Just Among Friends

Just Among Friends

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Surprise Birthday parties are not always a real surprise. Exciting secrets are sometimes hard to keep. 

However, on Sunday evening, September 25, Gene Tolbert was completely blown away when he walked into Taylor Grocery outside of Oxford! His wife, Pam, had planned a surprise birthday party for him to celebrate his 70th birthday and it was really a surprise. 

Guests included his daughter, Leah Tolbert Shepard and his son-in-law Collier Shepard, from Orlando, Florida, his Oxford friends, and his Philadelphia family. It was such fun!

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The First United Methodist Church Weekday Ministries invited parents to a special breakfast recently.The children were thrilled to have their parents eating breakfast with them from tables covered in cheerful yellow tablecloths which added to the excitement. 

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An adorable baby boy decided to join his parents who had eagerly been waiting for his arrival. Benjamin "Ben" Cole Haefer made his grand entrance on September 21st. His parents, Matt and Anne Cassidy Prince Haefer are so in love! His Philadelphia grandparents are Eric and Ellen Whittle Prince. His extended family cannot wait to meet him! Congratulations!

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Congratulations to India Whittle who received the GV "Sonny" Montgomery Foundation Scholarship Award during Awards Day at Meridian Community College. India is working toward an Associate Degree.

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Among the 3,560 passengers aboard the Caribbean Princess ship when it sailed out of the Port of New York were Harold and Paula Anderson and cousins, E. J. and Tina Hoda, who were embarking on a fabulous cruise together.

They flew from Birmingham to New York City where they had some time before boarding their ship, so they toured Brooklyn and took a night boat tour of the harbor where they saw the Statue of Liberty illuminated against the night sky. 

Newport, Rhode Island was their first stop where they toured some of the magnificent mansions built by the very wealthy early in the state's history. Next was Boston which is filled with so much history of the American Revolutionary war. It was fascinating to actually walk among the actual places where so much of our country's beginnings originated. They took a bus to Lexington and Concord to visit sites where historic battles were fought..

The beautiful Arcadian National Forest is located in Bar Harbor Main, their next stop. There were many gorgeous summer homes built and occupied by the very wealthy early in the state's history.

St. John, the Bay of Fundy, and St. Martin were interesting fishing villages. Halifax has a huge port and thriving shipping and tourism industries. 

They found Prince Edward Island to be the greenest island they had ever seen. It really seemed to have 140 shades of green! Lush verdant growth covered it. There really is a Green Gables house from the "Anne of Green Gables" books!

They traveled down the St. Lawrence River for 2 nights and one day, 300-400 miles to Quebec in Canada. They found Quebec to be more European than Europe and French was the national language without too many English speakers. They visited the Basilica of St. Mary with its gorgeous columns, and the Grand Hotel built in 1899.  They drove a rental car to Montreal to catch their flights home and finally arrived in Philadelphia at 2:AM

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It was homecoming at Covenant Academy in Macon, Georgia where Emily Walker is a junior. It was her first homecoming at the Academy, and it was amazing! She was selected as a Junior Maid. Emily looked gorgeous in a beautiful long blue gown carrying a colorful bouquet of roses and other cut flowers. Her proud parents are Glen and Jennifer Alford Walker of Macon.  Mack and Sherry Alford are her Philadelphia grandparents. Congratulations!

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State Representative and Neshoba County Fair President, C. Scott Bounds presented proceeds that were raised by 2021 Miss Neshoba County Fair, Abby Seale, for the benefit of Children's of Mississippi.    






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