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3 injured in wreck, including 2 MSU football players

Two victims still in critical One of the football players in the car
was flown to University of Mississippi Three
people, in-
condition, third person Medical Center in Jackson and is in crit-
ical condition, OCH Regional Medical cluding two
Mississippi
treated and released Center Emergency Services Director
Michael Hunt said. The second football
State foot-
ball players,
Dispatch Staff Report player was treated at OCH for his inju- were in-
ries and released. jured Tues-
Three people, including two Missis- The third person in the car was flown day evening
sippi State University football players, to North Mississippi Medical Center in after the
were injured Tuesday evening in a wreck Tupelo and is in critical condition, Hunt vehicle they
on Highway 25 south of Starkville. said. were in col-
Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Depart- Hunt did not release the names of any- lided with
the rear of
ment, OCH Regional Medical Center one involved in the accident.
a trac-
and the District 5 Volunteer Fire Depart- MSU Athletics spokesperson Bill tor-trailer
ment responded at 6:07 p.m. to a car col- Martin said this morning he is aware of on Highway
liding with the rear of a tractor-trailer, the wreck but that the university is still 25 south of
county fire services coordinator Kirk gathering information on the details. He Starkville.
Rosenhan said. also did not identify the players involved. Courtesy photo/Oktibbeha County Fire Services

CATCHING THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT Aldermen

approve unified
code rewrite
Sistrunk: ‘If it were
left to me, we’d do a
little bit more’
By Tess Vrbin
tvrbin@cdispatch.com

Aldermen voted
6-1 Tuesday to ap-
prove the city’s up-
dated unified devel-
opment code that had
been in the works for
almost three years.
The city planning
department present- Sistrunk
ed five drafts of the code in the
past few months and made chang-
es based on public feedback. A few
citizens said at Tuesday’s public
hearing before the vote that they
still believed the code needed im-
provements but commended the
planning department for the work
its members put into it.
Ward 2 Alderman Sandra
Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
Sistrunk was the sole dissenter on
Columbus Lowndes Public Library employees Nicole Minor, Kimberly Duncan, Tanaka Johnson, Tori Hopper, Kathryn Pearson the board. She said some aspects
and Mona Vance-Ali talk in front of the library’s Christmas tree while waiting to for director Erin Busbea to announce the win- of the code were too flexible for her
ner of their informal Christmas sweater contest Tuesday afternoon. Minor won the competition. See Aldermen, 3A

CMSD pays $370K in TIPP

bonuses to teachers, staff
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
ialtman@cdispatch.com
COLUMBUS —
Columbus Munici-
pal School District
has paid teachers
and staff more
than $370,000 in
incentives in the
first year of the Labat
Teacher Incentive
Pay Plan.
CMSD Board of Trustee mem-
bers voted in 2018 to adopt the
TIPP program to provide bonus-
es for faculty and staff members
of improving and high-perform-
ing schools, as well as bonus
incentives for math and science
teachers. Those first checks
have come in this month.
During a celebration at Joe
Cook Elementary Tuesday for
district employees who received
the bonuses, Superintendent
Cherie Labat credited the board
for showing the employees how
much they value their achieve-
ments.
“We value all of our employees
and we think that events like this
are very significant to contin-
ue to enhance the culture,” she Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
said. “... The board of trustees’ MERCY HOUSE ART: Donny Flaherty, right, and Chance Durant, second from right, pitch
progressive mindset in making hand-crafted wall art to Rachel Breakfield, an employee at 929 Coffee Bar in Starkville on
Tuesday afternoon. Both men have participated in Mercy House Adult and Teen Challenge, a
sure that we value our employees nonprofit Christian rehabilitation program in Georgetown, Mississippi, funded by the sale of
is just very important.” wall art from Cross Depot. Durant said he served 12 years in the state penitentiary and felt
Faculty and staff members at lost in his addiction to drugs, and Flaherty said he was “crying out to Jesus from a solitary
See CMSD, 8A confinement cell” after he was involved with gangs and drugs in Jackson.

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What to watch as Trump impeachment moves to House floor

New polls from The Washington
Post/ABC News and CNN find support removal
for impeachment and removal
remains at about half of Americans
By LAURIE KELLMAN
The Associated Press
WA S H -
INGTON
— Ameri-
can history
is happen-
ing on the
House floor.
Demo-
crats are Trump
driving President Donald
Trump to the brink of im-
peachment Wednesday
when they bring abuse
and obstruction charges
against him to a full House
vote. That could take place
early Wednesday evening,
making the 45th president
only the third commander
in chief to face that penalty.
But first, watch for a
daylong showdown that’s
been boiling for years be-
tween Republicans loyal
to Trump and Democrats
who say his conduct to-
ward Ukraine makes him
unfit for office. Look, too,
for legacy moments for
Washington’s political vet-
erans on the eve of the
2020 election year.
What to watch during a
historic day on Capitol Hill
that begins at 9 a.m. EST
and is expected to end
with a final vote between
6:30 and 7:30 p.m.:
Spoiler alert
Trump is heading for
impeachment. When the
House opens debate, the
outcome will have been
known for some time.
A tally compiled by The
Associated Press found
that a majority of House
members have said they
will vote to approve the
charges and send them to
the Senate for a trial next
month.
News and CNN find sup- Pelosi
port for impeachment and
It’s legacy time for her,
remains at about too.
half of Americans.
In her second turn as
speaker, the House vet-
‘Profound disgrace’ eran of more than three
Impeachment will sub- decades says relentless-
The GOP-led Senate
is not expected to convict
and remove Trump from
office.
Partisans, mostly
Expect most Demo-
crats to vote for impeach-
ment and all Republicans
to vote against it.
But there are excep-
tions.
One freshman Dem-
ocrat, Jeff Van Drew of
New Jersey, has indicated
he will oppose impeach-
ment, then switch parties
to become a Republican.
Earlier this year, Michigan
conservative Rep. Justin
Amash left the GOP when
he favored impeachment.
He is expected to vote yes
to impeach.
One new Democratic
congressman, Jared Gold-
en of Maine, said he would
vote to impeach on abuse
of power but not obstruc-
tion.
Americans
Expect the House to
take the nation’s us-vs-
them political culture out
for a spin before a glob-
al audience. But it’s not
clear the proceedings are
changing many minds.
Trump’s approval rat-
ings have held steady since
a whistleblower report
and a partial transcript re-
vealed he had pressured
Ukraine’s president to in-
vestigate Democrats.
Wide shares of Demo-
crats both disapprove of
the president and support
impeachment, while wide
shares of Republicans ap-
prove of Trump and want
him to remain in office.
New polls from The
Washington Post/ABC
ject Trump to what former
Presidents Gerald Ford
and Jimmy Carter called
a “profound disgrace”
that stains a president’s
legacy forever. Only two
presidents have been im-
peached: Andrew Johnson
in 1868 and Bill Clinton in
1998.
Richard Nixon chose to
resign instead.
Trump has mocked the
articles of impeachment as
weak.
Trump’s day
He’s heading to Michi-
gan, the Democratic state
he flipped in 2016. Vice
President Mike Pence is
on a bus tour across the
state and expected to join
Trump at the rally in Bat-
tle Creek.
On the eve of the floor
action, Trump gave a near-
ly six-page preview of his
approach in a rambling let-
ter to House Speaker Nan-
cy Pelosi. in which he cast
himself as a victim and
accused the Democrats of
smarting over their elec-
tion losses. “You are the
ones bringing pain and
suffering to our Republic
for your own selfish, per-
sonal political and partisan
gain.”
of the two amendments,
the House is expected to
to begin in January, with
Chief Justice John Rob-
authorize Pelosi to name
a team of prosecutors
erts presiding.
Senate Majority Lead-
for the Senate trial. Lob- er Mitch McConnell and
bying for the jobs is well Minority Leader Chuck
underway. The wagering Schumer have begun ne-
ly that impeachment is begins with the two lead gotiating, and sniping,
House impeachment over how the trial will be
a somber time, not one
chairmen, Adam Schiff of conducted.
for celebration. She says
Intelligence and Jerrold McConnell set the par-
the Clinton impeachment
Nadler of Judiciary, play- tisan tone by declaring
proceedings were too
divisive for the county ing roles. that he’s “not an impartial
and resisted opening im- The trial is expected juror.”
peachment proceedings
against President George
W. Bush after the Iraq
War.
She refused to launch
impeachment proceed-
ings against Trump over
his obstruction of the
Russia investigation, say-
ing she’d be against do-
ing so unless there was
bipartisan sentiment for
it.
That still doesn’t exist
for the impeachment arti-
cles now headed for pas-
sage. But Pelosi has said
Trump’s conduct toward
Ukraine, while holding up
military aid to that coun-
try, left her no choice.
“Very sadly, the facts
have made clear that the
President abused his
power for his own person-
al, political benefit and
that he obstructed Con-
gress,” Pelosi wrote to
colleagues. “In America,
no one is above the law.”
Next stop: Senate
After votes on each

House passes $1.4T

government spending
bill amid impeachment
Spending legislation would forestall a
government shutdown this weekend
and give Trump steady funding for his
U.S.-Mexico border fence
By ANDREW TAYLOR
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Democratic-contr olled
H o u s e
v o t e d Inside
T u e s d a y n LEGISLATION:
Bill to raise
to pass a tobacco age has
$1.4 tril- unlikely allies:
lion gov- Altria, Juul.
er nment Page 7A
spending
package, handing Presi-
dent Donald Trump a vic-
tory on his U.S.-Mexico
border fence while giving
Democrats spending in-
creases across a swath of
domestic programs.
The hard-fought legis-
lation also funds a record
Pentagon budget and is
serving as a must-pass leg-
islative locomotive to tow
an unusually large haul of
unrelated provisions into
law, including an expen-
sive repeal of Obama-era
taxes on high-cost health
plans, help for retired coal
miners, and an increase
from 18 to 21 in the na-
tionwide legal age to buy
tobacco products.
The two-bill package,
some 2,371 pages long
after additional tax pro-
visions were folded in on
Tuesday morning, was un-
veiled Monday afternoon
and adopted less than 24
hours later as lawmakers
prepared to wrap up reams
of unfinished work against
a backdrop of Wednes-
day’s vote on impeaching
Trump.
The House first passed
a measure funding domes-
tic programs on a 297-120
vote. But one-third of the
Democrats defected on a
280-138 vote on the second
bill, which funds the mili-
tary and the Department of
Homeland Security, mostly
because it funds Trump’s
border wall project.
The spending legisla-
tion would forestall a gov-
ernment shutdown this
weekend and give Trump
steady funding for his
U.S.-Mexico border fence,
a move that frustrated His-
panic Democrats and par-
ty liberals. The year-end
package is anchored by a
$1.4 trillion spending mea-
sure that caps a difficult,
monthslong battle over
spending priorities.
The mammoth measure
made public Monday takes
a split-the-differences ap-
proach that’s a product of
divided power in Wash-
ington, offering lawmak-
ers of all stripes plenty to
vote for — and against.
House Speaker Nancy Pe-
losi, D-Calif., was a driving
force, along with adminis-
tration pragmatists such as
Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin, who negotiated
the summertime budget
deal that it implements.
The White House said
Tuesday that Trump will
sign the measure.

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Man freed on bond after 22 years still faces legal battle

‘If (the charges) are not dismissed, we will
be ready for a seventh trial, at which we fully
believe Curtis Flowers will be found not guilty’
Mississippi Center for Justice attorney Rob McDuff
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — A Mississippi
man freed on bond after more
than 22 years behind bars is
spending the holidays with his
family and waiting to hear wheth-
er a prosecutor will try him a sev-
enth time in a quadruple murder
case.
The next steps in Curtis Flow-
ers’ legal saga could take months:
■ Flowers’ attorneys will ask a
judge to dismiss the 1997 capital
murder indictments that he still
faces in the 1996 shooting deaths
of four people at a furniture store
in Winona.
■ The district attorney, Doug
Evans, could either push forward
with a seventh prosecution of
Flowers or agree with defense at-
torneys’ request and ask a judge
to dismiss the existing charges.
■ Evans could ask the state
attorney general’s office to pros-
ecute the case. It’s rare, though,
for the attorney general to take
on a local case. And, Mississippi
will have a new attorney general
in January because the current
one did not seek a fifth term in
this year’s elections.
■ Attorneys for both sides
could discuss whether Flowers
should plead guilty, although that
scenario appears unlikely. One of
Flowers’ attorneys, Rob McDuff
of the Mississippi Center for Jus-
tice, said the defense team will
file papers in the new year, ask-
ing a judge to dismiss all charges.
“If they are not dismissed, we
will be ready for a seventh trial,
at which we fully believe Curtis
Flowers will be found not guilty,”
McDuff said Monday after the
bond hearing at the Montgomery
County Courthouse.
The U.S. Supreme Court over-
turned Flowers’ 2010 conviction
in June of this year, saying pros-
ecutors had shown an unconsti-
tutional pattern of excluding Afri-
can American jurors in the trials
of Flowers, who is black.
Flowers walked out of a jail
Monday, accompanied by his
attorneys and two of his sisters,
soon after a judge set his bond at
$250,000. An anonymous donor
gave money to cover 10 percent
of the bond amount, which is
standard.
Even though his latest convic-
tion was overturned, Flowers had
remained jailed because he is
still under the 1997 indictments.
Those killed at the Tardy Fur-
niture store in 1996 were own-
er Bertha Tardy, 59, and three
employees: 45-year-old Carmen
Rigby, 42-year-old Robert Golden
and 16-year-old Derrick “Bobo”
Stewart.
Flowers, now 49, was convict-
ed four times — twice for indi-
vidual killings and twice for the
killings of all four people. Each of
the convictions was overturned
because of mistakes by prosecu-
tors. There were also two mistri-
als.
An American Public Media
podcast, “In the Dark” raised
questions about the case last
year. During the bond hearing
Monday, McDuff played an ex-
cerpt from one of the podcast
interviews. In it, a witness from
a previous trial said he had given
false testimony against Flowers
to try to cut a better deal for him-
self as he faced charges in an un-
related case.
The district attorney, Evans,
did not immediately respond to
a call from The Associated Press
on Tuesday about whether he
will try Flowers a seventh time. A
person who took a message said
Evans was out of the office.
Evans did not respond in court
papers to defense attorneys’ re-
quest that the judge set bond for
Flowers, and Evans did not ap-
pear in court Monday. Instead, he
sent an assistant district attorney
who argued against bond. The
lack of communication drew a re-
buke from Circuit Judge Joseph
Loper, who said the prosecution
would “reap the whirlwind” if it
continued to ignore court orders.

Starkville man charged with attempted murder

DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
A Starkville man
accused in a Sunday
morning shooting was
arrested Tuesday on sev-
eral charges, including
attempted murder.
Jessie Carpenter, 39,
is also charged with pos-
session of a 2:50 a.m. Sunday to re- County Jail on $500,000
stolen fire- ports of a shooting victim bond for the attempted
arm and at OCH Regional Medical murder. He will receive
possession Center, according to the bonds on the other two
of a weapon press release. The victim charges at municipal
by a felon. was treated and has been court this afternoon,
Author - released. SPD Public Information
ities re- Carpenter Carpenter is currently Officer Brandon Lovela-
sponded at in custody at Oktibbeha dy said.

