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TRADITION VERSUS INCLUSION

Local Methodists grapple with potential split over LGBTQ ministers, marriages
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
AND TESS VRBIN
ialtman@cdispatch.com; tvrbin@cdispatch.com

O
ne Golden Triangle resident said
it wasn’t until he was an adult
that he learned some Christians
accept members of the LGBTQ com-
munity for who they are.
The man, who spoke for this article
on the condition of anonymity, said
he sometimes felt isolated growing up
as part of a church where he couldn’t
share his experiences as an LGBTQ
person with other church members.
“I was led to believe that if I wanted
to be a part of a Christian community
and be genuine in my faithfulness to
God, that it meant I could not accept
the part of me that was experiencing
non-heteronormative thoughts and
feelings,” he told The Dispatch.
Now he attends an area United
Methodist Church where he’s wor-
shipped for more than seven years
and knows plenty of Christians who
support gay marriage and ordaining
openly LGBTQ ministers. It’s made
him realize these issues need to be
addressed “at a larger level,” he said.
That’s why he has mixed feelings
about the potential schism in the
United Methodist Church, which is
publicly grappling with LGBTQ issues.
Most recently, a group of 16 bishops
and advocacy group leaders proposed a
plan to split the denomination between
those who oppose the church’s 1972
declaration that “homosexuality is
incompatible with Christian teaching”
and those with the more “traditional”
approach.
“It grieves me to think that the
church I have called home for so long
may fragment because it cannot reach
an agreement,” he said.

The ‘schism’
UMC’s current stance is that
practicing LGBTQ individuals cannot
be ordained as ministers and that the
church doesn’t condone celebrations
of unions between same-sex cou-
ples. Methodist leaders from around
the world affirmed that stand at a
gathering in St. Louis, Missouri, last
February after years of congregations
debating the issue.
“They really didn’t deal with the
issue,” said Gene Bramlett, pastor at
Covenant United Methodist Church in
Columbus.
See METHODIST CHURCH, 6A

Private probation firms cash in on monitoring offenders

Local investigators, a few judges, question
practice of ‘probation for profit’
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
ialtman@cdispatch.com
Whenever Lowndes County
Justice Court Judge Ron Cooke
imposes a fine on someone, he
always asks them, “How much
can you afford to pay?”
In most cases, he just needs
to know how much money the
court can expect monthly from
that defendant. But sometimes
— primarily for people found
guilty of driving under the in-
fluence — the defendant must
pay a separate fee for private
probation companies that mon-
itor court payment plans and
those attending court-ordered
programs.
“I always ask them,” Cooke
said, adding he reminds them, “‘
... you’ve got $50 that goes to the
probation company.’”
Private probation companies
work with lower courts that typ-
ically deal with misdemeanor
crimes like traffic violations,
DUIs and domestic violence.
Unlike circuit courts, which deal
with offenders charged with se-
rious felonies and rely on Missis-
sippi Department of Corrections
probation officers to monitor
them, judges and clerks in mu-
nicipal and justice courts often
rely on companies to ensure of-
Cooke Woodruff
fenders follow judges’ mandates.
However, not everyone in
the justice system agrees with
this approach. Steven “Woody”
Woodruff, a 20-year law enforce-
ment veteran and investigator
for the 16th Circuit District
Attorney’s Office, opposes the
practice, recently authoring an
op-ed titled “Probation for Prof-
it,” which ran in multiple pub-
lications in Mississippi earlier
this month. In the letter, Wood-
ruff writes the system unfairly
targets “those on fixed incomes
who can least afford additional
expenses” and sentences them
to “what amounts to financial in-
carceration.”
See PROBATION, 6A

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ASK RUFUS

A New City Hall and Fire Station

L
ast week of a Confed-
Carol erate military
Brown hospital that
took her after the war
fourth grade ended became
class from the first Union
New Hope Academy. The
Elementary wood frame
School on a brick ve-
walking tour neered school
of downtown building was
Columbus the new Union
to discover Academy.
Rufus Ward
the history Hunt’s
found in the plan that was
buildings there. They had accepted for city hall was
some questions about “for a building, the first
City Hall’s history and the story of which is con-
old bell that is displayed structed entirely of stone
in front of the building. and the second of brick.”
The story of the present The stone was Tennes-
city hall opens a window see sandstone and the
to some significant chang- brick used was steel gray
es occurring in Columbus with yellow buff trim St
during 1903. Louis pressed brick. The
By the beginning of construction contract was
1902, the discussion in awarded to W.T. Christo-
Columbus over the need pher on Dec. 4, 1902, for
Courtesy photo
for a new city hall had $13,345. The “fire hall” A March 1903 view of the progress on constructing the new city hall with the almost completed fire station in the
changed from “do we was to be of brick and rear. The first floor stone walls were of Tennessee sandstone.
build one?” to “when?”. built at a cost of $3,185.
There were other infra- Construction of the was constructed behind would toll 12 times. The
structure needs the city new city hall began in the the city hall (where it is bell would toll so loud
had and the discussion first week of January 1903 now as a residential build- that it would be heard
centered on the priority with the razing of the old ing) and was completed across the town.
to be given to each. In city hall, which had been on May 1, 1903, about In March 1903, the
order for the city to have Columbus’ second. When three months before city numbering of streets and
free home mail delivery, I found the original news- hall. There was a tower giving numbers to houses
the Post Office Depart- paper account of clearing on it where the alarm was underway. This along
ment required Columbus of the city hall lot, I got (fire) bell was mounted. with the then ongoing
and other towns to have a surprise. A devastating The bell in front of city installation of streetlights
sidewalks and street- fire in September 1854 hall was the city’s alarm and the construction of
lights. By 1902 those two burned two city blocks bell. However, that bell is sidewalks were a require-
projects were already downtown, and among dated 1907 indicating it ment by the post office to
underway. the destroyed buildings was a new one replacing have free mail delivery
In 1902, the city was Columbus’ first city the old bell in use when to homes in the city. It’s
council’s discussion hall. Columbus histories the building was complet- interesting the story of
centered on building not reflect that at the city’s Courtesy image ed. the building of Columbus’
only a new city hall, fire request, architect and R.H. Hunt’s 1902 proposal for Columbus’ new city hall The bell was the way city hall is also the story
and fire station. The fire station was completed on May
department and a new contractor William O’Neal in which an alarm was of major changes taking
1, 1903, and the city hall on July 28.
school for black children, prepared a draft plan for sounded announcing place in the town. The
but also the need to make a new city hall in June of existing one. they were deployed to there was a fire in the window into our history
major improvements to 1856. The new structure The July 28, 1903 the Mexican border in re- city. When a fire was dis- that can be opened by a
the city’s sewer system. was on the site of the Columbus Commercial covered the bell was rung fourth grade field trip is
sponse to Pancho Villa’s
It was decided to issue present city hall. announced the new city wildly to sound the alarm. amazing.
attack on Columbus, New
bonds in the amount of That second city hall hall had been completed It then was paused in its I was helped with
Mexico. There they be- ringing before tolling the this column by Carolyn
$50,000 and undertake all apparently was not so with attractive flowerpots came Co. I of the 1st Miss number representing the Kaye, Gary Lancaster and
the projects. There was new when it became city on each side of the main
also a need for a new post hall 1856. The Jan. 6, 1903 Regiment, Mississippi city ward in which the research done by the late
entrance. However, city
office building as for 40 newspaper account said: National Guard.) fire was located. When Sam Kaye.
offices had not moved in,
years the post office had “The old building which as their furniture had not The new “fire hall,” the fire was extinguished Rufus Ward is a local
been in the Gilmer Hotel. has stood at the corner arrived. Other occupants also designed by Hunt, and danger past the bell historian.
Architect R.H. Hunt of of Main and Sixth Streets of the building had moved
Chattanooga was selected for so many years past, in. The post office took up
to design the new city and was used first as a the east half of the first
hall, and in July 1902 he private residence then floor. It moved there from
submitted plans for that as a bank and finally as a the Gilmer Hotel build-
building, for a “fire hall” city hall, will soon be but ing. The public library
behind it and for a “new a memory. Its demolition and the armory of the
Negro school house began last week.” Columbus Riflemen were
which is to be erected in It appears that William also located in the new
the northern part of the O’Neal’s plan in 1856 was building. (The Columbus
city at a spot near the old not for constructing a Riflemen were a local
fairgrounds.” The old fair- new building but reno- military unit organized
grounds had been the site vating and remodeling an in 1837. In October 1916

Marker will honor civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANOLA — A his-
torical marker in Missis-
sippi will commemorate
the legacy of civil rights
activist Fannie Lou Ham-
er.
Research for the proj-
ect was led by a Missis-
sippi Valley State Uni-
versity student and a
professor who taught him,
the Greenwood Common-
wealth reported.
C. Sade Turnipseed
is an associate professor
of history, and 17-year-
old Nigerian native Brian
Diyaolu took her public
history course during the
fall semester. They recent-
ly received approval from
the Sunflower County
Board of Supervisors to
place the Hamer sign in
front of the county court-
house. It will be unveiled
during a ceremony March
27.
Students in Turnip-
seed’s course are as-
signed a historical topic,
and Diyaolu’s was Hamer.
He said he wrote three
drafts of the historical
marker’s narrative before
pitching the idea to the
supervisors. He said other
students helped him edit
the narrative and prepare
the presentation.
Hamer was born in
Montgomery County,
Mississippi, to sharecrop-
pers on Oct. 6, 1917.
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‘Shut it down,’ protesters chant about Mississippi prison

Gov. Reeves traveled to Parchman this week
and described conditions there as ‘terrible’
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Protesters out-
side the Mississippi Capitol on
Friday condemned conditions
in state prisons where inmates
have died violently in the past
month.
People with relatives in the
Mississippi State Penitentiary
at Parchman said at a rally that
some prison cells have no work-
ing lights or toilets and inmates
are given sparse meals that are
sometimes served with cock-
roaches on the trays.
“Parchman is a prison farm
plantation,” said Jaribu Hill,
a longtime Mississippi hu-
man-rights attorney. “Shut it
down!”
A few hundred protesters re-
sponded: “Shut it down! Shut it
down!”
Their voices echoed in down-
town Jackson, but many of the
state’s top policymakers were
not in town to hear it. Most
members of the Mississippi
Legislature left the Capitol on
Thursday and won’t return until
Monday.
At least 10 inmates have died
in Mississippi prisons since
late December — most of them
at Parchman and most during
outbursts of violence. Prison
officials have attributed some of
the violence to clashes between
gangs.
Some inmates have used
cellphones to send photos and
videos of fights, trash-strewn
facilities and prisoners sleeping
on floors in cells without mat-
tresses.
Cellphones are not allowed
inside the prisons, and state
officials have pledged to crack
down on phones and other
contraband. During the ral-
ly Friday, Sharon Brown with
the Mississippi Prison Reform
Coalition said that without the
inmates’ cellphones, the world
might not know about condi-
tions in Parchman.
“We are here because we
are sick and tired of state-sanc-
tioned murder,” Brown said.
“We are here to uplift the cries
of our brothers.”
The state’s new Republican
governor, Tate Reeves, traveled
to Parchman this week and
described conditions there as
“terrible.” At a news conference
Thursday, Reeves said the state
is taking immediate steps to try
to make Parchman safer.
All wardens and deputy war-
dens have been put on 12-hour
shifts to ensure leaders are
always present at the prison,
Reeves said. He said prison
guards are being screened for
indications that they might be
involved in gangs. A Mississippi
Bureau of Investigation agent
has been assigned to work at
Parchman to uncover criminal
activity among inmates or em-
ployees that might have con-
tributed to the violence, Reeves
said.
Reeves became governor
Jan. 14 after serving eight years
as lieutenant governor — a job
that gave him a leading role in
setting state budgets.
The rally Friday was orga-
nized by Team Roc, the charity
affiliated with entertainment
mogul Jay-Z’s company Roc
Nation. Team Roc provided
T-shirts and signs with the slo-
gan, “Close Parchman.”
Speaking from the stage Fri-
day, Arica Jackson said her hus-
band is in Parchman’s Unit 29,
where some of the violence has
occurred. Reeves said he visited
part of Unit 29, which has multi-
ple buildings. Jackson said the
governor didn’t go to the area
where her husband is housed.
Jackson said her husband
called her Friday morning and
said he had not been allowed to
bathe for 30 days.
“They were using the bath-
room in garbage bags,” Jackson
said. “They’re killing rats any
way they know how, to preserve
what little bit of food they do
get.”
Reeves said Thursday that
most damage in the prisons
is caused by inmates. Jackson
drew cheers from the crowd
when she publicly disagreed
with the governor. She said
employees of the Mississippi
Department of Corrections —
MDOC — are bringing contra-
band items into prisons.
“The number one thing that
destroys property in MDOC is
canines and the officers when
they come in there ripping the
whole wall down and the whole
roof down looking for the con-
traband that they brought in
there,” Jackson said.

Mississippi governor signs law to cover gap in teacher pay

Legislators are also expected to consider another pay counted in
the total
House Bill 1, which al-
locates more than $18.4
has been collecting more
money than anticipated
raise for teachers this year, but House and Senate cost of the
raise. The
million. That should be
enough to cover the rest
during the current bud-
get year.
leaders have not agreed on specific proposals result was
that too lit-
of the cost of the raise
during the current bud-
Legislators are also ex-
pected to consider anoth-
BY EMILY ensure that teachers re- ficials later discovered a tle money get year. er pay raise for teachers
WAGSTER PET TUS ceive the full pay raise bureaucratic error. was includ- Legislative leaders this year, but House and
Reeves
The Associated Press ed in the say no teachers have lost Senate leaders have not
they were promised this Because of the way
original budget for the money because of the agreed on specific pro-
JACKSON — Missis- school year. some school districts year that started July 1. original error. posals. Mississippi has
sippi Gov. Tate Reeves The $1,500 raise was keep records about cer- Reeves, a Republican, Covering the cost of long had among the low-
has signed his first bill approved during the 2019 tain categories of teach- became governor Jan. 14, the raise was not a chal- est teacher salaries in the
into law: a measure to legislative session, but of- ers, too few teachers were and on Thursday signed lenge because the state United States.

Republicans assigned to most top jobs in Mississippi House

Committees are the first places for
legislators to consider issues, and the
chairman can decide which bills are
debated and which die quietly
BY EMILY
WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Republi-
cans will continue to hold
most leadership positions
during this four-year term
in the Mississippi House,
where the party has more
than 60 percent of the
seats.
House Speaker Philip
Gunn, a Republican from
Clinton, announced most
committee assignments
for the 122 representa-
tives Thursday — the end
of the third week of the
four-month legislative ses-
sion.
He had previously
announced leaders and
members of the two mon-
ey committees. Repub-
lican Rep. John Read of
Gautier remains as chair-
man of the budget-writing
Appropriations Commit-
tee. Republican Rep. Trey
Lamar of Senatobia is the
new chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee,
which deals with taxes
and borrowing.
Committees are the
first places for legislators
to consider issues, and
the chairman can decide
which bills are debated
and which die quietly.
Republican Rep. Rich-
ard Bennett of Long
Beach remains as chair-
man of the Education
Committee. Republican
Rep. Mac Huddleston of
Pontotoc is the new chair-
man of Universities and
Colleges.
Rep. Angela Cocker-
ham of Magnolia, an in-
dependent, also received
a high-profile assignment
as the new chairwoman
of the Judiciary A Com-
mittee. She previously led
the Judiciary B Commit-
tee. The new Judiciary B
chairman is Republican
Rep. Nick Bain of Corinth.
In previous years, Judi-
ciary A handled civil jus-
tice legislation and Judi-
ciary B handled criminal
justice matters.
“I want to make sure
that we enact good laws
for the state of Missis-
sippi,” Cockerham said
Thursday.
The new chairman of
the House Corrections
Committee is Rep. Kevin
Horan, an independent
from Grenada. This is also
a high-profile assignment
because Mississippi’s
prison system has been
shaken by deadly violence
in the past month. For
years, health inspections
have shown numerous
problems at the Missis-
sippi State Penitentiary
at Parchman, including
broken sinks and toilets,
holes in cell walls and
widespread mold and mil-
dew in showers.
Cockeham, Bain and
Horan all previously
Jan. 10. Republicans also
control the 52-member
cans, but he also named
Democrats as chairmen
served in the House as
Democrats. Bain switched
Senate. Hosemann gave
most of the high-profile
of the Public Health Com-
mittee and the Correc-
to the Republican Party assignments to Republi- tions Committee.
early last year. Cocker-
ham dropped the party la-
bel and sought reelection
in 2019 as an independent.
And Horan dropped his
party label when the cur-
rent legislative session
started.
Republican Rep. Sam
Mims of McComb re-
mains as chairman of
the House Public Health
Committee. Republican
Rep. Joey Hood of Acker-
man is the new chairman
of the Medicaid Commit-
tee.
Gunn named one Dem-
ocrat to lead a committee.
Rep. Cedric Burnett of
Tunica is the new chair-
man of Youth and Family
Affairs.
Republican Lt. Gov.
Delbert Hosemann an-
nounced Senate commit-
tee members and leaders

Police seek persons of interest in Friday shooting

Victim in stable condition at Baptist
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
Columbus police have
identified a person of in-
terest in a Friday night
shooting that sent one
man to the hospital.
According to CPD
Chief Fred Shelton, po-
lice responded to a shoot-
ing report at 8:10 p.m. at
the victim’s residence
on the 900 block of 20th
Street North.
The victim, identified
only as a male in his 20s,
was taken by ambulance
to Baptist Memorial Hos-
pital-Golden Triangle,
then airlifted to North
Mississippi Medical Cen-
ter in Tupelo, where he
underwent surgery. Shel-
ton said the man was in
stable condition as of Sat-
urday afternoon.
Shelton said he be-
lieves the victim knew
the shooter.
“We have identified
one person of interest
and are looking for anoth-
er person, but no arrests
have been made at this
point in the investiga-
tion,” Shelton said.
Anyone with informa-
tion on the shooting is
asked to call CPD at 662-
244-3500 or Golden Tri-
angle Crime Stoppers at
800-530-7151.

SOLUNAR TABLE
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peak-feeding times for fish and game.
Sun. Mon.

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children’s book festival April 1-3

HAT TIESBURG — The University
of Southern Mississippi expects hun-
dreds of children’s librarians, teach-
ers and fans of books for children and
young adults at its 53rd Fay B. Kaigler
Children’s Book Festival from April
1-3.
The event at the Hattiesburg cam-
trators and other experts in the field.
The Wednesday-through-Friday
festival also includes presentation the
Ezra Jack Keats Awards and the Mag-
nolia Book Awards.
Keats was an author and illustrator
whose wordless picture book “The
Snowy Day” is the New York Public Li-
brary’s most-checked-out book.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Voice of the people
Announces start of LED
streetlight replacement
After extensive planning and
preparation, the City of Colum-
bus will begin the installation
of new LED streetlights in
Columbus starting this week.
Brighter white, state-of-the-art
LED lights are replacing every
yellow (sodium) streetlight on
Columbus streets. Work begins
tomorrow, Monday, January
27, 2020, and will take approxi-
mately three to four months to
complete.
Over the last year, city
leaders have worked with the
Mayor’s office, Columbus City
Council and officials from Co-
lumbus Light and Water (CLW)
to develop a plan to replace
over 4,000 existing streetlights
within the city with brighter
and more energy-efficient LED
fixtures.
This city-wide upgrade will
accomplish several important
goals for residents of Colum-
bus. First, increased lighting
will support safety and security
improvements. Second, the
project will save the city over
$10 million over the next 20
years versus the current outdat-
ed lighting system.
Safety, professionalism,
and communications are top
priorities during the street
light conversion. Professional
installers are working to install
these lights. Each Monday, the
Mayor’s office will provide an
update on the progress of the
project and what part of the city
where work will be scheduled
for that week.
If residents have scheduling
or technical specifics questions
on the project, please contact
any of the persons below.
We look forward to complet-
ing the project, and thank you
for any feedback you would like
to share.
Robert Smith, Sr.
Mayor, City of Columbus
PROJECT CONTACTS
Joe Dillon, City of Columbus,
Public Information Officer, Mit-
igation Manager, 662-251-3746
Shawn Stutzman, LightEdi-
son, Director of Construction,
720-636-1961
Nick Walley, LightEdison,
Project Superintendent, 330-
979-8367
Russ Phillips, Path Compa-
ny, Co-Founder and Principal,
901-896-5130
Rudy Watkins, PATH Com-
pany, Vice President, 901-647-
5816
Prison concerns
I have read a lot this week
concerning all the problems
in our state prison. I read our
politicians’ solutions, and I am
appalled. I have a vulnerable
elderly relative who was conned
out of over $250,000 after being
deceived by addicts. I had five
people convicted for these
crimes. All five had been con-
victed of other crimes previous-
ly. All but one are back on the
street and back to doing what
they do for drugs. I do not be-
lieve probation or parole work
in most cases. This person
worked over 40 years and saved
for retirement. That money is
gone and won’t be returned.
These people were ordered
to pay restitution, but rules of
society don’t apply to them.
These addicts take advantage
of friends and family and com-
mit a lot of crimes to support
their habit. The average meth
addict requires over $70,000
per year to support their habit.
They don’t hold a job, they don’t
contribute to society and they
provide us with plenty of their
offspring to support.
I see where Scott Colom and
Kabir Karriem want to bring
their folks back home. These
aren’t choir boys they want to
release, they are criminals.
They are locked up for a reason.
Our two politicians seem to side
with Jay Z, an admitted former
crack dealer and Yo Gotti. Keep
in mind rappers are well known
for degrading women, promot-
ing drug use and violence. Scott
Colom is concerned for the
living conditions of these con-
victs. Apparently he has not left
his large fine northside home to
see how these people live in the
outside world. I don’t believe
probation or parole work in
most cases. Mr. Colom thinks
we can improve conditions of
our prisons without spending
a dime. The cost to us citizens
will be much greater with these
felons free. He says you may
be surprised to hear that he
wants clemency being a district
attorney. In my opinion we have
not had a district attorney since
Forrest Allgood was ousted af-
ter doing a phenomenal job for
victims. What we have now is a
man that would be more suited
to be a social worker or public
defender than district attorney.
Mr. Colom seems to put his
concerns for the criminal and
their family over the victims.
My suggestion is if Mr.
Colom and Mr. Karriem want
to help bring their folks home
maybe they should sponsor
some of them, take them into
their homes and charge them
rent. Then you can take that
rent and apply it to both of your
very past due property taxes
(according to public records)
since I can only assume you are
a little short on funds and you
both make your living off my
taxes.
Kerry Blalock
Concerned and angry citizen
Columbus

OUR VIEW PARTIAL TO HOME

Roses and thorns
A rose to Kirk Rosenhan, who
announced he will retire from his
position as Oktibbeha County Fire
Services Coordinator, a role he has
held since the position was created
almost 32 years ago, as soon as his
successor can be found. Rosenhan has been a tire-
less advocate for the county’s fire service, help-
ing the fire departments increase their ratings,
procuring needed equipment and encouraging
generations of volunteer firefighters. He has also A front page
been actively involved in supporting firefighters story in the
throughout the state through important contri- May 9, 1952
Dispatch offers
butions to firefighter organizations in the state. an account
His “24/7” approach to his role – wherever there of a visit by
was a fire or emergency involving the fire de- acclaimed play-
partment, Rosenhan was there – helped keep the wright and Co-
public informed. For the media, his cooperation in lumbus native
disseminating such news was invaluable. At some son Tennessee
point, Rosenhan will turn over the reins to a new Williams and
coordinator, and we don’t envy that person’s task his 95-year-old
of trying to fill Rosenhan’s shoes. If a county fire grandfather,
department or facility doesn’t soon bear the name who was rector
of the Episcopal
of Kirk Rosenhan, the county will have missed Church here
an opportunity to honor one of its great public at the time of
servants. Williams birth.

A rose to Baptist Memorial Hos-

pital-Golden Triangle for providing
its dialysis patients a treatment that
had not previously been available at
the hospital. The treatment is called
“therapeutic plasma exchange,” a
procedure that removes a life-threatening sub-
stance from the patient’s body. It is essentially
a filter system that returns the patient’s healthy
plasma, which is often a far better option than
a transfusion. Previously, those who sought the
treatment would have had to be transported to
another hospital, yet another costly and time-con-
suming measure. Now, those patients who qualify
for the treatment can have it done right here at
their hometown hospital. That’s great news for
Baptist patients and we commend Baptist for con-
tinuing to invest in this community’s health case
services.
A rose to the Junior Auxiliary
of Columbus, which just wrapped
up its third year of an anti-bullying
campaign for fourth-grade students
throughout Lowndes County. JA put
together the program in response
to educators, who said that while they enjoyed JA’s
program for teens, there was a need to address
the topic among younger students. The program,
called “Choose Kindness’’ educates fourth-grad-
ers on what is – or isn’t bullying – and what they
can do to stop/prevent these acts. JA made its last
presentation of the year at Caledonia Elementa-
ry School last week and expects to continue the
program next year. We applaud JA In its efforts to
equip our children to confront this issue.
A rose to Mississippi University
for Women’s Masters of Fine Arts
program for creative writing, which
was recently awarded the nation’s
No. 1 ranking and named the Intel-
ligent Pick. The MFA ranked the
highest in the “The Top 20 Online Master’s in Cre-
ative Writing Degrees.” Programs were evaluated
based on reputation, flexibility, cost, reputation,
faculty and outcomes. The data was then convert-
ed to an Intelligent Score for each program on a
scale of 0 to 100. The W’s MFA scored a 99.22.
The top picks for the best online master’s in cre-
ative writing are highly regarded, cost-effective
and flexible. Given its ties to literary excellence,
first established by MUW student Eudora Welty,
this honor only reinforces the W’s proud legacy.
Tennessee Williams comes to visit
On the front page
of the May 9, 1952,
edition of this news-
paper, a page that has
stripped across the
bottom: “Week’s best
slogan: We’ll get more
done if we work togeth-
er,” is a story about
Tennessee Williams’
visit to Columbus. This
was the playwright’s
first time back in his Birney Imes
birthplace, according
to the article, since he was 3 years
old.
The story, written by Douglas
Bateman, is one of several local
accounts of the event.
By this time in his career, Wil-
liams had received international
acclaim for “The Glass Menagerie” believe I have met some of them
(1944) and “A Streetcar Named
Desire” (1947), the film of which
had recently shown at The Prin-
cess, according to the article.
Apparently, Bateman accompa-
nied Williams and his 95-year-old
grandfather, the Rev. W.E. Dakin,
on the short walk from the Gilmer
Hotel (located on what is now a va-
cant lot on Main at Fourth Street)
to the church he served.
Writes Bateman: “As they
emerged from Catfish Alley, the
venerable old rector lifted his
walking cane and pointed to the
Episcopal Rectory.
“‘There is the house where
you were born,’ he told his famed
grandson. ‘And next to it is the
church I served with so much plea- visit to Columbus.
sure. It is almost as old as I am …’”
The playwright’s visit came af-
ter his usual winter sojourn in Key
West. Traveling in his Jaguar con-
vertible, Williams and his grand-
father, were en route to Memphis
with likely a stop in Clarksdale
where Dakin was reassigned
shortly after the birth of
his grandson.
After seeing the room
in the rectory where
Williams was born, the
group moved to the sanc-
tuary where the Rev.
Dakin reminisced about
the families and the
pews they occupied.
“I must confess,”
Williams whispered to
Bateman, “I just can’t
return this far in mem-
ory, but I do believe this is one of
the handsomest churches I’ve ever
seen.”
When told of the wealth of
literary raw material in the local
characters and folklore in the
town of his birth, Williams said, “I
already.”
One of those may have been
Walter Kennedy, a longtime friend
of Bateman’s, who after his time at
The Dispatch, ran The Chimney’s,
a small bookstore on 11th Street
South, about a half block from The
W.
Kennedy’s account of Williams’
visit to Columbus comes via the
unpublished memoirs of VP Fergu-
son, another vivid native son, who
spent most of his adult life in Paris.
Ferguson’s daughter, Katherine
Kerby, is trying to organize her
father’s manuscript into a publish-
able form. What would have to be
one of the highlights of the man-
uscript is an account of Williams’
While I — nor Kerby — can
vouch for the veracity of the fol-
lowing, its entertainment value is
undeniable.
This is Walter Kennedy recall-
ing an outing to Bob’s Place with
Tennessee Williams as recounted
by VP Ferguson:
As a distant but charming old
friend, Tom, knowing virtually no
one on the local scene, always looked
to me when he drifted into Colum-
bus.
Meeting here at the Gilmer where
he stayed during his brief séjour, he
expressed a fond weakness for cold,
canned beer and ‘indigenous barbe-
cue’ … I dutifully steered him down
across the river to Bob Tweet’s (sic)
Tombigbee Drive-In for the ‘Quintes-
sence of Southern Hickory Smoked.’
… Tennessee’s initial shock upon
biting into the blistering grandeur
instantly changed from admiration
into awe, and finally terror. As he sol-
emnly watched me slosh on still more
sauce over the inspired creation, then
chew into it like the Phoenix.
In all good logic Tennessee must
have reflected that my taste buds
were seared out or that I was an
apprentice fire eater.
Another tamer account of
Williams’ visit, in the Sunday, May
11 Dispatch, comes from Rachel
Shute, who wrote a popular society
column under the pen name Iva
Tattler.
“The literati and illiterati buzzed
around excitedly this weekend
over having none other than famed
playwright Tennessee Williams in
their midst. And, we, like all who
met him, were completely won over
by his charm.”
Rachel, rather Iva, goes on to tell
about Rev. Dakin and his grandson
being driven to The Cedars by
Davis Patty where they visited with
Mary Ita and Bailey Hardy, whom
Dakin had married decades earlier.
Alas, there is no mention in Iva’s
account of trips to Bob’s Place or
“indigenous barbecue.”
Birney Imes (birney@cdispatch.
com) is the former publisher of The
Dispatch.
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Trump lawyers argue Democrats just want to overturn election

