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MDAH grants to help with repairs at Tennessee

Williams, Lee homes, Noxubee County library
Department is giving more than $260K to local projects
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com
By their nature, “historic” buildings
are susceptible to the ravages of time and
weather. By their designation, repairs ar-
en’t cheap.
On Friday, the Mississippi Department
of Archives and History awarded almost $3
million in grants, ranging from $25,600 to
$277,154, for 18 projects, including two in
Columbus and another in Macon.
The grants are funded each year by the
Legislature under the MDAH Community
The Tennessee Williams
Home on Main Street in
Columbus was one of three
Heritage Preservation program.
area recipients of Missis-
In Columbus, MDAH awarded $25,600 sippi Department of Ar-
to repair the front porch roof at the Ste- chives and History Commu-
phen D. Lee Home and $35,000 to rebuild nity Heritage Preservation
the front porch at the Tennessee Williams program. From the grants,
Home and Visitors Center. In Noxubee $35,000 will be used to
County, MDAH awarded $200,044 to re- repair the home’s porch,
place the clay tile and make exterior repairs $25,600 will be used for
to the Noxubee County Library in Macon. projects at the Stephen D.
Lee Home in Columbus,
All three buildings are listed on the Nation- and $200,044 will be used
al Register of Historic Places and are des- for roof and other repairs
ignated Mississippi Landmarks. All grants at the Noxubee County
require a 20-percent match. Library in Macon.
See GRANTS, 6A visitcolumbusms.org

Clay Co. man STEPPING TO HIS GOAL

charged with
murdering niece
Suspect lived in same
home as adult victim
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT

A Clay Coun-
ty man has been
charged with mur-
der after allegedly
killing his niece.
Deputies with
Clay County Sher-
iff’s Office arrested
Darryl Larry, 60, Larry
late Monday after they respond-
ed to a call at his home on White
Station Road and discovered the
victim, Summer Larry, 27, in the
house, according to a CCSO press
release Tuesday. Clay County Cor-
oner Alvin Carter pronounced
Summer Larry deceased at the
home.
The investigation is ongoing,
but preliminary findings show
Summer Larry’s cause of death
See MURDER, 6A

Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff

Julian Gardner, 14, makes his way down the ramp after therapy. “We worked on getting in the car by myself today,” Julian
said. The goal is to get his steps higher. Julian enjoys therapy. He is the son of Ted and Angela Gardner.

Noxubee Co.
man charged
with shooting at MUW offers allergen-free, health-focused dining options
Tuscaloosa police Student survey showed demand for more
variety, dietary accommodations
Suspect, two officers BY TESS VRBIN shellfish and peanuts, re-
treated for injuries tvrbin@cdispatch.com spectively — said they are
curious about Simple Serv-
obtained in shootout Audrey Robinson and Ele-
na Eaton don’t have trouble
ings’ offerings.
“I definitely tend to eat
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN avoiding their food allergies
the same unhealthy burger
ialtman@cdispatch.com in the dining hall, they said.
or pizza every day, so it’ll
Both are juniors at the
A man wanted Mississippi School for Math- be nice to have a little more
in Columbus and ematics and Science on the protein and better options,”
Macon has been Mississippi University for Robinson said.
charged with mul- Women campus, and both Sodexo, MUW’s food ser-
tiple counts of at- Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
schools share the Hogarth vice provider, already offered
tempted murder in Maria Hinton, right, a food service employee at Hogarth Din- some Simple Servings dish-
Dining Center, which intro-
ing Center, serves lunch to information technology employee es but instituted a larger sta-
Alabama after Tus- duced a completely aller-
Carla Lowery at the allergen-free Simple Servings food station
caloosa police say Mississippi University for Women introduced Tuesday. Lowery gen-free food station called tion with more variety after
he shot at multiple Farmer said she does not have food allergies but appreciates Simple Simple Servings on Tuesday. a student survey expressed
officers at an apart- Servings’ healthy options, since her job requires her to sit at Robinson and Eaton — demand for it, said Kelsey
See SHOOTOUT, 6A a desk most of the time. who are mildly allergic to See MUW, 3A

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same team in the 1990s and
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Democrats prep Biden’s virus aid

package with or without GOP
Package includes money for vaccine distribution,
school reopenings and $1,400 direct payments
to households and gradually boosts the federal
minimum wage to $15 an hour over five years
BY LISA MASCARO AND JOSH BOAK
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Dem-
ocrats are preparing to push ahead
quickly on President Joe Biden’s
$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief pack-
age even if it means using proce-
dural tools to pass the legislation
on their own, leaving Republicans
behind.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer told senators to be ready
to vote as soon as next week on a
budget reconciliation package that
would lay the groundwork for swift
passage. Coming so soon in Biden’s
administration, the action provides
a first test of Republican opposition
to the White House priorities as
well as to the new president’s prom-
ise of a “unity” agenda.
“The work must move forward,
preferably with our Republican
colleagues, but without them if we
must,” Schumer said after a private
meeting of Democratic senators.
“Time is of the essence to ad-
dress this crisis. We’re keeping all
options open on the table.”
Unwilling to wait for Republi-
cans who argue Biden’s price tag
is too high and his priorities too
wide-ranging, Democrats are flex-
ing their newfound power as they
take control of the Senate alongside
the House and White House.
It is the first time in a decade
the party has held the full sweep of
power in Washington, and Demo-
crats say they have no time to waste
trying to broker compromises with
Republicans that may, or may not,
happen. They have watched Repub-
licans use similar procedural tools
to advance their priorities, most re-
cently the Trump administration’s
GOP tax cuts.
The fast-moving events days into
the new majority on Capitol Hill
come as the White House contin-
ued meeting privately with groups
of Republican and Democratic law-
makers in hopes of striking a bipar-
tisan agreement. Biden’s COVID-19
aid package includes money for
vaccine distribution, school reopen-
ings and $1,400 direct payments to
households and gradually boosts
the federal minimum wage to $15
an hour over five years.
The next steps remain highly
fluid.
The bipartisan Problem Solvers
Caucus of more than 50 House law-
makers had a “productive meeting
and constructive conversation”
Tuesday with top administration
officials on the virus aid and eco-
nomic recovery package, accord-
ing to a statement from Rep. Josh
Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Rep. Tom
Reed, R-N.Y., who co-chair the
group.
A White House official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity
to discuss the virtual conversation
with the caucus, said there was
agreement on the scope of the chal-
lenges facing the country and the
need for additional relief. Biden and
other members of his team intend
to continue making their case to
lawmakers about the need to act
with urgency.

Biden orders Justice Dept. to end use of private prisons

President Biden: U.S. government needs to change ‘its
whole approach’ on the issue of racial equity
BY A AMER MADHANI
The Associated Press
President Joe Biden
on Tuesday ordered the
Department of Justice to
end its reliance on private
prisons and acknowledge
the central role govern-
ment has played in imple-
menting discriminatory
housing policies.
In remarks before
signing the orders, Biden
said the U.S. government
needs to change “its whole
approach” on the issue
of racial equity. He add-
ed that the nation is less
prosperous and secure
because of the scourge of
systemic racism.
“We must change
now,” the president said.
“I know it’s going to take
time, but I know we can
do it. And I firmly believe
the nation is ready to
change. But government
has to change as well.”
Biden rose to the pres-
idency during a year of in-
tense reckoning on insti-
tutional racism in the U.S.
The moves announced
Tuesday reflect his efforts
to follow through with
campaign pledges to com-
bat racial injustice.
Beyond calling on the
Justice Department to
curb the use of private
prisons and address hous-
ing discrimination, the
new orders will recommit
the federal government to
undermined fair housing
policies and laws.
Months before the
November election, the
respect tribal sovereign- Trump administration
ty and disavow discrimi- rolled back an Obama-era
nation against the Asian rule that required com-
American and Pacific munities that wanted to
Islander community over receive HUD funding to
the coronavirus pandem- document and report pat-
ic. terns of racial bias.
Biden directed the De- The order to end the
partment of Housing and reliance on privately-run
Urban Development in prisons directs the attor-
a memorandum to take ney general not to renew
steps to promote equita- Justice Department con-
ble housing policy. The tracts with privately op-
memorandum calls for erated criminal detention
HUD to examine the ef- facilities.
fects of Trump regulato-
ry actions that may have

GOP signals
unwillingness to
part with Trump
after riot
BY STEVE PEOPLES
AND JILL COLVIN
The Associated Press

PALM BEACH, Fla. —

Donald Trump has lost his
social media megaphone,
the power of government
and the unequivocal sup-
port of his party’s elected
leaders. But a week after
leaving the White House
in disgrace, a large-scale
Republican defection that
would ultimately purge
him from the party ap-
pears unlikely.
Many Republicans re-
fuse to publicly defend
Trump’s role in sparking
the deadly insurrection
at the U.S. Capitol. But as
the Senate prepares for
an impeachment trial for
Trump’s incitement of the
riot, few seem willing to
hold the former president
accountable.
After House Republi-
cans who backed his im-
peachment found them-
selves facing intense
backlash — and Trump’s
lieutenants signaled the
same fate would meet oth-
ers who joined them —
Senate Republicans voted
overwhelmingly Tuesday
for an attempt to dismiss
his second impeachment
trial. Only five Republican
senators rejected the chal-
lenge to the trial.
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MSU giving hundreds of completion grants to Starkville teen

financially needy students nearing graduation
Undergraduates will receive $1,000 grants each,
designed to help them cross ‘finish line’
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
ialtman@cdispatch.com
Hundreds of Mississippi State
University undergraduates will re-
ceive an extra $1,000 from the uni-
versity designed to help them make
ends meet during their final year
before graduation.
MSU announced its first com-
pletion grants Tuesday, given to
students in financial need who have
completed at least 75 percent of
their credit hours and are within a
year of graduation.
“Our goal had been to look at
those students that were experi-
encing financial chal-
lenges in the last two
semesters of college
and wondering how
we could better sup-
port those students
so they could meet
the goal of college
graduation,” said Daniels
John Daniels, finan-
cial literacy coordinator with the
university’s student financial aid
office. “As with COVID, we realized
that oftentimes those needs were
amplified. Not only were the needs
amplified, but we began to find out
more funding opportunities relat-
ed to COVID relief and programs
through the governor’s office that
we wanted to participate in so that
we could get these funds to the stu-
dents that needed them in a timely
fashion.”
The grants are funded through
a four-year, $200,000 grant from
Woodward Hines Educational
Foundation, which is matched by
$200,000 from the university, ac-
cording to an MSU press release.
MSU also will receive $861,637.50
in GEER (Governor’s Emergency
Education Relief) funds from the
state to be used this year.
Vice President for Students Af-
fairs Regina Young Hyatt said the
Woodward Hines
grants are aiding
68 students this se-
mester and will help
about the same num-
ber of students each
semester over the
next three years. The
GEER funds, which Hyatt
the university must
spend this year, are helping closer
to 750 students, she said.
“That’s a lot of students, and
we’re very excited to have that num-
ber of students to be helped,” she
said.
Hyatt and Daniels both said uni-
versity officials were planning to
start a completion grant program
prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,
after a university longitudinal study
in 2009 showed that students who
dropped out of school near gradu-
ation earn roughly $1 million less
over the course of their lifetimes.
Now the pandemic has aggravat-
ed those students’ already-existing
financial problems.
“I have had the privilege of
talking to a number of the students
that are receiving grants personal-
ly,” Daniels said. “I know that it’s
not uncommon for them to have a
job or two in order to make ends
meet. (Since the pandemic start-
ed) a lot of jobs in certain areas
especially have seen a significant
decline in the number of workers
they’ve been hiring, so some of
the jobs that these students were
leaning on to help cover things like
textbooks, to finish paying tuition,
they’ve found that it’s harder to find
these jobs, therefore harder to fi-
nance their education.”
Hyatt said the pandemic has also
resulted in students’ family mem-
bers losing their jobs or students
having to return home temporarily
to take care of sick relatives.
“There are a lot of things that
COVID has exacerbated and cer-
tainly ... made our vulnerable stu-
dents more vulnerable,” Hyatt said.
To be eligible for the completion
grants, students must be eligible
for a federal Pell Grant according
to the current year FAFSA, be a
full-time undergraduate student
and resident of Mississippi and be
in good academic standing. Daniels
said in the press release that the
university awarded students who
met those requirements and had
the “highest unmet financial need”
after taking scholarships and other
financial aid into account.
Both Hyatt and Daniels said they
want to continue the program after
the pandemic and that university
officials are searching for further
funding opportunities.
“For every student we get across
the finish line, it makes an impact
for that student, for their families
and their communities,” Daniels
said. “We feel really good about the
possibilities that can come out of it.”
indicted for Brookville
Garden murder
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
An Oktibbeha County grand
jury has indicted a Starkville teen-
ager for first-degree murder in a
2019 fatal shooting at Brookville
Garden.
Aviante Jordan, who was 16 at
the time of the incident, is accused
of killing Laterrance McCarter,
23. Police responded to the scene Jordan
at about 1:45 p.m. Nov. 24 and found McCarter’s
body on Highland Avenue, on the east side of the
apartment complex, The Dispatch previously re-
ported.
Jordan was arrested the next day.
Lakorian Stewart, 31, also was arrested at the
time for conspiracy to commit a crime. He has not
yet been indicted in the incident, according to the
Oktibbeha County Circuit Clerk’s office.
Columbus man charged
for allegedly biting officer
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
A Columbus man has been
charged for allegedly biting a police
officer during his arrest Friday.
Demon Clopton Jr., 18, was ar-
rested on an outstanding warrant
for aggravated assault and armed
robbery out of Noxubee County, ac-
cording to law enforcement officials.
Columbus police officers pulled him Clopton Jr.
over on Ninth Avenue North Friday morning to ar-
rest him for the outstanding warrants, and a scuf-
fle broke out during which he bit one of the officers
on the leg, Columbus Police Chief Fred Shelton
told The Dispatch.
Shelton said the officer was not seriously in-

