Oprah Returns Home: Papers Blanket Event
Oprah Winfrey made her first official visit to Kosciusko, her hometown, in nearly eight years on Labor Day to celebrate the opening of a multi-million dollar Boys and Girls Club Facility that she helped fund through her foundation. She was quick, however, to pass out accolades and credit to local folks who spearheaded the project.
The Star-Herald has a play-by-play of the day’s events. (She even stopped for fries at Burger King.)
The Clarion-Ledger: Oprah thanked her grandmother, Hattie Mae Lee, who presided over Winfrey’s formative years in Attala County.
AP via The Sun Herald: “What I have learned is you dream a big dream and you hand that dream over to a power that is greater than yourself. I call it God.”