Welcome to the annual Lighthouse Thanksgiving Classic Tishomingo County Beaver Control program extended.
McNairy County Residents speak out on road closure.
Pickwick State park prepares for holiday event.
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Vol. 119, No. 284
• Corinth, Mississippi • 20 pages • Two sections
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Group provides meals, blessings BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Before sitting down to their own Thanksgiving meal, a group of Corinthians gathered to give others a reason to be thankful on Thursday. First Presbyterian Church members and friends assembled and delivered 1,000 Thanksgiving meals to people in need. It is the 27th year the congregation has shared its blessings on Thanksgiving. “I really love the event because it’s a different kind of fellowship for us as well as being a great time of outreach into the community,” said
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
Magnolia Regional Health Center’s Angela Nowlin (seated), Kari Beth Nash (standing from left), Ronda Moon and Stacie Mitchell promote the upcoming Silent Hospitals Help Healing (Shhh) campaign which will begin Dec. 1 at the hospital.
MRHC campaign will embrace quiet time Silent Hospitals Help Healing (Shhh) campaign will be in effect 1-2 p.m. and from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. each day. “The hospital environment is important to us,” said Angela Nowlin, Senior Vice-President of Operations at MRHC. “Our success depends on meeting and exceeding the experience of
BY STEVE BEAVERS Shhh. Magnolia Regional Health Center is about to incorporate some quiet time to better care for its patients. Beginning Dec. 1, the hospital will observe a quiet environment twice during the day. The
our patients … they have to be the center of everything we do at the hospital.” Quiet areas will be limited to inpatient areas of the facility. “Work will still get done,” said Kari Beth Nash, VicePresident of Organizational Please see HOSPITAL | 2A
Don Elliott Pastor Pastor Don Elliott. “For a lot of these people, this has become part of their Thanksgiving traPlease see MEALS | 12A
Unemployment rate holds at 5.3 percent BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
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“For a lot of these people, this has become part of their Thanksgiving tradition.”
Alcorn County unemployment held at 5.3 percent in October while showing improvement from the prior year. The rate was 6.4 percent in October 2014. The current rate gives the county a rank of 10th among the 82 counties. Mississippi’s not seasonally adjusted rate was unchanged
at 5.9 percent. October brought 64 first claims for unemployment insurance in Alcorn County, compared to 60 a year ago. Continued claims numbered 386, down from 486 a year ago. The county had 840 categorized as unemployed for the Please see JOBLESS | 3A
Corinth Ballet prepares for ‘The Nutcracker’ BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com
Twirling and leaping into their third full-scale production of “The Nutcracker,” the dancers of the Corinth Ballet are busy painting back-drops, fitting costumes and fine-tuning their choreography. “Ballet is an art-form which takes a great deal of time and discipline to master,” said Executive Director Crystal Sweeney Scarbrough. “Many don’t realize the level of skill, artistry and commitment needed to become a ballerina or danseur until they take a class themselves.” With a shelf-life of only 38 hours, give or take according to brand, dancers are hard on their feet and can tear through 16 or more pairs of ballet slip-
pers in under a year’s time. “Gaynor Minden’s have a much longer shelf-life and have been deemed ‘The unbreakable shoes’ but you have to travel to Memphis in order to get them properly fitted because they have to mold them to your feet,” said Scarbrough. “The leads in our production must all be fitted for their shoes which takes a minimum of two hours and costs around $120 each. That’s not including the price of gas and other travel expenses. We hope to start fitting shoes here in Corinth within the next two years.” “It is very important to make sure you are ready to be on pointe which is flat across your tip-toes. Anything else is considered to be demi-pointe,” continued Scarbrough as she flexed a
ballet flat to reinforce her explanation. “Those who rush and try pointe shoes before they are ready often break their ankles and suffer serious damage to their feet. Therefore, it is a requirement that all dancers in the Corinth Ballet must first see a podiatrist to make sure they aren’t going to hurt themselves. We also prefer the girls wear their hair Please see NUTCRACKER | 2A Staff photo by Kimberly Shelton
The Pas de Deux (Luke Osborn) and the Sugar Plum Fairy/Princess (Madeliene Gardecki), both students of Northeast Mississippi Community College, will dance their last duet together during this year’s presentation of “The Nutcracker.”
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Jim Calvary of Corinth is elected president of the Corinth Association of Life Underwriters. The Farm Bureau agent will lead the insurance industry trade group.
Tanya K. Finch takes over as North Division Director for the March of Dimes. One major goal is revitalizing the annual WalkAmerica fundraiser.
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