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Former
‘A godsend for us’ teacher
Area daycare provides care indicted for
for medically fragile children driving baby
into a lake
Other indictment:
Columbus man charged
with Southside murder
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT

A Lowndes Coun-
ty grand jury has
indicted a former
teacher in Hamilton
for attempted mur-
der.
Carri Campbell
Cullum was arrest- Cullum
ed last fall after in-
vestigators said she
attempted to back
her car off a boat
ramp into a lake off
Wilkins Wise Road
at 3 a.m. on Sept. 21.
There was a 2-year-
old child in the car Mitchell
with her at the time, according to
Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff previous reporting with The Dis-
During the month of February, PediaTrust, a daycare for medically fragile children, is inviting community members patch. A friend, who Cullum had
to participate in a reading program designed to expose the area residents to the center’s unique mission and called, was able to pull Cullum and
build a base of volunteers. the child out of the vehicle.
At the time of her arrest, Cullum
PediaTrust invites public to get involved with center by reading to kids was employed as a teacher at Ham-
ilton Elementary School. A district
BY SLIM SMITH rector of nursing, said 80 percent of the child’s needs, and development. employee with Monroe County
ssmith@cdispatch.com the children are non-verbal. The staff of 11 — six pediatric See INDICTMENTS, 8A

T
And on one subject, so are the nurses and five certified nurse prac-
here are hun- parents. When asked to share what titioners — attend to a broad range
dreds of day- PediaTrust has meant to their child of medical needs. Some students
care centers in and family, words are hard to find. are on ventilators, trachs, feeding
the Golden Triangle, “I can’t even say what it means to tubes. Some are still in diapers even
but none like Pedia- me,” said Nya Sykes, whose 4-year- at age 10 or older. For those without
Trust in Columbus.
PediaTrust opened
old son, Jayden Turner, has been
attending PediaTrust almost since
transportation, the center runs
two buses picking up and dropping
Oktibbeha likely to
in June 2017 to pro-
vide daycare for an Jeremiah
the center opened.
“All I can say is that it’s a god-
off children all across the Golden
Triangle.
issue another lake
underserved group INSIDE
of children, as noted n SLIMAN-
send for us,” said Amanda Taylor,
whose 14-year-old son, Clay, en-
It’s a safe space for the children,
a place that provides parents peace warning, encourages
in its signage “Day- TICS: An easy
care for Medically
Fragile Children.”
way to combat
isolation.
rolled at the center when it opened.
“There’s nothing like it, nothing
even close to being like it.”
of mind in the knowledge that their
children’s needs are met by medical
professionals, parents said.
preparations to
Many of the chil-
dren cannot walk.
Page 6A
Funded entirely through Med-
icaid, the center’s mission goes far
With 34 years experience as a
pediatric nurse, Jeremiah knows
evacuate area
Some are vision-impaired, and most beyond traditional daycare, pro- better than most the challenges
have serious cognitive disabilities. viding the medical needs of the chil- that come with raising a child with Lake had risen 8.5 feet
See PEDIATRUST, 8A
Jessica Jeremiah, the center’s di- dren, including therapy based on
from low elevation by
Tuesday afternoon
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com

Macon mother shares story of son’s lost battle with alcohol OKTIBBEHA
COUNTY — Oktib-
beha County offi-
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN Lauren McGraw, left, cials will likely issue
ialtman@cdispatch.com speaks with Lowndes another warning
County Constable Chris regarding the Oktib-
Lauren McGraw does not consider herself a Griffin after a meeting beha County Lake
public speaker. Instead, she’s a talker. of the Lowndes County on Thursday or Fri-
The Macon native who grew up driving to Republican Women at Campanella
day, thanks to large
and from Columbus talked to everyone gathered Lion Hills Center Tues-
amounts of rainfall in the area on
at the monthly meeting of the Lowndes County day. McGraw pushed
for the Mississippi Monday, county Emergency Man-
Republican Women at Lion Hills Center on Tues- agement Agency director Kristen
Legislature to pass
day, where, in true Southern fashion, she knew Campanella said in a press release
a law mandating law
about half the people in the room, or at least their enforcement officers this morning.
friends or relatives, she joked. As she eluded notify those under 21 EMA is encouraging area resi-
to the three businesses she owns — including of the right to call their dents to make preparations to evac-
a liquor store, despite the fact that she doesn’t parents when they’re uate.
drink — and her childhood — her face was on a pulled over for a DUI. Campanella said Tuesday that
See MCGRAW, 8A Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff See OKTIBBEHA LAKE, 3A

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Sanders edges Buttigieg in NH,

giving Dems 2 front-runners
Amy Klobuchar scored
an unexpected third- Yang, who created buzz with
place finish, Elizabeth
Warren and Joe Biden
freedom dividend, ends 2020 bid
Yang announced his departure shortly before
posted disappointing
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet did Tuesday night
fourth and fifth place BY SARA BURNET T
finishes respectively The Associated Press

BY STEVE PEOPLES, K ATHLEEN
RONAYNE AND HUNTER WOODALL
The Associated Press
M A NCHE S T ER ,
N.H. — Bernie Sand-
ers won New Hamp-
shire’s presidential
primary, edging mod-
erate rival Pete Butt-
igieg and scoring
the first clear victory
in the Democratic Sanders
Party’s chaotic 2020
nomination fight.
In his Tues-
day night win, the
78-year-old Sand-
ers, a self-described
democratic socialist,
beat back a strong
challenge from the Buttigieg
38-year-old former mayor of South
Bend, Indiana. The dueling Dem-
ocrats represent different gener-
ations, see divergent paths to the
nomination and embrace conflict-
ing visions of America’s future.
As Sanders and Buttigieg cele-
brated, Amy Klobuchar scored an
unexpected third-place finish that
gives her a road out of New Hamp-
shire as the primary season moves
on to the string of state-by-state
contests that lie ahead.
Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden
posted disappointing fourth and
fifth place finishes respectively and
were on track to finish with zero
delegates from the state.
The New Hampshire vote gives
new clarity to a Democratic contest
shaping up to be a battle between
two men separated by four decades
in age and clashing political ideolo-
gies. Sanders is a leading progres-
sive voice, having spent decades
demanding substantial government
intervention in health care and
other sectors of the economy. Butt-
igieg has pressed for more incre-
Democrat Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur who created buzz for his
presidential campaign by talking about his love of math and champi-
oning a universal basic income that would give every American adult
$1,000 per month, suspended his 2020 bid on Tuesday.
“I am the math guy, and it is clear to me from the numbers that we
are not going to win this race,” Yang said in front of a crowd of support-
ers as votes in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary were being
counted.
“This is not an easy decision, or something I made lightly with the
team. Endings are hard and I’ve always had the intention to stay in the
race until the very end,” he added. “ But I have been persuaded that the
message of this campaign will not be strengthened by my staying in the
race any longer.”
The 45-year-old was one of the breakout stars of the Democratic pri-
mary race, building a following that started largely online but expanded
to give him enough donors and polling numbers to qualify for the first
six debates. Yang announced his departure from the race shortly before
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet did Tuesday night, bringing the Demo-
cratic field to single digits.
He outlasted senators and governors, and after initially self-funding
his campaign, he raised more money than most of his rivals, bringing in
over $16 million in the final quarter of last year. It was a bigger haul than
all but the top four candidates: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, former
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe
Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
mental change, preferring to give will remain in the race, Sanders,
Americans the option of retaining well-financed and with an ardent
their private health insurance while army of supporters, has cemented
appealing to Republicans and inde- his status as the clear leader of the
pendents who may be dissatisfied progressive wing of the party.
with Trump. Meanwhile, Buttigieg must
Their disparate temperaments prove he can attract support from
were on display Tuesday as they voters of color who are critical to
spoke before cheering supporters. winning the nomination. And un-
“We are gonna win because we like Sanders, he still has multiple
have the agenda that speaks to the
rivals in his own ideological wing
needs of working people across this
of the party to contend with. They
country,” Sanders declared. “This
include Klobuchar, whose stand-
victory here is the beginning of the
end for Donald Trump.” out debate performance led to a
Buttigieg struck an optimistic late surge in New Hampshire and
tone: “Thanks to you, a campaign a growing national following. While
that some said shouldn’t be here at deeply wounded, Biden promises
all has shown that we are here to strength in upcoming South Caro-
stay.” lina. And though former New York
Both men have strength head- Mayor Mike Bloomberg was not
ing into the next phase of the cam- on Tuesday’s ballot, he looms next
paign, yet they face very different month when the contest reaches
political challenges. states offering hundreds of dele-
While Warren made clear she gates.

Trump campaigns as a 2nd Amendment warrior

President has repeatedly warned line from gun rights to
presidential politics,
nesota, New Mexico
and New Hampshire in
supporters at his rallies recently that Trump tweeted that
Democrats in the state
play. For that to happen,
Trump will need to draw
Democrats ‘will take your guns away’ “will take your guns even more rural and
away. Republicans will white men to the polls —
BY A AMER MADHANI In recent weeks, win Virginia in 2020. key groups that helped
The Associated Press Trump has repeatedly Thank you Dems!” drive his 2016 surprise
warned supporters at And on Monday night, victory.
WA S H - his rallies that Dem- as he came to the apex of Trump’s advisers
INGTON
ocrats “will take your an hourlong campaign believe his consistent
— After
guns away.” Last month, speech in New Hamp- efforts to spotlight his
the Park-
he labeled Virginia Gov. shire, Trump framed credentials as a Second
land school
Ralph Northam a “whack his supporters’ Second Amendment warrior can
shooting in
Florida two job” as gun rights advo- Amendment right to help him draw a contrast
years ago, cates protested the Dem- bear arms as being as with the eventual Demo-
P r e s i d e n t Trump ocratic governor’s moves precious as the rights to cratic presidential nomi-
Donald Trump chided to tighten gun laws in privacy, free speech and nee. The top tier of Dem-
Republican lawmakers the aftermath of a mass religious freedom. ocratic candidates have
for being too “scared” of shooting in Virginia Campaign officials made bolstering gun
the National Rifle Associ- Beach. believe the effort could restrictions a key part of
ation to tighten gun laws Drawing a straight help put states like Min- their platforms.
— then backed away from
the idea.
After back-to-back
mass shootings in Ohio
and Texas in 2019,
Trump embraced calls
for “strong background
checks” — only to back-
pedal once again.
Now, as he primes the
pump on his 2020 reelec-
tion effort, Trump is go-
ing all-in on embracing
the mantle of gun rights
champion, a stark turn
from earlier moments
in his presidency when
he toyed with the idea of
pushing Congress to en-
act stricter gun laws.
There was no public
discussion of tighter gun
laws when Trump wel-
comed Parkland families
to the White House for a
private meeting on Mon-
day, four days before the
two-year anniversary of
the rampage that left 17
dead. Instead, adminis-
tration officials unveiled
a website intended to help
educators, parents and
law enforcement address
threats to school safety.
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‘Stop the Bleed’ hopes to educate the public

on bleeding control in cases of emergency
American College of Surgeons started
program in wake of Sandy Hook shooting
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com
If you suffered an arterial
cut, the bleeding would claim
your life within three minutes.
That’s according to Joe Net-
tles, trauma coordinator at Bap-
tist Memorial Hospital-Golden
Triangle, who spoke to Colum-
bus Rotary Club members at
their weekly meeting at Lion
Hills Center Tuesday.
“From the time of the punc-
ture to the time that you go
across Jordan, let’s hope (it’s
three minutes),” Nettles said.
“That’s not very much time.”
Nettles is a certified train-
er of the “Stop the Bleed”
program, an initiative of the
American College of Surgeons
to train the public on effective
measures to control bleeding in
cases of emergency.
The program, he said, is “the
fruits of the Hartford Consen-
sus,” a committee of medical
experts and officials hoping to
raise public awareness on the
issue. The committee came
about after a mass shooting at
Sandy Hook Elementary School
in Connecticut in 2012.
“Twenty children died that
day,” Nettles said. “But the au-
topsy showed that almost every
one of them had injuries that
caused their deaths, (which)
were caused by traumatic
bleeding.”
Mass shootings, Nettles
said, used to be “so very rare”
but has now “become so com-
monplace that it hardly makes
any impression on us anymore.”
As disasters like the Sandy
Hook shooting continue, Net-
tles said, people need to be pre-
pared to rise to the occasion.
“Unfortunately, someone
just didn’t know how to stop
that bleeding,” he said.
“Stop the Bleed” program,
Nettles said, provides on-site
training to groups of 10 or more
in between the injury and the
heart until someone comes to
relieve you.
Roger Burlingame, mem-
ber of the Rotary Club, agreed.
Having received training from
the program at First Presbyteri-
an Church before, Burlingame
said the key to a successful res-
cue is pressure, and the session
was simple and helpful.
“(It comes down to) pressure
applied in the appropriate place
to stop or slow down the bleed-
ing,” he said, “because that’s
where the death comes from.”
Burlingame said he hopes
more people become aware of
the measures so that they can
Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff be prepared to save lives in
Joe Nettles, certified “Stop the Bleed” trainer and traumatic traumatic events.
coordinator at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, speaks “If you had a lot of people
to the Columbus Rotary Club Tuesday afternoon about the im-
who knew this information and
portance of public awareness on measures to control traumatic
you had one of those horrific
bleeding in life-threatening situations.
events happen,” he said, “peo-
free of charge. Each session said, and hands-on training ple are going to divide up and
lasts about 60 to 80 minutes, he with supplies provided to the go around and just do the sim-
said, and the crew has a flexible trainees. plest kind of things that prob-
schedule that can suit the needs The rule of thumb when it ably would have saved a lot of
of the trainees. The session will comes to bleeding control, Net- those kids’ lives. That’s very
feature a “vivid” slideshow, he tles said, is to keep pressure powerful.”

Mississippi could verify income of people getting public aid

Democratic Sen. John Horhn: Welfare
fraud is more likely to come from
providers or staff members of
programs than from recipients
BY EMILY WAGSTER
PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Missis-
sippi senators clashed
Tuesday before passing a
bill to let the state auditor
see tax returns to veri-
fy the income of people
enrolled in Medicaid or
other public assistance
programs.
Supporters said the
plan is designed to ensure
people are not receiving
benefits if they earn too
much money. But critics
questioned the timing and
said Mississippi is look-
ing for waste in the wrong
place.
The debate happened
days after Auditor Shad
White announced that
the former director of the
Mississippi Department
of Human Services and
five other people had been
indicted on charges tied
to misspending of mil-
lions of public dollars that
should have been spent to
help poor people. White,
a Republican, called it the
largest public embezzle-
ment case in Mississippi
in at least 20 years.
“The timing is awful,”
said Republican Sen. Josh
Harkins of Flowood, spon-
sor of the bill that passed
Tuesday.
Harkins said he had
been working with White
since last month on the
proposal to verify the in-
come of people receiving
Medicaid or aid from two
programs administered
by the Department of
Human Services. One is
Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families — the
program connected to the
embezzlement case. The
other is Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Pro-
gram.
The recipients them-
selves would not have
to provide documents,
and not all recipients’
tax information would be
checked. Harkins said the
paid by the public.
“It’s not fair nor is it
Senate Bill 2257 passed
the Republican-controlled
state Department of Reve-
nue would give the auditor
right to a taxpayer of the
state of Mississippi if there
Senate 34-15. All of the
yes votes came from Re-
access to tax returns from is one person that should
not be getting these tax-
publicans and all of the no
votes from Democrats. It
a sampling of people on
each program. payer benefits ... that was held for the possibil-
Democratic Sen. John can build a million-dollar ity of more Senate debate
Horhn of Jackson said house with a swimming before it can move to the
pool at the same time that House for more work.
welfare fraud is more like-
ly to come from providers the taxpayers are paying Both chambers must
or staff members of pro- for their children’s medi- agree on the bill before it
grams than from recipi- cal care,” Hill said. can go to the governor.
ents.
“This is a policy that
further punishes the
poor, like too many of our
policies in this state do,”
Horhn said.
Republican Sen. Ange-
la Hill of Picayune said
income verification could
catch people who lie about
how much money they
make to receive health
coverage or other benefits

Possible jurors questioned in Mississippi case of 8 killings

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HERNANDO — Attor-
neys questioned potential
jurors Tuesday for the
death penalty case of a
Mississippi man accused
of killing eight people.
It was the second day of
jury selection in the trial
of Willie Cory Godbolt. It
was not immediately clear
when the 12 jurors and
three alternates would be
chosen by.
Investigators said God-
bolt went to his in-laws’
home in south Missis-
sippi’s Lincoln County
in May 2017 and argued
with his estranged wife
and her family over the
couple’s two children. A
deputy was called, and a
witness said Godbolt shot
and killed the deputy,
Godbolt’s mother-in-law
and two other people. Af-
ter that, Godbolt shot and
killed four other people at
two other homes, police
said.
Godbolt, now 37, said
“I’m sorry” while a report-
er was recording him af-
ter the shootings.
Jurors and alternates
were being chosen in
north Mississippi’s DeSo-
to County. They will be
taken about 285 miles
south to hear the trial at
a courthouse in Magno-
lia, which is near Lincoln
County.
Godbolt has pleaded
not guilty to four counts
of capital murder, four
counts of murder, one
count of attempted mur-
der, two counts of kid-
napping and one count
of armed robbery. He
has remained in custody
since his arrest on May
28, 2017, hours after the
shootings. One of his at-
torneys has said Godbolt
is unlikely to use an in-
sanity defense.

