Southern Culture Heritage Center Featured on Cover of the Vicksburg Edition of The Real Yellow Pages From BellSouth(R) More than 38,000 Directories Begin Delivery on July 25 ATLANTA, July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- A Vicksburg institution, the Southern Cultural Heritage Center, has been selected to grace the cover of the area's leading yellow pages directory, The Real Yellow Pages. "We are proud to feature our very own Southern Cultural Heritage Center, a wonderful Vicksburg institution, on the cover of our directory," said Lori Cheramie, Area Marketing Manager for BellSouth. "Like The Real Yellow Pages, the Cultural Center is second to none and we hope area residents and visitors will take the opportunity to visit many times throughout the year." Directory distribution will have initial delivery for approximately four weeks. New residents and businesses will receive their directories throughout the year. "Our center is dedicated to preserving these historic buildings and enriching the community through cultural and arts programming. We are thrilled that our local residents and the hundreds of thousands of visitors who visit our area will see our center each and every time they use The Real Yellow Pages from BellSouth," said Bess Averett, Director of the Southern Cultural Heritage Center. For more information on the Southern Cultural Heritage Center and upcoming exhibits and programs, please visit http://www.southernculture.org/. The front section of The Real Yellow Pages includes the award-winning Community Information Pages with special sections devoted to information on schools, government offices, area museums and attractions, sporting events, weather and emergency planning, as well as other important local information. In addition to the standard size directories, The Real Yellow Pages Vicksburg edition is available on the Internet at http://www.realpages.com/. "Just as consumers' preference for how they locate local business information has changed, so has BellSouth's tools for finding information," Cheramie said. RealPages.com(R) from BellSouth is the Southeast's leading online yellow pages. With more than 5.5 million annual searches for Mississippi businesses, the RealPages.com network, including Yahoo! Yellow Pages and Switchboard.com, is another way BellSouth connects savvy business people to consumers looking to make a purchase. Information is available at http://www.advertising.realpages.com/. About BellSouth Advertising and Publishing BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation (BAPCO) is the leading provider of print and Internet Yellow Pages products in the southeast. BAPCO publishes 66 million copies of the print Yellow Pages in more than 500 editions in the nine-state BellSouth region. Users referred to The Real Yellow Pages(R) from BellSouth nearly 2 billion times last year and made nearly 200 million searches on RealPages.com (http://www.realpages.com/) in 2004. The Real Yellow Pages is a powerful information resource, linking buyers and sellers, with approximately 85 percent of consumers who reference the directories' most frequently used headings making a purchase based on their findings. About BellSouth BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and a parent company of Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest wireless voice and data provider. Backed by award winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive and innovative package of voice and data services available in the market. Through BellSouth Answers(R), residential and small business customers can bundle their local and long distance service with dial up and high speed DSL Internet access, satellite television and Cingular(R) Wireless service. For businesses, BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and directory advertising through BellSouth(R) RealPages.com(R) and The Real Yellow Pages(R). More information about BellSouth can be found at http://www.bellsouth.com/. DATASOURCE: BellSouth Corporation CONTACT: Ed Patterson of BellSouth, +1-678-406-2457, or Web site: http://www.bellsouth.com/ http://www.southernculture.org/ http://www.advertising.realpages.com/ http://www.realpages.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/095650.html

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