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Notice for “Belzoni Heart of the Delta Sign” DonationsIf you would like to donate to the Belzoni Heart of the Delta Sign project and have your name or business and dedication or memorial inscribed in the monument,

you can still do so with a contribution on or before July 31, 2019. Please make your tax-deductible checks payable to:Heart of the Delta Foundation Post Office Box 145 Belzoni, MS 39038-0145You can also donate via credit card or online at: http://www.belzonims.com/heartofthedeltasigns.htm or call 662-247-4838 between 10 am and 2 pm Monday-Friday

with any questions.

Health Officials Remind Parents Notto Wait for Back to School Immunizations

JACKSON, Miss. -While it seems that the school year just ended, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) reminds parents not to wait until the last minute for back-to school immunizations. Mississippi state law requires children to be immunized against childhood diseases to enter public or private school, Head Start or daycare.

More than 99 percent of all students entering kindergarten

in Mississippi are up to date on their immunizations, pro-tecting them -and others who cannot be vaccinated - against potentially deadly diseases.

“There are many options for where to get your vac-cinations now, including pri-vate medical providers, retail pharmacies and county health departments,” said MSDH State Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers. “Regardless of where you have your child vaccinat-

ed, it’s incredibly important to make sure they are up to date on their immunizations. It is the best protection for your child and those around them.”

There are required vaccina-tions for first-time school en-try in Mississippi as well as a requirement for 7’” grade entry.

“A Tdap (tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis) booster vac-cination is required for those entering seventh grade. To

make sure your adolescent is completely protected, we also recommend they get the HPV (human papillomavirus) and meningococcal vaccinations at the same time,” said Dr. Byers.

Parents must provide the school with a Certificate of Immunization Compliance (Form 121) from their im-munization provider prior to school entry.

You may check with your physician or county health de-

partment if you have questions about which immunizations your child will need. Child-hood immunizations are avail-able at county health depart-ments by appointment.

For more information on im-munization requirements or medical exemptions for school entry, visit www.HealthyMS.com/immunizations.

Follow MSDH by e-mail and social media at HealthyMS.comiconnect.

The Humphrey’s County 10U all-stars played in their district tournament in Cleveland on Tuesday and Wednes-day!! On Tuesday they won by a score of 8 to 2 and on Wednesday they won 12 to 7 to claim the District Championship!!!! Kneeling: Kaleb McMillan, Bobby Foreman, Jamarvin Morgan, Davion Donelson, Talan Swan, Dashun Cooperwood, Aaden Little, Percy Jefferson, Damien James, Larjaveon Edwards, Daniel Holmes and Christopher Lowe. Standing: Coach Doyle Baymon, Coach Hollie Baymon and Coach Kiwanis Murphy Jr.

They will be playing at state, July 12-15 in Mendenhall, MS.

1962Among the newly elected

student council officers at Mis-sissippi Delta Junior College at Moorhead are Jimmy Chit-tom of Belzoni, president.

***The Indianola Production

Credit Association hosted a luncheon meeting attended by CPAs at Weber’s Restau-rant on May 4th. Those from Belzoni attending were J. T. Bridges and Frank Monk.

***Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hawk

and daughter, Beth, of At-lanta, GA, left Monday after a week’s visit in the home of their mother, Mrs. Clyde Er-win.

***Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cerame,

Jr., and children of New Or-leans, LA, were guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ce-rame, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Warren last week.

***Mr. and Mrs. “Snooty” Mo-

reland visited relatives and friends here last week.

***Happy Birthday: June 22 -

Edwin Williams, Jr., Harriet Underwood, Laura Ann Lu-cas, Hilda Shapero; June 23rd - Mrs. Mildred Riggs, Mrs. Ma-mie Higdon; June 24th - Larry Solomon; June 25th - Sallie Lou Bush, Mrs. Rosa Mae Hardin, Jane Vickers, Mrs. Joe Carr, Nancy Regan; June 26th - Bettye Rose Cartwright; June 27th – Newana Dotson Cohn, Gene E. Jones; June 28th – Mrs. Lillian Ostrov.

***Brownie Scout Troop #129

held its first meeting of the year October 10th. Members present were Donna Bates, Barrie Jo Bridgers, Ginger Hale, Kathy Lucas, Sandy Nichols, Jan Paschal, and Ramona Pugh. New mem-bers welcomed were Susan Armstrong, Jan Switzer, Deb-bie Whittington, and Regina Riley. Leaders are Mrs. D. I. Bridgers and Mrs. W. R. Pas-chal.

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Mr. O. W. Bartleson of John-son City, New York, a wartime buddy of John C. Halbrook in WWI, is visiting in the Hal-brook home.

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Mary Sue Hughes, who is in the Navy’s WAVE program, is now stationed in Washing-ton, DC, and is working for the Atomic Energy Commis-sion and the Bureau of Ships. Mary is the daughter of Mar-tha Ellen Hughes of Belzoni, and a graduate of Belzoni High School.

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The first cotton bloom for the 1962 crop was brought to this office by H. H. Briggs on June 14th. It was planted on April 17th.

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Mrs. C. H. Barron of Macon, GA, and children, visited their mother and grandmother, Mrs. Jean Ayers, last week.

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Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Sorrell at-tended a luncheon in Memphis last Sunday for the Mid-South Orchid Society. Mrs. Sorrell is a member and grows beauti-ful orchids.

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Mr. and Mrs. Van Trantham of McComb, MS, were guests of relatives here Sunday.

Cooper elected MPA-MPS presidentBILOXI—A career news-

paperman from Natchez was elected president of the state newspaper media trade group during its annual convention on Mississippi’s gulf coast.

Kevin Cooper, Senior Vice

President/Digital and Special Projects for Boone Newspa-pers, Inc., was elected to serve as leader of the Board of Di-rectors for the Mississippi Press Association at its 153rd Annual Convention June 21.

Cooper, 48, is the former longtime publisher and editor of The Natchez Democrat and has served on the MPA Board since 2012. A Gulf Coast na-tive, he is a 1993 journalism graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi and member of its School of Com-munication Hall of Fame.