‘They’re here to perpetrate the most
massive interference in an election
in American history. And we can’t
allow that to happen.’
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told senators.
BY ERIC TUCKER, LISA
MASCARO AND
ZEKE MILLER
The Associated Press
WA S H -
INGTON
— Presi-
dent Don-
ald Trump’s
law yers
plunged
into his im-
Trump
p each ment
trial defense Saturday
by accusing Democrats
of striving to overturn
the 2016 election, argu-
ing that investigations of
Trump’s dealings with
Ukraine have not been a
fact-finding mission but
a politically motivated ef-
fort to drive him from the
White House.
“They’re here to per-
petrate the most massive
interference in an elec-
tion in American history,”
White House Counsel Pat
Cipollone told senators.
“And we can’t allow that
to happen.”
The Trump legal
team’s arguments in the
rare Saturday session
were aimed at rebutting
allegations that the pres-
ident abused his power
when he asked Ukraine
to investigate political
rival Joe Biden and then
obstructed Congress as
it tried to investigate. The
lawyers are mounting a
wide-ranging, aggressive
defense asserting an ex-
pansive view of presiden-
tial powers and portray-
ing Trump as besieged by
political opponents deter-
mined to ensure he won’t
be reelected this Novem-
ber.
“They’re asking you
to tear up all the ballots
across this country on
your own initiative, take
that decision away from
the American people,”
Dems say oust Trump or he’ll betray again; ‘He is who he is’
before rendering a final verdict. investigation into the matter. The
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
“Give America a fair trial,” Rep. president’s lawyers get their first
WASHINGTON — Closing
out their case, House Democrats
Adam Schiff, the lead Democratic
impeachment manager, said Fri-
chance to defend him Saturday,
and are expected to argue he acted
warned in Donald Trump’s im- day. “She’s worth it.” appropriately.
peachment trial that the president Schiff delivered Democrats’ The opening arguments appear
will persist in abusing his power final remarks in the Senate trial to have done nothing to shake Re-
and endangering American de- after three days of methodical and publicans’ support for Trump or
mocracy unless Congress inter- impassioned arguments detailing persuade enough centrist GOP
venes to remove him before the charges that Trump abused power lawmakers to call for new wit-
2020 election. by asking Ukraine for politically nesses, including Trump’s former
They then implored Republican motivated probes of political ri- national security adviser John
senators to allow new testimony vals, then obstructed Congress’ Bolton.
Cipollone said. Sekulow, holding up a including the Democrats, two-hour presentation,
Though Trump is the copy of special counsel truly knows it is.” reserving the heart of its
one on trial, the defense Robert Mueller’s report, His team made only a case for Monday.
team made clear that it which he accused Dem-
intends to paint the im- ocrats of attempting to
peachment case as a “relitigate.” That report
mere continuation of the detailed ties between the
investigations that have 2016 Trump campaign
shadowed the president and Russia but did not al-
since before he took office lege a criminal conspira-
— including one into alle- cy to tip the election.
gations of Russian elec- From the White House,
tion interference on his Trump tweeted his re-
behalf. Trump attorney sponse: “Any fair minded
Jay Sekulow suggested person watching the Sen-
Democrats were investi- ate trial today would be
gating the president over able to see how unfairly I
Ukraine simply because have been treated and that
they couldn’t bring him this is indeed the totally
down for Russia. partisan Impeachment
“That — for this,” said Hoax that EVERYBODY,

Trump defends Sanders, stoking Democratic divisions

BY JULIE PACE
AP Washington Bureau Chief
WA S H -
INGTON —
As tensions
between
Democratic
presidential
c a nd idat es
B e r n i e
Sanders and Sanders
Elizabeth Warren rose
earlier this month, Sand-
ers found himself with an
unusual ally: President
Donald Trump.
During a raucous
campaign rally in which
Trump critiqued some
of his Democratic chal-
lengers, the president
launched into an un-
prompted defense of
Sanders. Warren had ac-
cused Sanders of telling
her that a woman couldn’t
win the White House in
November, but Sanders
insisted he would never
say such a thing. Trump
concurred.
“I don’t believe that
Bernie said that. I real-
ly don’t,” Trump told his
supporters. “It’s not the
kind of thing he would
say.”
As the Democratic pri-
mary intensifies before
the first contests to de-
cide the nominee, Trump
and his allies have issued
a series of curiously fa-
vorable comments about
Sanders. They’ve played
up the Vermont senator’s
electoral strength and
fundraising prowess. And
they’ve suggested that if ing weeks, Trump is also “There are people
Sanders doesn’t secure said to see an opportunity who are very anti-estab-
the nomination, it will be to suppress some of the lishment, who have a lot
because the party rigged senator’s most ardent of oppositional feelings
the primary against him.
supporters, or even win about the political estab-
It’s a sentiment that res- over some of their votes. lishment,” said Jennifer
onates with some Sand-
For some Democrats, Palmieri, who advised
ers’ backers who believe it’s a worrisome prospect. Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
the Democratic Nation-
al Committee worked
against him in 2016, when
Hillary Clinton won the
nomination.
In offering occasion-
al support for Sanders,
Trump is taking a page
out of his own playbook
from the election four
years ago and betting
that the Democratic divi-
sions that helped him win
the White House are even
deeper now.
Indeed, more moderate
Democrats fear that Sand-
ers — a self-described
democratic socialist —
would struggle to pull to-
gether a robust coalition
in the general election.
But they also worry his
supporters might not vote
in large enough numbers
for any other nominee if
Sanders fails in his sec-
ond quest for the party’s
nomination.
Both scenarios would
benefit Trump. The presi-
dent is closely monitoring
the Democratic race, and
has taken note of Sand-
ers’ strong fundraising
and polling, according
to Republicans who have
spoken with him about
the election. But if Sand-
ers stumbles in the com-

Stocks fall as fears about deadly

virus grow; Dow drops 170
BY ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writer
Health care companies
led a broad slide in U.S.
stocks Friday as increased
fears over the spread of a
deadly outbreak of corona-
virus rattled markets.
The S&P 500 had its
worst day since early Oc-
tober and snapped a two-
week winning streak.
The sell-off followed
news that a Chicago wom-
an has become the second
U.S. patient diagnosed
with the new virus from
China. Health authorities
worldwide have been tak-
ing measures to try to con-
tain and monitor the coro-
navirus outbreak.
“It really is a reaction
to the widening nature of
what’s going on with the
coronavirus,” said Lisa
Erickson, head of tradi-
tional investments at U.S.
Bank Wealth Manage-
ment. “People are con-
cerned about, ultimately,
the impact on Chinese
growth and perhaps global
growth.”
The S&P 500 index
fell 30.07 points, or 0.9
percent, to 3,295.47. The
index had been down as
much as 1.3 percent earli-
er.
The Dow Jones Indus-
trial Average dropped
170.36 points, or 0.6 per-
cent, to 28,989.73. It briefly
slid more than 316 points.
The Nasdaq composite
lost 87.57 points, or 0.9 per-
cent, to 9,314.91. The Rus-
sell 2000 index of smaller
company stocks slumped
22.78 points, or 1.4 per-
cent, to 1,662.23.
The stock market has
been mostly racking up
gains going back to last
fall. Before this week, the
S&P 500 had only posted
a weekly decline three
times since October.
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Methodist Church
Continued from Page 1A
Changes to UMC
doctrine can only be
approved by the Gen-
eral Conference, which
Bramlett described as
the overarching UMC
legislative body that
speaks for the church.
Ordinarily the General
Conference is called every
four years, Bramlett said
— last year’s gathering
in Missouri was a Special
Conference. The next
General Conference will
be held this May.
The bishops who pro-
posed the split came up
with a division of property
and monetary settlement,
but the General Confer-
ence ultimately has to
approve it. Formal or not,
Bramlett said, a divide
among Methodists is
already very real.
“Whether or not there
is a fiscal separation, the
schism has
already
happened,”
he said.
“It’s in the
hearts and
minds of
the people.”
But Bramlett
Bramlett
believes this split is about
more than just LGBTQ
issues in churches — it’s
about the universal cultur-
al divide between those
who want to “hang onto
tradition” and those who
want to change.
Dwight Prowell, min-
ister at St. James United
Methodist Church in
Columbus, claims the dis-
agreement is about local
congregations wanting
more say in their affairs,
rather than always strictly
adhering to the General
Conference.
“I think local churches
Probation
Continued from Page 1A
Woodruff, who has
worked as an investigator
in Clay and Oktibbeha
counties for several years,
told The Dispatch he’s
known several people who
were put on probation be-
cause they couldn’t afford
to pay a fine up front and
wound up paying thou-
sands of dollars more in
the long run than someone
able to pay the whole fine
on their court date. He’s
even known someone who
was charged a “supervi-
sion fee” while in jail on a
separate charge.
He argued the lack of
oversight — unlike bond
companies, probation
companies are not subject
to a regulatory committee
on the state level — makes
it easy for the companies
to scam people out of
money, often by charging
defendants cash and not
entering formal contracts
with courts.
“The way I understand
it is if you wanted to open
a probation company, you
could slap something
on your shirt that says,
‘Woody’s Probation’ and
walk into the courtroom
should have
input in how
things are
carried out
on the local
level more
so than be-
ing direct-
Prowell
ed,” Prowell
said. “ … If you’re going
to be part of the organiza-
tion, then you must carry
out the organization’s
mandates. But if you’re
not going to be part of the
organization and you want
to be independent, then
you need to have the right
to say you’re going to be
independent and step
away.”
‘A fight within a family’
Jake Adams-Wilson
is an associate pastor at
First United Methodist
Church in Starkville and
leads Connection, the
facility that hosts the
church’s contemporary
worship service. He said
he does not want the
church to separate and
believes the majority
of Starkville FUMC’s
congregation — although
very diverse philosoph-
ically and politically —
agrees.
“To the extent the Unit-
ed Methodist Church can
continue to
have the far
left, the far
right and
the middle
worship-
ping in
the same
building Adams-Wilson
and coming
together as a church,” he
said, “I think that helps us
have a witness to a very
divided country about the
power of reconciliation
‘I don’t like the fact people are profiting from public safety. ... The laws are
set up to keep people safe. They’re not set out for anybody to profit from.’
and say, ‘Your Honor, we’re
the new probation compa-
ny in town, we wish you
would do business with
us,’” he said.
He argued that any
fines defendants pay as a
penalty for breaking the
law should be used to sup-
port the court system, not
for corporate profit.
“I don’t like the fact
people are profiting from
public safety,” he said.
“... The laws are set up to
keep people safe. They’re
not set out for anybody to
profit from.”
It’s not an unfamiliar ar-
gument for Tiffany Engla-
de, director of operations
for Court Programs, Inc.,
a Gulfport-based proba-
tion company that works
with 100 courts through-
out Mississippi, including
Starkville Municipal Court
and Oktibbeha County
Justice Court. She argued
her company helps take a
load off clerks and judges.
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and about the way that
God can call us to higher
purposes. I think if we did
divide over ideological
lines, that would hurt
our witness to the larger
community.”
Other Methodist
leaders, particularly in the
African-American com-
munity, take a firm stance
against LGBTQ inclusion.
Many black Christians, re-
gardless of denomination,
believe homosexual ac-
tivity is wrong, said Ozell
Landfair, pastor of Griffin
Chapel United Methodist
Church in Starkville.
“Homosexuals should
be treated with dignity
and respect,
as anyone
else, but the
act itself is a
sin,” Land-
fair said.
He and
another pas-
tor, Sylves- Landfair
ter Miller
III, who preaches at Plair
United Methodist Church
and Lindsey Chapel Unit-
ed Methodist Church in
Oktibbeha County, both
said they will not perform
same-sex weddings under
any circumstances.
Miller said he does not
tell his congregants what
to believe and lets them
form their own opinions,
but those who are willing
to share their opinions
tend to agree with him.
Neither Bramlett nor
Prowell was comfortable
guessing what their con-
gregations and individual
church members would
choose to do after the
General Conference, or
what that would even look
like.
“I don’t have tea leaves
or a crystal ball, so I can’t
Steven Woodruff, investigator with the 16th Circuit District Attorney’s Office
“They’re very apprecia-
tive of the services we pro-
vide,” she said, “because if
it was left up to the court,
that clerk wouldn’t know
that John Doe didn’t pay
his fine for the past four
months, because they
don’t have the time to
keep up with each individ-
ual who goes through the
court every month. ‘Oh,
look, John Doe didn’t pay
his fine this month. I need
to get in touch with him.’
That’s what we do.”
An ‘extra arm’
or ‘extra burden’
Englade said compa-
nies like Court Programs
provide far more services
than simply collecting fees
for the courts. Her compa-
ny provides resources like
drug testing, ankle brace-
lets and GPS monitoring,
while helping enroll defen-
dants in court-mandated
classes, directing them
to agencies that help rein-
say for certain,” Bramlett
said. “Whatever deci-
sions are made have to
be made according to the
conscience of the indi-
vidual. If the conscience
of the individual follows
the gospel, then whatever
decision they make is
between them and God.”
However, Bramlett is
concerned the divide is
keeping potential new
members away from
church and tiring current
members.
“It’s all a matter of a
fight within a family,” he
said.
Inclusiveness
and alienation
Prowell personally
agrees with UMC’s cur-
rent stance on gay mar-
riage and ordination of
ministers. But he believes
the church is open and
accepting of its diverse
membership.
“There are some
leadership positions
that are closed,” he said.
“I’ve never been part of
a church that’s denied
(LGBTQ people) roles in
the church. The language
says, ‘practicing’ or
‘self-avowed.’ There are
people who have kept it
to themselves and have
been in leadership. I think
the fallout is those people
who want to open it, and I
think that’s where people
are having problems.”
Still, he understands
the difficulty that pres-
ents to LGBTQ church
members.
“Keeping it to them-
selves, they felt they were
not really being what they
were created to be,” he
said. “There have been
some who felt that they
state drivers licenses and
aiding the search for jobs
or rehab programs.
“We kind of consider
ourselves a community
justice program ... where
we offer the court an extra
arm,” she said.
When the company
does monitor a person on
a monthly schedule to pay
off court fines, she said, it
charges less than $20 and
often waives the charge al-
together.
However, she admits
probation companies don’t
answer to an advisory
board in Mississippi and
that CPI rarely enters con-
tracts with courts, letting
judges send it offenders
as they come. She also
sometimes CPI is paid by
offenders and sometimes
by courts, depending on
the court.
Judges in Lowndes
County Justice Court use
Mississippi Probation Ser-
vices, which has an office
were pushed aside ...
because they conducted
their private life different
than some other people
did.”
Bramlett said while
he can see both sides of
the argument, he thinks
LGBTQ people feel
alienated in the church
and said some church
members are willing to be
forgiven for their own sins
without giving the same
courtesy to others. As a
former Roman Catholic
who left that church
because he felt Catholic
leaders were not taking al-
legations of sexual abuse
against minors seriously,
Bramlett said it was the
inclusiveness of the Unit-
ed Methodist Church that
drew him in.
“It’s not up to us to
decide what their relation-
ship with God is,” he said.
The LGBTQ Meth-
odist who wished to
remain anonymous said
he believes every church
member should attend
where they are accepted
and supported. A sepa-
ration might be the best
means of protecting
LGBTQ Christians if the
church cannot reach an
agreement.
He believes UMC
should accept, ordain and
marry interested LGBTQ
members, because it
would show the world
Christians can worship
together while having
differing interpretations
of scripture.
“It is an honest confes-
sion that as Christians, as
human beings, we are not
privileged to be correct
about every theological
issue,” he said. “Owning
the fact that none among
us has every aspect of
in Columbus and charges
offenders $50 per month
for its services. However,
Cooke said, those services
are almost never just col-
lecting court fines.
“We don’t pick on
the poor folks,” he said.
“Those are the ones we
actually try to work with.”
Judges primarily use
the company to help mon-
itor those enrolled in Mis-
sissippi Alcohol Safety
Education Program, a
requirement for every-
one with DUIs, including
those who paid their entire
court fine up front, he said.
However, Cooke admit-
ted he could only speak
for Lowndes County Jus-
tice Court and that other
courts may use them as
collection agencies.
Both Starkville Munic-
ipal Court and Oktibbeha
County Justice Court use
multiple private probation
companies.
Starkville Municipal
Christian living figured
out is necessary if we are
to attract those outside
the church into our doors.
The work of welcoming,
of loving, and of igniting
in others a desire to draw
near to Jesus is a higher
calling than policing faith.
“Too many of us in the
LGBTQ community have
been sold a false represen-
tation of the character of
God...,” he added. “If this
continues, an entire demo-
graphic ... may continue
to be estranged from a life
within the church.”
Prowell said he thinks
congregations and mem-
bers who want to leave
will do it no matter what
the General Conference
decides. But at its core,
the church will remain
the church.
He would know — his
grandfather was a voting
delegate at the General
Conference in 1968 when
the church was deciding
whether to accept Afri-
can-American congrega-
tions.
“Just listening to him
talk to my parents, there
(was) quite a bit of tension
during that time of what
would be the church’s
future if we merged,” he
said. “Would there be a
large number of people
who left? Would there be
churches who pulled out?
“There’s always going
to be some disagreement,
but how far are people
going to take it?” he
added. “The church, for
me, is beyond us. This is
God’s church, and it has
survived generations and
generations for hundreds
of years. The form has
changed many times, but
the church has survived.”
Judge Brian Kelley de-
clined to comment on the
record about the matter,
as did Oktibbeha Jus-
tice Judge Tony Boykin,
though Boykin said he
doesn’t use the companies.
The Dispatch unsuccess-
fully attempted to reach
Oktibbeha Justice Court
judge Marty Haug.
Columbus Munici-
pal Court Judge Rhonda
Hays-Ellis could not be
reached for comment by
press time. Her fellow mu-
nicipal judge Gary Good-
win said he doesn’t think
any judge in Columbus
has used the private com-
panies for years. He avoids
using them specifically be-
cause of the extra monthly
cost to the defendant.
“I try to do fines that are
fair and I try to do justice
by everybody,” he said. “I
just try to do what I think
is right. If all it is is collect-
ing a payment, I don’t need
a collection agency. ... It’s
going to get collected or
not, and to double up the
cost of that seems to be an
extra burden on people.
I’m not going to put it on
them as long as I’m judge.”

Starkville native Eli Cappleman participates the Frostbite half-marathon early Saturday morning. The event, spon-
sored by Chick-fil-A and the Greater Starkville Development Partnership, raised funds for the Alzheimer’s Associa-
tion of Mississippi.
Trump touts logo for new Space
Force, with nod to Star Trek
Space Force, the first new military
service since 1947, is meant mainly
to improve protection of U.S.
satellites and other space assets
BY ROBERT BURNS
AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON — features an arrowhead
The Pentagon’s new U.S.
Space Force is not Star
Trek’s Starfleet Com-
mand, but their logos
bear a striking similarity.
President Donald
Trump unveiled the Space
Force logo Friday, writing
on Twitter that he had
consulted with military
Pompeo lashes out at journalist;
NPR defends its reporter
Secretary of State: Incident is
‘another example of how unhinged
the media has become in its quest to
hurt’ President Donald Trump
BY LYNN BERRY
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — quest to hurt” President
Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo lashed out in an-
ger Saturday at an NPR
reporter who accused him
of shouting expletives at
her after she asked him
in an interview about
Ukraine. In a direct and
personal attack, Ameri-
ca’s chief diplomat said
the journalist had “lied”
to him and he called her
conduct “shameful.”
NPR said it stood by
Mary Louise Kelly’s re-
porting.
Pompeo claimed in a
statement that the inci-
AP: Feds plan to move Epstein warden to prison job
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The
warden in charge when
Jeffrey Epstein ended his
life in his jail cell is being
moved to a leadership po-
sition at another federal
correctional facility, put-
ting him back in the field
with inmates despite an
ongoing investigation into
the financier’s death, two
people familiar with the
matter told The Associat-
ed Press.
The federal Bureau
of Prisons is planning to
move Lamine N’Diaye to
FROSTBITE HALF-MARATHON
leaders and designers be-
fore presenting the blue-
and-white symbol, which
shape centered on a plan-
etary background and
encircled by the words,
“United States Space
Force” and “Department
of the Air Force.”
The logo, which bears
the date 2019 in Roman
numerals, also is similar
in design to that of Air
dent was “another exam-
ple of how unhinged the
media has become in its
Donald Trump and his
administration. Pompeo,
a former CIA director and
Republican congressman
from Kansas who is one
of Trump’s closest allies
in the Cabinet, asserted,
“It is no wonder that the
American people dis-
trust many in the media
when they so consistently
demonstrate their agenda
and their absence of in-
tegrity.”
It is extraordinary for a
secretary of state to make
such a personal attack on
a journalist, but he is fol-
the role at FCI Fort Dix, a
low-security prison in Bur-
lington County, New Jer-
sey, the people said. The
move comes months after
Attorney General William
Barr ordered N’Diaye be
reassigned to a desk post
at the Bureau of Prisons’
regional office in Pennsyl-
vania after Epstein’s death
as the FBI and the Justice
Department’s inspector
general investigated.
One of the people said
the agency planned to
move N’Diaye into the
new role on Feb. 2. The
people spoke to the AP on
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Pentagon: 34 troops
suffered brain
injuries in Iran strike
Iran carried out the attack as
retaliation for a U.S. drone strike
in Baghdad that killed Iran’s most
powerful general on Jan. 3
BY ROBERT BURNS
AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon disclosed
on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered
traumatic brain injuries in Iran’s missile strike this
month on an Iraqi air base, and although half have
returned to work, the casualty total belies Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s initial claim that no Amer-
icans were harmed. He later characterized the
injuries as “not very serious.”
Eight of the injured arrived in the United States
on Friday from Germany, where they and nine
others had been flown days after the Jan. 8 mis-
sile strike on Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base. The nine
still in Germany are receiving treatment and eval-
uation at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the
Austin Frayser/Special to The Dispatch largest U.S. military hospital outside the continen-
tal United States.
Jonathan Hoffman, the chief Pentagon spokes-
man, said the eight in the U.S. will be treated at
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in
Bethesda, Maryland, or at their home bases. The
exact nature of their injuries and their service and
unit affiliations were not disclosed.
Trump had initially said he was told that no
troops had been injured in the strike, which Iran
carried out as retaliation for a U.S. drone strike in
Baghdad that killed Iran’s most powerful general,
Qassem Soleimani, on Jan. 3. The military said
symptoms of concussion or traumatic brain inju-
ry were not immediately reported after the strike
Force Space Command, gress made it part of the and in some cases became known days later. Many
from which Space Force Department of the Air were in bunkers before nearly a dozen Iranian bal-
was created by legislation
that Trump signed in last
Force.
“After consultation
listic missiles exploded.
The question of American casualties took on
month.
Space Force is the first
with our Great Military
Leaders, designers, and
added importance at the time of the Iranian strike
because the degree of damage was seen as influ-
new military service since
the Air Force was created
others, I am pleased to
present the new logo for
encing a U.S. decision on whether to counterattack
and risk a broader war with Iran. Trump chose not
in 1947. It is meant mainly the United States Space to retaliate, and the Iranians then indicated their
to improve protection of Force, the Sixth Branch strike was sufficient for the time being. Tensions
U.S. satellites and other of our Magnificent Mili- have since eased.
space assets, rather than tary!” Trump wrote. After the Pentagon reported on Jan. 17 that 11
to put warriors in orbit to George Takei, who service members had been evacuated from Iraq
conduct combat in outer played Mr. Sulu in the with concussion-like symptoms, Trump said, “I
space. The idea became a original “Star Trek” TV heard they had headaches and a couple of other
regular applause line for series and films, tweeted things ... and I can report it is not very serious.”
Trump at his political ral- in response, “Ahem. We He said he did not consider the injuries to be as
lies. He originally wanted are expecting some royal- severe as those suffered by troops who were hit by
a Space Force that was ties from this.” roadside bombs in Iraq.
“separate but equal” to
the Army, Navy and Air
Force, but instead Con-
lowing the lead of Trump,
who has repeatedly de-
rided what he calls “fake
news” and ridiculed indi-
vidual reporters. In one of
the more memorable in-
stances, Trump mocked a
New York Times reporter
with a physical disability.
In Friday’s interview,
Pompeo responded testi-
ly when Kelly asked him
about Ukraine and specif-
ically whether he defend-
ed or should have defend-
ed Marie Yovanovitch,
the U.S. ambassador in
Kyiv whose ouster figured
in Trump’s impeachment.
“I have defended every
State Department offi-
cial,” he said. “We’ve built
a great team. The team
that works here is doing
amazing work around the
world ... I’ve defended ev-
ery single person on this
team. I’ve done what’s
right for every single per-
son on this team.”
condition of anonymity to
discuss an internal per-
sonnel matter.
It was unclear why the
agency was planning to
return N’Diaye to a posi-
tion supervising inmates
and staff members, even
though multiple investiga-
tions into Epstein’s death
remain active. The inspec-
tor general’s investigation
is continuing, and the Jus-
tice Department is still
probing the circumstanc-
es that led to Epstein’s
death, including why he
wasn’t given a cellmate.
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earns home
sweep of
Grenada
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com

After the Columbus High School

boys basketball team lost to New Hope
on Jan. 17, Columbus coach Phillip Mor-
ris lamented an imbalanced scoring ef-
fort from the Falcons. Key contributors
went scoreless or were held to just a few
points in the 65-55 road loss.
“The guys that we’re used to scor-
ing, those guys have to step up,” Morris
said after the defeat. “They don’t have
to have a 20-point game or anything
like that, but they’ve gotta step up.”
Alonzo Adams/USA TODAY Sports By those standards, consider Fri-
Oklahoma Sooners forward Brady Manek drives to the basket as Mississippi State guard Robert Woodard II defends during day’s 61-49 home win over Grenada a
the second half at Chesapeake Energy Arena, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. step in the right direction for the Fal-

