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CDISPATCH.COM 75 ¢ Newsstand | 40 ¢ Home Delivery Thursday | March 21, 2019 $6M REPORT: CITY OUT OF CASH BY $3M OCTOBER Projected 9.30.19 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2.28.19 $0 Council clamors for answers; mayor says it’s not a crisis By Zack Plair Inside was part of Crowder’s presen- just come forward without more jections, and you can’t get a true and Amanda Lien n OUR VIEW: tation projected the city’s reve- debt and I don’t like debt. I’m picture until you get to the sum- [email protected];[email protected] City must act nue for the next six months at against debt right now.” mer months. By then, if you see now to put out $10,915,010, while remaining The report rattled sever- things are looking rough, then If the city’s contracted finan- its financial fire. expenditures will track closer al councilmen, who are now you have to start thinking about cial consultant is to be believed, Page 4A to $14,165,310. That difference, scrambling for ways to avoid the layoffs and things like that, Columbus will be out of money Crowder projects, will entirely city’s bank account going bust. even though we’re going to look and overdrawn at the bank by spending rates, wipe out the $2,911,419 general Mayor Robert Smith, on the See City finances, 3A Sept. 30. he projected fund balance and put the city in other hand, said it’s not yet time Mike Crowder, a certified the city’s gen- the red. to panic. Crowder Columbus general obligation public accountant tasked with eral fund will “I don’t see how that deficit’s “It’s definitely a problem, but fund chart sources: Years reviewing city finances, present- be more than $338,000 in debt going to be made up,” Crowder I wouldn’t call it a crisis yet,” 2010-2017-State Auditor’s Office; ed councilmen the grim progno- at the end of the fiscal year. told councilmen. “I don’t know Smith told The Dispatch. “… 2018 previous reporting; 2019 report sis Tuesday evening. At current A cash flow analysis that how the magic numbers will (Crowder’s report is) just pro- by city CPA consultant Mike Crowder.

KICK BUTTS EVENT Civil service commission upholds Adams’ termination CPD investigator fired after he took a city vehicle to Moorhead without authorization while on duty

By ISABELLE ALTMAN [email protected]

The Columbus Civil Service Com- mission voted unan- imously on Wednes- day to uphold the termination of a for- mer Columbus Police Department investi- Adams Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff gator who drove to Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science students and Boys and Girls Club members gather for the Zombie Walk, an Moorhead in a city vehicle while on anti-smoking event, at the Boys and Girls Club in Columbus Wednesday afternoon. Students held signs and chanted “smok- duty to apply for a job. ing is wack, you can’t take it back” and “you won’t last smoking that gas.” The city council voted to fire Reginald Adams for misconduct during an executive session of its March 5 meeting. During his hearing before the commission, Adams said termi- nation was too harsh compared to Fire station construction to resume within 2 weeks the 10 days’ suspension without pay that CPD Chief Fred Shelton ini- Engineer Kevin Stafford presented Council awards bids to Columbus-based companies tially planned to recommend to the bids for heating, air conditioning and council. He said had he known the to complete station’s electrical, HVAC work electric work for the future fire station. council would fire him, he would Stafford’s employer, Neel-Schaffer En- have come to the meeting with le- By AMANDA LIEN tion 4 on Airline Road with the goal of gineering, accepted bids for the project gal representation. [email protected] completing the station by the end of the on behalf of Columbus Fire and Rescue. “When you give someone the year. The council voted unanimously intent to suspend, that’s what you After months of inactivity, construc- At Tuesday night’s city council meet- to award both contracts to Colum- think you’re going to get,” said Ad- tion will resume on the new Fire Sta- ing at the Municipal Complex, City See Fire Station, 6A See Adams, 3A

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DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471 2A Thursday, March 21, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Did you hear? Alabama editor promoting KKK revival says he’s selling paper Thursday Newspaper has had a reputation for publishing offensive content for years Trump says public should see The Associated Press was going to have to do a lot of legwork.” LINDEN, Ala. — An Sutton, 80, prompted a Alabama newspaper own- firestorm last month with ‘ridiculous’ Mueller report er who promoted a revival an editorial criticizing Dem- of the Ku Klux Klan said ocrats that began: “Time for ‘Let it come out, let Wednesday that he had a the Ku Klux Klan to night deal to sell the business just ride again.” The paper has people see it. Let’s see AP-NORC Poll: Most at least days after the departure of had a reputation for pub- the African-American em- lishing offensive content for whether or not it’s legit.’ ployee he tapped to run the years and lost many adver- partly confident in Russia probe weekly. tisers over an editorial crit- By JILL COLVIN Goodloe Sutton told icizing blacks, Moore said. The Associated Press The Associated Press The Associated Press this Two universities re- week’s issue of The Dem- scinded honors previously WASHINGTON — President WASHINGTON — As the spe- Thirty-seven percent ocrat-Reporter of Linden, presented to Sutton, and the Donald Trump said he believes spe- cial counsel investigation into Don- Alabama, could be his last. Alabama Press Association cial counsel Robert Mueller’s re- ald Trump’s presidential campaign are not very or not at Besides owning the paper, censured Sutton and sus- port should be released to the pub- winds down, a new poll finds that Sutton serves as its editor pended the Democrat-Re- lic, even as he disparaged its very most Americans are at least mod- all confident in a fair and publisher. porter’s membership. existence as “ridiculous.” erately confident that Robert Muel- Sutton — who has re- Sutton turned over the “Let it come out, let people see ler’s probe has been fair and impar- investigation fused to apologize for pro- operation afterward to an it,” Trump told reporters as he left tial. moting a resurgence of the African-American employ- the White House on Wednesday for The poll from The Associated KKK — would not go into ee, Elecia Dexter, but she a trip to Ohio. “Let’s see whether or Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also finds that most details about the supposed left weeks later in a dispute not it’s legit.” Americans have some concern that Trump’s campaign had improper buyer, and he has been try- with Sutton. Mueller is expected to present connections to Russia, though fewer than half say the president has ing to sell for years since “She ran out the door. a report to the Justice Department done something illegal in his ties to Russia. the death of his wife. The I don’t know if she quit or any day now outlining the findings The survey was conducted as the Justice Department prepares to re- weekly has few local adver- not,” he said. Dexter did of his nearly two-year investigation ceive the findings of Mueller’s investigation into possible coordination tisers. not return a telephone mes- into Russian election meddling, between the Trump campaign and Russia and possible obstruction of Linden Mayor Charles sage Wednesday. possible collusion with Trump cam- justice by Trump himself. Moore said he was recently The newspaper’s stand- paign officials and possible obstruc- Overall, about 6 in 10 Americans have at least some confidence in contacted by a representa- ing with the city of Linden, tion of justice by Trump. the fairness of the investigation, with 33 percent very confident. Thir- tive from a newspaper com- population 1,900, could be Mueller is required to produce ty-seven percent are not very or not at all confident in a fair investiga- pany interested in purchas- a sticking point in any sale. a confidential report that at a mini- tion. ing Sutton’s operation. The Democrat-Reporter mum explains decisions about who “She asked me if I hasn’t purchased a busi- was and was not prosecuted. Attor- get it. And I don’t get it.” criticizing the lawyers who have thought someone could ness license in three years ney General William Barr is then Trump went on to mischaracter- worked on the case. turn that paper around,” and owes more than $800, expected to produce his own report ize the effort, saying “it’s sort of in- Though Mueller’s office has said said Moore. “I told her she Moore said. for Congress and has said he wants teresting that a man out of the blue nothing publicly about the timing to make public as much of Mueller’s just writes a report.” of a report, several prosecutors de- findings as he can under the law. The House voted unanimously tailed to Mueller’s team have left in Trump said he was personal- CONTACTING THE DISPATCH last week for a resolution calling recent months, suggesting the in- ly looking forward to reading the for any report in Mueller’s investi- vestigation is winding down. Office hours: Main line: findings, even as he scorned the gation to be made public. 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City finances Continued from Page 1A at every measure we can $22,000 and $25,000 per $412,000, according to to keep from layoffs. ‘How did we get here? We spent too much month. Human Resources Di- “What we really need “We need to eliminate rector Pat Mitchell. But is a month-by-month money. That’s how. … We’ve not been working that,” Box said. “We’ve that includes essential analysis (instead of the off of realistic budgets, and that’s been a big got to. We can’t afford personnel like police six-month projection that anymore.” and firefighters that it Crowder presented),” he part of the problem.’ Smith, for his part, could become a safety added. “That will give us disagrees. hazard to furlough. Ward 6 Councilman Bill Gavin a better idea of where we “I wouldn’t pull the Jones suggested im- are.” plug on the clinic right plementing a temporary Councilmen like Ward ‘It’s definitely a problem, but I wouldn’t call it now, but if that’s what 32-hour workweek strat- 2’s Joseph Mickens aren’t the council wants to do, egy to save money. terribly confident in the a crisis yet. ... What we really need is a month- I’m not going to fight Smith said there’s mayor’s “wait-and-see” them,” he said. currently a hiring approach. by-month analysis (instead of the six-month Beyond that, the city freeze that includes all “The time has passed is looking to sell the old positions except chief fi- for ‘let’s wait and see,’” projection Crowder presented).’ Gilmer Inn property on nancial officer, which he Mickens said. “It’s time Mayor Robert Smith Main Street — the may- hopes the council will to react, and we need to or said the lot is already select later this month. react now.” listed and undergoing If work furloughs bility of installing almost fiscal years, Columbus an overdraft would most appraisal. come to pass, Box and 4,300 LED street lights in has carried deficits of likely take the form of Plus, some council- Gavin both said they Overspending men, especially Gavin, would be willing to for- Among the bigger is- the city. more than $800,000 in a tax anticipation loan believe building and go their own council sti- sues Crowder reported, Smith said that line its general budget. But (TAP), Crigler said. The infrastructure projects pends ($17,500 per year) the city owes $50,000 item was a mischaracter- if Crowder’s numbers city is required to allow prove true, that deficit need to be curtailed, to share the burden with more to Columbus Light ization because the city all financial institutions this fiscal year would be which would reduce fees affected employees. and Water than the bud- could roll the study cost to submit proposals for closer to $2.5 million. to firms like city proj- Mickens said he would get initially reflected. And into a bond to pay for that loan, which the city “How did we get ect manager J5 and the consider the same. he noted a $37,000 expen- the project, a debt which would repay with the here?” Ward 6 Coun- city’s engineering firm, “That’s a tough ques- diture listed as “former a projected $400,000 in next fiscal year’s tax cilman Bill Gavin said. Neel-Shaffer. tion, but it’s a fair ques- CFO errors,” referring to energy and maintenance revenue. “We spent too much Projects like the new tion,” Mickens said. “If budget mistakes blamed cost savings would more Gavin believes need- money. That’s how. … fire station on Airline everything else is on on former Chief Finan- than repay. But if the ing a TAP loan by Sep- city doesn’t go forward We’ve not been working tember is all but inevi- Road — a $700,000 proj- the table, that should be cial Officer Milton Rawle, off of realistic budgets, ect for which the city ap- there, too.” which Crowder was hired with the project after table. Path completes the study, and that’s been a big “I don’t think we’ll proved final bids Tues- Jones said he would to fix. part of the problem.” day — are necessary, consider giving up part One of those errors, the city must pay the have a choice,” he said. $100,000 from its general Mark Crigler, pres- Gavin said, because the of his stipend, in those Smith said, was a misun- “But it’s like anything fund. ident of Bank of Com- city has already heavily circumstances, while derstanding of the city’s else, I want to exhaust Crowder’s report merce, where the city invested in it. Others, Ward 4’s Fred Jackson ad valorem tax needs. all other options before doesn’t even count what places its accounts, said like a planned round- said he couldn’t “answer Smith said the city we get to that point, even the city will pay to mit- if the city ran out of about on Main Street yes or no to that.” should have raised the if that means cutting our igate the $4 million in money by year’s end, it and the LED study, Ward 1 Councilman property tax rate by expenses to the bone.” damage a February torna- would likely have to bor- could have waited. Gene Taylor did not re- 2 mills in September do caused its streets and row funds to pay its re- Smith opposes sig- turn calls from The Dis- (which would have raised Cost-cutting options other property. maining bills. By bank nificant cuts to J5 or patch by press time. about $384,000 this fiscal Four councilmen The Neel Shaffer, especially “We know we’re going policy, he said, it would Even the mayor said year), to cover debt from Dispatch spoke with for during storm relief ef- to have to borrow mon- be unlikely to grant the he would give up some of general obligation bonds. this report — Mickens, forts for which they will ey to do what we need to city special overdraft his salary if other work- Since the council didn’t, Gavin, Ward 3’s Char- be helping coordinate. do with storm cleanup,” privileges. ers were furloughed. that money must come lie Box and Ward 5’s Smith said. “Then (the “Our official policy “I hope it doesn’t come from the general fund. Stephen Jones — open- Federal Emergency Man- is if there aren’t funds Furloughs, layoffs to that, but it starts from He blamed Rawle, who ly favored leaving the agement Agency) will pay available, we don’t honor If it comes to it, the the top,” he said. “I will resigned in February, for Baptist Health Services us back.” the check,” Crigler said. mayor and most of the do everything I need to the council not taking Clinic for city, county FEMA reimburses 75 “It’s not customary to council said work fur- do to make our (gener- proper action. Next fis- and Columbus Light and percent of those costs honor an overdraft with- loughs, and even layoffs, al fund) balance out. If cal year, the council must Water employees and typically, while the state out a solution discussed could come into play. the council is willing to raise the millage 3.84 their dependents. chips in 12.5 percent. The prior to that happen- The city’s bi-monthly (forego pay), I certainly mills to cover the debt It opened in 2017 and city will still shoulder the ing. … And an account payroll averages about will, too.” payment without dipping treats those patients remaining 12.5 percent cannot remain in the more into the general without a copay. In turn, (about $500,000 if the negative for more than fund, Smith added. the program is meant to projection is correct). 30 days or it’s closed. Crowder also counted When that happens, the keep the city’s, county’s a $100,000 expenditure in account holder owes the and CLW’s insurance his report the council ap- ‘We spent whole amount (of the premiums down. proved to pay Path Com- too much money’ overdraft) at once.” Still, the clinic is pany to study the feasi- Over the past two Borrowing to avoid costing the city between

Adams Continued from Page 1A ams, who did not have le- who said he hadn’t giv- He said that though gal representation during en Adams permission to he recommended 10 days the commission hearing, leave Columbus. without pay — five for either. Shelton also told the leaving the city without He also referred to an commission Adams took authorization and five for article in The Dispatch an unmarked vehicle po- lying about the vehicle — that ran before he was ter- lice used for undercover he agreed with the city minated in which multiple surveillance rather than Turnage Shelton council’s decision to ter- councilmen said they may his personal vehicle. minate Adams. consider firing Adams for tation if I’d have known,’” Following Shelton’s Adams was first hired leaving the city while on testimony, Turnage Turnage said, “because at CPD as a patrol officer duty without permission. played a video of a con- it was very obvious that in November 2016, mov- “To terminate me and versation Shelton and they could do whatever, ing to the criminal inves- have councilmen put my Deans had with Adams especially with the news- tigations division in Janu- name all in the newspa- paper articles that were in in Shelton’s office after ary 2018. His rate of pay per, that wasn’t fair,” he the paper.” Adams returned to po- was $15.75 per hour at the said. Moorhead is a town in lice headquarters, during time of his termination. “I have more cases Sunflower County about which Adams admitted to In his first four months than any investigator 132 miles from Columbus. leaving the city without back there,” he added. “I authorization. In the vid- in CID, Adams racked up work nights, days, when- eo, Adams tells Shelton 338 hours of overtime, in- ever the chief needed me, Details of the incident he will take full responsi- cluding being authorized special detail. He’ll tell During the hear- bility and that he was out to drive the mayor and you that I’ve done it, nev- ing, Shelton testified he of Columbus “less than city planner to a Federal er said anything, never learned Adams left the three hours.” Home Loan Bank confer- city when Edrick Hall, a missed a day, never was “All you had to do was ence in New Orleans. His former assistant police late.” just say you needed some paid overtime in that pe- chief at Columbus and But City Attorney Jeff time off,” Shelton tells Ad- riod, which The Dispatch currently chief of the Indi- Turnage argued Adams ams in the video. reported, outpaced all the anola Police Department, knew the suggested 10- Adams also tells Shel- other investigators and day suspension was a called Shelton on Jan. 31 ton in the video he did and told him he saw Ad- was 144 hours more than recommendation and that not take a city vehicle to the next highest. the council could choose ams in Moorhead apply- Moorhead. Shelton said ing for the city’s chief of Shelton also sent Ad- whether to level another Adams’ dishonesty about ams to retrieve part-time punishment. He added police position that day. the vehicle was one of the officer Louis Alexander that was especially true if Shelton said he was reasons he recommended in March 2018, after Alex- councilmen had already immediately suspicious suspension. ander had been stopped told The Dispatch they and began texting Hall “Being a police officer, were planning to consider pictures of Adams and the you have to have integri- in Starkville for driving firing Adams. vehicle he thought Adams ty,” Shelton said. “... When under the influence. Alex- “If you show up at the had taken out of the city, we prosecute citizens in ander, who was off-duty at meeting and you don’t to make sure Hall was court we have to be tell- the time of the stop, was put up a defense and you identifying the right po- ing the truth. If we’re not not ticketed, and Adams put yourself at the mercy lice officer. Shelton also telling the truth, we might brought him back to Co- of the council, it’s kind of called a payroll clerk, who put an innocent person in lumbus in a city vehicle. hard to come back after confirmed Adams was on jail or cause some undue Adams declined to the fact and say, ‘I would duty, and Adams’ supervi- harm or get sued because comment to The Dispatch have had legal represen- sor, Capt. Stacey Deans, of dishonesty.” following the hearing.

