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ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM 75 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY TUESDAY | OCTOBER 22, 2019 Cultural Heritage Foundation board shuts down talks with new preservation society Whirllie Byrd: ‘Are we not going to have transparency with this?’ INSIDE ■ OUR VIEW: Not discussing the BY SLIM SMITH CCHF board member Rissa 2020 Pilgrimage, but would ‘divorce’ is terrible for Pilgrimage. Page 4A [email protected] Lawrence used a priority mo- participate by making homes tion, seconded by Dewitt Hicks available for Pilgrimage. PSC is The Columbus Cultural The letter said PSC would work and approved by a 4-2 vote, to made up of those whose homes Heritage Foundation board of with CCHF to stage the 2020 table the item. A priority mo- have regularly been a part of the directors abruptly ended pub- Pilgrimage. lic discussions with members tion, when seconded, prohibits Pilgrimage tour of antebellum The CCHF board met on further discussion unless the homes each spring. After Leike of the Preservation Society of Byrd Lawrence Oct. 9 and voted to hand over Columbus on the future opera- vote fails. asked if the board had ques- operational control of Pilgrim- tional control of the Columbus Dick Leike, president of PSC, tions, the discussion was soon assume control of Pilgrimage age immediately and noted that Pilgrimage during a meeting had appeared before the board ended by Lawrence’s motion. beginning in 2021 and asking there were no additional CCHF at the Columbus-Lowndes Con- to clarify his group’s position — On Sept. 19, the PSC board that all funds the CCHF had funds available to provide to the vention and Visitors Bureau of- mainly that it would not be shad- sent a letter to the CCHF board provided for the Pilgrimage PSC. fice Monday. owing CCHF’s operations of the announcing its intention to previously be directed to them. See PILGRIMAGE, 3A Oktibbeha Starkville seeks to legally protect supes: Rails-to- restaurants that allow dogs on patios Trails proposal needs further discussion Converting Starkville railroad could result in loss of property taxes for county, school district BY TESS VRBIN [email protected] S T A R K V I L L E — Oktibbeha Coun- ty leaders expressed concerns at Mon- day’s board of super- visors meeting about lost tax revenue if the potential conversion of the railroad that Howard bisects Starkville and Oktibbeha Coun- ty into a walking and Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff biking trail becomes Joseph Campbell, left, teases golden lab mix Napa on the patio at Bin 612 Sunday afternoon while Alena White, Taylor Moore and a reality. Vicky Easley watch. Moore is Napa’s owner and a Bin 612 employee, and she said her dog loves visiting the restaurant’s patio. The railroad has not been used in board voted 4-2 to petition years but still brings State law currently Trainer area state legislators to pass in about $80,000 prohibits practice; a local and private measure in property taxes that the coun- legalizing dogs on restau- ty splits with the city and the many restaurants rant patios exclusively in Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated Starkville. School District, County Adminis- allow it anyway Mayor Lynn Spruill said trator Emily Garrard said. Board the issue came to her at- Attorney Rob Roberson said this is BY Tess VrbIN tention via an article The a factor to consider in the decision [email protected] Clarion Ledger published of whether to support the proposed in June, reporting the Mis- project. STARKVILLE — Julie sissippi State Department “(We) have to have a cost-bene- and Matt Capella take their of Health’s objections to fit conversation,” District 3 Super- beagles, Frances and Jas- pet-friendly restaurant pa- visor Marvell Howard said. “It’s got mine, everywhere and never tios in the Jackson area. to benefit the county and the city leave them at home. The food code expresses equally.” “We pick restaurants Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff concerns that dogs “might The Starkville Board of Alder- where we can eat with our Dachshunds Sammy and Daisy visit Bulldog Burger Company harbor pathogens that are on Sunday with their owners, Mary Katherine, David and Tra- men voted unanimously on Oct. 1 dogs outside,” Julie Capella transmissible through said. “That’s our criteria.” cy Oglesby. The restaurant encourages canine guests on the to ask permission from the federal patio and provides dog treats and bowls of water for them, food,” especially if employ- Surface Transportation Board to They were not aware un- assistant manager Kayla McIlwain said. ees have physical contact work with Kansas City Southern, til recently that it’s against with both food and dogs. the company that owns the rail- state law to have dogs on Allowing dogs on restau- eral local restaurants do so Law enforcement officers road, to remove the rails and turn restaurant patios, and they rant patios violates Mis- without knowing it is