concert and anniversary merchandise at wmsv.msstate.edu, or call the station, 662-325-8034.

Micah Green/Dispatch StaffThe station’s lobby holds a collection of photographs of staff and volunteers from the past two decades.

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ASSEMBLIES OF GODCALVARY ASSEMBLY OF GOD — Lehmberg Rd. and Bennett Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eric Crews, Pastor.EVANGEL CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday 9 a.m., 10:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Grove Coffee Cafe 8 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. The Grove 6:30 p.m. Nursery provided through age 3. Ron Delgado, Pastor. 662-329-2279FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 2201 Military Road. Christian Education 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Nursery Church (2-3 yrs.) Super Church (children)10:30 a.m. Worship 6 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. Nursery provided for all services. Jody Gurley, Pastor. 662-328-6374 NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 4474 New Hope Road. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Children’s Church 10:30 a.m., Evening 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Jack Medley, Pastor. 662-328-3878

BAPTISTANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Dr. Edward N. Knox, Pastor. 662-328-4765ARMSTRONG BAPTIST CHURCH — 1707 Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. William Vaughn, Pastor. 662-328-0670ARTESIA BAPTIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Jeff Morgan.BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 3232 Military Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Choir Rehearsal 5 p.m., Worship, 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Nursery provided. Walter Butler, Pastor. 662-327-2111BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH — 2096 Bethesda Rd, Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 6:00 p.m., Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Allan Dees, Pastor. 662-272-8734BORDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 15949 Hwy. 12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Kids for Christ 5 p.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David Westmoreland, Pastor. 662-356-6870BROOKSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — Main Street, Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe Road, Caledonia. Sunday Men’s Prayer Service 9:30 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Bible Study 4 p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Bob Burch, Pastor. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 295 Dowdle Dr. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir rehearsals and Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Steve Brown, Pastor. 662-328-6741CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 385 7th St. SW, Vernon, Ala. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. (6 p.m. - Daylight Savings Time), Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Wil Corbett, Pastor. 205-270-1845CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1008 Lehmberg Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Service and Children’s Church 10:30 a.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Danny Avery, Pastor. Russell Flood, Worship Leader.CANAAN MB CHURCH — 2425 Bell Ave. Sunday School 8:15 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Jimmy Pounds, Pastor. 662-327-1226COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 2490 Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Wes Jones, Pastor. 662-327-5306CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — 844 Old West Point Rd., Starkville. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Greg Upperman, Pastor. 662-323-6351 or visit www.cornerstonestarkville.comEAST END BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 50 and Holly Hills Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Discipleship Training, Pre-school, Youth & Children’s Choirs 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Prayer Service 6:30 p.m., Sanctuary Choir 7:30 p.m. Albert Wilkerson, Pastor. 662-328-5915EASTVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 1316 Ben Christopher Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Junior Eads, Pastor. 662-329-2245 FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 127 Airline Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. Breck Ladd, Pastor. 662-328-2924FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621 Mike Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 7th St. and 2nd. Ave. N. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m. (Worship televised at 10 a.m. on WCBI-TV, Columbus Cable Channel 7), Contemporary Worship 11 a.m.; Sunday 6 p.m. Worship at 3000 Bluecutt Road, Midweek Prayer Service, Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Dr. Shawn Parker, Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.orgFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STEENS — 40 Odom Rd., Steens. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST — 125 Yorkville Rd. W. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. John Gainer, Pastor. 662-328-6024 or 662-328-3183GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Charles Whitney, Pastor.GRACE COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — 912 11th Ave. S. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pastor Sammy Burns. 662-328-1096GREENWOOD SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 278 East between Gattman & Amory. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:15 p.m. Rev. John Walden, Pastor. 662-356-4445IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military Rd., Steens. Bible Study 8:45 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-328-1668KOLOLA SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., AWANA 4:45-6 Ages 2-12th grade (Sept. - May), Worship 5 p.m., Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 252 Basics Children’s Ministry an Cross Training Youth Wednesday 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Don Harding, Pastor. MCBEE BAPTIST CHURCH — 2846 Hwy. 50 E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Jimmy Ray, Pastor. 662-328-7177LONGVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 991 Buckner Street, Longview. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.; Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Pastor Larry W. Yarber, or email ynyministry@yahoo.com, 662-769-4774. MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH — Holly Hills Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Prayer Service every Saturday 6 p.m. Rev. Denver Clark, Pastor.MOUNT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH — 2628 East Tibbee Rd., West Point. Sunday Worship each week 8 a.m., 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Donald Wesley, Pastor.MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1791 Lake Lowndes Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Steve Lammons, Pastor. 662-328-2811MT. VERNON CHURCH — 200 Mt. Vernon Rd. Sunday Worship 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Service Life Groups for all ages 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Connection Cafe 10 a.m., Discovery Zone. 662-328-3042 mtvchurch.comMURRAH’S CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 9297 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — Highway 50 E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Ed Nix, Pastor. NEW JOURNEY CHURCH — 3123 New Hope Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Small Groups 5:30 p.m., Kevin Edge, Pastor. 662-315-7753 or thenewjourneychurch.orgNEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe Rd., 3 miles South of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:15 a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Sunday Evening - Youth Drama & AWANA 4 p.m., Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Evening Worship