Oktibbeha Lake
Continued from Page 1A
the water level in the
Oktibbeha County Lake
had surpassed the level
on Jan. 14 when the dam
showed early signs of
breaching and the county
issued its first warning.
The water level has gone
down about a foot since
then, Campanella said
this morning, but the area
is expected to receive two
to three inches of rainfall
today, and half an inch of
rain adds four feet to the
water level thanks to the
18-mile watershed.
County engineer Clyde
of 55,000
gallons per
hour over
the levee
into the
emergency
s p i l l w a y.
The pipes
lowered the Pritchard
water level by five feet to
reduce pressure on the
levee and eliminate the
imminent danger of a
breach, which would have
forced about 250 people
to evacuate at least 130
households and flooded
17,500 acres of nearby
on South Jackson Street
in Starkville opened as an
American Red Cross-des-
ignated overnight shelter
at 2 p.m. Tuesday for any
residents of the area near
the lake who want to evac-
uate. Pets are not allowed
at the shelter, but the Ok-
tibbeha County Humane
Society on Industrial Park
Road will house pets if
evacuees make arrange-
ments in advance to drop
them off, Campanella
said.
Additionally, the mud- SOLUNAR TABLE
The solunar period indicates

Pritchard found no new land, from the area im- slide that formed behind
peak-feeding times for fish and game.
Wed. Thurs.
3:58a 4:23a
signs of distress on the mediately around the lake the Oktibbeha County Jail
Major
Minor 10:00p 11:06p
mudslide on the east side northwest of Starkville all in April 2019 thanks to Major 4:23p 4:49p
Minor 10:45a 10:33a
of the levee but “is very the way to parts of south- heavy rainfall and flood- Courtesy of Mississippi Department
of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
concerned,” Campanella west Clay County.
ing slid another four feet

said. The lake had risen
8.5 feet from its low ele-
vation by Tuesday after-
noon, she said.
Crews installed four
pipes on Jan. 14 and six
diesel-fueled pumps on
Jan. 17 to carry the lake
water at a combined rate
The county recom-
mended but did not man-
date an evacuation in Jan-
uary and lifted the breach
warning Jan. 20 after the
water level had gone down
four feet.
The First Baptist
Church Outreach Center
Monday night, and the
county placed sandbags
in the area along the park-
ing lot from Dr. Douglas
L. Connor Drive to the
Oktibbeha County Circuit
Courthouse Tuesday af-
ternoon.
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More US firms are boosting faith-based support for employees
‘Corporate America is at a tipping
point toward giving religion similar
attention to that given the other
major diversity categories’
Brian Grim, founder and president of the Religious
Freedom & Business Foundation
BY DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
NEW YORK — It has
become standard practice
for U.S. corporations to
assure employees of sup-
port regardless of their
race, gender or sexual ori-
entation. There’s now an
intensifying push to en-
sure that companies are
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Guinness: Japanese man who
believes in smiling is world’s oldest
BY YURI K AGEYAMA
The Associated Press
TOKYO — A Japanese
man with a sweet tooth
who believes in smiles has
become the world’s oldest
male at 112 years and 344
days old, according to
Guinness World Records.
Chitetsu Watanabe,
who was born in Niigata
in northern Japan in 1907,
received a certificate for
his accomplishment on
Wednesday at a nursing
home in the city.
The previous record
holder, Masazo Nonaka,
another Japanese, died
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inclusive when it comes
to employees’ religious
beliefs.
One barometer: More
than 20 percent of the For-
tune 100 have established
faith-based employee re-
source groups, according
to an AP examination and
there’s a high-powered
AREA OBITUARIES
Mr. Dempsey was
born April 27, 1997, in
Starkville, to Dwight
and June Dempsey. He
was a 2015 graduate
of Starkville Academy
and an art and design
student at Delta State
University.
He was preceded in
death by his grandpar-
ents, David Dempsey
and Ray Hartness.
In addition to his
parents, he is survived
by his brother, Dal-
ton of Strakville; and
grandparents, Maxine
Dempsey, Brenda and
Larry York all of Louis-
ville.
Memorials can be
made to the Dylan
Dempsey Memorial
Art Fund to Starkville
Academy, 505 Academy
Road, Starkville, MS.
Mary Pounders
HAMILTON —
Mary Ellen Seely
Pounders, 91, died Feb.
9, 2020, at Sanctuary
Hospice House in
Tupelo.
Services will be at
10 a.m. Thursday, at
Tisdale-Lann Memorial
Funeral Home of Aber-
deen, with Joe Nettles
officiating. Burial will
follow at Center Hill
Cemetery. Visitation
will be from 5-8 p.m.
Wednesday and one
hour prior to services
at the funeral home.
Tisdale-Lann Memo-
rial Funeral Home of
Aberdeen is in charge
of arrangements.
Mrs. Pounders was
born August 7, 1928,
to the late Hughie
and Kathleen Smith
Seely. She was for-
merly employed as a
manager at Top Dollar
Store and Elmores of
Aberdeen and a mem-
ber of Sulphur Srings
Primitive Church of
Bartahatchie.
In addition to her
parents, she was pre-
ceded in death by her
husband, James Pound-
ers; and baby, James
Therald Pounders.
She is survived by
her children, Sandra
Gill and Gerald Pound-
ers both of Hamilton;
brother, Hughie Seely;
last month. The oldest
living person is also Jap-
anese, Kane Tanaka, a
117-year-old woman.
Until about a decade
ago, Watanabe used to
do bonsai, the Japanese
traditional art of raising
small sculpted trees, and
had his work exhibited.
These days, he loves
desserts such as custards
and cream puffs, Guin-
ness said.
Watanabe graduated
from agricultural school
and then moved to Taiwan
to work at Dai-Nippon
Meiji Sugar on sugar cane
plantation contracts.
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conference taking place
this week in Washington
aimed at expanding those
ranks.
“Corporate America is
at a tipping point toward
giving religion similar
attention to that given the
other major diversity cate-
gories,” says Brian Grim,
founder and president of
the Religious Freedom
& Business Foundation
that’s co-hosting the con-
ference along with the
Catholic University of
America’s Busch School
of Business.
A few companies have
long-established faith-in-
the-workplace programs,
five grandchildren; and
11 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be
Jimmy, Dale, Kevin and
Thad Springfield, Bill
Autrey and Steve Ward.
Albert Pippins
WEST POINT —
Albert S. Pippins, 67,
died Feb. 2, 2020, at his
residence.
Services will be at
2 p.m. Thursday, at St.
Paul Missionary Baptist
Church of West Point,
with the Rev. Bobby
Bowen officiating. Buri-
al will follow at Tibbee
Community Cemetery.
Visitation is from 3-6
p.m. today, at Carter’s
Mortuary Service
Chapel of West Point.
Carter’s Mortuary
Services is in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Pippins was born
August 17, 1952, in
West Point, to the late
Beatrice Blair Lenear
and Jessie Hodges. He
was formerly employed
as a self-employed
painter.
He is survived by
his wife, Mary A. Ross
Pippins; children,
Duma Simmons, Detra
Pippins and Nikki Ev-
ans; siblings, Eddie B.
Pippins, Doris A, Wicks
and Ethel Lynn Larry;
and four grandchildren.
Junior Burkes
STARKVILLE —
Junior M. Burkes, 73,
died Feb. 7, 2020, in
Starkville.
Services will be at
11 a.m. Friday, at First
John M.B. Church of
Starkville, with the
Rev. Thomas Boyd Jr.
officiating. Burial will
follow at Boyd Cem-
etery. Visitation will
be from 12:30-5 p.m.
Thursday, at Century
Hairston Funeral Home
of Starkville. Centu-
ry Hairston Funeral
Home of Starkville is
in charge of arrange-
ments.
Mr. Burkes was born
June 13, 1946, in Lena,
to Hattie Hughes and
Berlin Tuttle
Visitation:
Friday, Feb. 14 • 1-2 PM
2nd Ave. North Location
Services:
Friday, Feb. 14 • 2 PM
2nd Ave. North Location
Burial
Memorial Gardens
Brenda Patterson
Incomplete
College St. Location
memorialgunterpeel.com
such as Arkansas-based
Tyson Foods, which de-
town University and a
former senior researcher
commitment to religious
inclusion as part of those
ploys a team of more than with the Pew Research
Center. From 2015-16,
programs.
The top 10 in the rank-
90 chaplains to comfort
and counsel employees he served as chair of the
World Economic Forum’s
ings featured some of
America’s best-known
at its plants and offices.
That program began in global agenda council on companies — Google’s
2000. the role of faith. parent company Alpha-
However, Grim says Grim’s foundation, bet, Intel, Tyson Foods,
most companies — over founded in 2014, recently Target, Facebook, Ameri-
completed a detailed anal- can Airlines, Apple, Dell,
the past few decades —
ysis ranking the Fortune American Express and
have given religion less
100 companies on their Goldman Sachs.
attention in their diver-
Berlin Tuttle
sity/inclusion programs
than other categories
such as race, ethnicity,
gender, sexual orienta- Retired Master Sergeant Berlin Wilbur Tuttle,
tion and disabilities. age 84, of Columbus, MS, passed away February
Grim is an associate 10, 2020, at Baptist Memorial Hospital. Funer-
scholar at the Religious al services will be Friday, February 14, 2020, at
Liberty Project at George- 2:00 PM at Memorial Gunter Peel Chapel 716 2nd
Ave. North location with Chaplain Paul Walker
officiating. The interment will immediately fol-
low at Memorial Gardens of Columbus with full
military honors. Visitation will be from 1:00 PM
until the time of the service.
Mr. Tuttle was born September 19, 1935, in
the late Kallie Bow-
Monks Corner, SC, to the late Albert Dennis
ie. He was formerly
and Jeanie Mae Litchfield Tuttle. He was a re-
employed as a principal
tired master sergeant from the United States Air
with Starkville Public
Force and veteran of Vietnam. Mr. Tuttle was a
Schools and a mem-
member of the American Legion and attended
ber of First John M.B.
the Columbus Air Force Base Chapel. In addi-
Church.
tion to his parents, he was preceded in death by
In addition to his
his wife of 60 years whom he met and married in
mother he is survived
Washington, DC, Elizabeth Tuttle; and brothers,
by his wife, Ossie
Shelvin Tuttle and Samuel Tuttle.
Burkes of Starkville;
Survivors include his son, Allen Tuttle and his
and sons, Anthony
wife Penny of Columbus, MS; daughter, Vicki
Burkes of Atlanta,
Tuttle of Columbus, MS; grandson, James Allen
Georgia, Kevin Burkes,
Tuttle of Columbus, MS; sister, Albertine Tuttle
Austell, Georgia and
of Charleston, SC; brother-in-law, Bain Combs of
Jason Burkes of South-
Montgomery, TX; sisters-in-law, Christine Tuttle
aven.
and Marcell Tuttle; nieces, Jennifer Vinzant and
Pallbearers will be
Becky Kern; and nephews, Zack Tuttle, Tyrone
members of Kappa
Tuttle, Kevin Tuttle, and Marlan Tuttle.
Alpha Psi of Columbus,
Pallbearers will be John Robinson, Walter
MS Alumni Chapter.
Clay, Mark Crunkilton, Warren Edwards, Bobby
Marshall and Alexander Fears.
Brenda Patterson
Honorary pallbearers will be members of Co-
MERIDIAN —
lumbus Air Force Base Chapel, JoAnn and How-
Brenda S. Patterson,
ard Ferguson, Bob Walk, Don Walk, Tom Walk,
63, died Feb. 11, 2020,
Bain Combs, Doug Robinson, Pam Maxwell,
at Anderson Regional Lynn Blair and Wayne Blair.
Medical Center of Me-
ridian.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Memori-
Sign the online guest book at
al Gunter Peel Funeral www.memorialgunterpeel.com
Home & Crematory,
College Street location.
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Teacher unions: Children

terrified by active shooter drills
Report recommends schools concentrate on
training teachers to respond to an active shooter
incident rather than drilling students
BY PAT EATON-ROBB
The Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. — The na-
tion’s two largest teachers unions
want schools to revise or eliminate
active shooter drills, asserting
Tuesday that they can harm stu-
dents’ mental health and that there
are better ways to prepare for the
possibility of a school shooting.
The American Federation of
Teachers and National Education
Association joined with the advoca-
cy group Everytown for Gun Safety
Support Fund in calling for an end
to unannounced drills or drills that
simulate gun violence.
“Everywhere I travel, I hear from
parents and educators about active
shooter drills terrifying students,
leaving them unable to concentrate
in the classroom and unable to sleep
at night,” said Lily Eskelsen Garcia,
president of the National Education
Association. “So traumatizing stu-
dents as we work to keep students
safe from gun violence is not the
answer. That is why if schools are
going to do drills, they need to take
steps to ensure the drills do more
good than harm.”
The report released Tuesday rec-
ommends schools concentrate on
training teachers to respond to an
active shooter incident rather than
drilling students.
It also issued guidelines for
schools that decide to use drills.
Those include never simulating an
actual shooting; giving parents,
educators and students advance no-
tice of any drill; working with men-
tal health officials to create age-ap-
propriate and trauma-informed
drills; and tracking the effects of
drills.
About 95 percent of schools
drilled students on lockdown proce-
dures in the 2015-16 school year, ac-
cording to a survey by the National
Center for Education Statistics.
“In Indiana they were shooting
teachers with rubber pellets so
they would feel the adrenaline of
what a school shooting would feel
like,” said Shannon Watts, founder
of Moms Demand Action, which is
part of Everytown. “In California
recently, a superintendent hired a
stranger to wear a mask to rattle the
doors of classrooms without letting
faculty and students know. We’ve
seen students asked to pretend to
be victims and lie down using fake
blood in the hallway.”
Jean-Paul Guilbault, the chief
executive of the Alice Training In-
stitute, which runs active shooter
drills, said they are effective when
done appropriately. He said his
company never runs surprise drills
but believes that simulating an
event is the best way to prepare for
one “and allow students to practice
their options, whether that be lock-
down or evacuation.”
“According to a recent study con-
ducted by The U.S. Secret Service,
most school shootings last for two
minutes or less, and nearly half of
the events studied ended within
one minute,” he said in a written
statement. “That means it is up to
us to keep ourselves safe for those
seconds that will feel as slow as a
lifetime. We drill so everyone has
a plan when faced with danger, to
give people a chance at survival.”
But Abby Clements, who was
teaching second grade at the San-
dy Hook school in Newtown when
a gunman killed 26 people in 2012,
said she doesn’t believe a drill
would have saved lives there.
“Our students knew what to do,”
said Clements, who now teaches at
another elementary school in town.
“We taught them what to do in an
emergency. We knew evacuation
routes and where a safe spot was
in the room, where nobody could
see inside. But frightening students
with some type of active drill, I
think that is barbaric. There is no
way you could possibly be prepared
for the infinite number of ways
that a shooting could go down with
these weapons of war.”

Trial team quits Roger Stone case in dispute over sentence

Departures came after DOJ overruled
the lawyers and said it would lower
the amount of prison time sought for
longtime Trump ally and confidant
BY MICHAEL BALSAMO
AND ERIC TUCKER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — dation as “very horrible
The four lawyers who
prosecuted Roger Stone
quit the case Tuesday
after the Justice Depart-
ment overruled them
and said it would take
the extraordinary step of
lowering the amount of
prison time it would seek
for President Donald
Trump’s longtime ally
and confidant.
The departures raised
immediate questions
over whether Trump,
who earlier in the day
had blasted the original
sentencing recommen-
and unfair,” had at least
indirectly exerted his
will on a Justice Depart-
ment that he often views
as an arm of the White
House.
The department said
the decision to undo the
sentencing recommen-
dation was made Monday
night — before Trump’s
tweet — and prosecu-
tors had not spoken to
the White House about
it. Even so, the depar-
tures of the entire trial
team broke open a sim-
mering dispute over the
punishment of a Trump
ally whose case has long
captured the president’s
attention. The episode
was the latest to entangle
the Justice Department,
meant to operate free
from White House sway
in criminal investiga-
tions and prosecutions,
in presidential politics.
The four attorneys,
including two who were
early members of special
counsel Robert Mueller’s
Russia team, comprised
the entire Justice De-
partment trial team that
won convictions against
Stone last fall.
Each had signed onto
a Monday sentencing
memo that recommend-
ed between seven and
nine years in prison for
Stone, who was convict-
ed of lying to Congress,
witness tampering and
obstructing the House
investigation into wheth-
er the Trump campaign
coordinated with Russia
to tip the 2016 election.
None lent their names
to a Tuesday memo that
called the original rec-
ommendation excessive.
The departures leave
in limbo the resolution of
a case that was one of the
signature prosecutions
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uted across the nation
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percent between 2018 and
last year, according to the
Anti-Defamation League,
making 2019 the second
straight year that the cir-
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material has more than
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The Anti-Defamation
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cases of circulated propa-
ganda by white suprem-
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white supremacist organi-
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that directly spreads mes-
sages of discrimination
against Jews, LGBTQ
people and other minority
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US open jobs fall sharply for second straight month

THE ASSOCI ATED PR ESS able positions dropped 5.4
percent to 6.4 million, a
WASHINGTON — historically solid number,
U.S. businesses sharply the Labor Department
cut the number of jobs said Tuesday. There are
they advertised in De- still more open jobs than
cember for the second there are unemployed
straight month, an un- people, an unusual situa-
usual sign of weakness in tion that has persisted for
an otherwise healthy job nearly two years. Before
market. that, the ranks of those
The number of avail- out of work exceeded the
number of open jobs.
Still, the total of avail-
able jobs has fallen by
more than 1 million in the
past year, the biggest an-
nual drop since the Great
Recession. Most of that
decline has occurred in
just the past two months.
Job openings are now at
the their lowest level in
two years. The decline
comes after job openings
had hit the highest level
on records dating back to
December 2000.
Nearly all other mea-
sures of the labor mar-
ket remain healthy: The
unemployment rate is 3.6
percent, nearly a half-cen-
tury low, and employers
added 225,000 jobs last
month, a solid increase.
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SLIMANTICS
An easy way to combat isolation
I
t’s sometimes
odd, the associa-
tions we make.
Tuesday
morning, I was a
guest reader at
PediaTrust, which
provides day-
care services for
medically fragile
children. There are
35 children from all
across the Golden Slim Smith
Triangle, enrolled
in the center. Most
have serious physical and cog-
nitive disabilities. Eighty-per-
cent are non-verbal. Some are
vision-impaired. Many are
unable to walk. Some require
diapers even at age 10 or older.
All have medical needs that
regular daycare centers cannot began to “act out.” By the
provide.
All afternoon, I reflected
on the brief time I spent with
these beautiful children and
the profound challenges they
face and what their futures
might entail.
And a couple of associations
began to creep in. I thought of
my Aunt Tatie and of some-
thing a fellow inmate told me
when I was in pris-
on 13 years ago.
There was a
common thread: A
terrible thing called
isolation.
My Aunt Tatie
was born with
Down Syndrome in
the 1920s, a time
when the conven-
tional wisdom
help that Down
Syndrome children
had little potential
to grow and learn. People like
Aunt Tatie never attended
school, were never exposed to
much beyond the confines of
their own small world, never
challenges to grow and learn.
As the years went by, Tatie
late 60s, she had become so
unmanageable that her aging
parents decided to send her to
the Ellisville State School, a
home for people who were then
called “mentally retarded.”
Aunt Tatie was among the 15
women who died in a dormito-
ry fire on Dec. 9, 1978.
In the spring of 2007, I was
an inmate at Florence West
Prison in Arizona. For those
of us in the minimum security
unit, some jobs took us outside
our unit. A fellow inmate had a
job distributing meals to Death
Row inmates, who lived in
solitary confinement, some for
20 years or longer.
It was probably the worst
job you could have. Each day,
he would arrived on Death
Row, dress in something that
looked like a hazmat uniform
and roll the food cart down the
long corridor, shoving plates
of food through the narrow
slot of each small cell. There
wasn’t a day that passed that
he wasn’t abused by the Death
Row inmates he fed. He was
pelted with feces, showered
with urine and subjected to
unspeakably vulgar taunts. A
few days into the job, he was
convinced that the inmates he
served were insane. They had
lost their humanity.
There is more than one kind
of prison. Some are made of
steel, concrete and razor wire.
Others are made in the mind
and body.
There was no happy ending
for my Aunt Tatie, who lived
and died in the prison of denied
opportunities to grow and
learn, develop and interact with
the larger world around her.
The men on death row, denied
the human contact that makes
us human, men whose worlds
are confined to a sparse 8-by-10
foot prison cell, will meet a
similar fate.
But the prospects for the
children at PediaTrust are far
more hopeful, thanks largely
to our better understanding of
the potential of even the most
profoundly disabled child.
No matter the challenges,
each child can progress, learn,
grow. Their conditions may
limit them, but they don’t im-
prison them. Each small gain
breaks the chains of debilitat-
ing isolation. There will likely
be a world of things these
children may never be able to
do, but there is also a world of
things they can achieve.
That’s something that
should inspire us all.
PediaTrust is dedicated not
just to meeting the medical
needs of children under their
care, but to helping them reach
their potential, whatever it
may be. Can there be a more
worthy goal of that, one more
deserving of our support? This
month, the center has opened
its door for members of the
community to participate in
a reading program for the
children.
It is their way of calling
the public’s attention to the
work they do. Hopefully it will
inspire people to volunteer at
the center by providing one-
on-one attention the children
need during the center’s daily
activities. The goal is for every
child to be able to participate in
those activities. Having a vol-
unteer to help out is essential.
It’s sad to imagine what the
lives of these children would be
without this type of care.
It would be a lonely, fright-
ening, frustrating prison of a
life.
Most of us can do some-
thing about that, fortunately.
The question is: Will we?
If your conscience is stirred,
call PediaTrust at 662-570-1957.
Slim Smith is a columnist
and feature writer for The
Dispatch. His email address is
ssmith@cdispatch.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR CARTOONIST VIEW

