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TODAY iN HiSTOrY 1818: Congress decides the flag will have 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star added for every new state.

1859: “Dixie” is performed publicly for the first time

by Bryant’s Minstrels at Mechanics’ Hall in New York.

1960: The Biblical-era spectacle “Ben-Hur” wins 11 Academy Awards.

1960: Elvis Presley records “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” for RCA Victor.

1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, is shot to death at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

(James Earl Ray later pleaded guilty to assassinating King, then spent the rest of his life claiming his innocence before dying in prison in 1998.)

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By Pamela Hitchins phitchins@vicksburgpost.com

Juan “John” LaSalle is a man who believes in miracles: he is on his second life and he has new faith and a new liver.

“We’ve seen a lot of things that we wouldn’t have called miracles before — but now we do,” said his wife, Amie LaSalle. “We’ve learned that when we sit back and let God do the driving, we just enjoy the view.”

Until July 20, when he got a call from a Memphis hospital, his health declined day by day.

John was not alone in waiting. More than 106,000

candidates were on organ transplant waiting lists last week, according to OrganDonor.gov, a U.S. government Web site with information about access, risks, research and legislation on the topic. He was one of 28,464 people receiving a transplant in 2009.

“We were on the list for two months,” said John.

“The doctor said, ‘It was lucky you got that transplant because you wouldn’t have lived another month.’”

The LaSalles don’t know anything about the person whose donation gave John his life back. They do not even know if the person See Transplant, Page A9.

About hepatitis • The word “hepatitis” means inflammation of the liver.

It also refers to a group of viral infections that affect the liver.

• The most common types are hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C. • Viral hepatitis is the leading cause of liver cancer and the most common reason for liver transplantation.

• In the United States, an estimated 1.2 million Americans are living with chronic hepatitis B and 3.2 million are living with chronic hepatitis C. Many do not know they are infected.

• Each year an estimated 25,000 people become infected with hepatitis A; 43,000 with hepatitis B, and 17,000 with hepatitis C. • Cirrhosis caused by hepatitis C is the most common reason for a liver transplant.

Sources: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Liver Foundation.

BAGHDAD — Gunmen trying to pass themselves off as U.S. and Iraqi soldiers raided a Sunni village outside Baghdad and killed at least 24 people in an execution-style attack, apparently targeting a Sunni group that revolted against al-Qaida in Iraq, authorities and witnesses said Saturday.

The bloodshed late Friday comes amid increasing concerns that insurgents will take advantage of Iraq’s political turmoil to further destabilize the country, nearly a month after parliamentary elections failed to give any candidate a decisive win. Many fear a drawn-out political debate could spill over into violence and complicate American efforts to speed up troop withdrawals in the coming months.

Details remained sketchy, but police said gunmen traveling in at least four cars raided three homes in Hawr Rijab, killing 19 men and five women after binding them in handcuffs. Some of the victims, police said, were marched onto the roofs of their homes and slain there.

Some had broken arms and legs, indicating they had been tortured before they were shot, police said. One witness said many were so badly brutalized that they were “beyond recognition.”

At least seven people were found alive, bound See Iraq, Page A9.

Land around pipe stable after first rain since shift

By Steve Sanoski ssanoski@vicksburgpost.com Showers ending Saturday morning didn’t affect one of the city’s main water pipes that engineers have been watching for more than a week, following a March 26 land shift that put the pipe in jeopardy.

“Everything is good, and there are no changes in the status of the pipe,” said Kavanaugh Breazeale, spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “We are cautiously optimistic everything will remain secure as we continue to look for a per-

Concern over the pipe will also likely lead to last minute changes to the April 16-17 Riverfest celebration. Riverfest President Erin Hern said festival organizers plan to move the location of their Washington Street stage south one block, from the corner of Crawford and Grove streets to China and South streets. The move, however, is pending approval by the Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen, who are set to take up the issue at a regular board meeting Monday morning. manent fix.”

Working in tandem with city crews, the Corps last week began working immediately to temporarily stabilize the 36-inch concrete pipe, which runs about three feet beneath Washington Street and is a key link in supply-

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Breazeale said Corps workers would continue monitoring the pipe Saturday and today as necessary. The City of Vicksburg is providing continual updates of the water main situation on its recorded action line at 601801-3443. City and Corps

officials have been steadily discussing options for permanently stabilizing the pipe, said Breazeale, and those talks will continue this week.

While no water service has been lost in the city since the pipe’s stability was compromised, city emergency management officials have suggested residents keep a three-day supply of bottled water on hand.

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Event still incites ‘eggcitement’ after 134 years WASHINGTON (AP) — If it’s Easter Monday in Washington, it’s time for the White House Easter Egg Roll.

The White House is getting ready, putting on the finishing touches before the gates open and 30,000 men, women and children scramble to take part in the annual tradition.

The Easter Bunny and more than 14,500 hard-boiled eggs are dyed and waiting.

The event dates to 1878 and has a rich history.

Two world wars and weather have caused the “eggcitement” to be canceled several times. The fun and games are at the president’s home, but he isn’t always there to join the fun. The event is usually a signal that spring has arrived in the nation’s capital.

Here are a few tales from White House Easter Egg Roll history.

• It’s long-standing policy: No child or adult can attend alone. But decades ago in the 1930s, as the event grew more popular, kids and grown-ups alike figured out some “eggceptional” ways around the rule.

Children would mingle with tourists and others passing by the White House gates, and hoped they could talk someone into escorting them through security and into the festivities on the South Lawn.

Eager to stroll the plush grounds, adults would dig into their purses and pockets to pay a nickel, a quarter or whatever the going rate was at the time to “adopt” a child long enough to get inside, too.

Once past the guards, they often parted company. Sometimes, the kids headed back out through a different gate in search of another parent for hire — and more money for their pockets.

The scam continued to such a degree that one newspaper headline in 1935 screamed: “Children Outside Gates Turn Racketeer and Take Sunday Elders for a Nickel Fee,” according to the National Archives. One 11-year-old boy said the five quarters he earned one Easter Monday helped pay the weekly rent for the rooms he lived in with his mother and three siblings.

Secret Service agents were posted at the gates in 1939 to break up the racket.

• Nowadays, it takes more than just sweet talk to get into the “eggstravaganza.” It takes a ticket.

It used to be that on the weekend before the Easter Egg Roll, anyone who wanted tickets had to wait in line outside a booth near the White House, regardless of the weather. And getting a ticket was not guaranteed.

But that changed under President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama.

For the first time last year — the Obamas’ first in the White House — tickets were distributed via an online lottery.

The White House said it made the change to give more

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President Barack Obama, above, cheers a little girl on during last year’s White House Easter Egg Roll. Below, President George W. Bush hugs the Easter bunny during the 2008 event. families from across the country a chance to participate in what is the longest annual presidential tradition on the South Lawn. It also means people now can apply for tickets from the comfort of their homes.

• Public access to the South Lawn is as rare as sightings of the Easter Bunny.

The White House grounds are open to the average public just two weekends a year, for the spring and fall garden tours. It is open again for the Easter Egg Roll, the only event where people get to walk across the meticulously tended South Lawn.

• It’s the White House Easter Egg Roll, but the fun and games didn’t originate at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The west front of the Capitol has a steep, grassy slope that made it an ideal venue for egg rolling, and children had been taking their colored eggs and rolling them down the hill there for years on Easter Monday.

But after putting up with noisy children and watching them trample the grass, members of Congress decided they’d had enough. A bill passed and signed by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1876 banned such activity to prevent “injury” to the Capitol grounds and grass.

In 1877, it rained so hard that the egg roll was canceled, so the Capitol Police didn’t have to enforce the new law.

The officers would have no such luck the following year,

however, when chasing away basket-toting egg rollers as they arrived at the Capitol.

“Eggsasperated” egg rollers then headed west on Pennsylvania Avenue in search of an alternate site after word spread for them to go to the White House, says the White House Historical Association.

As the story goes, President Rutherford B. Hayes was out for his daily walk a few days before Easter in 1878 when a boy approached and asked Hayes if he’d let them roll eggs at the White House. The stillnew president was not familiar with the tradition, partly because it was rained out his first year in office, in 1877.

Hayes told the boy he’d see.

Back at the White House, the president inquired about egg rolling. He instructed the staff to let the kids through the gates if they showed up on Easter Monday, and not to make a fuss. When Monday arrived, the egg rollers did.

The next year, on the eve of Easter in 1879, another boy approached Hayes as he was walking to ask about egg rolling at the White House. Hayes replied that he thought there would be no objection to it.

By 1880, however, no child bothered to check with Hayes.

Egg rollers showed up and took over the south grounds of the White House. The tradition of a White House Easter Egg Roll was well under way.

A look at the White House Easter Egg Roll through the years: • Cue the music — Eleven years after the Easter Egg Roll became a White House tradition, President Benjamin Harrison added music in 1889. The United States Marine Band, also known as “The President’s Own,” played as children romped on the South Lawn. Band director John Philip Sousa, composer of “The Star Spangled Banner,” enjoyed treating them to rousing marches as they scampered about. He honored the occasion of the Easter Egg Roll with his composition, “Easter Monday on the White House Lawn,” in 1929.

• Let the games begin — If it’s Easter Monday, eggs are being rolled across the White House South Lawn.

But other egg games were played during the affairs early years, such as egg ball, toss and catch, egg croquet and egg picking — in which eggs were pecked together until they cracked. After a few days, the odor from all the broken eggs filled the air with a stench.

• First egg races — President Richard Nixon and first lady Patricia Nixon hosted the first egg roll races in 1974. They have become a favorite.

• No egg roll — World War I and food rationing put the event on hold, scrambling it from 1917-1920.

Egg rollers returned to the Capitol in 1942, from which they had been banished 64 years earlier, in 1878. World War II stopped the festivities again from 1943-1945. The event was canceled in 1984 because of rain.

• Truman-no egg roll — President Harry Truman did not host an Easter egg roll during his two terms in office. Food conservation efforts led him to cancel the affair from 1946-1947.

After that, White House renovations turned the South Lawn into a construction zone from 19481952. President Dwight D. Eisenhower revived the tradition in 1953, after a 12-year hiatus.

• Where’s the president?

— Several of Eisenhower’s successors could not be at the White House on Easter Monday to greet the visiting egg rollers. President Gerald Ford resumed the tradition of presidential appearances at the Egg Roll in 1976 — making him the first chief executive to do so since Eisenhower played host in 1960.

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churches Triumphant Baptist — Food distribution, 9-11 a.m. Tuesday; administration building, 74 Scenic Drive; for residents of Kings, Waltersville and North Washington Street areas; must provide verification of income, utility bill and Social Security cards for all household members; 601638-8108 or 601-638-8135.

St. Mark Freewill Baptist — Bible study, 6:30 Tuesdays; the Rev. Billy Bennett Jr., leader; 2606 Hannah St.

clubs Vicksburg Cruisers — Monthly meeting, 6:30 p.m.

Monday; Goldie’s Trail Bar-BQue, South Frontage Road.

Vicksburg Kiwanis — Noon Tuesday, Jacques’ Cafe; Sen. Briggs Hopson, speaker.

VAMP — Noon Tuesday; Webster Franklin, speaker; Heritage Buffet, Ameristar.

River City Mended Hearts — 5 p.m. Tuesday, River Region Medical Center room C; Dr. John Agnone, cardiovascular surgeon, speaker.

Warren County Republican Party — Executive committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Warren County Courthouse; visitors welcome.

Lions — Noon Wednesday, Jacques’ Cafe; Andy Metz, Vicksburg District’s Mat Sinking Unit, speaker.

Military Order of the Purple Heart — 9 a.m. Thursday, Battlefield Inn; 601-629-8922.

Vicksburg Toastmasters 2052 — Noon-1 p.m., Information Technology Laboratory, Porters Chapel Road; Jeff Hensley, 601634-4596.

AARP Vicksburg/West Central MS Chapter — 10 a.m. April

13, Vicksburg Senior Center; Vicksburg Fire Chief Charles Atkins Jr., speaker.

Public ProGrams Relay for Life — Team meeting, 5:30 p.m. Monday; Bowmar Baptist Church; warren_ county_relay@yahoo.com.

Kitchen Gardening — Noon1 p.m. Tuesday; Donna Beliech, Extension horticulture agent, presenter; Warren County Extension Office, 1100-C Grove St.; no charge; 601-636-5442.

Tuesday Vicksburg Al-Anon — Noon Tuesday; First Presbyterian Church, 1501 Cherry St.; 601-634-0152.

AARP Tax Aid — 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Wednesdays until April 15; free tax counseling and services; public library.

Serenity Overeaters Anonymous — 6-7 p.m. Wednes-

day, Bowmar Baptist Church room 102C; for those wanting to stop binge eating; 601-6380011.

Vicksburg Al-Anon — 8 p.m.

Wednesday; family, friends of alcoholics and addicts; 502 Dabney Ave.; 601-636-1134.

Organic Gardening — 12:15 p.m. Thursday; Faulk’s Garden Shop, 1118 Clay St.; Karen Williams, presenter; 601-6362832.

Mixed Nuts! Night — 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Peterson’s Art & Antiques, 1400 Washington St.; presentations by Rob Mendrop, bamboo, and Ruth Wilkerson, beeswax candles.

Mosaics Workshop with Linda Jackson — 10 a.m. Saturday-1 p.m. April 11, Constitution Firehouse; bird feeders, pillars; materials furnished, may bring own items (rocks, broken pottery, etc.); $70 for

VAA members, $75 for nonmembers; 601-415-4101 or 601-638-7047.

Patricia A. Scott Memorial Scholarship — Available to female student in Vicksburg Warren or Claiborne County school district; offered by Nu Kappa Zeta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.; applications in high school counselors’ offices; deadline is April 15.

Retired Education Personnel of Vicksburg-Warren County — Scholarship applications for college students majoring in teacher education; available at school district’s instructional services office and Hinds Community College or from Walter Sheriff, 601-638-7812; application deadline, May 14.

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Census jobs give welcome boost to gloomy unemployment stats WASHINGTON (AP) — As census workers gear up to count us, they are counting themselves lucky to be employed.

This once-a-decade temporary work force is giving a timely boost to the battered job market. Census workers accounted for nearly a third of the jobs added in March, when hiring occurred at the fastest pace in three years.

Over the next two months, another 600,000 to 700,000 census jobs will be added, putting $10 to $25 an hour into the pockets of some desperate job seekers.

Although these jobs will only last through mid-July, economists say they will provide a fortuitous stream of income to families and act as an employment bridge until summer, when more private employers are to ramp up hiring.

The census hiring also comes in a year when President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package will peter out. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that stimulus spending added more than 1 million jobs last year.

“It comes at a good time because you’re transitioning from an economy that’s slowly recovering to sustainable growth,” said John Canally, an economist at Boston-based

Jorge Devarona, a partnership specialist with the 2010 U.S. Census, performs Census duties in Caldwell, Idaho.

LPL Financial. “This is a good patchwork until then.”

Still, the census paychecks won’t have a meaningful impact on the overall economy.

The government has set aside $7.8 billion to conduct the census. That pales compared with last year’s stimulus package of $862 billion.

Yet the impact of these jobs cannot be overstated for people who were out of work.

“Census to the rescue,” said 24-year-old Cierra Edwards of Toledo, Ohio. “I was so far behind. Rent started stacking up, bills, diapers.”

The nation added 162,000

WASHINGTON (AP) — letter to the administration The Obama administration is urging a citation of China as delaying a report to Congress a currency manipulator. The on currency policies amid lawmakers also called on the calls from some lawmakers Commerce Department to impose trade that it should Treasury Secretary sanctions on cite China as on the a c u r r e n cy Timothy Geithner said China basis that manipulator Saturday that he will its currency harmful to the is an U.S. economy. delay publication of the system unfair trade Treasury report, due April 15, practice.

Secretary addition, Timothy Geibecause several high-level 14In senators thner said Saturday that international meetings unveiled legiscalling he will delay in the coming months lation for stiff trade publication will be a better way sanctions of the report, China due April 15, to advance the United against if it doesn’t because sevStates’ position. let the yuan eral highrise in value level international meetings in the coming against the dollar.

China rejected the pressure months will be a better way to advance the United States’ from U.S. lawmakers and accused Washington of trade position.

Still, Geithner said in a protectionism that Beijing statement that China should said could hurt the global ecoadopt “a more market-ori- nomic recovery. China insists ented exchange rate” to bal- it is not intentionally pursuing ance a U.S. trade deficit with a trade surplus.

Geithner said then that the China, which totaled $226.8 billion last year, the largest Treasury Department had not imbalance with any country. yet decided whether to cite U.S. manufacturers say Chi- China as a currency manipulana’s yuan is undervalued by tor in the twice-annual report as much as 40 percent and is to Congress on the trade a big reason for the massive and currency policies of the United States’ major trading trade deficit.

A stronger yuan versus the partners.

Such a finding against China dollar would make U.S. products less expensive in China, would trigger talks between while making Chinese goods the two nations — with a more expensive for American threat of trade sanctions if the negotiations failed to resolve consumers.

The administration is hoping the issue. The Obama White that China will again allow House, following the lead of its currency to rise in value the Bush administration, has against the dollar as a way of so far refused to formally peg narrowing the trade gap — as China as a manipulator, believit did until mid-2008 when the ing that the more productive global recession began to cut course would be to convince sharply into China’s exports the Chinese that it is in their own interests to allow their abroad.

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Easter The joy of renewal is transcendent Spring is a time when nature renews the Earth. For Christians, Easter Sunday, which always comes in spring, also embodies a message of renewal — that when hopes fade and times are sad, there is the abiding assurance of better days, of permanence, of resurrection.

Today is the day when bells ring and hymns are sung to proclaim the Risen Lord. It is a day of celebration.

These days, “Have a blessed day,” is a

phrase heard more and more often as person-to-person conversations end. It is an appropriate parting for those who understand both what Easter means and that for Christians, every day is a blessed day.

Sometimes lost to hurriedness or other distractions is that Christianity is a faith centered on joy, specifically the joyful day Easter commemorates.

Sight should never be lost of the very simple, very direct and the timelessly

profound message of Easter: Christ is risen. For those who believe, and whose faith in the fact and power of the Resurrection is firm, all else is of lesser consequence. The joy of renewal is transcendent. The joy of believers can be tested, but is always basic to every other aspect of their daily lives.

Too many miss the point that Christians have every reason to be happy people. The message of Easter is why every day is a blessed day.

As in Mississippi, voters are growing increasingly wary of the fiscal viability of an expansion of federal entitlement programs.

Liberty’s cradle still untidy, hard to predict BOSTON — One of my more vivid memories of covering the 2004 Democratic National Convention in this city was the furor generated over the so-called “free speech zones” or protest zones erected near the convention site at the TD Garden (then called the Fleet Center).

With the country still nervous about terrorism, the decision was made to create a protest zone beneath an abandoned elevated train track that contained protesters inside a chain-link fenced area bolstered with concrete barriers on the bottom and razor wire on top.

In 2004, most protesters at the Democratic convention were advocating an end to the wars on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the convention venue, protesters were relegated to the “free speech” zone, but protesters spilled out across the city at Boston Common, Copley Square and in small numbers near the historic Old State House and Faneuil Hall SID — the site where John Kerry would eventually deliver his 2004 presidential campaign concession speech.

It was from that frame of reference — those 2004 images of young liberal anti-war protesters on the streets of Boston I witnessed in 2004 — that I greeted the sight last Saturday of a crowd of around 100 conservative senior citizens lining Congress Street from Haymarket to Faneuil Hall.

They were protesting the Obama health care reform vote that was pending the next day on Capitol Hill.

Of course, not all the anti-war protesters I saw in 2004 were young and not all the antihealth care reform protesters I saw March 20 in Boston were senior citizens — but the demographics leaned heavily in those directions in both instances.

Back in 2004, Obama was an Illinois state senator campaigning for a U.S. Senate seat.

The nation met Obama in a prime-time televised keynote speech to the Democratic Party convention delegates in Boston.

Times have changed. Now, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are being prosecuted on Obama’s watch. Now, as George W. Bush was in 2004, it is Obama who is blamed for not bringing the troops home.

Last week, Obama was the focal point of the ire of the health care reform protesters outside Faneuil Hall. The protest was organized by the Greater Boston Tea Party group.

In a town and state that embraces politics with much the same fervor as Mississippians, I wasn’t surprised to see health care reform protesters on the streets of Boston one day before the historic vote on Capitol Hill. But I was surprised at the fact that in a state that already has embraced many of the health care reforms now confronting the nation, there is much skepticism about the Obama health care reforms.

Even in this historically most liberal state in the union, there are doubts about the impact, costs and scope of service of the legislation.

Republican Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s upset of Democratic nominee Martha Coakley for the seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy seems far less of an upset after talking with some of the voters there. As in Mississippi, voters are growing increasingly wary of the fiscal viability of an expansion of federal entitlement programs.

One thing that a trip to Boston does is remind us that American citizenship isn’t always neat, tidy or orderly. Protests might be uncomfortable at times, but they are and have been a peculiarly important right to which Americans should continue to cling and exercise when necessary.

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Student achievement is what really matters Interviewed by National Public Radio, Jaime Escalante said his only problem with the 1988 movie that documented his heroic work as an educator was that it made learning complex math appear to be something students could do quickly and with little effort.

Otherwise, Escalante, who died last week at 79, said the film, “Stand and Deliver,” was 90 percent accurate.

An immigrant from Bolivia, Escalante learned English in night school before he transformed Garfield High School in Los Angeles by motivating struggling students to excel in math and science.

It took years and he was laughed at and chided by fellow faculty members who had low expectations and set low standards for the school’s mostly poor, mostly minority students, but Garfield eventually had more advanced-placement calculus students than all but four other public high schools in the country.

Edward James Olmos, who played Escalante in the movie, said Escalante “shattered forever” the notion that disadvantaged youths shouldn’t be challenged.

Really?

Our perception is that many engaged in public education still find themselves primarily engaged in making excuses and filling out forms to keep state and federal overseers off their backs. Their focus, quite simply, is not on student achievement, which is the only place it should be.

Last week also brought news that key local leaders, including Superintendent Dr. James Price, will be retiring from the Vicksburg Warren School District.

He has been an effective manager for the 9,000-student district and, as his colleagues pointed out, is due great credit especially in the financial arena. The school budget here is almost twice the city and county budgets combined.

Price has also been a leader in trying to rally neighborhood identity with and support for schools at the elementary level by creating smaller community schools. And he’s to be commended for attempting a real innovation — adding remedial days to school calendars after each nine-week period — even though the idea failed largely due to low parental support.

Going forward, school trustees face the challenge of bringing in a new leader.

The Associated Press interviewed Elsa Bolado, one of Escalante’s pupils who is now 45 and a teacher, about his influence. She remembered the long hours, the hard work and said, “Teaching is an art form. There’s a lot of practicioners and very few artists. He was a master artist.”

The world’s supply of “master artists” in education is finite, for sure, but trustees should have Escalante’s ethic on their minds while interviewing any and all candidates for top education jobs here.

The district will progress under someone who puts student achievement first, who understands learning isn’t quick or easy, who is willing to hang in over the long haul against detractors, including parents, who believe in low standards. Such a person will motivate faculty, staff and, most importantly, students.

Some will say that can’t be achieved here. No one believed it could happen at Garfield High, either. But it did.

Clark Street solution was there all along It was something of a Dorothy returns to Kansas moment, but Mayor Paul Winfield and North Ward Alderman Michael Mayfield are to be commended for taking action to get the Washington Street bridge replacement project at Clark Street under way.

After all, a detour around the failing span has been in place for more than a year and it’s not rational to think commerce can thrive as long as a key link from Interstate 20 to the downtown area remains closed.

When Dorothy was ready to leave Oz, Glinda, the good witch, told her she’d had that ability all along. Similarly, the $4 million infusion the city needed to complete funding for what will be an

$8.6 million railway tunnel project has been sitting in the bank, waiting to be drawn out under an authorization the city gave itself in a bond issue years ago.

The only thing necessary for Dorothy was to tap her heels together. The only requirement for city officials was that they redirect the funds that were going to be borrowed to put a new recreation area in service off Fisher Ferry Road and repave some city streets, mostly in the North Ward.

South Ward Alderman Sid Beauman, a consistent advocate of the park project, opposed stalling that work. He should have stepped up as did Mayfield, who now must answer to constituents

whose streets need paving, and recognized the urgency of the Washington Street project.

The paving and the park work might go forward. Mayor Winfield said the city may learn as soon as June whether a federal earmark will be forthcoming to cancel out the reallocation of bond funds. Either way, it was the right decision.

Some things are just basic — and allowing the city’s main north-south road to be blocked year after year has been inexcusable.

Not every challenge can be met so simply. This one could. It will be. And for that citizens can be grateful.

Sid Salter is Perspective editor of The Clarion-Ledger.

Phone him at 601-961-7084 or e-mail ssalter@ clarionledger.com.

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WEEK IN VIcKsburg Clear skies and balmy days dominated Easter Week in Vicksburg, with highs ranging from 55 degrees to 81. Lows were in a tighter range, varying only from 45 degrees to 53. No rain was recorded before week’s end.

The Mississippi River continued a second week of daily rises, starting at 36.4 feet on the Vicksburg gauge and ending at 40 feet. The forecast was for a reading of 40.4 feet today and a crest at 41 feet on April 10.

Shifting soil near the site of a Corps of Engineers interpretive center construction site threatened the city’s water supply.

Crews packed sand and took other steps to temporarily stabilize a 36-inch pipe that leads from the city’s wells and treatment plant at the E.W. Haining Industrial Center into a network serving 10,000 homes and businesses. The quick action stopped the movement and engineers were pondering their next steps.

Lisa and Randy Ashcraft, owners of a two-story building at 1221 Washington, won a court order halting clearing of adjacent structures that collapsed in 2006. The court ruled there was a risk of irreparable harm to a shared wall. City officials said it was a private matter.

An early morning, one-vehicle wreck on Mississippi 3 near Redwood was fatal for Jerimey J. Hoye of Vicksburg.

Mayor Paul Winfield conceded travel expenses of $8,000 for himself and his staff during his first months in office were well above the $3,500 the former mayor spent his entire last year, but he said his trips were to get money for Vicksburg. He also said spending $800 for custom rims for his 2010 Tahoe was necessary because the vehicle had a “police package” and no rims when purchased.

Angie Wilkinson and Christy Pecanty said their participation in the American Heart Walk was especially significant this year.

Two days afterward, the funeral was held for their brother, former Mississippi Queen river pilot Larry Wayne Wilkinson, who died of heart disease at 47.

New officers of the Vicksburg Benevolent Protective Order of Elks Lodge 95 include Rachael Cook, exalted ruler.

Pending legislation would allow $90,000 unspent in a $250,000 allocation for restoration of the Mississippi Monument in the Vicksburg National Military Park be reallocated to other historic preservation projects in the park or city.

Two people accused of shoplifting at a local store had unusual items. Authorities said the duo left the store with $900 worth of nonprescription eyeglasses.

Dr. James Price, superintendent of the Vicksburg Warren School District for seven years, said he will retired June 30. Several other top district officials were also retiring. Price, 58, was praised as a good manager, especially of school finances.

Donald Brown, a Vicksburg High School senior, won the top prize in the Delta Blues Youth Writing Contest. Brown and runner-up Everett Bexley, a junior at St. Aloysisu High School, were presented their awards

by Morgan Freeman, Academy Award-winning actor.

Police chose April Fool’s Day to start knocking on doors well before daylight to serve narcotics warrants on six local men.

Warren County officials considered adopting a system under which one public defender would be hired and other members of the local bar association could bid on indigent defendants’ cases.

The state Supreme Court unanimously reversed the 1979 guilty plea and conviction of Robert Jackson for the death of Josephine Thames Dodd.

The court ruled the indictment was insufficiently worded. District Attorney Ricky Smith said a decision would be made on whether to attempt to retry Jackson, who has been in prison for 30 years.

In addition to Jerimey J. Hoye and Capt. Larry Wayne Wilkinson, deaths during the week included Sadie Bradley, Lorene Morgan Wasson, Melba Dianne Roberts, Ilner “Sandy” Sanders, Ella Lee Lincoln, Wayne W. Jamison and Alexander Slaughter Sr.

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Scope, power of government under constant review People who can’t name a single justice of the U.S. Supreme Court can tell you about Roe v. Wade.

It was the abortion decision.

Most don’t remember the details, which, in light of the times, are worth remembering.

The case started when a Texas woman who was pregnant objected in federal court to a state law that made terminating any pregnancy a crime. Mississippi had a similar law, as did all other states.

Roe v. Wade made it to the nation’s top judicial panel in 1972. The majority opinion by the late Justice Harry Blackmun, issued in 1973, measured the validity of the Texas law against one question: “What public interest is served by the Texas law against abortion?”

There’s more to the decision, but Blackmun concluded that a developing child for at least 90 days after conception is not “viable.” He ruled that such a developing child, one who could not live independently of its mother’s body, is not “alive” in legal terms. Not being a “person,” the developing child had no legal rights for Texas to protect with its antiabortion law.

