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Skih BakerThird grade, New Hope

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FIVE QUESTIONS1 What does Djibouti have on only 26 days of its average year?2 What U.S. state is the home of Tony, head of the Sopranos household?3 Where, in a 1961 speech, did John F. Kennedy say the U.S. should commit to landing a man before the decade was out?4 What letter of the alphabet is used to describe the holes in the body of a violin?5 What element with the symbol I is found in seawater and has a name based on the Greek for violet?

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Today MUW Choral Concert: Mississip-pi University for Womens Univer-sity Chorus, Chamber Singers and Chorale are in concert, 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall. Free 662-241-6399. Exhibit reception: A free recep-tion from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Colum-bus Arts Councils Rosenzweig Arts Center opens a show by graphic designers Nick Adams, Jonathan Cumberland, Blaine Gerrard and Hayley Gilmore. Chris McDill also ex-hibits. 501 Main St. 662-328-2787. Book signing: Adele Elliott signs Witch Ball, 5:30-8:30 p.m., 417 Main St. Paintings of animals will be available; proceeds benefit Shaw Pit Bull Rescue. 662-368-2211.

Friday and Saturday, May 2-3 Market Street Festival: Colum-bus annual festival kicks off May 2 at the Riverwalk with a free 7 p.m. concert by Shawna P & the Earth-Funk Tribe and Almost Famous of Memphis, Tenn. Saturday features vendors, music and activities 9 a.m.-5 p.m. downtown. Go to mar-ketstreetfestival.com

Sunday, May 4 Voice recital: Soprano Cherry Dunn and tenor Zane Lynn present a recital at 3 p.m. in Poindexter Hall at Mississippi University for Women. (This program, originally set for April 29, was rescheduled due to weath-er.) Free to the public.

PUBLIC MEETINGSToday: Starkville Audit and Budget Committee meeting, City Hall conference room, 4 p.m. May 5: Lowndes County Board of Supervisors, Court-house, 9 a.m.May 5: Clay County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse, 9 a.m.May 5: Caledonia Board of Alderman, town hall at 6 p.m.May 6: Starkville Board of Al-dermen, City Hall courtroom, 5:30 p.m.May 8: Clay County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse, 9 a.m.May 9: Lowndes County School Board, Central Office, 11 a.m.

BROWNING ON BUSINESS Inside, See page 4A

A helping hand

Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffColumbus Salvation Army Major Eric Roberts offers Haleigh Asford, 4, a bottle of water in her East Columbus neighborhood, off Beech Street. The neighborhood was one of many still without power Wednesday afternoon. Haleigh is the daughter of Trac-ey Baldwin of Columbus.

Mary Alice Weeks/Dispatch StaffKeith Knight, of Caledonia, displays a check with a Louisville address dated 1974 along with other debris he recovered in his lawn following Mondays storms.

Mementos, trash from Louisville fall in Caledonia after tornado

BY WILLIAM [email protected]

CALEDONIA Ripped and weath-ered scraps of paper and photographs from Louisville tiny reminders of the hurt and destruction a tornado caused there fell from the sky into Caledonia yards Monday.

Charles Culpepper was in his Dale Road yard, watching the approach-

ing storm Monday evening, when he noticed debris swirling in the air. There were leaves, but not from trees near his property, and then a small piece of paper landed.

It was an advertising insert, the kind found in newspapers, for a Winston County business. Culpepper scratched his head for a moment. Then, he said, he realized thats from the tornado out of Louisville.

Caledonia, a Lowndes County town of about 1,000 people, sits northeast of Louisville. The towns are about 70 miles apart as debris flies.

The tornado entered the Louisville

BY NATHAN [email protected]

Damage survey teams from the National Weather Service in Jackson confirmed four torna-

does hit Lowndes County during Mondays severe weather out-break.

Meanwhile, the county was one of seven in the state declared federal disaster areas by Presi-

dent Barack Obama, Mississip-pi Gov. Phil Bryant confirmed Wednesday night.

NWS announced that on-site studies concluded two EF-2 tor-nadoes, one in southern Lown-des County and another near New Hope. Two EF-1 tornadoes, one south of Steens and anoth-er in Crawford, were also con-

firmed by NWS.An EF-2 consists of three-sec-

ond gust wind speeds of 111-135 miles per hour, while an EF-1 has speeds of 86-110 miles per hour.

The declaration makes Lown-des County eligible for federal aid. The Federal Emergency Management Agencys Pub-lic Assistance Program assists

state and local governments by reimbursing up to 75 percent of eligible costs incurred from re-moving and disposing of storm debris from public rights of way and properties. It also provides the same amount of financial aid for emergency work, including overtime pay for first respond-

LOWNDES DECLARED FEDERAL DISASTER AREA

City officials reach out to East Columbus residents500-plus residents still without power in city, countyBY NATHAN [email protected]

COLUMBUS Co-lumbus Mayor Robert Smith said his office and Columbus Light and Wa-ter have fielded numerous calls from East Columbus residents who have been without power since Mon-days severe weather event and crews are working to address their needs.

First responders are going door to door in nu-merous residential areas to provide assistance and CL&W crews are working to restore power to all af-fected homes, Smith said.

We want the citizens to know that

Starkville Community Market opens 2014 season this Saturday

National Weather Service confirms 4 tornadoes hit county Monday

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Resident: We would love to return it to the owner if we could find her

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BY CARL [email protected]

Starkville Communi-ty Market begins its 2014 season with a limited, ear-ly season produce market 7:30 a.m. Saturday and a

new, mid-week supplemen-tal market 4 p.m. Tuesday.

The 2014 season marks the second year Greater Starkville Development Partnership officials will supervise the market. Starkville Main Street As-

sociation, a sub - g roup of the Part-n e r s h i p , took over leadership, o v e r s i g h t and promo-tions for SCM in late 2012.

While organizers spent the inaugural year ironing

out logistics surrounding the event, Jennifer Prath-er, GSDP special events coordinator and market manager, said she will fo-cus this year on gathering statistical data atten-dance figures, for exam-ple to help track SCMs success.

2013s market run marked a significant step

for the event as SCM re-mained open through August due to increased vendors and consumer demand. Prather previous-ly told The Dispatch that organizers and the SCM board of directors may consider formalizing last years extension if supplies continue to increase. That move would allow the Part-

nerships annual Pumpkin-palooza event to serve as a bookend to market season.

Last year was a big growth year for the mar-ket, but now were focused on measuring the statisti-cal data to help us contin-ue to succeed, Prather said. Were very fortunate to have new vendor appli-

First mid-week market scheduled for 4-6 p.m. Tuesday

Prather

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ThursdaySAY WHAT?I am going to let them see what a country boy from Mississippi can do.

New Hope baseball player Josh Stillman on partic-ipating in the Under Armour Southwest Regional

Championships this summer in California. Story, 1B.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit actor Hoskins dies at 71BY JILL LAWLESSThe Associated Press

LONDON Bob Hoskins never lost his Cockney accent, even as he became a global star who charmed and alarmed audiences in a vast range of roles.

Short and bald, with a face he once compared to a squashed cabbage, Hoskins was a remarkably versatile performer. As a London gangster in The Long Good Friday, he moved from bravura blus-ter to tragic understate-ment. In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, he cavort-ed with a cast of animated characters, making tech-nological trickery seem seamless and natural.

