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Starkville Dispatch Eedition 10-18-20
Starkville Dispatch Eedition 10-18-20
Starkville Dispatch Eedition 10-18-20
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penters for Christ, a local nonprofit
hen Julia Chavez walked that works with incarcerated women
into the Lowndes County who struggle with addiction.
Adult Detention Center It was an organization that
one Friday night in 2016, the sound worked with Chavez while she was
of the jail door clicking made her
in jail.
stomach flip, she said.
“Walking into the same room
Chavez remembered the sound
that I used to come to that had Bible
from the three months she spent
study and not being in a jumpsuit ...
in the jail three years before. The
it was emotional,” she said. “I can’t
Caledonia resident had been in and
even explain how good and how
out of detention facilities for much of
much grace and mercy that I felt. I
her adult life, and in January 2013,
knew in that moment that I was in
she was arrested for violating proba-
the will of God, and that this is what Garrick Hodge/Dispatch Staff
tion after she failed a drug test.
I wanted to do. This is why I had Caledonia resident Tamara Jacobs stands outside of her shop in Caledonia
But this night was different. Friday afternoon. She started local nonprofit Carpenters for Christ, which
been through everything that I went
Chavez had been clean and sober focuses on helping women continue to fight drug addiction after they have
since getting out of a Jackson reha- through. It was like all my pain and
suffering was down to this moment, been released from jail or rehab. The nonprofit plans soon to build a “clean
bilitation facility at the end of 2013. living home” to that end that can house up to six women who are trying to
And this time she wasn’t going to See CARPENTERS FOR CHRIST, 8A get back on their feet.
ASK RUFUS
Market
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er events.
“I’m just glad they
figured out a way to do
it since they canceled
Prairie Arts,” West Point
resident Donna Melcher
said.
West Point’s annu-
al Prairie Arts Festival
would have happened in
May but was canceled
due to the pandemic, as Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
were the Market Street Curtis Bilbo, right, drives a tractor pulling a makeshift
Festival in Columbus and train through a parking lot near West Point City Park
on Saturday. The train was a socially distant substitute
the Cotton District Arts
for the hayride usually offered at West Point’s annual
Festival in Starkville. Ad- Makin’ Hay Day, which combined with the city’s farmers’
ditionally, the city’s farm- market and the annual Prairie Arts Festival to create
ers’ market was limited to “Art in the Parking Lot,” event organizer Lisa Klutts said.
June and July.
Klutts is the Prairie
Arts Festival communi-
ty development director,
and she said the arts Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
festival and the farmers’ Cros Hathcock, center, and Mason Morton, both 2, examine the decorated gourds
market combined with on display Saturday at the “Art in the Parking Lot” outdoor market in West Point,
the annual “Makin’ Hay under the supervision of Cros’ mother, Amanda Hathcock, right, and Mason’s
grandmother Tammy Farr, second from left. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the
Day” to form Art in the market was the first show of the year for West Point resident Betty Sparrow, left,
Parking Lot. who paints and decorates all the gourds and donates some of the sales proceeds to
Makin’ Hay Day usu- cancer research.
ally includes games and
a hayride husband, Mike, live in Co-
in the West lumbus and usually make
Point City jewelry and scarves, but
Park, but they ventured into paper
both were crafting this year. She
inadvisable agreed with Sparrow
due to social that this year has been a
d i s t a nc i n g challenge for those in the
p r o t o c o l s . Klutts arts business, and she
The train called Art in the Park-
provided a similar activi- ing Lot “a jubilation” and
ty to the hayride but kept “a real blessing” after
people at a safe distance May’s Market Street Fes-
apart, Klutts said. tival was canceled in her
The event also fea- Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff hometown.
tured a hand sanitizing West Point Mayor Robbie Robinson, center, and his “(We’d been) trying to
booth and live music daughter Suzanne Pasisis, left, buy baked goods from work through other me-
from guitarist Paul Brady Hollie Unruh, right, at the “Art in the Parking Lot” out- dia, like Etsy, Instagram,
of Starkville. door market Saturday morning in West Point. Unruh is a Facebook and word of
West Point’s parks regular vendor at the city’s farmers’ market, which was
limited to June and July this year due to the ongoing mouth to try to find op-
are still closed, and mov- portunities,” Montgom-
ing all the activity to the COVID-19 pandemic. Saturday’s event combined the
market with the annual Makin’ Hay Day and Prairie Arts ery said.
street provided more Festival, and two dozen vendors displayed their art Klutts said Makin’
space for more vendors, and food products from socially distanced booths on Hay Day usually brings
since Makin’ Hay Day Commerce Street. the community together,
usually only has a dozen, and such events are espe-
Klutts said. She did not reached out,” she said. nates some of the sales cially important this year
advertise for vendors, but Two previous Prai- proceeds to cancer re-
in whatever format they
so many were interested rie Arts vendors, Betty search.
can be salvaged.
in participating that she Sparrow and Anita Mont- “We hadn’t had a show
“People want some-
had to turn some away gomery, said they were all year,” she said. “This
where to get out and shop
for the first time ever, she grateful when Art in the gave us an opportunity
Parking Lot arose as an to go out and see people, and be outdoors … where
said.
