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1688: Preacher and nov-elist John Bunyan, author of “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” dies in London.1886: At 9:51 p.m., an earthquake with an esti-mated magnitude of 7.3 devastates Charleston, S.C., killing at least 60 people, according to the U.S. Geo-logical Survey.
1888: Mary Ann Nichols, the
apparent first victim of “Jack the Ripper,” is found slain
in London’s East End.
1941: The radio program “The Great Gildersleeve,” a spinoff from “Fibber McGee and Molly” starring Harold Peary, debuts on NBC.
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county tax saleproperties fallafter 2-year rise
Security on risenationwide for9/11 anniversary
By Danny Barrett [email protected]
The number of properties offered at tax sale at the Warren County Courthouse has fallen 6 percent compared to last year after a two-year spike.
Warren County Tax Collector Anto-nia Flaggs Jones said 1,685 residential and commercial parcels of all sizes were available at the annual offering Monday, down from 1,799 last year. An estimated 1,600 were offered in 2009. The majority of the properties are residential, though the list included hotels, restaurants, apartment complexes and retail outlets.
Public sales are a function of the state’s enforcement of property taxes due. Bid-ders pay what an owner owes, then the owner may, by law, “redeem” the deed by paying the taxes plus a penalty that the bidder keeps. While most tax sale purchasers are seeking to profit when owners pay up, the process can lead to a tax deed if the property is not redeemed in three years.
Jones said 44 bids were by individuals and eight were by investment compa-nies, in something of a flip from recent years. Tax sale lists in recent years have been heavy because of the lagging econ-omy, as evidenced by substantial resi-dential parcels considered by investors.
Final entries on bids into the Tax Col-lector’s Office computers could take several days, Jones said. Commercial properties that received bids Monday
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The federal govern-ment is escalating security around the country in preparation for the 10th anni-versary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and conducting confidential briefings with state and local law enforcement organi-zations. But officials say there is no spe-cific indication that a terror plot against the U.S. is under way.
Americans can expect more security at airports, mass transit stations, U.S. bor-ders, government buildings and major athletic events over the next month, said an intelligence official who spoke anonymously.
The FBI and Homeland Security Department have been briefing state and local law enforcement agencies on poten-
By Pamela [email protected]
Alderman Michael May-field stood at the back of the crowd to watch the ceremony launching the Vicksburg America the Beauti-ful quarter Tuesday morning, but he was first in line when it came time to buy the country’s newest coin.
“I bought the first $100-worth ever sold,” said a smil-ing Mayfield, holding up 10 rolls of the Vicksburg quar-ter bound in a rubber band. He said he’d give some to his son at Fort Hood, Texas, some to his son at Alcorn State University and some to his daughter in Jackson.
“And some to my wife, too, especially since it was her $100 I spent,” he added with a laugh.
Mayfield had a hug for his niece, Kaitlyn Russell, 12, a student at Warren Central
Junior High School and a member of the multi-school choir — including Vicks-burg and Warren
Central high schools — that sang the national anthem for the program.
Every fourth- and fifth-grader in the Vicksburg Warren School District was also on hand, sitting on benches or towels spread
DaviD Jackson•The Vicksburg PosT
Vicksburg becomes a collectible
The Vicksburg quarter depicts the Cairo, a Union ironclad gunboat, as it would
have appeared steaming on the Yazoo River
Dec. 12, 1862, before being
sunk by Con-federate torpedoes
Tax Collector Antonia Flaggs Jones checks the list of bidders against bid-ding cards at the Warren County Court-house Tuesday.
VNMP Superintendent Mike Madell
Thousands are seated for the unveiling ceremony for the Vicksburg quarter.
‘This recognition adds yet another chapter to the already
rich history of this gunboat and the city of Vicksburg.’
Mike MadellVicksburg NatioNal Military
Park suPeriNteNdeNt
See Security, Page A9.
See Sale, Page A9.
See Coin, Page A9.
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BENEFITSDarryl Moulder Fundraiser — 6 p.m. Saturday; son of pas-tor Doyle Moulder; for speech therapy; Mitchel Jon, Voices for Christ, Dave White, Steven Kight and Greg Newman; 4 p.m., barbecue, $6; Living Wa-ter Christian Fellowship, 2075 Culkin Road.
ChurChESSecond Union M.B., Utica — Revival, 7 tonight-Thursday; the Rev. Joe Harris Jr., speaker; Dr. Michael R. Reed Sr., pastor; 18074 Old Port Gibson Road. Pleasant Valley M.B. — Choir rehearsal, 5:30 p.m. Friday; 2585 Washington St.
CLuBSVicksburg Toastmasters
Club 2052 — Noon Thursday; IT Lab, Porters Chapel Road; Derek Wilson, 601-634-4174.Army/Navy Club — 7 p.m. Thursday; monthly steak din-ner; clubhouse.North/South and Warren Central Class of 1972 — Dance, 9 p.m. Friday; DJ Reo; $5; The Hut.Ashmead DAR Chapter — 10 a.m. Saturday, Main Street Market, Main and Cherry streets; Trisha Raymond of Jackson, author of “Histo-ry and Significance of Our Pledge of Allegiance.”
PuBLIC PrOGrAMSSerenity Overeaters Anony-mous — 6-7 tonight, Bowmar Baptist Church, Room 102C; 601-638-0011.Wrestling Against Under-age Drinking — 6:30 tonight; matches by universal champi-onship wrestling; free admis-sion, food and drinks; Kings Community Empowerment Center.Vicksburg Al-Anon — 7:30 tonight; family, friends of alco-holics and addicts; 502 Dab-
ney Ave.; 601-636-1134.“Guns and Hoses” Blood Drive — Noon-6 p.m. Friday; all donors receive T-shirt and Walmart card; Walmart park-ing lot.LeFleur’s Bluff State Park Bird Walk — 8-10 a.m. Satur-day, campground entrance off Lakeland Drive; $3 entrance fee to park; 601-956-7444 or www.jacksonaudubonsociety.org for information. Poverty Point — 1 p.m. Sat-urday bird hike; 1-4 p.m. Sun-day tool demonstrations on the hour; east of Monroe on Louisiana Highway 577; 888-926-5492. Adobe Photoshop Elements — 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sept. 8 or 9; same curriculum each day; fee $20; MSU-ES Warren County office, 1100-C Grove St.; 601-636-5442.Fall Painting Class — 6-8 p.m. Sept. 13, The Ivy Place; led by Geni Fulcher; 601-638-6429. Narcotics Anonymous — River City Group, 8 p.m. Sun-day, Tuesday and Saturday; Good Shepherd Community Center, 629 Cherry St.; day-
time, Alvin J., 601-661-7646 or 601-415-1742; evening, Jo-seph P., 601-278-1808; Jackie G., 601-636-8739. Good Shepherd Community Center — Even Start Family Literacy Program accepting registrations for GED, ABE and
ESL half-day classes; Andrea Hall or Phillip Williams, 601-636-7687.
One found guiltyOne conviction of driving
under the influence, first offense, was reported in Warren County for the week ending Tuesday.
In Warren County Justice Court:
• Thomas Taylor, 56, 1225 Gaines Road, Terry, was fined $687.
No convictions were reported in Vicksburg Municipal Court.
State DEQ to investigate haze over WarrenSmoky haze covering
Vicksburg this morning was coming from an under-ground fire that has burned for several weeks at a brush and tree debris site near the 2000 block of U.S. 80, said Jerry Briggs, chief of the Culkin Volunteer Fire Department.
Kelly Worthy, Warren County volunteer fire coor-dinator, said this morning he has contacted the Missis-sippi Department of Envi-ronmental Quality, which is expected to send a represen-tative to decide if the smoke is hazardous.
“They have been working on it this morning to try to get some equipment in there and get the fire out,” said Briggs. Culkin volunteers have contributed to the effort over the weeks, including for a period this morning around 4, he added.
Farmers on U.S. 61 North and across the Mississippi River in Louisiana are burn-ing off corn fields, and that is contributing to the haze, said Briggs.
Worthy and Briggs said they do not know who owns the burning parcel, but Briggs believes the owner is out of town.
City man arrestedin theft of weapon
A Vicksburg man given a ride by a woman Tuesday night stole a rifle from her and was later arrested, police Sgt. Sandra Williams said.
Matthew O’Neal, 34, 2160 S. Frontage Road, was charged with theft of a firearm when arrested at 11:27 p.m., Wil-liams said.
O’Neal had been given a ride at the Shell Food Mart, 4747 U.S. 61 South. He is accused of stealing a Ruger rifle the woman had in her
car, the sergeant said. O’Neal was to have an ini-
tial hearing in Vicksburg Municipal Court this morn-ing, Williams said.
Second arrest madein armed robbery
A second suspect has been arrested in an armed rob-bery reported in the city
Sunday night, Sgt. Sandra Williams said.
Gerald Vaughn, 32, 1011 Second North St., was picked up by police about 5 p.m. Tuesday at Locust and Grove streets, said Williams.
Vaughn and Johnny Earl Thomas, 27, 2213 Pearl St., who was arrested Sunday, are accused of robbing at gunpoint a man who had given Thomas and a 17-year-old woman a ride from Open-wood Street to Cherry and
China streets. When Thomas and the
woman got out of the car, they were met by Vaughn and another man, and demanded money from the driver. The third man has not yet been identified by police.
Vaughn had an initial appearance in Vicksburg Municipal Court this morn-ing and was to be held in the Warren County or Issaquena County Jail, said Williams.
Vicksburg man chargedwith sale of cocaine
A Vicksburg man was in the Warren County Jail this morning charged with the sale of cocaine, said police Sgt. Sandra Williams.
Horatio Carson, 25, 4832 U.S. 61 South, was arrested at his home on a warrant fol-lowing an undercover inves-tigation, Williams said.
Bond was set for Carson at $50,000, she said.
COMMuNITy CALENdAr
duI CONvICTIONfrom court records
CrIME & FIrEfrom staff reports
Pam HItCHINS•The Vicksburg PosT
Vicksburg firefighters work at a house at 921 Polk St. Tues-day evening. Deputy Fire Chief Craig Danczyk said the blaze started around 6:30 p.m. in a clothes dryer in the laundry room and spread through the home and into the attic, gut-ting much of the house. Firefighters from Station 7, about a
block away, responded along with a ladder truck and rescue truck from Central Fire Station, Danczyk said. Jessica Miller, 16, who was home when the fire broke out, was not injured. She and her father, Jessie Miller, were provided with shelter by the Red Cross, Danczyk said.
Jackson schools paid more than $114,000 in superintendent appealJACKSON, Miss. — Docu-
ments show Jackson Public Schools spent more than $114,000 for legal expenses when former Superintendent Lonnie Edwards appealed the nonrenewal of his contract.
Almost $60,000 went to Adams and Reese law firm to represent the school board at Edwards’ appeal hearing that was held on eight days more than three months.
Edwards had to pay for his own attorney. He left after his contract expired on June 30, and later dropped his appeal.
Now, the state’s second-largest school district could spend another $100,000 to find a new superintendent.
Most money in the Edwards’ appeal went to attorney’s fees, $59,875. The
unusual circumstances required use of outside counsel, said board attor-ney Dorian Turner, who was instructed to separate her billable hours spent with the appeal from those for her regular duties.
“School boards don’t nor-mally nonrenew superinten-dents,” Turner said.
Elections officialadmits to shoplifting
BRANDON, Miss. — A Rankin County elections commissioner is on proba-tion for a year stemming from her Nov. 29, 2009, felony shoplifting arrest in Flowood.
Bernadine Norsworthy, also
a former Richland teacher with the county’s school dis-trict, admitted to stealing more than $500 worth of mer-chandise from a local depart-ment store, according to an Aug. 29 signed pretrial inter-vention agreement with the district attorney’s office.
Assistant District Attor-ney Dan Duggan said Nors-worthy also has agreed to not seek re-election to her county post.
Many woman deadafter Sabine crash
MANY, La. — Sabine Parish Deputy Coroner Ron Rivers says a Many woman died of injuries suffered in a two-vehicle crash.
The victim in the Tues-day crash was identified
as 24-year-old Carnechia S. Little.
Little was the driver of a 2001 Chevrolet pickup that pulled into the path of an 18-wheeler about 1:40 p.m. Tuesday in Sabine Parish. She was transported from Sabine Medical Center to LSU Hospital in Shreveport. She died in the operating room Tuesday evening.
Olive Branchto raise police pay
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. — Olive Branch officials have agreed to give new and lesser experienced police officers more money.
The Board of Aldermen met for three hours Tuesday to talk through the proposed 2011-12 city budget of about
$28.5 million.As the police pay scale cur-
rently stands, officers who have not yet been certified at the academy are paid $30,326. As officers gain certification and get experience, their pay rises through their fifth year of service.
Metairie woman saysguilty to FEMA fraud
NEW ORLEANS — A 39-year-old Metairie woman has pleaded guilty to federal charges of theft of govern-ment funds, possession of stolen mail and identity theft.
U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said Alicia Victoria Gee entered the plea Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey.
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August 25, 1950 - August 25, 1977
In Loving Memory of our loved one,
Mr. Jessie L. Johnson Jr.“June Bug”
Who departed thislife Aug. 25, 1977.
Gone, but never forgotten. We love younow and always.
We miss you somuch.
Mother - ChristineJackson
Brother - Alex JacksonAunts - Gloria Flynn
& Shirley HallWife - Linda Johnson
& all your children.
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Jackson lawfirm addsN.O. partners
JACKSON (AP) — A New Orleans-based law firm is expanding into Mississippi as it merges with a firm based in Jackson.
The New Orleans firm — Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrhre & Denhgre — is combining with Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, a partnership that includes former Mississippi Gov. Wil-liam Winter.
The merger should be com-plete by Jan. 1, and the new firm will have 375 attorneys. It will be called Jones Walker.
Kemper power plant on target for completionFrom staff and AP reports
JACKSON — Ed Day, presi-dent and CEO of Mississippi Power Co., says construc-tion of a coal-fired electricity plant in Kemper County is on schedule.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Day said Tuesday he expects Kemper County and central Missis-sippi to see expanded eco-nomic benefits from the plant’s construction and operation.
Mississippi Power has two
coal pro j -ects in the works. One is a $600 million upgrade of the two coal units at Plant D a n i e l i n coastal Jack-
son County. Th e o t h e r
is the lignite-coal plant in Kemper County.
The 582-megawatt plant near the Liberty community will use a process that converts
coal into a synthetic gas and generates electricity with fewer emissions than existing pulverized coal power plants. The plant is expected to be in operation in 2014.
Last year, the Mississippi Public Service Commission approved the company’s pro-posal for the Kemper County project.
Lynn Posey, commissioner of the PSC’s Central District, was in Vicksburg Tuesday and talked about the plant.
“We determined that in the
next 40 years or so, there would a great need for addi-tional electricity,” Posey told the Vicksburg Kiwanis Club. “We felt, at the time, the best thing to do was to go forward with that plant.”
Ground was broken in December. In approving the plant, the PSC set a cost cap at $2.88 billion. “We think we will be lower than the construction cap,” Day said.
A 2008 state law allows the cost of building the plant to be passed on to ratepay-
ers in stages as it is being constructed.
Day said Mississippi Power is developing a rate formula to be submitted to the PSC. He said with PSC approval, the rate system could be in place in early 2012.
Day said there could be a large fuel cost savings by using the coal if natural gas prices rise substantially over the next few years.
About 50 percent of a rate-payer’s bill goes toward fuel costs.
Former coach gets 35 years on state sex chargesABERDEEN (AP) — An ex-
high school football coach who spent a long career in Missis-sippi and Alabama has been sentenced to 35 years in state prison in a Mississippi moles-tation case involving teenage boys.
Dwight Bowling, 56, was sen-tenced Tuesday in Monroe County Circuit Court.
“It’s really a sad day for the families of the victims, but they can get some closure. It
was a sad day for his family, too,” District Attorney John R. Young said. “He’s got to pay the price for all the things he has admitted to doing.”
Bowling pleaded guilty in June to numerous Mississippi state court charges of luring teenage boys into having sex.
Bowling was coaching for an Alabama school when he was arrested last Septem-ber in Mississippi on his way home from a game. Authori-
ties said a 13-year-old boy who was with Bowling at the time of his arrest accused him of improper touching.
In court, Bowling asked his victims to forgive him.
Judge James Roberts called Bowling’s treatment of the minors “despicable.”
On Aug. 16, Bowling was sen-tenced to 25 years in federal prison in a molestation case.
Bowling’s federal and state sentences will overlap.
Bowling will begin his incar-ceration in federal prison with the possibility of early release from that 25-year sentence, Young said. Once Bowling leaves federal prison, he’ll be moved to a state prison.
The state sentence includes 30 years for sex crimes, and prosecutors said Bowling won’t be eligible for early release for that portion. The state sentence also includes five years for bribery.
LynnPosey
KATIE CARTER•The Vicksburg PosT
New flagCody Eckhardt, center, holds a flag in honor of his grandfather, J.R. “Buck”
Hubbard of Granbury, Texas, to be placed atop the U.S. 80 bridge over the Mississippi River. The flag dona-
tion program was started by Blanche Millsaps in 1994 and is now spear-
headed by the Army-Navy Club. Army-Navy members, from left, are Lewis Decell, flag project chairman; Doug Kamien, secretary; and L.W. “Bump”
Callaway, vice president; Lt. Col. Greg Raimondo, deputy commander of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District; and Herman Smith, bridge
superintendent.
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JACK VIX SAYS: Today is New Year’s Eve for college football fans.
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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1891Rabbi H.M. Bien celebrates his 10th anniversary here. • If the rail of the street car system gets much higher vehicles and pedestrians will be able to go under them, an article in the Vicksburg Evening Post says. • Isaac Ruhman is quite ill.
110 YEARS AGO: 1901A man kills a 700-pound bear near Long Lake. • Harry Rice returns after an absence of two months. • An effort is being made to make the hospital a state institution.
100 YEARS AGO: 1911The Vicksburg Evening Post flashes the first news of the Gotch-Hackenschmidt bout. • Jim Hennessey, known as Shorty the Shrimp Seller, dies.
90 YEARS AGO: 1921The Rotarians win the pennant, beating the Kiwanis team 5 to 1. • Edgar Leyens and Louis Switzer return from New York.
80 YEARS AGO: 1931Jake Feith is elected chef de gare of the Forty et Eight. • Laz O. Bloch accepts a position as pharmacist with the Crystal Pharmacy.
70 YEARS AGO: 1941Mrs. E.H. Raworth and son, John, leave for a vacation trip to Wisconsin. • Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Ward return from a trip to New England.
60 YEARS AGO: 1951Seventeen new polio patients are received here. • Paul A. Blanquet, chief engineer of the Suez Canal, is visiting engi-neering projects here.
50 YEARS AGO: 1961Mr. and Mrs. John Marsicano announce the birth of a son, John Jr., on Sept. 2. • Mr. and Mrs. DeKalb Wylie are visiting relatives over the Labor Day weekend. • Sam Logan enters Princeton University for his freshman year.
40 YEARS AGO: 1971Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Hogue of Rolling Fork announce the birth of a son, Jeffery, on Aug. 20. • Luther Foster dies. • Arthur Hill stars in “Andromeda Strain” at the Joy Theatre.
30 YEARS AGO: 1981W.G. Shockley, a consulting engineer of Vicksburg, is appointed third vice chairman of ASTM Committee D-18 on soil and rock in Philadelphia, Pa. • Mary Little, local presi-dent, attends the meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars in Jackson.
20 YEARS AGO: 1991Kim Thomas, 9, wins the national reading contest sponsored by READ America. • A Port Gibson police officer is charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Larry Payne, who was suspected of trying to break into the town’s high school.
10 YEARS AGO: 2001Vicksburg High School beats John Ehret 20-7 in the opening game of the Red Carpet Bowl. • Deborah Franco Preparatory School of Dance begins offering adult classes.
Here are three things Americans need to know about the Libyan “rebels” that the U.S. government isn’t telling us.
1- The inspiration of the Libyan war is as much anti-Western as it is anti-Gadhafi.
The “Day of Rage” that kick-started the Libyan war on Feb. 17 marked the fifth anniversary of violent protests in Benghazi, which included an assault on the Ital-ian consulate during which at least 11 were killed. The 2006 mayhem, as John Rosenthal has reported, during which consulate staff was evacuated after 1,000 to several thousand men tried to storm and burn the building, might be linked to the Italian TV appearance two days earlier of Italian minister Roberto Calderoli. It was then that Calderoli, in defiance of worldwide Islamic rioting against cartoons of Muhammad in a tiny Danish newspaper, revealed he was wear-ing an undershirt decorated with such a cartoon. In remarks widely reported in Arab media, Calderoli explained that “the gesture was a matter of a ‘battle for freedom.’” The minister said: “When they (the cartoon rioters) recognize our rights, I’ll take off the shirt.”
Unfortunately — and not just for the Italian minister — Calderoli’s boss, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, didn’t recognize those rights. One day after the Benghazi rioting, Calderoli resigned, a politi-cal collapse indicative of Western tendencies to renounce rights that conflict with Islamic law (Shariah).
2- The anti-Gadhafi, anti-West-ern forces that NATO power has brought to apparent victory through an air war and not-so-secret deployment of special forces (so far costing U.S. taxpayers $1 bil-lion) include jihadist forces the U.S. and NATO allies have been fight-ing for the past decade in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Captured al-Qaida documents
analyzed at West Point reveal that not only did Libya send far more recruits per capita to fight with al-Qaida in Iraq than any other nation (including Saudi Arabia), but also that the “rebel” stronghold of Darnah sent more recruits per capita than any other city. Bonus info: 85 percent of Libyan recruits in Iraq listed their “work” as “suicide bombers.”
This Libyan surge, the report explains, may have been due to the “increasingly cooperative relation-ship” with al-Qaida of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. What is the LIFG? Designated a terrorist organization by the United States in 2004, the LIFG is a prominent faction among anti-Gadhafi forces
today. Little wonder the Los Ange-les Times discovered there are “at least 20 former Islamic militant leaders in battlefield roles” in Libya.
These include LIFG leader Abdel-hakim Belhaj, described in recent days as the rebel commander in Tripoli. Another rebel leader and LIFG member, Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda bin Qumu, is also an ex-Gitmo detainee, as The New York Times has pointed out. And another rebel leader, Abdul Hakim al-Hasadi, as John Rosenthal has reported, admitted to Italian media earlier this year not only to “fight-ing against U.S. troops in Afghani-stan, but also to recruiting Libyans to fight against American forces in Iraq.” Some of those same recruits “have come back and today are on the front at Ajdabiya,” al-Hasadi explained, referring to a northeast-ern Libyan town. “They are patri-ots and good Muslims, not terror-ists. The members of al-Qaida are also good Muslims and are fight-ing against the invader,” al-Hasadi added.
3- The draft constitution of the anti-Gadhafi forces cites “Sha-riah” as the “principal source of legislation.”
Shariah is Islamic law, the basis
of conquest or control of non-Muslims, conscience, speech and other Western-style liberties. Not too surprisingly, rebel spokes-man Mustafa Abdul Jalil, former Libyan justice minister, sports a “zabibah,” the forehead bruise of fanatical adherence to Islamic law. He also has animus toward Israel on the brain. WikiLeaks tells us, as Andrew Bostom has reported: “In the course of the discussion of the Criminal Code (with U.S. Ambas-sador Gene A. Cretz in 2010), Abdul Jalil abruptly changed the sub-ject from freedom of speech to the ‘Libyan people’s concern about the U.S. government’s support for Israel.’” In 1998, Abdul Jalil gro-tesquely sentenced six Bulgarian nurses to death in a notorious show trial.
Such is the man touted as one of the powers-to-be in post-Gadhafi Libya, which U.S. government offi-cials, such as Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman, promise will be “moderate,” “modern” and “sec-ular.” But don’t laugh too hard. The joke is on us.
•Diana West can be contacted at [email protected]
Libyan rebels nothing more than a rogue gallery
DIANAWEST
The draft constitution of the anti-Gadhafi forces cites “Sha-
riah” as the “principal source of legislation.”
LibyaGood riddance to Col. Moam-
mar Gadhafi, the Libyan dicta-tor who oppressed his people for 42 years while fostering terror-ism abroad. As President Barack Obama said Monday from Mar-tha’s Vineyard, the situation in the Libyan capital of Tripoli remained “fluid,” but that “the Gadhafi regime is coming to an end, and the future of Libya is in the hands of its people ... From Benghazi to Misurata to the Western Mountains, the Libyan opposition courageously con-fronted the regime, and the tide turned in their favor.”
He said directly to the people of Libya, “Your revolution is your own, and your sacrifices have been extraordinary. Now, the Libya you deserve is within your reach.”
And that’s the problem.We have no idea yet whether
the future in Libya more resem-bles the relatively bright pros-pects in Egypt and Tunisia after the “Arab Spring” uprisings toppled longtime dictators — or whether it will be a years-long disaster with tribal fighting, kill-ings and bombings, as was the case in Iraq, even after dictator
Saddam Hussein’s statue was pulled down and he was cap-tured, tried and hanged.
It’s worth remembering that Obama started the air war against Gadhafi without even a nod of approval from Congress. America’s most recent declared war was World War II, which ended 66 years ago. But even the wars since — such as those in Korea and Vietnam, the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War and the ongo-ing Iraq war — at least were started after Congress approved the use of force. Obama’s excuse was that the Libyan war was really a “kinetic military action,” in the words of his deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes.
Moreover, when the attack on Libya began in March, Obama promised it would only be to pre-vent Gadhafi from committing massacres on rebels in the coun-try’s Benghazi area, and that the attacks would last “days, not weeks.” Yet the “mission creep” now has lasted five months, with NATO — primarily U.S. forces — effectively acting as the rebels’ financiers and air force. The war reportedly cost American taxpay-
ers about $100 million a day, or $15 billion.
Christopher Preble, the vice president for defense and for-eign policy studies at the liber-tarian Cato Institute, said we still don’t know if Gadhafi had planned massacres in Benghazi or whether that was U.S. propa-ganda. And we don’t know how many civilians have been killed in the rebels’ march to power.
It’s also troubling that just last month, the rebels killed their own top general, Abdul Fattah Younis, reportedly because he wasn’t radical enough. “The deaths spurred questions about Western plans to turn over vast sums of money to the rebels,” reported the Washington Post. That’s our tax money.
We hope the best for the Libyan people, who certainly deserve it. We hold out hope for enlight-ened leadership and liberty for Libyans. But it would have been better for them — and us — if we had allowed the Libyans to foment their own Arab Spring, however long it took, and firmly set their own course.
Where to go from here?
