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Fight against dam breach enters sixth day

‘One big old family’ Pumps reducing water
Neighborhood near Oktibbeha County Lake has long history of unity, fellowship level at Oktibbeha Lake
Breach warning still in place,
could be lifted in 14 days
By Tess Vrbin
tvrbin@cdispatch.com

The high-alert warning lev-

el for the area surrounding
Oktibbeha County Lake will
continue through the weekend
while six diesel-fueled pumps
lower the lake to a safer water
level, Emergency Management
Agency Director Kristen Cam-
panella said Saturday. Campanella
Meanwhile the dam holding
the lake’s water from flooding
more than 100 homes is still in-
tact, five days after authorities
deemed a breach “imminent.”
“We don’t know how much
rainfall we’re getting (this
weekend), and every half-inch
of rainfall is four feet of water Watson
in the lake,” she said. “We can
get a better sense of it on Mon-
day, because everything that
flows through here takes 24 to
36 hours to get through this wa-
tershed, so with the rain we’re
getting (Saturday), we may
start seeing it on Monday.”
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Alberta Turner, 90, sits in front of her house on Walter Bell Road. The house is recently rebuilt, but she said the land The water level in the lake Pritchard
has been home for half a century. The neighborhood united in emotional support for her after her son, Willie Allen has dropped about 18 inches
Turner, was killed on the Fourth of July 2016, she said. Turner is among the residents under an evacuation advisory since Thursday, thanks to pipes the county
as authorities attempt to prevent a breach of the nearby county lake dam. A breach could affect as many as 130 has been using to pump off water into a near-
homes in the area. by spillway and the fact the area has seen
very little rain in the last few days, Oktibbeha
By Tess Vrbin horses and wagons if they chose not The county Emergency Manage- Sheriff’s Office Capt. Brett Watson said. Re-
tvrbin@cdispatch.com to walk, Joe Hubbard said. ment Agency warned a breach could lieving the water pressure on the dam could
Hubbard’s sister Mattie Bell, who prevent a breach that could flood 17,500 acres

W
alter Bell Road, just
northeast of the Oktibbeha
County Lake, hasn’t been
there as long as some of its residents
have.
They would migrate two miles
every Sunday to Bethel Missionary
Baptist Church on Highway 182,
where many of them still attend,
long enough ago that they still used
lives just down the street from him,
calls it “the road we made.”
“We’d walk this way to get to our
homes and things, and that’s how
they built the road,” she said.
Oktibbeha County leaders rec-
ommended Tuesday the residents of
the neighborhood evacuate because
the levee on the county lake dam
showed early signs of breaching.
flood 17,500 acres of nearby land
and force about 250 people to evacu-
ate at least 130 households, with the
homes just east and northeast of the
lake in the most imminent danger.
Many members of the communi-
ty, including Bell and Hubbard, were
unconcerned and chose not to leave
their homes unless ordered to do so.
See Neighborhood, 6A
of nearby land and force about 250 people to
evacuate at least 130 households.
On Friday night, Birmingham, Ala-
bama-based Herc Rentals delivered addition-
al pumps now being used to lower the water
level even faster.
The portion of County Lake Road between
Riviera Road and Walter Bell Road closed
indefinitely when crews began installing
See Oktibbeha Lake, 6A

Anti-bullying program helps link Caledonia Yu joins Dispatch

fourth-graders in atmosphere of kindness
By Slim Smith
ssmith@cdispatch.com
They sat cross-legged on
the floor, doe-eyed and in-
nocent, listening politely to
group of women from the Ju-
nior Auxiliary of Columbus
during a special program at
Caledonia Elementary School
Friday morning.
The subject matter — bul-
lying — seemed inconsistent
for an audience of fourth-grad-
ers, whose exposure to bully-
ing has been limited.
That’s the whole point.
“We don’t have any serious
issues with bullying,” said
Caledonia Elementary prin-
cipal Roger Hill. “For us, it’s
educational, a preventative
thing. Children need to learn
how to communicate and get
along with each other. This
program helps reinforce what
See Anti-bullying, 8A
staff as local
government
reporter
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
Yue “Stella” Yu
has joined The Dis-
patch newsroom staff
as its local govern-
ment reporter for Co-
lumbus and Lowndes
County.
In that role, Yu will
provide coverage of Yu
the city and county governments.
Her work will not only include city
council and county board of super-
visors meeting coverage, but also
features and enterprise stories
about how their policies affect the
citizens. She began work at The
Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff
Dispatch on Monday.
Junior Auxiliary of Columbus member Carrie Martin shows students a length of the Kind- Yu, 24, is a Chinese native,
ness paper chain composed of acts fourth-graders shared during Friday’s “Choose Kind- whose interest in reporting on pol-
ness” program at Caledonia Elementary School. See Yu, 3A

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nity observance of Martin Luther King Jr.
2 What memoir’s cover displays a retouched pic of of Aldermen
the funny female author with alarmingly big, hairy man Day in Columbus begins at 8 a.m. with a
arms? complimentary breakfast at Trotter Conven- meeting, 5:30
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on his online talk how, “Between Two Ferns”? Scott Colom is keynote speaker. Afterward,
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Ask Rufus

A Town Called Mill Port

I
have been
asked
about the
history and
story behind
Millport, Ala-
bama, which
is located 24
miles up High-
way 50 from
Columbus.
Millport is in
Lamar County,
which was Rufus Ward
created on
Feb. 4, 1867, out of parts
of Marion County and
Fayette County. In digging Thursday, the 19th day of
around into the history of
Millport, I found far more
to the story of its founding equal installments, of one
than I expected.
Working on the story
was also a good excuse
for Karen and I, and Car-
olyn Kaye, to go antique
shopping in Vernon and
then explore Millport.
It turns out Millport is
apparently an older town
than people thought. The
highway itself between
Millport and Columbus
tells a story. Beginning
in Columbus with Water-
works Road, Highway 50
East is the early 1820s
“Upper Tuscaloosa Road”
from Columbus. Water-
works zig-zags through
town, cutting through
blocks, because the road
predates the city’s street
grid.
As a starting point
for my research, I used
Joe Acee’s 1976 book,
“Lamar County History”
and Thomas Owen’s
classic book, “History of
Alabama,” published in
1921. Both accounts tell a
similar story.
According to Owen,
who based his account
on manuscripts at the
Alabama Department of
Archives and History,
Millport’s “original settle-
ment was made about 3
miles west of the present
town in 1848.”
The town was moved
about 2 1/2 miles east in
1858 to “College Hill” and
then moved a half-mile
to its present location
when the Georgia Pacific
railroad was constructed
nearby in 1882. As the
name implies, Millport,
being located just out of
Luxapallila Creek’s flood
plain, was the site of sev-
eral water-powered mills.
Interestingly, the water
mills were not just grist
mills grinding corn into
meal but also at least one
water-powered cotton gin.
The cotton was taken by
ox wagon to Columbus to
be sold. The roughly 24-
mile trip was said to have
taken three days.
Owen listed the earliest counties. B.F. Dumas,
settlers in Millport. They
were: “W.J. McAdams,
C.V. McCafferty, A.F. An-
drews, W.W. Welch, W.C.
Williams, J.W. Shelton,
Dr. L.C. Blakeney, Rev.
George Lyle, Rev. T.M.
Shelton and R.G. Isbell.”
Carolyn and I have dug
into old newspapers and
found a different story of
Millport. It is a story told
through advertisements
in two 1836 newspapers,
The Flag of the Union
in Tuscaloosa and the
Columbus
Democrat in
Columbus.
The first ad
we found ap-
peared in the
May 7, 1836,
Flag of the
Union:
The Town
of Mill-Port
for Sale
A Town will
be laid off, and the Lots
offered at public sale on
May next, on the following
liberal terms, viz in two
and two years.
The proprietor would
deem it unnecessary to
enumerate the many
advantages which this well
known place commands,
but for the information of
those unacquainted, who
might be inclined to come
to this place of business, the
following facts are stated:
Mill-Port is in Fayette
County, Ala., 23 miles east
of Columbus, Miss., and
25 miles west of Fayette-
ville, and 33 miles north of
Pickensville. This desirable
and promising place is
more remote from any
other trading place than
can elsewhere be found;
and its natural and local
situation, gives promise
of greater advantages
than have generally been
considered, being distant
one mile on the South side
of the Lookspelilah [sic]
river, which is, with small
improvements, naviga-
ble in the winter season,
and the Legislature has
proffered to furnish means
for this purpose; and the
communication by good
roads is easy at all times,
and in any direction; one
of which makes immedi-
ate access to the Railroad
now in progress from the
Tennessee Valley to Mobile,
and as at present contem-
plated, only distant 10 or
15 miles.
When the unquestion-
able health of this region
of the country, and the
fertility of its soil are con-
sidered, in connexion [sic]
with the above advantages,
and many more that might
be suggested, the proprietor
deems it useless to add
but this one more grand
inducement:
It will be precisely in the
centre of the new county to
be made by a division of
the old counties according
to the plan proposed, and
anxiously desired by all
the citizens of the west end
of this and the adjoining
Proprietor.
Then in July of 1836,
Dumas’ advertisement
was altered and in almost
identical versions began
to appear in both the Flag
of the Union and in the
Columbus Democrat:
A Rare Bargain in Land!
The subscriber wishing
to move to Aberdeen and
he has property there, will
sell all his Lands, and the
remainder of the unsold
Courtesy photo
Millport, Alabama — which is said to have been founded in 1848 but as early as 1836 — advertisements ap-
peared in Columbus and Tuscaloosa newspapers for the sale of lots in “Mill Port.”
Lots in the town of Mill-
Port, on the best of terms.
He has nearly 700 acres of
choice land at this place,
tolerably well improved,
130 acres of it mostly fresh
land, under good fences,
and in good order for
cultivation; comfortable
dwellings and out houses,
etc., with a first rate new
Cotton Gin and Press. This
place is situated on the
Fayetteville and Tuscalo-
osa road, 21 miles east of
Columbus, Mississippi; is
a most delightful situa-
tion; high and elevated,
with plenty of good spring
water and running creeks
all round. — There are
applications continually to Courtesy image
purchase Lots in Mill-Port, In the 1800s there was a water-powered cotton gin at Millport. To be sold, the cotton
and the town has taken a was taken by ox wagon, as in this 1910 postcard, from Millport to Columbus.
very pretty start, and must
be the county site of a new of the Town of Mill Port. as an early settler there. and Carolyn for working
made county, which must It is also interesting that Somehow B.F. Dumas with me on this story of
take place by a division Dumas, who had the town and his early Town of Mill Millport.
of the old counties. The laid off and platted in 1836 Port were lost to history. Rufus Ward is a local
was not even mentioned Thanks to both Karen historian.
town is situated half a mile
from the Luxepalilah river
which is, with very small
improvements, navigable
for keelboats, and only a
few miles from the rail
road now chartered from
the Tennessee Valley for
Mobile Bay. Mill-Port is
a great stand for a public
house, and one is greatly
needed.
The subscriber also
has several places in this
vicinity for sale, on the best
of terms. Any information
wanted, can be obtained by
applying to James Swearin-
gen, at Columbus, Missis-
sippi, or to me; who may be
found almost at any time
at Mill-Port, Alabama.
B.F. Dumas.
Further development
around the new town of
Mill Port was shown by
U.S. Post Office records.
On June 6, 1837, the Post
Office department invited
proposals for several new
postal routes including
“Mill Port to be supplied
from Columbus, Mi, 21
miles and back once a
week.” While the written
histories of Millport say
it was founded in 1848,
something was sure
happening there in 1836
and 1837 under the name

Board delays vote on moving

Confederate monument at Ole Miss
The Associated Press
JACKSON — A Confederate monument
will remain, for now, in a prominent spot on
the University of Mississippi campus, near-
ly a year after student leaders requested
that it be moved to a Civil War cemetery.
The board that governs Mississippi’s
eight public universities met Thursday
and delayed a vote on a proposal to move
the monument. Trustee Tom Duff said he
wants more information from the universi-
ty about its work to provide historical con-
text about the monument and some other
structures on campus.
The Confederate cemetery is on the Ox-
ford campus, but it’s in a place few people
walk or drive.
The University of Mississippi was found-
ed in 1848, and the marble statue of a salut-
ing Confederate soldier was put up in 1906.
It is one of many Confederate mon-
uments erected across the South more
than a century ago. Critics say its display
near the university’s main administrative
building sends a signal that Ole Miss glo-
rifies the Confederacy and glosses over the
South’s history of slavery.
The statue was a rallying point in 1962
for people who rioted to oppose court-or-
dered integration of the university.
Pro-Confederate groups from outside
the university rallied at the monument Feb.
23, prompting Ole Miss basketball players
to kneel during the national anthem, in pro-
test of the rally. Student government lead-
ers voted March 5 to ask administrators
to move the monument to the cemetery,
where Confederate soldiers killed at the
Battle of Shiloh are buried.
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Appeals court won’t rehear Mississippi 15-week abortion case

State is likely to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case
By EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — A federal ap-
peals court said Friday that it
will not reconsider its ruling
that Mississippi’s law banning
most abortions after 15 weeks
is unconstitutional.
The 2018 state law remains
blocked and Mississippi’s only
abortion clinic remains open.
The owner has said the clinic
does abortions up to 16 weeks.
Mississippi is likely to ask
the U.S. Supreme Court to con-
sider the case.
The state is also engaged
in a separate legal fight over a
2019 law that would ban most
abortions at six weeks.
With the addition of conser-
vative justices to the Supreme
Court in recent years, Missis-
sippi is one of several states that
have enacted abortion restric-
tions. Some laws are aimed at
spurring court challenges seek-
ing to overturn Roe v. Wade,
the landmark 1973 ruling that
legalized abortion nationwide.
The clinic sued Mississip-
pi shortly after then-Gov. Phil
Bryant signed the 15-week ban.
The law has never taken effect
because U.S. District Judge
Carlton Reeves ruled it was un-
constitutional.
On Dec. 13, a three-judge
panel of the conservative 5th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
said Reeves ruled correctly.
On Dec. 27, Mississippi
asked the entire appeals court
to reconsider the case.
The court on Friday denied
that request.
Bryant said in December
that he wants Mississippi to
take the 15-week case to the
U.S. Supreme Court He left
office when his second term
expired Tuesday. The new Re-
publican governor, Tate Reeves,
was lieutenant governor when
the 15-week ban was passed,
and he supported it.
Tate Reeves and Carlton
Reeves are not related.
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 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.
The 5th Circuit is based in
New Orleans and handles cas-
es from Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas. It is generally con-
sidered one of the most conser-
vative federal appellate courts.
Judge Reeves’ ruling on the
Mississippi law also put a sim-
ilar law in Louisiana on hold.
The 15-week abortion ban
signed by Louisiana Democrat-
ic Gov. John Bel Edwards in
2018 included a provision that
the law would take effect only if
a federal court upholds Missis-
sippi’s 15-week ban.
Judge Reeves also blocked
Mississippi’s six-week ban on
abortion.

Mississippi keeping history exam, Frozen food maker

despite calls to end it
Test has been unpopular because it’s typically taken at
the end of junior year, meaning a student who doesn’t
pass has fewer opportunities to retake it
By JEFF AMY
The Associated Press
Mississippi’s state
Board of Education is
keeping the state’s U.S.
history exam, despite
months of pressure from
teachers and others to cut
testing.
The board voted unan-
imously on Thursday to
keep the test, one of four
that public school students
must keep in high school.
A testing task force in
August had recommended
that the state do away with
the test. It’s the only state
test that’s not required by
federal law.
“It was extremely dis-
heartening that board
members placed so much
confidence in a staff rec-
ommendation over the
recommendations of the
task force, commission,
and multiple surveys of
practitioners throughout
the state that favored elim-
ination of the assessment,”
Mississippi Professional
Educators, the state’s larg-
invests $27.3M, adding
est teachers group, wrote
in a message to members.
High school students
formerly had to pass the
history test, plus exams
in English, algebra and
biology to graduate. Now,
there are alternate routes
to graduate, but some Mis-
sissippi students still don’t
earn a diploma because
they don’t qualify for any
of the routes.
State Superintendent
Carey Wright had recom-
mended that the board
keep the exam.
“Our position is that
the board should not
eliminate the U.S. history
assessment,” Chief Ac-
countability Officer Pau-
la Vanderford told board
members Thursday.
Proponents of keep-
ing the exam argued that
funding for and empha-
sis on history teaching
could be cut and teach-
ers wouldn’t be held ac-
countable for teaching the
state’s history standards
if the test ended. But a
plurality of more than 100
public commenters over
the summer favored elim-
inating the test
Vanderford noted the
state has a new history
exam that will be admin-
istered this year. She said
she hoped that the new
exam would mollify some
critics.
‘Hopefully the design
of the new assessment will
change some of the mind-
set that the U.S. history
is nothing but a reading
comprehension assess-
ment,” she said.
The history test also
counts in the grading
system under which high
schools and districts are
assigned A-to-F grades.
A task force had proposed
doubling the weight on the
state’s high school biology
exam to replace points
that history was assigned
in the system. There
would have also had to be
changes to graduation re-
quirements. The federal
government would have
had to approve the chang-
es.
“Once again testing
lobbyists and bureaucrats
jobs in Mississippi
do what’s best for them-
selves and not students,” Ajinomoto Foods North America’s
wrote Rep. Tom Miles, a
latest expansion accommodates
Forest Democrat, on Face-
book. Miles wants Missis-
sippi to scrap the four high additional production lines
school exams and replace
The Associated Press
them with the ACT col-
lege test. Critics question
OAKLAND — A frozen food manufacturer
whether such a substitu-
plans to invest $27.3 million in a project to in-
tion is feasible.
The test has also been crease capacity at its facility in north Mississippi.
Ajinomoto Foods North America also is add-
unpopular because it’s
typically taken at the end ing 15 jobs to its plant in Oakland, in Yalobusha
County, bringing the total to 450 employees at
of junior year. That means
the plant, officials said.
a student who doesn’t pass
“This latest expansion starts the new decade
has fewer opportunities to
on a positive note for economic development as
retake it, unlike courses
we continue working with our existing business-
that are typically offered
es, such as Ajinomoto Foods, to help them suc-
in the freshman or sopho-
more year. However, Van- ceed in Mississippi and provide good jobs for our
derford said the history workforce,” Gov. Tate Reeves said.
test has the second-high- Ajinomoto Foods manufactures and markets
est pass rate among the Asian and ethnic specialty frozen foods for con-
four exams and that only sumers, commercial restaurants and foodservice
33 students last year failed operations, The Northwest Mississippi Daily
to graduate because they Journal reported. Its consumer brands include
only failed to not pass the Tai Pei, Ling Ling, Ajinomoto and Jose Ole. Its
history exam. frozen food foodservice brands include Posada,
The state is paying Bernadi, Fred’s, Whitey’s, The Original Chili
testing company DRC of Bowl and Golden Tiger.
Maple Grove, Minnesota, The company located in Oakland in 2007, cre-
$2.8 million to write and ating 250 jobs. It expanded in 2010, 2013, 2016
grade the history test, the and 2018. Ajinomoto Foods’ latest expansion
high school biology test accommodates additional production lines. The
and science tests for fifth Mississippi Development Authority is providing
and eighth graders. a $150,000 grant for the transportation and in-
stallation of the new production lines.
Ajinomoto Foods plans to fill the 15 new jobs
by December.

Senate panel OKs last bit of teacher pay for current year
$1,500-per-person raise approved during 2019 session on Wednesday.
The bill goes to the
The Associated Press son raise was approved initially set aside for the full Senate and is expect-
during the 2019 session. budget year that started ed to pass there, too. It
JACKSON — Mis- But, officials later discov- July 1. would then go to Gov.
sissippi legislators are ered a bureaucratic error House Bill 1 will cover Tate Reeves.
pushing ahead with a that resulted in too few the shortfall of more than Legislative leaders
plan to pay the full cost teachers being counted $18 million. It passed the say teachers have not
for this year’s teacher as the state budget was full House last week and missed any pay.
pay raise. written. The error meant it passed the Senate Ap-
The $1,500-per-per- that too little money was propriations Committee

Around the state

School officials: Elementary school student found with gun
TUPELO — School officials in Tupelo say a student was found with a handgun at
an elementary school.
The weapon was unloaded when found in the student’s possession at Lawndale
Elementary School on Thursday, The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported.
The Tupelo Public School District said no one was in danger.
Campus administrators and Tupelo police school resource officers confiscated
the weapon.

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itics brought her to the
United States. She earned
a master’s degree in jour-
nalism from the Universi-
ty of Missouri in Decem-
for Responsive Politics in
Washington, D.C.
“The more I covered
public policies over the
years, the more strongly
and passion for communi-
ty journalism fit well with
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for investigative journal-
ism, she also produced
data-driven stories on
the opioid crisis, child
food insecurity and more
while an intern at The Salt
Lake Tribune. She most
recently covered nation-
al politics for the Center
challenging and exciting
for me to be back to cov-
ering local communities.
I believe everyone has an
interesting story to share,
and I’m so honored to tell
their stories.”
Managing Editor Zack
Plair said Yu’s work ethic
Plair said. “She is driven,
incredibly conscientious
and she clearly cares
about the work she does.
She’s a valuable addition
to our newsroom.”
Yu can be contacted by
email at syu@cdispatch.
com.
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Roses and thorns

A rose to
all those who
have worked
diligently,
often around
the clock, to
address the Oktibbeha County
Lake dam crisis. Since coun-
ty engineer Clyde Pritchard
alerted the community of the
perilous condition of the dam
on Tuesday, a host of officials
from the local and state level,
including fire departments and
law enforcement have worked
tirelessly to inform the public
of the danger and mitigate
damage and work toward a
solution. While the status of
the dam remains precarious,
it’s obvious that all those who
have been involved have taken
every available measure to
protect those in harm’s way.
It is hopeful that those efforts
— and the efforts yet to come
— will secure the dam and
prevent damage to people and
property in the area.
A rose to
Columbus Mu-
nicipal School
District Super-
intendent Che-
rie Labat and
Lenora Hogan, director of the
Starkville-Okitbbea County
Consolidated School District’s
Millsaps Career and Technical
Center, who will serve as two
of 19 members named this
week to serve on Lt. Governor
Delbert Hosemann’s Admin-
istrator Advisory Council. We
believe the experience and
skills of these public school ad-
ministrators will be an invalu-
able resource for Hosemann
as the Legislature addresses
the wide-ranging challenges
faced by our schools. In the
past, the Legislature, whose
members generally have little
to no experience working in
education, has often passed
education bills with no under-
standing of the implications.
We applaud Hosemann in his
efforts to make sure legislators
can make informed decisions
and to council members Labat
and Hogan for their important
contributions in that effort.
A rose to
Ron Thornton,
the new CEO
and President
of the Boys &
Girls Club of
the Golden Triangle. Thornton
comes to the Golden Triangle
from the Boys & Girls Club
of Jackson, where he served
as vice president. In accept-
ing the position, we believe
Thornton’s familiarity with the
mission and the strong foun-
dation set by his predecessor,
Nadia Colom, will mark a new
chapter of growth for the pro-
grams in Columbus, Starkville
and West Point. We welcome
Ron to our community and
wish him every success in the
important role the club plays in
our community.
A rose to
the Joe Max
Higgins, who
was appointed
this week to
serve on the
East Mississippi Community
College Board of Trustees,
filling the unexpired term of
Lance Walters, who resigned
after moving away from the
area. The 12-member board
is made up of two represen-
tatives of each of the six
counties served by EMCC. As
CEO of the Golden Triangle
Development LINK, Higgins
has a reputation for doing his
homework, asking the tough
questions and seeing proj-
ects through to completion.
Those qualities are especially
important in EMCC’s efforts
to reverse a trend of spending
beyond its means over the
past eight years. Higgins’ in-
depth knowledge of economic
development will make him a
strong advocate on the board
for continued support of the
workforce development efforts
both at the Mayhew campus
and Communiversity. We
are certain Higgins will be a
strong, effective voice on the
EMCC board.