Bulldogs can’t convert at the

cons.
Columbus received far more contri-
butions from its role players on Friday
than it did against the Trojans, when ju-
nior Blake Burnett was left to carry the

buzzer, fall to Oklahoma

BY GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
Not much went right from the start
for Mississippi State against Oklahoma
on Saturday.
The Bulldogs went scoreless for the
first five minutes of play, had their best
player pick up three fouls in the first
half (including a technical foul) and
shot under 40 percent from the floor for
the second straight game.
Despite all of that, MSU (12-7) still
had a chance to steal a road victory at
the buzzer in the Big 12/SEC Chal-
lenge.
Trailing by one and without a timeout,
MSU put its fate in the hands of Colum-
bus native Robert Woodard II. Woodard
II fired a mid-range shot with a hand
in his face, but the attempt clanked off
the rim. Tyson Carter couldn’t get the
putback to go, and considering the shot
left his hand right after the buzzer, it
wouldn’t have counted anyway.
After a three-game win streak, the
Bulldogs found themselves back in the
loss column after a 63-62 loss to the
MISSISSIPPI STATE BASEBALL
Sooners (13-6) at Chesapeake Energy
Arena in Oklahoma City.
“Obviously for us, it’s a very disap-
pointing loss after a great comeback,”
MSU coach Ben Howland said in his
postgame press conference. “ ... Give
them credit, they’re incredibly coached
at both ends of the floor. This loss is on
me. I did a horrible job the last 15 sec-
onds not setting something up. Typical-
ly, you want to attack down one and get
to the rim. We didn’t have any timeouts
left ... I definitely should have called
some type of ball screen late. This loss
is totally on my shoulders.”
MSU was at a disadvantage after
eight minutes passed in the first half
when Reggie Perry picked up his sec-
ond and third fouls (one coming via a
technical). Perry, who became the first
MSU player to record at least 20 points
and 10 rebounds in a win against Arkan-
sas on Wednesday, had to sit out the re-
mainder of the half.
“He’s our best player and has been
playing really well,” Howland said. “That
technical hurt us because I couldn’t play
him the rest of the half. I would play him
with two fouls, but with three fouls you
can’t do it. It was a big factor.”
The Bulldogs trailed 38-30 entering
the break, shooting 33 percent from the
floor, while Oklahoma shot 46 percent.
Perry had more fouls than points (0).
Carter came to the rescue with nine
points off the bench to keep the Bull-
dogs hanging around. The senior from
Starkville finished with 14 points on the
day.
“We came out and their defense was
terrific,” Howland said. “We were impa-
tient offensively.”
Woodard II opened the second half
with a 5-0 run by himself to reduce the
deficit to 38-35, then Perry made it a
8-0 MSU run with his first basket of the
day, a banked-in 3 to knot things up at
38 apiece.
MSU didn’t take its first lead of the
game until 4:06 remained, as D.J. Stew-
art cut to the basket and finished off a
tough layup to give his team a 58-57 ad-
vantage.
Oklahoma took a four-point lead with
more than a minute remaining, but Car-
See BULLDOGS, 6B
load with 31 points. Burnett still led the
Falcons with 13 on Friday against the
Chargers, but sophomore Tre Dismuke
and junior Eric Caldwell each contribut-
ed 11 points, senior Gabe Williams had
10, and sophomore Willie Young had
eight.
“A lot of guys stepped up and played
well for us,” Morris said. “I’m proud of
our guys. Everybody gave us good min-
utes.”
Critical to the Falcons’ success Fri-
day was their stellar passing; Columbus
limited turnovers, made the extra pass
and found open shooters outside or hit
cutters to the basket in stride. That’s
something Morris hasn’t seen all too
often this season.
“We have a tendency of just making
little passes, soft passes, and that type
of thing,” Morris said. “We’ve been
working on it in practice: just making
hard, crisp passes and doing drills.”
The Falcons’ willingness to share
the ball helped them pull away in the
second quarter after the first period
ended in a 12-12 tie. Williams tied the
game again at 14-14 with a nifty Euro-
step move then slammed home a dunk
to put the Falcons up 20-14.
Columbus took a 29-20 lead into
halftime and pushed the advantage as
high as 16 points on a steal and layup
by Dismuke, but Morris wasn’t pleased
with how the Falcons finished out the
contest.
While Columbus had a 12-point ad-

Pitching questions loom as MSU prepares for 2020 season
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — With
fans clambering through
the wells of the Left Field
Lounge at Dudy Noble Field
on Saturday to set up their
rigs for the upcoming sea-
son, Mississippi State base-
ball hosted its annual media
day as reporters met with
coach Chris Lemonis and the
2020 squad.
Fresh off back-to-back
trips to the College World
Series, the Bulldogs enter
the season ranked No. 9 in
Baseball America’s presea-
son rankings — one of sev-
en Southeastern Conference
teams slotted in the initial
top 25 poll.
Speaking with the media
for the first time this year,
Lemonis highlighted MSU’s
vast talent at the plate an-
chored by juniors Jordan
Westburg, Justin Foscue,
Tanner Allen, Rowdey Jor-
dan and Josh Hatcher. But
question marks surround a
pitching staff that must re-
place first-round MLB draft
pick Ethan Small and reliable
relievers Cole Gordon, Jared
Leibelt and Colby White.
“We have so many new
guys; we have 22 new guys
in the program, so trying to
figure out our arms is huge,”
Lemonis said. “Hopefully, we
settle into some guys.”
Sophomore JT Ginn will be a constant of the Bulldogs’ pitching staff, but behind him, much is
unknown.
While the offense should
remain a staple in 2020, Le-
monis’ pitching staff is one
filled with unknowns.
Sophomore right-hander
JT Ginn is a likely All-Ameri-
can pick after he was named
the National Freshman of
the Year by Perfect Game in
2019, finishing the season
8-4 with a 3.13 ERA, 105
strikeouts and a .220 batting
average against.
Behind Ginn, redshirt
freshman Christian Ma-
cLeod and sophomore Eric
Cerantola offer plenty of up-
side but neither has been a
model of consistency to date.
Lemonis said Saturday that
MacLeod would have been
MSU’s likely No. 2 starter a
season ago but that an undis-
closed illness forced him to
redshirt.
As for Cerantola, the
6-foot-5-inch, 220-pound
righty can touch as high as
98 miles per hour with his
fastball, but control issues
saw him struggle to an 4.30
ERA in 14.2 innings pitched
— including two wild pitches
and five hit batsmen — a year
ago.
“(Eric) had a really good
spring training,” Lemonis
said. “If he figures it out, he’s
a first-rounder type of guy.
(In the) SEC tournament, he
Jim Lytle/Dispatch file photo
was 96-98. Now in a starting
role, he’s not throwing that
hard. He has a chance.”
While the starting rota-
tion behind Ginn remains
unproven, MSU’s bullpen is
perhaps even more so.
With Gordon and Leibelt
anchoring the closer and
setup man roles down the
stretch in 2019, the Bulldogs
lack a tenured and reliable
arm at present. Senior Ri-
ley Self has been potent in
spurts, but injuries to his left
wrist, among others, made
his production limited. Se-
nior Spencer Price has also
See BASEBALL, 6B
vantage at the end of the third quar-
ter and still won by 12 points, the Fal-
cons’ fourth quarter was full of missed
layups, poor foul shooting, inconsistent
rebounding and lackadaisical defense.
“Personally, I think we could have
rebounded the ball better,” Dismuke
said. “We didn’t finish a lot of plays.”
To Morris, that troublesome stretch
of play is a sign the Falcons aren’t quite
on track with where they need to be.
“We’re playing like it’s mid-Novem-
ber, early December,” he said. “We
should be more mature in this point
in time, knowing what to do in certain
situations at certain times. We’ll take it,
but we’re still not mature enough.”
Columbus will get another chance
to prove its maturity Tuesday when it
hosts West Point.
Columbus girls 61, Grenada 26
Six seconds was all it took for DJ
Jackson and the Columbus girls to get
on the right track Friday against Gre-
nada.
The Falcons controlled the opening
tip, promptly advanced the ball into
the frontcourt and set up the junior
point guard for an open 3, which rattled
through the hoop as the scoreboard
clock showed 7:54 remaining in the
first quarter.
“We knew that if we got her some
open looks that we were gonna be fine,”
Columbus coach Yvonne Hairston said.
“When she gets off to a good start, she
starts feeling it, and then she just starts
shooting that thing.”
In a flash, the Falcons had a lead, and
they never gave it up. Columbus (15-3,
4-0 district) coasted to a 61-26 win over
Grenada on Friday, clinching the No. 1
seed in district play.
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Prep Football
Montgomery named coach at North Panola
Former Columbus High football coach Randal
Montgomery was named the head coach at North
New Hope boys rout West Point, improve to 18-1 points for the Yellow Academy 62-54 in Fri- 19 points to lead He-
Panola High School on Friday.
Montgomery spent the 2019 season as the offen-
New Hope 77, Jackets in the victory. day’s road game.
Noxubee County girls bron, and Adrian Borst
51, Aberdeen 45,
sive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Starkville
High. He went 20-26 in four years as the Falcons’ head
West Point 40 West Lowndes boys
Lawson Studdard
led the Rams again, Friday
had 16.
Hebron will play at
coach from 2014 to 2017, leading the Falcons to the scoring 17 points; Jon- MACON — The Newton County Acad-
playoffs in 2016 and 2017, and he was abruptly fired in BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
74, McAdams 48, athan Peal and Dakota Noxubee County girls emy on Tuesday in De-
November 2017.
Montgomery won the MHSAA Class 4A title as Friday Shaw scored 16 points beat Aberdeen 51-45 on catur.
offensive coordinator at Louisville in 2018. He was NEW HOPE — The MCADAMS — The apiece. Friday in Macon.
expected to be named the next head coach at Louisville West Lowndes boys
after the retirement of M.C. Miller after the 2018 season,
New Hope boys team
beat West Point 77-40 team beat McAdams
The Rams will host
Kemper Academy on
Nakailya Mason
scored 23 points for
Pickens Academy
but Noxubee County head coach Tyrone Shorter de-
parted Macon to coach the Wildcats, and Montgomery on Friday to reach a re- 74-48 in Friday’s road Tuesday in their final the Tigers, and Aadijah (Ala.) boys 74, North
found himself with the Yellow Jackets. cord of 18-1 on the sea- game. regular-season home Williams had nine. River Christian Acade-
“”The last two years have been full of ups and
downs, but everything happens for a reason!” Mont-
son. Darrell Brooks led
West Lowndes with 20
game. my (Ala.) 34, Friday
gomery posted to Twitter on Friday night. “Today is a LJ Hackman led
points. Jherquaveus
Oak Hill Academy CARROLLTON, Ala.
new day for me, and I couldn’t be more excited about the Trojans with 19
Sanders added 17 for
Columbus Christian girls 34, Winona — The Pickens Acad-
this new journey of leading the young men at North
Panola!”
points, and Caleb Parr
and Jaylen Smith each the Panthers, and Mel- Academy girls 50, Christian 31, Friday emy (Alabama) boys
team beat North Riv-
scored 13. RL Mattix vin Crawford had 11. Newton County Acad- WINONA — The er Christian Academy
Heritage Academy OL flips to Northwest CC scored nine, and AJ West Lowndes con- emy 46, Friday Oak Hill Academy (Alabama) 74-34 in Fri-
Heritage Academy senior offensive lineman
Brownlee had eight. tinues a five-game road DECATUR — The girls team beat Winona day’s home game.
Ethan Bumgarner announced his commitment to play trip by traveling to Lou- Christian School 34-31
football at Northwest Mississippi Community College New Hope will host Columbus Christian Seth Peeks had
on Saturday. Grenada on Tuesday. isville to face Nanih girls emerged with a on Friday in Winona. 19 points to lead the
The 6-foot-5, 290-pound Bumgarner was named Waiya on Tuesday. 50-46 win over Newton Rachel McLain Pirates (12-7). Rafe
first-team all-MAIS for his role in the Patriots’ 14-0 County Academy on scored 11 points for
season and state championship win. He was also one Starkville boys 89, West Lowndes girls Friday in Decatur. the Raiders, and Carley
Brown scored 16 points,
and Charlie Pierce Wil-
of the Pats’ starting defensive linemen.
“Thank you to all of the coaches who have
Greenville 52, Friday 73, McAdams 39, Kylie Emerson Wooten had 10. son had 10.
recruited me,” Bumgarner said in his tweet announcing STARKVILLE — scored 19 points to Oak Hill will host
the decision. “It means so much to my family and I all The Starkville High Friday lead the Rams. Audrey Indianola Academy on
Pickens Academy
will face North River
the time you took out of your day to visit me and invite boys team beat Green- MCADAMS — The Foreman scored 13, Tuesday.
me on visits as well. I’ve found my new home and I’m West Lowndes girls again Tuesday in Tusca-
ville 89-52 in Friday’s and Morgan Whitten loosa.
more than excited!!!” improved to 16-0 with
The lineman was committed to Jones College prior home game.
a 73-39 win over McAd-
had nine. Hebron Christian
Coltie Young scored
to Saturday’s decision.
boys 58, Grace
20 points for the Yellow ams on Friday in McAd-
ams. Noxubee County boys Christian 50, Friday Other scores
Starkville Acade-
Women’s College Basketball Jackets (19-2). Forte
Tydajasha Hood had 68, Aberdeen 27, LOUISVILLE — my girls 42, Starkville
The W falls twice in Harrodsburg tourney Prater had 12, and Cam-
The Mississippi University for Women women’s eron Skinner had 11. 19 points for the Pan- Friday The Hebron Chris- Christian 31
basketball team lost a pair of games this weekend at the Starkville will play at thers, and Marvaysha MACON — The tian School boys team Starkville Acade-
Campbellsville-Harrodsburg Classic in Harrodsburg, Germantown next Fri- Seals scored 16. Noxubee County boys erased a 25-4 deficit my boys 64, Starkville
Kentucky.
day, Jan. 31. team beat Aberdeen and beat Grace Chris- Christian 30
My’Neka Frazier had 24 points and Autumn Taylor
had 14 as the Owls (5-15) lost to host Campbellsville Columbus Christian 68-27 in Friday’s home tian School 58-50 in Fri- West Point girls 50,
game. day’s road game. New Hope 48, Friday
University-Harrodsburg 68-60 on Saturday. Frazier
made 10 of her 18 shots Saturday and pulled down 14
Starkville girls 43, Academy boys 62, Jadakiss Williams Hebron cut the Mooreville boys 53,
rebounds. Greenville 32, Friday Newton County had 25 points for the Grace lead to one point Caledonia 52, Friday
Frazier led with 24 points on 12-of-19 shooting as
the Owls lost to Florida National University 73-46 on
STARKVILLE — Academy 54, Friday Tigers, and Dantavian at 26-25 going into the Mooreville girls 49,
Friday.
The Starkville girls DECATUR — The Davis scored eight. half and took the lead Caledonia 25, Friday
Autumn Taylor added 10 points for MUW, which beat Greenville 43-32 Columbus Christian Noxubee County for good in the second Oak Hill Academy
was outscored 44-24 in the second half by the on Friday in Starkville. Academy boys team will face Potts Camp on half. boys 67, Winona Chris-
Conquistadors. Amaya Ford had 14 beat Newton County the road Monday. Dash Truman scored tian 30, Friday
MUW will play at Judson College at 5:30 p.m. Feb.
6 in Marion, Alabama.

Southern Miss falls to Middle Tennessee

PREP SOCCER ROUNDUP
The Southern Miss women’s basketball team
lost Saturday’s home Conference USA contest to
Middle Tennessee, 77-69, at Reed Green Coliseum in
Wilson scores twice as New Hope boys beat Corinth
Hattiesburg. BY THEO DEROSA fayette at 6 p.m. Tuesday in a Sanford scored for the Trojans. girls 9, Mississippi School for
Shonte Hailes led the way with 21 points for the tderosa@cdispatch.com New Hope will travel to face Mathematics and Science 0,
Golden Eagles (11-7, 3-4 Conference USA). Alarie
first-round MHSAA Class 5A
Mayze scored 16, and Respect Leaphart and Kelsey playoff matchup. Saltillo at 5 p.m. Monday in a Friday
Jones each had 15. Jones had a double-double, NEW HOPE — The New first-round playoff matchup. Starkville boys 5, South Pa-
leading the team in rebounds with 10. Hope boys team beat Corinth nola 0, Friday
The Blue Raiders (13-7, 5-3) outscored the Eagles 4-1 in Friday’s home match. New Hope girls 2, Other scores Starkville girls 7, South Pa-
39-25 in the middle two quarters to grab the win.
Southern Miss will face Old Dominion at 6:30 p.m.
Jacob Wilson scored a pair Corinth 2, Friday St. Andrew’s Episcopal nola 0, Friday
Thursday in Norfolk, Virginia. of goals for the Trojans. Trey NEW HOPE — The New boys 6, Mississippi School for Caledonia boys 5, Shannon
Parnell and Ellis Clark each Hope girls played Corinth to a Mathematics and Science 0, 1, Friday
SOURCE: From Special Reports scored as well. 2-2 draw Friday in New Hope. Friday Caledonia girls 11, Shan-
The Trojans will host La- Bree Younger and Allie St. Andrew’s Episcopal non 0, Friday
CALENDAR
Today NFL
Women’s College Basketball
Ole Miss at Mississippi State, 4 p.m.

ON THE AIR
Pro Bowl packed with pending free agents like Brees, Henry
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Shaq Barrett, line- Derrick Henry, here at the Pro Bowl.” Patriots. He’s spent all
Today backer, Tampa Bay: running back, Ten- Matt Judon, line- 12 seasons with New
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) LAKE BUENA VIS- After five pedestrian nessee: He led the backer, Baltimore: England.
11 a.m. — Virginia at Wake Forest, TA, Fla. — A number of seasons in Denver, Bar- NFL in rushing yards After notching 54 tack- “I’ve expressed pub-
ACCN Pro Bowlers are about rett signed a one-year (1,540) and rushing les, 9 ½ sacks and four licly and privately to
11 a.m. — Tulsa at Connecticut, to get paid. deal with the Bucca- touchdowns (16) and forced fumbles, Judon remain a Patriot for the
CBSSN And not just the rel- neers and led the NFL played a pivotal role in will be one of the top entirety of my career
Noon — Maryland at Indiana, CBS ative pocket change and broke the fran- the Titans’ playoff vic- pass-rushers on the
1 p.m. — South Florida at Houston, and certainly I still feel
($35,000 or $70,000) chise’s single-season tories at New England market. that way,” Slater said.
CBSSN that comes with com- record with 19 ½ sacks. and Baltimore. He car- “It’s a process that
2 p.m. — Michigan State at Minnesota, “We’ll see how it goes.”
peting in the NFL’s “I don’t know where ried 64 times for 377 you can’t stress over,” Ryan Tannehill,
FOX annual all-star game in it’s going to end up at, yards and a touchdown said Judon, who has 28 quarterback, Tennes-
3 p.m. — San Diego State at Nevada Orlando. but I’m confident that in those games. ½ sacks in four seasons. see: Replaced Marcus
(Las Vegas), CBSSN About a dozen Pro I’m going to be where I Austin Hooper, “I don’t think there’s go- Mariota in October and
3 p.m. — Loyola Chicago at Northern Bowl players are pend- should be, which I think tight end, Atlanta: ing to be no negatives
Iowa, ESPNU helped the Titans make
ing free agents, includ- is Tampa,” Barrett said. After a career year with really out of this situa-
3 p.m. — Xavier at Creighton, FS1 the AFC title game. He
ing the NFL’s all-time Drew Brees, quar- the Falcons in which tion.”
4 p.m. — UCLA at Oregon, FOX
leading passer and the finished with 22 touch-
terback, New Orleans: he caught 75 passes for Andrus Peat,
5 p.m. — Stanford at California, ESPNU
league’s top rusher and down passes and six
The NFL’s leader in 787 yards and six touch- guard, New Orleans:
5:30 p.m. — Ohio State at Northwest-
top pass-rusher in 2019. passing yards (77,416) downs, Hooper will be He played under the interceptions in 12 reg-
ern, BTN ular-season games. He
They’ve been politi- and touchdowns (547) one of the most coveted fifth-year option in 2019
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) added five TD passes
cally correct all week, has been noncommittal tight ends in free agen- and was a Pro Bowl sub-
4 p.m. — Ole Miss at Mississippi and one pick in three
insisting they want to about 2020, but he did cy. stitute for the second
State, SECN postseason starts. Ten-
remain with their cur- say “it’s the Saints or “My whole attitude consecutive season.
GOLF nessee could use the
Noon — PGA Tour: The Farmers Insur-
rent teams. But the re- nothing.” is that it will end up the But he’s yet to play a
ality is some of them “I don’t want to rush way it’s supposed to,” full season, missing 15 franchise and transition
ance Open, Final Round, San Diego,
surely will be elsewhere anything,” Brees add- Hooper said. “I did my games over five years. tags to retain Tannehill
GOLF
next season, making ed. “I have a process I’m part, ended up here at Matthew Slater, and Henry.
2 p.m. — PGA Tour: The Farmers Insur-
the Pro Bowl their final going to go through. the Pro Bowl. If the or- special teams ace, “I’d like to be back,”
ance Open, Final Round, San Diego,
CBS game in these helmets. I’m going to separate ganization wants me, New England: The Tannehill said. “I love
2 p.m. — LPGA Tour: The Gainbridge Here’s a look at the myself from the game, they’ll offer me. … As 34-year-old Slater made the organization and
LPGA at Boca Rio, Final Round, Palm most notable ones head- spend some time with of now, I’m just enjoying his eighth Pro Bowl this the team, but at the
Beach, Fla., GOLF ing into Sunday’s Pro my family and see what could be my last season and hopes to fin- same time we’ve got to
NBA BASKETBALL Bowl: where I’m at.” game as a Falcon down ish his career with the come to an agreement.”
2:30 p.m. — Houston at Denver,
NBATV ETSU 75, Chattanooga 64 Detroit 70, Ill.-Chicago 69 Woodard 6-15 2-4 15, Stewart 5-11 1-1 12, Ado 2-7 Southern Miss 63
5 p.m. — Boston at New Orleans, ESPN College Basketball East Carolina 81, Tulane 62
Elon 82, James Madison 73
E. Illinois 61, SE Missouri 59
IUPUI 89, Oakland 85
0-0 4, Weatherspoon 1-5 4-4 6, Carter 5-8 2-2 14,
Perry 3-7 0-0 7, Molinar 1-5 2-2 4, Feazell 0-1 0-0
SOUTHERN MISS (6-15)

8 p.m. — Indiana at Portland, NBATV Saturday’s Scores
EAST
NFL FOOTBALL Army 73, Navy 66
Boston College 61, Virginia Tech 56
2 p.m. — NFL Pro Bowl: NFC All-Stars
Boston U. 79, Holy Cross 64
Bucknell 98, Loyola (Md.) 83
vs. AFC All-Stars, Orlando, Fla., ABC/ CCSU 86, Wagner 76
Colgate 79, American U. 69
ESPN Cornell 62, Columbia 50
Delaware 76, Northeastern 74
TENNIS George Washington 85, Saint Joseph’s 69
2 a.m. — The Australian Open: Round Hartford 62, Albany (NY) 48
Harvard 70, Dartmouth 66
of 16, Melbourne, Australia, ESPN2 Hofstra 72, Drexel 59
Lafayette 74, Lehigh 56
8 a.m. — The Australian Open: Round Mount St. Mary’s 79, Bryant 76
New Hampshire 77, Binghamton 69
of 16, Melbourne, Australia (taped), Penn 66, Temple 59
ESPN2 Rhode Island 81, St. Bonaventure 75
Robert Morris 71, LIU 66
6 p.m. — The Australian Open: Round Rutgers 75, Nebraska 72
Sacred Heart 77, Fairleigh Dickinson 60
of 16, Melbourne, Australia, TENNIS
8 p.m. — The Australian Open: Round
St. Francis Brooklyn 86, St. Francis (Pa.) 79
Syracuse 69, Pittsburgh 61
UMBC 63, Maine 53
UMass 73, Duquesne 64
of 16, Melbourne, Australia, ESPN2 VCU 76, La Salle 65
X GAMES Vermont 92, Mass.-Lowell 62
Villanova 64, Providence 60
1 p.m. — X Games Aspen 2020: West Virginia 74, Missouri 51
SOUTH
Snowmobiling, Snowboarding, Freestyle Alabama 77, Kansas St. 74
Alcorn St. 59, Alabama A&M 58
Skiing, Aspen, Colo., ESPN2 Appalachian St. 78, Coastal Carolina 58
Arkansas St. 78, Troy 62
7:30 p.m. — X Games Aspen 2020:
Auburn 80, Iowa St. 76
Austin Peay 86, Belmont 78
Snowboarding, Freestyle Skiing, Snow Charleston Southern 92, Gardner-Webb 83
Bike, Aspen, Colo., ESPN Charlotte 75, FIU 49
Davidson 68, George Mason 53
Dayton 87, Richmond 79
Florida A&M 87, Howard 83
Furman 78, The Citadel 54
Georgia St. 82, Georgia Southern 77
Georgia Tech 64, NC State 58
Jackson St. 71, Grambling St. 53
Jacksonville 83, Kennesaw St. 64
Jacksonville St. 72, Morehead St. 51
Lipscomb 85, North Florida 73
Longwood 72, High Point 62
Louisiana Tech 72, UAB 58
Louisiana-Lafayette 81, Louisiana-Monroe 60
Louisville 80, Clemson 62
McNeese St. 102, Houston Baptist 89
Mercer 69, VMI 66
Middle Tennessee 65, Southern Miss 63
Morgan St. 50, Coppin St. 48
NC A&T 98, Bethune-Cookman 95
NC Central 72, Delaware St. 45
NJIT 56, Florida Gulf Coast 54
Nicholls 77, New Orleans 72
Norfolk St. 73, SC State 62
North Carolina 94, Miami 71
Old Dominion 65, FAU 55
Ole Miss 70, Georgia 60
Radford 83, Hampton 79
SC-Upstate 80, UNC-Asheville 63
SE Louisiana 84, Northwestern St. 81
SMU 74, Memphis 70
Southern U. 80, Alabama St. 71
Stetson 48, Liberty 43
Towson 70, William & Mary 58
UNC-Greensboro 70, Samford 63
UNC-Wilmington 72, Coll. of Charleston 70
W. Carolina 81, Wofford 72
W. Kentucky 91, Marshall 84
Winthrop 72, Presbyterian 57
MIDWEST
Akron 88, Ohio 86
Bowling Green 85, Toledo 79
Cent. Michigan 71, Ball St. 66
Cleveland St. 70, Milwaukee 53
Illinois 64, Michigan 62
Indiana St. 61, Bradley 53
Kansas 74, Tennessee 68
Miami (Ohio) 73, E. Michigan 68
N. Dakota St. 82, Denver 70
N. Illinois 58, W. Michigan 52
North Dakota 83, W. Illinois 77
S. Illinois 58, Illinois St. 55
South Dakota 91, Oral Roberts 80
St. John’s 79, DePaul 66
UT Martin 79, SIU-Edwardsville 76
Youngstown St. 98, Green Bay 94
SOUTHWEST
Abilene Christian 70, Cent. Arkansas 69
Arkansas 78, TCU 67
Kentucky 76, Texas Tech 74
LSU 69, Texas 67
North Texas 67, UTEP 57
Oklahoma 63, Mississippi St. 62
Oklahoma St. 73, Texas A&M 62
Prairie View 67, Ark.-Pine Bluff 54
Stephen F. Austin 70, Lamar 62
Texas A&M-CC 68, Incarnate Word 47
Texas-Arlington 64, Texas State 62
FAR WEST
Boise St. 87, Fresno St. 53
E. Washington 81, S. Utah 78
N. Arizona 84, Portland St. 82
N. Colorado 74, Idaho 53
Nevada 96, New Mexico 74
Pepperdine 80, Portland 69
San Francisco 83, BYU 82
San Jose St. 90, Air Force 81
Santa Clara 65, San Diego 52
Southern Cal 75, Oregon St. 55
Utah 76, Washington St. 64
Oklahoma 63,
Mississippi St. 62
MISSISSIPPI ST. (12-7)
0, Oduro 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-60 11-13 62.
OKLAHOMA (13-6)
Harmon 3-8 1-2 9, Doolittle 4-12 0-0 8, Manek 6-11
4-4 18, Reaves 3-14 3-4 9, Bieniemy 0-4 0-2 0,
Williams 5-9 0-0 13, Kuath 2-3 0-0 4, Hill 1-1 0-0 2,
Iwuakor 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-62 8-12 63.
Halftime_Oklahoma 38-30. 3-Point Goals_Mis-
sissippi St. 5-15 (Carter 2-4, Perry 1-2, Stewart
1-2, Woodard 1-3, Molinar 0-1, Weatherspoon
0-3), Oklahoma 7-23 (Williams 3-4, Harmon 2-3,
Manek 2-7, Doolittle 0-2, Bieniemy 0-3, Reaves
0-4). Rebounds_Mississippi St. 36 (Stewart 8),
Oklahoma 31 (Doolittle 9). Assists_Mississippi
St. 4 (Weatherspoon 2), Oklahoma 14 (Doolittle
4). Total Fouls_Mississippi St. 15, Oklahoma 12.
A_6,442 (11,562).
Ole Miss 70, Georgia 60
OLE MISS (10-9)
Tyree 8-15 3-5 20, Hinson 3-6 2-2 9, Shuler 1-5 1-2
3, Buffen 5-6 4-4 14, Sy 6-12 3-4 16, Williams 3-4
0-0 8, Crowley 0-1 0-0 0, Hunter 0-1 0-0 0. Totals
26-50 13-17 70.
GEORGIA (11-8)
Edwards 3-12 4-4 13, Wheeler 3-8 5-6 11, Ham-
monds 1-8 2-6 4, Camara 1-5 1-2 3, Harris 5-9 2-2
15, Crump 1-8 2-2 5, Gresham 1-1 1-1 3, Brown 1-1
2-2 4, Fagan 0-2 0-0 0, Howard 1-1 0-0 2. Totals
17-55 19-25 60.
Halftime_Mississippi 35-29. 3-Point Goals_Mis-
sissippi 5-9 (Williams 2-3, Sy 1-1, Hinson 1-2,
Tyree 1-2, Buffen 0-1), Georgia 7-23 (Harris 3-4,
Edwards 3-10, Crump 1-7, Hammonds 0-1, Wheel-
er 0-1). Rebounds_Mississippi 25 (Hinson, Shuler
6), Georgia 34 (Harris 8). Assists_Mississippi 8
(Tyree 4), Georgia 8 (Hammonds 4). Total Fouls_
Mississippi 18, Georgia 19. A_10,523 (10,523).
Middle Tennessee 65,
Draine 3-10 2-2 9, Watson 5-17 0-0 10, Konont-
suk 2-4 1-2 6, Harper-Baker 2-5 1-1 5, Stevenson
6-10 5-6 17, Jacdonmi 5-7 6-7 16, Leslie 0-1 0-0 0,
Rigby 0-0 0-0 0, Weatherspoon 0-0 0-0 0. Totals
23-54 15-18 63.
MIDDLE TENNESSEE (5-16)
C.Jones 7-13 2-2 17, Sims 3-13 7-8 13, Johnson
3-7 2-4 8, Green 3-9 2-2 9, Scurry 1-3 6-8 8, Law-
rence 1-4 2-2 5, Jackson 0-5 0-0 0, Millin 1-2 1-2 3,
Crump 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 20-57 22-28 65.
Halftime_Middle Tennessee 26-25. 3-Point
Goals_Southern Miss 2-10 (Konontsuk 1-3,
Draine 1-6, Watson 0-1), Middle Tennessee 3-15
(Lawrence 1-3, C.Jones 1-4, Green 1-5, Sims
0-3). Fouled Out_Harper-Baker, Jacdonmi. Re-
bounds_Southern Miss 35 (Jacdonmi 12), Middle
Tennessee 33 (Johnson 8). Assists_Southern
Miss 11 (Draine 5), Middle Tennessee 9 (Sims,
Johnson, Crump 2). Total Fouls_Southern Miss
22, Middle Tennessee 20. A_3,523 (11,520).
Transactions Saturday’s moves
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
DALLAS MAVERICKS — Acquired C Willie
Cauley-Stein from Golden State for a 2020 sec-
ond-round draft pick. Waived C Justin Patton.
NBA G League
WESTCHESTER KNICKS — Named Beno Udrih
assistant coach.
HOCKEY
ECHL
ECHL — Suspended Wichita’s Sean Allen one
game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his
actions in a Jan. 24 game at Rapid City.
SOCCER
Major League Soccer
LOS ANGELES — Signed M Bryce Duke.