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ZACK PLAIR, Managing Editor BETH PROFFITT Advertising Director The MICHAEL FLOYD Circulation/Production Manager Opinion Dispatch MARY ANN HARDY Controller Our View City must act now to put out its financial fire Imagine if you awoke one based on conservative projec- LED light study and $35,000 even with cuts in spending, escape being furloughed and night to discover your house tions. And that’s before storm for a contract with The Retail the city faces the unenviable every dollar the city does not was on fire. expenses are accounted. Coach. choice of borrowing money to have to borrow matters, which What would you do? To be clear: Projections While the city council cover the shortfall or furlough- is why acting now rather Certainly, you would make show the city will be out of generally seems to understand ing workers. That’s a grim than waiting a few months is an effort to determine what cash within six months. the need for immediate action, choice. critical. caused the fire and what could That sound you hear are Mayor Robert Smith suggest- The city’s debt has swollen There will be time to ask have been done to prevent it. the fire alarms going off. ed the city wait until the sum- from $2.6 million in 2010 to some serious questions about But those aren’t the first City officials must examine mer when a clearer picture of about $28 million. With that how the city wound up in this things you would do. the budget and scrutinize the city’s finances emerges. debt comes interest expenses. position, who is responsible The first thing you would every expenditure to find ways In that respect, he is While the city can borrow and what can be done to pre- do is put out the fire. to cut costs, and they must mistaken. The fiscal year is money to get out of this hole, it vent future deficits. The city of Columbus was approach this with the sense already half over. Any delay has a tendency to roll debt pay- Those will be lively discus- alerted Tuesday night to the of urgency it demands. in doing what can be done to ments over to new obligations sions that are essential to the fact its financial house is on Unfortunately, since being mitigate the shortfall should instead of retiring it. That future of the city. fire, metaphorically speaking. alerted by former city CFO be taken now. This should be practice has only compounded As important as that is, Based on a report from Milton Rawle of a $800,000 Priority No. 1 for the mayor this problem. there is a more pressing Mike Crowder, a CPA hired to deficit last year and imple- and council and department Furloughing city workers is priority. analyze the city’s finances, the menting a spending freeze, heads. Everything goes on the equally unfortunate. These are First, put out the fire. city’s cash reserves will sit at the council has continued to table. And by everything, we folks with families and homes And, with all due respect to a negative $338,881 by the end take on major expenditures mean everything. and bills to pay. the mayor, there is no time to of the fiscal year in September, including $100,000 for an It seems inevitable that Every worker who can waste.

State of the nation Cartoonist view Are the racists on viral videos mentally ill? Most everyone who spends time on social media has come across videos in which a white person is screaming racial insults, usually at a Latino or African-American. A recent example shows a woman at a ShopRite in East Haven, Connecticut, barraging a black man with racist invective. But look more closely at Froma Harrop these videos and eyewitness accounts for a fuller idea of what forces are at work. Comments on these videos tend to condemn the per- petrators as evil racists and nothing else. But what should be blazingly obvious to those who watch them carefully is that the assailants are almost always mentally unwell. In the ShopRite incident, the black man was on a motorized shopping cart and had unintentionally cut the woman off, a white male observer told WPLR-FM. “She wasn’t looking where she was going.” The white woman said, “Jesus Christ,” and the black man responded, “You talking to me, b----?” The woman then unleashed a tirade full of the N-word. At that point, however, the dynamics changed. The black man started exhibiting great restraint, accord- ing to the witness. Other than the original B-word remark, he didn’t get verbally confrontational. It had become clear to all that the woman was unhinged. Other shoppers tried to reason with her and wor- ried what the two children at her side were experienc- ing. “It was like, ‘Oh, my God, man, Mom’s psycho,’” the eyewitness said. In October, a video went viral showing a white State of the WORLD woman blocking a black man from entering his apartment building in St. Louis. She demanded proof that he lived there. If she had been afraid of him, she The road goes where the road goes wouldn’t have gotten in his face. People always seem of rising international “The president is not a white The African-American no doubt saw the bizarre surprised in moments intolerance, of singling supremacist,” claimed Chief of behavior for what it was. “Please move, ma’am,” he like this. Always out this group or that Staff Mick Mulvaney Sunday on said patiently while recording the scene. shocked. and declaring that Fox. White supremacists obvious- The same month, a white woman called the police But they have no these people are the ly disagree. on an African-American child she claimed had “sex- right to be. After all, source of our misery, Of course, preserving the fa- ually assaulted” her in a Brooklyn bodega. A security the road goes where the monster in the cade of innocence — both before camera in the store showed what actually happened: the road goes. If you dark, that they are not the world and one’s own mirror — The 9-year-old had turned around, causing his back- travel southbound U.S. like us, do not share is a big part of the game. Yet, the pack to brush the woman’s rear end. 1 long enough, you are our humanity and are road goes where the road goes. The boy’s mother made strenuous objections to not surprised to end undeserving of our Between 1938 and 1945, you may her ranting, and that’s when the white woman called up in Key West. If you compassion. recall, it went to the mass murder the police. When they arrived, the boy was outside stay on northbound In- Leonard Pitts In this country, it is of 11 million human beings — crying. terstate 5 long enough, a message that has of- homosexuals, Slavs, Jehovah’s The neighbors did not buy into the woman’s denial you are not surprised We think of the ten been brayed loudly Witnesses, socialists and, most of racist motives. She did eventually apologize. But to end up in Canada. from beneath pointy infamously, Jews. the locals, convinced that she wasn’t playing with a And if you deni- Holocaust as a white hoods. But it is We think of the Holocaust as full deck, nicknamed her “Cornerstore Caroline.” grate, demonize and arguably more danger- a unique crime, and it is. But its Another video, taken at an IHOP in Los Angeles, dehumanize long unique crime, ous and certainly more uniqueness lies mainly in the shows a white woman yelling at another woman for enough, you ought not insidious, when it puts massive, industrialized scale of speaking Spanish to her son. In a calm voice, the be surprised to end up and it is. But on power ties or red the killing. Otherwise, it is little son tried to reason with the verbal attacker. “She’s in bloodshed. lipstick and speaks in different than what happened in not perfect, but she speaks English,” he told her in That is arguably its uniqueness tones of reason from New Zealand, each the predict- flawless English. And the mother did demonstrate the signature lesson a press room podium, able result of denigration, demo- that she could speak some English, not that she had of human history, but lies mainly in ... a pulpit or a television nization and dehumanization that an obligation to. somehow, the teach- studio. exile some of us from the rest of But really, what do you say to someone hollering ing never takes. Each scale That allows people us in the circle of shared human- “Go back to Spain” to a Spanish speaker in LA and succeeding generation who are uncomfortable ity. asking, “Do you want the Russians over here telling always seems doomed — or per- with admitting intolerance, even And it doesn’t matter how you what to do?” I would have offered less explana- haps the better word is deter- to themselves, to pretend the much innocence you protest, or tion than the son, but he wisely spoke to her more mined — to re-learn the lesson message is not what the mes- what sort of tie or lipstick you like a child than a miscreant. for itself, each time paying the sage is and that the messengers dress your intolerance in. The Psychologists have written a great deal on whether horrific price of doing so. simply speak maverick truths in road goes where the road goes. racists are actually mentally ill. They tread ginger- On Friday, the cost of tuition a politically correct world. Worse, Thankfully, each of us also has ly on the subject so as not to give excuses for vile went up by 50 lives, congregants that veneer of respectability and the option of taking other roads conduct. murdered in attacks on two reason also bamboozles thought- to better places. Consider the And it’s well-known that exposure to racism can mosques in New Zealand, a small ful people who simply value last words of Haji Daoud Nabi, an do great psychological damage to people of color. and peaceful nation in the South divergent voices into inviting to Afghan refugee who was the first This subject deserves its own discussion. Pacific. Before a gun-wielding the debate table those whose only victim of the massacre. He is re- But let’s praise the victims of primitive racist 28-year-old white supremacist interest lies in kicking it over. ported to have greeted the shoot- taunts who maintain their cool. You offer us all livestreamed himself in the act of Like the bigots Jeanine Pirro er at the worship house door. instruction on how not to escalate conflict when pro- massacring Muslims, it had been and Tucker Carlson. And the big- “Hello, brother,” he said. voked by those not entirely in control of their mental nearly 30 years since New Zea- ot Donald Trump, who was, not Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the faculties. We thank you. landers had seen such carnage. incidentally, praised by the New 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commen- Froma Harrop, a syndicated columnist, writes for But the road goes where the Zealand shooter in a manifesto as tary, is a columnist for the Miami the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal. Her e-mail road goes. Meaning that this “a symbol of renewed white identi- Herald. Email him at lpitts@ address is [email protected]. butchery is the predictable result ty and common purpose.” miamiherald.com. The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Thursday, March 21, 2019 5A Miss. Lawmakers pass bill Supreme Court troubled by jury requiring school shooter drills selection bias in Mississippi House Bill 1283 was held for the possibility of more debate ‘The history of this evidence used to convict Flowers, In the sixth trial, the jury was now 48, is pending in state court. made up of 11 whites and one Af- By JEFF AMY case, prior to this trial, Justice Clarence Thomas, who rican-American. The Mississippi The Associated Press almost never speaks in court, Supreme Court has twice upheld is very troubling’ suggested in questions near the Flowers’ conviction. JACKSON — Lawmakers on Tuesday gave final end of the arguments that defense Justice Samuel Alito In selecting a jury, lawyers can passage to a bill meant to make Mississippi schools lawyers also care about the racial refuse to seat jurors for specific safer from mass shootings, including mandatory makeup of juries and concentrate By MARK SHERMAN reasons, including an unwilling- twice-yearly active shooter drills and a threat-re- The Associated Press their jury strikes on white people. ness to impose a death sentence. porting mechanism to be monitored by the state Thomas was the lone dissenter Lawyers also have a certain num- Department or Public Safety. WASHINGTON — Deeply when the Supreme Court ruled in The House voted 78-32 to approve changes ber of people they can excuse for troubled by a Mississippi prose- 2016 in favor of a black Georgia made by the Senate to House Bill 1283. The mea- cutor’s pattern of excluding Afri- who was sentenced to death by an no reason at all. These peremptory sure was held for the possibility of more debate by can-American jurors, the Supreme all-white jury. strikes are at the heart of the Su- representatives unhappy that senators stripped out Court seemed in broad agreement But for the most part, Thomas’ preme Court case. provisions for mental health education and evalua- Wednesday that a black death row colleagues — even his fellow con- The Supreme Court’s decision tion, but it’s likely to head to Gov. Phil Bryant for inmate’s conviction and death servatives — focused their ques- in Batson v. Kentucky in 1986 set his signature. sentence at his sixth murder trial tions on Evans’ actions. up a system by which trial judges A task force convened by Bryant recommend- could not stand. “The history of this case, prior could evaluate claims of discrimi- ed that every school have a school resource offi- The justices made clear they to this trial, is very troubling,” said nation in peremptory strikes and cer — typically an armed law enforcement officer. would not ignore District Attor- Justice Samuel Alito, who often prosecutors’ explanations that The bill would expand a cost-sharing program to ney Doug Evans’ history as they sides with prosecutors in criminal have nothing to do with race. encourage that goal, requiring the state to provide weighed his decision to excuse five cases. Evans used 41 out of 42 such at least $10,000 to every district that qualified. black prospective jurors from in- Three convictions were tossed challenges in five of Flowers’ six The legislation doesn’t include a task force rec- mate Curtis Flowers’ most recent out, including one when the pros- trials against African-Americans, ommendation to train teachers or other school per- trial. ecutor improperly excluded Afri- sonnel to carry guns and act as “school marshals.” Sheri Lynn Johnson, representing If Flowers wins, Evans would can-Americans from the jury. In Senators last week removed provisions requir- Flowers, told the court. The court have to decide whether to try him a the second trial, the judge chided ing schools to implement an evidence-based and seventh time in the shooting deaths Evans for striking a juror based on record is unclear about the other age-appropriate mental health curriculum. The of four people in a furniture store race. Two other trials ended when trial. Senate also required parental consent for mental in Winona, Mississippi, in 1996. jurors couldn’t reach unanimous “The numbers alone are strik- health evaluations. Opponents, backed by the Tu- A separate appeal challenging the verdicts. ing,” Johnson said. pelo-based American Family Association, argued the provisions could trample on parents’ rights without changes.

Somewhere down the road you’re going to have to think about it. Research on emergency medical internet set for Mississippi We all face it, but most of us avoid thinking about it: Research aims to improve how emergency workers use the hospital stuff and push final preparations. it out to the field,” Darsey When Caring Counts... mobile internet to provide medical care in rural areas said. Medical center officials By JEFF AMY tween the medical center Services, said the idea said the network could The Associated Press FUNERAL HOME and the First Responder is that lessons learned also make it possible for & CREMATORY Network Authority was in Mississippi could be physicians to direct some 1131 N. Lehmberg Rd. JACKSON — The signed in Jackson. shared nationwide. He cases to local hospitals, Columbus, MS 39702 University of Mississip- The authority, a federal said the change could be instead of transporting (662) 328-1808 pi Medical Center will agency known as First- as important as when Mis- them to trauma centers in conduct research with a Net, is overseeing the sissippi built a statewide Jackson or elsewhere. federal group to improve building of a nationwide emergency radio network “Sometimes, lifesav- how emergency workers network to provide mobile after 2005’s Hurricane Ka- ing activity, if it has to use mobile internet to pro- phone and internet com- trina. He said, for exam- be delayed until the next vide medical care in rural munications to police, fire, ple, it might be possible for trauma center down the areas. medical and other emer- a physician at a hospital to road, it’s too far,” said Dr. U.S. Commerce Sec- gency agencies. Its board read heart measurements LouAnn Woodward, vice retary Wilbur Ross, Mis- met later Wednesday in while an emergency med- chancellor for health af- sissippi Gov. Phil Bryant Jackson. ical technician is examin- fairs at the medical center. and U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde- Dr. Damon Darsey, ing a patient at home or in Smith watched Wednes- who directs the Mississip- an ambulance. day as the agreement be- pi Center for Emergency “We can take some of