6 p.m., Wednesday - Kids Drama 6 p.m., Bible Study, RA’s, GA’s & Mission Friends 6:30 p.m. David Woods, Pastor. 662-356-4940NORTHSIDE FREE WILL BAPTIST — 14th Ave. and Waterworks. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Pat Creel, Pastor. PLEASANT GROVE MB CHURCH — 1914 Moor High Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Riley Forrest, Sr., Pastor. 662-272-8221PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill Rd. Sunday Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Bill Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH — 187 Plymouth Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Randy Rigdon, Pastor. Neil Shepherd, Music.SOVEREIGN FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH — 7852 Hwy. 12 E., Steens. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Service 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Charles Young, Pastor.SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 12859 Martin Road Spur, Northport, Ala. Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Bible Study noon. Todd Bryant, Pastor. sovereigngrace.netSTATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282 E. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Christian Development Wednesday 7 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-329-2973TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST CHURCH — 4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and7 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-2580UNITED CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 2 blocks east of Hwy. 69 on Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. Steven James, Pastor. UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH — East Lee Blvd., Starkville MSU campus (new building behind the Wesley Foundation) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bert Montgomery, Pastor. 662-312-6778 or starkvillebaptist.orgVICTORY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH — Victory Loop off of Mill Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Pastor, Al Hamm.WOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — 3033 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship 6 p.m., AWANA Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Shelby Hazzard, Senior Pastor. Brad Wright, Director of Student Ministries.10TH STREET FAIRLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1118 7th St. S. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Youth Ministry Wednesday 4:30 p.m. Rev. Brian Hood, Pastor.

INDEPENDENT BAPTIST BETHESDA CHURCH — 1800 Short Main. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Nathaniel Best, Pastor. E-mail: bethesdambchurch@yahoo.comBIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5860 Hwy. 50 E., West Point. Sunday School 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — 1720 Hwy. 373. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Martin “Buddy” Gardner, Pastor. LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5030 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy Banks, Pastor. 662-327-1130SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — Yorkville Rd. Sunday Bible study 10:15 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Raymond Spann, Pastor. sgrace.com

MISSIONARY BAPTISTANDERSON GROVE MB CHURCH — 1853 Anderson Grove Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:20 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6:20 p.m. David O. Williams, Pastor. 662-356-4968.ANTIOCH MB CHURCH — 2304 Seventh Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Jimmy Ellis, Pastor.BETHLEHEM MB CHURCH — 293 Bethlehem Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 1st and 4th Sundays 8 a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 9:30 a.m., Worship 1st & 4th Sundays 9:30 a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 11 a.m., Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev. Willie James Gardner, Pastor. 662-356-4424BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Pastor M. Martin. For prayer call 662-722-1884BRICK MB CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. each Sunday, Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays only 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Everett Little, Pastor.CALVARY FAITH CENTER — Hwy. 373 & Jess Lyons Road. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Robert Bowers, Pastor. 662-434-0144CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr. Worship Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor. 662-434-8283CHRIST MB CHURCH — 110 2nd Ave. S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., B.T.U. Program every 1st & 3rd Sunday 6 p.m.EL BETHEL MB CHURCH — 2205 Washington Ave. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7:00 p.m., Rev. Leroy Jones, Pastor.FAITH HARVEST MB CHURCH — 4266 Sand Road. Sunday 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-1057FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Glenn Wilson, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or 662-251-4185GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856 Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Donald Henry, Pastor. HALBERT MISSION MB CHURCH — 2199 Halbert Church Rd., Ethelsville, Ala. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Ernest Prescott, Pastor. HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 4892 Ridge Rd. Worship 9 a.m., Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Rev. Charles Davison, Pastor.JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 129 Brickerton St. at Wingate Inn. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Wednesday 5 p.m. Rev. Willie Petty, Sr., Pastor.MAPLE STREET BAPTIST — 219 Maple St. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Joseph Oyeleye, Pastor. 662-328-4629MILLERS CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 425 East North

St. Macon. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Ron Houston, Pastor.MISSIONARY UNION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1207 5th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Baptist Training Union 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Tony A. Montgomery, Pastor.MOUNT ZION M.B. CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979MT. ARY MB CHURCH — 291 S. Frontage Rd., Lot #4. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Erick Logan, pastor.MT. AVERY BAPTIST CHURCH — 12311 Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. every Sunday except 5th Sunday. Rev. Johnny Hall, Pastor. Min. John Wells, Assistant Pastor.NEW HOPE MB CHURCH — 271 Church St., Artesia. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Thomas E. Rice is pastor. 662-494-1580NEW BAPTIST TEMPLE MB CHURCH — 5937 Nashville Ferry Rd E. Sunday School 9 a.m. each week except 5th Sunday, Worship 10 a.m. each week except 5th Sunday, 5th Sundays: Ushers Board Fellowship. Rev. L.A. Gardner, Pastor. 662-329-3321NEW ZION PILGRIM MB CHURCH — 5253 New Hope Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Services 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Christopher Wriley, Pastor.NEW ZION STEENS MB CHURCH — 3301 Sand Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Rev. John C. Edwards. 662-329-5224OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal - Tue. before 1st and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus Rehearsal - Thurs. before 3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir Rehearsal - Wed. before 4th Sun. 5 p.m. Rev. Sammy L. White, Pastor.PLEASANT GROVE ROBINSON MB CHURCH — 9203 Hwy. 389 N., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Service/Bible Study 7 p.m. Pastor George A. Sanders. 456-0024PLEASANT RIDGE MB CHURCH — Ridge Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. A. Edwards, Sr., Pastor.PROVIDENCE MB CHURCH — Old Hwy. 69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. James A. Greenlaw, Pastor.SAINT MATTHEWS MB CHURCH — 1213 Island Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Curtis Clay, Sr., Pastor.SALEM MB CHURCH — Hwy. 86, Carrollton, Ala. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. David J. Johnson, Jr., Pastor. SECOND JAMES CREEK MB CHURCH — 4898 Baldwin Rd., Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Michael Tate. 662-738-5855SOUTHSIDE MB CHURCH — 100 Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Rayfield Evins Jr., Pastor.SIXTH AVENUE MB CHURCH — 1519 Sixth Ave. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Bobby E. Woodrick Sr., Pastor.SPRINGFIELD MB CHURCH — 6369 Hwy. 45 S. (1st & 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., (1st & 3rd Wednesday) 7 p.m. Robert Gavin, Pastor. 662-327-9843STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 514 20th St. N. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. & 11 a.m. B.T.U. 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Joe Peoples, Pastor.ST. JAMES MB CHURCH — 6525 Hardy-Billups Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6:15 p.m. Rev. Chad Payton, Pastor. ST. JOHN MB CHURCH — 3477 Motley Rd., Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Otha Rockett, Pastor. 327-7494.ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — Robinson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Mays, Pastor.ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — 1800 Short Main St. Disciple Training/Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:00 a.m. Rev. John F. Johnson, Pastor. 662-241-7111UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver Rd. (Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Coy Jones, Pastor.TABERNACLE MB CHURCH — Magnolia Drive, Macon. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.UNION HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 150 Spurlock Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Thursday 6 p.m. Michael Sampson, Pastor.WOODLAWN LANDMARK MB CHURCH — 8086 Hwy. 12. East, Steens. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David Retherford, Pastor.THE WORD CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 366 Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. John Sanders, Pastor. ZION GATE MB CHURCH — 1202 5th St. S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. and 10:45., Children’s Church 10:15 a.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. James A. Boyd, Pastor.