Cooper, an accomplished photojournalist, served as a staff photographer for The Natchez Democrat after grad-uating, and eventually moved to Biloxi as a photographer for The Sun Herald. He rejoined Boone Newspapers in 1998 as a management trainee and returned to Natchez before be-ing named its managing edi-tor in 1999. He later served as publisher of the Boone-owned Ironton (Ohio) Tribune and once again returned to Nat-chez as publisher in 2006.

He was named to his current position in early 2019.

Cooper and his wife, Julie, a

former editor for The Natchez Democrat and Natchez the Magazine, have two children, Anna and James.

Cooper will also a serve concurrently as president of Mississippi Press Services, an advertising and marketing subsidiary of MPA.

The publisher of The Wino-na Times and The Conserva-tive in Carrollton was elected to serve a three-year term on the Board. Amanda Sexton Ferguson started her newspa-per career at her hometown newspaper, The Southaven Press, where she was eventu-ally named editor. She also spent five years as the Com-munications Coordinator for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South, directing the organization’s marketing, public relations, and brand development. She joined the Times in 2007.

Lisa Bryant of The Pontotoc Progress was elected to fill

a two-year unexpired term. Bryant began working in the newspaper industry in 1991 at the Progress as an advertising consultant. She later served as advertising manager and general manager before being named Associate Publisher/Community Newspapers for Tupelo-based Journal, Inc., the parent company of the Progress.

Also elected to officer posi-tions were First Vice President Jack Ryan of the Enterprise-Journal in McComb, Second Vice President Stephanie Pat-ton of The Leland Progress, and Treasurer George R. “Rus-sell” Turner of The Greene County Herald in Leakesville.

Paul Keane, publisher of The Wayne County News in Waynesboro, becomes Im-mediate Past President of the Association and Chairman of the Board for the Mississippi Press Association Education Foundation.

First Cotton Bloom

The first cotton bloom this year was reported on June 20th by Thomas Hairston of Riven Oak Farms. It was Delta Pine 1518 and was planted on April 3rd.

PAGE TWO THE BELZONI BANNER JULY 3, 2019

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All land owned by he Sand-ers Estate is posted against all forms of trespassing. All previous permissions hereby revoked. Violators will be prosecuted.

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TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on November 5, 2012, Sarah

Shareen Brown, single, executed a Deed of Trust to W. Stewart Robison, Trustee for Green Tree Servicing LLC, Benefi ciary, which Deed of Trust is recorded in Land Deed of Trust Book 287, at Page 477, in the offi ce of the Chancery Clerk of Humphreys County, Mississippi;

AND WHEREAS, this Deed of Trust was ultimately assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for NRZ Pass-Through Trust IV, by instrument recorded in Book 330, at Page 412, in the offi ce of the Chancery Clerk aforesaid;

AND WHEREAS, default having been made in payment of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note and Deed of Trust having requested the under-signed Trustee so to do, I will on the 16th day of July, 2019, off er for sale at public outcry and sell during legal hours between the hours of 11:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M., at the north front door of the County Courthouse of Humphreys County, at Belzoni, Mississippi, for cash to the highest and best bidder, the following described land and property, situated in Humphreys County, Mississippi, to-wit:

Starting at a point on the South boundary lie of Unit #5 of the McDaniels and Cold Lake Subdivision as recorded in Plat Book 2, Page 26, Humphreys County, Mississippi, this point being at its intersection with the West right of way of the public blacktop road; thence run North along said road right of way for 330 feet to a point being the point of beginning. Thence run West 195 feet to a point; thence run South 11 degrees East for 108 feet to a point; thence run East 195 feet to a point on the West right of way of the public blacktop road; thence Northerly 108 feet along the right of way of the public blacktop road to the point of beginning and close. This tract containing .48 acres, more or less, being located in Section 17, Township 16 North, Range 4 West, Humphreys County, Mississippi.

I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Trustee.

WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this, the 12th day of June, 2019./s/ W. Stewart Robison, TrusteePublish: June 19, 26, July 3, and 10, 2019BannerROBISON & HOLMES, SOLS.384 24-27---------------------------------------------

STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF HUMPHREYS

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE’SNOTICE OF SALE

WHEREAS, on December 29, 2017, Brian Terrell Mabry executed a certain Deed of Trust to Cousie Giglio, Trustee, in favor of Guaranty Bank & Trust Company as benefi ciary; said deed of trust appearing of record in Trust Deed Book 322, at Page 72, of the deed of trust re-cords as contained in the offi ce of the Chancery Clerk of Humphreys County, Mississippi; and

WHEREAS, W. C. Trotter, III was appointed Substituted Trustee in the Deed of Trust afore-mentioned by instrument dated and recorded April 15, 2019, in the offi ce of the Chancery Clerk aforementioned in Trust Deed Book 330, Page 583, thereof; and

WHEREAS, default having been made under the terms and conditions of said deed of trust and the entire debt secured thereby, having been declared to be due and payable in ac-cordance with the terms of said deed of trust, and the legal holder of said debt, Guaranty Bank & Trust Company, Belzoni, Mississippi, having requested the undersigned Substituted Trustee to execute the trust and sell said land and property in accordance with the terms of said deed of trust for the purpose of raising the sum due thereunder, together with attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees and expenses of sale.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, the undersigned, W. C. TROTTER, III, Substituted Trustee in said deed of trust, will on

THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2019off er for sale at public outcry and sell within legal hours (being between the hours of 11:00 A. M. and 4:00 P. M.) at the North Front Door of the Humphreys County Courthouse at Belzoni, Mississippi, to the highest and best bidder for cash, property lying and being situated in Humphreys County, Mississippi, and more particularly described as follows, to-wit:

The West 50 feet of Lots 1,2 and 3, Block 13, Original Town of Isola (formerly Lake Dawson), Humphreys County, Mississippi, as per map or plat thereof on fi le in the offi ce of the Chancery Clerk of Humphreys County, Mississippi, together with all tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto in any wise appertaining.

I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substituted Trustee.