Letters to the editor

Partial to Home
Voice of the people
Takes issue with multiple
points made by letters
In a recent letter, Raymond Gross says
what should be a sad realization to every-
one in our country is the fact liberals will
bravely and proudly stand for the killing of
helpless innocent baby humans anywhere
in the world.
It was believed by many that Roe would
be overturned in 1992 with Planned
Parenthood v. Casey. Despite having eight
Republican-appointed judges at the time,
the court ruled 5-4 to uphold it.
Since 1992, Roe v. Wade remains the law
of the land because the Republicans voted
in favor of it. Now, to blame the Democrats
for the killing of innocent babies is just
plain wrong.
The Republicans are really to blame
more than the Democrats because there
could be no other reason for them to
uphold Roe v. Wade other than political
reasons.
What’s even more disgusting, after the
Republicans voted to uphold the law, they
are now using it to get elected. One of the
first things a Republican running for office
wants the people to know is their stance
against abortion.
Since 1992, Republicans have had years
Birney Imes/Dispatch Staff
to petition the Supreme Court to revisit Recent downpours have forced road closings, created flooding in some areas and in one instance on Oak
Roe v. Wade. Why haven’t they done it? Slush Creek, eliminated the possibility of a pick-up game of hoops.
Mr. Gross also says the Democrats

Oak Slush Creek revisited

think it’s very horrible and disgusting to
kill a dangerous terrorist who is guilty
of multiple murders and numerous other

W
types of crimes.
Republicans have been spreading a lie hile bat- was a popular nesting day a docile backwater.
that Democrats “mourn” the death of this tling a case place for high-school The same thing happened in
Iranian general. of cabin lovebirds. It was not the Delta this past year. The wa-
One of Trump’s most vocal defenders fever on a cold, rainy uncommon on the ter in the flooded Mississippi was
in the House, Georgia Republican Doug afternoon the Sunday weekend for cars con- so high, its bottled-up tributaries
Collins, pushed the envelope of political before Christmas, I taining young spoon- could not discharge into the river,
commentary by saying Wednesday that the sent Craig Hill a text ers to line both sides so they backed up and flooded
Democrats “mourn” the death of Iranian asking if he wanted to of the bridge. the region.
General Quassem Soleimania. A number go paddling. We’d had About three-quar- I took a cell phone picture
of Democrat officeholders criticized in a lot of rain and the ters of a mile north of an almost-submerged bas-
varying degrees Trump’s authorization of river was high. of the 82 Bridge we ketball goal and sent electronic
the strike, but none defended Soleimani. I expected from turned into the creek postcards in the form of a text to
A tweet supposedly sent by Rep. Rashi- him something to the Birney Imes and before turning several friends.
da Tlaib was a hoax. For the rest of the effect of, “Are you around did battle with The creek goes under Old
story, search it. Here’s something that may crazy?” it for about a mile as it West Point Road and then along
be of help to search and read also. Instead he wanted to know gushed toward the main river. Highway 82 before it goes behind
Ivana Trump, Trump’s first wife, told her when I was leaving. On Wednesday in more the Shell truck stop at the Ma-
lawyer during their divorce, that from time Around mid-afternoon we set pleasant circumstances, I put in con/Meridian exit and then par-
to time her husband reads a book of Hit- out from boat landing near the again at the largely submerged allels and eventually goes under
ler’s collected speeches, “My New Order”, start of the Riverwalk paddling boat landing at the foot of Second Plymouth Bluff Access Road.
which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. upstream against a brisk current. Avenue South and set out on the With each stroke of the pad-
James Hodges After navigating the swirling same course Craig and I had dle the creek seemed to grow
Steens water where the river divides at taken almost a month earlier. narrower and the walls along
the head of the Island, we crept The day was warm and by the its banks higher. The twisted
along the right bank, less than time I made it to the main chan- bois d’arcs, their contact with
Thinks Main Street roundabouts a stone’s throw from a muddy nel the morning sunlight played the earth tenuous, reached out
are a bad idea Riverwalk. As we approached the on the trees on the west bank of over the water, their moss-cov-
This isn’t England. Open the turn lane Highway 82 bridge, we angled the river. ered branches offering a thorny
to the Island off 82 access to Main and over to the west bank and contin- The river seemed to have embrace. The trees’ dangling
ease the curve at Harvey’s but leave the ued upstream. more current, and when I angled tendril-like roots, looking like
roundabouts to European countries. I don’t Our destination was Oak Slush across it took me downstream a the legs of giant, orange spiders,
want to be on a roundabout with Columbus Creek about three-quarters of a couple of hundred yards. added to the fairy-tale quality of
people. Because the state gave us $800,000, mile upstream past the bridge on After going under the bridge, the setting. Maybe a family of
$100,000 isn’t a deal if our finances are the west side. I paddled through the forest Hobbits awaited around the next
depleted. Send it to Parchman if you want to Starkville-bound traffic from that will soon be Jan and Glenn bend.
throw it away. Columbus crosses Oak Slush Miller’s front yard — the Millers No, there was only a narrow,
Tanner Imes Creek almost immediately after are building a house fronting on rather prosaic rock pour-over
Columbus crossing the Tenn-Tom bridge. the river. at Plymouth Bluff Access Road
Editor’s note: The letter writer is the sister If you are of a certain age and Later in the day I happened where I turned around.
of The Dispatch’s publisher. grew up here, you might remem- to see Jan at a downtown coffee Once back on the Tenn-Tom
ber the Tenn-Tom bridge built house and asked if it was OK to with its speeding current, I was at
nnn for the Waterway long before the mention her house in the col- the boat landing in a blink.
Tenn-Tom became reality. The umn, she laughed. “I’m posting Three days later the river had
A letter to the editor is an excellent way to bridge turned out to be inade- pictures of it on Facebook every dropped 10 feet and Oak Slush
participate in your community. We request quate and had to be demolished day,” she said. “No, we don’t Creek had resumed its role as a
the tone of your letters be constructive and to make way for the current, mind.” little-noticed forest stream.
respectful and the length be limited to 450 larger structure. Oak Slush Creek, the stream Birney Imes (birney@cdispatch.
words. We welcome all letters emailed to In the meantime “the new that had been a raging torrent com) is the former publisher of The
voice@cdispatch.com or mailed to The Dis- bridge,” as it came to be known, with Craig and me, was on this Dispatch.
patch, Attn: Letters to the Editor, PO Box 511,
Columbus, MS 39703-0511.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Sunday, January 19, 2020 5A

You create diversity by creating diversity

D
ear Stephen
King:
I hope
you’ll indulge me
as I try to explain
something I suspect
you still don’t quite
understand. Namely:
why so many of us
were so disappoint-
ed with your take on
the lack of diversity
in this year’s Oscar Leonard Pitts
nominations. As
the white-domi-
nated and male-centric list of
contenders was announced
and women and people of color reach for your phone to check
expressed their frustration,
you took to Twitter.
“As a writer,” you wrote,
“I am allowed to nominate in
just 3 categories: Best Picture,
Best Adapted Screenplay and
Best Original Screenplay. For
me, the diversity issue — as
it applies to individual actors
and directors, anyway — did
not come up. That said, I would shot.” Women and people of
never consider di- color, you wrote, are “badly
versity in matters under-represented, and not
of art. Only quality. only in the arts. You can’t win
It seems to me that awards if you’re shut out of the
to do otherwise game.”
would be wrong.” These are noble sentiments.
The backlash They also miss the point.
was fast and One of the things that
furious. Authors makes you my literary North
Roxane Gay and Star is your uncanny ability
Sarah Weinman to get so much mileage out of
took you to task. each word. Well, you packed a
But it was director lot into the words of that initial
Ava DuVernay who tweet, too, including an im-
best captured the plicit assumption that seeking
chagrin many of us felt: “When quality and seeking diversity
you wake up, meditate, stretch, are mutually exclusive. You
seem to feel we should simply
on the world and see a tweet trust your good intentions in
from someone you admire that seeking the former and the
is so backward and ignorant latter will somehow take care
you want to go back to bed.” of itself.
You were soon trying to The idea that diversity will
tweet your way out of the work itself out without being
hole you had dug, noting the nudged is a common conceit,
responsibility of artists and but a mistaken one. You don’t
creative people to “make sure create diversity by being a
everyone has the same fair good person or being pure
of purpose. You create diver-
sity by creating diversity, by
valuing and seeking it. Which
requires you to acknowledge
your biases and become inten-
tional in rooting them out.
As an example: In 2007, a
study by Cornell University
professor Joseph Price and
University of Pennsylvania
professor Justin Wolfers found
racial bias in NBA refereeing:
White refs were more likely to
call fouls against black play-
ers; black refs had a mirror
bias against white players,
though the tendency was not
as strong.
But here’s the good part.
When Price and Wolfers
revisited the issue seven years
later, they made a fascinating
discovery: The disparity in foul
calls had all but disappeared.
Apparently being made aware
of their biases inspired the refs
— absent any instruction from
the NBA — to take corrective
action.
We all have biases. It’s how
human beings are wired. But
for some of us, by dint of color
or gender — or a combination
thereof — those biases have
power to determine who gets
arrested, who gets educated
and, yes, who gets an Oscar
nomination.
So the question is: What
should we, as good people, do
about it?
As a male writer, I now
make it a point to seek women
if, say, I’m looking for experts
to interview or I’m listing
civil rights heroes. Maybe that
seems awkward and stilted to
you, and maybe it is. But here’s
what I’ve learned: As a human
being, I am a creature of im-
plicit biases. So I can’t trust my
own good intentions.
Please don’t ask me to trust
yours.
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner
of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for
commentary, is a columnist for
the Miami Herald. Email him
at lpitts@miamiherald.com.

Democrats Cartoonist View

should put an
end to caucuses
“I
t is quite aston-
ishing to see with
what deadpan
and neutral a tone
our press and television
report the open corrup-
tion — and the flagrantly
anti-democratic char-
acter — of the Iowa
caucuses.”
I quote the late Chris-
topher Hitchens because
I couldn’t put it better. Froma Harrop
In a primary, eligible
voters can show up any-
time while polls are open, cast anonymous ballots
and go home. In the caucuses, they must show up
on a winter night and spend several hours jostling
with neighbors and strangers as they show sup-
port for one candidate or another.
This setup favors activists who are not deterred
by snow, cold and the dark. They tend to be edu-
cated and have the luxury of free evening hours.
They’re also aggressive and skilled in working the
intricacies of the caucus process.
The caucuses disfavor working people who
must juggle two children and three jobs. Add to
that anyone who works nights at McDonald’s or
drives an Uber after hours. Or who depends on a
public transportation system that slows down in
the evening.
The obvious winners in this unfair setup are
candidates with passionate followers. Bernie Sand-
ers has notably been a beneficiary. In 2016, he did
better in the caucuses, where his activists could
exert control, than in the primaries, where a wider
electorate cast simple ballots without pressure.
Caucuses routinely suppress voter participa-
tion, according to the Lawyers’ Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law. In 2016, turnout at the
Iowa caucuses was under 16 percent, whereas the
New Hampshire primary attracted 52 percent of
eligible voters.
Washington state, which held both a cau-
cus and a primary in 2016, offered a real-world
contrast of the two. In March that year, Sanders
swept Washington’s Democratic caucus, walking
off with 74 delegates to Hillary Clinton’s 27. When
Washington held a primary two months later,
Clinton won by 6 percent.
Only about 26,000 people “voted” in the Dem-
ocratic caucuses, while more than 660,000 voted
in the primary. The state Democratic Party is
switching to a meaningful primary in 2020.
Were caucuses how conservative state runs
a general election, liberals would rightly accuse
election officials of practicing voter suppression.
The Supreme Court might even strike down its
election laws as unconstitutional. But this is a par-
ty matter, and it is up to the Democratic National
Committee to fix the problem.
In assessing a candidate’s ability to prevail in a
general election, some members of the punditry
put great importance on the level of voter enthu-
siasm. Should that matter? It shouldn’t, not in a
democracy. Votes are supposed to be equal. A vote
cast with mild affection or indifference — even
with nose held — counts every bit as much as a
vote made with thumping heart.
Some friends, particularly younger ones,
worship the ground Bernie walks on. I back Joe
Biden but don’t adore him. (I could be happy with
another moderate, say, Amy Klobuchar or Pete
Buttigieg.) To me, Biden is a solid progressive
and, more importantly, the Democrat whom Presi-
dent Donald Trump most fears.
What excites me, though in a bad way, is the be-
lief that a Sanders nomination — or his trashing of
the actual Democratic nominee, as he did in 2016
— would deliver another four years to Trump.
Whatever the results in the Iowa caucuses, one
can be confident that they will leave an exagger-
ated impression of the level of Sanders’ support.
They will reveal the preference of a tiny slice of a
tiny slice of the electorate and, in the Democrats’
case, of an electorate more heavily weighted
toward the white liberal gentry than the party at
large.
Only the Democratic Party can end this undem-
ocratic means of choosing its nominees. And it
should.
Froma Harrop, a syndicated columnist, writes for
the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal. Her e-mail
address is fharrop@gmail.com.
A malicious indictment Mitch should toss out
A
bout the impeach-
ment of President
Donald Trump she
engineered with her Demo-
cratic majority, Nancy Pelosi
said Wednesday: “It’s not
personal. It’s not political.
It’s not partisan. It’s patri-
otic.”
Seriously, Madam
Speaker? Not political? Not
partisan?
Why then were all eight Patrick Buchanan
House members chosen as
managers to prosecute the
case against Trump, who ceremoniously escorted
the articles across the Capitol, all Democrats? Why
did the articles of impeachment receive not a single
Republican vote on the House floor?
The truth: The impeachment of Donald Trump is
the fruit of a malicious prosecution whose roots go
back to the 2016 election, in the aftermath of which
stunned liberals and Democrats began to plot the
removal of the new president.
This coup has been in the works for three years.
First came the crazed charges of Trump’s crimi-
nal collusion with Vladimir Putin to hack the emails
of the DNC and the Clinton campaign and funnel
them to WikiLeaks.
For two years, we heard the cries of “Treason!”
from Pelosi’s caucus. And despite the Mueller in-
vestigation’s exoneration of Trump of all charges of
conspiracy with Russia, we still hear the echoes:
Trump is Putin’s poodle. Trump is an asset of the
Kremlin.
All we want, and what the American people
deserve, is a “fair trial,” Democrats and their media
collaborators now insist. But can a fair trial proceed
from a manifestly deficient and malicious prosecu-
tion?
Consider. In this impeachment, we are told, the
House serves as the grand jury, and Adam Schiff’s
Intelligence Committee and Jerry Nadler’s Judiciary
Committee serve as the investigators and prosecu-
tors.
But the articles of impeachment on which the
Judiciary Committee and the House voted do not
contain a single crime required by the Constitution
for impeachment and removal. There is no charge of
treason, no charge of bribery or “other high crimes
and misdemeanors.”
So weak is the case for impeachment that the
elite in this city is demanding that the Senate do the
work the House failed to do.
The Senate must subpoena the documents and
witnesses the House failed to produce, to make the
case for impeachment more persuasive than it is
now.
Not our job, rightly answers Mitch McConnell.
The Senate is supposed to be an “impartial jury.”
But while there is a debate over whether Repub-
licans will vote to call witnesses, there is no debate
on how the Senate Democrats intend to vote — 100%
for removal of a president they fear they may not be
able to defeat.
Consider Trump’s alleged offense: pressing
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to inves-
tigate Burisma Holdings and Hunter Biden.
Assume Zelenskiy, without prodding, sent to
the U.S., as a friendly act to ingratiate himself with
Trump, the Burisma file on Hunter Biden.
Would that have been a crime?
Why is it then a crime if Trump asked for the file?
The military aid Trump held up for 10 weeks
— lethal aid Barack Obama denied to Kyiv — was
sent. And Zelenskiy never held the press conference
requested, never investigated Burisma, never sent
the Biden file.
There is a reason why no crime was charged in
the impeachment of Donald Trump. There was no
crime committed.
Not political, said Pelosi. Why then did she hold
up sending the articles of impeachment to the Sen-
ate for a month, after she said it was so urgent that
Trump be impeached that Schiff and Nadler could
not wait for their subpoenas to be ruled upon by the
Supreme Court?
Pelosi is demanding that the Senate get the docu-
ments, subpoena and hear the witnesses, and do the
investigative work Schiff and Nadler failed to do.
Does that not constitute an admission that a
convincing case was not made? Are not the articles
voted by the House inherently deficient if the Senate
has to have more evidence than the House prosecu-
tors could produce to convict the president of “abuse
of power”?
Can we really have a fair trial in the Senate, when
half of the jury, the Democratic caucus, is as reliably
expected to vote to remove the president as Repub-
licans are to acquit him? What kind of fair trial is it
when we can predict the final vote before the court
hears the evidence?
It is ridiculous to deny that this impeachment is
partisan, political and personal. It reeks of politics,
partisanship and Trump-hatred.
As for patriotic, that depends on where you stand
— or sit.
But the forum to be entrusted with the decision
of “should Trump go?” is not a deeply polarized Sen-
ate, but with those the Founding Fathers entrusted
with such decisions — the American people.
In most U.S. courts, a prosecution case this
inadequate, with prosecutors asking the court itself
to get more documents and call more witnesses,
and so visibly contaminated with malice toward the
accused, would be dismissed outright.
Mitch McConnell should let the House managers
make their case, and then call for a vote to dismiss,
and treat this indictment with the contempt it so
richly deserves.
Patrick J. Buchanan, a nationally syndicated
columnist, was a senior advisor to presidents Richard
Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. His website
is http://buchanan.org/blog.
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Neighborhood
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Some residents said they
believed the lake was not
big enough to flood as far
east as the end of Walter
Bell Road, and others
said the water would flow
south to Biba Wila Creek
instead.
“I kind of want to see
it, and if I see it, I’m out of
here,” Jimmy Ellis said.
His wife, Ida, was
more cautious and drove
to Starkville to stay with
their daughter every
night since Tuesday.
“I’d rather sleep in
peace than be trying to
wake up to see if I hear
something or not,” she
said.
The Ellises have lived
for generations on the
land just east of the Hub-
bards, who moved from
Adaton into a blue house
that still stands, now
abandoned, on the aptly
named Hubbard Road.
Joe Hubbard, Mattie Bell
and Ida Ellis were three
of 10 siblings that grew
up in the blue house.
Another brother still lives
nearby, and a third sister,
Brenda Hubbard, did
as well but died almost
a decade ago. She left
behind five children, and
Bell and her husband had
11 of their own.
Not everyone who
grew up in the neighbor-
hood has stayed there,
but most residents were
born and raised there,
including District 3 Su-
pervisor Marvell Howard,
whose mother lives in the
house next door to his on
the street just behind the
levee.
The longstanding,
tight-knit community
shares a collection of
happy memories, like
neighborhood basketball
and softball games and
fishing, water-skiing and
family reunions at the
lake. They also remem-
ber the hard times, such
as neighbors’ health
problems and untimely
deaths, including the un-
solved investigation into
the 2016 shooting death
of Willie Allen Turner,
whom everyone called
Willie Tee.
In good times and
in bad, the community
sticks together as “one
big old family,” Joe
Hubbard said. Everyone
knows everyone on a
first-name basis within
the span of about five
miles, and people honk
their horns to say hello to
their neighbors as they
drive past.
‘Like we were all
brothers and sisters’
A trailer now sits
where a basketball court
used to be next to the
old Hubbard house, and
Joe Hubbard remembers
playing basketball with
other local boys, includ-
ing one of his future
brothers-in-law, Jimmy
Ellis. A copse of trees
separates the blue house
from the one in which Joe
lives now with his wife,
Margie. Their grandchil-
dren live in West Point
but attend school in
Starkville and visit their
grandparents regularly.
Margie Hubbard
writes and frames poems
free of charge for anyone
who wants one, based on
the person’s name and
two colors they like. She
once brought a former
Bethel pastor to tears
with her poetry, Joe Hub-
bard said.
“I just wonder how she
thinks of those words,”
he said.
The Hubbard family
can testify to the commu-
nity’s ability to unite in
support of a struggling
neighbor. Mattie Bell had
a heart attack in 2001,
and Joe Hubbard had one
in 2004. Both said their
neighbors rallied around
them — “like we were
all brothers and sisters,”
Hubbard said.
Brenda Hubbard was
a single mother, and she
died when her youngest
child was 10 or 11 years
old, neighbor Michael
Davis remembers. He
and others were there
for the kids, especially
the youngest, for years
afterward, he said.
“If her car would break
down anywhere, I’d go
and get her,” Davis said.
Paul Short and his
wife, Elsie, live at the end
of Davis’ street. Elsie is
from the area, but Paul
is one of the few non-na-
tives, having moved in
1973 from Wisconsin to
take a job on the forestry
faculty at Mississippi
State University.
“I got to the area and
the humidity, the water
was just running off of
me, and I said I’d stay
here for one year,” he
said. “The reason I never
left wasn’t my colleagues
or anything like that. It
was the local people.”
Rudy Johnson, who un-
successfully ran for the
Republican nomination
for District 3 supervisor
in 2019, has only lived in
‘It’s not in our hands. It’s in God’s
hands. I’m hoping that God will favor
us and not let the dam break.’
the lake area for 20 years,
but he said he feels as
much a part of the com-
munity as his neighbors.
“If somebody’s in a
ditch, we get them out,”
Johnson said. “It’s done
out of friendship and no
money changes hands.
I wouldn’t charge my
neighbors for anything.
If somebody’s in need,
we help them. If I’ve
got something that they
need, I give it to them.”
‘It’s in God’s hands’
Back when the county
operated the lake, it “was
a real poppin’ little place,”
Jimmy Ellis said.
It regularly buzzed
with activity, from
cookouts to boat races to
swimming and fishing,
and the Hubbards held
their family reunion there
every year.
The activity slowed to
a halt after former Mis-
sissippi State University
men’s basketball coach
Rick Stansbury leased
part of the lake from
the county in 2012 and
started a Kampgrounds
of America franchise site
just north of the lake.
Some people still fish off
the side of County Lake
Road, including Mattie
Bell, who keeps a fishing
line on her front porch.
The neighborhood
still socialized even after
the lake became a less
prominent part of their
recreation. Davis remem-
bers the night of Willie
Tee Turner’s Fourth of
July party in 2016, the
night before Turner was
found dead.
“He cooked a whole
hog, and a lot of guys
were hanging out, just
sitting around having
fun,” Davis said. “He
was killed that night.
They found him the next
morning lying in the
driveway.”
Willie Tee’s death
changed the neighbor-
hood somewhat. Ida Ellis
said she no longer felt
comfortable answering
the door without look-
ing out the window to
see who was there first.
People used to leave their
doors unlocked and even
open, but they stopped,
partly because they
couldn’t say for certain
Ida Ellis
that no one in the neigh-
borhood killed Willie
Tee, Davis said.
“That hurt the neigh-
borhood,” he said. “It was
hard because everybody
knew Willie Tee and ev-
erybody knew everybody,
so when somebody gets Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Michael Davis, right, stands in front of his home on Sat-
killed out here, we’re like,
urday with his girlfriend, Angela Robinson. Davis grew
‘What happened?’”
up in the area northeast of the Oktibbeha County Lake,
The Oktibbeha County and he said the neighbors support each other during
Sheriff’s Office investi- hard times such as an illness or death in the family.
gated but never solved
the case, both Davis and
Alberta Turner, Willie
Tee’s 90-year-old mother,
said.
Turner said both her
neighbors and her faith
provided her with conso-
lation in the wake of her
son’s death.
“I prayed about it, I
gave it to the Lord, and
he’s going to answer,”
she said. “I can’t tell you
when, but I got a feeling
he’s going to solve it be-
cause he’s a problem-solv- Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
er.” Paul Short, a retired Mississippi State University facul-
ty member, sits on the bench in front of his house with
Though Turner decid-
one of his dogs, Big Guy. Short moved to Oktibbeha
ed to stay in her home County in 1973 and said he did not initially intend to
and Ida Ellis has tempo- stay but became attached to the people in the area,
rarily left hers, both said and his wife, Elsie, grew up in the neighborhood near
God will determine the the Oktibbeha County Lake.
fate of the county lake
dam, as well.
“God surprises us
sometimes,” Ellis said.
“It’s not in our hands. It’s
in God’s hands. I’m hop-
ing that God will favor
us and not let the dam
break.”
Short said he under-
stands most people’s
reluctance to leave the
places they’ve called
home for generations,
even when faced with the
possibility of the dam
breaking. Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Joe Hubbard stands next to the house on the left
“I hope it doesn’t hap- where he and his nine siblings grew up, and he said the
pen, but if it does, we’ve
trailer behind him sits where there used to be a bas-
just got to make sure ketball court. He now lives nearby on Walter Bell Road,
everybody stays safe,” he and he and his family moved to the neighborhood
said. before the road was paved and named, he said.

Oktibbeha Lake
Continued from Page 1A
the pumps. They worked
from almost 9 p.m. Fri-
day to almost 5 a.m. Sat-
urday, Campanella said.
The pumps use between
15 and 22 gallons of die-
sel per hour, and Rackley
Oil Company of Starkville
provided the fuel, she
said.
County Engineer
Clyde Pritchard and the
U.S. Army Corps of En-
gineers have been mon-
itoring the levee since
Tuesday. Water was seep-
ing between the dam and
the bedrock underneath
it, pushing sand boils to
the surface and forming
a crack on the slope. The
county issued a warning
and a recommendation
that area residents evac-
uate. The warning would
upgrade to an emergency
and spark a mandatory
evacuation if water starts
streaming out of the levee
or if the mudslide in the
seeping area of the levee
reaches the pavement on
County Lake Road.
Pritchard initially esti-
mated it would take 22 to
24 days to lower the water
level of the lake by five
feet, possibly eliminating
the danger of imminent
dam failure, if the area re-
ceives no additional rain-
fall and if the pumps can
drain the lake at a rate of
25,000 gallons per hour.
By Saturday, he changed
his estimate to 14 days.
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Diesel-fueled pumps siphon water from the Oktibbe-
ha County Lake dam at 30,000 gallons per minute
Saturday morning. The pumps were delivered from
Birmingham, Alabama and installed Friday night to
relieve pressure on the levee and reduce the danger of
breaching and flooding.
The pumps can work at but neither had water in it,
30,000 gallons per hour, Campanella said.
and the three 8-inch pipes District 1 Supervisor
and one 10-inch pipe that and board president John
had already been siphon- Montgomery praised
ing water off the lake county officials and em-
since Tuesday can remove ployees for being “proac-
an additional 20,000 gal- tive, not reactive” in work-
lons per hour. ing to reduce the water
After the water level level. For the past several
recedes, engineers will months, the county has
cut off the dam’s prima- been seeking federal and
ry outlet valve in order to state funds to replace the
keep the water level low. levee, emergency spill-
The valve was complete- way and floodgate valve,
ly underwater Thursday a roughly $8 million proj-
afternoon but was visible ect.
Friday. “We’ve been seeking it
Authorities also found just as hard then as we are
a new sinkhole in the now, and I hope that the
levee at the Oktibbeha people who have the abili-
County Lake late Thurs- ty to help us out do realize
day afternoon and anoth- what we’re dealing with,”
er one Saturday morning, Montgomery said.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Sunday, January 19, 2020 7A

Trump assembles a made-for-TV impeachment defense team

Lead roles for president’s defense will be their regular appearances on
Fox News, the president’s pre-
Democrats released more
documents late Friday from Lev
constitutional arguments.
“I’m not a full-fledged mem-
played by White House Counsel Pat Cipollone ferred television network.
Dershowitz is a constitu-
Parnas, an indicted associate of
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani,
ber of the defense team,” he
told “The Dan Abrams Show”
and Trump personal lawyer Jay Sekulow tional expert whose expansive
views of presidential powers
with photos, text and audio, as
they make their case against
on SiriusXM. He has long been
a critic of “the overuse of im-
By ERIC TUCKER al arguments meant to shield echo those of Trump. Starr is the president over his actions peachment,” he said, and would
and ZEKE MILLER Trump from allegations that he a veteran of partisan battles in toward Ukraine. have made the same case for a
The Associated Press Washington, having led the in- There are some signs of ten- President Hillary Clinton.
abused his power.
The additions Friday bring vestigation into Clinton’s affair sion involving the president’s A legal brief laying out the
WA S H I N G - with a White House intern that outside legal team and lawyers contours of the Trump defense,
experience in the politics of
TON — President brought about the president’s within the White House. due at noon Monday, was still
Donald Trump impeachment as well as con-
stitutional law to the team, impeachment by the House. Some White House officials being drafted, with White
has assembled a Clinton was acquitted at his bristled that the announcement House attorneys and the out-
made-for-TV le- which faced a busy weekend
Senate trial, the same outcome was not coordinated with them. side legal team grappling over
gal team for his of deadlines for legal briefs be-
Trump is expecting from the The White House waited un- how political the document
Senate trial that fore opening arguments begin
Republican-led chamber. til late Friday night to confirm should be. Those inside the
includes house- Tuesday even as more evidence Still, the lead roles for the full roster of the president’s administration have echoed
Trump rolled in.
hold names like Trump’s defense will be played lawyers. warnings from Senate Majority
Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose The two new Trump attor- by White House Counsel Pat Hours after Dershowitz an- Leader Mitch McConnell that
investigation two decades ago neys are already nationally Cipollone and Trump personal nounced his involvement with the pleadings must be sensi-
resulted in the impeachment of known both for their involve- lawyer Jay Sekulow, who also the team in a series of tweets tive to the Senate’s more staid
Bill Clinton. Former Harvard ment in some of the more con- represented Trump during spe- Friday, he played down his role traditions and leave the sharp-
law professor Alan Dershowitz sequential legal dramas of re- cial counsel Robert Mueller’s by saying he would be present er rhetoric to Twitter and cable
said he will deliver constitution- cent American history and for Russia investigation. for only an hour or so to make news.

