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2 Q Mississippi Business Journal Q October 5, 2018 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

After major redesign, construction of Cleveland hotel complex resumes

By JACK WEATHERLY jack.weatherly@msbusiness.com

After extensive redesign, the Scion West End hotel complex is moving forward in the construction phase.

That’s the word from Dinesh Chawla, president of Chawla Hotels Inc., which is building the $20 million project in west Dinesh Chawla Cleveland.

Things were moving toward a completion in late 2017, when Chawla and his brother, Suresh, signed a deal with the Trump Organization in June 2017.

Then came a redesign of the project, which took the better part of a year, acSuresh Chawla cording to Dinesh Chawla.

Now the project into the concrete phase again, he said in a recent interview.

Almost lost in the politics that swirls around Trump brothers Eric and Donald Jr. and their famous father is the original plan, seemingly obscured in a Delta dust storm.

Three buildings in an 11-building complex are virtually complete and five foundations were on the verge of being laid, he said.

Late spring 2019 looks like a good completion target for the 17.5-acre complex, which will be fed by visitors on the Blues Trail that runs through the Delta and beyond and the Grammy Museum Mississippi in Cleveland, as well as events at Delta State University.

The Chawlas are seeking to make the Scion West End a destination in its own right, he said.

“I’m meeting with some people today about music experiences and culinary experiences,” he said.

The three-acre green space could accommodate a concert with 7,000 people.

Possible land and water excursions are under consideration for the complex in Bolivar County, which borders the Mississippi River.

Naturally, the Trump-Chawla partnership has attracted national attention, including The New York Times, which has written several stories about the endeavor, with a hefty leavening of politics.

The Chawla brothers have mixed feelings about all the attention. There’s gratitude for the opportunity but also discomfort for being under public scrutiny during one of the most tumultuous presidential terms in recent memory.

Courtesy of Chawla Hotels Inc./For the MBJ

The Scion West End complex is expected to be completed by late spring 2019.

Suresh Chawla says that the Delta has been a “utopia” for the family. V.K. Chawla left India and internment in a refugee camp for nine years, and the execution of his father and two brothers in a religious war before moving to Canada and eventually Mississippi.

V.K. Chawla, who held a Ph.D in environmental engineering, was known locally for being a philanthropist.

Now the family wants to continue that tradition. It will form the Chawla Hospitality Academy at Coahoma Community College near Clarksdale.

The academy will offer training for the hotel industry, ranging from housekeeping to technical maintenance to front desk – and possibly leading to management.

The academy was a dream of their father, Suresh Chawla said.

In attending workshops in Memphis, a major hub in the hospitality industry, the Chawlas were disheartened to see so few African-Americans involved.

The Chawla Academy should have a positive impact on that problem in the Delta, which is predominantly African-American, Suresh Chawla said, adding that his business will contribute to the institution. The plans will be revealed in detail on Oct. 3.

Chawla concedes that the family business stands to benefit, but he notes that the certifications will be a boost to all hotels and casinos in the Delta and can be used anywhere “from Clarksdale to Seattle.”

Steven Jossell, director of work-force development at Coahoma Community College, said the training program will be the only one of its kind in the Delta.

As previously stated, an article by the Mississippi Business Journal about the Chawla plan for the grand hotel and the Trump phone call caught the eye of a member of the Trump Organization.

The article recounted an unlikely event from 1988 in which V.K. Chawla, owner and operator of convenience store in Green-

wood, was encouraged by Donald Trump to pursue his goal of building a hotel.

Chawla had made a bold move and reached out to the hotel and resort magnate.

To Chawla’s surprise, he got a phone call one day from Trump himself.

The man who in 2016 would be elected U.S. president, said Chawla’s plan did not fit in the plans for his empire.

But as Trump had suggested, the elder Chawla got a Small Business Administration Minority loan and built the first of a chain of 18 hotels in the Delta, an enterprise that his sons have continued to run after his death in May 2015.

Fast forward to December 2016 and the sons announced plans for a full-service hotel in Cleveland.

In March 2017, the Trump Hotel group contacted the Mississippians.

The Mississippi Business Journal article stated that the property initially was to be called the Lyric Hotel and was expected to cost about $8 million.

Trump was planning a campaign stop in Jackson and Gov. Phil Bryant, an ardent Trump supporter, urged Suresh to be there.

The governor introduced Suresh to Trump, listened to the Chawlas’ latest project and encouraged him to to “think grand.”

The Chawlas nearly doubled the scope of the plan – to $15 million.

Meantime, grand things were in store for Trump, a decided underdog to Hillary Clinton.

The Trump Organization, which was being run by the president’s sons, reached out to the Chawlas about about their latest plan.

The Trump businesses had been put in what is called a revocable trust – an arrangement that has drawn criticism because it would allow his sons and a key employee to distribute money to Trump.

Dinesh Chawla recalled that three months of negotiations with the Trump organization ended in June 2017 at the Trump Tower in Manhattan when Donald Trump Jr. made the announcement of the project and the Trumps’ American Idea chain, the first three of which would be existing Chawla hotels that would be converted to the new brand.

The Lyric Hotel had become the Scion, the first in a projected luxury chain.

It was the second time Donald Trump offered business advice to the Chawlas. And the second time they took it to heart.

MANUFACTURING

Auto parts maker invests $100 million, adds 50 jobs Automotive supplier Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi is increasing production in Lee County, investing $100 million and creating 50 jobs.

Located in Guntown, APMM produces stamped auto parts, body weld parts and plastic parts. The company’s expansion accommodates increased production for the 2019 Toyota Corolla, which is produced in Blue Springs.

APMM is retooling its facility and investing in workforce training.

“We appreciate the state of Mississippi and Lee County for their continued support to APMM,” said APMM President Hidehiro

Kuwabara.

The Mississippi Development Authority is providing $100,000 for workforce training. Lee County is providing assistance in the form of ad valorem tax exemptions.

APMM currently employs approximately 400 workers in Lee County. The company expects to fill the new positions by December.

APMM is accepting applications through local employment agencies Express Employment Professionals, Resource Manufacturing and Kelly Services.

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4 Q Mississippi Business Journal Q October 5, 2018 MISSISSIPPI DELTA

Po’ Monkey’s artifacts sold in auction as collection

By JACK WEATHERLY jack.weatherly@msbusiness.com Willie Seaberry is gone but the stuff of his life isn’t.

It’s together as a collection bought in a bidding process by Shonda Warner.

Now she’s looking for a home for it, or a place to stay.

“Hopefully there will be a number of renowned institutions interested in preserving this vernacular treasure,” she said.

“There a very few real juke joints left in the United States.”

She was one of six bidders for the cache of decorations and signs inside and outside at Warner Po’ Monkey’s Lounge near Merigold where Seaberry lived and entertained for decades with his juke box pumping out the blues.

Warner wants to share the cultural cache with the public.

The decorations have a decided X-or R rating, depending on who’s critiquing it.

“Dozens of toy monkeys hung from the ceiling, and some of them were augmented with phallic plastic bananas and sex shop dildos,” British expat author Richard Grant – who lived in the Delta for a while and now resides in Jackson – wrote in “Dispatches From Pluto,” a 2015 book that still appears from time to time on the Mississippi best-seller list and features a photo of Po’ Monkey’s on the cover.

Warner said she wants to work with the Seaberry family, who stipulated that all of the items be kept together instead

Seaberry (pictured) was host at his lounge and residence in the Delta near Merigold.

of being dispersed at risk the loss of their identity and also with the Hiter family on whose land, the lounge and home is located to as “a way to continue Willie’s good work.”

The shack has a National Register of Historic Places marker in front, and is on the Mississippi Blues Trail that wends its way through the Delta and beyond.

“It could possibly stay in the community,” she said. “It could possibly be shared, occasionally go to, say, the nation’s capital or someplace else, she said.

She said she plans to meet with Mississippians next week, including the Department of Archives and History, to talk about the collection.

Warner lived in Clarksdale for 12 years until recently, running the private farmland investment company she founded,

Chess Agricultural Full Harvest Partners, from there.

Now in Kansas City operating the firm, which has tens of thousands of acres of farmland around the country in its portfolio, including “a good amount” in Mississippi.

Warner said she was drawn to the Delta “on many levels, both culturally and from an investment viewpoint.”

A native of Nebraska, she was a frequent patron of Po’ Monkey’s near Merigold, which ceased functioning as a juke house in July 2016 when Seaberry died.

The Nebraska native’s family acquired, and still owns, a farm after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act to encourage settlement of western territories.

After she moved to Clarksdale in 2006, she founded The PORCH (Preservation of Rural Cultural Heritage) Society on her Seven Chimneys farm at Clarksdale.

Head Auctions and Realty of Flora conducted the sale which ended Monday with the selection of Warner’s as the best bid.

The family sought $100,000 for the trove but that figure was not reached, said William Head, who ran the auction.

Warner declined to say how much she paid. “Sorry, we’re kind of private,” she said in a phone conversation.

The town of Merigold has held two blues festivals honoring Seaberry since his death. But the Seaberry family now owns the rights to his likeness and name and must be paid for use of them.

“I was a frequent participant at the revelry at Po’ Monkey’s, as well as Red’s in Clarksdale,” Warner said.

She sees them as “ambassadors of goodwill for the state of Mississippi.”

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Uncertainty dims hallelujah for Republicans

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timulated by Trump’s tax cuts, the national economy grew 4.2 percent in the second quarter (final BEA estimate), up from 2.1 percent in the first quarter.

Corporate profits jumped 3.0 percent, up from 1.2 percent. The national unemployment rate at 3.9 percent is the lowest since December 2000. Total nonfarm employment is nearly 150 million, the highest ever. And average wages are the highest ever.

This should be hallelujah time for those in charge, i.e., Republicans.

It’s not. That nasty thing called uncertainty is the problem.

“The one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage,” said former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, “and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down.”

Uncertainty over continued economic growth is rising. Increasing oil prices due, in part, to sanctions on Iran; rising inflation due, in part, to tax cut stimulus during an already rising economy; other price increases due to tariffs; increasing costs for health care; and rising interest rates have the potential to negatively impact consumer spending. With consumption accounting for approximately 68 percent of GDP, lower consumer spending would

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slow economic growth.

Indeed, Kiplinger cautions growth will slow in the third and fourth quarters and average 2.9 percent for the year. The Conference Board forecasts growth will slow further to 2.3 percent by the end of 2019 due to “domestic and foreign headwinds.”

