Community News

Potts Camp News
Dale Hollingsworth

Locals attend Scholarship Recognition Ceremony at Northwest in memory of Charley and Paula Gurley

Happy birthday to the following: Margaret Wilson, Margaret Hart, Madisyn Cobbs, Brad Farr, Joshua and Jeremy Green, Halley Holtzlander and Daniel Smothers.

Jean Gurley and Georgia Cobbs, along with Margaret Hart, Cindy Passons, Mary Minor, Joan Gurley, Arthur and Doris Poole, Sue Rowland, Pam Gurley and Nancy Green attended a Scholarship Recognition ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at Northwest Community College in Senatobia in memory of Charley Gurley and Paula Gurley.

Temperance Hill Baptist Church hosted their Fourth Annual Christian Community Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 1. Providing special music during the day were the Songlight Singers of Amory, Linda Stacks, Gale Tate, Andy Roe, Fletcher Akins, Philip Rover, Lisa Mathis (accompanied by her husband, Dwayne, at the piano), and pastor Ken Cooper. The children enjoyed pony rides, the climbing wall, and other games. Mt. Moriah Baptist Church brought cakes, pies, cookies and other desserts for the sweet booth.

I was glad to see Lela and Kerry Hale when they came to visit me on Monday, also, my daughter Betty. Lela and Betty taught school together at West Union and they enjoyed visiting with each other.

Pray for my special friends, Charles Henderson and Henry Tutor. Also pray for Betty Fincher who visited her doctor recently, James (Spider) Cook, who had a serious operation and needs special prayers, Henry and Mary Jarrett, and Jimmy Armstrong.

I called my oldest son, Jimmy Hollingsworth, on his birthday, Oct. 3 in Tupelo. He and his wife, Martha, have four wonderful children.

History

Many people don’t know why Mary Reid was so important to our town. She was the only daughter of the first Potts Camp settlers, Col. E.F. Potts and wife, Elizabeth. She married Charlie Reid. Mary gave the land for a depot and right-of-way so the railroad could come this way. She also gave land for schools and churches of both races. Mary Reid School and Reid’s Gift Church are named for her.

Jazzy’s Dance and Williams Clinic

For the past three years, Williams Medical Clinic has come and administered sports physicals to the participants in the dance program. Jazzy’s Dance has been practicing hard each week working towards a successful competitive dance season. In July, some of the dancers even participated in a dance camp provided by an artistic dance company located out of Memphis, Tenn. Jazzy’s Dance, instructed by Casshaunda Davis-Riddle, is a dance program that represents the North MS area in many of their competitive events; it has been in existence since 2004. The program not only teaches the art of dance, but also promotes its participants to be self-confident, competitive and goal-driven. Their showcase night will be on Thursday, October 13, followed by their first competition sponsored by Deep South in Jackson, on Sunday, October 16. Pictured is one of Williams’ Clinic nurses examining a dance student. Jazzy’s Dance would like to extend a big thanks to the clinic’s administration and staff for their continued partnership in the efforts of the dance program.


Thursday, October 6, 2011
Community \| Obits \| Editorial & Columnists \| Society \| Sports \| Education \| Classified Ads \| Calendar of Events \| Features \| Newsbriefs \| Legals \| Archives \| Subscriptions \| New Photo Gallery