Voice of the people
Amused by response
I read with amusement Raymond
Gross’ response to Paul Mack’s
accusation of bias. In essence Mr.
Gross’s response only verified what
we already knew since he admitted
not reading opinions which differed
from his own and telling us he only
watches Fox News.
Jerry Fortenberry
Columbus

Questions how some reconcile

lies with Christian faith
In a recent letter, Raymond Gross
stated: Dear Nancy Pelosi, do you
realize how embarrassing you have
become to our country?
Pelosi rips Republicans for nor-
malizing lawlessness. Remember,
Trump is a pathological liar, and to
prove Pelosi is right, search: AP Fact
Check: Trump’s claims in his State of
the Union address.
Gross states Trump is our greatest
president since George Washington.
There’s no way I will put my Bible
knowledge up against yours, but I do
know right from wrong.
And here are some Bible verses I
know, and they can’t be called fake, a
hoax or distorted to mean something
else or ignored.
Truthful lips endure forever, but a
lying tongue is but for a moment.
Lying lips are an abomination to
the Lord, but those who act faithfully
THE STATE OF AMERICA
are his delight.
The Bible states a fool’s mouth is
his destruction.
Who gets to tell what stories?
P
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Trump fired Sondland and about George Simon. 142 writers to sign a letter with My Father” “offensive” because
Vindman because they were being They want to know calling on her to reconsid- his characters were white.
honest and telling the truth in their why I created him and if it er. Instead, she’s hosting Then there’s me. As if creating
testimony. was hard to do. One person what she calls “a deeper ... George were not bad enough, I’ve been
Lying lips are a sin and an abom- told me I was “brave.” discussion” of “who gets toying with the idea of a novel based on
ination to the Lord, and you praise I wasn’t trying to be to publish what stories.” the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
Trump. Does the truth doesn’t matter brave. I was trying to write It streams next month on Am I allowed to write that? Do I need
to you? my latest novel, a World AppleTV+. permission from black people? From
James Hodges War II story called “The Having declared 2020 my Jews? Or is the very idea not antitheti-
Steens Last Thing You Surrender.” “Year of Reading Women,” I cal to artistic freedom? Not to mention
But, you see, George, one read Cummins’ book. And I freedom.
A letter to the editor is an excellent of my protagonists, is white Leonard Pitts rather liked it, some clunky And what role do good intentions
way to participate in your community. and I’m not. And at book passages and contrived play? What does it mean if one does the
We request the tone of your letters be signings, some people find situations notwithstanding. right thing, badly?
constructive and respectful and the that noteworthy. But I must concede that I’m poorly Consider “Small Great Things,” a
length be limited to 450 words. We Thankfully, it hasn’t inspired death qualified to judge — certainly less novel of racial conflict by Jodi Picoult,
welcome all letters emailed to voice@ threats. Jeanine Cummins has not been so than a Hispanic observer would who is white. I liked the book, but the
cdispatch.com or mailed to The Dis- so lucky. She is a white writer, and be — how much of the novel was built black protagonist felt, as Roxane Gay
patch, Attn: Letters to the Editor, PO “American Dirt,” her new novel about on worn-out tropes of the undocument- put it, “clinical, overarticulated” — a
Box 511, Columbus, MS 39703-0511. a Mexican woman and her son fleeing ed-migrant experience. I saw none, but character more researched than felt.
to the United States after a drug gang then again, maybe I wouldn’t. Yet given the degree to which white
butchers their entire family, has ignit- That said, worn-out tropes don’t people — even well-meaning ones —
ed furious controversy and threats of generally inspire lavish hate and death resist grappling the conundrums of
Voice of the People violence. A planned tour was canceled. threats. So I suspect the real issue here race, I gave Picoult points just for mak-
We encourage you to share your opinion Ground Zero of the outrage is a web is so-called “cultural appropriation.” ing the effort to imagine herself into an
with readers of The Dispatch. posting by writer Myriam Gurba. It’s Or as Oprah called it, the question of: African-American life.
Submit your letter to The Dispatch by: an essay of extravagant loathing for Who gets to tell what stories? As an Some day, I may try to imagine my-
E-mail: voice@cdispatch.com a novel that, she says, springs from artist, are you allowed to draw from self into a Polish Jewish one. If I fail, I’ll
Mail: P.O. Box 511, Columbus, MS 39703 the “great American tradition of . . . outside your racial or cultural box? take my lumps willingly. Because that
In person: 516 Main St., Columbus, or appropriating genius works by people Or should this white-lady writer have failure would come in the act of trying
101 S. Lafayette St., No. 16, Starkville. of color, slapping a coat of mayonesa on contented herself telling white-lady to draw the through line between
All letters must be signed by the author
them” to make them palatable to Amer- stories? someone else’s humanity and my own.
and must include town of residence and
a telephone number for verification pur- ican taste buds and “repackaging them It is not a new question. White writ- And that’s what art is for.
poses. Letters should be no more than for mass racially ‘colorblind’ consump- er Carl Van Vechten faced it in 1926 Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004
500 words, and guest columns should be tion.” Gurba calls the book “caca.” with his unfortunately titled novel, Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a
500-700 words. We reserve the right to But Oprah liked it. “Nigger Heaven.” In 1997, some black columnist for the Miami Herald. Email
edit submitted information. She made “American Dirt” a Book people dubbed black writer Gene Cart- him at lpitts@miamiherald.com.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN

CLUBS
n OKTIBBEHA MASTER
GARDENERS
Oktibbeha County Master Gardeners meet
10 a.m. Feb. 13 at the Oktibbeha County
Extension Service, Felix Long Drive. Paige
Watson of The Partnership presents
planned activities for the Starkville Com-
munity Market and city beautification. All
interested in joining are invited to attend
an orientation at 10 a.m. Feb. 14. Regis-
tration $100. Classes begin Feb. 25. For
more information, call 662-323-5916.
n AARP COLUMBUS
AARP meets the first Wednesday of each
month at 10 a.m. in the Community Room
of Regions Bank, Main Street, Columbus.
Programs are geared to the needs and
interests of seniors 50+. For more infor-
mation, call 662-889-9496.
n AARP STARKVILLE
AARP Starkville meets the first Thursday of
each month at 10 a.m. in the Community
Room of Cadence Bank, West Main Street,
Starkville. For information, call Eileen Carr-
Tabb, 662-312-3431.
n EAST LIONS CLUB
The Columbus East Lions Club meets
every second and fourth Monday of the
month at 65 Airline Road. For more infor-
mation, call 662-549-3421 or 662-574-
7552.
n HOST LIONS CLUB
The Columbus Host Lions Club meets
every Friday at noon at EMCC Lion Hills
Center for a buffet lunch and business
gathering.
n POSSUM TOWN TOASTMASTERS
Possum Town Toastmasters meet every
Friday at 7 a.m. at the Church of Christ,
Columbus. To become a better communi-
cator and leader, call 662-549-3483.
n POSSUM TOWN QUILTERS
Possum Town Quilters meet at 9:30 a.m.
the second and fourth Saturdays of each
month at the Rosenzweig Arts Center (low-
er level), 501 Main St., Columbus. Check
us out at possumtownquilters.blogspot.
com.
n LOWNDES REPUBLICAN WOMEN
Lowndes County Republican Women meets
the second Tuesday of each month at
the Lion Hills Center, 2331 Military Road.
Buffet line opens at 11:15 a.m., with call
to order at noon.
n GT QUILTERS GUILD
The Golden Triangle Quilters Guild meets
at 5:30 p.m. every third Thursday at the
Starkville Sportsplex Activities Building.
■ BREAKFAST WITH THE BULLDOGS
MSU alumni, friends are invited to Break-
fast with the Bulldogs on second Thurs-
days each month at Starkville Café. Dutch
treat breakfast 7:30 a.m. Contact Carol
Moss Read at carolmoss@bellsouth.net or
662-312-0637.
n TOPS
Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. 288 meets
Tuesdays at Community Baptist Church,
Yorkville Road East, Columbus. Weigh-in
begins at 5:30 p.m. Contact Pat Harris,
662-386-0249.
n TOPS
Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. 270 meets
Thursdays at 4370 Cal-Kolola Road,
Caledonia. Weigh-in begins at 5-5:30 p.m.
Contact Michelle Holliman, 662-386-3650.
n SENIOR CRAFTS
Senior Crafts meets at the Starkville
Sportsplex Tuesdays, 10-11:30 a.m.
Crafts provided by the parks department.
For information, call Lisa Cox, 662-323-
2294.
n QUILTING CLUB
Quilting Club meets in the activities room
adjacent to the multi-purpose facility at
the Starkville Sportsplex Thursdays 10
a.m.-noon. Bring your own project to work
on. For information, call Lisa Cox, 662-
323-2294.
HEALTH NOTES
n HEALTH SUMMIT
Empire of Diamonds hosts a health
summit from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 22 at La
Quinta Inn and Suites, 1200 Highway 45
North. For more information, call Lillian
Murray, 818-335-3246, or Barbara Matti-
son, 662-570-5595.
n 3D MAMMOGRAMS
Baptist Golden Triangle offers Hologic’s
new Genius 3D mammography exam to
better diagnose breast cancer. Susan G.
Komen Foundation funds are available
to cover cost of screenings or diagnostic
mammograms for those without insur-
ance or whose insurance does not cover
the test and who meet other criteria,
low-income, uninsured or underinsured
and living in Clay, Lowndes, Monroe or
Oktibbeha Counties. Call 662-244-1000
or visit goldentriangle.baptistonline.org to
see if you qualify. For appointment, call
Radiology scheduling, 662-244-2979 or
800-544-8762, ext. 2979.
n CPR CLASSES
Baptist Golden Triangle offers 6 p.m. CPR
classes for the community in the Patient
Tower. Preregistration required. Call the
Education Department, 662-244-2498.
n CHILDBIRTH CLASSES
Baptist Golden Triangle offers Childbirth
and Breastfeeding classes each month, 6
p.m., in room 6, near the Gift Shop, $20.
For information or to register, call 662-
386-5592.
n CHILDBIRTH CLASSES
Emerson Family Center in Starkville offers
childbirth classes from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
every Tuesday. For more information, call
662-320-4907.
n CANCER SUPPORT
Baptist Cancer Center hosts a support
group for cancer survivors and their fami-
lies, noon-1 p.m. the third Friday of every
month. Lunch provided. For information
and location, call 662-244-2923.
■ DIABETES SUPPORT
Baptist Golden Triangle hosts day classes
for Diabetes Support on third Wednesdays
of each month, 10-11 a.m. in Patient
Tower room 6. For information, call Lacy
Smith, 662-244-1392.
n CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER
This caregivers support group meets at
11:30 a.m. on last Thursdays at First
United Methodist Church, 602 Main St.,
Columbus. Adult Psychiatric-Mental Health
Nurse Practitioner Patricia Malone of Bap-
tist-Golden Triangle is the speaker Jan. 30.
All are welcome. A study of the book “No
Act of Love is Ever Wasted: The Spirituality
of Caring for Persons with Dementia” is
underway.
n ABUSE RECOVERY GROUP
A Domestic Abuse Recovery Group meets
Thursdays at 6 p.m. through Safe Haven
Inc. Group counseling for rape recovery is
available. For information, call 662-327-
6118.
n BAPTIST VOLUNTEERS
Baptist Golden Triangle seeks caring, com-
passionate volunteers to help in a variety
of hospital settings. For information, call
Lisa Bowers,662-244-1165.
n DRUG/ALCOHOL INTERVENTION
Narconon offers drug and alcohol interven-
tions. For free screenings or referrals, call
1-800-431-1754.
n GOLDEN TRIANGLE AA
Golden Triangle AA meets daily for
support. If you want to drink, that is your
business. If you want to stop drinking, that
is our business. For information, call 662-
327-8941.
n AL-ANON MEETING
The Columbus Al-Anon Family Groups meet
Mondays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.
When you don’t know where to turn be-
cause someone drinks too much, we can
help. For information, call 888-425-2666
or go to msafg.org.
OTHER EVENTS
n MOVIE SERIES
Columbus-Lowndes Public Library hosts
a Movies That Make You Think series in
honor of Black History Month. See “The
Lion King,” 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Feb. 14;
and “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,”
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Feb. 21. Free to the
public, light refreshments. For more infor-
mation, email Wil’Lani Turner, wturner@
lowndews.lib.ms.us.
n BASEBALL/SOFTBALL
REGISTRATION
Lowndes Recreation Summer Baseball
and Softball Programs registration is open
through Feb. 22 at the Recreation office,
17 Airline Road (rear of Driver’s License
Building). Wee-Ball for ages 3-12, T-ball,
coach-pitch, baseball and fast-pitch soft-
ball available. $60/$70 online registration.
All games at Lake Lowndes State Park.
Call 662-328-0885 or visit lowndesrecre-
ation.com.
n VALENTINE’S GALA
The Stephen D. Lee Foundation hosts its
10th Valentine’s Day Gala from 7-10 p.m.
Feb. 14 at the Stephen D. Lee Home,
316 Seventh St. N., Columbus, featuring
special desserts and floral arrangements.
Contact Eulalie Davis, 662-328-3088, for
information and reservations.
n SAFE HAVEN VOLUNTEERS
Safe Haven Inc. seeks community vol-
unteers. Trainings are held every three
months. If you or someone you know would
like to volunteer, contact Joyce Tucker,
662-327-6118; Cequeila Bigbee, 662-435-
1806; or email 1deliveredin2014@gmail.
com.
n HOST FAMILIES
Ayusa, a nonprofit organization promoting
global learning and leadership through
cultural exchange and leadership programs
for high school students from around the
world, is taking applications for American
families in the Northeast Mississippi area
interested in hosting international high
school students. Call Amy Benjamin, 662-
205-6867, or email, abenjamin@ayusa.
org.
n MINORITY CAUCUS
SCHOLARSHIPS
The Mississippi Association of Supervisors
accepts scholarship applications through
March 15 from all graduating high school
seniors for the Minority Caucus Scholar-
ship. For applications or information, visit
mssupervisors.org/minority-caucus.
n JIM SPRUIELL SCHOLARSHIP
The Health Care Foundation of North
Mississippi accepts applications for the
Jim Pruiell Memorial Scholarship from high
school seniors preparing to enter college
or individuals currently in the workforce
and pursuing a career in emergency health
care. For applications or information, visit
nmhs.net/youth-education.
n BOOK SALE
The Friends of the Starkville Library Book
Sale is the first Monday of each month at
the Starkville Public Library, 326 University
Drive.
n ENVIRONMENTAL MEETING
Memphis Town Community Action Group
meets fourth Tuesdays at 6 p.m. to
discuss issues related to the Kerr-McGee
site. For information, contact Leon Hines,
662-574-6109.
n 50 DRESSES MINISTRY
Reach1 Teach1 Ministries’ 50 Dresses
Ministry Program to the Golden Triangle
area helps those in need of a dress or
suit for a job search. Donations accept-
ed. Call Regional Coordinator Cequeila
Bigbee, 870-627-2859 or e-mail 1delivere-
din2014@gmail.com.
n WALKING GROUP
J.L. King Center’s Families First of Oktib-
beha County invites the community to join
its Walking Group at 6:30 a.m. Monday-Fri-
day at Westside Park, 700 N. Long St.,
Starkville.

n EFFECTIVE PARENTING
Family Resource Center, Columbus
campus, 1575 Second Ave. N., offers free
effective parenting classes, with insight
on child safety, appropriate discipline,
effective communication and more. For
information, call 662-368-3603.
n FREE COMPUTER CLASSES
Emerson Family Center, Starkville, offers
free computer classes 1-3 p.m. Tuesdays.
Call 662-320-4607.
n FREE TUTORING
Family Resource Center, 1575 Second
Ave. N., Columbus, offers free tutoring,
computer use and printing services for
pre-K-eighth grade. Limited slots. Call 662-
368-3603.
n PARENT CAFÉ
Emerson family Center, Starkville, offers
Parent Café meetings 11 a.m.-noon every
Monday. For more information, call 662-
418-5193 or visit fcp-parentcafe.com.
n TENN-TOM WATERWAY MUSEUM
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
Transportation Museum, 318 Seventh St.
N., Columbus, is open for tours Mon-
day-Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. School field trips,
civic clubs, church groups encouraged. For
group tours, call 662-328-8936 or 662-
574-5794.

Mississippi gets grant to improve

Port of Gulfport access
‘The Port of Gulfport is critically
important to the Mississippi Gulf Coast
economy, as well as the economy
of the Southeastern United States’
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GULFPORT — The
Mississippi State Port Au-
thority is receiving a $15.8
million federal grant to
improve highway access
to the Port of Gulfport.
Members of the state’s
congressional delega-
tion announced the grant
Tuesday. The port author-
Sen. Roger Wicker
ity will have to provide
$3.94 million to go with
the federal money.
The federal and state
money will be used for
road and safety infra-
structure improvements
to 1.2 miles of 30th Ave-
nue, including a bridge
over U.S. Highway 90.
“The Port of Gulfport
is critically important to
the Missis-
sippi Gulf
Coast econ-
omy, as well
as the econ-
omy of the
S out heast-
ern United
States,” Re- Wicker
publican U.S. Sen. Roger
Wicker said in a news re-
lease. “This grant will im-
prove access to the port,
making it a more attrac-
tive option for commerce
and trade and improving
safety for employees and
visitors to the coast.”
Wicker, Republican
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith
and Republican U.S. Rep.
Palazzo wrote letters of
support to the U.S. De-
partment of Transporta-
tion.
The Port of Gulfport
is one of the top 25 con-
tainer ports in the U.S.
and is the second-largest
importer of green fruit
in the nation, according
to the news release. It re-
cently completed a $570
million restoration and
expansion.
“Mississippi has invest-
ed so much in rebuilding
the Port of Gulfport into a
port of the future,” Hyde-
Smith said. “This infusion
of federal funding will
help ensure port access to
serve not only commerce,
but the public.”

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School Punch: Dad accused
of punching principal in meeting
BROOKHAVEN — A Mississippi
man has been arrested and accused
of punching a school principal in
the face during a parent-teacher
conference, authorities said.
Lincoln County Sheriff Steve
Rushing told news outlets Brandon
Jordan, 39, was arrested Friday and
charged with simple assault, dis-
turbing the peace and a business
disturbance.
Jordan is accused of hitting West
Lincoln Attendance Center Princi-
pal John Shows in the face in Shows’
office. A Lincoln County deputy was
asked to attend the meeting and wit-
nessed the incident, Rushing said.
Shows was treated and released
from the hospital and was back at
work Tuesday.
Events leading up to the alterca-
tion were unclear. It’s also unclear
whether Jordan had an attorney
who can comment on his behalf.

