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Slain Nuns Formerly in Holly Springs The South Reporter VOLUME 151 (USPS-504320) HOLLY SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI 38635 • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 NUMBER 35 Sports Slain nunsThe two lived formerly together in a found later Thursday aboutin a Holly Springs By SUE WATSON residence on Castalian mile from the home. Two CatholicStaff Writer nuns, who Springs Road in Durant, Merrill, from Massa - once served in Holly Springs, about 12 miles from the clinic chusetts, joined the order in were murdered last week in where they were the primary 1979 and moved to Durant. They were family caregivers. Mississippi in 1981. She nurse practitioners at the A suspect, Rodney Earl worked many years in Holly Lexington Medical Cli nic. Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Springs at the Marshall Sisters Paula Merrill, 68, was arrested and charged in County Health Department. with the Sisters of Charity of the murders. A motive has Held, from Milwaukee, Nazareth, and Margaret not been established. News Wis., also worked in Holly Held, 69, with School Sisters sources said Sanders was not Springs and served 49 years of St. Francis, were found a client at the clinic and did as a nun and over 30 years in MA Patriots knock off stabbed to death in their not attend services at the Mississippi. Bayou Academy home by a coworker when Lexington Catholic Church. The two lived together in they failed to come to work The blue Toyota Camry Holly Springs, then moved to Thursday morning. they drove was missing but Opinion See NUNS page 15 Sister Paula Merrill Sister Margaret Held Nuns’ service to their fellow man went far beyond healthcare Three NEWS BRIEFS CAMFest this weekend qualify • Cassi Davis Bikers and Blues event giving back wraps up Thursday for race By BARRY BURLESON to community QualifyingEditor deadline to run The final Bikers and By SUE WATSON Blues for this season will be for Marshall County superin- Staff Writer held this Thursday in down- tendent of education or two Cassi Davis, actress in town Holly Springs from 6 school board seats is just Tyler Perry’s “House of p.m. to 10 p.m. over a week away, on Payne,” has a vision. The This week’s entertain- September 9. vision is a collective one, ment, beginning at 7 p.m., The races, including the born out of a yearning for will feature Gerod Rayborn one community – a unified & The Band. Activities con- special election for superin- tendent, will be a part of the city, state and nation. clude at 10 p.m. The Beale CAMFest 2016 is the Street Corvette Club will be general election ballot on Tuesday, Nov. 8. launching pad for what in attendance. Davis hopes will be an annu- Bikers and Blues, a proj- The superintendent’s job ect of the Holly Springs came open recently with the al celebration of oneness by Main Street Chamber, also resignation of Jerry Moore, way of the culture, arts and includes plenty of good who had served four and a music in Holly Springs. The food and fellowship. Bikers half years. first festival is this weekend, and Blues T-shirts are also Qualified to run, as of September 3 and 4, at Sam on sale at the event. Coopwood Park. For more information on Monday of this week, are Lela Smith Hale, Charles Although Davis is known Bikers and Blues or other around the world as a come- Holly Springs Main Street LeSure and Carrie Skelton. Circuit clerk Lucy dian and actress, there is Chamber activities, call more to the woman, whom (662) 252-2943. Carpenter said candidate qualifications include a regis- she self-identified as a “50- Early deadlines set tered voter/resident of year-old orphan” in a recent for next newspaper Marshall County, four years interview. She said she classroom experience and an hopes to help heal the racial administrative certificate and cultural divide. The South Reporter from the State Board of “It always has been in the announces early deadlines Photo by Sue Watson Education. for its next edition Cassi Davis visits with Charles Terry, Marshall County District 1 supervisor, at a recent meeting. See DAVIS page 15 (September 8) due to the There could be a runoff in Labor Day holiday. the superintendent of educa- Deadline for classified tion race if no candidate advertising is this Friday, receives a majority of the Sept. 2, at 12 noon. vote (more than 50 percent) Deadline for all other adver- on November 8. The runoff system.” tising, including legal Operation Stand Down assists veterans will be three weeks later, on By SUE WATSON Some veterans already had notices, plus all news and November 29. About Staff70 WriterU.S. Veterans photographs is this Friday, lots of services they had Senate Bill 2438 was received help with