Feb. 20 Germantown Weekly

By Lela [email protected]

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Collierville High School principal Russell Dyer an-nounced Feb. 13 he is resign-ing to join the town’s new school system as its human resources director.

In a letter posted on the school’s par-ent teacher organization’s F a c e b o o k page, Dyer said the res-ignation is ef-fective Feb. 14 Beth Robbins, the school’s vice principal, will become interim principal for the re-mainder of the school year.

“This deinitely is a bitter-sweet decision for me,” Dyer wrote, “but I am excited to be able to assist our new system in its infancy stage.”

The news broke on Face-book after he sent an e-mail to parents and students.

“Now we’ve got three em-ployees,” said Collierville school board chairman Mark Hansen on Thursday.

The district recently hired Anita Hays as its chief inan-cial oicer.

Hays was inance director for the legacy Shelby County Schools and worked in the nutrition division for the consolidated district.

“When we start hiring en masse, we need someone reviewing applications and interviewing for positions,” Hansen said of Dyer.

The district is expected to have approximately 800 employees.

Staf reporter Clay Bailey contributed

to this story.

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The Memphis Suit Project provides custom-itted suits to students, returning veterans and others who need professional attire for job interviews and other occasions. Brandon Johnson gets itted for a suit with help from David Shepard at the oice of Tom James, a custom clothier in East Memphis.

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Just a few years ago Hakim Israel, 51, was living under a bridge and so covered in hair and dirt his own family wouldn’t have known him. The native Memphian and youngest of 13 children didn’t drink and was addicted to only one substance, crack cocaine, but, “It was a hell of a one to pick,” he said.

Earlier this month, Israel was picking out a suit; neat, vivacious, a long way from the homeless drug addict he was before. And when he found out that he would be able to keep the suit, he threw up his hands, burst into a smile and became too emotional to speak.

Israel was among the irst groups of men to beneit from the Memphis Suit Project, a nonproit organization that collects new and gently worn suits, many from Memphis

professionals, to give to men who need them for job and college interviews, for returning veterans getting back into the workplace, and others. Each suit is custom-itted to the individual and, to further boost his self-conidence, his name is embroidered on the inside of the jacket.

Israel and 11 other men, most of them younger, came via HopeWorks and the Lead-ership Empowerment Center to the oices of custom clothier Tom James of Memphis re-cently, where they were measured for suits selected from a collection of about 150 in conservative pinstripes, checks and solids.

Memphis Suit Project was founded by Jus-tin K. Thomas, a family lawyer; Jay Lawler, branch manager of Tom James Memphis; and Will Moore, a certiied inancial planner.

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Cordova’s Sarat Sharath Chandra, 38, began the Move It Memphis 10k with more than 1,000 runners and walkers Saturday morning.

He sprinted across the inish line, ists pumping and sweat dripping from his forehead, an hour and 41 minutes later. The only two people cheering for him were a man who inished just ive minutes before him and Chandra’s friend, who inished quite

a time earlier. “I’m not running for a

prize here,” Chandra said. “To be coming out togeth-er as a team for a good

cause, that counts more than just for the prize.”

More than 100 clear, shoe-shaped

awards were given to the fastest times in several age and gender categories at the sixth annual Move It 5k/10k race. While the award winners and friends gathered in FedExForum for the award ceremony at 11:30 a.m., the last racers quietly crossed the inish line.

“Their part is equally

as important as those that inish irst,” said Amy Dan-iels, coordinator of the race for Greater Memphis Chamber.

Daniels said everyone who crosses the inish line receives a medal, which Chandra said was good enough for him.

The event, Daniels said, is held to encourage

a healthy workforce and to show the community, as well as businesses looking for a new home, that Mem-phis is dedicated to itness.

“It’s also to combat those nasty rankings we always end up on,” Dan-iels said.

Daniels said the race has

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FEB. 10

■ Oicers arrested a male with a counterfeit decal aixed to his license plate at Poplar Pike and Sunset at 3:04 a.m.

■ Someone took a disc golf basket from the park in the 2900 block of Johnson Road at 8:35 a.m.

■ Cat killed by two stray dogs in the 2500 block of Mimosa Tree Drive at 11 p.m.

FEB. 11

■ Husband and wife involved in an altercation in the 1700 block of Poplar Estates at 1:31 a.m.

■ Oicers arrested a female for possessing marijuana during a traic stop at Poplar Pike/Kirby Parkway at 9:13 a.m.

■ Oicers arrested a male for possessing inhalants in the 9000 block of Poplar at 5:46 p.m.

FEB. 12

■ Someone set cardboard boxes on ire near several dumpsters in the 9300 block of Poplar Pike at 1:38 a.m.

■ Oicers arrested three subjects on a traic stop, an adult female for traic violations, an adult male for possession of marijuana and an adult male for possession of cocaine at Germantown Road and Bixby at 3:12 a.m.

■ Someone posing as an MLG&W employee contacted the victim via phone and convinced him to send money to cover an alleged past due account in the 7700 block of Farmington Boulevard at 1 p.m.

■ Someone took a wallet and its contents from the victim’s purse in the 1900 block of Exeter at 1:10 p.m.

FEB. 13

■ Someone took prescription medication from the victim’s room in the 7800 block of Wolf River Boulevard at 3:26 p.m.

■ During a traic stop oicers arrested an adult male found to be in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia at Wolf River Boulevard at Kimbrough at 10:39 p.m.

FEB. 14

■ Acquaintance sent unwanted e-mail and texts to the victim in the 1700 block of Boulinwood Lane at 9:20 a.m.

■ Female advised that her boyfriend choked her while they were in the waiting room of the hospital in the 7600 block of Poplar at 12:41 p.m.

■ Female advised that her boyfriend threatened her by phone in the 7600 block of Poplar at 6:26 p.m.

FEB. 15

■ Boyfriend and girlfriend involved in an altercation at Cordes and Corbin at 5:17 a.m.

By Jennifer [email protected]

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Germantown is spending $30,100 on an engineering study to determine if the city’s red-light cameras should be reacti-vated, moved to other locations or removed altogether.

City Administrator Patrick Lawton said the city’s contract with the vendor expired in 2012, and it was not renewed while heavy construction was be-ing done at Poplar Avenue and

Germantown Road and Ger-mantown and Wolf River Bou-levard, two of the three intersec-tions with cameras. The other is Poplar and West Farmington Boulevard.

Lawton said the state requires an engineering study be done before the installation of a new system to determine if cameras are necessary at an intersection to lower accident rates.

The criteria for where camer-as can be installed has changed since Germantown’s went up 12 years ago.

The money for the study will come from previous revenues from red-light camera tickets. For iscal year 2012, Lawton said, the city brought in about $255,000, and that was during a year when all three intersec-tions’ cameras were not always running at the same time.

At $50 a ticket, Lawton said projections are for $250,000 to $300,000 in revenue.

The program costs about $113,000 for the vendor, plus personnel time.

The city also pays a police

oicer to review the footage from each red-light ticket to determine if it really warrants a citation. Lawton said the city has invited people to come to City Hall to see the footage of their incidents when they argue against the ticket.

The funds generated from the program go back into paying for itself or to educational purposes.

The money pays for the city’s Alive at 25 program that teaches ninth-grade students at German-town and Houston High Schools about driver safety and the

consequences of accidents and breaking the law.

“We’ve always tried to have a model program in place that is designed to correct driver behavior,” Lawton said. “That’s why the dollars that are gener-ated go right back into the fund.”

Police Chief Richard Hall said if the cameras are reactivated, it would be several months before the program is up and running. The engineering study alone will take months as it will ex-amine up to 35 intersections in the city.

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Each year, Bob Cannon delivers Valentine’s Day gifts to several widows, signing the card with the name of the deceased husband as well as his own. One of his stops last Friday was at a home in Germantown. His wife Karen approves: “This is Bob’s ministry.”

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By David [email protected]

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Feeling good about whatever you did Friday to express your Valentine’s love for a loved one?

Whatever you did, Bob Cannon did more.

“It’s a busy time of year for me, but I love it,” said Bob, 77, who worked in the business oice of Memphis City Schools for the bet-ter part of 30 years.

Bob spent the better part of the two days delivering valentines to 13 women. That’s not including his wife, daughters and daughter-in-law, who also got Bob’s valentines.

They all ind out about each oth-er eventually. None of them minds. Even Bob’s wife Karen knows. She has objected only once.

“Initially, Bob bought his candy gifts all from Dinstuhl’s, until his frugal wife noticed a $300 candy charge on the credit card state-ment,” Karen Cannon said. “I told Bob, ‘You’re got to love your little Valentine’s ladies a little cheaper.’”

Karen buys the candy now. She also buys the balloons and as-sembles each package. Bob writes his own love notes and makes the deliveries.

“This is Bob’s ministry, but I’m happy to help,” Karen said. “The candy isn’t the gift they love the

most. It’s Bob’s visits. He has all the time in the world. He sits and talks with them about their lives and their late husbands. He wants them to feel like their husbands are there with them.”

Bob’s Valentine’s ladies are wid-ows — all friends or neighbors or fellow Lindenwood Christian Church members who otherwise would be alone on Valentine’s Day.

“When Bob showed up at my door the irst time, oh, Lord, it was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen,” said Dorthy Bruce, a Lindenwood member who’s been on Bob’s list since 2012. Her husband Leroy, who worked at the U.S. Defense Depot, died in 2011 at age 87.

“It was the sweetest gesture. And when he gave me the valen-tine and said it was from him and from Leroy, I almost cried.”

Bob signs all of his cards that way. The husband’s name goes irst, then Bob’s.

Gloria Love, a neighbor, has been on Bob’s list since her hus-band Charles, once the sports edi-tor for The Commercial Appeal, died in 2004 at age 76.

“Every day with Charlie was Val-entine’s Day,” Gloria said. “I miss him so. It’s very thoughtful for Bob to do this for widows like me who might be a bit lonely on that day.”

Jane Eveland has been on Bob’s list since 2005. Her husband, Ro-

land, former Treadwell High prin-cipal, died in 2004 at age 75.

“He still sometimes surprises me,” Eveland said. “I forget what day it is, then I see Bob’s car pull up in the back of my house and I remember it’s Valentine’s Day.”

Bob’s list changes almost every year. Some women get remarried or pass on. Others are added. Betty and Tammy are new this year.

Mattie ‘Mac’ Hury was the irst woman on the list. Her husband, Rev. Henry Hury, who was pastor of Central Christian Church, died about a month before Valentine’s Day in 1995. They had been mar-ried for 55 years.

“No couple was more in love than they were,” Karen said. “When Henry died, Bob decided to take Mackie — that’s what we call her — a valentine signed from Henry. It was so sweet.”

Bob delivered Mackie’s valen-tine on Feb. 10. She’s always irst.

“For sentimental reasons,” Bob explained.

“It’s a fun day. Well, a fun week really,” said Bob. “I get a lot of smiles and a lot of big old hugs.”

Does Karen ever get jealous?“No,” Karen said with a laugh.

“We’ve been married for 40 years. No one else would put up with this mess.”

“I’ve got ’em waiting in line, baby,” Bob tells his true valentine.

Widows remembered with ‘sweetest gesture’ on day of love

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MOVE IT MEMPHIS | SUBURBAN AWARD WINNERS5K MALE

Grand Master: 1. Michael McKenzie (Arlington), 20:27.Age 1-9: 1. Stephen Baran (Germantown), 28:07. 3. Gavin Potter (Cordova), 40:45.10-14: 3. ian Healy (Collierville), 33:33.15-19: 1. David Boyd Jr. (Cordova), 20:49.40-44: 1. Ladell George (Germantown), 21:28. 3. Jason Grosser (Cordova), 22:25.45-49: 1. Bruce Keisling (Germantown), 20:22.55-59: 2. Charles Smithers (Germantown), 28:24.60-64: 2. Jay Mehan (Cordova), 34:52. 3. W.V. Richerson Jr. (Germantown), 40:13.65-69: 2. Douglas Goslin (Bartlett), 43:39.

5K FEMALE

Overall: 1. Ella Baran (Germantown), 20:13. 2. Aida Wiese (Collierville), 22:12.Master: 1. Cheryl Thompson (Arlington), 24:39.10-14: 1. Joy Jackson (Cordova), 34:05. 2. Allyson Simmons (Germantown), 35:20. 3. Jessica Chong

(Collierville), 36:00.15-19: 3. Addie Haverkost (Germantown), 33:24.25-29: 1. Courtney Wilson (Collierville), 26:47. 2. Krista West (Arlington), 27:27.30-34: 1. Mishandra Bethel (Cordova), 27:19.35-39: 2. Holly Hensarling (Germantown), 26:01.40-44: 1. Laura Jaggar (Germantown), 25:11.45-49: 1. Suzanne Ward (Germantown), 26:45.50-54: 1. Daphne Fosburgh (Germantown), 29:36.55-59: 2. Tafy Elchlepp (Cordova), 34:09.60-64: 2. Janet Schwarz (Cordova), 34:09. 3. Emily Smith (Arlington), 34:22.

10K MALE

Overall: 1. Olaf Schulz (Lakeland), 35:42.Master: 1. William Flaherty (Collierville), 40:12.20-24: 1. John Stevenson (Bartlett), 46:05. 2. Michael Martorano (Germantown), 54:27.35-39: 2. Anthony Argiro (Collierville), 43:06.40-44: 1. Eddie Miller (Collierville), 43:04. 3. Tripp

Milligan (Collierville), 45:33.45-49: 2. David Friedson (Collierville), 49:05.50-54: 2. Greg Krech (Collierville), 53:11.55-59: 2. Mick Seys (Cordova), 51:41.60-64: 2. David Chance (Germantown), 1:11:34.65-69: 1. Lawson Thornton (Germantown), 50:14. 3. Billy Smith (Arlington), 1:00:07.70-74: 1. Don Foster (Cordova), 59:44.

10K FEMALE

Overall: 2. April Barber (Cordova), 43:37.Master: 1. Kathy Wells (Collierville), 48:57.15-19: 1. Alyssa Jackson (Bartlett), 1:03:59.35-39: 3. Crystal Rowe (Collierville), 54:36.40-44: 3. Cynthia Brown (Arlington), 55:46.45-49: 2. Crystal McDonald (Cordova), 57:49. 3. Christy Perkins (Cordova), 58:32.50-54: 2. Susan Struminger (Germantown), 56:43.55-59: 2. Denise Linebarier (Germantown), 1:00:08. 3. Therese Davis (Germantown), 1:02:58.

grown in its six years and has earned more sponsor-ships from around the city.

The race brings out a diverse crowd of genders, races and people of difer-ent ages and itness levels. Some people walk, some run and others do a combi-nation of both. Some par-ticipate alone, others with friends or co-workers. And still, some go as a family.