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milk carton when she was
14, she said — it became
clear she had plenty of sto-
ries to talk about.
But the story she told
the crowd Tuesday was
about her son, Rivers, who
she called “the light of my
life,” who died by suicide
after being pulled over for
his second D.U.I. in 2016.
He was 20 years old and in
college at Ole Miss.
McGraw was key in
pushing the state Legis-
lature to pass House Bill
1089, also known as Riv-
ers’ Law. The bill, passed
almost unanimously in
2017, requires law en-
forcement who stop in-
dividuals under 21 for a
D.U.I. or related offenses
to notify the suspect that
they can call a parent or
guardian in addition to
calling an attorney and
that there are drug courts
and other pretrial diver-
sion programs available
for them.
McGraw said Rivers
had already been pulled
over for one DUI his first
semester at college. She
had taken him out of
school, sent him to a treat-
ment center in Arkansas
for 90 days and then had
him work the rest of the
school year. His record
had been expunged, and
she felt law enforcement
should have notified her,
since the car he was driv-
ing was in her name and
she was paying for his ex-
penses.
“But that didn’t hap-
pen,” he said. “His friends
were able to bail him out
and I never knew.”
‘Tell them
you love them’
McGraw said Rivers
had always been a great
athlete and was captain of
the football team at Jack-
son Prep where he attend-
ed high school. But when
he went to college, instead
of playing sports, he be-
came involved in a frater-
nity, where she feels sure
he and his friends were
into drugs and alcohol.
“He had had coaches
that were like fathers,
and he needed that,” Mc-
Graw said. “I had been
a divorced mother for 10
years of his life, so those
coaches are so import-
ant. You don’t ever know
what you’re doing for a kid
when you’re in that posi-
tion.
“When he got to State,
he didn’t have football
anymore,” she said.
The weekend she and
her daughter went to a
football game at Texas
A&M was the same week-
end Rivers was pulled
over for his first DUI. He
called her and McGraw
told him to go home and
wait for her.
The treatment center
McGraw sent Rivers to
was run by a former foot-
ball coach — “I thought,
‘This is the kind of guy
that’s going to get along
with my son’” — and it first
it seems to have worked.
After Rivers was released
from treatment, McGraw
sent him to work for a
construction company for
the rest of the school year
where he impressed his
supervisors so much they
called McGraw and asked
her to let him stay with
the company rather than
going back to school.
Instead, McGraw said,
she let Rivers transfer
from Mississippi State to
Ole Miss. Within three
months, he had gotten
another D.U.I. and, since
his friends bailed him out,
she didn’t know.
“I could take the car
away, take the money
away, if I’d known,” she
said.
He sent her a text be-
fore he died that said: “I
love you. I’m sorry I keep
disappointing you.”
She added his friends,
apologizing to her for bail-
ing him out of jail because
he’d done the same for
them before, told her they
had all “been there.”
“They’re whispering,
because other mamas are
in the kitchen,” McGraw
remembered. “I said,
‘Been there? What do you
mean?’ ‘We’ve all thought
about killing ourselves.’
... These are great kids ...
and they’re sitting there
telling me ‘we’ve been
there. We’ve ...gotten in
trouble and we don’t want
to call our parents. We
were scared, and we felt
like that too.’ I thought
right then: ‘I’ve got to do
something. ... I can’t have
another one of them.”
Rivers’ friends’ con-
fessions led McGraw to
reach out to state officials
and get the bill written
and passed within a year
after Rivers’ death. Mc-
Graw said she hoped it
would keep other parents
from going through what
she went through.
She also had a mes-
sage for her audience: to
remind their children that
they love them.
“Tell them you don’t
condone bad behavior, but
you love them a lot,” she
said.

PediaTrust
Continued from Page 1A
serious, ongoing medical
needs. Her own 14-year-
old daughter is among
the 35 children the center
currently accommodates.
Her personal and pro-
fessional experience has
made Jeremiah the “go-
to” source for the parents,
often helping them apply
for the daycare services
as they navigate the Med-
icaid system.
Although Medicaid
is in most cases an
income-based program,
families that earn above
the income threshold
can still qualify through
a waiver called “disabled
child living at home.”
That’s how the Taylors,
with two working parents
and another child, quali-
fied for the program.
“It was a huge bless-
ing for us,” said Taylor,
who works just down the
street at Baptist Memo-
rial Hospital-Golden
Triangle. “It helps in so
many ways. It’s allowed
me to keep my job and
keep us on the hospital’s
insurance. They take care
of his weekly infusions
and therapy, which means
I don’t have to take off
work to take Clay to
therapy appoints all over
town. It’s a one-stop shop.
Our family couldn’t be
more grateful.”
Although medical care
is a prominent part of
PediaTrust’s mission, the
center has a strong focus
on development, some-
‘All of the children can progress. We children have, it’s hard
for to give kids that one-
want them to have the best life they on-one attention we want
them to have,” Jeremiah
can have. For some, that might mean said. “We would love to
get the word out that we
being stable and not deteriorating. really need volunteers to
come in and provide that
For others, it’s getting to the point attention. We want all of
the kids to be involved in
where they can go to regular schools, as many activities as pos-
sible and volunteers can
regular daycares or pre-schools.’ really help us with that.”
Jessica Jeremiah, PediaTrust’s director of nursing Toward that end,
PediaTrust has invited
thing that is important to on life skills — being community members to
Jeremiah. more attentive, learning participate in a month-
“I see all these kids as to express himself better, long reading program,
my children,” Jeremiah and those things help which allows them to
said. “I work every day with the educational
see the work the center
to get for them what I part.”
is doing and, hopefully,
want my child to have. The impact of Pedia-
volunteer.
All of the children can Trust goes beyond the
No special skills are
progress. We want them children. It extends to the
to have the best life they family as well. needed for that, Jeremiah
can have. For some, that “I didn’t have a lot of said.
might mean being stable help with Jayden before,” “We just need people
and not deteriorating. said Sykes, who has three to come in and help give
For others, it’s getting to older children. “Before the kids some personal
the point where they can (PediaTrust), every day it attention,” Jeremiah said.
go to regular schools, was, ‘Lord, keep me sane.’ “That would mean so
regular daycares or pre- Everything closes in on much to us.”
schools. Some children you. You’re sitting there For more information
have been able to do that, with that child, frustrat- of volunteer opportuni-
which is great.” ed, worried about that ties, call PediaTrust at
Clay Thomas is one child. It’s very lonely. 662-570-1957.
of the children that split “Now, well, I can’t
time between PediaTrust tell you how much this
and regular school. has done for me and my
“He gets so much family,” she continued. “I
more (at PediaTrust) than can’t imagine where I’d
he gets at New Hope, be without them.”
nine hours of therapy and With a ratio of one
other help the school just staff person to three chil-
isn’t set up to provide,” dren, PediaTrust hopes
Amanda Taylor said. “(Pe- to get the word out to the
diaTrust) is not an educa- community.
tional facility. It focuses “With the needs these

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Continued from Page 1A
School District confirmed
Cullum no longer works
there.
A grand jury also in-
dicted a man accused of
shooting and killing a
man in South Columbus
in August.
Aaron James Lewis
Mitchell, 27, has been
charged with murder
for the death of Marty
Moore, 28, according to a
Lowndes County Circuit
Court records.
According to previ-
ous Dispatch reporting,
Moore was shot early the
morning of Aug. 7, 2019
in 2200 block of Ninth
Avenue South. He was
taken to Baptist Memorial
Hospital-Golden Triangle,
where he died.
At the time, investi-
gators said Moore and
Mitchell became involved
in an argument that esca-
lated to violence.

