October 20, 2011

By KATIE EUBANKSSun Staff Writer

REUNION DEVELOPERS have post-poned their plans to try to amend theReunion Planned Unit Development (PUD)until early 2012.

By that time, the 21,000-acre development- along with Annandale and the rest of theland annexed by the city of Madison in 2008- should be under city zoning. Since theannexation, the city has enforced county zon-ing in the 13-square-mile annexed area.

Reunion developers will let the city finishzoning the land before presenting their PUDamendment requests, which include landclassification changes and have drawn the ireof a few local residents.

“Back when we started the [PUD amend-ment] process, the city’s timeline was a lotfurther out on when they anticipated havingtheir zoning in place. And now they thinklate December or January,” said ReunionInc., Vice President Keith Kent.

“So we said OK, to try to alleviate any fur-ther concerns that anybody has, we’ll justhold off.”

THE ZONING process for the annexedland, which includes Reunion, couldn’t startuntil the area had representation at city hall.

The bulk of the land became Madison’ssixth ward, represented by Alderman GuyBowering. Ward 6 residents Bob Huston andCindy Keller were appointed to the planningand zoning commission.

Now Madison’s community developmentdepartment, headed by director Alan Hoops,has drawn up a map of the annexed area withthe current county zoning and the closest cityzoning categories.

Once officials confirm that they have thecounty zoning correct on the map, the plan-ning and zoning commission will hold a pub-lic hearing so residents can comment on thecity’s zoning plan for the land.

“The commission will recommendapproval of the plan as submitted or withchanges that they think are required,” Hoopssaid, noting that the city would host severalpublic hearings before officials vote on thenew zoning map.

ONCE ALL THIS is completed, Reunion See Madison Zoning, Page 11A

Reuniondelays PUD

changes untilzoning changes

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NORTHSIDERS should know nextweek whether or not a proposal to preventlots from being subdivided in Eastover willgain ground.

A public hearing before the JacksonPlanning Board is slated for Wednesday,October 26 at the Warren Hood Buildingdowntown.

If the measure is passed, it wouldexpand the current Eastover NeighborhoodConservation Overlay District to the entire

neighborhood. The district now only covers the 4000

block of Eastover Drive. The new boundaries would run from

Meadowbrook Road to the Petit Bois sub-division and from Ridgewood Road to thePearl River.

The overlay would prevent the neighbor-hood’s large-acre lots from being subdivid-ed into lots of less than one acre. The cur-rent provisions governing the 4000 blockof Eastover would not be affected, saidPlanning and Development Director

Corrine Fox. Fox wouldn’t speculate if the measure

would be passed, but said the board shouldlook favorably upon it.

The current district affects approximate-ly seven properties and requires a mini-mum lot size of three acres. The overlaywould also not prohibit developers frombuilding on lots that had already been plat-ted out.

Supporters say the overlay is needed toprotect property values and the integrity of

See Eastover Lots, Page 10A

Plans are under way for Christ Covenant School’s sixth annualFall into Fun Family Festival, scheduled for today, October 20,at the school, 725 Pear Orchard Rd. in Ridgeland. This year theevent will include games, face painting, inflatables, a silentauction and entertainment by Dorian the Magician. The school

will also hold a Fall into Fun 5K Run/Walk the followingSaturday, October 22. Shown are (from left, back) PamCarnathan, Leslie Owens, Leigh Shoemaker, Stacey Stanford,Kathy Beard; (front) Sarah Carnathan, Caroline and PaxsonStanford, Mason and McKenzie Shoemaker.

SPENDING 12 days in the Canadianwilderness hunting big game soundsmore like a Jack London theme than reallife.

But for Northsider Will McNamara, thehunting trip of a lifetime came in lateAugust, when he flew north to spendnearly a fortnight miles away from civi-lization to hunt moose, caribou and Dallsheep in Canada’s Northwest Territory.

McNamara, an insurance broker, tookwhat is called a mixed-bag hunting trip, apackage offered by Mackenzie MountainOutfitters.

For nearly two weeks, he and a guidehunted throughout the vast expanse, liv-

ing out of backpacks and being surround-ed by dangerous animals. The two weremiles away from towns or cities, withtheir only link to them being a satellitephone. It took two hours to fly in and outof the area, and there were no roads,meaning that the only means of travelwas by foot.

“It was physically demanding, but Iliked the adventure of it,” he said.

For his efforts, McNamara bagged aDall sheep, a caribou and a moose, thethree animals he went up there for. Thetrophies have been sent to a taxidermistand will be ready for hanging in 12 to 18months, he said.

Just getting to the hunt was an adven-ture in itself. The 1991 graduate of theUniversity of Mississippi paid a depositon the trip in 2009. In the six monthsleading up to the trip, the avid outdoors-man trained - getting up at 4 a.m. to walkthree to 10 miles. “I took a 45-pound bagof dog food and water bottles to get usedto carrying the weight,” he recalled.

On August 24, he flew from Jackson toEdmonton, Alberta, Canada, with lay-overs in Memphis and Minneapolis.After spending the night in the province,the husband and father of three flew onCanadian North Airlines to Yellow

See Will McNamara, Page 7A

Small lots subject of public hearing set for October 26

MIXED-BAG HUNTWILL MCNAMARA SPENDS 12 DAYS IN WILDERNESS SEARCHING FOR BIG GAME ANIMALS

Photo by Beth B

uckley

Will McNamara in Canada

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IF YOU’VE EVER SOUGHT spiritual guid-ance from Pastor Ronnie Falvey, or one of theother leaders at First Baptist Madison, you’veprobably walked a narrow labyrinth of hallwaysin a small office building that once functionedas a drugstore.

But hopefully that won’t be the case formuch longer. The church recently embarked ona $7.6 million capital campaign to build a newsanctuary and convert the current one into amulti-use building for youth worship, moreclassrooms, activity space, and office space.

The new sanctuary would seat 1,400 people,twice as many as the current space.

The fund-raising drive is called A Time toBuild, a reference to the famous passage inEcclesiastes 3 (or the Byrds song, if you will)that says there is a time for “every purposeunder heaven.” Falvey says if there was ever atime for First Baptist to build, now is probablyit.

“This church has been at this place before,about 10 or 11 years ago. It got to the pointwhere they considered building and decided notto do that. The church has grown, and nowwe’re back to that same spot again,” he said.

“It appears that we are in a great position togo forward with this project, in lots of ways. Ifwe don’t do it, we may never do it again -because it’s not going to get any cheaper to dothis. And we certainly need the space in a majorway.”

However, he said, “We want what Godwants,” and the church body is taking one stepat a time. So far they’ve just voted to start thecapital campaign.

“Once we raise the money, then the churchwill have to vote on whether to move forward,”he said. “If God wants it built, we want it built.If not, He’ll shut the door and we’ll go on toplan B. We’re really seeking God’s will for His

church and trying to find what that looks like.”Falvey will announce to the congregation

December 18 how much money they’vepledged toward the project, and the church’s“worship center task force” will spend Januaryand February analyzing what to do next.

“Then the church will probably vote inMarch, and under the best of circumstanceswe’d start breaking ground in mid-summer orlate summer. The earliest we could finish wouldbe December 2013 or January 2014.”

FALVEY SAID $7.6 MILLION wouldallow the church to pay off a $1.9 million debtfrom a previous project and move forward withthis one, which will cost $15 million total.

“We did a feasibility study [and] normallyyou can raise two times your annual budget.Our budget is $3.2 million.”

The church hired Walsh & Associates ChurchFundraising Specialists, as consultants and hasbeen working with a representative from theMinnesota-based firm’s Atlanta office.

“They come in and help nonprofits andchurches raise money and build buildings,”Falvey said. “They create a package, programand strategy tailored to needs of the church.They have a campaign team leader on siteevery other week, and she has helped walk usthrough this process.”

If First Baptist doesn’t raise at least $4 mil-lion in its capital campaign, Walsh & Associateswill reimburse its fees to the church.

“The $4 million would allow us to do theproject, but probably with modifications andmaybe even in phases. But what we really wantis $7.6 million, and that’s what we’re throwingout there.”

As for that cramped office space, located in aflood zone off Main Street, Falvey said, “Thechurch has gotten their money’s worth out ofit.”

First Baptist Madison startsmajor capital compaign


NORTHSIDERS’ efforts to keep thestate tax commission from ending up intheir back yards have apparently paidoff.

Gov. Haley Barbour recently issueda letter to the Mississippi Legislatureurging them to relocate the Departmentof Revenue to the Landmark Center indowntown Jackson.

The decision came about six monthsafter residents from four Northsideneighborhoods and Downtown JacksonPartners came together to oppose theconstruction of a $50 million revenueheadquarters near the Research andDevelopment Center (R and D) onRidgewood Road.

Despite winning the battle, leaders ofthe effort aren’t leaving the field of playjust yet, as evidenced by a statementfrom leader Wade Overstreet.

“We will continue to watch out forthe best interests of our neighborhoodsand the state,” he said. Overstreet is amember of the Meadowbrook HillsNeighborhood Association. Overstreetcommended the governor for hisstance.

“We are very happy with the resultsof the study and are appreciative of thegovernor and residents’ efforts,” hesaid.

Now, the battle is ensuring that theLegislature comes through on the out-going governor’s wishes.

“Time will tell,” said Leland Speed,executive director of the MississippiDevelopment Authority. “The studywill definitely help.”

Near the end of the 2011 legislativesession, lawmakers included spending$50 million for the construction of anew headquarters in their $422 millionomnibus spending bill.

Northsiders, including Speed, caughtwind of it, and by the weekend, resi-dents from four nearby neighborhoodshad come together in opposition.

“It was a grassroots effort, withhomeowners, business people and con-cerned residents who wanted trans-parency in state government,”Overstreet said.

Neighborhoods represented initiallywere Meadowbrook Hills, Waterstone,Eastbrooke II, and Eastover.

AS A RESULT of the outcry, law-makers yanked the proposal and insteaddecided to spend $2 million on a studyto find the best location for relocatingthe tax commission.

Atlanta-based consultants Cushmanand Wakefield completed the studyrecently and it was released onSeptember 16.

The study evaluated state-owned andnon-state owned properties to find thebest location in each. Among state-owned areas, Cushman and Wakefieldrecommended building on propertynorth of Smith-Wills Stadium near theR and D Center.

Of private properties, the group rec-ommended the Landmark building.Additionally, the group said that locat-ing there would save the state millionsof dollars over the course of a 20-yearlease.

N’SIDERS’EFFORTS PAY OFFTO KEEP PROPOSED STATEBUILDING OFF RIDGEWOOD

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a conversation withEmling on state’s film commission

Ward Emling, 57, is manager of theMississippi Bureau of Film and CulturalHeritage. A native Northsider with a long-time partner, Karen Gilder, Emling recentlyspoke with Sun staff writer Katie Eubanksabout Mississippi film incentives, “TheHelp,” and potential movie projects in theJackson area.

The Mississippi Motion PictureIncentive just got a 5 percent increasethis year. Did The Help have anything todo with that?

“The Help certainly did help. (laughs) “We worked with the state Legislature to

create this incentive program in ‘04, andwe’ve tweaked it since then. This wasprobably the fourth tweak we’ve done.Some states have tax credits for filmmak-ers, and ours is a [now 25 percent] rebateon all money spent in Mississippi, plusother benefits.”

How do Mississippi’s incentives com-pare with those in other states?

“We’re one of the top five, I’d say.Louisiana is big, really big. It’s the numberthree film location in America. Louisiana,Georgia, New Mexico, Mississippi - we’rein the top tier in terms of the whole incen-tive program.”

I read that Wes Benton, a producerfrom Jackson, said he wants to be ableto spend all the money in Mississippiwhen he films here. How is the filmoffice working to make that possible?

“We’re working with Hinds CommunityCollege on their film-industry degree pro-gram that they started this year. We’veworked with the film program at the

University of Southern Mississippi overthe years. And there will be a series ofworkshops and seminars in associationwith Hinds to train our crew base.

“We’ve kept our minimum spending [forfilmmakers] very low, much lower thanany other states. We’ve been trying toencourage local production whenever wecan.

“And we work with people like Wes,production companies. That’s very impor-tant to us to have indigenous filmmakers,Mississippi filmmakers telling their stories- our stories.”

I also read that Mississippi producersare looking to make more mainstreammovies instead of films about the ‘60s,which don’t always make money -though of course The Help has. Do y’allhave a role in that?

“We’re not creators. We encourage peo-ple to create.

“You tell a good story and I think peoplewill find it today. There are great opportu-nities now, if you’re making a small inde-pendent film, to find an audience. Youalways want to hit a home run, but at leastif you get up there and hit single after sin-gle...

“There’s plenty of opportunity for creat-ing something that will catch on. Is itgoing to be about the ‘60s? Maybe. Is itgoing to be about today? Maybe. That’s upto the storyteller.”

How was the Mississippi Film Summitthis summer?

“It was great. There were over 100 peo-ple, and the governor and lieutenant gover-nor both spoke.

“The idea of that summit was to encour-age a business outlook for film. It can be agood investment. That is a key element tobuilding our industry: having a local busi-ness and financial infrastructure. And Gov.[Haley] Barbour and Lt. Gov. [Phil] Bryantare both very supportive of a business out-look for our industry.

“We’ll have another summit on the coastin the next couple of months.”

Besides the film incentives, how elsedoes the film office work to attract film-makers from outside of Mississippi?

“We go to trade shows every year inNew York and L.A. and meet with theindustry. We advertise in various tradepublications. But a lot of it’s word ofmouth. People find us because they knowour program is strong.

“We react very quickly to inquiries[from filmmakers]. We have a huge data-base of photos from across the state, andwe go out and scout locations relevant totheir stories. We read their scripts andinterpret their location needs for them.That’s where the film commission started.… We were location scouters. And wehelped filmmakers find ways to deal withlogistics and bureaucratic red tape.

“Now that our incentives are competitivewith other states, it’s about location again -which we love, because we have greatlocations. They’re easy to sell.”

What can you tell me about any local-ly filmed projects coming up?

“There is actually a production in theJackson area. I can’t be more specific.

“And we’re scouting several for the See Ward Emling, Page 11A

“All those actresses on

TELEVISIONtalking about eating in

Greenwood, and how great it was tobe in Mississippi, that was good.”

-Ward Emling

AS THE DEMOCRATIC nominee, TyroneLewis is sure to become the next sheriff ofHinds County.

Several attorney friends of mine have aproblem with Mr. Lewis becoming the coun-ty’s top law enforcement officer. They cite arecent Mississippi Supreme Court case accus-ing Lewis of stating untruths while testifyingunder oath as a paid expert witness in awrongful death lawsuit.

The lawsuit involves the shooting death ofCrystal Coleman, whose body was found atthe Rebelwood Apartments in Jackson in2007. The lawsuit alleged that Rebelwoodfailed to provide adequate security.

But Coleman wasn’t killed on theRebelwood premises. She was killed else-where and her body transported to theRebelwood parking lot.

Cleveland Ellis told three Jackson policeofficers he accidentally shot Coleman at the

Woodbine Terrace apartments and then droveher body to Rebelwood. This confessionoccurred at Jackson police headquarters andwas documented in a sworn affidavit titled,“Underlying Facts and Circumstances.”

That evidence was not allowed into the trialpresided over by Hinds County Circuit JudgeWinston Kidd, resulting in a $3 million judg-ment against Rebelwood. The MississippiSupreme Court overturned the verdict sayingKidd erred by suppressing that evidence.

During the trial, our new sheriff-to-be testi-fied under oath that, “There is no documenta-tion, no written statements or anybody tocome forward to say it did not happen atRebelwood.”

At the time, Tyrone Lewis was deputypolice chief. He was moonlighting for theplaintiffs’ attorney as a paid expert witness.

The Clarion-Ledger reported Lewis chargeda $3,500 retainer as an expert witness plus$200 an hour for consultation and $1,500 anhour for depositions. Lewis has testified as anexpert witness hundreds of times.

Jackson Police Department policy bars offi-cers from off-duty work that includes beingan expert witness in which the officer will begiving his opinion in any matter investigatedby JPD or any other city departments, unlessthe officer’s testimony is given on behalf ofthe city or the city attorney, the Clarion-Ledger reported.

