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Higher Purpose Co. Guides Black Entrepreneurs to Resources in Mississippi Delta and Beyond
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CLARKSDALE, Miss.—As a high-school scholar, Tim Lampkin would greet visitors as they entered the again room of Visionz Pictures Studio, a enterprise inside an workplace constructing on Desoto Avenue in Clarksdale, Miss. After the photographer completed snapping a large number of photographs, Lampkin would escort shoppers from the room cluttered with lights, digital cameras, inexperienced screens and props to his entrance workplace.
As soon as seated, the 16-year-old would add and pull up the brand new photographs on his pc display, viewing every pose with the shoppers and channeling his entrepreneurial spirit to promote them on one of many studio’s pictures packages.
“We had been approach forward of our time,” Lampkin informed the Mississippi Free Press when recounting his time working within the enterprise funded by way of a youth entrepreneurship grant from the Mid-South Delta Management program. “Individuals take common photos now, they usually transpose the background—principally PhotoShop—however we had been doing this in 2003. We had the expertise to edit and print photos in actual time. I used to be the youth gross sales supervisor. That was my first actual entrepreneurial enterprise.”
A couple of blocks away from the constructing that after housed the enterprise that gave Lampkin his first firsthand expertise in enterprise administration stands the brick constructing the place he opened the Increased Function Hub nearly 20 years later. Lampkin, whose group, Increased Function Co., bought the previous furnishings retailer in 2019, plans to make use of the house and adjoining Greyhound bus-repair station to accommodate the corporate’s new $3-million enterprise.
“This shall be a regional neighborhood work hub,” he stated partially three of a video miniseries that Increased Function Co. created in partnership with Third and Marvel Manufacturing Home to spotlight Black entrepreneurs, artists and farmers in Mississippi. “We’re packing in so many facilities that can have the ability to serve the neighborhood.”
The Increased Function Hub will home a meals corridor, a artistic learning-lab retail retailer and the North Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
“We consider in doing a variety of issues in Clarksdale first earlier than we develop to different components of the state,” Lampkin stated. “That’s important for us to deal with a number of the challenges because it pertains to crime and the native financial system. We see this as an answer to make it possible for native (entrepreneurs) really feel supported and have tangible sources as they’re rising their enterprise or aspiring to turn out to be enterprise house owners.”
‘Creating Generational Influence’
In 2015, Lampkin was working at a neighborhood financial institution as a community-development officer when he observed that Black-owned companies weren’t receiving the help he believed they wanted to be extra profitable. For Lampkin, this commentary highlighted a difficulty that was notably true within the Mississippi Delta, which is predominantly African American.
After researching different areas, he created a mannequin that will help native Black entrepreneurs and introduced it to the financial institution’s management. They elected to not implement this system and as a substitute inspired him to tackle one other mission. Lampkin determined to resign from his place on the financial institution, and inside months he based his personal group.
“What I introduced to (the financial institution) was (what grew to become) the preliminary blueprint for Increased Function Co.,” Lampkin stated. “I used to be in a position to develop that due to the expertise I had working at Mississippi Valley State College, my MBA (which he obtained from Delta State College), the work that I had completed on the public library and the neighborhood work that I had completed.”
“(I) was able to do one thing completely different,” Lampkin added. “I took this idea of what we do as a corporation, which is supporting Black entrepreneurs, farmers and artists in getting funding, training and advising.”
Launched in 2016, Increased Function Co. (130 Desoto Ave., Clarksdale), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, offers business-centric academic and advisory companies, in addition to month-to-month conferences with visitor audio system, useful resource emails, cohort studying applications and funding to Black companies throughout the state who’re members of the group. The corporate has grown from serving Clarksdale residents to enterprise house owners within the Delta and different areas within the South, amassing greater than 500 members thus far.
HPC has a statewide membership for Black-owned companies. The membership is free and contains month-to-month membership conferences with visitor audio system and a month-to-month e mail that relays out there sources for entrepreneurs. Members are additionally eligible to use for the Increased Function Enterprise Academy, a cohort that locations enterprise house owners collectively to attach with each other and to share ideas for enhancing their companies.
