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Volume 2 | Issue 57
Thursday, November 5, 2015
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Jim Dees: Home in the hills of the heart.
Jay Hughes hugs his wife, Cris, and daughter, Patricia, after he was declared the winner of the House District 12 election.
Hughes beats Mayo; Initiative 42 defeated BY ERROL CASTENS AND JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN
In a night of state and local elections that proved a nail biter in several contests, Oxford alderman J.P. “Jay” Hughes (D) defeated incumbent District 12 Rep. Brad Mayo (R) by a in the race for
state House of Representatives District 12. Hughes, a supporter of Initiative 42, summarized his campaign with the slogan, “It all begins with education.” “I think this was an excellent and honorable campaign where we both kept it clean and about the issues and gave voters the right to choose be-
tween two different styles and two different philosophies,” Hughes said. “I continue to think (Mayo) is a first-class guy. I’ve wanted a chance to do something different down there. … It’s a thousand mile journey we have to go to get out of 50th place. I’m just honored that they’ve chosen me to be the representative to
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take the first step on that journey.” Mayo congratulated Hughes on his victory and added, “It’s been an absolute honor to serve my hometown in the Mississippi Legislature.” Sen. Gray Tollison (R), an Oxford attorney, survived a TURN TO ELECTIONS, 6
The Rebels are expecting a physical battle when the Razorbacks come to Oxford.
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Some of Lafayette County’s E-911 dispatchers will be attending training in the next few weeks – courses designed both to sharpen their skills and to help them survive the job. The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors approved on Monday the courses, which will be held in Tupelo, Tunica, Aberdeen and Grenada. Becky Barnett, supervisor of the Lafayette County E911 office for 15 years, said the training is both required and welcomed. “Dispatchers are required to take continuing training to keep their certification, and it helps us do our job better,” she said. “You never know when the phone rings what problem is going to be on the other end.” One of the day-long courses will focus on handling calls from people threatening suicide. “We don’t get a whole lot of those calls, but we do get some,” Barnett said. “It happens more around the holidays than any other time. “The training will help dispatchers talk them down (from their intentions) until we can get some help out to them. Yes, we’ve talked people down,” she said, adding that some have gone through with their threats. A second course is in Progress. Crimes
Broader than the name implies, Barnett expects the class to cover a variety of emergency situations. “That could be anything from a woman giving birth to a hostage situation,” she said. One focus she expects is helping those in threatening situations stay safe until help arrives. Legal Issues in 911 will make dispatchers aware of their responsibilities and liabilities from the perspective of the law. “There are things we’re required to do by law in this job,” Barnett said. One example, she said, is responding appropriately to every caller – never hanging up on a caller or letting a call go without appropriate response. “It’ll be explaining the responsibilities and liabilities that the dispatchers have,” she added. One training module that every dispatcher hopes he or she will never use is Officer Down. Aimed at helping responders give information that enables help to get to the downed officer without further endangering either the officer or other responders, it will also teach dispatchers how to emotionally detach from a situation that may very well involve the wounding or killing of personal friends. “I’m thinking that we’ll get out of it how to remain calm until the situation is secured,” Barnett said. The final class Lafayette County dispatchers are
scheduled to experience this fall is aimed at their own survival in a profession where turnover can be high. “Stress management is a really good class,” she said. “It helps you learn to deal with the emotional swings of this job.” Barnett said a shift can go from quiet to heartpounding, adrenalinepumping action in an instant – and back to an eerie calm again. “The hardest part is never knowing what you’re going to get when you answer a call,” she said. Barnett said the tense moments for which her nine full-time and four part-time dispatchers are trained are expected from time to time, but an ongoing frustration for the staff is calls for non-emergency numbers. “The biggest thing is dialing 911 just to ask for information,” she said. “911 is for life-and-death situations, not for questions.” Barnett said Oxford Police Department occasionally charges people with abuse of the 911 system, but she has tried to limit her response to education and warnings. “I have filed charges once. I hate to do that,” Barnett said. “That case was someone who was drunk, who called wanting us to get them a taxi – calling over and over again.” errol.castens@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenec
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LHS AFJROTC wins regional title Lafayette High School’s Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) won the Mississippi State All-Service Northern Regional drill meet last week, making the program eligible for state championship competition. Competing against Junior ROTC programs from across the northern tier of the state, the Commodore Corps was named Overall Northern Region Grand Champions and Overall Northern Region Regulation Drill Champions, along with winning 1st Place Armed Exhibition Drill, 1st Place Color Guard, 1st Place Unarmed Regulation Drill, 2nd
Place Unarmed Exhibition Drill and 2nd Place Armed Regulation Drill. The team will compete against the top three teams from each of the state’s six regions at the Mississippi All-Service State Championship Drill Meet at Keesler Air Force Base on Nov. 14. Lafayette’s AFJROTC program has 102 participating students. “Jr. ROTC is a citizenship program. It’s not a recruiting program,” said Master Sergeant Anthony Fleming, one of Lafayette’s ROTC instructors.
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LHS AFJROTC to host Veterans Day program The Lafayette County High School Air Force Junior ROTC, along with the LCHS Band and Choir, will host the 13th Annual Veterans Day program in the Lafayette High gym at 9 a.m. on Nov. 11. Any Veteran is invited to attend and the event is open to the public.
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University-Oxford Airport a busy place on football weekends BY JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN
The University-Oxford Airport (KUOX) is generally a low-key place most days of the year. Flights come and go with some regularity, but only a few days a year is there significant traffic. Certainly among the busiest days involve the seven home Ole Miss football game weekends in Oxford. The Arkansas Razorbacks are in town this weekend, and there will be a large number of airplanes and jets that arrive bringing fans of both schools in for the festivities. But the biggest weekend so far during the football season of 2015 was when Ole Miss hosted Texas A&M two weekends ago. The airport was busy from Thursday until Sunday night. “We started having high volume traffic come in Thursday,” said Tasha Stewart of Oxford, office manager at the airport. “Our ramp space is first come, first served. At this time we do not have a reservation slot system like some airports do. So it’s basically get here first to get a spot.” While all football weekends are busy, anytime one of the large universities and fan bases are involved in a game weekend in Oxford like Texas in 2012, Texas A&M three of the past four seasons, Alabama last season, or LSU later this month – it’s an entirely different situation. “Friday at 1 o’clock of the A&M game, we had filled up all our concrete. We had no
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On Ole Miss home football weekends, University-Oxford Airport (Clegg Field) becomes the busiest airport in Mississippi more room,” Stewart said. “So at 1 o’clock on Friday, we started parking them on the grass. Or they could drop their people off after that and not park here.” One person at University-Oxford Airport who directs airplane and jet parking is Julie March of Collierville, Tenn. She’s a line tech at the airport, and she marshals in the aircrafts, fuels them, deals with baggage, a number things surrounding the arrival and departure of a plane. “We park the first sets of jets facing south,” March said. “Then we start parking them facing north.” “I tried to do a count Saturday before the (A&M)
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30 planes in line trying to leave.” “There was about a two, two and a half hour wait,” March said. But given things that can happen, the wait can be even longer. Oxford is called “uncontrolled airspace,” according to Stewart. There are traffic controllers in the Oxford tower at the airport on Southeastern Conference gamedays helping move things along. But normally the Memphis control personnel are in charge of Oxford airspace. “There was one guy that sat there No. 1 in line for two hours, but he had been in line for over four hours to leave,” Stewart said.
“The weather had some icing conditions, and Memphis was only letting one plane go every 20 minutes. The visual situation was a problem that day.” And there was a fuel situation that was out of their control. A truck to bring more fuel was delayed and at one point the airport was out of jet fuel until the truck arrived. “Never happened before, and we had a plan in place to prevent it from happening,” Stewart said. “We were supposed to get a 5,000 gallon truck delivered earlier that week to have 5,000 extra gallons. The truck did not get here until Sunday after we had run out of fuel. They were
having some issues shipping it.” Finally it arrived and the airport was eventually cleared of its heavy traffic. And this week they get ready for another SEC football weekend. “We try to enjoy these slower days, because we know we’re going to get busy starting on Thursday for those weekends,” Stewart said. March drives down from Collierville several days a week for work. Her daughter, Katelyn, is a sophomore at Ole Miss, so she has a place to stay if she wants to following her 12hour shift. “That makes it nice,” March said. When space in Oxford runs out to park planes, those planes usually head to Memphis or Tupelo. Some people own their own planes. Some people charter planes for their use. Whatever the situation, when they’re headed for Oxford, things get busier. And there have been a few funny stories along the way, both from those who travel in and out and those who live in Oxford and Lafayette County. There is some noise for hours and hours associated with the airport traffic on these busy weekends. “We actually got a call once,” said March, “ and he said, ‘Is there a football game this weekend?’ We told him there was not. He said, ‘Good, I need to get some sleep.’ So we laughed about that one.” jeff.roberson@journalinc.com Twitter: @citizen_jeff
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OBITUARIES WILLIAM OLIVER LAWRENCE
Court term yields drug, aggravated assault pleas
WALTER COBB
BY ERROL CASTENS
Walter Cobb 78, passed away on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015 at his home. Services were held on Wednesday, at Serenity-Simmons Funeral Home Chapel in New Albany with Bro. Larry Bain delivering the eulogy. Burial followed at Mt. Gillian- Dunlap Cemetery in New Albany.