Don McGrew, 45, ran with wife Melissa Mc-Grew, 33, and father-in-law Doug Goslin, 65. The McGrews live in Bartlett and have run the race for ive years and Goslin has run the race for three years. They all decided to take up running when they gave up smoking.

“We had to do some-thing for ourselves,” Don McGrew said. He likes 5k races because, “they’re short, it’s over with quick and there’s always a cold beer at the inish line.”

Goslin, who won second

place in his age group, said he chose the healthier life-style because he wants to be around for his grandchil-dren, who attended the race Saturday but are expected to join in a few years.

The irst-place male 5k runner was Paul Hill, 24, with a time of 16 minutes and 51 seconds. The female 5k winner was 13-year-old Ella Baran, of German-town, with a time of 20 minutes and 13 seconds. The irst-place male 10k runner was 36-year-old Olaf Schulz, of Lakeland, with a time of 35 min-utes and 42 seconds. The female 10k winner was 34-year-old Jamie Turner, with a time of 42 minutes and seven seconds. Each received $150 in addition to their awards.

Dawn Weber, a Blue Cross Blue Shield em-ployee who volunteered to hand water to par-ticipants, said she enjoys rooting for all the partici-pants because it’s a feat “just for someone to get out and tackle something like this.”

MOVE from 1

their condition. Generally they must shop thrift stores for items of varying quality that usually don’t it.

Thomas, a customer of Lawler’s at Tom James, and Lawler hatched the idea, which is modeled after the successful St. Louis Suit Project, which Lawler’s brother, who also works for Tom James, helped create.

“The suits we are get-ting are high end,” said Thomas, many collected from lawyers, Tom James customers, and people in the inancial industry. A judge in Virginia heard about the project and mailed a suit and two ties.

Among the irst to be outitted were two young men from the Boys & Girls Club of Memphis, one in college and another a high school graduate seeking a job, he said. Thomas ap-peared with them on the November cover of Mem-phis Lawyer Magazine “and they looked better than I did,” he said.

“It was neat when they got the suits,” he said. “You could see the pride coming across them. They were beaming and poking their chests out. A suit makes you feel like a million dol-lars.”

Justin said the Suit Proj-ect collects suits, blazers and pants, shirts and ties. Monetary donations are needed to pay for the tai-loring, and occasionally to buy new suits. The or-ganizers take no money, he said.

People may e-mail the or-ganization at memphissuit-project.com and arrange to drop of a donation.

Among those being fitted on this day was Kenneth Douglas, 20, a sophomore at Lane Col-lege in Jackson, Tenn. He is studying business man-agement but hopes one day to work with kids perhaps as a counselor at the same place that helped him: the Leadership Empowerment Center, a faith-based orga-nization serving youths in the Frayser area.

Jerome Oliver, 27, came to HopeWorks formerly in-carcerated, with no job ex-perience, barely speaking to anyone. HopeWorks of-fers a 13-week, faith-based, holistic program aimed at the chronically unem-ployed. He earned his GED and got a job with a pest control company where he has been for a year.

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By Erinn FiggSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

On Feb. 13, a massive meeting of the minds took place in the Collierville High School gym.

Amid more than two dozen tables showcasing sophisticated academic projects, people of all ages gathered to share ideas and discuss the fu-ture. On one table, a skel-eton grinned at visitors; on another, a miniature roller-coaster waited for someone to set it in mo-tion. Meanwhile, a live orchestra played classical music in the background. Occasionally, a robot cruised the room.

Although the setting may sound slightly sur-real, particularly for a high school gym, it’s a very normal occurrence for the students and teach-ers at CHS. For at least a decade, CHS has hosted this annual AP and Hon-ors Fair, an opportunity to introduce local incom-ing freshmen and existing CHS students to available Advanced Placement and honor courses.

“It’s unbelievably im-pressive. It’s refreshing and encouraging to see the involvement of these stu-dents and the teachers who are so supportive of them,”

said Collierville Schools Supt. John Aitken. “When students are riding robots around and showing of all their diferent exhibits and performing their music for you, it’s what high school and education should be all about: just seeing kids succeeding.”

AP courses are designed to prepare students to take the College Board-sponsored Advanced Placement exam. Honor courses are developed lo-cally by teachers to meet the educational needs of accelerated students. Cur-rently, CHS ofers 34 honor classes and 25 AP classes, most of which were rep-resented at the fair’s 27 tables. During the 3 to 6 p.m. event, attendees had the opportunity to stop at the tables that interested them and interact with the teachers and students involved in those courses.

“It’s fun to see students promoting the classes they’re taking and talk-ing with other students about what they’ve learned and what to expect in the course,” said Carolyn Co-mella, director of college advising.

Comella said the AP and honor classes have evolved signiicantly since she started working at the school in the early 1990s,

becoming more hands-on and multidimensional.

“Mainly it’s evolved because our students have evolved. They’re becoming brighter and brighter. They’re compet-itive among themselves. They’re motivated,” Co-mella said. “When you have willing students and excellent faculty members and a supportive commu-nity, those three things to-gether are a winning com-bination. And on the same hand, we have many excel-lent activities for students who aren’t at the AP and honors level, and we have one of the best special edu-cation departments in the county.”

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Collierville and Ger-mantown school oicials on Feb. 11 entered into another round of negotia-tions about nonresident students, but no agreement was announced at a meet-ing of Collierville’s school board.

Germantown wants ei-ther parents or the Collier-ville school district to pay “a nonresident fee” for the 1,050 Collierville students who are in Germantown schools now.

About 65 parents, teach-ers and students attended Collierville’s school board meeting hoping for a reso-lution to the issue.

“We are working behind

the scenes. We’ve heard you. We’re listening. Just be patient with us,” school board chairman Mark Hansen told them.

Hansen said German-town hadn’t set a fee amount, but has indicated it would consider waiving the fee for the irst year of an agreement.

“They haven’t quanti-ied or justiied what the nonresident fee would be,” Hansen said, adding that $400 per student was one amount he had heard.

Collierville wants to work out a trade of sorts, ofering to allow German-town to house buses on a lot that can hold up to 90 vehicles and to use its tax-free fuel pumps behind Collierville Elementary.

“We’re going to work

it out,” Collierville Supt. John Aitken said after the meeting.

Aitken expects a deci-sion will soon be reached between the two new mu-nicipal school districts.

Regarding possible non-resident fees, one another Collierville parent, mom, Linda McNeil, said she wants to know what such a fee would cover.

“We are all just waiting for answers,” said Col-lierville parent Beth Ko-basic, who has a daughter at Houston High and two sons who had planned to go to Houston Middle.

Already, Yolanda Mathews said, her daugh-ter drives past Collierville High to get to Houston High. “We need to know,” she said.

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After the catered dinner, the 40th anniversary celebration at Briarcrest continued in the school’s new Dr. Willard R. Sparks Chapel and Performing Arts Center.

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By Beth RooksSpecial to The Weekly

On Feb. 1, Briarcrest Christian School celebrated its 40th anniversary in the Sparks Chapel at the Houston Levee campus.

More than 550 alumni, parents, stu-dents, current and former faculty and board members attended the celebra-tion. The entertainment during the ca-tered dinner in the high school was pro-

vided by SoundScape, the high school jazz and commercial music ensemble. Following dinner, a program was held in the recently opened state-of-the-art Dr. Willard R. Sparks Chapel and Perform-ing Arts Center. Senior class president, Kenneth Echols, opened the program with prayer and Kyle Rote Jr. was the program emcee.

Entertainment included Andy Childs, BCS 1980, a current Nashville song-writer, producer and performer with the band Sixwire. OneVoice, the high school nationally-recognized a cappella ensemble also performed with the inal musical entertainment provided by the Will Tucker Band with two BCS alum-nus, Will Tucker, BCS 2012, and Kyle Neblett, BCS 2013.

A special video which was produced by Craig Thompson, BCS 1979, was pre-sented that included historical pictures from the beginning of the high school in 1972 with interviews from alumni, former administrative staf, current teachers and students.

Former Briarcrest president and high school principal, Joe Clayton, signed copies of his book “The Story of Bri-arcrest 1973-2013” in the chapel lobby following the program. Proceeds from the books are donated to the school’s annual fund.

Dessert and cofee were provided in the chapel lobby as the guests lingered to reminisce and share stories of their years while at Briarcrest Christian School.

BRIARCREST

Legacy of learning

Students, teachers, staf celebrate 40 years at Briarcrest

JENNIFER WILLIAMS WINSTEADSt. George’s Independent School, library director

Q What do you like most about your school?

A St. George’s is a school that encourages each

child to discover his/her gifts and talents. As a school, we encourage children to take healthy risks like trying out for the school play or participat-ing in a new sport.

Q What was your favor-ite subject in school as

a kid?

A Deinitely reading!

Q What was your most challenging subject as

a kid?

A I have always loved school. I enjoyed al-

most all subjects in el-ementary school. In high school my most challeng-ing course was account-ing.

Q What is the greatest challenge you face as

an educator?

A I am so fortunate to work in a wonderful

educational environment where parental involve-ment is seen daily in our school. I would love to encourage all families to continue reading together even after their children become independent read-ers. I also think making reading an important pri-ority in your child’s daily routine is essential.

Q What do you hope to accomplish as an edu-

cator?

A I want to help create lifelong (readers). I

want every child to think “I am a reader.”

Q What is the most re-warding moment

you’ve had as a teacher?

A When I suggest a book to a child and he/she

discovers the joy in read-ing.

Q Who is your teaching inspiration and why?

A I have vivid memories of my fourth-grade

teacher Mrs. Laxton. She would always read aloud to us after recess. She used diferent voices for the characters and every-one loved the books she selected.

Q Who is the person you most admire and why?

A My dad. He loves reading and has al-

ways shared that passion with me and with others. He is also one of the most dependable people I know.

Q When did you know you wanted to be an educa-

tor?

A A part of me has prob-ably always wanted to

be a teacher. I declared education as a major dur-ing my sophomore year of college.

Q People would be sur-prised to know:

A I thought of joining the Peace Corp after

college.

TEACHER PROFILE

St. George’s teacher encourages families to read together

Jennifer Williams Winstead combines her love of reading with her career as the library director at St. George’s Inde-pendent School.

By Valerie ShimkoSpecial to The Weekly

The students and faculty at Ger-mantown Elementary School have been very busy since school re-opened after the winter break.

On Jan. 12, the Germantown Ele-mentary School “Joyful Voices” cho-rus sang the national anthem at the Memphis Grizzlies basketball game for GES night sponsored by the PTA. The chorus was led by their music teacher Sara Smith and has resulted in an invitation for the GES chorus to sing the national anthem at the Memphis Redbirds opening game.

The school’s science fair brought out the scientist in many students. Coordinated by third grade teacher Maggie Williams, there were 250 individual, group and class entries across all ive grades.

The science fair took place on Jan. 28, and the Best in Show award went to Noah Chachere from Heath-

er Chamber’s ifth grade class. His project, entitled “No Pain Lots of Game,” will be entered in the Shelby County Science Fair this April.

Valerie Shimko is Germantown Elementary’s

PTA treasurer.

GERMANTOWN ELEMENTARY

Students busy with science fair, singing at Grizzlies’ home game

Germantown Elementary’s Joyful Voices sang the na-tional anthem before a recent Grizzlies’ home game.

Noah Chachere won the Germantown Elementary School science fair. His proj-ect was “No Pain Lots of Game.”

AWARD-WINNING WRITERSGermantown High students received awards in the regional writing competition at the University of Mississippi. GHS had more winners than any other school. Frank Emelue won second in the short story category and Katherine Molinet, Layla Jaber and Olivia Gregory swept the top three spots in the personal essay category. All four are juniors in the International Baccalaureate program.

Science is Kaitlin Echols favorite subject and the freshman at Briarcrest Christian School enjoys hunting with her brother.

KAITLIN ECHOLSBriarcrest Christian School. freshman

Family: Ricky, Kim, Riley, Kath-ryn and Kamille Echols

What do you like most about school: Seeing all my friends.

What is your favorite subject: Sci-ence

What is your most challenging subject: Math

What are some of your biggest accomplishments: Being baptized, passing my driver’s test, varsity let-ter on the state runner up soccer team, state runner-up for the Lobos soccer team

What are some of your hobbies: Soccer, basketball, piano

What are your goals for the future: To play college soccer and to get a degree.

Who do you most admire: My mom.

Favorite movies, TV shows and books: The Notebook; Teen Wolf; The Outsiders

What is something people would be surprised to know about you: That I like to hunt with my brother.

What would you do if you were principal for a day: Say there isn’t any school today.

What famous person do you want to meet: Luke Bryan

What would you do with $1 million: I really would like to say I would give it all to charity but I would probably buy a boat irst, then give it to charity.

If you could change on thing in the world: A world without sin.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Playing college soccer a goal for Kaitlin Echols

CALENDARMarch 10-14: Spring breakApril 18: Good Friday holidayMay 21-22: Semester examsMay 23: Last day of school for students

Complete Shelby County Schools calendar available at www.scsk12.

org/uf/calendar/iles/2013-14_Instructional_Calendar.pdf

MENUS FOR FEB. 24-28BREAKFAST

Monday: Turkey sausage wrap, soy butter and jelly Jammerz or Grizzlies breakfast kit; assorted fruit; juice; milk

Tuesday: Chicken and biscuit, French toast sticks or cereal and graham crackers; assorted fruit; juice; milk

Wednesday: Breakfast apple stick, cinnamon glazed pancakes or cereal and graham crackers; assorted fruit, juice; milk

Thursday: Sausage breakfast bagel, yogurt and granola or cereal and graham crackers; assorted fruit; juice; milk

Friday: Sausage and biscuit, blueberry muin or cereal and graham crackers; assorted fruit; juice; milk

LUNCH

Monday: Choice: turkey burger on whole grain bun or soy butter and jelly Jammerz (or Mexican iestada — elementary; pizza — secondary); crinkle cut potatoes; California blend vegetables; chilled pears; assorted fruit; milk

Tuesday: Choice: barbecue pork sandwich, 3-cheese bread with marinara or chef salad with wheat roll; whole kernel corn; baked beans; coleslaw; chilled peaches; assorted fruit; milk

Wednesday: Choice: mini burgers, veggie burgers, oven roasted chicken or chef salad with wheat roll; baked sweet potatoes; turnip greens; cornbread; chilled Mandarin oranges; assorted fruit; milk

Thursday: Choice: grilled chicken sandwich, chili with cheese toast or chef salad with wheat roll; black bean and corn salsa with scoops; seasoned baked potato; broccoli with cheese; chilled pineapples; assorted fruit; milk

Friday: Choice: bufalo chicken/cheese pizza, ish sticks, chef salad or veggie salad; wheat roll; steamed baby carrots; spinach garden salad; chilled fruit cocktail; assorted fruit; milk.

