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RELIGION • B1

GROUND ZERO MOSQUEImam sees hope after controversy

TOPIC • D1

PAMPERED PETSFido at top of Santa’ s list

S AT U R D A Y, D E c E M b E R 11, 2010 • 5 0 ¢

WEATHERToday:

Showers; high of 65Tonight:

Showers; low of 46Mississippi River Friday:

21.6 feetRose: 1.0 foot

Flood stage: 43 feet

A9DEATHS

• Ruth S. Irwin• Everlisa L. Northern

A9TODAY IN HISTORY

1792: France’s King Louis XVI goes before the Con-vention to face charges of treason. (Louis was convict-ed, and executed the fol-lowing month.)1816: Indiana becomes the 19th state.1928: Po-lice in Bue-nos Aires announce they had thwarted an attempt on the life of Presi-dent-elect Herbert Hoover.1941: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; the U.S. responds in kind.1980: President Jimmy Carter signs into a law leg-islation creating a $1.6 bil-lion environmental “super-fund” to pay for cleaning up chemical spills and toxic waste dumps.

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Lemario Smoot, 24, 4275 Richmond Circle, Jackson, is escorted through the Vicksburg Police Department by Investigator Daniel Thomas, left, and Chief Walter Armstrong on Friday.

KATIE CARTER•The Vicksburg PosT

By Ben [email protected]

A Jackson man accused of robbing a Vicksburg gas sta-tion on Dec. 2, then wrecking his car during a police chase on Interstate 20 is out of the hospital and in jail.

Lemario Smoot, 24, 4275 Richmond Circle, is charged with strong arm robbery and felony eluding. He was in the Warren County jail on Friday night on $100,000 bond, Vicksburg Police Chief Walter Armstrong said. He also is connected to a similar robbery in Jackson, Armstrong said. Smoot had been at University Medical Center since the crash near Edwards.

Police believe Smoot robbed the Kangaroo conve-nience store at 4150 Wash-ington St. on Dec. 2, then fled east in a Ford SUV. Vicks-burg police and Mississippi

Highway Safety Patrol offi-cers gave chase before Smoot wrecked his SUV trying to pass an 18-wheeler on the shoulder, police said. The SUV left the highway and rolled into a ditch near the Edwards exit.

Smoot was pinned in the vehicle until he could be freed by emergency work-ers, and then the debris had to be cleared from the road-way causing lengthy traffic delays.

In the Jackson case, Smoot is the prime suspect in the Nov. 24 robbery of a Family Dollar store in Jackson, The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson reported.

Smoot played linebacker for the Jackson State football team in 2009. He also played at Provine High School and briefly for Hinds Commu-nity College, where he was a second team all-conference selection his freshman year.

Kangaroo robbery suspectout of hospital, jailed here

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer shakes hands with students from Cedars Head Start as they make their way to see Santa Claus at Vicksburg Mall Friday. Students from Cedars Head Star and Kings Head Start were greeted by Rudolph and got to visit with Santa. Vicksburg Mall is hosting Pet Photos with Santa to benefit the Vicksburg-Warren Humane Society, Paws Rescue and the Vicksburg Animal Shelter. Pets can get their picture taken with Santa Claus today from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., and Dec. 18 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.


‘Tis the season

By Manivanh [email protected]

Upgrades to two city ambu-lances, and the purchase of a new one, will help keep vehi-cle repair costs down while providing optimal services to the public, city officials said.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Friday accepted bids from two

ambulance dealers for the re-mounting, or re-trucking, of two Type III ambulances and for the purchase with a trade-in value of a new Type III ambulance. Re-mounting is placing the square patient compartment atop of a new chassis of a van or truck.

Type III ambulances are light duty vans that have a square patient compartment

mounted on the chassis of the van and are equipped with advance life support.

Other classes of ambu-lances include Type I, which is similar to a Type III but instead is mounted on the chassis of a truck, Type II, which is a van, and Type IV, also called a mini ambulance.

“When it gets to the point where it costs too much in

the repairs, that’s when we start thinking about a new ambulance or to re-truck,” Vicksburg Fire Chief Charles Atkins said. “In this situa-tion, a re-truck would fit us fine because of the finances of it all. We can handle that right about now.”

This typically could save around $30,000 off the pur-chase of a new ambulance.

To re-mount, Taylor Made Ambulance of Newport, Ark., submitted a bid of $76,445 and Peach State Ambulance of Tyrone, Ga., submitted a bid of $65,262.

While re-mounting will save the city some money, the board decided to pur-chase a new ambulance

City takes bids to upgrade 2 ambulances, buy another

See City, Page A9.

HerbertHoover

By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In the spirit of the holiday season, President Barack Obama’s tax-cut deal with Republi-cans is becoming a Christ-mas tree tinseled with gifts for lobbyists and lawmak-ers. But that hardly stopped the squabbling on Friday, with Bill Clinton even back at the White House plead-ing the president’s case.

While Republicans sat back quietly, mostly pleased, Democrats and other liberals were going at each other ever so pub-licly. As Clinton lectured on Obama’s behalf, Vermont independent Bernie Sand-ers castigated the agree-ment for the TV cameras in the mostly empty Senate chamber.

The tax deal, reached behind the scenes and still informal, now includes ethanol subsidies for rural folks, commuter tax breaks for their cousins in the cities and suburbs and wind and solar grants for the environmentalists — all aimed at winning votes, particularly from reluctant Democrats.

The holiday additions are being hung on the big bill that was Congress’ main reason for spend-ing December in Washing-

ton, long after the elections that will give Republicans new power in January. The measure will extend Bush-era tax cuts, averting big tax increases for nearly all Americans, and keep job-less benefits flowing.

Republicans gener-ally liked that agreement, worked out by Obama and GOP leaders. Democrats generally didn’t, hence the

Add-ons turntax cut bill into‘Christmas tree’

‘I think there’s a

better deal out there

potentially available and we ought to fight

for it.’Rep. Jay Inslee

WashingTon DemocraT

‘I don’t believe

there is a better deal out there.’

BILL ClInton

Former PresiDenT

See Tax, Page A9.

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CLUBSRosa A. Temple High Re-union — 3 today, vote on date for 2011 reunion; LD’s Kitchen, 1111 Mulberry St.; Dorwin Shields, 601-634-0791, or Mary Logan, 601-638-2898.Elks Lodge — 3:30 p.m. Sun-day, Alma J. Brown Youth Council meeting; 916 Wal-nut St.Vicksburg Genealogical So-ciety — 10 a.m. Monday; Dr. Richard Taylor, Tunica Muse-um director, speaker; Public

Library.Ladies Auxiliary and VFW Post 2572 — 6 p.m. Monday; ladies to bring a gift and a tray of goodies; 1918 Washing-ton St.AARP Vicksburg/West Cen-tral Mississippi Local Chap-ter 4967 — 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday; holiday luncheon and installation of officers; Shoney’s. Vicksburg-Warren JSU Alumni — 6 p.m. Tuesday; Jackson Street Center.Vicksburg Kiwanis — Christ-

mas party, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Wesley Jones’ home; no noon meeting. NARFE, Warren Coun-ty Chapter 1501 — Noon Wednesday; First Light, Bow-mar Baptist ladies ensemble presenting Christmas music; for reservations, Josephine Head, 601-636-3276 by noon today; Roca at Vicksburg Country Club.

CHURCHESHouse of Peace Church In-ternational — “Why Me?” 7 tonight; $10 adults, $5 up to

age 10; written and produced by Linda Sweezer, pastor; Roll-ing Fork.First Baptist — Blood drive, 4-8 p.m. Wednesday; all do-nors receive free T-shirt; Fam-ily Life Center; Family Life Cen-ter, 1607 Cherry St.

PUBLIC PROGRAMSLevi’s — A Gathering Place; 7-10 tonight, Christmas jam; donations accepted. Narcotics Anonymous — River City Group, 8 p.m. Sun-day, Tuesday, Wednesday,

Friday and Saturday; Good Shepherd Community Center, 629 Cherry St.; daytime, Alvin J., 601-661-7646 or 601-415-1742; evening, Jackie G., 601-638-8456 or 601-415-3345.

The Vicksburg Post welcomes timely letters of thanks or salute that relate to a specific event or incident where the community was involved or invited. Letters must be original and signed with the author’s name. Letters may thank donors generally, but not include lists. Letters of more than 200 words will not be printed. The Vicksburg Post reserves the right to edit all letters. Submitted items, including letters published in this column, do not represent the views of the newspaper.

Help expedited projectThe Vicksburg Warren

Humane Society wishes to send our sincerest thanks to Billy Sheffield of Sheffield Rentals.

Billy loaned us a track hoe so we could go forward with a project we are trying to have ready by this spring or early summer. We needed to clear more than an acre of land that was heavily wooded and

would have taken months.Thanks to the loaned track

hoe, all of the wooded area was cleared in about six hours. Our project is going to be a dog walking trail and a place where adopters can make sure the pet they want to adopt will get along with a pet they already have. This area will be landscaped and will have a picnic area and benches, as well.

Thanks to Billy Sheffield for making it possible for this spring.

Georgia LynnPresident

Santa breakfast a joy

The 2010 Breakfast with Santa at the Vicksburg Con-vention Center provided hundreds of people a quality holiday experience. A por-tion of the proceeds benefit the Ronald McDonald House,

a “home away from home” for families with seriously ill children.

I would like to thank our sponsors. This event would not have been possible with-out their generosity.

We were very fortunate to have so many volunteer stu-dents who did everything from taking up tickets and clearing tables to assisting the children with cookie dec-orating and arts and crafts. We couldn’t have done it without them!

I would also like to thank Dan and Pauline Cook for going door to door collecting door prizes and to those busi-nesses that contributed. A very special thanks to Gary Haygood, who has volun-teered year after year to take the pictures with Santa.

Last, but certainly not least, a big thanks to Santa and

Mrs. Claus for coming to Vicksburg during their busi-est time of the year. They pro-vided lots of joy to the hun-dreds of boys and girls who attended this annual event.

Sue BagbyVCC special events

coordinator

Parade ‘beautiful’I would be remiss not to

mention a few people who were instrumental in the suc-cess of the Downtown Christ-mas Parade of Lights.

I would like to thank: Samantha Blount for her hard work; Jeff Richardson and his landscape crew for getting downtown spruced up; Robert Hubbard and his crew, who came before and after to clean up; the right of way department for clean-ing up; TV23 for covering the

parade; local law enforce-ment; Blackburn Motors for supplying a car for our grand marshal, Mayor Paul Win-field; the parade line-up com-mittee; and Evelyn Parker with River 101.3 and Don Chambers with WRTM-FM for announcing the parade.

For the eighth year in a row, the Downtown Christmas Parade of Lights has been a great success. More than 60 entities took time out of their busy schedules to provide our community with a beauti-ful parade. I wish there was time to acknowledge each and every one of them. To coin a phrase from the YMCA — everyone was a winner!

I would also like to thank our judges, who were allowed by The Valley and the Upper End to use their balconies.

Kim HopkinsVicksburg Main Street

A Vicksburg woman was found guilty of aggravated assault Tuesday in Warren County Circuit Court follow-ing a two-day trial.

Latonya O’Neil, 25, 1405-B Hayes St., will be sentenced Jan. 7 by presiding Judge Isadore Patrick. She faces 20 years in prison.

O’Neil was accused of stabbing and beating with a baseball bat a man who had been baby-sitting her daughter.

Assistant District Attor-

ney Dewey Arthur said O’Neil attacked the man in an attempt to take the man’s wallet. The victim suffered a dislocated finger, broken teeth, slashes

on his arms and a stab wound from a pair of scissors.

Testifying in her own defense, O’Neil claimed she acted in self-defense, Arthur said.

The jury of nine women and three men deliberated for about two hours before returning the guilty verdict, he said.

In another case, Patrick post-poned the sentencing of Kris-tin Walter, 26, 7094 Oak Ridge Road, until Thursday at 9 a.m. Walter was initially scheduled for sentencing Friday. She pleaded no contest Nov. 19 to felony child abuse, and faces a possible 20 years in prison and $10,000 fine.

Also in Warren County Cir-cuit Court for the week ending

Friday:• Mingo Vancen Eichel-

burger, 31, 134 Ray Charles Road, Panther Burn, was found guilty of violating pro-bation and sentenced by Patrick to complete a Mis-sissippi Department of Cor-rections restitution program at Hinds or Jackson County and pay $1,352.50 in fines, court costs and assessments. Eichelburger was arrested May 26, 2007 for possession of marijuana.

• Hezekiah Ellis Jr., 42, 3186 Barland Road, Pattison, pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon by a convicted felon and was sentenced by Patrick to 51 days in jail fol-lowed by five years of proba-tion, a $1,000 fine and $322.50 in costs. Ellis was arrested June 1, 2008.

• Ricky Desmond Fuller, 45,

207 G Northpoint Ave., High Point, N.C., entered a no con-test plea to possession of mari-juana and was sentenced by Patrick to one day in jail fol-lowed by three years of proba-tion, a $1,000 fine and $322.50 in costs. Fuller was arrested Oct. 18, 2005.

• Jonathan Troy Grogan, 18, 1802 Vicklan St., pleaded guilty to burglary of a dwell-ing and was sentenced by Pat-rick to 246 days in jail followed by five years of probation, a $1,000 fine, $2,500 in restitution and $322.50 in costs. Grogan was arrested April 1.

• Omar Ingram, 32, 316 Lake Hill Drive, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced by Patrick to 154 days in jail followed by five years of probation, a $1,000 fine and $322.50 in costs. Ingram was arrested July 1.

• Korey O. Sims, 29, 1704 Heather Drive, pleaded guilty to two counts of business bur-glary dating to April 2008 and was sentenced by Patrick to two seven-year prison terms, $4,530 in restitution and $645 in costs; and pleaded guilty to rape and was sentenced by Patrick to 15 years in prison followed by five years of proba-tion, a $2,000 fine and $333.50 in costs, from a grand jury indict-ment issued in August 2009. The sentences will be served concurrently.

• Sylvester Smith, 32, 1515 First North St., pleaded guilty to DUI third offense and was sentenced by Patrick to the Ninth Circuit Court Drug Court Program for a period not to exceed five years, a $2,000 fine, $500 Drug Court fee and $322.50 in costs. Smith was arrested Aug. 27.

COMMUnIty CALEndAR

tHAnkS & APPRECIAtIOn

LatonyaO’Neil

COURt REPORtfrom court records

Vicksburg woman faces 20 years after aggravated assault conviction

Darlene Smith smiles in surprise as she is

announced the win-ner of the quilt raffle

Wednesday at the Vicksburg Senior

Center. The top piece of the quilt was

donated to the cen-ter by Cynthia Currey Launhardt of Lake St.

Louis, Mo. The quilt was handmade over

three months by about a dozen of the senior citizens at the center. Raffle tickets

were sold at $1 each. All proceeds from

the raffle, about $400, will go directly back to the center to

fund programs and activities, director

Jennifer Harper said. They plan to raffle

off a tulip quilt in the spring and will begin

selling raffle tickets on March 1.

RAffLE wInnER


CulkinCulkin Water District

issued a boil water advisory for residents on Amos Road and, separately, for residents on Possum Hollow Road.

Residents are urged to boil water for at least two minutes

BOIL wAtER

JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he has spoken with India’s ambassador to the U.S. and expressed concern on behalf of his state for the pat-down she received by airport secu-rity in Jackson last week.

Barbour said in a statement Friday he assured Ambassa-dor Meera Shankar that he has discussed the issue with U.S. Homeland Security Sec-retary Janet Napolitano and the Transportation Security Administration.

India’s foreign minister, S.M. Krishna, said Thursday that the Dec. 4 incident in Missis-sippi was the second time in three months Shankar had undergone a pat-down at a U.S. airport.

Barbour, a Republican who might run for president in 2012, says he wants TSA to change procedures to “help make our visitors feel wel-come and safe.”

Barbour callsambassador,expressesconcerns

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Today• Lynne Bryant lecture —

10 a.m. at Lorelei Books on Washington Street; “Cat-fish Alley”; 601-634-8624 or www.loreleibooks.com.

• Art & Soul of the South monthly beading class — 10 a.m. at 1312 Washington St.; $15; 601-629-6201.

• “God’s Christmas Gift” live nativity— 6-9 p.m. at First Baptist Church on Cherry Street; free; 601-636-2493.

• “The Best Christmas Pag-eant Ever” — 7 p.m. at the Coral Room inside The Vicks-burg on Clay Street; $10; pre-sented by Westside Theatre Foundation; 601-618-9349.

• Vicksburg High Madri-gal Dinner — 7 p.m. at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center; $25 per person; res-ervations: Tracey Gardner, 601-831-1807.

• Confederate Christmas Ball — 7:30 p.m. at Old Court House Museum on Cherry Street; $25; 601-636-0741.

• ”Tuesdays with Morrie” — 7:30 p.m. at Vicksburg The-atre Guild’s Parkside Play-house, 101 Iowa Ave.; $5; www.e-vtg.com or 601-636-0471.

• Nativity Display — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Goodman Memori-al United Methodist Church in Cary; more than 200 nativ-ities from around the world; free.

Sunday• Nativity Display — 1-4

p.m. at Goodman Memorial United Methodist Church in Cary; more than 200 nativi-ties from around the world; free.

• “Tuesdays with Morrie” — 2 p.m. at Vicksburg Theatre Guild’s Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; $5; www.e-vtg.com or 601-636-0471.

• “The Nutcracker Ballet” —2 p.m. at Warren Central High School auditorium; $9 at the door or in advance by calling 601-636-9389; presented by Vicksburg Dance Studio.


• Saint Joseph Community Orchestra Christmas Con-cert — 3 p.m. at Southern Cultural Heritage Center; featuring Alcorn choir; free; 601-631-2997.

• “God’s Christmas Gift” live nativity — 6-9 p.m. at First Baptist Church on Cherry Street; free; 601-636-2493.

• Old Court House Christmas — 7:30 p.m. at Old Court House Museum on Cherry Street; music by Nick and Ju-lia Blake, caroling, snacks.

Monday• Elise Winter book-signing

— 4 p.m. at Lorelei Books on Washington Street; wife of former Gov. William Win-ter; “Dinner at the Mansion”; 601-634-8624 or www.lore-

leibooks.com.

Wednesday• Curtis Wilkie book-signing

— Noon at Lorelei Books on Washington Street; “The Fall Of the House Of Zeus”; 601-634-8624 or www.lorelei-books.com.

Friday• “The Best Christmas Pag-

eant Ever” — 7 p.m. at the Coral Room inside The Vicks-burg on Clay Street; $10; pre-

sented by Westside Theatre Foundation; 601-618-9349.

• Gibson Memorial United Methodist Live Nativity — 7-8:30 p.m. at church at 335 Oak Ridge Road.

• FitZone’s Holiday Fun & Fit Night — 6-9 p.m. for ages 3-12; $15, with discounts for multiples; pizza and drink included; 1808 S. Frontage Road; 601-638-3778.

Dec. 18• Nativity Display — 10 a.m.-

4 p.m. at Goodman Memori-al United Methodist Church

in Cary; more than 200 nativ-ities from around the world; free.

• “The Nutcracker” — 2 and 7 p.m. at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; presented by Debra Franco School of Dance; $10; 601-638-7282.


• Gibson Memorial United Methodist Live Nativity — 7-8:30 p.m. at church at 335 Oak Ridge Road.

• Yuletide Souls Festival — 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Warren County-Vicksburg Public Li-brary; featuring Southern authors, artists; free; 601-636-6411.

Dec. 19• Nativity Display — 1-4

p.m. at Goodman Memorial United Methodist Church in Cary; more than 200 nativi-ties from around the world; free.

• “The Nutcracker” — 2 and 7 p.m. at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; presented by Debra Franco School of Dance; $10; 601-638-7282.

Dec. 22• “What Do the Lonely Do at

Christmas?” — 7:30 p.m. at Parkside Playhouse, 101

Iowa Ave.; written by Pam Pruitt of Vicksburg; tickets: $10 for adults by Wednes-day, $15 after, $8 for children 12 and younger; 601-636-4786 or 601-994-3477.

Dec. 23• “What Do the Lonely Do at

Christmas?” — 7:30 p.m. at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; written by Pam Pruitt of Vicksburg; tickets: $10 for adults by Wednes-day, $15 after, $8 for children 12 and younger; 601-636-4786 or 601-994-3477.

Dec. 26• Soul Session Sundays —

3-6 p.m. at the CYA Village Campus on Mississippi 548 in Hermanville; holiday crafts, entertainment, etc.; free

New Year’s Eve• “First Night” — At Vicks-

burg Theatre Guild’s Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; $5; continues Jan. 1-2 and 7-9; 601-636-0471 or www.e-vtg.com for show times.

• “The Rocky Horror Show” — Midnight at the Coral Room inside The Vicksburg on Clay Street; $12; contin-ues at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 1-2; pre-sented by Westside Theatre Foundation; 601-618-9349.

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Rashad Flagg and Emily Burkes, third grade students at Sherman Avenue Elementary, hand Kenny Frazer, the recreational therapist at Covenant Health and Rehab, Christmas cards they made to donate to the residents of Covenant. More than 100 second- and third-graders at Sherman Avenue made cards and ornaments for the center. Rashad, 8, is the son of Willie Flagg and Beletra Jefferson. Emily, 8, is the daughter of Eric and Angel Burkes.

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120 YEARS AGO: 1890The steamer Nellie Hudson is sunk in the Sunflower River. There is no loss of life. • Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Dickson are here from Jackson for a visit.

110 YEARS AGO: 1900A.S. Lane, secretary of the fifth district Lou-isiana levee board, is in the city. • Ed Leyens and Dave Switzer purchase the stock of the late Thomas Deason and Julius Hoerner in The Valley Dry Goods Company.

100 YEARS AGO: 1910Henry Mackey slaughters the 4-year-old cow, prize winner of the Warren County Fair. The animal weighs 1,275 pounds.

90 YEARS AGO: 1920The Rev. Robert Selby becomes pastor of Crawford Street Methodist Church. • The people of the city will protest against rais-ing telephone rates. • B.E. LaHatte will enter the grocery firm of H.B. LaHatte, his brother.

80 YEARS AGO: 1930News is received here that Charles Clark, former Vicksburger, is killed while hunting near Memphis. • Mrs. Minnie Smith dies.

70 YEARS AGO: 1940Mrs. John Conway dies. • Mrs. Stanley Brav makes a talk on the radio regarding the emergency nursery school on Jackson Road. • A series of false alarms has plagued the Vicksburg Fire Department lately.

60 YEARS AGO: 1950Three men are killed and one injured in a head-on automobile collision west of Tal-lulah. • T.G. Boren Jr., of Port Gibson is killed instantly when the pickup he is driv-ing collides with an Illinois Central train at the crossing of Church Street and U.S. 61. • A 12-inch aerial flash bomb set off at Pul-len’s service station on Clay Street causes considerable damage. The bomb had been planted in a soft drink machine.

50 YEARS AGO: 1960Services are held for Col. James Walsh. • Gerald Cronin dies. • Mr. and Mrs. Robert

McKinney and son are visiting relatives in Little Rock, Ark. • Fred MacMurray stars in “Day of the Badman” at the Joy Theatre.

40 YEARS AGO: 1970Lee Marvin stars in “Monte Walsh” at the Joy Theatre. • Mr. and Mrs. George Ward announce the birth of a son, George, on Dec. 5. • T.D. Prestridge dies.

30 YEARS AGO: 1980Services are held for Theo V. Paxton. • Bonnie Ratcliff has an auto accident while attempting to dodge a deer. • Derek Duane and Delicia Diann Nugent celebrate their first birthdays.

20 YEARS AGO: 1990The Mississippi Children’s Home Society and Family Service Association, based in Jackson, is picked by Warren County super-visors to set up and operate a youth crisis shelter here. • Byron De La Beckwith, 70, of Signal Mountain, Tenn., is freed on $15,000 bail for a Feb. 22 hearing on whether he should be returned to Mississippi to stand trial a third time in the 1963 slaying of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

10 YEARS AGO: 2000Charles R. Smith opens Diversified Mort-gage & Loan. • Sgt. Jon Carter, Lt. Bobby Stewart and Officer Greg Kurtz receive the Medal of Valor from the Vicksburg Police Department for their rescue of a 10-month-old from a house fire. • Gracie Elizabeth Felker celebrates her first birthday.

The sins of the father may be visited upon Cameron Newton and Auburn University in the by and by, but last Sat-urday afternoon was a great one, free of guilt or angst for fans like myself.

On the day Auburn played South Car-olina for the SEC championship, I wore my No. 2 jersey, the first AU jersey I’ve owned since Sullivan passed to Bea-sley, and I cheered myself hoarse as Cameron Newton exhausted every cliché the television announcers had in their arsenal.

Cam ran, pranced, wove, threw, plowed, connected and hailed Mary. He did it all so fluidly and effortlessly that it was like watching “Dancing With the

Stars” instead of a football game.

I’ve wondered in this past season if my regular life has become so empty that I now live for football like so many people I’ve known and disdained. Or have I simply grown old? Or crazy? This game with the arcane

rules that routinely baffle me has taken on significance beyond what’s seemly.

I think I know why.To watch Cam Newton play ball is to

watch physical perfection. He is youth and health, determination and pas-sion, grace and generosity rolled into one human. That is, if he’s human. He looks more like Pixar animation, a com-puter-generated superhero whose foes cannot find any kryptonite.

He is great at a job that he loves in a world that’s made in China and going to the dogs.

If you think this is hyperbole, you haven’t seen him play. Or smile. Or rush to the student section of the sta-dium after the game, before the report-ers find him.

I’ve been in the stands to watch Her-schel Walker and Bo Jackson, and the aforementioned efficient team of Pat Sullivan and Terry Beasley. I’ve seen Tim Tebow and O.J. Simpson, at least on TV. They all look like surreys with fringe on top next to Cam’s space shut-tle. And none seems to have as much fun performing.

Maybe the best comparison isn’t from a football roster at all. Maybe Cameron Newton is football’s Tiger Woods, or Secretariat, or Pavarotti. Cam Newton is rare, from a broken mold.

I’ve heard all the theories, jokes and snide remarks about Cam and his dad. I think the timing of the revelations explains more about what’s going on than any of the news reports. I don’t know what Cecil Newton said or did or what Cameron did or did not know. I don’t know, and neither do you. Not yet.

I know that college football is a boil-ing vat of boosters, money and hypoc-risy. Those schools that can afford to be big-time are, the rest conveniently become scolds hiding in a library carrel and behind a petri dish. The Univer-sity of Alabama during the Bill Curry tenure.

The only way to remove corruption from all the programs is to pay the players and quit pretending that aca-demics are the reason these young specimens choose to sign letters of intent with one school or another. Saint Joseph Paterno might not agree, but many coaches would.

Cam Newton is at Auburn to play ball. And, by God, he’s doing it.

•Rheta Grimsley Johnson writes for King Features Syndicate.


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He looks more like Pixar animation, a computer-generated superhero whose foes

cannot find any kryptonite.

Auburn’s Newton:The Pavarotti ofcollege football

Open meetingsFrom other Mississippi newspapers:

•The Meridian Star:Here we are again, asking the Lauder-

dale County Board of Supervisors to stop breaking the State’s Open Meet-ings Act.

In previous editorials in the past two years we have outlined the law, dis-cussed its importance and made a plea for supervisors to do the public’s busi-ness in front of them and not behind closed doors. We’ve met with them to discuss the issue. We’ve asked them to take it seriously. We’ve demanded change.

To date, not much has changed. In fact, supervisors have merely grown more nonchalant with their blatant dis-regard of the law.

They recently were caught in the act

breaking the law. A county resident made us — and supervisors — aware of a video that showed supervisors dis-cussing raising a tax rate for garbage during a closed-door meeting where supervisors told the public they were discussing “personnel matters related to the Mississippi State University Extension Service.”

The video was taped by a county employee, uploaded to the county’s website and later removed from the site — along with other archived videos of meetings — after a resident told county officials the video was available for anyone to see.

Supervisors then gave differing accounts about what happened behind closed doors. The good news: there is video evidence this time, so taxpayers no longer have to try to decide who to

believe. And the video is clear: Super-visors are shown discussing garbage fees, even polling votes.

This newspaper, on behalf of the citi-zens of Lauderdale County, has filed an official complaint with the Missis-sippi Ethics Commission. Even though the fine for the offense is a mere $100 — and ultimately paid by the public body, or the taxpayers — we believe it’s an important step to take.