Aldermen
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taste, but she knew her
vote wouldn’t impact the
outcome.
“Tonight is one of
those rare cases where I
get to be idealistic and not
have to worry about being
pragmatic,” Sistrunk said.
The code rewrite be-
gan in 2017 with the goal
of modernizing develop-
ment in Starkville, and
it includes goals the city
adopted in its comprehen-
sive plan in 2016. Much of
the 436-page code did not
change, but many of the
zoning districts that dic-
tate land use throughout
the city will change either
in name or in purpose.
The most controversial
aspect of the public dis-
cussion of the code was
a proposed set of restric-
tions on short-term rent-
als, such as Airbnbs, in
single-family residential
areas. Those in favor of
the proposal said it would
help preserve the safety
and integrity of residential
neighborhoods, and those
against said short-term
in nature of the neigh-
borhood or surrounding
property, but there’s not
been any change to this
area,” Stewart said.
The city did not ade-
quately notify him and
neighboring property
owners that the land was
being rezoned, Stewart
said.
Leah Ellis expressed
the same concern, and
she and Loren Bell both
said the city needed to
make sure the public was
more familiar with the
code before voting on it.
“I urge you to slow
down just a little bit and
pump the brakes and
let people know exactly
what’s in this 400-some-
thing-page document
that’s been out a week,”
Bell said.
The city has met the
minimum requirements
for notifying the public
about the code, but not
everyone pays close at-
tention or has access to
a computer, and some as-
portion of the city as op-
tional districts. Much of
the land was previously
zoned as general busi-
ness or high-density,
multi-family residential.
Developers who want to
build in optional districts
must present to the city a
“conceptual master plan”
for how the land will be
used, according to section
3 of the code.
The land can be des-
ignated commercial, in-
dustrial, conservation
or traditional neighbor-
hood, and developers will
not have to go through
the costly rezoning pro-
cess, a change that was
made within the past two
months.
The area was annexed
into the city in 1998, and
it has not developed as
quickly as some potential
developers had hoped,
mainly because of a lack
of infrastructure like wa-
ter and power, Bell told
The Dispatch.
“I think that’s a poor
choice for our city to an-
making deliveries, pick-
ups, or otherwise actively
in use and in which its pri-
mary purpose is some use
other than advertising,”
according to page 251 of
the code.
Ward 3 Alderman Da-
vid Little said the code
is “good planning” and
will help the city avoid
over-developing certain
areas.
“I’ve seen what’s hap-
pened on the south side
of town, on South Mont-
gomery, where everyone
comes out with gloves out
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rentals are economically
beneficial to the city and
property owners should
be able to use their land
however they choose.
The proposal was re-
vised 17 times and ulti-
mately tabled at the Dec.
3 meeting when several
aldermen and members of
the public said it was un-
fair not to consider regula-
tions on long-term rentals
as well. The board voted
5-2 to postpone the vote
on the proposal that had
been scheduled for Tues-
day’s meeting and would
have added the ordinance
to the new city code. The
revival of the issue is up to
the board’s discretion and
could happen at any time
or not at all, Mayor Lynn
Spruill said earlier this
month.
pects of the code haven’t
been discussed publicly,
like the allowed uses of
the land near the medi-
cal facilities on Hospital
Road, Ellis said.
“I think you’re going to
have more unhappy peo-
ple if you pass it tonight,”
she said.
One regular point of
public feedback on the
code came from the re-
zoning of the northwest
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nex property and then not you’ve done, and I think
develop it,” he said. it’s far more right than not
right.”
‘Far more right than
not right’
Other changes to the
code include the imple-
mentation of an architec-
ture review board, tree
protection guidelines
and prohibition of vehicle
signs unless “the vehi-
cle is actively engaged in

Concerns from
the public
Thomas Stewart, own-
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teacher with Aliceville and Vera Winford Peav- Pallbearers will be
Middle School and and Albert Lee; sis- Estalene Hayden ler. She was formerly Robbie Taylor, Andrew
Aliceville High School. ter, Cora Lee; and a NOXUBEE — Es- employed with NBC Eaves, Jeremy Taylor,
She was also a profes- host of grandchildren, talene “Esta” Peavler Bank in Brooksville. Forrest Eaves, Josh
sor at Bevill State Com- great-grandchildren Hayden, 84, died Dec. In addition to her Hayden, Robert King,
munity College and as and great-great-grand- 16, 2019, at her resi- parents, she was pre- Vic Scott and Kenny
a member of Aliceville children. dence. ceded in death by her Wright.
First United Methodist Graveside services husband, Bill Hayden; Memorials may be
Church. Tessie Cunningham will be at 11 a.m. Friday and stepmother, Lucy made to the United Way
In addition to her NICEVILLE, Fla. — at Bethesda Baptist Peavler. of Lowndes County,
parents, she was Tessie Louise Hallmark Church, with the Rev. She is survived by P.O. Box 266, Colum-
preceded in death by Cunningham, 93, died Russell Mord, Dr. her son, William Leslie bus, MS 39703.
her husband, William Dec. 17, 2019, in Nicev- Mitch Bradshaw and
Hardy “Bill” Hudgins; ille, Florida. Allen Dees officiating.
and brother, Joe Frank Services will be Visitation will be from
Stewart Jr. at 11 a.m. Friday at 4-6 p.m. Thursday at
She is survived by Tisdale-Lann Memorial Cockrell Funeral Home
her son, Bart Hudgins Chapel. Burial will fol- and one hour prior to
of Aliceville; brother, low at Oddfellows Rest
John Samuel Stewart;
Cemetery. Visitation
four grandchildren; and will be from 9:30-11
one great-grandchild. a.m. prior to services
at the funeral home.
Betty Petty Tisdale-Lann Memo-
WEST POINT — rial Funeral Home of
Betty Mae Petty, 82, Aberdeen is in charge
died Dec. 9, 2019, at of arrangements.
Baptist Memorial Hos- Mrs. Cunningham
pital-Golden Triangle. was born Aug. 23, 1926,
Services will be at in Fayette County, to
noon Thursday at Third the late Felix and Susie
Mt. Olive M.B. Church, Hallmark. She was Glenn Rickman
with the Rev. Randy L. formerly employed with Visitation:
Wednesday, Dec. 18 • 6-8 PM
Conley Jr. officiating. Hamilton Auto Parts Thursday, Dec. 19 • 1-2 PM
Burial will follow at and was a member of College St. Location
Siloam/Mhoon Valley the Church of Christ. Services:
Thursday, Dec. 19 • 2 PM
Cemetery. Visitation is In addition to her College St. Location
from 2-5 p.m. today at parents, she was pre- Burial
Furnace Hill Cemetery
Carter’s Mortuary Ser- ceded in death by her Vernon, AL
vices Chapel. Carter’s husband, James Denton
Mortuary Services of Cunningham; and five Pat Robertson
West Point is in charge siblings. Memorial Service:
She is survived Friday, Dec. 20 • 2 PM
of arrangements. Stateline Baptist Church
Mrs. Petty was born by her sons, Denton 2nd Ave. North Location
July 1, 1937, in Clay Hall Cunningham of
Westlake, Louisiana,

Leila Hudgins
ALICEVILLE, Ala.
— Leila Mae Hudgins,
79, died Dec. 16, 2019,
at Pickens County
Medical Center in Car-
Ina Walters
County, to the late Wil-
liam Lee Sr. and Bertha and James Gregory
memorialgunterpeel.com
Burts Lee. Cunningham of Nicev-
In addition to her ille; daughters, Janis
Cunningham McCoy of Ina Webb Walters passed away on Monday, De-
parents, she was cember 16, 2019, at the age of 74. A life-long citizen
preceded in death by Tupelo and Polla Cun-
of Columbus, she was born on April 28, 1945, to the
her husband, Jimmy D.

Joy Hurt Peters

rollton.
Services will be at
10 a.m. Thursday at
Aliceville First United
Methodist Church.
Burial will follow at
Franconia Cemetery.
Visitation will be one
hour prior to services,
with Tim Alexander
officiating. Dowdle Fu-
neral Home of Millport
is in charge of arrange-
ments.
late John DeWitt and Peggy Ellis Webb. Visitation
Petty Sr.; and siblings, will be at Lowndes Funeral Home on Thursday, De-
William Lee Sr., Gar- cember 19 from 4:30-6:30 PM. Graveside services
field Lee, Frank Lee will be at Beersheba Cumberland Presbyterian
Sr., Rowena L. Thomp- Joy Hurt Peters, 84, of Columbus, MS, passed
away, at her residence in Columbus, MS. Cemetery on Friday, December 20 at 10:30 AM.
son, Johnny Lee and Ina graduated in 1963 from S.D. Lee High School
Mary A. Lee Sample. A funeral is planned for Thursday, December 19,
2019, at 11:00 AM at First Baptist Church, Macon, and attended Mississippi State College for Women.
She is survived by As a child, she developed her passion for animals by
her daughters, Betty MS. Interment will follow in Sardis Cemetery in
Winston County, MS. A visitation will be held at the taking care of her father’s hunting beagles. Known
Jean Rogers, Doris as the “Goat Lady of South Lehmberg”, she could
Petty Cooperwood, church one hour prior to the service on Thursday.
Memorials may be made to Alabama Head Injury always be found outside with her goats and don-
Carolyn A. Petty Cole- keys, or her cats and dogs, or her geese, or her flying
man, Kathleen Petty Foundation, 500 Chase Park South, Hoover, AL
35244.Active pallbearers will be Micky Hurt, Gary squirrels, or her chickens, or her turkeys, or…what-
Cummings, Jeanette ever animal someone dropped off by her house.
A. Petty Rupert, all of Hurt, Mark Hurt, David Randle, Cal Phillips and
Gary Hadaway.Honorary pallbearers will be Mamie Many people said they wished they could live as
Lowery, Miranda Sherrod, Satoya Stewart and Dr. one of her pets because she took such good care of

Glenn Rickman
Glenn Everett Rickman, age 63,
died Sunday, December 15, 2019,
at the University of Alabama Bir-
mingham Medical Center.
Services will be held Thursday,
December 19, 2019, at 2:00 PM
at the 903 College Street Chapel
of Memorial Gunter Peel Funer-
al Home, with Rev. Mike Smith
officiating. Burial will follow at
Furnace Hill Cemetery, Vernon AL. Visitation will be
held Wednesday December 18, 2019, from 6:00 until
8:00 PM, and again Thursday, one hour prior to ser-
vice, at the College Street location. Memorial Gunt-
er Peel Funeral Home and Crematory, College Street
location, has been entrused with the arrangements.
Glenn was born on Thursday, March 29, 1956, in
Columbus, MS, to the late Edward Raiford and Ollie
Mae Corbell Rickman.
Glenn was a 1975 graduate of Central Academy
and a 1981 graduate at the University of Alabama
Birmingham. He was a Respiratory Therapist, hav-
ing worked at the Winfield Hospital, Princeton Med-
ical Center, Birmingham, UAB, and Baptist Memorial
Hospital, Columbus, and was co-owner of Oxycare
Plus. He enjoyed spending time with his children
and grandchildren, was an avid skeet shooter win-
ning many trophies and awards, and enjoyed fish-
ing and hunting.
Survivors include his wife, Anita Reid Rickman,
Caledonia, MS; daughters, Heather Swetz (Michael),
West Point, MS and Elaina Rickman (Wesley Shay
Pierce), Caledonia, MS; brother, Don Rickman (Sue),
Echola, AL; grandchildren, Laney Karg, Rivers Pierce,
Kelsie Pierce, Haven Swetz and Bailey Swetz.
Serving as pallbearers will be Matthew Corbell,
Pat Madison, D.J. Rickman, Clark Hartness, Danny
Holocher, Brian Berry, Ricky Hutchinson and Glen
Frazier.
Honorary Pallbearers will Willie Taylor, Dr. Jack
Reed, Dr. Ana Bonetti, Dr. Robin McCarthy, Starkville
Gun Club and Oxycare Plus Employees.
Memorials may be made to Pulmonary Fibrosis
Foundation, 811 Evergreen Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Sign the online guest book at
www.memorialgunterpeel.com
903 College Street • Columbus, MS
Anne Haire.
Cockrell Funeral Home of Macon is honored to
be entrusted with arrangements.
Joy Hurt Peters was born on July 17, 1935, to the
late Hampton and Mabel Wilson Hurt, in Louisville,
MS, and was a graduate of Ellison Ridge High School.
During her senior year of high school, she was
crowned “Queen of the Forest” for the East Central
District of the annual Meridian District Fair, and she
went on to represent her county in the national
competition in Chicago, IL. Joy attended the
Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus,
MS for a period of time, and then began her career
as a telephone operator for South Central Bell
Telephone in Macon. When the Macon office was
closed, she transferred to the Columbus, MS office,
and eventually moved up to Telecommunications
Manager there. She then transferred to Jackson and
continued her career. She retired from AT&T there
after 30 years of combined service. Joy’s youngest
son, Michael, was severely injured in an automobile
accident, and this marked what Joy considered to
be the most rewarding accomplishment of her
life: being able to be a caregiver for her son for
27 years, until she was no longer able to do so.
Having moved to Daphne, AL, where she cared
for her son, she founded and was director of the
Daphne area Traumatic Brain Injury Support group.
Through her efforts with the organization, she was
instrumental in getting others with traumatic brain
injuries involved in recreational activities. She was
at her son’s side throughout his rehab in Texas and
Alabama and made sure that he received the best
of care available. Joy was a member of the East
Lake Baptist Church in Daphne, AL and of the Junior
Auxiliary in Macon, MS. She was an avid bridge
player and enjoyed hosting parties at her home. In
2017, being no longer able to care for Michael, she
moved to Columbus to be nearer to her eldest son,
Johnny.
Mrs. Peters is preceded in death by her parents;
sister, Elton Glasgow; twin brother, Roy Hurt, who
died at age 4; brothers, John Hurt, Howard Hurt,
Morris Hurt, Lamar Hurt, Zeno Hurt, Elon Hurt; and
two infant siblings.
Her survivors include her two sons, Johnny Peters
of Columbus and Michael Roy Peters of Richmond
Hill, GA; granddaughter, Leah Peters of Hattiesburg,
MS; grandsons, Ryan (Amy) Peters of Richmond
Hill, GA and David Randle (Emily) of Madison, MS;
four great-grandchildren, Anna, Warren, and Olivia
Peters and David Finley Randle; and one sister, Tiny
Meadows Gentry.
Paid Obituary - Cockrell Funeral Home
them. Ina fostered hundreds of animals through the
years and would often keep many which she feared
would never be adopted.
As a seamstress, Ina “stitched memories” when
she sewed hundreds of beautiful wedding dresses.
Many Saturday nights would find her seated on the
couch with a white dress, a needle, thread, and a
bowl of tiny pearls which she would attach by hand
to create a bride’s wedding dream. In addition to
working as a seamstress, Ina worked for the Missis-
sippi Probation Service for 10 years, the MUW Fant
Memorial Library for 4 years, and drove a school
bus for the Columbus Municipal School District for
10 years. She was involved in many organizations
including Beta Sigma Phi, Lowndes County Repub-
lican Women, Columbus Arts Council, Daughters of
the American Revolution, Columbus Lowndes Hu-
mane Society, Columbus Lowndes Friends of the
Library, and the Lowndes County Republican Ex-
ecutive Committee. She also served as an officer in
many of these organizations.
Ina was a wonderful mother, but it was the role of
“Grandma” that she truly enjoyed. For her grandchil-
dren and great-grandchildren, she tirelessly sewed
clothing and costumes for dress-up and plays, cart-
ed her menagerie of animals to their schools for
show-and-tell, carried them to Broadway musicals,
traveled with them to educational destinations
such as Washington, D.C., and attended countless
athletic events to watch them play. She strongly
encouraged civic, political, and community respon-
sibility and leadership in her grandchildren through
her volunteerism and involvement.
Ina is survived by her loving husband of 54 years,
Clinton Lawrence Walters; son, Mark Walters (De-
nise) of Columbus; daughter, Melissa Price (Mike) of
Columbus; son, David Walters (Elizabeth) of Smyrna,
TN; sister, Gabie Smith (Greg) of Columbus; brother,
Jack Webb (Marie) of Northport, AL; grandchildren,
Blaine Walters (Corie), Webb Price (Anna Grace),
Hannah Miller (James), Macy Walters, Clay Walters
of Columbus, Jackson Walters, Garrett Walters, Is-
abelle Walters, Sarah Goad, and Spencer Goad of
Smyrna, TN; great-grandchildren, Ella Miller, John
Webb Miller, Vivian Miller, Connor Price, and South
Walters of Columbus; niece, Jessica McDill (Brad);
and great-nephew, Jacob McDill of Columbus.
In lieu of flowers, Ina’s family wishes to honor her
love for animals by asking that donations be made
to the Columbus Lowndes Humane Society, 50 Air-
line Road, Columbus, MS 39702 or www.clhumane-
society.org.
Compliments of
Lowndes Funeral Home
www.lowndesfuneralhome.net
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Wednesday, December 18, 2019 5A