A family statement re-leased Wednesday said Hoskins had died in a hos-pital the night before after a bout of pneumonia. He was 71 and had been di-agnosed with Parkinsons disease in 2012.

Helen Mirren, who starred alongside Hoskins in The Long Good Fri-day, called him a great actor and an even greater man. Funny, loyal, instinc-tive, hard-working, with that inimitable energy that seemed like a spectacular firework rocket just as it takes off.

I personally will miss him very much, London will miss one of her best and most loving sons, and Britain will miss a man to be proud of, Mirren said.

AP Photo/Joel Ryan, fileThis 2010 file photo shows British actor Bob Hoskins arriving for the World Premiere of Made in Dagenham in London.

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ABOVE: Carl Adams rejoices over the

near-pristine condition of his Harley Davidson

after digging it out of a pile of debris in

his backyard on Main Street in Louisville on Tuesday morning after

an EF-4 tornado tore through Winston County

on Monday night. Adams lost several

collectible automobiles to the storm, and was overjoyed to still have

his motorcycle. RIGHT: Carl Adams weaves his salvaged Harley

Davidson around fallen trees and debris in his

neighbors yard on Main Street in Louisville.

Mary Alice Weeks/Dispatch Staff

BY ROB GILLIESThe Associated Press

TORONTO Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will take a leave of absence to seek help for alcohol, he said, as a report surfaced about a second video of the may-or smoking what appears to be crack cocaine.

Ford, who is seeking re-election in the Oct. 27 vote, said Wednesday he

will take an immediate leave from his job and his campaign.

I have a problem with alcohol, and the choices I have made while un-der the influence. I have struggled with this for some time, Ford said in statement late Wednes-day.

The Globe and Mail newspaper said it has viewed a second video of Ford smoking what appears to be crack co-

caine in his sisters basement. The nation-al news-paper said two Globe repor ters viewed the video from a self-professed drug dealer showing Ford tak-ing a drag from a pipe ear-ly Saturday morning.

The video is part of a package of three videos the dealer said was sur-reptitiously filmed around 1:15 a.m., and which he says he is now selling for

at least six figures, the paper reported.

News reports of the existence of an earlier video of Ford apparently smoking crack first sur-faced last May, igniting a media firestorm around Ford.

Fords lawyer, Dennis Morris, said he spoke to Ford earlier Wednesday and said Ford has accept-ed that he has a problem.

He acknowledges he has a substance abuse problem and he wants to do something about it, Morris told The Associat-ed Press.

Toronto mayor says hell take leave

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PENSACOLA, Fla. A gas explosion at a jail has injured 100 to 150 inmates and corrections officers, a county spokeswoman said.

The explosion hap-pened around 11 p.m. CDT Wednesday in Escambia County jails booking facility and caused the building to partially collapse, said Kath-leen Castro, the countys public information manager. About 600 inmates were in the building at the time, she said.

The injured were brought to hospitals and the uninjured inmates were brought to jails in neighbor-ing counties, Castro said.

More than 100 injured in Florida jail explosion

He acknowledges he has a substance abuse problem

Ford

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Every day, nurses step forward

embracing new technologies,

resolving emerging issues,

and accepting ever-changing

roles in their profession. If you

are a nurse in our community,

if you have a family member

who is a nurse, or if a nurse

has ever touched your life,

please join us for a special

candlelight prayer service for

nurses in honor of National

Nurses Week.

Baptist Golden Triangle

Monday, May 5th

8:00 PM

Patient Tower Courtyard

2520 5th Street, North

Columbus, MS

Get Better.

MAY 9, 2014 7PMCHS CAFETORIUM

In Honor of the 2014 Graduates

Expect a Special Announcement, along with recognition of our Outstanding Alumni & Seniors, Alumni of the Year

and much more.

SILENT AUCTION FROM 5:30 - 7:00PMYOU MUST HAVE PAID YOUR DUES TO PARTICIPATE

IN THE SILENT AUCTION.

We have several very valuable packages in the auction and will require minimum bids.

If your business would like to donate something for the auction, contact Amy at the number below.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HELPING THAT DAY WITH DECORATING, SETTING UP OR WORKING A

SIGN IN TABLE, PLEASE LET US KNOW BY CONTACTING:

Amy Betts Williams via text/call @ 662-549-1404 or Email : [email protected]

81st Annual Alumni Banquet

CALEDONIA HIGH SCHOOLS

Lowndes CountyMarriages Anthony Brett Hollis and Brenda Charlene Hollis, married April 18. Regional Martin and Leslie Dominique Thomas, married April 19. Brendon Christopher Newsom and Jessica Lynese Wilson, married April 23. Vernon Tad Robertson and Elizabeth Brooks Matthews, married April 26. Kevin Michael Spencer and Pamela Paige Glover, married April 26. Johnie L. Bush and Ramona Star Walker, married April 26. Larry Donnel Jefferson and Shaquita Wanette Goulde, mar-ried April 26.

Divorces Bobby W. Harkins and Linda Harkins, married Nov. 20, 1993. Billy Earl Green Jr. and Willie Renee Green, married Feb. 11, 2003.

Lamar County Not submitted as of press time.

MARRIAGES AND DIVORCES

Coldwell Banker awarded

Phyllis Enis, Bill Straus and Kelly Frady received awards for 2013 from Coldwell Bank-er Real Estate, LLC. Their top hon-ors were recently recognized by Budge Huskey, President and CEO, This prestigious distinction makes you a star among the top Coldwell banker sales as-

sociates/representatives globally and I salute your achievements.

Neel-Schaffer rankedNeel-Schaffer, Inc.,

is once again ranked among the nations top 500 design firms by Engineer News-Record, coming in at 199th on the prestigious list for 2014. It marks the 20th consecutive year that the company has made the list. Retaining our stand-ing on this list is a testa-ment to the hard work of our employees across the company, said Hib-bett Neel, Neel-Schaf-fers President. It is our mission to serve our clients as an extension of their staff, and each year we develop new services that will further assist them in meeting their goals and needs.

Enis

Straus

Frady

PACCAR honoredPACCAR earned the

Directors Award at East Mississippi Community Colleges annual Golden Triangle Industry Appreci-ation Luncheon. PACCAR received the award for the highest level of recog-nition through workforce training, demonstrating management excellence with superior outcomes, continuing to improve and build upon outstand-ing results and excellent systems and deploying

world-class processes, said Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, the events speaker. Pic-tured from left are Engine Program Manager Lex Lemmers, EMCC Vice President for Workforce Services Dr. Raj Shaunak, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, Plant Manager Scott Blue, Assistant Plant Manager Lance Walters, Controller Tina Albert and Assistant Plant Manager Edwin Sneehuijzen.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS

BY NATHAN [email protected]

The Mississippi Court of Appeals overturned Tuesday a judges order to the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors to re-open Co-Op Road.

Board attorney Tim Hudson informed super-visors of the ruling during their Wednesday meeting. The courts 8-1 decision was based on a failure of the residents who ap-pealed to do so at least 10 days after the boards res-olution in October 2011. A county circuit court judge ordered supervisors to re-

open the road and restore it to county specifications of condition in February 2013, finding that the pub-lished notice of a public hearing for the road clo-sure had been insufficient.

The county responded by appealing to the Missis-sippi Court of Appeals. It voted to re-open the road, which runs alongside the Columbus Co-Op in Dis-trict 2, in May 2013.