However the plaintiff, Norma McCorvey, did have rights. Specifically, six of the justices agreed with Blackmun in the 7-2 decision that the general constitutional freedom that people are promised from government interference would be paramount.

In other words, “big brother” couldn’t tell McCorvey what she could or couldn’t do in this specific situation.

Whatever else anyone thinks about it, Roe v. Wade was a victory for the individual against the power of government.

CHARLIE

MITcHELL

Whatever else anyone thinks about it, Roe v. Wade was a victory for the individual against the power of government.

Fast forward to 2010.

The power of government is being pitted against the rights of the individual.

Congress has passed and President Barack Obama has signed a bevy of health care laws.

Among them is a requirement that almost all people obtain health insurance coverage of some type.

The Internal Revenue Service will monitor compliance. In addition to the 1040 and other forms people send in every year, a new form will be required showing who provides insurance for the people named in the tax return.

Now some people have said this requirement is no different than laws requiring drivers to have liability insurance in case they damage someone else’s property. But there’s an option with the car insurance law, an “out.” People can choose not to drive. Millions of people don’t even own cars.

There is no such choice in the

health care legislation.

Legal challenges have already been filed, but note what’s going on. Government can’t tell a woman what she must do when pregnant. The “right to be left alone” and personal choice win in that context. But government can compel people to enroll in some form of health insurance? Privacy doesn’t include a right to remain uninsured?

It’s an interesting twist.

Generally, people who think Roe v.

Wade was a bad decision also oppose the health care reforms. That means they are for big government in the former situation, but against big government in the latter.

Generally, people who think Roe v. Wade was a correct decision also think the health care reforms are great. That means they are against big government in the former situation, but against big government in the latter.

Of course, the hardest stance to figure out might be that of the private insurance companies themselves.

In essence, they become like Section 8 landlords. Under that housing program and many others created

in the same mold, private owners of apartments and homes are guaranteed rents will be paid. Tenants pay a portion, based on their income, and taxpayers pay the rest.

With the insurance exchanges in the reform packages, private insurance companies will get millions of new customers. According to what has been written, individuals will pay premiums based on their incomes and the balance due will be picked up by the federal treasury. People who now struggle to pay premiums will get a boost, too. If, according to rate tables, insured people are paying too large a share of their income for coverage, part of the expense may be picked up by taxpayers.

Overall, this means President Barack Obama, who vilified health insurance companies in the days before the legislation was passed, has guaranteed them more customers and, perhaps, more profits.

Some provisions of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights grant the government power. Others limit government power.

The resulting pushing and pulling and tugging and shoving regarding specific situations have been part of the American story for a long time.

That’s as true today as it ever was.

Correction: Ole Miss students voted to help select a new school mascot. The vote was not on removing Colonel Reb as last week’s column indicated.

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Charlie Mitchell is executive editor of The Vicksburg Post. Write to him at Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182, or e-mail cmitchell@ vicksburgpost.com

LETTErs TO THE EDITOr

Elites refuse to deal with realities of illegal immigration Crime unpunished is crime rewarded. Congress approved and President Reagan signed the Simpson-Mazzoli Act in 1986, giving 2.7 million illegal border-crossers amnesty. This bill was supposed to put an end to the growing number of border-bounders; however, the pardon given to these lawbreakers became an invitation for 3 million others to come.

In 2006, millions of immigrants — mostly illegal — demonstrated across America. They demanded amnesty, continued benefits and acquisition by Mexico of several southwestern states. One organization, La Raza (the term means “the race”) flew Mexican flags and heaped scorn on Old Glory. Understandably, Americans became angry. President George W. Bush, though he was big on amnesty himself, promised to fix the problem by means of an electronic fence, 6,000 additional guards and no more amnesty. The fence was not built, the 6,000 guards not added and Sens. Kennedy and McCain introduced the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007. “Comprehensive” meant amnesty to the promoters; however, Americans protested and voters helped to kill this bill.

Today, 12 to 20 million lawbreakers have cost the states $2.6 trillion by way of food stamps, housing, incarceration of criminals and health care. Americans are weary of paying. Article IV, Section 4 in our Constitution guarantees each state a republican form of government and to protect each state against invasion. Yet our government does not punish businesses that hire illegal immigrants. Therefore, millions continue to come, even while 15 million Americans in 2009 joined 15 million other Americans who were already unsuccessfully seeking work.

Borders would be closed if existing laws were enforced, and there would be millions of jobs for legal citizens. Border bounders would go back to their own wonderful country, where they should rally for their oligarchy government’s transformation to a republic.

Our nation’s middle class people control 75 percent of the wealth.

Our government and the elites who pull both parties’ puppet strings want our money. Their agenda is a New World Order. We, the people, are to site down and shut up — or else.

Betty Davis Vicksburg

Listen to Lincoln Regarding the fundamental changes being imposed upon our nation, the words of a former president are worth remembering.

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“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

That’s from Abraham Lincoln.

Mark Mayfield Ridgeland

More bad than good My opinion of the health care bill is that some parts of it are good, some parts OK and some parts really, really bad.

The one question it appears that Congress doesn’t want to answer is, “If this bill is so great as they say, how come the president and come congressional staff do not fall under it?”

The president also ran on no new taxes for the middle class. Well that may be true for personal income taxes, but it sure doesn’t cover all the other taxes that are popping up on everything else in support of this bill.

I am a military retiree. I was told if I stayed in the military for 20 or more years that when I retired my spouse and I would receive free medical and dental care for the rest of our lives.

The first thing they took away was dental and then they started charging Tri-Care fees, which get higher all the time and if that wasn’t bad enough when I turned 65 they said if I do not get Medicare Part B along with Medicare Part A for my spouse and myself. They wouldn’t pay hospital costs, only prescription drugs.

And you think I trust the government to run the whole health care system? If you don’t know it yet, what the government giveth, the government can take away. If you do not believe this, watch your state taxes and everything you buy go up.

Oh, one more thing: I believe once this bill is fully implemented in its current form there will be massive layoffs.

Wilbur Ruhl Vicksburg

Vote misreported One of my favorite columnists in the state of Mississippi is Vicksburg’s own Charlie Mitchell. It is always good to read a different perspective on a subject that one thinks that they already have a great deal of information on.

That happened March 28 when Mitchell informed readers about the true origins of Colonel Reb. I already knew about the Blind Jim story from Ole Miss football great and Vicksburg resident Kayo Dottley, but it was good to see that others could find out about that as well.

But as Mitchell stated in his column, “perception is reality,” And apparently, Mitchell has fallen prey to that same public relations baloney that the administration at Ole Miss is trying to perpetrate. You see, the students most definitely did not vote to get rid of Colonel Reb. In fact, the only vote that has ever been recorded by the students on the campus of Ole Miss regarding Colonel Reb had students voting 94 percent to keep him as the mascot of the university.

The vote that was held this year was held with the belief by students that the administration was going to replace Colonel Reb as the mascot (despite their protests) and that the only way to have any influence on the new mascot was to vote to demand to have a voice.

To that end they voted to replace the on-field mascot only for a yetto-be-determined mascot. Predictably, the administration then took license with that vote and told national media that students voted to replace Colonel Reb and that is why they are pulling him from all merchandise in the future. But even a cursory look at the ballot on campus last month strictly shows that not to be the case.

Harold D. Morgan Jr. Oxford

Deception won’t stand Charlie Mitchell libeled the Ole Miss student body by saying it voted to let Colonel Reb go. The last time the students voted directly on the issue was in 2003 and 94 percent of students voting wanted to keep

him. This most recent vote was not whether to keep the colonel, but having been decided by the chancellor that he would never come back, did the students want another on-field mascot or do without one and if the administration decided to adopt a new mascot, did the students want in on the decision or did they want the administration to pick one itself?

To say that either way the students voted means Colonel Reb had to go only illustrates his other conclusion that perception tops reality.

That is so only because the liberal pinko press and faculty of Ole Miss allows its own version of reality to be the only one expressed.

Carl Ford Laurel

End ‘family tradition’ A report in your paper stated that many county residents are upset because the school board voted 3-2 to hire Josh Morgan, the son of former football coach Robert Morgan, as the new head coach at Warren Central. I can assure these folks that nothing will change because the elder Morgan will remain a coach as he has under a contract with the Vicksburg Warren system since he retired and Curtis Brewer became the head coach in name.

The taxpayers simply paid for an extra coach at a high salary who was receiving retirement benefits from the same system paying his contract, and who did not have to pretend to be a teacher.

It’s like the old Hank Williams, Jr. song says: “Why do you drink, (Hank) why do you roll smoke, why must you live out the songs that you wrote?” The answer: He’s “just carryin’ on an old family tradition,” and the county schools, before and after merging with the city schools, are still doing the same.

I do not know two of the three school board members who voted for employing the new head coach, but I am not happy with the one I do know. Ms. Murphy is the only school board member who seems to be interested in education.

However, we must move on. Dr. Price is retiring in June. He has succeeded in turning a halfway decent system into an inadequate system with failed policies, such as intercession, which simply means more recesses for all students who need to be in school. We need a new leader, a new direction, a more transparent school board that will end family tradition, especially when it means hiring unqualified coaches or teachers for high positions.

Tommy Hutto Eagle Lake

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Stevens, high court’s liberal leader, says retirement imminent At 90, he is oldest justice on the bench, was named to post by President Gerald R. Ford in 1975 WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says he “will surely” retire while President Barack Obama is still in office, giving the president the opportunity to maintain the high court’s ideological balance.

Stevens said in newspaper interviews on the Web Saturday that he will decide soon on the timing of his retirement, whether it will be this year or next. Stevens, the leader of the court’s liberals, turns 90 this month and is the oldest justice.

His departure would give Obama his second nomination to the court, enabling him to ensure there would continue to be at least four liberal-leaning justices. The high court is often split 5 to 4 on major cases, with the vote of moderate Justice Anthony Ken-

nedy often deciding which side prevails.

“I will surely do it while he’s still president,” Stevens told The Washington Post.

But Stevens, who was named to the court by Republican President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, says he still loves the job, and says he continues to write the first draft of his own opinions.

Stevens says if it ever gets to point where he stopped doing that, it would be a sign he wasn’t up to the job anymore.

Stevens is the second-oldest justice in the court’s history, after Oliver Wendell Holmes.

He is the seventh-longest-serving justice, with more than 34 years on the court.

Another liberal, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had surgery last year for early-stage pancreatic cancer. While Gins-

burg has been her usual energetic self, including frequent speaking engagements and a teaching stint in Europe, longterm survival rates for pancreatic cancer are low.

Ginsburg, 77, has said she intends to serve into her early 80s, and she has hired her clerks for the court term that begins in October 2010.

Justices are reluctant to retire in bunches, mainly because they want the ninemember court as close to full strength as possible.

Stevens also is nearing two longevity records. When he joined the court, he replaced the longest-serving justice, William O. Douglas, and would need to serve until mid-July 2012 to top that service record.

He would surpass Holmes as the oldest sitting justice if he were to remain on the court

Moyer, longest-serving chief justice on a state Supreme Court, dies at 70 his colleagues COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — were brought to Ohio Supreme Court Chief tears.

Justice Thomas Moyer, who “It’s just a huge was the longest-serving sittragedy for all of ting state Supreme Court us and a great chief justice in the United loss for his family States, has died at age 70. and for the citiMoyer was admitted to a zens of Ohio,” Columbus hospital Thursday Chief Justice morning after experiencing Thomas Moyer he said. “He was the quintessengastrointestinal problems and died Friday afternoon, tial image, and not just image court spokesman Chris Davey but the reality of dignity of said. Over the past few months the office of chief justice, and Moyer had health problems of the role of the courts in our that weren’t believed to be life- society.”

Pfeifer said Moyer’s health threatening.

Moyer, the second-longest- had deteriorated but he was serving chief justice in Ohio in court Tuesday, despite lookhistory, became chief justice ing “very ill,” and returned Jan. 1, 1987. He had planned to Wednesday looking much better. He said he was disretire at the end of the year.

Justice Paul Pfeifer, who met appointed Moyer didn’t get Moyer when both were stu- a “very grand party” to end dents at the Ohio State Uni- his more than two decades as versity law school, said he and chief justice.

Moyer, a Republican, extended a bipartisan hand to the first Democratic governor in the state in 16 years when he delivered the oath of office to Gov. Ted Strickland in January 2007.

Strickland on Friday ordered flags at public buildings and grounds flown at half-staff Monday through the day of Moyer’s burial. He called Moyer “dignified, respectful, thoughtful.”

Among Moyer’s main efforts was to change the way judges are selected in Ohio. He had been pushing for a constitutional amendment requiring the appointment of state Supreme Court justices, rather than through election, because he believed having judges seek large campaign donations tainted the legal system.

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Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens sits for a new group photo at the Supreme Court in September. until Feb. 24, 2011.

“I do have to fish or cut bait, just for my own personal

peace of mind and also in fairness to the process,” Stevens told The New York Times.

“The president and the Senate need plenty of time to fill a vacancy.”

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On the hunt

SEAN MURPHY

POST WEB EDITOR

Lace it up to rock, roll at festivals The temperature is creeping up, the sleeves on the shirts will shorten and music will soon fill the air.

Ah, festival season in the South.

Outdoor festivals, a staple of the warmweather months, offer vast opportunities to listen to the best of the music, catch some local flavor and the ever-popular excuse to overindulge.

Larger cities will have bigger, more elaborate stages, but few can compete with those in and around Mississippi as far as unique talent, affordable prices and plenty of local culture.

• Vicksburg’s own Riverfest is set for April 16-17 on Washington Street in downtown. Clarksdale’s Jimbo Mathus, local favorites The Chill and Oxfordbased Blue Mountain will give festival-goers a wide array of musical choices.

An arts and crafts fair, wood-carving demonstrations offer opportunities for people of all ages.

Tickets are available in advance until April 15 for $15 per night, or $25 for a weekend pass.

• The Hangout Beach, Music and Arts Festival in Gulf Shores, Ala., May 14-16 will feature jam bands, rock-and-roll, Latin, gospel and country music. The $159 pricetag for the weekend could scare some people away, but broken down and with the musical possibilities, well worth the money.

• Closer to home, the Highway 61 Blues Festival is set for June 5 in Leland.

The one-day event spans 10 hours, is a ridiculously affordable $10, and scheduled to perform are such legendary Delta bluesmen as Johnny Winter, T Model Ford and Big George Brock.

The small town of Leland comes alive for this one-of-a-kind event.

• The fifth annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic June 25-26 in the North Mississippi town of Potts Camp features the sounds of Hill Country Blues made famous by the likes of Otha Turner and R.L. Burnside.

The festival costs about $50 and is organized by Mississippi bluesman Kenny Brown. Make arrangements, because it will be hot and there are few trees. A creek that runs behind the festival grounds is a popular respite from the heat.

• Finish the summer Aug. 6-8 in Clarksdale with the 23rd annual Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival. Not only is the festival filled with fantastic music, the artists routinely find their way to jukes around Clarksdale for late-night rocking.

So, lace up those dancin’ shoes; it’s festival time.

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Sean P. Murphy is Web editor. He can be reached at smurphy@ vicksburgpost.com

State cuts could lag search for ASU chief From staff and AP reports

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Eight-month-old Connel Casey, above left, and 10-month-old Adeline Bokros inspect the Easter eggs they found Saturday at the Knights of Columbus Hall off Fisher Ferry Road. Below, Connel’s sister Batie Casey, 10, and their father, Cort Casey, look for eggs. The KCs have hosted the hunt for more than 30 years, and this year’s event saw about 75 children hunting for plastic eggs filled with chocolate goodies. Connel’s and Batie’s mother is Laura Casey.

Adeline’s parents are Shawn and Holly Bokros.

LORMAN — State budget cuts to education might delay the process of finding a new president for Alcorn State University, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Institutes of Higher Learning Board of Trustees says.

The board has yet to discuss a schedule for finding a new president, Leah Smith said. It took six months Dr. Norris last year to Edney replace the University of Mississippi’s president, she noted.

The school has been without a president for a little more than two months, when Dr. George Ross left to take the helm at Central Michigan University. He had served there before coming to Alcorn two years ago. Ross, a Utica native, was ASU’s 17th president.

In the interim, Dr. Norris Edney, a longtime member of the Alcorn family, has led the school, and says he will do so as long as he is needed.

Edney, 73, began his Alcorn career in 1963 as a biology professor and through his tenure has been dean of the Graduate School, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the Biology Department. He retired in 2000 and was asked Jan. 21 by unanimous vote of state higher education commissioners to come back to work.

Alcorn’s main campus is in Lorman, with classes offered in Natchez and Vicksburg.

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Louisiana’s shrinking barrier islands threat to birds

By The Associated Press HOUMA, La. — Remote and shrinking, the Isles Dernieres barrier islands dozens of miles off Terrebonne’s coast are mostly seen as sandy speed bumps for storm surges.

But for thousands of sea birds, they are a vital, yet disappearing, link to life.

The islands have shrunk in size and number since the 2008 storms, and far fewer birds are nesting there.

The islands, far from the coast and predators, are a nesting place for terns, black skimmers, brown pelicans and others.

Nicholls State University researchers determined that about 44,000 pairs of birds mated and nested on the tiny islands in 2008. A year later, there were about 28,000 — a 36 percent drop, said assistant biology professor Aaron Pierce.

Researchers aim to keep a close eye on the island chain this summer to see if the decline continues.

With the birds’ preferred habitat rapidly disappearing rapidly, scientists acknowledge the outlook is grim.

“Let’s be clear — there is no recovery going on,” said Richard DeMay, a senior scientist with the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program.

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Brown pelicans on Wine Island Brown pelican populations have increased, but only because the birds are recovering from near extinction blamed on a now-banned pesticide, DeMay said.

“The trends do seem to be headed down” for other species of birds, he said.

If the barrier islands continue to erode, DeMay said, “you’re going to be seeing fewer and fewer sea birds” in Terrebonne and Lafourche.

“Louisiana is the most important state for these colonial nesting seabirds in the Gulf of Mexico,” said Mike Carloss, coastal-operations manager for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. The department manages the Isles

Dernieres, including Raccoon, Whiskey, Trinity, East and Wine islands, as a natural refuge.

“Without the islands, they’re in trouble.”

Losing Wine Island The birds prefer islands that are small and remote.

Pelicans tend to nest in bushy vegetation. Terns nest on the sand.

Raccoon and Wine islands, smaller islands in the chain, host some of the largest colonies of nesting sea birds in the state, Carloss said.

Raccoon Island fared well through Gustav and Ike. But Wine Island is down to almost nothing, and its plant

life was eradicated. Many locals say it will be lost forever if it’s not rebuilt soon.

Terrebonne Levee Director Reggie Dupre, who flew over the island in February, estimates Wine Island, previously 55 acres, now measures about 5 acres.

In 2008, 11,000 pairs of birds nested on the tiny spit of land.

Just 6,800 pairs of birds returned to nest there in 2009.

The shrinking island likely resulted in increased competition for nesting sites, prompting some birds to nest in extreme conditions. Some pelicans nested directly on the sand, putting their nests so close to shore that they

were flooded, Carloss said.

Few will return to nest there in the future, Carloss said. “There’s nothing left for them there.”

State wildlife biologists are pushing for Wine Island’s restoration because it’s one of the state’s larger breeding colonies, but the state has no restoration plans, said Chris Macaluso, a spokesman for the state Office of Coastal Activities.

Also, despite protests at public meetings, the island is not included in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to restore Terrebonne’s barrier islands. Scientists have deemed the island unsustainable, Macaluso said.

“It’s extremely susceptible to being washed away,” Macaluso said.

Since 1991, Macaluso said, dirt dredged from the Houma Navigation Canal has been used at least four times to bolster the island.

The last project was in 2007.

Gustav and Ike swept away most of that material.

Macaluso said dredged mud will be used on Wine Island in the future, but he couldn’t say when that might happen again.

Uncertain future What does that mean for birds who nest there? Sciensee Threat, Page A8.

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61 North wreck sends one to hospital

A ViEW froM thE top Historic photos taken in and around Vicksburg are featured on Sundays in The Vicksburg Post. Many of the photos are from the J. Mack Moore Collection at the Old Court House Museum. Though not all photos were taken by Mr. Moore, they are part of the collection given

Henry Schlottman Transfer Co. owned the first large truck in Vicksburg, in the 1920s, and advertised that they had storage rooms and also moved pianos. The photo

to the museum by longtime Vicksburg Post managing editor Charles J. Faulk. Appropriate photos from the public will also be accepted and published. To submit a photo, contact Karen Gamble at 636-4545.

was taken by J. Mack Moore in front of Bock Fischel Dry Goods. The photo is from the Old Court House Museum collection.

Threat Continued from Page A7. tists aren’t sure.

They say many sea birds fled the rapidly degrading Chandeleur Islands off the coast of St. Bernard Parish to Terrebonne’s islands. But the birds’ options, in Louisiana at least, are lessening.

“The loss would not be good,” Pierce said. “We host the largest pelican colony in the state. And, for birds like royal and sandwich terns, these islands host a significant portion of their breeding population.”

DeMay, Pierce and Carloss tried to remain positive about the prospect of keeping the islands viable, both for storm protection and birds.

“It depends on how important society views these islands to be and the commitment we’re willing to make,” Pierce said.

It will require millions in

maintenance, dredging and rebuilding.

Nicholls researchers are hoping their work will help determine ideal nesting conditions so future restoration projects take those needs into account.

“We’re spending a tremendous amount of money to save the islands for hurricane protection. We’ve spent $50 million just to maintain these land masses,” Pierce said. “Our idea was more than providing just a land mass, maybe there are things we can do to restore the ecosystem function.”

DeMay said protecting the islands is key to the survival of local communities, both human and bird.

“Huge percentages of the national bird populations nest here in Louisiana, and there are three to four

species that nest on those islands alone,” DeMay said.

“When we lose those barrier islands, particularly the smaller ones like Wine Island, for the species as a whole — it will make an impact.”

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A Vicksburg woman was in the hospital Saturday evening after being thrown from her truck in a wreck just south of Redwood on U.S. 61 North.

Robin Williamson, 48, 136 Wigwam Road, was in fair condition, said River Region Medical Center spokesman Allen Karel.

Williamson was traveling north around 2 p.m. Saturday when witnesses reported the green 1998 Ford Ranger she was driving veered off the highway, said Mississippi Highway Patrol Cpl. Wayne Smith.

“Over corrective steering caused her to lose control of the vehicle, and she flipped off the shoulder on the east side of the highway,” he said.

The truck ended up upside down about five feet off the highway, Smith said, with Williamson pinned partially beneath.

She was in and out of consciousness after the wreck, said Smith, but did not say where she was headed.

Smith said Williamson wasn’t wearing a seat belt, and was alone.

Mauled child fair; dog euthanized Jack Gaines, the 2-yearold Vicksburg boy who was mauled by a dog Wednesday, has been moved from the intensive care unit at University Medical Center to a regular room and “is doing OK,”

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his mother, Robin Causey, said Saturday evening.

The child was in fair condition, a hospital spokesman said.

The toddler has undergone several surgeries to his head and face since being attacked by a 5-year-old, 70-pound cur dog while playing with family at their Stenson Road home. His grandfather, Ira Erwin, pulled the dog off.

Causey said she didn’t know when Jack would return home. But, she said he has opened an eye that was damaged in the attack, giving hope that more surgeries might not be needed.

Meanwhile the dog, named Mojo, was sedated and euthanized at the Vicksburg-Warren Humane Society Friday afternoon, and his remains were being tested for rabies, said humane society president Georgia Lynn. The dog’s owner, Sherrie Johnson — Jack’s aunt — signed the dog over to the humane society Thursday, Lynn said.

Donations for medical bills may be made to an account for Jack Gaines and Robin Causey at Regions Bank.

Jack’s father is Brad Gaines.

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Leon Bryant, 33, 4920 Halls Ferry Road, escaped after assaulting and overpowering jailer Kenneth Robinson.

He was found March 22 at an apartment in Chicago.

Bryant had originally been arrested on a 2-year-old charge of selling cocaine, but now faces additional charges of escape and assault on a law-enforcement officer in the line of duty.

City woman jailed on two charges A Vicksburg woman was in the Warren County Jail Saturday evening after being arrested Friday on charges of disorderly conduct and possession of cocaine.

Angela High, 36, 915 Clay St., Apt.1, was being held on a $306.50 bond on the disorderly charge, but had no bond on the drug charge.

Vicksburg man held for auto burglary A Vicksburg man arrested for auto burglary early Saturday morning remained in the Warren County Jail on a $5,000 bond Saturday night.

Thomas Hasty, 21, 160 Peachtree St., was jailed shortly after 3 a.m., following his arrest by Vicksburg police. No further details were available.

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Transplant Continued from Page A1. was a man or woman — so they call the donor “Angel,” which in Spanish can be a male or female name.

John LaSalle, 49, was diagnosed in January 2009 with life-threatening liver damage. He woke up one morning not feeling well but went to his job as a painter for Circle S, a New Hebronbased contractor doing business with Ergon at E.W. Haining Industrial Park.

During the day he noticed his legs were swollen, and had a co-worker drive him to the emergency room at River Region.

John had always been active and never seriously ill, but soon found himself lying in a hospital bed.

After a week of tests at River Region, he was told he has hepatitis C, an incurable viral infection that causes inflammation and often permanent scarring or cirrhosis of the liver. Many people who have the disease — like John — have no symptoms.

“There’s no telling how long he had it,” said Amie, 35, activities director and social services assistant at Vicksburg Convalescent Home.

His Vicksburg doctors sent John to Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, where he underwent extensive testing and was assigned a place on an organ-donor wait list.

Both John and Amie also attended training at Methodist to help them understand the emotional and financial demands of a transplant, and then came home to wait.

John couldn’t work or even do much around the house or yard.

“With liver failure, you get

PRECISION FORECAST

Being a donor • Each day, about 77 people receive organ transplants, but 19 people die waiting for transplants that can’t take place because of a shortage of organ donations.

• Minorities overall have a particularly high need for organ transplants because some diseases of the kidney, heart, lung, pancreas and liver are found more frequently in racial and ethnic minority populations than in the general population.

• Each organ and tissue donor saves or improves the lives of as many as 50 people.

• Many donor families say that knowing other lives have been saved helps them cope with their loss.

• Mississippi’s organ donor registry can be accessed at https://www.donatelifems.org/Enroll.aspx.

• For more information, visit www.organdonor.gov. a lot of confusion,” Amie said. “There’s a lot of swelling, there’s pain. He was very grumpy.” His brothers would come over, mow the lawn and help with other big chores, but something was missing.

“During this process we decided we didn’t have any other place to turn but our faith,” John said.

The family began attending Living Waters Fellowship, a small church on Culkin Road not far from the couple’s Boy Scout Road home. Church members embraced the LaSalles, supporting them in prayer and fellowship, with fundraisers, hospital visits and other acts of caring.

Many were among more than 100 blood donors at a June 27 drive John and Amie set up with Lifeblood, a mid-South regional blood bank.

“When people like John and Amie allow us to come to where they are to collect blood on their behalf, it’s really a blessing because it helps us ensure we have the blood on hand when they

come in,” said Lifeblood’s Lorie Nowlin. “So many friends and family showed up to support him, it’s a testament to the kind of person he is.”

John was born in Brooklyn, the son of Puerto Rican parents who took their family back to the U.S. island territory when he was about 10.

He went to school there, then joined the Army National Guard in 1979, serving in the infantry and military police. In 1997, he moved to Vicksburg, where his brother David was a member of the Vicksburg Police Department.

He and Amie met shortly after, introduced by friends, and have been married 12 years. They “share” six children. John has four by a previous marriage — a son, 25, and daughter, 20, in New York, and a son, 24, and daughter, 19, in Puerto Rico. Amie has a 13-year-old daughter, Chelsea, whom John adopted, and the couple also has a 10-year-old daugh-

ter, Madison.

Wait time for a liver transplant depends on a number of factors, but can range up to many months.

“Around 8:30 one night the phone rang,” Amie said.

“I thought it was a wrong number and hung up on them. Then I realized I saw a 901 number” — 901 is the area code for Memphis — “and I called them back. Here we had been praying and praying, the people at our church had been praying, and the woman on the phone said they had a liver for him.

‘There’s no other match for this liver but your husband,’ she said.”

Amie got so excited, she “ran around the living room about 15 times,” she said. “I felt like an expectant father, yelling, ‘we gotta get the bag packed; we gotta get the bag packed.”

They left for Memphis a few minutes later, and were in such a state neither remembers anything about the drive. The surgery took place early the next morning.

Four hours after the operation, John was sitting up in bed, and the next day he was up and dressed and able to sit in a chair.

Three days after, a man came into John’s hospital room saying, “I’m here to do physical therapy,” he said.

“Where’s the patient?”

“You just passed him in the hall,” Amie told him. John had rallied other transplant patients at the hospital and organized a little group, getting people up and walking around.