Shelby County Schools

Say Cheese!


“I grow vegetables and have a lot of

flower beds.”

DAVID BOWEN of Bartlett

We asked gardeners participating in Bartlett’s

Gardening University seminar:

What do you grow in your garden?

“We have gardened for 15 years. We mostly have flowers. Last year we grew herbs.”

JACK AND GLORIA SPARKS, Master Gardeners of Memphis

“I grow vegetables.

I have gardened

of and on forever.”

JANET FUTRELL

intern Master Gardener of Memphis

“Vegetables. I’ve been gardening since I was a

teenager.”

JUDY HORNER of Hickory Withe

“I’ve dabbled in vegetable gardening since 2000.”

SUSAN FREEMAN of Bartlett

Photos by KIM ODOM | sPecIaL to the coMMeRcIaL aPPeaL

It’s been a cold couple of months in Memphis, and I don’t know about you, but all I really want to do at the end of a long day is snuggle up in a warm spot and relax.

To me, relaxing means curling up with a good book and time on my hands, and my favorite place to do it is an over-stufed chair in the corner of my living room, beneath a reading lamp, beside the fireplace with a snugly blanket that’s always wait-ing for me.

Everybody should have a spot in his or her own home to hunker down when the outside world seems harsh.

For some people it’s a stu-dio to paint in, for others a comfy spot to watch mov-ies, for others a quiet room with a yoga mat.

I think spaces like this are important to quality of life for every family mem-ber, at every age. When space is an issue, a corner of a room can suice — as my 7-year-old son could say

about the basketball goal that hangs over a door in our kitchen. It’s in the hub of the house where chaos abounds, but to him, it’s 5 feet of dribbling, shooting bliss. And it’s all his.

If you haven’t put thought into your own home’s relaxation areas, do it. Think about how you or your family mem-bers use the space, what’s good about it and what’s lacking, and how you can make it as functional and satisfying as possible.

I’ve talked to some local design experts to ind out about their “happy places,” and their responses not only inspire me — they

make me want to stop what I’m doing, curl up in my reading chair and day-dream about spring:

Pam Ozment, interior designer, Fresh Perspec-tive: “My favorite place to relax and unwind is on my screened porch, weather permitting. Originally a deck, I enclosed it a few years ago hoping to escape the killer mosquitoes of Germantown. I chose my all-time favorite classic color scheme, black and white, because it basically works with everything and I can change out my throw pillows to suit the season or occasion. As a bonus, it gives me an excuse to shop

for more pillows! I look forward to sit-

ting out there at the end of the day with a cold drink, relaxing and enjoying na-ture — just not this time of year. I am really looking forward to spring. It can’t come soon enough for me!

Karen Ori, interior de-signer, Ethan Allen: My fa-vorite cozy spot is a deep window seat situated in a bay window of my master bedroom. My window seat is lined with a soft, colorful teal down cushion and sev-eral smaller multicolored rich jewel-toned pillows. I love to nestle into this oa-sis with a good book and a warm chenille throw, or

simply to watch my golden retriever Jackson play on a sunny day. It’s all about obtainable luxury!

Victoria Saig, owner of Interiors by Victoria: “I prefer to be outdoors when it’s warm. My alternative to that is my ‘nook.’ It’s situated in the corner of my hearth room — a cozy chair with a fuzzy throw. I updated the room in neu-trals, with soft blue-greens … such a serene area to gather my thoughts and make my lists!”

Stacey Wiedower is a Memphis-

based freelance interior design

writer. Contact her at stacey.

[email protected].

Experts share their ‘happy places’ for hunkering down, relaxing

Home & Garden


BOOKERLEIGH

GARDEN TIPS

In the last week, we had several calls from homeown-ers concerned about their azaleas and this cold weather.

Azaleas are a relatively low maintenance lowering shrub that produces a beautiful show of color each spring. But if they are not planted right or planted in the wrong location, they can be afected by the cold weather. Cold weather can damage the lower buds, the outer layer of the bark and could cause the stem to split just above the ground.

The damage normally shows up in the spring when the weather begins to warm up. The roots are more sensi-tive to cold weather, because they are shallow root plants, just under the soil. Here are some ways to help pro-tect your azaleas from cold weather:

■ Adding mulch around your azaleas can protect the roots from cold weather.

■ Make sure your azaleas have good drainage; standing water can damage the roots and cause the plant to die.

■ Make sure they are planted at the right depth.

If your azaleas are health-ier, they will have a better chance to make it through the winter.

Regarding other small shrubs, it’s too early to tell whether the recent cold weather injured them. Healthy plants are better able to tolerate low temperatures than those under stress from disease and insects.

Cold injury most often oc-curs when the temperature drops from warm to freezing within 24 hours. Wait until spring before you try to reme-dy any cold-induced problem, particularly when it comes to pruning, unless the limbs are in danger of falling.

Booker T. Leigh is an extension agent

for the Shelby County Extension of-

ice. For more gardening information,

call his oice at 901-752-1207 or the

Tipton County Extension Service oice

at 901-476-0231.

Help azaleas weather the withering winter chill

By Stacey WiedowerSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

For years — decades, even — Pat Krause hated her kitchen.

“I had a paneled kitchen and paneled walls in the den,” said Krause, whose Germantown house was built in 1970. “And I wanted a light kitchen. I wanted everything fresh.”

She’s not alone. Today’s hot-test kitchens are light, clean and open, with ample lighting and painted cabinetry in crisp whites, creams and grays. It’s a big change from the dark stains and dim ixtures that character-ized this room in decades past.

“Now it’s just so clean, and it’s a much diferent feeling,” said Lisa Miles Russell, a certi-ied kitchen designer with LM Designs. “It’s a lighter, happier feeling. Even if you’re not in-creasing your square footage, it feels bigger and brighter when you renovate and do all these things.”

Krause worked with Carol Jameson, a certified master kitchen and bath designer with Premier Countertops and More in Olive Branch, to turn her kitchen from 1970s brown and avocado to 2010s white and bright.

“It was so dated and so non-functional — and it was so dark,” Jameson said of Krause’s space.

“She wanted to open it up, to make it more user-friendly. So that’s what we did. Soits came down, wallpaper came down, and we got rid of all the con-trasting elements.”

In their place, Krause chose white-painted cabinetry that ex-tends to the ceiling, maximizing storage space. She also installed new lighting, new appliances, Cambria quartz countertops, a mosaic tile backsplash, ceramic tile looring and fresh paint.

Along with lighter colors and an open, airy feel, homeowners these days want kitchens that are low-maintenance.

“People are so tired of hav-ing to worry about bacteria and staining in their countertops, and so they’re going toward quartz,” Jameson said. “Quartz is already big, it’s already got a lot of momentum, but it’s going to be even bigger in the next year.”

Eiciency, in general, is a big buzzword in kitchens, added Maureen Mayeaux, an inte-

rior designer with Collierville-based Maureen Mayeaux De-sign. Mayeaux, who attended the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show last week in Las Vegas, said manufacturers today are touting products and appliances that are energy-eicient, space-saving and low-maintenance.

Mayeaux, too, is seeing an increase in the popularity of quartz and solid-surface coun-tertop materials. But, she said, homeowners still want the look of natural stone.

“The biggest thing I noticed

at the (Kitchen and Bath Indus-try Show) were how many of the solid surfaces had more of an or-ganic look,” she said. “Instead of conservative patterns, they’re bringing in very bold, swirly patterns — almost an artwork feel in the countertops. Many of them mimic natural stones, granite.”

Granite remains popular in Mid-South kitchens, Miles Rus-sell said. But she’s also seen an increase in requests for white marble.

“People love the look of white

marble,” she said. “But practi-cally speaking, it’s not the best for a kitchen. I’ve done several baths and kitchens where we’ve used a quartz that looks like Carrara marble, but you get the durability of quartz, which is far better than a marble.”

White and light countertops follow one of two major trends Miles Russell is seeing in kitch-en color palettes. Homeowners these days either want “all soft neutrals, tone on tone,” or they want high contrast, she said.

Style-wise, homeowners are embracing a blend of traditional and contemporary elements. Think traditional cabinets and a farmhouse sink blended with industrial lighting and stainless steel.

As for lighting, recessed, un-dercabinet and pendant light-ing are all popular picks among consumers. However, Mayeaux has encountered more home-owners who are willing to make a bold statement with kitchen lighting.

“I think people are inally gravitating to adorning spaces with lighting, because there are so many choices,” she said. “Instead of lining up can lights, now it’s being done with one really unique piece that be-comes a conversation piece in the space. You can really trans-form a space just by changing the color and changing a light ixture.”

WHAT’S HOT?

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Pat Krause (center) talks with building contractor Mark “Skip” Collins (left) and designer Carol Jameson, who collaborated to create the new kitchen in Krause’s Germantown home. The kitchen features contrasting cabinets and countertops, glass tile backsplash and recessed lighting.

Light, bright, white are latest buzzwords in kitchen design

LiSA MiLES ruSSELL

This kitchen, designed by Lisa Miles Russell of LM Designs, illustrates sev-eral hot trends in kitchen design: crisp painted cabinetry, contrast in colors and finishes, and a statement light fixture above the center island.

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Pico De Gallo

INGREDIENTS

1 medium tomato, diced1 small onion, inely chopped1 jalapeño, seeded and inely

choppedJuice of 1 lemon or lime2 tablespoons chopped fresh

cilantro½ teaspoon minced garlic1/8 teaspoon black pepper

DIRECTIONS

1. Combine all ingredients in medium bowl and stir.

Chicken Salad

INGREDIENTS

1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch cubes

8-10 leaves of green leaf or red leaf lettuce, washed and torn into bite-sized pieces

Cilantro or lemon/lime slices for garnish (optional)

DIRECTIONS

1. Spray a medium skillet with cooking spray.

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Per serving

Calories 63.6 Sodium 207.1 mg

Total fat 2.7 g Carbohydrates 5.5 g

Saturated fat 1.5 g Dietary iber 1.5 g

Trans fat 0.1 g Added sugars 0.0 g

Polyunsaturated fat 0.1 g Protein 5.5 g

Monounsaturated fat 0.7 g Potassium 129 mg

Cholesterol 8.2 mg Calcium 263.4 mg

Per serving

Calories 154

Total fat 3.0 g

Saturated fat 0.5 g

Trans fat 0.0 g

Polyunsat. fat 0.5 g

Monounsat. fat 1.0 g

Cholesterol 73 mg

Sodium 148 mg

Carbs 5 g

Fiber 2 g

Sugars 0 g

Protein 25 g

Potassium 637 mg

Calcium 33 mg

By Sara P. [email protected]

901-529-6513

Obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the last 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The health problems as-sociated with childhood obesity are wide-ranging, from high cholesterol and blood pres-sure to pre-diabetes to bone and joint prob-lems to sleep apnea. Long-term effects in-clude an in-creased risk for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis and several types of cancer.

“Childhood obesity has been a rising problem in the U.S. for the last two de-cades,” said Dr. Joan Han, a pediatric endocrinologist who studies rare disorders associated with childhood obesity at the National Institutes of Health. “The good news is that the num-bers are starting to level of. The bad news is that we’re at a plateau — not trend-ing down — and among the very seriously obese, those numbers are rising.”

Han, a Harvard Medical School graduate, is moving to Memphis this summer to tackle the problem head on. She’ll join a team at LeBon-heur Children’s Hospital dedicated to treating obe-sity with multi-pronged, evidence-and research-based approaches.

In a study conducted in Memphis among a col-lection of patients who re-ceived free health screen-ings, 27 percent of the children screened met the criteria for obesity.

The national average is 17 percent, said Han.

“This study may suggest that in pockets of Mem-phis, there is a really high rate of childhood obesity,” said Han. “LeBonheur is very interested in estab-lishing a state of the art, multidisciplinary clinic.”

The clinic would include specialized treatment from physicians, psychologists, cardiologists, dietitians, so-cial workers when needed, exercise physiologists, and other sub-specialists.

“We’re seeing more and more that genetics is play-ing a role in obesity,” said Han. “If you can under-stand what is wrong, then you can have prevention and treatment strategized around that. Perhaps obe-sity treatment isn’t one size its all.”

LEBONHEUR

Specialist helps fight childhood obesity

Joan Han

FITNESS EVENTS

Zumba Demonstration Class: 3:45-4:15 p.m. and 4:45-5:15 p.m. Tuesdays through Feb. 25 at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis (Cafe), 5959 Park.Polar Plunge: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at YMCA at Schilling Farms, 1185 Schilling Blvd. E., Collierville. First 50 plungers with suggested minimum donation of $50 receive long sleeve T-shirt on day of plunge (no minimum donation required to plunge). Registration/potluck 9:30 a.m. 901-850-9622. Registration forms at: ymcamemphis.org.Fort Pillow 4 Miler Trail Race: 10 a.m. Saturday at Fort Pillow State Park, 3122 Park Road, Henning, Tenn. Race route is on the Blue Trail, a 2-mile out, 2-mile back route with challenging climbs, some lats and downhills. E-mail: [email protected] Trails Association: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at T.O. Fuller State Park (1500 Mitchell Road) hike. Four miles of moderate to rugged terrain with some wetland. Bring water and a snack. Rain cancels hike. 901-573-9998.

HEALTH EVENTS

Lifeblood Blood Drives: Open to the public.Sunday: 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sycamore View Church of Christ, 1910 Sycamore View, Bartlett; 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. New Hope Christian Church, 3300 Kirby Whitten Road, Bartlett; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. St. Luke Lutheran Church, 2000 N Germantown Pkwy., Cordova.Partial Knee Replacement: 6 p.m. Thursday at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis. Free informational seminar. Discover “MAKOplasty”: A New Robotic-Assisted Option for Partial Knee Replacement featuring Dr. Peter Lindy, orthopedic surgeon. 901-765-1849.“GunSafe” safety course: 6 p.m. Thursday at Church Health Center Wellness, 1115 Union Ave. A Memphis Police Department oicer will teach your children gun safety. Course consists of four basic steps: “If you see a gun: STOP! Don’t touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult.” All ages welcome. Free gun locks available for adults to pick up. 901-259-4673. churchhealthcenter.org.Dancing for Healing with Dr. Elena Stoeva: 6-7 p.m. Thursday meeting at The Jones Clinic (reception area), 7710 Wolf River Circle, Germantown. For cancer survivors and their care partners. 901-202-7639.The Healing Hearts Suicide Grief Support Group: 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday meeting at White Station Church of Christ, 1106 Colonial. 901-743-4701.Women Together: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday meeting at Carriage Court, 1645 West Massey Road. Support and education group for women facing the challenges of living with advanced and chronic cancer. 901-202-7639.UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison. Open to anyone interested in learning about careers in the allied health professions — dental hygiene, physician assistant, physical and occupational therapy, clinical laboratory science, health informatics, cytotechnology/histotechnology. 901-448-2126. uthsc.edu/allied.Heart Healthy Cooking Demonstration: 5:30 p.m. Monday at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis, 5959 Park. Call 901-765-1849 to reserve your space. A special heart healthy meal combo ofered Wednesdays through Feb. 26 in the hospital’s café. Dietitian available to answer questions from noon to 1:30 p.m.Bringing home baby: The secrets of adjusting to life with a newborn S.A.F.E. L. Y.: 10:30-11:30 a.m. Monday workshop at the Lucius E. and Elsie C. Burch, Jr. Library, 501 Poplar View Pkwy., Collierville. Registration is not required, but is encouraged to allow moms to submit questions before the event. 901-457-2600. colliervillelibrary.org.Healthy Living Support Group: Noon-1 p.m. Monday at Baptist Rehabilitation-Germantown (community classroom 125), 2100 Exeter Road, Germantown. Randy Kostiuk, director of wellness programs at Church Health Center, talks on the topic “Sit and Be Fit.” Light lunch served. Free and open to the public. Reservations at 901-757-3428. Seminar is limited to those age 50 and older. Call 901-820-7022 to register.