“I had to limit it to opportunity for business and to sell some (gourds) they also feel comfortable
(vendors) from the farm- and socializing. Sparrow, and actually support and safe,” she said.
ers’ market and a few of West Point, paints and West Point.”
from Prairie Arts who decorates gourds and do- Montgomery and her
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AREA OBITUARIES
COMMERCIAL DISPATCH She is survived by 2-2:30 p.m. prior to Alabama and John Rhoda Lawrence at First Pentecostal
OBITUARY POLICY her children, Cindy services at the ceme- Anthony Cummings Church of Caledo-
Obituaries with basic informa- ETHELSVILLE,
Johnson of Starkville, tery. Calvert Funeral of West Point; adopted Ala. — Rhoda Madge nia. Visitation will be
tion including visitation and
service times, are provided Patsy McReynolds of Home of West Point is daughter, Franzika Lawrence, 91, died Oct. from noon-2 p.m. at
free of charge. Extended Russellville, Alabama in charge of arrange- Zimmerman; siblings, 15, 2020, at Sanctuary the church. Lowndes
obituaries with a photograph, and Teresa Kinkennon ments. Kay Nordyke of Cleve- Hospice of Tupelo. Funeral Home of Co-
detailed biographical informa- of Brandon; siblings, Mrs. Cummings was land, Tennessee, Mary Funeral services will lumbus is in charge of
tion and other details families Anne Randle, Betty born Dec. 6, 1942, in Hurst of West Point, be at 2 p.m. Monday, arrangements.
may wish to include, are avail- McIlwain and Cathy Minter City, to the late Joe Hust of West Point
able for a fee. Obituaries must
Ishee; four grand- Lena Wilhite and Gro- and Charles Hurst of
be submitted through funeral
homes unless the deceased’s children; and six ver C. Hurst. She was Mullens, South Caroli-
body has been donated to great-grandchildren. formerly employed as na; six grandchildren;
science. If the deceased’s Memorials may be a restaurant owner and and seven great-grand-
body was donated to science, made to the Diabetes manager. children.
the family must provide official Foundation of MS, 800 In addition to her Pallbearers will be
proof of death. Please submit parents, she was Aaron Cummings,
Avery Blvd., Suite 100,
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Ridgeland, MS 39157. preceded in death by Bradley Cummings,
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submitted to the newspaper Ralph Jones Cummings; an infant mings, Chris Davis,
no later than 3 p.m. the day MACON — Ralph daughter, Lisa Gail Josh Myers, James Say-
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Funeral Services of
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the next day Monday through Macon.
Thursday; and on Friday by 3
p.m. for Sunday and Monday Clytee Wood
publication. For more informa- VERNON, Ala. —
tion, call 662-328-2471.
Clytee Pennington
Wood, 93, died Oct. 16,
Allan Tucker 2020, at North Missis-
STARKVILLE — sippi Medical Center of
Allan Tucker, 86, died Tupelo.
Oct. 16, 2020, at OCH A private family
Regional Medical funeral service will be
Center. held in Lamar Memo-
Arrangements are ry Gardens, with Jim
incomplete and will be Wright officiating.
announced by Lown- Mrs. Wood was born
Horace Tindal
des Funeral Home of May 15, 1927, in Lamar
Columbus. County, Alabama, to
the late James Lesley
Moderia Petty Pennington and Mary Horace Maynard Tindal, 82, of Macon,
STARKVILLE — Jane Lewis. She was Mississippi, “slipped the surly bonds of Earth . . .
Moderia McCormick formerly employed as and touched the face of God” on Friday, October
Petty, 93, died Oct. 16, a seamstress in the 9, 2020, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Columbus,
2020, at OCH Regional garment industry. Mississippi. He was surrounded by his wife of
Center. In addition to her 63 years, Ann and his two daughters, Lisan and
A graveside me- parents, she was pre- Pooh.
morial service will ceded in death by her A private graveside service was held Friday,
be at noon, Monday, husband, John R. Wood October 16, 2020, at 2:00 PM at Oddfellows
in Memorial Garden Jr.; and siblings, Trice Cemetery in Macon. In lieu of flowers, the
Park of Starkville. Pennington, Charles family requests memorials be made to First
Welch Funeral Home of Pennington and Pink United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 162, Macon,
Starkville is in charge Pennington. Mississippi 39341 or to St. Jude Children’s
Dispatch
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BIRNEY IMES SR. Editor/Publisher 1922-1947
THE NATION
Breaking news: Not everything is terrible
We devote a lot people shunned hos- Seven months on, some of — meaning deaths above what adults have reported increases
of mental energy pitals and routine those worries proved to be was experienced in those in depression, anxiety and
to things that are care. We thought we well-grounded, but many did months during the preceding substance abuse. Adolescents,
going wrong or needed thousands not. five years. About a third were on the other hand, are faring
could go wrong. more ventilators The stock market made attributed to causes other than better.