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William “Bill” Oliver Lawrence, 82, passed away Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 at his home in Waterford. Visitation was held Wednesday, Nov. 4 at Coleman Funeral Home. A memorial service followed in the funeral home chapel. Memorials may be made to Alzheimer’s Association, Mississippi Chapter, 196 Charmant RUTHIE WOODARD Dr., Suite 4, Ridgeland, MS BATESVILLE – Ruthie L. 39157 or Gentiva Hospice, 104 Woodard, 70, died Saturday, Skyline Drive, Oxford, MS Oct. 31, 2015, at Baptist 38655. Memorial Hospital in Oxford. Services will be Saturday, Nov. 7, at Independent Full gospel at TAUSHA LYNETTE 1 p.m. CAMPBELL Burial will follow at Chapel Tausha Lynette Campbell passed away on Saturday, Oct. Hill Cemetery. Belle Memorial Funeral Home of Bruce is in 31, 2015 at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis. Fu- charge of arrangements. Visitation will be from noon neral services are scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 7 at St. John to 6 p.m. Friday at the funeral M.B. Church, located at County home. Road 103, in Oxford at noon. Viewing will be held one hour DAVID BEALL JR. prior to services. There will NEW ALBANY – David Madialso be a viewing on Friday at son Beall Jr., 60, died Sunday, the funeral home from noon to Nov. 1, 2015. Arrangements 6 p.m. Rev. Harold E. Johnson are incomplete and will be anwill officiate. Burial will be in nounced later by Beasley FuSt. John’s cemetery. neral Home in New Albany.
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Among the highlights of October’s Lafayette County Circuit Court term, a former University of Mississippi football player was acquitted of residential burglary, and an unrelated burglary defendant should have hushed while he was ahead. Philander Moore, who played wide receiver at Ole Miss during the 2011 and 2012 seasons, insisted on a jury trial in facing a charge of residential burglary. The alleged incident was named in his indictment as having occurred March 16, 2013. After hearing evidence and testimony, the jury returned a “Not Guilty” verdict in less than an hour. John Troy II, 27, of 329 County Road 403, Oxford, pled guilty to two counts of residential burglary in connection with incidents on Sept. 23, 2015. After originally being sentenced to 25 years concurrent (17 suspended, 8 to serve), Troy asked for a reconsideration of his sentence.
After aggravating factors were alleged, including a contraband allegation at the Lafayette County Detention Center, Judge John Kelly Luther accommodated Troy’s request for reconsideration, giving him the same 25 years, but suspending only 10 and leaving 15 to serve, with 30 months of probation. Luther also added a promise, should Troy fail to show up for his surrender to Mississippi Department of Corrections or should he get re-arrested before his surrender date, Troy would be sentenced to the entire 25 years, with none suspended. More than a dozen defendants entered guilty pleas: • Jessie Owens, 32, of 66 County Road 405, Oxford, pled guilty to robbery with a deadly weapon in connection with an April 17, 2015, incident. He was sentenced to 30 years (20 suspended, 10 to serve) and 5 years of post-release supervision. • Shane Moss, 27, of 114 Gora Circle, Water Valley, pled guilty to aggravated assault-domestic violence in connection with a May 5, 2015, incident. Having prior convictions of aggravated assault and felon in possession of a firearm, he was sentenced to 10 years (7 suspended, 3 to serve) and 5 years of post-release supervision. • Curtis Lee Manning, 49, of 690 Highway 7 North, Abbeville, pled guilty to possession of a controlled substance in connection with an April 2, 2014, incident. Having a prior conviction for thirddegree assault, he was sentenced to 18 months (18 months suspended, 0 to serve) and 18 months of probation. • Victoria Ivy, 29, of 2307 Kennedy Drive, Oxford, pled guilty to aggravated assault-domestic violence in connection with a Feb.10, 2015, incident. She was sentenced
to 10 years (10 suspended, 0 to serve) and 5 years of probation. • Jeffrey Lawson Factor, 21, of 156 Cheek Road, Nashville, Tennessee, pled guilty to 11 counts of sale of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, and conspiracy in connection with incidents on Feb. 28, 2014; March 5, 2014; and April 13, 2015. He was sentenced to 15 years (5 suspended, 10 to serve), concurrent, and 5 years of post-release supervision. • Shawntez Draper, 24, of Lacbleu Avenue, Apt. A, Pass Christian, pled guilty to robbery in connection with an Aug. 21, 2015, incident. Having a prior conviction of burglary of a dwelling, he was sentenced to 8 years (5 suspended, 3 to serve) and 5 years of post-release supervision. • Torrick Demon Bush, 31, of 2619 West Jackson Avenue, pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance in connection with a July 12, 2013, incident. Two other charges were retired to the files and will be dismissed upon successful completion of a sentence of 3 years (3 suspended, 0 to serve) and 3 years of probation. • Demetrius Brown, 23, of 153C County Road 108,Abbeville, pled guilty to sale of a controlled substance related to a March 6, 2015, incident. He was sentenced to 3 years (0 suspended, 3 to serve). In a separate indictment, he also pled guilty to residential burglary in connection with Sept. 28, 2013, incident and was sentenced to 25 years (15 suspended, 10 to serve), concurrent with the other sentence. • Paul M. Putman, 38, of 22752 Highway 35 North, Batesville, pled guilty to possession of a controlled substance in connection with a Feb. 27, 2014, incident. He was sentenced to 3 years (3 suspended, 0 to serve) and 5 years of probation.
• Michael Putman (same date of birth, address and Social Security number as Paul M. Putman, above), pled guilty to felony false pretense in connection with a June 10, 2014, incident in which fraudulent checks were used to purchase merchandise and immediately seek a cash refund. He was sentenced to 5 years (5 suspended, 0 to serve), with 5 years of probation. • Kyle Luiken, 19, of 4660 Reunion Drive, Plano, Texas, pled guilty to possession of a controlled substance in connection with a Dec. 5, 2014 incident. He was sentenced to 10 years (10 suspended, 0 to serve) and 3 years of probation. • Brianna Lyons AKA Duke, 29, of Elliott Drive, Abbeville, pled guilty to commercial burglary in connection with a Dec. 11, 2013, incident. She was sentenced to 7 years (7 suspended, 0 to serve) and 3 years of probation. • Jerry Christopher White, 44, of 16 County Road 290, Oxford, pled guilty to aggravated assaultdomestic violence in a March 28, 2015, incident in which the indictment said he threw hot grease on his girlfriend. Having prior felony convictions for receiving stolen property and possession of a controlled substance, he was sentenced to 10 years (6 suspended, 4 to serve) and 5 years of postrelease supervision. • Diane Evans, 51, of 173 County Road 343, Taylor, pled guilty to felony fleeing in connection with a June 12, 2015, incident in which her indictment indicated she drove more than 8 miles after being given blue lights and siren, reaching speeds of 90 miles per hour in residential areas. She was sentenced to 2 years (2 suspended, 0 to serve) and 2 years of probation. The next regular term for Lafayette County Circuit Court will begin Jan. 4, 2016.
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In Oxford, even final resting places are going condo. The Board of Aldermen on Tuesday adopted a new ordinance setting rules for its 815-niche columbarium, where purchasers may have their ashes placed permanently after cremation. The columbarium will feature heavy galvanized-steel structural parts, masonry façades and bronze niche covers. It is currently under construction in the municipal cemetery, with completion expected before year’s end. Each niche will be a recessed compartment measuring 12 inches high by 12 inches wide by 18 inches deep. Cremains will have to be in rigid, durable containers, and any other articles placed in the columbarium will have to be approved by the city. The ordinance, which will go into effect Dec. 3, allows the Board of Aldermen to set or change prices without going through the full ordinance process. Initial sales of niches will be conducted at City Hall during
normal business hours. Any subsequent transfers of ownership will be handled by private attorneys, not city personnel, and proof of ownership will have be presented before a niche will be opened for interment. While the columbarium mirrors the increasing popularity of cremation over traditional burial, it also helps extend the useful life of Oxford’s municipal cemetery, which has only a few hundred gravesites left for sale.