Local attorney Hal Mc-Clanahan, representing his own family and anoth-er family who owned land and rights of way near the area in question, filed a motion last month against

the county and two rail-road companies for not re-pairing and re-opening the roads rail crossing. The motion also contended there was no public notice given before the county entered into an agreement with BNSF Railway Com-pany to close the road if the company would repair and widen the adjacent Bethel Road crossing from 10 to 20 feet and re-close the Co-Op crossing.

County road manager Ronnie Burns said the area in question serves fewer than 10 homes.

Contacted after the meeting Wednesday, Mc-Clanahan said he would speak to his clients before deciding whether to appeal to the Mississippi Supreme

Court, which has to agree to hear the case if its filed.

McClanahan argues that since supervisors voted last May to re-open the road, its open. Hud-son said the courts ruling renders the circuit judges decision moot and that the road is re-abandoned.

We cant be in con-tempt of an order thats va-cated, Hudson said.

Bond option renewedSupervisors also re-

newed a resolution that will give them authority to issue up to $30 million in bonds for infrastructure upgrades over the next two years. They will have the option during that time to issue one or more bonds at any time over the next

two years if the potential for economic development projects arise.

County leaders have ad-opted similar resolutions twice over the last four years but have not exer-cised the option, instead finding other financing mechanisms for industrial development.

Supes approve advertising for Riverwalk connector, shooting range bids

Supervisors also ap-proved to advertise for bids for sidewalk connections between the Riverwalk and soccer complex. The Mississippi Department of Transportation awarded

$500,000 to build the side-walks and will open bids from contractors June 17.

They also agreed to ad-vertise locally for dirt bids for a shooting range being built at the old Maxim Med-ical property now owned by the city of Columbus and the county. The Gold-en Triangle Development LINK successfully applied for a $1,053,000 military base enhancement grant. Both entities must match more than $30,000 in land donations and $275,000 in in-kind services, which will involve doing some of the work in-house. Construc-tion is set to be complete in October for the range, which will benefit the Co-lumbus Air Force Base.

State Court of Appeals sides with county on Co-Op RoadVacates circuit judges 2013 order to re-open road

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Business MONEY TIPn Shop for food with a list and stick to it. People who do food shopping with a list, and buy little else, spend much less money than those who decide what to buy when they get to the food market. The annual savings could easily be hundreds of dollars. Source: americasaves.org

SheltonsPharmacy

To our valued patients:

We would like to take a moment

of your time to share some exciting

news with you regarding our family. We have had the privilege

to

serve the Columbus community as pharmacists for many years,

and

it is our pleasure to tell you that Sheltons Pharmacy has dec

ided

to transition ownership to freds Pharmacy. Please understa

nd

that this decision was made only after months of much thought

and

consideration, but its a decision that we are excited to announc

e.

While our pharmacy name has

changed, your pharmacy team is

the same. Our pharmacy team and support staff will continue

as a

partner within the community.

The current team at Sheltons Pharmacy will simply receive additi

onal

support we need from freds Pharmacy to ensure the continu

ed

great service you expect and deserve. It was important to cho

ose

a company that aims to be a hometown pharmacy, like Shelto

ns

Pharmacy has been in Columbus. We chose to transition our patie

nts

to freds Pharmacy because freds is a regional chain with a fi

rst-

class reputation for hometown service. They operate very clo

sely

with the way we have served you at Sheltons Pharmacy. fre

ds

Pharmacy understands that customer service is always num

ber

one, and they know their customers by name.

Along with the same great serv

ice you have grown accustomed to

from Sheltons Pharmacy, we believe that freds fully shares

our

values, and we are excited about the future we have with them.

We look forward to the opportu

nity to continue taking care of you

and your family at freds Pharmacy. I cannot thank you enough

for

the many years of loyal patronage you have given us and Shelt

ons

Pharmacy, and we are looking forward to many great years to co

me.

Sincerely,

Denny Rutherford, R.Ph.

115 Alababma St. Columbus, MS 39702 (662) 327-1614

John D. Longmire, LUTCF 610 Alabama St., Columbus,

Shelter Life Insurance Company Columbia, Missouri

BROWNING ON BUSINESS

For a couple of weeks there has been a sign in front of a vacant storefront in downtown Columbus that reads, Taylor Smith Shoes. Just be-neath that sign is another that reads, Coming Soon.

Brenda McCoy is the person behind the shop. She hopes to have the business, located at the old Alford Drug building at 423 Main St., up and running by the end of May. Until then shes working on stocking up inven-tory with name-brand items. In an interview with The Dispatch on Wednesday, she said she plans on offering church shoes, fashionable shoes and athletic shoes. McCoy wants to market the store toward both a young, hip crowd, and an older, tradi-

tional crowd.Where did the

business name come from?

McCoy had her two grandchildren with her one day and mentioned that she needed to come up with a name for her shoe store. The 5-year-old said it should be Taylor Smith Shoes, and it stuck.

The 2,800 square foot space where the store will be housed was previously occupied by Serendipity by Valerie, which moved to Jackson Square on Highway 45 North earlier this year.

When Taylor Smith Shoes opens, the hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Mondays through Saturdays, according to McCoy.

When temperatures begin to rise in the south barbecue sometimes comes to mind.

Columbus has quite a few options Pig Out BBQ House, Pit & Cone, Little Dooeys, Hanks #1 BBQ, Bob Rob-erts BBQ, Glenns Smokin Hot BBQ & Fish, Pops BBQ, Shirleys BBQ and others.

But do you know about Brothers Keeper Barbecue? Ronnie Clayton is

the owner of this off-the-radar place, which is only open two days a week, and some holi-days. It is located at the corner of Seventh Avenue North and 20th Street North.

Clayton is a Columbus na-tive. His family, though, comes from around Bigbee Valley. His grandfather was a sharecrop-per down there and Clayton remembers his grandmother cooking on a wood-burning stove. He hung around and

picked up some barbecue tricks. He was tight-lipped about specifics and, when pressed about those tricks, only said, You study your art. You learn it, earn it, own it.

He opened Brothers Keeper Barbecue in 2010. It is open from noon until 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

An item for our local military and veterans.

There has been talk of the Department of Defense closing base commissaries as a way to tighten its budget. On Wednes-day, House lawmakers in Washington, D.C., rejected the proposed cuts. But the subcom-mittee action is only the first step in a long process and there is still a long way to go before the Pentagons 2015 budget is approved by Congress, accord-ing to Military Times.

The DOD operates 245 com-missaries around the world, including one at Columbus Air Force Base located in Building

160B on Simler Boulevard. A family of four shopping regu-larly can save more than $4,500 on their total annual grocery bill, according to the Defense Commissary Agency.

Lastly, Kroger has recalled two brands of ice cream sold at Mississippi locations because of a labeling issue.

The recall affects 16-ounce containers of Private Selection Chocolate Hazelnut Mascar-pone Ice Cream and Private Selection Caramel Hazelnut Fudge Truffle Ice Cream. Kro-ger says the ice cream may con-tain egg not listed on the label and that could cause a reaction in those with egg allergies. No illnesses have been reported.

Columbus and Starkville both have Kroger locations.

Browning on Business is a weekly column that runs each Thursday. We want your input. Send items and tips to [email protected] or [email protected].