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National Guard sendsmore water to Ferriday
FERRIDAY, La. (AP) — The Louisiana National Guard said Tuesday that it has sent two additional convoys of trucks each hauling 14 additional water trailers and another water tanker to the town of Fer-riday to help combat the city’s severe water disruption.
Water is currently being pumped into the town’s water system, but it is believed that a problem is in the water lines going out to residents. Author-ities have said a combina-tion of decreased supply and increased demand related to heat and drought precipitated the problem.
The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emer-gency Preparedness said the town initially asked for 14 tanks to be placed at various locations, including a nurs-ing home, hospital and five schools. The rest would be
placed around town for resi-dents who need it.
Ferriday’s water operator on Aug. 18 issued a boil water advisory, which remains in effect.
Concordia Parish Emergency Operations Center Director Morris White said he expects to need all 28 trailers for up to 60 days or until the problem is resolved.
“When you run out of water, you run out of patience,” he said.
White said the process is up and running smoothly, with the trailers being checked and refilled every 24-to-36 hours from Vidalia’s water plant. Over the next few days, if the public is not using the water at a certain location, White said he would decide whether to move the trailers to another location that receives more use.
N.O. mayor sees 2nd marsh firein fly-over, declares emergency
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Tuesday he spotted a second marsh fire during a flight over one that has hazed the metro area with smoke for three days, and it was so close to a highway that he declared an emergency, allowing him to call out the Louisiana National Guard to help.
Four helicopters based in Hammond were at work Tues-day dropping water from 500-gallon baskets onto the fire and five based in Pineville would join them today, said
Brig. Gen. Glenn H. Curtis, director of the joint staff for the Louisiana National Guard.
Haze from the fire was reported as far west as the Baton Rouge metro area, the National Weather Service said. It expanded its smoke alert from New Orleans and six suburban parishes to 23 parishes, including towns 100 miles from New Orleans.
Landrieu said he does not know how the second fire began.
DaviD JacksON•The Vicksburg PosT
Mayor Paul Winfield puts a little pepper on city clerk Walter Osborne’s salad during the second annual Celebrity Waiter event at Ameristar Casino’s Bourbon’s restaurant Tuesday night. Lori Burke, public relations manager of Ameristar in Vicksburg, said the casino donated the food and space and
the waiters sold tickets and earned tips. The event raised $17,092, about $3,000 more than last year, for the American Cancer Society. Seated across from Osborne is city attorney Lee Davis Thames.
Celebrity Waiter
Scientists get $112M to study Gulf after BP spillNEW ORLEANS (AP) —
A science board overseeing $500 million in funds BP set aside to study the company’s catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has awarded $112 million to independent researchers.
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative awarded the money
Tuesday. The funds have been split up for eight research proj-ects, each one led by a univer-sity based in a Gulf state.
Those universities are: the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University at Col-lege Station, Florida State Uni-versity, the Louisiana Univer-sities Marine Consortium, the
University of South Florida, the University of Miami, Tulane University and the University of Mississippi.
The science board said researchers will look at the fate of petroleum in the environ-ment, come up with new tools and technology for dealing with future spills and improv-
ing methods for restorting the ecosystem damaged by the spill, the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.
BP set aside $500 million to fund 10 years of independent research into the spill, which was caused when the Deepwa-ter Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010.
appeals court weighs prison ban on newspaperNEW ORLEANS (AP)
— Louisiana state pris-ons should be allowed to ban inmates from receiving copies of a newspaper pub-lished by the Nation of Islam because its contents pose a security risk, a lawyer for the state argued Tuesday before a federal appeals court.
The state wants the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to
overturn a federal judge’s ruling that the David Wade Correctional Center must deliver copies of The Final Call newspaper to Henry Leonard, a convicted mur-derer who claimed the Homer prison violated his right to free exercise of religion.
Kyle Duncan, appellate chief for Attorney General James “Buddy” Caldwell’s
office, said the newspaper contains racist rhetoric that could provoke an outbreak of violence.
The American Civil Lib-erties Union of Louisiana, which sued on Leonard’s behalf in 2007, says banning The Final Call from prisons is unconstitutional and has no connection to preventing violence.
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East Coastfaces flooddangers after Irene
NEWFANE, Vt. (AP) — As emergency airlift operations brought ready-to-eat meals and water to Vermont resi-dents left isolated and desper-ate, states along the Eastern Seaboard continued to be bat-tered by the after effects of Irene, the destructive hurri-cane turned tropical storm.
Dangerously damaged infra-structure, 2.5 million people without power and thousands of water-logged homes and businesses continued to over-shadow the lives of residents and officials from North Car-olina through New England, where the storm has been blamed for at least 44 deaths in 13 states.
But new dangers devel-oped in New Jersey and Con-necticut, where once benign rivers rose menacingly high. New Jersey ordered new evacuations.
The Passaic River in north-eastern New Jersey crested Tuesday — causing extensive flooding along its course and forcing a round of evacuations and rescues in Paterson, the state’s third-largest city.
“Been in Paterson all my life, I’m 62 years old, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” said resident Gloria Moses as she gathered with others at the edge of what used to be a net-
work of streets, now covered by a lake.
Flooding continued to besiege Paterson, Little Falls and Montville Township, even after the state’s rain-swollen rivers crested and receded.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Chris-tie, after touring Wayne, said Tuesday night he saw “just extraordinary despair.”
The Connecticut River was 23 feet above flood stage on Tuesday afternoon and still rising. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy toured hard-hit coastal areas — including a peninsula in Fairfield that was lined with heavily damaged homes on Long Island Sound.
Communities on the East Coast continued recovery efforts Tuesday, with people moving out of emergency
shelters in western Massachu-setts, farmers in New York’s battered Schoharie Valley assessing crop losses and an insurance agent in Paw-tucket, R.I., fielding dozens of calls from customers making damage claims.
“The majority of the claims are trees down,” said Melanie Loiselle-Mongeon.
Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency administra-tor Craig Fugate said a draw-down in assistance funds will have no negative impact on the agency’s efforts to help stricken Eastern Seaboard states. The agency has less than $800 million left in its disaster coffers.
“We’re going to do what we’re supposed to do,” he said this morning.
Tropical stormstrengthening
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Katia is getting stronger in the mid-Atlantic and could become a hurricane later in the day.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm is still far out to sea and it’s too early to say if it will threaten any land area.
Katia’s maximum sustained winds were near 65 mph early today, short of the hur-ricane threshold of 74 mph. It’s expected to keep strengthening and could become a major hurricane this weekend.
Katia is centered about 985 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands and moving west-northwest near 21 mph.
The storm’s name replaces Katrina in the rotating storm roster because of the catastrophic damage from the 2005 storm that devastated New Orleans and the Coast.
The associaTed press
Pine Island, N.Y., residents paddle along a flooded road Tuesday.
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Q: How can I get the rest of my money out of an annu-ity? I haven’t paid surrender fees for years. My insurance broker has a deaf ear every time I bring it up. — R.K., via e-mail
A: Unhappily, I know of no way you can accelerate with-
draw-ing your money from the annuity without paying a very serious surren-der fee. This is
one of the reasons many of us have counseled against many types of variable annui-ties. While the insurance guys
(who made a very comfortable commission) selling them will tell you how wonderful the tax advantages and returns are, they don’t always share with you that, in many cases, you have to wait as long as seven years before you can get to your principal without being hit with a penalty. This is a contract and has to be lived up to by both sides. There has been, in the past, litigation by government officials to force companies to accelerate the surrender. I doubt seriously that you’re going to find prec-edent that will allow you to make these withdrawals with-out considerable expense.
•Bruce Williams writes for Newspaper Enterprise Association. E-mail him at [email protected].
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Rise in factory orderspushes stocks higher
NEW YORK — Stocks rose today, capping a wild month in the stock market, after a surge in factory orders reas-sured investors that the man-ufacturing industry remains healthy.
Factory orders rose 2.4 percent in July, the biggest increase since March. Demand for automobiles jumped by the largest amount in eight years and orders for commercial air-planes soared. Manufacturing has been one of the strongest parts of the economy since the recession ended about two years ago.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 143 points, or 1.2 percent, to 11,703. The Dow turned positive for the year, and has risen seven of the last eight days. Aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. rose 4.3 percent, the most of the 30 companies that make up the Dow average.
Joy Global rose 5.1 percent after the mining equipment maker said its earnings rose 46 percent because of strong global demand for commodi-ties like copper and coal.
That helped to push up other stocks in the mining and commodities industry. Mining operator Cliffs Natu-ral Resources Inc. rose 3.2 per-cent and equipment giant Cat-erpillar Inc. rose 2.4 percent.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 16, or 1.4 percent, to 1,229. The Nasdaq composite index rose 34, or 1.3 percent, to 2,610.
AT&T pledges to bring5,000 jobs to U.S.
WASHINGTON — AT&T Inc. is pledging to bring 5,000
wireless call center jobs, cur-rently based abroad, back to the U.S. if it is allowed to proceed with its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA.
The company is also prom-ising that the merger would not result in any job losses for AT&T and T-Mobile USA wireless call center employ-ees who are on the payroll in the U.S. when the deal closes.
AT&T’s commitment to repatriate jobs comes as antitrust regulators at the Federal Communications Commission and the Jus-tice Department ramp up their reviews of a combina-tion that is certain to reshape the wireless industry’s landscape.
AT&T, the nation’s sec-ond-largest wireless car-rier, is seeking government approval to buy T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest, from Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG. The cash-and-stock transaction would catapult AT&T past Veri-zon Wireless to become the nation’s largest wireless pro-vider, and leave Sprint Nextel Corp. as a distant number three.
Although AT&T said it has not yet determined where the new U.S.-based jobs would be located, it prom-ised they would offer “highly competitive wages and bene-fits.” The company hopes this message will carry weight in Washington, where job cre-ation is a top priority for the Obama administration.
BuSInESSBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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TONIGHT
Mostly clear tonight, lows in the lower 70s; sunny
Thursday, slight chance of rain, highs in the upper 90s
72°
PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST
BARBIE BASSSETTTHuRSdAy
98°
WEATHERThis weather package is compiled from historical records and information
provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the
City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.
LOCAL FORECASTThursday-FridayMostly clear Thursday night, slight chance of
showers, lows in the lower 70s; sunny Friday, slight
chance of rain, highs in the mid- to upper 90s
STATE FORECASTTONiGhT
Mostly clear, lows in the lower 70s
Thursday-FridayMostly clear Thursday night, slight chance of
showers, lows in the lower 70s; sunny Friday, slight
chance of rain, highs in the mid- to upper 90s
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High/past 24 hours............. 99ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 69ºAverage temperature ........ 84ºNormal this date .................. 80ºRecord low .............58º in 1915Record high ........ 106º in 2000
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Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ................0.0 inchThis month .............1.45 inchesTotal/year ............. 23.78 inchesNormal/month .....3.06 inchesNormal/year ....... 36.50 inches
sOLuNar TabLeMost active times for fish
and wildlife Thursday:A.M. Active ........................... 8:27A.M. Most active ................ 2:13P.M. Active ............................ 8:55P.M. Most active ................. 2:41
suNrise/suNseTSunset today ....................... 7:30Sunset tomorrow .............. 7:28Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:37
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Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg
Current: 18.0 | Change: -0.3Flood: 43 feet
Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 17.2 | Change: -0.1
Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City
Current: 12.8 | Change: -0.2Flood: 29 feet
Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 16.2 | Change: -0.1
Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West
Current: 2.2 | Change: NCFlood: 12 feet
Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 6.5 | Change: -0.1
Flood: 28 feet
sTeeLe bayOuLand ...................................69.2River ...................................64.9
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Cairo, Ill.Thursday ............................... 23.1Friday ...................................... 22.9Saturday ................................ 22.7
MemphisThursday ..................................7.7Friday .........................................7.6Saturday ...................................7.5
GreenvilleThursday ............................... 23.9Friday ...................................... 23.8Saturday ................................ 23.7
VicksburgThursday ............................... 18.2Friday ...................................... 18.3Saturday ................................ 18.2
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on the sun-splashed ground, along with about 50 stu-dents from St. Francis Xavier Elementary.
Each of the nearly 2,000 students went home with a brand-new Vicksburg quar-ter courtesy of the U.S. Mint. “We do that because educa-tion is an important mission of the mint,” said spokesman Jana Prewitt.
About 400 others, includ-ing state Sen. Briggs Hopson, R-Vicksburg, Mayor Paul Winfield and many mem-bers of city and county law enforcement attended the event at the USS Cairo exhibit and museum at the Vicksburg National Mili-
tary Park. Coin collectors from Vicksburg and as far away as Texas and California attended.
The Vicksburg quarter depicts the Cairo, a Union ironclad gunboat, as it would have appeared steaming on the Yazoo River Dec. 12, 1862, before being sunk by Confed-erate torpedoes.
The coin, of which 64 mil-lion will be minted, is the ninth in the U.S. Mint’s series of 56 America the Beauti-ful quarters which honor national parks and signifi-cant sites in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and five territories.
“America the Beautiful
quarters are a standing invi-tation for all Americans to come along on a journey to each national site,” Al Run-nels, U.S. Mint chief of staff, told the crowd. “Today’s launch starts the journey of the Vicksburg National Mili-tary Park quarters as they pass from American hand to American hand, connecting America through coins.”
VNMP Superintendent Mike Madell said he was delighted that Vicksburg had been chosen to represent Mississippi on the coin.
“This recognition adds yet another chapter to the already rich history of this gunboat and the city of
Vicksburg,” Madell told the crowd.
Sam Andrews, 16, a 10th-grader at St. Aloysius High School and junior ranger at the park for the last three summers, was chosen to por-tray George Yost, who was a 1st Class Boy on the Cairo the night it was sank. Yost managed to save some of his clothes and his diary, from which Sam read.
After, Sam said he was hon-ored to have been chosen to represent a member of the Cairo’s crew and celebrate the VNMP,
“In addition to the history of this place, there’s the scen-ery, the wildlife, things I’ve
been able to photograph,” said Sam, a part-time pho-tographer and a contributor to at least two books as well as local cultural and athletic events. “Ever since I was able to walk, my parents have brought me to the park. I’ve grown up around the park, so I guess there’s no place I’d rather be.”
Officials from Trustmark Bank had 5,000 rolls of the Vicksburg quarter available for sale following the cer-emony. Any coins not sold Tuesday will be available at the downtown branch at Clay and Washington streets.
tial terror threats to the U.S. and ways to increase security in their communities. The briefings are routine, and security has been enhanced for other major events in the past decade. But the signifi-cance of the 10-year anni-versary of the worst terror attacks on U.S. soil is not lost on security officials.
“It’s been a long buildup as we approach the anni-versary of 9/11,” said Sean Duggan, assistant chief at the Scottsdale, Ariz., Police Department. Duggan said his department gets daily updates from the FBI and Homeland Security Depart-ment. But, the focus has been on the 10th anniversary of the terror hijackings.
“We know this is a signifi-cant date,” Duggan said.
Events are planned around the country to commemorate the nearly 3,000 people killed in the 2001 attacks.
“While there is currently no specific or credible threat, appropriate and prudent security measures are ready to detect and prevent plots
against the United States should they emerge,” Home-land Security Department spokesman Matt Chandler said.
“The risk that we’re espe-cially concerned over right now is the lone-wolf terror-ist, somebody with a single weapon being able to carry out wide-scale massacres of the sort that we saw in Norway recently,” Presi-
dent Barack Obama said this month.
In July, 69 people at a youth camp in Norway were shot to death. Authorities said a white supremacist carried out the attack with the pur-pose of saving Norway and the rest of Europe from Mus-lims and multiculturalism.
“When you’ve got one person who is deranged or driven by a hateful ideology,
they can do a lot of damage, and it’s a lot harder to trace those lone-wolf operators,” Obama said.
Some of the first informa-tion gleaned from Osama bin Laden’s compound after he was killed in May indicated that, as recently as Febru-ary 2010, al-Qaida consid-ered plans to attack the U.S. on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. But counter-
terrorism officials said they believe the planning never got beyond the initial phase and had no recent intelli-gence pointing to a plot.
One idea outlined in hand-written notes pulled from bin Laden’s Pakistani hide-out was to tamper with an unspecified U.S. rail track so that a train would fall off the track at a valley or a bridge, according to a joint FBI and Homeland Security Depart-ment bulletin to law enforce-ment officials around the country. Al-Qaida planners noted that if they attacked a train by tilting it, the plan would only succeed once because the tilting would be spotted the next time.
Even before the raid, intelli-gence officials for years have warned that al-Qaida is inter-ested in attacking major U.S. cities on significant dates.
White House spokesman Clark Stevens, asked about the briefings, said the presi-dent’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, has had senior-level meetings over the past four months about threats to the U.S. and appro-priate responses leading up to the anniversary.
Betty Tritz StarnesBetty Tritz Starnes died
Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, at her daughter’s residence in Bran-don. She was 86.
Born in New Orleans, Mrs. Starnes was the daughter of the late Cesar A. Tritz and Mary Anna Scofield Tritz. She was a graduate of McDonald High School in New Orleans.
A longtime resident of Vicksburg, Mrs. Starnes was a retired employee of the Vicksburg Tax Assessor and Collector’s Office. She was a member of Porters Chapel United Methodist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband of 59 years, John Wesley Starnes Sr.; a brother, Grant Tritz; and a sister, Dor-othy E. Ritter.
She is survived by her son, John Wesley Starnes Jr. of Vicksburg; her daughter, Betty Starnes Ward (James) of Brandon; four grand-children, Karen Winstead, Melissa Jean Starnes, Mary McCollum and Chris McCo-llum; and four great-grand-children, Stephanie Win-stead, Damien Jefferson, Akira Jefferson and Deja Jefferson.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Riles Funeral Home with the Rev. Raggy Ragsdale, pastor of Porters Chapel United Methodist
Church, officiating. Burial will be at the Shelton Cem-etery in Copiah County. Visi-tation will be from 9 a.m. Thursday until the service.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. John Clark Williams, members of the Harper Sunday School Class and members of the Cursillo.
Memorials may be made to the Porters Chapel United Methodist Church Choir, 200 Porters Chapel Road, Vicks-burg, MS 39180.
Lether StokesUTICA — Lether Stokes of
Utica died Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland. She was 95.
Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Eugene WhitePORT GIBSON — Eugene
White died Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, at River Region Medical Center. He was 69.
Mr. White was preceded in death by his parents, Ollie and Eugene White.
He is survived by two sons, Marvin Banks of Col-lege Park, Ga., and Eugene White of Milwaukee, Wis.; three daughters, Kimberly Slaughter and Donna Hen-derson, both of Chicago, and Clora O’Quinn of Herman-ville; four brothers, the Rev. Odell White of Chicago, and
Danny White, Larry White and Willie White, all of Flint, Mich.; three sisters, Odessa Smith of Walls, Ethel Mae Myles of Hermanville and Mary J. White of Detroit; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends, including employees of Patient’s Choice Senior Care.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Mountro Grove Bap-tist Church in Hermanville with the Rev. Percy Terrell officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery under the direction of Thompson Funeral Home of Port Gibson. Visitation will be at the church from 1 p.m. until the service.
included:• Advance Auto Parts, 2201
Clay St., on outstanding 2010 taxes totaling $9,010.
• American Specialty Inc., 650 U.S. 80, on outstanding 2010 taxes totaling $1,704.47.
• Animal Medical Clinic, 100 Thalweg Drive, on out-standing 2010 taxes totaling $29,103.63.
• A L Tanner Jewelers and Gifts, 3425 Pemberton Square Blvd., on outstand-ing 2010 taxes totaling $14,738.55.
• Big Wheelie, 1729 N. Front-age Road, on outstanding
2010 taxes totaling $7,111.80.• Vacant space at 1222 Wash-
ington St., last occupied by the Mississippi Department of Corrections and owned by Pete Buford, on out-standing 2010 taxes totaling $4,610.53.
• Vacant space at 1418 Wash-ington St., part of the former Ware House enter-tainment complex owned by Fourteen Eighteen LLC, on outstanding 2010 taxes totaling $2,696.96. Six addi-tional parcels once part of the complex owned by MR Development LLC also
received bids on 2010 tax bills totaling $33,701.54.Two other downtown par-
cels on Washington Street, at 1100 and 1106, owned by Floweree LP. They received bids on 2010 taxes equal-ing $2,014.51 and $7,113.37, respectively. The buildings house Monsour’s Restau-rants, Tyler Printing & Com-puter Service, Fabs & More, and various rental space.• Country Junction and Pig
Willie’s, both at 5895 U.S. 61 North, on outstanding 2010 taxes totaling $1,700.07 on two parcels.
• Fast Lane No. 20, 4300 Halls Ferry Road, owned by Hill City Oil. Outstanding 2010 taxes totaled $5,077.01.
• A vacant lot at 1305 Harri-son St., which lists former New Orleans Saints wide receiver Joe Horn as the owner. The bill for 2010 totaled $88.02 and was sold to the state the past two years.
• LD’s Kitchen, 1111 Mul-berry St., on outstanding 2010 taxes totaling $1,720.
• 803 Main St., which houses a Mississippi Department of Health WIC Food Center,
owned by Jawco Inc. The bill for 2010 totaled $2,860.06
• Scottish Inn, 3955 Clay St., on outstanding 2010 taxes totaling $19,093,90.
• Specialty Elastomer Recov-ery Inc., 1000 Rubber Way, on outstanding 2010 taxes totaling $12,011.33. The complex was sold to the state the past two years.
• U.S. Rubber Reclaiming, 2000 Rubber Way, on out-standing 2010 taxes totaling $22,881.57. The complex was sold to the state the past two years.
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Judge strikes down key parts of Texas sonogram lawAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A fed-
eral judge on Tuesday blocked key provisions of Texas’ new law requiring a doctor to per-form a sonogram before an abortion, ruling the measure violates the free speech rights of both doctors and patients.
U.S. District Judge Sam
Sparks upheld the requirement that sonograms be performed, but struck down the provisions requiring doctors to describe the images to their patients and requiring women to hear the descriptions.
The law made exceptions for women who were willing to sign
statements saying they were pregnant as a result of rape or incest or that their fetus had an irreversible abnormality. Sparks questioned whether the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature was trying to “per-manently brand” women who are victims of sexual assault.
War spendingriddled with waste, fraud,panel finds
WASHINGTON (AP) — As much as $60 billion in U.S. tax dollars has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade due to lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and corrup-tion, according to an inde-pendent panel.
In its final report to Congress, to be publicly released today, the Com-mission on Wartime Con-tracting said the waste could grow as U.S. support for reconstruction projects and programs wanes, leav-ing Iraq and Afghanistan to bear the long-term costs of sustaining the schools, medical clinics, barracks, roads and power plants already built with Ameri-can money.
Government agencies should overhaul the way they award and manage contracts in war zones so they don’t repeat the mis-takes made in Iraq and Afghanistan, the com-mission said. Among the report’s 15 recommen-dations are the creation of an inspector general to monitor contracting and the appointment of a senior government official to improve planning and coordination.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the com-mission’s 240-page report in advance of its public release. The commission was established by Con-gress in 2008 and ceases operating at the end of September.
Overall, the commission said spending on contracts and grants to support U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to exceed $206 billion by the end of the 2011 budget year. Based on its investigation, the commission said con-tracting waste in Afghan-istan ranged from 10 per-cent to 20 percent of the $206 billion total. Fraud during the same period ran between 5 percent and 9 percent of the total, the report said.
Styled after the Truman Committee, which exam-ined World War II spend-ing six decades ago, the commission was vested with broad authority to examine military support contracts, reconstruction projects and private secu-rity companies. But the law creating the commission also dictated that it would cease operating at the end of September 2011, even as the U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to be heavily supported by contractors.
Libyans celebrate holiday,mourn victims of uprising
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Liby-ans wept today over the graves of those killed in their six-month war against Moammar Gadhafi, then celebrated their newfound freedom with morn-ing prayers and joyous chants in the capital’s main square — bittersweet rit-uals marking the start of a major Muslim holiday.
Men in their holiday finest — white robes a n d g o l d -striped vests — knelt in neat prayer rows in Martyrs’ Square, the plaza formerly k n o w n a s Green Square, where Gadhafi supporters massed nightly during the uprising.
Women in black robes ulu-lated, rebel fighters fired guns in the air and people burst into spontaneous chants of “Hold your head high, Libya is free!”
In one corner, five rebel fight-ers formed a reception line, like at a wedding, and civil-ians walked up to them, shak-ing their hands in gratitude. In another area of the square, people crowded around a thick metal pole decorated with polit-ical cartoons, one depicting Gadhafi as a pig and another
as a monster on a psychiatrist’s couch.
Adel Taghdi, 47, choked back tears as watched the festivi-ties. Having spent long years in Canada, he said he had felt no sense of belonging when he saw Gadhafi’s green flag. Now,
he said, he is proud of Lib-yans and his country.
“ I n e v e r felt that way before,” said Taghdi, who owns a tile shop in the capital. “We just want to live free.”
Today marked the start of the three-day holi-day of Eid el-Fitr, which caps the holy fasting month of Rama-dan. The start
of the holiday is determined by the sighting of a new moon, and several countries in the Arab world started marking the holiday Tuesday. Morning visits to cemeteries are part of the Eid el-Fitr tradition across the region.
At Tripoli’s Bin-Shir cemetery, dozens of concrete graves had been poured for those killed in the uprising against Gadhafi, particularly the bloody week of battles for control of Tripoli that began when rebel fighters entered Aug. 20.
Syrian security carries out raids, arrestsBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian secu-
rity forces searching for anti-government protesters raided houses in central Syria and made arrests, activists and res-idents said today.
The troops, backed by tanks and military vehicles, entered districts in Homs and Hama as part of efforts to crush five months of street protests against President Bashar Assad.
Today’s raids come a day after security forces killed seven people as thousands of protest-ers poured out of mosques and marched through cemeteries at the start of Eid al-Fitr, a holi-day when Muslims tradition-
ally visit graves and pray for the dead.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 473 people were killed during Ramadan, including 360 civilians and 113 members of the Syrian military and secu-rity forces. Among those killed, 25 were under 18 years of age, it said.
Twenty-eight others died under torture or in detention during the holy month, the group said.
The Local Coordination Com-mittees activist network said security forces today set on fire the homes of two activists in Houla, in the Homs province.
People demonstrate against Moammar Gadhafi Tuesday at the Green Square in Tripoli, Libya.
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Rituals mark beginning of Eid el-Fitr
Women in black
robes ululated,
rebel fighters
fired guns in
the air and people burst into spontaneous chants of ‘Hold your head high,
Libya is free!’
