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features 40 Lifesaving Labradors

Wildrose Kennels trains diabetic alert dogs to sniff out dangerous medical situations.

48 Tour de Force Cover photo courtesy of connie russell

When Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin retired this year, he cycled into a new career.

68 The Great Pumpkin

The pumpkin patch at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church is rooted in community and tradition.

98 Paving the Way

Bicycling enthusiasts enjoy better rides with new bike paths and a 44-mile trail.

EVENTS 26 Crosstown Classic 28 Reb Talk with Hugh Freeze 30 Book of Manning Reception 32 Book of Manning Premiere 34 Robert Khayat Book Party 36 Ole Miss Pep Rally 54 Ole Miss Cookbook Party 56 Americal Idol Auditions 58 Children’s Health Fair 62 EDF First to Know Breakfast 64 Meet the Chargers 66 Oxford Sessions Concert 80 Dr. Spencer Retirement Party 84 USTA Party 88 Ole Miss vs. Vanderbilt Parties 92 Yocona Folk Festival

73 Gone But Not Forgotten

Many businesses in Oxford have come and gone, but three iconic establishments – Smitty’s, Avent’s Dairy and Mistilis Restaurant (pictured) – still hold a special place in the hearts of many.

announcements 20 Bee & Dodgen 21 Brooks & Nichols 22 Clawson & Lapane 24 Bradford & Hayman

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all. It’s the time of the year when the scorching temperatures finally give way to cooler mornings and evenings. “Fire” is not a word that makes you cringe, and the leaves on the trees make you think of holidays and the earth’s beauty.

October is a special month for me. We started publishing Invitation Oxford in October 2006. Two years later, on Oct. 11, 2008, I married my husband on a perfectly splendid fall weekend. My grandmother, who was my best friend, celebrated her birthday on Oct. 18. And by the end of October this year, the Ole Miss Rebels could have a record that would send them to a bowl game.

This October, we celebrate seven years of Invitation Oxford magazine. If I’ve learned one thing in that time, it’s that things in business change and “history” happens quickly. We’re saluting some longstanding Oxford businesses that no longer are around, but that many folks who live here or have visited will remember fondly. In many ways, they are an inspiration to us.

This month, we also celebrate what many folks in Oxford consider a local fall treasure – the pumpkin patch at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. It’s a place to take family photos and enjoy the outdoors. One of my favorite photos of my daughter was taken there a few years ago. I’m sure we will be there again this year with our cameras ready.

And why wait until New Year’s Day to get busy with a workout routine?

Meet former Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin who began riding a bike and lost more than 50 pounds in the process. His story is not one of a quick-fix weight loss plan but rather of a love for being outside and new way to move his body.

Maybe it will inspire you to get outside and enjoy the outdoors. Who knows? It could feed your soul as well.

I hope your October will be as special as mine.

Rachel M. West, PublISher

Check out our blog!

The new Invitation Oxford blog will feature recipes, DIY crafts, health and fitness and more. The first post, by Oxford’s Amanda Jane Brown, is an easy and delicious Funfetti Snack Mix, perfect for the Grove. Visit invitationoxford.com to get the recipe.

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PUBLISHER Rachel Malone West EDITOR Phil West MANAGING EDITOR Sonia Thompson ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR Emily Welly EDITORIAL DESIGN Emily R. Suber, Hallie M. Thomas STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Joe Worthem DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING Cindy Semmes ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS Trey Alexander, Alise M. Emerson, Sheena Hagemann, Leigh Lowery, Lynn McElreath, Mary Moreton, Moni Simpson AD DESIGN Rebecca Bailey, Zach Fields, Paul Gandy CONTRIBUTORS Seph Anderson, Joey Brent, Leslie Brooks, Allen Butler, Michael Ikeda-Chandler, Rebecca Lauck Cleary, Melanie Crownover, Elizabeth Ferrell, Caroline Beffa Franks, Deborah Freeland, Megan Marascalco, Ann-Marie Wyatt OFFICE MANAGER Hollie Hilliard COPY EDITORS Kate Johnson, Dicki King SOCIAL MEDIA & EVENTS COORDINATOR Tarah Wiley DISTRIBUTION Donald Courtney, Brian Hilliard Advertising Information (662) 701-8070 ads@invitationoxford.com To subscribe to one year (10 issues) of Invitation Oxford, send payment of $50 to: P.O. Box 776, Oxford, MS 38655 or visit invitationoxford.com to pay online.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING October 1-31

A sampling of important, fun and interesting events in our area. For more, visit facebook.com/invitationoxford.

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SEPT. 10, 2013 – JAN. 11, 2014 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Annual Membership Party Artist’s Lecture: Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 noon–1:00 p.m.

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Noted ceramist and Oxford native, Ron Dale, showcases his works spanning over 20 years. Discover the evolution of his work featuring mixed media and ceramics.

Following the Annual Membership Party at the University of Mississippi Museum

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In conjunction with the Annual Water Valley Studio Crawl.

Art, music, Books and food

Texas A&M vs. Ole Miss Football

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October 1

October 10

The Rebels take on the Texas A&M Aggies.

Wear navy.

Time TBD, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium

A book release party that celebrates the novel The Tilted World by Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin and cookbook Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey by James Beard Award-winning chef John Currence. Mayor Pat Patterson and Chancellor Dan Jones will give introductory remarks.

6 p.m., the Powerhouse

Award-winning singer/songwriter Kenny Rogers plays live at the Gertrude Ford Center. Rogers will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame this fall.

7 p.m., Ford Center fordcenter.org/events

October 3

Ron Dale Art Opening Reception

October 18

M-Club Hall of Fame Reception and Banquet The M-Club honors six individuals with induction into the Ole Miss Hall of Fame and one with the Lotterhos Service Award. Recipients will also be honored at the Ole Miss vs. LSU football game.