Once discharged from the hospital, he made weekly

trips back to Methodist for a while, then monthly.

A liver transplant can cost $500,000. John has health coverage through his employer, but the family also faced — and will always face — significant expenses, including anti-rejection and other medications that can cost $2,000 to $5,000 a month.

He’s unsure when he’ll be healthy enough to go back to work, and is grateful to Circle S for paying his COBRA — continuation of medical insurance — costs.

In the meantime, doctors have told him to avoid the green tea he used to love — it interferes with his medication — and not eat a lot of fried foods, hot dogs and other fast foods.

“He still has a long way to go,” Amie said. “There are times he just can’t do things.

He gets very tired.”

Doctors tell him he’ll soon be recovered enough to begin interferon treatments for the hepatitis.

People ask him if he feels different.

“Not really, but I crave cheese pizza now,” he said.

In other ways, though, John is different. Amie is, too.

“I still tear up, talking about it,” she said. “It was the most awesome experience. It was ...”

“It changes your life,” John said simply.

“We really do say that the whole experience was by the grace of God,” Amie said.

“It’s the power of prayer,” said John, “Our faith got us through this. It got us to the right place.”

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Friday night and Saturday morning. The extended weather forecast for Vicksburg does not show any chance of rain again until Tuesday night and into Wednesday.

The city preemptively declared a local emergency Monday to free up any emergency spending needed for the pipe, but thus far have not publicly announced any plans for a permanent fix. Meanwhile, ground work near the site of the land shift on a developing museum has been halted.

Contract construction crews had been working for months near Washington and Jackson

Continued from Page A1. with handcuffs, authorities said.

The killings were reminiscent of those that plagued Iraq at the height of the sectarian bloodshed of 2006 and 2007, when men, sometimes dressed in police or army uniforms, snatched people from their houses at night before killing them and dumping the bodies.

Similar violence still plagues the country, but it has ebbed sharply.

One survivor of Friday’s attack said the gunmen gained entry to her home by speaking English and convincing her mother they were U.S. soldiers on a patrol. “My mother thought they were Americans who came to search the house, that’s why she opened the door,” said the woman, whose mother and two brothers were killed.

“I heard four gunshots,” the woman said. “It was all over in a second.”

streets, doing the initial groundwork on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Interpretive Center, set to open sometime next year just south of where the mammoth, 1,450-ton MV Mississippi IV was placed in 2007.

Concern over the pipe will also likely lead to last minute changes to the April 16-17 Riverfest celebration.

Riverfest President Erin Hern said festival organizers plan to move the location of their Washington Street stage south one block, from the corner of Crawford and Grove streets to China and South streets. The move,

however, is pending approval by the Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen, who are set to take up the issue at a regular board meeting Monday morning.

The water main is the primary line from the city’s water plant on Haining Road, which draws its water from several nearby wells. The main line runs along North Washington Street, and splits into two 24-inch lines running in opposite directions near Jackson Street. From there, the system branches out into webs of 18-, 10- and 8-inch lines.

DEATHS The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.

Debbie Ann Fowler Murphy Debbie Ann Fowler Murphy died Wednesday, March 31, 2010, River Region Medical Center. She was 48.

Born in Vicksburg, Mrs. Murphy attended St. Aloysius High School and was a graduate of Warren Central High School. She graduated from the University of Mississippi, where she received a degree in accounting. She was a former employee of Blue Cross Insurance Company and SAKS Inc. Mrs. Murphy was a member of the Vicksburg Exchange Club, serving in the club’s Child Abuse Prevention Center program.

She was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority and St. Michael Catholic Church.

She was preceded in death by her father, Neal Fowler.

She is survived by her husband, Thomas E. Murphy Jr. of Vicksburg; a stepdaughter, Kathleen Murphy of Vicksburg; her mother, Shirley Anita Fowler of Vicksburg; four brothers, Rocky Fowler of Vicksburg, Mike Fowler of Conway, Ark., Paul Fowler of Gladewater, Texas, and Brian Fowler of Fishers, Ind.; her caregiver, Millie Lewis; and nieces and nephews.

Services will be at 11 a.m.

Monday at St. Michael Catholic Church with the Rev. P.J. Curley, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of Riles Funeral Home. Visitation will be at the church Monday from 9:30 a.m. until the service.

Pallbearers will be Nathan Fowler, Brannon Fowler, Robert Fowler, Casey Fowler, Kyle Fowler, Blake Boren, Bo Morrissey, Bobby Amborn and John Hite.

Memorials may be made to the Child Abuse Prevention Center, 3527 Manor Drive, Suite F, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

Daniel Watt Wilkes Sr. Daniel Watt Wilkes Sr. died April 1, 2010, at his home in Redwood. He was 64.

An avid farmer and aviator, Wilkes was raised in and around Cary, Rolling Fork and Fitler. He was a graduate of Rolling Fork High School and attended Mississippi College and Mississippi State University. He was recognized as Mississippi Farm Bureau’s Outstanding Young Farmer in 1972. He was a member of the Vicksburg Wing of the Civil Air Patrol in the early 1970s. After retiring from active farming and flying, he worked for Werner Enterprises and Ergon.

Wilkes was a longtime member of The Church of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal, where he served as both sexton and warden during renovations in the 1980s, and later as verger.

He was preceded in death

by his parents, James Henry Wilkes and Mabel Claire Rushing Hendricks Wilkes.

He is survived by his brother, James H. Wilkes III of Redwood; his children, Lauren Clark Wilkes of Vicksburg and Daniel Watt Wilkes Jr. of Redwood; three grandsons, Edward James Auttonberry, Paul Gregory Auttonberry and Daniel Watt Wilkes III; and two nephews, James H. Wilkes IV and Paul Rushing Wilkes of New Jersey.

Visitation with the family will be from 12:30 until 2 p.m.

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rent Events Sunday School Class; the employees of Ergon Trucking; and the physicians and staff of Jackson Oncology Associates.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to The Church of the Holy Trinity; to the Jinx P. Smith Scholarship Fund at Agape Montessori School; to Southern P.A.W.S. Rescue; or to the local animal shelter or humane society of your choice.

Frank J.

Mrs. Debbie Ann Fowler Murphy

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LOCAL FORECAST sUNday-MoNday Sunny; highs in the mid 80s with patches of fog through mid-morning; lows around 60

STATE FORECAST ToNIGHT Patchy fog after midnight; mostly clear; lows around 60; south winds 5 to 10 mph. sUNday-MoNday Patchy fog; lows around 60; highs in the lower to mid-80s.

ALmAnAC HIGHs aNd Lows High/past 24 hours............. 76º Low/past 24 hours .............. 51º Average temperature ........ 74º Normal this date .................. 62º Record low .............39º in 1891 Record high ...........87º in 1886 RaINfaLL Recorded at the Vicksburg Water Plant Past 24 hours........................N/A This month ............................N/A Total/year............. 12.99 inches Normal/month .....0.39 inches Normal/year ....... 17.08 inches soLUNaR TabLe Most active times for fish and wildlife Sunday: A.M. Active .........................10:35 A.M. Most active ................ 4:22 P.M. Active ..........................11:01 P.M. Most active ................. 4:48 sUNRIse/sUNseT Sunset today ....................... 7:24 Sunset tomorrow .............. 7:24 Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:46

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sTaGes Mississippi River at Vicksburg Current: 40.3 | Change: 0.3 Flood: 43 feet Yazoo River at Greenwood Current: 19.7 | Change: 0.1 Flood: 35 feet Yazoo River at Yazoo City Current: 22.1 | Change: 0.4 Flood: 29 feet Yazoo River at Belzoni Current: 19.7 | Change: 0.2 Flood: 34 feet Big Black River at West Current: 6.6 | Change: -0.2 Flood: 12 feet Big Black River at Bovina Current: 11.4 | Change: -0.7 Flood: 28 feet sTeeLe bayoU Land ...................................80.3 River ...................................87.9

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Five charged in rape of 7-year-old girl at N.J. apartment TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Two men and three teenage boys were charged Saturday with gang-raping a 7-yearold girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building in the state’s capital, police said.

Details of the arrests were announced at a Saturday evening news conference outside police headquarters. Police Director Irving Bradley said detectives had been working around the clock since the crime was reported March 28.

“We did get a lot of cooperation from the community, which helped break this case,” Bradley said.

Those arrested included Gregory Joseph Leary, 20, in custody since Friday, when he was charged with having sex with the 15-year-old. The other four are Timear Lewis,

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Trenton Police Director Irving Bradley, foreground, and Mayor Doug Palmer speak at a news conference Saturday night.

19, and boys ages 13, 14 and 17.

Each was charged with aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment.

Prosecutors likely would seek to try all of them as

adults, Mercer County prosecutor Joseph Bocchini said.

The suspects, who were to be assigned public defenders, were being held Saturday night and couldn’t be con-

No signs of life in Chinese mine XIANGNING, China — The first rescuers and divers who entered a flooded Chinese mine where 153 workers have been trapped for almost a week returned within hours, calling the situation underground “very difficult.”

No further signs of life were heard after tapping was heard Friday.

The divers who entered the mine Saturday afternoon said black, murky water complicated efforts to reach sites where rescuers hope miners have survived, staterun China Central Television reported.

The next step in the rescue plan wasn’t expected until today, said Wen Changjin, an official with the news center set up at the mine in the northern province of Shanxi.

South Korea halts search for sailors SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s military ended its underwater search for dozens of sailors missing from a navy ship that sank from a mysterious blast more than a week ago, and shifted

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS to salvaging the vessel.

Families of the sailors asked the military to suspend the operation for fear of additional casualties among divers after one died and as chances of finding survivors grew increasingly unlikely after Saturday’s discovery of one sailor’s body.

The suspension came hours after divers discovered the body of a senior chief petty officer in the ship’s rear area, the first of the 46 missing sailors to be found.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff said it stopped the underwater search out of respect for the families’ request and will work to recover the 1,200-ton Cheonan.

Officials have said the salvage effort could last a month.

No word on abuse from pope at vigil VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Easter Vigil on Saturday as the Vatican newspaper

denounced what it called a “vile defamation operation” against him concerning the clerical abuse scandal.

Benedict presided over the evening service in St. Peter’s Basilica, commemorating the night before Easter, when Christians believe Christ rose from the dead.

The pope didn’t directly refer to the scandal in his homily. He focused on life, death, and immortality, pondering what would happen if modern medicine could remove death altogether.

“Would that be a good thing?” he asked. “Humanity would become extraordinarily old, there would be no more room for youth.

Capacity for innovation would die and endless life would be no paradise, if anything a condemnation,” he said.

Rather than prolonging death, he said, baptism offers the “medicine of immortality.”

During the service, Benedict baptized six people — a traditional feature of Easter eve papal Masses.

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The case shocked residents of the gritty Rowan Towers apartment building, where three of those arrested live, police Capt. Joseph Juniak said.

Building management has stepped up security and promised additional safety measures. Residents have expressed skepticism that the apartments would become safer.

Police say the 15-year-old girl went to a party with some men at Rowan Towers on March 28 and the younger girl tagged along because she was worried about her stepsister’s safety. They say the 15-yearold sold sex to men and boys there, then took money to let them touch the younger girl.

They say the touching turned

to forcible sex as at least seven men raped the 7-year-old.

Additional arrests are expected, police said.

Before Saturday’s arrest announcement, the 15-yearold had been charged with promoting prostitution, aggravated sexual assault and other crimes. Police have not released her name, and she remained in juvenile detention Saturday night.

Mayor Doug Palmer, who met with the 7-year-old girl and her family in his office Thursday, described their ordeal as a “torment.”

“They’re in a safe place right now,” he said. “I would ask that the community embrace this family — they are going through a lot.”

Palmer gave the girl a stuffed bunny rabbit for Easter. He said the family is getting counseling and indicated it may be permanently relocated away

from the city.

He credited the police force for its hard work but said the investigation into “this heinous crime” isn’t done.

“We’re not finished because everyone who is responsible is still not arrested,” he said.

“The police will not rest until we get every individual who was involved in this.”

Police earlier in the week urged residents to come forward, but neighbors said they were scared of retaliation from gangs that prowl the streets if they spoke up.

Rowan Towers sits on a stretch of West State Street near downtown Trenton and is surrounded by blocks of abandoned, boarded-up homes.

City Councilwoman Annette Lartique, who represents the area where the crime occurred, said the high-rise has been plagued by crime.

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SPORTS sun DAY, April 4, 2010 • SE C TION B PUZZLES B8

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SCHEDULE PREP BASEBALL VHS hosts NW Rankin Monday, 6 p.m.

PCA at Russell Christian Tuesday, 6 p.m.

PREP SOFTBALL WC at Brookhaven Tuesday, 6:15 p.m.

VHS hosts Lawrence Co. Thursday, 6 p.m.

ON TV

7 p.m. ESPN2 - The major league baseball season gets underway with a timeless matchup of the Yankees and Red Sox at Fenway Park.

WHO’S HOT JOSH GORDON Delta State infielder and former Warren Central star went 3-for5 with a triple and a home run in a 9-5 win over Henderson State on Saturday. College baseball roundup/B5

SIDELINES Notre Dame recruit dies on spring break CINCINNATI (AP) — A “drunk and belligerent” 17-year-old Notre Dame football recruit was killed in a fall from a fifth-floor hotel balcony during his senior-year spring break in Florida, authorities said Saturday.

Matt James died Friday around 6:30 p.m. at the Days Inn Motel in Panama City Beach. Police said he was dead when officers arrived.

“It appears to be a tragic accident,” Panama City Beach police Maj. David Humphreys said.

James’ former teammates at St. Xavier High School gathered for a private prayer service in the school’s chapel. James, an all-state offensive lineman, had been the first top signing for new Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly.

James was part of a group of about 40 St. Xavier students and a half-dozen parents on the trip.

“Witnesses and friends indicate he had become drunk and belligerent,” Humphreys said. “He had leaned over the balcony rail, was shaking his finger at the people in the next room over. He fell over.”

Humphreys said the railing at the hotel met the standards for proper height. He said police would be interested in pursuing charges if they learn who provided the underage teen with alcohol.

Police said an autopsy on James would be done later.

Toxicology results were pending.

James was the second St. Xavier athlete to die during the school year. Junior wrestler Kevin Le was struck by a car and killed in September.

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Butler on brink of a championship Grinds out close win to advance to NCAA finals

Mississippi State snapped out of its funk on Saturday, at least for one day.

Ryan Collins went 3-for-4 with three RBIs, Connor Powers scored three runs, and the Bulldogs held off a late rally to beat SEC East leader South Carolina 8-7.

The Ben victory Bracewell evened the weekend series at a game USM rolls apiece to victory and gave in finale Mississippi State (1512, 3-5 Southeastern Conference) a rare bright spot in an otherwise dismal week. State had lost three of its last four, with the only win coming against Georgia when MSU rallied from an eight-run deficit in the eighth inning to win 11-10.

Mississippi State will try to win its second consecutive conference series in today’s 1 p.m. finale in Columbia.

Mississippi State took an 8-3 lead in the eighth inning on Jet Butler’s sacrifice fly, but South Carolina scored four runs in the bottom half to make it interesting.

The Gamecocks mixed four hits with a Bulldog error and a balk. Brady Thomas’ two-run double got them within two runs and an RBI fielder’s choice

by Adrian Morales made it 8-7. MSU reliever Devin Jones got out of the jam with another fielder’s choice, then closer Ben Bracewell retired the side in order in the ninth to end it. Bracewell struck out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth to earn his fourth save of the season.

Freshman starter Chris Stratton (3-3) earned the win. He allowed only three runs despite walking five batters and giving up eight hits in five innings.

Reliever Chad Girodo gave up four runs in two innings plus — all of the runs in the eighth were charged to him — and Jones was credited with one scoreless inning.

“We had three freshmen and a sophomore out there, competing their hearts out for us today,” Mississippi State coach John Cohen said. “You can’t overstate what Ben Bracewell is doing for our ballclub. This was a very big win for our pitching staff today.”

Whit Merrifield had three hits, including a home run, and scored twice for South Carolina.

Thomas, Jackie Bradley Jr. and Jeffery Jones all had two hits apiece.

Luke Adkins was 3-for-5 for Mississippi State.

The loss was the second in 17 games for South Carolina (21-6, 6-2), which fell into a tie for the SEC East lead with Florida.

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Butler players Gordon Hayward, center left, and Garrett Butcher embrace as they and teammates celebrate their 52-50 win over in the second half, Draymond Green made a pair of free throws to pull Michigan State within 50-49 with 56 seconds left.

Ronald Nored missed a

Michigan State in the Final Four on Saturday.

Butler advanced to Monday night’s championship game against Duke.

On TV Monday 8 p.m. CBS Butler vs. Duke

See Butler, Page B3.

Party crasher Duke advances in a rout

By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — After tossing a big, wet blanket on one feel-good story, Duke gets to go after another.

They don’t call ’em the Devils for nothing.

Jon Scheyer scored 23 points Saturday night to lift Duke, the team so many folks love to hate, to a 78-57 victory over West Virginia and set up a meeting against tiny Butler — a classic matchup of big vs. little, with the national title on the line.

“I think they’re one of the best teams in the country,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said of his upcoming opponent, which has won 25 straight. “I think a Cinderella would be more if somebody had eight or nine losses and pulled some upsets.”

Still, Butler is a No. 5 seed.

And in a tournament turned upside down, the Blue Devils (34-5) were the only No. 1 to make it to the Final Four.

Their trip, however, wasn’t totally predictable or expected. Duke had gone six long years since its last appearance and hasn’t been to the final since winning it all nine years ago — a veritable century by Tobacco Road standards. Now, this group of Blue Devils has a chance to give Coach K his fourth national championship.

“It’s everything,” senior center Brian Zoubek said.

“This is the culmination of

Bulldogs hold off Carolina From staff reports

By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Kansas — gone.

Kentucky — gone.

Syracuse — gone.

Little Butler — still going.

How’s that for a Hollywood hoops script. Call it “Hoosiers,” the sequel.

Gordon Hayward had 19 points and nine rebounds, including one with 2 seconds left that sealed the game.

Butler, the small school thatlooked anything but, took down another of college basketball’s biggest names with a 52-50 victory over Michigan State in the Final Four on Saturday night.

Butler (33-4) now plays Duke, which routed West Virginia in the other semifinal, in Monday’s title game.

In its hometown, no less.

“We’ve been talking about the next game all year, and it’s great to be able to say the next game’s for a national championship,” Hayward said.

The entire Hoosier state is along for the ride. Indiana and Purdue may be the state’s traditional basketball powerhouses, but it’s little Butler — enrollment 4,200 — that’s big time now.

“If I was not playing, I’d be a Butler fan,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. “I like the way they play, I like their story. They play like a Big Ten team.”

Michigan State (28-9) has been living on the edge all tournament, ravaged by injuries and squeaking through game after game, and this night was no different. After trailing by as much as seven

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Duke’s Mason Plumlee, left, and West Virginia’s Joe Mazzulla (21) eye a rebound during the first half of Saturday’s Final Four game in Indianapolis. four years for me. To have a shot at the championship my senior year, after everything we’ve been through, is a dream come true.”

This was a wire-to-wire pullaway against the West Virginia team, coached by alum Bob Huggins, that had been on a 10-game winning streak that included the Big East tournament title and ended with a trip to the Final Four.

It was an inspiring journey, the first for West Virginia (31-7) in 51 years.

Huggins returned to West Virginia to bring an elusive title home to a state that loves its flagship school like few others. But any chance of that ended with 8:59 left, when Mountaineers star Da’Sean Butler twisted his left knee and, to add insult

to injury, got called for a charge as he crumpled to the ground.

The sequence left him writhing in pain under the basket as his coach, the Huggy Bear, came onto the floor — first to yell at the refs, then to kneel down and tenderly cup the head of his star.

“He just told me not to worry about it, that I’ll be fine,” Butler said. “And I told him that it hurts right now, but if I can get back out there, then I’ll get back out there.”

He didn’t. The 17-point-pergame scorer finished with 10, and was held to a mere basket in the first half while the Blue Devils were building their lead to as many as 13. Wellington Smith led the

Mountaineers with 12 points.

Meanwhile, Duke stayed on a road that could lead to the school’s fourth championship despite the lack of a true superstar or an NBA lottery pick — no Christian Laettners or Shane Battiers or Grant Hills on this squad.

Instead, this is a group of players who do what they do well and fill their roles perfectly.

“We won this game as a team,” forward Kyle Singler said. “It wasn’t just put on my shoulders, or Jon’s or Nolan’s. We won this game from all sides contributing.”

Singler scored 21 points for the Blue Devils and Nolan Smith added 19 points and six assists, a pair of performances that, added to Scheyer’s, showed exactly how good Duke can be when all of the “Big 3” are playing well on the same night.

Shredding West Virginia’s ballyhooed 1-3-1 zone trap, the Blue Devils made 52.7 percent.

Not surprisingly, West Virginia had few answers.

Joe Mazzulla, who scored a career-high 17 points to lift the Mountaineers over Kentucky in the East Regional final, finished with only four in this one and had to wear a new uniform after Zoubek drew blood while conking him on the head.

“We felt comfortable no matter what they did,” Scheyer said.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOWLING Noon ESPN - PBA, Marathon Open CYCLING 4 p.m. Versus - Tour of Flanders (tape) GOLF 2 p.m. CBS - LPGA, Kraft Nabisco Championship 2 p.m. NBC - PGA Tour, Shell Houston Open MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 - N.Y. Yankees at Boston COLLEGE BASEBALL Noon FSN - Vanderbilt at Florida NBA Noon ABC - Cleveland at Boston 2:30 p.m. ABC - San Antonio at Los Angeles Lakers WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 6 p.m. ESPN - Final Four, Oklahoma vs. Stanford 8 p.m. ESPN - Final Four, Baylor vs.

Connecticut NHL 11:30 a.m. NBC - Detroit at Philadelphia SOCCER 2 p.m. ESPN2 - Spanish Primera Division, teams TBA TENNIS Noon CBS - Sony Ericsson Open, men’s championship

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Golf Kim, Molder tied at Houston Open HUMBLE, Texas — Anthony Kim never knew where his tee shots were going. Bryce Molder never got control of his swing.

Both saved themselves with their short games Saturday and ended up tied for the third-round lead in the Houston Open.

Kim missed 11 of 14 fairways, but relied on good putting to shoot a 3-under 69 that left him 10 under for the tournament. Molder, the second-round leader, made four bogeys and five birdies for a 71.

“It was a tough day,” Molder said.

“I just couldn’t quite find the club in my swing, and it was just a little off.”

Vaughn Taylor (70) and Joe Ogilvie (71) were two strokes back at 8 under after both bogeyed the difficult 18th hole. Jeff Maggert (70), Graham DeLaet (71) and Lee Westwood (72) were three strokes back.

Nascar Caution helps Harvick win Nationwide race GLADEVILLE, Tenn. — Kevin Harvick took advantage of a late caution to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway.

Harvick and crew chief Ernie Cope gambled by taking two tires when the eighth yellow flag of the day came out with 34 laps to go.

That enabled Harvick to seize the lead from Kyle Busch, who was unable to mount a challenge as the race wound down.

“We were 10 laps short (on fuel) and it seemed like there were a lot of cautions,” Harvick said. “We were in conservation mode so we did what we needed to do to play it both ways. We had options and weren’t in a box like some other guys were, having to pit under green.”

It was Harvick’s 36th career Nationwide win and his 56th in NASCAR’s top three series. It was his second win in four Nationwide races this season.

flashback

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS April 4 1983 — Lorenzo Charles scores on a dunk after Derek Whittenburg’s 35-foot desperation shot falls short to give North Carolina State a 54-52 triumph over Houston in the NCAA basketball championship game.

1988 — Danny Manning scores 31 points and grabs 18 rebounds as Kansas wins its second NCAA basketball championship with an 83-79 victory over Oklahoma.

2001 — Hideo Nomo becomes the fourth pitcher in major league history to throw a no-hitter in both leagues in Boston’s 3-0 victory over Baltimore. Nomo joins Cy Young, Jim Bunning and Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers to accomplish the feat.

2005 — Vicksburg native Dmitri Young becomes the third player to hit three homers on opening day to lead Detroit over the Kansas City Royals 11-2.

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SCOREBOARD major league baseball American League East Division

W Baltimore.......................0 Boston...........................0 New York.......................0 Tampa Bay....................0 Toronto..........................0

L 0 0 0 0 0

Central Division

W Chicago.........................0 Cleveland.......................0 Detroit............................0 Kansas City...................0 Minnesota......................0

L 0 0 0 0 0

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GB — — — — —

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West Division

W L Pct GB Los Angeles..................0 0 .000 — Oakland.........................0 0 .000 — Seattle...........................0 0 .000 — Texas.............................0 0 .000 — Today’s Game N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 19-8) at Boston (Beckett 17-6), 7:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Cleveland (Westbrook 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Buehrle 13-10), 1:05 p.m.

Toronto (Marcum 0-0) at Texas (Feldman 17-8), 1:05 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 19-9) at Kansas City (Greinke 16-8), 3:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Baker 15-9) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 16-8), 9:05 p.m.

Seattle (Hernandez 19-5) at Oakland (Sheets 0-0), 9:05 p.m.

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National League East Division

W Atlanta...........................0 Florida............................0 New York.......................0 Philadelphia...................0 Washington....................0

L 0 0 0 0 0

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W Chicago.........................0 Cincinnati.......................0 Houston.........................0 Milwaukee......................0 Pittsburgh......................0 St. Louis........................0

L 0 0 0 0 0 0

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West Division

W L Pct GB Arizona..........................0 0 .000 — Colorado........................0 0 .000 — Los Angeles..................0 0 .000 — San Diego.....................0 0 .000 — San Francisco...............0 0 .000 — Today’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games Philadelphia (Halladay 17-10) at Washington (Lannan 9-13), 12:05 p.m.

Florida (Johnson 15-5) at N.Y. Mets (Santana 13-9), 12:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Carpenter 17-4) at Cincinnati (Harang 6-14), 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Padilla 4-0) at Pittsburgh (Duke 11-16), 12:35 p.m.

Colorado (Jimenez 15-12) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 13-12), 1:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Zambrano 9-7) at Atlanta (Lowe 15-10), 3:10 p.m.

San Diego (Garland 11-13) at Arizona (Haren 14-10), 4:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Lincecum 15-7) at Houston (Oswalt 8-6), 6:05 p.m.

college baseball Southeastern Conference East

Team Overall SEC South Carolina..............21-6................................6-2 Florida............................20-6................................6-2 Vanderbilt......................23-6................................4-4 Kentucky........................18-10..............................2-6 Georgia..........................9-17................................2-6 Tennessee.....................14-14..............................1-7

West

Team Overall SEC LSU................................22-4................................6-2 Ole Miss.......................21-7................................5-3 Arkansas........................21-6................................5-3 Auburn...........................17-10..............................4-4 Alabama........................19-7................................4-4 Mississippi St..............15-12..............................3-5 Saturday’s Games Arkansas 10, Kentucky 1 Florida 7, Vanderbilt 3 Mississippi St. 8, South Carolina 7 Tennessee 5, Ole Miss 2 Georgia 12, LSU 6 Alabama 6, Auburn 5 Today’s Games Vanderbilt at Florida, Noon Georgia at LSU, Noon Mississippi State at South Carolina, 1 p.m.

Kentucky at Arkansas, 1:05 p.m.

Tennessee at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m.

Alabama at Auburn, 2:05 p.m.

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Conference USA

Team Overall C-USA Tulane............................19-10..............................4-2 Rice...............................17-12..............................4-2 UAB...............................17-9................................4-2 Memphis........................13-15..............................4-2 Central Florida...............18-12..............................2-4 Houston.........................12-14..............................2-4 Marshall.........................11-15..............................2-4 Southern Miss.............16-10..............................1-2 East Carolina.................18-11..............................1-2 Saturday’s Games Memphis 10, Marshall 8, 1st game Memphis 21, Marshall 13, 2nd game East Carolina, 15, Tulane 6, 1st game Tulane 7, East Carolina 5, 2nd game Southern Miss 15, Saint Mary’s 7 UAB 7, Central Florida 2, 1st game UAB 6, Central Florida 1, 2nd game Rice 8, Houston 7, 12 innings Today’s Games No games scheduled

Mississippi college schedule

Saturday’s Games Millsaps 15, LaGrange 8 Southern Miss 15, Saint Mary’s 7 LSU-Shreveport 10, William Carey 0, 1st game LSU-Shreveport 11, William Carey 10, 2nd game Jackson St. 6, Mississippi Valley St. 4, 1st game Jackson St. 10, Mississippi Valley St. 8, 2nd game Spring Hill at Tougaloo, ppd., field conditions Delta St. 9, Henderson St. 5 Mississippi St. 8, South Carolina 7 Tennessee 5, Ole Miss 2 Prairie View at Alcorn St., (n) Today’s Games Prairie View at Alcorn St., 1 p.m.