In early June, the group hosted its second Legacy, Function, Success: Males’s Entrepreneurship Summit. The free, one-day occasion featured nationally acknowledged audio system from throughout the nation in various fields. Greater than 75 attendees had the chance to take part in classes on enterprise funding, branding and expertise.
“We thought it was important to create one thing that will converse to our total group but in addition one thing that will create generational influence,” Lampkin stated.
‘Not a One-(and)-Accomplished’
Oni Omoregie, HPC’s enterprise funding and advising coordinator, moderated a session titled “Mississippi Made,” whereas Phillip Rollins, proprietor of OffBeat Jackson, and Mario Watkins, proprietor of W8 Lounge and Snap Health in Indianola, Miss., spoke within the breakout session about entrepreneurship alternatives and challenges within the state.
The boys talked about how being an entrepreneur has affected them and the way they’ve performed themselves in enterprise. “(They talked about) the most important victories they confronted, what have been the most important challenges they confronted, how they’ve been part of their native communities and racial challenges that they’ve confronted as they’ve been entrepreneurs,” Omoregie stated.
Omoregie observes lots of the challenges firsthand as he meets with HBC members to assist them safe funding for his or her companies.
“The most important subject that I’ve seen based mostly on my one-on-one conferences with members from HBC is inadequate credit score and in addition a lack of understanding,” Omoregie, who’s presently working to acquire a doctorate in public coverage and administration from Jackson State College, stated. “They’re attempting to know: What’s the easiest way to get began with it, (and) what’s the easiest way to construct credit score? These are the primary points that they’ve been working into.”
Enterprise house owners underneath the HPC umbrella obtain sources and construct expertise to assist them each start and develop their companies. Omoregie examines enterprise plans, helps enterprise house owners kind short-term and long-term targets and speaks with house owners to find out their monetary outlooks. He presents weekly, biweekly and month-to-month conferences.
“It isn’t a one-thing-and-you’re-done (deal),” he stated of the HPC shoppers. “Members at HBC have just about limitless entry to me.” If house owners need assistance, he stated, “I’m only a name or a textual content or an e mail (away).”
Since November 2019, HPC has deployed over $1 billion to Black-owned companies by way of a mix of grants, loans, mortgage ensures and particular person improvement accounts.
‘Past the Delta’
HPC’s attain has already expanded exterior the Delta, and because the group grows, Lampkin hopes to see its greater influence throughout the state. Along with the Increased Function Hub in Clarksdale, HPC is opening places of work in Jackson and different components of the state and growing workers in its current places of work. Along with the lads’s summit, additionally they hosted their seventh girls’s entrepreneurship summit and partnered with the Two Mississippi Museums to host an entrepreneurship truthful in live performance with the opening of The Negro Motorist Inexperienced Guide Exhibit.
As HPC grows, Lampkin hopes to create a collective neighborhood of Black entrepreneurs, farmers and artists throughout the state. His perception is that that is the important thing to creating a greater financial system throughout the Delta and the state.
“I take a look at what I do as an entrepreneur not as, ‘How do I make some huge cash?’ however ‘How many individuals can I serve?” Lampkin stated. “For me that’s the driving power round why I present up each day to do that work.”
The bigger Increased Function Hub is projected to open in 2023. For extra data on Increased Function Co.’s sources, companies and applications, go to higherpurposeco.org.
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Vicksburg’s Raymond Elledge set to enter Mississippi Disc Golf Hall of Fame – The Vicksburg Post
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Vicksburg’s Raymond Elledge set to enter Mississippi Disc Golf Hall of Fame
Published 4:30 pm Tuesday, September 3, 2024
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During two decades of playing disc golf, Raymond Elledge has only won one big tournament.
“I don’t even remember what year it was,” he said.
Nonetheless, Elledge is a legend in the sport in Mississippi. He’s worked tirelessly to maintain courses, been a member of several local and state players associations, and taught people young and old the joys of it. That level of dedication led to Elledge’s recent election to the Mississippi Disc Golf Hall of Fame. He’ll officially be inducted Oct. 12 in Starkville.
“When he first told me last year I was nominated, I told him, ‘Man, you’re making my heart hurt.’ You don’t realize the emotions you can get. Stuff can just tear you up, and it did because I was just so excited,” the 62-year-old Vicksburg resident said. “You go years and years, and you’re out here busting your butt trying to maintain the course and showing everybody what you can.”
