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2019: Year in review
ABOVE: David Buchanan, right, addresses city officials during an October meeting at Starkville City Hall. Buchanan was one of several residents who took issue
with the city’s proposed Airbnb restrictions, which were tabled at the end of the year after aldermen decided to look at those restrictions in conjunction with
regulations for longterm rentals. BELOW, FROM LEFT: 1. Plans for the North Star Industrial Park, shown in this map, can move forward after the state Supreme
Court in September declined to hear an appeal challenging the rezoning of 360 acres of the park. 2. Bicycle and scooter-rental company Lime pulled out of the
Starkville and Mississippi State University market in May amidst complaints about electric scooters being left on MSU’s campus. 3. Henry Neal of Starkville is
accused of offering multiple people $5,000 to kill 33-year-old Joseph Turnipseed Jr., whose body was found at West Main Arms Apartments in February.
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■ Industrial park lawsuit ends
■ Voters choose to increase sales tax,
fund baseball/softball complex
■ City plans Highway 182 improvements
with federal grant
By Zack Plair Highway 12 and Mississip-
zplair@cdispatch.com
pi State University secured
property downtown to one
Development, or at least day rent out to businesses,
the promise of future devel-
including start-ups.
opment, dominated head-
Meanwhile, Starkville vot-
lines in Starkville and Oktib-
ers approved a bump in tour-
beha County in 2019.
ism taxes to fund major parks
An industrial park proj- improvements, and a $12.66
ect in North Starkville was million grant secured late
finally freed from years-long in the year promises to help
litigation, an area developer pedestrian accessibility and
secured tax-increment fi- development potential along
nancing for a retail center on Highway 182.
Columbus man dies in Saturday crash with ambulance
Victim apparently had medical emergency
that caused him to lose control of his vehicle
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT lided with an ambulance at ap-
proximately 9:30 a.m. Saturday,
A Columbus man died after Lowndes County coroner Greg
the vehicle he was driving col- Merchant has confirmed.
Weather Five Questions
1 Michigan J. Frog, a top-hat-wearing,
dancing cartoon frog, was the mascot for
what defunct TV network?
2 What philosopher, born in 1844, said,
“What doesn’t kill us makes us stron-
ger”?
3 In Greek mythology, who is forever
Joseph Balzli fated to roll a stone up a hill, only to have
it fall back down again?
Fifth grade, Annunciation
4 What inventor popularized the greeting
71 Low 44 “Hello” for answering the telephone?
High 5 What East Coast Major League Base-
Rain and a t-storm ball team was the first to rack up 10,000
Full forecast on
losses in its history?
Answers, 2D
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Here are some of the top
headlines in Starkville and
Oktibbeha County in 2019:
Supreme Court declines
to hear industrial park
rezoning appeal
A nearly 400-acre North
Star Industrial Park project
at the intersection of High-
ways 389 and 82 can finally
move forward after being
tied up in litigation for almost
three years.
The Mississippi Supreme
Court in September declined
to hear an appeal in a civil
suit challenging the rezoning
of 360 acres there for manu-
facturing purposes, essen-
tially upholding rulings of
two lower courts that the re-
See 2019, 6A
According to Merchant, John
Ford, 59, died after losing con-
trol of his vehicle and crashing
into a Noxubee County ambu-
lance on Fifth Street North.
The ambulance was carrying a
patient to Baptist Memorial Hos-
pital-Golden Triangle. No one
Calendar
Monday
■ Music City Bowl watch party:
The Mississippi State Alumni Associ-
ation in Lowndes County hosts a Bowl
watch party at Buffalo Wild Wings,
2001 Highway 45 N., Columbus.
Kick-off is 3 p.m. Dutch treat. For
more information, contact Adrienne
Morris, 662-312-2611 or adriennem-
orris1999@gmail.com.
Tuesday
■ Countdown to History: The Rota-
ry Club of Columbus hosts this gala
benefiting PolioPlus from 9 p.m.-1
a.m. at Lion Hills Center in Columbus.
BYOB; mixers are provided. State of
Shade will entertain to ring in the new
year. Tickets are $30 (or $220 for a
table for eight), at 662tix.com.
FREE!
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff
Top 10 most viewed stories of 2019 on cdispatch.com
■ Philadelphia man caught with trafficked child -
9/12/2019 - Isabelle Altman
■ Residents seek Kratom ban in Lowndes - 2/5/2019 -
Amanda Lien and Slim Smith
■ Storm destruction: One confirmed dead, thousands
without power - 2/24/2019 - Dispatch Staff Report
■ Local nursing home among ‘poorest performing’ in Mis-
sissippi - 6/7/2019 - Mary Pollitz
■ Remembering ‘Ace’: Caledonia native, ballplayer a vic-
tim in Southaven shooting - 7/31/2019 - Isabelle Altman
■ Beating the odds: At six months, smallest calf born
alive making progress at MSU’s College of Veterinary
Medicine - 5/4/2019 - Slim Smith
■ MUW soccer coach, 41, passes away Sunday -
1/28/2019 - Adam Minichino
■ Fire damages Zachary’s restaurant - 4/28/2019 - Slim
Smith
■ Palmer Home to move children to Hernando site -
3/2/2019 - Isabelle Altman
■ Suspect charged with capital murder for Artesia killings
- 1/17/2019 - Isabelle Altman
in the ambulance was injured,
Merchant said.
had some sort of medical emer-
gency causing him to lose con-
Ford was conscious at the
scene and said he had blacked
trol of his vehicle,” Merchant
said.
out. Ford was taken to nearby
“We’re continuing to inves- Baptist Memorial Hospital, but
tigate, but based on what was died from the injuries sustained
reported at the scene, the driver in the accident a short time later.
Local Folks Public
meetings
Jan. 3: Starkville
Board of Aldermen
work session, 1:15
p.m., City Hall
Jan. 6: Oktibbe-
ha County Board
of Supervisors
meeting, 9 a.m.,
Chancery Court-
house
Jan. 7: Starkville
Board of Aldermen
meeting, 5:30
p.m., City Hall
Jan. 17: Starkville
Carolyn Lewis has lived in Columbus Board of Aldermen
52 years. She said she is “free-heart- work session, 1:15
ed” and loves to help people. p.m., City Hall
2A Sunday, December 29, 2019
A Sporting Heritage
W
ith the
holidays
and the
approach-
ing new
year, many
friends
have had
to decide
between
watching Rufus Ward
ball games
or going hunting. The Golden Tri-
angle area has a grand and centu-
ries-old heritage of both.
While the hunting heritage is
well-known, few people realize
that almost 200 years ago one of
America’s first professional ball
teams was organized just across the
Tombigbee River from Columbus.
Since before the arrival of Chris-
topher Columbus in 1492, Native
Americans have been playing the
game of stick ball. Though the
game was played by tribes from
present day Canada to the Gulf,
it was the Choctaws from whom
most early descriptions of the game
have survived. To call it simply a
game, though, is a misnomer, for
its playing was not only a social and
cultural event, but often a means of
settling disputes between villages
and even neighboring tribes.
In 1856, a Canadian who had
witnessed stick ball games there
reconfigured the game and named
it lacrosse.
In 1829, Columbus resident
Gideon Lincecum hit on a mon-
ey-making scheme. He decided to
raise two teams of Choctaw ball
players and take them on a tour of
the eastern United States, putting
on exhibitions of ball games and tra-
ditional dances. Word was sent out
across the Choctaw Nation, then
still in its Mississippi homeland,
that any ball players who wished
to join the traveling teams should
be at Okshush Spring (Oak Slush
Creek about two miles west of
downtown Columbus) by noon on
Nov. 29. More than 400 ball players
showed up. Lincecum only wanted
40 players and rigged a drawing so
as to only get the 40 players that he
wanted to travel with him. The two
teams departed Columbus traveling
up the Military Road, passing by
what is now the site of Columbus’
new soccer complex.
The only exhibition game I have
seen a reference to was possibly
one in Huntsville, Alabama. It is not
clear how far the travailing Choctaw
teams made it. However, there was
a reference by Lincecum to seeing
Pushmataha’s grave, and as he is
buried in the Congressional Cem-
etery in Washington, D.C., they
may well have made it that far. The
Choctaws were to be compensated
for playing ball, so by today’s stan-
dards they were professional ball
players — among the first, if not
the first, professional ball players in
America.
Two hundred years ago hunting
in the Columbus area was also dif-
ferent than today. It often was more
a matter of survival than a sport,
and wild game was more plentiful
and much more varied than now.
Two early residents who told of
their hunting exploits were Peter
Pitchlynn, who was born on the
banks of the Noxubee River in
1806 and later became governor of
the Choctaw Nation, and Gideon
Lincecum, who in 1818 moved from
Tuscaloosa to the Tombigbee at the
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George Catlin’s 1832 drawing of a stick ball game after the Choctaw
Nation had been forced to move to Oklahoma, from the 1867 edition of his
book “Letters and Notes on North American Indians.”
Gideon Lincecum moved to Columbus in 1818 and recalled there were
many bears in the forest around Columbus and people would hunt them
armed only with a knife. An 1855 engraving titled: “Indians Hunting the
Black Bear.”
present site of the Stennis Lock and
Dam.
Lincecum recalled that in 1818 at
what is now the intersection of Cat-
fish Alley and Main Street in down-
town Columbus, he killed a “big
buck with a chair frame (antlers)
on his head.” The deer fell at the
base of a large pine tree, and after
cutting the deer’s throat, Lincecum
cleaned his knife by cutting into the
tree with it. The Eagle Hotel was
built at that location around 1821
and its sign post stood where the
large pine had been. That later be-
came the site of the Gilmer Hotel.
Two hundred years ago White
Slough, on what is now The Island,
was a favorite hunting ground of
Choctaw Indians who called it
“Shonk Colohenocoby” or “Crook-
ed Cypress.” Its long association
with Native American hunting was
shown by the finding there, during
the construction of the Tennes-
see-Tombigbee Waterway, of a
2,000-year-old small spear point em-
bedded in a buried cypress knee.
White Slough was also Lince-
cum’s favorite hunting grounds. He
recalled that: “In the canebrake and
all around the cypress swamp could
be found more turkeys and deer,
and some bear, coons, foxes, pan-
thers and catamounts than at any
place I ever lived.” He also found
that during the winter the slough
filled up with ducks and geese.
Lincecum hunted both to provide
food for his family and to obtain
venison to smoke for shipment to
markets in Mobile, Alabama.
During the 1820s, Peter Pitch-
lynn lived in a log house on the
south end of a prairie that ran from
west of the present-day Golden Tri-
angle Regional Airport to a couple
of miles south of Artesia. That prai-
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rie, by the early 1830s, was named
Peter Pitchlynn’s Prairie.
In an 1870 interview in the Atlan-
tic Monthly he recounted how he
enjoyed bear hunting. That would
have been in Catalpa Creek bottom
which bordered the prairie on the
west.
Gideon Lincecum also enjoyed
bear hunting and described the
unusual way they were hunted and
killed. Lincecum said many people
would hunt bears armed only with a
knife. In the early 1800s, the forest
around Columbus were home to
many packs of wolves, the natural
enemy of the bear. Hunters, led
by a pack of dogs, would pursue a
bear. The bear would ignore the
human hunters to attack the dogs,
associating them with wolves, their
natural enemy. That enabled the
hunters to jump on the bear and kill
it with a knife. The bear would as-
sociate the knife wounds with dog
bites becoming even more preoccu-
pied with the dogs.
Lincecum told how the most
dangerous aspect of the hunt was
not the bear. It was a hunter armed
with a gun who might get excited
and accidentally shoot another
hunter who was on a bear with a
knife.
He mentioned that he always
Log on.
hunted with packs of American
dogs which he described as being
“many-colored, crop-eared, bob-
tailed” dogs. He also described an
interesting “...little red-mouthed
native dog, with yellow eyes and
bushy tail — a distinct race of indig-
enous dogs.”
We have a grand heritage of both
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hunting and ball games, though
both are quite different today than
they were 200 years ago.
Rufus Ward is a local historian.
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Mississippi asks appeals court Lawsuit: US Army

to reconsider abortion ruling
Attorneys for the state wrote that the panel’s
decision conflicted with a Supreme Court ruling
in an abortion case ‘which requires courts to
consider not only the burdens a law might impose,
but the benefits that it provides’
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi is ask-
ing a federal appeals court to recon-
sider a ruling that said the state’s
ban on most abortions at 15 weeks
of pregnancy is unconstitutional.
The ruling was issued Dec. 13
by a panel of three judges on the
5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
dealing a blow to those seeking to
overturn the landmark Supreme
Court ruling that legalized abortion
nationwide. The next day, Republi-
can Gov. Phil Bryant said he wants
the state to appeal to the Supreme
Court.
Papers filed Friday are an in-be-
tween step. Mississippi is asking the
full 5th Circuit to toss out the panel’s
decision and reconsider the case.
Authorities: Small plane crashes in Louisiana, killing 5
Attorneys for the state wrote that
the panel’s decision conflicted with
a Supreme Court ruling in an abor-
tion case “which requires courts to
consider not only the burdens a law
might impose, but the benefits that
it provides.”
The 5th Circuit panel said U.S.
District Judge Carlton Reeves ruled
correctly when he blocked the Mis-
sissippi law from taking effect in
2018.
With the addition of conservative
justices to the U.S. Supreme Court
in recent years, several states have
been enacting laws aimed at spur-
ring court challenges that could
eventually seek to overturn the
court’s 1973 abortion rights ruling
in Roe v. Wade.
“In an unbroken line dating to
Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s
abortion cases have established
(and affirmed, and re-affirmed) a
woman’s right to choose an abor-
tion before viability,” the appeals
court judges wrote Dec. 13. “States
may regulate abortion procedures
prior to viability so long as they do
not impose an undue burden on the
woman’s right but they may not ban
abortions.”
The only abortion clinic in Mis-
sissippi sued the state after Bryant
signed the law. The clinic said it pro-
vides abortions until 16 weeks.
Mississippi legislators came
back in 2019 and passed a more re-
strictive law to ban most abortions
at about six weeks. The same fed-
eral district judge blocked that, too,
and a legal fight over it continues.
The 5th Circuit based in New
Orleans handles cases from Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas. It
is generally considered one of the
most conservative federal appellate
courts.
Attorneys representing Missis-
sippi had argued that the 15-week
law was a regulation but not a ban,
and that states are allowed to regu-
late abortion.
spillway opening hurts
wildlife, localities
The spillway has been opened
14 times since it was built in the
1930s to help manage Mississippi
River flooding and navigation
The Associated Press
BILOXI — Officials in Mississippi are trying
to force the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and
the Mississippi River Commission to consult with
them before opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway
in Louisiana again and flooding the region with
polluted river water.
A federal lawsuit filed this week by several cit-
ies, counties and groups accuses the corps and
commission of violating federal law by opening
the spillway more frequently. They say the defen-
dants hurt wildlife and localities by opening it for
prolonged periods of time without considering
the consequences.
The spillway has been opened 14 times since it
was built in the 1930s to help manage Mississippi
River flooding and navigation. Of those openings,
five have happened since 2011. It was opened in
2018 and 2019, marking the first time the spillway
was opened for two consecutive years. This year
alone, the spillway was opened twice and left open
for a total of 123 days. The corps’ manual plans for
spillway openings ever seven to 10 years to stop
rivers from flooding New Orleans.
And the increased rainfall from warming tem-
peratures means the frequent openings will likely
continue, the lawsuit says.

Plane was en route to a college football playoff game in
Atlanta between Louisiana State University and Oklahoma
The Associated Press homa, said Steven Ens-
minger Jr., who told The
LAFAYET TE, La. — A Associated Press that his
small plane crashed into wife, Carley McCord, was
the parking lot of a post on board. Ensminger Jr.
office in Louisiana shortly is the son of the offensive
after takeoff on Saturday, coordinator for the LSU
killing five people and ful- football team. McCord
ly engulfing a car on the
was a sports reporter.
ground in flames, author-
Video and photos
ities said.
The two-engine Piper showed a trail of scorched
Cheyenne crashed about and burning grass around
1 mile from the Lafayette the crash site in the city
Regional Airport, Federal of Lafayette. A blackened
Aviation Administration car sat in the post office
spokesman Tony Molina- parking lot, which was
ro said. carpeted with scattered
The plane was en route tree limbs.
to a college football play- Four people were
off game in Atlanta be- brought to the hospital:
tween Louisiana State one from the plane, one
University and Okla- on the ground and two
post office employees
who were brought in for
evaluation, said Lafayette
Fire Department spokes-
man Alton Trahan.
The aircraft was an
eight-passenger plane,
Lafayette Fire Chief Rob-
ert Benoit told KLFY-TV.
The plane went down
in a part of the city with
a scattering of banks,
fast food chains and other
businesses.
Marty Brady, 22, said
the lights went out at his
apartment a couple of
hundred yards or so away
from the crash site as he
was preparing to make
coffee.
He said he ran out
and saw black smoke
and flames from the post
office parking lot and
downed power lines.
“There were some peo-
ple screaming and some-
body yelled that it was a
plane,” he said.
Brady said the plane
clipped a power line over
the gate to his apartment
complex.
“If it had been a little
lower, it could have been
a lot worse,” he said.
Kevin Jackson told KL-
FY-TV he heard a “mas-
sive explosion” and saw
a “big old ball of flame”
when the plane crashed.
He and other eyewitness-
es told the TV station
that the plane hit a car as
it fell, and that someone
could be heard screaming
inside the vehicle.

Navy considers shipbuilding cuts for upcoming budget

One proposed cut would reduce the number of Arleigh
Burke-class destroyers, which are produced at Maine’s
Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi
By DAVID SHARP
and LOLITA BALDOR
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine
— The Navy is proposing
construction cutbacks
and accelerated ship re-
tirements that would de-
lay, or sink, the Navy’s
goal of a larger fleet —
and potentially hurt ship-
yards, according to an
initial proposal.
The proposal would
shrink the size of the fleet
from today’s level of 293
ships to 287 ships, a far
cry from the official goal
of 355 ships established in
the 2018 National Defense
Authorization Act.
According to a defense
official familiar with the
memo, budget negotia-
tions are ongoing and no
final decisions have been
made. But the Navy is
looking at a number of
ways to cut costs to fund
other priorities, the offi-
cial said.
One of the proposed
cuts would reduce the
number of Arleigh Burke-
class destroyers planned
for construction from 12
to seven over the next five
years, trimming $9.4 bil-
lion, or about 8 percent,
from the shipbuilding
budget, the official said.
conderoga-class cruisers
more quickly over the
next five years, leaving
nine in the fleet, rather
than 13.
The official spoke on
condition of anonymity to
discuss preliminary bud-
get planning discussions
that have not been made
public.
“Either option runs
counter to the Navy’s stat-
ed requirement for a 355-
ship fleet, and would not
be well received on Capi-
tol Hill given there’s still
consensus that the mili-
tary and strategic threat
from Russia and China is
only increasing,” said na-
val analyst Jay Korman of
Avascent Group.
Defense analyst Nor-
man Friedman said the
proposal would repre-
sent a major reduction
in anti-aircraft capability
that is provided by de-
stroyers and cruisers at
a time when the Navy is
facing more sophisticated
threats from aircraft and
missiles.
“If you were serious
about facing down the
Chinese, you’d probably
want more of that than
less,” said Friedman.
Arleigh Burke-class
destroyers are produced
could include unmanned,
as well as manned, war-
ships.
The Navy said the
discussions are “pre-de-
cisional” and subject to
al Dynamics subsidiary, change. “We will not
and Ingalls Shipbuilding comment on future ship-
in Mississippi. A Bath building decisions until
spokesman declined to the budget request is sub-
comment. mitted to Congress next
Republican Sen. Su- year,” said Cmdr. Clay
san Collins and indepen- Doss, a Navy spokesman.
dent Sen. Angus King,
of Maine, called the pro-
posal “an abrupt rever-
sal of the Navy’s plan to
increase the size of the
fleet.”
The senators noted
that Congress will have
the final say, and they
suggested that much of
the funding is already in
the works. Just this past
week, Congress appro-
priated $5.1 billion for
three destroyers, and a
$390 million increase in
advanced procurement
for a down payment on an
additional ship next fiscal
year, they said.
The proposed cost cut-
ting comes as the Navy
works to modernize its
ballistic missile subma-
rine fleet, replacing aging
current Ohio-class subs
with new Columbia-class
nuclear subs. That pro-
gram is putting pressure
on the shipbuilding bud- SOLUNAR TABLE
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at two shipyards, Maine’s fleet size with the sugges-

of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
Another potential cut

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Our View

Roses and thorns

A rose to
Mississippi State
for its innovative
partnership to
make sure its
newest housing
development is energy-effi-
cient, saving millions in utility
fees while reducing its impact
on the climate. MSU partnered
with Greystar and Blue Sky
Power on a combined cooling,
heating and power (CCHP)
project to provide hot water,
natural gas and electricity to
College View, the university’s
mixed use (residential and
retail) facility. The project
reduces MSU’s carbon emis-
sions by 750 metric tons per
year and saves $116,000 per
year that the university would
have paid to Starkville Utilities
otherwise. Over 25 years, the
estimated life of the project,
the university will save $2.9
million and 18,750 metric
tons of carbon emissions. We
believe College View will be a
model for future developments
both big and small. We applaud
MSU for its leadership in this
area.
A rose to Lisa
McReynolds and
all those citi-
zens who joined
an informal
group known
as “Almost Like Home” to
provide meals to Starkville
and Oktibbeha County first
responders and hospital
personnel on Christmas Day.
Now in it’s eighth year, “Almost
Like Home” has grown to 300
volunteers who either provide,
deliver or serve food to fire
stations, police departments
and the hospital. It has be-
come the community’s way of
thanking these public servants
for the important work they
do by providing a Christmas
meal with all the trimming.
We would love to see this
Starkville tradition spread to
other cities. Bearing in mind
that the whole thing started
with one Starkville citizen
(McReynolds) providing food
at one Starkville fire station, it
serves to show what one per-
son can put into motion.
A rose to all
those who will be
out “ringing in
the new year” on
Tuesday evening,
and a reminder
to do so responsibly. For many,
their New Year’s celebration
involves alcohol. Champagne
toasts are a part of the tra-
dition. So, too, are shooting
off fireworks. In each case,
moderation and good judgment
area must. We won’t recite the
statistics of alcohol-related
injuries and deaths or injuries
suffered through reckless
use of fireworks. By now, you
should know the dangers.
So, let’s be careful out there.
“Ring Responsibly,” to borrow
a phrase from Mississippi State
athletics. Happy New Years do
not begin with tragic events.
A rose to Mis-
sissippi Universi-
ty for Women for
selecting current
W professor Am-
ber Handy to fill
the role of associate vice presi-
dent for faculty enrichment and
research. Handy will lead the
university community in teach-
ing, research and scholarship
while fostering a campus-wide
culture of lifelong learning and
professional development. She
will oversee faculty orienta-
tion, the promotion and tenure
process, assist with traditional
research and the research of
scholarship of teaching and
learning. As the associate vice
president for faculty enrich-
ment and research, Handy will
report directly to the provost
and vice president for aca-
demic affairs. The new title
and responsibilities reaffirms
The W’s commitment to the
growth and development of W
instructors. The better trained
those instructors, the higher
the quality of education they
will provide their students.
We wish Handy success is this
important new role.