New shoe store coming to downtown Columbus

William Browning

City of ColumbusApril 22-28n University Mall; 2031 high-way 45 N.; Signs; Knight Signsn Jessi Harris; 2411 23rd Ave. N.; Reroof; Excellent Roofingn Raymond Gross, 1102 7th St. N.; Detached garage; Samen Alvin Dunn; 2413 21st Ave. N.; Gas inspection; Johnny McDilln Andys Grocery; 2115 14th Ave. N.; New mechanical; J.C. Evans

Lowndes CountyApril 16n Christy Dodson; 356 Cobb Road; Construct S/F resi-dence; David Knight, LLCn DAngela Daivs; 508 Lehmberg Road, Lot 79; Move mobile home; Premier Homes of the Mid Southn Donnie Wooten; 1415 Mike Parra Road; Construct stor-age/shop; Samen Eugene Poindexter Jr.;484 E. Railroad Drive; Remodel mobile home; Samen Kingdom Vision Internation-al Church; 2467 S. Frontage Road; Construct church; Double S, Inc.n DAngela Davis; 508 Lehm-berg Road, Lot 79; Set up mo-bile home; Kenneth Romansn Keith and Christy Brasfield; 179 Yellowbrick Road; Move

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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Kerr McGee Corporation, certain of its affiliates, and their parent Anadarko Petroleum Corporation agreed to pay $5.15 billion to settle a lawsuit against Kerr McGee Chemical Corporation. The U.S. EPA and U.S. DOJ will host a public meeting to provide an update on the investigation and cleanup activities of the Kerr McGee Site as well as discuss details included in the actual Kerr McGee-Anadarko Settlement. The public meeting will be held on Monday, May 5, 2014 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Columbus Municipal School District, formerly Hunt Gymnasium, at 924 20th Street North, Columbus, MS.

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Lori KeslerCOLUMBUS Lori

Leigh Camp Kesler, 50, died April 27, 2014, at Methodist Specialty Care in Flowood.

Services are Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Episco-pal Church of the Good Shepherd with the Rev. Sandra DePriest offici-ating. Burial will follow at Haughton Memorial Park in Amory. Visita-tion is Saturday from 5-7 p.m. at Gunter and Peel Funeral Home.

Mrs. Kesler was born October 10, 1963, in Amory, to Joel Camp of Sulligent, Ala., and Pat Sams of Columbus. She was a graduate of S. D. Lee High School, attended the Univer-sity of Alabama, and received her bachelors degree from Missis-sippi University for Women. Mrs. Kelser

worked at First Colum-bus National Bank, Unisouth Bank, and Trustmark Bank. Mrs. Kesler also served as Executive Director of United Way of Lowndes County and was of the Episcopal faith.

In addition to her parents, survivors include her husband, Thomas L. Kesler of Columbus; daughter, Olivia Leigh Kesler of Columbus; and sisters, Lisa Camp Tedford of Columbus and Leah Sams Lumm of Mem-phis, Tenn.

Pallbearers are David Tedford, Brad Markham, George Lumm, Dr. Mark Bean, Tim Hudson, and Aus-tin Markham.

Memorials may be made to Methodist Specialty Care, Layfair Suite 500, Flowood, MS, 39232.

Lattie ArnoldMACON Lattie B.

Arnold, 77, died April 25, 2014, at her resi-dence.

Services are 11 a.m. Friday at Mt. Carmel M.B. Church in Ma-con with the Rev. Jack Vaughn officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Carmel Friendship Cemetery. Visitation is today from noon-5 p.m. at Carters Funeral Home in Macon.

Ms. Arnold was born June 13, 1936, in Macon, to the late Lat-timore Little and Annie L. Little. She was a member of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her siblings, John and Robert Little, Betty Johnson and Shirley Russell.

She is survived by her son, Willie Arnold of Macon; siblings,

Rufus Little and Dooley Little, both of Macon, Percy Litte of St. Louis, Caydo Little of Chicago and Annie Morgan of New York; five grand-children and nine great-grandchildren.

Bobbie ByrdBobbie Byrd died

May 1, 2014, at Cove-nant Health & Rehab in Picayune.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Me-morial Funeral Home.

Sarah PosleyWEST POINT

Sarah Louise Ervin Posley, 90, died April 24, 2014, in West Point.

Services are 1 p.m. Friday at St. Paul M.B. Church with the Rev. Eddie A. Longstreet officiating. Burial will follow at Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation is today from 3-6 p.m. at Carters Mortuary Ser-vices Chapel in West Point.

Ms. Posley was born Dec. 5, 1923, in West Point, to the late James B. Ervin and Alice L. Ervin. She was for-merly employed as a teacher.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Shawna Posley; son, Harold Eu-gene Ervin; husband, Leamon Posley; broth-ers, William Henry Adams, Willie James Ervin, Eugene Ervin, John Sidney Ervin and Charlie Frank Ervin; sisters, Olivia Ervin Cunningham and Ro-setta Ervin Jameson.

She is survived by her son, James Derek Posley of West Point; sister, Annie Ruth Ervin Randle of West Point; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Cherritta GavinMACON Cherrit-

ta Michelle Gavin, 22, died April 22, 2014, at Baptist Memorial Hos-pital-Golden Triangle.

Services are 2 p.m. Saturday at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Ma-con, with the Rev. Carl Johnson officiating. Visitation is today from noon-5 p.m. at Carters Mortuary Services of Macon.

Ms. Gavin was born July 20, 1991, in Starkville, to Martha Gavin and the late Ed-die Johnson. She was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church.

In addition to her mother, she is survived by her children, Bray-lin Brandon and Bailey Brandon, both of Ma-con; siblings, Jasmine Gavin, Courtney Gavin, Minnie Gavin, Veanna Gavin, Felecia Henley, Gregory Gavin and Joshua Johnson, all of Macon.

Deangela JacksonCOLUMBUS

Deangela Jackson, 46, died April 30, 2014, at her residence.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carters Funeral Home in Co-lumbus.

Earma ClarkEarma Jean Clark,

91, died April 29, 2014, at Aurora Nursing Home in Columbus.

Services are 10 a.m. on Friday at Nowell-Massey Funeral Home in Louisville with the Rev. Jimmy Dempsey officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visita-tion is one hour prior to service time.

Mrs. Clark was born

July 24, 1922, to the late Mattie Ethridge Roebuck and Levi Coo-per Roebuck. She was a member of West End Baptist Church and formerly employed as a seamstress.

In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by her husband, Ray; daugh-ters, Wanda Joy and Katie Jean Toney.

She is survived by her son, Tomas Toney of Caledonia; daughter, Eugene Thomasson of Louisville; three grand-children and seven great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers are Chuck Robertson, Mark Robertson, Kenny Hollis, Francis Clark, David Edwards and Earl Clark.

Memorials may be made to West End Bap-tist Church, c/o Mary Vowell, 110 Hemlock St., Louisville, MS 39339.

Dennis RogersSTARKVILLE

Dennis Lee Rogers, 54, died April 27, 2014, in Birmingham, Ala.

Services are 1 p.m. Friday at Calvary Baptist Church in Starkville with the Rev. Jimmy Forrest officiat-ing. Burial will follow at Plair Cemetery. Visita-tion is today from 2-6 p.m. at West Memorial Chapel in Starkville.

