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On Friday night before a packed house at TRCC, the Lady Bears of Greenville kept the pressure on against Twin Rivers' Lady Royals straight through to a nail-biting 66-60 victory, gaining the MSHSAA Class 3 District 2 championship title. "I'm just so proud of my kids," said Greenville coach Diane Rainwater Meyer in the crowded lobby of TRCC's Bess Activity Center after the win. "It got so tight, in the end. It was a situation where some of the youngsters were really stepping up...where some of the normally quiet players had to be big players."

I had to maintain my cover as that very, very, good little girl---while playing, while lunching, while watching TV---and then to strike quickly and silently, without leaving a trace! When I was a little girl, I learned at least one very good reason to do as my mother instructed. Of course, as has been the case with little ones throughout the ages, I learned it while blatantly defying her instruction. I may have been hovering about the five-year-old mark when Moom brought in the shopping one morning, and, after putting the groceries away, gave my little brother and me something to taste for the first time. "Try this," she said, offering us a bit of vegetable topped with the most

I'm not sure exactly why I agreed to do a guest spot for this column, as Toni has asked. You'll notice she still gets the byline, and I get squat, as the saying goes. But since I consented, allow me to introduce myself. I am The Little Wolf, or "The Six-Year-Old-Raised-By-Wolves", if you will, residing within the very person of our earnest writer---and willfully sabotaging her every attempt at making better health a way of life! BAHhahahahahaha!

Having sung with, written for, and often fronted Shekinah Glory Ministry to now, Tarver felt it was time to venture forth on a solo project; entering Billboard's Top Gospel Album chart at #16 with "Draw Nearer" certainly wasn't a bad way to start.   Phil Tarver has come far since pouring his energies into what he terms the "club band, garage band thing" in his native Chicago. Tarver is the son of Poplar Bluff resident Gerald Davis, and the grandson of area sports great Lonnie Davis, an esteemed figure in the athletic and business life of Poplar Bluff from the 1950s until his death in May of 1986. This past fall Phil Tarver released his solo-debut CD, a no-holds-barred praise

A little over a week ago, I vowed to eat smart; immediately thereafter, as if in a walking dream, I went on a three-day doughnut binge, then followed that up with buckets of barbeque potato chips, and had late-night, Henry-the-Eighth-style dinners throughout the week. I reported my starting weight to have been 137 pounds; now I'm at 138! What happened?   OK, so who's bright idea was this, anyway? After one single day on the Lenten quest for bodily improvement...After one single day's walk about town, music spurring me on, the cold pushing me ever forward for what warmth I could generate...I was about ready to hole up in the house and never come out again. Then came the waves of sleet