Letter to the editor

Voice of the people
Thankful researchers
My husband, Jim Walker, and I are writing to
let your readers know how gracious and helpful
we found the citizens of Columbus who took time
to help us (two Chicagoans) with the research
project that we are pursuing, and which Slim Smith
profiled so excellently in your paper on 12/22/19.
Glen Lautzenhiser, whom we first contacted about
our research, enthusiastically embraced our plans
to write the first definitive biography of Red Bar-
ber and encouraged us to visit your lovely city. But
he gave us so much more than a genuine welcome;
he connected us to many of his fellow townspeople
who were able to contribute volumes to our hereto-
fore slim knowledge of Columbus. He scheduled a
wonderful “seminar” meeting for us on December
20th comprised of town experts: town archivist,
town historian, valuable newspaper and television
contacts, literary expert, former school principal,
and other proud citizens.
These fine people gave us an afternoon of their
time patiently and knowledgably responding to
our questions and supplying us information and
anecdotes which will surely enrich our chapter on
Barber’s childhood in your city. Who would not be
illuminated by spending a couple of hours tapping
the richly informed brains of Derek Rogers, Dixie
The world
Butler, Glenn Lautzenhiser, Harry Sanders, Mona
Vance-Ali, Chuck Yarborough, Rufus Ward and
Jerry Jones.
Is ‘Little Rocket Man’ winning?
We spent the rest of our all too brief time in As of Dec. 26, Kim ities. And in 2011, A guess: The U.S. has lived
Columbus touring your lovely city—your parks, Jong Un’s “Christmas the U.S. attacked with North Korea’s nuclear weap-
neighborhoods, downtown shops and restaurants, gift” to President Libya and Gadhafi was ons for a decade, and Trump is
all lit up for Christmas. We had delicious catfish Donald Trump had not lynched by a mob. not going to risk a second Korean
two nights for dinner and long to come back for arrived. Most foreign Contrast the fate conflict with a military attack on
more! All of the people we met in town were so policy analysts predict of these regimes and Kim’s nuclear and missile arse-
friendly and willing to help us navigate “the lay of it will be a missile test rulers with the Kim nals. Kim Jong Un and his father
the land.” more impressive than family’s success. His have created a new reality in
We wanted to share our thanks to your city any Pyongyang has yet father, Kim Jong Il, Korea, and we are going to have to
for welcoming us so warmly and to let you know carried off. tested nuclear weapons live with it.
that our time with your town experts was a joyful What is Kim’s and missiles in defi- Where does East Asia go from
highpoint in the process of our research, which game? What does Kim ance of U.S. warnings, here?
sometimes can be a tedious trek through endless want? Patrick J. Buchanan and now the son is in- South Korea has twice the
dry documents. He cannot want war vited to summits with population of the North and an
Sincerely, with the United States, as this the U.S. president in Singapore economy 40 times as large. Japan
Judith Hiltner and Jim Walker could result in the annihilation of and Hanoi. has a population five times that of
the Kim family dynasty that has If Kim did not have nuclear North Korea and an economy 100
A letter to the editor is an excellent way to partic- ruled North Korea since World weapons, would American pres- times as large.
ipate in your community. We request the tone of your War II. Kim is all about self-pres- idents be courting him? Would If the U.S. treaty guarantees,
letters be constructive and respectful and the length ervation. U.S. secretaries of state be vis- dating to the 1950s, to fight for
be limited to 450 words. We welcome all letters What he appears to want in iting Pyongyang? If Kim did not these two nations come into
emailed to voice@cdispatch.com or mailed to The his confrontation with Trump is a have nuclear weapons who would question as a result of America’s
Dispatch, Attn: Letters to the Editor, PO Box 511, victory without war. In the near- pay the least attention to the Her- reluctance to face down Pyong-
Columbus, MS 39703-0511. term, Kim seeks three things: mit Kingdom? yang more forcibly on its nuclear
recognition of his regime as the Undeniably, with his prom- arsenal, these nations are almost
legitimate government of North ised “Christmas gift,” possibly a certain to start considering all
Korea and its acceptance in all the missile capable of hitting the U.S., options for their future security.
THE STAFF OF THE DISPATCH forums of the world, trade and an Kim is pushing the envelope. He Among these are building
end to all U.S. and U.N. sanctions, is taunting the Americans. We their own nuclear arsenals and
and a nuclear arsenal sufficient have told him what he must do. closer ties to the one nation that
EDITOR/PUBLISHER NEWS to deter a U.S. attack, including And he is telling us where we can has shown it can discipline North
Peter Imes Isabelle Altman missiles that can strike U.S. bases go. Korea — China.
Theo Derosa in South Korea, Japan, Guam, and But by so doing, Kim has put Much is on the line here.
PUBLISHER EMERITUS Matt Garner
Birney Imes Garrick Hodge the Western Pacific. And he seeks the ball squarely in Trump’s court. Kim’s challenge is ultimately
Zach Plair the capability to deliver a nuclear The question Trump faces: about the credibility of the United
ADVERTISING Ben Portnoy warhead on the U.S. mainland. Is he prepared to accept North States, which has treaty commit-
Slim Smith Nor is this last goal unreason- Korea joining Russia and China as ments and issued war guarantees
Amber Dumas
Jan Swoope able from Kim’s vantage point. a third adversarial power with the to scores of nations in NATO
Kelly Ervin Tess Vrbin
Melissa Johnson For he knows what became of ability to launch a nuclear strike Europe, the Mideast and East
Beth Proffitt the two other nations of George on the continental United States? Asia, but whose people have zero
Mary Jane Runnels MAILROOM W. Bush’s “axis of evil” that failed And if U.S. sanctions are insuf- interest in any new war, especially
Luther Shields Christina Boyd
Joseph Ellis to develop nuclear weapons. ficient to force Kim to “denuclear- a second Korean War.
Evie Vidrine Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was in- ize,” as seems apparent, is Trump If the world sees that America
Jeffrey Gore
Bridget Walters Katrina Guyton vaded, and he was hanged and his prepared to force him to do so? Is is reluctant to face down, or fight
Doris Hill sons hunted down and killed. Trump prepared to use “fire and a North Korea that is threatening
BUSINESS OFFICE Quaylon Jones The Ayatollah’s Iran negotiated fury” to remove Kim’s nukes? us, will they retain the old confi-
Lindsey Beck Marquisto Miller a 2015 nuclear deal with America With 28,500 U.S. troops and dence that the United States will
Debbie Foster Bobby Williams
Mary Ann Hardy Timothy Wilson and opened up its nuclear facilities thousands of U.S. citizens in risk war for them?
Eddie Johnson to intrusive inspections to show South Korea, many within artil- What Kim is undermining is
Lisa Oswalt that Tehran did not have a nuclear lery range of the DMZ, is Trump not just U.S. security but U.S.
PRODUCTION
William Hudson weapons program. prepared to risk a clash that could credibility.
CIRCULATION Jamie Morrison Trump came to power, trashed ignite a second Korean War in the Patrick J. Buchanan, a nation-
Christopher Dumas Anne Murphy the deal, reimposed sanctions and election year 2020? ally syndicated columnist, was a
Michael Floyd Tina Perry
Courtney Laury is choking Iran to death. Is the president prepared for senior advisor to presidents Richard
Rodney Shows Moammar Gadhafi surren- whatever that might bring? Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald
Deanna
Robinson-Pugh dered his WMD in 2004 and How does this confrontation Reagan. His website is http://bu-
opened up his production facil- play out? chanan.org/blog.
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At each end of Pacific, skepticism US stocks nearly flat;

over China farm purchases S&P 500 notches
Preliminary deal between the world’s two largest
economies amounts to $40B a year; U.S. farm
retaliatory tariffs since July 2018,
when the Trump administration
imposed taxes on $360 billion in
fifth weekly gain
exports to China have never topped $26B in one year
Chinese imports. Beijing struck
back by taxing $120 billion in U.S.
Benchmark index squeaked out
By JOSH FUNK, PAUL WISEMAN exports to China have never topped
exports, including soybeans and
other farm goods that are vital to
a tiny gain that was good enough
and JOE McDONALD
AP Business Writers
$26 billion in any one year.
What’s more, since Trump’s
many of Trump’s supporters in ru- for its 35th record high this year
ral America.
trade war with Beijing erupted last The impact from China’s re- ALEX VEIGA
OMAHA, Neb. — President year, China has increased its farm AP Business Writer
Donald Trump likes to joke that taliatory tariffs was substantial:
purchases from Brazil, Argentina U.S. farm exports to China, which
America’s farmers have a nice prob- and other countries. As a result, Major U.S. stock indexes ended essentially flat
lem on their hands: They’re going hit a record $25.9 billion in 2012,
Beijing may now be locked into plummeted last year to $9.1 billion. Friday after a day of mostly listless trading. Even
to need bigger tractors to keep up contracts it couldn’t break even if so, the S&P 500 closed out the week with its fifth
with surging Chinese demand for Soybean exports to China fell even
it intended to quickly increase its straight weekly gain.
their soybeans and other agricul- more — to a 12-year low of $3.1 bil-
purchases of American agricultural The benchmark index squeaked out a tiny gain
tural goods under a preliminary lion, according to the Department
goods to something approximating that was good enough for its 35th record high
deal between the world’s two larg- of Agriculture. (Farm imports to
$40 billion. this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also
est economies. China have rebounded somewhat
“History has never been even notched a slight gain, giving it its 22nd all-time
But will they really? close to that level,” said Chad Hart, this year but remain well below pre-
From Beijing to America’s farm trade-war levels.) high of 2019. The Nasdaq composite closed with a
an agricultural economist at Iowa
belt, skeptics are questioning just The so-called Phase 1 deal that modest loss, snapping the index’s 11-day winning
State University. “There’s no clear
how much China has actually com- the two sides announced Dec. 13 did streak.
path to get us there in one year.”
mitted to buy — and whether U.S. “The figure of $40 billion,” add- manage to de-escalate the standoff Investors drove up shares of stocks in defensive
farmers would be able anytime soon ed Cui Fan, a trade specialist at the and offer at least a respite to Amer- sectors, including household goods makers, real
to export goods there in the outsize University of International Busi- ican farmers. Yet the truce put off estate companies and utilities. Those gains were
quantity that Trump has promised. ness and Economics in Beijing, “is for future negotiations the tough- checked by losses in energy, financial and commu-
It amounts to $40 billion a year, larger than I expected, and I won- est and most complex issue at the nication services stocks. Bond yields fell.
according to Trump’s trade repre- der whether the United States can heart of the trade war: The Trump With two days of trading left in 2019, the market
sentative, Robert Lighthizer. If you ensure the full supply of the prod- administration’s assertion that Bei- is on track for its best year since 2013.
ask the exuberant president him- ucts.” jing cheats in its drive to achieve “Some of the selling today is just profit-taking,”
self, though, the total is actually America’s farmers would surely global supremacy in such advanced said Ben Phillips, chief investment officer at Event-
“much more than’’ $50 billion. To like to. The farm belt has endured technologies as driver-less cars and Shares. “People are just maybe checking out for the
put that in perspective, U.S. farm much of the impact from Beijing’s artificial intelligence. rest of the year and taking some profits on positions
because there are a lot of things that are up mean-
ingfully.”
The S&P 500 inched up 0.11 points, or less than
0.1 percent, to 3,240.02. The index has finished
with a weekly gain 11 out of the past 12 weeks.
Newseum hailed free press, but got beaten by free museums The Dow rose 23.87 points, or 0.1 percent, to
28,645.26. The Nasdaq composite slipped 15.77
points, or 0.2 percent, to 9,006.62.
The building was sold for $372.5 papers particularly hard
and caused mass layoffs
$25 for adults, and the
building is right across the Smaller company stocks took the brunt of the
million to Johns Hopkins University and closures across the in-
dustry.
street from the National
Gallery of Art and within
selling. The Russell 2000 index fell 8.64 points, or
0.5 percent, to 1,669.03. More stocks declined than
The Associated Press Newseum will close its She also acknowledged blocks of multiple Smithso- rose on the New York Stock Exchange.
doors Tuesday. that the Newseum’s status nian museums. Bond prices rose. The 10-year Treasury yield
WASHINGTON — In “We’re proud of how as a for-pay private institu- “Competing with free fell to 1.87 percent from 1.90 percent late Thursday.
2008, the Newseum — a we did our storytelling,” tion was a harder sell in a institutions in Washington A truce in the 17-month U.S.-China trade war
private museum dedicated said Sonya Gavankar, the city full of free museums. was difficult,” Gavankar and positive signs for the economy have helped
to exploring modern histo- outgoing director of public A Newseum ticket costs said. keep investors in a buying mood.
ry as told through the eyes relations. “We changed the
of journalists — opened model of how museums
on prime Washington real did their work.”
estate. The building was sold
Sitting almost equidis- for $372.5 million to Johns
tant between the White Hopkins University, which
House and the Capitol on intends to consolidate
Pennsylvania Avenue, the its scattered Washing-
glass-walled building be- ton-based graduate studies
came instantly recogniz- programs under one roof.
able for its multi-story ex- Gavankar attributed the
terior rendition of the First failure to a “mosaic of fac-
Amendment. tors” but one of them was
Eleven years later that certainly unfortunate tim-
experiment is coming to ing. The opening coincid-
an end. After years of fi- ed with the 2008 economic
nancial difficulties, the recession, which hit news-
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2019
Continued from Page 1A
zoning was not improper.
Starkville aldermen
voted in January 2017 to
rezone the property for
the park. Days later, own-
ers of neighboring prop-
erty — specifically Bettye
Bell, Mary S. Bell, Mar-
garet Copeland, Laura
B. White and LMK LLC
— sued to block the re-
zoning, claiming the city
hadn’t presented enough
evidence to prove it was
needed.
Golden Triangle Devel-
opment LINK represen-
tatives said the pending
lawsuit made it difficult to
attract industrial clients
to the site, which the city
and Oktibbeha County
have spent a combined
$14 million preparing for
tenants. There are still
companies interested,
they said, and one, Ga-
ran Manufacturing, plans
to move to the site from
Highway 12 sometime in
2020.
TIF for TJ Maxx, ALDI
Area developer Mark
Castleberry announced
in August
his intent
to build
a 90,000
square -foot
retail shop-
ping center
at the inter-
section of Castleberry
Highway 12
and Industrial Park Road.
TJ Maxx, a department
store, and ALDI, a gro-
cery chain, plan to occupy
about half that space.
Starkville aldermen
and Oktibbeha County
supervisors all approved
a tax-increment financing
plan for the project.
Under the TIF, the city
and county will issue up
to $3 million in bonds to
reimburse Castle Proper-
ties for the cost of certain
infrastructure — such as
sewer, roads and parking
— built at the site. The en-
tities will repay the bonds
over 15 years using sales
and property tax revenue
generated at the center
for up to 15 years.
Garan Manufacturing
has a plant at the planned
retail center site but plans
to move to the North Star
Industrial Park at the in-
tersection of Highways
82 and 389. It will take at
least a year for Garan to
move and another year
for Castleberry to build
the shopping center.
Starkville gets $12M to
improve Highway 182
The city received ap-
proval in November for
a $12.66 million federal
grant that will fund im-
provements along a mile
stretch of Highway 182,
between North Long
Street and Old West Point
Road.
The grant, which is
the largest grant for infra-
structure Starkville has
ever received, will make
the area more pedestri-
an-friendly and wheel-
chair-accessible, increase
broadband access and
improve infrastructure
and stormwater drainage,
making the area more
attractive to potential
businesses. Mayor Lynn
Spruill said work will take
years to complete.
The U.S. Department
of Transportation’s Better
Utilizing Investments to
Leverage Development,
or BUILD Transporta-
tion Discretionary Grant
program, funds “projects
that have a significant lo-
cal or regional impact,”
according to the DOT
website. The grants were
known as Transportation
Investment Generating
Economic Recovery, or
TIGER Discretionary
Grants, when the city first
developed an interest in
obtaining one for High-
way 182 about a decade
ago.
Funding from the
grant requires a 20-per-
cent local match, which
means the city must pro-
vide about $3.5 million.
Voters approve tourism
sales tax hike for
parks; Ward 5 picks
new alderman
In a special election
in May, Starkville voters
overwhelmingly approved
a 1-percent increase to
the city’s tourism sales
taxes for various improve-
ments to its parks and rec-
reation system, primarily
a $20-million-plus tourna-
ment ready baseball/soft-
ball complex at Corner-
stone Park off Highway
25 in West Starkville.
Nearly 74 percent of
voters favored the in-
crease, which added 1
percent to both the restau-
rant and hotel/motel
sales taxes. It’s projected
to generate $1.2 million
for parks. Aside from
the Cornerstone facility,
some of the funds will
be used — in addition to
the 40 percent of revenue
that was already set aside
for parks from the exist-
ing 2-percent restaurant
tax — toward capital im-
provements throughout
the parks system.
Also during the special
election, Hamp Beatty
earned 57
percent of
the vote to
top a field
of three
ca ndidates
for Ward 5
alder man.
The seat Beatty
b e c a me
vacant in April when Pat-
rick Miller, who was two
years into his first term,
resigned to take a job in
Biloxi.
Nichols retires, Ballard
hired as police chief
Capt. Mark Ballard
was hired in November
to become
Stark ville
police chief.
He will
replace
Frank Nich-
ols, who
a nnounced
in June his Nichols
intention to
retire at the
end of the
year.
B a l -
lard joined
SPD in
1996, most
r e c e n t l y Ballard
serving as
administrative staff com-
mander and head of inves-
tigations. His salary is set
at $85,000.
Nichols joined SPD in
1992 and had been po-
lice chief since February
2014.
Tagert named CEO
for Partnership
Outgoing Mississippi
Department of Trans-
portation Commission-
er Mike Tagert was an-
nounced in November
as the incoming CEO for
the Greater
Stark ville
Develop -
ment Part-
nership.
The Part-
nership role
is part of
his new title Tagert
as associate director for
Corporate and Economic
Partnerships within Mis-
sissippi State University’s
Office of Research and
Economic Development
(ORED). He will assume
those roles on Jan. 7, 2020.
Tagert had served as
transportation commis-
sioner for the Northern
District since 2011. He
decided not to run for
re-election this year. He
will become the first CEO
for the Partnership since
Scott Maynard left the
post in June 2018 to take
a job at Florida State Uni-
versity in Tallahassee,
Florida
Jennifer Prather, who
had been the Partner-
ship’s director of tourism,
served as interim CEO
until she left for a post
with Mississippi Main
Street Association in Oc-
tober.
MSU takes on old
Cadence Bank building
Mississippi State Re-
search and Technology
Corporation, a nonprofit
organized to facilitate
relationships between
MSU and its industrial
affiliates, purchased the
old Cadence Bank Main
Branch at the corner of
Main and Jackson streets
in May.
MSU plans to use the
33,000 square-foot space
essentially as an expan-
sion of the Thad Cochran
Research and Technology
Park located near cam-
pus.
Cadence, which oc-
cupied the space as its
main Starkville branch
for more than 40 years,
is building a new bank
behind Comfort Inn and
Suites on Russell Street.
MSU is planning up to
two years’ worth of ren-
ovations at the old bank
facility. Once complete,
it can provide space for
public or private entities,
including start-up compa-
nies.
The bank and universi-
ty signed a non-disclosure
agreement on the price
of the sale. The building
had been listed for $2.5
million.
West Main Arms
murder for hire
A Starkville man was
charged in connection
with a February murder
after he allegedly offered
multiple people $5,000
to kill 33-year-old Joseph
Turnipseed Jr.
Police, responding to a
“shots fired” call late Feb.
8, found Turnipseed’s
body at West Main Arms
Apartments. Officers
soon arrested Henry Neal
Jr., 27, who authorities
believe offered $5,000 to
Turnipseed’s killer. Mul-
tiple witnesses told police
he offered that amount to
others as well.
Neal is being held on
$2 million for the murder
charge. He pleaded guilty
to an unrelated sale of co-
caine charge in July and
was sentenced to eight
years in prison.
Lime scooters leave
Starkville, MSU
Lime, a company that
offers bicycle and scooter
rentals, pulled out of the
Starkville and Mississippi
State University market
in March less than a year
after its services arrived,
citing MSU’s unwilling-
ness to allow electric
scooters on campus.
The company began
service at MSU in August
2018 and expanded to
Starkville a month later.
By the time Lime left, its
Starkville-MSU fleet in-
cluded about 200 vehicles
— pedal bikes, battery
—powered electronic as-
sist bikes and 25 electric
scooters it added in Janu-
ary. The bikes and scoot-
ers could be found at vari-
ous places in town, rented
through a mobile app and
left where the user com-
pleted the ride.
MSU’s contract with
Lime didn’t allow the
electric scooters for safe-
ty reasons, however, and
university officials had
complained that scooters
were being left on campus
anyway. When Lime left,
it discontinued all of its
services in the Starkville-
MSU market.
Proposed regulations
on Airbnbs stall
After months of de-
bate and public hearings,
Starkville aldermen in
December delayed acting
on regulations for short-
term rental properties in
single-family residential
areas, instead opting to
look at whether there
were needed regulations
to long-term rentals in
those areas as well.
Aldermen agreed to
consider regulations for
short-term rentals, such
as Airbnbs, in May af-
ter citizen complaints
of transient tourism in
single-family neighbor-
hoods. By September, city
officials proposed a $300
annual license fee and
a 30-night annual rental
limit for those properties,
along with a requirement
property owners live in
the homes they offered
for short-term lodging.
After several, some-
times heated, public input
sessions, the proposal al-
dermen tabled in Decem-
ber — the 17th version
drafted — required only a
$20 privilege license and
dropped the night limit
and residency require-
ment. The license could
be revoked after three
citizen complaints that re-
sulted in citations.

Around the state

Renovations happening
for Ole Miss hotel to
open a bar
OXFORD — A bar will
be opening inside a hotel
on campus at the Univer-
sity of Mississippi.
The university re-
ceived state approval for
resort status for the Inn at
Ole Miss, and that allows
the sale of alcohol.
The Oxford Eagle re-
ports that the current
McCormick’s cafe inside
the hotel is being reno-
vated. The 2,000-square-
foot (186-square-meter)
indoor and outdoor space
will feature a bar hand-
crafted by Ben Napier,
an Ole Miss alumnus He
and his wife, Erin, costar
of the HGTV show “Home
Town.” They live in Lau-
rel, Mississippi, and fre-
quently visit Oxford.
In July 2018, the Mis-
sissippi Department of
Revenue’s Alcohol and
Beverage Control division
approved the University
of Mississippi’s request to
be qualified for resort sta-
tus at the hotel and confer-
ence center. In December
2018, the Lafayette Coun-
ty Supervisors approved
the university’s request
for Vaught-Hemingway
Stadium and the Pavilion
to have resort status.
The football stadium
began selling alcohol
for the first time Oct. 19
during the Ole Miss-Tex-
as A&M game, and beer
sales have continued at
the Pavilion during bas-
ketball games.
15-year-old charged
as adult in stabbing at
Christmas party
PASCAGOULA — A
Mississippi teenager has
been arrested on an ag-
gravated assault charge
after a stabbing at a
Christmas party, sheriff’s
officials said.
Tyler William Reed,
15, of Escatawpa, is be-
ing charged as an adult in
the case, Jackson County
Sheriff Mike Ezell said
in a news release. The
victim, David Michael
Woodard , 37, of Lucedale,
was stabbed in the chest
while at Reed’s home for
a Christmas get-together,
the statement said.
Woodard, who is
friends with Reed’s fami-
ly, underwent surgery at
Singing River Hospital
in Pascagoula. His condi-
tion was not immediately
available.
Reed was being held
without bond in the Jack-
son County jail pending
an initial appearance be-
fore County Court before
Judge Mark Watts, news
outlets reported. It was
unknown if Reed has an
attorney who could speak
on his behalf.
The stabbing is still
under investigation, Ezell
said, adding that no mo-
tive for the attack has
been found at this time.
Tribal police arrest
Mississippi man
charged with murder
LOUISVILLE — A
Mississippi man wanted
for murder has been ar-
rested.
Rushaka Cobb was
arrested Wednesday by
tribal police in the Crystal
Ridge portion of the Choc-
taw Indian Reservation,
according to local news
outlets.
Cobb is charged with
murder in the killing of
Lee Hughes in Louisville.
Police have yet to explain
why they suspect that the
27-year-old Cobb shot and
killed Hughes. The victim
was found dead Monday
inside a Louisville house.
Louisville Police Chief
Sean Holdiness said Cobb
will be taken to Leake
County, where he was ear-
lier charged with aggra-
vated assault.
It’s unclear whether
Cobb has a lawyer or has
seen a judge to determine
whether bail will be set.

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States are on front lines of 2020 election-security efforts

‘You only attack things that you feel are a U.S. elections from an attack
by Russia, China or other for-
and scanning systems for suspi-
cious cyber activity as they look
al Affairs at the Harvard Kenne-
dy School. The group has been
threat to you, and our democracy is a threat eign threats, and developing a
military mindset will help them
to defend the nation’s elections.
Meanwhile, it will be the state
working actively with former
and current military, national
to a lot of these nation-states that are protect the integrity of the vote.
The need for such training
and county officials who will
be on the ground charged with
security, political and commu-
nications experts — many of
getting involved trying to undermine it.’ reflects how elections security identifying and dealing with whom dedicate their time after
Jesse Salinas, chief elections official in Yolo County, California worries have heightened in the any hostile acts. work and on weekends — to de-
aftermath of the 2016 election, “It’s another level of war,” velop training and manuals for
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY fend American democracy by when Russian military agents said Jesse Salinas, the chief state and local election officials.
The Associated Press ensuring free and fair elections. targeted voting systems across elections official in Yolo Coun- Those involved with leading the
“Everyone in this room is the country as part of a multi- ty, California, who attended the
SPRINGFIELD, Va. — In- training asked for anonymity
part of a bigger effort, and it’s pronged effort to influence the training. “You only attack things
side a hotel ballroom near the because of their sensitive posi-
only together are we going to presidential election. Until then, that you feel are a threat to you,
nation’s capital, a U.S. Army the job of local election officials and our democracy is a threat to tions.
officer with battlefield expe- get through this,” the officer The project’s latest playbook
could had been described as a lot of these nation-states that
rience told 120 state and local said. focuses on bringing military
akin to a wedding planner who are getting involved trying to
election officials that they may That officer and other past keeps track of who will be show- undermine it. We have to fight best practices to running Elec-
have more in common with mili- and present national security ing up on Election Day and en- back, and we have to prepare.” tion Day operations, encour-
tary strategists than they might leaders had a message to con- sures all the equipment and Salinas brought four of his aging state and local election
think. vey to officials from 24 states supplies are in place. employees with him to the officials to adopt a “battle staff”
These government officials gathered for a recent training Now, these officials are on training, which was part of the command structure with clear
are on the front lines of a dif- held by a Harvard-affiliated de- the front lines. The federal Defending Digital Democracy responsibilities and standard
ferent kind of battlefield — one mocracy project: They are the government will be on high Project based at the Belfer Cen- operating procedures for deal-
in which they are helping to de- linchpins in efforts to defend alert, gathering intelligence ter for Science and Internation- ing with minor issues.

US astronaut sets record

for longest spaceflight by a woman
Christina Koch broke the old mark of 288 days and still Koch’s extended mis-
sion will help NASA learn
has about two months left in her mission about the effects of long
spaceflights, data that
The Associated Press International Space Sta- six months, but NASA NASA officials have said
tion on March 14. She announced in April that is needed to support fu-
A U.S. astronaut set a broke the record set by it was extending her mis- ture deep space explora-
record Saturday for the former space station com- sion until February. tion missions to the Moon
longest single spaceflight and Mars.
mander Peggy Whitson The U.S. record for
by a woman, breaking the Before breaking the
in 2016-2017. longest space flight is 340
old mark of 288 days with endurance record for a
about two months left in Koch is expected to days set by Scott Kelly woman in space, Koch
her mission. spend a total of 328 days, in 2015-2016. The world set another milestone as
Christina Koch, a or nearly 11 months, on record is 15 months set part of the first all-female
40-year-old electrical en- board the space station in the 1990s by a Russian spacewalking team in Oc-
gineer from Livingston, before returning to Earth. cosmonaut aboard the for- tober. It was Koch’s fourth
Montana, arrived at the Missions are typically mer Mir space station. spacewalk.

