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COURTESY OF THE OXFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT

A car sits overturned at Thacker Loop and Hwy 6. OPD posted this photo on their hugely popular Twitter account the day after Christmas with the hashtags #ArriveAlive and #DriveSober. The incident involved one driver operating a vehicle under the influence. No serious injuries were sustained in the crash.

DUIs in 2016

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OPD discusses driving under the influence in Oxford

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

In 2016 , OPD made 612 DUI arrests.

The most being in September with 77 arrests and the fewest coming in July only 33 arrests. The rest of the months average around 50 arrests each month.

Officer Rob Banks heads up the DUI di-

vision for the OPD. He’s been in the position for about a year and a half, having previously worked in Carroll County. In his 19 years of police work, he has spent the last 12 specializing in DUIs. Banks said that for a city with a population its size, Oxford has a relatively high rate of arrests relating to driving under the influence. Several factors contribute to this in-

cluding the university and high concentration of bars in such a small town. The university attracts a lot of tourists for major football games, which is also a factor that is taken into consideration.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2017

Annual yART Sale returns to the Powerhouse

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council is getting ready for their annual yART Sale at the Powerhouse this Sunday. The even will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is open to the public.

The main idea behind the 2017 yART Sale is to start off the new year by cleaning out your art room or studio, getting some new crafting supplies or even just looking to change up some of the art that is already hanging on your walls. Anyone is welcome to bring any semi art-related items from paintbrushes to yarn to books and more.

The yART Sale actually functions more as a swap than an opportunity for people to sale their wares. People can bring their items and trade them with the arts council or other attendees. If people are not interested in trading items with anyone, the arts council will be more than glad to accept them as donations. Those interested in attending the event, but do not have anything to bring and trade, they are still invited to come and look at everything people have available. If they find something they would like to have from the arts council but have nothing to trade, they’re welcome to a donation in exchange for the item.

YAC Director Wayne Andrews said that the yART Sale is an opportunity for everyone to go into the new year with a clean studio and a fresh mindset.

“At the beginning of the year, people are looking for ways to make changes,” he said. “We always wanna eat healthy and exercise, but maybe you also want to clean out your craft room and start fresh and do something knew this year. This just ties into that mentality of cleaning up and starting fresh.”

Anyone can show up to the event. It is not required that you be a member of the arts council, though there will be membership information available upon request. Anyone who is not interested in trading items but would rather just donate it to the arts council instead, that can be done at the event itself, or be dropped off at any point this week.

During a couple of the winter months, the Oxford Maker’s Market takes a short break from being out on the courthouse lawn every Saturday morning at the first of the month. This month, the Market is partnering with the yART Sale and will be present to offer locally made, handcrafted items for sale to the community.

Andrews said that the most important thing, in his opinion, that the yART Sale offers is the chance for people to get out and interact with other local artist.

Having someone to turn to when encountering a artistic problem or just making new friends is really important in sustaining a creative community.

“Art can sometimes be solitary,” the director said. “You paint by yourself, things like that are not usually a group activity.

This is kind of a fun way with no pressure or anything to talk to other creative people and build a network. Maybe if you’re working on something, you will have spoken with someone who was a fiber artist or painter or something else and you meet people and you can think ‘Hey, maybe I should call them. Maybe they’ve had this problem before.’ It’s community building. It takes the pressure of having to set up and sale and gives people a chance to just come trade and swap.”

COURTESY OF THE YOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL

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The art council’s annual yART Sale returns to the Powerhouse Community Arts Center this Sunday along with the Oxford Maker’s Market.

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Humane Society seeking volunteers

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Volunteers are a huge part of what keeps the Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society functioning. Right now, the humane society is looking to recruit more volunteers as their numbers have dwindled over the holiday break.

University students make up a large number of the humane society’s volunteer numbers, according to Jenn Peterman, director of the shelter. She said that during the summer and other student breaks, members of the community are usually right there to help pick up the slack left behind, but that can be a little more challenging during the winter holidays while so many people are traveling or busy hosting family gettogether. “[This break] does affect us a lot because whether they be coming in as part of volunteer hours they need for a class or even court-appointed community service, it falls on a lot of different levels, we usually have at least a few volunteers from the university every day,” Peterman said. “We’re obviously lacking that right now.”

Ideally, the shelter likes for there to be four or five volunteers on hand at any given time. This way, they are able to put one person over each different area of the shelter that requires constant attention. One of these areas is the adult kennels where all of the adult dogs are kept. There is also the area where puppies are housed. In addition to that, there are two rooms dedicated to felines, one for kittens and one for adult cats.

Another location in the shelter that requires around the clock staffing is the laundry room. With about 180 animals living the in the shelter, there are a lot of messes to clean up and a lot of laundry to be done. Peterson said that on most days, the washing machines and dryers in the shelter usually start running around 7 a.m. and are not shut off until 7 p.m.

Peterman said that the shelter can use volunteers in surprising ways. She invites any users of social media to the shelter to come and take pictures and post about the animals currently available for adoption. The level at which we are all so connected via our phones and computers makes it easier than ever to get the word out about animals needing a home. Anyone with any experience training dogs is can set up a time each week to work with dog on different tricks. She said they even need people to just sit and unfold newspapers that they will use to line the cages.

“Even if you’re not an animal person, per se, there are so many things you can do that would help us out tremendously,” Peterman said. “You don’t have to be hands-on with the animals. If you do like being hands-on with the animals, that’s even twofold better for us. We can grab a dog out of the kennels and you can come and run around with that dog in the dog park for a while. Run and go play Frisbee and just hang out.”

Peterson said that they also welcome anyone who is experienced with computers or photography to come by the shelter. They could use help with planning events and fundraisers and photographing animals for profiles on the website and so much more. Many of these would also be great resume-building opportunities available to anyone in the community looking to gain practical experience.

Volunteers of any age are welcome to come help out at the shelter. Any volunteers under the age of 16 are required to have written permission from their parent or guardian.

Younger children are also more than welcome to come and work at the shelter, but they ask that a parent or guardian accompany the child during their volunteer shifts.

Peterman she has volunteers as young as three who come with their parents to work at the newspaper stations where they

COURTESY OF THE OXFORD-LAFAYETTE HUMANE SOCIETY

Volunteers Carlin Curtis and Veronica Mason holding some of the animals housed at the Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society.

The shelter is currently seeking more volunteers to help look after the 180 animals residing there. help unfold newspapers and put them in cages. The younger kids can also go sit in the kitten room and play with the kittens, socializing them to human touch and the presence of children.

Oxford High School junior Raina Woolworth has been working as a volunteer at the humane society since she was in middle school. The 16-year-old said that her favorite part of working at the shelter is seeing animals go to happy and loving homes.

“Everyone should come try it out,” Woolworth said when asked what advice she has for anyone interested in volunteering with the shelter. “I really like it.

You get to meet a lot of people and work with animals. I’ve made some friends through this.”