MISSISSIPPI STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
MSU seeking consistency in matchup with Ole Miss
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Vic
Schaefer has had plenty
to complain about.
Throughout this sea-
son, Schaefer has ma-
ligned his youthful Mis-
sissippi State squad for its
seeming immaturity to its
need for any semblance
of consistency. And while
the Bulldogs have shown
flashes of brilliance as
recent as Monday’s near-
miss against No. 1 South
Carolina, it’s the arduous
showing against Van-
derbilt on Thursday that
left the eighth-year head
coach less than thrilled.
“We started off well
and then had a horrible
second quarter offensive-
ly, and we were just real-
ly challenged,” Schaefer
said.
Entering Sunday’s con-
test with Ole Miss, con-
sistency has been a per-
sistent issue for MSU this
season. In Thursday’s win
over the Commodores,
the Bulldogs received just
18 points on 9-of-22 shoot-
ing from senior guard
Jordan Danberry and
freshman forward Rickea
PREP SOCCER
MSMS girls beat Yazoo County by mercy rule on senior day
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
Before the Missis-
sippi School for Mathe-
matics and Science girls
soccer team played its
final match of the season
Saturday against Yazoo
County, MSMS coach
Chuck Yarborough gath-
ered his players and went
through his team’s three
principles: Play hard, play
together and have fun.
It can be that simple,
Yarborough said.
“The two great lessons
of team sports are if you
work hard at something
individually, you’ll get bet-
ter at it, and if you work
together, you can make
your team better,” he
said. “That’s a life lesson
to make your community
better. If we’re working
right and working togeth-
er, we’re gonna smile ev-
ery once in a while. Not
every moment, but every
once in a while. If you’re
not smiling sometimes,
you’re not doing it right.”
On Saturday, as they
closed out their season
with a 9-1 win, the Blue
Waves had plenty of rea-
sons to smile.
MSMS scored twice in
the first three minutes,
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Tyree, Sy help Ole Miss end skid, defeat Georgia
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATHENS, Ga. — Bree-
in Tyree scored 20 points
and helped Ole Miss end
its six-game losing streak
with a 70-60 win over
Georgia on Saturday.
Tyree recorded his
tenth game of 20-plus
points and made a se-
ries of big plays late in
the second half. He con-
verted a three-point play
and drove between two
Georgia defenders for an
uncontested fast-break
layup to give the Rebels a
61-53 lead with 4:06 left.
“Breein Tyree played
like one of the best guards
in college basketball,
which he is,” Ole Miss
coach Kermit Davis said.
Tyree was 8 for 15 from
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Jackson, the team’s two
leading scorers.
Instead, it was fresh-
man Aliyah Matharu and
sophomore Xaria Wig-
gins who anchored MSU
down the stretch, scoring
a combined 22 points as
the Bulldogs outscored
Vanderbilt 16-0 over the
game’s final 6 minutes, 14
seconds.
“I think you’ve seen
Aliyah improve lately,”
Schaefer said. “I think
that’s a mark of what
we’ve done here at Missis-
sippi State — we develop
players … We don’t apol-
ogize for being demand-
ing. She’s learning the
importance of defending;
now she’s learning to try
and take care of the ball.”
With the Bulldogs bat-
tling a string of consis-
tency issues, a date with
the Rebels should offer
another chance at finding
some continuity on the
floor and in the seeming-
ly ever-changing rotation
Schaefer has employed
this season.
While MSU and Ole
Miss sit just over 100
miles apart, the meta-
phorical distance be-
notched six goals in the
first half alone and earned
a mercy-rule win in just
50 minutes to finish its
season with a 7-5 record.
“I don’t think I ever
stopped smiling, honest-
ly,” senior captain Tierah
Macon said. “That was
really fun.”
Macon, the Blue
Waves’ co-captain and
leading scorer, scored
two goals in her final high
school match, finding the
net in the third and 49th
minutes. Her first goal
was right on the heels of
Ashley Mangus’ score
just over a minute into the
match, giving the Blue
Waves a 2-0 lead right off
the bat.
“When you come out
with that kind of start,
it kind of reaffirms that
you’ve worked together,”
Yarborough said. “The
passing is there, the
team’s connecting with
one other, and that’s a real
positive.”
MSMS kept piling it on
after its initial effort, scor-
ing again just before the
six-minute mark. It was
the first of three goals for
senior Taylor Willis, the
Blue Waves’ other cap-
tain.
“It was a happy note to
the field, one of them a
3-pointer, with four re-
bounds, four assists and
three steals. “When you
lose him, he makes you
pay,” Georgia coach Tom
Crean said.
Ole Miss (10-9, 1-5
SEC) also got 16 points
from Khadim Sy and 14
points from KJ Buffen.
Georgia (11-8, 1-5 SEC)
was led by Jordan Harris
with 15 points and a sea-
son-high eight rebounds.
Anthony Edwards scored
13 but was just 3 for 12
from the field, and Sahvir
Wheeler scored 11 points.
Ole Miss shot 52 per-
cent from the field and
created 16 turnovers,
which led to 20 points.
Georgia shot only 31 per-
cent from the floor.
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Graduate guard Jordan Danberry had an off night
against Vanderbilt on Thursday.
tween the two programs
is even larger.
The Bulldogs entered
this year following three
straight runs to the Elite
end it on,” Willis said of
her hat trick.
Mangus, Niyah Troup,
Samaria Swims and Em-
ily Berry each had one
goal for an inexperienced
MSMS squad. All the
Blue Waves are juniors or
seniors, but few of them
had played soccer before
joining the team.
“Two-thirds of our
players have little to no
soccer experience, so to
come out of a season with
a winning record when
we had so much inexperi-
ence I think is a real tes-
tament to how hard they
worked and how hard
they worked together,”
Yarborough said. “It’s a
successful season.”
With a 2-2 district
record, the Blue Waves
missed the playoffs this
season, but given the
quality of opponents like
St. Andrew’s Episcopal
and St. Joseph Catholic,
MSMS will take the sea-
son it had.
“We have a really
competitive district, and
Yazoo’s one of our less
competitive teams, so it
was a good way to end it,”
Willis said.
Macon, who came
in with plenty of expe-
rience playing soccer,
“We’re not going to
beat anybody shooting
the way we shot,” Crean
said. “Our defense at
times was good, but the
bottom line is our offense
didn’t give us enough
chance.”
Ole Miss surged to a
10-point lead when Blake
Hinson scored from the
paint with 4:46 left in
the first half to give the
Rebels a 32-22 lead. But
Georgia got back in the
game with a 7-0 run, five
of those points coming
from Harris, but failed
to score in the final 2:52.
Ole Miss led 35-29 at
halftime.
Ole Miss scored the
first five points of the
second half to take an
11-point lead, but didn’t
Game Coverage / Results
Jim Lytle/Dispatch file photo
Eight, including two ap-
pearances in the national
championship game. By
contrast, the Rebels hav-
en’t had a winning season
said she saw plenty of
improvement from her
teammates throughout
the year. During the Blue
Waves’ postgame senior
day ceremony, Macon
said this season was the
best she has had while
playing soccer.
“As time went on, ev-
erybody got better,” she
said. “Everybody just
progressed into a won-
derful soccer player ... I
was really happy about
it.”
On Saturday, MSMS
showed the results of
that progression, putting
together an impressive
game to beat the Pan-
thers.
“Our girls played re-
ally well together, com-
pleted passes, worked
hard to get to the ball
and challenged the ball,”
Yarbrough said. “It was a
good time.”
That good time and
the Blue Waves’ season,
like all good things, came
to an end — but Macon
said postgame the impact
hadn’t hit her just yet. For
now, she’ll enjoy the win.
“Right now, I’m really
happy,” Macon said. “I’m
not sad yet. It was really
nice.”
make another basket
until 10:10 remaining.
During that interim the
Bulldogs outscored the
Rebels 14-2 and took a
43-42 lead when Edwards
hit a 3-pointer with 12:31
remaining.
“I was proud of the
way our team, the way we
defended,” Davis said. “I
am real proud of the way
our team, in the way that
Georgia made a great
comeback, the arena got
really loud, and our team
stayed true to form.”
The lead didn’t last
long. Ole Miss regained
the lead when Buffen
made a pair of free
throws 27 seconds lat-
er, and the Rebels never
trailed again.
since 2016-17, and they
won a combined 21 games
between the 2018 and
2019 seasons.
That same distance
has been seen in the
teams’ on-court matchups
over the better part of the
last decade as well. Since
Schaefer arrived at MSU
in 2012, the Bulldogs
have utterly dominated
the in-state rivalry, boast-
ing a 14-2 record against
the Rebels.
Having won six
straight games over Ole
Miss by double digits,
MSU swept last year’s se-
ries by a combined score
of 160-115 between the
two matchups.
“When you’re trying to
establish your program,
there’s a way you want
to do things, and you’ve
got to get everybody on
the same end of the rope,
pulling in the same di-
rection,” Schaefer said.
“Sometimes that can be
a challenge, but I know
in watching them and
having to play them last
year and this year, they
play extremely hard, and
they’re well coached.”
Disparity aside, Sun-
MSMS boys 4,
Yazoo County 1
Junior Cameron
Wright stole the show on
senior day for the MSMS
boys team in their 4-1 win
over Yazoo County on Sat-
urday.
Wright scored all four
goals for the Blue Waves,
finding the net in the sec-
ond, 47th, 50th and 76th
minutes to carry MSMS
to victory.
“Cameron is a really
talented junior leader,
and we’re looking forward
to him to continue to lead
next year,” said Yarbor-
ough, who coached the
boys team as well Satur-
day with boys coach Tim
Wood out of town. “It’s a
great way for him to end
the junior season.”
A modest Wright
downplayed postgame
his impact on the field,
though.
“Most of them was just
tapping it in when the ball
was placed right there, so
I definitely can’t claim the
full goal,” he said.
Even still, Wright was
always around the middle
of the field, ready to make
an impact. On his third
goal, he drove a hard shot
that was saved by Pan-
Big picture
Georgia: The Bull-
dogs dropped to 9-2 at
home, where their only
previous loss was against
Kentucky. They play half
of their remaining 12
games on the road, where
they’re 1-4 overall and 0-3
in the SEC.
Ole Miss: The Rebels
stopped a six-game losing
streak, the longest suf-
fered since losing seven
in a row during the 2017-
18 season. That team
went 12-20 and coach
Andy Kennedy was fired
after the season.
No stopping Tyree
Tyree is averaging
25.4 points in five confer-
ence games, ranking him
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2020 3B
day’s contest marks an-
other chance for Missis-
sippi basketball to take
center stage nationally.
With a borderline sellout
expected at Humphrey
Coliseum and a rivalry
that remains among the
nation’s most hostile re-
gardless of the playing
surface, Schaefer is cog-
nizant of the game’s im-
portance.
“We’ve had some
very close ballgames,
and sometimes in these
games anything can hap-
pen,” he said. “For our
kids, I think (sophomore
guard) Myah (Taylor)
said it best — it’s a mean-
ingful game to a lot of peo-
ple. I think for our kids,
where we are with our
program now, it’s a mean-
ingful game because it’s
the next game for us.
We need to win. We’re at
home. It’s a Sunday after-
noon, we expect 10,000
at The Hump, and that in
and of itself is important.
We’re trying to get to 6-1
in the league, and I think
if you get tied up with
anything past that, some-
times you can lose focus.”
thers goalkeeper Michael
Pickens and stayed with it
to bury the rebound.
Yarborough said his
players were happy with
their scoring efforts
against Pickens, an “ex-
ceptional” goalkeeper
who made numerous stel-
lar saves.
“For our boys to be
able to finish off four of
them in the back of the
net is outstanding,” Yar-
borough said. “They’re
particularly proud of the
fact that they could get
four against that kid.”
With the win, MSMS
finished the year with a
5-7 record and a 3-5 mark
in district play.
“To finish strong this
week against really dif-
ficult opponents — St.
Joe, St. Andrew’s and now
Yazoo County — it was
a good season,” Yarbor-
ough said.
Wright, in his first year
with the team, echoed
the sentiment. He’s more
than content with send-
ing off the Blue Waves’
seniors the right way.
“This is the last time
I’m gonna be able to grind
for an hour with these
guys,” Wright said.
No. 1 in the conference
against SEC opposition.
The senior also passed
Terence Davis and moved
into 12th place on the Ole
Miss’ career scoring list.
Tyree has 1,527 points
and needs 26 to catch No.
14 Don Kessinger.
Up next
Georgia is on the road
again on Tuesday against
Missouri. The all-time
series is tied 7-7, but Mis-
souri won the last meet-
ing 71-61 on March 13,
2019.
Ole Miss returns home
on Tuesday to play Au-
burn. Ole Miss trails the
all-time series 77-69 and
won both games against
the Tigers last season.
4B SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2020
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Lewis sends Alabama past Kansas St. in 77-74 win
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Hope product Stevenson leads Southern
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Kira
Lewis Jr. scored 26 points and
Miss with 17 in loss to Middle Tennessee
Alabama earned another win
for the SEC in the SEC/Big
12 challenge, beating Kansas
State 77-74 Saturday night.
A 14-0 Alabama run in the
second half extended the lead
to 16 for the Crimson Tide, but
the Wildcats responded with a
15-2 run eventually cut the defi-
cit to one.
Lewis made back-to-back
baskets on the next two Ala-
bama possessions, and Ala-
bama never relinquished the
lead.
The Crimson Tide was in
unfamiliar territory in the first
half after their recent success
during a three-game winning
streak.
During the win streak, the
Crimson Tide only trailed for
TOP 25 ROUNDUP
Dotson scores 22, leads No. 3 Kansas past Tennessee
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Devon
Dotson scored 22 points, Udoka
Azubuike added 18 and No. 3
Kansas beat Tennessee 74-68
Saturday in the Big 12/SEC
Challenge.
Azubuike was the lone big
man for the Jayhawks (16-3)
after Silvio De Sousa was sus-
pended 12 games and David
McCormack banned five for
their roles in a brawl Tuesday
against Kansas State.
After Azubuike went to the
bench with two fouls early, Yves
Pons hit consecutive 3-pointers
to put the Volunteers (12-7) on
a 14-2 run for a 20-13 lead. Kan-
sas answered when Azubuike
checked back in, stringing to-
gether a 12-0 run en route to a
37-30 lead at halftime.
Azubuike finished with 11
rebounds and four blocks.
Pons led the Volunteers with
24 points, and Jordan Bowden
knocked down three 3-pointers
and finished with 19 points af-
ter a scoreless first half.
No. 6 Louisville 80,
Clemson 62
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Darius
Perry set career highs with 19
points and five 3-pointers, and
Louisville beat Clemson for its
sixth straight win.
The Cardinals (17-3, 8-1 At-
NBA ROUNDUP
Antetokounmpo helps NBA-leading Bucks beat Hornets in Paris
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS — Giannis Antetok-
ounmpo had 30 points and 12
rebounds and the NBA-lead-
ing Milwaukee Bucks beat the
Charlotte Hornets 116-103 on
Friday night in the first NBA
regular-season game in France.
Milwaukee improved to 40-6
with its eighth straight victory.
The Bucks have the best 46-
game start in franchise history.
They were 39-7 in 1970-71 when
they went on to win the NBA
championship.
Eric Bledsoe added 20 points
and five assists for the Bucks.
Malik Monk led Charlotte
with 31 points. The Hornets
have lost eight in a row.
Milwaukee rallied to tie it at
78 going into the fourth quar-
ter. Pat Connaughton put the
Bucks in front with a dunk in
the fourth. Then Antetokoun-
mpo got going, drawing a foul
as he slalomed through the de-
fense.
Rockets 131,
Timberwolves 124
MINNEAPOLIS — Rus-
sell Westbrook scored a sea-
son-high 45 points and had 10
assists and Houston overcame
another tough night from James
Harden to rally past Minnesota.
Westbrook helped key a sec-
ond-half comeback after Min-
nesota led by six points in the
third quarter. He finished 16-of-
27 shooting, was 13 of 13 from
the free-throw line and add-
ed six rebounds. Eric Gordon
scored a season-high 27 points
off the bench for Houston,
which won its second straight
game following a four-game los-
ing streak.
FROM SPECIAL REPORTS
Sophomore Tyler Stevenson led the South-
ern Miss men’s basketball team with 17 points
in a 65-63 loss to Middle Tennessee on Satur-
day in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
The New Hope product made six of his 10
shots and hit five of six free throws for the Gold-
en Eagles (6-15, 2-6 Conference USA).
Boban Jacdonmi added 16 points for South-
a total of 3:49 overall. Kansas
State scored on the first pos-
session of the game and led for
more than 15 minutes in the
first half.
Alabama had a mini 6-0 run
to take their first lead at 31-30,
lantic Coast Conference) pulled
away with a 20-0 first-half run
and shot 66% before halftime.
Perry finished 7 of 12 from
the field and 5 of 6 from deep
to eclipse his previous high of
17 points last reached against
Vermont on Nov. 16, 2018. The
junior point guard also had five
rebounds.
Freshman Samuell William-
son scored 14 points off the
bench, Steven Enoch had 11
points and seven rebounds, and
Jordan Nwora scored 10 points
for Louisville.
Clemson (10-9, 4-5) had won
four of five, including victories
at North Carolina and over
then-No. 3 Duke. Clyde Trapp
had 11 points for the Tigers.
No. 9 Villanova 64,
Providence 60
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Col-
lin Gillespie grabbed a rebound
and found Jeremiah Robin-
son-Earl on the fast break for a
dunk as Villanova turned back
a Providence rally with 55 sec-
onds left for its sixth straight
win.
Gillespie, who also hit a pair
of free throws with 28 seconds
to play, scored 18 and had eight
rebounds for the Wildcats (16-
3, 6-1 Big East). Robinson-Earl
finished with 17 points, making
one of two foul shots with 13
seconds left to keep it a two-pos-
Harden, who went 1 for 17
from 3-point range in a home
loss to Oklahoma City on Mon-
day night, was 3 of 13 overall
and 0 for 6 from beyond the arc
against Minnesota. He finished
with a season-low 12 points.
Harden also left the game for
part of the third quarter, limp-
ing badly to the bench before
returning in the fourth.
Karl-Anthony Towns had 30
points and 12 rebounds for Min-
nesota. The Timberwolves have
lost eight straight.
Nuggets 113, Pelicans 106
NEW ORLEANS — Nikola
Jokic had 27 points and 12 re-
bounds in Denver’s victory over
New Orleans.
Zion Williamson scored 15
points in about 21 minutes for
New Orleans. The Pelicans
dropped to 0-2 since the NBA’s
top overall draft choice was
activated for the first time this
season Wednesday night.
Michael Porter Jr. and Tor-
rey Craig each had 15 points
and 10 rebounds for Denver.
The Nuggets improved to 3-2
since guard Jamal Murray went
out with a left ankle sprain.
Raptors 118, Knicks 112
NEW YORK — Kyle Lowry
scored 26 points, Pascal Siakam
had 23 and Toronto beat New
York for its sixth straight victo-
ry.
A night after being voted
to start the All-Star Game,
Siakam had two big baskets
down the stretch. He drove for
a dunk with Toronto leading by
only one, then nailed a 3-point-
er with 21 seconds remaining
after the Knicks had closed
within three.
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ern Miss, and Gabe Watson had 10.
C.J. Jones scored 17 points to lead Middle
Tennessee (5-16, 1-7), which picked up its first
Conference USA win of the season. Donovan
Sims had 10 points for the Blue Raiders, includ-
ing the winning free throws with 0.7 left on the
clock.
Southern Miss will host Old Dominion on
Thursday in Hattiesburg.
but the Wildcats took a 37-36
lead into halftime.
Kansas State controlled the
boards throughout the game
and finished with 22 offensive
rebounds compared to three for
the Crimson Tide.
session game.
Nate Watson had 18 points
and nine rebounds and David
Duke had 11 and 10 for Provi-
dence (11-10, 4-4). The Friars
have lost four of five — with all
of the losses coming against
ranked teams.
No. 14 West Virginia 74,
Missouri 51
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. —
Jermaine Haley had 15 points
and nine rebounds, Miles Mc-
Bride scored 15 points and
West Virginia broke open a
close game with a huge run
early in the second half to beat
cold-shooting Missouri.
West Virginia’s Bob Huggins
earned his 876th win, tying
Adolph Rupp for seventh place
on the NCAA Division I coach-
ing list.
Oscar Tshiebwe added 14
points and eight rebounds,
Gabe Osabuohien grabbed 12
rebounds and Derek Culver had
11 rebounds for the Mountain-
eers (16-3).
Torrence Watson scored 19
points to lead Missouri (9-10).
No. 16 Auburn 80,
Iowa State 76
AUBURN, Ala. — Isaac
Okoro scored 19 points, Samir
Doughty had 18 and Auburn
held off Iowa State.
Okoro had 10 straight points
Fred VanVleet and Norman
Powell each added 16 points
for the Raptors. They beat the
Knicks for the eighth straight
time.
Marcus Morris and Dam-
yean Dotson each scored 21
points for the Knicks. They’ve
dropped five of six.
Celtics 109, Magic 98
ORLANDO, Fla. — Kemba
Walker scored 37 points, Gor-
don Hayward added 22 and
Boston overcame a 16-point
first-half deficit to beat Orlando.
Daniel Theis added 16 points
to help the Celtics win their
third straight game.
Evan Fournier led Orlando
with 30 points. Nikola Vucevic
had 17 points and 12 rebounds.
Thunder 140, Hawks 111
OKLAHOMA CITY — Dani-
lo Gallinari scored 25 points
and Oklahoma City beat Atlan-
ta for its fourth straight win.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
scored 24 points and Dennis
Schroder added 21 for the
Thunder. They shot 58% from
the field and posted a sea-
son-high point total.
Trae Young had 26 points
and a season-high 16 assists for
Atlanta, a day after the former
University of Oklahoma star
was named an All-Star starter.
John Collins scored 28 points.
Clippers 122, Heat 117
MIAMI — Kawhi Leonard
had his first career triple-dou-
ble and scored 33 points,
Landry Shamet added 22 and
Los Angeles Clippers shrugged
off an early 15-point deficit be-
fore hanging on to beat Miami.
Leonard finished with 10
All five starters for Alabama
finished in double figures in-
cluding Alex Reese, Jaden
Shackelford and John Petty Jr.
scoring 11 points and Herbert
Jones 10.
Junior guard Cartier Diarra
to help the Tigers (17-2) take a
76-62 lead with under six min-
utes to play. The Cyclones (9-
10) responded with 10 points in
a row.
Okoro, a true freshman, hit
two foul shots with nine sec-
onds left to seal it.
Rasir Bolton led the Cy-
clones with 23 points and
Tyrese Haliburton, the team’s
leading scorer going into the
game, added 12.
SMU 74, No. 20 Memphis 70
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Kend-
ric Davis had 20 points and five
assists, Emmanuel Bandoumel
added 14 and SMU used a late
run to knock off Memphis.
Isiaha Mike scored 13 points,
all in the second half, and Ty-
son Jolly finished with 10 as the
Mustangs (15-4, 5-2 American
Athletic Conference) won their
third straight.
D.J. Jeffries led Memphis
(14-5, 3-3) with 18 points, while
Precious Achiuwa had 15 points
and nine rebounds. The loss
was the Tigers’ second straight
and fourth in the last six.
No. 21 Illinois 64,
Michigan 62
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Ayo
Dosunmu hit a contested jump-
er from the free throw line with
0.5 seconds remaining to lift Il-
linois over Michigan.
rebounds and 10 assists. He
was first credited with the tri-
ple-double in the third quarter
— briefly, because one of his
rebounds was taken away after
a stat review. He then officially
got it on a rebound with 3:55
left.
Lou Williams scored 16
points, Montrezl Harrell had 15
and JaMychal Green added 14
for the Clippers.
Jimmy Butler led Miami
with 20 points. Butler left mid-
way through the fourth after
appearing to turn his right an-
kle for the second time in the
game, capping a night when he
also got inadvertently popped
in the eye during the first half.
Suns 103, Spurs 99
PHOENIX — Devin Book-
er had 35 points and 10 assists
before fouling out with 1:31 left
and Phoenix held on to beat the
Spurs, snapping an 11-game
skid in San Antonio.
Booker has scored at least
30 points eight times in January
and in 17 games this season.
He’s averaging 31.3 points in 12
games this month.
Dario Saric added 20 points,
Kelly Oubre Jr. had 16 and De-
andre Ayton had 10 points and
11 rebounds to help the Suns
win in San Antonio for the first
time since Feb. 27, 2013.
DeMar DeRozan had 30
points and eight rebounds for
San Antonio.
Grizzlies 125, Pistons 112
DETROIT — Jaren Jackson
Jr. scored 24 of his 29 points
in the first half and hit a big
3-pointer in the fourth quarter
in Memphis’ victory over De-
troit.
led the Wildcats with 17 points.
Senior forward Makol Maw-
ien added 13 points and 12 re-
bounds, including seven offen-
sive boards.
Big picture
Kansas State: The Wild-
cats out-rebounded Alabama
45-33, a team that was tied for
fifth in the country in rebound-
ing coming in.
Alabama: Alabama moves
to 3-1 all-time in the SEC/Big
12 challenge and has now won
four games in a row and eight
straight at home.
Up next
Kansas State hosts Oklaho-
ma on Wednesday night.
Alabama travels to confer-
ence leader LSU on Wednesday.
The Illini (15-5, 7-2) moved
into sole possession of first
place in the Big Ten for the mo-
ment, and they extended their
winning streak to six. Michigan
(11-8, 2-6) has dropped four in a
row and may have lost forward
Isaiah Livers again to an injury.
Dosunmu finished with 27
points.
Livers returned for Mich-
igan after missing six games
with a groin injury, but he left in
the second half after appearing
to hurt himself again.
No. 24 Rutgers 75,
Nebraska 72
PISCATAWAY, NJ — Geo
Baker hit a 3-pointer with 1.2
seconds left as Rutgers extend-
ed its home winning streak to
14 games with a win over Ne-
braska.
Rutgers had four double-dig-
it scorers, with Akwaski Ye-
boah leading the way with 20
points. Caleb McConnell and
Jacob Young each had 12 and
Montez Mathis 10.
Rutgers (15-5, 6-3 Big Ten)
was up by 14 early in the second
half before Nebraska (7-13, 2-7
Big Ten) went on a 22-7 run for
a short-lived lead.
Nebraska, down 38-33 at the
half, was led by Cam Mack with
19 points while Thorir Thorbja-
rnarson had 17 points and eight
rebounds.
Dillon Brooks scored 22 of
his 27 points in the second half
for Memphis, and Ja Morant
had 16 points and 12 assists.
Derrick Rose had 22 points
for Detroit. Pistons center An-
dre Drummond sat out because
of a lacerated lip.
Kings 98, bulls 81
CHICAGO — Buddy Hield
scored 21 points, Harrison
Barnes added 19 and Sacra-
mento beat Chicago to snap a
six-game losing streak.
De’Aaron Fox added 18
points, seven assists and six re-
bounds.
Zach LaVine scored 21
points for Chicago.
Pacers 129, Warriors 118
SAN FRANCISCO — T.J.
Warren scored 21 of his 33
points in the first half, Doug
McDermott made four 3-point-
ers in the fourth quarter and
Indiana held off Golden State.
McDermott matched his sea-
son high with 24 points as the
Pacers (30-16) won their sev-
enth in eight games. Domantas
Sabonis added 16 points, 10 re-
bounds and eight assists, while
T.J. McConnell and Aaron Holi-
day scored 12 apiece.
D’Angelo Russell had 37
points for Golden State. The
Warriors lost for the 13th time
in 14 games and fell to an NBA-
worst 10-37.
Golden State was working
to complete a trade with Dallas
that would send Willie Cau-
ley-Stein to the Mavericks in
exchange for a second-round
draft pick. The deal will report-
edly be finalized when Dallas
makes room on its roster for the
7-foot Cauley-Stein.

