Archive - Mar 2013
March 23rd
These photos were taken on Thursday night at the Intercollegiate Rodeo Competition that took place over three days at Eagle Ranch in Clay County.
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Special to the Daily Times Leader
Sally Kate Winters Family Services is pleased to announce March 18-24, 2013 as National Safe Place Week. The week serves to increase awareness about the importance of youth safety and the dangers young people face when they feel they have nowhere to go or are in crisis situations. It also highlights Safe Place, a youth outreach program that connects businesses and volunteers to provide help and safety to youth facing abuse, neglect, bullying or serious family problems.
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My dad was one of those lucky few who went into the military to serve his country during a slow period. By that I mean he went into the Air Force after the Korean War and before the Vietnam War. It didn’t make him any less patriotic, I just think it made him less likely to die. He had his opinions on the war in Vietnam. None were complementary to the men who burned their draft cards or ran away to Canada. I can still remember how angry he was when President Ford pardoned the “draft dodgers.” His feelings toward “Hanoi” Jane Fonda were worse. Much worse.
A little less than a half hour’s drive from West Point, Hannah and Caroline Melby grew up, playing a mix of folk and bluegrass songs with their father on Nash Street in Starkville.
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He endured rigorous physical exercises, mastered police driving skills, advanced through law enforcement academics and passed the academy. Now West Point native Everett Quinn, Jr. is being welcomed back to the Clay County Sheriff Department as its newest certified patrol deputy.
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The very first item of business Friday in a Special Meeting of the West Point Board of Mayor and Selectmen dealt with a legal matter, for which the mayor, city attorney and board members present immediately went into closed session.
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March 21st
Diane Hammond-Davenport age 56, passed away Monday, March 18, 2013, at Oktibbeha County Hospital in Starkville.
Funeral services are Saturday, March 23, 2013, at 3 p.m. from Lake Grove M.B. Church with the Rev. Joe P. Orr officiating.
Visitation is today, Friday, March 22, 2013, from 3 – 6 p.m. at Carter’s Mortuary Services Chapel.
Carter’s Mortuary Services is in charge of arrangements.
Tonishai Shaffer age 30, departed this life Monday, March 18, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point.
Tonishai Shaffer was born September 22, 1982, to Julia Shaffer Vane (step-father the late Walter Vane) and Evern Jefferson.
Funeral services are Saturday, March 23, 2013, at 11 a.m. from Lake Grove M.B. Church in Prairie. Burial will follow in Lake Grove Cemetery.
Tonishia Shaffer worked at McDonald’s in West Point and Aberdeen.
When the Daily Times Leader published “The Unfinished Tale of James Otis Doss” on Sunday, March 3, we attempted to tell the story of James Otis Doss as accurately as possible.
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Execution has always been the fate of the worst criminals, bandits and outlaw. Once a condemned man is sent to the gallows society never has to worry about him again. We don’t have to feed him. We don’t have to maintain a jail cell for him. We don’t have to worry about medical expenses for him. There is no cost associated with him after that because they always go from the gallows straight to the grave.
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