News about town

CLUBS
n AARP COLUMBUS
AARP meets the first Wednesday of each
month at 10 a.m. in the Community Room
of Regions Bank, Main Street, Columbus.
Programs are geared to the needs and
interests of seniors 50 and up. For more
information, call 662-889-9496.
n AARP STARKVILLE
AARP Starkville meets the first Thursday of
each month at 10 a.m. in the Community
Room of Cadence Bank, West Main Street,
Starkville. Speaker will be Richard Hark-
ness with MSU Department of Plant and
Soil Science. For information, call Eileen
Carr-Tabb, 662-312-3431.
n EAST LIONS CLUB
The Columbus East Lions Club meets
every second and fourth Monday of the
month at 65 Airline Road. For more infor-
mation, call 662-549-3421 or 662-574-
7552.
n HOST LIONS CLUB
The Columbus Host Lions Club meets
every Friday at noon at EMCC Lion Hills
Center for a buffet lunch and business
gathering.
n POSSUM TOWN TOASTMASTERS
Possum Town Toastmasters meet every
Friday at 7 a.m. at the Church of Christ,
Columbus. To become a better communi-
cator and leader, call 662-549-3483.
n POSSUM TOWN QUILTERS
Possum Town Quilters meet at 9:30 a.m.
the second and fourth Saturdays of each
month at the Rosenzweig Arts Center (low-
er level), 501 Main St., Columbus. Check
us out at possumtownquilters.blogspot.
com.
n LOWNDES REPUBLICAN WOMEN
Lowndes County Republican Women meets
the second Tuesday of each month at
the Lion Hills Center, 2331 Military Road.
Buffet line opens at 11:15 a.m., with call
to order at noon.
n GT QUILTERS GUILD
The Golden Triangle Quilters Guild meets
at 5:30 p.m. every third Thursday at the
Starkville Sportsplex Activities Building.
■ BREAKFAST WITH THE BULLDOGS
MSU alumni, friends are invited to Break-
fast with the Bulldogs on second Thurs-
days each month at Starkville Café. Dutch
treat breakfast 7:30 a.m. Contact Carol
Moss Read at carolmoss@bellsouth.net or
662-312-0637.
n TOPS
Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. 288 meets
Tuesdays at Community Baptist Church,
Yorkville Road East, Columbus. Weigh-in
begins at 5:30 p.m. Contact Pat Harris,
662-386-0249.
n TOPS
Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. 270 meets
Thursdays at 4370 Cal-Kolola Road,
Caledonia. Weigh-in begins at 5-5:30 p.m.
Contact Michelle Holliman, 662-386-3650.
n SENIOR CRAFTS
Senior Crafts meets at the Starkville
Sportsplex Tuesdays, 10-11:30 a.m.
Crafts provided by the parks department.
For information, call Lisa Cox, 662-323-
2294.
n QUILTING CLUB
Quilting Club meets in the activities room
adjacent to the multi-purpose facility at
the Starkville Sportsplex Thursdays 10
a.m.-noon. Bring your own project to work
on. For information, call Lisa Cox, 662-
323-2294.
Health Notes
n BLOOD DRIVE
The WCBI/Columbus Community hosts a
blood drive from 12:30-5:30 p.m. today,
in the Conference Room of the YMCA,
602 2nd Ave. N. Donors receive a long-
sleeve T-shirt, while supplies last, and are
entered to win a $500 Amazon gift card.
To make an appointment or for informa-
tion, call Vitalant, 1-877-258-4825 or visit
vitalant.org. Sponsor code: WCBI.
n BLOOD DRIVE
Columbus Nissan, 100 MS-Hwy 12, hosts
a blood drive from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Dec. 20, in the Bloodmobile. Donors
receive 20 percent off their maintenance
ticket, a long-sleeve T-shirt, while supplies
last, and are entered to win a $500
Amazon gift card. To make an appointment
or for information, call Vitalant, 1-877-258-
4825 or visit vitalant.org. Sponsor code:
columbusnissan.
n FREE MAMMOGRAMS
Baptist Golden Triangle offers free mam-
mogram screenings to area women 35 or
above, have no insurance coverage, or live
in Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Clay, Monroe or
Chickasaw counties. Walk-ins accepted. To
see if you qualify or for more information,
call 662-244-2979.
n FREE PSA SCREENINGS
Baptist Golden Triangle offers free
prostate PSA screenings for men over 40.
Screenings are every other month. No
screenings for November or December. To
make an appointment or for more informa-
tion, call 662-244-4673.
n CPR CLASSES
Baptist Golden Triangle offers CPR classes
for the community at 6 p.m. in the Patient
Tower. Preregistration required. Call the
Education Department, 662-244-2498.
n CHILDBIRTH CLASSES
Baptist Golden Triangle offers Childbirth
and Breastfeeding classes each month, 6
p.m., in room 6, near the Gift Shop, $20.
For information or to register, call 662-
386-5592.
n CHILDBIRTH CLASSES
Emerson Family Center in Starkville offers
childbirth classes from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
every Tuesday. For more information, call
662-320-4907.
n CANCER SUPPORT
Baptist Cancer Center hosts a support
group for cancer survivors and their fami-
lies, noon-1 p.m. the third Friday of every
month. Lunch provided. For information
and location, call 662-244-2923.
■ DIABETES SUPPORT
Baptist Golden Triangle hosts day classes
for Diabetes Support on third Wednesdays
of each month, 10-11 a.m. in Patient
Tower room 6. For information, call Lacy
Smith, 662-244-1392.
n CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER
This support group for caregivers meets
at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 19 at First United
Methodist Church, 602 Main St., Colum-
bus. A study of the book “No Act of Love is
Ever Wasted: The Spirituality of Caring for
Persons with Dementia” is underway.
n ABUSE RECOVERY GROUP
A Domestic Abuse Recovery Group meets
Thursdays at 6 p.m. through Safe Haven
Inc. Group counseling for rape recovery is
available. For information, call 662-327-
6118.
n BAPTIST VOLUNTEERS
Baptist Golden Triangle seeks caring, com-
passionate volunteers to help in a variety
of hospital settings. For information, call
Lisa Bowers,662-244-1165.
n DRUG/ALCOHOL INTERVENTION
Narconon offers drug and alcohol interven-
tions. For free screenings or referrals, call
1-800-431-1754.
n GOLDEN TRIANGLE AA
Golden Triangle AA meets daily for
support. If you want to drink, that is your
business. If you want to stop drinking, that
is our business. For information, call 662-
327-8941.
n AL-ANON MEETING
The Columbus Al-Anon Family Groups meet
Mondays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.
When you don’t know where to turn be-
cause someone drinks too much, we can
help. For information, call 888-425-2666
or go to msafg.org.
OTHER EVENTS
n FREE NOTARY SERVICES
Reach 1 Teach 1 Outreach Ministries
offers free notary services in December
for individuals, businesses and citizen
services. For more information, call 870-
627-2859 or 662-425-1816.
n DISASTER LEGAL ASSISTANCE
The Young Lawyers Division Disaster Legal
Services Committee of The Mississippi
Bar, in conjunction with FEMA, American
Bar Association Young Lawyers Division,
Mississippi Emergency Management
Agency and Mississippi Center for Legal
Services, provides free disaster legal
assistance efforts to those affected by re-
cent storms in Clay, Humphreys, Issaque-
na, Lowndes, Monroe, Sharkey, Warren
and Yazoo Counties from Feb. 22-March
29. Call 1-877-691-6185 Monday-Friday, 9
a.m.-4 p.m.
n BOOK SALE
The Friends of the Starkville Library Book
Sale is the first Monday of each month at
the Starkville Public Library, 326 University
Drive.
n ENVIRONMENTAL MEETING
Memphis Town Community Action Group
meets fourth Tuesdays at 6 p.m. to
discuss issues related to the Kerr-McGee
site. For information, contact Leon Hines,
662-574-6109.
n 50 DRESSES MINISTRY
Reach1 Teach1 Ministries’ 50 Dresses
Ministry Program to the Golden Triangle
area helps those in need of a dress or
suit for a job search. Donations accept-
ed. Call Regional Coordinator Cequeila
Bigbee, 870-627-2859 or e-mail 1delivere-
din2014@gmail.com.
n ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES
Emerson Family Center, 1504 Louisville
St., Starkville, offers Adult Education
classes from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 9.
n WALKING GROUP
J.L. King Center’s Families First of Oktib-
beha County invites the community to join
its Walking Group at 6:30 a.m. Monday-Fri-
day at Westside Park, 700 N. Long St.,
Starkville.

n EFFECTIVE PARENTING
Family Resource Center, Columbus
campus, 1575 Second Ave. N., offers free
effective parenting classes, with insight
on child safety, appropriate discipline,
effective communication and more. For
information, call 662-368-3603.
n ACTIVE PARENTING
Emerson Family Center, Starkville, offers
Active Parenting classes 10-11 a.m. Oct.
9. Free diapers for those who complete the
four class series. Free child care provided.
Call 662-320-4607.
n FREE COMPUTER CLASSES
Emerson Family Center, Starkville, offers
free computer classes 1-3 p.m. Tuesdays.
Call 662-320-4607.
n FREE TUTORING
Family Resource Center, 1575 Second
Ave. N., Columbus, offers free tutoring,
computer use and printing services for
pre-K-eighth grade. Limited slots. Call 662-
368-3603.
n PARENT CAFÉ
Emerson family Center, Starkville, offers
Parent Café meetings 11 a.m.-noon every
Monday. For more information, call 662-
418-5193 or visit fcp-parentcafe.com.
n TENN-TOM WATERWAY MUSEUM
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
Transportation Museum, 318 Seventh St.
N., Columbus, is open for tours Mon-
day-Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. School field trips,
civic clubs, church groups encouraged. For
group tours, call 662-328-8936 or 662-
574-5794.

Guatemalan cardinal to visit Mississippi after migrant raids

The Associated Press
JACKSON — A Gua-
temalan cardinal who ad-
vocates for migrants will
visit Mississippi following
immigration raids last
summer that prompted
680 arrests.
The Rev. Roberto Mena,
who pastors some Catholic
churches in Mississippi
affected by the raids, an-
nounced the visit Saturday.
Pope Francis raised
Alvaro Ramazzini to the
rank of cardinal in Oc-
tober. He’s the bishop of
Huehuetenango in Gua-
temala, a region of that
Central American country
that has sent many mi-
grants to the U.S. Ramazz-
ini has spoken out for de-
cades against exploitation
of poor rural people in
regions he has ministered
to.
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Slimantics
When Christmas music goes horribly wrong
I
don’t know when Here is what ing your former lover, the song makes her happy to think about ly-loaded revolver, followed by
radio stations happens: invites suspicion from the very what he might choose for her. a game of Russian Roulette and
first decided to A Christmas song first line. It goes: “Last Christ- At last Christmas morning at this point, it really doesn’t
start playing Christ- you have always en- mas, I gave you my heart.” arrives. He tears through her matter to me which of us gets
mas music 24/7 joyed is played. You That line certainly warrants thoughtfully selected, very first turn.”
from the day after smile, maybe even inspection since there are personal gifts. Now it’s her turn Even the silly songs can
Thanksgiving right sing along. After the always two sides to a break-up and she’s tingling with antici- make the blood run cold. “I
through Christmas third time you’ve story. pation. Want a Hippopotamus For
but whenever that heard it, you’re Here’s what I suspect really He leans in close. “This Christmas?” Fine. I hope you
was, it was a very bored. Ten times happened. Girlfriend starts Christmas, I give you my heart,” get one, little annoying girl with
bad day. and you’re mildly thinking about what she wants he says. the brassy voice. Fact: Hippos
I think it’s the irritated. Twenty to give her man for Christmas Silence ensues. She can feel kill hundreds of humans every
worst thing to Slim Smith times and you begin as early as September. She ag- the blood coursing to her head. year — more than lions or
happen to Christmas to notice little things onizes over her choices. When Her cheeks flash red. tigers, but not quite as many as
since Elf on a Shelf, which is that really annoy you. the day arrives, she presents “Your heart?” she cries. “No Second Amendment patriots.
how today’s parents introduce It’s like a relationship: At him with a new wrist watch, a boots? No jewelry? No perfume? Go for it, I say.
their children to Orwell’s first, the object of your affection cardigan sweater like the one he No....anything? You’re giving Do you see what I’m getting
“1984,” a whimsical way of is without flaw. Then you notice casually complimented in April, me your heart? Fine. Rip it out. at here? Continuous Christmas
telling the little ones there can little imperfections that you a scrapbook full of photos of Put it on this platter.” Music is a scourge, transform-
be no expectation of privacy generously dismiss as part of the couple covering their whole Predictably, as the song ing otherwise happy, well-ad-
throughout the span of their her charm. Later, sadly, those year together and some home- goes, “the very next day” she justed people into a bitter, cyni-
entire pitiful existence. small defects begin to become made cookies made from her kicks his selfish, cheap butt to cal, empty shells of humanity at
I’ve despised Elf on a Shelf magnified until, at the end, the dear grandmother’s recipe. The the curb, and I’m surprised she what’s supposed to be a joyous
since its inception, but I did not internal dialogue has become gifts are beautifully wrapped, waited even that long. time of year.
always feel that way about “Con- “How can I endure a future with each featuring gift cards with You might argue some songs You know you are beyond re-
tinuous Christmas Music,” as it a woman who does not know tender proclamations of undy- can’t be picked apart like that. demption when you hear “Silent
is called. I first encountered the how to properly load a dish- ing affection. She took a three- Yet any song you’ve heard 25 or Night” and immediately think,
format in the early 2000s when washer?” month calligraphy class just so 30 times in as many days will “Well, it would be a silent night
I was living in Arizona. It struck Six hundred years ago Chau- she could write those gift-card produce a similar reaction. if you could somehow desist
me then as a good way to inspire cer wrote “familiarity breeds messages in a beautiful script. Just try it. from your ceaseless caterwaul-
a sense of Christmas in a place contempt.” Boy, did he nail it. For months, she has also “Santa Claus is Coming to ing, wouldn’t it?”
where it is always a sunny 80 There is not a Christmas been thinking about what her Town?” Oh, yeah, well what So for all of you who love
degrees all through the winter song — no matter how lofty its boyfriend will give her and she about all those kids in unincor- Christmas and the songs that
and, therefore, never really feels lyrics or well-intentioned its has been very deliberate in porated rural areas? Why are go with it, consider this a warn-
like Christmas. message — that will not make dropping hints. Three times, you dissing the fly-over places, ing.
Back then I had an hour bitter a person who has suffered she’s commented on a certain fat man? It’s too late for me, but you
commute to work, so I listened from such over-exposure. pair of boots she thinks are “Feliz Navidad?” Hey, This is can still avoid this awful fate.
to a lot of radio and soon the Some songs are naturally cute. She’s happened to mention America! Speak American! This Save Christmas.
corrosive effect of hearing those vulnerable to critical analy- a certain style of jewelry she sort of thing is precisely why we Kill your radio.
old familiar Christmas tunes — sis — George Michael’s “Last prefers on more than one occa- have to build that wall! Slim Smith is a columnist and
sometimes twice or three times Christmas,” for instance. Laying sion. She’s told him the name of “Twelve Days of Christmas?” feature writer for The Dispatch.
a day, every day for a month — aside the fact that nothing says her favorite perfume. But she’s On Day Six, I’m thinking, “Oh, His email address is ssmith@
started to reveal itself. “Christmas” like bitterly taunt- good with surprises, too. It goodie! I hope the gift is a ful- cdispatch.com.