It’s human nature. than we could man- up all of its losses by August. COVID-19. According to a new report
As the sociobiolo- ufacture. That’s not to say the econo- Thanks to the efforts of from the Institute for Family
gists teach us, our We were con- my is in good shape. More frontline workers (who deserve Studies, teen mental health has
ancestors were not cerned that essen- than 163,000 businesses have more gratitude than they get), improved since the pandemic
the ones who heard tial services like closed, almost 98,000 of them public services like transpor- and associated lockdowns
a rustling in the electricity gener- permanently. That represents tation, electricity generation, began. Compared with 2018,
grass and figured, ation, water puri- real hardship for owners, food safety inspection, trash fewer adolescents described
“Eh, it’s probably Mona Charen fication and trash employees and customers. But collection, water purification themselves as depressed,
nothing.” We are collection might out of 32.5 million businesses and emergency services con- lonely or unhappy during the
descended from the ones who be affected, compounding the nationwide, that’s still a tiny tinued pretty much without a COVID-19 crisis. They report-
said: “What the hell was that? suffering and contributing even fraction. Unemployment re- hiccup. The lights stayed on. ed better sleep. In 2018, only
Could be a cobra. Better run more to the spread of disease. mains high at nearly 8%, but it The heat and electricity contin- 55% said they regularly slept
the other way.” Vigilance is our People hoarded canned has declined considerably from ued to function. Supermarkets 7 or more hours per night. In
default mode. goods, toilet paper, spaghetti, above 14% in March. remained open and remarkably 2020, it jumped to 84%. Teens
But seven months after bottled water and hand san- Prospects for a vaccine look well-stocked. There were short- are spending more time talking
the start of this plague, we itizer. (I hoarded coffee.) In promising. There will be set- ages here and there of various with their parents and sharing
shouldn’t lose sight of the March, we wondered whether backs — Johnson and Johnson commodities — yeast! Dijon a family dinner. A solid 53%
things that went more right fresh food or, in fact, any food halted one of its trials over mustard! — but nothing that reported feeling stronger and
than we expected. would be available in a week’s the weekend due to the unex- could be called hardship. Am- more resilient as a result of
Thinking back to the origins time. plained illness of one volunteer azon continued to deliver just the pandemic. Yet another IFS
of the pandemic in March, we There was a run on guns. — but the outlook for a widely about anything you wanted in report found that the enforced
were beset by fear. Would the This struck me, even at the available vaccine or vaccines record time. We did not experi- togetherness of the pandemic
tanking stock market be the time, as overwrought. People by the middle of 2021 remains ence a “Lord of the Flies”-style has improved marriages, with
harbinger of another Great feared that civil strife could good. social collapse requiring armed 58% saying it has made them
Depression? We expected mass be in the offing, and that they It turned out that ventilators defense of our pantries. appreciate their spouse more.
unemployment and cratering might have to defend their were not as crucial in treating What prolonged school As awful as it has been, this
businesses. We worried that supplies of ramen noodles and this virus as expected. closings will do to children is disease was not the apocalypse
our savings could be decimat- peanut butter from marauding Fears about the pandemic a great unknown, and there is we feared. Many aspects of our
ed. gangs. increasing deaths from other reason to think that teachers society proved more resilient
We feared that the virus We worried that the lock- causes appear to have been unions have exerted too much than we expected. That should
would be impossible to vacci- downs would result in a spike correct. A study published in power in this matter. inspire something we haven’t
nate against. in suicides and that school the Journal of the American As for depression, suicide felt much of lately — hope.
We believed it likely that closings would rob children Medical Association found that and other psychological effects Mona Charen is a Senior
the pandemic would increase and teenagers of education and in March and April, the U.S. ex- of the pandemic, the news is Fellow at the Ethics and Public
deaths from other causes as socialization. perienced 87,000 excess deaths mixed. Significant numbers of Policy Center.
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020 7A
Cheap thrills.
Go for a walk.
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Dog attack
Continued from Page 1A
searching for the third an ordinance that defines
dog. a “vicious dog” as one
No one has been arrest- “with a known propensity,
ed, and Watson said he tendency or disposition to
does not expect there to attack, when unprovoked,
be any arrests or charges. to cause injury or other-
The victim was treat- wise endanger the safety
ed at OCH Regional of human beings, domes-
Medical Center for non tic dogs, livestock or poul-
life-threatening injuries try.” A vicious dog that
and released Friday, OCH kills or severely injures
Director of Emergency a human “shall be imme-
Services Michael Hunt diately confiscated and
said. thereafter destroyed in an
OCSO is still investi- expeditious and humane
gating the origin of the manner.”
attack, but Watson said OCSO is responsible
to his knowledge the vic- for enforcing the ordi-
tim was walking down nance, and vicious dog
Chestnut Street when the cases are adjudicated in
dogs attacked, seemingly Oktibbeha County Justice
unprovoked. He declined Court. A judge and the
to say where the dogs are Oktibbeha County pros-
being kept. ecuting attorney will de-
Oktibbeha County has cide the dogs’ fate.
Lifestyles
Grant
LIFESTYLES EDITOR
Jan Swoope: 328-2471
THE DISPATCH n CDISPATCH.COM n SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020 n 9A
allows CPDC
to provide
free tuition
Main goal for MUW’s
Making music
Child and Parent
Development Center
during first round
of funding is to assist
young families during
the pandemic
MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
T
hanks to an emergency relief
grant, Mississippi Univer-
sity for Women’s Child
and Parent Development Center
(CPDC) will cover all tuition and
CPDC fees for families impacted by
COVID-19.