Bloodied but unbowed, Kyrgios sets Nadal clash in Australia
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MELBOURNE, Aus-
tralia — Nick Kyrgios
put aside a bloody hand,
a hamstring issue, a tiff
with the chair umpire
and a resilient opponent
who saved a pair of match
points.
When the Australian
Open third-round thrill-
er ended after about 4
1/2 hours Saturday, Kyr-
gios dropped to his back
behind the baseline.
Guess what’s next for the
home-crowd favorite? A
much-anticipated match-
up with a familiar, but de-
cidedly not friendly, foe:
No. 1 Rafael Nadal.
Kyrgios eventually
got past No. 16 Karen
Khachanov 6-2, 7-6 (5),
6-7 (6), 6-7 (7), 7-6 (8)
with the help of 33 aces
and what sounded like an
entire country of support-
ers in the stands.
“This is just epic,
man,” Kyrgios said. “Like,
I don’t even know what’s
going on.”
Kyrgios initially was a
point from winning at 6-5
in the third-set tiebreak-
er, then again an hour
later at 8-7 in the fourth-
set tiebreaker, but he
needed yet another hour
to pull out the victory
when Khachanov pushed
COMMENTARY
‘We don’t like to draft a Rahm takes the lead at Torrey
guy who’s too smart’ Pines with McIlroy lurking
BY JIM LITKE
The Associated Press
Last week, nearly two
decades after his death,
straight-talking Giants
front-office boss George
Young finally got elected
to the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. It seemed only
fitting for a guy who took
the long view on every-
thing.
Back when most
teams asked potential
draft picks just a hand-
ful of questions, Giants
prospects were handed
a survey requiring 380
multiple-choice answers.
“We don’t like to draft
a guy who’s too smart,”
Young explained, “be-
cause he could do some-
thing else with his life
besides play this silly
game.”
Over the last 10
months, a trio of under-30
NFL stars proved Young
right. They decided the
game that made them
rich and famous was also
too violent and started
looking for “something
else.” Whether that’s co-
incidence or the start of a
worrisome trend remains
to be seen.
The most recent play-
er to announce his re-
tirement was former Pan-
thers linebacker Luke
Kuechly, 28, and still one
of the best in the game.
He joined former Colts
quarterback Andrew
Luck, who was booed
briefly, and Patriots tight
end Rob Gronkowski,
who’s taken up Sudoku
and fasting, by heading to
the sideline during what
looked like their athletic
primes.
All three, though,
were dealing with nag-
ging injuries and chronic
pain and facing more of
the same if they endured
a lengthy rehab. None
mentioned concussions
specifically, but science
has shown brain damage
to be as nearly likely an
occupational hazard of
playing in the NFL as a
busted-up knee or shoul-
der. Though their rea-
sons for leaving differed,
they all decided to exit
gracefully while that was
still an option, prioritiz-
ing long-term health over
current earning power.
a backhand wide.
“I was losing it men-
tally, a little bit,” Kyrgios
said. “I thought I was go-
ing to lose, honestly.”
Along the way, he hit
a dive-and-roll backhand,
scraped his knuckles and,
after wiping the blood,
was warned for a time vi-
olation. That set off Kyr-
gios, who explained why
play was delayed and said
to the chair umpire, “Are
you stupid? Well, take it
back then.”
There are sure to be
more fireworks Monday
during the eighth edi-
tion of Nadal vs. Kyrgios.
Even so, Kyrgios tried to
downplay the animosity
Saturday, saying: “What-
ever happens between us,
he’s an amazing player.
Arguably, he’s the great-
est of all-time.”
So far, Nadal holds a
4-3 head-to-head edge, in-
cluding a contentious win
in their last meeting, at
Wimbledon last July.
Nadal was not thrilled
that Kyrgios hit a ball
right at him in that match.
Kyrgios took a different
sort of shot at Nadal from
afar the other day in Mel-
bourne, mimicking the
33-year-old Spaniard’s
series of mannerisms be-
fore he hits a serve.
“It’s clear, of course,
Besides — did I mention?
— they banked enough
paychecks to be set for
life.
“I still want to play,”
Kuechly said in his vid-
eo announcement, “but I
don’t think it’s the right
decision.”
He’s right. Life in the
NFL is short enough as it
is: The average age is 26,
the average career lasts
three seasons.
But stars like Kuechly,
Luck and Gronk, by defi-
nition, need a longer shelf
life. They don’t emerge
out of whole cloth. They
need time and teaching
to develop, then domi-
nate, and by the end —
smarter but busted-up
— just to hang onto their
jobs. Replacing the guys
who make the game go,
let alone their supporting
cast of thousands, was
never easy. And the math
looks more challenging
by the day.
Leery parents and
sky-high insurance costs
have already put a crimp
in the youth football pipe-
line. The number of kids
playing at the high school
level— even in traditional
“feeder” states like Tex-
as and Ohio — dropped
more than 10 percent in
the last decade.
Five years ago, the re-
tirement of perennial All-
Pro 49ers linebacker Pat-
rick Willis just past his
30th birthday registered
as a mild shock. Within
days, 24-year-old rookie
Chris Borland, who took
over for an injured Willis
and won both rookie- and
defensive-player-of the-
week awards during that
stint, announced his even
more surprising retire-
ment.
An ankle injury forced
Borland out of the lineup
in December of the pre-
vious season. But what
really worried him were
the lingering effects of a
concussion he suffered in
training camp and largely
ignored in a bid to make
the team as a third-round
pick.
“I just thought to my-
self, ‘What am I doing?’”
Borland said. “’Is this how
I’m going to live my adult
life, banging my head,
especially with what I’ve
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TENNIS
that when he does stuff
that in my opinion is not
good, I don’t like (it).
When he plays good ten-
nis and he shows pas-
sion for this game, he is
a positive player for our
tour, and I want my tour
bigger, not smaller. So
the players who make the
tour bigger are important
for the tour,” Nadal said.
“When he’s ready to play
his best tennis and play
with passion, (he) is one
of these guys. When he’s
doing the other stuff, of
course I don’t like (it).”
Here’s what Nad-
al loved Saturday: The
way he stepped things
up during a 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
victory over 27th-seeded
Pablo Carreno Busta that
required fewer than 100
minutes.
“I needed to improve,”
Nadal said, “and I im-
proved.”
His down-the-line lefty
forehand was perfectly
on-target and “impossible
to read,” Carreno Busta
explained.
“Starting,” Nadal said,
“to create damage.”
He won 52 of 62 points
on his serve.
He never offered his
opponent a break chance.
He finished with a total
of merely seven unforced
errors among the match’s
learned and knew about
the dangers?’”
With that frank ad-
mission, Borland forfeit-
ed about $463,000, or 75
percent, of the signing
bonus from his four-year
rookie deal. In one sense,
though Borland got off
easy. The following sea-
son, when Lions wide re-
ceiver Calvin “Megatron”
Johnson made retirement
a 30th birthday present
to himself, he was forced
to repay $1 million of his
signing bonus.
Pro football will al-
ways be a young man’s
game. Scan the rosters
of the Super Bowl con-
tenders and draw a line
through players age 30
and over and each loses
only a handful of players
(kickers don’t count).
On the 49ers side, they
would include All-Pro
defensive back Richard
Sherman, wide receiver
Emmanuel Sanders and
tackle Joe Staley, 35, the
only player on the active
roster left from San Fran-
cisco’s salad days nearly a
decade ago.
The Chiefs would be
hit a little harder: Pat-
rick Mahomes’ backups
are Matt Moore, 35, and
Chad Henne, 34; All-Pro
tight end Travis Kelce is
30, running back LaSean
McCoy is 31 and defen-
sive end Terrell Suggs is
a grizzled 37.
Not long ago, a report-
er mentioned Willis’ re-
tirement to Fred Warner,
a rising star in the 49ers
linebacking corps after
just two seasons, how he
saw his own career play-
ing out. Wisely, Warner
didn’t go there.
“I think when you’re
young, you think you’re
going to play forever,
right? That’s the dream
— to play in the NFL, and
you think you’re going to
play 20 years,” Warner
said. “But when you’re in
it, you know, it’s a violent
game at the end of the
day, and so you take a lot
of — your body takes a lot
of toll on it. …
“I don’t try and think
too far ahead,” he said
finally, “because your
career could be over in a
matter of seconds. I just
take it one day at a time.”
125 total points — and six
times as many winners at
42.
“My best match of the
tournament so far, with-
out a doubt,” Nadal said.
“Big difference between
today and the previous
days.”
Against “this Rafa,”
Carreno Busta said, “you
feel a little powerless.”
“When he plays that
comfortably,” Carreno
Busta said, “there’s noth-
ing you can do.”
And to think: Nadal
did this after staying up
late enough to watch on
TV as the man he’s chas-
ing in the Grand Slam
count, Roger Federer,
was pushed to a fifth-set
tiebreaker before getting
through to the fourth
round at nearly 1 a.m.
That was part of a cha-
otic Day 5 — including
losses by Serena Wil-
liams and reigning cham-
pion Naomi Osaka, who
was ousted by 15-year-old
sensation Coco Gauff —
and the trend continued
on Day 6 on the women’s
side.
No. 2 Karolina Plisko-
va, No. 5 Elina Svitolina
and No. 6 Belinda Bencic
all lost in straight sets,
meaning nine of the top
13 seeds already are gone.
Pliskova, the 2016 U.S.
GOLF
Spaniard shoots
7-under 65 to
grab one-shot
lead at Farmers
Insurance Open
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SAN DIEGO — Jon
Rahm is playing some
of his best golf with two
victories and a runner-up
in his last four tourna-
ments. He was at his best
Saturday at Torrey Pines,
holing a chip for birdie
and a full gap wedge for
eagle to start his round.
Even after a 7-under
65 for a one-shot lead in
the Farmers Insurance
Open, Rahm knows as
well as anyone that the
hard work is still in front
of him, mainly because
of whoever might be be-
hind him.
Three years ago, that
was Rahm. He made two
eagles over the last six
holes for a 66 to capture
his first PGA Tour title.
This year, it could be
Ryan Palmer and Rory
McIlroy in the final
group, maybe even Tiger
Woods from five shots
back.
“The back nine three
years ago? It will do ab-
solutely nothing, really,”
Rahm said. “The only
thing it’s going to do is
keep me focused, no mat-
ter how good I’m playing,
knowing that somebody
can come and do the
same thing.”
After a two-hour fog
delay, Rahm had the ide-
al start. He chipped in
from just off the green at
No. 1. Then, he hit a gap
wedge from 111 yards
that landed short of the
hole and rolled in for an
eagle.
Equally important was
saving par on No. 5, and
then on Nos. 12, 14 and
15, each of them feeling
just as good as birdies.
Open runner-up, lost 7-6
(4), 7-6 (3) to 30th-seeded
Anastasia Pavlyuchen-
kova. Svitolina, a semi-
finalist at the past two
majors, was beaten 6-1,
6-2 by two-time Slam
champ Garbiñe Muguru-
za. Bencic, a semifinalist
at Flushing Meadows last
September, offered even
less pushback while be-
ing defeated 6-0, 6-1 in 49
minutes by 28th-seeded
Anett Kontaveit.
Kontaveit now meets
18-year-old Iga Swiatek,
who is ranked 59th and
eliminated No. 19 seed
Donna Vekic 7-5, 6-3.
“At this level, every-
thing can happen,” two-
time major champion Si-
mona Halep said about all
of the surprises, “so that’s
why sometimes I’m a little
bit stressed.”
Halep, who is seeded
fourth, stuck around by
beating Yulia Putintseva
6-1, 6-4, and next plays
No. 16 Elise Mertens,
who ended the Grand
Slam return of 20-year-
old American CiCi Bellis
6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-0.
Other men’s fourth-
round matchups on the
top half of the draw will
be No. 5 Dominic Thiem
against No. 10 Gael Mon-
fils, No 7 Alexander
Zverev against No. 17 An-
It led to the low round
of the day. He was at
12-under 204 and had
a one-shot lead over
Palmer, whose card was
a mixture of birdies and
bogeys until a 10-foot
birdie on the 17th gave
him a 71.
Rahm and Palmer
have good history. They
were teammates at the
Zurich Classic in New
Orleans and won. This
time they’re on their
own, with company.
McIlroy can go to
No. 1 in the world with a
victory, and after a poor
finish on Friday, he got
it right this time. McIl-
roy hit a 5-iron from a
bunker on No. 12 — the
third-toughest hole of
the day — to 6 feet for
birdie. He also powered a
3-wood over the water to
20 feet on the par-5 18th
that set up an easy birdie
for a 67.
That left him three
shots behind and in the
final group with Rahm,
the first time they’ve
played together on Sun-
day on the PGA Tour.
“It was nice to shoot
a good third round here
and get myself a little
bit closer,” McIlroy said.
“There’s a lot of guys like
6-, 7-, 8-under par. Need
to go out and try to rep-
licate what I did today. If
I can do that, I’ll have a
good shot.”
Woods finished with
a 15-foot putt — his lon-
gest of the round — on
the par-5 18th and hopes
it will give him some
momentum going into
Sunday. Never mind that
the putt was for par. He
sent his wedge over the
green and into the bun-
ker, and another dropped
shot could have been
costly. The par salvaged
a 69 that got him within
five shots. It wasn’t a bad
score, it just felt like way
after the start.
Woods opened with
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2020 5B
drey Rublev, and three-
time major champion
Stan Wawrinka against
No. 4 Daniil Medvedev.
Nadal won the Austra-
lian Open back in 2009
and has been the run-
ner-up four times since,
including a year ago
against Novak Djokovic.
It’s Nadal’s least suc-
cessful major tourna-
ment: The 33-year-old
Spaniard owns 12 tro-
phies from the French
Open, four from the U.S.
Open and two from Wim-
bledon.
He’s said he is not fo-
cused on whether he gets
one more by the end of
these two weeks to pull
even with Federer at 20
majors — or where he
ends up in the final count
(Djokovic is third on the
list with 16 at the mo-
ment.)
Likewise, Federer
says he figures he knows
both of those rivals will
overtake him in the Slam
standings at some point.
For now, Nadal is
tracking his progress on
a match-by-match basis.
And for one warm, sun-
ny afternoon in Rod Laver
Arena, at least, he was
pleased.
two birdies in three
holes, chipped in for par,
added two more birdies
for a 32 and suddenly
was within two shots of
the lead as he goes for
a ninth victory at Torrey
Pines, and a record 83rd
in his PGA Tour career.
But he didn’t make an-
other birdie, and didn’t
even have a chance at
one from closer than 20
feet.
“It was important to
make that putt,” he said.
“By the end of the day,
there will probably be
10, 11, 12 guys ahead of
me. I’ve still got to go out
there and post a low one
tomorrow.”
Woods was among 16
players within five shots
of the lead.
Sung Kang (67),
PGA Tour rookie Harry
Higgs (69) and Camer-
on Champ (68) joined
McIlroy at 9-under 207.
The group another shot
behind included Tony
Finau, Patrick Reed and
Brandt Snedeker, a two-
time champion at Torrey
Pines who birdied his
last two holes to salvage
a 72.
McIlroy is playing for
the first time since late
November and didn’t ap-
pear to pick up too much
rust during his break.
This is his second time
playing Torrey Pines,
and it feels suited for
him, even if he struggles
like everyone else on poa
greens.
“Even if you’re not
making that many bird-
ies but if you keep giving
yourself chances, it’s one
of these golf courses that
you feel like you’re play-
ing really well, you might
be a couple under,” McIl-
roy said. “That’s OK. No
one else is going that low.
Keep doing the same
thing tomorrow and you
should be right there.”
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Trailblazing 49ers assistant

has roots in Chiefs Kingdom
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HESSTON, Kan. — The old
downtown strip, like so many in
small towns across America, is qui-
et on a brisk January morning, just
a few cars parked at one end in front
of The Citizens State Bank and a few
more in front of the pharmacy at the
other.
Around the corner is an old Texa-
co station, the pumps long removed
and the windows covered up. Near-
by, the sign for Weaver’s Grocers —
“Your local hometown grocers!” — is
all that remains from the once-bus-
tling store. Most businesses have
the boys in high school. Instead, they tle things that allow a team to come
turned their attention to just about together and win ball games,” says
every other sport, whether it was Matthew Richardson, who taught
basketball or track and field, help- and coached the Sowers sisters in
ing the Swathers — the nickname middle school and high school. “Ka-
coming from a piece of farming ma- tie wasn’t ever concerned with rec-
chinery common on the Great Plains ognition, she only wanted to do her
— win enough championships to fill job extremely well so the team could
a trophy case. be successful.”
“Katie was a competitor, hard It’s hard to get much more suc-
worker, and didn’t like to lose,” says cessful than reaching the Super
their basketball coach, Brennan
Torgerson. “She didn’t break into
Bowl.
While Katie’s career path led to Sudoku YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
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turn to the Super Bowl.
Then again, Katie Sowers had
been defying expectations all her
life.
When the Niners face the Kansas
City Chiefs next weekend, she will
become the first female assistant
and first openly gay coach to take
the sideline in the sport’s biggest
game. Her story has spread like a
prairie fire thanks in large part to
a Microsoft commercial featuring
Sowers that ran repeatedly during
last weekend’s conference champi-
onship games, and she will no doubt
be a popular interview subject when
reporters descend on Miami early
next week.
It’s all a little hard to believe for
her family and friends, those who
grew up playing tackle football with
her in the backyard, or coached her
in high school basketball, or took
classes with her at tiny Hesston Col-
lege.
“People ask me what we did for
fun,” recalls her twin sister, Liz,
“and I don’t honestly have an an-
swer. We drove to Wichita? But we
always had each other. We were
never really looking for things to
do. We always had a best friend. But
being in a small conservative town
was different, especially being gay.
But we were lucky to be in the most
open-minded family in town. I love
everybody knowing everybody, even
with all the small-town gossip.”
The sisters’ dad, Floyd, was a bas-
ketball coach at nearby Bethel Col-
lege, but the kids always preferred
the rough-and-tumble of football,
gender norms be damned. Even
though they were in the heart of
Chiefs country, Katie grew up a Dal-
las Cowboys fan and Liz a Denver
Broncos fan, because those were the
uniforms and plastic helmets they
got as Christmas gifts one year. One
of the neighbor boys that played with
them had gotten the Chiefs outfit.
The Sowers kids eventually
shelved their football ambitions,
though, never thinking at the time
that they could continue playing with
shake the football bug, though.
After starting at Hesston College,
where her mother, Bonnie, was the
longtime director of nursing, Ka-
tie finished her studies at Goshen
College in Indiana. She resumed
playing football with the West Mich-
igan Mayhem in the Women’s Foot-
ball Alliance and for USA Football’s
national team, but any thought of
ever coaching men was temporari-
ly dashed when Katie was denied a
volunteer assistant job at the private
liberal arts college.
Injuries eventually took their toll
on Katie — a separated shoulder, a
torn labrum in her hip. So with de-
gree in hand, she joined her sister in
Kansas City and began working to-
ward her master’s degree at Central
Missouri.
That is where fate set her on the
path toward the NFL sideline.
One of Katie’s part-time jobs was
coaching a youth basketball team,
and one her players happened to be
the daughter of former Chiefs gener-
al manager Scott Pioli. He soon be-
came a father figure to her, and when
Pioli was fired by the Chiefs and
hired as the assistant GM in Atlan-
ta, he helped Katie catch on through
the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching
Fellowship. There, she made such
an impression on then-Falcons of-
fensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan
that he asked her to follow him to
San Francisco when he was hired to
coach the Niners.
At first she helped break down
film and work on practice scripts,
but over time she was given more re-
sponsibility. These days, she works
largely with wide receivers along-
side offensive coordinators Mike La-
Fleur and Mike McDaniel, helping
an offense that was second only to
the Baltimore Ravens in scoring this
season.
Her rapid rise in the cut-throat
coaching profession doesn’t surprise
those who knew her growing up.
“Katie was an amazing teammate
and was always willing to do the lit-
the same number only once. The difficulty level
dream of mine to be in the NFL or
increases from Monday to Sunday.
be in a Super Bowl,” Liz says, “and
looking back it was like, no, it never
crossed my mind. And it’s crazy for
me to think as much as I loved play-
ing and it was our favorite sport, I
never thought that was an option to
somehow be in a Super Bowl. And
it pushes me to continue doing and
playing football.
“When Katie is walking down the
sideline,” Liz adds with pride, “she’ll
have parents shouting that their
daughter wants to coach in the NFL,
or play in the NFL, and that dream is
real now for people, for young girls.”
Nobody is more proud of the sis-
ters than their parents, Floyd and
Bonnie.
The couple moved to Kansas City
about two years ago, when Floyd
suffered a major stroke during a
visit to see the kids and their older
sister, Steph. It left him in a wheel-
chair, unable to walk or speak, and
Liz has taken it upon herself to help
her mother care for him. One of their
biggest challenges is transportation,
and Liz’s birthday wish was to raise
enough money through a GoFund-
Me account to purchase a van with
wheelchair access.
“He was and still is Katie’s biggest
fan,” Liz explains, “but he was always
so proud to communicate that to ev-
erybody, always wore San Francis-
co gear in public so people would
approach him, and they’d ask about
it. So it’s been hard for him since he
can’t communicate. He can’t speak.
But I feel like this TV commercial
she’s now on, telling her story, in
a way it speaks for my dad. He’s so
proud to be able to watch that.”
After much discussion, Floyd ACROSS
and Bonnie decided to stay in Kan- 1 Flag feature
sas City — surrounded by Chiefs 5 Not barefoot
fans — to watch the Super Bowl next 9 Do a Thanks-
weekend. But there will be plenty of giving job
family support in Miami: Liz will be 10 Drew
there with her girlfriend, and Steph 12 African lilies
will be there with her husband, who 13 Degrade
coincidentally grew up cheering for 14 Cinema snack
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been with the program for three Lemonis quipped of Koestler. “He’s the season to round out his rotation. trace 5 Informal talk urchin
years and could make a veteran im- been through a lot of college base- “I think lining up our pitching 36 Young baby 6 Center 31 Looks after
pact. ball. He was the closer at Hinds staff, getting everyone their in- 38 Boyfriends 7 Stump figure 33 Start
Graduate transfers David Dun- Community College. He was the nings right now, keeping everybody 40 Homer work 8 Want 37 Down
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tler (Southeastern Louisiana) both Louisiana. He’s done it, been there, weekend is a big piece for us,” he ment setting letters
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of the bullpen as well — though nei- bullpen and in the starting lineup, this time of year and getting guys symbol as new
ther has faced the consistent talent Lemonis said Saturday he antici- their innings, for me, is the biggest
SEC hitters pose week to week. pates using the three weeks ahead piece. The more innings we get, the
“It feels like he’s 30 years old of the Feb. 14 season opener against more at-bats we get, our guys will
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“We’re handling business like
we’re supposed to,” senior Aniya
Saddler said. “We’re not trying to do
too much.”
Saddler, who typically leads the
Falcons in scoring, didn’t have to do
all that much herself Friday, step-
ping back a bit to let Jackson shoul-
der the load. Jackson scored 12
points in the first quarter alone and
finished with 21 points to Saddler’s
16, leading all scorers.
“That’s a wonderful thing to be
able to go to her like that,” Hairston
said. “At the beginning of the sea-
son, we weren’t able to do that. Now
she’s able to step up and play big.”
With a weeklong layoff since last
Friday’s blowout win at New Hope,
the Falcons scuffled a little bit in the
second quarter, though they still
outscored the Chargers 12-9 in the
period.
“We’ve been sitting and waiting
a while,” Hairston said. “We didn’t
have that repetition, and that hurt
us a little bit.”
But the Falcons got sufficient
scoring from Jackson and Saddler
and locked in on defense yet again.
Columbus held New Hope to just 17
points last Friday and held Grena-
da to 27 in a 41-point win in the two
schools’ first matchup.
“I felt like we pushed the ball
well,” Jackson said. “I feel like we
were mentally prepared on defense.”
Columbus has just two district
games to go, hosting West Point on
Tuesday and New Hope next Friday,
and the Falcons are peaking at the
right time.
“We’re playing well this time of
the year, and this is when we’re sup-
posed to,” Hairston said. “Earlier,
we didn’t, but this time of the year,
we’re playing well. We want to be
where we are right now.”
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Democratic candidates pour into Iowa for last-minute push

Poll released Saturday showed Sen. Bernie
Sanders with a slight edge over the other
candidates, but the race remains competitive
BY BILL BARROW
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa —
Freed momentarily from the
Senate’s impeachment trial,
several presidential candidates
high-tailed it to Iowa on Sat-
urday for a last-minute blitz of
campaigning before the state’s
caucuses kick off the battle for
the Democratic nomination.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren of
Massachusetts, Bernie Sand-
ers of Vermont and Amy Klo-
buchar of Minnesota planned
to hold town halls, rallies and
concerts across Iowa on Sat-
urday to keep their supporters
motivated heading into the final
stretch of the caucus campaign.
They’ll join former Vice Presi-
dent Joe Biden and Pete Butti-
gieg, the former mayor of South
Bend, Indiana, who don’t have
Senate obligations and have
already spent much of the past
week in Iowa.
The burst of campaigning
comes as the contest for the
Democratic nomination en-
ters a critical — and volatile
— phase. A New York Times/
Siena College poll released Sat-
urday showed Sanders with a
slight edge over the other lead-
ing candidates, but the race
remains competitive. Several
polls show Biden, Buttigieg and
Warren are still front-runners.
“There’s still plenty of time
for movement,” said Kurt Mey-
er, chairman of the Tri-County
Democrats in northern Iowa.
“Every part of the ground game
counts.”
Stuck in Washington for
much of the past week, the sen-
ators in the race have flooded
Iowa and other early voting
states with top-shelf surrogates
— rock star lawmakers, former
Cabinet members, celebrities
and spouses. The stand-ins ar-
en’t a guaranteed way to sus-
tain excitement or win votes,
but the campaigns see it as
the best way to maximize their
reach in a nominating fight that
could turn on the narrowest of
margins in Iowa and other early
states.
Biden isn’t bound to the Sen-
ate like some of his rivals, but
he must navigate the trial none-
theless. House Democrats’
charges that Trump abused
his power and obstructed Con-
gress are rooted in the presi-
dent pressuring Ukrainian offi-
cials to investigate discredited
theories about Biden’s foreign
policy duties in Ukraine as vice
president and his son Hunter’s
personal business dealings
there.
Trump’s defense team began
its defense of the president on
Saturday, and some Republi-
cans are determined to frame
the matter more around Biden
than around the president.
After a brief trip to New
Hampshire, the second state
to vote in Democrats’ nomi-
nating process, Biden planned
to return to Iowa on Saturday
evening and intended to remain
in the state until caucus day.
He began the day announcing
an endorsement from U.S. Rep.
Cindy Axne, who joined her fel-
low first-term congresswoman
from Iowa, Abby Finkenauer, in
backing Biden.
Ahead of his arrival in Iowa,
Sanders sent progressive icon
and New York Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez to the state. She
addressed dozens of Sanders
volunteers at one of his field of-
fices inside a stirp mall, before
heading out to canvass in Cedar
Rapids. She promised to wear
her green “Green New Deal”
baseball cap to join them on a
clear but cold Saturday, amid
snow drifts that piled along
plowed roads and melting ice.
“We are here to make a rev-
olution that lasts,” Ocasio-Cor-
tez said.

