“Sarasota, Fla., is beautiful! We started going there on our honeymoon and went back every year for 15 years. Sometimes we took our parents with us. Such great memories!”
Sandra McKinney Showah
“Spring break for me has been getting ready for the Hal's St. Paddy's Day parade for about 30 plus years.”
We are fortunate to attend a small church with a tight-knit congregation. Our children’s committee hosts a baby shower for each expectant family in our church and invites the entire congregation. The showers have developed into a light lunch immediately following Sunday morning worship.
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Happy New Year
I do not like black-eyed peas, but I don’t want any bad luck.
Dear Santa,
I would like dinosaurs, gorillas, airplanes, people, robots, and that’s all I really want.
With love, Porter Jeffreys
Dear Santa,
While he’s making his list and checking it twice, Santa Claus made time to visit his favorite newspaper staff during his busiest season. Santa visited with Sun reporter Nikki Rowell to discuss all things Christmas while he was out taking a sleigh and reindeer test drive before Christmas Eve.
After love, marriage, baby carriages and such, some couples are renewing their vows—to volunteer. Two sets of married retirees from Ridgeland are spending their spare time helping out at Methodist Rehabilitation Center (MRC).
The Clarion Ledger featured the four children of Dr. and Mrs. J Walton Lipscomb Jr. in December 1946 edition which featured several children from the area
in a Christmas spread. The Lispscombs recently recreated the photo. Shown in the same order seventy plus years later are (from left) Bill, Lewis, Walton Lipscomb
Elaine Adair is the founder and president of Mississippi Spay and Neuter (MS SPAN). MS SPAN is a nonprofit that offers low cost spay and neuter surgeries for dogs and cats.
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Thanksgiving has to be one of my family’s favorite holidays. Actually, all holidays are favorites because they tend to serve big excuses to make an extra special meal.
From clinical trials to scientific research, the Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Dementia (MIND) Center at the University of Mississippi Medical Center is working to discover all it can about Alzheimer’s and related diseases in hopes of improving treatment and finding a cure. Tom Mosley is the MIND Center’s director.
Two area high schools have started what will be an annual competition to raise money for waterfowl conservation.