MUW
Continued from Page 1A
Rosenbaum, Sodexo’s dis-
trict campus dietitian.
“The Simple Servings
station will always have
a protein, a carbohydrate
and a vegetable, and ad-
ditionally we’ll have some
sort of salad and some
sort of plant-based op-
tion,” she said.
One example is South
Carolina barbecue with
coleslaw and corn, Rosen-
baum said, and Tuesday’s
menu featured grilled
steak with sautéed veg-
etables, a hummus plate
and a quinoa salad.
Simple Servings is
open for lunch Monday
through Friday and din-
ner Monday through
Thursday. The station
does not cook with gluten,
peanuts, tree nuts, shell-
fish, eggs, milk, wheat or
soy.
Even without any of
those ingredients, Simple
Servings still has a wide
variety of options, Rosen-
baum said.
“The ideal is that the
station’s really for every-
one,” she said. “It’s not
just for students with al-
lergies.”
The expansion came
after the Student Gov-
ernment Association con-
ducted the survey of the
student body last year in
response to some sug-
gestions and complaints
about the selection of
food at Hogarth, SGA vice
president Emerald Bowen
told The Dispatch.
“Some students felt
that some options weren’t
to their liking or (meet-
ing) their dietary needs,”
Bowen said. “As SGA, we
felt that it was our place to
change that for students,
to make it better.”
The survey generated
requests for a wider vari-
ety of options, including
allergen-free and vegan
selections, and for “the
cafeteria to accommodate
everyone,” she said.
The dining hall already
puts up signs so people
are aware of allergens in
food products, Eaton said,
but she appreciates the
addition of a completely
allergen-free station.
“I think it’s nice,” she
said. “It’s very consid-
erate of people’s dietary
preferences and limita-
tions.”
Hogarth Dining Center
has a series of measures
in place to ensure the
Simple Servings ingre-
dients and dishes do not
come in contact with any
allergens, executive chef
Matthew Molina said. All
the ingredients are stored
separately in color-coded
containers, and the Sim-
ple Servings cooks and
servers wear specific uni-
forms so the rest of the
staff can identify them.
Simple Servings is not a
buffet-style station, so the
servers are the only ones
to handle the food before
it goes on the plate, and
they use fresh plates ev-
ery time, Molina said.
Since he became exec-
utive chef in April 2020,
Molina has been con-
scious of what students
want and need from their
dining options, he said.
“It’s not a static menu,”
he said. “(Simple Serv-
ings) helps us give stu-
dents a variety day after
day, week to week, month
to month, and with that
we feel we’re able to cap-
ture students’ interests to
keep coming back to see
what else we’re serving
on a day-to-day basis.”
jured.
Clopton has been charged with assault on a law
enforcement officer and several misdemeanors, in-
cluding resisting arrest.
He is currently in Lowndes County Adult Deten-
The new station bene-
tion Center with no bond for the felony charge.
fits more than just MUW
and MSMS students.
Carla Lowery, a member
of MUW’s information
technology staff, said she
appreciates Simple Serv-
ings’ healthy offerings.
“I don’t have any al-
lergies, but I try to eat
healthy,” Lowery said. “I
sit at a desk most days, all
day long.”
MUW alumna Marga-
ret Triplett said she and
her husband eat lunch at
Hogarth every day. She
was one of the first people
to visit the Simple Serv-
ings station, and her plate
included wild rice, quinoa
salad and marinated cel-
ery.
“I like the variety and I
like that you’ve got health-
ier choices,” Triplett said.
“(I’m) kind of experi-
menting with some of this
new stuff here.
“I’m not sure about
this,” she added, indi-
cating the wild rice on
her plate, “but the other
stuff I’m sure I’m going to
love.”

Department store chain Belk

filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOT TE, N.C. — Belk, the
North Carolina-based department store
chain which has catered to generations
of shoppers, announced Tuesday that it
will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The chain’s owner, private equity
firm Sycamore Partners, said in a news
release that Belk will continue with
“normal operations” as it goes through
bankruptcy, The Charlotte Observer re-
ported.
Sycamore Partners said it expects to
emerge from bankruptcy by the end of
February. It will retain majority control
of Belk, according to an agreement it
reached with some of Belk’s creditors.
A group of the department store’s credi-
tors, led by the private equity firms KKR
and Blackstone, will get a minority stake.
The bankruptcy plan will help Belk shed
about $450 million of debt.
CEO Lisa Harper said in a statement.
The 133-year-old chain grew from
the opening of a store in Monroe, North
Carolina, by William Henry Belk in 1888.
Three generations of the Belk family led
the company to become the biggest fam-
ily-owned department store chain in the
country by 2015, when the family sold it
for $3 billion.
The sale to Sycamore loaded the chain
with over $2 billion in debt at a time when
department stores were losing populari-
ty. The department store has struggled
during the coronavirus pandemic as cus-
tomers flocked to online shopping and
avoided in-person shopping.
Belk furloughed workers in March as
the pandemic hit and cut senior staff pay SOLUNAR TABLE
up to 50 percent as stores temporarily
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“We’re confident that this agreement
puts us on the right long-term path to-
ward significantly reducing our debt
and providing us with greater financial
flexibility to meet our obligations and to
continue investing in our business,” Belk
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Opinion
4A WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Compliments to hospital and comments
on pieces in The Dispatch
First, for some time I have wanted to
complement Baptist Memorial Hospital in Co-
lumbus. For a variety of reasons, I have spent
quite a bit more time at the hospital in the
past year than usual. The upside, for me (and
others, I’m certain), is that I consistently get
very professional and, even better, very pleas-
ant and kind treatment from basically every
employee that I encounter there. Considering
how often I’ve been there over the past year
plus, that has been a fairly large number of
employees — ranging from people who check
me in, to the many technicians, to the doctors
on staff. That I have come to expect this sort
of care now says quite a lot about Baptist,
and, in turn, those who hire and manage the
facility.
On three relatively recent articles from the
Dispatch:
Monday, Jan. 25: kudos to Senator Wicker
for refusing to “get into the business of decid-
ing the results of our election.” Unfortunately,
I cannot extend the same to our other Senator,
Cindy Hyde-Smith, who persisted in promot-
ing unfounded claims of election fraud. It is
sad that the senator requires no evidence to
support her action and, worse, is not suffi-
ciently impressed by the multiple recounts
and scores of dismissed lawsuits in every
contested state. Yes, there remain constitu-
ents who still think the election was ‘stolen’
but this is based on the continued promotion
of that falsehood through such actions by Sen-
ator Hyde-Smith and others like her, not on
actual evidence of fraud. A case of Catch 22.
In the Sunday, Jan. 24 article about CMSD’s
consideration of year-round education. While
I support the concept, I was dismayed that the
graphic produced by CMSD to promote this
idea contained a misspelling. Seemed ironic.
Disclaimer: I have often been dismayed by
the frequent mistakes I make in my Dispatch
letters.
Lastly, the Ramirez political cartoon on
Friday, Jan. 22, seemed a bit over the top in its
criticism of President Biden’s speaking ability.
I agree that Biden has lost a step since his 8
years as VP but he is still clearly coherent — I
hope I am half as clear at 78. Seems like we
should withhold such extreme criticism until
we see the outcome of the Biden agenda, al-
ready advancing rapidly, especially his efforts
to ramp up federal action on Covid-19.
Paul Mack
Columbus
Disapproves of Biden’s executive orders
Six days as president and these are Biden’s
accomplishments:
1. Keystone Pipeline shut down. 11,000
jobs lost; wages lost: $2 billion
2: Paris Accord reinstated. 6.5 million jobs
lost; wages lost: $3 Trillion
3: Transgender in military.
4: Deportation moratorium enacted.
5: Persecution of Trump supporters.
Not a bad six days of accomplishment.
Executive orders! Unity!
Tyranny: “The rule of one person or a small
group of people in their interest and according
to their rule to unfairly control other people.”
Sound familiar?
God Bless America.
Lee Roy Lollar
Columbus
Thinks effort to impeach is misguided
Big vote on the Hill yesterday in DC plainly
showing the attempt to impeach a former
President is shot down even before taking off.
Five so called Republicans — Susan
Collins, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Ben
Sasse and Pat Toomey — voted with the Dem-
ocrats saying it is Constitutional to impeach
a President who is no longer in office. A fifth
grader is smarter than all those who say that.
Every dang one of them needs to be asked to
show the American people exactly where it
says that in our Constitution. Senator Paul hit
a home run with this vote, even got old Mitch
to get his head out, and showed the Demo-
crats and the five RINOs that they are making
fools of themselves if they continue down this
path. Plus every dang one of them knows that
they need 17 Republicans to vote for impeach-
ment in a trial or else suffer another defeat in
their attacks on President Trump. Big differ-
ence in five and 17, plus some Democrats will
probably vote against impeachment if they
do go to trial, seeing that mid term is right
around the corner, one year and 9 months.
Guess we ought to thank them though
cause it actually helps the Trumpsters MAGA
movement. I think too that President Trump’s
campaign for ‘24 is being started by the de-
ranged Democrats while he enjoys some well
earned R&R.
Raymond Gross
Columbus
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CARTOONIST VIEW
MISSISSIPPI VOICES
Trump disturbed the perception of US stability
W
hatever the election when the Flor- every time.
flavor of your ida results were only Finally, the state legislatures,
politics, Amer- a few hundred votes several of which were Republi-
icans all have a common apart. can dominated, also dismissed
interest in protecting But Trump lost by Trump’s claims and certified the
the perception of the tens of thousands of election results. Trump lost every
United States as a rock votes in the key states. single time. He had exhausted
of stability in an uncer- He lost the national vote his appeals, yet still he would not
tain world. by seven million votes. concede.
It is that perception Not conceding in the Then he and his supporters
which allows us to print wake of this level of vic- organized a massive rally down
seemingly unlimited tory was unprecedented the street from the U.S. Capitol to
amounts of money. In Wyatt Emmerich in American history. pressure Congress as they certi-
the past, the world has The final vote should fied the electoral college results.
shown a huge appetite not have been surpris- Trump was defiant, using inflam-
for dollars. As long as that appetite ing. Dozens of polls were predict- matory language. We all know how
persists, Americans will enjoy an ing a Biden victory of about that that ended.
exceptional standard of living. amount. We live in the greatest country
Think about it: If you accumu- Trump claimed voter fraud, both in the history of the world — a bea-
late wealth in an unstable country blatant and subtle. The blatant was con of life, liberty and the pursuit
with unpredictable powers that a claim that the Dominion voting of happiness, a shining citadel of
be, you will want to buy American machines were deliberately manip- freedom and democracy. How dare
dollars and assets. That’s the best ulated electronically. The subtle he even think to threaten that.
way to protect your money from was mail-in ballots being forged. Trump did not tell the crowd
confiscation by corrupt rulers. Certainly the huge increase in to trash the U.S. Capitol. But he
The United States, far and away, mail-in voting raised eyebrows. whipped them up to a point of fren-
has been the logical choice for But this was a direct result of zy. As President, you own that. It’s
decades. The dollar is the de facto COVID. It was just bad luck for your crowd. Your responsibility.
world currency. Trump. Ballot harvesting, though Trump should be held accountable
That means when Covid-19 dam- vulnerable to fraud, is legal in half for his actions. We don’t want this
ages our economy, our government our states. There were 17 percent to ever happen again.
can print as much money as neces- more votes cast, which is a huge As Republican Chris Christie
sary to weather the storm. There increase. It was definitely an un- said, “I think if inciting to insurrec-
seems to be an almost unlimited usual election. tion isn’t an impeachable offense, I
demand for dollar assets. Our Constitution provides for don’t really know what is.”
In the last year, the U.S. has checks and balances when a presi- For years, I dismissed claims of
issued trillions in debt, yet interest dential election is disputed. Trump Trump’s mental instability as just
rates on Treasury bills are barely took advantage of this, but lost in politics. But the claims were dead
above zero. It is an incredible luxu- every court. on. I was wrong.
ry that only Americans enjoy. At least 86 judges — from state Let’s hope our country learns
This could all come crashing courts to the U.S. Supreme Court from our Trump experiment. We
down if the world loses faith in — rejected at least one post-elec- elected a businessman with zero
America as a bastion of stability. tion lawsuit filed by Trump or his political experience to run our
If demand for U.S. treasuries supporters. Thirty-eight judges country. He did indeed achieve
declined, interest rates would appointed by Republicans were many good results, but in the end
skyrocket and our country would among the 86 judges who had his lack of political experience
be hard pressed to pay the higher rejected lawsuits. caused the worst ending to a pres-
interest charges. Inflation would When a president cries fraud, idency our nation has ever seen. It
skyrocket and Americans’ stan- you expect there to be some basis has hurt our nation.
dard of living would drop signifi- for the claim. So Americans waited We should require every presi-
cantly. patiently for the evidence. But dential candidate to assure voters
The physical damage to the U.S. there was none. It was nothing that they will concede the day after
Capitol Building caused by the more than the bluster of a sore the election. And we don’t need
recent riot was horrible. But the far loser. anymore tweeting presidents.
greater damage was done to our God himself set up the system That’s a horrible practice for a
country’s reputation. This is not of judges to decide facts. Deuteron- sitting president. It lacks dignity
just damage to our pride. It could omy 16:18-20 states: “Appoint judg- and confuses the world.
be real damage to the pocketbooks es and officials for each of your Say what you will about the
of every single American. tribes in every town the Lord your average American voter, they got
Most Americans know that God is giving you, and they shall this right. They saw something
our country was never in any real judge the people fairly. Do not scary in Trump and did not return
danger. The ragtag group of crazy pervert justice or show partiality. him to office. Good call.
hooligans and conspiracy nut cases Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe This is not about Democrats or
was never going to bring down our blinds the eyes of the wise and Republicans. This is not about left
government. Not even close. twists the words of the innocent. wing or right wing. This is about
But they did damage our world Follow justice and justice alone, so our country. Character matters.
image and that could have huge that you may live and possess the We need to quit following our polit-
financial implications. For that, land the Lord your God is giving ical instincts and put more weight
every American should be angry at you.” in the character and integrity of
Donald Trump. For thousands of years, human the candidate.
There is a reason that for hun- civilization has used judges and The rise of social media has
dreds of years, the losing presiden- courts to determine complicated debased so many of our fine
tial candidate quickly concedes to issues of fact. It’s not perfect, but traditions. Our country is going
the election victor. It’s good for the it sure beats chaos. One great through a learning curve on how
nation. It presents the world with strength of our country is the to handle this new medium. Let’s
a steady image of the most power- integrity of our court system. hope the Trump Presidency taught
ful country in the world breezing A month after the election, us some valuable lessons about
through convivial transfers of Trump was still pushing the idea what not to do.
power from one political party to of software manipulation of voting Wyatt Emmerich is the editor
the next. It’s impressive. It keeps results. The Republican Georgia and publisher of The Northside Sun,
the dollar strong. Secretary of State put it best when a weekly newspaper in Jackson. He
Granted, Al Gore rescinded his he pointed out that five recounts can be reached by e-mail at wyatt@
concession the day after the 2000 by hand confirmed the computers northsidesun.com.
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US boosting vaccine deliveries amid complaints of shortages

