Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

28
Collierville Weekly POPLAR PIKE WINE & LIQUOR “The Friendliest Store in Town” EASIEST IN & OUT!!! 9330 Poplar Pike 901-309-0202 Behind Walgreens - Next to Fresh Market Price Good Thru 3/4/15 or 10% Off 1 Wine Case (On non-sale wines only) 15% Off 2 Wine Cases Redwood Creek Jim Beam 1.75L $ 23 99 1.75L $ 38 99 Jack Daniels New Amsterdam Vodka 1.75L $ 17 99 1.5L $ 8 99 Check Out Our Specials At poplarpikewines.com LADIES DAY IS TUESDAY! ENJOY 10% of! (EXCLUDES SALE WINES) FREE Thursday, February 26, 2015 MG HH BOOM HEARD ’ROUND CORDOVA Mid-South Military History & Civil War Show features re-enactors, vendors and more. Page 10 ON A WING AND A CHAIR Aviation Afterlife in Tupelo repurposes parts from retired airplanes into furniture. Page 11 Look inside for your Lowe’s insert *SELECT ZIP CODES Inside the Edition SWEET ON PEPPERS National Garden Bureau declares 2015 in honor of beauty, nutrition, great taste. HOME & GARDEN, 8 GUS’S GOES NATIONAL The owner of Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken announces plans to expand to eight new locations across the U.S. NEWS, 2 LOOK INSIDE FOR © Copyright 2015 The Commercial Appeal By Mylissa Horrocks Special to The Weekly Evangelical Christian School’s latest production, “Shrek the Musical,” ends its two week run this week- end. It’s the irst time ECS’s longtime director, Rene Cave, has been awarded two weekends of perfor- mances by the school. “The kids work for so long on these shows, and we have incredible talent,” said Cave. “We are thrilled to have been given two weekends, so the students’ work can really shine. This year, we can perform the show eight times for vari- ous audiences.” Louise Harris, 7, attend- ed opening night with her little brother and grand- mother. Louise comment- ed that she loved the fairy tale characters. “‘Story of My Life’ was my favorite song,” Louise said. Her little brother, Wilkes Harris, especially loved Donkey. Wilkes and Lou- ise’s cousin Zoe Patrick plays Alice from “Alice in Wonderland” in the show. Sophomore Stephen Timberlake is cast as Shrek. Timberlake is a vet- eran actor and singer, but he says this show has re- deined teamwork for him. “There are really three leads in this show — Don- key, Fiona and Shrek,” Timberlake said. “It’s rede- ined how I view teamwork in a show, and it’s been a joy.” added Timberlake. Trenton Jiles plays Don- key. He says that he has loved playing the silly, ani- mated best friend of Shrek. “This role has really gotten me out of my com- fort zone,” Jiles. “The last three months (preparing) has been a challenge, but great fun as well.” “Shrek the Musical” continues tonight, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. at ECS’s Cordova campus. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at ecseagles. com or at the door. Mylissa Horrocks is the communi- cations writer for ECS. THEATER Final shows close curtain on ‘Shrek’ SCOTT STEELE/STEELEMONKEY PHOTOGRAPHY The cast and crew of “Shrek the Musical” sing a song to Shrek, played by Stephen Timberlake. Showtimes are 7 p.m. through Saturday at ECS’s Cordova campus on Macon Road. ECS extended run ends this weekend PHOTOS BY CRAIG COLLIER/SPECIAL TO THE WEEKLY Germantown Red Devil Jonathhan Bins (right) works the ball up the court to get around Houston’s Kalen Nicholson. The Mustangs rallied to a 56-53 win over Germantown last Saturday night at the District 15-AAA championship at Collierville High. By Pete Wickham Special to The Weekly A series of short, well- timed bursts of star power by senior Marlon Hunter helped Houston’s boys basketball team end a very long wait last Saturday night at Col- lierville High School. Hunter’s 19 points, most coming at crucial points in the game, led the Mustangs to a 56-53 win over archrival Germantown — and a long-awaited District 15-AAA bas- ketball championship. It was the Mustangs irst district tournament championship since 1995, and second in school history. The wait had been ive days longer than expected because of BASKETBALL Wait is finally over Houston overtakes G’town 56-53, earns 15-AAA title Michael Cohen sports a foot- ball helmet as he and his fel- low Red Devil classmates cheer on their team. See CHAMPS, 18 By Jennifer Pignolet [email protected] 901-529-2372 Collierville Schools is con- sidering a change in how it handles long-term suspen- sions. The district received an of- fer from Germantown Munic- ipal School District for seats at its new alternative school, which would allow Collier- ville to end its $252,000-a-year contract to send students to Lakeside Behavioral Health. Supt. John Aitken said Tuesday the ofer from Ger- mantown was originally in exchange for Collierville waiving a penalty if German- town changed start times, thus afecting the two dis- tricts’ abilities to share buses. But the Germantown school board voted Monday, at least in the irst of two readings of its budget, not to fund a start- time change. Aitken said the ofer from Germantown still stands, but the two districts would in- stead work out a payment. He said Germantown’s plan for its alternative school, to be held in sequestered classrooms at Houston High School, is an attractive ofer. “We’re strongly consider- ing it,” Aitken said. Collierville is also consid- ering bringing the service in- house. Millington Municipal Schools also has an on-site al- ternative school. The program would not have to be held at a school. “We’re trying to find a space,” Aitken said. Students can be given long- term suspensions and sent SCHOOLS C’ville weighs ofer by G’town Both would share new alt school space See ALTERNATIVE, 2