PRIMITIVE BAPTISTABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-4937HAMILTON PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Flower Farm Rd., 2 miles South of Hamilton, just off Hwy. 45. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jesse Phillips, Pastor. 662-429-2305 SPRINGHILL P.B. CHURCH — 3996 Sandyland Road, Macon, MS. Walter Lowery Jr., Pastor. Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6 p.m. 662-738-5006.SULPHUR SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — North of Caledonia on Wolf Rd, Hamilton. Sunday 10:30 a.m. & 1st Sunday Night at 6:30 p.m. Herman Clark, Pastor. 662-369-2532

CATHOLICANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 808 College St. Mass Schedules are as follows: Sunday 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8 a.m., Tuesday 5:30 p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m., and Annunciation Catholic School (during the school year). Father Robert Dore, Priest.

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ANGLICAN CATHOLICSAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew Rd., Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-5939 or anglicancatholic.org

CHRISTIANFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary. Ed Maurer, Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 6 p.m.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCECHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave. N. and 8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.

CHURCH OF CHRISTCALEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — Main St., Caledonia. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.CHURCH OF CHRIST — 4362 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday Worship 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Shobal Johnson 662-241-5376 or E-mail: churchofchristhwy69s@live.comCHURCH OF CHRIST — 437 Gregory Rd. Sunday Bible class 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Richard Latham, Minister. 662-328-4705COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Billy Ferguson, Pulpit Minister and Paul Bennett - Family & Youth Minister.EAST COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Highway 182 E. at Gaylane. Sunday Worship 9 a.m., Bible Study 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. http://eastcolumbuschurch. comHWY. 69 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2407 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Brian Adkins, Minister. 662-364-0353LONE OAK CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1903 Lone Oak Rd., Steens. Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.MAGNOLIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — 161 Jess Lyons Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Doug English, Minister.NORTH HILLCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST — 900 North Hillcrest, Aberdeen, MS 39730, Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m., Bro. Arthur Burnett, Minister, 662-304-6098. Email: nhillcrestcoc@gmail.comSTEENS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Steens Vernon Rd. 9:15 a.m. Bible Study, Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Larry Montgomery, Minister.10TH AVE. N. CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1828 10th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Bible Class 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Robert Johnson, Minister.WOODLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST — Woodlawn Community. Sunday 9 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Willis Logan, Minister.

CHURCH OF GODCHURCH OF GOD IN JESUS’ NAME — Hwy. 12. Sunday 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. David Sipes, Pastor. CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 7840 Wolfe Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Tony Hunt, Pastor. 662-889-6570LATTER RAIN CHURCH OF GOD — 721 7th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday 6 p.m. Brenda Othell Sullivan, Pastor.NORTH COLUMBUS CHURCH OF GOD — 2103 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Clarence Roberts, Pastor.YORKVILLE HEIGHTS CHURCH — 2274 Yorkville Rd., Life Groups 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.; Evening Worship & JAM Kids Night 6 p.m.; Wednesday: Worship, Called Out Youth, Royal Rangers, Girls Clubs 7 p.m.; Tuesday: Intercessory Prayer 7 p.m. Nursery Available for all services (newborn- 4). Bobby Richardson, Paster. 662-328-1256 or ychurch@cableone.net ZION ASSEMBLY CHURCH OF GOD — 5580 Ridge Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Byron Harris, Pastor.

CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRISTBIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 606 Military Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Evening, 2nd & 4th Sunday 6 p.m., Monday 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Tommy Williams, Pastor.FIFTEENTH ST. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 917 15th St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion C. Bonner, Pastor.GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 1601 Pickensville Rd., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Monday 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. Ocie Salter, Pastor.MIRACLE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 5429 Hwy. 45 N. Sunday Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 2nd Sunday Holy Communion, 4th Sunday Youth Sunday, 4th Sunday Family/Friends Sunday and Fellowship Dinner. Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-328-7159OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer Ave., Aberdeen. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m., Wednesday Luncheon 11 a.m. Johnnie R. Bradford, Pastor. 662-889-3820 or 662-798-0282.VICTORY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Minnie Vaughn Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 12 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Donald Koonch, Pastor. 662-243-2064

COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASECAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Catholic Priest Fr. Vince Burns. 662-434-2500

EPISCOPALCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD — 321 Forrest Blvd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Holy Eucharist 10 a.m., Tuesday and Thursday Braille Bible Workers 9 a.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest. 662-327-1953ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College St. Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Rev. Anne Harris. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.com.