Administration plans to buy an additional 100M
doses of each of the two approved vaccines
BY JONATHAN DREW
AND ZEKE MILLER
The Associated Press
Answering growing frustra-
tion over vaccine shortages,
President Joe Biden announced
that the U.S. is ramping up deliv-
eries to hard-pressed states over
the next three weeks and ex-
pects to provide enough doses
to vaccinate 300 million Ameri-
cans by the end of the summer
or early fall.
Biden, calling the push a
“wartime effort,” said Tuesday
the administration was work-
ing to buy an additional 100
million doses of each of the two
approved coronavirus vaccines.
He acknowledged that states
in recent weeks have been left
guessing how much vaccine
they will have from one week to
the next.
Shortages have been so se-
vere that some vaccination sites
around the U.S. had to cancel
tens of thousands of appoint-
ments with people seeking their
first shot.
“This is unacceptable,” Biden
said. “Lives are at stake.”
He promised a roughly 16 per-
cent boost in deliveries to states
over the next three weeks.
The administration said it
plans to buy another 100 million
doses each from drugmakers
Pfizer and Moderna to ensure it
has enough vaccine for the long
term. Even more vaccine could
be available if federal scientists
approve a single-dose shot from
Johnson & Johnson, which is
expected to seek emergency au-
thorization in the coming weeks.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention report-
ed that the government plans
to make about 10.1 million first
and second doses available next
week, up from this week’s allot-
Biden says he’s ‘bringing back the pros’ for virus briefings
BY ZEKE MILLER shared his unproven ideas without hesitation.
The Associated Press “We’re bringing back the pros to talk about
COVID in an unvarnished way,” Biden told
WASHINGTON — For nearly a year it was reporters Tuesday. “Any questions you have,
the Trump show. Now President Joe Biden is
that’s how we’ll handle them because we’re let-
calling up the nation’s top scientists and public
ting science speak again.”
health experts to regularly brief the American
public about the pandemic that has claimed The new briefings, beginning just a week
into Biden’s tenure, are meant as an explicit
more than 425,000 U.S. lives.
rejection of his predecessor’s approach to the
Beginning Wednesday, administration ex-
coronavirus outbreak.
perts will host briefings three times a week on
the state of the outbreak, efforts to control it President Donald Trump claimed center
and the race to deliver vaccines and therapeu- stage and muddled the message of the nation’s
tics to end it. top public health experts in the critical early
Expect a sharp contrast from the last admin- days of the virus and eventually largely muz-
istration’s briefings, when public health officials zled them as the pandemic’s mortal toll grew
were repeatedly undermined by a president who steeper.
ment of 8.6 million. The figures quate supplies and the need for weeks ahead of delivery.
represent doses of both the Pfiz- earlier and more reliable esti- Biden’s announcement came
er and Moderna vaccines. It was mates of how much vaccine is on a day after he grew more bull-
not immediately clear how long the way so that they can plan. ish about exceeding his vaccine
the surge of doses could be sus- Biden’s team held its first pledge to deliver 100 million in-
tained. virus-related call with the na- jections in his first 100 days in
Governors and top health tion’s governors on Tuesday and office, suggesting that a rate of
officials have been increasingly pledged to provide states with 1.5 million doses per day could
raising the alarm about inade- firm vaccine allocations three soon be achieved.

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Student-run free grocery store helps feed town’s hungry

‘I’ve really seen the students take
pride in working in the store’
Linda Tutt High School Principal Anthony Love
BY LUIS ANDRES HENAO
The Associated Press
Traditional school
stores might offer snacks
and knickknacks, school
gear and notebooks — but
the one at Linda Tutt High
School in Sanger, Texas,
has a very different inven-
tory and clientele.
At Linda Tutt you can
get everything from pro-
duce, milk and eggs to
pasta, peanut butter and
canned goods to dish-
washer soap and laundry
detergent. Students and
staff can shop there, but
on Tuesdays the store is
open to the community.
And it’s all free.
“I like seeing their
smiles, seeing how ap-
preciative they are, and
knowing that they are
thankful that we’re do-
ing something like this,”
said Hunter Weertman,
a 16-year-old junior who
stocks shelves and takes
inventory at the store
housed in an unused art
room. It has been open
since November.
The idea is to provide
students with job skills,
and at the same time help
students, staff and local
residents who are in need.
And the store has one
more purpose: teaching
the youngsters the value
of giving back to their
community.
“I’ve really seen the
students take pride in
working in the store,”
principal Anthony Love
said. “They’re excited
about coming to school.
points for their work in
the store or for doing oth-
They’re excited about
helping in the grocery
er tasks at the school such
as gardening, mentoring
store and just being a part elementary schoolchil-
of it.” dren or helping in the caf-
Residents who shop at
eteria. And they can gar-
the store are assigned a
ner even more points for
number of points — the
outstanding classroom
larger the family, the more
performance or being
points they receive and
kind to others.
the more merchandise
they can “buy.” There’s
no in-person shopping be-
cause of the pandemic, so
instead they fill out a list
and students bring their
groceries to their cars.
About 130 families
have used the store, Love
said.
Each week, the store’s
staffers package grocer-
ies for students who quali-
fy for the Friday Backpack
Program because their Ray Vassar
families need additional Visitation:
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Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary online amid pandemic
BY VANESSA GER A
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland
— Tova Friedman hid
among corpses at Aus-
chwitz amid the chaos of
the extermination camp’s
final days.
Just 6 years old at the
time, the Poland-born
Friedman was instruct-
ed by her mother to lie
absolutely still in a bed at
a camp hospital, next to
the body of a young wom-
an who had just died. As
German forces prepar-
ing to flee the scene of
their genocide went from
bed to bed shooting any-
one still alive, Friedman
barely breathed under a
blanket and went unno-
ticed.
Days later, on Jan. 27,
1945, she was among the
thousands of prisoners
who survived to greet the
Soviet troops who liberat-
ed the camp in Nazi-oc-
cupied Poland.
Now 82, Friedman had
hoped to mark Wednes-
day’s anniversary by
taking her eight grand-
children to the Aus-
chwitz-Birkenau memo-
rial site, which is under
the custodianship of the
Polish state. The corona-
virus pandemic prevent-
ed the trip.
So instead, Friedman
will be alone at home
in Highland Park, New
Jersey, on International
Holocaust Remembrance
Day. Yet a message of
warning from her about
the rise of hatred will be
part of a virtual obser-
vance organized by the
World Jewish Congress.
Other institutions
around the world, includ-
ing the Auschwitz-Birke-
nau memorial museum
in Poland, Yad Vashem
in Israel and the United
States Holocaust Memo-
rial Museum in Washing-
ton D.C. also have online
events planned.
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Frances Laura Carter
Visitation:
Friday, Jan. 29 • 1-2 PM
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Services:
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The Church of the Nazarene
Burial
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College St. Location
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visitcolumbusms.org www.noxubee.lib.ms.us
The Stephen D. Lee Home in Columbus and the Noxubee County Library, right, will get renovation help from
MDAH grants awarded this week.

Grants
Continued from Page 1A

Tennessee Williams
Home project
Nancy Carpenter, ex-
ecutive director for the
Columbus-Lowndes Con-
vention and Visitors Bu-
reau, said the grant will
be a godsend for the Ten-
nessee Williams property
downtown, which last was
renovated in 2010.
“(The grant) is abso-
lutely great for us,” Car-
penter said.
“We don’t
receive any
federal,
state or (aid
from) the
city, so we
depend on
d o n a t i o n s Carpenter
and grants.
This is definitely going to
help.”
Carpenter said the
front porch, which faces
Main Street, has dam-
age to both the interior
and exterior, which she
attributes to the ravages
of time and weather. The
house was built in 1876
and was an early child-
hood home of the famous
playwright.
Carpenter also be-
lieves moving the house
from its original location
near St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church on College Street
(the home was originally
the church rectory) also
contributed to deteriora-
tion.
“There are some struc-
tural issues associated
with moving the home as
it began to settle,” Car-
penter said. “To do ev-
erything we need, it will
cost a little more than
$200,000 based on the
estimates we’ve received.
We are constantly looking
for grants and this grant
moves us that much clos-
er to our goal.”
Stephen D. Lee
Home project
Construction started
on the Stephen D. Lee
Home on
Seventh
S t r e e t
North in
1847, but the
porch was
added in
the 1880s.
Eulalie Da- Davis
vis, presi-
dent of the foundation that
manages the home, said
the front porch roof has
been in need of repairs for
about 10 years.
“Over the years, it’s
been sort of patched to-
gether, but it really needs
to be replaced,” Davis
said. “We get a lot of use
from the porch for wed-
dings and other events.”
Repairs to historic
buildings are generally
far more expensive than
those of other buildings
because the materials and
repairs have to be con-
sistent with the original
construction to preserve
the building’s historic in-
tegrity.
“The porch roof is a
tin roof with overlapping
joints called standing
seams,” said Carolyn
Kaye, who wrote the
grant for the foundation.
“That roofing is unique
to the time of the con-
struction, so the cost for
replacing the roof is much
higher than it would be
with a normal roof where
you would use the materi-
als and construction you
see today.”
In addition to the roof,
Kaye said the grant will
also cover the expense
of replacing some of the
wood in the roof’s infra-
structure.
Noxubee County
Library project
Shameka Conner, di-
rector for the Noxubee
County Library, could
hardly contain her excite-
ment over the news of the
grant.
“Oh, lordy, we’ve need-
ed this for years,” Conner
said. “We’ve had to wait
our turn, and the roof sit-
uation has become a big
problem.”
Conner said the orig-
inal roof of the library,
which was built in 1907,
has serious leaks, espe-
cially on the third floor of
the three-story building.
“It’s been leaking
down the walls on the
third floor for quite a long
time,” Conner said. “The
third floor was where we
had our computers, so we
had to do a lot of shuffling
around to make sure the
computers weren’t going
to get wet. We moved the
computers to the first
floor to keep them dry,
but we still had to use
the third floor because
our space is limited. With
a historic building, you
can’t just add on, so every
inch of the space is need-
ed.”
Recently, the damage
has reached the second
floor, which is used as the
children’s library.
“You can only move
things around so much,”
Conner said. “We knew
the only real solution was
to replace the roof.
“It’s been a long time
coming, but it’s coming,”
she added. “I’m excited.”

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Continued from Page 1A
ment complex.
Devonte Lavon Farm-
er, 20, of Noxubee Coun-
ty, was arrested for three
counts of attempted mur-
der Monday, according
to area law enforcement.
Farmer, who is also
wanted for shootings in
Columbus and Macon,
shot at three officers
from Tuscaloosa Police
Department who were
called to the apartment
complex to investigate
reports of an individual
walking around with a
gun, according to a re-
lease on TPD’s Facebook
page.
The officers found
Farmer on a golf course
at the apartment com-
plex. The release says
Farmer ignored com-
mands by the officers
to drop his weapon and
then fired multiple shots
at them. Officers from
other law enforcement
agencies were called to
the scene and Farmer
surrendered just after
5 p.m., after hiding in a
grassy area and shallow
parts of a nearby lake for
more than an hour.
Farmer and two offi-
cers were taken to DCH
Regional Medical Center
in Tuscaloosa for non
life-threatening injuries.
One officer was shot
in his bullet-proof vest
and another received
a “minor injury.” They
were both treated and
released. Farmer was
treated for a gunshot
wound to the hand.
Macon Police Depart-
ment Assistant Chief
Douglas Triplett said
Farmer is also wanted for
four counts of aggravated
assault and two counts of
malicious mischief for a
December shooting in
Go for a walk.
an apartment complex dy in Tuscaloosa on
in Macon, during which $300,000 bond.
Farmer allegedly shot
at four people, three of
whom were juveniles. He
also damaged cars in the
parking lot.
Columbus Police
Chief Fred Shelton con-
firmed Farmer is also
wanted for a December
shooting in Columbus
during which an individ-
ual was injured and tak-
en to Baptist Memorial
Hospital-Golden Trian-
gle.
Tuscaloosa’s Violent
Crimes Unit is investi-
gating the case. VCU is
not affiliated with TPD,
according to TPD press
releases on the incident.
The three officers in-
volved in the shooting
are all on administrative
leave, per department
policy.
Farmer is in custo-

16-year-old charged with aggravated assault

two charges to a report of shots fired

Reliable
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
of aggravat- and arrested Sullivan on
Starkville police ar- ed assault Tuesday, according to the

information
rested a 16-year-old after shoot- press release.
on domestic violence ing a vehi- SPD Public Informa-
charges for a Monday cle in the tion Officer Brandon
night shooting that dam- parking lot Lovelady said Sullivan

aged a car but left no
injuries, according to a
Tuesday press release
from the Starkville Police
of the Sprint
Mart conve- Sullivan
nience store at the Shell
gas station on North Jack-
when we
knew the occupants of the
vehicle and shot it as they
were driving away.
Sullivan is being held

need it most. 
Department. son Street. SPD respond- in the Oktibbeha County
Jaylan Sullivan faces ed at 9:20 p.m. Monday Jail on $250,000 bond.