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By Sara P. [email protected]

901-529-6513

Two years ago, Toye Bogard was sitting in the barber’s chair when the news lashed on the screen. Memphis had been proclaimed the fattest city in the nation.

“This is my city, and I’m sitting here thinking, ‘What can I do to help?’” Bogard recalled.

Driven by Memphis’ high obe-sity numbers, Bogard took to Face-book and asked everyone he knew if they’d like to begin working out together. He created a Facebook group called Biggest Loser Mem-phis (no ailiation to the show) and fans began joining the group in droves. Bogard started teach-ing classes to members, and as the numbers escalated, he divided members into teams. The teams were based on where each person lived. Each team had a registered nurse as a captain, and the mem-bers began meeting in their own neighborhoods to workout, weigh in and motivate one another.

Some 6,000 members later, Bo-gard is preparing the group for the ilming of a itness DVD that will be distributed in Walmart stores.

“My idea was to build a support network, to help people build rela-tionships,” said Bogard. “And it just took of. We have 6,400 members now. It’s crazy.”

Around 150 people showed up to a itness class Bogard held at the McFarland Community Center on a recent Wednesday night. Bogard had just launched a new “90-day” challenge for members, asking them to push themselves to the limit in order to reap the rewards in time for ilming.

Bogard’s group is free to join, as are the classes he teaches. New members mix with Fit Na-

tion veterans in the group classes, and everyone wears their “team” colors when they come together for a group workout. Bogard’s class is an upbeat aerobic session. Members bring yoga mats and use free weights, but that is the only equipment needed. Hip-hop jams blare through gymnasium speak-ers during the hourlong workout and many of Bogard’s moves look as though they were lifted straight from the nightclub.

The group has members of all ages and itness levels. They turn to Facebook between classes to brag on one another and show sup-port for their teammates.

The group’s Biggest Loser pro-gram has yielded hundreds of major weight loss winners. Take Angela Brown, 35, who joined Fit Nation after discovering she had Type 2 diabetes. In two years, Brown has lost 73 pounds. She shares her story with other mem-bers via social media.

Then there’s Clara Easley, 48, who was one of the irst Fit Nation team captains. Since September 2011, the Horn Lake resident has lost 90 pounds. Her current weight is 175, the smallest that Easley says she has ever been.

“My kids are so proud of me, they’re jealous,” Easley said. “My team holds me accountable and I don’t think they even know it. Be-ing put in a leadership role meant I had to show my team that I could do this.”

Taurus Turner, 35, lost 85 pounds after joining. He dropped from 320 pounds to 235. He credits his team captain, Jackie Hardy, for his success.

“Once I got to college, weight just jumped on me,” Turner said. “This was the kick start I needed. I want to lose another 20 pounds, and I’ll keep at it until I get there. Then, I’ll work on toning up. You learn to just keep challenging yourself, so it never ends.”

FIT NATION

Bogard’s class is an hourlong upbeat aerobic session with hip-hop jams blaring through gymnasium speakers. Members wear “team” colors, bring yoga mats and use free weights.

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Q I have three kids, ages 8, 6 and 4. I need help

solving the “pick up the playroom” dilemma.

When an area in which they’ve been playing needs to be picked up and straightened, the 8-year-old always ends up doing all the work. The other two continue to play or just pretend to be helping. The oldest complains that it’s not fair and he’s right. What can I do to insure that they all do their share?

A This very common problem is the re-

sult of parents who think children are adults. One aspect of emotional adult-hood (not to be confused with chronological adult-hood), is the understand-ing that cooperation with others is usually necessary to accomplishing anything of value and, furthermore, that cooperation results in short- and long-term ben-eit to all concerned.

Children are not adults. When siblings are as-signed to the same task, it’s typical that one or two siblings will do as little as possible while one — usu-ally the oldest — does all the work. That’s human nature, which is funda-mentally irresponsible and always looking for the easy way out.

The solution to this problem is to rotate tasks among the kids. Picking up the playroom is a good example. The irst time it needs to be picked up, as-sign it to the oldest child. Send the other two kids elsewhere. The second time, assign it to the mid-dle child. The youngest performs the next clean-

ing and then it’s back to the oldest.

Voilà! The job gets done and none of them com-plains that “it’s not fair!” Or, they all complain, which, after all, is only fair.

Q I have a follow-up ques-tion. Let’s say it’s the

middle child’s turn and he holds everyone up by daw-dling. What should I do?

A I have an equally sim-ple solution; further-

more, I’ve never heard of it failing. If a child plods through a task, taking, say, 30 minutes to do what can easily be done in ive or 10 minutes, simply go in, pleasantly dismiss him (as if nothing is wrong), and do the job yourself.

Then, that evening, send him to bed immediately af-ter dinner. It’s important that you not warn him of this in advance or threaten him with it; simply do it.

When he gets over his shock and awe and asks why he has to go to bed so early, tell him that his inability to do the earlier task in a timely fashion tells you he’s not getting enough sleep, so, you’re going to help him with his sleep problem.

Then next time the play-room needs picking up, as-sign it to him again. When he points out that it’s a sib-ling’s turn, tell him that it is his turn until he does it quickly and properly.

When he cries out that it’s not fair, simply say, “I completely agree,” and walk away.

My experience has been that two doses of that will cure the problem.

Family psychologist John Rose-

mond answers parents’ questions

on parentguru.com.

LIVING WITH CHILDREN

Rotating household chores makes work fair

By James FellChicago Tribune

CHICAGO — I pity the foolish mug-ger who attempts to rob David Jones’ family with anything less than a grenade launcher.

Jones is a seventh-degree black belt in Shotokan karate. So is his wife. Both of their daughters are black belts as well, and they com-pete internationally. For the Jone-ses, karate is a family afair.

And there are good reasons why you should wish to keep up with these Joneses, as karate is an ex-cellent form of exercise that trains both body and mind.

At the same time, its practical nature allows parents to punch through their lame justiications like “I don’t have time to exercise.”

I’ve read numerous surveys of the reasons people provide for not exercising, and “I don’t have time” always takes the No. 1 spot. Karate chops that excuse in two, because it’s something that can be done as a family.

Parents often complain they want to spend more time with their children. At the same time, I hear them complain about having to regularly engage in taxi duty to take said children to their various lessons and games.

You’re probably not allowed to join your kids’ Pee Wee football or ield hockey team.

Instead, you’re in the stands watching practice, and possibly consuming some unhealthy junk food.

But karate, a millennia-old mar-tial art, is increasingly catering to families so you can all exercise together. Beyond the time-man-agement aspect, it gives you that quality time you’ve been seeking.

“The demographics have changed,” said Jones, who has been a karate instructor for 35 years. “What used to be a young, male-oriented activity is now far more

inclusive. I have so many families training with me. Usually it’s the children who’ve started irst, and they loved it, and then the parents get involved.” And sometimes, even grandparents.

“We had always planned for our kids doing a sport of some sort,” said 46-year-old Craig Fallis. “We tried soccer and baseball, and there wasn’t much interest there, so we tried karate and it stuck.” Fallis, a project manager who has been practicing karate for almost seven years, joined his dojo just a few months after he put his son in it (and his daughter joined not long after).

He said having an organized, scheduled regimen was a power-ful motivator for him. “It gives you a personal commitment to go; there are no excuses.” Fallis is just one level away from achieving his black belt.

“It’s been great for bringing our family together,” he told me. “We’ve deinitely bonded over ka-rate and working on goals together, like preparing for tournaments

and belt gradings.”Beyond that, Fallis said that the

increase in core strength has done wonders for his back problems, and he’s noticed rapidly improved hand-eye coordination.

Jones explained that you can have a class with a wide range of individuals who all work at their own pace and gain a variety of beneits from it. And the beneits go beyond what you may realize.

“It’s certainly going to make you stronger,” Jones told me. “It is good for lexibility and range of motion, as well as great for balance. It’s all very functional movement. You’re able to use your body in a much more eicient manner, and you develop great core strength.”

Karate does have a lot of stay-ing power, and working toward a higher belt level is only part of the motivation.

“One motivation is because of the people you’re practicing with,” Jones said.

“My whole social life is geared around the people I’ve met in ka-rate.”

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By Pete WickhamSpecial to The Weekly

Will Hudgins igured he was just along for the ride. What a ride it was.

With girls basketball coach/athletic director Chad Becker away because of a family illness, Hous-ton’s football coach illed in and helped guide the Mustangs to a District 15-AAA tournament title run, capped by a 43-42 upset over Ridgeway last Satur-day night at Wooddale.

“I had the easiest job of all. Just had to make sure the girls got there on time, and were wearing the right uniforms,” said Hudgins after Houston bettered its record to 21-3. They re-versed two close regular-season losses to the Road-runners (26-2), and did so with grinding defense.

Houston allowed Kirby, Germantown and Ridge-way just 42 points a game during the tournament, and in the inal quarter of the championship game outscored Ridgeway 12-4 for the victory.

Senior Marisa Knox hit a game-tying layup with 50 seconds to play, and after a Ridgeway miss se-nior Cheridan Burroughs was fouled and hit a pair of free throws to make it a 43-41 game. The Roadrun-ners, ranked second in The Commercial Appeal’s Dan-dy Dozen and seventh in the state Class AAA rank-ings, could only answer with one free throw.

“We were down but we just kept plugging,”

Hudgins said. “The seniors were poised and in the mo-ment. They accepted the challenged and took full advantage. You could get a little sense of urgency on their part. This was their last opportunity to win a championship and they took full advantage.”

Sophomore Jaida Roper, who averaged a team-lead-ing 16.3 points per game in the tournament, had 14 in the inale while Provi-dence signee Aysha Harris added nine.

Region 8 play begins Friday night. Houston will be at home against the loser of Tuesday’s Central-Overton consolation game. The regional semiinals and inals will be at Cen-tral.

Germantown (15-12) edged Collierville 55-53 in the third place game behind 18 points from Brittany Cowens. The two teams will be on the road Friday against White Station or Hamilton, who played Wednesday for the District 16 title.

In the District 15-AAA boys consolation game Saturday, Germantown (19-8) scored a 70-66 win over Houston (23-8), with four Red Devils in double igures, led by sophomore Darrell Brown’s 15 points. Houston senior Jerry John-son Jr. led the Mustangs with 26. Both will be on the road for Region 8 quar-terinal games on Friday. In the championship, de-fending state Class AAA champion Southwind handled Ridgeway, 60-46.

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Houston girls pull upset, win district

By Marlon W. [email protected]

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Kevin Hensley heard someone from U.S. Soccer was trying to get in touch with him.

While at a local grocery store last month with a friend, Hensley got a call on his cellphone from Stu-art Sharp, who was recently named head coach of the U.S. Paralympic National Soccer Team. Sharp told the Collierville native that he wanted him to come to California to train with the national team, which is preparing to participate in the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“I missed playing so much and then out of the blue, I get a call from the national team,” said Hensley, 21, who is an assistant coach with the Mid-South Foot-ball Club. “That’s pretty incredible.”

To participate on the U.S. Paralympic team, players must be ambulatory and have a physical challenge from diagnosis of cerebral palsy or from having a stroke or traumatic brain injury. The game features seven players and is played on a shorter ield.

Sharp had been scouring the Internet looking for players to ill out his roster when he came across an old ESPN article on Hensley.

Hensley was a 14-year-old rising soccer player in 2006. On Dec. 23 that year, he went to a Collierville park with his girlfriend, and her parents dropped him of afterward at home. When he walked into the house, Hensley collapsed on the loor. He remained there, in and out of consciousness, until his parents returned from Christmas shopping.

Hensley was known as a jokester, so they initially thought he was pulling a prank. When they realized he wasn’t, they rushed him to the hospital. He had already sufered right-side paralysis. Hensley spent two days in the intensive care unit.

After several days of tests, his neurologist saw something on a CT scan that appeared to be a hem-orrhage in his neck that broke of and clogged an artery, which led to a stroke.

Remarkably, Hensley was back in school after

Christmas and went on to play soccer for four years at Collierville. But the stroke afected his memory.

Hensley was in Memphis this week after playing some exhibition games with the national team.

For his parents, Randy and Donna, it was the irst time they missed one of Kevin’s irsts in soccer.

“We saw his irst college game,” Randy said. “We saw his irst high school game. We saw his irst club game. It was kind of hard sitting at home watching the results come across Twitter.”

Should the U.S. team qualify for the Paralympics, the Hensleys are already making plans to be there.

In the meantime, Kevin is enjoying his unexpected opportunity.

“It’s been a blast,” he said.

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Briarcrest senior Hunter Bledsoe signed his letter of intent to continue his football career next fall with the Redhawks of Southeast Missouri. Friends and family (from left) Kari Helms, Rich Bledsoe and Valerie Bledsoe gathered to celebrate this important day with Hunter. As well as playing football, he plans on majoring in accounting.

Briarcrest senior Hawken Hydrick was joined by his friends and family to celebrate a big day. Next fall, Hawken will be attending the Naval Academy Preparatory School with the intent to attend the U.S. Naval Academy upon his graduation. He also has committed to play football for Navy. He plans on majoring in accounting. After he graduates from the Naval Academy, he will be joining the Marines. He is the son of David and Stacey Hydrick of Eads and has seven brothers and sisters that also attend Briarcrest.

