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Sunday | December 15, 2019

LCSD to borrow up to $2.6M to make payroll

Hughes: Operating fund balance depleted to negative-$305K
By Zack Plair
zplair@cdispatch.com
For the second straight
year, Lowndes County School
District must borrow money to
make December payroll.
Meanwhile, the district’s op-
erating fund balance has nose-
dived to negative-$305,000,
according to business adminis-
trator Kenneth Hughes.
Board members begrudg-
ingly approved a resolution to
borrow up to $2.6 million in a
tax anticipation loan Friday af-
ternoon during their last reg-
ular meeting of 2019. Four of
the five board members voted
for the measure after heated
discussion, much of it aimed
at Hughes. Jacqueline Gray ab-
stained.
LCSD will immediately bor-
row $1.2 million to deal with up-
coming payroll needs, Hughes
told the board. It will borrow
the additional $1.4 million in
January only if limited cash flow
deems it necessary, he said.
Hughes also told the board
the district is “$2 million better
off than we were this time last
year,” noting that in December
2018 LCSD borrowed roughly
$4 million in a tax anticipation
loan to make payroll.
Hughes said only about 30
percent of ad valorem (real and
Hughes Clark
personal property) taxes — the
primary local funding source
for the district — is collected
between July and December,
while the remaining 70 percent
is typically collected in January
and February. LCSD will fully
repay the tax anticipation loan
by Feb. 20 once the majority
of local tax collections hit the
books.
“The way to get out of this
cash flow crunch is to build the
fund balance up,” Hughes told
the board. “We used to have a
fund balance of $12 (million) or
$14 million when I started here.
… We don’t have that anymore.”
The district began the 2019-
See LCSD, 6A

Two area pilots

help fly coats to Last founding MSMS faculty
Native American member retires
children in need
Starkville residents
donate hundreds of
items to drive for South
Dakota reservation
By Tess Vrbin
tvrbin@cdispatch.com

When Dennis Truax volunteered

to help collect items for a coat drive,
he decided to ask his wife, Jeanie,
whom he said “loves a challenge
and is very service-oriented,” to
see what she could do.
“I told him I would just start
small and see how it would work,”
Jeanie said.
She reached out to her fellow par-
ticipants in a biweekly yoga class
at Trinity Presbyterian Church in
Starkville, and they all reached out
to their churches and asked for do-
nations, she said.
They ended up collecting hun-
dreds of coats, scarves, gloves and
other winter clothing items in less
than a month, contributing to a haul
of more than 1,000 items that Den-
Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff
nis and five other pilots from north Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science English instructor Emma Richardson watches as a video made
central Mississippi flew to Mound- by students is played during her retirement ceremony on Friday at the Thad and Rose Cochran Hall. Richardson is
ridge, Kansas, on Nov. 2. Another the last of the school’s founding faculty members to retire from the school, which started in 1988.
cohort of pilots then flew the sup-
plies on Nov. 8 to the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation in Manderson, Reception honors Richardson, others who contributed to school’s founding
South Dakota, where children in
the Wounded Knee District School By Slim Smith But modesty will likely prevent 31 years at the school and 45 years
would receive them. ssmith@cdispatch.com her from calling attention to the overall as a teacher.
Pine Ridge is the eighth-largest most recent milestone. “This is about her, but it’s also
Native American reservation in the Emma Richardson was facing a As much as anything, the pur- about everybody,” said MSMS Exec-
country and home to the Oglala La- deadline — just one week to finish pose of Friday’s reception, held on utive Director Germain McConnell.
kota Nation of the Lakota Sioux. It a history of the Mississippi School the Mississippi University for Wom- “Since she is the last of the founding
is also the poorest area in the coun- for Mathematics and Science, one en campus, was to remedy that faculty and staff, this was an oppor-
try, with 98 percent of its residents of her final assignments as English omission. tunity to recognize all of those who
living below the poverty line. Aver- and creative writing teacher at the First at the student union, where were here in the beginning.”
age temperatures in South Dakota school. MSMS students gathered to hear Joining Richardson for Friday’s
fall below freezing for five months That history predates the school tributes from class president Ali- event were Johnny Franklin, the
every year, and with substandard itself, including two failed efforts sha Burch and student government school’s first director; Shirley El-
housing and access to medical in the Mississippi Legislature to president Esmond Tsang noting lis, its first executive assistant; and
care, the need for winter clothing establish the state’s first publicly Richardson’s impact on the stu- Jack and Claudia Carter, who were
is critical. funded residential high school in dents, and later at a reception at also members of the teaching staff
“It blew my mind that there was the mid-1980s. Cochran Hall, where Richardson’s when the school opened.
that kind of need here in America,” Based on her reputation, the MSMS peers and former students “In 50 years as an educator, my
said Anita Havens, a retired teach- history will be meticulously re- lavished upon her praise — and time here was unique,’’ said Frank-
er from Oxford who started the searched, painstakingly accurate more than a few gifts — the event lin, who led the school for its first
coat drive four years ago. and comprehensive as it charts the honored Richardson’s unique con- four years. “At all of the other plac-
Havens taught at Della Davidson moments and milestones of the tributions to the school. Richard- es, I was building on a history that
Elementary School at the time and school, which opened in the fall of son is retiring Friday, the last of had already been established. Here
decided to donate unclaimed coats 1988. the original faculty members after See Richardson, 6A
from the school lost-and-found to
Pine Ridge. Students pitched in
See Coat drive, 8A

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Fifth grade, Annunciation
1 In what country was President Today meetings
Barack Obama’s father born? Dec. 16:
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2 What comedian is known for the Columbus-
phrase “Git-r-done”? United Methodist Church, 602 Main St., hosts
Lowndes
3 In classical Greek mythology, who its 103rd White Christmas pageant at 5 p.m.,
Convention and
are Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos? featuring drama, choral music and orchestra. The
Visitors Bureau
4 What is Frankenstein’s first name — service with a mission emphasis encourages all
Board regular
Henry, Stanley or Victor? attending to bring gifts of canned foods (or mon-
5 What is the hardest substance in meeting, 4 p.m.,
etary gifts) wrapped in white, to bring to the altar
the human body? CVB office
area during the service. After the pageant, help

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2A Sunday, December 15, 2019
W
hile
the
ap-
pearance of
the United
States flag
having 13
alternating
red and white
stripes with a
blue canton
containing
a white star
Rufus Ward
for each state
in a linear
array is well settled, that
was not always the case.
In the early years of the
Republic, the number
and pattern of the stars
varied as did the number
of stripes.
The confusion over the altering the flag of the
configuration of the stars
on the flag and the num-
ber of stripes is clearly
shown in the congressio-
nal debates of April 1818
over a bill to “Establish
the Flag of the United
States.” The remarks of
Congressman Wendover,
which were published in
the May 13, 1818, National posed of thirteen stripes
Advocate, clearly demon-
strate the problem:
“Is it desirable to pro-
duce greater uniformity?
Most undoubtedly it is; in
the navy the law is gener-
ally conformed to, but it is had been admitted into
well known that unifor-
mity does not elsewhere
exist; if evidence were
wanting, among other,
and numerous instances, I increased to fifteen each,
would refer you to the flag to compart with the then
at this moment waving
over the heads of the Rep- States. The accession of
resentatives of the nation,
and two others in sight,
equally to the flags of the
government – while law
directs that the flag shall
contain fifteen (stripes),
that on the hall of Con-
gress, whence the laws
emanate, has but thirteen, to increase the number
and those at the navy yard of stripes, as every flag
and marine barracks, have must, in some measure,
each, at least, eighteen
stripes – nor can I omit
to mention the flag under
which the last Congress
sat during its first session, while such an increase
which, from some cause
or other unknown to me,
had but nine strips; but
even that flag with all its
defecia, was entitled to
much honor, for it was not consideration has induced
only striped, but to use
another British cant, it
was ‘Ragged Bunting.’”
The confusion was
not just over the number
of stripes but also over
the configuration of the
stars. That was evident
when Mississippi became
the 20th state in 1817. I
have seen images of the
new 20-star flag with the
stars configured both in
a linear pattern and in a
star shape. For Mississip-
pi’s Bicentennial in 2017,
the official symbol was a
20-star flag in the collec-
Mississippi university honors
civil rights activist Dahmer
By EMILY
WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — The Uni-
versity of Southern Mis-
sissippi awarded an hon-
orary degree to civil rights
activist Ellie Dahmer, who
worked alongside her hus-
band to register African
American voters during
some of the most violent
years of segregation.
Vernon Dahmer was
a farmer and shop owner
and served as president
of the Forrest County
NAACP in south Missis-
sippi. The Dahmer fami-
ly home was a haven for
young civil rights work-
ers who were challenging
state-sponsored racial op-
pression in the 1950s and
1960s.
Ellie Dahmer taught in
the black Forrest County
schools in the 1950s but
her contract was not re-
newed because of her hus-
band’s advocacy of equal
The Stars and Stripes
tion of the
Mississippi
Department of
Archives and
History that
dated from
shortly after
Mississippi’s
admission
to the union.
That flag has
20 stars in an
oval. A review
of the con-
gressional acts
establishing a national
flag provide a basis for the
confusion.
On Jan. 14, 1817, a “Se-
lect Committee appointed
on the 12th ult, to inquire
into the expediency of
U.S.” made its report.
The report addressed the
importance of the flag
being uniform in appear-
ance when flown by ships
at sea. It also provided a
legislative history of the
U.S. flag:
“The original flag of the
United States was com-
and thirteen stars and was
adopted by a resolution of
the continental Congress
on the 14th of June, 1777.
– On the 13th of January,
1794, after two new States
the Union, the National
Legislature passed an act
that the stripes and stars
should, on a day fixed, be
number of independent
new States, since that
alteration, and the certain
prospect that at no distant
period the number of
States will be considerably
multiplied, render it in the
opinion of the commit-
tee, highly inexpedient
be limited in its size, from
the circumstance of con-
veniency to the place on
which it is to be displayed,
would necessarily de-
crease their magnitude
and render them propor-
tionably less distinct to
distant observation. This
many to retain only the
general form of the flag,
while there actually exists
a great want of uniformity
in its adjustment, particu-
larly when used on small
private vessels.”
The committee felt that
having 13 stripes could
represent the unity of all
states with the original 13
states together compris-
ing the United States. The
stars would symbolize
each state of the union. A
new star would be added
for each new state, but
the number of stripes
rights for African Ameri-
cans.
The state imposed poll
taxes as one way to sup-
press voting rights, and
the Dahmers would col-
lect the money in their
store as a way to empower
other African Americans
to register to vote.
In January 1966, Vernon
Dahmer went on the radio
and announced he would
pay poll taxes for peo-
ple who could not afford
them. The Ku Klux Klan
firebombed the Dahmers’
Hattiesburg home hours
later, in the dark of night.
Dahmer shot at the attack-
ers as his family escaped.
His lungs were seared in
the fire, and he died in a
local hospital.
The presentation of the
honorary degree to Ellie
Dahmer was made Friday
during graduation on the
university’s main campus
in Hattiesburg.
USM Dean of Students
Emeritus Eddie A. Hollo-
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Ask Rufus
Courtesy photo
A 20-star flag of 1818 having 13 stripes and four rows of five stars flies from the porch of the c.1825 Ole Homestead.
would remain at 13. The
committee reported its
findings and the following
Act to Alter the Flag of the
United States passed:
“Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the United
States of America in
Congress assembled, that
from and after the fourth
day of July next, the flag
of the United States be
thirteen horizontal stripes,
alternate red and white –
that the union be nineteen
stars, white in a blue field. Courtesy photo
Sec. 2. – And be it fur- This flag with 20 stars forming an oval replicates a flag in the Mississippi Depart-
ment of Archives and History collection that dates from shortly after Mississippi
ther enacted, that on the became a state in 1817.
admission of every new
state into the Union, one admission.” twenty-star flag was to in an oval, four rows of
star shall be added to the None of the con- have 13 stripes. However, five stars or 20 stars form-
union of the flag, and that gressional acts, though, it would be years before ing a star.
such addition shall take mentioned how the stars the configuration of stars Thanks to Carolyn
effect on the fourth day of should be arrayed. They would be completely Kaye for help in tran-
July then the next suc- only provided that there settled. What did the first scribing old newspaper
ceeding such admission.” be one for each state. U.S. flag to include a star articles.
A few months after the Mississippi got a star for Mississippi look like? Rufus Ward is a local
passage of the act altering in 1818 and the new Take your pick of 20 stars historian.
the U.S. flag passed, Mis-
sissippi was admitted to
the Union and a new act
had to be passed adding
Mississippi’s star to the
flag. That legislation was
addressed in the spring of
1818, and on April 7, 1818,
the City of Washington
Gazette reported; “By an
Act of Congress, passed at
the last session, it is enact-
ed that from and after the
4th day of July, 1818, the
flag of the United States
be thirteen horizontal
stripes, alternate red and
white; that the union be
twenty stars, white in a
blue field; that on the
admission of every new
State in the Union, one
star be added to the union
of the flag’ and that such
addition shall take effect
on the 4thday of July then
next succeeding such
way said in a news release
from the university that El-
lie Dahmer “stood strong
and exemplified tenacity
and personal conviction”
while serving her commu-
nity and her family.
“While facing her trag-
edy, she continued to be
a resource for others who
depended on her for inspi-
ration and support,” Hollo-
way said. “Mrs. Dahmer is
a civil rights icon in Mis-
sissippi as well as Ameri-
ca.”
The Mississippi Sen-
ate honored the Dahmer
family in January 2016,
commemorating their leg-
acy 50 years after Vernon
Dahmer’s death.
The Mississippi Civil
rights Museum opened in
2017 and includes a prom-
inent display about the
Dahmer family.
A statue of Vernon
Dahmer was unveiled this
month outside the Forrest
County Courthouse in
Hattiesburg.
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Mississippi vows further appeal after loss on abortion ban

‘We will sustain our efforts to fight for
America’s unborn children. Mississippi will
continue this mission to the United States
Supreme Court.’
By JEFF AMY
The Associated Press
Mississippi’s outgoing gover-
nor vowed Saturday to ask the
U.S. Supreme Court to uphold
Mississippi’s ban on abortion at
15 weeks.
“We will sustain our efforts
to fight for America’s unborn
children,” Republican Phil Bry-
ant wrote on Twitter. “Missis-
sippi will continue this mission
to the United States Supreme
Court.”
The call came a day after a
federal appeals court ruled the
ban was unconstitutional. But
supporters of the Mississippi
ban, and those like it passed in
other states, have been aiming
for the Supreme Court all along.
Gov. Phil Bryant via Twitter
They hope that new conserva-
tive justices will spur the high
court to take up abortion chal-
lenges and overturn its 1973
Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing
abortion rights nationwide.
Mississippi’s ban at 15 weeks
of pregnancy has never taken
effect. It was blocked by U.S.
District Court Judge Carlton
Reeves in 2018, a move the New
Orleans-based 5th Circuit ruled
was correct.
The only abortion clinic in
Mississippi sued the state af-
ter Bryant signed the law. The
clinic said it provides abortions
until 16 weeks.
The Center for Reproductive
Rights, which represented the
abortion clinic in its appeal, said
that the state is wasting money
trying defend abortion bans.
“The Fifth Circuit recog-
nized today what is obvious:
Mississippi’s abortion ban de-
fies decades of Supreme Court
precedent,” Hillary Schneller,
senior staff attorney at the Cen-
ter for Reproductive Rights,
said in a statement. “With this
ruling, Mississippi — and other
states trying to put abortion out
of reach — should finally get
the message.”
That message is unlikely
to be received in Mississippi,
though, where almost all Re-
publican lawmakers and even
some Democrats have opposed
abortion. Mississippi legislators
came back in 2019 and passed a
more restrictive law to ban most
abortions at about six weeks.
The same federal district judge
blocked that, too, and a legal
fight over it continues. While
Bryant is leaving office in Janu-
ary, he will be succeeded by Re-
publican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves,
also an abortion opponent.
Attorneys representing the
state of Mississippi had argued
that the 15-week law was a reg-
ulation but not a ban, and that
states are allowed to regulate
abortion.
A central question in the case
is about viability — whether a
fetus can survive outside the
woman at 15 weeks. The clinic
presented evidence that viabil-
ity is impossible at 15 weeks,
and the appeals court said that
the state “conceded that it had
identified no medical evidence
that a fetus would be viable at
15 weeks.” The judges cited a
Supreme Court ruling to say
Mississippi can’t ban abortion
before viability.
“In an unbroken line dating
to Roe v. Wade, the Supreme
Court’s abortion cases have
established (and affirmed, and
re-affirmed) a woman’s right
to choose an abortion before
viability,” Judge Patrick Hig-
ginbotham wrote for the court.
“States may regulate abortion
procedures prior to viability so
long as they do not impose an
undue burden on the woman’s
right but they may not ban abor-
tions.”
When Reeves ruled in No-
vember 2018 that the Missis-
sippi law was unconstitutional,
he wrote that the “established
medical consensus” is that via-
bility typically begins at 23 to 24
weeks after the pregnant wom-
an’s last menstrual period.
The Mississippi law would
allow exceptions to the 15-week
ban in cases of medical emer-
gency or severe fetal abnormal-
ity. Doctors found in violation of
the ban would face mandatory
suspension or revocation of
their medical license.
Reeves’ ruling on the Mis-
sissippi law put a similar law in
Louisiana on hold. The 15-week
abortion ban signed by Louisi-
ana Democratic Gov. John Bel
Edwards in 2018 included a pro-
vision that the law would take
effect only if a federal court
upholds Mississippi’s 15-week
ban.

The following arrests

Area arrests
Mississippi ceremony honors
were made by Lowndes
County Sheriff’s Office:
crime victims and survivors
n Tavares Sanders,
42, was charged with bur-
More than 100 people took part
glary of an occupied dwell-
ing house and disturbing
in 16th annual ceremony at state
the peace.
Sanders Brooks Hosey Hardy West Owens attorney general’s office
n Tammy Brooks, 51,
was charged with contrib- By ROGELIO V. SOLIS
uting to neglect of a child. The Associated Press
n Reginald Hosey, 36,
was charged with cyber- JACKSON — Mississippi residents are hang-
stalking via email/com- ing Christmas tree ornaments to remember loved
munication to extort and ones who died from violent crimes.
domestic violence. The state attorney general’s office held a tree
n Ryan Hardy, 29, was lighting ceremony Thursday at a state office
Wiley Cotton Ivy Brown Johnson Jackson building that overlooks the Capitol.
charged with possession
of a weapon by a felon; sus- fice: More than 100 people took part. Some of the
pended driver’s license, n Xavier ornaments that people put on the tree are intri-
expired driver’s license, Cotton, 23, cately decorated with photos of those they are
was charged missing this holiday season.
improper equipment, do-
It was the 16th annual ceremony for crime vic-
mestic violence and three with a bench
tims and survivors. And, it was likely to be one of
warrant.
counts of failure to appear.
the last big public appearances by Jim Hood as
n Aaron West, 39, was n Jake
attorney general.
charged with possession Ivy, 30, was
The Democrat ran unsuccessfully for governor
of methamphetamine. c h a r g e d McMullen Shirley Jr. Rose Williams Smith
this year, and his fourth term as the state’s top
n Charlie Owens, 36, with tam- n Brandon Jackson, 18, was charged with posses- legal officer ends Jan. 9. He will be succeeded by
was charged with leaving pering with evidence and was charged with armed sion of marijuana-more Republican Lynn Fitch.
the scene of accident withpossession of parapherna- robbery. than 30 grams. Hood and his sister, Beth Hood, hung an orna-
injuries. lia. n Octavious McMul- n Taquii Williams, 22, ment in honor of their cousin, Glenn Ford, who
n Quinn Wiley, 28, was n Derrick Brown, 33, len, 20, was charged with was charged with posses- was killed in 1976.
charged with shooting was charged with posses- a bench warrant. sion of marijuana-more Karren Ewing of Adams County said she has
into a dwelling house. sion of contraband in jail. n Melvin Shirley Jr., than 30 grams. attended each of the ceremonies. Her son Chris-
n Moses Johnson, 32, 24, was charged with bur- n Chyna Smith, 21, was topher Bourdin was 21 years old when he was
The following arrests was charged with sex of- glary of a residence and charged with possession shot to death in November 2003 in Natchez.
were made by the Oktib- fender registration failure domestic violence. of marijuana-more than 30
beha County Sheriff’s Of- and probation violation. n Jonathan Rose, 23, grams.

Log on.
2 teens charged in crash that kills Mississippi constable
District Attorney John Champion: pion said, according to
WMC-TV.
He was later elected con-
stable, a job whose duties

15-year-old and 16-year-old will be
charged as adults in death of Panola
County Constable Raye Hawkins
The Associated Press
BATESVILLE — A
prosecutor says two teen-
agers have been charged
with murder in a wreck
that killed a Mississippi
law enforcement officer.
Panola County Consta-
ble Raye Hawkins died
Thursday when a pickup
truck smashed into the
vehicle he was driving in
Batesville. Hawkins was
responding to help offi-
cers from another county
who were chasing what
was believed to be a stolen
truck.
District Attorney John
Champion said at a news
conference Thursday
that a 15-year-old and a
16-year-old were in the
truck. He said the truck
“crushed and mangled”
Hawkins’ vehicle, killing
the constable instantly.
“At the speed we be-
lieve the vehicle was go-
ing, there’s just nothing
that he could do,” Cham-
www.cdispatch.com
Champion said the
teenagers are charged as
include serving warrants
in criminal cases and gen-
adults. It was not immedi-
ately clear Friday whether
erally helping keep the
peace.
either is represented by an
attorney. They were being
held in a juvenile detention
center in DeSoto County.
Officers started chas-
ing the truck in the town
of Charleston in northern
Mississippi’s Tallahatchie
County. They went north
into neighboring Panola
County. Hawkins was hit
as the high-speed chase
went through Batesville
on Mississippi Highway
35.
Hawkins started his ca-
reer at the Batesville Po-
lice Department in 1990.

Mississippi business group offers loans for flood recovery

The Associated Press business disaster loans, economic injury
loans for nonprofits and home disaster
JACKSON — Mississippi’s Small loans for citizens this week.
Business Administration is now offer- Businesses and nonprofits can bor-
ing low-interest loans to homeowners, row up to $2 million for repair or replace-
businesses and nonprofit organizations
SOLUNAR TABLE
ment costs, the agency’s district director
The solunar period indicates
peak-feeding times for fish and game.
who suffered losses when torrential rain Sun. Mon.
Janita R. Stewart said. Homeowners and Major 3:44a 4:43a
caused widespread flooding last spring. Minor 8:53p 10:00p
renters can get loans between $40,000 5:11p
The National Weather Service esti- Major 4:14p

mated some south Mississippi areas re- and $200,000, field center director Kem Minor 11:30a 12:17p
Courtesy of Mississippi Department

Fleming said. The loans also can be used

of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

ceived up to 15 inches of rain in a span

of days in May 2019, washing out train
tracks, flooding rivers and prompting
water rescues, news outlets reported.
To help in the recovery, Gov. Phil
Bryant wrote to the administration last
month requesting assistance for eight
heavily-impact counties, The Biloxi
Sun-Herald reported on Wednesday. The
to prevent future damage, as well as to
support relocation.
Applicants must have an acceptable
credit history and demonstrate abili-
ty to repay loans. Collateral is required
for loans over $25,000. The deadline for
physical property damage loans is Jan.
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21, and the deadline for economic injury
applications is Aug. 19, 2020.
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Our view Partial to home

Roses and thorns A picnic of acorns and apples

Chances are if you Judging by the appeared to be inhabited only by
A rose to all our law enforcement, for
ever took an art ap- scattering of chewed those who live there.
whom Wednesday was a very busy day.
preciation course you acorns on the bridge As they typically are on icy
When the Tuesday night rainfall con-
encountered Édouard left by the deer, I mornings such as this, the deer
tinued as the overnight temperatures
Manet’s “Le Déjeuner was not the first were abundant. Watching these
dipped into the 20s, icy conditions — es-
sur l’herbe” (“The Lun- to pause here for impossibly graceful animals in
pecially on bridges and overpasses, cre-
cheon on the Grass”). refreshment. an all-out sprint through a dense
ated perilous driving conditions. Mississippi Highway
In this large canvas Four of these low forest is one of the rewards of
Patrol Troop G responded to 20 crashes alone while
— now acknowledged bridges span Yellow being out at this hour.
city and county law enforcement were also responding
as a masterpiece but Creek between its The American holly with its
to accident scenes. Their quick responses helped clear
considered scandal- intersection with deep green leaves and equally
accident scenes, critical in helping avoid the chain-re-
ous at the time — the County Road 9 and deep red berries are particular-
action crashes that sometime occur. Fortunately, no Birney Imes
French Impressionist Hays Crossing, 13 ly abundant along this stretch.
serious injuries were reported. Wednesday served as
portrayed two men or so winding miles Their presence, even more vivid
yet another reminder that our law enforcement is at its
and two women picnicking in an downstream near where the against the muted fall colors,
best in times of emergencies. We thank them all for
idyllic wooded setting. creek enters Mississippi. impart a holiday cheer.
their diligence.
What is distinctive about the Anyone wanting to travel this This was my fourth or fifth
painting, the feature that fueled stretch in a motorized boat of time on this stretch of river, so
A rose to Starkville’s Unity Park Ad-
outrage among the 19th century any size is out of luck. One of the by now there are familiar land-
visory board for its selection of Dorothy
Parisians, is that the men are structures is a massive logging marks: the huge pine towering at
Bishop and Carole McReynolds Davis as
fully clothed — with neckties bridge; the other three appear to the edge of the creek; the hollow
the newest selections to be honored at
and berets, even — and the be crossings for deer hunters. tree leaning over the water, a
the park. The two women contributed in
women are nude. Well, one of the Canoeists and kayakers can refuge for a family of raccoons
different ways — Bishop as a civil rights
women is nude, the one in the simply pull out and portage that watched us pass one spring
advocate, Davis as an artist and tireless promoter of
foreground of the painting; the through. morning; the single, rumbling oil
Starkville – yet shared a common love and devotion
second, in a gauzy gown of some When Eddie dropped me off pump jack.
their hometown. Bishop was the Oktibbeha County
sort, is bathing in the back- at 7:30 the temperature was 30 It was almost straight-up noon
NAACP’s first female president and was committed to
ground. degrees and the morning sun when I reached Hays Crossing.
voter registration. She was also a principle figure in
Clothed or not, everyone looks was just making its appearance. The litter-strewn takeout bring-
the campaign to establish Unity Park, which makes
to be having a swell time; the There is no light quite like that ing to an abrupt end to a four-
her enshrinement all the more fitting. McReynolds
men are engaged in conversation, of a cold, clear Mississippi winter plus-hour reverie.
used her art and words (she wrote a regular newspa-
and the women — one attending morning. The light seemed to Even so, how can one not be
per column) to champion Starkville and its citizens.
to her bathing, the other looking come from within the woods, grateful, if not awestruck, by
She was also devoted to improving race relations in
at the painter/viewer of the paint- backlighting iced branches and the abundant natural world that
town, serving on the city’s first race relations com-
ing — seem to be self-contained. imparting an orange, preternatu- surrounds us here. Clothed in the
mittee in the early 1990s. Each year, she painted a
As so it was on a recent week- ral glow to the fall browns, dark most beautiful raiment, inhabited
portrait of a notable civil rights leader as part of the
day morning this image came to reds and grays. by infinitely marvelous crea-
Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. Bishop, 71,
me out of the ether as I stood on Sunday when we went out HD tures, it patiently awaits, a source
and Davis, 72, both died in 2014, but their legacies
a makeshift bridge in the wilds of had warned about deer hunters of wonder and inspiration.
endure.
Lamar County, Alabama, eating a urging us to wear orange or Birney Imes (birney@cdispatch.
honey crisp apple, enjoying a bit some other bright color. On this com) is the former publisher of
A rose to Brenda Lathan, who will be
of a picnic of my own. weekday morning the woods The Dispatch.
retiring from her role as executive vice
president for economic development at
the Golden Triangle Development LINK
at the end of the year. For more than 20
years, Lathan, 62, worked in economic
development in our community, a quiet, steady pres-
ence who played an integral role in the phenomenal
growth of manufacturing and industry here. An expert
in research, Lathan provided the documentation
required to consummate the deals that brought much
needed tax revenue and jobs. She was also an inspira-
tion to minorities and women, who were long under-
represented in economic development. We thank her
and wish her well in her retirement.