illegal, with patrol dogs and people the route into a trail. The railroad have never had a restaurant sissippi’s adoption of the according to the Starkville with disabilities who use runs from Ackerman to West Point. refuse to allow the beagles United States Public Health Board of Aldermen meet- service dogs are allowed See RAILS-TO-TrAILS, 3A on the premises, they said. Service Food Code, but sev- ing agenda last week. The See DOGS, 3A WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS CALENDAR LOCAL FOLKS PUBLIC 1 What satiric novel about World War MEETINGS Today Nov. 4: II begins, “It was love at first sight”? ■ 100+ Women Who Care: 2 Which group of creatures is called This philanthropic group meets Lowndes County a pandemonium — apes, hyenas or Supervisors, 9 parrots? 5:30-7 p.m. at the Court- 3 Who broke George Sisler’s 84-year- yard by Marriott, Columbus, a.m., County old record for most hits in a baseball to select a local recipient Courthouse Leah Wilson season, in 2004? nonprofit organization of its Nov. 5: 4 What deep-fried dinner do Dubliners Second grade, Caledonia Impact Award. Members each Columbus City describe as a “one and one”? donate $100 to the award and Council regular 5 What talk show host gave all 276 receive a vote; all donations meeting, 5 High Low audience members a Pontiac G6 to go to recipient. Learn more at 70 39 celebrate her 19th season on TV? p.m., Municipal Sunny 100wwccolumbusms.org. Po- Complex Full forecast on tential members are welcome. Answers, 6B Courtroom page 2A. Registration/social time is Nov. 8: Lowndes 5:30 p.m.; meeting is 6-7 p.m. Morgan Milstead moved to Columbus to County School ■ HOPE event: A gathering be with her now husband who grew up in the INSIDE in front of Columbus City Hall area. She is an instructor at the University District Board of Trustees regular Classifieds6B Health 6A at 5:30 p.m. will be held in of Alabama, where she teaches hospitality Comics 5B Obituaries 5A support of victims and survi- management. She and her husband have a meeting, 12:30 Crossword 2B Opinions 4A vors of breast cancer. All are 5-year-old son, John William Milstead, who p.m., Central 140TH YEAR, NO. 191 Dear Abby 5B welcome. attends Annunciation Catholic School. Office DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471 2A TUESDAY, OCtoBER 22, 2019 THE DISPATCH • www.cdispatch.com SAY WHAT? DID YOU HEAR? “... I’d like to see how much more successful we could have been with Gray out there with us.” West Point football coach Chris Chambless on quarter- Central Park to get first back Gray Berry, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament statue honoring women Tuesday earlier this season. Story, 1B. Susan B. Anthony, Gale Brewer. The organiza- tion’s statue fund privately CALEDONIA DAYS Elizabeth Cady raised $1.5 million to create and maintain the new mon- Stanton and ument and for an associated educational program. Sojourner Truth The work will be dedicat- ed in August on The Mall, to be featured a stately park promenade lined with American elms. on monument Next year marks 100 years since American women THE ASSOCIatED PRESS won the right to vote. NEW YORK — Central The work by artist Mer- Park has 23 statues of men edith Bergmann will break who left their mark in histo- what some call the “bronze ry but not a single one hon- ceiling” in the 166-year-old oring the accomplishments park — the lack of sculp- of a woman. tures honoring women, dis- That will change after a counting fictional charac- city commission voted Mon- ters like Mother Goose and day to erect a monument Alice in Wonderland. The depicting three pioneers bronze piece will join ones in the fight for women’s of men including Christo- rights: Susan B. Anthony, pher Columbus, Alexander Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Hamilton, William Shake- Sojourner Truth. The like- speare and Sir Walter Scott. ness of Truth, an escaped The Public Design Com- slave and abolitionist, was mission, which reviews added to the sculpture in re- artworks on city-owned sponse to criticism that Af- property, granted approval rican American suffragists Monday for Bergmann’s were initially excluded. design — chosen from 91 Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff “This statue conveys the competing submissions. Autumn Tilley, 6, looks to her mother as she rides the bull during Caledonia Days on Saturday at Ola J. Pickett Park. It wasn’t long before Tilley’s excitement faded and she requested her mother help her off the ride. power of women working “My hope is that all peo- together to bring about rev- ple, but especially young olutionary change in our so- people, will be inspired by ciety,” said Pam Elam, pres- this image of women of ident of the Monumental different races, different Women nonprofit of volun- religious backgrounds and teer advocates, historians different economic status and community leaders, working together to change with key support from Man- the world,” Bergmann said hattan Borough President after the vote.