Man who made 27,000 crosses for shooting victims is retiring

The Associated Press
AURORA, Ill. — An
Illinois man who made
more than 27,000 crosses
to commemorate victims
of mass shootings across
the country is retiring.
Greg Zanis came to re-
alize, after 23 years, his
Crosses for Losses minis-
try was beginning to take
a personal and financial
toll on him, according to
The Beacon-News.
“I had a breaking point
in El Paso,” he said, refer-
ring to the mass shooting
outside of a Walmart in
El Paso, Texas. “I hadn’t
slept for two days, it was were carried along Mich- truck and never had the
106 degrees and I col- igan Avenue in Chicago money to cover what I was cdispatch.com
lapsed from the pressure to honor each person who doing.”
when I heard there were had been killed that year.
two more victims of the Earlier this year, Za-
mass shooting.” nis found himself making
Zanis has set up cross- crosses for his very own
es after the school shoot- hometown of Aurora, Illi-
ings at Columbine, Sandy nois, after a Henry Pratt
Hook and Parkland. He Co. employee opened fire
also placed crosses after on his coworkers.
the Las Vegas music fes- “After Orlando, it nev-
tival shooting and the Or- er stopped,” Zanis said
lando nightclub shooting. of the mass shootings.
“I leave a piece of my “The country had me
heart behind each time I on the road for a while
go,” he said. every week. I have driv-
In 2016 he made more en 850,000 miles to put
than 700 crosses that up crosses. I slept in my

2 kicked out of National Guard over white supremacist ties

The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Two men
have been kicked out of
the Army National Guard
after liberal activists un-
covered their membership
in a religious group with
white supremacist ties.
Brandon Trent East
told The Atlanta Jour-
nal-Constitution that the
Alabama National Guard comment left with his
sent him a separation no- friend East.
tice on Dec. 14. Earlier in 2019, the At-
A spokeswoman for the lanta Antifacists group
Georgia National Guard published a report saying
said Dalton Woodward is East and Woodward were
no longer a member. She leaders of the Norse pagan
declined to comment on group Ravensblood Kin-
the terms of Woodward’s dred. The group is part of
separation. the Asatru Folk Assembly,
Woodward didn’t re- which researchers say en-
spond to a request for dorses white supremacy.
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SECTION

Boobie’s blessing: How Anthony ‘Boobie’ Dixon is embracing Kylin

Hill’s chase for his Mississippi State single-season rushing record
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — Anthony
‘Boobie’ Dixon and junior run-
ning back Kylin Hill shared a
moment.
Visiting Starkville earlier
this fall, Dixon took the chance
to chat with Hill, Mississippi
State’s much ballyhooed and
dynamic tailback. As had been
the case when Dixon was giv-
en comparable speeches from
former Bulldog running backs
Jerious Norwood and Dicenzo
Miller years prior, Hill was qui-
et and receptive.
“Oh man it’s been great
watching Kylin,” Dixon told
The Dispatch. “It’s been real-
ly enjoyable seeing him be the
best back in the SEC and be a
leader for the team with his
play.”
Now a few weeks on from
their conversation, Hill sits just
44 yards shy of Dixon’s MSU
single-season rushing record
of 1,391 yards heading into the
Bulldogs’ matchup with Louis-
ville in the Music City Bowl on
Dec. 30.
And while the record may no
longer belong to Dixon come
Stan Beall/Dispatch file photo
New Year’s Eve, he’s more than
Kylin Hill sits just 44 yards shy of Boobie Dixon’s MSU single-season rushing record of 1,391 yards, set in 2009. “You can tell that (Hill)
supportive of Hill’s efforts. put in the work, and he earned this moment,” Dixon said. “I think I’m going to be just like everybody else — smiling and proud.”
“I love football, and I know a
lot of people in Mississippi love in 2009, Dixon had attained setting the MSU single-season fifth-leading rusher the year be- season DUI.
it too,” he said. “So it’s all fun, national acclaim for his ability rushing attempts record as a fore, Dixon finished the season “It was one of the best years
good vibes. I don’t feel no type between the lines. A bruising sophomore by grounding and as the nation’s 14th most prolif- of my life,” Dixon said of his
of way about (the record) fall- runner at 6-foot-1, 235 pounds, pounding his way to 1,066 yards ic rusher and earned himself senior season. “I was playing
ing. I think my place in history he had already set MSU fresh- on 287 carries. He added an- MSU’s single-season rushing probably the best ball of my life.
is going to be there, it’s going man records with 668 yards, other 869 yards on 197 carries record with 1,391 yards and 12
It started out kind of rough be-
to stay there. I’m not going no- 169 attempts and nine rushing during his junior campaign. touchdowns on 257 carries de-
where anytime soon. I just en- touchdowns during his first Then came 2009. spite having been suspended cause I got suspended for the
joy it all — take it in stride.” year in Starkville. Rounding back into the for the season opener against first game of the season, but
Entering his senior season Dixon backed that up by form that made him the SEC’s Jackson State following an off- See HILL, 6B

Prep basketball

Impact Sports Christmas Tournament: West Lowndes

girls outstrip Starkville Academy, improve to 9-0
By Theo DeRosa into place,” Bozeman coach Takeea Bozeman
tderosa@cdispatch.com said. They started play- said. “She was passing
ing more aggressive on the ball, playing defense
Marvaysha Seals didn’t defense, and we got a lot and scoring.”
even need to look back. of turnovers.” Hood combined with
The West Lowndes As much as the run Seals, who had 16 points
senior guard dribbled up energized the Panthers, Saturday, to orchestrate
the middle of the court it deflated the Vols, who the Panthers’ offensive
with no urgency and no had been riding high af- attack. The two have
Starkville Academy de- ter Friday’s two-point win been playing together
fender in sight. Seals over Noxubee County at since AAU ball when they
headed for the right side the East Webster Christ- were little, Seals said, and
of the basket, where she mas Classic. they’ve cultivated their
laid the ball up and in off “That hurt,” Starkville chemistry over a long
the glass, stretching the Academy senior Meri time.
Panthers’ lead by two Laci Archer said. “It real- “She’s like a little sister
more points. ly hurt. It hurt our confi- to me on the court, and we
It was just one more dence a lot. … We never play very well,” Seals said.
fast-break layup for West came back from it, so it Saturday, they played
Lowndes in a game al- really hurt us.” well enough to get the
ready replete with them, The Panthers went Panthers to 9-0, achieving
but the basket proved the from trailing 13-7 late in a start that West Lown-
perfect example of how the first quarter to being des felt confident it could
the Panthers’ frenetic ahead 30-19 at the half, reach.
pace exhausted the Vol- and they kept it up from And it left Starkville
unteers en route to a 60- Austin Frayser/Special to The Dispatch there. Junior Tydajasha Academy disappointed
41 win. West Lowndes guard Tydajasha Hood looks to get around the Starkville Academy Hood scored 12 of her about the game the Vols
“That’s our goal: to tire defense. Hood was named the most valuable player of Saturday’s game. 19 points in the second think they had a chance
them down,” West Lown- half and was named the to win — albeit optimistic.
des coach Takeea Boze- and down the court con- speeding ahead for layups Panthers from down six game’s most valuable “We could have done
man said. stantly, blocking shots on the other. A fast-paced points to up six in the player. better,” Archer said. “We
West Lowndes beat or stealing passes on 12-0 run early in the blink of an eye. “She played really
Starkville Academy up one end of the court and second quarter took the “Everything just fell well,” West Lowndes See Tournament, 6B

College football

Burrow throws 7 TDs; No. 1 LSU routs No. 4 Oklahoma

The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Joe Bur-
row turned in the greatest
performance yet in his
Heisman Trophy season,
throwing for seven touch-
downs and 493 yards as
No. 1 LSU romped to a
breathtaking 63-28 victo-
ry over No. 4 Oklahoma in
the Peach Bowl semifinal
game Saturday.
The Tigers (14-0)
headed to the nation-
al championship game
against either No. 2 Ohio
State or No. 3 Clemson
clicking on all cylinders,
having dismantled the
Sooners (12-2) with a first
half for the ages.
Burrow tied the record
for any college bowl game
with his seven TD passes
— which all came before
the bands hit the field for
the halftime show at Mer-
cedes-Benz Stadium. Jus-
tin Jefferson was on the
receiving end for four of
those scoring plays, also
tying a bowl record.
For good measure,
Burrow scored an eighth
TD himself on a 3-yard
run in the third quarter,
thoroughly dominating
his expected duel with
Oklahoma quarterback
Jalen Hurts, the Heisman
runner-up.
All that as the Tigers
played with heavy hearts.
Shortly before the game,
LSU offensive coordi-
nator Steve Ensminger
learned that his daughter-
in-law, broadcaster Carley
McCord, was among five
people killed in a plane
crash in Louisiana.
The small plane went
down shortly after takeoff
for what was supposed to
be a flight to Atlanta for
the game.
Ensminger had tears
running down his cheeks
during warm-ups, but he
was in his usual spot high
above the field when the
game kicked off, calling
plays along with passing
game coordinator Joe
Brady.
It was a brilliant, poi-
gnant performance in the
face of such tragedy.
“He’s the MVP right
now,” LSU head coach
Ed Orgeron said of En-
sminger in a halftime
interview with his team
leading 49-14.
LSU needed only three
plays to race 42 yards for
its first score - a perfectly
thrown ball over Jeffer-
son’s shoulder for a 19-
yard TD less than 3 min-
utes into the game.
Oklahoma briefly put
up a fight. Hurts’ 51-yard
pass to CeeDee Lamb set
up a 3-yard touchdown
run by Kennedy Brooks
that tied the score at 7.
After that, the rout was
See Peach Bowl, 6B
2B Sunday, December 29, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

College basketball
briefly
Women’s College Basketball
Ole Miss hits 12 3s in rout of Alabama State
The Ole Miss women’s basketball team knocked
No. 19 Kentucky edges 3rd-ranked Louisville in OT
The Associated Press for Kentucky, which ference opponents end- Robinson added 15 as cent from the free-throw
down 12 3-pointers in a 93-66 win over Alabama State
on Saturday in the Rebels’ final nonconference game shot 46 percent for its ed against Stephen F. New Orleans (4-8) lost line coming into the
of the season. LEXINGTON, Ky. 10th win over Louisville Austin on Nov. 26. its third straight. game.
The Rebels totaled 60 points in the second half — Nick Richards had in 13 meetings. Brandon Anderson
after taking a 33-25 lead into the break. They scored 31 13 points, including Steven Enoch and scored 16 points to lead No. 17 Florida State No. 12 Butler 67,
points in the third quarter and 29 in the fourth. seven consecutive ones Dwayne Sutton had 18 Brown (5-6) in its third
Deja Cage led the team with 20 points, making
three 3-pointers. Mimi Reid scored 16 points, Valerie in overtime, and No. 19 points for the Cardinals consecutive loss. The
88, North Alabama 71 Louisiana-Monroe 36
Kentucky scored the TA LL A H A S SEE, INDIANAPOLIS —
Nesbitt scored 13, and Jayla Alexander scored 12. (11-2). Bears trailed 35-29 at
“We needed a night like this,” Ole Miss coach final eight points for a Fla. — Malik Osborne Derrik Smits scored 16
halftime.
Yolett McPhee-McCuin said in a news release from the 78-70 victory over No. 3 scored 12 of his 14 points points off the bench to
school. “We needed to be able to score and get out in
Louisville on Saturday
No. 4 Duke 75, in the first half as Flori- lead Butler to a victory
transition and see what it felt like to play a fun brand of
in a thrilling Bluegrass Brown 50 No. 9 Memphis 97, da State cruised to a win over the Louisiana-Mon-
basketball again, especially with the bear of the SEC
that we’re getting ready to go into.” rivalry showdown. DURHAM, N.C. — New Orleans 55 over North Alabama. roe.
Ole Miss (7-6) opens conference play at 6:45 p.m. Louisville led 68- Vernon Carey Jr. scored MEMPHIS, Tenn. Balsa Koprivica Bryce Nze had 10
Thursday against Georgia at The Pavilion in Oxford. 65 on Jordan Nwora’s 19 points to help Duke — Precious Achiuwa added 13 points while points and seven re-
3-pointer with 2:20 left beat Brown on a day had 18 points and 10 Trent Forrest had 10 bounds and Sean Mc-
Southern Miss takes down Faulkner before Richards con- when the Blue Devils’ rebounds, Lester Qui- points and six assists Dermott scored 10
The Southern Miss women beat Faulkner Univer- jump shots rarely fell. nones added 13 points for Florida State (11-2), points for the Bulldogs
sity 71-59 on Saturday in Hattiesburg to finish off 2019
verted a 3-point play
with an 8-3 record. to make it 70-68. The Alex O’Connell add- as Memphis built a huge which has won seven of (12-1), who have won
Kelsey Jones led the Eagles with 18 points, Shonte junior forward added ed 14 points and Wendell first-half lead and easily its games by 10 or more three in a row.
Hailes had 17, and Respect Leaphart had 10. another layup and two Moore Jr. had 10 points beat New Orleans. points. Josh Nicholas had
Southern Miss will host Louisiana Tech in the more foul shots before for Duke (11-1) in its fi- Quinones, who re- The Seminoles made 12 points while Michael
conference opener for both teams at 4 p.m. Saturday.
Immanuel Quickley and nal nonconference game turned after missing 16 of 23 (69 %) of their Ertel, JD Wiliams and
Tyrese Maxey provided of the regular season. the previous five games shots from inside the Elijah Ifejeh each scored
Prep Football a six-point cushion from The Blue Devils took with a broken right 3-point arc in the first five points for the War-
Starkville receiver Aka commits to EMCC the line. Ashton Hagans’ the lead for good with hand, made all three half en route to a 47-26 hawks (4-7), who have
Starkville High School senior wide receiver Joshua dunk with 4.9 seconds an 11-1 run midway of his 3-point shots as lead at the break. lost five straight games.
Aka announced his commitment to play football at East
Mississippi Community College on Saturday. left sealed the tense win through the first half Memphis (11-1) extend- Jamari Blackmon Butler started the
“First and foremost I would like to thank the man at Rupp Arena. and pulled away late in ed its winning streak scored 15 points and second half on a 13-2
above for allowing me to be in the position I’m in Maxey’s free throws the second half with an to nine. Tyler Harris Christian Agnew add- run to build the lead to
today!” Aka wrote in his Twitter post announcing his capped a career-best 18-2 spurt. finished with 11 points, ed 12 points and eight 28 points.
commitment. “I would also like to thank all my coaches,
teammates, teachers, family and friends for all of the
27-point performance The Blue Devils won while DJ Jeffries and rebounds for North Ala- Nze scored back-to-
love and support leading up to this decision!” while Richards had 10 their fifth consecutive Isaiah Maurice added 10 bama (5-8). back baskets and Bryce
Aka, who stands 5-foot-10 and weighs 175 pounds, rebounds to end a two- game, all by at least 12 points each. Florida State made Golden scored twice.
caught 56 passes for 770 yards and 11 touchdowns this game losing streak points, since their 150- Troy Green led the 17 of 17 free-throw at- Smits’ layup with 13:02
season for the Yellow Jackets. Part of a dangerous re- game home winning Privateers with 22 tempts. The Seminoles remaining to make it 46-
by the Wildcats (9-3).
ceiving corps including Rufus Harvey, Tae Lucious and
Orien Thompson, Aka was one of junior quarterback Quickley had 18 points streak against noncon- points while Bryson were averaging 75 per- 18.
Luke Altmyer’s top targets.
He helped Starkville reach the north state final
this season, where the Jackets lost to Oxford, 25-16,
on Nov. 29. Prep basketball roundup: Columbus girls split
CALENDAR
SOURCE: From Special Reports
games at Peggy Bain Holiday Hoops Tournament
Florence (Ala.) 54, Point on Jan. 7 in a dis- eight points to go with Noxubee County girls to Potts Camp 86-57 on
Today trict contest. seven rebounds. Saturday in the Rumble
Women’s College Basketball
Columbus 47 55, Coffeeville 44 by the River invitation-
Little Rock at Mississippi State, 2 p.m. MABEN — The
Men’s College Basketball By Theo DeRosa
Columbus girls 79, Heritage Academy Noxubee County girls
al hosted by Itawamba
Tennessee Tech at Ole Miss, 3 p.m. tderosa@cdispatch.com Lewisburg 19, Friday boys 67, Richland 52 beat Coffeeville 55-44 Community College in
GLEN — Aniya Sad- MADISON — Eli on Saturday at the East Fulton.
Monday GLEN — The Co- dler led the way as the Acker had 27 points to Webster Christmas Albert Plair had 21
College Football lumbus High girls team Falcons demolished lead the Heritage Acad- Tournament in Maben. points for the Panthers,
Mississippi State vs. Louisville, Music lost to Florence (Ala- Lewisburg 79-19 on Fri- emy boys team to a 67- Zacaree Rupert and Jataquist Brown
City Bowl, 3 p.m. day at the Peggy Bain 52 win over MHSAA scored 22 points to had 13. Darrell Brooks
bama) 54-47 on Satur-
Prep Girls Basketball Holiday Hoops Tourna- Class 4A school Rich- lead the Tigers in vic- and Melvin Crawford
day at the Peggy Bain
New Hope at Sulligent (Ala.), 6 p.m. ment in Glen. land on Saturday at the tory. Aadijah Williams each scored six.
Holiday Hoops Tourna- She scored 15 St. Andrew’s Classic in
Prep Boys Basketball scored 14 points, and
ment at Alcorn Central points to lead the team; Madison. Jakeia Walker scored
New Hope at Sulligent (Ala.), 6 p.m.
Men’s College Basketball
High School. Makayla Rieves had 13 Freshman Mack eight.
Other scores
Aniya Saddler points, and Myra King Howard added 10 points Starkville Acade-
Kent State at Mississippi State, 7 p.m.
Lyon College at MUW, 6 p.m. scored 20 points for the had 10. for the Patriots. my girls 34, Noxubee
Falcons, and DJ Jack- Mashanti Saddler Heritage Academy Potts Camp boys 86, County 32, Friday
on the air son scored 12. scored eight points and will travel to face Leake West Lowndes 57 Noxubee County
The Falcons will go added nine rebounds, Academy on Friday, FULTON — The boys 44, Starkville
Today on the road to face West and Jackson scored Jan. 3, in Madden. West Lowndes boys lost Academy 42, Friday
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)
11 a.m. — Bryant at Maryland, BTN
Pro Football
North Carolina 55, Temple 13 ND ISU Brooklyn 16 15 .516 6½ Vegas 41 20 15 6 46 125 122
11 a.m. — Cornell at Penn State, Pinstripe Bowl First downs 17 14 New York 9 24 .273 14½ Calgary 40 20 15 5 45 109 117
New York Rushes-yards 37-208 27-45 Southeast Division Edmonton 41 20 17 4 44 118 129
ESPNU NFL Glance Michigan State 27, Wake Forest 21 Passing 247 227 W L Pct GB Vancouver 38 19 15 4 42 124 115
11 a.m. — The Cleveland Classic: West AMERICAN CONFERENCE Texas Bowl
Houston
Comp-att-int 20-28-0
Return yards 70
18-32-0
48
Miami
Orlando
23 8 .742 —
14 18 .438 9½
Anaheim 38 16 18 4 36 100 117
Los Angeles 40 16 20 4 36 102 126
East
Virginia vs. Ohio State, Cleveland, FS1 W L T Pct PF PA Texas A&M 24, Oklahoma State 21
Holiday Bowl
Punts-avg. 4-37.8 5-47.2 Charlotte 13 21 .382 11½ San Jose 39 16 20 3 35 103 136
y-New England 12 3 0 .800 396 198 Fumbles-lost 0-0 2-2 Washington 9 22 .290 14 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime
12:30 p.m. — Liberty at LSU, SECN x-Buffalo 10 5 0 .667 308 246 San Diego Penalties-yards 3-30 1-5 Atlanta 6 27 .182 18 loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild
N.Y. Jets 6 9 0 .400 263 353 Iowa 49, Southern Cal 24 Time of Poss. 32:48 27:12 Central Division cards per conference advance to playoffs.
1 p.m. — Texas A&M (Corpus Cristi) at Miami 4 11 0 .267 279 470 Cheez-It Bowl Individual statistics W L Pct GB Friday’s Games
South Phoenix RUSHING_Notre Dame, T.Jones 11-135, Flemis- Milwaukee 29 5 .853 — Boston 3, Buffalo 0
Nebraska, BTN W L T Pct PF PA Air Force 31, Washington State 21 ter 6-30, Book 7-30, Lenzy 3-12, Armstrong 8-8, Indiana 21 12 .636 7½ N.Y. Rangers 5, Carolina 3
Saturday, Dec. 28 (Team) 1-(minus 2), Finke 1-(minus 5). Iowa St., Chicago 13 20 .394 15½
1 p.m. — North Carolina A&T at Illinois, y-Houston 10 5 0 .667 364 350
Tennessee 8 7 0 .533 367 317 Camping World Bowl Hall 17-55, Croney 1-3, D.Jones 1-3, Mitchell 1-0, Detroit 12 20 .375 16
Toronto 5, New Jersey 4, OT
Washington 2, Columbus 1, OT
ESPNU Indianapolis 7 8 0 .467 341 335 Orlando, Fla.
Notre Dame 33, Iowa State 9
Purdy 7-(minus 16).
PASSING_Notre Dame, Book 20-28-0-247. Iowa
Cleveland 10 22 .313 18
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Minnesota 6, Colorado 4
Pittsburgh 5, Nashville 2
Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 262 377
1 p.m. — Massachusetts (Lowell) at North Cotton Bowl Classic
Arlington, Texas
St., Purdy 17-30-0-222, Mitchell 1-2-0-5. Southwest Division St. Louis 5, Winnipeg 4, OT
W L T Pct PF PA RECEIVING_Notre Dame, Claypool 7-146, Finke W L Pct GB Chicago 5, N.Y. Islanders 2
Michigan, FS1 y-Baltimore 13 2 0 .867 503 272 Penn State 53, Memphis 39 6-46, Kmet 2-33, T.Jones 2-1, Tremble 1-9, Lenzy Houston 22 10 .688 — Calgary 5, Edmonton 1
Pittsburgh 8 7 0 .533 279 275 Peach Bowl 1-7, Armstrong 1-5. Iowa St., Pettway 4-54, D. Dallas 20 10 .667 1 Anaheim 4, Vegas 3
1 p.m. — Iona at Colorado, PAC-12N Cleveland 6 9 0 .400 312 360 Atlanta Jones 4-45, Hall 4-45, C.Kolar 3-22, Milton 2-33, San Antonio 12 18 .400 9 Los Angeles 3, San Jose 2, OT
Cincinnati 1 14 0 .067 246 397 CFP Semifinal, LSU 63, Oklahoma 28 Shaw 1-28. Memphis 12 21 .364 10½ Saturday’s Games
2 p.m. — Kansas at Stanford, ABC West Fiesta Bowl MISSED FIELD GOALS_None. New Orleans 10 23 .303 12½ Carolina 6, Washington 4
Glendale, Ariz. Northwest Division
3 p.m. — Appalachian State at North W L T Pct PF PA
y-Kansas City 11 4 0 .733 420 287 CFP Semifinal, Ohio State (13-0) vs. Clemson W L Pct GB
Dallas 3, Colorado 2, SO
Florida 5, Detroit 4
Carolina State, ACCN Oakland
Denver
7 8 0 .467 298 403
6 9 0 .400 266 301
(13-0), late
Monday, Dec. 30 College Basketball Denver
Utah
22 9 .710 —
19 12 .613 3
Pittsburgh 6, Nashville 4
Tampa Bay 5, Montreal 4
3 p.m. — Hartford at Northwestern, L.A. Chargers 5 10 0 .333 316 314 SERVPRO First Responder Bowl
Saturday’s Scores Oklahoma City 16 15 .516 6 N.Y. Rangers 5, Toronto 4, OT
NATIONAL CONFERENCE Dallas Portland 14 18 .438 8½ Los Angeles at Vancouver, late
BTN East Western Kentucky (8-4) vs. Western Michigan (7- EAST
Catholic 75, Misericordia 61
Minnesota 11 20 .355 11 Arizona at Vegas, late
W L T Pct PF PA 5), 11:30 a.m. (ESPN) Pacific Division Philadelphia at San Jose, late
3 p.m. — Navy at Virginia, ESPN2 Philadelphia 8 7 0 .533 351 337 Music City Bowl Coll. of Charleston 76, Drexel 65 W L Pct GB Today’s Games
Dallas 7 8 0 .467 387 305 Nashville, Tenn. Columbia 69, Marist 54 L.A. Lakers 24 7 .774 —
3 p.m. — Kennesaw State at Iowa, N.Y. Giants 4 11 0 .267 324 417 Mississippi State (6-6) vs. Louisville (7-5), 3 p.m. DeSales 90, Bryn Athyn 60 L.A. Clippers 23 10 .697 2
Winnipeg at St. Louis, 2 p.m.
Chicago at Columbus, 4 p.m.
(ESPN) Fairfield 66, Wagner 54 Sacramento 12 19 .387 12
ESPNU Washington 3 12 0 .200 250 388
South Redbox Bowl George Washington 78, Longwood 65 Phoenix 11 20 .355 13
New Jersey at Ottawa, 4 p.m.
Georgetown 80, American U. 60 N.Y. Islanders at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
3 p.m. — Alabama State at Oregon, W L T Pct PF PA Santa Clara, Calif.
Illinois (6-6) vs. California (7-5), 3 p.m. (FOX) Northeastern 61, Towson 45
Golden State 9 24 .273 16
Friday’s Games
Buffalo at Boston, 6 p.m.
y-New Orleans 12 3 0 .800 416 331 Montreal at Florida, 6 p.m.
PAC-12N Tampa Bay 7 8 0 .467 436 421 Orange Bowl La Salle 71, Bucknell 59 Boston 129, Cleveland 117
LIU Brooklyn 125, Centenary (NJ) 84 Detroit at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.
Atlanta 6 9 0 .400 353 377 Miami Gardens, Fla. Oklahoma City 104, Charlotte 102, OT Dallas at Arizona, 7 p.m.
3 p.m. — Lipscomb at Auburn, SECN Carolina 5 10 0 .333 330 428 Florida (10-2) vs. Virginia (9-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Penn St.-Altoona 76, Methodist 65
St. Joseph (Conn.) 91, Southern Poly 56
Orlando 98, Philadelphia 97 Philadelphia at Anaheim, 7:30 p.m.
North Tuesday, Dec. 31 Milwaukee 112, Atlanta 86 Vancouver at Calgary, 8:30 p.m.
4 p.m. — Loyola (Md.) at Virginia Com- W L T Pct PF PA Belk Bowl Wesley 97, Emory & Henry 75 Miami 113, Indiana 112 Monday’s Games
y-Green Bay 12 3 0 .800 353 293 Charlotte, N.C. Wheaton (Mass.) 82, Staten Island 62 Golden State 105, Phoenix 96
monwealth, NBCSN x-Minnesota 10 5 0 .667 388 282 Kentucky (7-5) vs. Virginia Tech (8-4), 11 a.m. Syracuse 71, Niagara 57 Saturday’s Games
Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
(ESPN) Delaware 82, UNC-Wilmington 68
5 p.m. — Arkansas at Indiana, BTN Chicago
Detroit
7 8 0 .467 259 279
3 11 1 .233 321 400 Sun Bowl SOUTH
Denver 119, Memphis 110
New Orleans 120, Indiana 98
Boston at New Jersey, Noon
Bridgewater (Va.) 76, Curry 67 N.Y. Islanders at Washington, Noon
5 p.m. — Harvard at California, PAC- West El Paso, Texas
Florida State (6-6) vs. Arizona State (7-5), 1 p.m. Florida 102, Long Beach St. 63
Toronto 113, Boston 97
Chicago 116, Atlanta 81
Anaheim at Vegas, 2 p.m.
W L T Pct PF PA Toronto at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
12N x-San Francisco 12 3 0 .800 453 289 (CBS) Duke 75, Brown 50
East Carolina 82, E. Kentucky 74
Houston 108, Brooklyn 98 Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
x-Seattle 11 4 0 .733 384 372 Liberty Bowl Cleveland at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Montreal at Carolina, 6 p.m.
5:30 p.m. — Richmond at Alabama, L.A. Rams 8 7 0 .533 363 340 Memphis, Tenn. Florida St. 88, North Alabama 71
Hampton 70, St. Peter’s 67
New York 107, Washington 100 Florida at Columbus, 6 p.m.
Arizona 5 9 1 .367 337 411 Kansas State (8-4) vs. Navy (10-2), 2:45 p.m. Philadelphia at Miami, late
SECN Sunday’s Games (ESPN) Hofstra 82, James Madison 76 Dallas at Golden State, late
San Jose at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.
Winnipeg at Colorado, 7 p.m.
Chicago at Minnesota, Noon Arizona Bowl Jacksonville St. 67, Carver 38 Detroit at San Antonio, late
7 p.m. — Western Michigan at Michi- Atlanta at Tampa Bay, Noon Tucson, Ariz. Kentucky 78, Louisville 70, OT Orlando at Milwaukee, late
St. Louis at Arizona, 8 p.m.
Wyoming (7-5) vs. Georgia State (7-5), 3:30 p.m. Memphis 97, New Orleans 55 Chicago at Calgary, 8 p.m.
gan State, BTN Miami at New England, Noon
Green Bay at Detroit, Noon (CBSSN) Mercer 104, Milligan 53
Phoenix at Sacramento, late
L.A. Lakers at Portland, late
N.Y. Rangers at Edmonton, 8 p.m.
Morehead St. 102, Alice Lloyd 46 Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.
7 p.m. — Arkansas (Pine Bluff) at Cleveland at Cincinnati, Noon Alamo Bowl
San Antonio Morningside 91, Southeastern (Fla.) 82
Utah at L.A. Clippers, late
Sunday’s Games
L.A. Chargers at Kansas City, Noon
Washington State, PAC-12N N. Kentucky 74, Milwaukee 64