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OLE MISS DISMANTLES MSU IN SECOND HALF
Ole Miss guard Breein Tyree goes to the basket against Mississippi State forward Reggie Perry (1) during the second half Tuesday at The Pavilion at Ole Miss in Oxford.
BY GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
OXFORD— It’s hard to fathom con-
sidering the final score, but Mississippi
State once had a 13-point lead against
Ole Miss on Tuesday.
Then the Bulldogs completely col-
lapsed.
To borrow a phrase from MSU wom-
en’s basketball coach Vic Schaefer, the
Bulldogs were taken to the woodshed in
the second half, getting outscored 50-24
en route to a 83-58 loss at The Pavilion
in Oxford.
The 25-point defeat marks the largest
margin the Bulldogs have lost by this
season.
“It’s really frustrating, obviously,”
MSU coach Ben Howland said. “You
lose to your arch rival and lose that bad,
it really stinks. That pain you deal with
has to drive you to come back and come
together for the remainder of the sea-
son. We have to bounce back. We can’t
let this loss beat us twice.”
In the days leading up to the matchup,
Howland was wary of the 1-3-1 zone Ole
Miss and Kermit Davis deploy to cause
opponents into confusion. Whatever
MISSISSIPPI STATE BASEBALL
Position preview: Rowdey Jordan, Tanner Allen lead outfield crop
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Baseball season
has arrived.
Fresh off a run to the 2019 College
World Series, Mississippi State begins
its latest trek toward Omaha, Nebraska,
with a three-game set against Horizon
League foe Wright State beginning Fri-
day at 4 p.m.
Before I jump in, a quick program-
ming note — leading into Opening Day,
we’ll break down each position group on
MSU’s 2020 squad. Stay tuned through-
out the week to get to know the newest
Bulldogs who will take the field at The
Dude this spring.
With that, let’s get things started
with the outfielders.
Opening the year with 26 newcomers
on the roster, the MSU outfield endured
MISSISSIPPI STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL
scouting ahead of time the Bulldogs did
for that defensive look, it didn’t pay off.
The Rebels (13-11, 4-7 SEC) forced
MSU (15-9, 6-5) to pass the ball around
the perimeter to no avail, draining the
shot clock and often resulting in awk-
ward, off-balance shots time and time
again.
“We kept a really good offensive team
off balance,” Ole Miss coach Kermit Da-
vis said. “It’s a really good win for the
Rebels.”
Ball security was nowhere to be
found after MSU committed 17 turn-
overs against the Rebels, leading to 27
points on the other end.
“The zone gave us problems,” MSU
forward Robert Woodard II said. “It
slowed us down on offense, and we wast-
ed a lot of time with the shot clock. I
think it did what it was supposed to do
tonight.”
Of course, it didn’t help that reigning
all-SEC first-team guard Breein Tyree
somehow found a way to take his game
to another level. The Ole Miss guard
outscored the Bulldogs by three all by
himself in the second half en route to a
career-high 40 points.
“I was being really aggressive,” Tyree
plenty of attrition over the offseason —
though the replacements ought to be fa-
miliar faces to the Bulldog faithful.
With centerfielder Jake Mangum and
right fielder Elijah MacNamee off to the
professional ranks, coach Chris Lemo-
nis will call on juniors Rowdey Jordan
and Tanner Allen to slide into their de-
fensive spots.
For Jordan, he’ll be tasked with re-
placing the Southeastern Conference’s
all-time hits leader and a four-year de-
fensive stalwart in Mangum.
Having spent the majority of last sea-
son in left field, Jordan’s speed and arm
are a natural fit for center. At the plate,
he’s a more patient hitter than Mangum
— though whether he can match the
current New York Mets minor leaguer’s
.358 batting average remains to be seen.
“Outfield and defense are where
we’re spending a lot of time right now,”
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said. “Credit to my teammates getting
me open.”
Meanwhile, Nick Weatherspoon
couldn’t buy a bucket and had his worst
collegiate game of his career, ending up
with a ghastly negative-36 plus-minus
rating. The junior finished with 0 points
(0 of 5 from the floor) and six turnovers.
His backup point guard, Tyson Car-
ter, didn’t fare much better, turning the
ball over four times and scoring three
points in the defeat. After the game,
Howland admitted he considered giv-
ing freshman Iverson Molinar minutes
at the point considering his two upper-
classmen were struggling but decided
against it.
“It’s hard to go against my veterans,”
Howland said.
Early in the first half, MSU raced out
to a 26-13 lead and held Ole Miss score-
less for nearly six minutes. But the Reb-
els closed the half on a 15-3 run and only
trailed by a point, 34-33. Ironically, it
was the first time MSU entered halftime
with the lead in its last five games.
Ole Miss flustered the Bulldogs from
the start after the break, eventually
building an 11-point lead with 9:10 re-
maining and forcing Howland to burn
Lemonis said at MSU media day Jan. 25.
“We were just so good with Jake, but
we have moved Rowdey over. Rowdey’s
a great center fielder, so I had a center
fielder playing left field last year.”
In Allen’s case, he moves to right field
after spending the past two seasons at
first base. Having played the majority of
his high school career at UMS-Wright
Prep in Theodore, Alabama, in the out-
field, he should be a natural replace-
ment for MacNamee.
Further, Allen’s smooth left-handed
swing offers more gap-to-gap potential
than MacNamee, and he is a natural fit
for the short wall in right field at Dudy
Noble. Coming off a season in which he
hit .349 with 23 doubles and 66 RBIs, Al-
len is a prime candidate to be selected
in June’s MLB First-Year Player Draft.
And while the Bulldogs will boast
experienced bats in center and right, it
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through all of his timeouts.
The rest of the contest left MSU wish-
ing it could figuratively burn the tape af-
ter watching Tyree nail jump shot after
jump shot.
“There’s really nothing we can do
about it,” MSU guard D.J. Stewart said
of the loss. “All we can do is get better
as a team.”
In a losing effort, MSU forward Reg-
gie Perry finished with 24 points and
eight rebounds. Stewart contributed
16 points, while Woodard II scored 12.
The Bulldogs shot 36.7 percent from the
floor as a team and 2 of 16 from beyond
the arc. Khadim Sy poured in 18 points
for Ole Miss, while Devontae Shuler
pitched in 16. The Rebels shot 48.3 per-
cent from the field and converted 8 of 20
3-pointers.
Despite admitting walking into a
frustrated locker room after the contest,
Howland remains optimistic about the
teams NCAA tournament chances if the
right corrections are made.
“There’s a lot of basketball left; we
can still get there,” Howland said.
MSU is back in action at noon Satur-
day on the road against Arkansas.
will be junior college import Brandon
Pimentel who will start the season in
left field. Pimentel, who hit .458 with 70
RBIs in 54 games at Howard Communi-
ty College a year ago, impressed in fall
ball and should add another offensive
weapon in the middle of the MSU lineup.
Other names to monitor in the out-
field include sophomores Brad Cumbest
and Bryce Brock, both of whom played
limited innings a year ago but should
see the field in more expansive roles
this season.
Freshman Drew McGowan could
also see some time in a utility role as
well.
“I think out there with us having two
left-handed hitters and two right-hand-
ed hitters, that we can use that,” Lem-
onis said. “You may see us play three
guys in a game. It may be a situation
where all three are playing.”
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BRIEFLY PREP BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
College Football
MSU sets time, date for spring game
Mississippi State announced a date and time for
the 2020 Maroon and White spring football game on
Columbus, New Hope boys and girls to meet in finals
Tuesday.
BY THEO DEROSA
The contest will be played at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, tderosa@cdispatch.com
April 11, in Davis Wade Stadium as part of the 35th
annual “Super Bulldog Weekend” from April 9-11. Home GRENADA — The
contests in baseball, softball, women’s tennis and Columbus High and
volleyball are also on the schedule.
New Hope boys and
The Mississippi State baseball team will host Ole
Miss that weekend in Starkville with game times of 6:30 girls basketball teams
p.m. Thursday and Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday at Dudy both won their first-
Noble Field.
round games in the
The Bulldogs’ softball team has a home series
MHSAA Class 5A, Re-
with Arkansas. Start times are 5 p.m. Thursday, 4 p.m.
gion 2 tournament on
Friday and 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Nusz Park.
Tuesday in Grenada.
The women’s tennis team will play Kentucky at 4
p.m. Thursday at the A.J. Pitts Tennis Centre. With the victories,
MSU’s volleyball team will play exhibition matches the Falcons and Trojans
on Saturday against the Mississippi University for Wom-
en and UAB, with the time yet to be announced. will each face off in the
tournament final on Fri-
College Basketball day.
The West Point boys
EMCC’s Smith named MACJC player of week and girls will both face
East Mississippi Community College basketball
player Jakorie Smith has been named the MACJC’s Grenada in the tour-
player of the week for the second time this season. nament’s consolation
Smith, a freshman forward from Raymond High
games.
School, posted solid games in the Lions’ wins over
Holmes Community College and Coahoma Community
College last week. Columbus boys 54,
He had a double-double with 18 points and 11
rebounds against the Bulldogs on Monday and added Grenada 37
eight points, 13 rebounds and two blocks Thursday GRENADA — The
against the Tigers. Columbus boys team
EMCC (15-6, 8-2 MACJC North division) has two beat host Grenada 54-
more games on its regular-season schedule. The Lions
37 on Tuesday.
play at Itawamba Community College at 7:30 p.m.
Monday and host Northeast Mississippi Community Blake Burnett led
College at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20. the Falcons with 17
points, and Jaquarius
College Softball Williams added 15.
Time for MSU home opener moved up The Falcons will face
First pitch for the Mississippi State softball team’s New Hope in the final at
home opener today was moved up from 4 p.m. to 2 p.m.
to beat bad weather forecasted for the Starkville area,
8:30 p.m. Friday.
the team announced Tuesday.
The Bulldogs are coming off a 4-0 weekend in Columbus girls 54,
Clearwater, Florida, where they captured the title at the
NFCA Leadoff Classic. West Point 24
Mississippi State will take on Alabama State at 2
p.m. today at Nusz Park.
GRENADA — The
Columbus girls han-
SOURCE: From Special Reports
dled West Point 54-24
in Tuesday’s first-round
CALENDAR matchup in Grenada.
Aniya Saddler had
Today 22 points, 10 rebounds,
Prep Boys Basketball five assists and four
Heritage Academy vs. Washington steals for the Falcons.
School at MAIS Class 4A north state DJ Jackson added eight
tournament, Senatobia, 6:30 p.m.
Columbus Christian Academy vs.
Marvell (Ark.) Academy, MAIS Class 2A COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
No. 4 San Diego State claims Mountain West
north state tournament, Steens, 6:30
p.m.
Prep Girls Basketball
Heritage Academy vs. Pillow Academy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
at MAIS Class 4A north state tourna-
ment, Senatobia, 7:45 p.m. SAN DIEGO —
Columbus Christian Academy vs. West Junior forward Matt
Memphis (Ark.) Christian, MAIS Class Mitchell had 22 points
2A north state tournament, Steens, and 12 rebounds for
7:45 p.m. his first double-double
College Softball and scored his 1,000
Alabama State at Mississippi State, 2 career point for No. 4
p.m. San Diego State, which
beat New Mexico 82-
Thursday 59 Tuesday night to
Women’s College Basketball
Ole Miss at Florida, 5 p.m.
win the Mountain West
Conference champion-
MUW at Tougaloo College, 5:30 p.m. ship and remain the na-
Prep Boys Basketball tion’s only undefeated
Noxubee County vs. Aberdeen or team.
Hatley, district tournament, Houston, Yanni Wetzell added
5:30 p.m. 20 points and nine re-
West Lowndes vs. McAdams or Nanih bounds for the Aztecs
Waiya, district tournament, McAdams, (25-0, 14-0 MWC), who
8:30 p.m. clinched at least a share
Prep Girls Basketball of the title in the first
Noxubee County vs. Houston or Hatley, half when Utah State
district tournament, Houston, TBA beat Colorado State,
West Lowndes vs. Ethel or Noxapater,
district tournament, McAdams, 4 p.m.
and then won it out-
right with a suffocating
College Softball defense that held New
Ole Miss at Colorado State and Utah Mexico (17-9 6-7) to just
in Puerto Vallarta College Challenge, 6 26 points in the second
p.m. and 8:30 p.m. half.
Malachi Flynn had
ON THE AIR 15 points and Jordan
Schakel 11 for SDSU.
Today
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Mitchell, a junior
forward from Riverside,
5:30 p.m. — Xavier at Butler, CBSSN
scored his 1,000th ca-
5:30 p.m. — Creighton at Seton Hall,
reer point on a bank
FS1
shot early in the second
5:30 p.m. — South Carolina at Geor-
half. That was part of a
gia, SECN
9-2 run that expanded
6 p.m. — Rutgers at Ohio State, BTN
6 p.m. — Alabama at Auburn, ESPN2
SDSU’s 35-33 halftime
lead to 44-35.
6 p.m. — Connecticut at Southern
Vante Hendrix had
Methodist, ESPNEWS
20 points for New Mex-
6 p.m. — George Mason at Virginia
ico.
Commonwealth, ESPNU
7 p.m. — Louisville at Georgia Tech,
ACCN
7:30 p.m. — Providence at St. John’s, Pro Basketball
CBSSN NBA Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
7:30 p.m. — Marquette at Villanova,
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
FS1 Toronto 40 14 .741 —
Boston 37 16 .698 2½
7:30 p.m. — Florida at Texas A&M, Philadelphia 34 21 .618 6½
Brooklyn 24 28 .462 15
SECN New York 17 37 .315 23
Southeast Division
8 p.m. — Michigan at Northwestern, W L Pct GB
Miami 35 18 .660 —
BTN Orlando 23 31 .426 12½
8 p.m. — Iowa State at Oklahoma, Washington 19 33 .365 15½
ESPN2
Charlotte
Atlanta
17 36 .321 18
15 40 .273 21
Central Division
8 p.m. — Houston at South Florida, W L Pct GB
Milwaukee 46 7 .868 —
ESPNU Indiana 31 23 .574 15½
Chicago 19 36 .345 28
GOLF Detroit 19 37 .339 28½
8 p.m. — LPGA Tour: The ISPS Handa Cleveland 13 40 .245 33
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Australian Open, First Round, Seaton, Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
Australia, GOLF Houston 34 20 .630 —
Dallas 32 22 .593 2
NBA BASKETBALL Memphis 27 26 .509 6½
6:30 p.m. — Milwaukee at Indiana,
ESPN
San Antonio
New Orleans
23 31 .426 11
23 31 .426 11
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
9 p.m. — LA Lakers at Denver, ESPN Denver
Utah
38 16 .704 —
35 18 .660 2½
NHL HOCKEY Oklahoma City 32 22 .593 6
Portland 25 30 .455 13½
6:30 p.m. — Montreal at Boston,
NBCSN
Minnesota
16 36 .308 21
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
L.A. Lakers 40 12 .769 —
9 p.m. — Calgary at Los Angeles, L.A. Clippers 37 17 .685 4
NBCSN Sacramento 21 32 .396 19½
Phoenix 21 33 .389 20
Golden State 12 42 .222 29
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points, five rebounds
and five assists.
The Falcons will play
New Hope at 7 p.m. Fri-
day in the district final.
The Trojans beat Gre-
nada 43-40 in the first
round Tuesday.
New Hope boys 87,
West Point 57
GRENADA — The
New Hope boys rout-
ed West Point 87-57 on
Tuesday in Grenada.
RL Mattix led the
way with 20 points,
six rebounds and five
assists for the Tro-
jans, and Jaylen Smith
scored 17 points and
had four rebounds and
four assists.
Caleb Parr had a
double-double for New
Hope with 17 points
and 10 rebounds, DJ
Hughes had nine points
and four rebounds,
Taylon Stevenson had
seven points and seven
rebounds, and LJ Hack-
man had five points and
five assists.
New Hope girls 43,
Grenada 40
Starkville boys 82,
South Panola 55
STARKVILLE —
The Starkville High
School boys team won
its first-round matchup
against South Panola
82-55 in the Class 6A,
Region 3 tournament on
Tuesday in Starkville.
The host Jackets
No. 6 Dayton 81,
Rhode Island 67
DAYTON, Ohio —
Obi Toppin scored 22
points and led an open-
ing 17-point spurt as
Dayton dominated a
match-up of the Toppin
brothers and the Atlan-
tic 10’s top teams.
Both teams brought
double-digit winning
streaks into a chippy
game that included
seven technical fouls.
Dayton (22-2, 11-0) got
the better of it in every
way, winning its 13th in
a row.
Toppin had a dou-
ble-double with 10 re-
bounds. Jalen Crutcher
scored 21 points, and
Trey Landers matched
his career high with 14
rebounds.
Fatts Russell had
19 points for Rhode Is-
land (18-6, 10-2), which
had a 10-game winning
streak snapped.
No. 9 Maryland 72,
Nebraska 70
COLLEGE PARK,
Md. — Jalen Smith
had 16 points and 13
rebounds, Eric Ayala
scored 16 points and
Maryland extended its
winning streak to seven
games and remained
alone atop the Big Ten.
After the Terra-
pins (20-4, 10-3) let a
Monday’s Games
Orlando 135, Atlanta 126
Brooklyn 106, Indiana 105
Charlotte 87, Detroit 76
Toronto 137, Minnesota 126
Milwaukee 123, Sacramento 111
Utah 123, Dallas 119
Denver 127, San Antonio 120
Miami 113, Golden State 101
L.A. Lakers 125, Phoenix 100
Tuesday’s Games
Washington 126, Chicago 114
Philadelphia 110, L.A. Clippers 103
New Orleans 138, Portland 117
San Antonio 114, Oklahoma City 106
Houston 116, Boston 105
Today’s Games
Atlanta at Cleveland, 6 p.m.
Detroit at Orlando, 6 p.m.
Milwaukee at Indiana, 6:30 p.m.
Toronto at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.
Washington at New York, 6:30 p.m.
Charlotte at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Portland at Memphis, 7 p.m.
Sacramento at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.
Golden State at Phoenix, 8 p.m.
Miami at Utah, 8 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Denver, 9 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
L.A. Clippers at Boston, 7 p.m.
Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
College Basketball
Tuesday’s Scores
EAST
Maryland 72, Nebraska 70
NC State 79, Syracuse 74
St. Bonaventure 74, Saint Joseph’s 56
SOUTH
Davidson 79, Fordham 49
Kentucky 78, Vanderbilt 64
LSU 82, Missouri 78
Ole Miss 83, Mississippi St. 58
Tennessee 82, Arkansas 61
Virginia 50, Notre Dame 49, OT
Wake Forest 74, North Carolina 57
will face Greenville at in Senatobia. boys team beat Kirk
8:30 p.m. Friday in the Caroline Wood had Academy 59-39 in the
championship game. 14 points to lead the first round of the MAIS
Volunteers. Class 3A north half
Starkville girls 43, Starkville Academy
will play the winner of
tournament on Tues-
Greenville 29 day at Central Holmes
Wednesday’s game be-
STARKVILLE — Christian in Lexington.
tween Heritage Acade-
The Starkville girls also The Raiders will play
my and Pillow Academy
won their first-round the winner of Wednes-
game Tuesday, beat-
at 4 p.m. Friday. day’s game between
ing Greenville 43-29 at Marshall Academy and
Starkville High School. Caledonia boys 46, Indianola Academy.
Amaya Ford led the South Pontotoc 44
Jackets with 17 points, FULTON — The
Caledonia boys sur-
North Delta School
and Sukkima Suell
scored 12. vived South Pontotoc 70, Oak Hill Academy
Starkville will play 46-44 in Tuesday’s first- girls 30
Germantown at 7 p.m. round game in the MH- LEXINGTON —
Friday for the district SAA Class 4A, Region 2 The Oak Hill Academy
crown. tournament at Itawam- girls were routed 70-30
ba Community College by North Delta School
in Fulton.
Magnolia Heights Jeremy Emerson
in the first round of the
MAIS Class 3A north
boys 63, Starkville scored eight points and half tournament on
Academy 55 added 12 rebounds for Tuesday in Lexington.
SENATOBIA — The Caledonia. The Raiders girls
Starkville Academy The ’Feds will take are eliminated from ti-
boys team fell to host on Shannon at 5:30 p.m.
tle contention with the
Magnolia Heights 63-55 Thursday in the tourna-
loss.
in the first round of the ment semifinals
MAIS Class 4A north
half tournament on Itawamba AHS girls Hebron Christian
Tuesday in Senatobia. 44, Caledonia 31 girls 39, Tunica Chris-
The Volunteers are
eliminated from state
FULTON — The tian 29
Caledonia girls lost STEENS — The He-
championship conten- 44-31 to Itawamba Ag- bron Christian School
tion with the loss to the ricultural in Tuesday’s girls won their first-
Chiefs.
first-round game in the round game in the
Starkville Academy
MHSAA Class 4A, Re- MAIS Class 2A tour-
gion 2 tournament at nament on Tuesday in
girls 45, Magnolia Itawamba Community Steens, beating Tunica
College in Fulton.
Heights 17 The loss ends Cale-
Christian School 39-29.
SENATOBIA — The The Eagles will play
donia’s season. Lee Academy (Arkan-
Starkville Academy
girls beat host Magno- sas) at 4 p.m. Friday.
lia Heights 45-17 in the Oak Hill Academy The Hebron boys
first round of the MAIS boys 59, Kirk Aca. 39 were eliminated by Tu-
Class 4A north half LEXINGTON — nica Christian with a
tournament on Tuesday The Oak Hill Academy loss Tuesday.
14-point lead dwindle to and were down 36-27 at left knee as Michigan
71-70, Smith blocked a halftime. State’s Xavier Tillman
shot in the waning sec- Vanderbilt (9-15, threw down a huge
onds and made a free 1-10) was looking to dunk at the buzzer that
throw on the other end make Kentucky the lifted the Spartans over
to clinch it. second straight ranked the Illini.
Donta Scott had 10 team to come into Me- The severity of
points and 10 rebounds morial Gym and lose Dosunmu’s injury
for Maryland, and An- within the past week wasn’t immediately
thony Cowan Jr. totaled after the Commodores made available. The Il-
13 points and 10 assists. upset then-No. 18 LSU. lini’s leading scorer had
It was the first time 17 points Tuesday and
since 2001 that three
Terps registered dou-
No. 13 Penn State 88, is averaging 15.8 per
Purdue 76 game.
ble-doubles in the same
WEST LAFAY- Rocket Watts led the
game.
ET TE, Ind. — Mike Spartans (17-8, 9-5 Big
Haanif Cheatham
Watkins matched his Ten) with 21 points, and
scored 20 and Thorir
season high with 19 Tillman had 17. Aar-
Thorbjarnarson added on Henry and Cassius
15 for Nebraska (7-17, points, and Seth Lundy
added a career-high 18 Winston added 13 and
2-11), which has lost
to lift Penn State. 12, respectively.
nine straight and is 0-9
The Nittany Lions Andres Feliz scored
on the road.
(19-5, 9-4 Big Ten) 15 points and Kofi
made a season-high 14 Cockburn added 11 for
No. 12 Kentucky 78, 3-pointers for their sev- Illinois (16-8, 8-5).
Vanderbilt 64 enth consecutive vic-
NASHV ILLE,
Tenn. — Tyrese Maxey
tory that also snapped No. 25 LSU 82,
scored 25 points, and
a nine-game losing
streak in the series. It
Missouri 78
BATON ROUGE, La.
Kentucky rallied from was Penn State’s first
its biggest halftime — Darius Days scored
win at Mackey Arena seven of his 20 points in
deficit of the season. since Feb. 18, 2006.
Kentucky (19-5, 9-2) Trevion Williams fin-
the final five minutes as
kept a piece of the lead LSU rallied to beat Mis-
ished with 17 points and
atop the Southeastern 10 rebounds to lead Pur-
souri.
Conference standings LSU (18-6, 9-2 South-
due (14-11, 7-7), which eastern Conference)
with Auburn and LSU.
had its three-game win-
The Wildcats also won trailed by eight points
ning streak end.
their eighth straight midway through the
second half before tak-
over Vanderbilt, though
this was the fifth time in Michigan State 70, ing the lead for good at
this streak that they’ve No. 22 Illinois 69 72-69 on Days’ 3-point-
had to rally from a dou- CH A MPA IGN, er with 4:43 remaining.
ble-digit deficit. This Ill. — Star guard Ayo Missouri (11-13, 3-8)
time, they trailed by Dosunmu crumbled to stayed close over the
14 during the first half the floor clutching his final minutes.
MIDWEST BOSTON RED SOX — Promoted bench coach OTTAWA REDBLACKS — Signed LB Kevin Brown
Akron 74, Bowling Green 59
Ball St. 63, N. Illinois 59
Ron Roenicke to interim manager. Signed C Juan
Centeno and OF Cesar Puello to minor league
and DB Randall Evans to one-year contract ex-
tensions.
Dayton 81, Rhode Island 67
E. Michigan 73, Cent. Michigan 70
contracts.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with
WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed OL Kevin
Lawrence, DB Dexter McDougle, LB Thomas
Michigan St. 70, Illinois 69 LHP Manny Banuelos, LHP Wei-Yin Chen, OF Miles, WR Deontez Alexander, DB Dee Alford, OL
Ohio 73, W. Michigan 61 Eric Filia and INF Alen Hanson to minor league Sepesitiano Pupungatoa, OL Chris Kolankowski,
Oklahoma St. 64, Kansas St. 59 contracts. K Matthew Riley. Agreed to terms with DB Josh
Penn St. 88, Purdue 76 TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Johnson on a one-year contract.
Toledo 65, Miami (Ohio) 57 Taylor Jungmann on a minor league contract. HOCKEY
FAR WEST TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with National Hockey League
Boise St. 74, Air Force 57 RHP Jake Petricka on a minor league contract. NHL — Fined Vancouver F Antoine Roussel
San Diego St. 82, New Mexico 59 National League $5,000 for slashing Nashville D Yannick Weber
Utah St. 75, Colorado St. 72 CINCINNATI REDS — Assigned RHP Sal Romano during a Feb. 10 game.
outright to Louisville (IL). DALLAS STARS — Loaned D Taylor Fedun to Tex-
Frontier League as (AHL) on a conditioning assignment.
Ole Miss 83, EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Traded OF Taylor Lane DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned Fs Taro
to the Joliet Slammers. Hirose and Givani Smith to Grand Rapids (AHL).
Mississippi St. 58 WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed RHP NEW YORK RANGERS — Reassigned D Brandon
MISSISSIPPI ST. (15-9)
Ado 1-1 1-3 3, Perry 8-15 8-10 24, Stewart 4-11 7-9 Tyler Thornton to a contract extension. Crawley to Hartford (AHL).
16, Weatherspoon 0-5 0-0 0, Woodard 4-10 3-4 BASKETBALL WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Mar-
12, Carter 1-6 1-1 3, Molinar 0-1 0-0 0, Oduro 0-0 Women’s NBA tin Fehervary to Hershey (AHL).
0-0 0. Totals 18-49 20-27 58. CONNECTICUT SUN — Acquired G DeWanna American Hockey League
Bonner from Phoenix for two 2020 first-round (No. AHL — Suspended Colorado F Martin Kaut two
OLE MISS (13-11)
7 and No. 10) draft picks and a 2021 first-round games for a boarding incident in a Feb. 7 game
Buffen 1-4 1-2 3, Sy 7-12 4-6 18, Shuler 5-11 4-5
16, Tyree 13-22 10-11 40, Hinson 2-8 0-0 6, Col- draft pick. against San Jose.
lum 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Crowley 0-1 0-0 MINNESOTA LYNX — Named Rebekkah Brunson SOCCER
0, Curry 0-0 0-0 0, McBride 0-0 0-0 0, F.Miller 0-0 assistant coach. Major League Soccer
FC DALLAS — Loaned D Callum Montgomery to
0-0 0. Totals 28-58 19-24 83. WASHINGTON MYSTICS — Re-signed F Elena
Halftime_Mississippi St. 34-33. 3-Point Goals_ Delle Donne. San Antonio FC (USL).
Mississippi St. 2-16 (Woodard 1-3, Stewart 1-6, FOOTBALL LOS ANGELES FC — Traded D Walker Zimmer-
Molinar 0-1, Weatherspoon 0-1, Perry 0-2, Carter National Football League man to Nashville SC for $600,000 in 2020 General
0-3), Mississippi 8-20 (Tyree 4-10, Shuler 2-4, Hin-
son 2-5, Crowley 0-1). Fouled Out_Weatherspoon,
Sy, Hinson. Rebounds_Mississippi St. 31 (Perry
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Named Jeff Howard
pass game coordinator/defensive backs coach.
GREEN BAY PACKERS — CB Davon House an-
Allocation Money (GAM), $350,000 in 2021 GAM,
and a 2020 international roster spot.
MINNESOTA UNITED — Acquired M Raheem Ed-
8), Mississippi 32 (Sy 8). Assists_Mississippi St. nounced his retirement. wards from Chicago for D Wyatt Omsberg.
15 (Weatherspoon 6), Mississippi 11 (Tyree 4). To- NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DB Lenzy
Pipkins.
PORTLAND TIMBERS — Acquired $150,000 in
2020 General Allocation Money (GAM) from Mon-
tal Fouls_Mississippi St. 18, Mississippi 19.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Promoted Burke Nihill treal for a 2020 international roster slot.
and Gil Beverly to senior vice presidents of both National Women’s Soccer League
Transactions Tuesday’s moves
the Titans and Nissan Stadium.
Canadian Football League
EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed DB Jonathon
ORLANDO PRIDE — Signed M Taylor Kornieck to
a one-year contract.
SKY BLUE FC — Signed F Evelyne Viens to a
BASEBALL Mincy to a two-year contract. Signed RB Brandon two-year contract and D Kaleigh Riehl to a one-
American League Burks; WRs Alex Charette and Shakeir Ryan; DBs year contract.
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Claimed INF Ramon Anthony Covington, Caleb Ham and Trumaine COLLEGE
Urias off waivers from St. Louis. Assigned INF Pat Washington; LBs Justin Tuggle and Korey Jones; RUTGERS — Named Joe Susan special assistant
Valaika outright to Norfolk (IL). and OL Jean-Simon Roy to one-year contracts. to the head coach.
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PREP BASEBALL