Reception 6 p.m, the Inn at Ole Miss

October 19

Louisiana State University vs.

Ole Miss Football The Rebels take on the LSU Tigers. Wear red.

Time TBD, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium

October 25

Ole Miss Homecoming Parade The Ole Miss Homecoming parade begins at the Circle and ends on the Square with a pep rally featuring the Ole Miss cheerleaders, Rebelettes and Pride of the South Marching Band.

5:30 p.m., the Circle

October 26

Idaho vs. Ole Miss Football The Rebels take on the Idaho Vandals for the Rebels homecoming game. Wear navy. The Ole Miss Junior Rebels (girls ages 5-17) will perform a cheerleading and dance pregame routine.

Time TBD, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium rebs.ms/juniorrebs for Ole Miss Junior Rebels info

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Thacker Mountain Radio This special edition of Thacker Mountain Radio is presented in conjunction with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Southern Foodways Alliance, which hosts its annual Foodways Symposium the same weekend. Thacker Mountain Radio is held every Thursday, usually at Off Square Books.

6 p.m., the Lyric Theatre thackermountain.com

October 10

University Museum Membership Party and Open House The annual membership party celebrates recent gifts to the museum and its collections and showcases the latest exhibit.

5-7 p.m., University of Mississippi Museum

October 10

Harvest Supper at Rowan Oak Friends of the University Museum host the annual Harvest Supper on the grounds of Rowan Oak. This year’s event features food from Woodson Ridge Farms and music by Shannon McNally. Proceeds benefit the University Museum and Historic Houses.

Tickets $125.

7-10 p.m., Rowan Oak museum.olemiss.edu/harvest-supper

Kenny Rogers Concert

October 10

Noted ceramist and Oxford native Ron Dale showcases more than 20 years of his work at the University Museum in Recollecting: 1980-2012 Works by Ron Dale. His work will be on display until Jan. 11, 2014.

5-7 p.m., University of Mississippi Museum

October 11

PJ’s Plus Cigars Event “Back to the Stone Age” with RoMa Craft Tobac cigar event. Features Intemperance, CroMagnon, Aquitaine and Craft cigars and guest speaker Mike Rosales, co-founder/owner of RoMa Craft Tobac.

1-5 p.m., PJ’s Plus Cigars

October 18

PJ’s Plus Cigars Event Drew Estate cigar event featuring Liga Undercrown, MUWAT, Joya de Nicaragua, Tabak Especial, Natural and Acid cigars and guest speaker Jeff Tinnell of Drew Estate Cigars.

1-5 p.m., PJ’s Plus Cigars

October 24

10 Minute Play Festival The festival features the grand-prize winner from Theatre Oxford’s National 10 Minute Play contest, the Audience Award Winner and three locally written plays.

7:30 p.m., the Powerhouse

fundraisers October 13

Out of the Darkness Walk for Suicide Prevention The fourth-annual Suicide Prevention Walk will take place at the Circle on the Ole Miss campus.

The event features music, a raffle, food, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities and a 5K walk through campus. The event raises money for suicide awareness and prevention through the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention. noon, the Circle

October 21 Barktoberfest

The 10th-annual Barktoberfest is a beer tasting with pizza that benefits the Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society. Tickets $25.

5-8 p.m., the Library Sports Bar

October 25

Drive for 75 Park Stevens Memorial Golf Tournament The inaugural golf tournament benefiting the Park Stevens Memorial Scholarship Fund. Tournament will be played in a scramble format with fourperson teams. There will be prizes for the top three teams and a lunch event with appetizers provided at Buffalo Wild Wings following the tournament.

8 a.m. shotgun start, Ole Miss Golf Course

October 29 Yappy Hour

Participants can bring dogs to socialize over drinks.

The monthly event benefits the Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society and is held the last Tuesday of the month at different locations. Tickets $5 at the door.

6-8 p.m., Volta Taverna

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r. Alon Wilton Bee Jr., of Jackson, Miss., announces the engagement of his daughter, Vicki Paige, to McCaslin Carter Dodgen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Bruce Dodgen of Port Gibson, Miss.

The bride-elect is the daughter of the late Vicki Randle Bee and the granddaughter of the late Mr. Alon Bee and the late Mrs. Anna Bee of Jackson, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randle of Clinton, Miss. She is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, where she earned a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in psychology and was a member of Kappa Delta sorority. She teaches special education at Davidson Elementary School in Water Valley, Miss.

The prospective groom is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Russell Dodgen of Chatsworth, Ga., and the Rev. and Mrs. James Bernard Hatch of Clinton. He is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, where he earned a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in business administration and was a member of Kappa Alpha Order. He is director of summer college at the University of Mississippi.

The couple will exchange vows Dec. 14, 2013, at Oxford-University United Methodist Church in Oxford, Miss. A reception will follow at the Lyric Theatre on the Oxford Square.

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r. and Mrs. William Stuart Reagan of Oxford, Miss., and Mr. and Mrs. William Michael Brooks Sr., of Starkville, Miss., announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Kathryn Brooks, to Stephen Andrew Nichols, son of Mr. and Mrs. Terry Lee Padgett of Olive Branch, Miss., and the late Mr. Harold Stephen Nichols and Ms. Cindy Nichols of Olive Branch.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Ms. Suretha Sandiford Brooks of Maben, Miss., and the late Mr. Joe Fred Brooks of Mathiston, Miss.; Mr. and Mrs. Gary Green of Monroe, La.; and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Dillard of McDonough, Ga. Miss Brooks is a 2004 graduate of Starkville Academy and a 2008 graduate of Mississippi State University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences. She was a member of Kappa Delta sorority. She earned her bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in May 2011. Miss Brooks is employed as a pediatric nurse at Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children in Jackson, Miss.

The prospective bridegroom is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Harold Nichols of Olive Branch and the late Mr. and Mrs. Milford “Doc” Gill of Olive Branch.