Collierville High senior Elena Maxwell signed her National Letter of Intent to play softball at Southwest College. Elena batted .305 as a junior with 36 hits, 10 doubles, 3 triples, 26 runs batted in, 34 runs scored with a .394 on-base percentage. She was named Collierville’s Most Improved Player last season and helped lead the Lady Dragons to a 30-12 record and the District 15-AAA, Region 8-AAA and substate championships and a berth in the Class AAA state tournament. Joining Elena during her signing day ceremony are her parents Isabel and Mark Maxwell, her sister Maria, Southwest Tennessee Community College coach Keith Gentry and Dragons softball coach Mike Bradley.

Briarcrest senior Madison Malone, joined by his friends and family, celebrated as he signed a commitment letter to continue his football career playing at Appalachian State next fall. The 285-pound lineman was a starter on the Saints football team all four years and was state runner-up at last week’s wrestling tournament. Madison plans on majoring in chemi-cal engineering. He is the son of Scott and Jennifer Malone of Germantown.

By Sarah CowanSpecial to The Weekly

St. George’s Indepen-dent School senior, Mia Bargiacchi, celebrated her intent to compete in gym-nastics for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks next year in a celebration on Jan. 23, which was at-tended by family, friends and school administrators.

During the celebra-tion, Mia’s coach, Melissa Smith, referenced the many achievements Mia has accomplished over the years.

“Mia is the most de-termined, aggressive and overall team oriented ath-lete that I have ever had the privilege to coach,” Smith said. “I am so proud of how she overcame hard-ships and conquered her goals to make her dream

come true, becoming an Arkansas Razorback gym-nast!”

“What I ind most re-markable about Mia, aside from her incomparable work ethic, is her sense of self. It is rare for an 18 year old to have the strength of character that Mia does. To sacriice football games and school events and movies with friends, knowing that you’re work-ing toward an ultimate goal, takes a special kind of young woman,” said Mia’s adviser Beverly Brooks, as-sociate director of college guidance.

Mia is looking forward to joining the Razorbacks team as this has been a dream for her since el-ementary school.

“I’m very excited to compete on the collegiate level and work in such a

great team-oriented atmo-sphere,” said Mia.

Competing on the colle-giate level while balancing

schoolwork can be daunt-ing, but not for Mia.

“St. George’s has pre-pared me academically

and mentally for a college-level workload at Arkan-sas,” she said. “Over the years I have learned how

to balance my training with the classes I take at St. George’s, and I know that I will be prepared to do so when I get to Arkan-sas.”

Last year Mia placed sixth on the vault, eighth on the loor and 10th all around at Level 10 Region-als. With such impressive scores she quickly ad-vanced to Nationals. At Nationals, Mia placed ifth on the beam and ninth all around. This year, Mia is already of to a great start. She has only had two competitions so far and has already earned three individual event titles, one second place all around inish and one irst place all around inish.

Sarah Cowan is the director of

communications for St. George’s

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St. George’s Mia Bargiacchi signs letter of intent with Arkansas

Seven Christian Brothers High School senior student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent on Feb. 5 to continue their football careers at the college level. Signing are (front row, from left) Greg Sanders (Virginia Military Institute), Connor Harris (Williams College), DJ Palmore (United States Naval Academy), Cooper Williams (University of Mem-phis), Grant Howell, (Henderson State University), Breck Ruddick (Missouri State University), and Dominic Volpe (Washington & Lee University). Also joining in the festivities are (back row, from left) associate principal John Bordelon, principal Chris Fay, head football coach Scott Vogel, president brother Chris Englert, F.S.C., as-sistant football coach Tom Moore and athletic director Mike Kelly.

SIGNING DAY SNAPSHOTS

Evangelical Christian School had five seniors sign national letters of

intent in a ceremony at the high school. Ben

Pearson (golf), Addison Maxwell (softball) and

McKenzie Hill (foot-ball) signed with the

University of Memphis; Ben Lowe (baseball)

signed with the United States Naval Academy

and Chase Clack (soccer) signed with East Ten-

nessee State University.

St. George’s Independent School student, Mia Bargiacchi signed her letter of intent to compete in gymnastics at the University of Arkansas while surrounded by family, coaches, and friends. Join-ing Mia are (front row, from left) coach Matt Pettinger, coach Melissa Smith, (back row, from left) Cara, JoRene and Steve Bargiacchi.


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By John [email protected]

901-529-2507

Katie Kelsoe won a state swimming championship last Saturday and got a little something extra.

The Memphis Home Education Association junior and Cordova resi-dent inished irst in the 100 backstroke on the i-nal day of the TISCA state swim meet in Nashville. Her time of 55.54 was an automatic All-America standard.

Kelsoe, who was The Commercial Appeal’s Pepsi Best of the Preps girls swimmer of the year last season, also swam to a third-place inish in the 200 individual medley.

Lynley Matthews of St. Mary’s came in ifth in the 100 backstroke in 57.89 and helped the St. Mary’s 200 medley relay team take seventh place.

Germantown’s Mer-edith Geyer took third in the 100 freestyle (52.06) while Emma Grace Pe-cha of St. Agnes inished fourth in the 500 free (4:58.00). Pecha added a sixth place in Friday’s 200 free (1:53.15).

St. Agnes also got a strong performance from Zoe Whelan, who was ifth in the 100 butterly (57.27).

In boys competition, Wil Barton of St. George’s added to his fourth-place inish in the 200 freestyle (1:42.16) with a third-place inish in the 500 free in

4:36.57. Alex Robinson of MUS was just behind in fourth (4:36.63) while Jack McCaghren of MUS (4:40.12) and Daniel Hayes of Collierville (4:40.40) came in seventh and eighth. Hayes took ifth in Friday’s 200 free, with Mc-Caghren placing eighth.

Christian Berry of MUS inished ifth in the 100 freestyle (46.95) and sev-enth in the 50 freestyle, one spot before teammate Henry Keel.

MUS took third place in both the 400 freestyle relay and the 200 medley relay to claim second place in the team competition, the best result in school history.

Briarcrest’s Grant Kel-ton brought home a pair

of sixth-place inishes. He was sixth in the 100 back-stroke and the 100 butter-ly.

The MHEA boys relay team placed second in the 200 medley relay and sev-enth in the 400 freestyle relay.


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After a year in which he was dogged by injuries, it was a sweet ending for Eli-jah Oliver.

The Christian Broth-ers junior added the third state championship of his career Saturday in Frank-lin, scoring a 22-7 techni-cal fall victory over Ethan Dendy of Chattanooga McCallie in the Division 2 120-pound inal.

Oliver’s win adds to the 106- and 113-pound titles he won as a freshman and sophomore.

“This one was better,” he said. “The irst two years I was more nervous going into the inal, but this year I went in more relaxed and my ofense was better.”

Oliver sufered a concus-sion during a tournament in Kansas City in late De-cember that kept him out for about a month. And no sooner did he return than he sprained an ankle.

But all that was forgot-ten Saturday as he easily handled Dendy to end the year with a 32-0 record. He was also named the tour-nament’s most outstand-ing wrestler.

C h r i s -tian Broth-ers also claimed the champion-ship in the 285-pound class as se-nior D.J. Pal-more edged M a d i s o n

Malone of Briarcrest, 3-2, in an all-Memphis inal.

“I don’t think it’s really hit me yet,” said Palmore, who will play football at Navy next year.

In addition to Oliver and Palmore, CBHS also received strong perfor-mances from Bailey Wit-tman (152, third), Dallas Broughton (160, third), Tanner Tidswell (113, fourth), Paul Posey (145, fourth), Aaron Davis (170, fourth) and Jeremy Bran-don (220, fourth).

St. Benedict also had several medalists, led by third-place inishes from Ronson Marsh at 132 and Logan Reid at 195.

In the team competition, CBHS, which became the irst West Tennessee team to win the championship in 2013, placed ifth with 137 points. St. Benedict was seventh (69) and Briarcrest followed in eighth (48).

Elijah Oliver

WRESTLING

CBHS’ Elijah Oliver earns third state title

Katie Kelsoe receives her state championship first-place medal for winning the 100 backstroke.

SWIMMING

Kelsoe wins backstroke crown


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Eight players from the area were named inalists for the Mr. and Miss Basketball Awards last Friday.

Memphis will have two represen-tatives in Class AAA: Leron Black of White Station, and Arlington’s C.J. Anderson.

Douglass junior LaGerald Vick is a inalist in AA.

Josh Bougher of CBHS is a inal-ist in Division 2-AA. Bougher’s team host Chattanooga Baylor in Satur-day’s state quarterinals.

Justin Wertner, is a inalist in D2-A. His Gryphons team will host Franklin Road Academy in a substate game Saturday.

On the girls side, last year’s D2-AA

Miss Basketball, Jasmine Cincore of Briarcrest, will be looking to repeat. She will lead her unbeaten (27-0) Saints team into Friday’s state quar-terinal game at Briarcrest.

Memphis has two representatives in D2-A girls, Emily Lytle of ECS and Kaylan Pugh of St. Mary’s.

The awards will be presented at each state tournament, starting with Division 2, which begins Feb. 27.

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Despite that, a trip to France is a worthwhile and enjoyable way to spend several weeks soaking up its incredibly rich history and culture. And we did encounter natives who were charming, helpful and welcoming, so the notion that ALL French people are rude and unfriendly is also a myth.

My husband, William Fones, and I are both history nerds and are especial-ly fascinated by the World War II era, so we had long looked forward to im-mersing ourselves in the history that is around every corner in Normandy. Af-ter spending several days sampling the châteaux and wines of the Loire Valley and a whole day in the otherworldly wonder that is Mont Saint-Michel, we at last arrived in Bayeux, which would serve as our base of touring Normandy.

We had planned in advance for a combination of a guided tour with time spent on our own to roam.

On our irst full day there, we drove to the coastal town of Arromanches, which is notable as the site of the “im-possible” temporary harbor built in less than two weeks by the Allies immedi-ately after the D-Day landing. Most of it is gone now, some 70 years after the war, but a few of the harbor structures are still visible.

Knowing that the Allies would have to have a means of supplying an inva-sion force, the Germans had focused their attention on the existing harbors closer to the English coast as the most likely place for the anticipated land-ings. This logistical problem certainly gave the Allies pause, and it took them a while to igure out a way to circum-vent it: they would create a new, entire-ly artiicial harbor, built in a matter of days strictly for the purpose of deliver-ing reinforcements, food, ammunition, vehicles and other needed supplies to the American, Canadian and British forces that swarmed ashore on D-Day. This plan essentially meant the landing could be planned for anywhere along the Normandy coast, thereby taking the Germans by surprise.

The building of the artiicial harbor was accomplished in an amazing feat of engineering, with scrapped ships scuttled on the perimeter to estab-lish the foundation, followed by huge structures nicknamed “mulberries,”

which were constructed in England, then towed across the channel and fas-tened into place atop the sunken ships to form the harbor breakwater. Inside the shelter of the mulberries, a network of roadways attached to pontoons, stretching from the landing docks to the shore. Operational through the end of the war, the harbor at Arromanches landed 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehi-cles and 4 million tons of supplies, and it is considered a key component in the Allies’ ultimate victory.

Our next stop was the Battle of Normandy Museum in Bayeux. In retrospect it might have been better to start there, since it gives an excel-lent overview of the events of June 6, 1944, and immediately thereafter, with a very well-done and comprehensive presentation of artifacts, exhibits and audiovisuals.

On to Utah Beach, the more distant and perhaps marginally less-visited of the American targets of the D-Day invasion. On an overcast Friday after-noon, there were few people about, so we wandered the wide low-tide beach pretty much alone, marveling at the prospect of having to run across such an open, unprotected expanse with

guns shooting at you from the high ground just beyond the beach.

Early the next morning we were picked up right next to our hotel for our prescheduled “Band of Brothers” group tour. Our highly knowledgeable guide, Oliver, came equipped with large books of charts, maps and photos. Stops on the tour included a line of huge Ger-man bunkers, some with the massive guns still in place; Omaha beach, one of the two main American landing spots on D-Day; Pointe du Hoc, where the U.S. Rangers had to climb high clifs in an al-most suicidal efort to destroy German guns that were thought to be shooting at the D-Day landings on the beach be-low; Sainte-Mere-Eglise, the irst French town liberated on D-Day and now the

site of a small museum explaining the role of C-47 transport planes and glid-ers (and don’t miss the “paratrooper” dangling from his parachute caught on the church steeple, which actu-ally happened); the American military cemetery, a somber and heartbreaking multitude of white crosses and Stars of David, laid out in a green, peaceful ex-panse overlooking the beaches where so many died; and Marmion’s Farm and Brecourt Manor, two key sites in the Band of Brothers story where the general public is not usually allowed.

Beverly Cruthirds is a freelance copywriter/copy

editor/proofreader who lives in Midtown Mem-

phis. Her husband, William Fones, is an attorney

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The Chateau de Nazelles is a charmingly updated bed-and-breakfast made up of 16th century buildings built into the face of a clif overlooking the Loire River.

Cast slightly larger than life-size in bronze, “The Burghers of Calais” is one of the more dra-matic examples of the artist’s work in the Rodin Museum gardens.

By Beverly CruthirdsSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

Myth: French people are especially fond of Ameri-cans, remembering with gratitude the role we played in liberating them from the Germans not once, but twice. Many World War II memorials, in fact, end their grateful narratives with the words “We will not forget!”

Fact: They have forgotten. But by very unscientiic observa-tion, I have concluded it’s not just Americans that the French don’t like — it’s pretty much all foreigners.

History turned at Normandy

FRANCE

The intricate carved panels on the under-side of the Arc de Triomphe (left) in Paris.

Many French people may have forgotten sacriices for their freedom, but scenes and memorials remember

A German bunker (below), with its huge gun still in place, near Omaha Beach.

The “paratrooper” whose parachute got caught on the church steeple at Sainte-Mere-Eglise.


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In the late 1970s, downtown Memphis was dying. The Peabody was shuttered. The century-old A. Schwab dry goods store was the only place open on Beale Street.

Still, a few people — most prominently, a current resident of Collierville — decided the city of Memphis should celebrate. Call it Memphis in May. Have the Mem-phis Symphony play at sunset on the banks of the Mississippi. Hold a Beale Street Music Festi-val. Honor a country.

It looked like a party, but it was a vehicle to revitalize downtown, says the founder of the event and a local historian.

Dr. Wayne Dowdy with the Memphis and Shelby County Room of the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library is collecting documents and photos about how Memphis in May events helped change the face of downtown.

“Lyman Aldrich and Memphis in May were very important in the redevelopment of downtown,” Dowdy said.

Before MIM, Dowdy said, “Downtown was something of a ghost town. People worked down-town. But at 5 o’clock it was totally depopulated. Memphis had, in es-

sence, abandoned downtown.”Aldrich, who now lives just a

few blocks from Town Square in Collierville, was the organiza-tion’s founder and its irst presi-dent in 1977.