Area obituaries COMMERCIAL DISPATCH finalized by 3 p.m. for inclusion Columbus. OBITUARY POLICY the next day Monday through Obituaries with basic informa- Thursday; and on Friday by 3 Willie Hawkins tion including visitation and p.m. for Sunday and Monday BROOKHAVEN — service times, are provided publication. For more informa- Willie Hawkins died free of charge. Extended tion, call 662-328-2471. March 20, 2019, at obituaries with a photograph, Brookhaven. detailed biographical informa- Mildred S. Jaynes Arrangements are Visitation: tion and other details families Dalin Hawkins incomplete and will be Thursday, March 21 • 1 PM may wish to include, are avail- NOXUBEE COUN- Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home able for a fee. Obituaries must TY — Dalin D. Haw- announced by Carter’s 2nd Ave. North Location be submitted through funeral kins, 4, died March Funeral Services of Graveside Services: homes unless the deceased’s Columbus. Thursday, March 21 • 2:30 PM 19, 2019, at Noxubee Memorial Gardens Cemetery body has been donated to General Hospital. Burial science. If the deceased’s Memorial Gardens Cemetery body was donated to science, Arrangements are Georgia Bradford the family must provide official incomplete and will be COLUMBUS — proof of death. Please submit announced Carter’s Georgia L. Bradford, all obituaries on the form pro- Funeral Services of 73, died March 20, vided by The Commercial Dis- Macon. 2019, at Baptist Memo- patch. Free notices must be Mildred Jaynes rial Hospital-Golden Mildred Christine Jaynes, submitted to the newspaper Triangle. no later than 3 p.m. the day Dale Oneal age 92 died Tuesday, March 19, Arrangements are prior for publication Tuesday STARKVILLE — memorialgunterpeel.com 2019 at Vineyard Court Nursing through Friday; no later than 4 Dale J. Oneal, 54, died incomplete and will be Center in Columbus. Graveside p.m. Saturday for the Sunday March 15, 2019, in West announced by Carter’s services will be held Thursday, edition; and no later than 7:30 Point. Funeral Services of March 21, 2019 at 2:30 PM at a.m. for the Monday edition. Arrangements are Incomplete notices must be re- Memorial Gardens with Rev. ceived no later than 7:30 a.m. incomplete and will be Jearl Hunley officiating. Visita- for the Monday through Friday announced by Carter’s Mary Lollar tion will be held Thursday from editions. Paid notices must be Funeral Services of Mary Mozelle Stokes Lollar, 105, formerly of 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM at Me- Steens, MS, passed away on March 19, 2019. morial Gunter Peel 2nd Ave N. A memorial service will be conducted by Rev. Mrs. Jaynes was born on Tuesday, February Tim Lee and Rev. Jordan Lollar on Saturday, 22, 1927 in Crawford, MS to the late Clyde and March 23, 2019, at 2:00 PM at Beersheba Cum- Geneva Williams Schoggen. She was a member After mosque attacks, New berland Presbyterian Church in Columbus, MS. of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church and a A visitation will be one hour prior to service. graduate of S.D. Lee High School. After the mili- Mrs. Lollar was born February 17, 1914, in tary career of her late husband Floyd Jaynes, she Zealand bans ‘military-style’ guns Millport, AL to the late William Clark and Oma worked at Humbolt and Western Textile, after The Associated Press land dollars ($140 million). Selph Stokes. She was a member of Beersheba retirement she volunteered at Baptist Memorial The man charged in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Hospital, Columbus as a “Pink Lady”. She was an CHRISTCHURCH, mosque attacks had pur- She was preceded in death by her husband, avid Alabama Crimson Tide football fan. In ad- New Zealand — New Zea- chased his weapons legally Walter Harvey Lollar; son, Harvey Neal Lollar; dition to her parents and her husband she was land Prime Minister Jacin- using a standard firearms son-in-law, David Guy Ashmore; daughter-in-law, preceded in death by her daughter Nancy Jaynes da Ardern on Thursday license and enhanced their Patti Jo Lollar; grandson, Bobby Joe Lollar; and Parra, and her brothers, Leroy Schoggen and announced a ban of “mili- capacity by using 30-round siblings, Neva Adell Stokes, Clyde D. Stokes, Richard Schoggen. tary-style” semi-automatic magazines “done easily William Clay Stokes, and Katie Stokes Frisbee. Survivors include her son, Eddie Jaynes firearms and high-capacity through a simple online Survivors include her daughter, Neva Sue Lol- (Becky) of Fairhope, AL; son-in-law, Dale Parra magazines like those used purchase,” Ardern said. lar Ashmore; grandchildren, Neal Lollar (Tam- of Columbus, MS; sister-in-law, Jackie Schoggen; in the shootings at Christ- “Every semi-automatic my), Wanda Jo Ashmore, and Stephen David Ash- grandsons, Edward Clemmons of Amory, MS church mosques last week. weapon used in the terror- more (Laynette); great-grandchildren, Noelle and Geoffrey Jaynes of Fairhope, AL. Ardern said a sales ban ist attack on Friday will be Lollar (David Thomas), Jordan Lollar (Lana), was effective immediately banned,” she said. Family members will serve as pallbearers Gilbert Guy Ashmore, and Alicia Adell Ashmore; In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to to prevent stockpiling and The ban includes any and great-great-grandchildren, John Mark Lollar would be followed by a semi-automatic guns or Palmer Home for Children, P.O. Box 746, Colum- and Alaina Thomas. bus, MS 39703. complete ban on the weap- shotguns that are capa- Memorials may be made to Saint Jude’s Chil- ons after new laws were ble of being used with dren Research Hospital, P.O. Box 50 Memphis, rushed through. a detachable magazine TN 38101-9929 or Guatemala Mission, c/o Rev. She said people could that holds more than five Jordan Lollar, Ethelsville Baptist Church 5111 hand over their guns under rounds. It also extends to County Road 75 Ethelsville, AL 35461. an amnesty while officials accessories used to con- Sign the online guest book at develop a formal buyback vert guns into what the Compliments of www.memorialgunterpeel.com scheme, which could cost government called “mili- Lowndes Funeral Home 716 Second Avenue North • Columbus, MS up to 200 million New Zea- tary-style” weapons. www.lowndesfuneralhome.net 6A Thursday, March 21, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Fire station Continued from Page 1A bus-based companies: $99,705 for heating and air conditioning instal- lation to Advanced Air Systems and $162,500 for electrical work to Malone Electric. “There is about two weeks of bonds and pa- p e r w o r k to be done before the work be- gins,” CFR Chief Mar- tin Andrews said in an Dispatch file photo email to The Andrews Work on the new Fire Station 4 is expected to begin in early April, months after con- Dispatch. struction halted due to cost concerns. The city council voted to award contracts for “Once all that is in place, some of the construction work Tuesday night. work will start.” A $700,000 capital im- late last year after city of- tersection of Airline and lower home insurance provement loan from the ficials learned the plans South McCrary Roads costs are for residents Mississippi Development for the building’s interi- about a mile east of the protected by that depart- Authority will fund con- or — including electrical, new building, was built in ment. struction, Andrews said. heating and air condition- 1960, making it the oldest Once contracts for the ing work — were going to of the city’s stations. At Tornado debris removal work have been signed be more expensive than 3,200 square feet, it’s less In other news, city and submitted to the anticipated When the than a third the size of the council voted unanimous- MDA, the city will re- city bid out the electrical new building and is too ly to award a $1,994,040 ceive the money needed and HVAC work last year, small to fit the custom-or- bid for tornado debris re- to begin work. Andrews they were told they could dered $500,000 fire truck moval to Looks Great Ser- said he doesn’t expect the get some of that work the city plans to purchase vices, a utility clearing cost of construction to done for much cheaper, when construction on the and maintenance compa- exceed the amount of the prompting Andrews to new fire station is com- ny based out of Columbia. loan, but any additional hold off on construction plete. City contractor Jabari costs will come out of the while local businessman The new station will Edwards told city coun- city’s $500,000 insurance and engineer Ralph Mc- house not only that truck, cilmen that the bid was rebate. Lain, who owns Teletec but one of CFR’s medical “not the lowest bid” he About $400,000 worth and has worked on small vehicles and the admin- of work has been com- projects for the city be- istrative team, which is had received, but it was pleted on the station so fore, redrew the interior currently spread between the lowest bid that includ- far. Firefighters and con- designs at no cost to the three different buildings ed all the information re- struction crews from J5, city. in the city. Andrews also quested. the city’s project manage- “We tried to compro- hopes it can help improve “There were two ment firm, completed the mise on those bids and the department’s rating (bids) that didn’t include building’s basic structure get them down,” Andrews from the Mississippi State a work plan in early 2018, the last told city councilmen Rating Bureau, which for the city time any progress was at Tuesday’s meeting. rates fire departments on or other in- made on the structure. “That’s why it took so scales from 1-10, with 10 formation Andrews said CFR won’t long to get them in.” being the worst. we request- be bidding out for any The new fire station CFR is currently rat- ed,” Ed- more construction work is in Ward 2, and Ward ed as a Class 3, placing wards said. at the moment. 2 Councilman Joseph it among the five highest “ ( L o o k s “We have done all the Mickens said he hopes it rated fire departments in Great Ser- Edwards framing and carpentry will be complete by the the state. When the new vices) did, work in-house with our end of the year. station is completed it will and we received a letter firefighters,” he said. “We “Looks like things are improve firefighters’ re- of recommendation from will be working to see going to be rolling,” he sponse times to calls just (Lowndes County) that what additional work we told The Dispatch. “They off Highway 69. Andrews spoke highly of them.” can do in-house as we go.” got the funds so we’re hopes when the Rating Looks Good Services good there. (CFR) can Bureau comes back in can’t begin work until a Construction delays keep its accreditation and five years, the improved national emergency dec- Construction on Fire we can get that new fire response time will help laration is signed by the Station 4 began in mid- truck in.” push the city to a Class 2. president, Edwards said. 2016, but work on the The city’s current Fire The better a fire de- The deadline to do so is station came to a halt Station 4, located at the in- partment’s rating, the today.

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MISSISSIPPI STATE BASEBALL Diamond Dawgs rally for 20th win at Samford FROM SPECIAL REPORTS a run-scoring hit in a four-run credit,” MSU Starting pitcher Peyton innings, the Dawgs struck seventh inning, and the MSU coach Chris Plumlee settled down and for four runs in the seventh. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For went on to win its 20th game by Lemonis said. tossed two scoreless innings Landon Jordan, Rowdey Jor- one inning, Samford target- a 6-4 score. “In both games after the four-run first. Spencer dan, Mangum and Jordan ed second-ranked Mississippi With a 20-2 record, the Di- (Tuesday’s 15-4 Price, a redshirt junior, threw Westburg delivered the RBIs. State for an upset. amond Dawgs are off to their win over Arkan- a scoreless fourth inning and The Dawgs sent eight hitters The Diamond Dawgs took best start since 2006 when they sas Little Rock, Tyler Spring, also a redshirt to the plate. Four of them had charge after that. won 21 of their first 22 games. Lemonis plus Wednes- junior, threw two scoreless in- hits. After falling behind 4-0 in MSU has won two straight day’s win), they nings to earn his first win of Rowdey Jordan had two hits the opening inning, six Bulldog since dropping the third game came in and held the opposi- the year. He struck out three and drove in the game-tying pitchers shut down Samford af- of a three-game series last Sat- tion. Our kids just keep playing. and allowed one hit. run. ter that. Senior star Jake Mang- urday at Florida. They keep playing defense and After MSU scored single um had three hits, including “I give our bullpen a lot of they gave us some good at-bats.” runs in the fourth and fifth See Diamond Dawgs, 2B

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Head- lined by a season-high 19 hits and 26 runs, The W Owls base- ball team (9-3) defeated Stillman College, 26-6, on Wednesday in a 7-inning mercy rule game. The Owls started right-hander Drew Williams on the mound for the first two innings. He strug- gled, giving up four earned runs and five hits. Junor pitcher RJ Dell took over the pitching duties for the Owls in the third inning, giving up six hits and two runs. He won his fourth consecutive decision this season. Eiland Clecker took over in the seventh to pitch the final in- ning. The Owls offense got going in the top of the second. A leadoff error by the Stillman shortstop Dispatch file photos and singles by Will Peters and LEFT: Mississippi Rebels guard Blake Hinson (0) battles for a rebound with Mississippi State Bulldogs forward Reggie Perry (1) during the second half at The Pavilion at Ole Miss. RIGHT: Senior Teaira McCowan is the SEC Player of the Year and will lead the Reese Wagner loaded the bas- top-seed MSU women into NCAA Tournament play Friday. es. Leon “Trey” Petite singled through the right side to bring in the first run of the frame with no BOWKER BANTER outs. Heath Ford then hit into a fielder’s choice, scoring another run. Luke Murphy added to the Owls lead with a single up the MSU women and men play on same middle that scored another run. The W scored three more runs on walks. night, separated by 2,206 miles Before the end of the inning, Will Peters pulled in a triple down he basketball teams at University of Connecticut. hours before they take the floor at Hum- the right-field line for three runs. Mississippi State Uni- Certainly, Notre Dame and phrey Coliseum to take on Southern Petite roped in another single to Tversity find themselves Stanford. University in the opening round of the bring in Peters from third base. in a unique position today. My advice: Don’t expect women’s tournament, the men will be Three more singles put The W in It is a spot where every it every year. Cherish it this starting their game against Liberty in front, 13-0. NCAA Division I school year. It is truly special. San Jose, California. Murphy closed out the frame hopes to be when March The MSU Athletics De- So what happens? with a run on a wild pitch to end Madness arrives. partment has already pointed Do the women watch the men’s game The W’s side of the inning with a Two teams, both in the out that Mississippi State is on TV in their locker room before their 14-0 lead. tournament. the only place in the nation to own game? Stillman made it to the board The campus is buzzing. have its two basketball teams Not easily done. The Bulldogs have a in the bottom of the second after The talk at the restaurants Paul Bowker holding top five seeds in the game of their own to prepare for. a fielder’s choice, two singles, and the coffee shops are all NCAA Tournament following And what of the men? As their game and a walk brought in four runs about those Dawgs. a fall in which its football ends in San Jose, the women’s game for the Tigers to cut the Owls Mississippi State isn’t the first to team played in a bowl game. back home will be starting. There’ll be lead to 14-4. experience this. This is going to make a crazy Friday. a postgame visit with the coach. Then, a The top of the fourth opened The Duke teams come to mind. The What do the MSU women do? Two See Bowker, 2B with a throwing error by Still- man’s third baseman and an ad- vance to second and a single and stolen base by Damain Benefield to put runners on second and NATIONAL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT third base for the Owls. Jones singled to left field for an RBI fol- lowed by another single to left by Peters to bring in an additional Alabama falls short by a point in OT run. With runners on every base, FROM WIRE AND SPECIAL REPORTS he surpassed former standout Levi Ran- in front of the team and we wanted to Reese Wagner singled through the left side to give the Owls a dolph as the program leader in career honor them for all of their hard work and 17-4 lead through four. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Derrik Jamer- games played (136). dedication to the program on and off the The W added three runs in son Jr. had 25 points and made two free “First of all, I want to congratulate court. It was a disappointing loss. The throws with 17 seconds left in overtime as Norfolk State because they played an out- the fifth on a single to the pitch- way we lost this game is some of the same er from Jones and bases-loaded Norfolk State narrowly defeated Alabama standing game, especially in the second reasons why we didn’t make the (NCAA) 80-79 in the NIT first round on Wednes- half,” Alabama head coach Avery Johnson walks by Peters and Wagner. Tournament. It gives us a lot to work on In the sixth, Austin Woodall day night. said. “They came out with a lot of energy whenever we can get started with our Nic Thomas had 15 points and five earned an RBI on a bases loaded and it all started with a big three by Derr- offseason training. I told those guys we steals for Norfolk State (22-13). Steven ik Jamerson at the end of the first half. He walk and Kyle Brown singled to don’t ever want to feel like this again.” Whitley added 13 points, seven rebounds really got hot in the second half and we right field for two RBIs to bring The game featured 14 lead changes and seven assists. Jordan Butler had 11 lost him a couple of times. He looked like the Owls lead to 23-5. points and 12 rebounds for the visitors. the prolific three-point shooter that he is, and eight ties throughout the game. The impressive offensive per- Herbert Jones scored a career-high 18 shooting 52 percent from the line, second With Alabama trailing by four, 80-76, formance was highlighted by points for the Crimson Tide (18-16). in the country.” Jones knocked down a three to cut the Peters, who went 3-for-5 with a Alex Reese added 17 points and sev- Behind the performances of both Re- lead to only one with six seconds remain- triple and five RBIs. Jones added en rebounds. John Petty had 11 points, ese and Petty, Alabama reserves chipped ing in overtime. Norfolk State turned the a stat line of 2-for-4 with 3 RBIs, including a 3-pointer to tie it at 67 at the in 41 points and outscored the Spartans ball over trying to in-bound the ball to set and Wagner went 2-for-2 with 2 end of regulation. 41-27 in points off the bench. up one last chance for the Tide. However, RBIs. Riley Norris, a graduate senior at Ala- “I’m proud of our seniors,” Johnson the runner by Riley Norris on the base- “I’m really proud of our guys bama, started the game and in doing so, said. “We made all those guys stand up line fell short. See Baseball, 2B 2B THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com EAST MISSISSIPPI CC BASEBALL Itawamba sweeps Lions in doubleheader FROM SPECIAL REPORTS walk to Tyler Miller. The Indians got out runs on back-to-back, bases-load- the run back and added another tally ed walks to S.T. McMurrian and FULTON — East Mississippi in the bottom half of the frame to se- John Ross Briggs to move ahead 5-4. Community College outhit Itawam- cure their 6-1 triumph in the nine-in- Two innings later, Dillon Brown’s ba during both games of Tuesday’s ning opener. leadoff homer off ICC starting pitch- MACJC baseball doubleheader, Miller, Dillon Morgan and Zarin er Hunter Hughes gave the Lions a but the visitors came up short both Cole paced EMCC’s seven-hit team short-lived 6-4 lead. times, falling by scores of 6-1 and effort with two hits apiece in the first After Denson loaded the bases 11-8 to the 13th-ranked Indians at game. to begin the bottom of the fifth, the ICC’s Roy Cresap Field. During the seven-inning night- Indians proceeded to bat around and In the opening game, ICC got cap, the lead changed hands three score five runs on only one hit by tak- on the board first with Lane Domi- times and the Lions banged out ing advantage of a variety of EMCC no’s second-inning sacrifice fly off twice as many hits as Itawamba in a miscues in the field. ICC’s five-run EMCC starting pitcher Reid Blakely. losing effort. inning was capped by Crigger’s two- In his first collegiate start, Blakely EMCC took the upper hand ini- YESTERDAY’S ANSWER out, two-run hit off Jaxen Forrester. pitched into the sixth inning before tially by scoring three times in the Sudoku YESTERDAY’S ANSWER Doubling ICC’s hit total in the Yesterday’s answer giving way to the bullpen. opening frame of the second game. SudokuSudoku is a number- 8 6 4 7 2 3 5 1 9 game, the Lions’ 16-hit attack in the Sudokuplacing puzzleis a number- based on The Indians went on to increase An RBI double by Chase Jones high- 2 5 1 6 9 8 4 3 7 their lead to 4-0 in the sixth when lighted the four-hit inning for the nightcap was led by Josh Smith’s placinga 9x9 grid puzzle with basedseveral on Domino’s two-run double was fol- Lions. three singles in five plate appearanc- agiven 9x9 gridnumbers. with several The object 7 3 9 4 1 5 8 2 6 given numbers. The object lowed by a sacrifice fly off the bat of The Indians answered an inning es. Five other EMCC players had is to place the numbers 9 1 8 2 5 4 7 6 3 is1 to 9 place in the the empty numbers spaces Brett Coker. later with four runs in the bottom two hits apiece in the second contest. 1so to that 9 in each the empty row, each spaces 6 4 2 9 3 7 1 5 8 After getting shut out by ICC of the second. The big blow of the The Lions (3-13) will step out of so that each row, each 5 7 3 1 8 6 2 9 4 conference action by playing host to column and each 3x3 box starting pitcher Justin Medlin inning was Kyle Crigger’s two-out, columncontains and the each same 3x3 number box 3 2 5 8 4 9 6 7 1 through seven innings, the Lions three-run homer off EMCC starting Shelton State Community College containsonly once. the The same difficulty number only once. The difficulty 4 9 6 5 7 1 3 8 2 were able to reach reliever Jackson pitcher Chance Denson. in a 2 p.m. Sunday doubleheader at level increases from