Mr. Nichols is a 2001 graduate of Olive Branch High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in insurance and risk management from Delta State University. He was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity. Mr. Nichols is the assistant vice president for Community Bank in Hernando.

The couple will exchange vows Nov. 2, 2013, at 11 a.m. at Fairview Inn in Jackson.

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r. and Mrs. Mark R. Clawson of Houston, Texas, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Louise Clawson, to Benjamin David Lapane, son of Mrs. Jo Ellen Ohayon and Mr. Carl Lapane of Mobile, Ala. Miss Clawson is currently studying mechanical engineering and is a member of the track and field team at the University of Mississippi. She is also a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Durham of Houston and Mrs. Carol P. Clawson and Mr. Robert M. Clawson of Montgomery, Texas.

The prospective bridegroom is the grandson of Ms. Betty Jo Fletcher of Franklin, La.; Mr. John Lawrence Creed Sr. of Bartlesville, Okla.; Ms. Sandra Dianne McCormick of Mobile, Ala.; and the late Mr. Carl Francis Lapane Sr. of Bangor, Maine.

Mr. Lapane is studying mechanical engineering and is a member of the track and field team at Ole Miss. He is also the president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee.

The couple met through the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. They will both graduate in May 2015. They will exchange vows before God, family and friends at Paris-Yates Chapel in Oxford, Miss., on May 17, 2014, with a reception to follow at the Mill at Plein Air in Taylor, Miss.

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helsea Rae Bradford and Christopher Stephen Hayman were married June 8, 2013, at College Hill Presbyterian Church in Oxford, Miss. The ceremony was officiated by Dr. Thad Moore, who was joined by the Rev. Tim Fortner of College Hill Presbyterian.

The bride is the daughter of Laurie McCosh Bradford and Jeffery Scott Bradford of Pass Christian, Miss. The groom is the son of

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Roxanne Witte Hayman and Michael Gregory Hayman of Leland, Miss. The bride was born and raised in Pass Christian, Miss., along with brother James Bradford, and the groom was raised in Leland, Miss., along with brother Michael Hayman and sister Anna Hayman.

Attending the bride as maid of honor was Rebecca Werner of Diamondhead, Miss.

Bridesmaids were Anna Hayman of Leland;

Anna Tucker of Pontotoc, Miss.; Megan Boyles-Sims of Hattiesburg, Miss.; Jaimie Schimelman of Alpharetta, Ga.; and Melissa Baskin of Valdosta, Ga. The groomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best man was his father, Michael Gregory Hayman. Groomsmen were Erik Tolleson of Meridian, Miss.; John Yarborough of Hattiesburg; Brad Bailey of Meridian; Shaw Moore of Holly Springs, Miss.;

and Jordan Carter of Collierville, Tenn. James Bradford and Justin Hitchcock were ushers.

Caroline Witte, cousin of the groom, was the flower girl.

On the eve of the wedding, the groom’s parents hosted a rehearsal dinner at the Ravine in Oxford.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore an ivory Maggie Sottero strapless A-line gown, fashioned with Alençon lace and a corset closure. The gown was enhanced with a scalloped neckline, sequins and beading. She carried a hand-tied bouquet of blue hydrangea and delphiniums.

The bridesmaids wore floor-length royal blue dresses from Oxford Bridal, and the groom and

groomsmen were outfitted by Thomas Brothers.

Following the ceremony, guests were invited to the reception at Oxford University Club on the historic Oxford Square.

The band One Way Road played Southern rock and country music.

The bride’s and groom’s cakes were designed

by Desserts by Vienna. The bride’s cake was a three-tiered white cake with dozens of whitechocolate-covered strawberries cascading down to the lace-trimmed bottom tier. The groom’s chocolate cake read “Hotty Toddy” and was surrounded by milk-chocolate-covered almonds.

Ashley Jordan-Hill of Twisted Twig in Oxford created the floral arrangements.

Photography was provided by Cindy B. Thymius of Memphis. Wedding day coordination was provided by the bride’s sorority sister Hannah McEuen, an event planner.

The reception ended with guests shaking pompoms and the band playing Slow Dixie, a song that brings tears to the eyes of many Ole Miss Rebels. Dixie could be heard from across the Square.

After a honeymoon cruise to Cozumel, Mexico, the newlyweds returned home to Oxford, where Chris is a commercial loan reviewer for the BancorpSouth corporate office in Tupelo, Miss., and Chelsea is a project services coordinator at Next Gear Solutions in Oxford.

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events Crosstown Classic View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

The annual Crosstown Classic football game between the Oxford High School Chargers and the Lafayette High School Commodores was held Sept. 13 in William L. Buford Stadium at LHS. The Chargers won the game 30-0.

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Dominic Woodard, Phylisha Fondren, Samantha Carothers and Jeremy Williams

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events Reb Talk with Hugh Freeze View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

The radio show Reb Talk with University of Mississippi football Coach Hugh Freeze was held Sept. 3 at Buffalo Wild Wings. Reb Talk is hosted by David Kellum. The show airs Tuesdays at 7 p.m. during football season.

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Joe Swingle and Darren Hubbard

Erin Joseph, Kristin Warner and Callie Cook

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events Book of Manning Reception

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The University of Mississippi Foundation hosted a reception at the Brandt Memory House to kick off the ESPN documentary film premiere of The Book of Manning on Sept. 6. The event raised $100,000 to benefit the Friends of Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital, which supports the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

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events Book of Manning Movie Premiere

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ESPN documentary film The Book of Manning premiered Sept. 6 at the Gertrude Ford Center. The event included a red carpet walk. Ole Miss Athletics Director Ross Bjork honored the Manning family by announcing that Ole Miss Athletics had named the newly renovated Indoor Practice Facility the Olivia and Archie Manning Athletics Performance Center.

