Monday June 15
Keglar Legacy accepts applications
June 15 is the deadline to submit a completed application and supporting documents for the Birdia Keglar Legacy Scholarship.
The scholarship will be awarded to a deserving young woman from Tallahatchie County who meets the criteria. To participate in the application process, go to the website, birdiakeglarlegacy.org, retrieve an application from Charleston High School or contact Gwen Dailey at 662-609-6701 or LaJoyce Stewart at 662-417-4950.
Mail completed applications and documents to BK Legacy Scholarship Committee, Post Office Box 222, Charleston, MS 38921
Saturday June 20
Robert Neal Food Pantry to be open
The Robert Neal Food Pantry at Calvary Chapel of Parchman will distribute food on Saturday, June 20, and each third Saturday thereafter. The pantry, serving western Tallahatchie County and northern Sunflower County, has installed changes due to COVID-19.
The food pantry will begin at 9 a.m., and only those whose last names begin with A-H will be served at this time.
Last names starting with I-P will be served from 10-11 a.m.
Q-Z, anyone who missed earlier and all new sign-ups, will be served from 11 a.m. to noon. There will be no exceptions.
Distribution will be held in the church parking lot. Clients will drive in the one-way entrance off Ward-Riddick Road and will pull up beside the front door. Food boxes will be placed on a table beside the sign-in book. Clients will leave their cars and sign the notebook, get their box and leave immediately through the one-way exit to avoid any possibility of infection. No client will enter the building for any reason.
Faith Food Pantry tells of changes
Faith Food Pantry at Faith Baptist Church near Charleston will distribute food on Saturday, May 16, and each third Saturday thereafter. However, due to the national coronavirus emergency, the pantry’s food distribution has been modified. All persons are asked to notify friends and other clients about the changes.
Food pantry will begin at 11 a.m.
The schedule will be strictly followed. For those whose last name begins with ...
• A-H, 11 a.m. to 12 noon
• I-Q: Noon to 1 p.m.
• R-Z, 1-2 p.m.
Clients will drive in and pull alongside (not toward) the building and sidewalk. A table will be outside the front porch with the food boxes and a sign-in book. Clients must get out and sign the book. They will then pull around the other side of the parking lot next to the highway and depart. Nobody will congregate or have contact with those not in their car.
Miscellany
Locals receive credentials at Hinds
More than 1,200 students received credentials — certificates and associate degrees — from Hinds Community College in Raymond during May. Among those graduating were Madeline Miller of Cascilla, Kendred Brown of Glendora and Donald Brown of Holcomb, the school announced last week.
Jones named to Dean’s List at MC
Jonathan Jones of Charleston was named to the fall 2019 Dean’s List at Mississippi College in Clinton. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must maintain a 3.5 GPA and must take a full course load of at least 12 semester hours of undergraduate credit, with all academic courses impacting their GPA.
Assistance sought for local cemetery
Help is needed to clean the Old Mt. Zion Cemetery. Some cleanup work has already begun. All families who have loved ones buried in the cemetery are asked to help in any way they can. For more information, contact Leon Smith at 647-1301.
Report local littering, vandalism
Eyewitness accounts of littering and road sign vandalism/theft in Tallahatchie County may be reported to 647-7711 between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., seven days per week. If there is no answer, leave a message as to the exact location of the dump site or sign vandalism or theft, the date and time called and your name and telephone number. Someone will contact you.
Correction or clarification
None.
To report the need for the correction or clarification of any item that appears in print in The Sun-Sentinel and/or on the online sites at www.facebook.com/TheSunSentinel, Twitter or on the newspaper’s website at www.tallahatchienews.ms, call the newspaper office at 662-647-8462 and ask for the editor, stop by the office at 149 Court Square in Charleston or email clay@charlestonsun.net.