Cartoonist View

State of the World

Will the secessionist epidemic ever end?
F
resh from his tri-
umphal “Get Brexit
Done!” campaign,
Prime Minister Boris
Johnson anticipates a swift
secession from the Europe-
an Union.
But if Britain secedes
from the EU, warns Scot-
land’s first minister Nicola
Sturgeon, Scotland will
secede from the United
Kingdom. Patrick Buchanan
Northern Ireland, which
voted in 2016 to remain in
the EU, could follow Scotland out of
Britain, leaving her with “Little En-
gland” and Wales.
Not going to happen, says Boris.
His government will not allow a second
referendum on Scottish independence.
Yet the Scottish National Party won
48 of Scotland’s 59 seats in Parliament,
and Sturgeon calls this a mandate for a
new vote to secede:
“If (Boris) thinks ... saying no is
the end of the matter then he is going
to find himself completely and utterly
wrong. ... You cannot hold Scotland in
the union against its will.”
She has a point. If a majority of Scots him in Philadelphia. He described
wish to secede, how does a democratic
Great Britain indefinitely deny them the “merciless Indian Savages.” The British
right of self-determination?
Is Scotland fated to become for Brit-
ain what Catalonia is to Spain?
Where does this phenomenon, this
continuing unraveling of old and prolif-
eration of new nations, this epidemic of
secessionism, end?
The most recent population explo-
sion of new nations began
three decades ago, when
15 republics of the USSR
became independent na-
tions. Soon, several of the 15
began to unravel further.
Transnistria seceded
from Moldova. South Osse-
tia and Abkhazia seceded
from Georgia. Chechnya
sought to break free of
Russia, only to be crushed.
Since 2015, the Donbass
has sought to secede from
Ukraine.
When Josip Tito’s Yugoslavia
collapsed, six “nations” seceded from
Belgrade.
When did secessionism begin? The
Americans started it all.
The first great secessionist cause
was the Revolution, when the 13 Ameri-
can colonies declared and won indepen-
dence from the British crown.
It is solemnly declared today that our
Revolution was about ideas, such as the
equality of all men. But the author of the
Declaration did not believe in equality.
Jefferson was a Virginia plantation
owner, some of whose slaves were with
Native Americans in the Declaration as
are fraternally called “brethren” with
whom we share “ties of a common kin-
dred,” but who have been “deaf to the
voice of consanguinity.”
I.e, our cousins have been deaf to the
call of our common blood.
John Jay, in Federalist 2, before the
Constitution was even ratified, spoke of
the elements that formed the nation —
“one connected country to one united
people ... descended from the same
ancestors, speaking the same language,
professing the same religion ... similar
in their manners and customs.”
A second secessionist movement, six
decades later, created a second Ameri-
can nation. Texans under Sam Houston
rose up and ripped that vast province
away from its young mother country,
Mexico.
The third secessionist movement
united 11 states that sought to create
a new confederated nation outside the
Union, as the revolutionary generation
had created a new nation outside of
Britain.
In the 19th century, a dozen new
nations were created by Latin Ameri-
can secessionists of the Spanish and
Portuguese empires who emulated the
example of the Americans of 1776.
After 1945, colonies of the British,
French, Portuguese and Belgian em-
pires seceded to produce a baby boom
of new nations whose most common
characteristic seems to be that all
receive foreign aid and all have seats in
the U.N. General Assembly.
If the secessionism epidemic is to
someday expire, then its causes will
have to be addressed. And what are
they?
Secessionism appears rooted prin-
cipally in issues of national identity
— ethnicity, religion, race, language,
culture and “the mystic chords of mem-
ory” — most of which Jay identified as
both uniting Americans and separating
us from our British “brethren.”
Yet these issues of identity appear
not to be receding but rising in the Cau-
casus, Middle East, Africa and South
Asia.
The Kurds, the Palestinians, the
Baluch and many more seek their
own nations. Taiwan’s secession is not
recognized by China. The secession
of Russian-speaking Donbass is not
recognized by a U.S.-armed Ukraine, or
by us.
As more and more people identify
themselves by who they are, and are
not, secessions of people from each
other will continue.
These are not inconsequential mat-
ters. In 1939, the question of whether
300,000 Germans in a Polish-controlled
city, Danzig, should be restored to
German rule led to the worst war in the
history of the world.
The peace of mankind in the 21st
century may well depend upon our
ability to accommodate this inexorable
secessionist drive to some degree.
In June 1945, the U.N. had 50 mem-
bers. It begins 2020 with 193.
Last week, Bougainville, a South
Pacific island cluster of Papua New
Guinea, voted 98%, in a nonbinding
referendum for independence, to be-
come the world’s newest nation. Papua
New Guinea won its own independence
from Australia when Gerald Ford was
president.
And the beat goes on.
Patrick J. Buchanan, a nationally syn-
dicated columnist, was a senior advisor
to presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
and Ronald Reagan. His website is http://
buchanan.org/blog.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Wednesday, December 18, 2019 7A

Bill to raise tobacco age

has unlikely allies: Altria, Juul
Critics contend the companies’ support is calculated
to head off even harder-hitting government action:
a ban on all flavored tobacco products
By MAT THEW PERRONE
and RICHARD LARDNER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congress
is moving to pass the biggest new
sales restrictions on tobacco prod-
ucts in more than a decade, with
support from two unlikely backers:
Marlboro-cigarette maker Altria
and vaping giant Juul Labs.
The legislation would raise
the minimum age to purchase all
tobacco products, including elec-
tronic cigarettes, from 18 to 21
nationwide, a step long-sought by
health advocates. But in the past
year Juul and Altria have emerged
as the biggest supporters of the
measure, blanketing Capitol Hill
with lobbyists and advertisements
touting their support for a national
“Tobacco 21” law.
Tobacco critics contend the
companies’ support is calculated
to head off even harder-hitting
government action: a ban on all
flavored tobacco products, includ-
ing fruit and dessert e-cigarettes.
Their stance puts them in the un-
usual position of criticizing a move
they long supported, arguing that
the sales restriction isn’t enough.
“Altria and Juul clearly support
this in order to argue that no other
action is necessary,” said Matthew
Myers of the Campaign for Tobac-
co-Free Kids. “If you don’t elimi-
nate the flavors that the industry
has used to fuel the epidemic, you
won’t solve the youth e-cigarette
crisis.”
The bipartisan legislation, sup-
ported by Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky,
has been attached to a package of
must-pass spending bills that will
keep the government running into
next year.
Juul and Altria — the vaping
company’s biggest investor —
threw their support behind the bill
earlier this year amid a backlash
against e-cigarettes at the local,
state and national levels.
E-cigarettes are battery-pow-
ered devices that typically heat a
flavored nicotine solution into an
inhalable aerosol. Current federal
law prohibits sales of e-cigarettes
and all other tobacco products to
those under 18. But more than one
in four high school students report
vaping regularly, according to the
latest government figures. And
health officials have called the vap-
ing trend an “epidemic.”
Until September, Juul argued
that its sweet flavors — including
mango, mint and fruit — could
help adult smokers switch from
traditional cigarettes to vaping.
But the company dropped that
message as President Donald
Trump announced plans to remove
virtually all vaping flavors from
the market, due to their appeal to
children. The Silicon Valley com-
pany has halted sales of all but two
of its flavors, menthol and tobacco,
and pledged not to oppose Trump’s
plan.
But momentum for the nation-
wide ban has faded amid pushback
from vaping advocates and some
conservative groups. And Trump
has voiced support for alternative
approaches to keep e-cigarettes
away from kids, including raising
the purchase age to 21. The age
hike is expected to limit the supply
of all vaping and tobacco products
in high schools by putting them
out of reach to 12th graders.
Myers’ group and other health
advocates say Congress should
both raise the age limit and ban all
“kid-friendly” flavors.

Mormons pulling 400K youths out of struggling Boy Scouts

Losing the church will mean about an 18 percent drop in be uniforms or a chance
to earn the coveted Eagle
Scout youth membership compared to last year’s numbers Scout rank — the highest
in Scouting — that was
By BRADY McCOMBS president of Boy Scouts percent of the Latter-day long seen as a key mile-
and DAVID CRARY of America and a current Saints Scouts who liked stone for teenage boys in
The Associated Press
member of its national the experience and want the church. The focus will
board, said the end of the to keep pursuing merit be squarely on religion
KAYSVILLE, Utah —
For decades, The Church long-term alliance will badges in activities rang- and spiritual develop-
of Jesus Christ of Lat- sting and force many re- ing from camping and ment, with youth work-
ter-day Saints was one gional councils in the U.S. lifesaving to citizenship. ing toward achievements
of Boy Scouts of Amer- West to lay off employees The church’s new that earn them rings,
ica’s greatest allies and and sell some camps. youth program will weave medallions and pendants
the largest sponsor of However, Perry said in camping and other out- inscribed with images of
troops. But on Jan. 1, the he’s hopeful the Boy door activities in parts church temples.
Utah-based faith will de- Scouts can eventually of the world where that’s
liver the latest blow to the bring back at least 20 feasible, but there won’t
struggling organization
when it pulls out more
than 400,000 young peo-
ple and moves them into
a new global program of
its own.
The change brings ex-
citement and some melan-
choly for members of the
faith and may push the
Boy Scouts closer to the
brink of bankruptcy as it
faces a new wave of sex
abuse lawsuits.
Losing the church will
mean about an 18 percent
drop in Boy Scout youth
membership compared
with last year’s numbers
and mark the first time
since the World War II era
that the figure will fall be-
low 2 million. At its peak
in the 1970s, more than 4
million boys were Scouts.
Wayne Perry, a church
member who is a past

Global shares
mixed as US-
China trade deal
optimism fades
The Associated Press

TOKYO — Global shares

were mixed Wednesday af-
ter Wall Street logged fresh
record highs but investor
optimism faded about an in-
terim U.S.-China trade deal
announced last week.
France’s CAC 40 was
slightly higher in early
trading at 5,969.59, while
Germany’s DAX slipped 0.2
percent to 13,261.33. Brit-
ain’s FTSE 100 edged up
0.1 percent to 7,535.21.
U.S. shares were set to
drift slightly higher with
Dow futures inching up to
28,288. S&P 500 futures
were also slightly higher at
3,195.90.
Japan’s benchmark
Nikkei 225 fell 0.6 per-
cent to finish at 23,934.43.
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200
gained nearly 0.1 percent to
6,851.40.
8A Wednesday, December 18, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

CMSD
Continued from Page 1A
Stokes-Beard Elementary School
and Columbus High School, both
of which improved this year in ac-
countability ratings from Missis-
sippi Department of Education,
received a combined $181,354.40,
while the district’s 54 math and
science teachers — 15 of whom are
new hires — received $189,000 to-
tal.
Unlike state incentives, TIPP
provides a bonus for each staff and
faculty member, from classroom
teachers and cafeteria workers to
custodial staff.
“You moved the school,” board
president Jason
Spears told em-
ployees Tuesday.
“Grades went up, and Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
we want anyone who Columbus Municipal School District administrators distribute pretend
has any interaction money to faculty and staff from Stokes-Beard Elementary and Columbus
with the child during High schools during a celebration at Joe Cook Elementary School Tuesday
the school day to be evening. Employees at Stokes-Beard and CHS received bonuses after both
rewarded for it, and campuses improved their Mississippi Department of Education ratings
Spears during the 2018-19 school year.
that’s why everyone’s
a part of this program.” However, during the 2018-19 school certified staff $1,500, teacher assis-
Mississippi rates public school year, CHS improved from a C to a B, tants $750 and support staff $250
districts, as well as individual and Stokes-Beard jumped from an and maintaining an A would bring
campuses, on a letter-grade scale F to a B. those totals to $2,000, $1,000 and
— ranging from A to F — based CMSD also implemented a pro- $500, respectively.
on a number of factors, mainly stu- gram to recruit and retain math Spears and other board mem-
dent performance on end-of-year and science teachers, all of whom bers said they hope to have simi-
benchmark exams. CMSD’s TIPP received $3,500 bonuses, or about lar celebrations for the achieving
program rewards faculty and staff 9 percent of a beginning teacher’s schools in coming years.
at campuses that improve letter salary, according to board member “There’s so much excitement
grades. At schools that increase Telisa Clay Young. around the program that you can
from an F to a D, certified staff re- This school year, the district see the inspiration they give other
ceive $500, teacher assistants will will offer the same scale for incen- schools that may not have been able
receive $250 and support staff will tives, along with awards for staff at to participate this year,” he said.
receive $50. Incentive amounts a school maintaining a C grade or “When we see our scores next Oc-
increase gradually for each letter higher. If a school maintains a C, tober, for this program we’ll have
grade, up to $2,000 for certified fac- certified staff would receive $1,000, in December 2020, I think there’ll
ulty at A-rated campuses. assistant teachers would receive be a lot more schools that achieve a
CMSD has maintained a D over- $500 and support staff would get higher level and receive benefits of
all rating for the last two years. $100. Maintaining a B would earn the program.”

Madison Sheriff: Missing Domino’s Pizza employee found dead

The Associated Press
CANTON — A Domi-
no’s Pizza employee who
went missing four days
ago was found dead Tues-
day afternoon, authorities
in Mississippi said.
The body of Helerica
“Latrice” Dortch, 31, was
found near a rural inter-
section in Canton, Madi-
son County Sheriff Randy
Tucker told WLBT-TV.
Dortch was last seen
Friday afternoon leaving
the Canton Domino’s lo-
cation where she worked,
authorities said.
She was wearing Dom-
ino’s work clothes at the
time, but the store’s own-
er, Molly Yildirim, de-
clined to say whether she
was making a delivery or
leaving for the day when
she disappeared, The
Clarion Ledger reported
Monday. Yildirim said
she and her team were
cooperating with law en-
forcement.
Dortch’s mother Tam-
mie said her daughter’s
2015 maroon Chevrolet
Malibu was found Satur-
day by a farmer off a road
located about 5 miles
from where her body was
found, according to Goo-
gle Maps.
Yildirim said Dortch
often kept to herself at
work. “She came to work
and she worked hard and
she went home,” she said.
An investigation is on-
going.