Mr. Rogers was

survived by his wife, Joni Francine Rogers; mother, Rena Mae Rog-ers; children, Krishina Turnipseed, Tiffany D. Rogers and McKenzie Rogers; sisters, Faye Hampton and Lisa Hen-drix; brothers, Frank Rogers Jr. and Wilburn Rogers; and four grand-children.

BY MARIA CHENGAP Medical Writer

L O N D O N Bacteria resistant to an-tibiotics have now spread to every part of the world and might lead to a future where minor in-fections could kill, accord-ing to a report published Wednesday by the World Health Organization.

In its first global survey of the resistance problem, WHO said it found very high rates of drug-resis-tant E. coli bacteria, which causes problems including meningitis and infections of the skin, blood and the kidneys. The agency noted there are many countries where treatment for the bug is useless in more than half of patients.

WHOs report also found worrying rates of resistance in other bacteria, including common causes of pneumo-nia and gonorrhea.

Unless there is urgent action, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for de-cades can once again kill, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, one of the agencys assistant direc-tor-generals, warned in a release.

WHO acknowledged it couldnt assess the validi-ty of the data provided by countries and that many had no information on anti-biotic resistance available.

Health experts have long warned about the dangers of drug resistance, particu-larly in diseases such as tu-berculosis, malaria and flu.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Appreciation for student athletesI am a chapter president of a fraternity at Missis-

sippi State University.I wanted to write and inform about how thor-

oughly impressed I am with some Mississippi States student athletes. This past Saturday, the Kappa Sigma fraternity played the Sigma Chi frater-nity in a full contact football game in Davis Wade Stadium.

This was the 16th annual Kappa Sigma Charity Classic and thus far we have raised over $880,000 through this event.

This year, through a combination of private donors, chapter fundraising and a donation from Sigma Chi, Kappa Sigma was able to raise over $94,000. This is a feat unmatched in Mississippi State fraternity fundraising history. The charities who benefited from this years efforts were Habitat for Humanity, Reclaimed Project and John Clark Packer, a Kappa Sigma alumnus.

Evan Sobiesk, a sophomore Bulldog kicker and current Kappa Sigma active, helped coordinate sev-eral football players to voluntarily coach. Of course, we checked with the proper channels to ensure we did not commit any NCAA violations. Bracky Brett, director of Compliance at Mississippi State, signed off on the involvement.

Evan, Dak Prescott, Gus Walley, Damian Wil-liams, Nick Fitzgerald, Ben Beckwith and Fred Walker all were instrumental in Kappa Sigmas 22-19 victory in the game. Their desire to give up their already limited time for a charity event expecting nothing in return would be impressive enough, but the guys went beyond that. Dak wrote up a 16 page playbook for the team and several of the guys began regularly attending practice two weeks before the game. Their energy on the sideline on game day galvanized the team and legitimized the event. It could not have been a success without their selfless contribution.

Many times the work that our athletes do off of the field can be under appreciated, but I do not want this instance to go unnoticed. It is truly encourag-ing to see how genuine and thoughtful the faces of our universitys football program can be. This would not happen without the infrastructure provid-ed by Mississippi States leaders and coaches. The example and vision that has been set by MSUs lead-ership is being played out before our eyes at events such as this years Charity Classic.

With that, I wanted to extend my deepest thanks to our student athletes for the contributions made to make the 2014 Charity Classic an overwhelming success. It certainly wouldnt have happened with-out them

Walton ChaneyMississippi State

Agrees with editorialYour most recent, timely and needed editorial re-

garding the Columbus Public Schools made known to all of us that each one needs to speak out on the critical issues of our leadership in the schools.

For more than 30-plus years I have been a teach-er: High school mathematics in Yazoo City, Ms., Jackson, Ms., and teacher of elementary and special education at MUW as well as five or more summers in the graduate school at Mississippi State. This hands-on experience with education has taught me a lot about what is needed for our children to learn and be successful in their real time lives. The edu-cators in charge must be dedicated to the students first, not just to get good grades on the tests but to be a critical thinker, learn what it takes to have a successful career, and to be the best citizen you can be for the good of everyone.

Our editor concisely and in a straight forward manner identified the deep needs of our schools.

1. A school board which makes all the decisions for the students must be focused on the best inter-est of the students all of them and not on the racial prejudice of anyone. The success of schools is a critical component of a healthy economy. The people of this city must pull together or we will fall together. A school system which receives a failing grade leads to a failing economy, because parents who want good educations for their children will not move to Columbus as long as mediocrity or worse exists here. An outstanding high quality school system is a requirement to grow the economy of Columbus.

2. A detailed on-site study of schools that have gotten it right should be a learning opportunity for school boards, school administrators, teachers, and school staffs. When Dr. Alma Turner was the Principal of the Demonstration School the students learned and loved the learning. She was totally devoted to the process not to honors for herself, pride or notoriety-but to the children. She set a great example for an educator. She did not see: and still doesnt see, the color of a child or teacher. She was too invested in the self esteem and growth she could help them to achieve.

3. Last and most important is the need for a competent school superintendent, one who has suc-cessful experience and a proven method of being dedicated to students.

Dr. Edna McGill as interim superintendent has clearly demonstrated her leadership, competence, people and student skills, financial acumen and diplomacy under fire and with her staff. We totally recommend her appointment to fill this critical position as superintendent of the Columbus Public Schools. Why should we took further, wasting mon-ey and time when we have the right person, known and qualified, right here. We have seen her success, she is not an unknown quantity, and should be re-instated permanently for the good of all. What a simple and easy solution!Dr. James W. Hunt, Professor Emeritus, MUW

Jane Stewart Hunt, Retired Professor, MSU

SLIMANTICS

During the month of April, Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann began criss-crossing the state at taxpay-er expense, natu-rally to promote the state-mandated Voter ID law that will require Mississippians to produce a state-is-sued ID before casting a ballot.

Mississippis version of Voter ID is obviously a point of pride for Hosemann, who long advocated for the measure during his tenure in the Legisla-ture before becoming secretary of state. On a stop at the Lown-des County courthouse on April 14, Hosemann was effusive in his praise of the law and its imple-mentation. While many similar Voter ID laws have faced legal challenges Wisconsins law was struck down in federal court just this week Hosemann was quick to point out that Mississip-pis law is so wonderfully con-structed that it has yet to face any legal challenge. In fact, he said, his office has won two national awards for how the law has been advertised and promoted.

The state has spent about $300,000 money appropriated by the Legislature to make sure that all eligible voters have proper IDs.

The result? By mid-April, between 600 and 700 new Voter IDs had been issued state-wide. In Lowndes County, a three-toed sloth could count the number. Yep, a total of three Voter IDs

had been issued through Lowndes County Circuit Clerk Haley Salazars office.

This week, we learned that a rumor circulating about a po-tential problem with some IDs might cre-ate a problem, a claim quickly shot down by election officials. The rumor was that wom-en who had married and changed their last

names after having previously registered to vote might not be allowed to vote because the name on their ID wouldnt match the name on their voter registration.

Not true, Salazar said this week.

As best we can tell, the names dont even have to match. The addresses dont, either. As for the photo on the ID, it need not necessarily be a recent photo. For example, if you renew your drivers license online, you might be able to vote with a 10-year-old photo.

In short, the validity of the ID presented at the polls is pretty much up to the discretion of poll workers.