For more information about the OxfordLafayette Humane Society and how to get involved, email Jenn Peterman at OLHSdirector@gmail.com , visit www.oxfordpets.com or just swing by the shelter during their operating hours. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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OBITUARIES CAROL MCGIRT Carol McGirt , 70 years old, passed away on December 31, 2016, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later

by SERENITY SIMMONS FUNERAL HOME of New Albany in charge of arrangements.

ORENA HENRY MILLER Orena Henry Miller, originally of Mexico Beach, FL, 88, died Monday, January 2, 2017 at Brookdale Senior Living Center in Oxford, MS. No services are planned at this time. Waller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

BRIEFING Oxford Newcomers’ Club Oxford Newcomers’ Club hosts monthly social, cultural, and educational programs and a variety of opportunities to share hobbies. The Club also hosts unique "behind the scenes" Ole Miss Athletics events for members. For information, email: newcomers@oxford ms, or go online to: www.oxfordnewcomers.org. Dues are $15 per person. Applications are available online and at the Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce.

Civil Air Patrol meeting The first 2017 Launius/Meaders Civil Air Patrol meeting will be held this coming Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the University-Oxford Airport terminal lobby. Senior members, cadets and parents are invited to attend.

Students between age 12 and 18 who are interested in flying, aerospace education, search and rescue missions, and learning about military disciplines are eligible to become cadets. The Civil Air Patrol is a congressionally-chartered non-profit organization that is an official auxiliary of the United States Air Force. Please contact senior member Hugh J. Sloan with your questions about CAP at 662-801-9078.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2017

Ole Miss senior learns about strength

BY ZACH SHAW SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN

Some might describe Michelle Miller to be stubborn because of her overwhelmingly inherent desire to be independent, but sometimes life takes away that choice.

It’s the middle of October as Miller is in the midst of her work shift at the campus recreation center, and without warning her body chooses to shut down. She passes out, collapsing onto the floor. As her co-workers are able to bring her back to consciousness, Miller’s body is now covered in a thin layer of sweat as she runs through cycles of hot and cold flashes. Her small 5 foot 2 inch frame begins to shake uncontrollably.

This has never happened before.

Her boss rushes her to the health center on campus, where the medical team wants to give her IV fluids, suspecting dehydration to be the cause.

However, they decide against it in fear that her appendix might be swollen. By now, Miller’s undiagnosed episode has calmed down, but she is taken to the emergency room for precautionary reasons. She undergoes multiple tests, including a CT scan of her stomach, but they yield nothing.

“It looked like I was overdosing on drugs,” Miller said. “My friends took me to a neurologist, and he thinks it’s psychological...I literally have to block out parts of my brain, like don’t do this... and if I focus deeply on my breathing it [the shaking] will stop, but then I start hyperventilating because I’m so focused on my breathing.”

The senior double major, in international studies and Spanish, was loaded with a demanding fall semester schedule of 12 credit hours, up to 30 hours at work a week, and a thesis to boot. Miller described this semester as stressful at times, and she believes that her undiagnosed tremors could be a result of an overworked body.

“The thing is, I’ve han-

COURTESY OF MICHELLE MILLER

UM senior Michelle Miller (left) had fall semester was punctuated by a frightening health scare that lead her to turn to her faith and friends. dled stress really well, that sounds prideful, but I handle it really well,” Miller said. “It doesn’t shut me down. So maybe it’s 21 years of handling stress, that it’s all coming out.

This has been a really hard semester; I just don’t think I’m as strong as I thought.”

Since her first encounter with this new part of her life, Miller’s reliance on God and her friends has been reaffirmed. In the days and weeks after the initial episode, Miller’s friends got in line to aid their “selfless” sister; acts which ranged from a car ride to finishing her eye-

liner.

“I never realized how much it hurts to watch someone you care about experience pain,” Natasha Murphy, a friend of Miller’s, said. “It was hard to see her go through the frustration and pain of her tremors and breathing, but it also showed me how resilient and strong she is.

Daily we were able to talk about how much the Lord was using this experience to shape and grow us.”

In a 2014 study conducted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, they estimate that over 7 million

people suffer from tremors, most of which are “largely healthy people.” With no concrete cure, treatment is possible and effective with a positive identification of the type of tremor.

As Miller continues to deal with this new occurrence, her internal scholar has taken over, finding ways to better understand and combat these involmovements. untary Through trial and error, she has found that staying away from caffeine, getting plenty of sleep, dancing, singing and even a hug help limit her

tremors.

“We were at Urgent Med’s when it had gotten to the absolute worst it was at, and me and my friends kept singing ‘Before the Throne of God’ like 25 times in a row because it would stop if I was singing,” Miller said.

While it would be easy for one to fall apart with a new, and at times incapacitating medical issue, Miller has taken strides and made leaps to hurtle her tremors, not falling victim to an act of life she has no control over. Through this she has found a silver lining, a deeper connection with other humans.

“Through this I have talked to more people, because they have been asking about my arms, and a lot of them will say stuff like they have been dealing with depression, anxiety, stress or all these things,” Miller said.

“Things that they probably wouldn’t be so open about [if I wasn’t dealing with this].”

After graduation, Miller hopes to someday work for a non-profit helping refugees to find a safe, welcoming home. As an issue that is close to her heart, it is a problem that will require great mental and physical clout to solve. However, Miller’s uncertain timetable with tremors might just be the life experience that teaches her a new type of independence going forward. A type of independence that you develop, only when life knocks you down, or in this case makes you shake. A type of independence that isn’t afraid to be dependent once in awhile.

“I knew if this had to happen to anyone, Michelle was the most capable to handle it,” Aryn Clark, a friend of Miller’s, said. “Michelle can handle about anything thrown at her. I know if she had a choice to go through this difficult time or pass it along to someone else, she wouldn’t hesitate to take the burden. She would figure out a way to deal with it and learn from it, which I think she has successfully done.”

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Tannehill believes Oxford deserves consistency and experience

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Robyn Tannehill announced her candidacy for mayor last week. Tannehill has served the Oxford community with the tourism board, the Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce, a volunteer and more. Most recently, Tannehill served as Ward II Alderman for the City of Oxford. Her announcement to run came just a week after current Mayor Pat Patterson announced that he would not be running for reelection in the 2017 mayoral race.

Tannehill sat with Oxford Citizen reporter Chaning Green last week to discuss her past service to the City and her candidacy as mayor.

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CHANING GREEN: Did you fully intend to run for mayor this year before Mayor Patterson announced he wouldn’t be running again?

ROBYN TANNEHILL: No. I wasn’t going to run if Pat ran. I made the decision after he decided not to run.

GREEN: Why? TANNEHILL: Pat and I have been friends for 25 years. I felt like that if he was running again, then maybe that’s not where I was supposed to be right now. I’ve prayed about it a lot and I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it and analyzing it from every different angle and I just felt like if this is what I’m supposed to be doing, he’ll decide not to run. If he decides to run again, I’ll just stay right where I am. But then he decided not to run. I was going to run for alderman again.