A rose to the West Point Green Wave

football team, which captured its fourth
straight state championship on Nov. 7
with a 38-26 win over Picayune in the
5A Championship at M.M. Roberts Sta-
dium on the campus of the University
of Southern Mississippi. That means the players who
were freshmen on the 2016 team finished the season
with a state title all four years. With the victory, the
Green Wave has now reached the zenith of high school
football in the state. The win secured West Point’s
11th state championship, tying South Panola for the
most football championships in state history. We sa-
lute the coaches, players and staff for this remarkable
accomplishment.

Mississippi voices

Mandatory sentencing keeping thousands of addicts in prison

When the crack
cocaine epidem-
ic hit the nation
and Jackson in
the early 1990s,
it was a shock to
our society. Gangs
increased. Prop-
erty crimes in-
creased. Addiction
increased. Violent
crimes increased.
The attitude was Wyatt Emmerich
lock ‘em up, and I
was among those leading the
charge.
Thirty years later, with our
prisons bulging, incarceration
costs skyrocketing and new
research accumulating, the
nation’s attitude has done an
about face.
Like anything else, with
better communication, better
technology, time and studies
have furthered our understand- limits prison time for many
ing of what works and doesn’t
work. Progress is being made
but it’s slow in implementation. bill came after a public ballot
One byproduct of the tech
boom is a class of uber rich
tech billionaires who have
enough money to fund efforts
to improve our nation through
education and political activ-
ism. Not everybody is going
to agree on all the causes and
solutions, but there can be
no doubt these uber billion-
aires have the resources to
raise awareness and move the
needle of public
opinion.
The group
fighting for crimi-
nal justice reform is
called Fwd.us. With
64 full-time bright
energetic young
people based in
Washington fight-
ing single-mindedly
for their cause,
things can change,
especially when
Mississippi, along with Arizo-
na, Oklahoma and New York,
are the four focus states for
reform.
Just last month Oklahoma,
perhaps the most conservative
state in the nation, released
430 inmates convicted of drug
crimes.
This was the result of Okla-
homa House Bill 1269, which
low-level and nonviolent drug
and property offenses. The
initiative was approved by 56
percent of Oklahoma voters
three years ago to change the
punishment for these types of
crimes.
The initiative also required
the state government to esti-
mate the money saved by lower
incarceration costs and use
that money to fund rehabilita-
tion and mental health ser-
vices. These are big changes in
a hyper-conservative state.
Now fwd.us is focusing
on Mississippi. A new report
provides details on how drug
use incarcerates addicts for
decades at a time, costing the
state an exorbitant amount of
money.
This is where politics
makes strange bedfellows. Our
Republican state leadership
is focused on cutting state
expenditures as a top priority.
The Department of Correc-
tions, with a budget around
$400 million, is one of the most
expensive agencies to run.
Our Mississippi Republican
leadership may be anti-crime,
but they are even more anti-tax
increase.
It would be one thing if our
Department of Corrections
lived up to its name and was a
model of rehabilitation, edu-
cation, therapy and training.
But nothing could be further
from the truth. Our prisons are
dominated by criminal gangs
where you are more likely to
get raped and beaten than
learn a skill. The main training
in prison is how to be a good
gang member.
Now just imagine putting
someone mentally ill or addict-
ed to drugs in this situation.
It is inhumane, expensive and
will do nothing to improve
our state. That’s what fwd.
us is trying to make us under-
stand. Whether they are right
remains to be seen, but our
current situation is certainly
not working.
The idea of prison is to
provide a disincentive to
break laws. But that assumes
some level of rational decision
making. Addicts are far beyond
that. They are addicts. They
need treatment. They are
incapable of rational decision
making.
Fwd.us latest report shows
how Mississippi’s habitual
offender laws are incarcerating
some drug addicts for their
entire life, costing Mississippi
taxpayers hundreds of millions
of dollars a year.
The habitual offender laws
sentence drug offenders for life
if they commit three felonies in
their lifetimes. Since hard drug
possession is a felony, it’s not
hard for a poor addict to get a
life sentence.
As of June 2019, there
were 2,635 people serving a
sentence handed down under
Mississippi’s habitual laws.
To get a life sentence, one of
the felonies has to be “violent”
but our state law considers
breaking into a garage a violent
offense. It’s easy for a poor
addict, desperate for drugs, to
get a life sentence.
The report (https://www.
fwd.us/news/we-all-pay/)
states:
“The data reveals that
decades-long sentences are
routinely handed down for
minor offenses in Mississippi.
Nearly 250 people are serving
20+ year habitual penalties for
nonviolent offenses. The major-
ity of people serving these very
long sentences for nonviolent
offenses were convicted of
drug-related crimes. There are
currently 154 people serving
20+ habitual sentences for
drug offenses, and 31 people
are serving 20+ years for the
lowest-level drug offense: drug
possession.
“Like long sentences in
general, life sentences are not
reserved for the most serious
violations of the law. Seven-
ty-eight people are serving
50 or more years in prison for
drug crimes, and 21 people
have been sentenced to die in
prison for simple drug posses-
sion as a result of the habitual
laws. These life and virtual life
sentences are especially alarm-
ing, because they represent the
most punitive action the state
can take against an individual,
short of the death penalty.”
Wyatt Emmerich is the editor
and publisher of The Northside
Sun, a weekly newspaper in
Jackson. He can be reached by
e-mail at wyatt@northsidesun.
com.
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Letters to the editor

Voice of the people
Continues to find
discrepancies with judge-
elect’s service claims
Steve Wallace will be sworn
in as county prosecuting attor-
ney on December 30. He won
the office by defeating Corky
Smith in the Republican prima-
ry and then William Starks in
the general election.
In early June, in the midst
of the primary campaign, the
Dispatch carried a front-page
story about Mr. Wallace accom-
panying WW II veteran Brad
Freeman to France for D-Day
celebrations. Mr. Freeman is
a veteran of the fabled Easy
Company of the 101st Airborne
Division and participated in
the Allied landings and the
advance into Germany. The ar-
ticle noted that Mr. Wallace is
also a veteran of the 101st and
that he served with that unit in
Vietnam.
I questioned the Dispatch
about the Wallace service claim
and the Dispatch looked into it.
The Dispatch explained that it
had drawn its information from
a story about Wallace that it
had published ten years earlier.
In other words, he did not
explicitly tell the Dispatch last
June that he had served in Viet-
nam with the 101st Airborne
Division. The Dispatch also
asked Mr. Wallace about his
service and he told them that
he had never served in combat
but had been associated with
the 541st Parachute Regiment
while an ROTC cadet. This
information was printed as a
correction at the bottom of
page 3 on a Wednesday. I wrote
to the Dispatch and pointed out
that the 541st was dissolved in
1948, before Mr. Wallace was
born. I also questioned what
contact an ROTC cadet would
have had, even at a summer
camp, with Airborne soldiers.
The Dispatch went back to Mr.
Wallace for an explanation. He
responded that he had not told
them he was associated with
the 541st, but with the 507th
Parachute Infantry Regiment.
The Dispatch took responsibil-
ity for the error and said, of the
new explanation: “..This seems
more likely, since it existed
when Mr. Wallace was in col-
lege and is still active today…”
I responded with another letter,
pointing out that the 507th was
inactivated in 1945, reactivated
briefly in the late 1940s and
then permanently reactivated
in 1985, long after Mr. Wal-
lace’s potential service window
had closed. I noted that it was
now evident that Mr. Wallace
never served in an active-duty
unit and that I was beginning
to suspect that he never even
went to an ROTC camp.
The Dispatch did not
confront Mr. Wallace with his
latest misrepresentation, even
though it was clear to care-
ful readers that he had been
urinating on the Dispatch’s leg.
Mr. Wallace went on to victo-
ry in the ensuing elections. I
suspect that his accepted rep-
utation as a Vietnam airborne
veteran was so well established
in Lowndes County by then
that the flurry of information
in the Dispatch wasn’t followed
closely or believed — or per-
haps no one in this Air Force
town cared.
Mr. Wallace’s reputation had
grown over a period of years
from his misrepresentations in
conversation, from his Face-
book postings (now removed)
and from articles published
about him. In 2011, the
4-County newsletter carried
a feature article about Wayne
White’s war museum, where
Mr. Wallace was interviewed
with Mr. Freeman. The article
stated: “…Steve Wallace of
Columbus also served with
the 101st Airborne, but during
the Vietnam War from 1971 to
1973. His duty was in long-
range reconnaissance on the
Ho Chi Minh Trail. In addition,
he also served in missions to
rescue downed airmen. ‘People
my age walked in the foot-
steps of giants,’ Wallace said,
gesturing to Freeman. ‘We live
in a community of heroes, and
most people don’t even know
it. I wish everyone would see
the museum. Here, you see the
strength of America.’”
In March of this year, Mr.
Freeman was guest speaker at
the Columbus Rotary Club’s
luncheon. He was accompanied
by Mr. Wallace, who sat next
to him at the head table. The
Rotary emcee introduced Mr.
Wallace as a Vietnam veteran
of the 101st and then intro-
duced Mr. Freeman. Mr. Wal-
lace was recently nominated to
join the club, by the way.
In June, when Mr. Wallace
was accompanying Mr. Free-
man to France, they were
interviewed at the Birmingham
airport by a reporter for ABC
33/40. The piece identified
Wallace as a Vietnam vet.
After the Dispatch article
appeared in June that said
Mr. Wallace was a Vietnam
veteran, his primary opponent,
Corky Smith, sent a letter to
the Department of Defense
requesting Mr. Wallace’s
service records. He included
Mr. Wallace’s Social Securi-
ty number and birthday and
asked for any records from
1968 to 1988. Weeks went by,
then months, and no answer
was received. Mr. Smith sent in
a new request last month, this
time by certified mail, and last
week got a reply. Here is the
pertinent part:
“…We have been attempting
to verify the veteran’s military
service from the information
that has been provided. We
have conducted extensive
searches of every records
source and alternate records
source at this Center; however,
we have been unable to locate
any information that would
help us verify the veteran’s
military service…”
Attendance at an ROTC
summer camp should show
up on these records but it is
not there. Its absence and the
fact that Mr. Wallace has twice
given false information about
his affiliation with Airborne
units while at summer camp
convince me that he never even
went to a summer camp.
Mr. Wallace has been
accompanying Mr. Freeman to
local and international events
for at least the past ten years.
This would be commendable
if Mr. Wallace had not been
exploiting the relationship to
falsely construct his own local
reputation as a warrior. This
reputation as a veteran un-
doubtedly helped him win the
elections.
All of this presents a prob-
lem for the local administration
of justice. The problem would
be more serious if it indicated
that Mr. Wallace is delusional.
That does not appear to be
the case, because when the
Dispatch asked him about his
Vietnam service in June he did
not double down but simply
tried to worm out of the situa-
tion by referring to his contact
with an airborne unit as an
ROTC cadet. But the further
misrepresentations about sum-
mer camp are a problem too,
now that he will be questioning
people under oath and insisting
on straight answers lest they
be charged with perjury.
Roger Larsen
Columbus
Likes ‘Welty University’
I’m glad to see a resurgence
in the interest of changing
the name of the Mississippi
University for Women into
something a bit more inclusive
for the men and women who
attend and graduated from this
beloved institution. I myself
an a proud graduate from the
class of 1990.
Some might recall a propos-
al I came up with some years
back. That is to change the
university’s name to “Welty
University” after the esteemed
and world-renowned author,
Eudora Welty, who attended
the school and has given so
much back to our state. For a
while this proposal had gained
currency in the Mississippi
legislature, but for some reason
it stalled out.
As I suggested, we could
name the university after
Miss Welty and still retain the
nostalgia and historicity of the
school with an affectionate
emphasis on the “W” in its new
name... Welty.
You gotta admit, it has a nice
ring.
Jim Terry
Columbus
Commentary on beginning
of impeachment
It has been said and writ-
ten that the problem with the
impeachment of President
Trump is that there are no
facts on which to base it. That
depends on what the definition
of “is” is. Or maybe, what the
definition of “fact” is. With
regard to “is,” Republicans
and Democrats differ as to
what constitutes a crime. What
Democrats see as criminal
abuse of power, Republicans
see as business as usual. With
regard to “facts,” one may look
at history. Remember when
the tobacco industry insisted
that the relationship between
cigarette smoking and lung
cancer was “unproven?” Their
lawyers, Republicans all,
claimed that unless a biological
mechanism was discovered
and established that showed
how the one caused the other,
all the statistical evidence in
the world was irrelevant. Agent
Orange was similarly deemed
harmless. No facts.
Today, we have actions by
our President, recorded and
made public or public in the
first place, asking for foreign
interference in our elections,
asking for criminal acts on the
part of Russia (hacking Ms.
Clinton’s emails and making
them public), and attempting to
bribe and extort a foreign head
of state.
As well as facts, we have
glaring implications. No one
would lie to Congress, or to the
FBI, risking prison, out of con-
fusion. All of the men convicted
of obstruction of justice knew
what they were doing. Most
of them had passed the Bar
somewhere, and so were smart
enough and trained enough to
easily avoid interview “traps.”
So why did they do it? Appar-
ently, to protect President
Trump from something (and
after implied promises of Pres-
idential pardons). Why has the
President ordered everyone
over whom he has authority
to ignore subpoenas to testify
about him? If there is nothing
to hide, why not let them say
so? Why has he gone to court
to prevent his tax records from
being seen, something all
recent presidents have offered
when asked? Could it be con-
flict of interest?
An impeachment trial will
be an illuminating event. Sena-
tor Lindsey Graham apparently
wants to avoid any testimony
at the trial, to go straight to a
vote: issuing no pesky subpoe-
nas, risking the exposure of no
facts. No further facts. Some
other Republican senators want
to interrogate the witnesses
they were prevented from ques-
tioning in the House. Those
people have already revealed
all that they can that might be
damaging, so there would be
no risk.
Let the games begin. Open
the gates, and let the facts into
the arena.
Bill Gillmore
Columbus
Respects donation of salary
Representative Nadler and
all the other Democrats in
D.C. are saying our President
has put himself before our
country. That’s a very untrue
statement. I have a question
for all the liberal Democrats
in DC. When was the last time
you gave your salary from us,
the tax payers, back to the us
through a charitable cause or
to another department in our
government? I think I know
the answer: never! You haven’t
earned any of it in my book so
how about knocking off all the
false stuff you are spreading
about our greatest president
since George Washington! He’s
been giving back all of his sala-
ry and done way more good for
our country in only three years
than all of you have done in the
hundreds of years that you’ve
been in D.C. doing nothing but
causing trouble for our country
and leeching off the tax payers.
We demand that all of you start
doing what you were elected to
do or resign now! Remember
this, there is an election 11
months from now, and many
of you will be replaced by
Republicans at the polls which
will give control of the House
back to them. And the Senate
will continue to be led by the
Republicans for many years to
come as well. So a whole bunch
of you should start looking
for another job. You know
who you are, ‘cause after next
year you’ll be only spectators
watching from the bleachers
as President Trump begins his
second term making sure to
“Keep American Great.”
Raymond Gross
Columbus
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State of the nation

What we get wrong about civility
Civility gets
a bad rap these
days.
One need
look no further
than our head
of state for con-
firmation, but it
could be argued
that Donald
Trump is no
more capable of
civility than he Mary Sanchez
is of humility,
justice, good faith, wise counsel or any
other virtue we’d wish our leaders to
have. The rest of us — we can be better.
What disconcerts is that some of the
finer minds and political talents of the
younger generations in particular —
but not exclusively — have formed a dis-
torted impression about what it means
to engage in a civil manner.
If not corrected, that will be the
country’s loss. Because young adults
are often the most passionately bold in
their beliefs and possess the conviction
and time to lead substantial change, be-
fore the obligations careers and family
take over their lives.
But people are rejecting the notion
of civility. They wrongly believe it’s
the same thing as meekness, or at best
moderation and politeness. That a civil
person is docile and genteel to a point of
ineffectiveness.
However, its root is the Latin “civili-
tas,” which denotes that which pertains
to citizenship, politics and government.
This sense needs to be reclaimed, I
think, and civility ought to describe
the attitudes and comportment that
promote our best public values, the
constructive aims we hold dear.
Unfortunately, we’re seeing more
and more behavior that accomplishes
the opposite.
Maryland’s former governor Martin
O’Malley provided a classic example
on Thanksgiving eve. He reportedly
launched a tirade at Ken Cuccinelli,
acting deputy secretary of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, when the
two ran into each other in a Washington
pub.
O’Malley reportedly challenged Cuc-
cinelli to justify the Trump administra-
tion’s practice of separating immigrant
children at the U.S.-Mexico border
and warehousing them in chain-link
cages. Fair point — and an honest reply
certainly would have been illuminating
— but it was lost amid the drama. At
one point, O’Malley asked Cuccinelli if
he wanted to throw a punch, according
to reporting by the Washington Post.
A few days prior, first lady Mela-
nia Trump was jeered and booed by
teenagers in Baltimore. The students
were reportedly reacting to the presi-
dent’s rude and unprovoked slandering
of their city as “a disgusting, rat and
rodent infested mess” where “no human
being” would want to live. Trump’s
remarks, in turn, were meant to insult
Rep. Elijah Cummings, who had criti-
cized Trump.
The heckling carried on for a good
portion of the first lady’s short speech.
The students never settled down while
she tried to pitch a message to “be
best.”
They failed. Their beef is with the
president, not the first lady. It would
have been far more productive if they’d
held signs asking her to press her hus-
band to “be best.”
Civility requires that we avoid
precisely the behaviors that Trump in-
dulges: name-calling, slurs and childish
derision. However, it doesn’t require us
to suppress our emotions, even anger.
College campuses, in particular,
have become the scenes of the national
civility crisis. Groups on the left and
right battle it out in a familiar pattern.
Right-wing student group invites in-
cendiary right-wing speaker; left-wing
students set out to shut it down, by any
means necessary. An all-too-typical ex-
ample is the appearance of conservative
writer Ann Coulter at the University of
California, Berkeley, in late November.
Coulter’s the author of, among other
books, “Adios America! The Left’s
Plan to Turn our Country into a Third
World Hellhole.” The title tells you all
you need to know about her and about
the intentions of those who invited her.
Anyone who seriously wanted to have a
productive conversation about immigra-
tion — even a very pointed and critical
one — would never invite Coulter as
the speaker. She’s a provocateur, not
an honest scholar or thinker of any dis-
cernible public spirit. She’s somebody
you invite to campus to start a rumble.
And, as expected, more than 2,000
people protested, and there were a
handful of arrests. Luckily there was no
violence. To the university chancellor’s
credit, Berkeley had undergone a year-
long dialogue on free speech, including
seminars on respectful dialogue, itself
a response to campus disturbances over
right-wing speakers in 2017.
The point of civility is not to keep
the boat steady. In his “Letter From a
Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King
Jr. warned of the pitfalls of decorum,
pointedly cautioning against “the
white moderate, who is more devoted
to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a
negative peace which is the absence of
tension to a positive peace which is the
presence of justice.”
Rather, the point is to reprove those
who champion error and injustice
unsparingly — with words — in rea-
soned debate. That can be discomfiting
enough! The duty of civility is to articu-
late the highest and best values in civic
life. It doesn’t have to be nice, but I’m
pretty sure it doesn’t involve throwing
a punch.
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Head of Mississippi foster care agency retiring in January

The Associated Press
JACKSON — The leader of
Mississippi’s long-scrutinized
foster care agency is retiring next
month shortly after a new gover-
nor takes office.
Jess Dickinson sent a letter to
current Gov. Phil Bryant on Tues-
day, saying that Jan. 16 will be his
last day as commissioner of the
Mississippi Department of Child
Protection Services. Dickinson
previously served as a circuit court
judge and then a state Supreme
Court justice. Bryant named him
commissioner in September 2017.
Bryant’s successor, Republi-
can Tate Reeves, becomes gov-
ernor Jan. 14. There is typically
a large turnover of state agency
leaders when new governors take
office.
Since 2004, Mississippi has
been enmeshed in a federal law-
suit over its foster care system. A
monitoring report issued in June
questioned whether the state is
doing enough to investigate re-
ports of mistreatment of children
in foster care. The report cited
cases of mistreatment that the
agency failed to react to, includ-
ing children who were beaten
and sexually abused.

LCSD
Continued from Page 1A
20 fiscal year in July with
nearly $6 million in its op-
erating fund balance and
has spent that down into
the negative, Hughes told
The Dispatch after Fri-
day’s meeting.
“That’s the reason
we’re going to borrow
money,” Hughes said.
“We’ve been living on
fund balance waiting on
the ad valorem tax to
come in. By February,
we’ll collect $7 (million)
or $8 million more (in ad
valorem), pay off the loan
and build the fund bal-
ance back to about $6 mil-
lion again.”
The interest rate for
the tax anticipation loan,
Hughes said, is 3.15 per-
cent. For $1.2 million,
that’s $37,800. If the dis-
trict borrows the whole
$2.6 million, interest will
total $81,900.
Board member Brian
Clark, speaking to The
Dispatch after the meet-
ing, noted the interest
payment alone amounts
to one or two teacher sala-
ries — a particularly valid
point, he said, less than
a year after the district
eliminated 64 teaching
positions to save money.
“I would much rather
use that money toward
staffing our schools than
paying interest to a bank,”
Clark said.
During Friday’s meet-
ing, Clark, Gray and board
member Jane Kilgore
questioned Hughes on
when he knew the district
would need a tax antici-
pation loan for December
and why he didn’t report
that to the board sooner.
Hughes responded he
had “mentioned it in Oc-
tober or November,” but
the Caledonia students
New LCSD superintendent contract being finalized who were in the retired
teacher’s class will be
redistributed among oth-
Terms for Allison are 3 1/2 years, Wright was paid.
Allison, who has served as New
er teachers’ classrooms
for the rest of the school
$115K annual salary Hope Middle School principal since
2006, will begin his tenure as the dis-
year.
Clark, referencing 64
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT trict’s first board-appointed superinten- teacher position cuts this
dent on Jan. 1. He will replace Wright, year and the district’s
Lowndes County School District is finalizing con- who has served since 2011 as a publicly debt service bill, openly
tract details with incoming superintendent Sam Alli- elected superintendent. criticized the proposal.
Allison
son. A state law change in 2016 made it “If we’re cutting teach-
According to the terms, Allison will serve the next mandatory for school boards to hire su- ers to make the bond pay-
3 1/2 years at an annual salary of $115,000, Board At- perintendents by January 2020, rather than the posi- ments, I have a problem
torney Jeff Smith told The Dispatch on Friday. That’s tion be elected. Wright applied to keep his job, but he with that … because our
less than the $127,500 outgoing superintendent Lynn was not selected. teachers are the boots on
the ground,” Clark said.
“… I want to make sure
none of the board mem- ing from that as well, that trict savings account. tax anticipation loan we’re not eliminating
bers recalled it. Board means the monthly finan- CMSD and LCSD spilled over into discus- more positions because
Attorney Jeff Smith said cials were not endorsed share the same tax col- sion regarding outgoing of cash flow.”
he “vaguely remembered” by a majority of the board. lector, Greg Andrews, Superintendent Lynn Instead, Clark moved
Hughes mentioning the meaning the two districts Wright’s recommenda- to leave the teaching unit
possible need for the loan. Debt service receive their tax collec- tion to transfer an ele- at Caledonia Elementary
and create a new position
“It’s a shock to me,” While tax anticipation tions at roughly the same mentary teaching posi-
Clark told The Dispatch. loans are a common tool intervals. tion from Caledonia to at New Hope. That mo-
“I had no indication we school districts use to deal The Dispatch couldn’t New Hope. tion failed, with Barks-
were going to have to bor- with lean cash flow in De- reach Andrews for com- The board ultimately dale, Gray and Wes Bar-
row this money until this cember, Starkville-Oktib- ment by press time. approved the recommen- rett opposing. Then the
week.” beha Consolidated School One glaring difference dation by a 3-2 vote, with board approved Wright’s
Robert Barksdale, District spokesperson between the city and Clark and Kilgore op- recommendation.
LCSD board president, Nicole Thomas said 2016 county school district is posed. Specifically, Gray said
said he’s also unhappy was the last time it was debt service — the county Wright, who will be she thought Clark’s mo-
about having to borrow done there. district is repaying debt replaced by New Hope tion sought to “microman-
for a second straight year Columbus Municipal on a $44 million bond is- Middle School Principal age” the administration.
to make December pay- School District hasn’t tak- sue from 2015 that funded Sam Allison on Jan. 1, “I think we should stay
roll. But he also noted en out such a loan since building projects at multi- said a Caledonia second with our duties, which
financial progress since before 2012, board pres- ple campuses, including a grade teacher had retired are to accept or reject the
last year. ident Jason Spears told new Career Tech Center this month. But instead of superintendent’s recom-
“It’s a problem right The Dispatch. In fact, on Lehmberg Road. replacing her, he asked mendations (rather than
now, and I don’t know Hughes — who was termi- The annual payments the board to convert that amend them),” Gray said.
where we need to be in nated there in 2013 before on that debt rose by more position to a kindergarten Wright also recom-
our operating fund bal- joining the LCSD staff — than $1 million to $3.7 mil- teacher at New Hope. He mended adding an aca-
ance to avoid it,” Barks- was CMSD chief financial lion this fiscal year. argued New Hope Ele- demic coach for Caledo-
dale told The Dispatch. officer the last time it was LCSD also used oper- mentary has 84 more stu- nia Middle School, which
“But last year we had done. ating fund balance, which dents than Caledonia, but he said was fully federally
to borrow substantially Moreover, Spears told stood at $17 million in the schools have the same funded and the board ac-
more, so we’re reducing The Dispatch on Friday 2014, to fund other build- number of teaching units. cepted; and an assistant
that amount this year.” CMSD has maintained ing projects without a To keep student-to-teach- teacher unit at New Hope
Though Clark and the roughly $4.5 million bond issue. er ratios at an equitable Elementary, which was
Kilgore OK’d the loan, operating fund balance level, the position needed tabled after the board
they voted not to accept with which it began the to be moved to New Hope learned the school al-
Hughes’ financial report fiscal year, even after Teacher transfer effective immediately, he ready had a vacant assis-
to the district for Novem- transferring $700,000 controversy said. tant teacher spot in the
ber. With Gray abstain- from that fund to the dis- Aggravation over the As a result, though, budget.