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was blunt force trauma,
the press release said.
Clay County Sheriff
Eddie Scott confirmed
Darryl Larry is Summer
Larry’s uncle, and that
they both lived in the
house on White Station
Road northeast of West
Point. He did not release
further information on a
motive.
Summer Larry’s body
has been taken to the
Mississippi Crime Lab in
Pearl for autopsy.
Investigators are ask- freespeech.center
ing anyone with informa-
tion on the murder to call
CCSO at 662-494-2896.
Darryl Larry is cur-
rently in custody at Clay
County Jail. Bond is set
at $1 million.
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Effort to put Tubman on $20

bill restarted under Biden
Psaki: Timeline for introducing new bill would be
announced when finalized by Treasury Department
BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON — With a
change of administrations, it looks
like Harriet Tubman is once again
headed to the front of the $20 bill.
Biden press secretary Jen Psaki
said Monday that the Treasury De-
partment is taking steps to resume
efforts to put the 19th century aboli-
tionist leader on the $20 bill.
Obama administration Treasury
Secretary Jack Lew had selected
Tubman to replace Andrew Jack-
son, the nation’s seventh president,
on the $20 bill.
But Tubman’s fate had been in
doubt since the 2016 presidential
campaign based on critical com-
ments by then-candidate Donald
Trump, who branded the move
“pure political correctness.”
Trump administration Treasury
Secretary Steven Mnuchin did not
move forward with the decision by
the Obama administration. Instead,
Mnuchin in 2019 announced a delay
in redesigning the $20 bill in order
to redesign the $10 and $50 bills
first to improve security features to
thwart counterfeiters.
The unveiling of the redesigned
$20 bill featuring Tubman, famous
for her efforts spiriting slaves to
freedom on the Underground Rail-
road, had been timed by the Obama
administration to coincide with the
100th anniversary of passage of the
19th Amendment giving women the
right to vote.
Under the schedule Mnuchin
announced in May 2019, the rede-
signed $20 bill would not have come
out until 2028 with final designs for
the bill not announced until 2026.
But Psaki told reporters during
a briefing Monday that she and oth-
er officials were surprised to hear
of the delays in putting Tubman
on the $20 bill. With a change in
administrations, she said the Trea-
sury Department was taking steps
to resume efforts to put Tubman on
the $20 bill.
“It is important that our .... mon-
ey reflect the history and diversity
of our country and Harriet Tub-
man’s image gracing the new $20
note would certainly reflect that,”
Psaki said. “We are exploring ways
to speed up that effort.”
Psaki said specifics on a new
timeline for introducing a rede-
signed $20 with Tubman would be
announced when finalized by the
Treasury Department. Biden has
selected Janet Yellen to be his Trea-
sury secretary, the first woman to
hold that position in the depart-
ment’s 232 years.

No Mardi Gras parades, so thousands make ‘house floats’

Pandemic replacements include scavenger hunts
for trinkets, outdoor art and drive-thru or virtual parades
BY JANET
MCCONNAUGHEY
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS —
You just can’t keep a good
city down, especially when
Mardi Gras is coming.
All around New Orle-
ans, thousands of houses
are being decorated as
floats because the corona-
virus outbreak canceled
the elaborate parades
mobbed by crowds during
the Carnival season lead-
ing to Fat Tuesday.
Some smaller groups
announced no-parade
plans before the city did.
Pandemic replacements
include scavenger hunts
for signature trinkets
that normally would be
thrown from floats or
handed out from a street-
car, as well as outdoor art
and drive-thru or virtual
parades. The prominent
Krewe of Bacchus has
an app where people can
catch and trade virtual
trinkets during Carnival
and watch a virtual parade
Feb. 14, when the parade
had been scheduled.
But the “house float”
movement started almost
as soon as a New Orleans
spokesman announced
Nov. 17 that parades were
off.
That morning, Megan
Joy Boudreaux posted
what she later called a sil-
ly Twitter joke: “We’re do-
ing this. Turn your house
into a float and throw all
the beads from your attic
at your neighbors walking
by.”
But the more she
thought about it, the more
she liked it. She started
a Facebook group, the
Krewe of House Floats,
expecting a few friends
and neighbors to join.
The numbers rose. Thir-
ty-nine subgroups evolved
to discuss neighborhood
plans.
By Carnival season’s
official start Jan. 6, the
group had more than 9,000
members, including out-
of-state “expats.” About
3,000, including a few as
far afield as England and
Australia, will have their
houses on an official on-
line map, said Charlotte
“Charlie” Jallans-Daly,
one of two mapmakers.
Houses are to be dec-
orated at least two weeks
before Fat Tuesday, which
is Feb. 16 this year. With
widespread addresses and
two weeks to gawk, the
hope is that people will
spread out widely in time
and space.
“I didn’t think I was
starting a Mardi Gras
krewe. Here I am,” Bou-
dreaux said. “I’ve got
myself a second full-time
job.”
Discussions in the
Facebook groups include
how-tos, ads for props and
neighborhood themes.
Artists have given lives-
treamed outdoor lessons.
Katie Bankens posted
that her block’s theme was
Shark Week staycation
paradise. When a resident
worried that she was not
“crafty” enough, admin-
istrator Carley Sercovich
replied that if they could
play music and throw trin-
kets to neighbors, “you are
perfect for this Krewe!”

First private space

crew paying $55M
each to fly to station
BY MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. — The first private
space station crew was in-
troduced Tuesday: Three
men who are each pay-
ing $55 million to fly on a
SpaceX rocket.
They’ll be led by a for-
mer NASA astronaut now
working for Axiom Space,
the Houston company that
arranged the trip for next
January.
“This is the first private
flight to the International
Space Station. It’s never
been done before,” said
Axiom’s chief executive
and president Mike Suf-
fredini, a former space sta-
tion program manager for
NASA.
While mission com-
mander Michael Lo-
pez-Alegria is well known
in space circles, “the other
three guys are just people
who want to be able to go
to space, and we’re pro-
viding that opportunity,”
Suffredini told The Associ-
ated Press.
The first crew will
spend eight days at the
space station, and will take
one or two days to get there
aboard a SpaceX Dragon
capsule following liftoff
from Cape Canaveral.
Russia has been in the
off-the-planet tourism
business for years, selling
rides to the International
Space Station since 2001.
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New Hope boys soccer goes to 11 in first-round win over Vicksburg

BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
NEW HOPE — In the
34th minute of Tuesday’s
MHSA A Class 5A first-
round playoff match,
just after the New Hope
boys soccer team had
scored its third goal of
the night, a defenseman
from visiting Vicksburg
voiced his frustration.
“We didn’t drive all
this way for nothing,
man,” the frustrated
player told his white-
clad teammates.
The Trojans (13-2)
quickly went on to defi-
nitely prove that the
Gators (10 -6 -1) should
have saved themselves
the trip. with scores in the 25th,
New Hope scored 30th, 39th and 48th min-
eight more goals in the utes. That output even
next 16 -plus minutes, came after a headbutt
earned an 11-0 mer- from a Vicksburg de-
cy-rule win and moved fender endeavoring to
on to the second round slow Parnell down.
against either Ridgeland “It just shows I’m ca-
or Saltillo. pable of it still,” Parnell
“We feel unstoppa- said. “I can get knocked
ble,” New Hope junior down and get right back
Trey Parnell said. “We up and keep playing like
feel like we can take on I have been.”
anybody and beat them.” His development
Based on Tuesday’s as a player hasn’t just
big win, Parnell and the been achieved in terms
Trojans might be justi- of scoring, either. Be-
fied in that feeling. The fore the season, New
striker had a whopping Hope coach Andrew
five goals against the Olsen challenged Par-
Theo DeRosa/Dispatch Staff
Gators, scoring on a pen- nell to lead the team in New Hope sophomore Hayden Dodson (1) pulls up as Vicksburg’s goalkeeper
alty kick in the 21st min- assists; Tuesday, the ju- collects the ball during the first half of Tuesday’s playoff match. Just two minutes
ute and following it up See SOCCER, 3B later, Dodson scored his second goal of the season to put the Trojans up 5-0.

Starkville NO. 18 TENNESSEE 56, MISSISSIPPI STATE 53

boys soccer
falls to
Oxford
Turnovers, lackluster offensive
in playoff
overtime
execution prevent MSU from upset
thriller
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com

STARK VILLE —
Starkville High School’s
2020 -21 boys soccer
season came to a som-
ber halt Tuesday night.
Falling 4-2 in over-
time to rival Oxford
in the first round of
the Mississippi High
School Activities Asso-
ciation 6A playoffs, the
No. 1-seeded Yellow
Jackets saw their near-
last second score with
just over two minutes
remaining in regula-
tion fall to waste as the
Chargers delivered two
knockout blows in the
first 10 minutes of the
extra period to end the
hosts’ year.
“We tried to go into
the overtime with some
new tactics and switch it
up a little bit,” Starkville
head coach Evinn Wat-
son explained. “But I
think we just kind of
See SHS, 3B

MSMS boys Tennessee Athletics

soccer falls
in playoff
match at
Amory
DISPATCH STAFF
AMORY — The
Mississippi School for
Mathematics and Sci-
ence boys soccer team
saw its season end
Tuesday in Amory.
After qualifying for
the MHSA A Class I
playoffs with a home
win over Madison St.
Joseph on penalty kicks
Saturday, the Blue
Waves suffered an 8-2
loss to the Panthers.
Nick Djedjos and
Trevor Allen each had
goals for MSMS.
The Blue Waves’ sea-
son ended with a 5-3 re-
cord.
Tennessee guard Jaden Springer (11) drives to the lane while defended by Iverson Molinar (1) Tuesday in Knoxville. The Vols defeated
Mississippi State 56-53.
BY GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
For fans of offense, Tues-
day’s matchup between No.
18 Tennessee and Mississippi
State was far from ideal. The
lid on the basket refused to
open, turnovers seemed more
frequent than converted bas-
kets and double-figure scor-
ers were hard to come by.
None of that prevented
Mississippi State going toe-
to-toe with a ranked opponent
on the road for the second
game in a row. But between 18
turnovers, seven missed free
throws, and a shooting per-
centage less than 33 percent,
the Bulldogs failed to convert
another winnable game into a
victory, losing to Tennessee in
a 56 -53 decision.
“Eighteen turnovers makes
it hard to win anywhere on the
road, much less a really good
Tennessee team,” MSU coach
Ben Howland said. “We gotta
shoot foul shots better to win
and we need to make some
shots, we missed a number of
shots at the rim and we have
to finish better.”
The loss marks the 13th
straight MSU (9-8, 4-5 SEC)
road loss to an AP Top 25
team.
“I thought our team de-
fense the last two games was
the best team defense we’ve
played all year,” Howland
said. “We’re playing two of the
three top teams in our league.
We had chances in both games
to win on the row, we just have
to do a few things a little bet-
ter to complete the task.”
Both players and coaches
alike will wonder what might
have been when they review
the film later in the week,
especially with several plays
going against MSU down the
stretch.
Trailing 50 -48 with 2:32
remaining and the shot clock
winding down, Tennessee
five-star freshman phenom
Jaden Springer fired a des-
peration shot that was com-
pletely off kilter. Looking
at replay reviews, Springer
failed to release the ball be-
fore the shot clock hit zero,
but no whistle was blown.
MSU players, thinking they
just forced a shot clock viola-
tion, began walking toward
the other side of the court, but
play continued as Tennessee’s
Keon Johnson scooped up an
offensive putback despite the
Bulldogs having a 3-on-1 ad-
vantage in the post, extend-
ing the Volunteers’ (11-3, 5-3)
lead to 52-48.
“I believe I was in help side
and one of my teammates, we
stopped playing because the
shot clock went off and we
thought it was our ball after,”
MSU point guard Iverson Mo-
linar said. “We didn’t continue
to play and that’s how they
scored. Everybody makes
mistakes and at the end of
the day we needed to make a
couple more plays to have a
chance to win.”
Howland pleaded with the
officials for a replay review,
but per NCA A rules, all re-
views must come within the fi-
nal two minutes of regulation.
“It wasn’t within the last
two minutes of the game. And
(the shot) wasn’t out of his
hands,” Howland said. “That
was a huge play. That’s a big
miss.”
It didn’t help Howland’s
mood that his team was on
the receiving end of an over-
turned goaltend call taking
away a Molinar layup trailing
by five with about 43 seconds
remaining. On that posses-
sion, all’s well that ended well,
because Cameron Matthews
made a layup one second later
to cut the deficit to three, but
See MSU, 3B
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Baseball Hall gets no new

