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Families adapt to COVID-19 Easter
Egg hunts, Easter outfits still on agenda
for many in Golden Triangle
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com
M
ott Ellis has
been playing
the role of
Easter Bunny for
more than 20 years,
visiting nursing
homes, schools,
Easter egg hunts and
parties. She’s worn Ellis
out two costumes already and is
now on her third.
“I do it just for the joy it brings,”
said Ellis, 66. “I have so many
stories.”
K-12 education takes on new methods, challenges during pandemic
Constant communication
has been key, students,
parents and teachers say
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
Since the COVID-19 pandemic
forced schools to close in March, Elise
Wilson has had a lot on her plate.
Two of her three children are learn-
ing remotely as New Hope Elementa-
ry School students, and the youngest
is at home instead of day care. Her
job as an executive administrative as-
sistant at Dutch Oil Company is con-
sidered essential, so she works from
home most days, and she is set to
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Social distancing
cause churches
to turn to digital,
drive-thru
Easter services
‘It certainly makes you
appreciate what we’ve had’
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com
Ask even longtime pas-
tors if they have ever en-
countered a disruption to
their ministries like that of
COVID-19 and you’ll get a
singular response: No.
Jim Genesse, pastor
at First United Method-
ist Church in Starkville, Genesse
might be the exception, albeit in an up-
side-down sort of way.
“I was pastor in Long Beach during
Hurricane Katrina,” Genesse recalled.
“We were out of our building for four or
five months. That’s the closest compari-
son I can make.”
Fifteen years ago, Genesse had the
Illustration by Henry Gentry/Special to The Dispatch people, but not the place. For the past
month, he’s had the place but not the peo-
Once, she said, she was visiting homes are “window visits” only, ple.
a nursing home. As she was walk- with Ellis waving to residents as Today is Easter, the most important
day on the Christian calendar, a day when
ing down the hallway, a resident she clutches basket of Easter eggs
churches are typically filled to the brim
stepped out of her room. she can’t hand out.
to celebrate the occasion with special
“I was in my costume,” Ellis In what will long be remem-
events and flourishes, big and small.
said, “but this lady grabs me by the bered as “The COVID-19 Easter,”
But today’s Easter will be unlike the
arm and says, ‘Are you the person people have adjusted to sacrificing
others. Church sanctuaries will be emp-
who’s supposed to do my hair many Easter traditions in the inter-
ty. There will be no coming together of
today?’” est of public safety.
the faithful in celebration and fellowship.
This year, Ellis was determined That means no Sunday church
Some churches will hold “drive-in”
to reprise her role, even though the services in new Easter outfits. No Easter celebrations. Most will rely on
COVID-19 virus has greatly altered Easter egg hunts. No large family livestreaming services. In either situa-
her plans. There are no visits to gatherings. tion, the more elaborate aspects of their
schools, which are shuttered. The big speculation among traditional Easter celebrations have been
There are no parties or Easter egg homes with small children was quietly put away or dramatically altered.
hunts, either. Her visits to nursing See EASTER, 4A See CHURCHES, 5A
finish her master’s
degree in gender n LEARNING
INSIDE From left, Ronulo, Joshua,
Henry and Sonia Beltran
studies at the Mis- REMOTELY:
University faculty,
sit outside the Brandon
Central Services Build-
sissippi University students try to find
for Women in May. rhythm in all-online
ing in Columbus, where
they can access Wi-Fi
“All my classes class format. via a district hotspot so
Page 3A
were online any- Henry, a Cook Elementary
way, so there real- fourth-grader, can com-
ly wasn’t much of a transition in that plete his schoolwork. The
regard,” Wilson said. “For me, the family immigrated from El
biggest transition has been not hav- Salvador and speaks very
ing time to actually do my schoolwork little English, but Henry
because my entire family is at home.” can access his school’s
Rosetta Stone member-
Online education at the K-12 level
ship at the hotspot, since
has several variables that students,
their home does not have
parents and teachers have had to internet access, former
adapt to quickly. It relies on technol- Spanish teacher Courtney
ogy and internet service when not ev- Stanback said.
See EDUCATION, 3A Courtesy photo/Debbie Murray
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ASK RUFUS

A Walk Through Time

S
everal Ferry near reminiscing about First near each other. An ad army constructed a pon- downstream and lodged
years Columbus Air Street South he wrote: in the Southern Argus toon bridge at the foot of against the riverbank
ago, I Force Base. “The other reminder is issue described Aikin Main Street with a small across from Columbus.
wrote about De Soto had located on the bank of & Gibbs’ warehouse fort to protect it. Across The late Uncle Bunky
how the Riv- an Indian the river a little north as “large, spacious and under the west bank of recalled that when he
erwalk is not guide and the of South Fourth Ave- secure (being the one the river, the wrecked was growing up a flood
only a touch of Tombigbee nue. It is the north east formerly occupied by C S hull of the Fanny W. may exposed the wreck of a
natural beauty was found to brick foundation of the Aikin).” The first mention rest. riverboat across from the
at the edge of be overflow- warehouse of B.L. Long I found of the name Union She was a steamboat mouth of Moore;s Creek.
downtown but ing its banks. & Son. This warehouse Warehouse being used High water soon covered
owned by African-Amer-
also a place A place was was destroyed (by a fire) was in 1848. ican businessmen in it up again.
steeped in needed where with a large lot of cotton South of the ware- Columbus. Her boilers There is a walkway
history. I have rafts could be in 1880s. The volunteer house remains and off of
expanded that Rufus Ward built and the firemen took the Lurlene exploded in 1878. Though bridge crossing Moore’s
the top of the high river Creek. This creek was
old column river crossed. Fire Engine down to almost to Waverly, the re-
bluff at Fourth Avenue
further describing how The Indian high-water the river and fought the mains of her hull floated See ASK RUFUS, 5A
South, African-American
history merges with the trail Pitchlynn mentioned fire. The cotton sheds engineer Horace King
beautiful natural land- may well have been that were located where Mr. constructed a wooden
scape along the walkway. Spanish crossing place. and Mrs. A.M. Byram’s covered bridge across
The history found On the riverbank at dwelling stands (107 the river in 1842. The
along the Riverwalk goes the end of College Street Fourth Ave. S.). A two- recently restored old 1928
back almost 500 years. is a parking lot for the room brick building on drawbridge crosses about
However, the first specific Riverwalk. From the the same premises was where the upper limit of
mention of the location parking lot along the used as a Camp House by the boat landing would
that became the River- walkway and under the people who hauled cotton have been. It was about
walk at the foot of Main in two Tombigbee bridges in horse, mule, and oxen there the ill-fated Eliza
Columbus was 203 years was the site of Colum- wagons from Fayette, Battle left for Mobile
ago by John Pitchlynn. bus’ first river landing. Lamar, Pickens and other only to become a ghostly
In the summer of 1817, As early as 1818 it was a Alabama counties.” legend in 1858 and where
Capt. Hugh Young, the keelboat landing. Hopkins also recalled one of the last Upper
surveyor of the route of The captain of three one of the work chants
Tombigbee steamboats,
Andrew Jackson’s Mili- of the early keelboats he had heard as a child
the City of Columbus,
tary Road from Nashville were Thomas Sampson at the Columbus landing.
burned in 1911. The new
to New Orleans, reached (late 1817 or early 1818), T.H. Moore, a 19th cen-
Tombigbee bridge was
the Tombigbee River. In a Caldwell of Tuscaloosa tury steamboat captain,
built on the site of the
order to best determine (1818) and Ovid Brown recalled the deckhands
1877 iron bridge, which
a crossing point, he met (1819 into 1820s). The or “roustabouts” being a
is also the site of the old
with Pitchlynn, who had Feb. 2, 1820, Mobile hard-working, “happy-go-
been residing at the north Gazette and Commercial Military Road ferry cross-
lucky” group who would
end of Plymouth Bluff Advertiser reported the break into song while ing from 1817 and a Civil
near the mouth of Tibbee “barge” (keelboat) South- working. The chorus War pontoon bridge.
Creek since 1810. Pitch- ern Trader under Brown Hopkins remembered About 1848, two
lynn was U.S. interpreter had cleared the Port of went: cannons, marked with
and sub-agent for the Mobile headed for Colum- “The William S. Holt Spanish crest, were found
Choctaw Nation, in which bus. In March 1823, the and John T. Moore. in the river near the boat
he had lived since the Cotton Plant became the All them boats are landing; their origin was
1770s. first steamboat to arrive mine. never determined, and
Young asked Pitch- at Columbus and docked Oh see the boat go they were lost during the
lynn about the best place at the landing. That land- round the bend, Civil War. During the
in the area to cross the ing soon became a busy Goodbye, my lover, Civil War the Confederate
Tombigbee. Young wrote steamboat landing during goodbye.
to Andrew Jackson on the high-water shipping Loaded with Columbus
Sept. 30, 1817, giving season of late fall to early men,
Pitchlynn’s response: spring. Goodbye, my lover,
“Mr. Pitchlynn joined me By the mid-1830s, goodbye.”
at the river, and recog- warehouses were con- The chant is easily dat-
nized the place, as one structed along the river ed as it was only between
used by the Indians for running south from the 1875 and 1879 that both
rafting, when the high steamboat landing. Even the Steamboats William
water prevents fording at today, in the thicket along S. Holt and the John T.
the usual places.” the river just south of the Moore were in the Colum-
That recommendation Riverwalk parking lot, bus-Mobile trade.
established the location bricks can be found that The early Columbus
of the Tombigbee cross- mark the remains of the newspapers have many
ing of the Military Road Union Warehouse that advertisements and
and the future site of was constructed in the references to the river
Columbus. Pitchlynn’s mid-1830s. That ware- warehouses. The Nov. 12,
comment also provided house site was described 1836, Columbus Demo-
evidence for another Tom- by E.R. Hopkins in an crat has a reference to
bigbee crossing more article he wrote around the warehouse of Clark
than 479 years ago. 1930. & Co., and the Columbus
In December 1540, Hopkins had grown Southern Argus in 1838
the de Soto expedition up in Columbus during refers to warehouses of
arrived at the Tombig- the mid-1800s and in Clark & Co. and Aikin &
bee River somewhere the 1920s and 30s often Gibbs. Both warehouses
between present-day wrote about the Colum- were on the river at the
Pickensville and Barton’s bus of earlier years. In steamboat landing and

CPD investigating two Saturday afternoon shootings

DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
Officers with Columbus Police De-
partment are investigating two shoot-
ings from Saturday afternoon.
CPD Chief Fred Shelton told The Dis-
patch officers received two calls about
shootings at about 4 p.m. One took place
near the intersection of Bell Avenue and
22nd Street South. In that shooting, a
victim who Shelton identified as a black
male was taken to Baptist Memorial Hos-
pital-Golden Triangle with what Shelton
described as “serious” injuries.
The other shooting took place in the
1900 block of Eighth Avenue North near
Sim Scott Park. In that shooting, the
victim, who Shelton also identified as a
black male, was taken to Baptist with in-
juries that appeared to be non life-threat-
ening.
Shelton said police are still in the ear-
ly stages of the investigations and that it
is too early to tell whether the two shoot-
ings are connected. Investigators do not
have any suspects in custody at this time.