Talented newcomers, Oswalt’s pitching expertise have Vols feeling confident

BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Jus-
tin Rook is back home.
The senior pitcher
used to attend Starkville
Academy, but then he
transferred to Starkville
High School to play base-
ball for the Yellow Jack-
ets. Now he’s back with
the Volunteers, returning
to Starkville Academy to
play his senior year.
“They welcomed me
with open arms,” he said.
“It was almost like I never
left.”
Rook is just one of
the plentiful newcomers
on this year’s Starkville
Academy squad, and after
a host of seniors graduat-
ed after last season’s run
to the north state cham-
pionship series, the Vols
will have a different look.
“This year, we’re gon-
na be brand new,” senior
pitcher Garrett Lewis
said. “We’re making a
name for ourselves.”
With Rook and fellow
Starkville High transfer
Kamden Upchurch aboard
and the pitching upside of
sophomore Ayden Also-
brooks, a transfer from
Picayune, Starkville Acad-
emy is receiving an influx
of skilled players all over
the diamond.
“We’ve got a bunch of
young guys that really
have a lot of talent,” senior
center fielder Sam Clark
said. “I feel like they can
step into those roles that
the seniors graduated out
of last year.”
Griffin Little, Howell
Archer and Will Miller
were key parts of last
The Starkville Academy baseball team reached the north state championship series last season.
year’s senior class, but
now it’s up to last year’s ju-
niors to fill their roles for
the first time.
“What I’ve told peo-
ple is that these guys are
good enough to do it;
they just have never had
to,” Starkville Academy
coach Thomas Berkery
said. “Until that moment
happens where they take
the bull by the horns and
actually get the RBI, get
the big two-out hit, they’re
just gonna have to do it
that first time and kind of
get over the hump.”
If the team’s seniors
can get over the hump,
maybe the Vols can, too.
They were stymied by ri-
val Heritage Academy in
the north state final, drop-
ping the decisive third
game of the series 15-10.
Berkery has made his
team’s task clear: Don’t
dwell on that loss.
“I think these guys
have long forgotten about
it,” Berkery said. “It’s gon-
na be one of those things
that as we get closer to
the series with them we
may think about a lit-
tle bit more, but I think
right now we’re confident,
we’re excited, and we’ve
been working hard. We’re
ready to go.”
The Vols were ready
as soon as Friday, when
they were set to play Oak
Hill Academy to start the
season. But the game
was rained out; so were
contests scheduled for
Monday and Tuesday.
Starkville Academy’s sea-
son will — weather per-
mitting — begin at 4:30
p.m. Thursday at Hartfield
Academy, one of the tough
teams in a new reclassifi-
cation for MAIS Class 4A.
With the Hawks, Heritage
Academy and Magnolia
Heights all looming, Berk-
ery and his players know
the path to contention
won’t be easy. But the Vols
are still confident.
“I look at this team as
a state champion,” Rook
said. “I think we 100 per-
cent have the talent to go
all the way and actually
get it done.”
Dispatch file photo
With the presence of
former MLB star Roy Os-
walt, whom Berkery hired
as the Volunteers’ pitch-
ing coordinator before last
season, Rook couldn’t say
no to coming aboard.
Rook said Oswalt
helped him finally find
his change-up and com-
mand all his pitches, and
other Starkville Academy
players found the former
Houston Astros starter
similarly helpful.
“Every time you pitch,
he teaches you something
new,” senior Michael Win-
field said. “He’s definitely
helped me with my ve-
locity and even my spin
rate and just grips on any
pitch. His knowledge is
unlike anybody’s I’ve ever
seen.”
Oswalt said that his
goal is to teach the Volun-
teers’ staff how to pitch
deep into a game while
minimizing their pitch
count.
“If they can do that,
we’re gonna win a whole
lot of ballgames,” Oswalt
said. “That’s how I had
success in the big leagues:
getting deep into games,
winning the games late,
and that’s what I’m trying
to teach these guys.”
Having Oswalt on staff
has allowed Berkery to
simply “hand him the
keys” when it comes to
“He takes off and runs
with it. It allows the other
coaches to focus on get-
ting our hitters ready and
getting our defense ready
and not have to even wor-
ry about pitching.
“The guys buy into
what he’s doing, what he’s
talking about,” Berkery
added. “The good thing
with him is that none of
what he teaches, he made
up out of thin air. It’s all
proven fact and stuff that’s
worked for a lot of years
for a lot of big leaguers.”
Along with that train-
ing, Winfield said, Oswalt
tells stories, too: about
his time playing at tiny
Weir High School. How he
pitched every game; how
his arm never hurt.
Oswalt is “kinda scary
sometimes, but he’s a fun
guy,” Lewis said. “Some-
body who made it that far,
he obviously knows what
he’s doing. You’ve gotta
listen to him.”

PREP SOCCER

Starkville Academy boys shut out Heritage Academy

BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — The
Starkville Academy boys
soccer team isn’t going to
the playoffs this season.
But in Tuesday’s
home match against ri-
val Heritage Academy at
Starkville High School,
the Volunteers played as
if they were in the post-
season. Goalkeeper Char-
lie Cox shut out the Pa-
triots, sophomore Isaac
Lepard scored late in the
first half, and Starkville
Academy (5-4) beat its ri-
val 1-0.
“That was our playoff
game,” Starkville Acad-
emy coach John Morgan
said.
The Vols’ elimination
came down to goal dif-
ferential, Morgan said;
Heritage Academy coach
Joe Asadi pointed out that
Starkville Academy need-
ed to outscore the Patriots
by three goals on Tuesday
to overcome them. That
was a tall task for the Vols
against the No. 1 seed in
their district, which beat
Starkville Academy 2-0 in
Columbus earlier in the
year.
But Tuesday’s shutout
win for the Vols, although
it didn’t get them into the
playoffs, was a testament
to their perseverance.
“We don’t give up,”
Lepard said. “It was a
great way to end off the
season.”
Lepard hobbled off the
field with help from the
Volunteers coaches after
banging knees with an op-
ponent in stoppage time
as the Patriots sought the
tying goal. In clear pain,
he said postgame he was
feeling “great”: “It was a
good game.”
Given space in the box,
he beat Heritage Acade-
my keeper Parker Maner
with a well-placed shot in
the 12th minute. The goal
came on one of Starkville
Academy’s few offensive
chances of the match, and
converting was critical.
“That’s always import-
ant, especially because
we have struggled of-
fensively throughout the
year,” Morgan said. “But
defensively, we knew we
were strong, and we knew
that their best defense
was their offense. If you
could stem the wave, we
were gonna have chanc-
es.”
While Heritage Acad-
emy seemed to keep the
ball on the attacking half
of the field for most of the
match, the defense Mor-
gan mentioned tightened
up. Using extra defend-
ers and relying on Cox’s
bulky frame — the keep-
er is a two-way lineman
on the Vols’ football team,
Starkville Academy man-
aged to keep the Patriots
off the board.
That proved frustrat-
ing for Asadi and the Pats,
who had no trouble scor-
ing in 12-0 and 9-0 wins
over Magnolia Heights
last week.
“I’m not happy with the
performance,” Asadi said.
“We spent 70 minutes in
their 18-yard (box); we
didn’t finish it. You’ve got
chances, but if you don’t
use the chances, you’re
not gonna score.”
The Patriots came
closest in the final 10
minutes of the first half,
where Cox saved three
shots, and late in the sec-
ond, where the keeper
had to turn a few more
shots away.
“He’s basically what
he’s been all year,” Mor-
gan said of Cox. “That
was probably one of our
stronger points going into
the game that we were
pretty confident about.”
And even though
Starkville Academy’s sea-
son ended Tuesday night,
Lepard and the Vols are
happy to go out with a win
like the one they got.
“It was a team effort,”
Lepard said. “It was awe-
some.”

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

New faces aplenty as MLB’s spring training begins in Arizona, Florida

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT MYERS, Fla. — The crack
of the bat at spring training camps
replaced the sound of trash can lids
banging in homemade YouTube videos
as baseball emerged from its winter of
cheating scandals and salary dumps to
bask in the Florida and Arizona sun.
The Pittsburgh Pirates and San Di-
ego Padres held their first official work-
outs, and pitchers and catchers for 16
other teams reported to their Grapefruit
and Cactus League complexes on Tues-
day. The rest of the major leagues will
filter in this week.
Red Sox players checked in without
knowing who their manager will be, al-
most a month after Alex Cora was fired
for his part in the Houston Astros 2017
sign-stealing scheme. Bench coach Ron
Roenicke, a former Brewers skipper,
will serve as interim manager while the
team waits for Major League Baseball to
wrap up its investigation into Boston’s
attempts to steal signs after Cora ar-
rived in ‘18.
The Red Sox were also without a for-
mer MVP and Cy Young Award winner
after the long-haggled trade of Mookie
Betts and David Price to the Dodgers
was finalized on Monday.
“Great teammates. Great players,”
Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr.
said after arriving at Fenway South on
Tuesday. “Time to move forward.”
At the Red Sox complex in Fort My-
ers, reliever Matt Barnes tossed a foot-
ball on a back field while teammates
stretched and sprinted. The rest of the
position players are scheduled to report
on Sunday; spring training games begin
in earnest on Feb. 22.
Across Fort Myers at the Minnesota
Twins’ camp, Marwin Gonzalez became
the first Astros hitter to apologize for his
role in the sign-stealing. The utilityman
was in Houston from 2012-18, including
the championship season that was the
subject of the MLB investigation that led
to the firing of manager A.J. Hinch and
general manager Jeff Luhnow.
“I’m remorseful for everything that
happened in 2017, for everything that we
did as a group and for the players that
were affected directly by us doing this,”
Gonzalez told reporters. “I wish I could
take it back and do it a different way, but
there’s nothing we can do. I just want
to move forward and focus on the 2020
team.”
The Dodgers added Betts and Price
to make another run at a World Series
after being denied in back-to-back sea-
sons by teams that have been accused
of cheating. The Astros, who report to
West Palm Beach on Wednesday, re-
placed Hinch with Dusty Baker.
The Mets were the third team to
fire a manager in the wake of the scan-
dal. They reported to Port St. Lucie on
Monday with new manager Luis Rojas;
he replaced Carlos Beltrán, a player on
the Astros World Series team who never
managed a game for New York.
“We expect to be a contender,” Rojas
said in his first spring training news con-
ference. “We have a great roster, great
position players with versatility, great
starting rotation or pitchers that have a
history of Cy Youngs and World Series
winners. And our bullpen has a history
of saving games and being closers.”
Here is some other news from around
spring training:
Working for tips
Phillies manager Joe Girardi said he
will make sure his pitchers and catchers
aren’t giving away their signs. And if the
team picks up on any tells from opposing
pitchers — within the rules — that’s fair
game.
“We’re going to do things the right
way and we’re going to look for every
advantage there is,” Girardi said. “If
the pitcher is tipping, we’re going to use
that. And we’re going to protect … make
sure that our guys aren’t tipping.”
Home again
Joe Maddon returned to the Angels,
where he spent the first three decades of
his baseball career. A light-hitting catch-
er who worked his way up through the
organization before managing the Rays
and Cubs, he is back with a franchise
that hasn’t won a playoff game since
2009.
“It’s kind of eerily the same, so I feel
pretty comfortable with it,” he said, not-
ing that he saw some of the same faces
at the complex in Tempe, Arizona, from
before he left for Tampa Bay in 2006.
“Listen, I’ve always loved this place. ... I
get flooded with nostalgia, I do. And it’s
OK. It’s a good thing.”
Rolling in
Reliever Aroldis Chapman showed
up at Yankees camp in Tampa in a white
Rolls Royce convertible with a black roof.
But the biggest arrival was right-hander
Gerrit Cole, who signed a $324 million,
nine-year contract in the offseason.
“He brings a dynamic that’s crazy,”
first baseman Mike Ford said. “He boost-
ers our staff that’s already is awesome.
To have him, probably the top pitcher in
the game, couldn’t be happier.”
New digs
New Giants manager Gabe Kapler
liked the looks of the team’s expanded
complex at Scottsdale Stadium in Ari-
zona. A three-story building behind the
seats down the first base line houses a
new clubhouse, weight room, meeting
spaces, coaches offices, trainers room
and large event space.
“Everything will be more intertwined,
and that’s by design,” Kapler said. “We
want to bring departments together and
we want to solve problems collectively.
And then we can take advantage of a
very diverse group of thinkers.”
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NBA ROUNDUP
Harden scores 42; Rockets cool off Celtics with win
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS last minute with the game ris added 17 points and 12 his 6-foot-6, 285-pound
well in hand. boards for Philadelphia, frame, quick feet and ex-
HOUSTON — James Harden had eight re- which has the NBA’s best plosive vertical to have
Harden scored 42 points, bounds and seven assists, home record at 25-2. Josh his way with every de-
Russell Westbrook had 36 and Westbrook finished Richardson scored 17 of fender Portland tried
and the Houston Rockets with 10 rebounds and five his 21 points in the fourth against him.
snapped Boston’s sev- assists. quarter. JJ Redick scored 20
en-game win streak with Gordon Hayward had Kawhi Leonard led Los and Josh Hart had 17
a 116-105 victory over the 20 points in Boston’s first Angeles with 30 points, points for New Orleans,
Celtics on Tuesday night. loss since Jan. 26. Jaylen and reserve Landry which trailed by as many
Houston broke it open Brown scored 19, and Shamet scored 19 against as 16 in the first quarter
with a 15-2 run that made Jayson Tatum had 15 on his former team. before taking command
it 116-98 with about two
5-for-15 shooting. en route to a third straight
minutes left. Harden
scored six points during Pelicans 138, victory.
the decisive stretch, and 76ers 110, Trail Blazers 117 Portland star Damian
Danuel House had five. Clippers 103 NEW ORLEANS — Lillard scored 20 points
— less than half of his
Boston had two turn- PHILADELPHIA — Zion Williamson scored
overs and missed numer- Ben Simmons had 26 a season-high 31 points, 42-point average over his
ous shots to allow the points, 12 rebounds and powering New Orleans to previous 10 games.
Rockets to turn the close 10 assists, pushing the the victory.
game into a one where Sixers to the win. Playing 28 minutes Wizards 126, Bulls 114
coach Mike D’Antoni Joel Embiid also scored in just his ninth NBA WASHINGTON — had 25 points and 14 re-
cleared the bench for the 26 points and Tobias Har- game, Williamson used Bradley Beal scored 30
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
Dear Abby
D EAR ABBY:
I’ve got a
new one for
you. My beautiful
16-year-old daugh-
ter was interested
in a boy her age
from school. He
was interested in
her, too. He told
her he wanted to
date her, but that
he is “polyam-
ZITS orous” and would
be dating many
girls simultane-
ously. She told him
he’s too young to
know what he is Dear Abby
yet, and he was
just using it as an
excuse to date multiple girls, and
she wasn’t interested.
They are part of the same
friend group. He has been acting
very hurt, pouty and angry. He
told a mutual friend he is “deeply
hurt” he came out to my daugh-
ter and that she won’t accept
him as he is. I’m worried this will
GARFIELD escalate, and he will claim that
she shamed him for this.
Abby, I am all about sup-
porting how people self-identify,
but this is absolutely ridiculous.
What are your thoughts? Is this
the new normal? If you refuse
to date a boy who dates a ton of
other girls simultaneously, does
that make you guilty of shaming?
Personally, I think it’s hilarious
that this is the new excuse to
be promiscuous and so does
CANDORVILLE
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb.
12). In one Robert Frost poem,
he asks a star to say some-
thing to us we can learn. The
star replies, “I burn.” If there
is a lesson on this your solar
return, it is that you also burn
with the heat of purpose, desire
and love, with the energy of
devotion to work and family, and
with small but growing flames
of a new ambition. Libra and
Aquarius adore you. Your lucky
numbers are: 9, 10, 2, 7 and
BABY BLUES 50.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). There are questions worth
answering every day, and every
day they will be answered in a
new way, mostly with slight dif-
ferences. Though you’re coming
into a cycle in which differences
will be more pronounced.
TAURUS (April 20-May
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
points, and the Wizards
held off Zach LaVine and
the Bulls for the victory.
Rui Hachimura added
20 points for Washington,
which won for the fourth
time in six games. Shaba-
zz Napier and Ian Mahin-
mi had 15 apiece.
LaVine scored 19 of
his 41 points in the fourth
quarter as the Bulls whit-
tled an 18-point deficit
down to six points.
Tomas Satoransky add-
ed 19 points for Chicago,.
Spurs 114,
Thunder 106
OKLAHOMA CITY
— LaMarcus Aldridge
bounds, and the Spurs
she, but I won’t
be laughing if we
get called into the
principal’s office.
— NOT FUNNY IN
COLORADO
DEAR NOT
FUNNY: That boy
is sulking because
his pitch didn’t
sell. Polyamory
is the practice of
openly engaging in
multiple intimate
relationships with
the consent of
ALL the people
involved. What
that boy may have
meant was he
enjoys “playing
the field.” Your daughter didn’t
discriminate; she showed good
common sense. If the principal
hears about it, the administrator
not only won’t call your daughter
into the office, I’m pretty sure
the person will get a chuckle out
of this.
DEAR ABBY: Our brother-in-
law made a terrible mistake and
is now serving time. My younger
sister, “Tess,” and I have visited
him on a few occasions. We sup-
port him by listening and have
told him that although he made a
horrible mistake, he has to move
forward.
Well, something happened
that has put a damper on things.
This brother-in-law sent Tess a
letter, and in it he confessed to
her that he had a dream, and
20). You’re going to have to
wake yourself in the name of
motivation. The truth provides
just the nudge. It’s time to lead
yourself away from the things
you’re doing that run counter to
your own best interests.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
There are different theories
about forgiveness. Some shun
the idea completely. Some
insist it’s the answer. Either
way, most would agree it’s a
lighter way to go than carrying
a grudge.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
To find out what your love lan-
guage is, look at the last time
you were hurt in love and by
what. Then look at how you ex-
pressed love to another person.
These indicators point to the
style you’d be most receptive to.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
stopped a five-game slide.
Dejounte Murray
also scored 25 points for
San Antonio, which had
dropped eight of 10 over-
all. Patty Mills had 20
points, and fellow reserve
Derrick White finished
with 17.
The Spurs made 25 of
27 foul shots.
Oklahoma City
dropped its second
straight after a stretch of
nine wins in 10 games.
Chris Paul scored 31
points for the Thunder,
and Shai Gilgeous-Alex-
ander had 17.
San Antonio played
without leading scorer
DeMar DeRozan, side-
lined by back spasms.
she was in it. It wasn’t a horrible
letter, but I believe it was very
inappropriate. He alluded to the
fact that it was a sexual dream.
Tess has asked me if she
should let our older sister, “Jane,”
know what her husband wrote.
Jane has been through so much,
so I told Tess it would not be a
good idea to disclose it and add
to her misery. Tess says it isn’t
fair to her to have to swallow this
pill for the sake of not making
waves. She feels Jane should
know what kind of man her hus-
band is. Abby, Jane knows exactly
what kind of man she has. Part
of what he did wrong was have a
cyber affair.
Should Tess inform Jane that
her husband has been inap-
propriate? She now refuses to
visit our brother-in-law and has
basically written him off. Please
give me your opinion and advice.
— TORN UP OVER THIS IN TEXAS
DEAR TORN UP: Tess is right.
It appears incarceration hasn’t
discouraged your brother-in-law
from writing inappropriate materi-
al to inappropriate recipients.
Tess should not be discouraged
from informing Jane about what
her husband has done and show-
ing her the letter, if it is still in her
possession. Jane has a right to
know. Please respect that Tess
needs to distance herself from
this troubled individual and his
fantasies, and don’t encourage
her to visit him again. In light of
what’s happened, I’m not sure
you should either.
Children go to school and, hope-
fully, learn how to learn. What to
learn — that’s a different story,
and subject to much debate.
You’re still convinced you don’t
know the right things, but you’re
equally convinced you know how
to figure them out.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
If you believe you don’t know
what you’re doing and then get
evidence that supports that
belief, frustration sets in. This
is the point when many would
give up. Not you. All of this can
be figured out, if only you don’t
quit.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
There are those you admire and
doing so seems to feed you
on some level, give you ideas,
make you feel energized. Then
there are others you give a kind
of tense admiration that verges
on upset. Don’t focus there. It
helps nothing.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). It’s not that you want to
move faster, it’s just that you
need to get more done and that
seems like the obvious way.
Then again, you could add more
people to the mix. That would
be the fun way!
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You’ll be caught between
wanting to give and realizing the
cost, which even the smallest
interaction will have. Most of
the expense will be so worth-
while. Still, you can’t spend
quality time with everyone.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Some topics go very
obviously with you. Anyone
getting to know you will be
moved to ask about them. Your
discussion on these topics will
be important to your business
and to the way you think about
yourself.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Perhaps there is a part
of you who is afraid of another
more aggressive part of you,
and there’s been some you-on-
you bullying. The good news is
there’s also a mediator in there
somewhere to work things out.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Sometimes people get to
the top and forget the thou-
sands of small steps it took to
get there, encouraging with un-
helpful platitudes. You’ll provide
more useful help by imparting
smaller and more specific
instruction.
Button up your overcoat
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Happy
Valentine’s
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Try starting your day with a peanut
butter bread pudding with maple
peanut sauce.