The bottom line: The residents of Lau-derdale County deserve better. They deserve a board that will follow the law. They deserve a board that understands the very essence of our democracy is rooted in transparency. They deserve a board that will stop shrugging off a serious issue.

Lauderdale County continues to break the law

Time is now to find a state medical examinerThe Clarion-Ledger, Jackson:Mississippi still needs a chief medical

examiner.Last week, the Department of Public

Safety said Dr. Douglas Posey was to begin work as the state’s second, board-certified forensic pathologist, exactly one month after Dr. Adel Shaker was hailed as the state’s first staff medical examiner since 1995.

Posey was to be the state’s chief medi-cal examiner with plans for him to eventually have four assistants, includ-ing Shaker.

But on Dec. 3, Posey informed offi-cials that “due to recent unexpected health issues” he is unable to accept the position.

“Nobody was more surprised and disappointed than me,” Department of Public Safety Commissioner Steve

Simpson said.Simpson said Posey told him he was

recovering from a serious surgery and no longer thought he could commit the time and energy the post would require.

Posey’s decision is disappointing. The state is in the process of building a new Crime Lab and medical examiner’s office.

But those developments don’t offset the fact that Mississippi’s death inves-tigation system has been deficient for years.

Dr. Emily Ward was the last state medical examiner, who served from August 1993 to June 1995. She had been the fifth since 1979. Since then, the state has contracted out the process of doing autopsies, a system that has created problems on several levels.

Simpson said the new medical exam-iner will be working with the Univer-sity of Mississippi Medical Center, which has been handling the duties since Oct. 15, when the state ended its contract with a Tennessee firm.

A fully functioning medical examin-er’s office and a modern, adequately staffed crime lab are essentials for providing the information needed by law enforcement in dealing with death investigations.

It’s far past time that Mississippi fully fund and implement an appropriate death investigation system — one that protects both the rights of victims and the accused. Ultimately, this is a job more judicious and less expensive to do right the first time.

Weather concerns raise need for siren discussionDaily-Leader, Brokhaven:The recent round of storms in Yazoo

City and in other parts of the state raises a number of serious questions for Brookhaven and Lincoln County.

The most notable question is what is the status of this community’s weather warning system? The answer appears to be one that leaves something to be desired and one that deserves serious discussion by city fathers and county leaders.

At last check, the city’s only weather siren was inoperable and the county has never had a warning system in place.

City and county officials have every so often discussed upgrading weather warning equipment, but talks have tended to fizzle before generating any serious steam. Perhaps it is time for that situation to be revisited.

One plan that has been raised would require 18 sirens, at an estimated

$40,000 each, to provide coverage for the city. How many are needed to cover the county was an unknown total as late as June of this year, the start of the annual hurricane season.

In these difficult budget times, money is certainly tight and priorities must be carefully considered. Whether the weather siren expense can be justified is not known, but a thorough discus-sion is the first, needed step toward making that determination.

A4 Main

Q: I’ve become more aware of the impact that commercial buildings have on the environ-ment, and would like to take

steps to reduce it. Can my small busi-ness “go green” with-out

breaking the bank? — Lean-ing Green

A: Absolutely! Taking steps to go green benefits not only the planet, but also your bottom line. Studies indicate that green buildings result in significant electricity and water cost savings. Also, the cleaner and greener the build-ing, the healthier and happier the employees will be.

Consider this example. A Hartford, Conn., company called Solidus specializes in designing, building and fur-

nishing commercial build-ings. When owners Mark and John Charette realized their staff had outgrown their office space, they decided to go green. They built a state-of-the-art office using energy-effi-cient design and sustainable and recyclable materials.

But they didn’t stop there. Solidus began encouraging their clients to go green. To date, the company has built both the first LEED-certified bank and the first LEED-cer-tified credit union in Con-necticut, and their staff now includes green building experts.

So it is possible to go green and still make lots of green.•

Dr. George R. Abraham is a native of Vicksburg and a former longtime educator, business manager and consultant. He is an author who contributes weekly to The Vicksburg Post and hosts “The Dr. George Show” on 1490 AM at the Klondyke in Vicksburg from 9 until 10 a.m. each Tuesday. He can be reached at [email protected].


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Gas pump prices close in on $3 a gallonNEW YORK (AP) — The

average price of a gallon of gasoline this week contin-ued to march steadily to $3 a gallon. In some parts of the country, it’s above that already.

On Friday the average price of a gallon of regular across the U.S. was almost $2.98, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Infor-mation Service. That’s up 2 cents from Monday and 10 cents more than a week ago. Drivers on the West Coast pay an average $3.21 a gallon. Gas is about $3.09 a gallon in New England, $3.05 in the Mid-

Atlantic states, $2.98 around the Great Lakes and $2.82 in the Southwest.

A dime more a gallon may not sound like much, but it adds up to $40 million more out of the driving public’s pocket.

The rising price of oil has pushed up gasoline prices. Crude has climbed about 5 per-cent in the past 10 days, and on Tuesday it topped $90 for the first time in over two years. On Friday, benchmark oil lost 58 cents to settle at $87.79 a barrel on the New York Mer-cantile Exchange.

The retail price of gaso-

line could go higher, even if oil prices level off. Gasoline supplies have been affected by unexpected refinery shut-downs in the West and Mid-west. “There has been a good deal of unscheduled mainte-nance recently, and that has made ... gasoline markets nervous,” energy consultants Cameron Hanover said.

Analyst Phil Flynn with PFGBest in Chicago said the shutdown of a refinery in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, contrib-uted to tight supplies on the East Coast, which could add a couple of cents a gallon to gas prices there.

Oil and gasoline prices are unlikely to fall significantly if demand picks up. On Friday The International Energy Agency raised its forecast for global oil demand for this year and 2011. IEA, based in Paris, thinks consumption in North America and emerging Asian countries, especially China, will be greater than it previ-ously expected. If that hap-pens, IEA said OPEC could boost supplies as prices rise. In 2008, OPEC raised produc-tion levels as oil shot past $100, on its way to a record $147 a barrel.

NEW YORK — An encour-aging trade report and signs that a tax cut package would pass the Senate sent stocks to their highest levels in two years Friday. Bond prices fell for another day as inves-tors expected the tax deal to lead to economic growth and higher budget deficits.

The Commerce Department reported that the U.S. trade deficit fell to its lowest level in nine months in October. Growing demand for Ameri-can goods overseas pushed exports to their highest level in more than two years.

Separately, the Treasury Department said the fed-eral government’s budget shortfall hit $150.4 billion in November. Treasury prices dropped after the report was released, pushing their yields higher. The yield for the 10-year note rose to 3.33 percent.

Feds recall their recallof drinking glasses

LOS ANGELES — The fed-eral agency that declared lead-laced Wizard of Oz and superhero drinking glasses were children’s products has reversed itself and said the glasses are, in fact, for adults.

The Consumer Protec-tion Safety Commission said as a result the glasses are not subject to a previously announced recall.

Last month, the agency

ruled that the glasses were children’s products and thus subject to strict federal lead limits.

Avastin fails innew cancer study

SAN ANTONIO — A new study adds to the contro-versy over using Avastin for breast cancer.

Doctors said that women who received the Genentech drug before cancer surgery fared no better than those who did not.

It is the first study to test Avastin for early breast cancer. More than 1,900 women were given stan-dard chemotherapy and half also got Avastin for several months. Tumors disappeared in nearly one in five women regardless of which treat-ment they received.

Avastin is approved now to treat breast cancer that has widely spread, but the Food and Drug Administration is considering revoking that because the drug does not meaningfully improve sur-vival for those patients.

Casino trade groupsupports poker bill

LAS VEGAS — The com-mercial casino industry’s top trade group says it supports

efforts by U.S. Senate Major-ity Leader Harry Reid to fully legalize Internet poker.

The American Gaming Association released a state-ment Friday saying the bill Reid’s pushing includes solid oversight and consumer protections.

The association represents the interests of the more than 440 commercial casinos throughout the country.

New Social Securityrule targets scammers

WASHINGTON — The Social Security administra-tion is restricting a little-used program that allows retirees

who receive early benefits to stop their payments to qual-ify for higher payments in the future.

The program requires recipients to pay back the benefits they have already received, allowing them to qualify for higher payments at an older age. The Social Security Administration said Friday it will start restrict-ing the program to prevent wealthy retirees from using the early payments as an interest-free loan.

Retirees who apply for early benefits and then change their minds will still have 12 months to withdraw from the program.

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A Port Gibson man was shot Thursday evening and died Friday following an argument over a dice game, Port Gibson Police Chief Calvin Jackson said.

Emmanuel Hedrick, 20, 8231 Gordon Station Road, Port Gibson, was shot in the head and neck, while another man, Justin Bailey, 20, 706 College St., suffered a gun-shot wound to the leg, Jack-son said. Hedrick died at the hospital on Friday afternoon, while Bailey, at who’s house the shooting occurred, was treated and released, Jack-son said.

Two men — Clyde Mazie, 20, 2808 E. Main St., Vicks-burg, and Radickques Lip-scomb, 19, 4038 Pine Grove Road, Port Gibson — were arrested Thursday night in Pearl. The two face murder and aggravated assault charges. They were being held without bond at the Port Gibson Police Department Friday night pending an ini-tial court appearance.

Sharkey man facesmeth charges

A Sharkey County man was in jail Friday night charged with manufacture of meth-amphetamine, Marshall Fisher of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics said in a release.

Bryan W. Bridges, 25, 25 Laurel St., Anguilla, was arrested after MBN agents found two mobile meth, or shake-and-bake, labs as well as small amounts of meth-amphetamine, pot and pseu-doephedrine at his home, the release said.

The pseudoephedrine, which requires a prescrip-tion in Mississippi, was bought in Tennessee where it is sold over the counter. Bridges was being held with-out bond.

County man jailedon burglary charges

A man was jailed Thurs-day charged with burglary and grand larceny, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said.

Fredrick Payne, 24, 270 Calista Road, Redwood, was arrested on a warrant at

his home around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. He is accused of breaking into a home in the 5000 block of Mississippi 3 on Nov. 19 with another man, Anthony James Lewis Jr., 19, 320 Fisher Ferry Road, Apt. 44. The two are accused of taking a .22 caliber revolver thought to have been used in the shooting and attempted

robbery of Eddie Johnson, 3011 1/2 Green St., on Dec 3 on Mission 66, but Payne is not believed to be connected to the shooting, Pace said

Payne was released from the Warren County Jail Friday after posting a $10,000 bond.

Three nabbedon meth charges

An attempted traffic stop

led to the discovery of meth-amphetamine ingredients and three people facing charges, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said.

On Thursday morning, dep-uties attempted to pull over Nathan Kuhn, 24, 520 Berry-man Road, Lot 4, for driv-ing erratically. He parked his 1993 Nissan Sentra in front of a trailer at 67 Redhawk Road and then fled on foot into the woods, Pace said.

Deputies knocked on the door of the trailer at 67 Red-hawk Road belonging to Alicia Horton Sanchez, 28, and Michael Lynn Allen, 25, to see if they had seen or heard anything. Pace said when Allen answered the door, deputies could smell the odors of chemicals used to make meth. Deputies got a warrant and after a search, they found the chemicals in a backpack belonging to Kuhn,

Pace said.Kuhn was picked up at 1:21

a.m. Friday at his home.All three are facing charges

of possession of precursor chemicals, Pace said.

Sanchez was released from the Warren County Jail Friday on a $10,000 bond. Horton is being held on a $10,000 bond and Kuhn is being held without bond pending an initial court appearance.

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Martez Smith, an inter-disciplinary studies major, received his undergraduate degree.

The audience gave him a standing ovation that lasted more than a minute.

The 22-year-old is para-lyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair. His father, James Smith, wheeled him onstage during the com-mencement ceremony at Reed Green Coliseum on the Hattiesburg campus.

Smith’s Golden Eagles are scheduled to play in the Dec. 21 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla., against Louisville.

Raleigh mayorarrested for DUI

RALEIGH, Miss. — Mayor Bobby Maddox is free on bond following his arrest on a drunk driving charge.

Police Chief David Stringer said Maddox, who is in his 70s, was booked with care-less driving, liquor law vio-lation and driving under the influence of alcohol — a mis-demeanor since it is the may-or’s first offense.

Maddox, who has served as mayor for 16 years, was released from the Smith County jail on bond later Thursday.

BP claims fund tooffer extra payment

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — The administrator of the $20 billion BP PLC fund doling out money to Gulf oil spill victims says the pro-gram will be offering claim-ants an additional payment.

The Gulf Coast Claims Facility, which took over the process from BP this summer, would not provide

further details Friday. It planned an announcement on Monday.

The facility says the pro-gram has so far paid out about $2.4 billion to 163,632 individuals and businesses.

Candidates file in 3Miss. special elections

JACKSON, Miss. — Fields of candidates are set after Friday evening’s qualifying deadline for three Missis-sippi special elections.

The elections are Jan. 11. Runoffs, if necessary, are Feb. 1. Winners will serve the final year of the four-year terms.

Seven people signed up to run for transportation com-missioner in the northern third of the state. The winner succeeds Commissioner Bill Minor of Holly Springs, who died Nov. 1.

Six people qualified to run in a Senate district covering parts of Lee and Pontotoc

counties.Eight qualified to run in a

House district in part of Har-rison County.

The legislative seats became vacant last month after Republicans Alan Nun-nelee of Tupelo and Steven Palazzo of Biloxi were elected to Congress.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Eliz-abeth Smart waited more than eight years for the word she heard Friday.

“Guilty,” the court clerk said, after a federal jury deliberated five hours to convict street preacher Brian David Mitchell of snatching Smart from her bed, at knifepoint in the dead of night, and forcing sex on her while he held her captive for

nine months.Smart smiled

as the verdict was read, while a bedraggled, bearded Mitchell sat at the defense table, singing hymns with his hands before his

chest, as if in prayer.“I hope that not

only is this an example that jus-tice can be served in America, but that it is possible to move on after something terrible has happened,” Smart said, after she walked with her mother through a horde of media.

It was a dramatic end to a tale that captured the nation’s attention

since she disappeared in June 2002: A 14-year-old girl mysteriously taken from her home, the intense search and her eventual discov-ery walking Salt Lake City’s streets with her captors.

Smart, now 23, flew back from her

Mormon mission in Paris to take the stand, and recount her “nine months of hell.”

“The beginning and the end of this story is attributable to a woman with extraordinary cour-age,” federal prosecutor Carlie Christensen said.

Mitchell could face up to life in prison when he is sentenced on May 25.

DA: Teen found in Mass.likely fell from airplane

BOSTON — A Massachusetts prosecutor said Friday it’s likely that a North Carolina teen whose mutilated body was found in a Boston suburb fell from the sky after stowing away in an airplane’s wheel well.

Norfolk District Attorney William Keating cited evidence including a handprint in the wheel well, clothes strewn along the plane’s flight path and an autopsy indicating the teen fell “from a significant height.”

Investigators also discovered a handprint in grease inside the wheel well of a Boeing 737 that took off from Charlotte Douglas Inter-national Airport in Charlotte, N.C., on Nov. 15, the night Tisdale’s body was found, Keating said.

Experts sift throughremains of Calif. bomb house

ESCONDIDO, Calif.—Bomb units are sifting through the ash and debris of an explosives-laden home that authorities burned down to protect the Southern California

neighborhood.San Diego County sheriff’s bomb

technicians were checking Friday to ensure all explosive material was destroyed in the previous day’s fire.

Federal prosecutors say the Escondido rental home contained the largest amount of certain home-made explosives ever found in a single U.S. location.

Missing Virginia girlfound safe in San Francisco

ROANOKE, Va. -- A 12-year-old girl who had been missing for a week was found unharmed Friday after she and the man accused in her abduction were recognized in a store in San Francisco, police said.

Brittany Mae Smith has since been in touch with her family in Virginia, while Jeffrey Scott Easley, 32, was in police custody in San Francisco, Roanoke County Police Chief Ray Lavinder said.

The two hadn’t been seen since Dec. 3, when they were captured on store surveillance video at a Walmart in Salem, about five miles from Roanoke.

Elizabeth Smart thrilled after kidnapper found guilty

Paralyzed USM player graduates

Dr. Martha Saunders, left, congratulates Martez Smith, cen-ter, as he is helped across the stage by his father, James Smith, during commencement at the University of South-ern Mississippi.

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Senators reject Jindal’s health care cutsBATON ROUGE, La. (AP)

— A package of cuts to doc-tors, hospitals and other health care providers that the Jindal administration started earlier this month was rejected Friday by state sena-tors who complained the cuts were too damaging to Medic-aid services.

The administration plans to continue with the cuts.

Without objection, the Senate health and budget committees voted against the reductions to the rates paid for Medic-aid patient care, after hear-ing from health care provid-ers who said such cuts chase doctors and others from the Medicaid program and limit the care patients receive.

A spokesman for Gov. Bobby Jindal said the health depart-ment will maintain the cuts, overruling the objection of the Senate committees — a deci-sion that could lead to a court dispute if lawmakers or health providers choose to challenge the action.

“I’ve only been here for a third of a century, so maybe I don’t know all the rules. I don’t think they can do that, but we’ll see. It might have to be a legal challenge,” said Sen. Joe McPherson, D-Woodworth, a member of the Senate Health

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Of particular concern to sen-ators were cuts to the Med-icaid rates paid to hospitals for taking care of pregnant women and sick babies.

Teri Fontenot, the president and CEO of Woman’s Hospi-tal in Baton Rouge, said with the latest cuts, the hospital would be paid $20 million less in 2011 than it costs to care for its Medicaid patients. The hospital births 4,000 Medicaid babies each year, she said.

The cuts had started Dec. 1. The rate reductions ranged from 2 percent to nearly 6 percent.

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46°

WEATHERThis weather package is compiled from historical records and information

provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the

City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECASTsunday-tuesday

Chance of rain on Sun-day; highs in the lower 40s;

lows in the upper 20s

STATE FORECASTtOday

Showers and thunder-storms; highs in the mid-60s; lows in the mid-40s

sunday-tuesdayChance of rain on Sun-

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RainfaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ........................N/AThis month ............... 0.0 inchesTotal/year ............. 44.21 inchesNormal/month .....2.02 inchesNormal/year ....... 48.44 inches

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sunRise/sunsetSunset today ....................... 4:58Sunset tomorrow .............. 4:58Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:55

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Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 21.6 | Change: 1.0Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 12.5 | Change: -1.1

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City

Current: 11.9 | Change: -0.9Flood: 29 feet

Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 13.4 | Change: -1.7

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West

Current: 3.1 | Change: -0.1Flood: 12 feet

Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 7.6 | Change: -0.3

Flood: 28 feet

steeLe bayOu fRidayLand ...................................69.4River ...................................68.9

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Cairo, Ill.Sunday ................................... 25.0Monday ................................. 23.6Tuesday ................................. 22.6

MemphisSunday ................................... 13.7Monday ................................. 12.0Tuesday ................................. 10.7

GreenvilleSunday ................................... 29.4Monday ................................. 29.1Tuesday ................................. 28.5

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because the one being traded in does not have the capac-ity to be re-mounted. In bid-ding on the new ambulance, Taylor Made bid $92,305, which included an $8,000 offer for the used ambulance, and Peach State bid $110,116, which included a $7,625 offer on the used vehicle.

Each was required to pay up front a 5 percent bond, or deposit, which will be returned to the losing bidder.

The ambulances being upgraded, which are a 2007 and 2005 model, and one being traded in, which is a 2003 model, each have more than 100,000 miles.

Atkins said he is glad for the board’s approval to upgrade his department’s fleet of 10 ambulances.

“It gets to the point where repairs come in more often after 100,000 miles, and you find those in the shops rather

than in the bay where they need to be,” he said.

The fire department uses four ambulances as its front-line responders and the others as backup at its seven stations. Each ambulance is serviced monthly and checked daily.

The city allocated $2,353,877 in the ambulance budget.

In other business, the board declared an emergency as a result of the downed emer-gency service radio system since Monday.

All emergency services for Vicksburg and Warren County were switched to a backup radio system on Wednesday after technicians worked with Entergy and Westower Communications.

The emergency declara-tion will allow for city officials to repair and pay for repairs without going through normal channels.

CityContinued from Page A1.

The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.

Ruth S. IrwinRuth S. Irwin died Wednes-

day, Dec. 8, 2010, at River Region Medical Center. She was 85.

Born in Warren County, she was the daughter of the late Charlie Smithhart and Hattie Lee Warnock Smith-hart. Mrs. Irwin was a former employee of the White Stores and Walmart and retired from the Vicksburg Warren School District. She was a member of Bypass Church of Christ.

She was an avid gardener and a fan of the Ole Miss Rebels.

She is survived by two daughters, Peggy Kirk-man (Ira) of Searcy, Ark., and Deby Carraway (Bert) of Vicksburg; one son, Billy Carl Irwin (Carolyn) of Hous-ton; six grandchildren, Brett Kirkman, Derek Kirkman, Bert Carraway III, Magen Westcott, Karla Bennett and Angela Maughan; 12 great-grandchildren; two step-

brothers, Kirk Harper of Jackson and Robert Harper of Vicksburg; three sisters-in-law, Adele Smithhart, Charlene Irwin and Gladys Irwin; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, J.D. “Son” Irwin; and two brothers, Bobby Lee Smithhart Sr. and C. T. Smithhart.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Riles Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Willie Nettle of the Bypass Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be at Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery. Visitation was Friday night at Riles Funeral Home, and also will be today from 1 p.m. until the hour of the service.

The family has asked that blood be donated in Mrs. Irwin’s memory.

Pallbearers will be grand-sons of the deceased.

Everlisa L. NorthernEverlisa L. Northern died

Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, at Cov-enant Health and Rehab. She was 74.

Mrs. Northern was a member of Mount Carmel M.B. Church.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Sara Scott;

her father, Jimmy Lee; and her brother, Sylvester Bailey.

Survivors include her hus-band, Richard Northern of Vicksburg; and other rela-tives and friends includ-ing Annette Scott of Vicks-

burg and Jerome Spize of Brandon.

Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

DEATHS

meeting Friday, the Board of may-or and Aldermen:• OK’d minutes from Oct. 8.• Presented trophies to win-

ners of the 2010 Christmas parade and downtown Vicksburg window display.

• Heard updates from South-ern Cultural Heritage Cen-ter.

• Rejected a $500 radio ad-vertisement request from WBBV River 101.3 and K-Hits 104.5 for Don’t Drink and Drive radio reminders for the holiday season.

• OK’d city clerk to advertise sealed bids for recreational supplies, pest control and towing.

• OK’d donating a 1999 Ford

Crown Victoria, VIN 2FAF-P71WXXX116244, and a 2000 Ford Crown Victoria, VIN 2FAFP71W6YX112645, to the City of Durant after declaring the vehicles as surplus property.

• Accepted letter to estab-lish special assessment and OK’d resolution for cutting and cleaning the following properties: 1831 Cherry St., owned by Holly Beck, and 812 Walnut St., owned Jes-sie Belle Williams Norfort.

• Discussed dilapidated buildings and overgrown lot codes and OK’d Vic-tor Gray-Lewis, director of Buildings and Inspections, to proceed to cut, clean and demolish the follow-ing property: 1322 Wood St.

• OK’d a payment of

$1,859.97 to Vicksburg-Tallulah Regional Airport for the city’s partner share. South Ward Alderman Sid Beauman voted against the payment.

• OK’d a request for pay-ment in the amount of $33,582.47 to Vicksburg-Warren 911 for the city’s share of dispatcher’s sala-ries, matching benefits and insurance for November.

• OK’d the claims docket.

In closed session, the board:• Discussed a rehire in the ac-

counting department, pay adjustment in the purchas-ing department and a per-sonnel matter in human resources.

The board meets next at 10 a.m. on Dec. 20.

add-ons.It’s all expected to come to a

decisive vote next week, total cost by the latest congressio-nal estimate: $857.8 billion.

On Friday, there were con-trasting events for public consumption.

On Capitol Hill, Sanders spoke vigorously for 8 1/2 hours in a virtually empty chamber, urging defeat of a measure he said would give “tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires who don’t need it.” He finally ended his speech, conceding “It has been a long day.”

At the White House, Obama turned over the briefing room microphone to former President Clin-ton who declared, “I don’t believe there is a better deal out there.” All sides, he said, “are going to have to eat some things they don’t like.”

The add-ons were being attached behind the scenes.

Almost $5 billion in subsi-dies for corn-based ethanol and a continuing tariff to pro-tect against ethanol imports were wrapped up and placed on the tree Thursday night for farm-state lawmakers and agribusiness lobbyists. Environmentalists won more grants for developers of renewable energy, like wind and solar.

For urban lawmakers, there’s a continuation of about-to-expire tax breaks that could save commuters who use mass transit about $1,000 a year. Other popu-lar tax provisions aimed at increasing production of hybrid automobiles, biodie-sel fuel, coal and energy-effi-cient household appliances would be extended through the end of 2011 under the new add-ons.

The package also includes an extension of two Gulf Coast tax incentive programs

enacted after Hurricane Katrina to spur economic development in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.

The ethanol money was added despite a growing congressional opposition to subsidizing the fuel after decades of government sup-port. Last month, 17 Republi-can and Democratic senators wrote to leaders calling the tax breaks “fiscally indefen-sible,” since there’s already a law in place that requires ethanol be blended into gasoline.

But while the add-ons may have won more votes for the Obama-GOP deal the Senate, their potential impact is less clear in the House, where Democrats have criticized the package as a tax give-away to the rich.

Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, a conservative Democrat who steps downs as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee in January, says he would have

voted against the bill if it had contained some of the clean energy tax incentives and nothing for ethanol.

“I know this will help some members in the House, dif-ferent parts of this will help different members,” he said.

Still, Peterson said the credits for the corn-based fuel probably won’t last for-ever. He said Rep. Jim Cly-burn of South Carolina, the House’s No. 3 Democrat, told the caucus it was important to include ethanol in the bill, and some members booed him. That wouldn’t have hap-pened a few years ago, Peter-son said.

Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., who lost re-election in November, sponsored the House version of legislation extending the ethanol tax breaks. But he says he still can’t support the bill because of his opposition to provi-sions cutting estate taxes for the wealthiest Americans.

“There may be some that

vote for the package that oth-erwise hate it because of the ethanol provision, but my sense is that ethanol alone isn’t going to be something that puts us over the top,” he said.

A spokesman for Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., a leader in the effort to win tax cred-its for wind and solar energy, said his boss still hasn’t been won over yet on the package. He said the extension was necessary but not sufficient for Blumenauer’s support. “His vote will depend on what the final version looks like,” said spokesman Derek Schlickeisen.

Rep. Jay Inslee, a Washing-ton Democrat, also was not won over by the renewable energy extension, despite being a big supporter of the program.

“I think there’s a better deal out there potentially available and we ought to fight for it,” Inslee said.

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Report paints bleak picture of Afghan, Pakistani securityWASHINGTON — New

U.S. intelligence reports paint a bleak picture of the security conditions in Afghanistan and say the war cannot be won unless Paki-stan roots out militants on its side of the border, according to several U.S. officials.

The new report on Afghani-stan cites progress in “ink-spots” where there are enough U.S. or NATO troops to maintain security, such as Kabul and parts of Hel-mand and Kandahar prov-inces. Much of the rest of the country remains Taliban-controlled, or at least vulner-able to Taliban infiltration,

according to an official who read the executive summary.

It also said the war cannot be won unless Pakistan is willing to obliterate terror-ist safe havens in its law-less tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.

The new report on Pakistan concludes that the Pakistani government and military “are not willing to do that,” says one U.S. official briefed on the analysis.

The document says Paki-stan’s government pays lip service to cooperating with

U.S. efforts against the mili-tants, and still secretly backs the Taliban.

Clinton frustratedwith Mideast impasse

WASHINGTON — Sec-retary of State Hillary Rodham Clin-ton said she is frustrated by the latest set-back in efforts to get Israel and the Pales-tinians back to the peace table, but she insists the

Obama administration will keep pushing.

In a speech Friday evening, Clinton said the U.S. will con-tinue to insist that Israel and the Palestinians lay the foun-dations for a future Pales-tinian state. But she offered no specific new path toward resolving the decades-old conflict.

Stock sales help fedsoffset bailout losses

WASHINGTON — Stock sales are helping the govern-ment offset projected losses from its $700 billion rescue of the financial system.

The Treasury Department has brought in $35 billion in revenue over two years, boosted by ongoing sales of Citigroup stock, new data released Friday showed. But the Congressional Budget Office projects taxpayers will still lose $25 billion for bail-ing out the financial sector and U.S. automakers.