Those foreign headwinds include the growing likelihood for an all-out trade war with China and a shooting war with Iran, plus decaying relations with long-time allies, particularly Germany, Canada, and Turkey.

Uncertainty over whether last month’s uncertainties – the future of FBI U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Mueller investigation guilty pleas, keeping government from shutting down, and the Kavanaugh nomination – will be replaced by another big set of serious uncertainties is of concern.

Which parts will be in charge come January after mid-term elections is another uncertainty, escalated by Trump’s comment that there will be “violence” if Democrats take control. So too is what impact the rapidly rising national debt, spurred by massive new spending, will have on the economy.

Much uncertainty, of course, comes from the President himself.

See CRAWFORD, Page 6

t’s October. And since 1985, October has been designated as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Initially, the aim of NBCAM was to promote mammography as the most effective weapon in the fight against breast cancer.

A partnership between the American Cancer Society and the pharmaceutical division of then-Imperial Chemical Industries was responsible for the October designation.

All these years later, Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an annual international health campaign organized by major breast cancer charities every October to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention and discovery of a possible future cure.

The color pink and its association with breast cancer has its own history.

In 1993 Evelyn Lauder, of the Estée Lauder Companies, founded The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and established the pink ribbon as its symbol, though this was not the first time the ribbon was used to symbolize breast cancer.

Even earlier, Charlotte Haley, a 68-year-old California woman whose sister, daughter and granddaughter had breast cancer, distributed peach-color ribbons to call attention to what she perceived as inadequate funding for research.

And in the fall of 1991, the Susan G. Komen Foundation handed out pink ribbons to participants in its New York City race for breast cancer survivors.

Breast cancer continues to be the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women, and the second leading cause of death among women. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.

And men are not free of the fear of a breast cancer diagnosis either.

The incidence is much rarer in men, but an estimated one in 1,000 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in his lifetime.

The good news is breast cancer does not have to be a death sentence. Early detection is crucial and can be successful only if women – and men – are well educated and ever vigilant in practices like mammograms, clinical breast exams and breast self-exams, which remain some of the most important ways to catch breast cancer early and increase survival rates.

This October – like those in the past – we will continue to tell the stories of survivors and share memories of those who fought, but ultimately lost, their brave battles with breast cancer.

And we hope for a day when this disease is no more.

— Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

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Continued from Page 5

“It takes quite a President to preside over an economy with unemployment rates below 4 percent and not to benefit politically,” read an opinion piece in the Huffington Post.

The New York Times reported that Mick Mulvaney, the federal budget director, told a gathering of party officials in early September that Republicans would fare better in November’s elections if they could “subtract” the president’s divisive persona from voters’ minds, and stress instead that the country is in a “pretty good” condition.

“You may hate the president, and there’s a lot of people who do, but they certainly like the way the country is going,” Mulvaney said, adding of voters: “If you figure out a way to subtract from that equation how they feel about the president, the numbers go up dramatically.”

An article in the conservative Washington Examiner pointed to Trump’s low approval rating and predicted “grim tidings” for Republicans in mid-term elections.

A glimmer of hope for Republicans is there is still over a month for uncertainty to dim while the economy will still be sparkling.

Bill Crawford (crawfolk@gmail.com) is a syndicated columnist from Meridian.

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Endorsements in ‘blender’ of what voters consider

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andidates in a U.S. Senate special election in Mississippi are promoting endorsements they’re receiving from other politicians.

Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is backed

by President Donald Trump, and they appeared together at a rally Tuesday in northern Mississippi’s DeSoto County.

Democratic challenger Mike Espy is endorsed by Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who have both traveled to Mississippi for him.

Republican challenger Chris McDaniel is endorsed by former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who issued a news release last week. Paul was the Libertarian nominee for president in 1988 and a Republican candidate for president in 2008 and 2012.

A University of Mississippi political science professor, Marvin King, says most endorsements are unlikely to sway an election.

“There are just too many factors at play to say that endorsements are going to be decisive, but there’s no doubt that some people look at them,” King told The Associated Press. “They put endorsements in the basket of all things they look at when deciding on a candidate — perception of a candidate, a candidate’s policies. ... Endorsements kind of go into that blender.”

The winner of the special election will serve the final two years of a six-year term started by longtime Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, who retired in April.

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant appointed Hyde-Smith, who was state agriculture commissioner, to temporarily succeed Cochran. She’s now facing Espy and McDaniel, as well as Democrat Tobey Bernard Bartee, a former military intelli-

gence officer who is spending little to campaign.

Party labels will not appear on the ballot for this race, but candidates are telling voters their political affiliation. If nobody receives a majority on Nov. 6, the top two advance to a Nov. 27 runoff. The race could have national significance if the partisan balance of the Senate is still undecided.

Hyde-Smith received the coveted Trump endorsement on Aug. 23, when he wrote on Twitter: “Cindy has voted for our Agenda in the Senate 100% of the time and has my complete and total Endorsement. We need Cindy to win in Mississippi!”

In 1986, Espy became the first African-American to win a U.S. House seat in Mississippi since Reconstruction, and in 1993 he became President Bill Clinton’s first agriculture secretary. Mississippi has a 38 percent black population, and Espy needs strong turnout among black voters who traditionally vote for Democrats. He is also campaigning as someone who will work across lines of race and party.

Booker and Patrick are African-American, and each was elected to a statewide office with support that crossed lines of race. Booker is a former Newark mayor and won a Senate seat in 2013. Patrick was Massachusetts governor from 2007 to 2015. When Espy was in the Clinton Cabinet, Patrick was the assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights.

“I’m a Democrat, but not the sort of Democrat who be-

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lieves you need to hate Republicans to be a good Democrat,” Patrick said Sept. 22 at an Espy event, as Espy nodded. “I think the people of Mississippi and the people of America need problem solvers in Washington — people who understand that not any one party has a corner on all the best ideas.”

“How many Mississippians know who Deval Patrick is? Or even Cory Booker? Or even Ron Paul?”

McDaniel, a third-term state senator, has been a tea party favorite and received financial support from libertarianleaning groups when he nearly unseated Cochran in the 2014 Republican primary. Paul also endorsed him then.

“Our country desperately needs courageous leaders to stand up to the establishment in Washington,” Paul said in his recent statement for McDaniel. “Mississippi and the rest of the country need Chris McDaniel in D.C.” King, the political scientist, said presidential endorsements have the most influence because people know who a president is.

“How many Mississippians know who Deval Patrick is?

Or even Cory Booker? Or even Ron Paul?” King said. “It’s all relative.”

Emily Wagster Pettus covers Capitol matters for the Mississippi Associated Press in Jackson.

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Mississippi 5.3 Q Mississippi Business Journal U.S.

4.1

DeSoto 4.0

7 Tunica 5.5

MISSISSIPPI’S JULY UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES

UNITED STATES Labor Force Data Civilian Labor Force Unemployed Unemployment Rate Employed STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Unemployment Insurance Data •• Initial UI Claims Continued Claims Benefits Paid Weeks Paid First Payments Final Payments Average Weekly Benefit

Tate 5.3

July ‘18 163,734,000 6,730,000 4.1 157,004,000

June ‘18 1,303,200 74,800 5.7 1,228,400

June ‘18 163,277,000 6,812,000 4.2 156,465,000

July 2018 5,566 57,445 $8,625,271 42,979 3,333 521 $200.69

July ‘17 1,293,200 75,200 5.8 1,218,000

July ‘17 161,911,000 7,441,000 4.6 154,470,000

June 2018 6,350 44,537 $6,420,489 32,260 3,334 438 $199.02

‘17 Avg. 1,280,000 64,900 5.1 1,215,100

Yalobusha 6.1

Leflore 7.6

Carroll 5.7

Montgomery 5.5

Humphreys 9.4 Sharkey 7.4

Holmes 10.3

Yazoo 6.6

Issaquena 7.5

Monroe 6.0

Clay 7.8 Lowndes 5.8

Oktibbeha 5.7

Choctaw 5.1

Noxubee 8.0

Winston 6.3

Attala 6.1

Tishomingo 5.4

Itawamba 4.7

Chickasaw 5.9

Webster 5.8

Washington 7.5

Moving Avg.** 161,322,000 6,569,000 4.1 154,752,000

Leake 5.8

Neshoba 5.0

Scott 4.4

Newton 5.6

Kemper 8.7

Madison 4.1 Warren 5.9 Rankin 3.6

Hinds 5.2

Claiborne 10.8

July 2017 6,284 69,346 $9,518,753 48,171 3,817 765 $197.60

Calhoun 5.0

Grenada 4.9

Sunflower 8.1

Lee 4.4

Pontotoc 4.2

Bolivar 7.3

Moving Avg.** 1,279,200 60,200 4.7 1,219,000

‘17 Avg. 160,320,000 6,982,000 4.4 153,337,000

Prentiss 5.0

Lafayette 4.9

Quitman 9.0

Coahoma 7.6

Tallahatchie 5.7

July ‘18 1,304,100 69,500 5.3 1,234,600

Alcorn 4.6

Tippah 4.7

Union 3.7 Panola 6.8

Labor force and employment security data STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Labor Force Data Civilian Labor Force Unemployed Unemployment Rate Employed

Benton 6.3

Marshall 5.6

Copiah 6.3

Jefferson 15.2 Adams 7.2

Lincoln 5.1

Franklin 6.7

Wilkinson 10.1

Amite 7.1

Pike 6.5

Covington Jones 5.0 5.3

Marion 5.8

Walthall 7.9

Unemployment Rates

9.1 - 15.2

Wayne 6.2

Lawrence Jeff Davis 6.7 8.7

** Average for most recent twelve months, including current month Rates •• Unemployment Insurance amounts presented in this section only represent regular UI benefits, federal program amounts areUnemployment not included.

3.6 - 4.2 3.6 - 4.2 Labor force amounts are produced in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

4.3 - 5.8 4.3 - 5.8 Note: Unless indicated state and county data presented are not seasonally adjusted.

— Mississippi Department of Employment Security5.9 - 9.0

Clarke 6.1

Jasper 6.7

Smith 4.8

Simpson 4.8

Lauderdale 5.7

Lamar 4.1

Forrest 5.0

Pearl River 5.1

Hancock 5.3

5.9 - 9.0 9.1 - 15.2

Greene 7.2

Perry 6.6

George 7.5

Stone 6.2

Jackson 6.0

Harrison 4.9

Source: Labor Market Data Publication Design: Labor Market Information Department, MDES

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Great golf just around the corner

Shares plunge after Cal-Maine fails to meet expectations

By JACK WEATHERLY jack.weatherly@msbusiness.com

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talked recently with Steve Jent, Tournament Director for the Sanderson Farms Championship which is now coming up, just around the corner. This year’s tournament will be held at the Jackson Country Club on October 22-28.