description

 

Transcript of Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

Page 1: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

Collierville Weekly

POPLARPIKE

WINE & LIQUOR“The Friendliest Store in Town”

EASIEST IN & OUT!!!9330 Poplar Pike

901-309-0202Behind Walgreens - Next to Fresh Market

PriceGood Thru3/4/15

or10% Off1 Wine Case

(On non-salewines only)

15% Off2 Wine Cases

RedwoodCreek

JimBeam

1.75L$2399

1.75L$3899

JackDaniels

NewAmsterdam

Vodka

1.75L$1799

1.5L$899

Check Out OurSpecials At

poplarpikewines.com

LADIESDAY

IS TUESDAY!

ENJOY10%of!

(EXCLUDES SA

LE WINES)

FREEThursday, February 26, 2015 MG HH

BOOM HEARD ’ROUND CORDOVA Mid-South Military History & Civil War Show

features re-enactors, vendors and more. Page 10

ON A WING AND A CHAIR Aviation Afterlife in Tupelo

repurposes parts from retired

airplanes into furniture. Page 11

Look inside for your Lowe’s insert

*SELECT ZIP CODES

Inside the Edition

SWEET ON PEPPERSNational Garden Bureau declares 2015 in honor of beauty, nutrition, great taste. HOME & GARDEN, 8

GUS’S GOES NATIONAL

The owner of Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken announces plans to expand to eight new locations across the U.S. NEWS, 2

LOOK INSIDE FOR

© Copyright

2015

The Commercial Appeal

By Mylissa HorrocksSpecial to The Weekly

Evangelical Christian School’s latest production, “Shrek the Musical,” ends its two week run this week-end. It’s the irst time ECS’s longtime director, Rene Cave, has been awarded two weekends of perfor-mances by the school.

“The kids work for so long on these shows, and we have incredible talent,” said Cave. “We are thrilled to have been given two weekends, so the students’ work can really shine. This year, we can perform the

show eight times for vari-ous audiences.”

Louise Harris, 7, attend-ed opening night with her little brother and grand-mother. Louise comment-ed that she loved the fairy tale characters.

“‘Story of My Life’ was my favorite song,” Louise said.

Her little brother, Wilkes Harris, especially loved Donkey. Wilkes and Lou-ise’s cousin Zoe Patrick plays Alice from “Alice in Wonderland” in the show.

Sophomore Stephen Timberlake is cast as Shrek. Timberlake is a vet-eran actor and singer, but he says this show has re-deined teamwork for him.

“There are really three

leads in this show — Don-key, Fiona and Shrek,” Timberlake said. “It’s rede-ined how I view teamwork in a show, and it’s been a joy.” added Timberlake.

Trenton Jiles plays Don-key. He says that he has loved playing the silly, ani-mated best friend of Shrek.

“This role has really gotten me out of my com-fort zone,” Jiles. “The last

three months (preparing) has been a challenge, but great fun as well.”

“Shrek the Musical” continues tonight, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. at ECS’s Cordova campus. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at ecseagles.com or at the door.

Mylissa Horrocks is the communi-

cations writer for ECS.

THEATER

Final shows close curtain on ‘Shrek’

SCOTT STEELE/STEELEMONKEY PHOTOGRAPHY

The cast and crew of “Shrek the Musical” sing a song to Shrek, played by Stephen Timberlake. Showtimes are 7 p.m. through Saturday at ECS’s Cordova campus on Macon Road.