Education
Continued from Page 1A
eryone has equal access
to both, and the home
environment provides dis-
tractions that don’t exist in
classrooms.
Teachers also have to
be reachable via phone and
video conference to make
up for the lack of in-person
interaction, and they have
had to get creative with
how they present their vir-
tual lessons.
Depending on the dis-
trict, some teachers have
designated office hours
during the week, while
others develop lessons and
are on call during regular
school hours. Districts also
have compiled and made
available paper learning
packets for students who
do not have high-speed in-
ternet at home.
“I think the biggest
challenge has been that
there was no prep time,”
Lowndes County School
District Superintendent
Sam Allison said. “We left
for spring break thinking,
‘We’ll see ya in a week.’
We never went back. So
there was no time to set
an online expectation or
get information of who
has online access and who
doesn’t.”
The switch to online
learning was not always
easy for Lorine Clark and
her four grandchildren she
is raising, she said. Among
them, the children attend
three different schools in
the Columbus Municipal
School District.
“It was challenging at
first, very challenging,
but we just had to stick
with it and we did,” Clark
said. “With the help of the
teachers we were able to
come a long way.”
One benefit to students
has been the state board of
education waiving end-of-
year testing requirements.
Making education
accessible
Laura Daniels’
two daughters attend
Starkville High School and
Armstrong Middle School,
respectively. SHS teach-
ers have conducted online
study groups for Advanced
Placement classes, and
AMS teachers have as-
signed a variety of remote
lessons, from virtual field
trips to writing projects
about students’ experienc-
es staying at home, Dan-
iels said.
“They’ve engaged them
in creative ways, they’ve
utilized online resources
as well as been sensitive
to the fact that they some-
times just need time to
talk,” she said.
Columbus High School
has been using online
learning tools for a few
years, so moving all les-
sons online was not dif-
ficult, but the difficulties
come from internet access
and teacher availability,
lead teacher Monte Ewing
said.
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and in regular contact
Faculty, students try to find rhythm in all-online class format with her, she said.
“They’re working with
us to make sure their stu-
normally would, but they’re still has most of the functionality of a
‘I keep thinking maybe turning things in, which I think $2,000 machine. Our current plan
dents are still working,”
Harrison said. “They’re
this week I’ll get back speaks to a level of dedication for a
(general education) course, which
is to have students spend a little
bit of money on analysis tools and
not treating this as an ex-
tended vacation.”
into a routine, and it isn’t always the case.”
Precautions have already been
do the best on our end to make
sure they use the same equipment
doesn’t happen’ taken by four-year colleges around throughout the entire semester so Challenges for families
Teachers who are also
the Golden Triangle in the inter- they’re not buying all sorts of differ-
BY GARRICK HODGE im, as both MUW and Mississippi ent hardware.” parents, like Ray, have
found ways to juggle both
ghodge@cdispatch.com State have moved all classes to on- Jones added he’s been im-
line only for the remainder of the pressed at the work ethic of his responsibilities.
“I feel like I’m homes-
Kristi DiClemente spring semester. MSU has taken students and their commitment to
chooling and teaching on-
has already adjusted another precaution and shifted all finish their projects while adhering
line, so it’s the best of both
her curriculum for summer courses online. MUW has to the recommended social distanc-
worlds here,” said Ray,
next semester. yet to make a decision on summer ing policies.  
whose children are in fifth
It’s one of many classes.  One of the most frustrating
grade and kindergarten,
on-the-fly changes Moving every course online is things for professors was having
respectively. “I haven’t
she’s had to make in easier for some degree programs to shift some courses that were
had a ton of downtime, but
the last month.  than others. not designed to be online to virtu-
A history profes- DiClemente Ethan Worch studies electrical al classes in the matter of a week, we’re learning how to do
chores around the house
sor at the Mississippi University engineering at MSU, a program said James Vardaman, an associate
too on top of schoolwork.”
for Women, DiClemente typically where hands-on experience is vital. professor of management at MSU’s
Clark said she appreci-
teaches five classes in a given se- Worch, who is on track to graduate College of Business. 
ates that teachers have not
mester: three online and two in per- in December, said his professors “Typically if you’re an online in-
put pressure on students
son. Then the COVID-19 coronavi- have tried an assortment of things, structor, you prepare your courses
to get their schoolwork
rus pandemic changed everything. such as recording YouTube videos, far in advance,” Vardaman said. 
done. The tougher adjust-
Non-virtual courses were no longer still attempting to teach live classes Vardaman said he’s seen about
ment for her is making
possible. and putting recorded audio over a an 80-20 ratio of students adjust-
sure her grandchildren
DiClemente was planning to PowerPoint presentation.  ing to virtual work as opposed to
stay focused, since they
offer a history of food class in the “If I had one concern, it would students still experiencing frus-
have to sit in front of the
fall that requires a cooking lab, a be how much of the practical ex- trations with the new format. But
computer a lot more than
course she says must be taught in perience is missing, some of that he’s optimistic MSU announcing
they did in school, and
person, but instead replaced it with hands-on learning that you ar- all summer courses moving online
they want to stay up later
something a little more timely: The en’t able to get through an online early will result in a better product. 
now that they no longer
history of global epidemics.  course,” Worch said. “A lot of teach- “I think the advance notice will
have to wake up early to
“The experts are saying there ers are doing their best to provide provide a lot of help to the faculty,”
catch the bus, she said.
may be another spike and who as much of that insight as they can Vardaman said. “It gives them time
“The work has gotten
knows if we can go back, so I had to get, but there’s still a difference be- to brainstorm materials for online.”
done, but they’ve been a
make a hard decision,” DiClemente tween actually getting to be hands- Despite the fact DiClemente has
little bit slow, and you have
told The Dispatch. “I don’t know now taught multiple weeks of on-
on with something and seeing it to give them that extra
who’s thinking that far ahead, but line courses, she still doesn’t feel
through a Webex call, seeing it at nudge,” Clark said.
as someone who’s studied the his- settled. The escalating pandemic
a distance.” Wilson agreed that
tory of diseases and epidemics, comes with a fear of contracting the
home has distractions that
there’s often a second spike in illness or passing along the virus to
cases. It would not, in any way, sur- Consequences of a quick an at-risk person, she said.  school does not, and kids
prise me if we had to switch to on- transition to online “There’s the societal stress of would rather play or watch
TV than do schoolwork.
line sometime next semester.” Bryan Jones, an associate pro- the fact that there’s a global pan-
Additionally, her sec-
Much has changed in higher fessor in the MSU College of En- demic happening and we’re just
ond-grader does not enjoy
education because of the pandem- gineering, said department faculty kind of waiting to see what will hap-
reading and would coop-
ic, and in DiClemente’s case, that will do their best to replicate typi- pen, and there’s the new stress of
erate with a teacher but is
includes when assignments are cal courses online in the summer. the changing system,” DiClemente
more inclined to challenge
turned in. She’s waived due dates “The beautiful thing is, there said. “I don’t know that I’ll ever
her mother, Wilson said.
on most of the remaining assign- are so many things available on the settle, I don’t feel settled, I keep
She also has to super-
ments her students have for the web,” Jones said. “You can get pret- thinking maybe this week I’ll get
vise her children’s use
remainder of the spring semester.  ty good instrumentation packages. back into a routine, and it doesn’t
of technology, which she
“I want students to turn things … We’re looking at creative ways to happen. So I’m just kind of taking
in when they’re able to turn things get really low-cost test equipment each day as it comes.” would not have to do as
in,” DiClemente said. “They’re into the hands of the students. We Dispatch staff writer Tess Vrbin much if they were older,
turning things in later than they found a device that’s about $70 that contributed to this story. she said.
“I can’t just let them go
to sign onto their stuff,”
“A student may be work- family immigrated from they were behind. So far in their respective school Wilson said. “I have to
ing at home independently El Salvador last year and no one is falling behind districts have done a good work through each prob-
and need support from a speaks very little English, in her sophomore English job communicating with lem with them and explain
teacher at that moment, said Courtney Stanback, class, and students have them and the students. things step by step.”
and they might not have a former CMSD Spanish been participating and SHS junior Makenzie Meanwhile, she is try-
instant access to a teach- and ESL teacher. completing their assign- Stone said her teachers ing to find opportunities
er,” Ewing said. “Although The Beltran family ments, she said. kept her and other stu- “to string together edu-
the teachers are available does not have internet ac- Students in all three dents as informed as they cational thoughts without
(at different times of the cess at home but lives in districts have a variety possibly could during the being interrupted” so she
day), the student might walking distance from the of ways to contact their transition to online class- can finish her master’s
need assistance at 5 p.m. hotspot, Stanback said. teachers in the absence es. with four other people in
and the teacher’s not avail- “They had received a of the face-to-face interac- “It’s been kind of a the house, she said.
able.” packet of information for tion they are used to. Car- learning curve for every- “I would just hole away
CMSD attempted to Henry to work on, (but) rie Ray, an eighth-grade one but we’re doing pret- at Starbucks or Coffee
close internet access because he’s an English English teacher at Cale- ty well right now,” Stone House on 5th on the week-
gaps by setting up Wi- learner, the packet was ex- donia Middle School, said said. ends (in Columbus) for
Fi hotspots soon after tremely difficult for him,” not seeing her students in Camra Harrison offers three to four hours and
schools closed in March. she said. person “was very weird at video conference meet- knock out my schoolwork,
The district removed Wi- The hotspot allows first.” ings just to check in with and that’s no longer an
Fi routers from nine bus- Henry to access his “Of course, I think this her third graders at Cook, option,” she said. “I don’t
es and installed them at school’s Rosetta Stone has been a good thing in and she said about half have a quiet place to go,
elementary campuses, the membership for free in a way because I think it’s the class of 18 students (but) that’s a very privi-
Brandon Central Services order to complete his encouraged them to reach participated in a meeting leged thing and I realize
building and at Columbus schoolwork, “and he loves out to their teachers,” Ray on Tuesday. that.”
community centers. it,” Stanback said. said. The parents have been Dispatch staff writer
The Brandon Central Ewing said a benefit Daniels, Clark and Wil- especially supportive of Garrick Hodge contributed
Services hotspot has been of virtual learning is that son each said the teachers online teaching efforts to this story.
vital to one Cook Elemen- students can get ahead in
tary School fourth-grad- their coursework if they
er, Henry Beltran, whose choose to, or catch up if
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Easter
Continued from Page 1A
whether the virus would
prevent the annual
visit from the real Easter
Bunny, something Dr.
Stephen Threlkeld, in-
fectious disease special-
ist for Baptist Medical
Group, addressed earlier
in the week.
“Bunnies do not get
infected with COVID-19,
so the travel ban that
keeps people from
traveling outside of their
homes does not apply
to the Easter Bunny,”
said Threlkeld, noting
the Easter Bunny is also
considered an essential
worker. “Finally, the Eas-
ter Bunny has been given
special instructions about
washing his paws during
this time so he can stay
in good health, so you
should do the same thing
with your hands, and
we can all have a safer
Easter.”
All dressed up with no
place to go
Tina Stevenson of
Caledonia, with her
5-year-old son R.J. in tow,
was wrapping up her Eas-
ter shopping Thursday
afternoon at Walmart,
where she indulged R.J.
by allowing him to pick
out some pre-Easter
candy.
“We’re doing every-
thing we can to make
Easter as normal as we
can,” she said.
She said she, her
husband and R.J., will
still get up and put on
Tina Stevenson and her son, R.J., 5, put the finish-
ing touches on their Easter shopping with a visit to
Walmart Thursday. “It won’t be the same this year,
but we’re trying to make it as close to the same as we
can,” Stevenson said.
their new Easter clothes.
They’ll be all dressed
up with no place to go,
though.
“What will be the
most different is that we
won’t be able to go to
church and fellowship
with everyone,” she said.
“So it will be just the
three of us, celebrating at
home this year.”
For the Columbus
family of Jim and Betsy
Hicks; their son, Gipson,
9; and twin daughters,
Daisy and Hadley, 7,
the changes go beyond
Easter Sunday.
“Typically, we spend
the whole weekend with
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family here or go to Phil-
adelphia to be with my
siblings,” Betsy said. “It’s
a weekend of dyeing Eas-
ter eggs, having hunts,
making the Easter cup-
cakes my mother used to
make. During the week,
there were Easter parties
at school, egg hunts at
friends’ houses. We were
busy all the week.
“We can’t have any of
that now. It’s just so sad,”
she added.
Edward Kemp, the
city of Starkville’s engi-
neer, has been working
on a different kind of
engineering project this
year because of the virus.
For the Kemps —
mom, Leah; daughter,
Edie, 8; and sons Cline,
9, and Everett, 2 — a
big part of Easter was a
large family gathering at
Edward’s parents’ home.
“We all get together:
siblings, parents, grand-
parents, probably 30 to
35 of us,” Edward said.
“It’s kind of like a field
day. We have egg tosses,
tug of war, a game of
kickball or whiffle ball,
egg hunts for the little
ones.”
This year, that gath-
ering is canceled, but
Kemp is working on a
way to keep his large
family connected never-
theless.
“We’re still talking
about what we’ll do,” he
said Thursday. “We’re
going to gather as many
as we can virtually and
have a good group family
conversation. I’m still try-
ing to brainstorm a way
to play some games or
something, just to kind of
keep that tradition going.
I’m not sure what that
will look like yet, but I’m
working on it.”
Truncated celebrations
For all of the families,
the biggest adjustment
has been the inability
to attend Easter church
services.
The Hicks attend
First United Methodist
Church in Columbus. For
once, Betsy said, she was
prepared.
“I was ahead of
schedule. I had already
bought new dresses for
the girls and a shirt and
pants for Gipson,” she
said. “I just love that part
of it, going to church and
seeing what everybody
has on, the new dresses
and bright colors. Some
of the ladies still buy new
hats. I just love all that
stuff.”
The Kemps attend
First Presbyterian
Church in Starkville,
which had to cancel a
full slate of Holy Week
events.
“There was something
church-related just about
every day of the week,”
Edward said. “So for us,
it’s not just about Easter
Sunday and having our
family photo out in front
of the church that morn-
ing. It’s the whole week.
We miss all of it.”
Some traditions will
live on, though, albeit in
truncated form.
“We’re still dyeing
eggs and the kids are
hiding them around the
garage and yard,” Betsy
Hicks said.
Same goes for the
Stevensons.
“We’ll have our own
little Easter egg hunt,”
Tina said, putting the
best face on the situation
as she turned to her son.
“Just think, R.J., you
will find all the eggs this
year!”
The little boy grinned
at the thought of that.
Making good
memories amid fear
The parents are
trying to make Easter
as familiar and festive as
possible, but the strain of
COVID-19 has affected
everyone, they admit,
even the kids.
“My son asked me one
day, ‘Mom, are we going
to die?’” Betty Hicks said.
“So we had a talk about
that and he felt better. But
that kind of showed me
that kids are worried, too.
“It’s been hard, but
I had a friend who sent
me something that really
helped,” she added. “It
talked about how we
are all scared right now
and don’t know what the
future holds. Well, it was
like that the first Easter,
too. The disciples were
afraid. They didn’t know
what was going to happen.
That made me feel better.”
Ellis, whose Easter
Bunny enthusiasm hasn’t
been diminished to the
slightest degree, said this
Easter will create unique
memories for families.
It will also teach a valu-
able lesson, she said.
“What this says is
that we can still bring joy
and happiness to people
if we just think outside
the box,” she said. “You
have to make the best of
whatever situation you
find yourself in. Nobody’s
comfortable, but we make
memories of this, good
memories.”

Mary Hill
ALICEVILLE, Ala.
— Mary Augusta “Bae
Mae” Prowell Hill, 90,
died April 7, 2020, a her
residence.
A home-going ser-
vice will be at 1 p.m.
Thursday, at First Bap-
tist Church of Alicev-
ille. Burial will follow in
New Cemetery. Visita-
tion will be from noon-5
p.m. Wednesday, at
Lavender’s Funeral
Service. Lavender’s
Funeral Service of
Aliceville is in charge
of arrangements.
ther, James Thompson;
and brother, Walter
Kyles Jr.
In addition to her
mother, she is survived
by her wife, Samantha
Taylor; daughter, Jas-
mine Taylor and Alyrah
Williams; stepmother,
Beatrice Kyles Thomp-
son; siblings, Gwendo-
lyn Taylor, Vernessa
Hughes, Latonya Jones,
Rosie Bridges, Leo
Bailey III, DeForest
Kyles, Franciose Kyles,
Artega Kyles, Darnell
Kyles, Johnny Kyles
and Corey Rice; and
AREA OBITUARIES
Visitation is April 17 store and worked in Springs, Claudine dren, 24 great-grand-
from 3-6 p.m. at Laven- housekeeping in private Powers, Una and Sarah children and 10
der’s Funeral Service in homes and local resorts Jo Langley, both of great-great-grandchil-
Aliceville. in Idaho, as well as Una; 11 grandchil- dren.
serving a nanny. Ethel
Elisabeth Stoner was a member of Wood
COLUMBUS — River Assembly of God.
Elizabeth Stoner, 63, In addition to her
died April 10, 2020, at parents, she was pre-
Garden Hill Assisted ceded in death by her
Living. daughter, Delores Faye
Arrangements are Wilson; brothers, Ken-
incomplete and will be neth Alan Sizemore,
announced by Lown- Thomas Jerry Sizemore
des Funeral Home in and Archie Kermit
Columbus. Sizemore; sisters, Jeffie
Lee Williams and Wan-
da Mae Pederson; and
Allen Elizenberry one great-grandchild.

