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Daily Corinthian Vol. 115, No. 238
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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • 1 section
City park installing new fence BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
Crossroads Regional Park is sprucing things up. Workers are constructing a new fence around the mega-playground Fun Station located at the park entrance. “It’s going to be a good looking product once it is finished,” said park director Todd Witt. “A lot of the panels have been pre-built and now it’s just a matter of installation.” The fence -- a combination of funds from a Corinth Tourism grant and the park general budget -- is an ornamental wrought iron type that also surrounds Jesse Bynum Field in the park. “The new fencing is a functional one that will require low maintenance,” added Witt. Fun Station, which opened in 2002, has had a chain link fence to keep children from the roadway. “We had a temporary fence up but we are trying to make things look better,” said Witt. To make the fence level,
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Study of floodwater retention requested BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
Crossroads Regional Park Maintenance Supervisor Keith Carnathan welds a pair of wrought iron pieces together on the new fence around the Fun Station. maintenance supervisor Keith Carnathan has given it a staggered look. “The fence is level, just
not with the contour of the ground,” said Carnathan. “I think it adds to the look,” said Witt of the
staggered style. The park is getting construction help from eight Alcorn County jail inmates.
Floodwater retention ponds could be one component of Corinth’s drainage solution. Drainage Commissioner Milton Sandy Jr. on Tuesday sought and received the Board of Aldermen’s support for moving forward with a grant application that would provide an engineering assessment to determine if existing pits could be cleaned up and put back into use. The funding source would be a brownfield grant through the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. The existing pits are in the Elam Creek area. “Back in the ’60s,” said Sandy, “the Soil Conservation Service did extensive hydrological studying in this area and, at that time, they proposed two watershed Please see STUDY | 2
City orders seven South Corinth properties to clean up BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Cleanup proceedings moved forward Tuesday on a number of South Corinth properties. The Board of Aldermen held public hearings on seven lots, with some gaining a little extra time to get their cleanup work done and others being adjudicated for the city to have the lots cleaned.
The properties include: 1106 Ross Street — Continued to Nov. 1. Projects Coordinator Kim Ratliff said the owner is making an effort to get debris cleaned up. ■ 1511 Allen Street — Continued to Nov. 1 on the recommendation of the city attorney because of a notice issue. Ratliff said the lot needs to be mowed. ■
■ 1431 Cruise Street — Continued to Nov. 1. The building inspector is working with the owner to correct structural issues in the house. The property also has some cars in violation and some items that need to be removed from the property. Ratliff said the owner is renting a truck from the city to haul away items. The property is currently inhabited.
■ 1204 Wick Street — Adjudicated for general cleanup. Ratliff said the property is apparently in foreclosure and “in limbo between the previous owner and the mortgage company.” ■ Washington Street (number unavailable) — Adjudicated for mowing and cleanup. The city hasn’t been able to contact the owner of this lot, which was previously ad-
judicated and a house demolished by the city. The board dismissed action on 2301 Louisiana Street and 207 Lee Avenue, where the owners have met all of the city’s requests. Another previously adjudicated property, 1221 White Street, is set to be mowed again. “Property maintenance issues will be ongoing,
particularly in ward 4,” said Ratliff. “With the onset of fall, there is a greater effort to push enforcement because the winter season tends to give people an excuse not to take care of their maintenance issues. So far, this fall has provided some beautiful days that aren’t so hot. This should allow the Please see CLEANUP | 2
Hog Wild fest estimates crowd at more than 13,000 Legion, shelter said Main Street Corinth Director Kelly Rinehart. “The weather was great throughout the festival.” Awards were presented in seven different cooking categories. The grand champion cooker picked up $1,000 while the reserve grand champion collected $500. Category winners were: Grand Champion — Ghost River Smokeaholics; Reserve Champion — House of Q; Brisket — Ghost River Smokeaholics; Chicken — Kinney’s Kountry Kookers; Pork Ribs — Bean Bandits; Pork — Heavenly Manna BBQ; Anything But — Team Manwagon; Des-
BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
The Ghost River Smokeaholics floated away with the state championship. The team was crowned Grand Champion in the 21st Hog Wild Barbecue Cooking Contest last weekend. House of Q collected the Reserve Championship in the Kansas City Barbeque Society Sanctioned event. Thirty-seven teams invaded downtown last weekend in hopes of collecting the state title of barbecuing. Overall attendance for the three days of entertainment and carnival rides was estimated at more than 13,000.
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“We were very pleased that so many people came and enjoyed the festivities over the entire festival,”
sert — Rollin’ Rumps; and Sauce — Caterpillar Prentiss Pit Crew. KC Porkers, a local team of Kimberly-Clark employees — finished second in the rib division and fourth in brisket. The team finished ninth overall. The Kansas City Barbeque Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and enjoying barbecue. It is the world’s largest organization of barbecue and grilling enthusiasts with over 14,000 members worldwide. KCBS sanctions over 300 barbeque contests coast-tocoast throughout America.
BY BOBBY J. SMITH With autumn in the air and a diverse lineup of events planned for all ages and interests, the weekend is full of activities.
Thursday ■ The 25th Annual Fall Fling for the Young at Heart — especially for se-
nior citizens — will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Loochapola Lodge in Tishomingo State Park. The park is located at mile marker 304 off the Natchez Trace Parkway, or on MS Hwy 25, two miles south of Tishomingo. Entertainment will include The Hotsprings Hotties, The Joe Rickman Band, “Elvis” and Kay Bain. Area
health care providers, public service officials as well as various other vendors will be present, offering health screens and other useful information for seniors. Participants are advised to bring lawn chairs. Concessions will be available. A $3 entrance fee will be charged per vehicle up to six people and 50 cents per person over six. For more
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BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
■ The Corinth High School Alumni Association will honor its 2011 Distinguished Alumnus of the
Hot Dogs for Cold Dogs, a joint-venture of the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter and the American Legion, will be held tonight at the American Legion post on Tate Street. The event will feature a silent auction, food and entertainment, all for the purpose of buying igloo houses to help the shelter’s dogs stay warm this winter. “Right now we have 84 dogs at the animal shelter and we want to try to keep them warm,” said Charlotte Doehner, volunteer and president of the shelter’s board of directors. “A lot of them are in outdoor pens and they need the dog houses to keep warm — especially at night with Ewok the cold weather.” To raise money for the winter dog houses, the shelter will sell hot dog dinners with potato chips, a drink and a T-shirt for $20. Many items have been donated for the si-
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A soldier wrote, “The sick sees hard times for they are lying in the hospital tents on some straw. God forbid that I shall ever spend my last days in such a place for it is awful to see the sick groaning.” By Tom Parsons, National Park Service Ranger
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