The new total for revenue generated by the Troubled Asset Relief Program is up from the nearly $30 billion in income shown in the pre-vious report covering the program’s finances through October.

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Mexican drug kingpin killedMEXICO CITY — The

eccentric leader of the brutal La Familia drug cartel was killed in a shootout during two days of fighting between federal police and gunmen that terrified civilians across a western Mexican state, the government said Friday.

The death of Nazario Moreno Gonzalez — nick-named “The Craziest One” — is a major blow to a drug cartel that rose to national prominence four years ago by rolling severed heads into a nightclub and declar-ing that its mission was to protect Michoacan state from rival gangs and petty criminals.

Police believed that the 40-year-old Moreno — also known as “El Chayo” or “The Doctor” — was killed in a clash Thursday between cartel gunmen and federal police, said Alejandro Poire, the government spokesman for security issues.

In a brief statement, the office of President Felipe Cal-deron confirmed Moreno’s death.

Cartel gunmen have been fleeing with their casualties and Moreno’s body has not been recovered, Poire said. Police recovered the bodies of three other suspected La Familia members and detained three others.

Moreno is considered the ideological leader of La Familia, setting a code of con-duct for its members that prohibits using hard drugs or dealing them within Mexican territory.

Woman facing stoningconfesses on Iran TV

TEHRAN, Iran — An Ira-nian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adul-tery confessed to helping a man kill her husband and re-enacted the alleged crime in an interview broadcast Friday by Iranian state tele-

vision — an apparent effort by the government to deflect international criticism over the case.

It was the fourth time Saki-neh Mohammedi Ashtiani has been shown on TV as Tehran has faced an inter-national outcry over the announcement that she would be stoned to death, the latest source of friction between Iran and the West.

In the new footage broad-cast on English-language Press TV, the 43-year-old mother of two was brought from the prison to her home outside the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran where she was shown acting out the alleged December 2005 kill-ing, complete with an actor portraying her husband.

Panama flooding kills10, displaces thousands

PANAMA CITY — Heavy rains and flooding in Panama have killed 10 people and forced more than 4,700 from their homes. Panama’s Civil Protection System says more

than 450 homes have been destroyed this week.

The rains forced the tempo-rary closure of the Panama Canal from Wednesday into Thursday, the first suspen-sion since a shutdown when U.S. troops invaded 21 years ago to topple President Manuel Noriega.

Somali pirates hijackUS-operated ship, crew

NAIROBI, Kenya — The European Union anti-piracy force says pirates have hijacked a U.S.-operated ship with 23 crew members aboard.

The EU Naval Force said the MV Panama was attacked Friday just east of the Tanzania-Mozambique border, making it one of the most southerly attacks Somali pirates have pulled off.

All 23 crew members were from Myanmar. The EU Naval Force had no informa-tion about their condition.

Somali pirates hold more than 500 crew members from more than 20 ships. An inter-national flotilla of warships has not been able to prevent continued attacks.


Federal police stand next to a truck riddled with bullets in Apatzingan, Mexico, Friday.

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Christmasafter divorcenot merry

Q: My ex-wife and I have had a lot of rough holidays together, but this is our first one since our divorce. Now, we’re negotiating who gets the kids when, and it’s terrible.

Juli: Some experts on divorce have described it as a death — the death of a family, a marriage and a dream of happily ever after. As with any death, there is gut-wrenching grief associated with the loss, and learning to adapt to a “new normal.” Your kids are grieving as much

as you are. It’s OK to let them express that and acknowl-edge that this Christ-mas will be diffi-cult for everyone.

Although every-one gets hurt in a divorce, the chil-dren are the most obvious victims. Whatever conflicts, wounds and feel-ings you have toward each

other, put them aside for the holidays and give your children a conflict-free Christmas.

If possible, share Christ-mas morning, celebrat-ing together, or pitch in together to buy your kids gifts from both of you, instead of competing for who bought more gifts. I know these suggestions may sound far-fetched given the hostility that often accompanies divorce, but your kids deserve your effort toward peace.

Q: Every Christmas, my kids get caught up in the desire for the latest toys and electronic gadgets. Not only is this expensive for my husband and me, but it seems to miss the point of Christmas entirely. With-out being preachy, how can we teach our kids that it’s not just about stuff?

Jim: Children have a ten-dency to feel that the world revolves around them. Our culture encourages this problem by telling kids — and adults, too — to look out for No. 1. The mate-rialism of the Christmas season only aggravates the problem.

In her book “Fun-Filled Parenting,” author Silvana Clark suggests that one of the best antidotes for self-centeredness is to volun-teer as a family.

•Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family, P.O. Box 444 Colorado Springs, CO 80903, host of the Focus on the Family radio program, and a husband and father of two. Dr. Juli Slattery is a licensed psychologist, co-host of Focus on the Family, author of several books, and a wife and mother of three. The website is www.family.org.

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Imam behind ground zero mosquesees hope after mistrust, fury

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf saw his plans for an Islamic center near ground zero derided as a victory mosque for ter-rorists, exploited as cam-paign fodder and used as a bargaining chip by a Flor-ida pastor who vowed to burn the Quran.

After that summer of mis-trust and raw feeling, he’s looking on the bright side.

Rauf says he hopes to use the platform he gained through the angry debate to turn his small nonprofit group into a global move-ment celebrating pluralism.

In an interview this week with The Associated Press, Rauf said he hopes to see interfaith centers like the one he plans to include inside the downtown Man-hattan Islamic center built all over the world. Each would be dedicated to fight-ing extremism and promot-ing better relations between people of different faiths and cultures.

Already, he said, he is exploring opening facilities in other American cities, as well as in Indonesia and Kosovo.

“We went to the brink, in a certain way,” he said of the summer’s tumult. But he added, “This crisis showed us what was pos-sible. ... It showed us that there is actually hope. Hope for a better relationship between America and the Muslim world, both domes-tically and internationally.”

Whether there is hope for the proposed center two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center

attacks is unclear.The superheated rheto-

ric of August and early September has died down, aside from the occasional downtown demonstration, and there appear to be no major governmental obsta-cles, but the $150 million project still remains on a slow track to construction.

The developer of the site has said groundbreaking is probably three years away. The nonprofit group that would run the center is still being established. A fund-raising campaign has yet to begin. Developer Sharif El-Gamal has said he plans to

borrow most of the money needed to build by selling a type of bond common in Islamic banking.

The timetable will give Rauf and his wife, activ-ist Daisy Khan, more time to make their case that a Muslim institution belongs at ground zero. They envi-sion a 13- to 15-story facility with space for a health club, a day care center and play-ground, an auditorium for

cultural events, art studios and galleries, a 9/11 memo-rial and a two-level prayer room with seating for a con-gregation of 2,000.

“We were part of the nar-rative of 9/11,” Rauf said, noting that members of his own congregation, based about 10 blocks from the Trade Center, had been vic-tims of the attacks.

Convincing the country, though, hasn’t been easy.

As city officials declined to block the center, crit-ics, including many promi-nent Republicans, decried it as a slap in the face to the families of Sept. 11 victims. Newt Gingrich compared

the center to Nazis putting a sign next to the Holocaust Museum.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and religious leaders of many faiths have been among the center’s most ardent supporters. Rela-tives of 9/11 victims have come out on both sides.

The debate took a bizarre turn when the leader of a small Christian congre-gation in Florida said he would call off his plans to burn the Quran on the Sept. 11 anniversary if the Islamic center were moved farther from ground zero. Rauf agreed to nothing — not even to meet with Pastor Terry Jones — but Jones still ended up chang-ing his mind about burning Islam’s holy book.

Rauf and Khan said they have begun talking in recent weeks with more rel-atives of 9/11 victims in an attempt to build support for the center.

Khan said she hoped some would agree to be “part of the healing process” and help design the center’s 9/11 memorial.

The couple are also trying to find a role for themselves in repairing what they see as a rift between U.S. Mus-lims and the nation’s Chris-tian majority.

Mere acceptance of Mus-lims in the U.S. is not Rauf’s goal.

“It is not enough for me that you tolerate me,” he

An artist’s rendering of the proposed mosque near ground zero

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‘We were part of the narrative of 9/11,” Imam

Feisal Abdul Rauf said, noting that members of his own congregation, based about 10 blocks from the Trade Center,

had been victims of the attacks. ‘We have

an obligation. We have a responsibility’ to participate in the

rebuilding of the neighborhood, he said. ‘This center is an anti-

9/11 statement.’

Looking forward

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church eventsAntioch Baptist

Sunday services at Antioch Baptist Church and Unity Outreach Ministries (A Full Gospel Ministry), 1800 Poplar St., behind Jones-Upchurch Realty, begin at 9:15 a.m. with children’s church, followed by worship at 10 weekly.

Tuesday prayer service is at 6:30 p.m., and midweek service/Bible study is at 7. Alfred E. Lassiter Sr. is pastor.

Baha’i FaithServices for Baha’i Faith

are comprised of a devotional at 11 a.m. Sunday, followed by Deepening at 11:30. The phone number is 601-415-5360.

BerachahActivities at Berachah

Church, 2918 Fisher Ferry Road, begin at 7 tonight with praise and worship.

Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m., followed at 10:30 by praise and worship and chil-dren’s church for ages 4-8. A nursery is provided for up to age 3.

On Monday, women’s Bible study begins at 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday, Awana runs from 6 to 8 p.m. Bible study and youth service are at 7.

Roger Cresswell is pastor. Visit www.berachah.net.

Bethel A.M.E.Services at Bethel A.M.E.

Church, 805 Monroe St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 11 a.m. Commu-nion is each first Sunday.

Wednesday Bible study begins at 6:30 p.m. Member-ship training is at 10 a.m. each Saturday before the first and third Sunday.

Choir rehearsal is at 10 a.m. each Saturday before the fourth Sunday. Board meet-ing is each second Sunday after the service.

The Rev. Quincy Jones is pastor.

Bethlehem M.B.Services at Bethlehem

M.B. Church, 3055 N. Wash-ington St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Mattie L. Brown is superintendent. Communion is each fourth Sunday. Covenant meeting is at 11 a.m. each third Sunday.

Bible class begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Kevin Winters is musician. The Rev. Dennis Redden is pastor.

Bingham Memorial M.B.

Services at Bingham Memorial M.B. Church, 1063 Green St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, led by Dorothy Miles, assistant superintendent. Second Sunday Covenant begins at 10:30 a.m., followed by wor-ship at 11. Worship and Com-munion begin at 11 a.m. each fourth Sunday.

Prayer meeting/Bible study begins at 5:30 p.m. Wednes-day. Youth Choir rehearsal begins at noon each second Sunday. Adult choir rehearsal begins at 7 p.m. each Wednesday before the fourth Sunday and at noon each fourth Saturday.

The Rev. James C. Archer is pastor.

Bovina BaptistServices at Bovina Baptist

Church, 5293 U.S. 80, begin at 9:45 with Sunday school led by Jim Daquilla. Worship begins at 11 with the sanctu-ary choir, led by music min-ister Jerry Stuart, singing special music. Donna Harper is pianist. Bobbie Bruce is organist. Brian Parker is minister of students and edu-cation. Jo Sumrall is minis-ter of children. The Rev. Jess Sumrall, pastor, will deliver the message.

Evening services begin at 5 with mission organizations and youth and adult Bible study. Worship is at 6 with the children’s choir present-ing a Christmas musical. A finger food fellowship will follow. Deacons will meet at 7.

Wednesday night activi-ties begin at 6 with a busi-ness meeting, handbells, and youth Bible study. Adult choir rehearsal is at 6:45. The adult choir will present “Voices of Christmas” at 6 p.m. Dec. 19.

A nursery is provided.

Bovina U.M.C.Services at Bovina United

Methodist Church, 70 Bovina Drive, begin at 9:30 a.m. Chil-dren will sing during the service. Candlelight service begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by light refreshments. The Rev. Lister Bowdoin is pastor.

Bowmar BaptistServices at Bowmar Baptist

Church, 1825 U.S. 61 South, begin at 8:30 a.m. with clas-sic worship. Lifegroups meet at 9. Creative worship for families, Stepping Stones (5-year-old worship), Kids on the Rock and youth worship begin at 10:30.

Signing for the hearing impaired is available upon request during the classic and creative services.

Call 601-636-2596. Visit www.bowmarbaptist.org.

Bradley’s Chapel U.M.C.Services at Bradley’s

Chapel United Methodist Church, 13815 Oak Ridge Road, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school and youth meeting, followed by worship at 11. Music is led by Hope Raney. Earlene Alexander is pianist. Children’s church is led by Ann Grimshel. Christ-mas dinner begins at 5 p.m. at the youth center. Chil-dren’s choir practice begins at 5:30 p.m. Monday. Wednes-day evening prayer meeting is at the home of John and Clara Oakes. The Rev. Harry Hawkins is pastor.

Bypass Church of ChristSunday services at Bypass

Church of Christ, 787 U.S. 61 North, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Bible classes for all ages. Worship is at 10:30 with Dr. Willie Nettle, minister, deliv-ering the sermon. Worship consists of congregational and a cappella singing and observance of the Lord’s Supper.

Evening assembly begins at 6 with Jerry Bates delivering a brief message, followed by a mission report of his work with World Evangelism.

Wednesday, Bible study for all ages begins at 7 p.m. For transportation or a free non-denominational Bible corre-spondence course or home Bible study, call 601-638-6165.

Calvary Baptist Services at Calvary Baptist

Church, 406 Klein St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Communion services are at 11 a.m. each first and second Sunday. Breakfast is served at 9 a.m. each second Sunday. Mission meeting is each third Sunday, covenant each fourth Sunday and wor-ship services are each fifth Sunday at 11 a.m. Sunday worship will be followed by business meeting and finan-cial report.

Prayer service and Bible class are each Wednesday at 5:45 p.m. Nathaniel Williams is the choir director. Johnny May Marble is the choir pres-ident. Patrick Little is the musician.

The Rev. Rudy Smith is pastor.

Calvary BaptistServices at Calvary Baptist

Church, 2878 Old Highway 27, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 11 with the Rev. Bruce Bryant, interim pastor, delivering the message, with a Christmas presentation by Calvary’s choir, led by R.L. Sigrest, worship leader.

Evening activities begin at 4:30 with choir practice. Dis-cipleship training for all ages begins at 5. Worship is at 6 with the children presenting Christmas music and Bryant delivering the message. A nursery is provided.

On Wednesday, RAs, GAs,

youths and prayer meeting begin at 6 p.m.

Cedar Grove M.B.Services at Cedar Grove

M.B. Church, 3300 Grange Hall Road, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Jimmie Jefferson, superin-tendent. Worship begins at 11. Communion is each third Sunday.

Choir rehearsal is at 7 p.m. each Monday with Travanti Hill, minister of music, leading. On Tuesday, Prayer meeting and Bible study begin at 6 p.m. Tues-day Night Live worship is at 6 p.m. each first Tuesday. Media Ministry meetings are at 5:30 p.m. each Wednesday. Children’s choir rehearsal is at 7 p.m. each fourth Thurs-day. Brotherhood Ministry meets at 7 p.m. each second Friday.

Christ EpiscopalChrist Episcopal Church,

1115 Main Street, will cel-ebrate the Third Sunday of Advent with Holy Eucharist Rite I at 8 a.m. in the chapel and Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10 in the nave. The Rev. Dr. Dan McKee will preach and celebrate at both ser-vices. Choir practice is at 9 a.m. in the parish hall. Youth Sunday school will join the 10 a.m. service, during which child care is provided. Fel-lowship and refreshments will follow the service in the parish hall.

On Wednesday, the coffee/Bible study group will meet at 10 a.m. in the Sunday school building. A healing service will be at 12:15 p.m. in the chapel. A class of instruc-tion for centering prayer is at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the nave.

Visit www.christchurch-vburg.dioms.org or call 601-638-5899.

Christian Home Services at Christian Home

M.B. No. 2 Church, begin at 9 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship begins at 11 a.m. each second and fourth Sunday. Communion service is each second Sunday. Bible study begins at 6 p.m. Tues-day. For transportation, call 601-883-0286 or 601-636-0419. The Rev. Johnny Hughes is pastor.

Church of ChristSunday services at Church

of Christ, 811 Culkin Road, begin at 10 a.m. with Bible classes. Worship is at 11. On Wednesday, a Bible class for all ages is at 7 p.m. Call 601-636-0141 or 601-529-0904 for a free Bible study. Larry Harris is the minister.

Church of ChristServices at Church of

Christ, 3333 N. Frontage Road, begin at 9 a.m. with Bible classes. Worship is at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. with Eric Welch speaking.

On Wednesday, ladies Bible class begins at 9:45 a.m. Bible classes for all ages are at 7

p.m. Call 601-636-4801 or e-mail

[email protected] for a free correspondence course or home Bible study course.

The Church of the HolyTrinity, Episcopal

The Third Sunday of Advent at The Church of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal, South and Monroe streets, will be celebrated with Holy Eucharist, Rite I, at 8 a.m. and Holy Eucharist, Rite II, at 10:30. Adult and youth Sunday school begin at 9:30 and children’s Sunday school is at 10:15. A nursery is pro-vided from 9:15 until 11:30 a.m.

On Tuesday, Lunch Bunch Group meets at 12:10 p.m. On Wednesday, Healing services begin at 12:05 p.m. Evening prayer is at 5:35. Congrega-tional supper is at 6, followed by the packing of the Sea-man’s boxes.

Pilates begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

Clover Valley M.B.Services at Clover Valley

M.B. Church, 7670 Mississippi 27 South, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school. Com-munion is each first Sunday; Covenant is each third Sunday; pantry donations are accepted each second and fifth Sunday; fourth Sunday worship is a devo-tional service by the wom-en’s ministry; all start at 11.

Bible study is at 7 p.m. each Tuesday. Missionary workers meet at 6:30 p.m. each second Tuesday. Choir rehearsal begins at 5 p.m. Monday and at 11 a.m. each Saturday before the second Sunday.

Call 601-636-6375 or 601-638-2070.

Crawford Street U.M.C.Services at Crawford Street

United Methodist Church, 900 Crawford St., begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school. Chancel choir rehearsal is at 10:40. Worship begins at 10:55. The Rev. Cary Stock-ett is pastor. Children’s pag-eant begins at 4:30 p.m. in the sanctuary. A churchwide cov-ered-dish dinner begins at 5 in Floral Hall. The Christmas pageant presented by the youths begins at 6. Presents are due for the Christmas tree children.

On Tuesday, men’s break-fast and devotion begin at 6:50. On Wednesday, Chancel choir rehearsal begins at 7. On Friday, the youths Christ-mas party begins at 6 p.m. A nursery will be provided.

On Dec. 18, youths and par-ents will meet at 9 a.m. to cook for the SOS Luncheon and for the senior Sunday school class.

Visit www.crawfordstree-tumc.org for more details.

The sanctuary and Sunday school rooms are handicap accessible through the eleva-tor in Wesley Hall.

Cross Point Services at Cross Point

Church, 510 Porters Chapel Road, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship is at 11 with the Christmas pro-gram being presented by the children of the church. Christmas potluck dinner will follow in the fellowship hall.

On Wednesday, adult Bible study, children’s choir and youth and young adult Bible study begin at 6 p.m. A nurs-ery is provided.

Eagle Lake BaptistServices at Eagle Lake Bap-

tist Church, Eagle Lake com-munity, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school. Wor-ship is at 11 and 6 p.m. with Dwight Sibley, pastor, deliv-ering the messages. WMU meeting begins at 5 p.m.

On Wednesday, prayer ser-vice begins at 6:30 p.m.

Ebenezer BaptistServices at Ebenezer Bap-

tist Church, 2346 Grove St., begin with Sunday school at 9 a.m. Willie H. Smith is superintendent. Communion is each fourth Sunday at 5:30 p.m. The Rev. Ferlonzo Knott will preach.

Edwards BaptistServices at Edwards Bap-

tist Church, 101 Magnolia St., begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by wor-ship at 11. Bible study begins at 6 Sunday and Wednes-day nights. All services will be led by Dr. John McCall, interim pastor. Choir practice begins at 9:15 a.m. with spe-cial choir practice following Bible study.

On Wednesday, church Christmas party begins at 6 p.m.

Curlee Green is minister of music. Linda Dickson is pia-nist. A nursery is provided and managed by Debby Best. E-mail [email protected]. Call 601-852-8141.

First BaptistServices at First Baptist

Church, 1607 Cherry St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Bible study, followed by worship at 10:50 with Dr. Matt Buck-les, pastor, delivering the message. Bible study groups are available. Sunday school and morning worship for the hearing impaired are avail-able. God’s Christmas Gift, live nativity is from 6 until 9 p.m.

Celebrate Recovery begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Mafan Building, 1315 Adams St. On Wednesday, English as a Second Language begins at 8:30 a.m.; Blood Drive at 4 p.m.; Mission Mosaic at 4:30; family night supper at 4:45; and adult and youth Bible study, children’s activities and preschool care are at 6:15.

On Friday, English as a Second Language begins at 8:30 a.m.; and Celebrate Recovery will meet at 6 p.m. at the Mafan Building.

Visit www.fbcvicksburg.org.

First Christian ChurchServices at First Chris-

tian Church, (Disciples of Christ), 3005 Porters Chapel Road, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship is at 10:45 with the chancel choir presenting the anthem. Jef-fery Murphy, will deliver the message. The Lord’s Supper is celebrated weekly. A nurs-ery is provided.

CWF Meals on Wheels is at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Bryan Hall.

First NazareneActivities at First Church of

the Nazarene, 3428 Wiscon-sin Ave., begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship begins at 10:50 with the Rev. Charles Parish, pastor.

The nursery workers are Patsy Fillebaum and Rebecca Strong. Evening worship begins at 6. Midweek Bible study is at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

First PresbyterianServices at First Presby-

terian Church, Cherry and South streets, begin at 9:30

a.m. with worship led by the Rev. Tim Brown. Children and youth will present the Christmas pageant, followed by Advent festival in Mansell Hall. The choir director is Sharon Penley. The organist is Barbara Tracy. Youth fel-lowship begins at 6 p.m.

On Monday, Dorcas Circle meets at 3 p.m. Martha Circle and Boy Scouts are at 7. On Tuesday, men’s Bible study begins at 7:15 a.m. Deborah and Ruth Circles meet at 9:45. Al-Anon and Hannah-Lydia Circle begin at noon. Session meeting begins at 5:15 p.m. Brass meets at 7:30.

On Wednesday, sanctu-ary choir practice and junior high Bible study begin at 6 p.m. Senior high Bible study begins at 7.

Gibson MemorialActivities at Gibson

Memorial United Method-ist Church, 335 Oak Ridge Road, begin at 7:30 a.m. with the United Methodist Men’s Breakfast and Bible study. Sunday school is at 10 a.m. The Dabney Bible Class can be heard at 10 a.m. Sunday on WBBV 101.3. Worship is at 11. Greg Hazelrig is pastor. Paul Ballard is worship leader.

Bell choir practice begins at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday. On Wednesday, JOY Group meets at 11:30 a.m. Choir practice is at 6:30 p.m.

A drive-thru nativity scene is from 7 until 8:30 p.m. Friday and Dec. 18.

Visit www.gibsonumc.org.

Goodrum BaptistServices at Goodrum Bap-

tist Church, 4569 Fisher Ferry Road, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 11.

Wednesday night prayer meeting begins at 6:30. Rick McDaniel will lead the music. Benny Still will bring spe-cial music. Mike Pennock is pastor.

Grace BaptistServices at Grace Bap-

tist Church, 1729 Hankin-son Road, begin with Bible study at 9:45 a.m., followed by worship at 11, with the Rev. Bryan Abel delivering the message. Hubert Stroud will lead the music. Evening ser-vices begin at 5:30 with disci-pleship training, followed by worship at 6:30.

Wednesday activities begin at 6:30 p.m. with GAs, RAs, youth-adult Bible study.

Greater Grove StreetServices at Greater Grove

Street M.B. Church, 2715 Alcorn Drive, begin at 8:30 a.m. with worship. Fifth Sunday services begin at 10 a.m. Bible school begins at 6 p.m. with Hour of Power Ser-vice each Wednesday before the fourth Sunday.

A baptismal is each last Wednesday. On Thursday, Bible Class and fellowship begin at 10:30 a.m.

Valet parking is available for the handicapped or senior citizens. For transportation or prayer request, call 601-218-3911. C.J. Williams is minister of music.

The Rev. Dr. Casey D. Fisher is pastor.

Greater Mount ZionServices at Greater Mount

Zion Baptist Church, 907 Farmer St., begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school. Commu-nion is each first Sunday.

Youth ministry meets at 6:30 p.m. each second and fourth Tuesday.

Youth choir rehearses at 6:30 p.m. each third Monday before the fourth Sunday. Prayer meeting is at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday. Bible study is at 7.

GMZ praise and worship choir rehearses at 6:30 each Monday before the first, second and fifth Sunday.

The usher board meets at 4 p.m. after fourth Sunday worship.

The male chorus rehearses at 7 p.m. Thursday before the third Sunday.

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“Examine me, O Lord, and prove me: try my reins and my heart. For Thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in Thy truth.”

Psalm 26:2-3•

How do automobile manufacturers make sure their vehicles are safe for people to drive? They put their vehicles onto a proving ground. They drive it hundreds of miles over rough roads and through water and heat — screeching, turning, twisting, hitting the brakes, accelerating to top speeds. They want to see if that automobile will stand the test.

•It is the same with our spiritual lives. God gives the test first, and the lesson afterward. Read throughout Scripture and you will find this to be true. Joseph was tested. David was tested. Moses was tested. Peter was tested.

•When God gets ready to prove you, He is not going to test you in the good times because that is not a test. Anybody can serve God in the sunshine. The test is not how you be-have when there is victory all around; the test is how you behave when God brings you to the wilderness. He wants to know what is in your heart. Are you fully devoted to God?

Devotion written by Dr. Adrian Rogers in conjunction with Love Worth Finding Ministries. Web site: http://www.lwf.org

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church eventsWomen’s ministry meets

at 6:30 each first and third Tuesday.

Recordings of worship services are available from Jesse Trotter. Transportation is available upon request. Contact 601-636-0826 or [email protected].

Gregory Butler is pastor.

Greater Oak GroveServices at Greater Oak

Grove M.B. Church, 3802 Patricia St., begin at 8 a.m. with worship, followed by Sunday school at 9:45. Bible class begins at 6 p.m. Tues-day. The Rev. James C. Archer is pastor.

Hawkins U.M.C.Sunday activities at Hawk-

ins United Methodist Church, 3736 Halls Ferry Road, begin at 8:45 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 10. A nursery is available. Adult Bible study begins at 5 p.m. Youth Living Nativity begins at 7.

On Monday, Cub Scouts meeting begins at 6. Boy Scouts and misson planning meeting is at 7. On Tuesday, UMW Charter Circle meets at 10:30 a.m. Prayer group meets at 6. On Wednesday, adminstrative council meet-ing begins at 5:30 p.m.; hand-bells begin at 5:45; and chan-cel choir at 7.

On Thursday, adult Bible study begins at 9 a.m. Pre-school Christmas program begins at 6 p.m. On Friday, Boy Scouts lock-in begins at 8 p.m.

Holy Cross AnglicanServices for the Third

Sunday in Advent (Rose Sunday) at Holy Cross Angli-can Church (Reformed Epis-copal Church) 1021 Crawford St., located inside the former Sisters of Mercy Chapel, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Bible study. Holy Communion begins at 10:30; baptized Christians may participate. Child care is provided.

The sanctuary and fellow-ship rooms are accessible to the handicapped through the back gate on Adams Street.

Visit www.holycrossvbg.com or call 601-529-9636.

House of PeaceServices at The House

of Peace Worship Church International, 2372 Grove St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship is at 11, followed by new members class.

On Monday, Back To The Basics Bible class is at 5 p.m. Intercessory prayer begins at 6. On Tuesday, intercessory prayer begins at 5; Bible class is at 6; and choir rehearsal at 7. Free tutoring is from 5 to 6:15 p.m. Tuesdays. “Perfect Peace” is broadcast at 6 a.m. Sundays on WAPT-16 and Monday through Friday on WUFX-11.

Immanuel BaptistServices at Immanuel

Baptist Church, 6949 U.S. 61 South, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship and children’s church, led by children’s director Ashley Coomes, at 10:45. Evening activities begin at 5 with discipleship training, followed by wor-ship at 6.