Facing Senate trial crunch, Tech, communications

Democrats blitzing Iowa, early states
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar
are soon to be marooned in the Senate as jurors in
President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial
By JULIE PACE
AP Washington Bureau Chief
NEWTON, Iowa — As
a winter storm barreled
down on Iowa, Elizabeth
Warren’s campaign team
struggled with whether to
scrap a town hall sched-
uled at the old Maytag
headquarters.
There was more than
weather at play as the
Massachusetts senator’s
campaign monitored the
forecast and called ex-
pected attendees to gauge
their willingness to brave
the snow and whipping
wind. For the Democrat-
ic presidential candidate,
the event was probably
one of her last chances to
make a face-to-face appeal
to voters in Iowa before
the Feb. 3 caucus. So it
went on as planned.
Warren, along with
Sens. Bernie Sanders of
Vermont and Amy Klobu-
char of Minnesota, is soon
to be marooned in the Sen-
ate as a juror in President
Donald Trump’s impeach-
ment trial. With the trial
schedule up in the air, this
weekend is likely the final
full weekend of campaign-
ing for those candidates
before the kick-off caucus.
That’s left their cam-
paigns scrambling to
make the most of their
time in Iowa and the oth-
er early-voting states, and
thinking of ways to stay
on voters’ radars during
the trial in Washington.
It’s also given their 2020
rivals outside the Senate
an opportunity to take ad-
vantage.
Klobuchar trails the
top tier of contenders in
polling and fundraising
and needs a strong show-
ing in Iowa to catapult
her campaign into the
next round of primaries.
She insisted that the de-
mands of the Senate trial
wouldn’t hurt her candi-
dacy.
“I’m a mom and I can
balance things really
well,” Klobuchar said
during an event Saturday
in Coralville.
But privately, the col-
lision of the trial and the
caucus has created anxi-
ety among campaign ad-
visers who face the pros-
pect of their bosses being
trapped in the Senate as
silent jurors just as voters
in Iowa are taking a final
look at the candidates.
The full schedule for
the Senate trial is uncer-
tain, and it’s possible it
wraps up before the cau-
cuses. But campaigns are
planning for the prospect
of the candidates being
in Senate session Tues-
day through Saturday
next week, as well as five
or six days the following
week. The fourth Demo-
cratic senator still in the
race is Michael Bennet of
Colorado.
Well-funded candi-
dates such as Warren and
Sanders are considering
putting private planes
on hold in Washington
so they can quickly fly to
Iowa for late-night events
after the trial wraps up.
Sanders has already
scheduled an 8 p.m. ral-
ly in Cedar Rapids on
Wednesday, taking ad-
vantage of the one-hour
time difference between
Washington and Iowa.
stocks push US indexes
to more records
By ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writer
Wall Street capped a milestone-setting week
Friday with a few more as modest gains nudged
the major stock indexes to all-time highs.
The benchmark S&P 500 index also notched
its second-straight weekly gain.
Technology stocks powered much of the mar-
ket’s broad gains, along with communication ser-
vices companies and banks. Energy sector stocks
were the only decliners. Bond prices fell, sending
yields higher.
Investors welcomed more strong quarterly re-
sults from banks. A report showing a December
surge in new home construction, meanwhile, pro-
vided the latest encouraging snapshot on the U.S.
economy. A solid retail sales report on Thursday
revealed consumers are still spending at a healthy
pace.
The latest batch of positive corporate earnings
reports and ecomonic data helped keep investors
in a buying mood after the midweek signing of an
initial trade deal by the U.S. and China. Progress
on trade has eased fears on Wall Street about the
potential for the dispute to escalate further.

Rollback proposed for Michelle Obama school lunch guidelines

would allow schools to re-
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue: Changes needed to duce the amount of fruit
give schools more flexibility and reduce waste while still at on-the-go breakfast
served outside the cafe-
providing nutritious and appetizing meals teria.
Gay Anderson, presi-
By CAROLE FELDMAN on Obama’s birthday, said Move” campaign to com- dent of the School Nutri-
The Associated Press they were needed to give bat child obesity. “This tion Association, said that
schools more flexibility country — and its kids — while the nutrition stan-
WASHINGTON — The
and reduce waste while deserve so much better. “ dards had been a success
Trump administration on
still providing nutritious Under the proposal, overall, some require-
Friday took another step
and appetizing meals. schools would be allowed ments led to reduced par-
toward dismantling Mi-
chelle Obama’s school nu- But child nutrition ad- to cut the amount of cer- ticipation in the program,
trition guidelines, propos- vocates saw it differently. tain types of vegetables higher costs and waste.
ing a new rule that could “What a shameless, served at lunch, and le- “USDA’s school meal
lead to more pizza and embarrassing capitula- gumes offered as a meat flexibilities are helping
fries and less fruit and a tion to lobbyists at the alternative also could be us manage these chal-
smaller variety of vegeta- expense of American chil- counted as part of the veg- lenges and prepare nutri-
bles on school menus. dren and their well-be- etable requirement. Pota- tious meals that appeal to
Agriculture Secretary ing,” said Sam Kass, who toes could be served as a diverse student tastes,”
Sonny Perdue, who an- served as executive di- vegetable. Anderson said in a state-
nounced the rule changes rector of Obama’s “Let’s The proposal also ment.
8A Sunday, January 19, 2020 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Thousands gather for Women’s March rallies across the US

Saturday rallies were focused on issues such
as climate change, pay equity, reproductive
rights and immigration
By LYNN BERRY
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Thou-
sands gathered in cities across
the country Saturday as part
of the nationwide Women’s
March rallies focused on is-
sues such as climate change,
pay equity, reproductive rights
and immigration.
Hundred showed up in
New York City and thousands
in Washington, D.C. for the
rallies, which aim to harness
the political power of women,
although crowds were notice-
ably smaller than in previous
years. Marches were sched-
uled Saturday in more than
180 cities.
The first marches in 2017
drew hundreds of thousands
of people to rallies in cities
across the country on the day
after President Donald Trump
was inaugurated. That year’s
D.C. march drew close to 1
million people.
In Manhattan on Satur-
day, hundreds of people who
gathered at separate events in
Foley Square and Columbus
Circle planned to converge
at Times Square as part of a
“Rise and Roar” rally.
“Today, we will be the
change that is needed in this
world! Today, we rise into our
power!” activist Donna Hill
told a cheering crowd in Foley
Square.
In downtown Los Angeles,
thousands of men, women and
children filled several blocks
as they made their way from a
plaza to a park adjacent to City
Hall, where a rally featured
speeches by Jennifer Siebel
Newsom, the wife of Califor-
nia Gov. Gavin Newsom, May-
or Eric Garcetti, Rep. Maxine
Waters and others.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom re-
flected on the progress women
have made “in the four years
since a predator-in-chief took
office.” She credited women
for mobilizing against gun vi-
olence, creating the #MeToo
movement against sexual ha-
rassment and discrimination,
and taking back the Demo-
cratic majority in the House of
Representatives.
“In 2020, I have no doubt
that it will be women who will
lead again, rise up and move
this country forward on a path
toward justice,” she said.
In Denver, organizers opt-
ed to skip the rally after the
march and instead invited
participants to meet with local
organizations to learn more
about issues such as reproduc-
tive rights, climate change,
gun safety and voting.

Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff

Fourth grade students at Caledonia Elementary School write on construction paper
acts of kindness they’ve done or observed. Each slip is joined with other students’
contributions to form a Kindness paper chain. The activity was part of the Junior
Auxiliary of Columbus’ “Choose Kindness” project held Friday at the school.

Anti-bullying
Continued from Page 1A
we try to do every day.”
Two classes at a time,
Caledonia’s fourth-grad-
ers moved through four
stations, each emphasiz-
ing an age-appropriate
topic — distinguishing
bullying (recurring per-
sonal attacks) from con-
flict (disagreements that
occur naturally and are
quickly resolved), the role
of the bystander (who can
either reinforce or inter-
vene against bullying), the
dangers of cyber-bullying
and, finally, the impor-
tance of acts of kindness,
the antithesis of bullying
that creates a positive nar-
rative upon which to close
the program.
For three years, mem-
bers of JA have present-
ed the program, called
“Choose Kindness,” to
fourth-graders at schools
throughout the county.
Program chairman Ra-
chel Hurt said JA already
had a program for mid-
dle-school children on the
subject of bullying.
“What we began to
hear from teachers and
educators is that we real-
ly needed to talk to them
when they were younger
and impressionable to
stress the importance of
being nice to each oth-
er,” Hurt said. “So we did
some research to learn
how to communicate to
fourth-graders on the top-
ic of bullying, not only bul-
lying but the importance
of kindness. We want to
make them aware of how
important even a small
gesture of kindness can
be.”
At each station, kids
were encouraged to ask
and answer questions
about the topic. At the last
station, they were asked
to write on small strips of
construction paper an ex-
ample of a time when they
had shown or received
kindness. Each was add-
ed to a paper chain as a re-
minder of how acts of how
individual kind acts relate
and connect to others in
building an atmosphere of
kindness.
A few examples:
“My uncle died and I
was crying and my friend
told me it was going to be
OK.”
“My sister didn’t know
how to write, so I helped
her.”
“We gave clothes to
poor people who didn’t
have any.”
“I told my sister she
wasn’t a bad person when
another girl said she was.”
“My brother finally left
me alone for a minute!”
Hurt said early ex-
posure to the subject of
bullying will equip kids
to recognize it when they
see it and know what to do
when it occurs.
Caledonia Elementa-
ry School will be made
up of 200 links for that
chain, she said, the num-
ber of students who went
through the program Fri-
day.
The end of the pro-
gram, students were
provided with “kindness
counts” wristbands to
wear to help remind them
of what they learned.
Some students were
already aware firsthand
of bullying before Friday’s
program.
“I saw somebody get
bullied before,” Bayn
Yates said. “I went and
told the teacher and they
stopped.”
Delilah Ordoyne had a
similar recollection.
“I saw somebody get
pushed down on the play-
ground and the person
who did it didn’t help them
up. They just ran off,” she
said. “So I went over and
helped him up and we be-
came friends.”
Bayn said the main
thing he learned was sim-
ple.
“Just be kind,” he said.

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Mississippi State’s Reggie Perry drives to the basket and around Georgia’s Rayshaun Hammonds during the first half of Saturday’s game in Starkville.

Perry, Bulldogs dominate Georgia

By GARRICK HODGE Edwards, meanwhile, contrib-
ghodge@cdispatch.com uted 19 points and finished 5 of 16
from the field. MSU WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
STARKVILLE –– Both Mis-

‘We can win wherever we go’

sissippi State’s Reggie Perry and
Georgia’s Anthony Edwards were
considered NBA prospects long
before Saturday’s matchup be-
tween their two respective teams.
Yet it’s Edwards that’s consid-
ered by NBA scouts to be the supe-
rior talent. And for most of the sea-
son, the 6-foot-5 guard has lived up
to his billing.
Edwards, projected by many
to be as high as the No. 1 overall
pick in the NBA Draft this sum-
mer, came into Saturday’s contest
averaging 19.1 points and five re-
bounds per night while shooting 41
percent from the floor in 16 games.
But it’s Perry who will walk
away from Humphrey Coliseum
with bragging rights. First, the
6-foot-10 forward’s maroon Bull-
dogs pulverized their red name-
sake, 91-59. And from an individ-
ual standpoint, the sophomore
outplayed the freshman phenom,
scoring 22 points on a 9-of-13
shooting effort. He also earned his
10th double-double of the season
by grabbing 12 rebounds.
“(My success is) about my team-
mates finding me and believing in
me to finish plays off,” Perry said.
“They were in front of him,”
Georgia coach Tom Crean said.
“When Anthony starts to settle,
he’s average. He’s a tremendous
talent, but they did what every-
body else does, they got a guy in
front of him.”
An inside look at Mississippi State women’s
The win marks MSU’s second
straight blowout victory after earn-
basketball’s assistant coaching culture
ing a 72-45 victory over Missouri
By Ben Portnoy Now nearly nine years since their
on Tuesday. MSU coach Ben How-
bportnoy@cdispatch.com brief exchange high above the conti-
land’s squad played a complete
nental United States, Schaefer, Harris
game on both ends, shooting 61 STARKVILLE — Vic Schaefer
and fellow assistants Dionnah Jack-
percent from the field and holding arose from his seat and moved about
son-Durrett and Elena Lovato have
Georgia to 39 percent shooting, the airplane cabin.
guided MSU to two national champi-
while outrebounding Georgia 40- Making his way through the aisle,
onship games and three straight Elite
22. he reached Johnnie Harris’ seat and
Eight appearances.
“I’m really excited about how slipped her a note.
And while the on-court successes
well we played,” Howland said.
Harris unfurled the paper. Schaefer offers a substantive look at MSU’s pro-
“That’s back-to-back phenomenal
had scribbled a message into the cen- longed stability, it’s the developmental
games. Our defense was great to
ter: “Can we win at Mississippi State?” atmosphere Schaefer harbors amongst
start the game, and Reggie Perry
Flipping over the piece of paper, his assistant coaches that speaks equal-
was unbelievable tonight. … You
Harris wrote: “We can win wherever ly as much to the program’s overall suc-
can see how together our guys are
we go.” cess.
right now.”
Both assistant coaches on Gary “I love coming to work,” Jack-
For the second straight night,
Blair’s Texas A&M staff at the time, son-Durrett told The Dispatch. “You go
MSU came out firing on all cylin- down the floor, and you’re challenged
ders, racing out to a 10-2 lead. Un- Harris and Schaefer were headed back
to College Station fresh off a Sweet 16 as a coach, and that’s how you grow as a
like the victory against the Tigers, coach. And you love to do it with them.”
the maroon Bulldogs didn’t lead win over Georgia and en route to the
2011 national title. See WOMEN, 6B
wire to wire but still took a 42-31
See Men, 6B

PREP BASKETBALL
Brownlee’s ‘mini-run’ helps
New Hope boys beat Columbus
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
NEW HOPE — AJ Brown-
lee raised both arms to the
sky.
The New Hope senior
put three fingers up on each
hand and yelled in exulta-
tion, and the louder half of a
packed gym celebrated along
with him.
Brownlee had just drained
a 3-pointer early in the fourth
quarter of Friday’s home
game against Columbus to
push New Hope’s lead to dou-
Austin Frayser/Special to The Dispatch ble digits. The shot capped
New Hope guard RL Mattix drives baseline and looks for a teammate late what New Hope coach Drew
in Friday’s game against Columbus. McBrayer called a “mini-
run” that was basically all
Brownlee, who scored the
final five points of the third
quarter and the first four of
the fourth quarter for the
Trojans.
When that fateful 3 from
the top of the key went in,
capping Brownlee’s outburst,
it put New Hope ahead 46-35.
That was all the cushion the
Trojans needed to seal a 65-
55 win against the Falcons,
and Brownlee’s teammates
knew it.
“They were pumping me
up,” Brownlee said. “They
were gonna jump on the
court and get us a technical
and everything.”
The win moved New Hope
to 17-1 on the season, a phe-
nomenal start for a team that
hovered around .500 last sea-
son.
“It feels great,” Brownlee
said. “Great. I can go to sleep
good now.”
Although not among the
Trojans’ starting five, the
senior poured in 13 points
for New Hope when the Tro-
jans needed them. All nine of
his points in the second half
comprised the run that gave
New Hope the separation it
needed.
See Prep, 6B
2B Sunday, January 19, 2020 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

briefly PREP basketball ROUNDUP

College Football
MSU assistant Buckley headed to Ole Miss
STARKVILLE — Terrell Buckley is moving north.
Starkville’s Ford scores career-high 46 in win at South Panola
Following four seasons in Starkville, the former Starkville girls 67, Academy 71-66 in Sat-
urday’s home game.
Volunteers, and Jawon
Yarbrough scored 11.
Pickens Academy
(10-6) will host South-
Pickens Academy
Mississippi State cornerbacks coach was added to
coach Lane Kiffin’s inaugural staff at Ole Miss on South Panola 57 Jared Long had 28 The Vols will host ern Academy (Ala- (Ala.) boys 59, South
Saturday per a news release. points to lead the Pa- Winston Academy on bama) on Tuesday. Choctaw Academy
Buckley, who was selected to the College Football
Hall of Fame this past year for his standout career at
By Theo DeRosa triots, and Eli Acker Tuesday. (Ala.) 45, Friday
Florida State, will serve as a cornerbacks coach in
tderosa@cdispatch.com scored 17. Pickens Academy TOXEY, Ala. — The
Oxford.
BATESVILLE —
Heritage Academy Leake Academy girls (Ala.) girls 55, Pickens Academy boys
will host Leake Acade-
Under his tutelage, 13 players have signed NFL
contracts, including Jamal Peters and 2018 first-round The Starkville High my on Tuesday.
64, Starkville Acade- Columbus Christian beat South Choctaw
Academy (Alabama)
NFL draft pick Jaire Alexander.
“This coaching staff represents the winning men-
School girls team beat my 29, Friday Academy 46 59-45 in Friday’s road
South Panola 67-57 on STARKVILLE —
tality we are establishing here, and I’m excited to get to
Friday in Batesville.
Heritage Academy The Starkville Acade-
CARROLLTON, Ala. game.
work as a full group,” Kiffin said in a news release. “We
added dynamic recruiters, championship experience Junior Amaya Ford boys 72, East Rankin my girls lost to Leake
— The Pickens Acade-
my girls beat Columbus
Peeks had 17 points
to lead the Pirates. Lane
and outstanding football minds. This is a staff that will scored a career-high Academy 19, Friday Academy 64-29 on Fri-
Christian Academy 55- Goodman scored 11,
attract the best players in the country and help them 46 points for the Yellow The Heritage Acad- day in Starkville.
reach their full potential.” 46 in Saturday’s game and Brown had eight.
Jackets in the victory emy boys beat East Fallon Parker scored
and grabbed 11 re- Rankin Academy 72-19 12 points for the Vols, in Carrollton, Alabama.
Men’s College Basketball bounds. in Friday’s home game. and Lillee Alpe scored Caroline Lewis Pickens Academy
Stevenson helps Southern Miss beat Rice Starkville will play Long scored 17 11. scored 18 points and (Ala.) girls 44, South
HATTIESBURG — Jay Malone hit six of 10 at the Martin Luther points for the Patriots, had 10 rebounds for the
3-pointers to score a career-high 27 points and made Pirates (10-4), and Shel- Choctaw Academy
seven assists and Southern Miss ended a five-game King, Jr. Day Classic at and Mack Howard had Central Holmes Chris- by Lowe had 12 points (Ala.) 33, Friday
East Central Communi- 10.
skid with its first Conference USA win of the season on
Saturday, 81-68 over Rice. ty College on Monday.
tian girls 63, Oak Hill and five rebounds. Jes- TOXEY, Ala. — The
New Hope product Tyler Stevenson scored 24
Ethel boys 66, West Academy 36, Friday si Latham added nine Pickens Academy girls
points and grabbed eight rebounds for the Golden Ea- WEST POINT — beat South Choctaw
gles (5-14, 1-5). Leonard Harper-Baker scored 12 points Columbus boys 48, Lowndes 52, Friday The Oak Hill Academy
points and nine re-
Academy 44-33 on Fri-
bounds.
with seven rebounds and four assists and Ladavius
Draine had eight points and 10 rebounds.
Corinth 39 ETHEL — The West girls lost to Central For the Rams, Ky- day in Toxey, Alabama.
ABERDEEN — The Lowndes boys team lost Holmes Christian 63-36 Latham had 14 points
Trey Murphy III scored 19 points off the bench and lie Emerson scored 18
Josh Parrish added 13 points on 6-for-6 shooting for the Columbus High School to Ethel 66-52 in Fri- on Friday in West Point. and seven rebounds
boys team beat Corinth day’s road game. points. Taylor Tipton
Owls (9-10, 1-5), who shot 37 percent from the floor (22 Rachel McLain to lead the Pirates.
of 60). Drew Peterson had eight rebounds. 48-39 in Saturday’s Darrell Brooks led and CC Devos each
scored 15 points for the Lily Lowery scored 10
Southern Miss matches up against UAB on the
game at the Aberdeen the Panthers with 17 scored eight.
road on Thursday. Rice faces North Texas on the road Raiders, who are the points and had three
on Monday. Shootout. points, Fredrick Rice No. 2 seed in their dis- steals.
Blake Burnett and Melvin Crawford trict. Marshall Academy
Jones scores career-high 32 as Owls win scored 18 for the Fal- each scored 10, and Oak Hill will travel boys 76, Columbus Other scores
cons (12-8), and Gabe Jherquaveus Sanders
Tavonta Jones scored a career-high 32 points for
the Mississippi University for Women on Saturday in a Williams scored 12. had eight.
to face Carroll Acade- Christian Academy Madison-Ridgeland
my on Tuesday in Car-
99-86 win over Campbellsville University–Somerset at Columbus will host West Lowndes trav- rollton.
62, Friday Academy girls 56, Her-
itage Academy 19
Pohl Gymnasium in Columbus. HOLLY SPRINGS —
Six Owls reached double digits in the highest-scor-
Grenada on Friday. els to face Noxapater on Starkville girls 52,
Tuesday. The Columbus Chris-
ing game in program history. Columbus Christian Warren Central 29
Tre Pinkston scored 16 points, Milos Zeradjanin Columbus girls 56, Academy boys 65,
tian Academy boys Starkville boys 55,
scored 15, Brien Kimmons scored 14, and Jonte
Corinth 17 West Lowndes girls team lost 76-62 to Mar- Warren Central 46
Moultrie and Detavious Clark each scored 10.
Jones picked up the slack for MUW (7-10), which ABERDEEN — The 74, Ethel 41, Friday Pickens Academy shall Academy in Fri- Noxubee County
was playing without leading scorer Keith Harris, with his Columbus girls beat ETHEL — The West (Ala.) 56 day’s road game. boys 49, Kosciusko 46
big scoring output and 12 rebounds Saturday.
Corinth 56-17 on Sat- Lowndes girls improved CA R ROL LT ON, Studdard led the Kosciusko girls 45,
MUW rebounded from a 23-7 deficit less than
Ala. — The Columbus Rams with 19 points, Noxubee County 36
seven minutes in, with Zeradjanin hitting a 3 for the lead urday at the Aberdeen to 14-0 with a 74-41 win
Christian Academy Teague scored 14, and Noxubee County
with 16:18 left in the second half. Shootout. on Friday in Ethel.
boys beat Pickens Acad- Peal scored 13. boys 62, Houston 52,
The Owls will host Champion Christian at 5 p.m. For the Falcons (15- Marvaysha Seals
Thursday in Columbus. emy (Alabama) 65-56 in Friday
3), Aniya Saddler had 18 scored 26 points to lead Noxubee County
points, and DJ Jackson the Panthers. Tydaja- Saturday’s game in Car- Marshall Academy girls 50, Houston 34,
Women’s College Basketball scored 17. Jackson was sha Hood scored 16, rollton, Alabama.
girls 40, Columbus Friday
Southern Miss falls at Rice named the game’s most and Ashanti Williams Lawson Studdard
The Southern Miss women’s basketball team lost outstanding player. scored 11. led the Rams with 26 Christian Academy Starkville boys 64,
South Panola 36, Friday
Saturday’s road game at Rice 75-64 in Houston, Texas.
Respect Leaphart led the Golden Eagles (11-5, 3-2
Makayla Rieves add- points. Jonathan Peal 37, Friday Pontotoc boys 54,
and Will Teague each HOLLY SPRINGS —
Conference USA) with 14 points. Alarie Mayze scored ed 10 points and eight Starkville Academy scored 18. The Columbus Chris-
Caledonia 53, Friday
rebounds for Colum- Pontotoc girls 64,
11 points, and Destiny Smith had 10.
Southern Miss had a one-point halftime lead, but bus.
boys 63, Leake Acade- For the Pirates, Seth tian Academy girls lost Caledonia 28, Friday
Rice outscored the Eagles 25-14 in the third quarter to my 34, Friday Peeks led the way with to Marshall Academy Grenada girls 41,
pull away. The Starkville Acad- 25 points. Travis Dean 40-37 on Friday in Holly
The Eagles will host UAB at 6 p.m. Thursday at Madison-Ridgeland emy boys beat Leake scored 11, and Rafe Springs.
West Point 31, Friday
Grenada boys 74,
Reed Green Coliseum in Hattiesburg. Academy boys 71, Academy 63-34 in Fri- Brown scored nine. Audrey Foreman West Point 45, Friday
Prep Soccer Heritage Academy 66 day’s home game. Columbus Chris- led the Rams with 10 Oak Hill Acade-
The Heritage Acad- Randall Futral and tian Academy will host points, Tipton had my boys 44, Central
Correction emy boys team lost to George Delp each Starkville Christian on eight, and Emerson had Holmes Christian 33,
An article on Page 3B of Friday’s Dispatch incor-
rectly stated the name of the school whose girls soccer
Madison-R idgeland scored 13 points for the Tuesday. seven. Friday
team beat West Point 3-0 on Thursday night.
It was Columbus High School that beat the Green
Wave on Thursday. PREP SOCCER ROUNDUP
The Dispatch regrets the error.
SOURCE: From Special Reports
Caledonia girls beat Itawamba to qualify for playoffs
CALENDAR Caledonia 3, Fausto Barron scored twice each scored, and Tejus Kotika- ough said in a news release
for the Falcons, and Destin lapudi had an assist. from the school. “It was great
Today
Women’s College Basketball Itawamba AHS 0 Poindexter and Juan Martinez
each scored once.
“After some adjustments
at the half, we created many
to get such a strong district
win on the road and to over-
Missouri at Ole Miss, 2 p.m. Friday was the Falcons’ fi- come some adversity in the
By Theo DeRosa opportunities to score,” head
MUW at MLK Classic, TBA nal home match. Columbus process!”
tderosa@cdispatch.com coach Tim Wood said in a
will play at Caledonia on Tues- news release from the school.
Monday CALEDONIA — The Cale-
Prep Girls Basketball donia girls qualified for the
day. “I was really proud of the effort Starkville Academy boys 7,
Starkville at MLK Classic, East Central MHSAA Class 4A playoffs
across the pitch to bring home Magnolia Heights 0, Friday
Community College, TBA with a 3-0 win over Itawamba
Nettleton girls 1, the win on the road.” SENATOBIA — The
Prep Boys Basketball Columbus 0, Friday The Blue Waves improved Starkville Academy boys team
Agricultural in Friday’s home to 4-5 and 2-3 in their district
West Lowndes at MLK Classic, East match. The Columbus girls gave beat Magnolia Heights 7-0 in
Central Community College, TBA up an own goal in a 1-0 loss to with the victory. MSMS will Friday’s road match in Sena-
Claire Benson scored twice
Starkville, Heritage Academy at Rumble Nettleton on Friday in Colum- play at New Hope on Tuesday. tobia.
for the ’Feds, and Jane Claire
in the South, Madison, TBA scored once. bus. Brody Pierce had a hat trick
Women’s College Basketball Falcons goalkeeper C’Asia Mississippi School for for the Volunteers. John Dylan
Mississippi State at South Carolina, 6
Caledonia boys 2, Itawamba Grayer had eight saves on the Mathematics and Science Miller scored two goals, Brody
Bennett scored once, and Wil-
p.m. night and blocked a penalty
MUW at Oakwood, MLK Classic, 2 p.m. Agricultural 1, Friday kick. Both Grayer and Colum-
girls 7, Yazoo County 0, kes Stubbs scored once.
CALEDONIA — The Cale- bus coach Daniel Meador re- Thursday The Volunteers will host
donia boys team beat Itawam-
on the air ba Agricultural 2-1 on Friday
ceived yellow cards during the
match.
YAZOO CITY — The
MSMS girls soccer teams beat
Pillow Academy on Tuesday.