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Margaret Ann Morgan, Diane Lazarus, Lauren Wright, Don Michael Lazarus and Clara Van Horn

Gracen Gaddy, Jensen Ankerson and Kim Gaddy

Kathryn Lance and Rachel Harper

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events Robert Khayat Book Party View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

Former University of Mississippi Chancellor Robert Khayat signed his new book The Education of a Lifetime Sept. 10 at Off Square Books. After the reading, Nautilus Publishing hosted a reception at Oxford University Club.

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Margaret Khayat, Mary Ann FrugĂŠ and Kay Alford

Rex Deloach, Ruthann Ray and Bob Weems

Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly

Carroll Chiles Moore and Jenny Dodson Robertson

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Lisa and Andy Mullins

Ley and Donna Falkner

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Ole Miss Athletics hosted a pep rally Sept. 5 on the Courthouse lawn to kick off the weekend of the first home football game against Southeast Missouri State University. The Oxford Downtown Council also hosted a fall fashion show.

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Mary Atwood, Lilly Schornhorst and Maggie Dean

Scott Paul, Angela and Mary Rhodes Manley

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Diane Tredway and Stella Blue deVera with Lily Grace and Sandra Robinson

Kathy, Perry and Forrest Rowe

Henry, Kyle, Amy and Hardy Cole

Caitlin Stark and Alexis Witcher

Joey LoCoco and Kimberly Pugh

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Wildrose Kennels is training diabetic alert dogs to sniff out dangerous medical situations.

by Elizabeth Ferrell photographed by Joe Worthem

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haron Stinson remembers when her mother would call every morning to make sure she was alive. But that was before Gracie, a diabetic alert dog from Oxford’s Wildrose Kennels, joined the family.

“She was my amazing Gracie,” Stinson said.

Thirty-seven-year-old Stinson suffers from type I diabetes. She felt symptoms – nausea, extreme fatigue and thirst – as a high school senior, but did not confront her escalating health problems until college.

“There’s no being borderline diabetic,” Stinson said. “You are, or you aren’t.”

The diagnosis at age 20 frightened her.

“I saw myself lapsing into a coma and dying like Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias,” she said.

Specialists taught Stinson how to manage her disease by testing her blood sugar and administering insulin injections. Today she lives a normal life. She and husband Jeremy have a son, Carter, now 8, and she teaches private piano lessons.

But in 2009 Stinson began experiencing an alarming increase in health incidents.

“I’ve been hospitalized so many times, my family jokes, ‘Sharon paid for this wing,’” she said. “I’ve been in ICU twice.”

That year, Sharon saw an article in People magazine about a boy whose German shepherd detected his blood sugar highs and lows. She showed the article to Jeremy, who began to investigate. His search led him to Oxford’s Wildrose Kennels, owned by Mike and Cathy Stewart.

The Stinsons applied for a dog in September 2009 and prepared for a two-year wait. But when a Lab named Gracie was born that November, her coloring was not what the buyer had ordered.

And just like that, Gracie entered their lives.

Wildrose Kennels World-renowned, Orvis-endorsed Wildrose Kennels breeds and trains British Labradors as gundogs and as diabetic alert dogs.

“If you’re not training, you’re not sure what the outcome of your breeding program is,” Mike Stewart said. “If you’re training but not breeding, you have no input.”

British Labs, known for superior scenting, make ideal medical alert dogs. “They’re smaller, 42 to 63 pounds, and have a good temperament,” Stewart said.

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Sharon Stinson works with Maia, her diabetic alert dog from Wildrose Kennels. Stinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first diabetic alert dog, Gracie, died last year. Diabetic alert dogs are trained to sniff out blood sugar highs and lows and give their owners signals when they are approaching dangerous levels.

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Wildrose Diabetic Alert Dog Foundation to find funds and grants.

Owners can reduce the cost of a dog by self-training. A scentintroduced pup costs around $1,750. The Stinsons chose this route.

“We went to a conference and learned how to scent train and do obedience work,” Stinson said. “They went over everything – crate training, staying on place, heeling, eye focus.”

Trainers introduce puppies to the diabetic scent starting around 3 weeks old, while the dogs are eating, so they will associate the scent with something positive, Stewart said.

From age 7 weeks to 6 months, volunteers work with pups on scent, obedience and public access; training for crate, leash and vest; and staying on place. They also train with diabetic scent samples – cotton balls soaked with the saliva of type 1 diabetics with low blood sugar, then frozen until use.

“We only train low,” Stewart said. “Even so, every single dog so far has also alerted on highs [high blood sugar].”

Within a week, Gracie was scenting Stinson’s highs. Two weeks later, she was scenting lows.

“She had this high-pitched whine,” Stinson said. “She’d get in my face, smell my breath, and lick my lips. I’d check, and my blood sugar would be over 200.”

After they turn 6 months old, Wildrose dogs return to the kennels for more intensive training until around age 18 months. Volunteers then fine-tune the training, reinforcing strict obedience through public access training. Upon placement, Wildrose head trainer Rachel Thornton stays with the client for a week, introducing the dog to anticipated public access situations.

“We send them out to all kinds of environments,” Stewart said.

“Grocery stores, Walmart, restaurants, to church – anywhere people go.”

Dogs use a bringsel, a cylinder-shaped device, to alert clients to blood sugar abnormalities – a discreet signal obvious to an owner but subtle to others.

Diabetic alert dogs wear patches indicating they are medical alert service dogs, and by law may go anywhere with public access. Still, if a dog behaves disruptively – for example, relieves itself, barks or sniffs merchandise – a business can ask the owner to remove the dog.

Stewart emphasizes that people should refrain from petting service dogs. Still, “it’s going to happen – some kid will come up from behind to pet the dog,” Wildrose trainer Mary Griffin said. “They have to be able to tolerate the unexpected. They must have impeccable obedience and be under control at all times.”