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We welcome items for Bulletin Board. Submit items by e-mail ([email protected]), postal service (P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182), fax (634-0897), or delivered in person to 1601-F N. Frontage Road by Monday for publication Wednesday. Be sure to include your name and phone number.
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munity Center — Even Start Family Literacy Program accepting registrations for GED, ABE and ESL half-day classes; Andrea Hall or Phil-lip Williams, 601-636-7687, for more information.
• Warren Central High NJROTC — Booster meet-ing, 6 p.m. Sept. 13, NJROTC Building; Darnisha Ramsey-James, president, 601-618-0385.
• Hinds Community Col-lege Warren-Claiborne Alumni — Chapter golf tour-nament to benefit student scholarships; Sept. 21, Clear Creek Golf Course; tee-off, 1 p.m.; $75 per player or $300 per 4-man team; hole spon-sorships, $100 each; ham-burger dinner to follow; Abby Brann, 601-857-3350, or Kent Smith, 601-638-9395.
• Fall Dyslexia Confer-ence — Oct. 3, Mississippi College’s B.C. Rogers Stu-dent Center; open to educa-tors, parents and students; for more information, contact Mitti Bilbo, Dyslexia Edu-cation Center director, at [email protected] or 601-925-7649.
• Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium — Oct. 20-22, Mississippi University for Women in Columbus; author Judith Ortiz Cofer, keynote speaker at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 in Rent Auditorium; best-sell-ing author Sebastian Junger, guest speaker at Welty Gala, 7 p.m. Oct. 21 in Pope Ban-quet Room; tickets for gala available at different levels to benefit endowment for the Eudora Welty Chair in Humanities; MUW Office of Development, 662-329-7148, for more information.
• “Send My Teacher” Free Math and Science Camp — Weeklong professional devel-opment program focusing on math and science educa-tion open to teachers of third through fifth grades; stu-dents or parents may nomi-nate a teacher, who must apply online at www.Send-MyTeacher.com; sponsored by champion golfer Phil and Amy Mickelson and Exxon-Mobil; deadline for nomina-tions is Oct. 31.
• FitZone Elite Cheer Fall Schedule — Mondays: 4:15-5:15 p.m. for ages 4-8; 5:15-6:15 for 9 and older; and 6:15-7:15 for advanced students 7 and older; Tuesdays: 4:15-5:15 for 9 and older; 5:15-6:15 for ages 4-8; Thursdays: 5:15-6:15 for 9 and older; fees: $50 per month, $25 registration fee for new members; Liz Curtis, 601-638-3778 or www.fitzon-egym.com.
• Mississippi Youth Sym-phony Orchestra — Fall season auditions for instru-mentalists ages 6 to 22; Sept. 10, F.D. Hall Music Center at Jackson State University; contact Sedrick Lilley, MYSO president, at [email protected] or 601-983-7380 for more information.
• National Online Teacher of the Year for K-12 — Applications being accepted from superintendents, prin-cipals, department chairs or any teacher supervi-sors; nominations may be made at www.nationalon-lineteacher.org and will close Oct. 17; three finalists earn trip to Symposium on Vir-tual Teaching and Learn-ing in Atlanta; winner to be announced March 1.
USM aims for new polymer sciences programDegree with engineering aspect would be first in state, president saysFrom staff and AP reports
HATTIESBURG — The Uni-versity of Southern Mississippi is hoping to get approval for a new undergraduate degree program in polymer sciences engineering.
USM president Martha Saun-ders said that if the state college board signs off on the program, the university will have the only
polymer sciences engineering major in the state.
Saunders said the Accredita-tion Board for Engineering and Technology would be the recog-nized accreditor. The proposal will go before the state college board for approval in November.
USM’s highly rated School of Polymers and High Performance Materials currently offers gradu-
ate degrees in polymer science and engineering as well as an undergraduate polymer science degree without the engineering aspect.
The School of Polymers and High Performance Materials is part of the College of Science and Technology, the second larg-est college in the USM system. It consists of 13 degree-grant-
ing schools and departments and enrolls about 3,000 students, USM’s website says. It is served by about 200 full-time faculty members.
In fiscal year 2010, the budget of the College of Science and Technology was more than $60 million and it received more than $46 million in grants and con-tracts, the website said.
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Madison Tanner, 6, above right,
and Christina Waisner, 7, at
right, laugh as they play vol-
leyball at FitZone. The youth
gym, located in Dixie Plaza on
South Frontage Road, offers
classes including cheering
and tumbling and open
gym. Call 601-638-3778
or www.fitzonegym.com.
Behind Madison is sister
Katie, 7. Behind Chris-
tina is brother, Jacob, 10.
Madison and Katie are
the daughters of Krista
and Wayne Tanner.
Christina and Jacob
are the children of
Scott Waisner and
Eileen Glynn.
Kids just wanna have fun
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School’s out forever for nontraditional ‘unschoolers’By The Associated Press
School’s never out for 14-year-old Zoe Bentley. Nor is it ever in.
The perky teen from Tucson, Ariz., explores what she likes, when she likes as deeply as she chooses every day of the year. As an “unschooler,” Zoe is unteth-ered from the demands of traditional, compulsory education.
That means, at the moment, she’s checking out the redwoods of California with her family, tinkering
with her website and look-ing forward to making her next video on her favor-ite subject, exogeology, the study of geology on other planets.
“I love seeing the history of an area,” Zoe said. “Maybe a volcano erupted and grew taller over time, or wind eroded rock into sand dunes, or a meteor hit the ground and made a crater. Find-ing out how these and other formations formed is some-thing I just really like.”
Zoe’s cheer: “Exogeology rocks!”
Unschooling has been around for several decades, but advocates say there has been an uptick as more fami-lies turn to homeschooling overall.
Reliable data is hard to come by, but estimates of children and teens home-schooled in the U.S. range from 1.5 million to 2 million. Of those, as many as one-third could be considered unschoolers like Zoe, mean-ing their parents are “facili-tators,” available with mate-rials and other resources, rather than “teachers.”
There’s no fixed curricu-lum, course schedule or attempt to mimic tradi-tional classrooms. Unless, of course, their children ask for those things.
Zoe, for instance, wanted to know more about geol-ogy once she turned 12, so she signed up for a class at Pima Community College. “I had to take a placement test, which was the first test I’d ever taken,” she said. “It was surprisingly easy.”
She has since taken several other college classes, includ-ing astrobiology, algebra
and chemistry. Maybe, Zoe said, “I’ll earn a degree, but the important thing to me is to learn what I need to and want to know. Everything else is a bonus.”
John Holt, considered the father of “unschooling,” would have been proud. The fifth-grade teacher died in 1985, leaving behind books and other reflections that include his 1964 work “How Children Fail.”
The book and others Holt later wrote propelled him
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school by schoolAgape Montessori
• Kim Carson’s toddler Montessori class made candy Cs and sponge-painted cat-erpillars as part of a study of the letter C. Emmy Beggs was named Student of the Week.
• Tina Sowell’s primary Montessori class excavated rocks and made a rock garden. They learned table manners and listening skills during practical life studies. Emily Baugher was named Student of the Week.
• As part of a study of God’s creation of the world, Kathy Abbott’s kindergarten class used chocolate pudding, Oreo cookies and gummy worms to make “creation” pudding.
• Kindergartners sprayed shaving cream into water and added food coloring as part of a study of mixing colors.
Bovina• “Giant” leaders for the
second week were the classes of Blaire McBride and Mysti Owen.
• Pledge leaders were De’Angelo Dixon, Cade Wal-ters, Antonio Henderson, Felesia Pecot, Christian Wil-liams, Shelby King, Dane-sha Burden, Desha Williams, Rosalynd Flowers and Mat-thew Watson.
• Top Accelerated Readers in Denice Poe’s third grade were Devin Parker, Aayana Chapman, Mary Beth Gordon and Bryce Holman. Tammy Sibley was a helper in the class.
• Natalie Edwards and Devon Luster were named Students of the Week in Shawn Lee’s second-grade class. Natalie Greer is leader in Bovina Bucks, rewards for good behavior that may be spent at the school.
Bowmar• Parent volunteers were
Natalie Elwart, Sherry Garmon and Ali Hopson.
• Nadia Andrews’ students had a pancake breakfast to go along with the story, “Nate the Great.”
• Michaela Dorsey has been named a member of the Vicksburg Swim Association.
• M.J. Dorsey was featured in the 2012 Central Missis-sippi Down’s Syndrome Soci-ety calendar.
Dana Road• Southern Pipe and Supply
Company donated 20 whisper phones to third grade.
• Ann Davis read to the pre-kindergarten class of Uretka Callon and Amanda Dunn. Jimmie and Paula Storey completed a pinwheel craft with the class. Trinity Calvin was named Student of the Week; she read to the pre-kindergarten class of Rachel Dean and Jennifer Funchess.
• Maggie Nasif read “Bis-cuit Goes to School” to the first-grade class of Faye Corson and Lolita Flow-ers and helped them make puppy puppets. Bess Aver-ett was a guest reader in the first-grade class of Mary Lindsey and Gwen Strong.
• Ann Davis was a guest reader in the kindergarten class of Starla Breazeale and Desiree Norris. After reading the books, the students acted out parts. After reading “The Giving Tree,” she dis-tributed leaves to each stu-dent to make a “leaf person.”
• Monday is a Labor Day holiday. Sept. 8 will be Jaguar Progress Report Night.
Hawkins• Pre-kindergarten classes
of Deborah Clanton and Sue VanDenAkker used gela-tin to make booklets after a study of the five senses. They made root beer floats and wrote names with shaving cream after a study of fizz and foam.
• Charlene Gravens’ 3-year-olds used Cheerios to count, painted donuts and read “What Is Round?”
• As part of a study of healthy snacks and nutri-tion, Ann Smith’s 2-year-olds colored apples, picked them from a tree and exercised to an apple song.
• Preschool T-shirts are available for $12.
Hinds Careerand Technical
• Marketing II students pre-pared and distributed United Way Campaign materials for all Hinds Community Col-lege faculty and staff as they organize a community ser-vice project on the Vicksburg Campus.
• All marketing students learned about the DECA organization by using Inter-net searches, the DECA Dimensions magazine and YouTube clips. Deadline for joining DECA is Sept. 8. Ice cream for new DECA mem-bers will be Tuesday; pay $20 dues in room 2.
• Meeting sales goals this week for the Shopping Extravaganza event at the Outlets at Vicksburg were Brittany Hearn and Mary Catherine Mullen; they were rewarded with Sonic drink coupons.
• Allied health and health science students participated in a health walk at the Vicks-burg National Military Park as a part of a study of body moves and balance.
• Early childhood classes began an internship with Beechwood classes. All classes are participating in Operation Christmas Child by collecting toys, healthcare items and educational mate-rials for underprivileged children.
Redwood • Pledge leaders for the
week were Myron Thomas, Austin West, Jerrod Bruce, Talor Belk, Jayce Chamb-liss, Shelby Barwick, Ernes-tine Chin, Jordan Cooper, Kenneth Darden and Anna Davidson.
• Those selected for Honor Choir following last week’s auditions were Hannah Ashley, Shelby Barwick, Ernestine Chin, Autumn Cochran, Carley Copelin, Caleb Curtis, Anna Davidson, Abi Davis, Baylee Etheridge, Kayla Hancock, Jalanda Harris, Hank Holdiness, Logan Hossley, Elizabeth Jordan, Brooklyn Lanford, Hannah May, Lexie McCool,
Bailey Mellina, D’Ariyous Moore, Katelyn Pettway, Peyton Pierce, Reann Ponder, Caetlyn Roy, Kashonda Shel-ton, Laken Stockstill, Josey Tatum, Madison Wade, Robert Wrighten, Lauren Whitaker and Carter White.
• First-grade classes of Linda Hughey, Angela Kurtz and Shonda Morson read “Yoko,” then ate sushi with chopsticks. Third-grade classes of Angela Grantham, Darlene Taylor and Belinda Watkins participated in a scavenger hunt after a study of following directions.
• T-shirts are on sale now through Friday; order forms were sent home last week.
• The annual Grandparent’s Day luncheon will be Sept. 9; reservations should be made today along with payment, $3 per adult. Tickets will be sent Sept. 7 to those who made reservations and must be presented at the time of arrival.
Sherman Avenue• Sally Owen’s kinder-
gartners made coconut tree headbands and edible snacks after reading “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.”
• Parents Antoinette Darden, Ashley Hoeft, Tamela Mayfield and Renée Styles served as volunteers in the library, Sara Harper’s first grade and Christy Mont-gomery’s science lab.
• The first PTO meeting of the schoolyear will begin at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the cafeteria.
• Parent and grandparent volunteers Wanda Calvin, Susanna Carr, Lisa Evans, Geri Grady, Pammy Hall, Ashley Hoeft, Tamela May-field, Tina Rowland and Renée Styles, along with Warren Central Intermediate sixth-graders DeKoree Free-man, Katie Greene, Aleah Parks and Alex Scott vol-unteered in the Dog Pound, the school’s Positive Behav-ior Intervention and Support reward store.
• Rebecca Lancaster’s stu-dents are creating art using shapes.
Vicksburg Catholic• Melissa Breithaupt,
registered nurse, spoke to Zena Phillips’ kinder-gartners about germs and handwashing.
• Steve Klonts spoke to stu-dents about the QSP maga-zine sale, which will continue through Sept. 9. Parent vol-unteer Adrienne Eckstein is coordinating the sale.
• Librarian Dinnie John-ston is leading students in the drawing of Fundreds, a fundraiser featuring original interpretations of $100 bills, to help support playground cleanup in New Orleans.
• Back-to-School Mass was celebrated with Bishop Joseph Latino, who gave a special blessing to students and the football team.
Vicksburg High• The deadline to apply
for the $500 Wendy’s High School Heisman scholarship, open to students who par-ticipate in at least one high school sport and maintain a B or higher average, is Oct. 2. Applications are available at www.wendysheisman.com or by calling 800-205-6367. Other scholarships available by applying online are from Kentucky Fried Chicken, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s; updates are made through Fast Web.
• Seniors may attend the Washington County College and Career Fair from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Oct. 7. Register through a counselor; dead-line is Sept. 23. No bus will be furnished.
VicksburgIntermediate
• Pledge leaders for the week were Dennis Cage, Gabriel Taylor, Jalen Dav-enport, Jakhala Brown and Malik Washington.
• Crystal Hardy’s class made imagery posters after reading “Edwin, The Dino-saur Who Didn’t Know She was Extinct.” Sixth-grade reading classes of Cassandra Ringo, Chandrea Williams and Lashonda Smith made tools of persuasion posters.
• Deidra Williams’ sci-ence classes made posters comparing plant and animal cells. Williams’ social studies classes used graphic organiz-ers to learn the five themes of geography. Dionne Smith’s sixth-grade science classes made booklets about classi-fying living things.
• Fourth- and fifth-graders attended the unveiling cere-mony of the new America the Beautiful Vicksburg quarter at the USS Cairo Museum.
• Students who made pro-ficient and advanced on the MCT2 test enjoyed a day of fun at Geyser Falls. Gator Math Night is 5:30-6:30 p.m. Sept. 8. Parents must attend with students; students who attend will receive a 100 daily grade in math.
Vicksburg Junior High• After a study of Maya,
Aztec and Inca civilizations, Chris Williams’ U.S. history classes constructed a totem pole and pyramids.
• Student Council President Marshal Banks and secre-tary Taylen Smith attended Positive Behavior Interven-tion and Support planning with faculty.
• Students who read and score at least an 80 on “Forged by Fire” and “Blind Side,” books for September, may wear jeans the following Friday.
• Best Dressed Days will be each Wednesday. Parents may call the school at 601-636-1966 with questions.
Warren Central High• Bruckner’s Photogra-
phy will take senior portrait orders in Foyer A during lunch Sept. 15. Students must have forms and money to place an order.
• Senior portrait retakes will be 11:20 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 15 and 11:20 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 16 in the WCHS auditorium. The $30 sitting fee includes a formal shot for the yearbook and two casual shots.
• Any senior who wants a picture in the 2011-2012 year-book must have his or her
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picture taken by Bruckner’s Photography. A sign-up schedule is posted outside room 400, and students may not miss class to take pictures. There will be no more opportuni-ties to have senior portraits taken for the yearbook.
• Monday will be a school holiday.• Students eligible for Beauty and Beau
Pageant must pay $30 entry fee by Friday to participate. The pageant will be Sept. 8.
Warren Junior High• Winners in the “Students are V.I.K.E.S —
Underage Drinking Can Take a Hike” poster and essay contest were Jamerica Dixon, first place; Nikirah Bridges, second place; and Gabrielle Terrett, third place.
• Students who earned Viking Vouchers were able to redeem them for prizes at the voucher store on Tuesday. Students may redeem their vouchers on the last Tuesday of each month or save them to redeem later for bigger prizes.
• Yearbooks for 2011-2012 are available for pre-order; cost is $30. Students may see Laura Bunch or Renee Channell, yearbook sponsors.
• Seventh-grade science students of Tean-drea Rowell, Thomas White and Alecia Shiers conducted a mass-and-volume exper-iment by growing gummy bears in cups.
• Balfour representatives distributed forms and display rings today. They will return on Sept. 7 to take orders.
Warrenton• Lindsay Hall’s kindergartners made AB
pattern necklaces from cereal. Fish feeders for the week were Inaja Walker and Morgan Bailey.
• Monica Wilson’s fifth-graders made shape poems after reading “Sees Behind Trees.”
• Amy Sullivan’s third-graders read mys-teries to learn about inferences and conclu-sions. They made a top secret detective case file.
• After a story featuring a Spanish char-acter, Heather Gordon’s third-graders ate Mexican food, learned Spanish phrases and wore a sombrero.
• Kat Hilderbrand’s second-graders attached characteristics of themselves to sil-houettes they created.
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into the spotlight as he argued that mainstream schools stymie the learn-ing process by fostering fear and forcing children to study things they have no inter-est in.
Colorado unschool mom Carol Brown couldn’t agree more.
“Being bored makes school miserable for a lot of kids, plus there is the element of compulsion, which com-pletely changes any activity,” the filmmaker said.
Brown and her husband unschooled their oldest daughter until she left for col-lege and their youngest until her junior year in high school, when she chose to attend Telluride Mountain School, a small, progressive school near home.
“Unschooling parents are doing what good parents do anyway when they’re on summer vacation,” Brown said. “We just had more time to do it.”
Like other unschoolers, Brown’s girls had books and films, art supplies and build-ing materials growing up. They visited beaches, muse-ums and forests. “There’s no one right way for every child to learn or grow up,” Brown said. “Freedom is essential for that reason.”
For Clark Aldrich’s 16-year-old son in Connecticut, that meant raising hens for his own business selling eggs.
“It’s a good way to learn about animals, commerce and economics as well as inventory,” Aldrich said.
Pat Farenga of Medford, Mass., unschooled his three daughters with his wife but said: “I don’t see unschool-ing or homeschooling as the answer for everybody. It’s the answer for those who choose it.”
Farenga, who worked with Holt, said Holt coined the term “unschooling” in 1977 but was never terribly fond of it. It stuck for lack of a better description. He consid-ers unschooling a subset of homeschooling, while some unschoolers see themselves
more akin to democratic free schools, a century-old move-ment based on a philosophy of self-directed learning and equality in decision-making.
As an educator, Holt’s jour-ney began with his career in posh private schools, then more progressive ones.
“He called progressive schools soft jails and public schools hard jails,” Farenga said. “He described learn-ing that takes place out-side of school, but doesn’t have to take place at home and doesn’t have to look like school learning.”
Rare, unschoolers said, are children who never find rea-sons to pick up the basics — and beyond. That could mean reading later than many par-ents might be comfortable with, or ignoring math until they see a reason on their own to use it.
Unschoolers operate under state laws governing home-schooling, which is legal in all 50 states. Such regula-tions vary tremendously by state, with some requiring standardized tests or adher-ence to a set curriculum and others nothing more than a letter from parents describ-ing what their kids are up to. Unschoolers said they have no trouble meeting their states’ requirements.
In Alaska, for example, homeschooling parents don’t have to notify officials, file any forms or have their chil-dren tested.
In Sugar Land, Texas, Elon Bomani’s 11-year-old son has never been to school and doesn’t know how to write cursive. She doesn’t care. When he was younger and had no interest in learn-ing how to read, she found a
video on the subject and put it on for him to discover — or ignore as he wished. He’s a reader today. Her younger son, who’s 6, learned to read when he discovered Garfield comic books.
“If children find something that they love, they’ll read,” Bomani said.
Ken Danford, a former middle school history teacher, has two kids who love their schools, but he doesn’t think classroom learning works for all. That’s why he co-founded and runs North Star, a pro-gram that offers an array of self-directed activities and welcomes teen unschoolers in Hadley, Mass.
Danford considers himself a Holt groupie, based largely on his experience as a dad and an eighth-grade teacher for five years.
“Coming to my class juiced
to learn U.S. history was not that common,” he said. “Kids wanted to know, was it going to be on the test, can we go outside, can we go to the bathroom?”
For parents interested in unschooling who don’t want to quit their outside-the-home jobs, “we try to make it avail-able, realistic, manageable for any regular kid,” Danford said.
Unschoolers have their own publications, message boards and websites, like Theun-schoolersemporium.com. The site’s owner, mom Sara McGrath near Seattle, blogs regularly about unschooling.
McGrath, who has three daughters, notes the approach is more than hands-on, child-directed, experience-based learning.
“It doesn’t describe a spe-cific alternative to school-
ing. It just gets schooling out of the way so various unique dynamic personal creative ways of growing up, living, participating and contrib-uting to communities can develop,” she writes.
To McGrath, unschooling means looking at life “as a creative adventure,” a coop-erative lifestyle involving the entire family.
Kellie Rolstad is an associ-ate professor of education and applied linguistics at Arizona State University in Tempe. She teaches a gradu-ate seminar on unschooling and free schools each spring. She also unschools her three children, ages 11, 13 and 14.
“School was really wast-ing our time,” she said. “The kids had so many things they wanted to do and places they wanted to go and things they wanted to talk about, and all we could do was mind-less homework. It was very frustrating.”
How does she know if her kids are learning anything at all?
“You just do,” she said, as parents know how things are going when their kids are babies or toddlers.
Rolstad’s oldest, Xander MacSwan, completed fifth grade in public school before moving on to unschooling.
“I felt like school kind of pushed things on you,” he said. “In school, learning was just a boring event where you did a lot of math questions. Now I’m into music and sci-ence and all kinds of things.”
Xander is building comput-ers with his friends. He and some buddies spent a couple of months with a blacksmith to learn how to forge their own swords. He took a class on the history of rock ’n’ roll at a college and plays guitar, piano, bass, violin and uku-lele. He had to give up the saxophone when he got his braces.
Had he stayed in school, he said, his goal of pursuing music as a career wouldn’t feel quite so real: “With unschooling you can do things how you want to.”
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‘Unschooer’ Zoe Bentley, 14, stands in the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. The associaTed press
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Get your game on with College Colors DayATLANTA (AP) — As America
starts a new school year — and kicks off the college football season — College Colors Day on Friday is that special day for the nation’s 172 million college sports fans to show solidarity for their teams.
College Colors Day, in partner-ship with NCAA football, is an annual celebration dedicated to advocating higher education and promoting the traditions and spirit that embody the college experi-ence by encouraging fans across America to wear their favorite col-lege or university apparel through-out the day on Friday.
“There’s no better feeling than the anticipation of the start of a new football season or a new school year and all the excitement that comes with that,” said Cory Moss, senior vice president and managing director for The Colle-giate Licensing Company. “College fans across the country are encour-aged to wear their college gear to work, school, or play to show sup-port for their favorite universities and celebrate the start of the 2011 college football season.”
There are several ways that col-lege fans can participate:
IndividualsThe easiest way for an individual
to participate is to wear college apparel representing his or her favorite college throughout the day — it’s that easy.
Offices and organizationsBusinesses and organizations
from coast to coast are asked to make Friday a fun day at the office by encouraging their employees to show their spirit and wear colors representing their favorite colleges.
Thousands of business locations participate in College Colors Day annually. Each business or organi-zation that registers at collegecol-orsday.com is entered to win one of
two $500 gift cards to be used toward an organization tailgate party. More details can be found at www.colleg-ecolorsday.com/Home/Tailgate-Sweepstakes.aspx.
SchoolsIn partnership with Scholas-
tic, elementary, middle and high schools across the country are encouraged to use College Colors Day to teach students about the importance of higher education.
Schools, or even individual class-rooms, can register at collegecol-orsday.com to be entered to win a $500 grand prize or one of two runners-up $250 gift cards. More details can be found at www.scho-lastic.com/collegecolorsday.
Pre-game eventsDuring the week leading up to
College Colors Day, there are sev-eral initiatives occurring across the country to encourage partici-pation, including:
• In-
store and online marketing support from some of America’s top collegiate retailers, with College Colors Day marketing collateral in more than 12,000 retail locations nationwide. Some of the marketing collateral features college sports broadcaster Erin Andrews and Grammy Award winning artist Lady Antebellum.
• The College Colors Day cele-bration officially kicks off nation-ally Friday night at Riverfront Park and LP Field in Nashville with the 2011 College Colors Day Kickoff game featuring the West-ern Kentucky Hilltoppers and the Kentucky Wildcats. The event is produced in partnership with the Nashville Sports Council and will also include a free concert with Mercury Records’ Laura Bell Bundy prior to the game.
The annual Col-lege Colors Day celebra-tion is organized by The Collegiate Licensing Company, a division of IMG Worldwide. The collegiate fan base, which is estimated at 172 million strong, is the largest, most affluent and the most well-edu-cated in all of sports.
To get involved in College Colors Day, fans are encour-aged to visit www.collegecolors-day.com or www.Facebook.com/collegecolorsday
The Collegiate Licensing Com-pany CLC is a division of global sports and entertainment com-pany IMG. Founded in 1981, CLC is the oldest and largest collegiate licensing agency in the U.S. and represents nearly 200 colleges, uni-versities, bowl games, athletic con-ferences, the Heisman Trophy and the NCAA.
onlineCollege Colors Day — www.collegecolorsday.com or www.Facebook.com/collegecol-orsday
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Have yourseafoodand eatit, tooBy J.M. HirshAP food editor
Lobster roll scream summer — with lots of dollar signs.
So in an effort to have our summer and eat it, too, I came up with this less costly alternative — a seafood salad with a rich mayonnaise sauce spiked with tangy capers and crunchy celery and red pepper.