Today in Caledonia.
Wes Rollins and Garrett
Yazoo County 7-0 on Thursday Other scores
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) Mississippi School for in Yazoo City. Starkville boys 1, German-
11 a.m. — Davidson at Fordham, Bergstrom each scored for Ashley Mangus had a hat
Mathematics and Science town 0, Friday
CBSSN Caledonia. trick for the Blue Waves girls Germantown girls 3,
3 p.m. — Loyola-Chicago at Illinois The Confederates will host boys 3, Yazoo County 1, (6-3-1, 3-2 district), and Emily Starkville 1, Friday
Columbus on Tuesday.
State, ESPNU Thursday Berry scored twice and had New Hope boys 1, Grenada
5 p.m. — ECU at Cincinnati, ESPNU YAZOO CITY — The two assists. Mandy Anderson 0, Friday
5 p.m. — B.C. at Wake Forest, ACCN Columbus boys 7, MSMS boys soccer team beat scored and had two assists, Grenada 2, New Hope girls
7 p.m. — California at UCLA, ESPNU
GOLF
Nettleton 4, Friday Yazoo County 3-1 in Thurs- and Brenna Luff scored as 0, Friday
Jordyn Nash scored a hat day’s road match. well. New Hope boys 0, Starkville
1 p.m. — LPGA Tour: The Diamond Re- trick for the Columbus boys Trevor Allen had a goal and “It was a very productive 0, draw
sorts Tournament of Champions, Final soccer team in a 7-4 home win an assist for the Blue Waves. night on a very sloppy field,” Starkville girls 3, New
Round, Orlando, Fla., GOLF over Nettleton on Friday. JoJo Kaler and Jeremiah Hunt head coach Chuck Yarbor- Hope 0
2 p.m. — LPGA Tour: The Diamond Re-
sorts Tournament of Champions, Final
College Basketball
Belmont 77, Morehead St. 59 UCF 55, South Florida 54 Texas A&M-CC 64, Lamar 58 Walton 0-1), Mississippi St. 6-20 (Carter 4-7,
Round, Orlando, Fla., NBC Campbell 68, Longwood 58 UNC-Greensboro 72, Chattanooga 52 Texas Tech 72, Iowa St. 52 King 1-1, Woodard 1-2, Butts 0-1, Molinar 0-1,
Perry 0-2, Stewart 0-3, Weatherspoon 0-3). Re-
2 p.m. — PGA Tour: The American Saturday’s Scores
Charleston Southern 79, High Point 60
Coll. of Charleston 69, Hofstra 67
UNC-Wilmington 76, Northeastern 74
VCU 91, St. Bonaventure 63
UTSA 86, UTEP 70
bounds_Georgia 20 (Hammonds 4), Mississippi
FAR WEST
Express, Final Round, Palm Springs, EAST Coppin St. 79, NC A&T 75 VMI 88, The Citadel 79 Arizona 75, Colorado 54 St. 38 (Perry 12). Assists_Georgia 12 (Edwards 4),
Mississippi St. 21 (Weatherspoon 8). Total Fouls_
American U. 81, Holy Cross 69 E. Kentucky 92, Tennessee St. 88 Virginia 63, Georgia Tech 58 Cal St.-Fullerton 66, Long Beach St. 62
Calif., GOLF Army 81, Loyola (Md.) 80 ETSU 85, W. Carolina 66 W. Kentucky 80, Charlotte 63 Colorado St. 78, Air Force 65
Georgia 16, Mississippi St. 15. A_6,585 (10,575).
Bucknell 72, Lehigh 56 FIU 83, Middle Tennessee 69 MIDWEST
NFL FOOTBALL Denver 91, Nebraska-Omaha 76

2:05 p.m. — AFC Championship: Ten-

Colgate 79, Boston U. 70
Columbia 75, Cornell 61
Delaware 79, Elon 78
nessee at Kansas City, CBS Drexel 84, William & Mary 57
George Washington 75, UMass 51
5:40 p.m. — NFC Championship: Green Harvard 67, Dartmouth 62
Bay at San Francisco, FOX LIU 74, Bryant 60
Marquette 84, Georgetown 80
NHL HOCKEY Marshall 68, Old Dominion 67
Maryland 57, Purdue 50
11:30 a.m. — Boston at Pittsburgh, Merrimack 53, Robert Morris 49
NBC Monmouth (NJ) 65, Manhattan 58
Mount St. Mary’s 79, CCSU 52
6 p.m. — Winnipeg at Chicago, NHLN NJIT 66, Kennesaw St. 48
Navy 68, Lafayette 66
SOCCER (MEN’S) New Hampshire 65, UMBC 60
Penn St. 90, Ohio St. 76
7:55 a.m. — Premier League: Leicester Pittsburgh 66, North Carolina 52
City at Burnley, NBCSN Rhode Island 66, La Salle 63
Saint Joseph’s 87, Penn 81
10:25 a.m. — Premier League: Man- Seton Hall 82, St. John’s 79
St. Francis (Pa.) 72, Sacred Heart 65
chester United at Liverpool, NBCSN St. Francis Brooklyn 69, Wagner 64
TENNIS St. Peter’s 71, Quinnipiac 51
Stony Brook 70, Albany (NY) 62
6 p.m. — The Australian Open: First Towson 69, James Madison 61
Vermont 74, Hartford 57
Round, Melbourne, Australia, ESPN2 Villanova 61, UConn 55
2 a.m. (Monday) — The Australian SOUTH
Alabama 88, Missouri 74
Open: First Round, Melbourne, Austra- Alabama St. 65, Alabama A&M 56
Alcorn St. 105, MVSU 73
lia, ESPN2 Arkansas St. 80, Coastal Carolina 75
Austin Peay 92, UT Martin 81
Florida 69, Auburn 47
Florida St. 83, Miami 79
Gardner-Webb 83, SC-Upstate 67
Hampton 88, UNC-Asheville 86
LSU 80, Mississippi 76
Liberty 67, Lipscomb 60
Louisville 79, Duke 73
McNeese St. 65, New Orleans 52
Mercer 90, Samford 75
Mississippi St. 91, Georgia 59
Morgan St. 68, Howard 58
N. Kentucky 75, Cleveland St. 49
NC Central 86, Bethune-Cookman 59
NC State 60, Clemson 54
Nicholls 79, Cent. Arkansas 72
Norfolk St. 62, Md.-Eastern Shore 52
North Alabama 70, Florida Gulf Coast 65
North Texas 51, Louisiana Tech 50
Prairie View 64, Grambling St. 57
Radford 75, Presbyterian 64
Richmond 97, George Mason 87
SC State 81, Florida A&M 65
South Alabama 74, Georgia Southern 68
Southern Miss. 81, Rice 68
Stetson 64, Jacksonville 59
Syracuse 71, Virginia Tech 69
Tennessee 66, Vanderbilt 45
Texas Southern 77, Jackson St. 66
Texas State 68, Louisiana-Lafayette 59
Texas-Arlington 78, Louisiana-Monroe 58
Troy 75, Georgia St. 65
Tulsa 67, Tulane 54
UAB 68, FAU 65
UALR 73, Appalachian St. 57
Ball St. 71, Miami (Ohio) 62
Bowling Green 66, N. Illinois 64
Buffalo 86, Cent. Michigan 67
Creighton 78, Providence 74
DePaul 79, Butler 66
E. Illinois 84, Tennessee Tech 59
Green Bay 83, Detroit 80
Houston 65, Wichita St. 54
Ill.-Chicago 75, IUPUI 66
Illinois 75, Northwestern 71
Indiana 82, Nebraska 74
Jacksonville St. 64, SIU-Edwardsville 56
Kansas St. 84, West Virginia 68
Milwaukee 73, Oakland 68
Missouri St. 68, Evansville 58
Murray St. 96, SE Missouri 91
N. Iowa 86, Bradley 71
Ohio 60, E. Michigan 58
Oral Roberts 92, Fort Wayne 68
Toledo 99, Akron 89
Valparaiso 86, Indiana St. 77
W. Michigan 67, Kent St. 63
Wright St. 79, Youngstown St. 72
SOUTHWEST
Abilene Christian 76, SE Louisiana 55
Baylor 75, Oklahoma St. 68
Kansas 66, Texas 57
Kentucky 73, Arkansas 66
Oklahoma 83, TCU 63
SMU 68, Temple 52
Sam Houston St. 95, Houston Baptist 75
South Carolina 81, Texas A&M 67
Southern U. 75, Ark.-Pine Bluff 54
Stephen F. Austin 80, Incarnate Word 56
E. Washington 71, Montana St. 58
Fresno St. 65, Wyoming 50
N. Arizona 64, N. Colorado 58
Transactions Saturday’s moves
Oregon 64, Washington 61 BASEBALL
American League
S. Utah 74, Sacramento St. 49
BOSTON RED SOX — Designated RHP Travis
Saint Mary’s (Cal) 78, Pepperdine 69
San Diego St. 68, Nevada 55 Lakins for assignment.
National League
San Francisco 61, Loyola Marymount 53
Southern Cal 82, Stanford 78
MIAMI MARLINS — Released LHP Brian Moran.
Frontier League
UC Davis 66, CS Northridge 62
UNLV 99, New Mexico 78
LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Traded OF Logan
Farrar to Schaumburg for OF Dylan Jones.
Utah Valley 72, Rio Grande 70 HOCKEY
Washington St. 89, Oregon St. 76 National Hockey League
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned
F Mitchell Stephens and D Luke Schenn to
Mississippi St. 91, Syracuse (AHL).
Georgia 59 American Hockey League
AHL — Suspended Bridgeport D Parker Wother-
GEORGIA (11-6)
Edwards 5-16 8-9 19, Hammonds 4-11 0-0 10,
spoon and Utica F Vincent Arseneau one game.
MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Assigned F Zach
Camara 5-9 0-1 10, Gresham 1-2 0-0 2, Wheel- Magwood to Florida (ECHL) and D Scott Savage
er 1-2 0-0 2, Crump 2-5 0-0 4, Harris 2-4 0-0 4, to Maine (ECHL).
Brown 0-2 0-0 0, Fagan 1-2 2-4 4, Howard 1-1 0-0 TEXAS STARS — Assigned G Tomas Sholl to
2, Peake 0-1 0-0 0, Etter 0-0 0-0 0, Walton 0-1 2-2 Idaho (ECHL).
2, Turnier 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-56 12-16 59. FOOTBALL
MISSISSIPPI ST. (11-6) National Football League
Perry 9-13 4-6 22, Weatherspoon 6-12 0-0 12, GREEN BAY PACKERS — Activated S Raven
Stewart 0-3 2-2 2, Woodard 7-9 2-2 17, Ado 2-2 0-2
4, Carter 6-11 2-2 18, Molinar 3-4 0-0 6, Feazell
Greene from IR.
SOCCER
0-0 0-0 0, Butts 1-2 0-0 2, King 1-1 0-0 3, Oduro Major League Soccer
0-0 1-2 1, Post 1-2 0-0 2, Storm 1-1 0-0 2. Totals CHICAGO FIRE — Acquired F Robert Beric by
37-60 11-16 91. transfer from Saint-Étienne (Ligue 1-France).
Halftime_Mississippi St. 42-31. 3-Point Goals_ Named David Zdrilic assistant coach.
Georgia 3-18 (Hammonds 2-5, Edwards 1-8, CINCINNATI —Waived F Fanendo Adi and G
Camara 0-1, Crump 0-1, Harris 0-1, Peake 0-1, Jimmy Hague.