WITNESS my signature, this the 10th day of June 2019./s/W. C. TROTTER, III, Substituted Trustee121 East Jackson StreetP. O. Drawer 338Belzoni, MS 39038Tel. No. 662/247-1362Fax No. 662/247-3333393 24-27---------------------------------------------

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POSTEDAll land owned or leased by Kenny Rodgers is posted against all forms of trespassing, including 16th Section land & all Lundy property. All violators will be pros-ecuted.

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POSTEDAll land owned, rented or leased by Danny Pearson Farms is posted against all forms of trespassing. All previ-ous permissions are revoked. All violators will be prosecuted.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NOTICEMississippi Achievement School District

ForHumphreys County and Yazoo City

401 Fourth StreetBelzoni, MS 39038

(662) 247-6000Notice is hereby given that the Mississippi

Achievement School District (mASD) will receive proposals up to July 17, 2019 for Professional Learning services that support curriculum, instruction, assessment, social and emotional behavior, leadership and program evaluation at the school and district level in Humphreys County and Yazoo City. All propos-als must be sealed and delivered by 3:30 p.m. July 17, 2019. For more information contact

Dr. Angel Meeks, Federal Programs Director at aldmeeks@masd.k12.ms.us or 662-247-6000.

All proposals shall be F.O.B. Belzoni, Mississippi. The right is reserved to accept or reject proposals on each item separately or as a whole.

s/Jermall Wright/Dr. Jermall Wright, Superintendent

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TICKET SALES OPEN FOR THE SANDERSON FARMS

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tickets sales opened July 1st for the 2019 Sanderson Farms Championship, scheduled for September 16-22 at The Country Club of Jackson. The event has moved up on the PGA TOUR schedule, now being played six weeks earlier than in recent years.

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Ticket sales for the tournament are available through Ticketmaster. Spectators may still visit the tournament’s website to access ticket sales, or go directly to ticketmaster.com and search Sanderson Farms Championship. Day-specifi c tickets are $30, Good-Any-Day tickets are $35, and youth under 18 are admitted free with a ticketed adult. Single day tickets (including grounds admission) are available for the Trophy Club, a shared hospitality venue on the 8th green, and the BankPlus Fan Pavilion on the 12th green. Both venues provide an open-air setting for guests to enjoy all the action, along with food and beverage service, which is included in the Trophy Club and available for purchase in the BankPlus Fan Pavilion.

Admission to the Wednesday Allen Exploration Pro-Am is free for spectators. Anyone attending this event will still need to present a ticket, which can be ordered in advance online or picked up at Will Call in the Northpark parking lot.

Parking and shuttle transportation for spectators will be at Northpark on County Line Road in Ridgeland. Accessible parking spaces will be located at Christ United Methodist Church on Old Canton Road in Jackson.

Proceeds from all ticket sales go to Friends of Children’s Hospital, a nonprofit organization created to support Batson Children’s Hospital, part of Children’s of Mississippi. For a complete listing of ticket packages or to order, ndersonfarmschampionship.com/tickets. For more information on ticket sales, please call the Sanderson Farms Championship offi ce at 601.898.4653.

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF HUMPHREYS COUNTYSTATE OF MISSISSIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFGRADY L. WINSTEAD, SR., DECEASED

CAUSE NO. 2019-041JAMES R. WINSTEAD, SR., EXECUTOR

NOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters Testamentary having been granted on

the 26th day of June, 2019, by the Chancery Court of Humphreys County, Mississippi, to the undersigned Executor upon the Estate of Grady L. Winstead, Sr., deceased, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to the clerk of this court for probate and registration according to the law within ninety (90) days from the fi rst publication of this notice or they will be forever barred.

THIS the 26th day of June, 2019./s/ James R. Winstead, Sr. JAMES R. WINSTEAD, SR., ExecutorOF COUNSEL:Noel D. Crook, Attorney at LawMSB #7882213 N. Hayden StreetP. O. Box 342Belzoni, MS 39038Telephone: (662) 247-4013

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ABRAHAMGATES

Justice Court JudgeNorthern District

Humphreys CountyAugust 6, 2019

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All land owned by David M. Halbrook and AMTA Farms is posted against all forms of trespassing. All previous permissions are hereby revoked. Vio-lators will be prosecuted.

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All land owned by David M. Halbrook and AMTA Farms is posted against all forms of trespassing. All previous permissions hereby revoked. Violators will be prosecuted.

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POSTEDAll land owned or leased by Kenny Rodgers is posted against all forms of trespassing, including 16th Section land & all Lundy property. All violators will be pros-ecuted.

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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF HUMPHREYS COUNTYSTATE OF MISSISSIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFJIMMIE LOU OUTLAW DOMINO,

DECEASEDCAUSE NO. E-2018-165

CHARLES JOSEPH DOMINO andMARIE ANTOINETTE D. HARDIN, CO-EXECUTORS

NOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters Testamentary having been granted

on the 17th day of October, 2018, by the Chancery Court of Humphreys County, Mississippi, to the undersigned Executor upon the Estate of JIMMIE LOU OUTLAW DOMINO, deceased, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against said es-tate to present the same to the clerk of this court for probate and resignation according to the law within ninety (90) days from the fi rst publication of this notice or they will be forever barred.

THIS the 17th day of October, 2018./s/ CHARLES JOSEPH DOMINO CHARLES JOSEPH DOMINO/s/ MARIE ANTONIETTE D. HARDINMARIE ANTONIETTE D. HARDINNOEL D. CROOK, MSB #7882213 N. Hayden StreetP. O. Box 342Belzoni, MS 39038(662) 247-4013(662) 247-4092Attorney for Estate of Jimmie Lou Outlaw DominoPUBLISH:October 24, 2018October 31, 2018November 7, 2018November 14, 2018181 42-45

---------------------------------------------IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF HUMPHREYS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY N. PINKERTON, DECEASED

NO.E2018-0172BY: ROBERT SHELBY PINKERTON andLAURA P. TEDFORD, PETITIONERS

NOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters Testamentary having been grant-

ed on the 2nd day of November, 2018, by the Chancery Court of Humphreys County, Mississippi, in Cause No. E2018-0172, to Robert Shelby Pinkerton and Laura P. Tedford upon the Estate of Mary N. Pinkerton, de-ceased, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against said estate to present same to the Clerk of said Court for probate and registration according to law within ninety (90) days from the date of the fi rst publication of this notice, or they will be forever barred.