I thought that if he runs again, I should wait four years.

Pat’s got us in a really good spot to move forward. We’re in about as good of a financial state as any other city in the state of Mississippi, and I think we’re just poised to move to the next step. We’re determining what the future will look like. We’re making choices that are going to affect us in the long term. Some of them good and some of them bad, and though I don’t get it right every time, I work as hard as I can research as much as I can to make the best possible decision.

GREEN: How long have you been thinking about running for mayor?

TANNEHILL: I’ve been thinking about this for probably about the last year. My mindset was that if Pat doesn’t run again, then I might throw my hat in the ring. It seems like a logical progression for me. Each step of my career has been not so much planned out as it has fallen into place. I have made logical next steps. From what my career was in marketing and public relations, to doing tourism work, then volunteering in certain roles in the community. I was president of the Chamber of commerce, president of the arts council and I was chair of the $30 million school bond referendum. I was involved in so many different city committees that it just seemed like a logical progression to run for alderman, and now with Pat not running, my logical next step is to run for mayor.

Oxford is in such a critical time. I feel like we are in our adolescence and that if we

Ward II Alderman Robyn Tannehill qualified to run for mayor Tuesday and will be vying for the office in this summer’s upcoming election. Tannehill has been a resident of Oxford for nearly 30 years. all have so many different backgrounds, points of views, strengths and weaknesses.

We’re all so different, and I think that has helped us come up with some really creative solutions. We’ve got lots of different voices at the table. I have enjoyed working GREEN: You’ve previously said that your with this board so much. I’ve enjoyed tryfamily is a big reason why you’re running. ing to find good solutions to good probHow did the react when you told them you lems. were running?

TANNEHILL: They were surprisingly supGREEN: What do you mean by “good portive in my decision. I spend a lot of time problem?” doing city work, which I enjoy. It gets my motor running. A problem makes me enthusiastic, and I love to look at it from all different sides and analyze it to find the best solution. That’s fun to me. My family sometimes pays the price for all of my city involvement, so I halfway expected them to be like, “You’re gonna do what?” but they weren’t at all. My husband and kids all told me “I think it’s what you’re supposed to do.”

It was very encouraging to me that they were so supportive. It’s very important to me that my kids understand that God put us here to take care of other people. He has blessed Oxford so enormously, and it’s our job to take care of it and manage it well. I want my kids to be givers, not takers. I think that demonstrating to them what it’s like to serve your community is the best way to teach them that it’s not just about you. It’s about leaving this place better than we found it and investing your time and energy doing what you can to make it better.

make one bad misstep, it will stick with us for the rest of our lives. We’re still a little bit unsure about what the future holds and exactly what we’re going to be when we grow up.

GREEN:What is your favorite part of being an alderman?

TANNEHILL: My favorite part, I guess, is just having a voice at the table. I’ve always wanted to give my opinion and get involved where I could, and I have really enjoyed being able to be part of the solution. I love putting my money where my mouth is.

There are people who talk the talk and people who walk the walk. I want to do both.

I love to get input from people. I want to hear from people who have a different opinion than mine. I don’t assume that my way is the only way to do it. I welcome lots of different opinions, and I think that is something that I’ve really valued about being a part of this board of aldermen. The seven of us come at things so differently. We

TANNEHILL: I’ve been in the Delta the past couple of days and when you look around at the challenges they have like streets that can’t be paved, to downtown buildings that are boarded up, to lack of job opportunity — we don’t have that. You drive back into Oxford and just say, “Wow, we don’t have those problems.” Growth is not a problem.

It’s a challenge and it’s also an opportunity.

I’ll take our set of challenges and so-called problems over any other set in the state.

Is there anything else you would like the people of Oxford to know?

Like I said, we are in our adolescence here in Oxford. We are in the middle of so many plans that have been put in motion for years ago that we’ve been working toward, and I want to see them through.

We’ve worked so hard over the past four years on Vision 2037 and we have only just adopted our Future Land Use Map. Now we’re in the most critical part of Vision 2037 overall plan of rewriting code and writing all of our new ordinances that will affect how Oxford will look forever. We’re in the process of planning a new Actives Center, we’re in the process of building two major thoroughfares, we are in the process of moving forward on the parking garage – there are just so many things happening right now. I think consistency is really critical here. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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University of Mississippi will host Landscaping Camp for residents

BY GRACIE SNYDER SPECIAL TO THE OXFORD CITIZEN

The Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber and the Economic Development Foundation are hoping to captivate prospective retirees with a new event illuminating the allure of Oxford and Ole Miss.

As part of the Chamber of Commerce’s Retirement Attraction Program, the University of Mississippi and the City of Oxford will play host to a Landscaping Camp from May 26-28, 2017, intended to both showcase the LOU-community’s beauty and connect potential retirees to the university.

Striking at the time when Ole Miss is reveling in being named USA Today Readers’ Choice Winner for the Best Beautiful College Campus, Rosie Vassallo, chamber member and director for retirement attraction, believes this event will not only captivate interested retirees, but will enlighten them on ways to spruce up their own yards.

“With Ole Miss having been named most beautiful campus by so many national publications, and just recently by USA Today, we felt this would be another way to encourage those that have already shown interest in Oxford to come and see it,” Vassallo said. “Beautifying one’s home is at the top of the list as retirees receive exercise while making their home more attractive by taking up gardening.”

According to the brochure, this Landscaping Camp will be a two-and-a half day event where participants will have the opportunity to immerse themselves on a tour of the beautiful Ole Miss Campus, learn great practices from industry leaders

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The autumnal-colored landscape surrounding the Phi Mu Fountain showcases some of the natural beauty spots on the University of Mississippi campus. during lunch, attend educational seminars on how to prune your shrubs – including choosing the right time, growing gardens, attracting birds, time saving tips for a low maintenance yard, and they will network in a relaxed and inviting atmosphere.

With the joint relationship of the university and chamber, this event seeks to highlight Oxford as one of the best places to retire and continue the steady growth of retirees entering the area while exemplifying the unity between the Oxford and university communities.

“Oxford offers a remarkable retirement lifestyle, which has recaptured tranquility and community spirit that many remember as a thing of the past,” Vassallo said. “Oxford offers the cultural amenities that are most appealing to retirees.”

The keynote speaker for this

event will be Ole Miss’s own Director of Landscape Services Jeff McManus, who will both lead participants on a Double Decker bus tour of the City of Oxford and two Oxfordian residences he maintains, as well as showcase the information behind two books he’s authored, Pruning Like a Pro and Growing Weeders into Leaders.

McManus said it’s important to introduce retirees to the LOU area and the benefits they provide within a community.

“I think it’s vital for us to attract retirees to the area who are still wanting to contribute and be a part of a unique community,” McManus said. “There’s a lot of value in having that type of leadership in a community – people who have had success, who have done things.”