Three New Hope seniors sign to colleges
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
NEW HOPE — When
the New Hope High
School baseball team
won the MHSAA Class
4A championship over
Sumrall in May, the vic-
tory tightened the bonds
of friendship among the
Trojans.
“It just put us closer to-
gether,” senior shortstop
Presley Hall said.
So in December, less
than two weeks after Hall
committed to play base-
ball at Southwest Missis-
sippi Community College,
he turned to two of his
closest friends.
Hall has played base-
ball with and against se-
nior teammates Cole Ruf-
fin and Drew Brown since
the three of them were
4 years old and playing
T-ball at Propst Park. Ruf-
fin had committed to play
at the Mississippi Univer-
sity for Women two days
before Hall announced
his decision; Brown chose
East Mississippi Commu-
nity College not long af-
terward.
In a group text conver-
sation, the three players
sorted it out: They’d sign
their national letters of
intent together when New
Hope came back from its
winter break.
“I’ve been with them
my whole life, so I want
to go out with them,” Hall
said.
That time came Friday
morning, when the three
players donned the hats of
their respective schools
and put their names to
paper, seated side by side.
Each player wore his
state championship ring,
a decision the three made
in advance of the signing
ceremony. And for their
senior season, all three
would like another one to
Caledonia’s McCleskey
signs to Northeast CC
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
CALEDONIA — Tim Anderson was an un-
When Gary Griffin took
over as head coach of the
Caledonia High School
boys basketball team two
years ago, he met with
sophomore Cooper Mc-
Cleskey and laid out his
plan.
By the time McCles-
key reached his senior
year with the Confeder-
ates, Griffin wanted him
to grow into a leadership
role with the team and
make considerable ex-
pansions to his game.
More than two years
later, McCleskey has
done that — and then
some.
One of Caledonia’s
three seniors, the 6-5
wing is the ’Feds’ go-to
scorer and their leader
on the court, filling the
roles Griffin expected
him to someday attain.
“It’s just good to be
able to see the develop-
ment he’s made — not
only as a basketball play-
er but as a student-ath-
lete as well,” Griffin said.
McCleskey — “a very
in-depth person,” accord-
ing to Griffin — focus-
es on academics just as
much as athletics. He has
a 3.9 GPA and scored a 25
on his ACT.
On Friday morning,
the hard work McCles-
key put in on both facets
of school — on the court
and in the classroom
— paid off, as McCles-
key signed his national
letter of intent to play
basketball at Northeast
Mississippi Community
College.
“Any time one of your
players gets the oppor-
tunity to move on and
further their academic
education and also their
athletic career, that’s all
you can ask for,” Griffin
said. “Cooper, he’s done
From left to right, Cole Ruffin signed to the Mississippi University for Women, Presley Hall signed to Southwest
Mississippi Community College, and Drew Brown signed to East Mississippi Community College.
go with it.
“I think we’ve got an-
other shot at it,” Ruffin
said. “We’re just gonna
keep working because
nothing’s guaranteed, but
we’re hoping for another
good year.”
Hall, Ruffin and Brown
are three of New Hope’s
key pieces this season,
coach Lee Boyd said.
Hall, who hit a three-
run triple and a walk-off
single in the first game
of the state finals against
Sumrall, will start at
shortstop and will hit in
the middle of the order.
He hit .327 last season
and got on base at a .532
clip.
Hall will also hopefully
slot into the No. 2 or No.
3 slot in the starting rota-
everything we’ve asked
him to do in order to put
himself in a position to be
able to do this.”
McCleskey spent lots
of his free time improv-
ing his game — if he
wasn’t studying, anyway.
“He loves to work on
his game any time he
gets the opportunity,”
Griffin said. “Whether
I’m in the gym working
with him or whether he’s
working on his own, he’s
doing it.”
By the time his senior
year rolled around, Mc-
Cleskey had offers from
basically every junior col-
lege in the state — and a
few out-of-state schools,
too.
Then he visited North-
east’s Booneville cam-
pus.
“When I went on the
visit, I just really enjoyed
it,” McCleskey said. “I
liked talking to their
coaches; I liked the cam-
pus. I just felt like it was
the right place when I
went on the visit. I just
knew it was where I want-
ed to go.”
McCleskey an-
nounced his commitment
Dec. 19, and just under a
month later, he made it
official in front of a crowd
that was “bigger than I
thought it was gonna be.”
“I’m just thankful for
it,” he said. “I just want
to say thank you to all the
coaches and my family,
because I couldn’t have
done it without them.”
McCleskey said his
senior year is flying by
faster than any other, and
before it’s over, he’s just
trying to make the best
of it.
“It’s been fun just be-
ing able to put the team
on my back,” he said.
“It’s been better than
last year. I’m proud of the
team and where we’ve
gone so far, but we’ve got
a lot more stuff to do.”
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PREP BASEBALL
tion, according to Boyd.
“We’re really counting
on Presley to get some in-
nings for sure,” the coach
said.
The hard-throwing
right-hander, who has
flashed a solid breaking
pitch, hit it off with for-
mer Southwest assistant
Corley Reynolds, a former
standout at EMCC, when
Reynolds came to recruit
him. By Dec. 3, Hall was
sold: He wanted to make
the three-and-a-half-hour
voyage to Summit.
Ruffin, however, elect-
ed to stick around town.
Enticed by The W’s stand-
out nursing program and
a program “on the rise,”
he committed Dec. 1 to
join the Owls.
Ruffin enjoyed the
A Q&A with MLB batting champ Tim Anderson
By GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
PHILADELPHIA —
Long before he was the
starting shortstop for
the Chicago White Sox,
known high school base-
ball prospect in Tuscaloo-
sa, Alabama.
After hitting .420 his
senior year at Hillcrest
High School, Anderson’s
only collegiate scholar-
ship offer came from East
Central Community Col-
lege in Decatur.
In his freshman year,
Anderson batted .360
with four home runs and
was a perfect 30 for 30 in
stolen base attempts. As
a sophomore, the 6-foot-
1 infielder led all JUCO
players with a .495 bat-
ting average and was se-
lected by the White Sox
with the 17th overall pick
of the 2013 MLB Draft.
He made his MLB de-
but in 2016 and in 2019
won an MLB batting title
after leading the majors
with a .335 batting aver-
age.
On Thursday, Ander-
son ventured to Phila-
delphia to attend EC-
CC’s baseball fundraiser
“Around the Diamond.”
The Commercial Dis-
patch talked with An-
derson for a few minutes
before the banquet about
various topics, including
his start in baseball, his
bat flip antics, his advice
to JUCO players, MLB’s
sign stealing scandal and
more. The interview has
been edited for length
and clarity.
Q: You’ve had pret-
ty humble beginnings.
ECCC was your only
college offer out of high
school. How much does it
mean to you that a JUCO
player can turn into a fu-
ture MLB batting cham-
pion?
A: It means a lot. Set-
ting that standard and be-
ing that person to win the
batting title coming from
a junior college is definite-
ly huge. I’m just enjoying
campus and the coaches
when he took a visit a cou-
ple months back, and with
the ability to stay home
and have his family and
friends watch him play,
he was sold.
“The W worked out
great for Cole,” Boyd said.
Boyd plans to start
Ruffin in left field this
season, though the speed-
ster can play all over the
diamond. Ruffin played
catcher, designated hitter
and all three outfield po-
sitions last season — and
he saw some time on the
mound, too.
Ruffin, who scored 25
runs and had an on-base
percentage of .429 during
his junior season, will ei-
ther hit at the top of the
order or near the bottom
the moment of it. It was a
huge year and the start of
something good.
Q: Getting to come
back here and be a speak-
er at ECCC’s baseball
banquet, does that mean
anything to you?
A: It’s good, man, it re-
ally is. I like coming back
here where it all started.
I have fans down here as
well, so I think it’s good
to be here and show my
face. I’m just going to
try and continue to build
that fanbase and really
let them know I’m real.
I didn’t just go to school
here. I came here and em-
braced it.”
Q: After your first
year at ECCC, you don’t
get drafted at all. Your
second year, you explode
on the scene and become
the top JUCO prospect in
America. Was going pro
(early) a tough decision
considering you had the
University of Alabama at
Birmingham trying to re-
cruit you hard as well?
A: (Laughs). Well, it
wasn’t really that tough of
a decision. I think it nar-
rowed down to what (the
White Sox and I) agreed
upon. The number was
good, so I took it.
Q: Was it ever truly
frustrating when ECCC
was your only offer when
you maybe felt you were
more talented than other
players that were getting
drafted before you or get-
ting college scholarships?
A: Definitely. I still feel
that. But I let that moti-
vate me. I’ll let it motivate
me until I can prove peo-
ple wrong. I’ve been prov-
ing people wrong since I
left here, so I’ll continue
to do that.
Q: From a baseball
perspective, how did you
go from hitting .250 the
year before to .335 a year
later? What kind of me-
chanics are involved with
that adjustment?
A: You just dig into
the game mentally. If you
learn what you’re doing, I
think that takes the frus-
Theo DeRosa/Dispatch Staff
this year, Boyd said. He
was named to the roster
for the State Games of
Mississippi the past two
summers, hitting .420
and helping the District
IV team to a second-place
finish in 2019.
Brown, the final third
of the close-knit trio,
committed to EMCC on
Dec. 4, and he will be a
third-generation Lion
when he heads down to
Scooba. His father, Andy
Brown, pitched for EMCC
from 1995 to 1997, and
Andy’s father was a kick-
er for the Lions his fresh-
man season.
Brown, of course, has
other reasons to go to
Scooba. He’ll be reunited
with former New Hope
star Rye McGlothin, who
tration out of it. I kind of
learned how to hit cer-
tain pitches; I don’t walk
much, so I have to learn
how to hit certain pitch-
es to be successful. I was
able to accomplish that,
and it led to the batting
title.
Q: Some other players
in the league are known
as the fun police. But you
might be the ringleader of
having fun, considering
your bat flips and things
of that nature. How im-
portant is it to you to be
yourself and have fun out
on the diamond?
A: It’s more so within
the team, we all like to
have fun. And really, you
only live once, and not
many people get to make
it to the big leagues. I’m
going to enjoy every min-
ute of it.
Q: On that note, it
seems like Chicago has
really embraced you.
Most fans are waiting to
see what bat flip Tim An-
derson is going to come
up with next after hitting
a walk-off home run. How
have you felt about the
city?
A: It’s home, man, it’s
home. The feedback has
been good. They love
me there, and I love be-
ing there. I moved there,
I stay there year round,
and my family is there.
I’m excited to see what’s
next.
Q: All right, then who’s
the most fun guy on the
White Sox besides you?
A: Well, it was Yolmer
Sánchez. But he’s not
with us no more. So I’m
sad about that, but man,
he was the life of the
party. He was my locker
room buddy. It’s definite-
ly sad to see him go. But
he’ll be alright.
Q: Obviously there’s
a lot happening around
MLB with the sign steal-
ing scandal. Do you have
an opinion on the matter?
A: I don’t. It is what it
is. That’s within them, I
guess. I’m just going to
stay within myself and
Sunday, January 19, 2020 3B
hit 17 home runs in two
seasons with the Trojans.
“I played with him
last year, and being able
to play with him again
is something special,”
Brown said.
While Brown will
team up with McGlothin
in Scooba next season,
the Trojans are currently
down a big power threat
and a go-to reliever.
“One of the hardest
workers that we’ve had in
a long time,” Boyd said of
McGlothin. “... He’s just a
kid that was an unbeliev-
able player.”
But Brown, who hit
.355 as New Hope’s start-
ing second baseman last
season, is “unbelievable
defensively,” Boyd said
— and Brown has con-
fidence he can help get
New Hope on top again.
“We’ve got a lot of peo-
ple coming back,” Brown
said. “We’re gonna have
to work hard, and it’s gon-
na be a grind, but if we
play well, I think there’s
always that chance.”
When the three play-
ers signed Wednesday,
the audience in the New
Hope multipurpose room
was proof enough of the
chemistry the Trojans
possess: The first several
rows of seats teemed with
friends and teammates.
“Our guys are close.
They hang out all the
time, they’re buddies, and
you saw all the students
in here, too — a lot of our
players,” Boyd said. “It’s
always neat when you get
two or three of them to
sign at the same time, too,
which is pretty cool.”
For Hall, Ruffin, and
Brown, it was more than
cool — it was destiny.
“I always dreamed of
this moment, and I was
glad I could share it with
them,” Ruffin said.
control what I can con-
trol. That’s hitting base-
balls and having fun.
Q: When you were
brought up to the majors,
you were brought up to a
team that was trying to
win now. Then the team
goes into a rebuild for the
next three years. After
one of the more active off-
seasons in MLB, where
are the White Sox headed
for 2020?
A: I think we’re head-
ing in the right direction.
We’ve signed a couple
more guys, and we’re
close. I really think we’re
close. I’m excited to get
back to training with the
guys because I think it’s
going to be a heck of a
season.
Q: Have you had any
contact with your new
teammates, such as Dal-
las Keuchel or Yasmani
Grandal?
A: Grandal and I have
been texting back and
forth. I had a chance to
talk to Keuchel, but I’ll
see them at SoxFest next
weekend. It’ll be a good
time to connect and meet
the new guys and bond
before you head out to
spring training.
Q: What advice would
you give to a prep hitter
that may be struggling
with the fact they’re not
getting the offers they
want or are getting no-
ticed?
A: Just believe in
yourself. You’re going to
be your biggest teacher.
You have to take pieces
of things you learn from
coaches and put it togeth-
er along the way, but for
you to actually figure
it out, you have to go in
there and do it yourself
and see what results you
get. It’s easy for some-
one to tell you how to hit
a baseball, but you really
have to go in there your-
self and put the work in so
you can get those results.
It can take the frustration
out because you’ll know
what you’re doing at that
point.
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No. 2 Baylor rallies for victory over Oklahoma State
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STILLWATER, Okla.
— Freddie Gillespie and
Jared Butler each scored
17 points, and No. 2 Bay-
lor beat Oklahoma State
75-68 on Saturday for its
14th straight victory.
Baylor (15-1, 5-0 Big
12) overcame a 12-point
deficit in the last 14 min-
utes. Devonte Bandoo
scored 14 of his 16 points
in the second half.
Oklahoma State has
lost five in a row. Isaac
Likekele had 16 points,
nine rebounds, five as-
sists and four steals for
the Cowboys (9-8, 0-5).
Cameron McGriff also
scored 16 points.
No. 11 Louisville 79,
No. 3 Duke 73
DURHAM, N.C. —
Freshman David John-
son had a season-high
19 points, and Louisville
topped Duke in a key
matchup in the Atlantic
Coast Conference’s regu-
lar-season title chase.
Malik Williams made
two free throws with 16
seconds left and followed
immediately with a tran-
sition dunk off a turnover,
a sequence that all but
sealed a grind-it-out win
for the Cardinals (15-3,
6-1) in the Blue Devils’
famously hostile home
arena.
Freshman Cassius
Stanley had season highs
of 24 points and 11 re-
bounds for the Blue Dev-
ils (15-3, 5-2), who shot
just 37 percent for the
game and made only 6 of
25 3-pointers.
Florida 69, No. 4
Auburn 47
GAINESVILLE, Fla.
— Florida’s Omar Payne
had the best game of his
college career, finishing
with 19 points and 11 re-
bounds.
Payne, a freshman
from Kissimmee, was
widely considered an af-
terthought in Florida’s
highly touted recruiting
class. Against the Tigers,
he looked like a future lot-
tery pick.
The 6-foot-10 forward
dominated in the paint,
scoring on tip-ins, put-
backs and layups, and
creating a mismatch
nightmare for Auburn
(15-2, 3-2 Southeastern
Conference). His three-
point play put Florida
(12-5, 4-1) up by 14 with a
little more than 4 minutes
to play.
Danjel Purifoy was the
only player in double fig-
ures for Auburn, which
shot 25.5 percent from the
field. He had 10 points.
DePaul 79,
No. 5 Butler 66
CHICAGO — Paul
Reed scored 23 points on
8-of-9 shooting, leading
DePaul to the victory.
The Blue Demons (13-
5, 1-4 Big East) knocked
off a top-five team for
the first time since beat-
ing No. 5 Kansas on
Dec. 2, 2006. Jalen Cole-
man-Lands scored 20
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Smart scores 20; LSU beats Ole Miss to stay unbeaten in SEC
OXFORD — Javonte
Smart scored 20 points
as LSU wiped out a six-
point deficit in the final
seven minutes Saturday
to defeat Ole Miss 80-76
and remain unbeaten in
Southeastern Conference
play.
LSU (13-4, 5-0) con-
verted 24 of 27 free throws
(88.9 percent), including
two apiece by Marlon
Taylor and Skylar Mays
in the final 24 seconds to
complete the comeback.
Emmitt Williams scored
Baylor guard Devonte Bandoo drives to the basket while defended by Oklahoma State guard Avery Anderson III
during the second half Saturday at Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
points, and freshman Ro-
meo Weems finished with
11.
Butler (15-3, 3-2)
trailed by double digits
for the entire second half
of its second straight loss.
Kamar Baldwin led the
Bulldogs with 16 points,
and Jordan Tucker had 13.
No. 6 Kansas 66,
Texas 57
AUSTIN, Texas —
Devon Dotson returned
from a hip injury to score
21 points, including the fi-
nal seven of the game for
Kansas.
Dotson made a long
3-pointer with 2:49 to
play, then closed out the
victory with four straight
free throws in the final 39
seconds.
Udoka Azubuike
scored 17 points for Kan-
sas (14-3, 4-1 Big 12),
which closed the game
with a 12-3 run.
Jericho Sims scored 20
points for the Longhorns
(12-5, 2-3).
No. 7 San Diego State
68, Nevada 55
SAN DIEGO — Yanni
Wetzell had 17 points and
a career-high 16 rebounds
for No. 7 San Diego State,
which came out hot in the
second half to beat Neva-
da 68-55 Saturday night
and remain the nation’s
only undefeated team.
Malachi Flynn scored
14 points for San Diego
State (19-0, 8-0 Moun-
tain West), and Jordan
Schakel had 12. Matt
Mitchell added 11 points.
The Aztecs pulled
within one of the best
opening streak in school
history, a 20-0 run led by
Kawhi Leonard in 2010-
11. That team reached the
Sweet 16 for the first time
in school history and fin-
ished a school-best 34-3.
Auburn lost at Ala-
bama on Wednesday
night, leaving SDSU as
the nation’s only undefeat-
ed team for the first time
in school history.
No. 8 Oregon 64,
Washington 61, OT
SEAT TLE — Payton
17 points while Mays
and Taylor had 15 and 13
points, respectively.
Breein Tyree had a
career-high 36 points for
Ole Miss (9-8, 0-4), in-
cluding a layup for a 67-61
lead with 6:57 left before
the decisive rally by LSU.
Blake Hinson scored
13 points and Khadim Sy
added 10 points for Mis-
sissippi.
Tyree was 9 of 9 from
the free-throw line, but
the Rebels finished a
season-worst 9 of 19 (47
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
Pritchard hit his sixth
3-pointer of the game
with 3.4 seconds left in
overtime, lifting Oregon
to the victory.
The Ducks (15-4, 4-2
Pac-12) avoided being
swept on their trip north
by rallying from a 48-32
deficit with 10:22 remain-
ing in the second half.
They handed Washington
(12-7, 2-4) its third loss in
four games.
Pritchard finished with
22 points on 7-of-16 shoot-
ing. Chandler Lawson
added 16 points and 12
rebounds for the Ducks,
who rebounded from an
ugly loss to Washington
State on Thursday.
Isaiah Stewart led
Washington with 25
points and 19 rebounds.
No. 9 Florida State 83,
Miami 79, OT
CORAL GABLES, Fla.
— Florida State forced
24 turnovers, including
three in a row in over-
time, and rallied from a
nine-point deficit in the
final 4:33 of regulation to
earn their ninth consecu-
tive victory.
Sophomore Devin Vas-
sell set a career high for
the second consecutive
game by leading Florida
State with 23 points while
adding 11 rebounds and
five assists. His two free
throws with six seconds
left sealed the win.
M.J. Walker had 19
points for the Seminoles
(16-2, 6-1 Atlantic Coast
Conference).
Chris Lykes scored 24
points for the Hurricanes
(10-7, 2-5). But Lykes also
had six turnovers.
No. 10 Kentucky 73,
Arkansas 66
FAY E T T E V I L L E ,
Ark. — Kentucky kept its
composure after coach
John Calipari was ejected,
holding off Arkansas for
the road win.
Nick Richards had 17
points and nine rebounds,
leading a balanced effort
for the Wildcats (13-4,
4-1 Southeastern Confer-
ence).
Mason Jones scored 19
percent), including sev-
en consecutive misses
to open the second half.
Ironically, Ole Miss went
into the game leading the
SEC in free throw per-
centage, hitting 45 of 53
(85%) in conference play,
before cooling off against
the Tigers.
LSU shot 24 of 57 (42
percent) from the field,
including 8 of 21 (38 per-
cent) from 3-point range,
including four by Smart.
Ole Miss was 29 of 65 (45
percent) from the field, 9
points for Arkansas (14-3,
3-2), which has dropped
nine straight in the series.
The game was tied at
44 with 8:19 left in the
second half when Calipari
became upset after for-
ward EJ Montgomery was
whistled for an offensive
foul for an illegal screen.
He received two tech-
nical fouls as the crowd
cheered wildly.
Jones then made three
free throws to give the
Razorbacks their first
lead since the opening
minutes. But the Wildcats
stepped up their defen-
sive effort and put togeth-
er a 17-2 run.
Kansas State 84, No. 12
West Virginia 68
MANHAT TAN, Kan.
— Cartier Diarra scored
25 points and Xavier
Sneed had 16, leading
Kansas State to its first
Big 12 win this season.
DaJuan Gordon scored
a career-high 15 points
for the Wildcats (8-9, 1-4),
who shot 59 percent (29
for 49) from the field and
led by as many as 23.
West Virginia (14-3,
3-2) committed 18 turn-
overs. Miles McBride and
Chase Harler each scored
11 points, and Gabe
Osabuohein had 10.
No. 14 Villanova 61,
Connecticut 55
PHILADELPHIA —
Jermaine Samuels scored
19 points, powering Villa-
nova to the victory at the
Wells Fargo Center.
Samuels converted a
three-point play with 2:51
left for a 52-51 lead and
then buried a 3 with 31
seconds remaining that
clinched another tight
one for the Wildcats (14-
3).
The Huskies (10-7)
kept it close against their
pending Big East rival
and attacked the paint
with authority to offset
a miserable effort from
3-point range (2 of 15).
Christian Vital led the
Huskies with 13 points
and eight rebounds.
Collin Gillespie scored
12 points and Villanova
of 23 (39 percent) from 3,
but could not overcome
the poor free throw shoot-
ing and a 47-31 rebound-
ing edge by the Tigers.
Big picture
LSU: Opportunity
keeps knocking for the
league-leading Tigers,
with three of the next four
games at home. Throw
in a road date with Texas
in the Big 12/SEC Chal-
lenge and LSU is in posi-
tion to pad its NCAA tour-
nament resume and likely
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made 11 of 23 3-pointers.
Houston 65,
No. 16 Wichita State 54 No. 23 Texas Tech 72,
WICHITA, Kan. — Iowa State 52
Fabian White scored 14
points, part of a balanced
attack for Houston in the
road win.
Houston (14-4, 4-1)
built a 49-27 second-half
lead. It is tied with Tulsa
atop the American Athlet-
ic Conference standings.
DeJon Jarreau had 12
points and a game-high
10 rebounds for the Cou-
gars. Marcus Sasser and
Quentin Grimes scored
10 points apiece.
Wichita State (15-3,
3-2 American) lost its sec-
ond straight game. Tyson
Etienne led the Shockers
with 10 points.
No. 17 Maryland 57,
Purdue 50
COLLEGE PARK, Md.
— Jalen Smith had 18
points and 10 rebounds,
and Maryland remained
unbeaten at home.
The Terrapins (14-4,
4-3 Big Ten) scored the
game’s first nine points,
led by 16 at halftime and
managed to stay in front
after Purdue closed to 52-
47 with 6 minutes left.
Freshman Donta Scott
scored 13 points for Mary-
land, now 11-0 at home.
The Terps were coming
off two straight losses on
the road, where they are
0-4.
Nojel Eastern scored
14 points for the Boiler-
makers (10-8, 3-4).
No. 18 Seton Hall 82,
St. John’s 79
NEW YORK — Myles
Powell scored 23 of his 29
points in the second half,
and Seton Hall extended
its winning streak to eight
games.
Quincy McKnight add-
ed 20 points and 7-foot-
2 Romaro Gill had 14
points, 13 rebounds and
six blocks for the Pirates
(14-4, 6-0 Big East). Myl-
es Cale scored 12.
Mustapha Heron
scored 18 for the Red
Storm (12-7, 1-5), and Josh
Roberts had 16 points and
return to the Top 25 poll
by the end of the month.
Ole Miss: January has
included injuries, illness
or suspensions that side-
lined three starters for
at least one game and not
coincidentally, the Rebels
are 0-5. To complicate
matters, three of the next
four games are on the
road, with a home date
with No. 4 Auburn as the
exception.
Up next
LSU: Host Florida on
eight rebounds.
With a fast-break layup
early in the second half,
Powell became the fifth
Seton Hall player to reach
2,000 career points, join-
ing Terry Dehere, Nick
Werkman, Jeremy Hazell
and Greg Tynes.
Arizona 75,
No. 20 Colorado 54
TUCSON, Ariz. —
Dylan Smith and Josh
Green each scored 13
points, and Arizona
cruised to the victory.
Nico Mannion and
Zeke Nnaji added 12
points apiece for Arizona
(13-5, 3-2 Pac-12), which
has won all three of its
home conference games.
The Wildcats had a dou-
ble-digit lead for the last
18 minutes, stopping the
brief Colorado rallies with
quick baskets.
McKinley Wright led
Colorado (14-4, 3-2) with
15 points, and D’Shawn
Schwartz added 12.
LUBBOCK, Texas —
Kyler Edwards had 22
points coming off the
highest-scoring game
of his career, and Texas
Tech pulled away for the
victory.
The sophomore was 5
of 6 from 3-point range,
making two during an
18-2 second-half run, af-
ter scoring 24 points in
a victory at Kansas State
that stopped a two-game
skid.
Davide Moretti had 17
points for the Red Raiders
(12-5, 3-2 Big 12).
The Cyclones (8-9, 1-4)
missed their first 15 at-
tempts from 3-point range
and finished 3 of 22. Iowa
State, second in the Big
12 in points per game
coming in, was held to
55 or fewer points for the
third time in five league
games.
No. 24 Illinois 75,
Northwestern 71
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.
(AP) — Trent Frazier
made four 3-pointers on
his way to 16 points, lead-
ing Illinois to the win.
Illinois (13-4, 5-2 Big
Ten) had five players
in double figures. Ayo
Dosunmu scored 14
points, and Giorgi Be-
zhanishvili had 13.
Robbie Beran led
Northwestern (6-11, 1-6)
with 17 points. Miller
Kopp had 16 points, and
Pat Spencer finished with
14.
No. 25 Creighton 78,
Providence 74
OMAHA, Neb. — Mar-
cus Zegarowski hit a tie-
breaking 3-pointer with
2.7 seconds left, sending
Creighton to the victory.
Ty-Shon Alexander
had 24 points for the Blue-
jays (14-5, 3-3 Big East).
Providence’s David
Duke scored 24 of his ca-
reer-high 36 points in the
second half. The Friars
(11-8, 4-2) shot 39 percent
(25 for 64) from the field.
Tuesday.
Ole Miss: Visits Ten-
nessee on Tuesday.
LSU 80, Ole Miss 76
LSU (13-4)
Smart 7-14 2-2 20, E.Williams 5-11 7-7 17, Watford 2-9
2-2 6, Taylor 2-6 8-10 13, Mays 5-10 5-6 15, Days 1-2
0-0 3, Hyatt 2-3 0-0 6, Graves 0-0 0-0 0, Bishop 0-1
0-0 0. Totals 24-56 24-27 80.
OLE MISS (9-8)
Hinson 5-15 0-0 13, Tyree 12-20 9-9 36, Shuler 2-7
0-3 6, Sy 5-8 0-1 10, Buffen 4-8 0-4 8, Crowley 0-1
0-2 0, B.Williams 1-4 0-0 3, Curry 0-1 0-0 0, Collum
0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-65 9-19 76.
Halftime_36-36. 3-Point Goals_LSU 8-21 (Smart
4-8, Hyatt 2-3, Days 1-2, Taylor 1-2, Mays 0-3, Wat-
ford 0-3), Mississippi 9-23 (Tyree 3-6, Hinson 3-8,
Shuler 2-5, B.Williams 1-1, Buffen 0-1, Collum 0-1, Sy
0-1). Fouled Out_Days, Sy. Rebounds_LSU 42 (Wat-
ford 10), Mississippi 25 (Sy, Buffen 5). Assists_LSU
10 (Mays 4), Mississippi 19 (Crowley 6). Total Fouls_
LSU 17, Mississippi 21.
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NFL

49ers, Packers look to go from losing seasons to Super Bowl

The Associated Press

SANTA CLARA, Calif. —
The San Francisco 49ers are
one win away from accomplish-
ing a turnaround that’s been
done only once before in the
Super Bowl era.
With a victory in the NFC
championship game at home on
Sunday against the Green Bay
Packers, the Niners will be-
come the second team in NFL
history to make the Super Bowl
a year after losing at least 12
games.
Only the St. Louis Rams have
done it, going from 4-12 in 1998
to Super Bowl champs one year
later thanks in part of an injury
to Trent Green that cleared the
way for Kurt Warner to take
over at quarterback.
The 49ers (14-3) also can
credit an injury to their quar-
terback for part of their turn-
around; the team went only
4-12 last season after Jimmy
Garoppolo went down with a
season-ending knee injury in
Week 3.
The silver lining to that in-
jury was the No. 2 overall pick
in the draft, which led to the
addition of defensive end Nick
Bosa, who helped transform the
defense into one of the league’s
best.
“Things have a way of work-
ing out,” Garoppolo said. “I al-
ways told myself it was a bless-
ing in disguise, the ACL and
everything, and yeah, we got
Bosa out of it. That’s a pretty
good trade-off, I guess. Things
have a way of working out, I
guess. This ride is crazy. You’ve
just got to roll with the punch-
es.”
The Packers (14-3) have also
had an impressive turnaround
Titans, Chiefs on verge of Super Bowl, play for AFC title
The Associated Press It will be the first time coaching this points in the season. And then, there’s also
deep in the playoffs for the Titans’ Mike things that I have to do as a coach to make
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Andy Reid rare- Vrabel, but it’s certainly familiar territory sure that we’re ready.”
ly digs into his own past, preferring to stay to his counterpart. Reid had the Chiefs in On offense, that means pounding away
in the moment or focus squarely on the fu- the same position a year ago, when they with running back Derrick Henry and
ture. It’s an approach that has served him lost in overtime to New England — the getting just enough production from Ryan
well during a coaching career that might Patriots won the coin toss and marched Tannehill, just as the Titans did during
someday land him in the Pro Football Hall downfield for a touchdown — and he led a back-and-forth Week 10 win over the
of Fame. the Eagles to five NFC championship Chiefs.
Yet when his Kansas City Chiefs faced games during his 14 years in Philadelphia. On defense, it means slowing down
a seemingly insurmountable hole in the “I have done a few of these,” Reid said, the aerial assault of quarterback Patrick
divisional round of the playoffs, Reid “and you know, we try to keep it as normal Mahomes and his fleet of game-changing
caught himself thinking back almost four as we possibly can as far as the schedule playmakers: running back Damien Wil-
decades to his final game as an offensive goes for the players, so they can get their liams, tight end Travis Kelce and wide re-
lineman at BYU. It was the Holiday Bowl work done. One thing that changes is how ceivers Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins.
and SMU had taken a 45-25 lead in the fast the game is. I can tell you from experi- “I think there is a belief in one another,
fourth quarter. Just about everybody in ence, the magnitude, every time you take
first and foremost,” Tannehill said. “We’ve
Jack Murphy Stadium that night thought a step up in the playoffs — it’s single elim-
been through a lot this season, ups and
it was over, only to watch, stunned, as the ination.”
Cougars scored three late touchdowns to downs, and won games in a lot of different
Experience is great. Successful expe-
win the game. ways. With that comes a lot of belief and a
rience is better, and that is where Reid
“That kind of stuck in there. You had falls short. His only conference title came lot of confidence in one another.”
that hope,” Reid said this week when asked during the 2004 season, when the Eagles The Chiefs have plenty of confidence
what gave him confidence Kansas City lost the Super Bowl to the Patriots. And in their own right. They haven’t lost since
could rally to a 51-31 win over the Texans who should be on the New England roster that game in Tennessee, and their come-
for a spot in the AFC championship game. that night but a game-wrecking linebacker back last week gave them the belief they
“You had that hope. Then it’s the feel of named Vrabel, who even caught a touch- can overcome anything. Their offense is
your team. You’re on the sideline, you’ve down pass. still shattering records and a retooled de-
been down there long enough, you can Vrabel may not have any experience in fense under new coordinator Steve Spag-
sense what they’re thinking, where their this position as a coach, but has plenty as nuolo has been playing as well as any in
mind is at. These guys weren’t flinching. a player. He lifted the Lombardi Trophy the league.
Let’s get it right.” three times with New England before fin- “I think that with the Titans, the phys-
The Chiefs (13-4) got everything right ishing his career — coincidentally — with icality and determination they play with
the rest of the way. And the comeback two seasons in Kansas City. is big,” Mahomes said. “They’re going to
from a 24-0 deficit propelled them into a “I spent 14 years in the National Foot- get after it and fight for every single yard.
matchup Sunday with Tennessee (11-7), ball League,” Vrabel said, “and I don’t even Their defense is going to fly around to the
which has merely knocked off the Patriots know how many playoff games, but those ball and not give up on anything. We’re
and top-seeded Ravens — on the road, no were good experiences about preparation just trying to match that. We’re going to go
less — to reach the precipice of the Super and really focusing on what got us to this out there and give it everything we have to
Bowl. point from where we were at different come out with a victory.”
after slumping to a 6-9-1 record Gutekunst brought in key addi- Tyler Ervin, Jared Veldheer Gutekunst. “There’s been a lot
last season that led to the firing tions such as pass-rushing duo and Marcedes Lewis that have of great pickups, but I think
of longtime coach Mike McCa- Preston Smith and Za’Darius helped. I said this at my locker a few
rthy. Smith, who combined for 25 1/2 “I think he’s done a great weeks ago, the big-name ones
Matt LaFleur came in and sacks on the season. job. I think he deserves a lot of have been fantastic, but it’s kind
tinkered with the offense, There have also been some credit, him and his staff,” quar- of the other ones that have been
and general manager Brian lower-profile pickups such as terback Aaron Rodgers said of the glue pieces, I feel like.”