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Diamond Dawgs Continued from Page 1B “It is great to see (Rowdey) so to see him have success to- Next up for the Bulldogs is an enjoying playing the game,” Le- night and come up with that big SEC showdown with Auburn, be- monis said. “When you are in the hit was huge.” ginning Friday night at 6 at Dudy funk, the game is not a lot of fun. Elijah MacNamee reached Noble Field. Game 2 is at 2 p.m. So it’s been hard on him. He is base four times, extending his Saturday and Game 3 is at 1 p.m. one of our better personalities, on-base streak to 17 games. Sunday. Bowker Continued from Page 1B press conference. Then, a cele- campus, divided by hoops. men transfer from the west coast bration and thoughts of Sunday’s If they both win Friday, OK, I to the east coast, heading for their game against Virginia Tech (I’m should say when they both win Fri- regional tournament in Washing- making that call now) ... or worse, day, the campus will go crazy. Two ton, D.C. a loss and thoughts of a summer teams, two wins, two hearts. And I say this for dramatics. In real- starting way too early. then we move on to Sunday, where, ity, the men will head home after Somehow in the middle of all again separated by 2,206 miles, the their game Sunday, go to class for a that, do they watch the women’s men’s and women’s team play for couple of days, and then head out. game? Maybe follow it on Twitter? Sweet 16 spots. The women will already be home, These are not easy questions. How sweet would that be? but not for long. Their paths crossed Wednesday. And then, in this awkward Monday could be an interest- As Mississippi State was preparing twist of fate created by the NCAA not only for two women’s games selection committees who decide ing day on campus. Men’s players in Starkville, but getting ready to such things, the men and women of congratulating the Bulldog women, host three other teams and its fans Mississippi State may pass by each and the women doing the same for at Humphrey Coliseum, the men other at 38,000 feet somewhere the men. were heading west. above Topeka, Kansas, I suppose. Let’s get ready for this wild ride. They’ll both practice Thursday, The women were placed in the Paul Bowker is sports editor of but separated by 2,206 miles. Portland Regional, meaning they’ll the Dispatch. You can reach him at This is a story of a separated be headed for Oregon while the [email protected]. Baseball Continued from Page 1B today. We were outstand- jump start an onslaught things away early. On the mound, Kaleb ing offensively,” said of runs in a 25-0 blowout Four home runs capped Hill was the first arm out coach Matthew Wolfen- victory. an eight-run third inning, of the bullpen, and he car- barger. “We were great While the Rebels including long balls from ried the Rebels through ACROSS 1-9, and then guys off the racked up 25 runs on the Kevin Graham, Knox Lo- two scoreless innings. He bench swung it well, too. offensive side, the pitch- poser, Tyler Keenan and 1 Gung-ho matched Phillips with an 5 Jazz dance I’m really proud of how ing staff shut it down on Thomas Dillard. even four strikeouts and 10 Muscularly fit clean we were defensive- the mound. Four Ole Miss The 25 runs are the ensured the no-hitter was 12 River vessel ly as well. It was good to pitchers worked for the most for an Ole Miss team 13 Spree see several guys play well first combined no-hitter since they last plated 25 intact through the end of 14 More than today coming off of a long in school history, and against Southern Miss in the fifth. sufficient break.” the first no-hitter since April 2003, and 21 hits is Pierce Smith was 15 Pub staple The Owls will be back Russ Johnson last accom- the most since they also called upon next in his 16 Commuter group on the field next Tues- plished the feat in 1966. hit 21 against Kentucky first appearance of the 18 La Brea sight day, when they face Blue The Golden Lions in 2016. Ole Miss has now 20 Mineral suffix year, and he went one in- 21 TV award Mountain. The first pitch didn’t have their first scored double-digit runs ning. Taylor Broadway 23 Sign of approval of the doubleheader is baserunner until the in three straight contests. struck out the only three 24 Granny scheduled for noon. fourth inning, and even Twelve Rebels entered batters he faced in the 26 Airing OLE MISS NO-NO: he reached on a dropped the stat box with a hit to- seventh inning. 28 Sandwich choice Ole Miss delivered a third strike. Zack Phillips day, the most on the year, 29 Company historic day at the plate was tremendous in his while eleven also added The Rebels, up 25 at symbol the midway point of the 31 Ear: Prefix and on the mound, as first start since transition- an RBI to their day’s total. 6 Pack down 33 Speculate 32 “Wild, man!” one offensive-powered ing to the midweek role, Tim Elko drove in a seventh, then closed out 7 Germane 34 Longings 36 Lawyer’s hurdle inning early in Wednes- but he was only asked to run as part of a seven-run the ballgame following an 8 Bolshevik revolu- 35 Horn sounds 39 Old hand agreed-upon 10-run rule tionary 37 At any time day’s game against Ar- work three innings af- fifth inning with his first 40 Full of energy 9 Disrobed 38 TV’s warrior kansas-Pine Bluff helped ter the Rebel offense put career triple. after seven innings. 41 Baja buddy 11 Based on ten princess 43 Out of bed 17 Bill dispenser 42 Chess pieces 44 Principle 19 Writing tool 45 Colorful fish 22 Something to 46 Capone’s foe meditate on 24 Merchant of DOWN music 1 Ready to hit 25 Love lover 2 Magician’s cry 27 Negating link 3 Central 28 City of Australia 4 M.B.A. or Ph.D. 30 One — kind 5 Wound remnant