FULL GOSPELBREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.CHARITY FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1524 6th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m. Charles Fisher, Pastor.CHARITY MISSION FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 807 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:40 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Prayer Hour Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m., New Membership Class 9:30 p.m., 5th Sunday Worship 6:30 p.m. 662-272-5355 COVENANT LIFE MINISTRIES CHURCH — W. Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11a.m., Evening 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Jerry Potter, Pastor. FAIRVIEW FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1446 Wilson Pine Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Bobby L. McCarter 662-328-2793 GREATER MOUNT ZION CHURCH — 5114 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday Corporate Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. Doran V. Johnson, Pastor. 662-329-1905GOD’S ANNOINTED PEOPLE MINISTRY FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP — 611 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Jerome Gill, Pastor. 662-244-7088 HARVEST LIFE CHURCH — 425 Military Rd. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. F. Clark Richardson, Pastor. 662-329-2820NEW BEGINNING FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 318 Idlewild Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. 662-327-3962NEW LIFE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor.PLUM GROVE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Samuel B. Wilson, Pastor.SHILOH FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 120 19th St. S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Missionary Service every 2nd Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Freddie Edwards, Pastor.

JEWISHB’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-monthly. Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple B’nai Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday. 662-620-7344 or uua.org

LUTHERANFAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (WELS) — Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible Class 3:45 p.m., Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH — L.C.M.S. 1211 18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 p.m. Rev. Mark Steiner, Pastor. 662-327-7747

MENNONITEFAITH MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP — 2988 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Sunday School 11 a.m., 2nd & 4th Sunday Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Kevin Yoder, Senior Pastor.

METHODISTARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev. Walt Porter, Pastor.COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 618 31st Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev. Dr. Jonathan Speegle, Pastor.CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 811 Main Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Choir Rehearsal Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Todd Lemon, Pastor.CLAIBORNE CME CHURCH — 6049 Nashville Ferry Rd. E. 2nd and 4th Sundays - Sunday School 10a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Sundays - 3 p.m., Geneva H. Thomas, Pastor.CONCORD CME CHURCH — 1213 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev. Tommy Davis, Pastor.CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Main St, Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10 a.m. Buddy Carrol, Pastor. CROSSROAD CHAPEL C.M.E. CHURCH — Steens. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Carl Swanigan, Pastor.FIRST INDEPENDENT METHODIST — 417 Lehmberg Rd. Sunday bible study at 10:15 and morning worship at 11 a.m. Minister Gary Shelton.FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 602 Main St. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m., Vespers & Communion 5 p.m. Rev. Raigan Miskelly, Pastor.FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Sunday Worship Service 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St. S. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael Terry, Pastor. 662-328-1109HEBRON C.M.E. CHURCH — 1910 Steens Road, Steens. Meets first, second and third Sundays, Bible class each Wednesday at 7 p.m. Earnest Sanders, Pastor.MILITARY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Hwy. 12, Steens. Sunday School 9:45, Service 11 a.m.. Meet on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m. Rev. Antra Geeter, Pastor. 662-327-4263NEW HOPE CME CHURCH — 1452 Yorkville Road East, Columbus. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship service first, third and fourth Sunday (Youth Sunday) 11:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 5:00 p.m. Rev. Cornelia Naylor, Pastor. 662-328-5309NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 2503 New Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham, Pastor. 662-329-3555ORR’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Nicholson Street, Brooksville. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Saturday 9 a.m.PINEY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 102 Fernbank Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m., Sunday School 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 pm. Rev. James Black, Pastor.SANDERS CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 521 15th St. N. Sunday School 8 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m., Tuesday 11:45 a.m. Rev. Dr. J. W. Honeysucker, Pastor.SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional Worship Service 9 a.m., Praise and Worship Service 10:45 a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Eighth Ave. and Military Rd. Breakfast 9:30 a.m., Devotion 9:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Sunday 3rd Sunday Evening Worship 6:30 p.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Fred H. Brown, Pastor.ST. PAUL INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH — Freeman Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Services 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Youth activities 5 p.m. Jeff Ruth, Pastor.ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 307 South Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Robert Scott Sr., Pastor.ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 800 Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Rev. James Black, Pastor.TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Rt. 2, 6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Robert Hurst, Pastor. 205-662-3443TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610 Carson Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Dr. William Petty, Pastor. 205-399-5196TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St. S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5 p.m. Jeffrey Williams, Pastor.WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday 5 p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Sunday 6 p.m. Rev. Diane Lemmon.WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Tyrone Ashford, Pastor. 662-726-5396

MORMONCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 10 a.m., Gospel 11 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 12 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Bishop Tyrel Reed. 662-356-0833

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENEFIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — 2722 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Stephen Joiner, Pastor.

NON — DENOMINATIONALABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 611 S. Frontage Road. Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Craig Morris, Pastor. ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH, INC. — 1560 Hwy. 69 S., Sunday 9 a.m., Wednesday 6:45 p.m., Friday Corporate Prayer 7 p.m. Pastor James T. Verdell, Jr. crosswayradio.com 9 a.m., 11 a.m., & 7 p.m. on Fridays only.CALEDONIA OPEN DOOR WORSHIP CENTER — 3288 Cal-Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Randy Holmes, Pastor. 662-574-0210COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN CENTER — 146 S. McCrary Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Kid’s Church 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Kenny Gardner, Pastor. 662-328-3328CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109 Maxwell Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday Bible Class 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 7 p.m. Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98 Harrison Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship Services 10:30 a.m., 1st Sunday Evening 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba) Dees, Pastor. 662-327-4303EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH — 1608 Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 133 Northdale Dr. Sunday Worship 5:30 p.m. Les Pogue, Pastor. 662-889-8132 or fccnppa.orgFIRST CALVARY FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN CENTER — 247 South Oliver St., Brooksville. Prayer Saturday 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor David T. Jones,III. 601-345-5740FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Maxine Hall, Pastor.