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Astros, Red Sox look ahead in wake of sign-stealing scandal
The Associated Press

Players from two teams at the center of

baseball’s sign-stealing scandal faced their
fans on Saturday for the first time since the
Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox ousted
their managers amid the fallout from the in-
vestigation into Houston’s elaborate scheme.
The Astros and Red Sox held their annual
fan fests on Saturday, and instead of discuss-
ing preparations for the season, players from
both teams were left to answer questions about
the cheating that resulted in both teams’ man-
agers being fired.
“It’s a tough situation, and as a team we
have to stay together and go through this as a
team like we’ve been doing, always,” Houston
star second baseman José Altuve said. “We
have to talk about it at spring training and try
not to let things in the past distract us for for
next year.”
Houston manager AJ Hinch and general
manager Jeff Luhnow were suspended for a
year by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred on
Monday after he found illicit use of electron-
ics to steal signs during the Astros’ run to the
2017 World Series championship and again in
the 2018 season. Team owner Jim Crane then
fired both Hinch and Luhnow. Manager Alex
Cora left the Red Sox on Tuesday after Man-
fred’s report identified him as the ringleader
of the sign-stealing scheme when he was the
bench coach for the Astros in 2017.
Many Red Sox players talked Saturday
about how much they liked and valued Cora
and hated to see him go.
“I’m heartbroken about it,” Boston desig-
nated hitter J.D. Martinez said. “I understood
his side of it. He definitely didn’t want to be a
distraction. He was one of my favorite, if not
my favorite, managers I’ve had.”
The Astros were fined $5 million, which
is the maximum allowed under the Major
League Constitution, and must forfeit their
next two first- and second-round amateur draft
picks.
The investigation found that the Astros
used the video feed from a center field cam-
era to see and decode the opposing catcher’s
signs. Players banged on a trash can to signal
to batters what was coming, believing it would
improve the batter’s chances of getting a hit.
MLB is also looking into whether Cora in-
stalled a similar system in Boston after arriv-
ing the following year, when the Red Sox won
the World Series. No conclusions have been
reached and there is no timetable; the Astros
investigation took two months.
Martinez hopes MLB wraps up the inves-
tigation into the Red Sox soon so they can put
this behind them.
“I’m excited for the investigation to get over
with, so they can see there’s nothing going on
here,” he said.
While the Astros were meeting with fans
in Houston, Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Ran-
dal Grichuk called for MLB to take away their
World Series championship, now that it’s been
proven that they cheated.
“I mean, I would like to see that obviously.
I bet the Dodgers would like to see that,” Gri-
chuk said. “I’ve got a few friends on the Dodg-
ers that are very disappointed that possibly
two years in a row they lost due to a team going
against the rules.”
Many Boston players are trying not to focus
on the investigation or what could be coming
for the team, but instead simply trying to pre-
pare like it’s any other season.
“MLB’s going to do what they have to do to
look into it,” pitcher Nathan Eovaldi said. “I’m
just trying to focus on baseball. I feel like it’s
going to pass, and everything’s going to be
fine.”
While Altuve didn’t have a problem an-
swering numerous questions about the scan-
dal, Houston third baseman Alex Bregman
refused repeated attempts by reporters to get
him to address what happened and kept re-
peating variations of the same phrase.
“The commissioner made his report, made
his decision, and the Astros made their deci-
sion, and I have no further comment on it,”
Bregman said in some variation again and
again.
After being pressed on if he plans to dis-
cuss the sign-stealing in the future, Bregman
finally gave an answer that didn’t seem as re-
hearsed.
“I think in the 2020 year our actions will
speak louder than our words,” he said.
Altuve and Bregman were the only two
stars at Saturday’s fan fest in Houston who
were part of the 2017 championship team.
Many of the other big names who helped the
Astros win their first title, including World
Series MVP George Springer, ace Justin Ver-
lander and shortstop Carlos Correa, did not at-
tend the daylong event where fans can interact
with players.
Altuve was the AL MVP in 2017, and since
the sign-stealing scandal broke, some have
questioned whether he deserved the award.
In recent days he’s also been accused of wear-
ing an electronic device under his jersey to
tip pitches, which he vehemently denies. He
was asked how it feels for people to call him
a cheater.
“You don’t want anybody to call you that,”
he said. “But ... I have two options. One is cry
and one is go down and play the game and
(perform) and help my team. And you know
what one I am going to do.”
MLB’s investigation of Houston began after
former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers, who played
for Oakland last season, told The Athletic
about the team’s scheme to steal signs. Mar-
tinez said he has spoken to Fiers and gets why
he came forward.
“I understand his side of it, being in that di-
vision, going against those guys. It’s an uncom-
fortable position for him, but I understand why
he did what he did,” Martinez told reporters in
Springfield, Massachusetts. “He obviously felt
like he needed to and I understand it.”
In Houston, as the Astros try to put the
scandal behind them and focus on the future,
Altuve, who has often been described as the
heart and soul of the team, is confident it won’t
derail the Astros from another successful sea-
son.
“Everything will be fine,” he said. “We’re
going to be in the World Series again. People
don’t believe it. But we will.”
Where does Astros cheating
rank in scandals? Ask Pete Rose
The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Pete Rose was taking a break from signing auto-
graphs at the MGM Grand hotel when asked a question he’s uniquely
qualified to address.
What’s worse, betting on baseball or cheating at baseball?
“I don’t know,’’ Rose tells The Associated Press. “All I know is I’ve
been suspended for 30 years now. I don’t know anybody that’s been sus-
pended for 30 years.”
It’s a fair point, especially when compared to the punishments handed
out so far in the worst scandal to hit baseball since the steroid era. What
Rose did was wrong — according to baseball rules — but there’s still a
lot of people who believe he should be adding a Hall of Fame designation
when he signs memorabilia in his adopted hometown of Las Vegas.
Still, 30 years away from the game he was so great at seems like
an awful long time, especially when Major League Baseball and other
sports leagues have made their peace — and are doing business — with
the bookies who post lines on their games.
And face it. If you believe Rose on the details of what he did — and
that’s a stretch for some — his betting didn’t have nearly the impact on
baseball than a cheating scheme that has brought into question the legit-
imacy of not just one, but two, World Series.
“Which one is worse, stealing signs electronically, taking steroids
or betting on baseball?” the all-time major league hit leader asked. All
three are bad. But at least what I did never had anything to do with the
outcome of the game.”
The Astros cheating scandal, of course, is still new, at least publicly.
A week ago, no one was questioning whether the Astros were really the
2017 champions or the Red Sox a year after that.
Now it’s all in play, and the discussion is beginning to turn to how the
sign scandal ranks with other scandals in baseball history.
Pretty high up with each passing day, if only because there are few
comparable scandals and two of them involve gambling. The Black Sox
scandal of 1919 and Rose betting on baseball games from the dugout in
Cincinnati are about the only ones that come close.
There’s also the steroid era, where it was hard to figure out what was
real and what wasn’t. The players themselves weren’t much help, stick-
ing up for teammates and for the most part claiming ignorance of steroid
use.
The unwritten baseball code of silence, though, seems to be unrav-
eling quickly with the sign-stealing scandal. That began in November
when former Houston pitcher Mike Fiers went on record to The Athletic
about the scheme the Astros employed during his time there to steal
signs.
Dodgers pitcher Alex Wood, who was careful to hide his signals in
allowing one hit in 5 2/3 innings of Game 4 of the World Series, tweeted
that he would rather pitch to a player on steroids than one who knew
which pitch was coming. That sentiment was echoed by Reds pitcher
Trevor Bauer, who added, “All day every day for the rest of time.”
National League MVP Cody Bellinger went even further, saying
there needs to be major consequences for any players involved.
“That Completely ruins the integrity of the game!!!” Bellinger tweet-
ed.
Rose said he wished the scandal wasn’t playing out a month before
pitchers and catchers report for spring training. He predicted Commis-
sioner Rob Manfred will have a hard time dealing with the fallout.
But he agreed with Bellinger that if players are guilty, they need to be
punished, just as he was.
“If you’re the batter and I give you the indicator, aren’t you just as
guilty being the batter?” he asked. “It’s the batter who is benefiting from
this, not the guy who was the indicator. You have to look at every player
on the team.”
Rose, who turns 79 in April, said there was sign-stealing during his
time, though without technology. Mostly, it was a base coach figuring
out sign sequences and a runner at second relaying them to the batter,
and there were accepted ways to make it stop.
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‘Nobody is beneath doing anything’
Each morning starts the same way.
Harris, Jackson-Durrett, Lovato and
the rest of the MSU coaching staff arrive
at Humphrey Coliseum around 8:30 a.m.
A staff meeting with Schaefer starts
around 9 a.m.
Checking in with each of his staffers,
Schaefer runs through the day’s routine
and other clerical work before the day
gets going.
Following the morning meeting,
coaches retire to their offices to make
calls, fill out paperwork, and carry out
other varying responsibilities.
“We work really well together,” Har-
ris told The Dispatch. “Nobody is be-
neath doing anything.”
Harris’ office is the closest to Schae-
fer’s, a nod to her longevity and long-
standing relationship with the eighth-
year head coach. After stints at Arkansas
and North Carolina State, she worked
alongside Schaefer for five years at Tex-
as A&M before joining him in Starkville
in 2012 when he took the MSU job.
Known as an ace recruiter during her
time in Fayetteville and Raleigh, Harris
originally headed to College Station in
hopes of bolstering the Aggies’ talent
pool.
One day, she was seated alongside
Blair at a high school All-American
game during her tenure at Texas A&M
when the 35-year head coaching veter-
an exclaimed, “I’m tired of coming here
and watching these kids — I want some
of them!”
Harris obliged, helping the Aggies
reel in classes ranked No. 2, 3 5 and 6
nationally while during her time in Col-
lege Station.
But now in the midst of her eighth
season at MSU, Harris is far more than
a recruiter. Working with the Bulldogs’
post players, she proved instrumental
in the development of former standouts
Teaira McCowan — the No. 3 overall
pick in the 2019 WNBA draft — Anriel
Howard, Chinwe Okorie and Martha
Alwal while also working as a mentor to
the younger assistant coaches.
“(Vic) gave me a lot of responsibili-
ties, but he helped me grow into that role
at the same time, and not a lot of people
would have had the chance to do that,”
Harris said.
Though Harris serves as the elder
statesman of the bunch, Jackson-Durrett
and Lovato bring ample continuity to
Schaefer’s staff. A four-year standout
at Oklahoma, Jackson-Durrett is in her
fifth year at MSU after assistant coach-
ing stops at George Mason and South-
east Missouri State, while Lovato is in
her second stint at MSU since 2014 fol-
lowing a two-year run as the head coach
at Division II Arkansas-Fort Smith.
Associate head coaches Johnnie Harris (left) and Dionnah Jackson-Durrett have
formed close relationships with head coach Vic Schaefer at Mississippi State.
Like Harris, Schaefer has challenged
the younger contingent of his assistant
coaching staff.
During the summer of 2017, he ap-
proached Jackson-Durrett in hopes of
affording her more responsibility. After
a brief conversation, the pair decided
she would take on scheduling duties —
a task Harris had previously overseen.
Working through the months-long
process of rounding out MSU’s 2019
slate, Jackson-Durrett called a coach
midway through last season while the
Bulldogs sat undefeated and among the
nation’s elite.
“I tried scheduling a game, and some-
body told me, ‘Don’t call me when you’re
undefeated, call me when you lose,” she
recounted.
“We lost to Missouri — and I think
that was our first loss — and I was like
‘Let me get on the phone; I’m working on
scheduling today,” she added through a
laugh.
And while the experience proved tax-
ing, Jackson-Durrett — who was named
an associate head coach alongside Har-
ris ahead of this season — felt grateful
for the opportunity to take on the chal-
lenge.
“It’s tough, but you have people out
there that will play you,” she said. “And
we just want to be prepared to make sure
our players are playing in April.”
A family affair
While the work is demanding, there’s
a friendly, familial atmosphere to the
MSU women’s basketball offices.
Scahefer’s daughter, Blair — a former
Courtesy of MSU Athletics
standout at MSU in her own right — is
in her first season as the coordinator of
women’s basketball player development.
Down the line, Harris’ grandchildren
Samarah, 13, and Kaiden, 6, can con-
stantly be seen running the halls of The
Hump.
So too can Jackson-Durrett’s daugh-
ter Laila — who welcomed a number of
MSU staffers and players to her second
birthday party earlier this week and
takes in games from the fourth row be-
hind the bench in a booster seat.
“This is her second family,” Jack-
son-Durrett said of Laila. “Coach Harris
brings her grandson and granddaughter
up here, and coach Schaefer’s daughter
works with us, and Lovato is our family
too. No beat is missed.”
Beyond the children, Schaefer’s play-
ers add to the friendly confines that sit
one floor above the practice floor at Mize
Pavilion.
Exiting her office Wednesday after-
noon, Harris saw sophomore center Jes-
sika Carter standing in the hallway.
“I was waiting for you!” Carter ex-
claimed.
“I know, I know — I saw you,” Harris
responded playfully as Carter moved in
for a melodramatic embrace of her posi-
tion coach.
Releasing her coach, Carter and Har-
ris walked in tandem down to the main
court at Humphrey Coliseum to get up
extra shots.
“I just think it’s a special group,”
Harris said. “And I think coach Schae-
fer sets the tone for that. We just kind of
feed off of him, and I think it’s important
for our kids to see that that they feed off
us. That’s why we have good chemistry
with our play here.”
‘They’re so much more than just the
strategy’
The 2020 season has been one of tri-
als and tribulations for the MSU coach-
ing staff.
Schaefer has quipped the anxiety his
youthful team — one that is replacing
three senior starters and boasts six new-
comers — might kill him.
The assistant coaching staff has had
their own battles, too. For Harris, bring-
ing Carter along in hopes of replacing
the 18.4 points and 13.5 rebounds Mc-
Cowan provided nightly is a challenge
in itself — though she’s responded pro-
ductively, averaging 13 points and 10 re-
bounds per game.
Jackson-Durrett has been tasked with
maturing redshirt sophomore Myah
Taylor, who played just 11.2 minutes per
night before taking over full-time point
guard duties this season.
“The success that we’ve had this year,
the challenges and the success that we
will have moving forward are going to be
well worth it — it always is. There is no
group that we’ve had here that has been
perfect.”
Despite the growing pains this year’s
squad has experienced, the job Schaefer
and his staff have done in guiding the
Bulldogs to a 16-2 record ahead of Mon-
day’s contest with No. 1 South Carolina
has begun to garner recognition.
Harris, who was previously named
the 2018 Women’s Basketball Coach-
es Association assistant coach of the
year, is being honored next month at
the Northside Christian Church’s Afri-
can-American History Banquet as a dif-
ference-maker in her community.
Jackson-Durrett was also recently
named to the 2019 Delux Power 100,
which recognizes the top 100 profes-
sionals and influential leaders from St.
Louis.
That said, Schaefer knows his staff
won’t stay the same forever. He conced-
ed earlier this week he must fight off
other programs looking to poach his
assistants seemingly every offseason.
But whether the makeup of his assis-
tant coaching staff stands to change in
the near future or not, when Schaefer’s
“A-Team,” as he refers to them, are se-
lected for head coaching roles, they’ll be
ready based on the culture of develop-
ment they’ve endured in Starkville.
“They do so much more than just
the X’s and O’s; they’re so much more
than just the strategy,” Schaefer said.
“They’re obviously really good at that,
but what they bring to the table is hard
to find.”

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lead into halftime after point guard Nick
Weatherspoon ended the period with a
mid-range shot at the buzzer.
MSU’s offensive success continued
into the second period, in part due to
Tyson Carter’s scoring effort from off
the bench for the second consecutive
game. Carter nailed a wide-open 3-point-
er with 11:46 remaining in the contest
and pushed MSU’s lead to 58-40. The
Starkville native finished with 18 points.
Other double-digit scorers for MSU
were Robert Woodard II (17 points)
and Nick Weatherspoon (12 points).
Rayshaun Hammonds contributed 10
points for Georgia, as did Toumani Ca-
mara.
“We still feel like we haven’t played
our best basketball yet,” Weatherspoon
said.
MSU is back in action against Arkan-
sas at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Humphrey
Coliseum.
Dawg notes
On Friday, the Southeastern Con-
ference fined Howland $25,000 for
comments related to private communi-
cations he had with the conference re-
garding officiating. Howland made the
comments in a press conference Mon-
day when answering a question about
Perry’s body language against LSU on
Jan. 11. “(Reggie) had a play where he
was holding the ball one-handed, and
the guy just absolutely whacks his arm,
and there’s a no call. … It was a horri-
ble no call, right in front of the official,”
Howland said Monday. Howland add-
ed he spoke with SEC coordinator of
men’s basketball officials Mark White-
head about “a number of calls” and that
Whitehead acknowledged a foul should
have been called on the play in question
with Perry … MSU head football coach
Mike Leach was introduced to Hum-
phrey Coliseum on Saturday night right
before halftime. Leach made a few pirate
puns, which were more effective than his
T-shirt toss, which failed to make it over
the second row on his second attempt.
Nevertheless, Leach dropped a few of
the one-liners that made him famous at
Washington State. “It’s like Pirates of
the Caribbean, only with Bulldogs,” the
new MSU coach quipped.

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“It’s great to have a kid like
that come off the bench and be
able to shoot the basketball the
way he does,” McBrayer said.
“He came out with a lot of en-
ergy and got us moving, and we
made a couple shots.”
Outside of junior Blake Bur-
nett, who had 31 points to lead
his team, Columbus struggled
from the field. Senior Gabe
Williams had 12 points, but nor-
mally reliable scorer Eric Cald-
well had just two, a pair of free
throws in the first quarter. Tre
Dismuke and JJ Williams were
held scoreless Friday.
“The guys that we’re used to
scoring, those guys have to step
up,” Columbus coach Phillip
Morris said. “They don’t have
to have a 20-point game or any-
thing like that, but they’ve gotta
step up.”
The Falcons showed prom-
ise in the first quarter, shooting
well and defending well to grab
a 15-9 lead after one period of
play.
Then the Trojans did what
they have done all season.
Senior Jaylen Smith stole the
ball from Williams and laid it in
for an 18-17 New Hope lead, and
a 3 from sophomore big man
Caleb Parr, who led the team
with 17 points Friday, stretched
the advantage to 21-17. New
Hope went on to take a 27-24
lead into the half.
“We started off a little slow,
and then we turned it on a little
bit,” McBrayer said. “At times,
we didn’t shoot the ball well to-
night like we normally do, but
we made enough to pull away.”
In the third quarter, the
teams battled back and forth,
with Burnett scoring eight
points in a row to get Colum-
bus back to a one-point deficit.
Then RL Mattix and DJ Hughes
made layups, and Brownlee hit
a 3 and followed it with a jumper
from the foul line.
Brownlee started off the
fourth by making one of two
technical free throws when Co-
lumbus inadvertently started
the period with six players on
the court, and then he hit the 3
that brought down the packed
house.
Columbus fought back —
Burnett had 14 points in the
fourth quarter alone — but nev-
er got closer than six points.
Smith, freshman LJ Hackman
and Parr all made both free
throws when intentionally
fouled in the final 30 seconds,
preventing a Columbus come-
back.
“You’ve gotta be able to put
ballgames away like that when
they keep trying to make a run,”
McBrayer said. “You’ve gotta be
able to make free throws late.”
The Trojans did, and by do-
ing so, they sealed a big home
win against their rivals and dis-
trict opponents. It’s a victory
New Hope isn’t going to forget
anytime soon.
“They’ve been talking down
to New Hope for a long time,”
Brownlee said. “I’m just glad we
got the chance to prove them
wrong.”
Columbus girls 62,
New Hope 17
At the end of the first quar-
ter Friday, New Hope senior
Imoni Harris connected on a
30-foot 3-point heave to beat
the buzzer.
But the Trojans’ home
crowd, for the most part, stayed
silent.
Harris’ shot cut the Colum-
bus lead from 21-1 to 21-4 at the
end of one period, and by that
point, the Falcons had all but
silenced the Trojans’ rooting
section — just what Columbus
coach Yvonne Hairston hoped
for.
“That’s what you don’t want
to happen,” she said as the New
Hope crowd roared in celebra-
tion of a bucket in the boys con-
test that followed.
On Friday, Columbus kept
the rancor to a minimum, com-
ing out and flattening the Tro-
jans 62-17 to improve to 14-3 on
the season.
“We wanted to keep their
sixth man out of the game,
which is their crowd,” Hairston
said. “I knew that we had to
come out and play really, real-
ly tough early and then kind of
get settled in, because I knew if
they came out and they played
well early, then the crowd was
gonna get involved. We were
gonna try everything we could
to keep from getting the crowd
involved.”
Columbus did that by jump-
ing passing lanes all night,
making solid passes and scor-
ing on a fast break or in tran-
sition.
“We’ve just been pressing
the ball,” Hairston said. “We’re
really quick, really aggressive.
That’s just what we like to do.”
Senior Nitirah Barry had
eight steals alone for Colum-
bus, tying a season high.
“Down the stretch, she was
just getting her hands on the
ball, which was a good thing,”
Hairston said.
Aniya Saddler, who leads
the Falcons in scoring, had
11 points in the first quarter
alone; by contrast, New Hope
scored just nine points in the
first half.
“It gives us a lot of confi-
dence, but we can’t get too com-
fortable,” the senior said of the
Falcons’ standout first period.
“We’ve gotta keep playing hard
the same way we came out.”
Friday, Saddler and the Fal-
cons accomplished that goal,
keeping the pressure on New
Hope. After scoring 21 points
in the first quarter, Columbus
added 19 in the second to grab
a 40-9 halftime lead, and the
Falcons added 12 points in the
third and 10 in the fourth.
New Hope, meanwhile, nev-
er scored more than six points
in one quarter, as the Colum-
bus defense stayed focused
throughout and achieved what
it came in to do.
“We had a lot of goals: to
come out here and relax, don’t
get overworked, don’t let the
calls get us, to limit our turn-
overs and just play the whole
game,” Saddler said.
Consider those objectives
reached Friday for the Falcons,
who know it may not come so
easy when New Hope visits Jan.
31.
“We’re just happy to get a
win,” Hairston said. “I know
when they come to us, it’s go-
ing to be a little bit different.”
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Iran to send flight recorders from downed jet to Ukraine

French, American and Canadian
experts will help analyze black boxes
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran
will send the black box
flight recorders from the
Ukrainian jetliner that it
accidentally shot down
last week to Ukraine for
further analysis, an Irani-
out elaborating. He said
French, American and Ca-
nadian experts would help
analyze them in Kyiv, the
Ukrainian capital.
He said if that doesn’t
work the black boxes will
be sent to France. His re-
marks were carried by the
people on board. Hours
earlier, the Guard had
launched ballistic missiles
at U.S. troops in Iraq in
response to the U.S. air-
strike that killed Iran’s
top commander, Gen. Qa-
ssem Soleimani. Officials
say lower-level officers
mistook the plane for a
U.S. cruise missile.
Iranian officials ini-
tially said the crash was
caused by a technical
57 Canadian citizens as
well as 11 Ukrainians, 17
demanded Iran accept
full responsibility and pay
problem and invited coun-
tries that lost citizens to
people from Sweden, four compensation to the vic-
Afghans and four British tims’ families.
help investigate. Three citizens. Most of those The plane was a Boeing
days later, Iran admitted killed were Iranians. The 737-800 that was designed
responsibility after West- other five nations have and built in the U.S.
ern leaders said there was
strong evidence the plane
was hit by a surface-to-air
missile.
The victims included

an official said Saturday.
Hassan Rezaeifer, the
head of accident investiga-
tions for the civil aviation
department, said it was
not possible to read the
black boxes in Iran, with-
semi-official Tasnim news
agency.
Iran’s Revolutionary
Guard accidentally shot
the plane down shortly af-
ter it took off from Tehran
on Jan. 8, killing all 176
Pam Easley
Pamela Jane Robinson Easley,
age 67, of Caledonia, MS, passed
away Thursday, January 16, 2020,
at her residence.
Funeral services will be Tues-
day, January 21, 2020, at Lowndes