Richardson
Continued from Page 1A
it was a blank slate. We
were creating the history
that others would follow. I
take a special pride in be-
ing a part of that.”
Franklin noted the
original faculty arrived
at the school to create the
curriculum a month be-
fore classes started.
“And they did that
without being paid,” he
said. “What does that
say?”
Since its founding,
MSMS has emerged as
the gold standard for
high school education
in the state, ranking
among the Top 10 public
high schools in the na-
tion whose students are
taught by a faculty that
is recognized among the
best in the nation.
The school’s impact
It was that faculty, and
in particular Richardson,
that shaped the future of
Anthony Thaxton, a mem-
ber of the school’s first
class.
“I was one of the first
students here at MSMS,”
Thaxton said. “I was also
the first student to leave.”
Thaxton, from the
town of Carriere in Pearl
River County was one of
130 original students in
1988.
“I was terrible at math
and science, which is not
a good thing if you’re go-
ing to a school with math
and science in its name.”
He quickly fell behind
in those subjects. After
six weeks, he decided to
go back home. It was on
his first day back at his
old high school, Pearl Riv-
er Central, that Thaxton
realized he had made a
terrible mistake.
For six weeks in Rich-
ardson’s English class at
MSMS, he had been ex-
posed a broad range of
classic literature, learn-
ing to embrace literature
as never before, primari-
ly through Richardson’s
love of the subject and her
ability to inspire and moti-
vate her students.
“My first day back at
my old school, in our En-
glish class, we covered
20 vocabulary words and
20 definitions. Our home-
work was to write 20 sen-
tences using those words.
I knew right then I had
make a terrible mistake,”
Thaxton said.
In a phone call to one of
his former MSMS class-
mates, Thaxton admitted
the mistake. A short time
later, he got another call,
this one from Franklin,
who encouraged him to
return.
“You even offered to
come help me pack,”
Thaxton said of Franklin
in his comments at the re-
ception. “You didn’t help
me pack, for the record.
But you offered to.”
In his comments earli-
er in the reception, Frank-
lin — seeing Thaxton
among the crowd — sin-
gled him out as “probably
the most talented student
we ever had.”
Today, Thaxton owns
his own television produc-
tion company, producing
among other shows the
“Palate to Palette” series
on Mississippi Public
Broadcasting. He is also
a painter, and Friday he
presented Richardson
and the other founding
staff members pieces of
his original artwork.
Although Friday’s
event acknowledged the
contributions of all of the
founding faculty/staff
present, Richardson was
clearly in the spotlight,
as speaker after speak-
ing rose to pay their re-
spects, followed by a vid-
eo of former students who
thanked Richardson and
congratulated her on her
retirement.
“It’s really been too
much to take in,” Richard-
son said later. “I’m going
to have to reflect on it and
enjoy it again as I think
about it.”
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‘Shop early’: US Christmas Justices to take up

trees supplies tight, prices up dispute over subpoenas
for Trump records
Industry officials: Everyone who of Buckhannon, grows its
own trees.
Hermann, Missouri, said
some farmers’ adult chil- By MARK SHERMAN
wants a last-minute Christmas tree “We’ve been busier
than we’ve ever been be-
dren aren’t as eager to
take over the family busi-
The Associated Press

should be able to find one, it just fore,” Cole said. ness, leading to a labor WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said
Gesturing toward the shortage. Friday it will hear President Donald Trump’s
might take a little more searching lots of Parsons and an- “A lot of the farmers pleas to keep his tax, bank and financial records
other competitor, he ex- have gotten older and private, a major confrontation between the presi-
By JOHN RABY rector of the Michigan plained his brisk business their kids realize there’s dent and Congress that also could affect the 2020
The Associated Press Christmas Tree Associ- in the simplest economic an easier way to life,” presidential campaign.
ation, is simple: “Shop terms: “Because there’s Smith said. Arguments will take place in late March, and
CHARLESTON, W.Va. early.”
— Customers searching been no trees here and no Despite such challeng- the justices are poised to issue decisions in June
Parsons has been in trees over there.” es, Smith isn’t looking as Trump is campaigning for a second term.
for the perfect Christmas
business for 42 years as An oversupply of for other ways to make a Rulings against the president could result in the
tree typically glance at
a seasonal seller of flow- trees about a decade ago living. quick release of personal financial information
Sandy Parsons’ limited
ers, produce, pumpkins caused a domino effect “I hope they find me that Trump has sought strenuously to keep pri-
offerings, then keep walk-
ing. — and this year, just 32 nationwide. Subsequent- fell over dead in the tree vate. The court also will decide whether the Man-
Parsons never got her Christmas trees. ly, fewer trees were cut patch,” he said. “That’s hattan district attorney can obtain eight years of
order for 350 trees from “I can tell you how down, which meant not the way I really want to Trump’s tax returns as part of an ongoing crimi-
a North Carolina farm. many I didn’t buy: 350,” as many seedlings were go.” nal investigation.
Supplies were short, she said Parsons, whose dis- planted to replace them. Smith’s trees have The subpoenas are separate from the ongoing
was told. Instead, she was appointment has been Hot, dry weather also graced homes across impeachment proceedings against Trump, head-
shipped some smaller tempered by robust took its toll, forcing many the North Carolina foot- ed for a vote in the full House next week. Indeed,
ones for her lot at the Cap- wreath sales. growers to close. hills and up to the White it’s almost certain the court won’t hear the cases
itol Market in Charleston. In the next lot, Robert Larry Smith, who has House. He said he’s hav- until after a Senate trial over whether to remove
Those paled in compar- Cole was having a jolly ole been selling Fraser firs ing his best year ever and Trump has ended.
ison to the much taller time preparing an abun- from the same lot in Le- doesn’t foresee running Trump sued to prevent banks and accounting
beauties at a competitor’s dance of trees for loading noir, North Carolina, for out. When his supply firms from complying with subpoenas for his
lot next door. onto customers’ vehicles. 40 years, and second-gen- dwindles, his team heads records from three committees of the House of
“This has been the The difference? Cole’s eration Christmas tree up the mountain to har- Representatives and Manhattan District Attorney
worst season,” Parsons lot, French Creek Farms farmer Mike Rood of vest more. Cyrus Vance Jr.
said. “We lost a lot of mon-
ey by that. It sets you back
two or three years.”
Christmas tree sup-
plies are tight again this
year across the United
States, depending upon
location and seller. The
industry is still bouncing
back from the Great Re-
cession and trying to win
people back from a shift
toward artificial trees
when times were espe-
cially tough.
Industry officials say
not to worry: Everyone
who wants a last-minute
tree should be able to find
one. It just might take a
little more searching, es-
pecially if customers want
a specific type, and you
might have to pay a little
more.
The best advice, said
Amy Start, executive di-

Jersey City attack

being investigated
as domestic
terrorism
By DAVID PORTER
and MICHAEL R. SISAK
The Associated Press

JERSEY CITY, N.J. —

The couple who burst into
a kosher market in Jersey
City with assault weapons
appear to have acted alone
even though they had
expressed interest in a
fringe religious group that
often disparages whites
and Jews, New Jersey offi-
cials said.
Attorney General Gur-
bir Grewal said the attack
was driven by hatred of
Jews and law enforcement
and is being investigated
as an act of domestic ter-
rorism.
The two killers were
armed with a variety of
weapons, including an AR-
15-style rifle and a shot-
gun that they were wield-
ing when they stormed
into the store in an attack
that left the scene littered
with several hundred shell
casings, broken glass and
a community in mourn-
ing. A pipebomb was also
found in a stolen U-Haul
van.
“The outcome would
have been far, far worse”
if not for the Jersey City
Police, Grewal said Thurs-
day. Authorities noted that
a Jewish school is next to
the market, and a Catholic
school is across the street.
The attackers killed
three people in the store,
in addition to a police of-
ficer at a cemetery about
a mile away, before dying
in an hourslong gunbattle
with police Tuesday after-
noon, authorities said.

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Coat drive
Continued from Page 1A
with their own donations
of gently used coats, and
the collection totaled
about 300 in its first year,
Havens said.
However, the cost of
shipping the coats from
Mississippi to South Da-
kota would have been “as-
tronomical,” so Havens
needed another way to
transport them, she said.
Havens’ husband, Lynn
Havens, had a solution. A
member of Experimen-
tal Aircraft Association
Chapter 1189, he recruit-
ed fellow members to
help him fly the cargo to
South Dakota. This year, Courtesy photo
in addition to himself and Lynn Havens of Oxford sits in a plane packed with bags
Dennis Truax, Charlie of coats and other winter clothing for children on the
Miller of Tupelo, Alan Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where many Lakota
Sioux children are in need of these items during the
Warfield of Booneville,
harsh South Dakota winters. Havens and his wife,
Dave Leonard of Water Anita, a retired elementary school teacher, started the
Valley and Thomas Sippel annual winter clothing drive four years ago. Fellow pilot
of Starkville flew the first Dennis Truax and his wife, Jeanie, brought the coat
leg of the trip. collection portion of the drive to Starkville for the first
time this year.
The joy of flying From left: Alan Warfield of Booneville, Charlie Miller of Tupelo, Thomas Sippel of
Courtesy photo
ing on it sooner and will when her children were
Both Sippel and Truax Starkville, Dennis Truax of Starkville, Lynn Havens of Oxford and Dave Leonard of expand her list of initial growing up and still par-
said they have enjoyed Water Valley flew roughly 1,000 coats and other winter clothing items from Pittsboro,
flying for most of their Mississippi, to Mound Ridge, Kansas, on Nov. 2. The coats were then flown to the contacts to churches and ticipates in church fund-
lives and that EAA seeks Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and distributed to children in need businesses. She has been raisers, she said.
to promote and foster the for the fourth year in a row. retired for 10 years, but “Whatever opportuni-
love of flight. she regularly participat- ty came along, we would
Truax discovered flight sion problems, he said, so year, but the contribution ed in school fundraisers just do it,” she said.
“The more reasons
when his mother booked he pursued engineering from Starkville brought
we have to fly, while also
him a seat on a commer- and is now the head of the it more than 1,000, Anita
doing something good to
cial airline flight as a gift civil and environmental Havens said. Even so, the
help people, the better,”
for his fifth birthday, he engineering department coats still only go to one
Sippel said.
said. at Mississippi State Uni- of about nine schools at
Born and raised in
“I got to sit in the pilot’s versity. He still obtained Pine Ridge.
Germany, Sippel started
lap, and it was like, ‘This a pilot’s license and has “The reservation is so
flying gliders when he
is where I’m supposed to “never given it up,” he big that we’re only able to
was 14. He came to Mis-
be for the rest of my life,’” said. help a fraction of the peo-
sissippi in 2009 to work
for Airbus Helicopters he said. ple,” she said.
near the Golden Triangle Commercial aviation Expanding Next year’s drive is
Regional Airport, and he was not a viable career the coat drive set to begin in Septem-
was briefly president of path for him thanks to his The coat drive collect- ber, and Jeanie Truax
EAA chapter 1189. 6-foot-2 frame and his vi- ed about 500 coats last said she will start work-

NEESE RETIREMENT RECEPTION

Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff

ABOVE: Lowndes
County Chancery
Clerk Lisa Younger
Neese stands for a
portrait during her
retirement party on
Friday at the Lee
Home in Columbus.
Neese served 36
years in the chan-
cery clerk’s office
including the last 16
as the elected clerk.
RIGHT: Jamie David-
son hugs Lowndes
County Chancery
Clerk Lisa Younger
Neese during her
retirement party on
Friday.
Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff
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NFL draft preparations intertwine

with Mississippi State’s bowl preparation

Jim Lytle/Dispatch file photo

Mississippi State cornerback Cam Dantzler became the latest high-profile player to skip his team’s bowl game in favor of preparing for his NFL future.

BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — While
Mississippi State’s matchup
against Louisville in the Music
City Bowl is now set following
last week’s official announce-
ment, the 2020 NFL draft has
begun to take its toll on the
Bulldogs’ roster.
Over the past two weeks,
junior running back Kylin Hill
and junior cornerback Camer-
on Dantzler announced they
will both forgo their final years
of eligibility to enter the draft.
And though both players will
be off to the professional ranks
next fall, only Hill will suit up
for the Bulldogs in their final
game of the season.
Following the recent trend
that has plagued postseason
football throughout the colle-
giate landscape over the past
few seasons, Dantzler becomes
the latest high-profile player to
skip his team’s bowl game in
favor of preparing for his NFL
future.
“After praying over it and
discussing it with my family,
I have decided that now is the
best time for me to pursue my
dream of playing in the NFL,”
he wrote in a statement Dec. 6.
“I would like to thank the Uni-
versity, entire coaching staff
and all my teammates. I am
forever grateful for every mem-
ber of the Bulldogs community
#HAILSTATE!”
Speaking with the media
Friday, MSU coach Joe Moor-
head offered his own thoughts
on players opting not to play in
what would be their final col-
lege contests.
“Generally speaking, if you
have to convince a kid to play in
the game, then he should prob-
ably move on,” Moorhead said.
Though the second-year
head coach would obviously
prefer to have his full stable of
players heading into the Dec.
30 matchup with Louisville, the
draft process has become a ma-
See Bowl, 6B

PREP BASKETBALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Third-quarter onslaught helps Jackets beat Falcons MSU men brush foul
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — The Colum-
bus High School bench erupted
when sophomore JJ Williams
capped a long possession with a
3-pointer to send the Falcons into
halftime tied 20-20 on the road at
rival Starkville on Friday.
Little did the Falcons know that
the shot would pave the way for
Starkville to have an eruption of its
own.
Williams’ shot ended a back-
and-forth first half that “just gave
us a sign telling us to wake up be-
cause they’re not playing around,”
Starkville junior Coltie Young said.
“Telling us to play even harder.”
A couple minutes into the sec-
ond half, Starkville did just that.
With the score tied at 25-all, se-
nior Eric Green hit a 3. Then anoth-
er 3. Then another. Starkville big
man Jacob Reese put back a miss
for an easy layup, the Yellow Jack-
ets got a stop and another layup,
and senior Forte Prater stole the
ball and laid it in.
It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-
it 15-0 run for the Jackets, giving
Starkville all the momentum it
needed. The Jackets took a 20-point
lead into the fourth quarter and
coasted to a 62-45 home win over
the Falcons.
Columbus coach Phillip Mor-
Starkville guard Forte Prater looks to dribble by a Columbus defender late
in Friday’s game at Starkville.
ris provided an apt summation of
Starkville’s high-powered offense,
the unit that puts the Jackets
among the state’s best teams.
“They just hit a bunch of 3s, and
they kind of hit them quick, out of
nowhere,” Morris said.
Starkville made nine 3-pointers
in all, including five by Young, who
finished with 21 points. Five of the
long-distance connections were in
the Jackets’ 27-point third quarter.
Young knows what allows
Starkville to open up its offense:
The team’s unselfish passing,
which often discombobulates op-
Austin Frayser/Special to The Dispatch
posing teams. The Jackets employ
excellent ball movement “in order
to get the defense moving, get open
cuts, shots and everything,” he
said.
Columbus proved a victim of
the pass-happy Starkville offense
Friday, as Morris lamented the var-
ious looks the Jackets threw at his
team.
“You don’t know what to take,”
Morris said. “They set a lot of ball
screens. You don’t know if you
want to help on the roll or you want
to stay tight on them. You’ve gotta
See RIVALRY, 6B
trouble aside, down
Kansas State after
thunderous dunk
By Garrick Hodge
ghodge@cdispatch.com
Mississippi State was staring a problem right in the
face.
With 12 minutes remaining, four different players
had drawn three fouls apiece, putting an already thin
rotation in serious peril.
Then, Robert Woodard II picked up
his fourth foul. Shortly after, Tyson Car-
ter drew his fourth. Then Reggie Perry.
Three of MSU’s most crucial players
were one whistle away from fouling
out. And to top it off, D.J. Stewart also
picked up a fourth foul. Somehow, none
of it mattered. No one wearing maroon
and white fouled out Saturday. Molinar
The Bulldogs didn’t live up to the
stereotype of playing “no foul” defense,
holding Kansas State without a field goal for nearly
nine minutes en route to a 67-61 victory in the Never
Forget Tribute Classic in Newark, New Jersey.
“It was just a matter of playing smart and trusting
your teammates,” Woodard II told The Dispatch about
playing with foul trouble. “It was about having funda-
mentals during that time of the game. Everyone was
well aware of what was going on in that situation, so
we took advantage of what we had and counted on our
intangibles.”
The Bulldogs (7-2) came out sluggish, trailing 27-
See Bulldogs, 6B
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briefly Prep basketball rounduP

Women’s College Basketball
Ole Miss falls at home to Southeast Missouri Burnett scores 17 as Columbus boys rout Aberdeen
The Ole Miss women’s basketball team fell to 5-5 On Friday, Howard Tenizia Lathan had Friday’s home game. scored 23 points, and
on the season with a 70-53 loss to Southeast Missouri
State on Saturday at The Pavilion in Oxford.
Columbus 66, had 19 points, Altmy- 13 points to lead the On Friday, Jawon Sara Nash had 12.
Valerie Nesbitt had 15 points to lead the Rebels.
Deja Cage scored 13, and Jayla Alexander scored 11.
Aberdeen 30 er had 13, and Trey
Naugher had 12.
Confederates.
The Caledonia girls
Yarbrough led the team
with 16 points in a 54-20
With the win, Oak
Hill improved to 5-5 on
“I tried to figure out a way to keep a high-powered By Theo DeRosa The Patriots (5-5) dropped to 2-6 on the home win over Leake the season.
offensive team and a veteran team like Southeast Mis- tderosa@cdispatch.com will compete in the Joe season. Academy.
souri at bay, and we struggled at that,” Ole Miss head
coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said in a news release Blake Burnett
Horne Christmas Clas- The Volunteers (7-2) Tuscaloosa Acade-
from the school. “I thought we had a lot of opportunities
scored 17 points to help
sic next weekend at Co- Noxubee Co. boys 83, will face Tishomingo
my (Ala.) boys 72,
lumbus. County on Thursday in
to get something going, but this group is still trying to
figure out who they are and who they want to be as a the Columbus High West Lowndes 49 Iuka. Pickens Academy
School boys basketball MACON — The
team. Right now, we are really struggling any time we
have any adversity. I thought Southeast Missouri was team beat Aberdeen 66-
Heritage Academy Noxubee County boys (Ala.) 46
the better team.
30 in Saturday’s home girls 54, East Rankin team beat West Lown- Hartfield Academy CARROLLTON, Ala.
— The Pickens Acad-
“I thought there were some moments tonight where
we did sit down and showed some grit, but we have to game. Academy 48, OT des 83-49 in Saturday’s girls 40, Starkville emy boys team lost
be able to put that together for longer stretches of time, Eric Caldwell con- PELAHATCHIE — home game. Academy 36
Darrell Brooks Friday’s home game to
and right now we are not doing that.” tributed 14 points for The Heritage Academy STARKVILLE Tuscaloosa Academy,
Ole Miss will host Georgia Southern at 11 a.m. the Falcons, who got girls beat East Rankin had 19 points to lead — Lillee Alpe had
Monday at The Pavilion in Oxford. the Panthers. Melvin 72-46.
back on track after Fri- Academy 54-48 in over- 20 points, but the Rafe Brown scored
day’s loss to Starkville. time Friday in Pela- Crawford had eight Starkville Academy
The W grabs win over Centenary College points, and Taddarious 16 points for the Pi-
Columbus will host hatchie. girls team fell 40-36 to rates, Seth Peeks had
Briona Green scored 24 points and Kyla Temple
the Joe Horne Christ- Bailey Harris led the Washington had six. Hartfield Academy on
scored 23 to carry the Mississippi University for Women
The Panthers will face 10 and Hayden Dyer
to a 61-50 road victory over Centenary College of mas Classic next week- Patriots with 22 points. Saturday in Starkville.
French Camp Academy had eight.
Louisiana on Saturday in Shreveport, Louisiana. end. Lucy Sharp scored 14, On Friday, Caroline
on Monday in French Pickens Academy (4-
My’Neka Frazier pulled down 14 rebounds and and Sydney Adair had Wood’s 15 points led the
added four assists, three blocks and four points for the Camp. 3) will face Clarke Prep
Columbus girls 53, 11. Lady Volunteers in a 48-
Owls (3-8). No statistics were on Dec. 20 in Grove
The Heritage Acade- 33 home loss to Leake
“The hometown players came up big today,” head
coach Drew Johnson said in a news release from MUW.
Aberdeen 12 my girls will face Jack- available for Noxubee
Academy.
Hill, Alabama.
The Columbus girls son Prep at 4 p.m. Dec. County, which will host
“Briona caught fire from deep early, and kept hitting big The Lady Vols are
shots from out there when we needed them most. Kyla beat Aberdeen 53-12 on 20 on the road. New Hope on Tuesday.
7-5 on the season.
Pickens Academy
had another great performance on the block, and gave Saturday in Columbus. (Ala.) girls 37,
us some big buckets down the stretch.”
Autumn Taylor and Christianna Harris also played
Aniya Saddler, DJ
Caledonia boys 66, West Lowndes girls Oak Hill Academy Tuscaloosa Academy
Jackson and Makayla
key roles for MUW.
Rieves each scored nine Lamar Co. (Ala.) 32 60, Noxubee Co. 49 boys 54, Indianola (Ala.) 21
“Christianna did a great job of controlling the pace
CALEDONIA — MACON — The CARROLLTON, Ala.
of the game and getting us into our sets,” Johnson said. points for the Falcons
The Caledonia boys West Lowndes girls Academy 22 — The Pickens Acade-
“When the pressure came, she did not falter. Autumn (7-2). Saddler had 10 re- beat Noxubee County INDIANOLA — The
did a lot of things that won’t light up the stat sheet, but bounds and five steals, team beat Lamar Coun- my girls team beat Tus-
60-49 on Saturday in Oak Hill Academy boys
she did the little things that helped us win. A good pass
and Jackson had six re- ty (Alabama) 66-32 in caloosa Academy 37-21
here, a steal there, a key rebound here, and a big free Friday’s home game. Macon. team improved its re-
bounds and six steals. on Friday in Carrollton,
throw there. You add all of those up, and they make a
Cooper McCleskey Marvaysha Seals cord to 9-1 with a 54-22
Alabama.
huge difference.”
led the Confederates had 19 points for West win at Indianola Acade-
Auburn softball com-
The Owls face Berry College at 5 p.m. Tuesday in
Mt. Berry, Georgia. Madison-Ridgeland (7-1) with 17 points. Jar- Lowndes, Nenah Young my on Friday.
mit Shelby Lowe had 12
Academy boys 71, vis Leigh and Jeremy had 15, and Tydajasha Branden Stevenson
points for the Pirates (4-
Hood had 11. led the Raiders with 17
Men’s College Basketball Heritage Academy 56 Emerson each scored
For Noxubee Coun- points.
2) and pulled down 17
MADISON — The 12, and Jairus Whitfield rebounds. Jessi Latham
The W falls just short at SUNO scored 11. ty, Zacaree Rupert had The Raiders will host
The MUW men’s basketball team came up two Heritage Academy boys scored seven points for
Caledonia will play 19 points, and Aadijah Winston Academy in a
points short Saturday, falling to Southern University of fell to Madison-Ridge- Pickens Academy.
a doubleheader on the Williams had 14. doubleheader Thurs-
New Orleans 61-59 in New Orleans.
land Academy 71-56 in Millie Mullin had 10
Tavonta Jones scored 19 points, Tyler Jackson had road Tuesday at Hous- day in West Point.
Saturday’s road game. points to lead Tuscaloo-
11, and Tre Pinkston had 10 for the Owls (2-8).
Carter Putt scored ton. Starkville Academy sa Academy.
MUW made 24 of 66 shots (36.4 percent) but
struggled from behind the 3-point line, hitting just 3 of 16 points, Mack How- boys 43, Hartfield Oak Hill Academy
16 for 18.8 percent. The Owls hit 8 of 12 free throws for ard scored 11, and Lamar Co. (Ala.) girls Academy 36 girls 43, Indianola Other scores
47, Caledonia 29 — Academy 36
66.7 percent.
SUNO shot similarly: 25 of 69 from the floor (36.2
Steele Altmyer scored STARKVILLE Louisville boys 64,
percent), 3 of 15 from 3 (20 percent) and 8 of 15 from eight. CALEDONIA — George Delp led the INDIANOLA — The Noxubee Co. 55, Friday
the line (53.3 percent). The Patriots beat The Caledonia girls fell way with 18 points as Oak Hill girls beat In- Starkville boys 75,
The Owls will host Belhaven at 5 p.m. Tuesday at East Rankin Academy to Lamar County (Ala- the Starkville Academy dianola Academy 43-36 Brandon 61
Pohl Gymnasium. 64-33 in Friday’s road bama) 47-29 Friday in boys team beat Hart- on Friday in Indianola. Brandon girls 81,
SOURCE: From Special Reports game. Caledonia. field Academy 43-36 in Carley Wooten Starkville 70, OT

