Neighborhood reunion
Family and friends recently gathered for the first Yellow Bottom Neighborhood Reunion, consisting of the following streets: Taft, Main, Percy, McGee, South, Roosevelt, Stone (Martin Luther King Jr. Drive), Scott, Noel and Avenues D, E, F, G and H. It focused on the theme, “Remembering the Good Ole Days.”
It was such a joy to be reunited with those who shared an era of time when parents believed in raising their children with love and discipline and taught them respect and responsibility, a time when neighbors cared about each other and each other’s children as well.
Oh, how we need more Momma Cilles, an elderly woman in the neighborhood who could be found sitting on her porch on Main Street daily, keeping an eye and ear on everybody’s children. She didn’t mind correcting them with a loving, stern voice and a spanking if needed. Parents appreciated her instead of attacking her. We loved our neighborhood.
Many years and family members have passed on, but the memories made remain a vital part of our lives. What a great place this world would be if neighborhoods would be the way they used to be.
With much appreciation, our hats go off to Joyce Potlow White, chairwoman of the reunion organizing committee, who with much determination was the driving force behind organizing this reunion. Thanks, Joyce
Yellow Bottom Reunion Committee Members
Nov. 6 election
I hope that everybody will go out to vote on Nov. 6. Do the right thing.
I thank each of you. May God bless each of you.
Gwendolyn Ellis
Carrollton
MVSU
Regarding the op-ed column by Joseph Martin Stevenson (“Reshape Valley as liberal arts school,” Oct. 31):
I thought Mississippi Valley State University was a liberal arts university.
Inthedelta