LCSO SEARCHING FOR STOLEN MOTORCYCLE

Courtesy photo
Investigators with Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office are asking the public’s help
finding 1992 Harley Davidson that was reported stolen on Sunday from a residence
on Wolfe Road. Anyone with information is asked to call LCSO at 662-328-6788 or
Golden Triangle Crime Stoppers at 1-800-530-7151.
Sports
Under head coach Joe Moorhead, MSU boasts 22 commits for the Class of 2020, a class that sits No. 23 nationally per 247Sports.com’s team rankings.
How Moorhead has comparatively outpaced Mullen on the recruiting trail in year two
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Joe
Moorhead clutched the
reins nervously.
Perched atop Trip — a
5-year-old, black Tennes-
see walking horse that
bears a single white dot
between its eyes — Moor-
head bobbed up and down
as 2020 Mississippi State
commit Janari Dean guid-
ed his future head coach
through his family stable
just outside his Batesville
home.
Dean has long been
a rider. From the age of
1, his uncle, Jerry Har-
ris, helped him learn the
MISSISSIPPI STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK
Bulldogs not overlooking Radford; Newfound chemistry,
Ado making offensive progress
By GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Mis-
sissippi State men’s bas-
ketball coach Ben How-
land doesn’t need to be
reminded about the last
time his team played at
Humphrey Coliseum.
The Bulldogs were
upset by Louisiana
Tech, ending a run of 26
straight nonconference
home victories that was
the longest active streak
in the Southeastern Con-
ference. About a week
later, MSU got some of
its mojo back by taking
down Big 12 opponent
Kansas State in the Never
Forget Tribute Classic.
Now, one game away
from dynamic point
guard Nick Weather-
spoon’s return from
suspension, MSU (7-2)
hosts Radford (3-6) at 7
p.m. today at Humphrey
PROGRAM BUILDING
trade, and he appeared
in his first show at age 5.
Moorhead, not so much.
“I had ridden one at a
beach somewhere when
we were on vacation,” he
said of his past horse rid-
ing experience. “But it
was like one of those little
Neshoba County Fair lit-
tle ponies.”
Comfort zone aside,
Moorhead’s mounting
of Trip wasn’t about per-
sonal pride or whether
he’d look goofy doing it.
Rather, the second-year
head coach was fulfilling
a pledge he made to Dean
— a three-star athlete and
the No. 14-ranked player
new coach have Oak Hill
boys off to 9-1 start
Mississippi State forward Abdul Ado is improving on
the offensive end as the Bulldogs face Radford at 7
p.m. today at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville.
Coliseum. A lot of excite-
ment surrounds Weath-
erspoon’s return and the
team’s potential with him
back into the lineup, but
Howland refuses to let his
players focus on anything
in the state of Mississippi
out of South Panola High
School — that he would
ride a horse when he
came to visit the family
farm.
“He’s always been a
cool dude every time I’m
around him,” Dean told
The Dispatch. “It looked
like he really enjoyed
himself today, getting
away from the coaching
part of it and just enjoying
the kids. I think he really
likes that.”
Oft lauded for his per-
sonality and innate ability
to connect with people,
Moorhead’s ride through
Dean’s stable was just a
Jim Lytle/Dispatch file photo
other than Radford.
“I would think that
the last time we played at
home was a good exam-
ple of to not look past any-
body,” Howland said. “If
anybody is naïve enough
THE DISPATCH n CDISPATCH.COM n Wednesday, December 18, 2019
glimpse at the recruiting
prowess he has honed in
his short time at MSU
— prowess that, accord-
ing to the numbers, has
outranked former head
coach Dan Mullen.
Entering Wednesday’s
early signing period — a
72-hour window in which
athletes can sign their
national letters of intent
ahead of National Signing
Day on Feb. 5, 2020 —
MSU boasts 22 commits
for the Class of 2020, a
class that sits No. 23 na-
tionally per 247Sports.
com’s team rankings. Of
those 22 players, all 12
high school prospects
to think that we can look
past anybody, they ha-
ven’t learned anything.
So, there’s no chance that
that’s going to happen.”
Radford has one Power
Five win under its belt this
year after beating North-
western on the road Nov.
19. The rest of the year
has been pretty bleak, in-
cluding a 22-point loss to
Duquesne last time out,
a 17-point defeat at the
hands of Monmouth on
Nov. 26 and a heartbreak-
ing buzzer-beating loss to
UNC Greensboro on Dec.
7.
“They’ve played a very
difficult schedule,” How-
land said … “They have
a really good guard who
can score, Carlik Jones,
who is a good player …
“This is a team that is
picked to win their con-
ference. They play a
See NOTEBOOK, 3B
hailing from Mississippi
rank amongst the Mag-
nolia State’s top 30 pros-
pects.
By contrast, Mullen
closed his third recruiting
cycle as head coach with
the No. 41 overall class —
good for 11th in the SEC
— while only 11 of his 15
Mississippi high school
signees were ranked in
the state’s top 30.
“I think in the past
two years we have really
demonstrated how com-
mitted we are to recruit-
ing in the state of Missis-
sippi and the surrounding
states and our footprint
with having the willing-
PREP BASKETBALL
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
WEST POINT — The
Oak Hill Academy boys
basketball team remem-
bers its painful 35-33 loss
at Heritage Academy on
Nov. 11.
In their third game of
the season, the Raiders
battled the defending
state champion Patri-
ots all night. Down two
points with two seconds
left, Oak Hill had a deep
3-point look for the win,
but Daniel Harrington’s
shot was offline.
“That was a very hum-
bling experience for us as
a group,” Oak Hill coach
Andrew Howell said.
But the Raiders took
lessons from the loss,
and Howell was im-
SPORTS LINE
662-241-5000
B
SECTION
Stan Beall/Dispatch file photo
ness and the ability to go
nationally for a player that
has a reason to come to
Mississippi State,” Moor-
head said in October.
“The players we talked
to either on the phone or
through texts, the coach-
es, and the people you see
at school love the direc-
tion we are headed. They
are excited about Missis-
sippi State football.”
Beyond the cumulative
rankings, Moorhead’s
third class in Starkville
stacks up far better than
Mullen’s group from an
individual talent perspec-
tive as well.
See RECRUITING, 3B
pressed with how the
team bounced back.
The setback was the
Raiders’ first of the sea-
son, and prior to Thurs-
day’s game against Win-
ston Academy, it remains
their only defeat.
“We took it well, we
learned from it, and
we let it go, and look at
where we are now,” said
Harrington, a senior.
Oak Hill is 9-1, and
the Raiders are enjoy-
ing a stellar start under
Howell, a first-year head
coach at the school. The
former associate head
coach at Presbyterian
Christian School brought
welcome energy when he
took over for John Bauer
on June 1.
“I’ve never had a coach
See OAK HILL, 3B
2B Wednesday, December 18, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

briefly Prep soccer roundup: Caledonia girls beat Pontotoc on penalty kicks
College Football By Theo DeRosa Nettleton girls 7, tleton, and Miranda day in Nettleton to scored twice for the
tderosa@cdispatch.com Carrisoza, Reagan improve to 7-6 on the Caledonia boys team,
EMCC WR Brownlee flips commitment Columbus 1 Scott, Laynie Dotson season. but the ’Feds lost Tues-
Former West Point and East Mississippi Com-
PONTOTOC — The NET TLETON — day’s road match at
munity College wide receiver Jason Brownlee flipped and Bella Scruggs all Jahon King, Des-
Caledonia High School The Columbus girls Pontotoc, 3-2.
his commitment from Charlotte to Southern Miss on scored for the Tigers. tin Poindexter, Jordyn
Tuesday, less than 24 hours after making his original girls soccer team beat soccer team fell to It’s the second
Columbus will play Nash and Jestin Jones
choice. Pontotoc in penalty Nettleton in Tuesday’s straight loss for the
“After much prayer and talk with my family, I feel at rival New Hope at all scored goals for the
kicks on Tuesday in Pon- road match, 7-1. ’Feds (9-3) after a 9-1
that this will be best for my future and my family,” Brown- 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Falcons.
lee said in his tweet Tuesday afternoon announcing the totoc. Destiny McCoy start.
Columbus faces
decision. The teams were scored the lone goal Caledonia will host
Brownlee caught 75 passes for 1,055 receiving New Hope on the road
scoreless at full time, but for the Falcons. West Point on Jan. 7.
yards and 12 touchdowns this season in 10 games at
EMCC. the Confederates scored Goalkeeper Diana Columbus boys 4, Thursday.
three of their penalties, Maya had a save and Nettleton 3 Other scores
Men’s College Basketball and the Warriors made split time with Shakyra NET TLETON — Pontotoc boys 3, New Hope girls 8,
Harris scores 35 for MUW in loss at Belhaven just one. Mullen in goal. The Columbus boys Caledonia 2 West Point 0
Starkville High and EMCC product Keith Harris Caledonia (10-1) will Nealy Williams had soccer team edged PONTOTOC — New Hope boys 10,
scored 35 points for the Mississippi University for Wom- host West Point on Jan. 7. a hat trick for Net- Nettleton 4-3 on Tues- Garrett Bergstrom West Point 1
en men’s basketball team on Tuesday, but the Owls lost
to Belhaven University 95-86 in Jackson.
Tavonta Jones added 20 points for MUW (2-9).
The Owls will host Blue Mountain College at 7:30
p.m. Thursday.
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Women’s College Basketball

Owls struggle to score against Berry College
LSU’s Orgeron named AP’s coach of the year
Autumn Taylor and My’Neka Frazier each scored THE ASSOCIATED PRESS appearance in the Big game, with Saban win- 23-7 record in the SEC. coach at USC in 2013,
10 points for the MUW women’s team at Berry College 12 championship game, ning and Miles losing. The 58-year-old Org- going 6-2 but it wasn’t
on Tuesday, but the Owls struggled offensively, falling Ed Orgeron of LSU finished second with Orgeron and the eron was a longtime enough to keep the job.
55-30 in Rome, Georgia. is The Associated Press
MUW (3-9) made 12 of its 46 shots from the field 14 first-place votes (86 Tigers will face No. 4 assistant coach, part of Orgeron landed at
and just 2 of 13 from 3-point range. Coach of the Year after points). Ohio State’s Oklahoma in the Col- national championship
LSU as an assistant to
The Owls will host Blue Mountain College at 5:30 leading the top-ranked Ryan Day was third lege Football Playoff staffs with Miami in
Tigers to a Southeast- Miles in 2015. He faced
p.m. Thursday. with five-first-place semifinals on Dec. 28 the late 1980s and early
ern Conference cham- votes (45 points) and at the Peach Bowl in At- ’90s and with Southern some skepticism when
Prep Football pionship and their first Minnesota’s P.J. Fleck lanta. California in the early he was first given the
Craven won’t return as Oak Hill head coach College Football Playoff was fourth with three This is Orgeron’s 2000s. Along the way, job by then-athletic di-
Chris Craven will not return as the head football appearance. first-place votes (40 third full season as LSU he gained a reputation rector Joe Alleva, but
coach at Oak Hill Academy next year. Orgeron received 33 points). coach and the Tigers’ as one of the best re- over three years he
Craven and Oak Hill both confirmed the news. of 56 first-place votes
“Coach Craven will be leaving at the end of this
Orgeron is the third record has improved cruiters and defensive has proved to be a per-
school year and will not be returning to Oak Hill for the from Top 25 poll voters different LSU coach to each year. He was ele- line coaches in the na- fect fit. A week after
2020-2021 school year,” Oak Hill athletic director Phil and a total of 130 points win the award since it vated to interim coach tion.
his team landed the
Ferguson said in a text message. “We wish him well in for the award presented was established in 1998, during the 2016 season His first stint as a
his future endeavors.” by Regions Bank and joining Nick Saban in top seed in the playoff,
after Miles was fired head coach was in the
The head coaching position at Oak Hill is now open
announced Tuesday. 2003 and Les Miles in and eventually landed SEC at Ole Miss. That he spent the weekend
for application.
Baylor’s Matt Rhule, 2011. Saban and Miles his dream job. lasted only three sea- watching his quarter-
who led the Bears to both led their teams to The Louisiana native sons and 10 victories. back, Joe Burrow, win
Caledonia names three to all-region team
Three Caledonia football players were named to an 11-2 record and an the BCS championship is 38-9 at LSU with a He was interim head the Heisman Trophy.
the all-MHSAA Class 4A, Region 2 team on Tuesday.
Running back Darius Triplett made the all-region

Clemson’s recent titles leading to more recruiting victories

first team, as did offensive lineman Alex Mathews.
Defensive back Dillon May made the all-region
second team.

CCA names two to all-MAIS team THE ASSOCIATED PRESS cruiting. pursues prospects backer Trenton Simp- Bryn Tucker, a four-star
Two Columbus Christian Academy football players Clemson coach Dabo whose star ratings son (No. 29). offensive lineman from
made the Midsouth Association for Independent Clemson’s impres-
Schools all-Class 2A team, announced Monday. Swinney has signed might not accurately Murphy says he isn’t Knoxville (Tennessee)
Wide receiver Will Teague and linebacker Bryar sive run of recent suc- plenty of elite players measure how they’ll fit surprised about the tal- Catholic, also praised
Kemp made the roster for the Rams. cess on the football field before. Clemson’s cur- into the program. ent Clemson has accu- the program’s family
is paying dividends on rent roster features “In order to ensure mulated. atmosphere but ac-
Prep Basketball the recruiting trail. seven former five-star they’re getting the right Although the de- knowledged that Clem-
After winning two of prospects, including guys from a culture fensive end from Pow-
New Hope boys beat Noxubee County the last three national ti- quarterback Trevor standpoint, they’re will- der Springs (Georgia)
son’s impressive per-
The New Hope boys basketball team beat formance in its College
Noxubee County 66-52 on Tuesday to improve to 8-0 tles, Clemson is putting Lawrence. ing to take prospects Hillgrove says he grew
on the season. together its highest-rat- But the Tigers have who from a talent lev- up an Alabama fan, Football Playoff cham-
LJ Hackman scored 19 points, Caleb Parr scored ed recruiting class ever never assembled a class el, the Alabamas of the Murphy indicates he pionship game victory
15, Jaylen Smith scored 13, and RL Mattix scored nine. over Alabama last year
The New Hope girls team beat Noxubee County
as high school seniors quite like this one. The world don’t want,” Sim- started thinking about
49-38 to improve to 5-4 on the season. No statistics across the country fi- 247Sports Composite mons said. “This year Clemson after visit- played a role in his de-
were available from the contest. nalize their college se- team rankings go back those guys (who fit) ing the campus before cision.
The Trojans will travel to face Itawamba Agricultural lections during the ear- as far as 2008, and happen to be players his sophomore year. “That was probably
on Friday.
ly signing period that Clemson has never fin- who are really good as Murphy called Clem- Alabama’s best team
Youth Soccer begins Wednesday.
Clemson has verbal
ished higher than sev-
enth. This year, Clem-
well.”
Five-star prospects
son “the type of school
where they try to make
that they’ve had over
Columbus Soccer Organization announces a long time,” Tucker
commitments from sev- son is competing with committed to Clem- it as much like home as said. “For (Clemson)
winter player development opportunities en of the nation’s top 29 Alabama and LSU for son include defensive possible.” to just beat them down
The Columbus Soccer Organization is happy to
prospects according to first place. tackles Bryan Bresee “They make it family like that was proving
announce two upcoming player development opportuni-
ties in partnership with Coerver to be held on Jan. 18 at composite rankings of 247Sports director (ranked No. 1 overall) oriented,” Murphy said.
a point to me, that this
the downtown soccer complex. These camps are open recruiting sites com- of scouting Barton Sim- and Demonte Capehart ‘The parents of all the
team is for real. I want
to all players in the area. Registration is currently open piled by 247Sports. mons notes that Clem- (No. 24), defensive end athletes love it there. If
for both until Jan. 13 and can be done through https://
Clemson leads the son typically doesn’t Myles Murphy (No. 3), the mom and dad like it, to be part of a winning
columbusmssoccer.org/ team, that wins national
1. Soccer Skills Clinic, 9am-11am, ages 7-14 years 247Sports team recruit- have as much roster at- quarterback DJ Uiag- that will have a big in-
old. $30. The Skills Clinic will propel players through ing rankings. trition as other powers, alelei (No. 13), running fluence on the athletes. championships. They’ll
15-20 advanced moves with conditioned exercises to “This class is just so the Tigers often end back Demarkcus Bow- That’s why I’m really work me and get me
maximize learning better, bigger, stronger
2. The Finishing Clinic, 1pm-4pm, ages 9-16
ridiculous,” said Mike up with smaller class- man (No. 16), corner- not surprised they have
years old. $40 Focus on techniques of striking a ball to Farrell, the Rivals na- es. Simmons also says back Fred Davis II (No. a good class like this.” and faster. That’s what I
produce: loft, distance, power, swerve, dip and fade to tional director of re- Clemson sometimes 26) and outside line- Clemson recruit want to be a part of.”
improve goal scoring.
There is a special $5 discount if a player registers
for both clinics. Arizona at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.
Pro Football
Dallas at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Dallas 35 19 12 4 42 91 82 Chiozza.
Contact CSO Director of Coaching Tom Velek at Dallas at Philadelphia, 3:25 p.m. New York at Miami, 7 p.m. Nashville 33 16 12 5 37 115 106 FOOTBALL
Kansas City at Chicago, 7:20 p.m. Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Minnesota 35 16 14 5 37 107 115 National Football League
tvelek@yahoo.com with questions. NFL Glance Monday, Dec. 23 Minnesota at Denver, 8 p.m. Chicago 34 13 15 6 32 94 110 NFL — Suspended Denver S Kareem Jackson for
AMERICAN CONFERENCE Green Bay at Minnesota, 7:15 p.m. Orlando at Portland, 9 p.m. Pacific Division the final two regular season games for violating the
East GP W L OT Pts GF GA league’s substance abuse policy.
SOURCE: From Special Reports W L T Pct PF PA
New Orleans at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.
Arizona 36 20 12 4 44 100 86 ATLANTA FALCONS — Placed DE Takk McKinley
x-New England 11 3 0 .786 372 181
Pro Basketball College Basketball
Vegas 37 19 13 5 43 112 105
Edmonton 36 19 13 4 42 108 110
on IR. Signed DE Austin Larkin.
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed LB Brady Shel-
CALENDAR
x-Buffalo 10 4 0 .714 291 222
N.Y. Jets 5 9 0 .357 247 343 Calgary 36 18 14 4 40 96 108 don from the practice squad. Waived DE Anthony
Miami 3 11 0 .214 241 435 NBA Glance Vancouver 35 16 15 4 36 111 108 Zettel.
South EASTERN CONFERENCE Tuesday’s scores San Jose 36 16 18 2 34 98 125 DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed LB Malcolm Smith.