Aldrich, who lived downtown in the late 1970s in a converted cotton warehouse he developed into a 24-unit condo, said most people don’t know the story be-hind MIM. “It wasn’t to plan a party,” he said. “It was to create economic development.”

There was a precursor Mem-phis in May event at the Memphis Cook Convention Center in 1973 under the Chamber of Commerce umbrella. Aldrich was treasurer in 1974 of what was then called Memphis in May International Festival Society.

With no activities for three years, a Chamber staf member told Aldrich in mid-1976: “It’s your turn to be president. We don’t

have any money or suggestions. You could tank it (MIM) and no-body is going to care.”

Instead, Aldrich took on the challenge. He dropped the “so-ciety” moniker. He was 32 and single. He found a host of young people to help.

“We wanted to introduce peo-ple back to downtown again,” Al-drich said. “Dr. (Martin Luther) King had been killed just nine years before. We knew it couldn’t be a white event. If we were going to grow as a community, it had to include everybody.”

Aldrich decided Japan would be the ideal country to honor at a irst festival because there was a trade deicit between Japan and the U.S.

He sought and gained the help of Datsun Forklift President Kochi Iwata.

The irst Beale Street Music Festival, with B.B. King playing at midnight, drew a crowd of 6,500.

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Collierville resident Lyman Aldrich was living downtown in the late 1970s when he founded the Memphis in May festival. “It wasn’t to plan a party,” he said. “It was to create economic development.” He saw the event as a way “to introduce people back to downtown again.”

Aldrich is gathering artifacts from the early days of the Memphis in May festival for the Memphis and Shelby County Room of the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library.

By Jennifer [email protected]

901-529-2372

Cameron Ross knows good leadership is about balance.

It was an obvious irst lesson when he was a white water rafting guide in col-lege, literally balancing the raft and the entertainment of tourists. The concept is more metaphorical in his new role in Germantown.

As the new director of economic and commu-nity development ser-vices, Ross is tasked with balancing economic and neighborhood growth with preserving the character of Germantown.

“You’re never going to make everyone happy, but as long as you’re balanced, I think there’s success in that,” Ross said.

City Administrator Pat-rick Lawton hired Ross to replace Andy Pouncey, who retired at the end of last year. Ross, 34, started work Monday and will be paid $100,000 a year.

Lawton said Ross’ duties include implementing the city’s Economic Develop-ment Strategic Plan. The city hired a consulting irm last year to create the plan. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen last week ap-proved extending the com-pany’s contract ive months until the end of the iscal year to help transition Ross to take over the proj-ect. The company, Rose & Associates Southeast Inc., will be on retainer at least through June for up to 18 hours per week at a cost of $37,500 plus up to $2,500 in expenses per month.

Between the economic strategic plan and the city’s Smart Growth strat-egy, Ross will focus on combining all the goals and create a road map for

accomplishing them. He will oversee a department of people in roles like plan-ing, neighborhood servic-es and code compliance.

Recruiting new busi-nesses isn’t his main focus, but he is always willing to be a point of contact for potential business own-ers thinking of coming to the city.

“I think that German-town is one of those places where businesses want to come,” Ross said. “They can pretty easily look at the demographics of the community and see that there’s a signiicant amount of buying power here.”

Ross, a native of Madi-son, Miss., attended the University of Southern Mississippi, where he met his wife, Andrea, a food safety specialist. They moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Ross worked for the Environmental Protection Agency and then the city of Cincinnati. He most re-cently spent six years as a planner in charge of sev-eral projects focusing on neighborhoods. He man-aged a $2.4 million federal grant to create land devel-opment codes.

“It was all about making places more livable,” Ross said. Ross said he is a com-munity guy at his core and is looking forward to meet-ing people in Germantown and “trying to igure out what they love and how to keep people loving it.”

Ross said his irst prior-ity, though, is listening to the community about what they want their city to look like.

“Germantown has been successful without me,” he said. “I’ve got to observe and igure out how they’ve been successful and igure out what should be aug-mented and what should just continue to work.”

GERMANTOWN

Striking a balance a priority for new economic director

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“I think that Germantown is one of those places where busi-nesses want to come,” said Cameron Ross, 34. He was recently hired as the city’s director of economic and community develop-ment services.

CHAMBER CORNER

As part of a team building

exercise, the 2014 German-

town Chamber Ambassadors

went to Cor-dova Bowling

Center.

Sandy Rhodes, Susan Volmer, Myra Sellers and Janie Day, all

with the Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce, formed

the Team Chamber Chicks.

The Collierville Chamber of Commerce held a groundbreaking ceremony for Jason Crews of Crews Realty and Shepherd’s Creek subdivision in Collierville. Among those in attendance were Jason Crews; Col-lierville Chamber president and CEO Fran Persechini; Bonnie Allman with American Marsh Pumps and chamber board member; Alderman Maureen Fraser; Alderman John Worley; Matt White of BancorpSouth; Karen and Reggie Garner of Magnolia Homes; Glen Herald, MCR Safety and chamber board member; Terry Dean with Leadership Collierville; Martie Watson with Travel Leaders. Shepherd’s Creek ofers custom French Country homes starting in the upper $600,000. Visit yourmag-noliahome.com for more information.

The Collierville Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Home Helpers Mid-South. Attending were owner Mary Lou Nowak and fellow staf members with Home Helpers Mid-South, along with chamber president Fran Persechini, Bonnie Allman, American Marsh Pumps and chamber board member; Terry Dean, Leadership Collierville; Martie Watson, Travel Leaders; and Charley James, Landers Ford Collierville. Home Helpers Mid-South is located at 1922 Exeter Road in Germantown. Visit germantownhomecare.com for more information.

One man’s dreamFestival founder saw

rebirth of downtown

By Jeremy C. ParkSpecial to The Weekly

My brother and I were blessed to grow up in a household with an open-door policy, where we saw our parents constantly helping others. Being involved in organiza-tions, like the Boy Scouts of America, where our parents volunteered and served as leaders, further modeled the importance of community service. Those experiences led and con-tinually guide my focus on giving back and my broth-er’s proud service to our country as a Marine.

For our community to thrive, we need more ser-vant leaders. Teaching our children to give back can also be a powerful source of inding happiness, for you and them.

Recently we started sharing easy ways to teach children how to give back. Another favorite is neigh-borhood service projects. Walking around your neighborhood presents op-portunities to help others, like raking leaves or pick-ing up trash. Trash pickups are quick to organize, easy

for kids of all ages, and power-ful learning lessons.

Host a “Beneficial B i r t h d a y Party.” Sit down with your child

before time to learn about nonproits and let them select one to tie into the event. It can be simple, like promoting the organiza-tion at the party, but once your child starts to take ownership, over time they will ask for all presents to be items that can be donat-ed, like teddy bears to the Memphis Child Advocacy Center.

Deliver a meal together. MIFA has an easy platform with Meals On Wheels, which you can do through-out the week and during holidays. Their healthy meals are made and pack-aged each morning and, as a volunteer, you are given a route of senior citizens to help. For many seniors, this is their one hot meal and personal contact for the day, so the experience is full of smiles.

GIVING BACK

Parents are first role models for giving

Jeremy C. Park


Community

Special to The Weekly

Jessie Lee and Christine Chong, a junior and a sophomore, respectively, at Houston High School, were select-ed for the 2014 High School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall.

They performed at Carnegie Hall Feb. 9 with the Honors Band and Honors Orchestra. Participation in one of the three honors ensembles was limited to the highest rated high school performers from across the country and select schools interna-tionally.

Jessie and Christine auditioned this fall for the Honors Performance Series and were accepted after a re-view by the Honors Selection Board. Acceptance to the elite group is a di-rect result of the talent, dedication and achievements demonstrated in their application and audition re-cording. Jessie and Christine joined other performers from the United States, Canada, and international schools for a special performance at world-famous Carnegie Hall, a venue

that marks the pinnacle of musical achievement.

According to program director Morgan Smith, “Being selected to the Honors Performance Series is something each inalist should be extremely proud of accomplishing. We process thousands of nomina-

tions annually, selecting only the most talented performers applying on an international level. Working with these conductors and perform-ing at Carnegie Hall is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that these stu-dent musicians never forget”.

Jessie and Christine study music with Myung Kim. Jessie is a mem-ber of Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra and Christine is a mem-ber of GPAC Youth Symphony Or-chestra. Additionally, they are both active members of Houston High School marching band and Hous-ton Wind Ensemble during concert season.

Finalists came together in New York City to have the opportunity to work with other inalists, and get a taste of New York City.

The Honors Performance Series was created to showcase accom-plished individual high school per-formers on an international level by allowing them to study under master conductors and perform in Carnegie Hall.

HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL

Students participate in Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall

Jessie Lee and Christine Chong, both stu-dents at Houston High School, recently performed at Carnegie Hall for the 2014 High School Honors Performance Series.

Woodlawn Presbyterian fifth-grader Kaya Jones displays her peacock art, which will be on display until Feb. 28 at Paragon National Bank in Germantown.

By Isabelle BlaisSpecial to The Weekly

Paragon National Bank is currently hosting art-work from Woodland Presbyterian School stu-dents in the main lobby of its Saddle Creek banking center, 7600 Poplar, until the end of the month.

“It’s wonderful to see the unique work these young students have cre-ated under the guidance of their art teacher,” said Robert Shaw, chief execu-tive oicer of Paragon Na-tional Bank. “We invite all of our customers and the community to take a mo-ment in their busy day to visit our Saddle Creek banking center to see the talented Woodland stu-dents’ art.”

Paragon partnered with Woodland art teacher Sue Spice to select the works of art from students in se-nior kindergarten through sixth grade. The pieces feature a variety of scenes and will be on display in the bank’s lobby until Feb-ruary 28th.

The artwork was cre-ated by Dawson Hopping in senior kindergarten, Levi Miller in irst grade, Chloe Miller in second grade, Abigail LaGasse in third grade, Gabriel Mur-phy and William Smith in fourth grade, Adam Hea-ton and Kaya Jones in ifth grade and Davis Hopper in sixth grade.

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Bradyn McClainCovington High School

Social Sciences & HistoryBradyn, a senior, is a bright, young leader and multi-sport athlete. He holds a 3.97 grade point average and scored 27 on

the ACT. He has a competitive and dedicated spirit which motivates him to reach his goals. President of both his freshman

and sophomore classes, Bradyn consistently displays a commitment to excellence in the classroom, on the playing field and

in everyday life. He has been ranked number one in his class two of the last three years and has maintained a near perfect

score in every history class he has taken. He received the President’s Award and honors awards in Biology and English.

An advocate for those less fortunate, Bradyn mentors young students at local elementary schools through Baseball

Buddies and Pigskin Pals. He was president of the National Jr. Honor Society and was selected to lay the wreath on the Tomb

of the Unknown Solder at Arlington National Cemetery. He says one of his most memorable moments in high school was when

his Student Council group raised the money to grant the wish of a terminally-ill child through the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Madison PikeWest Memphis Christian School

Social Sciences & HistoryMadison, a senior, is dedicated to academic success. She holds a 3.0 grade point average and was

Student-of-the-Year in her American History class. She has earned the highest grade in every social studies class

she has taken the past two years. She has a love for learning and history is a favourite topic. She constantly asks

questions and has the willingness and determination to learn.

A member of the Student Council, Madison has been instrumental in planning events like “Clash of the

Color” and “Homecoming.” She is the female representative for the Senior Class and treasurer of the Beta Club.

She has played basketball for the school since kindergarten and has been on the track team since ninth grade.

Madison is very involved with Delta Christian Association, a non-profit service organization that performs

many service projects for the community. Through this group, she collected toys and candy for children at

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She also collected clothing for the homeless, participated in a canned

food drive and visited the elderly in nursing homes.

Mary PhanHouston High SchoolSocial Sciences & History

Mary, a senior, is an outstanding student who has passion for history, especially the history of music. She

holds a 4.0 unweighted grade point average and scored 33 on the ACT and 2250 on the SAT. She has been

inducted into the Rho Kappa National Social Studies Honor Society, having successfully completed AP European

History, AP Human Geography and AP English Literature and Composition. She is president of the International

Club and participates in competitions. She performs dances and historical skits from diverse cultures.

A four-year member of the school’s Knowledge Bowl Team, Mary amazes others with her recall skills. She

has been recognized as an AP Scholar with Honors. She has studied the violin for 11 years and focuses on the

history as well as the music. She is a member of the school band and has been All-West and All-State Orchestra

for seven years.

Mary’s community service includes tutoring in three languages: German, English and Turkish. She shows

keen leadership skills when teaching a group of six-year-olds as she inspires them with her love of the history of

music and its composers.

AboutAcademicAll-Stars

Now in its 8th year, the Academic All-Stars program identiies and recognizes high school students in the Memphis metro area for their excellence in academics,

leadership and community service.

Each week during the school year, six to seven Academic All-Stars are proiled in The Commercial Appeal. Winners are selected by geographic areas that include

Bartlett, Cordova, Fayette County, Germantown, Collierville, DeSoto County, Millington, Tipton County, Whitehaven, South Memphis, East Memphis, Midtown and

Downtown Memphis. There are 10 categories of achievement: Art, Drama & Speech, English & Literature, Foreign Language, General Scholarship, Mathematics,

Music, Science, Social Sciences & History, and Career-Technical.

The Commercial Appeal compiles the nominations submitted by schools. Representatives from area universities judge the student resumes and select the award recipients.

For more information, call or email Mary Lou Brown, Community Relations Manager for The Commercial Appeal at 901-529-2508 or [email protected]

Andrew PinnowLewisburg High SchoolSocial Sciences & History

Andrew, a senior, is a bright student who craves the study of literature and history. He holds a

4.3 weighted grade point average and scored 30 on the ACT with a near perfect 35 on the English

portion of the test. He has taken a rigorous course load including AP U.S. History, AP European

History, AP English and Composition and four years of AP Art classes. He has been named an AP

Scholar and received Principal’s List honors each semester of high school.

Andrew has a keen ability to text and offer insightful ideas in classroom discussions. He loves

discussing literature and often helps his peers who struggle in developing their ideas.

A very creative student, Andrew enjoys expressing himself through art. He was voted “Most

Talented” by members of the senior class. He is very involved with the Art Club, helping with art

shows and submitting his work in competitions. He hopes that his artistic and musical contributions

will inspire others to create their own artwork. Andrew volunteers his time and efforts with several

community groups that feed the homeless.

Bailey ArcheySt. Mary’s Episcopal SchoolSocial Sciences & History

Bailey, a senior, has an inquisitive nature which is easily seen in her history and social sciences classes.

She holds a 5.37 weighted grade point average and scored 2220 on the SAT. As a sophomore she wrote an

impressively thoughtful paper about segregation in southern churches in the 1960s. During a study of the

synthesis essay, she wrote about the justification of the Japanese atomic bombings during World War II.