9 p.m. — Florida Gulf Coast at South-

N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, Noon
New Orleans at Carolina, Noon
Oakland at Denver, 3:25 p.m.
Texas (7-5) vs. Utah (11-2), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Citrus Bowl
Wednesday, Jan. 1 South Alabama 76, Mobile 47
UAB 82, Thomas (Ga.) 49
Oklahoma City at Toronto, 5 p.m.
Charlotte at Memphis, 7 p.m.
Houston at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
Transactions BASEBALL
Tennessee at Houston, 3:25 p.m. Orlando, Fla. Washington & Lee 79, St. Mary’s (Md.) 65 Sacramento at Denver, 7 p.m. American League
ern California, PAC-12N Washington at Dallas, 3:25 p.m. Michigan (9-3) vs. Alabama (10-2), Noon (ABC) W. Carolina 108, Piedmont 47 Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with
Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 3:25 p.m. Outback Bowl Wisconsin 68, Tennessee 78 Monday’s Games
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 3:25 p.m. Tampa, Fla. UNC-Greensboro 106, William Peace 34 Atlanta at Orlando, 6 p.m.
RHP Shun Yamaguchi on a two-year contract.
BASKETBALL
Minnesota (10-2) vs. Auburn (9-3), Noon (ESPN) Charleston Southern 108, Piedmont International
11 a.m. — North Carolina State at Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 3:25 p.m.
Arizona at L.A. Rams, 3:25 p.m. Rose Bowl 52
Miami at Washington, 6 p.m.
Brooklyn at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
National Basketball Association
Belmont 79, W. Kentucky 62 NBA — Fined Oklahoma City G Dennis Schröder
Boston College, ACCN San Francisco at Seattle, 7:20 p.m. Pasadena, Calif.
Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (10-3), 4 p.m. (ESPN) MIDWEST
Milwaukee at Chicago, 7 p.m. $25,000 for intentionally making contact with a
Detroit at Utah, 8 p.m. game official.
1 p.m. — Wake Forest at Miami, ACCN Sugar Bowl Albion 73, Baldwin Wallace 70 Phoenix at Portland, 9 p.m. FOOTBALL
1 p.m. — Louisville at Syracuse, College Football New Orleans
Georgia (11-2) vs. Baylor (11-2), 7:45 p.m. (ESPN)
Thursday, Jan. 2
Aquinas 78, Calumet 65
Bradley 78, Toledo 66
Butler 67, Louisiana-Monroe 36
Tuesday’s Games
Boston at Charlotte, 2 p.m.
Philadelphia at Indiana, 2 p.m.
National Football League
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Placed TE Darrell Dan-
ESPN2 Bowl Glance Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Concordia (Neb.) 109, Peru St. 60 L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 4 p.m.
iels on IR. Signed QB Drew Anderson from the
practice squad.
Friday, Dec. 20 Cincinnati (10-3) vs. Boston College (6-6), 2 p.m. Cornerstone 68, Grace Christian 59 Cleveland at Toronto, 6 p.m.
3 p.m. — Providence at Villanova, FS1 Bahamas Bowl (ESPN) Hastings 92, Presentation 72 Denver at Houston, 6 p.m.
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed C Trey Hopkins
Nassau Illinois Tech 72, Hope 58 to a three-year contract extension.
Gator Bowl
NBA BASKETBALL Buffalo 31, Charlotte 9 Jacksonville, Fla. Lourdes 84, Kent St.-Tuscarawas 63
Golden State at San Antonio, 6 p.m.
Dallas at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released CB Tony
Frisco (Texas) Bowl Brown. Signed G Lucas Patrick to a contract ex-
7 p.m. — Houston at New Orleans, Kent State 51, Utah State 41
Indiana (8-4) vs. Tennessee (7-5), 6 p.m. (ESPN)
Friday, Jan. 3
Marquette 106, Cent. Arkansas 54
Minnesota 89, FIU 62 tension.
HOUSTON TEXANS — Waived DE Joel Heath.
NBATV
8:30 p.m. — Dallas at LA Lakers,
Celebration Bowl
At Atlanta
Saturday, Dec. 21 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Boise
Ohio (6-6) vs. Nevada (7-5), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Oakland 84, Detroit 71
Olivet 87, Westminster (Pa.) 77
Purdue 97, Cent. Michigan 62
Hockey Signed P Bryan Anger and LB Whitney Mercilus to
contract extensions and OT Elijah Nkansah from
NC A&T 64, Alcorn State 44 Saturday, Jan. 4 Salisbury 88, Marietta 80 NHL Glance the practice squad.
ESPN New Mexico Bowl Armed Forces Bowl UIC 71, Cleveland St. 66 EASTERN CONFERENCE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed LB Skai Moore
from the practice squad.
Albuquerque Fort Worth, Texas Wright St. 90, Green Bay 84 Atlantic Division
NFL FOOTBALL San Diego State 48, Central Michigan 11 Southern Miss (7-5) vs. Tulane (6-6), 10:30 a.m. York (Pa.) 87, Ohio Wesleyan 77 GP W L OT Pts GF GA NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Released OL Michael
Cure Bowl (ESPN) Youngstown St. 83, IUPUI 73 Boston 39 23 7 9 55 133 100 Ola and S DeShawn Shead. Signed FB Ricky
Noon — LA Chargers at Kansas City, Orlando, Fla. Monday, Jan. 6 Creighton 91, Midland 54 Toronto 40 21 14 5 47 142 131 Ortiz. Signed WR Lil’Jordan Humphrey from the
Liberty 23, Georgia Southern 16 Florida 37 19 13 5 43 132 125 practice squad.
CBS Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl
Lendingtree Bowl
Mobile, Ala.
SOUTHWEST
E. Texas Baptist 88, Blackburn 69 Tampa Bay 36 19 13 4 42 129 115 NEW YORK GIANTS — Placed TE Scott Simon-
son on IR. Signed TE Garrett Dickerson from the
Noon — New Orleans at Carolina, FOX FAU 52, SMU 28
Camellia Bowl
Miami (Ohio) (8-5) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (10-3), Stephen F. Austin 94, Paul Quinn 62 Montreal 38 18 14 6 42 125 122
Buffalo 39 17 15 7 41 115 122 practice squad.
6:30 p.m. (ESPN) UTSA 99, Our Lady of the Lake 64
3:25 p.m. — Tennessee at Houston, Montgomery, Ala. Monday, Jan. 13 Arkansas St. 84, Freed-Hardeman 73 Ottawa 38 16 18 4 36 106 123 NEW YORK JETS — Placed Gs Tom Compton
and Alex Lewis on IR. Signed OL Ben Braden from
Arkansas State 34, FIU 26 College Football Championship FAR WEST Detroit 39 9 27 3 21 86 155
CBS New Orleans Bowl New Orleans Arizona St. 98, Texas Southern 81 Metropolitan Division the practice squad. Claimed TE Ross Travis off
Appalachian State 31, UAB 17 Fiesta Bowl winner vs. LSU, 7 p.m. (ESPN) E. Washington 79, Weber St. 77 GP W L OT Pts GF GA waivers from Indianapolis.
3:25 p.m. — Washington at Dallas, Las Vegas Bowl Colorado St. 87, Doane 62 Washington 40 27 8 5 59 143 118 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed DL Jullian
Washington 38, Boise State 7 UNLV 64, E. Michigan 49 Pittsburgh 38 23 11 4 50 131 102 Taylor on IR. Signed DL Kevin Givens from the
FOX Monday, Dec. 23 Notre Dame 33, Iowa State 9 Utah St. 129, E. Oregon 61 N.Y. Islanders 3 6 23 10 3 49 107 96 practice squad.
Gasparilla Bowl Notre Dame 10 10 10 3—33 Carolina 39 23 14 2 48 133 111 HOCKEY
7:20 p.m. — San Francisco at Seattle, At Tampa, Fla. Iowa St. 0 6 3 0—9
Cal St.-Fullerton 77, UCLA 74
Utah Valley 80, Antelope Valley 65 Philadelphia 37 21 11 5 47 121 106 National Hockey League
NBC UCF 48, Marshall 25 First quarter Portland St. 69, N. Colorado 65 N.Y. Rangers 38 19 15 4 42 124 125 ANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned RW Daniel
Tuesday, Dec. 24 ND_FG Doerer 39, 9:29. Boise St. 103, CS Northridge 72 Columbus 38 17 14 7 41 99 108 Sprong from San Diego (AHL).
SOCCER (MEN’S) Hawaii Bowl ND_Claypool 24 pass from Book (Doerer kick), Wyoming 82, Nebraska Wesleyan 68 New Jersey 37 12 19 6 30 95 133 NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled C Yakov
Trenin from Milwaukee (AHL).
Honolulu 3:20. Montana St. 66, Sacramento St. 51 WESTERN CONFERENCE
7:55 a.m. — Premier League: Chelsea Hawaii 38, BYU 34 Second quarter San Diego St. 73, Cal Poly 57 Central Division NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Activated G Louis
Thursday, Dec. 26 ISU_FG Assalley 41, 9:27. Saint Mary’s (Cal) 84, Seattle 58 GP W L OT Pts GF GA Domingue from IR and assigned him to Bingham-
at Arsenal, NBCSN Independence Bowl ND_FG Doerer 51, 7:23. St. Louis 39 25 8 6 56 123 103 ton (AHL).
Shreveport, La. ND_Armstrong 1 run (Doerer kick), 2:25. Colorado 39 23 12 4 50 140 112 NEW YORK RANGERS — Recalled F Steven
10:25 a.m. — Premier League: Wolver-
hampton at Liverpool, NBCSN
Louisiana Tech 14, Miami 0
Quick Lane Bowl
Detroit
ISU_FG Assalley 26, :50.
Third quarter
ND_T.Jones 84 run (Doerer kick), 13:14.
Pro Basketball
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Dallas 39 21 14 4 46 103 99
Winnipeg 38 21 14 3 45 117 112
Minnesota 39 19 15 5 43 124 130
Fogarty from Hartford (AHL).
American Hockey League
HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Signed F Dillan Fox
Noon — Premier League: Sheffield Pittsburgh (7-5) vs. Eastern Michigan (6-6), 8 p.m.
(ESPN)
ISU_FG Assalley 42, 4:58.
ND_FG Doerer 19, :15.
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Nashville 38 18 14 6 42 132 127
Chicago 39 16 17 6 38 110 127
to a professional tryout.
SOCCER
United at Manchester City, NBCSN Friday, Dec. 27 Fourth quarter Boston 22 8 .733 — Pacific Division Major League Soccer
Military Bowl ND_FG Doerer 39, 3:53. Philadelphia 23 11 .676 1 GP W L OT Pts GF GA TORONTO — Traded F Juan Agudelo to Inter Mi-
Annapolis, Md. A_46,948. Toronto 22 10 .688 1 Arizona 39 21 14 4 46 112 99 ami for a 2021 third-round draft pick.

Prep basketball
Prater, Young help Starkville beat Tupelo
in Travis Outlaw Slam Dunk at The Hump
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — The victory was big for
Starkville High School’s
potent combination of
senior point guard Forte
Prater and junior guard
Coltie Young presents
opponents with quite the
catch-22.
Clog the lane when
Prater drives, and Young
will be left open for catch-
and-shoot 3-pointers.
But opponents who dare
switch a second defend-
er onto Young will leave
Prater with a wide-open
path to the basket.
“I think they comple-
ment each other very
well when they get going
together,” Starkville as-
sistant coach Qu’Varius
Howard said.
On Friday in the Tra-
vis Outlaw Slam Dunk at
The Hump at Humphrey
Coliseum in Starkville,
the Yellow Jackets duo
got going just as Howard
described, and opposing
Tupelo found out just how
hard it is to plan for them.
First it was Prater, who
exploded for 16 points in
the second quarter alone,
sparking a 13-0 Starkville
run to start the quarter
and giving the Jackets a
one-point halftime lead.
Then it was Young, who
hit four 3s and scored 14
points in the third quarter
to stretch the Starkville
advantage.
Together, Prater and
Young fueled a 74-60 win
for the Jackets over the
Golden Wave on Friday.
Prater finished with 27
points, and Young con-
tributed 23 for Starkville
(12-2), giving the Jackets
bragging rights in what
both players and their
coaches acknowledged
was a bit of a rivalry con-
test.
“They’ve been talking
back and forth, so every-
body was amped up to
play,” Howard said.
Perhaps none more
than Prater and Young,
who fed off each other as
they have done all season.
With Young struggling
to find his shot in the
first half, Prater shoul-
dered the load to propel
Starkville into the lead.
After Tupelo’s Mason
Gary opened the second
quarter with a 3-ball to
give the Golden Wave a
College football
No. 13 Penn State tops No. 15 Memphis in Cotton Bowl
The Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Texas
— All-America lineback-
er Micah Parsons led the
big blitz for Penn State,
and he had Brady White
all wrapped up when the
Memphis quarterback
suddenly flipped away
the ball — right into the
hands of Garrett Taylor.
On a day when the Nit-
tany Lions’ defense gave
up its most points and
yards all season, Taylor
turned that gift into a 15-
yard interception return
for a touchdown in a 53-39
victory over the Group of
Five Tigers on Saturday
in the highest-scoring
Cotton Bowl ever.
“A huge momentum
shift,” Taylor said.
Journey Brown ran
for 202 yards with two
long touchdowns, but the
Parsons-created pick-six
came three plays after
Brown was stopped short
on a fourth-and-1. Tay-
lor put the Nittany Lions
(11-2, No. 10 CFP) up 45-
36 going into the fourth
quarter.
“For our defense to
come back and what you
probably consider a sud-
den-change situation,
and be able to get that
Starkville guard Forte Prater dribbles along the baseline to get past the Tupelo
defense.
Starkville forward Sukkima Suell dribbles past a Horn
Lake defender early in the fourth quarter.
four-point lead, Prater al-
most singlehandedly led
the response. He made a
running layup then sank
two free throws to tie it.
Prater, Trey Jackson and
NyJal Johnson all made
3s, and Starkville had a
13-0 run. Prater added
four layups — including
one three-point play — in
play, I think it was a huge
momentum play,” coach
James Franklin said.
Said Parsons: “The
game was going back and
forth, and I thought the
team who had a defensive
turnover would win, and
we got one when we need-
ed.”
Brown was the offen-
sive MVP and Parsons,
with 14 tackles and two
sacks, was the game’s top
defensive player. Both had
gone back and forth about
that possibility during
practice this week.
American Athletic
Conference champi-
on Memphis (12-2, No.
17 CFP) played its first
game under coach Ryan
Silverfield. The offensive
line coach was promot-
ed when Mike Norvell
left after four seasons to
become Florida State’s
coach earlier this month.
“It just didn’t end the
way we wanted to,” Silver-
field said. “I have to do a
better job as a head coach
to make sure all three
phases are prepared.
That’s 100% on me. That
won’t happen moving for-
ward.”
White was 32-of-51
passing for 454 yards with
two interceptions. He had
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a high-scoring quarter for
the Jackets.
“I just had to take over
because we were getting
down and couldn’t score,
so I just took it upon my-
self to get the buckets we
needed,” Prater said.
But Tupelo kept up the
pace, going into halftime
down a point and seizing
a rushing touchdown, as
did Patrick Taylor Jr. and
Kenneth Gainwell. The
rest of the Tigers’ points
came on a Cotton Bowl-re-
cord six field goals by Ri-
ley Patterson, including a
record-long 51-yarder.
“I don’t care about per-
formances ... but I care
about wins,” White said.
“I want championships, I
want wins.”
The Tigers, who set a
school record for victo-
ries while winning their
first outright conference
title since 1969, finished
with 542 total yards. But
White was sacked a sea-
son-high six times and
didn’t throw a touchdown
for the first time since the
season opener.
“We go against him all
the time ... nobody pre-
pares and prepares for
those opportunities and
those moments more than
this guy does,” Brown
said of Parsons, who was
sitting right by him.
Freshman running
back Noah Cain added
92 yards and two touch-
downs rushing for Penn
State, which won for the
30th time in its 50 bowl
appearances.
The Nittany Lions had
529 total yards. Brown
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the lead on Hayes Hal-
bert’s 3-pointer to open
the second half. Then it
was Young’s time to shine
after his cold first half.
“Anytime I don’t shoot
the ball well, it just gives
me motivation to just keep
going,” Young said. “It
just builds me up to keep
going.”
The junior did just
that, scoring eight points
during a 12-0 run that
took Starkville from down
44-43 to ahead 55-44. He
added two more 3-balls in
the period, falling to the
floor on his final connec-
tion with three seconds
left in the third. Young
quickly got up and met
Prater’s flying chest-
bump as the clock ran out
on the third quarter.
“He made me look good
a lot, hitting big shots like
that,” Prater said. “I love
to see my brother kill like
that, especially when I’m
getting assists.”
Starkville took a 61-
50 lead into the final pe-
riod and kept Tupelo’s
high-powered offense
in check, something
Howard and the Jackets’
coaches were happy to
see.
“We preach defense,”
Howard said. “Once we
got scoring, it was good to
see them still focus on de-
fense. You get the ball in
the basket, and now they
want to keep playing de-
got his 202 rushing yards
on 16 carries, including a
tackle-shredding 32-yard
touchdown early and a 56-
yard score when he went
up the middle virtually
untouched.
Big picture
Memphis: The Tigers
wrapped up the most suc-
cessful four-year stretch
in school history with 38
victories, but this senior
class never won a bowl
game. Memphis has been
to a bowl in each of the
past six seasons, a school
record, but has lost its last
five bowl games.
Penn State: The Nit-
tany Lions had allowed
only 14.1 points per game
in the regular season, and
the most yards allowed
had been 462. Penn State
played in its third New
Year’s Six game in four
years and finished with 11
wins for the third time in
that span.
Extra points
The announced atten-
dance of 54,828 was the
lowest for the Cotton Bowl
since New Year’s Day
1948. This was the 11th
Cotton Bowl at AT&T Sta-
dium, and the lowest pre-
vious in the home of the
Sunday, December 29, 2019
fense to hurry up and get
the ball back and score
again.”
Starkville, which opens
district play on the road
Friday at Greenville, and
the Jackets know how
much the win means.
“They’re a very good
team,” Young said of Tu-
pelo. “It’s a good feeling
to be able to beat a good
team like that.”
Starkville girls 55,
Horn Lake 49
Starkville girls bas-
ketball coach Kristie
Williams says senior
Brayland Ferguson is the
Yellow Jackets’ “X-factor.”
Ferguson can defend,
score and rebound well,
and her presence is in-
valuable for Williams and
her team.
“She is that one player
that we’ve gotta have on
the floor at all times be-
cause she does so much
for us,” Williams said.
On Friday against
Horn Lake at Humphrey
Coliseum, Ferguson
showed her coach and her
teammates just what she’s
capable of.
Ferguson had 12
points on efficient shoot-
ing from the field and the
free-throw line, provided
critical stability in a hec-
tic contest and helped the
Jackets beat the Eagles
55-49.
“For her to go out and
score 12 points, that’s
huge,” Williams said.
“She worked hard, so I
like to see a reward for
her. She’s gonna give it
everything that she’s got.
Her upside is tremen-
dous.”
Ferguson wasn’t
Starkville’s leading scor-
er, though; that was junior
Amaya Ford, who had 22
points for the Jackets (5-
6) after fighting through
a shaky start. Ford had
just two points in the first
quarter.
“She was rushing
things,” Williams said.
“Once she settled in, she
did what we expected her
to.”
Ford had five points in
the second quarter, nine
in the third and six in the
fourth. She hit four free
throws in the final period
as the Jackets were re-
peatedly forced to the line
NFL’s Dallas Cowboys
had been 59,615 five sea-
sons ago when Western
Michigan, another Group
of Five team, played
Wisconsin. ... The eight
combined rushing touch-
downs were the most for
a New Year’s Six game. ...
Patterson’s six field goals
were also a NY6 record. ...
Big Ten teams are 5-1 in
the Cotton Bowl. ... Group
of Five teams are 3-3 in
New Year’s Six games.
Up next
Memphis awaits a final
decision from White, a
23-year-old former grad-
uate transfer, on whether
he will return for his final
season of eligibility next
year. The Tigers played
the Cotton Bowl without
two of their seniors —
tight end Joey Magnifico
(knee) and left tackle
Scott Dill (left team).
Gainwell finished his
redshirt freshman sea-
son with 1,459 yards and
13 touchdowns rushing.
Silverfield’s first regu-
lar-season game as coach
comes Sept. 5 at home in
the season opener against
Arkansas State.
Penn State could re-
turn all of its starting
offensive skill players,
3B
in late-game situations.
“She’s one of the top
players in the state, so
you expect for her to kind
of keep everything calm
at the end of the game,
and that’s what she did,”
Williams said.
Ford and Ferguson
led the way as Starkville
held a lead of various pro-
portions throughout the
game. Once the Jackets
went up 7-5, they never
trailed, but their grasp on
the game often seemed
tenuous.
Starkville pulled away
to a 22-10 lead midway
through the second quar-
ter on two Jada Odneal
free throws, but the Ea-
gles came right back.
Horn Lake got the score
to 23-20 with under a min-
ute to go, and Ford split a
pair of free throws to give
Starkville a four-point
halftime lead.
But a back-and-forth
third quarter saw no more
progress for Horn Lake.
The period ended with
the Jackets up five points,
and Starkville never led
by less.
The Jackets were able
to notch a win despite
plenty of turnovers, which
stunted their rhythm, but
Williams noted the team’s
turnover numbers have
actually come down since
the start of the season.
That’s progress, she said.
“We still turn it over
way too much, but I think
we’re growing from it,”
Williams said. “We don’t
allow one turnover to get
us in a down mode. We’re
regrouping better, and
that’s what you expect.
That’s what you want this
time of the year. We were
careless with the ball,
but we didn’t give up the
fight.”
The victory was a nice
bounce back from Thurs-
day’s 69-38 loss to Olive
Branch, in which the
Jackets’ inexperience was
glaring. It still showed
Friday, Williams said, but
her team’s talent shined
brighter.
“For them to shake that
loss off and come back
and play as hard as they
did today, it proves that
they’re growing, they’re
maturing,” Williams said.
“That’s what we need as
we go through the rest of
our season.”
including quarterback
Sean Clifford and Brown,
since none was a senior
this season. Parsons was
a sophomore. Franklin,
who finished his sixth
season with the Nittany
Lions, has a new con-
tract through 2022. Penn
State’s 2020 opener is
Sept. 5 at home against
Kent State.
Penn St. 53, Memphis 39
Memphis 13 10 13 3—9
Penn St. 7 28 10 8—53
First quarter
MEM_FG Patterson 48, 10:52.
PSU_J.Brown 32 run (Pinegar kick), 9:56.
MEM_P.Taylor 3 run (Patterson kick), 7:44.
MEM_FG Patterson 37, 2:55.
Second quarter
PSU_Cain 1 run (Pinegar kick), 11:14.
PSU_Ford 2 run (Pinegar kick), 7:47.
PSU_J.Brown 56 run (Pinegar kick), 5:51.
MEM_Gainwell 2 run (Patterson kick), 3:15.
PSU_Dotson 4 pass from Clifford (Pinegar kick), :51.
MEM_FG Patterson 44, :00.
Third quarter
MEM_White 1 run (Patterson kick), 12:16.
MEM_FG Patterson 51, 10:24.
PSU_FG Pinegar 45, 7:13.
MEM_FG Patterson 41, 3:32.
PSU_G.Taylor 15 interception return (Pinegar kick),
:38.
Fourth quarter
MEM_FG Patterson 42, 12:01.
PSU_Cain 1 run (Freiermuth pass from Clifford), 6:31.
A_54,828.
MEM PSU
First downs 27 25
Rushes-yards 33-63 53-396
Passing 479 133
Comp-Att-Int
Return Yards
33-53-2 11-20-1
11 31
Punts-Avg.
Fumbles-Lost 2-0 0-0
3-33.0 3-45.3
Penalties-Yards 8-45 2-15
Time of Possession 32:42 27:18
Individual statistics
RUSHING_Memphis, P.Taylor 8-50, Gainwell 9-34,
Gibson 2-6, K.Jones 1-2, Austin 2-(minus 6), White
11-(minus 23). Penn St., J.Brown 16-202, Cain 15-92,
Slade 5-58, Clifford 13-28, Hamler 2-14, Ford 2-2.
PASSING_Memphis, K.Jones 1-1-0-25, P.Taylor
0-1-0-0, White 32-51-2-454. Penn St., Clifford 11-
20-1-133.
RECEIVING_Memphis, Coxie 8-132, Gainwell 7-78,
Gibson 6-99, K.Jones 4-73, Austin 3-39, White 1-25,
P.Taylor 1-9, Daniel 1-9, Samuel 1-8, K.Wilson 1-7.
Penn St., Dotson 3-26, Hamler 2-46, Freiermuth 2-39,
George 2-15, J.Brown 2-7.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.
4B Sunday, December 29, 2019
WEST POINT
HIGH SCHOOL
‘A lot of pride’: West Point wins fourth straight
championship, ties record with 11th state title
W
EST POINT — Chris Cham-
bless remembers the games
that brought the West Point
football team its fourth straight state
title.
The MHSAA Class
5A championship game
against Picayune is No.
1 in Chambless’ mind,
of course, but beyond
that, the contests the
Green Wave coach
brings up aren’t neces-
sarily expected. Theo
Chambless doesn’t DeRosa
mention the blowout
wins — 34-6 at Horn
Lake, 52-7 at Noxubee County — where
West Point flexed its considerable
might.
He recalls the games where the
Green Wave showed their trademark
resilience, the trait that carried them to
a record-tying 11th state championship
on Dec. 7 in Hattiesburg.
Those gut-check games included a
rare loss for West Point, a 38-28 setback
at Louisville in Week 2. But the outside
doubt that Chambless and the Green
Wave felt coming into the season didn’t
faze the team.
“One game is not gonna define our
season, is not gonna define our goals,’”
the disappointed Green Wave asserted
afterward. “‘We can’t let that one game
affect the rest of them.”
But the very next week, in a tough
West Point quarterback Brandon Harris (2) looks for running room around the edge
of Picayune’s defense.
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‘Those guys worked extremely hard for us and were
great leaders for us. Not every day is a smooth day, but
you know when you have a group like that as leaders that
things are gonna get fixed. … They were able to keep
everybody grounded and keep everybody focused.’
West Point head coach Chris Chambless
home contest with Starkville, West
Point fell behind 14-0 in the first quar-
ter. The team seemed likely to fall to
1-2 and lose multiple games for the first
season since 2015.
“That was one of those situations
where we could have folded real quick
and just went on to the next week, but
our guys weren’t gonna do that,” Cham-
bless said. “They never panicked on the
sidelines.”
West Point ran off 41 unanswered
points, held off a late rally by the Yellow
Jackets and righted the ship.
“We knew we had a couple bad
things happen,” Chambless said. “We
had to make some good things hap-
pen. We were able to do that and come
back.”
The game was a statement win for
West Point and a seminal moment in the
team’s run to a fourth straight title. It
was the first of 14 straight victories for
the Green Wave, who capped a stellar
season with a 38-26 win over Picayune
in the title game.
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GREEN WAVE
The accomplishment, which tied
West Point with South Panola for first
place with 11 MHSAA championships,
was “very gratifying,” Chambless said.
“I think all the kids would say that,
too,” he said. “It’s not just a hobby to
them. It’s a mission.”
That mindset was clear two days
after the title game, when the players
filed back into the weight room for the
start of offseason training.
“When you come coach them every
day and they want to be coached, they
want to be here, it makes it worthwhile
for us as coaches going in and doing our
jobs,” Chambless said.
This season, the feeling was prev-
alent among the Green Wave’s senior
class, comprising 30 players in all.
Among its leaders were running backs
Brandon Harris and Dantariyus Can-
non, linebacker Tyron Orr and plenty
more.
“Those guys worked extremely hard
for us and were great leaders for us,”
Chambless said. “Not every day is a
West Point running back Dantariyus Cannon (12) runs through a Picayune defender
near the goal line.
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West Point players hold up “fours” after receiving their medals for winning a fourth straight state championship.
smooth day, but you know when you
have a group like that as leaders that
things are gonna get fixed. … They
were able to keep everybody grounded
and keep everybody focused.”
Harris and Cannon, in particular,
came up big during West Point’s cham-
pionship win, combining for nearly all of
the team’s offensive output. But they’ll
be graduating, and so will tight end
TJ Anderson, running back Jimothy
Mays, wideout Jordan Rupert, offen-
sive lineman Jonquez Roby and other
key players. Defensive lineman Rob-
ert Spearmon, defensive back Xavier
Moody and Orr will be huge departures
on the other side of the ball.
But Chambless noted the talent West
Point returns next year. He mentioned
the leadership quarterback Corbin
Kelley, linebacker Jakobe Pate and of-
fensive lineman Jamar Davis are likely
to bring to the table in their senior
seasons.
“We’ll have good leadership next
year,” Chambless said. “There’s no
doubt about it.” Austin Frayser/Special to The Dispatch
With their returning talent, the By achieving the four-peat, West Point tied South Panola for the most state championships in Mississippi public school history
Green Wave certainly seem set up for with 11.
success again as they aim to tie another
record with a fifth straight title next
year. Schedule / Fast Facts for 2019 Green Wave
But for now, Chambless and West
Point will remember the fourth — and For the second straight year, West Point seniors Schedule
the feeling it brought them. who joined the varsity team their sophomore season Aug. 23: West Point 34, Horn Lake 6
“Pride,” Chambless said. “A lot of went their entire high school careers knowing nothing
pride.” Aug. 30: Louisville 38, West Point 28
but state championship wins. Sept. 6: West Point 41, Starkville 35
With its 11th state championship in school histo- Sept. 13: West Point 37, Tupelo 7
ry, West Point tied South Panola for the all-time lead Sept. 20: West Point 52, Noxubee County 7
among Mississippi public schools. The Green Wave Sept. 27: West Point 28, Lafayette 24
are one win short of the Tigers’ record streak of five Oct. 4: West Point 34, Saltillo 7
straight titles from 2003 to 2007. Oct. 11: West Point 27, Lake Cormorant 14
The Green Wave are 58-3 in their past four ti- Oct. 18: West Point 20, Grenada 13
tle-winning seasons. In Chambless’ 14-year tenure Oct. 25: West Point 35, Columbus 6
as head coach, West Point has won six titles and has Nov. 1: West Point 49, New Hope 3
an overall record of 163-33. Nov. 8: West Point 35, Center Hill 0
Three West Point seniors each rushed for at least Nov. 15: West Point 49, Provine 28
900 yards. Brandon Harris had 1,242 yards, Dantari- Nov. 22: West Point 21, Lafayette 14
yus Cannon had 1,234, and Jimothy Mays had 908 Nov. 29: West Point 20, Neshoba Central 7
on the ground. Dec. 7: West Point 38, Picayune 26
West Point spread the wealth on offense, as Har-
ris, Cannon and Mays each scored at least 10 rushing anterior cruciate ligament in the season’s first game
touchdowns. Fullback Tae Gibbs scored nine on the and played through the injury for a few weeks, but his
ground, and five other players scored one. Cannon season ended early. Harris and junior Corbin Kelley
and senior tight end TJ Anderson led the team with each saw time at the quarterback position in Berry’s
three receiving touchdowns, and four other players stead.
had at least one scoring catch. In all, 16 Green Wave West Point kept eight of its opponents, including
players scored touchdowns this season — five came Columbus and New Hope, to seven or fewer points.
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on defense. The Green Wave scored at least 30 points in seven of
The Green Wave achieved success without a reli- those contests, with a 20-7 win in the north state final
able starting quarterback. Senior Gray Berry tore his against Neshoba Central the lone exception.
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Hill
Continued from Page 1B
I kind of used that as motiva-
tion, and it kind of carried me
throughout the season. I was
definitely trying to make it up
to my teammates and the uni-
versity and the fans because I
knew it was my last time being
out there, and I just really want-
ed to go out with it a bang.”
As for Hill, his story con-
tinues to be written. Having
battled injuries throughout his
first two years at MSU, the pre-
season narrative surrounding
him was when he would get hurt
rather than an if. Instead, Hill
has been a workhorse, notch-
ing 235 carries in 12 games of
action.
With a clean bill of health, he
raced to an SEC-leading 1,347
yards in the regular season, sits
second in the conference with
an average of 112.5 yards per
game and has hit the 100-yard
mark eight times.
“Just to see him come out
and have that type of year and
be on the cusp of breaking Boo-
bie’s record — who had an un-
believable year — and all the
great backs who have played
at Mississippi State, that has
really carried on the tradition
of what tailbacks in this offen-
sive system have done over the
years,” coach Joe Moorhead
said. “It is great to see Kylin
next in the line.”
This isn’t to say Hill’s 2019
has been flawless. A mid-year
lull in games against Auburn,
Tennessee and LSU saw Hill
total just 92 yards on 43 carries
over that three-week span. But
instead of succumbing to frus-
tration, he refocused. Rather
than dancing side to side in the
backfield, Hill worked with run-
ning backs coach Terry Rich-
ardson to get farther downhill
on each carry. It worked.
Hill concluded his year with
130 or more yards in four of
MSU’s final five games, includ-
ing a 234-yard, three-touch-
down explosion at Arkansas that
now marks the second-highest
in-game total in program histo-
ry.
“I just had to go over the
film of previous games where
I didn’t do well,” Hill said after
the Arkansas game. “I had to
learn when to be aggressive
and when to be finesse. Once I
get one-on-one I can be finesse,
but when I’m with a crowd of
guys I’ve got to hit the hole and
get what I can.”
Sitting on the precipice of
Dixon’s record, Hill heads to
Nashville to face a Louisville
defense that ranks No. 115 of
130 FBS teams — the fourth-
worst mark in Power Five foot-
ball. The unit has also allowed
nine 100-yard rushers this sea-
son.
Ten years removed from
his final game in the maroon
and white, Dixon will be in at-
tendance to watch Hill’s final
game at MSU, as the latter has
already declared for the 2020
NFL draft. And while his record
is almost assured to fall, Dixon
remains both excited for Hill
and cognizant of his own place
in the MSU history books.
“You can tell that (Hill) put
in the work, and he earned this
moment,” Dixon said. “I think
I’m going to be just like every-
body else — smiling and proud.
It’s going to be a little bitter-
sweet, but at the same time it’s
no hard feelings. I’m going to
be happy and smiling just like
I’ve always been.”