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dale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. Longwood 90, Cincinnati vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., briefly Basketball 4:05 p.m. CALENDAR Southern Miss. 68 Arizona vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., NCAA Tournament Glance SOUTHERN MISS. (20-13) Rowe 1-2 0-0 All Times EDT 4:05 p.m. 2, Harper-Baker 1-5 5-8 7, Holland 2-4 0-0 6, Kansas City vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 4:05 Softball FIRST FOUR Edwards 3-7 0-0 7, Griffin 2-8 1-2 7, Marshall Prep Baseball At UD Arena p.m. 1-1 0-0 2, Jacdonmi 0-0 0-0 0, Stevenson 0-0 L.A. Angels vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., The W drops doubleheader to Huntingdon College Dayton, Ohio 0-0 0, Watson 7-11 1-2 17, Hampton 2-6 5-6 11, Today’s Games Tuesday, March 19 4:10 p.m. MONTGOMERY – The Mississippi University for Women Owls Daniel 0-0 0-0 0, Draine 3-9 2-2 9. Totals 22- Minnesota vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., Fairleigh Dickinson 82, Prairie View A&M 76 53 14-20 68. Starkville Academy at Leake, 6 p.m. Belmont 81, Temple 70 6:05 p.m. played well defensively against NCAA Division III opponent Huntingdon LONGWOOD (16-17) J.Smith 4-8 0-0 Houston vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 7:05 p.m. Wednesday, March 20 12, Franklin 1-2 2-2 4, Geter 4-6 2-2 11, Wil- College on Wednesday, but the Owls dropped games by 4-1 and 1-0 West Lowndes at Noxapater, 5 p.m. North Dakota State 78, N.C. Central 74 Chicago Cubs vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., son 9-15 0-1 23, Phillips 5-14 6-6 19, Okafor 9:40 p.m. scores. Friday’s Games Arizona State 74, St. John’s 65 0-1 0-0 0, Cintron 2-2 2-2 7, Flood 3-3 0-0 9, EAST REGIONAL Chapman 0-0 0-0 0, Munoz 2-6 0-0 5. Totals Braves 8, Blue Jays 7 In the first game, the Owls scored one run in the top of the fourth Starkville High vs. Madison Central, 6 p.m. First Round 30-57 12-13 90. Thursday, March 21 Atlanta Toronto inning, but The W was unable to put more runs on the board. The Halftime—Longwood 41-32. 3-Point ab r h bi ab r h bi Caledonia vs. Pontotoc, 7 p.m. At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena Goals—Southern Miss. 10-29 (Holland 2-3, Hawks scored the game’s first four runs in the first inning. One run Jacksonville, Fla. Swanson ss 3 1 1 0 B.Drury 3b 4 0 1 1 Watson 2-5, Hampton 2-5, Griffin 2-6, Ed- R.Ddder pr 1 1 0 0 Espinal pr 1 2 1 0 New Hope vs. Louisville, 6:30 p.m. LSU (26-6) vs. Yale (22-7), 12:40 p.m. wards 1-3, Draine 1-6, Harper-Baker 0-1), came in on a throwing error by the Owls shortstop, one runner came Maryland (22-10) vs. Belmont (27-5), 3:10 p.m. Camargo lf 4 1 2 0 Grichuk rf 2 0 0 0 Longwood 18-34 (Wilson 5-9, J.Smith 4-6, Schwrtz pr 1 1 0 0 D.Pmpey rf 2 0 0 0 in on a throwing error by the right fielder, and the final two runs were West Lowndes vs. Columbus Christian, 5 p.m. At Wells Fargo Arena Flood 3-3, Phillips 3-7, Cintron 1-1, Geter 1-3, Des Moines, Iowa Acn Jr. cf 3 1 2 2 Hrnndez lf 2 1 1 2 scored on a single. Munoz 1-4, Okafor 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Shmpert pr 1 0 0 0 Ry.Noda rf 0 0 0 0 Louisville (20-13) vs. Minnesota (21-13), 12:15 Rebounds—Southern Miss. 22 (Hampton 4), Prep Softball p.m. B.McCnn c 3 1 1 0 Morales dh 4 1 1 0 Kristen Martin scored the Owls’ only run on a triple by Carolyn Longwood 31 (Wilson 8). Assists—Southern Morales c 1 0 0 0 R.Hssey ph 0 0 0 0 Michigan State (28-6) vs. Bradley (20-14), Miss. 13 (Griffin 7), Longwood 20 (Phillips 7). “Kendall” Wilkinson. Today’s Games 2:45 p.m. Clbrson 2b 3 0 0 2 Grr Jr. 2b 2 1 0 0 Total Fouls—Southern Miss. 11, Longwood 14. C.Pache rf 3 1 0 1 R.Urena 3b 1 0 0 1 On the mound, Madison Scoggin pitched the entire six innings for Friday, March 22 A—1,372 (1,807). Starkville High vs. Murrah, 6 p.m. At Colonial Life Arena Sobotka rp 1 0 0 0 K.Pllar cf 2 1 1 3 eight hits against and four earned runs. Columbia, S.C. Wilkins 1b 3 1 2 2 E.Sgard 2b 1 0 1 0 Columbus vs. Tupelo, (DH) 6 p.m. Norfolk St. 80, Alabama 79 T.Hrris rf 1 0 0 0 McKnney 1b 2 0 0 0 In Game 2, both teams played well defensively for a scoreless Duke (29-5) vs. North Dakota State (19-15), NORFOLK ST. (22-13) Long 4-9 1-2 9, 7:10 p.m. Flrimon 3b 3 0 0 1 Cntwell c 1 0 0 0 New Hope at Leake Central, 6:30 p.m. Butler 5-10 1-1 11, Thomas 4-18 4-4 15, Pitt Newcomb sp 2 0 0 0 D.Jnsen c 2 0 0 0 game until the fifth inning. Huntingdon broke the seal in the bottom of VCU (25-7) vs. UCF (23-8), 9:40 p.m. 2-12 1-2 5, Whitley 6-13 0-0 13, Ford 0-0 0-0 0, At SAP Center Lgbauer ph 2 0 1 0 Lndqist pr 1 1 0 0 the inning, scoring one run on a triple to right center. Caledonia at Itawamba, 7 p.m. Branch 1-2 0-0 2, Jamerson 8-14 2-2 25, Kelly F.Glvis ss 3 0 0 0 San Jose, Calif. 0-2 0-0 0, Fitzgerald 0-0 0-0 0, Chavis 0-0 0-0 The Owls continued playing well offensively to close out the game Mississippi State (23-10) vs. Liberty (28-6), R.Tllez 1b 1 0 0 0 West Lowndes at Vardaman, 5 p.m. 0. Totals 30-80 9-11 80. Totals 35 8 9 8 Totals 31 7 6 7 7:27 p.m. ALABAMA (18-16) Smith 2-6 0-1 4, Hall but were unable to make a mark offensively. Virginia Tech (24-8) vs. Saint Louis (23-12), Atlanta 010 005 200—8 Friday’s Games 2-5 2-4 6, Lewis 4-10 1-2 10, Jones 6-10 5-8 18, Toronto 030 000 301—7 On the mound, freshman Amelia Stalter suffered her second loss 9:57 p.m. Norris 0-6 0-0 0, Reese 5-10 2-2 17, Petty 4-10 Second Round E—Didder (2), Camargo (1), Florimon (6). of the season. The right-hander from Atlantic Beach, Fla. pitched her Columbus vs. Noxapater, 6:30 p.m. 0-0 11, A.Johnson 2-2 0-0 4, Ingram 2-5 0-0 4, DP_Atlanta 0, Toronto 1. LOB—Atlanta 5, To- Saturday, March 23 Mack 2-5 0-0 5. Totals 29-69 10-17 79. third complete game for two strikeouts, three hits against, and one At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena ronto 8. 2B—Swanson (1), McCann (2), Sogard New Hope vs. East Webster, 6:30 p.m. Norfolk St. 28 39 13—80 (1). HR—Wilkins (1), Hernandez (1), Pillar (1). Jacksonville, Fla. Alabama 35 32 12—79 earned run. LSU-Yale winner vs. Maryland—Belmont SB—Acuna Jr. (3), Pache (2). CS—Galvis (1). Caledonia vs. South Pontotoc, 7:30 p.m. 3-Point Goals­—Norfolk St. 11-29 (Jam- SF—Urena (1). During the effort, Anna Kate McDaniel, Carolyn “Kendall” winner erson 7-13, Thomas 3-10, Whitley 1-3, Branch At Wells Fargo Arena IP H R ER BB SO 0-1, Pitt 0-2), Alabama 11-30 (Reese 5-8, Petty Atlanta Wilkinson, and Bailee Watts connected against the Hawks pitcher for a College Softball Des Moines, Iowa 3-8, Jones 1-1, Mack 1-3, Lewis 1-6, Ingram Newcomb W, 1-0 5 2 3 3 5 2 single hit each. Michigan State-Bradley winner vs. Louis- 0-2, Norris 0-2). Fouled Out—Whitley. Re- Today’s Game ville-Minnesota winner bounds—Norfolk St. 46 (Butler 13), Alabama Sobotka H, 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 Up next: The Owls return home next Tuesday to face Division I foe Sunday, March 24 42 (Hall 12). Assists—Norfolk St. 10 (Whitley Vizcaino 2-3 1 2 2 1 2 Stillman College at Mississippi University for Santiago 1-3 1 1 1 0 1 Mississippi Valley State University in a doubleheader. The first pitch is At Colonial Life Arena 7), Alabama 17 (Ingram 6). Total Fouls—Nor- Columbia, S.C. folk St. 17, Alabama 12. A—2,086 (15,383). Venters H, 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 set for 2 p.m. Women (DH), 3 p.m. Duke-N.C. Central-North Dakota State winner De Paula H, 1 1-3 1 1 1 2 1 vs. VCU-UCF winner NBA Harrison S, 1-1 2-3 0 0 0 1 0 Friday’s Games At SAP Center All Times EDT Toronto Golf San Jose, Calif. EASTERN CONFERENCE Shoemaker 5 3 3 3 2 7 Auburn at Mississippi State, 6 p.m. Virginia Tech-Saint Louis winner vs. Mississippi Atlantic Division Luciano L, 0-1 BS, 0-1 0 1 3 3 2 0 MSU’s Ford Clegg wins SEC Freshman of the Week award Guerra 1 1 0 0 0 1 Alabama at Texas A&M, time TBA State-Liberty winner W L Pct GB Mississippi State men’s golf freshman Ford Clegg captured his At Capital One Arena x-Toronto 51 21 .708 — Reid-Foley 2 4 2 2 0 1 Washington x-Philadelphia 47 25 .653 4 Paulino 1 0 0 0 0 3 fourth consecutive top-15 finish Sunday with his tied-for-11th perfor- College Baseball Regional Semifinals Boston 43 29 .597 8 HBP—by—Sobotka (Pillar), Shoemaker mance at the Schenkel Invitational. A week earlier, the Birmingham, Friday, March 29 Brooklyn 37 36 .507 14½ (Swanson). Friday’s Games Duke-North Dakota State—VCU-UCF winner New York 14 58 .194 37 WP—Vizcaino, Venters, Newcomb. Alabama, native earned a tied-for-third effort at the Desert Mountain vs. Virginia Tech-Saint Louis—Mississippi Southeast Division Umpires—Home, Phil Cuzzi; First, Alex Tosi; Intercollegiate, good for a career-best finish. Old Dominion at Southern Miss, 6 p.m. State-Liberty winner W L Pct GB Second, Brennan Miller; Third, John Bacon. Michigan State-Bradley—Louisville-Minneso- Miami 35 36 .493 — T—3:17. A—5,097 On Wednesday, Clegg was rewarded for his consistently strong Arkansas at Alabama, 6 p.m. ta winner vs. LSU-Yale—Maryland-Belmont Orlando 34 38 .472 1½ play by the Southeastern Conference, who named him SEC Freshman winner Charlotte 31 39 .443 3½ Auburn at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m. Regional Championship Washington 30 42 .417 5½ Hockey Golfer of the Week. Sunday, March 31 Atlanta 24 48 .333 11½ Ole Miss at Missouri, 6:30 p.m. Semifinal winners National Hockey League Clegg is the first Bulldog golfer since Chad Ramey on March 11, Central Division All Times EDT W L Pct GB EASTERN CONFERENCE 2014, to earn a weekly SEC award, and just the sixth in program history. SOUTH REGIONAL x-Milwaukee 53 19 .736 — Women’s College Golf First Round Atlantic Division One of two golfers to play in all seven of MSU’s 2018-19 tourna- Indiana 44 28 .611 9 GP W L OT Pts GF GA Friday’s Games Thursday, March 21 Detroit 36 34 .514 16 At The XL Center z-Tampa Bay 74 57 13 4 118 292 195 ments, Clegg has carded a 71.71 stroke average so far this season Chicago 21 52 .288 32½ Boston 73 44 20 9 97 221 185 Southern Miss at Mountain View Intercollegiate Hartford, Conn. Cleveland 19 53 .264 34 and four of State’s 14 top-15 finishes. Clegg’s four top-15 finishes rank Villanova (25-9) vs. Saint Mary’s (22-11), 7:20 Toronto 74 44 25 5 93 263 221 WESTERN CONFERENCE Montreal 73 38 28 7 83 215 213 second among SEC freshmen, behind only Georgia’s Trent Phillips, (Tucson, Arizona) p.m. Southwest Division Purdue (23-9) vs. Old Dominion (26-8), 9:50 Florida 73 32 29 12 76 236 246 W L Pct GB Buffalo 73 31 33 9 71 202 237 who has six. p.m. Houston 45 27 .625 — Men’s College Tennis Friday, March 22 Detroit 73 26 37 10 62 198 249 Clegg is likely to be listed on Dusty Smith’s scorecard when the San Antonio 42 30 .583 3 Ottawa 73 25 42 6 56 217 270 At Colonial Life Arena New Orleans 31 43 .419 15 MSU men’s golf team begins play at its third tournament in as many Friday’s Games Columbia, S.C. Metropolitan Division Memphis 29 42 .408 15½ GP W L OT Pts GF GA Mississippi (20-12) vs. Oklahoma (19-13), Dallas 28 43 .394 16½ weeks Saturday at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate. State is set to play three Tennessee at Mississippi State, 3 p.m. 12:40 p.m. Washington 74 43 23 8 94 256 231 Northwest Division N.Y. Islanders 73 42 24 7 91 206 178 more regular season events this spring before the SEC Championship Virginia (29-3) vs. Gardner-Webb (23-11), 3:10 W L Pct GB Georgia at Ole Miss, 6 p.m. p.m. Pittsburgh 74 39 24 11 89 251 223 in late April. x-Denver 47 22 .681 — Carolina 72 40 25 7 87 215 198 At Nationwide Arena Portland 44 27 .620 4 Alabama at Auburn, 6 p.m. Columbus, Ohio Columbus 73 40 29 4 84 222 214 Also named as SEC Freshman of the Week was Ellen Hutchin- Utah 42 29 .592 6 Philadelphia 73 35 30 8 78 223 244 Cincinnati (28-6) vs. Iowa (22-11), 12:15 p.m. Oklahoma City 42 30 .583 6½ son-Kay of Ole Miss. Tennessee (29-5) vs. Colgate (24-10), 2:45 N.Y. Rangers 73 28 32 13 69 204 244 Women’s College Tennis Minnesota 32 39 .451 16 New Jersey 74 27 38 9 63 205 253 She notched her fourth top-20 of the season, finishing tied for p.m. Pacific Division Friday’s Games At SAP Center WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Central Division 15th in the Tar Heel Classic while tying her career-best 54-hole score San Jose, Calif. x-Golden State 48 22 .686 — Mississippi State at Tennessee, 2:30 p.m. Kansas State (25-8) vs. UC Irvine (30-5), 2 p.m. GP W L OT Pts GF GA (72-74-73—219). She became the first Ole Miss golfer to earn an SEC L.A. Clippers 42 30 .583 7 Winnipeg 73 44 25 4 92 249 213 Wisconsin (23-10) vs. Oregon (23-12), 4:30 Sacramento 34 36 .486 14 accolade this spring. Auburn at Alabama, 5 p.m. p.m. Nashville 74 42 27 5 89 222 195 L.A. Lakers 31 40 .437 17½ St. Louis 73 38 27 8 84 214 200 Hutchinson-Kay played the par 3s and par 5s under par, going one Second Round Phoenix 17 55 .236 32 Ole Miss at Georgia, time TBA Saturday, March 23 Dallas 73 38 29 6 82 185 180 x-clinched playoff spot Minnesota 74 34 31 9 77 200 217 under on both, and was second on the team in pars with 38, good for At The XL Center Wednesday’s Games Hartford, Conn. Colorado 73 32 29 12 76 232 224 fifth in the field. College Track and Field Cleveland 107, Milwaukee 102 Chicago 72 32 30 10 74 243 263 Purdue-Old Dominion winner vs. Villano- Orlando 119, New Orleans 96 The Taby, Sweden, native helped lead Ole Miss to a fifth-place va-Saint Mary’s winner Pacific Division Philadelphia 118, Boston 115 GP W L OT Pts GF GA Friday’s Games Sunday, March 24 Utah 137, New York 116 finish, and finished above five players ranked in the Golfstat Top-100 At Colonial Life Arena x-Calgary 73 45 21 7 97 260 208 Chicago 126, Washington 120, OT x-San Jose 73 43 22 8 94 261 229 player rankings. Alabama, Mississippi State, Southern Miss at Al Columbia, S.C. Memphis 126, Houston 125, OT Virginia-Gardner-Webb winner vs. Mississip- Vegas 73 41 27 5 87 227 203 Schmidt Relays (Starkville) Miami 110, San Antonio 105 Arizona 73 36 31 6 78 196 204 pi-Oklahoma winner Toronto 123, Oklahoma City 114, OT Basketball At Nationwide Arena Vancouver 74 32 32 10 74 206 229 Ole Miss at Trailblazer Challenge (Coral Gables, Portland 126, Dallas 118 Edmonton 73 32 34 7 71 206 244 Columbus, Ohio Thursday’s Games EMCC to hold women’s basketball tryouts April 3 Tennessee-Colgate winner vs. Cincinnati-Iowa Anaheim 75 30 36 9 69 173 230 Florida) Denver at Washington, 7 p.m. Los Angeles 72 25 39 8 58 170 230 East Mississippi Community College will hold women’s basketball winner Minnesota at Charlotte, 7 p.m. At SAP Center Utah at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for tryouts on April 3 at the Scooba campus. San Jose, Calif. Dallas at Sacramento, 10 p.m. overtime loss. Top three teams in each division Scheduled for a 1 p.m. start at Keyes T. Currie Coliseum, EMCC’s Kansas State-UC Irvine winner vs. Wiscon- Detroit at Phoenix, 10 p.m. and two wild cards per conference advance to sin-Oregon winner Indiana at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. playoffs. upcoming women’s basketball tryout session is open to graduating on the air At KFC Yum! Center Friday’s Games x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference high school seniors with NJCAA eligibility remaining and who have not Louisville, Ky. Memphis at Orlando, 7 p.m. Regional Semifinals Denver at New York, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games previously signed a National Letter of Intent with another NJCAA or Thursday, March 28 L.A. Clippers at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Toronto 4, Buffalo 2 Today Tampa Bay 5, Washington 4, OT MACJC member school. Virginia-Gardner-Webb_Mississippi-Oklaho- Oklahoma City at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. BOWLING ma winner vs. Kansas State-UC Irvine_Wis- San Antonio at Houston, 8 p.m. Vancouver 7, Ottawa 4 Interested tryout participants must provide a valid physical consin-Oregon winner Miami at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m. Winnipeg 3, Anaheim 0 7 p.m. — PBA Bowling: PBA World Championship, Tennessee-Colgate—Cincinnati-Iowa winner Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games examination form or a signed note from their high school indicating their vs. Purdue-Old Dominion_Villanova-Saint Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay at Carolina, 7 p.m. current, up-to-date physical exam status. Allen Park, Mich., FS1 Mary’s winner Boston at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Boston at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Regional Championship Miami at Washington, 7 p.m. Arizona at Florida, 7 p.m. For additional information, please contact EMCC women’s head COLLEGE BASEBALL Saturday, March 30 Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. basketball coach Sharon Thompson via email at sthompson@eastms. Semifinal winners Minnesota at Memphis, 8 p.m. Detroit at St. Louis, 8 p.m. 6 p.m. — Florida at Vanderbilt, SEC Utah at Chicago, 8 p.m. Pittsburgh at Nashville, 8 p.m. edu. MIDWEST REGIONAL Dallas at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Colorado at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) First Round Detroit at Portland, 10 p.m. Philadelphia at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21 Phoenix at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Columbus at Edmonton, 9 p.m. Football 11 a.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, First At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena Ottawa at Calgary, 9 p.m. Jacksonville, Fla. Winnipeg at Vegas, 10 p.m. Alabama spends practice session in shells Round, CBS Kentucky (27-6) vs. Abilene Christian (27-6), Baseball San Jose at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama’s football team spent two hours 7:10 p.m. Friday’s Games 11:30 a.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, Wofford (29-4) vs. Seton Hall (20-13), 9:40 p.m. Major League Baseball Minnesota at Washington, 7 p.m. on the Thomas-Drew Practice Fields on Wednesday afternoon. The At Vivint Smart Home Arena At A Glance San Jose at Anaheim, 10 p.m. Crimson Tide worked in shells during the practice after using Tuesday First Round, TRU Salt Lake City All Times EDT Saturday’s Games Auburn (26-9) vs. New Mexico State (30-4), AMERICAN LEAGUE Arizona at New Jersey, 1 p.m. as an off day. 12:20 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, 1:30 p.m. W L Pct. N.Y. Islanders at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. The Tuesday workout was the third practice of 14 total sessions Kansas (25-9) vs. Northeastern (23-10), 4 p.m. New York 15 7 .682 Chicago at Colorado, 3 p.m. First Round, TNT Friday, March 22 Houston 14 10 .583 Ottawa at Edmonton, 4 p.m. leading up to the annual Golden Flake A-Day Game on April 13 at At Nationwide Arena Oakland 11 8 .579 N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 7 p.m. 12:50 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, Columbus, Ohio Cleveland 14 11 .560 Boston at Florida, 7 p.m. Bryant-Denny Stadium. The A-Day matchup is set to start at 1 p.m. and Utah State (28-6) vs. Washington (26-8), 6:50 Kansas City 15 12 .556 Minnesota at Carolina, 7 p.m. will be broadcast live on ESPN2. Alabama will head back to the practice First Round, TBS p.m. Minnesota 13 11 .542 Nashville at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. North Carolina (27-6) vs. Iona (17-15), 9:20 p.m. Baltimore 12 12 .500 Buffalo at Montreal, 7 p.m. fields on Friday for a 3:30 p.m. workout. 1:30 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, At BOK Center Los Angeles 12 12 .500 Pittsburgh at Dallas, 8 p.m. Tulsa, Okla. Detroit 12 13 .480 Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Swimming & Diving First Round, CBS Houston (31-3) vs. Georgia State (24-9), 7:20 Toronto 11 12 .478 Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m. p.m. Seattle 8 9 .471 Detroit at Vegas, 10 p.m. 2 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, First Iowa State (23-11) vs. Ohio State (19-14), 9:50 Texas 11 13 .458 Anaheim at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. Alabama opens NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving p.m. Tampa Bay 10 13 .435 Round, TRU Second Round Boston 9 15 .375 Championships on Thursday Saturday, March 23 Chicago 7 16 .304 Transactions AUSTIN, Texas – After two days of training at the Lee and Joe 2:50 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena NATIONAL LEAGUE Jacksonville, Fla. W L Pct. Wednesday’s Moves Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin, Texas, practice is over for First Round, TNT Kentucky-Abilene Christian winner vs. Wof- San Diego 15 9 .625 BASEBALL Alabama as it rolls into the 2019 Women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving ford-Seton Hall winner Washington 15 10 .600 American League 3:20 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, At Vivint Smart Home Arena Miami 15 10 .600 CLEVELAND INDIANS — Released RHP Tyler Championships Thursday. Salt Lake City Chicago 15 11 .577 Clippard and signed him to a minor league con- tract. Re-assigned RHP A.J. Cole. “This week is really what it’s all about,” UA head coach Dennis First Round, TBS Kansas-Northeastern winner vs. Auburn-New Milwaukee 14 12 .538 Mexico State winner Los Angeles 12 11 .522 DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned LHP Ryan Car- Pursley said. “It’s what you work toward from day one of the season. It’s Sunday, March 24 Pittsburgh 12 12 .500 penter to Toledo (IL). 5:45 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with a great opportunity and we’re really excited and optimistic that it’s going At Nationwide Arena San Francisco 11 12 .478 First Round, TNT Columbus, Ohio Philadelphia 11 12 .478 RHP Ryan Pressly on a three-year contract. to be a great meet for us. We’re looking forward to going against the North Carolina-Iona winner vs. Utah Atlanta 12 14 .462 LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms 6 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, First State-Washington winner Arizona 11 13 .458 with OF Mike Trout on a 12-year contract. best in the nation and see what we can do.” At BOK Center Colorado 11 14 .440 MINNESOTA TWINS — Released 1B Lucas Freshman Kensey McMahon opens competition for the Crimson Round, CBS Tulsa, Okla. Cincinnati 8 12 .400 Duda. Reassigned RHPs Ryan Eades and Houston-Georgia State winner vs. Iowa State- St. Louis 9 14 .391 Jake Reed, LHP Justin Nicolino and C Wynston Tide with the preliminaries of the 500 freestyle. McMahon is ranked 6 p.m. —NIT Tournament: Teams TBD, Second Ohio State winner New York 9 14 .391 Sawyer to minor league camp. second all-time at Alabama in the 500 with a career-best 4:41.64. She is At The Sprint Center Thursday’s Games TAMPA BAY RAYS — Agreed to terms with INF/ Round, ESPNU Kansas City, Mo. Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., OF Brandon Lowe on a six-year contract. also slated to swim the 1,650 freestyle on Saturday, an event she holds Regional Semifinals 1:05 p.m. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned OF Antho- the school record in. 6:15 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, Friday, March 29 Atlanta vs. Tampa Bay (ss) at Port Charlotte, ny Alford and C Reese McGuire to Buffalo (IL). North Carolina-Iona—Utah State-Washing- Fla., 1:05 p.m. National League “Going into the 500 free, that’s a sprint for me, as crazy as that First Round, TNT ton winner vs. Kansas-Northeastern—Au- Houston vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 p.m. ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned OF sounds,” McMahon said. “I’m going to try and control my legs in the burn-New Mexico State winner N.Y. Yankees vs. St. Louis (ss) at Jupiter, Fla., Tim Locastro to Reno (PCL). 6:15 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, Kentucky-Abilene Christian winner—Wof- 1:05 p.m. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned RHP beginning, but really, really get after it from the first 50, because there’s ford-Seton Hall winner vs. Houston-Georgia Toronto vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., Jaime Schulta to Oklahoma City (PCL). op- First Round, TRU State—Iowa State-Ohio State winner 1:05 p.m. tioned RHP JT Chargios to their minor league nothing to lose. In the mile, I’m going to control that one a little more, Regional Championship Miami vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., camp. because it is a 1,650, but it is all about racing.” 8:15 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, Sunday, March 31 1:10 p.m. MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned LHP Jarlin Gar- Semifinal winners Kansas City vs. Cincinnati (ss) at Goodyear, cia to New Orleans (PCL). Sophomore Flora Molnar will also get her start on Thursday, First Round, TNT Ariz., 4:05 p.m. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Released RHP swimming in the prelims of the 50 freestyle, where she is ranked second WEST REGIONAL San Francisco vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., Josh Tomlin. Signed RHP Josh Fields to a mi- 8:30 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, First Round 4:05 p.m. nor-league contract. all-time at Alabama. A three-time All-American at last year’s NCAA Thursday, March 21 Cleveland vs. Texas (ss) at Surprise, Ariz., PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHP Championships, Molnar is also slated to swim the 100 butterfly and 100 First Round, CBS At The XL Center 4:05 p.m. Jake Barrett to Indianapolis (IL). Reassigned Hartford, Conn. L.A. Dodgers vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 4:05 INF Alfredo Reyes to minor league camp. freestyle this week. 8:45 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, Florida State (27-7) vs. Vermont (27-6), 2 p.m. p.m. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned LHP Aus- The Tide closes the morning session with the 400 medley relay, Marquette (24-9) vs. Murray State (27-4), 4:30 Texas (ss) vs. Chicago White Sox at Glendale, tin Gomber and RHP Daniel Ponce de Leon to First Round, TBS p.m. Ariz., 4:05 p.m. the Memphis (PCL). with a likely lineup of freshman Rhyan White, senior Justine Macfarlane, At Wells Fargo Arena L.A. Angels vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., Atlantic League Molnar and freshman Kalia Antoniou. That quartet set the school record 8:55 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, Des Moines, Iowa 4:10 p.m. SUGAR LAND SKEETERS — Re-signed RHP Nevada (29-4) vs. Florida (19-15), 6:50 p.m. Tampa Bay (ss) vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., Konner Wade. with a 3:32.65 at last month’s Southeastern Conference Champion- First Round. TRU Michigan (28-6) vs. Montana (26-8), 9:20 p.m. 6:05 p.m. BASKETBALL ships. At Vivint Smart Home Arena St. Louis (ss) vs. Washington at West Palm National Basketball Association COLLEGE LACROSEE (WOMEN’S) Salt Lake City Beach, Fla., 6:35 p.m. DETROIT PISTONS — Assigned Gs Khyri “Typically, our forte is our relays, which score double points at the Gonzaga (30-3) vs. Fairleigh Dickinson (21-13), Cincinnati (ss) vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 9:40 Thomas and Svi Mykhailiuk to Grand Rapids 4 p.m. — Maryland at Penn State, ESPNU 7:27 p.m. p.m. (NBAGL). championship events,” Pursley said. “If we’re going to do well in the Syracuse (20-13) vs. Baylor (19-13), 9:57 p.m. Friday’s Games NBA G League team rankings, we’re going to have to do well in those events.” 6 p.m. — Michigan at Ohio State, BTN Friday, March 22 Pittsburgh vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, WESTCHESTER KNICKS — Acquired G Mat- At BOK Center Fla., 1:05 p.m. thew Fisher-Davis from the available player In addition to the 200 medley relay, White will swim the 100 and COLLEGE WRESTLING Tulsa, Okla. St. Louis vs. N.Y. Mets (ss) at Port St. Lucie, pool. 200 backstrokes this week, while Macfarlane will compete in the 100 Texas Tech (26-6) vs. Northern Kentucky (26- Fla., 1:10 p.m. FOOTBALL 11 a.m. — NCAA Championships: First Round, 8), 1:30 p.m. Arizona vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., National Football League and 200 breaststrokes. Macfarlane is at her second NCAA Champi- Buffalo (31-3) vs. Arizona State (23-10), 4 p.m. 4:05 p.m. CHICAGO BEARS — Re-signed P Pat O’Don- onships after earning All-America honors in the 100 breaststroke as a ESPNU Second Round Texas vs. Chicago Cubs (ss) at Mesa, Ariz., nell to a two-year contract and QB Tyler Bray to Saturday, March 23 4:05 p.m. a one-year contract. junior. 6 p.m. — NCAA Championships: Second Round, At The XL Center Cincinnati vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 4:05 p.m. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed QB A.J. Mc- Hartford, Conn. Chicago White Sox vs. L.A. Angels (ss) at Tem- Carron. Soccer ESPN Florida State-Vermont winner vs. Mar- pe, Ariz., 4:10 p.m. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Re-signed S Clay- quette-Murray State winner Detroit vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 6:05 p.m. ton Geathers. FIGURE SKATING At Wells Fargo Arena Boston vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 6:05 MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed OL Josh Ole Miss’ Foster called up to U.S. U-23 National Team Des Moines, Iowa p.m. Kline. OXFORD – Fresh off of a second straight high-scoring season 12 p.m. — World Championships: pairs free Michigan-Montana winner vs. Nevada-Florida N.Y. Mets (ss) vs. Houston at West Palm Beach, OAKLAND RAIDERS — Re-signed LS Trent winner Fla., 6:05 p.m. Sieg. for the Rebels, Ole Miss’ Channing Foster will be donning a new red, skate, Japan (taped), NBCSN At Vivint Smart Home Arena Baltimore vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 6:07 Alliance of American Football white and blue kit this summer after being named to the U.S. Under-23 Salt Lake City p.m. SAN DIEGO FLEET — Waived OL Brandon 2 p.m. —­ World Championships: men’s short pro- Gonzaga—Fairleigh Dickinson winner vs. Syr- Philadelphia vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., Hodges. Re-signed WR Shay Fields. Women’s National Team roster for the 2019 Thorns Spring Invitational acuse-Baylor winner 6:35 p.m. HOCKEY in Portland, Oregon later this month. It is Foster’s first-ever call up at the gram, Japan (taped), NBCSN Sunday, March 24 Washington vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 7:05 p.m. National Hockey League At BOK Center San Francisco (ss) vs. Kansas City at Surprise, DETROIT RED WINGS — Signed G Jimmy national level. GOLF Tulsa, Okla. Ariz., 9:05 p.m. Howard to a one-year contract extension. Re- “Having the chance to play with some of the very best players in Texas Tech-Northern Kentucky winner vs. Buf- Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, called D Libor Sulak from Grand Rapids (AHL) 1 p.m. — PGA Tour Golf: Valspar Championship, falo—Arizona State-St. John’s winner Ariz., 9:05 p.m. under emergency conditions. the country is so exciting,” said Foster. At Honda Center San Diego vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., American Hockey League Foster is one of 24 players who have been selected by U.S. U-23 first round, Palm Harbor, Fla., GOLF Anaheim, Calif. 9:40 p.m. GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Signed LW Troy Regional Semifinals L.A. Angels (ss) vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., Loggins to a three-year contract and C Chase Women’s National Team head coach B.J. Snow, joining fellow SEC 5 p.m. — LPGA Tour Golf: Bank of Hope Found- Thursday, March 28 9:40 p.m. Pearson to an amateur tryout. players Haley Hopkins from Vanderbilt and Ally Watt from Texas A&M. Gonzaga-Fairleigh Dickinson-Syracuse-Bay- Colorado vs. San Francisco (ss) at Scottsdale, HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Recalled F Drew ers Cup, first round, Phoenix, Ariz., GOLF lor winner vs. Florida State-Vermont—Mar- Ariz., 10:05 p.m. Melanson from Maine (ECHL). Released F The Rebel sophomore also joins the likes of 2018 MAC Hermann quette-Murray State winner Saturday’s Games Greg Chase from a professional tryout. 2:30 a.m. (Friday) — European Tour Golf: May- Michigan-Montana—Nevada-Florida winner St. Louis vs. Washington at West Palm Beach, HERSHEY BEARS — Signed F Joe Snively to Trophy winner Cararina Macario of Stanford and international players vs. Texas Tech-Northern Kentucky—Buffa- Fla., 1:05 p.m. an amateur tryout agreement. in Schuyler Debree (Sparta Prague in the Czech Republic) and Martha bank Championship, second round, Malaysia, lo-Arizona State winner Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Signed C Thomas Regional Championship 1:05 p.m. Novak to an amateur tryout. Thomas (Le Havre in France). GOLF Saturday, March 30 N.Y. Mets vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 ECHL The U.S. U-23s are taking part in Thorns Spring Invitational for the Semifinal winners p.m. ATLANTA GLADIATORS — Signed F Brady SOCCER (MEN’S) Tampa Bay vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 Fleurent and D Tyler Andrews. third year in a row and all the matches will take place at Merlo Field on FINAL FOUR p.m. READING ROYALS — — Signed D Sam the campus of the University of Portland. 2:30 p.m. — UEFA Euro 2020: Belgium vs. Rus- At U.S. Bank Stadium Toronto vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 1:05 Becker. Minneapolis p.m. SOCCER Team USA opens against Reign FC on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. The sia, Group 1 match, qualifying, ESPN2 National Semifinals Pittsburgh vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 Major League Soccer second match on Wednesday features the USA taking on Portland Saturday, April 6 p.m. TORONTO — Loaned F Jon Bakero to Phoenix 7 p.m. — International Friendly: U.S. vs. Ecuador, East champion vs. West champion Canada Jr. vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 1:07 (USL Championship). Thorns FC at 9:30 p.m. The U.S. finishes against the Chicago Red South champion vs. Midwest champion p.m. COLLEGE Orlando, Fla., ESPN2 National Championship Milwaukee vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 ALABAMA — Approved new contracts for of- Stars on March 30 at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 8 p.m. fensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian and defen- —From Special Reports Semifinal winners Chicago White Sox vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glen- sive coordinator Pete Golding. 4B THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Injuries slows down Braves’ starting pitchers The Associated Press ager Brian Snitker. Even if Gausman is ready to der) and Darren O’Day (fore- the-other-guy,’ but I think that’s Mike Foltynewicz, who last pitch in the first days of April, arm tightness) are expected to really healthy,” said Fried, who KISSIMMEE, Fla. — When pitched Feb. 24 before elbow that leaves four young and inex- start the season on the injured has nine major league starts. they started spring training, the soreness set in, is throwing perienced arms competing for list, opening spots in the bull- “You’re not only competing Atlanta Braves had one opening again but will need a month two spots — Touki Toussaint, pen. against the other team but in their pitching rotation. With buildup before starting a regu- Kyle Wright, left-hander Max The Braves had hoped to you’re competing against your- a week to go before opening lar-season game. Fried and 21-year-old Bryce stock most of their promising selves. It only pushes you that day, they may have three. That leaves Julio Teheran Wilson, who is considered a young starters in the minor much farther.” The Braves are holding out and Sean Newcomb as the only long shot with no major league leagues in April and bring them Snitker said Fried, Wright, some hope that Kevin Gausman named members of the rota- experience. up during the season. But the Toussaint and Wilson will be will work through his shoul- tion, with Teheran expected to Mike Soroka, another injuries have sped up the time- ready to follow Teheran after der soreness in time to pitch a game in the first turn through start the Braves’ opener at Phil- 21-year-old pitcher, is also table and at least two of the the opener. their rotation. adelphia on March 28. throwing pain-free for the first pitchers are likely to start the “We’ve got everybody lined However, that appears un- Snitker doesn’t expect to time in weeks. But he hasn’t season in the rotation. up. Everybody’s in good shape likely. Gausman, who has announce any additions in the pitched in a game. Soroka, who The 25-year-old Fried is the and we don’t feel pressure to pitched only two innings in next few days. was shut down late last summer latest to state his case, with have to do anything (outside games this spring, threw a “We’ve got a week left to see with the same kind of shoulder five shutout innings and seven the roster),” Snitker said. “Pret- 58-pitch bullpen session on where we are. We aren’t forced soreness he experienced this strikeouts Tuesday against the ty much all of them have had Tuesday. to make any decisions yet,” spring, was optioned to the mi- Washington Nationals. really nice camps, too. Coming “You’d like to get him up to Snitker said. “We’ll see what nor league camp on Wednes- “We have a lot of guys throw- off the experiences they had 90 before you’d pitch him in a happens (with Gausman’s) next day. ing really well, so it gives you last year, they seem to be con- major league game,” said man- time out and go from there.” Relievers A.J. Minter (shoul- that little extra ‘I-want-to-top- tinuing to build on that.” Comics & Puzzles DILBERT Dear Abby EAR ABBY: Abby? Should damage. He also stole money For several I have done from her and once threatened Dyears, my it to keep the my life. He smoked and drank husband and I friendship, even as a teen, quit school, and did were good friends though I wasn’t nothing more than play video with “Pam” and comfortable? — games. “David.” About RESENTFUL IN I’m glad he has changed his a year ago, we THE MIDWEST ways, but he has never apolo- moved to a new DEAR RE- gized for the way he treated us. house just a SENTFUL: I not It seems I’m expected by every- few blocks from only don’t think one to forgive and forget, but theirs. They you were wrong, I can’t. Please don’t suggest decided they liked I think you made counseling. He wouldn’t go. ZITS some of the fea- a wise decision, I don’t want to be estranged tures of our new and for the right from his girlfriend and my home and imme- reason. If any- great-nephew, but I have no in- diately started thing had gone terest in engaging with him un- remodeling theirs Dear Abby wrong with the less he makes amends for his to resemble ours. remodel or one of past behavior. My sister always Pam and David the laborers was seemed oblivious to his bad both work and I am retired, less than honest, the blame behavior. In her eyes, her son so Dave asked if I would go to would have fallen squarely on can do no wrong. Is there any their home throughout the day, you. Add to that the fact that way to reconcile his particular while several workmen did this Dave drops people he feels let past with the present? — STILL extensive remodel. I refused, him down for any reason, and ANGRY IN MINNESOTA saying I wasn’t comfortable you have a recipe for disaster. DEAR STILL ANGRY: Yes, alone in someone else’s house If Pam resents you for pro- it is possible to choose to for- with a bunch of strangers mill- tecting yourself, she may not be give. But it doesn’t appear that ing about, not to mention the as good a friend as you assume your nephew has completely GARFIELD responsibility if something was she is. True friends should be turned his life around. Part broken or stolen. (The company able to say no when it’s war- of growing up is becoming a wasn’t bonded. They are just ranted, and true friends accept responsible individual. Making random guys doing side jobs.) a refusal with good grace. amends for past misdeeds is a Long story short, David DEAR ABBY: Is it possible part of that process your neph- was extremely offended that I to “choose” to forgive some- ew seems to have skipped. declined and no longer speaks one? My 20-year-old nephew If you would like to have a to us. He has shunned other recently turned his life around. relationship with his girlfriend friends for lesser things since He has a good job, a nice and their child, nothing pre- then. I’m still friendly with Pam, girlfriend and a baby on the vents it. But it doesn’t mean but I can’t help feeling that way. But when he and my sister you must have amnesia about deep down she resents me, were living with my late mother the way you and your mother too, and thinks I should have a few years ago, he trashed were treated by your nephew. done it because we are good Mom’s basement (where he Talk to him about this so you friends. was living), and it cost her hun- can get the closure you are Was I wrong to refuse, dreds of dollars to repair the seeking. CANDORVILLE Horoscopes TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March TAURUS (April 20-May the opposite direction. Maybe 21). You see the world a certain 20). You’re not afraid to jump you were being too strict. What way, and it will fit nicely into into the action today and take about doing nothing? Surely, your framework. Your positive responsibility for getting a few that has merits as well. influence will continue to touch things done. You’re building LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). people long after you’ve gone emotional muscle tone and You’ll branch out, explore, home. The ways you work on increasing your capability. The express yourself in a number of yourself will alternate between more you do, the easier it is for mediums, work with a variety of fun and seriousness, discipline you to do more. people. This you’re allowed to and whimsy; effectively, you’re GEMINI (May 21-June 21). do, as everyone is -- though few taking the art of living to new You could go on quietly putting will be as adventurous as you. BABY BLUES levels. Aquarius and Virgo adore up with someone’s less-than-op- VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, timum behavior, but should The way you express yourself 28, 30, 1 and 49. you? With one small correction, is very specific to you. Certain ARIES (March 21-April 19). you could make it stop. Consid- common words just don’t suit So many people push feelings er the consequences carefully, you; there are manners and to the bottom of the drawer in as this could be worth the risk. exchanges that just don’t feel hopes that they’ll disappear, but CANCER (June 22-July 22). natural to you. You’re unique, of course, it doesn’t work that When your self-control plum- and people are loving that about way. Feelings have to be felt in mets (for reasons mysterious to you today. order to be processed. you), you might consider going LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Sometimes it does feel like you’re not entirely responsible for your works, as though you’re inhabited by a mysterious self and just as surprised as anyone BEETLE BAILEY by what you come up with. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There’s much that needs to be accomplished, so the tone gets a little more serious than perhaps it needs to be, and someone like you has just the attitude needed to lighten things up. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). While it isn’t possible to see the situation exactly as others do, attempts at this will bring a much-needed new angle. (You might be surprised by how MALLARD FILLMORE rare it is that anyone even tries to find a different perspective!) CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re feeling not quite your age, or rather, you’re iden- tifying with people of different generations. And this brings a bit of welcome excitement and disarray to your day. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). People will be speculating about what can and cannot be done, and today, they will be mostly wrong about this. So instead of fretting over possibili- FAMILY CIRCUS ties and impossibilities, jump in and start building. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You don’t have to know how a thing is made to use it well. 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Life has its ups and downs and ups its has Life SOLUTION: The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 5B Business Business moves with Mary Two new restaurants open in Starkville Plus: Backyard food chicken town recently, and appetizers. and more. The idea, Ross Friday from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. salads made you may have “The emphasis is on said, is to help people and Saturdays from 9 Burger closes from scratch. noticed a new wine and distilled spirits make healthier life deci- a.m.-noon. The fast food sign poised at The Library,” Mollen- sions and choices in the Over in Columbus, again restaurant will on the side of dor said. “Our idea is we community. Backyard Burger, 1913 be open Mon- the historic do a few things and we do “It’s an opportunity for Hwy. 45, closed its doors tarkville is gearing day through Hotel Chester. those things exceptional- people to get out of their for the second time. up for its grand Saturday A new restau- ly well.” houses,” Ross said. “Ev- The burger joint closed Sopening of Chicken 10:30 a.m.-8 rant, The Check out the 1920s eryone that has come in originally in October Salad Chick, 602 Hwy 12 p.m. and will Library, 101 vibe and enjoy some has been really excited. 2016, but announced its E., on Tuesday. be closed on N. Jackson St., distilled spirits Tuesday This is something West reopening last January. The inaugural Chick- Sundays. Eric opened inside through Saturday 5-10 Point really needed.” Got business tips? Hallberg is Mary Pollitz the hotel earli- en Salad Chick guest will p.m. Healthy Habits WP is Email them to mpollitz@ win a large “quick chick,” opening the er this month. Over in West Point, open Monday through cdispatch.com. once a week, for the next Chicken Salad Chick Hotel Chester owner, a new path to a healthy year. If you don’t make it location in Starkville. David Mollendor, said he lifestyle has crept into in time to be the first per- Hallberg currently owns refurbished a former re- downtown. son to walk through the and runs The Breakfast ception room in the hotel Carrie White, a door at 10:30 a.m, guests Club at 105 Eckford Dr. to open a small “intimate” wellness coach, opened two through 100 will also Hallberg said earlier restaurant. Mollendor Healthy Habits WP, win one free large “quick this month, he combined also operates and owns 586 Commerce St., on chick” per month for the the menu from Cappe’s in The Beer Garden, a Monday. next year. the Park, 60 Technology seasonal outdoor restau- Healthy Habits em- The chicken salad Blvd., with The Breakfast rant open during warmer ployee, Heather Ross, franchise, which first Club and has since closed months that offers a large said the business offers opened in Auburn, the Cappe’s in the Park selection of beer. The yoga classes, mediation Alabama, offers a variety location permanently. Library offers spirits, rooms, movement rooms, of southern-style fast If you’ve been down- steak, seafood, salads counseling, life-coaching