Wildrose goes to great pains to find the right fit for dog and owner.

“The dogs are not placed on a first-come, first-served basis,” Stewart said. “We try to match the right dog with the right person.”

A Hero Once Gracie had learned to scent blood sugar highs and lows, Stinson incorporated signals.

“Good scent, Gracie. Wave!” Stinson would say, and Gracie would wave a paw to indicate highs. But for lows – which often happen at night – Stinson taught Gracie a signal to wake her up.

“I wanted to teach her a signal that would make her touch me,” she said. “So I taught her to nose me.”

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When Gracie scented a low and nudged Sharon’s hand, Sharon would praise her, then open her hand to treat Gracie.

Stinson also trained Gracie to alert Jeremy.

“Good scent, Gracie. Wave! Go tell Daddy!”

Nighttime alerts posed a training challenge.

“You’d have to get up in the middle of the night and blow on her face to wake her up and then wave the sample in front of her nose,” Stinson said.

Gracie scented about an hour ahead of Stinson’s meter. “It could be 300 and she’d nose me, and an hour later it would be 60,” Stinson said. “She was never wrong. Never.”

“One day I was teaching piano lessons and Gracie nosed me,” Stinson continued. “I checked my blood sugar, then drank half a Pepsi. But she kept nosing me.

“I said, ‘Gracie, enough.’ I thought she was being bad. Then she started nipping at my hand. I picked her up by her collar and she escaped and ran out the door. But suddenly I felt weak and couldn’t chase her. She went around the building and into the gym, and alerted two adults there. Next thing I remembered, I was in the art room next door.”

Next year, Sharon’s story will appear in an upcoming book about Wildrose Diabetic Alert Dogs and their families, Lifesaving Labradors: Stories from Wildrose Families with Diabetic Alert Dogs, by University of Mississippi English professor Ben McClelland.

Still, a diabetic alert dog has limits.

“A dog can pre-alert the client, but it’s not a replacement for anything,” Stewart said.

“Diabetics still use meters and insulin pumps.

An alert dog is just another tool in the battle.”

Sadly, the Stinsons lost 3-year-old Gracie in a tragic accident last November. Stinson was devastated. But with the help of donations from Stinson’s church congregation, a new alert dog, Maia, joined the Stinson family in May. Maia has quickly become part of the family, but Stinson will never forget how Gracie saved her life so many times. She keeps Gracie’s collar on her van’s rearview mirror.

“She was my hero,” she said.

Visit uklabs.com for more information about Wildrose Kennels and diabetic alert dogs.

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“An alert dog can pre-alert the client.

It’s just another tool in the battle.”

- Wildrose Kennels owner Mike Stewart

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Tour de Force When Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin retired earlier this year, he cycled right into a new hobby and an unexpected career path.

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eing retired doesn’t mean sitting around the house all day, or at least it doesn’t for recently retired Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin. In fact, Martin is more active now than ever before in his new role at Oxford Bicycle Company.

Martin has been involved with public safety since 1983. He started as a police officer, and he took over as police chief in 2007 after serving as assistant chief and then interim chief when Steve Bramlett retired.

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But while he was looking out for the public, he wasn’t taking care of himself. In his last few years on the police force, he found that he had put on some unwanted pounds, so he began lifting weights.

“You get to be a certain age and the weights are not as much your friend as they used to be, and I started having some shoulder problems,” said Martin, who was recognized as Mississippi Police Officer of the Year in 1991 and 1992. “So it got to where I lifted less and continued to eat,

and then you also hit that age where cholesterol and things like that start to gang up on you a little bit. I knew I needed to get in more cardio type of work, so I started running.”

Martin figured out fairly quickly that running was not for him. He wanted to try something different that would be low-impact yet provide cardiovascular and calorie-burning benefits.

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Mike Martin started riding some of the abandoned bikes that were turned in to the police department. When he retired from police work earlier this year, his hobby became his new career.

abandoned bikes that people turned in to us because they found them laying in a ditch, and they were usually pretty junky,” Martin said.

So he decided to hop on one of the bikes and see what happened.

“I started riding the bike and the more I rode it, the more the weight came off, along with diet and other things,” said Martin, who

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eventually dropped 50 pounds.

Martin developed a relationship with Kevin Stuart and Wes Smith, co-owners of the Oxford Bicycle Company.

“I started coming up to the bike shop to get the worn-out bikes fixed, and I developed a rapport with Kevin and Wes,” Martin said.

Their business relationship eventually grew

into a friendship.

When Martin’s retirement day of Feb. 1, 2013, began approaching, he joked with Stuart that he would come work at Oxford Bicycle Company.

“I was kind of joking and I thought he was kind of joking, but as it got close to that retirement day, Kevin said, ‘I’m serious.’ So the

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Wes Smith, Mike Martin and Kevin Stuart ride together and work together at Oxford Bicycle Company. Thanks to Oxford’s new bike lanes, the avid cyclists are now able to enjoy longer and safer road rides.

next thing I knew, I retired and came to work here at the bike shop,” Martin said.

It’s a great atmosphere, Martin said, and he gets to meet a wide variety of people and fix bikes for others to ride.

Bo Ragon, the City of Oxford’s shop superintendent, has known Martin his whole life, and the two often ride together.

“He can outdo me on the mountain bike, but I can outdo him on the road,” said Ragon, who was a three-pack-a-day smoker until he exchanged cigarettes for a bike in 2009. “I know Mike has enjoyed being at the bike shop, and he’s lost weight, and there’s no stress for him there. I think he looks great.”

Stuart said Martin fits in well with the Oxford Bicycle Company staff.

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“He is a great individual that Wes and I got to know through riding, and he’s been a great addition to this place,” Stuart said.

According to Martin, the best places to ride in Oxford depend on what kind of bike you ride.