WOODLAWN PARK, OLD ARMORY PAVILION Aldermen also voted Tuesday to contract with A2H Engineers Architects Planners to oversee and solicit bids for the construction of Phase 1 of Woodlawn Park. Situated on a wedge-shaped 18-acre tract between Toby Tubby Creek and the planned West Oxford Loop Extended, the $1.7 million project will incorporate a walking/biking track 10 feet wide by 2,200 feet long, a botanical interpretative areas and a timber pavilion after all six phases are complete. The first phase, whose cost is
estimated at about $265,000 (including A2H’s fee), will include the walking trail, an asphalt entrance and six parking spaces (including one built to ADA specifications), 22 trees and grassing of disturbed surfaces. In other business, aldermen held a first reading of an ordinance amendment to allow serving of alcoholic beverages at the Old Armory Pavilion. If adopted, the provision would add the newly completed pavilion to a list of other city-owned buildings – the Oxford Conference Center, Visitors Center, Cedar Oaks, the L.Q.C. Lamar House, and the Powerhouse Arts Complex – where alcohol may be served for social events. (In addition, alcohol is allowed at the Police Department, but only for purposes of officer field sobriety training.) One difference will be that the Pavilion will enforce a 10 p.m. cutoff time for alcohol service Monday through Saturday, since it is an open-air venue within earshot of residences, instead of the midnight or 1 a.m. cutoff time for indoor venues. errol.castens@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenec
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challenge from Cristen Hemmins (D), an advertising executive, for the District 9 seat in Tuesday’s general election. On the local front, attorney Kevin Frye (D) bested retired educator/administrator Rickey Babb (R) and attorney Brian Hyneman (Independent) for District 1 Supervisor, and insurance adjuster David Rikard (R) edged out Head Start employee Tim Gordon (D) and investment broker Zach Carey (Independent) for District 3 Supervisor. “In January I started a campaign based on preparing the county for the future,” said Frye, who has spoken in favor of comprehensive planning for the county. “I’m excited the voters of District 1 heard my message and went out and voted for me. I hope in January I will be able to begin working with the other members of the board to prepare the county for the future.” Rikard said of his literally 11th-hour victory that came with just a 12-vote margin, “I’m ecstatic. I want to thank God for giving me this opportunity to serve Him through a dif-
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Kathy Shoalmire waves at cars as they pass by the polling station at the Oxford Conference Center on Tuesday. ferent way.” He called Gordon “a great man,” adding he felt “blessed to be with four other guys that want the best for Lafayette County, to know that we can work together in this pivotal time in the history of Lafayette County.” In other county races being contested in the general election, longtime Justice Court clerk Carolyn Pettis Bell (D), edged out Jeffery M. Johnson (R), a UM instructor in criminal justice, for Justice Court Judge Northern. District 5 Supervisor Mike Roberts (D) turned back a challenge from Johnny Mike Fortner (R). “I am overwhelmed. I’m so grateful,” Bell said. “I am thankful to God first for allowing me to be in OF
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this position to run for justice court judge. I’m thankful to the citizens of the northern district, especially my family. I want to tell everyone I am going to give it my best.” Redistricting gave Lafayette County all or part of six House districts. In the other contested races, incumbent Steve Massengill (R), a trucking manager from Hickory Flat, beat Oxford attorney Justin Cluck (D) in District 13, and incumbent Nolan Mettetal (R), a retired pharmacist from Sardis, outpaced Ken Daugherty (I), a retired educator from Batesville, to keep the House District 10 seat. Only one statewide election was ever in serious question: Initiative 42,
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which would have amended the Mississippi Constitution to compel the state to provide “an adequate and efficient system of free public schools” with enforcement by Hinds County chancery court, was defeated by a 51- to 49-percent margin. Statewide and regional incumbents were returned to office handily, including Gov. Phil Bryant (R), Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (R), Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann (R), Attorney General Jim Hood (D), State Auditor Stacey Pickering (R), State Treasurer Lynn Fitch (R), Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Cindy HydeSmith (R), Public Service Commissioner Northern District Brandon Presley (D) and Transportation Commissioner Northern District Mike Tagert (R). Local incumbents elected without opposition included the following: • District Attorney Ben Creekmore (D) • Circuit Clerk Baretta Mosley (D) • County Prosecuting Attorney B. J. “Jay” Chain
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III (D) • District 2 Supervisor Jeff Busby (D) • District 4 Supervisor Chad McLarty (D) • Justice Court Judge Southern Johnny Wayne McLarty (D) • Constable Central Jody Mayfield (D) • Constable Southern Jack Theobald II (D) • Election Commissioner District 2 Max Hipp (Independent) • Election Commissioner District 3 Lola Pearson (Independent) • Constable Northern Greg (Spankey) Pettis (D) was the only non-incumbent elected without opposition. Incumbents re-elected during primaries or runoffs included the following: • Chancery Clerk Sherry Wall (D) • Coroner O.E. “Rocky” Kennedy (D) • Sheriff F. D. “Buddy” East (D) • Tax Assessor-Collector Sylvia Baker (D) • Justice Court Judge Central Mickey Avent (D) With all but five affidavit ballots counted, vote
totals in Lafayette County contested races were as follows: • Senate District 09: Gray Tollison (R) 6,461 Cristen Hemmins (D) 4,590 • State House District 10 Nolan Mettetal (R) 6,113 Ken Daugherty (I) 1,934 • State House District 12 J.P. “Jay” Hughes Jr. (D) 2,439 Brad Mayo (R) 1,983 • State House District 13 Steve Massengill (R) 4,408 Justin Cluck (D) 3,095 • Supervisor District 1 Kevin W. Frye (D) 1,007 Rickey Babb (R) 835 Brian Hyneman 425 • Supervisor District 3 David Rikard (R) 1,453 Dale Timothy Gordon (D) 1,441 Zach Carey (I) 60 • Supervisor District 5 Mike Roberts (D) 770 Johnny Mike Fortner (R) 459 errol.castens@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenec jeff.roberson@journalinc.com Twitter: @citizen_jeff
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Newcomers and Retiree Attraction Program educational session at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Oxford Chamber of Commerce. King will describe the component steps of the process and some of the factors that impact the process and outcomes. Seating is limited, so to reserve a seat please email Joe Talley at talleyj1946@gmail.com as soon as possible.
With hunting season underway, the National Forests in Mississippi urges all forest visitors to practice safety when visiting a national forest. “We want all visitors to be aware of their surroundings and to be safe,” said Gretta Boley, Forest Supervisor. Non-hunting National Forest visitors should know when hunting seasons are open, wear hunter orange, make their presence known and be aware of dogs used for hunting. Hunters should do those things as well as knowing hunting rules and regulations, always positively identifying a target, being aware Forest visitors may be present, and staying at least 150 yards from trails, roads, recreation areas, and buildings while hunting. A copy of the Forest Visitor Safety Brochureis available at www.fs.usda.gov/mississippi or the nearest local district ranger office. For information on hunting seasons, visit www.mdwfp.com.
County to hire nurses Lafayette County supervisors voted Monday to hire as many as two contract nurses to provide basic healthcare services to inmates at the Lafayette County Detention Center. Supervisors said the measure would provide more efficient delivery of needed services than the present system. “We were taking prisoners to the ER just about every day,” said District 1 Supervisor Mike Pickens. “This is going to save us a lot of money.”
Flue vaccine encouraged during pregnancy
Flu vaccination is especially important for pregnant women during flu season, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health: Dr. Marvin King, Associate ProBecause their immune systems fessor of Political Science at Ole Miss, will discuss the U.S. presiden- undergo changes while pregnant, expecting women are more prone tial election process for the next
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to severe illness from the flu. Pregnant women are more likely to be hospitalized when they get the flu, and more likely to have complications that affect their child. Flu can make pregnant women more likely to have premature labor and delivery. A pregnant mother’s flu shot even helps protect their baby from the flu after it is born. This is especially important in the first few months of life when a baby cannot receive a flu shot. Flu shots are available from any county health department, and at other locations statewide.
Gameday recipe Marianna and Monte Ochs retired to Oxford in 2013 and were not about to sit down and do nothing. They immediately became active in many groups, clubs, and activities throughout the community, and they also took advantage of Ole Miss football gamedays for all that those offer. The Ochs moved to Oxford from Charlotte, N.C., but moving wasn’t something that was new to them. “This is our 14th move,” said Marianna who, along with Monte, is a native of St. Louis, Mo. They learned about Oxford and Ole Miss after their son, Patrick, chose the
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University of Mississippi for college. Patrick and his wife, Jaime, now live on the gulf coast, and Patrick is a sports reporter for the Sun-Herald. The Ochs’ daughter, Katie, also now lives in Oxford. “We fell in love with Oxford, and it’s so welcoming to newcomers,” Marianna said. “We’ve gotten involved in so many groups and met so many people, it’s like we’ve lived here for a long time.” She offers a Quinoa Salad with Blueberries as our recipe this week. “We took it last year to the Grove, and everybody seemed to like it,” she said.