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Monday
Prep Girls Basketball
West Lowndes at French Camp Acade-
my, 6 p.m.
Woods sets Presidents Cup record; Americans make their move
Prep Boys Basketball THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
West Lowndes at French Camp Acade-
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Women’s College Basketball tralia — Tiger Woods
Mississippi State at Louisiana, 11 a.m. set the Presidents Cup
Georgia Southern at Ole Miss, 11 a.m. record for most victo-
East Mississippi Community College at ries and set the tone for
Snead State Community College, 5:30 his U.S. team Sunday at
p.m. Royal Melbourne.
Woods seized control
on the air around the turn against
Abraham Ancer and
Today won, 3 and 2, in the first
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)
2 p.m. — Oklahoma State at Houston,
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3 p.m. — Wofford at North Carolina,
ACCN
3 p.m. — Purdue at Nebraska, BTN Spurs outlast Suns in Mexico City in record 4th straight OT
3 p.m. — Southern Illinois (Edwards- The Associated Press
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3 p.m. — Southern Illinois (Carbondale) MEXICO CITY —
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Patty Mills made a
3:30 p.m. — California (Riverside) at jumper from the free
Washington State, PAC-12N
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4 p.m. — South Carolina at Clemson, onds left in the San An-
ESPN2
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5:30 p.m. — Ohio State at Minnesota,
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5:30 p.m. — Long Beach State at
they outlasted the
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Phoenix Suns 121-119
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11 a.m. — Elon at North Carolina
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Noon — Louisville at Kentucky, ESPN
es of teams playing
1 p.m. — St. John’s at Florida State,
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ACCN
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1 p.m. — Houston at Texas A&M, SECN
7:30 p.m. — Ohio State at Stanford, straight, like the Spurs
have. They’re 3-1 in
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11 a.m. — PGA Tour: The QBE Shark stretch since opening
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GOLF DeMar DeRozan
Noon — Presidents Cup: U.S. vs.
International Team, Final Day Singles
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Matches, Melbourne, Australia (taped),
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5 9 0 .357 247 343
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3:25 p.m. — LA Rams at Dallas, FOX Tennessee 8 5 0 .615 318 255
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1 12 0 .077 198 325
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8:30 a.m. — Bundesliga: Borussia Denver 5 8 0 .385 236 261
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North
of 12 singles matches. ry was his 27th in nine were trying to win for was still only 1 down
The Americans need to appearances, breaking the second time. Their through 13 holes when
win singles for the first the record Phil Mickel- only other victory was he three-putted from
time in 10 years to over- son had set in 12 events. at Royal Melbourne in long range for bogey on
come a two-point deficit The idea was to get 1998. the 14th.
against the Internation- American red on the Ancer, one of seven
Woods closed him
al team. board quickly, and rookies on the Interna-
out with a 20-foot birdie
Woods went 3-0 for Woods did his part. The tional team, three times
the week as the first rest of the team was fol- answered when Woods on the 16th hole, turn-
playing captain since lowing the script, build- the lead. Woods, how- ing to remove his cap
Hale Irwin at the inau- ing early leads in five ever, took over with a and shake hands with
gural Presidents Cup in other matches. par on No. 9 and a bird- Ancer before the ball
1994. His singles victo- The Internationals ie on the 10th. Ancer dropped into the cup.
pulled the Spurs even Aldridge and Dejounte game ahead of the idle points, Marc Gasol
with a drive and fling Murray each added 18 Los Angeles Lakers for set season highs with
— after a foul by Mikal for San Antonio, and the best record in the 17 points and 15 re-
Bridges — down the Lonnie Walker IV had league. The Bucks have bounds and Toronto
right side of the lane, 16 on his 21st birthday. not lost since Nov. 8 at beat Brooklyn to snap
but missed the free Ricky Rubio had 25 Utah. a three-game home los-
throw. The ball went out points and 13 assists The streak is the sec- ing streak.
of bounds on a scramble for Phoenix. Frank Ka- ond longest in franchise
Norman Powell
after the missed free minsky added 22, and history. The Bucks won
fouled out with 25 points
throw, and San Antonio Oubre had 17. 20 consecutive games
and Kyle Lowry had
kept the ball after a re- in the 1970-71 season
17 to help the Raptors
play review.
Phoenix, with star
Bucks 125, on the way to winning win their ninth straight
their lone NBA champi-
guard Devin Booker Cavaliers 108 onship.
home game against the
sitting out because of MILWAUKEE — Gi- Nets and beat Brooklyn
Kevin Porter Jr. had for the 16th time in 17
a sore forearm, over- annis Antetokounmpo
15 points, and Jordan meetings.
came a late seven-point scored 29 points and
Clarkson scored 13 for Serge Ibaka had 12
deficit to force overtime Khris Middleton had
Cleveland. points and 12 rebounds
on Kelly Oubre Jr.’s 24 to lead Milwaukee
3-pointer from the cor- to its 18th consecutive as Toronto extended
ner in the final seconds. victory. Raptors 110, an NBA record by win-
Mills led the The Bucks have won Nets 102 ning its 34th straight at
Spurs with 26 points. 22 of their last 23 and TORONTO — Pas- home against a division
DeRozan, LaMarcus improved to 24-3, a half- cal Siakam scored 30 foe.
W L T Pct PF PA Georgetown 89, Syracuse 79 South Dakota 96, Mayville State 60 Eldrenkamp from the practice squad.
Green Bay 10 3 0 .769 309 270 Hartford 71, Wagner 63 Toledo 80, Detroit 72 MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived CB Marcus
Sherels. Signed S Montre Hartage from the
Minnesota 9 4 0 .692 339 249 La Salle 85, Morgan St. 68 Wichita St. 80, Oklahoma 75
Chicago 7 6 0 .538 243 232 Penn St. 73, Alabama 71 SOUTHWEST practice squad.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed DL D.J.
Detroit 3 9 1 .269 287 335 Princeton 80, Fairleigh Dickinson 65 Arkansas 98, Tulsa 79
West Rider 89, LIU Brooklyn 74 TCU 79, Lamar 50 Jones on IR. Activated DL Kentavius Street
W L T Pct PF PA from IR.
San Francisco 11 2 0 .846 397 229
Rutgers 68, Seton Hall 48
St. Bonaventure 75, Gannon 50
Texas 87, Cent. Michigan 76
FAR WEST
TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived CB Kareem Orr.
Signed DL Joey Ivie from the practice squad.
Seattle
L.A. Rams
10 3 0 .769
8 5 0 .615
341 321
311 262
St. Francis (NY) 73, NJIT 71 Air Force 79, Denver 75 WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed WR Paul
Villanova 78, Delaware 70 Boise St. 100, Alabama St. 57 Richardson Jr. on IR. Signed OT Timon Parris
Arizona 3 9 1 .269 272 374
West Virginia 83, Nicholls 57 Oregon St. 80, Ark.-Pine Bluff 46 from the practice squad.
x-clinched playoff spot
SOUTH S. Utah 62, UC Santa Barbara 61
y-clinched division
Appalachian St. 81, Howard 59 San Francisco 91, Cal St.-Fullerton 69
Canadian Football League
WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed OL Jer-
Thursday’s Games
Baltimore 42, N.Y. Jets 21
Auburn 67, Saint Louis 61 Santa Clara 60, Sacramento St. 58 marcus Hardrick to a one-year contract extension.
Coastal Carolina 91, NC Central 71 Utah 60, Weber St. 49 HOCKEY
Today’s Games
Denver at Kansas City, Noon
Duquesne 71, Radford 49 National Hockey League
Tampa Bay at Detroit, Noon
Houston at Tennessee, Noon
East Carolina 79, Campbell 67
Elon 91, NC Wesleyan 60 Transactions DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned D Dylan
McIlrath to Grand Rapids (AHL). Removed RW
Anthony Mantha from IR.
Miami at N.Y. Giants, Noon
FAU 81, High Point 64
Furman 80, Winthrop 73
Saturday’s moves
BASEBALL NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled F Colin
Seattle at Carolina, Noon Blackwell from Milwaukee (AHL). Returned F
Chicago at Green Bay, Noon
Jacksonville 93, Middle Georgia State 79 Frontier League
Daniel Carr to Milwaukee (AHL).
Kentucky 67, Georgia Tech 53 GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed OF Dustin
New England at Cincinnati, Noon
Louisiana Tech 77, Louisiana-Lafayette 59 Woodcock to a contract extension. NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed G Louis
Domingue on IR. Recalled G Evan Cormier from
Philadelphia at Washington, Noon LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Traded RHP Logan
Louisville 99, E. Kentucky 67 Adirondack (AHL).
Cleveland at Arizona, 3:05 p.m. Lombana to the Lincoln Saltdogs of the American
Memphis 51, Tennessee 47 Associaton for a player to be named later. American Hockey League
Jacksonville at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.
Minnesota at L.A. Chargers, 3:05 p.m.
Miami 88, Alabama A&M 74 BASKETBALL LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Returned F
North Florida 72, Southern Miss 69 National Basketball Association Steven Swavely to Reading (ECHL).
Atlanta at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.
L.A. Rams at Dallas, 3:25 p.m.
Ole Miss 82, Middle Tennessee 64 ATLANTA HAWKS — Waived G Tyrone Wallace. ECHL
Richmond 78, Coll. of Charleston 71 ECHL — Suspended Greenville F Nathan
Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 7:20 p.m.
UNC-Asheville 91, UT Martin 72
FOOTBALL
National Football League Perkovich two games and Rapid City F Brennan
Monday’s Games Saulnier, pending a hearing.
Indianapolis at New Orleans, 7:15 p.m.
Wake Forest 80, Xavier 78 CHICAGO BEARS — Placed TE Ben Braunecker
SOCCER
MIDWEST on IR. Activated DT Akiem Hicks from IR.
Butler 66, Southern U. 41 DENVER BRONCOS — Waived LB Ahmad USL Championship
SAN DIEGO LOYAL — Signed D Emrah Klimenta.
College Basketball DePaul 86, UIC 65 Gooden. Placed WR Juwann Winfree on IR.
IUPUI 74, Fort Wayne 65 Signed DL Deyon Sizer from the practice squad COLLEGE
and NT Kyle Peko from Indianapolis’ practice BOSTON COLLEGE — Named Jeff Hafley
Saturday’s Scores
Illinois 69, Old Dominion 55
Kansas 98, UMKC 57 squad football coach.
DETROIT LIONS — Placed LB Jarrad Davis and RUTGERS — Named Jim Panagos defensive
EAST Michigan St. 72, Oakland 49 G Joe Dahl on IR. Signed RB Wes Hills and OT line coach.
Army 89, Buffalo 76 Mississippi St. 67, Kansas St. 61 NORTH CAROLINA — Agreed on a one-year
Boston U. 78, Dartmouth 76 Dan Skipper from the practice squad.
Notre Dame 75, UCLA 61 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed G Jake contract extension with football coach Mack
Canisius 80, Holy Cross 72 Oregon 71, Michigan 70, OT Brown.

New Hope’s Clark signs to Northwest Mississippi CC
New Hope senior Ellis Clark poses with his parents, John and Mandy Dale, his sister, Lindsey Ruth Clark, his brother, John Ross Dale, and New Hope soccer coach Andrew
Olsen after signing his letter of intent to play soccer at Northwest Mississippi Community College.
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
NEW HOPE — Ellis
Clark needed cones and
advice.
Clark, a senior on the
New Hope High School
soccer team, had accept-
ed a coaching position
with the Veal Chiroprac-
tic under-12 boys team in
the Columbus Parks and
Recreation soccer league
this summer. His step-
brother was on the team,
and it needed a coach, so
Clark stepped up.
But his only prior
coaching experience was
with an under-5 team, so
he turned to New Hope
coach Andrew Olsen for
help. He asked Olsen
what kind of drills he
should run for practice
and borrowed cones from
Olsen to run them.
“At that age, you’ve got-
ta keep it fun for them,”
Olsen said. “It all can’t
be like, ‘Win a champi-
onship. Win a champion-
ship.’”
Clark did, incorporat-
Parnell, Wilson score as Trojans blank rival ’Feds on the road
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
CALEDONIA — Trey
Parnell and Jacob Wilson
spent plenty of time this
offseason trying to get
their rhythm down.
Saturday, on the road
against rival Caledonia,
that hard work paid off
for the two New Hope for-
wards.
Parnell scored in the
16th minute and Wilson
scored in the 72nd as the
two opened and shut a 2-0
victory for the Trojans (8-
1-1) against the Confeder-
ates (9-2) on Saturday in
Caledonia.
“They’ve worked all
offseason trying to click
with each other, and it’s
finally coming together at
the right time,” New Hope
coach Andrew Olsen said.
The two forwards
weren’t always on the
same page, but they spent
most of the match drib
ing into practices a “keep-
away” drill where he drib-
bled the ball around the
field, daring his players to
take it from him.
“They always liked
that,” Clark said. “It was
fun. It kept them enter-
tained, and it was keeping
their conditioning and
trying to get their foot-
work in a better position.”
His efforts paid off:
The team finished second
in its league under Clark’s
leadership.
“I guess it’s payback
for a lot of my coaches,
too, because they had to
deal with me,” Clark said.
“It opened my eyes: Not
everything’s just about
me; I also have to put it in
a different perspective.”
Clark’s youth coaching
stint was but one example
of the boundless soccer
knowledge he displays,
whether it’s at his cen-
tral midfielder position or
working on tactics from
the sideline.
The New Hope senior,
a varsity starter since his
freshman year of high
bling past, around or even
over Caledonia defenders,
as the Trojans’ offense
set up shop on the ’Feds’
side of the field. With
New Hope goalkeeper Vi-
cente Lugo holding down
the fort when Caledonia
earned a rare chance, the
Trojans were set.
“Any time we can hold
a shutout and we can just
get one goal, I think we’re
gonna be good,” Olsen
said.
But the fourth-year
coach knew just one goal
wasn’t enough. He’s been
around enough to see
last-second equalizers on
both sides of the rivalry.
So when Wilson’s shot
trickled into the goal just
to the right of of Caledo-
nia goalkeeper Carson
Elliott, Olsen and the
Trojans could exhale, but
they couldn’t walk off the
field.
“When you get that
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PREP SOCCER
school, used that intelli-
gence to quickly blossom
into one of the Trojans’
leaders. So Friday morn-
ing, when he signed his
letter of intent to play
soccer at Northwest Mis-
sissippi Community Col-
lege, Olsen was anything
but surprised.
“You can tell when he’s
on there that he knows
the game,” Olsen said.
“A lot of the guys, when
we’re on the field, they’re
looking at him to see
what’s going on, and he
keeps it flowing.”
Clark has played a key
role in the Trojans’ 6-1-
Parents John and Mandy Dale watch as Ellis Clark puts
pen to paper on Friday at New Hope.
NEW HOPE 2, CALEDONIA 0
breathe a little bit, but you
still can’t let up because
anything can happen,”
Olsen said. “I know they
stayed working hard for
the full 80.”
New Hope weathered
a couple late chances —
Caledonia senior Garrett
Bergstrom nearly scored
with four minutes to play
— and walked off its ri-
val’s field with the 2-0
win, a boon for the Tro-
jan defense against the
6-foot-6 Bergstrom and
the ’Feds offense.
“I’m proud of them,”
Olsen said. “I know he’s
hard to handle in the air,
so coming in, I was just
like, ‘We can’t give up any
balls in the air.’”
New Hope didn’t, keep-
ing the ball largely out of
the air and entirely out of
the net. The tepid offense
frustrated a normally
high-scoring Caledonia
team.
1 start to the season as
of Friday morning. With
his longtime starting ex-
perience, he’s someone
New Hope can count on in
clutch moments and criti-
cal games.
“When everything’s on
the line, he’s been in these
big games before, so he’s
one of those guys that
we’re looking at because
he’s been there and done
it before,” Olsen said.
That included a first-
round playoff win at
Corinth that stuck in Ol-
sen’s mind. With New
Hope down 1-0 at the half,
Clark — just a sophomore
Courtesy of Mandy Dale
you gotta put the ball
in the back of the net,
and that’s something we
didn’t do today,” Caledo-
nia coach Thomas Blake
said. “They did some
things defensively that
helped counter some stuff
we were trying to do, and
we didn’t do a good job of
adjusting to that. If you
have chances, you have
to put them in the back of
the net. We had too many
today not to have one or
two goals.”
Lugo’s play in goal for
New Hope contributed to
the result, Blake said, but
the team’s overall lack of
chances proved more sig-
nificant.
“I think we could have
worked him more than we
did tonight,” Blake said.
“Their defenders did a re-
ally good job tonight.”
That stellar defense
and the efforts of Parnell
and Wilson added up to a
Sunday, December 15, 2019
— helped the team calm
down. New Hope equal-
ized in the second half,
then won 6-5 in a penalty
shootout to advance.
“He came out in the
second half and helped us
get the game under con-
trol,” Olsen said.
Though Olsen knew
Clark longed to play col-
legiate soccer since his
freshman year, it was
Clark’s junior season that
made his coach sure it
would soon become a re-
ality.
That year, he moved
from the winger spot to
the central midfield in
more of a defensive role,
allowing him to be in the
midst of everything on
the field.
Taking that leap al-
lowed Clark to reach the
goal he’d long wanted.
He visited Northwest and
loved the campus, and
when the Rangers offered
him late this summer,
Clark committed.
“It’s just all around a
good school to go to,” he
said.
the final regular-season
match against Caledonia
for the Trojans’ seniors.
“Everything was on
the line, so I know the se-
niors can go out on a high
note,” Olsen said. It’s a
good memory for them,
especially when you’re on
the road and get one.”
Caledonia girls 3,
New Hope 0
CALEDONIA — The
Caledonia girls shut out
New Hope 3-0 to improve
to 9-1 on the season.
Elayna McKee, Jane
Claire and Lauren Brown
all scored for the Confed-
erates — all in the second
half — to beat the Trojans
(6-4).
Caledonia faces Ponto-
toc on the road Tuesday.
New Hope will play
a doubleheader at West
Point on Tuesday.
3B
Courtesy of Mandy Dale
Clark also plays foot-
ball — he’s a kicker for
the Trojans — but there
was no doubt that his fu-
ture lies in soccer. Foot-
ball coach Wade Tackett
knew that, letting Clark
head over to soccer prac-
tice once kicking drills
were finished so Clark
wouldn’t miss any more
time practicing the sport
he loved.
“I’ve been dreaming
about playing soccer
since I couldn’t remem-
ber,” Clark said.
He signed not 12
hours before the Tro-
jans’ key district match
against Grenada on Fri-
day night, and New Hope
also squares off with rival
Caledonia on the road Sat-
urday. But with the stress
of finalizing his college
decision in the past, Clark
can home in on the goals
of his senior season.
“It’s all behind him,”
Olsen said. “Now he can
just focus on trying to get
us into the playoffs and
make a run.”
nada 0 (Friday)
NEW HOPE — The
New Hope boys soccer
team shut out Grenada 2-0
in Friday’s home match.
Once again, Parnell
and Wilson each scored
the Trojans’ goals
New Hope girls 2,
Grenada 2, Friday
(New Hope wins 4-2 on
penalty kicks)
NEW HOPE — The
New Hope girls won their
match with Grenada on
penalty kicks Friday in
New Hope.
The Trojans converted
on four penalties, and the
Chargers scored just two.
Bree Younger and Ca-
leigh Carter scored for
New Hope in regulation.
Other scores
Starkville boys 7,
Greenville 0, Friday
Starkville girls 7,
Greenville 0, Friday
4B Sunday, December 15, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

College basketball

Tyree leads Ole Miss past Middle Tennessee

The Associated Press ing to keep it going, keep
making plays like I’ve
OXFORD, Miss. — been making in practice.”
A month ago, Breein With his rocky start
Tyree’s play in Ole Miss’s now firmly in the rear-
season-opener was slug- view, Tyree said he feels
gish and scattered. De- like he’s starting to feel
spite being a first-team more comfortable in the
SEC selection last year,
Rebels’ offense, and more
Tyree scored only six comfortable letting his
points against Arkansas own talent take control of
State, was 1 for 7 from be- the game.
hind the arc, and played “The coaches had a
only 25 minutes. meeting with me and just
“It happens,” Tyree
told me to stay aggres-
said. sive,” Tyree said. “When
Well, not often. there’s shots I can take,
Tyree was dialed in on and they’re shots I can
Saturday, scoring a ca- make, they trust me to
reer high 34 points and make them.”
eight 3-pointers to lead Ole Miss (7-3) shot 53%
Ole Miss to an 82-64 vic- as a team against Middle
tory over Middle Tennes- Tennessee and had 23
see. assists, but Tyree’s per-
“All week I’ve been formance dominated the
shooting like that,” Tyree day. This was his sixth
said. “So, I was just try- 20-point game of the sea-
son and third in a row. His
previous career high was
31 points at Georgia last
season.
“He looked like the
leading returning scor-
er in the SEC,” said Ole
Miss coach Kermit Davis.
“But I thought he really
tried to defend today, and
I thought he led in the
huddles. That might not
equate to 34 every night,
but surely that gets you to
where you have a great,
great chance of winning.”
Middle Tennessee (4-
7) moved the ball well
inside but was an anemic
3-of-18 from beyond the
arc and hit only 9 of 18
free throws.
C.J. Jones led the Blue
Raiders with 23 points,
but Ole Miss held Middle
Tennessee’s other favored
scorer, Antonio Green,
to four points. Donovan
Sims and Tyson Jackson
both scored 14 points.
Ole Miss opened the
game on a 9-0 run and
led 48-31 at half behind
Tyree’s seven 3-pointers.
They never trailed.
“He really got it out of
our offense, he wasn’t try-
ing to manufacture,” Da-
vis said. “But yeah, when
a guy makes a couple of
buckets and gets going, I
love the idea of letting a
guy on a heater keep go-
ing.”
Blake Hinson added 11
points and Devontae Shul-
er and Khadim Sy both
chipped in 10 points.
Big picture
Middle Tennessee:
After a hot start, the Blue
Raiders have lost seven of
their last eight games and
continue to struggle be-
yond the arc. Getting se-
nior big man Reggie Scur-
ry back from suspension
next week will help, but
head coach Nick McDe-
vitt had better find some
additional scorers on this
squad, and fast.
Ole Miss: The Reb-
els improved to 6-1 at
home this season, and
head coach Kermit Da-
vis notched his second
straight win over the team
he coached for 16 sea-
sons. There will surely be
cake for Davis after this
one — he turned 60 years
old on Saturday. After the
game, Tyree grabbed the
scorer’s table microphone
and led the arena in “Hap-
py Birthday.”
Up next
Middle Tennessee will
likewise have the week
off before hosting St.
Bonaventure next Satur-
day in Murfreesboro.
Ole Miss will have a
week off before facing
Southeast Louisiana next
Saturday at a neutral-site
game in Jackson.
OLE MISS 82,
MIDDLE TENNESSEE 64
MIDDLE TENNESSEE (4-7)
Jackson 7-7 0-1 14, Johnson 1-5 4-5 6, Sims 6-11 2-5
14, Jones 9-17 2-3 23, Green 2-9 0-1 4, Millin 0-2 0-0
0, Crump 1-3 0-1 2, Kromah 0-0 0-0 0, Lawrence 0-5
1-2 1. Totals 26-59 9-18 64.
OLE MISS (7-3)
Sy 4-9 2-4 10, Buffen 1-3 0-0 2, Tyree 11-20 4-5 34,
Shuler 3-6 3-4 10, Hinson 4-6 0-0 11, Curry 0-0 0-0
0, Hunter 0-0 2-2 2, Crowley 4-7 1-1 11, Miller 0-0 0-0
0, Williams 1-1 0-0 2, McBride 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 28-
53 12-16 82.
Halftime_Mississippi 48-31. 3-Point Goals_Middle
Tennessee 3-18 (Jones 3-7, Johnson 0-1, Sims 0-1,
Millin 0-2, Lawrence 0-2, Green 0-5), Mississippi
14-22 (Tyree 8-11, Hinson 3-5, Crowley 2-3, Shuler
1-1, Sy 0-2). Fouled Out_Green. Rebounds_Middle
Tennessee 29 (Jackson 8), Mississippi 31 (Buffen 8).
Assists_Middle Tennessee 14 (Sims 7), Mississippi
23 (Shuler 9). Total Fouls_Middle Tennessee 18,
Mississippi 19. Technicals_Buffen. A_7,734 (9,500).