Some people may roll their eyes at the inclusion of imi-tation lobster. But while it won’t fool anyone into think-ing it’s the real thing when served on its own, it is totally respectable in a salad (not to mention cheaper and easier). Using real shrimp balances the salad out texturally, while smoked salmon lends a deli-ciously salty-savory flavor.
Tangy SeafoodSalad Rolls
Not in the mood for a bun? This seafood salad also is great over greens.Start to finish: 15 minutesServings: 69 ounces cooked shrimp,
shells and tails removed8 ounces imitation lobster
meat8 ounces smoked salmon,
finely chopped1 red bell pepper, cored and
diced1 shallot, minced3 stalks celery, finely diced1 cup mayonnaise2 tablespoons Dijon mustard1 teaspoon hot sauceJuice of 1/2 lemon2 tablespoons drained capersSalt and ground black pepper6 hot dog buns, toasted
Roughly chop the shrimp and lobster meat into bite-size chunks. In a large bowl, combine both with the smoked salmon. Mix in the red bell pepper, shallot and celery, then set aside.
In a small bowl, whisk together mayon-naise, Dijon, hot sauce, lemon juice and
capers. Add to the seafood and mix well to coat. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon into the hot dog buns.
Nutrition information per serving: 440 calo-
ries; 170 calories from fat (38 per-
cent of total calories); 19 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 115 mg cho-lesterol; 43 g carbohy-drate; 26 g
protein; 2 g fiber; 1,490 mg
sodium.
TOPICKaren Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: [email protected] | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 137
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ON THE MENUFrom StaFF reportS
We welcome your items for On the Menu, a wrap-up of area food events. Submit items by e-mail ([email protected]), postal service (P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182), fax (601-634-0897), delivered in person to 1601-F N. Frontage Road, or by calling 601-636-4545 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. If corresponding by fax, mail or e-mail, be sure to include your name and phone number.
On the calendar:• Sushi Workshop — 5:30-
7:30 p.m. Sept. 9 at South-ern Cultural Heritage Center; $30 for members, $35 for nonmembers; instructor: William Fur-long, food and beverage manager of Diamond-Jacks Casino; 601-631-2997 or [email protected].• Tailgate Cooking
Workshop — 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 13 at South-ern Cultural Heritage Center; $30 for members and $35 for nonmembers; instructor: William Fur-long, food and beverage manager of Diamond-Jacks Casino; 601-631-2997 or [email protected].
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Tangy Seafood Salad Rolls
on a bun
in a bowl
The Food Network’s Emeril Lagasse offers this rich recipe:
•Corn and LobsterBisque3 tablespoons vegetable oil3 tablespoons bleached all-
purpose flour1/2 cup minced yellow
onions1 cup corn kernels2 tablespoons minced
shallots2 table-
spoons minced celery
1 table-spoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cayenne1 cup fish stock or water2 bay leaves2 cups milk2 cups heavy cream1 teaspoon crab boil,
optional (recommended: Zatarain’s Concentrated Crab and Shrimp Boil)
1/2 pound cooked lobster meat, diced (from a 1 1/2 pound lobster)
1/4 cup minced green onions (green part only)
Heat the oil in a large heavy pot or Dutch oven over medium heat.
Add the flour a table-spoon at a time, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until blended. Con-tinue stirring to make a light brown roux, 5 min-utes to 10 minutes.
Add the onions, corn, shallots, celery, garlic, salt and cayenne; cook, stir-ring occasionally, until the onions soften. Slowly stir in the stock.
Add the bay leaves and bring to a boil. Add the milk, cream and crab boil, if using. Reduce to medium-low. Simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes.
Stir in the lobster and green onions and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove and discard the bay leaves.
Ladle into shallow soup cups or bowls and serve.
Corn and Lobster Bisque
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‘They’re The besT breWery in The sTATe of floridA’
Cigar City bringing Tampa flavor, craft-brewing credTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — When
a friend gave Joey Redner a taste of a beer that had been aged with Spanish cedar — the wood used to wrap and box cigars — he knew it was an idea worth stealing.
The aroma and flavor instantly reminded the then avid home brewer of his home-town’s historic Ybor City and the hand-rolled cigars for which Tampa is famous. And he knew that if he ever owned a brewery, his beer needed to evoke the same memories.
“It just blew me away because when I smelled it, it was like walking down 7th Avenue in Ybor City, walk-ing past a cigar shop,” said Redner, who now owns Cigar City Brewing. “It was a win/win. It was good and it really pinpointed it on the map as coming from my city.”
Plenty of brewers name their beers for the regions where they are made. But Cigar City takes it further, using ingre-dients such as Spanish cedar, guava, Cuban espresso and citrus woods to craft beers that also taste of Tampa’s heritage.
Doing so also has helped prop up the craft beer indus-try in a state once mocked for its offerings. Cigar City has become the most visible brewer in a suddenly hot Flor-ida beer industry.
“Cigar City led the way and said, ‘We’re going to make big beer, we’re going to make hoppy beers, we’re going to have sour beers and funky oak-aged spiced beers’ and the response has been amaz-ing for them,” said Ben Davis, the owner and brewer at Jacksonville’s Intuition Ale Works, which opened last fall. “They’re the best brewery in the state of Florida. They’re definitely bringing credibility to our entire state.”
For years, Florida was a joke among craft beer lovers. “The wasteland” is what Davis said it often was called. For per-spective, Portland, Ore., had about as many breweries in its city limits as Florida had in the entire state.
Now Florida craft brewing is seeing a surge. There are only three Florida craft brewers who were distributing beer offsite before 2007 — Dune-din Brewery, Orlando Brew-ing and Florida Beer, a Mel-bourne company that bought beer brands that were previ-
ously brewed in Key West, Miami and Tampa.
Then Saint Somewhere Brewing Company opened in Tarpon Springs in 2007 and began selling Belgian-style ales. The next year Bold City began brewing in Jacksonville. Then Cigar City launched
in 2009. Since then, at least seven breweries have opened around the state, with several more preparing to open.
Redner became a fan of craft beer during a 1994 trip to Portland.
“I spent the rest of my time in Florida trying to find those
beers and failing,” Redner said. “And then you start getting into home brewing because you think, ‘Oh, well I’ll just make it myself.”’
He also kept an eye on the market and when he felt interest was growing in Flor-ida for craft beer, he hired
brewer Wayne Wambles, who shared his interest in creative recipes.
Tampa’s nickname is “The Big Guava,” so Redner made a Belgian-style saison using guava. Cuban heritage — and Cuban coffee — also is impor-tant to the city, so Redner
made an ale that included Cuban roasted espresso. He and Wambles also took one of their ale recipes and brewed three different batches with three different kinds of mush-rooms, achieving an added earthiness to beer. They’ve used peaches, jalapeños, cocoa and pumpkins in their beers. And one of the more popular styles is an oatmeal raisin cookie ale that tastes like a liquid cookie.
He and Wambles now are working on a three-beer series taking a high gravity Belgian-style ale that already has notes of sweet orange peel, corian-der and ginger and aging dif-ferent batches with Spanish cedar, lemon tree wood and grapefruit tree wood.
“The overall idea is for the consumer to drink all three beers side by side and since they’re all the same base beer it allows them to understand what each wood does to the beer,” said Wambles, adding that the Spanish cedar will add grapefruit, sandalwood, clove and white pepper notes while the citrus wood will give the beer tart to sour flavors.
Distribution quickly spread statewide, as well as to Ala-bama, New York City and Philadelphia.
Many of the guests who come into Cigar City’s tap room end up buying bottles or quart- and gallon-sized growlers to bring home to states where the beer isn’t available. People like Keith Dion, 37, of Savan-nah, who calls Cigar City “the beer mecca of the South.”
“They’re one of my favorite breweries. They are very cre-ative with their ingredients and push envelopes and take chances and risks which not a lot of breweries do,” said Dion. “They don’t seem afraid here to try new things and to (say) ‘We’ll throw this in the kettle and see how it tastes.”’
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Touchdown! Chefs cook up tasty plays on pigskinSAN FRANCISCO (AP)
— San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino isn’t much of a foot-ball fan. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to toss the pigskin around the grid-iron. Or the frying pan.
We’re talking hide of the hog, of course, that often-neglected part of the pig that is winning new appreciation as chefs tune in to its lush, unctuous properties.
“We’re starting to see it become the focus,” says Cosen-tino, chef at Incanto restau-rant in San Francisco and a champion of so-called nose-to-tail eating. “Pigskin is becom-ing the highlighted item in the dish now, whereas before it was more of an additional component to the dish. It has its own uniqueness. It has its own texture, its own flavor.”
Among his specialties is cic-cioli, a kind of sausage made by braising scraps of lean meat with fat and skin and season-ing the mixture with garlic and rosemary, and chicha-rons, pieces of pork rind that have been seasoned and deep-fried.
Perhaps the most interesting recipe is the pigskin pasta, in which marinated skin is slowly braised so it’s tender, but not too soft, then chilled. After that, excess fat is scraped off and the skin is cranked through a pasta cutter to pro-duce “spaghetti.”
Cosentino first encountered the pigskin pasta, served with a marinara sauce, at the Joe Beef restaurant in Montreal
and was “bummed out that I hadn’t figured it out first,” he says with a laugh. Fortu-nately, chef Fred Morin was willing to share. He has served the pigskin pasta with porcini and truffles, a natural pair-ing since pigs hunt truffles, as well as with clams and cherry tomatoes.
In Texas, chef Tim Love of the Lonesome Dove Western
Bistro in Fort Worth has his own take on pigskin.
Unlike Cosentino, Love is a football fan, the Dallas Cow-boys to be specific, and has cooked for the players. Sun-days mean roast meat and tail-gating, which often includes the PLT — crispy pigskin, let-tuce and tomato — a sandwich he broke out at a tailgate party one day “and everybody went
crazy.”An easy snack is to take a
bag of fried hot and spicy pork skins and top them with red onion, creme fraiche and some caviar. Zippy and creamy “it’s a great hors d’oeuvre,” Love says. He also makes pigskin nachos, using pulled pork on top of crunchy pigskins with a few pickled chilies.
Boston chef Ken Oringer
has divided loyalties when it comes to football. As owner of six Beantown restaurants including Clio, Uni and Toro, his sympathies naturally lie with the New England Patri-ots, some of whom often visit his restaurants. But as a native of New Jersey he has to root for the J-E-T-S, too.
Pigskin, on the other hand, inspires no such reservations.
At Clio he fries pigskin and uses it as a vessel for “chow-der” with oyster emulsion, freeze-dried corn and crispy slivers of potato. At La Verdad, his taqueria, he braises pig-skin in spicy salsa verde for tacos and stuffs it into corn tortillas topped with radishes, cilantro, pickled onions and jalapeno.
“I love cooking with pig skin. It’s an ingredient used in so many cuisines, from Southeast Asian to Spain to Brazil, and I love seeing how different cul-tures use it,” says Love. “It’s interesting to see how chefs turn this rustic, almost peas-ant, ingredient into an ele-vated and composed dish. It’s something that is so rooted in the food of grandmothers, and has recently been embraced by chefs and diners more than ever.”
There is, he says, “nothing like that slippery, voluptuous mouth feel of pigskin, so gelati-nous and tender.”
Incanto’s Cosentino, an authority on offal whose web-site, Offal Good, promotes eating animal parts that have fallen out of favor, also points out that the new empha-sis on pigskin is reviving old customs.
“There’s really cool old dishes of skin and beans and skin and braised greens. Nobody’s rein-vented the wheel here; we’re just finding new ways to show-case it,” he says.
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Chef Chris Cosentino runs cooked pork skin through a spaghetti cutter at incanto restaurant in san francisco.
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Don’t let chicken be the death of your dietBy Rocco DiSpiritoThe Associated Press
Skinless chicken breasts have become the new cottage cheese — the ubiquitous base upon which so many weight-loss diets are built.
But it still doesn’t register well on the old excitement meter. I mean, how many times have you found yourself crav-ing a naked, unseasoned hunk of chicken breast? I’d raise the white flag and order pizza if the road to lasting health looked like an endless parade of plain chicken breasts.
Take the advice of a guy who has gobbled his fair share of chicken — you don’t aban-don it altogether, but you do need to break up the monot-ony. Especially when diet-ing, it is important not to get lazy in your chicken prep. It’s time to add some perk to your poultry.
Because a diet that’s dull is a diet you won’t keep.
This chicken dish is any-thing but dull. For starters, I’ve used chicken thighs. Sure, they aren’t as low in fat as breasts, but being skinless and by trimming all visible fat they become fairly low in fat. The other bonus — chicken thighs deliver a deeper, richer flavor than breast meat. Leav-ing the meat on the bone also adds flavor.
Plus, when bone-in, they’re perfect for the grill and are hard to overcook since the dark meat remains moist.
Sometimes unlikely ingre-dients seem like strange bed-fellows, but often they come together seamlessly to create something delicious. That’s the case with these chicken thighs paired with fresh figs and rose-mary. The combo might seem a little iffy, but trust me, it works and adds delicious fiber and flavor to the dish.
Figs are among the highest fiber fruits you can eat. I grew up loving my grandmother’s home-grown figs; she had both a black fig tree and a white one.
When I’d arrive for a visit she would start to pick them off the tree, gather the recently fallen ones off the ground and make a small basket with the leaves of the fig tree. She would be waiting for me at the end of her driveway. I’ll never forget the image of her proudly hold-ing her basket of figs for me.
Nothing kills a commitment to healthy eating faster than boredom. If you’re battling meal monotony, you’ve come to the right place. And check out these numbers. My ver-sion of this dish has just 228 calories and 8 grams of fat. Traditional versions clock in at 521 calories and 28 grams
of fat.
Warm Salad of Grilled Chicken Thighs, Figs and Shaved Parmigiano-ReggianoStart to finish: 30 minutesServings: 44 tablespoons red wine vin-
egar, divided2 teaspoons chopped fresh
rosemary, dividedSalt and ground black pepper8 bone-in, skinless chicken
thighs, each cut into 2 pieces each (2 to 2 1/2 pounds total)
1/2 cup thinly sliced red onion1 teaspoon chopped fresh
basil2 ripe fresh figs, cut length-
wise into quarters8 cups loosely packed fresh
arugula1 ounce Parmigiano-Reg-
giano cheese, shaved
In a large bowl, combine half each of the vinegar and rose-mary. Season with salt and pepper. Add the chicken and toss to coat. Cover and mari-nate at room temperature for 15 minutes or in the refrigera-tor for up to 4 hours, turning the chicken occasionally.
Place the onions in a large bowl and add the remaining red wine vinegar and a pinch of salt. Mix and set aside for 15 minutes to 1 hour, tossing occasionally.
Heat a grill or grill pan to medium-low. Place the chicken thighs on the grill and cook for 15 to 20 minutes, or until nicely browned and cooked through, turning the chicken halfway through grilling. Transfer the chicken to a plate and sprinkle with basil. Set aside.
Add the arugula, figs and remaining rosemary to the onions and vinegar. Gently
toss the salad, then season with salt and pepper. Divide the salad between 4 serving plates. Place the chicken thigh halves around the salad, then sprinkle the salads with shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano.
Nutrition information per serving: 228 calories; 8 g fat (3 g saturated); 120 mg cho-lesterol; 8 g carbohydrate; 31 g protein; 2 g fiber; 732 mg sodium.
Rocco DiSpirito’s Warm Salad of Grilled Chicken Thighs, Figs and Shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano
Now Eat This!
Rocco DiSpirito is author of the “Now Eat This!” and “Now Eat This! Diet” cook-books. His column is of-fered weekly by the AP.
Rocco suggests...• When grilling the chicken,
keep the grill at medium-low heat so the thighs cook through before get-ting too charred. Also, don’t be afraid to go a little heavy on the fresh pepper. When it grills, it forms a delicious crust that pairs well with the sweet figs in the salad.
• Select a free-range chick-en, or try to find one that is air chilled, such as Mur-ray’s. Chicken not chilled in ice retains flavor.
• When selecting fresh figs, choose any type. Just be sure they are ripe. Also find figs that never have been refrigerated. The flavor and texture of figs are compromised during heavy refrigeration.
• This recipe makes a great appetizer. Grill the chick-en thighs as directed, cut the chicken off the bone and cut it into bite-size pieces. Skewer the chick-en pieces with the fig quarters on long sprigs of fresh rosemary. To serve, heat the skewers on the grill. Top them with a slice of marinated onions and arugula.
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TONIGHT ON TVn MOVIE“What Just Happened?” — A movie producer, Robert De Niro, tries to engineer a recon-ciliation with his ex-wife while dealing with a number of prob-lems surrounding his latest projects./7 on TMCn SPORTSMLB — The Atlanta Braves hit the stretch run with a com-fortable lead in the NL wild-card race, which they’ll try to increase when they meet the Washington Nationals to-night./6 on FSNn PRIMETIME“Buried Treasure” — Leigh and Leslie visit a horse farm in Ver-mont, a Texas family, and a New Jersey family that has an exten-sive art collection./7 on Fox
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Daryl Hannah arrested in oil protestActress Daryl Hannah has been arrested in
front of the White House along with other envi-ronmental protesters who oppose a planned oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The sit-in Tuesday involved dozens protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. It would go through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas.
Before she was arrested, Hannah said the pro-testers want to be free from dependence on fos-sil fuels. The group calls for clean energy investments instead. Hannah said they hope President Barack Obama will not bow to oil lobbyists.
Hannah sat down on the sidewalk near the White House and refused orders from U.S. Park Police to move.
She has been arrested in the past for environmental causes.
Beyonce’s baby sparks Twitter recordBeyonce’s pregnant performance at the MTV
Video Music Awards sparked a Twitter record. When Beyonce performed at 9:35 p.m. Sun-
day, there were 8,868 tweets per second. Twit-ter said that rate was a record for the service.
At the VMAs, Beyonce revealed a baby bump, cupping her growing belly for photographers as she arrived and rubbing her tummy when she performed. The 29-year-old singer is mar-
ried to Jay-Z. The VMAs drew MTV’s biggest audience since
the network began measuring its viewership. Sunday night’s show attracted 12.4 million viewers.
‘Survivor’ all-star considers governor run“Survivor” all-star contestant Rupert Boneham
is considering a run for governor of Indiana.Boneham has formed an exploratory commit-
tee to possibly seek the Libertarian Party’s nomi-nation for governor.
He said on his campaign website that the cur-rent field of candidates doesn’t understand the problems average Hoosiers face. He cited his ex-tensive charity work on behalf of troubled teen-agers as his chief quality.
The bushy-bearded Boneham, known for wearing tie-dyed shirts, competed in 2003 on “Survivor: Pearl Is-land” and has been on multiple “Survivor” follow-ups since then.
If he runs, Boneham will join a field dominated by Republi-can Congressman Mike Pence and former Democratic Indiana House Speaker John Gregg.
Gov. Mitch Daniels can’t run for re-election next year because of term limits.
AND ONE MOrE
Atheists get kudos for church billboardAn Ohio atheist group said it
has been commended by some people for a billboard put up by a church’s pastor.
The road sign in Mansfield features the statement “There is no God” in capital letters. Below that, it says, “Don’t believe ev-erything you hear.”
Pastor Frank Moore of McEl-roy Road Church of Christ said he wanted to honor God with an ad that would get people thinking. He said he remem-bered how his parents always advised him not to believe ev-erything people told him.
The Mansfield-based Mid Ohio Atheists said it has been contacted and congratulated by people incorrectly thinking it put up the billboard. The group says it wants to thank the church for, as the atheists say, “advertising our thoughts.”
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Cartoonists plan 9/11 anniversary tributePHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Sept. 11 is etched in the mem-ories of millions, and as the 10th anniversary nears, car-toonists are etching their thoughts and emotions about 9/11 into comic strips.
With the anniversary fall-ing on a Sunday, more than 90 cartoonists with five differ-ent syndicates have banded together to dedicate their strips on Sept. 11 to those whose lives were lost in the attacks. Sept. 11-themed strips will appear from the writers and artists of “Family Circus,” ‘’Mallard Fillmore,” “Candor-ville,” “Doonesbury” and “Pluggers,” among others.
Jeff Keane, who co-authors “The Family Circus,” was immediately sold on the idea when approached by King Features, his syndicate.
“I knew that it was some-thing that I think would work for ‘Family Circus’ if I could find the approach for it,” he said. “Because ‘Family Circus’ is more of a realistic look at family, and I don’t necessarily have a cartoon that is a ‘joke a day,’ but more sentimental and more emotional, it was easier for me to look at it that way.”
Jim Borgman, the co-cre-ator of “Zits” with Jerry Scott, about a permanent teenager and his parents, called the upcoming anniversary some-thing that cannot be ignored.
“As a cartoonist we would have all been wondering ‘Is it OK to deal with this topic in our work?’ Of course you can, but there is something comforting about the thought that a bunch of us are going to be struggling to say some-thing on that day,” he said. “My colleagues — cartoon-ists — are an astonishingly varied and talented group of people. I fully expect we’ll see a broad range of approaches that day.”
It’s not the first time that car-
toonists have banded together. Previous efforts have included topics like Earth Day or breast cancer awareness. But the scope of this endeavor is unprecedented, with five syn-dicates and the newspapers they serve participating: King Features, Creators Syndicate, Tribune Media Services, Uni-versal Press Syndicate and
Washington Post Writers Group — and the strips they provide to newspapers partic-ipating. The artists produce the strips independently.
The comics, each produced independently by the artists, will be featured in a separate, full-color pullout section and online the same day at www.cartoonistsremember911.
com. Afterward, exhibits on the strips are planned for the Newseum in Washington, San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, the Toonseum in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York.
The tone of the strips are varied, said Brendan Burford, comics editor at King Features Syndicate, with some taking a sentimental tack, while others might try to make a reader laugh.
“After 9/11, the cartoonists organized and did a series of message strips around Thanksgiving Weekend ... but it was also reflective and sym-pathetic to everyone who suf-fered,” he said.
“So 10 years later, a good number of those cartoonists already understood what the message needed to be,” Bur-ford said. “Some are taking the ‘it’s OK to laugh,’ and others are taking the “it’s OK to heal” path.
And it being Sunday, that gives the 93 cartoonists ample space to write, draw and be read.
Borgman and Scott said their strip will look at the anniver-sary through teenager Jere-my’s eyes.
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A scene in the Family Circus comic strip
A scene commemorating Sept. 11 in the “Snuffy Smith” comic strip.
Arquette, Graceamong starson new ‘DWTS’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The new cast of “Dancing With the Stars” h a s b e e n revealed.
ABC says the 13th season of the hit show will feature a mix of actors, athletes and TV person-alities. Set to tango and quickstep with profes-sional dance partners will be basket -ball star Ron Artest; World Cup soccer player Hope Solo; reality stars Robert Kardashian, Kristin Cavallari and Chaz Bono; TV personalities Nancy Grace, Carson Kressley and Ricki Lake; singer-actress Chynna Phillips; actors David Arquette and J.R. Martinez; and Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis, who may be better known in the United States for being George Clooney’s ex-girlfriend.
Ryan O’Neal was set to join, but his publicist said the actor had not yet recovered from knee-replacement surgery.
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MDA Telethon might feel lonely without longtime host Jerry LewisBy Frazier MooreAP television writer
NEW YORK — No one would sniff at all the dollars Jerry Lewis raised for muscular dystrophy: a couple of billion during his 45-year reign as host of the MDA Telethon.
But what kind of TV did he offer in exchange? The short answer: Jerry put on a show like no other.
Labor Day this year prom-ises to be bland by compari-son, with the 85-year-old Lewis now banished from the annual rite he built from scratch and molded in his image.
As if deflated by the absence of
its larger-than-life host, “The 46th Annual MDA Labor Day Telethon” will fill just six hours (Sunday from 6 p.m. to midnight in each time zone), rather than the grueling 21 1/2-hour endurance contest that Lewis used to churn through with his viewers in tow. It will not be shown in Mississippi.
On this year’s broadcast (which, ironically, will no longer be actually airing on Labor Day), a quartet of lightweights
are standing in for Jerry: Nigel Lythgoe (“So You Think You Can Dance”), Nancy O’Dell (“Entertainment Tonight”), Alison Sweeney (“The Big-gest Loser”) and Jann Carl (billed as “an Emmy-winning journalist”).
Celebrities will include Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Antebellum, Richie Sambora and Jordan Sparks.
It might be entertaining. It might spur contributions. But as a media event, this year’s
telethon can hardly match the display of wretched excess Jerry Lewis guaranteed, espe-cially in his epic, unbridled prime.
“Jerry is a ferociously contra-dictory personality, and that’s what makes him fascinating to watch,” said satirist-actor-writer Harry Shearer, a Jerry-watcher for a half-century. He noted just two of Lewis’ clashing identities: “the inner 9-year-old, set loose” and the would-be deep thinker “who fancies himself something of an autodidact.”
Year after year, Lewis bounced between the polari-ties of smarmy sentimentalism
and badgering lunacy as if in a weightless environment. He put his multiple identities on raw display, each constantly jostling for the spotlight.
It was fascinating, ridiculous, cringe-worthy and spellbinding to see how Jerry held court for the parade of entertainers, the checks-bearing civic leaders and corporate sponsors, and the adorable kids who have muscular dystrophy.
He was not only the host of the telethon and chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Asso-ciation (a job he would hold for 60 years), but the central figure in a massive enterprise as the self-styled avenging angel of a
dread disease.There was the unresolvable
question of Lewis’ motives — he has famously refused to say why he poured so much of his life into MDA. How much of what he did was prompted by humanitarian urges? How much is explained by the vora-cious appetites of an attention hog?
Lewis found a perfect coun-terbalance for his excesses and vanities in the purity and urgent need of “his” kids. Everything he did he was doing in their service, which, in his mind, absolved him of his carte blanche life-or-death extravagance.
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Swimmer who ‘loses’ trunks should cool his jetsDear Abby: After a messy
divorce, I moved with my 17-year-old daughter “Allie” to Florida. I’m thrilled that she has adjusted so quickly to the lifestyle here, which revolves around the beach and back-yard swimming pools. Allie now has a boyfriend, “Shane,” who is 19 and in college. I like him, and it appears he likes me too — maybe a little too much.
Shane lives with his par-ents down the street, and he’s often at our house when he and Allie aren’t in school. Because I work at home and my office is adjacent to the pool, I can’t seem to escape
him. When Allie is doing her homework or talking on the phone, Shane swims alone and does a fair amount of “preen-ing.” I have the feeling he does it to gain my attention. The other day, after jumping in the pool, he surfaced without his swim trunks and said the pool jets had ripped them off him.
Then he got out of the pool and put them back on in front of me. When I told him I found the situation embarrassing, he shrugged and smiled, leaving me feeling awkward.