So the state is spending more than $1,000 per head on to pro-vide IDs in an effort to imple-ment a system that falls far short of the precision you would expect for a program touted to end voter fraud in our state.

The biggest fraud is still out there: Its called the Mississippi Legislature, which continues to pump out legislation to solve problems that dont exist in an

effort to pander to a voter base whose gullibility is exceeded only by its paranoia.

During a three-year study of federal elections, data showed that of the 197 million votes cast, 40 voters were indicted on voter fraud charges. Of all those voters, .00000013 percent were actually convicted of voter fraud.

So naturally, Mississippis leaders have to do something about that epidemic of voter fraud.

We should not be surprised, of course. During this years ses-sion, the Legislature passed laws to affirm Mississippians right to hunt and fish and to restore religious liberty in Mississippi. As far as we can tell, the only thing preventing someone from hunting and fishing is a spouse that demands that the yard needs mowing instead. The only thing standing in the way of exercising our religious liberties is a really good NFL matchup that kicks off the same time as church services start.

Still, we are comforted to know that our legislators remain vigilant in guarding against imaginary threats. The real threats inadequate education, poverty, poor medical care, deteriorating roads and bridges will have to wait.

But we do have a real fraud problem when it comes to voting. But the frauds are not the people who turn up at the polls to vote. It is the people the voters put into office.

Slim Smith is The Dispatchs managing editor. Email reaches him at ssmith@cdispatch.

Voter fraud is more a question of who than how

Voice of the people

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The following is an edited selec-tion of reader comments posted at the end of stories and columns pub-lished on-line. More can be found at www.cdispatch.com.Voice of the people: William Ford, M.D.

KJ705: I think the point of the comparison has completely slipped by you: we would look askance at memorials of WWII that celebrated the cause of the Germans or the Japanese yet we do not do the same for a memo-rial that venerates a society that fought a war for the right to retain the institution of slavery. Slavery as an institution, I submit, was worse than a war crime. We took an abominable act and turned it into an institution that people believed was not only normal, but

moral, just, and good.Its sad that even today we can-

not seem to bring ourselves to ad-mit that the Confederacy and the society it sought to preserve have earned condemnation rather than praise. Maybe in another hundred and fifty years well attain the perspective necessary to see it for the shameful episode in American history that it in fact was.

lets_see: This is/was too com-plex an issue to solve in 1-2 sen-tence dialogs. Both the North and the South were right and wrong. But to reduce this to apologizing only for the South is clearly being a pacifist!

KJ705: Im not suggesting that anyone apologize for the south.

Im suggesting that we stop ven-erating a society and a people that fought for the right to deny other human beings the right to exist on equal terms, the right to deny oth-er people the basic rights guaran-teed to them by the Constitution and promised by the Declaration of Independence.

If we want to honor soldiers who fought for a cause that THEY believed in and did so bravely, that wouldnt be repugnant. But we have a day to memorialize Amer-ican soldiers, which, as someone has pointed out elsewhere, we have deemed confederate soldiers to be by law. The sole purpose for recognizing Confederate Memorial Day is to celebrate not the men but the cause. And that, in my opinion, is repugnant.

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OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin named a member of her Cabinet on Wednesday to lead a review of how the state conducts executions after a botched procedure that the White House said fell short of the humane standards required.

Fallin said Clayton Lock-ett, who had an apparent heart attack 43 minutes af-ter the start of an execution in which the state was using a new drug combination for the first time, had his day in court.

I believe the death pen-alty is an appropriate re-sponse and punishment to those who commit heinous crimes against their fellow men and women, Fallin said. However, I also be-lieve the state needs to be certain of its protocols and its procedures for execu-tions and that they work.

Lockett convulsed vio-lently and tried to lift his head after a doctor declared him unconscious, and pris-on officials halted the exe-cution. Fallin said an inde-pendent review would be effective and appropriate.

The governor said the review, to be led by Depart-ment of Public Safety Com-missioner Michael Thomp-son, will focus on Locketts cause of death and that an independent pathologist will make that determina-tion. The review will also look at whether the depart-ment followed the current protocol correctly and will include recommendations for future executions.

Lockett, 38, had been declared unconscious 10 minutes after the first of three drugs in the states new lethal injection com-bination was administered Tuesday. Three minutes later, he began breathing heavily, clenching his teeth. The blinds were lowered to prevent those in the view-ing gallery from watching, and the states top prison official later halted the pro-ceedings. Lockett died of a heart attack shortly there-after, the Department of

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Gov. calls for review after botched executionWhite House says lethal injection fell short of humane standards required

BY LOLITA C. BALDORThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON Re-ports of sexual assaults

by members of the mili-tary rose 50 percent af-ter the Pentagon began a vigorous campaign to get more victims to come for-

ward, prompting defense officials to order a greater focus on prevention pro-grams, including plans to review alcohol sales and policies.

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Military sex assault claims up 50 percentOfficials unhappy with the low number of male victims who reported sexual assault

BY MATT VOLZ AND MATTHEW BROWNThe Associated Press

HELENA, Mont. A Montana man is accused of setting a trap and blindly blasting a shotgun into his garage, killing a 17-year-old German exchange student. A Minnesota man is convicted of ly-ing in wait in his basement for two teenagers and killing them during a break-in.

The two recent cases take the stand your ground debate to a new level: Do laws that allow pri-vate citizens to protect their prop-erty also let them set a trap and wait for someone to kill?

We dont want it to be easy to be able to prosecute people. But we want to be able to hold individ-uals accountable when they have stepped outside the bounds of so-ciety, David LaBahn, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Asso-ciation of Prosecuting Attorneys, said Wednesday.

More than 30 states have laws expanding the self-defense princi-pal known as the castle doctrine, a centuries-old premise that a per-son has the right to defend their home against attack, LaBahn said. The name evokes the old saying, my home is my castle.

Most of these changes have come since Florida in 2005 became the first state to interpret the cas-tle doctrine to apply outside the home with a measure known as the stand your ground law.

These laws make it far easier for a person to shoot someone and avoid prosecution by saying they felt an imminent danger wheth-er or not the person who was shot was armed.

The principle became central to the defense of a 2012 shooting of an unarmed Florida teenager, Tray-von Martin, by a neighborhood watch volunteer who was following the 17-year-old. George Zimmer-man was acquitted last year.

The Montana and Minnesota cases involve homeowners who had been burglarized and said they were afraid of it happening again. Prosecutors say they lured intrud-ers into fatal encounters.

In Montana, Markus Kaarma told investigators his Missoula home had been burglarized twice within the last week before Sun-

days shooting death of 17-year-old Diren Dede. Kaarma told his hairdresser he had stayed up three nights waiting to shoot a kid, the woman told investigators.

The night of the shooting, Kaar-ma and his partner, Janelle Pflager, left their garage door open. Pflager left her purse in the garage so that they would take it, she told a po-lice officer. She also set up a video baby monitor and installed motion sensors, prosecutors said.

After midnight, they heard the sensors trip. Pflager turned to the video monitor and saw a man in the garage. Kaarma took his shotgun, walked out the front door and to the driveway.

He told investigators he heard metal on metal and without speak-ing fired four times sweeping the garage with three low shots and a high fourth shot. Dede was hit in the head and the arm.

Montanas law says a person is justified in using deadly force if they believe it necessary to prevent an assault or a forcible felony.