Opioid victims can begin filing claims against Purdue Pharma

Federal judge set a June 30 deadline
to file a claim against the company
BY GEOFF MULVIHILL
The Associated Press
State and local govern-
ments have been leading
the legal fight against the
opioid industry, seeking
payouts to help them deal
with the fallout from the
nation’s addiction crisis.
Average Americans are
about to get their shot.
On Friday, the fed-
eral judge overseeing
the bankruptcy case of
Purdue Pharma set a
June 30 deadline to file
a claim against the com-
pany. That includes gov-
ernments, entities such
as hospitals and, for the
first time, individuals
who have personal injury
claims.
It’s not clear how
much money might be
at stake. Purdue reached
an agreement with some
states and local gov-
ernments that could be
worth more than $10
billion over time as part
of its bankruptcy filing.
people who believe they
were harmed by Purdue’s
21 of a heroin overdose
after years of rehab and
might be eligible to file.
Purdue’s case is different
But Judge Robert Drain
emphasized during the
products, not opioids
generally. Still, lawyers
relapses. His mother is
now on a committee of
because so many people
might be able to assert le-
hearing in White Plains, for plaintiffs say people victims seeking input in gal damages against the
New York, that no final should file claims even if the process. company.
settlement is in place. they’re not sure Purdue’s “I spent my whole Prescription and illicit
Once a settlement drugs were involved in retirement. I probably opioids have been linked
and restructuring deal their injuries. spent almost $200,000 on to more than 400,000
for Purdue is approved, Dede Yoder of Nor- rehab and doctors,” she deaths in the U.S. since
the next step will be de- walk, Connecticut, is said. “I would like to get 2000. Perhaps millions of
ciding how to divide the among those who plan my retirement back; I’m other people have strug-
company’s assets. There to file. Her son, Chris- not looking for this huge gled with addiction to
is no guarantee those topher, was prescribed payoff.”
them, and an estimated
who became addicted to a 30-day supply of pain- In bankruptcy pro- 500,000 children were
opioids or their families killers, including Oxy- ceedings, notices for
born in opioid withdraw-
would receive any mon- Contin, during a series of claim deadlines are al.
ey, and the judged em- surgeries when he was 13 usually made in ads in
phasized that the claims and 14 years old. publications or in letters
would be open only to He died in 2017 at age mailed to people who

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Xi calls situation grave as China scrambles to contain virus

Illness has infected state-owned English-language

more than 1,200

people and killed 41
BY KEN MORITSUGU
The Associated Press
BEIJING — China’s leader
on Saturday called the accelerat-
ing spread of a new virus a grave
situation, as cities from the out-
break’s epicenter in central Chi-
na to Hong Kong scrambled to
contain an illness that has infect-
ed more than 1,200 people and
killed 41.
President Xi Jinping’s re-
marks, reported by state broad-
caster CCTV, came at a meeting
of Communist Party leaders con-
vened on Lunar New Year — the
country’s biggest holiday whose
celebrations have been muted
— and underlined the govern-
ment’s urgent, expanding ef-
forts to control the outbreak.
Travel agencies have been
told to halt all group tours, the
China Daily newspaper report-
ed, citing the China Association
of Travel Services.
Millions of people traveling
during the holiday have fueled
the spread of the outbreak na-
tionwide and overseas after it be-
gan in the city of Wuhan in cen-
tral China. The vast majority of
the infections and all the deaths
have been in mainland China,
but fresh cases are popping up.
Australia and Malaysia re-
ported their first cases Satur-
day, and Japan, its third. France
confirmed three cases Friday,
the first in Europe, and the U.S.
identified its second, a woman in
Chicago who had returned from
China.
In the heart of the outbreak,
Wuhan, whose 11 million resi-
dents are already on lockdown,
banned most vehicle use, includ-
ing private cars, in downtown ar-
eas starting Sunday, state media
reported. Only authorized vehi-
cles carrying supplies and for
Chicago woman is second US patient with new virus from China
BY LAURAN NEERGA ARD pitalized “primarily for infection control,” said
AP Medical Writer Dr. Allison Arwady, Chicago’s public health
commissioner.
WASHINGTON — A Chicago woman has Earlier this week, a man in his 30s in Wash-
become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with ington state became the first U.S. patient, also
the dangerous new virus from China, health of- diagnosed after returning from a trip to the out-
ficials announced Friday. break’s epicenter in central China.
The woman in her 60s returned from China The Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
on Jan. 13 without showing any signs of illness, vention is expecting more Americans to be
but three or four days later she called her doc- diagnosed with the newly discovered virus in
tor to report feeling sick. coming days, as worldwide the number of con-
The patient is doing well and remains hos- firmed cases has reached about 1,300.
other needs would be permitted, schools for two more weeks on The city previously announced
the reports said. top of next week’s Lunar New construction of a hospital of the
The city will assign 6,000 tax- Year holiday. They will reopen same size that was expected to
is to different neighborhoods, Feb. 17. be completed Feb. 3.
under the management of resi- Lam said direct flights and The new virus comes from a
dent committees, to help people trains from Wuhan would be large family of what are known
get around if they need to, China blocked. as coronaviruses, some causing
Daily said. In a sign of the growing strain nothing worse than a cold. It
In Hong Kong, leader Car- on Wuhan’s health care system, causes cold- and flu-like symp-
rie Lam said her government the official Xinhua news agency toms, including cough and fever,
will raise its response level to reported that the city planned and in more severe cases, short-
emergency, the highest one, and to build a second makeshift ness of breath. It can worsen to
close primary and secondary hospital with about 1,000 beds. pneumonia, which can be fatal.

NFL’s Saints fight to shield

emails in Catholic abuse crisis
Court filings: Team executives aided
the Roman Catholic Archdiocese
of New Orleans in its ‘pattern and
practice of concealing its crimes’
BY JIM MUSTIAN
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS —
The New Orleans Saints
are going to court to keep
the public from seeing
hundreds of emails that
allegedly show team ex-
ecutives doing public re-
lations damage control for
the area’s Roman Catho-
lic archdiocese to help it
contain the fallout from a
burgeoning sexual abuse
crisis.
Attorneys for about
two dozen men suing the
church say in court filings
that the 276 documents
they obtained through
discovery show that the
NFL team, whose owner
is devoutly Catholic, aided
the Archdiocese of New
Orleans in its “pattern and
practice of concealing its
crimes.”
“Obviously, the Saints
should not be in the busi-
ness of assisting the Arch-
diocese, and the Saints’
public relations team is
not in the business of
managing the public re-
lations of criminals en-
gaged in pedophilia,” the
attorneys wrote in a court
filing. “The Saints real-
ize that if the documents
at issue are made public,
this professional sports
organization also will be
smearing itself.”
The Saints organiza-
tion and its attorneys em-
phatically disputed any
suggestion that the team
helped the church cover
up crimes. In a statement
Friday, the Saints said
the archdiocese sought
its advice on how to han-
dle media attention that
would come from its 2018
release of its list of more
than 50 clergy members
“credibly accused” of sex-
ual abuse.
“The advice was sim-
ple and never wavering.
Be direct, open and fully
transparent, while mak-
ing sure that all law en-
forcement agencies were
alerted,” the team said.
The team added that
it has “no interest in con-
cealing information from
the press or public” and
that it “merely requested
the court to apply the nor-
mal rules of civil discov-
ery.” However, attorneys
for the Saints argued in
court papers this month
that the 2018-19 emails
were intended to be pri-
vate and should not be
“fodder for the public.”
The archdiocese is
also fighting the release
of the emails.
The National Foot-
ball League, which was
advised of the matter by
plaintiffs’ attorneys be-
cause the Saints’ emails
used the team’s nfl.com
domain, has not comment-
ed on the case. NFL pol-
icy says everyone who is
a part of the league must
refrain from “conduct det-
rimental to the integrity
of and public confidence
in” the NFL.

Mississippi funding fence to keep animals off runways

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MERIDIAN — Missis-
sippi will pay $3 million
for a fence to keep wild
animals off the runways
of a military base.
A Navy official said
the state’s job-creation
agency, Mississippi De-
velopment Authority, has
offered a grant to pay for
the barrier at Naval Air
Station Meridian.
The new chain-link
fence would be built in-
side an existing fence sur-
rounding the base, and
bottom of the new fence
will be buried deep, the
Meridian Star reported.
Deer, cattle, hogs and
coyotes have reached the
property in recent years,
and a farmer reported
that a hunter killed a sow
near the fence last month,
said Jim Copeland, com-
munity planning and liai-
son officer for the base.
Pigs have a low center
of gravity and can cause
a plane to lose control if
they are hit by the nose
wheel, Copeland said.
In 1988, the pilot of an
F-16 fighter jet was forced
to eject after the jet struck
wild pigs at Jacksonville
International Airport.
The pilot survived and
the $16 million jet was de-
stroyed.
Copeland said the sec-
retary of the Navy would
need to approve the MDA
grant, which could hap-
pen by summer.
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The art of
the blade

Courtesy photo
Mitch Cargile of Columbus slices through a row of water bottles at a cutting competition in Arkansas in 2018. He used a knife he forged
himself — and named Sir Chops A Lot. Cargile, who lives in the New Hope community, was one of four smiths competing in the Jan. 15
episode of the show “Forged in Fire,” on the History network.

Local bladesmith takes forge skills from the back porch to national TV
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com

A
nticipation ran high at the Cargile
house in Lowndes County the night
of Jan. 15. Friends and family gath-
ered around the television — Mitch Cargile
was about to make his screen debut. Car-
gile, 38, was one of four bladesmiths com-
peting in that evening’s episode of “Forged
in Fire.” The History channel series, pro-
duced by Outpost Entertainment, weekly
features four contenders in a three-round
elimination to forge bladed weapons. Only
two smiths survive to the final challenge —
to make a classic and historically signifi-
cant weapon, be it a famous sword, mighty
shield or fierce battle axe from a time long
past. The winner takes home $10,000.
Cargile — husband, dad of four and Co-
Courtesy photo
lumbus Air Force Base telecommunication Cargile, as one of two finalists on the “Forged in Fire” episode airing Jan. 15, was chal-
technician — has been a fan of the show lenged with making Charlemagne’s Sword, shown here in a replica on the show. The original
that premiered in 2015 ever since he got sword, named Joyeuse, is in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
hooked on the power of heat, hammer and
anvil a few years ago. Cargile, Mitch’s wife. “We invited our hours,’ there’s no retakes on that.”
“It’s the only show I’ll let my kids stay up church family and friends, who didn’t know Cargile and contender Peyton Ramm
to watch,” he said with a chuckle. the results of the show because there was advanced to the final round, where they
That Wednesday’s program was the very little he could share, even with us,” learned of their ultimate challenge — to
culmination of an adventure that began she added, referring to the show’s confiden- recreate Joyeuse, the legendary sword of
this past June, when Cargile’s brother-in- tiality requirements. King Charlemagne.
law alerted him that “Forged in Fire” was When the challenge weapon was re-
taking applications, and sent along a link. ■■■ vealed, Cargile — who had never built
By mid-July, Cargile had made the cut. In a sword before — remembers thinking,
August, he flew northward, to the television The first round of competition saw the “What in the world?”
set he’d seen so often as a viewer. four smiths given surprise metals and a
He recalled the official walk-through time limit to design and forge signature ■■■
where the show is filmed near Stamford, blades. Even after a harrowing weld fail
Connecticut. with two ball bearings and just 48 minutes The first two rounds were filmed on the
“It was pretty surreal,” he said. “I was left on the clock, Cargile rallied, using his show’s set, with its range of metalworking
actually more nervous during the meet-and- final ball bearing to make a knife that met equipment. Cargile and Ramm returned to
greet, meeting the judges, going through requirements. And then there were three home turf to craft their versions of Charle-
the forge, getting the safety talk (than contenders, tasked with casting bronze magne’s sword. They were given a specified
during filming).” guards in the second challenge. Each number of hours over four days to work on
Six months later, the watch party at adrenaline-fueled round is strictly timed. it, and a two-person production crew from
Cargile’s home waited eagerly to see how it “That is 100 percent legitimate; that is no the show to time-keep, film and document
all ends. ‘Hollywood’ there,” Cargile said. “(You’re the process.
“It was a very exciting time,” said Lori told) ‘your time starts now; you have three See Cargile, 5C
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The W to host fourth annual II+C Symposium

Events Feb. 6-7 are
free to the public
MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
Houston’s Cullen College of
Engineering and artist-at-large
Panoskaltsis Mortari, vice
chair for research and profes-
at Northwestern University’s
McCormick School of Engi-
sor, Department of Pediatrics,
Stem Cell Institute at the
neering and the Block Museum University of Minnesota and
of Art. In 2016, he was appoint- director, University of Minne-

A
noted artist will join a
renowned scientist for a
keynote address to kick
off the fourth annual Imagine,
Inspire, Challenge Symposium
Feb. 6 and 7 at Mississippi Uni-
versity for Women. This year’s
conference is titled “Stem Cell
Therapies in 2020: Healing,
Hope or Hype.”
During a 7 p.m. keynote
in Whitfield Auditorium
Thursday, Feb. 6, Houston,
Texas-based transdisciplinary
artist Dario Robleto will join
MUW alumna Dr. Doris A.
Taylor, director of regenerative
medicine at the Texas Heart
Institute, for a conversation on
the deep connections between
art and science, focusing in
particular on Taylor’s ground-
groundbbreaking research in
trying to create a functioning
human organ.
Featuring both visuals and
discussion, the keynote is
themed “The Art and Science
of Building a Human Heart.”
During a 20-year career,
Robleto has sought to cultivate
transformative interactions
between the arts, humanities
and sciences. He has exhibited
his work extensively since 1997
at museums such as the Menil
Collection in Houston and the
Whitney Museum of American
Art. His work has been profiled
in numerous publications and
media outlets, including Radi-
olab, Krista Tippet’s On Being
and the New York Times.
He has been a visiting schol-
ar and artist-in-residence at
institutions such as the Smith-
sonian Museum of American
History, the SETI Institute, the
Robert Raushenberg Residency
and the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study at Harvard
University.
Robleto currently is an
artist-in-residence in neuro-
aesthetics at the University of
ed as the Texas State Artist
Laureate.
About Taylor
Taylor, a 1977 graduate of
The W and co-founder of the
II+C Symposium, is leading
international regenerative
medicine research efforts, cre-
ating cutting edge therapies for
chronic disease and “building
the future treatments of tomor-
row.” An educator with over 25
years of teaching experience,
she is committed to moving in-
novative therapies from bench
to bedside, while preparing stu-
dents/fellows to compete at an
international level in the field of
cardiac and vascular repair and
regeneration.
Taylor has worked in the
field of cardiovascular regen-
erative medicine since its
inception and is widely regard-
ed as a major thought-leader in
the field. Her groundbreaking
research, using animal and
human cadaver hearts, is
attempting to “build a heart”
by using stem cell therapies to
help a non-functioning heart
regenerate, beat and thrive.
The work has the potential to
transform the future of organ
transplantation and treatments
for heart disease.
Taylor frequently appears as
an expert on stem cell thera-
py and cardiac repair in the
media as well as in the scien-
tific arena. Her work has been
recognized and featured by
“60 Minutes,” CNN, The New
York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, BBC “Horizon,” BBC
News Health, ABC News, NBC
News, CBS News, Associated
Press, National Public Radio,
NOVA “Science Now,” Science
Channel “Stem Cell Universe
with Stephen Hawking,”
Huffington Post (Canada), and
numerous other worldwide
media outlets.
Courtesy photo
Mississippi University for Women alumna Dr. Doris Taylor of the Tex-
as Heart Institute present a keynote address during the Imagine,
Inspire, Challenge Symposium at the university at 7 p.m. Feb. 6.
Regenerative Medicine at THI.
A former cardiothoracic sur-
geon who has performed more
than 3,000 thoracic surgeries,
Sampaio now provides medical
and surgical expertise and
training, organizational leader-
ship and business development
and fiscal management expe-
rience to the THI regenerative
medicine research teams.
n 9 a.m. – Dr. Mary C.
Farach Carson, director of
clinical/translational research
and professor, Department of
Diagnostic and Biomedical
Sciences, University of Texas
wikipedia.org
Texas-based artist Dario Roble- Health Science Center at Hous-
to will join Dr. Doris Taylor Feb. ton School of Dentistry, will
6 in a presentation at the Imag- discuss “Adult Stem Cells in Re-
ine, Inspire, Challenge Sympo- generative Medicine Therapy:
sium at Mississippi University Opportunities and Challenges.”
for Women. An active researcher with a
federally and industry-funded
Events Feb. 7 laboratory focused on tissue
A range of experts in stem engineering, extracellular ma-
cell therapies will highlight the trix and cancer biology, she is
half-day sessions Friday, Feb. 7. a pioneer in the use of complex
n 8:30 a.m. – Dr. Luiz 3D systems for cell and micro-
C. Sampaio, also based at the tissue culture of both normal
Texas Heart Institute, will and cancerous tissues.
discuss “Evidence-Based Stem The author of more than 200
Cell Therapy: Stem Cells and publications and co-editor of a
Cancer.” Dr. Sampaio is the seven-volume series, Topics in
director for Preclinical Surgical Bone Biology, she frequently
and Interventional Research, serves as a reviewer for both
Cullen Cardiovascular Surgery grant applications and journal
Research Laboratories, as well articles.
as associate medical director, n 9:30 a.m. – Dr. Angela
sota 3D Bioprinting Facility,
will discuss “New Stem Cell
Therapies and Beyond/3D
Printing with Stem Cells.”
Panoskaltsis-Mortari has board
certification from the American
Board of Medical Laboratory
Immunology. She is a member
of numerous immunology, pul-
monary and hematology profes-
sional societies, and the author
of over 250 articles which have
appeared in such publications
as Journal of Experimental
Medicine, Journal of Clinical
Investigation, Blood, Biology
of Blood and Marrow Trans-
plantation, American Journal
of Physiology and Journal of
Immunology.
n 10:15 a.m. – Jamie
Gaudet, W alum and clinical
practice manager for Gulf
Coast Orthopedics in Houma,
Louisiana, will discuss “Stem
Cells in Orthopedics.” A nurse
practitioner who holds her
Doctorate of Nursing Practice
from The W, Gaudet specializ-
es in orthopedics, orthopedic
surgery and more.
n 10:45 a.m. – David
Bales, co-founder and president
of Texans for Cures, a nonprofit
based in Austin, Texas, that ad-
vocates for stem cell research,
regenerative medicine and
immunotherapy strategies, will
discuss “Right to Try and Stem
Cell Clinics.” Bales co-found-
ed Texans for Stem Research
in 2008, renamed Texans for
Cures in 2016. He is committed
to funding FDA-approved clini-
cal trials, mainly for childhood
diseases.
n 11:15 a.m. – Dr. Doris A.
Taylor will discuss “Consider-
ing Stem Cell Treatment? What
You Need to Know.”
The symposium will con-
clude with a panelist roundtable
discussing “What Will the Next
10 Years of Stem Cell Research
Bring?”

SCT brings home major

wins from state festival
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com

S
tarkville Communi-
ty Theatre’s entry in
the annual Missis-
sippi Theatre Associa-
tion festival Jan. 16-19
brought home top honors
in categories including
Best Production, Best
Director, Best Actor and
Best Supporting Actor.
The SCT production
of “A Public Reading of
an Unproduced Screen-
play About the Death of
Walt Disney,” by Lucas
Hnath, was presented
during the four-day fes-
tival at the University of
Mississippi, where more
than 700 people repre-
sented seven community
theater groups and 19
high schools.
Play director and SCT
Chief Administrative Of-
ficer Gabe Smith said, “I
couldn’t be happier with
our wins at
festival and
the strong
way we
represented
our the-
ater.”
In the
dark come- Smith
dy/drama,
legendary filmmaker
Walt Disney, close to
death and with axes
to grind, has written a
screenplay about his own
life, starring himself
as narrator; his busi-
ness partner and loyal,
long-suffering brother
Roy; his daughter, who
wants to make her own
life outside of Walt’s con-
trol; and his son-in-law
Ron, an ex-football player
enthusiastic about work-
ing under Walt and easily
manipulated to fulfill his
wishes for the company
after he’s gone.
The highlight and
Caroline Fitzwater, center, Paul Ruff, left, and Ben
Christmas hold three of the six awards Starkville
Community Theatre garnered at the Mississippi Theatre
Association annual competition in Oxford Jan. 16-19.
major focus of the festival
was the community the-
ater and secondary the-
ater competitions. Adju-
dicators from outside the
state selected winners
for both divisions, as well
as numerous acting and
technical awards.
In the Community
Division, SCT’s produc-
tion and Tupelo Commu-
nity Theatre’s production
of “’Night, Mother” won
the Warren McDaniel
Award for Best Produc-
tion.
Smith won Best
Director. Paul Ruff,
who portrayed Walt
Disney, won Best Actor;
Ben Christmas, as Roy
Disney, took Best Sup-
porting Actor. Additional
SCT awards were for
Best Costume Design,
to Abby Jovanovic, and a
special award for Excel-
lence in Wig Design, to
Jansen Fair.
“Our cast and crew
all worked very hard to
bring this challenging
script to life, and I’m
proud that we were the
first theater in Mississip-
pi to tackle a production
of it,” said Smith. “To be
Courtesy photo
recognized in so many
ways, and for details like
costumes and individu-
al performances, is so
gratifying.
“You pour a lot of love
into a production, and it
can be a rare gift to have
someone else see that
effort and tell you it’s
praiseworthy, and that
the thing you’ve collabo-
rated to create is special
not only to you but also to
a broad range of others.”
The cast, which also
includes Allyn Hack-
man and Rick Jordan,
and crew — assistant
director/stage manag-
er Caroline Fitzwater,
lighting designer/oper-
ator Thomas LaFoe and
sound operator Vernelle
Allen — will travel to
Louisville, Kentucky, in
late February to compete
in the Southeastern The-
atre Conference festival.
MTA is sponsored
in part by grants from
the Mississippi Arts
Commission, a state
agency, and the National
Endowment for the Arts,
a federal agency. Spon-
sors included Mainstage
Theatrical Supply.
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Saturday, Feb. 8
Natural Health Expo — From fitness and
foods to integrative care, this expo organized by
the Homestead Education Center takes place at
Trinity Presbyterian Church, 607 Hospital Road, in
Starkville from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., connecting commu-
nity residents with local resources for establishing
and maintaining long-term health. For more infor-
mation, go to thehomesteadcenter.org.

calendar
Thursday, Jan. 30
“Invisible Vegan” — Healing Springs Farmacy Mis-
sissippi presents the film “Invisible Vegan” at 4:30 p.m.
at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, 314 Seventh St.
N., followed by a plant-based dinner at 5:30 p.m. RSVP by
email to healingspringsfarmacyms@gmail.com.
Gordy Forum — The spring Gordy Honors College
Forum series at Mississippi University for Women opens
with Shennette Garrett-Scott of the University of Missis-
sippi speaking on the struggle of black women in the state
Courtesy photo
to participate in the suffrage movement and exercise their
Lowndes County Master Gardeners, from left, Jean Wilson, Mary Faglie, Jennifer Duzan and Nell Thomas work on a right to vote. The free program is 6 p.m. in Nissan Audito-
redesign of The W’s Culinary Arts Institute herb garden in this file photo of a past project. rium on campus.

Lowndes Master Gardeners

Friday, Jan. 31
Guest artists masterclass — The W’s Depart-
ment of Music presents a masterclass with soprano Leah
Stewart-Hill and pianist David Hill at noon in Poindexter

annual training to begin

Hall on campus. Free.

Saturday, Feb. 1
Change Your Mind, Change What Matters —
This “first Saturdays” lunch-n-learn series about plant-
Deadline to register County Agricultural/
Natural Resources
To maintain certification in
the Master Gardener program
based eating kicks off from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the YMCA in
downtown Columbus, 602 Second Avenue N., presented
is Feb. 10 Extension Agent
Reid Nevins. The
individuals must attend 12 hours
of advanced training and also
by Healing Springs Farmacy MS. Free to the community.
For more information, email healingspringsfarmacyms@
gmail.com.
BY JAN SWOOPE volunteer program volunteer 20 hours of service to
jswoope@cdispatch.com is a great way to the county Extension program
gain horticultural Saturday, Feb. 8

F
lowering containers and
landscaping at Lee Park, the
Butterfly Garden at the Co-
lumbus Riverwalk, the herb garden
at The W’s Culinary Arts Institute
— these and other projects around
the county are the work of Lown-
des County Master Gardeners. The
educational exchange program that
brings volunteers with a common
interest together also presents an
annual plant sale every April and
horticultural programs during the
year. All those interested in becom-
ing a Master Gardener are invited
to sign up for training that begins
Feb. 25 and runs through March
31. Sessions will take place on
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
from 1-5 p.m. at the Lowndes Coun-
ty Extension Office located at 485
Tom Rose Road.
“We are growing by leaps and
bounds each year with members,
projects and events, but we would
like to have more members to
further the cause,” said Lowndes
experience at a low
cost, meet other avid Nevins
gardeners, share
gardening experiences and get
connected to the community, he
added.
Through the Mississippi Master
Gardening program offered by
the Mississippi State University
Extension Service, individuals are
trained and certified in horticulture
and related areas. In exchange for
training, participants are asked to
volunteer their time to help the
Lowndes Extension Office with
horticulture projects that bene-
fit the local community. Master
Gardeners help extend the educa-
tional arm of MSU to the public by
providing horticultural information
based on university research and
recommendations.
Interactive video training
session topics range from soils,
urban tree care and entomology to
ornamentals, vegetables, fruits and
nuts, turfgrass and propagation.
annually. Lowndes County Master
Gardeners volunteer an average of
40-plus hours per year.
How to sign up
To participate, a one-time fee of
$100 is required, which funds the
training program, materials, CD
and meeting refreshments. Checks
should be made payable to the
Lowndes County Master Garden-
er Volunteers. Half of that fee is
refundable should circumstances
prevent a participant from attend-
ing after registration, if claimed
the first week of class.
Register by contacting the
Lowndes County Extension Office
at 662-328-2111, or emailing Nev-
ins at ran18@msstate.edu.
Individuals requiring special
accommodations to participate
should contact the Extension
office to make their request known
in a timely manner prior to the
program to ensure appropriate
accommodations.
Natural Health Expo — See details at top of
calendar.
Wednesday, Feb. 12
Science Night at the Museums — Hosted by
MSU Museums and Galleries, this family-friendly night-out
from 5:30-8:30 p.m. features museum tours, science
demos and fun activities free to all ages at Hilbun Hall,
Harned Hall and Cobb Institute of Archaeology, all on Lee
Boulevard on the MSU campus. For more information visit
museums.msstate.edu.
Friday, Feb. 14
Lee Foundation Valentine’s Day Gala —
Specialty desserts and elegant florals are center stage
as the Stephen D. Lee Foundation hosts its 10th annual
Valentine’s Day Gala from 7-10 p.m. at the Stephen D. Lee
Home, 316 Seventh St. N., Columbus. For information and
reservations, contact Eulalie Davis, 662-328-3088.
OUT THERE
Feb. 1 – Northeast Mississippi Championship
Rodeo, BancorpSouth Arena, Tupelo.
bcsarena.com
Feb. 6 – Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group,
Riley Center, Meridian. 601-696-2200,
msurileycenter.org.

Feb. 8 – The Righteous Brothers (Bill

Visit 662tix.com to purchase advance tickets to the event below: Medley/Bucky Heard), Ford Center, Oxford.
662-915-1217, fordcenter.org.
Feb. 20
unWine Downtown in Starkville from 5:30-9:30 p.m. with wine tastings, appetizer pairings and – Aquila Theatre presents George Orwell’s
20 percent discounts at participating shops. Advance ticket holders will receive the Spring 2020 “1984,” Riley Center, Meridian. 601-696-
limited edition wine glass. Check-in is 5:30-6:30 p.m. at The Partnership Welcome Center, 200 E. Main. Tickets are $20. 2200, msurileycenter.org.