This 7th day of November, 2018./s/Robert Shelby PinkertonLaura P. TedfordCo-Executors of the Estate of Mary N. Pinkerton, Deceased,OF COUNSEL:Robert N. Warrington, MSBN 6972CAMPBELL DeLONG, LLPPost Offi ce Box 1856Greenville, Mississippi 38702-1856Telephone: (662) 335-6011Facsimile: (662) 334-6407

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CRAZY DREAMS Do you ever have crazy dreams or nightmares as some call them? I often dream, but they aren’t crazy night-mares very often. When I have crazy dreams, I wake up wondering what in the world is going on. Did I eat some food that disagreed with me? Was there something in my day that should have given me a heads up that something was amiss? On the eve of our return from South Africa this past week, I had one of the craziest, weirdest dreams I’ve had in a very long time. It wasn’t one of those crazy dreams where you are dreaming that you are falling out of the sky without a parachute and wake up with a jolt just before hitting the ground! Nor was it one of those frightening dreams where some terrible person or some monster or hob gobblin is reaching out to grab you, and you wake up with a jolt! This crazy dream was really, really weird on so many levels. First of all, though I had done a little hunting while in South Africa this year, I hadn’t taken a shotgun to do some bird hunting, which I normally do. I knew we wouldn’t have time to hunt Francolin Quail, Guinea Fowl or any of the four or fi ve sub-species of doves to be found on Sofala game farm. On top of that, we are still a full two months away from the Opening Day of dove season, the grandest social function in the Missis-sippi Delta every September. Here’s how the dream went. I was dove hunting, not in South Africa, but in Humphreys County, Mississippi, USA. The setting was familiar to me, a property on Highway 12 west of Belzoni. The home of one of my friends, with whom I have hunted doves on numerous occasions over the years, was on one side of me. On the other side was another friend’s home, with whom I have never hunted, and whose home isn’t next door to the fi rst friend. That part of the dream didn’t bother me too much and certainly didn’t wake me up. It was incongruous, yes, but not crazy in the sense to which things would shortly turn to. The doves were fl ying like every bird hunter dreams they will the night before Opening Day. I was hitting one dove after another (I told you it was a dream!), which I never do. I was checking how many doves I had taken, so as to stay within the legal limit, when I noticed the shadow of a bird fl ying by. As soon as I raised the shotgun up to take the shot, something seemed crazy, weird, really out place. Just as I was about to pull the trigger on the large, strange-looking dove, Jimmy Duke, my ag pilot friend, hollered, “Don’t shoot my dog!” In my dream, I pulled the shotgun off to the side of the target as I pulled the trigger. I didn’t shoot his dog, but the dog came tumbling down as if it was shot. Horrifi ed, I dropped my shotgun and caught the dog, returning him to Jimmy with a real sheepish look on my face. As I handed Jimmy the dog, he said, “That’s not my dog! I have never had anything but German Shepherds, and that’s a Boston Terrier.” Sorry, Louise Toney, I almost shot your fl ying dog! By this time, I woke up in a sweat. I had almost shot somebody’s dog! What’s even crazier than the dream is that I woke up in a sweat. Joy and Louis’ house in Pretoria is cold as Christmas this time of year. How cold? Well, there are mornings when you can see you breath, which qualifi es as cold to me. Anyway, I was relieved to get home and fi nd out that I hadn’t shot Jimmy’s dog, or anyone else’s for that matter. It was just another crazy dream. Have you had any crazy dreams lately? If so, send me a note and share your crazy dream with me. Believing that crazy dreams put strange situations and people together who wouldn’t otherwise be connected may be a long shot for some of you, but…whatever you do, don’t be afraid to go with the long shots. Live life to its fullest every moment and be ready!

POSTEDAll land and buildings owned or leased (including the racetrack) by Aycock Farms, Inc., Aycock, LPand Brooks Aycock III is posted against all trespassing. Hunting, fi shing, motorcycle riding is prohibited. All violators will be prosecuted. Brooks Aycock III 10-9

F I N I S H T H E P U M P SDear Audubon Mississippi:I have lived in the Delta for almost 46 years. I spent 14 years working in the

Yazoo backwater fl ood aff ected area as a conservation offi cer for the MDWFP. I have put my boots on the ground in every National Wildlife Refuge and Wildlife Management Area you are claiming will be harmed by the pumps. I was the guy stepping out from behind a tree in the woods, protecting the resource for a living, day and night, 24/7/365 for 14 years. Prior to that I guided waterfowl hunts and sprayed agricultural crops for a living in the South Delta. I have been there, done that, and got the t-shirt. Do you not realize how deep the water is in Delta National Forest, Panther

Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Theodore Roosevelt NWR, Mahannah Wild-life Management Area, Howard Miller WMA, Phil Bryant WMA, and other areas right now? How many wading and shorebirds are using those areas right now? None! Because the water is deep enough for a gannet to dive in and catch a fi sh!! How many turkeys have nested successfully in the south Delta this year, or last year, or in the last 10 years? How many meadowlarks, bobwhites, indigo buntings and other songibird species that utilize open fi elds or nest on the ground are bene-fi tting from this fl ood? We have a huge population of resident mourning doves in the Delta. I banded them during the summer months for MDWFP for many years. They are seed eaters and all those weed seeds that they would normally be eating right now are under water. Audubon Mississippi, I am a birder and you have not thought this through. At

87 feet above sea level, which is the level the pumps would drain the water down to, places like Mahannah would still be several feet underwater. Nearly all of the open fi elds at Mahannah, which provide excellent shorebird and wading bird habi-tat, would be under 1-7 feet of water at 87’. I have a bird record on fi le and a pho-tograph of a snowy owl at Mahannah WMA. The location that owl was observed several years ago is currently 12 feet under water. Several thousand acres in DNF will be under water at 87 feet. Right now, you can drive a boat down 703 Road which is at 92 feet; it is 6 feet under water! Installing the pumps will not drain wetlands dry. We will still have all of the sloughs and brakes full of water at 87’, and many other areas normally dry in summer and fall will be under water at 87’. On the Audubon Mississippi website you have 26 bird species listed as a priority.