applying applied for and others none. Sept. 2, at 5 p.m. for services, encouragement, The newspaper office signed into law earlier this Some had given up on apply- will be closed Monday, year by Gov. Phil Bryant. It and a hot meal at Operation ing again, saying it was no Sept. 5, in observance of requires that all Mississippi Stand Down Mid-South use. the Labor Day holiday. school superintendents be recently. Alvin Jeffries of Lamar was The South Reporter will appointed (by local school The Stand Down was held one of two homeless veterans be delivered on its normal boards), rather than elected, at the Eddie Lee Smith Multi- who attended. His wife died in schedule next week. but that doesn’t take effect Purpose Building where August last year then his “We hope everyone has until 2019. numerous providers offered mobile home burned in a safe and fun holiday The general election bal- assistance to veterans in a weekend, and we appreci- October. He has been living lot November 8 will also fea- variety of ways. Much of it back and forth with a brother ate your help in meeting dealt with information and these early deadlines,” said ture races for two Marshall and a sister, he said, but wants editor Barry Burleson. County School Board posi- assistance with applications a place of his own in the coun- tions, Districts 1 and 2. for services at the VA. try like where he was living Hummingbird festival Serving in those school Veterans also clustered at independently. slated for Sept. 9-11 board positions at this time tables to eat a hot lunch and Problems pile up on veter- are Mark Turner, District 1, discuss their successes and ans sometimes and seem too and Harvey Garrison, failures at navigating the big to take on. The 17th annual District 2. Photo by Sue Watson bureaucratic application Jeffries, who is wearing a Hummingbird Migration & Veteran Alvin Jeffries, of Lamar, thanks Alvin Buckley with Voice of process which some call “the Nature Celebration will be See RACE page 13 Calvary Ministries in Jackson, for help to obtain services from the VA. held September 9-11 at See VETERANS page 15 Strawberry Plains Audubon Center in Holly Springs. This award-winning fes- tival features hundreds of hummingbirds feeding in lush native gardens; as well Carpenter Farms – as renowned speakers on various nature topics, live animal shows, guided 200 years ofalive producefrom year to year. walks/wagon rides and a By SUE WATSON Fifteen people work in the close-up look at the ruby- If you Staffwonder Writer what a four- business which is seasonal, throated hummingbird, one acre watermelon patch looks starting with hot house gar- of nature’s most fascinating like, or acres and acres of den plants in the spring, flow- creatures. peas and corn and butter ing through the summer sea- Admission is $15 for beans, Carpenter Farms has son of squash, tomatoes, adults, $10 for seniors, $5 the answer. for children age 5-12; corn, and watermelons and admission for people on 12- The Carpenter family has ending at Halloween with all passenger vans and buses a 200-year history of growing kinds of pumpkins, greens is $10 per person. Parking produce in Marshall County, and cornstalks. is free and concessions are according to John Paul This year there was a available. Carpenter. great crop of apples (five “This festival is a cele- At one time or other dur- kinds), pears and mus- bration of all things wild, a ing the year, just about any- cadines, along with the other wonderful way to spend a thing you would want in the selections of fruit and vegeta- day in a truly historic place,” fruit and vegetable market bles. And there is honey and said Mitch Robinson, con- comes out of the patch at servation education man- homemade jellies, and ager. Carpenter’s. shelled peas and butter For more information on Son Brad and grandson beans. There are eggplants, the event, see the story on Chris help keep the business Photo by Sue Watson page 13. See FARMS page 16 Employees Sue Bolden (left) and Corrine Evans are busy this time of year assisting customers. Your Community Newspaper Since 1865 • Phone 662-252-4261 • Email: [email protected] • Online at www.southreporter.com The South Reporter - Thursday, September 1, 2016 - Section 1 - Page 2 ObituariesJudge Aaron JudgeBrown Jr., Aaron 89, of BrownHolly Springs, Jr. died Aug. 28, Walker Tucker, 72,Walker of Ashland, Tucker died Aug. 24, 2016, at his 2016, at Alliance HealthCare System in home. A retired school principal of the Chulahoma M.B. Church Holly Springs. Originally from Portland, Benton County School System, he was a Ore., he was a retired senior judge for the member of Hopewell No. 2 MB Church in continues to add to its District Court of Oregon.
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