From Steve’s description, it looks to be another great year for the tournament.

“We’ll have more than 130 players this year,” he said. “There are some really great, talented golfers who’ll be joining us.”

The Sanderson Farms event strives to have something for just about everybody.

“We’re going to have a great Ladies’ Day on Tuesday, October 23,” he said. “We expect over 400 women to attend the special luncheon, and we’ll have Erin Napier from Laurel Mercantile and HGTV with us.”

Steve also mentioned that they’ll have a special military pavilion, sponsored by Trustmark, set up on the 10th green for active, retired, and reserve vets, and tickets are free.

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“We love to be able to honor our great military folks and let them enjoy some great golf,” he said.

This year, the BankPlus fan pavilion will be set up on the 12th green, and Steve said that “fans always love that.”

Jent I asked Steve how many people he expects to attend this years Tournament.

“I think we’ll see over 30,000 who come and and enjoy the tournament across the week,” he suggested. “If the weather is great as we hope, we might top that number. It’s an off weekend for Ole Miss football, so that might mean more folks will join us.”

How about parking?

“We have shuttles working from the North Park Mall, and that has proven to be a very good way for folks to park and not have to worry about finding a space,”

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he said.

Wednesday through Sunday are open days for attendance, and Wednesday is Pro-Am day, which is free.

I asked Steve how things have gone through the years, and Alan Turner whether Sanderson Farms is happy with their sponsorship of the tournament.

“Absolutely, they are very pleased with how things have gone,” he said. “It’s wonderful to maintain a PGA tournament in Mississippi, and this is really a great event and I’m delighted to say that every year, our charitable donations to Batson have increased.”

Steve mentioned that there are still volunteer opportunities available for those who would like to provide some last minute help and support.

Steve has served as Tournament Director since 2014, and he says it’s been a great 5 years for him.

The Sanderson Farms Championship is really a wonderful fall event, and if we get some of the great fall weather we typically see in late October in Mississippi, this year promises to be a great outing.

“We may have a few surprises for folks to enjoy,” said.

For further information on the Sanderson Farms Championship, schedules, tickets, and volunteer opportunities, visit their website at www.SandersonFarmsChampionship.com.

Contact Mississippi Business Journal publisher Alan Turner at alan.turner@msbusiness.com or (601) 364-1021.

Cal-Maine Foods Inc. reported on Monday that its net income for the fiscal first quarter was $12.4 million, or 26 per share, compared with a loss of $16 million, or 33 cents per share, a year earlier.

Net sales for the quarter that ended on Sept. 1 was $340.6 million, 29.6 percent increase ove $262.8 million.

Despite year-over-year improvement, Cal-Maine shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market took a sizeable hit on Monday and Tuesday.

Shares lost $3.30, or nearly 7 percent on Monday and $1.58, or 3.49 percent, in heavy midafternoon trading on Tuesday because the company did not perform up to analysts’ expectations.

Dolph Baker, chairman and chief executive officer of Cal-Maine, stated in a news release that sales benefited from higher selling prices and “consistent sales.”

“Our average customer selling price for shell eggs was up 28.5 percent compared with the first quarter of fiscal 2018,” Baker said. “Food service demand remained steady and year-to-date shell egg exports were slightly higher than the same period last year. Although overall egg production growth has been modest, according to recent USDA reports, the number of chicks hatched has increased 11 percent since the beginning of calendar 2018, indicating future increases in laying hen numbers. Given these trends, the potential increase in the shell egg supply could create additional pricing pressure.”

Sales by the dozen of “specialty eggs, excluding co-pack sales, were up 9.7 percent over the same period last year. Specialty egg prices were steady for the first quarter of fiscal 2019, with the average customer selling price at approximately the same level as a year ago. Specialty egg revenue was 34.2 percent of our total shell egg revenue, compared with 39.6 percent for the first quarter of fiscal 2018, due to higher market prices for non-specialty eggs in the current period. We remain focused on providing our customers with a favorable product mix of healthy and affordable options including conventional, cage-free, nutritionally enhanced and organic eggs.

“We currently have additional capital projects underway to convert Cal-Maine Foods’ facilities to convertible/cage-free capacity and replace less efficient production. These projects are designed to offer the flexibility to produce conventional See CAL-MAINE, Page 9

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By JACK WEATHERLY jack.weatherly@msbusiness.com

No one was in a hurry to buy the building that houses the UA Northpark 14.

That was obvious after its owner, United Development Co. of Southlake, Texas, put it on the market in early 2016.

It failed to get a buyer in more than two years.

The owner then tried to auction the 36,000-square-foot building and surrounding parking space on the north side of the Northpark Mall on June 28 of this year.

No buyers again.

Pacific Retail Capital Partners – which bought the 958,000-square-foot Northpark Mall from the Simon Property Group for an undisclosed amount in September 2016 – decided to exercise its first-right of refusal option, which was part of the acquisition.

The deal was finalized last month.

Turns out, Pacific Retail may well not want it either – as a movie house.

“We’re weighing all options,” said Christy Pender, marketing and business development manager for Northpark.

“It’s a perfect opportunity for us pave the way for future growth opportunities,” Pender said in an interview on Monday.

“There are several exciting things we could do.

“If you look at the building and the parking around it, it’s a pretty nice piece of land.”

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eggs or cage-free eggs, allowing us to more effectively manage our future product mix.

“For the first quarter of fiscal 2019, our farm production costs per dozen were up 7.3 percent, primarily due to increased feed costs. Our overall production was down 2 percent compared with a year ago, as we adjusted flock rotations to maximize production for the upcoming holiday season.

“Our feed costs per dozen were up 10.1 percent, due to the higher cost of feed ingredients, primarily soybean meal. Based on the USDA’s estimates for a record harvest for this year’s corn and soybean crops, we expect to have an ample supply of feed ingredients for fiscal 2019. However, grain prices have been volatile with the recently imposed international tariffs creating market uncertainty.”

For the first quarter of fiscal 2019, CalMaine Foods will pay a cash dividend of approximately 8.5 cents per share to holders of its common and Class A common stock.

The company, which is headquartered in Jackson, is the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the United States.

Pender said the plans would fit in with the multimillion-dollar remodeling and repurposing of the mall, which was built in 1984 on the north side of County Line Road in Ridgeland and last underwent a major update in 1998.

Malls of that era are facing headwinds of online shopping and third-party shipping. So malls are attempting to reinvent themselves as destination and entertainment centers

along with retailing.

Northpark’s future, which will be celebrated in a grand opening in mid-November, includes enhanced dining, a children’s play area, along with upgraded restrooms, interior and exterior landscaping, furniture, fixtures, lighting and common areas.

As far as the lease agreement with Regal Entertainment Group, Pender would only say that the theater “currently remains operational.”

Regal was sold to British chain Cineworld for $3.6 billion in December, according to Variety.

Knoxville-based Regal operates 561 cinemas in 43 states and U.S. territories. Its major brands are Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theatres and Edwards Theatres.

Regal put itself on the sale block in 2015 but could not find a buyer, Variety reported.

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Cleveland single-fam

By BECKY GILLETTE mbj@msbusiness.com

Photo by STEPHEN KARLISCH

The interior designer was Alice Cottrell.

Cleveland native Bentley Tibbs, AIA, grew up in Cleveland and spent a lot of his childhood on the family farm 20 miles away called Hushpuckena. He and his brothers still have the farm, but Tibbs lives and works in Dallas, Texas, where he is a prominent single-family home architect.

After high school, Tibbs started out at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., pursuing a history degree. Then he spent a year at Delta State University trying to figure out what he wanted to do. After that he ended up at Texas A&M where he finished his history degree and also a degree in architecture. He went on to get Tibbs obtained a graduate degree in architecture there, too.

Tibbs said the support of his parents, Pat Tibbs and the late Dr. Robert Clinton Tibbs, gave him experiences that helped form him into the architect he is today.

“I was lucky enough for my parents to be able to send me to Italy for about six months while I was in graduate school,” Tibbs said. “Being able to experiences all of that history, seeing some buildings hundreds of years old and others that were very modern, was just incredible. I was able to see all those different layers of history and combine them into a modern sensibility. Having grown up in the Delta also had a huge influence on my work. It was one of those fertile parts of my education to grow up in the Delta.”

He also considers himself incredibly lucky that after architecture graduate school he landed a job with Frank Welch.

“Frank, who passed away a year and a half ago at the age of 90, was a big deal in Texas,” Tibbs said. “Frank had a legacy and a national reputation. I was really lucky to get a job in that office. He was kind of the father of Texas regionalism. Frank was pretty modern, but steeped in the Texas vernacular of what a house should look like, the iconic style of what we think of as a house. I worked for him for about five years doing all single-family residential work. Then I went out on my own. Frank was really supportive the whole time. He was a wonderful mentor.”

Generally smaller communities don’t have a lot of demand for architecture services for single-family homes.

That is why Dallas has been a good fit for Tibbs. The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the country.

“Dallas is a good environment,” Tibbs said.

He sees architectural design as being as much about its environment as it is about its client. “The dirt has as much of an opinion as the client does, and you have to listen to

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The North Dallas House II was designed by Mississippi native Bentley Tibbs.

both of them,” he said.

It can be a challenge to make sure you are on the same page with clients when designing a home for them. Usually when he first meets with clients, they come with this big folder of “dream house” pictures they have saved for years.

“I usually try to meet them at the site where the building will go,” Tibbs said. “I ask them not to show me any pictures. Sometimes they get frustrated or confused. I explain I want to initially respond to their words, to how they see their lives in this building. I want to respond to the voice of the site, as well as to the words of the client, and not the pictures they have in a folder. The pictures they have are important, but they are important later on.

Once we find the language of the voice of the building and plan based on what they think they want, it will take four to six months to complete the drawings. The idea is we find their house together.”

He sees his job as helping clients find something that

makes their lives better, and is beautiful at the same time.

“When I ask about the character instead of the look of their house, they start understanding what they want and begin to realize a house is more than just a pretty box you can live in,” he said. “It really becomes an extension of their lives. After the drawings are ready, then I get into how they store socks in closet, and how they store their knives and spices. It is everything that has to be thought of.”