With this being the first event of its kind implemented by the chamber, McManus is eager to

be a part of something bigger than himself and expose the mystery behind Ole Miss’s magnificent landscape.

“We get to showcase the beauty of Ole Miss – get to tell people some of the secrets of how we are able to do that with such a small staff of dedicated people. Anytime we can show Ole Miss as one of the true leaders of our country, as far as what we do, not only academically, but what we do in my area, campus grounds, is truly an honor,” says McManus. “I get excited about that – getting to show that uniqueness off and see people get excited, people who care about Ole Miss and who want to be a part of something bigger than just society.”

Similarly, having previously been unexposed to an event like this, McManus relishes the innovation exhibited by the

chamber in their efforts to aggressively appeal to retirees and incorporate them into this populace.

“This shows you how our Chamber of Commerce is very proactive, outside thinkers,” says McManus. “Isn’t that exciting to know that that’s what they’re doing, that they’re not just sitting back and resting and letting things come to them?”

Pamela Robertson, owner of Rebel Realty and Property Management in Oxford, and one of the sponsors for this upcoming event, recognizes the ongoing efforts of the university to reach out to every age group and establish a tight-knit community within a growing population.

“I’m impressed at how the University of Mississippi steps up, and they cater to all generations,” Robertson said. “It’s not just about 18-23-year-olds,” says Robertson. “This is just another opportunity that the university has gone above and beyond to keep bringing the different generations to the university.”

From encountering pristine landscapes to embracing a communal atmosphere, the Landscaping Camp event looks to provide retirees with a serene getaway that hopefully turns into a permanent stay and involvement within the Oxford community.

“I’m very proud to be a part of it,” says Robertson. “I feel that with the Chamber of Commerce’s efforts to have Oxford as a retiree community, having the university and all the activities that they have; it just fully rounds the Oxford experience.”

For more information regarding this event, visit this link from the City of Oxford website: http://oxfordms.com/retire-inoxford/landscaping-camp/

Double Decker Festival announces official artwork Celebrating 22 years April 2829, 2017, Oxford’s Double Decker Arts Festival is a free, two-day festival inspired by the literary town’s 1994 import of a double- decker bus from England. The festival attracts more than 65,000 people and is the recipient of more than 25 awards, including Best Festival by “Mississippi Magazine” and a Top 20 event by the Southeast Tourism Society. This year, local artistswere given the chance to submit a masterpiece to be named the “official artwork” for

the festival. The art is printed on the official festival t-shirts and the official festival poster.

The public is invited to attend the Double Decker Arts Festival presented by The University of Mississippi Museum Press Conference at the Visit Oxford office (1013 Jackson Avenue East) at 10 a.m. on February 7 where the artwork will be unveiled.

This year’s Double Decker artwork was created by local artist and retired graphic artist Pam Locke who moved to Ox-

ford in 2003 from Greenville, MS. Her artistic style is considered to be tight and illustrative.

She primarily paints in watercolor and acrylic. “The Double Decker Festival is such an important part of Oxford and is a showcase for the wonderful art that is produced in the region surrounding Oxford. I entered the contest because I wanted to be a part of that celebration.

For several years, I have had this idea in my head to express Double Decker as a blend of art with a festive atmosphere. I fi-

nally got around to making it a reality. “ “We had eleven artists apply, and we had a Double Decker jury of five members who voted on the artwork,” says Lee Ann Stubbs, Double Decker Coordinator.

Locke adds about being an art vendor at the festival and what she is most excited for, “I have been a part of the Oxford Artist Guild Double Decker booth for several years, but have never had a booth of my own. I am most excited about being a part

of the history of Double Decker as well as sharing my work with a larger audience.”

Artists were able to apply for consideration via applications posted on the official Double Decker website as well as on the Double Decker Facebook page. Only residents of Lafayette County were considered and the bus had to be included in the artwork. The winner will receive a free Double Decker Arts Festival art vendor booth space the day of the festival.

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of how we test for it, enforce it as well as how we educate. What I’ve seen over the course of my career, is that, statistically, we’re doing better. Statistically, less people are driving drunk and less people are dying in crashed involving drunk driving. That’s a number that is continuing to get better nationwide. That is in large part due to awareness.”

Not only does OPD make trips to schools to speak about the importance of driver’s safety and never driving under the influence, they also speak at community organizations and events and any group that invites them out. Any chance to disseminate more information and educate the community on the dangers of driving under the influence, they enthusiastically take.

“There’s this idea that if you can walk, then you can drive,” Banks said. “People seem to forget that driving is more complicated than walking. Your ability to safely operate a vehicle with other people on the road is diminished way before your ability to walk down the street.”

Banks went on to say that one of the bigger things he tries to

drive home when lecturing is that when driving, you are dividing your attention to several things at once. Over years of driving experience, you have trained your body to react to stimulus without making a conscious effort to do so. Even the slightest amount of alcohol or other mind-altering substances can severely impair a person’s ability to operate a vehicle, primarily because this ability to divide attention over multiple stimuli is significantly diminished.

In addition to this, a person’s ability to quickly react to a situation suffers. Banks aid the best way to think of things like this is to change miles per hour to feet per second. When traveling 55 mph, a vehicle is moving across the road at approximately 80 feet per second. This helps put a more digestible perspective on exactly how much ground people are covering when operating a motor vehicle. An average sober person takes about a second and a half to perceive a stimulus and react to it. For someone traveling 55 mph, a second and a half leaves a lot of physical space for something to go wrong. With every drink or any other increment of another mind-altering substance, that reaction time is lengthens to the

point to where operating a motor vehicle becomes one of the most dangerous things that person can do. People seem to forget their piloting a 2-ton hunk of metal traveling 80 feet per second, Banks observed.

One of the biggest challenges of DUI enforcement is repeat offenders. The point of arresting people who are driving under the influence is not only meant to get them off the road that night and prevent them from harming themselves or others, but also to reprimand them and prevent them from ever doing it again.

The State of Mississippi has an alcohol safety program for people who receive DUIs. It is estimated that as many as half of the people who come into the class will be back after getting caught yet again driving under the influence.

Banks said that it is also believed that for every one DUI that is caught in this country, there are 700 more impaired drivers on the road. The Center for Disease Control estimates that one person dies in a car accident involving and alcohol impaired driver every 53 minutes. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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COURTESY OF THE OXFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT.

OPD made a grand total of 612 DUI arrests throughout 2016, with the month of September seeing the highest number of arrests. Oxford has a high rate of DUI arrests when compared with municipalities of a similar population size.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2017

City Board holds first meeting of 2017

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Mayor Pat Patterson and Board of Aldermen returned to City Hall Tuesday evening to hold the first City Board Meeting of the new year.

The short agenda for Tuesday night’s meeting consisted of only 14 items, as opposed to the typical agenda of around 24 or more items.

