9-23-11 Daily Corinthian

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Daily Corinthian Vol. 115, No. 227

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• Corinth, Mississippi • 24 pages • 2 Sections

Officials identify human remains

Lawmen vs. firefighters

Funeral services set for woman missing since March BY ANGELA STOREY astorey@dailycorinthian.com

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

The Corinth Police Department and Fire Department are set to do battle once again for a charity event. Corinth fireman Eric Brown (left) and police officer Spence Spencer (right) will lead their respective departments in a benefit basketball game for 6-year-old Lane Bryant on Saturday at Corinth Junior High.

Departments compete in friendly charity event BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

The Corinth Police Department is on a roll when it comes to the friendly competition with the Fire Depart-

ment. Extending that winning streak won’t be the chief concern when the two departments tangle on the hardwood.

The two are combining efforts to raise money for six year-old Lane Bryant. The PD versus FD has gone Please see GAME | 2A

The human remains found in mid-May in Alcorn County in the burned car belonging to a missing Prentiss County woman have been positively identified as hers. Prentiss County Sheriff’s Department Investigator Derrick Hester said Tuesday the remains have officially been identified as those of Tammy McVey Wright, who had been reported missing in March. Individuals going fishing found the burned 2005 Pontiac Bonneville belonging to Wright, 46, on Sunday morning, May 15 on a woods road, a considerable distance of CR 335 in Alcorn County, northeast of the Jacinto area. She had been missing since March 25. Law enforcement officials had previously said DNA samples had been submitted for comparison to the remains.

Wright was last seen in the area of Magnolia Regional Health Center around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, March 25, where she had gone to visit her boyfriend who was hospitalized at the time. She left the hospital to pick up a prescription and was not heard from again. Since the car was found in Alcorn County, the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department is the lead investigating agency. Hester said the case remains open. Anyone with information is asked to contact Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department at 662-286-5521 or the Prentiss County Sheriff’s Department, 662-7286232. Funeral services for Tammy McVey Wright will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Booneville Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Jumpertown Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Volunteers sought for Hog Wild ACC grant to help BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Things are about to get wild in downtown. The 21st Annual Hog Wild Barbecue Cooking Contest is slated to get under way on Thursday and continue through Saturday night. With an array of activities planned for the annual event, organizers are in the need for more volunteers. “Volunteers are the core of our festival,” said Main Street Corinth Director Kelly Rinehart. “Main Street could not operate without them.” There are several areas people can get involved with during the festival -a Kansas City Barbecue Society Sanctioned event. “There is a job for everyone,” said Rinehart. Rinehart expressed the need for ambassadors to help with the cooking teams and the contest. Help is also needed to work the gate, sell T-shirts and in the beer garden. Volunteers are needed from 3-11 p.m. on Thursday, 4 p.m. until midnight on Friday, and from 10 a.m. until midnight on Saturday. Festival goers can get ready for Hog Wild by purchasing a festival T-shirt. The shirts were designed by Mia NickStaff photo by Steve Beavers els and are $17 for adults and $12 for Alliance Office Manager Denise Joyner gets some Hog Wild youth. Shirts, which come in the colors T-shirts ready. The shirts are $17 for adults and $12 for youth. Shirts can be purchased at The Alliance or at the festival, Please see HOG WILD | 2A which starts Thursday in downtown Corinth.

drainage problems BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

The Appalachian Regional Commission approved a $114,000 grant to help Corinth get an assessment of its storm water drainage system. The Board of Aldermen accepted the grant this week. The city is also seeking hazard mitigation funds through the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency to help pay for the approximately $450,000 project. The city’s cost will be about $150,000. The study will locate and evaluate all of the storm drainage pipes in the city and take a look at creek capacity. That information will be used to proceed with construction in multiple phases to correct identified problems. The assessment is expected to take 12 to 18 months to complete.

In other business: The board is reconsidering its recent agreement with Judicial Correction Services to help collect fines for the municipal court. Aldermen had questions about how the firm will go about collecting funds from individuals, such as whether they would go to the person’s home or business. Jan Davis, representing JCS, said those methods would not be used. Also, Court Clerk Dianne Johnson noted the city has aggressively gone after new fines with success by moving away from part-pay arrangements, while JCS would utilize a monthly payment system. Steve Pounders, who works for JCS in Tishomingo County, said JCS has more than 50,000 people on active proba■

Please see GRANT | 2A

Burnsville Waterway Festival features food, fun, events for families BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

BURNSVILLE — Event organizers have planned a full slate of events for the 20th annual Burnsville Waterway Festival this weekend at Burnsville Elementary School. “This is something we do to promote Burnsville,” said Janie Cummings, secretary of the Burnsville Chamber of Commerce, “and a family event for the community.”

The festival will kick off tonight at 7 p.m. with a street dance at the Burnsville Boat Ramp on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. This free event will feature the music of two local bands, Redneck Rehab and Last Leg. The street dance is sponsored by the Burnsville Fire Department, who will be on hand selling hamburgers and hotdogs, along with local Boy Scouts groups selling candy and sweets.

Saturday is the main day of the festival, with a day-long lineup of entertainment, vendors, a car and truck show and 5k run on the grounds of Burnsville Elementary School. At 10 a.m. Burnsville Mayor David Nixon will deliver the welcome message followed by an invocation and performance of the national anthem. Saturday Entertainment Lineup ■ 10:05 to 10:35 a.m. - Anna

Index Stocks....15A Classified......3B Comics....14A

Crossroads ....3B Weather......5A Obituaries......3A

Kate McEllheney ■ 10:35 to 11:05 a.m. - Esther Giles ■ 11:05 to 11:35 a.m. - Courthouse Pickers ■ 11:35 a.m. to 12 p.m. - Samantha Murphy ■ 12 to 12:55 p.m. - Terry Weems ■ 12:55 to 1:30 p.m. - Useless Information ■ 1:30 to 3 p.m. - Last Leg ■ 3 to 4 p.m. - Redneck Rehab The Waterway Festival will

feature a wide variety of arts and crafts vendors offering everything from candy, flowers, home decorations and T-shirts. For kids there will be special crafts, pony rides and a petting zoo. Culinary offerings include barbecue, hot tamales, catfish plates, hamburgers and hotdogs. The Burnsville Fire Department is sponsoring a poker run Please see FESTIVAL | 2A

On this day in history 150 years ago Sept. 23 — Gen. Charles Fremont was hated by Southerners for his emancipation of slaves and in hot water with Unionists for not coming to the relief of Lexington, Mo. When the St. Louis Evening News reported these facts he shut down the paper and jailed the editor.


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