Being from the Midwest, I’m used to people behaving and dressing more modestly. Here, it seems like anything goes, and the skimpier the clothing, the better. Am I a prude, or should I listen to my instincts that something is not right? And what do I say to Shane that will allow me to keep my dignity? — Taken Aback in Tampa
Dear Taken Aback: The pool jets did not rip the trunks
off your daughter’s boyfriend. It appears she is involved with an exhibitionist. If it happens again, tell him you find what he’s doing to be disrespectful and offensive, and if he wants to parade his shortcomings at his own home that’s his privi-lege, but at yours his pants should stay on at all times — or you’ll tell his mother. Shame on Shane.
•Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Antibiotic might be helpfulfor reader’s arthritic knee
Dear Dr. Gott: I am being encouraged to try tetracycline therapy for my arthritic knee. Is this a legitimate therapy to avoid surgery?
Dear Reader: Information obtained from the U.S. Library of Medicine, as reported by the Division of Rheumatology in Toronto, Ontario, regard-ing an October 2003 study, indicated published trials had been hand-searched for fur-ther identification of reports and presentations regard-ing this very subject. Of the 10 randomized trials that included 535 individuals, only three were considered to be of high quality, and elements of bias could not be excluded in the remainder.
In part, it stated that tetra-cyclines, when administered for up to three months, were associated with a significant reduction in disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis, with absolutely no increased risk of adverse events. Tetracyclines, particularly minocycline, were associated with a clinically significant improvement in patients with RA, without any increased risk of side effects. Unfortunately, the available information was insufficient to allow for a detailed analy-sis of individual side effects, and further research at that time was warranted regard-ing efficacy, cost-effectiveness and safety.
In 2005, Medical News Today reported that doxycycline (closely related to tetracy-cline), with its anti-inflamma-tory properties, could inhibit the degradation of cartilage in a way that could be useful in treating osteoarthritis. It went on to indicate that on the strength of pre-clinical evi-dence, a team of rheumatolo-gists affiliated with six clinical research centers across the United States conducted the first long-term trial to deter-mine any benefits in treating OA, particularly of the knee. Their findings, printed in the July 2005 issue of the jour-nal Arthritis & Rheumatism, suggested doxycycline might slow the progression of joint damage and pointed to the need for further research into the effects of the drugs on the symptoms of the disease.
Also in 2005, Science Daily, reporting on a study in Arthri-tis and Rheumatism, indicated similar findings.
For the trial, the team recruited 431 overweight women between the ages of 45 and 64 with moderately advanced OA in one knee. Progression of the disorder was assessed by measuring joint space narrowing in the medial tibiofemoral compart-ment through baseline X-rays obtained at both 16 and 30 months. The severity of joint pain was assessed every six months after a washout period of all nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics.
Three hundred and six sub-jects completed the treatment protocol. After 16 months, the mean loss of joint space width in the diseased knee in the doxycycline group was 40 per-cent less than that in the pla-cebo group. After 30 months, it was 33 percent less. Despite the obvious slowing of the pro-gression of the disease, the doxycycline did not reduce the severity of joint pain. Side effects were minimal through-
out the trial; however, some participants dropped out due to side effects as compared with the placebo group.
The conclusion was that doxycycline showed benefits in slowing the rate of joint space narrowing in knees with known OA.
Whether the drug has any value in the early treatment and symptomatic manage-ment of OA will require fur-ther investigation. Unfortu-nately, the reputable reports I have access to are several years old.
Speak with your orthopedic specialist or a rheumatologist, who can assess your entire medical profile to determine if this treatment is an option or if surgery is even in the picture.
•Write to Dr. Peter Gott in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th fl., New York, NY 10016.
If tomorrow is your birthday: Excellent influences will be working on your behalf in the year ahead, trying to improve your material position in life. You must chip in and help things along, however. The more you do, the more your needs will be met. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — The funds that will enable you to get something that you’ve wanted for a long time but always felt was too expensive are apt to finally become available. With the extra cash in your pocket, you can go for it.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Whether or not you realize it, your influence over your peer group is stronger than you think. Oth-ers will be easily swayed by the example you set, and they’ll want to emulate your behavior.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Keep a matter that is of a sensi-tive, secretive nature between yourself and closely involved par-ties. For best results in resolving the matter, you need to main-tain its exclusivity.Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — When a close friend tells you something in confidence, he or she might leave it to your dis-cretion as to whether or not another pal should be let in on the secret. Choose wisely.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — A material desire could end up functioning as a powerful motivator for you. If you really want something badly enough, you will be capable of figuring out how to acquire it. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — It’s more important for you to take a long-range view of things where your self-interests are concerned, instead of worrying about how to get what you want right now. Give yourself time.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — You’re very blessed, because someone who loves you is aware of your present wants, and will knock themselves out trying to figure out ways to acquire them for you.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Help with a critical yet perplexing decision is on its way. Listen carefully to the new alternatives be-ing presented — one of them holds the key to your dilemma. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Perform to the very best of your abilities without thinking about what’s in it for you. If you do a good job, the accolades will manifest.Gemini (May 21-June 20) — You’ve heard it a thousand times: relax and just be yourself when dealing with others, be they bigwigs or small fry. Whatever charisma you possess cannot be forced, so play it cool, Jack.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — As soon as you get everyone in ac-cord regarding a family matter, put the wheels in motion and you’ll get good results. Sit on things and you’ll waste another toothsome opportunity.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t base an important decision solely on its material aspects. It’ll be important to put credence in other factors, such as principles and ethics, as well.
Dr. Wallace: I have a pen pal I have been writing to in England for two years. We write about once a month, and it is an exciting experience.
Last month, I wrote and told him about my 16th birthday par-ty. Last week, I received a package from my pen pal, Ian, and in it was a beautiful, expensive sweater. My mother says that the sweater was much too expensive and I should thank him, but return the sweater. I would like to keep it.
I told my mother I was going to e-mail you for an opinion and she said she would let me keep the gift if you thought returning it inappropriate. If it is decided that I should keep the sweater, should I send Ian a gift on his next birthday? I think I should. — Ginger, Rochester, N.Y.
Ginger: Returning the gift would, indeed, be considered in-appropriate. Send Ian a special thank-you card telling him you are pleased to have received such a lovely birthday gift for your 16th birthday. It is not necessary to send Ian a gift on his birth-day, but a special birthday card would brighten his day.
Dr. Wallace: I’m a 13-year-old girl and have a 16-year-old sister who has done things that cause my parents to distrust her. She is currently trying to regain the trust she lost.
My parents go on many business trips together. While they are gone my sister disobeys them and tells me to cover for her when my parents come home.
Last night, my sister went to a party that she wasn’t supposed to go to. It bothers me when I have to lie to my parents, but my sister really trusts me. What do you suggest I do? — Nameless, Manassas, Va.
Nameless: You should not lie to your parents to cover for your sister.
Tell your sister that you no longer will be put in a position where you must lie to your parents just because she trusts you! Make sure your sister knows you are 100 percent serious.
Dr. Wallace: I’m 19, and I’ll admit that I drink too much, but I don’t think I have a drinking problem.
My girlfriend says I do, however. She’s going to break up with me unless I start attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. How do I know if I do have a drinking problem? — Lou, Pitts-burgh, Pa.
Lou: If you need to ask, you have a drinking problem. You have a choice. Go to AA and keep a girlfriend. No AA, no girl-friend.
•Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.
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The following vehicles areconsidered abandoned andwill be sold for tow andstorage:2005 Chevy MalibuVIN:1G1ND52F85M1628951995 Grand PrixVIN:1G2WJ12M8SF2738042007 Ford FocusVIN:1FAFP34N27W1317781982 Winnebago RVVIN:1GBJP37W5C33151361995 Ford F150PUVIN:1FTDF15YXSNB562482004 Dodge NeonVIN:1B3ES56C14D6410572006 Pontiac G6VIN:1G2ZF55B064175030Date of Sale: 9/12/11Time of Sale: 10:00 AMPlace of Sale: Shorter'sTowing65 Short Jack Dr.Vicksburg, MS 39180Publish: 8/24, 8/31, 9/7(3t)
The following vehicle was leftat Sims Collision Center,601-638-6006, 200 NealLane, Vicksburg, Ms39180-9243, for repair andstorage and has not beenclaimed within 30 days. It willbe sold as an abandonedvehicle.1994 Pontiac Grand PrixVIN #1G2WJ52K2XF318412Sale Date: Saturday,September 17, 2011, at10:00 am.Publish: 8/31, 9/7, 9/14(3t)
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on June 30,2006, William E. Bexley, IIIexecuted a certain deed oftrust to Varner, Parker &Sessums, Trustee for thebenefit of MortgageElectronic RegistrationSystems, Inc. which deed oftrust is of record in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, State ofMississippi in Book 1599 atPage 702; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequentlyassigned to Ocwen LoanServicing, LLC by instrumentdated October 25, 2010 andrecorded in Book 1516 atPage 171 of the aforesaidChancery Clerk's office; andWHEREAS, Ocwen LoanServicing, LLC hasheretofore substituted J.Gary Massey as Trustee byinstrument dated October 28,2010 and recorded in theaforesaid Chancery Clerk'sOffice in Book 1516 at Page172; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debtsecured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, Ocwen Loan Servicing,LLC, the legal holder of saidindebtedness, havingrequested the undersignedSubstituted Trustee toexecute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust and for thepurpose of raising the sumsdue thereunder, togetherwith attorney's fees, trustee'sfees and expense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on September 21, 2011offer for sale at public outcryand sell within legal hours(being between the hours of11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), atthe West Door of the CountyCourthouse of WarrenCounty, located atVicksburg, Mississippi, to thehighest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty situated in WarrenCounty, State of Mississippi,to-wit:That part of Lot Thirty-seven(37) of what is known asChambers Street Addition, aplat of which said Addition isduly recorded at page 86 ofBook 116 of the Records ofWarren County, Mississippi,beginning at the NorthwestCorner of said Lot; runningthence North Eighty-eight(88) Degrees Forty-five (45)Minutes East on the Southline of Chambers StreetThirty-five and nineteenone-hundredths (35.19) feet;thence South sixty-four (64)Degrees Fifty (50) minutesEast on said line Twenty-fourand Eighty-oneone-hundredths (24.81) Feet;thence Southerly on astraight line to the Southeastcorner of said lot; thenceNorthwesterly along theSouth line of said Lot Forty(40) Feet to the Southwestcorner thereof; thence Northon the West line of said LotOne hundred and Fifty (150)Feet to the point ofbeginning; together with alland singular the buildingsand improvements thereonand appurtenancesthereuntoappertaining and belonging;and being the same propertyconveyed to John FranklinRedus and Martha SueLaney Redus by C. L. Swartsand Verna L. Swarts byDeed dated the 23rd day ofSeptember, 1950, of recordin Deed Book 284 at Page362 of the Records ofWarren County, Mississippi.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me asSubstituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 16th day of August,2011.#J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEShapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland DriveSuite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-92991628 Chambers Street
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PUBLIC NOTICEMISSISSIPPI STATEDEPARTMENT OF HEALTHLOCAL GOVERNMENTSAND RURAL WATERSYSTEMSIMPROVEMENTS BOARDCATEGORICALEXCLUSION FROMENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWHilldale Water District, Inc.Warren County, MississippiDrinking Water Systems Im-provementsDWI-L750005-06August 24, 2011All projects funded by theLocal Governments andRural Water SystemsImprovements Board (Board)under the Drinking WaterSystems ImprovementsRevolving Loan Fund(DWSIRLF) undergo areview to determine whetherthe proposed project willhave a significant impact onthe environment. In makingthis determination, it isassumed that all of thefacilities and actionsrecommended in the facilitiesplan will be implemented.The facilities plan for thisproject is "Hilldale WaterDistrict, Inc. DWSIRLF 700GPM Sparta Water WellFacilities Plan - Revised",dated July 2011, byBenchmark Engineering, Inc.The proposed projectincludes drilling a 700 GPMwell to the Sparta aquifer, ata location adjacent to threeof Hilldale WaterAssociation, Inc.'s existingwells on the Choctaw Circlesite, and modifying theHilldale Water Association,Inc.'s North Treatment Plant.The estimated project costand loan amount is$2,347,297.The Boardhas determinedthat the proposed projectmeets the criteria forreceiving a categoricalexclusion from furtherenvironmental review.However, this determinationcan be revoked if significantadverse informationbecomes available. If youhave any commentsregarding the proposedproject, please send them toColleen Cook, MississippiState Department ofHealth/DWSRF, P. O. Box1700, Jackson, Mississippi39215-1700, phone (601)576-7518 no later thanSeptember 30, 2011.ChairmanLocal Governments andRural Water SystemsImprovements BoardDirectorOffice of Health ProtectionMississippi State Departmentof HealthPublish: 8/31(1t)
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01. LegalsNOTICE OF SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S SALEBy virtue of that certain Deedof Trust made on the 28thday of March, 2008, byManor Estates, Incorporated,to J. Patrick Caldwell,Trustee, subsequentlyreplaced by G. PhilipSchrader, IV, SubstitutedTrustee, pursuant to validSubstitution of Trustee whichis recorded in Deed Book1526 at Page 281 of theLand Records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, tosecure certain indebtednesstherein mentioned for thebenefit of BancorpSouthBank, which Deed of Trust isduly recorded in Book 1695at Page 790 of the Recordsof Mortgages and Deeds ofTrust on Land in the Office ofthe Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippi;and pursuant to the powerand authority vested in me,as Substituted Trustee, andat the request of the owner ofsaid indebtedness, defaulthaving been made in thepayment due thereunder asdescribed in PromissoryNote by said Deed of Trustsecured and the payment ofthe interest thereunderaccruing and the holder andthe owner of the Note havingelected under the terms ofsaid Deed of Trust to declaresaid Note due and payableas by said Deed of Trustauthorized, and the sameremaining unpaid, I, G. PhilipSchrader, IV, as SubstitutedTrustee, will between thelegal hours of 11:00 a.m. and4:00 p.m. on Thursday, the22nd day of September,2011, at the main front doorof the Cherry Street side ofthe county courthouse inVicksburg, Warren County,Mississippi, expose for saleat public auction to thehighest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty conveyed by saidDeed of Trust, said propertybeing situated in WarrenCounty, State of Mississippi,being described as follows:The part of the SoutheastQuarter (SE#) of SectionTwenty-eight (28), TownshipSixteen (16), Range Three(3) East, and the NortheastQuarter (NE#) of SectionOne (1), Township Fifteen(15), Range Three (3) East,beginning at the SoutheastCorner of Lot Eight (8) ofBazsinsky Subdivision ofpart of the Southeast Quarter(SE#) of SectionTwenty-eight (28), TownshipSixteen (16), Range Three(3) East, as shown by plat ofrecord in Deed Book 69, atpage 150 of the Records ofDeeds of said County;thence North Six HundredEighty (680) feet; thenceNorth Seventy-nine (79)Degrees Thirty (30) MinutesEast, Two Hundred Fifty-five(255) feet; thence SouthThirty-two (32) DegreesEast, Three HundredNinety-four (394) feet; thenceSouth Three (3) DegreesFifteen (15) Minutes East,Ninety-eight (98) feet; thenceSouth Sixteen (16) DegreesFifteen Minutes East, TwoHundred Sixty-four (264)feet; thence South Ten (10)Degrees West, One HundredSixty-eight (168) feet; thenceSouth Twenty-three (23)Degrees Thirty (30) MinutesWest, Seventy (70) feet;thence South One (1)Degree West, Six HundredSixty-five (665) feet; thenceSouth Fifty-six (56) DegreesEast, Ninety-eight (98) feet;thence South One (1)Degree Thirty (30) Minutes
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East, One Hundred Two(102) feet; thence SouthThirty-four (34) DegreesFifteen (15) Minutes West,Two Hundred Fifty-one (251)feet; thence South Sixty-six(66) Degrees West, Seventy(70) feet; thence South Two(2) Degrees East, ThreeHundred Forty-six (346) feet;thence South Ten (10)Degrees East, One HundredFifty-seven (157) feet; thenceSouth Twenty (20) DegreesWest, Seventy-three feet;thence South Thirty-one (31)Degrees East, Ninety-three(93) feet to a Thorn or Locusttree on the North side of roadnumber 86, known as thePoor House Public Road,thence along the North andEast side of said Poor HouseRoad, following themeanderings thereof to theSouthwest Corner ofaforesaid Lot Eight (8) of theBazsinsky Subdivision;thence East Seven HundredTwenty and five tenths(720.5) feet along the Southline of said Lot Eight (8) tothe place of beginning, lessand except those parts of theabove described propertywhich have heretofore beenconveyed.The undersigned will onlyconvey such title as is vestedin me as SubstitutedTrustee.WITNESS my signature thisthe 23rd day of August,2011./s/ G. Philip Schrader, IVG. PHILIP SCHRADER, IVSubstituted TrusteePublish: 8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21(4t)
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on November23, 2009, JESSICA ERINSPRING AN UNMARRIEDPERSON executed a Deedof Trust to J WARDCONVILLE as Trustee forthe benefit of MORTGAGEELECTRONICREGISTRATION SYSTEMS,INC., ACTING SOLELY ASA NOMINEE FOR GRANDBANK FOR SAVINGS, FSB,which Deed of Trust wasfiled on November 24, 2009and recorded as InstrumentNo. 274032 in Book 1703 atPage 565 in the Office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, BANK OFAMERICA, N.A.SUCCESSOR BY MERGERTO BAC HOME LOANSSERVICING, LP FKACOUNTRYWIDE HOMELOANS SERVICING, LP, thecurrent Beneficiary of saidDeed of Trust, substitutedRECONTRUST COMPANY,N.A. as Trustee therein, asauthorized by the termsthereof, as evidenced by aninstrument recorded asInstrument No. 287063 inBook 1522 at Page 354 inthe Office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi; and
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WHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said Deed ofTrust, and the entire debtsecured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable, and the legal holderof said indebtedness, BANKOF AMERICA, N.A.SUCCESSOR BY MERGERTO BAC HOME LOANSSERVICING, LP FKACOUNTRYWIDE HOMELOANS SERVICING, LP,having requested theundersigned SubstituteTrustee to execute the trustand sell said land andproperty in accordance withthe terms of said Deed ofTrust for the purpose ofraising the sums duethereunder, together withattorney's fees, SubstituteTrustee's fees and expensesof sale.NOW, THEREFORE,RECONTRUST COMPANY,N.A., Substitute Trustee, willon September 21, 2011, offerfor sale at public outcry tothe highest bidder for cash,within legal hours (betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m.) at the front stepsof the Warren CountyCourthouse in Vicksburg,Warren County, Mississippi,the following-describedproperty:ALL OF LOT FOUR(4) OFLAKE PARK ESTATES,PART ONE (1), A PLAT OFWHICH APPEARS OFRECORD IN PLAT BOOK 1AT PAGE 39 OF THEWARREN COUNTY,MISSISSIPPI LANDRECORDS, LESS ANDEXCEPT THEREFROM ANUNDIVIDED ONE-HALF(1/2) INTEREST IN AND TOALL OF THE OIL, GASANDMINERALS IN, ON ANDUNDER SAID TRACT ORPARCEL OF LAND.RECONTRUST COMPANY,N.A. will convey only suchtitle as vested in it asSubstitute Trustee.WITNESS my signature onthis the 12th day of August,2011.RECONTRUST COMPANY,N.A., SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407Richardson, TX 75082Telephone No. (800) 281-8219By: /s/ Anthony CannonTitle: Assistant Vice Presi-dentRECONTRUST COMPANY,N.A., SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407Richardson, TX 75082TS No.: 11 -0033387PARCEL No. 1325 29 0970004200DHGW 65172G-3SBPublish: 8/31, 9/7, 9/14(3t)
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on April 17, 2006, DESSIE MOFFETT ANDMICHAEL PINKY executed a Deed of Trust to VARNERPARKER AND SESSUMS as Trustee for the benefit ofMORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,INC., ACTING SOLELY AS A NOMINEE FOR FIRSTFRANKLIN A DIVISION OF NAT. CITY BANK OF IN, whichDeed of Trust was filed on April 18, 2006 and recorded inBook 1587 at Page 35 in the Office of the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE FIRST FRANKLIN MO, the current Ben-eficiary of said Deed of Trust, substituted JOHN C UNDER-WOODM JR as Trustee therein in place of the afore-men-tioned original Trustee, as authorized by the terms thereof, asevidenced by an instrument filed on October 2, 2008 andrecorded as Instrument No. 261989 in Book 1486 at Page 57in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COM-PANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERSOF THE FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST2006-FF8, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES2006-FF8, the current Beneficiary of said Deed of Trust, substituted RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. as Trusteetherein in place of the afore-mentioned Substituted and original Trustees, as authorized by the terms thereof, as evidenced by an instrument recorded as Instrument No.289020 in Book 1526 at Page 37 in the Office of theChancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, default having been made in the terms and conditions of said Deed of Trust, and the entire debt securedthereby having been declared to be due and payable, and thelegal holder of said indebtedness, DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THECERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE FIRST FRANKLINMORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-FF8, ASSET-BACKEDCERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FF8, having requested theundersigned Substitute Trustee to execute the trust and sellsaid land and property in accordance with the terms of saidDeed of Trust for the purpose of raising the sums due thereunder, together with attorney's fees, Substitute Trustee'sfees and expenses of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A.,Substitute Trustee, will on September 21, 2011, offer for saleat public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, within legalhours (between the hours of 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) at thefront steps of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg,Warren County, Mississippi, the following-described property:PARCEL ONE:THE PART OF LOT 7 AND 8 OF SQUARE 10 OF THATPART OF THE CITY KNOWN AS NATIONAL PARK ADDITION, A PLAT OF WHICH ADDITION IS OF RECORDIN THE OFFICE OF THE CHANCERY CLERK OF SAIDCOUNTY BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OFSAID LOT 8 AND RUNNING THENCE WEST WITHSOUTHERN BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID LOTS 7 AND 8, ADISTANCE OF 60 FEET; THENCE RUNNING NORTH PAR-ALLEL WITH THE EASTERN BOUNDARY LINE OF SAIDLOT 8, A DISTANCE OF 50 FEET TO A POINT MARKEDBY AN IRON STAKE; THENCE EAST PARALLEL WITHTHE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID LOTS 7 AND8, A DISTANCE OF 60 FEET TO THE WESTERN BOUNDARY LINE OF THIRD STREET; THENCE RUNNINGSOUTH 50 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.PARCEL TWO:THAT PART OF LOTS 7 AND 8 OF SQUARE 10 OF THATPART OF THE CITY KNOWN AS NATIONAL PARK ADDITION, A PLAT OF WHICH IS OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CHANCERY CLERK OF SAID COUNTY,BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THEPROPERTY DESCRIBED IN DEED FROM MRS. MARIE E.VAN NORMAN TO GARNET H. VAN NORMAN AND RUTHLYNELL VAN NORMAN DATED JUNE 5, 1946 ANDRECORDED IN BOOK 254 AT PAGE 588 AND RUNNINGTHENCE WEST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAIDPROPERTY A DISTANCE OF 60 FEET; THENCE NORTHPARALLEL WITH THE EASTERN BOUNDARY LINE OFLOT 8 A DISTANCE OF 5 FEET; THENCE EAST ON ALINE PARALLEL WITH THE NORTH BOUNDARY LINE OFTHE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED RECORDEDIN BOOK 254 PAGE 588 A DISTANCE OF 60 FEET TOTHE EASTERN BOUNDARY OF SAID LOT 8; THENCESOUTH ALONG THE EASTERN BOUNDARY OF SAID LOT8 A DISTANCE OF 5 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-NING.RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. will convey only such titleas vested in it as Substitute Trustee.WITNESS my signature on this 2nd day of August, 2011.RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407Richardson, TX 75082Telephone No. (800) 281-8219By: /s/ Anthony CannonTitle: Assistant Vice PresidentRECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407Richardson, TX 75082TS No.: 11 -0041455PARCEL No. 1082 29 197010030600DHGW 63623G-2SBPublish: 8/31, 9/7, 9/14(3t)
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LOST!LARGE BLACK MALE
Labrador. Family friend,missing from The MilitaryPark/ Hailey's Point vicinity.Reward offered. 601-715-2333.
07. Help Wanted
“ACE”Truck Driver Training
With a DifferenceJob Placement Asst.
Day, Night & RefresherClasses
Get on the Road NOW!Call 1-888-430-4223MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124
Al Williams BailBond Company
a statewide operation.Manager/ Soliciting
Agentsin the Vicksburg area.Must be 21 years of
age, have lived in thestate of Mississippi forat least 12 months, andhave your own trans-
portation & cell phone.Call for an application
662-429-2730or visit our website
www.alwillliamsbailbonds.com
Attention Students!Back to School Work
$15 Base-ApptFlex hrs around classes
Cust. Sales/SrvcInterview in ClintonWork in your area
All ages 17+Call NOW
(601) 910-6111
AVON. EARN MONEYnow! Representatives need-ed in your area. Will train.Call 601-259-2157.
AMIkids NELA isseeking a MasterLevel Counselor.Master’s Degree
in Social Work orCounselingrequired.
Apply online atwww.amikids.org
or contact KarVan Powell (318) 574-9475.
07. Help Wanted
AVON. NEED EXTRACASH? Become an AvonRepresentative today. Call601-454-8038.
BE YOUR OWN boss!Process medical claimsfrom home on your comput-er. Call The Federal TradeCommission to find out howto spot medical billingscams. 1-877-FTC-HELP. Amessage from The Vicks-burg Post and The FTC.
TRUCK DRIVERneeded for delivery of
storage containers.Must have minimum
Class A License.Apply in person @Sheffield Rentals1255 Hwy. 61 S.Vicksburg, MS
GARDENER NEEDED.EXPERIENCE preferred.Weeding, trim hedges,etcetera. 601-638-0528.
HEY! NEED CASH NOW?We buy JUNK CARS,
VANS, SUV’S, TRUCKS,SCHOOL BUSES, HEAVY
EQUIPMENT, HEAVY DUTYTRUCKS & TRAILERS.
Whether your junk is run-ning or not, & PAY YOUCASH NOW. Call today,
we'll come pick your junk upwith CASH in hand!1-800-826-8104
HEY! NEED CASHNOW? We buy junk cars,vans, SUVs, heavy equip-ment and more! Call today,we'll come pick them upwith money in hand! 1-800-826-8104.
HIGH TRAFFIC SPAseeking massage therapistand hair stylist. Send re-sponse to P.O. Box 820081,Vicksburg, MS 39182, 601-630-7170.