The typical house he designs is from 4,000 to 6,000 square feet. All his designs are drawn by hand. He does drawings for as many profiles as he can identify in the building. A typical house will have 25 to 30 sheets of drawings that are 30 by 42 inches.

“After the drawings, I help them find a contractor, and during construction I’m there because clients are going to change their minds and they should be able to,” Tibbs said.

“I’m there to help them make thoughtful decisions about

the things they want to change. I get to know the clients really well, and they get to know me really well. From start to move in, it can be 2.5 years.”

Tibbs said his work stems from an understanding of modernism and a respect for the spatial, formal and cultural aspects of other historical periods.

“By dismissing decorative motifs and allowing beauty to be a more natural by-product, architecture can be free to express an exuberant luxury that would otherwise be hidden,” he said. “Architectural projects, whether commercial or residential, benefit from the confident detailing of a thoroughly modern framework of straightforward materials and a rich use and refined composition of color and natural light. The elements of the designs are choreographed to bring a serenity to those who live in or visit the spaces. Soothing but never boring, the work takes possession of its site and expresses a quiet energy through every hour of every season.”

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The Pulse can be arranged using various bond pattterns that simulate a pulsing pattern, these arrangements provide for wind to gently sweep over the surfaces of the bricks and for water to shed off the bricks down the ground. For example, bond B (above) the bricks are arranged so that each brick protects the brick below it by gently extending beyond providing a drip edges to shed water. Image below shows full wall of Bond B.

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BRICK BY BRICK » MSU architecture juniors take first in national masonry competition MSU School of Architecture

STARKVILLE — A custom-brick project designed by a team of three Mississippi State architecture students recently won first place in a national masonry competition.

Junior Baron O. Necaise of Gulfport presented his team’s “The Pulse” brick design at the National Concrete Masonry Association 2018 Midyear Meeting in Chicago in early August. Teammates included juniors Madison C. Holbrook of Steens and McKenzie R. Johnson of Fayetteville, Ga., who were finishing a study abroad course in Rome.

NCMA Vice President of Engineering Jason Thompson said the competition is designed to expose the next generation of architects and engineers to concrete masonry and hardscape products as a material and a building system.

“The MSU entry was highly innovative both in its design and application,” Thompson said. “The students considered an array of aspects starting with manufacturing feasibility to serviceability and performance issues in the field. The jury SR 12 over Fannegusha Creek was blown away with the quality of the Holmes County, Mississippi submission.”

The project is MSU’s first entry into the AVIATION | CONSTRUCTION | FACILITIES | FEDERAL | TRANSPORTATION | WATER competition.

“The Pulse” was completed in MSU Assistant Professor of Architecture Jacob A. Gines’ spring 2018 materials course. For the assignment, Holbrook, Johnson and Necaise produced a set of eight concrete masonry units based on a single design, Mississippi State student Wayne Black impressed us as an intern back in 2004. His dedication to improving with each brick measuring 3-5/8 inches the state’s infrastructure has been impressing us ever since. Congratulations on 50 Under 40, Wayne! by 3-5/8 inches by 8 inches. The student team considered use of light and shadow, composition, orientation, usefulness and + For more information, contact: 6360 I-55 North, Suite 340 | Jackson, MS 39211 | 601.825.3633 | GarverUSA.com

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configuration while following a very specific digital fabrication process for the design and development of their custom brick.

Holbrook, Johnson and Necaise made their project eligible for the national competition after taking first place in a local Unit Design Competition sponsored by Saturn Materials LLC of Columbus.

In reflecting on the team’s success in the national competition, faculty adviser Gines noted two things he thought set the MSU group apart from the other two finalist teams from Ball State University and Iowa State University.

First, the MSU team came with its design fabricated into bricks cast out of concrete. Second, the students worked with Fred Dunand, president and owner of Saturn Materials LLC in Columbus, to manufacture a set of the bricks, Gines said.

“That definitely demonstrated manufacturability, which was one of the criteria for the competition,” Gines added.

Dunand, an NCMA member who was instrumental in getting Mississippi State started in the competition, was excited about the students’ performance in their first year of competition.

“It’s a pretty big deal that put the Mississippi State School of Architecture in front of the nation,” said Dunand, adding that the bar had been set high, and plans already have started for Mississippi State architecture students to compete again next year.

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From left, team member Baron Necaise, Assistant Professor of Architecture Jacob A. Gines, and President and Owner of Saturn Materials LLC in Columbus Fred Dunand smile for a group photo during the National Concrete Masonry Association 2018 Midyear Meeting in Chicago.

Jassen Callender, the School of Architecture’s associate director and director of its fifth-year program in Jackson, said the students’ accomplishment is “a testament to the quality and dedication of the School of Architecture’s students and faculty.”

“Professor Gines should be commended both for his willingness to engage time-honored materials in new ways and for the example he sets for students,” Callender said. “The members of the team represent the character of this generation of MSU architecture students – innovative and hard working.”

Necaise said the team is honored to be the first from Mississippi to win the NCMA Unit Design Competition.

“It was also the 100th anniversary of the NCMA, so the whole experience is something

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The Pulse is designed to be used as a coping that would be installed at the top of the wall or in other applications where a solid brick is desirable. However, The Pulse would also be manufactured with three cores, thus reducing their overall weight by 25%.

I’ll never forget,” he said. “I have a new appreciation for concrete masonry and everything I have learned through the process.”

For more on the award-winning MSU student project, visit www.msstate. edu/newsroom/article/2018/07/mississippi-state-architecture-students-selected-finalists-national-masonry.

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16 Q Mississippi Business Journal Q October 5, 2018

Wells named MAFP’s New Physician of the Year

Clements and Everitt join Neel-Schaffer

Jeremy B. Wells, MD, of Hattiesburg, was recently honored as New Physician of the Year 2018 by the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP).

This is the first year the award has been presented by the MAFP Awards Committee, comprised of family physicians who are past winners of the MAFP Family Physician of the Year award. Individuals who earn the New Physician award must be less than seven years post-residency. They must be community leaders who prioritize patients in their care and make a contribution to the family medicine profession.

Since 2015, Wells has served as a sports medicine physician at Hattiesburg Clinic, where he is active in sports coverage and team physician duties.

A native of Raleigh, Wells graduated from Raleigh High School and the University of Mississippi, where he was part of the Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College. After completing medical school at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2011, he stayed at UMMC for his 3-year family medicine residency. After residency, Dr. Wells completed a 1-year fellowship in primary care sports medicine at UMMC. The Family Medicine Department at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) presented him with the Gary W. Jeffcoats Teaching Award for 2012-13 while he was a family medicine resident.

Wells serves on the clinical faculty of both William Carey College of Osteopathic Medicine and the UMMC Family Medicine department.

Wells has been involved in the MAFP since his time as a medical student.

As vice president of the MAFP Foundation, Wells is part of the academy’s fund raising arm.

Wells and his wife, Chelsea, live in Hattiesburg with their 1-year-old daughter, Katsie.

Neel-Schaffer, Inc., announced that Wade Clements, PE, has joined the firm as a Senior Engineer in the company’s East Region and Jackson native Ed Everitt has joined the firm as General Counsel.

Clements joins Neel-Schaffer with 25-plus years of experience Clements in highway construction and maintenance with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Clements will provide project management and business development services throughout Neel-Schaffer’s Eastern Region footprint.

A registered Professional Engineer in Alabama, Florida, and Kentucky, Clements also is a Certified Public Manager and Everitt a Certified Bridge Inspection Manager. He is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve Civil Engineering Corps, and he holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Kentucky.

Everitt has practiced law for 12 years, the last seven as in-house Counsel for one of the nation’s largest construction and engineering firms. Before going in-house, Everitt practiced construction litigation for one of the pre-eminent law firms in the Southeast.

Everitt has a civil engineering background and worked for a consulting engineering firm prior to attending law school.

Everitt earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University and a JD from the University of Mississippi.

Grayson appointed inside sales supervisor

BancorpSouth promotes Lindsay and Morgan

TEC recently announced the appointment of Randy Grayson as Inside Sales Supervisor at TEC of Bay Springs. In this role, Grayson is responsible for supervising the virtual call center for outbound sales calls.

Grayson received his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Mississippi State University.

Grayson resides in Louin.

BancorpSouth Bank recently announced the promotions of Telford Lindsay to first vice president and Jennifer Morgan to bank officer in BancorpSouth Equipment Finance and Leasing, which provides equipment financing for commercial markets and municipalities across the Southeast and parts of the Midwest.

Lindsay joined BancorpSouth Equipment Finance in 2014 and most recently served as vice president. He is responsible for the equipment finance and leasing of commercial equipment for the division’s Louisiana and Mississippi territories. Prior to joining BancorpSouth, he worked for other Mississippi-based financial institutions, where he gained industry experience as a mortgage originator, consumer loan officer, branch manager and commercial loan officer.

Lindsay, a Certified Leasing Finance Professional, is a graduate of the University of Mississippi with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.

Morgan has worked at BancorpSouth for eight years and has served in a variety of positions, including credit and documentation specialist, operations specialist, sales support team leader and accountant, within the Equipment Finance area. In her new role, she will monitor documentation management within the team, perform portfolio administration functions and continue to assist the sales support staff with daily workflow, if needed.

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HORNE promotes six in Ridgeland office HORNE LLP, announced the promotion of six Ridgeland team members: Hannah Lewis, Mitzi Warren, Sam Dyse, Dan Eveland, Shelby Powell and Kasey Boone.

On the public and middle market team, Lewis and Warren were promoted to manager. On the government services team, Dyse was promoted to manager.

Eveland, a member of the healthcare team, was promoted to supervisor. Both on the Firm FIRST team, Powell was promoted to senior associate and Boone was promoted to associate.

Morgan earned an associate’s degree in business administration from Pearl River Community College and a bachelor’s degree in management from the University of Southern Mississippi. She is active in the Hattiesburg community and volunteers for the United Way of Southeast Mississippi, Christian Services Inc., Relay for Life and the Hattiesburg Fire Department Wives Auxiliary. She is a member of the National Equipment Finance Association and the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association.

Gulf Council selects Froeschke as new deputy director The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has named Dr. John Froeschke as its new Deputy director. Dr. Froeschke has worked as a Fishery Biologist and Statistician for the Council since 2009.

John earned his Ph.D from Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi. There, he worked on developing predictive models used to improve our understanding of environmental factors affecting fish distribution and abundance in the Gulf of Mexico. Prior to this, Dr.Froeschke completed his Master’s of Science in Biology at California State University, Northridge. He worked as a fish biologist at Occidental College in Los Angeles and as a scientific diver for several years.