No. 13 Memphis outlasts No. 19 Tennessee, avenges loss

The Associated Press scored 11 points and
Baugh added 10 for Mem-
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — phis (9-1), which found a
Even the newcomers on way to win despite scor-
Memphis’ freshmen-lad- ing just five points in the
en roster who didn’t play game’s first 12 minutes.
in a loss to Tennessee last Josiah-Jordan James
year understood the im- scored 14 for Tennessee
portance of avenging that (7-2). The Vols shot 25%
defeat. — their lowest field-goal
The 13th-ranked Ti- percentage of Barnes’
gers got their revenge five-year tenure — and
Saturday. Not only did were just 4 of 26 from
Memphis beat its in-state 3-point range.
rival, it snapped the lon-
“You need to let this
gest active home winning loss hit you, but you can’t
streak of any Division I let it bog you down,”
team and prevented Ten- Tennessee forward John
nessee coach Rick Barnes Fulkerson said. “You’ve
from reaching a career got to know how it feels to
milestone. lose, but then you’ve got
Damion Baugh sank to just forget about it and
a 3-pointer with 1:43 re- be on to the next game.”
maining to put Memphis Tennessee’s loss pre-
ahead for good and the vented Barnes from be-
Tigers outlasted No. 19 coming the seventh active
Tennessee 51-47 to end Division I coach to reach
the Volunteers’ 31-game 700 victories. Barnes’ 699
home winning streak. career wins include a 94-
“We came in with a lit- 84 victory at Memphis
er penalizing players for
flopping, Hardaway per-
ceived those comments to
be directed at Memphis
and called them “kind of
low class.”
The sellout crowd at
Thompson-Boling Arena
showered Hardaway with
boos as he walked onto
the court before Satur-
day’s game. Jeffries said
Memphis players started
getting booed as soon as
they walked off the bus.
“When I read those
statements today, it kind
of made me cringe a little
bit, so I kind of under-
stood what was going to
happen,” Hardaway said.
“I felt like it got misun-
derstood, but then when
I read it, it wasn’t a good
look.”
That crowd may have
made an early impact
as Memphis scored just
five points in the first 12
minutes and went 10-plus
Hardaway, who started
four freshmen Saturday.
“We were well prepared,
but you never can account
for the nervous energy.
Last week at UAB, I think
they took those guys
lightly, and they jumped
on us, and this week I
think they were too hy-
per to get into the game
because they knew what
kind of game it was going
to be. That’s what you get
with young teams.”
Neither team led by
more than four in the sec-
ond half. Memphis was
trailing by a point when
Jeffries drove the base-
line and passed to Baugh,
who sank an open 3-point-
er to put the Tigers ahead
to stay at 49-47.
Tennessee had a Jordan Bowden and Turn-
chance to tie with 22 sec-
onds remaining, but Yves
Pons missed the front end
of a one-and-one oppor-
enth consecutive game
without suspended for-
ward James Wiseman and
a fourth straight game
without injured guard
Lester Quinones.
Wiseman, a likely
NBA lottery pick averag-
ing 19.7 points and 10.7
rebounds, is serving a
12-game suspension be-
cause Hardaway gave the
forward’s family $11,500
to cover expenses for its
move from Nashville to
Memphis in the summer
of 2017. Hardaway wasn’t
coaching Memphis at the
time, but the NCAA deter-
mined he was acting as a
booster.
Tennessee: The Vols
got very little from their
senior backcourt duo of
er, their two leading scor-
ers this season. Bowden
and Turner had just five
points apiece in this one.
tract that also includes a
neutral-site matchup next
season in Nashville. The
long-term future of the se-
ries remains unclear.
“I’d love to keep it
going,” Hardaway said.
“Like I said, it just kind of
got out of hand last year.
I have always had respect
for Coach Barnes.”
Poll implications
Memphis has a shot at
cracking the top 10 after
producing a big road vic-
tory without Wiseman or
Quinones. Tennessee fig-
ures to fall into the 20s.
Up next
Memphis hosts Jack-
son State on Dec. 21.
Tennessee visits Cin-
cinnati on Wednesday.
NO. 13 MEMPHIS 51,
NO. 19 TENNESSEE 47
MEMPHIS (9-1)

tle chip on our shoulders tunity. Memphis’ Alex Turner shot 1 of 11 (0 Jeffries 5-11 0-0 11, Maurice 0-4 0-0 0, Achiuwa 3-9
last year that was most no- minutes without making a 2-3 8, Ellis 1-7 1-2 3, Baugh 4-6 1-2 10, Thomas 0-2

to get some revenge,” said table for comments made basket during one stretch. Lomax sank both ends of 5 on 3-pointers) and 0-0 0, Dandridge 0-0 0-0 0, Hardaway 0-0 0-0 0, Har-
ris 4-10 0-0 11, Lomax 2-7 4-6 8. Totals 19-56 8-13 51.
freshman D.J. Jeffries, in the aftermath. One week after erasing of a one-and-one with 7.9 Bowden was 2 of 10 (1 of TENNESSEE (7-2)
Fulkerson 3-8 3-5 9, Turner 1-11 3-4 5, Bowden 2-10
who scored 11 points Tigers coach Penny an early 20-point deficit seconds left to seal the 6 on 3-pointers). 0-0 5, James 4-11 3-4 14, Pons 3-10 0-1 6, Pember
1-4 2-2 4, Nkamhoua 1-4 0-0 2, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0,
and assisted on Baugh’s Hardaway said Tennes- in a victory at UAB, Mem- victory. Gaines 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 15-60 13-18 47.

go-ahead basket. “We see players approached phis was trailing Tennes- Rivalry’s future Halftime_Memphis 25-24. 3-Point Goals_Memphis

did that and I couldn’t Memphis’ bench late in see 17-5 midway through Big picture This marked the sec-
5-13 (Harris 3-6, Jeffries 1-1, Baugh 1-1, Ellis 0-1,
Maurice 0-2, Thomas 0-2), Tennessee 4-26 (James
be more happy with the the game “with their fists the first half. Memphis: The Tigers ond straight season Ten- 3-6, Bowden 1-6, Johnson 0-1, Gaines 0-1, Pember
0-2, Nkamhoua 0-2, Pons 0-3, Turner 0-5). Fouled
guys. We grew up today, balled.” When Barnes “When you have a are winning without some nessee and Memphis Out_None. Rebounds_Memphis 44 (Achiuwa 13),
Tennessee 32 (Fulkerson 7). Assists_Memphis 5
so I’m proud of everyone.” said a few days later that young team, you just re- of their best players. have faced each other as (Lomax 3), Tennessee 11 (Turner, Fulkerson 3).
Total Fouls_Memphis 17, Tennessee 18. A_21,868
Tyler Harris also the NCAA should consid- ally don’t know,” said Memphis played a sev- part of a three-game con- (21,678).

Hendricksen
carries North No. 10 Oregon outlasts No. 5 Michigan in OT
The Associated Press time. building quite a resume deep 3 at the end of regula-
Florida over ANN ARBOR, Mich. —
“With a point guard, you
just kind of pick and choose
early this season. They beat
Memphis and Seton Hall last
tion went in. He took off cel-
ebrating, but after a review,

Southern In a stellar matchup of se-

nior point guards, Payton
what’s the time to go and
when to not,” Pritchard said.
month and now have this
impressive road win as well.
the shot was ruled too late to
count.
Pritchard prevailed in the
Miss
“I felt throughout the game, Their only losses were to “I was trying to get it off
end. I could’ve hit those gaps, Gonzaga and North Caroli- as fast as I could, and then
Pritchard scored 19 of but you’ve got to wait for it na. adrenaline started kicking
The Associated Press his 23 points after halftime, to open up. They started Michigan: The Wolver- in,” he said. “I just had to
and No. 10 Oregon outlast- not collapsing as much, and ines have had problems on celebrate, and then we know
HAT TIESBURG, Miss. — Car- ed No. 5 Michigan 71-70 in that’s when I was able to get the rare occasion when the how it went.”
ter Hendricksen scored 13 points overtime Saturday. With the to the rim.”
while pulling down 10 rebounds to opposing point guard can get
game on the line, Pritchard Pritchard scored the the better of Simpson. They Poll implications
lead five North Florida players in
repeatedly drove past Mich- Ducks’ final points of the lost three times to Cassius
double figures as the Ospreys nar- Oregon can expect to
rowly defeated Southern Miss 72- igan’s Zavier Simpson, and game on a driving layup that Winston and Michigan State move up in the rankings,
69 on Saturday. although Simpson had eight put Oregon up 71-68. Then last season, and they weren’t and Michigan should drop.
JT Escobar and Garrett Sams points and 11 assists, the David DeJulius made a base- able to overcome a terrific This wasn’t a bad loss for the
added 14 points apiece for the Os- Wolverines lost their second line jumper for the Wolver- performance by Pritchard. Wolverines, but they fell at
preys (7-5) who picked up their first straight game. ines and forced a turnover on “Every bucket he made, Illinois earlier in the week as
road win after dropping four away “I thought the intensity the inbound pass. he had to earn it,” Howard well.
games. Wajid Aminu and Ivan Gan- was really high. When they Michigan’s final posses- said. “Overall, I love how our
dia-Rosa chipped in 13 apiece. started hitting shots in the sion lasted a while. DeJulius defensive disposition was Up next
New Hope product Tyler Steven- second half, their intensity missed a driving shot, and displayed today.” Oregon: The Ducks re-
son scored a career-high 27 points went way up,” Oregon coach the ball went out of bounds
for the Golden Eagles (3-8). Gabe Dana Altman said. “I thought after a scramble near the turn home to face Montana
Watson added 16 points. LaDavius
the guys fought it off just basket. The Wolverines kept Turnaround on Wednesday night.
Draine had 15 points. possession after a lengthy After the rough start,
enough to win.”
The Ospreys improve to 2-0 Michigan made its first five Michigan: The Wolver-
Oregon (8-2) built a review, but Simpson missed
against the Golden Eagles for the 3-point attempts follow- ines’ schedule eases up as
16-point lead in the first half, a driving hook shot in the
season. North Florida defeated ing halftime. Isaiah Livers
then had to withstand an final seconds, and a tip-in well with a visit from Presby-
Southern Miss 66-63 on Nov. 14.
extended Michigan charge. attempt by Brandon Johns scored the Wolverines’ first terian next Saturday.
North Florida plays Florida State
Anthony Mathis nearly won wouldn’t drop. 11 points of the second half.
on the road on Tuesday. Southern
Miss plays Texas Tech on the road it for the Ducks with a long “We got the ball in the Freshman Franz Wagner NO. 10 OREGON 71,
on Monday. 3-pointer at the end of regu- hands of the right person we scored 18 of his 21 points af- N). 5 MICHIGAN 70, OT
lation, but a replay showed wanted to have it,” Michigan ter halftime. OREGON (8-2)
Okoro 1-2 2-2 4, Walker 3-5 0-0 7, Pritchard 11-19 1-3 23,
NORTH FLORIDA 72, he released the shot just af- coach Juwan Howard said. “I “You’ve just got to take Duarte 3-7 4-5 11, Mathis 6-10 1-2 19, Lawson 0-1 0-0 0,
Richardson 3-7 1-1 7, Patterson 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 27-53
SOUTHERN MISS 69 ter the clock ran out. love the look that we had.” what the defense gives you 9-13 71.
NORTH FLORIDA (7-5) MICHIGAN (8-3)
Hendricksen 5-13 0-0 13, Aminu 5-6 3-4 13, Gandia-Rosa 4-6 2-2 13,
Simpson’s calling card Michigan shot 7 of 29 in and stay confident out there,” Livers 5-12 0-0 13, Teske 1-3 2-2 4, Wagner 8-13 1-1 21,
Escobar 5-15 0-1 14, Sams 4-11 2-2 14, Day 0-3 2-2 2, James 1-2 0-0 3,
Burkhardt 0-0 0-0 0, Adedoyin 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 24-57 9-11 72. has been his defense during the first half and flubbed Wagner said. “I think every- Brooks 1-6 0-0 2, Simpson 3-11 2-2 8, Johns 2-6 4-6 8,
Castleton 0-0 0-0 0, DeJulius 5-9 2-3 14, Nunez 0-1 0-0 0.
SOUTHERN MISS (3-8)
Stevenson 11-18 5-8 27, Harper-Baker 4-15 1-3 9, Watson 7-15 1-2 16, his Michigan career, but the three dunk attempts toward body does that on our team.” Totals 25-61 11-14 70.
Malone 0-5 0-0 0, Draine 5-13 2-2 15, Dean 0-0 0-0 0, Konontsuk 0-0 0-0
0, Leslie 0-0 0-0 0, McCoy 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 28-69 9-15 69. Wolverines (8-3) had no an- the end. Oregon led 31-23 at Halftime_Oregon 31-23. End Of Regulation_Tied 63.

Halftime_North Florida 32-29. 3-Point Goals_North Florida 15-42 (Sams

4-10, Escobar 4-13, Gandia-Rosa 3-4, Hendricksen 3-11, James 1-2, Day
swer for Pritchard late. He the break. Premature celebration 3-Point Goals_Oregon 8-16 (Mathis 6-10, Walker 1-1, Du-
arte 1-3, Pritchard 0-1, Patterson 0-1), Michigan 9-21 (Wag-
ner 4-7, Livers 3-6, DeJulius 2-5, Brooks 0-1, Nunez 0-1,
0-1, Adedoyin 0-1), Southern Miss. 4-17 (Draine 3-9, Watson 1-3, McCoy scored 13 of Oregon’s points Mathis scored 19 points Simpson 0-1). Fouled Out_None. Rebounds_Oregon 29
0-1, Malone 0-2, Harper-Baker 0-2). Fouled Out_None. Rebounds_North
Florida 37 (Hendricksen 10), Southern Miss. 39 (Harper-Baker 11). As-
sists_North Florida 18 (Gandia-Rosa 6), Southern Miss. 15 (Malone 5).
in a row at the end of regu- Big picture and made six 3-pointers, so (Duarte, Lawson 6), Michigan 27 (Johns 9). Assists_Oregon
6 (Pritchard 4), Michigan 14 (Simpson 11). Total Fouls_Ore-
Total Fouls_North Florida 13, Southern Miss. 11. A_2,380 (8,095). lation and the start of over- Oregon: The Ducks are it wasn’t a shock when his gon 15, Michigan 12. A_12,707 (12,707).