Quinoa Salad with Blueberries
The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council’s monthly “Maker’s Market” will be held this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The primary location is on the lawn of the Lafayette County Courthouse; in case of inclement weather it is relocated to the Powerhouse Community Arts Complex. The Council’s annual Holiday Arts Market will be held at the Powerhouse on Nov. 12-15. The Holiday Arts Market is co-sponsored by Oxford Artists Guild and will feature booths inside the Powerhouse featuring artwork and handcrafted gifts for the holidays. For more information, visit www.oxfordarts.com.
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Greenline offers unique menu to Oxford dining scene BY JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN
Greenline, a new salad and wraps restaurant unlike any other individual concept in Oxford, has opened at 1002 Van Buren Avenue. It’s right next door to South Depot Taco Shop, and there's a reason for that. The ownership group for both restaurants is the same. South Depot opened in March, 2011, and Greenline opened last week. “This type of concept is booming in the northeast (U.S.) and trending its way from the northeast right now,” said Trey Horne, one of the owners. “As we kind of watch this type concept trend, it’s coming closer and closer and closer to us.” Greenline salads feature mainly greens of different varieties – like chopped Romaine, mixed greens, shredded kale, and baby spinach - as well as numerous toppings, all that may be converted into a wrap if the customer so chooses. Toppings listed are tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, roasted corn, red onions, broccoli, mushrooms, kalamata olives, green peppers, edamame, apples, grapes, craisins, almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, homemade croutons, and roasted chickpeas. Proteins, as they are listed, are baked chicken, roasted turkey, ham, grilled steak, shrimp, tempeh, quinoa, and bacon. There are some signature salads, such as Mediterranean, Chicken Caesar, Asian Shrimp, Steakhouse, Oxford Cobb, and Health Nut. The soup offered currently is tomato basil. In the future they will change out soup offerings. “It’s very narrow focused on the offerings,” Horne said of the entire restaurant. “The goal is to hit that niche of freshness when it comes to folks in town who are looking for that option with quality ingredients. “Everything is done in house. The dressings are all house made. We want to provide that quality to the customers." Horne said those house
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Greenline serves a variety of different salads and wraps. made dressings have been a hit. “We’re excited about the dressings we have. The carrot ginger vinaigrette has been a favorite. The honey peanut vinaigrette has been a favorite. The tomato bacon vinaigrette has been a favorite. We wanted to make sure we appealed to the dressings folks in the south are accustomed to. We still offer some familiar options.” Those include honey mustard, 1000 Island, blue cheese, and ranch. The building is itself historic. Like its neighbor to the east, South Depot, Greenline is in an older part of the downtown area of Oxford. When the building was being renovated for Greenline, some things were uncovered, like a sign above the front door on the façade that reads “Callaway Music,” the sign of an old music store that once was housed there. “I think it was in the late
40s or early 50s,” Horne said of the music store. “The day they took the awning down (this year), there was a crowd across the street. The guys working on the front façade of the building were making comments like, ‘I’ve been in more photographs today than I’ve ever been in my life.’ So everyone was kind of shocked to see it. “There’s a lot of history in these old buildings. You uncover a lot of things as you work on them. We were digging up for plumbing in the back and found horse shoes. It’s amazing what all you find. It’s been very interesting. As with any type of renovation of historic property, you run into things here and there. But we’re glad we’re finally in and open.” Horne said Greenline has been well received, and its uniqueness has gotten the attention of many. “This is a different offering that appeals to only cer-
tain groups. You’re not going to hit the same audience we do next door. We’ve heard a lot of ‘Finally a healthy concept in Oxford.’ We’ve had a lot of repeat customers. One person (on the sixth day they were open) said it was her fifth time here. "But we really wanted to differentiate the spaces. This one is crisp, bright. The answer to everything we were doing in the renovation was white. These white tiles are bigger. The brick columns (in the walls) are original. There’s a brick wall in the back that’s original. We tried to coordinate with it in terms of how old the building is.” Greenline is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Catering is coming soon but not yet. “There are lots of concepts like this,” mainly in other parts of the country, according to Horne. “We decided we wanted to make ours unique, and we’re excited about it.” Greenline is next door to South Depot Taco Shop.
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ississippi’s two-year election process is halfway over. I say two-year process because as soon as the year-long state and county election cycle ends, the Presidential election takes center stage. Of course, it has already done that. I’m old school enough to still believe the Presidential and national races should only really be all that newsworthy after the first of the actual election year. Of course, I also remember when the nightly news and some early morning shows on three networks was about all we got as far as what was happening across the country. Now it’s a two-year show. The last two years of a four-year term of the President are now all about the next election. I don’t really like that. But it’s all about filling time on so many of the 24/7 news
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n engraved sentiment on the Ole Miss Library reads: “The University is respected, but Ole Miss is loved. The University regretfully terminates tenure, but one never graduates from Ole Miss.” The lines are drawn from a longer poem written in the early 1970s by alumnus Frank Everett, Jr. of Indianola. Four years in Oxford can easily be thought of as the best years of one’s life, i.e. raw youth, few responsibilities, no parental obligations, an energetic existence once the books have been cracked. For cynics who might suggest Everett’s notion is just so much sap, I offer Ron and Becky Feder of Ocean Springs. Becky passed away from intestinal cancer at age 61 last week. Her passing was sudden and tragic. Her family laid her to rest on Monday after eulogies describing her life lived large and her love of Oxford. The couple graduated from Ole Miss in 1973 and embarked on a life of travel and adventure during Ron’s subsequent Air Force career. In 1980, Ron began law school at Ole Miss and Becky put her considerable culinary skills to work in the kitchen of the Hoka Theater which had recently added a deli. “She was a natural leader in the kitchen,” recalls Hoka owner
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The Election Cycle Continues Jeff Roberson Managing editor networks as much as anything. And, of course, the dollars the many televised debates and daily conversations bring in to those networks. There’s a lot of showmanship when it comes to national politics now. Truthfully there always has been. We just didn’t get to see as much of it because of the above-mentioned time constraints in our past. This Mississippi election cycle, and certainly among some of the local races, has been a part of our news and lives the past eight months or so. Maybe even farther back than that.
I went to Delta Council in Cleveland back in May, and the election year in Mississippi was a hot topic then. I went to the Neshoba County Fair in July, and by then things were really heated up. The state flag and Initiative 42 were at the forefront all summer and fall. Because a Governor has been able to succeed himself or herself in Mississippi the past 30 years, much of the time the race is only of interest is every eight years. In 1991 Ray Mabus lost to Kirk Fordice after Mabus was the first who might have served back to back terms in the modern era. The ban on Mississippi governors serving for just four consecutive years was lifted when Bill Allain was in office from 1984-88. But Allain chose not to run for a second term. When Mabus did run for a second term, he lost to Fordice.
After eight years of Fordice, Ronnie Musgrove served four years, losing to Haley Barbour, who then served eight years. That’s when current governor Phil Bryant took over and will serve for four more years upon Tuesday’s decision. It was an eventful and watchful election year in some regards. And while the majority of the major statewide races were not that highly contested, some of the local ones were. Sometimes we in Oxford and Lafayette County fail to remember that some parts of our great state don’t have things as good as we do here. That’s part of the reason we’re seeing such an influx of people moving here from other parts of the state. But we’re also seeing newcomers from other parts of the country. And they aren’t just moving here to work at the Uni-
versity. Some are choosing to live here, work here, and retire here because of the quality of life this city and county afford them. Lafayette County has been recorded as the fastest growing in Mississippi this decade. It was interesting to talk to the winners in the contested supervisor races to hear their take on the future of this county more and more people are calling home. The growth of Oxford and the growth of Lafayette County outside the city mean the five supervisors and other elected officials will have much to deal with concerning the future of the county. They appear to be ready for that challenge. Jeff Roberson is the Oxford Citizen managing editor. He can be reached at jeff.roberson @journalinc.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Citizen_Jeff.