Business brief Frazure elected members are involved National Bank from In addition to his in administering schol- 2010-2015 and served Chase Frazure of involvement with MYB, arship programs for in various roles at M&F Frazure serves as pres- Columbus has been elect- high school and college Bank from 2001 to 2010. ident of the Main Street ed to the students, supporting the Frazure earned his of Columbus Board of Executive MBA Education Foun- associate of arts degree Directors and is a board Council of dation, and advocating in business adminis- member of the Rotary the Missis- policy positions import- tration from Holmes Club of Columbus. sippi Young ant to a strong banking Community College in Frazure and his wife, Bankers, a industry. 1999 and his bachelor of Lindsey, have two chil- section of Frazure serves as business administration dren, Hayden and Kam- the Mis- senior vice president from Mississippi State bree. They are members sissippi Frazure and business banker for University in 2001. He is of New Salem Baptist Bankers BankFirst Financial Ser- a graduate of the Missis- Church. Association that provides vices in Columbus. He sippi School of Banking, leadership development has been with BankFirst the Southeastern School activities and supports for four years. Prior to of Commercial Lending financial literacy pro- that, he was a senior vice at Vanderbilt and the grams of the MBA and president senior relation- Graduate School of Bank- its member banks. MYB ship banker at Citizens ing at LSU.

Federal Reserve foresees no interest rate hikes in 2019 By MARTIN CRUTSINGER help keep long-term loan In signaling no rate in- AP Economics Writer rates down. creases for 2019, the Fed’s Combined, the moves policymakers reduced WASHINGTON — signal no major increas- their forecast from two The Federal Reserve left es in borrowing rates for that were previously pre- its key interest rate un- consumers and business- dicted in December. They changed Wednesday and es. And together with the now project one rate hike projected no rate hikes this year, reflecting a dim- Fed’s dimmer forecast in 2020 and none in 2021. mer view of the economy for growth this year — The Fed had raised rates as growth weakens in the 2.1 percent, down from a four times last year and a United States and abroad. previous projection of 2.3 total of nine times since The Fed said it was percent — the statement 2015. keeping its benchmark it issued after its latest The central bank’s rate — which can influ- policy meeting suggests theme Wednesday, in its ence everything from it’s grown more con- statement and in a news mortgages to credit cards cerned about the econ- conference by Chairman to home equity lines of omy. What’s more, with Jerome Powell, is that it credit — in a range of 2.25 inflation remaining mild, will remain continually percent to 2.5 percent. It the Fed feels no pressure “patient” about pursuing also announced that by to tighten credit. any further rate hikes. September, it will no lon- ger reduce its bond port- folio, a change intended to

South Carolina firm plans $2M Mississippi branch, hiring 20 The Associated Press

GREENWOOD — A South Carolina meat com- pany is investing $2 mil- lion to open a warehouse in Mississippi’s Delta re- gion, hiring 20 people. Blue Ridge Foods an- nounced Tuesday that it has bought a warehouse in Greenwood to expand dis- tribution and reach suppli- ers west of the Mississippi River. Mississippi Develop- ment Authority spokes- woman Tammy Craft says the company is eligible for income, franchise, sales and property tax breaks under Mississippi’s Growth and Prosperity program. It offers incen- tives in economically dis- tressed areas. EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 2019

ORDINANCE PROHIBIT- ING THE USE, PUR- CHASE, POSSESSION, DISTRIBUTION, SALE OR OFFERING FOR SALE OF SYNTHETIC CANNABIN- OIDS OR OTHER SYN- THETIC PRODUCTS

WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Lowndes County, Mississippi have determined that certain substances are being sold within Lowndes County, Mis- sissippi, that, when in- gested, produce intoxic- ating effects similar to THCA, marijuana, Meth- cathinone, opiods and/or prescription pain relieving medication; and

WHEREAS, not all of the substances described below are yet categor- ized as illegal con- trolled substances un- der state or federal law; and

WHEREAS, the sub- stances described be- low are often as an al- ternative to marijuana, opiods and other con- trolled substances and are potentially danger- ous to users; and

WHEREAS, is has de- termined that the ef- fects of these sub- stances are a health concern to the citizens of Lowndes County, Mis- sissippi; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Lowndes County, Mississippi, have determined the need to establish regu- lations preventing the use, possession, pur- chase, distribution, sale or attempt to use, pos- sess, purchase, distrib- ute or sale or publicly display for sale any one or more of the following chemicals or sub- stances within Lowndes County, Mississippi; and therefore adopt the following regulation and penalties; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Sections 19-3-40 and 19-3-41 of Mississippi Code Annotated (1972), this Ordinance Prohibit- ing The Use, Purchase, Possession, Distribu- tion, Sale Or Offering For Sale Of Synthetic Cannabinoids Or Other Synthetic Products is for the immediate and tem- porary preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and shall become effective imme- diately upon its adop- tion, and prior to being recorded and published, as the best interests of the public will be served by the immediate effect- iveness of this Ordin- ance.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by Board of Supervisors of Lowndes County, Mis- sissippi, that the follow- ing be added and made a part of the Lowndes County, Mississippi Code of Ordinances, To- Wit:

1. No person shall use, possess, purchase, dis- tribute, sale or attempt to use, posses, pur- chase, distribute or sell or publicly display for sale any one or more of the following chemicals within the county limits of Lowndes County, Mis- sissippi.