On Wednesdays, prayer service, children’s classes for grades K-6 and youth ser-vices begin at 7 p.m. Adult choir practice, led by interim music director Dale Yocum, begins at 8. A nursery is available.

Christmas Celebration Sunday is Dec. 19 with the adult choir Chirstmas musi-cal at 10:45 a.m. Children’s musical is at 6 p.m., followed by potluck fellowship at 7.

Billy Brumfield is pastor. Jason McGuffie is associate pastor and youth minister.

Islamic Center Prayer schedule at Islamic

Center of Vicksburg, 6705 Paxton Road, is as follows: Fajar (morning prayer) at 6 a.m.; Isha at 6:30 p.m.;

Jummah (Friday prayer) at 12:45 p.m.

King of KingsServices at King of Kings

Christian Center, 4209 Mount Alban Road, begin at 9 a.m. with Sunday school, fol-lowed by worship at 10. Chil-dren’s ministry for ages 2-6 is Sunday. Ages 2-10 meet Thursday.

Bible class is at 6:30 p.m. each Thursday.

For transportation, call 601-661-6444 or 601-629-7791. Willie P. Taylor is pastor.

King Solomon BaptistSunday services at King

Solomon Baptist Church, 1401 Farmer St., begin at 8:15 a.m. with “The Hour of Soul-Saving Power.” The Rev. R.D. Bernard, pastor, will deliver the message. The praise team will provide the music. Regular worship is at 10 with Bernard delivering the mes-sage. The youth choir will sing. Sunday school for the youths is at 11.

A nursery is provided beginning at 9:30 a.m.

The message can be heard at 11 a.m. on WTRM 100.5 and on WJIW 104.7 and KJIW 94.5 at 7 p.m.

Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and at noon on Friday. CDs or DVDs of the Sunday message may be obtained by calling 601-638-7658.

Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and at noon on Friday.

For transportation, call 601-831-4387 or 601-630-5342, a day ahead.

Living Word BaptistServices at Living Word

Baptist Church, 2845 Clay St., Suite 13 (in the Emmich Building), begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school and new members orientation. Worship is at 11. Morning Glory worship services are at 8:30 a.m. each first and third Sunday. Bible study is at 7 each Wednesday night. W.I.T.N.E.S.S., a women’s ministry, is at 10 a.m. each first and third Saturday. Man II Man, a men’s ministry, is at 8:30 a.m. each second and fourth Sunday. Dr. Stevie C. Duncan is senior pastor.

Visit www.thelivingword-baptistchurch.com.

Locust Grove M.B.Services at Locust Grove

M.B. Church, 472 Stenson Road, begin at 10:30 a.m. with

worship and Communion. The Rev. Robert L. Miller, pastor, will deliver the mes-sage. Candlelight service begins at 6 p.m. Sunday. Each member is asked to bring a covered-dish and canned goods.

Sunday school begins at 10 a.m., except for the second Sunday. Bible study begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

Lutheran Churchof the Messiah

The Divine Service for the Third Sunday in Advent will be celebrated at The Lutheran Church of the Mes-siah (LCMS), 301 Cain Ridge Road, at 9 a.m., followed by Sunday school for all ages at 10:30. Visit www.luther-anchurchofthemessiah.org or call 601-636-1894.

Mercy Seat BaptistServices at Mercy Seat

Baptist, 5 Dos Casas Lane, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school, led by Grace Brown. Communion begins at 11 a.m. each third and fourth Sunday. Covenant is each third Sunday.

Choir practice led by Mattie Lacey begins at 6:30 p.m. each Thursday before the third and fourth Sunday. Musicians are Shirley Coleman-Harris and Char-lie Gross. The Rev. Rudy L. Smith is pastor.

Mount Alban M.B.Services at Mount Alban

M.B. Church, 2385 Mount Alban Road, begin at 9 a.m. with Sunday school led by Leonard Knight, deacon and superintendent. Worship with Communion is each first Sunday; praise and wor-ship are each second Sunday; youth service is each fifth Sunday; all start at 11. Praise and worship are at 10 a.m. each third Sunday.

On Wednesday, prayer/Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. Choir rehearsal begins at 6 p.m. Thursday. Women of Faith is at 10 a.m. each second Saturday.

The Rev. Henry Lee Taylor Jr. is pastor.

Mount Ararat M.B.Services at Mount Ararat

M.B. Church, Eagle Lake community, are at 1:30 p.m. each second Sunday.

Dr. L.A. Hall Sr. is pastor.

Mount Calvary BaptistServices at Mount Calvary

Baptist Church, 1350 East Ave., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, directed by Al Evans, superintendent. Worship is at 11 with Mincer Minor, pastor, delivering the message. Communion is each second and third Sunday at 11. Services are at 8 a.m. each fifth Sunday. Children’s ministry for ages 1-7 begins at 9:30 a.m. Sunday in the annex.

Brotherhood meets at 6 p.m. each first Tuesday. Ushers meet at 6 p.m. Tues-day before second Sunday. Wednesday’s youth Bible study and intercessory prayer begin at 6 p.m., fol-lowed by adult Bible study at 7. Senior choir rehearses at 6 p.m. each Thursday. Male chorus rehearses at 6 p.m. each Thursday before the fifth Sunday. Women’s min-istry meets each first Satur-day at 10 a.m. Junior choir rehearses from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. each Saturday before the first and third Sunday. The trustee board meets at 9 a.m. and the deacons at 11 each Saturday before the second Sunday.

For transportation call 601-636-4999.

Mount Carmel M.B.Services at Mount Carmel

M.B. Church, 2629 Alma St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Keafur Grimes. Worship and Communion are each first Sunday; Sunday school enhancement is each second Sunday; worship and testi-mony service are each third Sunday; youth services are each fourth and fifth Sunday; all are at 11 a.m.

Wednesday’s Bible study/prayer service is at 6:30 p.m. Youth choir rehearsal is at 1 p.m. each fourth Saturday.

Mission Society meets at 3 p.m. at the church each second Monday and at 2 p.m. each fourth Saturday at Carmel Manor, 910 Bowman St. Dr. Franklin L. Lassiter is pastor.

Mount CarmelMinistries

Sunday services at Mount Carmel Ministries, 2015 Grove St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school for all ages and new members training. Worship begins at 11 with Communion each first Sunday.

Musicians rehearse Mon-days. Praise and worship choir rehearses Wednesday. Both begin at 5 p.m. Bible

study is at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Men’s fellowship is at 7 p.m. Thursdays. Saturday’s exer-cise class begins at 8 a.m.

For information or trans-portation, call 601-638-9015 or e-mail [email protected].

Mount Givens M.B.Services at Mount Givens

M.B. Church, 210 Kirkland Road, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school each second, third, fourth and fifth Sunday. Alice Scott is teacher. Sarah Cosey is superintendent. Communion is each fourth Sunday. Bible study is each Wednesday at 6: 30 p.m., led by the Rev. Terry L. Moore, pastor.

Donations of canned goods and nonperishable food will be accepted through Decem-ber. Call 601-631-0602.

Mount HerodenServices at Mount Heroden

Baptist Church, 1117-19 Clay St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, directed by Hilda Y. White, superinten-dent. Worship is at 11. Com-munion is each first Sunday at 11. Youth service is at 11 each second Sunday.

Prayer meeting/Bible study is at 5 p.m. each Wednesday.

Senior choir rehearsal begins at 2 p.m. each first Saturday. Youth choir rehearses each second Sat-urday at 12:30 p.m.; activities follow. Dr. Louis A. Hall Sr. is pastor.

Mount Olive M.B.Services at Mount Olive

M.B. Church of Villa Nova, 210 Villanova Road, in the Oak Ridge community, begin with Sunday school at 8:30 a.m., followed by worship at 10. Communion is at 10 a.m. each third Sunday. On Tues-day, Bible study begins at 6:45 p.m. The Rev. Richard Hop-kins is pastor.

Mount Pilgrim Services at Mount Pilgrim,

Freetown, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school. First Sunday services begin at 11 a.m. and are led by Gracie Daniels, evangelist. Commu-nion is each second Sunday and worship is each fifth Sunday; both begin at 11 a.m. Bible class is at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Joseph L. Brown is pastor.

Mount Zion No. 4 Services at Mount Zion No.

4 M.B. Church, 122 Union Ave., begin at 9 a.m. with Sunday school each second, third and fifth Sunday. Wor-ship begins at 9 a.m. each first and fourth Sunday. Choir practice begins at 6 p.m. each Wednesday before the first and fourth Sunday. On Dec. 26, the Rev. Luster Lacey will be the speaker.

The Rev. Henry Mayfield Sr. is pastor.

Narrow Way M.B.Services at Narrow Way

M.B. Church, 522 Locust St., begin at 11 a.m. each first and third Sunday. Communion is each first Sunday. Bible class begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The Rev. James E. Williams is pastor.

Call 601-218-8061.

New BeginningServices at New Beginning

Full Deliverance Ministries, 1890 S. Frontage Road, Suite 2, begin at 9:15 a.m. with Sunday school, followed at 10:15 by worship. Interces-sor prayer begins at 6 p.m. Monday. Christian Education class begins at 6 p.m. Tues-day. Wednesday Bible class begins at 6 p.m.

Apostle Clarence and Lavern Walsh are founders and overseers. Call 601-301-0586.

New Dimension WorldServices at New Dimen-

sion World, 2011 Washington St., begin at 11 a.m. Sunday with worship. Tuesday Night Touch (question and answer Bible study) is at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Bishop George Tyler Straughter is founder and senior pastor. Call 601-456-0215 or visit www.NDWorld.org.

New Mount Elem M.B.Services at New Mount

Elem M.B. Church, 3014 Wis-consin Ave., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship with Communion at 11. On Tuesday, interces-sory prayer is at 7.

On Wednesday, deacon training begins at 6 p.m. Christmas Program begins Dec. 19, at 4:30 p.m., “The Night That Christ Was Born” at 6 p.m., followed by caroling for seniors in neighborhood. On Dec. 24, candlelight wor-ship and praise service begin at 6 p.m.

Dr. Leonard Walker is pastor.

New Mount PilgrimServices at New Mount

Pilgrim M.B. Church, 501 N. Poplar St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Leroy Gillium, deacon and assistant superintendent. The following begin at 11 — second Sunday services; Cov-enant after Sunday school each third Sunday; and Com-munion services each fourth Sunday.

Life Changing for Today’s Christian is set for 6:30 p.m. Monday. Minister Jacqueline Griffin, is instructor. Prayer meeting is at 6 p.m. Tuesday, followed by Bible study led by the Rev. Virdell Lewis.

Senior choir practice led by Jean Thomas begins at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday before the second, third and fourth Sunday. The usher board meets at 11 a.m. each first Saturday.

Recordings of services are available from Lee Griffin, deacon, or by calling 601-636-6386. The Rev. Henry J. Wil-liams is pastor.

New Popular GroveServices at New Popular

Grove Independent Method-ist Church, Mississippi 27, Edwards, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school. Mar-shall Harris is superinten-dent. Worship begins at 11 with Tommie L. Moore, asso-ciate minister, delivering the message. On Thursday, Bible class begins at 6:30 p.m. James O. Bowman is pastor.

Northside Baptist Services at Northside Bap-

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tODAY• Bingham Memorial M.B. — 4 p.m., Christmas musical by youth ministry; the Rev. James C. Archer, pastor; 1063 Letitia St.• First Baptist — 6 p.m., God’s Christmas Gift, a live nativity; 1607 Cherry St.• House of Peace Worship — 7 p.m., “Why Me?” by Linda Sweezer, pastor; Rolling Fork.• Mount Pisgah Baptist — 11 a.m., fundraiser, fish fry/chicken dinners; Mary Harris, 601-638-1466; Margaret Moore, 601-661-0650; 1519 Lummie St.• New Mount Pilgrim Baptist — 6 p.m., candlelight musical; 501 N. Poplar St.• Travelers Rest Baptist — 1 p.m., Mello McCoy Tea; the Rev. Terry McCoy, guest minister; the Rev. Thomas Bernard, pastor; 718 Bowmar Ave.• Triumphant M.B. — 6 p.m., gospel benefit for Debra Gilliam Johnson; sponsored by Gospel Visionaries; 124 Pittman Road.

sunDAY• Gospel Temple M.B. — 2 p.m., ninth anniversary for the Rev. Walter Edley, pastor, ; Dr. John McCarty, guest speaker, pastor of County Line M.B., and church choir; dinner; 1612 Lane St.• Zion Travelers — 11 a.m., Family and Friends Day; Alfred Lassiter, pastor; 1701 Poplar St.

WeDnesDAY• Mount Givens M.B. — 6:30 p.m., youth departments Christ-mas program and dinner; 335 Oak Ridge Road.

FriDAY• Gibson Memorial United Methodist — 7 p.m., drive-through live nativity; 335 Oak Ridge Road.• Utica Baptist — 6:30 p.m., drive-through live nativity; 220 E. Main St., Utica.

Dec. 18• Gibson Memorial United Methodist — 7 p.m., drive-through live nativity; 335 Oak Ridge Road.

• Greater Grove Street M.B. — 7 p.m., choir concert; Dr. Casey D. Fisher, pastor; 2715 Alcorn Drive.• Greater Mount Zion Baptist — 6 p.m., Christmas celebra-tion; sponsored by youth ministry; 907 Farmer St.• Travelers Rest Baptist — 5 p.m., candlelight Christmas pro-gram; 718 Bowmar Ave.• Utica Baptist — 6:30 p.m., drive-through live nativity; 220 East Main St., Utica.

Dec. 19• Cool Spring — 6 p.m., candlelight services; 385 Falk Steel Road.• Greater Mount Lebanon — 11 a.m., 98th church anniver-sary; the Rev. Larry Brown, guest speaker; Curits Ross, pastor; 920 Fifth North St.• New Beginning Full Deliverance Ministry — 4 p.m., Christ-mas program; 1890 S. Frontage Raod. • Port Gibson Baptist — 6 p.m., Christmas cantata and gifts for children; 804 Church St.• Word Church of Vicksburg — 3 p.m., deacon ordination and consecration service for Lawrence Sullivan, Wayne Stirgus and Michael Sims; the Rev. Norcelles Holmes, guest speaker; 1201 Grove St.

Dec. 21• Oak Grove M.B. — 6:30 p.m., combined services with Morn-ing Star and Bingham Memorial M.B. churches; The Rev. James C. Archer, pastor; 3802 Patricia St.

christmAs eve• Port Gibson Baptist — 6 p.m., Christmas Cantata and gifts for children; youth fellowship; 804 Church St.

Dec. 26• Unity Temple Full Gospel — 10 a.m., “A Bitter and Sweet Christmas” by Elder Mary Mann and Tresey Brisco; bishop Johnny E. Gibson, pastor; 2647 Roosevelt Ave.

holiday & Special eventS

church eventstist Church, 4820 N. Washing-ton St., begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by children’s church and wor-ship led by Dr. Frank Lescal-lette, pastor, at 11. Sunday evening activities begin at 5 with Kid’s time, followed by Youth Explosion and wor-ship at 6.

Wednesday activities begin at 6 p.m. with Mission Study, men’s Bible study and GAs, followed by Bible study and prayer at 7. A nursery is provided.

Oakland BaptistActivities at Oakland Bap-

tist Church, 2959 Oak Ridge Road, begin today at 10 with a birthday party for Jesus.

Sunday services begin at 9:30 a.m. with a devotional led by Ray Wade, followed by Sunday school. Chil-dren’s church and worship are at 10:45. Music is led by Bryson Haden. The chil-dren’s choir will present a Christmas musical. Justin Rhodes, pastor, will deliver both messages. Evening activities begin at 4:30 with the deacons meeting. Becom-ing a Better Bible Study Girl begins at 5. Worship is at 6, followed by a monthly busi-ness meeting. A nursery is provided for all services.

On Wednesday, the youth will meet at 6:15 p.m. and Awanas meets at 6:30. Prayer service begins at 7. A nurs-ery is provided.

Open DoorServices at Open Door

Bible Church, 4866 Mount Alban Road, begin at 10:15 a.m. with Sunday school, fol-lowed by worship at 11:15. Youth and adult classes are offered and a nursery is provided.

Call 601-636-0313 or e-mail [email protected].

Pentecostal ExplosionServices at Pentecostal

Explosion Ministries, 2130 Washington St., begin with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., followed by praise and wor-ship at 10:30.

Wednesday Bible study is at 6:30 p.m. Corporate prayer/Bible study is at 7 p.m. each second and fourth Friday. Leonard and Paula Calcote are pastors. Call 601-636-4978.

Pleasant GreenServices at Pleasant Green

Baptist, 817 Bowman St., begin with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., led by Ernest Walker, deacon and superin-tendent, and Elwin Johnson, assistant superintendent. Second Sunday worship begins at 11 a.m. Communion is each fourth Sunday. Bible study is at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Deacons and trustees meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday before the second Sunday. Mission Min-istry meets at 10 a.m. Satur-day before the first and third Sunday. Herman L. Sylvester is pastor.

Pleasant Hill M.B.Services at Pleasant Hill

M.B. Church, 11170 Halls Ferry Road, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school. Wor-ship and Communion begin at 11:15 each second Sunday. Worship is at 11:15 each fourth Sunday. Prayer and Bible study begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Joseph Brisco is pastor.

Pleasant Valley M.B.Services at Pleasant Valley

M.B. Church, 260 Mississippi 27, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school and a new members class, followed by Communion at 11. On Tues-day, Shady Lawn Nursing Home ministry begins at 6:30 p.m. Bible Institute begins at 7. The Rev. Joe Harris Jr. is pastor.

Port Gibson U.M.C.Sunday is the Third Sunday

in Advent at Port Gibson United Methodist Church, 901 Church St., and it is also Christ gift Sunday. Bring a wrapped toy tagged with boy or girl and the age. Sunday

school begins at 10 a.m., fol-lowed by worship at 11.

Professional counseling is offered through Grace Chris-tian Counseling Center, 907 Church St., or by calling 601-437-5046.

RefugeServices at Refuge Church,

6202 Indiana Ave., begin at 9:45 a.m. with Word Power classes for all ages. Praise and worship begin at 10:45 under the direction of Beth-any Winkler, music pastor. Tony Winkler, senior pastor, will bring the message. Kidz Konstruction also begins at 10:45.Wednesday Family Night for all ages begins at 7 in the Family Life Center.

A nursery is available for children as old as 4.

Call 601-638-4439 or visit www.myrefugechurch.com.

Ridgeway BaptistServices at Ridgeway Bap-

tist Church, 4684 Redwood Road, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school. Children’s church and worship are at 11, followed by Christmas dinner in the fellowship hall. The Rev. Gene Jacks, pastor, will deliver the message.

Prayer group meets at 10 a.m. Tuesdays at the fellow-ship hall. Bible study/prayer meeting begins at 7 p.m.

St. Alban’s EpiscopalServices for the Third

Sunday of Advent at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 5930 Warriors Trail, Bovina, begin at 8:30 a.m. with Holy Eucharist, Rite I. Christian Education is at 9:50. Choir practice led by Joan Leese, organist and choirmaster is at 10. Holy Eucharist, Rite II, is celebrated at 11 with the Rev. Billie Abraham, rector, celebrating and preaching at both services. Coffee and fel-lowship follow each service. Child care is provided at the 11 a.m. service.

Bible study begins each Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.

Each Wednesday at 7 a.m. is a study of the book, “Twelve Steps to Spiritual Wholeness, A Christian Path-way.” Healing service and Holy Eucharist are at 6 p.m. Wednesdays.

Visit www.stalbansbovina.org. Call 601-636-6687.

St. George OrthodoxServices at St. George

Antiochian Orthodox Chris-tian Church, 2709 Washing-ton St., include: The 29th Sunday After Pentecost; The Sunday of the Forefathers and St. Spyridon: Matins and Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Sunday; Divine Liturgy at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Confes-sions are heard before and after every service. All ser-vices are in English.

The Very Rev. John W. Morris is pastor.

Call 601-636-2483 or visit www.stgeorgevicksburg.org.

St. James M.B. No. 1Services at St. James M.B.

Church No. 1, 400 Adams St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school led by Robert Hubbard, superintendent, and Walter Bell, assistant superintendent. Worship is at 11 a.m. each second and fourth Sunday. Communion is each second Sunday.

Bible study begins at 6 p.m. each Tuesday.

Willie J. White is pastor.

St. Luke Churchof God in Christ

Services at St. Luke Church of God in Christ, 915 First East St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 11. Evening worship service begins at 7 with YPWW Bible study.

One Hour of Prayer is at 8 a.m. Saturday. On Tuesday, prayer/Bible study is at 7 p.m.

A home and foreign mis-sions Bible study is at 7 p.m. Friday, followed by an evan-gelism service each first and third Friday. Choir rehearsal is at 8 p.m. each second and fourth Friday. Elder Doug-las Anderson is pastor. For transportation, call 601-638-0389.

St. Luke Free WillServices at St. Luke Free

Will Baptist Church, 91 Young Alley, begin at 11 a.m. each second, fourth and fifth Sunday. Elder Billy Bennett Jr. is pastor.

St. Mark Free WillServices at St. Mark Free

Will Baptist Church, 2606 Hannah St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Oscar Denton is superintendent. Worship and fellowship ser-vices begin at 11 a.m. each second Sunday. Commu-nion is at 11 a.m. each fourth Sunday.

Bible study begins at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Elder Jeffrey D. MaGee is pastor.

St. Mary’s CatholicSt. Mary’s Catholic Church,

1512 Main St., will celebrate the Third Sunday of Advent at 9 a.m. Daily Mass is at 6:30 a.m. Monday through Satur-day in the parish chapel.

Devotion to the Blessed Mother is at 7 p.m. each Monday in the chapel. Chapel choir rehearsal is at 6 p.m. each Wednesday.

The Rosary is recited at 8:30 a.m. each Sunday before Mass. The Sacrament of Pen-ance is from 8 to 8:45 a.m. each Sunday, or by appoint-ment. CCD/CYO classes are each Sunday after mass. Youth Mass is each fourth Sunday.

The Rev. Malcolm O’Leary, SVD, is pastor. Call 601-636-0115.

St. Michael CatholicSt. Michael Catholic

Church, 100 St. Michael Place, will celebrate the Third Sunday in Advent. Mass will be at 5:30 tonight and at 8:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday.

The Sacrament of Pen-ance is from 4:30 to 5 p.m. Saturdays.

At 2 p.m. each Sunday is a Eucharist service in Spanish.

Daily Mass is celebrated at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

During the Advent Season Soup and Scripture will be after the 5:30 p.m. Mass on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Reconciliation service begins at 7 p.m.

Anyone interested in learn-ing more about the Catholic faith should call 601-636-3445 for information about the RCIA program.

St. Paul Catholic St. Paul Catholic Church,

713 Crawford St., will cel-ebrate the Third Sunday of Advent. The Sacrament of Reconciliation and rosary are at 5 p.m. Saturdays.

Daily Mass is at 7 a.m. Tuesday through Friday.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Friday is after the 7 a.m. Mass until noon in the chapel.

Senior Citizens Advent Program begins at 10:30 a.m. with Reconciliation, followed by Mass, Anointing of the Sick and luncheon. Advent Penance service begins at 7 p.m. Thursday. R.C.I.A. meet-ing begins at 7 p.m. Wednes-day in Glynn Hall.

St. Paul M.B.Services at St. Paul M.B.

Church, 1413 Elm St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Evelyn Byrd is superinten-dent. Roosevelt Kidd is assis-tant superintendent. Second Communion begins at 11 a.m. Bible study begins at 6 p.m. Monday. Choir rehearsal begins at noon Saturday.

Dr. Michael R. Reed Sr. is pastor.

Shady Grove BaptistServices at Shady Grove

Baptist Church, 61 Shady Grove Circle, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship is at 11 each first and fourth Sunday.

Bible class begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Richard Johnson is pastor.

Shiloh BaptistServices at Shiloh Bap-

tist Church, 920 Meadow St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Oscar Jones is superintendent. Commu-nion service begins at 11 a.m. each third Sunday. Covenant begins at 10:45 a.m. each second Sunday.

On Tuesday, Bible study begins at 6 p.m. Dr. Willie Jones, pastor, is the instruc-tor. Choir rehearsal is at 6 p.m. Tuesday after the second Sunday.

Shiloh PrimitiveServices at Shiloh Primi-

tive Baptist Church, War-riors Trail, begin at 10:30 a.m. with singing, prayers and a sermon. Elder Charles Holden is pastor.

Solid RockServices at Solid Rock Pen-

tecostal Church, 4945 U.S. 61 North, begin at 6:30 p.m. Sunday with candlelight ser-vices with Christmas music, led by Daphne Turner. Mid-week Bible study begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

For home Bible study call 601-636-0692. For transporta-tion call 601-636-0692.

For prayer minister Bill Freeman, 601-636-1366. Or visit wwwl.solid-rockchurch.org.

Spring Hill M.B.Services at Spring Hill M.B.

Church, 815 Mission 66, begin at 9 a.m. each second and fourth Sunday. Youth minis-try services begin at 9 a.m. each fifth Sunday. The Lord’s Supper is observed each second Sunday. Children’s church is provided for ages 2-15. Midweek Bible study begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Javelin Clark is music minister. The Rev. Reginald Anderson is pastor.

Standfield New Life Services at Standfield New

Life Christian Church, 1404 Lane St., begin at 10 a.m. with worship. Maximized Manhood begins at 5 p.m. each first and third Sunday. New membership orientation begins at 2 p.m. each second and fourth Sunday.

Bible study is at 6 p.m. each Wednesday.

Angel Food orders are taken monthly; call 601-638-5380.

Travelers Rest BaptistServices at Travelers Rest

Baptist Church, 718 Bowmar Ave., begin at 9 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 10:30. Baptism is at 10 a.m. each first Sunday. Music is by Perfect Praise/Inspirational choir.

The deacons ministry meets at 7:30 p.m. each second Monday.

The missionary ministry meets at 10 a.m. each first and third Saturday. The ushers and wellness minis-tries meet after services each third Sunday.

Men of Purpose rehearses at 6:30 p.m. each first and third Monday.

Youth tutorial meets at 7 each Tuesday night. Boy Scouts meets at 6:30 p.m. each second and fourth Tues-day. Bible study/prayer is at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Midweek Bible study/prayer begins at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Perfect Praise choir rehearsal is at 6 p.m. each fourth Wednesday.

Inspirational choir rehearsal is at 6:30 p.m. each second Wednesday.

United Voices of Worship rehearsal is at 7 p.m. each Wednesday.

Call 601-636-3712 on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Thomas E. Bernard is pastor.

Trinity BaptistServices at Trinity Baptist

Church, 3365 Porters Chapel Road, begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship is at 10:45 with a manger walk and offerings to International Missions in the manger.

Evening worship begins at 6 with the Christmas Candle-light Communion Service.

On Wednesday, The Gath-

ering begins at 3 p.m. The Gathering and age-graded studies begin at 6, and choir rehearsal is at 6:45.

Tim Goodson is minister of music and youths. The Rev. Ron Burch is pastor.

TriumphServices at Triumph

Church, 136 Honeysuckle Lane, begin with pre-service prayer, teen class, Kingdom Kid’s church and a nurs-ery at 10:15 a.m. Worship is at 10:30 with the Kingdom Kids presenting a Christmas program. Music will be pre-sented by the Warren Cen-tral Junior High Choir, under the direction of Ruby Regan. The service at 10:30 will be streaming live on www.tri-umphchurchvicksburg.com.

Corporate prayer is at 6 a.m. Tuesday and 6 p.m. Saturday.

Wednesday services begin at 6 p.m. and include Elevate Your Life classes, 24/7 youth ministries, Kingdom Kids church and Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. A nursery is available for chil-dren as old as 3. Men’s frater-nity meets from 8 to 9:30 a.m. each first Saturday.

Triumphant BaptistServices at Triumphant

Baptist Church, 124 Pittman Road, begin at 8:30 a.m. with New Sunday Connection/New Members Transition Classes at the Kings Empow-erment Center. Partners in Prayer begins at 9:30 a.m. in the sanctuary, followed by worship at 10.

Women’s ministry is at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the adminis-tration building.

Activities at the Kings Empowerment Center include aerobics at 6 p.m. Monday and Thursday and Bible study at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Mass choir rehearsal is at 7 p.m. Thursday at the church.

Elders’ Bible study is at noon Friday in the adminis-tration building.

Usher/Helps Ministry is at 4 p.m. each fourth Saturday at the administration building.