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Ronzo Shapiro. “It could get pretty chaotic late at night but she always held it together.” The “Work Hard, Play Hard” ethos was brilliantly exhibited by the Feders. When classes were done, or the work week finished, Ron and Becky were known for their exuberant parties at their spacious South Lamar home, a mere bottle rocket shot from Rowan Oak. After law school, Ron rejoined the Air Force as a judge advocate and the couple found themselves stationed in the Philippines. It was 1986 with Ferdinand Marcos on the hot seat and revolution in the air. Becky’s obituary details what happened next: “Becky experienced first-hand the revolution that toppled Marcos, with infant son Sam and toddler Elizabeth in tow, and Ron deployed to remote Diego Garcia. “In the ensuing chaos, after aircrew food services were suspended at Clark Air Force Base, Becky and other volunteers took over the Clark O’ Club kitchen and pumped out hot meals for
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Becky Feder, pictured here with husband Ron, passed away on Oct. 28. America’s Far East Air Force.” Upon their return stateside and to Ocean Springs, Ron’s law practice became successful and the couple purchased a second home, a block from the square in Oxford. They also settled into giving large donations to various cultural entities in the Oxford area including the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the Oxford Film Festival, the Southern Foodways Symposium, the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic and The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, among others. Once again their Oxford home
became a center for backyard bonfires, celebrations of birthdays, homecomings, book releases, football revelry, or just to visit. In Ocean Springs, Becky flung herself into many pursuits including real estate, cooking classes, pottery, and civic volunteering. The day before she was admitted into the hospital, she had spent the afternoon working construction for Habitat for Humanity. Frank Everett’s poem was written from the heart but after he read it aloud at a Vicksburg alumni meeting, he reportedly
went home and tossed it in the trash. The next day he was asked permission to use his words for publication and he had to fish the paper out of the garbage. In the same way, the Feders have shown their love for Ole Miss and Oxford: without sentimentality but forthright, money where mouth is; talking the talk, walking the walk. At Becky’s wake Monday, several 20-somethings related how the Feders were the “cool parents” during their teen years. “We were all raised in this house,” one told me. “They were a lot of fun but they also made sure you behaved and were doing well in school.” Like true mentors, the Feders passed on the wisdom of their forebears, “Work Hard, Play Hard.” Becky’s day ended outside with a funky second line brass band playing the exuberant funeral march music of New Orleans. The sky was a sad gray with mists of rain and it was hard to dance but the mourners nonetheless moved to the music. Becky’s young grandchildren were there, dancing and running across the lawn in rubber boots. She would have loved it, just as we loved her. Jim Dees has lived in Oxford for over 30 years and lived to tell the tale.
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or Melinda Scruggs, the return to the soccer field couldn't come soon enough. For the coach of the Lafayette Lady Commodores, gray, cloudy skies and the clock falling back an hour meant the season was close to getting started. “It was funny because on the first day of practice, the girls were like 'Coach, you're in such a good mood.' It's like I'm a kid again,” Scruggs said. “This is the way I can still be around the sport that I played since I was a kid. Just to see the development over the past year, it's just exciting to see how they've grown.” The 2014-15 campaign was super successful for the Lady Commodores. They won the MHSAA Class 4A state title, the first in school history, and many feel like that will happen again. To listen to Scruggs, however, winning a state title isn't the top thing on the minds of her players. “You just want the season to be successful. You don't want to put any more pressure on us to do that,” Scruggs said. “I think we just come out here and play and hopefully we get good results.” Talking championship is something Scruggs has never done. That talk can wait until the season hits 2016. “You have a job to do day to day. We look at the first game and then we'll look at the second game and go on from there,” Scruggs said. “I think that's the best way to look at it. If (state championship) is the case, that would be fabulous. We're not going to look that far in advance because we have a lot of work to do. We have training to do and games to win.” And being cocky, or over confident, doesn't help matters. Scruggs was hoping that her returners would be humble, but focused on what they need to do. “You can tell that the girls are just ready to play. They've come out and they've worked hard in the offseason and we've worked hard to get them fit,” Scruggs said. “Now that we have the ball, we've been working on that.” Last week, when rain hit the area hard, Scruggs had an opportunity to let her team leave early. They didn't want to and they ended up practicing until their clothes were soaked. “It shows a lot of character and it starts at the top with my seniors,” she said. “I'm excited about what we can do.” Alley Houghton is the leader of the Lady Commodores. She is about to sign with Ole Miss, and Scruggs said all Houghton wants to TURN TO SOCCER PAGE 16
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Rebels expecting a physical battle with Razorbacks BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
Mike Hilton has two home games left to play at Ole Miss. And his goal, as a senior, is to make sure he does his part to help the No. 19 Rebels win. The first of the back-toback home games is against Arkansas Saturday. The game will be seen across the nation on CBS. Hilton, who was moved to Huskie not long after Tony Conner went down with an injured knee, said the seniors have taken over from a leadership standpoint the past two wins. “We're making sure that the guys are motivated and focused on what we're trying to achieve,” he said. “We
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Kickoff: 2:30 p.m. Radio: WQLJ-FM 93.7 TV: CBS Series: Arkansas leads 32-28-1 have to keep that going for the rest of the season and see how it turns out.” Ole Miss (7-2 overall) is still in control of its destiny. They are behind No. 4 LSU in the SEC standings, but the Tigers still have to visit Vaught-
Hemingway Stadium. That game will be the final one at home for the Rebels on Nov. 21. In order for that matchup to really be more than just about pride, the Rebels have to defeat the Razorbacks (44, 2-2 in the SEC). The Rebels have been much better on defense since suffering a loss to Memphis on Oct. 17. Hilton said it has been the little things, like better tackling, that has been the key. Over the past two wins, Ole Miss has held Texas A&M and Auburn to combined 22 points, the best two-game stretch of the season. “We've been focusing on tackling and third down. We've done real well the last two games on both and we
know that if we can get the ball to our offense, they can go to work,” Hilton said. “Then we can go off each other.” A season ago, the Razorbacks rolled to a 30-0 win over the No. 8 Rebels. Hilton said everyone on the team remembers that game, adding that the loss will be used as motivation. “We know that they're going to come in ready to play and we're going to have to match their intensity and enthusiasm,” Hilton said. “We're going to make sure that we handle our business and focus on what we can do and see how it turns out on Saturday. A lot of things went TURN TO REBELS PAGE 16
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bad for us. We didn't expect it. They came fired up and got on us quick and took over. We have to match that intensity. We have to play to our best ability and we feel like guys are going to be ready and prepared for this Saturday.”
SCOUTING REPORT Arkansas is a more balanced offensive team than they were a season ago, even though Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said quarterback Brandon Allen threw the ball well in the 30-0 win. Allen has thrown for 2,034 yards and 15 touchdowns this season and completed 63.2 percent of his passes. “He really just takes what the defense gives him. If he has a long-ball chance, he'll take it or if he has just 3 yards, he takes it,” Hilton said. “He manages the game well, manages his offense well. He keeps their drives going and keeps the offense in rhythm.” Alex Collins leads the Razorbacks on the ground with 960 yards and 12 touchdowns. The biggest difference between the Razorbacks of 2014 and 2015 is that Collins doesn't have Jonathan Williams to spell him.