members; Schilling 16 votes shy
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The
baseball Hall of Fame
won’t have any new play-
ers in the class of 2021
after voters decided no
one had the merits — on
the field or off — for en-
shrinement in Cooper-
stown.
Curt Schilling, Barry
Bonds and Roger Clem-
ens were the closest in
voting by members of the
Baseball Writers’ Associ-
ation of America released
Tuesday, and the trio will
have one more chance
at election next year. It’s
the first time the BBWA A
didn’t choose anyone
since 2013.
Schilling, a right-hand-
ed ace who won three
World Series titles, fin-
ished 16 votes short of the
75% threshold necessary
for enshrinement. He got
71.1% percent this time
after coming up 20 votes
shy at 70% last year.
Schilling’s on-field ac-
complishments face little
dispute, but he has ostra-
cized himself in retire-
ment by directing hateful
remarks toward Muslims,
transgender people, jour-
nalists and others.
“It’s all right, the
game doesn’t owe me
anything,” Schilling said
during a live video stream
on his Twitter account.
He later wrote on Face-
book that he has asked
the Hall of Fame to re-
move his name from next
year’s ballot. Hall of Fame
Board Chairman Jane
Forbes Clark said in a
statement that the board
“will consider the request
at our next meeting.”
Bonds (61.8%) and
Clemens (61.6%) made
minimal gains and joined
Schilling in falling short
on their ninth tries. Both
face suspicions of perfor-
mance-enhancing drug
use — Clemens has de-
nied using PEDs and
Bonds has denied know-
ingly using PEDs.
Bonds also has been
accused of domestic
violence and Clemens
of maintaining a de-
cade-long relationship
with a singer who was 15
when they met.
Schilling, Clemens
and Bonds will be joined
on next year’s ballot by
sluggers Alex Rodriguez
and David Ortiz. Rodri-
guez was suspended for
the 2014 season for vio-
lating MLB’s PED policy
and collective bargaining
agreement, and Ortiz’s
name allegedly appeared
on a list of players who
tested positive in 2003.
Omar Vizquel, an 11-
time Gold Glove winner,
dropped from 52.6% last
year to 49.1% after his
wife accused him of re-
peated domestic abuses
in December. Braves star
Andruw Jones, arrested
in 2012 on a domestic vio-
lence charge, got 33.9% in
his fourth year. Rockies
slugger Todd Helton, who
pleaded guilty to driving
under the influence and
was sentenced to two
days in jail last year, got
44.9% in his third time on
the ballot.
Some players missed
out over old-fashioned
baseball disagreements,
too. Slick-fielding third
baseman Scott Rolen
moved from 35.3% to
52.9% and hard-throwing
closer Billy Wagner from
31.7% to 46.4%.
It’s the ninth time the
BBWA A didn’t elect any-
one and just the third
time since 1971. With the
Hall of Fame’s Era Com-
mittees postponing their
scheduled elections until
next offseason because of
the pandemic, there won’t
be a new Hall class for the
first time since 1960.
Cooperstown won’t be
without celebration next
summer, though. After
the 2020 ceremony in the
upstate New York village
was canceled due to the
pandemic, Yankees great
Derek Jeter and five-
tool star Larry Walker
will take center stage on
July 25, a year later than
planned. They’ll be hon-
ored alongside catcher
Ted Simmons and late
players’ association chief
Marvin Miller.
BBWA A members
are instructed to elect
Hall members “based
upon the player’s record,
playing ability, integrity,
sportsmanship, charac-
ter, and contributions to
the team(s) on which the
player played.”
At a time when so-
cial justice movements
are pushing for a broad-
er reckoning on sexual
misconduct and racial
inequality, character
evaluation took on an out-
sized role in this election
cycle. While the Hall’s
inductees already include
racists, cheaters, philan-
derers and criminals, the
current voting bloc has —
narrowly, in many cases
— taken a stand against
candidates they think
have insufficient integri-
ty.
With 401 ballots re-
turned, candidates need-
ed 301 votes to gain elec-
tion. A record 14 voters
submitted blank ballots,
topping the 12 sent in
2006.
Schilling — a six-time
All-Star over 20 seasons
with Baltimore, Houston,
Philadelphia, Arizona
and Boston — has been
embroiled in controver-
sy throughout his retire-
ment.
He launched a video
game company, 38 Stu-
dios, that went bankrupt
shortly after receiving a
$75 million loan guaran-
tee from Rhode Island,
then was fired as an
ESPN analyst after he
sent a tweet comparing
Muslim extremists to Na-
zi-era Germans and post-
ed a derogatory Facebook
comment about transgen-
der people.
Months later, Schilling
was again criticized after
using social media to ap-
plaud a T-shirt calling for
journalists to be lynched.
On Jan. 6, the day of
the attack on the U.S.
Capitol, he said the fol-
lowing in a message on
his Twitter account:
“You cowards sat on
your hands, did nothing
while liberal trash looted
rioted and burned for air
Jordan’s and big screens,
sit back .... and watch
folks start a confrontation
for (expletive) that mat-
ters like rights, democ-
racy and the end of govt
corruption.”
That tweet was sent
a few days after Hall of
Fame ballots were due.
Schilling wrote on
Facebook that he would
like the veterans com-
mittee to review his Hall
case. That panel — com-
prised of former players,
managers and others
in the game, along with
some writers — is tasked
with evaluating players
who don’t get election via
the BBWA A vote.
“I’ll defer to the veter-
ans committee and men
whose opinions actually
matter and who are in a
position to actually judge
a player,” Schilling wrote.
“I don’t think I’m a hall of
famer as I’ve often stat-
ed but if former players
think I am then I’ll accept
that with honor.
“In my heart I am at
peace,” he also wrote.
“Nothing, zero, none of
the claims being made
by any of the writers hold
merit.”
Bonds’ ex-wife testi-
fied in 1995 during di-
vorce proceedings that
he beat and kicked her.
Bonds said he never
physically abused her but
once kicked her after she
kicked him.
In 2008, the New York
Daily News reported
that Clemens had a de-
cade-long relationship
with country singer Min-
dy McCready that began
when she was 15 and he
was a star for the Boston
Red Sox. Clemens apol-
ogized for unspecified
mistakes in his personal
life and denied having
an affair with a 15-year-
old. McCready later told
“Inside Edition” she met
Clemens when she was 16
and that the relationship
didn’t turn sexual until
several years later.
The BBWA A recently
voted overwhelmingly to
remove the name and im-
print of former Commis-
sioner Kenesaw Moun-
tain Landis from MVP
plaques. Landis became
commissioner in 1920,
and there were no Black
players in the majors
during his more than two
decades in charge.
Further down the bal-
lot, outfielder Gary Shef-
field jumped from 30.5%
to 40.6% on his seventh
time on the ballot and Jeff
Kent improved from 27.5%
to 32.4% in his eighth year.
The 2022 ballot also
will include Phillies stars
Jimmy Rollins and Ryan
Howard, switch-hitting
slugger Mark Teixeira
and two-time Cy Young
Award winner Tim Lince-
cum.

Kobe’s presence remains

strong, legacy growing
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kobe Bryant wasn’t in
the bubble with the Los
Angeles Lakers last fall
when they won the NBA
championship. He wasn’t
at the All-Star weekend
in Chicago where half the
players wore his number
on their uniforms, the
other half wearing his
daughter’s jersey num-
ber. He wasn’t there to
hear the Basketball Hall
of Fame announced that
his career was worthy of
enshrinement.
Yet his presence was
so clearly felt in each of
those moments.
Bryant, his daughter
Gianna and the other sev-
en people who climbed
aboard that helicopter
on a Sunday morning in
Southern California have
been gone for exactly
one year now — Tuesday
marks the grim anniver-
sary of the crash that
took their lives.
Tears have been shed.
Stories have been told.
Tributes have been made.
And if there was any
doubt about what kind of
legacy Bryant — a five-
time NBA champion, still
the No. 4 scorer in NBA
history, a 20-year veteran
of the league — left be-
hind, it has been erased
now. He still resonates,
maybe more than ever.
“God rest his soul,
God rest the soul of Gigi
and the seven others that
perished,” said Miami as-
sistant coach and former
NBA player Caron But-
ler, who was close with
Bryant for years. “The
legacy that he left, man,
he did it all. He inspired.
When you think about be-
ing better, embracing the
storm, having the right
mentality and perspec-
tive about life and always
trying to be better, he
embodied it all and that’s
why his legacy will live
forever.”
Bryant is gone, but
that doesn’t mean Butler
is wavering on a promise
he made. Butler famous-
ly had a longtime affinity
for Mountain Dew, even
drinking it during games
when others thought he
was having Gatorade.
When Butler played
for the Lakers, Bryant
strongly urged him to
kick the habit.
Butler was taping an
ad last year for Mountain
Dew. He took a sip for the
cameras. He then spit the
drink out.
“Out of respect to my
brother,” Butler said.
Butler and Bryant
were brothers in the
teammate sense. Tony
Altobelli lost his actual
brother, John Altobelli,
in the crash. Alyssa Alto-
belli was a teammate of
Gianna Bryant; she was
on the helicopter along
with John, her father, and
mother Keri.
John Altobelli was the
baseball coach at Orange
Coast College in South-
ern California. Tony Al-
tobelli is the sports in-
formation director at that
school; sports informa-
tion directors are tasked
with promoting their
teams, in good times and
bad, always trying to find
a positive way to tell a sto-
ry. And somehow, even
for a story this painful,
Tony Altobelli has man-
aged to do that.
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Baseball gathers behind
home plate to honor
Hammerin’ Hank
ATLANTA — Brian Snit-
ker choked back tears as he
remembered Hank Aaron’s
affection for those who didn’t
possess his unparalleled talent
on the baseball field.
During his post-playing
career running the Atlanta
Braves farm system, the Ham-
mer had a penchant for looking
beyond the can’t-miss pros-
pects.
“He always wanted to move
a player up, and he preferred
that it wasn’t the so-called bo-
nus babies,” said Snitker, who
has managed the Braves since
2016 and got his start in the
dugout thanks to Aaron. “He
wanted to get that grinder guy,
the guy who was overachiev-
ing.”
Snitker was among those
who spoke Tuesday at a memo-
rial service honoring Aaron,
who died last week from natu-
ral causes at the age of 86.
Baseball Commissioner Rob
Manfred, Hall of Famer Chip-
per Jones and former Braves
outfielder Marquis Grissom
were among those who spoke
at the ceremony, which was
held before a small, socially
distanced crowd — including
Aaron’s widow, Billye, and
other family members — on
the concourse directly behind
home plate at Truist Park.
The remarks were deliv-
ered in an exhibit known as
Monument Garden, which
prominently features a statue
of Aaron delivering the swing
that produced 755 homers.
Others sent videotaped
tributes, including Baseball
Hall of Famers John Smoltz
and Tom Glavine, one-time
Aaron teammate and cur-
rent Houston Astros manager
Dusty Baker, reigning Nation-
al League MVP Freddie Free-
man, and former Braves great
Dale Murphy, who captured
back-to-back MVP awards in
the 1980s.
Aaron’s famed No. 44 was
painted in the dormant grass
of center field. Braves Chair-
man Terry McGuirk noted the
unseasonably warm January
weather — the temperature
climbed into the upper 60s —
as a sign from above honoring
one of the game’s greatest
icons.
Noting the 10 Baseball of
Famers who have died in the
past year, Manfred said Aaron
“belongs on our sport’s Mount
Rushmore. He stood — on and
off the field — above all oth-
ers.”
SOURCE:
The Associated Press