Mississippi St. at South Carolina, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games No games scheduled

nba EASTERN CONFERENCE

W z-Cleveland....................60 x-Orlando.......................53 x-Atlanta........................49 y-Boston........................47 Miami.............................43 Milwaukee......................42 Charlotte........................40 Toronto..........................38

L 16 23 27 28 34 34 36 37

Pct GB .789 — .697 7 .645 11 .627 12 1/2 .558 17 1/2 .553 18 .526 20 .507 21 1/2

Chicago.........................37 Indiana...........................28 New York.......................26 Philadelphia...................26 Detroit............................23 Washington....................22 New Jersey...................11

39 48 49 50 53 53 65

.487 23 .368 32 .347 33 1/2 .342 34 .303 37 .293 37 1/2 .145 49

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB y-L.A. Lakers.................55 21 .724 — x-Dallas..........................50 27 .649 5 1/2 x-Denver........................50 27 .649 5 1/2 x-Phoenix.......................50 27 .649 5 1/2 x-Utah............................50 27 .649 5 1/2 x-Oklahoma City............47 28 .627 7 1/2 San Antonio...................46 29 .613 8 1/2 x-Portland......................46 30 .605 9 Memphis........................39 36 .520 15 1/2 Houston.........................38 37 .507 16 1/2 New Orleans.................35 43 .449 21 L.A. Clippers..................27 49 .355 28 Sacramento...................24 52 .316 31 Golden State.................22 53 .293 32 1/2 Minnesota......................15 61 .197 40 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference ——— Friday’s Late Games Golden State 128, New York 117 L.A. Lakers 106, Utah 92 Saturday’s Games Toronto 128, Philadelphia 123, OT Atlanta 91, Detroit 85 New Jersey 115, New Orleans 87 Chicago 96, Charlotte 88 Miami 97, Minnesota 84 Oklahoma City 121, Dallas 116 Milwaukee 107, Phoenix 98 Denver 98, L.A. Clippers 90 Portland at Sacramento, (n) Today’s Games Cleveland at Boston, Noon San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 2:30 p.m.

Houston at Indiana, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Washington, 5 p.m.

Golden State at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Memphis at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

New York at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

college basketball NCAA Tournament

Saturday At Nashville Superspeedway Gladeville, Tenn.

Lap length: 1.333 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 225 laps, 134.9 rating, 190 points.

2. (15) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 225, 113, 170.

3. (6) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 225, 113.7, 170.

4. (3) Justin Allgaier, Dodge, 225, 112.7, 160.

5. (5) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 225, 125.1, 160.

6. (4) Carl Edwards, Ford, 225, 105.7, 150.

7. (17) Scott Wimmer, Chevrolet, 225, 101.5, 151.

8. (1) Joey Logano, Toyota, 225, 130.9, 152.

9. (12) Michael Annett, Toyota, 225, 99.4, 138.

10. (21) Brendan Gaughan, Toy., 225, 88.8, 134.

11. (16) Paul Menard, Ford, 225, 93.5, 130.

12. (10) Trevor Bayne, Toyota, 225, 88.6, 127.

13. (19) Johnny Sauter, Ford, 225, 89, 124.

14. (24) Kelly Bires, Chevrolet, 225, 82.9, 121.

15. (13) Brian Scott, Toyota, 225, 86.4, 118.

16. (23) Shelby Howard, Chevy, 225, 81.4, 115.

17. (37) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 225, 66.9, 112.

18. (11) John Wes Townley, 225, 63.7, 109.

19. (31) Scott Riggs, Ford, 225, 65.7, 106.

20. (14) Josh Wise, Ford, 225, 55.4, 103.

21. (8) Scott Lagasse Jr., Ford, 224, 74.9, 100.

22. (22) Jeremy Clements, Chevy, 224, 54.4, 97.

23. (41) Robert Richardson Jr., 224, 39.7, 94.

24. (26) Brian Keselowski, Dodge, 223, 53.1, 91.

25. (39) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet, 223, 40, 88.

26. (30) Derrike Cope, Dodge, 222, 40, 85.

27. (42) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 222, 51.9, 82.

28. (27) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 221, 55.7, 79.

29. (40) Eric McClure, Ford, 221, 32.9, 76.

30. (7) Colin Braun, Ford, 197, 52.2, 73.

31. (18) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 175, 48.1, 70.

32. (35) Tony Raines, power steering, 152, 43, 72.

33. (25) Mikey Kile, Toy., accident, 148, 50.3, 64.

34. (38) James Buescher, accident, 142, 64.1, 61.

35. (20) Willie Allen, Chevy, engine, 130, 39.1, 58.

36. (9) Steve Wallace, accident, 112, 65.6, 55.

37. (29) M. McDowell, accident, 112, 62.5, 52.

38. (36) Jason Keller, accident, 111, 42.8, 49.

39. (32) Jason Leffler, Toy., parked, 86, 60.3, 46.

40. (34) Morgan Shepherd, brakes, 55, 38.7, 48.

41. (33) Mark Green, overheating, 45, 31.1, 40.

42. (28) Kevin Lepage, vibration, 39, 29.8, 37.

43. (43) Danny O’Quinn Jr., brakes, 33, 33.4, 34.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 114.028 mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 37 minutes, 49 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.199 seconds.

Caution Flags: 8 for 43 laps.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): J.Logano, 4 times for 122 laps; K.Harvick, 3 times for 52 laps; Bra.Keselowski, 3 times for 21 laps; S.Wimmer, 1 time for 18 laps; K.Busch, 1 time for 10 laps; T.Raines, 1 time for 1 lap; M.Shepherd, 1 time for 1 lap.

FINAL FOUR

At Indianapolis National Semifinals Saturday Butler 52, Michigan State 50 Duke 78, West Virginia 57 National Championship Monday Butler (33-4) vs. Duke (34-5), 8:21 p.m.

BUTLER 52, MICHIGAN ST. 50

BUTLER (33-4) Hayward 6-14 4-6 19, Veasley 2-6 2-2 6, Howard 1-7 2-3 4, Mack 5-9 2-3 14, Nored 0-4 5-6 5, Vanzant 0-0 1-2 1, Hahn 0-3 0-0 0, Jukes 1-6 0-0 2, Smith 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 15-49 17-24 52.

MICHIGAN ST. (28-9) Morgan 2-7 0-2 4, Roe 2-5 0-0 4, Nix 0-0 0-0 0, Summers 6-12 1-2 14, Lucious 3-6 3-4 12, Allen 0-0 0-0 0, Thornton 0-1 0-0 0, Kebler 0-1 0-0 0, Green 4-9 4-8 12, Sherman 1-1 2-2 4. Totals 18-42 10-18 50.

Halftime—Tied 28-28.

3-Point Goals—Butler 5-21 (Hayward 3-8, Mack 2-4, Veasley 0-3, Jukes 0-3, Hahn 0-3), Michigan St. 4-11 (Lucious 3-6, Summers 1-3, Green 0-1, Morgan 0-1). Fouled Out—Green. Rebounds— Butler 32 (Hayward 9), Michigan St. 36 (Summers 10). Assists—Butler 5 (Nored, Vanzant 2), Michigan St. 11 (Lucious 4). Total Fouls—Butler 17, Michigan St. 21. A—71,298.

DUKE 78, WEST VIRGINIA 57

WEST VIRGINIA (31-7) Ebanks 5-8 1-1 11, Jones 2-6 1-4 6, Smith 4-10 2-3 12, Butler 2-8 6-6 10, Mazzulla 2-5 0-1 4, Thoroughman 0-0 0-0 0, West 0-0 0-0 0, Payne 0-0 0-0 0, Jennings 0-0 0-0 0, Pepper 0-1 0-0 0, Mitchell 0-1 2-2 2, Flowers 2-4 2-2 8, Kilicli 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 19-46 14-19 57.

DUKE (34-5) Singler 8-16 2-2 21, Thomas 1-2 0-0 2, Zoubek 3-4 0-0 6, Smith 7-16 1-2 19, Scheyer 7-13 4-5 23, Ma.Plumlee 1-2 0-0 2, Dawkins 0-0 0-0 0, Mi.Plumlee 1-1 0-0 2, Kelly 0-0 0-0 0, Davidson 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 29-55 7-9 78.

Halftime—Duke 39-31.

3-Point Goals—West Virginia 5-12 (Flowers 2-2, Smith 2-5, Jones 1-3, Butler 0-2), Duke 13-25 (Scheyer 5-9, Smith 4-9, Singler 3-5, Davidson 1-1, Ma.Plumlee 0-1). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—West Virginia 27 (Jones, Smith 5), Duke 29 (Zoubek 10). Assists—West Virginia 11 (Smith 4), Duke 20 (Scheyer, Smith 6). Total Fouls—West Virginia 12, Duke 16. Technical—Mi. Plumlee. A—71,298.

women’s basketball NCAA Women’s Tournament FINAL FOUR

At San Antonio National Semifinals Today Stanford (35-1) vs. Oklahoma (27-10), 6 p.m.

Connecticut (37-0) vs. Baylor (27-9), 8 p.m.

National Championship April 6 Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.

nascar Sprint Cup Schedule

Through March 29 Feb. 14 — Daytona 500 (Jamie McMurray) Feb. 21 — Auto Club 500 (Jimmie Johnson) Feb. 28 — Shelby American (Jimmie Johnson) March 7 — Kobalt Tools 500 (Kurt Busch) March 21 — Food City 500 (Jimmie Johnson) March 29 — Goody’s 500 (Denny Hamlin) April 10 — Subway Fresh Fit 600, Avondale, Ariz.

April 18 — Samsung 500, Fort Worth, Texas April 25 — Aaron’s 499, Talladega, Ala. May 1 — Crown Royal 400, Richmond, Va. May 8 — Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. May 16 — Autism Speaks 400, Dover, Del. May 22 — x-Sprint All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. May 22 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord, N.C. May 30 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. June 6 — Pocono 500, Long Pond, Pa. June 13 — Heluva Good! 400, Brooklyn, Mich.

June 20 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif.

June 27 — Lenox Tools 301, Loudon, N.H.

Sprint Cup Points Leaders

Through March 29 1. Jimmie Johnson.............................................

2. Greg Biffle.....................................................

3. Matt Kenseth.................................................

4. Kevin Harvick................................................

5. Jeff Burton....................................................

6. Kurt Busch....................................................

7. Jeff Gordon...................................................

8. Tony Stewart.................................................

9. Clint Bowyer..................................................

10. Dale Earnhardt Jr.......................................

11. Paul Menard...............................................

12. Brian Vickers...............................................

13. Joey Logano...............................................

14. Carl Edwards..............................................

15. Denny Hamlin.............................................

16. Kyle Busch..................................................

17. Mark Martin.................................................

18. Martin Truex Jr...........................................

19. Jamie McMurray.........................................

20. Kasey Kahne..............................................

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Nationwide Series Nashville 300 Results

898 884 882 837 785 776 773 770 747 739 735 734 728 727 710 703 684 668 654 620

Nationwide Series Points standings 1. Carl Edwards.................................................. 820 2. Brad Keselowski............................................ 804 3. Justin Allgaier................................................ 799 4. Kyle Busch..................................................... 764 5. Kevin Harvick................................................. 759 6. Paul Menard.................................................. 658 7. Joey Logano.................................................. 589 8. Mike Wallace................................................. 570 9. Greg Biffle...................................................... 563 10. Michael Annett............................................. 544

nhl EASTERN CONFERENCE

GP z-Washington...78 x-New Jersey..78 x-Pittsburgh.....78 x-Buffalo..........78 x-Ottawa..........79 Montreal...........79 Boston.............78 Philadelphia.....78 N.Y. Rangers...78 Atlanta.............79 N.Y. Islanders..78 Carolina...........79 Florida..............78 Tampa Bay......78 Toronto............79

W 51 45 45 43 43 39 36 38 36 34 33 33 31 31 29

L 15 26 26 25 31 32 30 34 32 32 35 36 35 35 36

OT 12 7 7 10 5 8 12 6 10 13 10 10 12 12 14

Pts 114 97 97 96 91 86 84 82 82 81 76 76 74 74 72

GF 301 208 241 223 215 209 193 225 210 231 209 215 199 201 209

GA 222 186 222 198 227 210 191 217 207 248 241 245 230 245 257

WESTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-San Jose......78 48 20 10 106 251 205 x-Chicago........77 48 22 7 103 249 196 x-Vancouver....78 47 27 4 98 256 208 x-Phoenix.........78 47 25 6 100 212 193 x-Nashville.......80 46 28 6 98 221 219 Detroit..............78 41 23 14 96 218 207 Los Angeles....77 44 27 6 94 228 205 Colorado..........77 41 29 7 89 228 214 Calgary............78 40 29 9 89 198 195 St. Louis..........78 38 31 9 85 211 211 Dallas...............79 35 30 14 84 228 244 Anaheim..........77 37 31 9 83 220 234 Minnesota........78 37 35 6 80 210 233 Columbus........79 32 34 13 77 212 252 Edmonton........77 24 46 7 55 197 266 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference Friday’s Late Games San Jose 3, Minnesota 2 Dallas 6, Edmonton 3 Calgary 2, Colorado 1 Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Atlanta 3, OT N.Y. Islanders 4, Ottawa 1 Nashville 4, Detroit 3, OT Boston 2, Toronto 1, OT Montreal 3, Buffalo 0 New Jersey 4, Carolina 0 N.Y. Rangers 4, Florida 1 Washington 3, Columbus 2 St. Louis 2, Dallas 1 Edmonton at Phoenix, (n) Anaheim at Los Angeles, (n) Today’s Games Detroit at Philadelphia, 11:30 a.m.

Calgary at Chicago, 2 p.m.

San Jose at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Monday’s Games Boston at Washington, 6 p.m.

Columbus at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

golf PGA Tour Shell Houston Open Par Scores

Saturday At Redstone Golf Club, Tournament Course Humble, Texas Purse: $5.8 million Yardage: 7,457; Par: 72 Third Round Anthony Kim......... 68-69-69—206.......................-10 Bryce Molder........ 69-66-71—206.......................-10 Vaughn Taylor...... 68-70-70—208.........................-8 Joe Ogilvie........... 70-67-71—208.........................-8 Jeff Maggert......... 70-69-70—209.........................-7 Graham DeLaet.... 71-67-71—209.........................-7 Lee Westwood..... 69-68-72—209.........................-7 Justin Leonard...... 69-74-67—210.........................-6 Charl Schwartzel.. 71-72-67—210.........................-6 Kevin Sutherland.. 68-73-69—210.........................-6 Matt Kuchar.......... 69-72-69—210.........................-6 Pad. Harrington.... 69-69-72—210.........................-6 Omar Uresti.......... 69-69-72—210.........................-6 Cameron Percy.... 67-69-74—210.........................-6 Josh Teater.......... 73-69-69—211.........................-5 Roland Thatcher... 70-71-70—211.........................-5 Adam Scott........... 69-70-72—211.........................-5 Bubba Watson...... 73-67-71—211.........................-5 Kevin Stadler........ 67-70-74—211.........................-5

James Driscoll...... 68-70-73—211.........................-5 Fredrik Jacobson.. 73-70-69—212.........................-4 Justin Rose.......... 70-72-70—212.........................-4 Chad Campbell.... 70-72-70—212.........................-4 Steve Marino........ 70-71-71—212.........................-4 Alex Prugh............ 70-66-76—212.........................-4 Spencer Levin...... 71-72-70—213.........................-3 Shaun Micheel..... 70-73-70—213.........................-3 Jason Bohn.......... 70-72-71—213.........................-3 John Rollins.......... 73-72-68—213.........................-3 Blake Adams........ 73-72-68—213.........................-3 Michael Allen........ 71-72-71—214.........................-2 D.J. Trahan.......... 78-66-70—214.........................-2 Bob Estes............. 73-70-71—214.........................-2 Chris Tidland........ 72-72-70—214.........................-2 Paul Goydos......... 72-70-72—214.........................-2 B. de Jonge.......... 72-74-68—214.........................-2 Tag Ridings.......... 73-70-72—215.........................-1 Ben Crane............ 75-68-72—215.........................-1 Michael Connell.... 71-71-73—215.........................-1 Ricky Barnes........ 73-71-71—215.........................-1 Phil Mickelson...... 69-76-70—215.........................-1 Y.E. Yang............. 74-71-70—215.........................-1 Chris Wilson......... 73-73-69—215.........................-1 J.J. Henry............. 74-72-69—215.........................-1 Soren Kjeldsen..... 71-72-73—216......................... E Chris Riley............ 71-72-73—216......................... E Rich Barcelo......... 75-69-72—216......................... E Jeff Overton.......... 76-67-73—216......................... E Stuart Appleby...... 70-72-74—216......................... E Alex Cejka............ 72-73-71—216......................... E Martin Laird.......... 70-70-76—216......................... E Lucas Glover........ 73-68-75—216......................... E Woody Austin....... 70-71-75—216......................... E David Lutterus...... 74-71-71—216......................... E Ben Curtis............ 73-71-73—217......................+1 D.A. Points........... 71-71-75—217......................+1 Carl Pettersson.... 71-75-71—217......................+1 Johnson Wagner.. 71-73-74—218......................+2 John Merrick......... 72-72-74—218......................+2 Webb Simpson..... 75-71-72—218......................+2 Scott McCarron.... 73-73-72—218......................+2 Brett Wetterich..... 73-70-76—219......................+3 J.P. Hayes............ 72-71-76—219......................+3 Ernie Els............... 70-74-75—219......................+3 Rickie Fowler........ 72-71-76—219......................+3 Chris Baryla.......... 71-73-75—219......................+3 Tim Petrovic......... 77-68-75—220......................+4 Garrett Willis......... 72-73-75—220......................+4 Aaron Baddeley.... 73-73-74—220......................+4 Fred Couples........ 71-73-78—222......................+6 Simon Dyson........ 73-71-78—222......................+6 Scott Piercy.......... 71-75-76—222......................+6 Jimmy Walker....... 73-72-78—223......................+7 N. Thompson........ 69-76-78—223......................+7 Rich Beem............ 71-74-78—223......................+7 Brian Stuard......... 70-75-78—223......................+7 Angel Cabrera...... 71-75-77—223......................+7 Matt Bettencourt... 72-72-80—224......................+8 Derek Lamely....... 73-73-78—224......................+8 Andrew Svoboda.. 73-73-78—224......................+8

transactions BASEBALL American League

BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Placed RHP Koji Uehara on 15-day DL, retroactive to March 26. Purchased the contract of LHP Will Ohman from Norfolk (IL).

Optioned RHP Kam Mickolio to Norfolk. Designated INF Robert Andino for assignment.

BOSTON RED SOX—Optioned OF Josh Reddick to Pawtucket (IL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Placed RHP Gil Meche and INF Alex Gordon on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 26, and INF Josh Fields on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 28. Assigned LHP Bruce Chen, RHP Matt Herges, RHP Brad Thompson, C Edwin Bellorin, INF Wilson Betemit, INF Irving Falu and OF Scott Thorman to their minor league camp.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Optioned C Ryan Budde, OF Peter Bourjos and INF Freddy Sandoval to Salt Lake (PCL). Purchased the contract of INF Robb Quinlan. Placed the following players on the 15-day DL: LHP Scott Kazmir retroactive to March 31, RHP Anthony Ortega and OF Reggie Willits retroactive to March 30 and OF Chris Pettit retroactive to March 26.

MINNESOTA TWINS—Placed RHP Clay Condrey on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Alex Burnett from Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES—Acquired C-OF Robbie Hammock from Colorado for a player to be named and assigned him to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

Agreed to terms with OF Marcus Thames on a one-year contract. Agreed to terms with C Chad Moeller on a minor league contract. Optioned LHP Boone Logan to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Optioned RHP Henry Rodriguez, LHP Brad Kilby and C Landon Powell to Sacramento (PCL). Purchased the contract of RHP Tyson Ross from Midland (Texas). Designated OF-DH Jack Cust for assignement. Placed the following players on the 15-day DL: RHP Joey Devine, LHP Josh Outman and RHP Michael Wuertz retroactive to March 26, OF Coco Crisp retroactive to April 3 and RHP Trevor Cahill retroactive to April 4.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Agreed to terms with OF Adam Lind on a four year contract.

National League

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Optioned 2B Ryan Roberts, LHP Zach Kroenke, C John Hester and LHP Clay Zavada to Reno (PCL). Purchased the contract of RHP Rodrigo Lopez from Reno.

ATLANTA BRAVES—Placed INF Diory Hernandez and OF Jordan Schafer on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 26. Optioned LHP Jonny Venters and C Clint Sammons to Gwinnett (IL).

Reassigned RHP Craig Kimbrel, RHP Scott Proctor, C J.C. Boscan, 1B Freddie Freeman, INF Brandon Hicks, INF Joe Thurston and OF Matt Young to Gwinnett. Purchased the contract of OF Jason Heyward from Gwinnett.

COLORADO ROCKIES—Placed LHP Jeff Francis, RHP Taylor Buchholz, RHP Greg Reynolds and RHP Huston Street on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 26.

LOTTERY Sunday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 0-8-2 La. Pick 4: 3-5-4-3 Monday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 1-1-9 La. Pick 4: 5-6-1-8 Tuesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 0-3-0 La. Pick 4: 8-6-6-6 Wednesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 2-1-6 La. Pick 4: 4-3-1-7 Easy 5: 02-11-19-23-26 La. Lotto: 01-02-09-20-22-23 Powerball: 5-13-17-45-54 Powerball: 12; Power Play: 5 Thursday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 8-5-6 La. Pick 4: 4-7-0-5 Friday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 1-8-9 La. Pick 4: 5-0-9-9 Saturday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 6-8-4 La. Pick 4: 2-0-9-4 Easy 5: 10-21-32-35-36 La. Lotto: 15-21-23-38-39-40 Powerball: 10-15-31-52-59 Powerball: 4; Power play: 4

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Thunder clinches playoff spot nba

By The Associated Press Kevin Durant scored 23 points, Jeff Green added 22 and the Oklahoma City Thunder clinched a playoff spot with a 121-116 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night.

Russell Westbrook and Nick Collison added 17 points each to help the Thunder end a nine-game road losing streak against the Mavericks dating to when the team was based in Seattle.

Oklahoma City missed the playoffs last season after relocating from Seattle. The Thunder are the NBA’s most improved team this season, more than doubling their 23 victories in 2008-09.

Dirk Nowitzki had 30 points and 13 rebounds for Dallas, and Jason Kidd added 24 points in the matchup of possible playoff opponents.

The Mavericks are 5-6 since ending a season-best 13-game winning streak.

The Thunder expanded an eight-point halftime lead to 13 in the third quarter, and

took a 94-85 edge into the final quarter.

Oklahoma City was ahead by 19 early in the fourth quarter before a 17-2 run by Dallas — capped by Nowitzki’s two free throws with 2:40 left — pulled the Mavericks to 110-106.

J.J. Barea made one of two free throws with 52.7 seconds remaining to get Dallas to 113-109, but Eric Maynor’s 3-pointer from the left wing with 28.9 seconds left gave Oklahoma City a 116-109 advantage.

Dallas was in front 37-35 after one quarter, setting a season high for the opening quarter and shooting 75 percent (15-of-20) from the floor. The bad news for the Mavericks: the Thunder burned Dallas’ defense for 14-of-24 from the field, getting 10 points each from Durant and Green.

Oklahoma City kept attacking the basket and opened the second quarter with a 14-3 run en route to a 67-59 halftime lead, the Thunder’s highestscoring half of the season.

The Thunder hit all 17 firsthalf free throws while the Mavs went 14-for-16 from the line. Oklahoma City was perfect on its first 23 foul shots before Maynor missed late in the third quarter, Mavericks starting forward Shawn Marion sat out the second half because of an oblique strain and is day-today. The Mavericks announced at halftime that Marion was done for the night.

Nets 115, Hornets 87 Rookie Terrence Williams had 14 points and a careerhigh 14 assists and the New Jersey Nets posted their biggest win of the season by beating the slumping New Orleans Hornets.

Chris Douglas-Roberts scored 17 points, and Chris Humphries added 10 points and a season-high tying 12 rebounds as New Jersey (1165) shot a season-high 58.2 percent in sending the Hornets to their third straight loss and 11th in 14 games.

The Nets had eight players score in double figures and

Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant pumps his fist after scoring in the first half of Saturday’s game against Dallas. two others with at least seven points in winning for the fourth time in six games.

David West had 25 points, seven rebounds and six assists to lead New Orleans.

In other NBA games Saturday, it was Toronto 128, Philadelphia 123 in overtime; Atlanta 91, Detroit 85; Chicago 96, Charlotte 88; Miami 97, Minnesota 84; Milwaukee 107, Phoenix 98; and Denver 98, the Los Angeles Clippers 90.

Stanford, Oklahoma more than speed bumps SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Stanford players just smile and laugh when they hear people say women’s college basketball this season is “Connecticut and everybody else.”

They can’t really argue with the UConn part because the Huskies have won 76 straight games. Yet they can take issue being lumped in with “everybody else.”

Stanford has beaten everybody else this season, too, the only blemish on its 35-1 record coming against Connecticut. With one more victory — against Oklahoma in the early game at the Final Four tonight — coach Tara VanDerveer’s players will have done their part to set up a tantalizing rematch with the Huskies in the national championship game.

“I think we have a lot of the mechanics it takes to win a national championship,” said forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike, Stanford’s leading scorer at 18.2 points per game and rebounder (9.6). “If we really work hard and play well, I think a lot of people will be happy with what they’re seeing.”

Stanford was the last team to beat Connecticut nearly two years ago in the 2008 Final Four. The Cardinal came closer to beating the Huskies this season than anyone else.

Like UConn, Stanford’s season has been filled with lopsided wins. The Cardinal cruised in the NCAA Tournament until beating Xavier on a buzzer-beating layup in the regional final.

“You make it by 40 points, you make it by 4 seconds —

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Connecticut either way you’re still here at the Final Four,” Stanford center Jayne Appel said. “I think that our team is aware of what we’ve accomplished this year. And we’ve played every-

Four on Saturday. Stanford plays Oklahoma in a national semifinal game tonight.

one: Duke, Tennessee, you name it. So we’ll be coming out, ready to go.”

So will Oklahoma, which enters the Final Four with a 27-10 record a year after losing to Louisville in the national semifinals.

The Sooners got here a year after graduating one of the best players in school history, Courtney Paris, and after losing its expected top player, Whitney Hand, to a knee injury five games into the season. They overcame the nation’s toughest schedule — Stanford is the only No. 1 seed they haven’t faced — and

their tournament run has been boosted by the emergence of Abi Olajuwon, the daughter of Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon, who worked her way into the starting lineup as a senior.

They’re not simply happy to be here, either. They made that mistake last year, letting a 12-point halftime lead turn into a 2-point loss to Louisville.

“Last year, we settled,” Robinson said. “We know how hard it is to get here, especially back to back, so we’re just going to go out there and fight like we have for our whole season.”

stop.”

Butler knocked off topseeded Syracuse and followed with a victory over No. 2 seed Kansas State last weekend, the only Final Four team to beat the top two seeded teams in its region.

On Saturday, Butler forced fellow No. 5 seed Michigan State into 16 turnovers and allowed zero fast-break points. The Bulldogs out-

rebounded Michigan State on the offensive glass, 11-8.

“People have been doubting us all year and said we were going to lose in the first round, but you don’t pay attention to what other people say,” Butler guard Shawn Vanzandt said. “You listen to the 15 guys who are here and the coaches. We don’t listen that. We believe in ourselves.”

Butler Continued from Page B1. jumper, and Michigan State got the rebound. But Hayward wouldn’t give the driving Green an inch, forcing him to put up an awkward layup that didn’t come close. Nored scooped up the rebound, and Green had no choice but to foul him, ending the big fella’s game.

Nored, who had been just 3 for 12 from the line in the tournament, made both, and the Bulldogs had a 52-49 lead with 6 seconds to play.

“One thing about us is there’s never a sense of fear,” Nored said. “We’re confident in everything we do.”

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Tiger Woods will drive past the 61 trees that form a canopy down Magnolia Lane, pull up in front of the white clubhouse at Augusta National and walk up the stairs on the side of the building to a locker room reserved for Masters champions.

It’s a routine he has followed since he won his first green jacket.

Nothing else about this Masters figures to be remotely routine, not even that familiar introduction on the first tee. “ Fo r e , p l e a s e . T i g e r Woods.”

Five months after a sex scandal that still lingers on the Internet and in the tabloids, Woods is coming back to golf — at a major that already attracts the largest television audience.

From his first press conference on Monday to his opening tee shot on Thursday, through Amen Corner and along the azaleas and dogwoods and Georgia pines, this should be a Masters like no other.

“I think it’s going to be one of the biggest events in golf history, because the biggest player in golf history is going to come back from this absence, and everybody is going to be scrutinizing his game and what he says and where he goes and where he has dinner ... everything,” British Open champion Stewart Cink said.

For a dozen years, Woods has been the favorite to win at Augusta. Now he’s everyone’s favorite punch line.