Today
Houston
W L T Pct PF PA
9 5 0 .643 341 330
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Philadelphia 20 8 .714 —
EAST
American U. 82, Mount St. Mary’s 76
Los Angeles 36 15 18 3 33 94 114
Anaheim 34 14 16 4 32 88 101
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime
DENVER BRONCOS — Signed CB Alijah Holder.
Placed S Kareem Jackson on the reserve/sus-
pended list. Signed S P.J. Locke and DL Jay-Tee
Tennessee 8 6 0 .571 339 279 Florida 83, Providence 51
Men’s College Basketball Indianapolis 6 8 0 .429 303 329 Boston 17 7 .708 1 Georgetown 81, UMBC 55 loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild Tiuli to their practice squad.
Toronto 18 8 .692 1 DETROIT LIONS — Placed QB Matthew Stafford
Radford at Mississippi State, 7 p.m. Jacksonville 5 9 0 .357 250 353
North Brooklyn 15 12 .556 4½ Miami 78, Temple 77 cards per conference advance to playoffs.
Monday’s Games on IR. Signed LB Christian Sam and DT Olive
New York 7 21 .250 13 Princeton 90, Iona 86, OT Sagapolu to the practice squad.
W L T Pct PF PA Robert Morris 83, Cent. Michigan 79 Florida 6, Ottawa 1
y-Baltimore 12 2 0 .857 472 257 Southeast Division MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed LB Calvin Munson
St. Francis (Pa.) 115, Franciscan University of Nashville 5, N.Y. Rangers 2

on the air Pittsburgh 8 6 0 .571 269 259
Cleveland 6 8 0 .429 297 329
Cincinnati 1 13 0 .071 211 359
West
Today W L T Pct PF PA
y-Kansas City 10 4 0 .714 394 284
Oakland 6 8 0 .429 274 386
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) Denver 5 9 0 .357 239 284
L.A. Chargers 5 9 0 .357 299 290
5:30 p.m. — Stony Brook at Virginia, NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
ACCN W L T Pct PF PA
5:30 p.m. — The Hall of Fame Show- Dallas 7 7 0 .500 378 288
Philadelphia 7 7 0 .500 334 328
case: Vanderbilt vs. Loyola (Chicago), N.Y. Giants
Washington
3 11 0 .214 283 382
3 11 0 .214 215 347
Phoenix, CBSSN South
W L T Pct PF PA
5:30 p.m. — Western Carolina at y-New Orleans 11 3 0 .786 378 303
Tampa Bay 7 7 0 .500 416 398
Xavier, FS1 Atlanta 5 9 0 .357 329 365
Carolina 5 9 0 .357 324 390
6 p.m. — Tennessee at Cincinnati,
North
W L T Pct PF PA
ESPN2 x-Green Bay 11 3 0 .786 330 283
Minnesota 10 4 0 .714 378 259
6 p.m. — East Tennessee State at Chicago 7 7 0 .500 256 253
Detroit 3 10 1 .250 304 373
LSU, SECN West
W L T Pct PF PA
7 p.m. — Michigan State at Northwest- x-San Francisco 11 3 0 .786 419 258
ern, BTN x-Seattle 11 3 0 .786 371 345
L.A. Rams 8 6 0 .571 332 306
7 p.m. — Oakland at Syracuse, ESPNU Arizona 4 9 1 .321 310 398
x-clinched playoff spot
7:30 p.m. — Miami (Ohio) at Louisville, y-clinched division
Thursday’s Games
ACCN Baltimore 42, N.Y. Jets 21
Sunday’s Games
7:30 p.m. — Albany at St. John’s, FS1
W L Pct GB
Miami 19 8 .704 —
Orlando 12 15 .444 7
Charlotte 13 17 .433 7½
Washington 8 17 .320 10
Atlanta 6 22 .214 13½
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Milwaukee 24 4 .857 —
Indiana 19 9 .679 5
Detroit 11 16 .407 12½
Chicago 10 19 .345 14½
Cleveland 6 21 .222 17½
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
Dallas 18 8 .692 —
Houston 18 9 .667 ½
San Antonio 10 16 .385 8
Memphis 10 17 .370 8½
New Orleans 6 22 .214 13
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Denver 17 8 .680 —
Utah 16 11 .593 2
Oklahoma City 12 14 .462 5½
Portland
Minnesota
11 16 .407 7
10 15 .400 7
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
L.A. Lakers 24 4 .857 —
L.A. Clippers 21 8 .724 3½
Sacramento 12 15 .444 11½
Phoenix 11 16 .407 12½
Golden State 5 23 .179 19
Monday’s Games
Washington 133, Detroit 119
Toronto 133, Cleveland 113
Dallas 120, Milwaukee 116
Houston 109, San Antonio 107
Steubenville 66
SOUTH
Austin Peay 80, McKendree 61
Campbell 60, Elon 46
East Carolina 71, Md.-Eastern Shore 57
Florida St. 98, North Florida 81
Lipscomb 78, Tennessee Tech 60
Louisiana Tech 69, NC Central 60
South Alabama 89, Alabama A&M 79
UAB 63, North Alabama 56
UNC-Asheville 78, Stetson 76
Winthrop 93, SIU-Edwardsville 73
MIDWEST
Creighton 83, Oklahoma 73
Dayton 71, North Texas 58
Drake 92, Mount Marty 74
E. Michigan 60, Northeastern 55
Kent St. 85, NC A&T 71, OT
Marquette 93, Grambling St. 72
North Dakota 109, Northland College 50
Ohio St. 80, SE Missouri 48
Oral Roberts 97, Chicago St. 59
Purdue 69, Ohio 51
Saint Louis 82, Maryville (MO) 69
UMKC 72, Toledo 57
Wright St. 92, MVSU 50
SOUTHWEST
UTEP 67, UC Irvine 61
FAR WEST
Air Force 99, Johnson & Wales (CO) 42
E. Washington 97, Omaha 56
N. Colorado 86, Denver 64
New Mexico 91, Grand Canyon 71
Pepperdine 77, Portland St. 71
Stanford 64, San Francisco 56
Weber St. 109, Bethesda 62
from New England’s practice squad. Placed LB
Columbus 3, Washington 0 Raekwon McMillan on IR.
St. Louis 5, Colorado 2
NEW YORK GIANTS — Place TE Evan Engram on
Edmonton 2, Dallas 1 IR. Signed WR David Sills from the practice squad.
Tuesday’s Games Signed OT Nate Wozniak to the practice squad.
Tampa Bay 4, Ottawa 3, OT NEW YORK JETS — Placed OL Chuma Edoga
Toronto 5, Buffalo 3 and WR Jeff Smith on IR. Signed WR Keon Hatch-
Los Angeles 4, Boston 3, OT er to the practice squad. Released C Ryan Crozier.
Nashville 8, N.Y. Islanders 3 TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived K Ryan Santoso.
Philadelphia 4, Anaheim 1 Signed CB Kareem Orr to the practice squad.
Columbus 5, Detroit 3 WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed CB Jimmy
Carolina 6, Winnipeg 3 Moreland, WR Trey Quinn and G Brandon Scherff
on the IR. Signed DB Coty Sensabaugh and DB
Pittsburgh 4, Calgary 1
Kayvon Webster. Signed DE Cameron Malveaux
Montreal 3, Vancouver 1
to the practice squad.
Vegas 3, Minnesota 2 Canadian Football League
Arizona 3, San Jose 2 CFL — Named Dale H. Lastman chair of the board
Today’s Games of governors.
Anaheim at New Jersey, 6 p.m.
Colorado at Chicago, 7 p.m. National Hockey League
HOCKEY
Edmonton at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled G Adin Hill from
Tucson (AHL).
Buffalo at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled D Brian
Los Angeles at Columbus, 6 p.m. Lashoff from Grand Rapids (AHL). Placed D Jona-
Dallas at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. than Ericsson on injured reserve. Placed G Jimmy
N.Y. Islanders at Boston, 6 p.m. Howard on long-term injured reserve retroactive
Nashville at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m. to Nov. 27 and assigned him to Grand Rapids for
Chicago at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. conditioning.
Carolina at Colorado, 8 p.m.
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned G Evan
Cormier to Binghamton (AHL). Recalled G Gilles
Montreal at Calgary, 8 p.m. Senn from Binghamton.
Minnesota at Arizona, 8:30 p.m. American Hockey League
Vegas at Vancouver, 9 p.m.
AHL — Suspended Cleveland F Calvin Thurkauf
Friday’s Games two games for a charging incident in a Dec. 13
Washington at New Jersey, 6 p.m. game against. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Suspend-
Dallas at Florida, 6 p.m. ed Springfield D Tommy Cross one game for an
Toronto at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m. illegal check to the head of an opponent in a Dec.
15 game at Providence.
Pittsburgh at Edmonton, 8 p.m.
ECHL
ECHL — Suspended Rapid City’s Brennan Saul-

8 p.m. — North Carolina at Gonzaga,

Kansas City 23, Denver 3
Tampa Bay 38, Detroit 17
Houston 24, Tennessee 21
ESPN2 N.Y. Giants 36, Miami 20
Seattle 30, Carolina 24
8 p.m. — The Hall of Fame Showcase: Green Bay 21, Chicago 13
New England 34, Cincinnati 13
St. Mary’s vs. Arizona State, Phoenix, Philadelphia 37, Washington 27
Arizona 38, Cleveland 24
PAC-12N
Jacksonville 20, Oakland 16
9 p.m. — The Battleground 2K19: Bay- Minnesota 39, L.A. Chargers 10
Atlanta 29, San Francisco 22
lor vs. Tennessee (Martin), Houston, Dallas 44, L.A. Rams 21
Buffalo 17, Pittsburgh 10
ESPNU Monday’s Games
New Orleans 34, Indianapolis 7
10 p.m. — The Neon Hoops Showcase: Saturday, Dec. 21
Houston at Tampa Bay, Noon
Kentucky vs. Utah, Las Vegas, ESPN2 Buffalo at New England, 3:30 p.m.
PAC-12N — Montana at Oregon L.A. Rams at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 22
NBA BASKETBALL N.Y. Giants at Washington, Noon
Cincinnati at Miami, Noon
6 p.m. — Miami at Philadelphia, ESPN New Orleans at Tennessee, Noon
Pittsburgh at N.Y. Jets, Noon
8:30 p.m. — Boston at Dallas, ESPN Baltimore at Cleveland, Noon
NHL HOCKEY Carolina at Indianapolis, Noon
Jacksonville at Atlanta, Noon
7 p.m. — Colorado at Chicago, NBCSN Oakland at L.A. Chargers, 3:05 p.m.
Detroit at Denver, 3:05 p.m.
Memphis 118, Miami 111
Oklahoma City 109, Chicago 106
Portland 111, Phoenix 110
Tuesday’s Games
Charlotte 110, Sacramento 102
Indiana 105, L.A. Lakers 102
New York 143, Atlanta 120
Brooklyn 108, New Orleans 101, OT
Utah 109, Orlando 102
L.A. Clippers 120, Phoenix 99
Wednesday’s Games
Charlotte at Cleveland, 6 p.m.
Chicago at Washington, 6 p.m.
Miami at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.
Toronto at Detroit, 6 p.m.
Memphis at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.
New Orleans at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Orlando at Denver, 8 p.m.
Boston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Golden State at Portland, 9 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Utah at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.
Brooklyn at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.
Houston at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Memphis at Cleveland, 6 p.m.
Sacramento at Indiana, 6 p.m.
Detroit at Boston, 6:30 p.m.
Washington at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.
Hockey
NHL Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Boston 35 21 7 7 49 118 90
Buffalo 35 16 12 7 39 110 108
Montreal 34 16 12 6 38 108 108
Toronto 35 17 14 4 38 115 112
Tampa Bay 32 17 12 3 37 114 103
Florida 33 16 12 5 37 115 109
Ottawa 35 14 18 3 31 94 113
Detroit 36 9 24 3 21 79 141
Metropolitan Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Washington 35 24 6 5 53 125 100
N.Y. Islanders
32 22 8 2 46 95 80
Carolina 34 21 11 2 44 113 89
Pittsburgh 34 20 10 4 44 114 90
Philadelphia 34 18 11 5 41 105 100
N.Y. Rangers 33 16 13 4 36 105 106
Columbus 34 14 14 6 34 87 101
New Jersey 32 10 17 5 25 77 115
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
St. Louis 35 21 8 6 48 107 95
Colorado 33 21 9 3 45 119 91
Winnipeg 34 20 12 2 42 104 97
Transactions BASEBALL
American League
MINNESOTA TWINS — Named Mike Bell bench
coach.
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms
with LHP Madison Bumgarner on a five-year
contract.
CINCINNATI REDS — Named Joe Mather assis-
tant hitting coach.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Named Warren
Schaeffer manager for Albuquerque (PCL).
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with
OF Avisaíl García on a two-year contract and with
1B/3B Ryon Healy on a one-year contract.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Named Oscar Marin
pitching coach. Agreed to terms with C Luke Maile
on a one-year contract. Agreed to terms with OF
Socrates Brito, LHP Miguel Del Pozo, INF Phillip
Evans and RHP Hector Noesi on minor league
contracts.
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with
LHP Kwang Hyun Kim on a two-year contract.
Frontier League
QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed OF Tristan Gra-
ham and RHP Jake Polancic.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Signed C Anzejs
Pasecniks to a two-way contract. Waived G Chris
nier four games for his actions in a Dec. 13 game
against Wheeling. Suspended Jacksonville’s Gar-
ret Ross and Emerson Clark three games apiece
and fined them undisclosed amounts for physical
abuse of officials during a Dec. 15 game at South
Carolina. Suspended Jacksonville’s Dalton Throw-
er one game for his game misconduct-aggressor
penalty during a Dec. 15 game at South Carolina.
SOCCER
Major League Soccer
MLS — Awarded Charlotte an expansion team to
begin play in 2021.
ATLANTA UNITED — Agreed to terms with D
Brook Lennon on a multiyear contract through
2023. Re-signed G Alec Kann.
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Signed D Seth
Sinovic.
USL Championship
SAN DIEGO LOYAL — Signed M Eric Avila.
National Women’s Soccer League
SKY BLUE FC — Named Freya Coombe coach.
WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Signed F Jenna Hell-
strom.
COLLEGE
NORTH EASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE —
Named Stephanie Dutton commissioner.
FRESNO STATE — Named Kalen DeBoer football
coach.
STOCKTON — Named Rich Gawlak baseball
coach.
TEXAS — Named Chris Ash defensive coordi-
nator.

