Mall to host autograph

party for pageant queens

The Barnes Crossing Mall will host an autograph party for contestants competing in the upcoming Miss Mississippi Pageant and the Miss Mississippi Outstanding Teen Pageant.

The autograph party will take place, Saturday, May 30, 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. in the Barnes Crossing Mall Center Court.

Regional contestants, including Miss Tupelo, Adrian Turner and Miss Outstanding Teen Tupelo, Ashley Neal will be in attendance. Others in attendance include contestants from Starkville, Oxford, Alcorn and Pontotoc.

"The girls have been preparing so hard to ready themselves for the upcoming state pageant," said Amye Gousset, Miss Tupelo Pageant co-director. "This is just a great opportunity for the public to meet each girl and offer them a word of encouragement. And who knows, you may be getting the autograph of the future Miss America."

For more information, contact Gousset at (662) 680-3288 or Myra Guyton at (662) 842-3015.



Fortnightly Musicale Club

honors Alexander, Turner

The Fortnightly Musicale Club of Tupelo, MS has awarded its $1,000 Alice Anderson Scholarship for the upcoming 2009-2010 school year to Rachel Alexander of Tupelo.

Alexander is the daughter of Alice Alexander and the voice student of Cheryl Coker at Millsaps College in Jackson. Alexander's major is music: vocal performance. She plans to continue her study of voice at Millsaps where she is currently a sophomore and then study opera in graduate school.

Ariel Turner, a Tupelo High School senior, was named to receive special honors for her excellent audition. She currently studies with Monica Spencer and plans to attend college in the fall with a major in music and eventually perform and teach.

Junior deputy academy,

summer camps open

The Lee County Sheriff's Department has immediate opening for its junior deputy academy and summer camps in Mooreville, Saltillo and Verona.

The Junior Deputy Academy will be from June 8-19. It's open to students entering grades 7 through 12.

The summer camps are open to students entering grades 2 through 6.

Both the academy and summer camps are free to the participants.

Call (662) 680-6037 or visit www.leecosheriff.com for more information.