The countdown toward Jack Nicklaus and his record 18 majors has been replaced by a count of his mistresses.

“He’s made a career out of exceeding expectations,” Geoff Ogilvy said. “He’s spent his whole life under a microscope, but this is going to be on a level he’s never seen before.”

Woods went 15 weeks without touching a club while in seclusion from the paparazzi and in therapy for the deviant double life he was leading. He began practicing on Feb. 28.

He spent two days at Augusta National in the weeks leading up to the Masters.

Even so, he has no idea what to expect when he returns — from his game or the gallery.

“I’m a little nervous about that to be honest with you,” he told ESPN in a pair of fiveminute interviews. “It would be nice to hear a couple claps here and there.”

In the wake of the biggest scandal the sport of golf has ever known, Woods’ world was turned upside-down.

Three of his biggest sponsors dropped him. Comedians made fun of him. Players weren’t sure what to say.

“We have all put him up on such a pedestal, not only in the golf, but we took for granted the personal side, too,” said Steve Stricker. “We’ll have to wait and see what golf he brings when he comes back.

This may fire him up even more and make him even stronger. He may have less distractions. Who knows? He could be better.”

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CBS president Sean McManus predicted that Tiger Woods at the Woods Masters would rank only behind President Barack Obama’s inauguration as the “biggest media spectacle.”

Equally curious will be the golf itself, especially now.

Woods last won a major at the 2008 U.S. Open, when he returned from a nine-week break to win at Torrey Pines on a left knee so torn up that he had season-ending injury a week later.

He has never missed the cut at the Masters as a pro. He has won four times, but just once over the last seven years.

And he hasn’t hit a meaningful shot in five months.

“Do I think Tiger Woods can be a competitive factor at the Masters? I can’t believe you’re even asking that question,” Cink said. “We’re talking about Tiger Woods, the best player that’s ever played golf.”

Golf managed to go on without Woods, even if fewer people were paying attention.

TV ratings were down, and galleries were sparse at tournaments that he traditionally played.

On the course, no one filled the void. It took until the 12th week of the season for Ernie Els to become the first multiple winner on the PGA Tour.

Els, a longtime rival, said Woods’ absence has cast a pall over the entire Tour.

“It’s basically affected a lot of lives on tour, as well, because of the constant questioning that we have to answer about a fellow player’s private life,” Els said. “It’s hard enough to make pars and birdies out there than with this whole situation hanging on the Tour and everything else.”

That Woods chose Augusta National to return is not surprising. No other major has greater control of its property.

Fans get weekly badges, and the strict decorum prohibits running and cell phones.

Media credentials are limited, shutting out the celebrity sites that gave Woods the kind of publicity he never imagined.

How he responds on the golf course remains a mystery.

“It will be interesting to see how the other players around him react when his name is on that leaderboard again,” Colin Montgomerie said. “It will be very different to see his name up there. He had that aura about him, and it will be interesting to see if other players react differently now, or the same as they did. It will be very exciting times.”

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Mission Park baseball registration Registration for the Mission Park Baseball League will continue until Friday at the Vicksburg Parks and Recreation Department. Registration forms can be picked up at the Parks and Rec office on Army Navy Drive, The Sports Center, Just Duett Sports, Sherman Avenue Elementary School and Dana Road Elementary.

For more information, call Ernest Galloway at 601-6184455, or the Parks and Rec office at 601-634-4514.

Bubba Mims Memorial Golf Classic Vicksburg Country Club will host the seventh annual Bubba Mims Memorial Golf Classic on April 21. Format is a four-player scramble. Lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the shotgun start will be at 1 p.m. Hole sponsorships are $100 per hole and the entry fee of $90 per player includes cart, first mulligan and lunch. Mail all entries and fees to 3460 Porters Chapel Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

For information, call Mark Buys at 601-636-3752 or Kim Arias at 601-831-4728.

YMCA teeball registration The Vicksburg YMCA is taking teeball registrations through Saturday. The program is for boys and girls ages 4-6 and games will begin April 12. For information, please contact Dustin Blount at 638-1071 or visit the Purks Branch YMCA.

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The Vicksburg Tar Heels 11-year-olds’ baseball team finished second at the Oxford Invitational tournament March 27-28.

The Tar Heels reached the finals by beating the Vicksburg Sting 4-2. Tar Heels team members are, front row from left, Colton Norris, Bailey McMillian, Tyler McRight, Hunt Holdiness and Clint Tisdale. Second row, from left, Brett Oldenburg, Chandler Luke, Booth Buys, Matthew Newcomb and Tyler Vroman. Third row, from left, coaches John Rice Pettway and Zach Balthrop. The team is also coached by Andrew Embry.

Register shines at JV track meet

Adalius Thomas football camp

Warren Central’s Hannah Register swept the distance events Thursday at the Northwest Rankin Invitational junior varsity track Hannah Register meet. Register won the 3,200-, 1,600- and 800-meter runs. It was the third consecutive meet in which she has won the 3,200- and 1,600meter events.

NFL Pro Bowler Adalius Thomas will host his annual football camp on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi on April 17.

This camp is free of charge and will be open to boys ages 9-17. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the stadium and the camp will end around 1:30 p.m. All campers are required to have a signed parental release form before participating in any activities.

Campers can pre-register at www.adalius96.com, or parents can register children the day of the camp. All campers will receive a camp T-shirt, lunch, autographed picture and instruction from Thomas — a former Southern Miss star now with the New England Patriots — other NFL players and coaches.

For more information, call 601-408-8209 or e-mail at rosalea@b-c-sports.com.

Clear Creek Ladies weekly golf report On Wednesday and Saturday, the Ladies of Clear Creek played a game of “points tourney.” Top winners were Pam Thomas, Martha Masterson and Joyce Johnson. Chip-ins were made by Theresa Ford, Carol Roberson and Wanda Caruthers.

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Dear Neill Leiton Irwin: I want you to read this when you are old enough to understand about God and Jesus, OK? When Yo’Momma called me St. Patrick’s Eve to come to the Emergency Room because you had fallen on your head, I called your grandmother Doots first, turned the car around and headed for Greenville. But my second call was to activate the Kairos Prison Ministry prayer chain, so that immediate prayers began going up for you from as many as 1,000 people, many of whom relayed the news to their own prayer groups. My third call was to our Calvary Baptist Church prayer chain, where I lead the music. Then I called your Uncle Adam in North Carolina to get him in on it. So before I even got to the hospital there were probably 2,500 people praying for you, literally around the world.

When the CT Scan confirmed your skull fracture, procedure called for you and Yo’Momma to be sent by ambulance to Jackson’s University Medical Center to see a pediatric neurologist, so Doots and I took charge of Big Brudder Sean. Yo’Daddy was piloting an airplane that was at the time on the ground in Wichita, so he got a substitute pilot and caught a flight to Memphis, where his pickup was. The EMTs strapped you and Yo’Momma onto a gurney and took off, so I called Bryon McIntire, as well as the MS Kairos Music Team members

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— all of whom live in that area — to get someone to meet the ambulance. Bryon welcomed y’all to UMC, and the Music Team got there a little later to pray over y’all.

All the doctors could see the skull fracture on the X-ray, but you were smiling and walking around. Bryon said you came right to him off the ambulance since he looks a little like Yo’Daddy, acting “Like a normal one-year-old kid.”

There was no swelling, no dilated eyes or droop to an eyelid, no lethargy, and obviously no pain after the first half-hour or so. They did a few more tests to check things out, then decided that y’all could go home if you wanted to — by that time Yo’Daddy had driven in from Memphis — or if you wanted to spend the night, they’d give y’all a room. I’ve never heard of anyone being officially discharged from a major hospital at 11 p.m. before, but you were.

Understand that your grandaddy The Grunk has had at least five major concussions, two requiring several days in the hospital, two causing weeks of double vision and one when I could not even recall the second half of the football game I was playing

in. I know something about head injuries, although no one ever bothered to X-ray my skull to check for fractures in those days.

Consider this: you had a fractured skull, confirmed by X-ray; within the hour after that diagnosis, you had literally thousands of Christians praying for you all around the nation and the world; the doctors could see no obvious signs of the usual symptoms of severe head injury — you were just being a “normal one-yearold boy”; you were released by the pediatric neurologist from a major hospital at 11 p.m. to make the two-hour drive back home to sleep in your own bed; at which point a praise report was sent to those prayer warriors, to the effect that you had been healed and they could begin rejoicing for that.

What a coincidence!

This season of the year we celebrate not only the fact that Jesus died on the Cross, but that He was resurrected from the grave, and left the Holy Ghost here on earth when He ascended into Heaven to sit by God’s Throne. To watch that Spirit operate through people like the ones who prayed for you, plus Bryon McIntire and Mark Propst and Rusty Healy and Mike Lewis who came to the hospital to show you and Yo’Momma that God loves and heals us, even today.

When you read this, from the Grunk, I hope you understand Easter.

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Southern Miss pummels Gaels in curfew-shortened game From staff reports Southern Miss used a big inning and an efficient offense to blast Saint Mary’s in the finale of a three-game series Saturday in Hattiesburg.

The Golden Eagles pounded out 15 hits — eight of them during an 11-run third inning — and hit four home runs in a 15-7 victory over the Gaels.

The game was shortened to six innings because of a preset travel curfew.

California-based Saint Mary’s had to catch a flight out of New Orleans, so no inning was allowed to start after 3 p.m. The game also started almost an hour later than its scheduled 11 a.m. first pitch because of heavy rains that fell in Hattiesburg throughout the morning.

Anthony Doss and Adam Doleac each hit a three-run homer in the third, and Taylor

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Walker hit a two-run double as Southern Miss (16-10) erased a five-run deficit and went up 13-7.

Doss and Mark Ellis each finished the game 3-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs. Marc Bourgeois also homered for Southern Miss.

Justin Fazio was 3-for-3 with a home run, two RBIs and two runs scored for Saint Mary’s (8-15-1).

Tennessee 5, Ole Miss 2 P.J. Polk went 4-for-5 with two home runs, three RBIs and two runs scored to lead Tennessee to a series-evening win over Ole Miss in Oxford.

Polk led off the game with a home run and added another leadoff homer in the ninth inning to give the Volunteers a 5-2 lead. He also singled in a run in the third inning.

Matt Duffy led off the fourth inning with a home run to break a 2-2 tie and give Tennessee (14-14, 1-7 Southeastern Conference) the lead for good.

Ole Miss (21-7, 5-3) tied the game on Matt Snyder’s tworun homer in the third inning, but ultimately hurt itself with missed opportunities. The Rebels left nine men on base, including two in the bottom of the ninth, and went 1-for11 with runners on. They had

only four hits total.

“It’s not hard to figure out why we lost,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. “They got 12 hits and we only got four, along with three home runs.

Tennessee just played better than we did. We had a couple opportunities early on with some HBPs and walks with men on base, but we didn’t get the big hit. We had a lot of runners in scoring position, but we didn’t get the hit we needed, especially early, to score runs.”

Tennessee starter Stephen McCray (3-3) allowed all four hits. He struck out five and walked five in seven innings of work. Ole Miss’ Aaron Barrett (6-1) walked none and struck out seven in 6 2/3 innings, but took his first loss of the season.

The final game of the threegame set is today at 1:30 p.m. in Oxford.

Delta State 9, Henderson State 5 Former Warren Central star Josh Gordon hit a solo homer and a triple, and finished 3-for-5 with two runs scored as Delta State (24-10-1, 8-3 Gulf South Conference) finished a sweep of Henderson State (1814, 3-8).

Cade Hoggard was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs, and Michael Vinson hit a solo homer for Delta State.

Georgia 12, LSU 6 Levi Hyams went 3-for-4 with a homer, double and four RBIs, and Georgia scored seven runs in the middle innings to even its weekend series with LSU (22-4, 6-2 SEC).

Hyams singled in a run in the first inning, hit a two-run homer in the third, and doubled in another run in the fifth.

Georgia (10-16, 2-6) scored three runs in the fifth inning, one in the sixth and three more in the seventh to take a commanding 10-4 lead.

Kyle Farmer was 3-for-5 with a homer, three RBIs and three runs scored for Georgia. LSU’s Matt Gaudet was 4-for-5 with a home run and four RBIs.

Alabama 6, Auburn 5 Alabama (19-7, 4-4 SEC) scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to earn a come-from-behind win and clinch its weekend series against archrival Auburn (17-10, 4-4).

Jon Kelton, who entered the week as the NCAA leader in on-base percentage, capped the three-run seventh with a two-run single off Auburn closer Austin Hubbard to give Alabama its first lead at 6-4.

He was 3-for-4 with two RBIs.

New generation of statistics sweeping over game Sox bury

Braves in last game of spring

By The Associated Press UZR. FIP. BABIP. From the fringes of fantasyland to the highest ranks of the front office and the front rows of the press box, the revolution is almost complete.

Baseball is now obsessed with an alphabet set of stats, the new language of the sport.

A process that started more than a half-century ago with Branch Rickey, gained traction in the 1980s with devotees of Bill James, and was elevated seven years ago in the book “Moneyball” is now so prevalent that it no longer is considered cutting edge.

Acronyms such as OPS and WARP are becoming part of the sport’s lexicon, statistics like Fielding Independent Pitching are playing a bigger role in choosing Cy Young winners than the old staples of wins and losses, and numbers like Ultimate Zone Rating and Batting Average on Balls in Play are influencing personnel decisions.

Nearly every team relies on sabermetrics analysis to some degree. The debate no longer centers on whether there is a place for statistical analysis in the game. Instead, it’s how prevalent it should be.

“The shift has been monumental,” said John Perrotto, the editor in chief BaseballProspectus.com. “Some teams were into it in the late ’80s, but you could count them on one hand. I think when Theo Epstein and the Red Sox won the World Series, it gave credence that you can analyze statistics and use that with your scouts’ eyes and win a championship.”

For those who ignored “Moneyball,” stay away from Web sites such as Baseball Prospectus and Hardball Times and still rely on the holy trinity of statistics — batting average, home runs and RBIs for hitters; wins, losses and ERA for pitchers — the sign of the transformation may have come in last season’s awards voting.

Two days after Zack Greinke tied the record for fewest wins in a full season by a Cy Youngwinning starting pitcher with 16, Tim Lincecum won the award in the National League with only 15 victories.

That introduced many fans to stats like Fielding Independent Pitching, which tries to separate a pitcher’s performance from his team’s fielding ability by measuring factors that are only in his control — home runs allowed, strikeouts, walks and hit batsmen — or BABIP, which measures an opponent’s batting average on balls in play to determine which pitchers get the most help from their defenders.

While Lincecum benefited from that analysis, he isn’t quite a believer in the modern stats.

“They say: ‘What would his true ERA be like? What would his fielding independent percentages be?’ All these stupid things,” Lincecum said. “I don’t know if they’re stupid, I just don’t quite understand

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Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer follows through on a home run in an exhibition game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday. Last season, Mauer led the American

baseball them all yet. They’re there and we’re going to become more aware of them as the years come. I think I’ll become more educated on it because they are becoming more and more important.”

While the use of statistics has played a role in baseball ever since Henry Chadwick invented the box score more than 150 years ago, the field of sabermetrics was not always embraced.

Some of the findings made

by James in his “Baseball Abstracts” of the 1980s were summarily dismissed by baseball’s old guard.

As recently as the mid1990s, then Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette was widely mocked for his use of stats guru Mike Gimbel.

The idea of relying on a numbers cruncher to make decisions instead of old-time scouts was seen as unusual.

The dichotomy of stats versus scouts only grew with the publication of Michael Lewis’ book “Moneyball,” which detailed the Oakland Athletics’ reliance on hard numbers over subjective scouting to fuel their success in the early 2000s.

“I think it’s overblown, the scouts vs. stats thing,” Mariners assistant general manager Tony Blengino said. “It’s been going on a lot longer than people might realize, the marriage of numbers with scouting information. It just became a little more public and mainstream after ‘Moneyball.’ I think every club to some degree has a balance.

Some organizations are much more scouting oriented and some organizations are much more numbers oriented than we are.”

There are many new stats that have taken the place of fielding percentage or subjective scouting to measure defense, such as Ultimate Zone Rating or plus-minus. Some teams also have their own formulas that differ slightly but come up with similar results.

Even Major League Baseball is getting into the fielding analysis. MLB Advanced Media, which already tracks the speed and movement of every pitch, will install cameras in at least two parks this season to record how much ground fielders cover to make plays and what kind of route each player takes to a ball.

“Offense is more a science and defense is more of an art,” Blengino said. “With defense, we’re a little earlier in the learning curve in terms of developing the metrics while for offense the metrics are pretty mature.”

Not every team buys into

League in batting average — one of many longstanding baseball measurements that are being panned in favor of new statistics like OPS and BABIP. the new fielding stats, with many decision makers preferring to trust their own eyes over the numbers. Minnesota has also found success without relying heavily on numbers, with five division titles in eight years under general managers Terry Ryan and Bill Smith.

Twins assistant GM Rob Antony says the field is changing so much that the stats teams are criticized for not paying attention to one year are considered out of date the next. And there is still plenty that sabermetricians haven’t figured out how to measure.

“Sabermetrics has picked us to finish like fourth or fifth three years in a row. So you figure their numbers out,” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. “Numbers are good bases to go off things and try to figure things out, but for every number you throw out there that’s not supposed to

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ATLANTA (AP) — Omar Vizquel drove in three runs with four hits, John Danks gave up one run in five innings and the Chicago White Sox beat the error-prone Atlanta Braves 12-4 Saturday in the final exhibition game for both teams.

The 42-year-old Vizquel, entering his 22nd season, stole a base and scored three runs.

The Braves committed five errors, including three in Chicago’s four-run second inning and another as the White Sox added seven runs off Jo-Jo Reyes in the fifth. Vizquel doubled in three runs in the fifth inning.

Atlanta’s Tim Hudson gave up eight hits and five runs, only one earned, in four innings. He finished the spring with a 1.50 ERA. Danks gave up singles to Melky Cabrera and Martin Prado to open the game and didn’t allow another hit.

The only other baserunners Danks allowed were walks to Troy Glaus and Matt Diaz in the fourth and fifth innings, respectively.

Danks, who had three strikeouts, lowered his spring ERA to 4.15 while pitching at least five innings for his fourth straight start.

Braves minor league outfielder Brent Clevlen hit a ninth-inning homer.

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TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE “Meet Joe Black” — Death, Brad Pitt, takes human form, asking a principled widower, Anthony Hopkins, to guide him in exchange for more time on Earth./5 on HBOSig n SPORTS NBA — LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers face Paul Pierce and Boston Celtics./Noon on ABC n PRIMETIME “The Celebrity Apprentice” — Brad Pitt The project managers learn they must create a three-dimensional display to launch a theme park’s new attraction; personal attacks continue to drive the women apart; another celebrity is sent home./8 on NBC

THIS WEEK’S LINEUP n EXPANDED LISTINGS TV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost. com

MILESTONES n BIRTHDAYS Maya Angelou, author-poet, 82; Clive Davis, recording executive, 78; Kitty Kelley, author, 68; Craig T. Nelson, actor, 66; David E. Kelley, writer-producer, 54; Robert Downey Jr., actor, 45; David Blaine, magician, 37; Jamie Lynn Spears, actress, 19.

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Lawyer: Andrews getting death threats Erin Andrews has been getting death threats in a stream of e-mails to a media outlet, an attorney for the ESPN reporter and “Dancing with the Stars” contestant said Friday.

Attorney Marshall Grossman said that a man had sent at least a dozen e-mails since September threatening Andrews. DirecTV provided them to Andrews’ representatives Thursday, but it was not immediately clear to whom the eErin Andrews mails were addressed.

The e-mails were at first sexual, but the most recent were explicitly violent and “threatened Erin with murder,” Grossman said.

The messages discuss the case of Michael David Barrett, who was sentenced last month to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for secretly shooting nude videos of the ESPN reporter.

Grossman said the man’s identity is known to law enforcement and is believed to live on the East Coast.

Lil Wayne reaches out via new Web site Lil Wayne wants his fans to know that his spirit and love will “never be confined to prison walls.”

The Grammy Award-winning rapper’s message was posted Friday to his new Web site. He was sentenced in March to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.

The 27-year-old says he’s in good spirits and thinks about his four children every day. Lil Wayne said he’ll be reaching out to fans through the site every week.

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Oops! Inmate’s mail goes to wrong place An Ohio inmate’s letter to his mother included detailed instructions on how to sneak drugs to him — but lacked the correct ZIP code.

The letter was returned to the Port Clinton jail where corrections officers read it along with the other incoming mail, Ottawa County Sheriff Bob Bratton said. Donald Dudrow III of Toledo was indicted Thursday on charges of attempted drug trafficking and trying to get drugs into a correctional facility. He had been in jail on a probation violation.

TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE

BY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION Aries (March 21-April 19) — Providence is trying to guide you correctly today, and it will continue to do so if you show a gratefulness for what you receive.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Your two best assets today are your charm and your sincerity. They both can be used quite effectively in helping to advance your personal interests, as long as you’re forthright.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Things are likely to break your way in the realms of romance, love and all involvements with the opposite gender.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — While the world is favoring you, do something constructive about strengthening an alliance with someone about whom you feel quite deeply.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — The way you do things and how wonderfully everything turns out will encourage those under your charge to upgrade their performance as well.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You won’t be looking at everything through rose-colored glasses today, because you won’t have to use them to truly see where the bright spots in your life exist.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Put that gift you possess to good use today, by effectively managing situations others have been unable to handle.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Partnership arrangements are likely to be extremely fortunate for you today, regardless of whether they are business-related, pertain to a personal goal or have to do with romance.

Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Adopting a happy attitude will enliven your life today in everything in which you involve yourself.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Being able to manage others and make them like it is truly an art few possess.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Sensing that everything will turn out well in the long run will be a plus factor that can keep you on track.

Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Although your day in general is likely to be a rather pleasant but busy one, you may only realize how pronounced some of your experiences have been after you sit down and reflect upon things.

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Pet mansions come with all the comforts loS ANgeleS (AP) — Tammy Kassis’ trio of 4-pound dogs have an 11-foot tall Victorian mansion with its own turret, vaulted ceiling and television. They enjoy heating and air conditioning to stay comfortable year-round.

Kassis, 47, figures she and her husband have spent well over $20,000 for the doghouse to match their Victorian mansion in Temecula, counting decoration and moving it a few miles away with the family.

“I would do it again in a heartbeat,” she said. “I live in it. I hang out in there with them.

We have had camp-outs with my niece and nephew.”

Dog mansions can be extreme and expensive with amenities like plumbing, chandeliers, crown molding, closets, designer paint and wallpaper, patios, yards and fences. For hers, Kassis turned to Alan Mowrer, architect to some of the world’s most pampered dogs.

Mowrer owns La Petite Maison in Denver, Colo., and works with partner and interior designer Michelle Pollak, who owns The Lollipop Tree in Charleston, S.C. The pair have probably made around 20 dog mansions in the last 10 years.

They start around $5,000, with more expensive doghouses in the mid-$30,000 range.

Business was great until last year, Pollak said.

“Our clients were not directly affected but out of respect for their friends and colleagues who were, they postponed some purchases until 2010,” she said. “Everyone felt the effects of the economy. When your friends are affected by something that large, you don’t want to go throwing your money around.”

Still, some do. Last year, Paris Hilton posted several photos of the two-story pink mansion she designed and had built for her

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Tammy Kassis and her dogs, Chelsea, Darla and Coco Puff dogs. It is a mini version of her own mansion. Model Rachel Hunter got a house from Mowrer for her three dogs, a Doberman, a German shepherd and a Labrador retriever.

“It has a lot of wrought iron.

It is Spanish style with turrets and a light in each tower. It looks great at night,” Mowrer said. “It has hardwood floors, wallpaper, wrought iron on the front doors. We replicated part

of her house.”

For a client on the East Coast who owned a vineyard, Pollak and Mowrer hired an artisan to hand-paint each brick on her Lab’s doghouse to match corresponding bricks on her mansion. A Chihuahua in Long Beach got a miniature Spanish cathedral with white marble granite floors and stained glass windows.

But such amenities aren’t

exactly recession-proof. Donald Gorbach founded a company called Doggie Mansions in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2006, offering doghouses from $10,500 to $100,000. Gorbach is still selling real estate but as for the doghouses, “we just put everything on hold due to the economy,” he said by e-mail.

Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of the charity Architecture for Humanity, wrote on the Huffington Post Web site: “Having just returned from Haiti this story kept playing on my mind.

It is not that she did it, it was that she was willing to do a photo spread for Life and Style magazine about it. Almost as if to say, ‘Sorry your home is getting foreclosed, but check this out!”’

Daughter fears elderly mother is menace behind wheel Dear Abby: My mother just turned 80, and her driving is getting bad. I have spoken to her about my concerns, and she says she’ll “think about” stopping. Then the next day, she’s off driving somewhere.

I live 25 miles away. I offered to move to her apartment complex and do her driving, but until I can do that she won’t stop.

Mom has already hit a city bus, turned into oncoming traffic and narrowly missed a pedestrian. When she put in for a change of address for her driver’s license, they noticed it was time to renew it and did so without a test. I requested they send her a “come in and test” letter, but so far there has been no response. What can I do before she kills someone or herself? — Philadelphia Daughter Dear Daughter: Contact your mother’s physician and tell him/her what you have told me. Her doctor should write a letter to the Department of Motor Vehicles regarding her history of near misses. It appears your concerns are justified. She should be given a driver’s test and an eye test.

Dear Abby: My 15-year-old stepson says he is embarrassed by the constant handholding in public his mother and I enjoy. He also doesn’t like that we always share a

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quick kiss after saying grace before meals, even in restaurants. He says that none of his friends’ parents do it, and he thinks it’s “weird.”

His mother and I see no need to change and feel he will get over his embarrassment in time. We feel our displays of affection are appropriate and strengthen our relationship. I would also think that seeing us so well-bonded would be reassuring to him and his 14-year-old brother.

Neither boy was close to his father — in fact, they both hate to visit him — so I don’t think it’s an issue of the boy hoping his parents will get back together. Any thoughts on this? — Stepdad in Pennsylvania Dear Stepdad: If your marriage to their mother is relatively recent, your displays of affection may make her sons uncomfortable. Also, both boys have reached an age when parents ARE just plain “embarrassing.” In the interests of family harmony — until they grow out of it — please consider refraining from the

quick kisses when you’re out in public.

Dear Abby: My 60th birthday is approaching, and my children and I are planning a trip. My wish is to celebrate with just my two children — not their spouses. Is this insensitive? Am I being unreasonable? — Three’s Compmany Dear Three’s Company: If you have a good relationship with your children’s spouses, there shouldn’t be hurt feelings if they are not included this time. There are occasions when spouses sometimes prefer to stay at home. Example: high school reunions.

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Got your 15 minutes of fame? Reality stars cash in by writing books NEW YORK — Heidi and Spencer Pratt did it. So did Kate Gosselin and Omarosa.

These “reality stars” have all published books, extending another minute or two the 15 minutes of fame that Andy Warhol once predicted for everyone.

Now trying to stretch those minutes into hours are some of the current crop of “The Real Housewives.” Eight women from the Bravo franchise have penned books — most with the help of a ghost writer.

Jill Zarin from “The Real Housewives of New York” got the idea to write a book from feedback she received to a scene last year in which her mother gives advice to cast member Bethenny Frankel.

“Secrets of a Jewish Mother” comes out in April. In it, Zarin, her mother Gloria Kamen and sister Lisa Wexler share stories from their own lives and dispense advice on everything from friendship to money.

Last week’s episode of “The Real Housewives of New York City” (now in its third season) features Zarin, her mother and sister at a photo shoot for the book cover.

Barnes & Noble’s vice president of merchandising, Patricia Bostelman, expects Zarin’s book to do well.

“The books that have done the best are the books that are really woven into the plot of the show,” Bostelman said.

If that’s the case, then Danielle Staub of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” should have a best-seller. Her book, ‘The Naked Truth,’ will be released in June. Much of the New Jersey show’s first season focused on the discovery of a 1995 book that revealed Staub’s 1986 federal prosecution for possession of cocaine and extortion.

“Danielle’s story is incredibly moving and inspirational. ... Her book ’The Naked Truth’ is just that — a no-holds-barred account from a true survivor,”

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“Secrets of a Jewish Mother: Real Advice, Real Stories, Real Love” by Jill Zarin, Lisa Wexler and Gloria Kamen

Bethenny Frankel

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Jennifer Bergstrom, vice president and editor in chief of Gallery Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. The book has a first printing of 150,000 copies.

Fellow cast mate Teresa Giudice is releasing a book of Italian recipes in May called “Skinny Italian.”

Like Warhol’s ephemeral 15 minutes, the “Real House-

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wives” books are merely a short-lived trend, Bostelman said. They can sell well but their shelf life tends to run out.

The most important factor is whether the books have broad appeal.

“The first question,” Bostelman said, “is who is the customer? Is there a customer?

Will someone be interested in buying this book?”