Michael Lee Mravich

Members of Congress visit Navy
shipbuilder amid talk of cuts
The Associated Press
BATH, Maine — The
Democratic chairman and
ranking Republican on a
House Armed Services
subcommittee toured
Navy shipbuilder Bath
Iron Works on Friday
and offered assurances to
shipbuilders amid reports
of possible cuts.
Democratic Rep. Joe
Courtney, of Connecticut,
and GOP Rep. Rob Wit-
tman, of Virginia, both
members of the seapow-
er and projection forces
subcommittee, visited
the shipyard at the invita-
tion of Democratic Reps.
Chellie Pingree and Jared
Golden, both of Maine.
The tour came several
weeks after a memo was
leaked that outlined an
initial Navy proposal to
cut shipbuilding.
One proposal would
reduce the number of Ar-
leigh Burke-class destroy-
ers planned for construc-
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and Ingalls Shipbuilding
in Mississippi.
Courtney and Wittman
made it clear that they
are strongly opposed to
such a cut of shipbuilding,
Golden said afterward.
“The Navy requested
and Congress approved a
multiyear procurement.
This new proposal in the
memo would nullify a con-
tract that’s already agreed
to. That’s pretty much
unheard of,” said Golden,
who is also a member of
the seapower subcommit-
tee.
Congress will have the
final say, and shipbuild-
ers should be heartened
that there is bipartisan
support in Congress for
increasing the size of the
fleet, not reducing it, he
said.
parents, she was pre-
ceded in death by her
brothers, James and
Frank Sykes; sister,
Linda Miller.
She is survived by
Funeral Home in Columbus, MS,
at 2:00 PM, with Bro. Don Harding
officiating. Visitation will be two
hours prior to the service. Follow-
ing the funeral, a private family
graveside service will be held at Robinson Family
Cemetery, in Caledonia, MS.
Pam was born May 16, 1952, in Columbus, Missis-
sippi, to Laurene and Elbert Robinson. She graduat-
ed from Caledonia High School in 1970, where she
was Homecoming Queen and escorted by her long-
time friend, Charlie Egger. She graduated from the
Mississippi University for Women and earned her
Bachelor of Science in Nursing and was employed
at several local hospitals as a registered nurse.
On July 25, 1992, Pam married Chuck Easley in St.
Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and made a life together
with their children in Caledonia, MS. She loved her
family land and her ancestral home and was a life-
long animal lover and an avid collector of antiques.
For many years, she and her sisters, Martha Goolsby
and Diane Pounders operated 3 Sisters Antiques in
Caledonia, MS.
Pam was preceded in death by her father, James
Elbert Robinson; paternal grandparents, Annie Lou-
ise Robinson and Elbert Lavert Robinson; and ma-
ternal grandparents, Annie Maude Kidd and William
Maborn Kidd.
She leaves behind her husband, Chuck Easley
of Caledonia; her mother, Laurene Kidd Robinson
of Caledonia; her sister, Martha Robinson Goolsby
(James Earl) of Caledonia; her sister, Diane Robin-
son Pounders (Kenneth) of Caledonia; her son, Chris
Fowlkes (Sandy) of Caledonia; her daughter, Lind-
sey Nicholson (Jason) of Caledonia; her daughter,
Ali Mara Easley (Austin Haney) of Caledonia; and her
five grandchildren, Madelyn and Paxton Fowlkes
and Hugh, Laurel and Adelyn Nicholson.
Pallbearers include Mr. Brad Goolsby of Pitts-
boro, NC; Mr. James Earl Goolsby of Caledonia,
MS; Mr. Scott Goolsby of Caledonia, MS; Mr. Ashley
Pounders of Caledonia, MS; Mr. Kenneth Pounders
of Caledonia, MS; Mr. Wesley Pounders of Pensacola,
FL; Mr. Mark Vaughn of New Orleans, LA; Mr. Tony
Vernon of Caledonia, MS; and Mr. Austin Haney of
Tupelo, MS.
Honorary pallbearers are Mr. Mike Fowlkes of
Caledonia, MS; Mr. Jason Nicholson of Caledonia,
MS; Mr. Jay Vernon of Caledonia, MS; Mr. Doug-
las Holliman of Caledonia, MS; Mr. Tim Murphy of
Michael Lee Mravich was
76 when he passed away on
December 29, 2019, in Atlanta,
Georgia, after spending a lovely
Christmas in Savannah, with his
daughters, Barbara and Vanessa.
Michael “Mike” was returning
home to Columbus, Mississippi,
where he had lived for 35 years.
He retired in Columbus from the
Air Force, after proudly serving his country for many
years.
Mike was born in Portland, Indiana, but soon
moved to Chicago, Illinois, which he considered his
hometown. It was here that he became a fan of the
Chicago Bears. He joined the USAF after high school
and served as an aircraft mechanic. He enjoyed
seeing the world, both during his military career
and after. Many of his fondest memories and stories
are connected to his time in the Air Force. On his
travels, he met his beloved and funny wife, Shizuko
“Shi-Shi,” in Okinawa, Japan, when she brought him
a cup of coffee. They were married for 42 years until
she passed away in 2010.
A Celebration of Life service was held by his many
friends at the Southern Cruisers Car Club. With
his lifelong love of classic cars, Mike was an avid
member of the club. Meticulous and dedicated, he
could fix it all, and had also been known as a BBQ
expert, a champion bowler, and could often be
found solving a crossword puzzle.
Along with his wife, Shi-Shi, Mike was
predeceased in death by his parents, Anthony and
Mabel; and a brother, Roger.
He is survived by his two daughters who miss
him.
A private service is planned for the summer in
Indiana.
The family would like to extend their appreciation
to friends and family, including Jimmie and Noriko,
Kiyomi, John, Erwin and Cindy, Janice, and Carol.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the
Palmer Home for Children in Columbus, Mississippi.
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Carolyn Walker
ABERDEEN — Car-
olyn Sykes Walker,
75, died Jan. 16, 2020,
at the Care Center of
Aberdeen.
Services will be at 2
p.m. Monday, at Tis-
dale-Lann Memorial
Chapel, with Robert
Moore officiating. Buri-
al will follow at New
Prospect Cemetery.
Visitation is from 4-6
p.m. today at the funer-
al home. Tisdale-Lann
Memorial Funeral
Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Walker was
born June 17, 1944, in
Aberdeen to the late
Durley Sykes and Lois
Chandler Sykes. She
was formerly employed
at a seamstress at
Sharp Garment and
was a member of the
Church of God.
In addition to her
her daughter, Vickie
West, of Aberdeen;
son, Michael Walker of
Jenoua, Texas; sisters,
Martha West, of Ham-
ilton, Brenda Crump,
of Bay Springs, and
Durlynn Lavender; and
six grandchildren.
See Obituaries, 8B
Caledonia; Mr. Dale Duncan of Caledonia; Mr. Avery
Duncan of Caledonia; Mr. Brett Kidd of Kennesaw,
GA; and the men of Kolola Springs Baptist Church.
In Pam’s honor, memorials may be made to the
Columbus-Lowndes Humane Society at clhumane-
society.org.
Compliments of
Lowndes Funeral Home
www.lowndesfuneralhome.net
Donald Kuehn
Donald Charles Kuehn, 74,
of Tavares, Florida, who passed
away Saturday, December 21,
2019, at AdventHealth Orlando,
was born on June 17, 1945, in Los
Angeles, California, to Robert
Jasper Kuehn and Kathleen
Belle January Kuehn. The family
moved back to his Father’s
hometown, Natchez, Mississippi,
in September of 1945.
Donald graduated from Natchez-Adams County
High School in the Class of 1964, and after being
accepted to Harvard University, decided to stay close
to home. Donald graduated from The University
of Southern Mississippi in August of 1969, with a
Degree in Business Administration. He married
Charlotte Lucile Roberts on April 5, 1970, at the First
Presbyterian Church, in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
After teaching math and working in real estate, he
settled on Banking at Baton Rouge Bank in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, in 1979. He graduated from The
School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State
University in June 1985. Donald moved to Ruston,
Louisiana in 1986, after accepting a position as Vice
President managing Commercial Services at Ruston
State Bank. He moved back to Baton Rouge in 1996
and worked in Commercial Lending at Deposit
Guaranty National Bank in Gonzalez, Louisiana.
In 2001, he moved to Central Florida, where he
managed the lending department at Florida Choice
Bank in Mount Dora, Florida. Donald retired from
the banking industry in 2012, after distinguishing
himself as a well-respected Senior Vice President,
specializing in Commercial Lending at Trustmark
National Bank in Columbus, Mississippi.
Donald was preceded in death by his parents,
Bob and Kathleen; his wife, Charlotte; his brother,
Robert Jasper “Bobby” Kuehn Jr.; his identical twin,
Richard Franklin “Dick” Kuehn Sr.; and his sister,
Karen Jo Kuehn Clements.
Donald is survived by his daughter, Bonnie
Elizabeth Kuehn Trueblood and husband, Robert
Todd Trueblood; two grandsons, Justin Ray
Trueblood and Lucas Case Trueblood of Eustis,
Florida.
Visitation will be on Saturday, January 25, 2020,
at Laird Funeral Home in Natchez, Mississippi, from
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM. A memorial service will be held
following visitation in Laird Chapel, with Dan Wynn
officiating. Interment will be in Greenlawn Memorial
Park in Natchez, Mississippi.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at
lairdfh.com.
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Gun-rights activists gear up for show of force in Virginia
‘We’re not going to be quiet anymore.
We’re going to fight them in the
courts and on the ground.’
Virginia resident and NRA member Timothy Forster
BY ALAN SUDERMAN
and DENISE LAVOIE
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. —
Police are scouring the in-
ternet for clues about plans
for mayhem, workers are
putting up chain link hold-
ing pens around Virgin-
ia’s picturesque Capitol
Square, and one lawmaker
even plans to hide in a safe
house in advance of what’s
expected to be an unprec-
edented show of force by
gun-rights activists.
What is provoking their
anger in this once reliably
conservative state is the
new Democratic majority
leadership and its plans
to enact a slew of gun re-
Obituaries
Continued from Page 7B
Jewell West
ABERDEEN — Jew-
ell Gosa West, 84, died
Jan 17, 2020, at her
residence.
Services will be at
11 a.m. Tuesday, at
Tisdale-Lann Memorial
Chapel with Todd Bow-
en officiation. Burial
will follow at Friendship
Cemetery. Visitation
will be from 4-7 p.m.
at the funeral home.
Tisdale-Lann Funeral
Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. West was born
Jan. 10, 1936, in Aber-
deen to the late Thomas
Gosa and Velma Garrett
Gosa. She was formerly
employed as a teacher
assistant for Aberdeen
Schools, owned Happy
Days Nursery and was
a member of Friendship
Baptist Church.
In addition to her
parents, she was pre-
ceded in death by her
husband, J.C. West; and
son, Ronnie West.
She is survived by
her brothers, Kenneth
Gosa and Wayne Gosa;
two grandchildren; and
two great-grandchil-
dren, all of Hamilton.
James Shaw
CALEDONIA —
James Bradley Shaw,
67, died Jan. 17, 2020, at
Baptist Memorial Hos-
pital-Golden Triangle.
Services are 2 p.m.
Tuesday at the chapel
Memorial Gunter Peel
Funeral Home, College
Street location. Burial
will immediately follow
at Egger Cemetery
with military honors.
Visitation is today from
5-7 p.m. at the funeral
home.
strictions. This clash of
old and new has made
Virginia — determined
to prevent a replay of the
Charlottesville violence
in 2017 — ground zero in
the nation’s raging debate
over gun control.
The Virginia Citizens
Defense League’s yearly
rally at the Capitol typ-
ically draws just a few
hundred gun enthusiasts.
This year, however, thou-
sands of gun activists are
expected to turn out. Sec-
ond Amendment groups
have identified the state
as a rallying point for the
fight against what they
see as a national erosion of
gun rights.
“We’re not going to be
Delbert Jameson
COLUMBUS — Del-
bert Allen Jameson, 75,
died Jan. 18, 2020, at
his residence.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Lown-
des Funeral Home in
Columbus.
Curtis Jones
GORDO, Ala. ­—
Curtis Davis Jones,
83, died Jan. 17, 2020,
at Hospice of West
Alabama.
Services are 3 p.m.
today at Highland Bap-
tist Church with the
Rev. Jerry Robbins and
the Rev. Shawn McDan-
iel officiating. Burial
will follow at Greenhill
Memorial Gardens.
Visitation is one hour
prior to the service at
the church.
Mr. Jones was born
April 2, 1936, in Tusca-
loosa County, Alabama,
to the late Buster Jones
and Bertha Barrett
Jones. Curtis was a
member and deacon
at Highland Baptist
Church in Gordo and a
retired forest commis-
sioner for Weyerhae-
user.
In addition to his
parents, he was preced-
ed in death by his wife,
Doris Nell Strickland
Jones.
He is survived by his
daughter, Migyon Til-
ley; sons, Larry Jones
and Tommy Jones;
sister, Betty Jo O’Bry-
ant; nine grandchildren
and nine great-grand-
children.
Pallbearers will be
Alex Boteler, Michael
George, Ken O’Bryant,
Colt Jones, Justin Jones
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quiet anymore. We’re go-
ing to fight them in the
courts and on the ground.
The illegal laws they’re
proposing are just straight
up unconstitutional,”
said Timothy Forster, of
Chesterfield, Virginia, an
NRA member who had
one handgun strapped to
his shoulder and another
tucked into his waistband
as he stood outside a legis-
lative office building earli-
er this week.
VCDL president Philip
Van Cleave said he’s heard
from groups around the
country that plan to send
members to Virginia, in-
cluding the Nevada-based,
far-right Oath Keepers,
which has promised to
organize and train armed
posses and militia.
Extremist groups have
blanketed social media
and online forums with
ominous messages and
hinted at potential vio-
and Joshua Jones.
Memorials may be
made to Highland Bap-
tist Church, P.O. Box
381, Gordo, AL 35466.
Frenchie Goodman
ALICEVILLE, Ala.
— Frenchie Dewayne
“Frank” Goodman, 47,
died Jan. 14, 2020, at
Baptist Memorial Hos-
pital-Golden Triangle.
A home-going cel-
ebration service will
be 1 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 25, at Mt. Hebron
Baptist Church in Al-
iceville. Burial will be
at Mt. Hebron Baptist
Church Cemetery in
Aliceville. Visitation is
Friday, Jan. 24, from
2-6 p.m. at Lavender’s
Funeral Service in
Aliceville. The Rev.
Marcus Wright will be
the eulogist.
Mary Thompson
AMORY — Mary
Pearl Handley Thomp-
son, 89, died Jan. 16,
2020, at North Missis-
sippi Medical Cen-
ter-Gilmore in Amory.
Services are 2 p.m.
today at Cleveland-Mof-
fett Funeral Home in
Amory with Bubba
Kennedy officiating.
Burial will follow at
Hatley Cemetery. Visi-
tation was Saturday at
the funeral home.
Mrs. Thompson was
born on Aug. 30, 1930,
in Flatwoods, Alabama,
to Robert and Lummy
Jones Handley. She was
formerly employed at
Monroe Trouser and
Amory Garment. Mary
was a Baptist.
She was preceded in
death by her husband,
Rubel Thompson; sons,
Jerry Lee Thomp-
lence. The FBI said it ar-
rested three men linked
to a violent white suprem-
acist group Thursday who
were planning to attend
the rally in Richmond, ac-
cording to a law enforce-
ment official who spoke to
The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity to
discuss an active investi-
gation.
Democrats have per-
manently banned guns
inside the Capitol, and
Gov. Ralph Northam de-
clared a temporary state
of emergency Wednesday
that bans all weapons, in-
cluding guns, from Cap-
itol Square, during the
rally to prevent “armed
militia groups storming
our Capitol.” Gun-rights
groups asked the Virgin-
ia Supreme Court to rule
Northam’s declaration
unconstitutional, but the
court on Friday upheld
the ban.
son and Jimmy Alan
Thompson; brother,
Norman; sisters, Edna,
Gail, Lela and Geneva;
and one grandson.
She is survived
by her sons, Dennis
Thompson and Donald
Thompson, both of
Amory; brothers, Ter-
rel Joe Handley, Tony
Handley, Roger Hand-
ley and Robert Hand-
ley; sister, Sara Snyder;
five grandchildren,
seven great-grand-
children and three
great-great-grandchil-
dren.
Pallbearers will
be Blake Thompson,
Brady Thompson,
Noah Lawson, Dalton
Parker, Daniel Allred,
Jeremy Goodin and
Cory Gist.
Kuydgalyn “Lynn”
McClusky
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Northam said there
were credible threats of
by groups planning to
attend Monday’s rally is
violence - like weaponized
drones being deployed
reminiscent of that used
ahead of the white nation-
over Capitol Square. On alist rally in Charlottes-
Friday, t he FAA issued a ville in August 2017. One
temporary flight restric- woman was killed and
tion, including for drones, more than 30 other people
over Capitol airspace were hurt when a white
during the rally. supremacist drove his car
The governor said into a crowd of counter
some of the rhetoric used protesters there.
Sarah Jo Spearman
Sarah Jo Spearman, a loving Christian, daughter,
wife, mother and friend to many, died Thursday,
January 16, 2020, in Birmingham.
Mrs. Spearman was born on December 7, 1934,
to Billy Burke and Azell Collier Box, at the Box family
home of her paternal grandparents, Dr. William
Lyles Box and Josie Woods Box, located in the
Bedford Community of Lamar County, AL.
Mrs. Spearman was a 1953 graduate of Lamar
County High School in Vernon. She then attended
Florence State Teachers College (University of North
Alabama) in Florence, where she graduated in 1957.
She taught school for 31 years at Vernon Elementary
School and Sulligent Elementary School. In 1969,
she returned to college to obtain a Master’s degree
in library science at Mississippi State University. The
newly obtained degree allowed her to become the
first librarian at Vernon Elementary School, a job
she dearly loved.
In 1957, she married James W. Spearman, and
they built a loving life together for 41 years.
She enjoyed traveling and family. Whether it was
a trip with J.W. to business seminars somewhere
around the world or a family trip, she was always
ready to see and learn new things.
Family meant everything to her. She loved to host
family get togethers and cook for everyone. She
had daily calls with her three children and stayed
closely connected with the lives of her children and
grandchildren, which were the joy of her life. She
always looked forward to visits from her brother
and sister along with their families.
Mrs. Spearman was a lifelong and active member
of New Home United Methodist Church, which was
founded nearly 200 years ago by her ancestors. As
one of the last few members attending New Home
UMC, she achieved her goal of not allowing the
church to close on her watch.
She was also an active member in several groups
over life. Among those were Delta Kappa Gamma,
a professional educational society, Lamar County
Retired Teachers Association, and the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. She was a board
member of the Northwest Alabama Regional
Library for over 30 years.
Mrs. Spearman loved her church, her family and
her friends. She lived her faith daily.
She was predeceased by her husband and
parents, along with her sister and brother-in-
law, Mary Ann Box Stranforth and Mel Stanforth;
her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Dwight and
Elizabeth Spearman; and brother-in-law, Bill
Graham.
Funeral services will be Sunday at 2:00 PM at
the New Hope United Methodist Church, with Rev.
Nancy Harper and Rev. Dalton Eason officiating.
A graveside service will follow in the adjoining
cemetery. Visitation was Saturday evening from
6:00-8:00 PM at the funeral home.
Survivors include her children, Carole Spearman
Townsend (Alan) of Sulligent, Jim Spearman of
Sulligent, and Mary Spearman Buchanan (George)
of Hoover; her grandchildren, Will Townsend of
Sulligent, Collier Townsend (Elizabeth) of Nashville,
Katherine Buchanan, Whit Buchanan, and Alex
Buchanan of Hoover; her brother, Dr. William C. Box
(Lucy) of Sulligent; a sister-in-law, Nell Spearman
Graham of Albertville; 12 nieces and nephews;
numerous cousins and friends; and a special family
friend, Lula Bell Broyles.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials
to be made to the New Hope Methodist Church
Cemetery Fund, c/o James Earl Hall, 5717 Buck
Jackson Road, Sulligent, AL 35596; The James W. and
Sarah Jo Box Spearman Endowed Scholarship at
Auburn University, Auburn University Foundation,
317 South College St., Auburn, AL 36849; or to the
charity of your choice.
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Coming in
from
the cold

Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff

From left, Mississippi University for Women Honor College students Treasure Heath and Cayla Skinner assist Community Outreach Director Glenda Buckhalter
Richardson in setting up cots Thursday at the temporary emergency warming shelter in Columbus. The shelter, located at the Farmers Market Annex at the corner
of Second Avenue and Third Street North, is open from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. tonight, Monday and Tuesday nights during sub-freezing temperatures, available for the
homeless or for homeowners and renters without heat. Heath is from Starkville. Skinner’s hometown is New Orleans.

Compassion, teamwork drives

development of new warming shelter
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com

F
or most of us, freezing temperatures
are usually no more than an incon-
venience. But for a man, woman or
child without a place to call home — or with
a home, but no heat — they can become
life-threatening. That’s what Hiedia Hozan
remembers about someone she knew of
in her hometown of Aberdeen. The junior
majoring in public health knew the individ-
ual involved had to sleep in a car. Hozan’s
personal awareness of community issues
like homelessness make her glad her Ina E.
Gordy Honors College class at Mississippi
University for Women is helping others
committed to providing a temporary emer-
gency warming shelter in Columbus. With
sub-freezing temperatures predicted for a
four-night span that began Saturday, the
shelter at the Farmers Market Annex —
formerly the Boy Scout hut, at the corner
of Second Avenue and Third Street North
— will open its doors from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m.
through Tuesday night. It’s a collaborative
effort of the City of Columbus, the Golden
Triangle Regional Homeless Coalition and
Columbus Community Outreach, with its
nonprofit program Building Bridges of
Hope.
At the annex Thursday, Hozan and sever-
al classmates helped set up cots and handle
a donation of pillows and blankets that had
just been dropped off. Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff
“I really like the idea of this and being Amanda Strain of Columbus, left, and Hiedia Hozan of Aberdeen put donated pillows and blankets on
cots at the temporary emergency warming shelter in Columbus Thursday. Strain and Hozan are part of
able to help people,” said Hozan.
an Ina E. Gordy Honors College class at The W teaming this semester with the Golden Triangle Regional
See Shelter, 5C Homeless Coalition, Community Outreach and the City of Columbus on the shelter project.
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The W’s MFA in creative writing ranked No. 1 in nation

MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS which is especially important in two or three years while of- Students praise the diversity by collegechoice.net’s “Most
for low-residency programs fering extended options to meet of the program, the openness to Affordable Online MFAs in

T
he low-residency master
of fine arts program in
creative
writing at Missis-
sippi University
for Women has
been recognized
as the top-ranked
program by Intel-
ligent.com.
Ranking No. 1 Dunkelberg
and named the In-
telligent Pick, the
MFA ranked the highest in the
“The Top 20 Online Master’s in
Creative Writing Degrees.”
“We are proud of this most
recent recognition of the quality
of our program,” said Kend-
all Dunkelberg, professor of
English and director of Creative
Writing. “These rankings ac-
knowledge the value of our low
in-state tuition for all students,
where students often have lim-
ited financial aid. We are glad
to see they also consider our
program’s quality and student
satisfaction.”
The site evaluated each pro-
gram based on reputation, flex-
ibility, cost, reputation, faculty
and outcomes. The site then
calculated an Intelligent Score
for each program on a scale of
0 to 100. The W’s MFA scored
a 99.22. The top picks for the
best online master’s in creative
writing are highly regarded,
cost-effective and flexible.
To compile the ranking, 409
education programs were com-
pared and 164 universities and
colleges were assessed.
The W’s low-residency MFA
in creative writing is a 48-hour
program that can be completed
student’s needs. Participants
take online classes, combined
with two types of brief residen-
cy classes. Upon completion,
students receive a terminal
degree.
Since its founding in 2015,
The W’s low-residency program
has graduated 18 students with
the master of fine arts, and 37
students are currently in the
program.
“I credit our success to the
excellent writers who teach in
our program and the talented
and hard-working students
we’ve been able to attract,”
Dunkelberg explained. “Hardly
a week goes by without one or
more of our current students
or alumni sharing news about a
publication or other successes
in their writing. “
cross-genre writing, the atten-
tion they receive from faculty
and other students due to the
small class sizes and on-campus
residencies and the program’s
focus on the real-world con-
cerns of professional writers.
According to Intelligent.
com, a master’s in creative writ-
ing will also prepare students
for employment as an English
literature or writing instructor
at the post-secondary level.
Employment is expected to rise
4 percent by 2028.
The W’s MFA was also
ranked No. 1 by thebestmas-
tersgrees.com’s “The Best
Affordable Online Master’s
in Creative Writing,” No. 2 by
nonprofitcolllegesonline.com’s
“Best Online Mater’s in English
& Creative Writing” and No. 3
Creative Writing Degrees.”
To access the complete rank-
ing by Intelligent.com, please
visit: https://www.intelligent.
com/best-online-masters-in-
creative-writing-degree-pro-
grams.
Intelligent.com provides
unbiased research to help stu-
dents make informed decisions
about higher education pro-
grams. The website offers cu-
rated guides which include the
best degree programs as well
as information about financial
aid, internships and even study
strategies. With comprehen-
sive, user-friendly guides and
hundreds of program rankings,
Intelligent.com is a trusted
source among students and
prospective students. To learn
more, visit intelligent.com.

Shaffer to keynote MLK Jr. Day Unity Breakfast at MSU

Breakfast, program, volunteer
service Monday honor legacy
MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC
AFFAIRS
Russell St. in Starkville.
The free, public celebra-
tion of King’s life and
make our world a better
place. It is only when
Executive Vice President,
Office of Institutional
vices, MSU Community
Garden, Sam D. Hamilton
we match the rhetoric
of social justice with a
Diversity and Inclusion,
Holmes Cultural Di-
Noxubee National Wild-
life Refuge, Odd Fellows/
singularity of purpose versity Center, and the Brush Arbor Cemetery,
and resolve that we can university’s Division of Oktoc Fire Department,
operationalize King’s Student Affairs. Operation Ukraine-Co-

M
ississippi State’s
director of
African Amer-
ican Studies will be the
featured speaker at the
university’s 26th annual
Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Unity Breakfast and
Day of Service.
Donald M. Shaffer,
also an associate pro-
fessor of English, will
discuss the “Road to
Reconciliation,” exam-
ining King’s legacy as
a touchstone for racial
reconciliation as well as a
challenge to act.
The Jan. 20 program
begins at 9 a.m. in The
Mill at MSU Conference
Center located at 600
legacy as a Baptist min-
ister, civil rights activist
and humanitarian gets
underway with an 8 a.m.
complimentary break-
fast. Doors open at 7:30
a.m., and seating will be
available on a first-come,
first-served basis.
“It is important that we
not only commemorate
the rich legacy of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.,
but that we also heed the
social challenges of today
that require the same
courage and conviction
that King demonstrated,”
Shaffer said. “Our cele-
bration of King should
also be a call to collective
action that endeavors to
vision of racial unity.”
An MSU faculty mem-
ber since 2008, Shaffer
is chair of the African
American Studies cur-
riculum committee and
a board member of the
Mississippi Humanities
Council. His research
examines the social and
historical construction of
race in African American
and Southern literature,
linking authors whose
literary works engage
racial and identity politics
in American Culture. He
also serves as mentor
for Presidential Schol-
ars in MSU’s Judy and
Bobby Shackouls Honors
College.
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Donald M. Shaffer will be
the featured speaker at
Mississippi State’s ob-
servance of Martin Luther
King Jr. Day Monday.
Monday’s event is
sponsored by the Office
of the President, Of-
fice of the Provost and
After the breakfast lumbus, Palmer Home
program, MSU’s Ma- Thrift Store-Columbus,
roon Volunteer Center, Palmer Home Thrift
in coordination with Store-Starkville, Sally
Volunteer Starkville, Kate Winters-West Point,
will begin the MLK Jr. and United Way.
Day of Service activities. For more information
Volunteer opportunities on MSU’s 2020 MLK
are available at, among Jr. Day observance,
others, Boys and Girls including volunteer
Club-Columbus, Boys service-day locations
and Girls Club-Starkville, and projects, visit mvc.
Camp Seminole, Chris- msstate.edu/blog/
tian World Missions, volunteer-mlk-day-ser-
Council of Community vice-2020/. Stephen
Organizations, Habitat Williams, MSU interim
ReStore, Oktibbeha director of student lead-
County Heritage Mu- ership and community
seum, J.L. King Senior engagement, also may
Memorial Park, McKee be contacted at 662-
Park, Moncrief Park, Ms. 325-0244 or stephen@
Smith’s Educational Ser- saffairs.msstate.edu.

GROUP PICTURE

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Circulation Librarian Valerie Hargrove tries to place a piece in a community jigsaw
puzzle in progress at Bryan Public Library on Commerce Street in downtown West
Point. All library visitors with a few minutes to spare are invited to sit down and
place one piece or 50 to help complete this makerspace collaborative project
underway.

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Oktibbeha Master Gardeners gearing up for gardening season

SPECIAL TO THE DISPATCH getting to know others with
common interests and working

A
nyone interested in
becoming a master
gardener will have an
opportunity to hone their skills
and learn the latest techniques
when the Oktibbeha County
Master Gardeners hold an
informational session for
anyone interested in the joys of
gardening.
“It will be an open meeting
beginning at 10 a.m. Friday,
Feb. 7, at the Oktibbeha
County Extension Service on
Felix Long Drive,” explained
Flo Henley, president of the
chapter. “We welcome citizens
— both seasoned gardeners
and complete novices — to
come learn how the program
operates and how they can
participate.”
Henley added, “With more
baby boomers retiring and
the growing interest in en-
vironmental sustainability,
gardening is attracting record
numbers of citizens wanting to
hone their gardening skills.”
The AARP stresses the
health benefits of gardening
including increased exposure
to vitamin D which increases
The Master Gardener program in Oktibbeha County is launching its 2020 educational and certifica-
tion campaign on Feb. 7 with an information session for all interested gardeners.
calcium levels, benefits bones
and the immune system, while
reducing stress and improving
mood.
The local president noted
that a 2006 study found that
gardening could lower risk of
dementia by 36 percent while
providing enjoyable aerobic
exercise. She also noted that
membership results in a
special camaraderie between
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members. Over the past three
years membership in the
organization has doubled in
Starkville, growing from about
20 to more than 50.
“Besides, it’s just plain fun
on projects to benefit the com-
munity while learning every
aspect of home gardening from
ornamental design to food
production,” said Henley.
Master Gardeners will be
present at the information
session to answer questions
and provide information about
some of their experiences and
projects in which they have
been involved.
Attendance is not required
for registration in the training
course that begins Feb. 25 and
extends through April 2. Those
interested may register and
pay the $100 fee for the classes
(40 hours) and all course ma-
terials at the county Extension
Service. Registration by Feb.
21 will insure course materials
are available the first day of
class.
Training classes are taught
by Mississippi State University
Extension personnel on desig-
nated dates. In exchange, vol-
unteers will provide 40 hours
of volunteer service on commu-
nity projects within a year of
training. For more information
call 662-323-5916.