“For a mountain bike, I’m a big fan of the Whirlpool trails. For road riding, now that they have the bike lanes, I guess my favorite route is on Old Sardis Road past FNC Park,” Martin said. “We try to do that a lot of mornings before we come to work. It’s a fun ride and you can get going fast down the hills.”

The expansion of Oxford’s bike lanes is important to a serious rider like Martin.

“The bike lanes give you more of a buffer zone,” he said. “What generally causes a problem

with bikes on the road is the impatience of a driver, especially on hills. Bike lanes over hills are a wonderful thing.”

The best part about being in the bike shop all day is seeing the wide variety of people who come through the door – from the FedEx man delivering packages to a college student needing a tune-up for the new semester.

“Law enforcement isn’t all about writing tickets and working wrecks and arresting people,” Martin said. “You have interaction with people, and of course here at the bike shop, it’s a daily interaction with people, and the plus side is that nobody’s mad when they come to the bike shop. They’re happy to see you. So I still get to be around people and continue to do what I love.”

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events Ole Miss Cookbook Release Party View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

The University of Mississippi Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management released Are You Ready? 100 years of Family, Friends and Food on Sept. 6 at Off Square Books. The cookbook is part of the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s centennial celebration.

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events American Idol Auditions View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

More than 1,000 people lined up outside the Oxford Conference Center on Aug. 19 to audition for the television show American Idol. Dontay Jeffries of New Albany and Adonis Certion of Oxford advanced to the second round.

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A childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health fair was held Aug. 24 at the Oxford Conference Center and included developmental screenings and nutrition information. The event was sponsored by Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi and L.O.U. Excel By 5.

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The Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation held its annual First to Know Breakfast Sept. 5 at the Oxford Conference Center. Jerry Martin, YMCA chief operating officer, reported on the new YMCA.

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Oxford High School and the Oxford Charger Athletic Booster Club hosted Meet the Chargers Aug. 19 at the OHS football stadium. The event kicked off the beginning of fall sports, and coaches spoke about the season ahead.

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Oxford Sessions held a concert Aug. 28 on the Oxford University Club rooftop to celebrate its first anniversary. Oxford Sessions records local, independent musicians performing unplugged. Visit oxfordsessions.com for more information.

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The pumpkin patch at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church does more than provide a pretty place for fall pictures – it also raises money for the church and brings the community together.

by Seph Anderson Nothing signals fall in Oxford quite like the cheery pumpkin patch on the grounds of the historic St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. In a town defined by tradition, the pumpkin patch has become an annual event that residents look forward to each October.

Kyle Bennett, a former St. Peter’s reverend and assistant rector, organized the first pumpkin patch in 1994 as a fundraiser.

“All proceeds from the pumpkin patch benefit the youth ministries of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church,” said current Rector Taylor Moore. “The youth have chosen to give some of the money away in the past few years to help with scholarships at Camp Bratton-Green, the diocesan camp.”

It takes countless hours of volunteer labor to keep things running smoothly.

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Clockwise from left, sisters Chloe and Griffen Anderson play in the St. Peter’s pumpkin patch. Students in a University of Mississippi freshman year experience class help set up the pumpkin patch. Pictured (left to right) are: Abigail Reidy, Benton Garrison, Rebekah Patterson, Emily Warner, Jordan Cockayne, Chloe Anderson and Fran Jennings. Volunteers form long assembly lines to unload pumpkins one by one off the delivery truck.

pumpkins, which arrive from across the country.

“They’re ordered from North Carolinabased Pumpkin Patch USA,” Moore said.

“The pumpkins are grown and delivered from various regions of the United States, but most of St. Peter’s pumpkins have come from New Mexico in recent years.”

When the gourds are ripe, an 18-wheeler stocked full of hundreds of pumpkins of all sizes pulls up to the church door.

On a single Sunday afternoon, parishioners and other volunteers line up side by side to pass every single pumpkin from truck to ground.

Last year, University of Mississippi student Rebekah Patterson and some of her classmates helped unload the large delivery.

“It was my first real community experience after coming to college,” Patterson said.

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“Everyone was helping, from small children to college kids to older adults. Being a part of an activity where everyone in the town could be involved was nice.”

Once the stage is set, usually on Sept.

30, the community is welcome to visit either until the final pumpkin is purchased or until Oct. 31. Volunteers man the patch throughout the month, helping answer questions, collect money and even take some pictures for visitors’ scrapbooks.

“I’ve been here for a short time, but I think my favorite part of the pumpkin patch is seeing how the community turns out,” Associate Rector Ann Whitaker said. “So many people bring their children for a photo shoot. Last fall, my husband and I worked in the pumpkin patch on my deceased mother’s birthday. She was an

avid supporter of a pumpkin patch in her own parish.”

Volunteer coordinator Penny Sisson agreed with Whitaker and said she sees the picturetaking tradition and the patch itself as much bigger than Oxford.

“I love watching the international community take pictures of their children that will be sent home to another country,” she said. “One of my friends from South America posted a picture of the pumpkin patch on Facebook so that her friends and family there could see an example of the community in which she lives. I am delighted to know that the pumpkin patch is a symbol of the best in our community.”

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...But Not Forgotten Many businesses in Oxford have come and gone, but three iconic establishments – Smitty’s, Avent’s Dairy and Mistilis Restaurant – still hold a special place in the hearts of many.

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he heart of Oxford commerce has changed much in the recent past. Hardware stores, drug stores and grocery stores on the Square

have closed and made way for restaurants, bars and high-end boutiques. Three family-owned businesses, Mistilis Restaurant, Avent’s Dairy

and Smitty’s were Oxford institutions, and even though they are gone, fond memories remain for many longtime Oxford residents.