The CPDC recently received
$145,606 from the Governor’s
Emergency Education Relief
(GEER) Grant fund. Priority 1 of
GEER funding covers essential
emergency educational services Courtesy photo/Brooke Lammert
specifically for the early care and Young musicians get ready to open their kits and get to work building their own electric guitars Wednesday at The
education of very young children Idea Shop in Starkville. The three-part Build Your Own Guitar workshop will culminate in a community concert at 6
age 0-5. The main goal for CPDC p.m. Nov. 12 at Cadence Bank Plaza in Starkville.
during this first round of funding is
to assist young families during the
pandemic.
“The bulk of our families were
Next gen musicians join the ‘maker
hit hard by the pandemic. They
were out of work and unpaid and
they are still catching up. Then
movement’ and build their own
their lower-cost provider didn’t re- BY JAN SWOOPE
open when they went back to work, jswoope@cdispatch.com
so they had to make hard choices
S
to switch caregivers. We were able am Shmulsky likes rock —
to help them as a CCAIR site with Led Zeppelin, Bush, Oasis
their first 90 days of childcare and a host of others. The
fully paid and now we have GEER Starkville High senior has been
to cover the next 90,” said Penny playing guitar since he was 9.
Mansell, CPDC director. When the opportunity to make his
CPDC had many families who own electric guitar recently opened
were covered for 90 days by the up, the 17-year-old jumped at it.
Mississippi Child Care Assistance
“I love guitar,” he said. “It’s
in Response Plan (CCAIR) from
really an escape; it relieves a ton of
the Mississippi Department of
stress. I love music.”
Human Services. As the emergen-
Sam and eight others who think
cy coverage for families expired,
a lot like him gathered Wednesday
Mansell was concerned about how
low-income and at-risk families for the first of three guitar-building
would handle switching back to sessions at The Idea Shop in down-
paying for childcare. town Starkville. They are just the
“All of our CPDC families type of enthusiasts Jeffrey Rupp
had at least one member of their and the Mississippi State Universi-
household that were essential. We ty Center for Entrepreneurship and Courtesy photo/Brooke Lammert
Outreach were hoping for. Rupp is Sam Shmulsky, 17, tries out Jeffrey Rupp’s Gibson ES-339 guitar at the
surveyed our families and realized Build Your Own Guitar workshop session at The Idea Shop in Starkville
that all our families had lost child- the center’s director of outreach Wednesday. Sam, a Starkville High senior, is the son of Rubin and Fatima
care due to mandatory shutdowns — a musician and guitar devotee Shmulsky of Starkville.
and were at risk if there were addi- himself. The Build Your Own
tional childcare closures,” Mansell Guitar workshop, made possible by is located in a 2,000-square-foot memberships are available. From
added. a grant from International Paper, space at 114 E. Main St. It houses 6-year-olds painting pumpkins to
GEER will cover all tuition and was his brainchild, one imminently the Turner A. Wingo Maker Studio, weekly woodworking sessions for
CPDC fees for families who accept suited to the Idea Shop. a “makerspace” with design work- couples, The Idea Shop is meant
the GEER based seat for approx- Opened in spring 2019 and oper- stations, 3D printers, electronics for creativity. For the next two
imately four months. This means ated in partnership by the universi- workbench, wood, polymer and Wednesdays, that includes building
on average CPDC families can ty’s College of Business and School metal prototyping equipment and guitars.
save around $2,500 per child. The of Human Sciences, The Idea Shop more. It’s open to the public, and See GUITAR WORKSHOP, 10A
remainder of the funds will cover
materials to improve the quality of
See TUITION GRANT, 10A
Columbus library
offers remote access
to ancestry.com
SPECIAL TO THE DISPATCH Ancestry.com is a subscrip-
tion based online database
T
he Columbus-Lowndes containing over 10 billion
Public Library System historical records such as the
(CLPL) is now providing United States Census from
patrons with remote access to 1790-1940; immigration records;
the online genealogy database vital records such as birth, mar-
Ancestry.com. That means that riage, and death certificates;
patrons will now be able to access and much more. More records
it from home or wherever they are added every day. There
have internet. are exceptions, however, as
Due to the current COVID-19 some records have not yet been
Courtesy photo pandemic, ProQuest, the compa- digitized, restrictions based on
LIAM’S WISH: Make-A-Wish recipient Liam Lamb of Starkville, to Mississippi State ny through which the CLPL sub- certain laws, or records that no
mascot Bully’s left, visited Heritage Academy Oct. 8 as the HA Class of 2021 kicked off scribes to Ancestry.com, is allow- longer exist due to events such
its senior service project of granting the 5-year-old’s wish to go to Disney World. Liam’s ing public libraries to offer library as a fire.
sister, Eden Della Lamb, is on Bully’s right. Behind them are HA Senior Class President card holding patrons remote To learn more about how to
Carly Rogers, SGA President McKenzie Rhett, MSU Spirit Squad members and HA senior
football players Sam Hannon and Jackson Smith. In addition to raising funds for the fam- access to the database. Since the access CLPL’s Ancestry.com,
ily’s trip, HA students will interact with the Lambs all year, including presenting a Hallow- pandemic is ever-changing, this call Mona Vance-Ali at 662-329-
een parade past Liam’s home. Donations to the service project may be made at site.wish. offer will remain in effect until 5304 or email mvance@lowndes.
org/goto/heritageacademy. further notice. lib.ms.us.