Still, Hilton said Collins is very good, and that he looks just as fresh on film. “We have to slow down their run first. That's what they want to do. They're a downhill running team, just grind it out,” Hilton said. “We have to match that physicality. (Collins) is even better. He's taken a lot more of the load with those two other guys down. He's embracing it and he's running with a purpose. He's a physical back that still has the speed to break away. His offensive line makes it easy on him. We have to match that physicality and play with a purpose.” Freeze was expecting Saturday's game to be a real “fistfight” at the line of scrimmage. “It will be a physical game. They can control the clock, and they have good schemes on both sides. Their defense makes you go the length of the field without making a mistake in order to score points,” Freeze said. “They have given up very few explosive plays. That is the way they are built. They have given up some yards, but they tend to not give away many points. We have a big test ahead of us. It’ll be a close, physical battle on Saturday.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
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do is to play. “She wants to improve herself and she wants to make sure that our team is winning,” Scruggs added. “And she will do whatever it takes. It's infectious. It's cool because the other girls have that same mentality. I'm really eager to see what they do.” Once the season starts, the biggest thing Scruggs has to do is to make sure that her players understand the system. She wants to PHOTO BY KEITH WARREN/MHSAA make sure that everyone knows their role, early, and to make sure The Lafayette Lady Commodores won the MHSAA Class 4A state title in the leadership is there in order to soccer last season, a first in school history. build. people want to be around,” “That's what you do every year. plishments. I'm just so glad that Scruggs said. “Of course Alley, she You don't ever come out thinking the sport is growing so much in that it's the year to do it or not. the state of Mississippi. When you leads by example on the field and now she has a voice. She is getting We're here to play soccer and it's win, people want to be a part of in there and being positive. Nikkie for the kids and it's always been that, which is awesome. I would Kesler has been around me since for the kids,” Scruggs said. “I want love to have more and more kids them to get better and to have a playing soccer. You can tell that at the sixth grade and she just works future in the college realm. It's my the camp and with the turnout. It her tail off. She is looking for a future playing somewhere. I know job to help them get there.” was phenomenal. Kids just want The spotlight has been on to be around soccer. It just contin- she wants to be a good leader for us, too. Then Rachel Watkins, that Scruggs the past 8-9 months, and ues to grow.” kid is just a stone in the back, just she was looking for it to shine on Outside of Alley and Maddy rock solid. She's a big Christian someone else now. Houghton, Scruggs was leaning and I think she can lead us in that “I've had my time, and it's on her four seniors overall. She area, too. She is always a positive about the kids,” Scruggs said. “It's said they have done a great job influence for these girls.” a privilege to have had those hon- leading so far. ors, and if it makes the focus on “Ana Branch is a great leader our team, then great. It's really even if this is just her second year john.davis@journalinc.com here. She has that personality that about the kids and their accomTwitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
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Friday Night Previews: Week 12 Lafayette opens 4A playoffs against athletic Rams BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
Moments after Lafayette defeated Byhalia in the final game of the regular season, Eric Robertson focused his thoughts on the MHSAA Class 4A playoffs. At the time, he didn't know which team his Commodores would be playing, but he knew that any of the teams from 3-4A would be up to the challenge. The Indianola-Gentry Rams will visit the Commodores this week as the No. 3 seed from that division. Robertson said the Rams (6-4 overall) look athletic on film, and have some big offensive and defensive linemen. Running behind those big linemen is tailback Marquvius Kirkham, who is similar in build to Lafayette's outstanding runner, Tyrell Price. “He's about Tyrell's height but maybe a little stockier,” Robertson said. “He's got the build of a Keontre Toles and then
they have some running quarterbacks that they put back there. They run a lot of Wildcat stuff with (Marikius Love). Then they bring in (Delametric Fairley) who is more of a thrower. They have typical skill guys from the Delta. Gentry used to be in our region and they look very similar athletically. They have a different coaching staff, so there is a difference philosophy on offense and defense. It looks like they have been in some games early and some other teams have pulled away from them later in the game.” Robertson said the key, just like in all games, is to not turn the ball over. He pointed out that the last time the Rams came to Lafayette, the Commodores were defeated 1312 in 2008. “We need to be playing our best and that's every Robertson possession,” said. “We need to get the most out of our offense and defense. We've got to win the special teams battle,
Indianola-Gentry at Lafayette Kickoff: 7 p.m. Radio: WQLJ-FM 93.7 win that phase of the game.” Battle tested (subhead) Lafayette played a tough schedule this season, and it was obvious that 2-4A was improved compared to some recent seasons. “We played a good, nonregion schedule. We've dealt with a couple of losses and we've gotten better,” Robertson said. “We faced some adversity and found out some things about our team that maybe we didn't know. We fixed that. I feel really good about our team. We have to continue to get better each week. It's still
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Lafayette wide receiver Juwan Kinds and the Commodores host Indianola-Gentry in the first round of the Class 4A playoffs Friday night. about getting better each week and we're focusing on Lafyette getting better and beating Gentry. It's a onegame season.” Robertson felt like Toles would be back on the field this week, while Rashaun
Ormon likes toughness, drive of his Lady Chargers BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
Being the new coach on the block, Cliff Ormon wanted to make sure that his Oxford Lady Chargers were going to play hard and be tough minded. He also wanted his players to know they were coming to work everyday. “I could live with mistakes if they're playing hard, and giving all-out effort,” Ormon said. “I think they've bought into what we're trying to do. I couldn't be more pleased with the group of kids that we've taken over with. Our senior leadership has been great. We have four seniors who have bought into hard work. They bought into the philosophy that we want to play fast.” When Ormon was at Ripley, his prior stop, his team played at ramped up pace on defense. The plan is to still play defense with a lot of pressure built in.
“We want to change the game on the defensive side of the ball,” Ormon said. “Throughout my career, we've been good on defense at most of my stops. We want that to continue here.” In order to be a good defensive team, Ormon said his Lady Chargers needed to be 1) tough and they 2) had to be willing to sacrifice their bodies. In other words, take a charge. The players also needed to block out and dive on the floor for loose balls. “We are undersized if you just look at the personnel, but I love the mentality of my players,” Ormon said. “They don't look at it as something that is going to hold us back. They look at it as a challenge, that they can't wait to get out there and prove somebody wrong. I really think that comes from the leadership of our team. Aliyah Herod, Emma Schultz, Lindsey Stout, Kyla Malone, they re-
ally set the tone whenever I took over. I couldn't be more pleased with that.” Ormon just got back Jordan Freeze and Maggee Hobson who were helping the Lady Chargers in volleyball. Both are outside shooters who, once they work themselves into basketball shape, should play a lot. “They are definitely contributors for this team. They both shoot the ball and they both shot the ball well this summer,” Ormon said. “They make a difference in the way we can stretch a defense. They both have improved and I commend them. They went through a lot of double duty. There were days where I asked them if they minded going through the drills. “Anything contact wise, we limited those. But all the shooting, all the conditioning, they double dipped in practice,” Ormon added. “And they never complained about being tired or
asked not to do it. I would actually have to tell them they were sitting out of drills. I knew they had an important season going on.” The Lady Chargers had a great summer, Ormon said. His players showed attitude and effort and he knew then they could be a competitive team. “We don't get caught up in winning a championship just because you have a great summer, but you can lose one by not doing well and not performing,” Ormon said. “Our team bought in this summer and I told them it was time to take that next step. They saw, this summer, the things I was really going to get on them about and the things I was going to coach them up on.” Oxford will begin its season Tuesday at home against Calhoun City. John.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
Rockette, the team's leading receiver, was expected to be back. “It's a wait and see on one or two others,” Robertson said. “Tay Tay (Owens) is having some teeth pulled that's been bothering him.
I think he will just miss some practices. We're going to be as 100 percent as we have been all season. And that's a good thing.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
Joiner’s overall skills top Chargers’ roster BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
dlers, best finishers I’ve had. He and (Solomon) Bozeman are in the top two as far as decision making,” Tyler said. “When you look at the roster, you’re looking at some guys that got JV minutes last year and highs and lows in JV play. We got them minutes and we got them some varsity minutes, but we’re trying to catch them up to speed. They haven’t seasoned themselves with away-from-the-program basketball. If it’s AAU, if it’s spending time with the basketball, getting yourself quicker, tougher, figuring out ways to win a game, a drill, a practice.” The Year of the Rabbit’s Foot starts this coming Tuesday at home against
If you see Drew Tyler stroking a white rabbit’s foot around town or Oxford High, don’t worry, he’s not gone crazy. Even veteran coaches need a little luck every now and again. With a number of questions left to be answered heading into the start of the season, Tyler is sure about one thing: Jarkel Joiner is the most complete player he has coached in his almost 20 years at Oxford. The junior point guard, who is being recruited by the likes of Ole Miss, Georgetown and Florida, will be the catalyst for one of the most inexperienced teams Tyler has ever had. “Jarkel is one of the best shooters, best ball han- TURN TO CHARGERS PAGE 20
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Friday Night Previews: Week 12 Chargers host Gators on Senior Night BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
Johnny Hill has no time to think about his last regular season game at Bobby Holcomb Field. Misty eyes and a soft heart can wait for when he's in a rocking chair, surrounded by his grand kids. Hill has bigger fish to fry. Last week, the Chargers wrapped up their third straight Division 1-5A title. That means they will be at home for the start of the MHSAA Class 5A playoffs. And if everything breaks right, Hill and the Chargers won't have to leave town the rest of the season. “If we get lucky (Center Hill) will have been my last road trip out of town,” Hill said. “Center Hill or Lake Cormorant will likely get Germantown and if they beat them, we would have to go to Lake Cormorant. It would be crazy to play them, play somebody else and then turn around and play them. It's unusual, but it is what it is.” The focus is still to take each game as they come, Hill said. The Gators are the focus tonight, which is Senior Night for the Chargers. “I really have a lot tunnel vision on the job at hand and to take care of this foot-
ball team. When the season is over, in retrospect, it will probably hit me that I won't be out there any more,” Hill said adding that the season has gone by as fast as he ever remembers one. “This season isn't about me, it's about those seniors and this football team as it is right now.” Scouting report (subhead) Oxford was able to move the game from Friday night with the threat of thunderstorms being forecast. He said the Gators (7-4 overall, 4-2 in 1-5A) are a pretty good team that features a slippery running back in Anthony Hayes, who has rushed for 1,244 yards and 10 touchdowns this year. “They have a good quarterback and wide receivers and they do a good job on special teams,” Hill said. “Their coach (Nick Nester) is a good guy. He's a good coach and he's coached his tail off up there.” Lake Cormorant is as balanced on offense as a team can get, averaging 197 yards through the air and 186 on the ground. There is another tailback, Benny Benson, who reminds Hill of former Oxford standout Mount Dean. Benson has also rushed for 10 touchdowns, and is averaging 8.9
Lake Cormorant at Oxford Kickoff: 7 p.m. Radio: WOXD-FM 95.5 yards per carry. “You have to stick his nose in the dirt,” Hill said of Hayes. “He's a powerful runner who runs behinds his pads. The other one is a slasher who is also really good. They're run first but they also have several good receivers. (Brandon Smith) is as good as you're going to find. We will have to play well. We will be tested.” One more (subhead) There are some minor things that need to get corrected, Hill said, before the Chargers head into the 5A playoffs. “We will work on those all this week and hopefully we'll get it corrected before next week in the first round,” Hill said. “We're pretty healthy. We still have some guys that have been banged up from earlier in the year. We didn't play (Korbin) Harmon at all last
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Oxford wide receiver DK Metcalf, left, and Jack Abraham host Lake Cormorant in their final regular season game tonight at Bobby Holcomb Field. week, so hopefully he will be good to go this week. We feel like we have gotten over a lot of the injuries and we feel like we have a solid team.” Proud coach (subhead) Hill gave Jack Abraham, his quarterback, the ball that eclipsed the 10,000yard mark. As big as that
moment was, Hill said he was most proud of his hands team on kickoffs last week. Center Hill kicked several onside kicks, and the Chargers were able to recover them, setting Abraham up with great field position. “It's awful hard to catch that ball coming at you like
that and we got six of them,” Hill said. “That's amazing. Our guys did a super job of taking control and going to get the ball. They did it perfect. You couldn't have drawn it up any better than they did it.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
Organized Abel keeps Lady Chargers straight
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Senior Ivy Abel is the cheerleader who would be crowned Most Organized. She is always sending out lists, and always has an extra pair of something on a Friday night.