If ratings are any indicator,

new on the shelves The Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library reports on new books regularly: • “Please Don’t Feed the Daisy” by Beverly West and Jason Bergund is the wickedly funny story of their journey to becoming a family.

When Jason moves in with Bev, it’s supposed to be temporary. But then Daisy the Chihuahua comes to stay.

Just 2 1/2 pounds when they adopt her, Daisy is a charmer and, soon, an eater. Hot on her heels comes Elvis the pug, then their puppies. Instead of losing her baby weight, Daisy gets even chubbier. Bev and Jason decide it’s time for everyone, including the two of them, to pull together, lead a healthier lifestyle — and in the process become a family.

• “A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog”

by Dean Koontz is the story of Trixie. Koontz had always wanted a dog, but not until Trixie was he truly open to the change that such a beautiful creature could bring.

A service dog with Canine Companions for Independence, Trixie retired at age 3 to become an assistance dog of another kind. She taught Dean to trust his instincts, persuaded him to cut down to a 50-hour work week and, perhaps most important, renewed in him a sense of wonder.

• “Dog Talk: Lessons from a Life with Dogs” by Harrison Forbes interweaves his moving, personal stories with remarkable insights into dog behavior and psychology gained from years of experience with challenging and damaged dogs who became treasured companions.

• “Come Back, Como” by Steven Winn is the tale of winning the heart of a reluctant dog. Steve and his wife, Sally, held out for as long as they could. When the San Francisco couple finally gave in to their daughter’s pleas for a dog, they adopted

a scraggly terrier mutt from the shelter. Como turns out to hate men — especially the author — and proves to be a cunning escape artist. Traumatized, single-minded and exceptionally clever, Como is bent on breaking Winn’s sanity and self-respect, his bank account and his heart.

• “Dogtown” by Stefan Bechtel offers tales of rescue, rehabilitation and redemption. This book takes you behind the scenes of the hit National Geographic series to chronicle some of the most memorable cases, including Georgia, a pit bull once owned by pro football player Michael Vick. Georgia was considered the worst of the worst until a Dogtown trainer saw what no statistic could predict — the ability to give and receive unconditional love. You’ll meet other dogs like Tuffy, a Dalmatian rescued just hours from death in the desert. Best Friends veterinarians didn’t know if they could save the injured and sick puppy, but they gave him a chance that no one else could. Always moving and sometimes heartbreaking the stories of “Dogtown” will stay with you long after you’ve put down the book.

• “Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm”

by Jon Katz ponders the question: Do animals have souls?

The author looks for an answer and finds even more questions as he recounts the lives and stories of the residents of his celebrated Bedlam Farm: Rose, his beloved workaholic sheepdog; and an array of gentle donkeys, industrious chickens, docile sheep, obnoxious goats and a murderous, yet loving, barn cat. Do these creatures have consciences? Do they possess free will and reason?

Do they have a sense of self, or an existence of the spirit world? Or are we projecting onto them traits we want and

fans will at least be curious. So far, the third season of “The Real Housewives of New York City” is up 15 percent among total viewers. And numbers increased for the recently aired fifth season of “The Real Housewives of Orange County.”

Still, the only real publishing success story so far is Bethenny Frankel.

Frankel, who appeared in the 1994 teen-slasher movie “Hollywood Hills 90028” and the 1995 comedy “Wish Me Luck,” and was a contestant on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart,” has written two best-sellers: “Naturally Thin” and “The Skinnygirl Dish.”

Booksellers are likely to order more copies of a book such as Zarin’s than one written by Alex McCord, also in the New York cast. McCord and husband Simon van Kempen wrote a book about parenting children in an urban area. “Little Kids, Big City: Tales From a Real House in New York City” comes out in April.

But it hasn’t always been easy for the “Housewives” to get publishers.

Vicki Gunvalson of the Orange County cast acknowledges that shopping her idea around fell flat.

“At that time, NeNe Leakes’ (’The Real Housewives of Atlanta’) book had just come out, Bethenny Frankel’s book was out,” Gunvalson recalls.

“I think they were in ‘Housewife’ overload and it just didn’t work. I started a company called Woo Hoo Productions and self-published it. It’s been fabulous! I don’t have to share the proceeds.”

Gunvalson said she has sold more than 1,500 copies in the past month and is working with Borders and Barnes & Noble to get copies in their stores. It is available on her Web site and Amazon.

Leakes’ “Never Make the Same Mistake Twice” has sold 9,000 since it hit stores last

August. And “Class With the Countess,” out last April, by New York housewife LuAnn de Lesseps, has only sold 6,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.

The Housewives aren’t the only ones writing books. Chron-

icle Books will publish “The Real Housewives Get Personal” in June, written by the creators of the series. It promises to be a tell-all providing what happens behind-the-scenes with anecdotes from cast members.

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need them to have, allowing ourselves to be manipulated into trading food and shelter for what we see as unconditional love? With his signature wisdom, humor and clarity, Katz relates the stories of the animals he lives with and finds remarkable kinship at every turn.

• “Rescue Ink” by Rescue Ink with Denise Flaim is the story of how 10 guys saved countless dogs and cats, 12 horses, five pigs, one duck and a few turtles. “Abusers are losers!” is their rallying cry. Using their combined 1,700 pounds of muscle, Joe, Johnny O, Batso, Big Ant, G, Angel, Des, Bruce and Robert take an in-your-face approach to confronting animal abusers throughout the New York City metropolitan area.

• “Move Over, Rover” by Kyra Kirkwood tells what to name your new pup when the ordinary just won’t do.

Naming your dog is important, and this is the musthave guide that will help anyone choose the best — the only — name befitting of your dog’s particular breed and special individuality.

• “Dead Pet: Sending Your Best Little Buddy Off in Style” by Andrew Kirk and Jane Moseley is the first complete pet-undertaking guide for both professional and amateur. Planning a sensitive send-off for your dear, dead Fluffy, Fido or Flipper is one small way of easing the hurt. This book guides you through the most difficult life experience — from the moment you realize your pet’s days are numbered, right through the sticky details of deciding between an old-fashioned burial or a spectacular cremation.

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Denise Hogan is reference interlibrary loan librarian at the Warren CountyVicksburg Public Library. Write to her at 700 Veto St., Vicksburg, MS 39180.

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69 Skin care prefix 70 Flamenco clicker 71 Singer DiFranco 72 One interested in spreads 78 Skating event 79 OAS part: Abbr.

82 Donald, to his nephews 84 Sells shorts?

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90 Prized 91 Antique auto 92 Equipped with machinery 95 Seed coverings 96 Eccentric 98 Fashionable Manhattan eatery 102 W.C. Fields persona

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GASOLINE PRICES Average regular unleaded self-service prices as of Friday: Jackson.............................$2.67 Vicksburg .................$2.70 Tallulah .............................$2.74 Sources: Jackson AAA, Vicksburg and Tallulah, Automotive. com

PORTFOLIO Ameristar names general manager Ameristar Casinos Inc. has named industry veteran George Stadler as senior vice president and general manager of its casino-hotel property in Vicksburg.

Stadler previously was vice president and general manager of Sam’s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall in Tunica.

“George’s understanding of the Mississippi gaming market and his success in creating revenue enhancement programs make him George ideally stadler qualified to lead our Vicksburg team,” Chairman Ray Neilsen said in a statement.

Ameristar runs eight casinos in Nevada, Mississippi, Nebraska and Iowa.

Cullinane named No. 2 at ERDC Dr. John Cullinane Jr. has been named deputy director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center.

He will assist director Jeffery Holland in managing ERDC’s seven laboratories and more than 2,500 employees. He is also ERDC’s newest member of the Senior Executive Service.

Cullinane, a graduate of U.S. Army War College, is a retired Army Reserve dr. John colonel cullinane Jr. and former chief of staff of the 412th Theater Engineer Command. He has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a master’s in sanitary engineering, both from Mississippi State. He has a doctorate in environmental water resources engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has a law degree from Mississippi College, and was admitted to the Mississippi Bar Association.

His awards include the EPA Bronze Medal for Commendable Service, two Department of the Army Meritorious Civilian Service awards and two Bronze de Fleury medals. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal and the Army Commendation Medal.

Cullinane is a member of and former director of the Water Environment Federation; a past president and vice president of the Mississippi Water Environment Association; and a member of the Army Engineer Association and the Reserve Officer Association. He and his wife, Gwen, have two children, Vicki and Tim.

Getting green for going green Future of biomass incentives up for grabs

By Danny Barrett Jr. dbarrett@vicksburgpost.com Renewable energy was already a household practice for International Paper when the company signed up last year to be a bioconversion facility so its suppliers could reap benefits of a new federal program aimed at using nonfood crops as biofuel.

“On average, 70 percent of our mill system is powered by biomass fuel,” said Amy Sawyer, IP senior communications manager.

Bark chipped from its timber supply and black liquor extracted from raw pulpwood is commonplace at the mill on Mississippi 3 — and in the paper industry in general. If the power generated by the wood chips could be placed on the power grid, some say, the possibilities are tantalizing.

“There’s probably enough to run surplus supply to everyone in Redwood,” Warren County Extension Agent John Coccaro said.

Expansion of biofuel usage forms the heart of a federal initiative being reworked to determine who gets to keep the green for going green — larger suppliers or the landowners who cultivate the trees.

Comments from the public are being sought through Friday concerning the future of the Biomass Crop Assistance Program formed out of the 2008 Farm Bill to help owners of agricultural and forest lands to collect, harvest, store and take materials from plants and trees, such as bark chips, to support biofuel expansion. A directive issued by President Barack Obama in May 2009 to speed up investment and production of biofuels emphasized financial incentives to do so, with the Agriculture Department Farm Services Agency designated as the place to sign up.

That component began in June when middleman suppliers began receiving payments to collect, harvest, store and bring materials to bioconversion facilities.

Those subsidies matched dollar-for-dollar what suppliers were paid by 483 such facilities — timber mills, electric power producers and sugar plants, to name a few — for

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A log truck carries a load to International Paper’s mill at Redwood. delivery, up to $45 per dry ton.

FSA halted the payments Feb. 8. The president’s budget request for fiscal year 2011 showed the program’s cost growing to $742 million, more than 10 times the Farm Bill’s estimate of $70 million over five years.

“It was very simple to administer, then it stopped,” Warren County FSA office director Rob Riggin said of the program’s opening months, a trial run of sorts for what might become a leaner program. Several signed up, Riggin said, mostly logging companies and other entities who take

forest material to processors.

“We made a little bit of money on it,” said Judy McCool of Johnny McCool Logging Company Inc., operator of McCool Woodyard on U.S. 61 North.

Payments of up to 75 percent of timber owners’ costs of establishing renewable crops and up to 15 years of support checks for continued production figure to continue regardless of FSA’s final decision on program specifics. To become eligible, lands must be in a specific project area designated by USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation.

However, three options are on the table for the match-

To comment Comments on the proposed rule concerning the Biomass Crop Assistance Program may be sent by U.S. mail, e-mail or via the federal government’s eRulemaking portal. The deadline is Friday.

• E-mail comments to cepdmail@wdc.usda.gov.

• Mail comments to Director of CEPD, USDA FSA CEPD, Stop 0513, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, D.C. 202500513 • Log on to the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov and follow instructions for submitting comments. ing payments for what the proposal calls “eligible material owners.” One keeps the matching formula the same but limits payments to biomass delivered for conver-

sion to heat or power above a historical baseline set by the USDA. A second offers a “tiered structure,” which See Biomass, Page B10.

Take time to learn about the Easter lily this holiday Happy Easter!

Perhaps you are going to spend some time today hunting or hiding Easter eggs, eating chocolate bunnies or marshmallow Peeps or attending church. I suppose all of those are considered traditions. Another popular Easter tradition is the Easter lily, because it fittingly symbolizes the spirit of the holiday. Its beautiful trumpet-shaped white flowers represent purity, virtue, hope and life.

In today’s column, I will share with you some tips on how to care for your lily indoors, plus suggestions for planting them outdoors. But, first, allow me to share with you some interesting trivia.

The Easter lily is native

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county extension director to the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan, as well as the islands of Okinawa, Amani and Erabu. Though Easter lilies came to England in 1819, commercial bulb production initially started in Bermuda in 1853.

At that time, they were actually called Bermuda lilies.

A plant virus infestation in 1898 practically devastated

the production of these lilies.

Around the turn of the century, the Japanese took over the annual growing and exportation of Easter lilies to the United States, and this continued until the start of World War II. Louis Houghton, a World War I soldier, is credited with beginning U.S. production of Easter lilies. Houghton brought a suitcase full of hybrid lily bulbs to the south coast of Oregon in 1919 and distributed them among his friends and neighbors. The Japanese source of Easter lily bulbs was suddenly cut off during World War II and, as a result, the bulb’s value skyrocketed. Many bulb-growing hobbyists started commercial bulb businesses and were

able to cash in on the crop. By 1945, there were about 1,200 growers producing bulbs up and down the Pacific coast.

Caring for your Easter lily is not difficult.

They should last indoors for several weeks. Place them in bright, indirect sunlight and keep them cool — about 68 degrees. Since lilies like moist soil, watering every other day should be sufficient. The plant should not be left standing in excess water. Remove individual flowers as they fade.

Once the lily starts to wither, consider planting it in your garden. Select a sunny spot. Remove the plant from its original container and loosen the roots. Plant the bulb 3 to 5 inches deeper

than it was in its container and cover with soil. Water generously and fertilize with an all-purpose garden fertilizer. The lily’s old shoots and stems will wither and die soon after planting, but new shoots will emerge and flowers should re-appear in late July or August.

One word of caution about Easter lilies to cat owners: don’t let your kitty eat the leaves. Eating just one leaf can cause kidney failure, which could cause death within five days if not treated very early.

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John C. Coccaro is county Extension director. Write to him at 1100-C Grove St., Vicksburg, MS 39180 or call 601636-5442. E-mail him at jcoccaro@ext. msstate.edu.

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Corps taking bids on land at lakes Bids on agricultural land in Lafayette County, at Sardis Lake, and in Desoto County, at Arkabutla Lake, will be taken through 2 p.m. April 15.

Bids can be posted at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Vicksburg District Office, 4155 Clay St. The availability number is DACW38-9-10-58.

Call 601-631-5230 for more information.

ERDC’s Wright named Distinguished Fellow Dr. Peggy Brasfield Wright, assistant director for Human Capital at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, has been named a Distinguished Fellow of Dr. Peggy the MissisBrasfield Wright sippi State University Bagley College of Engineering.

Wright, the first ERDC employee to hold a full-time position with the Human Capital Initiative, is one of 10 selected for the program, which began in 1992 to recognize alumni who have made significant contributions to their field.

Wright is a 25-year veteran of the Corps. She has a bachelor’s degree from Mississippi College and a master’s and doctorate from MSU, all in computer science.

Health department plans menu course The Mississippi State Department of Health is offering a menu-writing course, Menu Writing 101, April 12 in Jackson.

The course, open to child care facility owners and directors and food service personnel, will provide information on changes to nutrition and meal service regulations.

The free course, set for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., will be at Christ United Methodist Church, 6000 Old Canton Road. Participants are eligible for contact hours.

To register, call 601-364-2827.

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Working women remain go-to in emergencies

By The Associated Press Where’s the flex?

More than half of employers report having periodic flexible hours for at least some workers, though less than one-third of full-time employees say they have such freedoms, according to a report from President Barack Obama’s economic advisers.

Women comprise nearly half the American work force, even as other demands on their time have increased, fueling the need for flexibility, according to the report released Wednesday as part of a forum that was opened by first lady Michelle Obama and closed by her husband.

Mrs. Obama recalled her own frustration as she searched with no luck for a baby sitter so she could go on a job interview soon

after giving birth to Sasha.

She dragged her newborn along — and scored the work.

But many women, she said, aren’t that lucky.

“Many folks spend a lot of time hoping and praying that everything will work out just perfectly. I remember those days, just the delicate balance of perfection.

It’s never perfect. Ever.”

The president said their high-wire act as working parents with overloaded schedules once took a toll on their marriage. “And we had it relatively easy.”

Nearly two-thirds of American families with kids are headed by two working parents or one single parent, according to the report. That’s light years from 1968, when 25 percent of children lived in households with two parents working full time.

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THIS & THAT from staff reports

Bamboo, beeswax at Mixed Nuts!

The April installment of Mixed Nuts!, a monthly artists program at Peterson’s Art & Antiques, will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the downtown shop.

Rob Mendrop will share information on how to grow, harvest and cure bamboo.

Items made from bamboo will be available. Ruth Wilkerson of La Petite Abeille, “The Little Bee,” will talk about the benefits of beeswax candles.

Peterson’s is at 1400 Washington St. Call 601-636-7210.

Lifetime hobby

Bike show will aid children’s shelter The local Gold Wing Road Riders Association will host Fun Day, an event Saturday at Clear Creek Pavilion in Bovina.

Offered from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. will be games, food and door prizes. A bike show will be from 10 to 11 a.m.

Entry to the bike show is $10 or $15. A people’s choice award will be given.

Proceeds will benefit the Warren County Children’s Shelter. Call Phillip or Elaine Williams at 601-852-8835.

Two Homemakers win blue ribbons Two members of the Warren County chapter of the Mississippi Homemaker Volunteers have received top awards in a local contest.

Ardiss Marshall and Phyllis Tingle won blue ribbons in the purchased garment category of the organization’s annual Fashion Review.

Ardiss Marshall Marshall wore a white tunic with blue floral applique paired with navy slacks.

Tingle wore a floral, kneelength dress with a matchPhyllis ing sweater.

Tingle Both will advance to the area meeting April 23 in Simpson County.

If they win awards there, they will head to the state competition in Starkville.

Sorority’s history chronicled at museum The Vicksburg chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority has donated items for an exhibit at the Jacqueline House African American Museum.

The chapter, which was chartered in 1976, donated a portable DVD player and a film of the chapter’s history.

The Jacqueline House, 1325 Main St., houses artifacts of African-Americans in Vicksburg. Call 601-619-0002 for an appointment to tour the museum.

Audubon Society sets April 17 field trip Jackson Audubon Society will host a spring migration field trip April 17.

Participants are asked to meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Texaco at Bovina, and bring snacks, lunch,water and waterproof boots or shoes.

The trip is free and led by an expert JAS birder.

Call 601-956-7444 or visitjacksonaudubonsociety.org.

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Larry East sits in his home studio. At left is a portrait he did of one of his sons, Larry Jr.

Larry East has always gone back to his art “What have I done now?”

Larry East thought when he was told to report to the principal’s office in 1948.

What he had done would be a deciding factor in his life — he had won first prize in an art contest concerning fire prevention week.

“And I’ve been painting ever since,” he said. In fact, he says, he has always painted, but that prize in the second grade really gave him a push toward a lifetime avocation.

And what did he win? A day out of school and $5.

He says he paints “off and on,” sometimes going for months without putting a brush to the canvas. He’s read books about painting and taken art classes at Hinds from William Dunlap but most has been self-

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taught. As a child he used crayons, then later relied on acrylics, paint sticks and charcoal, but his favorite medium is oil.

Larry’s subjects are mostly seascapes, mountains and portraits. Sometimes he paints from photographs, but usually he thinks about the subject for a while, “work it over in my head, and then go paint.

They say it’s hard to look at an empty canvas and see what you’re going to do, but it’s not for me. I’m not going to stare at an empty

canvas. When I do start, I want to finish. That’s why I finish so fast.”

He hates to admit it, but he says that inspiration is sometimes a factor. On occasion he has completed a painting in an hour, and at other times he has gotten up at 2 or 3 in the morning to finish one.

Sometimes, when he neglects his art, his wife, Sarah, “gets ticked at me,” but she has used his works to decorate their home on Nailor Road, and she says she is his worst critic. She’s also an ardent fan.

His works hang on the walls of quite a few other homes, because “people come and look and buy.”

He’s sold some through shows at the Firehouse Gallery, through the art association, but, “When I paint

something I hate to sell it.

It’s just like a baby. It’s my creation, and I’ll probably never see it again.”

Though he has a studio in the house, Larry has moved from the sun room to a closet to a room by the garage, “hoping creativity will hit me somewhere.”

For him, art is a therapy, “but sometimes when things go wrong, when I can’t get it right, it does get me agitated and it goes right in that closet. I’ll work on it later.” He figures he has about 30 unfinished.

Though art is his hobby, many know him as the proprietor of Far East Liquors on Halls Ferry Road, a company he bought into when it was a tiny little store on Clay Street. He changed location and capitalized on his last name, “and people

come in often and are surprised I’m not Indian or Oriental.”

Before that he was a licensed private detective for the railroad, worked at the Corps of Engineers and with his brother in the construction business.

He has a degree in psychology from Mississippi College and has taught at Hinds, at Grand Gulf and for Packard Electric.

“I went to school, went to school, went to school,” he said. He dropped out of high school and joined the Navy where he completed his studies and said, “My education took me 20 years,” going to class wherever he was stationed or where he worked.

He never got away from See East, Page C5.

Volunteers sought for spring cleaning at military park From staff reports Saturday is the day to do your part at the park.

For the fifth year in a row, the Vicksburg National Military Park will team up with the Civil War Preservation Trust to participate in Park Day activities. Organizers are looking for volunteers dressed and ready for work at the 1,800 acres of the park beginning at 8 a.m.

The first 75 volunteers who

if you go The fifth Park Day at the Vicksburg National Military Park will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday. Volunteers should dress appropriately to paint and clean up. The first 75 participants will be given T-shirts. register at the Visitor Center parking lot off Clay Street

will receive free T-shirts, and all workers will be fed lunch at the park at noon, when an interpretive program will be presented.

Throughout the day, volunteers will paint cannons, carriages and the main entrance sign and perform general cleanup in the park.

Volunteers are asked to dress for outdoor work in clothing that can “get covered in paint,” a news release from the park said. Those

wearing shorts or sandals will not be allowed to participate. Further advice is that participants bring work gloves and drinking water, and wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants and work boots.

About 30 people participated last year.

The Vicksburg park, with its 1,300 monuments, 16 miles of roadway and up to 1 million visitors annually, is one of 100 parks, cemeteries and shrines in 24 states that will

participate in the day’s activities. The nationwide effort is partially funded by History, formerly The History Channel, and has been endorsed

by Take Pride in America, a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

For more information, contact Virginia DuBowy, Natural Resources Program manager, 601-619-2911, or Rick Martin, chief of operations, 601-619-2905; or visit www. nps.gov/vick.

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Vicksburg venues part of virtual tour on MDA Web site The Mississippi Development Authority’s Tourism Division has launched a promotional tool on its Web site that features Vicksburg venues.

Users can take a virtual tour via high definition 360 photography, or HD-360, of select sites around the state.

Photos and information of Anchuca and Duff Green mansions and Riverwalk Casino Hotel are on the tour.

Visit www.visitmississippi. org.

Sickle cell walk event will honor educator A 5K walk at Vicksburg High School on April 24 honoring a longtime local educator will benefit the Mississippi Sickle Cell Foundation.

The Patricia A. Segrest 5K Sickle Cell Walk kicks off at 9 a.m. and seeks to offer support and raise awareness of the disease, said event organizers Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority’s Mu Xi Omega Chapter and Triumphant Baptist Church.

A 1963 alumna of Rosa A. Temple High School, Segrest taught and worked in administration in Vicksburg and Warren County schools for more than 37 years. She died of complications from the disease May 5, 2004.

Preregister by mail to 106 Skyway Lane, Vicksburg, MS 39183, by April 17. Entry fees for individual walkers are $20 in advance or $30 the morning of the event. Teams of five members may preregister for $45 in advance.

Children 10 and younger may register for $10.

Contact Pamela Segrest at 901-483-1906.

Jazz on the River set for April 17 The 15th annual Jazz on the River, presented by the Arna Bontemps African American Museum, will be April 17 at the Alexandria, La., Amphi-

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from staff reports theatre downtown.

The outdoor concert, set for 6 to 10 p.m., will feature international entertainer Kathy Wade of Cincinnati and The Nile Rhythm Band, featuring Maynard Batiste.

Also performing will be the Bontempian Big Band, a jazz ensemble comprised of Central Louisiana high school students.

The concert is free, but tables for 10 are $200. Call 318-473-4692 or 318-448-4697 for reservations.

MPB documentary set for Calif. festival “The Gulf Islands: Mississippi’s Wilderness Shore,” a Mississippi Public Broadcasting documentary, is part of the Going Green Film Festival in Beverly Hills, Calif.

It was one of 29 films screened at the festival, which began Friday and was to wrap up today. The film, which showcases the Gulf Islands National Seashore, was entered in the Our Planet category.

The seashore runs more than 160 miles from Okaloosa Island near Ft. Walton, Florida, to Cat Island, Miss.

A trailer of the film can be seen at youtube.com/ watch?v=reHsUKxQGX0.

Marriage conference in Jackson April 30 The Family Life Weekend to Remember marriage conference is set for April 30-May 2 in downtown Jackson.

The event, sponsored by Mississippi College and the Mississippi Marriage Covenant, will be at the Jackson Marriott, 200 E. Amite St. Cost is $89 per person and reservations can be made at www.familylife.com/groups/ mississippimarriage.

Call 601-969-5100.

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Anchuca on First North Street

Sweet Potato Queen part of pilgrimage The Holly Springs Tourism and Recreation Bureau will present its 72nd annual Holly Springs Pilgrimage, A Festival of Art & Architecture, April 16-18.

The event will feature antebellum homes and churches, arts and crafts, carriage rides and New York Times bestselling author Jill Conner Browne, the Sweet Potato Queen.

For prices and other information, call 662-252-2515 or visit www.visithollysprings. com.

Delta Fest kicks off April 14 in Monroe DeltaFest 2010 is set for April 14-18 at the Monroe Civic Center.

The festival will include

carnival rides, food, a car show, golf tournament and family night. Entertainment will be by Stone Cold Country, L.C. Smooth, Tracy Lawrence, Monica, Frankie Breeze and Mike Epps.

Admission is $5 and concert tickets are $26 per person.

For more information, visit www.ladeltafest.com.

Also in Monroe in April: • Downtown Gallery Crawl — 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday; free; 318-329-1921 or www. downtowngallerycrawl. com.

• The University of Louisiana at Monroe’s fifth annual Wine Over Water — 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday; wine-tasting; music by Dr. Zarr’s Funkmonster; $50 per person; 618-342-5420 or www.ulm.edu.

• 12th annual Ballet Under the Stars — 7:30 p.m. April 16-17 and 2 p.m. April 18;

Kiroli Park, Ballet Amphitheatre; 318-388-3011 or www.twincityballet.com • 20th annual Biedenharn Garden Symposium — 6 p.m. April 19 and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 20; Biedenharn Museum & Gardens, 2006 Riverside Drive; $55 for both days, $15 for Monday or $50 for Tuesday; 318-3875281.

Tool demo today at Poverty Point Poverty Point State Historic Site will present a tool demonstration from 1 to 4 this afternoon.

Poverty Point, located in West Carroll Parish, east of Monroe on Louisiana 577, details the culture of area inhabitants from 1600 to 1300 B.C. Admission is $2 and includes access to the museum and video and tram

tours. Children younger than 12 and seniors older than 62 are admitted free.

Call 888-926-5492 or 318926-5492, or e-mail povertypoint@crt.state.la.us.

USM students’ works on display at museum Pieces from the University of Southern Mississippi’s annual student art show will be on display through Friday on the Hattiesburg campus.

The juried art exhibit features more than 100 works.

Admission is free.

Pieces will be displayed at the campus art museum, located inside the fine arts building. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday.

Call 601-266-5200.

local events & ENTERTAINMENT

Tickets: $10 per home or $25 per three, available at Vicksburg Convention & Visitors Bureau office on Clay Street; 601-6369421. The homes: • Baer House, 1117 Grove St. — 1 p.m. Monday.

• The Bazsinsky House, 1022 Monroe St. — 10 a.m. Monday.

• Christ Episcopal Church, 1115 Main St. — 9 a.m. Monday.

• The Cobb House at Southern Cultural Heritage Center, 1302 Adams St. — 2 p.m. Monday.

• The George Washington Ball House, 921 Main St. — 11 a.m.

Monday.

• The Jacqueline House African-American Museum, 1325 Main St. — 3 p.m. Monday.

Organic Gardening

sis Society; 601-856-5831 or angie.jackson@nmss.org.

Attic Gallery traveling exhibit Through April 24; Pearl River Glass Studio, 142 Millsaps Ave., Jackson; free; 601-638-9221.

Vicksburg Theatre Guild Auditions: Fairy Tale Theatre; 2-4 p.m. Saturday and April 11; open to ages 7-18; $35 for VTG members and $55 for nonmembers, performances will be June 24-27; Productions: “Gold in the Hills”: July 9-10, 16-17, 23-24 and 30-31; “Bad Seed”: May 7-9 and 14-16; all events at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m., Sunday shows at 2; $12 for adults, $10 for 55 and older, $5 for 12 and younger; 601636-0471 or www.e-vtg.com.