Dear Abby

D
EAR ABBY: My husband
and I retired five years ago
and moved to a small town
where my two daughters and
two grown grandchildren live. We
moved here from another state to
be near them and other relatives
who live closer, but not in this city.
I am sad and hurt by the
way one of my daughters treats
me. She almost never invites us
to her home — maybe twice a
year, when other relatives are in
town visiting — and I think she
includes us only because she
feels obligated. She has told me
her husband “hates” me. I was
shocked because I have seldom
been around him and always went out of my way
to be friendly to him.
When I asked her why he hates me, her
answer was that he doesn’t like
anyone! He’s very controlling. He
doesn’t allow her to get phone
calls at certain times and insists
she stay home if he is home, etc.
His best friend is allowed to
come to their home anytime and
make himself comfortable. His
relatives are welcome to stay at
their house when in town, some-
times for several days. When I
invite relatives over, my daughter
comes for a short time, then says
she needs to get back home. Her
husband never accompanies her,
Dear Abby even though he is invited.
I make it a point not to call
their home phone. I text her when
needed, but she has to turn her phone off when
he doesn’t want to be bothered. I wanted to
be in my daughter’s life, but I am not welcome.
Why? — SAD SOUTHERN LADY
DEAR LADY: When you decided to make the
move to be closer to your daughter, did she
share your excitement? If not, it may be the
reason — or part of the reason — for her hus-
band’s reaction to you. If that isn’t the reason,
then this is happening because your daughter
married a man with serious control issues and,
for whatever reason, she is willing to allow it. It
may have nothing to do with you.
DEAR ABBY: Is there an existing or evolving
tradition regarding what surname to give to the
children of parents who already have hyphen-
ated last names? For example, when “James
Moreland-Ashford” marries “Sarah Rosen-Hub-
bard,” what surname should their children use?
Surely no parent wants to saddle their child
with four hyphenated last names, but choosing
only one, or one from each parent might end up
offending one or more grandparents and other
relatives.
I heard about one family who dropped all
their existing surnames and chose a brand-new
one for both the parents and their children.
It did not go over well with relatives in either
family. It also proved challenging with respect to
the parents’ professional lives since they had to
reintroduce themselves to all their colleagues
and clients.
Have you any advice for us and our hyphen-
ated-surname children? — OVERLOADED IN
CALIFORNIA
DEAR OVERLOADED: I saw this situation
coming decades ago. My advice is just this:
Keep it simple, and do not allow anyone else’s
ego to influence your decision. Your children will
thank you for it.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded
by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,
Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 26).
You fascinate. You’ll be listened to.
You’ll be watched. Enjoy the birth-
day attention, and don’t expect it to
end anytime soon — you make an
impression on people, and they’ll
keep coming back to you. Domestic
life gets prettier, and your investment
in a more efficient day to day will be a
game changer across the board. Gem-
ini and Libra adore you. Your lucky
numbers are: 30, 1, 11, 28 and 2.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your
mind does funny things, mostly habit-
ual. To think on purpose is to reject
a lot of what your mind throws into
the mix. Just because you happen to
think something doesn’t mean you
should believe it.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Make
a note of the date and your ideas
because you will be struck with no-
tions that, if expressed, wouldn’t win
a popularity contest right now. But in
about five years, everyone will know
this thinking is spot on.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). What
you learned in school wasn’t gospel.
It was a group of opinions gathered
together by people with varying
degrees of expertise on the sub-
ject. Seize the chance to go see for
yourself.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You
are being constantly cued to ask the
next question, take the next step, buy
the next thing. It will be refreshing
to interact with things that are so
complete as they are that “next,” if it
exists, is irrelevant.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Not all
thoughts are built alike. Some are
straight as arrows; others are so
loopy by nature they may as well be
Hula-Hoops, and you’ll circulate ac-
cordingly. Think twice before you pick
that kind up.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ve
a gift for recognizing what people
want. Sometimes you see what they
want even before they themselves
realize it. You can use this talent for
fun and profit.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Rela-
tionships have blissful turns, peaceful
passages and rocky stretches. The
best motto when things get tense:
“Fewer words, more time.” Silence
makes healers out of the hours.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Of
all the things to be loyal to — and
there is so much around that is
worthy of your allegiance — one thing
that can go without your devotion is
your own suffering. You’ve put in your
time. Let it go.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
Author Sylvia Boorstein said that
anger wrinkles the mind. “If you want
to think clearly, you can’t be mad at
anything.” Clarity will be essential
to take advantage of the big things
coming up for you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). A
person who is bathing isn’t necessar-
ily aquatic. A person who is eating a
vegetable isn’t necessarily a vegan.
Who you are is not always who you’re
being in the moment. Loosen up on
self-judgment.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
People will tell you what they want.
This isn’t what they really want.
They are confused, and it’s certainly
not what they need. With a radical
amount of empathy, you’ll listen
through to the truth and deliver like
no other.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
When atop a slippery slide, there is
no deciding to wind up at the bottom.
The bottom is an inevitability. Any
move you make will get you there.
Recognize which situations fit the bill,
and avoid.
4C Sunday, January 26, 2020
From suffrage to Welty’s photography, Forum explores range of topics
MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
M
ississippi University
for Women’s spring
Forum Series hosted
by the Gordy Honors College
will feature talks on black
women’s suffrage in Missis-
sippi, breast cancer research,
Scottish theater and the
photography of Eudora Welty.
All presentations are free and
open to the community and
begin at 6 p.m. in Nissan Audi-
torium on campus.
n On Jan. 30, in commem-
oration of the 100th anniver-
sary of passage of the 19th
Amendment, Shennette Gar-
rett-Scott will discuss the long
Veteran journalist Randy Bell donates papers to MSU
MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC
AFFAIRS
M
ississippi State
alumnus and
veteran journal-
ist Randy Bell donated
his papers to the univer-
sity’s Mitchell Memorial
Library in a ceremony
Friday.
Bell began working at
Starkville’s WKOR radio
station while attending
MSU. The 1974 com-
munication graduate
then pursued a career
in broadcast journalism
and went on to earn
Staying healthy: MSU health services director offers tips for beating flu, colds
MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC
AFFAIRS
A
cold, the flu and
other viruses can
put a damper in
anyone’s schedule.
As executive director
of MSU’s University
Health Services, Dr. Cliff
Story treats
such illness-
es daily, and
he’s offering
simple tips
that every-
one can use
to increase
their Story
chances of
avoiding and beating “the
bug.”
“Even though the flu
has been bad in Missis-
sippi, the South and the
nation, the numbers on
campus aren’t as high
as in other years based
on what’s come through
the university’s student
Fans hold on to paper planners, citing comfort, creativity
‘The act of writing things down by
hand slows you down and makes
you more mindful’
Jennie Tung, executive editor at Martha Stewart Living
By K ATHERINE ROTH
The Associated Press
I
n a digital and in-
creasingly paperless
age, fans of paper
planners remain enthusi-
astic and steadfast.
“There’s something
comforting about using a
planner. It’s very person-
al, and apart from the
cacophony of screens,”
says Jennie Tung, exec-
utive editor at Martha
Stewart Living, adding
that paper planners have
“a retro appeal.”
“The act of writing
things down by hand
slows you down and
makes you more mind-
ful,” she says. “A paper
planner becomes a
personal record, and for
some people it’s almost
like a diary.”
Many paper planners
today are so well-de-
signed that they become
a way to make a state-
ment, she says.
“They are beautifully
designed objects that are
a joy to hold and use,”
she says.
fight by black
women in Missis-
sippi to actively
participate in the
suffrage move-
ment and then
exercise their
right to vote,
Garrett-Scott
from the end of
the Civil War to
passage of the Voting Rights
Act. Garrett-Scott is associ-
ate professor of history and
African American studies at
University of Mississippi. This
program is financially assisted
by the National Endowment
for the Humanities through
the Mississippi Humanities
Council.
Courtesy photo
Randy Bell
23 national Edward R.
Murrow Awards and 15
Radio Newsperson of the
health center,” Story said.
“For us, the peak usually
feels like just after Christ-
mas, through January
and February. We’ve
been seeing more of the
B strain of flu. Flu A is
the more typical strain
that people think of when
they think of a bad flu.”
Story said individu-
als of all ages can help
prevent the spread of
germs through basic
hygiene, including proper
handwashing. He recom-
mends washing hands
often with soap and water
or using an alcohol-based
gel. Getting adequate
sleep and maintaining
a proper diet can help
strengthen one’s im-
mune system and reduce
vulnerability to the flu
and other viruses, he
explained.
“Cough or sneeze into
a tissue instead of your
hands and toss tissues
And contrary to what
one might imagine, many
of the biggest fans of pa-
pers planners aren’t old-
er people who grew up
with them but a younger
generation embracing
their comfortable vibe.
According to Stephanie
Fleming, co-founder of
Me & My BIG Ideas,
which makes The Happy
Planner, “the age demo-
graphic is around 25 to
the early 40s range, with
a lot of movement toward
college-age women.”
“I had imagined
younger people prefer-
ring digital planners,
but younger generations
really want to slow down
a bit. Having everything
at their fingertips is
not necessarily making
people happy. There’s
something about going
back to basics,” Fleming
says.
“A lot of people are
looking for some digital
detox,” she adds.
Tung notes that paper
planners now come in
an array of designs and
can be carried around all
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
n On Feb. ing industry and up to the 1930s,
27, Benjamin a personal trib- offering inno-
Onyeagucha, as- ute to Scotland’s vative ways to
sistant professor coastal commu- see. Pollack is
of biology at The nities. The play also editor of
W, will discuss won two Critics’ the new book
his research on Awards for The- series “Critical
identifying and atre in Scotland,
Onyeagucha Young Perspectives on Pollack
characterizing and Young was
Eudora Welty”
biomarkers and named Scots
(University Press of Missis-
molecular drivers in cancer Writer of the Year at the 2019
for the purpose of developing Scots Language Awards. sippi).
new therapeutic strategies for n In the annual Nell Peel The Series will also feature
breast cancer patients. Wolfe Lecture on March 26, research presentations by se-
n On March 19, Scottish Harriet Pollack, president of nior honors students on April
playwright Morna Young will the Eudora Welty Society, 16 and April 23.
discuss her work as a play- will discuss how Welty’s For more information, email
wright, including her play photographs of black women honors@muw.edu, call 662-
“Lost at Sea,” an epic tale extended the kinds of images 241-6850 or visit muw.edu/
spanning 40 years of the fish- established by photographers honors/forum.
Year awards from the Mississippi Journalism are now heard in other member of MAPBA’s
Mississippi Association Collection in Mitchell iHeart markets, includ- Hall of Fame. He also is
of Broadcasters. Memorial’s Special Col- ing Biloxi, Hattiesburg,
a former board member
His papers include lections department. Tupelo and Mobile. He for the Radio-Television
news clips, photos, press This collection com- also serves as chairman Digital News Association,
passes and memorabilia prises the papers of 22 of Mississippi’s Emergen- representing Mississippi,
collected throughout Mississippi journalists, cy Alert System, a role in Alabama, Arkansas and
his career, which has including Hodding Carter which he helped develop Louisiana.
spanned nine governors, II, Turner Catledge, John the state’s AMBER Alert
For more about Mitch-
four major hurricanes, Oliver Emmerich Sr., program. A leader in the
ell Memorial Library and
three devastating floods, Orley M. Hood Jr., Bill statewide journalism
dozens of deadly torna- Minor and Hazel Bran- community, he served as the Special Collections
does and an array of state non Smith, among other a founding member of the department, visit lib.
and national elections. notable professionals. Mississippi Center for msstate.edu/specialcol-
His archive, including an Bell has spent the bulk Freedom of Information, lections/.
online component that of his career reporting a past president of the For information on
allows users to listen to news for Jackson radio Mississippi Associated visitor parking, visit park-
actual news recordings, stations owned by iHeart Press Broadcasters ingservices.msstate.edu/
becomes part of the Media. His broadcasts Association and a charter visitor-parking/.
in the trash after one icine is most effective in and three family nurse who are a lot more sus-
use,” Story advises. “It’s the first 48 hours, so the practitioners. Flu shots ceptible,” Story said.
also important to stay sooner you get treatment, are available by appoint- For more information
home if you’re sick and the quicker you can get ment, and the health cen- on MSU’s University
avoid close contact with better.” ter hosts campus-wide flu Health Services, visit
others who show signs of Story said MSU clinics each year. health.msstate.edu. To
illness.” students can make an “Getting the flu shot schedule an appointment,
Though varying from appointment for free to can lessen the severity of call 662-325-7539.
person to person, flu see any of the John C. your symptoms and can Resources on flu pre-
symptoms can include Longest Student Health help decrease incidents vention are available at
abrupt onset of fever, Center’s six physicians of flu to protect others cdc.gov/flu.
chills, headaches, cough-
ing, sneezing, runny nose
and body aches. Story
said cold symptoms come
on gradually, are usually
milder than flu symp-
toms, and are likely to
include a runny or stuffy
nose and sore throat.
“Most of the time, flu
and colds don’t cause
long-term problems, but
people can get really sick
or even die, so you want
to take it seriously and
watch your symptoms,”
he said. “As soon as you
think you might have the
flu, get treated. The med-
day. A few brands noted
by the pros at Martha
Stewart Living as chic
and well-designed
include Smythson,
Appointed, and Sugar
Paper, as well as the
“bare bones but gets the
job done” paper planners
from Rollbahn.
All the planners
offered by The Happy
Planner feature encour-
aging words and positive
messaging for those
working toward health
wellness, career or finan-
cial goals, for example.
And with their accom-
panying planner stickers
and customizable exten-
sion packets, they can be
a creative outlet akin to
scrapbooking.
“A planner is not just
about being a calendar.
It’s about so much more
than that,” Fleming says.
“There’s the aspect of
focus and creativity, in
addition to productivity.”
She admits that “dig-
ital calendars are nice
because they keep your
desk uncluttered,’’ but
adds, “people do engage
more when they write
things down.”
Paper planners range
from minimalist versions
costing a few dollars to
fancy planners for over
$100.
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Cargile
Continued from Page 1C
“The film crew stayed
with me the entire time,”
Cargile said. “One stip-
ulation is that no work
can be done on the sword
without the producer
there and the camera
rolling. There was a cam-
era guy and another who
kept the official minutes,
the time, even recording
breaks.”
When time is up, each
finalist’s sword is shipped
to the show.
“We fly out the very
next day, and they bring
us in for the finale and
have another round of
tests they do,” explained
Cargile. On his episode,
judges tested the smiths’
blades on wild boar meat,
on armor, helmets and on
shields that would have
been similar in Charlem-
agne’s time. Design, qual-
ity, balance and many
technical points were
evaluated, including how
well the blade retained its
edge.
“Both swords did
great,” Cargile said. “But
mine was just a little bit
heavy on the blade.”
Although Peyton
Ramm took home the top
prize, Cargile is well-sat-
isfied that his sword did
well. He knows he’s come
a long way from the first
backyard forge he fash-
ioned from an old brake
drum, a smoker and his
daughter’s hair dryer.
■■■
It was only seven or
so years ago that Cargile
attended a charity auc-
tion for Golden Triangle
Outdoors, where he saw
hand-crafted knives.
“Oddly enough, I’d
never thought of a person
taking their time to make
a knife because I grew
up if you need a knife,
you go down to the local
store,” he said. He came
away from the event de-
termined to try it himself.
“That weekend, I
bought a couple of hand
files, drill bits, some
sandpaper and made my
first knife on the back
porch. And then I got
Finalists Mitch Cargile, left, and Peyton Ramm present their forged swords before
judges on the Jan. 15 History channel program “Forged in Fire.”
This American flag design knife and sheath, left, and the integral Damascus chef
knives at right are just a few examples of Mitch Cargile’s work.
Mitch Cargile works on a challenge during an episode
of “Forged in Fire” that aired Jan. 15.
real big and moved my
production from the back
porch to the carport,”
he laughed. “I call the
knives I made there my
‘carport edition knives.’”
He’s fortunate and
blessed, he said, to have
been able to save up and
build a 600-square-foot
workshop at home. He
spends time there almost
every day.
For the first couple
of years, he used the
Courtesy photo
stock-removal method,
shaping pre-flattened bar
stock into knives with
tools, removing any stock
not needed. But once
he discovered the art of
forging raw materials
into whatever he wanted
them to be, he’d found his
calling. Under the name
Cargile’s Custom Knives,
he makes a range of
knives, favoring tradition-
al Bowie knife styles.
“Camp knives, hunting
ABS Journeyman Smith opened my eyes to see
rating after rigorous and understand the pas-
testing and performance. sion he has for it.”
Each applicant must Cargile is ready to
present five forged knives push himself to the next
to judges for intense eval- level.
uation. He aspires to earn “I’m a perfectionist,
a Master Smith rating by I guess. I can’t help it,”
the time he’s 40. he said. “If I do anything
“That’s one thing good I understand that
about my husband,” said if I put the effort into it,
Lori Cargile. “He contin- I can do it better next
ues to take classes, and time.”
he’s his own worst critic. In March, he travels
This is not something he to Alaska to study under
takes lightly. He abso-
Adam and Haley Des-
lutely has a passion for
Rosiers, “phenomenal
making knives.”
knife makers,” he said.
“At the same time,
■■■
Courtesy photo I’m starting to work on
When possible, Mitch my five knives I have to
attends knife shows and present in 2021 to go to
bladesport competitions, my ABS Master Smith
where knives are put rating. It’s a really hard
through their paces on rating to get. If I get that,
everything from filled I’ll be one of about 150
water bottles to 2-by-4’s. people who hold it.”
His wife recalled the As for his TV experi-
first show she attended ence, being on “Forged
with him. in Fire” was an “awesome
“I didn’t realize how privilege.”
big it was, and I also got “I definitely consider
to see a glimpse of what it a once-in-a-lifetime
he was talking about, opportunity — although
how he meets such great I’d go back if they invited
Courtesy photos
people,” she said. “It me,” he said with a grin.
knives, skinning knives, Relay for Life 2020
kitchen knives — I really Lowndes County, MS
like making kitchen 20/20 Catch the Vision —
knives,” he said.
Cargile has been
Find a Cure
greatly influenced by the Enter to win in our Valentine’s Day raffle
American Bladesmith $10 per ticket
Society.
“It’s an inspiration 1 Raffle winner includes the following:
$50 Gift Certificate to Harvey’s Restaurant
to see what the master 1 Night Hotel Stay at the Hyatt Place in Columbus, MS
smiths of ABS could do. Leo’s Luxury Limos Ride - Hyatt Place to Harvey’s
Once I got affiliated with and back to Hyatt Place
them, I took as many $65 Gift Certificate to Allegro MedSpa
Raffle tickets will be available for purchase through Monday,
classes as I could take
Feb. 10th. Drawing will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 11th.
and met a lot of really
A member of the Relay Committee will contact the winner
good people that have within 24 hours of drawing to claim the prize.
helped me along the No response will result in a re-draw.
way.”
Tickets are available for sale at the following locations:
He’s learned from
Westmoreland Dermatology Center
smiths in Arkansas, New
Jersey, Texas and Wash- Gary’s Pawn & Gun (both locations)
ington and is continually Chris’ Pharmacy (both locations)
honing his skills. This The Commercial Dispatch
past June, he achieved a Thank you for your support of Relay for Life 2020
milestone, earning his