Mississippi Supreme Court Judge MichaelRandolph, writing the majority opinion, stat-ed the following:

The erroneous ruling allowed plaintiff’sexpert, Tyrone Lewis, to testify with impunityand without fear of exposure, “There is nodocumentation, no written statements or any-body to come forward to say that it did nothappen [at Rebelwood].” The trial courtshould have known that Lewis’s statementwas untrue. In fact, repeated references andstatements to the contrary exist throughoutthe investigative reports. A cursory examina-tion would reveal this truth. Under either sce-nario, Lewis’s statement was patently erro-neous and violated the purpose and construc-

tion of our Rules (“that the truth may beascertained and proceedings justly deter-mined”). Miss. R. Evid. 102. The jury was leftwith a false impression, and Rebelwood clear-ly was prejudiced.

Rebelwood was denied a fundamentally fairopportunity to cross-examine, not onlyEnglish’s experts on the facts giving rise totheir opinions about the circumstances andlocation of the shooting, but other witnessesas well.

MYATTORNEY FRIENDS claimTyrone Lewis committed perjury. They arevery concerned how such a man couldbecome the top law enforcement officer ofHinds County. I share their concern. How canthe top court in our state accuse Lewis ofmaking untrue statements without a subse-quent grand jury convened for a possible per-jury indictment?

Hinds County District Attorney RobertSmith or Mississippi Attorney General JimHood would be the officials responsible forinitiating such a grand jury investigation.However, these two officials have alreadyshown their disinclination to enforce our lawsagainst governmental abuse. The Sun has

reported on numerous occasions how theHinds County Board of Supervisors has vio-lated our state’s ethics and bidding laws. Zeroaction has been forthcoming from eitherHood or Smith.

First of all, Tyrone Lewis should never usehis position as deputy chief to get hired as anexpert witness involving official police busi-ness. Second, the Jackson Police Departmentshould have immediately terminated him forthis ethics abuse. Third, he should have beeninvestigated for perjury in the wake of hisuntrue testimony.

This was not a trivial matter. Three milliondollars was riding on this lawsuit. False testi-mony under such circumstances is a very seri-ous offense.

Instead of prosecution, Tyrone Lewis willsoon become head of law enforcement forHinds County. It’s a scary thought.

This underscores the dysfunctional systemof investigating and prosecuting public whitecollar crime in Mississippi. We need a non-elected, independent law enforcement divi-sion capable of convening a grand jury andputting a stop to corruption of this nature. Thelack of such a division is a glaring oversightin our state.

Tyrone Lewis’testimony

doesn’t bode well

By WYATTEMMERICH

from the publisherPage 4A Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Jackson City Council has been relegated to the level of ordinarycitizen when it comes to obtaining basic information about city business,and members are rightfully upset about it.

The issue came to a head recently, when Ward Four CouncilmanFrank Bluntson had to turn to the Mississippi attorney general’s office toobtain payroll information needed in drawing up the city’s 2012 fiscalyear budget.

The office responded in September, telling the councilman the informa-tion should be readlily available, and the council should be able to go todepartment heads to obtain it. The move was a victory for the city’s poli-cy-setting body, which has been cut off from access to departmentheads and non-elected city officials.

Bluntson, the council president who is running for mayor himself in2013, says that Johnson has cut the council out of the loop when itcomes to city business, going as far as requiring members of the city’slegislative body to call the Mayor’s Action Line to get potholes fixed andlimbs picked up. He said members are also prohibited from contactingdepartment heads when issues need to be addressed.

Bluntson said that the lack of cooperation and openness gives the citya black eye. The Sun agrees.

The Sun also points out that the actions taken by the mayor are a farcry from the Harvey Johnson that was elected to a third non-consecutiveterm in 2009. Johnson, who had previously suffered a defeat to FrankMelton, promised that he had learned his lesson. He promised to bemore accessible and open to others.

In dealings with the Sun, Johnson has come through on his promise.We have to file far fewer open record requests than during the late FrankMelton’s administration. Additionally, the city fills those requests usuallywell before the seven days allotted under state law. For that, we applaudthe Johnson administration and the City Clerk’s office.

However, Johnson must make open government a reality on all levels. One has to wonder why the council is being left out of the loop. It’s an answer that stumps the Sun and one that it was unable to find

out last week. Johnson couldn't be reached for comment.We believe the mayor and the council should work together for the bet-

terment of the city.

Harvey Johnson needs to workin cooperation with council

Dear Editor:I noted in the

October 6 issue anarticle entitled“Mystery surroundsmoving AndrewJackson’s portrait toMunicipal ArtGallery.”

Shortly after the por-trait was moved fromCity Hall, I wrote aletter to the editors ofthe Clarion Ledgerobjecting to theremoval of the portrait

and asking for itsreturn.

The Clarion Ledgerapparently agreed withme, as it furnished aphoto of the portrait ofJackson to run withmy letter. However,nothing was done, andCity Hall has resistedits return from 2004 tothe present.

My take on thisaction of removal isthat the compositionof the city council has

changed a great dealfrom the 1950s whenthe portrait was com-missioned and hung inthe city council cham-bers. Now the councilis predominantly blackand apparently doesn’twant a militant whiteman in their presence,even if the city isnamed after him.

‘Mystery’ solved?

Hebron Morris

Mystery of missing portrait solved?

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

WHEN A LAW is flawed, there is a prop-er way to fix it. It’s called the legislativeamendment process.

President Obama has usurped that con-gressional authority with his announcementlast week that he will let states escape themost onerous requirement of the No ChildLeft Behind law — all students proficient inreading and math by 2014 — if they meetother conditions, set by the administration,to improve educational outcomes.

The Democratic president justified thisabuse of power by complaining that law-makers have known for years that the 2014deadline was unrealistic. Since 2007, the lawhas been due for revision, but an ideologi-cally split Congress has failed to act.

All that might be so, but it does not justifythe president making an end-run around theConstitution.

The president’s job, as spelled out in ournation’s founding document, is to enforcethe laws enacted by Congress. It’s not hisprerogative to pick and choose which lawsor which parts of laws he thinks deserveenforcing. His duty is to carry out the lawsuntil they are changed or unless they areblocked by the courts.

The president’s education secretary, ArneDuncan, had warned that 82 percent of thenation’s schools were on path to be labeledas failures if the No Child Left Behind lawwere left to stand as it was written in 2001.Some experts have said Duncan was exag-gerating. But even if Duncan’s estimate wascorrect, it was neither his nor Obama’s callto stop an outcome that they consider unde-sirable.

DUNCAN, AWARE of the constitutionalobjection to the administration’s action, saidthe waivers could serve as a bridge untilCongress acts. Bridge or no bridge, Obamais legislating from the executive branch — aviolation of the separation-of-powers doc-trine. Even if the president’s intentions aregood, the means are unacceptable.

When a law isn’t working as intended, therole of the executive branch is to inform andeducate Congress about the law’s shortcom-ings and trust that Congress will eventuallyreach a consensus on how to fix the prob-lem. It may not always happen according tothe White House’s timetable, but eventuallylawmakers will either respond or risk theelectoral consequences if voters concludethey have fouled up.

That’s how the system is supposed towork. When left to do so, it usually does,even if it’s sometimes messy getting there.

Tim Kalich is editor and publisher ofthe Greenwood Commonwealth.

Delta point

Obama movesnot followingConstitution

By TIMKALICH

DEMOCRATS AND some in the newsmedia have repeatedly criticized my decisionto create a study commission to analyze thelong-term solvency of the Public Employees’Retirement System. These attacks are aimedat politicizing a well-guided study commis-sion and waging a fear-mongering campaignto scare state employees and retirees into vot-ing Democrat during the 2011 legislativeelections.

The myth promoted by political organiza-tions is that the review of PERS is beingdone to punish state employees. They sayreform is not needed, and claim “public ser-vants are being targeted.” One columnistwrote, “Any politician who thinks that goingafter public employees is good politics willfind out differently at the polls.”

Rather than “targeting” public employees,the study commission’s purpose is protectingthem and their future pension income.

Is a review of PERS needed? Considerthis:

PERS’ own numbers show the system has64.2 percent of the funds needed to pay itsliabilities over 30 years. This is well belowthe recommended level of 80 percent, yetsome pretend PERS is in “far better shapethan most states.” A recent Pew Center onthe States study ranked PERS 37th in termsof funding status. Our ranking is even worse– 94th of 124 public employee plans –according to a survey conducted by BostonCollege’s Center for Retirement Research.

In 2001, PERS was financially strong witha funded status of 88 percent; a decade later,the funded status has declined to 64.2 per-cent, despite large contribution increases byboth employees and taxpayers in recentyears.

The state, or taxpayers’, contribution toPERS is 12 percent of payroll now, but thisrate will rise to 12.93 percent in January and

is projected to increase to 14.35 percent nextJuly. Over the last eight years, the taxpayershare will have been increased by almost half(47 percent). That’s unsustainable.

Last year, the Legislature increasedemployee contributions from 7.25 percent ofpayroll to 9 percent, an increase of 24 percentand the first increase for employees since1991.

Despite increases on both taxpayers andemployees, the taxpayers’ share will go uptwo more times, totaling nearly 20 percent,within a year.

State employees should be as insulted astaxpayers by anyone who claims that review-ing an under-funded retirement plan is “goingafter public employees.” Clearly, theseclaims are being driven by politics, not poli-cy.

Whether these political groups recognize itor not, ensuring the long-term solvency ofPERS is an obligation that we in leadershippositions have, not only to taxpayers but tothe tens of thousands of past, current andfuture employees, like school teachers, localgovernment workers, and those at universi-ties and community colleges.

And, the idea that someone will “take awaythe 13th check” is silly. The 13th check issimply a choice by a retiree to take a cost-of-living adjustment in a lump sum. It costs nomore, and probably less, for PERS to pay theCOLA in one 13th check than to make 12monthly payments.

FINALLY, THE PERS study commissionhas no authority to change any law or ruleabout PERS or anything else. Its goal is togive accurate, well-analyzed information tothe Legislature and other elected officials,current and future PERS beneficiaries, andthe public. It’s hard to believe so many peo-ple want to distort the facts about a criticallyimportant program upon which tens of thou-sands of families depend.

As governor, I have signed into law severalchanges to PERS that will be positive yetsmall steps to help set PERS back on thepath of financial prosperity. These changesincluded increasing the vesting period andretirement age for new employees, passinglegislation to curb abuses like “double-dip-ping,” and increasing what state employeespay into the fund from 7.25 percent to 9 per-cent of payroll. All are steps in the rightdirection, but these changes alone haven’tproven to be enough to protect future pensionbenefits for all of our current state employ-ees.

If we took the advice of our critics, we’dstick our heads in the sand and hope for thebest. But Mississippians didn’t elect me toignore difficult issues like PERS. I have aresponsibility to state employees, retirees andtaxpayers to make sure the retirement systemis solvent and remains viable so benefits cancontinue to be paid now and in the future.

Haley Barbour is governor ofMississippi.

PERS needsadjustmentsfor long term

ByHALEYBARBOUR

governor

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Wyatt Emmerich, PublisherJimmye Sweat, Editor

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A NATIONAL ENERGY expert called it“one of the biggest business stories inMississippi you won’t hear much about.” Itinvolves billions of dollars. But we don’t hearmuch about the story because terms like “gridaccess,” “regional transmission organization”or “power purchase agreements” are not typi-cally part of our day-to-day reading.

As we enjoy the end of our Mississippisummer, something we cannot but helpunderstand is the importance of having elec-tricity when we need it. The big businessstory is important because it will directlyimpact the state’s electric reliability andaffordability.

Entergy Mississippi Inc., which provideselectricity to more than 430,000 residential,commercial, industrial and governmental cus-tomers in our state, is moving toward joiningthe Midwest Independent TransmissionSystem Operator (MISO), a regional trans-mission organization. MISO is one of severalU.S. RTOs, entities charged by federal man-date to efficiently manage the transmissiongrid in a specific geographic area and ensurethat the customers within that area receivereliable and affordable electricity.

Recently, Aldie Warnock, MISO vice presi-dent, native of Vicksburg, graduate ofMississippi State University, and the afore-mentioned national energy expert, spoke topolicy leaders and interested citizens at anevent sponsored by Advance Mississippi. In

his remarks, Warnock predicted that joiningMISO would result in an estimated $524 mil-lion in annual benefits for customers ofEntergy Corporation. Here in Mississippi,cost benefits over a 10 year period have beenestimated as high as $284 million.

But, even after hearing about the purposeand process of joining MISO, some mayrightfully wonder about the benefits of joiningan RTO for utility customers. For this reason,Advance Mississippi chose to make regionaltransmission organizations the focus of its lat-est energy issue brief. The issue brief explainswhat an RTO is, the benefits to customerswhen a utility joins an RTO, and issues sur-rounding a Mississippi utility joining such anorganization. Below are a few highlights.

An RTO is an independent organization,made up of utilities, power generators andother members, which manages the transmis-sion lines, generation and purchase of power,in order to seek the lowest costs and rates forits members and their consumers.Membership in an RTO is voluntary and thedecision to join is left to each utility and itsregulators. RTOs do not take over the owner-ship of transmission systems from their mem-ber utilities. Rather, they control grid accessand assist in planning for future expansion ofthe transmission grid.

One of the primary advantages some RTOs,including MISO, offer their members is theDay 2 (or Day Ahead) energy market. Thistype of market allows members to buy andsell surplus electricity on a day-ahead basis.Joining a “Day 2” market will result in energybeing generated and delivered at the lowestreasonable cost. Those benefits are passedalong to customers in the form of cost sav-ings.

A RECENT REPORT by AdvanceMississippi found that Mississippi ratepayerspay significantly less for electricity than mostof the nation, providing many advantages toboth ratepayers and those invested in enhanc-ing the state’s economic development. Animportant part of continuing to bring newindustries to Mississippi is ensuring that ener-gy prices remain as low as possible.

When it comes to enhancing efficiency andreliability, RTOs are proven solutions. Inorder to maintain our state’s enviable, highly-competitive electric rates, support business,create jobs and meet the energy needs of thefuture, we would be wise to seek opportuni-ties like the efficient market that MISO pro-vides.

Steven Carter of Yazoo City is programdirector of Advance Mississippi.

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Stephanie R. Jonesreceived the Mississippi BarFoundation’s 2011 Law-Related Public EducationAward at the Foundation’srecent annual meeting. Thisaward is presented to alawyer or law firm or bar

organization for excellencein enhancing the public’sunderstanding of the lawand the legal system. She isan attorney at theMississippi Department ofRevenue and is a member ofthe State Association ofBankruptcy Attorneys andthe Mississippi BankruptcyConference.


NORTHBAY LAWSUITTHE CITY OF MADISON is suing the

owner of the abandoned Northbay golfcourse for the cost of cleaning up the neg-lected property, which has become a hazardto residents of the Northbay subdivision.

It got to the point where large river rats,called nutria, were seen in residents’ back-yards. Overgrown grass had also become aneyesore.

Northbay resident and Madison MunicipalCourt Judge Dale Danks filed a nuisancelawsuit against Bob Ford, who owns theproperty under the Bob Ford Christian Golf

Foundation. The club closed soon afterward. The mayor and board of aldermen voted in

September to clean up the property, butinstead of charging the owner with the clean-ing costs as a tax lien, the city voted earlierthis month to file a lawsuit, which was theother legal option.

City Attorney John Hedglin said the citywill not only seek the cost of cleaning, whichamounted to about $2,800, but also attorneyfees and any court costs incurred by the law-suit. Thus, Ford likely will owe more than$3,000 if the city wins the suit.

FORTIFICATION UPDATETHE PRELIMINARY work on the

Fortification Street Improvement Projectcontinues. But officials who wanted con-struction to begin this fall say work likelywon’t begin until sometime next year.

Two firms, Entergy and AT and T, are nowmoving utilities for the project, withComcast expected to begin relocating itsservice lines in the coming weeks.

Mark Bailey, senior engineer manager andvice president of transportation with Neel-Schaffer Engineering, a firm working on theproject, said there’s no time frame on com-

pleting the utility relocations. The work is a necessary part of the $12

million project, which calls for changing thefour-lane street into a two-lane boulevardwith a center turn lane from Jefferson Streetto Greymont Avenue.