College football
Perry tops 300 yards; Navy trickery tops Army
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA —
Navy coach Ken Niumata-
lolo wrapped Malcolm Per-
ry tighter than an Army
defense could muster for
an embrace that served as
a bit of an apology.
Perry had done it all
for Navy in a 31-7 victory
Saturday that earned him
MVP honors in the 120th
game between the service
academies. Perry became
the fourth quarterback in
FBS history to rush for
300 yards, running for
304 yards with two touch-
downs, and set a slew of
program records.
It forced Niumatalolo to
go on TV and issue a mea
culpa: “I’m a bad coach.
How did I bench him last
year?”
Perry’s biggest num-
ber? For the senior it was
one, as in, the first time he
led the No. 21 Mids past
Army.
“This was the biggest
game I’ve played in my
life,” Perry said. “We
didn’t win the last three
games. But that makes
this even more sweet.”
Navy (10-2, No. 23,
CFP) used a trick play to
help reverse a rare los-
ing streak against Army
and won the Command-
er-In-Chief’s Trophy for
the 16th time.
Navy leads the se-
ries 61-52-7. The Black
Knights (5-8) were trying
LSU QB Joe Burrow wins Heisman Trophy in landslide vote
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Born
into a family of Cornhusk-
ers and raised in the Buck-
eye state, Joe Burrow left
his roots behind and be-
came a Heisman Trophy
winner at LSU.
The quarterback won
the Heisman on Saturday
night in a record landslide
vote, becoming the first
LSU player to bring col-
lege football’s most presti-
gious award back to Baton
Rouge in 60 years.
Burrow received 2,608
points and 841 first-place
votes, a record 90.7% of
all the first-place votes
NFL
NFL this week: Round 1 of Texans-Titans’ AFC South showdown
The Associated Press
The Houston Texans
have won the AFC South
three times in coach Bill
O’Brien’s five seasons, and
they have led or shared the
divisional lead all but three
weeks this season.
Adding a fourth title
to that list means going
through the franchise the
Texans replaced in Hous-
ton.
The Tennessee Titans
last won the AFC South
in 2008 and haven’t swept
the Houston Texans since
2007. But the Titans and
second-year coach Mike
Vrabel, who got his NFL
coaching start in Houston
working with linebackers
for O’Brien in 2014, has
won four straight and six
of seven since quarter-
back Marcus Mariota was
benched for Ryan Tanne-
hill.
That combination
helped the Titans (8-5)
climb from the bottom of
the AFC South midway
through the season into a
tie with the Texans (8-5).
Tennessee hosts Houston
on Sunday in the first of
two games between the
rivals in the final three
weeks of the schedule.
“The challenge is get-
ting ready for them the
first time,” Titans coach
Mike Vrabel said. “The
second one is not going to
mean a whole lot. We’ve
got to get ready for the first
one here.”
Houston holds the No.
4 seed in the AFC thanks
to a better record against
to win four straight games
in the Army-Navy series
for the first time since
1993 to 1996.
Perry, the 5-foot-9,
190-pound senior quar-
terback, helped the fleet-
of-foot Navy offense run
away with the game. He
ran for a 55-yard TD in the
first half, added a 44-yard
scamper and set Navy
season records in yards
rushing and total 100-yard
games.
“We wanted to open
up the box. The last few
years, we played in a
phone booth,” Niumatalo-
lo said. “We didn’t want to
play that way. We wanted
to spread things out and
let Malcolm’s talent take
over.”
But Perry’s role in
Navy’s most GIF-worthy
play didn’t end up with
his name on the scoring
sheet.
Perry took the snap at
the 1-yard line, ran to his
left and handed off the ball
to receiver Chance War-
ren, who threw to Jamale
Carothers for the score
and a 14-7 lead. It was
Navy’s twist on the Philly
Special — the Naval Spe-
cial? — at the home of the
Philadelphia Eagles.
It was Navy’s only yard
passing of the game.
“I kind of suspected it
when we got down there,”
Perry said.
Perry, who ran 29
times, did not attempt a
available. Burrow also set
a record for percentage of
points available received
with 93.8, breaking the
mark set by Troy Smith of
Ohio State in 2006. Bur-
row was named on 95.5%
of all ballots, breaking the
record of 95.2% set by Or-
egon’s Marcus Mariota in
2014.
Burrow’s margin of
victory of 1,846 broke the
record of 1,750 set by O.J.
Simpson of Southern Cali-
fornia in 1968.
Oklahoma quarterback
Jalen Hurts was second
with 762 points. Quarter-
back Justin Fields of Ohio
State was third and defen-
conference teams than
Tennessee. A sweep offers
the Titans the safest bet to
the division title and the
franchise’s first home play-
off game since January
2009.
With Tannehill at quar-
terback, Tennessee is scor-
ing 31.4 points a game —
second in the NFL in that
time only to Baltimore.
Week 15 started Thurs-
day night with Baltimore’s
42-21 home victory over
the New York Jets.
Lamar Jackson threw
five touchdown passes,
scurried into the NFL re-
cord book and guided the
Ravens to their second
straight AFC North title
and 10th consecutive vic-
tory. Baltimore (12-2) took
control with touchdowns
on its first three posses-
sions and Jackson made it
28-7 in the third quarter
with a 24-yard scoring
pass to rookie Marquise
Brown following a turn-
over by New York (5-9).
Jackson ran for 86 yards
(on eight carries) to break
Michael Vick’s single-sea-
son record for a quarter-
back. Jackson has 1,108
yards rushing. Vick had
1,039 for Atlanta in 2006.
Jackson completed 15 of 23
passes for 212 yards and
increased his NFL-leading
total of touchdown passes
to 33, tying the franchise
season record set by Vin-
ny Testaverde in 1996.
Buffalo (9-4)
at Pittsburgh (8-5)
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pass and Army surprise
starter Christian Ander-
son threw just two times.
There was more running
at Lincoln Financial Field
than at the Penn Relays
held down the road each
spring.
Anderson wasn’t even
listed on the two-deep
depth chart and got the
call over Kelvin Hop-
kins Jr. Hopkins had two
rushing touchdowns last
year in Army’s 17-10 win
over Navy and curiously
played only mop-time in
Saturday’s loss. Anderson
sparked the Black Knights
on the game’s methodi-
cal 10-minute, 41-second
opening drive, scoring on
a 5-yard run.
Army coach Jeff Monk-
en said Hopkins had a
pulled hamstring and only
practiced once this week.
“He wasn’t going to be
able to just turn it on and
open up,” Monken said.
Perry needed just four
plays to even the score
on his first dynamic run
of the game that sent the
Mids into a frenzy. The
traditional Philly game
drew 68,075 fans and ES-
PN’s “College GameDay”
was on hand. The Cadets
and Midshipmen stood,
saluted, bounced and
cheered for the entirety of
what’s billed as “America’s
Game.” President Donald
Trump attended the game
for the second straight
year. Trump also was at
sive end Chase Young of
Ohio State was fourth. .
Burrow transferred last
year to LSU from Ohio
State, where he was a spar-
ingly used reserve. After
finishing strong for the
Tigers in 2018, he broke
out this season, setting a
Southeastern Conference
record with 48 touchdown
passes and leading top-
ranked LSU to its first
College Football Playoff
appearance. The Tigers
will face No. 4 Oklahoma
and Hurts on Dec. 28 at
the Peach Bowl in Atlanta.
Burrow, a senior, blend-
ed perfectly with first-year
LSU passing game co-
hold the wild-card spots
in the AFC, which helped
this game move to prime
time. Buffalo can clinch a
playoff berth with a victo-
ry, while the Steelers are
trying to stay ahead of
the Titans. The Bills are
5-1 away from Buffalo this
season, though it might be
tougher for Bills Mafia to
find their way into Heinz
Field.
A big chunk of the rea-
son the Steelers are in the
playoff chase is how good
they are at home, going
5-2. Pittsburgh also has
won the last six in this se-
ries.
QB Devlin Hodges can
make a bit of history by be-
coming the first undrafted
rookie in the common
draft era (since 1967) to
win his first four starts.
New England (10-3)
at Cincinnati (1-12)
The Patriots’ two-game
skid has delayed New En-
gland’s annual clinching
of its perfunctory playoff
berth. Now the Pats go
into Cincinnati as heavy
favorites to both snap that
rare losing string and se-
cure that playoff berth
with a victory.
Tom Brady needs three
touchdown passes to tie
Peyton Manning (539)
for most in NFL history,
which will be watched
much more closely than
anything happening on
the Bengals’ sideline. We
think.
Chicago (7-6)
the 2016 game as presi-
dent-elect.
Trump wore a red
“Keep America Great” hat
for the traditional coin flip
in misty conditions. Army
called heads, the coin land-
ed tails and the Midship-
men deferred possession.
The referee said before
the toss it was with “great
pride, great honor, to wel-
come our Commander in
Chief, our President of
the United States, Donald
J. Trump. Mr. President,
thank you for all that you
do.”
With pride and patrio-
tism stretched end zone to
end zone, Trump sat on the
Army side of the field in
the first half and crossed
the field to the Navy side
for the second half.
Carothers crossed
the goal line for a 5-yard
score in the third that
made it 21-3 and sent the
10½-point favorite Mids on
their way toward clinching
the CIC Trophy, awarded
to the team with the best
record in games among
the three service acade-
mies.
“We’re taking it home!”
Navy players yelled as
they carried the trophy.
Bijan Nichols kicked a
37-yard field goal and Per-
ry added a 15-yard TD run
in the fourth.
The takeaway
Army: The Black
ordinator Joe Brady and
produced the most prolific
offense in school history.
Playing in a version n of-
fense similar to the one
Drew Brees runs for the
New Orleans Saints, Bur-
row has shown accuracy
and quick decision-mak-
ing similar to his child-
hood idol. With at least
one game left, Burrow has
passed for 4,715 yards and
is completing 77.9% per-
cent of his passes, on pace
to set an NCAA record.
The kid who grew up
thinking he might play
basketball in college, has
blossomed into the pos-
sible first overall pick in
at Green Bay (10-3)
The Bears need a
fourth straight win to keep
their playoff hopes alive in
the NFC, where the only
teams without double-dig-
it victories assured of
reaching the postseason
play in the NFC East.
But this time, Chica-
go is playing Green Bay,
which can clinch an NFC
playoff berth with a vic-
tory or a tie and a loss by
the Rams. Aaron Rodgers
has thrown 17 TD passes
with only one interception
in his past five games at
home against Chicago.
Seattle (10-3)
at Carolina (5-8)
The Seahawks can
bounce back from their
loss to the Rams and pos-
sibly clinch a playoff berth
with three different sce-
narios. They also need
a victory to keep a game
back of San Francisco in
the NFC West if the Nin-
ers win.
Cam Newton’s recov-
ering from foot surgery,
and the Panthers have
lost five straight. Chris-
tian McCaffrey has been
very successful against
the NFC West — not to
mention the entire league
— averaging 197.3 yards
from scrimmage in his last
four games against that di-
vision.
Denver (5-8)
at Kansas City (9-4)
The Chiefs already
have clinched their fourth
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Knights rushed for only
123 yards after averaging
311.7 yards this season,
good enough for second
nationally. Army had to
surrender the CIC Trophy
after winning it in consec-
utive seasons for the first
time in program history.
“I wish I could pick
out one thing that went
wrong,” Monken said.
“We just never seemed to
be playing as well as we’re
capable of playing. We’re
never going to be so tal-
ented that we can line up
and whip a team on talent
alone. When there’s mis-
takes, they can be very
costly for us.”
Navy: Is trying to fin-
ish the season ranked in
the AP Top 25 for only the
third time (2004, 2015) in
the last 56 years. Navy has
been ranked during the
season four times in the
last five years. The Mids
also improved to 11-2 over
Army at Lincoln Financial
Field.
Record win
Niumatalolo became
the winningest coach
in the history of the Ar-
my-Navy series with nine.
Army’s Earl Blaik went
8-8-2 from 1941-1958.
300 Yards
QBs Khalil Tate in 2017,
Jordan Lynch in 2013 and
Stacey Robinson in 1990
all topped the 300-yard
April’s NFL draft, and
LSU’s second Heisman
winner.
Halfback Billy Cannon
won the Heisman for LSU
in 1959. The 60-year gap
between Heisman victo-
ries for LSU is the largest
for any school with multi-
ple winners.
Burrow is the 17th
quarterback to win the
Heisman since 2000, and
the third straight QB
to win the award after
transferring, joining Okla-
homa’s Baker Mayfield
(2017) and Kyler Murray
(2018).
Burrow’s dad, Jimmy
Burrow, was a longtime
straight AFC West title,
and the biggest question
for Kansas City is the
health of Patrick Ma-
homes ‘ right hand. Kan-
sas City has won eight
straight in this series be-
tween the division rivals.
Rookie Drew Lock
won’t catch the Chiefs by
surprise after he threw for
309 yards and three TDs
last week in Denver’s rout
of Houston.
Philadelphia (6-7)
at Washington (3-10)
The Eagles have a short
week and need blinders to
focus only on the Redskins
and not next week’s home
game against Dallas,
which could decide the
struggling NFC East.
Philadelphia escaped
against Washington 32-27
in September and can look
at the Redskins’ close loss
at Lambeau Field to Green
Bay last week as a remind-
er to stick to the task at
hand.
This will be Washing-
ton rookie quarterback
Dwayne Haskins’ first ca-
reer start against an NFC
East opponent, and the Ea-
gles have won the last five
in this series.
Atlanta (4-7)
at San Francisco (11-2)
The 49ers need a win
to clinch a playoff berth
after that big victory in
New Orleans pushed them
back atop the NFC in the
chase for the No. 1 seed.
They still can clinch if the
Rams or both Minnesota
5B
rushing mark in a game.
Napoleon overthrown
Perry passed Napoleon
McCallum to set Navy’s
single-season rushing
mark with 1,804 yards.
McCallum held the re-
cord since 1983 with 1,587
yards.
Perry also became Na-
vy’s single-season record
holder in total offense
(2,831 yards). He also be-
came the career leading
rusher in the Army-Na-
vy series, and he had the
most rushing yards in a
single game in the series.
Up next
Army’s season is over.
Navy plays Kansas
State on Dec. 31 in the Lib-
erty Bowl.
NO. 21 Navy 31, Army 7
Army 7 0 0 0— 7
Navy 0 14 7 10—31
First quarter
ARM_Anderson 5 run (D.Cooper kick), :27
Second quarter
NAV_Perry 55 run (Nichols kick), 13:34
NAV_J.Carothers 1 pass from C.Warren (Nichols
kick), :06
Third quarter
NAV_J.Carothers 5 run (Nichols kick), 4:53
Fourth quarter
NAV_FG Nichols 37, 12:48
NAV_Perry 15 run (Nichols kick), 1:41
A_68,705.
First downs
ARM NAV
9 17
Rushes-yards
Passing
47-123 55-395
25 1
Comp-Att-Int 3-6-1 1-1-0
Return Yards 51 7
Punts-Avg. 5-44.6 3-32.33
Fumbles-Lost 4-1 0-0
Penalties-Yards 3-18 1-15
Time of Possession 27:41
Individual statistics
32:19
RUSHING_Army, Anderson 21-56, Slomka 7-21,
McCoy 10-21, K.Walker 5-11, Hobbs 1-6, Hopkins
1-4, Hancock 1-2, Walters 1-2. Navy, Perry 29-304,
J.Carothers 22-75, Ne.Smith 3-13, Makekau 1-3.
PASSING_Army, Anderson 2-4-0-18, Hopkins 1-2-1-
7. Navy, C.Warren 1-1-0-1.
RECEIVING_Army, Harrison 2-18, Cline 1-7. Navy,
J.Carothers 1-1.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_Navy, Nichols 29.
college football coach,
who played at Nebraska
and landed in Athens,
Ohio, where he was de-
fensive coordinator at the
Ohio University for 14
years. Joe Burrow grew up
in The Plains, Ohio. His
older brothers both played
at Nebraska,
His father’s boss, Ohio
coach Frank Solich, hoped
the youngest Burrow boy
would play for the Bob-
cats, but he took off in
high school. Joe Burrow
was Mr. Football in Ohio
in 2014 and signed with
Ohio State the next year.
and Green Bay lose.
The Falcons have won
three of their last five, and
Matt Ryan topped 50,000
yards passing for his ca-
reer last week.
Los Angeles Rams (8-5)
at Dallas (6-7)
The Cowboys have lost
three straight to turn their
chase of the NFC East ti-
tle into a game of survivor
trying to stay ahead of
Philadelphia. Being back
home in Dallas couldn’t
hurt, but they’re only 3-3
there this season.
The Rams are playing
catch-up, trying to chase
down Minnesota for the
NFC’s last wild-card spot
after playing in the Su-
per Bowl in February. It
doesn’t help that they visit
San Francisco next week.
But the Rams have won
two straight, with Todd
Gurley totaling 110 yards
or more from scrimmage
in each win.
Indianapolis (6-7)
at New Orleans (10-3),
Monday night
The Colts are trying
to keep their slim playoff
hopes alive after three
straight losses.
Not only are the Saints
still chasing a bye week in
the playoffs, Drew Brees
needs only three TD
passes to pass Manning
(539) for the most in NFL
history — or Brady if the
Patriots quarterback has
already reached that mark
by Monday night.
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give up something. You’ve
gotta live with some-
thing.”
The Jackets got way
more than just something
against Columbus in the
third, and it was perhaps
due to Starkville coach
Greg Carter’s halftime re-
marks to his team.
With the two teams
knotted at 20-all, Carter
told the Jackets to pick up
their intensity on defense
and get the ball moving
on offense. Easier said
than done, but Starkville
did just that.
“He just gave us some
momentum, and we just
went on from there,”
Young said.
Columbus, meanwhile,
faded as the second half
began. Morris said his
team “laid an egg” after a
promising start.
“I told the guys we’ve
gotta play two halves of
basketball,” he said. “I
Columbus senior Aniya Saddler attempts a contested shot in the paint over a group of Starkville defenders.
think the spotlight might
have gotten too big for
them. They weren’t as ag-
gressive as they were sup-
posed to be. They weren’t
locked in like they were
supposed to be.”
To complicate matters,
junior Eric Caldwell, one
of the Falcons’ reliable
scorers, couldn’t get it
going. Caldwell had just
two points. Senior Gabe
Williams stepped up with
24 points for Columbus,
but he was hampered by
a hip injury in the second
quarter, and he couldn’t
do it alone.
Starkville, on the oth-
er hand, happily spread
the wealth. Apart from
Young’s 21 points, Green
had 12, senior Trey Jack-
son had nine, and Prater
and Reese each scored
eight.
For Morris, the Jack-
ets’ balanced offensive
attack wasn’t unexpect-
ed, but the Falcons still
couldn’t stop it.
“They made shots
tonight,” Morris said.
“That’s what they usu-
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jor part of bowl season —
regardless of whom MSU
may face on the field.
For example, as a
help to players deciding
whether to play in post-
season competition or
not, one MSU staffer was
instructed to research
past players who skipped
bowl games and how that
correlated to their draft
stock.
“That’s information
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15 with 7 minutes remain-
ing in the opening half
but closed on a 17-5 run to
tie the game at 32 enter-
ing the break.
KSU, which came in
shooting 32 percent from
long range as a team,
seemingly couldn’t miss
from beyond the arc in
the first half, converting
6 of 11 3-pointers. But the
Wildcats (6-4) were lim-
ited to 0-for-7 from long
range in the second half.
“We just realized we
had to push them off of
the 3-point line,” Wood-
ard II said. “They started
off hot, so we had to keep
them off the line and take
away the open looks.”
Woodard II held KSU’s
leading scorer, Xavier
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ally do. We knew what
they were gonna be doing
coming in. Starkville’s a
good team, one of the best
teams in the state; we’ve
just gotta deal with it and
move on.”
The loss meant a
sweep for Starkville of the
two-game season series
against the Falcons. Al-
though Columbus moved
down to Class 5A this
season, the rivalry feel
was still present Friday,
and both teams know how
much a victory means.
“It’s a blessing,” Young
said.
Columbus girls 54,
Starkville 43
STARKVILLE — Co-
lumbus High School girls
basketball coach Yvonne
Hairston knows the im-
portance of the first few
moments of the final
quarter in every game.
“We always try to start
those fourth quarters by
getting a basket really
early so we can kind of set
that we provide,” Moor-
head said of trying to
help his players make an
informed decision. “I un-
derstand it. Kids need to
make a decision that’s in
their best interest, and we
have to also be mindful
to the guys that we have
on the team for the game
that we have to win.”
As for the rest of the
Bulldogs, the draft pro-
cess remains ongoing in
Sneed, to three points
and a 1-of-7 shooting per-
formance in the first half.
Sneed, who averaged
more than 15 points per
game entering the con-
test, finished with eight
points and shot 2 of 11
from the floor.
Trailing by four with
just more than six min-
utes remaining, freshman
Iverson Molinar made
what Howland called a
game-changing play.
Molinar, a 6-foot-3
guard, invigorated the
Mississippi State bench
with a one-handed, thun-
derous dunk, blowing
past Kansas State’s Ma-
kol Mawien on a drive
then putting 6-foot-8 for-
ward Levi Stockard III on
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the tone for everything,”
she said.
In Friday’s road match-
up with rival Starkville
High School, consider
that tone set.
Starkville cut into a siz-
able Columbus lead in the
third quarter, threatening
to storm back from 16
points down, but the Fal-
cons’ Aniya Saddler con-
verted an and-one layup
15 seconds into the fourth
quarter. Starkville turned
the ball over in an attempt
to answer, and Columbus
had the impetus to firmly
seize control of Friday’s
contest. The Falcons beat
the Yellow Jackets 54-43
in a physical game — typ-
ical of the rivalry between
the two schools.
“They’re a good team,”
Columbus junior guard
DJ Jackson said. “They’re
very aggressive. We came
out with more aggression.
We just got it done.”
Once again, it was the
senior Saddler leading
the way for Columbus
(6-2). The Mississippi
Starkville. Moorhead an-
nounced Friday that MSU
applied for NFL draft
grades for five players
this season — junior line-
backers Erroll Thompson
and Willie Gay Jr., junior
defensive end Marquiss
Spencer, Hill and Dant-
zler.
“We’ve already had
one meeting in anticipa-
tion of them coming and
kind of discussed the
a poster with his finish.
MSU outscored KSU 16-6
after Molinar took a play-
er five inches taller than
him to the woodshed. Mo-
linar finished with eight
points.
“If you ask (the play-
ers), they’ll all tell you it
was very invigorating,”
Howland said. “The
bench was pumped. You
could see the look in their
eyes like, ‘Yeah, we can
do this.’ I’m looking for-
ward to watching that on
replay.”
Howland wasn’t wrong
on his assessment of Mo-
linar’s impact on his play-
ers.
“Man, it shifted the
whole energy as a team,”
Woodard II said. “That
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Gulf Coast Community
College commit had 21
points, seven rebounds,
four assists and four
steals.
“She gives us a spark,”
Hairston said.
Jackson, the Falcons’
dependable point guard,
did the same Friday, scor-
ing 14 points and record-
ing six assists. Senior for-
ward Bri Smith, who had
a double-double with 10
points and 12 rebounds,
also played a big role.
“Bri Smith played big
for me tonight,” Hairston
said. “Under pressure,
she did a really good job.”
The trio made things
difficult for the Starkville
defense, and the Falcons’
strategy of pushing the
Jackets out of the paint
to make them settle for
longer shots worked won-
ders on offense.
Starkville (3-4) didn’t
make a 3-pointer —
though not for lack of try-
ing — and couldn’t seem
to get in much of a rhythm
offensively.
available information,”
Moorhead said of his play-
ers who are debating NFL
futures. “Once the grades
do come in — and they
come in on a rolling basis
— we have another plan
to get back together with
the kids and their families
if they are available. We
will help them make an
informed decision.”
Players have until Jan.
20 to enter the 2020 draft.
dunk was big time for us.”
Four Bulldogs finished
in double figures, includ-
ing Carter (14), Abdul
Ado (a season-high 13),
Woodard II (12) and Stew-
art (10). Stewart made
his first career start and
converted consecutive
critical baskets late in
the game, including the
go-ahead layup off a steal
with 3:11 remaining.
“He was our best de-
fensive player currently
on the team right now in
terms of a perimeter guy,”
Howland said of Stewart.
“He has a little more ex-
perience than Iverson, so
we went that direction.
He’s played well in prac-
tice, so he deserved the
start.”
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“I thought they were
good shots for the most
part,” Starkville head
coach Kristie Williams
said. “They just didn’t
fall.”
Outside of a plethora of
missed jumpers, the Jack-
ets turned the ball over
plenty, and Jackson or
Saddler often jump-start-
ed a Falcons fast break.
The giveaways routinely
led to points, stoking the
Columbus bench and the
sizable purple-and-gold
section in the Starkville
gym.
“Unfortunately, our
mistakes turned into
points for them, and that
hurts you when you con-
tinually turn the ball over
and then they score off
your mistakes,” Williams
said.
Starkville showed bet-
ter effort than usual in
getting back on defense
after a turnover and try-
ing to steal the ball right
back, Williams said, and
that almost turned the
tide.
Of note, 103 underclass-
men declared for last sea-
son’s draft — 30 of them
went unselected.
Dawg notes
Moorhead also an-
nounced Friday he does
not anticipate any staff
changes in the immedi-
ate future and that he will
reconvene after the bowl
game to make final eval-
uations.
Cartier Diarra had a
game-high 20 points for
the Wildcats, while Mike
McGuirl finished with
14. KSU shot 32.6 per-
cent from the floor in the
contest, while MSU con-
verted 39.7 percent of its
shots.
“The whole second
half, we did a great job
defensively holding them
to 27 percent,” Howland
said. “We got us to play
without fouling. It was a
very physical game. A lot
of our guys gutted it out.”
MSU is back in ac-
tion at 7 p.m. Wednesday
against Radford at Hum-
phrey Coliseum.
“This win meant a lot,
it’s a great confidence
booster,” Woodard II said.
Columbus reached its
zenith, a 16-point advan-
tage, twice in the middle
of the quarter, but the
Jackets fought back late
in the period to rouse the
home crowd.
Defensive miscommu-
nication briefly left the
Falcons’ 2-3 zone with a
hole in the middle, and
Starkville took advan-
tage. Amaya Ford made
a nice move for a layup,
and Jakailyn Brown con-
verted an and-one to cut
the Columbus lead to
10 going into the fourth
quarter. During a hectic,
turnover-filled sequence
late in the third, the con-
test seemed yet closer.
But Saddler put a stop
to that, converting her
layup and knocking down
the free throw 15 seconds
into the fourth quarter.
Her sister, sophomore
Mashanti Saddler, con-
tributed off the bench
with five points in the
fourth, and Jackson made
two big free throws and
had a key block to help
the Falcons put the Jack-
ets away. With some more
tough “put-out” games
looming on the Falcons’
schedule, Hairston said,
Friday was a test that Co-
lumbus passed.
“We’ve gotta make
sure we’re able to close
out the game,” she said.
“But we were able to, so
that’s a good thing.”
Though Columbus has
now swept Starkville for
the second straight year,
Hairston is well aware
nothing comes easy in
the rivalry. Friday’s phys-
ical skirmish was proof of
that.
“Each year is gonna
be a battle with us,” Hair-
ston said. “We’ll lose a lot
of people next year, and I
think they’ll still be solid.
They’ll have their same
squad. It’s really gonna be
a battle next year. That’s
just Starkville-Colum-
bus.”
“Right now we are fo-
cused on preparation,
development, and getting
ready for Louisville,” he
said. “When the game
ends, there is a period
of time post-bowl and
pre-convention where I
will sit down and do reflec-
tion, make evaluations on
everyone on the staff and
within the program and
make decisions that are
necessary from there.”
“It’s going to help us out a
lot down the road.”
Wednesday will also
be the last game of junior
point guard Nick Weath-
erspoon’s suspension.
Weatherspoon is expect-
ed to play in MSU’s Dec.
22 contest against New
Mexico State in Jackson.
“What it helps with
is minutes,” Howland
said. “Our guys are play-
ing more minutes than I
want them to play right
now. But it’s a necessity.
Getting him will help us
spread out minutes, and
we’ll have better produc-
tivity because we won’t be
asking so much from our
players.”
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grandchildren; and ments. was formerly employed Joe Fred Franks, James
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James Rollins lee Gregory Ross. She in death by his brother, F. Benjamin, Annette
AMORY — James was formerly employed Walter L. Franks. Thompson and A. Faye
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North Mississippi Med- was a member of Chris-
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Memorial Park. Visita- Ross Camp.
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10, 2019.
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Brewczynski
21, 2019,
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Mr. Brewczynski
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czynski. He was a 1975
graduate of Oak Grove
High School and was a
U.S. Navy veteran. He
was formerly employed
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ic and a truck driver
Peter Frates, known for ice
Baptist Church. Me-
morial Gunter Peel
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ments.
Mr. Robertson was
born April 17, 1941,
in Columbus, to the
late Paul Armstrong
and Beatrice Wilson
Robertson Jr. He was
formerly employed as
a police offer with the
City of Columbus and
as owner and operator
of Robertson’s Wrecker
Service and Robert-
son’s Auto Repair. He
attended Stateline
Baptist Church.
He is survived by
his daughters, Sherri
Lancaster, Justina Rob-
ertson, Chelsey Robert-
son, Macey Robertson
and Chloe Harper, all
of Columbus, and Paula
Gaughan of Hatties-
burg; sons, John Mark
Robertson of Daphne,
Alabama, and Carl
Armstrong Robertson
of Lansing, Michigan;
sister, Lucille Curtis of
Beaverton, Alabama;
(1942-2019)
born April 28, 1940, in great-grandchildren.
Monroe County, to the
late Thomas David and Wallace Franks
Myrtle Marie McAnally PRAIRIE — Wallace James Lipsey “Jim” Whitten
Rollins. He attended Franks, 67, died Dec. 7, Jr., of Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
Pine Grove and Nettle- 2019, at his residence. was healed in Heaven Friday
ton Schools and was Services are at 1 afternoon, November 29, 2019,
formerly employed with p.m. today at Baptist after a year-plus-long battle
Pullman Couch, Futo- Grove M.B. Church, with cancer.
rian and True Temper with the Rev. Joseph Born January 14, 1942, in
Sports in Amory. He Lampkin officiating. Columbus, Mississippi, to
was a member of Cason Burial will follow at a golfer and a music-loving
Baptist Church. the church cemetery. kindergarten teacher, Jim
In addition to his Visitation was from was destined to love sports,
parents, he was preced- 4-6 p.m. Saturday at music, learning, and people. After graduating
ed in death by his son, Carter’s Mortuary Ser- from Ole Miss with a BA in Music and serving
Anthony Rollins. vice Chapel. Carter’s in the Air Force, he received an MA in History
He is survived by his Mortuary Service of and started a PhD at LSU. He began working for
wife, Barbara Rollins of West Point is in charge the Veteran’s Administration while at LSU and
the Cason Community. of arrangements. continued in that career for over 20 years. For
the last 20 years-plus, he has forged wonderful
Mary Camp friendships with many golfing buddies, and
HATLEY — Mary these friendships have been one of his great joys
Dathol Camp, 93, died in life. There was always music in his house, and
Dec. 8, 2019, at the Old he and his wife, Olivia, loved attending concerts,
Jefferson Community plays, musicals, and operas; especially, hearing
Living Center in Baton their own children perform. As a grandfather,
Rouge, Louisiana. he took no greater joy than talking about his
Services were at 1 grandchildren.
p.m. Saturday at Cleve- Jim is survived by his loving wife of over 54
land-Moffett Funeral years, Dorothy Olivia Jané of Baton Rouge,
Home, with Bobby Louisiana; children, James Harrell Whitten and
Cleveland and Sam wife, Teri, of McKinney, Texas, and Elizabeth
Carpenter officiating. Jané Whitten Allison and husband, Morgan, of
Burial followed at New Houma, Louisiana; grandchildren, Kailee Nicole
Hope Cemetery. Visi- Whitten of San Francisco, California, Jamie
Therese Whitten of Grand Rapids, Michigan,
tation was three hours Pat Robertson Sarah Michelle Whitten of McKinney, Texas, and
Memorial Service:
Thursday, Dec. 19 • 2 PM Alexander James Allison of Houma, Louisiana.
Stateline Baptist Church He was preceded in death by his father, James
2nd Ave. North Location
Lipsey Whitten Sr.; mother, Audrey Harrell
Whitten; and brother, Dr. Harrell David Whitten.
A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM
on December 27, 2019, at Broadmoor Baptist

bucket challenge, laid to rest

Former Boston
College baseball
player died
Monday at age 34
The Associated Press
BOSTON — To hon-
or Peter Frates — the
former Boston College
baseball player whose
public battle with ALS
helped make the ice
bucket challenge a phe-
nomenon — do as he did,
the priest who officiated
at his funeral said Fri-
water over their heads,
post a video of it and ask
viewers to make a chari-
table donation.
The phenomenon has
raised about $220 mil-
lion worldwide, includ-
ing $115 million alone for
the Washington-based
ALS Association. Much
of the money has been
poured into research
and has already led to
breakthroughs, the asso-
ciation said.
Frates’ father, John, in
his eulogy, recalled his
son’s big ego — eliciting
laughs from the mourn-
Church, 9755 Goodwood Blvd., Baton Rouge,
LA 70815. There will also be a visitation at 12:00
Noon on the same day at the church.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial
ers — and his giving na-
ture. He told the story of memorialgunterpeel.com
donations be sent to the Broadmoor Baptist
Church General Fund.
his son taking the fami-
ly truck and digging
Paid Obituary
out the entire neighbor-
hood after a snowstorm,
even the new family who
had just moved in. He re-
fused to accept a penny
from anyone.
“The currency that
Pete worked in was help-
ing others,” his father
said.
He ended the service
by urging people to stop
grieving and continue
the fight to find a cure
for ALS.

day.
“The best way to
honor him is to try
to imitate him,” the
Rev. Tony Penna said
during the Mass at the
Church of St. Ignatius
of Loyola.
Frates died Monday
at age 34.
He was diagnosed
with amyotrophic later-
al sclerosis, a progres-
sive nerve disease also
known as Lou Gehrig’s
disease that eventually
results in total paraly-
sis, in 2012. There is no
cure.
“Peter was aglow
with the spirit of God,”
Penna, director of cam-
pus ministry at Bos-
ton College, told hun-
dreds of mourners who
packed the church next
to campus.
Frates and his fami-
ly did not come up with
the idea of the ice buck-
et challenge, but when
they got involved in
2014, it exploded on so-
cial media. Participants
dump a bucket of ice
Dianne Bain
Dianne Bain, age 70, of the Liberty community
of Ethelsville, AL, died December 11, 2019, at
Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus, MS.
A Memorial Service will be at 2:00 PM Sunday,
December 15, 2019, at Skelton Funeral Home
Chapel, with Rev. Kevin Taylor officiating. Burial
will follow in Tabernacle Church Cemetery, with
Skelton Funeral Home of Reform directing.
Visitation will be from 12:00 noon until the
service time at the funeral home.
She is preceded in death by her daughter,
Angilynn Bain; her parents; two sisters, Reba
Marie Jaynes and Audrey Louise Gore; and
brother, Ramon Leroy Lancaster.
Survivors include her husband of 45 years,
Bobby Bain; daughter, Riahanna Leigh Bain;
son, James Kevin Bain; brother, John Earl
Lancaster (Barbara); six grandchildren, Nathan,
Danielle, Greyson, Kaitlyn, Ella and Abigail;
and a number of nieces and nephews.
Dianne was born October 8, 1949, in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to the late Elmer Eugene
Lancaster and Mary Olean Harcrow Lancaster.
She was a member of Mt. Moriah Free Will
Baptist Church, was formerly employed as a RN
and was an active EMT and Firefighter.
Honorary Pallbearers are Northwest Mutual
Aid Fire Departments and Liberty Sew Happy
Quilting Club.
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US troops thwarted Hitler’s last gamble 75 years ago

U.S. Army historical center: The Battle
of the Bulge ‘is arguably the greatest battle
in American military history’
By RAF CASERT
The Associated Press
BASTOGNE, Belgium —
Pvt. Arthur Jacobson was seek-
ing cover in the snow behind a
tank moving slowly through the
wooded hills of Belgium’s Ar-
dennes, German bullets whiz-
zing by.
That was when he lost his
best friend and Bazooka team
partner to sniper fire. “They
couldn’t hit him, he shouted,”
Jacobson said wistfully. “Those
were his last words.”
The recollection of his worst
day in the Battle of the Bulge
still haunts him, three quarters
of a century later during the
first return of the 95-year-old to
the battlefield.
The pristine-white rows of
thousands of grave markers
over the remains of U.S. sol-
diers in cemeteries on the for-
mer front line hark back to the
days when Americans made the
ultimate sacrifice for a cause
across the ocean.
The fighting in the bitterly
cold winter of 1944 was unfor-
giving to the extreme.
What Jacobson didn’t know
then was that he was part of
the battle to contain Nazi Ger-
many’s desperate last offensive
that Adolf Hitler hoped would
become his version of the Allies’
D-Day: A momentous thrust
that would change the course
of World War II by forcing U.S.
and British troops to sue for
peace, thus freeing Germany to
focus on rapidly advancing So-
viet armies in the east.
‘We were there to do
something about it’
The Battle of the Bulge “is
arguably the greatest battle
in American military history,”
according to the U.S. army his-
torical center. Such perspective
came only later to Jacobson,
who was barely 20 at the time.
“They really didn’t tell us
anything,” he said. “The Ger-
mans had attacked through
Belgium, and we were there to
do something about it.”
Out of the blue at dawn on
Dec. 16, 1944, over 200,000
German troops counter-at-
tacked across the front line
in Belgium and Luxembourg,
smashing into battle-weary US
soldiers positioned in terrain as
foreign to them as it was famil-
iar to the Germans.
Yet somehow, the Americans
blunted the advance and start-
ed turning back the enemy for
good, setting allied troops on
a roll that would end the war in
Europe less than five months
later.
This battle gained fame not
so much for the commanders’
tactics as for the resilience of
small units hampered by poor
communications that stood
shoulder to shoulder to deny
Hitler the quick breakthrough
he desperately needed. Even
though the Americans were of-
ten pushed back, they were able
to delay the German advance
in its crucial initial stages. The
tipping point was to come later.
All weekend, a handful of re-
turning veterans like Jacobson
will be feted by an ever grateful
local population for their brav-
ery. Royalty, dignitaries and
some government leaders will
gather in Bastogne, Belgium
and Hamm, Luxembourg, on
Monday to remember the battle
itself. “It will be a great day,””
said Belgian Vice Premier
Koen Geens. Remembering
both the German forces, driven
on by Hitler’s hated SS troops,
and the allied soldiers, he said:
“We are capable of the worst
and of the best.”

