3/10/2010 4:30:00 PM
JUST AMONG FRIENDS
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By RACHEL EVANS
The United Way of Neshoba County is announcing that the second annual Magnolia Music Festival is scheduled for Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20 at The Magnolia on Walnut Street behind Ye Ole Yates Drug Store.
It will get underway Friday at 7 p.m. and again on Saturday at 3 p.m. Delicious food will be available and tickets can be purchased at the door. All proceeds will go to the United Way of Neshoba County.
Entertainment will be provided hour after hour by Calico, Danielle Reed, SunWolf, Dark Sundays, Self-Made Fools, Billy Singleton, Rico and the Border Patrol, MS Chris Sharp and South Bound.
Also, Random Theory Revival, Barry Richardson, Mike Case, Mickey Fuggitt and Billy Hardy.
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Mardi Gras suggests parades, beads and baubles and revelry in the streets. For Steve Murray and his daughter, Missy Carter, it's a 26.2 mile run through the streets of New Orleans beginning at 7 a.m. in the morning in front of the Convention Center on Tchouitoulas Street.
This is the third time Steve and Missy have competed in and completed the Mardi Gras Marathon. They, along with Linda, Missy's husband Dr. Will Carter, Bo, 6, and Buddy, 4, of Starkville stayed at the Staybridge Suites on Poydras Street. As tradition has it, they enjoyed dinner together at Mothers on the eve of the race.
"Do Bo and Buddy show any interest in running?" I asked Steve. "They really do." said one proud grandfather.
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David Williams, James Mars and friends recently visited their old friend, Tom Wilburn at Smith Oaks Plantation in Artesia. Hearing about it brought back memories of when Harold and I would go with Buddy and Peggy Dees to the harness racing event hosted by Tom at Smith Oaks each spring. It was the nearest I ever got to the Kentucky Derby.
Mr. Tom, as he is affectionately called by one of his friends, described him as Mississippi's greatest, and at one time only, professional harness horseman.
"He is a very hard task master but the most honest and fair man you will ever meet." Having raced from Atlantic City, N.J. to Winston Ontario and on to Hollywood Park, Calif., Mr. Tom is a member of the Illinois Sports Hall of Fame and the holder of two world records.
Ninety-one years old and still going strong, Mr. Tom has always been recognized as the consonant Southern gentleman and perhaps one of Mississippi's greatest story tellers.
His tales as told at Dwight Barrett's kitchen table at the Neshoba County Fair each year are now recorded in a book he and Jeannie K. Smith have written entitled "The Tales of Tom Wilburn." You may obtain your copy of this Mississippi history book by contacting Jeannie K.
Smith, P.O. Box 15, Artesia, MS 39736 at a cost of $20, plus $4 postage or by calling 662-272-5600 evenings only.
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This week we go on the college campus at Mississippi State and Belmont in Nashville for news of two of our award-winning coeds. At Mississippi State, Sarah Katherine Webb has been selected to serve as an ambassador for the MSU baseball team in the role of a Diamond Girl. While some little sisters yearn for the day to be out from under the wing of their big brother, not so with Sarah Katherine.
"Watching Thomas (who now plays tight end position on the Mississippi State football team) play baseball and football, I learned to love all sports," thus inspiring her desire to become a Diamond Girl. Diamond Girls are chose for this honor after passing a test on the knowledge of baseball in general, the history of Mississippi State baseball, personalities in the past, etc. after which they are interviewed by a panel of judges.
At every home game you will find the girls performing their duties behind home plate, in the bull pen, selling merchandise, doing the "chicken dance" atop the dugout, painting faces, you name it. All for the love and support of the Dawgs on the Diamond. Come spring break, they'll be on campus at the University of Florida. Not a bad place to spend spring break!
Sarah is the daughter of Jody and Deree Parkes Webb, and the granddaughter of Steve and Charlene Webb and Cleveland and Georgia Parkes.
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And on campus at Belmont University in Nashville, Madison Hardy has been chosen "Belmont University Homecoming Queen 2010." Five girls and five beaus are chosen as maids and beaus from campus-wide applicants.
Votes were cast by the entire student body and at the homecoming ceremony, Madison emerged the winner.
She was crowned on her 21st birthday wearing a purple satin knee-length dress she purchased from Ross' in Nashville for $25 proving that it's not the dress, it's the girl!!
There to share the excitement of the evening were her parents, Sarah and Mike Hardy, and her grandparents, Joyce and Bobby Hardy.
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Mont and Dawn Mars attended the celebration of the life of Shirley Ann Godbold McCauley held at the Oxford-University United Methodist Church in Oxford Tuesday, March 2. Shirley was the wife of John McCauley, John's family were prominent Philadelphia residents and will be best remembered as executive officials at The Bank of Philadelphia.
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Jack Rodenbaugh of the State Attorney general's office was the speaker at the March 2 meeting of the Mature and Moderns (M&M) at First United Methodist Church. He spoke in warning of scams involving older people and cautioned the group against giving personal information to anyone. Clarence and June Mitchell, Barbara Thaggard and Betty Mooney were hostesses at the potluck luncheon.
Ann Baughman was welcomed as the guest of Dot Pettey. In attendance were June and Clarence Mitchell, Cecil Wyatt, Sylvia Pope, Barbara Thaggard, the Reverend Lavelle Woodrick, Bobbie Holley, Jan Williamson, Dot Pettey, Sara Hutchison, Dorothy Dixon, Clarice and Shelby Williamson, Billy and Arline Wolverton, Jo Lynn Parker, Betty Mooney, Michael Hedgepeth, Shelley King, Rayford and Janice Williamson, Richard Smith, Sue Fulton and Babs Kirkland.
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