Utilities must be moved, to give crewsaccess to the area for construction.

Other work will entail replacing the under-ground water and sewer infrastructure, andreducing the height of a hill near MadisonStreet to improve visibility for drivers.

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STREETSCAPINGSIDEWALK AND lighting improvements are coming to

Fondren’s lower business district. However, Northsidersthat frequent the popular corridor likely won’t see any con-struction there until next summer.

The city of Jackson is in the beginning phase of a $2.5million project to upgrade the streetscape of the district bor-dered by North State Street, Old Canton Road and DulingAvenue. Officials recently selected a design firm and sub-mitted their selection to the Mississippi Department ofTransportation (MDOT) for final approval.

“We expect to get it back any time now,” said GeorgeEwing, a construction project manager for the city.

Once the designs are drawn up, the city will have toobtain temporary easements for the project before work canbegin. “With winter coming up, it will probably be nextsummer before we start,” he said.

MDOT has to sign off on the selection, because the proj-ect is being paid for in large part with federal dollars.

The award is an 80-20 matching grant, meaning the cityhad to come up with an additional $400,000 before themoney could be spent. Jackson officials set aside the neededfunds in its 2012 budget.

Service pinLion Harold McDonald (right) was recently given a pinmarking his 65 years of service with the North JacksonLions Club. McDonald serves as program chair and isresponsible for lining up speakers for the weekly clubmeetings. Presenting the pin is Lion President Ken King.

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Continued from Page OneKnight, and then to Norman Wells, a town onthe Mackenzie River. From there, McNamara,along with a doctor from Tupelo and a manfrom Kentucky, traveled by floatplane to theoutfitter’s hunting camp.

There, each was paired with hunting guidesand readied for the hunt.

MCNAMARA packed about 50 pounds ofessentials: a .30-06 rifle and ammunition,binoculars, a sleeping pad, sleeping bag, certainunnamed odds and ends, clothing and 15pounds of freeze-dried food. He was notweighed down with 12 days of water. “Becausethere’s no human habitation and no pollution,you can drink water right out of the streams,”he said. “You don’t carry something if youdon’t need it.”

Two things that McNamara was never with-out during the trip was his rifle and ammuni-tion. “We saw an average of three grizzly bearseach day. We heard wolves howling at night,”he said. The bears, fortunately, never came incontact with the two. “The smell of man keepsthem away for the most part, but there havebeen three people killed by bear attacks recent-ly in the United States.”

Pictures provided to the Sun show tall moun-tains and green valleys. No homes, no gas sta-tions and no signs of civilization, save forMcNamara and his guide.

The Mackenzie Mountain Range in theNorthwest Territories of Canada is an uninhab-ited frontier owned by the British crown. Theterritory hunted by McNamara was about thesize of the Mississippi Delta “about 150 mileseast to west, and 60 miles from the north to thesouth point,” McNamara explained.

The land is located north of the well-knownCanadian provinces of Alberta and BritishColumbia, and east of the Yukon Territory.Mackenzie Mountain Outfitters was givenexclusive rights to hunt the land.

“Your ability to hunt is limited. You can’t justdo it. It takes a great deal of luck and work,” hesaid.

MCNAMARA’S first harvest in theCanadian frontier was a 250-pound Dall ram.McNamara and his guide dressed it, and carriedthe meat three to 10 miles to a rural airstrip,where it was picked up by natives. “Two peo-ple could carry the sheep in one trip,” he said.

The caribou kill netted about 600 pounds ofmeat, and the moose garnered McNamara andhis guide another 1,500 pounds of flesh. “I shotthe moose about two miles from the airstrip. Ittook three trips per day for two days and anoth-er trip on the 3rd day to transport the meat byfoot,” he said. “It doesn’t spoil, because thetemperature doesn’t get higher than 50degrees.”

Highs during the day reached into the 50s,while at night, the temperature dipped into the20s.

“You have to have the right clothing. Basedon your physical activity, you just have to havea light sweater during the day,” McNamarasaid, recalling the weather conditions. “Atnight, I was in a sleeping bag rated for a tem-perature of zero. So, theoretically, it wouldkeep me warm down to zero degrees.”

Despite the below-freezing nights,McNamara had little trouble falling asleep.“You’re physically spent by the end of the day.The second you lie down, you’re asleep. Youdon’t stay up and talk,” he said.

McNamara, now rested up, is preparing foranother hunting expedition to the north side ofthe Grand Canyon in pursuit of mule deer.While getting ready for his next safari,McNamara has had time to reflect on hisCanadian trip, and said he’s fortunate to havespent time in the territory.

Said McNamara: “It’s a trip that very fewpeople are willing to do. You see places thatfew people have the opportunity to see.”

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on the third day to transport the meat by foot. Itdoesn’t spoil, because the temperature doesn’t get

higher than 50 degrees.”-Will McNamara

Guild showcaseThe Craftsmen’s Guild of

Mississippi will presentworks by new members in anexhibit October 25, 5 to 7p.m. at the Mississippi CraftCenter. Free admission. For

more information call 601-856-7546.

Garden clubRidgeland Garden Club

will meet November 1, 11a.m., at Petals and Pails inTrace Station. Topic will behow to make Christmaswreaths and tablescapes.


LEFLEUR EAST was started in 2010with five main objectives, one of whichwas to increase communication amongneighbors living on the east side of I-55North.

The group will meet that objective thisfall, when the foundation launches its newWeb site. A landing page has already beenset up for the Web domain lefleureast.net.Residents going to the page can view amap of the foundation’s boundaries andjoin the foundation’s e-mail list. However,it did not appear that the site was up andrunning in mid-October.

Once the site is completed, it will allowresidents to find out about communityevents, crime and other trends specific tothe neighborhoods between the Pearl Riverand the interstate.

It’s one of several ways LeFleur East ishelping to improve communications in thedistrict. The foundation has already set up aflash page and a Facebook account. Boardmembers are also discussing using Twitterand texts to keep neighbors plugged in.

Board Chairman John Dinkins said oneof the biggest challenges is walking thefine line between providing the right

amount of information and over-saturatingresidents’ cell phones and in-boxes.

“Communication is a good way to bringpeople together, but we don’t want to givepeople information they don’t want toreceive,” he said.

He believes the Web site would havebeen an ideal medium for residents to findout about the state’s now-defunct plan tobuild a new home for the MississippiDepartment of Revenue near the Researchand Development Center, as well as plansfor the District at Eastover.

The new Web site will ensure residentsget news that’s specific to their interests.

Chris Bates, volunteer communicationsdirector with the nonprofit group, saidthose who log on to the homepage willhave access to a menu, where they canchoose what items they want to learnabout.

“We want to make sure that the partici-pant can sign up for areas that they aremost interested in, like pet services, whileopting out of others,” Bates said.

“The goal is to give participants the mostinformation possible, but only the informa-tion they’re interested in,” he said.

Bates, along with Patrick Norman andCoy Gautheir is designing the site.


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MADISON COUNTY’S UPDATEDComprehensive Plan will reflect the factthat the county hasn’t experienced as muchindustrial growth as expected, an officialsays.

William Peacock, principal planner withthe Central Mississippi Planning andDevelopment District (CMPDD), said thatwhen the comprehensive plan was updatedfive years ago, the county had anticipatedmore industry coming to the Gluckstadtarea because of the Nissan plant in Canton.

“Since then, things have not developedas much as we had originally thought,”Peacock said. “As far as I know right now,it won’t affect the zoning map. And if itdoes affect the land use map, it won’t be alot.”

State law requires counties’ comprehen-sive plans to be updated every five to sixyears. To update Madison County’s plan,CMPDD officials hold public hearings andhand out questionnaires to get residents’opinions about the county’s needs - every-thing from road projects to public facilitiessuch as libraries.

CMPDD then interviews county depart-ment directors and members of the Boardof Supervisors and uses all the feedback -from the public and the local government -to develop the goals, objectives and poli-cies part of the plan.

As for the plan that’s being updated rightnow, “not a lot changed, because some ofthe people have many of the same goals or

objectives as [in] the previous plan,”Peacock said.

THE COMPREHENSIVE PLANincludes the county’s land use plan andthoroughfares plan.

“The land use plan is how we expect thecounty to develop in the next 20 to 25years. It affects zoning only in that statelaw requires that a zoning ordinance andmap be based upon the comprehensiveplan,” he said.

“So [the current zoning] may not be adirect reflection of what’s on the compre-hensive plan land use map.”

Information for the thoroughfares plan istaken from the Long Range TransportationPlan (LRTP) for the Jackson metro area.CMPDD also updates this plan every fiveyears.

Peacock said CMPDD would like tohave the updated comprehensive planapproved and in place by the end of 2011,if not sooner.

“What I’m doing is, I’m making somefinal touches in the land use map and thecomprehensive plan after some discussionswith the zoning administrator, and then I’llget back with him and we’ll go through itagain and see if there are any additionalchanges that need to be made,” he said.“And then we’ll take it to the planningcommission.”

When the county government is satisfiedwith the plan, it will go to a final publichearing before being adopted.

Slow industrial growthchanges future plansfor Madison County

Three winnersThe Rotary Club of Jackson recently announced the winners of their four-year collegescholarships for 2011. Each year, the club interviews applicants and awards collegescholarships to a number of deserving students. Since 1989, more than $1.6 millionhas been contributed to the scholarship fund by the membership and 147 studentshave received support. Shown are (from left) Eliza Knight, Justin Johnson, Mike Larson,and Haley Grantham.

QUICK ACTION by an alert neighbor, abarking dog and Jackson police foiled a sus-pect’s attempt to make a clean getaway afterbreaking into a home in the LOHO neighbor-hood.

Last week, police arrested Antonio BernardYoung for breaking into a home in the 3900block of Roxbury Road.

Police arrived on the scene in about twominutes, just in time to capture the 49-year-old as he attempted to exit the dwelling.

On Friday, Young was being held at theHinds County Detention Center and beingcharged with one felony count of house bur-glary. Precinct Four Cmdr. Wendell Wattsdidn’t know if bond had been set.

At approximately 6:30 p.m. on October 12,a neighbor called police after he noticedYoung sneaking around to the back yard ofthe Roxbury home. Police arrived on thescene and were directed to the back yard.

“Our officers saw him coming out of thehouse,” said Watts. “Young saw the officerand attempted to flee, and after a short pur-suit, he was captured.”

Young had gained entrance to the housethrough a rear window. Watts didn’t know if

the suspect exited through a window or door.The suspect was apprehended by police

near the intersection of Eastover Drive andthe I-55 North frontage road.

According to an e-mail obtained by theSun, while police were heading into the backyard, the witness drove “ a loop around theblock and parked at the next intersection try-ing to keep an eye out for him down twostreets.” One of the officers came out andtold the witness that the suspect was spottedand fled on foot.

The witness saw the suspect approach onthe frontage road and flagged police inYoung’s direction.

Young was not in possession of any stolenitems when he was captured. “Nothing wasshown to be taken from the home,” Wattssaid.

Residents were not at home when the inci-dent occurred.

Police responded to the scene within twominutes, just in time to catch the suspect inthe act. Watts said home burglaries typicallyoccur in a timespan of three to four minutes,so response time in critical in capturing a sus-pect.

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Continued from PageOnethe neighborhood.Detractors say the deci-sion will prevent new res-idential growth inNortheast Jackson, anarea that has few undevel-oped parcels.

Greater EastoverNeighborhood Foundation(GENF) ExecutiveDirector Dana Robertsonis urging supporters toattend the meeting, whichwill be held on the first floor of the Hood building, inthe Andrew Jackson Conference Room.

“This is just a means of protecting the neighbor-hood,” she said. “One of the key attributes of Eastoveris the larger lot size. We don’t want to see that change.When a lot gets subdivided, the overall aesthetic of theneighborhood is affected.”

EASTOVER IS MADE up of 38 individual subdi-visions that were built in the 1950s and 1960s. Large,green lots ranging in size from one to six acres charac-terize the area.

In recent years, developers, desperate for new placesfor residential development, have begun purchasinglarger lots, tearing down old homes and putting upsmall subdivisions. Those developments are typicallycharacterized by smaller patio homes and minisculefront and back yards and referred to as “infill develop-ments.”

Infills are popping up across the Northside, includ-ing two on Northside Drive and one on Ridgewoodcalled Lenox Estates. They have also sprouted inEastover, real estate broker Kitty Rushing told the Sunabout one on Boxwood Drive. One house was torndown and two were put in its place.

Ward One Councilman Quentin Whitwell supportsexpanding the district. Earlier this year, the first-termleader was instrumental in getting the council to pass a90-day moratorium on subdividing lots in the neigh-borhood.

Whitwell, though, wasquick to point out thathe’s not opposed to infilldevelopments, especiallyin areas that have experi-enced urban decay. “Newbuilding is a good thing.New (patio) homes attractretirees and young cou-ples, and add to the taxrolls,” he said. “It alsohelps to get rid of dilapi-dated homes.”

Dilapidated homes andurban decay, however, are

not problems in Eastover. In fact, the neighborhoodhas some of the most valuable, sought-after propertyin the state.

The overlay would keep that property intact andhelp maintain what Whitwell said is a unique commu-nity in Jackson.

GENF and the Eastover Homeowners Associationbegan working with the city on the overlay in May. InAugust, the council passed the moratorium, which wasperhaps a preview of how council members wouldvote on the overlay. The measure passed with a vote of5-1, the lone dissenter being Ward Two CouncilmanChokwe Lumumba. Ward Three Councilman KennethStokes was absent.

Jackson city code states that overlay districts estab-lish regulations that go beyond city zoning rules:“Generally, the underlying zone determines the per-mitted land uses, while the overlay district may regu-late such things as design and setbacks.”

Lots in Eastover are zoned R-1A residential, mean-ing that individual parcels may be no less than 10,000square feet, about a quarter of an acre.

Under city code, the planning board, upon recom-mendation of the planning department, may initiate anoverlay. The board then must hold a public hearing onthe overlay request. Notice of the hearing must begiven within at least 15 days of the hearing. Letterswere mailed out to more than 500 property owners inand within 160 feet of the proposed district last week.Robertson said she received her notice last week aswell.

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A PET PROJECT OF formerJackson City Councilman JeffWeill to provide better access tothe Pearl River has yet to make itout of dry-dock.

In 2009, the then Ward Oneleader told residents that he want-ed the city to build a ramp on theriver at the end of WestbrookRoad.

The plan, though, has stalled,not because city officials don’tsupport the idea, but because offunding.

“We have to look at it within theconfines of our budget,” saidChris Mims, director of commu-nications. “If there is an interest,we might take a look at it in thefuture, but now there are morepressing needs.”

After Weill proposed the idea,city officials went to the site toassess the area. Officials deter-mined that the project would be acostly and time-consuming under-taking.

“Access was a major issue.There were a number of privateproperties bordering the site, andwe would have to obtain themthrough easements,” Mimsrecalled.

Additionally, Mims said a roadwould have to be built to the siteto allow boaters to get to a ramp.

Once that’s done, then there’sthe actual cost of building theramp and its accessories. Ron

Garavelli, chief of fisheries withthe Mississippi Department ofWildlife, Fisheries and Parks(WFP), said the price of putting inramps varies, but can cost asmuch as $25,000.

That would include the pur-chase of about half an acre ofland, the construction of a parkinglot for those coming to the areaand the boat ramp itself.

The city, though, would nothave to foot the bill on its own.

Garavelli said the state wouldpay for 75 percent of it with fed-eral funds, meaning that Jacksonwould only have to come up witha quarter of the total cost in localdollars or in-kind work. “The fed-eral government gives us moneyto build them from taxes collectedfrom boat sales,” he said.

Garavelli has not visited theWestbrook site.

Once a ramp is installed, there’sthe cost of upkeep. “We find apartner, whether it’s a city orcounty, to do things like pickingup trash, grading the parking lotand cutting grass. If we can’t findone, we usually cut off plans,” hesaid.

MIMS SAID the city now hasother issues that need to beaddressed. Funding in the 2012fiscal year budget has been setaside for getting the police depart-ment fully staffed and addressingsewer and wastewater needs.