John currently lives in central Florida and enjoys fishing and camping with his wife and two young children.

Hibbett Neel earns honor from ITE Neel-Schaffer co-founder and President W. Hibbett Neel, PE, was honored by the Institute of Transportation Engineers when he was named an Honorary Member of the international organization.

Selected for honorary membership late last year, Neel was officially honored on August 21 of this year during ITE’s annual International Meeting in Minneapolis.

Honorary Membership is the highest recognition of notable and outstanding professional achievement presented by ITE, which has 15,000 members worldwide. Neel has been a member of ITE for over 40 years and served as the ITE International President in 2014. Only 80 members have received Honorary Member status since 1933, when the first Honorary Member was chosen.

“I am honored to receive this award,” said Neel.

“But I know what little success I’ve achieved I would not have achieved without the great support of my wonderful wife Susan. We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary this year in May. And we have had many talented, dedicated employees who have really made this company a success.”

Neel and Gorman Schaffer founded Neel-Schaffer in 1983, primarily as a traffic/transportation firm. The firm has grown from one office with 20 employees to 500-plus employees working out of 38 offices across nine states.

“As federal mandates and local priorities emerged, we established offices to provide services to clients throughout the Southeast,” explained Neel. “But you have to have more than office locations to succeed.

We brought on engineers with an entrepreneurial spirit, and we put them in positions where they could excel.”

Gulfport Memorial Physician Clinics hire Conger Memorial Physician Clinics hired Nicholas G. Conger, MD, in the practice of Infectious Diseases, Conger earned his medical degree from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He completed his residency and internship in Internal Medicine; and fellowship in infectious Conger diseases at Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Tex. Conger is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Hemenway passes architect exam Vanessa J. Hemenway of M|P Design Group passed the final Architect Registration Examination.

Hemenway received her BArch Architecture from Mississippi State University in 2013, and joined M|P Design Group in 2013. Since being employed at Hemenway Machado | Patano, Hemenway has worked in several sectors from Education, Medical, Municipal, Federal, Commercial Retail & Industrial Facilities. Some of the notable architectural design projects include; Biloxi Jr. High School, Biloxi Athletic Facility, Biloxi Natatorium and Biloxi High Performing Arts Center.

Women’s Foundation announces 2018 Women of Vision

The Women’s Foundation of Mississippi, a grantmaking and advocacy organization hold its “Women of Vision” event Oct. 15 and honor four women who have been innovators and visionaries in their respective fields: Willie Jones- President/CEO at Dependable Source Corp. of MS Ellen Langford– Artist, Community Activist, Educator Cathy Northington- Chief Operating Officer for the Mississippi Economic Council, State Chamber of Commerce Carol Todd Puckett– Founder of Everyday Gourmet & Everyday Gardener, Community Activist

Benchmark Litigation selects three to 40 and under hot list The Brunini firm is proud to recognize Cody Bailey, Karen Howell and Taylor McNeel, as they have been selected in the 40 & Under Hot List.

They are among the top young talent in their respective litigation communities in Mississippi and throughout the United States.

Benchmark Litigation focuses exclusively on litigation in the United States. Benchmark Litigation selects nominees through extensive interviews of the nation’s leading private practice lawyers and in-house counsel to identify the leading litigators in each jurisdiction.

Newsmakers

October 5, 2018

American Red Cross names Regional CEO for Mississippi

Merit Health Rankin names CEO, CFO

Sanderson Farms names Edith Kelly-Green to board

The American Red Cross has chosen Rachel Word to lead its Mississippi Region. Word has more than 15 years of experience in the non-profit and public sector. She joined the American Red Cross in December of 2007 and had served the organization in strategic leadership roles over Word the last 10 years.

As the regional chief executive officer for the Mississippi Region and the executive director of the Southwest Mississippi Chapter, Word oversees paid and volunteer staff in three Chapters that cover 80 counties and serve 2.98 million residents.

Prior to her latest role, Word served in the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama Regions in positions where she developed many best practices and successfully led or participated in multiple special projects for the organization. Word is a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and has a bachelor’s degree in management with a minor in marketing. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, gardening and volunteers with the Junior League. Word and her husband Jason moved to the Jackson area at the end of July 2018.

Heather Sistrunk, MHSA, BSN, RN, was recently named Chief Executive Officer of Merit Health Rankin, and Mitchell Cox has been named Chief Financial Officer.

Sistrunk has over 20 years of health care experience in the Jackson market.

Sistrunk For the past 18 months, Sistrunk has served as Chief Administrative Officer for both Merit Health Rankin and Merit Health River Oaks. She previously served four years as Chief Operating Officer at Merit Health River Oaks.

Before Merit Health, Sistrunk served as the Southern Division Cox Director of Quality and Clinical Implementation for Health Management Physician Network (HMPN). She began her career as a coronary care nurse at a local hospital and also served as administrative director for the cardiovascular services service line.

Sistrunk holds her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Mississippi University for Women in Columbus and her master’s degree in health services administration from Mississippi College in Clinton. She is a member of the Medical Group Management Association, the American Organization for Nursing Executives and the Mississippi Healthcare Alliance.

She and her husband Mark have one son and live in Brandon.

Cox most recently served the facility as interim Chief Financial Officer.

Before joining Merit Health Rankin, Cox worked as assistant chief financial officer at Merit Health Wesley in Hattiesburg. Prior, Cox worked in revenue management at CHSPSC, LLC in Nashville.

Cox received his master’s degree of accountancy in taxation and bachelor’s degree in accountancy, accounting and business management from the University of Mississippi. He is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Cox and his wife, Martha, are Mississippi natives and have one daughter, Maggie.

Sanderson Farms, Inc. announced that Edith Kelly-Green was elected to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective September 20, 2018. She will serve as a Class B director until the annual meeting of shareholders in 2019 and will, if re-elected at that meeting, serve for a term expiring in 2021.

Kelly-Green is a partner in The KGR Group, whose primary interests are investments in Lennys Grill and Subs restaurant franchises located in Memphis, Tennessee. Prior to starting this business in 2005, she worked for FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation, where she served in many roles including Vice President and Chief Sourcing Officer. She also served as Vice President-Internal Audit of FedEx Corporation. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Applied Industrial Technology, a NYSE-listed company that manufactures and distributes industrial parts and products. Kelly-Green is also a member of the Board of Directors of BULAB Holdings, Inc., a privately owned specialty chemical company. She previously served as a director of Paragon National Bank and was a senior auditor for Deloitte in Memphis.

Kelly-Green has been an active volunteer holding leadership positions in the Memphis community and through organizations in Mississippi. She is a founding member of the Philanthropic Black Women of Memphis; founding chairman of The Women’s Council for Philanthropy at the University of Mississippi; and former chair of the legal and compliance committee of the board of Regional One Health and member of the advisory board of Baptist Women’s Hospital, both in Memphis. Kelly-Green holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Mississippi and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. She is a certified public accountant (inactive).

The Company also announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.32 (thirty-two cents) per share payable October 16, 2018 to stockholders of record on October 2, 2018.

Sanderson Farms, Inc. is engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh, frozen and minimally prepared chicken. Its shares trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol SAFM.

Memorial Physician Clinics welcomes Youngblood Memorial Physician Clinics - The Medical Oncology Group recently welcomed Gaela S. Youngblood, Psy.D., in the practice of Clinical Psychology in Gulfport.

Youngblood completed her Bachelor of Arts at Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, and her Master of Arts from Youngblood Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. She earned her Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology at The George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Andrew Head new chorusmaster for Opera The Mississippi Opera recently announced that its new chorusmaster for the 2018-2019 season is Andrew Head.

Head has appeared in operatic roles in The Crucible, Rigoletto,Susannah, Les Troyens), Abu Hassan, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Un ballo in maschera, Head Carmen, Werther, and others.

He has performed in New York, Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Since 2016, he has served as the Director of Choral Activities at the Raymond Campus of Hinds Community College, where he also maintains a voice studio.

Lehman-Roberts Co. asphalt plants in Mississippi recognized Lehman-Roberts Co., a highway paving, construction and aggregate industry, recently announced two of its plants have earned Diamond Achievement Commendation by the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA). Plant 10 in Byhalia and Plant 7 in Batesville were honored with the Diamond Achievement Commendation for Excellence in Asphalt Plant/ Site Operations.

The Diamond Achievement Commendation is a nationally recognized and respected program that encourages and recognizes responsible asphalt plant operational practices and cultivates good community relations. NAPA’s Chairman Craig Parker stated, NAPA developed the Diamond program in 1999.

Vicksburg District selects chief for the Programs Management Branch The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District has selected Alainna O’Bannon as chief of its programs management branch of the project management division.

O’Bannon’s job duties include developing and defending the federal budget and preparing the fiscal year work plan execution. O’Bannon Prior to this assignment, O’Bannon was the operations and maintenance appropriation manager at the Mississippi Valley Division which supports district offices located in St. Paul, Minn., Rock Island, Ill., St. Louis, Mo., Memphis, Tenn., Vicksburg, and New Orleans.

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and Development Center. In 2010, she accepted a position in the project management branch and worked as a program analyst on numerous projects.

She became a senior program analyst for Mississippi River and Tributaries appropriation at the Vicksburg District in 2013.

A native of Vicksburg, O’Bannon is a graduate of Vicksburg High School. She earned an associate’s from Hinds Community College and a bachelor’s in business administration from the State University of New York.

She is a member of Gibson Memorial United Methodist Church and also attends First Presbyterian Church of Vicksburg. She is a Life Member of the Junior Auxiliary of Vicksburg where she served as the 2014-2015 President.

She and her husband, David, have a daughter, Laurel, and she is the daughter of Joe and Linda Garcie.

Alcorn ranked sixth on College Consensus’ list Alcorn State University was again the highest ranked Mississippi HBCU and placed sixth on College Consensus’ Best Colleges and Universities in Mississippi 2018 list. To identify the Best Colleges in Mississippi for 2018, College Consensus averaged the latest results from the most respected college ranking systems with thousands of real student review scores from around the web to produce a rating for each school.

ACEC/MS, installs new 2018-2019 officers The American Council of Engineering Companies of Mississippi (ACEC/MS) has installed their new officers for 2018-2019. Their new president, Allen Scott, is with Engineering Service in Rich-land. He is a 1979 graduate of Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering and later obtained a Master of Science Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, also from MSU. Scott is a member of the Mississippi Engineering Society, the Na-tional Society of Professional Engineers, and the Ameri-can Public Works Association. He has over 38 years ex-perience in consulting engineering with Engineering Ser-vice, as well as, working as an engineering and wastewater laboratory technician during his college years.