For the past six years, Ivy Abel has worn a blue and gold outfit on the sidelines and cheered on the Chargers. She is one of four seniors on this year’s varsity squad that has cheered since middle school. The other three, Sara Raines, Ann Kate Meagher and Mary Arden Guyton, are close because of it. “We love the other two though,” Abel said of Madison McCay and Nicole Heyward, the other seniors who are on the squad. “They just haven’t been cheering as long as we have.” Bittersweet was how Abel looked at her final season with the team. The six years cheer-
Cheerleader Ivy Abel ing has felt like a long time, but she has loved every moment. “My mom used to say that I wanted to be a cheerleader, a mom and a doctor. She says that’s always what I wanted to
be,” Abel said. “I’ve always wanted to be a cheerleader. It fits my personality. I like to be in front of other people, and to do things for other people.” Abel is outgoing, but she did-
n’t know that she would be classified as the most outgoing on the team. She did say that she was the most organized of all the cheerleaders. “I’m the one who sends out the packing list and tells people what to bring for the away games and what they need to wear,” Abel said. “If they forget it, I usually have extras of stuff. I’m the mother hen. I have always been. That’s my thing.” Tumbling is the skill that Abel does the best, she said. A rounded off, back hand spring, with a tuck, is something she does well. “It’s a backflip basically,” Abel said. “It’s pretty cool and to throw that in on the sidelines. TURN TO ABEL PAGE 20
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Lady Commodores have pleased Linzy with early work BY JOHN DAVIS
Calhoun City. What Tyler has tried to do for his players since June is work on making them better shooters, better ball handlers and better defenders. In short, he’s really tried to make them better overall basketball players in a compacted amount of time compared to other teams he’s molded during the summer. “Part of my daily list is to carve out some time to increase your chances of winning basketball. For kids at this age, with Coach (Marlon) Bell at the middle school and Coach Drew Tyler on the high school level, we’re telling them they have to find time to play and spend time with the basketball. That’s where our sport is because you don’t become a shooter overnight,” Tyler said. “It takes discipline and work and it could be easy for a young kid to put that aside and go a different direction. We’ve always had really good shooters in our program and we don’t have the scorers that we’ve had. We graduated 58 points per game so I am trying to catch them up on things, this preseason, that I didn’t think they got during the summer at a speed, a game-like atmosphere.” Will Swindoll and DK Metcalf are two players that will join the Chargers, once football has concluded for the season. Swindoll will be the inside rebounder, and defender in the low post for the Tyler. Tipoff for Tuesday’s game at home is set for 7:30 p.m. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
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It was hard for Shayne Linzy, the head coach of the Lafayette Lady Commodores, to temper his excitement for his new team. After competing against Lafayette as Oxford's coach, Linzy grew to appreciate the talent of Lafayette. On the eve of the first game of the 2015-16 season, Linzy is bullish on his roster, and what his new team can accomplish. “We still have work to do and everything is a progression, towards division play and then to the playoffs, but I like where we are right now,” Linzy said adding he hasn't installed everything he wants to run. “I don't want to overload them. Even though I've been here a few months, we're
still getting to know each other in a lot of areas. They have handled everything I've given them so far, which has been great.” Linzy isn't stopping to smell the flowers, but he wants his Lady Commodores to play a little bit. He wants them to feel free, and not play like robots. “I'm going on a little slower as far as adding things. I want us to get good at this and this and then we will add as we go along,” Linzy said specifically. “The good thing about this group right here is you have two or three that are going to score. I've got five or six more girls that once they become more comfortable with everything, they're liable to explode scoring wise because they have the ability and the talent. I'm going to let them score, so there will be no
pressure on me to have them score.” Pressure defense has always fueled Linzy's teams in the past. Steals that transition to layups is how he helped the Lady Chargers win a state title, and teams that lacked height advance into the playoffs. “When we have those chances for easy buckets, we need to put it in the hoop,” Linzy said adding he loved where the team was defensively. “We struggled with that a little bit this past Saturday in the jamboree. The transition was great. We got up and down the floor. In the half court, we had the open looks and now we need to knock them down. We're not going to make every shot, I'm not expecting us too. But if you're number is called, score.”
Outside of a few more fouls than he would like, Linzy liked how physical his team was in regards to how they played on defense. “I don't want to see somebody get three fouls in a half. Of course I let that go because we only played a half, but we need to learn how to foul within reason,” Linzy said. “A reach-in foul because you got beat, that's something we stress that is unacceptable. Move your feet and get there and take a charge or cut them off. Fouling while being aggressive, I can live with that.” Lafayette will play its first game on Saturday in Tupelo against Starkville. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
Sherman likes what he sees from Commodores so far varsity so there was so pregame jitters,” said Sherman, who added he had no expectations going into the two half games. “We had very little experience, but we have been going since August. I was hoping that we would go over and play some good defense because you never know how your offense is going to go. One thing you can determine is your defense because it is effort and attitude. And I was real pleased with the way we played defense.” Sherman went on to say that his team handled themselves well against two
teams that pressed, full court. “We really shared the ball and that's the one thing with this group. They like each other,” Sherman said. “This core group likes each other and some of them even spent the night with each other the night before. We played very unselfish, team basketball. Right now, I couldn't be more pleased.” There are six players that are currently on the varsity football team. It's unknown when they will join the team because it all depends on how the Commodores fare in the playoffs. In between
the time the football players join, Sherman said the best thing his roster can do is to set the tone. And that means mainly with defense, but also in how the Commodores play overall. “I want us to be focused, and to play with great effort,” Sherman said. “It's so important with any team, but especially with this team, and that is they are going to have to do the things they don't want to do. Or that they have normally not done. You have to be willing to do the little things like take a charge, or get on the floor. Like block-
ing out. Nobody wants to block out, they just want to go get the rebound. We've stressed taking charges and blocking out. I heard Joe Dean Sr. say one time how successful you are in life depends on how well you do those things you don't want to do. How successful this basketball team is how well we do the things we don't want to do.” Lafayette's boys will begin its season Tuesday with a classic game against Vardaman.
My stunt group has been together since sophomore year so we’re pretty good FROM PAGE 18 and gotten used to each People like to see stuff like other.” State competitions that. They just know that it looks cool. I love to stunt. haven’t produced the kind
of results that Abel and the other girls have yearned for in the past. The goal was to do better there, and heading out of August, and into the heart of football season, Abel said the plan was to attend a few more competitions to up the game for the state meet. Wide receiver DK Metcalf, who will take part in Senior Night tonight, is the player that Abel bakes for
or gets a snack for prior to each game. “Seniors get first pick and he was the one that I wanted,” Abel said on how Metcalf became her player. “I love DK. We have classes together.” Metcalf hasn’t told Abel too much about his recruiting, but she did say that he is always wearing other school’s gear. “He will Auburn and
then he will wear his U.S. Army All-American shoes and shorts and socks. He has a new outfit everyday,” she said. “It’s so funny to see all the outfits he has. It makes you realize that he does have things from everywhere and everybody wants him because he is that good. And he is such a good guy, too. He’s so humble. I’m a big fan.” Abel’s first varsity away game to cheer at took place at Starkville in 2013. She said it was memorable because the crowd was so into the game. “And nobody expected the game the way it did,” Abel added. “We were all, not happy with it, but we though that we were playing well. It was awesome when we came back. Really fun.”