Kessler Malone
COLUMBUS — Kes-
sler Chantez Malone,
24, died April 9, 2020,
at UAB Hospital in Bir-
mingham, Alabama.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Carter’s
Funeral Services of
Columbus.
Twana Edwards
COLUMBUS — Twa-
na D. Edwards, 38, died
April 9, 2020, at Bap-
tist Memorial Hospi-
tal-Golden Triangle.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Carter’s
Funeral Services of
Columbus.
Sherry Taylor
WELEIRTON, W.
Va. — Sherry Lyn
Taylor, 40,
died March
28, 2020, in
Weleirton.
Grave-
side
services
are 11 a.m.
Taylor
today at
St. James
MB Church Cemetery
in Crawford. Carter’s
Funeral Services of
Columbus is entrusted
with arrangements.
Ms. Taylor was born
Sept. 4, 1979, in Colum-
bus to George Taylor
and the late Walter
Kyles Sr. She worked at
airports in the food ser-
vice department. Sher-
ry was a member of St.
James MB Church.
In addition to her fa-
ther, she was preceded
in death by her stepfa-
one granddaughter.
Jamie Lewis
ALICEVILLE, Ala.
— Jamie Lee “Toe”
Lewis, 74, died April
8, 2020, at Aliceville
Manor Nursing Home
in Aliceville.
A home-going cele-
bration service will be
held 1 p.m. April 18 at
the James & Lola Lav-
ender Memorial Chapel
of Lavender’s Funeral
Service in Aliceville,
Alabama. Burial will be
at Adams Cemetery in
Panola, Alabama. The
Rev. Napoleon Jones
will serve as eulogist.
Visitation is April 17
from 2-6 p.m. at the
funeral home.
Willie Wilder Jr.
ALICEVILLE, Ala.
— Willie James Wilder
Jr., 68, died April 9,
2020, at DCH Regional
Medical Center-Tusca-
loosa, Alabama.
A home-going
service will be held 11
a.m. April 18 at Ni-
bethany Cumberland
Presbyterian Church
in Aliceville. Burial will
be at New Cemetery
in Aliceville. The Rev.
Anthony J. Barnes
will serve as eulogist.
Robert Lanier
RAYMOND — Allen She is survived by
Elizenberry, 76 died her son, Roy Joseph
April 11, 2020, at his Evans of Columbus;
residence. Robert O. Lanier, I, age 78,
daughters, Esther
Arrangements are transitioned April 3, 2020.
Louise Scott of Hai-
incomplete and will be Bob was a native of
ley, Idaho, Judy Kay
announced by Lee- Columbus, MS and a graduate of
White of Bellevue, and
Sykes Funeral Home of Mississippi Valley State College
Kathy Smith of Amo-
Columbus. ‘65. He loved providing for his
ry; sisters, Imogean
family while displaying much
Woods of Greenwood
Ethel Flurry intergrity in his management
BELLEVUE, Idaho career at DuPont/Reemay, Inc.,
for 40 years.
— Ethel Louise Flurry,
86, died April 5, 2020, He is survived by his beloved and devoted
at St. Luke’s Wood wife, Cecelia; children, Racal, Renita and Robert
River Medical Center in II (Jessica); five grandchildren; brother, Ira C.
Ketchum, Idaho. (Carlotta); and sister, Shirley.
A private family fu- Family gathering Monday, April 13, 10:30-
neral service was held 11:30 AM with service to follow at Lewis &
Saturday at the chapel Wright Funeral Home, 2500 Clarksville Hwy.
of Otts Funeral Home Entombment Woodlawn Memorial Park.
in Sulligent, Alabama,
with James Gillentine Paid Obituary - Lewis & Wright Funeral Home
officiating. Burial
followed at Love Joy
Cemetery.
Ms. Flurry was born
Sept. 3, 1933, in Bea-
verton, Alabama, to the
late Leroy Roy Size-
more and Eula Pauline
Stockman. She attend-
ed Sulligent Schools.
She was previously
employed at Gattman
Sportswear, a garment
factory in Georgia and
as a clerk in a family
business in Milan,
Georgia. She also
worked in the sewing
department of a variety
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Churches
Continued from Page 1A
That will certainly be the case
at Fairview Baptist Church in East
Columbus, where each Easter
more than 1,100 worshipers gather
at the sanctuary to witness a dra-
matic and musical production on
the scale not unlike a Cecil B. De-
Mille production.
“It’s called ‘Living Pictures,’”
said Fairview pastor Breck Ladd.
“Each year it tells the
story of Easter from
a different perspec-
tive. One year, it was
told from the point
of view of the man
who was brought in
munion” at the end of the service. and YouTube channel
“We’ve been passing out to broadcast our wor-
pre-packaged communion con- ship experiences and
tainers on a drive-through basis,” Zoom to put togeth-
Ladd said. “We’ve also put on our er smaller groups,”
website a recipe for unleavened Matthews said.
bread. Of course, you don’t need Friday, the church
any of that. A saltine cracker is fine aired a special com- Matthews
if that’s what you have. We’re just munion broadcast.
giving people options.” Saturday, congregants could
At FUMC in Starkville, Ge- drive by the church to pick up
nesse’s livestream Easter service Easter packages for the children,
will included special pre-recorded including eggs for a home Easter
segments — including one for chil- egg hunt to take the place of the
dren — along with special music.
church egg hunt normally held on
What his church cannot repli-
cate is the fellowship that normal
its grounds.
Navigating the challenges pre-
Sudoku YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

to carry Jesus’ cross.

Another year, it was Ladd
Easters usually produce.
“What we see with Easter Sun-
sented by COVID-19 has been Sudoku
Sudoku is a number-
placing puzzle based on
Yesterday’s answer
day here is that it’s almost like a difficult for all pastors. Matthews, Sudoku
a 9x9 gridis a several
with num- 7 1 4 2 5 8 6 9 3
told from the per-
spective of the woman at the well.” homecoming,” Genesse said. “Peo- like the others, said the most diffi- ber-placing puzzle
given numbers. The object 2 5 3 6 9 7 1 4 8

2020 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Ladd said “Living Pictures” re- ple come home to be with their cult has been the “shepherd with- based onthe
is to place a 9x9
numbers 6 9 8 4 1 3 5 2 7
quires months to prepare, with as families and attend Easter ser- out his flock” experience. grid with several
1 to 9 in the empty spaces 9 3 2 5 6 1 8 7 4
“We miss being together,” given
many a 400 people involved in the vice together. That’s a large part so that numbers. The
each row, each 1 4 7 9 8 2 3 5 6
production in one way or another. of what church is all about for us. Matthews said. “Whether it’s the object
column isandtoeach
place
3x3 the
box 5 8 6 7 3 4 9 1 2
This year’s production was a ca- This year, it may still be a home- church mothers who always want numbers
contains the1same
to 9 number
in
sualty of COVID-19. Instead, the coming, but it won’t happen at our to give you a hug or the kids that the empty spaces so 3 7 5 1 4 6 2 8 9
only once. The difficulty 4 6 9 8 2 5 7 3 1
church live-streamed last year’s church.” come down the hall and pop their that each row, each
level increases from
Living Pictures on Good Friday. Pastor R.J. Matthews of King- head into my office to see if I have column and each 8 2 1 3 7 9 4 6 5
Monday
3x3 boxtocontains
Sunday.
dom Vision International Church candy. I could never have imagined Difficulty Level 4/10
Even without its epic produc-
tion, Fairview’s livestream service in Columbus has shifted his ener- a situation like what we have now. the same number only once. The difficulty level
today will include some Easter gies to digital as well. It certainly makes you appreciate increases from Monday to Sunday.
touches, including a “virtual com- “We’ve used our Facebook Live what we’ve had.”

Ask Rufus
Continued from Page 2A
first known as Tan Yard Waterway cut through the
Creek. By May 1822, middle of the old town.
there was a tan yard about Not far north of the
where the soccer complex end of the Riverwalk Oak
is now located. A branch Slush Creek flows into the
of the walkway crosses River on the west side.
under the Highway 82 It was south along this
connection with down- creek that in 1829 one
town here and leads to of the first if not the first
the soccer complex. Not professional ball team in
far down the walkway and America was organized. It
across the road to Ruben’s was two Choctaw stickball
Catfish and Steakhouse is teams assembled and paid
the Butterfly Garden. It is by Gideon Lincecum to
maintained by Lowndes tour the east playing exhi-
County Master Garden- bition stickball games.
ers. Spring through fall A walk down the
it is ablaze with color and Columbus Riverwalk is
filled with butterflies and truly traveling a pathway
hummingbirds. It is worth through history and a de-
the walk just to enjoy the lightful way to get out and
peaceful beauty it offers. enjoy the natural beauty
Southwest of the butterfly of the landscapes along
garden was a Confederate the Tombigbee River.
military camp during the Thanks to Carolyn Kaye
Civil War and a Missis- and Gary Lancaster for
sippi National Guard helping with this column.
encampment during the Rufus Ward is a local
Spanish-American War. historian.
Walking through the
woods and slues along the
walkway, one can ponder
the journeys once taken
by people seeking their
freedom. The Under-
ground Railroad, a branch
of which was said to have ACROSS
come up the banks of the 1 Some babies
Tombigbee, was a route 5 Castle rings
for escaping enslaved 10 Stockpile
people to travel with
12 Boredom
the spiritual “Follow the
13 Make fresh
14 Paris divider
Drinking Gourd” as a ver-
15 Caribou’s kin
bal road map. It is a song
16 Greek vowel
whose origin and veracity
18 One of the
are uncertain, but whose
March sisters
story illustrates a deeper
19 Vacillate
truth. 21 Fast runner
Today the Adventure 22 Forgoes
Cycling Association spirits
promotes a 2,100-mile 24 Concise
bicycle trail from Mo- 25 Kitchen cloths
bile, to Ontario, Canada, 29 Cotton pod
following the route of the 30 M and N, in 3 Big Apple headwear
Underground Railroad pronunciation player 26 Border city
as described in “Follow 32 Phone down- 4 Toronto-to-D.C. 27 Border city
the Drinking Gourd. load dir. 28 Christian of
Among the not-to-miss 33 Apiece 5 Monument “Mr. Robot”
historic highlights listed 34 Drake’s music Valley sight 29 Blubbers
along the trail are three 35 Marine 6 Early hour 31 Tic
Lowndes County sites mammal 7 Muppet drum- 33 Busted party
­— the Missionary Union 37 Letter before mer 36 Zodiac cat
Baptist Church, Concord iota 8 Radio knobs 38 Concealed
Christian Methodist 39 Surgery tool 9 Long attack
Episcopal Church and the 40 Flanks 11 Worry
Billups-Garth Archives of 41 Small porch 17 Like saddle
the Columbus-Lowndes 42 Frosh hous- shoes
Library. ing 20 Flower part
An 1863 Confederate 21 Grant’s
map shows entrench- DOWN successor
ments and fortifications 1 Uncovers 23 Foils
encircling Columbus and 2 Diner dish 25 Formal
extending across present
day Highway 82 and the
walkway to the river. Af-
ter passing the half mile
marker on the walkway
you begin to see old bar
pits and ditches. You
cannot help but wonder
which one of them might
actually be part of the old
Civil War fortifications.
There was an 1830s
road running from Co-
lumbus generally along
the present-day route of
the walkway to the West
Port Ferry. West Port was
a cotton shipping com-
munity across the river
on what is now the Island.
The settlement was devas-
tated by a flood in 1847. In
1980 the new channel for
the Tennessee-Tombigbee
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LETTERS THE EDITOR from possessing.

I think it is fair to say that some of us aren’t

Voice of the people
An open letter
to Governor Reeves
We realize the COVID-19
pandemic is keeping you
tremendously busy. The same
day you signed the executive
orders for Mississippians
to shelter-in-place, you also
signed the Proclamation of
Confederate Heritage Month.
We would like to give you
the benefit of the doubt that
when you signed that procla-
mation on April 1, you were
distracted by caring for the
people of our state during this
time of crisis.
Will you please take a
moment to consider rescinding
that proclamation? We realize
this COVID-19 crisis is climb-
ing to a fever pitch. We haven’t
hit the apex yet. The worst
days are still ahead.
But, as was pointed out
during your press conference
on Wednesday, April 8, our
fellow African Americans
are being hit very hard by
COVID-19. And especially our
elderly African Americans.
Please take a moment to
reflect on that.
The very Mississippians
who suffered through the hor-
rible injustices of the Jim Crow
laws of the early 1900s and the
inhumane treatment during
segregation in the 1950s and
1960s as well as the ensuing
discrimination of the following
decades, are the same ones
who may be facing death in the
next few weeks. Can we give
them the honor they are long
overdue by confessing there
are no “successes” to celebrate
about a confederacy that was
formed to oppress them?
At a time when we need to
come together as one in Missis-
sippi to overcome this pandem-
ic, this proclamation not only
divides us, but it also wounds
African Americans when they
most need our support and
care.
If you won’t listen to us, will
you consider Bishop Stanley
Searcy’s example when he
joined you for the press con-
ference on Wednesday? He did
not want to give up his constitu-
tional right to hold Easter ser-
vices. But he humbled himself
before you and said that if you
asked him to cancel services,
then he would. Can you do the
same with our fellow African
American citizens? Can you
ask if they want Mississippi
to celebrate our Confederate
Heritage? And will you hum-
bly agree to do whatever they
say? In our opinion, this is the
second-best option. This is a
problem created by whites that
is best made right by whites.
This Sunday we celebrate
Jesus humbling Himself on a
cross so that He could recov-
er the sight of the blind and
necessarily afraid of the virus itself, but of the
stark changes it has implemented in our com-
munity; changes that many of us are unfamiliar
with: quarantine, cancellation of plans, school
closures, restaurant closures, working from
home, company reductions, lay-offs, furloughs,
etc.
April 9: In moments such as the present day During these times of constant change and
where certainty may seem exceptionally distant, uncertainty, I urge you all to utilize the great
may we remember the great equalizer for fear: equalizer for fear and to pray how our Heavenly
prayer. I believe a large amount of us would con- Father taught us to pray. Our Father which art
cede that we did not exhibit courage in the face in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom
of fear, that fear being COVID-19. come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heav-
President Theodore Roosevelt once said en. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive
that “each time we face fear, we gain strength, us our trespasses as we forgive those who tres-
courage, and confidence in the doing.” Fear is pass against us, and lead us not into temptation,
a completely reasonable emotion. What is re- but deliver us from evil. For thine is the king-
markable about it, however, is that it produces dom, and the power, and the glory, forever and
the aforementioned traits: strength, courage, ever. Amen!
and confidence — traits everyone would benefit Hunter Perrigin
set at liberty those who are celebrate apart, but together forward to our churches,
schools, businesses, and
oppressed. in heart and mind, as we work
restaurants shared by friends
Governor Reeves, we im- together to defeat the invisible
that we have been apart from
plore you to follow in Jesus’s coronavirus in our city, our
for this time. I look forward
footsteps. The days ahead state, and our nation.
to being able to see our loved
could be another dark time in My spirits are lifted as I
ones in assisted living facili-
Mississippi’s history—but you see our friends, neighbors,
ties and looking back on this
have the power to bring light and even strangers practice
time with them as a once-in-a-
and hope in the midst of a pan- guidelines each day to help
lifetime event.
demic. You could lead the way chip away at this pandemic
There are so many people
in recovering the sight of our one step at a time. Today is a
doing so much to help us all. I
blind eyes, of recognizing how message of hope.
we have oppressed our African Thank you, Columbus, for see our first responders, med-
American brothers and sisters. what you are doing every day ical personnel, care providers,
Please, please, please re- to help stop the spread of this store employees, farmers,
scind this proclamation. virus. As I drive our streets, truck drivers, teachers and
Our prayers are with you. I see our citizens following more all doing their part to
Jeff and Kim Miller guidelines of staying home, bring life back to normal.
West Point social distancing, and only Easter has always been a
making essential trips. day of hope. It still is today.
An Easter message I look forward to our lives Columbus Mayor
On this Easter Sunday, we returning to normal. I look Robert Smith, Sr.