INTERCOASTAL WA-TERWAYS!! INTERESTEDin becoming a deckhand inthe Marine Industry? Posi-tions start around $130 perday...that's over $900 perweek! Sign up for trainingtoday! Call 850-243-8966.
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07. Help Wanted
RAINBOW HOTEL LOOK-ING for a maintenance per-son. One year experienceneeded. Apply in person,1350 Warrenton Road, Mon-day- Friday 8am-4pm. Nophone calls, please.
ST. MARK'S FREEWILLBaptist Church, currentlyaccepting resumes for Pas-tor and Music Director, sendto 105 Lena Drive, Vicks-burg, MS 39183.
TOW TRUCK DRIVERClass A CDL, clean record,5 years experience. DrugFree. Apply in person atStevens, 800 Hwy 80. Mon-day- Friday 8am- 4pm.
12. Schools &Instruction
AIRLINES ARE HIRING-Train for high paying Avia-tion Career. FAA approvedprogram. Financial aid ifqualified – Job placementassistance. CALL AviationInstitute of Maintenance866-455-4317.
ATTEND COLLEGE ON-LINE from home. *Medical,*Business, *Paralegal, *Al-lied Health. Job placementassistance. Computer avail-able. Financial aid if quali-fied. SCHEV certified. Call888-210-5162.
www.Centura.us.com
07. Help Wanted
14. Pets &Livestock
Vicksburg WarrenHumane Society& MS - Span
Hwy 61 S - 601-636-6631
CATS:Male . .$25 Female ........$35
DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS):Male . .$55 Female ........$65
• For the above category ofanimals, pick up applications at
the Humane SocietyDOGS (OVER 40 LBS):
Male . .$70 Female ........$80• For dogs over 40 lbs,
call 866-901-7729 for appt.
Low CostSpay & Neuter Program
www.pawsrescuepets.org
If you are feeding a strayor feral cat and needhelp with spaying orneutering, pleasecall 601-529-1535.
15. Auction
ESTATE AUCTIONKaren Anderson-SmithSEPTEMBER 10 – 6 PMAT KATZENMEYER’S
3508 SOUTH WASHINGTON
Great variety of belongings toinclude 20 refurbished vintage
mini/dirt bikes – Harley’s,Hondas & Yamahas. Alsorolling shelves, tools, tool
boxes, air compressor, pressurewashers, electric heaters,
A/Cs, work benches & stools,trailer tow, jacks, ladders,
grinders, sand blaster, drills,push mower, yard tools,
paddles, tackle boxes, BassBuster boat, all kinds of
barbecue grills and turkeycookers. Furniture includes
cabinets, chests, wicker stand,twin headboards, book cases,
desk, night stands, cornershelves and more! Images
www.msauctionservice.com
Food concession on site.
Terms: cash, check, Visa/MC,10% buyer’s premium.
Hardy Katzenmeyer,Auctioneer, Ms Lic 988.
LOOKING FOR A greatvalue? Subscribe to TheVicksburg Post, 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.
07. Help Wanted
17. Wanted ToBuy
$ I BUY JUNK CARS $Highest price paid,
GURANTEED! Cash in your hand today!
Call 601-618-6441.
HEY! NEED CASH NOW?We buy JUNK CARS,
VANS, SUV’S, TRUCKS,SCHOOL BUSES, HEAVY
EQUIPMENT, HEAVY DUTYTRUCKS & TRAILERS.
Whether your junk is run-ning or not, & PAY YOUCASH NOW. Call today,
we'll come pick your junk upwith CASH in hand!1-800-826-8104
17. Wanted ToBuy
HEY! NEED CASHNOW? We buy junk cars,vans, SUVs, heavy equip-ment and more! Call today,we'll come pick them upwith money in hand! 1-800-826-8104.
WE BUY ESTATES.Households and qualitygoods. Best prices. Youcall, we haul! 601-415-3121,601-661-6074. www.msauc-tionservice.com
WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, old batteries, lawnmowers, hot water heaters,junk and abandoned cars,trucks, vans, etcetera. 601-940-5075, if no answer, pleaseleave message.
WE PAY CASH for junk.Cars, trucks. Vans, SUVs,and old dump trucks. 601-638-5946 or 601-529-8249.
07. Help Wanted
18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale
1949 PARTIALLY RE-STORED Ford tractor. 601-638-5397.
FOR LESS THAN 45cents per day, haveThe Vicksburg Post
delivered to your home.Only $14 per month,
7 day delivery.Call 601-636-4545,
Circulation Department.
HEAVY DUTY HOSPI-TAL bed. Great condition.$1200. Call 601-636-0441or 601-636-0832.
MOVING BOXES. 8wardrobes, 30 to 40 smallerboxes and packing paper.Best offer! 601-636-8979,815-252-6218.
MUSCADINES PURPLEOR bronze. $11 a gallonpicked. 601-618-4041.
THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”3508 South Washington Street
Pond fish, Gold fish, Koi, fish foodaquarium needs, bird food, designer collars, harnesses & leads,loads of pet supplies!Bring your Baby in for a fitting today!
TUBBS BY GRUBBS.1-day bathroom remodeling.1-888-339-5992 Toll Free.
318-324-1232.Financing available. Donniegrubbs.com
18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale
Twin mattress sets, $189.Full mattress sets, $209.
Queen mattress sets, $280. Discount Furniture Barn
601-638-7191.
USED TIRES! LIGHTtrucks and SUV's, 16's,17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A fewmatching sets! Call TD's,601-638-3252.
19. Garage &Yard Sales
10084 OAK RIDGE ROAD.Wednesday and Thursday7am-4pm. Motor home, tools,tillers, cedar chest, trumpet,$200. Chiropractic Spinola-tor, $500. Crystal, pottery,dishes, movies, jewelry,Avon, coke bottles, old col-lectibles, lots more. 601-631-0237.
4 FAMILY GARAGE sale.Thursday- Saturday 8am-3pm. 1909 Martin LutherKind Blvd. (Old Ameen'sGrocery) Too much to list.
Ask us how to “PostSize” your ad with some
great clip art! Call theClassified Ladies at 601-636-Sell (7355).
BIG SALE! PETERSON'SArt & Antiques, 1400 Wash-ington Street, Labor Day,Monday, September 5th,9:30am-2:30pm.
What's going on inVicksburg this weekend?Read The Vicksburg Post!
For convenient home deliv-ery call 601-636-4545, ask
for circulation.
07. Help Wanted
20. Hunting
YOUTH BOWPSE left-handed bow withaccessories. Like new.$200. 601-535-7789 Callafter 6pm.
21. Boats,Fishing Supplies
What's going on in Vicks-burg this weekend? ReadThe Vicksburg Post! Forconvenient home delivery,call 601-636-4545, ask forcirculation.
07. Help Wanted
24. BusinessServices
Chopper’sOlde Tyme Barber Shop
• Hair Cuts • Cut & Style• Hot Towel Shave• Shoe Shine
Dan Davis - Tracie Nevels4407 Halls Ferry Rd.
601-638-2522M-F: 8a-7p Sat: 8a-4p
Discount for Military/Civil Service
D & D TREE CUTTING•Trimming • Lawn Care
• Dirt Hauled• Insured
For FREE EstimatesCall “Big James”
601-218-7782
07. Help Wanted
24. BusinessServices
D.R. PAINTING AND CON-STRUCTION. Painting, roof-ing, carpentry service. Li-censed, bonded. Free esti-mates! Call 601-638-5082.
DIRT AND GRAVELhauled. 8 yard truck. 601-638-6740.
I-PHONE REPAIR. Buy,sell and repair. ArcueSanchez - 601-618-9916.
LAWN SERVICESWE Specialize IN the ap-
pearance of green on yourlawn as well as
saving the green in yourpocket. 601-529-5558.
PLUMBING SERVICES-24 hour emergency- brokenwater lines- hot waterheaters- toilets- faucets-sinks. Pressure Washing-sidewalk- house- mobilehomes- vinyl siding- brickhomes. 601-618-8466.
River City Lawn CareYou grow it - we mow it!Affordable and profes-
sional. Lawn and land-scape maintenance. Cut, bag, trim, edge.
601-529-6168.
VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER MANAGER
The Vicksburg Convention & Visitors Bureau isseeking applicants for the position of Visitor InformationCenter Manager. The work involves responsibility fortraining and supervising a staff of Travel Counselorsinvolved in providing informational services to visitors.Expanded knowledge of Vicksburg and area history andattractions a must. Ability to communicate clearly andeffectively, both verbally and in writing. Associate orBachelor degree with minimum of 3 years customer serv-ice experience including 2 years of management required.Vacation and benefits. Salary commensurate with experi-ence. Send resumes to VCVB, P.O. Box 110, Vicksburg,MS 39181 by Sept. 16, 2011.
EEOC
Historic
Mississippi
Applications being taken for an
Outside SalesRepresentative
One year experience preferred Excellent communication skills
Energetic personalityCompetitive salary
Nonsmoking environmentApplications Available
No phone calls.
V I C K S B U R G
Monday- Friday8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
GIS TechnicianPosition Available
Southwest MississippiElectric Power AssociationTo submit resume and view
job requirements go towww.southwestepa.com
at About Us.
Director of Nursingposition available
Registered Nurse withsupervisory experience sought
for full-time Directorof Nursing position
PP Insurance providedPP Bonus Program
Contact Eva Pickle at Heritage Manor of Rolling Fork
431 W. Race St. Rolling Fork, MS
662.873.6218
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORThe Housing Authority of the City of Vicksburg, MS
(Vicksburg Housing Authority) is seeking an Executive Directorto manage a 430 unit public housing program. Candidates mustbe able to exercise independent judgment within the framework
of established policy and existing laws governing housing authorities. Possess excellent verbal and written communication
skills, be knowledgeable of HUD rules & regulations, have experience in public housing & affordable housing programs.
Experience in the creation of affordable housing is a plus.Minimum Requirements : Computer skills, Fiscal planning,Administrative and Management skills, Bachelor’s degree in
public administration or related field and five (5) years progressive experience in Public Housing programs.
To Apply, submit your resume to:Christopher M. Barnett, Sr.
Chairman, Board of CommissionersVicksburg Housing Authority
P.O. Box 865Vicksburg, MS 39181-0865
Open Until Filled.
READ THEREAD THECLASSIFIEDS DAILCLASSIFIEDS DAILY!Y!
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Check the real estate listings in the
classifieds daily.
Finding the car you wantin the Classifieds is easy,
but now it’s practicallyautomatic, since we’veput our listings online.
CLOSET PHOBIA?Clear out the skeletons in yours
with an ad in the classifieds. 601-636-SELL
Call 601-636-SELL tosell your Car or Truck!Classifieds Really Work!
24. BusinessServices
QUALITY PAINTINGand Pressure Washing for
the lowest price. Call Willie Walker at
601-638-2107.
Roofing • Carpentry•Brick masonry
•Demolition•Plumbing •Electrical
Ready to Work•Bonded
Call Malcolm 601-301-0841
STEELE PAINTINGSERVICE LLC
Specialize in painting/ sheet rock.
All home improvementsFree Estimates 601-634-0948.
Chris Steele/ Owner
26. For RentOr Lease
RICHARD M. CALDWELL
BROKER
SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS(INCLUDING CORPORATE
APARTMENTS)CALL 601-618-5180
LARGE OFFICE SPACE.Ideal for Daycare center. In-cludes furniture, equipment.Evenings only 601-218-4543.
WAREHOUSE WITH OF-FICE. 4000 square feet.5537 Fisher Ferry Road.$850 monthly. 601-638-3211 or 601-831-1921.
27. Room s ForRent
BOARDING HOUSE. $100weekly, includes cable and util-ities. $220 Deposit. Refer-ences required. 601-218-4543.
28. FurnishedApartments
PRE-VIEW VICKS-BURG'S FINEST furnishedapartments on-line at www.
vicksburgcorporatehousing.com
Call today! 601-874-1116.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
1 BEDROOMS $425. 2 bed-room townhouses $525-$550.
3 bedroom apartments ,$525- $550. Call Management,
601-631-0805.
2 BEDROOM. ALL elec-tric includes water $450.With stove and refrigerator.$200 deposit. 601-634-8290.
THE COVETired of high utility bills?
Country Living at it’s BEST!
Paid cable, water & trash!Washer & Dryer,
Microwave included!Ask about our
SPECIAL!
601-415-8735
780 Hwy 61 North
CONFEDERATE RIDGE
APARTMENTS
$200Blow OutSpecial!
Call for details!601-638-0102
BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE
LIVING
• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped• Lake Surrounds Community
• Pool • Fireplace• Spacious Floor Plans
601-629-6300www.thelandingsvicksburg.com
501 Fairways DriveVicksburg
29. UnfurnishedApartments
2 BEDROOMS. CEN-TRAL air/ heat, SpeedStreet, appliances. $350.601-415-8197.
Apartments/ downtown. 1, 2, 3 bedrooms. $400 to
$650. Deposit/ credit check required. 601-638-1746.
CANNON GATE APART-MENTS. 2 bedroom, 2 bath,washer/ dryer connections,wood burning fireplace,$805 monthly. Available8/20/2011. 601-634-8422.
CommodoreApartments
1, 2 & 3Bedrooms
605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS
39180
601-638-2231
DOWNTOWN, BRICK,MARIE Apartments. Total
electric, central air/ heat,stove, refrigerator. $520, water
furnished. 601-636-7107, [email protected]
HILLVIEW ESTATES.VICKSBURG'S PremierRental Community, on-sitemanager for 24/ 7 servicefor YOU. Professionallymaintained grounds, newcarpet, new paint. Cometake a look. 5.1 miles onHighway 61 South, acrossfrom airport. 601-941-6788.
24. BusinessServices
30. HousesFor Rent
3 BEDROOM, 1 bath withdining room. Washer/ dryerHookup. $400 monthly,$300 deposit. 2936 High-land Drive. 601-885-6502,6001-529-4744.
HOUSE FOR RENT. 3bedrooms 1.5 baths, Niceneighborhood. Fenced back-yard. $650. 601-218-4543.
HOUSE FOR RENT.Great shape. In Oak Park.Call 601-932-3557, 601-415-3384.
LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage.Close in, nice. $795 month-ly. 601-831-4506.
31. Mobile HomesFor Rent
MEADOWBROOKPROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bed-room mobile homes, southcounty. Deposit required.
601-619-9789.
32. Mobile HomesFor Sale
KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS
AND SALES...SUBSCRIBE TO
THE VICKSBURG POSTTODAY! CALL
601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.
33. Commercia lProperty
PRIME RETAIL/ OFFICEspace available January
1st, 2012. 6000 square feetlocated on North
Frontage Road. One ofthe MOST desirable locations in the city.
Interested partiesshould reply to
Dept. 3762, In Care of The Vicksburg Post,P.O. Box 821668,
Vicksburg, MS 39182.
24. BusinessServices
34. HousesFor Sale
Open Hours:Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm
601-634-89282170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.
www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net
24. BusinessServices
34. HousesFor Sale
Eagle Lake, Waterfront,3500+ SF on 2 acres. 5/3
Ample storage, 2 families orbusiness. $280,000.
Owner wants offer McMillin Real Estate.Bette Paul Warner,
601-218-1800.www.Lakehouse.com
Mary D. Barnes .........601-966-1665Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134Jill WaringUpchurch....601-906-5012Carla Watson...............601-415-4179Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI
601-636-6490
Licensed inMS and LA
Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency
1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com
Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Bob Gordon........601-831-0135Tony Jordan........601-630-6461Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Kai Mason...........601-218-5623Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549
Sybil Carraway...601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211
AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCV
JIM HOBSONREALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER
601-636-0502
34. HousesFor Sale LEASE TO OWN
1405 Wisteria Drive 4bedrooms, 2 bath 2 storyhome. $1200 monthly ViewForsalebyowner.com 662-394-0715 or 601-218-9360
29. UnfurnishedApartments
38. FarmImple ments/
Heavy Equipment
HEY! NEED CASH NOW?We buy JUNK CARS,
VANS, SUV’S, TRUCKS,SCHOOL BUSES, HEAVY
EQUIPMENT, HEAVY DUTYTRUCKS & TRAILERS.
Whether your junk is run-ning or not, & PAY YOUCASH NOW. Call today,
we'll come pick your junk upwith CASH in hand!1-800-826-8104
HEY! NEED CASHNOW? We buy junk cars,vans, SUVs, heavy equip-ment and more! Call today,we'll come pick them upwith money in hand! 1-800-826-8104.
39. Motorcycles ,Bicycles
2007 HONDA CRF100FDirt bike. With helmet, greatshape. $1200. 601-638-0964.
2007 HONDA SPIRIT1100. Accessories, silver,garage kept, 2000 miles.MUST SELL. $5500 or bestoffer. 601-301-0432.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
40. Cars & Trucks
1996 CROWN VICTORIALT. Good condition, key-less entry, air. $2800. 601-636-5838.
2011 FORD F150 XLT,Ecoboost 3.5L V6 engine.
2012 Ford Focus, gets up to39 miles per gallon! Vicks-burg Ford Lincoln Mazda,
2431 North Frontage Road,come by and test drive oneor both of these great vehi-cles on Thursday, Friday orSaturday and get an Entry
Form for a $500 CASHdrawing on Saturday. Must
be present during the drawing to win!
www.vicksburgford.com 29. UnfurnishedApartments
40. Cars & Trucks
BUY HERE, PAY HERE.Cars start at $500 down.Located: George Carr oldRental Building. Check us
out. 601-218-2893.
F INANCINGGUARANTEED!
Gary’s Cars Hwy 61S
601-883-9995www.garyscfl.com
1999 to 2005Cars, Trucks
& SUV’s P i c k y o u r s t o d a y !
29. UnfurnishedApartments
40. Cars & Trucks
2001 CADILLAC ELDO-RADO. One owner, matureadult driven, excellentshape. Call 601-218-9654days, 601-636-0658 nights.Dealer.
HEY! NEED CASH NOW?We buy JUNK CARS,
VANS, SUV’S, TRUCKS,SCHOOL BUSES, HEAVY
EQUIPMENT, HEAVY DUTYTRUCKS & TRAILERS.
Whether your junk is run-ning or not, & PAY YOUCASH NOW. Call today,
we'll come pick your junk upwith CASH in hand!1-800-826-8104
HEY! NEED CASHNOW? We buy junk cars,vans, SUVs, heavy equip-ment and more! Call today,we'll come pick them upwith money in hand! 1-800-826-8104.
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Cover that old tub and tile wallswith 100% acrylic.
Many colors and styles available.Convert tub to showers.
1-888-339-5992 (Toll Free)318-324-1232
Donniegrubbs.com100% Financing Available
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Barnes GlassQuality Service at Competitive Prices#1 Windshield Repair & Replacement
Vans • Cars • Trucks•Insurance Claims Welcome•
AUTO • HOME • BUSINESSJason Barnes • 601-661-0900
ROSSCONSTRUCTION
New HomesFraming, Remodeling,
Cabinets, Flooring,Roofing & Vinyl Siding
State Licensed & BondedJon Ross 601-638-7932
FLOOD RECOVERYDozer and Trackhoe Work
Debris Hauling &Demolition. Give us a call.
We will take care of everything. Call Dave
601-551-8503
Touching Hearts, LLCPrivate Duty Sitting and
Homemaker ServiceCaregivers available
WHEN and WHERE youneed them.
•LPN’s •CNA’s •NURSE ASSISTANTS
601-429-5426
Simmons Lawn ServiceProfessional Services &
Competitive Prices• Landscaping • Septic Systems• Irrigation: Install & Repair• Commercial & Residential
Grass CuttingLicensed • Bonded • Insured
12 years experienceRoy Simmons (Owner)
601-218-8341 865-803-8227
•34 years experience•Fully insured
www.mmhousemovers.com
M&M HOUSEMOVING & RAISING
A.C.’S FOUNDATIONPP HOUSE LEVELING PPIf your floors are sagging or shaking, WE CAN HELP!
We replace floor joists, seals& pillars. We also install
termite shields.PP Reasonable PP Insured
601-543-7007
All Business &
Service Directory Ads
MUST BE PAID
IN ADVANCE!
To advertise yourbusiness here for as
little as $2.83 per day,call our Classified Dept.
at 601-636-7355.
PATRIOTIC• FLAGS
• BANNERS
• BUMPER STICKERS
• YARD SIGNSShow Your Colors!
SPEEDIPRINT &OFFICE SUPPLY
• Business Cards• Letterhead• Envelopes• Invoices
• Work Orders• Invitations
(601) 638-2900Fax (601) 636-6711
1601-C North Frontage RoadVicksburg, MS 39180
BUFORDCONSTRUCTION CO., INC.
601-636-4813State Board of Contractors
Approved & Bonded
Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt,Rock & Sand
All Types of Dozer WorkLand Clearing • Demolition
Site Development& Preparation Excavation
Crane Rental • Mud Jacking
660011--663366--SSEELLLL ((77335555))
MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive
Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625
Equal Housing Opportunity
801 Clay Street 601-630-2921www.the-vicksburg.com
UTILITIES PAID!1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments
Studios & Efficiencies
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S H A M R O C KA PA RT M E N T S
SUPERIOR QUALITY,CUSTOM CABINETS,
EXTRA LARGE MASTER BDRM,& WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS.
SAFE!!SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT
601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333
COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR
HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff
601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd.
COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR
HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff
601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd
Bradford RidgeApartments
Live in a Quality Built Apartmentfor LESS! All brick,
concrete floors and double wallsprovide excellent soundproofing,
security, and safety.601-638-1102 • 601-415-3333
BienvilleApartments
The ParkResidencesat Bienville
1, 2 & 3 bedroomsand townhomes
available immediately.
VICKSBURGS NEWEST,AND A WELL MAINTAINED
FAVORITE. EACH WITHSPACIOUS FLOOR PLANS ANDSOPHISTICATED AMENITIES.
FOR LEASING INFO, CALL 601-636-1752www.parkresidences.com • www.bienvilleapartments.com
and
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LOTTERYLa. Pick 3: 6-1-0 La. Pick 4: 7-9-8-1 Weekly results: D2
SChEduLEPREP FOOTBALLPCA at Ben’s FordFriday, 7 p.m.
St. Aloysius at Hinds AHSFriday, 7:30 p.m.
Vicksburg at Richwood (La.)Friday, 7:30 p.m.
WC at HattiesburgFriday, 7:30 p.m.
ON TV6 p.m. ESPN - The New York Yankees travel to Fenway Park to take on their archrivals, the Bos-ton Red Sox.
WhO’S hOTKK McCARLEYWarren Central cross-country runner was second on Saturday in a 4-kilome-ter meet at Bovina. She ran the four kilometer course in 17 minutes and 20 seconds.
SIdELINESNCAA suspends 8 ‘Canes for opener
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Quarterback Ja-cory Harris and 11 other Miami players who ac-cepted extra benefits from former booster Nev-in Shapiro will be allowed by the NCAA to play again, the first sanctions in a scandal that contin-ues to overshadow the Hurricanes.
Of those, eight will miss at least one game, and all 12 must pay restitution.
The harshest penalties handed down Tuesday were reserved for those who took gifts from Sha-piro while being recruit-ed. Defensive lineman Olivier Vernon will sit out six games, while Ray Ray Armstrong — considered among the nation’s top safeties — and tight end Dyron Dye will miss four games apiece. Among the players sanctioned, only Vernon will miss more than one Atlantic Coast Conference game.
“I think it was proba-bly fair,” Miami coach Al Golden told The Associ-ated Press Tuesday night. “Clearly, whatever trans-pired, it wasn’t as over-the-top as everybody was initially reporting and all of those things. The NCAA and the uni-versity felt there was mis-takes made .”
Miami opens its season at Maryland on Monday night. The Hurricanes still might face many more sanctions as the NCAA’s investigation into Miami’s compliance practices continues. And with Tues-day’s ruling, the school has joined a growing list of schools with major football programs to be investigated by the NCAA for rule-breaking in the past 18 months. Others include Southern Califor-nia, Ohio State, Auburn, Oregon, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia Tech and LSU.
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Saints sign Kasay, cut BrownBy Brett MartelThe Associated Press
METAIRIE, La. — A day after attending a back-to-school event like a typical 41-year-old father of four, John Kasay was on a morn-ing flight from Charlotte to New Orleans and resumed a two-decade career as an NFL kicker.
“That’s how fast life changes,” said Kasay, who joined the Saints in time to practice Tuesday evening, two days after Garrett Hart-ley hurt his right hip while kicking an extra point in New Orleans’ victory at Oakland on Sunday night.
As suddenly as Kasay found himself back in the pros, former Saints starting defensive end Alex Brown
was looking for a job.Brown, who has played nine
NFL seasons and started every game for New Orleans in 2010, was among 11 play-ers let go by the Saints on Tuesday, when NFL teams were required to trim pre-season rosters to 80.
Brown was slated to earn $3 million in base salary this season and the Saints had added depth at his posi-tion in the offseason, draft-ing California standout end Cam Jordan 24th overall last spring, then signing former Detroit defensive end Turk McBride shortly after the NFL lockout ended.
“It was a hard decision. We spent a lot of time on it,” Saints coach Sean Payton said. “It wasn’t that we just drafted a young player at
that position. I think you try to factor in all the practice snaps, all the game film and it was something that, after going through it all and also looking at the timing of it, there’s still that opportunity within the next week that he’ll have a chance to sign with someone else.
“Also, that door’s not totally shut if that opportunity pres-ents itself here,” Payton added.
That opportunity could present itself for a couple of reasons, one being that Will Smith might have to serve a four-game suspen-sion because he was among several players who tested positive for a banned diuretic in 2008. The NFL has not
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New Orleans Saints defensive end Alex Brown plays around with a photographer’s camera after practice last week. Brown was cut on Tuesday.
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Warren Central’s Raylee Barwick tags out Forest Hill’s Jerrica Harper during Tuesday’s game at Lucy Young Field.
HindsstartsanewBy Jeff [email protected]
Two Mississippi commu-nity college teams coming off winning seasons last year hope to use Thurs-day’s opener as a quick start to the 2011 season.
Itawamba CC comes to Renfroe Stadium to battle the Hinds Eagles. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m.
Both teams went 5-4 last season, but missed the playoffs. For the Eagles, the winning record marked a turnaround after three straight losing seasons. Gene Murphy, who begins his third year in his second stint at Hinds, is anxious about the opener.
“We’re fielding a young team and we’re anx-ious to see how they will respond,” Murphy said.
In 19 seasons at Hinds, Murphy is 141-51-5. He’s hoping a veteran offensive line keyed by two Warren Central products will lift the Eagles.