Funding preventsbuilding boat rampon Westbrook Road

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Continued from Page Onewill seek city approval to re-classify three pieces of landaround Reunion Parkway aspotential commercial instead ofresidential.

Kent and Reunion PresidentTim Hutson have repeatedlyemphasized that a land reclassi-fication does not amount torezoning.

An outside developer wouldhave to get approval fromReunion Inc., Madison planningand zoning, and the mayor andboard of aldermen before theland could be rezoned commer-cial and developed.

The land in question includes16 acres on the southeast cornerof Highway 463 and ReunionParkway, eight acres on the northeastcorner of the same, and a 10-acre par-cel about a mile east of that intersec-tion on the north side of the parkway.

“We don’t think anybody’s going towant to live in a home at the intersec-tion of Reunion Parkway and 463,”Kent said.

Despite multiple meetings with localresidents and homeowner associations,Kent and Hutson still have a few vocalopponents. Hutson said some residentsfear commercial developments woulddestroy property values.

“But at some point, somebody’sgoing to build a convenience store anddentist office and veterinary clinic outthis way,” Hutson said.

Hutson and Kent have said anycommercial development in Reunionwould meet or exceed city standards,and the potential commercial landwould sit pretty far from existing resi-

dential development.

REUNION DEVELOPERS alsowill request to create a new residential“pod” on land currently labeled as apotential additional nine holes for thegolf course.

Developers want to nix the backnine idea and instead create a residen-tial area with a swimming pool andminimum lot sizes of 9,000 squarefeet.

Kent said once a residential pod isapproved, Reunion typically takes nineto 12 months to develop the pod andready it for home construction.

Then the construction plans mustmeet the approval of the ReunionProperty Owners Association’s archi-tectural review board and the citybefore construction can start. Thearchitectural review board is made upof two Reunion residents, an architect

and a landscape architect, noneof whom are Reunion employ-ees.

THE FINAL proposed PUDamendment in Reunioninvolves lot and home sizes.Any new lots would have tomeasure at least 9,000 squarefeet, and homes in new subdi-visions would have to be atleast 2,400 square feet.

“We’d be eliminating the5,000- to 8,000-square-foot lotsand any newly developed areaswith houses under 2,400 squarefeet,” Kent said, noting thatPUDs allow for a variety of lotand home sizes.

The minimum house sizewould exceed the city’s typical

requirement of 2,200 square feet forhomes in new developments.

The Reunion PUD sets a maximumof 2,920 residential lots, “and the max-imum we’ll do is 2,100 or 2,200.”

Reunion Inc., had planned to ask foranother land classification change inthe southwest part of Reunion to con-tain high-end houses for retirees, butKent said potential homebuyersweren’t interested. That request hasbeen removed from the proposed PUDamendments.

Eventually developers will bring theproposed changes to the MadisonPlanning and Zoning Commission,which will hold public hearings.

The commission then will make rec-ommendations to the mayor and boardof aldermen, which probably will hostmore public hearings before making afinal decision on the PUD amend-ments.

Madison ZoningContinued from Page 3AJackson area in locations at the airport and other places.There are two [projects] specifically that I think will endup here after the first of the year.

“There’s a small feature in Natchez and a small featurein Greenville. Those are both about to start.

“We’re busier than we’ve ever been. Every week weget a new script.

“I expect we’ll be pretty busy from here on out. Andthat’s good because that builds the crew base, and thenthose guys buy more equipment, and then there’s morereason to come here. It just snowballs.”

How much credit should The Help get for thatincreased interest?

“Part of it is The Help. It benefited us in a lot of differ-ent ways, starting last year when they were filming here.The production community [took notice].

“All those actresses on television talking about eatingin Greenwood, and how great it was to be in Mississippi,that was good.

“And Tate [Taylor] and Brunson [Green] deserve a lotof credit. They were committed and wanted to film here -and we did everything we could to make that happen.

“But we were actually trying to find a way to improvethe film incentives just a little, and everything conspiredto help us.

“We’ve found a good segment of production: smallerproductions that will help build our crew. In states withlots of productions, small ones get lost.

“And the communities in Mississippi love film, whichmakes things easier around here. We know that a goodproject will find a happy home.”

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BAPTISTBRIARWOOD DRIVE 245 Briarwood Dr., 956-4561BROADMOOR BAPTIST1531 Highland Colony,Madison, 898-2345CALVARY BAPTIST1300 W. Capitol St., 354-1300CASTLEWOODS 175 Castlewoods Blvd., 992-9977COLONIAL HEIGHTS 444 Northpark DriveRidgeland, 956-5000CROSSGATES BAPTIST8 Crosswoods, Brandon, 825-2562FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF JACKSON431 N. State St., 949-1900FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MADISON 2100 Main St., 856-6177FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OFRIDGELAND302 W. Jackson St., 856-6139FLOWOOD BAPTIST1649 Old Fannin Rd., Flowood,992-6464GREATER RICHMONDGROVE BAPTISTComplex Road, Ridgeland, 856-2209GREATER ROSS CHAPELBAPTISTGluckstadt Road, Madison, 856-8778HIGHLAND COLONY1200 H.C. Pkwy., Ridgeland,856-4031HORIZON COMMUNITYCHURCH4711 I-55 North, 982-8889MOUNT CHARITY964 Lake Harbour Dr.,Ridgeland, 956-1767MOUNT PLEASANT Gluckstadt Rd. Madison, 856-5862NEW HOPE GROVE Old Agency Rd., Madison, 856-5279NEW LIFE BAPTIST385 N. Old Canton Rd.,Madison, 209-9500NORTHMINSTER 3955 Ridgewood Rd., 982-4703PARKWAY BAPTIST802 N. Frontage Rd., Clinton,924-9912PEAR ORCHARD 5725 Pear Orchard Rd., 957-2086PILGRIM’S REST BAPTIST409 Main St., Madison, 856-2609PINELAKE BAPTISTLakeland DriveRIDGECREST BAPTIST7469 Old Canton Rd., Madison,853-1090RIDLEY HILL BAPTIST1034 N. Livingston Rd.,Madison, 853-1068RIVERCREST FELLOWSHIP21 Northtown Dr., 991-0046ROCKY HILL BAPTISTRocky Hill Rd., Madison, 856-0759SIMON HILL BAPTIST139 W. Ridgeland, Ridgeland,853-2669TRACE RIDGE BAPTIST238 Lake Harbour Dr.,Ridgeland, 856-2529

BAPTIST (Cont.)TWIN LAKES BAPTIST673 Lake Cavalier Rd.,Madison, 856-2305VICTORY BAPTIST420 Hoy Rd., Madison, 856-4260WOODLAND HILLS BAPTIST3327 Old Canton, 981-1441WOODMAN HILLS MB468 Kearney Park Rd., Flora,879-8347GREATER MT. MORIAH3672 Medgar Evers Blvd.362-9088

BIBLEGRACE BIBLE CHURCH380 Highland Colony Pkwy.991-1910RIVERWOOD BIBLE5228 Old Canton, 956-5694

CATHOLICST. FRANCIS OF ASSISICATHOLIC4000 W. Tidewater Ln.,Madison, 856-5556ST. PETER’S CATHOLIC123 N. West St., 969-3125ST. RICHARD CATHOLIC1242 Lynnwood, 366-2335OLD CATHOLIC COMM. OFST. MARY MAGDALENEFondren Corner Building

CHRISTIANCOMMUNITY CHRISTIAN 543 Eldorado Rd., Pearl, 936-9618

DISCIPLES OF CHRISTFIRST CHRISTIAN645 Briarwood, 977-9477NORTHEAST CHRISTIAN 3169 W. Tidewater Ln.,Madison, 856-7399UNITED CHRISTIAN1730 Florence Ave., Ridgeland,354-1177

CHRISTIAN SCIENCEFIRST CHURCH OF CHRISTSCIENTIST731 S. Pear Orchard Rd., Ste. 9, 952-0307

CHURCH OF CHRISTMEADOWBROOK CHURCHOF CHRIST4261 I-55 N., 362-5374SOUTH MADISON CHURCHOF CHRIST338 Lake Harbour Dr.,Ridgeland, 856-2165

CHURCH OF GODCHRISTWAY1501 Old Fannin Rd.992-7474COBBLESTONE CHURCH OFGOD444 Pebble Creek Dr.,Madison, 853-6910FIRST CHURCH OF GOD829 Hwy. 51 N., Madison, 856-0652

EPISCOPALCHAPEL OF THE CROSSEPISCOPAL674 Mannsdale Rd., Madison,856-2593ST. ALEXIS EPISCOPAL650 E. South St.stalexisjackson.orgST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL305 E. Capitol St., 354-1535ST. COLUMB’S EPISCOPAL550 Sunnybrook Rd.,Ridgeland, 853-0205ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL3921 Oakridge Dr., 982-4880ST. LUKE’S EPISCOPALCHURCHN. College, Brandon, 825-5836ST. PETER’S BY-THE-LAKEEPISCOPAL1954 Spillway Rd., Brandon,992-2691ST. PHILIP’S EPISCOPAL5400 Old Canton Rd., 956-5788

EPISCOPAL (Cont.)ST. STEPHEN’S REFORMEDEPISCOPAL5049 Lakeland Dr., 992-4317

JEWISHBETH ISRAELCONGREGATION5315 Old Canton Rd., 956-6215

LUTHERANASCENSION LUTHERANOld Canton Rd./E. County LineRd., 956-4263CHRIST LUTHERAN4423 I-55 North366-2055GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERANHwy. 25, 992-4752NATIVITY LUTHERAN495 Crossgates Blvd., Brandon,825-5125

METHODISTALDERSGATE UNITEDMETHODIST655 Beasley Rd. 366-6630ANDERSON UNITEDMETHODIST6205 Hanging Moss Rd., 982-3997BELLWETHER, Flowood JA Performing Arts CenterBRIARWOOD UMC320 Briarwood Dr., 956-4035BROADMEADOW UNITEDMETHODIST4419 Broadmeadow Dr., 366-1403CHRIST THE WAYFREE METHODIST978-3423CROSSGATES UMC23 Crossgates Dr., Brandon,825-8677CHRIST UNITED METHODIST6000 Old Canton Rd.,956-6974EAST JACKSON UMC855 S. Pear Orchard Rd., 957-0515EMMANUEL UNITEDMETHODIST100 Shands St., 372-9424FIRST INDEPENDENTMETHODIST CHURCH OFMADISON1556 Hwy. 51N, 672-1240FIRST UNITED METHODISTRidgeland, 856-6456GALLOWAY MEMORIALUNITED METHODIST305 N. Congress St., 353-9691MADISON UNITEDMETHODIST2050 Main St., Madison, 856-6058PARKWAY HILLS UNITED METHODIST1468 Highland Col. Pky.,Madison, 856-2733RIVERSIDE INDEPENDENTMETHODIST1127 Luckney RdFlowood, 919-8311ST. LUKE’S UNITEDMETHODIST621 Duling Ave., 362-6381ST. MARKS UNITEDMETHODIST400 Grants Ferry Rd., Brandon,922-2131ST. MATTHEW’S UNITEDMETHODIST7427 Old Canton Rd., Madison,856-9581WELLS CHURCH UNITED METHODIST2019 Bailey, 353-0658WESLEY BIBLICALSEMINARY CHAPEL787 E. Northside, 366-8880

NAZARENEFIRST CHURCH OF THENAZARENE5416 Lakeland Dr., Flowood,992-8680ORTHODOXST. PETER’S ORTHODOX180 St. Augustine Dr., Madison,856-3894HOLY TRINITY, ST JOHN THETHEOLOGIAN GREEKORTHODOX CHURCH5725 Pear Orchard Rd.,Jackson, 601-355-6325

PENTECOSTALAPOSTOLIC REVIVALCENTER-UPC301 W. Washington St.,Ridgeland, 856-2385DAVIS TEMPLE CHURCH OFGOD IN CHRIST1700 Dalton St., 969-9519FIRST PENTECOSTAL5000 I-55S, 373-9000LANDMARK CHURCHSpringridge Rd., 372-7761PARKWAY1620 Mannsdale Rd., Madison,853-2607

PRESBYTERIANBRIARWOOD PRESBYTERIAN620 Briarwood956-4553COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN4000 Ridgewood Rd981-7236FIRST PRESBYTERIAN1390 N. State, 353-8316FIRST PRESBYTERIANCHURCH OF MADISON7717 Old Canton Rd., 856-6625FONDREN PRESBYTERIAN3220 Old Canton Rd., 982-3232GRACE CHAPELHwy. 463, Madison, 856-7223HIGHLANDS PRESBYTERIAN1160 H.C. Pkwy., Ridgeland,853-0636LAKELAND PRESBYTERIAN 5212 Lakeland Drive, Brandon,992-2448LAKESIDE PRESBYTERIAN2070 Spillway Rd., Brandon,992-2835NORTH PARK PRESBYTERIAN4624 Old Canton Rd., 362-2886PEAR ORCHARD PRESBYTERIAN750 Pear Orchard Rd.,Ridgeland, 956-3283TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN5301 Old Canton Rd., 977-0774REDEEMER CHURCH640 E. Northside Dr., 362-9987

SEVENTH DAYADVENTISTCOLLEGE DRIVE ADVENTIST CHRISTIANCHURCH110 College Dr., Pearl664-1408

NON-DENOMINATIONALCALVARY CHAPEL109 Jetport Dr., Pearl, 932-9673CONGREGATION BEITLECHEM - MESSIANIC110 Jones Ln. Ste F, Flowood601-933-4913CORNERSTONE CHURCH2460 Terry Road, 371-3323RIDGELAND FAMILYCHURCHOld Agency Rd., Ridgeland,856-2101CHURCH TRIUMPHANT731 S. Pear Orchard, 977-0007UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST4872 N. State, 982-5919UNITY OF JACKSON4660 McWillie, 981-9412VINEYARD CHURCH600 Grants Ferry Rd., 919-1414

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Joseph W. Parker Jr.Services were held

October 12 at TrinityEpiscopal Church inNatchez for Joseph W.Parker Jr.

Parker died peacefully,surrounded by his family, October 8 at theUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center,following a brief illness.

Parker was born May 26, 1928 inNatchez. He served in the United StatesNavy, and was graduated from LouisianaState University with a degree in forestry,where he was a member of Sigma Chi fra-ternity, and was a Life Loyal Sig. He mar-ried Kit Rose of Leland in 1955, and wasthe proud father of four children. Heenjoyed a career of farming and timbermanagement in Adams County and servedon the ASCS committee and the MississippiRiver Flood Management Board.

Parker was a member of the NatchezRotary Club and served as its president, andwas a Paul Harris Rotary Fellow. He servedon the vestry of Trinity Episcopal Church

and was chairman of the board of TrinityEpiscopal School, and was president of theNatchez Swim Team. He treasured hismembership in the Santa Claus Committee,and was honored to be its Santa Claus in1969. He was a founding member of thePandella Hunting Club and an avid LSUTigers fan.

Parker was preceded in death by his par-ents, Joseph W. Parker Sr. and MildredKaiser Parker, and his daughter KimberlyParker Wilverton (Gary).

Survivors are his loving wife of 56 yearsKit, children Karen Rosalez (Arthur) ofDallas, Wheeler Parker (Ashley) ofMadison, and Katie Aiken (Hank) ofJackson; sister Mildred Mallerich of NewOrleans; sister-in-law Ann Rose ofDuncanville, Texas; nieces Sandy Carpenter(Will) of Jacksonville; and Jennifer Keenerof Dallas; nephews Emory Rose of Jackson,and Mark and Stephen Mallerich; grandsonsPreston and Spencer Rogers of Lubbock,Texas, Parker, Will and Matthew Aiken ofJackson, and Austin, Peyton and BrooksParker of Madison.

Memorials may be made to TrinityEpiscopal School, One Mallan Morgan Dr.,Natchez; or Trinity Episcopal Church, 305S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS 39120.

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happeningsGolf classic

Jackson Touchdown Clubwill hold their annual golftournament October 27 atthe Country Club ofCanton. Call 601-856-1059for details.