PARTIAL TO HOME OUR VIEW

Too close for comfort Roses and thorns
TUESDAY, speckled egg. A rose to all on this Easter Sunday, an
MARCH 31 — The For the Northern cardinal the normal clutch Easter unlike any other in memory. With
newest member of our is two to five eggs. churches vacant and residents staying home
household is under Is a solitary egg incentive enough to keep under the state-wide “shelter in place” order,
a self-quarantine. her nesting amid the chaos for the 11 to 13 we celebrate this holiday more privately
Eleven to 13 days. She days it takes to hatch? than ever before. Easter, after all, is one of
just flew in and is not “She’s not going anywhere,” Dispatch super- those holidays that brings people together, either at Sun-
taking any chances. visor Tom Hudson said after I showed him the day church services or through gatherings of friends and
She’s a northern nesting mother from the kitchen. “You can’t family. On a day that for Christians represents what can be
cardinal and has get her off that nest.” said to have been the ultimate sacrifice, circumstances have
made her nest about a I hope he’s right. dictated that we make our own sort of sacrifice, this one in
foot from our back- the interest of public safety. We take solace in that, as well
door.
Birney Imes
WEDNESDAY, April 1 — No nesting as in the knowledge that some Easter years from now, we
Thanks to our new mother. The lone egg sits untended. Dis- will look back and remember this most unusual of Easters.
tenant we are now traught, I called Paul Mack, a local ornitholo- So, from our homes to yours, we wish you a Happy Easter.
coming and going through the kitchen window, gist.
I told our granddaughter. Paul is reassuring, saying the female only A rose to budding writer, Joshua James,
We’re doing our best not to spook the nest- lays one egg a day and often waits until she’s who has already achieved a literary mile-
ing mother-to-be, but with cats, a gallivanting done laying before taking her seat. That way stone. James, a 5th-grader at Joe Cook Ele-
little dog and our comings and goings in the the eggs all hatch near the same time, he said. mentary School was selected as the winner
kitchen, I’m worried. Though, he cautioned, she may be a young, of a national competition that asked entrants
The nest, situated in a trellis entwined with inexperienced mother, and it may not work out to create their own character. The compe-
Savannah jasmine, has taken shape over sever- the first time. tition was staged by Wonder Media, which uses a software
al weeks. It is now Thursday and she’s not returned to animation program to help kids learn about technology,
Birds can build nests in improbable places. the nest. literacy and 3-D animation. Last year, 50 Columbus Munic-
According to the excellent Cornell Lab of We’re now using the back door again. Each ipal School District elementary and middle school students
Ornithology website, cardinal males usually time I pass the nest, I stand on my tiptoes and participated in Wonder Media’s “Return To Oz,” animated
bring nesting material to the female who does peek at the lone untended egg. film. That experience motivated James to enter the Create
most of the building. Birds abandon their nests when it appears Your Own Character competition. James’ character — Cy-
“She crushes twigs with her beak until to no longer be safe, according to an internet ber Sam — is a kid with a speech impediment who is also a
they’re pliable, then turns in the nest to bend source, when “the parents have seen a poten- cyberbully. James said he added that character flaw to make
the twigs around her body and push them into tial predator — a cat or a human — lurking sure students remained aware of the dangers of cyberbully-
a cup shape with her feet. The cup has four lay- nearby.” ing. James’ success, as well as those of his fellow students in
ers: coarse twigs (and sometimes bits of trash) We, the cats and I, did more than our share last year’s film project, emphasizes the importance of apply-
covered in a leafy mat, then lined with grape- of lurking. ing classroom subjects to practical and fun applications. We
vine bark and finally grasses, stems, rootlets, All is not lost. The pair of cardinals has not congratulate James, who plans to write children’s books and
and pine needles.” left us. They’re still frolicking in the backyard graphic novels as a profession. He appears to be well on his
The nest construction normally takes from with a host of other songbirds. Paul says it’s way toward that goal.
three to nine days. This one seems to have quite likely they will nest again this spring. If
taken longer. they do, I expect they’ll pick a less conspicuous A rose to former Mississippi State foot-
Once, on an island in the Tenn-Tom near spot. ball coach Joe Moorhead, who despite his
Waverly Landing, I happened upon a duck In the meantime, we’re keeping the feeders unceremonious departure from Starkville
blind made of bamboo that rivaled the bird nest full and enjoying the pre-dawn symphony these in January again displayed his generosity
in ingenuity. Likely the outdoorsman had more little winged miracles offer each morning. and kindness. This week, Moorhead — now
tools at his disposal. (For more on birding visit Cornell Lab of Or- the offensive coordinator at Oregon — had
Yesterday, walking out the back door, I had nithology’s eBird website: ebird.org) pizzas delivered to the Starkville Police Department to
noticed what looked to be a leaf or part of the Birney Imes is the former publisher of The show his appreciation for the officers during the Coronavi-
vine on top of the nest and reached to move Dispatch. His email address is birney@cdispatch. rus crisis. It was an act of kindness Moorhead did quietly,
what turned out to be the nesting mother. com. made public only after the SPD tweeted out a thank you to
She’s a beautiful the coach. It would have been perfectly understandable if
brownish red with an or- Moorhead had shaken the dust off his feet and never given
ange beak. I immediately Starkville another thought. No matter what anyone may
took her picture with my think of his coaching abilities, his decency is above re-
iPhone. proach, as this event clearly affirms.
She sits motionless for
hours. When she leaves to A rose to the bell-ringers. This week,
stretch her wings, it’s usu- following a request from Lt. Gov. Delbert
ally into a nearby redbud, Hosemann, churches in the Golden Triangle
its reddish spring leaves began ringing their church bells at 6 p.m.
a perfect match for her. as a way of honoring the heath care workers
Her devotion is inspiring. who are on the front line in the battle against
Would it be that we hu- COVID-19. Hosemann encouraged not only churches, but
mans could emulate her. everyone to join in. Mississippi University for Women joined
I’m worried though. the bell-chorus Tuesday and Hosemann hopes citizens will
Earlier this morning, I pause at 6 p.m. each day and go out onto their lawns and
went to the door to shoo ring their own bells. For Mississippi State fans, for whom
away a hungry, mewling the cowbell is a much-loved part of their sports tradition,
Miss Prissy. I peeked over this is the first time they’ve had a chance to ring their bells
into the vacant nest to see since sports were suspended in early March. We can’t think
a single cream-colored Birney Imes/Dispatch Staff of a better way to put those bells to good use.
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MSU WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH

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Nikki McCray-Penson has been named the next Mississippi State women’s basketball coach, the university announced Saturday. McCray-Penson replaces Vic Schaefer, who left
for Texas after eight years with the Bulldogs.
BY BEN PORTNOY ate knowledge of the sit- namic recruiter and a de- A former Southeastern at Western Kentucky pionships and the 2017
bportnoy@cdispatch.com uation told The Dispatch veloper of young women Conference standout her- where she helped the HIll- national title.
the team spoke with their on and off the court. Nik- self, McCray-Penson was toppers to the 2008 Sun Her first head coach-
STARKVILLE — Mis- new head coach Saturday ki has achieved success at twice named conference Belt Tournament champi- ing job came with the
sissippi State officially morning ahead of the offi- every step of her career, player of the year under onship and an appearance Monarchs. Taking over a
has its women’s basket- cial announcement. both as a coach and play- legendary Volunteers in the NCAA tournament. program that hadn’t made
ball coach. “Nikki brings energy, er. She is a proven winner coach Pat Summitt. After Following the 2008 the NCAA tournament
Following a search that creativity, and a winning who will lead one of the her time on Rocky Top, season, she joined Dawn since 2008, McCray-Pen-
lasted just five days to re- mentality to Mississippi best women’s basketball the Collierville, Tennes- Staley’s staff at South son guided ODU to a 53-
place Vic Schaefer, who State that will inspire our programs in the nation. see native was a three- Carolina where she would 40 record in her three
left Starkville for the head student-athletes and com- We are excited to wel- time WNBA All-Star and spent the next nine sea- seasons -- including back-
coaching job at Texas, Old munity,” MSU Athletic come Nikki and her fam- a two-time Olympic med- son. During McCray-Pen- to-back 20 win seasons in
Dominion’s Nikki Mc- Director John Cohen said ily to Starkville and are alist during her 11 year son’s time in Columbia, 2019 and 2020. The Mon-
Cray-Penson has official- in a news release. “She thrilled that she will lead professional career. she’d help the Gamecocks archs’ 13-win turnaround
ly been named the head has earned a national rep- us into the next chapter McCray-Penson’s first to four SEC regular sea- between 2018 and 2019
coach per MSU Athletics. utation as an outstanding of Mississippi State wom- venture into coaching be- son titles, three confer- was also the sixth-best in
A source with immedi- teacher of the game, dy- en’s basketball.” gan with a two-year stint ence tournament cham- See WBB, 8A

MSU’s Weatherspoon turning pro Bulldogs land 2020

BY GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
commit Garcia
BY DISPATCH STAFF as both are Hamilton
The Mississippi State Heights Christian Acad-
men’s basketball roster The Mississippi emy (Tenn.) grads.
turnover continues. State men’s basketball For Hamilton
One day after Robert team added the third Heights, Garcia scored
Woodard II declared for commitment of its 2020 nine points per game
the NBA Draft, junior recruiting class Friday, and grabbed 9.6 re-
point guard Nick Weather- Andersson Garcia. bounds per night while
spoon also announced his A 6-foot-6, 195-pound shooting 61 percent
intentions to go pro on his forward, Garcia an- from the floor.
Twitter account. nounced his commit- According to 247
“Thank you MSU,” ment on his social Sports, Garcia had of-
media account Friday fers from Illinois, Geor-
Weatherspoon said in a
afternoon, a bit of good gia Southern, Arkansas
tweet. “#Hailstate for ev-
news for MSU hours State and East Tennes-
erything always a Bulldog
after its fans learned see State.
at heart. #0 out.”
junior point guard Nick He will join a roster
A Mississippi State of-
Weatherspoon intends that has seen quite a
ficial confirmed Weather- to go pro. bit of turnover, as nine
spoon’s departure Friday The Dominican Re- players have departed
morning. public native already this offseason, four of
“I want to thank Nick has something in com- whom saw meaningful
for his contributions and mon with one of his minutes for the Bull-
Jim Lytle/Dispatch file photo
hard work in helping Mississippi State point guard Nick Weatherspoon is turning pro, the junior announced teammates, Abdul Ado, dogs a year ago.
See MBB, 8A Friday on his Twitter account.
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Pandemic puts first-year football coaches in deeper bind

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nick Rolovich dived
right in when Washington
State hired him in January.
Like all first-year coaches,
he had to make up ground
in a hurry.
There were assistants
to hire, a roster to learn,
players and administra-
tors to meet. He had to
reassure the most recent
signees, begin work on
securing future recruit-
ing classes. Rolovich also
had to set expectations
for coaches and players
while implementing new
offensive and defensive
systems.
Just when it seemed like
things were up and rolling,
the COVID-19 pandemic
hit. The ensuring nation-
al shutdown hurt coaches
across college football as
they prepare for next sea-
son, but it was particularly
difficult on programs with
first-year coaches trying
to build something from
the ground up.
“I think most people
would say it’d be not ad-
vantageous for a first-year
coach,” Rolovich said. “We
tend to think as coach-
es, whether it’s what the
money has become, or the
pressure of the job, you
tend to always think you
need to do more and more
and more.”
Taking over a new pro-
gram presents its own set
of challenges. Coaches
need all of spring to assess
players and set a founda-
tion, then build upon it in
fall camp. Often, it’s still
not enough time, leading
to growing pains for the
first season, maybe more.
The pandemic wiped
out all spring activities
in college athletics and
could possibly carry over
into the fall. That erases
precious time for first-year
coaches to strengthen re-
lationships with players
they’ve only known for
a month or two, provide
them with hands-on in-
struction and evaluate
what they can do on the
field.
A big portion of the
teaching and assessing
comes during spring foot-
ball workouts. The NCAA
allows teams to have 15
practices and a spring
game in a span of 29 con-
secutive days, with most
wrapping up by the end of
April.
Some schools were
in the middle of spring
practices when the shut-
down hit, others were just
about to start. The loss of
spring workouts makes
it challenging for every
program, but even more
for teams with first-year
coaches.
The Power Five first-
year coaches include Jim-
my Lake at Washington,
Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss,
Mike Norvell at Florida
State, Baylor’s Dave Aran-
da, Missouri’s Eli Drink-
witz, Boston College’s
Jeff Hafley, Mike Leach at
Mississippi State, Sam Pit-
tman at Arkansas, Mich-
igan State’s Mel Tucker
and Karl Dorrell at Colo-
rado.
“I’d be lying if I said
that doesn’t hurt us,” Pit-
tman said. “We know our
players as well as we can
in the short period of time
that we’ve been together,
but man, it would have
been nice to see what they
can do and how they react
to coaching and how they
react to techniques and
things of that nature. We
just weren’t able to do it.”
Coaches like Rolovich
and Pittman, who was
hired on Dec. 8, had a few
months to begin molding
their programs before the
outbreak.
Dorrell had a few
weeks.
A former Buffaloes as-
sistant, Dorrell returned
to Boulder on Feb. 23
after Mel Tucker left to
become Michigan State’s
head coach. Dorrell
worked quickly to hire
coaches, interview his
players and begin laying
the schematic ground-
work.
Colorado’s spring foot-
ball was suspended indef-
initely three days before
the first practice, leaving
Dorrell and his staff no
chance to work with their
players on the field.
“I’m not looking at it as
a detriment just because
I’m new. I look at it like
everybody’s dealing with
this,” he said. “I know
that they’re all under the
same guidance and stan-
dards of what’s going on
right now with our coun-
try, so from our perspec-
tive, we’re just going to
try to maximize whatever
chance we get with our
players.”
Coaches across the
country are trying to nav-
igate the locked-down,
no-football world of the
pandemic, preparing for
a season while not know-
ing when it will begin.
Meetings between coach-
es, players and positional
groups are done virtual-
ly as teams do the best
they can to ensure they’re
ready when football starts
up again, whenever that is.

Amid uncertainty, college football

trying to plan for 2020 season
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Spring football was
shelved because of the
coronavirus. There is still
plenty of work going on in
college football.
With the pandemic
casting uncertainty on
the 2020 season, pro-
grams are starting to
wrestle with two weighty
issues: Getting ready to
play some kind of season
if it is safe to do so and
trying to manage what for
many would be a substan-
tial financial blow if the
season is shortened or
canceled.
The NCA A this week
formed a working group
to look at issues such
as how much preseason
practice and condition-
ing would be required
once play is green-lighted
again. The NCA A said “it
is premature to establish
a timeline for when these
scenarios may be put into
place.”
Ohio State athletic di-
rector Gene Smith said
the discussion is just
beginning on prepare-
to-play issues after most
programs had spring foot-
ball practice shortened or
wiped out and had to deal
with their spring sports
being called to a halt.
“Do we feel we need
a longer period of time
to help them physically
get back into the grind?”
Smith said Friday. “May-
be you need two weeks
straight without pads. I
don’t know that. That’s
where the collaborative
of the medical people
and the strength coach-
es and everybody across
the country has to occur.
A hard date will come in
relation to what we figure
out there, and we haven’t
figured it out yet.”
Buckeyes coach Ryan
Day, in an interview on
ESPN, said six weeks
would be a reasonable
“starting point” for get-
ting ready to play. Last
week, Alabama coach
Nick Saban suggested
“teaching sessions on the
field” over the summer to
prepare for camp.
“If you look at statis-
tics historically on con-
cussions, injuries … the
most concentrated time
that you practice and not
play is in fall camp,” Sa-
ban said on a conference
call with reporters. “You
have more practices, you
have to spend more time
on the field. So I don’t
know that increasing that
is going to be beneficial
in getting people ready to
play.”
On the financial side,
losing football would
be a devastating blow.
Ohio State and other top
football programs pump
millions into their athlet-
ic department budgets,
funding less lucrative
sports. The NCAA is also
slashing $375 million that
would normally be distrib-
uted to various programs
from the NCAA Tourna-
ments that were canceled.
Georgia Tech has made
no cuts to staffers sala-
ries, but said an early es-
timate of losses blamed on
the pandemic will exceed
$3 million. Wisconsin dep-
uty athletic director Chris
McIntosh estimated the
Badgers lost some $4 mil-
lion in revenue due to the
loss of the NCAA Tourna-
ment and Big Ten Tourna-
ment.
“So far the biggest les-
son in terms of planning
that we’ve experienced
as it relates to COVID-19
is it’s incredibly humbling
and it’s unpredictable,”
McIntosh said. “We’re in
the mode of preparing for
anything, really, and pre-
dicting nothing.”
Louisville this week an-
nounced 10% salary cuts
for coaches and athletic
staff, including football
and men’s basketball. At
Stanford, football coach
David Shaw, women’s
basketball coach Tara
VanDerveer and men’s
basketball coach Jerod
Haase all volunteered to
take less pay.
Smith said Ohio State
has not ruled out pay cuts
or other measures.
“Our university is go-
ing through a process to
evaluate whether we need
to deal with personnel in
that form or fashion,” he
said, noting that a hiring
freeze was in place and
budget cuts made before
the coronavirus threat
emerged.