Peach Bowl
Continued from Page 1B
on.
The Tigers’ potent
spread offense made this
one look much like the
Harlem Globetrotters
carving up the Washing-
ton Generals, only it was
the Sooners playing the
hapless victim. At times,
proud by getting free be-
hind the secondary, haul-
ing in a pass and shoving
off a fast-closing defender
to complete the 62-yard
scoring play.
“What a tremendous
job by everybody,” Org-
eron said. “One team, one
of touchdowns but gained
just 43 yards with his
legs. He was held to 15 of
31 for 217 yards passing,
giving up a brilliant, leap-
ing interception to Kary
Vincent Jr. that quickly
brought the LSU offense
back on the field as the
those games, an overtime
loss to Georgia in the
Rose Bowl two seasons
ago. That could affect the
way the selection commit-
tee views the Sooners the
next time they’re in the
mix — or any other Big
12 school, for that matter.
Up next
Oklahoma: Hurts’
career is over after a sea-
son that assures he’ll be
remembered among the
greats in the school’s sto-
ried history. That leaves a
big hole to fill at quarter-
championship. “Just get-
ting there is not our final
destination,” Orgeron
said. “We’re looking to
win it.”
LSU 63, Oklahoma 28
Oklahoma 7 7 7 7—28
LSU 21 28 7 7—63
First quarter

it was hard to tell if Okla-
homa was actually trying,
but that was merely a re-
flection of Burrow’s pre-
heartbeat. Everybody in
our organization. We got
tremendous play by Joe
Burrow and have a great
Tigers were blowing the
game open.
“We needed to take ad-
vantage of every opportu-
LSU: While this game
will be remembered for
the dynamic offensive
showing, the Tigers’ de-
back, but freshman Spen-
cer Rattler was one of the
nation’s top prospects
coming out of high school.
LSU_Jefferson 19 pass from Burrow (York kick),
12:03.
OKL_K.Brooks 3 run (Brkic kick), 7:34.
LSU_Marshall 8 pass from Burrow (York kick), 4:24.
LSU_Jefferson 35 pass from Burrow (York kick), 1:16.
Second quarter
LSU_Jefferson 42 pass from Burrow (York kick),

cision and the excellent
protection that gave him
plenty of time to throw.
Jefferson hauled in a
35-yard pass for touch-
coaching staff.”
It was a miserable fina-
le for Hurts, who closed
out a nomadic college ca-
reer that began with him
nity we had against a team
like this,” Hurts said. “We
failed to do that.”
fense kept up its encour-
aging turnaround over
the latter part of the sea-
son. They held Oklahoma
to 322 yards — far below
He played in three games
this season, including a
mop-up role in the clos-
ing minutes of the Peach
Bowl. The transition to a
12:13.
LSU_Jefferson 30 pass from Burrow (York kick), 9:17.
OKL_Hurts 2 run (Brkic kick), 4:45.
LSU_Moss 62 pass from Burrow (York kick), 4:18.
LSU_Marshall 2 pass from Burrow (York kick), :50.
Third quarter
LSU_Burrow 2 run (York kick), 10:11.
OKL_Hurts 12 run (run failed), 4:19.
Fourth quarter

down No. 2. Then a
42-yarder for No. 3. And,
finally, a 30-yard scoring
leading Alabama to a pair
of national championship
games before losing his
The takeaway
Oklahoma: Playing
for the first time in a city
its 554.2-yard average
coming into the game,
which ranked second na-
pro-style quarterback will
present an interesting dy-
namic heading into a 2020
OKL_Pledger 1 run (Brkic kick), 9:39.
LSU_Emery 6 run (York kick), 3:59.
A_78,347.
OKL LSU
First downs 16 31

strike that left him count-
ing off four fingers for the
crowd — all before the
midway point of the sec-
starting job to Tua Ta-
govailoa. After graduat-
ing, Hurts transferred to
Oklahoma for a one-and-
where the Braves have
become notorious for
their flops in the Major
League Baseball playoffs,
tionally behind LSU. The
front line kept the heat on
Hurts, who was sacked
twice and often wound
season that begins Sept. 5 Rushes-yards
Passing
28-97 32-160
225 532
against Missouri State. Comp-Att-Int
Return Yards
16-34-1 32-42-0
33 20
LSU: The Tigers will Punts-Avg. 5-43.8 1-34.0
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-0
head back to Louisiana Penalties-Yards 8-62 4-49

ond quarter. done final season that the Sooners turned in a up on his backside when for a de facto home game Time of Possession 27:02
Individual statistics
32:58

Terrace Marshall Jr.
contributed to the on-
slaught with TD catches
of 8 and 2 yards. Tight
end Thaddeus Moss —
the son of NFL Hall of
Fame receiver Randy
Moss — made his daddy
produced some dazzling
numbers but ended short
of the ultimate goal.
Running for his life
most of the game, Hurts
was largely stymied on
the ground and through
the air. He ran for a pair
familiar performance.
They have made the Col-
lege Football Playoff four
times in the six-year his-
tory of the format, but
have yet to win a game.
Most troubling, they were
competitive in just one of
he got the ball away. That
bodes well for the Tigers
heading into the national
championship game, giv-
ing them another conduit
to victory even if someone
should figure out how to
slow Burrow & Co.
at the Superdome on
Jan. 13 with the nation-
al championship on the
line. That mirrors their
last title run during the
2007 season, when they
beat Ohio State 38-24 in
New Orleans for the BCS
RUSHING_Oklahoma, Hurts 14-43, K.Brooks 10-35,
Hall 1-8, Rattler 1-8, Pledger 2-3. LSU, Curry 16-89,
Davis-Price 4-25, Burrow 5-22, Edwards-Helaire
2-14, Emery 3-6, Chase 1-5, (Team) 1-(minus 1).
PASSING_Oklahoma, Hurts 15-31-1-217, Rattler
1-3-0-8. LSU, Burrow 29-39-0-493, Brennan 3-3-
0-39.
RECEIVING_Oklahoma, Lamb 4-119, Haselwood
3-25, Stoops 2-28, Wease 1-21, Stogner 1-12, Rambo
1-9, Hall 1-5, Willis 1-3, Basquine 1-3, Pledger 1-0.
LSU, Jefferson 14-227, Marshall 6-80, Moss 4-99,
Chase 2-61, Dillon 2-22, McMath 1-17, Curry 1-9,
Sullivan 1-9, Carter 1-8.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_LSU, York 46.

Tournament
Continued from Page 1B
should have done better.
As coach (Bill) Ball said,
‘We laid an egg today.
Don’t expect that again
from us.’”
Caledonia boys 49,
Columbus Christian
Academy 31, Friday
The run that gave the
Caledonia boys team a
49-31 win over Columbus
Christian Academy on
Friday happened early
and didn’t take long.
The Confederates
jumped out to a 16-0 lead
just a few minutes into the
first quarter, and Caledo-
nia looked comfortable
from there.
’Feds senior Cooper
McCleskey did half the
damage himself, scoring
the final eight points of
the run with a 3-pointer,
an old-fashioned three-
point play and a layup.
“He got hot for a sec-
ond, and he started mak-
ing baskets, and every-
thing was going for him
for a minute,” Caledonia
coach Gary Griffin said.
McCleskey, who
scored 17 points total, had
12 points in the first quar-
ter alone in Caledonia’s
victory. The senior, who
was named the game’s
most valuable player, led
a 24-point scoring effort
for the ’Feds in that open-
ing period, and a 15-point
lead at the quarter’s end
was enough cushion to
keep Caledonia afloat.
Columbus Christian,
to its credit, fought back
a bit. The Rams kept
the deficit manageable,
threatening multiple
times to break into single
digits.
“I thought we came in
and gave a lot of effort,”
Columbus Christian
coach Jason Williams
said.
Williams pointed to his
team’s fresh legs — the
Rams hadn’t played for
a full week — as part of
the reason for that effort,
which was considerable
even without star senior
Lawson Studdard. Jona-
than Peal scored 13 points
to lead the team, and Ca-
leb Cook added seven.
But even when the
Rams inched a bit closer,
the ’Feds made sure to
turn them away.
At one point, Griffin
took a timeout to stanch
the bleeding after a Rams
mini-run.
“Any time a team gets
a little momentum, you’ve
gotta try to stop it some
type of way,” he said.
“I just felt like our guys
weren’t playing defense,
leaking out, weren’t re-
bounding the basketball,
so I had to call timeout to
get them back in line and
let them know what they
had to do to get a win to-
night.”
Caledonia still
achieved that
though Griffin wasn’t
goal,
overly pleased with the
team’s performance after
that big opening run.
“We started out with a
lot of energy, and then we
kind of played lackadaisi-
cal and let them get out
and get some momentum
and score a few baskets,”
Griffin said. “It was hard
to stop their momentum.”
On the opposite side-
line, Williams was disap-
pointed with the loss, but
still happy to see the fight
Columbus Christian put
up.
“I was proud of our
guys because we compet-
ed,” Williams said. “We
played hard. If we keep
doing that, things are
gonna look up for us. I’m
proud of them.”
Heritage Academy girls
47, Columbus Christian
Academy 28, Friday
On Thursday, a day
before the Heritage
Academy girls team had
its tournament matchup
with Columbus Christian
Academy, a majority of
the Patriots convened in
their home gym to shoot
around.
Heritage Academy
hadn’t played a game in
nearly a week, and the
team was in need of some
practice time.
“It was a good thing
that we got in the gym,
because we’d been off,
and we needed to get
some shots up,” freshman
Lucy Sharp said.
Sharp helped to lead
the way as the Patriots
reaped the benefits of that
impromptu shootaround,
beating the Rams 47-28.
Sharp dominated in the
post, pouring in 16 points
to lead all scorers by rely-
ing on more than just her
size.
“I definitely had a
height advantage, and it
really helped because you
can get around them, and
it’s just easier to be open,”
Sharp said. “You still have
to be vocal, and just hav-
ing a height advantage
doesn’t always mean you
can be better than every-
body else. You’ve still got-
ta be hard and be vocal.”
Sharp did that, and the
Patriots executed coach
Moe Reed’s strategy to
find her consistently on
the low block.
“She’s a great post
player for us,” senior Syd-
ney Adair said. “Any time
we can just dump it to her
and she does a post move,
it’s big for us.”
Adair contributed 13
points of her own for the
Patriots and was named
the game’s most valuable
player. She noted that
Heritage Academy tight-
ened up on defense and
started making the extra
pass in the second half,
helping the Pats stretch
out a 20-11 halftime lead.
“I think we made some
small adjustments that
we needed to make, and
that’s what made the lead
increase, and our defense
stepped up,” Adair said.
The Patriots cracked
down on defense against
a Rams team missing two
of its best three players.
Senior Kylie Emerson,
battling a nagging ankle
injury, was held out; soph-
omore Morgan Whitten is
still making her way back
from a shoulder injury she
suffered Dec. 4, coach Ja-
son Williams said.
Without Emerson
and Whitten, Columbus
Christian was held to just
four points in the first
quarter and struggled
offensively all night. CC
Devos and Taylor Tipton
each had eight points for
the Rams, and Audrey
Foreman was the team’s
next-highest scorer with
four.
For the Patriots, Fri-
day’s defense-fueled vic-
tory was refreshing, but
Heritage Academy still
knows there are things it
can improve on.
“It’s a good win, but
we’ve still gotta continue
to get better and contin-
ue to practice and grow,”
Sharp said.
Starkville Academy
boys 62, Pickens Acade-
my (Ala.) 43
The Starkville Acad-
emy boys beat Pickens
Academy (Alabama) 62-
43 on Saturday.
Seth Peeks led the Pi-
rates (5-5) with 16 points.
Rafe Brown and Travis
Dean each scored 10
points.
Pickens Academy will
host Clarke Prep on Fri-
day.
Grace Christian School
boys 46, Pickens Acade-
my (Ala.) 44, Friday West Lowndes girls 58, Academy
The Pickens Academy Carroll Academy 38,
(Alabama) boys team lost Friday
to Louisville-based Grace
Christian School 46-44 on
Friday.
Seth Peeks led the Pi-
rates with 18 points, and
Rafe Brown and William
Parker each added eight.
Carroll Academy girls
38, Pickens Academy
(Ala.) 33
Carleigh Cameron led
the way for the Pickens
Academy (Alabama) girls
with 10 points, but the Pi-
rates lost to Carroll Acad-
emy on Saturday, 38-33.
Shelby Lowe added
seven points for the Pi- 54-27 on Saturday to im-
rates, and Jessi Latham prove to 11-2 on the sea-
scored six. son.
McCleskey led the way
Oak Hill Academy girls again for the Confeder-
ates, scoring 21 points.
42, Kemper Academy
17
Oak Hill fell to 9-2 with
the loss.
Dovie Suggs made an
all-around effort to help
Heritage Academy girls
the Oak Hill Academy
girls beat Kemper Acade- 51, Caledonia 30
my 42-17 on Saturday. The Heritage Acade-
Suggs scored eight my girls won Saturday’s
points, grabbed 10 re- rivalry game with Caledo-
bounds, blocked two nia 51-30.
shots and recorded three Sharp scored 18 to lead
steals. She was named the Patriots in victory,
the game’s most valuable and senior Bailey Harris
player. added 10 points.
Sara Nash had 10 Reagan Merchant
points to lead the Raiders scored five points, and
(6-7) in scoring. Adair had four.
Pickens Academy (Ala.) Carroll Academy boys
girls 42, Oak Hill Acade- 61, Columbus Christian
my 37, Friday Academy 37
Kate Wilkins scored The Columbus Chris-
14 points and had seven tian boys lost to Carroll
rebounds to help the Pick- Academy 61-37 on Satur-
ens Academy girls beat day.
Oak Hill Academy 42-37 Matthew Phillips led
on Friday. the Rams with 12 points,
Jessi Latham added Will Teague had seven,
eight points and five re- Jonathan Peal had six,
bounds for the Pirates, and Dakota Shaw had
and Shelby Lowe had five.
seven points and 11 re- The Rams (4-4) will
bounds. host district opponent
For the Raiders, Ra- Newton Academy on Jan.
chel McLain had 12 7.
points, Dovie Suggs had
seven.
Winston Academy girls
eight, and Sara Nash had
31, Columbus Christian
28
The Columbus Chris-
tian Academy girls team
fell just short Saturday
Seals led the West
against Winston Acade-
Lowndes girls with 15
my in a 31-28 loss.
points in a 58-38 win over
A second quarter
Carroll Academy on Fri- in which the Rams (3-
day. 5) were outscored 16-1
Hood contributed 12,
Takora Givens scored
proved to be too much,
though Columbus Chris-
nine, and Nenah Young tian nearly caught up in
had eight. the fourth quarter.
The win moved the Audrey Foreman led
Panthers to 8-0 before
Saturday’s win over
the Rams with 16 points,
and Taylor Tipton scored
Starkville Academy. four.
Caledonia boys 54, Oak Other scores
Hill Academy 27 Oak Hill Academy
The Caledonia boys boys 50, Kemper Acade-
beat Oak Hill Academy my 32, Friday
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as Benefits Coordinator from Four County, with 33
years of service.
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husband, David Studdard.
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of Memphis, TN; and her kitty cat, Chloe.
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to enter through Heaven’s Gates.
In addition to his parents and siblings, he was preceded in death by
his wife of 76 years, Ernestine Higginbotham, who passed away April 17,
2019; a stillborn son, Ronald; and his daughter and son-in-law, Lou and Tom
Hannah.
He is survived by three children, Carolyn (Junior) Jones, Charlie (Merl)
Higginbotham and Cindy (Ralph) Skipper, all of Shuqualak, MS. He has nine
grandchildren, Charlotte Conner, Dawn (James) Harlow, Al (Kim) Hannah,
Jonathan Hannah, Tyler (Amy) Higginbotham, Kendrick (Erik) Adams, Candice
(Chip) Hines, Kellis Moore, Tony (B.J.) Moore. He leaves fourteen great-
grandchildren, Maria (Tyler) Walton, Boddie Harlow, Austin Hannah, Katie Rose
(Casey) Ricks, Maridee (Stephen) Robertson, Sadie Higginbotham, Sophie
Hines, Sam Hines, Isabella Moore, Sawyer Ross, Chaffin Upchurch, Isaac Adams,
William Walton and Sutton Adams. He is also survived by four great-great-
grandchildren, Conner Walton, Zander Walton, Anna Tyler and Butler Brooks
Ricks; and his sister-in-law, Mary Coleman of Shuqualak, MS; and numerous
nieces and nephews that he loved like his own.
Brooks attended an elementary school close by his home, walking several
miles each way to and from the school. He later went to a boarding school
in Mashulaville, MS, where he milked two cows twice a day for his room and
board. He tells the story that on the last day of school, he told the principal that
he was through milking the cows, but they refused to give him his certificate
until he milked them one last time.
At the age of 19, he met his bride, Ernestine Coleman, who was only 15
when they were married in Mashulaville, MS, on August 1, 1942. Brooks was
a United States Army Veteran, having served during World War II. While
serving his country, Brooks was stationed at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia,
where he worked on building and planting mines to protect the waters from
Chesapeake Bay up to New York City. He was very proud to serve his country
and loved telling stories about the three mine planting ships that he worked
on, the Maybach, Bondy and the Ricker, and how he lost his finger while
stationed in Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico. He may not have been a hero in the
eyes of the Army, but there is no greater hero in the eyes of his family. After
his Army days, he and his wife and two daughters, Carolyn and Thelma (Lou),
bought a home and land in the Butler Community of Noxubee County, where
they lived and worked hard on their farm, planting cotton and raising cows.
During those years, their family grew with a son, Charlie B. Higginbotham, Jr.,
and a daughter, Cindy. In February 1957, they moved into their new home in
Shuqualak, MS, and this continued to be his home until his dying day. A few
years after they moved to Shuqualak, he built a small country store in front
of their home. Mama tended to the store while he was on his mail route each
day. He became a member of Shuqualak Baptist Church shortly after moving to
Shuqualak, and later became a deacon. He loved his church, and it saddened
him greatly when he had to stop attending approximately ten years ago due
to his arthritis pain and poor hearing. During his lifetime, he had several jobs,
which included farming, surveying cotton for the ASCS of Noxubee County,
and later, he became a Rural Letter Carrier for the United States Postal Service,
serving the Post Office in Gholson until it closed. He then transferred to the
Post Office in Louisville, MS, where he served the residents of the Ellison Ridge
Community of Winston County until he retired in 1979 after 35 years! He was
member of the Masonic Lodge for over 70 years.
For several years. he was a master frame builder for the Shuqualak Hobby
Shop. He was also an avid and accomplished vegetable gardener and an avid
outdoorsman who loved to hunt and fish. His family would describe him as a
Jack and Master of all trades! His work always proved that he was a perfectionist
who never left a task half done! He was also pretty good at telling jokes. He
always had a quick comeback. For instance, his wife, Ernestine, never liked his
driving, and one day as he was driving along, and she was fussing about his
driving, he told her, “Look Ernestine, I can drive with one finger!” Needless to
say, she reached over and popped him on his arm and told him that he better
put all his fingers on that steering wheel or she would just stay at home from
now on! On a family trip to Nashville several years ago, we were attending a
dinner show, and the entertainer ask the audience if there was anyone there
that had been married more than 60 years, and of course, daddy raised his
hand. The entertainer ask daddy what he would contribute their long marriage
to? Without hesitation daddy replied, “Lots of patience and learning how to
lie!” The audience broke out in laughter, and Mama just smiled, but we would
find out later that she gave him a pretty good kick under the table. Daddy had a
subtle way of giving advice. He would tell anyone who would ask for his advice,
“Now I don’t know how you plan on doing this, but if it was me, I would do it
this way!” Daddy learned at a young age how to survive and endure pain and
hardship. At ten years old, his mule, Old Babe, kicked him and broke his left
leg in two. There was no doctor close by and no pain medicine, so his mother
made a splint out of barn wood and used strips of cloth to wrap it the best
way she could. He wore that splint for many months until it healed. He always
credited the good Lord and his mother’s tender loving care for helping him to
heal completely with no limp. In his later years, he received the most enjoyment
from spending time with his family and telling stories of years gone by! He was
a master storyteller, and his family hung on to every word he would tell, no
matter how many times we had heard it before.
Daddy was a wonderful husband. He raised his children in a loving Christian
home. He demonstrated to all who knew him how a Christian should live their
life and to always put God first above anything else. Daddy was a man of high
morals and ethical character, and he often said that a man’s character and his
integrity is all that he will leave behind. The love that he gave to his family was
unmeasurable! He was always so thankful and gracious to anyone that helped
him. Even in his final days, when he was so tired, so sick and weak, he continued
to show us grace and love!
Daddy, tell Mama that we miss her, and we can’t wait until the day that we
are all together again! Oh what a glorious day that will be! You will always be
loved and missed, and you will always be our Hero!
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A final fundraiser for man who Lee Mendelson dies; brought

‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ to TV
boosted ice bucket challenge By ANDREW DALTON
AP Entertainment Writer

Former Boston College baseball player died Dec. 9
The Associated Press
GLOUCESTER, Mass. — Hun-
dreds of people plunged into the
chilly ocean at a Massachusetts
beach on Saturday to honor Peter
Frates, the former college baseball
player whose battle with Lou Geh-
rig’s disease helped spread the ALS
ice bucket challenge.
About 1,000 people showed up for
the final “Plunge for Pete” at Good
Harbor Beach in Gloucester, and
more than half of those braved the
frigid waters on what would have
been Frates’ 35th birthday.
The event, in its eighth year,
raised money for the Pete Frates #3
Fund, which helped pay for Frates’
medical bills.
“He is laughing so hard right now
at me getting into the ocean,” said
Frates’ wife, Julie, who participated in
the plunge for the first time wearing
the bikini she had on when she first
met her husband. “This is the best
birthday party he could ask for and
wherever he is, he is very grateful.”
The former Boston College base-
ball player, who lived in Beverly, a
suburb north of Boston, died Dec. 9
after a seven-year battle with amyo-
trophic lateral sclerosis.
The family has accumulated
roughly $500,000 in debt for their
son’s medical care, Pete’s father,
John Frates said, and the final fund-
raiser will hopefully help close the
gap.
The family will continue to raise
money for the separate Peter Frates
Family Foundation, which helps oth-
er ALS patients cover home health
care costs, he said.
LOS ANGELES — Lee Mendelson, the pro-
ducer who changed the face of the holidays when
he brought “A Charlie Brown Christmas” to tele-
vision in 1965 and wrote the lyrics to its signature
song, “Christmas Time Is Here,” died on Christ-
mas day, his son said.
Mendelson, who won a dozen Emmys in his
long career, died at his home in Hillsborough,
California, of congestive heart failure at age 86
after a long struggle with lung cancer, son Jason
Mendelson told The Associated Press.
Lee Mendelson headed a team that included
“Peanuts” author Charles Schulz, director Bill
Melendez, and pianist and composer Vince Guar-
aldi, whose music for the show, including the
opening “Christmas Time Is Here,” has become
as much a Christmas staple as the show itself.
Mendelson told The Cincinnati Enquirer in
2000 that he was short on time in finding a lyri-
cist for the song, so he sketched out the six verses
himself in “about 15 minutes on the backside of

Ohio university names student lounges after slain activists an envelope.”