PREP BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

New Hope boys beat Grenada in overtime

GRENADA — The New Hope High
School boys basketball team beat Grena-
da 59-57 in overtime in Tuesday’s road
game.
LJ Hackman led the Trojans with 35
points, and Chris Allen hit the winning
free throws in the extra period.
Jorden Edwards added 10 points for
New Hope.
The Trojans will play Friday at Noxu-
bee County.
Other scores
Prep Girls Basketball
Lamar School 44, Heritage Academy
37
New Hope 33, Grenada 31
GRENADA — The New Hope girls
beat Grenada 33-31 in Tuesday’s road
game.
Anna Prince led the Trojans with 11
points.
West Lowndes 55, Nanih Waiya 36
The West Lowndes girls beat Nanih
Waiya 55-35 in Tuesday’s home game.
Quankeria Halbert led the Panthers
with 20 points. Tydajasha Hood and
Nenah Young each scored 12 for West
Lowndes.
The Panthers will travel to face
French Camp Academy on Friday.
Starkville 54, Greenwood 24
Starkville Academy 41, East Rankin
Academy 31
STARKVILLE — The Starkville
Academy girls beat East Rankin 41-31 in
Tuesday’s home game.
Lillee Alpe led the Volunteers with 16
points.
Starkville Academy will play Thurs-
day at Pillow Academy in Greenwood.
Columbus Christian Academy 60,
Kemper Academy 19
DE KALB — The Columbus Chris-
tian Academy girls picked up a 60-19
win at Kemper Academy in Tuesday’s
road game.
Audrey Foreman had 20 points to
lead the Rams. Morgan Whitten scored
12, and Taylor Tipton had eight.
Columbus Christian will host Hebron
Christian in Friday’s regular-season fi-
nale.
Oak Hill Academy 38, Indianola Acad-
emy 30
INDIANOLA — The Oak Hill Acade-
my girls beat Indianola Academy 38-30
in Tuesday’s road game.
Allie Comer led the Raiders with 12
points. Morgan Dabbs had nine, Mary
Beth Briggs had seven, and Sydney
Pierce had five.
Oak Hill’s next game is Friday at Win-
ston Academy.
Prep Boys Basketball
Heritage Academy 58, Lamar School
56
MERIDIAN — The Heritage Acade-
my boys edged Lamar School 58-56 in
Tuesday’s road game in Meridian.
Whit Altmyer led the Patriots with 17
points, and Jonathan Peal had 15.
Heritage Academy’s next game is Fri-
day against Tuscaloosa Academy (Ala-
bama).
South Pontotoc 69, Caledonia 62
PONTOTOC — The Caledonia boys
lost 69-62 at South Pontotoc on Tuesday.
Jarvis Leigh had 18 points to lead the
Cavaliers. Issac Grady scored 13, and
Trey Williams ahd 11.
Jeremy Emerson and Ja’Von Hopkins
added nine points apiece.
West Lowndes 68, Nanih Waiya 42
Jamarveion Seals had 13 points to
lead the way for the West Lowndes boys
in a 68-42 home win over Nanih Waiya
on Tuesday.
Fredrick Rice Jr. had nine points
and seven rebounds for the Panthers,
and Jaylon Sherrod had eight points
and eight boards. Josh Franklin had six
points, three rebounds and six steals,
and Cam Smith chipped in seven points.
Rolandis Robinson added two points
and six rebounds for West Lowndes.
Starkville 86, Greenwood 63
Starkville Academy 60, East Rankin
Academy 34
STARKVILLE — The Starkville
Academy boys beat East Rankin Acade-
my 60-34 on Tuesday in Starkville.
Cy Hallberg led the Vols with 11
points, and Jarius Jordan had 10.
Kemper Academy 68, Columbus Chris-
tian Academy 33
DE KALB — The Columbus Chris-
tian boys lost 68-33 to Kemper Academy
on Tuesday in De Kalb.
Joe Michael Edwards had 13 points
for the Rams, and Drake Shaw had eight.
Oak Hill Academy 47, Indianola Acad-
emy 43
INDIANOLA — The Oak Hill boys
beat Indianola Academy 47-43 on Tues-
day in Indianola.
Manning Huffman led the Raiders
with 18 points.
With the win, Oak Hill clinched the
No. 1 seed in the MAIS Class 3A, Dis-
trict 2 tournament.
Pickens Academy (Ala.) 60, Russell
Christian Academy 42
The Pickens Academy (Alabama)
boys beat Russell Christian Academy
60-42 on Tuesday.
Rafe Brown had 15 points to lead the
Pirates. Drake Lowery had 12 points,
William Parker had 10, and Hayden
Dyer had nine.
Pickens will play Thursday at Patri-
cian Academy in Butler, Alabama.
Prep Archery
Houston 2937, West Point 2897
WEST POINT — The West Point
High School archery team lost Tues-
day’s home opener to Houston, 2937 to
2897.
Lidia Portera was the Green Wave’s
top female shooter with 254 out of 300
points. Emanuel Thompson was West
Point’s best male shooter with 277
points, setting a school record, and
Noah Essary scored 254.

Soccer
Continued from Page 1B
nior stepped up to the challenge with
three as Christian Juárez had a hat
trick, José Castillo had two goals and
Hayden Dodson got his second goal of
the season.
“They can’t just zone in on him be-
cause other people are scoring, so I
think his game’s progressing nicely,”
Olsen said of Parnell.
The coach said his favorite goal of
the night — with plenty to choose from
— was Parnell’s skillful redirect of a
Cole Crawford free kick with 10 min-
utes to go in the first half. But it was
the previous goal, in which Parnell
simply blew the ball by the Vicksburg
goalkeeper, that put New Hope 3-0 —
an advantage comfortable enough to
open things up even more.
“We’ve usually been pretty good
at playing with a lead,” Olsen said.
“Sometimes in the past, we might have
laid back, foot off a little bit, but I think
us keeping the pressure on them and
making them make quick decisions
helped out tonight.”
Parnell added two goals before the
half, Castillo put in his second goal of
the night in the 39th minute and Juárez
scored on a tough shot just before the
halftime whistle to give New Hope a
commanding 8-0 lead.
Just 34 seconds into the second half,
Juárez added another goal. His third
of the night, less than five minutes lat-
er, prompted an unexpected question:
Would New Hope’s scoreboard at the
east end of the field even accommo-
date double digits? After a brief pause,
“10” flashed on the Trojans’ side, and
the issue was resolved — though not
for long. In the 49th minute, about 70
seconds before the game was whistled
to an end via the mercy rule, Parnell
chipped a ball effortlessly into the goal
for his fifth score of the night.
“It feels like we can intimidate the
opponents that are coming up,” Parnell
said. “It shows we’re capable of com-
peting in the playoffs at a high level.”
Of course, it took the Trojans longer
than they expected to get things going
against the Gators before the com-
pressed offensive explosion. Vicksburg
pushed the ball into the attacking third
and nearly scored before Castillo deftly
slotted the ball into the right side of the
net for New Hope’s opening goal in the
16th minute.
“I think it kind of kicked us in the
rear end a little bit to get motivated
— that it could all be taken from you
at any moment,” Olsen said of the Ga-
tors’ close call. “I’m proud of how they
responded.”
Excepting the first 15 minutes of the
match, the Trojans proceeded to aver-
age one goal in just about every three
minutes, a rip-roaring pace the likes
of which exceeded the scoring output
of every other match New Hope played
this season.
In fact, the Trojans scored more
goals Tuesday than they’ve allowed all
season — a number still in the single
digits. And while the outburst counts
the same as a 1-0 win in the scorebook,
New Hope is happy to advance to its
second-round road game on a high
note.
“Any time you can get a win in the
playoffs, it’s a good feeling,” Olsen
said. “I’m proud of the guys and the ef-
fort they put in tonight.”

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Continued from Page 1B
forgot and got a little sloppy here and
there.”
Despite four second-half scores
and two more in overtime, the Char-
gers and Yellow Jackets battled to
a scoreless draw in Tuesday’s first
half. Controlling possession for the
bulk of the opening 40 minutes, Ox-
ford narrowly missed an opening
tally on a shot from A iden Belk from
well beyond the 18 -yard box that
sent Starkville goalie Griffin Davis
sprawling.
Yellow Jacket defender Soren
Haupt saved a second near-Char-
ger goal as he darted behind Davis
to stop a ball that had been chipped
over the Starkville keeper just inch-
es shy of the goal line.
Oxford looked to have found the
chink in Starkville’s armor with 26
minutes remaining in the frame as a
long free kick was bobbled by Davis
and promptly sent into the back of
the net by an Oxford attacker. But as
the Chargers began to celebrate, the
linesman blew the play offside.
Sophomore Ethan Pulliam
breathed life into an otherwise list-
less Starkville attack when he en-
tered the contest with 14 minutes
remaining in the first half. R ipping
off a 50 -yard run, he just missed a
gaggle of incoming Yellow Jackets
on a cross that f lew into the mitts of
Charger goalie Scott Coker.
“I mean, he loves to run for the
ball,” Watson said of Pulliam. “He
loves those thorough balls, so I told
him, ‘Man, this is your game; the
through ball is open, so be ready.’
Once he started doing that, the back
line had to drop in a little bit, and it
changed up things for their team.”
A fter a sluggish first 40 minutes,
Starkville opened the scoring in
Tuesday’s contest on a Max Buehler
goal in the 44th minute. Receiving a
corner kick cross, Buehler def lected
the pass off his right foot, ever so
slightly tapping the crossbar before
his shot dipped into the back of the
net.
Oxford found the equalizer 15
minutes later as Joel Sandoval net-
ted a bouncing ball in the Starkville
box to pull the Chargers even before
midfielder Jack Tannehill slammed
home a bouncing ball off a Char-
gers corner kick to push the visitors
ahead.
With the clock ticking toward two
minutes remaining, Starkville’s last-
ditch effort manifested in a f lying
header from Haupt that trickled past
Coker and gifted the Yellow Jackets
one last breath of postseason life.
Oxford took the lead for good three
minutes into the extra frame when
Josh Zuniga connected with another
bouncing ball inside the Starkville
box. Charger offensive weapon John
West Perry put the finishing touches
on Tuesday’s win when he notched
the last tally of the night with under
two minutes remaining in the first
half of overtime to send Oxford into
the second round.
“ The main message, man, is just
remember this feeling,” Watson said
through a hushed tone. “You never
like this feeling, and it ’s probably
not the last time you’re going to feel
it. But any of those times where you
don’t feel like doing that extra work,
that extra sprint, that extra lift or
that extra workout, hey, come back
to this feeling right here.”