12 of those birds are coastal birds that the Delta fl oods have little to no impact on. 14 of those 26 frequent the Delta. How many Swainson’s warblers are walking on the forest fl oor in the canebrakes searching for insects right now? It spends its time at or near the ground hunting for food. How many king rails, short-billed dowitchers, semipalmated sandpipers, and western sandpipers, are utilizing shore-bird and wading bird habitat in the South Delta right now when it is under 12 feet of water? The last time I photographed a dowitcher or a sandpiper, it was in water 1-2” deep. Their legs, as you well know, aren’t long enough for twelve feet of wa-ter! How many grass seeds are available for the fi eld sparrow right now when the water is 12 feet deep? How many song sparrows are scratching on the ground for food right now? How many ovenbirds and wood thrushes are taking insects from leaf litter and rotting logs on the forest fl oor right now, since it is under 5-12 feet of water? That’s 9 of your 26 “priority species” that are negatively impacted by this fl ood and have been for the last 6 months in those wildlife refuges you claim will be drained if the pumps are installed. One-third of your priority birds have lost 554,000 acres of prime habitat because we don’t have pumps!I won’t even get started on terrestrial species like the cotton-tailed rabbit, white-

tailed deer, timber rattlesnake, Louisiana black bear and others that are dead or starving from this fl ood that has been impacting them in the bottomlands for 6 months now. I also won’t discuss the 225,000 acres of crop land that won’t get planted this year that normally provide excellent wintering habitat for hundreds of thousands of waterfowl in the Mississippi Flyway. Audubon Mississippi, get out of your Jackson metro area neighborhoods and

spend some time on the ground in the South Delta before you urge the EPA to reconsider changing its stance on the pumps. P.S. That’s a pintail hen in the article photo. They nest in Canada and the Prairie

Pothole region of North and South Dakota. Installing the pumps won’t harm them one bit, but when they fl y south this winter, all those fi elds in the South Delta they normally feed in (the ones you are wanting farmers to enroll in the WRP program) will not have one stitch of waste grain for them. So on to south Louisiana they will go. Sincerely,A Concerned Delta ConservationistRob Hefl in #fi nishthepumps #forgottenbackwaterfl ood

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ROBERT LEO VINSONRobert Leo Vinson, 75, of

Yazoo City, passed away Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at The University of Missis-sippi Medical Center in Jackson. Retired as a Fish Farm Manager, he was a United States Marine veter-an of The Vietnam War and a member of the Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife; Patricia Vinson; daughter, Stephanie Will-ingham; son, Robert Lee Vinson; grandson, Jay Will-ingham; granddaughter, Anna Rose Willingham all of Yazoo City; and sisters, Ada Redding of Lucedale, and Nellie (Gerald) John-son of Belzoni. Robert was predeceased by his parents, Johnny and Hazel Vinson; and two sisters, Abbie Crid-dle and Cornelia Sherrer.

Services were held Sat-urday, June 22, 2019 at St. John’s United Method-ist Church with visitation starting at 9:00 a.m. until the 11:00 a.m. service with Rev. Wayne Johnson offi ci-ating. Internment followed in Gooden Lake Cemetery in Humphreys County with Masonic and Military Rites.

Pallbearers were Jay Willingham, Charlie Mc-Cullough, David Mc-Cullough, Michael Lang, Kenny Eubanks and Gary Davis. Honorary pallbear-ers were Bobby Gilmer, Johnny Rowland, Lonnie Allen, Billy George Janous, John McGrew and Harvey Williams.

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PEGGY EDWARDSBARTON

Peggy Edwards Barton, 77, of Meridian, and for-merly of Indianola, passed away Thursday, June 27, 2019 at Brookdale Assisted Living Facility in Meridian.

Peggy was born March 7, 1942 in Kilmichael, to William Lavert Edwards and Jessie Mae Palmer-tree Edwards. She taught school for over 40 years, teaching in the Indianola Public Schools, Indianola Academy, Belzoni Schools, and Central Delta Acad-emy. Peggy was a former member of the Indianola Civic League and the Da-vid Holmes Chapter of the DAR. She was a loving and caring mother and grand-mother and was always very family oriented. Peg-gy loved to travel, solve crossword puzzles, and loved eating Tootsie Roll Pops. She was a dedicated member of Fairview Bap-tist Church in Indianola. Peggy was truly a southern lady, and absolutely loved the Delta.

She was preceded in death by her parents; Lavert and Jessie Mae Edwards; and her husband, Darrell Bar-ton.

Peggy is survived by two

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daughters, Melonye Barton Harvey and husband Wyatt of Meridian, and Lauren Barton Smith and husband Todd of Louisville; broth-er, Terry Edwards and wife Kim of Duncan; sister, Christi Terrell and husband Gary of Charlotte, North Carolina; sister in law, Jim-mie Ruth Barton Cannon of Brandon; lifelong friend, Bonnie Utz Reynolds of Pearl; and three grandchil-dren, Mary Drew Hall, Har-ley Smith, and Sybil Smith.

The family received friends Sunday, June 30, 2019 from 1:00 pm until

2:00 pm. The funeral ser-vice began at 2:00pm at Fairview Baptist Church in Indianola with Rever-end John T. Burke offi ci-ating. Burial was held in Fairview Cemetery. Burton Funeral Home of Indianola has been entrusted with ar-rangements.

Memorials may be made to Fairview Baptist Church, 500 Fairview Road, Indi-anola, MS 38751 or to the Alzheimer’s Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601.

The family would like to express their sincere thanks to the staff of Clarebridge Memory Loss Unit of Brookdale Assisted Living; and the staff of Compassus Hospice for their excellent care.

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WAYS TO MAKE GOING TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE LESS STRESSFUL!