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difficult nonconference
schedule, and we’re go-
ing to have to play well to
have success.” Stewart not treating
Ado stepping up offen- newForrole differently
sively season, redshirt fresh-
MSU has always re-
lied on starting center
Abdul Ado to protect the
rim and rebound. He’s ex-
celled in both areas for a
majority of his collegiate
career. But in the Bull-
dogs’ past two games,
Ado has been a major
contributor offensively.
Entering MSU’s ill-fat-
ed matchup with LA
Tech, Ado was averaging
around three points per
night. He scored nine
points in the home loss,
then contributed 13 in
MSU’s win against Kan-
sas State. Ado’s 13 points
were a season high,
and he also had nine re-
bounds against the Wild-
cats.
“It’s obviously great
to see him gaining con-
fidence, and our team
finding him and feed-
ing him,” Howland said.
“There’s a lot of good
passes. He got a couple
of really big offensive re-
bounds against Kansas
Oak Hill
Continued from Page 1B
like that,” Harrington
said of Howell, who works
his players hard during
practices and holds film
and practice meetings
during the day. Har-
rington said Howell runs
the team like a college
program, and that’s just
great with him.
“It’s amazing, and you
can obviously tell that
it’s working, because the
numbers, they don’t lie,”
Harrington said.
Howell has orches-
trated a significant turn-
around thus far from last
season, where Oak Hill
finished around .500. Nei-
ther Howell nor the Raid-
ers knew their exact re-
cord — “I don’t even want
NFL
Saints QB Brees in vintage form as playoffs approach
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS —
Vintage Drew Brees is
back.
Or so it would seem
the past two weeks,
during which the Saints’
40-year-old quarterback
has passed for nine touch-
downs and 656 yards,
setting career and sin-
gle-game NFL records in
the process.
His return to stellar
form comes at a good
time for the playoff-bound
Saints.
“You’re always striving
because you know that
the challenges continue
to get greater and games
become even more im-
portant. We are hitting
the home stretch here
where we want to be play-
ing our best football,”
Brees said. “The teams
that typically succeed in
the playoffs and the ones
that have that momen-
tum, they are ascending
into the playoffs. We want
to be ascending.”
Whether the Saints as
a whole are ascending is
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State ... It’s definitely a
positive for us.”
the first time this
man guard D.J. Stewart
Jr. replaced Iverson Mo-
linar in the starting line-
up against Kansas State.
Howland said he start-
ed Stewart for defensive
reasons and that he flat
out deserved it.
Stewart made two cru-
cial plays in the game’s fi-
nal four minutes, helping
MSU to a much-needed
win. On the season, Stew-
art is averaging nearly 10
points per game.
It’s unclear if the
Grace native will start
against Radford or if the
Bulldogs will put Molinar
back in the starting five,
but both guards are ex-
pected to play heavy min-
utes.
Either way is fine with
Stewart.
“I treat it the same (as
I would coming off the
bench),” Stewart said of
his first start … “We have
to focus on (Radford),
just learn from Louisiana
Tech and keep going.”
to talk about it,” senior
Branden Stevenson said.
Practices under Bauer
were often disorganized,
the Raiders said, and
lacked the energy Howell
instantly brought.
“It was peaches and
cream,” Stevenson said.
“We just rolled through
the practice and went
home.”
Stevenson, a transfer
from West Point High
School, had to get used
to a new coach for the
second straight year af-
ter making the trip north
on Eshman Avenue. But
seeing Howell’s energy
and the team’s newfound
chemistry certainly
helped.
up for debate. Their de-
fense gave up 48 points
in a loss to the San Fran-
cisco 49ers in Week 14.
But Brees was stellar in
that game, throwing for
five TDs and leading the
Saints back from two
scores down to take the
lead in the final minute
before the Niners re-
sponded by driving for a
winning field goal as time
expired.
On Monday night
against Indianapolis,
Brees was in his seventh
game back from a Week
2 thumb injury that side-
lined him for five games.
Brees turned in a virtu-
oso performance of his-
toric proportions against
Indianapolis, whose fan
base learned during a Su-
per Bowl in Miami a de-
cade ago how hard it can
be to stop Brees when he
gets in rhythm.
Brees set a sin-
gle-game record for accu-
racy with 29 completions
on 30 attempts ( 96.7 per-
cent) for 307 yards and
four touchdowns, raising
his career TD passing to-
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Recruiting
Continued from Page 1B
The 2020 recruiting
class currently boasts
five four-star prospects
— compared to Mullen’s
one — and its average
star rating of 3.227 is al-
most half a star better
than the 2011 average of
2.818. Moorhead’s bunch
also boasts an average
247Sports player rating of
It’s been a blast. It’s awesome. We’ve dominated it. You
know, working hard to keep our third consecutive top-25
class intact. Been to all four corners of the state and a
bunch of others. Highways, dirt roads, Delta, Coast. It’s
been awesome.
87.54 on a 100-point scale,
while Mullen’s group was
a meager 83.33 without
including players who
were too low to receive a
rating at all.
Further, all 14 of
MSU’s high school com-
mits rank in the top 900
nationally, while 10 are
in the top 650. Converse-
ly, Mullen’s third signing
class had just nine players
“It was hard, but that
made it easy for me,”
Stevenson said. “Super
easy.”
Many of the Raiders
had years of experience
playing together — giv-
en the diminutive size
of Oak Hill, almost all of
them play multiple sports
— which helped fuel the
harmony the team has
found.
“There’s no arguing,
no fighting,” senior Coo-
per Hill said. “If we tell
somebody that they’re in
the wrong, they don’t ar-
gue with us. They look at
us, and they learn from
it, and they improve from
what they’ve done wrong
and try to make it right.
tal to 541 — two ahead of
previous touchdown pass
record holder Peyton
Manning.
“That’s a blessing for
him, but he’s not done,”
Saints leading receiver
Michael Thomas assured.
“There is so much more
that he can do. He’s an
incredible leader. We just
follow his lead and we
follow everything that he
has.”
The argument could
and likely will be made
soon that no QB and re-
ceiver in NFL history have
enjoyed better chemistry
than Brees and Thom-
as have in 2019. With 12
catches or 128 yards and a
TD against Indianapolis,
Thomas has an NFL-lead-
ing 133 catches for 1,552
yards this season.
“It’s just accountabil-
ity,” Thomas said. “Our
preparation throughout
the week is laser-like fo-
cus. We are trying to get
better and enhance our
abilities.”
Thomas needs 11
catches during the Saints’
final two regular-season
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ranked in the top 1,000
nationally and seven in
the top 650.
This same talent gap
can be seen between the
two classes’ junior-col-
lege recruits.
After Moorhead inked
four JUCO players a year
ago, seven more are set to
join the Bulldogs’ ranks
next season — includ-
ing a pair of Copiah-Lin-
coln Community College
teammates, defensive
end Jordan Davis (No. 4
overall in 247sports.com’s
junior college rankings)
and wide receiver Malik
Heath (No. 11 overall).
In addition to the
Copiah-Lincoln contin-
gent — which also in-
cludes linebacker Tyrus
The chemistry is just
amazing out here with
this team.”
A large, experienced
senior class has helped
the Raiders shoot out of
the gate, too. Harrington,
Hill, Stevenson and Jaden
Craven have played criti-
cal roles all season, and
point guard Dalton Mag-
ers is set to return from
suspension, too. Sopho-
more Cameron Dill and
juniors Manning Huff-
man and Cohen Trolio
also play key minutes for
Oak Hill.
For Huffman, a starter
for the Raiders, watching
the standout senior class
shine is nothing new.
“I’ve played with them
games to break Mar-
vin Harrison’s NFL sin-
gle-season record of 143
receptions with the Colts
in 2002. On passes from
Manning.
What’s working
The Saints’ passing
game looks a lot more like
those which ranked near
the top of the NFL near-
ly every year that coach
Sean Payton’s offense has
been run by Brees, begin-
ning in 2006. While Brees
is relying heavily on
Thomas, he spread com-
pletions around to eight
other players on Monday
night: three other receiv-
ers, two tight ends, two
running backs, and utility
player Taysom Hill. The
pass to Hill, a reserve QB
and utility player who also
lines up at tight end, re-
ceiver and running back,
went 28 yards for a touch-
down.
What needs help
The pass rush appears
to be seeing the effects
of season-ending injuries
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Wheat — the other four
junior-college prospects
all rank in the top 85 na-
tionally.
Comparatively, the
2011 class boasted just
one junior college player
— Darius Slay of Itawam-
ba Community College.
This isn’t to say Mul-
len’s group was complete-
MSU head coach Joe Moorhead
ly devoid of talent. Among
the unheralded recruits
he brought to Starkville
in 2011 were quarterback
Dak Prescott, linebacker
Benardrick McKinney,
defensive lineman Pres-
ton Smith and Slay — a
group that holds five NFL
Pro Bowl appearances
among them.
That said, while the
2020 class still stands to
my entire life, and they’ve
never let me down,” he
said.
That was certainly the
case Nov. 19, when Oak
Hill delivered payback to
Heritage Academy with
a 47-45 win in its own
home gym. The Raiders
showed they were well
and truly recovered from
the loss just eight days
earlier, where turnovers
played a key role.
“We knew that we had
to come back and get
back focused and come
out stronger the next
game we played,” Huff-
man said.
The result showed
Oak Hill’s resilience, and
the Raiders have kept
to starting end Marcus
Davenport and starting
defensive tackle Shel-
don Rankins. Only three
games ago in Atlanta, the
Saints had nine sacks.
Against Indianapolis,
they had one.
Stock up
Second-year receiv-
er Tre’Quan Smith has
touchdown catches in
each of the Saints’ past
two games, demonstrat-
ing improved effective-
ness since his return from
an ankle injury earlier
this season.
Stock down
Ted Ginn Jr. had one
catch for 13 yards. Known
for his speed, Ginn is
arguably the Saints’ best
deep threat. And while
respect for his speed on
deep routes creates room
for fellow receivers under-
neath, he’s shown previ-
ously that he’s capable of
producing far more.
Injured
Starting right guard
3B
change between now and
fall camp, Moorhead —
statistically, at least — is
bringing in talent at a lev-
el never seen under Mul-
len’s administration, one
horseback ride at a time.
“It’s been a blast. It’s
awesome. We’ve domi-
nated it,” Moorhead said
as he shifted his 6-foot-6
frame back onto his heels
while tapping the podium
with excitement. “You
know, working hard to
keep our third consecu-
tive top-25 class intact.
Been to all four corners
of the state and a bunch
of others. Highways, dirt
roads, Delta, Coast. It’s
been awesome.”
right on rolling. Howell
noted, though, that their
work is far from done
yet, and he still wants his
team to take things game
by game.
“They understand
they’re off to a good start,
but it doesn’t mean any-
thing,” he said. “We’ve
gotta make sure that
they’re still working, and
they know that. They
don’t get too big of a
head.”
But he’s nevertheless
pleased with the “huge
turnaround” the Raiders
have made.
“If we can get these
guys clicking, we’ve got
a chance to be pretty
good,” Howell said.
Larry Warford left Mon-
day night’s game in the
third quarter with a left
knee injury. Defensive
back C.J. Gardner-John-
son took a hard hit to the
head in the fourth quarter
and left with a concussion.
The Saints also played
without starting safety
Vonn Bell, who hurt his
knee a week earlier.
Key number
8 — The number
of games this season
in which Thomas had
caught 10 or more passes,
most in a single season in
NFL history.
Next steps
The Saints (11-3), one
of four teams tied for the
NFC’s best record, con-
clude their regular season
with a pair of road games.
The first is at Tennessee,
where resurgent QB Ryan
Tannehill is trying to keep
the Titans (8-6) in playoff
contention. New Orleans
finishes the regular sea-
son at Carolina.
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NBA
Pacers end Lakers’ road winning streak at 14 games
The Associated Press 3-pointer that would have the Pelicans, who shot 34 Malik Monk scored 14 of
given the Lakers the lead percent, got no closer. his season-high 23 points
INDIANAPOLIS — with 11.7 seconds to go. The Nets have won five in the fourth quarter, and
Domantas Sabonis scored Los Angeles also missed of seven. Charlotte spoiled De’Aar-
26 points and Malcolm on Fox’s return from inju-
Brogdon made a tiebreak-
two shots on its final pos-
session while trying to
Ingram had 22 points
ry with a win over Sacra-
and 10 rebounds but
ing reverse layup with mento.
force overtime. missed 10 of his first 11
36.4 seconds left Tuesday Cody Zeller had 17
shots before scoring all
night to give the Indiana points and nine rebounds,
Pacers a 105-102 victory Nets 108, but two of his points af-
and Bismack Biyombo
Pelicans 101, OT ter halftime. Jrue Holiday
over Los Angeles, snap- added 10 points and 12
NEW ORLEANS scored 21 for the Peli-
ping the Lakers’ 14-game rebounds as the Hornets
— Spencer Dinwiddie cans, who missed 29 of
road winning streak. (13-17) won for the fourth
scored 31 points, and 40 attempts from 3-point
Brogdon dribbled past time in five games.
Brooklyn extended New range.
Dwight Howard and then Fox was back on the
Orleans’ franchise-worst Jarrett Allen had 12
used the rim to protect floor after missing 17
losing streak to 13 games. points, 14 rebounds and
the ball as he made the games with a left ankle
shot. Sabonis followed Joe Harris had 24 six blocks for the Nets, in-
sprain and led the Kings
by hitting one of two free points, including a jump- cluding a transition dunk (12-15) with 19 points in
throws with 10.7 seconds er that put the Nets ahead to tie the game at 93 in the 30 minutes.
remaining. 104-98 with 1:28 to go in final minute of regulation. Monk scored eight
LeBron James had 20 the extra period. Brandon straight points in the
points, nine rebounds and Ingram quickly respond- Hornets 110, Kings 102 fourth quarter, including
nine assists but missed a ed with a 3-pointer, but CHARLOT TE, N.C. — a pair of 3s. He went 5
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
I’m a 25-year-
old female
currently serving
a nine-year prison
sentence. It is the
first time I have
ever been in trou-
ble (wrong place,
wrong time). My
boyfriend is 24.
We’ve been to-
gether 2 1/2 years
ZITS and have had our
ups and downs
(mostly ups). I am
truly in love with
him, and he tells
me he will always Dear Abby
be there for me.
I have been in
prison for five months so far,
and he hasn’t missed a visit or
a phone call. He also makes
sure I have money on my books.
I’m worried that somewhere
down the road, since we’re so
young, he will meet someone
and move on. In a way, I would
GARFIELD kind of understand — I don’t
want his life to stop because
mine has. But I also don’t want
to lose him. How do I keep our
relationship strong, or should
I let him go? — LOCKED UP IN
DELAWARE
DEAR LOCKED UP: Nine
years is a long time, and
sometimes life happens in the
interim. I can’t predict what
will happen, and you shouldn’t
either. Take things a day at a
time. Keep the lines of commu-
nication open and honest.
CANDORVILLE Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec.
18). You’ll gain from becoming
more involved in your commu-
nity, and you’ll find a niche that
serves all quite well while mak-
ing you the money you need for
your next adventure. A sincere
and devoted individual comes
into your world. Work brings
pleasure, and pleasure brings
work. Aquarius and Scorpio
adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 5, 25, 40, 12 and 39.
BABY BLUES ARIES (March 21-April 19).
You’ve an appreciation for histo-
ry. Thinking backward helps you
think forward. There will come a
day when people don’t have to
deal with the things you’re deal-
ing with now. You’ll look back in
amazement.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). Don’t struggle with your
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
of 5 from the field in the
fourth and finished with a
career-high 10 rebounds.
Jazz 109, Magic 102
SALT LAKE CITY —
Donovan Mitchell scored
30 points, including eight
as Utah closed the game
with a 19-5 run to beat Or-
lando.
With the Jazz trailing
97-90, Mitchell awoke a
moribund offense and
energized the crowd with
a highlight-reel dunk in
traffic. That sparked the
clinching spurt for Utah
(16-11), which has won
three in a row.
Bojan Bogdanovic
scored nine of his 30
points during the late
Because
things are going
well, do not “let
him go.” If the
romance ends,
so be it. But if it
does, appreciate
that he seems
to be a staunch
friend and ally.
DEAR ABBY: I
love my wife. We
have been mar-
ried for 38 years.
However, she
does something
that drives me
crazy.
I have a hard
time going to
sleep at night,
and if I’m disturbed in those
first few minutes of sleep, I’m
up all night. We both agreed
that when we say “goodnight,” it
means no more talking or loud
noises. But almost every night
after saying “goodnight,” she
wakes me up with something
she HAS to say or explore. If it
was an emergency, I wouldn’t
mind, but it’s usually something
of no consequence that could
wait until morning.
I have tried ignoring her,
pretending to be asleep, saying
“goodnight again” in a rough
tone of voice and getting angry.
Nothing seems to work. I would
appreciate some advice for
dealing with this. — SLEEPLESS
IN TEXAS
DEAR SLEEPLESS: A solid
night’s sleep is crucial for good
choices. There is nothing for
you in vacillation or fickleness.
Instead, think of yourself as one
who researches and observes
until your choice is clear. You’re
not indecisive. You’re just
thorough.
GEMINI (May 21-June
21). Just because you know
the same word definitions
doesn’t mean you speak the
same language. Slow down;
double-check; stay aware of
the other person. Then you can
avoid the trouble caused by
miscommunication.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
One person is embarrassed or
offended by something that is
no big deal to the next person.
To fulfill today’s purposes,
toe a straight line down the
acceptable and middle lane of
surge, and Joe Ingles
had 16 points and 12 re-
bounds.
Knicks 143, Hawks 120
NEW YORK — Knicks
rookie RJ Barrett scored
a career-high 27 points as
New York ran away from
Trae Young and Atlanta.
Mitchell Robinson had
a career-best 22 points
along with 13 rebounds,
and Marcus Morris also
scored 22 for the Knicks,
who have won three of
four after a 10-game los-
ing streak.
Young scored 42 points
for the Hawks, who lost
their fifth straight. Hunt-
er added 19 points.
health. Tell your wife to keep a
notepad by the side of the bed
and jot down what she wants
to discuss the next morning.
However, if she persists in
awakening you, get up and go
into another room. And continue
doing it until your wife agrees to
show more consideration.
DEAR ABBY: I have known
my friend “Midge” for more than
60 years. We live in different
states now, but keep in touch
online. While our views are
polar opposites on just about
everything, we have remained
friends.
Over the last year, it seems
Midge has reverted to being a
wild teenager. She is smoking
pot, got tattooed and is doing
a lot of partying. Recently, she
posted a very lengthy missive,
including dozens of pictures,
about how much she misses her
ex-boyfriend. Abby, they broke
up 10 years ago! I asked her
sister about her bizarre behavior
and was told, “Oh, that’s just
Midge.” Is it time to let go of the
friendship? — NOT THE SAME
IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR NOT THE SAME:
Assuming that pot is legal in
the state where Midge resides,
she’s doing nothing illegal,
immoral or that will get her preg-
nant out of wedlock. Because
you’re concerned about her,
call Midge to hear how she is.
Sometimes an abrupt change in
personality can be a symptom
of a physical or mental health
issue.
appropriateness.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
Machines are broken when
they can’t do the thing they
were built to do. People aren’t
like that. You can’t assume the
brokenness of a living thing,
because you don’t know what
it was built to do. Living things
transform instead of break.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
There doesn’t have to be agree-
ment, similarity or a confluence
of interests for things to work
between people. Those things
are a luxury. As long as there is
respect and the acknowledge-
ment of connection, coexis-
tence is possible.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
The small works can’t be tended
to in broad strokes. Too much
would get missed. The large
works require a mix of both
broad strokes and attention
to detail. So whether you’re
working large or small, the small
things will matter.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). You have a way of loving
another person that is purely
for your own expression and
joy. Then you have an entirely
different way of showing your
love that matches how the other
person would prefer to receive
it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). Attraction is the
trigger that inspires you to flex
your muscles of imagination.
Wanting makes you resourceful.
Needing makes you determined.
Speculating makes you smart.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). In days of old, one had to
go door to door to make connec-
tions. Now the doors are email
addresses and the knock is a
good subject line. Such things
are worth spending time on to
get right.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Longing is, to many, an
uncomfortable version of love.
Then there are those who actu-
ally prefer it, though they may
not realize or admit this is so.
Being at a distance allows for
much fantasy and idealism.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). People can walk your path
with you, but they can’t walk
it for you. They can do a lot of
other things for you, and you
should totally make sure that
they do today, as success will
depend on deft delegation.
Fool around
SOLUTION:
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Building
. Christmas
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Graham cracker houses — no baking required
Culinary Arts students at McKellar Technology Center in Columbus used graham crackers and candy to create hol-
iday houses — and even castles — last week. The whimsical structures were “built” by 10th- through 12th-grade
students in Jakiero Dismuke’s basic and advanced culinary classes.
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com
N
ew housing starts in Colum-
bus saw a boost last week
when more than two dozen
sweet new “structures” got under-
way. But these miniature houses
were more tasty than livable. They
were the result of an assignment
McKellar Technology Center
Culinary Arts Instructor Jakiero
Dismuke gave 10th- through 12th-
grade students in his basic and
advanced culinary classes. The
project can be a fun family activity
at home, too, especially when kids
get to contribute to the decorating.
“The goal was (for each stu-
dent) to create a Christmas house
out of graham crackers instead
of gingerbread,” Dismuke said.
Using graham crackers may seem
to simplify the task, providing
ready-made walls and roofs instead
of measuring, mixing and baking
gingerbread. But there are chal-
lenges, all the same.
“It can be a little bit harder
because (graham crackers) are so
thin you can easily break them,”
the instructor explained. “You have
to be an engineer and a carpenter
at the same time.”
Step One was for students to
research designs online and come
Add mushrooms
to your snack menu
FAMILY FEATURES
M
ix up your snacking habits
with more nutritious
option to serve ahead of
a meal on its own. These roasted
portobello mushrooms with beets
and goat cheese are ready in
just half an hour with only eight
ingredients, allowing you to dish
up a flavorful bite without going
overboard in the kitchen.
Find more recipes at seneca-
foods.com.
ROASTED PORTOBELLO
MUSHROOMS WITH BEETS
AND GOAT CHEESE
1 jar (16 ounces) Aunt Nellie’s Whole
Pickled Beets
4 large portobello mushrooms (about 1
pound)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black
pepper
1/2 cup fresh bread crumbs, such as
sourdough or whole wheat. (See note
below)
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From left, Briana Williams, 16, Culinary Arts Instructor Jakiero Dismuke,
and Stephanie Edmond, 16, show some of the graham cracker houses
Dec. 13 that students made at McKellar Technology Center in Columbus.
Williams is the daughter of Walter and Monica Edmonds. Edmond is the
daughter of Carlis Bolton.
up with a plan. The teens bought
their own gingerbread and candies
for decorating, from gum drops to
Sour Patch Kids. Advanced stu-
dents who did this last year had an
advantage, having worked through
some of the trial-and-error last
December.
“One of the hard things is to
get (the walls) to stay up, hoping
A twist on a classic pie
FAMILY FEATURES
W
hile apple pie is a
traditional sea-
sonal dish, you
can add unique flavor with
this skillet version. Simply
toss honeycrisp apples with
brown sugar, cinnamon
and lemon juice then spoon
between two pie crusts
simmering in a thin layer of
brown sugar and cinnamon
then drizzle with caramel
sauce for a deliciously goo-
ey evening treat.
Find more dessert reci-
pes at culinary.net.
SKILLET APPLE PIE
WITH CARAMEL SAUCE
4 large honeycrisp apples,
peeled, cored and sliced
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons cinnamon,
divided
1 tablespoon lemon juice
6 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup, plus 2 teaspoons,
brown sugar
2 refrigerated pie crusts
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your icing dries fast enough,” said
Dismuke. “You gotta get the walls
up first, then the roof, which is
probably the hardest because it
could cause everything to collapse
when you add more weight.”
That was the challenge for
first-time home builder Ashuntee
Harris, 15.
See Christmas houses, 6B
Cinnamon, brown sugar, whipping cream and honeycrisp apples go into this skillet apple
pie with caramel sauce.
2 teaspoons whipping cream
Caramel sauce
n Heat oven to 350 F.
n In large bowl, combine apples,
sugar, 1 tablespoon cinnamon
and lemon juice until apples are
covered. Set aside.
LIFESTYLES EDITOR
Jan Swoope: 328-2471
familyfeatures.com
The recipe below makes up eight
mystic mini turkey loaves that
freeze well for later use.
A time-saving
family meal
FAMILY FEATURES
L
eading a busy lifestyle doesn’t
always leave time for spend-
ing hours in the kitchen, and
these Mystic Mini Turkey Loaves
can be made in advance and frozen
for later use. Perfect for simplify-
ing busy evenings, they are made
with mushrooms, yellow onions,
oat milk, pumpkin pie spice and
almond milk yogurt. This and
other kid-friendly recipes are part
of Dole’s healthy-living alliance
with Disney’s Frozen 2. For more
details and recipes, visit dole.com/
Disney. #Dole #DoleRecipes.
MYSTIC MINI TURKEY LOAVES
Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 40 minutes
Serves: 8
1 large egg
2 pounds 93 percent lean ground turkey
1 medium DOLE® yellow onion, finely
chopped
1/2 cup oat milk
1/2 cup whole-wheat panko breadcrumbs
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon salt, divided
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 package (8 ounces) Dole mush-
rooms, sliced
2 cups unsalted chicken stock
3 tablespoons whole-wheat flour
1/4 cup plain almond milk yogurt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
n Heat oven to 350 F. Line rimmed bak-
ing pan with parchment paper.
n In large bowl, whisk egg; gently mix
in turkey, onion, oat milk, breadcrumbs,
pumpkin pie spice and 1/2 teaspoon
salt. Form turkey mixture into eight (4-
by-2 1/2-inch) loaves; place on prepared
pan. Bake loaves 40 minutes, or until
internal temperature reaches 165 F.
n In large skillet over medium-high heat,
heat oil; add mushrooms and cook 5 min-
utes, or until tender, stirring occasionally.
In medium bowl, whisk chicken stock and
flour; add to skillet and cook 3 minutes,
or until thickened, whisking occasionally.
Whisk in yogurt, pepper and remaining
salt.
n Serve loaves topped with gravy and
sprinkled with parsley.
Tip: To freeze loaves, prepare turkey
loaves but do not bake; freeze 2 hours,
or until frozen. Wrap loaves tightly with
plastic wrap and freeze in freezer-safe,
zip-top plastic bags up to 3 months. Thaw
loaves in refrigerator overnight then bake
on parchment-lined rimmed baking pan
at 350 F 40 minutes, or until internal
temperature reaches 165 F. Proceed with
remaining instructions.
culinary.net
n In oven-safe, 10-inch nonstick apples with second pie crust.
skillet, melt butter. Add 1/4 Cut slits in top to release steam.
cup brown sugar and remaining Brush whipping cream over
cinnamon; mix until combined. crust. Sprinkle with remaining
Boil 5-8 minutes. brown sugar.
n In same skillet, place one pie n Bake 35-45 minutes until
crust over brown sugar mixture. crust is golden brown. Drizzle
Pour apples over pie crust. Cover with caramel sauce.
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Christmas houses
Continued from Page 5B
“It was the hardest part,
getting the roof on, because
we had to make sure the roof
covered both the front and the
sides, and it was hard to cut
the graham crackers to fit and
to stay up,” the 10th-grader
said.
Students used two different
types of icing, their instructor
explained: cake icing, which
is thicker, he said and used
mostly for building; and Royal
icing, typically used to deco-
rate. Over two and one-half
days in class, structures took
shape, each demonstrating the
builder’s creativity.
Tenth-grader Madisyn
Turner started out to erect a
basic house.
“But then I started impro-
vising as I went, and I put
two towers beside it,” she
said. “People were calling it a
castle.”
Her primary challenge
was “making sure everything
stayed up and didn’t tumble
over,” she said. Did it? “Yeah,
like five times,” she admitted.
But that’s one of the lessons
Dismuke wanted students to
get from the assignment: If
everything collapsed, it was
time to rethink.
“They’d give it another try,
and they’d actually know what
they did wrong that made it
collapse,” he said. The process
embodies what being a chef is
about, he added — “to think
outside the box.”
From left, Briana Williams and Stephanie Edmond, both 16, demonstrate how they iced their graham
cracker homes last week at McKeller Technology Center. The students used royal icing to glue each
piece together.
Students decorated their
houses with flair. Ice cream
sugar cones were turned
upside down to make Christ-
mas trees. White coconut was
used to make snow. With a bit
of green food coloring, coco-
nut was also transformed into
grass.
“Some actually used some
blue (coloring) to make a
frozen pond with coconut,”
Dismuke said.
“I really enjoyed decorat-
ing the trees and putting the
details on the outside of the
house,” said Harris. “I used
ice cream cones and used
a piping bag with a star tip,
and spray-painted (the trees)
gold and used candy pearls on
them.”
If you’d like to try graham
cracker houses at home, there
Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff
are several YouTube videos
to illustrate the steps. They
include tips, like using a sharp
serrated knife to very lightly
cut the crackers, and how to
use icings. For decorating,
sky’s the limit — miniature
candy canes, M&Ms, Kisses,
sprinkles, confetti, pepper-
mints and more. Kids — young
and old — will love it.
It’s just fun — messy and
tasteofhome.com
After making a graham cracker
“gingerbread” house, how about
using leftover graham crackers
to make these festive Santas?
fun,” Dismuke said.
And those leftover graham
crackers? Read on for a way to
make use of them, too. Merry
Christmas!
GRAHAM CRACKER SANTAS
Prep/total time: 20 minutes
Makes 1 dozen
1 1/4 cups vanilla frosting, divided
Red liquid and paste food coloring
6 whole graham crackers, halved
36 miniature marshmallows, halved
24 red-hot candies
6 small gumdrops, halved
n Tint 1 cup frosting light pink with
liquid food coloring. Spread over the
graham crackers. Tint remaining frost-
ing with paste food coloring. Pipe into
one corner of each cracker for hat;
add a marshmallow half for pom-pom.
For each Santa, arrange remaining
marshmallows halves for beard, red-
hots for eyes and a gumdrop half for
a nose.
(Source: tasteofhome.com, Ray
Taylor)