Stand your ground law being tested in recent shootings

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area a little after 4 p.m. Monday with winds that reached 185 mph, cutting a brutal path across Win-ston County, according to weather.com.

Not far from Culpep-pers place, Keith and Judy Knight were huddled with their extended family in their Lawrence Ridge Road home. Things never got too bad in Caledonia and the Knights eventual-ly went to bed.

On Tuesday morning Knight walked his two-acre yard finding dozens of odd pieces of trash. A piece of Styrofoam. Some aluminum wrap. Some

insulation. Sheet rock. A paper that appeared to be some sort of medical record. All that could have come from anywhere.

On Wednesday, though, Knight found in his front yard, near his driveway, a Bank of Louisville check written on April 2, 1974. It was for $1,120.25 and made out to the Gulf Oil Corporation. It was from a Louisville-based business owned by a man named George E. Jarvis and signed by his wife, Frances.

It might have come out of someones attic, Judy Knight said.

Later, Keith Knight discovered a high school graduation portrait in his backyard. It shows an un-identified smiling young man dressed in khakis and Polo shirt. It is from the year 2000.

Knight also found a ripped piece of a USPS -stamped envelope laying in his yard. It was ad-dressed to a home at 1140 Hopkins Rd. in Noxapater, a small town in south Winston County.

Over on Old Wolfe Road, Angela Toms also found a torn photograph in her yard Tuesday morn-ing. It shows an older,

unidentified woman in a Sunday dress and white shoes, standing in what appears to be a back yard, smiling at the camera. Toms is convinced it is from Louisville.

We would love to return it to the owner if we could find her, Toms said.

Across the road in front of the Knights home is an open, large and uncut field.

That field is probably full of stuff, Knight said while looking at it Wednes-day afternoon.

At press time, the death toll in Louisville was at nine.

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ers.Other counties de-

clared disaster areas in-cluded Itawamba, Lee, Madison, Rankin, Wayne and Winston.

As state and federal in-spection teams continue to assess damage, additional

categories of assistance including repairing and replacing public buildings as well as damaged roads could be added, Bryant said.

We have experienced tragic loss of life as a result of these storms and torna-

does, and many Mississip-pians have lost their homes and all that they own, Bryant said in a release. We have a strong working relationship with our part-ners at the local and feder-al levels, and I appreciate Senators Thad Cochran

and Roger Wicker and the Mississippi congressional delegation for aiding in this quick response from the federal government. This assistance will help Mississippi do what it does bestrebuild and rebound in the face of adversity.

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were doing everything we can from the light and water department stand-point to restore power, Smith said. Our prima-ry concern is to try to get them some relief and some comfort. You can under-stand that they are upset. We want to let them know that we are concerned. Co-lumbus Light and Water is working around the clock trying to get them some relief and get their power back on, but (residents) just have to be understand-ing.

The Salvation Army has had its canteen truck in the area since Tuesday serving hot meals to those in need, local chapter exec-utive director Eric Roberts said. The Salvation Army will have a lunch today at its 2219 Main St. location from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Roberts encourages anyone who is able to get to the facility to receive a meal to do so. Tuesday and Wednesday, the truck service provided 135 meals, he said, while 130 meals were served Wednesday at the Main Street office for dinner.

Were trying to prepare for however long it takes to do this, Roberts said. Its better that they come to us if they can. We have so many more to serve around Beech Street and

Poplar Avenue but we ran out of food earlier, so we came back to the building to restock.

Roberts added that The Salvation Army is always accepting food donations but that money is currently needed the most.

Meanwhile, CL&W General Manager Todd Gale said crews from elec-tric departments in Water Valley and Okolona are assisting local crews in re-storing electricity to those who have been affected and hopes to have power restored in all areas by Fri-day. About 30 linemen are working to restore power to more than 200 homes that havent had any since Monday, Gale said.

The city is helping clear right-of-way on Cy-press and Woolbright (streets), Gale said. Were also concentrating on the East Emerald subdivision and pockets of Southside.

4-County Electric com-munications specialist Brad Barr said the utility hopes to restore service today to the remaining 300 customers in Lowndes County without power.

Lowndes County De-partment of Human Ser-vices Division of Field Operations Director Jim Sutherland said current recipients of SNAP bene-

fits who have been without power for 12 or more con-secutive hours can come to the DHS office and fill out forms to replace food sup-ply spoiled as a result of the power outage. The office is located at 1604 College St. For more information, call 328-5278.

Smith wanted to remind residents that city public works crews cannot enter private property to remove limbs and debris from yards, but if residents cut fallen trees and limbs and put them on the side of the street, crews will work to remove them as soon as possible.

West Point Mayor Rob-bie Robinson has mobi-lized seven city employees there to assist Columbus public works crews to as-sist in the cleanup effort.

The areas of the city most affected are located primarily in Ward 2. Ward 2 councilman Joseph Mickens said he has been visiting residents along with first responders to find out what needs they have and tend to them. Po-lice officers have brought tarps to residents so they can temporarily cover their roofs, Mickens said, add-ing that his main concern has been the well-being of senior citizens who have had no electricity since

Monday.With Light and Wa-

ter telling some of them it might not get on until Thursday, thats four days, Mickens said Wednesday. People are losing their food in their refrigerator. Some of them dont have hot water now because theyve used all of it up. Some of them are staying in motels, and thats extra money.

WCBI-TV is hosting a donation drive at the Mal-co Theater parking lot today until 7 p.m. Items being accepted include wa-ter, sports drinks, cleaning supplies, diapers and toilet-ries. All supplies go to The Salvation Army.

Starkville businesses and Mississippi State Uni-versity have also teamed up to collect needed items for affected residents in Louisville. Drop-off loca-tions include the Salvation Army office in Starkville, the Walmart parking lot, Strange Brew, Juva Juice, Harveys, USave, Starkville Computers, Army/Navy Store, The Veranda, Buffa-lo Wild Wings, LA Green, Thyme, Veranda, 929 Cof-fee Bar, Midtown Pilates, Sprout, Restaurant Tyler, Bin 612, Local Culture, The Biscuit Shop and the Barnes & Noble on the MSU campus.

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cations coming in from all areas of the state. Expand-ing the market helps us to expand what we can offer to Starkville residents.

Those visiting Satur-days market can expect about 15 vendors selling green, early season veg-etables and baked goods, Prather said. A public demonstration on rain-water utilization is also

planned.As the growth season

progresses, shoppers can expect more diversi-ty in produce and on-site demonstrations, she said.

Mid-week markets are expected to be condensed compared to their Satur-day counterparts. Prather previously said she envi-sions it as a simple, quick stop for produce and baked

goods only.Volunteers are need-

ed to help set up and take down vendor areas, partic-ipate in shopper censuses and handle logistical needs as they arise. Those inter-ested can email Prather at [email protected] or call Volunteer Starkville at 662-268-2865.

The market, locat-ed at the intersection of

South Jackson and Lamp-kin streets, runs 7:30-10:30 a.m. each Saturday through the spring and summer. The mid-week event will follow Saturday markets on Tuesdays from 4-6 p.m.

For more information on SCM, market guide-lines and vendor applica-tions, visit visit.starkville.org/market.