For transportation, call 601-218-1319, 601-638-8135 or 601-638-8108. The Rev. Dexter Jones is pastor. Visit www.triumphmbchurch.com.

WC Ministers AllianceWarren County Minis-

ters Alliance meets at 9:30 a.m. each Saturday at the E.D. Straughter Building on Martin Luther King Jr. Bou-levard. The aim is to ben-efit ministers and discuss Sunday school lessons. Min-isters and community mem-bers are invited.

Robert L. Miller is moderator.

Warrenton Independent

Services at Warrenton Independent Baptist Church, 829 Belva Drive, begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship is at 11 with Marvin E. Curtis Jr., pastor, preach-ing. Junior church is during worship and is led by Scott Audirsch, associate youth pastor. Worship is at 6 with Curtis delivering the message.

Wednesday prayer meeting begins at 7 p.m. Prayer time will follow.

Visit www.warrentonbap-tist.net or e-mail [email protected].

Wayside Baptist Services at Wayside Baptist

Church, 6151 Jeff Davis Road, begin with Sunday school at 9:45 a.m., followed by wor-ship at 11 with Jason Wooley, pastor, leading. Evening wor-ship begins at 6.

Wednesday prayer meet-ing/Bible study begins at 7 p.m. A nursery is provided Sunday mornings.

WestminsterServices at Westminster

Presbyterian Church, 3601 Halls Ferry Road, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school. Worship with Communion is at 11 with Scott Reiber, pastor, preaching. Elder

Mark Monroe will assist. Les-sons and Carols are at 6 p.m.

Mary Claire Allison is choir director. Dr. Gwen Reiber is organist. A nursery is provided.

Visit www.vpcvicksburg.com.

Wilderness BaptistServices at Wilderness

Baptist Church, 5415 Gibson Road, begin at 9:45 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 11 with Bob Conrad, pastor delivering the message. The Harvest Dinner will follow the ser-vice. Evening services are canceled.

On Wednesday, old-time prayer begins at 6:30 p.m., with some members leaving to go caroling and delivering Christmas baskets.

A nursery is provided.

Woodlawn BaptistServices at Woodlawn

Baptist Church, 2310 Culkin Road, begin at 9:40 a.m. with Sunday school, followed by worship at 11. The Rev. Kent Campbell is pastor. The Rev. Mike Barber is minis-ter of music. Student Minis-ter is Devin Rost. A nursery is available for ages up to 3. Children’s church is available for 4 years through second grade, following Sunday school. Morning services are at 11 on WBBV-101.3-FM or www.woodlawnbc.com.

Evening activities begin at 6 with the children’s choir Christmas program. Youth Bible study will not meet during December.

On Wednesday, early ser-vice begins at 10 a.m. Family activities begin with supper at 5 p.m. Youth Underground Connections meet at 5:40. Children’s missions and music are at 5:40. Worship is at 6. The sanctuary choir will practice at 6 this week only. Call 601-636-5320.

Word ChurchSunday services at Word

Church of Vicksburg, 1201 Grove St., begin at 11:30 a.m. with worship. Bible class begins at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Word of FaithSunday services at Word of

Faith Christian Center, 3525 Wisconsin Ave., begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school, fol-lowed by worship at 10:30.

Corporate prayer is at 10:15 a.m. Sunday and 6:45 p.m. Wednesday.

Midweek services and Glo-rify God youth ministry are at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The Rev. Reginald L. Walker is pastor. Bishop Keith A. Butler is founder. Call 601-638-2500.

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explained to an audience in Jakarta last month. “I want you to love me.”

The Cordoba Initiative is a pro-Western organization that sent election monitors last spring to Sudan, and Rauf has spent much of his life preaching religious toler-ance and the need for people of different faiths to work together.

Rauf and Khan have kept their offices for years in the Interchurch Center, a Man-hattan office tower packed with Christian religious agencies that was conceived as a space where different denominations could mingle and collaborate.

His social friends are as likely to be Jewish or Chris-tian as they are Muslim. The Very Rev. James Morton, retired dean of the Cathe-dral of St. John the Divine, recalled how his family, Rauf, Khan and a rabbi once spent 10 days together on a Mediterranean cruise.

“We went from Spain to North Africa,” the Episcopal priest said — a crossing of a historic border and cross-roads between the Islamic and Christian worlds. “It was a wonderful trip.”

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La. Pick 3: 8-4-0La. Pick 4: 5-8-6-5Weekly results: C2

Heisman lockCam Newton will behard to beat tonightfor the Heisman TrophyPreview/C37 p.m. ESPN

SWACtasticTexas Southern and Ala-bama State battle for the SWAC championship today. Preview/C31 p.m. ESPN Classic

SCHEDUlEPREP BASKETBALLVicksburg at WCToday, 1 p.m.

ON TV1:30 p.m. CBS - It’s one of the greatest traditions in college football as Army and Navy battle at Lincoln Financial Field in the City of Brotherly Love.

WhO’S hOTMATT WARRENPorters Chapel se-nior guard scored 15 points in a 52-43 loss to Newton on Friday.

SIdELINESFavre listed asquestionable

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Brett Favre still hasn’t been able to throw a proper pass in prac-tice, and the Minnesota Vikings still haven’t given up hope their quarter-back will extend his NFL record for consecutive starts against the New York Giants on Sunday.

Favre did minimal work in practice Friday for the first time all week, mak-ing a few soft tosses to test out the sprained SC joint in his throwing shoulder. He is listed as questionable on the in-jury report and will be a game-time decision on whether he will make his 298th straight regular-season start.

Interim coach Leslie Fra-zier said Favre wanted to test out his throwing motion more than any-thing on Friday and that the 41-year-old will have to show the team he can make all the throws dur-ing a pregame workout Sunday

“We would have to see him make some of the throws he’d have to make in the game, and he un-derstands that,” Frazier said.

prep basketball MullenshrugsawayrumorsBy David BrandtThe Associated Press

STARKVILLE — Missis-sippi State coach Dan Mullen was his usual energetic self at Friday night’s practice, telling jokes and barking instructions to players as he jogged around the chilly field in a gray hooded sweatshirt and maroon hat.

Normally, that wouldn’t be a very big deal at all. But with two major coaching jobs open at Florida and Miami and Mullen’s name attached to both, his presence in Starkville has been closely monitored.

“I don’t worry about it,” Mullen said. “I don’t live in a speculation world. We live in a real world. That’s all we deal with.”

Mullen has become a hot name in coaching circles after leading MSU to a bowl game in just his second season with the program. The 21st-ranked Bulldogs (8-4) will face Michigan (7-5) in the Gator Bowl on Jan. 1 in Jack-sonville, Fla.

Mullen’s ties to the Gators are obvious: He was Urban Meyer’s offensive coordina-tor from 2005 to 2008, which coincides with Meyer’s most productive four seasons, including two national cham-pionships. The two have remained friends, though Mullen says he hasn’t talked to Meyer since he abruptly resigned on Wednesday.

Miami would be a less obvi-ous choice, though Mullen’s familiarity with the state would likely be a plus.

Meanwhile, Mississippi State athletics director Scott Stricklin has said a new contract is in the works for Mullen, who signed a four-year contract worth $1.2 mil-lion per year when he was hired in 2008. But Mullen said he’s focused solely on the football field, and the Bulldogs were back on the practice field for the first time since beating Missis-sippi 31-23 in the Egg Bowl on Nov. 27.

Mullen said he didn’t feel the need to address his team about any job rumors. Left tackle Derek Sherrod said the team was simply happy to be on the practice field in December — which is a first for the program since play-ing in the Liberty Bowl in 2007. There’s been plenty of big moments for the Bull-dogs this season, including the team’s longest winning streak since 1999 and its first national ranking since 2001.

“It was all smiles for every-body just to be back on the field in December and not March when spring practice starts,” Sherrod said. “Every-body’s done with finals now, so our minds are on football.”

Mississippi State will eventually have to figure out a way to stop Michi-gan’s dynamic quarterback Denard Robinson, who has accounted for 3,959 total yards and 30 touchdowns this season. But for now, the Bulldogs are focused on making sure their starters stay healthy.

Opening salvoBy Jeff [email protected]

It has been four long years since the Warren Cen-tral boys basketball team defeated Vicksburg High.

This afternoon at 2:30, the Vikings (6-3) appear to have their best chance to stop the streak. The Vikings face the Gators (6-2) at their gym in the Division 4-6A opener for both teams.

WC coach Jesse Johnson is optimistic about his chances.

“Most definitely,” John-son said. “I think we match up well with them. We have similar teams. They have a big scorer in (Mychal) Ammons while we have Kourey (Davis). I believe we can match their intensity on defense.”

The Gators have tradition on their side. For the past four years, Vicksburg has been one of the top teams in the state with consecutive trips to the state tournament at the Mississippi Coliseum. Last season, the Gators fin-ished 25-4 with a top seven ranking.

Warren Central has endured four straight losing seasons, including last year’s four-win debacle.

With Davis, a 6-foot-4 soph-

omore forward, things have changed dramatically for WC. He leads the team in scoring with 19.9 points a game.

Davis is not alone. Fresh-man Gerald Glass, a 6-5 center, is following in the footsteps of his father, Gerald Sr., who was an All-Amer-ica team member at Delta State, an All-SEC performer at Ole Miss, and played in the NBA. The younger Glass is WC’s top rebounder with 7.2 boards per game. Senior Jeremy Harper and Louis Carson add shooters from the wing while senior point guard Cory Davis runs the offense.

Since losing a double-over-time game at home to Crystal Springs, WC has won three straight, including two key road games at Quitman and last Tuesday at Brookhaven (71-64).

“Quitman and Brookhaven were real tough places to play,” Johnson said. “We started slow at Brookhaven, but had a 25-point third quarter and that opened up a lead. We really stepped up our defensive pressure. Gerald played an outstand-ing game at Brookhaven.”

Vicksburg coach Dellie C. Robinson was there.

“I watched the game and he really did played well,” Robinson said of Glass. “We know Kourey is the key to them. We have to do a good job on him and help against their other shooters.”

The Vikings, however, have not been able to beat the Gators since Mario Luckett’s senior year in 2006.

“I think it’s at least the last eight times for sure, “ John-son said. “I think we are due one. It’s our best chance in several years. It’s important

for us to at least split home court with them,” Johnson said.

The Gators are led by Ammons, a South Alabama signee. Ammons averages 19.7 points and 10.3 rebounds a game. Kienta Ross, a for-ward, was one rebound away from a triple double against McComb last week. He aver-ages eight points and 9.7 rebounds per game.

The girls’ game pits a rebuilding Lady Vikes team against the Missy Gators. The Lady Vikes won the season series 2-1 last year, taking the deciding game at the division tournament in Greenville. WC is 2-7 this season, but got a needed road win at Brookhaven.

“Maybe that will give us the breakout that we needed,” WC coach Jackie Martin said. “Sh’Qulla Neal had 27 at Brookhaven. I hope that gets us out of the shell we’ve been in.”

Vicksburg is 4-3 and led by Montevallo signee Donyeah Mayfield.

Mayfield had 26 points in last week’s win against McComb.

“Donyeah’s teammates did a good job of getting the ball to her,” VHS coach Barbara Hartzog said.

Lady Trojans rollover Lady FlashesBy Jeff [email protected]

The wide floor of the St. Aloysius gym proved to be a good fit for Tallulah Acade-my’s Megan Givens.

The senior forward hit nine of her first 10 shots and fin-ished with a game-high 25 points and eight rebounds as Tallulah beat St. Al 46-35 Friday night.

Tallulah improved to 10-3 and beat St. Al for the second straight year. Givens is the big reason why.

“She was a monster,” St. Al assistant coach Alisa Scott said of Givens. “She shot the ball well for them.”

Givens seemed surprised by her good night.

“This is such a different floor than what we’re used to,” Givens said. “Our gym is real small. Here, it is really wide. They have a nice wood floor. I like playing here.”

First-year Lady Trojans coach Chuck Bauerle said he could see why Givens likes the St. Al Gym.

“This is a great place to play,” Bauerle. “A nice gym and there was a good crowd. We played good in spurts. Megan had a big game for us, but then we got in some foul trouble and I thought we got leg weary there in the fourth quarter.”

Givens hit all five of her shots in the opening


Tallulah Academy’s Kathleen Oliver attempts to block a shot by St. Aloysius guard Alexa Engel Friday.

Warren Central forward Kourey Davis goes up for a finger roll layup against Crystal Springs.

DAvID JACKson•The Vicksburg PosT

Vicksburg forward Joshua Gaskin goes up for a layup against Provine this season.

Tale of the tapeVHS WC65.3 .........................................Points per ...............................68.944.5 ....................................Points allowed ..........................61.4Leading scorers - Vicksburg: Mychal Ammons, 19.7 ppg; Warren Central: Kourey Davis, 19.9 ppgLeading rebounders - Vicksburg: Mychal Ammons, 10.3 rpg; Warren Central: Gerald Glass 7.2 rpg

Warren Central seeks first victory in four years over Vicksburg

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nflAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PANew England .....10 2 0 .833 379 269N.Y. Jets ............9 3 0 .750 267 232Miami .................6 6 0 .500 215 238Buffalo ...............2 10 0 .167 243 333

South W L T Pct PF PAJacksonville .......7 5 0 .583 257 300Indianapolis .......7 6 0 .538 347 318Houston .............5 7 0 .417 288 321Tennessee .........5 8 0 .385 291 265

North W L T Pct PF PAPittsburgh ..........9 3 0 .750 267 191Baltimore ...........8 4 0 .667 260 201Cleveland ...........5 7 0 .417 229 239Cincinnati ...........2 10 0 .167 255 322

West W L T Pct PF PAKansas City .......8 4 0 .667 295 237Oakland .............6 6 0 .500 283 269San Diego .........6 6 0 .500 323 253Denver ...............3 9 0 .250 256 333

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants ........8 4 0 .667 308 247Philadelphia .......8 4 0 .667 344 281Washington ........5 7 0 .417 222 293Dallas .................4 8 0 .333 294 336

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta ...............10 2 0 .833 304 233New Orleans .....9 3 0 .750 299 227Tampa Bay ........7 5 0 .583 243 251Carolina .............1 11 0 .083 154 307

North W L T Pct PF PAChicago .............9 3 0 .750 246 192Green Bay .........8 4 0 .667 303 182Minnesota ..........5 7 0 .417 227 253Detroit ................2 10 0 .167 278 306

West W L T Pct PF PASeattle ...............6 6 0 .500 240 289St. Louis ............6 6 0 .500 232 237San Francisco ...4 8 0 .333 203 259Arizona ..............3 9 0 .250 200 338

———Thursday’s Game

Indianapolis 30, Tennessee 28Sunday’s Games

N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, NoonTampa Bay at Washington, NoonCleveland at Buffalo, NoonGreen Bay at Detroit, NoonOakland at Jacksonville, NoonCincinnati at Pittsburgh, NoonAtlanta at Carolina, NoonSeattle at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.St. Louis at New Orleans, 3:05 p.m.Kansas City at San Diego, 3:15 p.m.Denver at Arizona, 3:15 p.m.New England at Chicago, 3:15 p.m.Miami at N.Y. Jets, 3:15 p.m.Philadelphia at Dallas, 7:20 p.m.

Monday’s GameBaltimore at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

college footballFCS Playoffs

QuarterfinalsFriday

Delaware 16, New Hampshire 3Today

Villanova at Appalachian St., 11 a.m.Georgia Southern at Wofford, 1 p.m.North Dakota St. at E. Washington, 2:30 p.m.

Division II PlayoffsSemifinals

TodayShepherd at Delta St., 1 p.m.NW Missouri St. at Minnesota-Duluth, 5 p.m.

Division III PlayoffsSemifinals

TodayBethel, Minn. at Mount Union, 11 a.m.Wisconsin-Whitewater at Wesley, Noon

nbaeaSteRn confeRence

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBBoston ..........................18 4 .818 —New York ......................15 9 .625 4Toronto .........................8 15 .348 10 1/2Philadelphia ..................7 15 .318 11New Jersey ..................6 17 .261 12 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GBOrlando .........................15 7 .682 —Miami ............................15 8 .652 1/2Atlanta ..........................15 9 .625 1Charlotte .......................8 14 .364 7Washington ...................6 16 .273 9

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago ........................13 8 .619 —Indiana ..........................11 10 .524 2Milwaukee .....................9 13 .409 4 1/2Cleveland ......................7 15 .318 6 1/2Detroit ...........................7 17 .292 7 1/2

WeSteRn confeRenceSouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio ..................19 3 .864 —Dallas ............................18 4 .818 1New Orleans ................14 8 .636 5Memphis .......................9 14 .391 10 1/2Houston ........................8 14 .364 11

Northwest Division W L Pct GBUtah ..............................16 7 .696 —Oklahoma City ..............16 8 .667 1/2Denver ..........................14 8 .636 1 1/2Portland ........................11 11 .500 4 1/2Minnesota .....................6 17 .261 10

Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Lakers ...................16 7 .696 —Phoenix .........................11 11 .500 4 1/2Golden State ................8 14 .364 7 1/2Sacramento ..................5 15 .250 9 1/2L.A. Clippers .................5 18 .217 11

Friday’s GamesIndiana 100, Charlotte 92Denver 123, Toronto 116New York 101, Washington 95Chicago 88, L.A. Lakers 84Minnesota 109, Detroit 99Oklahoma City 97, New Orleans 92Milwaukee 97, Houston 91San Antonio 108, Atlanta 92Portland at Phoenix, (n)Orlando at Utah, (n)Miami at Golden State, (n)

Today’s GamesMemphis at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m.Indiana at Atlanta, 6 p.m.Boston at Charlotte, 6 p.m.Toronto at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Minnesota at Chicago, 7 p.m.Utah at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.Cleveland at Houston, 7:30 p.m.Miami at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesDenver at New York, 11 a.m.New Orleans at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.L.A. Lakers at New Jersey, noon

Portland at San Antonio, 2:30 p.m.Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.Orlando at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

college baSketballTop 25 Schedule

Friday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GamesNo. 1 Duke vs. Saint Louis, 11 a.m.No. 3 Pittsburgh vs. No. 11 Tennessee, 2:15 p.m.No. 4 Kansas vs. Colorado St., 5:30 p.m.No. 5 Kansas St. at Loyola (Chicago), 3 p.m.No. 7 Michigan St. vs. Oakland, Mich., at Auburn Hills, Mich., 11:30 a.m.No. 8 Syracuse vs. Colgate, 6 p.m.No. 14 San Diego St. vs. San Diego, 9 p.m.No. 15 Missouri vs. Presbyterian, 4 p.m.No. 17 Kentucky vs. Indiana, 4:15 p.m.No. 18 BYU vs. Arizona, 5 p.m.No. 19 Purdue vs. North Florida, 5:30 p.m.No. 20 UNLV at No. 24 Louisville, 11 a.m.No. 21 Washington at Texas A&M, 3:30 p.m.No. 22 Minnesota vs. Eastern Kentucky, NoonNo. 23 Notre Dame vs. Gonzaga, 7:30 p.m.No. 25 Texas vs. Texas St., 3 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesNo. 2 Ohio St. vs. Western Carolina, 3 p.m.No. 9 Georgetown vs. Appalachian St., 11 a.m.No. 12 Villanova at La Salle, 1 p.m.No. 16 Illinois vs. Northern Colorado, 5 p.m.

Mississippi ScheduleFriday’s Games

No games scheduledToday’s Games

Ole Miss at Ark.-Little Rock, 2 p.m.Southern Miss at Cal St. Monterey Bay, 4 p.m.Blue Mountain College at William Carey, 4 p.m.Mississippi Valley St. at Butler, 6 p.m.Jackson St. at North Texas, 7 p.m.East Tennessee St. at Mississippi St., 7 p.m.Pensacola Christian at Belhaven, 7 p.m.Concordia College at Miss. College, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesNorth Carolina A&T at Mississippi St., 1 p.m.Southern Miss at California, 4 p.m.West Florida at Delta St., 4 p.m.

confeRence USa Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTUCF ...................0 0 .000 7 0 1.000Memphis ............0 0 .000 7 1 .875Southern Miss .0 0 .000 5 1 .833UAB ...................0 0 .000 7 2 .778Marshall .............0 0 .000 6 2 .750Tulane ................0 0 .000 5 2 .714UTEP .................0 0 .000 5 2 .714East Carolina .....0 0 .000 7 3 .700Houston .............0 0 .000 6 3 .667SMU ...................0 0 .000 5 4 .556Rice ...................0 0 .000 4 4 .500Tulsa ..................0 0 .000 4 4 .500


Today’s GamesBethune-Cookman at UCF, 4 p.m.Southern Miss at CS Monterey Bay, 4 p.m.UTSA at Houston, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesPrinceton at Tulsa, 1 p.m.Southern Miss at California, 4 p.m.Ark.-Pine Bluff at UTEP, 8:05 p.m.

SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCEEast

Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTTennessee .........0 0 .000 6 0 1.000South Carolina ..0 0 .000 6 1 .857Florida ................0 0 .000 7 2 .778Vanderbilt ..........0 0 .000 7 2 .778Georgia ..............0 0 .000 6 2 .750Kentucky ............0 0 .000 6 2 .750

West Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTArkansas ............0 0 .000 6 1 .857Mississippi St. .0 0 .000 4 1 .800LSU ....................0 0 .000 5 2 .714Ole Miss ...........0 0 .000 4 2 .667Alabama ............0 0 .000 4 4 .500Auburn ...............0 0 .000 3 4 .429


Today’s GamesAuburn vs. Rutgers, 11:30 a.m.Alabama at Providence, 1 p.m.Ole Miss at Ark.-Little Rock, 2 p.m.Tennessee vs. Pittsburgh, 2:15 p.m.Indiana at Kentucky, 4:15 p.m.Wofford at South Carolina, 6 p.m.ETSU at Mississippi St., 7 p.m.Cent. Michigan at LSU, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesN. Carolina A&T at Mississippi St., 1 p.m.

SOUTHWESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTAlabama A&M ...0 0 .000 3 3 .500Jackson St .......0 0 .000 2 6 .250Miss. Valley St. 0 0 .000 1 5 .167Alabama St. .......0 0 .000 1 6 .143Texas Southern .0 0 .000 1 6 .143Southern U. .......0 0 .000 1 7 .125Grambling St. ....0 0 .000 1 8 .111Prairie View .......0 0 .000 1 9 .100Ark.-Pine Bluff ...0 0 .000 0 7 .000Alcorn St. .........0 0 .000 0 8 .000

Friday’s GameStephen F.Austin 62, Grambling St. 41

Today’s GamesSE Louisiana at Southern U., 3 p.m.Grambling St. vs. Cent. Arkansas, 5 p.m.Mississippi Valley St. at Butler, 6 p.m.Jackson St. at North Texas, 7 p.m.Alabama St. at Arkansas St., 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesTexas Southern at Iowa St., 5:30 p.m.Ark.-Pine Bluff at UTEP, 8:05 p.m.

WomenS baSketballTop 25 Schedule

Friday’s GamesNo. 15 Michigan St. 62, W. Michigan 50No. 22 Maryland 71, UMBC 45No. 23 Wis.-Green Bay 74, SE Missouri 40

Today’s GamesNo. 6 Ohio St. at Syracuse, NoonNo. 9 West Virginia vs. Prairie View, 1 p.m.No. 11 Georgetown at Rider, 1 p.m.No. 14 Kentucky at Chattanooga, 5 p.m.No. 18 Notre Dame vs. Creighton, 1 p.m.No. 20 St. John’s at Rhode Island, 1 p.m.No. 24 DePaul vs. Northern Illinois, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesNo. 3 Stanford vs. Fresno St., 3 p.m.No. 5 Duke at Oklahoma St., 1 p.m.No. 7 Texas A&M vs. TCU, 2 p.m.No. 8 Tennessee at No. 21 Texas, 1 p.m.No. 10 UCLA at Saint Mary’s Calif., 4 p.m.No. 12 North Carolina vs. UNLV, 1 p.m.No. 13 Oklahoma vs. New Mexico, 2 p.m.No. 15 Michigan St. vs. Iona, 1 p.m.No. 16 Iowa St. vs. Columbia, 12:30 p.m.No. 17 Florida St. vs. Jacksonville St., 1 p.m.No. 23 Wisconsin-G.B. at Marquette, 2 p.m.

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tallUlaH acaD. 46, St, aloYSIUS 35Tallulah Academy 16 12 8 10 — 46St. Aloysius 9 3 12 12 — 35Tallulah Academy (45)Megan Givens 25, Allie Kate Gossett 12, Oliver 8, Post 1.St. Aloysius (35)Sara Howington 14, Thomas 8, Willis 7, Engel 4, Welp 1, Giambrone 1.

boYSSt. aloYSIUS 65, tallUlaH acaD. 42

Tallulah Academy 7 12 7 16 — 42St. Aloysius 20 13 12 20 — 65Tallulah Academy (42)Jake Busby 17, McCan 10, Shivers 10, Harrell 2, Petty 2, Boyette 1.St. Aloysius (65)Ford Biedenharn 31, Wooten 7, Headley 7, Michael Foley 6, Matthew Foley 5, Bexley 4, Busario 2.

nHleaSteRn confeRence

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh .......30 20 8 2 42 96 69Philadelphia ....30 18 7 5 41 103 75N.Y. Rangers ..30 17 12 1 35 88 80New Jersey ....28 8 18 2 18 52 84N.Y. Islanders .26 5 16 5 15 55 88

Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAMontreal ..........29 18 9 2 38 77 58Boston ............27 16 8 3 35 80 54Buffalo ............29 12 13 4 28 76 79Ottawa ............31 13 16 2 28 68 92Toronto ...........28 10 14 4 24 62 85

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington .....30 18 9 3 39 96 82Tampa Bay .....28 15 10 3 33 86 98Atlanta ............29 15 11 3 33 90 84Florida .............27 13 14 0 26 71 69Carolina ..........27 11 12 4 26 76 86

WeSteRn confeRenceCentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GADetroit .............27 18 6 3 39 92 72Chicago ..........30 16 12 2 34 95 87St. Louis .........27 14 9 4 32 71 73Nashville .........27 13 8 6 32 68 70Columbus .......27 15 11 1 31 71 75

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAVancouver ......26 15 8 3 33 85 68Colorado .........28 14 10 4 32 98 88Minnesota .......27 12 11 4 28 66 78Calgary ...........29 12 15 2 26 79 86Edmonton .......27 10 12 5 25 72 96

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GADallas ..............28 17 9 2 36 81 75Los Angeles ...26 16 10 0 32 71 62Phoenix ...........27 13 8 6 32 76 75San Jose ........28 14 10 4 32 86 83Anaheim .........31 14 13 4 32 78 94

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over-time loss.

Friday’s GamesDallas 2, Carolina 1, SODetroit 4, Montreal 2Ottawa 3, New Jersey 2Colorado 4, Atlanta 2Tampa Bay at Edmonton, 8 p.m.Calgary at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Today’s GamesPhiladelphia at Boston, 6 p.m.Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 6 p.m.Montreal at Toronto, 6 p.m.Detroit at New Jersey, 6 p.m.Atlanta at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.Colorado at Washington, 6 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Columbus, 6 p.m.Carolina at St. Louis, 7 p.m.Florida at Nashville, 7 p.m.Dallas at Phoenix, 7 p.m.Tampa Bay at Vancouver, 9:30 p.m.Minnesota at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.Chicago at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesWashington at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.Vancouver at Edmonton, 7 p.m.Minnesota at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

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American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES—Agreed to terms with SS Cesar Izturis on a one-year contract.BOSTON RED SOX—Agreed to terms with C Jason Varitek on a one-year contract.KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Agreed to terms with OF Melky Cabrera on a one-year contract.LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Agreed to terms with LHP Scott Downs on a three-year contract.SEATTLE MARINERS—Agreed to terms with DH Jack Cust on a one-year contract.

National LeagueATLANTA BRAVES—Agreed to terms with LHP George Sherrill on a one-year contract.