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Guitar workshop
Continued from Page 9A
“We pushed this the Gibson Foundation The Idea Shop can be. Hill noted that the
to all public, private, donated T-shirts, bags “I think it’s really cool; Build Your Own Guitar
faith-based and other swag to the I didn’t know it existed,” project is the first of its
schools group. the Starkville High junior particular kind hosted
and home- In their first work said. He began playing at The Idea Shop — one
schools, session, the young mu- guitar three years ago taking place on multiple
where sicians selected and ap- and is a fan of ’90s rock. days and with a signifi-
students plied wood finishes to the He expects to finish up cant event, the concert,
could fill out bodies and necks of the the project with “a cool tied to it.
an applica- instruments and attached new guitar and a new The initiative, in fact,
tion,” Rupp Rupp those pieces together. experience.” “checks all the boxes,”
explained “Next Wednesday, Rupp said. That fueled
about the workshop, we’re really going to be Community concert his drive to make sure it
which entails a $50 fee. starting with our hard- To cap off the gui- happened.
Nine junior and senior ware,” said Sam, who tar-building journey, “You’ve got some
high school students plans to attend MSU after Rupp is putting together woodworking, some basic
were randomly selected high school graduation. a community concert. electronics, soldering
to participate. Limited “It’s so awesome. We Workshop participants and an artistic (element),
slots precluded all ap- get to do all this togeth- will debut their new and then you have a
plicants from being able er. If we mess up, it’s instruments as they play community performance,
to join up, but Rupp has fine ‘cause it’s our own alongside seasoned musi- which brings folks down-
high hopes of presenting guitar. We get to express cians Rupp is recruiting town,” he said. “And the
the workshop again in ourselves. We get to meet for the performance. fact that I love guitars
2021. new people, and we’re “They’ll rehearse didn’t hurt.”
“This was Jeffrey’s really all having a lot of with the pros, and we’ll Editor’s note: Learn
baby, and I love it be- fun. I’m really thankful have a public concert more about The Idea Shop
cause I and fortunate.” Thursday, Nov. 12 at 6 and the MSU Center for
think it’s Rain Sesser, 16, like p.m. at the Cadence Bank Entrepreneurship and
inspiring other participants, is Plaza on Main Street (in Outreach at ecenter.
Courtesy photo/Brooke Lammert
the right Rain Sesser, 16, does some sanding on the body of his learning what a resource Starkville),” Rupp said. msstate.edu.
age group to guitar in progress Wednesday at The Idea Shop. Rain
be think- is a junior at Starkville High and is the son of Brandon
ing about, and Amy Sesser of Starkville.
hey, not
everything Hill something; they’re learn- Wednesday as nine ap-
comes from ing a wide range of skills prentice guitar-builders
a shelf in and doing it in a way opened their StewMac
Walmart,” said Eric Hill, that’s fun, and that’s cool (Stewart-MacDonald)
director of the Center to me.” kits and got a first look at
for Entrepreneurship. the makings of what will
“It gets them exposed Out of the box become their Les Paul-
to skills it takes to make Anticipation ran high style guitars. As a bonus,
Courtesy photo
ADVOCACY IN ACTION: Hailey Pushis of Columbus, a sophomore honors student
at Heritage Academy and the 2020 USA National Miss Junior Teen, is pictured with
Mississippi First Lady Elee Reeves at the Governors Mansion recently with a Chronic
Migraine Awareness Month Proclamation signed by Gov. Tate Reeves. Pushis’
platform is raising chronic migraine awareness. She will represent Mississippi Nov.
22-28 in Orlando, Florida, at the USA National Miss Pageant.
Thursday through
CALENDAR Shackouls Honors College Community Theatre reads this
presents “A Halloween Feast classic at 6 p.m., Fire Station
Saturday, Oct. 22-24 with Senaca’s Oedipus” online
at honors.msstate.edu and
Park in Starkville, at Lampkin
and Russell Streets.
Welty Writers’ Sympo- broadcast on MSU’s radio
sium — Former U.S. poet station 91.1 FM and EMCC’s
laureate Natasha Trethewey 92.7. Times TBA. Now
and many more writers are Art faculty exhibit —
featured in The W’s virtual
symposium. visit muw.edu/ Thursday, Oct. 29 Through Oct. 23, The W hosts
a Faculty Biennial Exhibition,
welty for details and link for Loaves & Fishes — This Summer Hall on campus.
live-streamed events. Community Soup Kitchen fund- Weekdays 8 a.m.-5 p.m., free.
raiser features pork loin take- bajoyce@muw.edu.