“We don’t have a lot of sophomores, but the two we have on our offen-sive line, John Gustavis and Steven Jordan, are both leaders,” Murphy said. Gustavis will open at guard while Jordan will be at tackle.
Deon Anthony, who was used as a wide receiver in 2010, will start at
Lady Vikes put down PatriotsBy Jeff [email protected]
With only the top two slow-pitch teams advancing out of the
revised Region 2-6A, Warren Central needs every win it can get.
Tuesday afternoon at Lucy Young Field, the Lady Vikes smashed Forest Hill 15-0 in three innings. The romp was
Warren Central’s fifth straight blowout win and its second region victory in a row after an opening loss to Madison Central.
WC coach Dana McGivney said the
Forest Hill rout will help toward Thursday’s
game at Vicksburg. “With just the top two
(teams) going to the play-offs, we have to get this one,” McGivney said. “We go to Vicksburg on Thursday and then Clinton and Madison Central next week. That will make three big games in a row. For us to make the play-offs, we have to be able to do something against Clinton and Madison Central.”
The Lady Vikes (7-1, 2-1 Region 2-6A) certainly have some momentum. Against Forest Hill, they struck for six runs in the bottom of the first and ended the game by run rule with nine runs in the bottom of the third. Katie
Channell came up big with a three-run triple in the first and added a single and a run scored in the third.
“I didn’t hit the ball on the triple that far but it was just enough to get the runs home,” Channell said of her bases-loaded blast. “I came home because I saw the cutoff throw went a little bit off. We’re starting to hit the ball well and that will help us as we go on.”
Alexis Patterson continued her hot hitting with three more hits. She had a single, triple and a double with one RBI.
Nationals crush Braves, 9-2By The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves have some big ques-tions in their rotation as they try to protect their big lead in the NL wild-card race.
Jair Jurrjens’ second-half struggles continued as he gave up six runs, including a three-run homer to Ryan Zimmerman, and the Wash-ington Nationals beat the Braves 9-2 on Tuesday night.
The Braves began the night nine games ahead of San Francisco in the NL wild-card race. They fell 71⁄2 games behind Philadelphia in the NL East.
Zimmerman and Michael
Morse each had three hits. Morse hit a homer and drove in three runs, and Danny Espinosa and Laynce Nix homered for Washington.
Jurrjens was 12-3 before the All-Star break while allowing only five homers in 16 starts. He is 1-3 since the break while giving up nine homers in seven starts. He has allowed four or more runs in five of the seven starts.
The right-hander was making his first start in seven days as the Braves were coming off an unusual three-day break after two games at the New York Mets were postponed by Hurri-cane Irene. But he wouldn’t
blame his rough outing on the long layoff.
“I just left a lot of pitches up and over the middle,” Jur-rjens said.
Jurrjens’ slump has come as another top starter, Tommy Hanson, faces an uncertain outlook for the final month and the postseason.
An MRI on Friday showed a small tear in Hanson’s right rotator cuff that won’t require surgery. Hanson met with Dr. James Andrews on Monday and said Tuesday he has been cleared to start rehabbing.
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Washington Nationals outfielder Laynce Nix celebrates with Michael Morse, left, after Nix’s two-run home run in the sev-enth inning Tuesday. Washington won 9-2.See Braves, Page D4.
See Hinds, Page D4.
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W L Pct. GBz-Chattanooga ..............38 27 .585 —xyz-Tennessee (Cubs) .38 27 .585 —Carolina (Reds) ............29 35 .453 8 1/2Jackson (Mariners) .......28 37 .431 10Huntsville (Brewers) .....26 38 .406 11 1/2
South Division W L Pct. GByz-Mobile (D-backs) .....44 21 .677 —Mississippi (Braves) ..32 33 .492 12Montgomery (Rays) ......31 34 .477 13Jacksonville (Marlins) ...30 35 .462 14x-B-ham (White Sox) ...28 37 .431 16x-clinched first halfy-clinched division (refers to second half)z-clinched playoff spot
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Huntsville 6, Jackson 3Tennessee 10, Jacksonville 8Chattanooga 14, Mobile 2Mississippi 9, Birmingham 1Carolina 7, Montgomery 3
Today’s GamesNo games scheduled
Thursday’s GamesJackson at Jacksonville, 12:05 p.m.Mississippi at Carolina, 6:15 p.m.Montgomery at Chattanooga, 6:15 p.m.Mobile at Huntsville, 6:43 p.m.Tennessee at Birmingham, 7:05 p.m.
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East Division W L Pct GBBoston ..........................82 52 .612 —New York ......................81 52 .609 1/2Tampa Bay ...................73 61 .545 9Toronto .........................67 68 .496 15 1/2Baltimore ......................54 79 .406 27 1/2
Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit ...........................74 61 .548 —Chicago ........................68 65 .511 5Cleveland ......................67 65 .508 5 1/2Minnesota .....................56 79 .415 18Kansas City ..................56 80 .412 18 1/2
West Division W L Pct GBTexas ............................77 59 .566 —Los Angeles .................73 62 .541 3 1/2Oakland ........................60 75 .444 16 1/2Seattle ..........................57 77 .425 19
Tuesday’s GamesDetroit 2, Kansas City 1, 9 inningsCleveland 6, Oakland 2Baltimore 6, Toronto 5, 9 inningsN.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 2Texas 2, Tampa Bay 0Chicago White Sox 8, Minnesota 6L.A. Angels 13, Seattle 6
Today’s GamesKansas City (F.Paulino 2-6) at Detroit (Porcello 12-8), 12:05 p.m.Minnesota (Diamond 0-2) at Chicago White Sox (Peavy 6-6), 1:10 p.m.Oakland (Harden 4-2) at Cleveland (Jimenez 2-1), 6:05 p.m.Toronto (H.Alvarez 0-2) at Baltimore (Jo-.Reyes 7-10), 6:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-4) at Boston (Beckett 11-5), 6:10 p.m.Tampa Bay (Shields 12-10) at Texas (Ogando 12-6), 7:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Haren 13-7) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 12-11), 9:10 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesOakland (G.Gonzalez 11-11) at Cleveland (Car-mona 6-12), 11:05 a.m.Toronto (L.Perez 3-2) at Baltimore (Tom.Hunter 3-2), 11:35 a.m.Kansas City (Duffy 3-8) at Detroit (Ja.Turner 0-1), 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (A.J.Burnett 9-11) at Boston (Lester 14-6), 6:10 p.m.Tampa Bay (Niemann 9-5) at Texas (C.Wilson 13-6), 7:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (E.Santana 10-9) at Seattle (Furbush 3-6), 9:10 p.m.
National LeagueEast Division
W L Pct GBPhiladelphia ..................85 46 .649 —Atlanta ..........................79 55 .590 7 1/2New York ......................64 69 .481 22Washington ...................63 70 .474 23Florida ...........................60 74 .448 26 1/2
Central Division W L Pct GBMilwaukee .....................81 55 .596 —St. Louis .......................71 64 .526 9 1/2Cincinnati ......................67 68 .496 13 1/2Pittsburgh .....................62 73 .459 18 1/2Chicago ........................59 77 .434 22Houston ........................46 90 .338 35
West Division W L Pct GBArizona .........................77 59 .566 —San Francisco ..............71 65 .522 6Los Angeles .................64 70 .478 12Colorado .......................64 72 .471 13San Diego ....................60 76 .441 17
Tuesday’s GamesFlorida 6, N.Y. Mets 0Philadelphia 9, Cincinnati 0Washington 9, Atlanta 2Houston 8, Pittsburgh 2St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 1Arizona 9, Colorado 4L.A. Dodgers 8, San Diego 5Chicago Cubs 5, San Francisco 2
Today’s GamesSan Diego (LeBlanc 2-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 8-13), 2:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs (R.Lopez 4-5) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 8-12), 2:45 p.m.Florida (Volstad 5-11) at N.Y. Mets (Capuano 10-11), 6:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 14-7) at Cincinnati (Willis 0-3), 6:10 p.m.Washington (Lannan 8-10) at Atlanta (D.Lowe 8-12), 6:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 8-6) at Houston (Happ 4-15), 7:05 p.m.St. Louis (Westbrook 10-7) at Milwaukee (Wolf 11-8), 7:10 p.m.Colorado (Rogers 6-3) at Arizona (Collmenter 8-8), 8:40 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesPhiladelphia (Worley 9-1) at Cincinnati (Leake 11-8), 11:35 a.m.L.A. Dodgers (Eveland 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Lincoln 1-0), 3:05 p.m.St. Louis (Dickson 0-0) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 15-8), 3:10 p.m.Florida (Hensley 2-5) at N.Y. Mets (Batista 3-2), 6:10 p.m.Washington (Wang 2-2) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 13-8), 6:10 p.m.
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Here are Mississippi’s top high school football teams in each class as selected by a panel of Associated Press state sports writers.
Class 1ASchool W-L Pts Prv1. Durant (10) ............................(2-0) 124 -2. Cathedral (1) .........................(1-0) 93 -3. French Camp ........................(2-0) 61 -4. West Oktibbeha ....................(2-0) 51 -5. Mount Olive (1) .....................(0-2) 49 -Others receiving votes: Bogue Chitto 28, St. Joseph, Greenville 17, Nanih Waiya 14, Dexter 14, Pelahatchie 12, Weir 10, Ray Brooks 8, Falkner 7, Noxapater 7, St. Aloysius 7, Stringer 6, East Oktibbeha 6, Coffeeville 6.
Class 2ASchool W-L Pts Prv1. West Bolivar (6) ....................(2-0) 94 -2. Bassfield (4) ..........................(2-0) 87 - 3. Calhoun City (1) ...................(2-0) 85 -4. Lumberton .............................(1-1) 48 -5. Taylorsville (1) ......................(1-0) 45 -Others receiving votes: East Marion 28, Wes-son 23, South Delta 19, Bruce 16, Madison St. Joseph 15, Lake 12, East Webster 8, Okolona 8, Broad Street 7, Ackerman 7, Hamilton 6, Puckett 6, J.F. Kennedy 6.
Class 3ASchool W-L Pts Prv1. Forest (3) ..............................(1-1) 94 -2. Aberdeen (3) .........................(1-1) 89 -3. Hazlehurst (1) .......................(2-0) 80 -4. Franklin Co. (3) .....................(2-0) 53 -5. East Side (1) .........................(2-0) 51 -Others receiving votes: Philadelphia 33, Water Valley 30, Charleston 20, Leland 17, Sumrall 10, Kemper County 9, Collins 8, Leflore County 7, Perry Central 7, Jefferson County 6, Morton 6.
Class 4ASchool W-L Pts Prv1. Lafayette (11) ........................(2-0) 110 -2. Tylertown (2) .........................(2-0) 93 -3. Noxubee County ...................(1-1) 80 -4. Mendenhall ............................(1-1) 61 -5. Laurel ...................................(2-0) 58 -Others receiving votes: Port Gibson 17, Amory 15, North Pontotoc 15, Forrest Co. AHS 14, Quitman 12, Amanda Elzy 7, Louisville 7, North Pike 7, South Pike 6, Poplarville 6, Cleveland 6, Senatobia 6.
Class 5ASchool W-L Pts Prv 1. Picayune (6) ..........................(2-0) 104 -2. West Point (5) .......................(0-1) 98 -3. Pearl (1) ................................(2-0) 78 -T4.West Jones (1) ....................(1-0) 59 -T4.Long Beach ..........................(1-0) 59 -Others receiving votes: Brookhaven 39, Wayne County 26, Starkville 21, Canton 17, Oxford 7, East Central 6, New Hope 6.
Class 6ASchool W-L Pts Prv1. South Panola (10) ................(1-1) 126 -2. Olive Branch (2) ...................(2-0) 86 -3. Oak Grove ............................(2-0) 83 -4. Meridian (1) ...........................(2-0) 79 -T5.Madison Central ...................(0-2) 29 -T5.Petal .....................................(1-1) 29 -Others receiving votes: Northwest Rankin 27, Gulfport 21, Clinton 9, Tupelo 7, Greenville-Weston 6, Columbus 6, Natchez 6, Ocean Springs 6.
MAISSchool W-L Pts Prv1. Jackson Aca. (10) .................(2-0) 112 -2. Jackson Prep (2) ..................(2-0) 110 -3. Pillow Aca. ............................(1-1) 45 -4. Trinity Episcopal ...................(1-1) 41 -5. Brookhaven Aca. ..................(2-0) 36 -Others receiving votes: Washington School 35, Madison-Ridgeland Aca. 32, Tri-County Aca. 17, Simpson Aca. 16, Parklane Aca. 15, Winston Aca. 14, Presbyterian Christian 13, Starkville Aca. 12.
___All Associated Press members in Mississippi are eligible to participate in the high school football poll. Those who voted for this week’s poll are: Daily Leader, Brookhaven; The Commercial Dis-patch, Columbus; Delta Democrat-Times, Green-ville; The Sun-Herald, Biloxi-Gulfport; Hattiesburg American, Hattiesburg; Laurel Leader-Call, Laurel; Enterprise-Journal, McComb; The Meridian Star, Meridian; Picayune Item, Picayune; Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo; The Vicksburg Post; The Commercial Appeal, Desoto.; WDBD.
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Region 2-6ATeam Overall RegionMurrah .....................................1-1 ......................0-0Clinton .....................................1-1 ......................0-0Greenville-Weston ...................1-1 ......................0-0Northwest Rankin ....................2-0 ......................0-0Jim Hill .....................................0-2 ......................0-0Vicksburg ...............................0-2 ......................0-0Warren Central ......................0-2 ......................0-0Madison Central ......................0-2 ......................0-0
Friday’s GamesWarren Central at Hattiesburg, 7:30 p.m.Bastrop (La.) at Greenville-Weston, 7:30 p.m.Provine at Murrah, 7:30 p.m.Petal at Madison Central, 7:30 p.m.Brandon at Clinton, 7:30 p.m.Lanier at Jim Hill, 7:30 p.m.Northwest Rankin at Pearl, 7:30 p.m.Vicksburg at Richwood (La.), 7:30 p.m.
Region 4-1A
Team Overall RegionBogue Chitto ...........................2-0 ......................0-0Salem ......................................2-0 ......................0-0Cathedral .................................1-0 ......................0-0Resurrection ............................1-0 ......................0-0Stringer ....................................1-1 ......................0-0Hinds AHS ..............................1-1 ......................0-0University Christian .................0-1 ......................0-0Dexter ......................................0-2 ......................0-0Mount Olive .............................0-2 ......................0-0St. Aloysius ............................0-2 ......................0-0
Friday’s GamesUniversity Christian at Bogue Chitto, 7:30 p.m.Mount Olive at Salem, 7:30 p.m.St. Aloysius at Hinds AHS, 7:30 p.m.Bay Springs at Stringer, 7:30 p.m.Cathedral at Loyd Star, 7:30 p.m.Open: Resurrection, Stringer, Dexter
Region 6-4ATeam Overall RegionPort Gibson ............................2-0 ......................0-0Florence ...................................2-0 ......................0-0Magee ......................................1-1 ......................0-0Mendenhall ..............................1-1 ......................0-0Raymond .................................1-1 ......................0-0Germantown ............................1-1 ......................0-0Richland ...................................0-2 ......................0-0
Friday’s GamesFlorence at McLaurin, 7:30 p.m.Magee at Lawrence County, 7:30 p.m.Raymond at Wingfield, 7:30 p.m.Port Gibson at Jefferson County, 7:30 p.m.Richland at Crystal Springs, 7:30 p.m.
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Team Overall RegionHeidelberg Academy ...............1-1 ......................1-0Porters Chapel .......................2-0 ......................0-0Newton Academy ....................1-0 ......................0-0Park Place ...............................1-1 ......................0-0Prentiss Christian ....................0-2 ......................0-0Ben’s Ford ...............................0-2 ......................0-1
Friday’s GamesPorters Chapel at Ben’s Ford, 7 p.m.Wayne Academy at Newton Academy, 7 p.m.Park Place at Prentiss Christian, 7 p.m.Amite at Heidelberg Academy, 7 p.m.Prentiss Christian at Wilkinson Christian, 7 p.m.Open: Newton Academy
District 3-ATeam Overall RegionRiverfield ..................................2-0 ......................1-0Claiborne Academy .................1-1 ......................1-0Wilkinson Christian ..................2-0 ......................0-0CENLA .....................................1-1 ......................0-0Glenbrook ................................1-1 ......................0-1Tallulah Academy ..................0-2 ......................0-0Union Christian ........................0-1 ......................0-0Amite .......................................0-1 ......................0-0
Friday’s GamesAmite at Heidelberg Academy, 7 p.m.Claiborne at Tallulah Academy, 7 p.m.Wilkinson County at Glenbrook, 7 p.m.Union at Prairie View, 7 p.m.Open: Riverfield, CENLA
District 3-AATeam Overall RegionPrairie View .............................1-1 ......................0-0Riverdale .................................0-1 ......................0-0River Oaks ..............................1-1 ......................0-0Central Hinds .........................0-2 ......................0-0
Friday’s GamesCopiah Academy at Central Hinds, 7 p.m.Union at Prairie View, 7 p.m.River Oaks at Jackson Academy, 7 p.m.Riverdale at ACS, 7 p.m.
college fooTballTop 25 schedule
ThursdayNo. 11 Wisconsin vs. UNLV, 7 p.m.No. 20 Mississippi St. at Memphis, 7 p.m.
FridayNo. 14 TCU at Baylor, 7 p.m.No. 17 Michigan St. vs. Youngstown St., 6:30 p.m.
SaturdayNo. 1 Oklahoma vs. Tulsa, 7 p.m.No. 2 Alabama vs. Kent St., 11:20 a.m.No. 3 Oregon vs. No 4 LSU, 7 p.m.No. 5 Boise St. at No. 19 Georgia, 7 p.m.No. 6 Florida St. vs. La.-Monroe, 2:30 p.m.No. 7 Stanford vs. San Jose St., 4 p.m.No. 9 Oklahoma St. vs. La.-Lafayette, 6 p.m.No. 10 Nebraska vs. Chattanooga, 2:30 p.m.No. 12 South Carolina vs. East Carolina, 6 p.m.No. 13 Va. Tech vs. Appalachian St., 11:30 a.m.No. 15 Arkansas vs. Missouri St., 6 p.m.No. 16 Notre Dame vs. South Florida, 2:30 p.m.No. 18 Ohio St. vs. Akron, 11 a.m.No. 21 Missouri vs. Miami (Ohio), 11 a.m.No. 22 Florida vs. Florida Atlantic, 6 p.m.No. 23 Auburn vs. Utah St., 11 a.m.No. 25 Southern Cal vs. Minnesota, 2:30 p.m.
SundayNo. 8 Texas A&M vs. SMU, 6:30 p.m.No. 24 West Virginia vs. Marshall, 2:30 p.m.
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Mississippi college scheduleThursday
Delta St. at Northwestern St., 6 p.m.Mississippi St. at Memphis, 7 p.m.
SaturdayConcordia, Ala. at Jackson St., 1:30 p.m.BYU at Ole Miss, 3:45 p.m.Alabama St. at Miss. Valley St., 5 p.m.Alcorn St. vs. Grambling, at Shreveport, 6 p.m.Millsaps at Mississippi College, 7 p.m.Belhaven at Louisiana College, 7 p.m.Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss, 9 p.m.
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Southeastern Conference scheduleThursday
Mississippi St. at Memphis, 7 p.m.Kentucky at Western Kentucky, 8:15 p.m.
SaturdayUtah St. at Auburn, 11 a.m.Kent St. at Alabama, 11:15 a.m.BYU at Ole Miss, 3:45 p.m.Oregon at LSU, 4 p.m.Montana at Tennessee, 5 p.m.East Carolina at South Carolina, 6 p.m.Missouri St. at Arkansas, 6 p.m.Florida Atlantic at Florida, 6 p.m.Elon at Vanderbilt, 6:30 p.m.Boise St. at Georgia, 7 p.m.
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Conference USA scheduleThursday
Mississippi St. at Memphis, 7 p.m.Saturday
Southeastern Louisiana at Tulane, 2:30 p.m.UCLA at Houston, 2:30 p.m.Charleston Southern at Central Florida, 6 p.m.Rice at Texas, 6 p.m.East Carolina at South Carolina, 6 p.m.Tulsa at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.
Stony Brook at UTEP, 8:05 p.m.Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss, 9 p.m.
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SWAC scheduleSaturday
Concordia (Ala.) at Jackson St., 1:30 p.m.c-Alabama A&M vs. Hampton, 4 p.m.Alabama St. at Mississippi Valley St., 5 p.m.Langston at Ark.-Pine Bluff, 5 p.m.s-Grambling vs. Alcorn St., 6 p.m.Southern at Tennessee St., 6 p.m.
Sundayo-Prairie View at Bethune-Cookman, 11 a.m.c-at Chicago; s-at Shreveport; o-at Orlando, Fla.
nflNFL preseason schedule
ThursdayDetroit at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m.Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.Baltimore at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.St. Louis at Jacksonville, 6:30 p.m.Dallas at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 6:30 p.m.Tampa Bay at Washington, 6:30 p.m.Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m.Cleveland at Chicago, 7 p.m.Kansas City at Green Bay, 7 p.m.Houston at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Tennessee at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Denver at Arizona, 9 p.m.San Francisco at San Diego, 9 p.m.
FridayOakland at Seattle, 9:30 p.m.
End preseason
nascarSprint Cup Schedule
Feb. 20 — Daytona 500 (Trevor Bayne)Feb. 27 — Subway Fresh Fit 500 (Jeff Gordon)March 6 — Kobalt Tools 400 (Carl Edwards)March 20 — Jeff Byrd 500 (Kyle Busch)March 27 — Auto Club 400 (Kevin Harvick)April 3 — Goody’s Fast Relief 500 (Kevin Harvick)April 9 — Samsung Mobile 500 (Matt Kenseth)April 17 — Aaron’s 499 (Jimmie Johnson)April 30 — Crown Royal Presents The Matthew & Daniel Hansen 400 (Kyle Busch)May 7 — Showtime Southern 500 (Regan Smith)May 15 — FedEx 400 (Matt Kenseth)May 21 — x-Sprint All-Star Race (Carl Edwards)May 21 — x-Sprint Showdown (David Ragan)May 29 — Coca-Cola 600 (Kevin Harvick)June 5 — STP 400 (Brad Keselowski)June 12 — 5-hour ENERGY 500 (Jeff Gordon)June 19 — Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 (Denny Hamlin)June 26 — Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Kurt Busch)July 2 — Coke Zero 400 (David Ragan)July 9 — Quaker State 400 (Kyle Busch)July 17 — Lenox Tools 301 (Ryan Newman)July 31 — Brickyard 400 (Paul Menard)Aug. 7 — Good Sam RV Insurance 500 (Brad Keselowski)Aug. 15 — Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen (Marcos Ambrose)Aug. 21 — Pure Michigan 400 (Kyle Busch)Aug. 27 — Irwin Tools Night Race (Brad Kesel-owski)Sep. 4 — AdvoCare 500, Hampton, Ga.Sep. 10 — Wonderful Pistachios 400, Richmond, Va.Sep. 18 — GEICO 400, Joliet, Ill.Sep. 25 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H.Oct. 2 — AAA 400, Dover, Del.Oct. 9 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan.Oct. 15 — Bank of America 500, Concord, N.C.Oct. 23 — Talladega 500, Talladega, Ala.Oct. 30 — TUMS Fast Relief 500, Ridgeway, Va.Nov. 6 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth, TexasNov. 13 — Kobalt Tools 500, Avondale, Ariz.Nov. 20 — Ford 400, Homestead, Fla.x-non-points race
Sprint Cup standings(Number of victories in parentheses)
1. x-Kyle Busch (4) ............................................ 8302. x-Jimmie Johnson (1) ................................... 8303. x-Matt Kenseth (2) ........................................ 7984. x-Carl Edwards (1) ....................................... 7955. x-Kevin Harvick (3) ....................................... 7826. Jeff Gordon (2) ............................................. 7827. Ryan Newman (1) ........................................ 7628. Kurt Busch (1) .............................................. 7499. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (0) .................................. 72810. Tony Stewart (0) ......................................... 71011. *Brad Keselowski (3) .................................. 68912. Clint Bowyer (0) .......................................... 68813. *Denny Hamlin (1) ...................................... 67214. A J Allmendinger (0) .................................. 66415. Kasey Kahne (0) ......................................... 656x-Clinched spot in the Chase for the Champion-ship.*Wild-card leaders; the two drivers outside of the top 10 in points who finish with the most victories will qualify for the Chase.
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ball game is played at Latrobe, Pa., between Latrobe and Jeannette, Pa. Latrobe pays $10 to quarterback John Brallier for expenses.
1991 — Houston quarterback David Klingler sets an NCAA record with six touchdown passes in the second quarter as the Cou-gars pound Louisiana Tech 73-3.
2001 — Pitcher Danny Almonte, who dominated the Little League World Series with his 70 mph fast-balls, is ruled ineligible after gov-ernment records experts determine he actually is 14, and that birth cer-tificates showing he was two years younger are false. The finding nul-lifies all the victories by his Bronx, N.Y., team, the Rolando Paulino Little League All-Stars.
2004 — Omar Vizquel is 6-for-7 to tie the American League record for hits for a nine-inning game in Cleveland’s 22-0 victory over the New York Yankees. The 22-0 beat-ing is the largest loss in the history of the Yankees’ organization.
nbaJewelry robbery linked to ex-NBA player, shooting
ATLANTA — A former NBA player who is accused of shoot-ing an Atlanta woman to death appeared to be retaliating for being robbed of $55,000 worth of jewelry, police said.
Javaris Crittenton, who was sus-pended from the NBA along with his ex-teammate Gilbert Arenas for having guns in a locker room, was arrested late Monday at a South-ern California airport. He has been charged with murder in the Aug. 19 shooting death of Jullian Jones outside her house in Atlanta, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.
Crittenton’s attorneys have said he will exonerated.
Crittenton told police he and a friend were leaving a barbershop around 10:50 p.m. on April 21 when two teenagers surprised them as they returned to their car, accord-ing to a police report released to The Associated Press.
One teenager held Crittenton at gunpoint and ordered him to “give me what you got,” he told police. He said he handed over a $25,000 black diamond necklace, a $30,000 black diamond watch, an iPhone and $25 cash, according to the report.
nflCincinnati’s Benson begins assault jail term in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — Cincinnati run-ning back Cedric Benson has begun serving a 20-day jail term in Texas to settle two misdemeanor assault cases.
The former University of Texas star was sentenced Monday in Austin and had planned to sur-render Oct. 17, during Cincinnati’s bye week. But Travis County Jail records show Benson was booked late Tuesday.