Icy silence, frayed connections: China welcomes

Impeachment takes a toll preliminary deal in trade
‘This is crazy.
war it blames on US
The whole thing Trump calls impeachment vote
Two countries announced a
‘Phase 1’ agreement Friday
is crazy. It will
take some time ‘an embarrassment’ to nation under which the U.S. will reduce
tariffs and China will buy more
to get over.’ By JONATHAN LEMIRE

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo.

By LAURIE KELLMAN
The Associated Press
WA SH I NG T ON
— The most raucous
committee in Congress
sat stone-faced, barely
speaking.
One by one, the mem-
bers around the Judiciary
Committee dais voted on
the articles of impeach-
ment against President
Donald Trump. Then
they bolted for the doors
and the airports, in more
than one case without a
word.
The all-business ici-
ness during those eight
gavel-to-gavel minutes
reflected the gravity of
advancing articles of im-
peachment to the House
floor for only the third
time in American history.
But it also told much of
the story about impeach-
ment’s toll on Congress,
Washington and beyond.
Ever since Trump’s
July 25 phone call with
Ukraine’s president
sparked official proceed-
ings against the presi-
dent, impeachment has
been a force that’s bent
congressional business
around it, with severe
strain.
No one feels sorry for
Congress, and its mem-
bers generally don’t feel
sorry for themselves. But
the wear-and-tear of im-
peachment is becoming
clear in the emotional ex-
changes and frayed rela-
tionships left in its wake.
“I have a problem with
The Associated Press
U.S. farm products
WASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Donald Trump declared
‘You’re trivializing By KEN MORITSUGU
The Associated Press
Friday’s House committee
vote to impeach him “an em-
impeachment when you
BEIJING — China expressed cautious opti-
barrassment to our country” use it for absolutely mism Saturday about a first-step trade agreement
and refused to back away from that dials down a trade war it blames the U.S. for
the charge that first ensnared nothing other than starting.
him in the scandal. Almost si- Chinese experts and news media joined gov-
multaneous to the vote, Rudy trying for political gain’ ernment officials in saying the deal would reduce
Giuliani, the president’s per- President Donald Trump uncertainty for companies, at least in the short
sonal lawyer, turned up at the term. They remained cautious, saying both sides
White House. will have to show a willingness to compromise
With a vote by the full House expected next week, Trump declared in the Oval to resolve the more fundamental differences be-
Office that the Democrats had “made absolute fools of themselves” by moving tween them.
ahead with impeachment. Trump stands poised to be the third president in histo- “It at least stabilizes the situation and lays a
ry to be impeached, though it is all but certain he will not be removed from office foundation for the next round of trade talks or
by the Republican-controlled Senate. canceling additional tariffs in the future,” said Tu
“You’re trivializing impeachment when you use it for absolutely nothing other Xinquan, a professor at the University of Interna-
than trying for political gain,” Trump said as he sat alongside the president of tional Business and Economics in Beijing. “I can-
Paraguay. “It’s a sad thing for the country but a good thing for me politically.” not predict what achievement can be made during
the future talks.”
The two countries announced a “Phase 1”
this whole damn place. If mittee markup of the “kangaroo court.” Nadler agreement Friday under which the U.S. will re-
you can figure out an exit abuse and obstruction walked out. duce tariffs and China will buy more U.S. farm
strategy for me I’d appre- charges against Trump “Chairman Nadler’s products. Chinese officials said the nine-chapter
ciate that,” said Rep. Ken ignited the smoldering integrity is zero. His staff text, which includes intellectual property, tech-
Buck, R-Colo., a member tension. There was no ex- is zero,” fumed ranking nology transfer, financial services and dispute
of the Judiciary panel, pectation that the articles Republican Rep. Doug settlement, has to undergo legal and translation
on Friday. “This is crazy. would be substantially Collins of Georgia. “This review before it can be signed.
The whole thing is cra- changed, but Trump’s chairman has made him-
zy,” he added of impeach- allies pushed for amend- self irrelevant.”
ment. “It will take some ments, each of which took The personal stab at
time to get over.” hours to consider. Demo- the powerful New York
Tempers are short. crats, meanwhile, did not House veteran was un-
Members show signs of want to take final votes usual, as even the most
being sick of each other,
like any colleagues who
too late for Americans to
see.
mismatched pairs atop
committees typically re-
North Korea conducts another
spend too much time to-
gether. But they are op-
Just before midnight,
Chairman Jerrold Na-
frain from attacking each
other in personal terms.
test at long-range rocket site
erating under the glare of dler announced that the “I could feel it myself The Associated Press
a global spotlight and the committee would not be and I know the rest of us
weight of history. voting on the impeach- did,” said Rep. Madeleine SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said
Trust, or what re- ment articles until Friday Dean, a new member Saturday that it successfully performed another
mained of it after years of morning — and after he from Pennsylvania, in an “crucial test” at its long-range rocket launch site
obstruction and smash- banged his gavel, the mi- interview Friday with The that will further strengthen its nuclear deterrent.
mouth Trump-era poli- crophones were switched Associated Press. “That The test — the second at the facility in a week,
tics, appeared to be a ca- off. Livid, Republicans really was sort of the apex according to North Korea’s Academy of Defense
sualty in the short-term. leapt to their feet, yell- of weeks and months of Science — possibly involved technologies to im-
Thursday’s grueling ing “unbelievable” and emotional and mental and prove intercontinental ballistic missiles that could
14-hour Judiciary Com- “sneaky” and talking of a intellectual toll.” potentially reach the continental United States.
Lifestyles LIFESTYLES EDITOR
Jan Swoope: 328-2471 C
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Random acts of kindness

... from gallons of gas to warm coats, a random round-up of kindness

BY JAN SWOOPE were used. It took about one hour and 20 minutes to top up tanks for
jswoope@cdispatch.com 38 families with a total of $1,121 in gas.

T
im Hudson found out that pumping gas can be good for the
soul. He made the discovery on the first Saturday in Decem-
ber, when he helped fill the gas tanks of nearly 40 vehicles at
Steens Superette. The unpublicized “Random Acts of Kindness” by
Piney Grove United Methodist Church in Steens astonished drivers
with free gas and spread plenty of Christmas cheer.
“We wanted it to be a surprise blessing,” said Pastor Andy Tento-
ni. It was how the congregation chose to utilize some funds that had
come its way.
“At the beginning of the past two fall seasons, Piney Grove has
hosted a community-wide fish fry for Steens,” Tentoni explained.
“No cost, no strings attached, just an outreach of neighborly love to
our community. We’ve never requested anything in return, yet be-
cause of the generosity and heart of these good people, Piney Grove
was gifted nearly $1,000 in donations. We set that money aside as we
waited for God to lead us in how we could use these gifts to benefit
our community.”
What members decided on was to purchase and pump gas for
every vehicle that pulled in on that sunny Saturday, until the funds
Hudson and other volunteers at the pumps noted a variety of
responses from the lucky recipients of fuel.
“I tell you what I noticed, the look on people’s faces. The reaction
was shock, a couple of people with tears, some that were laughing
— just this whole range of reactions,” he said. “One man said, ‘Gosh,
I just got laid off from work, got my notice.’ So, some of it was very
needed.”
Acts of kindness surround us, if we care to look — particularly at
this time of year.
■■■
At the Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Med-
icine, Terri Snead in the Department of Pathobiology and Popula-
tion Medicine spearheads a drive to donate hygiene items for the
Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District Clothes Closets.
“About eight years ago we just decided that it was kind of silly to
exchange gifts in the office,” Snead said. Instead, each December
the faculty and staff adopt a different cause.
See Kindness, 5C

PHOTOS, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: 1. Starkville Animal Control Officers Vittoria Arnold, left, and Brandy Johnson — and Grace, an adopt-
able dog from the Oktibbeha County Humane Society — show off the tree in the Starkville Police Department lobby. Each “angel” waiting to be
adopted contains a list of items shelter animals need. 2. Members of the Columbus-Lowndes County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority sort gifts to be distributed to about 250 families through the Building Bridges of Hope program. From left are Linda Jones, Dorothy
Colom, Leatha Anthony, Jackie Stennis and Tavetia Hughes. 3. Tim Hudson, left, and Mark Younger of Piney Grove United Methodist Church sur-
prise drivers by purchasing and pumping their gas at the Steens Superette the morning of Dec. 7. The unpublicized “Random Acts of Kindness”
by the church in Steens was to give back to the community — one of many ways people in the Golden Triangle are reaching out to others this
season. “The church family is a jewel and is always looking forward to the next event,” said Piney Grove Pastor Andy Tentoni. 4. JoAnn Richard-
son, director of Coleman Head Start Center in Columbus, holds up a new coat donated to the center’s coat drive. The school hopes to be able
to give all of its 283 students a coat or a gift this season. (Photo by Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff) 5. Anita Bibbs, left, and Addie Walker
organize items donated by the congregation of St. James United Methodist Church in Columbus for nursing home residents. — Courtesy photos
2C Sunday, December 15, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Brock assumes position of dean at The W

MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS sor of management information for our students such as the Council of Chairs.
systems since 2017. She was 4 + 1 accelerated MBA. This She has provided invited pre-

M
arty Brock has been
named dean of the
College of Business
and Professional Studies at Mis-
sissippi University for Women,
pending approval by the state
Board of Trustees, Institutions
of Higher Learning. Brock has
served as interim since August
2018.
As dean, Brock will su-
pervise three departments,
including the Department of
Business, the Culinary Arts
Institute and Legal Studies.
“Dr. Brock has either led
or played a vital role in the de-
velopment of a number of new
degree programs or innovative
pathways that facilitate degree
completion while simultane-
ously serving as a tireless
advocate for the faculty, staff
Courtesy photo
Marty Brock has been named
dean of the College of Business
and Professional Studies at The W.
and students she serves,” said
Scott Tollison, provost and vice
president for academic affairs.
Prior to being to being
named interim, Brock served
as chair of the business depart-
ment since 2012 and as profes-
associate professor of MIS for
three years and assistant pro-
fessor for four years.
“The Department of Busi-
ness, the Department of Legal
Studies and the Culinary Arts
Institute’s group of dedicated
and talented faculty and staff
continue to develop and refine
curriculum to meet the chang-
ing needs of our students,”
Brock said.
“We were among the first
in the state to offer career and
technical transfer pathways for
community college students
who completed an associates of
applied science degree to trans-
fer career and technical credit
toward a bachelor’s degree,
and we continue to innovate
and develop new opportunities
program allows high perform-
ing students to complete up to
12 hours in their senior year
toward their graduate degree.
It is an honor to work with this
innovative group of faculty
and staff and to serve The W’s
College of Business and Profes-
sional Studies in this role.”
A resident of Caledonia,
Brock joined The W in 2006
as instructor and director of
instructional technology and
became instructor and coordi-
nator for the Center for Teach-
ing Excellence three years
later.
Brock has served the cam-
pus in various capacities, most
recently with the Planning
Institution and Effectiveness
Council, Graduate Council and
sentations on a range of topics
and has submitted a number
of grant proposals related to
enhancing student learning.
Before joining The W, Brock
was an extension instructor at
the Mississippi State University
Extension Service.
She earned a doctorate of
philosophy in instructional
systems and workforce devel-
opment with a minor in agricul-
tural information science from
MSU. Brock earned both her
masters of science in business
administration in information
systems with a minor in instruc-
tional technology and bachelor
of arts in history from MSU.
She earned an associate of arts
from Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College.

In the garden with Felder

Get creative with ‘confinement’

M
y yard hedges to pro- the proto-Indo-European feel safe and secure, it After that, largely because small shrubs and vines;
is tect their food word “ghordos” meaning ain’t a garden, just an open of the stylistic influence can’t have a climbing rose
now a and animals a guarded or enclosed field of plants and acces- of wide-open suburbia without an arbor.
better garden, from roaming area, which gave rise to sories. and its wall-to-wall lawns, Over the years I’ve
in the medi- animals and English-speakers’ modern Until recently, because fences fell out of favor; had all kinds. Wooden
eval sense of wandering words including court, free-roaming animals older ones were eventually split rail, chain link,
the word. A humans. courtyard, orchard, and were a thing, most of us removed, new ones never loopy wire hairpin from
new cus- In colder even the hort in horticul- had fences. You can still put up. As we retreated my great-grandmother’s
tom-designed climates large ture. see great examples in into airconditioned dens long-gone garden, “wattle”
entry gate gardens with I also noticed outside a Colonial Williamsburg, or and private back yards, made from woven crape
has created a tall stone public garden in Japan that our own governor’s man- they disappeared (with myrtle stems, even
special feeling walls were and the symbol for the garden sion, and most cemeteries. spacious front porches). upright sheets of silvery
of being set Felder Rushing are still used was a closed square. And when I was a kid, We got away from the corrugated roofing tin
apart from the as shelters The important take- there were still lots of less- idea of front gardens, cut with a wavy top. And
outside. As it should. against wind and frost; away is the concept of it er fences along the main It’s swinging back into tightly pruned hedges, of
It can be confusing, as far north as Scotland being a confined space. streets, usually picket, style though, especially in course.
what we call our plots of I have seen healthy fig In a 1755 dictionary, Dr. hairpin woven wire, and newer upscale home devel- I now use curvy,
land. Landscape? Garden, trees producing heavily, Samuel Johnson defined later chain link. Of course, opments. Doesn’t have to vine-like metal rods and
or its shortened slang espaliered against warm a garden as “a piece of as with so many other be a real barrier, just the one-of-a-kind handmade
“yard” version? No matter, south-facing stone walls. ground, enclosed, and cul- social signals, the more hint of security, privacy gates. Makes the garden
if you can relate to where Speaking of figs, the tivated with extraordinary decorative the fence, the and ownership. Even a look artsy. Makes it a real
it all started. florific spaces the ancient care, planted with herbs more prestige it conveyed. partial fence, a stand- garden.
The hortus conclusus Persians called pairidaeza or fruit or food, or laid out Though some still alone gate in the hedge, Felder Rushing is a Mis-
or “enclosed garden” were translated by Greeks for pleasure.” stand, during the two an arbor delineating the sissippi author, columnist,
practice actually began as paradise, to describe So, the origins of the World Wars many front or side yard from the and host of the “Gestalt
well over 6,000 years what we now call the Gar- word garden refers to a once-fashionable Victori- more private back, can be Gardener” on MPB Think
ago, when simple people den of Eden. special, set-aside space an-era iron fences were highly symbolic. Radio. Email gardening
started erecting crude Anyway, the word for growing stuff. My way pulled up and melted And it begs as an questions to rushingfelder@
walls, fences and dense “garden” comes from of thinking is, if you don’t down into war material. obvious place to plant yahoo.com.
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calendar
Today
White Christmas Pageant — Columbus’ First United Methodist Church, 602 Main St.,
hosts its 103rd White Christmas pageant at 5 p.m., featuring drama, choral music and orchestra.
The service with a mission emphasis encourages all attending to bring gifts of canned foods (or
monetary gifts) wrapped in white, to bring to the altar area during the service. After the pageant,
help assemble food bags in the Family Life Center.

Friday, Dec. 20
Celtic Christmas — See details at right.

Tuesday, Dec. 31
Countdown to History — The Rotary Club of Columbus hosts this gala benefiting PolioPlus
from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. at Lion Hills Center in Columbus. BYOD; mixers are provided. State of Shade
will entertain to ring in the new year. Tickets are $30 (or $220 for a table for eight), at 662tix.com.
Thursday, Jan. 9
Exhibit reception — The Columbus Arts Council hosts a free reception from 5:30-7 p.m. for
“World Collide,” an exhibit of ceramics by Stephen Phillips and photography by Erik Studdard in the
main gallery of the Rosenzweig Arts Center, 501 Main St. Artwork by CAFB youth will be in Artist
Alley. For more information, contact the CAC, 662-328-2787.
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Friday, Dec. 20
Celtic Christmas — The Columbus Arts Council presents a Celtic Christmas con-
cert with Jil Chambless, Ed Miller and Scooter Muse at 7 p.m. at the Rosenzweig Arts
Center, 501 Main St. Advance tickets are $15 for CAC members, $17 non-members.
Day-of-show tickets are $17, if available. Limited seating. Get tickets at columbus-arts.
org, or by calling 662-328-2787 (closed Mondays).

IP grant will bring GoReact to The W

MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS but the evaluators are using Innovation and a faculty mem- amazing, and I look forward reach its vision to be among the
new methods and technology ber in the division, “so we were to implementing it with more most successful, sustainable

M
elinda that is making their jobs easier. looking for some sort of video of our students through the and responsible companies in
Lowe Thanks to a $1,500 grant from assessment software that would residencies and the mentoring the world. Started in 1952, the
remem- International Paper’s Colum- enable our supervisors not to program with our graduates.” foundation annually provides
bers when Sale bus Mill and The International travel so much and to observe The pilot program will be millions in grants to 501(c)
Elementary Paper Foundation, the Missis- more often. With this program- open to all faculty and students (3) nonprofit organizations to
School Principal sippi University for Women ming, we can do more than the in the Division of Education address critical needs in the
Rebecca Taylor will put that technology to use minimum of four observations & Outreach from January communities where its employ-
entered her class- in its Division of Education & and the faculty member doesn’t through August 2020 thanks ees live and work. Funding
room to observe Lowe
Outreach. The grant will allow even have to leave their office.” to the grant. Lowe said they priority is given to programs
her teaching
The W to implement GoReact, Lowe said GoReact makes would review and analyze related to its signature causes:
methods as an
an interactive platform for it easier on the supervisors various forms of data collected education, hunger, health and
intern teacher.
Taylor plopped feedback, grading and critiqu- because GoReact’s time coded throughout the spring semes- wellness, disaster relief, and
a huge computer ing of video assignments. The comments will allow them not ter to determine how GoReact initiatives that improve the
on a table and technology will complement to have to take verbatim notes could best be used during the planet. For more information,
raised the screen. The W’s existing innovative when observing the teacher 2020-21 academic year. visit ipgiving.com.
Lowe said Taylor teacher preparation program interns. She said the teacher Lowe also thanked Interna- “At International Paper, we
then typed every Kim and will give supervisors a interns will enjoy GoReact tional Paper’s Columbus Mill believe our company cannot
word she said in new way to engage with their because it will enable them to and The International Paper succeed if our communities do
her lesson. students during their multiple watch themselves teach and Foundation for helping The not succeed,” said Kellum Kim,
“It freaked me out, but then residencies. become instantly self-aware of W continue to deliver innova- Mill communications manag-
she was able to say, ‘OK Melin- “As our numbers are going their performance. tive methods that will help it er. “We are proud to support
da, when you said this, this is up and our students are going “When I was a teacher recruit, educate and train the Mississippi University for
where you met your objective,’” out further, our supervisors ar- intern, getting that feedback next generation of teachers. Women and its Foundation as
Lowe said. en’t able to get into those class- and that data made all of the The International Paper they strive to make an impact
The concept behind teacher rooms enough,” said Lowe, difference in the world,” Lowe Foundation is one of the ways on education in our community
evaluations hasn’t changed, who is director of Outreach & said. “I think it is going to be International Paper strives to and beyond.”

Shopping online offers convenience, but consumers should keep security in mind
MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC unsecured websites. Warkentin offered or online advertisement someone like your boss. n Consider using
RELATIONS Cybersecurity expert these tips: to make a purchase, be In fact, it really originates a separate credit card
Merrill Warkentin, a n When starting new wary. As an alternative to from an email address

M
any consumers
would agree
with the song
“There’s No Place Like
Home for the Holidays,”
even to the point of
keeping their shopping
at home with the conve-
nience of online purchas-
ing and home delivery.
The internet makes
searching for the perfect
gifts fast and easy, but a
Mississippi State pro-
fessor of management
and information systems
said nothing steals joy
quite like identity theft,
which could result from
shopping transactions on
longtime faculty member
in MSU’s College of Busi-
ness and author of a book
on electronic commerce,
said online shopping
offers many advantages,
but consumers should
stay aware of security
issues.
“Identity thieves and
financial scammers
are around all year, but
they are especially busy
during the holiday season
trying to get your infor-
mation and your money,”
Warkentin said. “This is
a time to be extra vigilant
when you shop online. Be
proactive and stay safe.”
online accounts with an
online vendor, do not
reuse old passwords.
If you don’t use a pass-
word manager, invent
new strong passwords
for each site and record
them in a safe, inconspic-
uous location, such as a
nondescript paper sheet
filed at home.
n Always look for the
https (note the “s”) and
the lock symbol in the
internet address before
entering payment infor-
mation and other person-
al data onto a website.
n When tempted to
click on a link in an email
clicking the link, type the
web address carefully in
the web browser to visit
the site. Some of these
links might take you to
a spoofed site that looks
legitimate but actually
is a scammer’s website
seeking your credit card
information. To avoid this
danger, type in the web
address yourself — it’s
worth the extra effort.
n Be aware that new
scams are reported regu-
larly. One recent, creative
scam involves the scam-
mer sending an email
from an email address
that appears to be from
they registered that in-
cludes your boss’s name.
The email may say your
boss is in a meeting and
ask you to do something
fast, hoping you won’t
notice the fake email ad-
dress. The scammer may
ask you to buy gift cards
(for your boss’s niece,
for example). Directions
then ask the unknowing
victim to send a picture
of these cards. Once the
scammer receives this
information, the mon-
ey on these gift cards
(sometimes worth $500)
is gone. Pay attention, be
aware and be wary.
strictly for online pur-
chasing. If this payment
information becomes
compromised, you won’t
have the hassle of chang-
ing your credit card
information for regular
monthly bills set up for
automatic payments.
“Most decisions in life
involve trade-offs, and
shopping online is no
different. If it seems too
good to be true, it prob-
ably is,” Warkentin said.
“Take a little time to pay
attention and be careful,
and happy holidays to
everyone,” he added.

Dear Abby

D
EAR ABBY: My wife and I
recently hosted some long-
time friends for a few days
while they were passing through
our area on vacation. We had a
fine time reconnecting, although
my wife commented after they left
that they seemed to have “slowed
down a bit” — to which I respond-
ed, “Yeah. Us, too, I guess.”
We just received an email
from that couple’s adult daughter,
with whom we’re also friendly,
asking about our perceptions of
her parents’ well-being. We are
not comfortable responding to her
very pointed questions about their
Dear Abby
eating habits, bedtimes, taking of
medications, mental sharpness, etc. while they
stayed with us. Is this kind of inquiry common
today, or do these folks have “helicopter kids”?
— ANYWHERE, USA
DEAR ANYWHERE: If it’s com-
mon, I’m unaware of it. It’s the first
question of this kind that I have
received. Clearly, the daughter has
noticed something going on with
her parents that has her worried.
Because “the kids” are so con-
cerned about their parents’ welfare
that they feel compelled to ask
these kinds of questions, perhaps
they should travel with them so
they can supervise.
If you choose to answer that
email, an appropriate response
would be, “I think we have all
slowed down a little, but if you want
to know what your folks ate (etc.)
while they were with us, you should
ask them.”
DEAR ABBY: Years ago, a gentleman wrote to
you asking what he should get his aged parents
who didn’t need another “thing.” You suggested
he write them a letter telling them why he was
thankful for them. He wrote you back later telling
you he had taken your advice, how much it meant
to his father and that, shortly afterward, his
father died.
I immediately wrote each of my parents a
letter listing the things I learned from them and
what I cherished about them. It was the perfect,
most meaningful thing I could have done for
them. They have since passed on. I am so thank-
ful that I was able to do that for them.
I have read your column for about 35 years. It
is always respectful and full of common sense.
Thank you. — GRATEFUL IN COEUR D’ALENE,
IDAHO
DEAR GRATEFUL: You’re welcome. I’m glad
you picked up on the suggestion and that it
made your parents happy. I can think of few peo-
ple who would not welcome — and treasure — a
love letter if it’s sincere.
DEAR ABBY: I lost my hubby after 50 happy
years, and yet I don’t cry. What’s wrong with me?
— GRIEVING IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR GRIEVING: There is nothing wrong with
you. If your husband was ill for a period of time
before his death, you may have had more than
enough time to grieve his loss as he was slipping
away. If his passing was sudden, you may be in
shock, which is why your tears won’t come. Not
everyone grieves in the same way, drowning in an
ocean of tears, so please do not judge yourself
harshly — or at all.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded
by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,
Los Angeles, CA 90069.
For everything you need to know about
wedding planning, order “How to Have a Lovely
Wedding.” Send your name and mailing address,
plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds)
to: Dear Abby, Wedding Booklet, P.O. Box 447,
Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and
handling are included in the price.)