MSU
Continued from Page 1B
it didn’t suppress Howland’s frustration.
When asked in his postgame presser if he thinks
the rule should be changed to expand replay review
outside of two minutes, the sixth-year MSU coach
was noncommittal to an answer.
“I don’t know. I’m not on the rules committee,
they’re worried about finishing games within two
hours for television reasons,” Howland said. “I
think it’s a hard question, because they were able to
request a check of the goaltend in the last two min-
utes, and they won that. So, we can’t get one, but
that’s just how the ball bounced for us. It’s tough.”
A few breaks that didn’t go MSU’s way aside,
Howland didn’t excuse his team’s poor execution
down the stretch, despite holding Tennessee to
3-of-19 beyond the arc and 37 percent shooting from
the field.
“We’ve had a number of games where we strug-
gled down the stretch making the right reads and
plays,” Howland said. “But we’re going to get better.
They’re going to keep working at it and I have con-
fidence in them.”
Molinar had a game-high 16 points for MSU,
while D.J. Stewart was the only other player in dou-
ble figures with 11. Yves Pons was the only Vol in
double digits with a 13-point effort.
MSU is back in action against Iowa State at 5 p.m.
Saturday at Humphrey Coliseum as part of the Big
12/SEC Challenge.
“The fact that we have such high character kids
and phenomenal leadership amongst the team
amongst the players, starting with D.J. and Abdul
(Ado), I think we’ll bounce back and have a great ef-
fort with our practice on Thursday,” Howland said.
“This is the first time for many of our guys playing
in the SEC, you can see it’s a very difficult league
night in and night out. The last two nights we’ve
brought a great effort and if we continue to do that
we’ll be rewarded for it moving forward.”
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NCAA, Power Five play defense with Dems controlling Congress
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The NCAA, the Pow-
er Five conferences and
their $2 million platoon
of lobbyists had a pretty
good year on Capitol Hill
in 2020. With Republicans
controlling the Senate, the
power brokers in college
sports were on track to
secure a way for athletes
nationwide to earn money
from endorsements while
otherwise maintaining the
status quo of amateurism.
Now that Democrats
control Congress and
the White House, 2021 is
shaping up to be a much
bigger challenge for those
who don’t want major
changes in college sports.
The bills now best po-
sitioned to advance would
guarantee health care for
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college athletes and some
form of revenue sharing,
which critics describe as
“pay for play.” Democrats
pushing such legislation
aren’t just motivated by
giving athletes access to
the free market through
name, image and likeness
(NIL) rights — a modest
reform that has the full
support of the NCAA and
the Power Five.
Instead, some Demo-
crats see college sports
reform as a racial and eco-
nomic justice issue and
are seeking to correct a
system they consider ex-
ploitative of minorities.
“I think the Power Five
and NCAA proposals are
dead in the water. They
went to Congress and
they lost,” said Ramogi
Huma, executive director
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of the National College
Players Association. “At
this point, all they can
do is play defense, which
is what we were doing at
first. Now we’re playing
offense.”
That defensive posture
for the Power Five comes
after the conferences —
the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12,
SEC and Pac-12 — collec-
tively spent $1,730,000 to
lobby Congress in 2020
— by far the most they
have spent in a year, ac-
cording to lobbying dis-
closures reviewed by The
Associated Press.
The NCAA, despite
calling off its lucrative bas-
ketball tournaments last
March, spent $480,000
on lobbying, roughly in
line with its budget in
past years, for a total of
$2,210,000 paid to lobby-
ists with similar aims.
Each Power Five con-
ference hired its own lob-
bying firm and they collec-
tively hired the same two
firms — one Republican
and one Democratic —
as part of their push for a
narrow bill giving athletes
NIL rights, with numerous
restrictions. The South-
eastern Conference had
the biggest lobbying bud-
get of any league and even
outspent the NCAA, pay-
ing its lobbyists $570,000.
The lobbyists got most
of their wish list into a
bill introduced last month
by Sen. Roger Wicker,
R-Miss., but with Wicker
no longer the chairman
of the Senate Commerce
Committee, it’s unlikely
his bill would advance if it
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
My husband
and I have
been close
friends with a
woman named
“Louise” for five
years. Recent-
ly, we were all
hanging out,
and Louise got
very drunk and
tried to massage
lotion into my
husband’s hands.
She also hugged
him and wouldn’t
let go, although Dear Abby
he put his hands
at his side and
his whole body stiffened.
My husband has expressed
to me that these situations
made him very uncomfortable,
and they do the same to me.
We talked about letting Louise
know, but he felt it would only
make her feel awkward around
us.
It has been a month, and
I can’t seem to let it go. I
don’t want to text her, and I’m
finding excuses to avoid her.
Should I continue trying to let
this go or is a conversation
in order? — TAKEN ABACK IN
NEW YORK
DEAR TAKEN ABACK: If you
“let it go,” it will probably hap-
pen again and the friendship
will be over. A conversation
with Louise is overdue. She
needs to know she must be
more careful about her drink-
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY
(Jan. 27). You’re excellent
at encouraging talent and
coaxing others toward their best
performance. But it’s when you
turn this gift inward that your
life really begins to reflect the
most powerful part of you. It is
not selfish to become your own
best champion. So many others
will ultimately benefit from your
subsequent blossoming. Libra
and Scorpio adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 14, 3, 24,
38 and 5.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). The prevailing muted
mood seems to be perfectly
fine for the others, though your
standards are different. You
so often dwell in the bright and
were reintroduced in the
new Congress.
“The body politic has
shifted left, there’s no
question about it, and
that’s toward more stu-
dent-athlete empower-
ment,” said Tom McMil-
len, a former Democratic
congressman from Mary-
land who now represents
Division I athletic direc-
tors as executive director
of the LEAD1 Association.
Sens. Cory Booker,
D-N.J., and Richard Blu-
menthal, D-Conn., plan
to reintroduce their bill
from the previous Con-
gress that would require
schools to share 50% of
their profits from reve-
nue-generating sports
such as football and bas-
ketball with the athletes
who play them. Con-
ing, because the
last time she be-
came very drunk,
she embarrassed
not only your
husband, but
also you.
DEAR ABBY: I
am childless, but
I have a niece
I’ve given lots of
money to over
the years. She’s
in her mid-40s
with a young
child and a hus-
band who has a
low-paying job.
Although
she has several
degrees, she has worked
mostly as a waitress. They live
in a tiny apartment and during
these rough times, I have been
paying their rent. She rarely
acknowledges it. I have never
discussed it with her parents,
and I have no idea how much
they have (or have not) helped
her.
I’m conflicted about helping
her/them because this is such
a tough time. I can’t see how
they’re going to make their
lives better without help. I’m
wondering if you have some
advice on how I can best
assist them or if I should stop.
— LOSING FAITH IN COLORA-
DO
DEAR LOSING FAITH: You
haven’t spoken to your niece’s
parents about what you have
been doing. Why not? If you
joyous that these dull tones call
out to you for improvement.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). The magic combination
you offer is different from what
anyone else can give. Others
could fill in, but it wouldn’t be
the same. How does it feel to
know that you are, in some
ways, irreplaceable?
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
Metaphorically, today brings a
choice along the lines of canine
or feline. Would you rather the
reliable affection of a dog or the
unpredictable amusement of a
cat? Many pet owners cannot
choose and thus have both.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Other people’s routines are
interesting to you. In following
necticut’s junior senator,
Democrat Chris Murphy,
is drafting his own bill
that would also include
revenue sharing. That
approach has the support
of Huma’s organization,
which is seeking to rep-
resent athletes if they are
granted collective-bar-
gaining rights.
“I think Democrats
have coalesced around
the idea that if you’re go-
ing to spend time debat-
ing the issue of college
athletics, you shouldn’t
be limited to talking
only about endorsement
rights,” Murphy told AP.
“My sense is that if the
NCAA wants Congress
to solve this issue of NIL,
they’re going to have to
come to the table on a lot
of other things as well.”
do, it may give you a clearer
picture of her situation. I wish
you had been more forthcom-
ing about why she isn’t using
any of the college degrees she
has earned. If her parents are
helping her, you may need to
be doing less.
Your niece should research
to find out whether govern-
ment assistance is available.
If it isn’t, and you can afford
it, consider continuing the
financial assistance until the
COVID situation is under con-
trol. Then your niece and her
husband can get back on their
feet, and you can stop being
treated like an ATM.
DEAR ABBY: I have a male
best friend I adore. When I tell
other men about my bestie,
they feel intimidated because
he has a key to my apartment.
We are not dating; we just
have sex sometimes, and
everyone that I try to be with
knows about him. Must I give
up on my bestie to be with the
man I love even though Bestie
and I promised each other that
we will never break our bond
for anyone? — COMPLICATED
IN TENNESSEE
DEAR COMPLICATED: If
you hadn’t been having sex
sometimes with your bestie,
the “man you love” might have
been able to accept him. The
answer to your question is
yes, you WILL have to make
a choice. Now, the question I
have for you is, which man do
you think is the keeper?
your curiosity on the matter,
you’ll learn a trick you can im-
mediately employ to make your
life run better.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You
cherish beauty and feel driven
to protect it, even while realizing
that ultimately it’s the tempo-
rary qualities that make a thing
beautiful. There is a strange
peace in this inevitability.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
You’ll learn how things work.
You’ll figure out what triggers
the action, what motivates the
characters involved, how the
cog twists, how the lever lifts.
A little learning every day, and
you’ll soon be an expert.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You’ve a gift for saying sweet
words. Mostly you are just
expressing your feelings and
relaying the way you see things.
But on a day like today, you can
be more strategic, using this
talent to get what you want.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). In order to feel the release
of joy, there must first be the
tension of its opposite. This
is yet another reason to stop
avoiding conflict. It’s neither nat-
ural nor beneficial to be forever
pleasing.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Whatever response you get
it will be because the other per-
son can relate, or feels in some
way personally needed, wanted
or involved. Performances that
are just one person showing off,
but not connecting, fall flat.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
Jan. 19). You don’t set out to
sharpen your intellect, but it
gets sharp anyway as you keep
up with the demands of the day,
which will include adjusting to
new ideas, technologies and
people.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). The stage is set and yet
nothing much is happening. The
scene lacks a catalyst. For this
to progress, one person must
go on the offensive and that
person is you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Whatever happens, you
maintain a certain amount of
levity. It will seem to others that
you care about what’s going
on around you, though not too
much. How mysterious!
For what it’s worth
SOLUTION:
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Look for The Dispatch’s 2021

Dining Guide, with menus from
area restaurants, inserted in Sun-
day’s newspaper.

Hearty,
wholesome
dishes to support
immune systems
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n spite of our above-average
temperatures the past couple
of days, we know we’re in for
more chilly times ahead. One dish
that always sounds appealing to
me in cool weather is shepherd’s
pie. First, it puts me in mind of olde
England, where I count myself for-
tunate to have had the dish in a rus-
tic village pub with friends. We’d
ridden there on horseback, and our
mounts were stabled behind the
pub while we enjoyed our impromp-
tu supper before riding back across
the moors of Devon under moon-
light. Secondly, it reminds me of a
“scene” in one of my favorite Dick
Francis novels. The protagonist, on
a break from being an understated
hero, makes a shepherd’s pie. Odd
Shepherd’s pie — or cottage
pie — is basically a ground meat
casserole with vegetables, topped
by a crust of fluffy mashed pota-
toes before it’s baked. For purists,
shepherd’s pie is made with lamb
or mutton; cottage pie uses ground
beef. It’s said the pie emerged in
the 1700s and early 1800s as a way
to frugally make use of leftovers.
The end result still today is a thick,
filling self-contained meal. You
may devise dozens of variations,
but if you can brown ground beef
and make mashed potatoes, you’re
well on your way.
What kind of potatoes? The Cafe
Johnsonia site recommends an
all-purpose spud like Yukon Golds
or a floury potato like russets.
won’t stand up to the gravy and
you’ll end up with a stew instead of
a casserole, reads the site. You can
also use instant mashed potatoes,
but again, make sure they aren’t
too wet. It’s also important not to
skip cooling the filling, says sa-
vorynothings.com. It will help keep
the layers in the pie from mixing.
Depending on the dish and the
room temp, cool the filling for 15 to
30 minutes.
Most cooks go for melted cheese
on top. A good extra sharp cheddar
is a frequent favorite.
When January and February
winds blow cold across north Mis-
sissippi, give this classic comfort
food some love.
See SHEPHERD’S PIE, 6B

Cuban chicken: A fresh, flavorful take on family dinner Celebrating

FAMILY FEATURES
big with
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f your family ever gets stuck in a
dinner routine rut, it can feel like
you’re eating the same recipes over berry punch
and over again.
FAMILY FEATURES
However, this fresh and unique

recipe for Cuban Chicken with Salsa
Fresca might inspire you to think
outside the culinary box and give
your family members the satisfactory
flavor they desire at dinnertime. With
fresh ingredients and a wholesome
flavor, this meal is perfect to add to
your dinner menu rotation.
The chicken is full of flavor and
baked using multiple seasonings to
create a Cuban-like taste. The salsa
fresca, which is added on top of the
chicken, is a tad sweet with grapefruit
segments and juice, but also satisfy-
ing with jicama, onion, cilantro and
jalapeno. It adds so much color to
your plate, and all these flavors mash
together for something unique and
special.
To start, create the marinade for
your chicken and let it rest to allow
all those wonderful spices to do their
jobs. Set it in the fridge for 30 min-
utes or more.
Next, it’s time to make the salsa
fresca. Start by chopping red onion
and jicama then add grapefruit and
This Cuban chicken with Salsa Fresca is a festival of flavors and seasonings.
jalapeno to the mix. Add grapefruit
juice, olive oil and, finally, cilantro.
Stir well with a large spoon until
everything is combined.
Once the chicken is baked, cut it
and assemble. The final result is a
juicy chicken breast with a sweet yet
crisp salsa topping. The flavors in this
dish harmonize together to bring you
culinary.net
a bite you have likely never experi-
enced before.
This meal is also nutritious with
fresh fruit and lean chicken, so it’s a
meal almost anyone can enjoy, even if
you’re on a healthy eating kick.
Find more recipes and family din-
ner ideas at Culinary.net.
See CHICKEN, 6B
H
olidays, gatherings and
celebrations can be the best
time to try new, easy, stress-
free recipes. Drink and punch rec-
ipes are especially easy to throw
together (even last-minute) right
before the festivities begin. This
way, the drinks are chilled, and the
food is hot and ready.
No matter if it’s a big crowd or a
night alone with a special some-
one, this Cranberry Raspberry
Vanilla Punch is sure to be the star
of the celebration with its powerful
berry flavor.
The end result is tangy, tart,
sweet and absolutely delicious all
mixed up in one large bowl. With
only five ingredients, it’s simple to
make and even better to enjoy.
Pairing perfectly with sweets or
chocolates, this punch packs the
flavor for nearly any event, gather-
ing or small family dinner.
Start with 8 cups of cranber-
See BERRY PUNCH, 6B
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Shepherd’s pie
Continued from Page 5B
EASY COTTAGE PIE
1 pound lean ground beef
1 small onion, chopped
1 10 3/4-ounce can of low-sodium cream of
mushroom soup
1 14- to 16-ounce can green beans
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 cups mashed potatoes (about 8 servings)
1 cup grated low-fat cheddar cheese
n Preheat oven to 350 F.
n Turn the eye of the stove to medium heat.
Preheat the skillet.
n Add the ground beef to the skillet. Stir the
beef as it cooks to break it into crumbles. This
will take about 5 minutes. Drain off any fat.
n When the ground beef is cooked, add the
chopped onion to the skillet. Stir and cook until
the onion is clear and starting to turn brown.
n Add the mushroom soup, green beans,
Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder and black
pepper to the skillet. Stir to mix all the ingredi-
ents together.
n Pour the beef mixture into a large baking
dish or cast iron skillet. Spread it evenly in the
bottom of the pan.
n If using instant mashed potatoes, follow
directions on box to make 2 cups.
n Spread the mashed potatoes on top of the
beef mixture. Make an even layer.
n Sprinkle the cheese over the top of the
potatoes.
n Put the pan in the oven. Bake for 30 min-
utes. The potatoes will be starting to brown,
and the beef mixture will be bubbling.
n Refrigerate any leftovers within 2 hours.
(Source: happyhealthy.extension.msstate.edu)
COTTAGE PIE
2 pounds potatoes peeled, chopped and boiled
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons 2 percent milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
Beef mixture:
2 pounds lean ground beef
1 1/2 cups frozen peas
1 cup carrots chopped
1/2 cup onion chopped
1 tablespoons dried or fresh rosemary
1 tablespoon thyme
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons minced garlic
n Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
n Mash the potatoes with the butter, milk,
and salt. You can also use leftover mashed
potatoes.
n Brown the ground beef in a large skillet over
medium to medium high heat.
n When the beef is mostly browned, add in
peas, carrots, onion, rosemary, thyme, Worces-
tershire sauce, and garlic. Stir and combine
until beef is completely browned.
n In a 9-by13 inch pan, make a layer of the
beef mixture and then make a layer of the
potatoes.
n Bake in the oven for 35 to 40 minutes, and
broil on high for 5 minutes to brown the pota-
toes on top.
(Source: agrilifeextension.tamu.edu)
SUPERHERO SHEPHERD’S PIE
2 large baking potatoes, peeled and diced
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 cup non-fat or 1 percent milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 pound lean ground beef (15 percent fat)
1 teaspoon onion powder (optional)
3 tablespoons flour
4 cups frozen mixed vegetables
1 teaspoon or cube beef bouillon
1 cup water
n Put diced potatoes in saucepan; add enough
water to barely cover. Bring to boil. Reduce
heat and simmer, covered, until soft (about 15
minutes.).
n Drain potatoes and mash. Stir in milk,
cheese, salt and pepper; set mixture aside.
n Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
n Brown meat in a large skillet. Add onion pow-
der, if using. Stir in flour, and cook for 1 minute,
stirring constantly.
n Add vegetables, bouillon and water. Cook 5
minutes until bubbly.
n Spoon vegetable mixture into 8 inch square
baking dish. Spread potato mixture over vegeta-
ble/meat mixture.
n Bake 25 minutes, until hot and bubbly. Re-
frigerate leftovers within 2 hours.
(Source: foodhero.org)

Berry punch
Continued from Page 5B
ry-raspberry juice then
add cranberry ginger
ale to the mix. Next, add
just a dash of vanilla for
a bit of extra flavor. Stir
and scoop raspberry
sorbet on top for a hint of
smooth sweetness.
The frozen sweetness
of the sorbet combined
with the bubbly ginger
ale and the natural flavors
of the berries give you a
taste that is truly unique
and special.
Add some frozen cran-
berries on top for garnish
and another pop of that
deep, red color.
Set your punch bowl
on the table next to a gor-
geous bouquet of flowers
and it’s guaranteed the
punch bowl will not be
full for long.
Throughout the night,
while conversations are
happening, sip a few
drops of your beverage.
You’re reminded instantly
why you’re celebrating.
You gather, no matter
the celebration, for good
times with lots of laughs
and even better food and
drink.
Find more recipes per-
fect for celebrating any
occasion at Culinary.net.
CRANBERRY RASPBER-
RY VANILLA PUNCH
Servings: 6-12
8 cups cranberry-raspberry
juice
8 1/2 cups cranberry ginger
ale
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1pint raspberry sorbet
Frozen cranberries, for garnish
n In large punch bowl, add
juice, ginger ale and vanilla
extract. Stir until combined.
n Add frozen cranberries and
scoops of frozen sorbet. Stir
slightly then serve immedi-
ately.