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College Baseball: Jacksonville State 2, Mississippi State 1

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Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffBaseball players at Heritage Academy celebrate Wednesday nights 4-1 MAIS Class AAA, Division II playoff win over Oak Forest (La.) at Trip Carson Field.

BY ADAM [email protected]

Cody Mordecai made sure he and the Heritage Academy baseball team were Sasser Strong in their playoff debut Wednesday night.

Buoyed by a complete-game five-hit-ter from Mordecai, Heritage Academy used a four-run first inning to beat Oak Forest (La.) Academy 4-1 in Game 1 of their Mississippi Association of Indepen-dent Schools Class AAA, Division II play-off series at Trip Carson Field.

Mordecai, a senior right-hander, walked one and struck out five in an 80-pitch effort (59 strikes). Aside from allowing a single to Chet Niehaus that turned into the Yellow Jackets only run thanks to a steal of home, Mordecai (4-2) mixed his pitches well, got stron-ger as the game progressed, and relied on a defense that helped him record 11 ground ball outs without an error. Mor-decais ability to hit his spots and to pitch to contact enabled the Patriots (19-12) to

take the first step in the playoffs in a little more than 90 minutes.

I felt like I was hitting my spots re-ally well, said Mordecai, who received a game ball for his effort. My off-speed pitch was working really good tonight and we had really good defense tonight. I had the confidence to go in and hit my spot and know my defense was behind me to make the plays.

Oak Forest manufactured its only run by sacrificing Niehaus to second base. He moved to third on a ground ball out and then got a running start off third base and capitalized on Mordecai work-ing out of the windup and catcher Dylan Barker not seeing him coming until it was too late.

Despite falling into an early hole, Mordecai said he didnt allow the steal of home to affect his concentration. Coming off a loss to Jackson Academy on April 16 in which he allowed a season-high nine hits and five runs, Mordecai only allowed two baserunners to get as far as second

BY MATTHEW [email protected]

STARKVILLE Its now becoming an alarming trend for the home team at Dudy No-ble Field.

Not enough hitting and fundamental errors leading to another head scratching re-sult. Jacksonville State, a third place team in the Ohio Valley Conference, manufactured a 2-1 upset win Wednesday night in Starkville. The disap-pointing result further added to the confusing nature for a

Bulldogs team that continues to fall further on the bubble for an at-large selection to a NCAA Regional.

Were 46 games in and were doing stuff like this, MSU coach John Cohen said after the loss. You cant give the other team anything and we gave them bases tonight. Thats unacceptable. Thats my fault.

Cohen and MSU pitching coach Butch Thompson had seen enough of freshmen catcher Gavin Collins by the ninth inning after the Califor-

nia native allowed two passed balls and struggled to catch left-handed reliever Jacob Lindgren. During the 1 1/3 innings Lindgren (3-1) was on the mound, MSU (28-18) had two passed balls and two wild pitches that led to Jacksonville States pair of runs.

In the middle of JSUs at-bat in the ninth inning, Collins was removed in favor of Zach Randolph and Lindgren subse-quently greeted Randolphs ar-rival with his final wild pitch.

I think its obvious we did


Josh Stillman was eager to see what role he could play as a junior with the New Hope High School baseball team.

Through 27 games, Stillman has proven quite capable of being a consis-tent contributor at the plate and on the mound for the Mississippi High School Activities Associations Class 5A de-fending state champion.

Later this year, Stillman will get an-other chance to prove himself.

This time it will be on an even big-ger stage. In January, Stillman attended an Under Armour Baseball Factory Na-tional Tryout and Premium Video pro-gram in Jackson and was selected to be a part of the Under Armour Southwest Regional Championships that will run from July 29-Aug. 4 in Southern Cali-fornia. The showcase tournament will feature some of the nations top players.

I am going to let them see what a country boy from Mississippi can do, Stillman said with a smile. I think it will be good to play with some of the best guys in the nation. Going all of the way to California will be a lot of exposure. There will be a lot of college coaches there and even though I may not go play out West it is a long way but just


Gevonta Webb never imagined him-self as a catcher for the Columbus High School baseball team.

Sure, Webb played the position when he was in elementary school, but he always thought of himself as a second baseman or playing another position.

When Webb moved to the high school team as a freshman, he made sure to tell Columbus High coach Jef-frey Cook how he felt.

To his credit, Cook didnt listen. Something Cook saw in watching Webb, who wasnt built anything like a prototypical catcher, convinced him the Falcons had found their next catcher to replace Josh Tentoni and to handle a tal-ented group of pitchers for the years to come.

Three years later, Webb can sit in the Columbus High dugout and smile.

Not only have the Falcons increased their win total each of the past three seasons and made the playoffs four-straight years, but Webb also is part of a senior class that, according to Cook, helped the program win its first playoff series.

Thats fitting for a player like Webb, who admits he had plenty of work to do

BY DAVID MILLERSpecial to The Dispatch

Drivers and their crews usu-ally face an adjustment period when breaking in a new chas-sis, but veteran super late mod-el driver and Golden Triangle native Rick Rickman won his second race of this season with a new chassis and has four top-3 finishes thus far.

Rickman, of New Hope-based Rickman Racing, ran his No. 86 car on a MasterSbilt chassis for the last three years

before switching to a chassis from Bob Pierce Race Cars be-fore this season started. Rick-man said he had success using his old chassis, but newer is better.

Most guys change their chassis every year, Rickman said, and Id been on (the Mas-terSbilt) for a few years.

Rickman saw success ear-ly, winning a a Mississippi State Championship Challenge Series event at Whynot Mo-torsports Park outside of Me-ridian. He currently leads the

weekly events points standings. Rickman came close to win-ning the MSCCS points race at Columbus Motor Speedway on April 12, but he got caught up in lap traffic and came in second behind David Breazeale.

The chassis acts a bit differ-ent, theres a lot more forward bite and it hooks up better, Rickman explained. We were looking to make a change, and weve been happy with results so far.

Rickman, sponsored by Vance Logistics and 1250

Package Store, will return to action in two weeks when the Rickman Racing team heads to Greenville, Miss. Rickman said hes run well in Greenville in past races and hes anxious to return to the track.

On April 19, at the Nation-al Dirt Racing League event at Magnolia Motor Speedway, Rickman was one of 24 cars (out of 50) to make the feature field against mostly full-time driv-ers. Mechanical issues forced him out of the race, however.

We ran the wrong tires and

had some other things happen that forced us to pull off, Rick-man said. But sometimes, to make the field in an event like that, its almost as good as a weekly racing series win.

Rickman, whose father Eddie and brother Brian are members of the Rickman Rac-ing team, has a 17-year-old son, Trey, who has started running CRATE late models. The third generation racer has given Rickman added perspective of rearing a child who loves to

Mary Alice Weeks/Dispatch StaffMississippi State first baseman Wes Rea (35) catches a ball to re-cord the putout against Jacksonville State Wednesday night.

Gamecocks squeeze past Bulldogs

New Hopes Rickman continues strong start to racing season

ADVANTAGE PATRIOTSHeritage Academy opens playoffs with home win; need three more to win title

Mary Alice Weeks/Dispatch StaffGevonta Webb leads the Columbus Fal-cons against Clinton tonight in the first round of the MHSAA Class 6A playoffs.

ContributedJosh Stillman leads New Hope against Center Hill tonight in the first round of the MHSAA Class 5A playoffs.

Falcons wantto surge insecond series

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