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 15).
Travel will be your soul’s thriving
influence, as will connecting with
new people. You’re gifted in the art
of reading and relating to people, yet
you’ll seek to further build your emo-
tional intelligence, thus ratcheting up
the excitement in your personal life.
Novel self-care will bring instanta-
neous and long-range benefit. Cancer
and Leo adore you. Your lucky num-
bers are: 7, 1, 3, 45 and 44.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). A
conversation doesn’t have to be long
to be effective. In fact, the longer it
is, the less effective it will be. Think
and write about what you are feeling.
What is worth expressing here?
Choose very carefully.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Hu-
man interaction is hardly ever about
what it purports to be about. The
puzzle this poses is reason enough
for you to slow down and listen close-
ly. Of course, figuring it out also gives
you an edge.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It’s as
hard to communicate with someone
who easily takes offense as it is to
relate to someone who readily gives
offense. Choose your topics well
and tread lightly, and you’ll cross the
minefield intact.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Small
daily improvements lead to sizable
monthly improvements. If you only
do 1% better each day on something
that matters to you, in 100 days
you’ll have completely transformed
your skill level.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). When you
can’t see your way forward in the
dark, the brightest flashlight in the
world won’t do you any good unless
it is also turned on. Asking for help
today will be like flipping that switch.
Let there be light.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). There
can be many morals to the same
story. Your takeaway is going to be
different from that of others who
lived the same experience. The value
of this is something all people set for
themselves.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Envi-
ronments have psychological weight,
a fact you’re all too aware of today.
Practice emotional safety. Figuratively
feel the temperature of a door before
opening it, as though bracing for a
room on fire.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It
is rare to be in a situation where a
mentor knows exactly what to do
with your talent. You’ll have to figure
out quite a lot about yourself on your
own. As long as you expect and em-
brace this, the process will be fun.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
The value you give today’s pursuits
can be summed up by these words of
explorer Dame Freya Stark: “Love of
learning is a pleasant and universal
bond, since it deals with what one is
and not what one has.”
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
People change their minds all of the
time, though most prefer to do this
privately. Public shifts of thought can
be equated to admitting error, which
egos of the big and fragile variety
cannot abide.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
They really have no idea what it’s
like to be you. But before you get to
worrying about that, it will be helpful
to answer this question: What is it
like to be them?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You
know that you don’t yet understand a
thing enough to form an opinion, let
alone act on the matter. This knowl-
edge is, in and of itself, virtuous. A
lesser person wouldn’t even realize
the gap.
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Club notes

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ACHIEVEMENT WEEK: The Psi Gamma Gamma Chapter Of Omega Psi Phi Fraterni-
ty Inc. held their Annual Achievement Week awards ceremony Nov. 21. They honor
key individuals who have, in the last year, epitomized the cardinal principles the
fraternity stands for. Recipients, from left, are Richard Eubanks (Founders Award),
Kathy Jones (Civilian Of The Year), James Avery (Service Award), and Gregory Strong
(Omega Man Of The Year).

Courtesy photo
GALAXY CHRISTMAS: On Dec. 5, Galaxy Garden Club of Columbus met at the
home of Rissa Lawrence to get tips on poinsettias and winter gardening from Mary
Tuggle. Pictured, from left, are Tuggle and hostesses Lawrence and Brenda Willis.

Send in your News About Town event.

Courtesy photo email: community@cdispatch.com
HOLIDAY FLORALS: Monti King of Flowers by the Bunch demonstrated how to
make floral arrangements at the recent Starkville Newcomers & Friends meeting Subject: NATS
at Cadence Bank. Pictured with some of King’s arrangements are, from left, Nancy
Eddy, Patsy Stuart, Dale Phillips, Pat Vaughan, Hillary Smith, Ruth de la Cruz, Becky
Mauldin and Mary Martha Wilson.

Courtesy photo
MASTER GARDENERS WORKSHOP: Mona Whitson,
of the Lowndes County Master Gardeners, shows a
wreath made during the organization’s Holiday Decor
seminar Dec. 4 at the Lowndes County Extension Of-
fice. Whitson joined other presenters Betty Dill, Nancy
Reeves, Pat Wheeler and other friends of the Master
Gardeners to share seasonal decorating tips.

Visit 662tix.
com to purchase
advance tickets to
the events below:

Dec. 20
Law of Nature from Houston, Texas, returns to
Starkville and Dave’s Dark Horse Tavern with a
show beginning at 10 p.m. Tickets are $5. Get
10 percent off your meal with proof of online
ticket purchase.

Dec. 31
The Rotary Club of Columbus hosts Countdown
to History at Lion Hills Center in Columbus. The
New Year’s Eve gala benefiting PolioPlus is 9
p.m.-1 a.m. BYOB; mixers provided. State of
Shade entertains. Tickets are $30 ($60/cou-
ple; $220 for table of 8).

Dec. 31
Ring in the new year at Dave’s Dark Horse in
Starkville to the music of Mookie Wilson and
the M.O.C. from 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Tickets are $5.
Get 10 percent off our meal with proof of online
ticket purchase.
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Volunteers Gracie Holden, Emma Rucker, Elizabeth Carranza, Makaela Dickerson, Kelly Coble and Starkville
Church of Christ minister Shane Meredith sort donations at the church for the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated
School District Clothes Closets.

Kindness
Continued from Page 1C
“This year we’ll buy
items like toiletries, un-
derwear and Tide, things
that the social workers
that work with the school
district can utilize and
take into homes where
they are needed. It’s
much more meaningful.
Ever since we started
doing this, people get real
excited about it.”
“The SOCSD Clothes
Closets are a true com-
munity effort and couldn’t
run without the generos-
ity and help of many indi-
viduals, service organiza-
tions, university groups,
businesses and churches
in Starkville,” said coordi-
nator Marchelle Brain.
Nearby, at the
Starkville Police De-
partment, it’s clear that
acts of kindness can be
intended for four-legged
friends as well. A tree in
the SPD lobby is covered
with paper angels with
cat and dog silhouettes.
Each angel to be “adopt-
ed” lists a few items the
shelter animals need.
“It’s really cute;
they individualized the
ornaments. Some of the
items on them include cat
treats, kitty litter, toys,
bandanas and dog food,”
said Erica Claycomb, pet
marketing assistant for
the humane society. “We
appreciate it so much.”
■■■
The Columbus-Lown-
des County Alumnae
Chapter of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority is busy
sorting through gifts
intended for about 250
families in the Building
Bridges for Hope pro-
gram. Tavetia Hughes
and fellow members are
helping donate, sort and
wrap items.
At her church, St.
James United Methodist
Church, Hughes joins
others donating toiletries
to make up gift boxes for
nursing home residents
in several facilities in
Columbus. Warm socks,
lotions, T-shirts, tooth-
paste, razors, soaps,
footies and shampoos are
welcomed by seniors who
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get regular visits from
Molly Kate, Jack and Amy Aarhus of Starkville load up
church members. donations to the Oktibbeha County Humane Society
“We have a nursing that came from the United Way of North Central Missis-
home ministry year- sippi’s United We Feed drive. Molly Kate and Jack are
round — we sing songs, the children of Craig and Amy Aarhus.
we do a prayer, have Bible
studies,” Hughes said. the Columbus-Lown- “I guarantee you,” said
“There are a lot of people des Humane Society, Hudson after his morn-
at nursing homes who Champion’s Towing and ing pumping gas, “I felt
don’t have people to come Recovery offering to pick better than they did.”
see them.” up 30 hefty containers of
Of these acts of kind- cat litter and delivering
ness, she said, “We’re them to the shelter, a coat
moved to do it because drive at Coleman Head
it’s the season of giving. Start in Lowndes County,
If God could give his only a fitness center collecting
son to the world, surely supplies for a domestic vi-
we can give our time to olence shelter, a neighbor
people who don’t have “adopting” a family going
things, or people to do for through a hard time.
them at Christmas.” For many, doing for
others is at the heart of
■■■ the season.
“It sparks your
Other examples of memory, to give,” said
giving are abundant — Hughes. “It is the season
MSU’s Day One Lead- of giving.”
ership Class building a And in giving, most
much-needed fence for people find fulfillment.

OUT THERE
Now through Dec. 31 – “Christmas in the Park,” driving tour of illuminated
scenes in Guthrie Smith Park, Fayette, Alabama; 5:30-9 p.m. (hot chocolate,
mini train rides). 205-932-5367.

Now through Jan. 20 – Ice skating (designated dates), BancorpSouth Arena,

Tupelo. $12/skater (includes skate rental); season pass $100. 662-841-6573,
bcsarena.com.

Dec. 21-22 – Ballet Magnificat’s “A Christmas Carol,” Thalia Mara Hall, Jackson.
960-1537, thaliamarahall.net.
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HERE WE COME
A’WASSAILING
Merrymakers filled the
streets of downtown Colum-
bus Dec. 6 to enjoy wassail,
carolers and musicians, af-
ter-hours shopping, in-store
demonstrations and other
special activities.

Ani Aditya, Arvind Loganathan Carol and Mickey Bray

Jerry Fortenberry, John Weathers, Fred Kinder Meredith Brock, Grace Gault

Anthony, Joseph, Edith, Lilly, Jeff and John Baumann Tenisha, Chloe, Amonte and Armondo Adams

FIRST
CHRISTMAS
First Christmas drew visitors
from throughout the Golden
Triangle Dec. 6-8. First
Baptist Church of Columbus
presented its interactive
Bethlehem village, which
included merchants and
tradespeople, live animals
and, as its highlight, the
holy family at the stable.

Brenda and John Almond, Leann and Steve Jenkins Samantha and Serenity Brown

Jason Morrow, Raye Ann Carlisle, Shawn Parker J.D., Jade and James Phelps
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ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 4474 New Hope Road.
Worship 10:30 a.m., Children’s Church 10:30 a.m., 662-
664-0852
THE ASSEMBLY COLUMBUS — 2201 Military Road.
Christian Education 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Nursery
Church (2-3 yrs.) Children’s Church 10:30 a.m. Wednesday
6:30 p.m. (something for all ages). Nursery provided for all
services. Jody Gurley, Pastor. 662-328-6374
BAPTIST
ANTIOCH 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. Mitch McWilliams,
Pastor. 662-328-4765
ARMSTRONG 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-
328-0670
ARTESIA 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 10:00 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Walter Butler, Pastor.
BETHESDA 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. 662-272-8734
BORDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 12771 Hwy.
12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Worship 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study – Adults, Children, and Youth
classes 6:30 p.m. Dan Louman, Pastor. 662-386-0541.
www. borderspringsbaptistchurch.com
BROOKSVILLE 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.
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CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe Road,
Caledonia. Sunday Men’s Prayer Service 9:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday, Worship 11 a.m. Sunday,
Bible Study 4 p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study
6:30 p.m. Kelby R. Johnson, 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. Rev. Ralph Windle, Interim
Pastor. 662-328-6741
CALVARY 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. 205-270-1845
CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1008 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul Shaw, Pastor. 662-327-3771
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. 662-327-1226
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 2490 Yorkville
Rd. East Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study, Children & Youth Classes 6:30
p.m. Matt Moehring, Pastor. Edward Rhinewalt, Music
Director. 662-327-5306
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — 844 Old West
Point Rd., Starkville. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Greg Upperman,
Pastor. 662-323-6351 or visit www.cornerstonestarkville.
com
EAST END BAPTIST CHURCH — 380 Hwy. 50 W. (Hwy.
50 and Holly Hills Rd.) Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m., Worship 5 p.m. followed by Discipleship
Training, Mission Friends and GAs 5 p.m., Sanctuary Choir
6:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting, Youth Worship,
Preschool & Children’s Choirs 6:30 p.m. Bryon Benson,
Pastor. 662-328-5915
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EASTVIEW 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. 662-328-2924
FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621 Mike
Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev.
Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252
FIRST 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 Evening Worship 5 p.m., Midweek Prayer Service
Wednesday 6 p.m. located downtown. Dr. Shawn Parker,
Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.org
FIRST 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 662-328-3183
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 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-
328-1096
GREENWOOD 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. 662-356-4445
IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military Rd.,
Steens. Bible Study 10:30 a.m., Worship 9:15 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. 662-328-1668
KOLOLA 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.
LONGVIEW 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. Interim Pastor Ron
Linkins, or email ynyministry@yahoo.com, 662-769-4774
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. 662-328-7177
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-
2811
MT. 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.com
MURRAH’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.org
NEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe Rd., 3
miles south of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m. & 10:30
a.m., Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Sunday Evening - AWANA
4 p.m., Discipleship Training, Youth & Adult 5 p.m., Evening
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday - Adults, Youth & Children 6:30
p.m. 662-356-4940 www.newsalembaptistcaledonia.com
Bro. Mel Howton, Pastor.
NORTHSIDE 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.
OPEN DOOR MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, 405
Lynn Lane, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. 1st
2nd and 4th Sundays. Donnie Jones, Pastor. 662-263-7102
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.
662-272-8221
PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill Rd.
Sunday Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Bill
Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921
PLYMOUTH 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 6:30 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.net
STATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
Night small group 6:30 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-
329-2973
TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST CHURCH —
4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams, Pastor. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. 662-327-2580
UNITED 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 — 1104 Louisville St.,
Starkville (located in Fellowship Hall of St. Luke Lutheran
Church). Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bert
Montgomery, Pastor. www.ubcstarkville.org
VICTORY 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.
Kevin Jenkins, Pastor. 662-327-6689. Brad Wright, Youth
Minister.
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.com
BIBLE 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. 662-327-1130
SHINING LIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH — 957 Sunset Drive,
Starkville in the Comfort Suites Conference Room, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pastor
John Harvey. slbcstarkville.org 662-648-0282
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
ANDERSON 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. Kenny
Bridges, 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. 662-356-4424
BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, Activity
Center 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 2nd, 4th &
5th Sundays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pastor Martin. 662-744-0561
BRICK 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. 662-434-0144
CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr. Worship
Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Johnnie Richardson, Pastor. 662-434-6528
CHRISTIAN HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
— 14096 MS Hwy. 388, Brooksville, MS 39739, Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Bobby Bowen, Pastor. 662-738-5837/549-6100
CHRIST 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.
ELBETHEL 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 School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Bible class
Tuesday 6 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-7076.
FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. 662-328-1913
FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr.
Stanley K. McCrary, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or 662-251-4185
GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856 Carson Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 7
a.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. Sunday
School 8 a.m., Worship 9 a.m., Minister Terry Johnson,
Interim Pastor.
JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 14129 Hwy 12 E.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 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. 662-328-4629
MILLERS 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 MB CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979
MT. 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. John Wells,
Pastor.
MT. OLIVE MB CHURCH — 2020 Atkin Rd., Millport,
Ala. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m.
Pastor Benny W. Henry. 205-662-3923
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. 662-494-1580
NEW 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. 662-329-3321
NEW 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. Billy D. Hill. 662-329-5224
OAK GROVE MB CHURCH — 1090 Taylor Thurston Rd.
Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., 5th Sunday 8
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:15 p.m. Pastor Therman
Cunningham Sr., 662-798-0179
OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road, Crawford.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
Sunday, December 15, 2019 3D
Bible study 7 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal - Wed. before
1st and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus Rehearsal - Wed.
before 3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir Rehearsal - Wed.
before 4th Sun. 6 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. 456-0024
PLEASANT 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. Gilbert Anderson, 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. 662-738-5855
SOUTHSIDE 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 9:45 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. W.C. Talley, Pastor. 662-329-
2344
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.
662-327-9843
STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 2008 7th Ave. N.
Sunday Worship 9:45 a.m. Bible Study Wednesday 10:45
a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
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. Joe Brooks, 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. 662-241-7111
STRONG HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH —
325 Barton Ferry Rd., West Point. Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver Rd.
(Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor McSwain.
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., Wednesday 6
p.m. Carlton Jones, 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 BAPTIST
ABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday 10:30
a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-4937
HAMILTON 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
MAYHEW PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — 842 Hwy.
45 Alternate, Starkville. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m. Herb
Hatfield,Pastor. 662-315-4937
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. Elder Joseph
Mettles, Pastor. 662-369-2532
ANGLICAN CATHOLIC
SAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew Rd.,
Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-5939
or anglicancatholic.org
CATHOLIC
ANNUNCIATION 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 Jeffrey Waldrep,
Priest.
CHRISTIAN
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary. Larry
Ferguson, Interim Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave. N. and
8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CALEDONIA 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 9:30 a.m. , Wednesday 6 p.m. Loviah
Johnson 662-574-0426 or E-mail: jtychicus00@gmail.
com
CHURCH 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- 4705
CHURCH OF CHRIST DIVINE — 1316 15th St. S.
Morning Worship (1st, 2nd, & 4th Sunday) 9:45 a.m.,
(3rd & 5th Sunday) 8:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6
p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-327-6060
Bishop Timothy Heard, Pastor.
COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401 7th St. N.
Sunday Bible Class 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Sunday Bible Study 5 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul
Bennett, Family Life Minister; Billy Ferguson, Minister
of Discipleship; Hunter Johnson, 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.com
HWY. 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. Minister Jay Street.
www.highway69coc.com
LONE 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. Minister David May, Pastor.
662-769-5514.
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: nhill crestcoc@gmail.com
STEENS 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.
Willie McCord, 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.
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CHURCH OF GOD
CHURCH 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. 662-889-6570
LATTER 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.,
Sunday Connect Groups 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.; Nursery available for all
services (newborn-4). Scott Volland, Pastor. 662-328-1256
or www.yorkvilleheights.com
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
BIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 8 a.m.,
Worship 9 a.m., Monday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday Prayer Noon. 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., 4th Sunday Fellowship
Lunch, Youth Sunday 4th Sunday, Wednesday Bible Study
6 p.m. Elder Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-327-4221.
Email: mr.endure@aol.com
NOW FAITH CENTER MINISTRIES — 425 Military Road,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday Night
Bible Study 7 p.m. Elder Samuel Wilson, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer Ave.,
Aberdeen. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible School 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thursday
Evangelist Night 6 p.m. Johnnie Bradford, Pastor. 662-574-
2847.
PETER’S ROCK TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
— 223 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Starkville. Sunday
Worship 7:45 a.m., 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
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 BASE
CAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic
Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Catholic Priest
Father Paul Stewart. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Wing Chaplain Lt. Col.
Steven Richardson. 662-434-2500
EPISCOPAL
GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 321
Forrest Blvd. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest. 662-
574-1972
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College St.
Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
Rev. Jason Shelby. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.
com.
FULL GOSPEL
BREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.
BEULAH GROVE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
8490 Artesia Rd., Artesia, MS. Sunday Service 8:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Timothy Bourne, Senior
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 11 a.m., Evening 6:30
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
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. 662-329-1905
GOD’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. 662-329-2820
NEW 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. 662-327-3962
NEW 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.
JEWISH
B’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-monthly.
Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038
Universalist
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple B’nai
Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday. 662-
620-7344 or uua.org
LUTHERAN
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (WELS) —
Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible Class 3:45 p.m.,
Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647
OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (L.C.M.S.) — 1211
18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m.. Worship 10 a.m. Stan
Clark, Pastor. 662-327-7747 oursaviorlutheranms.org
MENNONITE
FAITH 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.
METHODIST
ARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 50 Church
Street, Artesia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Gene Merkl, Pastor.
CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 811 Main
Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
John Longmire, 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 INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
1235 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor.
COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 618 31st
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Eugene
Bramlett, Pastor.
CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Main St.,
Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10 a.m.
Kathy Brackett, Pastor. 662-364-8848
CROSSROAD CHAPEL CME 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 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m. Rev. Jimmy
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Criddle, Lead Pastor; Rev. Anne Russell Bradley, Associate
Pastor; Rev. Aislinn Kopp, Associate Pastor. 328-5252
FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 80 Old
Honnoll Mill Rd., Caledonia. Sunday Worship Service 9:30
a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. John Longmire, Pastor.
GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St. S.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael
Terry, Pastor. 662-328-1109
HEBRON CME. 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. 662-327-4263
NEW 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. 662-328-5309
NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 2503 New
Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10
a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 5:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham,
Pastor.
ORR’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 p.m. Andy Tentoni,
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. Luther Minor, Pastor.
SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional Worship Service
9 a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.
ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 722
Military Rd. Breakfast 9:20 a.m., Sunday School 9:40 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m., Adult/
Children Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m., Young Adult Bible
Study Thursday 7 p.m. Rev. Paul E. Luckett, 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. John Powell, Pastor.
ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 307 South
Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m. , Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Demetric
Darden, 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. Andy Tentoni,
Pastor.
TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Rt. 2,
6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Carol Lambert, Pastor. 205-662-3443
TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610 Carson
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Pastor Lizzie
Harris. 662-329-3995
TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St. S.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5
p.m. Yvonne Fox, Pastor.
WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday 5:15
p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Youth Monday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Sarah Windham.
WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Kori Bridges, Pastor.
662-422-9013.
MORMON
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
— 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 9 a.m., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 11 a.m., Youth
Activities Wednesday 6 p.m. Bishop Eric Smith. 662-328-
3179.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
FIRST 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 — DENOMINATIONAL
A PREPARED TABLE MINISTRY — 1201 College St.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Timothy J. Bailey, Pastor. 662-889-7778
ABUNDANT 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. 662-855-5006
COLUMBUS 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-
3328
CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109 Maxwell
Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Band 7 p.m.
Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98 Harrison Rd.,
Steens. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., 1st Sunday Evening
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba) Dees, Pastor.
662-327-4303
EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH — 1608
Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and Sunday
at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.
FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 1133 Northdale Dr.
Sunday Worship 5:30 p.m. Lee Poque, Pastor. 662-889-
8132
FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH CHRIST MINISTRIES
— 1472 Blocker Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., 2nd Sunday Morning Worship 9 a.m.
Pastor Kenyon Ashford.
FIRST 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.
601-345-5740
FULL 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 — 1820 23rd St. N., Sunday School
9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 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-
1960
LIFE CHURCH — 4888 N. Frontage Rd. Sunday Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information, call 662-
570-4171
LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr. Martin
Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m.,
Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311
LIVING WATERS LIFE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 113
Jefferson St., Macon. Sunday Service 10 a.m., Wednesday
Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Johnny Birchfield Jr., Senior Pastor.
662-493-2456 E-mail: livingwaterslifechurch@gmail.com
NEW BEGINNING EVERLASTING OUTREACH
MINISTRIES — Meets at Quality Inn, Hwy. 45 N. (Every 1st
and 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10 a.m., Bible Study 10:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Robert Gavin, 662-327-9843
or 662-497-3434.
NEW 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 www.memorialgunterpeel.com
Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Every
2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m., Wednesday
716 Second Ave. N. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-4432
6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097 903 College St. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-2354
TABERNACLE OF MERCY (MINISTRY OF JESUS
CHRIST) — 4435 Hwy. 45 N., Sunday Service 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-241-
6723
THE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 p.m.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
THE RIVER CHURCH — 822 North Lehmberg Rd., Sunday
Worship 10 a.m., Children’s Church 3&4 yr. old, 5-12 yr. old.
Wednesday Worship 6:45 p.m. Pastor Chuck Eubanks.
THE SHEPHERD’S CARE & SHARE MINISTRY CHURCH
— 4068 Jess Lyons Rd., Sunday Prayer Time 9:50 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Thursday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Annie Hines-Goode, Planter and Pastor. 662-
630-5216
TRIBE 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-
4088
TRUE GOSPEL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY — 2119
7th. Ave. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
SHELTON’S TOWING, INC.
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie Edwards, Since 1960
Pastors. 24 Hour Towing
TRUE LIFE CHURCH — 435 Cedarcrest Dr. (corner
of Yorkville and Cedarcrest), Sunday prayer 8:45 a.m., 1024 Gardner Blvd.
Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday prayer 6:30 p.m., Service 328-8277
7:30 p.m. 662-798-0259
TRUE 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. 662-356-8252
UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTRIES
— 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus. Sunday Worship
8-9:30 a.m., 662-889-8711
VIBRANT CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday 8
a.m., 9:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Vibe Cafe 7 a.m.,
First Wednesday 7 p.m. Age 6 weeks through 5th grade,
Champions Club (special needs children). Jason Delgado,
Pastor. 662-329-2279
WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN CENTER —
2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis, Pastor. 662-230-
3182 or mdavis43@hotmail.com
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
ST. CATHERINE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH —
725 4th Ave. N. Visit www.stcatherineorthodox.com for
schedule of services and updates on this Mission.
APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL
APOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North McCrary
Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny L.
Obsorne, Pastor.
DIVINE DESTINY APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 2601 14th
Ave. N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 12 p.m.,
Tuesday Bible Class 7:30 p.m. Pastor Easter Robertson.
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. 662-324-3539
THE 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 — 106 22nd St.
S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
Bible Study 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 5 p.m. District Elder
Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234
THE 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.
VICTORY APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 6 6 Boyd Rd.,
Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Noon, Tuesday
Prayer 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Mildred
Spencer, Pastor. 662-341-5753
ONENESS PENTECOSTAL
NEW HOPE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 875 Richardson
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., 6 p.m.,
Tuesday 7 p.m. Jared Glover, Pastor. 662-251-3747 E-mail:
nhpccolumbus@yahoo.com
PENTECOSTAL
FAITH 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 11 a.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, 1721 Hwy 45 N
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 5580 Ridge Road.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Praise & Worship 10:45 a.m.,
® Columbus, MS
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. G.E. Wiggins Sr., Pastor. 662.848.0919
UNITED PENTECOSTAL Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm
CALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 5850
Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia. Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m.,
In Style. In Reach. Sunday 1pm-5pm
TRINITY PLACE
Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, Pastor. 662-356-0202
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-
1750 Offering independent living apartments, personal
PRESBYTERIAN care/assisted living suites, and a skilled nursing home
BEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN 300 Airline Road • Columbus, MS • 327-6716
CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community.
“Our Bottom Line Is People”
Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church
School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615 Hunting • Fishing
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) — 515 Working Or Stepping Out — We Have A Complete
Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Line Of Clothing For You And Your Family
Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4 p.m. Oktibbeha County Co-Op
John Richards, Pastor.
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FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —
2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 662-323-1742
a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Bible Study 5 201 Pollard Rd., Starkville
p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Tue. 4 p.m.),
Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: Exercise
Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke Lawson,
Pastor. 662-328-2692
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt Rd.
Worship 10 a.m., Youth Group Sundays 11 a.m., Adult Choir
Wednesdays 6 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd Wednesdays
6 p.m. B.J. Chain, Pastor.
MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA) — Main
and 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:40
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday Fellowship Supper 5:30 p.m.,
Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Todd Matocha, Pastor.
MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —
3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
SALVATION ARMY CHURCH
THE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy. 82
East. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m.,
Wednesday Men’s Fellowship, Women’s Fellowship 5:30
p.m., Thursday Character Building Programs 5:30 p.m.,
Majors Alan and Sheryl Phillips, Commanding Officers.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
COLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH —
301 Brooks Dr. Saturday Service 9 a.m., Sabbath School
10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Ray
The McBryde Family
Elsberry, Pastor. 662-329-4311
SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th St. N.
1120 Gardner Blvd. • 328-5776
Saturday Sabbath School 9:30 a.m., Divine Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Roscoe Shields, Pastor. 662-
327-9729
APOSTOLIC CHURCH
TRUE FAITH DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES APOSTOLIC
CHURCH — 3632 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., • RECYCLING SINCE 1956 •
Sunday 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Specializing in industrial accounts
Noon, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-328-8176 973 Island Rd. 1-800-759-8570
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