Protein-packed
peanut butter
breakfast
FAMILY FEATURES

R
ecipes that are both nu-
tritious and flavorful can
help bring your loved ones
together at the family table. Power
up your family meals with pro-
tein-packed dishes like peanut
butter breakfast bread pudding
with maple peanut sauce.
See more at culinary.net.

PEANUT BUTTER BREAKFAST

BREAD PUDDING WITH
MAPLE PEANUT SAUCE
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 35-40 minutes
Servings: 4

Butter
2/3 cup creamy peanut butter, divided
2 eggs
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup milk
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 cups cubed brioche or challah bread,
cut into 3/4-inch cubes
2/3 cup pure maple syrup
familyfeatures.com 1/3 cup crushed peanuts
Flavor your Valentine’s Day with these peppermint shortbread cookies or other recipes included today, most from Powdered sugar, for garnish
local cookbooks.
n Heat oven to 350 F. Butter four
4-ounce ramekins.
BY JAN SWOOPE shortbread cookies, which is from your choice and decorate with tiny n In bowl, mix 1/3 cup peanut butter,
jswoope@cdispatch.com eggs, sugar, milk, vanilla and salt. Toss
familyfeatures.com. sprinkle hearts and candies. bread cubes in mixture until thoroughly

I
n just two days, we celebrate
Cupid’s big day, a day devoted to
expressing love and affection.
The National Retail Foundation
says Americans spent a record
$20.7 billion expressing it last Val-
entine’s. Predictions are the total
will surpass $27 billion this time
around. That’s a lot of love. Many of
those dollars are spent on jewelry,
dinners out and flowers for signif-
icant others, but consumers also
spend to let other family members,
friends, children’s classmates and
teachers, pets and others in our
circle know we appreciate them.
I personally won’t be spend-
ing the average $196.31 the NRF
expects each celebrating consumer
After you’ve made the goodies of
your choice, you may be looking for
other ways make Valentine’s Day
creative, yet not costly. Me, too.
Here are a few suggestions:
n The weather for Friday looks
dry (finally) and seasonably cold;
how about a bonfire?
n Cover a mirror with loving
sticky notes (or arrange them in a
heart shape) for someone special,
including the kids.
n An all-day, or all-evening,
movie marathon is fun, even better
under a blanket fort.
n Make a Valentine’s Day pop-
corn mix by adding pink and red
M&M’s (plain and peanut), mini
marshmallows and heart-shaped
However you celebrate — even if
it’s settling down with a good book
and a cup of hot chocolate or tea —
Happy Valentine’s Day 2020.
FUDGE PIE
Serves 8
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
2 eggs
7/8 cup sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon dark rum, brand or bourbon
1/2 cup chopped pecans, if desired
n Preheat oven to 350 F. Melt the choc-
olate and butter in a double boiler. Beat
the eggs until foamy. Slowly add the sugar
coated. Divide evenly among prepared
dishes. Bake until custard is set in
middle and tops are golden, about 35-40
minutes. If tops of bread brown too quick-
ly, cover ramekins loosely with aluminum
foil.
n In small saucepan over low heat, com-
bine remaining peanut butter and maple
syrup until thoroughly warmed.
n To serve, drizzle ramekins with
maple-peanut sauce and garnish with
chopped peanuts and powdered sugar.
n Substitution: Whole wheat rolls may be
used in place of brioche or challah bread.
(Source: Georgia Peanut Commission)
Easy ethnic

to shell out, but I will be — like
many of you — sharing the love by
gifting edible happies. So, to that
end, I went searching in my trove
enchiladas
candy sprinkles. and beat well.
n For the kids, plan a little n Sift the flour and salt together. Stir into
the batter gently.
scavenger hunt, with prizes. Or n Add the melted chocolate, vanilla,
cut up felt or foam heart shapes FAMILY FEATURES
liquor and nuts (if desired). Bake 30 min-

of cookbooks compiled by Golden
Triangle groups over the years,
scouting for recipes that suit the
occasion. Several are shared today;
all are from local cookbooks, with
the exception of the peppermint
into jigsaw puzzles and give out a
prize for the first to put the puzzle
together.
n Have an indoor picnic.
n A twist on cookies: dip fortune
cookies in the melted chocolate of
utes. The center should be slightly puffed
and the center set. Top with ice cream or
whipped cream.
(Source: Sylvia Higginbotham, “Old
Southern Recipes, Remedies and Pearls
of Wisdom”)
See VALENTINE’S, 6B
I
f your family is looking for a
simple way to serve up a south-
of-the-border classic, this enchi-
lada casserole can be your ticket to
a warm, filling meal.
Find more meal ideas at culi-
nary.net.
See ENCHILADAS, 6B

BUTTER TOGETHER

This Valentine’s Day, give the gift of a falsified memory

I
have a vivid tender and sweet — As an adult, I was ecstatic res and red velvet whoopie pie heavier, tangy cream cheese
childhood mem- but not sickeningly when the People of the Internet and red velvet milkshakes and frosting that is currently in
ory of my mother so — and, of course, (not an official name but prob- red velvet cake pops shaped favor.
making beautiful moist. Don’t come ably should be) began to extoll into tiny Easter bunnies with The recipes below are an
red velvet cakes at me with a dry the virtues of red velvet cake. candy tails. amalgamation of two I found:
every Valentine’s cake, my people. Finally, I thought, I’d be able to And when I did find recipes, the red velvet cake recipe is
Day. I can remem- Problem is, I am get her recipe. it seemed like every recipe courtesy of McCormick, and
ber opening the not sure how accu- But of course I was wrong I tried tasted ... wrong. Not the frosting recipe is a doubled
refrigerator door rate my memory then, too. For one thing, it bad. Just wrong. It had an odd version of one I have made
just to get a peek at is. Mama stopped seems no one on the internet whang to it.
many times from the blog “Our
it, heart-shaped and making the cake who falls in love with a food It took me years of poking
Best Bites.” I hope you enjoy
covered in a fluffy when I was older trend falls in love with the around to discover that older
Amelia Plair both.
white icing. and eventually lost actual, original food ... so if the recipes for red velvet cake do
In my imagina- the recipe. Did she People of the Internet really not call for cream cheese frost- Amelia Plair is a mom and
tion, she made this cake every ever make it annually? Maybe like red velvet cake, you won’t ing. That was the difference, high school teacher in Starkville.
year, and every year I would not ... maybe it was only for a find three million recipes for as it turns out: the cake of my Email reaches her at mamabad-
peek longingly at it for hours year or two, but I was so excit- red velvet cake. Instead, you’ll imagination was frosted with a gerplair@gmail.com.
before it was to be cut. It was ed by it that it seemed longer. find recipes for red velvet s’mo- light, whipped frosting, not the See BUTTER TOGETHER, 6B
6B WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2020 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

A sweet party treat

FAMILY FEATURES

P
erfect for a party or simply
indulging yourself, these
addictive pastry puffs make it
hard to stop at one. Easy to assem-
ble with these step-by-step instruc-
tions, the ricotta mixture and fresh
strawberry compote are dynamic
together and provide a generous
touch of sweetness.
For the full video and instruc-
tions, plus more dessert ideas, visit
culinary.net.

RICOTTA PUFF PASTRIES

WITH STRAWBERRY COMPOTE
2 sheets puff pastry
1/2 cup, plus 1 tablespoon, heavy cream
1/2 cup granulated sugar, divided
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon water
1 package fresh strawberries, hulled and
sliced
1/2 cup homemade, part-skim or whole
milk ricotta cheese
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
n Heat oven to 400 F.
n Cut both puff pastry sheets into nine
squares. Make slit in corner of each
square toward middle of pastry. Fold cor-
ners to other corners to create pinwheel
shape. Brush pastry with 1 tablespoon
heavy cream. Combine 1/4 cup granu-
familyfeatures.com
Sweet strawberries, ground cinnamon, sugar and ricotta cheese blend
flavors in these puff pastries with strawberry compote.
lated sugar and ground cinnamon then n In medium bowl, using mixer, whip
sprinkle on each puff pastry. heavy cream until stiff peaks form. Set
n Bake 12-15 minutes until pastry is aside. In separate medium bowl, combine
golden brown and raised. ricotta cheese, powdered sugar and vanil-
n In medium saucepan on medium to la extract. Mix until fluffy. Return whipped
high heat, pour in remaining granulated cream to ricotta mixture and whip 1-2
sugar and water. Once sugar is dissolved, minutes until mixture is light and fluffy.
pour in fresh strawberries. Bring mixture n Spoon ricotta cream into center
to boil then simmer 10-15 minutes, of each puff pastry pinwheel. Spoon
stirring occasionally, until strawberries strawberry compote in middle of ricotta
are broken apart and semi-thick sauce is mixture.
created. Let chill in refrigerator 2 hours. (Source: culinary.net, adapted from Milk
To chill faster, put in freezer 45 minutes. Means More)

Valentine’s
Continued from Page 5B
MILLIONAIRES
78 Kraft caramels
2 tablespoons margarine
2 tablespoons evaporated
milk
2 cups pecan halves
1 (24-ounce) package milk
chocolate morsels
1/4 block paraffin
n Heat first 3 ingredients in
double boiler, or in microwave,
until smooth. Stir in pecans.
n Drop with spoon on but-
tered cookie sheets. Refriger-
ate until cool.
n Melt chocolate chips and
paraffin in microwave. Dip car-
amels into chocolate mixture.
Cool and store in a cool place.
(Source: Debbie Billington,
“Taste and See Too” cook-
book, First Baptist Church,
West Point)
CHOCOLATE DOT
1 cup pecans (halves or large
chunks)
1/2 package Baker’s semi-
sweet chocolate (4 squares)
n Melt caramels in cream
over hot water using dou-
ble boiler. Cool about 10
minutes.
n Place nuts on waxed paper
in groups of three. Spoon car-
amel mixture over nuts, leav-
ing tips showing. Let stand
until set (about half hour).
n Meantime, melt chocolate
over hot water; cool to luke-
warm and spoon over caramel
clusters.
(Source: Southern Blend II
cookbook, Columbus)
FROZEN STRAWBERRY
SQUARES
2 cups flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 cup Cool Whip or whipping
cream
n Mix flour,nuts, brown sugar
and melted oleo. Place on
cookie sheet. Bake at 350
F for 20 minutes. Stir a few
times while baking. Cool.
n Place 3/4 of crumbs in a
9-by-12-inch dish.
n Mix lemon juice, white sug-
ar and partly thawed strawber-
ries. If using whipping cream,
beat until stiff peaks form.
n Fold whipped cream or Cool
Whip with strawberry mixture.
Pour over crumb mixture.
Sprinkle remaining crumbs
over top and freeze.
(Source: Southern Blend II
cookbook, Columbus)
PEPPERMINT
SHORTBREAD COOKIES
Prep time: 15 minutes, plus
30 minutes freeze time
Cook time: 15 minutes
Servings: 40
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup peppermint crunch
baking chips
n In stand mixer fitted with
paddle attachment, cream
butter, powdered sugar,
vanilla and salt until smooth.
Gradually add flour and mix on
low until combined. Add bak-
ing chips and continue mixing
on low until fully combined.
n On wax paper or parchment
paper, form dough into 12-14-
inch log and freeze at least
30 minutes, or until firm.
n Heat oven to 350° F.
n Cut shortbread dough into
1/4-inch slices; bake 13-15
minutes on parchment-lined
baking sheets.
(Source: Rachel Gurk, “Rachel
Cooks,” on behalf of Milk
Means More/familyfeatures.
com)

TURTLES 1 (10-ounce) package frozen 2-2 1/2 sticks unsalted but-

(Makes about 24 candies) strawberries, partly thawed ter, softened
1 cup chopped nuts 3/4 cup powdered sugar
1/2 pound Kraft caramel 1 cup melted oleo 1 teaspoon pure vanilla
2 tablespoons heavy cream 2/3 cup white sugar extract

Enchiladas
Continued from Page 5B

ENCHILADA CASSEROLE
Nonstick cooking spray
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
12 ounces ground beef
1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
3/4 teaspoon ground cumin
15 ounces pinto beans, drained
20 ounces diced tomatoes and green chilies,
undrained
1 1/2 cups sour cream
3 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
12 corn tortillas, 6 inches
20 ounces enchilada sauce culinary.net
8 ounces shredded cheddar cheese Need a weeknight meal? Try this enchila-
1/2 cup green onions, chopped da casserole.
n Heat oven to 350 F. Spray baking dish with n Place six tortillas in bottom of baking dish,
nonstick cooking spray.
n In large skillet, cook onion and ground beef overlapping as needed. Top tortillas with beef
until cooked through. Drain, if necessary. mixture and sour cream mixture. Top with 10
n Stir in chili powder and cumin. Stir in pinto ounces enchilada sauce. Repeat layers. Bake
beans and diced tomatoes; set aside. 35-40 minutes. Sprinkle shredded cheese and
n In small bowl, combine sour cream, flour green onion over casserole. Bake 5 minutes, or
and garlic powder. until cheese melts.

Butter Together
Continued from Page 5B
FLUFFY WHITE ICING
1/3 cup flour
1 cup milk (preferably whole)
1 cup butter at room tempera-
ture
1 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
n Blend together flour and
milk. Pour mixture into a
skillet. (Alternately, you can
whisk the flour into the milk if
you have no blender.) Whisk
mixture constantly until it
starts to thicken. Switch to a
silicon spatula and continue to
stir, being sure to scrape the
bottom of the pan frequently
and thoroughly as you stir.
n Remove from heat when the
mixture has thickened to the
consistency of paste. Place
mixture in the refrigerator
and allow to cool completely.
(This step is important: if the
mixture is hot when you add it
to the butter, you will melt the
butter and probably not ever
get the consistency you need
from this frosting. You can
speed up the process in the
freezer, but do not allow the
mixture to freeze.)
n When mixture is cool and
you are ready to frost the
cake, place butter and sugar
into the bowl of a stand mixer.
Cream butter and sugar until
light and fluffy. Add cooled
flour mixture and vanilla. Using
the whisk attachment, contin-
ue to beat the mixture until
the frosting becomes light and
fluffy, about 8 minutes. (Do
not panic if the mixture begins
to separate a few minutes in;
this is normal and will right
itself.)
(If you’d like to look up other
methods for this same recipe,
this frosting is frequently
called ermine icing or boiled
icing. Some people cook the
sugar in with the flour and
milk; this step can reduce the
time spent beating the mixture
at the end. I have not tried
that method, however, so I
cannot vouch for it.)
RED VELVET CAKE
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk
1 bottle (1-ounce) red food
color
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
n Preheat oven to 350 F. (or
325 if using dark or coated
nonstick pans). Grease and
flour two 9-inch round pans (or
one 9-inch round pan and one
9-inch square pan to make a
heart-shaped cake).
n Sift flour, cocoa powder,
baking soda, and salt into one
mixing bowl and set aside.
Cream butter and granulated
sugar in a separate bowl until
light and fluffy.
n Add eggs to the butter
mixture, one at a time,
beating after each addition.
Stir in sour cream, milk, food
coloring, and vanilla. Add flour
mixture and stir in just until
blended; I like to do this part
by hand, not with a mixer, to
avoid overbeating.
n Pour batter into pans.
Bake 35-40 minutes or until
toothpick inserted into center
comes out clean. Cool in pans
10 minutes and then remove
from pans to finish cooling on
wire racks.
To make a heart-shaped cake,
cut round cake in half. Place
half circles on adjacent sides
of the square cake to create
a heart shape. Use frosting
to “glue” the pieces together,
and then frost as usual.