ECS extended run ends this weekend

PHOTOS BY CRAIG COLLIER/SPECIAL TO THE WEEKLY

Germantown Red Devil Jonathhan Bins (right) works the ball up the court to get around Houston’s Kalen Nicholson. The Mustangs rallied to a 56-53 win over Germantown last Saturday night at the District 15-AAA championship at Collierville High.

By Pete WickhamSpecial to The Weekly

A series of short, well-timed bursts of star power by senior

Marlon Hunter helped Houston’s boys basketball team end a very long wait last Saturday night at Col-lierville High School.

Hunter’s 19 points, most coming at crucial points in the game, led the Mustangs to a 56-53 win over archrival Germantown — and a long-awaited District 15-AAA bas-

ketball championship.It was the Mustangs irst district

tournament championship since 1995, and second in school history.

The wait had been ive days longer than expected because of

BASKETBALL

Wait is finally overHouston

overtakes G’town 56-53, earns

15-AAA title

Michael Cohen sports a foot-ball helmet as he and his fel-low Red Devil classmates cheer on their team.

See CHAMPS, 18

By Jennifer [email protected]

901-529-2372

Collierville Schools is con-sidering a change in how it handles long-term suspen-sions.

The district received an of-fer from Germantown Munic-ipal School District for seats at its new alternative school, which would allow Collier-ville to end its $252,000-a-year contract to send students to Lakeside Behavioral Health.

Supt. John Aitken said Tuesday the ofer from Ger-mantown was originally in exchange for Collierville waiving a penalty if German-town changed start times, thus afecting the two dis-tricts’ abilities to share buses. But the Germantown school board voted Monday, at least in the irst of two readings of its budget, not to fund a start-time change.

Aitken said the ofer from Germantown still stands, but the two districts would in-stead work out a payment. He said Germantown’s plan for its alternative school, to be held in sequestered classrooms at Houston High School, is an attractive ofer.

“We’re strongly consider-ing it,” Aitken said.

Collierville is also consid-ering bringing the service in-house. Millington Municipal Schools also has an on-site al-ternative school. The program would not have to be held at a school.

“We’re trying to find a space,” Aitken said.

Students can be given long-term suspensions and sent

SCHOOLS

C’ville weighs ofer by G’townBoth would share new alt school space

See ALTERNATIVE, 2

Page 2: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

In the News

2 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

In brief

G E R M A N T OW N

Mail truck lost in fire, driver uninjured

A United States Postal Service mail truck was destroyed in a ire in Ger-mantown around 2:30 p.m. Feb. 17.

Fire Chief John Selberg said the truck caught on ire on Gainesway Drive in the Aintree Farms sub-division.

The driver of the truck escaped uninjured, Selberg said.

A spokesman for the USPS said some mail was lost, although it’s unclear how much. Any afected customers will receive a letter in the mail notifying them their mail was lost.

Jennifer Pignolet

CO L L I E RV I L L E

Thieves strike Carriage Crossing

Collierville police are investigating after thieves made of with more than $13,000 worth of items from the Buckle Store in the Carriage Crossing shopping area shortly af-ter 1 a.m. Feb. 18.

Surveillance cameras show four men entering the store, all wearing gloves.

The men used screw-drivers to pry open the cash registers and a sledgeham-mer to break the glass at the front door, oicials said.

A security guard saw a man run from the store and get into a blue four-door Saturn, police reported.

Jody Callahan

L A K E L A N D

Death causes shutdown on I-40

A 16-year-old sopho-more at Arlington High School died Monday night after apparently jumping of an overpass onto Inter-state 40.

The situation led to por-tions of the highway near Canada Road being shut down for several hours, according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. The boy’s name was not released.

Jody Callahan

THE

WEEKLY

Volume 2, No. 51

The Weekly, a publication of The Commercial Appeal, is delivered free on Thursdays to select residents throughout Germantown and Collierville.

Mailing address:The Weekly The Commercial Appeal 495 Union Ave. Memphis, TN 38103

To suspend or cancel delivery of The Weekly, call 901-529-2731.

THE WEEKLY

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

David Boyd • 901-529-2507 [email protected]

CONTENT COORDINATOR

Matt Woo • 901-529-6453 [email protected]

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER

George Cogswell 901-529-2205 • [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENT OF ADVERTISING

Stephanie Boggins 901-529-2640 • sboggins@ commercialappeal.com

ADVERTISING SERVICES, RETAIL, CLASSIFIED, BILLING

901-529-2700

By John StammSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

Collierville Town Admin-istrator James Lewellen said the public needs to know more about the plans and costs for a new high school before the town seeks input about a property tax hike to pay for it.

