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Health Science classes prep students for healthcare careers

January 23, 2013

Bryan Davis

Demontra Ewing dreams of being a radiologist one day.
Besides playing basketball for West Point High School, Shamaya Lyles has her sights set on being an OBGYN.
Just about everyone in Darlene Blaylock’s freshman Health Science class at the West Point School District’s Career and Technology Center wants to enter the healthcare industry in one capacity or another.
Who can blame them?
A degree in radiology alone can fetch six figures at the right healthcare facility. Doctors stand to make even better money over the course of a lifetime.

Loome speaks to Delta Kappa Gamma Society

January 22, 2013

Special to the Daily Times Leader

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Nancy Loome of The Parents’ Campaign, a Jackson, MIssissippi-based network of over 62,000 Mississippians, was the guest speaker at the regular meeting of Delta Kappa Gamma Society on Saturday, Jan. 19th, at 10 AM, East Side Elementary. Shown here is (from left) Nancy Loome and Lucille Armstrong, Legislative Chair for the local chapter. Ms. Loome spoke to members about charter school legislation currently before the board as well as other initiative currently being discussed.

Connecting the deficits

January 22, 2013

Bryan Davis

dtleditor@bellsouth.net

A new study was released this week that may very well explain what is going on in Washington D.C.
Using this study, a quick diagnosis of Congress, with a heavy dose of medication could turn the tide for the American people and the U.S. economy.
The Kaiser Permanente Southern California Medical Group in Pasadena says that a study conducted over the last decade reveals a 25 percent jump in the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivty Disorder.
I believe that Washington, as a whole, has ADHD.

100 days of school equals 100 cans

January 21, 2013

Donna Summerall

dtllife@bellsouth.net

The students of Central School in Amy Hazzard’s fifth grade math classes made a project of collecting 100 cans for the 100th day of school. The non-perishable items will go to Project Homestead’s Food Pantry. It was a great way to use real-world math skills and benefit our community. Pictured are, kneeling (from left) Kailey Moore, Kitty Elliott, Hannah Klutts, Simone Cahoune, Kametra Gandy. Back row (from left) Jamarquez Darden, Marques Gardner, Deontae Brooks, Jylon Bluett, Krystian Bennett, Gray Berry and Tyler Smith. Photo by Donna Summerall

‘Lift every voice’

January 21, 2013

Bryan Davis

dtleditor@bellsouth.net

Central Stage was on fire with local talent during Monday’s tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Above, audience members stand during a performance by the Angels in Motion Mime Team from Greenwood M.B. Church. Photo by Bryan Davis

Fowler chosen for Who’s Who at American Colleges and Universities

January 19, 2013

Special to the Daily Times Leader

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A premier group of Mississippi College students were recently honored for their campus leadership, scholastic excellence and community service. Sixty-seven students out of the 600 eligible were inducted from the Clinton campus into Who’s Who Among Students at American Colleges and Universities.

Pogue, Smith wed

January 19, 2013

Donna Summerall

dtllife@bellsouth.net

Heather Pogue and Paul Gregory Smith were united in marriage July 14, 2012, at a 2 p.m. ceremony at First Baptist Church of West Point with Bro. Chip Stevens officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Darrell and Delisa Pogue. She was given in marriage by her father, Darrell Pogue. Her bridal gown was by Maggie Sottero, a fit and flare lace bridal gown with halter neckline and key hole back. It was embellished lace on tulle with crystals over satin. She carried a bouquet of orange roses, orange calla lilies, hypericum and green spider mums.

Marshall Drake Lewis debuts

January 19, 2013

Donna Summerall

dtllife@bellsouth.net

Mickey and Katie Lewis of West Point, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Marshall Drake Lewis, December 5, 2012, at 3:25 p.m. at Oktibbeha County Hospital Regional Medical Center in Starkville. He weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces and was 21 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Randy and Joann Simmons of West Point.
Paternal grandparents are David and Janie Lewis of Sulligent Ala., and the late Pamela Lewis.
Great-grandparents are Bill and Hilda Faulkner of West Point, Bill and Earline Simmons of West Point and Rene Gainey of Forrest.

Grant’s home at MSU perhaps more fitting than ironic

January 17, 2013

Bryan Davis

dtleditor@bellsouth.net

An issue of “Harper’s Weekly” once depicted Ulysses S. Grant as a bulldog. President Abraham Lincoln is quoted as ordering Grant “hold on with a bull-dog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.”
Today, Mississippi State University stands as the home of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, and John F. Marszalek, Ph.D spoke to the West Point Rotary Club on Thursday about the ironic journey the archives took from Southern Illinois University to MSU in 2008.
“It was fate,” Marszalek quipped regarding the above quote and political cartoon.

Rotary Readers of the Month

January 17, 2013

Bryan Davis

dtleditor@bellsouth.net

Church Hill Elementary Principal (back) Cindy Donahoo stands with this month’s Rotary Club Readers of the Month First Grade student Syndee Johnson (front left) and Second Grade student Kendyl Watson during the club’s meeting on Thursday. Photo by Bryan Davis

Local Living

Health Science classes prep students for healthcare careers

January 23, 2013

Loome speaks to Delta Kappa Gamma Society

January 22, 2013

Connecting the deficits

January 22, 2013

100 days of school equals 100 cans

January 21, 2013

‘Lift every voice’

January 21, 2013

Fowler chosen for Who’s Who at American Colleges and Universities

January 19, 2013

Pogue, Smith wed

January 19, 2013

Marshall Drake Lewis debuts

January 19, 2013

Grant’s home at MSU perhaps more fitting than ironic

January 17, 2013

Rotary Readers of the Month

January 17, 2013

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