In the garden with Felder

Exposed roots? Celebrate them
O
ops! My roots are
showing, but it’s OK.
Exposed tree roots
bother some people, but
they are natural and import-
ant, at least to trees. Their
roots don’t “come up” to the
surface; they’re telling you
they’ve got a problem grow-
ing deeper.
See, roots not only anchor
plants and absorb water and
dissolved nutrients but also Felder Rushing
need air to survive. And
when soils are heavy clay or
stay wet, air can’t penetrate very deep, so light-colored focal feature.
with the exception of aquatic or bog na-
tives like cypress with specialized roots,
most roots remain very shallow.
Also, as roots extend lengthwise they
also grow in diameter, making them
swell above ground. For a pretty graphic
idea of this, stretch your arms straight
out and wiggle your fingers. And imag-
ine your shoulders being those roots you shells, slate or the like. Bright evergreen
see on top of the ground beneath trees.
So it’s pretty natural. We don’t notice
it so much in the woods where roots are
usually buried in fallen leaves or covered weed.
with moss. But in home gardens they
can be a bit off-putting, especially where
there used to be grass but it’s now too
shaded and the soil is too poor for grass
to thrive.
No need to be alarmed or embar-
rassed. It happens even in botanic
gardens worldwide, where roots are
recognized as important tree parts. No
big deal, just different than what we may
have gotten used to.
Horticulturists and those in the know
have found five practical approaches
to handling this, each perfectly accept-
able. You might find one or another, or
a combination, to work for you. Burying
the roots with topsoil, by the way, is not
recommended because it‘s a temporary
fix that, if done too heavily, can suffocate let them be.
roots.
Easiest approach is to make the area
look deliberate. Set it apart from the
rest of the yard with a distinct border —
straight, curved, whatever suits you —
between where grass grows and where
it will not. This yin/yang
effect is an instant visual
cue; in most cases this is all
you need to do. But you can
distinguish the edge with
bricks, rocks, monkey grass,
large branches or just a shal-
low “border ditch.”
Accent the area with
something bold that breaks
the strong vertical/hori-
zontal effect of flat ground
and tree trunks. Could be
a shade-loving shrub, or a
bench, large urn or other
You can then simply cover the roots
with leaves and bark mulch, which work
well and help feed the tree roots. When
the leaves fall outside the area under-
neath the trees, simply rake or blow
them back.
You can cover the area with a perme-
able paving of flagstone, crushed oyster
moss is attractive and quite trendy, and
all you need to do is rake or blow away
autumn leaves and pull the occasional
The most common long-range
solution is to plant English ivy, Asiatic
jasmine, mondo grass, Liriope or other
low-growing shade-loving groundcover.
You can use a combination of some of
those, plus taller shade plants such as
aspidistra (cast iron plant) and evergreen
holly fern.
This may take time; keep in mind the
old horticultural saying about ground-
covers and vines: “First year they sleep,
second year they creep, third year they
leap.” And by the way, ivy growing on
trees is not a big deal to the trees. Really.
Another approach, often used in
botanic gardens, is to simply highlight
the roots as part of the artistry of nature.
Tuck a small plant here or there, and just
Exposed tree roots are worth cele-
brating.
Felder Rushing is a Mississippi author,
columnist, and host of the “Gestalt Garden-
er” on MPB Think Radio. Email garden-
ing questions to rushingfelder@yahoo.com.
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CONTINA MCDONALD, Petition-
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CAUSE NO. 2019-0215
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ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 N.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship
Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Mitch
McWilliams, Pastor. 662-328-4765
ARMSTRONG BAPTIST CHURCH — 1707
Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bible
Study Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. William Vaughn, Pastor. 662-
328-0670
ARTESIA BAPTIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor
Jeff Morgan.
BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 3232 Military Road.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Walter Butler, Pastor.
BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH — 2096 Bethesda
Rd, Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 6:00 p.m., Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m. Allan Dees, Pastor. 662-272-8734
BORDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 12771
Hwy. 12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Worship 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study – Adults, Children, and Youth
classes 6:30 p.m. Dan Louman, Pastor. 662-386-0541.
www. borderspringsbaptistchurch.com
BROOKSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — Main
Street, Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship
10:55 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe
LLC
Road, Caledonia. Sunday Men’s Prayer Service 9:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday, Worship 11 a.m. Sunday,
Bible Study 4 p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study
6:30 p.m. Kelby R. Johnson, Pastor.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 295 Dowdle
Dr. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult
Choir rehearsals and Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship
6 p.m., Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Rev. Ralph Windle, Interim
Pastor. 662-328-6741
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 385 7th St. SW,
Vernon, Ala. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
5 p.m. (6 p.m. - Daylight Savings Time), Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Wil Corbett, Pastor. 205-270-1845
CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1008 Lehmberg
Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5
p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul Shaw, Pastor. 662-327-
3771
CANAAN MB CHURCH — 2425 Bell Ave. Sunday
School 8:15 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 6 p.m. Jimmy Pounds, Pastor. 662-327-1226
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 2490
Yorkville Rd. East Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study, Children & Youth Classes
6:30 p.m. Matt Moehring, Pastor. Edward Rhinewalt, Music
Director. 662-327-5306
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — 844
Old West Point Rd., Starkville. Sunday 10:30 a.m.
Greg Upperman, Pastor. 662-323-6351 or visit www.
cornerstonestarkville.com
EAST END BAPTIST CHURCH — 380 Hwy.
50 W. (Hwy. 50 and Holly Hills Rd.) Sunday School 9:15
a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship 5 p.m. followed by
Discipleship Training, Mission Friends and GAs 5 p.m.,
Sanctuary Choir 6:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting,
Youth Worship, Preschool & Children’s Choirs 6:30 p.m.
Bryon Benson, Pastor. 662-328-5915
EASTVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 1316 Ben
Christopher Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
We unlock Wednesday 7 p.m. Junior Eads, Pastor. 662-329-2245
FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 127 Airline Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. Breck Ladd, Pastor. 662-328-2924
FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621
Mike Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Rev. Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252
N. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m.
(Worship televised at 10 a.m. on WCBI-TV, Columbus
Cable Channel 7), Contemporary Worship 11 a.m.;
Sunday Evening Worship 5 p.m., Midweek Prayer Service
Wednesday 6 p.m. located downtown. Dr. Shawn Parker,
Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.org
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STEENS — 40
Odom Rd., Steens. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST — 125 Yorkville Rd. W.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. John Gainer, Pastor. 662-328-6024 or
662-328-3183
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Charles Whitney, Pastor.
GRACE COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — 912
11th Ave. S. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pastor Sammy
Burns. 662-328-1096
GREENWOOD SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH
— 278 East between Gattman & Amory. Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:15 p.m.
Rev. John Walden, Pastor. 662-356-4445
IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military
Rd., Steens. Bible Study 10:30 a.m., Worship 9:15 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. 662-328-1668
KOLOLA SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH —
Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
AWANA 4:45-6 Ages 2-12th grade (Sept. - May), Worship
5 p.m., Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 252 Basics
Children’s Ministry an Cross Training Youth Wednesday
7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Don Harding,
Pastor.
LONGVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 991 Buckner
Street, Longview. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship
11:00 a.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Evening
Worship 6:00 p.m.; Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m.
Interim Pastor Ron Linkins, or email ynyministry@yahoo.
com, 662-769-4774
MCBEE BAPTIST CHURCH — 2846 Hwy. 50 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship
Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Jimmy Ray, Pastor. 662-328-7177
MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH — Holly Hills Rd.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m., Prayer Service every Saturday 6 p.m. Rev. Denver
Clark, Pastor.
MOUNT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH — 2628
East Tibbee Rd., West Point. Sunday Worship each week 8
a.m., 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m., Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Donald Wesley,
Pastor.
MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1791 Lake
Lowndes Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Steve Lammons, Pastor.
662-328-2811
MT. VERNON CHURCH — 200 Mt. Vernon Rd.
Sunday Worship 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Service Life Groups
for all ages 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Connection Cafe 10 a.m.,
Discovery Zone. 662-328-3042 mtvchurch.com
MURRAH’S CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
9297 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — Highway
50 E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Wednesday
7 p.m. Ed Nix, Pastor.
NEW JOURNEY CHURCH — 3123 New Hope Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Small Groups 5:30 p.m., Kevin
Edge, Pastor. 662-315-7753 or thenewjourneychurch.org
NEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe
Rd., 3 miles south of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:00
a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Sunday
Evening - AWANA 4 p.m., Discipleship Training, Youth
& Adult 5 p.m., Evening Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday -
Adults, Youth & Children 6:30 p.m. 662-356-4940 www.
newsalembaptistcaledonia.com Bro. Mel Howton, Pastor.
NORTHSIDE FREE WILL BAPTIST — 14th Ave.
and Waterworks. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Worship
11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Pat Creel,
Pastor.
OPEN DOOR MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex,
405 Lynn Lane, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
1st 2nd and 4th Sundays. Donnie Jones, Pastor. 662-263-
7102
PLEASANT GROVE MB CHURCH — 1914 Moor
High Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Riley Forrest, Sr., Pastor.
662-272-8221
PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill
Rd. Sunday Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Bill Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921
PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH — 187 Plymouth
Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev.
Randy Rigdon, Pastor. Neil Shepherd, Music.
SOVEREIGN FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH — 7852
Hwy. 12 E., Steens. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Service 5
p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Charles Young, Pastor.
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH —
12859 Martin Road Spur, Northport, Ala. Worship 11
a.m., Sunday Bible Study noon. Todd Bryant, Pastor.
sovereigngrace.net
STATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282
E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
Night small group 6:30 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-
329-2973
TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST
CHURCH — 4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams,
Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-2580
UNITED CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 2
blocks east of Hwy. 69 on Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. Steven James, Pastor.
UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 1104
Louisville St., Starkville (located in Fellowship Hall of St.
Luke Lutheran Church). Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship
11 a.m. Bert Montgomery, Pastor. www.ubcstarkville.org
VICTORY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH —
Victory Loop off of Mill Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Pastor, Al Hamm.
WOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — 3033 Ridge
Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship
6 p.m., AWANA Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Kevin Jenkins, Pastor. 662-327-6689. Brad Wright,
Youth Minister.
10TH STREET FAIRLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH
— 1118 7th St. S. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Youth Ministry Wednesday 4:30 p.m.
Rev. Brian Hood, Pastor.
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
BETHESDA CHURCH — 1800 Short Main. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Nathaniel Best, Pastor. E-mail: bethesdambchurch@
yahoo.com
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5860 Hwy. 50 E., West
Point. Sunday School 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — 1720 Hwy.
373. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Martin “Buddy” Gardner, Pastor.
LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5030 Hwy.
182 E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-1130
SHINING LIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH — 957
Sunset Drive, Starkville in the Comfort Suites Conference
Room, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6
p.m. Pastor John Harvey. slbcstarkville.org 662-648-0282
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
ANDERSON GROVE MB CHURCH — 1131
Woodlawn Rd., Steens. Sunday School 9:20 a.m., Worship
11:00 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6:20 p.m. Rev. William
Sparks, Pastor. 662-356-4968.
ANTIOCH MB CHURCH — 2304 Seventh Ave. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Kenny Bridges, Pastor.
BETHLEHEM MB CHURCH — 293 Bethlehem Road,
Caledonia. Sunday School 1st and 4th Sundays 8 a.m., 2nd
& 3rd Sundays 9:30 a.m., Worship 1st & 4th Sundays 9:30
a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 11 a.m., Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev.
Willie James Gardner, Pastor. 662-356-4424
BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex,
Activity Center 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 2nd,
4th & 5th Sundays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pastor Martin. 662-
744-0561
BRICK MB CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School
9:30 a.m. each Sunday, Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays only
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Everett Little, Pastor.
CALVARY FAITH CENTER — Hwy. 373 & Jess
Lyons Road. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Robert
Bowers, Pastor. 662-434-0144
CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr.
Worship Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Johnnie Richardson, Pastor. 662-
434-6528
CHRISTIAN HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST
CHURCH — 14096 MS Hwy. 388, Brooksville, MS 39739,
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Bobby Bowen, Pastor. 662-738-5837/549-6100
CHRIST MB CHURCH — 110 2nd Ave. S. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., B.T.U.
Program every 1st & 3rd Sunday 6 p.m.
ELBETHEL MB CHURCH — 2205 Washington Ave.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m., Rev. Leroy Jones, Pastor.
FAITH HARVEST MB CHURCH — 4266 Sand
Road. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Bible class
Tuesday 6 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-7076.
FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday
Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. 662-328-1913
FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Dr. Stanley K. McCrary, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or
662-251-4185
GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856
Carson Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 a.m. Donald Henry, Pastor.
HALBERT MISSION MB CHURCH — 2199 Halbert
Church Rd., Ethelsville, Ala. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. Ernest Prescott, Pastor.
HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 4892 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9 a.m., Minister Terry
Johnson, Interim Pastor.
JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 14129 Hwy 12 E.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Petty, Sr., Pastor.
MAPLE STREET BAPTIST — 219 Maple St.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Joseph Oyeleye, Pastor. 662-328-4629
MILLERS CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 425 East
North St. Macon. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Ron Houston, Pastor.
MISSIONARY UNION BAPTIST CHURCH
— 1207 5th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Baptist Training Union 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Tony A. Montgomery, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION MB CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979
MT. ARY MB CHURCH — 291 S. Frontage Rd., Lot
#4. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. Erick Logan, Pastor.
MT. AVERY BAPTIST CHURCH — 12311 Nashville
Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. every
Sunday except 5th Sunday. Rev. John Wells, Pastor.
MT. OLIVE MB CHURCH — 2020 Atkin Rd., Millport,
Ala. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m. Pastor
Benny W. Henry. 205-662-3923
NEW HOPE MB CHURCH — 271 Church St., Artesia.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Thomas E. Rice is Pastor. 662-494-1580
NEW BAPTIST TEMPLE MB CHURCH — 5937
Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m. each week
except 5th Sunday, Worship 10 a.m. each week except 5th
Sunday, 5th Sundays: Ushers Board Fellowship. Rev. L.A.
Gardner, Pastor. 662-329-3321
NEW ZION PILGRIM MB CHURCH — 5253 New
Hope Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Services 11
a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Christopher Wriley, Pastor.
NEW ZION STEENS MB CHURCH — 3301 Sand
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Pastor Rev. Billy D. Hill. 662-329-5224
OAK GROVE MB CHURCH — 1090 Taylor
Thurston Rd. Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
5th Sunday 8 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:15 p.m.
Pastor Therman Cunningham Sr., 662-798-0179
OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road,
Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible study 7 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal
- Wed. before 1st and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus
Rehearsal - Wed. before 3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir
Rehearsal - Wed. before 4th Sun. 6 p.m. Rev. Sammy L.
White, Pastor.
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PLEASANT GROVE ROBINSON MB CHURCH
— 9203 Hwy. 389 N., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Service/Bible
Study 7 p.m. Pastor George A. Sanders. 456-0024
PLEASANT RIDGE MB CHURCH — Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. A. Edwards, Sr., Pastor.
PROVIDENCE MB CHURCH — Old Hwy. 69 S.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
7 p.m. Rev. Gilbert Anderson, Pastor.
SAINT MATTHEWS MB CHURCH — 1213
Island Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Curtis Clay, Sr., Pastor.
SALEM MB CHURCH — Hwy. 86, Carrollton, Ala.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Rev. David J. Johnson, Jr., Pastor.
SECOND JAMES CREEK MB CHURCH —
4898 Baldwin Rd., Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Michael Tate. 662-738-5855
SOUTHSIDE MB CHURCH — 100 Nashville Ferry
Rd. E. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Rayfield Evins Jr., Pastor.
SIXTH AVENUE MB CHURCH — 1519 Sixth Ave.
N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. W.C. Talley, Pastor. 662-329-
2344
SPRINGFIELD MB CHURCH — 6369 Hwy. 45 S.
(1st & 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship
11:30 a.m., (1st & 3rd Wednesday) 7 p.m. Robert Gavin,
Pastor. 662-327-9843
STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 2008 7th
Ave. N. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m.
Bible Study Wednesday 10:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
ST. JAMES MB CHURCH — 6525 Hardy-Billups
Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
and 6:15 p.m. Rev. Chad Payton, Pastor.
ST. JOHN MB CHURCH — 3477 Motley Rd.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
Bible Study 7 p.m. Joe Brooks, Pastor. 327-7494.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — Robinson Rd. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Rev. Willie Mays, Pastor.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — 1800 Short Main St.
Disciple Training/Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:00
a.m. Rev. John F. Johnson, Pastor. 662-241-7111
STRONG HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST
CHURCH — 325 Barton Ferry Rd., West Point. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 6 p.m.
UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver
Rd. (Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor McSwain.
TABERNACLE MB CHURCH — Magnolia Drive,
Macon. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m.
UNION HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 150
Spurlock Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Carlton Jones, Pastor.
WOODLAWN LANDMARK MB CHURCH —
8086 Hwy. 12. East, Steens. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David
Retherford, Pastor.
THE WORD CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 366
Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. John Sanders, Pastor.
ZION GATE MB CHURCH — 1202 5th St. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. and 10:45., Children’s
Church 10:15 a.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Dr. James A. Boyd, Pastor.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
ABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
— Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday
10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-
4937
HAMILTON PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
Flower Farm Rd., 2 miles South of Hamilton, just off Hwy.
45. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jesse Phillips, Pastor. 662-429-
2305
MAYHEW PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
842 Hwy. 45 Alternate, Starkville. Sunday Service 10:30
a.m. Herb Hatfield,Pastor. 662-315-4937
SPRINGHILL P.B. CHURCH — 3996 Sandyland
Road, Macon, MS. Walter Lowery Jr., Pastor. Sunday
School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Bible
Study 6 p.m. 662-738-5006.
SULPHUR SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
CHURCH — North of Caledonia on Wolf Rd, Hamilton.
Sunday 10:30 a.m. & 1st Sunday Night at 6:30 p.m. Elder
Joseph Mettles, Pastor. 662-369-2532
ANGLICAN CATHOLIC
SAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew
Rd., Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-
5939 or anglicancatholic.org
CATHOLIC
ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 808
College St. Mass Schedules are as follows: Sunday 8
a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8 a.m.,
Tuesday 5:30 p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m., and Annunciation
Catholic School (during the school year). Father Jeffrey
Waldrep, Priest.
CHRISTIAN
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary.
Larry Ferguson, Interim Pastor. Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave.
N. and 8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CALEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — Main
St., Caledonia. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship
10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 4362 Hwy. 69 S.
Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. , Wednesday 6 p.m. Loviah
Johnson 662-574-0426 or E-mail: jtychicus00@gmail.
com
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 437 Gregory Rd.
Sunday Bible class 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Richard Latham, Minister.
662-328- 4705
CHURCH OF CHRIST DIVINE — 1316 15th
St. S. Morning Worship (1st, 2nd, & 4th Sunday)
9:45 a.m., (3rd & 5th Sunday) 8:30 a.m., Wednesday
Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-
327-6060 Bishop Timothy Heard, Pastor.
COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401
7th St. N. Sunday Bible Class 9:30 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m., Sunday Bible Study 5 p.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Paul Bennett, Family Life Minister; Billy
Ferguson, Minister of Discipleship; Hunter Johnson,
Youth Minister.
EAST COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST —
Highway 182 E. at Gaylane. Sunday Worship 9 a.m.,
Bible Study 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. http://eastcolumbuschurch.com
HW Y. 69 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2407 Hwy.
69 S. Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister Jay
Street. www.highway69coc.com
LONE OAK CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1903
Lone Oak Rd., Steens. Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
MAGNOLIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — 161 Jess
Lyons Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister David May, Pastor.
662-769-5514.
NORTH HILLCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST
— 900 North Hillcrest, Aberdeen, MS 39730, Sunday
Worship 10:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:00
p.m., Bro. Arthur Burnett, Minister, 662-304-6098.
Email: nhill crestcoc@gmail.com
STEENS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Steens
Vernon Rd. 9:15 a.m. Bible Study, Worship 10 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Larry Montgomery,
Minister.
10TH AVE. N. CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1828
10th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Bible Class 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday
7 p.m. Willie McCord, Minister.
WOODLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST —
Woodlawn Community. Sunday 9 a.m., Worship 9:45
a.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Willis
Logan, Minister.
CHURCH OF GOD
CHURCH OF GOD IN JESUS’ NAME — Hwy. 12.
Sunday 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. David Sipes,
Pastor.
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 7840
Wolfe Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Tony Hunt, Pastor. 662-889-6570
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LATTER RAIN CHURCH OF GOD — 721 7th Ave.
S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday 6
p.m. Brenda Othell Sullivan, Pastor.
NORTH COLUMBUS CHURCH OF GOD — 2103
Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Clarence Roberts,
Pastor.
YORKVILLE HEIGHTS CHURCH — 2274 Yorkville
Rd., Sunday Connect Groups 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.; Nursery available for all
services (newborn-4). Scott Volland, Pastor. 662-328-1256
or www.yorkvilleheights.com
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
BIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD
IN CHRIST — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 8 a.m.,
Worship 9 a.m., Monday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday Prayer Noon. Tommy
Williams, Pastor.
FIFTEENTH ST. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
— 917 15th St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion C. Bonner, Pastor.
GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE CHURCH
OF GOD IN CHRIST — 1601 Pickensville Rd., Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Monday 6 p.m., Tuesday
7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. Ocie Salter, Pastor.
MIRACLE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — 5429 Hwy. 45 N. Sunday Prayer 8 a.m.,
Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., 4th Sunday
Fellowship Lunch, Youth Sunday 4th Sunday, Wednesday
Bible Study 6 p.m. Elder Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-
327-4221. Email: mr.endure@aol.com
NOW FAITH CENTER MINISTRIES — 425 Military
Road, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
Night Bible Study 7 p.m. Elder Samuel Wilson, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer
Ave., Aberdeen. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30
a.m., Tuesday Bible School 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., 2nd & 4th
Thursday Evangelist Night 6 p.m. Johnnie Bradford, Pastor.
662-574-2847.
PETER’S ROCK TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — 223 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Starkville.
Sunday Worship 7:45 a.m., 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Sunday School 9
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
VICTORY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — Minnie Vaughn Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 12 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Donald Koonch, Pastor.
662-243-2064
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE
CAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic
Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Catholic Priest Father
Paul Stewart. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday School
9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Wing Chaplain Lt. Col. Steven
Richardson. 662-434-2500
EPISCOPAL
GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH —
321 Forrest Blvd. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest.
662-574-1972
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College
St. Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
Rev. Jason Shelby. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.com.
FULL GOSPEL
BREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.
BEULAH GROVE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST
CHURCH — 8490 Artesia Rd., Artesia, MS. Sunday
Service 8:30 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Timothy
Bourne, Senior Pastor.
CHARITY FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
1524 6th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m. Charles Fisher, Pastor.
CHARITY MISSION FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST
CHURCH — 807 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday School
9:40 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Prayer
Hour Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m., New Membership
Class 9:30 p.m., 5th Sunday Worship 6:30 p.m. 662-272-
5355
COVENANT LIFE MINISTRIES CHURCH — W.
Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Evening 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
FAIRVIEW FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 1446 Wilson Pine Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Bobby L. McCarter
662-328-2793
GREATER MOUNT ZION CHURCH — 5114 Hwy.
182 E. Sunday Corporate Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Bible Study
7 p.m. Doran V. Johnson, Pastor. 662-329-1905
GOD’S ANNOINTED PEOPLE MINISTRY FULL
GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP — 611 Jess Lyons Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Jerome Gill, Pastor. 662-244-7088
HARVEST LIFE CHURCH — 425 Military Rd. Sunday
Service 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. F. Clark Richardson,
Pastor. 662-329-2820
NEW BEGINNING FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST
CHURCH — 318 Idlewild Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. 662-
327-3962
NEW LIFE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship
10a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor.
PLUM GROVE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — Old
Macon Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
Tuesday 6:30 p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Samuel B. Wilson,
Pastor.
SHILOH FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 120 19th St. S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Missionary Service every 2nd
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Freddie Edwards, Pastor.
JEWISH
B’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-
monthly. Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038
UNIVERSALIST
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple
B’nai Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday.
662-620-7344 or uua.org
LUTHERAN
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
(WELS) — Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible
Class 3:45 p.m., Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647
OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (L.C.M.S.)
— 1211 18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m.. Worship 10 a.m.
Stan Clark, Pastor. 662-327-7747 oursaviorlutheranms.org
MENNONITE
FAITH MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP — 2988 Tarlton
Rd., Crawford. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Sunday School 11
a.m., 2nd & 4th Sunday Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30
p.m. Kevin Yoder, Senior Pastor.
METHODIST
ARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 50
Church Street, Artesia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Gene Merkl, Pastor.
CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 811 Main Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. John Longmire, Pastor.
CLAIBORNE CME CHURCH — 6049 Nashville
Ferry Rd. E. 2nd and 4th Sundays - Sunday School 10a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Sundays - 3
p.m., Geneva H. Thomas, Pastor.
CONCORD INDEPENDENT METHODIST
CHURCH — 1235 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor.
COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
618 31st Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Eugene Bramlett, Pastor.
CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
Main St., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10
a.m. Kathy Brackett, Pastor. 662-364-8848
CROSSROAD CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Steens.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. Carl Swanigan, Pastor.
FIRST INDEPENDENT METHODIST — 417
Lehmberg Rd. Sunday bible study at 10:15 and morning
worship at 11 a.m. Minister Gary Shelton.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 602
Main St. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m.
Rev. Jimmy Criddle, Lead Pastor; Rev. Anne Russell
Bradley, Associate Pastor; Rev. Aislinn Kopp, Associate
Pastor. 328-5252
FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
80 Old Honnoll Mill Rd., Caledonia. Sunday Worship Service
9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. John Longmire, Pastor.
GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St.
S. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael
Terry, Pastor. 662-328-1109
HEBRON CME. CHURCH — 1910 Steens Road,
Steens. Meets first, second and third Sundays, Bible class
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
each Wednesday at 7 p.m. Earnest Sanders, Pastor.
MILITARY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH — Hwy. 12, Steens. Sunday School 9:45,
Service 11 a.m.. Meet on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Wednesday
Bible Study 6:00 p.m. Rev. Antra Geeter, Pastor. 662-327-
4263
NEW HOPE CME CHURCH — 1452 Yorkville Road
East, Columbus. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship
service first, third and fourth Sunday (Youth Sunday) 11:00
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 5:00 p.m. Rev. Cornelia
Naylor, Pastor. 662-328-5309
NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
2503 New Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 5:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah
Windham, Pastor.
NEW ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
2169 S. Montgomery St., Starkville. Sunday School 9:30-
10:30 a.m., Young Adult Bible Study (ages 18-30) Thursday
6:30 p.m. Tyrone Stallings, Pastor. 662-324-0789
ORR’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Nicholson
Street, Brooksville. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Saturday 9 a.m.
PINEY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 102 Fernbank Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Andy
Tentoni, Pastor.
PLAIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 1579
Sun Creek Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 8:45-9:45
a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6-7 p.m. Rev.
Sylvester Miller III, Pastor. 662-324-0036
SANDERS CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 521 15th
St. N. Sunday School 8 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m., Tuesday 11:45
a.m. Rev. Dr. Luther Minor, Pastor.
SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH — 1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional
Worship Service 9 a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.
ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
722 Military Rd. Breakfast 9:20 a.m., Sunday School 9:40
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m.,
Adult/Children Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m., Young Adult
Bible Study Thursday 7 p.m. Rev. Paul E. Luckett, Pastor.
ST. PAUL INDEPENDENT METHODIST
CHURCH — Freeman Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Sunday Services 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Youth activities 5 p.m.
John Powell, Pastor.
ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
307 South Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. , Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
Demetric Darden, Pastor.
ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 800 Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. and 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Andy Tentoni,
Pastor.
TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— Rt. 2, 6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Carol Lambert, Pastor. 205-662-3443
TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610
Carson Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Pastor
Lizzie Harris. 662-329-3995
TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St.
S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5
p.m. Yvonne Fox, Pastor.
WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday
5:15 p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Youth Monday 6:30 p.m.
Rev. Sarah Windham.
WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH — Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Kori Bridges,
Pastor. 662-422-9013.
MORMON
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
SAINTS — 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 9 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 11 a.m.,
Youth Activities Wednesday 6 p.m. Bishop Eric Smith. 662-
328-3179.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — 2722
Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,Worship 10:40 a.m. and
6 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Stephen Joiner, Pastor.
NON — DENOMINATIONAL
A PREPARED TABLE MINISTRY — 1201 College
St. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:10 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Timothy J. Bailey, Pastor. 662-889-7778
ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 611 S.
Frontage Road. Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Craig
Morris, Pastor.
ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
CHURCH, INC. — 1560 Hwy. 69 S., Sunday 9 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:45 p.m., Friday Corporate Prayer 7 p.m.
Pastor James T. Verdell, Jr. crosswayradio.com 9 a.m., 11
a.m., & 7 p.m. on Fridays only.
CALEDONIA OPEN DOOR WORSHIP CENTER
— 3288 Cal-Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10
a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Randy Holmes, Pastor.
662-855-5006
COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN CENTER — 146 S.
McCrary Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Kid’s Church
10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Kenny Gardner, Pastor.
662-328-3328
CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109
Maxwell Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15
a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Band 7
p.m. Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98
Harrison Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., 1st
Sunday Evening 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba)
Dees, Pastor. 662-327-4303
EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH —
1608 Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and
Sunday at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.
FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 1133 Northdale Dr.
Sunday Worship 5:30 p.m. Lee Poque, Pastor. 662-889-
8132
FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH CHRIST
MINISTRIES — 1472 Blocker Rd., Starkville. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., 2nd Sunday Morning
Worship 9 a.m. Pastor Kenyon Ashford.
FIRST CALVARY FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP
CHRISTIAN CENTER — 247 South Oliver St.,
Brooksville. Prayer Saturday 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m.,
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor David
T. Jones,III. 601-345-5740
FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Maxine Hall, Pastor.
GENESIS CHURCH — 1820 23rd St. N., Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Darren Leach, Pastor.
HOUSE OF LIFE FREEDOM MINISTRY — 1742
Old West Point Rd. Worship 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Donnell Wicks, Pastor.
HOUSE OF RESTORATION — Hwy. 50. Sunday
School, 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 a.m., Pastors, Bill and Carolyn Hulen.
JESUS CHRIST POWERHOUSE OF THE
APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 622 23rd St. N.
Sunday School 10:30 a.m.; Service 11:45 a.m., Tuesday 7:30
p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Prayer Mon., Wed. and Fri. noon. For
more information call Bishop Ray Charles Jones 662-251-
1118, Patricia Young 662-327-3106 or 662-904-0290 or
Lynette Williams 662-327-9074.
KINGDOM VISION INTERNATIONAL CHURCH
— 3193 Hwy 69 S. Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Pastor R.J. Matthews. 662-
327-1960
LIFE CHURCH — 4888 N. Frontage Rd. Sunday
Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information,
call 662-570-4171
LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr.
Martin Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11
a.m., Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311
LIVING WATERS LIFE CHURCH
INTERNATIONAL — 113 Jefferson St., Macon.
Sunday Service 10 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m.
Johnny Birchfield Jr., Senior Pastor. 662-493-2456 E-mail:
livingwaterslifechurch@gmail.com
NEW BEGINNING EVERLASTING OUTREACH
MINISTRIES — Meets at Quality Inn, Hwy. 45 N. (Every
1st and 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10 a.m., Bible Study
10:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Robert Gavin, 662-327-
9843 or 662-497-3434.
NEW COVENANT ASSEMBLY — 875 Richardson.
Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Bruce Morgan, Pastor.
NEW HORIZONS GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 441
18th St. S. Sunday 10 a.m. Dr. Joe L. Bowen, Pastor.
PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP —
2651 Trinity Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Every 2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097
TABERNACLE OF MERCY (MINISTRY OF
JESUS CHRIST) — 4435 Hwy. 45 N., Sunday Service
9 a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. 662- www.memorialgunterpeel.com
241-6723
THE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 716 Second Ave. N. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-4432
p.m. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. 903 College St. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-2354
THE RIVER CHURCH — 822 North Lehmberg Rd.,
Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Children’s Church 3&4 yr. old,
5-12 yr. old. Wednesday Worship 6:45 p.m. Pastor Chuck
Eubanks.
THE SHEPHERD’S CARE & SHARE MINISTRY
CHURCH — 4068 Jess Lyons Rd., Sunday Prayer
Time 9:50 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Thursday Bible Study 6 p.m., Annie Hines-Goode, Planter
and Pastor. 662-630-5216
TRIBE JUDAH MINISTRIES — 730 Whitfield St.,
Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible
School 7 p.m. Rev. Greg and Rev. Michelle Mostella,
Pastors. 662-617-4088
TRUE GOSPEL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY —
2119 7th. Ave. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie
Edwards, Pastors.
TRUE LIFE CHURCH — 435 Cedarcrest Dr. (corner of
Yorkville and Cedarcrest), Sunday prayer 8:45 a.m., Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday prayer 6:30 p.m., Service 7:30 p.m. SHELTON’S TOWING, INC.
662-798-0259 Since 1960
TRUE LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — 597 Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 24 Hour Towing
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor. 1024 Gardner Blvd.
TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER
MINISTRIES — 5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday
328-8277
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Pastor Francisco Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252
UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL
MINISTRIES — 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus.
Sunday Worship 8-9:30 a.m., 662-889-8711
VIBRANT CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday
8 a.m., 9:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Vibe Cafe 7 a.m.,
First Wednesday 7 p.m. Age 6 weeks through 5th grade,
Champions Club (special needs children). Jason Delgado,
Pastor. 662-329-2279
WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN
CENTER — 2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis,
Pastor. 662-230-3182 or mdavis43@hotmail.com
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
ST. CATHERINE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
CHURCH — 725 4th Ave. N. Visit www.
stcatherineorthodox.com for schedule of services and
updates on this Mission.
APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL
APOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North
McCrary Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny
L. Obsorne, Pastor.
DIVINE DESTINY APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 2601
14th Ave. N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 12 p.m.,
Tuesday Bible Class 7:30 p.m. Pastor Easter Robertson.
JESUS CHRIST POWERFUL MINISTRY OF
LOVE — 1210 17th St. S., behind the Dept. of Human
Resources. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.
Gloria Jones, Pastor.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 267
Byrnes Circle. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor. 662-324-3539
THE ASSEMBLY IN JESUS CHRIST CHURCH
— 1504 19th St. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:45
a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m.
THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL WORD — 106
22nd St. S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible Study 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 5 p.m. District
Elder Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234
THE GLORIOUS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
— Billy Kidd Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.. Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7
p.m. Ernest Thomas, Pastor.
VICTORY APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 6 6
Boyd Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Noon,
Tuesday Prayer 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
Mildred Spencer, Pastor. 662-341-5753
ONENESS PENTECOSTAL
NEW HOPE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 875
Richardson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Jared Glover, Pastor. 662-251-3747
E-mail: nhpccolumbus@yahoo.com
PENTECOSTAL
FAITH AND DELIVERANCE OUT REACH
MINISTRIES — 118 S. McCrary Road, Suite 126. Sunday
10 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Christian Women
Meeting Friday 7 p.m.
LIVING FAITH TABERNACLE — Shelton St.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Youth
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. James O. Gardner, Pastor.
LIVING WATER MINISTRIES — 622 28th St. N. Elder
Robert L. Salter, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 922
17th St. N. Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11
a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor,
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 5580 Ridge
Road. Sunday School 10 a.m., Praise & Worship 10:45 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. G.E. Wiggins Sr., Pastor.
1721 Hwy 45 N
UNITED PENTECOSTAL
CALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL ® Columbus, MS
CHURCH — 5850 Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia.
Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell,
662.848.0919
Pastor. 662-356-0202 Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa In Style. In Reach. Sunday 1pm-5pm
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m.,
TRINITY PLACE
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-
1750
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
PRESBYTERIAN
BEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community. Offering independent living apartments, personal
Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church care/assisted living suites, and a skilled nursing home
School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615 300 Airline Road • Columbus, MS • 327-6716
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) “Our Bottom Line Is People”
— 515 Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4 Hunting • Fishing
p.m. John Richards, Pastor. Working Or Stepping Out — We Have A Complete
FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN Line Of Clothing For You And Your Family
CHURCH — 2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Oktibbeha County Co-Op
Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Check Out Our Boot & Cap Section
Bible Study 5 p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd
Tue. 4 p.m.), Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: 662-323-1742
201 Pollard Rd., Starkville
Exercise Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke
Lawson, Pastor. 662-328-2692
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt
Rd. Worship 10 a.m., Youth Group Sundays 11 a.m.,
Adult Choir Wednesdays 6 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd
Wednesdays 6 p.m. B.J. Chain, Pastor.
MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
(PCA) — Main and 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday Fellowship
Supper 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Todd Matocha,
Pastor.
MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH — 3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m.
SALVATION ARMY CHURCH
THE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy.
82 East. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m.,
Wednesday Men’s Fellowship, Women’s Fellowship 5:30
p.m., Thursday Character Building Programs 5:30 p.m.,
Majors Alan and Sheryl Phillips, Commanding Officers.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
COLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
CHURCH — 301 Brooks Dr. Saturday Service 9 a.m.,
Sabbath School 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting
6:30 p.m. Ray Elsberry, Pastor. 662-329-4311
The McBryde Family
SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th
St. N. Saturday Sabbath School 9:30 a.m., Divine Worship
1120 Gardner Blvd. • 328-5776
11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Roscoe Shields, Pastor. 662-
327-9729
APOSTOLIC CHURCH
TRUE FAITH DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES
APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 3632 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday
School 10:30 a.m., Sunday 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., • RECYCLING SINCE 1956 •
Wednesday Prayer Noon, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 Specializing in industrial accounts
p.m. 662-328-8176 973 Island Rd. 1-800-759-8570
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