New officers are David Bowman of Neel-Schaffer, Inc. (Jackson); Wayne Morrison of Williams, Clark & Morrison, Inc. (Yazoo City); Kyle Wallace of Shows, Dearman & Waits, Inc. (Hattiesburg); Randy Ahlrich of Burns Cooley Dennis, Inc. (Ridgeland); Dax Alexander of Brown, Mitch-ell & Alexander, Inc. (Gulfport); Darrell Martinek of W.L. Burle Engineers, P.A. (Greenville); Hunter Arnold of Wag-goner Engineering, Inc. (Jackson); and Carey Hardin of Clearwater Consultants, Inc. (Starkville).

ACEC/MS is the professional trade association repre-senting the business interest of 90+ consulting engineer-ing firms with approximately 1500 employees in Missis-sippi. These firms provide the professional knowledge and services to enhance the quality of life for every citizen by designing systems for clean water, safe roads, bridges, mechanical and electrical systems.

18 Q Mississippi Business Journal Q October 5, 2018 July 2018 sales tax receipts/year to date, July 1 MISSISSIPPI STATE TAX COMMISSION Here are cities’ earnings through sales tax collections. Sales tax has a three-month cycle.

Month 1 — Tax is collected by the retailer. Month 2 — Tax is reported/paid to the Tax Commission by the retailer. Month 3 — Sales tax diversion is paid by the Tax Commission to the cities.

This report is based on the month the tax is collected at the Tax Commission (Month 2).

July July Year to date YTD CITY 2018 2017 2018 2017 ABBEVILLE $4,099.08 $5,095.93 $4,099.08 $5,095.93 ABERDEEN 75,577.87 71,027.59 75,577.87 71,027.59 ACKERMAN 25,255.54 23,382.47 25,255.54 23,382.47 ALCORN STATE U 155.06 155.06 ALGOMA 2,579.13 2,431.04 2,579.13 2,431.04 ALLIGATOR 320.50 369.50 320.50 369.50 AMORY 166,075.34 161,131.20 166,075.34 161,131.20 ANGUILLA 1,816.48 3,639.85 1,816.48 3,639.85 ARCOLA 793.56 1,343.05 793.56 1,343.05 ARTESIA 713.86 652.60 713.86 652.60 ASHLAND 12,466.00 16,383.00 12,466.00 16,383.00 BALDWYN 42,882.62 44,632.19 42,882.62 44,632.19 BASSFIELD 14,695.55 13,151.41 14,695.55 13,151.41 BATESVILLE 390,246.37 383,278.05 390,246.37 383,278.05 BAY SPRINGS 56,153.88 58,064.19 56,153.88 58,064.19 BAY ST LOUIS 157,316.21 144,846.30 157,316.21 144,846.30 BEAUMONT 10,376.28 8,533.82 10,376.28 8,533.82 BEAUREGARD 220.30 208.05 220.30 208.05 BELMONT 28,172.35 28,431.89 28,172.35 28,431.89 BELZONI 36,102.34 41,539.85 36,102.34 41,539.85 BENOIT 2,745.36 2,450.83 2,745.36 2,450.83 BENTONIA 10,988.19 17,356.95 10,988.19 17,356.95 BEULAH 330.35 358.79 330.35 358.79 BIG CREEK 315.71 260.22 315.71 260.22 BILOXI 1,188,826.38 1,106,882.97 1,188,826.38 1,106,882.97 BLUE MOUNTAIN 9,826.46 11,461.67 9,826.46 11,461.67 BLUE SPRINGS 2,198.58 2,483.70 2,198.58 2,483.70 BOLTON 16,921.11 14,628.07 16,921.11 14,628.07 BOONEVILLE 161,357.77 161,764.09 161,357.77 161,764.09 BOYLE 27,430.23 17,003.71 27,430.23 17,003.71 BRANDON 506,350.86 484,257.42 506,350.86 484,257.42 BRAXTON 1,554.84 1,568.12 1,554.84 1,568.12 BROOKHAVEN 452,429.35 474,833.58 452,429.35 474,833.58 BROOKSVILLE 9,629.66 11,091.06 9,629.66 11,091.06 BRUCE 41,723.79 45,625.69 41,723.79 45,625.69 BUDE 12,012.13 11,633.52 12,012.13 11,633.52 BURNSVILLE 14,161.81 15,263.02 14,161.81 15,263.02 BYHALIA 75,617.46 75,719.81 75,617.46 75,719.81 BYRAM 237,717.86 211,459.86 237,717.86 211,459.86 CALEDONIA 15,497.85 13,323.91 15,497.85 13,323.91 CALHOUN CITY 24,948.82 24,414.65 24,948.82 24,414.65 CANTON 251,392.11 244,223.82 251,392.11 244,223.82 CARROLLTON 7,121.13 6,968.89 7,121.13 6,968.89 CARTHAGE 146,277.85 143,578.81 146,277.85 143,578.81 CARY 1,891.25 997.12 1,891.25 997.12 CENTREVILLE 20,492.11 20,222.91 20,492.11 20,222.91 CHARLESTON 30,425.75 28,711.78 30,425.75 28,711.78 CHUNKY 636.71 905.68 636.71 905.68 CLARKSDALE 215,359.96 222,160.70 215,359.96 222,160.70 CLEVELAND 293,523.33 303,000.54 293,523.33 303,000.54 CLINTON 357,811.84 379,115.87 357,811.84 379,115.87 COAHOMA 469.13 678.04 469.13 678.04 COAHOMA COLLEGE 43.25 33.21 43.25 33.21 COFFEEVILLE 11,678.00 11,598.49 11,678.00 11,598.49 COLDWATER 24,207.78 18,773.45 24,207.78 18,773.45 COLLINS 144,756.58 120,392.55 144,756.58 120,392.55 COLUMBIA 268,243.19 263,910.73 268,243.19 263,910.73 COLUMBUS 806,897.41 807,490.22 806,897.41 807,490.22 COMO 14,935.98 12,846.65 14,935.98 12,846.65 CORINTH 526,486.09 535,740.68 526,486.09 535,740.68 COURTLAND 1,327.80 1,535.32 1,327.80 1,535.32 CRAWFORD 1,514.13 1,516.31 1,514.13 1,516.31 CRENSHAW 5,894.11 5,307.17 5,894.11 5,307.17 CROSBY 1,483.42 550.78 1,483.42 550.78 CROWDER 2,199.46 1,888.88 2,199.46 1,888.88 CRUGER 300.21 435.24 300.21 435.24 CRYSTAL SPRINGS 68,180.00 68,257.83 68,180.00 68,257.83 D LO 37,209.33 2,058.90 37,209.33 2,058.90 D’IBERVILLE 680,952.01 620,095.35 680,952.01 620,095.35 DECATUR 11,619.75 10,898.71 11,619.75 10,898.71 DEKALB 20,566.57 18,816.15 20,566.57 18,816.15 DERMA 10,579.39 12,001.92 10,579.39 12,001.92 DIAMONDHEAD 52,904.62 45,611.07 52,904.62 45,611.07 DODDSVILLE 820.88 663.18 820.88 663.18 DREW 7,253.06 7,143.34 7,253.06 7,143.34 DUCK HILL 4,997.12 3,940.49 4,997.12 3,940.49 DUMAS 1,088.42 1,225.90 1,088.42 1,225.90 DUNCAN 533.66 475.54 533.66 475.54 DURANT 36,411.11 38,417.73 36,411.11 38,417.73 EAST MS COLLEGE 52.79 49.93 52.79 49.93 ECRU 10,293.26 12,690.56 10,293.26 12,690.56 EDEN 89.40 73.84 89.40 73.84 EDWARDS 6,842.98 6,407.84 6,842.98 6,407.84 ELLISVILLE 74,513.18 77,238.35 74,513.18 77,238.35 ENTERPRISE 6,133.20 6,354.17 6,133.20 6,354.17 ETHEL 2,575.80 2,518.21 2,575.80 2,518.21 EUPORA 39,898.91 36,626.53 39,898.91 36,626.53 FALCON 366.19 121.34 366.19 121.34 FALKNER 5,415.38 6,099.89 5,415.38 6,099.89 FARMINGTON 5,361.73 2,551.40 5,361.73 2,551.40 FAYETTE 15,446.96 20,105.97 15,446.96 20,105.97 FLORA 36,044.00 29,970.66 36,044.00 29,970.66 FLORENCE 74,800.65 74,397.55 74,800.65 74,397.55 FLOWOOD 1,042,191.23 947,862.23 1,042,191.23 947,862.23 FOREST 201,837.94 185,911.08 201,837.94 185,911.08 FRENCH CAMP 1,158.29 1,024.72 1,158.29 1,024.72 FRIARS POINT 3,957.37 2,154.99 3,957.37 2,154.99

FULTON GATTMAN GAUTIER GEORGETOWN GLEN GLENDORA GLOSTER GOLDEN GOODMAN GREENVILLE GREENWOOD GRENADA GULFPORT GUNNISON GUNTOWN HATLEY HATTIESBURG HAZLEHURST HEIDELBERG HERNANDO HICKORY HICKORY FLAT HINDS COMMUNITY HOLLANDALE HOLLY SPRINGS HORN LAKE HOULKA HOUSTON INDIANOLA INVERNESS ISOLA ITTA BENA IUKA JACKSON JONESTOWN JUMPERTOWN KILMICHAEL KOSCIUSKO KOSSUTH LAKE LAMBERT LAUREL LEAKESVILLE LEARNED LELAND LENA LEXINGTON LIBERTY LONG BEACH LOUIN LOUISE LOUISVILLE LUCEDALE LULA LUMBERTON LYON MABEN MACON MADISON MAGEE MAGNOLIA MANTACHIE MANTEE MARIETTA MARION MARKS MATHISTON MAYERSVILLE MCCOMB MCCOOL MCLAIN MEADVILLE MENDENHALL MERIDIAN MERIGOLD METCALFE MIZE MONTICELLO MONTROSE MOORHEAD MORGAN CITY MORTON MOSS POINT MOUND BAYOU MS GULFCOAST MS STATE UNIV MS VALLEY ST MT OLIVE MYRTLE NATCHEZ NETTLETON NEW ALBANY NEW AUGUSTA NEW HEBRON NEWTON NO. CARROLLTON NOXAPATER OAKLAND OCEAN SPRINGS OKOLONA OLIVE BRANCH OSYKA OXFORD PACE PACHUTA PADEN