Saturday, Oct. 24 out meals, $15 or two for $25,
from First United Methodist
Fiber arts exhibit —
Book signing — Carolyn Through Oct. 27, The W hosts
Church Family Life Center, 602 “Threads: A Survey of Fiber
Haines and Miranda James College St. City limits delivery
sign copies of their new Art,” Summer Hall on campus.
available. Tickets at Columbus Weekdays 8 a.m.-5 p.m., free.
books, 2 p.m., Columbus Arts Arts Council, FUMC, other
Council, 501 Main St. bajoyce@muw.edu.
churches. 662-425-6408.
Virtual exhibit —
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Monday through Friday, Oct. 30 Area Arts Council hosts a vir-
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Saturday, Oct. 26-31 “War of the Worlds” World: Mabbeline Nichols,” at
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care and education offered by CPDC. are at risk of delaying, or have delayed,
“Childcare centers were hit hard a job search due to unexpected child-
during the pandemic. We operate with care responsibilities. Priority is given to
razor-thin margins already. When we children of essential workers.
reopened the first of June the landscape Based on the information from the
of childcare was completely different. survey, CPDC requested funding for 40
The costs and new needs for safety and GEER seats, the maximum allowed.
lower ratios due to COVID-19, along The grant was written and will be
with fewer families, have hit everyone in managed with the assistance of Me-
childcare nationwide,” said Mansell. linda Lowe, director of Outreach and
To qualify, children must be in full- Innovation at The W. “We are excited
time care and parents should: 1) have to be able to help and serve our CPDC
lost access to their regular childcare families. The pandemic has put a spot-
arrangements; 2) cannot afford available light on young families and the need for
childcare within their county; 3) are quality childcare. The whole country
at risk of experiencing, or have experi- now knows that childcare is essential
enced, negative job impacts due to unex- both for the workforce and our future,”
pected childcare responsibilities; or 4) said Lowe.
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With both offenses sty- promptly burst through “We didn’t pick up yards down the Caledonia PHS — Maffett 28 FG
it’s like I tell these kids, it CHS — Darrius Triplett 13 run (pass failed)
ain’t about me,” he said. mied for much of the first the Caledonia defensive a couple stunts, and I sideline for the Warriors’ PHS — Whitfield 57 run (Maffett kick)
Third quarter
“It’s not (about) my leg. 18 minutes of play Friday, line and into the second- thought that got us out third score of more than PHS — Cameron Chunn 35 fumble recovery (Maffett
kick)
I’m going to be OK, and the teams combined for ary, outpacing a gaggle of rhythm,” Kelly said. 35 yards. PHS — Jordan Ball 55 run (Maffett kick)
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Hodge Rogers
Lane Kiffin’s demeanor
after the game was ex-
pected.
“Had we not screwed Continued from Page 1B Continued from Page 1B
all that up early, we’re up
by three or four scores,” Leach, it doesn’t sound solid and provided a de- especially a true fresh- time in as many weeks. quarterbacks in yards per
Kiffin said. “You can’t like he’s going to get a fensive score that some man at his age, have be- “At the end of the attempt.
turn the ball over like chance to lose his job for talented video editor fore,” Leach said. day, we’ve got to execute Speaking with the me-
that and expect to win.” a third time when MSU should supplement with Back on the sidelines, in crucial situations,” dia postgame, Leach re-
Kiffin stuck with Cor- faces Alabama in two a laugh track. there was a noticeable Costello said after a vealed Costello and Rog-
ral and the sophomore weeks after a bye week. Emmanuel Forbes shift in demeanor along Week 2 loss to Arkansas. ers split first team reps
There was no running will forever thank his the MSU bench upon “When it’s third-and-
nearly led a comeback. throughout the week, but
game to speak of yet Rogers’ substitution. short, fourth-and-3 (or)
Corral threw for 200 lucky stars after a foot- didn’t offer much insight
again, as the Bulldogs Arriving back near the when it’s fourth-and-1, I
yards and two scores, ball bounced off A&M into whether Costello will
accumulated negative metal bleachers near the have to take care of the
which came late in the quarterback Kellen remain the starter going
rushing yardage against offensive staff, Walley football, bottom line. It’s
third quarter and early in Mond’s wide receiver forward. Heading into a
offered him a high-five, that simple. I’ve got to
the fourth to pull within the Aggies. A large por- 10 yards in pinball style bye week before a road
while others patted him take care of the football,
20-14. tion of this statistic can right into the defender’s date with No. 2 Alabama
on his back seconds af- take what the defense
But Arkansas sopho- be attributed to the num- arms for a 60-yard touch- ter his first career touch- gives me and move the in Tuscaloosa, the 19th-
more Treylon Burks an- ber of sacks allowed, but down return. down throw. ball one play at a time.” year head coach did note
swered on the ensuing there was nothing there While A&M run- Inches away, Costel- Playing behind an the time off would allow
drive. Burks, who missed all day. lo sat perched along the MSU offensive line that
ning back Isaiah Spiller him a chance to reevalu-
last week’s game at Au- Maybe a standout aluminum bench along- leaked more frequently
torched the MSU front ate the quarterback posi-
burn, caught a one-hand- running back could have side Mitchell. With his than a cracked pipe, Rog-
ed touchdown pass in the seven for 114 yards on 18 tion.
helped. Mississippi State arms spread across the ers’ 15-of-18, 120-yard
corner of the end zone. carries, Mond was held “We’ll just see what
has one of those in Kylin chair back almost loung- night bordered on immac-
He managed to place relatively in check, only happens,” Leach said.