Morning Toni:I found that even when all

the “i’s” are dotted and the “t’s” are crossed and the paperwork is filled out cor-rectly that Social Security can still royally screw up.

I personally filled the pa-perwork for Medicare with the words in Red written across the top for the SEP because I was laid off from my company, just as the Toni Says Medicare team told me to do.

The Social Security folks still incorrectly entered and processed the paper-work after I left their of-fice. It took three long telephone calls to get the information corrected, so that I wouldn’t have a Part B penalty forever.

What are the steps to make going to the Social Security office a little sim-pler? David from Talla-hassee, FL

Thank You, David:How to navigate the rules

of the local Social Security office enroll in Medicare can be confusing and are mentioned below:• Do: When applying

for Medicare Parts A and/or B when turning 65 and not receiving your Social Security check, one must go online to www.socialse-curity.gov/medicareonly at least 90 days prior you are turning 65. Social Security wants to streamline their system by enrolling Amer-ica online.• Do: When applying for

Medicare Parts A and/or B when past 65, a full-time working employee and leaving company benefits, be sure to have a signed “Request for Employ-ment” applications filled out for yourself and/or spouse and signed by your HR department with “Spe-cial Enrollment Period” written in red. • Do: Go directly to the

local Social Security office. Be sure to wait in line to speak with a representative and process your Medicare paperwork directly with the specific Social Security office. It is not advised to place paperwork in Social Security’s inside mail box-es or put in the mail. • Do: Always meet the

local Social Security agent face to face.• Do: File a “Change of

Life” form when your in-

come has lowered because you had a change such not working or reduce hours of working, death of a spouse or divorce and are no lon-ger make the income you made prior to enrolling in Medicare Part B. You must have Part B in place when filing a “Change of Life” form. • Do: Go to your area’s

Congressman, if you can-not get your problem with Social Security processed correctly. Take your prob-lem and how it has been processed to the Congress-man in your area. Sign off that the Congressman’s as-sistants can speak for you and let the Congressman’s aide’s search deep into So-cial Security’s back office.• Do: Always, always

receive copies of what the Social Security’s aide has processed. • Don’t: Give up!! If

you believe someone has processed your paperwork wrong. Keep calling or go back to the local Social Security office. I have a client that filling his “Life Change Event” event form took 5 months of not giv-ing up by going to the local Social Security office and calling various regional of-fices to have his problem solved…Never give up if you believe the paperwork is not processed properly.• Don’t: Mail copies

back to the Social Security office. Always go in per-son.

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All land owned, leased and rented by Little J Farms, Little J Hunt & Land, and James W. Sandifer, Jr. is posted against all forms of trespassing. All previous permissions are hereby revoked. Violators will be prosecuted.James W. Sandifer, Jr.

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THE STARFISH STORYSomeone once said, “The Hall Of Fame and Who’s Who contain

few portraits of men and women who were content with things as they were.” This is just another way of saying that these men and women really made a difference in some area of our society. Over the years I’ve heard a number of people make the comment, “I want to make a difference” and based on their reputation and station in life, I had a pretty good idea of what they meant. As you ponder these thoughts for just a moment, may I ask you a somewhat personal question? Have you ever made this state-ment? In other words, do you want your life to really count in terms of making a difference in the lives of other people. If you are a sensitive person and really do care about others, I believe you will appreciate what I want to share with you in this column.

A few weeks ago I was attending a reception at our local Chamber Of Commerce and ran into my long time friend and country neighbor Senator Stanley Russ. After exchanging greet-ings, I noticed that he was wearing a very unique lapel pin and I said something about it. He responded by saying, “this is a starfish” and then he went on to tell me the story about it. I didn’t think much more about it the time, but a few days later I received a nice note from Stanley and a little green card that contained “The Starfish Story” and a lapel pin for my own use.

If you have never heard this story before, I believe the message it contains will have a positive effect on your thinking and your life. The heading reads, “MAKING A DIFFERENCE”...A small boy was running up and down the beach, feverishly hurling star-fish back into the sea before they died. An old man approached him, “Do you honestly think your work will make a difference?” The boy looked at him with sparkling eyes, held up a starfish and said, “It will make a difference to this one”, and then threw the starfish back into the sea.

Now if you will think about this for a moment I believe you will agree that within the context of this simple story lies a principle that could make a difference to many, many people. The underly-ing principle that we should fix indelibly in our mind is that if the life of a starfish is important and has value, how much more so is the life of a precious human being. Here I’m reminded of the attitude that many people have, “I don’t have time to help you, I’m on my way to church.” Now, please don’t misunderstand. I’m not putting Christians down because I am one, but I do think we each need to stop from time-to-time and evaluate our priorities.

Before I close this column, I would like to go back to the thought of “making a difference.” It’s been my experience that when most people think of making a difference, they think of something big and newsworthy...in other words something that gets recognition or makes the headlines. While this is an important part of making a difference like the people I talked about earlier in the Hall Of Fame and Who’s Who, in no way does it end there. The world is crying out, “pay attention to me!” Many times the only thing that’s necessary for us to make a difference in the life of someone else is to be aware of their needs and listen with our ears and our heart.

I believe my friend Cavett Robert of Scottsdale, Arizona said it best when he said, “I am only one. But I am one. I cannot do everything but I can do something. Therefore what I can do I should do ...and the grace of God I will do.” -- (EDITOR’S NOTE: Jim Davidson is a motivational speaker and columnist. You may contact him at 2 Bentley Drive, Conway, Arkansas 72032.)

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LAW UPDATESJULY 1, 2019 was the day

that the new NO-Call law went into effect. What does that mean?

BUSINESSES are now able to register their business land-lines and cellphones on the list. If you want to register, you must do so online at www.psc.ms.gov/nocall/home. Fol-low the link and sign up the numbers you want blocked. You will also need to desig-nate a point of contact for the business who can give per-mission for the PSC to issue subpoenas for phone records in order to track down illegal telemarketers.

CHARITIES who use paid telemarketers must register with the PSC. If member of a charity’s staff makes cold calls to ask for money, the char-ity must register. If you have questions or if you are ready to register please call 601-961-5450.