GENESIS CHURCH — 1411 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Darren Leach, Pastor. HOUSE OF LIFE FREEDOM MINISTRY — 1742 Old West Point Rd. Worship 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Donnell Wicks, Pastor. HOUSE OF RESTORATION — Hwy. 50. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 a.m., Pastors, Bill and Carolyn Hulen. JESUS CHRIST POWERHOUSE OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 622 23rd St. N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m.; Service 11:45 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Prayer Mon., Wed. and Fri. noon. For more information call Bishop Ray Charles Jones 662-251-1118, Patricia Young 662-327-3106 or 662-904-0290 or Lynette Williams 662-327-9074.KINGDOM VISION INTERNATIONAL CHURCH — 3193 Hwy 69 S. Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Pastor R.J. Matthews. 662-327-1960LIFE CHURCH — 3918 Hwy. 45 N. Sunday 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information, call Delmar Gullett at 662-570-4171LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311NEW COVENANT ASSEMBLY — 875 Richardson. Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Bruce Morgan, Pastor. NEW HORIZONS GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 441 18th St. S. Sunday 10 a.m. Dr. Joe L. Bowen, Pastor.PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP — 2651 Trinity Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Every 2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097REAL LIFE CHURCH — 4888 N. Frontage Rd. Sunday 10 a.m., RLC Kids Ministry Sunday 10 a.m. Pastor Martin Andrews. 662-328-2131 or www.reallifems.comTHE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 p.m. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.THE POINT (POINT OF GRACE CHURCH) — 503 18th. Ave. N. Sunday Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Xtreme Kids - 10 a.m. for ages 4-11, Tuesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Highpoint Kidz ages 4-11. Shane Cruse, Pastor. 662-328-7811TRIBE JUDAH MINISTRIES — 730 Whitfield St., Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m. Rev. Greg and Rev. Michelle Mostella, Pastors. 662-617-4088TRUE LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — 597 Main St., Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor.TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES — 5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Francisco Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTRIES — 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus. Sunday Worship 8:30 a.m. -10 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.-7 p.m. Rone F. Burgin, Sr., Pastor/Founder. 662-328-0948WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN CENTER — 2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wedneday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis, Pastor. 662-230-3182 or mdavis43@hotmail.com

PENTECOSTALFAITH AND DELIVERANCE OUT REACH MINISTRIES — 118 S. McCrary Road, Suite 126. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Christian Women Meeting Friday 7 p.m.LIVING FAITH TABERNACLE — Shelton St. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11a.m. and 7 p.m. Youth Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. James O. Gardner, Pastor.LIVING WATER MINISTRIES — 622 28th St. N. Elder Robert L. Salter, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 922 17th St. N. Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor, VICTORY TABERNACLE — 324 5th St.S. Granville E. Wiggins, Sr., Pastor. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.

APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTALAPOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North McCrary Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny L. Obsorne, Pastor.JESUS CHRIST POWERFUL MINISTRY OF LOVE — 1210 17th St. S., behind the Dept. of Human Resources. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. Gloria Jones, Pastor.SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 267 Byrnes Circle. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor. 662-324-3539THE ASSEMBLY IN JESUS CHRIST CHURCH — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:45 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m.THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL WORD — 120 21st St. S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234THE GLORIOUS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Billy Kidd Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.. Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m. Ernest Thomas, Pastor.

UNITED PENTECOSTALCALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 5850 Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia. Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, Pastor. 662-356-0202FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-1750

PRESBYTERIANBEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community. Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) — 515 Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p.m. Bob Wilbur, Pastor.FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Bible Study 5 p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Tue. 6 p.m.), Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: Exercise Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. 662-328-2692FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Youth Group-Sundays 5 p.m., Adult Choir-Wednesdays 6:30 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev. Tom Bryson, Minister.MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA) — Main and 7th St. N. Sunday 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m. Chad Watkins, Assistant Pastor. MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.

SALVATION ARMY CHURCHTHE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy. 82 East. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Holiness Meeting 11 a.m., Puppets & Timbrels 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday Supper 5 p.m, Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m., Women’s & Men’s Ministries 7 p.m., Corps Cadets (Teen Bible Study) 7 p.m., Friday “Supper Club” 5:30 p.m., Friday Youth Meetings 6 p.m., Friday Character Building (Ages 5-18) 6 p.m. Captain John Showers, Commanding Officer.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTCOLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH — 301 Brooks Dr. Saturday 9:30 a.m., Bible Study 11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Larry Owens, Pastor. 662-329-4311SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th St. N. Saturday Sabbath School 9:15 a.m., Divine Worship 11a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Roscoe Shields, Pastor. 662-327-9729

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Pamela Daniels Unit #K2245Alashia Green Unit #J2079

WHEREAS, default has beenmade in the payment of the rentand RENT-A-SPACE pursuant tosaid lease is authorized to sellthe personal property to satisfythe past due rent and any othercharges owed to it.

NOW, THEREFORE, notice ishereby given that RENT-A-SPACEwill offer for sale, and will sell atauction to the highest bidderand best bidder for cash all per-sonal property in the storage.Said property located at RENT-A-SPACE 406 Wilkins Wise Rd,COLUMBUS, MS will be sold at9:00 AM on February 28th,2014.

Title to the personal property tobe sold is believed to be good,but at such sale, RENT-A-SPACEwill convey only such title as isvested in it pursuant to its leas-es and as allowed under Missis-sippi Code Annotated Section85-7-121 et. seq. (Supp 1988).

WITNESS MY SIGNATURE ON February 5, 2014.

RENT-A-SPACEBY: MANAGER

Publish: 2/9/14

enclosed in another envelopeaddressed to the Port Director,Lowndes County Port Authority,1102 Main Street (P. O. Box633), Columbus, Mississippi39701 (39703). Any bid not re-ceived in writing at this office bythe date and time specified willbe declared late.

The Port Authority will not be re-sponsible for delays in delivery.It is solely the responsibility ofthe vendor that bids to reach theopening on time.

Any bid received after deadlinewill be returned unopened. Bidsor alterations by fax or phonewill not be accepted.

No bidder may withdraw his bidwithin ninety (90) days after theactual date of the opening there-of.