Rebel weekendThe Rebel Athletic

Foundation of Mississippiwill host Rebel Weekend atRiver Hills Club, October29. The day will feature atennis exhibition, SEC foot-ball games and a party withthe SpunkMonkees.Tickets, $40. Proceeds ben-efit the Ole Miss tennisprogram. For details call601-987-4451, 601-291-1451 or visitwww.rafofmiss.org.

Madison CrimeThe Madison Police Department received

the following reports for:Colony Crossing, check forgery,

September 2;Grandview Boulevard, grand larceny

September 9;Grandview Boulevard, petit larceny,

September 11;Hickory Glen, petit larceny, September 19;Highway 51, check forgery, September 10;Rutherglen Way, grand larceny, two counts,

September 9;Twin Oaks Drive, larceny, September 7;

Jackson CrimeThe Jackson Police Department received

the following reports for:County Line Road, 1000 block east, auto

burglary, September 23;County Line Road, 1000 block east, auto



burglary, September 7;County Line Road, 1200 block east, aggra-

vated assault, October 8;County Line Road, 1500 block east, house

burglary, October 8;County Line Road, 1500 block east, house

burglary, September 7;County Line Road, 1600 block, larceny,

September 11;County Line Road, 700 block west, house

burglary, September 16;County Line Road, 700 block west, house

burglary, September 9;Crane Boulevard, 3600 block, robbery -

individual, September 23;Crane Boulevard, 4000 block, auto burgla-

ry, September 13;Crepe Myrtle Drive, 5400 block, house

burglary, September 22;Crestview Drive, 4100 block, house bur-

glary, September 8;Eastbrooke Drive, larceny, September 9;Eastridge Drive, 4200 block, house burgla-

ry, October 10;Eastridge Drive, 4400 block, auto burglary,

October 3;Edgewood Terrace, 200 block, house bur-

glary, October 7;Fairfax Circle, 900 block, house burglary,

September 20;Fairview Street, 800 block, house burglary,

September 21;Fairview Street, 900 block, auto burglary,

October 7;Fontaine Avenue, 3500 block, house bur-

glary, September 27;Forest Park Drive, 2200 block, larceny,

September 7;Forest Park Drive, 4200 block, house bur-

glary, September 23;Forest Park Drive, 4300 block, house bur-

glary, September 9;Galaxie Drive, 5100 block, larceny,

September 15;Galloway Avenue, 3500 block, larceny,

September 12;Glenway Drive, 100 block, auto burglary,

September 14;Glenway Drive, 300 block, house burglary,

September 14;Greymont Avenue, 400 block, aggravated

assault, September 24;Hanging Moss Road, 5900 block, house

burglary, September 27;Hanging Moss, 1200 block, stolen license,

October 8;Hanging Moss, 5900 block, business bur-

glary, September 13;Hartfield Street, 500 block, larceny,

September 11;Heritage Place, 300 block, larceny,

September 12;Hialeah Drive, 5200 block, auto burglary,

October 3;Holly Drive, 4500 block, house burglary,

September 27;Honeysuckle Lane, 4300 block, auto bur-

glary, October 3;I-55, 4200 block north, business burglary,

Signal LLC, September 6;I-55, 4600 block north, aggravated assault,

October 2;I-55, 4600 block north, aggravated assault,

September 11;I-55, 500 block north, aggravated assault,

September 25;I-55, 5000 block north, auto burglary,


September 17;I-55, 5000 block north, auto theft, October

9;I-55, 5200 block north, auto burglary,

September 6;I-55, 5300 block north, auto theft,

September 11;I-55, 5300 block north, larceny, September

11;I-55, 5300 block north, larceny, September

7;I-55, 5400 block north, larceny, October 7;I-55, 5400 block north, robbery - individ-

ual, September 15;I-55, 5900 block north, larceny, September

25;I-55, 6000 block north, auto burglary,


September 7;I-55, 6000 block north, business burglary,

Uncle Bob’s Storage, September 23;I-55, 6100 block north, auto theft,

September 8;

I-55, 6300 block north, larceny, September1;

Keele Street, 5100 block, house burglary,September 28;

Keele Street, 5600 block, aggravatedassault, September 14;

Keele Street, 5600 block, auto burglary,September 20;

Keele Street, 5600 block, larceny,September 23;

Keele Street, 5600 block, robbery - individ-ual, October 6;

Kent Avenue, 1600 block, aggravatedassault, September 11;

Kent Avenue, 1600 block, house burglary,September 23;

Kimwood Drive, 1400 block, house bur-glary, September 22;

Kings Highway 4500 block, house burgla-ry, September 15;

Kings Highway, 3700 block, auto burglary,September 10;

Kings Highway, 4000 block, auto burglary,September 7;

Kings Highway, 4000 block, house burgla-ry, September 25;

Lakeland Drive, 1100 block, auto burglary,September 22;

Lakeland Lane, 3600 block, stolen licenseplate, September 17;

Launcelot Road, 500 block, house burgla-ry, October 7;

Lelia Drive, 1400 block, auto burglary,September 23;

Londonderry Drive, 4600 block, houseburglary, September 11;

Lynnwood Lane, 400 block, larceny,September 22;

Lynwood Lane, 400 block, house burglary,September 19;

Manhattan Road, 5200 block, aggravatedassault, September 18;

Manhattan Road, 5200 block, auto burgla-ry, September 1;

Manhattan Road, 5400 block, robbery -carjacking, September 3.

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MOST OF MYARTICLES are about either pursuing aparticular game species or talking about some aspect ofhunting. Though hunting will be briefly mentioned in thisarticle, the substance is far different. I have still not beenable to sit in one of my climbers this season, however I didget close Tuesday. I finished work early with full intentionof setting up over a freshly planted oat patch to see if Icould collect the first venison of the year. As I got closerand closer to my destination, my heart was less and less intoit.

Temperatures were climbing to the low 80s and as Iturned the corner to enter my haunt, the wind hit me dead inthe back, blowing my scent straight into the thicket I wouldbe watching. This was strike two. I went ahead and set myclimber up and just stood there a few minutes ponderingwhether or not I should sit there for the sake of being able tocatch my breath and just relax, or if I should wait for betterconditions so as not to stink it up right off the bat. My deci-sion was made when I noticed about a dozen mosquitoes onmy arm while standing at the base of my tree. That wasstrike three. I was out of there.

As I strolled back to my truck, I took a look back at thehickory tree I had set my stand on. The foliage on this treeis in peak color and is as brilliant as I have seen in quitesome time. I looked at the scarred base where my climberhas bitten into the trunk for so many seasons. Each year Isee this very tree change from rich green foliage, to goldenas the Rocky Mountain aspens, to the bare nakedness aswinter arrives.

Our hickory trees are in the genus, Carya, a Greek wordmeaning nut. I felt like a nut for wanting to hunt in theseconditions. Nevertheless, I was awestruck at the color thisparticular tree is giving to the forest for admiration. I thinkthe weather is changing for the better soon, and I’ll be back.If a whitetail happens to pass by, great, if not I’ll be mes-merized by this tree for a few more weeks.

AS I CONTINUED MY jaunt out of the woods, Icouldn’t help but notice another species in full plumage.Along a clipped lane, goldenrod is abounding. This specieswas neck and neck with my hickory for color. As the east

wind blew, a sea of vibrant yellow waved through thegrown up field. Goldenrod, under the genus Solidago, pro-liferate in abandoned fields. I’ve never known wild honeyto come from this plant, but the honeybees were extremelyactive on the flowers.

One myth is this flower is responsible for fall hay fever,when in reality ragweed is the culprit. The further I gazedacross the field, the more solid and intense in color itbecame. I just stopped at one point and took it all in. Anartist could become quite captivated while re-creating thissight on canvas. Goldenrod has been used for medicinalpurposes for many years ranging from diuretic uses to ananti-inflammatory. It has also been used as a vulnerary herbto heal wounds - hence the name Solidago which is Latinfor “to strengthen or to make whole.” I do know taking thefew minutes to absorb this color was good for my soul.

With only a couple of hundred yards to go before arrivingback at the truck, I was treated to one more color spectacle.Numerous sumac trees were also in their prime along agrown up fence line. Perhaps this species, under the genusRhus, took top honors this particular day for color. The deepcrimson leaves resembled roaring fireplaces in the distant.With more than 250 species in this genus, our familiar poi-son oak and poison ivy are in this group. I have alwaysheard of poison sumac and after a little research I stumbledupon a recipe for Indian lemonade.

It seems the drupes (fruit) from the smooth sumac treehave at times been soaked in cool water and by rubbing thefruit and then straining, the liquid has been used for drink-ing. I’m not sure if I want to trust this recipe when so manyother home recipes abound. Regardless of the elixir that canbe made from this species, the color has to take precedence.

I thought about all the color I was exposed to during mybrief walk in the woods. I hope the wind direction willchange so I can once again take another trip into that won-derful swamp. And if the wind stays out of the east, whoknows, I may go anyway. Our fall color will be at its peakfor another few weeks until old man winter’s breath willtake it away. Take a stroll to gather some color for the win-ter, you’ll be glad you did. Until next time enjoy our woodsand waters and remember, let’s leave it better than we foundit.

Hickory tree mesmerizingOUTDOORS IN THE SUNb y J e f f N o r t h

“I was awestruck at the color this

PARTICULAR TREEis giving to the forest for admiration. Ithink the weather is changing for the

better soon, and I’ll be back.”


Mistletoe sponsorsParty held at children’s museum

Leanne and John Mark Casey, Randy Russell, John Hopkins, Julie Langham

Larry and Lisa Ratzlaff, Melissa and Troy Peters

Harry Walker, Kenny and Trish Windham, Dan Modisett

Bethany Johnson, Tommy and Jill SilerDonna and Duane O’Neill

Margaret Cupples, Fran and Alan Weeks

Lindsay Hamm, Jason and Rochelle Hicks, Brandon Kennedy Christine Bridges, Jamie Patten, Kendall Poole, Kim Porter

Terrell Knight, Saundra and Duane Dewey

Jeanne and Paul Moak, Jeanne ScarboroughBonnie and Doug Alaimo

Members of the Junior League of Jackson recentlyhosted the annual Mistletoe Marketplace sponsorsparty at the Mississippi Children’s Museum. Theannual fund-raiser will be Nov. 2-5 at the Trade Mart.

Shown are scenes from the party.

Tommy Darnell, Vickie Greenlee

social news section BThursday, October 20, 2011

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Weddings & EngagementsNATALIE REBEKAH Smith and Randall Patton Borland

were united in marriage at 4 p.m. April 2, at Mountain BrookCommunity Church in Birmingham. The Rev. James A.Tucker III officiated the double-ring ceremony.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon MyrickSmith. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. WilliamHoward Borland III of Birmingham. Nuptial music was pre-sented by Jacquie Long, pianist; Christopher Carr, guitarist;Brant Beene, mandolinist; and Julia Denson, soloist.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore an ivorydesigner strapless empire lace gown with a sweetheart neck-line and fitted bodice with a subtle pleated detail of soft tulleand a layered train of beautiful lace scalloping along the bot-tom and train of the dress as well as along the sweetheartneckline. She wore a single layer, elbow length veil. She car-ried a bouquet of hand-tied assortment of white peonies,white roses and freesia. Around her bouquet, she carried ahandkerchief given to her by her maternal grandmother.

Claire Smith Belknap of Hattiesburg attended her sister asmatron of honor. Bridesmaids were Katie Carr Braddy ofMadison, cousin of the bride; Rachel Townes Green ofBirmingham; Barclay Borland Gresham of Birmingham, sis-ter of the bridegroom; and Missy Perryman Morgan ofDallas. Barclay Brooke Gresham of Birmingham, niece ofthe bridegroom, was the junior bridesmaid. Attendants worestrapless, knee-length pistachio gowns of silky taffeta. Theycarried bouquets of hand-tied assortment of green hydrangeasand white roses.

THE BRIDEGROOM’S father was best man.Groomsmen were William Howard Borland IV, brother ofthe bridegroom; Walter Lee Gresham III, brother-in-law ofthe bridegroom; Jacob Arthur Hayes; and Jacob AustinShevin, all of Birmingham. John Coleman Tyler ofGreenwood, cousin of the bride, was junior groomsman.Ushers were Charles Lindsey Belknap of Hattiesburg, broth-

er-in-law of the bride; and Thomas Adam Casey of Alabaster,Ala.

The flower girl was Ava Ruth Borland of Birmingham,niece of the bridegroom. She wore a French handsewn dressof Swiss batiste and ecru French laces and carried a basket ofroses. Walter Lee Gresham IV of Birmingham, nephew ofthe bridegroom, was the ring bearer. He carried a ring bearerpillow covered in ivory lace.

The mother of the bride selected a gown of peony taffetawith a ruche bodice and A-line skirt, and a matching off theshoulder ruche wrap. The bridegroom’s mother wore aPacific Ocean taffeta gown featuring a ruche bodice andmatching bolero jacket. Both mothers carried hand-tiednosegays with baby white roses adorned with ivory satin rib-bon. The bridal proxy was Kate McIntosh Graham ofBirmingham. Program and registry attendants were SusanDennis Gordon and Elizabeth Maner Lindsey, both ofBirmingham. Diane Carol McAliley of Birmingham wasScripture reader.

FOLLOWING THE ceremony, the bride’s parents hon-ored the couple with a reception at Avon Theatre. Music wasprovided by After Class.

The day before the wedding the bride, bridesmaids, moth-ers and grandmothers of the couple were treated to a lunch-eon at the home of Gay Cole, cousin of the bride. Co-host-esses were Ethel King, grandmother of the bridegroom; EdithLester, cousin of the bride; and Margie Myrick, great-aunt ofthe bride.

On the eve of the wedding, the bridegroom’s parents hostedan after rehearsal dinner at Mountain Brook Country Club.Guests enjoyed cocktails on the patio, dinner and toasts.

After a wedding trip, the couple is at home in Birminghamwhere the bride is a third-grade teacher, and the bridegroomis the owner of a screen printing company, ArtWear Design.

Smith, Borland say vows in Birmingham

Mr. and Mrs. Randall Patton Borland

Craft fairBriarwood United Methodist Church will

hold a craft fair and bake sale October 22, 8a.m. to 2 p.m., in the church fellowshiphall. For more information call 601-829-0029.

Dinner movieThe Sundance Film Institute will facilitate

‘Film Forward Dinner and a Movie,’October 24, 6 p.m., featuring dinner at ThePalette Cafe and a movie screening in theArt Garden at the Mississippi Museum ofArt.

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social newsWeddings & Engagements

Miss Hastings, Mashburnto marry December 3

Mr. and Mrs. Paul David Hastingsannounce the engagement of their daughter,Lauren Elizabeth Hastings, to WilliamGrayson Mashburn, son of Mr. and Mrs.Jerry Hale, and the late Billy ColemanMashburn Jr.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter ofPaul D. Hastings and the late Jack MarieHastings of Lambert, and Helen Waller andthe late Edgar Norris Waller of Marks.

The prospective bridegroom is the grand-son of Mr. and Mrs. Billy ColemanMashburn Sr., formerly of Yazoo City, andthe late Mr. and Mrs. F.J. Hamel of Canton.

Miss Hastings was graduated fromJackson Academy in 1999. She attendedMississippi State University, where she wasa member of Delta Delta Delta fraternity.In 2003 she was graduated cum laude witha bachelor of fine arts degree. She is associ-ated with the Mississippi Department ofTransportation as a graphic designer.

Mashburn was graduated from MadisonCentral High School in 1999. He attendedHolmes Community College and theUniversity of Southern Mississippi. He isassociated with Snap Fitness as a gym rep-resentative and trainer. He is also a level 1trainer at Crossfit 27:17.

The couple will exchange vowsDecember 3 at First Baptist Church Chapelin Jackson, with a reception at Duling Hall.

William Grayson Mashburn, Lauren Elizabeth Hastings

ON THE EVENING of April 30, EmilyLois Peace and Jonathan David Cole recit-ed their wedding vows in front of friends atThe South. Officiating at the ceremony wasSteve Wilson, uncle of the bridegroom.

The bride is the daughter of Kathy Peaceof Clinton and James Peace of Braxton.The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.Ray Sullivan of Terry and Lee Cole ofBrandon.