Violations of the NO-CALL Law now carry a $10,000.00 fine per violation. Please help us in our pursuit of these il-legal telemarketers by regis-tering and then reporting any violations.

Here is a link to an inter-view with Chairman Brandon Presley that you might be in-terested in reading: https://www.djournal .com/news/what- to-know-about- the-no-call-law-changes-taking/article_7e220924-680b-5f31-8fbb-1f5f416e43cf.html

Contact the Commission at 601-961-5430 to report an incident or to be listed on the Mississippi No-Call List.------------------------------------

CONSERVATION CORNERJuly is National Park and

Recreation Monthby James L. Cummins

Since 1985, America has celebrated July as National Park and Recreation Month, celebrating unbridled outdoor rec-reation and encouraging everyone to explore their local recreational facilities and parks in honor of summer and the beauty of nature.

The beginning of July marks a time of celebration, and often leads into a great summer of activities and programs for groups of all ages, such as hiking and fishing, educa-tional and innovative fairs and festivals, park tours, and much more.

Designated in 1985 as National Park and Recreation Month by the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), the month of July is ideal for groups and families to rediscover their local parks and visit new ones. Encour-aging outdoor physical activity and actively promoting parks and recreation in communities across the country, the NRPA actively supports and promotes creative celebra-tions through their magazine Parks & Recreation, and en-courages communities and townships to submit their own celebration and activity information.

The object of the NRPA and National Park and Recre-ation Month isn’t just to encourage outdoor recreational activity and increase park visitation, but also to recognize and salute those who work in the parks system to make our park experience enjoyable and unforgettable. The beauty of a park can reside within our hearts and minds long after we have left, and children and adults alike will certainly enjoy the tranquility and peace of such natural serenity. We should consider the care and effort that goes into maintain-ing our parks by the vast number of park employees who dedicate themselves to the difficult but rewarding task of park maintenance.

You can check your park websites, or activity listings in your local papers, to find out what programs, festivals, and activities may be occurring in your area in honor of National Park and Recreation Month. Many communities celebrate enthusiastically with park pride days, nature fes-tivals, park picnics, group hikes, community sports events, park beautification activities, and much more.

Outdoor recreation is a key factor of National Recreation and Parks Month, focusing on the need for physical activ-ity, and what better place to enjoy physical activity than during the many beautiful summer days in the month of July. Although the many activities and celebrations can be overwhelmingly fun, the importance of physical activity should not be forgotten, and should especially be instilled in children and young adults.

The NRPA website, nrpa.org, contains more information and tools for communities to utilize in order to create their own list of activities and celebrations. Samples of procla-mations and press releases are available for download, as well as a sample calendar of activities and important infor-mation to let everyone in the community know that July is National Recreation and Parks Month.

James L. Cummins is executive director of Wildlife Mis-sissippi, a non-profit, conservation organization founded to conserve, restore, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plant re-sources throughout Mississippi. Their web site is www.wild-lifemiss.org.----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Belzoni Heart of the Delta Sign, Last Call for DonationsBy Ann Simmons Tanner

Draft sketch of the monument recognizing supporters and contributors of the Belzoni Heart of the Delta Sign. The final monument will be different, but should be similar.

I hope everyone has had a chance to see the Belzoni Heart of the Delta Sign in person or in photos or video since the dedication on March 16, 2019. On that date, we had a beautiful reception at Alison’s Restaurant in Belzoni, followed by the official illumi-nation of the sign later that evening. It was such fun to see long-time friends at the reception and to meet new friends who came to the dedication.

Since the illumination, members of the Project Team and I have heard from many people who sent their appreciation to all who donated and worked to make the sign a reality. I would like to share a few of those comments here.

Jon Turner notes that a friend told him that she had to pull her car over the first time she saw the sign because “Tears were stream-ing down into her eyes” with joy.

Mary John Gammons said she started crying when the sign was illuminated because of all the memories the sign brought back. She reports that she and Bay Gammons sometimes drive to Belzoni at night just to see the sign.

I have two friends from Kansas who were driving to Florida for vacation. They made a special trip to Belzoni to see the sign. They were very impressed with the prominence and quality of the sign, and they sent a photo back saying, ”We were in Belzoni, Mississippi”!

I was out on a weekly birding excursion with a group in Kansas and saw a friend that I had not seen for awhile. He greeted me with an exclamation, “I enjoyed reading about your hometown sign and seeing the pics”! We were standing with a large group, and of course, everyone wanted to hear the story. They were amazed, and their hearts were warmed by our story.

Marshall Ramsey, a famous political cartoonist, posted a photo of the sign on Instagram on April 4, 2019.Renowned artist Bill Dunlap commented that Belzoni is the “Heart of the Delta, and Belzonians have large hearts”. He traveled

to Belzoni during his work in the Delta, snapped a photo of the sign, and posted with his comment.So…Word is traveling fast about the Belzoni Heart of the Delta sign.We are now moving into the final phase of the project. Our last step is to erect a monument near the sign to recognize supporters

and contributors. We are working with Columbus Marble Works (established in 1846). Their experts have prepared a draft sketch of the monument for us (see photo). Suffice to say, the monument will be beautiful and almost as majestic as our beloved sign. It will be constructed of grey granite with the inscriptions engraved on a black granite panel.

The monument will recognize Belzoni as “The Heart of the Delta” and will list donors and contributors to the sign in the various categories of giving. We currently have well over 200 individual or group donors, and we plan to recognize all donors with an in-scription on the monument. Some donations were made as memorial contributions and will be listed “In Memory Of” a loved one. Others were from individual contributors, and they will be listed by name only.

To finalize construction of the monument, we need to have all donations received and all inscriptions written. If you intended to donate but never got around to it, now is your chance. If you would like to make a contribution as a memorial to a loved one, please do so. If you own a business in Belzoni or in a surrounding area of the Delta and would like to give back to our community with recognition of your business on the monument, please make a contribution. Because of the materials used to build the monument, we will not have the opportunity to add inscriptions after it is erected. So…if you would like to contribute, please do not delay. We would like to close out all donations on or before July 31, 2019.