WBB
Continued from Page 7A

the nation and was done
with the seventh-young-
est roster in America.
“It’s been a dream of
mine to be a head coach
in the SEC, and I’m so
grateful and blessed for
this incredible honor and
opportunity to lead Mis-
sissippi State women’s
basketball,” McCray-Pen-
son said in a news release.
“This is a national brand
with incredible people, a
storied tradition and an
outstanding community
that is second to none. I
am confident that my ex-
periences as a coach and
player have prepared me
for this, and I will pour
everything I have into
our student-athletes and
program. My family and I
are so happy to be a part
of the Bulldog Family and
we can’t wait to get start-
ed.”
Salary details have not
been released, but Mc-
Cray-Penson is slated for
a heavy raise. The Rich-
mond Times-Dispatch
previously reported she
earned a $200,000 base
salary in 2018-19. For
context, a source with
immediate knowledge
of the situation told The
Dispatch last week Schae-
fer was slated to make
nearly $2 million annually
had he stuck around in
Starkville.
The Bulldogs chose
McCray-Penson over a
candidate pool that also
included Louisville’s
Jeff Walz and longtime
Schaefer-associate head
coach Johnnie Harris.

MBB
Continued from Page 7A

build our program over
the last three seasons,”
MSU coach Ben How-
land said in a statement.
“We wish him the best
as he pursues his pro
career playing the game
he loves.”
Weatherspoon, the
brother of former MSU
standout Quinndary
Weatherspoon, missed
the season’s first 10
games due to suspen-
sion, but played in 21
games and averaged
11.6 points per game.
Similar to former
MSU guard Lamar Pe-
ters last year, Weath-
erspoon is committed
to the pro process, and
will not return to school
even if he gets feedback
from pro scouts that
he will not be selected
in the NBA Draft. If
that is the case, he will
try to latch on with a
G League team or play
overseas.
Howland will have
some work to do to rep-
licate his fourth straight
20 -win season with the
Bulldogs, as MSU has
now lost its top four
scorers from last season
(assuming Woodard II
stays in the NBA Draft).
Weatherspoon’s de-
parture also continues a
plethora of MSU roster
turnover, making him
the fourth player see-
ing meaningful minutes
to depart the program
in addition to Woodard
II, Reggie Perry (NBA
Draft) and Tyson Carter
(graduation). Nine play-
ers total have left the
Bulldogs this offseason.
Lifestyles LIFESTYLES EDITOR
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Resilient
D
uring a month like no other, we have absorbed
shocks and found ways to cope. We want “social
distancing” to be over, and it will be. But in the
meantime, we still find ways to reach out and connect.
See more photos at cdispatch.com.

Jim Wamble,
left, and grand-
son J Wamble,
10, replace a
worn American
flag in Jim’s
Point Harbor
neighborhood
in Clay County
March 31. They
disposed of the
old flag proper-
ly, as Wamble
Courtesy photo learned to do as
Golden Triangle Early College High School instructor Brandy Bur- an Eagle Scout
nett, left, and Principal Jill Savely show support outside freshman in his youth.
Ethan Stone’s house in Starkville April 1. “These amazing ladies J’s parents
have been driving across four counties, showing up at students’ are James and
homes just to let them know they are missed,” said Ethan’s moth- Paige Wamble
er, Jodi Stone. Teachers made as many stops as possible before of New Hope.
shelter-in-place guidelines were issued. Courtesy photo

Kevin and Mi-

chelle Cox erect-
ed this display
at the corner of
Main and Law-
rence Streets in
Caledonia. “It was
just something
that was laid on
our hearts,” Mi-
chelle said. Drape
colors and mes-
sages changed
throughout Holy
Week. Easter
Sunday’s drapes
are white; the
message reads
“He is risen.”
Courtesy photo

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ABOVE LEFT: Rachel George at-

taches palm fronds at the entrance
of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in
Columbus April 3, in advance of
Palm Sunday. In-person services
may be on hold, but worship is not.
ABOVE RIGHT: Cash Castro, 9,
and his sister Lola Castro, 11, are
greeted by the Easter Bunny as the
seasonal visitor (Midge Maloney)
strolled past their Southside
house in Columbus Wednesday.
The siblings’ parents are Japa and
Alicia Castro. LEFT: Mott Duncan
Ellis and her grandchildren Lindsey
Ruth Clark, left, and John Ross
Dale, both 10, create encouraging
messages in chalk at the end of
Ellis’ drive in Lowndes County. “We
are trying to reach out to others,”
Ellis said. The children’s parents
are John and Mandy Dale.
Courtesy photo
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FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 127 Airline Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. Breck Ladd, Pastor. 662-328-2924
FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621
Mike Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Rev. Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252
N. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m.
(Worship televised at 10 a.m. on WCBI-TV, Columbus
Cable Channel 7), Contemporary Worship 11 a.m.;
Sunday Evening Worship 5 p.m., Midweek Prayer Service
Wednesday 6 p.m. located downtown. Dr. Shawn Parker,
Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.org
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STEENS — 40
Odom Rd., Steens. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST — 125 Yorkville Rd. W.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. John Gainer, Pastor. 662-328-6024 or
662-328-3183
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Charles Whitney, Pastor.
GRACE COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — 912
11th Ave. S. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pastor Sammy
Burns. 662-328-1096
GREENWOOD SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH
— 278 East between Gattman & Amory. Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:15 p.m.
Rev. John Walden, Pastor. 662-356-4445
IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military
Rd., Steens. Bible Study 10:30 a.m., Worship 9:15 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. 662-328-1668
KOLOLA SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH —
Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
AWANA 4:45-6 Ages 2-12th grade (Sept. - May), Worship
5 p.m., Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 252 Basics
Children’s Ministry an Cross Training Youth Wednesday
7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Don Harding,
Pastor.
LONGVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 991 Buckner
Street, Longview. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship
11:00 a.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Evening
Worship 6:00 p.m.; Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m.
Interim Pastor Ron Linkins, or email ynyministry@yahoo.
com, 662-769-4774
MCBEE BAPTIST CHURCH — 2846 Hwy. 50 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship
Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Jimmy Ray, Pastor. 662-328-7177
MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH — Holly Hills Rd.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m., Prayer Service every Saturday 6 p.m. Rev. Denver
Clark, Pastor.
MOUNT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH — 2628
East Tibbee Rd., West Point. Sunday Worship each week 8
a.m., 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m., Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Donald Wesley,
Pastor.
MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1791 Lake
Lowndes Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Steve Lammons, Pastor.
662-328-2811
MT. VERNON CHURCH — 200 Mt. Vernon Rd.
Sunday Worship 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Service Life Groups
for all ages 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Connection Cafe 10 a.m.,
Discovery Zone. 662-328-3042 mtvchurch.com
MURRAH’S CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
9297 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — Highway
50 E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Wednesday
7 p.m. Ed Nix, Pastor.
NEW JOURNEY CHURCH — 3123 New Hope Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Small Groups 5:30 p.m., Kevin
Edge, Pastor. 662-315-7753 or thenewjourneychurch.org
NEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe
Rd., 3 miles south of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:00
a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Sunday
Evening - AWANA 4 p.m., Discipleship Training, Youth
& Adult 5 p.m., Evening Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday -
Adults, Youth & Children 6:30 p.m. 662-356-4940 www.
newsalembaptistcaledonia.com Bro. Mel Howton, Pastor.
NORTHSIDE FREE WILL BAPTIST — 14th Ave.
and Waterworks. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Worship
11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Pat Creel,
Pastor.
OPEN DOOR MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex,
405 Lynn Lane, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
1st 2nd and 4th Sundays. Donnie Jones, Pastor. 662-263-
7102
PLEASANT GROVE MB CHURCH — 1914 Moor
High Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Riley Forrest, Sr., Pastor.
662-272-8221
PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill
Rd. Sunday Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Bill Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921
PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH — 187 Plymouth
Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev.
Randy Rigdon, Pastor. Neil Shepherd, Music.
SOVEREIGN FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH — 7852
Hwy. 12 E., Steens. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Service 5
p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Charles Young, Pastor.
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH —
12859 Martin Road Spur, Northport, Ala. Worship 11
a.m., Sunday Bible Study noon. Todd Bryant, Pastor.
sovereigngrace.net
STATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282
E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
Night small group 6:30 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-
329-2973
TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST
CHURCH — 4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams,
Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-2580
UNITED CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 2
blocks east of Hwy. 69 on Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. Steven James, Pastor.
UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 1104
Louisville St., Starkville (located in Fellowship Hall of St.
Luke Lutheran Church). Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship
11 a.m. Bert Montgomery, Pastor. www.ubcstarkville.org
VICTORY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH —
Victory Loop off of Mill Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Pastor, Al Hamm.
WOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — 3033 Ridge
Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship
6 p.m., AWANA Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Kevin Jenkins, Pastor. 662-327-6689. Brad Wright,
Youth Minister.
10TH STREET FAIRLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH
— 1118 7th St. S. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Youth Ministry Wednesday 4:30 p.m.
Rev. Brian Hood, Pastor.
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
BETHESDA CHURCH — 1800 Short Main. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Nathaniel Best, Pastor. E-mail: bethesdambchurch@
yahoo.com
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5860 Hwy. 50 E., West
Point. Sunday School 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — 1720 Hwy.
373. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Martin “Buddy” Gardner, Pastor.
LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5030 Hwy.
182 E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-1130
SHINING LIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH — 957
Sunset Drive, Starkville in the Comfort Suites Conference
Room, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6
p.m. Pastor John Harvey. slbcstarkville.org 662-648-0282
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
ANDERSON GROVE MB CHURCH — 1131
Woodlawn Rd., Steens. Sunday School 9:20 a.m., Worship
11:00 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6:20 p.m. Rev. William
Sparks, Pastor. 662-356-4968.
ANTIOCH MB CHURCH — 2304 Seventh Ave. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Kenny Bridges, Pastor.
BETHLEHEM MB CHURCH — 293 Bethlehem Road,
Caledonia. Sunday School 1st and 4th Sundays 8 a.m., 2nd
& 3rd Sundays 9:30 a.m., Worship 1st & 4th Sundays 9:30
a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 11 a.m., Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev.
Willie James Gardner, Pastor. 662-356-4424
BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex,
Activity Center 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 2nd,
4th & 5th Sundays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pastor Martin. 662-
744-0561
BRICK MB CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School
9:30 a.m. each Sunday, Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays only
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Everett Little, Pastor.
CALVARY FAITH CENTER — Hwy. 373 & Jess
Lyons Road. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Robert
Bowers, Pastor. 662-434-0144
CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr.
Worship Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Johnnie Richardson, Pastor. 662-
434-6528
CHRISTIAN HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST
CHURCH — 14096 MS Hwy. 388, Brooksville, MS 39739,
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Bobby Bowen, Pastor. 662-738-5837/549-6100
CHRIST MB CHURCH — 110 2nd Ave. S. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., B.T.U.
Program every 1st & 3rd Sunday 6 p.m.
ELBETHEL MB CHURCH — 2205 Washington Ave.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m., Rev. Leroy Jones, Pastor.
FAITH HARVEST MB CHURCH — 4266 Sand
Road. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Bible class
Tuesday 6 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-7076.
FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday
Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. 662-328-1913
FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Dr. Stanley K. McCrary, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or
662-251-4185
GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856
Carson Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 a.m. Donald Henry, Pastor.
HALBERT MISSION MB CHURCH — 2199 Halbert
Church Rd., Ethelsville, Ala. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. Ernest Prescott, Pastor.
HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 4892 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9 a.m., Minister Terry
Johnson, Interim Pastor.
JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 14129 Hwy 12 E.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Petty, Sr., Pastor.
MAPLE STREET BAPTIST — 219 Maple St.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Joseph Oyeleye, Pastor. 662-328-4629
MILLERS CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 425 East
North St. Macon. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Ron Houston, Pastor.
MISSIONARY UNION BAPTIST CHURCH
— 1207 5th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Baptist Training Union 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Tony A. Montgomery, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION MB CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979
MT. ARY MB CHURCH — 291 S. Frontage Rd., Lot
#4. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. Erick Logan, Pastor.
MT. AVERY BAPTIST CHURCH — 12311 Nashville
Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. every
Sunday except 5th Sunday. Rev. John Wells, Pastor.
MT. OLIVE MB CHURCH — 2020 Atkin Rd., Millport,
Ala. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m. Pastor
Benny W. Henry. 205-662-3923
NEW HOPE MB CHURCH — 271 Church St., Artesia.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Thomas E. Rice is Pastor. 662-494-1580
NEW BAPTIST TEMPLE MB CHURCH — 5937
Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m. each week
except 5th Sunday, Worship 10 a.m. each week except 5th
Sunday, 5th Sundays: Ushers Board Fellowship. Rev. L.A.
Gardner, Pastor. 662-329-3321
NEW ZION PILGRIM MB CHURCH — 5253 New
Hope Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Services
11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Christopher Wriley,
Pastor.
NEW ZION STEENS MB CHURCH — 3301 Sand
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Pastor Rev. Billy D. Hill. 662-329-5224
OAK GROVE MB CHURCH — 1090 Taylor
Thurston Rd. Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
5th Sunday 8 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:15 p.m.
Pastor Therman Cunningham Sr., 662-798-0179
OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road,
Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible study 7 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal
- Wed. before 1st and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus
Rehearsal - Wed. before 3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir
Rehearsal - Wed. before 4th Sun. 6 p.m. Rev. Sammy
L. White, Pastor.
PLEASANT GROVE ROBINSON MB CHURCH
— 9203 Hwy. 389 N., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Service/Bible
Study 7 p.m. Pastor George A. Sanders. 456-0024
PLEASANT RIDGE MB CHURCH — Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. A. Edwards, Sr., Pastor.
PROVIDENCE MB CHURCH — Old Hwy. 69 S.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
7 p.m. Rev. Gilbert Anderson, Pastor.
SAINT MATTHEWS MB CHURCH — 1213
Island Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Curtis Clay, Sr., Pastor.
SALEM MB CHURCH — Hwy. 86, Carrollton, Ala.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Rev. David J. Johnson, Jr., Pastor.
SECOND JAMES CREEK MB CHURCH —
4898 Baldwin Rd., Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Michael Tate. 662-738-5855
SOUTHSIDE MB CHURCH — 100 Nashville Ferry
Rd. E. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Rayfield Evins Jr., Pastor.
SIXTH AVENUE MB CHURCH — 1519 Sixth Ave.
N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. W.C. Talley, Pastor. 662-329-
2344
SPRINGFIELD MB CHURCH — 6369 Hwy. 45 S.
(1st & 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship
11:30 a.m., (1st & 3rd Wednesday) 7 p.m. Robert Gavin,
Pastor. 662-327-9843
STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 2008 7th
Ave. N. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m.
Bible Study Wednesday 10:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
ST. JAMES MB CHURCH — 6525 Hardy-Billups
Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
and 6:15 p.m. Rev. Chad Payton, Pastor.
ST. JOHN MB CHURCH — 3477 Motley Rd.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
Bible Study 7 p.m. Joe Brooks, Pastor. 327-7494.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — Robinson Rd. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Rev. Willie Mays, Pastor.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — 1800 Short Main St.
Disciple Training/Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:00
a.m. Rev. John F. Johnson, Pastor. 662-241-7111
STRONG HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST
CHURCH — 325 Barton Ferry Rd., West Point. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 6 p.m.
UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver
Rd. (Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor McSwain.
TABERNACLE MB CHURCH — Magnolia Drive,
Macon. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m.
UNION HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 150
Spurlock Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Carlton Jones, Pastor.
WOODLAWN LANDMARK MB CHURCH —
8086 Hwy. 12. East, Steens. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David
Retherford, Pastor.
THE WORD CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 366
Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. John Sanders, Pastor.
ZION GATE MB CHURCH — 1202 5th St. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. and 10:45., Children’s
Church 10:15 a.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Dr. James A. Boyd, Pastor.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
ABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
— Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday
10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-
4937
HAMILTON PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
Flower Farm Rd., 2 miles South of Hamilton, just off Hwy.
45. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jesse Phillips, Pastor. 662-429-
2305
MAYHEW PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
842 Hwy. 45 Alternate, Starkville. Sunday Service 10:30
a.m. Herb Hatfield,Pastor. 662-315-4937
SPRINGHILL P.B. CHURCH — 3996 Sandyland
Road, Macon, MS. Walter Lowery Jr., Pastor. Sunday
School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Bible
Study 6 p.m. 662-738-5006.
SULPHUR SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
CHURCH — North of Caledonia on Wolf Rd, Hamilton.
Sunday 10:30 a.m. & 1st Sunday Night at 6:30 p.m. Elder
Joseph Mettles, Pastor. 662-369-2532
ANGLICAN CATHOLIC
SAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew
Rd., Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-
5939 or anglicancatholic.org
CATHOLIC
ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 808
College St. Mass Schedules are as follows: Sunday 8
a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8 a.m.,
Tuesday 5:30 p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m., and Annunciation
Catholic School (during the school year). Father Jeffrey
Waldrep, Priest.
CHRISTIAN
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary.
Lavelle Smith, Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave.
N. and 8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CALEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — Main
St., Caledonia. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship
10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 4362 Hwy. 69 S.
Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. , Wednesday 6 p.m. Loviah
Johnson 662-574-0426 or E-mail: jtychicus00@gmail.
com
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 437 Gregory Rd.
Sunday Bible class 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Richard Latham, Minister.
662-328- 4705
CHURCH OF CHRIST DIVINE — 1316 15th
St. S. Morning Worship (1st, 2nd, & 4th Sunday)
9:45 a.m., (3rd & 5th Sunday) 8:30 a.m., Wednesday
Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-
327-6060 Bishop Timothy Heard, Pastor.
COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401
7th St. N. Sunday Bible Class 9:30 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m., Sunday Bible Study 5 p.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Paul Bennett, Family Life Minister; Billy
Ferguson, Minister of Discipleship; Hunter Johnson,
Youth Minister.
EAST COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST —
Highway 182 E. at Gaylane. Sunday Worship 9 a.m.,
Bible Study 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. http://eastcolumbuschurch.com
HW Y. 69 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2407 Hwy.
69 S. Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister Jay
Street. www.highway69coc.com
LONE OAK CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1903
Lone Oak Rd., Steens. Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
MAGNOLIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — 161 Jess
Lyons Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister David May, Pastor.
662-769-5514.
NORTH HILLCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST
— 900 North Hillcrest, Aberdeen, MS 39730, Sunday
Worship 10:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:00
p.m., Bro. Arthur Burnett, Minister, 662-304-6098.
Email: nhill crestcoc@gmail.com
STEENS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Steens
Vernon Rd. 9:15 a.m. Bible Study, Worship 10 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Tim Gentle, Minister.
10TH AVE. N. CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1828
10th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Bible Class 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday
7 p.m. Willie McCord, Minister.
WOODLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST —
Woodlawn Community. Sunday 9 a.m., Worship 9:45
a.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Willis
Logan, Minister.
CHURCH OF GOD
CHURCH OF GOD IN JESUS’ NAME — Hwy. 12.
Sunday 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. David Sipes,
Pastor.
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 7840
Wolfe Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Tony Hunt, Pastor. 662-889-6570