During the mayor’s report, Patterson took time to address the closing of the Riverside community. Residents of the Section 8 subsided housing are being forced to vacate the property, as it is due to be torn down in the coming months.

The mayor said that he had heard rumors that the City has been quite callous about the closing and the situation they are placing residents in by closing the property. He assured those gathered at the meeting that this was not the case and that the City is currently hard at work figuring out how to better address the situation.

The first thing on the agenda after the calling the meeting to order, the mayor’s report and adopting and approving the agenda and minutes for the meeting, the board voted to authorize approval of all financial accounts for all city departments.

The board voted to adopt a resolution to formally recognize the week of January 15 through January 21 of 2017 as Mississippi Municipal Government Week.

Oxford joins municipalities all over the state as well as the Mississippi Municipal League in adopting the resolution. While no specifics were given as to what the week would entail, the proposal stated the timeframe would be used as an op-

portunity to educate community members including students, on the role of municipal governments and the ways in which citizens can be involved.

“I wish you could see how hard these folks work and how hard we struggle to get it right; it’s a hard job,” Mayor Patterson said, referring to the work of the aldermen and their role in municipal government. “In eight years, ask me how

many things I’ve vetoed. Zero. We don’t always agree on everything, but we do make an effort. We all work hard and I am proud to work with them.”

City of Oxford Engineer Bart Robinson addressed the board about a request for the approval of a renewed contract for 2017 with HDR Engineering. The corporation is based out of Nebraska and has worked with Oxford in the past. HDR provides traffic light maintenance for the City and is responsible for timing the lights to function in such a way as to ensure an optimal flow of traffic. The board voted to approve a new contract with the company for 2017.

The board also voted to approve an agreement between the City and Engineering Service, a consulting group out of Ridgeland. They will be working with Oxford “for the sole purpose of providing a professional opinion of the monetary value of the potential to generate potable water revenue of the area in question.”

The area is listed as the “Campground Water Association, Oxford Commons Overlap” and is equal to approximately 25.41 acres. Engineering service recommended a budget of $5,000 for the project in their proposal. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

METP gets funding boost from Hearin Foundation FROM OXFORD CITIZEN REPORTS

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JACKSON — A new commitment of $28 million from the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation marks a total investment of $42.1 million over 10 years into the Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program, a collaborative teacher preparation program at the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University that provides both scholarships and an honors college-type experience for top students.

The new funding, which the universities will split, will sustain the program until 2021 and comes as METP leaders prepare for the program’s fifth class of new freshmen.

Meanwhile, METP seniors at both UM and MSU, who were recruited into the program’s charter class in 2013, are planning to graduate in May and enter

Mississippi’s teacher workforce for the first time.

“The Hearin Foundation’s goal is to improve the economic status of Mississippi,” said Laurie H. McRee, a trustee of the Jackson-based foundation. “(We) believe that if you can help raise the level of education, you can raise the economic level of state, as well.

“It’s incredible to see the caliber of (students) the program is attracting. The fact that the universities are working together is just icing on the cake.”

“We hope that this provides a template for our state institutions to continue to work together for education, particularly with respect for teacher education,” said Alan Perry, a trustee of the Hearing Foundation and a member of the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. “We hope that

their example is followed by other institutions across our state.”

Enrollment information compiled by the two universities shows a significant uptick in both the number and quality of new college students entering teacher education programs at UM and MSU since 2013, as a result of METP. “The METP is the culmination of hard work that’s been done by the leadership of Mississippi’s two largest universities – normally very spirited rivals – to come together to address a very critical issue for this state, the future quality of K-12 teaching,” MSU President Mark E. Keenum said. “The continuation of this vital partnership shows the confidence that the Hearin Foundation has in our universities to substantially address this need in a transformative way.”

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Robert Walker enjoys serving people at Serenity Funeral Home

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

When Robert Walker first left Water Valley for Boston to study music education at Berklee College, the thought of working with people in the funeral home business hadn't crossed his mind. It was during his time in Boston that Walker realized that music wasn't going to be his career path and that he had more of a heart and passion for people.

“It was shortly after coming back from there that I started working for the funeral home,” said Walker, who has been with Serenity Funeral Home the past three years. “Everyone that knew me was shocked when they found out I was working in the funeral home. It was a big transition. It was very different, but I adapted to it very well.”

Walker said working for Serenity, and owner Billy Autry, has been great.

Walker added that Autry also has a heart for people. Walker and Autry were paired together through another man in the funeral business in Water Valley. Walker shared the offer to join Autry with his parents, who he said were skeptical about him working in the business because it was such a big transition.

“From the very first moment I started working here, I fell in love with it immediately. We're all about people helping people. We do our best to help everyone. Every family that comes through, it's our goal to treat every family as if it was our own family,” Walker said. “As funeral directors, it's our job to hold the family up and be there for the family and encourage the family.

I've given it my all since day one. It's had ups and downs, but I love the company and love working here. We're all like one family here.”

Walker works a lot of hours, day and night, in order to better serve his clients. He constantly tells

people that working in a funeral doesn't include a set schedule.

“You're up all through the night and there are some days where I go a day or two without getting any sleep,” Walker said. “It does become overwhelming but when you have families looking up, you try and do your best and satisfied and pleased.”

Serenity has been located on Highway 7 North since 2011. There are other branches of the company located in Holly Springs, Pontotoc, New Albany and in Water Valley. Walker tends to the homes for Autry in Oxford and Water Valley. All of the homes in the five locations have been busy. The goal in 2017 is to keep doing what has been successful, and to keep giving good, quality service to the families that need them.

“We pray to God for his blessings that he takes us higher in 2017,” Walker said.

Serenity offers a number of different services and Walker said that visitations are held primarily at the home, while almost all of the funerals are held in a church. Between four and five services are held during a given week, Walker said. And the numbers were even higher the last part of 2016. The Monday after Christmas, the home received six calls, which broke a record for Serenity.

Walker played football for the Blue Devils and graduated in 2007. His mother and father still live in Water Valley and they have been together for 39 years. Walker said he grew up in a very strict Christian home and that Serenity is Christian-based business.

“We try to keep God first in everything we do,” Walker said. “At the end of the day, it's a business but also ministry. You run into a lot of people a lot of the time that as a Christian, you're able to minister to people and help a lot of people come to Christ.”

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Robert Walker is a people person and he helps families in times on need working at Serenity Funeral Home in Oxford. seats 150 people and the visitations are held inside there for the families.

Walker is a licensed life insurance agent and he is currently working on his funeral director's license, which is a two-year process, he said.

“Our number one priority is helping people. We don't turn any family away. We don't care what the status is, every family that comes through those doors, we treat them like it's our own family,” Walker said. “We give good quality service for every service that we have.

I would recommend anyone who is not tied up with a funeral home to give me a call. I will gladly come out to your home to talk about our different plans and policies that we have. I highly recommend this funeral home and not just because I work here.