In closing, the Heart of the Delta Sign Team including Mark Bellipanni, Lee Ann Mohamed Moore, Doug Turner, Jon Turner, and I would like to thank you for your support and contributions to the Belzoni Heart of the Delta Sign. Sadly, Melba Berger Wil-liams, who was the inspiration for the sign project is no longer with us. Our team knows Melba would be thrilled and would be so grateful for your support. We are mighty proud of our beloved sign that will shine brightly to welcome visitors to Belzoni. It will be a symbol of pride for our hometown and will represent “Home” and an amazing memory for so many of us and our families for years to come.

If you would like to donate to the sign project and have your name and dedication or memorial inscribed in the monument, you can still do so. Please make your tax deductible checks payable to:

Heart of the Delta Foundation, Post Office Box 145, Belzoni, MS 39038-0145

You can also donate via credit card or online at: http://www.belzonims.com/heartofthedeltasigns.htm or call 662-247-4838 between 10 am and 2 pm Monday-Friday with any questions.

BIG JIM TURNS 45

Big Jim, my old rubber tree, just turned 45, and still

looks great because of a unique Doctor Who ability to start over when neces-sary.

When the tropical tree, which wants to be big enough for the Swiss Fam-ily Robinson to live in, gets too large to fit in my cab-in, I simply it bac to leaf-less brown stumps. Looks shocking, but within weeks, out sprouts strong new stems with lustrous leaves. I’ve done this maybe ten times over the decades.

That’s not really harsh; we do it with overgrown aza-leas, crape myrtles, roses,

hollies, and other shrubs all the time, and they come back stronger than ever.

And this is a good time, actually getting close to the last call, to whack old shrubs back. This is especially true of spring blooming azaleas, blueberries, and the like, which need extra time to set flower buds for next spring. Be sure to come back after a few weeks to “tip prune” the new growth to make it bushy instead of long and leggy. No pruning past mid-August.

But back to Big Jim. He and a couple others have

survived under my care since the 1970s, which is more testament to their desire to survive than my gardening skills. Though it’s possible to nurture and coax finicky plants like or-chids, African violets, poin-settias, and the like to sur-vive indoors, if neglected just once they can quickly decline and become fit only for the compost.

Plants grown indoors need simple things: Warmth, decent light, pretty good potting soil, an occasional feeding, watering when needed, and - this is the real kicker for most - humidity.

Plants can tolerate more of less of all those, with varying results, especially if kept in the bright light near south or west facing windows, or right in east windows; some with broad leaves will get leggy but can survive at least for a while, even near office lamps.

And some don’t need a lot of water, if they are in de-cent soil, just an occasional soaking. And anyone who has ever neglected an old plant will agree that many can go years without fertil-izer, though they don’t per-form all that well.

But air-conditioning and central heating pull away the last straw for those plants that are native to tropical jungles or misty mountains and simply can’t survive without humidity. And misting only helps for a few minutes, until it evap-orates.

What I do is cluster plants close together, sometimes pots-in-pots, which looks more natural but more im-portantly creates a humid micro-climate, and make sure the dry air from the AC and heater is diverted away from their foliage.

But my real success is in choosing plants that toler-ate all those conditions, in-

cluding low humidity. And there are more enough to satisfy most plant lovers.

By the way, potted plants do not improve air quality appreciably, unless you live in a closed space station. Air conditioning, or just open windows or doors, negates the minor benefits. Really. But they do lift spirits of folks who are otherwise out of touch with Nature and need a greenery lift.

My short list includes rub-ber tree, Sansevieria, dwarf Shefflera, Philodendron, Dracaena, Pothos, Sedums, Chinese evergreen (Agla-onema), wax Hoya, Aloe, night blooming cereus, dumb cane (Dieffenbachia), begonias, and a newcomer simply called ZZ plant. There are others, of course, but I’ve grown these for many years and find them to be close to unkillable near a window, out of the heater draft.

And all those can be reju-venated every now and then with a hard whacking. Old Big Jim is my proof.

Felder Rushing is a Mis-sissippi author, columnist, and host of the “Gestalt Gardener” on MPB Think Radio. Email garden-ing questions to rushing-felder@yahoo.com.

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SuperValu Honors Long-Time EmployeesThe Potter family has been in the grocery business in Belzoni for 59 years. The current

store is our fourth location. We have been honored to work with many fi ne people over the years, and many of them have been us for a long time. We wanted to take a moment to share these names and faces with you. Many thanks from Harrel and Rose Potter, and Glenn and Tamra Helms.

Glenn Helms with David McMorrough, 24 years; Eric Bradfi eld 24 years; Laura Mill-wood, 23 years; David McKnight, 24 years; Bill Sparkman, 48 years; Herman Scott, 40 years; Tondre’ Williams, 24 years.

Not pictured: Dot Duett, 37 years, Carolyn Fisher, 21 years, and Martha McDay, 21 years. (picture 1, L to R)

Glenn Helms with Vernon Turner, 18 years; Ginger Daniels, 18 years; Bobby Hall, 13 years; Priscilla Cary, 19 years; Diane Harris, 12 years; Lonzo Brown, 13 years; Hunter Franklin, 6 years

Not pictured: Lakeisha Colton, 12 years, Denise Holmes, 6 years, David McKnight, Jr., 14 years, and Rosalyn Starks

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Neal Retires after 31 years in the Humphreys County Courthouse

Quinn retires after 40 years with Guaranty Bank & Trust

Sharon Neal (pictured center) was congratulated on her retirement from the Humphreys County Courthouse last Thursday. Sharon worked in many offices in the courthouse during her dedicated stay. Pictured above are from left to right Timaka James-Jones, Chivalian Pool Sims, Sharon Neal, Vernetta Washington, Latoya James-Smith. Congratulations, Sharon. You will be missed.

Norma Quinn retired last Friday after serving for nearly 40 years at Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. in Belzoni. A lovely reception was held in her honor an Bank President, Jim Reed presented her with a trip to Paris as a parting gift. Norma says she has always wanted to go there and now she can. Congratulations, Norma.

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