Disc golf is played the same as traditional golf, except with plastic discs that resemble frisbees. Players take aim at a steel basket several hundred yards away, with the goal of getting it in there in as few throws as possible.
Elledge first played disc golf in 2002, on a private course built in the backyard of Vicksburg resident Herman Cochran. One of the people playing with Elledge made a hole-in-one, and the excitement over the feat hooked him instantly.
“I seen this little old fella, he was 21 or 22 but he looked like he was 12, and he made an ace. I was hooked. I’ve got to do it,” Elledge said. “I don’t go anywhere on vacation without taking my disc golf bag. I just love the game.”
Elledge added that the simplicity of the sport is something he enjoys. A starter kit of three discs — a driver, mid-range disc and putter, all of which have different densities and flight characteristics — can be purchased for about $25.
The courses are easily found at many parks in Mississippi. There is an 18-hole course at Halls Ferry Park. Players of all ages and shapes can play it as long as they can walk the course. Elledge had quadruple bypass heart surgery eight years ago and playing disc golf helps him stay in shape.
“It’s something anybody can do,” he said. “I’ve trained kids from 5 to 50, and the oldest one I’ve helped train to play this game is 71 years old now. He still comes out and plays. This is a sport that any age can play.“
With his passion for disc golf comes a sense of responsibility. He’s helped clear brush around parts of the Halls Ferry Park course to keep it playable, and done the same while working with associations like the Vicksburg Disc Golf Association and Jackson Union of Disc Golf Enthusiasts.
He’s also eager to teach the game to newcomers.
“I’ve never quit teaching how to play the game,” he said. “They used to have something called the World’s Biggest Disc Golf Weekend and I won it three years in a row. What it is, is whoever takes the most players out to a certain disc golf course gets the T-shirt and a disc.”
His service to the sport led to a nomination for the Mississippi Disc Golf Hall of Fame in 2023, but he didn’t make the final cut. This year he did, and he said it was better than winning any tournament.
“You play a lot of tournaments. You do a whole lot for the sport itself, such as numerous work days working on the course to maintain it. Teaching the kids and when we have tournaments helping move baskets around to new spots,” Elledge said. “Then somebody will nominate you and there’s a lot of votes from the clubs. If you get enough votes from everybody you’re in. You find out how much you’re appreciated by everybody for all that you’ve done.”
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Arizona State vs Mississippi State picks, odds: Who wins Week 2 college football game?
Arizona State forces 3 turnovers in win over Wyoming to start 2024
All offseason, coach Kenny Dillingham preached getting turnovers. Forty seconds into the season’s first game, the defense produced its first one.
The Arizona State Sun Devils host the Mississippi State Bulldogs in a Week 2 non-conference college football game on Saturday, Sept. 7 at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.
Which team will win the game?
Check out these picks and predictions for the game, which is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. MST and can be seen on ESPN (stream with this free trial from FUBO).
Arizona State is coming off a 48-7 win against Wyoming. Mississippi State beat Eastern Kentucky in its season opener, 56-7.
ASU football is a 6.5-point favorite over Mississippi State in the game, according to BetMGM Sportsbook.
The Sun Devils are -250 on the moneyline. The Bulldogs are +200.
The over/under for the game is set at 56.5 points.
This is the first meeting between the two college football programs.
Dimers.com: Arizona State 30, Mississippi State 24
It writes: “According to our analysis, Arizona State is more likely to beat Mississippi State in CFB action at Mountain America Stadium on Saturday.”
Sports Chat Place: Bet ASU football to cover vs Mississippi State
It writes: “I’m going with Arizona State. This should be a fun matchup though, and you could make a case either way. The Sun Devils posted 499 total yards (241 rushing), 7.0 yards per play, 27 first downs and no turnovers in their blowout win Saturday. Defensively they were great as well with 118 yards allowed (78 passing), eight first downs, three turnovers and a 3-of-13 rate on third downs.”