Civil Rights activists were ambushed
and killed by the KKK in Mississippi
The Associated Press
OXFORD, Ohio — Mi-
ami University in Ohio
honored three slain Civil
Rights activists by renam-
ing student lounges near
where they trained during
the Freedom Summer in
1964.
The activists — James
Chaney, Andrew Good-
man and Michael Schwer-
ner — trained with hun-
dreds of other volunteers
in Oxford, Ohio, to reg-
ister black voters in the
Deep South. The men
were ambushed and killed
by the Ku Klux Klan in
Mississippi. The slayings
of the three men, drama-
tized in the 1988 movie
“Mississippi Burning,”
helped spur passage of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The university has al-
ready placed their names
on an outdoor classroom
memorial and a historical
sign, as well as memorial
trees and artwork at the
site where much of the
training occurred, the
H a m i lt on - M idd let ow n
Journal reported.
He found a choir from a church in his native
Northern California to sing the song that sets the
show’s unforgettable tone, beginning with Men-
delson’s words:
“Christmas time is here, happiness and cheer,
fun for all that children call, their favorite time of
year.”
The show won an Emmy and a Peabody Award
and has aired on TV annually ever since. The
team that made it would go on to create more than
50 network specials, four feature films and many
other “Peanuts” projects.

Don Imus, made and betrayed by his mouth, dead at 79
Radio personality died Friday in College Station, Texas
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Media Writer
NEW YORK — Radio
personality Don Imus,
whose career was made
and then undone by his
acid tongue during a de-
cades-long rise to star-
dom and an abrupt public
plunge after a nationally
broadcast racial slur, has
died. He was 79.
Imus died Friday
morning at Baylor Scott
and White Medical Cen-
ter in College Station,
Texas, after being hos-
pitalized since Christ-
mas Eve, according to a
statement issued by his
family. Deirdre, his wife
of 25 years, and his son
Wyatt, 21, were at his
side, with his son Zach-
ary Don Cates returning
from military service
overseas.
He died of complica-
tions from lung disease.
Imus survived drug
and alcohol woes, a raun-
chy appearance before
President Clinton and
several firings during his
long career behind the
microphone. But he was
vilified and eventually
fired after describing a
women’s college basket-
ball team as “nappy head-
ed hos.”
His April 2007 racist
and misogynist crack
about the mostly black
Rutgers squad, an oft-re-
played 10-second snip-
pet, crossed a line that
Imus had long straddled
as his irascible rants
catapulted him to prom-
inence. The remark was
heard coast to coast on
60 radio stations and on
a simulcast aired each
morning on MSNBC.
At the time, his “Imus
in the Morning” show
was home to presiden-
tial hopefuls, political
pundits and his favorite
musicians, a must-listen
in the media and political
corridors of New York
and Washington. Ten
years earlier, Time mag-
azine had named him one
of the 25 most influential
Americans. But the re-
mark made him an imme-
diate pariah and he was
dropped by CBS Radio
and MSNBC.
Imus apologized re-
peatedly, calling his re-
mark “completely inap-
propriate ... thoughtless
and stupid,” and met
with the team to hear
how his comment hurt
them. Although he re-
turned to radio, and the
Fox Business Network
simulcast his show for a
number of years, he nev-
er approached the same
influence before retiring
in 2018.
The incident “did
change my feelings about
Grady Phillips
Grady Gene Phillips, 90, passed
away on Thursday, December 26,
2019, at his residence.
making fun of some peo-
ple who didn’t deserve to
Visitation will be held on Sun-
day, December 29, 2019, from
be made fun of and didn’t 5:00-7:00 PM at Lowndes Funer-
have a mechanism to de- al Home. Funeral services will be
fend themselves,” Imus Monday, December 30, 2019, at
2:00 PM from the Funeral Home
told CBS News upon his
Chapel, with Bro. Shawn Dickey
retirement.
officiating and Bro. Sonny McLel-
lan assisting. Interment will be at Memorial Gardens
in Columbus.
Mr. Phillips was born October 25, 1929, in Jack-
son, MS, to the late Grady James and Ora Mamie
Ray Phillips. His mother passed away when he was 8
years old, and he was raised in Noxubee County by
his Aunt Annie and Uncle Johnny Watt. He married
Doris Dean Allsup on March 30, 1949. He worked
tirelessly as a master mechanic with United Tech-
nologies until his retirement in 1993. With family
always being a top-priority, he selflessly allowed for
his wife to stay at home and care for their four chil-
dren, always hardworking and providing a Godly
Judy Studdard example. He was “tough as nails” and never gave up
Visitation: as he managed to persevere through whatever ob-
Sunday, Dec. 29 • 4-6 PM
2nd Ave. North Location
stacles of life that were placed in his path. A Chris-
Services: tian by faith, he had been a member of the Caledo-
Monday, Dec. 30 • 1 PM nia Church of Christ, where he had served as a past
2nd Ave. North Location
Burial Elder. He had more recently attended the Seventh
Egger Cemetery Street Church of Christ in Columbus. He was very
Caledonia, MS
intelligent and enjoyed “tinkering”, especially with
electrical projects and fixing things. His priorities
Donald Pickens Jr. were always Church, Family and Work and his mot-
Visitation:
Tuesday, Dec. 31 • 10-11 AM to: “I always tried my best, to do my very best.” A
2nd Ave. North Location doting husband and family man, he was especially
Services:
Tuesday, Dec. 31 • 11 AM proud of his role of “Paw Paw” to his six grandsons.

Obituaries
Continued from Page 7B
Tammy Wilson
COLUMBUS — Tammy Nabors
Wilson, 35, died Dec. 24, 2019.
Arrangements are incomplete
and will be announced by Lee-Sykes
Funeral Home of Columbus.
John Ford
COLUMBUS — John Robert Ford,
59, died Dec. 28, 2019, at Baptist Me-
morial Hospital-Golden Triangle.
Arrangements are incomplete
and will be announced by Memori-
al Gunter Peel Funeral Home and
Crematory, Second Avenue North
location.
Janice Cade
COLUMBUS — Janice D. Cade,
72, died Dec. 28, 2019, at Baptist Me-
morial Hospital-Golden Triangle.
Arrangements are incomplete
and will be announced by Memorial
Gunter Peel Funeral Home and Cre-
matory, College Street location.
2nd Ave. North Chapel In addition to his parents, and the aunt and un-
Burial
Chapel Hill Cemetery cle who raised him, he is preceded in death by one
Near Kennedy, AL grandson, Michael Adrian Carter.
He is survived by his wife of (nearly) 71 years, Do-
John R. Ford ris Dean Phillips; four children, Brenda (Ken) Carter
Incomplete of Caledonia, Johnny (Pam) Phillips of Steens, Jan
2nd Ave. North Location
(Earl) Harris of Columbus and Elesa (David) Kilpat-
rick of Caledonia; six grandsons, Neil (Susan) Phil-
Janice Cade
Incomplete
lips, Brian (Kelly) Carter, Chris Carter, Matt (Tracie)
College St. Location Phillips, Chase Harris and Daniel Kilpatrick; and six
great-grandchildren, Trenton Carter, Tannin Carter,
Tyler Carter, Griffin Phillips and Adley Phillips.
Mr. Phillips’ six grandsons will serve as active
pallbearers, with the staff of Baptist Hospice and Dr.
Duckworth recognized as honorary pallbearers.
memorialgunterpeel.com
Compliments of
Lowndes Funeral Home
www.lowndesfuneralhome.net
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‘Almost Like Home’

Zack Plair/Dispatch Staff

Volunteer Lisa Ervin sets out food for Starkville firefighters at Fire Station 1 Wednesday while Jamie Adams and Chance Cummings eagerly wait to get their plates.
Ervin has volunteered for eight years with the “Almost Like Home” that provides dinner for Starkville and Oktibbeha County first responders each Christmas.

Volunteer group feeds first responders on Christmas for eighth year

By Zack Plair
zplair@cdispatch.com

I
t was a matter of minutes before Starkville
firefighters were scheduled to eat Christ-
mas dinner Wednesday evening at Fire
Station 1 downtown.
Then a call sent several of the firefighters
on duty scrambling to a business on Highway
12 not knowing what exactly awaited them or
when they would return.
“We passed them going out as we were
coming in,” said Lisa Ervin, one of the com-
munity volunteers bringing holiday food to
the firefighters.
Once the food arrived — complete with all
the traditional trimmings of ham, dressing,
sweet potatoes, desserts and so much more
— one thing was “abundantly” clear. When-
ever the deployed fire crew returned, there
would be plenty of food left, even after some
of the other firefighters eating at the station
had picked it over.
“All I know is it’s going to be good,” said
firefighter Chance Cummings as the volun-
teers arrived with the food. “It always is.”
The “Almost Like Home” Christmas dinner
has become a tradition for Starkville fire-
fighters on duty Christmas Day, as they have
gathered at Fire Station 1 to dine together
each of the past eight years. A once fledgling
group of community volunteers has grown to
more than 300 who provided food Wednesday
to SFD, Starkville Police Department, Ok-
tibbeha County Sheriff’s Office, Mississippi
State University Police Department and OCH
Regional Medical Center.
For Cummings, a Station 4 firefighter who
has worked on Christmas Day eight of his 10
years with the department, the meal hits the
heart of what the volunteers hope to accom-
plish with the gesture.
Starkville firefighters work ever third day,
meaning they live at the station for 24 straight
hours on duty then get the next 48 off. This
year and next, because of the way the calen-
dar falls, Cummings will work Thanksgiving,
Christmas and New Year’s.
“Santa Claus came to our house on Christ-
mas Eve,” said Cummings, who is married
with two children, ages 4 and 1. “So many
volunteers take time to show they are think-
ing of us with this meal. I’ve worked in other
communities and Starkville, by far, well, they
take care of their people.”
Over at OCSO, Sgt. Angela Brown, a jailer,
was eying the spread that had just been deliv-
ered there.
Zack Plair/Dispatch Staff
Starkville firefighters (from left) Calvin Waters, Chase Newman and Ashley McClain pile Christ-
mas dinner on their plates Wednesday evening at Fire Station 1. The “Almost Like Home” group,
made up of more than 300 members that communicate primarily through Facebook, takes
homemade dishes every Christmas to Starkville’s firefighters and police, Oktibbeha County sher-
iff’s deputies, Mississippi State University police and workers at OCH Regional Medical Center.
There was no big crowd lined up. Since als, church groups and civic organizations.
the five deputies on shift were out in the field Lisa McReynolds is hyper-focused on mak-
and other jail employees were tending to their ing this organized chaos work. It does, as all
tasks, their eating arrangement was more the food is delivered by 4 or shortly thereafter
“catch as catch can.” and another year of what’s become a well-
“It’s here, and everybody has a fair chance oiled community machine is in the books.
at getting what they want,” Brown said. Not bad, McReynolds said, for an annual
A 20-year veteran of OCSO, Brown has effort organized almost exclusively on Face-
no children. By volunteering to work most book.
Thanksgivings and Christmases, at least one “I’ve never met a lot of the people who help
more coworker with children can spend those with this,” McReynolds said. “I
days at home. just post an all-call on Facebook
But especially on those days at work, she the day after Thanksgiving and
said, it’s nice to be remembered. people respond with what they
can bring. They’re just as crazy
“There are a lot of people in Starkville who
as I am, I guess. … I get some
think about the sheriff’s department and oth-
food ahead of time, and my ga-
er first responders, especially on Christmas,”
rage starts to look like a small
Brown said. “It means a lot to us.”
warehouse by (Christmas Eve). McReynolds
Other people give money for us
‘I’ll probably do this until I die’ to go buy food to fill in gaps.”
At 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Lisa McReynolds The ever-growing community movement
met her group of “runners” — volunteers like spawned from a conversation McReynolds
Ervin who deliver food to first responders — had with her then 7-year-old daughter Saman-
in the parking lot in front of the Palmer Home tha after their neighbor’s house caught fire in
Thrift Store on Highway 12. Fifteen minutes 2012.
later, the food began to arrive from individu- See Almost like home, 5C
2C Sunday, December 29, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

In tribute to ‘a true Columbus hero’

SPECIAL TO THE DISPATCH
by Fred Hall

Editor’s note: Columbian Fred Hall submitted

the information below in honor of former classmate,
decorated veteran, retired colonel and minister Sonny
Tucker.

T
hroughout its history Columbus has produced
numerous truly outstanding young men and
women who have excelled in fields such as
science, medicine, law, sports, government, the
military and more. One of the most unsung heroes
in recent history is Henry Butler (Sonny) Tucker
who graduated from S. D. Lee High School in Co-
lumbus in 1955. While in high school, Tucker was a
star football and basketball player for the Lee High
Generals. After graduation, he accepted an appoint-
ment to the U.S. Army Military Academy. After a
short stay at the Academy, he decided to return to
Mississippi to accept a four-year football scholarship
at the University of Southern Mississippi. This is
where the making of a true American football and
war hero began.
While at USM, Tucker lettered in 1957-58-59 and
was a member of the undefeated 1958 UPI Division
II national championship team. He was inducted
into the University of Southern Mississippi Football
Hall of Fame and was honored in October 2000 by
the All-American Football Foundation as their recip-
ient of the Bill Wade Unsung Hero Award. During Courtesy photos
his time at USM, Tucker also met and married the ABOVE: Sonny Tucker, right, served as deputy commander to Gen. Colin Powell during his career in the U.S. Army.
love of his life, Loretta Beths, who was the reigning Powell is pictured at left. BELOW: Sonny Tucker was a stand-out on the gridiron before distinguishing himself in the
Miss University of Southern Mississippi. They have military and then the ministry. Here, the S.D. Lee High Class of 1955 alumnus is pictured when he played for the
one daughter, Tori. University of Southern Mississippi.
Upon graduation, Tucker was commissioned as a Other awards and decorations during his tours
U. S. Army infantry officer and served for more than in Vietnam included three Bronze Stars, each for
20 years. He served three tours as a combat officer bravery and heroics in the face of the enemy, the
in Vietnam during the periods 1964-1966 and 1969- Meritorious Service Medal and four Vietnamese
1970. He also served as district senior adviser in Cross of Gallantry medals.
Vietnam to the legendary John Paul Vann who was The bravery and exploits of Tucker’s rifle com-
the subject of the Pulitzer Prize bestseller by Neil pany were recorded in song in 2006 in “8th of
Sheehan, “A Bright and Shining Lie.” November,” by the duo Big and Rich. This song was
nominated for the 2006 Country Music Awards song
Eighth of November of the year; the music video was nominated in video
Tucker’s outfit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, was of the year categories at the CMA, Academy of
the first unit of American troops to engage the Viet Country Music Awards and Grammy Awards.
Cong and North Vietnamese in a major battle. The Gen. Colin Powell wrote about his admiration,
enemy was crushed in hand-to-hand combat as the friendship and respect for Tucker in his autobiog-
enemy used “human wave” tactics. raphy, “My American Journey.” In Powell’s second
Tucker would later recall, “The eighth of Novem- book, “It Worked For Me,” Powell tells why he
ber 1965 was the longest day of my life. This was the selected Tucker as his deputy commander.
first major battle of the Vietnam war, and I had the Although Tucker had always been a devout Chris-
great honor to command. I lost 29 young soldiers tian, his experiences in Vietnam served to deepen
that day. I had traveled with these men from Okina- his religious beliefs. Upon retirement from the mili-
wa, and I knew each soldier from the back of their tary, he became a full-time minister of pastoral care
head. That day is etched in my memory more vividly at Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee.
than my mother’s name. It happened on Hill 65.” Tucker retired from Bellevue in April 2002 after 17
During this battle, two of Tucker’s soldiers would years of service.
be the first of the Vietnam conflict to receive the Henry Butler (Sonny) Tucker, who now resides in
Congressional Medal of Honor for their heroism. Germantown, Tennessee, is indeed a great Amer-
For Tucker’s heroics and command leadership ican patriot, military hero, classmate and friend.
during this battle, he was awarded the Silver Star. Columbus is proud to call him one of their own.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Sunday, December 29, 2019 3C

Jerry Lee Lewis receives

Country Music Trail marker
SPECIAL TO THE Lot of Shakin’ Going On”
DISPATCH and “Great Balls of Fire”
both topped the country
JACKSON —

J
charts. Starting in 1968,
erry Lee Lewis the singer had a string
received a Missis- of country music hits Courtesy image
sippi Country Music including “To Make Love
Trail marker Dec. 19 at
Sweeter for You,” “There
his ranch in Nesbit, in
Must Be More to Love

DeSoto County.
“After pioneering the
genres of rock ‘n’ roll
and rockabilly with hits
that crossed over to the
country music charts,
Jerry Lee decided to
locate to Nesbit to settle
down, and we couldn’t
be more thrilled to have
the music legend call
Mississippi home,” said
Gov. Phil Bryant. “It is an
honor to dedicate a Mis-
sissippi Country Music
Trail marker here at his
ranch.”
In addition to Gov.
Bryant, the marker un-
calendar
Than This” and “Would
You Take Another
Chance on Me?” In 1973,
wjtv.com/Courtesy photo the musician established
Marty Stuart, left, and Jerry Lee Lewis share a brief the Lewis Ranch in Nes-
tune on the occasion of the recent dedication of Lewis’
bit, which is now open for
Mississippi Country Music Trail marker in Nesbit.
group tours.
veiling ceremony includ- Farnum, DeSoto County The marker is located Monday, Dec. 30
at 1595 Malone Road in Music City Bowl watch party — The Mississip-
ed remarks from GRAM- Supervisor Michael Lee pi State Alumni Association in Lowndes County hosts a
MY® Award-winning and Visit Mississippi Nesbit. It is the trail’s Bowl watch party at Buffalo Wild Wings, 2001 Highway
musician and Mississippi Tourism Development 34th marker. 45 N., Columbus. Kick-off is 3 p.m. Dutch treat. For more
Country Music Trail Bureau Manager Kamel Founded in 2010, the information, contact Adrienne Morris, 662-312-2611 or
Mississippi Country Mu- adriennemorris1999@gmail.com.
Commissioner Marty King.
Stuart, Visit Mississippi A native of Ferriday, sic Trail recognizes the
Director and Mississip- Louisiana, Lewis started state’s contributions to Tuesday, Dec. 31
pi Country Music Trail his musical career in Nat- country music. To learn Countdown to History — The Rotary Club of Co-
Chairman Craig Ray, chez. Lewis’s 1956 rock more about the trail, visit lumbus hosts this gala benefiting PolioPlus from 9 p.m.-1
Lewis’s publicist Zach ’n’ roll classics “Whole mscountrymusictrail.org. a.m. at Lion Hills Center in Columbus. BYOB; mixers are
provided. State of Shade will entertain to ring in the new
year. Tickets are $30 (or $220 for a table for eight), at
662tix.com.

Thursday, Jan. 9
‘Cooking for a Crowd’ is among January Quick Bites Exhibit reception — The Columbus Arts Council
hosts a free reception from 5:30-7 p.m. for “Worlds
Collide: Clay to Play,” an exhibit of ceramics by Stephen
Phillips and photography by Erik Studdard in the main gal-
dispatch staff report ing Bulbs,” Oktibbeha n Jan. 30 — Food in attending any free lery of the Rosenzweig Arts Center, 501 Main St. Artwork
County Master Gardener fundraisers, church video program should

W
ith the new year
comes advice
from the Mis-
sissippi State University
Extension Service Quick
Bites program on topics
to kick off 2020. Each in-
teractive video session is
presented on designated
Thursdays from noon to
1 p.m. at county Exten-
sion offices, and at Bost
409 on the MSU cam-
pus. Sign-up with your
county Extension office
is required. Numbers are
provided below.
Programs for January
include:
n Jan. 9 — In a pro-
gram session titled “Forc-
Jim McKell shares ideas
for gardening indoors
while the weather is drea-
ry. He’ll share expertise
on forcing bulbs in water
and how to pot them cor-
rectly. He will also take a
look at some interesting
containers for bulbs.
n Jan. 23 — Exten-
sion Instructor Cobie
Rutherford with 4-H
Youth Development will
talk about 4-H Oppor-
tunities for 2020. This
program will cover
specific contests at State
Congress, PAD, Cookout,
Record Books and nation-
al trips for the year.
suppers, potlucks and the
like are great ways to so-
cialize with community.
In “Cooking for a Crowd:
A Focus on Food Safety,”
Assistant Extension Pro-
fessor Courtney Crist in
Food Science, Nutrition
and Health Promotion
at MSU covers how to
reduce food safety risks
when feeding a large
number of people. The
priority is on keeping
food safe as well as deli-
cious. Crist will also talk
about safe purchasing,
storage, preparation and
service for a crowd.
Those interested
contact their county’s
Extension office to sign
up. (In Lowndes County,
662-328-2111; Oktibbeha
County, 662-323-5916;
Clay County, 662-494-
5371.)
County offices may
sign up for the programs
at http://techoutreach.
msucares.com/dis-
tance-education using
the online county sign
up system. From the
Distance Education drop-
down menu, click on the
County Schedule Signup.
Or, counties may email
distanceed@ext.msstate.
edu.
by CAFB youth will be in Artist Alley. For more information,
columbus-arts.org or 662-328-2787.
Regional Business After Hours — The Colum-
bus-Lowndes Chamber of Commerce presents a mem-
bers’ Regional Business After Hours from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
at Paccar Engine Co., 1000 Paccar Drive, Columbus.
Friday, Jan. 10
Book launch party — Author Kasey Van Norman
attends a book launch for “Nothing Wasted: God Uses the
Stuff You Wouldn’t” at 6 p.m., hosted by Fairview Baptist
Church, 127 Airline Road, Columbus.
Thursday, Jan. 16
Exhibit reception — Starkville Area Arts Council
hosts a free Art in Public Places exhibit reception for work
by Gerard Woods at The Partnership lobby, 200 E. Main
St., Starkville.
Friday, Jan 17
UNCF Banquet — The Golden Triangle UNCF (United
Negro College Fund) Banquet begins at 6:30 p.m. in the
Hogarth Dining Center on The W campus. Speaker is
Judge Constance Slaughter-Harvey. Donation is $30. For
more information, contact Tavetia Hughes, 662-327-4538
or email tavnote@yahoo.com.

Saturday, Jan. 18
Give the Christmas tree a second life in the landscape Winds of Time — This Starkville-MSU Symphony
Orchestra concert at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth
Auditorium at the Mississippi State campus features 19th-
SPECIAL TO THE breakdown they will add visitors. Decorate the shrubs or for pathways in and 20th-century wind music. Free to the public.
DISPATCH organic matter to the soil. trees with fruits, berries the landscape. No chip-
by Melinda Myers Move your cut Christ- and seeds the birds can per? You and your neigh-

O
nce your holiday
celebrations have
passed and the
decorations go back into
storage, it is time to deal
with your real Christmas
tree. Don’t drag it to the
curb to be hauled away by
the trash collectors. Give
it a second, even third life,
in your landscape.
Start recycling all those
needles that landed on the
floor. Sweep them up and
use them as mulch in the
garden. Place them direct-
ly on the soil around your
plants. And don’t worry,
they will not make the soil
too acidic. In fact, as they
mas tree outdoors after
the holidays. Use it as a
windbreak or for added
shade to prevent drying of
tender evergreens. Strate-
gically place your discard-
ed tree on the windward
side of rhododendron,
boxwood, and needled
or broadleaf evergreens
subject to winter burn.
Place it on the south side
of these plants to shade
them from the drying
winter sun.
Or set the tree in the
landscape for a bit of
added greenery. Secure it
in place using stakes and
guy wires. Then add a bit
of food for your feathered
enjoy. Hang strands of
cranberries and slices of
oranges on colorful yarn
and homemade bird orna-
ments to complete the ed-
ible display. The birds will
enjoy the added food and
shelter and you will enjoy
watching these visitors to
your landscape.
Then save the tree
for trellising beans and
peas in the garden. The
vines will grow up and
over, masking the bare
tree branches. Growing
vertically saves space and
makes harvesting easier.
Consider chipping and
shredding your tree into
mulch around trees and
bors may want to join
forces and share the cost
of renting a chipper. Shred
discarded Christmas trees
and other prunings for use
as mulch in your land-
scapes.
Melinda Myers has
written numerous books,
including Small Space
Gardening. She hosts The
Great Courses “How to
Grow Anything” DVD
series and the national-
ly-syndicated Melinda’s
Garden Moment TV &
radio program. Myers is a
columnist and contributing
editor for Birds & Blooms
magazine and her web site
is MelindaMyers.com.
OUT THERE
Now through Dec. 31 – “Christmas in the
Park,” driving tour of illuminated scenes in
Guthrie Smith Park, Fayette, Alabama; 5:30-9
p.m. (hot chocolate, mini train rides). 205-932-
5367.
Now through Jan. 20 – Ice skating (designated
dates), BancorpSouth Arena, Tupelo. $12/
skater (includes skate rental); season pass
$100. 662-841-6573, bcsarena.com.
Jan. 12 – Branford Marsalis Quartet, Alys
Stephens Center, Birmingham. alysstephens.
org. 205-975-2787.
Feb. 6 – Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group,
Riley Center, Meridian. msurileycenter.org. 601-
696-2200.

Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY: Three years
ago, after 36 years
of marriage, my wife
suddenly died. Not quite a year
later, my oldest son also died
unexpectedly.
A year after my wife passed, I
began dating, and last Valentine’s
Day I became engaged to a won-
derful woman. Now my daughter,
whom I was very close to, says
she is done with me. On advice
from my Christian counselor, I
confronted her, and she gave me
a laundry list of reasons. Most
had to do with me not spending Dear Abby
as much time with her. Although
she didn’t say it, I think the real
reason is she thinks I’m being disloyal to her
mom.
She says she wants me to be happy, but
apparently only as a lonely dad and grandad.
She has never met my fiancee, but my other
son has. He likes her and is happy
for me. My daughter has now
blocked me from her social media
accounts, where I could at least
see pictures of my grandsons, and
won’t answer my calls or texts.
The only way I can see them is at
public events, like ballgames.
I asked her to see my counsel-
or with me, but she refuses. Every-
one says I need to give her more
time and continue to pray. I’ve
been praying, but it’s been months
now, and I miss my relationship
with her and her family. It’s like
losing more family members. Abby,
what else can I do? — PUNISHED
IN OKLAHOMA
DEAR PUNISHED: Do not put your life on
hold waiting for your daughter to relent and al-
low you and your fiancee into her life. I wish you
had expressed more clearly what your daughter
meant when she said you hadn’t spent enough
time with her. Did she mean after her mother’s
funeral, or that you spent less time with her
than you did with her brothers?
Continue to remember her at Christmas and
her birthday, but what you must do now is keep
moving forward. Recognize that it’s better to
live your life on your terms rather than someone
else’s. Marry the woman you love. Enjoy the
time you spend with her and your son and other
family members who are happy for you and
less manipulative than your daughter. Que sera
sera.
DEAR ABBY: When a person is thoughtful
enough to take a dish of food — a lunch-type
dish or dessert — to the office, and brings met-
al forks to eat the food with, shouldn’t the peo-
ple partaking of the “gift” return the utensils
so the person who brought them can take them
home? Must I put up a sign at the table asking
that all utensils be returned to me? What’s the
best way to handle this? It’s really a problem in
some office situations. — WONDERING IN THE
SOUTH
DEAR WONDERING: One would think that if
someone brings metal utensils to a gathering
that the recipients would have enough common
sense to ASK if the giver wanted them returned.
Because your co-workers don’t seem to have
common sense, the next time you bring food
to the office to be shared, make the announce-
ment or bring plastic utensils with you. That
should solve your dilemma.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was found-
ed by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,
Los Angeles, CA 90069.
To order “How to Write Letters for All Occa-
sions,” send your name and mailing address,
plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds)
to: Dear Abby — Letter Booklet, P.O. Box 447,
Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and
handling are included in the price.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 29).
It’s a passionate solar journey ahead.
You’ll get the sort of attention and
experiences you most crave. Because
you learn to trust life, you’ll revert to
a childlike wonder and impose a few
unrealistic expectations on it, thus
striking up an exciting future. You’ll
enjoy a reward that goes to but an
elite few. Libra and Scorpio adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 3,
33, 39 and 45.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your
desire to obtain worldly success will
impress. It’s as though you just don’t
see the limits, and therefore, the
limits, if they are there at all, don’t
pertain to you today.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You
wonder how you will accomplish ev-
erything on your list. Indeed, it’s not
possible for you to do it alone. Break
it down into two categories: what is
easy to teach and delegate, and what
can only be done by you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
People want to earn what they get.
Don’t offer rewards without consid-
ering this principle. Asking people to
do something small and easy will be
better than giving anything away for
free today.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). The
old saying goes “If it ain’t broke,
don’t fix it.” This grammatically
incorrect adage will save you time
and money today while freeing you to
focus on what really is “broke.”
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You call
people back when you’re ready to
and when you have a reason that’s
compelling enough, and this goes
both ways. Therefore, you are at ease
with the timing of life. It’s something
to figure out, not rail against.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll
be fired up to make money, and an
important deal will come together for
you as though it were entirely ruled by
your attitude and will. Maybe this is
really the case!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You
typically think of tackling domestic
chores as a means to an end, but
today you’ll find that any efforts you
make to clean, clear and organize
your world will be engaging, interest-
ing and even enjoyable.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your
people will be a little like the door to
a shop today. You’ll have to push a bit
to get in and do some business, but
not too hard or too forcefully. Lean in
a bit to figure out what’s needed.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
There is little that compares to the
excitement of someone understand-
ing your value and challenging you to
learn and be and bring even more to
the table.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
You don’t always care about the
same things your loved ones do, but
today will bring exciting developments
in projects of significance to you and
yours.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
Every bargain you strike involves
your end (the one you have complete
control over) and theirs (the one up
for your influence, reward, bribery,
leverage and threats and yet is still
ultimately theirs to control).
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Suc-
cess involves a checklist. The beauty
of a checklist is that each item is
given equal real estate on the list and
you are prevented from missing both
the obvious things and the not-so-ob-
vious things.
4C Sunday, December 29, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

NEW Leadership program accepting applications at The W

Space limited for six-day program focusing on women in political leadership volunteers her time to
help arrange meetings
the only cost to those ac-
cepted for NEW Leader-
MUW UNIVERSITY Columbus. Applications als in a variety of careers. Senate staff attorney with a variety of profes- ship Mississippi is a $20
RELATIONS are open to any woman Students live on campus (and former law clerk at sionals at the Capitol in confirmation fee. Inter-
studying at one of Missis- with four Faculty in Resi-

A
pplications are
now open for 2020
NEW Leadership®
Mississippi University for
Women.
The intensive, nonpar-
tisan, six-day residential
program is hosted by
The W, a member of the
Center for American
Women in Politics’ NEW
Leadership National
Network. With a mission
to educate, empower and
encourage college women
to increase their civic
engagement and pursue
political leadership roles,
NEW Leadership is a
unique opportunity for
Mississippi’s undergrad-
uate women to further
their ambitions.
The 2020 program will
take place May 17-22, on
the campus of The W, in
sippi’s colleges: public or
private, two-year or four-
year as well as Mississip-
pi residents enrolled in
out-of-state colleges.
“This program builds
women’s confidence and
ambition for political
leadership by deepen-
ing their knowledge of
political processes and
careers, connecting them
with women and men in
positions of authority in
Mississippi politics and
creating a space in which
they can hone the skills
necessary for political
advocacy and public
leadership,” said Chanley
Rainey, program director.
An important element
of the program is its focus
on mentorship and oppor-
tunities to interact with
public sphere profession-
the Mississippi Supreme Jackson. ested students can learn
dence (FIRs), profession- Court). One of The W’s Thanks to generous more and apply at muw.
al women in politics who own graduates, Missis- and ongoing support from edu/NewLeadership.
mentor participants, lead sippi Sen. Sally Doty, has donors like the Stennis Only 24 students will be
their work on a week-long supported the program Center for Public Service accepted and applications
group project and accom-
since its inception and and dozens of volunteers, close Feb. 28.
pany them on a trip to the
Capitol in Jackson.
Last year’s FIRs
demonstrate the caliber
of programming and the
range of careers to which
students are exposed:
Judge Adrienne Wooten
of Mississippi’s 7th Cir-
cuit Court (also a former
Representative in the
Mississippi House); the
Tennessee Valley Author-
ity’s government relations
specialist Amy Tate; Lisa
Shoemaker, a govern-
ment relations specialist
for the Mississippi Cable
Telecommunications
Association, and Kristie
Metcalfe, a Mississippi

Students should blend productivity,

downtime in winter break
MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC well,” she explained. avoid a learning curve
AFFAIRS One way to use that when the new semester
break time productively starts:

D
uring winter
break, college
students long for
a few weeks away from
studying and exams to
unwind.
A little holiday relax-
ation can be a good thing,
but a Mississippi State
senior administrator
said one of the biggest
problems students face
is staying productive to
keep an active mind and
avoid returning to class
in January feeling over-
whelmed and stressed.
Regina Hyatt, MSU
vice president of student
affairs, said unstructured
time to rest, dream and
reflect is important to
mental wellbeing, but
“resting and recharging
doesn’t mean we should
throw out all productiv-
ity.”
Hyatt said that typi-
cally after a few days of
downtime, students are
ready for a more struc-
tured time of activity.
“Many find comfort in
the routines they develop
while classes are in ses-
sion and like structured
time during breaks as
is to contemplate on the
successes and challenges
of the past semester.
Hyatt said, “It’s a great
time for them to come up
with a plan addressing
any of their challenges
and to seek resources
they need once the new
term begins. Often they’ll
see opportunities they
missed to study more
effectively or get help
earlier.”
Apart from college-fo-
cused activity, Hyatt
suggests such leisure
interests as playing board
games with family and
friends, researching a
dream trip, volunteering
or simply engaging in
meaningful conversa-
tions.
“And, if a plan of action
or list of ‘things to do’
doesn’t cause stress, by
all means use one,” she
said. “But remember, it’s
just as important not to
be over-programmed and
to give some room for
spontaneity.”
Hyatt offers these
seven ways to stay
productive throughout
the holiday break to help
n Journal – journaling
can provide space for re-
flection and help alleviate
stress.
n Plan – a 2020 cal-
endar can help prioritize
upcoming obligations
including class times,
co-curricular events, ex-
ercise sessions and other
activities.
n Exercise – Brisk
walking, yoga or a group
fitness class can produce
endorphins that may
help improve sleep and
decrease stress.
n Volunteer – Helping
others by sharing your
talents also can improve
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School news
Bowman inducted into Phi Kappa Phi
Susanna Bowman of Starkville has
been inducted into the Honor Society
of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest
collegiate honor society for all academic
disciplines, at Mississippi University for
Women.
She is among approximately 30,000
students, faculty, professional staff and
alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa
Phi each year.
ICC honors
Itawamba Community College
released its honors list for 2019 fall se-
mester. Area students included were:
President’s List
Caledonia: Audrey N. Nettles and
Leslie Jaydan Ray;
Columbus: John Dylan Hankins,
Taylor E. Johnson, Macey Elizabeth
Pennington and Audrey K. Wilson;
Crawford: Kayla D. Jackson;
Starkville: Madison A. Carter;
West Point: Robdetric Notari Carr
and Katherine M. Deanes;
Vernon, Ala.: Alexis M. Wharton;
Dean’s List
Columbus: Jakyra Nichole Brooks
and Kelsi Nicole Speed;
Macon: Anna N. Borntrager;
Starkville: Rainey Elizabeth Wells
Those named to the President’s
List had a 3.8-4.0 grade point average.
Those named to the Dean’s List had a
grade point average between 3.5 and
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Southern Gardening

Gary highlights four plant winners of 2019

T
he problems
started with a
bit cooler and
much wetter spring
season. Then, we
suddenly went
straight into a hot-
ter and drier sum-
mer than we’ve seen
in several years. I
almost had whiplash
with the transition;
our garden plants
Gary Bachman
also experienced a
form of whiplash.
But there was good news
in that I discovered plants that
were a lot stronger than I ini-
tially thought. So, let me share
my “tough enough” plants from but too much shade reduces
2019.
No. 1: Blue My Mind
Evolvulus
Blue My Mind evolvulus
is a fantastic plant with fun-
nel-shaped individual flowers
that always form near the shoot
tips. Blue My Mind
is a prolific bloomer.
The foliage has a
downy appearance,
and the 1-inch, fun-
nel-shaped flowers
are sky blue. The
flowers only open
for one day. They
are brilliant in the
morning, but they
look quite spent by
afternoon, especial-
ly if the planting
bed is west facing and receives
a high heat load each after-
noon.
A location with a little after-
noon shade would be welcome,
total flowering. Blue My Mind
needs to be planted in well-
drained soil that is consistently
moist.
No. 2: Lime Sizzler Firebush
Lime Sizzler firebush lives
up to its name. Its foliage is a
Gary Bachman/MSU Extension Service
Lime Sizzler firebush performs
best in full sun, but it will bloom
with less showy colors in shadi-
er settings.
variegated mixture of char-
treuse yellow and lime green
that is highlighted by bright-
red veins. The gorgeous,
reddish-orange flowers are
arranged in whorled clusters
and are produced all summer
and well into fall.
For the best flower produc-
tion and foliage color, plant
Lime sizzler in full sun for at
least six hours per day. This
plant will be just fine in a shadi-
er setting, but it won’t have the
showy color development.
No. 3: Sangria Ornamental
Peppers
The pretty, ornamental pep-
per variety Sangria holds its
slender fruit pointing upward
boastfully as if getting ready
for a party. Fruit comes in
almost unbelievable numbers
and resembles confetti. Young
peppers emerge greenish yel-
low, and then march through
a wonderful parade of colors --
orange, lilac, purple and finally
a glorious, crimson red.
No. 4: Cherokee Sunset
Rudbeckia
This 2002 All-America Se-
lection is a fantastic choice that
consists of a blend of warm, au-
tumnal colors of yellow, orange
and mahogany bronze.
The flowers of Cherokee
Sunset are big: 3 to 4 inches
in diameter. They are a mix of
singles and doubles, especially
when grown in full sun. These
plants reach about 24 inches
tall, and the sturdy stems hold
the large flowers without stak-
ing. Cherokee Sunset is a good
choice for cutting for use in fall,
indoor arrangements.
I like to reflect during the
winter months on what worked
for me in the garden, as well as
what I saw that worked around
the state. There will always
be plants that disappoint for
some reason; that’s just part of
gardening.
But you can count on these
plants to be fantastic perform-
ers in your garden. I know I
will plant them again in 2020.
Gary Bachman is an Ex-
tension and research professor
of horticulture at the Missis-
sippi State University Coastal
Research and Extension Center
in Biloxi and hosts Southern
Gardening television and radio
programs. Contact him at south-
erngardening@msstate.edu.

A new year is coming: resolutions are on the way

SPECIAL TO THE when it comes to setting more pressure on you and areas you have failed at where you want to go is world. Paying attention to
DISPATCH and keeping resolutions: makes the process much by finding out why. Why important, but don’t miss your negative self-talk is
n Start small: Having more difficult to manage. didn’t you succeed in the out on the ride. extremely important be-

I
t’s that time again,
when people every-
where will be setting
their annual New Year’s
resolutions. Whether
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losing weight or anything
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tions in 2020?
Alok Trivedi is a hu-
man behavior and psycho-
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Institute and author of the
book “Chasing Success.”
He has been featured on
CBS, NBC, Fox News
and CTV News Canada,
among others.
He offers these tips
a big goal in mind is fine,
but realize the best way
to be successful is to
see it as an incremental
process. Maybe you want
to lose 50 pounds. That’s
great, but focus on losing
10 pounds at a time. If you
constantly look at the big
picture, you’re going to
get overwhelmed. Smaller
goals are easier to accom-
plish and will leave you
feeling motivated and
inspired to keep moving
towards your larger goals.
n Keep your mouth
shut: When you keep
your goals to yourself, it
creates an inner drive to
achieve them. Telling ev-
eryone else what you want
to accomplish only puts
If you feel like sharing,
tell other people about
your failures. It makes
you a humbler person.
The other reason to speak
about your failures is
because there is so much
learning in failure for
yourself as well as those
around you.
n Don’t compare
your goals to someone
else’s goals: This is your
life, your goals and your
reality. What you want to
accomplish in your life is
going to be very different
from what someone else
wants to achieve. Set
goals that are truly valu-
able to you.
n Master your
failures. Master the
past? If you didn’t ac-
complish your goals last
year, figure out what went
wrong so you don’t make
the same mistakes. Treat
your failures as a learning
experience.
n Focus on the
experience, not the
goal: It’s not the million
dollars that you’re after,
it’s the experiences you
get to have because of the
million dollars. It’s fine to
have your goals, but rath-
er than spending so much
time obsessed with them,
focus on the experience.
Every day is a new experi-
ence with new people and
new adventures. Knowing
n Expect bumps in
the road: Trying to ac-
complish any goal is a pro-
cess filled with ups and
downs. Most people enter
the new year expecting
things to just magically
change without any effort
or obstacles. The person
who accomplishes his
New Year’s resolutions is
the person who overcame
the most obstacles.
n Listen to the
negative talk: All the
self-help gurus, while
well-intentioned, encour-
age you to only think
positive thoughts. This
is unrealistic because
you’re living in a fantasy
cause it’s trying to break
you of your addiction to
that fantasy. The key is to
be optimistic about what
you want while listening
to the negative thoughts
because it will keep you
grounded in reality.
n Focus on your
‘why not’: Most personal
development people will
tell you to focus on your
‘why.’ Instead, you need
to focus on your ‘why not.’
This is the real reason
you’re not going after
your goals. Until you
figure out what’s really
holding you back, you
can’t have any forward
progress.

Almost Like Home

Continued from Page 1C
“She was asking about
the firefighters and I was
telling her they work
long hours and holidays,
and that they even work
Christmas,” she said.
“(From there,) this was
just a way to give back.”
The first year, “Almost
Like Home” served only
firefighters, but by the
next year it began feeding
other first responders
whose jobs required them
to spend Christmas away
from their families.
But this year, McReyn-
olds’ personal circum-
stances put the “Almost
Like Home” meal in jeop-
ardy. Her father passed
away earlier in the year
and she’s the caregiver for
her ailing mother. When
the day after Thanksgiv-
ing came, though, she
once again posted the
all-call on the group’s
Facebook page. Just like
clockwork, food commit-
ments started pouring in.
“This year I could have
easily said ‘Forget it,’ but
I just stepped back and
thought, ‘This will all
work out,’” McReynolds
said. “The volunteers are
so good, they stepped up
big like they always do,
and we pulled it off.
“People are good, and
I believe there is more
good out there than bad,”
she added. “… I may have
had a bad year, but some
of these first responders
may have had one too.
These are people who
watch our backs when
we’re sleeping. … So I’ll
probably do this until I
die, or at least as there
is community interest in
seeing it continue.”
A small token
As Ervin organized
the food on the table at
Fire Station 1 Wednesday,
she addressed all the
firefighters as if they were
her own family.
In a lot of cases, that
may as well have been the
truth, she said.
Her husband, Glenn
“Pee Wee” Gregg, retired
in 2007 after 28 years
with SFD, and the couple
— which has volunteered
with the “Almost Like
Home” group since its
inception — takes the
mission personally.
“We can understand,”
Ervin said. “My husband
had to pull many of these
holiday shifts over the
years. … I just enjoy
doing this. It makes my
heart feel good, and for
(Gregg), it’s sort of like
a legacy he’s leaving
behind.”
Over the years, Ervin
said, she’s brought many
meals to the fire station.
Some were unexpected,
and just revealed the
unique nature of first re-
sponders’ everyday work.
“I remember times
eating in restaurants with
my husband and (other
firefighters), and they had
all given their orders,” she
said. “But when that bell
went off, they had to go.
I’d just tell the (servers) to
pack it up and I’d take it to
the fire station.”
For something like the
holiday meal to catch on
so well, Ervin said, is a
sign of a strong commu-
nity.
“I want to see it contin-
ue,” she said. “I know it’s
not much, but it shows we
give back as a community.
It’s amazing to see how
many people give their
time to do this for first
responders.”

