June 18, 2013, 8:56 pm

Daily Tidbit for Wednesday: Ronnie Antici and Kimberley Maupin are both of legal age today. We don’t know about Kimberley, but Ronnie is several times the legal age! Yes, that would make him 39 again! If you see Ronnie or Kimberley, give them their Birthday Paddlin’ for us because our Birthday Paddlin’ Squad took the day off! Happy Birthday to Kimberley and Ronnie!

The new photo gallery is a “bunch” of photos from days gone by of some of the many Clarksdale Landmark buildings. The photos range from a 1906 Alcazar Hotel photo to a 1960’s Crystal Gas Station photo. It’s a trip down memory lane for some and an educational experience for others. For example, what is the building that is shown behind and to the right of the Elks Club in photo number 15? We know, do you?

Larry Liddell sent us another You Tube video that you absolutely must see. It is actually, more or less, an ad for a medical technology company, but it shows how much the medical field is leaping into the future. How about non-invasive surgery for tumors or even Parkinson’s Disease? Click Here to watch the 6½ minute video.

And just fun the fun of it, here is a video of an “impromptu” opera performance in a London grocery store. Watch the faces of the shoppers. Click Here.

Well, we promised you something new, and here it is, today we have launched the Recipe Page! We now have a page where we will be posting at least one new recipe every day Monday through Friday.

The recipes may be sent in by you, your friends, complete strangers or we might even get recipes from different web sites around the internet. If you send in a recipe, and you have a photo of the finished dish, send it along too. You will get credit for any recipe that you send in and we will provide a link, whenever possible, to any web site we copy a recipe from so that you can go and look for more.

We waited to launch this Page until we had the perfect sponsor for it and we now have it. The Woman’s Clinic came on board as the Sponsor for the Recipe Page and here it is, Click Here.

And to celebrate the new Page, Chef Hayden and Erica Hall sent in two recipes that Chef Hayden makes and recommends.

Also, to celebrate the Woman’s Clinic’s 60^th anniversary, we are running an article that we wrote about the clinic several years ago. Joyce Snyder has retired since the article was written, but that hasn’t changed the quality of the clinic or staff! The article is on the Musings Page or Click Here.

Today there will a meeting of the Crimestoppers Board of Directors and any interested citizen. If you are interested in attending the meeting, or serving on the Board, be @ the Coahoma County Courthouse today at 11:30 a.m. Or, as Michelle Fondren said, " I would love anyone that would like to attend please call me at 662 627 3281 for information."

The following is a repeat from last week: And, finally for today, we have been asking you all to take a few minutes to fill out a on-line survey from Ben Earnest, Director of Coahoma County Youth Outreach.  The information collected through this survey will help the Ben and his Board create new and exciting recreational opportunities for our youth. Click Here for the survey.

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Have a great day Clarksdale and Coahoma County!

June 18, 2013, 6:43 am

Daily Tidbit for Tuesday: Today is the Birthday Celebration for Woody Brown, Steven Gibbons, Johnny Marinelli and Tonya Willis. Sometimes life seems just like the old Tennessee Ernie Ford song, “Another year older and deeper in debt!” hope it’s not that way for you guys (and gal!). Happy Birthday to Tonya, Johnny, Steven and Woody!

We apologize for the tardiness of today’s blog, but we rode with our friend Sandy Stillions to St. Louis to pick up his granddaughter so she could visit her grandparents for a month or so. What a trip!

On the fun side, we ate at Lambert’s Café in Sikeston, MO on the way home. Sandy does recommend the Chef’s Salad for anyone going there to eat. However, if you do order it, be sure to have at least three other hungry people with you!

We will be working on the new Photo Gallery today. So check back later to see some oldie and moldy pics!

In case you have not noticed, we have two new ads in the lineup of sponsors in the right hand column.. We would like to welcome Willie and Johnny Bryant of Bryant Well and Pump Service and Steve Luckett of Luckett Pump and Well Service to our list of sponsors. You can also find Luckett Pump and Well Service on the Manufacturers Page as they chose to sponsor a page on this web site. Thank you guys! Sponsors are what keep us on the net!

There will be a couple more new sponsors as soon as we get the art work right on their ads. And one of those sponsors will be hosting a new page here on ClarkasdaleInfo.com. We should be unrolling it tomorrow or Thursday (or whenever we get the kinks worked out!).

Yesterday’s Police Report came in late and it will be posted later this morning.

A quick reminder to everyone that if you leave a comment on the blog, you MUST use your name and e-mail address or it will be deleted as soon as we see it. If you want to make a comment and remain anonymous, just e-mail it to us at the e-mail address in the footer panel at the bottom of the page. In your e-mail you should say that you wish to remain anonymous and if it meets our guidelines for presentation (e.g., no vulgarity, no attacks on other people, etc.) we will post your comment without your name.