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scoreboardBOXING

8:30 p.m. HBO - Junior welter-weights, Victor Ortiz (28-2-1) vs. La-mont Peterson (28-1-0); champion Amir Khan (23-1-0) vs. Marcos Maid-ana (29-1-0), for WBA super lightweight title

COLLEGE FOOTBALL11 a.m. ESPN - NCAA, FCS quarterfi-nals, Villanova at Appalachian State1 p.m. ESPN Classic - SWAC championship game, Alabama State vs. Texas Southern1:30 p.m. CBS - Army vs. Navy7 p.m. ESPN - Heisman Trophy Presentation

GOLF8:30 a.m. TGC - European PGA Tour, Alfred Dunhill Championship (tape)3 p.m. NBC - Shark Shootout (tape)5:30 p.m. TGC - Ladies European Tour, Dubai Ladies Masters (tape)

COLLEGE BASKETBALL11 a.m. CBS - Saint Louis at Duke11:30 a.m. ESPN2 - Auburn vs. Rutgers1:30 p.m. ESPN2 - Wisconsin at Marquette2:15 p.m. ESPN - Tennessee vs. Pittsburgh3:30 p.m. ESPN2 - Washington at Texas A&M4:15 p.m. ESPN - Indiana at Kentucky5:30 p.m. ESPN2 - Colorado State vs. Kansas7:30 p.m. ESPN2 - Gonzaga at Notre Dame

NBA7 p.m. WGN - Minnesota at Chicago

RODEO9:30 p.m. ESPN2 - PRCA, National Fi-nals, championship round

Dec. 111971 — The Los Angeles Lakers

set an NBA record with 21 straight wins by beating the Atlanta Hawks 104-95, breaking the record of 20 set by the Milwaukee Bucks the previ-ous year.

1972 — Joe Namath of the New York Jets passes for 403 yards and Don Maynard sets an NFL record for career receptions in a 24-16 loss to the Oakland Raiders. Maynard makes seven catches to reach 632 receptions and break Raymond Berry’s record by one.

2005 — Ronde Barber becomes the first cornerback in NFL history with at least 20 sacks and 20 inter-ceptions when he gets one of each in Tampa Bay’s win over Carolina.

2006 — Jerry Sloan becomes the fifth coach in NBA history to win 1,000 games after Utah defeats Dallas 101-79.

college footballHawaii joins Mountain West Conference

HONOLULU — The University of Hawaii is joining the Mountain West Conference for football and the Big West in other sports, aban-doning the Western Athletic Con-ference after 32 years.

School President M.R.C. Green-wood said Friday that Hawaii will make the move in 2012, following Boise State, Nevada and Fresno State to the MWC.

nflBroncos rookie arrested in alleged sexual assault

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Denver Broncos rookie cornerback Perrish Cox has been arrested for investiga-tion of felony sexual assault.

Cox was taken into custody Thurs-day night following an investigation into an alleged assault reported on Oct. 28 and brought to a Douglas County jail, said Michelle Kivela, public information officer for the city of Lone Tree, which is about 20 miles south of Denver.

mlbSherrill finalizes $1.2M deal with Braves

ATLANTA — Left-hander George Sherrill, who saved 51 games in two seasons with Baltimore before struggling last season with the Dodgers, has finalized a $1.2 mil-lion, one-year contract with the Atlanta Braves. Sherrill’s deal was announced Friday after he passed a physical in Atlanta. The 33-year-old joins Scott Linebrink, acquired from the White Sox, as new veter-ans in the bullpen.

Sunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-7-7La. Pick 4: 7-9-3-7Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 1-0-8La. Pick 4: 7-4-5-0Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 4-4-5La. Pick 4: 2-1-1-0Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-5-2La. Pick 4: 1-3-9-2Easy 5: 13-15-19-23-26La. Lotto: 5-10-12-14-17-36Powerball: 8-11-25-41-58Powerball: 16; Power play: 4Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 3-4-7La. Pick 4: 2-9-7-9Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-4-0La. Pick 4: 5-8-6-5Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-5-2La. Pick 4: 2-5-9-2Easy 5: 18-24-30-34-35La. Lotto: 1-9-13-22-29-33Powerball: 13-24-27-31-42Powerball: 22; Power play: 5

2010 - 11 boWl ScHeDUleDec. 18 New Mexico Bowl .............................................UTEP (6-6) vs. BYU (6-6) 1 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 18 Humanitarian Bowl .............Northern Illinois (10-3) vs. Fresno State (8-4) 4:30 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 18 New Orleans Bowl .............................................. Ohio (8-4) vs. Troy (7-5) 8 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 21 Beef ’O’ Brady’s Bowl ..................Louisville (6-6) vs. Southern Miss (8-4) 7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl .........................................Utah (10-2) vs. Boise State (11-1) 7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 23 Poinsettia Bowl ................................San Diego State (8-4) vs. Navy (8-3) 7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl ................................................... Hawaii (10-3) vs. Tulsa (9-3) 7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl .......Toledo (8-4) vs. Florida International (6-6) 7:30 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 27 Independence Bowl .......................Georgia Tech (6-6) vs. Air Force (8-4) 4 p.m. ESPN2

Dec. 28 Champs Sports Bowl ..North Carolina State (8-4) vs. West Virginia (9-3) 5:30 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 28 Insight Bowl .................................................Missouri (10-2) vs. Iowa (7-5) 9 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 29 Military Bowl ................................... East Carolina (6-6) vs. Maryland (8-4) 1:30 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 29 Texas Bowl ......................................................Baylor (7-5) vs. Illinois (6-6) 5 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 29 Alamo Bowl .................................Arizona (7-5) vs. Oklahoma State (10-2) 8:15 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl ..............................................SMU 7-6 vs. Army (6-5) 11 a.m. ESPN

Dec. 30 Pinstripe Bowl ................................ Syracuse (7-5) vs. Kansas State (7-5) 2:30 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 30 Music City Bowl .........................North Carolina (7-5) vs. Tennessee (6-6) 5:40 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 30 Holiday Bowl ................................. Nebraska (10-3) vs. Washington (6-6) 9 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 31 Meineke Bowl ..................................Clemson (6-6) vs. South Florida (7-5) 11 a.m. ESPN

Dec. 31 Sun Bowl ................................................Notre Dame (7-5) vs. Miami (7-5) 1 p.m. CBS

Dec. 31 Liberty Bowl ..................................................Georgia (6-6) vs. UCF (10-3) 2:30 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 31 Chick-fil-A Bowl .....................South Carolina (9-4) vs. Florida State (9-4) 6:30 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 1 TicketCity Bowl ............................ Northwestern (7-5) vs. Texas Tech (7-5) 11 a.m. ESPNU

Jan. 1 Capital One Bowl ..........................Michigan State (11-1) vs. Alabama (9-3) noon ESPN

Jan. 1 Outback Bowl ...........................................Florida (7-5) vs. Penn State (7-5) noon ABC

Jan. 1 Gator Bowl ................................... Michigan (7-5) vs. Mississippi State (8-4) 12:30 p.m. ESPN2

Jan. 1 Rose Bowl .................................................. TCU (12-0) vs. Wisconsin (11-1) 4 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 1 Fiesta Bowl .......................................Connecticut (8-4) vs. Oklahoma (11-2) 7:30 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 3 Orange Bowl ...................................Stanford (11-1) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2) 7:30 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 4 Sugar Bowl ........................................Ohio State (11-1) vs. Arkansas (10-2) 7:30 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl ..............Miami Ohio (9-4) vs. Middle Tennessee (6-6) 7 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 7 Cotton Bowl ...............................................Texas A&M (9-3) vs. LSU (10-2) 7 p.m. Fox

Jan. 8 BBVA Compass Bowl ........................... Pittsburgh (7-5) vs. Kentucky (6-6) 11 a.m. ESPN

Jan. 9 Fight Hunger Bowl .........................Boston College (7-5) vs. Nevada (12-1) 8 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 10 BCS National Championship ....................Auburn 13-0 vs. Oregon (12-0) 7:30 p.m. ESPN

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Good Luck is betterthan no Luck at all

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Andrew Luck seems to excel at just about everything.

His ability to thread passes with pinpoint accuracy make him a possible No. 1 over-all draft pick whenever he decides to go to the NFL.

His shoulder-flattening hit on one defender and bone-crushing tackle on another became instant YouTube hits and showed he can do so much more than sit back in the pocket and pass.

He’s a high school valedic-torian now majoring in archi-tectural design at Stanford, showing he has the smarts to go with the impeccable ath-letic skills.

“The only think Andrew can’t do very well is sing,” teammate Doug Baldwin said. “He’s a horrible singer. That’s about the only thing he can’t do.”

Fortunately for Luck, he’s a finalist for the Heisman Trophy not “American Idol” and he will be judged by his on-field performance not his shower renditions of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”

On the field, Luck measures up against just about anyone. He broke John Elway’s single-season school record with 28 touchdown passes while lead-ing the Cardinal to more than 40 points per game, a school-record 11 wins and a berth in the Orange Bowl against Vir-ginia Tech.

He has completed more than 70 percent of his passes for 3,051 yards and has rushed for 438 more, including three runs of at least 50 yards.

“He’s very rare in that I just don’t see any flaws in his game at all,” USC coach Lane Kiffin said. “He’s going to be a great, great player. It’s really amaz-ing watching him and what he’s able to do before the snap. They change so many plays and protections. The guy that I compare him to most is Rich Gannon when Rich was play-ing real well in the NFL. So smart and so prepared and able to run as well when things

aren’t open.”Numbers don’t do Luck jus-

tice as much as particular moments do. There was the weaving 52-yard run through the entire Wake Forest defense early in the season or the hit on USC’s Shareece Wright that possibly saved a touch-down and has generated more than 1 million YouTube hits.

There was the 44-yard pass to Baldwin against Arizona State he threw almost from his knees as he was falling down. And then there was the cold shoulder that knocked down Cal’s Sean Cattouse on the way to a 58-yard gain that got Baldwin in trouble with his coaches because he watched the play in awe instead of blocking down field.

For coach Jim Harbaugh, it was a simpler moment that stood out — an 18-yard pass to the opposite sideline on third down on the opening drive against Oregon State that had to fit in between two defend-ers in a window so small that Harbaugh described it as the strike zone on a pitchback toy.

“It still amazes. It’s every game there’s something sim-ilar to what we’ve seen and something altogether new,” Harbaugh said. “He’s the best football player I’ve been around, on the same team or coached. And he’s equally one of the finest young men I’ve ever been around too.”

That’s heady praise consider-ing Harbaugh was a Heisman finalist himself who played on a pair of top 10 teams at Michigan.

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Newton is Heisman favoriteAUBURN, Ala. (AP) —

Auburn wasn’t even looking for a quarterback when the Tigers happened upon Cam Newton at a little junior col-lege in Texas.

Tigers assistant coach Curtis Luper made a recruiting trip to little Blinn College in Texas about a year ago looking at wide receiver Dexter Ransom, not a passer.

“We were not even going to take a quarterback,” offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn said. “Coach Luper went down and said, ‘You’ve got to take a look at this quarterback.’ It just so happened one of our guys was leaving and it opened up a spot. I went down there and checked him out and started doing homework on film and checking out his background. It was probably within a month of signing day when we actually started recruit-ing him.

“I’d never even heard of him. I didn’t even know who he was.”

They didn’t get Ransom; he signed with Arizona. What the Tigers did get was a meteoric rise to national prominence with the Heisman favorite, an SEC championship and a shot at the BCS title in Glen-dale, Ariz., against Oregon on Jan. 10.

Newton is one of four Heis-man finalists, joining Oregon running back LaMichael James, Boise State quarter-back Kellen Moore and Stan-ford quarterback Andrew Luck.

He’s widely regarded as a decisive favorite after a season when neither Southeastern Conference defenses nor an NCAA investigation slowed him down. He won the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top quarterback Thursday night, when he also walked away with the Maxwell Award as the best all-around player in the country. Earlier Thurs-day, he won the Walter Camp player of the year award.

The 6-foot-6, 250-pound Newton played the final four games amid a barrage of reports that his father was involved in a pay-for-play scheme during his recruiting at Mississippi State, and even academic cheating during his stay at Florida.

The eligibility question, at least, was resolved in a flurry leading up to the SEC title game. The NCAA said Cecil Newton did indeed dangle his son’s services for dollars at Mississippi State, but that neither Newton nor Auburn apparently knew about it.

Newton’s eligibility was restored after a one-day sus-pension by Auburn, but the NCAA’s ruling has been widely criticized as opening the door for abuse.

In conjunction with the ruling, Auburn announced Cecil Newton’s access to uni-versity sports would be lim-

ited. Auburn hasn’t released the specifics of those restric-tions but TV cameras repeat-edly showed Newton’s mother, Jackie, without her husband in the stands at the SEC cham-pionship game in his home-town of Atlanta.

As polarizing as the pay-for-play scandal was off the field, Cam Newton’s on the-field play has been just as mesmerizing.

Newton and Nevada’s Colin Kaepernick joined Tim Tebow this season as the only Foot-ball Bowl Subdivision players to have 20 touchdowns both rushing and passing, account-ing for 49 TDs.

He was the SEC’s lead-ing rusher with 1,409 yards — easily a league record for quarterbacks — and he also led the nation in pass effi-ciency, completing 67.1 per-cent of his passes for 2,589 yards. Newton passed for 28 touchdowns and was inter-cepted just six times while also catching a TD pass.

Newton has mostly deflected

questions about the Heisman when he’s allowed to speak to the media at all — which has been seldom since the allega-tions surfaced.

“I really don’t like to talk about individual awards with me, because without that team, without the coaching staff having faith in me ... with-out those guys I wouldn’t be where I am right now,” he said after the SEC championship game. “I’m going to leave that up to the voters and we just wait and see what happens.”

Newton did reflect on his improbable rise: “365 days ago from this date I was at Blinn College, winning a junior col-lege national championship.

It’s a wonder what God can do in a person’s life, in such quick fashion.”

Coach Gene Chizik didn’t declare his quarterback a shoo-in for the Heisman, but delivers high praise.

“I don’t make these deci-sions, obviously, but the people that are if they look at the body of work, I don’t know how he can’t be con-sidered very highly and pos-sibly the winner of the Heis-man,” said Chizik, a former Texas defensive coordinator. “I don’t make that call. In my 25 years of doing this, he is the best player I have been around and I have been around some great ones. A bunch of them are still playing.”

Among those: Longhorns quarterback Vince Young.

Blinn coach Brad Fran-chione said only a handful of major colleges really recruited Newton, including Okla-homa, Arizona, Kansas State and North Carolina. He said it was common for schools to become interested while scouting other players.

“I knew that Cam was a spe-cial football player,” Fran-chione said. “Obviously we accomplished something special with him as our quarterback.”

Hornets, Tigers set for rematch in title gameBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)

— Texas Southern coach Johnnie Cole isn’t tiptoeing into the school’s first South-western Athletic Conference championship game.

Cole and his team carry plenty of confidence going into today’s matchup with Ala-bama State at Legion Field in Birmingham.

“I think we’re the best black college football team in the country,” he said. “We’ve rolled off seven straight wins. We’ve dominated our confer-ence. When you look at confer-ence stats, we’ve dominated on offense and defense. We play football the old way here, run and tackle on defense, and on offense run the football.”

It’s a seemingly unlikely rematch from an Oct. 2 game when Texas Southern (8-3) scored two touchdowns in the final five minutes to beat Ala-bama State 21-7 and start its current streak. That included an interception return for a touchdown after the Hornets (7-4) drove across midfield.

Both teams won their divi-sion tiebreakers to make the championship game, Alabama State’s first since 2004.

Hornets coach Reggie Barlow has come a long way, too.

He and three of his assis-tant coaches returned from a road loss last November to find their tires slashed, pre-sumably by a fan disgruntled by a team on its way to a third straight losing season under Barlow.

He dismisses the event now.“I’ve got AAA and they

showed up very fast,” Barlow said. “They changed the tires on my Range Rover and we drove on home.”

But the Montgomery native and former Alabama State star also understands the

impatience of his hometown fans.

“It’s always hard to come home,” Barlow said. “There’s so much expectations and people expect things to happen really fast. I’ve been awfully blessed. I’ve won champion-ships in just about every level I’ve been, or competed for them.

“I’m happy for our school. I know what it means to our alumni and fans. They want to be winners. They want to have something to cheer about.”

Cole, whose parents are from nearby Talladega, doesn’t expect an unfriendly recep-tion from Alabama State fans in the game about 90 minutes from the Hornets’ campus.

“It’s still in the back of my mind, but I’ve kind of closed that chapter,” he said. “Coach Barlow, I think he’s done a great and fine job with that program. I’ve got a lot of respect for him. I want to keep this game focused on the kids.”

But, he added, “It will be

sweet to beat them again in the championship game.”

Texas Southern brings in the SWAC’s top defense, giving up 217 yards a game. Alabama State and Grambling State are tied at No. 1 in scoring defense, giving up 19.3 points for a slim edge over the Tigers (19.5).

Texas Southern’s stingy defense also has racked up a league-high 42 sacks.

Texas Southern running back Marcus Wright is the SWAC’s No. 2 rusher with 1,089 yards and eight touch-downs. Quarterback Arvell Nelson has passed for 1,772 yards and rushed for 529 while accounting for 17 scores. He has also been intercepted 15 times.

Alabama State is led by quar-terback Devin Dominguez, who has passed for 1,508 yards and 18 touchdowns while throwing 14 picks.

“At the end of the day, it’s going to come down to one of these teams’ better players stepping up and making out-standing plays,” Barlow said.

On TV7 p.m. ESPNHeisman Trophy ceremony

Luck fileCollege: StanfordClass: JuniorOther awards: Pac-10 Of-fensive Player of the YearStats: Completed 245 of 349 passes for 3,051 yards, 28 TDs and seven intercep-tions and rushed 51 times for 438 yards and three TDs

Newton fileCollege: AuburnClass: JuniorOther awards: SEC Play-er of the Year, Maxwell Award, Davey O’Brien Award, Walter Camp Player of the YearStats: Completed 165 of 246 passes for 2,589 yards, 28 TDs and six intercep-tions and rushed 242 times for 1,409 yards and 20 TDs

On TV1 p.m. ESPN Classic SWAC championship gameAlabama State vs. Texas Southern

Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton reacts during a 49-31 win over Georgia on Nov. 13. The associaTed press

Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck celebrates this season after a Stanford victory.


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Dynamic duo powers Thunder to winBy Brett MartelThe Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant keep living up to their reputa-tion as the most prolific scor-ing duo in the league.

Westbrook had 29 points and 10 assists, Durant scored 25 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the New Orleans Hornets 97-92 on Friday night.

Westbrook scored 16 points in the second half, including an 18-foot jumper as he was fouled by Chris Paul to give the Thunder a 93-87 lead with 1:41 to go.

Serge Ibaka had 18 points and nine rebounds, and Jeff Green added 13 points for Oklahoma City (16-8), which won for the third time in four games to pull ahead of the Hornets (14-8) in the West-ern Conference standings. Westbrook and Durant came in with a league-leading com-bined average of 51.3 points per game.

David West had 24 points, 13 rebounds and four steals for the Hornets, but scored only six in the second half. Paul had 18 points and five steals, and Marco Belinelli scored 15, but missed a 3-point attempt that could have tied it with a little more than 10 seconds left.

Oklahoma City shot 50 per-cent, but the Hornets might have pulled out a win if Emeka Okafor, Trevor Ariza and Belinelli hadn’t combined to miss six straight free throws in the final five minutes, a stunning dry spell for a team that hit its first 16 from the foul line.

The loss was New Orleans’ seventh in 10 games after starting 11-1.

The Hornets led 63-55 in the third quarter when West’s turnaround was counted because of Ibaka’s goaltend. Ibaka quickly redeemed him-self with an acrobatic putback of a blocked shot on the other end, igniting an 11-0 Thun-der run highlighted by West-brook’s 3 and two other dunks

by Durant and Ibaka.That launched Oklahoma

City into the lead at 66-63, and the game tightened up. New Orleans appeared to be seiz-ing back momentum when Belinelli’s 3 tied it at 76 early in the fourth quarter. Then West-brook hit a jumper and a layup along the baseline as he was fouled, powering a 7-0 run.

New Orleans responded with seven straight points, capped by Paul’s weaving dribble into the lane and short fallaway to tie it at 81.

Durant’s jumper put the Thunder back in front and the lead stretched to 88-84 while

the Hornets started missing free throws. Belinelli’s 3 and driving floater off the glass pulled New Orleans to 95-92 with 47 seconds left. New Orleans then got a defensive stop, setting up Belinelli’s late missed 3, which forced the Hornets to foul and sent the fans streaming to the exits.

West had 18 of his points and Paul 12 in a strong first half for the Hornets

The game was tied early in the second quarter when the Hornets started to pull ahead with a largely reserve unit. Jarrett Jack scored seven points during an 11-4 spurt that put that put the Hornets ahead 47-40.

Durant and Westbrook, who each scored 13 in the first half, combined for five quick points on Durant’s 3 and Westbrook’s driving layup to pull the Thun-der back to 51-50. Paul then hit a layup and made a steal soon after, which led to West’s dunk. Paul then hit a 20-foot jumper and made another steal in the back court, which he converted into a layup to make it 59-50.

Westbrook hit a pair of free throws in the final seconds of the period to make it 59-52 at halftime.

With a 3-pointer in the first quarter, Paul hit 7,000 career points in what is now his sixth season

Warren Central gets first defeatBy Ernest [email protected]

PEARL — First, Warren Central couldn’t solve Pearl’s defense. Then, it couldn’t find the back of the net.

What the Vikings did find, for the first time this season, was the loss column.

Nathan Miley, Jeremy Brown and Wesley Brown each scored a goal for Pearl, which ended Warren Central’s win-ning streak at nine with a 3-0 loss on Friday night. It was a humbling setback for a WC squad that had run roughshod over a series of overmatched opponents before coming up short in one of its first tests of the season.

“Really, this was the first challenge we’ve had. We weren’t ready for this, obvi-ously.” Warren Central mid-fielder Erik Chappell said. “Hopefully we know what we need to get done and this hum-bles us.”

Warren Central (9-1) fell behind early when Miley bounced a 30-yard free kick past keeper Jamal Brinnon just four minutes into the game. Then it became a night of offensive frustration for the Vikings.

After a largely defensive first half for both sides, Chappell was stopped on a breakaway by Pearl keeper Tyler Poe in the final minute of the first half. Buddy Cook bounced a header off the crossbar early in the second, Marcus Renner hit the wall on a free kick from the top of the box at the 8-minute mark, and Renner was unable to tap a cross from Chappell into a wide-open net 3½ minutes later.

Warren Central outshot Pearl 10-9, but had nothing to show for it.

“We had plenty of chances. We’re not finishing,” WC coach Greg Head said. “It was a high-pressure game, and

the teams we’ve been playing have not been pressuring us like that team did tonight.”

Not long after WC’s early second-half charge, Pearl (7-1-4) took advantage. Jeremy Brown knocked in a throw-in at the 12 ½-minute mark when Brinnon came out to challenge and was unable to corral the loose ball. With 12 minutes left in the game, Wesley Brown scored the clincher from the right side to make it 3-0.

“I’m not disappointed with the loss. I’m disappointed in the score, because they’re not three goals better than us,” Head said. “This is the first team that’s played us hard. We knew this was going to be a tough test and they did all right.”

(G) Pearl 2, WC 0Pearl (5-3-3) scored twice in

the first half, including a goal by Casey Lyle less than five minutes in, then settled in to win a defensive stalemate against Warren Central (4-5-1).

WC controlled the flow for most of the first half and out-shot Pearl 5-1 in the second, but missed a couple of oppor-tunities to get back in the game. Mallory Reynolds hit the crossbar at the 4-minute mark but was stopped by Pearl keeper Brianna Black-well in the 19th minute.

The missed chances allowed Pearl’s early goals to stand up. After Lyle broke the ice, Macey Lee made it 2-0 in the 22nd minute. Lee dribbled in from the 40 to the 20-yard line before letting loose a shot that found the back of the net.

“There’s still things we need to work on, such as not giving up early goals,” WC coach Trey Banks said. “I can’t be disappointed with their effort. We stepped up and pressured them and had good looks. We just didn’t capitalize like they did.”

Elway may return to BroncosDENVER (AP) — Hall of

Famer John Elway is confirm-ing his interest in working for the Denver Broncos again.

Elway said Friday on his weekly radio show on Den-ver’s 87.7 The Ticket that he has spoken with team owner Pat Bowlen and chief oper-ating officer Joe Ellis about joining the front office in an official capacity but those dis-cussions haven’t gone far.

“They’ve had plenty on their plate,” Elway said. “We’ll sit down at some point in time and have some meetings and see if everything aligns what they’d want out of me and what they’d expect out of me and what they’re looking for. There’s definitely going to be some conversations.”

Elway, who has served as a business consultant this season to the team he led to back-to-back Super Bowl titles in the 1990s, indicated a role as the team’s top football execu-tive might appeal to him.

“Football is what I know the best,” Elway said. “I’m not

interested in being a head coach. I’m not interested in being a general manager. I don’t have that kind of expe-rience to be able to pick those players day in and day out and such.”

Bowlen dined with Elway at his Cherry Creek restaurant Monday night just hours after the Broncos owner had fired coach Josh McDaniels with his team mired in mediocrity and enshrouded in off-the-field issues, including the Spygate II videotaping scandal.

His dinner with the owner spawned speculation Elway could come back, perhaps to oversee an organizational chart that includes both a general manager and a coach. Elway said his dinner with Bowlen had been planned for a couple of weeks: “Obviously, it became a big deal, but it was really just a dinner,” he said.

McDaniels’ firing caught Elway by surprise, coming one week after the owner had

given his embattled coach a vote of confidence.

“I thought they were going to wait until the end of the season,” Elway said. “I think the Spygate deal was the end of the road for them and they thought they had to make a move.”

Elway echoed comments made by Ellis and quarter-back Kyle Orton that McDan-iels will resurface in another NFL city down the road.

“I think in the long run, Josh is going to be a good coach. He’s already a good football coach now, but he’ll be a good head coach down the line,” Elway said. “Once he gets that experience, the things he went through here in Denver, if he learns from those then he has a chance be a real good coach down the road.”

On Tuesday, Ellis, who is in charge of the day-to-day oper-ations at team headquarters, said he wasn’t sure if Elway would hook up with the Bron-cos again.

quarter to stake Tallulah to a 16-9 lead. St. Al had its only lead of the game, 3-2, when Givens started making shots inside the lane.

She made four more baskets in the second quarter while the Lady Flashes (4-7) could not answer. Tallulah led 28-12 at the half.

St. Al hit just 12-of-49 shots from the field and were 10-of-26 from the line.

“A lot of our problems were self-inflicted,” Scott said. “They’re not that much better than us. We gave it everything we had in the fourth quarter and came back some.”

Tallulah led 42-25 when Sara Howington ignited a rally that

got the final margin down to 11. Howington finished with 14 points and 12 rebounds. Ann Thomas had eight points and eight boards while Allie Willis had seven points.

Tallulah got 12 points from Allie Kate Gossett and Kathleen Oliver had eight rebounds.

(B) St. Al 65, Tallulah 43Ford Biedenharn scored

31 points to go with eight steals and six rebounds as the Flashes (4-8) pounded the Trojans.

St. Al jumped Tallulah Acad-emy with a diamond press to take a 20-7 lead after one quar-ter. Biedenharn hit a 3-pointer,

just past the time line to end the half and give the Flashes a 33-19 edge at the break. He scored seven points off five steals in the third quarter to build the St. Al lead to 19.

The Trojans got the lead down to 13 in the fourth quar-ter but Biedenharn came back and closed the out game.

Shelton Headley had seven points and 10 rebounds for St. Al. Matt Wooten had seven points and nine rebounds.

Jake Busby led Tallulah (4-6) with 17 points, seven blocks and seven rebounds. Shane Shivers had 10 points.

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Police seek warrant in designer’s deathInvestigators on Friday were seeking a search warrant to ex-

amine the boyfriend of a fashion designer found dead in a bath-tub at a posh hotel in the hopes of finding evidence that might help them determine how she died.

Nicholas Brooks, the son of “You Light Up My Life” songwrit-er Joseph Brooks, was being held by police as they worked to obtain the warrant. He has been in custody since his girlfriend, Sylvie Cachay, was discovered around 3:30 a.m. Thursday at the Soho House hotel. Police would look for traces of DNA, skin un-der his fingernails, and any possible signs of struggle or trauma, said Chief NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.

Brooks, 24, has not been charged with a crime. He was ap-parently speaking with an attorney, but police said they didn’t know the lawyer’s name.

A&E axes Hasselhoff reality showDavid Hasselhoff has been beached by the

A&E Network.The cable channel said Friday it has yanked

the former “Baywatch” star’s reality show off the air after only two episodes. Eight completed ep-isodes will remain unaired.

“The Hasselhoffs” featured the actor and his two daughters, who are aspiring to get into show biz. The Nielsen Co. said the first episode was seen by 718,000 viewers, and the audience sank to 505,000 the second week.