Lewellen was expected to present to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Monday a survey that would be sent to the town’s 14,000 homes. It would ask residents about a projected 22 percent property tax increase to pay for a $98.5 million bond to fund the $90 million school.

Instead, he will wait until the next board meeting March 9.

“We need to do a better job ex-plaining the issues before we do the survey,” said Lewellen.

With the delay, Lewellen said it’s not likely the board will want to have a referendum on the tax hike. Alderman Billy Patton said at last week’s budget work ses-sion he was in favor of a refer-endum. The Lakeland Board of Commissioners has asked the Shelby County Election Com-mission to hold a referendum April 16 on its 55-cent property tax increase for a new school.

Collierville started its push to boost awareness Feb. 19, adding

a special section to the town’s website. It contains questions and answers and a chart showing examples of the tax increase af-fecting property taxes on homes of diferent values. Public infor-mation oicer Mark Heuberger said more information will be added and the site will be pro-moted on social media.

Lewellen said oicials strug-gled with the amount of infor-mation to include in the survey, but decided to keep it to no more

than a page and a half, relying on the website to provide the needed background.

Collierville oicials project a 34-cent boost to $1.87 per $100 of a home’s assessed value. For a $200,000 home, the tax would increase $175 to $940 annually. Oicials also learned there is no 37-38 cent cap, as they irst thought, that would require a referendum. But the public could gather enough signatures to force a referendum.

COLLIERVILLE

Residents to learn more about school plansSurvey put on hold until March 9 meeting

JIM WEBER/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

Waitress Krista Bailey and fry cook Anthony Martin can still find time for a laugh in the kitchen rush at Gus’s in Downtown. The local fried chicken chain will open eight new franchises across the country this year.

By Sara K. [email protected]

901-529-5893

Wendy McCrory is going to be a busy lady in 2015.

The new owner of Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken announced Feb. 18 that the Memphis staple will be migrating well be-yond the Mid-South, to eight new locations across the country.

It will be McCrory’s task to make sure that franchisees from Atlanta to Los Ange-les deliver a spot-on version of Gus’s spicy blend, a perfect replica of the bronze crust that has become a Southern favorite.

Memphis has seen local chains such as Lenny’s and Back Yard Burgers expand out-side the region, but McCrory is tasked with taking a special lavor of West Tennessee and sending it to diners around the country, a task that some say may be harder than it appears.

McCrory, who opened Gus’s Chicken on Front Street in November 2001 as a fran-chise owner, bought the brand this past summer from the Bonners. They are the family that founded it three generations ago in Mason, Tenn., about 40 miles northeast of Memphis.

“I’m glad to see it going worldwide,” said Terry Bonner, whose grandfather created the closely guarded recipe in 1953, and whose father, Gus, was the restaurant’s namesake. The Bonner family will con-tinue to operate the Mason location, while McCrory works on fostering fans of Gus’s across the U.S.

Restaurants are planned for Atlanta, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Fort Worth, Knoxville,

Kansas City, Kan., Chicago and Philadel-phia, according to a Facebook post the company made last week. Atlanta and St. Louis are further along in the development process, and likely to open irst.

Fans around the country jumped on the news, sharing it through social media such as Facebook and Twitter with a level of en-thusiasm that caught Gus’s owner of guard.

“It’s all very exciting, and now it’s our responsibility that we replicate what we have here,” said McCrory, who has called Memphis home since 1979.

Doing so will be no small task, said John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi.

Gus’s joins a long line of Southern cooks who have set their talents toward fried chicken fame, egged on by the success of Colonel Sanders and his Kentucky Fried Chicken.

“The South is a boneyard littered with previous attempts,” Edge said. “The knowl-edge accumulated and expertise nurtured in the South doesn’t always translate be-yond the South.”

But Edge’s reverence for Southern fried chicken in general — and Gus’s in particu-lar — is obvious. He recalls visitors making a pilgrimage to Gus’s for a tall boy beer and a platter of chicken, enjoyed in an ambi-ence reminiscent of “a juke in the midst of upheaval.”

Acquaintances share his enthusiasm.“Watching my Twitter feed this morn-

ing as this was announced, I watched just drooling retweets from Atlanta friends excited to see Gus’s come there,” he said.

Carol Silkes, owner of the Front Street Deli and assistant professor at the Univer-sity of Memphis’ Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management, echoed similar enthusiasm for Gus’s recipe and caution for its expansion.

Gus’s identity is tied to Memphis, much like other regional food is tied to its home-land.