Escorted by her father, the bride wore astrapless silk gown featuring a modifiedsweetheart neckline and diagonal ruchingdown the bodice and the front of the A-lineskirt which flowed into a chapel lengthtrain. To complement the beading on hergown, the bride wore a small headpiece ofcrystals and feathers. She also wore pearland diamond earrings, a gift from hermother. She carried an English hand-tiedbouquet of peach stock, Eskimo roses, andbridal dendrobium orchids. Music was pro-vided by Grace Halsey, harpist.

The bride’s attendant was Abigail Lasswho served as maid of honor in memory ofher mother, Tammy Peace Lass, sister ofthe bride. She wore a yellow silk gownwith ruching in the same style of the bride.She carried a bouquet of spring flowers.Flower girls were Olivia Lass and MadelynLass, nieces of the bride. They carried aball of light peach roses that were hand tiedwith a white ribbon.

THE BRIDEGROOM’S father was bestman. Ushers were Daniel Cole and StephenCole, brothers of the bridegroom; BarrySullivan, stepbrother of the bridegroom;and Benjamin Lass, nephew of the bride.

Following the ceremony, the bride’s par-ents hosted a reception where friends andfamily danced to the music of Meet the

Press. On the eve of the wedding, the bride-

groom’s parents hosted a rehearsal dinnerat the Capitol Club of Jackson.

Following a wedding trip, the couple is athome in Clinton, where the bride is theassociate registrar at the University ofMississippi Medical Center and the bride-groom is an estimator and project managerwith Surface Techs Inc. in Ridgeland.

Peace, Cole recite weddingvows on April 30

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan David Cole

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Weddings & Engagements

Stewart, Fleming wedMay 21 in Flowood service

SARAH ANN Stewart and MatthewOsborne Fleming were married May 21 atLakeland Presbyterian Church in Flowood.

The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs.James Holland Stewart. The bridegroom isthe son of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Fleming ofShreveport.

The ceremony was officiated by thebride’s father and Drs. Charles and A.T.Stewart, uncles of the bride. Nuptial musicwas presented by Connie Wadsworth,organist; and Bonnie Brown, violinist.

Presented in marriage by her father, thebride wore a white silk taffeta A-line gown.Beading and crystals adorned the bodiceand sides, flowing down to a chapel lengthtrain. Her fingertip-length illusion veil wastrimmed in satin ribbon and crystals. Shecarried a bouquet of white roses, sweetpeas, hydrangeas and lisianthus withaccents of pink roses and purple lilacs.

Attending her sister as maid of honor wasEsther Elizabeth Stewart. Patricia HoneaStewart, sister-in- law of the bride, wasmatron of honor. They wore gowns of pur-ple chiffon with a shirred bodice and car-ried bouquets of roses, lisianthus,hydrangeas and lilacs.

The bridegroom’s father was best man.Groomsmen were Thomas Crouch andMichael Crouch, bothers of the bridegroom.

Following the ceremony, the bride’s par-ents hosted a reception at the Lineage LakeClub House.

The day before the ceremony a bridalluncheon was held in the home of Mrs.Forrest Bratley with co-hostessesMesdames Steve Edwards and Tom Payne.

On the eve of the wedding, the bride-

groom’s parents hosted a rehearsal dinner atthe Colonial Country Club.

Following a wedding trip to Turks andCaicos, the couple will be at home inNashville.

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew OsborneFleming

MEREDITH KEATING Moore andSteve Cheng were united in marriage theevening of May 7 at the Washington DukeInn in Durham, N.C. The Rev. BarbaraLodge officiated, with nuptial selectionspresented by the Stalberg Quartet.

The bride is the daughter of AllenLeMaster Linton of Oxford and Dr. DavidBenjamin Moore Jr. of Green Valley, Ariz.The bridegroom is the son of Mei-chengand Ling-shen Cheng of Cary, N.C.

Escorted by her father, the bride wore adesigner asymmetrically draped lace gownwith a duchess satin bodice. She carried ahand-tied bouquet of white mini calla lilies.

Attending the bride as matron of honorwas Cameron Billups Peden ofWashington, D.C. Bridesmaids were LaurieMackintosh and Kyle Wallace of NewYork; Sara Jane McCrary of Madison;Lindsey Musselman of Wallingford, Pa.They wore strapless navy silk taffeta dress-es. Their hand-tied bouquets were ofpeonies, mini calla lilies, dendrobiumorchids and hypericum berries.

THE BRIDEGROOM’S brother,Jeffrey Cheng of New York, was best man.Groomsmen were Justin Brown of NewYork; Neil Gupta of Durham; Philip Krigerof Brookline, Mass.; David Moore ofHouston, Texas, brother of the bride; andMichael Pesce of Seattle.

Following the ceremony, the bride’s par-ents hosted a reception at the Inn, whereguests dined and danced to the music ofThe Design. On the eve of the wedding, thebridegroom’s parents hosted a rehearsaldinner at Pop’s in Durham. Also on the eveof the wedding, the bride and her brides-maids were honored with a tea at the

Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, hosted byDebra Billups and Sara Linton, the bride’sgrandmother.

After a wedding trip to Hawaii, the cou-ple is at home in New York. The bride is aBioPharma Equity Research associate forLazard Capital Markets and the bridegroomis a desk analyst for the Global Loans andSpecial Situations Group at Bank ofAmerica Merrill Lynch.

Meredith Keating Mooreand Steve Cheng

wed in North Carolina

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Cheng

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FIRST, DO NO HARM - or at least as lit-tle as you can, considering calculated risks.This amendin of the Hippocratic oath forphysicians works for thoughtful gardeners,protective not only of the environment but ofthemselves, and anyone, especially childrenand pets, who consider a garden their per-sonal playground.

So it is disconcerting to read that a popularand easy-to-use weed killer is now found tohave possibly harmful, long-term effects onthe soil and on plant roots. Nothing easy iswithout a price.

It has been generally considered thatRoundup (the trade name for glyphosate),widely used by home gardeners as an easychemical alternative to pulling or hoeingweeds, and considered safe for the environ-ment, the crops, and the user, now is thoughtto be causing fungal root disease.

I don’t go out looking for information likethis, but sometimes it just appears - in thiscase, as e-mail postings from two friendswhose knowledge and intentions I trust, andboth, by coincidence, residents of California,where environmental issues are taken moreseriously than most places.

My own personal stance on this chemicaluse in general I’ve often stated: I don’t liketo use them, because the use requires somuch protective clothing and such care thatit’s not worth the bother and considerableexpense. I gave up growing hybrid tea rosesfor three reasons - the plants look ugly somuch of the year, they demand full sun,which I’d rather use for plants that I likeeven more, or that provide color in the gar-den much of the year, and in our garden intown I had grown weary of the process of

spraying. Mulching, and hand pulling after agood rain, which is therapeutic psychologi-cally, are greatly to be preferred.

But I have friends who weigh their choicesand choose the Roundup route, because oflack of time and energy to do otherwise, andbecause we have, until now, been assured itwas safe. (Just as I have friends who defend,with their doctor’s permission, their right tocontinue to use some no-longer-approvedarthritis drugs because for them the possiblerisk is much more tolerable than the certainand intense pain.) We are grown-ups, andthat means making choices.

From northern California, from a profes-sional social worker who pays attention toimportant issues, I frequently get e-mailsdirected at the sins and shortcomings of herfavorite target, the mega-chemical company,Monsanto. This time, the contents warrantedmore than a casual read-and-delete

IT SEEMS THAT IN A DRIVE to feedthe world with ever-increasing crops,Monsanto had developed crop cultivars of“Roundup Ready” corn and soybeans. Agri-farmers loved these crops because theycould spray the growing crops and kill thesurrounding weeds. But in recent years,weeds had shown an increasing resistance toRoundup (just as your doctors warn thatincreasing use of antibiotics means theydon’t work as well in clearing up infections).More ominous for big business, agriculturalstyle, now it seems that the repeated spray-ings are causing problems below ground,too. The data implies that glyphosate is caus-ing fungal root diseases that eventuallydestroy the crops.

Another set of postings came from aSouthern Californian with a doctorate inmicro-botany.

She is concerned, and this comes closer tohome (few of us grow thousands of acres ofcorn and soybeans) for daffodil growers. Therepeated use of Roundup during the daf-fodil’s dormant season to ease the clearing ofweeds, now is suspected of impacting theroot structure of plants and causing fungalroot disease. All of these news articles comefrom a study by Bob Kremer, a microbiolo-gist with the U.S. Department ofAgriculture’s Research Service.

Fungal root disease or fusarium, alsoknown as basal rot, is the scourge of daffodilgrowers across the United States, and mostespecially in warm climates. Mississippi andTexas are pitied by Yankees as “the basal rotbelt.” The research seems to indicate, thusfar, that the first year, and maybe the second,the use of Roundup as a weed killer doesn’tcause significant harm. But repeated usebrings on evidence of basal rot where it didnot exist before. No absolute proof, butenough of a suspicion that people need to re-think their previous assumptions of safetythrough chemicals. And possibly sharpenthe hoe.

I’VE LONG MADE ONE exception tomy no-chemicals preference. I’d grab foranything that would rid our lawn, flowerbeds, and open areas of fire ants. I put onthe same protective covering I use to hand-pull poison ivy and honeysuckle (I’m aller-gic equally to both) and surround the hillsand then sprinkle the top with one brand oranother of recommended fire ant poisons.

Once bitten, you are forever shy of allowingthese pillaging mounds to proliferate.

Now I read, in an organic writer’s columnin today’s paper, that there is an organicallyapproved fire ant bait called Garden SafeFire Ant Killer. The author said he had pur-chased it at one of the big discount stores,but had not been able to find it recently. Hesaid it worked great, worth the bother of anon-line search for a supply. He also notesthat there’s an Ortho product called Eco-Sense.

The magic ingredient in both is, and Iquote, “a naturally occurring soil dwellingbacterium called Saccahropolyspora spin-osa.”

What really caught my attention was hisfinal comment, that for individual mounds, ifyou prefer a “natural” or organic treatment,try pouring boiling water on the mounds ordumping coffee grounds on them. At last,news I can use. I’ve saved this morning’scoffee grounds and will be heading to a per-sistent fire ant eruption in a flower bedwhere even boiling water might cause harm.

I guess, like most of us, I’d like to be anenvironmentalist. But actually I am a realist.

Gardening Glimpsessocial news

By Mrs. Herman McKenzie

Dancing with the StarsMississippi Opera hosts fund-raiser

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Bettye Sullivan, Bill and Bobbie Henley, Shirley and Eddie Foster

Alan Torrey, Tyler Burns, Tony Myers; (front) Carter Burns, India Torrey, Meghan Easley, Haley Clayton, Will Jones

Richard McRae, Jean Brewer, Nora Frances and Vaughan McRae

David Keary, Jennifer Mithcell

Sylvia and Bob Hubbard

Sandy McKellar, Sherry Castle Boyer

Vik and Manisha Malhotra, Raksha and Rubina Sethi, Monica Harrigill, Sandeep Sethi

Judy and Charles Ferguson

Mississippi Opera held Dance with the Starsrecently at the Jackson Marriott. The fund-rais-er featured celebrity dancers, judges and theCapitol City Stage Band.

Shown are scenes from the event.


New Stage TheatreUnframed event held at theater

Sarah Park, Aaron Hancock, Kayla Fuentes, Kristen Johnson

Lenny and Jessica Wilkinson, Ed Van Cleef

Nate and Malaika Quarterman, Neil KellyJoe and Zen Wendel

Cynthia Stuart, Megan Voos

Melissa Tillman, Brent Hearn, Karen Mansfield

Sharon Miles, Amy Smith

Kristen Johnson, Laney Haschke, Olivia Broome

Kate Lawrence, Hannah Chappelle, Elizabeth Gutherz, Evan Bretchel

Unframed at New Stage Theatre was heldSeptember 30 in the Hewes Room. ActorsMichael Gibson, Brent Hearn, Neill Kelly,Jessica Wilkinson, Chris Roebuck andSharon Miles performed, and local art wasdisplayed.


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Dracula thrillerNew Stage Theatre will present a

play based on Bram Stoker’s“Dracula,” October 25 throughNovember 6, 7:30 p.m. Wednesdaysthrough Saturdays and 2 p.m.Sundays. For ticket information call601-948-3531.

Band concertThe Mississippi Community

Symphonic Band will present its fallconcert October 24, 7 p.m., at theBelhaven Center for the Arts ConcertHall. Free admission. Call 601-605-2786 for details.

Toastmasters meetHigh Noon Toastmasters meet each

Monday at noon at the NorthsideLibrary. For more information call601-941-5172.

Anniversary lunchThe Else School of Management at

Millsaps College will celebrate their25th anniversary with a luncheonOctober 26, noon, at the LeggettSpecial Events Center on campus.$15, reservations encouraged. Fordetails call 601-974-1254.

Fun festChrist Covenant School will hold

their annual Fall into Fun family festi-val October 20, beginning at 5:30 p.m.Tickets $12 for kids age 3 through 8thgrade. The event will include food,music by GodSpeed3, games, inflata-bles, and a silent auction.


Rides for national titleChloe Barnett, daughter of Cherri and Ken Hall Barnett, won the Arabian Youth NationalChampionship recently in Albuquerque. She rode in three events, Country English (pleasure)where she finished with two top 10s and a National Championshp in Purebred English Shoe Hack,ages 14-17. She also won the 2010 Canadian Youth National Championship in Country Englishheld in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Barnett’s horse is a six-year-old Arabian gelding named X-Caliburr.

social news

KIT BARKSDALE has been namedthe new president and CEO of theMississippi Chapter of Make aWish Foundation of America.Barksdale brings 15 years of lead-ership experience working fornon-profit and public organiza-tions in and around Jackson.Before joining Make a Wish shewas the executive director of theMustard Seed.

happenings

AN EXPERT ON THEconnoisseurship ofRembrandt prints will presentthe Gallery Guild’s fall lec-ture on October 26 at 10 a.m.in the Grand Hall of theMississippi Museum of Art.

Starr Siegele, an adjunctcurator of prints at theAllentown Art Museum, willdiscuss the print makingskills of master painterRembrandt van Rijn, and the35 etchings on display in theMMA’s current exhibition,“Rembrandt: Beyond theBrush.”

Jacqueline Root is serving as president of the GalleryGuild, which has presented 167 lectures by art world lumi-naries since its founding in 1965. The guild has also donated

94 pieces of artwork to theMississippi Museum of Art’spermanent collection. Otherofficers include CharlotteMcNeel, vice president;Mary Helen Bowen, secre-tary; and Becky Ivison, treas-urer.

Seventeen new memberswill also be welcomed at thefall meeting. They areElizabeth Alley, MenaApplewhite, Carolyn Brown,Barbara Carraway, Lynn

Crystal, Joan Dattel, Mary AnnFontaine, Dolly Goings, SallyMartin, Ginny Mounger, April

Nall, Susie Puckett, Ann Rumbavage, Cecile Wardlaw,Cheryl Welch, Cynthia Williams and Lynda Wright.

The October 26 lecture is free and open to the public.

social news

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BOOK FEATURES NANCY PRICENANCY PRICE’S design philoso-

phy fuses design principles - a mar-riage of opposites combining contem-porary with classicism, ancient frag-ments with sleek clean lines, andalways taking into consideration scale,color and light.

Price reveals her creative processthrough imagery in a newly releasedbook Interiors Southeast. This coffee-table collection highlights some of theregion’s most talented designers,including Price, with photo-infusedpages that are inspiring. Nancy cele-brates the publication of the book witha reception and book signing in hershowroom recently.

Price is an award-winning designerbased in Jackson. Originally fromLouisiana and the granddaughter of amaster craftsman, she has been sur-rounded and influenced by art, archi-tecture and design from an early age.Price has always been motivated byher passion to create environmentswithin a series of livable spaces.

She received awards and accoladesfrom trade shows in New York andAtlanta with the launch of her new

line of furniture (Design Legacy byNancy Price). She received “Best ofthe Best NYIFG Summer 2011”award from the American Society ofInterior Designers in New York aswell as “Best in Show” at the AtlantaInternational Home and Gift Show.

NANCY PRICE Interior Design(NPID) is a residential and commer-cial design firm that creates the per-fect balance of elegance and comfort,modern and antique, while remainingtrue to the architecture and intent ofeach project. The NPID mantra is “AStudy in Contrast.” By selecting aneutral palette as a design startingpoint and adding back architecturalelements and art, NPID creates aneclectic, unique, and current designaesthetic.

