Archive - Jul 2010
July 26th
For the Daily News
This weekend, the Gaining Ground Sustainability Institute of Mississippi will present a unique opportunity to learn and share more about sustainable living in Starkville at the first annual Mississippi Sustainability Conference, held July 30 - August 1 at the Bost Conference Center at Mississippi State University.
Saturday’s monthly meeting of the Starkville TEA Party gave a clear picture of local discontent with national politics.
Opinions expressed at Saturday’s meeting line up with core values of the TEA Party movement nationwide, which call for a recognition of God, fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets as it relates to local, state, and national political issues.
Thanks to an anonymous donor, the Kings Center was able to offer a summer reading program for children for the first time.
The donor wished to remain unnamed because he said the donation of money isn’t the story — The story is the fact that a group of children spent the summer reading. And with literacy named as one of the larger problems for children in Oktibbeha County, the summer reading program touched a great group of children, he said.
The program, which started June 1, had 20 children ages 3 to 12 reading every single day, and participating in reading activities.
Mentor program Project AIM will be starting its third year this fall, and volunteers are needed.
Previously funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education Grants for school-based mentoring programs, Project AIM will be moving under the Safe Schools Healthy Students grant umbrella.
“We appreciate the way the community has embraced the grant, and we’re looking forward to another year,” AIM Coordinator Cathy Curtis said. “We want people to know that mentoring opportunities are continuing under another grant.”
The second year of Kids in the Kitchen camp went off without a hitch last week.
The camp, ironically named as there isn’t actually a kitchen available, is hosted by Emerson Family Center, but funded through Mississippi State’s Extension Services. With MSU footing the bill, the camp is completely free of cost to the campers.
“It was such a success last year that we decided to make it an annual thing,” said Frances Page, Extension Program Assistant for food health promotion.
The East Webster Wolverines hope the momentum generated from their Class 2A playoff run in 2009 carries over into this season.
East Webster finished with a 7-7 record last season with a strong finish.
After defeating West Lowndes 24-0 to close the regular season, the Wolverines knocked off Coahoma County 33-8 and Calhoun City 28-14 before losing a 14-12 decision to Ackerman.
That positive ending gives East Webster coach Jimmy Carden something to build on as his squad prepares for its first practice of the preseason today.
July 24th
Alma J. Kelly, 89, of Starkville, died Friday, July 23, 2010, at Starkville Manor Nursing Home.
Visitation for Alma J. Kelly will be Sunday, July 25, 2010, from 12 noon until the funeral at 2 p.m. at National Funeral Home.
The Rev. Mark Kelly will officiate the service and burial will follow in Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Alma Kelly was born in 1920 to Inez Cowsert and Randolph D. Jackson in Darling. She was a homemaker and formerly lived in Clarksdale for many years where she was employed by Clarksdale Laundry and Colonial Bag.
James D. Denton, Jr., 71, died Saturday, July 24, 2010, at OCH Regional Medical Center.
The funeral will be will be held Monday, July 26, 2010 at 10:30 a.m., from Calvert Funeral Home Chapel in West Point with Burial to follow in Greenwood Cemetery in West Point.
Calvert Funeral Home of West Point is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation will be Sunday, July 25, from 5 to 7 p.m at Calvert Funeral Home.
Friends may leave a memory message at http://www.calvertfuneralhome.com.
Oktibbeha County’s Excel By 5 Coalition completed an integral step in its certification process by hosting a town hall meeting at the annual Back to School Bash Saturday.
“The importance of this step is two-fold,” said Bob Clay, Excel By 5 sites coordinator.
“First, it provides information to the community about resources available for children ages birth to five. Second, it provides information about gaps in those resources, and also allows us to get feedback from the community so an action plan can be put into place to meet the needs of the community.
Some 248 criminal suspects are scheduled for trial, hearings or docket call during the winter term of Oktibbeha County Circuit Court that begins Monday.
The court term will run the next two weeks. Circuit Judges Lee Howard and Jim Kitchens are both scheduled to be on the bench during the term.
Cases involving narcotics or felony alcohol offenses comprise more than 42 percent of the total case docket, with 105 cases scheduled for the court term.