Arizona State football predictions: Game-by-game picks for Sun Devils in 2024 season
Picks and Parlays: Arizona State 35, Mississippi State 21
Cameron Ross writes: “Both teams come in a week two undefeated as each will look to continue to roll. Arizona State will have the edge however as they are on their home field and have a top tier defense. Look for the Sun Devils to keep it rolling as they pick up a win and cover at home against the SEC opponent.”
Clarion Ledger: Arizona State 27, Mississippi State 26
Sam Sklar writes: “This game kicks off at 9:30 p.m. CT against an Arizona State team that should be improved under second-year coach Kenny Dillingham. The Sun Devils offense averaged just 17.7 points per game in part due to injuries at quarterback and offensive line. Redshirt freshman transfer Sam Leavitt is ASU’s new quarterback.”
ASU football schedule: Dates, times, TV channels for Sun Devils’ 2024 season
ESPN: Sun Devils have a 56.5% chance to defeat Bulldogs in Week 2
The site’s matchup predictor gives Mississippi State a 43.5% chance to beat Arizona State at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe on Saturday.
STREAM THE GAME: Watch ASU football vs Mississippi State live with FUBO (free trial)
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Mississippi deer season 2024-25: Here’s what hunters need to know
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Up-to-date information on deer season 2024-25 in Mississippi including CWD, season dates, bag limits, antler restrictions and more.
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Deer season is almost here and will kick off this month with the early, buck-only archery season followed by the traditional archery season in October then the early primitive weapon season and gun season in November. For thousands in Mississippi, it’s the most exciting time of the year.
But, as has been the case in many years, there have been some changes. Here’s what hunters need to know about chronic wasting disease, bag limits, harvest reporting and season dates for the 2024-25 deer season.
Deer hunting season dates
North Central, Delta and Hills deer management units
- Archery: Sept. 13-15, One legal buck. Special permit, mandatory reporting and CWD sampling required. Private land and authorized state and federal lands.
- Archery: Oct. 1-Nov. 22, Either sex on private land, open public land, and Holly Springs National Forest.
- Youth: Nov. 9-22, Either sex on private lands and authorized state and federal lands.
- Youth: Nov. 23-Jan. 31, Either sex on private lands. On open public lands, youth must follow below legal deer criteria.
- Antlerless primitive weapon: Nov. 11-22, Antlerless deer only on private lands.
- Gun with dogs: Nov. 23-Dec. 1, Either sex on private land and Holly Springs National Forest. Legal bucks only on open public land.
- Primitive weapon: Dec. 2-15, Either sex on private land, open public land, and Holly Springs National Forest. Weapons of choice may be used on private land with the appropriate license.
- Gun without dogs: Dec. 16-23, Either sex on private land and Holly Springs National Forest. Legal bucks only on open public land.
- Gun with dogs: Dec. 24-Jan.22, Either sex on private land and Holly Spring National Forest. Legal bucks only on open public land.
- Archery, primitive weapon: Jan. 23-31, Either sex on private land and Holly Springs National Forest. Legal bucks only on open public land. Weapons of choice may be used on private land with appropriate license.
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Southeast Deer Management Unit
- Archery: Sept. 13-15, One legal buck. Special permit, mandatory reporting and CWD sampling required. Private land and authorized state and federal lands.
- Archery: Oct. 15-Nov. 22, Either sex on private or open public land.
- Youth: 15 years and under, Nov. 9-22, Either sex on private land and authorized state and federal land.
- Youth: 15 years and under, Nov. 23-Feb. 15, Either sex on private land. On open public land, youth must follow legal deer criteria.
- Gun with dogs: Nov. 23-Dec. 1, Either sex on private land. Legal bucks only on open public land.
- Primitive weapon: Dec. 2-15, Either sex on private or open public land. Weapons of choice may be used on private land with appropriate license.
- Gun without dogs: Dec. 16-23, Either sex on private land. Legal bucks only on open public land.
- Gun with dogs: Dec. 24-Jan. 22, Either sex on private land. Legal bucks only on open public land.
- Archery, primitive weapon: Jan. 23-31, Either sex on private land. Legal bucks only on open public land. Weapon of choice may be used on private land with the appropriate license.
- Archery, primitive weapon: Feb. 1-15, Legal bucks only on private and open public land. Weapon of choice may be used on private land with the appropriate license.