• Salviadivinorum or salvinorum A: all parts of the plant presently classified botanically as salvia divinorum, wheth- er growing or not, the seeds thereof an ex- tract from any part of such plant, and every compound, manufac- ture salts derivative, mixture or preparation of such plant, its seeds or extracts;

• (6aR, 1OaR)-9-(hy- droxymethy1)-6, 6di- methy1-3-(2-methyl- octan-2-y1)-6a7, 10. 10a-tetrahydrobenzo [c] chromen-1-o1. Some trade or other names, including, but not lim- ited to: HU-210;

• 1 –Penty1-3-( 1 –naph- thoy1) indole. Some trade or other names, including, but not lim- ited to: JWH-018/ spice;

• 1- Buty1-3- (1-naph- thoy1) indole. Some trade or other names, including, but not lim- ited to: JWH-073;

• 1 –(3- [rifluoromethy1pheny1] piperazine. Some trade or other names, includ- ing, but not limited to: TFMIP;

• 4-methoxymethca- thionw and Ethy1cath- inone;

• Mitragyna speciosa korth, Mitragyna spe- ciosa leaf extract, Mitra- gyna speciosa extract, and M. speciosa alkal- oids, including ajmalicine, mitraphyl- line, rhynchophylline and mitragynine pseu- doindoxyl, raubasine, pausinystalia johimbe and corynantheidine, 7- acetoxymitragynine, Corynoxein, Corinoxin, 3-Dehydromitragynin, (-)- Epicatechin, 3-Isocoryn- antheidin, 3-Isopaynan- thein, Isomitraphyllin, Isospeciofolin, Isospe- cionoxein, Mitraciliatin, Mitrafolin, Mitragynalin, Mitraphylin, Mitraspe- cin, Mitraversin, Paynan- thein, Speciociliatin, Speciofolin, Speciogyn- in, Specionoxein, Spe- ciogynin, Speciofolin, Stipulatin. Some trade or other names, includ- ing, but not limited to: Kratom, krathom, kak- uam, ketum, ithang, thom, biak-biak, kratum, mambog, Super K, Life Force K, K-Chill, K-shot;