We received a telephone call yesterday (Yes, while we were in St. Louis rush hour traffic!) from Michelle Fondren concerning the Crimestoppers effort in Clarksdale. They will be having a meeting tomorrow at 11:30 and they need more community input. If you would like to help Crimestoppers in their efforts to help lower the crime rate in Clarksdale and Coahoma County, be prepared to show up for the meeting tomorrow. The site of the meeting has not been locked down yet as, according to Michelle, a member of Sheriff Charles Jones’ staff has not fulfilled his assignment to locate a site for the meeting. We will post the site as soon as we get the word.

If you have not signed up your young’un for the 4-H workshops coming up next month you had better get busy before they miss out on all the fun! Call (662)624-3073 and speak with Shanna Taylor the 4-H Agent for Coahoma County. She can answer all your questions and get your chi;ld signed up. The program are listed on the Events Calendar, so, Click Here.

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Have a great day Clarksdale and Coahoma County!

June 17, 2013, 10:25 pm

Uh-oh Tidbit: We rode with a friend to St. Louis and back yesterday and did not get home until after midnight. So, the blog will be posted late today. Sorry for the Inconvenience, but we need some sleep!

And, as to the comment left on yesterday's blog, we always have and alweays will remove any comment that does not have the name of the commenter. If you wish to remain anonymous, e-mail us and tell us that.

See ya later folks.

June 16, 2013, 9:13 pm

Daily Tidbit for Monday: Birthday salutations go out to (in alphabetical order from now on!) Rutledge Agostinelli, Gage Coats, Alice Johnson and Sandra Russell! All of these good folks are only as old as they feel and not one day older. Happy Birthday Sandra, Alice, Gage and Rutledge!

We just received a call from a reader saying that we forgot to mention that Leigh Ann Agostinelli and Gina Balducci had a Birthday yesterday and that we forgot to mention it! We didn’t forget girls, we just did not know! We hope you had all the cake, ice cream, and presents that you wanted yesterday as we wish you a Belated Happy Birthday!

As we mentioned in an earlier blog, Barefoot Workshops is coming back to Clarksdale in August and September this year. We received an e-mail/newsletter from them on Saturday and, if you would like to read it, we can forward it to you. Just e-mail us and ask for it. Or, you can just go to their web site by Clicking Here!

If you are looking for a job, or know of someone looking for a job, here is something from Nabors Toyota: “Sales positions now open! Salary and commission with Health Insurance and 401k. No Experience necessary, we will train. Apply in Person at Nabors Toyota!”

You can also find a few job listings on the Isle of Capri Job Listing Page or at the WIN Job Center office in downtown Clarksdale. Click Here for the Isle of Capri page.

The poster for the headlining act for the Sunflower Blues and Gospel Festival can be read on the Musings Page courtesy of Panny Mayfield. Click Here to see who the latest big name band to come to Clarksdale is going to be.

If you missed the 3 minute Air Force video about Clarksdale in Friday’s blog, Click Here.

According to Paul Pearson, President of the Coahoma County Board of Supervisors, the Board will not meet this week and probably will not meet again until the First Monday meeting in July. Three of the Sups are on the coast this week for the statewide Supervisors association meeting. This is the meeting where they get caught up on all the new laws and programs that are available to the counties. This is also where the association will set their agenda for the upcoming legislative year.

We don’t often mention liquor stores in this blog, but Downtown Wine and Liquor is collecting donations for Amy and Andy. For a $5.00 donation, you can get an orange wrist band to remind all your family and friends of the difficulties (to say the least!) these two fine people are going through. Go by and drop off your donation today.

The good news for today is that Larry Binz is out of the hospital. He got out Saturday and boy, is he really happy about that! He will be at the City School Board meeting that is scheduled for this week. We have not received official word on the meeting yet, but it normally takes place on the third Thursday and we have that on the calendar. We will advise you if they advise us of any change.

The only other thing on the Events Calendar for this week is Acoustic Music and Free Appetizers @ Hopson Commissary tonight.

Do you have something for the Calendar? Send it in today and we will get it listed.

Have you been keeping up with Jackson Jambalaya lately? If not, go there, scroll down to the June 11^th posting about Hattiesburg and the “unlocked City Hall and vault”, the missing 600 absentee ballots, and the missing 55 minutes of surveillance footage from the security cameras. Thing like this make us wonder more and more about just how out of control the governing bodies in this country have become.

We did not shoot photos of Anderson Boulevard despite the fact that it is just as filthy as it was last week because, quite frankly, we are totally disgusted with the lack of service from the City. Anderson is one of the four MAIN entrances into the City of Clarksdale and it looks totally unkempt and nasty. What must our visitors and newcomers think when they ride down this street? C’mon Mayor Espy, go out in a blaze of glory and get that street cleaned up!

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Have a great day Clarksdale and Coahoma County!