Benson’s jail time could be short-ened with possible credit for time served when arrested.
Benson was arrested last year for allegedly punching a bar employee. He’s pleaded no contest to assault with injury.
Last month he was accused of punching an ex-roommate. Benson pleaded no contest to assault with bodily injury with family vio-lence. That case will be dismissed if Benson does 30 hours of commu-nity service and pays restitution.
49ers’ Gore agrees on 3-year extension
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agent Jason Rosenhaus said on Tues-day that San Francisco 49ers run-ning back Frank Gore has agreed to terms on a new three-year contract extension that keeps him with the team through 2014.
Gore is set to make $21 million, with $13.5 million in guaranteed money. The 28-year-old Gore, head-ing into his seventh NFL season, is third on San Francisco’s career rushing list.
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Vick gets contract, wants titlePHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Michael Vick shared some laughs, and offered up an occa-sional smile. But for the most part, his Tuesday news confer-ence announcing his new con-tract was handled the same way he’s handled everything since he landed in Philadel-phia two years ago.
All business.“The common goal is to
bring that ring back to the city of Philadelphia. That’s why we play,” Vick said. “That’s what we’re all working for. As a competitor, I don’t feel my career will be complete with-out that.”
And so begins the next phase in one of the league’s more remarkable comeback stories. With the business of his new, six-year, $100 million contract out of the way, it’s time for Vick and the rest of the star-laden Eagles to shoot for that elusive Super Bowl title.
The Eagles won the 1960 NFL championship, but have been to just two Super Bowls since, losing both.
Not that there’s any pressure or anything.
“It’s a lot of money, how-ever you look at it,” Vick said. “Obviously, it’s going to create a lot of demands. I know what comes along with it, and I know how to handle it.”
Vick, 31, became the Eagles’ backup quarterback when they traded Donovan McNabb to the Washington Redskins after the 2009 season, and he became the starter last Sep-tember after replacing an injured Kevin Kolb.
He was named NFL Come-back Player of the Year in 2010 after winning 8 of 11 starts, throwing a career-high 21 touchdown passes and rush-ing for nine more. But despite engineering a memorable 38-31 comeback win over the New York Giants that ulti-mately led to the NFC East title in December, Vick and the Eagles were dumped at home a month later in the playoffs by the Green Bay Packers, 21-16, in the wild-card round.
But this year, knowing he’ll open the season as the starter, and knowing he has perhaps the most name-heavy roster
in the league on his side, it appears like it’s Super Bowl or bust.
Which is why coach Andy Reid and Co. are more than happy to see the quarterback happy.
“This is a great story all the way through,” Reid said. “This is really what Ameri-ca’s all about. Second chance and Mike took full advantage
of that. And then when he was given a second chance to start in the National Football League, he took full advan-tage of that and turned it into this.”
And the next stop — after a detour vs. the New York Jets in the preseason finale on Thursday — will be a week from Sunday in St. Louis, where Vick will make his first
opening-day start in five years vs. the Rams.
“(I) go back in time and think about how hard it’s been over the last two years,” he said. “But (despite) the sacrifices I had to make and what I had to give up, it’s been all worth it.”
But, in the end, will he be worth the money? The Eagles retained his rights by signing him to a one-year, $16 million franchise tag in the offsea-son, but his new contract now runs through 2016. It’s a bold statement for a franchise that has had its share of big-name quarterbacks in the past, only to walk away empty handed.
Cardinals are highon Beanie’s skills
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Ari-zona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt is full of praise for running back Beanie Wells’ performance in preseason games and training camp.
Whisenhunt said Wells, ele-vated to the unquestioned No. 1 at his position with the trade of Tim Hightower, is running the fast, powerful way he did late in his rookie season two years ago.
“Confidence in this game is a big part of it,” Whisenhunt said after practice Tuesday. “He’s running with a lot of con-fidence. You know he believes he can make plays. I remem-ber the end of his rookie year he was running the same way. He was making some of those runs.
“That’s what gets you so excited about Beanie. Part of it is he’s healthy, part of it is he is more confident.”
The coach also said Wells has worked hard to improve his pass blocking, long a weakness in the former Ohio State star’s game. It’s a neces-sary step in becoming an all-around back in the NFL.
“I think there’s a commit-ment to Beanie understanding what he needs to do to be ‘the’ guy,” Whisenhunt said, “and we’ve had a number of discus-sions about that. You always are happy when the player improves, and Beanie has done that. I’m very pleased with how he’s taken that load and worked hard to become a better back. He’s come a long way since two years ago and I respect that.”
Wells, who turned 23 on Aug. 7, has acknowledged that the knee injury he sustained in the preseason a year ago both-ered him all season long, not only physically but mentally. He was not the powerhouse runner that he had been his rookie season, gaining just 397 yards and averaging 3.4 yards per carry.
This preseason, Wells has 129 yards rushing in 27 attempts, an average of 4.8 yards per carry. When the first unit played well into the third quarter of Saturday night’s
34-31 loss to San Diego, Wells gained 63 yards in 10 carries, aver-aging 6.3 per attempt.
“I ’ve just been healthy this year,” he said. “It’s just a matter of being healthy and confident.”
Wells said there is plenty of room for improvement.
“I expect a lot better,” he said,
Wells knows that there are critics who say he never will be sturdy enough to become one of the NFL’s elite backs.
“ I’m motivated by the game of football. I love playing,” he said. “The doubters, that’s just adding more fuel to the fire.”
The Cardinals had better hope Wells stays healthy. The ranks behind him on the depth chart are thin after rookie Ryan Williams went down with a season-ending knee injury. LaRod Stephens-Howl-ing, who stands just 5-foot-7, is a specialist who can be very effective on some plays but is no power back. Besides, he is the kickoff returner and a critical part of other special teams.
Alfonso Smith, third on the depth chart, was on the practice squad last year and was unable to get any carries against San Diego after injur-ing a hamstring.
The Cardinals re-signed undrafted rookie William Powell after releasing him earlier and will look at play-ers released by other teams to possibly add a more expe-rienced back in the coming days,.
Whisenhunt said Wells, quarterback Kevin Kolb and the rest of the first unit will get “a little bit of work” in Thurs-day night’s preseason finale at home against Denver.
Mostly, though, the coaches will use the game to evalu-ate players in preparation for making the final roster cuts.
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Big 12 conferenceaims to expand
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M can’t wait to get out of the Big 12 Confer-ence. SMU would like nothing more than to join the league.
The first weekend of the col-lege football season presents a number of intriguing match-ups, but perhaps none is odder than No. 8 Texas A&M host-ing the Mustangs on Sunday. The usual questions around a team’s first game have been overshadowed by a second straight year of conference realignment — with a twist.
SMU, which currently plays in Conference USA, has been the only school to publicly campaign for an invite into the Big 12 if the Aggies leave as expected.
“I think we add stability to an (automatic qualifier) BCS conference, especially in our
region,” SMU athletic director Steve Orsini told The Associ-ated Press. “So our goal is to return to the AQ, BCS status that we used to have. They didn’t call it that back in the old Southwest Conference, but our goal is to resurrect our-selves to get back there.”
Unlike last year, when Nebraska, Colorado and others were all relatively secretive about switching con-ferences, Texas A&M Presi-dent R. Bowen Loftin came right out and said last week that the Aggies are exploring their options and are inter-ested specifically in the South-eastern Conference.
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Harvick makes Chase as a wild cardCHARLOTTE, N.C.
(AP) — Kevin Harvick has clinched at least a wild-card berth in the 12-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Harvick was not listed among drivers who had clinched after Satur-day night’s race at Bris-tol because there are still scenarios where he could fall outside of the top 10 in points. Further review Monday by NASCAR deter-mined his three victories this season have earned him at minimum one of the two wild cards.
Kyle Busch, Jimmie John-son, Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards clinched berths on Saturday night.
That leaves seven spots open to be claimed over the next two races, at Atlanta and Richmond.
Drivers would prefer to make it into the Chase by being inside the top 10 in the standings, which will award them bonus points based on their “regular season” victories.
The two wild cards will be awarded to the drivers out-side the top 10 with the most victories providing they are ranked inside the top 20 in points. The wild-card posi-tions will not receive bonus points when the 12 drivers are re-seeded for the Chase.
After Saturday night’s race, Brad Keselowski and Denny Hamlin were in position to claim the two wild cards. Keselowski is ranked 11th in points with three victories, and Hamlin is ranked 13th in points with one win. He currently would bump 12th-place driver Clint Bowyer,
who is winless, out of the Chase.
NASCAR said Monday that Harvick and Jeff Gordon can guarantee spots in the top 10 this Sunday at Atlanta with a finish of 40th; a finish of 41st and at least one lap led; or a finish of 42nd and the most laps led.
Ryan Newman, who is cur-rently 73 points ahead of Kes-elowski, can guarantee a spot in the top 10 with at least a finish of 20th at Atlanta; or 21st and lead at least one lap; or 22nd and lead the most laps.
Kurt Busch, who is cur-
rently 60 points ahead of Keselowski, can guarantee a top-10 spot with at least a finish of seventh at Atlanta; or eighth and lead at least one lap; or ninth and lead the most laps.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is 39 points ahead of Keselowski, and Tony Stewart is 21 points ahead of Keselowski. Both can clinch a spot inside the top 10 by widening their margins to 49 points over the 11th-place driver. Both are winless this season and in danger of being bumped from the Chase if they fall outside the top 10.
Keselowski, who wants the three bonus points that are awarded for each victory in Chase seeding, wasn’t bank-ing on passing Stewart for 10th place in the standings.
“Tony is pretty good, he’s pretty good at Atlanta and Richmond,” Keselowski said. “Richmond, we really struggled at in the spring, so I’m really not sure what to expect going back. Twenty-one points is still a lot of points. That means you’ve got to beat the guy by over 10 positions over the course of two races.
“Beating Tony Stewart by an average of 10 positions over two races, that’s going to be pretty tough, to be honest.”
Keselowski will return to Nationwide Series
Brad Keselowski will return to the Nationwide Series this week at Atlanta after miss-ing the past four races.
Keselowski, the defending Nationwide champion, has not raced in that series since breaking his ankle in a crash during a test session earlier this month at Road Atlanta.
He did not miss any Sprint Cup Series events during the stretch. Since the injury, Keselowski has two wins, a second and a third in four Cup races.
He’s charged through the series standings, too. Kes-elowski’s victory at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sat-urday night moved him to 11th in the Cup standings, a step closer toward a berth in Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick runs the ball as Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Phillip Taylor defends dur-
ing the preseason. Vick signed a six-year, $100 million contract to remain in Philadel-phia on Tuesday
Kevin Harvick sits in the garage during practice for the Sprint Cup Series Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway this season.
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Baltimore Orioles third baseman Robert Andino throws to first Tuesday against the Toronto Blue Jays. The Orioles
won 6-5 in 10 innings on a Ryan Adams RBI single, capping a two-run rally.
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Sabathia gets rare win vs. BostonBy The Associated Press
CC Sabathia snapped out of his Red Sox funk, striking out 10 in six innings to beat Boston for the first time in five tries this season and lead the New York Yankees to a 5-2 vic-tory on Tuesday night.
The win was the Yankees’ third in 13 games against their AL East rival this season. Boston still leads the division by one-half game.
Sabathia (18-7) had been dominant against the rest of baseball this year, but 0-4 with a 7.20 ERA against the Red Sox.
He threw a season-high 128 pitches, allowing two runs on 10 hits and two walks.
John Lackey (12-10) allowed five runs — four earned — on seven hits and four walks, striking out three.
Angels 13, Mariners 6Mike Trout, the youngest
player in the majors at 20 years and 23 days, homered twice and drove in five runs to lead Los Angeles.
Rangers 2, Rays 0Josh Hamilton hit a towering
home run and Scott Feldman threw six scoreless innings in a spot start for AL West-lead-ing Texas.
Tigers 2, Royals 1Ramon Santiago homered in
the bottom of the 10th inning, leaving Detroit starter Doug Fister with a no decision after he retired the first 18 batters he faced.
White Sox 8, Twins 6Alejandro De Aza drove in a
career-high four runs for Chi-cago, including a three-run homer.
Indians 6, Athletics 2Carlos Santana and Jack
Hannahan hit two-run homers to help Cleveland win its fourth in five games.
Orioles 6, Blue Jays 5Ryan Adams capped a two-
run, 10th-inning rally with
an RBI single for Baltimore, which has won seven of its last nine games.
Phillies 9, Reds 0Roy Halladay allowed a pair
of hits in seven innings and drove in three runs with the second double of his career, leading the Philadelphia Phil-lies to a victory over the Cin-cinnati Reds.
Marlins 6, Mets 0Javier Vazquez allowed only
three singles in seven sharp innings for his first win in more than a month and the Marlins broke out of their funk with a five-run seventh to beat the Mets.
Astros 8, Pirates 2Rookie Henry Sosa allowed
two hits and struck out seven over six innings, Matt Downs got his league-leading 12th pinch-hit RBI and the Astros beat the Pirates.
Cardinals 2, Brewers 1Edwin Jackson pitched
seven solid innings and sin-gled home the go-ahead run to help the Cardinals beat the Brewers. Despite the win, the Cardinals still are 91⁄2 games behind the Brewers in the NL Central with 27 games remaining.
D-backs 9, Rockies 4Miguel Montero and Justin
Upton each homered and drove in three runs, helping the Diamondbacks beat the Rockies to tie a team record with their 11th straight home win.
Dodgers 8, Padres 5Andre Ethier’s grand slam
capped an eight-run second inning that included six walks by Tim Stauffer — three with the bases-loaded — to help the Dodgers beat the Padres.
Cubs 5, Giants 2Alfonso Soriano drove in two
runs and hit one of the longest homers at AT&T Park, lead-ing the Cubs to a win over the Giants.
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Junior high, JVfootball roundup
Porters Chapel Acad-emy 49, Tallulah Academy 0 - Logan Pickering rushed for 248 yards and six touch-downs to lead Porters Cha-pel’s junior high team to a season-opening victory over Tallulah Academy last week.
Taylor Rushing ran for 117 yards and a touchdown on only eight carries for PCA.
Bryce Fleming made 10 tack-les, and Austin Kraemer had eight tackles and a sack. PCA will host Ben’s Ford on Thursday night at 6.
Wrestling AgainstUnderage Drinking
The Kings Community Empowerment Center will host “Wrestling Against Underage Drinking,” featur-ing matches by Universal Championship Wrestling, tonight at 6:30. Admission is free. For information, call 601-634-4788.
Hinds CC alumnigolf tournament
The Warren-Claiborne
chapter of the Hinds Commu-nity College Alumni Asso-ciation will host a golf tour-nament on Sept. 21 at Clear Creek Golf Course in Bovina. The tournament begins a 1 p.m., and the registration fee is $75 per player or $300 for a four-man team.
All proceeds go toward stu-dent scholarships at Hinds. For information or to regis-ter, call Hinds alumni coor-dinator Abby Brann at 601-857-3350, e-mail her at [email protected], or call Clear Creek golf pro Kent Smith at 601-638-9395.
Adult co-edsoftball league
Registration for the Vicks-
burg Parks and Recreation Department’s adult co-ed softball league will continue until today.
The league is open to play-ers ages 18 and up, and the registration fee is $175 per team. There is an additional fee of $5 for each Warren County resident and $10 for residents of Sharkey, Issaquena and Claiborne counties.
A mandatory coaches meet-ing will be held Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Parks and Rec office on Army Navy Drive. Registration forms are also available at the Parks and Rec office. For more information, call 601-634-4514.
M-Braves top Baronsin finale at TrustmarkFrom staff reports
The Mississippi Braves shut down Trustmark Park in style on Tuesday night.
The M-Braves took advan-tage of five errors and a six-run outburst in the sixth inning to beat the Birmingham Barons in their home finale, 9-1.
Every M-Braves starter had at least one hit. Antoan Rich-ardson, Ed Lucas, Donell Lin-ares and Jordan Kreke had two apiece. Kreke was 2-for-3 with three RBIs and two runs scored.
The M-Braves scored three runs in the second inning to take the lead for good. Two runs scored when Birming-ham starter Justin Edwards fired a pickoff throw past the first baseman, allowing Lin-ares to score from third and Kreke from second.
Another error keyed the big rally in the sixth. Richardson drove in two runs with a base
hit to right field, then was safe at second when Birmingham’s Jose Martinez threw wild to the bag. Richardson went to third, then scooted home when the ball kicked off a fence along the left field line.
The play made it 9-1 and the M-Braves cruised from there.
Jose Lugo (3-4) pitched seven strong innings after a shaky start. Lugo gave up three hits and a run in the first, then just three hits and two walks the rest of the way. He struck out three.
The M-Braves (32-33 second half, 57-78 overall), who con-clude the regular season with a five-game homestand at Car-olina beginning on Thursday, finished their home schedule with a 32-37 record.
Tuesday’s game drew a crowd of 1,733 and the M-Braves aver-aged 2,737 fans per game for the season. The team ranked eighth in attendance in the 10-team Southern League.
quarterback. The Eagles will hope return man Jeremy Palmer can fill the void left by tailback Matthew Willis. Willis was one of the MACJC rushing leaders last season with 1,035 yards and 13 touch-downs. Palmer finished second in the state in kickoff returns with 616 yards on 29 attempts.
Defensively, Hinds will be led by two starting safeties, J’Vontez Blackmon and God-frey Thompson. Blackmon had a big freshman season with 69 tackles, including five for loss. Thompson had 49 tackles, two sacks and nine tackles for loss. They will be joined at corner by former Vicksburg High standout Malcolm Butler, who played
at Hinds in 2009.ICC coach Jon Williams
said in a preseason web inter-view that his team needs a good start.
“You want to taste success early,” Williams said. “You don’t want to dig a big hole early in the season. That’s why we want to start fast and not get in a hole.”
Murphy added that Hinds had a relatively healthy pre-season with one notable exception, St. Aloysius signee Matt Wooten is done for the season.
“Matt had a knee injury. He tore some meniscus,” Murphy said. “It didn’t require surgery, but we decided to shut him down for the season.”
yet announced when or if it will impose the punishment for those players, which has been delayed by legal proceedings.
Payton, however, said the Saints tried not to allow uncertainty surrounding Smith to figure into their evaluation of Brown.
“We really tried not to because then we’d be making a decision predicated on a possible or not possible sus-pension,” Payton said. “I would say to you honestly that that didn’t come into play, because if it had come into play more, then we might have gone in a differ-ent direction.”
As a rookie out of Florida, Brown started nine games for Chicago in 2002 and has remained a full-time starter for most of his career, includ-ing for all 48 regular season games since 2008.
Last season he had 39 tack-les and two sacks. Now the question is who will start in his place.
“We’re going to have to look closely at our rotation,” Payton said. “Obviously we’re going to substitute a handful of guys in there.”
McBride took first-team snaps on Tuesday, while Jordan sat out practice. Payton said Jordan’s absence was “injury-related” but declined to elaborate. Smith also did not practice, but was excused because of a death in the family, Payton said.
McBride started eight games for the Lions last season. He said he did not necessarily see himself as a starter now that Brown was gone.
“That’s not my job to start thinking about that. My job is to come on this turf and go as hard as I can,” McBride said. “I still have to go out there and prove myself.”
Meanwhile, Payton declined to say how long Hartley would be out, and Kasay said he considers his employment with the Saints as “day to day.”
He’s expected to kick on Thursday night when the Saints host Tennessee in their preseason finale.
Payton said the Saints were comfortable signing Kasay because they had an opportu-nity to see him make clutch kicks firsthand when he was with NFC South rival Caro-lina. Kasay hit a 52-yard win-ning field goal in the final seconds in the Superdome in 2007 and a 42-yard winner in the dome, again in the final seconds, in 2008.
Last season, Kasay made 25 of 29 attempts, including a 55-yarder. He was cut by Carolina about a month ago, but said he continued train-ing in case he got a call from another club.
“I am not as young as I used to be. I am not fool-ing anybody with that, but there have been a hand-ful of guys who have done very well playing into their 40s,” Kasay said, mention-ing Morten Anderson, John Carney, Gary Anderson, Matt Stover and Jason Hanson. “It’s a privilege to be able to play and to do the same thing I was doing as a kid. ... I can’t run, I can’t throw, I can’t catch, I can’t block and I can’t tackle, and this is my 21st year in the NFL.”
Hanson has been on the disabled list since Aug. 7.
Jurrjens (13-6) gave up six runs, matching his season high set in a no-decision against the Nationals on July 17. He allowed eight hits, including three homers, in six innings. He has allowed 17 runs in three starts against Washington this season.
“I look like I’m throw-ing batting practice against them at times,” Jurrjens said. “They’re making adjust-ments and I’m not making adjustments.
The Braves were shut down by Livan Hernandez (8-12). Hernandez allowed two runs on five hits and three walks in seven innings.
“My kind of game there,” said Washington manager Davey Johnson. “That’s what I’m talking about. I live for games like that.”
Jurrjens’ troubles began when Morse led off the second with a long homer into the second section of seats in the left-field stands. Morse added a run-scoring double in the third.
“His breaking ball just kept going over the plate,” said Braves manager Fredi Gon-zalez of Jurrjens.
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LIKE A LOT of little boys, Ethan Wayne grew up idolizing his father. So did millions of other folks.
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“I don’t think he ever imagined he would be this popular,” says Ethan, 49, who today oversees the John Wayne estate as president of John Wayne Enterprises in Newport Beach, Calif.
Although he portrayed a variety of roles, Wayne was best known for the macho soldiers and good-guy cowboys that he brought to vibrant life on screen in Stagecoach, Rio Bravo, Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Longest Day, The Sands of Iowa Jima and more than 160 other feature films between 1926 and his death in 1979 from stomach and lung cancer.
“To many people he represents the quintessential American,” says movie critic Leonard Maltin. “Strong, feisty, taking a stand and unwilling to back down from it.”
Wayne received his only Oscar for what would become his most indelible role, as cantankerous U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 movie True Grit.
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Life outside HollywoodWayne’s youngest son, the middle and only
male of the three children born to the star and his third wife, Pilar Palette, recalls a childhood dramatically distanced from the spotlight of the movie business.
“John Wayne, the movie star—that always seemed unusual to me,” says Ethan, who was 17 when his father died. “We didn’t live in Hollywood. We didn’t have a Hollywood upbringing. We lived in a little town, Newport Beach, about 60 miles south of Los Angeles.”
Ethan recalls many outings with his famous father on his beloved boat or at the beach. “He spent a lot of time in the water. He bodysurfed, swam and snorkeled. He didn’t water ski a lot, but we’ve got some great photos of him snow skiing.
“But I think he might have been the happiest on that boat. We went exploring. We went on deserted beaches. We’d treasure-hunt, hike to a waterfall and pick a bucket of berries and make pies for dinner, maybe catch a salmon and eat it.”
Co-starring with dadPerhaps expectedly, Ethan gravitated to acting
as a younger man, which led to several movie and TV roles and a later career as a Hollywood stunt man. He appeared onscreen with his father in Big Jake, a 1971 Western that also featured one of Ethan’s stepbrothers, Patrick Wayne, and was produced by another stepbrother, Michael Wayne.
“That was one of my fondest memories,” Ethan says.
Ethan frequently accompanied his dad to work. He recalls being fascinated by the rattlesnakes that had been procured for a pivotal scene in True Grit. Even though they were secured in cages, the reptiles were strictly off-limits to anyone except the animal handlers—even the son of the movie’s star.
“I’d go over to the snakes, and the wranglers would be, ‘Get outta there!’ ” Ethan says. “I’d slink off and sneak back. I remember my dad kinda liking that I wanted to do something I’d get in trouble for. He liked a kid with an adventurous spirit.”
Ethan remembers how much his dad appreciated his fans. “If we were leaving the house to go shopping, I always had to have a pocketful of autographed cards to pass out to people. We grew up knowing how important the fans were.”
Everybody, it seemed, wanted a piece of John Wayne. They still do.
“Every day, we get phone calls and requests: ‘Could I get a scarf?’ ‘Could I get a vest?’ ‘Is there something—anything—I can get, for my son, my father, my husband?’ ” he says. “So I sat down with my brothers and sisters and said, ‘You know how important the fans were to my dad. It’s time we gave them an opportunity to get some of this stuff.”
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Ethan says he’s never been much of a memorabilia person himself. “I have two objects that are important to me. One is a gun that he gave me when I was a little boy, and the other is a small little bronze sculpture of a man on a horse.”
More than objects, Ethan cherishes his memories of a childhood spent with a father who was much more than a movie star, a dad who left him with words, examples and experiences that continue to inspire and guide him.
“He taught me that life is for living. He didn’t stand still. He didn’t look backward. He
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WITH A STEADY HAND, Teri Greeves picks up a pair of green sesame seed-size glass beads on a slender, narrow-eyed needle and stitches the beads onto the side of a size 17 tennis shoe in her studio in Santa Fe, N.M.
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For the last decade, Greeves, a member of the Kiowa Tribe in Oklahoma, has applied traditional bead-working techniques and images to contemporary fashions and everyday objects, embellishing everything from bracelets and handbags to blankets and umbrellas.
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After graduating in 1995 with an American studies degree, she moved to Santa Fe, where her mother had relocated. Pondering career options, a pivotal event guided her.
“My grandmother Sarah Ataumbi Big Eagle had died, and I was going through some beads I had inherited and found a medallion she had started with a white background and rainbow colors,” she recalls. “I finished it, feeling her presence with me as I worked.”
Greeves began entering her beadwork in local arts & crafts shows, compiling enough awards and confidence to apply to sell her work at the Santa Fe Indian Market, the world’s largest American Indian arts & crafts show. After her work was accepted in 1999, she beaded colorful scenes of an Indian
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“That’s what really started my career,” says Greeves, who teaches bead-working workshops across the nation to pass her expertise to future generations.
Greeves’ work “deals with humorous, spiritual, social and political themes, and is so distinctive because she applies traditional beading techniques and storytelling in a contemporary context that encourages dialogue,” says Mark Cervenka, director of the O’Kane Gallery in Houston, Texas, where her “Hoop Dance” sneakers were exhibited earlier this year.
Last year, her beadwork fostered international dialogue when first lady Michelle Obama presented one of Greeves’ embellished clutch purses as a gift to Mexico’s first lady, Margarita Zavala. “To be a part of that symbolism was monumental for me,” she says.
Because Greeves’ beadwork is unique, collectors covet her one-of-a-kind creations, which sell for $220 for a 2-inch-wide cuff bracelet to $40,000 for larger pieces sold at art galleries in Santa Fe, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C.
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