127,664.37 132,946.14 145.10 118.36 200,709.93 193,560.49 4,409.03 3,917.44 4,382.44 3,639.51 471.69 329.90 12,409.99 12,797.39 4,005.24 4,990.44 3,427.22 3,231.72 512,513.19 515,080.53 358,409.16 385,442.34 390,017.09 372,499.57 1,902,083.26 1,806,046.30 776.33 875.61 17,857.85 17,697.01 2,131.62 3,227.43 1,829,502.15 1,817,668.23 114,857.50 113,114.34 18,181.18 20,976.73 305,465.08 296,846.22 8,744.30 7,263.02 6,672.90 6,265.47 821.67 674.11 17,069.22 19,550.57 115,680.81 117,012.97 420,722.77 406,910.37 8,720.88 9,279.22 91,983.90 93,298.27 152,656.92 163,514.10 5,372.55 5,552.58 1,814.94 2,289.74 11,402.74 11,390.19 75,774.02 73,842.34 2,434,223.94 2,436,870.79 3,093.23 2,083.01 2,010.93 483.10 5,733.58 5,831.17 179,328.15 171,390.23 4,980.00 3,691.43 19,696.46 13,325.40 2,087.16 2,445.18 721,502.98 721,686.55 27,412.61 29,932.32 837.46 630.77 54,167.67 44,393.53 2,483.08 1,880.30 35,982.56 37,950.82 22,558.61 22,834.40 119,943.96 117,380.69 1,757.49 2,461.28 1,145.84 963.17 153,787.88 147,941.69 190,539.44 176,931.44 831.44 2,755.76 14,733.30 14,547.11 1,627.48 1,833.20 8,357.67 7,594.81 48,254.97 53,483.18 705,447.59 690,741.58 184,592.67 178,104.63 44,678.03 34,730.99 19,370.64 19,958.06 2,289.88 2,030.19 4,644.90 5,524.13 20,974.80 20,225.55 16,671.39 17,466.50 17,058.82 16,127.82 790.27 582.75 469,547.99 478,239.92 546.19 641.40 4,144.97 4,574.29 11,936.78 12,781.19 56,995.35 44,158.49 1,184,564.73 1,141,339.66 6,871.15 7,493.80 1,258.94 889.10 11,430.01 10,123.47 40,575.31 35,173.24 147.23 140.48 7,447.70 7,960.12 530.26 489.94 44,818.83 44,783.53 185,976.57 153,706.17 3,571.67 3,548.28 280.34 193.26 23,048.66 21,523.08 173.66 159.00 9,022.96 9,642.92 4,565.75 5,082.11 430,948.44 420,833.35 33,461.35 37,330.95 308,613.83 282,764.24 12,271.09 12,012.39 6,302.86 6,696.11 80,496.70 83,000.04 4,049.13 2,571.69 9,068.87 7,480.78 7,512.91 7,010.90 424,878.75 400,736.98 25,030.48 21,316.54 936,965.40 872,184.55 5,030.98 5,426.66 714,533.88 708,705.15 445.63 468.57 3,492.95 1,642.87 60.28 91.01

127,664.37 145.10 200,709.93 4,409.03 4,382.44 471.69 12,409.99 4,005.24 3,427.22 512,513.19 358,409.16 390,017.09 1,902,083.26 776.33 17,857.85 2,131.62 1,829,502.15 114,857.50 18,181.18 305,465.08 8,744.30 6,672.90 821.67 17,069.22 115,680.81 420,722.77 8,720.88 91,983.90 152,656.92 5,372.55 1,814.94 11,402.74 75,774.02 2,434,223.94 3,093.23 2,010.93 5,733.58 179,328.15 4,980.00 19,696.46 2,087.16 721,502.98 27,412.61 837.46 54,167.67 2,483.08 35,982.56 22,558.61 119,943.96 1,757.49 1,145.84 153,787.88 190,539.44 831.44 14,733.30 1,627.48 8,357.67 48,254.97 705,447.59 184,592.67 44,678.03 19,370.64 2,289.88 4,644.90 20,974.80 16,671.39 17,058.82 790.27 469,547.99 546.19 4,144.97 11,936.78 56,995.35 1,184,564.73 6,871.15 1,258.94 11,430.01 40,575.31 147.23 7,447.70 530.26 44,818.83 185,976.57 3,571.67 280.34 23,048.66 173.66 9,022.96 4,565.75 430,948.44 33,461.35 308,613.83 12,271.09 6,302.86 80,496.70 4,049.13 9,068.87 7,512.91 424,878.75 25,030.48 936,965.40 5,030.98 714,533.88 445.63 3,492.95 60.28

132,946.14 118.36 193,560.49 3,917.44 3,639.51 329.90 12,797.39 4,990.44 3,231.72 515,080.53 385,442.34 372,499.57 1,806,046.30 875.61 17,697.01 3,227.43 1,817,668.23 113,114.34 20,976.73 296,846.22 7,263.02 6,265.47 674.11 19,550.57 117,012.97 406,910.37 9,279.22 93,298.27 163,514.10 5,552.58 2,289.74 11,390.19 73,842.34 2,436,870.79 2,083.01 483.10 5,831.17 171,390.23 3,691.43 13,325.40 2,445.18 721,686.55 29,932.32 630.77 44,393.53 1,880.30 37,950.82 22,834.40 117,380.69 2,461.28 963.17 147,941.69 176,931.44 2,755.76 14,547.11 1,833.20 7,594.81 53,483.18 690,741.58 178,104.63 34,730.99 19,958.06 2,030.19 5,524.13 20,225.55 17,466.50 16,127.82 582.75 478,239.92 641.40 4,574.29 12,781.19 44,158.49 1,141,339.66 7,493.80 889.10 10,123.47 35,173.24 140.48 7,960.12 489.94 44,783.53 153,706.17 3,548.28 193.26 21,523.08 159.00 9,642.92 5,082.11 420,833.35 37,330.95 282,764.24 12,012.39 6,696.11 83,000.04 2,571.69 7,480.78 7,010.90 400,736.98 21,316.54 872,184.55 5,426.66 708,705.15 468.57 1,642.87 91.01

PASCAGOULA 445,038.57 435,001.95 445,038.57 435,001.95 PASS CHRISTIAN 125,402.92 113,286.99 125,402.92 113,286.99 PAULDING 124.52 130.29 124.52 130.29 PEARL 876,956.14 804,942.31 876,956.14 804,942.31 PELAHATCHIE 39,178.05 38,532.79 39,178.05 38,532.79 PETAL 227,029.35 224,853.54 227,029.35 224,853.54 PHILADELPHIA 347,205.65 328,840.70 347,205.65 328,840.70 PICAYUNE 380,244.44 407,134.43 380,244.44 407,134.43 PICKENS 7,106.21 6,530.15 7,106.21 6,530.15 PITTSBORO 1,639.44 1,657.11 1,639.44 1,657.11 PLANTERSVILLE 5,291.40 4,900.93 5,291.40 4,900.93 POLKVILLE 1,640.41 1,527.53 1,640.41 1,527.53 PONTOTOC 208,282.76 205,356.44 208,282.76 205,356.44 POPE 6,112.91 3,248.01 6,112.91 3,248.01 POPLARVILLE 81,624.58 63,752.26 81,624.58 63,752.26 PORT GIBSON 28,880.31 27,943.08 28,880.31 27,943.08 POTTS CAMP 7,846.91 8,297.71 7,846.91 8,297.71 PRENTISS 33,085.50 35,919.71 33,085.50 35,919.71 PUCKETT 8,662.83 7,948.17 8,662.83 7,948.17 PURVIS 70,384.75 81,548.34 70,384.75 81,548.34 QUITMAN 47,871.56 48,262.36 47,871.56 48,262.36 RALEIGH 16,824.82 16,002.73 16,824.82 16,002.73 RAYMOND 16,774.77 17,773.62 16,774.77 17,773.62 RENOVA 3,665.38 2,278.84 3,665.38 2,278.84 RICHLAND 490,964.85 457,052.74 490,964.85 457,052.74 RICHTON 29,594.39 30,461.50 29,594.39 30,461.50 RIDGELAND 1,091,601.91 1,078,171.69 1,091,601.91 1,078,171.69 RIENZI 4,490.53 4,943.25 4,490.53 4,943.25 RIPLEY 128,628.71 121,696.92 128,628.71 121,696.92 ROLLING FORK 33,747.59 34,892.59 33,747.59 34,892.59 ROSEDALE 9,879.66 11,224.89 9,879.66 11,224.89 ROXIE 1,483.18 1,579.04 1,483.18 1,579.04 RULEVILLE 20,363.73 20,247.31 20,363.73 20,247.31 SALLIS 1,414.53 1,680.00 1,414.53 1,680.00 SALTILLO 72,825.36 66,727.76 72,825.36 66,727.76 SANDERSVILLE 15,671.29 27,542.84 15,671.29 27,542.84 SARDIS 29,353.33 25,665.34 29,353.33 25,665.34 SATARTIA 274.51 295.91 274.51 295.91 SCHLATER 1,248.42 1,029.48 1,248.42 1,029.48 SCOOBA 7,571.64 9,117.61 7,571.64 9,117.61 SEBASTOPOL 17,134.69 15,213.32 17,134.69 15,213.32 SEMINARY 15,339.87 14,195.22 15,339.87 14,195.22 SENATOBIA 192,853.29 180,532.74 192,853.29 180,532.74 SHANNON 11,669.76 12,690.21 11,669.76 12,690.21 SHAW 7,686.56 7,518.19 7,686.56 7,518.19 SHELBY 11,171.43 9,967.68 11,171.43 9,967.68 SHERMAN 32,983.47 42,857.83 32,983.47 42,857.83 SHUBUTA 3,800.67 4,290.66 3,800.67 4,290.66 SHUQUALAK 1,813.47 2,968.54 1,813.47 2,968.54 SIDON 1,341.18 590.00 1,341.18 590.00 SILVER CITY 375.60 381.44 375.60 381.44 SILVER CREEK 2,623.79 2,657.91 2,623.79 2,657.91 SLATE SPRINGS 221.28 108.52 221.28 108.52 SLEDGE 1,295.24 1,290.62 1,295.24 1,290.62 SMITHVILLE 6,057.54 6,231.89 6,057.54 6,231.89 SNOWLAKESHORES 136.01 112.68 136.01 112.68 SOSO 10,006.33 9,299.60 10,006.33 9,299.60 SOUTHAVEN 1,267,920.34 1,164,911.66 1,267,920.34 1,164,911.66 SOUTHWEST COMM 37.80 31.39 37.80 31.39 STARKVILLE 567,794.86 548,899.37 567,794.86 548,899.37 STATE LINE 9,433.48 11,979.94 9,433.48 11,979.94 STONEWALL 6,001.22 6,139.61 6,001.22 6,139.61 STURGIS 2,565.44 2,189.15 2,565.44 2,189.15 SUMMIT 41,422.03 38,404.35 41,422.03 38,404.35 SUMNER 3,476.08 4,043.95 3,476.08 4,043.95 SUMRALL 48,865.87 44,585.58 48,865.87 44,585.58 SUNFLOWER 2,863.10 3,310.49 2,863.10 3,310.49 SYLVARENA 181.99 243.86 181.99 243.86 TAYLOR 2,466.52 2,631.61 2,466.52 2,631.61 TAYLORSVILLE 25,636.59 28,372.92 25,636.59 28,372.92 TCHULA 7,223.58 6,437.75 7,223.58 6,437.75 TERRY 25,616.92 29,425.99 25,616.92 29,425.99 THAXTON 4,540.97 4,330.51 4,540.97 4,330.51 TISHOMINGO 13,793.03 14,533.96 13,793.03 14,533.96 TOCCOPOLA 776.16 333.51 776.16 333.51 TOWN OF WALLS 6,769.16 8,425.74 6,769.16 8,425.74 TREMONT 1,317.35 1,497.66 1,317.35 1,497.66 TUNICA 36,045.59 39,176.09 36,045.59 39,176.09 TUPELO 1,764,219.47 1,710,174.91 1,764,219.47 1,710,174.91 TUTWILER 3,968.73 4,699.66 3,968.73 4,699.66 TYLERTOWN 54,082.29 60,626.82 54,082.29 60,626.82 UNION 24,639.56 26,046.80 24,639.56 26,046.80 UNIV OF MISS 10,700.44 9,139.55 10,700.44 9,139.55 UTICA 7,198.82 8,505.47 7,198.82 8,505.47 VAIDEN 8,552.49 8,058.91 8,552.49 8,058.91 VARDAMAN 9,901.69 11,442.08 9,901.69 11,442.08 VERONA 20,922.50 14,947.06 20,922.50 14,947.06 VICKSBURG 648,197.80 665,509.24 648,197.80 665,509.24 WALNUT 23,239.06 20,974.05 23,239.06 20,974.05 WALNUT GROVE 5,462.70 4,912.32 5,462.70 4,912.32 WALTHALL 1,569.40 1,112.40 1,569.40 1,112.40 WATER VALLEY 44,861.89 45,221.48 44,861.89 45,221.48 WAVELAND 224,910.70 209,029.82 224,910.70 209,029.82 WAYNESBORO 176,729.49 172,432.19 176,729.49 172,432.19 WEBB 7,566.22 7,800.74 7,566.22 7,800.74 WEIR 3,573.53 4,047.94 3,573.53 4,047.94 WESSON 13,666.87 13,962.12 13,666.87 13,962.12 WEST 1,010.94 1,001.27 1,010.94 1,001.27 WEST POINT 167,939.19 166,192.32 167,939.19 166,192.32 WIGGINS 160,347.79 156,036.50 160,347.79 156,036.50 WINONA 81,764.33 88,134.36 81,764.33 88,134.36 WINSTONVILLE 239.26 246.22 239.26 246.22 WOODLAND 6,040.96 6,528.62 6,040.96 6,528.62 WOODVILLE 29,948.68 31,405.48 29,948.68 31,405.48 YAZOO CITY 178,400.10 161,647.02 178,400.10 161,647.02 TOTAL $37,301,885.06 $36,226,712.65 $37,301,885.06 $36,226,712.65