Hill, but for whatever ing, there was a defeated ulate given the Bulldog
one foot inside the end passing for 139 yards on “We have to go out there
reason, the Columbus look in his posture. In a offense mustered just 217
zone before falling out of 23 attempts. and have two good weeks
native was unavailable. season that began with yards in all. By contrast,
bounds. None of that made a of practice and see where
Not only was Hill not in highs of Heisman hype Costello finished his day
Burks finished with 11 difference, though, as and national recognition, as the nation’s leader in it’s at. I did think Will
uniform, but the SEC’s
catches for 137 yards and leading rusher from a the defense could only he’d been relegated to a interceptions and rank- showed a lot of compo-
added another 46 yards watch as its offense clipboard for the second ing 51st of 69 eligible sure out there.”
year ago wasn’t even
rushing on four carries. turned in three-and-out
present at Davis Wade
Feleipe Franks was 21-of- after three-and-out and
34 passing for 244 yards
with a touchdown and an
Stadium on Saturday.
Leach said Hill wasn’t
available Saturday and
turned the ball over for
the 16th time in 16 quar-
Mullen joins players in testing positive for virus
interception for Arkan- ters. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS test. The 10th-ranked Ga- Two assistant coaches
sas. doesn’t know when he’ll
The good news is the tors had at least 21 players also tested positive for
“The drive when it was be available going for- GAINESVILLE, Fla.
Bulldogs now have a bye and coaches test positive the highly contagious vi-
20-14 was huge,” Pittman ward. Well, OK, then. — Florida coach Dan Mul-
week to re-evaluate their earlier this week, an out- rus.
said. “Treylon, what a While Leach’s offense len, who last week wanted break that prompted the Mullen is the sec-
continues to sputter and program. The bad news 90,000 fans packed inside
great catch he had in the Southeastern Conference ond SEC head coach,
corner. What a wonder- “be behind where he is 1-4 is a near certain- the stadium amid a pan- to postpone Florida’s next along with Alabama icon
ful catch, an outstand- hoped it would be,” de- ty with No. 2 Alabama demic, says he has tested two games. Nick Saban, to contract
ing catch he made. That fensive coordinator Zach looming in two weeks. positive for COVID-19. With potentially doz- COVID-19 and the fifth
drive was huge.” Arnett’s defense contin- Leach said Saturday The former Mississip- ens more quarantined be- overall known this season
And while the fourth- ued to be the lone bright that program success pi State coach made the cause of contract tracing, in major-college football,
down failures early spot in an otherwise doesn’t happen over- announcement Saturday Florida (2-1) would have joining Florida State’s
stalled the Rebels, the dreary afternoon. MSU’s night. But time is run- on Twitter, saying his had fewer than 50 schol- Mike Norvell, Arizona’s
conversions late kept defense at least did ES- ning out to see it at all in initial positive result was arship players available Kevin Sumlin and Kan-
them around. PN’s viewing auidence a 2020. confirmed by a second to face LSU on Saturday. sas’ Les Miles.
Dear Abby
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EAR ABBY: My husband and me that the family dog they’d had middle. Period. And let your husband know what would cheer her up and bring back fond memo-
I have been together since for 15 years passed away and you’ve done. ries for her. Mom died a few years later.
we were 21, and he has asked me to tell him. I told her Will this endear you to her? Definitely not. I wrote a note to the person who lived at the
always had a distant relationship what time he could be reached, But the individuals who need to heal the rela- property — whom I never had met — telling her
with his parents. I encouraged but instead of taking my sugges- tionship between your husband’s parents and how much joy her flowers had brought to Mom
him during the first few years of tion, she asked me again. I ended their son are the three of them, not you. and thanking her for making my mother’s final
our marriage to call them and up telling him. DEAR ABBY: My parents met when they days brighter. Abby, I am writing now to share
visit. I stopped doing that after It wasn’t my responsibility were 14. They married at 18, raised four boys that even in the darkest times, a little beauty
his mom and I had some choice to do that, and I’m irritated with and had an incredible marriage. When Mom can make a world of difference. — GRATEFUL
words. myself that I can’t be frank about was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, they carried SON IN ARIZONA
how she and his dad need to on as best they could with Dad providing her
If he wants a relationship with DEAR GRATEFUL SON: What you have writ-
contact their son. Any suggestions care. Sadly, Dad was diagnosed with terminal
them, that is up to him. The prob- ten is true. Music can have the same effect on
would be helpful. — FINDING A lung cancer, so they moved in with me, and I
lem is, when she tries to call and BACKBONE IN PENNSYLVANIA quit working to care for them. Dad died three patients with Alzheimer’s disease. My mother
text with typically no response DEAR FINDING: It may take months later. Obviously, Mom was devastated had Alzheimer’s for many years, and my brother
from him, she reaches out to me. courage, but the next time your in addition to being confused about why Dad and I provided her with music from her era —
We have two daughters, so I don’t Dear Abby mother-in-law tries to make you was no longer there. Pearl Bailey, the Andrews Sisters, etc. — to
mind sharing with her how they her messenger, tell her that what Mom and I often took walks through my help her pass the time. Toward the end, singing
are doing. What I object to is her she’s asking makes you uncomfortable and that neighborhood, and at one house in particular a song from her youth to her brought her back
occasionally asking me to pass on messages she needs to convey the information herself — she would comment on the pretty flowers in to me for a precious moment, and it, too, made
to my husband. I’m a working mom of two, and by either texting her son or emailing. If, after the yard and how she and Dad enjoyed planting a world of difference. Thank you for your letter
I don’t have time to be anyone else’s secretary. that, she says she can’t get through to him, flowers every year. No matter how agitated or and for taking me on my own trip down memory
The icing on the cake came when she informed point out that you no longer want to be in the upset she was, seeing that neighbor’s yard lane.
