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Daily Corinthian Vol. 121, No. 145
• Corinth, Mississippi •
BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
Living Free Ministries has three summer goals and they need help to reach them. After a successful 13th year so far, the Corinth non-residential faith-based addiction recovery program has several specific needs for the summer. The organization plans to provide more than 3,000 meals over the three months at a cost of about $4,500, install new LED lighting in the Living Free kitchen and meeting area at a cost of about $2,000 and fullfill regular summer operation needs for about $8,500. “Everything we need this summer comes to a total of $15,000,” said founder Tommy Wilson. “We believe the Lord has provided for Living Free for the last 13 years, and He will provide this summer as well.” Wilson said the LED lighting project at their campus building on Highway 72 is very important. “We have estimated a high return on long-term savings on our electricity bill if we can replace our current lighting system with the more efficient LED lighting,” he said. So far, 2017 has been an unbelievable year at Please see FREE | 2A
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Rosemary and Sandy Williams continue to make an impact on downtown Corinth revitalization.
Williams has passion for revitalization town Corinth like Rosemary Williams. The monarch has a passion for Cross City that dates back to the first time she drove down the Oak tree lined streets of historic downtown. “I fell in love with Corinth from
BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
(Editor’s note: This is the final story in the Downtown Corinth - Where Old Meets New multipart series on the revitalization of downtown Corinth.) A Corinth resident for more than 57 years, no one person has influenced the revitalization of down-
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U.S. 45 gets Rockabilly designation A music style rooted deep in northeast Mississippi history will soon have it’s own road. Gov. Phil Bryant recently signed House Bill 907 designating a section of U.S. Highway 45 in Alcorn, Prentiss and Lee counties as Rockabilly Way. The new name designation will pay tribute to the historic style of music that blends country music and rhythm and blues. It will tie Mississippi to Rockabilly Way in Tennessee. When completed, the section will connect Jackson, Tenn., home of the Rockabilly Museum, to Tupelo, birthplace of popular Rockabilly artist Elvis Presley. One of the driving forces behind the highway designation is local resident Dale Rushing. He worked with Rep. Randy Boyd of Mantachie to draft the bill earlier this year. “It feels great to have this step out of the way,” said Rushing. “Unfortunately there’s still a lot left to do.” The bill will become law on July 1, but Rushing said MDOT has yet to schedule sign
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CHS graduation Corinth graduate Christian Peterson patiently waits during roll call prior to the Corinth High School Academic and Performing Arts Center graduation on Friday at the Crossroads Arena. Peterson earned the right to wear the coveted red robe by receiving a Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) diploma after earning a minimum of six credits from three subject groupings – math/science, language and humanities – during his time at CHSAPAC. Of the school’s 125 graduates, 15 earned the distinction of a Cambridge AICE diploma. For more photos from the Corinth Class of 2017 commencement exercises, see the Daily Corinthian next Sunday, June 25.
Becoming father was bumpy “They call me Daddy.” It was a emotional response from Craig Johnson when asked what Father’s Day meant to him. Johnson’s road to becoming a father was a bumpy path as he battled drug issues that began when he was a teenager. An older friend introduced him to
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“I’m tickled to death to hear them call me ‘Daddy’ because I was not daddy material in my younger days.”
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marijuana when he was only 15 and it took Johnson a little over a decade to get clean. “When I started marijuana, I would do anything to get money to buy more pot,” said Johnson. “I let drugs cost me two marriages. I was selling drugs and was never home where I should have been.”
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Mrs. G.R. Lanning Jr. is selected as president of the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Well-known author Rod Wallsmith visits Corinth to sign his latest book “Booze, Blood and Justice.”
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