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THE SPIN CYCLE

Top 20 PR campaigns of last 2 decades, Part 1

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he PR industry has undergone a dramatic transformation during the past 20 years â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and digital media and social media are the key drivers fueling the change.

PRWeek has rated the top 20 PR campaigns that have driven the revolution.

Feeding Children Better (2001) Conagra, with the help of Cone, set out to tackle child hunger in the U.S. by raising awareness. The company carried out a multiyear program called the Feeding Children Better initiative. Cone secured several vital partnerships with the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaders in the ďŹ ght against childhood hunger, including the Center on Hunger and Poverty, actor Jeff Bridgesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; End Hunger Network, and the Ad Council, which agreed to a three-year campaign delivering $100 million in ads.

The initiative was named PRWeekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2001 Campaign of the Year and Community Relations Campaign of the Year.

The Heart Truth (2002) Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the U.S., but few knew how deadly it was at the time The Heart Truth launched, a campaign advanced by Ogilvy for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted an evidence-based approach to forging a strong emotional connection with women to give them a visible, easy way to take action to improve their heart health,â&#x20AC;?

Lenora Johnson, director, science policy, engagement, education, and communications, at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, told PRWeekly.

Thus, the red dress was used to symbolize heart disease and stroke isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t only a menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issue. After then-current ďŹ rst lady Laura Bush became an ambassador in 2003, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts featured an exhibit of red dresses former ďŹ rst ladies have worn.

In 2013, celebs such as Kelly Osbourne and Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas took part in a red dress fashion show. From 2002 to 2012, $800,000 in grants was awarded to support community education in partner-

ship with the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. In 2008, the campaign totaled more than 40 corporate partnerships valued at about $65 million. Now, the Red Dress campaign is instantly recognizable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and tied to this movement!

Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Youth Declare Themselves (2003) Back in 2000, TV producer Norman Lear wanted everyone to share his â&#x20AC;&#x153;unashamedly patrioticâ&#x20AC;? love for the U.S., so the Declare Yourself movement was born.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why he took Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;birth certiďŹ cate,â&#x20AC;? the Declaration of Independence, for a three-and-a-half-year road trip to rouse young people to exercise their right to vote.

The traveling exhibit featured a reading of the document inside Independence Hall by Whoopi Goldberg, Benicio del Toro, and other famous actors.

More than 1 million young people downloaded voter registration forms from Declare Yourselfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. Ultimately, 76 percent of those who registered voted in the 2004 presidential election.

Increasing Access to Life-Saving Therapy: ICDs and Sudden Cardiac Arrest (2004) Sudden cardiac arrest accounts for more deaths in the U.S. every year than breast cancer, traffic accidents, and handguns, yet preventative measures â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including implantable cardioverter-deďŹ brillators (ICDs) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t often covered under Medicare.

Medtronic, a manufacturer of ICDs, formed a coalition; conducted a media audit to identify gaps in earned coverage; built a website as the focal point of a grassroots advocacy group; and rallied survivors into advocates for ICDs. Go Red For Women (2004) Adopting the red dress icon of The Heart Truth, Go Red For Women launched in 2004 to target women, instead of men, who have historically been the subjects of heart disease and stroke campaigns by the American Heart Association.

As a result of the nonproďŹ tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partnership with Macyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, it has received more than $60 million in donations from customers and as-

sociates of the retail chain. According to the AHA, more than 293 lives have been saved every day since 2004.

Dove Campaign for Real Beauty (2004) In 2004, research indicated to Dove only 2 percent of women consider themselves beautiful. Challenging idealized depictions of beauty, the brand responded with a campaign that used â&#x20AC;&#x153;realâ&#x20AC;? women in their marketing rather than professional models. Activations included booking these women on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We felt it was our responsibility to open up a conversation aimed at widening societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deďŹ nition of beauty and invite all women to realize their potential for beauty,â&#x20AC;? Nick Soukas, vice president and general manager, and GM, skin cleansing and baby care USA at Dove parent company Unilever told PRWeek Annual sales for the brand in the ďŹ rst 10 years of the campaign rose from $2.5 billion to more than $4 billion. It was named PRWeekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2006 Consumer Launch Campaign of the Year.

Doritos Crash the Super Bowl (2006) By harnessing the then-nascent power of social media, Doritosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plan to allow fans to produce their Super Bowl ads was a hit.

Chris Kuechenmeister, at PepsiCo, told PRWeek that Doritosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; parent company kept things fresh by listening to consumers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[We] evolved the program to appeal to their passions by adding prize elements such as the chance to win $1 million for ranking No. 1 on the USA Today Ad Meter.â&#x20AC;?

Doritos saw a 16 percent rise in sales for the week after the Super Bowl over the previous year.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of the story in next weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s editions.

Roaring Mic | Tiger Woods Regains Golf Gold with PGA Tour Victory Tiger ďŹ nally roared!

His career once in doubt after of a series of debilitating injuries and four back sur-

geries, the 42-year-old Tiger Woods won the Tour Championship in the FedEx Cup Playoffs ďŹ nale at East Lake Golf Club. Woods ďŹ nished 11-under for his ďŹ rst PGA Tour win since Todd Smith 2013.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a long wait since Woods won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Aug. 4, 2013, which was his last victory on Tour before this East Lake victory â&#x20AC;&#x201C; nearly 2,000 days, 239 PGA Tour events and 119 different winners.

The win was days before the Ryderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cup â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woods was a captainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pick -- the ďŹ rst time he has played in that historic event since 2012.

Woods nearly completed his comeback at the PGA Championship earlier this year, when his ďŹ nal-round 64 was only two shots back of winner Brooks Koepka.

Woods roared this time. He began the ďŹ nal round at 12-under, a few shots ahead of Rory McIlroy, who grew up loving the legend, and Justin Rose. Woods birdie No. 1, and a string of pars gave him what seemed a comfortable lead going to the back nine. There, the bogeyman got him, though, and Billy Horschel made a short run. Woods ďŹ nally took it by two shots.

Rose tied for fourth at the Tour Championship, good enough to win the FedEx Cup. It may be the only time a $10 million prize was the footnote to this Tiger tale! Rose birdied the last hole to clinch the FedEx Cup. But this Sunday belonged to Tiger, and his PGA win No. 80 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just two shy of all-time king Sam Snead. Time will only tell if Tiger takes this prize, but the way he seized the mojo in 2018, something tells me, the roars will keep coming!

Todd Smith is president and chief communications officer of Deane, Smith & Partners, a full-service branding, PR, marketing and advertising ďŹ rm with ofďŹ ces in Jackson. The ďŹ rm â&#x20AC;&#x201D; based in Nashville, Tenn. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is also affiliated with Mad Genius. Contact him at todd@deanesmithpartners.com, and follow him @ spinsurgeon.

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