School News
Martin, Rice graduate
Kenneth Martin and
Ardrianna Shardae Rice,
both of Columbus, were
among several Itawam-
ba Community College
students who earned
Associate of Arts or Asso-
ciate of Applied Science
degrees or certificates at
the conclusion of the 2019
fall semester.
Martin and Rice both
received Associate of Arts
degrees.
Ray on ICC team
Jaydan Ray of Cale-
donia was selected by
Itawamba Community
College as a leader for the
2020 freshman orienta-
tion sessions which begin a 3.0 GPA and a 21 ACT Butler, Amy Cancellare, and Day Ivy; 4th Grade: David
in April. or 1060 SAT qualify for a Lola Cooper, Nicholas 6th Grade: Kaitlyn Johnston, Jaxon McCal-
Ray and 17 others will scholarship. Corhern, Julia Dunand, Collins, Brandon Doumit, lum, Ben Ussery, Far-
lead small group activ- Jackson Frye and Jackson Maddox House, Isabel rell Wygul and Wesley
ities, conduct campus
tours and provide in-
Annunciation honors Robertson; Keith and Mosby Wilson; Shelton;
Annunciation Cath- 4th Grade: Liam Bar- 7th Grade: Gaby 5th Grade: Jackie
formation to incoming olic School released its ranco, Swayze Callaway, Baumbach, Maria Keith, Baumbach, George Bock,
freshmen during the second quarter honors Anna Cline, Ava Dowdle, Armando Leyva, Caroline Campbell Callaway,
orientation sessions. for the 2019-2020 term. Kenzie Harris, Amelia Luccasen, Aven Mat- Sophia Heinkel, Lon-
Those students included Jones, Mark Leonard, thews, Kaitlyn McConnell don Black, Oscar Bock,
Long offered are: Sara Leyva, Garrison and Tucker Vollor; Tristan Fulton and Lillian
Reedy, Mya Robinson, 8th Grade: Claire McGregory;
scholarship Baumann, Jack Clanton,
Jared Long of Colum- Principal’s List Hayden Torres and Isaac
Greyson Dillard, Patrick
6th Grade: Jonathan
bus has been offered 3rd Grade: Ruby Zarandona; Cooper, JR Dowdle, Ar-
Doumit and Jules Gallo;
the Provost Out-of- Beck, John Black, Will 5th Grade: Hank Bau- mando Dunand, Carmen
State Scholarship for Borer, Max Bourgeouis, com, Katie Krieger, Alex Ferraez, Leah Jeremiah,
high-achieving freshmen Jack Clemons, Owen Lucassen, Joseph Por- Honor Roll Kelsey Perkins, Kennedy
for the Fall 2020 semes- Colvin, Landon Mc- tera, Colin Knox Wright, 3rd Grade: Liana Perkins and Lola Sullivan;
ter at Austin Peay State Gregory, Briley Pyle, Riley Brown, James Can- Cotman, Arron Shepperd, 7th Grade: Cole Lit-
University in Clarksville, Kennedy Regimbal, cellare, Hutch Clemons, Brooklyn Dillard, Lucas tlejohn, Lily Moody and
Tennessee. Amelia Sullivan, Audrey Campbell Davis, Hollis Frauendienst, Cooper Thompson Regimbal;
Out-of-state students Abrams, Owen Baucom, Fenstermacher, Cami Lyon, Kameron Wright 8th Grade: Elijah
meeting the criteria of Miles Brignac, Bradley Harris, Karson Hughes and Nadia Heinkel; Clarke

Club note

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Mississippi State DAR Regent Hellen Polk of Starkville shows members of the Hic-
A-Sha-Ba-Ha DAR Chapter a fundraising print Jan. 2 that will help with the regent’s
state project.

Hic-A-Sha-Ba-Ha DAR all persons to tour. Sales of a print she

The Hic-Sha-Ba-Ha DAR Chapter of
Starkville met Jan. 2 to kick of its pro-
gram year. Speaker was Hellen Hicks
Polk, DAR Mississippi state regent and
chapter member.
Polk brought news of her state regent
project which is restoring the brick
pathways in the gardens of Rosalie, the
state’s DAR-owned home in Natchez.
The project will make Rosalie’s gar-
dens and exterior more accessible for
showed members will fund the brick
restoration effort. The print, created
by Polk’s daughter-in-law and chapter
member Catherine Ann Herrington
Davis, celebrates Rosalie’s history. It
will fit an 18-by-22-inch frame, with no
special framing required.
Members were reminded of the state
conference in February in Jackson. Na-
tional Society Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution Regent Denise Doring
Van Buren, will be in attendance.

Tell your child a bedtime story.

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Monday, Jan. 20
MLK Day commemoration — A commu-
nity observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in
Columbus begins at 8 a.m. with a complimentary
breakfast at Trotter Convention Center downtown
(as space allows). Scott Colom is keynote speak-
er. Afterward, volunteer with United Way of Lown-
des and Noxubee for a teacher supplies service
project. To volunteer, email volunteer@uwlc-ms.
org. Register for breakfast at muw.edu/mlk.
Photo by Logan Kirkland
Unity Breakfast — Doors open at 7:30 a.m.
at The Mill, 600 Russell St., Starkville, for the
Cookie decorating is among personal enrichment courses offered by Mississippi State’s Center for Continuing 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast
Education, which also teaches a variety of professional development classes, and offers teacher development, and Day of Service. Complimentary breakfast
continuing education units, reading programs and online high school courses. begins at 8 a.m. MSU’s director for African Amer-
ican studies Donald Shaffer discusses the “Road

Center for Continuing Education courses

to Reconciliation.” MLK Day of Service activities
follow. For more information, visit mvc.msstate.
edu/blog/volunteer-mlk-day-service-2020/.
West Point observance — A 9 a.m.

offer enrichment for the new year

march and parade from MLK Drive to Mary
Holmes College gym is followed at 9:45 a.m. with
a program at the college. State NAACP president
Robert Jones is speaker.

MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS er Dixie Cartwright said that CE flourishing fitness or personal

calendar
students come from all walks of life finance.

A
s Mississippi State rings in
the new year, the university’s
Center for Continuing Edu-
cation is offering learning experi-
ences to fit any self-improvement
resolution.
A branch of the MSU Extension
Service, Continuing Education
offers over 300 professional devel-
opment and personal enrichment
courses. Open to all, these flexible,
online and face-to-face opportuni-
ties allow business professionals
and the general public to broaden
marketable skills or explore new
hobbies. Classes can be completed
in as little as four hours or — de-
pending on individual preferences
and course formats — students can
opt for a six-week commitment,
among others. Some courses begin
new sessions each month.
Continuing Education Manag-
and various skill levels.
“More and more people are
becoming lifelong learners,”
Cartwright said. “Continuing Ed-
ucation has something to offer, no
matter your stage in life. I encour-
age people to explore our course
options because they often end up
surprised.”
According to Business Insider,
approximately 80 percent of Amer-
icans abandon their New Year’s
resolutions by the second week of
February. But online or extracur-
ricular courses allow individuals
to set practical goals and, with
perseverance, attain new skills.
Many individuals are drawn to
the program to explore areas of
interest, and the personal enrich-
ment courses cover everything
from beginner cake decorating or
photography to wine appreciation,
Others seek to brush up on
skills related to their industries.
According to Cartwright, courses
like grant writing, accounting fun-
damentals and speed Spanish are
extremely popular.
Additionally, teacher develop- Monday, Jan. 20
ment, continuing education units MLK Day observances — See details at top.
(CEUs), reading programs and
even online high school cours-
es are available. The Center for
Wednesday, Jan. 22
Luncheon with Books — The Friends of the Bryan
Continuing Education also offers Public Library in West Point host author Larry D. Thornton
OSHA health and safety consulta- at noon to discuss his book “Why Not Win?” The memoir
tion services to small businesses goes from the 1960s South to the board room of Coca-Co-
la. Lunch is $6. For more information, call 662-494-4872.
in Mississippi, as well as various
safety and environmental training
programs. Thursday, Jan. 23
For the complete course listing, Voctave — The Mississippi State Lyceum Series pres-
visit ce.extension.msstate.edu. ents the a capella group Voctave at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall’s
Cartwright also may be contacted Bettersworth Auditorium on campus. Tickets are $30 ($25
at 662-325-5002 or dixiec@ext. faculty/staff), at msstate.universitytickets.com, or call
662-325-2930.
msstate.edu.

Friday, Jan. 24
Adam Hood in concert — The Columbus Arts
Council presents singer-songwriter Adam Hood at 7 p.m.
at the Rosenszweig Arts Center Omnova Theater, 501
Main St. Advance tickets are $15 for CAC members/$17

OUT THERE non-members. Tickets are $17 day of show, if available.

Now through Jan. 20 – Ice skating (designated
dates), BancorpSouth Arena, Tupelo. $12/skater
(includes skate rental); season pass $100. 662-841-
6573, bcsarena.com.
Feb. 6 – Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group, Riley
Center, Meridian. 601-696-2200, msurileycenter.org.
Feb. 8 – The Righteous Brothers (Bill Medley/
Bucky Heard), Ford Center, Oxford. 662-915-1217,
fordcenter.org.
– Aquila Theatre presents George Orwell’s “1984,”
Riley Center, Meridian. 601-696-2200, msurileycenter.
org.
Feb. 18 – The Chieftains, The Irish Goodbye Tour,
Alys Stephens Center, Birmingham. 205-975-2787,
alysstephens.org.
– Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana presents Reflejos
Flamencos, Riley Center, Meridian. 601-696-2200,
msurileycenter.org.
March 12 – Harry Connick Jr., Thalia Mara Hall,
Jackson. tickermaster.com.
March 19 – An Evening with Bruce Hornsby, Riley
Center, Meridian. 601-696-2200, msurileycenter.org.
Go to columbus-arts.org or call 662-328-2787. Hood has
co-written for Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town as well
as other well-known artists.
Saturday, Jan. 25
SOUPer Bowl — Sample special soups by area chefs
and eateries from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. along Starkville’s down-
town Main Street. Vote for your favorite. Tickets are $15
at starkville.org; $20 day of event. For more information,
contact The Partnership, 662-323-3322.
Thursday, Jan. 30
“Invisible Vegan” — Healing Springs Farmacy Mis-
sissippi presents the film “Invisible Vegan” at 4:30 p.m.
at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, 314 Seventh St.
N., followed by a plant-based dinner at 5:30 p.m. RSVP by
email to healingspringsfarmacyms@gmail.com.

Dear Abby

D
EAR ABBY: My husband
and I relocated to a warmer
climate a few years ago,
putting us more than 1,000 miles
away from my adult children. The
kids all seem to think this trip
was just for fun, and continue to
ask me to “come home.”
All three of them are busy with
their own well-rounded lives, and
the last few years we were there,
their visits became less frequent
and shorter. We are now in a
state that is much more econom-
ical than our home state, and our
health and well-being have greatly Dear Abby
improved. How do I let them
know, once and for all, that I AM
home? — LOVING THE SOUTHWEST
DEAR LOVING THE SOUTHWEST: A way to let
them know would be to explain that the move
has been a positive experience for you and
your husband, so much so that your health has
improved. Tell them the added bonus is that
your living expenses have gone down, and with
them, any stress about finances.
Let them know they are wel-
come to visit when it’s convenient
for all of you. But do NOT make
it about the fact that when you
lived close by, their visits became
fewer and shorter, which would be
regarded as a guilt trip. If you have
other friends and relatives where
your children live, it’s likely you
may be visiting that area occasion-
ally, too.
DEAR ABBY: My husband and
I recently gained custody of my
younger half-brother after a nasty
legal battle with my father and
stepmother. While we abhor what
led to this, we are delighted my
brother is in our home and our lives. With the
exception of his parents, so is everyone else in
our families.
My brother will be coming with us to family
gatherings that include my dad and stepmother.
Most of the family is not privy to the circum-
stances that led to this situation, and I’m sure
questions will come up. My brother has PTSD
from it, and talking about it right now is difficult
for him. He’s in therapy and receiving help,
but how can we dissuade potentially upsetting
questions without things being weird? — PRO-
TECTIVE IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR PROTECTIVE: A way to accomplish
it would be to have a private talk with your
relatives before these events. Explain what hap-
pened and that your brother is receiving help
but is in too much pain right now to answer any
questions, which is why you prefer the subject
not be mentioned.
DEAR ABBY: I’m responding to “Not Just
Mary, in the South” (Nov. 10), the lady whose
name is Mary Lou but is continually called only
Mary, even though she prefers being called by
her full name. I had the same problem.
My name is Mary Ann, but I was constantly
called Mary, which I HATED. To solve the prob-
lem, I combined the names and started writing
my name as one word — Maryann. Since then, I
have never again been called Mary.
By the way, when I also had to give the
initial of my middle name, because the “A” was
no longer available, I started using “B,” which
is the first letter of my maiden name. Mary Lou
should try this, and I hope it is as effective for
her as it was for me. — MARYANN IN TENNES-
SEE
DEAR MARYANN: I’m printing your letter
because it included the most frequently men-
tioned suggestion by other readers, and also
because it makes perfect sense. Thank you for
sharing.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was found-
ed by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,
Los Angeles, CA 90069.
For an excellent guide to becoming a better
conversationalist and a more sociable person,
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the price.)

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 19).
You gain skills this solar year. Even
with the many interesting events that
happen, it’s the learning you’ll enjoy
most. In addition to assisting others
and sharing your numerous talents, it
will thrill you to give presents through-
out the year. The resulting surge of
popularity and warmth in your per-
sonal life is a bonus. Aries and Virgo
adore you. Your lucky numbers are:
4, 40, 33, 1 and 17.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). If
you could give one thing to this day
that would make it memorable, it’s
the respect of a fresh start. Leave
yesterday’s concerns in yesterday,
and think of the next 24 hours as its
own separate bubble of potential.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
You’re loyal. You bond with people
long before you have any idea about
what the connection will do for you,
and you stick with people long after
the obvious usefulness of the rela-
tionship has passed.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You
can’t choose your emotions, just like
you can’t force potatoes to grow in
your garden. But you can plant the
seeds and see what happens. Decide
what you want, and then cultivate the
conducive environment.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your
emotions are water, your lips a fau-
cet, and your mind is the valve. You
can say or not say. You can turn up
the heat or you can cool it. You’re in
total control -- not of the emotion, but
of the way it comes out.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). How open
you are today! The sort of learning
you’ll do isn’t exactly intellectual.
Still, it seems to expand the spaces
within your mind and send them to
the outer reaches of the sky.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Though you’re curious about the
meaning of things and in tune with
the way situations make you feel,
you’re also looking for practical
results. You want to come away from
today with something that can actual-
ly be counted.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There
are more and less noble pursuits,
though the categories don’t usually
go the way people typically expect.
The grandest event can require but
a fraction of the nobility that’s inside
the observation of an insect.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
There’s power in a name. When it’s
given, it’s a hope, a suggestion, a
placeholder for potential. By living,
we write the definition to the word
that it is our name.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
There will be a point in the day when
you can face and handle what’s going
on, or you can duck out. Keep in mind
that you don’t have to feel brave to
do brave things. Brave is more of an
action than a feeling anyway.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). If
you mapped out all you saw, it would
be but a tiny dot next to the map of
all you never saw. This is what drives
you. You’re aware of your own bias,
and it humbles you and makes you
the best observer in the room.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
The acknowledgments that come
your way are funny. People overlook
the exceptional and hone in on ordi-
nary features, which is why you can’t
count on them. You know in your gut
the significance of your work.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
Perhaps you don’t have as many
answers to the problems of the day
as you’d like, but at least you can ask
the interesting questions that will
increase the interest of the world and
the wonder of common things.
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In the garden with Felder

Check out this ‘Gardener’s Bill of Rights’

L
ife has enough pres-
sures, why include
them in the garden?
It’s possible to overlook
some of the production-ori-
ented rules of horticulture,
when just thinking about the
inalienable rights to relax in
the garden can help carry
us through the ups and
downs of fickle weather and
attitudes.
Because it only takes a Felder Rushing
couple of weeks for dormant
plants to lose their hardi-
ness, I’m a little worried that some
of my flowers are blooming a month
ahead of time, and spring peeper frogs
are singing their hearts out along the
creek. I fully expect a relatively mild
but sudden cold snap can damage
too-tender plants and critters as badly
as a hard freeze.
But, rather than moan and groan or
gnash my teeth about something I have
no control over, I’m keeping calm by
amusing myself with humor.
I’m going a bit beyond the lame “you
might be a garden nerd if
... ” lists, such as having
plant labels in your garden,
knowing how many bags
of compost will fit in your
car trunk, using a different
shovel for different jobs,
or having an “I brake for
bagged leaves” bumper
sticker.
It can get really deep.
Like if you know what
thigmotropism means, the
scientific names of your
weeds, and don’t blush over
the reproductive details of earthworms.
Or think “yeast excrement” when you
drink a good ale.
Instead, I will share something my
friend Steve Bender, retired Grumpy
Gardener from Southern Living maga-
zine, and I came up with: The Garden-
er’s Bill of Rights.
See, as a horticulturist who has
taught Master Gardeners too much left-
brain science, I understand the how-to
guidelines for efficient production. Stuff
like the best carbon-to-nitrogen ratio
for composting, where to cut a tree limb
so it won’t rot, when to fertilize the lawn
without feeding the weeds, and why
native plants are better for native pol-
linators. Oh, and how to have your soil
tested, even if nobody can figure out the
computer printout recommendations. In
spite of how mama and daddy never had
theirs tested and their gardens seemed
to do OK.
Soulful amateur gardeners who are
in it just for the love of it don’t necessar-
ily kowtow to all this.
Keeping this in mind, as a calming
counter to horticulture rules, we came
up with some inalienable rights, actions
that may not always make sense but
should be honored anyway, even if oth-
ers want to argue about it.
Our unofficial proclamation hereby
decrees that a gardener shall have:
The right to as many wind chimes
as we can afford — bird feeders, bottle
trees and gnomes, too. The right to no
grass at all, except maybe a little patch
to lie on our backs and watch clouds.
The right to plant too many to-
matoes, every year, and to cultivate
wildflowers and other plants in the front
yard, even those some neighbors may
consider to be weeds. And the right to
garden any hour, day or night, and wear
ridiculously big floppy hats.
The right to a leaf pile, to more
potted plants that can possibly be kept
watered enough, and every possible re-
cycled container. And to mispronounce
plant names (and to use the h in herbs).
Gardeners shall have the right to
plant any color flower next to any color
flower, even if they clash on the color
wheel. And the right to topiary, pollard
or otherwise prune crape myrtles or
any other shrub, any way we wish. Hat-
ers, leave us alone.
Lastly, gardeners shall have the right
to show our [tastefully-clothed] rear
ends to neighbors as we weed.
Do I hear a motion for any amend-
ments?
Felder Rushing is a Mississippi au-
thor, columnist, and host of the “Gestalt
Gardener” on MPB Think Radio. Email
gardening questions to rushingfelder@
yahoo.com.

Shelter
Continued from Page 1C
For
Community
Outreach
Director
Glenda
Buckhalter
Richardson
and the Rev.
Sandra De- Richardson
Priest of the
Homeless
Coalition,
the honors
college
class’s offer
of help is
welcome.
“I think DePriest
it’s abso-
lutely wonderful,” said
Richardson. Often, she
said, one of the first
things people say when
learning of issues like lo-
cal homelessness is that
they “had no idea.” The
students’ experience, she
said, will allow them to
see the reality and tell
the story from their own
perspective.
nnn
A pressing need for
some type of local refuge
from extreme tempera-
tures arose in late fall
2019, when the mercury
dropped to frigid levels
in the Golden Triangle.
For the short-term, the
Columbus Police Depart-
ment opened to several
individuals who needed
a place to sleep out of the
dangerous cold. Soon,
attention turned to the
Farmers Market Annex
building.
“We understand
that the annex is not a
permanent solution, but
it’s the only one that we
have at this time,” said
Richardson, who daily
works with other agencies
to help get individuals
and families into stable
housing conditions. Her
mission is “homelessness
prevention.” But she and
DePriest know there are
times when people find
themselves without a roof
over their heads, some-
times through no direct
fault of their own.
The philosophy at the
new shelter, DePriest
said, “is one of compas-
sion, with zero tolerance
for disrespect for anyone
else, or disrespect for
property.”
Getting the annex
ready to receive people
has required a lot of
coordination. Matters
including cots, bedding,
security, volunteer
staffing, food and even
just getting the word out
have all been priorities.
But when the community
became aware the shelter
would open for only its
second time, and for its
first extended cold spell,
donations began coming
in. A microwave and
freezer are now in place,
people have dropped off
new bedding and several
groups have volunteered
to bring meals or snacks.
Additional needs going
forward, as of press time,
include portable parti-
tions for privacy, large
area rugs, lampstands,
cleaning supplies, DVD
player and board games
for children and adults.
Blankets and pillows are
also welcome. To make a
donation or inquire about
drop-off, contact Richard-
son at 662-364-1850.
Jan Swoope/Dispatch Staff
nnn The Rev. Sandra DePriest of the Golden Triangle
Regional Homeless Coalition, left, exchanges ideas
Ideas flowed freely with Gordy Honors College students Wednesday at The
Wednesday afternoon in a W on ways students can assist in the development of
room at Whitfield Hall on Columbus’ emergency warming shelter. Others at the
The W campus. Six Gordy meeting, clockwise, are Cayla Skinner, Gordy Honors
Honors College students College Director Kim Whitehead, Amanda Strain,
seated in a circle on sofas Treasure Heath, Paige Jackson, Laura Kate Inman and
Hiedia Hozan.
and chairs exchanged
ideas with DePriest. Hon- knowledge in a real-world
ors College Director Kim setting while increasing
Whitehead and student self-awareness, pre-pro-
representatives of the fessional skill sets and a
group attended a recent sense of civic responsi-
Homeless Coalition board bility.
meeting; several students “Students will use
toured the shelter this various skills they already
past week. Now they were have and also develop new
discussing how to help. skills,” the director said,
Whitehead facilitated. noting administrative and
“We’d thought about leadership experience to
getting a toy box and be gained. Students will
supplying it,” MUW junior have two work sessions
Laura Kate Inman told each week throughout the
DePriest, adding that to semester.
a list of other suggestions Junior psychology
that includes producing major Amanda Strain of
and distributing flyers Columbus said, “I’m very
or posters with shelter excited to be working
information, researching (on this) because I know
best practices of similar there’s a need for that
temporary shelters in kind of resource here in
other towns, helping with Columbus. I’m just excited
production of a volunteer about what progress we
manual and shelter-use can help make and seeing
guidelines, developing the results in people’s
fundraisers and more. lives.”
The class Caring about others
emphasizes and doing something
service about it has the potential
learning, to shape lives. As Wednes-
combining day’s meeting neared an
meaningful end, DePriest, moved to
community emotion, told the young
service with women gathered, “You’re
structured Whitehead never going to forget your
academic involvement in this. It will
preparation and person- shape you forever. You will
al reflection, explained always care about people
Whitehead. Students who don’t have a place to
will apply academic sleep in the cold.”
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OFF TO SEE
THE WIZARD
“The Wonder Grove
Wizard of Oz,” a film
including animated
sequences by Colum-
bus Municipal School
District students, had
its Columbus premiere
at Malco Theater
Wednesday. The film
will also be screened
at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 22.
Get tickets at colum-
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Kinsley and Rachel West Diamond and Jayde Burnett

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OF WINTER
The Golden Triangle
Kennel Club held
all-breed dog shows,
obedience and rally
trials at the Missis-
sippi Horse Park in
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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.
CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe
LLC
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
EASTVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 1316 Ben
Christopher Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
We unlock 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
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 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.
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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 School 8:30 a.m., 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
HW Y. 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.
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
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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 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
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
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.
PLAIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 1579
Sun Creek Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 8:45-9:45
a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6-7 p.m. Rev.
Sylvester Miller III, Pastor. 662-324-0036
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 Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Every 2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097
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., www.memorialgunterpeel.com
Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Children’s Church 3&4 yr. old,
5-12 yr. old. Wednesday Worship 6:45 p.m. Pastor Chuck 716 Second Ave. N. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-4432
903 College St. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-2354
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., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie
Edwards, Pastors.
TRUE LIFE CHURCH — 435 Cedarcrest Dr. (corner of
Yorkville and Cedarcrest), Sunday prayer 8:45 a.m., Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday prayer 6:30 p.m., Service 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 SHELTON’S TOWING, INC.
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor. Since 1960
TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER
MINISTRIES — 5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday 24 Hour Towing
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Pastor Francisco Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252
1024 Gardner Blvd.
UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL 328-8277
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,
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 5580 Ridge
Road. Sunday School 10 a.m., Praise & Worship 10:45 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. G.E. Wiggins Sr., Pastor.
UNITED PENTECOSTAL
CALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL 1721 Hwy 45 N
CHURCH — 5850 Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia.
Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell,
® Columbus, MS
Pastor. 662-356-0202 662.848.0919
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa
Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m.,
In Style. In Reach. Sunday 1pm-5pm
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-
TRINITY PLACE
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PRESBYTERIAN
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
BEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community.
Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church Offering independent living apartments, personal
School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615 care/assisted living suites, and a skilled nursing home
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) 300 Airline Road • Columbus, MS • 327-6716
— 515 Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 “Our Bottom Line Is People”
a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4
p.m. John Richards, Pastor. Hunting • Fishing
FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN Working Or Stepping Out — We Have A Complete
CHURCH — 2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Line Of Clothing For You And Your Family
Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Oktibbeha County Co-Op
Bible Study 5 p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Check Out Our Boot & Cap Section
Tue. 4 p.m.), Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities:
Exercise Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke
662-323-1742
201 Pollard Rd., Starkville
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 Elsberry, Pastor. 662-329-4311 The McBryde Family
SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th
St. N. Saturday Sabbath School 9:30 a.m., Divine Worship 1120 Gardner Blvd. • 328-5776
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., Sunday 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., • RECYCLING SINCE 1956 •
Wednesday Prayer Noon, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 Specializing in industrial accounts
p.m. 662-328-8176 973 Island Rd. 1-800-759-8570
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