Mr. Autry has a heart for the people and he goes out of his way to help the people. That's our main goal.”

To reach Walker for more information, call (662) 801-9566. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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John Davis Sports Editor

It's always hard to say goodbye to college football

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t's always tough to say goodbye to college football. The season is with us for almost five full months, even if we can't figure out where all the time has gone.

The Rebels may have been through at Thanksgiving, but most of us watch the various title games and the bowl games that follow. There was a point, decades ago, where all the bowl games could be watched. It's pretty hard to do that now with 41 of them but somebody, somewhere, watched them all.

New Year's Day didn't have a single college game because it was a Sunday. The NFL dominated gridirons all over the nation. But Monday, Jan. 2, was a good finale to the “bowl season.” The annual Rose Bowl contest was the best of the best. Southern Cal's 52-49 was thrilling in so many ways. It was exciting to watch those two great offenses go at each other. As impressive as Shea Patterson was for the Rebels in his three games on the field, Sam Darnold was sensational for the Trojans. Yes, Darnold sat his first season with the Trojans, but he was still starting his first bowl game, a huge bowl mind you, and he accounted for five touchdowns. And a 2point conversion. The college football universe already has Darnold as the favorite to win the 2017 Heisman Trophy. That's what bowl season, and bowl wins, does for us leading into the offseason. It gives us players to pin hopes to and a reason to keep the discussion moving ahead.

Auburn lost in the Sugar Bowl to Oklahoma. Everyone here locally remembers how the Rebels dominated that game a year ago. It was the exact opposite this edition.

The Sooners broke things open in the third quarter and never looked back. Running back Joe Mixon, the player who punched a woman two years ago, taunted the Auburn crowd back after he scored to really put the Sooners in control. Brent Musberger got testy talking about Mixon's second chance and that continued to draw the ire of many on Twitter. Those posts, and the discussion that ensued, proved to be much more interesting than the Sugar Bowl. Auburn's loss dropped the SEC to 6-6 in bowl games this year. Of course Alabama could win one more game, and the national title, if it defeats Clemson on Monday. That will make the .500 record look better but there is no denying that the SEC just didn't dominate like it has in other seasons. A bad year for the SEC is still better than almost every other conference, but the SEC just wasn't dyTURN TO FOOTBALL PAGE 19

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Oxford junior Grace Ann Joyce is a versatile soccer player for coach Hunter Crane.

Ms. Versatile Joyce serves as 'Swiss Army Knife' for Lady Chargers

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

On a roster filled with talented players, junior Grace Ann Joyce has been important as any Oxford Lady Charger.

Coach Hunter Crane said Joyce had been “huge for us” during the first half of the season. All of the success started back in the summer and the previous offseason, Crane said.

“She just came to work everyday. She is an excellent soccer player and I call her my Swiss Army Knife,” Crane said.

“She does a lot of different things for us.

She starts the game off at forward and

then she drops back in the midfield.

She will play attacking mid and then she will playing holding mid which is more defensive. She does a lot great things with a soccer ball.”

Joyce is comfortable on a soccer field, and with the ball at her feet, Crane added. And the feeling or relationship that Joyce has with the rest of the team is evident.

“She is very cohesive with all the other forwards and midfielders and she has been an excellent piece of it all for us this year,” Crane said. “She plays a lot of minutes and done a lot of great things for us. She is a great passer and

she has a powerful shot as well. I think her knowledge of the game and kind of her feel and field vision is really one of the best things about her. Not only does she do good things with the ball, but she does good things without the ball.

She makes the right run. You know that she has the ability to play that ball into space or that she can move herself to the right spot and be in the right position to get the ball from the other mids or forwards. I think just her knowledge of the game is really what kind of separates her apart.”

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No. 24 Florida Gators hold off OM Rebels in hoops FROM OXFORD CITIZEN REPORTS

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ole Miss did the things needed to earn a win on the road in the SEC Tuesday night. The Rebels hit the glass and out rebounded the No. 24 Florida Gators. They had more blocks and almost as many steals. They even made one less shot from the field than Florida. Ole Miss checked off just about every box but one.

Ole Miss was careless with the ball, turning it over 21 times in the 70-63 setback to the Gators, who improved to 11-3 overall and 2-0 in the SEC. Ole Miss (9-5) fell to 0-2 in the SEC as a result. Sebastian Saiz led the Rebels with his fifth straight double, scoring 15 points and grabbing 13 rebounds.

Deandre Burnett also scored 18 points to complement the senior but it wasn't enough to overcome the miscues and missed scoring chances due to the turnovers,

which was the most since the season opener against UT-Martin. Fourteen of the Rebels' turnovers actually came in the first 17 minutes of action.

Ole Miss got as close as six points (69-63) with 20.1 seconds left in the contest.

Prior to that, the Rebels were within eight points (42-34) following a 3pointer by Burnett with just over 14 minutes left in the second half. Florida responded with an 11-0 run that essentially put the game away. Florida, coached by former Ole Miss standout Michael White, could have really iced the game with a better effort from the freethrow line. The Gators were just 11-for-21 there compared to the Rebels who were 10-for-13.

Canyon Barry led the Gators with 20 points, while KeVaughn Allen had 14 and Devin Robinson added 11 for the Gators.

Ole Miss will return to action Saturday on the road at Auburn. The Tigers

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Canyon Barry came off the bench to score 20 points for the No. 24 Florida Gators in their 70-63 win over Ole Miss Tuesday night. are 6-1 at home this season. Auburn's only loss actually came to start SEC play last week as the Geor-

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Mustapha Heron leads the Tigers with a scoring average of 16.2 points per game.

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1017 CR 251

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3018 Highlands Circle $585,000

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With the start of Division 2-5A play on the horizon, coach Cliff Ormon said he was proud of how his team has come together.

“I'm proud of the effort they have put in. They have never let things change the way we practice, the way they do things and we don't have people moping or not showing up for games,” Ormon said. have actually “They stepped up and working harder and harder to get better everyday. I think we had our best practice of the year (Monday). Just the energy was there, and you could tell our players wanted to get better. That's the great thing about this group, going into the second season as I call it.”

Jordan Freeze is the team's leading scorer and she has cut her turnovers down the last few weeks, another positive Ormon pointed out.

Oxford played four games in a tournament in Hoover, Alabama and they were in every single game.

“We gave ourselves a chance to win because we didn't turn the ball over. I think (Freeze) has taken on

a better role of taking care of the basketball,” Ormon said. “Calicia Zinn has become a better defender for us and Kelsey Wilborn had a great game in Hoover in the one we won. She had 12 points, seven rebounds.

She's a very active player.

Our younger players have grown and given us some big minutes off the bench.

They're growing every game. You see the mistakes that they make but you're also seeing the growth they're making and playing through them. Our younger players are having to grow on the job and they are getting better.”