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Deer bag limits
- Delta DMU: The bag limit for antlered deer is one per day, three per annual season. The antlerless bag limit is five.
- Hills DMU: The bag limit for antlered deer is one per day, three per annual season. The antlerless bag limit is five.
- North Central DMU: The bag limit for antlered deer is one per day, four per annual season. The limit for antlerless deer is 10 on private lands.
- Southeast DMU: The bag limit for antlered deer is one per day, three per annual season. The bag limit for antlerless deer is one per day, three per annual season.
- U.S. Forest Service National Forests: The bag limit for antlered deer is one per day, three per annual season. The bag limit for antlerless deer is one per day, five per annual season except in the Southeast DMU where the antlerless limit is one per day, three per annual season.
Antler requirements
- Delta DMU: 12-inch inside spread or 15-inch main beam
- Hills DMU: 10-inch inside spread or 13-inch main beam
- North Central DMU: No antler restrictions apply to this zone. Hunters may harvest bucks with any hardened antler.
- Southeast DMU: 10-inch inside spread or 13-inch main beam
- Youth hunters: For youth hunters 15 years of age and younger, hunting on private land and authorized state and federal lands, all of the buck bag limit may be any antlered deer.
- Buck of choice: In the Delta, Hills and Southeast DMUs, hunters may harvest one buck that does not meet antler requirements on private land and Holly Springs National Forest.
- Public lands: Antler requirements vary among public lands. Hunters should check regulations for the specific public land they plan to hunt before hunting.
Blaze orange
Hunters have traditionally been required to wear 500 square inches of unbroken blaze orange while deer hunting as a safety measure, but this year they have an alternative. A bill passed in the 2024 Legislative session allows hunters to choose between blaze orange or pink.
CWD testing
Testing deer for CWD, a disease that is considered always fatal for deer, is not mandatory other than during the early archery season, but the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks urges hunters to provide tissue samples of harvested deer for testing.
According to the department, knowing where the disease exists and how prevalent it is helps in managing and slowing the spread of the disease.
Although there has been no known case of it spreading to humans, the CDC warns against consuming infected deer. So hunters should know if their deer is infected as well.
Since the disease was first detected in Mississippi in 2018, there have been 318 cases found in the state as of September 2024.
For convenience, MDWFP has provided freezers at locations across the state where hunters can leave deer heads with six inches of neck attached for testing. The agency has also partnered with a number of taxidermy businesses that will have deer tested at the customer’s request.
CWD management zones
Counties in CWD management zones have changed with some added and a zone added this year. Within these zones, special regulations are in place to slow the spread of the disease such as a supplemental feeding ban and carcass transportation restrictions.
North CWD Management Zone
The North CWD Management Zone includes all portions of the following counties:
- Alcorn County
- Benton County
- Desoto County
- Lafayette County
- Marshall County
- Panola County
- Prentiss County
- Tate County
- Tippah County
- Tishomingo County
- Union County
Portions of Coahoma, Quitman, and Tunica counties are also included and are defined as:
- Areas south of MS 4
- Areas east of Old Highway 61 to the intersection of US 49
- Areas east of US 49 to the intersection of US 278
- Areas north of US 278
- Areas west of MS 3
Issaquena CWD Management Zone
- Claiborne County
- Sharkey County, east of the Mississippi River and south of MS 14
- Warren County
Harrison CWD Management Zone
Portions of Hancock and Harrison counties are included and defined as:
- All portions of Harrison County west of US 49
- All portions of Hancock County east of MS 53, MS 603 and MS 43
- All portions of Hancock County east of Nicholson Avenue
What is banned in a CWD management zone?
- Salt licks
- Mineral licks
- Supplemental feeding
- Transportation of deer carcasses outside the zone
What parts of a deer can be taken out of a CWD zone?
- Cut/wrapped meat
- Deboned meat
- Hides with no head attached
- Bone-in leg quarters
- Finished taxidermy
- Antlers with no tissue attached
- Cleaned skulls or skull plates with no brain tissue
- Hunters may transport deer heads to permitted taxidermists participating in the CWD collection program. A CWD sample number must be obtained from a participating taxidermist prior to transporting a deer head outside of the CWD management zone.
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