Price and her husband John are thefounders of Acadian Builders andtogether have completed both residen-tial and commercial projects through-out the country.

Nancy Price

Gallery Guild hosts fall lecture;Rembrandt prints expert to speak

Charlotte McNeel, Becky Ivison, Jacqueline Root,Mary Helen Bowen

To include an event, e-mail [email protected] by 5 p.m. Thursday

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Calendar the northsidesun

October 19, Wednesday• Mississippi Department of Archives and History program, Old Capitol Museum staff,

Noon - 1 p.m. in the Old Capitol.• Belhaven University Highland Players Guild production of “The Life of Galileo,”

October 19 - 22, 7:30 p.m. at Blackbox Theatre.October 20, Thursday• Christ Covenant School Fall into Fun family festival, begins 5:30 p.m.• Belhaven University musical theatre revue of motherhood, October 20 - 22,

7:30 p.m. at Bitsy Irby Visual Arts and Dance Center.• Jackson Zoo, ‘Boo at the Zoo,’ festival, October 20-22 and 27-29, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admission $9 adult, $6 children 12 and under. www.jacksonzoo.org.

October 21, Friday• First Presbyterian Day School fund-raiser, Holiday Potpourri, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

in the home of Kim and Michael Nichols.www.fpds.org.• Mississippi International Film Festival, October 21 - 23, Davis Planetarium.

www.msfilm.org.• Mississippi Museum of Art High Note Jam concert series at the Art Garden.

Classical Night with MS Symphony Orchestra, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.October 22, Saturday• Christ Covenant School Fall into Fun 5K Run / Walk.• Belhaven University faculty recital, Sylvia Hong, pianist, 7:30 p.m.

in Concert Hall.• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 2011 Walk to Cure, LeFleur’s Bluff Park,

Mayes Lake. 601-981-1184.• Briarwood United Methodist Church craft fair and bake sale. 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.• Little Light House walk/run at University Christian School. 601-829-3446.• Mississippi Farmers Market fall harvest festival, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. 359-1163.• Jackson Prep Performing Arts Department, “Grease,” the school version, October 22,

2 and 7 p.m. and October 24 at 7 p.m. Grease Carnival, 4 - 6 p.m., and Grease Diner.769-798-9500.

October 24, Monday• Jackson Touchdown Club speaker Marcus Dupree, Sid Salter and Billy Watkins,

6 p.m. at River Hills Club.• University of Mississippi support group Ole Miss Lunch Bunch meeting each Monday11:30 a.m. - 1 pm. at Frisco Deli. Ray, 601-622-6090; or Nick, 601-856-0002.

• Mississippi Community Symphonic Band fall concert, 7 p.m., Belhaven Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Free admission. 601-605-2786.

• High Noon Toastmasters meet each Monday at noon at the Northside Library. 941-5172.October 25, Tuesday• New Stage Theatre, “Dracula,” October 25 - November 6. www.newstagetheatre.com.• Jackson Audubon Society chapter meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Eudora Welty Library. www.jacksonaudubonsociety.org. Open to the public.

• Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi presents its newest members in an exhibit, 5 -7 p.m.,MS Craft Center. www.mscrafts.org.

October 26, Wednesday• Mississippi Department of Archives and History program, Ellen Anne Fentress,

"Reporter Norma Fields: American Woman.” Noon - 1 p.m., Winter building.• The Art Garden at the Mississippi Museum of Art will offer live music, 11:30 a.m. to

1:30 p.m.Bring your own lunch or buy lunch at The Palette Cafe.• Else School of Management at Millsaps College 25th anniversary luncheon, noon,

Leggett Special Events Center. Cost $15. www.millsaps.edu/esom.

October 27, Thursday• Seventh annual Jackson Touchdown Club Golf Classic, Country Club of Canton. Entry deadline, October 26th, noon. Bruce Bartling, 601-856-1059.

• Mississippi Museum of Art Jazz, Art, and Friends, in The Art Garden.• Mississippi Optometric Foundation, Fondren Renaissance Foundation, and

Fondren Association of Businesses host a Zombie Charity Crawl and Zombie Promin Fondren to raise awareness about children’s vision issues. 601-981-9606.

• Jackson Choral Society’s fall concert, 7:30 p.m., Crossgates United Methodist Church. Tickets $10, adults over 50, $8. 601-927-9604.

October 28, Friday• Mississippi Museum of Art High Note Jam concert series at the Art Garden.

Bluegrass Night with Delta Mountain Boys, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.October 29, Saturday• Madison County Scholarship Association pageants. www.mcwcpageant.com.• Mississippi Farmers Market, corner of High and Jefferson streets.

Most Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. 601-359-1159.• Red Beans and Rice celebration, Stewpot benefit, 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Trustmark Park.• Wesley Chapel community fest, 10 a.m - 2 p.m., 787 East Northside Dr. October 30, Sunday• The Jackson Zoo is currently open daily 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Last ticket sold 4:30 p.m.October 31, Monday• Jackson Touchdown Club speaker Marcus Dupree, Sid Salter and Billy Watkins,

6 p.m. at River Hills Club.• University of Mississippi support group Ole Miss Lunch Bunch meeting each Monday11:30 a.m. - 1 pm. at Frisco Deli. Ray, 601-622-6090; or Nick, 601-856-0002.

• High Noon Toastmasters meet each Monday at noon at the Northside Library. 941-5172.

special daysHAPPY BIRTHDAY

October 13: Lane Allen, Carla Camp, D.C. Ware, Anne Parker, Sebastian Gullory.October 14: Jim Breland, Hannah Adcock, Mrs. Waddell Nejam, Sherman C. Rice,Grace H. Blevins, Corinne Fox. October 15: Kelsey Jones, Jim Crell, Isabelle Patterson,Mary Jones. October 16: Ed Inman, Carolyn Lee. October 17: David Lott, Billy D. Johns,Jason Powell, Bill Grothe, Judith C. Jones, H.S. Amsler, Dede Rogers. October 18: BenTodd, Tom Todd, Margaret Bond, Lauren Brown, Clyde V. Maxwell, Megan HannaMcAdory, Mary Haseloff, Nell Werkheiser, Mackenzie Dynneson. October 19: ClarenceChapman, David Archer, Phyllis Davis, Paulette Goodnight, R.F. Cooper Jr., LewisDodson, Susan Dorsey, Donna Nigro. October 20: Brad Ward, Peggy Ferguson Phillips,Kristy Brown, Miriam Harris, George Koerber Jr., Kim Moore, Mary Frances Martin,Craig Gates, Warren Williams, Herbert Price, Alan Woodard, Katherine Saik, PaigeAnderson, Bryan Screws.

HAPPYANNIVERSARYOctober 13: Danny and Kim Pettit, Bill and Mary Watkins, Buck and Barbara

Dearman. October 14: Lomax and Ruth Floyd. October 18: Ray and Frances Blasingame,Mike and Fai Lamberth, Mr. and Mrs. Jack R. Jones Jr., Larry and Lou Ellen Latham.October 19: Larry and Terri Wissel, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hammett, John and AliceBethany. October 20: Harold and Virginia Traylor, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Sanders.

To add your ‘Special Days’ call 601-977-8122, write to P.O. Box 16709, Jackson, MS 39236 or [email protected].

October / November events


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Kidney WalkMS Kidney Foundation holds annual walk in Fondren

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Cindy McKey, Wes and Lisa Brown

Gary and Becky Conley, E.J. Rivers

Carolyn Price, NaTasha Avery, Brenda Dyson

Johnston Walker, Rebecca Sandifer, William Vaughan, Rebecca Prewitt

Kerri Adkins, Kyle Ball

Leigh and Michael Wimberly, Renee and Dakota DearingLori Tate, Theresa Fuller

Hundreds gathered in Fondren for the 10thannual Kidney Walk. A highlight of the eventwas the golf ball drop, with dialysis patientEric Martin winning $1,000.

Shown are scenes from the walk.


Harvest festivalThe Mississippi Farmers Market will host a

Fall Harvest Festival October 22, 8 a.m. to 2p.m. The event will feature fresh seasonalproduce and pumpkins, local arts and crafts,

and children’s activities. For details call 601-359-1163.

Red beansThe Red Beans and Rice Celebration, a

benefit for Stewpot, will be October 29, 11a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at Trustmark Park.

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Heart of MSA project of the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership, the Heart of Mississippi trailsigns demonstrate to trail users that they are utilizing a trail that is part of a largersystem of trails. Signs have been distributed to Clinton, Flowood, Jackson,Pelahatchie, and Ridgeland. This first sign was installed along the Ridgeland multi-use trail at NE Madison Avenue off Jackson Street. Shown are (from left) Clay Hays,M.D., Ridgeland Mayor Gene F. McGee, David Pharr, and Melody Moody.


THIS COMING WEEK, Millsaps Collegewill celebrate the 25th anniversary of thededication of its Else School of Management,named for the couple who gave the biggestfinancial gift the Jackson college has everreceived.

In 1977, Charles and Eloise Else endoweda $22 million scholarship fund, which sincethen has helped more than 700 graduate andundergraduate business students.

The fund also helped the school gainnational validation.

“The Elses were instrumental in us attain-ing accreditation from the AACSB(Association to Advance Collegiate Schoolsof Business) in 1990,” said Jerry Whitt, whoserved as the Else School’s first dean.

“The deans of other accredited schoolswere voting you in, so it was a matter ofimpressing the accredited business schools,which were the larger ones in the country.What impressed those deans was us puttingthe [financial] resources in the business pro-gram,” Whitt said.

“We were the smallest [business] school inthe country then, and probably still are, tohave accreditation at graduate and undergrad-uate levels.”

He said the Elses were special people whostayed connected with Millsaps students.

“Throughout the ’80s we would havelunches with the Elses and the students.Charles was a shy man, and Eloise was very

outgoing,” Whitt said. “Eloise was in her ele-ment. They liked luncheons.”

THOUGH THE SCHOOL of manage-ment was organized in 1979 and named forthe Elses in 1986, business education atMillsaps goes back to 1941, when the firstbachelor of arts degree in economics wasawarded. A bachelor of business administra-tion degree was added in 1974, and the newschool of management added a master’s ofbusiness administration degree in 1979. Amaster of accountancy degree was added in1994.

Though Charles and Eloise are gone, theirdaughter Donna Ruth Roberts has followedin their footsteps. Roberts recently made alarge donation toward the construction of anindoor classroom at the Else School’s Centerfor Business and Culture in Merida, Mexico,which serves as base of operations for theschool’s Yucatan programs.

The Elses also live on through the studentswho graduate from the school that bears theirname.

“You can find our alumni all over theworld - in Moscow, New York, and inGreenville, Miss.,” said Howard McMillan,current dean of the Else School ofManagement.

“These Else graduates are bankers, teach-ers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and even a doctoror two. They are all working to improve theirprofessions and communities,” McMillansaid. “These alumni are the true legacy ofCharles and Eloise Else.”

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ANNIVERSARYMillsaps College celebrates 25years of Else School with luncheon

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PageantsMiss Madison County pageants for girls

ages 4 to 17, and 17 to 24 will be heldOctober 29. For more information call601-856-7227 or visit www.mcwc-pageant.com.

Touchdown clubUpcoming programs at the Jackson

Touchdown Club weekly meetingsinclude: Oct. 24, Marcus Dupree, SidSalter, and Billy Watkins; Oct. 31, JoeGilliam. Meetings are at 6 p.m. at RiverHills Club. For details visit www.jackson-touchdownclub.com.

Wild childThe Jackson Zoo invites families to add

a wild child to their family tree by adopt-ing an animal. Adoption packages includean adoption certificate, an animal factsheet and a photo of the animal. Fundsraised will help with the zoo’s animal careneeds. Zoo memberships are also availablefor purchase. For more information call352-2582.

SIDS supportA support group for families affected by

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome meets thefirst Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., at

River Oaks Hospital. Call 601-362-0242for more information.

Cancer rehabBaptist Health Systems offers a free can-

cer rehab program Tuesdays andThursdays, 2 p.m., in the activity room ofthe Hederman Cancer Center. To registercall 601-948-6262.

MusicalThe Jackson Prep performing arts depart-

ment will present “Grease” October 22 at 2and 7 p.m., and October 24 at 7 p.m. Acarnival and ’50s diner will also be set upon campus. For tickets call 769-798-9500.

Diabetes walkJDRF will hold their 2011 Walk to Cure,

October 22, Mayes Lake at LeFleur BluffState Park. To register visit www.jdrf.orgor call 601-981-1184.

Bird countJackson Audubon Society will hold their

chapter meeting October 25, 6:30 p.m., atthe Eudora Welty Library. Program willfeature info on the Christmas Bird Count.For more information call 601-956-7444.

Fall concertThe Jackson Choral Society’s fall concert

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Holiday shoppingFirst Presbyterian Day School will present

its annual fund-raiser October 21, 9 a.m. to 2p.m., at the home of Kim and MichaelNichols. The event offers shoppers the latestin holiday decorations, gifts and ideas plusentertainment by the FPDS strings and choir.For more information call 601-832-5993.

Zombie crawlThe Mississippi Optometric Foundation,

Fondren Renaissance Foundation, andFondren Association of Businesses will hosta Zombie Charity Crawl and Zombie Prom

October 27 in Fondren to raise awarenessabout children’s vision issues. For detailscall 601-981-9606.

Archaeology expoThe Mississippi Archaeology Expo, a

hands-on family event, will be held in thebowl at Millsaps, October 22, 10 a.m. to 4p.m. For more information call 601-576-6940.

Walk/runLittle Light House will hold a fund-raiser

walk/run October 22 at UniversityChristian School. For more information call601-829-3446.

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THE NEWLY-FORMED Rebel AthleticFoundation of Mississippi (RAF) plans to hostat least one fund-raiser per year to spotlightand benefit a successful sports program at OleMiss. This year, RAF will honor the success ofthe Ole Miss tennis teams with a one-daysports event and party at River Hills ClubOctober 29. RAF has named this event, “RebelWeekend at River Hills.”

“River Hills is a perfect venue for this eventbecause of its incredible facilities and ‘can do’staff. They’ve been great to work with,” saidLarry Peeples, one of the founders of RAF.Rebel Weekend is open to members and non-members of River Hills Club, and the cost ofentry is $40 per person for any and all events.

The day will begin with a 6.5 and 8.5 ComboDoubles Tennis Tournament (men’s andwomen’s) in the morning, and will end with aparty featuring the band Spunk Monkeesbeginning at 7:15 p.m. The band will play acatalog of songs from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, and

2000s. Between those two events, there will bean exhibition tennis match at 6 p.m.

All festivities will be held at River HillsClub. Co-founder Scott Lamb says, “Comeearly and enjoy major college football gamesto be shown all day. Whether you play tennisor not, you’ll have a great time visiting withfriends while watching matches, footballgames and enjoying good music, food anddrinks. That’s a great deal for $40.”

TO REGISTER for the tournament or theevent in general, visit the River Hills Pro Shopor register online at www.rafofmiss.org.Sponsorships are available from $250 to$10,000. Proceeds will benefit the Ole Misstennis program, via UMAA. All donations aretax deductible, including the $40 entry fee. Formore information call Larry Peeples at601.291.1451, or e-mail [email protected]. TJ Middleton, Hamp Dye, Kendall Poole, Scott Lamb, Larry Peeples;

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Learning fairSeventeen local service organizations vis-ited Jackson Academy to explain their pro-grams and discuss opportunities availablefor students to volunteer. Representativesfrom CARA, Bethlehem Center, MississippiToughest Kids Foundation, Mustard Seed,Neighborhood Christian Center and other

groups set up tables with information onhow they serve the community and waysstudents can participate. Participatingwere (from left) Tres Townsend, LandonMorris, Akash Patel, Blake Weir, BradleyCanton.

Tacky daySt. Andrew’s Episcopal School studentscelebrated homecoming week with dress-up days. Shown on Tacky Day are fresh-men and sophomores (from left, back)

Anna Curry, Lucy Woolverton, DarbyTaylor, Mackenzie Ellis, Clare Gwin, GraceWatts; (front) Lacey Ballard, Clair Sykes,Sarah McLean Archer, and Lee Schmidt.