West Point will visit Oxford on Friday night and the Green Wave are one of the better teams in North Mississippi. Ormon has been keeping up with the division teams and he said that Saltillo is better and that New Hope, which has won 10 games already, is also solid.

“New Hope is in the second year of its new coach and they are much improved and they will be a challenge,” Ormon said. “If you talk to a lot of coaches in North Mississippi, West Point might be one of the best teams in the north.

They return a lot of players from last year's team, so we will have our hands full.

Again, that's part of the challenge for every team

now. You have to sneak one away at their place and hopefully set yourself up in that division tournament with the easiest game.”

Being at home is advantage, and Ormon was hoping to use that to his advantage on Friday night from a crowd standpoint. “(West Point) will present a big challenge. They're very tall and a lot of these players have played a lot of minutes last year so they do have some experience,” Ormon said. “We talked about reducing our turnovers. Hoover are the only games I have to evaluate that off of, but we did a better job there. Our defense has to become our backbone to give us a chance to win. We haven't been bad, but we have to tighten up. It has to be that thing we rely on to get stops when we have to. We need to find a way to win that tough game, get multiple stops on defense in a row. I think that's something we can get better at because we are athletic enough to be a good defensive team.”

Ormon added that his freshmen aren't freshmen any longer and that the sophomores are now juniors and juniors are almost like seniors after 14 games.

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Road Warriors Tyler feels like his Chargers are ready for 2-5A play

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

For the past two weeks, the Oxford Chargers have been on the road, getting better playing against teams from other states.

The Chargers most recently played in a tournament in Jefferson City, Missouri. Before that, the Chargers played four straight days at Briarcrest Christian. All of games, and the situations, have prepared the Chargers for the start of Division 2-5A play, which begins Friday night at home against West Point.

“We are sitting at 9-5 and we're pretty much at the midpoint. We've got half our games left with region games and some non region games mixed in,” OHS coach Drew Tyler said.

“From what we saw in the Tennessee and Missouri tournament, with teams from Tennessee and Missouri and four other states, Ohio, Kentucky, Oklahoma, we'll see how we act in certain situations now that we're back in our state.”

The Chargers won two of the seven games they played in the tournaments, but two of the losses were by a single point. Oxford held a lead in all of them, but Tyler said his young team wasn't able to close things out in a few of them.

“We'll see if we can get a lead, hold a lead and come back from a deficit. We have got to play better basketball in the third quarter and following the game plan coming out of halftime,” Tyler said. “We've had leads in all five of our losses and we haven't been able to really secure it. Our games have different looks, from the opening tip to the final buzzer, and in basketball that happens. It doesn't need to have a different look because of something that the Oxford Chargers are doing or not doing.”

Getting into the bonus on the foul line is something Tyler wants his team to do a better job of in the games that will decide their playoff seeding. Across the board, the Chargers are a

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Oxford's Jarkel Joiner is coming off three games where he scored 124 points in three tournament games in Missouri. young team overall. The youth showed up late in the games as the Chargers tried to protect their lead.

“The minutes that some of these young kids are getting and some of the situations they're being put in is so advantageous for us going into district play,” Tyler said. “JJ Pegues (a freshman) is in our starting lineup. Tykel Owens, another freshman, has been in the starting lineup at times. They have games under their belt. They're tested. That's what you want. We've been able to play nine and 10 guys through these two out-ofstate tournaments so we feel like through our 14

games, we're where we want to be.”

Tyler added that he and his assistant, Tyler Reed, can tell the players all they need to know heading into a game but they ultimately have to get into the fire to know how hot it really is.

“That's what we've done with these two tournaments. The Missouri trip was a great one for our program. From eating with the team at Busch Stadium to taking the team to Six Flags, it was a teammate day,” Tyler said. “We've got great kids and that's why we like to reward them with trips like that and the brand of basketball teams that we got to see and play

against.”

West Point is under .500 heading into the contest, but Tyler said throw out the records as it relates to the matchup. Tyler felt like having the game at home, coming off a short week of school, was an advantage for his team.

“Home court really plays a part. It's like Tad Smith used to be for the Rebels and Lady Rebels. We feel like the home team, including ourselves, is 10 points better at home, no matter what they lost to graduation or how young they are,” Tyler said. “New Hope is getting better every game they play and they have all the tools of a team

that is state bound. Saltillo and West Point, you got to bring your A game. They beat you and they can beat you on their home court. If you don't play on your court, they're well coached.

Last year we went into the tournament as the No. 4 team and we won the district tournament. We played good basketball and now we're looking at the district tournament being at New Hope. We have to be able to go win on the road, so I really feel like December got us ready to go and defend our district standing. We know we're going to have to win some games on the road this year.”

Other keys starting 2-5A play Tyler said was to stay healthy and to get some bounces to go the Chargers' way.

“We have to make our own breaks but with the lack of size that we have, we've got to really be able to stick to our game plan and play Oxford basketball,” Tyler said.

Tip-Ins In the Jefferson City tournament, Jarkel Joiner scored 124 points in three games, which was the highest point total in tournament history, breaking the old mark of 97 points.

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PETRE THOMAS

Lafayette coach John Sherman has seen some good things from his Commodores so far this year. Improvement with turnovers is needed this second half of the season.

Solid defense is something for Commodores to build on

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

ComLafayette's modores have taken some steps as a basketball program even if head coach John Sherman knows there is more to improve on in the second half of the season. The Commodores were 5-6 heading into the first week of Division 2-4A play starting up. Sherman felt like his team had “underachieved” but he also

pointed out that the defensive effort had been solid and that three straight wins over the holidays was something to build on. One of the big things that the Commodores have to do a better job with moving forward is taking care of the ball.

“We feel like we left some wins out there on the floor so to speak. Either throwing the ball away too much or missed free throws or missed op-

portunities,” Sherman said. “We seem to be playing fairly good defense which has allowed us to win the games that we have and also allowing us a chance to win most every game that we've played.”

Sherman did feel like his team would be a little more balanced on both sides of the court instead of clearly more consistent on defense. The team lost a few players and didn't get a few players out after

the football season came to a close.

“We're not really at what I would have thought was going to be a full squad.

We've had to play without others for one reason or another,” Sherman said. “I would say that the commitment to this program by the players that we chose to be in it has been disappointing.”

New Albany will visit Lafayette Friday night and this is the second season that he is coaching against

those teams. Sherman has a better feel for his team compared to this time last season.

“I think we have improved in some areas but we've got some cleaning up to do, especially on the offensive end,” Sherman said. “We struggled to score in our last game.

We've got to figure out who we are offensively.

The first thing we have to do is do a better job of taking care of the basketball and ball security. We need

to make sure that every possession is important and stop being so careless of the ball.”