12:15 p.m. Thursday at Faulk’s Garden Shop, 1118 Clay St.; presented by Karen Williams; 601-636-2832.

“Mont Helena — A Dream Revisited”

Vicksburg Red Carpet Classic Auto Show

April 29-30, May 1, 6-8 and 20-22; Mont Helena home on U.S. 61 North, between Rolling Fork and Anguilla; tickets: $45 plus $3 processing fee, available in advance only; call 662-873-2080, fax 662-873-2450 or visit www.monthelena.com.

8 a.m. April 17; Vicksburg Cruisers Car Club; Blackburn Motor Company on North Frontage Road; car registration fee: $15 per car in advance or $20 day of show; 601-415-0421, 601-831-2597 or www.vicksburgcruisers.com.

Ridgeland; $15 per person or $25 for couples; 601-969-4009 or lifeofms@aol.com.

18th annual Civil War Show

Health Walk Program 3 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through May 30; Poverty Point State Historic Site, West Carroll Parish, east of Monroe on Louisiana 577; free; 888-926-5492.

• Ameristar Casino, 4116 Washington St. 601-638-1000, www.ameristar.com • Doug Allen — Variety; tonight at Cabaret Lounge; free.

• Terry Mike Jeffrey — Variety; Tuesday-April 11 at Cabaret; free.

• BB Secrist — Oldies; April 13-18 and 20-25 at Cabaret; free.

• Dr. Zarr’s Funkmonster — Variety/funk; Friday-Saturday at Bottleneck Blues Bar; free.

• The Ugli Stick — Variety; April 16-17 at Bottleneck; free.

• Billy Currington — Country; 7:30 p.m. Friday at Bottleneck; tickets: $45.

• Richard Marx — Contemporary; 7:30 p.m. May 14 at Bottleneck; tickets: $45-$50.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; Battlefield Inn; $2; 601-638-1195.

Eddie Monsour’s at the Biscuit Company 1100 Washington St., 601-638-1571

Reservations required for each event: 601-631-2997 or info@ southernculture.org; Amir Gwirtzman concert: 6 p.m. Monday; $15 in advance or $20 at door, $8 for students; Ballroom dance lessons: 5-7 p.m. April 11 and 25; the Cha-Cha; James Frechette, instructor; $20 per person; Drawing basics workshop: 5:307:30 p.m. April 13 and 20; Jeanie Nicolson, instructor; $50 for members, $60 for nonmembers, supplies included; Digital photography workshop: 5:30-7 p.m. April 27 and May 4; Kathy Gibson, instructor; $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers; bring camera and batteries; Chocolate Affair: 7 p.m. May 6; $20 for members, $30 for nonmembers; diners with event ticket will receive 10 percent discount at Cafe Anchuca, Duff’s Tavern & Grill, Monsour’s at the Biscuit Company and Roca.

Book-signings

• 8 p.m.-midnight Wednesdays — Open mic night.

• 10 p.m. Saturday — Band, TBA; call for cover.

2010 Riverfest

Mississippi College concert-celebration series

April 16-17; theme: Jammin’ on the River; downtown event will feature bluegrass, country, blues, rock and R&B; Jason Michael Carroll will headline first night and J. Blackfoot with Blue Mountain of Memphis will close out second night; tickets: $15 per night or $25 for weekend pass; www.riverfestms.com.

7:30 p.m. Tuesday; Provine Chapel on campus.

Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge, 4451 Clay St., 601-636-3761

“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” 10th anniversary

• 7-10 p.m. Wednesday — Live music in lounge; free.

• Friday-Saturday — Live music in lounge; call for cover.

Southern Cultural Heritage Center

42nd annual Vicksburg-Warren County Riverfest Arts & Crafts Show 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. April 17; Walnut, South and Crawford streets; free.

The Rev. Peter G. Heltzel, Vicksburg native: 4 p.m. Thursday; “Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics”; Margaret McMullan: 4-6 p.m. May 19; “Sources of Light”; William H. Dodson: 4-5:30 p.m. May 20; “If Only I had Known: A True Story”; Lorelei Books, 1103 Washington St.; 601-634-8624 or loreleibooks.com.

22nd annual Pieces and Strings quilt show Through April 30; Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, 507 Market St., Port Gibson; free; 601-437-8905 or www.msculturalcrossroads.org.

April 16-18; movie screening during Crossroads Film Festival & Society in Jackson; 601-832-4921 or luriley@aol.com.

TNA Live! wrestling 7:30 p.m. April 30; Vicksburg Convention Center; tickets start at $20, available at convention center box office or BeBop Records, through Ticketmaster or by calling 800-745-3000.

Walk MS 9 a.m. April 17; Art Park at Catfish Row downtown; sponsored

by Alabama-Mississippi Chapter of the National Multiple Sclero-

LIFE of Mississippi annual Art of Life EXPO-tential 5-8 p.m. Thursday; Mississippi Craft Center, 950 Rice Road,

LD’s Kitchen, 1111 Mulberry St., 601-636-9838 • 8:30 p.m. each second and fourth Tuesday — Central Mississippi Blues Society Band, local artists; free.

• 7 p.m. each first and third Tuesday — Line dancing; free.

Jacques’ Cafe at Battlefield Inn, 4137 N. Frontage Road, 601-638-5811 • 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday — Karaoke in the lounge; free.

Mississippi Welcome Center, 4210 Washington St., 601-638-4269 • 1-4 p.m. each third Sunday — Old Time Music Society; free.

Roca Restaurant & Bar, 127 Country Club Drive, 601-638-0800 • 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays — Live music with Ben Shaw; free.

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VAA gives awards to 26 at annual spring members show The Vicksburg Art Association has named winners of its 2010 spring members show. An opening reception was March 27 at the VAA’s headquarters, the Firehouse Gallery.

Best in Show • First — “Reeling Theresa,” a watercolor by Martha Ferris • Second — “Delta Flats,” an acrylic by Lee Grant • Third — “The Offering,” an acrylic by Jean Blue

Watercolor

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• First — “Freedom Just a Word” by Rosemary Nix • Second — “Summer Cacti”

by Richard Taylor • Third — “Outstanding in their Field” by Sally Todd • Honorable mention — “Gingerbread House on Harrison St” by B.J. Crawford

• First — “Violet” by Martha Ferris

Drawing • First — “Prize Tomatoes”

by Patsy Kirkwood

Acrylic • First — “Lavender Lady”

by Katrina Arrington • Second — “???????????” by Erin Loflin • Third — “Costa Rican Amigo” by Melanie Thomas

Mixed media • First — “Vermillion” by

Junior Auxiliary of Vicksburg

Lisa King-Floore • Second — “Monkey Trees”

by Elke Briuer •Third — “Gathering the Girls” by Nancy Mitchell

Oil • First — “Oranges” by Melanie Atkinson • Second — “Crabapples” by Pat Walker • Third — “Sterling” by Pat Walker • Honorable mention — “Daffodils” by Melanie Atkinson

Photo mono

3D

• First — “The Chaser” by Shu H. Chang

• First — “Cat Box” by Janet Akers • Second — “A Bird in the Hand” by Lesley Silver •Third — “The Battered Queen” by Steven Spitzer

Computer graphics • First — “Life” by Pete Farris

Photo color • First — “Field of Color by Randall Hughes

David Leeknecdt Photography Award • “Curve,” a photo mono by Shu H. Chang

upcoming weddings April 10 • Danielle Patrice Guyton and Andre Terrell Tillman 5 p.m at Tallulah Community Center Reception to follow Family and friends are invited • Lindsay Ball and Luke Sellers 5 p.m. at First Baptist Church, Tupelo Reception at Fellowship Hall/ Grand Hall Family and friends are invited

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Incoming officers, from left, are Amy Scott, recording secretary; Katie Feibelman, treasurer; Kristi Smith, fundraising; Chesley Lam-

biotte, president; and Speler Montgomery, first vice president.

Mr. Boyd, Miss Ingram recite vows in England Timothy Alan “Tim” Milford Boyd and Margaret Graham “Maisie” Ingram were married Nov. 24, 2009, in Cirencester, England.

The bride is the daughter of Missy Theobald and Bob Ingram, both of Vicksburg.

She is the granddaughter of Leo and Marian Ingram of Vicksburg and Meta Cronia and the late Albert Cronia of Gainesville, Ga. The groom is the son of Tom and Sally Boyd of Poulton, Gloucestershire, England.

The couple will make their home in Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire, England.

Andi Marie Hearn Engaged to marry David Allen Pugh

Hearn, Pugh to marry Carla and Neal Hearn of Vicksburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Andi Marie, to David Allen Pugh. Mr. Pugh is the son of Pamela and David Pugh of Vicksburg.

Miss Hearn is the granddaughter of Pete and Carolyn Hearn of Vicksburg and Donna Davidson of Port Gibson.

Mr. Pugh is the grandson of Elmer and JoAnn Keller and the late Joseph and Nancy Nevels, all of Vicksburg.

The bride-elect is a 2009

graduate of Warren Central High School. She is a physical therapy technician for United Rehab Associates.

The prospective groom is a 2001 graduate of Porters Chapel Academy. He is a hydrographic surveyor for Dimco Inc. Vows will be exchanged at 2 p.m. April 24, 2010, at Grand Gulf Military Park in Port Gibson. A reception will follow.

All relatives and friends are invited to attend.

Usher back in playboy mode Incoming officers, from left, are Torri Shelton, ex-officio; Karla McHan, second vice president; Kimberley Mansfield, publications; Ginger Parker, projects chair; Kristy

Outgoing members, from left, are Michele Bell, Stephanie Larsen, Ashley Roesch, Heather Butler and Sheri Little. Andrea

Cole, public relations; and Leslie Sadler, corresponding secretary. Melissa Blackburn is in charge of continuing education.

Mathis, Dru Holdiness and Ann Roberson are also outgoing members.

arrivals Brad and Kori Babb announce the birth of a 6-pound, 14-ounce son, Brandon Larson, on Feb. 17, 2010, at River Oaks Woman’s Hospital in Flowood.

Maternal grandparents are Jimmy and Tere Crutchfield of Vicksburg. Paternal grandparents are Charlie and Brenda Babb of Pelahatchie.

• Anthony Blaine and

Natashia M. Elliott announce the birth of a 6-pound, 11-ounce son, Hudson Taylor, on March 3, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Gerry L. and Ginger White of Vicksburg, Sharon and George Bretherick of St. Louis, Mo., and Earl W. Elliott of Winfield, Ala. • Jason and Eleanor Jones

announce the birth of a 7-pound, 11-ounce son, Drew Campbell, on March 4, 2010, at River Oaks Woman’s Hospital in Flowood.

Maternal grandparents are the late Connie Geary and the late Michael Geary. Paternal grandparents are Gwen and Earl Edris and the late Bobby Jones.

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody AP music writer NEW YORK — Less than two years ago, Usher was glorifying his evolvement as a man with “Here I Stand,” a CD that found him celebrating his new role as husband and father while shunning the image of a sexy bad boy unable — or unwilling — to make a lasting commitment.

Now, with the release of his latest album, “Raymond v. Raymond,” the 31-year-old talks about maturity again. But this time, it comes from lessons learned after disappointment — not only in the discouraging sales of that album, but in the failure of his two-year marriage to Tameka Foster Raymond, the mother of his two young sons.

“Having one of the most sincere moments and occurrences take place in that period of my life, it taught me a lot,” Usher said one recent day as he reflected on his life in an empty stage room at a Manhattan studio. “It was very beautiful. ...

It just simply didn’t work. But I never undermine that moment in my life because it’s valuable ... and in my life, I try to learn from my experiences.”

And his experiences have taught him a lot in a very short period. In 2007, he was still soaring from the 10 million-selling 2004 album “Confessions,” which firmly established him as a superstar with such smashes as “Yeah!” and “Burn,” when he decided to get married. Stylist Tameka Foster was eight years his senior and had three children of her own.

The elimination of one of music’s most desirable bachelors made the union unpopular

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Usher performs in New York.

music among his fans. The more serious blow to his career, though, came from his professional priorities. With “Here I Stand,” Usher, who had built his career on his appeal as a playboy — even as a 15-year-old crooner — decided to focus firmly on family.

While he had a No. 1 hit with the risque “Love in this Club,” most of the album had tunes about the importance of fidelity, fatherhood and tender love songs that promised eternal love. It was a complete change from “Confessions,” which saw a flawed romantic who sang about cheating and ending relationships.

The result? “Here I Stand” sold just 1.2 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

While Usher is careful not to call the album a mistake, he does acknowledge that the material was such a departure that his fans may have had difficulty digesting it.

“I definitely do think having gone from being a very single bachelor to a married father of two children definitely changed the perspective of who I am and what I had to offer,” he said.

“But then there are those who did recognize it and did understand that there is some great value in that.

Given the album’s first single, the hit “Papers,” which was a very thinly veiled look at his divorce, one might have expected “Raymond v. Raymond” to detail his tumultuous relationship. Instead, the CD looks to re-establish Usher as the sensual — and single — entertainer whose life revolves around beautiful girls and clubs, not changing diapers and staying home with a wife.

“Art sometimes imitates life.

He’s single again. He’s having fun, he’s back out there; he’s back; on the scene. So, of course, the music reflects that,” said songwriter and producer Rico Love, who co-wrote four songs on the album.

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‘Clash of the Titans’ first entry in ’80s movie encore

by Glenn Whipp The Associated Press lOs aNGElEs — “Clash of the Titans” writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi are understandably excited about their movie arriving in theaters Friday. But if you really want to get them going, mention the “Red Dawn” remake coming later this year.

“I love that movie,” Hay says of the 1984 Cold War adventure flick where Colorado high school students use guerrilla warfare to stave off a Soviet invasion of America. “Everyone from my generation loves ‘Red Dawn.’ It’s really ripe for a remake.”

These days, it seems any movie that came out during the 1980s is ripe for a remake.

“Clash of the Titans” and “Red Dawn” are but two of a significant number of ’80s-related films Hollywood will bring to theaters in coming months.

Joining their ranks are Disney’s mega-budget “Tron” sequel starring Jeff Bridges; reboots of “The Karate Kid,” “Predator” and “Nightmare on Elm Street” franchises; a follow-up to Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” and the Sylvester Stallone-directed “The Expendables”; an ’80s-style, men-on-a-mission movie teaming Stallone with other action stars of his vintage.

“It’s crazy, man,” Bridges says. “You almost want to look around and make sure people still have their cell phones and laptops. It’s like going back in time.”

You mean, like stepping into a Hot Tub Time Machine?

The nostalgia-infused, grossout comedy “Time Machine,” which opened last weekend, uses the ’80s as a punch line, taking its heroes back to a decade heavy on the legwarmers, mullets and primary colors.

“Anyone who wants to know why the ’80s are a joke need only look at the fashions in our movie,” “Hot Tub” director Steve Pink says.

But if the ’80s are a joke, it’s a quip studio executives and filmmakers are now eager to share with moviegoers. Chalk it up to the fact that the people who grew up watching Freddy Krueger and Mr. Miyagi are now in a position to greenlight the movies they loved as children.

“Certainly, there’s a fondness for that culture for those who come of age with it, and now we want to share it,” says Columbia Pictures president Doug Belgrad.

In addition to “The Karate Kid,” Belgrad, 44, and Columbia co-president Matt Tolmach, 45, are developing sequels and reboots to such

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Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell and Charlie Sheen in a scene from “Red Dawn”

film 1980s properties as “Ghostbusters,” “21 Jump Street” and “The Smurfs.” 20th Century Fox will release a feature film based on the ’80s actionadventure TV series “The A-Team” this summer.

“Grown-ups are always looking for movies they could share with their kids,” Belgrad adds.

With “The Karate Kid,” he notes, Will Smith took that idea a step further, suggesting remaking one of his favorite childhood movies with his 11-year-old son, Jaden, starring. The new “Karate Kid,” due in June, shifts the action to Beijing, attempting to add a dash of culture clash to the familiar story.

Other remakes and sequels, like “Clash of the Titans” and “Tron: Legacy,” bring modern technology to movies that time has dated. “(Tron director) Steve Lisberger told me that we’ve made the movie that people think they remember seeing when they were 8-years-old,” says “Tron: Legacy” director Joseph Kosinski. “The original pushed the envelope in a way that we can’t do. But we can take things that have been simmering in people’s minds for 25 years and bring them to life.”

Kosinski shot “Tron: Legacy” entirely in 3D. Warner Bros. converted “Clash of the Titans” to 3D after the fact, hoping to cash in on the “Avatar”-fueled mania for the format.

But “Clash” writer Manfredi says that what made the original so special — and what he hopes the remake maintains — is a good-hearted sense of adventure.

“What all these ’80s movies

Sam Worthington portrays Perseus in “Clash of the Titans.”

Jaden Smith, left, and Jackie Chan in “The Karate Kid”

Charlie Sheen, left, and Michael Douglas in 1987’s “Wall Street.”

Ralph Macchio, left, and Pat Morita in 1984’s “The Karate Kid.”

have in common is a feeling of fun and excitement, a certain genuineness,” Manfredi says.

“You don’t find that spark as much in movies these days.

That’s what we’re hoping to bring back.”

Others are attempting a stab at modern relevance with their films. Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko has been refashioned as an antihero, warning business leaders of

“Hot Tub Time Machine” star and ’80s icon John Cusack would be just as happy to consign the whole decade to the attic.

“I remember it being a kind of forced Prozac happy time without the Prozac,” Cusack says. “We were sort of like optimism by martial law.

There were jumbotrons of Ronald Reagan everywhere.

There were Dr. Pepper people

impending doom in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.”

The “Red Dawn” remake has the Chinese, not the Soviets, invading America.

And you have to wonder whether the Smurfs will make a passing reference to their blue-hued cousins from “Avatar.”

OK — maybe you don’t have to wonder or even think about the Smurfs at all.

dancing. There was this militant patriotism, nationalism, faux spirituality to it. I look back on it as an intense, dark decade.”

Maybe next time, he could set the hot tub to the ’60s.

Jackson unleashes in Perry film ‘Why Did I Get Married Too?’

by Mesfin fekadu The Associated Press NEW YORk — Janet Jackson unleashes her anger in an over-the-top, dramatic and staggering way in the latest Tyler Perry film, “Why Did I Get Married Too?” But Jackson, who portrays a self-help psychologist in a struggling marriage, explains that she’s expressed herself that way in real life, too.

“One time I did,” she said.

“Not to that extent ... I’ve thrown one thing.”

“It was very therapeutic, I was able to release in such a way,” Jackson continued.

“It’s good. It seemed to me that you had rehearsed it before in your own life,” Perry added.

Perry says Jackson used personal experiences to fuel the pain her character attempts to hide in the film.

“The range that she was showing everyday was this emotional roller coaster and it’s all on film,” Perry said.

“Everything she was going through, everything she’s ever dealt with in relationships, it shows up on her face and in

her work. I think people get a real personable glimpse from what she did on film.”

Jackson’s portrayal Janet seems perJackson sonal because it happened at a personal time for the singer-actress. “Married Too” was set to begin filming the week her brother Michael Jackson died.

Jackson, 43, says she took some of the film’s intense moments off the set, though she preferred to leave it there.

“There were moments when I definitely brought it home, and not really wanting to but you do and then eventually you unwind. It becomes very draining,” she said.

The film, which opened in U.S. theaters Friday, follows four couples reconnecting on their annual vacation-reunion.

Jackson’s character, Patricia, recently released a self-help book, but won’t help herself by addressing the problems in her own relationship.

Perry plays Terry, a proud father who pleaded with his wife to have children in the film’s first installment — 2007’s “Why Did I Get Married?” Though he finally has the family he always wanted, Terry’s home isn’t a happy one.

While real-life couples may

learn from the dysfunctional pairs in the film, Jackson and Perry aren’t interested in giving out marriage advice.

“Never been married,” Perry says pointing to himself, then pointing to Jackson, “Twice divorced. You want to ask us?”

“Yeah, not a good thing,”

Jackson adds.

Perry says he isn’t sure he’ll create a third chapter of the film, but jokes that we will see him and Jackson together again.

“We’re going on ‘Dancing With the Stars,”’ he laughed.

“I’m kidding, I’m kidding. No, I’m kidding.”

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Children dressed as Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher sign the famous white picket fence in Hannibal, Mo.

Hannibal, Mo., marks centenary of writer Mark Twain’s death

By Cheryl Wittenauer The Associated Press HANNIBAL, Mo. — When Ron Powers was growing up in Hannibal in the 1940s and ’50s, he would walk to the town’s historic district with a friend and marvel at the variety of license plates on visitors’ cars.

“None of us had ever been anywhere, but they had come to see us,” said Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and historian. “It meant something to us. It added to the majesty of the town.

“One of our guys made it.”

That “guy,” Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, one of America’s greatest literary figures, is still drawing visitors to Hannibal, the Mississippi River town of his boyhood.

And officials hope even more literary pilgrims will come this year to mark the centenary of the author’s death and see the place that inspired Twain’s masterpieces, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

Last year Hannibal welcomed 300,000 people, 60,000 of them to the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum.

While the town also offers river cruises, cave tours and enough other attractions for a two-day visit, museum executive director Cindy Lovell said Hannibal is a “holy land” for Twainiacs like herself. She said she “walked around in a daze” on her first visit, adding: “I see other people who react the same way. A young man from India who openly cried, he was so moved to be here.”

Clemens lived in Hannibal from age 4 to 18, and the caves, cemeteries and islands off the mighty river that he wandered as a boy are still here, along with his family’s simple clapboard house and the home of his first sweetheart, the inspiration for Becky Thatcher from “Tom Sawyer.” Both homes are owned by the museum.

In his autobiography, Twain wrote, “In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor but didn’t know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.”

Exhibits in the museum, which curator Henry Sweets built up from the original couple of rooms to an institution, feature Twain’s books and the experiences that inspired them, along with such artifacts as the writer’s desk and chair. Also on display are 15 original drawings Norman Rockwell created in 1935 to illustrate commemorative editions of “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn.” Rockwell traveled to Hannibal to gather material for the pictures, even sketching inside the cave young Sam explored as a kid, and where Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher got lost.

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Jackson’s Island in the Mississippi River

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Mark Twain

If you go Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum: 120 N. Main, Hannibal Mo., www. marktwainmuseum.org/ or 573-221-9010. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April, May, September and October, and 9 a.m.-6 p.m., JuneAugust. Adults, $9; age 60 and over, $7.50; age 6-12, $5; under 6, free. The Year of Mark Twain 2010: www. twain2010.org/ Events: Twain on Main River Festival, May 29-30.

Smithsonian Institution exhibition on American roots music at the Mark Twain Museum gallery, May 1-June 12. Music Under the Stars with live music and dining outside, 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Thursdays, Memorial Day-Labor Day. Tom Sawyer Days, whitewashing, frog-jumping and seedspitting contests, July 2-4.

Concert by bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley, Sept.

26, 4 p.m., $15.

Hannibal tourism: www. visithannibal.com/ Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site: 37352 Shrine Rd., Florida, Mo., about 45 minutes from Hannibal; www.mostateparks.com/twainsite.htm or 573-565-3449.

Closed for repairs; reopens end of April. Florida Founders Day celebration, May 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Newspaper clippings, photographs and documents recall Twain’s family life in Hannibal and his later visits to bury his mother and give out diplomas to the high school graduates of 1902. Twain died at his

home in Connecticut on April 21, 1910.

Museum properties also include an interpretive center, the Huckleberry Finn House, the office of Clemens’ father, who was a justice of the peace, and Grant’s Drug Store, above which the Clemens family lived when they fell on hard times.

Clemens’ family owned slaves for a time in Hannibal, but Illinois, a free state, was just across the river. “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” tells the story of Huck’s travels on the river with an escaped slave, Jim. The Clemens family fortunes changed after Sam’s father died, and his mother had to take in boarders. Sam boarded outside the home starting at age 11 as a printer’s apprentice at the local Hannibal newspaper, “the poor boy’s college,” said Lovell.

Clemens later worked as a Mississippi River pilot during the golden age of steamboats.

His pen name, Mark Twain, was a term used by boatsmen to indicate water depth.

Powers, who has studied and written about Mark Twain, called Hannibal “a small town on a great, vast prairie, with a great interruption, the Mississippi River. When Sammy was a boy, it brought circuses, gamblers, magicians. All these people came to Hannibal on the boat. That magic is still there.

“When you stand on the outlook at Riverview Park, and the river disappears over the curve of the Earth, the majesty of it is beyond words, except Mark Twain’s words,” Powers said. “When the light gets warm and turns the river on, it’s unlike a sight anywhere else in the country.”

his love of art. In high school, he was sketching in English class when Miss Berdon, the teacher, wanted to know what he was doing: It was her portrait. Years later, she walked into his store and asked if he remembered the incident. She still had it, she said, and not long before her death she brought him two brass candelabras as a thank you.

Art came to his rescue in boot camp when “we had to wash our clothes every night.

It looked like a cattle trough out there with men washing their clothes. He washed every night for a week, then the guys found out he could draw. He drew their mothers, wives and sweethearts (from photos), “and I never had to wash clothes again.”

Under each portrait, he penned a poem, “though some people might not think I’m a poet — but I have a lot of rejection slips.”

He likes bright colors, especially blues and shades of yellow, “the color that makes you kind of crazy.” Of all his paintings, his favorite is a portrait of his wife from a photo when she was a child.

He’s a realist, a traditionalist, he said, but he never criticizes another artist’s work “because that might be the way they want them. All styles are fine.”

Larry believes his sons have artistic talents, for he remembers their drawings when they were in school.

Larry Jr. is an engineer, and he can duplicate or copy; Kevin builds furniture; but Kelly claims he can only paint houses.

Of his own work, he thinks there is always room for improvement, but “if practice makes perfect, then I’ll never be perfect. If it gets to be perfect, you might as well just quit.”

He’s never had a one-man show, “and if I did, I wouldn’t

show. I’ve never liked crowds — unless I see them coming into the store.”

Larry was born in Canton and the family lived in Flora and South Carolina before moving to Vicksburg in 1953.

In 1961, he met Sarah Brooks from Redwood — “the best thing that ever happened to me.” They’ve been married 49 years and have three sons and six grandchildren.

His artistic skills aren’t confined to the canvas. He and Sarah had their home

framed, but they did the rest. He built a sun room, and “my wife told me to build that gazebo. He said he hasn’t made a picture frame yet because he doesn’t have the patience — “and Sarah hasn’t told me to.”

“I’ve painted a lot,” he said, “and some might show up on ‘Antiques Road Show’ one day — and be worth about $2, or a dollar and a half.”

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Gordon Cotton is an author and historian who lives in Vicksburg.

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Randy Crist Randy Crist submitted this photo of a tree frog he says has visited his home near Oak Park Subdivision repeatedly for years.

Jerry Lewis Utica resident Jerry Lewis found this sunrise near his home off Mississippi 27.

Gloria Holsomback submitted this portrait of her Pomeranian, Poppy, sitting on his favorite perch on the front porch.

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Paul Kelly Loyacono of Vicksburg submitted this photo of ducks on hunting property in Tallahatchie County.

Joy Brabston of Vicksburg snapped this frame of yellow butterflies, one of four varieties of Japanese magnolias in bloom at Linden Plantation.

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ADVERTISING SALES CONSULTANT Looking for a new challenge in Advertising Sales? Apply now- This position won't last! In this role you will have an account list to look after and manage. You will work with clients to find creative and unique advertising solutions for their businesses. You will be responsible for generating revenue and achieving your goals. You will have a selection of clients to service; you will identify their needs and build stronger relationships with them. You will also spend time building new relationships and finding new business opportunities. Ideally you will have experience selling business to business. Any advertising or marketing or sales experience that you have will also be advantageous. You must be intelligent, customer focused, and a strong team player. Must have a good driving record with dependable transportation and auto insurance. The successful candidate will be rewarded with an above industry base salary, plus commission.

Send resumes to Dept.

3713, The Vicksburg Post, P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182.

CAMELLIA HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE RN full or part-time, opening to join our hospice team.

Also, seeks on-call hospice RN (flexible schedules available). Call 601-9329066 or fax resume to 601-933-0811

READ THE CLASSIFIEDS DAILY!

07. Help Wanted CDL DRIVER. 5 years experience, clear record.

No phone calls.

Apply in person at Keys Recycling Center 4385 Highway 61 North.

CONFEDERATE RIDGE APARTMENTS now accepting applications for Certified HVAC maintenance person.

Experience is a must!

Call 601-638-0102, for information.

DRIVERS NEEDED!!

1-877-285-8621 CALL M - F 8am-5pm GENERAL LABORERS and Cutters needed. No phone calls. Apply in person at Keys Recycling Center 4385 Highway 61 North.

DRG Fayette Dialysis has an immediate opening for a full-time RN position. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and a sign-on bonus. Current Mississippi RN license required and Dialysis experience preferred.

Contact Wanda Page at 601-488-6347 or 769-798-9969

07. Help Wanted

07. Help Wanted

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Resumes are being accepted for a Full-Time Kindergarten/ Daycare Director. MS Health Dept. qualifications.