Bailey says that her ability to empathize with those around her translates into a deeper appreciation of

history and what those who have gone before her have endured. She also has an innate ability to read people

and to understand their circumstances. Inducted into the Cum Laude Society, Bailey has made straight A’s in six

AP courses and 14 Honors courses. She has been recognized as a Furman Scholar as well as an AP Scholar.

An involved student, Bailey is Student Council Chair for new students, a Student Ambassador, and

president of Mu Alpha Theta. She also tutors with the Refugee Empowerment Program, helping children adapt to

a new environment.

Sheridan BerryEvangelical Christian SchoolSocial Sciences & History

Sheridan, a senior, is an excellent student who is passionate about Literature and History. She holds a4.5 weighted grade point average and scored 30 on the ACT. She has read more than 150 primary works ofliterature that shaped Western Civilization. She also has travelled abroad to experience different cultures. Hertravels have taken her to Egypt, Greece, England, Israel and Crete. Last summer she travelled to Italy under theguidance of a Classical History Professor. There she studied the history of Western Civilization throughout thecountry.

A member of the National Honor Society and Key Club, Sheridan also is involved with the StudentLeadership Institute at ECS. She is president of the Government Club and has won several awards through theYMCA Model UN. She was selected as one of 25 delegates to represent the state of Tennessee at the Conferenceon National Affairs in North Carolina last summer.

In addition, Sheridan is captain of the school’s swim team, making the Best of the Preps “All Metro SwimTeam” the last three years. For three years, she volunteered for “Make a Splash,” teaching underserved youth to swim.

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loud laughter 21 Exasperate 22 Stirring to action 23 Northern

Spanish city 24 Puerto — (San

Juan native) 25 Omaha locale 26 Football team

whose members wear stiff bracelets?

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actor Jamie 36 Baseball team

whose members love barbecues?

40 Authorized 43 Spill-fighting

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Fleming 50 Eggs in a lab 53 Basketball team

whose members have pet macaws?

58 Country music’s Tritt

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fabric 71 Augment 73 Kind of sax 74 Affirmative votes 76 “— boom bah!” 77 Stuff in sand or

quartz 78 Football

team whose members collect perfume bottles?

81 Verbalize 82 La —, Bolivia 84 Oft-dunked treat 85 Hodgepodge 86 Suspenseful

sleuth story 91 Popular fashion

inits. 92 Storm-finding

system 93 Basketball team

whose members are always summarizing things?

97 “Jurassic Park” dino

99 Healer 100 Tony winner

Neuwirth 101 Fit to be —

102 Mani-pedi offerer

105 Long, long — 106 Baseball team

whose members attend lots of bashes?

112 2010 World Series MVP Edgar

114 Milk spokescow 115 Des — (Iowa’s

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Patrick 4 Baldwin with

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(“Gone With the Wind” tune)

8 — for the long run

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Moscow

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Neale — 16 Spanish “that” 17 Stingy ones 18 Short sock 19 Annual event run

by ESPN 27 An absence of

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tennis 37 Elevator name 38 Gun owners’

org. 39 Shrimps 40 Un-punctuality 41 Narcissism 42 In a gaudy

manner 44 Larklike bird 47 “It comes

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highly of 51 Richmond locale 52 Property

appraisal pro 54 Lance Bass’ boy

band 55 Rodeo lasso 56 Donny or Marie 57 Part of BTW 59 Baseball’s Tony

La — 60 “People

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hint 66 Mai — 68 Slum rodent 69 “— Hope”

(bygone soap opera)

72 Dinner fowl 75 Flight stat 78 Cote d’— 79 — -R-Us 80 Soft-soap 83 Toothpaste

box inits. 86 Golfer Michelle 87 — Bazaar

(magazine) 88 Birds’ bills 89 Arctic chunk 90 Set up in rows

and columns 92 Suitor’s

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Daedalus 94 Ted of rock 95 One buzzing 96 Old Iran 98 Juiced 101 “— things

happen” 102 Peninsula of

the Mideast 103 Little chirps 104 Advantage 107 Spring bloom 108 Fork feature 109 Makes “it” 110 Adorn richly 111 Quirky habits 113 Uno, due, —

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in Britain 8 Alone 13 13-Down,

in Dresden 20 A debater

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direction 23 One favoring a

strong central government

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with “the” 29 Sadness 31 Narrow cut 32 Move in an

ungainly way 34 Mine, in

Madrid 36 Cherished by 38 Literary inits. 40 It’s below the

humerus 41 Trig. function 42 “Let ___” 43 ___ deferens 46 Dweller on the

Red Sea 48 Less than right 50 Crème de la

crème 52 1996-2001

show featuring home videos

53 Actress Gardner

54 The People’s Champion

56 “The Battleship Potemkin” locale

57 An O’Neill 58 More

appropriate 60 Houston sch. 62 Followers of

exes 63 Detour, e.g. 65 Coal distillate 67 Announcer’s

aid 69 Plural French

word that spells its singular English form in reverse

70 Much of the audience for 6-Down’s show on 2/9/64

73 Trounces

74 “When ___ younger, so much younger ...” (“Help!” lyric)

76 More modern, in Munich

77 Relative of a convertible

79 Part of a train from a refinery

82 Servant, e.g. 86 “Why ___ so

shy when ...?” (“It’s Only Love” lyric)

87 Snack chip 89 Nest on a cliff 91 Author

Umberto 92 Dave Clark

___ 94 “___ the

time ...” 96 Playwright

Fugard 97 General ___

chicken 98 Attractive legs,

in slang 100 “Yuck!” 101 Actor

Hemsworth of “The Hunger Games”

102 Bold 103 Stuck, after

“in” 104 Queen who fell

for Zeus’ swan song?

105 It may be a plot 106 Lone-Star State

sch. 107 500 letters? 108 Cause of the

witch’s demise in “Hansel and Gretel”

110 ’60s war zone 112 Rice-A-___ 114 Fraternity

chapter 116 Big to-do 120 They’re

played at un conservatoire

122 Undermines, as support

123 Living in a swing state?

124 Kind of jacket with pockets on the chest

125 Tilted 126 Oxford’s St.

___ College

127 City on the Seine upstream from Paris

DOWN 1 A majority 2 Aware of 3 Craze caused

by this puzzle’s subjects

4 Schoolyard rejoinder

5 Card count in Caesar’s Palace?

6 Host for this puzzle’s subjects on 2/9/64

7 Places atop 8 Eban of

Israel 9 With 11-Down,

subjects of this puzzle

10 Enzyme suffix 11 See 9-Down 12 Rampage 13 Way to go

14 Nickname for this puzzle’s subjects

15 Free 16 Bikini blast,

informally 17 Song sung by

this puzzle’s subjects on 6-Down’s show on 2/9/64

18 Big rig 19 Lead-in to

while 28 ___ creek 30 Dictator Amin 33 Broadway’s

___-Fontanne Theater

35 Promise of payment

37 Frist’s successor as Senate majority leader

38 One of the six counties of Northern Ireland

39 Escort to the door

44 Yes 45 Balanced

conditions 47 Band material 48 Park, e.g., in

N.Y.C. 49 Wallach

of “The Misfits”

51 Subtitle for “Star Wars Episode IV,” with “A”

53 Just so, after “to”

55 Bakeshop worker

59 Free throw avgs., e.g.

61 One team in the N.B.A. All-Star Game, with “the”

64 City on the Nile 66 Junior

Olympics org.

68 Certain NASA launch

71 Had a ball at

72 Unpredictable 75 Composer

Khachaturian 78 Slave 79 Apes 80 Apes 81 Where this

puzzle’s subjects got their start

83 Song sung by this puzzle’s subjects on 6-Down’s show on 9/12/65

84 Earth’s habitable parts

85 Dawnlike 88 Common

monthly expense

90 Ladies’ man 93 Prey for a

dingo

95 Molly formerly on “S.N.L.”

96 Like some dessert orders

97 King in 1922 news

99 Hot 102 Instrument

depicted by the shaded squares in this grid

107 1965 and 1966 concert site for this puzzle’s subjects

109 Sweeping 111 Soon 113 Be domestic 115 Medical suffix 117 Calendar

keeper, for short

118 Medical suffix 119 The “S” of CBS:

Abbr. 121 Sci-fi sighting

Difficulty level ★★★★★

Answer to yesterday's puzzle

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based

on a 9x9 grid with sev-eral given numbers. The

object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the

empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box con-tains the same number only once. The difficulty

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from

Monday to Sunday.

The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 60 minutes.

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Declarers should be aware of possible bad splits — it’s an imperfect world, after all — but to remind an opponent of that possibility is pointless.

When I watched today’s deal in a team match, the auc-tion began the same way at both tables, but one West let South play four hearts un-doubled. West led the jack of spades, and South ru�ed un-concernedly and started the trumps.

West took the ace and con-tinued with the ten of spades, and South ru�ed again and was in trouble: West had more trumps that he did. South cashed his remaining trumps, the A-K of clubs and the A-K of diamonds, but when he led a diamond to his queen, West ru�ed. The defense took the rest; down one.

At the other table, West perpetrated a double of four hearts that was horrible in more ways than one. East’s jump to two spades was pre-emptive, so West couldn’t be sure of beating six hearts, much less four. Moreover, the double told South that trumps were splitting badly.

When West led the jack of spades, South preserved his trump length by discarding a club. On the next spade, South thre

w a diamond. He ru�ed the third spade, lost to the ace of trumps, won the club return, came to the ace of diamonds, drew trumps and claimed 10 tricks.

“Good grief,” East mut-tered. “Why not just take out a full-page ad in the newspa-per and warn declarer that he must play safe?”

The first South could have succeeded also, but he had no warning double to help him. His team would have lost IMPs anyway.

Dear Harriette: I have a brother who lives 3,000 miles away from the family. He has lived there for more than 20 years. Though he stays in close touch with my mom, he hardly ever comes home. We invite him to all the holiday meals and every special event, but he hasn’t come for years. We miss him and love him and want to see him. We were thinking about suggesting that we go out to visit him for the kids’ spring break, but I’m worried that he will get upset if he thinks we are crowding his space. How can I approach the idea of visiting him as a big fam-ily group so that he might consider it?

— Missing My Brother, Jackson, Miss.

Dear Missing: You didn’t say how often or if ever you or other fam-ily members visit your brother, so I don’t know what the precedent is currently. I do know that family members who live far away from the core family unit often feel iso-

lated. Call your brother. Tell him that you and the family miss him and that you want to visit — soon. Ask if all of you can come to visit during spring break. Tell him the dates, and then see how he re-sponds. Given that yours is a group of a number of people, you should plan to stay in a hotel.

There’s a good chance he will say yes. If not, you can tell him that you would love to visit whenever he is available. Continue to send him photos and include him in family activities from a distance so he knows you are thinking of him.

Sibling wants to arrange visit with far-away brother

HARRIETTECOLE

SENSE & SENSITIVITY

Send questions to [email protected] or c/o Universal Uclick, 1130 Wal-nut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ Others will witness your fiery side. No matter how direct you are, you probably will have to repeat a conversation. Tonight: En-joy a home-cooked dinner.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★★ You speak, and others respond. Communi-cation flourishes. Detach more often. Tonight: Keep smiling.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ Take a day just for you. You might want to lounge, read the paper and/or make a special meal for yourself. Tonight: Not to be found.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ Make calls in the morning. You will be happi-est going out and about with a companion. Tonight: At a favorite place.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ You could be out of sorts as you eye a new pur-chase. You might decide to postpone this expenditure. Tonight: Get errands done first.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ You will be full of energy. However, getting plans o� the ground could take some e�ort. Tonight: Keep it light.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★ You are so busy that no one will think twice when you make up an ex-cuse for not getting togeth-er. Tonight: Relax.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ You might be ready to take o� at the drop of a hat; be sure that a friend or partner wants that as well.

Tonight: You have reason to celebrate.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★ Wherever you go and whatever you do, you easily can be identified as

s o m e o n e who takes the lead. To-night: Could be late.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ The thought of a trip could be fun, but hope-fully it does not consume your day. Tonight: The

party goes on.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ Someone makes an overture that you feel you can’t say “no” to. Tonight: Don’t call it a night until you are good and ready.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ A loved one adores you. It is clear that this person cannot get enough time with you. To-night: Say “yes” to a friend.

What the stars mean:

★★★★★

Dynamic ★★★★

Positive ★★★

Average ★★

So-so ★

Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you have the spirit and energy to tackle whatever you want. If you are single, this partnership initially could be platonic, but it has the po-tential of evolving into much more. If you are attached, put more emphasis on your rela-tionship, and you will witness it working and evolving to a new level. You enjoy time alone as a couple. VIRGO makes a great accountant for you.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | It Was 50 Years Ago Today

By Charles M. Deber / Edited By Will Shortz

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Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE FORCES MATEHint: First, liberate the bishop.

Solution: 1. Nb8h! If … Qxb8 or … Ka5, 2. Bc6 mate!

W T Z R U F S A K R A I E T I Y F , R S U

E A A R G N X X B A N B S K U R T K I U Y

R A R S U N K B N Y U R S Z I D Z I M

S U ’ Y M U R S Z F W T N K R U K G N B D .

2-16 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: S equals H

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.



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44 Yes 45 Balanced


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55 Bakeshop worker




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Amusement


SUDOKUPREMIER CROSSWORD

WEEKENDPUZZLE

SOLUTIONS

This is the solution to the crossword puzzle in

Saturday’s editions.

This is thesolution to

the KingFeatures

crossword on

Page 2M.

This is thesolution to

The New York

Timescrossword

onPage 2M.

TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: QUITE SHORT ON FUNDS, THE FOOTBALL COACH RETURNED TO THE ARCADE THINKING HE’D GET HIS QUARTER BACK.

ACROSS 1 Glasses,

informally 6 Bridge

utterance 11 Foretelling

deck 12 Johnson’s

successor 13 Wise

teacher 14 Green of

“The Voice” 15 Netlike

fabric 17 Boar’s

mate 18 “Stop

panicking!” 22 Tennis star

Lendl 23 Peaceful

27 Overlays with precious metal

29 Flu symptom 30 Winter

showers 32 Scorch 33 Dreamers’

counter-parts 35 Director

Burton 38 Lumber 39 Bush’s

successor 41 Taunt 45 Picker 46 Open, as a

new TV 47 Johnson’s

successor 48 Artery

opener

DOWN 1 Kin of blvds. 2 Fido’s foot 3 Historic time 4 With 6-Down,

21-Down 5 Author

Larsson 6 See 4-Down 7 Diner

dessert 8 Chopping

tools 9 Song for one

10 Winter weather

16 Last year’s jrs.

18 Band’s jobs 19 Wicked 20 Story 21 February

honoree 24 Nights before 25 Orderly 26 Messes up 28 “Harvey” star 31 — Paulo

34 Yoga position 35 Chinese

secret society

36 Structural support

37 Doll cry 40 Fellows 42 White House

nickname 43 George W., to

George H.W. 44 Work phone

no.