Five out of the last six opponents coming into the week have been held in check on the scoreboard by the Commodores, who advanced to the title game of the Picayune Christmas Tournament before losing 3928. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Defense, balanced scoring key LHS Lady Commodores

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Lafayette has started back to school after the Christmas and New Year's holidays. And Shayne Linzy is happy. His Lafayette Lady Commodores have played very well, and with the Division 2-4A slate on the horizon, Linzy feels good about where his team is heading into the important stretch run.

“Even when the scores have been lopsided and showing that we're winning big, I look at it as we're doing what we're supposed to be doing and handling our business the way we're supposed to,” Linzy said. “When the scores are lopsided, it also gives us the chance to work on other parts of our game where when you have a tight ballgame, you're just trying to figure out a way to get out of there with a win.”

Defense has been the calling card of the Lady Commodores under Linzy, and he feels like his club has gotten better and better on defense since the start of the year.

“We're doing our job and even when we do get beat on a cut or a screen, we're able to coach that. I think we're doing well and even when I make those substitutions, we're still playing good defense,” Linzy said. “I think the girls have bought into the fact that we're going to win with defense and that a lot of our scoring is going to come through our defense. It means that our defense is wearing down other teams and that it becomes easier to score in our offensive set in the fourth quarter. I think we do a great job defensively.”

Football FROM 1

The scoring has increased across the board. Azariah Buford, Chelsea Allen and Mariah Holland are the others that have added to the lead of Shaniyah Buford.

Xhiir Burgess and Lauren Wilkinson are also starting to see shots open up, Linzy said.

“Everyone wants to concentrate on Shaniyah and it's really opening up the shooting lanes and open shots for these other girls. Their confidence is booming because they are knocking shots down,” Linzy said. “And we're sharing the ball as well as any team I've coached. These girls are starting to realize that we're not a one-person scoring team. Whoever is on the team can score. And to me, it's going to make it difficult for other teams to concentrate on one person. We know the one person the other team is going to concentrate on and I look at it as a challenge for them to do it because I have other girls that can score and also proving they can score. That's going to make it difficult on them on concentrate on one person when you have multiple scorers.”

This year's division looks to be as strong as usual. All but one has a winning record heading into things. And all of the teams have played tough competition.

“I think our division is as strong as any and probably one of the top two strongest divisions in the state in 4A,” Linzy said. “I think as far as the north, we're in the strongest division.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Lafayette's Xhiir Burgess has been a rebounding machine for the Lady Commodores this season.

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Joyce FROM 10

Joyce has scored five goals this year, which is the third most on the team behind Morgan O'Connor and Ally Shinall and tied with Katelyn Rock. Joyce is also second on the team in assists with nine.

Holding midfield is the position that is the newest for Joyce. Being defensive was just fine with Joyce, who was up for trying new things.

Joyce came out to soccer a little later than normal because she helped the Lady Chargers win a state title in volleyball this fall. Coming in to the team in November made Joyce work that much harder.

“It made me prove why I should be on the field because I haven't been there the same amount of time as everyone else has,” Joyce said. “I showed up a lot more focused than I probably would have been. I wasn't goofing around as much because I wanted to prove I could play and prove to (Crane) why I should be out there.”

The Lady Chargers won the MHSAA Class 5A title last season, and the goal is to win it all again this February. No one has taken that for granted, including Joyce, who said no one knows when it will be your last opportunity to get a title.

“That was a speech our assistant volleyball coach gave us. You don't know if you ever will be back here, so enjoy every moment of it,” she said. “It was really special because with volleyball, we had been together for so long. We only had one senior graduate the past two years, so it was special to get that with all those girls.”

Coming into the season, Joyce was a little nervous about the defensive line because of all the seniors graduated from that spot.

“I've been impressed with how Olivia Rychlak has stepped up and taken on more of a leadership role. Center back is such a crucial position and she filled that really well,” Joyce said. “It's the forwards job to get the ball in the goal. And Bailey (O'Connor) can't be expected to stop every shot, no matter how good she is.”

Soccer is something Joyce has always done as soon as she could. Her parents and older sister were both involved with soccer.

“It's a family game, something I've done my whole life. My cousins play it, my uncles,” Joyce said. “I enjoy playing it. It's just so much fun. Every time I'm out there, I'm having fun and that's why I keep playing it.”

Volleyball and soccer are both demanding in their own ways. There is more running involved in soccer and in volleyball, it's about jumping up and down as fast as possible.

The thing moving forward that Joyce thinks the Lady Chargers need to do is to keep working as a team.

“That's something we have done really well with this year. And not getting frustrated with each other,” Joyce said. “If we miss an opportunity, we need to move on to the next one and not beat somebody up because they missed a shot on goal or something. As long as we have a positive attitude and energy with each other, and the drive to win, I think we'll be good.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Lady Chargers have test coming out of holiday break

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

It's been three weeks since the Oxford Lady Chargers took to the soccer field from a competitive standpoint. The goal of getting three good matches in before Christmas evaporated when the showcase tournament was cancelled. OHS coach Hunter Crane said it would be interesting to see what his team looked like when they did get back on the field Friday evening at Saltillo. Some of the players have done drills on their own, but the team only started back on the practice field this week due to the lengthy holiday break.

The plan coming off the layoff was to train hard for three straight days in the effort to get the timing back. With January so busy, Crane felt it was best for his 10-0 Lady Chargers to rest more than try and cram in a few workouts over the break, with fewer players available due to travel plans.

“The girls that were in town, they would get together a couple of days a week and shoot and I know a lot of them have been running and staying

in shape,” Crane said adding that gaining possession again is the biggest key. “That's the first thing that we have to get going again. Everyone can work on their touch and things like that individually but in a large group setting, it's possession. Our whole offense is built around that and combination passes. The first 30 to 45 minutes these first three days, we're going to get a lot of possession and see where our touch is at and get back to a team feel and our legs back underneath us. What we don't want to lose is that high intensity we have with our possession.”

Saltillo will be a test, and Crane felt like playing the Lady Tigers right out of the break is a good thing for his players.

“I think the blessing is our first game back is Saltillo. They beat us one game last year, and they were the last team to beat us. After they beat us 2-1 on our field, the girls focused in and we went on that big run and won that state title,” Crane said.

“We've still be on that run up until now. I think our kids understand that Saltillo is the team that we played in the north half

championship game and they're going to be very good. I think they've only lost one game as it is and we're undefeated, so it's going to be quick getting back on our feet with a strong team that I expect to challenge us and good enough to beat us. I think the focus is going to have to be there and I think they will be very focused.”

Crane does feel like the rest will do his team well and it definitely got the team healthy and over some nagging injuries.

“I think everyone is back full strength and I think the whole idea with taking this time off is to get healthy and get rested,” Crane said. “We've played 10 games and we have three weeks left before playoffs start and we're going to have 10 in those three weeks. We're going to play five JV games in there as well. We're going to play a JV or varsity game everyday except Wednesday and Sunday the next three weeks.

We're going to be very busy. We wanted the break and I hope it's enough to get us all the way to February.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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