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John Sherman had a smile on his face when he talked about his Lafayette Commodores. Just a few days after earning two wins on the court at West Union in pre-season action, Sherman had a right to smile. The hard work put in by his group of 10 players during the summer clearly carried over. “I was hoping that we would put into the game what we practiced. You have five guys on the floor that have never started on the
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SPORTS IN DEPTH DIVISION 1-5A
STANDINGS Region Overall L W L W 8 2 6 0*^ Oxford West Point 8 2 5 1* 7 4 4 2 Clarksdale 7 4 4 2 Lake Cormorant Lewisburg 3 8 1 5 5 5 3 3 Center Hill 2 8 1 5 New Hope Saltillo 0 11 0 6 Week 12 Games • Thursday Lake Cormorant at Oxford, 7 p.m. (95.5 FM) Lewisburg at West Point Clarksdale at Center Hill New Hope at Saltillo Week 11 Results Oxford 54, Center Hill 30 Clarksdale 21, Lake Cormorant 19 West Point 44, New Hope 0 Lewisburg 51, Saltillo 20 *-Denotes earned playoff spot ^ - Denotes 1-5A champion
DIVISION 2-4A
STANDINGS Overall Region W L W L 9 1 5 0*^ Senatobia 9 2 4 1* Lafayette Rosa Fort 8 2 3 2* 3 6 2 3* Ripley New Albany 4 7 1 4 2 7 0 4 Byhalia Week 11 Results Lafayette 50, Byhalia 8 Senatobia 20, Tunica-Rosa Fort 12 Ripley 51, New Albany 22
Week 10 Results Sentobia 20, Lafayette 19 Tunica-Rosa Fort 50, New Albany 14 Ripley 46, Byhalia 7 *-Denotes earned playoff spot ^ - Denotes 2-4A champion
MHSAA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS
FIRST ROUND CLASS 2A • North Eupora at Baldwyn
JZ George at Leflore County East Union at Calhoun City West Bolivar at Strayhorn West Tallahatchie at O’Bannon Winona at Mantachie South Delta at Coahoma AHS Walnut at East Webster • South North Forrest at Bay Springs Pisgah at Amite County Heidelberg at Mize Prentiss at Lake Pelahatchie at Bassfield East Marion at Union Loyd Star at Puckett Enterprise-Clarke at Taylorsville CLASS 3A • North Mooreville at Kossuth North Panola at East Side Belmont at Aberdeen Velma Jackson at Water Valley Independence at Yazoo County Nettleton at Booneville Humphreys County at Charleston Benton County North Pontotoc • South Tylertown at Kemper County Magee at Franklin County Philadelphia at Collins Wilkinson County at Morton St. Andrews at Hazlehurst Seminary at Forest Jefferson County at Raleigh Choctaw County at West Marion CLASS 4A • North Houston at Corinth Rosa Fort at Cleveland Amory at Noxubee County Gentry at Lafayette Ripley at Greenwood Louisville at Itawamba AHS Raymond at Senatobia Shannon at Kosciusko • South Florence at Purvis Van Cleave at Mendenhall Columbia at Lawrence County Northeast Jones at East Central Moss Point at West Lauderdale North Pike at Forrest County AHS Quitman at St. Stanislaus Poplarville at McComb
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In the 200 free relay, the Lady Chargers were fourth with a time of 1 minute, 45.41 seconds. Virginia Sudduth, Noel Torma, Anna Dennis and Kathryne Byars made up the team. In the 200 medley relay, the Lady Chargers were sixth with a 2:07.85. Mary Sullivan, Torma, Catherine Field and Lucy Chiniche made up that team. In the 400 free relay, Oxford was fifth with a 3:54.90. Sudduth, Catherine Field, Byars and Chiniche composed that team. In the 50 free, Elizabeth Field was sixth with a 25.77. In the 100 free, she was fifth with a 55.58.
Oxford wrapped up another successful season in the water this past Saturday at the MHSAA Class II meet held in Tupelo. The Chargers and Lady Chargers competed against teams from both 5A and 6A. The Lady Chargers were seventh with 27 points, while the Chargers totaled 21 points, good for ninth out of 16 schools. “As I told the kids, I am very proud of how far they came this season. We have a very young team highlighted by 13 of 17 swimmers who went to state are underclassmen and middle schoolers,” Oxford coach Robert Gonzalez said. “They will be moving up in the upcoming years solidifying a strong unit.” Tupelo’s boys won first, while Madison Central won the girls’ portion of the meet.
Oxford's Kyla Malone has balanced softball, basketball and a grade point average of 3.22. With her mother, it's grades first, then sports.
CHARGERS In the 200 IM, Nichols was third with a 2:02.74. Issac Manly was eighth with a 24.49 in the 50 free. In the 400 free relay, the Chargers were seventh with a 3:35. Manly, William Carrington, Qihang Wang, Harrison Tann and Nichols were on that team. In the 200 medley, Oxford finished with a 1:50.
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Oxford’s Malone ready to finish on a high note BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
For Oxford senior Kyla Malone, it's always been books first and sports second. Her mother Stacy has stressed that point to her since she was younger. The attention to detail that it takes to have a grade point average over 3.2 has ultimately allowed Malone to play two sports – basketball and softball – at a high level for the Lady Chargers. “It's very tough because you have to manage your time really well,” Malone said. “You have to be very disciplined to play two sports, and manage your grades at the same time. (Mom) wants a certain gpa. She doesn't allow Cs. I got all my electronics taken away from me for a month when that happened. I knew right then that I had to buckle down and take care of my school work.” Shayne Linzy, Malone's former coach at Oxford, added to that lesson learned about a C. He attended a softball game five years ago when Malone was in the seventh grade. He sat in the stands, ready to see his power forward swing for the fences. There was only one problem, Malone wasn't there. Before the game, her mother pulled her out of the starting lineup because she didn't garner an A or B. “When you do some-
This is the eighth in a series of stories on athletes from both Oxford and Lafayette. thing like that, it will stick with you and it has stuck with Kyla. She knows that she has to make her grades in order to play. If she makes her grades and plays, she's going to be successful,” Linzy said. “She has a great upbringing and she's a leader. She was a leader even as a ninth grader when she started for me. Kyla is one of those girls that can play any position. She was always upbeat, worked hard. She wanted to be successful, but not just her individually, she always wanted the team to be successful. “That was something that her mother really engrained in both Kyla and her sister Alexus. It was put the team first,” Linzy added. “They are team players all the way and because of their ability and work ethic, they're going to be successful individually. And usually when they're successful, the team is going to be successful.” Cliff Ormon is now Malone's basketball coach at Oxford. He has yet to coach
her in a game, but he's liked everything about Malone since summer practices. “She is very personable. She comes up and wants to talk. You don't have to worry about her grades. And this is her first real opportunity to go into a season since her freshman year where she is completely healthy,” Ormon said. “She's gone through a summer with us, lifted weights and got to play in our games. She's really excited for this season, and I'm excited for her in that aspect going into her senior year.” Ormon has also noticed how intense Malone is, and how she doesn't like to miss a shot, or let her teammates down. “It's almost to a fault because she gets high and low. You have to have that next play mentality where if it goes in, I still sprint back and play defense or if I miss I still sprint back and play defense,” Ormon said. “I'm blessed to have her as a senior leader. She comes to work everyday and I don't know if some of the younger players realize what she's been through. After two knee surgeries, a lot of them will say this isn't for me and go do something else. She still comes out there and laces them up. She ices her knees down and does the little things that hopefully will get her through this season.” The toughest part of the
year for Malone to keep her grades up comes when basketball really heats up and bleeds into the spring. “There are so many practices and games. It's just hard, but I have to take care of my business,” said Malone, who was looking forward to her final season. “I feel like this is my year because I've sat out two years. I feel like I have to prove myself to people. It was hard. I wanted to give up, but I couldn't. I had to think about my teammates and my coaches. I just pushed through for them.” Oxford softball coach Steve Blackmon only had good things to say about Malone. Basketball has dominated her life, but Blackmon has seen her progress gradually once she is able to get on the field each spring. Malone likes softball, even telling people that she enjoyed that the most when she was younger. “They're equal to me. I care as much about softball as I do basketball,” she said adding that she really wanted the Lady Chargers to do well on the diamond this year. “You have to think about the positives and try to improve. I feel like we can do it. We've lost some people, but I feel like we're going to bounce back stronger.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
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