Send resume to P.O. Box 820772, Vicksburg, MS 39182. Deadline to apply is May 3rd, 2010.

SEEKING CERTIFIED Public Accountants CPA for MY Hospitality Services LLC, local hotel and motel management company. Position is salary based and requires applicant to reside in Vicksburg and work out of local office.

Send resumes to: Dept 3720 The Vicksburg Post P.O Box 821668 Vicksburg MS 39182

SOCIAL WORKER MONDAY - FRIDAY 8:00-4:30 We offer Blue Cross/Blue Shield medical insurance, PTO & 401K-Plan for full time employees Apply in Person at: Shady Lawn Health and Rehabilitation 60 Shady Lawn Place M-F 8:30am-4:30pm EOE

TRIUMPH CHURCH HAS immediate opening in the Nursery Department. 2 Sundays per month and special events. Call Melinda, 601636-5282, Monday- Thursday, 8am-5pm.

10. Loans And Investments “WE CAN ERASE your bad credit- 100% guaranteed.� The Federal Trade Commission says the only legitimate credit repair starts and ends with you. It takes time and a conscious effort to pay your debts.

Any company that claims to be able to fix your credit legally is lying. Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc.gov/credit A message from The Vicksburg Post and the FTC.

11. Business Opportunities

11. Business Opportunities Need Additional Income?

Be Your Own Boss Immediately earn $800-$1300 for only $99 investment Call Margie at Naleka Pewterware

601-638-2833

LOCAL TANNING SALON for sale, 10 years in business, good income. For more information, call 601-218-2300.

14. Pets & Livestock AKC REGISTERED Labrador Retrievers for sale! Born February 18th, will be ready for new home on April 1st. (4) Chocolate males, (1) Black male and female. $250 each. Call 318-282-2156 if interested.

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Our ePost now available!

Call 601-636-4545 Circulation, for details!

11. Business Opportunities

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WE ARE LOOKING FOR Medical Records ••Director of Rehab Manager/Coder Services (Must PT, (BSNNurse Required) •Officer Registered • Clinical Liaison be - RN 3-5 yrs. Mgmt. exp.)

RN -RNs, ICU experience • •PRN LPNs, • RN Nurse Manager CNA’s • Full-time PT, PTA Sign On Bonus For Clinical Full Time Positions!

Positions: • Full-Time Chief Clinical

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As a leader in the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) industry, Promise Healthcare provides rewarding career opportunities, excellent benefits and a chance to have a key role as a vital part of a growing team.

1111 North Frontage Rd., 2nd Floor, Vicksburg, MS 39180 Equal Opportunity Employer

Teachers, stay-at-home parents, college students, nurses. . . they’re all delivering the newspaper in their spare time and earning extra income!

It’s easy - and it’s a great way to earn extra cash.

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To join The Vicksburg Post newspaper team you must be dependable, have insurance, reliable transportation, and be available to deliver afternoons Monday Friday and early mornings Saturday and Sunday.

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118 Woodstone YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS SHOWPLACE! 4 BR/2.5B, spacious dining room, beautiful kitchen totally updated w/granite, stainless appl.

Fabulous outdoor entertaining area with kidney shaped pool, hot tub, landscaping.

JONES & UPCHURCH, INC. Call Andrea at

601-831-6490

Over 32 years of experience put to work for you!

EMAIL: ANDREA@JONESANDUPCHURCH.COM Andrea Upchurch WWW.VICKSBURGHOMES.COM

250 Amberleaf

6207 Indiana Ave.

Bovina School District in the County. Split plan with 3 B/R 2 Baths. Tremendous master bath with tall ceilings. Tray ceilings in Master and Den. Den has gas log fireplace.

Over an acre lot.

Brick 4 bedroom, 2 bath home with new laminate floors in Oak Park S/D. Great backyard with covered patio, privacy fenced and workshop.

Real Estate McMillin And

38 gently rolling acres, a pond, 2000 + square foot home, an outdoor pavilion that is wired, and a shop with electricity and plumbing. Deer and turkey tracks seen by the agent!! Home features formal and informal living areas and a bay area eat in kitchen.

The entry way features marble tile floor. $280,000

A“SnitaTarnabine B S ERVING

UYERS AND

601-415-5097 REALTOR ASSOCIATEÂŽ

anita.tarnabine@coldwellbanker.com

14. Pets & Livestock

18. Miscellaneous For Sale

AKC/ CKC REGISTERED YORKIES, Poodles and Schnauzers $200 to $700!

601-218-5533,

VICKSBURG WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY

Highway 61 South

601-636-6631

Currently housing 84 unwanted and abandoned animals.

43 dogs & puppies 41 cats & kittens Please adopt today!

Call the Shelter for more information.

HAVE A HEART, SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR PETS! Look for us on www.petfinder.com

VICKSBURG WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY Hwy 61 S. • 601-636-6631

DON’T SHOP...

Adopt Today!

Call the Shelter for more information.

HAVE A HEART, SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR PETS! Look for us on www.petfinder.com MALTIPOOS. MALE AND female, will be small, $350.

318-341-7697.

www.pawsrescuepets.org

Foster a Homeless Pet!

15. Auction LOOKING FOR A great value? Subscribe to The Vicksburg Post, 601-6364545, ask for Circulation.

17. Wanted To Buy CASH PAID FOR COINS, war relics, antique books and collectibles. Call 601618-2727.

POOL TABLE IN good condition needed for Church Youth Group. 601-2184191.

WE BUY ESTATES. Households and quality goods. Best prices. You call, we haul! 601-415-3121, 601-661-6074. www.msauctionservice.com WE HAUL OFF old appliances, lawn mowers, hot water heaters, junk and abandoned cars, trucks, vans, etcetera.

601-940-5075, if no answer, please leave message.

3216 Washington Large shipment of designer handbags & wallets.Children & adult name brand shoes.

Brenda Love.

7 HORSE POWER Troybilt Tiller. Excellent condition, $600. 601-636-7634 Monday- Friday.

ANTIQUE SOLID WOOD cherry bedroom suite. 2 twin beds with mattresses, dresser, nightstand. $700, negotiable. 601-529-2920.

at DISCOUNT

FURNITURE BARN

601-638-7191

600 Jackson St, Vicksburg ENDURANCE E4 ELLIPTICAL Trainer $500 or best offer. Ab Lounge $50. Call 601-831-5507, after 5pm.

FOR LESS THAN 45 cents per day, have The Vicksburg Post delivered to your home.

Only $14 per month, 7 day delivery.

Call 601-636-4545, Circulation Department.

FOR THE BEST prices on furniture at 7059 Fisher Ferry Road, Sandy's 3 Way Convenience Store and Deli, factory direct furniture corner of Fisher Ferry and Jeff Davis Road. 601-6368429.

HITACHI 65 INCH big screen T.V. with HD. Asking $700. 601-218-6653.

Live Crawfish $2.25/ lb Cheapest Prices in Town

(2) DELL USED LAPTOP COMPUTERS, 1 desktop.

Call 601-636-7142.

1977 FORD F-600, Bucket Truck. 50 foot working height, good condition. Great electrical company or tree cutter.

Must sell. 601-301-1946.

2- 48 INCH walk-behind Exmark mowers. Turf tracer, hydro. $1800 each. 601415-2224.

2006 HONDA 50cc child's 4 wheeler, like new, low mileage, $700 firm. 1986 Yamaha 225cc 3-wheeler, runs great, looks good, $700. Call 601-529-1836.

601-218-2363

Crawfish Cooking Every Sunday

19. Garage & Yard Sales 1225 WARRIORS TRAIL. Wednesday through Sunday 8am- until. Prom dresses, new condition.

Antique glassware, dresser, clothing (sizes 4, 6, 10, 12, ladies, some junior, assorted). Gas heater, too much to list. 601415-6454 for information.

This stately Victorian Town House, circa 1886, has over 3600 square feet and features 6 original mantles, beautiful parquet & hardwood flooring, pocket doors, formal Living & Dining Rooms, upstairs & downstairs Family Areas, Remodeled Kitchen w/Viking Range and 4 spacious bedrooms & 2.5 Baths. $

Johnny Sanders 601-629-7808

601-634-8928 or 601-218-2489

19. Garage & Yard Sales

24. Business Services

29. Unfurnished Apartments

What's going on in Vicksburg this weekend?

Read The Vicksburg Post!

For convenient home delivery call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.

QUALITY PAINTING and Pressure Washing for the lowest price.

Call Willie Walker at 601-638-2107.

BEAUTIFUL LAKESIDE LIVING

20. Hunting 20 gauge Montefeltro Super 90 Benelli. Made in Italy. 2 ž or 3 inch shells.

Call 601-636-0158.

2008 POLARIS 500 HO 4x4. Like new, only 7 hours. $5500. 601-618-6716.

21. Boats, Fishing Supplies 2006 BAYLINER SKI Boat. 4.0 Mercruiser, many accessories, excellent condition. $13,000. 601-2181714.

What's going on in Vicksburg this weekend? Read The Vicksburg Post! For convenient home delivery, call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.

22. Musical Instruments EPIPHONE JUMBO ACOUSTIC guitar. Hard case, electronic tuner, extra set of new strings, $300 firm. 601-415-0874.

24. Business Services Toni Walker Terrett Attorney At Law 601-636-1109

D&D Tree Cutting, Trimming & Lawn Care For Free Estimates, call “Big James� at 601-218-7782.

DIRT AND GRAVEL hauled. 8 yard truck. 601638-6740.

GOODWIN FLOOR FINISHING. Install, sand, refinish hardwood floors, 98 percent dust free, commercial equipment used. Free estimates. 601-636-4128, 601529-1457.

HELPING PEOPLE FILE UNDER THE

THE REST IN THE PLAN

• Lake Surrounds Community

• Pool • Fireplace • Spacious Floor Plans 601-629-6300

27. Rooms For Rent

NIGHTLY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY RATES. Between Ameristar and Diamond Jacks Casino.

Multiple night discounts, no deposit, best prices in town.

DIXIANA MOTEL 4041 WASHINGTON STREET VICKSBURG, MS.

1 BEDROOM WITH kitchen and bathroom, utilities furnished. 601-5299804.

CORPORATE APARTMENT. Fully furnished. $800 monthly, utilities, weekly cleaning, off street parking. 601-661-9747.

NEWLY RENOVATED. Completely furnished corporate apartment. All utilities provided including cable and internet. Laundry room, courtyard, security entrance.

Great location. $750 - $900 month. 601-415-9027, 601-638-4386.

PRE-VIEW VICKSBURG'S FINEST furnished apartments on-line at www. vicksburgcorporatehousing. com 601-874-1116.

29. Unfurnished Apartments 1 bedroom apartments, $400. 2 bedroom townhouse, new paint/ carpet, $500, $300 deposit. 601-631-0805.

1 LARGE BEDROOM, near downtown. $400 monthly, plus deposit. Call 601631-1413.

SPRING CLEANING ON your list? Let us do the work for you! Quality Cleaning, painting, power washing.

Free estimates, 601-2149805.

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219 FALCON RIDGE New Listing!

FALCON RIDGE SUBDIVISION. Features include 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 1722 SF, Large Open Floor Plan, Hardwood Floors, Gas Fireplace, 9' Ceilings, Large Master Bath with Double Vanity, 2 Car Garage, Fenced In Yard with Covered Patio.

179,900

$

601-529-4215

501 Fairways Drive Vicksburg

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18. Miscellaneous For Sale

18. Miscellaneous For Sale

18. Miscellaneous For Sale

WE PAY CASH! for gold, silver, diamonds & coins Scallions Jewelers 1207 Washington St. • 601-636-6413

KATZENMEYER’S • 3508 WASHINGTON • Antiques • Primitives • Glassware • Quality Used Furniture

• Pets • Tropical/Gold Fish • Aquarium/Supplies • Small Critters/ Cages

MISSISSIPPI AUCTION SERVICE 601•415•3121

HKATZ@BELLSOUTH.NET WWW.MSAUCTIONSERVICE.COM

28. Furnished Apartments

River City Lawn Care You grow it - we mow it!

Affordable and professional. Lawn and landscape maintenance.

Cut, bag, trim, edge.

601-529-6168.

Let the classifieds give the

www.thelandingsvicksburg.com

of opportunity with CENTRAL HEAT/ AIR, cable, convenient location. Deposit $200. 601-529-7146, leave message.

bed cleaning, planting, mulching, gutters, pressure washing, general yard cleanup. Call 601-218-4415.

SAYING “SAYONARA� TO

Voted #1 Apartments in the 2009 Reader’s Choice

NO FAULT DIVORCE - $350

(601-924-8670)

& Coldwell Banker All Stars

homesofvicksburg.net

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts. • Beautifully Landscaped

TYE ASHFORD

KELLYGRI/REALTORÂŽ E CARLISLE

230,000

& Coldwell Banker All Stars

“BANKRUPTCY CODE�

CHAPTER 7 - $600 CHAPTER 13 - $300 DOWN,

SPEAK DIRECTLY TO AN ATTORNEY

LEECH REAL ESTATE OF VICKSBURG, INC.

2200 CHERRY STREET

BETH MAZZANTI

Fresh Seafood, GRASS CUTTING SERFresh Sack Oysters, VICE. Hedges, pruning, flower

STRICK’S SEAFOOD

18. Miscellaneous For Sale

SH

2735 Washington Street, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • 601-638-6243

Licensed by the State of MS & the City of Vicksburg

CLEANUP TIME! WILL remove junk and etcetera.

601-218-7839, leave message.

Bring Your Best Friend to our NEW LOCATION, 3508 South Washington Street Not so far, just 1 mile south of Belmont St. Same Great Pet Merchandise, Just More Room!

Andrea Lewis 601-218-0644

Specializing In: Remodeling, Additions, Storm & Fire Damage Repairs, Drainage & Erosion Control

RIDING LAWN MOWER, $250. Call 601-831-5507, after 5pm.

THE PET SHOP “Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique�

Lake lot with full view of lake. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, screened porch and balcony. Den with fireplace. Floors are wood, ceramic tile and carpet. Large laundry. Two car garage. Very good condition with recent updates. Two fishing piers.

andrealewis@cablelynx.com

Home for Sale? Show it to the world at www.vicksburgrealestate.com

• Bankruptcy Chapter 7 and 13 • Social Seurity Disability • No-fault Divorce

SMITH & WESSON Victory Model .38 Caliber, good condition, $275. Ruger Mini 30 with many accessories, $700. 601-638-7706.

$434,000 This beautiful 5 bedroom, 4 bath home features open plan, formal dining and living area, large master suite and guestroom and bathroom on mainlevel.

3 large bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms upstairs, walk in attic. This home has too many features to mention. Must see to appreciate! Large fenced yard, property goes beyond fence, sprinkler system.

601-415-9179

INVACARE MODEL 5000IIVC fully electronic hospital bed, $1500. Invacare Model 9000SL wheelchair, $200. 601-5295314.

SIDE-BY-SIDE REFRIGERATOR. LIKE new condition. $400. 601-618-7990.

105 MADISON RIDGE

REALTOR ASSOCIATEÂŽ

ELLERS

SINCE 1994�

755 Lake Boulevard

Beverly McMillin

Sanders Hollingsworth Builders 2700 Farr Road Edwards, MS

The Vicksburg Post

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601-636-0503 2160 S. Frontage Rd. Vicksburg, MS 39180

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29. Unfurnished Apartments

29. Unfurnished Apartments

30. Houses For Rent

SPRING INTO SAVINGS at

3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS. New carpet, paint, washer/ dryer hookups. $525- $550. 601-631-0805.

1626 BROADHILL DRIVE. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1900 square feet, 2 story, redecorated, double garage, fenced yard, central heat/ air. $840 monthly.

Ready May 1st. 601-6383974.

CONFEDERATE RIDGE 780 Highway 61 North

Call for Details, 601-638-0102

Spring Move-In Special • 1 & 2 Bedroom Studios & Efficiencies • Utilities Paid No Utility Deposit Required

• Downtown Convenience to Fine Restaurants, Shops, Churches, Banks & Casinos

✦ From $495.00 ✦ Secure High-Rise Building • Off Street Parking • 9 1/2 Foot Ceilings • Beautiful River Views • Senior Discounts •

Classic Elegance in Modern Surroundings

601-630-2921

APARTMENTS FOR RENT. 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms available. Autumn Oaks. 601636-0447.

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths.

61 South area, deposit required. 601-619-9789.

32. Mobile Homes For Sale

Commodore Apartments

2517 OAK STREET. 2 bedrooms, all appliances, off street parking, storage building. $650 monthly, deposit required. 504-400-6758.

16X80. IN GOOD shape, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. Setup $15,900. Darren, 228-6693505.

1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

3 BEDROOM, 2 bath house. $800 monthly, $800 deposit. 601-636-9591.

605 Cain Ridge Rd. Vicksburg, MS 39180

3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS 2300 square feet, remodeled, 3 car carport. $900 monthly, $900 deposit, references required. Serious inquiries only. 601-301-0878.

32X80. NEW APPLIANCES, fireplace, big tub, 2 living rooms. Setup with air conditioning, $39,900. Darren, 228-669-3505.

601-638-2231 TAKING APPLICATIONS!!

On a newly remodeled 3 bedroom, $450. Refrigerator and stove furnished. $200 deposit.

Call 601-634-8290

30. Houses For Rent 111 BROOKWOOD DRIVE. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, large den, formal areas, breakfast room. $1400 monthly, deposit required.

601-618-0911.

Totsiew@aol.com

3/ 4 BEDROOMSRent $1,100 and Up! • 721 National.

732-768-5743.

COMPLETELY FURNISHED, 1 bedroom cottage.

Laundry room, kitchen, living room and bath. Hi-Def DRTV. Inground pool available. All utilities furnished. Off Nailor Road, 4 miles out of town.

References required. 601529-1827.

LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage.

Close in, nice. $795 monthly. 601-831-4506.

FIRE DAMAGED DOUBLE WIDE. 535 HALL Road, Highway 61 South. 3 bedroom, 2 bath. $8,000 or best offer. 303587-0687 or 601-218-6492.

I BUY USED homes! All makes and models. Big payoff, no need to apply!

Darren, 228-669-3505.

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SUBSCRIBE TO THE VICKSBURG POST TODAY! CALL 601-636-4545, ASK FOR CIRCULATION.

LAND/ HOME DEALS! 3 left in Pearl, 1 in Florence, and 1 in Vicksburg area. No credit needed! Darren, 228669-3505.

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34. Houses For Sale

I-20 AREA, INDIVIDUAL office suites, conference room, kitchen, lobby and reception area. Starting at $300 including utilities. Call 601-218-9631.

1411 ELM STREET. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, central heat and air, new roof. No rent to own. $16,000. 601529-5376.

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601.630.8209

601-415-9179

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Member FDIC

2150 South Frontage Road

Real Estate

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bkbank.com

601-636-SELL

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Area buyers and sellers use the Classifieds every day.

Besides, someone out there needs to see the light.

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Errors In the event of errors, please call the very first day your ad appears. The Vicksburg Post will not be responsible for more than one incorrect insertion.

Mis-Classification No ad will be deliberately mis-classified.

The Vicksburg Post classified department is the sole judge of the proper classification for each ad.

29. Unfurnished Apartments

29. Unfurnished Apartments

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• Glass

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CONSTRUCTION

Quality Service at Competitive Prices #1 Windshield Repair & Replacement

Vans • Cars • Trucks •Insurance Claims Welcome•

AUTO • HOME • BUSINESS Jason Barnes • 601-661-0900

Call Cassie, Michele or

BUFORD

Dirt For Vicksburg Fred Clark Heavy Clay, 610, Clay Gravel, Fill Dirt Trackhoe, Dozer, Box Blade, Demolition Work Driveways: Repair, Form & Finish House Pads: Concrete, Clearing & Grubbing Licensed & Bonded

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601-636-SELL (7355) 1601 F North Frontage Road Vicksburg, MS 39180

We are General Contractors, specializing in all types of carpentry.

PATRIOTIC • FLAGS • BANNERS • BUMPER STICKERS • YARD SIGNS

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Post Plaza

601-631-0400 CABINETS, ADDITIONS, METAL ROOFS, 1601 N. Frontage Rd. VINYL SIDING, PATIO DECKS, Vicksburg, MS 39180 DOZER & EXCAVATOR WORK, SEPTIC SYSTEMS, • Dirt LawnServices Care LOT CLEAN UP Services LICENSED

Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt, Rock & Sand All Types of Dozer Work Land Clearing • Demolition Site Development & Preparation Excavation Crane Rental • Mud Jacking

We accept VISA

Jon Ross 601-638-7932 RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL New Construction & Remodeling

CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. 601-636-4813 State Board of Contractors Approved & Bonded

• Construction

New Homes

Framing, Remodeling, Cabinets, Flooring, Roofing & Vinyl Siding State Licensed & Bonded

ROY’S CONSTRUCTION

• Bulldozer & Construction

601-638-9233

ROSS

• Signs

• BONDED • INSURED

DWAYNE ROY 601-415-6997 JOSHUA ROY 601-831-0558

McLaughlin Construction & Remodeling Serving Vicksburg since 1989.

MS State licensed. New construction, additions, custom cabinets, flooring, siding, roofing & decks. Free estimates! 601-831-2073 or 601-638-0927

WE ACCEPT MOST MAJOR CREDIT CARDS .

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403 Silver Creek Drive Vicksburg, MS 39180 bonelliconstruction@yahoo.com

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The Vicksburg Post

Sunday, April 4, 2010

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Ask the Guys Dear Classified Guys, A few weeks ago my friend noticed that her dog Huck just wasn't himself. Not knowing what to do, she took him to the vet. After several rounds of tests, they told her there was nothing wrong. That's when she saw an ad in the newspaper for a pet psychologist. I told her she was wasting her time and money, but she insisted on going. Now she claims that after a few visits, her dog is back to his regular self and happy as ever. She says that Huck was just depressed. I still think that it's HER head that needs to be examined.

Have you guys ever even heard of a pet psychologist?

• • • Carry: Although you think your

friend is barking up the wrong tree, you may want to give her and Huck the benefit of the doubt.

Cash: I'm sure most of us can understand why her dog would be feeling depressed. Imagine if we had to sit home all day and take naps on the sofa just waiting for someone to come home.

Carry: Sounds like a good idea to me, but I think my wife would object.

Cash: Joking aside, it is possible for dogs, cats and other domestic animals to

Duane “Cash” Holze & Todd “Carry” Holze 04/04/10 ©2010 The Classified Guys®

suffer from anxiety or depression just like people. However, the "pet psychologist" you are referring to is more commonly known as an animal behaviorist.

Carry: Many professional behaviorists work in zoos or in research with museums and universities, while others choose to work with domestic animals.

Most have medical degrees as veterinarians with certification requiring two years of residency in animal behavior.

Cash: Now it's unlikely your friend's psychologist had the dog lie on a couch and share its feelings about life, although I'm sure the dog would have enjoyed the comfort. It's more likely he observed the animal and its interactions

with the owner.

Carry: If he was able to diagnose what was bothering your friend's dog within a few visits, then his recommendations could have made a dramatic improvement in the dog's attitude and behavior.

Cash: Even celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Ashley Simpson, Will Smith, and Paris Hilton have used the advice of animal behaviorists to help them socialize their pets with other animals.

Carry: Although you may not believe in your friend's choices, you may want to give her a break. Any animal that's always happy to see us deserves the best of care.

Fast Facts Alternative Care

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Is your family pet ill? In addition to the standard veterinary services available to household pets, some people are using natural healing methods as well.

Today, you can find a variety of natural herbs to promote the well-being of your pet as well as improve their health and healing. Even massage and acupuncture have proven to be very helpful for specific types of ailments. And for those of you who'd like to be close to your pet, you can always get a massage together!

I recently saw a great costume while bartending for an office costume party. One overweight guy showed up dressed as Little Bo Peep.

The costume alone was hilarious, but even better was that he brought his dog dressed up as a sheep.

I could hardly keep from laughing when he sat down at the bar for a drink, but the lady next to him had a different opinion. Apparently she thought it was cruel to dress up a dog in a costume.

"Do you really think it's appropriate to make your dog dress as a sheep?" she questioned.

"You bet it is," Bo Peep laughed.

"He made me wear this costume!"

Acute Senses As humans, we sometimes forget how special our pet dogs can be. With a heightened sense of smell and hearing, canines contribute in many areas.

Most of us have seen dogs used by the police for sniffing drugs or as guiding eyes for the blind. But you may be surprised to learn that some dogs can also alert us to medical conditions. Seizure alert dogs are trained to warn people with epilepsy of an oncoming seizure, sometimes as much as 45 minutes in advance. Any dog that can save a life deserves a good treat.

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36. Farms & Acreage

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NEW HOME ON 2 acres, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, never lived in. 108 Chandlers Cove, Vicksburg, MS. 601301-1773 or 601-672-8325

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Rely on over 19 years of experience in Real Estate.

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40. Cars & Trucks

40. Cars & Trucks

40. Cars & Trucks

1993 S-10 PICKUP with camper top. V6, 5-speed, new tires. $1400. 601-8300833, 601-630-8434.

2002 FORD F250 Extended cab, 4x4 Off Road.

Loaded, leather, 7.3 Power Stroke diesel. Excellent condition. $10,750. 601218-1941.

2010 MERCEDES-BENZ GLK 350. 11,000 miles. $39,500. Perfect condition.

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BOTTOM LINE AUTO SALES We finance! Corner of Fisher Ferry Road and Jeff Davis Road. 601-529-1195.

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29. Unfurnished Apartments

29. Unfurnished Apartments

1998 MERCURY LESABRE, selling body. Green. $650.

Call 601-218-1051.

39. Motorcycles, Bicycles

1999 NISSAN MAXIMA, wrecked, new tires, sold as is. Best offer. 601-618-9297 or 601-636-7623.

Eagle Lake Waterfront homes and lots for sale

2009 HARLEY DAVIDSON Night Ride Special. $16,000.

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2000 TOYOTA AVALON XLS. Clean, one owner, great for student. 84,000 miles. $10,995. 601-400-7292

visit www.lakehouse.com or call Bette Paul Warner, 601.218.1800 For listings, go to www.lakehouse.com McMillin Real Estate

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Bigriverhomes.com Move-In Ready-1 mile from Warren Central, 4 BR/2BA, fresh paint, updated throughout, new wood laminate floors, new carpet, new ceramic floors and countertops in kitchen & baths, 12x20 wired workshop, 1 acre lot on cul-de-sac.

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Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869 Catherine Roy....601-831-5790 Rick McAllister..601-218-1150 Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893 Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

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The Car Store CARS • CARS • CARS• CARS• CARS 00 BUICK CENTURY LIMITED V1976 ........24 Months @ 260 per month ..$1435*down 02 NISSAN SENTRA GXE V1915 ........24 Months @ 280 per month ..$1585*down 01 CADILLAC DEVILLE V1980................24 Months @ 280 per month ..$1585*down 95 TOYOTA AVALON XLS V1984 ..........24 Months @ 280 per month ..$1585*down 01 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX GT V1844 ..24 Months @ 270 per month ....$1615*down 04 CHEVY CAVALIER LS V1982..............24 Months @ 290 per month ..$1870*down 00 FORD MUSTANG V1991......................23 Months @ 310 per month ....$1910*down 06 CHEVY COLBALT LS V1973 ..............24 Months @ 310 per month ....$1915*down 05 CHEVY IMPALA V1994 ........................22 Months @ 330 per month ..$2095*down 03 NISSAN ALTIMA SE V1974 ..............23 Months @ 340 per month ..$2375*down TRUCKS • TRUCKS • TRUCKS • TRUCKS 01 FORD RANGER XLT EXT CAB V1892 ....24 Months @ 280 per month ..$1585*down 00 DODGE DURANGO V1981 ....................23 Months @ 310 per month ....$1910*down 00 FORD EXPEDITION XLT V1988......22 Months @ 340 per month ..$2085*down 00 FORD F150 XLT EXT CAB V1910 ..24 Months @ 340 per month ..$2455*down 05 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER LS V1990 ....22 Months @ 390 per month ..$2875*down $

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The Vicksburg Post

Congratulations To Our Winners!

2010

Zarria King 12 years old

Kate Simrall 5 years old

Thank You to our Easter Sponsors

DaMarion Harris 8 years old Family Dentistry New Patients Welcome

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The Pet Shop “Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”

2106 Cherry St. Vicksburg, MS

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Mon.-Fri. 9am-7pm Sat. 9am-3pm Closed Sunday

Johnny Sanders Specializing In: Remodeling, Additions, 601-629-7808 Storm & Fire Damage Repairs, Drainage & Erosion Control

Sanders Hollingsworth Builders

1601-A N. Frontage Road Vicksburg, MS 39180

601-636-7474

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Licensed by the State of MS & the City of Vicksburg

Everything you need for your Fish, Hermit Crabs & Doggies.

Pets are welcome.

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Six convenient locations serving the Vicksburg area

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