Carolyn Shipp (right) speaks with Pat McGowan, the man who encouraged her to apply for a job at the Bank of Yazoo City 45 years ago, during a retirement ceremony held in her honor last Friday at BYC.

Jamie Patterson Yazoo County students Hannah Ross (left) and Kelsey Anderson played the part of injured students during a training exercise designed to prepare local emergency responders for a situation involving a school shooting. More photos from the drill appear on page 14.

CarterBy JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

Until the time she retired, Mrs. Henrine Carter probably never met a student she didn’t know.
If she didn’t know a student, then there was a pretty good chance that she knew their family.
With 50 years of teaching under her belt, Mrs. Carter saw generations of Yazooans enter into her classroom. And she was the type of teacher who was never ready to see them go.
From 1931 until 1981, Mrs. Carter served the community she loved by educating thousands of children.
With a career that spanned over two decades, many teachers would be ready to retire and take it easy.
But Mrs. Carter decided to take a different route and continue her profession until she was 67 years old.
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By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

A Yazoo City man said a mobile home was abandoned in the middle of his street last year, and he is ready to get it out of there.
Cedric Gainwell appeared before the Board of Mayor and Aldermen this week with photographs of a unoccupied mobile home that was left parked on Bennett Street last June.
Gainwell said he has contacted several officials but has seen no results.
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