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“We had Mistilis Restaurant, a wonderful place downtown that was where the Oxford Eagle is now, and we served all kinds of food, from Maine lobster to fried eggs.” – Angelo Mistilis

Left, Angelo Mistilis in 1972 at Mistilis Restaurant. Top right, Angelo and Jo Dale Mistilis. Bottom right, the Mistilis Restaurant menu from circa 1970.

The Mistilis name has been associated with favorite Oxford restaurants since 1926, when Angelo’s father, Tom Mistilis, opened The Greeks.

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Mistilis Restaurant When Tom Mistilis left his home country of Greece and opened The Greeks restaurant in 1926 on the University of Mississippi campus, he probably didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize it was the beginning of a family business and an Oxford tradition.

There has been a Mistilis in the food business ever since that year.

In 1947, Tom moved the restaurant from campus to the Square. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had Mistilis Restaurant, a wonderful place downtown that was where the Oxford Eagle is now, and we served all kinds of food, from Maine lobster to fried eggs,â&#x20AC;? said Angelo Mistilis, Tomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I came into the picture as a young man. I used to go with him to the restaurant uptown in the early morning and we would make cake donuts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we sold them for a nickel apiece â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and desserts. Then in 1962, my brother and I moved locations on College Hill Road and opened a drive-in. He left the business in 1965 and I had it until 1989.â&#x20AC;?

The specialty at Mistilis Restaurant was hamburger steak cooked on the grill and served with thick-cut French fries. Locals knew to order it â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the way,â&#x20AC;? which meant smothered in cheese and grilled onions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We used fresh ground beef every day,â&#x20AC;?

Angelo said.

Angeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, Jo Dale, helped run the business and has fond memories of it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The restaurant really was like being in a living room,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Old friends and new friends coming in every day. Archie [Manning] was a good customer. And we had lots of senators, and once, the governor. There really was a lot of joy.â&#x20AC;?

Although Angelo may not have always had a brick-and-mortar restaurant, he has stayed in the food business one way or another. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I worked for a company out of Baton Rouge and I was the food service director,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I ran the commissary at the jail here for 11 years.â&#x20AC;?

He has taken a break in recent years, but Jo Dale said she thinks that could change soon.

The couple hopes to open a new restaurant or cafĂŠ again in the near future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He really is obessed with food,â&#x20AC;? Jo Dale said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He really misses the food business. He misses the atmosphere. He loves people and loves being with them.â&#x20AC;?

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Top left, Avent’s Dairy owners Louise Avent and Thomas Webb Avent with dairy manager L.H. Johnson. The new location for the dairy was under construction on North Lamar Boulevard in 1964. Above and top right, ads for Avent’s Dairy ran in the back of Oxford High School yearbooks.

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Avent’s Dairy In 1920, T.E. Avent started Avent’s Dairy with just one cow. Eventually, his herd grew to 300 and the dairy employed 65 people, making it one of the largest employers in town.

“Back at that time there was a need for a local dairy because contaminated milk was a very big concern and there had been a great threat with typhoid and the like,” said Murray Avent, T.E. Avent’s grandson. “And that’s one of the reasons my grandfather opened the dairy.”

Although most people remember Avent’s Dairy as being located at 1420 N. Lamar (where the DeVoe-Carr accounting office is now), originally it was on the Square, where the mixed-use development Vieux Carre is today.

“My grandfather formed a partnership with my father in 1946, but probably the true boss of the place was my mother,” Murray said.

“She would take my brother and me out there when we were kids, just 8 or 9 years old, and we would have to at least empty the trash cans or do some kind of work out there.”

But there were plenty of perks, too. Murray recalled getting samples of freshly made ice cream from the freezer room.

“When you are a kid, especially when the dairy moved out to the second location, it was a wonderful place to be and ride the conveyor belts that moved the crates along, and go back and play hide and seek in the storeroom where all the things were kept,” Murray said. “And it was kind of fun to see milk brought in from the big vat before it was processed, homogenized and pasteurized and all that.”

Besides seeing the production process, Murray enjoyed visiting with the employees.

“We had so many different, diverse characters out there and I enjoyed hearing all of their stories, and getting to know them, so that was the best part of all of it for me,” he said.

At its production peak, the dairy served much of northwest Mississippi, including Southaven and Benton, Tate, Panola, Marshall, Pontotoc and Yalobusha counties. In 1990, Luvell Dairy bought Avent’s, and then closed the Oxford location a few years later.

“The dairy was a wonderful, vibrant part of the community and part of the Oxford economy as a major employer for a number of years,” Murray said. “I think it served the community well, and I’m proud of that fact.”

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“My grandmother Louise Smith bought Smitty’s in about 1974. She named it Smitty’s because she had married James Smith a year before.” – Connie Russell

Smitty’s Restaurant, located where La Paz is today, opened in 1974 and closed in 2001. Louise and James Smith (pictured bottom right) owned the restaurant, and were known for their hospitality and taking good care of their customers, even those who couldn’t pay.

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Smitty’s Restaurant Smitty’s on the Square was a humble breakfast spot. The Smith family served eggs, (spelled aigs on the menu), and ham and biscuits with homemade preserves. When author Stephen King was in town for the Oxford Conference for the Book in 1998, he stopped in for grits with red eye gravy and claimed it was his welcome to the South.

Connie Russell, granddaughter of the owner, spent many mornings at Smitty’s with her two brothers while they were growing up, and said it was like her second home.

“There are so many memories that I have from there, it is hard to put it all down,” Russell said. “My grandmother Louise Smith bought Smitty’s in about 1974. She named it Smitty’s because she had married James Smith a year before. She and my grandfather – her first husband Ralph Bratton – had owned two cafés in Oxford prior to his death in 1968.”

The Smiths closed the restaurant in 2001, but even though it’s been gone a dozen years, the memories live on.

Russell said she believes people loved Smitty’s because of the hospitality.

“I still have people tell me that my grandmother would bring them a bowl of preserves or do something else special,” Russell said. “I just smile because she did that for everyone. She truly thought all her customers were special.”