Mushrooms
Continued from Page 5B
GRILLED PORTOBELLO
GYROS WITH YOGURT
DILL SAUCE
Cook time: 15 minutes
Total time: 25 minutes
Servings: 4
4 portobello mushrooms
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive
oil
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
2 yellow bell peppers, sliced
Yogurt dill sauce:
1 English cucumber, grated
1 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons extra-virgin
olive oil
1/2 small lemon, juice only
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon minced fresh dill
4 pita breads or naan
2 tomatoes, thinly sliced
1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
1/2 head green lettuce
Crumbled feta cheese (op-
tional)
n Remove stems from
mushrooms and brush caps
with wet towel. Using spoon,
carefully scrape out gills. Slice
mushrooms into 1/4-inch
pieces and place in medium
bowl with olive oil, oregano
and smoked paprika.
n Preheat indoor grill pan
over medium-high heat. Add
mushrooms and peppers; grill,
tossing occasionally, until
tender, 5-7 minutes.
n To make yogurt dill sauce:
Squeeze grated cucumber in
clean towel to remove excess
liquid. Add to large bowl with
yogurt, sour cream, olive oil,
lemon juice, garlic, salt and
dill. Stir to combine.
n To serve, place mushrooms
and peppers in middle of pita
bread. Top with tomatoes,
onion, lettuce, feta, if desired,
and big dollop of yogurt dill
sauce.
(Source: Recipe courtesy of Em-
ily Weeks of “Zen and Spice”)
CREAMY SPINACH,
MUSHROOM AND
LASAGNA SOUP
Cook time: 30 minutes
Total time: 40 minutes
Servings: 4
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive
oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, small diced
8 ounces crimini mushrooms,
sliced
1 jar (24 ounces) marinara
sauce
1 can (15 ounces) diced
tomatoes
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1 tablespoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 bay leaf
3 cups vegetable broth
6 lasagna noodles, broken
into pieces
1/2 cup heavy cream
5 ounces fresh baby spinach
1 cup whole-milk ricotta
cheese
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella
cheese, for topping
n Heat large pot over medium
heat.
n Add olive oil, garlic, onion
and mushrooms. Cook, stirring
occasionally, until onions
and mushrooms soften, 4-5
minutes.
n Add marinara, diced toma-
toes, tomato paste, vinegar,
sugar, basil, salt, oregano,
pepper, bay leaf and broth.
Bring to boil over high heat
then reduce heat to low and
simmer.
n Add lasagna noodles and
cook, stirring often, until
softened, about 15 minutes.
Remove from heat and remove
bay leaf.
n Stir in heavy cream and
spinach until wilted, 2-3
minutes.
n Divide between bowls and
top with dollop of ricotta and
sprinkle of mozzarella.
(Source: Recipe courtesy of Em-
ily Weeks of “Zen and Spice”)

Chicken
Continued from Page 5B
4 tablespoons olive oil
CUBAN CHICKEN WITH SALSA FRESCA 1/2 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
Servings: 5 1 jalapeno pepper, chopped
1 cup grapefruit juice n Heat oven to 400 F.
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons garlic powder n In large bowl, mix grapefruit juice, oil, garlic
2 teaspoons cumin powder, cumin, paprika and red pepper until
2 teaspoons paprika combined. Add chicken to bowl and turn to
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper coat. Refrigerate 30 minutes or longer.
1 1/4 pounds boneless, skinless chicken n To make salsa fresca: In medium bowl, mix
breasts grapefruit segments, jicama, red onion, grape-
fruit juice, olive oil, cilantro and jalapeno pepper
Salsa Fresca: until combined. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
1 cup grapefruit segments n Remove chicken from marinade. Place chick-
1/2 jicama, cubed en in baking dish. Bake 25-30 minutes until
1/2 red onion, chopped chicken is cooked through. Serve chicken with
3/4 cup grapefruit juice salsa fresca.

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SUPERVISORS
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
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SOCCER COMPLEX EXERCISE
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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Sealed Bids for the construc-
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fices of Lowndes County Board South, Range 17 West,
of Supervisors located at 505
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By: Trip Hairston
Title: President
Date: January 15, 2021
Publish: January 20, 2021
January 27, 2021
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
LESLIE R. DEE, MARK A CALD-
WELL AND THE JEFFREY LOUIS
and JOYCE MARIE CALDWELL
REVOCABLE TRUST PLAINTIFFS
VERSUS
ALL PERSONS HAVING OR
CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR
EQUITABLE INTEREST IN THE
SAID LAND DEFENDANT
CAUSE NO. 2021-0003-F
SUMMONS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
TO: ALL PERSONS HAVING OR
CLAIMING ANY LEGAL
OR EQUITABLE INTEREST IN
SAID LAND
You have been made Defend-
ants in the Complaint To Con-
firm and Quiet Title to Real Es-
tate filed in Lowndes County,
Mississippi, Leslie R. Dee,
Mark A. Caldwell and The Jef-
frey Louis and Joyce Marie
VERSUS
ALL PERSONS HAVING OR
CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR
EQUITABLE INTEREST IN THE
SAID LAND DEFENDANT
CAUSE NO. 2021-0003-F
SUMMONS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
TO: ALL PERSONS HAVING OR
CLAIMING ANY LEGAL
OR EQUITABLE INTEREST IN
SAID LAND
You have been made Defend-
ants in the Complaint To Con-
firm and Quiet Title to Real Es-
Legalfiled
tate Notices
in Lowndes County,
Mississippi, Leslie R. Dee,
Mark A. Caldwell and The Jef-
frey Louis and Joyce Marie
Caldwell Revocable Trust,
Plaintiffs asking the Court to
make them the true and lawful
owner of real property in which
you have an interest, de-
scribed as follows, to-wit:
Being an 18.8 acre (more or
less) parcel located in the
Northeast Quarter of Section
32, Township 18 South, Range
17 West, Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi and as shown on a
survey by Pepper Surveying and
Mapping, LLC and being more
particularly described as fol-
lows, to-wit:
Commencing at a two inch pipe undersigned upon the Estate of
found and being used as the
Northwest corner of the North-
Quarter of said Section 32 and on the 15th day of January
used as the point of beginning 2021. This is to give notice to
of the parcel herein described. all persons having claims
From said point of beginning
run South 87 degrees 11
minutes East for a distance of Chancery Clerk of Lowndes
380.3 feet to a one half inch County, Mississippi, within
iron pin found; thence South
for a distance of 704.7 feet to to Creditors. A failure to so Pro-
a one half inch iron pin found; bate and Register said claim
thence South 01 degrees 31
East for a distance
of 295.1 feet to a one half inch This the 18th day of January
89 degrees 34 minutes East
for a distance of 262.1 feet to /s/ Pamela Ann Simpson, Ex-
a one half inch iron pin found
on the West right of way of
ning of a curve to the left hav- 2/3/2021
ing a radius of 3,542.2
and being subtended by a
feet
chord bearing of South 09 de-
grees 15 minutes East for a
distance 162.7 feet; thence
along said curve and West
Right of Way for an arc length
of 162.7 feet; thence South 10
degrees 14 minutes East along
distance of 219.6 feet to a one
half inch pin set; thence North
88 degrees 10 minutes West
leaving said West right of Way
for a distance of 514.4 feet to
a one inch pipe found; thence
North 89 degrees 12 minutes
West for a distance of 884.8
feet to a one inch pipe found;
Thence North 01 degrees
47 minutes West for a dis-
point of beginning. Said parcel
in the Northeast Quarter of
Lowndes County, Mississippi
and contains 18.8 acres plus
of land along the East side to
the West Right of Way of New
Hope Road. Reference bearing
for this property is based on
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CHANCERY CLERK OF
LOWNDES COUNTY,
MISSISSIPPI CINDY E. GOODE,
LISA YOUNGER NEESE, CHAN-
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
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PEARLIE MAE DEAL, EXEC-
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JAMES DEAL, deceased, by the
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day of December, 2020. This is CEASED
to give notice to all persons
having claims against said es-
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same with the Chancery Clerk
of Lowndes County, Missis-
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from this date. A failure to so LOWNDES COUNTY
Probate and Register said
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THIS the 15th day of Decem-
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against the Estate of James PUBLISH: 01/20/2021,
David Roth, Deceased, to Pro- 01/27/2021, 02/03/2021,
bate and Register their claims 02/10/2021
with the Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
within ninety (90) days from the
Employment
first publication date of this No-
tice to Creditors. A failure to so
Probate and Register their
claims will forever bar them.
Call us: 662-328-2424
This the 4th day of January,
2021.
General Help Wanted
/s/ Michael Roth
MICHAEL ROTH, Administrator THE COMMERCIAL
DISPATCH seeks a motiv-
PUBLISH: 1/13, 1/20 & ated, contracted carrier for
1/27/2021 the Caledonia area. Excel-
lent opportunity to earn
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF money for college. Must One call will bring you results.
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
have good transportation,
valid driver's license & in- 662-328-2424
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF KENNETH R. AUSTIN,
surance. Delivers on
Sunday morning and Mon- or place your ad online at
DECEASED Fri afternoons. Apply at The
Commercial Dispatch, 516 ads.cdispatch.com
PETITIONER, PEGGY AUSTIN Main Street in Columbus.
GREENE No phone calls please.
No: 2020-160-RPF
Government
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters of Administration hav-
ing been granted on the 5th
day of January, 2021 by the
Chancery Court of Lowndes
County, Mississippi to the un-
dersigned upon the Estate of
Kenneth R. Austin, deceased,
notice is hereby given to all
persons having claims against
said estate to present the
same to the Clerk of said Court
for probate and registration ac-
cording to law within ninety
(90) days from the first date of
publication of this notice or
they will forever be barred.
This the 6th day of January,
2021.
/s/ Peggy Austin Greene
PEGGY AUSTIN GREENE
ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ES-
TATE OF KENNETH R. AUSTIN,
(D)
PUBLISH: 1/13, 1/20 &
1/27/2021
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE
TRUSTEE’S SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
WHEREAS, default has oc-
curred in the performance of
the covenants, terms and con-
ditions of a Deed of Trust
dated May 16, 2013, ex-
ecuted by PAUL N. STEWART,
conveying certain real property
therein described to REAL ES-
TATE CLOSING SERVICES INC,
as Trustee, for REVERSE
MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC.,
Original Beneficiary, to secure
the indebtedness therein de-
scribed, as same appears of
record in the office of the Chan-
cery Clerk of Lowndes County,
Mississippi filed and recorded
May 22, 2013, in Deed Book
2013, Page 14797 ; and
Medical / Dental
WHEREAS, the beneficial in-
terest of said Deed of Trust
was transferred and assigned
to Reverse Mortgage Solutions,
Inc.; and
WHEREAS, Rubin Lublin, LLC
has been appointed as Substi-
tute Trustee; and
NOW, THEREFORE, the holder
of said Deed of Trust, having
requested the undersigned so
to do, as Substitute Trustee or
his duly appointed agent, by vir-
tue of the power, duty and au-
thority vested and imposed
upon said Substitute Trustee
shall, on February 17, 2021
within the lawful hours of sale
between 11:00AM and 4:00PM
at the southeast front door of
Courthouse proceed to sell at
public outcry to the highest and
best bidder for cash or certi-
fied funds ONLY, the following
described property situated in
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
to wit:
BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHW-
EST CORNER OF SECTION 31,
TOWNSHIP 18 SOUTH, RANGE
17 WEST, LOWNDES COUNTY,
MISSISSIPPI; THENCE NORTH
1 DEGREE 20 MINUTES WEST
561 FEET; THENCE NORTH 1
DEGREE 00 MINUTES WEST A
THE INITIAL POINT OF BEGIN-
NING OF THE PROPERTY
HEREIN DESCRIBED; THENCE
CONTINUE NORTH 1 DEGREE
00 MINUTES WEST A DIS-
TANCE OF 298 FEET; THENCE
NORTH 3 DEGREES 26
MINUTES EAST A DISTANCE OF
240 FEET; THENCE NORTH 23
DEGREES 32 MINUTES EAST A
4 MINUTES EAST A DISTANCE
87 DEGREES 44 MINUTES
14 MINUTES EAST A DIS-
NORTH 87 DEGREES 44
MINUTES WEST A DISTANCE
OF 478 FEET TO THE INITIAL
POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE
PROPERTY HEREIN DE-
AND CONTAINING
7.31 ACRES, MORE OR LESS,
LYING AND BEING SITUATED IN
THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF
SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 18
SOUTH, RANGE 17 WEST,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI.
PROPERTY ADDRESS: The
street address of the property
is believed to be 119 SONIA
DRIVE, COLUMBUS, MS
39702. In the event of any dis-
crepancy between this street
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