That means more than half the people who watched the show preceding “The Hasselhoffs” on A&E’s Sunday schedule, “Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels,” turned the TV off or changed channels when Hasselhoff appeared. The Kiss musician’s show had an au-dience of 1.4 million.

Hatch accused of violating probationReality TV star Richard Hatch is accused of violating probation

on his tax evasion sentence, which he received for failing to pay taxes on his $1 million prize from the first season of “Survivor.”

Hatch, who became reality TV’s first villain in the 2000 sea-son of “Survivor,” is scheduled to appear Wednesday in federal court in Rhode Island to answer charges he violated terms of his three-year probation, which began after he was released from prison last year following more than three years behind bars.

Hatch was convicted in 2006 of failing to pay taxes on his “Survivor” winnings, as well as other income. He received extra prison time because the judge found he lied on the stand. His proba-tion requires him to find work, complete a men-tal health program, refile his 2000 and 2001 tax returns and pay all his back taxes.

It was not immediately clear which of the terms Hatch is accused of violating. His public defender did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.

Barry Weiner, who oversees federal probation in Rhode Island, would not release details of the complaint. But he told The As-sociated Press the probation office goes through a review of its cases every year to ensure people are complying with the terms of their release. He said Hatch was not being detained before Wednesday’s hearing.

Hatch maintained throughout his trial and since that he doesn’t owe taxes, telling The Providence Journal as recently as last month that the Internal Revenue Service had given him two $1,000 refund checks, and saying that was “unequivocal proof” he owed nothing. It was not clear in the article whether he ever refiled his tax returns.

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N.Y. city pays tribute to classic Christmas filmseneCa falls, n.Y. (aP)

— For years, civic boosters have pointed out intriguing parallels that suggest Seneca Falls was the inspiration for Bedford Falls, the make-believe New York mill town in “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Those musings are now embodied in a museum of sorts that showcases Frank Capra’s Christmas movie clas-sic. And who cut the ribbon at Friday’s grand opening? Zuzu, of course.

Former child actress Karo-lyn Grimes, who played George Bailey’s daughter, Zuzu, in the 1946 drama, traveled to cen-tral New York to launch “The Seneca Falls It’s a Wonderful Life Museum.”

Grimes called the exhibition of movie posters, photographs, magazine covers and memora-bilia “a great leap of faith ... in a wonderful place that’s just so much like Bedford Falls.”

At Christmastime, the village of 6,600 is adorned with white lights and wreaths strung across the main street like the snowy movie set erected near Los Angeles 64 years ago.

With “exalting the worth of the individual” at the apex of his filmmaking philosophy, Capra once said, he strove “to champion man, plead his causes and protest any degra-dation of his dignity, spirit and divinity.”

Those quotations from the late director line the walls of the one-room display at the Center for the Voices of Humanity run by Anwei and Henry Law at the former Seneca Theater. The couple hopes the exhi-bition, which is open free of charge on weekdays, will in time become an officially des-ignated museum.

A big part of the film’s endur-ing appeal is its joyous closing scenes in which townspeople rally behind Jimmy Stewart’s character, a downcast small-town money lender who comes to his senses with help from Clarence Odbody, a guardian angel.

“Maybe we like it (the film) because we know what the end-ing’s going to be — in our lives, we don’t,” Anwei Law said. “No matter what’s going on, George Bailey is going to be that rich-est man in town because he’s spent his life enriching others and just being who he is, that person who is there for everybody.”

While Capra was never quoted as mentioning a visit to Seneca Falls, he could have passed through while visiting an aunt in nearby Auburn. A local barber claimed he cut

Capra’s hair before the movie was released.

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tion nearby cities like Roches-ter and Elmira. Both the real and mythical villages have classic American main streets. And the steel truss bridge here looks remarkably like the one where George Bailey pondered his mortality.

An old plaque on the bridge tells of similar real-life heroism but with a tragic twist — how Antonio Varacalli leaped into the icy Seneca River in 1917 to rescue a woman but then drowned.

“Capra didn’t make Bed-ford Falls ‘Shangri-la,”’ said Fran Caraccilo, Seneca Falls’ former village planner. “It’s not a utopia. It’s a real, work-ing, everyday small town, and Seneca Falls is just that.”


A man crosses the street in the village of Seneca Falls, N.Y.

Karolyn Grimes, who played “Zuzu” in the movie “It’s a Won-derful Life”

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Moody died Thursday at S a n D i e g o Hospital after a 10-month battle with pancreatic cancer, his wife, Linda McGowan Moody, said.

Moody is best known for his 1949 hit “Moody’s Mood for Love,” an interpretation of the 1935 ballad “I’m in the Mood for Love.”

“My heart is heavy with the news of the passing of my mentor, colleague and brother James Moody,” friend and col-laborator Quincy Jones said in a statement Thursday.

Moody’s version of the song, recorded in Sweden in 1949, was elected into the Grammy Awards’ Hall of Fame in 2001 and has been recorded by a number of people, including Aretha Franklin, Van Mor-rison, Amy Winehouse, Rod Stewart and Queen Latifah.

“‘Moody’s Mood for Love’ is a national anthem,” said actor Bill Cosby, a longtime fan and confidante.

Moody sang the song with Nancy Wilson on an episode of “The Cosby Show” in the 1980s. Cosby also featured the song in the 2004 movie “Fat Albert.”

Moody was nominated for four Grammies. He received a 1998 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award and a 2007 Kennedy Center Living Jazz Legend award.

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Time isn’t right for two best friends to become coupleDear Abby: I am a 23-year-

old woman and my best friend is a guy, “Trevor.” After hear-ing him call me “Sweetie” and say he’s smitten with me and crazy about me, I mustered up the courage to talk with him about taking our friend-ship to the next level — dating. Trevor responded that his emotions are in a “blender” right now and that he doesn’t want to deal with them. He said he doesn’t want to make promises in the future he can’t keep. He also said he loves me and wants to continue to be best friends.

I know in my heart that it

would be beautiful if Trevor just gave us a chance. I’m ready to date him. In fact, we already act like a couple. My friends say I should give up on him, but isn’t a solid relation-ship built on a strong base of friendship? Should we remain best friends? — Mad About Him in Washington State

Dear Mad About Him: The answer to both your questions is yes. However, best friends are free to date others — and that seems to be what Trevor would prefer right now: no commitments. Loving some-one and being IN love with someone are not the same. And while Trevor’s emotions are “in a blender,” he is clear that he wants his freedom. You have my sympathy.

Dear Abby: Today I wit-nessed two incidents of appar-ently well-meaning parents swatting their small children’s behinds — in public, no less. I cannot believe in these

enlightened times this is still considered acceptable by oth-erwise intelligent people.

As an elementary school teacher, I can tell which chil-dren have been subjected to physical discipline at home. They seem more fearful and angry and are more likely to hit another child because chil-dren learn through mimicry. In school or in public, a child who swats another child is liable to be lectured on bully-ing, sued or even arrested. Hit-ting someone other than your own child is called “assault” in legal terms.

Any degree of swatting may

seem effective because it gets the child’s attention in the moment, but in the long run, it is counterproductive.

I believe all high schools should offer mandatory child-rearing classes for both gen-ders to break this harmful cycle, and to teach more effec-tive forms of discipline. — Any Child’s Teacher

Dear Any Child’s Teacher: I agree with you 100 percent!

•Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Surgery might be bestfor teen with Crohn’s

Dear Dr. Gott: My 19-year-old grandson was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease two years ago. At that time, he was a 234-pound linebacker entering his senior year of high school. Now he is a 174-pound 19-year-old struggling with life in general and would easily pass for 40. He has prac-tically missed two years of his life due to extreme pain, which resulted in hospital trips and everything else associated with this condition.

He has taken every medi-cation I can imagine, includ-ing Humira injections into his stomach. At present, he is taking hyoscyamine and Apriso plus pain medica-tion when it gets too severe. He has a colonoscopy every year. When he has one of these “attacks,” the pain is so severe that he gets in a fetal position and can barely walk. He has been to the hospital at least 15 times in the past two years. He recently went twice in one week and before that, in just a three-month span, he went seven times.

He is unable to work because he is sick or too weak to func-tion at least five days a week. He has never used drugs, alcohol or tobacco. Surgery has been suggested, but we are trying to avoid that if pos-sible. He has seen at least six different doctors, and we are now hoping that you can help us. Please.

Dear Reader: Crohn’s dis-ease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease. It can be debil-itating and might lead to life-threatening complications, so it should be taken seri-ously by the sufferer and the treating physician(s). While there is no cure, there is good news. Today’s treatments can greatly reduce symptoms and may even lead to long-term remission.

The most common symp-toms include diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramp-ing, reduced appetite, weight loss, ulcers and blood in the stool. Others, especially those with severe Crohn’s, may also experience inflammation of the liver or bile ducts, arthri-tis, fever, fatigue, skin disor-ders and eye inflammation. Children may experience delayed growth or sexual development.

Complications include bowel obstruction, malnutri-tion, anal fissures, ulcers, fis-tulas (an abnormal connec-tion between different parts of the intestine) and more. There is also an increased risk of colon cancer; however, the vast majority (more than 90 percent) of sufferers never develop it.

There are several types of treatment available. The first type is anti-inflammatory drugs, such as the Apriso (mesalamine) that your grand-son is on, as well as azulfidine and corticosteroids. Immune-system suppressors are also used. Your grandson was placed on at least one of these, Humira (adalimumab). There are several others in this cat-egory. Antibiotics, which may be helpful in treating some of the complications, such as ulcers, abscesses and fis-tulas, may also be beneficial for those without complica-tions, as many researchers believe that antibiotics will reduce levels of harmful bac-teria within the intestine, as

well as suppress its immune system.

Commonly used medica-tions include pain relievers, antidiarrheals, iron supple-ments, laxatives, vitamin B12 injections, calcium and vita-min D, and/or special diets, such as nutrients introduced directly into the veins, which can bypass the stomach and intestine, thus reversing malnutrition.

Finally, surgery. If diet, life-style changes, medication and other treatments fail to relieve symptoms, surgery to remove a damaged portion, close fis-tulas or remove scar tissue may be recommended. Unfor-tunately, at best, surgery can provide years of remission, but it will be temporary.

•Write to Dr. Peter Gott in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th fl., New York, NY 10016.

TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPEBY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

TWEEN 12 & 20BY DR. ROBERT WALLACE • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Even if infringing responsibili-ties are vying for your attention, your real priorities will center on your domestic affairs.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Although your ideas and con-cepts are exceptionally good, it isn’t likely that you will use them to their fullest advantage. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — If your sixth sense is telling you to be reluctant about lending out something you cherish, don’t be afraid to say no. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — There is nothing wrong with your leadership qualities, except all the doubts you harbor about them. In order to utilize your natural-born abilities, behave like the take-charge person you are.Aries (March 21-April 19) — It is likely to be one of those days where you prefer to be alone, doing your own thing, or doing nothing at all. Everybody needs one of those times to recharge the old triple-As.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Simply being with a good friend who makes no demands on you can have you feeling that all is well with the world. All those little things that have been both-ering you will melt away like rich creamery butter.Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Pursue objectives that are unob-trusive and don’t demand careful scrutiny, because although you may want to be kept busy, you really don’t want to think about what you’re doing.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Don’t allow anyone to put pres-sure on you to do something that you really don’t want to do. Make your own plans for the day and do what is best for you and your needs.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Shopping might be a mixed bag for you at this point. You could discover some great finds in some instances and, at the same time, feel there is nothing out there that you want to buy.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — People in general tend to not want to be bothered with the problems or plans of others. You, too, might simply want to be left alone, doing your own thing in your own way. Don’t feel guilty.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Even though you are presently in a good cycle for fulfilling your objectives, you may have only limited drive and energy to do certain jobs that you want done right. Take a break to gain perspective.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — People who love you are likely to be even more enamored with you because of the obvious con-cern you are showing for their well-being, desires and needs.

Dr. Wallace: I’d like to take ballet lessons. My dad says I can do so, but I’ve got to earn the money to pay for them. I’m in the eighth grade and spend a lot of time studying. Finding a part-time job to earn enough to pay for lessons would be next to im-possible.

My mother thinks it’s a parent’s responsibility to pay for this kind of thing if he or she can afford it, and my family can. My dad is a dentist and makes a lot of money. We live in a nice house and both of my parents drive expensive cars. My best friend is taking ballet lessons and her parents are paying for them — and they have a lot less money than we do.

My dad says he’s trying to teach me the value of money. My mom is saying that he’s just tight with his money because his family didn’t have a lot when he was young and living in Poland. If you agree with my mother and me, my father might change his mind when I show him your answer. — Julie, Chicago.

Julie: I agree 100 percent with you and your mom. Your par-ents should pay for ballet lessons — gladly!

Dr. Wallace: Should a parent who pays a baby sitter a fair wage ($4 an hour for two well-behaved children) be also ex-pected to supply snacks for the sitter? I’m employed and receive a fair wage ($16 an hour), but my employer doesn’t supply me any snacks and isn’t expected to do so.

My baby sitter is very good, but she was a bit upset when I told her not to eat any of my food and to bring her own if she wanted any. I discussed this with my co-worker, who said I should furnish snacks and got very upset because I wasn’t. It seems her two daughters are baby sitters.

Who is this “person” who lays down the law that parents must provide snacks for sitters? I’d have a few choice words for him or her if we ever met. — Mom, Rochester, Minn.

Mom: There is no “person” and there is no law, but the great majority of wise parents do provide snacks for their baby sitters. I’d advise you to join the crowd.

Dr. Wallace: In a recent column, you said that one of the prime reasons you are against girls playing on boys’ sports teams is because boys are bigger and stronger, run faster and jump higher. Well, it’s obvious that you haven’t seen my third-grade class. When it comes to physical education, my third-grade girls almost always beat my boys when it comes to ath-letic competition.

Where did you conjure up the concept that boys are better athletically than girls? If you’d care to come to South Carolina, you would see for yourself. — Teacher, Columbia, S.C.

Teacher: I don’t need to travel to South Carolina to have your class convince me that third-grade girls can outperform the boys in athletic competition. That happens everywhere, be-cause the boys don’t start to dominate athletically until about age 10. From then on, the dominance increases rapidly.

•Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.

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• Printing

SPEEDIPRINT &OFFICE SUPPLY

• Business Cards• Letterhead• Envelopes• Invoices

• Work Orders• Invitations

(601) 638-2900Fax (601) 636-6711

1601-C North Frontage RdVicksburg, MS 39180

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BUSINESS & SERVICE DIRECTORY

• Glass

Barnes GlassQuality Service at Competitive Prices#1Windshield Repair & Replacement

Vans • Cars • Trucks•Insurance Claims Welcome•

AUTO • HOME • BUSINESSJason Barnes • 601-661-0900

• Construction

ROSSCONSTRUCTION

New HomesFraming, Remodeling,

Cabinets, Flooring,Roofing & Vinyl Siding

State Licensed & BondedJon Ross 601-638-7932

• Signs

• Bulldozer &Construction

• Dirt Works

BUFORDCONSTRUCTION CO., INC.

601-636-4813State Board of Contractors

Approved & Bonded

Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt,Rock & Sand

All Types of Dozer WorkLand Clearing • Demolition

Site Development& Preparation Excavation

Crane Rental • Mud Jacking

PATRIOTIC• FLAGS

• BANNERS• BUMPER STICKERS

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Post Plaza601-631-0400

1601 N. Frontage Rd.Vicksburg, MS 39180

• Construction

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RIVER CITY HANDYMANJoe Rangel - Owner

601.636.7843 • 601.529.5400We’re not satisfied until You

are. Call today for yourFree Estimate!

Hit The Bullseye By AdvertisingDaily With The Business And Service

DirectoryAim for the coverage and receive the most for your

advertising dollars in the Vicksburg areaBusiness & Service Directory!

Magnolia Mobile Home Parts601-634-6579

• Skirting • Set up Supplies• Tubs, Faucets • Vinyl Siding• Carpet, Tile • Roof Sealant

• Air Conditioners• Doors & Windows

“If we don’t have it, we’ll get it.”

All Business & Service

Directory Ads

MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE !

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CLARK’S CONSTRUCTIONState board of contractors

approved and bonded. 601-638-9233. Fill dirt for erosionpurposes, clay gravel, 610, back

fill sand. FREE estimates ondemolition, driveway work,

replacement of old broken drive-way and add- ons. Lot clearing,

dozer track hoe work.

Call today about our special

long term ad runs available in

the Business Directory.

We offer specials from 3

months to 12 months at a

great price deal !

CLASSIFIEDS601-636-SELL (7355)

No Wonder Everybody’s Doing It!To join

The Vicksburg Postnewspaper team

you must bedependable, haveinsurance, reliabletransportation, and

be available to deliverafternoons Monday -

Friday and earlymornings Saturday

and Sunday.

Teachers, stay-at-homeparents, college students,nurses. . . they’re alldelivering the newspaperin their spare time andearning extra income!It’s easy - and it’s a greatway to earn extra cash.

Your Hometown Newspaper!Openings Available in:

Vicksburg

601-636-4545 ext. 181

Covenant Health & Rehab of Vicksburg, LLC“Every Day of Life Counts” We are a dynamic skilled

nursing facility seeking an energetic individual.

•RN Supervisor3-11 Shift

Covenant Health & Rehabilitation of Vicksburg, LLC 2850 Porters Chapel Road

Vicksburg, MS 39180-1805Phone: (601) 638-9211 Fax: (601) 636-4986

What are your dreams?EOE

Covenant Health & Rehab of Vicksburg, LLC“Every Day of Life Counts” We are a dynamic skilled

nursing facility seeking an energetic individual.

•Social WorkerCovenant Health & Rehabilitation of Vicksburg, LLC

2850 Porters Chapel RoadVicksburg, MS 39180-1805

Phone: (601) 638-9211 Fax: (601) 636-4986What are your dreams?

EOE

02. Public Service

FREE TO GOOD HOME.2 Five year old Shih Tzudogs. 1 female, 1 male.

601-634-6577.

JUST IN TIME FORChristmas. Free to good

home. 4 ChocolateLabrador mix puppies.

Dad full blooded choco-late Labrador, Mom

chocolate Labrador mix.601-529-1347.

07. Help Wanted

05. Notices

Center ForPregnancy ChoicesFree Pregnancy Tests

(non-medical facility)· Education on All

Options· Confidential Coun-

selingCall 601-638-2778

for apptwww.vicksburgpregnan-

cy.com

Is the one youlove

hurting you?Call

Haven House FamilyShelter

601-638-0555 or1-800-898-0860

Services available towomen & children who are

victims of domestic violence and/or homeless: Shelter, coun-seling, group support.(Counseling available by

appt.)

05. NoticesENDING HOMELESS-

NESS. WOMEN with chil-dren or without are you inneed of shelter? Mountainof Faith Ministries/ Wom-en's Restoration Shelter.Certain restrictions apply,601-661-8990. Life coach-ing available by appoint-ment.

KEEP UP WITH all thelocal news and sales...-subscribe to The Vicks-burg Post Today! Call

601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.

RunawayAre you 12 to 17?Alone? Scared?

Call 601-634-0640 any-time or 1-800-793-8266

We can help!One child,

one day at a time.

07. Help Wanted

06. Lost & Found

FOUND BLACK CAT offof Fisher Ferry on FalconRidge. Call 601-636-7502.

FOUND SET OF keys onTucker Road. Call to identi-fy. 601-638-4656.

FOUND! BLACK BOB-TAIL kitten in Stonegate.

601-415-6565.

FOUND! WHITE LADIES jacket in

front of The Vicksburg Mallentrance. Call to identify.

601-831-1389.

LOST A DOG? Found a cat? Let The

Vicksburg Post help! Run a FREE 3 day ad!

601-636-SELL or e-mail classifieds@vicksburg

post.com

LOST DOG!BROWN AND WHITE

neutered mixed breed malein Fairview Drive area offRedbone Road. Call 601-529-6240.

07. Help Wanted 07. Help Wanted

“ACE”Truck Driver Training

With a DifferenceJob Placement Asst.

Day, Night & RefresherClasses

Get on the Road NOW!Call 1-888-430-4223MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124

AUTOMOTIVE SERVICETECHNICIAN. Hours

Monday- Friday, 7:30amto 5:30pm, Pay based onexperience and qualifica-tions. Contact ServiceManager at 601-630-2952or fax resume to 601-636-5071 or e-mail

[email protected]

LIVE IN COMPANIONneeded. References re-

quired. Send resumes to:Dept. 3743

The Vicksburg Post P.O Box 821668

Vicksburg, MS 39182.

PART TIME ON-SITEapartment manager neededfor small local apartmentcomplex. Must be honest,dependable, work well withpublic, must have good cler-ical skills, experience aplus. Serious inquiries only,fax resume to: 318-352-1929.

TO BUY OR SELL

AVONCALL 601-636-7535

$10 START UP KIT

10. Loans AndInvestments

“WE CAN ERASE yourbad credit- 100% guaran-teed.” The Federal TradeCommission says the onlylegitimate credit repairstarts and ends with you. Ittakes time and a consciouseffort to pay your debts.Any company that claims tobe able to fix your creditlegally is lying. Learn aboutmanaging credit and debt atftc.gov/credit

A message from TheVicksburg Post and theFTC.

11. BusinessOpportunities

SELL AVON, FULL Time/Part Time or in your Speartime! Be your own boss!Call me at 601-573-4703Independent Representative

13. SituationsWanted

RETIRED RN. 60 yearsof age, in good health. Willsit or care for elderly, ill, or

newborn. Rates negotiable. Excellent references. Call

601-664-8651, 601-634-8069.

07. Help Wanted

14. Pets &Livestock

AKC/ CKC REGISTERED Yorkies,

Poodles and Schnauzers$400 and up!

601-218-5533, ��

14. Pets &Livestock

CKC MINIATUREDACHSHUND, 2 females 2males $300 831-1366..

VICKSBURG WARRENHUMANE SOCIETY

Highway 61 South601-636-6631

Currently has30 puppies& dogs

39 cats & kittensavailable for adoption.

Call the Shelter for more information.

Please adopt today!

MAL- SHI (Malteese/Shih-Tzu. ) My tiny housedog's babies. Really beauti-ful. Will be small and gor-geous, CPR registered. Fe-males $350, Males $300.Delhi 318-680-2100.

Foster aHomeless

Pet!

www.pawsrescuepets.org

SPECIAL BABIES, SHIH-POOS . 1 wonderful choco-late male, black and whitemale, cute cute creamBrindle girl, Very very small.Ready to go. CPR regis-tered, shots and wormed.$250. Delhi 318-680- 2100.

TINY LONG AND shortcoat Chihuahua babies. Ex-ceptional beauties. ReadyChristmas Quite in colors.CPR registered. Delhi

318-680-2100.

TOY POODLE CHRIST-MAS babies Black, females,shots, wormed, CPR regis-tered Delhi 318-680-2100.

WONDERFUL SHIH-TZUbabies (your family dog)Such sweet little dolls. Lotsof color. For now untilChristmas, shots andwormed, CPR registered.Male $200, Female $250.Delhi 318-680-2100.

15. AuctionLOOKING FOR A great

value? Subscribe to TheVicksburg Post, 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.


17. Wanted ToBuy

$ I BUY JUNK CARS $I will pickup your junk car

and pay you cash today! Call 601-618-6441.

TOP PRICES PAID forcoins, Gold, Silver, war

relics, estates. 601-618-2727.

WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, lawn mowers, hot waterheaters, junk and abandonedcars, trucks, vans, etcetera.601-218-0038, if no answer,please leave message.

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

1 YEAR OLD Rainbowvacuum cleaner and the nev-er used carpet cleaner at-tachments. Great for smallbusiness or large area tovacuum. Call 601-638-3102for price.

3-PIECE OAK entertain-ment center. Excellent con-dition. $500. Call 601-636-5931 after 12 Noon.

5 PIECE BEDROOM setwith mattress set $599, Fi-nancing and layaway avail-able. Discount Furniture.601-638-7191.

70 x 14 x 12 Battingcage, Included: Net,frame, portable pitchingscreen, pitching rubber,home plate; $300. 601-262-8317.

CLOCK REPAIR. Antiqueclocks, grandfather clocks,cuckoo clocks, etcetera. 601-638-4003, 601-529-8140.

FOR LESS THAN 45cents per day, haveThe Vicksburg Post

delivered to your home.Only $14 per month,

7 day delivery.Call 601-636-4545,

Circulation Department.

I-MAC COMPUTERS. In-ternet ready. $120. Call601-631-0222 for more in-formation.

NEW MATTRESS SETS.Twin set, $175, Full set,$219. Discount Furniture

Barn, 600 Jackson Street.

THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”3508 South Washington Street

DOGGIE SWEATERS ARE HERE!A VARIETYOF SIZES,

STYLES& COLORS!

COME INFOR A

FITTING!

RED OAK FIREWOODpick up or delivery. 601-631-4002.

UNITED POOL TABLERegulation size withballs. Home or commer-cial use. 601-831-4853.

USED TIRES! LIGHTtrucks and SUV's, 16's,17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A fewmatching sets! Call TD's,601-638-3252.


19. Garage &Yard Sales

3440 HALLS FERRYRoad (beside Sewing Cen-ter), Saturday, 6am-until,Multi family sale, furniture,daybed, mattress sets, likenew toys, name brandclothing, much more!

ESTATE/ GARAGESALE. Household furniture,washer, dryer, refrigerator,deep freezer, clothes, nu-merous household items.

Vehicle and house also forsale. 131 Laura Lake Road.(Walnut Cove Subdivision)601-831-1955. Saturday

8am- 12 noon.

19. Garage &Yard Sales

203 GOODRUM ROAD.Saturday 7am- 12 noon. 3Families. Children's clothes,furniture, antiques.

GARAGE SALE OVER?River City Rescue Missionwill pickup donated left overitems. 601-636-6602.

GRAND OPENING. SOYesterday Gifts and Col-lectibles. 4715 Highway 61South, Next to Shell. 8am-4pm. Christmas items, hunt-ing items, pool table, piano,furniture, baby necessities,antiques, much much more.

HUGE GARAGE SALE.Parking lot of FanTastic Finds.1370 Culkin Road. Lots ofToys, jewelry, teacher gifts, andmore. Saturday 10am- 6pm.

INSIDE GARAGE SALE,2362 Grove Street, Friday4pm-6pm, and Saturday7am- noon.

ONE STOP TO Christmasshop. 203 Harriet Avenue, offJohn Allen, 6:30am- until. Over100 items to choose from.

SOMETHING FOR ALL.Clothes, toys, beanie babies

and all your baby needs,stroller, walker, car seatsand much more Saturday6am until. 114 ChoctawCircle off Warrior's Trail.

STILL HAVE STUFF after your Garage Sale?Donate your items to

The Salvation Army, we pick-up!

Call 601-636-2706.

What's going on inVicksburg this weekend?Read The Vicksburg Post!

For convenient home deliv-ery call 601-636-4545, ask

for circulation.

21. Boats,Fishing Supplies

What's going on in Vicks-burg this weekend? ReadThe Vicksburg Post! Forconvenient home delivery,call 601-636-4545, ask forcirculation.

22. MusicalInstruments

EPIPHONE SG310 SE-RIES electric guitar. Black,and SG hard shell case,great condition. $200. 601-535-2290, 601-529-8059.


24. BusinessServices

FREE ESTIMATESTREY GORDON

ROOFING & RESTORATION•Roof & Home Repair

(all types!)•30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref

Licensed • Insured601-618-0367

D&D Tree Cutting,Trimming &

Lawn CareInsured

For Free Estimates,call “Big James”at 601-218-7782.

24. BusinessServices

GreatExpectations

Remodeling andFlooring

769-203-9023

MS. LADIES SPOTLESScleaning. If you need helpfor the Holidays Call 601-218-5910.

River City Lawn CareYou grow it - we mow it!Affordable and profes-

sional. Lawn and land-scape maintenance. Cut, bag, trim, edge.

601-529-6168.

26. For RentOr Lease

NEW FURNISHED STU-DIO COTTAGE! Located inheart of prestigious historicarea, off street parking, wash-er/ dryer, all utilities. $800monthly. 601-636-7915.

SMALL HAIR SALON.Wisconsin Avenue, only$425 monthly! 601-634-6669.

27. Room s ForRent

$75 WEEKLY, $270MONTHLY, $75 deposit. Ca-ble, air/ central heat, phonefurnished. 601-272-4564.

FURNISHED ROOMSFOR rent. Weekly andmonthly rates.601-831-4853.