• Or any similar struc- 6B THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 The Dispatchtural a n•a lwww.cdispatch.comogs. 2. If any of the afore- Legal Notices 0010 Legal Notices 0010 Legal Notices 0010 Legal Notices 0010 mLegalent iNoticesoned 0010substances Building & Remodeling 1120 General Help Wanted 3200 General Merchandise 4600 shall be found in the IN THE CHANCERY NOTICE OF INTENT TO State of Mississippi EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, possession of any per- TONY DOYLE OUR COMPANY is seek- PRO FORM Treadmill. COURT OF LOWNDES CONSIDER PASSAGE OF 2019 son, unless specifically CABINETS & ing an experienced car- Great cond. Elevation & COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI ORDINANCE PROHIBIT- Notice of Sale excluded herein, the CONSTRUCTION penter. We specialize in fan. $300. 662-242- ING THE POSSESSION, ORDINANCE PROHIBIT- substances shall be home remodels & new 0703. IN THE MATTER OF THE SALE OF CERTAIN SUB- WHEREAS, the follow- ING THE USE, PUR- confiscated and des- construction. The ideal ESTATE OF STANCES ing tenants entered in- CHASE, POSSESSION, troyed by law enforce- candidate will have REAR TINE Tiller, B&S ERNESTEENE S. BRY- to leases with Gateway DISTRIBUTION, SALE OR ment officials. transportation & basic eng, starts easy, runs ANT, DECEASED STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Center Mini Storage for OFFERING FOR SALE OF tools. Please call good, $150. Craftsman COUNTY OF LOWNDES storage space in which SYNTHETIC CANNABIN- 3. It shall not be an of- 662-570-9464 for Mower, 42". Exc cond. CAUSE NO. to store personal prop- OIDS OR OTHER SYN- fense under Section 1 more information. $425. 662-327-9279. 2019-0030-RPF At a regularly sched- erty and THETIC PRODUCTS above of this Ordinance uled board meeting on if a person shall be act- Tile, Hardwood floors, EARTH ANGELZ HOME Business Opportunity 6050 NOTICE TO CREDITORS February 4, 2019, the WHEREAS, default has WHEREAS, the Board of ing at the direction of Cabinets, Vinyl Siding, CARE is seeking CNA's, Lowndes County Board been made in the pay- Supervisors of Lowndes an authorized agent of Painting, Window & Companion Sitters, & HISTORIC DOWNTOWN STATE OF MISSISSIPPI of Supervisors voted to ment of rent and Gate- County, Mississippi Lowndes County, Mis- Door Replacement & Homemakers. Prefer: Columbus: 411 Main consider the passage of way Center Mini Stor- have determined that sissippi, to enforce or Framing, Remodeling, *Dedicated quality care St. Office, Retail, Res- COUNTY OF LOWNDES the following ordinance. age pursuant to said certain substances are ensure compliance with Concrete & Roofing. *Compassionate taurant Space available. The Board set a public Leases is authorized to being sold within this law prohibiting the Free Bids *Nurturing by nature Call 423-333-1124. Letters Testamentary hearing for March 15, sell the personal prop- Lowndes County, Mis- use, possession, pur- 662-769-0680 *Gifted to serve elderly have been granted and 2019 at 9:05 A.M. in erty to satisfy the past sissippi, that, when in- chase, distribution or 662-251-2460 Apts For Rent: Northside 7010 issued to the under- the board room of the due and any other gested, produce intoxic- sale the aforemen- General Services 1360 for info. Privately owned signed upon the Estate Lowndes County Board charges owed to it by ating effects similar to tioned substance. & operated, non-medic- FOX RUN COMPANY LLC of Ernesteene S. Bryant, of Supervisors at the the following tenants. THCA, marijuana, Meth- EXPERIENCED CARE- al service. 1 & 2 BR near hospital. Deceased, by the Chan- Lowndes County Court- cathinone, opiods 4. This Ordinance shall $595-645/mo. Military GIVER in Dementia/Hos- CALEDONIA NATURAL cery Court of Lowndes house to receive public NOW, THEREFORE, no- and/or prescription pain not apply to any person pice care. Affordable, discount offered, pet County, Mississippi, on input concerning the tice is hereby given that relieving medication; who shall commit any Gas District is now tak- area, pet friendly, and trustworthy & reliable. ing applications for a the 4th day of March, proposed ordinance. Gateway Center Mini and act described in this Or- Home, hospital or nurs- furnished corporate 2019. This is to give no- The Clerk of the Board Storage will offer for dinance pursuant to the Field Service Techni- apartments available. ing home care. Ref. cian. Must have valid tice to all persons hav- is directed to publish sale all personal prop- WHEREAS, not all of the direction or prescription avail. 662-574-5181. ON SITE SECURITY. ing claims against said Notice of the Public erty in storage units substances described of duly-licensed physi- driver’s license, be able ON SITE MAINTENANCE. estate to probate and Hearing in the local leased by the following below are yet categor- cian or dentist author- to pass DOT drug test ON SITE MANAGEMENT. register same with the newspaper and post tenants at Gateway Mini ized as illegal con- ized to direct or pre- and pass criminal back 24-HOUR CAMERA Chancery Clerk of same at the Lowndes Center Storage 217 Mc- trolled substances un- scribe such act. This Or- ground investigation. SURVEILLANCE. Lowndes County, Mis- County Courthouse. Crary Road, Columbus, der state or federal law; dinance shall not apply Applications can be Benji @ 662-386-4446 sissippi, within ninety MS 39702 at 10:00 am and to the inhalation of an- received at CNGD office Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. Find (90) days from the first APPROVED, this the 4th the 6th day of April esthesia for a medical at 639 Main St., Cale- Sat/Sun by appt only. publication date of this day of February, 2019. 2019, office located WHEREAS, the sub- or dental purpose which donia or mail resume to P.O. Box 220 Notice to Creditors. A 201-J Alabama Street, stances described be- inhalation of anes- Apts For Rent: West 7050 What failure to so probate LOWNDES COUNTY Columbus, MS 39702. low are often as an al- thesia shall be admin- Caledonia, MS 39740. and register said claim BOARD OF SUPER- All auction's are with re- ternative to marijuana, istered by or under the DAVID'S CARPET & will forever bar the VISORS serve and therefore all opiods and other con- supervision of a duly li- UPHOLSTERY HEAVY EQUIPMENT You’re same. units can be withdrawn trolled substances and censed physician or CLEANING SERVICE MECHANIC BY: /s/ Harry Sanders from the sale at any are potentially danger- dentist. 1 Room - $40 with verifiable experi- VIP This the 5th day of PRESIDENT time by the ous to users; and 2 Rooms - $70 ence, own tools and Looking March 2019. auctioneer/manager. 5. Any person found to 3+ Rooms - $30 Each clean MVR. Submit Rentals ATTEST: WHEREAS, is has de- be guilty of violating this Rugs - Must Be Seen resume by fax to Apartments /s/ Cynthia B. Living- The following tenants termined that the ef- Ordinance shall be Car Upholstery 662-492-4490 ston /s/ Lisa Younger have the right to pay the fects of these sub- deemed guilty of a mis- Cleaning Available or email to: jm.site & Houses For CYNTHIA B. LIVING- Neese_ entire amount due, in- stances are a health demeanor and shall be 662-722-1758 [email protected] 1 Bedrooms STON, Executrix BOARD SECRETARY cluding expenses in- concern to the citizens punished by a fine not HILL'S PRESSURE 2 Bedroooms In curred, prior to sale. of Lowndes County, Mis- to exceed One Thou- WASHING. Commercial/ Medical / Dental 3300 PUBLISH: 3/7, 3/14 & PUBLISH: 3/21/2019 You can thereby avoid sissippi; and sand and no/100 Dol- residential. House, con- 3 Bedrooms 3/21/2019 the sale and retrieve lars ($ 1,000.00) or im- crete, sidewalks & mo- CARE CENTER OF REQUEST FOR PROPOS- your personal property. WHEREAS, the Board of prisonment not exceed- ABERDEEN ALS bile washing. Free est. Furnished & Title to the personal Supervisors of Lowndes ing six (6) months, or Call 662-386-8925 property to be sold is County, Mississippi, both. CERTIFIED ACTIVITY Unfurnished CLASSIFIEDS The Town of Artesia will DIRECTOR believed to be good, but have determined the RETAINER WALL, drive- www.cdispatch.com accept sealed propos- at such sale, Gateway need to establish regu- 6. That should any sen- way, foundation, con- 1, 2, & 3 Baths als from qualified firms Center Mini Storage will lations preventing the tence, paragraph, subdi- crete, masonry restora- Certification Required Lease, Deposit TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF and individuals inter- convey only such title as use, possession, pur- vision, clause, phrase tion, remodeling, base- Long Term Care Houses For Rent: Northside SALE ested in providing engin- is vested in it pursuant chase, distribution, sale or section of this ordin- ment foundation, re- Experience & Credit Check eering services for a 7110 to its lease with the fol- or attempt to use, pos- ance be adjudged or pairs, small dump truck Knowledge of MDS and viceinvestments.com WHEREAS, on April 27, proposed sewer system lowing and its allowed sess, purchase, distrib- held to be unconstitu- Care Plans hauling (5-6 yd) load & COLONIAL TOWN- 2007, Kimberly Roby improvements project in under Mississippi Code ute or sale or publicly tional, illegal or invalid, demolition/lot cleaning. HOUSES. 2 & 3 bed- a/k/a Kimberly Renee Artesia, Mississippi. Annotated Section 85-7- display for sale any one the same shall not af- Apply in person at Burr Masonry 327-8555 room w/ 2-3 bath town- Johnson and Theodis The work will be con- 123. or more of the following fect the validity of this 505 Jackson St, 662-242-0259. houses. $600 to $695. Roby, Jr., husband and structed with funding chemicals or sub- ordinance as a whole, Aberdeen Apts For Rent: Other 7080 662-549-9555. Ask for wife, executed a Deed through the Community WITNESS MY SIGNA- stances within Lowndes or any part or provision WORK WANTED: EOE Development Block 2BR/1BA located in Glenn or text. of Trust to W. Stewart TURE this 21st day of County, Mississippi; thereof other than the Licensed & Bonded-car- BUSY OPTOMETRY prac- Grant Programs from Historic Downtown Robison, Trustee for Jim March 2019. and therefore adopt the part so decided to be in- pentry, painting, & de- tice has opening for full Walter Homes, Inc., Be- the Mississippi Develop- following regulation and valid, illegal or unconsti- molition. Landscaping, Columbus. 2,000 sqft. Houses For Rent: Caledonia time optician. Must be a Hardwood floors neficiary, which Deed of ment Authority. /s/ OWNER penalties; and tutional, and shall not gutters cleaned, bush team player, flexible, a 7160 Trust is recorded in affect the validity of the hogging, clean-up work, throughout. Open floor. self starter, and love Very nice. Incl W&D. Land Deed of Trust Engineering Services re- 03/21/19 WHEREAS, pursuant to Code of Ordinance as a pressure washing, mov- making people smile! 2BR/1BA. Caledonia Book 2007, at Page quired include, but are Sections 19-3-40 and whole. ing help & furniture $1200/mo. Call area. 1 yr. lease. $650 Strong retail or optical 662-328-8655. 16784, in the office of not limited to the follow- SHWANDA CANNON 19-3-41 of Mississippi repair. 662-242-3608 experience required. rent. plus dep. No pets. the Chancery Clerk of ing: The selected engin- A3 Code Annotated (1972), 7. This ordinance shall Email resume and No smoking. 662-574- Lowndes County, Mis- eer will be responsible this Ordinance Prohibit- become effective imme- Lawn Care / Landscaping salary requirements to: FIRST FULL MONTH 0227 or 662-356-4958. sissippi; for the preparation of SANDRA HODGES ing The Use, Purchase, diately. The Clerk shall 1470 opticalopportunity2019 RENT FREE! 1 & 2 Bed- project cost estimates D137 Possession, Distribu- cause the ordinance to @gmail.com room Apts/Townhomes. Houses For Rent: Other 7180 AND WHEREAS, this and engineering reports tion, Sale Or Offering be published in a local Stove & refrigerator. Deed of Trust was ulti- for application prepara- newspaper with a gener- C & T LAWN $335-$600 Monthly. Pamela D Turner For Sale Of Synthetic SERVICE Truck Driving 3700 3BR/3BA, Brick, 2640 mately assigned to The tion and if awarded, the E170 Cannabinoids Or Other al circulation. Credit check & deposit. sqft, 32x32 LR/DR Bank of New York Mel- selected engineer will Synthetic Products is for CLASS A CDL DRIVER Coleman Realty, combo, 25x25 library, lg lon, as Indenture Trust- provide all engineering Gabriela Janel Palmer the immediate and tem- WHEREAS, the Ordin- with Truck & Lowboy 662-329-2323. laundry room, new appl, ee, for Mid-State Capit- services through clos- C87 porary preservation of ance prohibiting the Trailer experience to custom drapes, dbl car- al Corporation 2010-1 eout in accordance with the public peace, health use, purchase, posses- load, haul, & unload 1, 2, 3 BEDROOM apart- port, security system. Trust, by instrument re- federal, state and local LAKETIA PATTERSON and safety, and shall sion, distribution, sale heavy construction ments & townhouses. $149,500. Will trade. corded in Book 2018, at laws, regulations and E211 become effective imme- or offering for sale of For all your lawn equipment. Overnight Call for more info. 615-849-5597. Page 21135-21140, in policies. Post applica- diately upon its adop- synthetic cannabinoids services. travel required. Only 662-328-8254. the office of the Chan- tion engineering re- GWEN LEWIS tion, and prior to being or other synthetic Call 769-0680 for qualified applicants with Land For Rent / Lease 7190 cery Clerk aforesaid; sponsibilities include G296 recorded and published, products was red, dis- free estimate. clean MVR, current but are not limited to cussed and voted upon Mowing, Blowing, as the best interests of medical examiner’s COLEMAN TRAILER SPACE for rent AND WHEREAS, default the following: (1) pre- LINDA WEBBER the public will be served in a public meeting, and Weed-eating, certificate and no acci- having been made in pare plans and specific- whereas a motion was Pressure Washing, RENTALS on Magnolia Rd in E240 by the immediate effect- dents need apply. Fax Columbus. Private lot. payment of the in- ations, (2) distribute bid duly made by Super- Tree Trimming. TOWNHOUSES & APARTMENTS iveness of this Ordin- resume to 662-492- $150/mo. Call debtedness secured by documents, (3) assist in MARGIE BROWN ance. visor BROOKS, 4490 or email to jm.site said Deed of Trust, and bid opening and pre- JESSE & BEVERLY'S 662-327-4392. E189 seconded by Super- LAWN SERVICE. [email protected] 1 BEDROOM the holder of the note pare bid tabulations, (4) NOW, THEREFORE, BE visor BRIGHAM, and a and Deed of Trust hav- assist in the execution Mowing, cleanup, land- 2 BEDROOMS Hunting Land 7200 TOREATHA HUNTER IT ORDAINED by Board vote was held thereon scaping, sodding, & tree TRUCK DRIVER CDL-A ing requested the under- of construction con- B65 of Supervisors of with the following res- 25+ yrs of age. No 3 BEDROOMS cutting. 356-6525. LOOKING FOR hunting signed Trustee so to do, tracts, (5) hold precon- Lowndes County, Mis- ults, to-wit: DUI/DWI in last 10yrs. land. GTA area in Mis- I will on the 17th day of struction conference, SHIQUITA Rogers-Hair- sissippi, that the follow- Verifiable flatbed, over Painting & Papering 1620 LEASE, sissippi. 662-386-6024. April, 2019, offer for and (6) perform con- ston ing be added and made Supervisor Harry the road & steel coil sale at public outcry struction inspection in- B41 a part of the Lowndes Sanders voted AYE SULLIVAN'S PAINT experience. Home most DEPOSIT and sell during legal cluding periodic reports © The Dispatch County, Mississippi SERVICE nights & weekends. hours between the to the town and ap- JERRY OR TURTRICIA Code of Ordinances, To- Supervisor Bill Brigham Benefits offered. $500 AND It’s All hours of 11:00 A.M. prove all payment re- Certified in lead HOLT LOCKETT Wit: voted AYE removal. Offering spe- Sign On Bonus. For and 4:00 P.M., at the quests. CREDIT CHECK Here!! E174 cial prices on interior & more info or to apply, in the southeast front door of 1. No person shall use, Supervisor John Holli- exterior painting, pres- call/text 662-386-3856. Classifieds the County Courthouse Subject to grant awards NEDRA LOWERY possess, purchase, dis- man voted AYE sure washing & sheet 662-329-2323 of Lowndes County, at and the removal of all G288 tribute, sale or attempt rock repairs. Bargain Column 4180 Garage Sale Homes for Sale Columbus, Mississippi, environmental condi- to use, posses, pur- Supervisor Jeff Smith Free Estimates Auto for Sale Apartments for Rent for cash to the highest tions, the award of the DIANN MCDOWELL chase, distribute or sell voted AYE Call 435-6528 VINTAGE WICKER 2411 HWY 45 N Help Wanted Pets aforementioned con- and best bidder, the fol- D120 or publicly display for couch. Needs some re- COLUMBUS, MS lowing described land tract will be made to the sale any one or more of Supervisor Leroy Brooks Plumbing 1680 pair. $50. 662-418- and property, situated in responsible party whose TEKESHIA DARNELL the following chemicals voted AYE 0441. Mobile Homes for Rent 7250 Lowndes County, Mis- proposal has the G297 within the county limits ACME, INC. Commercial Property For sissippi, to-wit: highest number of cu- of Lowndes County, Mis- Whereupon, the forgo- Burial Plots 4250 RENT A fully equipped mulative points and is Stan McCown Rent 7100 camper w/utilities & SHWANDA CANNON sissippi. ing Ordinance Prohibit- Licensed Plumber A tract of land being loc- most advantageous to cable from $145/wk - A33 ing the Use, Purchase, "We fix leaks." 1 PLOT located in Me- ated in the West half the Town of Artesia. Pro- • Salviadivinorum or Possession, Distribu- morial Gardens at the COMMERCIAL PROPER- $535/month. Colum- 662-386-2915 TIES/RETAIL/OFFICE (W1/2) of Section 3, posals will be rated ac- BOBBIE JEAN JACKSON salvinorum A: all parts tion, Sale or Offering for Good Shepherd Garden. bus & County School Township 20 South, cording to the following Sale of Synthetic Can- Spaces starting @ locations. 662-242- G278 of the plant presently Stump Removal 1790 $800, buyer will also $285/mo. Downtown & Range 17 West, criteria: (1) Previous ex- classified botanically as nabinoids or Other Syn- pay $175 transfer fee. 7653 or 601-940-1397. Lowndes County, Mis- perience with Federal thetic Products passed East Columbus loca- SHICONNER S WILLI- salvia divinorum, wheth- 334-399-9699, lv msg. tions. 662-435-4188. sissippi and more par- Grant Programs; (2) AMS er growing or not, the by a unanimous vote of Serious inquiries only. Houses For Sale: Other 8500 ticularly described as Knowledge of Federal F264 seeds thereof an ex- all of the governing follows: Commencing at and State laws concern- tract from any part of body, was declared Ad- Farm Equipment & Supplies OFFICE SPACE: 2,000 RIVER HOME, nice! the Southeast corner of ing bid procedures and square feet. 294 WILLIE E GUINN such plant, and every opted and shall be- 4420 Great area in WP. the Southwest Quarter contracts; (3) General F265 compound, manufac- come effective immedi- Chubby Dr. Flexible leas- Across from water with (SW1/4) of the Southw- experience and technic- ing terms. Available access to Tenn-Tom ture salts derivative, ately on this, the 15th 2016 CAT Skidsteer w/ est Quarter (SW1/4) of al expertise in the pro- now. 662-328-8254 waterway. 4BR/2BA Tina Webb mixture or preparation day of March,2019. mulcher. <1,000 hrs, said Section 3; run fession; and (4) Previ- G280 of such plant, its seeds ALLSTUMP GRINDING with 2 acres & large thence North 49 de- ous experience in per- SERVICE $84,500. 2016 John HISTORIC DOWNTOWN or extracts; /s/ Harry Sanders Deere 5100E Tractor, screened in room. grees 45 minutes West forming the required KARLOS LOWERY HARRY SANDERS, GET 'ER DONE! Columbus Office, Retail, $212,000 a distance of 432.6 feet services in a timely We can grind all your 210 hrs. $36,500. Restaurant Space avail- C104 • (6aR, 1OaR)-9-(hy- PRESIDENT 205-329-1790. Call: 662-245-4273 or to a point in the center- manner, with equal droxymethy1)-6, 6di- stumps. Hard to reach able. Call 662-328- 662-889-1228 line of Nashville Ferry value assigned to each places, blown over 8655 or 662-574-7879. KERTERNA WASHING- methy1-3-(2-methyl- LOWNDES COUNTY Garage Sales: Other 4560 Road; run thence North category. Cost is not a TON octan-2-y1)-6a7, 10. BOARD OF SUPER- roots, hillsides, back- Lots & Acreage 8600 45 degrees 40 minutes factor in the selection C77 10a-tetrahydrobenzo [c] VISORS yards, pastures. Free RETAIL SPACE Available East along the center- process and should not estimates. You find it, 343 GREENFIELD Rd., in Historic Downtown. chromen-1-o1. Some Brooksville. Fri. 12-6p & SPRING SPECIAL line of said Nashville be a part of the propos- Laranda Shantel trade or other names, ATTEST: we'll grind it! 404 Main St. 3,000 1.95 acre lots. Ferry Road a distance of al. Cost will be negoti- 662-361-8379 Sat. 9a-6p. H/h items, sq. ft. $1,300/mo. Hamilton including, but not lim- china, glassware, silver- Good/bad credit. 588.7 feet to a point; ated with the firm or in- /s/ Lisa Younger Neese Call 662-328-8655 B45 ited to: HU-210; ware, bath/kitchen ac- 10% down, as low as run thence North 25 de- dividual receiving the LISA YOUNGER NEESE, Tree Services 1860 or 662-574-7879. cess, TVs, f/p insert. $299/mo. Eaton Land. grees 00 minutes East highest rating accord- Debbie Roland • 1 –Penty1-3-( 1 –naph- CLERK 662-361-7711 along said centerline a ing to the stated criter- F262 thoy1) indole. Some A&T Tree Service Houses For Rent: Northside distance of 1353.0 feet ia. The Town of Artesia Bucket truck & stump General Merchandise 4600 trade or other names, PUBLISH: 3/22/2019 & 7110 Mobile Homes for Sale 8650 to the intersection of will designate a selec- KINWANIS M. CUNNING- including, but not lim- 3/28/2019 removal. Free est. said centerline and the tion committee to evalu- Serving Columbus BLACK BEDROOM set, HAM ited to: JWH-018/ 2BR/1BA 1419 West right of way of ate the proposals, with since 1987. Senior incl full sz sleigh bed, 05' 16X80. 3BR/2BA. C80 spice; Sanders Mill Rd. Old Mississippi Highway No. final decisions being Building & Remodeling 1120 citizen disc. Call Alvin @ dresser w/ mirror, chest Exc. cond. 1.8 ac of country house in 69; run thence North- made within a period 242-0324/241-4447 & night stand, $700. land. Ethelsville, AL. SHWANDA CANNON • 1- Buty1-3- (1-naph- Steens, Caledonia westerly along said not to exceed thirty (30) HOME REPAIRS & CON- "We'll go out on a limb New full sz mattress, Brick unpinned, covered B44 thoy1) indole. Some schools, new carpet & West right of way of days. STRUCTION WORK for you!" still in plastic, $275. front & back porch, car- trade or other names, paint inside. $685/mo. Mississippi Highway No. WANTED. Carpentry, Bissell carpet cleaner, port, storage bldg., DEMOND BUTLER including, but not lim- $685 deposit. No pets. 69 a distance of 530.4 Interested parties are small concrete jobs, Lost & Found 2300 $80. Two sets of black backup generator, A27 ited to: JWH-073; Call 662-356-4764. feet, more or less to an invited to submit sealed electrical, plumbing, Toyota Camry floormats, storm cellar, shingle iron pin and the point of proposals until 2:00 roof repairs, pressure REWARD: MAN'S DIA- $80. New fabric steam- roof. 662-364-1208. TINSLEY DARNELL • 1 –(3- washing and mobile MOND WEDDING RING. er, $40. 662-242-2884. CHARMING 3BR/3BA beginning of the herein PM, April 2, 2019, to BANKS [rifluoromethy1pheny1] described tract; run the Town of Artesia at home roof coating and CALL 662-323-0103. Leave a message. home for rent. Hard- Autos For Sale 9150 E229 piperazine. Some trade underpinning. No job wood floors, granite thence Northwesterly the Town Hall, Office of or other names, includ- along said right of way a the Town Clerk or to too small. 549-7031. General Help Wanted 3200 NORDICTRACK T 5.3. countertops, central air, 06 HYUNDAI ELANTRA, SANDRA HODGES ing, but not limited to: Excellent condition.325 two master suites, distance of 69.6 feet, P.O. Box 277, Artesia, E226 TFMIP; gold, 4 door, 4 cyl, 57k more or less, to a point; Mississippi, 39736. All COLUMBUS ARTS lb. weight capacity. Mu- basement for storage, miles, manual trans, Council, Columbus, MS sic port for ipod, tracks quiet neighborhood. 1 run thence North 27 de- proposals will be ERICA D STINSON • 4-methoxymethca- Suggs Construction Co. cold AC. Good cond. grees 44 minutes West opened and read at the Building, remodeling, seeks a full time Execut- speed, time, distance & year minimum, $4200. 662-549-5358. F257 thionw and Ethy1cath- roofing, & home repair. ive Director. Experience calories burned. $300. $1,300/mo. along said right of way a regularly scheduled inone; distance of 135.6 feet meeting on that even- Licensed & Bonded. with non-profits, grant 662-386-3162. Call 662-425-3817. PAULA HARRIS 662-242-3471 writing, staff manage- 2013 CHEVY Cruze, red, to an iron pin; run ing. All proposals A38 • Mitragyna speciosa 4dr, 4cyl, 92k mi, show- thence South 45 de- should be marked 662-574-8470 ment, fundraising is Apts For Rent: Other 7080 korth, Mitragyna spe- required as well as a room clean, local, one grees 55 minutes West clearly as being a “Pro- ASHLEY HAIRSTON ciosa leaf extract, Mitra- owner, $6,600. See @ a distance of 138.8 feet posal for Engineering minimum of a F267 gyna speciosa extract, bachelor's degree. For 59 Amanda Dr in New to a point; run thence Services”. The Town of and M. speciosa alkal- Tom Hatcher, LLC Custom Construction, more information, visit Hope Park Subdivision South 45 degrees 50 Artesia does not dis- TIFFANY JOHNSON oids, including off of Yorkville Rd E. minutes East a dis- criminate on the basis Restoration, Remodel- http://columbus- G285 ajmalicine, mitraphyl- ing, Repair, Insurance arts.org/jobs/ 662-327-3081. tance of 208.3 feet to of race, color, religion, line, rhynchophylline an iron pin; run thence sex, age or national ori- claims. 662-364-1769. Application deadline Dorrisherri Sade Wiley and mitragynine pseu- Licensed & Bonded April 15, 2019. Campers & RVs 9300 North 39 degrees 44 gin and reserves the F260 doindoxyl, raubasine, minutes East a dis- right to reject any and pausinystalia johimbe tance of 74.5 feet to all proposals. General Help Wanted 3200 TOMBIGBEE RV Park, Tomeeker Drake and corynantheidine, 7- located on Wilkins Wise the point of beginning C107 acetoxymitragynine, and containing 0.5 acre, Artesia, Mississippi is Rd & Waverly Rd. Full Corynoxein, Corinoxin, Hookups available. more or less. an Equal Opportunity YVONNE STEPHENS 3-Dehydromitragynin, (-)- Employer and encour- $300/mo. 662-328- D133 Epicatechin, 3-Isocoryn- 8655 or 662-574-7879. I will convey only such ages Minority-owned antheidin, 3-Isopaynan- title as is vested in me Business enterprises thein, Isomitraphyllin, as Trustee. (MBE’s) and Woman- Shiconner Isospeciofolin, Isospe- Five Questions: owned Business Enter- cionoxein, Mitraciliatin, WITNESS MY SIGNA- prises (WBE’s) to sub- Williams Mitrafolin, Mitragynalin, TURE, this, the 13th day mit proposals. Artesia Mitraphylin, Mitraspe- of March, 2019. also encourages Sec- C113 cin, Mitraversin, Paynan- 1 Lauren tion 3 eligible busi- PUBLISH: 3/21/2019 thein, Speciociliatin, /s/ W. Stewart nesses to submit pro- Speciofolin, Speciogyn- Robison, Trustee posals. in, Specionoxein, Spe- ciogynin, Speciofolin, 2 Wolf suit Publish: March 21, 28, PUBLISH: 3/14 & Stipulatin. Some trade April 4, and 11, 2019 3/21/2019 or other names, includ- It’s a classified ing, but not limited to: Kratom, krathom, kak- 3 Butterfly rule-of-thumb: uam, ketum, ithang, thom, biak-biak, kratum, We tell readers mambog, Super K, Life Force K, K-Chill, K-shot; 4 Gary Pay- Classified ads are a great form of what they need • Or any similar struc- ton person-to-person advertising. to know to buy tural analogs. what they need. 2. If any of the afore- mentioned substances 5 Eagle and shall be found in the possession of any per- snake son, unless specifically excluded herein, the substances shall be confiscated and des- troyed by law enforce- ment officials.

3. It shall not be an of- fense under Section 1 above of this Ordinance if a person shall be act- ing at the direction of an authorized agent of Lowndes County, Mis- sissippi, to enforce or ensure compliance with this law prohibiting the use, possession, pur- chase, distribution or sale the aforemen- tioned substance.

4. This Ordinance shall not apply to any person who shall commit any act described in this Or- dinance pursuant to the direction or prescription of duly-licensed physi- cian or dentist author- ized to direct or pre- scribe such act. This Or- dinance shall not apply to the inhalation of an- esthesia for a medical or dental purpose which inhalation of anes- thesia shall be admin- istered by or under the supervision of a duly li- censed physician or dentist.

5. Any person found to be guilty of violating this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed One Thou- sand and no/100 Dol- lars ($ 1,000.00) or im- prisonment not exceed- ing six (6) months, or both.

6. That should any sen- tence, paragraph, subdi- vision, clause, phrase or section of this ordin- ance be adjudged or held to be unconstitu- tional, illegal or invalid, the same shall not af- fect the validity of this ordinance as a whole, or any part or provision thereof other than the part so decided to be in- valid, illegal or unconsti- tutional, and shall not affect the validity of the Code of Ordinance as a whole.

7. This ordinance shall become effective imme- diately. The Clerk shall cause the ordinance to be published in a local newspaper with a gener- al circulation.

WHEREAS, the Ordin- ance prohibiting the use, purchase, posses- sion, distribution, sale or offering for sale of synthetic cannabinoids or other synthetic products was red, dis- cussed and voted upon in a public meeting, and whereas a motion was duly made by Super- visor BROOKS, seconded by Super- visor BRIGHAM, and a vote was held thereon with the following res- ults, to-wit:

Supervisor Harry Sanders voted AYE

Supervisor Bill Brigham voted AYE

Supervisor John Holli- man voted AYE

Supervisor Jeff Smith voted AYE

Supervisor Leroy Brooks voted AYE

Whereupon, the forgo- ing Ordinance Prohibit- ing the Use, Purchase, Possession, Distribu- tion, Sale or Offering for Sale of Synthetic Can- nabinoids or Other Syn- thetic Products passed by a unanimous vote of all of the governing body, was declared Ad- opted and shall be- come effective immedi- ately on this, the 15th day of March,2019.

/s/ Harry Sanders HARRY SANDERS, PRESIDENT

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPER- VISORS

ATTEST:

/s/ Lisa Younger Neese LISA YOUNGER NEESE, CLERK

PUBLISH: 3/22/2019 & 3/28/2019