Sharing a family meal can help those with dementia connect

Acheson, chef and owner
‘Whether we’re sharing a recipe or a memory about food, at the Georgia restau-
we’re really linking into the meaning of being. This food rants 5&10 and The
National, to help spread
ritual can help older adults with dementia reconnect the word.
Acheson’s father, a
with their own personhood.’ former professor, devel-
oped Alzheimer’s about
Sheila Molony, professor of nursing at Quinnipiac University
five years ago. Sharing
By MELISSA RAYWORTH ness and belonging,” says mer’s several years ago, meals was always a part
The Associated Press Sheila Molony, professor Borghoff began making of their relationship, but
it’s taken on new meaning
“As a single father
raising four kids and
a full-time academic,”
Acheson says, his father
didn’t have much time
to cook gourmet meals.
So Acheson doesn’t cook
the same dishes they had
years ago.
“I’m not gonna make
him the burnt rice and
fish sticks that he made
says. Instead, Acheson
might grill a good steak
and simply pair it with a
fresh, green salad.
“Food is so much
about finding a thread of
personal history where
it means something to
you, and I think that’s as
much for the caregiver as
for the person suffering
through dementia or

L
ong before Tim
Hollingsworth
earned the James
Beard Foundation’s
Rising Star Chef of the
Year award and served as
chef de cuisine at French
Laundry, he was learning
to cook by his mother’s
side at home. As a kid,
Hollingsworth would
measure ingredients to
help his mom make din-
ner, and he’d talk with her
and sample the dishes as
they cooked.
Today, Hollingsworth
— the winner of Netflix’s
“The Final Table” and
owner of Otium in Los
Angeles — returns the
favor. His mother, now
struggling with memory
loss, sits with him as
he cooks her favorite
recipes, from fragrant
pots of chili to comforting
platters of chicken and
dumplings.
Although she’s not
really able to participate
in the cooking, being
present for the prepara-
tion and eating of familiar
dishes with her son helps
bridge the distance that
dementia can create.
When we make and
share food with others,
“we feel a sense of useful-
of nursing at Quinnipiac sure that every other
University and a gerontol- Sunday, the whole family for Hugh Acheson as his us, which I’m sure was Alzheimer’s,” Acheson
ogy researcher. had dinner together. father’s memory fades. delivered with love,” he says.
If family members “It was the best time,
with dementia can be because everyone would
involved in meal prep sit around and for whatev-
or table setting even in er reason, we were always
a small way, that may laughing,” she says.
give them some sense of Sharing these meals with
peace and what Molony relatives helped both men
calls “at-homeness.” It regain a bit of their old
helps them feel like part personalities, even if just
of the social fabric of a for a short time.
family or community. The menu didn’t
“Whether we’re shar- really matter: “I could
ing a recipe or a memory have ordered pizza,”
about food, we’re really Borghoff says. It was the
linking into the meaning familiar and comforting
of being,” Molony says. experience of lingering
“This food ritual can help around the table together
older adults with demen- even after the plates were
tia reconnect with their empty.
own personhood.” “When you’re with the
For Kim Borghoff kids and you start talking
and her family, keeping a about memories,” she
tradition of Sunday meals says, it’s “good for the
helped maintain a sense caregivers and the family
of normalcy as her hus- to be able to get that per-
band and his father were son back and remember
simultaneously strug- those times.”
gling with Alzheimer’s This fall, the Alz-
disease. heimer’s Association
Family meals have has been spreading the
been a priority ever word about the connect-
since the three Borgoff ing power of mealtime
children — now in their through their Around the
20’s — were growing up. Table program. Along
So when her father-in-law with Hollingsworth,
and husband were both they’ve enlisted other
diagnosed with Alzhei- chefs, including Hugh

Mushrooms
Continued from Page 5B
1/4 cup sliced green onions or
chopped chives
1/4 cup coarsely chopped
walnuts, toasted
1/2 cup (2 ounces) crumbled
goat cheese

n Heat oven to 400 F.

n Drain beets. Coarsely chop
1/2 cup beets.
n Trim stems flat and remove
gills from mushroom caps
using a spoon. Place caps,
rounded side down, on foil-
lined baking sheet; season
with salt and pepper.
n In medium bowl, combine
chopped beets, bread crumbs,
green onions and walnuts.
Spoon mixture into caps and
top with goat cheese.
n Bake 12 to 15 minutes or
until heated through and mush-
rooms are tender.
Note: Using a food processor,
pulse a few pieces of sour familyfeatures.com
dough or wheat bread several Roasted portobello mushrooms with beets and goat
times until finely crumbled. cheese make an appetizer to impress.
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