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LATTER RAIN CHURCH OF GOD — 721 7th Ave.
S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday 6
p.m. Brenda Othell Sullivan, Pastor.
NORTH COLUMBUS CHURCH OF GOD — 2103
Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Clarence Roberts,
Pastor.
YORKVILLE HEIGHTS CHURCH — 2274 Yorkville
Rd., Sunday Connect Groups 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.; Nursery available for all
services (newborn-4). Scott Volland, Pastor. 662-328-1256
or www.yorkvilleheights.com
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
BIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD
IN CHRIST — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 8 a.m.,
Worship 9 a.m., Monday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday Prayer Noon. Tommy
Williams, Pastor.
FIFTEENTH ST. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
— 917 15th St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion C. Bonner, Pastor.
GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE CHURCH
OF GOD IN CHRIST — 1601 Pickensville Rd., Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Monday 6 p.m., Tuesday
7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. Ocie Salter, Pastor.
MIRACLE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — 5429 Hwy. 45 N. Sunday Prayer 8 a.m.,
Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., 4th Sunday
Fellowship Lunch, Youth Sunday 4th Sunday, Wednesday
Bible Study 6 p.m. Elder Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-
327-4221. Email: mr.endure@aol.com
NOW FAITH CENTER MINISTRIES — 425 Military
Road, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
Night Bible Study 7 p.m. Elder Samuel Wilson, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer
Ave., Aberdeen. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30
a.m., Tuesday Bible School 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., 2nd & 4th
Thursday Evangelist Night 6 p.m. Johnnie Bradford, Pastor.
662-574-2847.
PETER’S ROCK TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — 223 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Starkville.
Sunday Worship 7:45 a.m., 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Sunday School 9
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
VICTORY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — Minnie Vaughn Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 12 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Donald Koonch, Pastor.
662-243-2064
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE
CAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic
Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Catholic Priest Father
Paul Stewart. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday School
9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Wing Chaplain Lt. Col. Steven
Richardson. 662-434-2500
EPISCOPAL
GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH —
321 Forrest Blvd. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest.
662-574-1972
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College
St. Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
Rev. Jason Shelby. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.com.
FULL GOSPEL
BREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.
BEULAH GROVE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST
CHURCH — 8490 Artesia Rd., Artesia, MS. Sunday
Service 8:30 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Timothy
Bourne, Senior Pastor.
CHARITY FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
1524 6th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m. Charles Fisher, Pastor.
CHARITY MISSION FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST
CHURCH — 807 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday School
9:40 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Prayer
Hour Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m., New Membership
Class 9:30 p.m., 5th Sunday Worship 6:30 p.m. 662-272-
5355
COVENANT LIFE MINISTRIES CHURCH — W.
Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Evening 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
FAIRVIEW FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 1446 Wilson Pine Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Bobby L. McCarter
662-328-2793
GREATER MOUNT ZION CHURCH — 5114 Hwy.
182 E. Sunday Corporate Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Bible Study
7 p.m. Doran V. Johnson, Pastor. 662-329-1905
GOD’S ANNOINTED PEOPLE MINISTRY FULL
GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP — 611 Jess Lyons Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Jerome Gill, Pastor. 662-244-7088
HARVEST LIFE CHURCH — 425 Military Rd. Sunday
Service 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. F. Clark Richardson,
Pastor. 662-329-2820
NEW BEGINNING FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST
CHURCH — 318 Idlewild Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. 662-
327-3962
NEW LIFE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship
10a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor.
PLUM GROVE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — Old
Macon Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
Tuesday 6:30 p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Samuel B. Wilson,
Pastor.
SHILOH FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 120 19th St. S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Missionary Service every 2nd
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Freddie Edwards, Pastor.
JEWISH
B’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-
monthly. Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038
UNIVERSALIST
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple
B’nai Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday.
662-620-7344 or uua.org
LUTHERAN
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
(WELS) — Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible
Class 3:45 p.m., Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647
OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (L.C.M.S.)
— 1211 18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m.. Worship 10 a.m.
Stan Clark, Pastor. 662-327-7747 oursaviorlutheranms.org
MENNONITE
FAITH MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP — 2988 Tarlton
Rd., Crawford. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Sunday School 11
a.m., 2nd & 4th Sunday Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30
p.m. Kevin Yoder, Senior Pastor.
METHODIST
ARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 50
Church Street, Artesia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Gene Merkl, Pastor.
CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 811 Main Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. John Longmire, Pastor.
CLAIBORNE CME CHURCH — 6049 Nashville
Ferry Rd. E. 2nd and 4th Sundays - Sunday School 10a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Sundays - 3
p.m., Geneva H. Thomas, Pastor.
CONCORD INDEPENDENT METHODIST
CHURCH — 1235 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor.
COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
618 31st Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Eugene Bramlett, Pastor.
CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
Main St., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10
a.m. Kathy Brackett, Pastor. 662-364-8848
CROSSROAD CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Steens.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. Carl Swanigan, Pastor.
FIRST INDEPENDENT METHODIST — 417
Lehmberg Rd. Sunday bible study at 10:15 and morning
worship at 11 a.m. Minister Gary Shelton.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 602
Main St. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m.
Rev. Jimmy Criddle, Lead Pastor; Rev. Anne Russell
Bradley, Associate Pastor; Rev. Aislinn Kopp, Associate
Pastor. 328-5252
FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
80 Old Honnoll Mill Rd., Caledonia. Sunday Worship Service
9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. John Longmire, Pastor.
GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St.
S. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael
Terry, Pastor. 662-328-1109
HEBRON CME. CHURCH — 1910 Steens Road,
Steens. Meets first, second and third Sundays, Bible class
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
each Wednesday at 7 p.m. Earnest Sanders, Pastor.
MILITARY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH — Hwy. 12, Steens. Sunday School 9:45,
Service 11 a.m.. Meet on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Wednesday
Bible Study 6:00 p.m. Rev. Antra Geeter, Pastor. 662-327-
4263
NEW HOPE CME CHURCH — 1452 Yorkville Road
East, Columbus. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship
service first, third and fourth Sunday (Youth Sunday) 11:00
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 5:00 p.m. Rev. Cornelia
Naylor, Pastor. 662-328-5309
NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
2503 New Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 5:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah
Windham, Pastor.
NEW ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
2169 S. Montgomery St., Starkville. Sunday School 9:30-
10:30 a.m., Young Adult Bible Study (ages 18-30) Thursday
6:30 p.m. Tyrone Stallings, Pastor. 662-324-0789
ORR’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Nicholson
Street, Brooksville. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Saturday 9 a.m.
PINEY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 102 Fernbank Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Andy
Tentoni, Pastor.
PLAIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 1579
Sun Creek Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 8:45-9:45
a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6-7 p.m. Rev.
Sylvester Miller III, Pastor. 662-324-0036
SANDERS CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 521 15th
St. N. Sunday School 8 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m., Tuesday 11:45
a.m. Rev. Dr. Luther Minor, Pastor.
SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH — 1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional
Worship Service 9 a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.
ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 722 Military Rd. Breakfast 9:10 a.m., Sunday School
9:40 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Adult/Children Bible Study
Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Dwight Prowell, Pastor.
ST. PAUL INDEPENDENT METHODIST
CHURCH — Freeman Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Sunday Services 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Youth activities 5 p.m.
John Powell, Pastor.
ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
307 South Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. , Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
Demetric Darden, Pastor.
ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 800 Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. and 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Andy Tentoni,
Pastor.
TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— Rt. 2, 6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Carol Lambert, Pastor. 205-662-3443
TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610
Carson Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Pastor
Lizzie Harris. 662-329-3995
TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St.
S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5
p.m. Yvonne Fox, Pastor.
WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday
5:15 p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Youth Monday 6:30 p.m.
Rev. Sarah Windham.
WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH — Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Kori Bridges,
Pastor. 662-422-9013.
MORMON
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
SAINTS — 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 9 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 11 a.m.,
Youth Activities Wednesday 6 p.m. Bishop Eric Smith. 662-
328-3179.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — 2722
Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,Worship 10:40 a.m. and
6 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Stephen Joiner, Pastor.
NON — DENOMINATIONAL
A PREPARED TABLE MINISTRY — 1201 College
St. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:10 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Timothy J. Bailey, Pastor. 662-889-7778
ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 611 S.
Frontage Road. Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Craig
Morris, Pastor.
ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
CHURCH, INC. — 1560 Hwy. 69 S., Sunday 9 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:45 p.m., Friday Corporate Prayer 7 p.m.
Pastor James T. Verdell, Jr. crosswayradio.com 9 a.m., 11
a.m., & 7 p.m. on Fridays only.
CALEDONIA OPEN DOOR WORSHIP CENTER
— 3288 Cal-Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10
a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Randy Holmes, Pastor.
662-855-5006
COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN CENTER — 146 S.
McCrary Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Kid’s Church
10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Kenny Gardner, Pastor.
662-328-3328
CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109
Maxwell Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15
a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Band 7
p.m. Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98
Harrison Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., 1st
Sunday Evening 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba)
Dees, Pastor. 662-327-4303
EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH —
1608 Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and
Sunday at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.
FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 1133 Northdale Dr.
Sunday Worship 5:30 p.m. Lee Poque, Pastor. 662-889-
8132
FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH CHRIST
MINISTRIES — 1472 Blocker Rd., Starkville. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., 2nd Sunday Morning
Worship 9 a.m. Pastor Kenyon Ashford.
FIRST CALVARY FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP
CHRISTIAN CENTER — 247 South Oliver St.,
Brooksville. Prayer Saturday 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m.,
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor David
T. Jones,III. 601-345-5740
FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Maxine Hall, Pastor.
GENESIS CHURCH — 1820 23rd St. N., Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Darren Leach, Pastor.
HOUSE OF LIFE FREEDOM MINISTRY — 1742
Old West Point Rd. Worship 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Donnell Wicks, Pastor.
HOUSE OF RESTORATION — Hwy. 50. Sunday
School, 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 a.m., Pastors, Bill and Carolyn Hulen.
JESUS CHRIST POWERHOUSE OF THE
APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 622 23rd St. N.
Sunday School 10:30 a.m.; Service 11:45 a.m., Tuesday 7:30
p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Prayer Mon., Wed. and Fri. noon. For
more information call Bishop Ray Charles Jones 662-251-
1118, Patricia Young 662-327-3106 or 662-904-0290 or
Lynette Williams 662-327-9074.
KINGDOM VISION INTERNATIONAL CHURCH
— 3193 Hwy 69 S. Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Pastor R.J. Matthews. 662-
327-1960
LIFE CHURCH — 4888 N. Frontage Rd. Sunday
Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information,
call 662-570-4171
LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr.
Martin Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11
a.m., Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311
LIVING WATERS LIFE CHURCH
INTERNATIONAL — 113 Jefferson St., Macon.
Sunday Service 10 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m.
Johnny Birchfield Jr., Senior Pastor. 662-493-2456 E-mail:
livingwaterslifechurch@gmail.com
NEW BEGINNING EVERLASTING OUTREACH
MINISTRIES — Meets at Quality Inn, Hwy. 45 N. (Every
1st and 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10 a.m., Bible Study
10:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Robert Gavin, 662-327-
9843 or 662-497-3434.
NEW COVENANT ASSEMBLY — 875 Richardson.
Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Bruce Morgan, Pastor.
NEW HORIZONS GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 441
18th St. S. Sunday 10 a.m. Dr. Joe L. Bowen, Pastor.
PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP —
2651 Trinity Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Every 2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m.,
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2019 3B
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097
TABERNACLE OF MERCY (MINISTRY OF
JESUS CHRIST) — 4435 Hwy. 45 N., Sunday Service
9 a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-
241-6723 www.memorialgunterpeel.com
THE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7
p.m. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. 716 Second Ave. N. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-4432
THE RIVER CHURCH — 822 North Lehmberg Rd., 903 College St. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-2354
Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Children’s Church 3&4 yr. old,
5-12 yr. old. Wednesday Worship 6:45 p.m. Pastor Chuck
Eubanks.
THE SHEPHERD’S CARE & SHARE MINISTRY
CHURCH — 4068 Jess Lyons Rd., Sunday Prayer
Time 9:50 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Thursday Bible Study 6 p.m., Annie Hines-Goode, Planter
and Pastor. 662-630-5216
TRIBE JUDAH MINISTRIES — 730 Whitfield St.,
Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible
School 7 p.m. Rev. Greg and Rev. Michelle Mostella,
Pastors. 662-617-4088
TRUE GOSPEL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY —
2119 7th. Ave. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie
Edwards, Pastors.
TRUE LIFE CHURCH — 435 Cedarcrest Dr. (corner of
Yorkville and Cedarcrest), Sunday prayer 8:45 a.m., Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday prayer 6:30 p.m., Service 7:30 p.m.
662-798-0259
SHELTON’S TOWING, INC.
TRUE LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — 597 Main St., Since 1960
Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor.
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TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER 1024 Gardner Blvd.
MINISTRIES — 5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
328-8277
Pastor Francisco Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252
UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL
MINISTRIES — 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus.
Sunday Worship 8-9:30 a.m., 662-889-8711
VIBRANT CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday
8 a.m., 9:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Vibe Cafe 7 a.m.,
First Wednesday 7 p.m. Age 6 weeks through 5th grade,
Champions Club (special needs children). Jason Delgado,
Pastor. 662-329-2279
WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN
CENTER — 2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis,
Pastor. 662-230-3182 or mdavis43@hotmail.com
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
ST. CATHERINE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
CHURCH — 725 4th Ave. N. Visit www.
stcatherineorthodox.com for schedule of services and
updates on this Mission.
APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL
APOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North
McCrary Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny
L. Obsorne, Pastor.
DIVINE DESTINY APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 2601
14th Ave. N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 12 p.m.,
Tuesday Bible Class 7:30 p.m. Pastor Easter Robertson.
JESUS CHRIST POWERFUL MINISTRY OF
LOVE — 1210 17th St. S., behind the Dept. of Human
Resources. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.
Gloria Jones, Pastor.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 267
Byrnes Circle. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor. 662-324-3539
THE ASSEMBLY IN JESUS CHRIST CHURCH
— 1504 19th St. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:45
a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m.
THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL WORD — 106
22nd St. S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible Study 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 5 p.m. District
Elder Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234
THE GLORIOUS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
— Billy Kidd Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.. Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7
p.m. Ernest Thomas, Pastor.
VICTORY APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 6 6
Boyd Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Noon,
Tuesday Prayer 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
Mildred Spencer, Pastor. 662-341-5753
ONENESS PENTECOSTAL
NEW HOPE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 875
Richardson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Jared Glover, Pastor. 662-251-3747
E-mail: nhpccolumbus@yahoo.com
PENTECOSTAL
FAITH AND DELIVERANCE OUT REACH
MINISTRIES — 118 S. McCrary Road, Suite 126. Sunday
10 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Christian Women
Meeting Friday 7 p.m.
LIVING FAITH TABERNACLE — Shelton St.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Youth
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. James O. Gardner, Pastor.
LIVING WATER MINISTRIES — 622 28th St. N. Elder
Robert L. Salter, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 922
17th St. N. Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11
a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor,
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 5580 Ridge
Road. Sunday School 10 a.m., Praise & Worship 10:45 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. G.E. Wiggins Sr., Pastor.
UNITED PENTECOSTAL 1721 Hwy 45 N
CALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL
CHURCH — 5850 Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia.
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Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, 662.848.0919
Pastor. 662-356-0202
Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa
In Style. In Reach. Sunday 1pm-5pm
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m.,
TRINITY PLACE
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-
1750
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
PRESBYTERIAN
BEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community. Offering independent living apartments, personal
Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church care/assisted living suites, and a skilled nursing home
School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615 300 Airline Road • Columbus, MS • 327-6716
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC)
— 515 Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 “Our Bottom Line Is People”
a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4 Hunting • Fishing
p.m. John Richards, Pastor. Working Or Stepping Out — We Have A Complete
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CHURCH — 2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m.,
Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m.,
Oktibbeha County Co-Op
Bible Study 5 p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Check Out Our Boot & Cap Section
Tue. 4 p.m.), Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: 662-323-1742
Exercise Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke 201 Pollard Rd., Starkville
Lawson, Pastor. 662-328-2692
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt
Rd. Worship 10 a.m., Youth Group Sundays 11 a.m.,
Adult Choir Wednesdays 6 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd
Wednesdays 6 p.m. B.J. Chain, Pastor.
MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
(PCA) — Main and 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday Fellowship
Supper 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Todd Matocha,
Pastor.
MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH — 3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m.
SALVATION ARMY CHURCH
THE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy.
82 East. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m.,
Wednesday Men’s Fellowship, Women’s Fellowship 5:30
p.m., Thursday Character Building Programs 5:30 p.m.,
Majors Alan and Sheryl Phillips, Commanding Officers.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
COLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
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(Task C) will be that associ-
ated with improvements to the