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FURRY
CHRISTMAS
Some furry friends got
their humans to take
them for holiday pet
photos at the Oktibbe-
ha County Co-op Dec.
14. Austin Frayser/Spe-
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ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 4474 New Hope Road.
Worship 10:30 a.m., Children’s Church 10:30 a.m., 662-
664-0852
THE ASSEMBLY COLUMBUS — 2201 Military Road.
Christian Education 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Nursery
Church (2-3 yrs.) Children’s Church 10:30 a.m. Wednesday
6:30 p.m. (something for all ages). Nursery provided for all
services. Jody Gurley, Pastor. 662-328-6374
BAPTIST
ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 N. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 5
p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Mitch McWilliams,
Pastor. 662-328-4765
ARMSTRONG BAPTIST CHURCH — 1707 Yorkville
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. William Vaughn, Pastor. 662-
328-0670
ARTESIA BAPTIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Jeff
Morgan.
BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 3232 Military Road.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Walter Butler, Pastor.
BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH — 2096 Bethesda
Rd, Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 6:00 p.m., Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m. Allan Dees, Pastor. 662-272-8734
BORDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 12771 Hwy.
12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Worship 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study – Adults, Children, and Youth
classes 6:30 p.m. Dan Louman, Pastor. 662-386-0541.
www. borderspringsbaptistchurch.com
BROOKSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — Main Street,
Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
LLC
CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe Road,
Caledonia. Sunday Men’s Prayer Service 9:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday, Worship 11 a.m. Sunday,
Bible Study 4 p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study
6:30 p.m. Kelby R. Johnson, Pastor.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 295 Dowdle Dr. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir
rehearsals and Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Rev. Ralph Windle, Interim
Pastor. 662-328-6741
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 385 7th St. SW, Vernon,
Ala. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
(6 p.m. - Daylight Savings Time), Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Wil
Corbett, Pastor. 205-270-1845
CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1008 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul Shaw, Pastor. 662-327-3771
CANAAN MB CHURCH — 2425 Bell Ave. Sunday School
8:15 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6
p.m. Jimmy Pounds, Pastor. 662-327-1226
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 2490 Yorkville
Rd. East Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study, Children & Youth Classes 6:30
p.m. Matt Moehring, Pastor. Edward Rhinewalt, Music
Director. 662-327-5306
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — 844 Old West
Point Rd., Starkville. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Greg Upperman,
Pastor. 662-323-6351 or visit www.cornerstonestarkville.
com
EAST END BAPTIST CHURCH — 380 Hwy. 50 W. (Hwy.
50 and Holly Hills Rd.) Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m., Worship 5 p.m. followed by Discipleship
Training, Mission Friends and GAs 5 p.m., Sanctuary Choir
6:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting, Youth Worship,
Preschool & Children’s Choirs 6:30 p.m. Bryon Benson,
Pastor. 662-328-5915
We unlock
EASTVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 1316 Ben Christopher
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. Junior Eads, Pastor. 662-329-2245
FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 127 Airline Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. Breck Ladd, Pastor. 662-328-2924
FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621 Mike
Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev.
Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 7th St. and 2nd. Ave.
N. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m.
(Worship televised at 10 a.m. on WCBI-TV, Columbus
Cable Channel 7), Contemporary Worship 11 a.m.;
Sunday Evening Worship 5 p.m., Midweek Prayer Service
Wednesday 6 p.m. located downtown. Dr. Shawn Parker,
Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.org
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STEENS — 40 Odom Rd.,
Steens. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST — 125 Yorkville Rd. W. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. John Gainer, Pastor. 662-328-6024 or 662-328-3183
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Charles Whitney, Pastor.
GRACE COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — 912 11th Ave.
S. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pastor Sammy Burns. 662-
328-1096
GREENWOOD SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 278
East between Gattman & Amory. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:15 p.m. Rev.
John Walden, Pastor. 662-356-4445
IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military Rd.,
Steens. Bible Study 10:30 a.m., Worship 9:15 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. 662-328-1668
KOLOLA SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — Caledonia.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., AWANA
4:45-6 Ages 2-12th grade (Sept. - May), Worship 5 p.m.,
Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 252 Basics Children’s
Ministry an Cross Training Youth Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Don Harding, Pastor.
LONGVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 991 Buckner Street,
Longview. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.;
Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Interim Pastor Ron
Linkins, or email ynyministry@yahoo.com, 662-769-4774
MCBEE BAPTIST CHURCH — 2846 Hwy. 50 E. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship Training
5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Jimmy
Ray, Pastor. 662-328-7177
MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH — Holly Hills Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.,
Prayer Service every Saturday 6 p.m. Rev. Denver Clark,
Pastor.
MOUNT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH — 2628 East Tibbee
Rd., West Point. Sunday Worship each week 8 a.m., 1st,
3rd and 5th Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m., Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Donald Wesley, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1791 Lake Lowndes
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Steve Lammons, Pastor. 662-328-
2811
MT. VERNON CHURCH — 200 Mt. Vernon Rd. Sunday
Worship 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Service Life Groups for
all ages 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Connection Cafe 10 a.m.,
Discovery Zone. 662-328-3042 mtvchurch.com
MURRAH’S CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 9297 Hwy.
69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and
6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — Highway 50 E.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Ed Nix, Pastor.
NEW JOURNEY CHURCH — 3123 New Hope Rd. Sunday
Worship 10:30 a.m., Small Groups 5:30 p.m., Kevin Edge,
Pastor. 662-315-7753 or thenewjourneychurch.org
NEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe Rd., 3
miles south of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m. & 10:30
a.m., Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Sunday Evening - AWANA
4 p.m., Discipleship Training, Youth & Adult 5 p.m., Evening
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday - Adults, Youth & Children 6:30
p.m. 662-356-4940 www.newsalembaptistcaledonia.com
Bro. Mel Howton, Pastor.
NORTHSIDE FREE WILL BAPTIST — 14th Ave. and
Waterworks. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Worship 11
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Pat Creel, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, 405
Lynn Lane, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. 1st
2nd and 4th Sundays. Donnie Jones, Pastor. 662-263-7102
PLEASANT GROVE MB CHURCH — 1914 Moor High
Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Riley Forrest, Sr., Pastor.
662-272-8221
PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill Rd.
Sunday Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Bill
Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921
PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH — 187 Plymouth Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Randy
Rigdon, Pastor. Neil Shepherd, Music.
SOVEREIGN FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH — 7852 Hwy.
12 E., Steens. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Service 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Charles Young, Pastor.
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 12859 Martin
Road Spur, Northport, Ala. Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Bible
Study noon. Todd Bryant, Pastor. sovereigngrace.net
STATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
Night small group 6:30 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-
329-2973
TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST CHURCH —
4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams, Pastor. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. 662-327-2580
UNITED CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 2 blocks east
of Hwy. 69 on Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship
10:15 a.m. Steven James, Pastor.
UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 1104 Louisville St.,
Starkville (located in Fellowship Hall of St. Luke Lutheran
Church). Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bert
Montgomery, Pastor. www.ubcstarkville.org
VICTORY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH — Victory Loop
off of Mill Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Pastor, Al Hamm.
WOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — 3033 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship 6
p.m., AWANA Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Kevin Jenkins, Pastor. 662-327-6689. Brad Wright, Youth
Minister.
10TH STREET FAIRLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1118
7th St. S. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Youth Ministry Wednesday 4:30 p.m.
Rev. Brian Hood, Pastor.
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
BETHESDA CHURCH — 1800 Short Main. Sunday School
9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Nathaniel
Best, Pastor. E-mail: bethesdambchurch@yahoo.com
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5860 Hwy. 50 E., West
Point. Sunday School 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — 1720 Hwy. 373.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Martin “Buddy” Gardner, Pastor.
LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5030 Hwy. 182 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-1130
SHINING LIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH — 957 Sunset Drive,
Starkville in the Comfort Suites Conference Room, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pastor
John Harvey. slbcstarkville.org 662-648-0282
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
ANDERSON GROVE MB CHURCH — 1853 Anderson
Grove Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:20 a.m., Worship
11:00 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6:20 p.m. David O.
Williams, Pastor. 662-356-4968.
ANTIOCH MB CHURCH — 2304 Seventh Ave. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Kenny
Bridges, Pastor.
BETHLEHEM MB CHURCH — 293 Bethlehem Road,
Caledonia. Sunday School 1st and 4th Sundays 8 a.m., 2nd
& 3rd Sundays 9:30 a.m., Worship 1st & 4th Sundays 9:30
a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 11 a.m., Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev.
Willie James Gardner, Pastor. 662-356-4424
BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, Activity
Center 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 2nd, 4th &
5th Sundays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pastor Martin. 662-744-0561
BRICK MB CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School
9:30 a.m. each Sunday, Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays only
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Everett Little, Pastor.
CALVARY FAITH CENTER — Hwy. 373 & Jess Lyons
Road. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Robert
Bowers, Pastor. 662-434-0144
CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr. Worship
Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Johnnie Richardson, Pastor. 662-434-6528
CHRISTIAN HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
— 14096 MS Hwy. 388, Brooksville, MS 39739, Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Bobby Bowen, Pastor. 662-738-5837/549-6100
CHRIST MB CHURCH — 110 2nd Ave. S. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., B.T.U.
Program every 1st & 3rd Sunday 6 p.m.
ELBETHEL MB CHURCH — 2205 Washington Ave.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m., Rev. Leroy Jones, Pastor.
FAITH HARVEST MB CHURCH — 4266 Sand Road.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Bible class
Tuesday 6 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-7076.
FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. 662-328-1913
FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr.
Stanley K. McCrary, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or 662-251-4185
GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856 Carson Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 7
a.m. Donald Henry, Pastor.
HALBERT MISSION MB CHURCH — 2199 Halbert Church
Rd., Ethelsville, Ala. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Ernest Prescott, Pastor.
HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 4892 Ridge Rd. Sunday
School 8 a.m., Worship 9 a.m., Minister Terry Johnson,
Interim Pastor.
JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 14129 Hwy 12 E.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Petty, Sr.,
Pastor.
MAPLE STREET BAPTIST — 219 Maple St. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Joseph Oyeleye, Pastor. 662-328-4629
MILLERS CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 425 East North
St. Macon. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Ron Houston, Pastor.
MISSIONARY UNION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1207 5th
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Baptist Training Union 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Rev. Tony A. Montgomery, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION MB CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979
MT. ARY MB CHURCH — 291 S. Frontage Rd., Lot #4.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. Erick Logan, Pastor.
MT. AVERY BAPTIST CHURCH — 12311 Nashville
Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.
every Sunday except 5th Sunday. Rev. John Wells,
Pastor.
MT. OLIVE MB CHURCH — 2020 Atkin Rd., Millport,
Ala. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m.
Pastor Benny W. Henry. 205-662-3923
NEW HOPE MB CHURCH — 271 Church St., Artesia.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Thomas E. Rice is Pastor. 662-494-1580
NEW BAPTIST TEMPLE MB CHURCH — 5937
Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m. each week
except 5th Sunday, Worship 10 a.m. each week except
5th Sunday, 5th Sundays: Ushers Board Fellowship.
Rev. L.A. Gardner, Pastor. 662-329-3321
NEW ZION PILGRIM MB CHURCH — 5253 New Hope
Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Services 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Christopher Wriley, Pastor.
NEW ZION STEENS MB CHURCH — 3301 Sand Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Pastor Rev. Billy D. Hill. 662-329-5224
OAK GROVE MB CHURCH — 1090 Taylor Thurston Rd.
Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., 5th Sunday 8
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:15 p.m. Pastor Therman
Cunningham Sr., 662-798-0179
OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road, Crawford.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
Sunday, December 29, 2019 3D
Bible study 7 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal - Wed. before
1st and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus Rehearsal - Wed.
before 3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir Rehearsal - Wed.
before 4th Sun. 6 p.m. Rev. Sammy L. White, Pastor.
PLEASANT GROVE ROBINSON MB CHURCH — 9203
Hwy. 389 N., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Service/Bible Study 7
p.m. Pastor George A. Sanders. 456-0024
PLEASANT RIDGE MB CHURCH — Ridge Rd. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. A.
Edwards, Sr., Pastor.
PROVIDENCE MB CHURCH — Old Hwy. 69 S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Rev. Gilbert Anderson, Pastor.
SAINT MATTHEWS MB CHURCH — 1213 Island Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Curtis Clay, Sr., Pastor.
SALEM MB CHURCH — Hwy. 86, Carrollton, Ala.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Rev. David J. Johnson, Jr., Pastor.
SECOND JAMES CREEK MB CHURCH — 4898 Baldwin
Rd., Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Pastor Michael Tate. 662-738-5855
SOUTHSIDE MB CHURCH — 100 Nashville Ferry Rd. E.
Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Rev. Rayfield Evins Jr., Pastor.
SIXTH AVENUE MB CHURCH — 1519 Sixth Ave. N.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. W.C. Talley, Pastor. 662-329-
2344
SPRINGFIELD MB CHURCH — 6369 Hwy. 45 S. (1st &
3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30
a.m., (1st & 3rd Wednesday) 7 p.m. Robert Gavin, Pastor.
662-327-9843
STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 2008 7th Ave. N.
Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m. Bible Study
Wednesday 10:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
St. James MB CHURCH — 6525 Hardy-Billups Rd.,
Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
6:15 p.m. Rev. Chad Payton, Pastor.
St. JOHN MB CHURCH — 3477 Motley Rd., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study
7 p.m. Joe Brooks, Pastor. 327-7494.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — Robinson Rd. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Willie
Mays, Pastor.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — 1800 Short Main St. Disciple
Training/Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:00 a.m. Rev.
John F. Johnson, Pastor. 662-241-7111
STRONG HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH —
325 Barton Ferry Rd., West Point. Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver Rd.
(Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor McSwain.
TABERNACLE MB CHURCH — Magnolia Drive, Macon.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m.
UNION HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 150 Spurlock Rd.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Carlton Jones, Pastor.
WOODLAWN LANDMARK MB CHURCH — 8086 Hwy.
12. East, Steens. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David Retherford,
Pastor.
THE WORD CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 366
Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. John Sanders, Pastor.
ZION GATE MB CHURCH — 1202 5th St. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. and 10:45., Children’s
Church 10:15 a.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Dr. James A. Boyd, Pastor.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
ABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday 10:30
a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-4937
HAMILTON PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Flower
Farm Rd., 2 miles South of Hamilton, just off Hwy. 45.
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jesse Phillips, Pastor. 662-429-2305
MAYHEW PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — 842 Hwy.
45 Alternate, Starkville. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m. Herb
Hatfield,Pastor. 662-315-4937
SPRINGHILL P.B. CHURCH — 3996 Sandyland Road,
Macon, MS. Walter Lowery Jr., Pastor. Sunday School
9:00 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6
p.m. 662-738-5006.
SULPHUR SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
— North of Caledonia on Wolf Rd, Hamilton. Sunday
10:30 a.m. & 1st Sunday Night at 6:30 p.m. Elder Joseph
Mettles, Pastor. 662-369-2532
ANGLICAN CATHOLIC
SAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew Rd.,
Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-5939
or anglicancatholic.org
CATHOLIC
ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 808 College
St. Mass Schedules are as follows: Sunday 8 a.m. & 10:30
a.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8 a.m., Tuesday 5:30
p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m., and Annunciation Catholic
School (during the school year). Father Jeffrey Waldrep,
Priest.
CHRISTIAN
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary. Larry
Ferguson, Interim Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave. N. and
8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CALEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10
a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 4362 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday
Worship 9:30 a.m. , Wednesday 6 p.m. Loviah
Johnson 662-574-0426 or E-mail: jtychicus00@gmail.
com
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 437 Gregory Rd. Sunday
Bible class 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Richard Latham, Minister. 662-
328- 4705
CHURCH OF CHRIST DIVINE — 1316 15th St. S.
Morning Worship (1st, 2nd, & 4th Sunday) 9:45 a.m.,
(3rd & 5th Sunday) 8:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6
p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-327-6060
Bishop Timothy Heard, Pastor.
COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401 7th St. N.
Sunday Bible Class 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Sunday Bible Study 5 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul
Bennett, Family Life Minister; Billy Ferguson, Minister
of Discipleship; Hunter Johnson, Youth Minister.
EAST COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Highway
182 E. at Gaylane. Sunday Worship 9 a.m., Bible
Study 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
http://eastcolumbuschurch.com
HWY. 69 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2407 Hwy. 69 S.
Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister Jay Street.
www.highway69coc.com
LONE OAK CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1903 Lone Oak
Rd., Steens. Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
MAGNOLIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — 161 Jess Lyons
Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister David May, Pastor.
662-769-5514.
NORTH HILLCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST — 900
North Hillcrest, Aberdeen, MS 39730, Sunday
Worship 10:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:00
p.m., Bro. Arthur Burnett, Minister, 662-304-6098.
Email: nhill crestcoc@gmail.com
STEENS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Steens Vernon Rd.
9:15 a.m. Bible Study, Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Larry Montgomery, Minister.
10TH AVE. N. CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1828 10th
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Bible Class 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Willie McCord, Minister.
WOODLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST — Woodlawn
Community. Sunday 9 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m.,
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Willis Logan,
Minister.
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CHURCH OF GOD
CHURCH OF GOD IN JESUS’ NAME — Hwy. 12. Sunday
10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. David Sipes, Pastor.
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 7840 Wolfe Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Tony Hunt, Pastor. 662-889-6570
LATTER RAIN CHURCH OF GOD — 721 7th Ave. S.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday 6
p.m. Brenda Othell Sullivan, Pastor.
NORTH COLUMBUS CHURCH OF GOD — 2103 Jess
Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Clarence Roberts, Pastor.
YORKVILLE HEIGHTS CHURCH — 2274 Yorkville Rd.,
Sunday Connect Groups 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.; Nursery available for all
services (newborn-4). Scott Volland, Pastor. 662-328-1256
or www.yorkvilleheights.com
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
BIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship
9 a.m., Monday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6
p.m., Tuesday and Thursday Prayer Noon. Tommy Williams,
Pastor.
FIFTEENTH ST. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 917 15th
St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion C. Bonner, Pastor.
GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD
IN CHRIST — 1601 Pickensville Rd., Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Monday 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m.,
Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. Ocie Salter, Pastor.
MIRACLE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 5429
Hwy. 45 N. Sunday Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 8:30
a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., 4th Sunday Fellowship Lunch,
Youth Sunday 4th Sunday, Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
Elder Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-327-4221. Email:
mr.endure@aol.com
NOW FAITH CENTER MINISTRIES — 425 Military Road,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday Night
Bible Study 7 p.m. Elder Samuel Wilson, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer Ave.,
Aberdeen. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible School 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thursday
Evangelist Night 6 p.m. Johnnie Bradford, Pastor. 662-574-
2847.
PETER’S ROCK TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
— 223 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Starkville. Sunday
Worship 7:45 a.m., 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
VICTORY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST —
Minnie Vaughn Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 12
p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Donald Koonch, Pastor. 662-243-2064
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE
CAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic
Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Catholic Priest Father
Paul Stewart. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday School
9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Wing Chaplain Lt. Col. Steven
Richardson. 662-434-2500
EPISCOPAL
GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 321
Forrest Blvd. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest. 662-
574-1972
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College St.
Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Rev.
Jason Shelby. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.com.
FULL GOSPEL
BREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.
BEULAH GROVE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
8490 Artesia Rd., Artesia, MS. Sunday Service 8:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Timothy Bourne, Senior
Pastor.
CHARITY FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1524
6th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m. Charles Fisher, Pastor.
CHARITY MISSION FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 807 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:40 a.m.,
Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Prayer Hour Mon.-
Fri. 10 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m., New Membership Class 9:30
p.m., 5th Sunday Worship 6:30 p.m. 662-272-5355
COVENANT LIFE MINISTRIES CHURCH — W. Yorkville
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Evening 6:30
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Fairview Full Gospel BAPTIST CHURCH — 1446
Wilson Pine Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Bobby L. McCarter 662-
328-2793
GREATER MOUNT ZION CHURCH — 5114 Hwy. 182 E.
Sunday Corporate Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7
p.m. Doran V. Johnson, Pastor. 662-329-1905
GOD’S ANNOINTED PEOPLE MINISTRY FULL GOSPEL
FELLOWSHIP — 611 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Jerome Gill, Pastor.
662-244-7088
HARVEST LIFE CHURCH — 425 Military Rd. Sunday
Service 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. F. Clark Richardson,
Pastor. 662-329-2820
NEW BEGINNING FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
318 Idlewild Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. 662-327-3962
NEW LIFE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 426
Military Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor.
PLUM GROVE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — Old Macon Rd.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 6:30
p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Samuel B. Wilson, Pastor.
SHILOH FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 120 19th St.
S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 7
p.m., Missionary Service every 2nd Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev.
Freddie Edwards, Pastor.
JEWISH
B’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-monthly.
Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038
Universalist
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple B’nai
Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday. 662-
620-7344 or uua.org
LUTHERAN
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (WELS) —
Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible Class 3:45 p.m.,
Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647
OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (L.C.M.S.) — 1211
18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m.. Worship 10 a.m. Stan
Clark, Pastor. 662-327-7747 oursaviorlutheranms.org
MENNONITE
FAITH MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP — 2988 Tarlton Rd.,
Crawford. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Sunday School 11 a.m.,
2nd & 4th Sunday Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Kevin Yoder, Senior Pastor.
METHODIST
ARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 50 Church
Street, Artesia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Gene Merkl, Pastor.
CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 811 Main
Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
John Longmire, Pastor.
CLAIBORNE CME CHURCH — 6049 Nashville Ferry Rd.
E. 2nd and 4th Sundays - Sunday School 10a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Sundays - 3 p.m.,
Geneva H. Thomas, Pastor.
CONCORD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
1235 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor.
COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 618 31st
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Eugene
Bramlett, Pastor.
CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Main St.,
Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10 a.m.
Kathy Brackett, Pastor. 662-364-8848
CROSSROAD CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Steens. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev.
Carl Swanigan, Pastor.
FIRST INDEPENDENT METHODIST — 417 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday bible study at 10:15 and morning worship at 11 a.m.
Minister Gary Shelton.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 602 Main St.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m. Rev. Jimmy
Criddle, Lead Pastor; Rev. Anne Russell Bradley, Associate
Pastor; Rev. Aislinn Kopp, Associate Pastor. 328-5252
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 80 Old
Honnoll Mill Rd., Caledonia. Sunday Worship Service 9:30
a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. John Longmire, Pastor.
GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St. S.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael Terry,
Pastor. 662-328-1109
HEBRON CME. CHURCH — 1910 Steens Road, Steens.
Meets first, second and third Sundays, Bible class each
Wednesday at 7 p.m. Earnest Sanders, Pastor.
MILITARY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
Hwy. 12, Steens. Sunday School 9:45, Service 11 a.m.. Meet
on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m.
Rev. Antra Geeter, Pastor. 662-327-4263
NEW HOPE CME CHURCH — 1452 Yorkville Road East,
Columbus. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship service
first, third and fourth Sunday (Youth Sunday) 11:00 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 5:00 p.m. Rev. Cornelia Naylor,
Pastor. 662-328-5309
NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 2503 New
Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10
a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 5:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham,
Pastor.
ORR’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Nicholson Street,
Brooksville. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Saturday 9 a.m.
PINEY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 102
Fernbank Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m., Sunday
School 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Andy Tentoni,
Pastor.
PLAIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 1579 Sun Creek
Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 8:45-9:45 a.m., Worship 10
a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6-7 p.m. Rev. Sylvester Miller III,
Pastor. 662-324-0036
SANDERS CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 521 15th St. N.
Sunday School 8 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m., Tuesday 11:45 a.m.
Rev. Dr. Luther Minor, Pastor.
SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional Worship Service 9
a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.
ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 722 Military
Rd. Breakfast 9:20 a.m., Sunday School 9:40 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m., Adult/Children
Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m., Young Adult Bible Study
Thursday 7 p.m. Rev. Paul E. Luckett, Pastor.
ST. PAUL INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
Freeman Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Services 11
a.m. and 5 p.m. Youth activities 5 p.m. John Powell, Pastor.
ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 307 South
Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m. , Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Demetric
Darden, Pastor.
ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 800
Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Andy Tentoni,
Pastor.
TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Rt. 2,
6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Carol Lambert, Pastor. 205-662-3443
TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610 Carson
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Pastor Lizzie
Harris. 662-329-3995
TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St. S.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5
p.m. Yvonne Fox, Pastor.
WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday 5:15
p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Youth Monday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Sarah Windham.
WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Kori Bridges, Pastor.
662-422-9013.
MORMON
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
— 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 9 a.m., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 11 a.m., Youth
Activities Wednesday 6 p.m. Bishop Eric Smith. 662-328-
3179.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — 2722 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Stephen Joiner, Pastor.
NON — DENOMINATIONAL
A PREPARED TABLE MINISTRY — 1201 College St.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Timothy J. Bailey, Pastor. 662-889-7778
ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 611 S.
Frontage Road. Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Craig
Morris, Pastor.
ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH, INC.
— 1560 Hwy. 69 S., Sunday 9 a.m., Wednesday 6:45 p.m.,
Friday Corporate Prayer 7 p.m. Pastor James T. Verdell, Jr.
crosswayradio.com 9 a.m., 11 a.m., & 7 p.m. on Fridays only.
CALEDONIA OPEN DOOR WORSHIP CENTER — 3288
Cal-Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and
5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Randy Holmes, Pastor. 662-855-
5006
COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN CENTER — 146 S. McCrary
Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Kid’s Church 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Kenny Gardner, Pastor. 662-328-
3328
CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109 Maxwell
Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Band 7 p.m.
Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98 Harrison Rd.,
Steens. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., 1st Sunday Evening 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba) Dees, Pastor. 662-
327-4303
EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH — 1608
Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and Sunday
at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.
FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 1133 Northdale Dr. Sunday
Worship 5:30 p.m. Lee Poque, Pastor. 662-889-8132
FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH CHRIST MINISTRIES
— 1472 Blocker Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., 2nd Sunday Morning Worship 9 a.m.
Pastor Kenyon Ashford.
FIRST CALVARY FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN
CENTER — 247 South Oliver St., Brooksville. Prayer
Saturday 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m., Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor David T. Jones,III. 601-
345-5740
FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Maxine Hall, Pastor.
GENESIS CHURCH — 1820 23rd St. N., Sunday School
9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Darren
Leach, Pastor.
HOUSE OF LIFE FREEDOM MINISTRY — 1742 Old West
Point Rd. Worship 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Donnell Wicks, Pastor.
HOUSE OF RESTORATION — Hwy. 50. Sunday School,
9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
a.m., Pastors, Bill and Carolyn Hulen.
JESUS CHRIST POWERHOUSE OF THE APOSTOLIC
FAITH CHURCH — 622 23rd St. N. Sunday School 10:30
a.m.; Service 11:45 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30
p.m., Prayer Mon., Wed. and Fri. noon. For more information
call Bishop Ray Charles Jones 662-251-1118, Patricia Young
662-327-3106 or 662-904-0290 or Lynette Williams 662-
327-9074.
KINGDOM VISION INTERNATIONAL CHURCH — 3193
Hwy 69 S. Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday School 10
a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Pastor R.J. Matthews. 662-327-1960
LIFE CHURCH — 4888 N. Frontage Rd. Sunday Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information, call 662-
570-4171
LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr. Martin
Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m.,
Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311
LIVING WATERS LIFE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 113
Jefferson St., Macon. Sunday Service 10 a.m., Wednesday
Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Johnny Birchfield Jr., Senior Pastor.
662-493-2456 E-mail: livingwaterslifechurch@gmail.com
NEW BEGINNING EVERLASTING OUTREACH
MINISTRIES — Meets at Quality Inn, Hwy. 45 N. (Every 1st
and 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10 a.m., Bible Study 10:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Robert Gavin, 662-327-9843
or 662-497-3434.
NEW COVENANT ASSEMBLY — 875 Richardson. Worship
Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Bruce Morgan, Pastor.
NEW HORIZONS GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 441 18th St. S.
Sunday 10 a.m. Dr. Joe L. Bowen, Pastor.
PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP — 2651 Trinity www.memorialgunterpeel.com
Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Every 2nd
716 Second Ave. N. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-4432
and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097 903 College St. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-2354
TABERNACLE OF MERCY (MINISTRY OF JESUS
CHRIST) — 4435 Hwy. 45 N., Sunday Service 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-241-
6723
THE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 p.m.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
THE RIVER CHURCH — 822 North Lehmberg Rd., Sunday
Worship 10 a.m., Children’s Church 3&4 yr. old, 5-12 yr. old.
Wednesday Worship 6:45 p.m. Pastor Chuck Eubanks.
THE SHEPHERD’S CARE & SHARE MINISTRY CHURCH
— 4068 Jess Lyons Rd., Sunday Prayer Time 9:50 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Thursday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Annie Hines-Goode, Planter and Pastor. 662-
630-5216
TRIBE JUDAH MINISTRIES — 730 Whitfield St., Starkville.
Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m.
Rev. Greg and Rev. Michelle Mostella, Pastors. 662-617-
4088
TRUE GOSPEL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY — 2119 7th.
Ave. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Tuesday
SHELTON’S TOWING, INC.
Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie Edwards, Pastors. Since 1960
TRUE LIFE CHURCH — 435 Cedarcrest Dr. (corner of 24 Hour Towing
Yorkville and Cedarcrest), Sunday prayer 8:45 a.m., Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday prayer 6:30 p.m., Service 7:30 p.m.
1024 Gardner Blvd.
662-798-0259 328-8277
TRUE LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — 597 Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor.
TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES —
5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Francisco
Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252
UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTRIES
— 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus. Sunday Worship
8-9:30 a.m., 662-889-8711
VIBRANT CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday 8
a.m., 9:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Vibe Cafe 7 a.m.,
First Wednesday 7 p.m. Age 6 weeks through 5th grade,
Champions Club (special needs children). Jason Delgado,
Pastor. 662-329-2279
WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN CENTER —
2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis, Pastor. 662-230-3182
or mdavis43@hotmail.com
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
ST. CATHERINE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH —
725 4th Ave. N. Visit www.stcatherineorthodox.com for
schedule of services and updates on this Mission.
APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL
APOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North McCrary
Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny L.
Obsorne, Pastor.
DIVINE DESTINY APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 2601 14th Ave.
N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 12 p.m., Tuesday
Bible Class 7:30 p.m. Pastor Easter Robertson.
JESUS CHRIST POWERFUL MINISTRY OF LOVE — 1210
17th St. S., behind the Dept. of Human Resources. Sunday
School 10:30 a.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. Gloria Jones, Pastor.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 267 Byrnes
Circle. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor. 662-324-3539
THE ASSEMBLY IN JESUS CHRIST CHURCH — 1504
19th St. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:45 a.m. and
7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m.
THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL WORD — 106 22nd St.
S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
Bible Study 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 5 p.m. District Elder
Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234
THE GLORIOUS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Billy
Kidd Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.. Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m.
Ernest Thomas, Pastor.
VICTORY APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 6 6 Boyd Rd.,
Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Noon, Tuesday
Prayer 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Mildred
Spencer, Pastor. 662-341-5753
ONENESS PENTECOSTAL
NEW HOPE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 875 Richardson
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., 6 p.m.,
Tuesday 7 p.m. Jared Glover, Pastor. 662-251-3747 E-mail:
nhpccolumbus@yahoo.com
PENTECOSTAL
FAITH AND DELIVERANCE OUT REACH MINISTRIES —
118 S. McCrary Road, Suite 126. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Christian Women Meeting Friday
7 p.m.
LIVING FAITH TABERNACLE — Shelton St. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Youth Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Rev. James O. Gardner, Pastor.
LIVING WATER MINISTRIES — 622 28th St. N. Elder
Robert L. Salter, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 922 17th St.
N. Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.
Terry Outlaw, Pastor,
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 5580 Ridge Road.
1721 Hwy 45 N
Sunday School 10 a.m., Praise & Worship 10:45 a.m., ® Columbus, MS
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. G.E. Wiggins Sr., Pastor. 662.848.0919
UNITED PENTECOSTAL
CALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 5850 Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm
Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia. Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., In Style. In Reach. Sunday 1pm-5pm
Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, Pastor. 662-356-0202
TRINITY PLACE
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m.,
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-
1750 Offering independent living apartments, personal
PRESBYTERIAN
care/assisted living suites, and a skilled nursing home
BEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
— 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community. Rev. Tim
300 Airline Road • Columbus, MS • 327-6716
Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church School 11:15 “Our Bottom Line Is People”
a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615
Hunting • Fishing
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) — 515 Working Or Stepping Out — We Have A Complete
Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Line Of Clothing For You And Your Family
Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4 p.m. John
Richards, Pastor.
Oktibbeha County Co-Op
FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Check Out Our Boot & Cap Section
2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 662-323-1742
a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Bible Study 5 201 Pollard Rd., Starkville
p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Tue. 4 p.m.),
Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: Exercise
Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke Lawson,
Pastor. 662-328-2692
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt Rd.
Worship 10 a.m., Youth Group Sundays 11 a.m., Adult Choir
Wednesdays 6 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd Wednesdays 6
p.m. B.J. Chain, Pastor.
MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA) — Main
and 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:40 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday Fellowship Supper 5:30 p.m., Bible
Study 6 p.m. Rev. Todd Matocha, Pastor.
MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —
3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
SALVATION ARMY CHURCH
THE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy. 82
East. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m.,
Wednesday Men’s Fellowship, Women’s Fellowship 5:30
p.m., Thursday Character Building Programs 5:30 p.m.,
Majors Alan and Sheryl Phillips, Commanding Officers.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
COLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH —
301 Brooks Dr. Saturday Service 9 a.m., Sabbath School
10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Ray The McBryde Family
Elsberry, Pastor. 662-329-4311
SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th St. N.
1120 Gardner Blvd. • 328-5776
Saturday Sabbath School 9:30 a.m., Divine Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Roscoe Shields, Pastor. 662-327-
9729
APOSTOLIC CHURCH
TRUE FAITH DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES APOSTOLIC
CHURCH — 3632 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., • RECYCLING SINCE 1956 •
Sunday 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Specializing in industrial accounts
Noon, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-328-8176 973 Island Rd. 1-800-759-8570
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