28. FurnishedApartments$600 MONTHLY STUDIO.

$900 1 bedroom townhouse.Utilities/ Cable/ Laundry.

Weekly cleaning 601-661-9747.

1 BEDROOM. FUR-NISHED, with utilities, wash-er/ dryer, wireless internet,cable, garage. $200 weekly.601-638-1746.

COMPLETELY FUR-NISHED. 1 Bedroom or stu-dio apartment. All utilitiespaid. Includes cable, internetand laundry room. $750 -$900 a month. 601-415-9027or 601-638-4386.

FURNISHED 1 BEDROOMAPARTMENT. 1415 Washing-ton Street, deposit required.601-638-5943 or 662-873-4236, 662-873-2878, leavemessage.

SMALL ONE BEDROOM.Utilities and cable furnished.No deposit, references re-quired. $175 weekly, offSouth Washington. 601-529-1617.

WINTER SPECIALFIRST Month's rent

free with 6 month lease. On-line at www.vicksburgcorporatehousing.

com 601-874-1116.

29. UnfurnishedApartments

$550 MONTHLY, GATED.Has it all. 2 bedroom, washer/

dryer included. 1115 FirstNorth, 512-787-7840.

$99 DEPOSIT SPECIAL.Eastover Drive Apartments.3 bedrooms $525 monthly,$300 deposit. Management601-631-0805.

1, 2 AND 3 BEDROOMAPARTMENTS, downtown.$400 to $650 monthly, depositrequired. 601-638-1746.

2 bedroom house, $400monthly. 3 bedroom Duplex$450 monthly. Refrigeratorand stove furnished. $200deposit on all. 601-634-

8290.

Make us your HOME, We make Life EASY!

We have it ALL!Paid cable, water

& trash, we furnish washer/ dryer & microwave.

Ask about our SPECIAL!Call NOW!!

601-415-8735

BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE LIVING

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped

• Lake Surrounds Community• Pool • Fireplace

• Spacious Floor Plans601-629-6300

www.thelandingsvicksburg.com501 Fairways Drive

Vicksburg

Voted #1 Apartments in the2009 Reader’s Choice

WASHER AND DRYER,$300. Speed Queen Commer-

cial Heavy Duty Large CapacityStainless Steel. 601-883-1525

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VICKSBURG POSTVICKSBURG POSTCLASSIFIEDS! CLASSIFIEDS!

Call 601-636-SELL tosell your Car or Truck!

HEAVY EQUIPMENTMECHANIC. Leadingedge aviation, Greenville,MS. Excellent careeropportunity in Diesel/ Fuelengine repair and over-haul. Minimum 2 yearsexperience, hydraulic andelectrical a plus. Musthave outstanding workethic, positive attitude andgreat references. PayDOE. Email resume to:j o b s @ l e a s c o r p . c o mFax 714-556-4023 or call714-556-0576. RelocationAssistance available.

Find a Honey of a Deal inthe Classifieds...Zero in onthat most wanted or hard

to find item.


If You Have Checked the Prices of New Cars, It just makes sense to shop with us at

RIVER CITY AUTO SALESSEE OUR HUGE SALE BEFORE THE

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RIVER CITY AUTO SALES4440 CLAY STREET PP VICKSBURG, MS 39180

601-634-0320

December Blow Out Sale! Reduced over $60,000.

Eagle Lake water front home, amazing view. 3 bed 2.5 bath, 1.9 acres Pier, boat

launch, work shop.

Cindy Roberson 601-415-5880www.lakehouse.com

Reduced to $100,000

The Car Store

601-638-6015 • 2800 Clay Street • Vicksburg, MS • Sat. 9-12

CARS • CARS • CARS• CARS• CARS

TRUCKS • TRUCKS • TRUCKS • TRUCKS

98 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS V1901R.20 Months @ $210 per month .........$875*down-

02 DODGE STRATUS SE V1665RR .........13 Months @ $230 per month .... $900*down-

99 FORD CROWN VICTORIA LX V2036 28 Months @ $260 per month .......$1030*down-

02 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX GT V2009...........28 Months @ $240 per month .......... $1065*down

01 BUICK LESABRE V2064.......................28 Months @ $270 per month $1065*down

03 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS LS V2054 28 Months @ $280 per month $1205*down-

02 CHEVY IMPALA V2052.........................28 Months @ $270 per month $1275*down

03 CHEVY IMPALA LS V2057..................28 Months @ $270 per month $1380*down

00 CADILLAC DEVILLE V2041 .................26 Months @ $290 per month $1400*down

06CH0602 CADILLAC DHS V1952R.....................16 Months @ $260 per month .$1525*down

99 DODGE CARAVAN SE V2044 .............22 Months @ $220 per month $1055*down-

99 DODGE DURANGO SLT 4X4 V1899R 20 Months @ $230 per month ....$1080*down-

03 FORD F-150 XL V2043.....................28 Months @ $290 per month ....... $1135*down-

01 DODGE DURANGO SLT 4X4 V2056 28 Months @ $280 per month .............$1310*down

99 FORD EXPEDITION EDDIE BAUER V2055..28 Months @ $290 per month $1450*down

S H A M R O C KA PA RT M E N T S

SUPERIOR QUALITY,CUSTOM CABINETS,

EXTRA LARGE MASTER BDRM,& WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS.

SAFE!!SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT

601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333

801 Clay Street • VicksburgGeorge Mayer R/E Management

601-630-2921• 1 Bedroom/ 1 Bath

2 Bedrooms/ 2 BathStudios & Efficiencies

Utilities Paid • No Utility Deposit Required

Downtown Convenience •to Fine Restaurants, Shops,

Churches, Banks & Casinos

Secure High-Rise Building •Off Street Parking •

9 1/2 Foot Ceilings •Beautiful River Views •

Senior Discounts •

Classic Elegancein Modern Surroundings

MMAAGGNNOOLLIIAA MMAANNOORR AAPPAARRTTMMEENNTTSSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive

Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625

Equal Housing Opportunity

Apartments AvailableNow

1309 Mission 66 • Vicksburg

Please call 601-636-3226TDD Relay 1-800-582-2233

• Seniors 62 or Older/ Mobility Impaired• Rent Based on Income

• All Utilities Furnished

Stonewood Apartments

Bradford RidgeApartments

Live in a Quality Built Apartmentfor LESS! All brick,

concrete floors and double wallsprovide excellent soundproofing,

security, and safety.601-638-1102 • 601-415-3333

COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd.

COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd

CHRISTMASSALE-A-THON!

98 Malibu - $728 Down01 Cavalier - $728 Down03 Alero - $879 Down

00 Explorer - $879 DownGary’s Cars -

Hwy 61 S601-882-9995Garyscfl.com

310.46 acres Freetown Road, Bovina area.

Rolling pasture, beautiful house site. $55,000.321.52 acres China

Grove. Wooded, $85,000. 3Financing available3

May and Campbell Land Company.

601-634-8255.

Big River Realty

DAVID A. BREWER601-631-0065

Bigriverhomes.com

Rely on 20 yearsof experience in

Real Estate.

Eagle Lake55 Sullivan Cove,

“Bank Owned,Make Offer!”

1.5 story, 1580 sf, 3/2,wood floors, fireplace.

601-218-1800Bette Paul Warner,

McMillin Real Estate,www.Lakehouse.com.

Turn your trash intocash with “The

Classified Factory”.

To place your ad inthe Classifieds call 601-636-SELL!


2228-C GROVE STREET. 3bedrooms, 2 baths. Refrig-erator, stove, dishwasher.Water, sewer, trash includ-ed. $550 monthly with $400deposit. Section 8 wel-come. 662-312-3894.

CommodoreApartments

1, 2 & 3Bedrooms

605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS

39180

601-638-2231

MAGNOLIA COMMONS

OF VICKSBURG,2 Bedroom - $630 3 Bedroom - $724Enjoy Life In Our

Modern, ConvenientApartment Community

Located offHighway 61 South.

601-619-6821

SPACIOUS 1&2 BED-ROOM APARTMENTS

FOR RENTUpstairs/ downstairs units.Up ($500), Down ($550).Deposit required. Both havecentral air/ heat, wood floors,stove/ oven, dishwasher,refrigerator. Down haswasher/ dryer hookups,Water paid. 519 SpeedStreet. Call Ms. Young at601-831-3005 to view.

TAKING APPLICATIONSON 1, 2 and 3 bedroom.$200 deposit on each. Re-frigerator and stove fur-nished. 601-634-8290.

30. HousesFor Rent

3 BEDROOM, 2 bath,split-level home in Bovina.Warren Central/ Bovina Ele-mentary school district. Qui-et, country setting. $850monthly. 601-618-7676 or601-415-7119.

3 BEDROOMS, 1½ BATH,very private location, High-way 27. $675 monthly, 601-415-0784.

3 BEDROOMS, TOTALLYrenovated, all new, $700

1865 MLK. 732-768-5743,209-628-8756.

LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage.Close in, nice. $795 month-ly. 601-831-4506.

31. Mobile HomesFor Rent

3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHSrenovated, $500 monthly,nice size lot. Call 601-218-5910.

MEADOWBROOKPROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bed-room mobile homes, southcounty. Deposit required.

601-619-9789.

MOBILE HOME OFFFisher Ferry. 3 bedrooms 2full baths. Must have refer-

ences. 601-638-7798.


32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

$36,500 – LIKE NEWSingle Wide, 2 bedroom, 1bath, 8/10 acre, Privatecountry setting. Oak RidgeRoad. Wayne ThorntonReal Estate. Call Wayne.601-415-7779.

32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

2006 16 x 80 3 bedroom,2 bath Laundry room, large

master bath with closet,storm windows, dishwasher,

stove and refrigerator, service pole, meter box

included. Serious inquiriesonly. Asking $22,000.

601-415-1365.

KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS

AND SALES...SUBSCRIBE TO

THE VICKSBURG POSTTODAY! CALL

601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.

33. Commercia lProperty

BARGAIN!! PRIME OFFICEspace, $450 monthly. Call 601-629-7305 or 601-291-1148.

PPPPFOR LEASEPPPP

1911 Mission 66Suite B-Apprx. 2450 sq. ft.

Office or Retail!Great Location!

Easy Access!Brian Moore Realty

Connie - Owner/ Agent318-322-4000

DELUXE OFFICESPACE- Wisconsin Avenue.

680 square feet- $450.1100 square feet- $850.

Call 601-634-6669.


34. HousesFor Sale

601-415-9179

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VicksburgMsRealEstate.com

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34. HousesFor Sale

AskUs.

2150 South Frontage Road bkbank.comMember FDIC

! FHA & VA! Conventional! Construction! First -timeHomebuyers

Candy FranciscoMortgage Originator

MortgageLoans601.630.8209

Open Hours:Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm

601-634-89282170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.

www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net

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MUSIC

Master Gardeners spread seeds of knowledgeTheodore Roosevelt once

said, “If you have a problem, then do what you can where you are and with what you’ve got.”

This kind of thinking often brings successful results.

In 1972, Dr. David Gibby, the Extension agent for King and Pierce counties in Washing-ton State was overwhelmed with gardening questions. His solution was to offer intense horticultural train-ing to experienced gardeners in exchange for their com-mitment to spend a certain number of hours doing vol-unteer outreach and educa-tion in their communities.

This marked the start of the Master Gardeners program.

Those first 120 Master Gardeners far exceeded his expectations. The program has grown to all 50 states, the District of Columbia and four Canadian provinces. Today, there are more than 95,000 certified Master Gardeners providing 5 million-plus vol-

unteer hours annually.Mississippi has 50 coun-

ties with Master Gardener groups. They are trained and certified through the Missis-sippi State University Exten-sion Service. The first class certified in Warren County began in 1993, said Betty Jackson, a graduate of that

class and the incoming presi-dent of the local group.

The Mississippi Master Gardeners training program provides more than 40 hours of classroom instruction. Training covers basic botany, soils, vegetables, ornamen-tals, insects and diseases, lawn care and plant propa-

gation. New Master Garden-ers are required to return 40 hours of volunteer service within one year of training. After the first year, to main-tain their certification, volun-teers are required to return 20 hours of service and attend 12 hours of training.

A one-time, $85 fee is required to enter the pro-gram, and it covers a binder of materials covered in the course and a one-year mem-bership in the state Master Gardeners association.

A new series of Master Gar-deners training classes is

MIRIAMJABOUR

IN THEGARDEN

To joinTo enroll in the upcoming Master Gardeners training course, set for Feb. 15-March 24, visit or call the Warren County Ex-tension Office. The address is 1100-C Grove St. The phone number is 601-636-5442. The fee is $85 and the registration deadline is Jan. 15.

Nelly Furtado

By Mesfin FekaduThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — When Nelly Furtado released her first album in 2000, she had to fight — a lot.

“I had to fight with many, many editors of magazines and art direc-tors and stylists,” Furtado said.

She recalled taking a stand to showcase her visual creativity when filming the music video for her debut song, the pop tune “I’m Like a Bird.”

“I fought to wear those shell-toe Adidas runners and (to wear) my hair back and those hoop (ear-rings) and the big jeans — I had to fight for all those things,” she said.

Fast forward 10 years and Furtado is fully in control of her career, and celebrating with the great-est hits compilation “The Best of Nelly Furtado,” released last month.

Furtado said the key to her success was finding a manager who wouldn’t hinder her artistic freedom.

“When we were going for a record deal, we went out to all these meet-ings and my photos were like photo strip photos from this photo booth at the strip mall that I had taken on my own time with clothes I wanted to wear,” she said. “You have to brand your image and wear what you want to wear and feel how you want to feel because people are seeing you for the first time.”

The 32-year-old singer, who’s released three suc-cessful English albums, dropped the all-Spanish CD “Mi Plan” last year; it earned her the best pop vocal album Latin Grammy this year. Fur-tado also won the best pop female vocal performance Grammy in 2001 for “I’m Like a Bird.”

Today too many aspir-ing musicians want to be famous without doing the work behind the scenes, she said.

“I think nowadays everybody feels like they can become a star just because they’re on You-Tube, but that’s not the only part of the equation,” she said. “There’s a lot of hard work that goes with it and if you don’t have the chops to back it up, it’s gonna be more challeng-ing later on.”

Her advice to singing

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forpampered

petsPaco, a 5-year-old chihua-hua, sports a Swarovski crystal dog collar at the Beverly Hills Mutt Club.

Sandy Seigler, owner of the Beverly Hills Mutt Club, tries a crystal necklace and Candy Apple Couture dog gown on Tatiana, her 5-year-old chihuahua-chin mix.

Santa’s been making a list, and Fido’s at the topBy The Associated Press

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Sanderella has 150 collars and leashes, 200 couture dresses, 300 bows, a designer bed in every room and standing appoint-ments with a groomer and an acupuncturist.

The 17-year-old Bichon poodle mix rides in a carriage, eats macaroni and cheese from a bowl that has her name etched in gold and has a mink made by Saks Fifth Avenue.

So what do you get for

Christmas for the dog who has everything?

“Definitely bling. We love bling,” said Margaret Souders, 68, who owns Sanderella and Samantha, a 19-month-old Bichon Frise. “I’m addicted to my dogs. I love them to pieces. My whole life revolves around them.”

Sounders is a regular customer at the Beverly Hills Mutt Club, one of many high-end pet boutiques where the sky is the limit, from Rodeo Drive stalwarts such as Neiman Marcus, Prada, Louis Vuit-ton, Coach and Saks to online mar-ketplaces where pet gifts can run in the thousands of dollars.

The Mutt Club is small but burst-ing with things made of Swarovski crystal, pearls, cashmere, wool and Italian leather. Jewels and canine couture are best-sellers, said Celina Bojorquez, who owns the shop with her mom, Sandy Siegler.

Other customers include Sandra Bullock, Jamie Lee Curtis, Susan Sarandon, Billy Joel and Vince Neil, Siegler said.

Sanderella’s first Chanel leash and collar cost $650. Her bow collection alone probably cost $9,000, Souders said.

Some of the most unique gifts for pets this year include a video camera, treadmill and doghouse air conditioner for $549, said Geoff Mott, president of

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camera with built-in micro-phone sells for $135, fits on your pet’s collar and can shoot up to 2 1/2 hours of continuous video. The treadmill comes in three sizes, and three prices — $599 to $1,499.

Many pet retailers donate some proceeds to animal causes.

Dsquared2 put a pair of $190 limited edition leash and collar sets on the newly launched yoox.com Pets Bou-tique, with all the proceeds going to Much Love Animal Rescue in Los Angeles. A luxurious $486 Manfred of Sweden lambskin coat can also be found on the yoox site.

Dogs aren’t the only pam-pered pets. The “My First Hamster Home Kit” from Petco can be upgraded with a couch, television set, lamp and other furnishings, said Petco spokeswoman Sandy Robbins.

For the cat who has every-thing, including an owner with time and patience, Rob-bins suggested a $69.99 Litter Kwitter, which will help you teach your cat to use a toilet instead of a litter box. Or try the Litter-Robot self-cleaning litter box that sells for $329.99 on litter-robot.com.

A floor-to-ceiling cat tree for $299.99 is one of the most popular items at Drs. Foster & Smith, the largest catalog and online seller of pet supplies in North America.

You can also buy your fish a new home — a Marineland Monterey Super System 220-gallon aquarium, stand, canopy, filtration system and 72-inch light — for $5,199.99. Salt water coral grown next to the company’s Rhinelander, Wis., offices can go for hun-dreds more.

But at Christmas time, a dog’s life is not so bad. An Associated Press-Petside.com poll found that 56 percent of dog owners say they’ll buy their pets a gift this Christ-mas, but only 48 percent of cat owners plan a gift.

At the Ruff Ruff Couture boutique, a block from Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, one of the hottest items is the Snug-gle Sack, an ultra-suede, dou-ble-quilted, faux fur-lined pet carrier with a Swarovski crys-tal brooch for about $125, said owner Jaimie Pergament.

A Swarovski crystal lead will run $275 to $600 at the nearby Mutt Club, where an Italian-made diva bed is priced at $1,500 and a handmade wool coat with fleece lining costs between $120 and $180.

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scheduled to begin here on Feb. 15. The course will run through March 24. Students will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Warren County Exten-sion Office. Anyone inter-ested in participating should go by the office at 1100-C Grove St. or contact Mary Lynn Thomas at 601-636-5442 before Jan. 15. Class size is limited and prepayment of the $85 is required.

“I always wanted to be a Master Gardener,” said Pat Tisdale, a graduate of the 2010 training class “The training was excel-lent in all areas. I acquired a wealth of information from very learned professionals, received a great reference book and CD that I can refer to anytime for information — and made some wonderful

lasting friendships.”The Warren County Master

Gardeners sponsor March Mondays, a horticultural program; operate a website, warrencountymastergar-deners.com; have developed and maintained the Shade Garden at Crystal Springs; help maintain the Extension Office gardens and operate a booth each Saturday at the Vicksburg Farmers’ Market. They won the Outstanding State Project Award at the 2010 Master Gardeners Con-ference for their Farmers’ Market project.

•Miriam Jabour, a Master Gardener and Master Flower Show judge, has been active in the Openwood Plantation Garden Club for over 35 years. Write to her at 1114 Windy Lake Drive, Vicksburg, MS 39183.

hopefuls: Write your own songs.

“Even if you don’t end up using it, it shows you what you want to say and you get in touch with what you want to say and who you are as an artist,” she said.

The Canadian-born singer is also working on a new album titled “Lifestyle.” It will mainly be produced by Salaam Remi, who is known for his work with Nas, Amy Winehouse and Jasmine Sul-livan; Remi also produced the lead single from Furta-do’s “Best of” set, the dance tune “Night Is Young.”

While Furtado is known for collaborating with dozens of artists from Timbaland to Michael Buble, she said she’s hoping to work with her fellow Canadian, rapper-singer Drake.

“I really like Drake (and) he really represents for urban music in Canada,” she said of the platinum-selling new-comer. “He still works with a lot of the same Canadian pro-ducers he’s always worked with and so I respect that a lot, ’cause I’m all about homegrown and just kind of trying to keep things organic and all that.”

Singer Ron Isley picks up where he left off after serving timeBy Nekesa Mumbi MoodyAP music writer

NEW YORK — When Ron Isley talks about the three years he spent in prison for tax evasion, there’s no bitterness or anger in his voice: At times, there almost seems to be a bit of nostalgia.

“I made a lot of friends. I was treated like a king. I had all of the respect that one would want. And it’s a part of that that I miss — when I say I miss, I miss the people that I met,” said the 69-year-old with the golden tenor.

“When I first went in there, there were 300 people there and those 300 people were behind me 100 percent, and when I say 100 percent, I really mean that,” he added. “’What can we get for you? Do you need this, do you need that?’ ... 24 hours a day, and that’s a blessing.”

Isley’s prison experience was

probably a bit different from the average person incarcerated for a tax offense. But the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer doesn’t credit his good fortune to his legendary status. Instead, he credits a more potent factor.

“We have a lot of faith in God, No. 1, and we always know that he’s with us, so that will carry you through anything,” he said.

That faith led Isley to believe there were better days ahead, and his faith appears to have paid off: He recently released a new album, “Mr. Isley,” and has a Grammy nomination for one of the key tracks: a duet with Aretha Franklin on the classic “You’ve Got a Friend.”

“I was always fascinated how this man who made his first song in 1959 with ‘Twist and Shout’ was able to reinvent himself decade after decade after decade,” said Anto-nio “L.A.” Reid, chairman of

Island Def Jam, which released Isley’s latest project. “This man is as much of an icon as Mick Jagger. This man is as much of an icon as Elton John ... Stevie Wonder.”

While Isley’s name isn’t as iconic as those men, there’s a strong argument that his music has been as influential. As part of The Isley Brothers, his con-tributions to music have been formidable: “Fight the Power,” “Between the Sheets,” “For the Love of You,” “It’s Your Thing” and “That Lady” have become pop and soul classics and, through sampling, hip-hop favorites over five decades.

And when other veterans found themselves singing cover tunes to remain relevant, Isley connected with a new genera-tion through the gangster alter-ego Mr. Biggs, linking with R. Kelly, Lil Kim and others to generate hits.

Isley had just released an

album with his brother Ernie, “Baby Makin’ Music,” and had another hit, “Just Came Here to Chill,” when he was sentenced in 2006 to three years in prison for failure to pay taxes. Isley, who still proclaims his inno-cence, said the government tried to get him to take a plea deal and spend a few months in jail.

Isley was a new father when he went to prison (his son is now 3); he also left behind his wife. It wasn’t really behind bars: Isley describes it as sort of a “camp” with plenty of open space. But there were plenty of restrictions.

Isley sang about once a month and participated in some shows there. He dreamed of recording a new album.

“I wanted to make an album that was special ... that was, ‘Wow, he did this?”’ Isley said.The associaTed press

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Wesley B. Jones Electrical Co.Residential • Commercial50’ Bucket Trucks6611 Paxton Road601-636-9591Fax: 601-636-9413

The County Market2101 Clay StreetJerry Stuckey, Manager

Automatic Transmission ServiceDonnie Remore, Owner560 Highway 80601-638-4441

Hill City RadiatorNew & Used RadiatorsTruck & Farm Equipment1717 Washington Street601-636-0162

Miller’s Tire Mart“Your Goodyear Dealer”1709 Clay Street601-636-7551Robert & Marion Murphy

Atwood Chevrolet2339 N. Frontage Road601-638-1252Parts: 601-638-4131Body Shop: 601-638-4445www.atwoodchevrolet.com

Griffith FloristWhen The Occasion Calls For Flowers1019 Jackson Street601-636-9461

Helping Hand Family PharmacyMon. - Fri. 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.Sat. 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Sun. Closed1670 Highway 61 North601-631-6837

Warfield’s Service CenterCarl Smith & EmployeesYour Full Service CenterTune Up • A/C ServiceBrake Service • General Repairs2610 1/2 Clay Street601-638-1752

Dave’s Custom MeatsWe process deer meatSpecializing in Smoked Sausage1580 Highway 80601-636-0342

Firearms OutfittersJimmy BagbySales & Repair • Firearms & AccessoriesInside Hadad’s Outdoor World940 Hwy. 61 North601-638-7621

Breithaupt Real Estate, LLC2735 Washington Street601-638-6243

Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals, Inc.Port of VicksburgVicksburg, Mississippi601-636-6643

The Vicksburg Post1601-F North Frontage Road601-636-4545 • Fax 601-634-0897

Blackburn Motor Companywww.blackburnmotor.com• Blackburn Nissan

2135 N. Frontage Road601-636-2766

• Blackburn Chrysler Dodge Jeep2195 N. Frontage Road601-661-7565

Shipley Do-Nuts1405 Clay Street, 601-638-30243424 Halls Ferry Road, 601-638-6675885 Hwy. 61 N. Frontage Road,601-630-9244

McAlister’s DeliSandwiches • Soups • Spuds • SaladsLunch • Dinner • Take Out & Catering4200 Clay St.601-619-8222

Foam Packaging, Inc.Manufacturers of Extruded PolystyreneFoam Sheets, Egg Cartons & Containers35 Stennis Drive • Vicksburg, MS 39180P. O. Box 1075 • Vicksburg, MS 39181601-638-4871 • 601-636-2655 (fax)www.foam-packaging.com

Cook Tractor Company“Your Kubota Dealer”680 Hwy. 80601-636-4641Steve & William Cook & Family

Leech Real Estate of VicksburgVanessa Leech, Broker/[email protected]

New Health Chiropractic CenterThomas W. Houseal,Doctor of Chiropractic1825 N. Frontage Road, Suite D601-634-1600

Magnolia Lawn & Tractor, Inc.Billy Shinn1029 Hwy. 61 North601-636-3461

RiverHills BankBe A Big Fish.SM

1400 Hwy 61 North 601.636.14452125 North Frontage Rd 601.661.7312702 Market St, Port Gibson, Ms601.437.4271www.riverhillsbank.comMember FDIC

Mobil 1 Lube ExpressCharles & Betty Pendleton4326 Highway 61 South601-631-8000

Caruthers HVACR, LLCThe Caruthers FamilySales • Service • InstallationResidential • Commercial • Industrial3300 Washington Street601-636-9433

Barnes Auto Glass& Windshield Repair

Jason BarnesMobile Service to Your Home or Office1900 S. I-20 Frontage Road601-661-0900

Heritage House Nursing andRetirement Center

Robert Greer, Administrator, and Staff3103 Wisconsin Avenue601-638-1514

Corner Drug StoreJoe A. Gerache, Sr. & Joe A. Gerache, Jr.1123 Washington Street601-636-2756

Taylor’s Audit & Tax ServiceCarlis Abney & Staff4402 Halls Ferry Road601-636-7268 or 601-636-1661

River City Body & Wrecker ServiceDavid Vanderberry & StaffForeign and Domestic2005 Highway 61 South601-636-1493

Ricky’s Welding & Machine Shop1721 Levee Street601-638-8238Rick Lowery & Employees

Easterling Enterprises, Inc. dba

T.D.’s Tires & Accessories2704 Clay StreetVicksburg, MS 39183-3131601-638-3252

George CarrBuick • Cadillac • GMC

2950 S. Frontage Road601-636-7777 • 1-800-669-3620www.georgecarr.com

Vicksburg Telephone Systems, Inc.Robert Henley & Staff955 Hwy. 61 N. Bypass601-634-1838www.vicksburgtelephone.com

Battlefield Discount DrugsJohn Storey3040A Indiana Avenue601-636-3374

Speediprint & Office SuppliesMore than just printing1601 N. Frontage Road

Post Plaza

601-638-2900

Fax 601-636-6711

Signs FirstBanners • Real Estate Signs

Vehicle Lettering

1601 North Frontage Road

Post Plaza

601-631-0400

Fax 601-638-9849

eace…the stillness of a baby sleeping, a quiet walk in the woods, the silence of falling snow…peace, a

contrast to our busy, noisy lives this holiday season. The world around us may not be entirely peaceful, but we can find our own peace within. To achieve a calmness of mind and soul we can turn to our house of worship. There we can find guidance and get a better perspective on life. Let God help you find peace within as you worship each week.

SundayMatthew 3.1-12

MondayMalachi

3.1-4

TuesdayMalachi

4.1-6

WednesdayJeremiah

23.1-8

ThursdayJeremiah 31.1-14

FridayJeremiah 31.23-40

SaturdayJeremiah 33.14-26

Scriptures Selected by The American Bible Society Copyright 2010, Keister-Williams Newspaper Services, P. O. Box 8187, Charlottesville, VA 22906, www.kwnews.com

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