EVIDENCE: No bid will beopened, considered or acceptedunless the above information isgiven as specified. Awardingpublic contracts to non-residentBidders will be on the same ba-sis as the non-resident bidder'sstate awards contracts to Mis-sissippi Contractors bidding un-der similar circumstances. In or-der to ensure that Mississippi'sGolden Rule is followed, statelaw requires a non-resident bid-der to attach to his bid, a copyof his/her resident state's cur-rent laws pertaining to suchstate's treatment of non-resi-dent contractors.

Each Bidder must deposit withhis proposal, a Bid Bond or Cer-tified Check in an amount equalto five percent (5%) of his bid,payable to the Lowndes CountyPort Authority, as bid security.The successful bidder will be re-quired to furnish a PaymentBond and Performance Bondeach in the amount of one hun-dred percent (100%) of the con-tract amount.

Copies of the Instruction to Bid-ders, Bid Forms and ContractSpecifications (with the excep-tion of the Mississippi StandardSpecifications for Road andBridge Construction) may be pro-cured at the office of Neel-Schaf-fer, Inc., P. O. Box 2100 (2310Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive),Columbus, MS 39704 (39705),601-328-4460, between thehours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00P.M., Local Time, Mondaythrough Friday, upon payment of$300.00 for each set, which willnot be refunded. Checks aremade payable to the Engineer.

The Lowndes County Port Au-thority hereby notifies all Biddersthat it will affirmatively insurethat in any contract entered intopursuant to this advertisement,disadvantaged and women'sbusiness enterprises will be af-forded the full opportunity tosubmit bids in response to thisinvitation and will not be discrim-inated against on the grounds ofrace, color, or national origin inconsideration for an award.

The Lowndes County Port Au-thority reserves the right to re-ject any bids and all bids andwaive any informality.

BY: /s/ John Hardy, Port Director

Publish: February 9, 2014February 16, 2014

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSPORT ACCESS ROAD

IMPROVEMENTS LOWNDESCOUNTY PORT LOWNDES

COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

Sealed bids for Port AccessRoad Improvements at the Lown-des County Port will be receivedby the Lowndes County Port Au-thority at 1102 Main Street,Columbus, Mississippi, 39701until 10:00 A.M on March 10,2014 and then at said officepublicly opened and read aloud.

This project includes the realign-ment of the Port Access Road inColumbus, Mississippi. The re-alignment includes 200 feet ofmill and overlay in combinationwith 739 feet of new construc-tion. The overall roadway widthwill be widened from 24 feet to28 feet to accommodate trucktraffic. The above general outline of fea-tures of the work does not inany way limit the responsibilityof the Contractor to perform allwork and furnish all labor, equip-ment and materials required bythe specifications and the draw-ings referred to therein. CER-TIFICATE OF RESPONSIBILITY:Each contractor submitting a bidin excess of $50,000.00 mustshow on his bid and on the faceof the envelope containing thebid, his Certificate of Responsi-bility Number, as required bySection 31-3-21 and 31-3-15,Mississippi Code of 1972. Ifthe bid does not exceed$50,000.00, a notation so stat-ing must appear on the face ofthe envelope. Each bid must besubmitted in a sealed envelope,addressed to the Port Director,Lowndes County Port Authority.

Each sealed envelope containinga bid shall be clearly marked onthe outside as: BID ENCLOSED“PORT ACCESS ROAD IMPROVE-MENTS”, and the envelopeshould also bear on the outsidethe name of the Company andthe Company's address. If for-warded by mail, the sealed enve-lope containing the bid must be

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STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

NOTICE OF SALE

WHEREAS, the following tenantsentered into a lease with RENT-A-SPACE for storage spaces inwhich to store personal property:

Patricia BoundsUnit #C4004

WHEREAS, default has beenmade in the payment of the rentand RENT-A-SPACE pursuant tosaid lease is authorized to sellthe personal property to satisfythe past due rent and any othercharges owed to it.

NOW, THEREFORE, notice ishereby given that RENT-A-SPACEwill offer for sale, and will sell atauction to the highest bidderand best bidder for cash all per-sonal property in the storage.Said property located at RENT-A-SPACE 2193 Lake Lowndes Rd,COLUMBUS, MS will be sold at11:00 AM on February 28th,2014.

Title to the personal property tobe sold is believed to be good,but at such sale, RENT-A-SPACEwill convey only such title as isvested in it pursuant to its leas-es and as allowed under Missis-sippi Code Annotated Section85-7-121 et. seq. (Supp 1988).

WITNESS MY SIGNATURE ON February 5th, 2014.

RENT-A-SPACEBY: MANAGER

Publication Date: 2/9/2014

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY,

MISSISSIPPI

IN RE: IN THE MATTER OF THEESTATE OF ANNIE B. DICKER-SON, (d)

IRMA DICKERSON, ADMINISTRATRIX

NO. 2013-0240-B

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI LOWNDES COUNTY

Letters of Administration havingbeen granted on the 16th day ofJanuary, 2014, by the ChanceryCourt of Lowndes County, Mis-sissippi in Cause No. 2013-0240-B, to the undersigned Ad-ministrator upon the Estate ofANNIE B. DICKERSON, de-ceased. Notice is hereby givento all persons having claimsagainst said Estate to presentthe Proof of Claim by mailing itto the Clerk of this Court at PostOffice Box 684, Columbus, Mis-sissippi 39703, for probate andregistration according to the lawwithin ninety (90) days from thefirst date of publication of thisNotice or they will be foreverbarred under Mississippi law.

This the 23rd day of January,2014.