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TackySt. Andrew’s Episcopal School studentscelebrated homecoming week with dress-up days. Shown on Tacky Day are seniors

(from left) Lauren Loeb, Amanda Liechty,Jesse Bowen, Malika Shettar, Nikki Patel,and Pooja Goel.

Community helpersTo help students have a better under-standing about community helpers, first-grade parents spoke to St. Richard stu-dents about their jobs. Shown are (from

left) Mary Scott and Kristi Garrard(teacher), Tara and CiCi Milam (forensic sci-entist), Declan and Ron Blaylock (photog-rapher), Shay and Jason Smith (chef).

Patriot awardThe Jackson Prep alumni council awardedthe fifth annual Patriot Award onHomecoming night to Bret Thiel, class of1978. This award recognizes significant

contributions by an alumnus to JacksonPrep. Shown are (from left) Adrienne CoxCarter, alumni council president; Thiel; andSusan Lindsay, head of school.

sunlanders in serviceNavy Midshipman John T. Frey,

son of Libba L. and Robert M.Frey, recently completed PlebeSummer while attending the UnitedStates Naval Academy. Frey is a 2011graduate of Jackon Preparatory HighSchool.

Army Pvt. Jonathon E. Collins hasgraduated from Basic CombatTraining at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.Collins is the son of Jill and TonyCollins of N.West St. He is a 2011graduate of Bailey Magnet HighSchool.


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JA sophomore courtElected to Jackson Academy’s 2011 Homecoming Court are sophomores (from left)Grace Golden, Parker Winford, Eliza Neely, West Garraway, Hannah McCrory, WilliamCrasto.

JA junior courtElected to Jackson Academy’s 2011 Homecoming Court are juniors (from left)Catherine Strauss, Wes Matlock, Elizabeth Strauss, Matthew McMullan, Caroline Gordy,Brian Scott Rippee.



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Body walkThe Mississippi Body Walk program, a health program designed to educate elementaryschool students throughout Mississippi on the importance of being physically activeand making good nutrition choices, came to First Presbyterian Day School. The stu-dents walk through the body exhibit as they hear the body walk presentation. Shownare (from left, back) Theresa Hand, Mary Lynn McDade, Rocheryl Ware, Kati Bouchillon,Tina Martin; (front) Luke Womack, Sarah Roberson, Nolan Wells, Ava Moak, MarcMartin, Joshua Cressman, Hartley Craddock.

Senior maidsThe 2011 Jackson Prep homecoming court was presented at halftime of the Prep-Starkville Academy football game. The homecoming maids were escorted by their fathers.Shown are senior maids and their escorts (from left) Doug and Taylor Byrd, Mark andHaley Adams, Catherine and Bob Archer, Annie and Phillip Carpenter, and Sidney andWilliam (brother) Lampton.

Good eatsTrinity Preschool three-year-olds brought their favorite Teddy bears to enjoy an out-door picnic. Shown are (from left) Tripp Witcher, Rand Woodson, Breck Hines, AnnaClaire Smitherman, Rosemary Adams.


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St. Andrew’s Episcopal School’s sixth-grade football team is (from left, back) coaches Christopher Powell, Bill Cruse, Frank Benner, James Garner, Reggie Hicks,David Russell, Tom Chain, Seth Mose; (third row) Warner Speed, Max Martinson, Tanner McCraney, Jake Jenkins, John Garner, Joseph Garner, Dickson Ray,

Richard Rein, Gannon Hayes; (second row) Thomas Black, Jack Archer, William Morse, John Chain, Bryan Barksdale, Walker Benner, Trey Gray, Ethan Chevalier, Zach Bobbitt, Christian Wade, Ben Burnett; (front) Ike LaRue, Charley Hutchison, Wade Montjoy, Hughes Boling, Forrest Bobbitt, Will Buffington, Parker Daily, and

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Beary welcomeFirst Presbyterian Day School kinder-garten students were given a FPDS bearto welcome them on their first day.Shown are (from left) Brad Hill, CarolinePerkins, Katie Poole, Eliza Hollingsworth,and Banks Hewitt.

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Elected to Jackson Academy’s 2011 Homecoming Court are seniors (from left) Mary Paxton Gibson, Clay Johnston,Emily Turbeville, Alex Conn, Rollins Parker, Garner Bush, Mary Hastings Garraway, Will Crockett, Taylor McIntyre,

Andrew Alexander.

Flower and crown bearerServing on the Jackson Academy Homecoming Courtwere flower girl Alanna Wall (left) and crown bearerTad Carpenter.

Computer useChrist Covenant School students use the computer lab inSpanish class and computer class. Using their headsets forSpanish class are middle school students (from left) SethAlbritton, Xavier Walker, and Noah Thigpen.

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Honor grandparentsSt. Joseph Catholic High School’s annualGrandparents and Sisters of Mercy Daypreparations showcased the artwork of 10students. Shown are (from left) Natalie

Younger, Megan Vandevender, WalkerFoggo, Taylor Manning, Rebecca Nguyenand Morgan Peoples.

AP chemistryJackson Academy Advanced Placement Chemistry stu-dents had the opportunity to participate in college levelchemistry experiments at Millsaps College. Pictured are(back, from left) Graham Arinder, Brent Ferguson, SarahCriddle, Mollie Blair; (front, from left) Emily Turbeville,Caroline Porch, Michelle Ley.

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happeningsDiabetes support

Baptist Nutrition Centerhosts a free DiabetesSupport Group at 1 p.m. onthe third Thursday of eachmonth.

Film festThe 2011 Mississippi

International Film Festivalwill be held October 21 - 23at the Davis Planetarium.For details visitwww.msfilm.org.

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Apple daySt. Richard kindergarteners recently celebrated “AppleDay.” Students sampled different kinds of apples, coredapples, made applesauce and apple turnovers, andread stories about apples. In math, they designed anapple bar graph. Shown coring apples are (from left)Hala Alford and teacher Ilana Schuetzle.

JFC U11G Elite were Silver Division champions in therecent Gator Classic in New Orleans. Team members are(from left, back) Katie Hubacek, Ashleigh Reeves, AddisonAvdoyan, Gabrielle Morris, Lindsay Moriarity, Samantha

Steen, Coach David Maddren; (front) Aden MarieBurchak, Bonnie Burge, Brittany Roberson, Avery Lee,Macey Spencer, Alexis Simon.

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PSA Worth Sox Red 11-year-old USSSA Fall NationalsChampions are (from left)Hunter Richardson, HooksHarvey, Chase Wilkerson,Kristopher Jones, EricNewsom, Wyatt Blalock, MattCorder, Josh Cofield, Josh Hill,and Christopher Snopek.

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Best linemanPlayer awards were recently handed out at the JacksonAcademy pep rally for the Mozingo Clothiers Linemanof the Game to recognize the best lineman from the JAvs. Heritage Academy game. Shown are (from left) JohnWiggins, Matt Smith, Bryan Eubank.


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Members of the 2011-2012 Madison Central HighSchool varsity cheerleading squad are (from left, back)Coach Mandy Malone, Anna Morton, Jessie Gehrett,Rachel Hill, Anne Marie Guthrie, Mary Holly Robinson,Audrey Jarvis, Anna Grace McBrayer, Maggie Holmes,Maggie Turnbull, Bradyn Eaves; (middle row) SarahBeth Hansford, Anna Claire Kelly, Rachel Creely, KristinSmith, Alexa Arguedas, Sarah Roberson, Amanda

Jones, Alex Martin; (front) seniors Lauren Iupe, DavisBell, Sara Rogers, MaCall Morgan, Addison Rumbley,Mollie Smith, Kelley Bryan, Skylar Byram, VictoriaRussell. The squad attended UCA summer camp inGulf Shores, and won the camp Leadership Award,first place in Extreme Routine and Home Pom, andsecond place in Cheer. Also, all nine seniors were cho-sen as All-American Cheerleaders.

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Sophomore maidSt. Andrew’s Episcopal School sophomore SavannahThomas (right) represented the 10th-grade class on theschool’s 2011 homecoming court. She is shown withher father, Philip Thomas.

Represent seniorsSt. Andrew’s Episcopal School senior Caron Byrd(right) represented the 12th-grade class on theschool’s 2011 homecoming court. She is shown withher grandfather, James Cooper.

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Musical revueBelhaven Musical Theatre

Revue will present “What ISay Goes: A Musical Revueof Motherhood,” October 20- 22, 7:30 p.m., in the BitsyIrby Center.

Live at lunchThe Art Garden at the

Mississippi Museum of Artwill offer live music atlunch, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30p.m., October 26. Bringyour own lunch or buylunch at The Palette Cafe.

Barbershop harmony

The Jackson Chapter of

Barbershop Harmony meetsTuesday nights, 7 p.m., atNorth Park PresbyterianChurch at the corner ofNorthside Drive and OldCanton Road.

High noteThe Mississippi Museum

of Art will host High NoteJam in the Art Garden,October 21 and 28, 5:30 to

7:30 p.m. The event willfeature music of differentgenres by local musicians.

Zoo booThe Jackson Zoo will host

‘Boo at the Zoo,’ a funHalloween festival, October20-22 and 27-29, 5 p.m. to 8p.m. Admission $9 adult, $6children 12 and under. Fordetails visit www.jackson-zoo.org.

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Dance teamMembers of the 2011-2012 Madison Central High School Mystix dance team are(from left, back) Anna Lindsey Hall, Julia Ramsey, Madison Rademacher, BrittanyLand, Kayla Stephenson, Carolyn Halford; (middle row) Maddy Collins, KelseyClark, Maddie Marascalco, Morgan James, Bria Lewis, Elena McPherson, coach;(front) Chelsea Jones, Maren Garvey, Kyree Freeman. The Mystix attended UDAcamp in Starkville this summer. They won the award for Most Spirited team, andreceived second place overall in the small varsity division.

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History is lunchMississippi Department of Archives and History upcom-

ing History is Lunch programs include: October 19: OldCapitol Museum staff presents “The Old Capitol Past andPresent” at the Old Capitol; October 26: Jackson writerEllen Anne Fentress, “Reporter Norma Fields: AmericanWoman.” Winter Building. All talks are noon - 1 p.m.

Zoo sleepoverThe Jackson Zoo will hold a Safari Slumber Sleepover

November 4, 7 p.m. Friday until 9 a.m. Saturday. Nightincludes animal presentations, games and activities, camp-fire, breakfast and a wake-up walk around the zoo. Fordetails call 601-352-2580.

BanquetMission Mississippi will hold its signature event, the

annual Racial Reconciliation Celebration Banqet,“Overcome the Past and Face the Challenge of WorkingTogether Now, to be Reconciled,” October 27, 7 p.m. atthe Jackson Convention Center. For more informationvisit www.missionmississippi.org.

Bible studyA new Explorers Bible Study ladies group meets

Wednesdays, 9:30 to 11 a.m., at Christ United MethodistChurch. For details call Becky Howell at 601-924-1373 orMartha Holt at 601-956-1052.


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Girls cross countryMembers of the Prep 2011 girls cross country team include(from left, back) Head Coach Malcolm Saxon, Leslie Woods,Ann Bradley Maloney, Mollie Merrell, Maison Lowery,Frances Carter, Betsy Cunningham, Courtney Newsom,Assistant Coach K.C. Jones; (middle row): Anna Miller

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HomecomingMadison-Ridgeland Academy senior Jessica Whitehead,was crowned the 2011 Homecoming Queen. Shown are(from left) Taylor Smith, Whitehead, Kelley Lafleur, and WillThompson.

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COUNTRY CLUB OF JACKSON/MONTROSE

MinistryChrist Covenant School students enjoywatering newly planted flowers in theschool garden while attending the afterschool ministry, Outback. Shown are (from

left) Outback Director and GardenCoordinator Tammie Haynes with HarrisonMurray, Laura Reilly, Courtlyn Taylor, LoganKennady, and Holly Miles.

Recycle bowlRidgeland High School students will com-pete through November 15 in the RecycleBowl presented by Keep America Beautiful.Students are motivated to adopt these sus-tainable behaviors and incorporate theminto everyday life. The community is wel-come to particate with the school by drop-ping off paper, plastic, aluminum, phone

books, magazines, etc. The statewide awardis $1,000 based on the most recycled mate-rial per person per school. Shown are (fromleft, back) Narlise Summers, Marian Cancio,Millie Adams, Shelby Huff, Cierra Bernard,and Brandon Sanders; (front) Mary Webb,Maya Arnold, and Cierra Bracey.

DrumlineSt. Andrew’s Episcopal School upper schooldrumline is (from left, back) Michael Medlin,Eric Kline, Alex Hamlin, Daniel Gallarno,

Mark McMillin; (front) Jessie Smith, JackHarth, Megan Aleman, and AnthonySantangelo.

happeningsschool newsRendezvous

Southern Breeze Gallerywill host a reception October20, 5 - 8 p.m. featuring theart of Dot Courson, as partof Ridgeland Rendezvous.

Show and saleThe Bagwell Antiques

Show and Sale will be 10a.m. - 6 p.m. October 21 and22, and noon - 5 p.m.October 23 at theMississippi Trade Mart. Formore information call 662-231-9654.

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Semifinalists and commendedThe Jackson Preparatory School Class of2012 includes eight National MeritSemifinalists and two CommendedStudents. Since 1970, Jackson Prep has pro-duced 525 National Merit Semifinalists.Prep’s National Merit Semifinalists and

Commended Students are (from left, back)Thomas Dunbar (Commended Student),Austin Pinkerton, Mallory McLemore,Katherine Thiel, Kirby Parker, Jay Vise; (front)Kristen Massey, Ashton Reed, Ariel Chengand Jamie Aron (Commended Student).

CupcakesFirst Presbyterian Day School kindergartenstudents had cupcakes and dressed in cam-ouflage to help learn about the letter C.

Shown are (from left) Robbie Aight, HaydenFrazure, Abby Ditto, and Moriah Pierce.

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Student councilStudent council officers and representativesfor the Education Center School are (fromleft, back) Grace Carnes; (third row) AndrecoCalender, Seth Hersey, Lauren Kim, SarahWeathersby, Danielle Smith, Andrew Bryant,

Hannah Wingard; (second row) StanfordGriffen, Nicole Mizzell, Bianca Bethany, VarahPotter; (front) Mary Grace Oglesby andKatelyn Fleming.

Farm lifeAfter studying farm life, the kindergartenclasses at St. Richard Catholic School wereable to experience it firsthand. Studentsdressed like farmers, ‘milked cows,’squaredanced and shucked corm. Shown are(from left, standing) Kelvin Robinson, Mitch

Fairley, Cy Stephen, Adam Gammill, JamesWilburn, Jacob Willis, Ryan Thomas, StephenUecker; (seated) Annie Mac Steckler, WilsonSammuels, Maddie Weisenberger, AvaSchuetzle and Maia Turner.

Teddy Bear picnicTrinity Preschool three-year-old class mem-bers enjoyed a picnic with their favoriteTeddy bears. Shown are (from left, back)Cash Malouf, Hastings Barnes, Julia Vernon,

Ava Barbour, Lillian Hixon; (middle row)Morgan Marion, Kate Wyndham Boyll,Annie Toler, Rimes Dehmer; (front) AnnaDavis Vernon.

Girl ScoutsN’siders honored as Women of Distinction by Greater Mississippi

Bettie Delcomyn, Milinda Parker, Paula Stewart Strong, Carol Burger, Jill Beneke, Mollie VanDevender, Rosemary Aultman

Sidney Allen, Olivia Manning, Walter and Susan Weems, Lynne Green, Elee ReevesTangy Brown, Sallie KaufmannBeth Townsend, Gail Pittman

Taylor Morgan, Chessa Kosmicki, Crystal Welch, Hailey Sinyard

The Girl Scouts of GreaterMississippi’s 2011 Women ofDistinction dinner was held recently atthe Country Club of Jackson.

Seven Jackson-area women werehonored for their positive impact on

local communities. They are LindaParker, Carol Burger, MollyVandevender, Mayor RosemaryAultman, Jill Beneke, Dr. PaulaStewart and Betty Delcomyn.



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