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emergency access road loc-
ated at Gate 6 near the
airport’s fuel farm. The work

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will be accomplished during
daylight hours and will be lim-
ited to the northwest quadrant
of the intersection of the emer-
gency access road and the loc-
al county road. This quadrant
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accordance Medical / Dental

LEGALS
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
CALL US: 662-328-2424 IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF FREDDIE L. HARTLEY,
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RENTALS
design requirements, or local
county regulation, whichever is
more stringent.
Assuming bids will be received
that will allow the funding of
ADS STARTING AT $25
the project, the award of the
contract will be based on the Apts For Rent: West
lowest qualified combined bid
for Task A, B and C.

VIP
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CONTINA MCDONALD,
Petitioner
GOLDEN TRIANGLE REGIONAL All work performed shall be in

Rentals
AIRPORT CAUSE NO. 2019-0215 exact accordance with the Con-
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI struction Plans, Technical Spe-
SUMMONS cifications (on file at the office
RUNWAY LIGHTING SYSTEM – (By Publication) of the said Owner), Proposals
and Special Provisions, under Apartments & Houses
HIRL / LED
1 Bedrooms
A.I.P. Project No. 3-28-0020- TO: ALL HEIRS OF FREDDIE L. the direct supervision and to
058-2020 HARTLEY, DECEASED the entire satisfaction of the
2 Bedroooms
Owner and in accordance with
Sealed bids for the RUNWAY You have been made a party to the laws of the State of Missis-
LIGHTING SYSTEM – HIRL /
LED to be performed at the
a Petition to Determine
at Law and Statutory Wrongful
Heirs sippi. Contractors must be
qualified under Mississippi Law 3 Bedrooms
Golden Triangle Regional Air- Death Beneficiaries filed in this and be registered with the
port will be received at the Air- Court by Contina McDonald, Pe- State of Mississippi as a li- Furnished & Unfurnished
port by Michael Hainsey, Exec- titioner, and biological daugh- censed general contractor cap-
utive Director of the Golden Tri- ter of Freddie L. Hartley, de- able of performing the required 1, 2, & 3 Baths
angle Regional Airport Author-
ity (the Owner), until 10:30
ceased, seeking a determina-
tion of the rightful heirs at law
work. No contract shall be is-
sued or awarded to any con- Lease, Deposit
a.m. (Central Daylight Time) on and statutory wrongful death tractor who does not have a & Credit Check
the 11th day of May 2020, at beneficiaries of Freddie L. current certificate of responsib-
which time and place they will Hartley, deceased. ility issued by the State of Mis- viceinvestments.com
327-8555
be publicly opened and read sissippi in effect on the date of
aloud. You are summoned to appear the bid opening.
and defend against this re-
The work will be that associ- quested relief at 9:30 a.m. on Non-resident contractors bid-
Apts For Rent: Other
ated with the removal of the ex- April 30, 2020, before the Hon- ding on this project shall be re-
isting runway high intensity orable Paula Drungole-Ellis., in quired to have their Missis-
edge and threshold lights and Lowndes County Chancery sippi registration complete and 1ST MONTH − RENT FREE!
the replacement with new high Court, 512 2nd Avenue, Colum- a current certificate of respons- 1−2 BR Apt: $350−435
intensity LED lights. New LED bus Mississippi, 39701, and in ibility number issued by the 1−2BR TwnHm: $625−650
taxiway edge lights will be re- case of your failure to appear State of Mississippi in effect Lease, Dep, Credit Check.
moved and replaced for all taxi- and participate, a judgment will on the day of the bid opening. Coleman Realty
way lights located within the be entered against you for the Any bid submitted in violation
662−329−2323
runway safety area (RSA). All relief requested in the Petition of this requirement shall be re-
lights included in this project herein referenced. jected.
will include the installation of
new base cans and 2-inch con- You are not required to file an Additional information may be
duit. All work will be accom- answer or other pleading, but found in Title 31 (Public Busi- Medical / Dental
plished in accordance with cur- you may do so if you desire. ness, Bonds and Obligations)
rent FAA design requirements, of the 2015 Mississippi Code.
or local county regulation, ISSUED under my hand and One of several public links to
whichever is more stringent. seal of said Court, this the that website is as follows:
16th day of March, 2020.
The award of the contract will http://law.justia.com/codes/m
be based on the lowest quali- LISA YOUNGER NEESE ississippi/2015/title-31/
fied bid proposal. LOWNDES COUNTY CHAN-
CERY CLERK All portions of the proposed
All work performed shall be in projects (except for Task C) are
exact accordance with the Con- By: Tina Fisher expected to be within the se-
struction Plans, Technical Spe- DEPUTY CLERK cured perimeter of the airfield;
cifications (on file at the office therefore, FAA guidelines for
of the said Owner), Proposals Prepared By: work in Airport Operational
and Special Provisions, under Patrick S. Wooten (MSB Areas and in secured airfield
the direct supervision and to #9779) SCHWARTZ & ASSO- areas will apply to this project.
the entire satisfaction of the CIATES, P.A. Public safety is of utmost con-
Owner and in accordance with Post Office Box 3949 cern and the contractor shall
the laws of the State of Missis- Jackson, Mississippi 39207- be familiar with traffic control in
sippi. Contractors must be 3949 work zones where public inter-
qualified under Mississippi Law Tel: (601) 353-1215 face will occur. Temporary sig-
and be registered with the Fax: (601) 949-7929 nage, barricades, markings,
State of Mississippi as a li- Email: pwooten@1call.org etc. will comply with guidelines
censed general contractor cap- set forth in the federal Manual
able of performing the required PUBLISH: 3/29, 4/5, &
work. No contract shall be is- 4/12/2020
of Uniform Traffic Control
Devices, latest edition. COLEMAN
sued or awarded to any con- RENTALS
tractor who does not have a A pre-bid conference for the TOWNHOUSES & APARTMENTS
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS project is planned for April 23,
current certificate of responsib-
ility issued by the State of Mis- GOLDEN TRIANGLE REGIONAL 2020 at 1:30 p.m. Due to COV-
ID-19 “stay at home” and oth-
1 BEDROOM
sissippi in effect on the date of AIRPORT
the bid opening. COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI
er public meeting mandates, 2 BEDROOMS
the pre-bid conference will be
Non-resident contractors bid- held via a teleconference. Pro- 3 BEDROOMS
AIRPORT PAVEMENT REHABIL- spective bidders can dial 1-
ding on this project shall be re- ITATION PROJECTS
LEASE,
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quired to have their Missis- 877-431-8639 (PIN no. 982-

A.I.P. Project No. 3-28-0020- 713-9178) to participate. Parti-
sippi registration complete and 058-2020
a current certificate of respons- cipation in the teleconference DEPOSIT
ibility number issued by the Sealed bids for airfield pave-
is not mandatory, but it is
highly recommended that pro-
AND
State of Mississippi in effect
on the day of the bid opening.
ment improvements to be per-
formed at the Golden Triangle
spective bidders participate in CREDIT CHECK
Any bid submitted in violation the pre-bid teleconference.
Regional Airport will be re-
of this requirement shall be re- ceived at the Airport by Mi-
jected. chael Hainsey, Executive Dir-
Any questions that bidders
might have should be directed
662-329-2323
ector of the Golden Triangle Re- to the airport’s engineering
Additional information may be gional Airport Authority (the consultant, Neel-Schaffer, Inc.,
2411 HWY 45 N
found in Title 31 (Public Busi- Owner), until 1:30 p.m. (Cent-
ness, Bonds and Obligations) ral Daylight Time) on the 11th
Birmingham, Alabama, to the COLUMBUS, MS
of the 2015 Mississippi Code. day of May, 2020, at which attention of Kenneth Gilbert,
One of several public links to project engineer. The engineer
time and place they will be pub- will receive questions related Commercial Property For Rent
that website is as follows: licly opened and read aloud. to this project until 12:00 noon
http://law.justia.com/codes/m The work will be accomplished on May 5, 2020, after which FOR RENT LOCATED NEAR
ississippi/2015/title-31/ additional questions will contin- DOWNTOWN. 3,000 sq. ft.
as one project, with three sep- ue to be accepted, but without
arate and distinct schedules of guarantee it/they will be truck terminal, 9,500 sq.
The proposed project work is work. The first schedule of ft. shop & 3,200 sq. ft.
expected to be within the se- answered before bid opening.
work (Task A) will be that asso- office/shop. Buildings can
cured perimeter of the airfield; ciated with the Runway 18/36 be rented together or
therefore, FAA guidelines for The contract documents
Rehabilitation. The work (basic- (Plans, Specifications, Propos- separately. All w/ excellent
work in Airport Operational ally a “mill and fill” operation)
Areas and in secured airfield al Forms, etc.) may be ex- access & Hwy. 82 visibility.
will take place at night, in or- amined and/or purchased at 662−327−9559.
areas will apply to this project. der to maintain air carrier ser-
Public safety is of utmost con- the following website:
vice during the day. After pav-
cern and the contractor shall ing operations are completed, Houses For Rent: Other
be familiar with traffic control in the runway will be grooved and https://www.neel-schaffer-
work zones where public inter- plans.com
marked in accordance with cur- HOUSE NEAR MUW W/
face will occur. Temporary sig- rent FAA design requirements. APARTMENT. 323 13th St.
nage, barricades, markings, Printed or electronic (pdf) ver-
etc. will comply with guidelines The second schedule of work sions are available to be N. 3 Blks from MUW. LR,
set forth in the federal Manual (Task B) will be that associ- ordered through the website. DR, 2/3BR−3BA, lg den w/
of Uniform Traffic Control The project is posted on the fire place, kitchen, laundry,
ated with the North Apron Re- website as “15573 GTRA Pave-
Devices, latest edition. habilitation, including the outside fenced patio,
ment Rehabilitation Project” screened side porch &
paved access from the parallel
A pre-bid conference for the taxiway eastward to the gate work room & ATTACHED
project is planned for April 23, on the west side of the Airbus Bidder’s attention is invited to APARTMENT: 1BR/1BA,
2020 at 10:30 a.m. Due to Section 100 of the General
manufacturing facility. This Conditions and its referenced living room/kitchenette
COVID-19 “stay at home” and project can be accomplished area. NO HUD. Ref req.
other public meeting man- FAA materials relative to Pre-
during daylight hours. It will be award, Equal Employment Op- Dep req. $1075/mo.
dates, the pre-bid conference a “mill and overlay” project, fol- portunity, and Requirements of
will be held via a teleconfer- 662−386−7506.
lowed by the application of Non-segregated Facilities.
ence. Prospective bidders can pavement markings in a like
dial 1-877-431-8639 (PIN no. configuration as they exist Mobile Homes for Rent
982-713-9178) to participate.
Participation in the teleconfer- accordance with current FAA
Bids must be submitted on the
today. Again, all work will be in Standard Form of Bid Proposal
and the successful bidder will
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Any questions that bidders
might have should be directed
to the airport’s engineering
Find it in the
ated with improvements to the good and may not withdraw his
emergency access road loc- locations. 662−242−7653
bid(s) for a period of sixty (60) or 205−442−2011.
ated at Gate 6 near the calendar days after the sched-
airport’s fuel farm. The work uled closing time for receiving