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 18). TAURUS (April 20-May 20). So their unfortunate peculiarities? problem-solving sense that heralds it’s not about looking good; it’s about
While it doesn’t appeal to you it goes, in art and in life, that some LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The habit from a deep and primal place inside feeling good. Movement is personal
celebrate your birthday in pomp and boundaries are drawn in ink and oth- to lose now isn’t a terribly big one; you. expression, and you’ll be playful in
splendor, this solar return does bring ers are drawn in emptiness. Without it’s a small, weird, repetitive action SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). this regard, enjoying what it is to be a
unexpected attention and luxuries space, there is no form. Without that just isn’t adding anything to your Much will depend on focusing on the physical creature.
your way. Don’t turn them down! Your silence, there is no sound. No answer life. Nix that one to make room for right conversational topic or theme AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
excellent stewardship of these cos- is an answer. the zephyrs of good fortune to blow interactions or projects. You might You don’t take things on because
mic gifts leads to sweet and loving GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It has through. not find it right away. Be like a pros- you know how to do them. You take
ties, satisfying intellectual challenge, taken a while, but you’re starting to VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You pector, digging here and there until
things on because you don’t know
and meaningful work. Taurus and see that what you choose to do, and feel a great deal of enthusiasm for you strike gold.
how to do them, and the way to find
Capricorn adore you. Your lucky num- the way you do it, is not easily dupli- a subject and yet will be reticent to SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
bers are: 22, 4, 48, 17 and 39. cated and actually sort of amazing. show it if you see there’s a chance of 21). Shoes in the house or no? Like out is to take things on.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). As Self-props are called for. overwhelming others or making your- so many of life’s choices, neither is PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Why
for the smart, generous, insightful CANCER (June 22-July 22). Peo- self stand out too much. Temperance more correct, though one may be the exuberance? It seems to come
people at the core of your inner ple who bore and annoy you needn’t is social grace. more preferred. For the sake of social for no reason, but indeed, part of you
circle, some you know, some you be avoided today and should be LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The ease, follow the customs of ones you understands that these small acts
haven’t met yet. Dedicate more time studied instead. What are they doing natural remedy will call to you. This are with. are the seeds of greatness. Share
to following your interests and you’ll that repels you so? Do you perhaps, isn’t about an essential oil or flower CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). your joy, and it will compound and
find them. to some small degree, share any of essence; it’s about responding to a As the truly beautiful dancers know, have lasting effects.
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he Lord is in what He says ple say things that will upset is stayed on thee; because he perceive or comprehend. “For
our keeper, He will do for us. us especially when we haven’t trusteth in thee.” (Isaiah 26:3) he shall give his angles charge
and He can We can always said anything to them. How- K JV over thee, to keep thee in all
keep us in whatever depend on Him to ever, we can do it with the help n He keeps us from falling. thy ways.” (Psalm 91:11) K JV
ways we need Him make us strong so of God. All we have to do is say All glory goes to God! He is So be encouraged today and
to keep us. He’s a we can overcome this prayer, “Set a watch, O able to keep us from falling always remember: the Lord is
watchful keeper; the attacks of the Lord, before my mouth; keep into temptations, sins, troubles our keeper and He will keep
He keeps us on a evil one. He will the door of my lips.” (Psalm and mistakes, and brings us us safe at all times. “The Lord
twenty-four hour also keep us safe 141:3) K JV into His glorious presence is thy keeper: the Lord is thy
guard duty protect- from satan by not n He keeps us in perfect without a single fault with shade upon thy right hand.”
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Not only does He Sherry Ivy defeat or do any in the Lord and keep our that is able to keep you from Minister Sherry Ivy is a
not sleep, but He harm to us. “But minds focused on Him, He will falling, and to present you Minister of The New Providence
does not so much the Lord is faithful, keep us in perfect peace. Even faultless before the presence of M. B. Church (Healing & Yoke
as slumber. “Behold, he that and he will strengthen you and in the midst of what we are his glory with exceeding joy.” Destroying Ministry) in Macon
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slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm (2 Thessalonians 3:3) NIV and confusion that is going n He keeps us safe in all ership of her husband, Pastor
121:4) KJV n He keeps us from talking on around us, He will give us our ways. God has command Willie J. Ivy Sr. You can contact
n He keeps us safe from the when we need to be quiet. It’s peace. “Thou wilt keep him His angels to guard us and her via email at minsivy@
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