/s/Irma DickersonIrma Dickerson, Administratrixfor THE ESTATE OF ANNIE B.DICKERSON, deceased

Submitted by:Monique Brooks MontgomeryBar No. 10720The Montgomery Law Firm, L. L. C.814 2ND Avenue NorthColumbus, MS 39701Telephone: (662) 327-0030Facsimile: (662) 327-4433

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SMALL COTTAGE.2BR/1BA. Large yard,central heat & air, newlyremodeled. No HUD.$525/mo. w/annuallease. 352-4776

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4BD HOME, 2 BA,stove, frig, DW, microcr-wave, CH&A, formal DR,fenced back yard, 1 cargarage $1100 mo +$1100 dep, 1 yr lease,credit check, ColemanRealty 329-2323

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WAREHOUSES AND/OROFFICES. 2 separateadjoining units. 4500+/- s.f. ea. Heavy elec,shelves, great location,plenty of parking. ABCRealty, LTD. 662-323-9292

OFFICE OR retail proper-ty available in EastColumbus. Call 386-7694 or 364-1030

EAST COLUMBUS.40X60 building. Former-ly barber & beauty shop.Good parking. 301North McCrary. Call425-6505

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1, 2 & 3 BEDROOMAPARTMENTS &TOWNHOUSES.1BR/1BA Apt. $3002BR/1BA Apt. $350-$400. 2BR/2BA 3BR /2BA Townhouses $550-$800. No HUD allowed.Lease, deposit, creditcheck required. Cole-man Realty. 329-2323

Apartments ForRent: Other 708

DOWNTOWN LIVINGThis beautiful apartmentis located over TheCommercial Dispatch inthe heart of historicdowntown Columbus.Formerly an attorney'soffice, the space hasbeen restored and mod-ern amenities havebeen added. The apart-ment features tall ceil-ings, hardwood floors,central heat and air andon-site laundry. Theapartment includes a liv-ing room, bedroom, din-ing room, kitchen andbathroom. $750 permonth includes utilities.Deposit required.Flexible lease termsavailable. No pets. CallPeter at 662-574-1561

APTS/HOUSES for rent$300 to $550. Associ-ated Realty 662-327-8557

1 & 2BR apts. in North& East. CH&A, all elec,water & sewer furn, con-venient to shopping.$350/mo. Call 352-4776

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NORTHSTAR PROPER-TIES. 500 Louisville St.1, 2 & 3BR avail. 662-323-8610. 8-5pm, M-F.northstarstarkville.com.Basic cable included

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DOWTOWN COLUMBUS513 Main. 2BR/2BA,1100 sq. ft. Walk-inclosets, hardwoodfloors, 2 parkingspaces. $1100. Incl.utilities (up to $275). 662-574-1299

1BR APT. $400/month.$250 dep. Water fur-nished. 3-6 month leaseavailable. Call 549-0454 or 251-7106

Apartments ForRent: South 704

Auctions 412

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TOWNHOUSE. 2BR/1.5BA. New ceramic tile &carpet. Central air &heat. HUD accepted.662-425-6954

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NORTHWOOD TOWN-HOUSES 2BR, 1.5BA,CH/A, stove, fridge,DW, WD hookups, &private patios. CallRobinson Real Estate328-1123

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1BR UPSTAIRS. Nicedeck. 5979 Hwy 45 N.$325/mo. Water &garbage incl. $225 dep.Background & employ-ment check. No pets, noHUD. 662-328-2340 or662-251-7643

***$99 1st Month***Feels like home to me.Clean 1-4BR remodeledapts. Stove, fridge, w/dhookups, mini-blinds.HUD accepted. Call Mar-lene. 662-630-2506

Apartments ForRent: Northside701

SHIH TZU puppies forsale. Call 662-327-7251 or 662-574-2117

Pets 515

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Wantedto Buy 478

GUN SMITH. Over 45yrs. exp. (As good asthe best, better thanmost). New & usedguns, new scopes, re-pairs, rebuilding, clean-ing & scopes, mounted& zeroed on range, an-tique guns restored, &wood refinished. EdSanders, West Point. 3mi. N. Barton Ferry onDarracott Rd. Open Tue-Sat. Call for appt. 494-6218

SportingGoods 472

Auctions 412

ESTATE SALE, 548 Hwy 45 N. FrontageRd. Beginning Feb. 10,9am-6pm. ClosedMarch 7-14. FMI, call662-352-4460

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NEW HOPEGARDEN APARTMENTS

58 Old Yorkville Road • 327-8372Monday & Wednesday 3pm-6pm

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D.A.D.G.A REG. Nigeri-an Dwarf dairy goats.Ch. bld. lines. 40' alum.modular w/chair ramp.Top deck, side rails, dbl.turnaround, landing pad.$3k obo. 356-4906

CLEAN UP sale atAMORE. Fine glassware,lamps, pictures, homedécor & bookshelves atThrift store prices. 5251Hwy. 45N

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COUCH $85. Gunrack$100. File cabinet $50.New whirlpool spa tub$400. 1930's armoire$600. 1930's secretaryw/bookcase $600. 32Barbies w/acces. $100.239 Shrinewood Dr

Furniture 448

ASHLEY WOOD burningheater. Call 242-0259for more information

Firewood 445

Auctions 412

AMMONIA NITRATE.$70 per acre. Pasture &hay ground fertilizerstarting @ $35/acre.662-386-9122

4X5 ROUND bales ofhay. $15 in field. $25 inbarn. 662-386-3132

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Medical &Dental 330

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Medical &Dental 330

The Mississippi Schoolfor Mathematics & Sci-ence (MSMS) is accept-ing applications for fac-ulty positions in Chem-istry & Mathematics forthe 2014-2015 schoolyear. MSMS is a state-wide, public, residentialhigh school for academi-cally gifted 11th & 12thgrade students locatedon the campus of Mis-sissippi University forWomen in Columbus,MS. Applicants mustpossess a minimum ofa master's degree in arelated area. For addi-tional information & em-ployment application,visit www.themsms.org& click on EmploymentOpportunities or contactShirley Ellis at sellis@themsms.org or 662-329-7674

General HelpWanted 320

PCS is a community mental health agency providing outpatient behavioral health and substance abuse services to children and adults in rural West Tennessee- locations in Covington, Ripley, Somerville, Millington,Brownsville, and Dyersburg. Our staff includes adult & child psychiatrists, behavioral health nurses, case managers, therapists, and pharmacists.