Smitty’s also became a popular place for residents to gather.

“There were a lot of regulars that came in, Guy Turnbow, Mr. and Mrs. Rothchild, Nina Goolsby, and the coffee club to name a few,” Russell said.

Smith loved Christmastime and always put up a tree in the restaurant.

“We would go to Memphis and she would buy gifts for all her employees and place them under the tree,” Russell said.

She also recalled that her grandmother quietly helped those in need.

“I can remember one day in particular a man came in and ate, and he didn’t pay,” Russell said. “I went and told her that he just got up and left without paying. She said she told him he could because he didn’t have much money and he was hungry. After that I noticed there were lots of people she did that for.”

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events Dr. Spencer Retirement Party View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

A retirement party for Dr. William “Buddy” Spencer was held Aug. 23 at Bouré restaurant. Spencer has been a physician in Oxford for more than 30 years and most recently practiced medicine at North Mississippi Family Medicine.

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Watch parties for the first University of Mississippi football game, which was televised, were held at the Lyric Theatre, at the Library Sports Bar and in the Grove Aug. 29. The Rebels defeated the Vanderbilt University Commodores 39-35.

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Oxford youth Kaitlyn Kennedy was crowned Miss Junior Teen Princess America at the National Princess America Pageant in Orlando, Fla., on July 27.

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Paving the Way Bicycling enthusiasts are gearing up for better riding conditions now that Oxfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bike path project is complete and a new 44-mile riding trail is open. by rebecca lauck cleary photographed by Joe Worthem

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The last phase of Oxfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bike path project was finished at the end of the summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of the new paths are open to the public,â&#x20AC;? said Reanna Mayoral, assistant city engineer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This project added over 11 miles of new bike lanes on some of the most traveled routes in Oxford, including North and South Lamar, Old Taylor Road and Highway 314 or College Hill Road. Other routes, such as Bramlett and South 18th Street were striped to indicate that cars are to share the road with cyclists. A new sidewalk was constructed on Williams/Douglas to improve pedestrian access as well.â&#x20AC;?

For those who enjoy longer rides, Tanglefoot Trail, the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first multi-county recreational rails-to-trails conversion, opened last month.

Tanglefoot is 44.56 miles of abandoned railroad converted to recreational use from New Albany to Houston, Miss., and spans the counties of Union, Pontotoc and Chickasaw.

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“Research suggests that communities with alternative means of transportation, such as walking, biking or transit, have higher property values as well as other benefits, including improving public health and fitness, and creating and maintaining vibrant neighborhoods.” – Reanna Mayoral

Kudzu grows along Tanglefoot Trail. The trail, along with more than 11 miles of new bike paths recently completed along some of Oxford’s major thoroughfares, means more opportunities for residents to enjoy the outdoors and cooler fall temperatures.

OXFORD’S NEW BIKE PATHS The City of Oxford has been working to become a better place for cyclists for many years.

“Research suggests that communities with alternative means of transportation, such as walking, biking or transit, have higher property values as well as other benefits, including improving public health and fitness, and creating and maintaining vibrant neighborhoods,” Mayoral said.

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The Pathways Commission, which aims “to diversify and increase transportation and recreation opportunities in Oxford by creating an interconnected grid of bike lanes, pedestrian sidewalks and multiuse paths,” helped the city become the first in the state to be designated as a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists in 2008 and be named a Bronze Level Bicycle Community for 20122016.

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member, said the core of Oxford is geographically close together, which makes it easy to get from the Square to campus and many of the neighborhoods.

“I’ve always cycled,” Kellum said. “It makes sense to me, particularly when you live in a place where everything is so close.”

Even so, before the new bike paths were built, the practical implications for cyclists were less friendly. Scant shoulders and narrow streets meant difficulty and even danger.

But a $2.5 million Transportation Enhancement grant from the Federal Highway Administration helped change that.

“Oxford is a college town, a retirement town, and a great place to raise a family. So, we have a lot of people out there who are riding bikes or walking,” Mayoral said. “The bike paths are going to improve the safety for bicyclists, pedestrians and motor vehicles alike.”

The enhancement grant was designated for two separate projects. The first project was for the BMX track, walking trail and parking lots at FNC Park. The second project funded from the grant is the second phase of the bike paths project.

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“His goal was to go north to connect Chicago and the Great Lakes to the Gulf, and it did. It ended up meeting with another track from the Gulf Coast and being the last line in this area to operate the full length of Mississippi,” said Betsey Hamilton, who serves as chairwoman of the GM&O Rails-to-Trails Recreation District of North Mississippi, which is named after the old railroad company.

“And one of his original engines used in the line construction was named Tanglefoot.”

When the line was abandoned around 2003, community members in the three counties banded together to preserve the history of the line and save the tracks for future use if the railroad were ever needed again. The GM&O Rails-to-Trails Recreation District of North Mississippi was soon granted 80 percent of the funding needed to transform the line by the national Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.

Over the past year and a half, construction crews have used the $10 million raised to pave the trail and build bathroom, water fountainand picnic-table-fitted rest areas known as whistle stops in Ingomar, Ecru, Algoma and New Houlka, where the old train depots were once located.

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I Am Oxford Ilean McGlarn Interviewed by Rebecca Lauck Cleary Photographed by Joe Worthem Ilean McGlarn has been the caretaker and cook at the 5 Twelve Bed and Breakfast (formerly the Oliver-Britt House) since 1983.

Q: How did you start working at the 5 Twelve?

A: I worked at the North Mississippi Regional Center, and I was looking for extra money for Christmas. So I ran over here on my lunch break to talk to the sisters who owned it, Glenn Oliver and Mary Ann Britt, about working part-time on the weekends and private parties.

I got the job that same day, and I was planning on working until Christmas. I started that Saturday, and from then on, I’ve been here.

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