Sudoku

■ Singer Bobby Lewis is 81.

■ Football Hall-of-Famer Jim Brown is 78.

■ Actress Rene Russo is 60.

■ Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan is 51.

■ Actor-comedian Larry, the Cable Guy is 51.

■ TV personality Rene Syler is 51.

■ Movie director Michael Bay is 50.

■ Rock musician Timothy J. Mahoney (311) is 44.

■ Rock singer-musician Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day) is 42.

■ Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 33.

Dear Annie: The past four years of my marriage have been di�cult. My husband and I have made many poor financial deci-sions, and we also have intimacy issues.

I’m an artist. When our kids were young, I chose to do freelance work so I could stay at home. My husband has a steady job with a 9 to 5 workday. On the side, he is a talented musician and gets low-paying gigs a few times a year.

Over time, my hus-band’s band equipment has become worn, and he has hinted that he’d like to upgrade. While I would like him to be happy, we are not in a financial posi-tion to invest in a hobby that o�ers little return. On the other hand, I am extremely well paid for my artistic craftsman-ship and would like to invest in some technical equipment to further my career. If I am paid more, we could then finance my husband’s future musical purchases.

Unfortunately, my husband’s response to not getting what he wants has been immature. He attacks my choices, and I resent the lack of respect for the sacrifices I’ve made to raise our kids. The kids are older now, but it seems that I’m not married to an equal part-ner, but rather a perpetual teenager.

I love my husband, but I feel stuck in a relation-ship that is unhealthy in more ways than one. Your thoughts?

— Got the Blues

Dear Annie: You some-times receive letters from grandparents who feel sad because they don’t receive thank-you notes or phone calls from their grandchil-dren.

Following retirement, my husband and I moved 12 hours away from our children and grandchil-dren. After upgrading our cellphones so we could text and take pictures, we quickly reaped the rewards. The teenage grandchildren ALWAYS respond within minutes when we text them (keep it brief). And the little ones love FaceTime (on their parents’ phones) and interact with us in real time.

We were really amazed at how much this has kept us connected with family, and it is well worth the added cost. It’s a big step for many grandparents to take, but most provid-ers o�er free instruction, and once you get into it, it becomes easy and fun.

— A Happy and Well-Connected Grandma

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

2/17/14

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle

Chess Quiz

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid

with several given numbers. The object is to place the

numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3

box contains the same num-ber only once. The difficulty

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to

Sunday.

WHITE FORCES MATEHint: Finish with the rook.

Solution: 1. Qf5ch! Kh6 (or Kh4) 2. Rh8ch Rh7 3. Rxh7 mate! [Bok-Yu

’14].

Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Jumble Daily Bridge Club

Mrs. Murphy’s Law: “Whatever can go wrong, will; and it will happen when Mr. Murphy is out of town.”

Murphy’s Law and its extensions are familiar. Indeed, at bridge, whatever can go wrong, will. Moreover, it will be all your fault, and everybody will know it.

Today’s West led the jack of diamonds against four hearts, and South won with the queen and led a trump to his jack. West threw the eight of spades, so South went back to the ace of diamonds to lead a second trump.

THIRD DIAMOND Everything seemed to be going well,

but that’s when Murphy says you’ve overlooked something.

Sure enough, East took the ace of trumps and led a spade, and when West won and led a third diamond, East ru�ed. South also lost a club; down one.

It was all South’s fault. He breaks the defenders’ communica-

tion by leading a spade after he takes the jack of trumps. If East wins and leads his last diamond, South wins in dummy and

leads a second trump. East wins but can’t give West the lead to get a ru�. South is safe.

By Frank Stewart Tribune Content Agency

Questions and comments: Email Stewart at [email protected]

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You will accomplish more in the morning. In the evening, random calls and perhaps a visit with a loved one could take priority. Tonight: Invite others to dinner.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★ Dive into a dynamic problem. You will enjoy the brainstorming involved with head-ing in a new direction. Tonight: Remember that you’re not always comfortable with change.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)★★★★★ You will clear up a problem only after you detach. At that point, the solution will permit resolution in an amiable manner. Tonight: Live life to the fullest.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ Listen to your sixth sense when speaking with a close loved one. There might be a lot more going on than meets the eye. Tonight: In the thick of the moment.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)★★★★ You might be concerned with a finan-cial matter that needs to be handled immedi-ately. Listen to feedback. Tonight: Reach out to a favorite person.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ You might feel strongly about a certain matter, so don’t hesitate to let others know where you are coming from. Keep a personal matter quiet. Tonight: Beam in what you want.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)★★★★ You might feel out of sync in the morning, but by the afternoon you will draw others to you. Your personality and energy are likely to dominate the afternoon. To-night: Visit with a dear loved one.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★ Decisions made in the afternoon might not be as sound as you would like them to be. Listen to news and respond accordingly. Tonight: As you like it.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ You could be full of energy. In the morning, maintain your focus on an impor-tant matter involving your career or an older relative. Tonight: Hang with your friends.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★★ Recognize what is happening with a relationship in which information might not be properly communicated between the par-ties involved. Know that you can change this situation. Tonight: Till the wee hours.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ You could discover the benefits of having a conversation in the morning. One-on-one relating resolves a problem better than any other method can. Tonight: Detach.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ Rethink your interactions with a key person. It can be great to act spontaneously, but sometimes you need to think more care-fully about the actions you take. Tonight: A little consideration goes a long way.

Horoscope

This year you evolve and grow in a new way. At times you might feel as if you do not have a choice. If you feel that way, stop and rethink your alter-natives. Brainstorm more often with people who do not think like you. Seek to achieve your goals. If you are single, you will meet many peo-ple. Come summer, the possibility of meeting someone of significance is likely. Do not commit unless you are sure of your choice. If you are attached, your relationship could be-come even more significant as your sweetie teams up with you to make a dream come true. LIBRA likes the way you think.

What the stars Mean

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAYBy Jacqueline Bigar King Features Syndicate


MARCY SUGAR & KATHY MITCHELL

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

CONTACT US Peggy McKenzie, 529-2341, mckenziep@ commercialappeal.com. Become a fan of the M section on Facebook at facebook.com/ CAMemphisM.

Husband acts like a perpetual teenager

Puzzle solutions

TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP:

QUITE SHORT ON FUNDS,

THE FOOTBALL COACH

RETURNED TO THE

ARCADE THINKING HE’D

GET HIS QUARTER BACK.


ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You have much to consider. You might need to mellow out a bit. You will have an important and long-overdue discussion with a loved one or an associate. The less that is said to others, the better of you will be.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You seem ready to make a dream a reality. Others might want to pitch in, especial-ly if this could afect them too. An upbeat attitude will help you feel more connected to others than you have in the past.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Take news with a grain of salt. A boss might have a lot to say, and will talk openly if you seem interested. Use cau-tion with your inances. A risk might not pay of in the way you’d hoped it would.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Events could put you more in touch with your dy-namic energy. Look at the long-term implications. A situation might not evolve as you might wish it would. Do more listening and sharing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You might want to spend more time at home. Use your instincts to achieve har-mony with a loved one. Indulge in more time together. A change in your schedule could force changes to happen elsewhere in your life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH You might want to ex-amine what is happening in your immediate environment. Make calls, catch up on news and clear your desk. You will come up with a more eicient way of handling key matters. Others will come through for you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Listen to what is being shared, but hold back for now on sharing what you know. A part-ner might do the unexpected. You could be upset, but you also do enjoy the excitement that this person brings to your life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You might be in the middle of all the action. Take the lead, prioritize and delegate; otherwise, too many key details could be missed. You understand the implications of what is going on better than most people do.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You move through details quickly. Slow down or recheck your work. You also might need to consider get-ting a second person to work with you on this project. Main-tain your sense of humor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Call on your self-dis-cipline. Use your sixth sense to tune in to the obvious dynamics of a particular matter. Someone could appear to be almost too generous. Pull back while you can, and see what is happening with this person.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You might feel as if you have extra responsibility weighing you down. Stop and look at what is happening in-stead of continuing as you have been. Look at the big picture to see your options more clearly. Choose a more easygoing pace.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You see life very dif-ferently from how many of the people around you see it. As a result, others often are inspired and/or confused by you. At the moment, use your instincts to proceed with an important mat-ter. You will land on your feet.

By Judith Martin and Jacobina MartinUniversal Uclick

Dear Miss Manners: On the invitation for a birth-day party for a 2-year-old, the parents had the child registered for gifts.

I was under the impres-sion that you register for a bridal shower or first baby shower. I thought it was quite rude to ask for gifts for a child’s birthday. I was not brought up this way. Am I wrong?

Gentle Reader: All right, everyone, that is quite enough. Has Miss Manners been too subtle about her position on Gimme Lists?

Stop it!Registries are never

proper. Not for weddings, not for baby showers and not for birthdays; not for christenings, bar mitz-vahs, quinceañeras, sweet sixteens, graduations, en-gagements or debutante balls; not for announcing

gender, changing gender, getting a job, losing a job, buying a house, divorcing, retiring or dying.

It is simply never polite to ask someone to buy you a present.

Everyone is just going to have to go through life’s milestones without think-ing of them as free shop-ping sprees.

Dear Miss Manners: A college friend asked me to be a part of her wed-ding — not technically in the wedding party, but in a challenging category of “more than guest and less than bridesmaid” that I like to refer to as “JV string bridesmaid.”

At the time I was asked, I had no commitments, but now many summer shows that I would like to audition for have per-formance conflicts with the wedding. I first met the bride while we were both theater majors, so she does understand the

importance of my career. I feel as though my obli-

gations to this wedding are requiring me to put my life on hold. Help! I’m feeling so overwhelmed and con-flicted.

Gentle Reader: Please save the drama for the theater, my dear, and wait until you have an actual conflict before working yourself into a tizzy.

Audition for the shows. If you do get cast in one that coincides with the wedding or a related event, tell your friend that you never in a million years thought that this would happen — you were just trying out for practice — but you got the part of a lifetime and you don’t know what to do.

If your friend is as sym-pathetic as you say, she might understand — but only if you act truly dev-astated. Miss Manners suggests that you start re-hearsing.

MISS MANNERS

Registries, or ‘Gimme Lists,’ are never OK



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55 Bakeshop worker




Olympics org.


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Community

PETS OF THE WEEK

Name: Carly Age: 4 years

Breed: Rat terrier mix

Description: Gets along with

other friendly dogs and loves

people, probably kid-friendly.

The Humane Society, 935 Farm Road, is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. For more information on adoptable pets at, the Collierville Animal Shelter, 603 E. South St., is open 1-4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. The Germantown Animal Shelter, 7700 Southern, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Humane Society photos by Phillip Van Zandt Photography.

GERMANTOWN ANIMAL SHELTER

HUMANE SOCIETY

Name: RickyAge: 3 yearsBreed: Gray tabby catDescription: Mellow, gentle and sweet.

Name: RoverAge: 12 week

Breed: Terrier mix

Description: Long body with

short legs.

Name: LeviAge: 2 yearsBreed: Domestic short hairDescription: Very sweet personality.

COLLIERVILLE SHELTER

Name: WilmaAge: 10 yearsBreed: Silky/

Yorkie terrier mixDescription: Loving lap dog.

Name: CandyAge: 3 yearsBreed: Domestic short hairDescription: Very sweet cat.

By Mark HeubergerSpecial to The Weekly

Collierville residents volunteer their time to serve on various town boards to provide guid-ance to town leaders.

The Parks Advisory Board, established in 1984, is a support and informa-tion commission formed to provide citizen repre-sentation from the town, to partner with the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department. Vol-unteer board members, as with other boards and commissions, apply to the Mayor and Board of Alder-men annually, expressing an interest to serve. Ap-pointments are one year at a time, and the group se-lects their own chairman. Members must be Collier-ville residents and cannot

be town employees.Working with Collier-

ville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts personnel, the board is charged with promoting, understanding, appreciation, participa-tion and support for open spaces, parks, recreational opportunities, cultural activities, programs and facilities.

The Planning Commis-sion of the Town of Col-lierville, like the other 14 boards and commissions, is comprised of volunteer residents. Jaime Groce, Town Planner with Col-lierville Planning Divi-sion, is the staf liaison and coordinates meet-ings. Agenda content may include site developments for upcoming projects like subdivisions, planned de-velopments, or proposed site plans. Other duties of

the Planning Commission include recommendations to the BMA on re-zonings or changes to the zoning ordinance.

The Historic District Commission is a group of volunteers appointed by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to serve on the commission and interact with Town of Collierville employees and other advi-sory board members. Serv-ing up to a ive-year term, the seven members strive to preserve historic and/or architectural value of the district.

The commission also considers the appropri-ateness of any new altera-tion, additions, demolition or exterior changes visible to public right of way and compatibility and how the design its with the Histor-ic District.

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A R O U N D CO L L I E RV I L L E

Boat safety courseA boat safety course will

be ofered at the YMCA at Schilling Farms March 29, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. pre-sented by the Memphis Sail and Power Squadron. This course is required of all powerboat opera-tors born after Jan. 1, 1989. Cost is $10. Preregistration and payment required by March 27. Forms are avail-able at the Y. There is a separate $10 Tennessee state exam fee required day of course. For more information call 901-355-0482.

Résumé writing workshop

Eddy Hatcher, founder and president of Manage-ment Recruiters of Cor-dova, will host a résumé

writing workshop March 7, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Collierville Burch Li-brary. Registration is not required but is encour-aged.

Visit colliervillelibrary.org for information.

New Neighbors luncheon

Master Gardener and Tennessee naturalist Wil-ma Davis will speak at the New Neighbors luncheon March 19.

The lunch will be at Jim’s Place Grille, 3660 S. Houston Levee Road, and starts at 11:15 a.m. The cost is $27 per person. The last day to sign up is March 12. Call Lee Ball at 901-854-5339 for more information.

The New Neighbors Welcome Cofee will be held March 13 at 9:30 a.m. To attend, call Sharon Kant at 901-435-6008.

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Republican women meet

The Republican Women of Purpose will meet March 5 at Tournament Players Club Southwind at 11 a.m. The guest speaker will be Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell. Call 901-233-5758 for lunch reservations.

Brown Bag lunch

Jimmy Ogle will dis-cuss the neighborhoods around the University of Memphis March 7 at Ger-mantown United Meth-odist Church’s Brown Bag luncheon. The seminar will be at the Mike Wilson Fellowship Hall, begin-ning at 11 a.m. with lunch at noon. The church will provide beverages. Guests are asked to bring their lunches.

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