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:Applicants must be licensed to practice in state of Tennessee or be licensed eligible and must have prescription privileges.

Please contact Jimmie Jackson, Director of Human Resources, at 1997 Hwy. 51 South,Covington,TN 38019, call 901-475-3569, fax 901-313-1142, or email jimmie.jackson@pcswtn.org.

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ENTRY-LEVEL & LATERAL POLICE OFFICER APPLICANTSCITY OF COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI

The City of Columbus is accepting applications for the position of Entry-Level and Lateral Police Officers until 6:00 p.m., Thursday, February 20, 2014. Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and must be a citizen of the United States. Applicants must also be a high school graduate or have received a GED. A copy of the diploma or GED certificate MUST be submitted to the City’s Human Resources Office, 523 Main Street, 2nd Floor, between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday – Thursday, BY FEBRUARY 20, 2014. The City’s Nepotism policy is discussed on the application.

An information packet will be given to all interested applicants upon request of an application form. The City has a wonderful benefit package, which includes paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, health, dental and life insurance, and a retirement plan.

Interested applicants should apply to:HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE

Post Office Box 1408523 Main Street

Columbus, MS 39703-1408Call (662) 329-5114 or (662) 328-8682 for more informationApplicants may apply online at www.thecityofcolumbusms.org

and fax application to (662) 329-5154

Applicants must successfully complete a physical agility test, a written examination and other requirements before being placed on the eligibility list.

The City of Columbus is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, national origin, creed or handicap.

CITY OF COLUMBUS HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICECOLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI

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2006 JAYCO 5th wheel.33 ft. 3 slides. Ex.cond. $14k obo. Call549-7495

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SUPER COOL car! 2009Nissan Cube Black SL.58,500 mi. Very goodcond. All the extras.$10,600. 327-2870

2002 ACCURA 3.2 TLType S. Exc. cond.$6000. Call 241-0184.Serious inquiries only

2001 FORD TaurusSEL. Exc. cond. Realclean car. Loaded withextras. $3200. Call356-6413 or 251-5003

2000 FORD 250 wheelchair van. Brome lift,high rise roof, goodtires. 51K mi. $10,000.386-6886. 224 StateLine Rd. Columbus, MS

1999 DODGE Caravan.Exc. cond. $2900 obo.Call 356-6352 or 386-4706

Autos For Sale 915

ABERDEEN RIVER lot.50035 Beaver Rd. 400s.f. cabin on the water.Fully furnished w/dbl.Carport. $38,500. Call662-574-2805

ABERDEEN RIVER lot.50012 Fox Rd. 40 ft.motor home coverw/slab, 2008, 32 ft.Rockwood camper w/su-perslide, gazebo w/ceil-ing fan & lights. Storagebuilding has washer/dry-er, full shower & fullkitchen. Water, sewer,gas & satellite on prop-erty. Call 662-386-1542

River Property 880

TAX RETURN SPECIAL:For sale: 2014 ClaytonHome 16x80 3BR/2BAhome incl. lg. bed-rooms, great kitchen w/blk. appliances, vinylsiding/shingled roof,”Ashley” furniture,washer/dryer, & more!All for only $39,900plus tax! Call SouthernColonel Homes - Meridi-an at 601-693-6789! www.southerncolonelmeridian.com

ANNIVERSARY SALE:For sale: 2014 South-ern Estates “Stoney”28x60 3BR/2BAhomes. Incl. awesomekitchen w/blk. appli-ances, glamour bath,floated sheetrock, rockbar, “Ashley” furniture,washer/dryer, & more!!!All for only $69,900plus tax! Call SouthernColonel Homes-Meridianat 601-693-6789!www.southerncolonelmeridian.com

Mobile Homes For Sale 865

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Bought a mobile home& need it moved? Wehave been doing it over10 years. Call me day ornight on my cell @ 662-213-3648

LOTS FOR sale. Septictank & water meter in-cluded. Suggs Rd. NewHope School. $7500-$10k. Call 327-5133

16X80 3BR/2BA, vinylsiding & shingle roof.Home must be moved.$11,900 Cash Only.Call 662-401-1093

Mobile Homes For Sale 865

Autos For Sale 915

LOTS FOR sale. Septictank & water meter in-cluded. Suggs Rd. NewHope School. $7500-$10k. Call 327-5133

WINTER BLOWOUTsale. 2½ acre lots.Good/bad credit. $995down. $197/mo. EatonLand. 662-726-9648

39.5 AC. Mature pines.Great hunting land. 5min. East of MS line inPickens Co. AL. $88k.Call 327-1402

35 ACRES in N.H. w/24yr. old pines. $3500/ac. Will divide into 10ac. plots. 915 6th St. S.$3500. 4 ac. On TiffanyLn. $20k. Owner fin.avail. 386-6619

35 ACRES FOR SALE in Caledonia. Priced at$110,000. Call Kimber-ly Reed with Crye-Leike662-364-1423 or 662-328-1150

Lots &Acreage 860

Houses For Sale:Other 850

20.33 AC. in Caledoniaschool dist. Henry WellsRd. Mostly wooded.House site located inmiddle of property.$4250/ac. obo. Call662-889-1431

Lots &Acreage 860

3BR/2BA. LR, formalDR, kitchen, breakfastrm, lg. den, fireplace, lg.Sun room, 1 yr. old cen-tral unit, new fridge,beautiful hw floors, ½basement, new roof,completely remodeled.2540 sf. 331 5th St NWVernon, AL. $159k. Call662-574-2820

Houses For Sale:Other 850

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