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Birmingham, Alabama, to the bids. The Authority reserves
daylight hours and will be lim- the right to reject any and all East or West Columbus or
attention of Joshua Stump, ited to the northwest quadrant bids and to waive any and all
project engineer. The engineer of the intersection of the emer- near CAFB, Caledonia
will receive questions related informalities in the best in- schools. 601−940−1397.
gency access road and the loc- terest of the Airport Authority.
to this project until 12:00 noon al county road. This quadrant
on May 5, 2020, after which

SERVICE DIRECTORY
of the intersection needs to be
additional questions will contin- widened to accommodate tract- Dates of Advertisement: April
ue to be accepted, but without or trailer vehicles serving the 12 and 19, 2020
guarantee it/they will be airport. The work will include
answered before bid opening. the extension of an existing
storm pipe and the paving of
The Contract Documents (Spe- the widened shoulder area. Buy, sell, trade,
cifications, Proposal Forms,
etc.) may be examined and/or
Work will be accomplished in or rent.
accordance with current FAA
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For some, making masks is a way to do their part

BY JAN SWOOPE to the nose. But the resourceful Lawrence’s neighbors. “No
jswoope@cdispatch.com Lawrence has also used electric stores had any, and they help us

L
ights on past 2 a.m. at
Debby Lawrence’s home
don’t signal a quaran-
tine-induced Netflix binge.
They indicate instead the east
Lowndes County woman is
at her sewing machine again,
turning out protective masks
as fast as she can. After three
weeks, she’s up to almost 400.
They have gone to her neigh-
bors, to police departments,
911 dispatch offices, chemo-
therapy patients and even oil
rig crews in Louisiana.
Lawrence is among good
Samaritans in the Golden
Triangle making masks to help
curb the spread of COVID-19.
An already-scarce mask supply
on retail shelves became more
acute with recent Centers for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion guidance for everyone to
use face covering when out in
public.
“I’m at home unable to go
anywhere, but I wanted to do
something to help, and I’ve al-
ways sewn,” Lawrence said. “I
started making masks when I
heard they were wanting them
at the hospital to give infusion
patients after treatment.”
Lawrence chose CDC-rec-
ommended mask patterns
using two layers of 100-percent
cotton with a layer of Pellon,
a lightweight interfacing,
between them. She worked at
such a pace, however, she soon
began running short on materi-
als including fabric, elastic and
any type of pliable metal for a
nose guard. That’s when the
cavalry showed up.
Carla Guyton of the Golden
Triangle Planning and De-
velopment District’s Senior
Enrichment Center learned
Lawrence could use a little
help. Gatherings at the center,
like everywhere, are on hold,
but Guyton knew many who
normally visited the facility
quilted and sewed.
Debby Lawrence of Lowndes County makes masks at her sewing
machine Wednesday. To date, she has sewn almost 400 masks to
donate and help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Supply chain
“Debby is just a go-getter
person,” Guyton said. “I contact-
ed ladies I knew
that normally
come here in
different groups
that did crafting,
quilting or sew-
ing. I just sent out
texts, and they
started dropping Guyton
off whatever they
had here at (the center).”
The helpful network did
more than that, however. Some
began washing, ironing and
pre-cutting their spare fabric
into the 10-inch squares needed
for masks.
“Then all I’ve got to do is
zoom-zoom-zoom sewing,” said
Lawrence, who does most of
her work on a Kenmore sewing
machine given to her by a dear
elder friend, Fran Fuqua. An
efficient system of no-contact
drop-offs of materials and
finished masks has been per-
fected. Everything donated is
disinfected before coming into
Courtesy photo
Courtesy photo
A box of Debby Lawrence’s
masks is ready to send out,
complete with instructions for
cleaning and reuse.
Lawrence’s house. Completed
masks are sent out with instruc-
tions for cleaning and reuse.
Elastic, metal for nose pieces
and interfacing have generally
been the hardest components to
resupply.
Sixteen-gauge wire is pre-
ferred for the nose piece, which
lets the wearer shape the mask
fence wire, electrical wire,
soldering wire, even strips cut
from disposable baking pans.
When an order of elastic
Lawrence didn’t expect until
May was delivered Tuesday,
“I was the happiest person! It
was like solid gold. I had hit the
lottery. I’ll be able to go forever
with it,” she said.
Courtesy photo
Banks Stone, 4 1/2 years old,
wears a child-sized mask made
by his grandmother, Diane
Stone. Banks’ parents are Matt
and Leah Stone of Caledonia.
Likewise, a generous supply
of Pellon sent by a son-in-law
made the mask-maker feel like
“it was Christmas.”
And the fabric? Much of it
sports cheerful designs from
florals to flamingos. Some of
those went to the oil rig crew,
via Lawrence’s daughter living
in Louisiana.
“I told her those big, burly oil
workers would just have to get a
grip on the patterns,” Lawrence
laughed.
“I have a great supply of
Pellon now, a great supply of
elastic, and Carla’s keeping the
material coming good,” she
said. “I’ll keep doing this as long
as I have materials and as long
as the need is there.”
“We’re very appreciative,”
said Quana Chandler, one of
feel protected and help protect
others as well.”
Quilters team up
Diane Stone is missing her
“hen house.” That’s what she
and some fellow
quilters call the
Columbus house
they gathered at
every Wednesday
night pre-corona-
virus, to work on
projects. For the
present though, Stone
they sew at home.
They’ve joined the citizen squad
of mask-makers.
“We all decided this would
be something we could do as
a service,” Stone said. “As we
get requests, we fill them, send
them to hospitals, workplaces
and other locations.”
Quilters are famous for
having ample stashes of fabric
on hand. Stone, a long-time
Possum Town Quilter, is no
exception. As of Thursday, she
had made about 70 masks of
100-percent cotton and fleece,
in both adult and children’s
sizes. Some in the group have
made 100 or more, she said.
Like Lawrence’s masks,
many of Stone’s are sewn with
cheerful print fabrics.
“My husband says I’m too
colorful, but I love colors,” Stone
said.
She hopes the current state
of near-isolation brought on by
the novel coronavirus is soon
past, that she and her friends
are back at the hen house, and
that she’s sewing with Possum
Town Quilters at the Columbus
Arts Council most Saturday
mornings.
“Until then, as long as we
hear there’s a need for masks,
we hope to keep it up.”
Editor’s note: If you are
aware of a need for masks, email
reaches Debby Lawrence at
jaghag910@gmail.com, or Diane
Stone at stoned1717@gmail.com.

Former Columbus musician hopes to hit right notes in ‘Bachelor’ spin-off

TV show debuts on ABC Monday night
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com
of Austin, Texas. Within a year,
Ruby Jane had played her first
The reality TV dating show
will follow a cast of single male
and female musicians trying
to “find love through music.”
Contestants will perform songs
Smith, who still has family
in Columbus, also lists per-
forming for all five living U.S.
presidents as a fun fact.
Smith played on Willie

Courtesy photo
Ruby Jane Smith grew up in Co-
lumbus, and now lives in Austin,
Texas. The fiddler, singer and
songwriter is a contestant on “The
Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your
Heart” which premieres on ABC
Monday night at 7 p.m.
A
s a fiddling prodigy
growing up in Colum-
bus, Ruby Jane Smith
was often seen performing
alongside her mentor, Grand
Ole Opry alumnus Jim Brock
of Lamar County, Alabama.
Her prolific love of music was
on display on stages from the
Columbus Arts Council to
regional bluegrass festivals.
At age 10, she was the young-
est invited fiddler to play the
historic Opry in Nashville
herself. In 2007, Ruby Jane
and her mother, JoBelle Smith,
relocated to the music mecca
Austin City Limits Festival,
as a member of Ray Benson’s
Asleep at the Wheel. She was
just 13.
On Monday night at 7 p.m.,
a grown-up Smith steps away
from performing with her indie
pop band, Ruby Jane and the
Reckless, to search for love on
ABC’s “The Bachelor Pres-
ents: Listen to Your Heart.”
The network describes this
latest “Bachelor” spin-off as
a program that “unites two of
the most emotionally powerful
forces in human life: music and
love.”
individually and paired as
couples. Well-known figures in
the music business will judge
musical challenges and live
performances,
“I listened to my heart and
it led me straight to ABC for
the first-ever season of ‘The
Bachelor Presents: Listen to
Your Heart,’ the 25-year-old
Smith posted to Facebook.
Bound by show guidelines, she
was unable to speak with The
Dispatch about the program
in advance. Self-described as
“a Mississippi girl to the bone”
in her Bachelor Nation bio,
Nelson’s Grammy-nominated
“Willie and the Wheel” and
has performed with numer-
ous artists including Lady
Gaga, Blues Traveler, Big and
Rich and Drake Bell. She has
recorded four CDs of her own.
Her 2006 debut album was
titled “Road to Columbus.” In
2005, she won the Mississippi
State Fiddle Championship and
in 2007, Smith won the Daniel
Pearl Memorial Violin award.
“The Bachelor Presents:
Listen to Your Heart” pre-
mieres at 7 p.m. CT Monday
on ABC.

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Dear Abby

D
EAR ABBY: Am I wrong not to
want to attend a baby shower
because my significant oth-
er’s daughter doesn’t give me the
time of day? I have been with her
father for 10 years now, and not
once has this girl ever asked me
to go shopping, have lunch or any-
thing. I have turned the other cheek
when it came to family functions on
my man’s side of the family, but she
refuses to participate in anything
I have. What to do? —SHOWER
SHOULD OR SHOULDN’T
DEAR S.S.O.S.: In all this time,
have you ever asked his daughter
to go shopping with YOU, have
lunch or anything else? Did you receive an invita-
tion to that shower? If you did, it provides a glim-
mer of hope that you can have some
kind of relationship. If you don’t go,
the ice will grow thicker, and it would
be a mistake to let that happen.
DEAR ABBY: I have an etiquette
question. I’m planning an evening
family celebration for our company.
The question of dress code has
been asked multiple times. I find it
perplexing that people are asking.
Unless otherwise specified — i.e.
black tie, semi-formal, business ca-
sual or jacket required — shouldn’t
it be assumed that pretty much
anything goes?
Dear Abby For this party, I expect people
to show up in anything from cut-off
shorts to cocktail dresses. I didn’t
think a dress code was a detail that needed ad-
dressing. Am I wrong? — NO PAJAMAS, PLEASE
DEAR NO PAJAMAS, PLEASE: You are being
asked because there is confusion. Clearly it IS a
detail that needs addressing, and as a consider-
ate host, you should clarify what you expect your
guests to wear.
DEAR ABBY: Widowed after 65 years of a
superb marriage, it was my difficult task to begin
clearing our closet of my wife’s vast array of cloth-
ing and shoes. After a few trips to thrift stores, the
next task was what to do with her jewelry. I came
across a small black felt bag neatly tied with a
small bow. Inside were her wedding band and
diamond engagement ring. I set them aside.
On the date of our next anniversary, I asked a
jeweler to combine my band with her rings. It took
a month to complete, and some gold was added.
The result was a magnificent piece with the small,
but many-faceted stone inset. It cost me nearly
$1,000, but I haven’t regretted it for one moment.
My advice to others: Consider it. Don’t hesitate.
(I’m twisting the ring as I write this.) — RING OF
TRUTH IN TEXAS
DEAR RING: Please accept my sympathy
for the loss of your dearly beloved wife. How
fortunate you were to have her for 65 years. I’m
pleased that wearing the combined symbols of
your commitment to each other brings you com-
fort and pleasure. Thank you for suggesting this to
my readers.
TO MY READERS: I wish you all a very happy
Easter. — LOVE, ABBY
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was found-
ed by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,
Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April
12). The space between a private
and public self is deeply personal.
You decide what you want people
to know. You write your story and
present it however you please. You’ll
have fun with this, using it as an
opportunity for creativity, empower-
ment and drawing lucky people and
situations to you as you thrive on
every front. Aquarius and Leo adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 2, 20,
17, 4 and 19.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Lots
of people are thinking of you. Keep
up with relationships, as the bene-
fits of staying social will far outweigh
any inconvenience you endure trying
to get together.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Life’s path may be smooth, but
people can stumble over even the
smoothest of surfaces. Pause.
Regroup. And make some decisions
about the course ahead.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
You’ll focus less on you and more
on them. You’re unconcerned with
rewards. The good you bring others
far outweighs any charge to the ego.
Their well-being is compensation
enough.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
You’ll decide to do more because
you know that some people will
decide to do less. In some ways you
really will be able to make up the
difference by maintaining your higher
standards of excellence.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The
drive to succeed is often fueled by
feelings of inferiority. At least it’s
nice to know that the same adversity
that wounds and scars can be put to
good use as powerful motivation.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
You’ll compartmentalize well. Life
becomes a mental balancing act.
You can do this for a time but not
indefinitely. Employ your favorite re-
laxation to get relief from the mind’s
gymnastics.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your
instinct to morally decide what’s
wrong and right may be challenged
by those who give priority to what
works and what makes things easier.
This could cause a quandary.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
There’s the one who witnesses your
emotions when no one else seems
to. That person is special to you.
Not a lot has to pass between you in
order for everything to be shared.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You prize loyalty, and you also
want people to be honest with you.
These two ideals have the potential
to clash, prompting you to wonder
which you would choose if you could
only choose one.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
It takes restraint, but you’ll wisely be
very specific about what you say and
when you say it. Often you’ll decide
to say nothing at all, which will ulti-
mately be a power move.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
Your altruism is going strong. There
are those who are inclined to take
advantage of kindness, but that
doesn’t matter to you. You’re not
motivated by external reward. Your
actions are all that count.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
Being easily influenced becomes
a positive quality when you’re in a
stellar crowd, when your influences
are people of exemplary character
and remarkable talent.
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