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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF STEPHEN OSAKUE,
JR., DECEASED
ROSARIO CARRILLO, ADMINIS-
TRATOR
NO. 2019-0190-F
RULE 81 SUMMONS BY PUB-
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TO: THE HEIRS AT LAW OF
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You have been made a Defend-
ant in the suit filed in this
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ine the unknown heirs-at-law of matter styled The Bank Of New BRIDGES AND WIFE, DORIS M.
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Columbus, Mississippi 39703.
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seal of said Court, this the
30th day of January, 2020.
CINDY EGGER GOODE, CLERK
CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
(SEAL)
BY: /s/ Tina Fisher
D. C.
PUBLISH: 2/5, 2/12, &
2/19/2020
SPECIAL COMMISSIONER’S
NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF Lowndes
WHEREAS, on the 21st day of
February, 2007, , Freddie
Bridges and Doris Bridges,
Husband and Wife, an Estate
by the Entirety with Full Rights LOWNDES, AND STATE OF MIS- LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
of Survivorship, executed and
delivered a certain Deed of
Trust unto Express Financial
Services, Inc. National Servic
(Doug Flavin), Trustee for Mort- EAST QUARTER OF SECTION
gage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc. as nominee for
Wilmington Finance Inc., Bene- COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, AND.
ficiary, to secure an indebted-
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of Lowndes County, Missis-
sippi in Book 2007 at Page
7174; and
WHEREAS, Freddie Bridges and EST CORNER OF THE ALMA
Doris Bridges, Husband and
Wife, an Estate by the Entirety
with Full Rights of Survivorship INCLUSIVE, IN THE OFFICE OF
is also known as Freddie B
Bridges and Doris M Bridges
per the land records of
Lowndes County, Mississippi;
and
WHEREAS, on the 3rd day of
December, 2012, Mortgage
Electronic Registration Sys-
tems, Inc. as nominee for
Wilmington Finance Inc., as-
signed said Deed of Trust unto A DISTANCE OF 361.5 FEET;
The Bank of New York Mellon,
fka The Bank of New York, as
trustee for the certificatehold-
ers of the CWABS, Inc., Asset- IRON STAKE; RUN THENCE
Backed Certificates, Series
2007-12, by instrument recor-
ded in the office of the afore-
said Chancery Clerk in Mort
Book 2012 at Page 31368;
and
WHEREAS, on the 27th day of
May, 2016 the Holder of said
Deed of Trust substituted and
appointed Emily Kaye Cour-
teau as Trustee in said Deed of NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SEC-
Trust, by instrument recorded
in the office of the aforesaid
Chancery Clerk in Book 2016
at Page 11748;and
WHEREAS, the subject Deed of
Trust was reformed by Final
Judgments rendered in the
matter styled The Bank Of New
York Mellon, F/K/A The Bank
of New York as trustee for re-
gistered Holders of CWABS,
Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates,
Series 2007-12 vs. The Un-
known Heirs of Freddie
Bridges, et al., Cause No.
2016-0553-JNS in the Chan-
cery Court of Lowndes County,
Mississippi. The first rendered
by an Order Granting Default
Judgment as to certain Defend-
ants rendered on the 28th day
of November 2017, and the
second rendered by a Final
Judgment on the 6th day of
November, 2019, said judg-
ments reforming the legal de-
scription in the Deed of Trust in
Mortgage Book 2007 at Page
7174. The Order Granting De-
fault Judgment as to Certain
Defendants appearing in Deed
Book 2017 at Page 8676 on
December 7, 2017, and a Fi-
nal Judgment rendered as to
Defendant Doris Bridges ap-
pearing in Deed Book 2019 at
Page 8622 on November 22,
2019. Further, an Order to Re-
open Case and Appoint Dean
Morris, LLC as Special Com-
missioner for purposes of con-
ducting the Judicial Foreclos-
ure Sale was rendered on the
15th day of January, 2020.
Said Order appearing in the
Chancery Clerk of Lowndes
by the Entirety with Full Rights
of Survivorship, executed and
delivered a certain Deed of
Trust unto Express Financial
Services, Inc. National Servic
(Doug Flavin), Trustee for Mort-
gage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc. as nominee for
Wilmington Finance Inc., Bene-
ficiary, to secure an indebted-
ness therein described, which
Deed of Trust is recorded in
the office of the Chancery Clerk
of Lowndes County, Missis-
sippi in Book 2007 at Page
7174; and
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per the land records of
Lowndes County, Mississippi;
and
WHEREAS, on the 3rd day of
December, 2012, Mortgage
Electronic Registration Sys-
tems, Inc. as nominee for
Wilmington Finance Inc., as-
signed said Deed of Trust unto THE CENTER LINE OF A STREET
The Bank of New York Mellon,
fka The Bank of New York, as
trustee for the certificatehold-
ers of the CWABS, Inc., Asset- TANCE OF 371.5 FEET TO AN
Backed Certificates, Series
2007-12, by instrument recor-
ded in the office of the afore-
said Chancery Clerk in Mort
Book 2012 at Page 31368;
and
WHEREAS, on the 27th day of OF BEGINNING OF THIS DE-
May, 2016 the Holder of said
Deed of Trust substituted and
appointed Emily Kaye Cour-
teau as Trustee in said Deed of THE WEST HALF OF THE
Trust, by instrument recorded
in the office of the aforesaid
Chancery Clerk in Book 2016
at Page 11748;and
WHEREAS, the subject Deed
Trust was reformed by Final
York Mellon, F/K/A The Bank
of New York as trustee for re-
gistered Holders of CWABS,
Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, 01/05/1979 IN DEED BOOK
Series 2007-12 vs. The Un-
known Heirs of Freddie
Bridges, et al., Cause No.
cery Court of Lowndes County,
Mississippi. The first rendered
by an Order Granting Default
Judgment as to certain Defend- THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED
of November 2017, and the
second rendered by a Final
Judgment on the 6th day of
November, 2019, said judg-
scription in the Deed of Trust in EST CORNER OF SOUTHEAST
Mortgage Book 2007 at Page
fault Judgment as to Certain
Book 2017 at Page 8676 on
December 7, 2017, and a Fi-
nal Judgment rendered as to
Defendant Doris Bridges ap-
Page 8622 on November 22,
2019. Further, an Order to Re- LOT (AS RECORDED IN DEED
Morris, LLC as Special Com-
missioner for purposes of con- THE CHANCERY CLERK OF
ducting the Judicial Foreclos-
ure Sale was rendered on the
15th day of January, 2020.
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Chancery
County,
Clerk of
Mississippi's
Lowndes
land re-
cords in Deed Book 2020 at
2020; and
WHEREAS, default having been (CONTAINING 3 ACRES, MORE
made in the payments of the
indebtedness secured by the
said Deed of Trust, and the
holder of said Deed of Trust,
having requested the under-
signed so to do, on the 4th day GREES 59' E FOR 210.0 FEET;
of March, 2020, I will during
the lawful hours of between
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public outcry, offer for sale and FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-
will sell, at the south east front NING, CONTAINING 0.5 ACRE,
door of Lowndes County Court- MORE OR LESS, LYING IN THE
house, 505 2nd Ave. North at
Columbus, Mississippi, for
cash to the highest bidder, the BEING THE SAME PROPERTY
following described land and
property situated in Lowndes
County, Mississippi, to-wit:
THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED
PROPERTY LYING AND BEING
SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF
SISSIPPI, TO WIT:
BEGINNING AT THE NORTHW-
EST CORNER OF THE SOUTH-
28, TOWNSHIP 17 NORTH,
RANGE 16 EAST, LOWNDES
RUN THENCE NORTH 01 DE-
GREE 03 MINUTES WEST
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KING LOT AS FOUND IN DEED
BOOK 568, PAGES 603-604,
THE CHANCERY CLERK OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI; RUN THENCE NORTH 01
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DEGREE 24 MINUTES. EAST
ALONG THE CENTER LINE OF A
STREET A DISTANCE OF 680
FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-
NING OF THIS DESCRIPTION;
RUN THENCE NORTH 01 DE-
GREE 01 MINUTE EAST ALONG
THE CENTER LINE OF A STREET
RUN THENCE SOUTH 88 DE-
GREES 59 MINUTES A DIS-
TANCE OF 371.5 FEET TO AN
SOUTH 01 DEGREE 01
MINUTES WEST 361.5 FEET TO
AN IRON STAKE; RUN THENCE
NORTH 88 DEGREES 59
MINUTES WEST A DISTANCE
OF 371.5 FEET TO THE POINT
OF BEGINNING OF THIS DE-
SCRIPTION; CONTAINING 3
ACRES, MORE OR LESS, AND
LYING AND BEING SITUATED IN
THE WEST HALF OF THE
TION 28, TOWNSHIP 17
NORTH, RANGE 16 EAST,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI.
BEING THE SAME PROPERTY
CONVEYED TO FREDDIE B.
BRIDGES AND WIFE, DORIS M.
BRIDGES BY DEED FROM
SUSAN ELIZA BALL AND
CHARLES L. BALL RECORDED
01/05/1979 IN DEED BOOK
623 PAGE 244, IN THE OFFICE
OF THE CHANCERY CLERK OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI.
AND
THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED
PROPERTY LYING AND BEING
SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF
LOWNDES, AND STATE OF MIS-
SISSIPPI, TO WIT:
BEGINNING AT THE NORTHW-
EST CORNER OF SOUTHEAST
1/4 OF SECTION 28, TOWN-
SHIP 17 NORTH, RANGE 16
EAST, LOWNDES COUNTY, MIS-
SISSIPPI; THENCE N 01 DE-
GRESS 03' W ALONG THE
CENTERLINE OF A PAVED ROAD
FOR 103.76 FEET; THENCE N
01 DEGREES 02' W FOR 300.0
FEET TO THE NORTHWEST
CORNER OF THE ALMA KING
LOT (AS RECORDED IN DEED
BOOK 568, PAGES 603-604,
INCLUSIVE, IN THE OFFICE OF
THE CHANCERY CLERK OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI); THENCE N 01 DE-
GREES 24' E ALONG SAID
CENTERLINE OF ROAD 575.0
FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-
NING; THENCE CONTINUE N 01
SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF
LOWNDES, AND STATE OF MIS-
SISSIPPI, TO WIT:
BEGINNING AT THE NORTHW-
EST CORNER OF THE SOUTH-
EAST QUARTER OF SECTION
28, TOWNSHIP 17 NORTH,
RANGE 16 EAST, LOWNDES
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, AND.
RUN THENCE NORTH 01 DE-
GREE 03 MINUTES WEST
ALONG THE CENTER LINE OF A
PAAVED ROAD A DISTANCE OF
103.76 FEET; RUN THENCE
NORTH 01 DEGREE 02
MINUTES WEST A DISTANCE
EST CORNER OF THE ALMA
KING LOT AS FOUND IN DEED
Legal Notices IN THE OFFICE OF
INCLUSIVE,
THE CHANCERY CLERK OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI; RUN THENCE NORTH 01
DEGREE 24 MINUTES. EAST
ALONG THE CENTER LINE OF A
STREET A DISTANCE OF 680
FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-
NING OF THIS DESCRIPTION;
RUN THENCE NORTH 01 DE-
GREE 01 MINUTE EAST ALONG
A DISTANCE OF 361.5 FEET;
RUN THENCE SOUTH 88 DE-
GREES 59 MINUTES A DIS-
IRON STAKE; RUN THENCE
SOUTH 01 DEGREE 01
MINUTES WEST 361.5 FEET TO
AN IRON STAKE; RUN THENCE
NORTH 88 DEGREES 59
MINUTES WEST A DISTANCE
OF 371.5 FEET TO THE POINT
SCRIPTION; CONTAINING 3
ACRES, MORE OR LESS, AND
LYING AND BEING SITUATED IN
NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SEC-
TION 28, TOWNSHIP 17
NORTH, RANGE 16 EAST,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI.
of
BEING THE SAME PROPERTY
CONVEYED TO FREDDIE B.
BRIDGES BY DEED FROM
SUSAN ELIZA BALL AND
CHARLES L. BALL RECORDED
623 PAGE 244, IN THE OFFICE
OF THE CHANCERY CLERK OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI.
AND
SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF
LOWNDES, AND STATE OF MIS-
SISSIPPI, TO WIT:
BEGINNING AT THE NORTHW-
1/4 OF SECTION 28, TOWN-
SHIP 17 NORTH, RANGE 16
EAST, LOWNDES COUNTY, MIS-
GRESS 03' W ALONG THE
CENTERLINE OF A PAVED ROAD
FOR 103.76 FEET; THENCE N
01 DEGREES 02' W FOR 300.0
CORNER OF THE ALMA KING
BOOK 568, PAGES 603-604,
INCLUSIVE, IN THE OFFICE OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI); THENCE N 01 DE-
GREES 24' E ALONG SAID
CENTERLINE OF ROAD 575.0
FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-
NING; THENCE CONTINUE N 01
DEGREES 24' E ALONG SAID
CENTERLINE FOR 105.0 FEET
TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER
OF THE EXISITING BRIGES LOT
OR LESS, AND RECORDED IN
DEED BOOK 623, PAGE 244,
IN THE OFFICE OF THE CHAN-
CERY CLERK OF SAID
COUNTY); THENCE S 88 DE-
THENCE S 01 DEGREES 24' W
FOR 105.0 FEET; THENCE N 88
DEGEES 59' W FOR 210.0
NE 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 28.
CONVEYED TO FREDDIE B.
BRIDGES AND WIFE, DORIS M.
BRIDGES BY DEED FROM
CHARLES L. BALL RECORDED
07/13/1990 IN DEED BOOK
930 PAGE 560, IN THE OFFICE
OF THE CHANCERY CLERK OF
SIPPI.
I will only convey such title as
is vested in me as Special
Commissioner.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this
5th day of February, 2020.
Dean Morris, LLC, or its author-
855 S Pear Orchard Rd, Ste.
404 Bldg 400
Ridgeland, MS 39157
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signed so to do, on the 19th containing 0.41 acre, more or
day of February, 2020, I will less.
ADS APPEAR IN THE COMMERCIAL DISPATCH,
during the lawful hours of
between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00
p.m., at public outcry, offer for
SUBJECT TO a ten-foot general
utility drainage easement
THE STARKVILLE DISPATCH AND ONLINE
sale and will sell, at the south
east front door of Lowndes
County Courthouse, 505 2nd
along, adjoining and South of
the North property line of the
above described lot and a five-
Ave. North at Columbus, Mis- foot wide general utility and
sissippi, for cash to the
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drainage easement along, ad-
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described land and property
situated in Lowndes County,
property line, and along, adjoin-
ing and North of the South
Mississippi, to-wit: property line.
Lot 19, THE DISPATCH
Pinecrest n CDISPATCH.COM
Subdivision, I will only convey WEDNESDAY,
n such title as FEBRUARY 12, 2020 n 7B
Number II, an unrecorded sub- is vested in me as Substitute
division, located in the West Trustee.
Half (W1/2) of the Northeast
Quarter (NE1/4) of Section 22, WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this
Legal Notices Legal Notices18 South, Range 17 17th
Township Legal Notices
day of January, 2020. General Help Wanted
West, Lowndes County, Missis-
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE’S NO- sippi, and being more particu- Dean Morris, LLC ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIST-
TICE OF SALE larly described as follows, to- Substitute Trustee ANT: You’re an admin pro
wit: 855 S Pear Orchard Rd., Ste.
who doesn’t want to be a
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF Lowndes Beginning at an old iron pin at
404, Bldg. 400
Ridgeland, MS 39157 secretary. You have great
the Southeast corner of the (318) 330-9020 MS Office and computer
WHEREAS, on the 14th day of Northwest Quarter (NW1/4) of skills, awesome at filling
November, 2018, Milton E. the Northeast Quarter (NE1/4) adp/F19-0674 out forms, honest, people
Rawle, Jr. and Wife, Keisha of Section 22, Township 18 person, who is great at
Rawle aka Keshia Rawle, ex- South, Range 17 West, PUBLISH: 1/29/2020, organizing paperwork and
ecuted and delivered a certain Lowndes County, Mississippi; 2/5/2020, 2/12/2020
projects. Exceptional at
Deed of Trust unto Real Estate thence North 87 degrees 30
Closing Services, Inc., Trustee minutes West a distance of follow through and details.
for Mortgage Electronic Regis- 660.0 feet to an iron pin; Looking for a good work
EMPLOYMENT
tration Systems, Inc. as nomin- thence North 00 degrees 45 environment with some-
ee for Acceptance Capital Mort- minutes West a distance of what flexible hours.
gage Corporation, Beneficiary, 284.1 feet to a point on the Send us a resume:
to secure an indebtedness North right-of-way line of Arthur job107@cdispatch.com
therein described, which Deed Cove; thence North 87 de- CALL US: 662-328-2424
of Trust is recorded in the of- grees 30 minutes West along
fice of the Chancery Clerk of said North right-of-way line a
Lowndes County, Mississippi in distance of 180.0 feet; thence General Help Wanted
Mort Book 2018 at Page North 00 degrees 45 minutes
24464; and West a distance of 140.0 feet; VETERINARY ASSISTANT/
thence North 79 degrees 21 KENNEL HAND needed. Read local.
WHEREAS, on the 18th day of minutes West a distance of Part time position. Animal
November, 2019, Mortgage 169.3 feet to a point on the experience is necessary.
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Electronic Registration Sys- East right-of-way line of a drive;
tems, Inc. as nominee for Ac- thence North 59 degrees 47 If interested, please call
662-524-4155.
ceptance Capital Mortgage Cor- minutes West along the North
poration, assigned said Deed right-of-way line of said drive a
of Trust unto American Finan- distance of 40.0 feet to the ini-
cial Resources, Inc., a New Jer- tial point of the property herein Medical / Dental
sey Corporation, by instrument described; thence North 48 de-
recorded in the office of the grees 08 minutes West a dis-
aforesaid Chancery Clerk in tance of 124.1 feet to an iron
Mort Book 2019 at Page pin; thence South 44 degrees
24775; and 01 minutes West a distance of
139.2 feet to an iron pin on
WHEREAS, on the 6th day of the North right-of-way line of Ar-
January, 2020 the Holder of thur Drive; thence South 56 de-
said Deed of Trust substituted grees 34 minutes East along
and appointed Dean Morris, said North right-of-way line a
LLC as Substitute Trustee by distance of 155.0 feet to an
instrument recorded in the of- iron pin on the West right-of-
fice of the aforesaid Chancery way line of a drive; thence
Clerk in Mort Book 2020 at North 30 degrees 13 minutes
Page 321; and East along said West right-of-
way line a distance of 118.9
WHEREAS, default having been feet to an iron pin and the ini-
made in the payments of the tial point of this description,
indebtedness secured by the containing 0.41 acre, more or
said Deed of Trust, and the less.
holder of said Deed of Trust,
having requested the under- SUBJECT TO a ten-foot general
signed so to do, on the 19th utility drainage easement
day of February, 2020, I will along, adjoining and South of
during the lawful hours of the North property line of the
between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 above described lot and a five-
p.m., at public outcry, offer for foot wide general utility and
sale and will sell, at the south drainage easement along, ad-
east front door of Lowndes joining and West of the West
County Courthouse, 505 2nd property line, and along, adjoin-
Ave. North at Columbus, Mis- ing and North of the South
sissippi, for cash to the property line.
highest bidder, the following
described land and property I will only convey such title as
situated in Lowndes County, is vested in me as Substitute
Mississippi, to-wit: Trustee.
Lot 19, Pinecrest Subdivision, WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this
Number II, an unrecorded sub- 17th day of January, 2020.
division, located in the West
Half (W1/2) of the Northeast Dean Morris, LLC Good help isn’t hard to find if you know
Quarter (NE1/4) of Section 22,
Township 18 South, Range 17
Substitute Trustee
855 Find
S Pear Orchard
the Rd., Ste.
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West, Lowndes County, Missis- 404, Bldg. 400
sippi, and being more particu- Ridgeland, MS 39157
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larly described as follows, to- (318) 330-9020
wit:
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Beginning at an old iron pin at
the Southeast corner of the PUBLISH: 1/29/2020,
Northwest Quarter (NW1/4) of 2/5/2020, 2/12/2020
the Northeast Quarter (NE1/4)
of Section 22, Township 18
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thence North 00 degrees 45 A & T TREE SERVICES JESSE & BEVERLY’S
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284.1 feet to a point on the
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North right-of-way line of Arthur
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said North right-of-way line a
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thence North 59 degrees 47 Licensed & Bonded. RKERS Painting. 662−435−6528
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distance of 40.0 feet to the
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pin; thence South 44 degrees 662−242−3608. Call Jimmy Prescott for free
01 minutes West a distance of CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY
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139.2 feet to an iron pin on $545 plus Filing Fee
the North right-of-way line of Ar-
Shop
thur Drive; thence South 56 de- GRAVEL. $360 PER LOAD. CHAPTER 13 BANKRUPTCY
All Attorney Fees Through The Plan
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said North right-of-way line a Backhoe & Dozer work. Jim Arnold, Attorney Are you a painter?
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distance of 155.0 feet to an Mobile Home Pads & Advertise here!
iron pin on the West right-of- Driveways. 662-324-1666
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662−497−1388
North 30 degrees 13 minutes
East along said West right-of-
way line a distance of 118.9
feet to an iron pin and the ini-
tial point of this description,
containing 0.41 acre, more or
less.
SUBJECT TO a ten-foot general
utility drainage easement
along, adjoining and South of
the North property line of the
above described lot and a five-
foot wide general utility and
drainage easement along, ad-
joining and West of the West
property line, and along, adjoin-
ing and North of the South
property line.
I will only convey such title as
is vested in me as Substitute
Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this
17th day of January, 2020.
Dean Morris, LLC
Substitute Trustee
855 S Pear Orchard Rd., Ste.
404, Bldg. 400
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(318) 330-9020
adp/F19-0674
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