“The reason food is so good is it ties a

memory to a place and makes you want to go back,” she said, noting that Memphis’ people and culture help shape Gus’s expe-rience. “It’s the Southern hospitality, and if that element’s not there, the experience will be good, but will it be the same? Will it replicate? No.”

The people selected to carry Gus’s ban-ner to states out West and up North were selected with care, out of a pool of more than 500 applicants. Franchise winners each pay a $75,000 fee for franchise rights, plus royalties. The fee includes branding, training and operational support. It costs an estimated $600,000 to $1.3 million to build each location and get it running, McCrory said.

To make sure they get it right, McCrory plans to spend the irst several weeks frying chicken at each franchise — and the next year and a half nurturing their eforts.

That means another expansion might not come until the end of 2016. The company isn’t even accepting new franchise applica-tions, McCrory said.

“Most importantly, we want to get this round of stores open, operating, and spend as much time with them as they need,” she said. “We never want to have 500 stores. We want to always be considered a city’s local fried chicken, with deep ties to Memphis and Mason, Tennessee.”

MEMPHIS

Gus’s goes nationalLocal chicken legend adding eight locations across the country

GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN LOCATIONS

EXISTING

Mason, Tenn.Downtown MemphisEast MemphisColliervilleBartlettSouthavenOxford, Miss.Little Rock, West and Downtown

FUTURE

AtlantaSt. LouisLos AngelesFort WorthKnoxvilleKansas CityChicagoPhiladelphia

to Lakeside for violations ranging from showing up to a school function intoxi-cated to bringing a weapon to school. Because it is a public school system, the district cannot fully expel a student, and must ind them an alternative edu-cation option per state law.

Aitken briely brought up the issue during the Collierville school board’s work session Tuesday. In other business, Aitken said the district is still re-viewing sites for the new

high school, and hopes to present the top contenders soon. A public meeting on the project is scheduled for March 31.

The board also heard a presentation from David Pickler from the Tennes-see School Boards Asso-ciation regarding an op-portunity to join a trust to set aside money for the district’s future retirement liabilities. Aitken said the district is still in the pro-cess of an actuarial review to determine the extent of its liability. The district has not yet set aside money for other post-employment beneits.

ALTERNATIVE from 1

The Commercial Appeal

The Shelby County Trustee’s Oice will op-erate a number of tem-porary sites this week in advance of Saturday’s county property tax pay-ment deadline.

Payments also will be accepted at the oice of David Lenoir, trustee, at

157 Poplar. To pay online, go to

shelbycountytrustee.com. Today, extra payment

locations are Bartlett City Hall, 6400 Stage Road, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Collier-ville Town Hall, 500 Pop-lar View Parkway, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Central Li-brary, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Friday locations are Bartlett City Hall, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Central Library, 3030 Poplar, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Also on Friday, addi-

tional staf will be at the following kiosk locations to accept all payments ex-cept cash: County Clerk’s oice, 1075 Mullins Sta-tion, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Millington City Hall, 7930 Nelson, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Arlington Town Hall, 5854 Airline Road, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; German-town City Hall, 1930 S. Germantown, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Collierville Town Hall, 500 Poplar View Parkway, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Satellites open to collect property taxPayment also accepted online

Page 3: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 3

Corner of Germantown Rd. at Poplar | 2083 S. Germantown Rd.

901-756-9522www.germantownhardware.com

“A Real Hardware Store”

GermantownHardware &

Paint

• Small engine repairs

• Window Glass & Screen Repairs

• Key cutting and lock rekeying

• Lamp repairs

• Other handyman needs

Come Hometo Culpepper Placein the Heart ofCollierville!

NOWOP

EN!

Assisted Living

[email protected]@culpepperplace.net

901-854-6590

601Wolf River BoulevardCollierville, Tennessee

POPLARPIKEWINE& LIQUOR“he Friendliest Store in Town”

WEWILLMATCHANY AD PRICE

LADIESDAY

IS TUESDAY!

ENJOY10%of!

(EXCLUDES SA

LE WINES)

We not only show youwhere the wine is...we will tell you about it.Our Ad Prices are Our Store Prices!

Check out our Specials atwww.poplarpikewines.com9330 Poplar Pike • 901-309-0202BehindWalgreens - Next to FreshMarket

HOURS:M-TH/9am- 10pm•FRI&SAT/9am- 11pm

NEW AMSTERDAM VODKA1.75 L

$1799

REDWOOD CREEK1.5 L

$899

JACK DANIELS1.75 L

$3899

JIM BEAM1.75 L

$2399

MAKERS MARK750 ML

$2499

BOGLE WINE750 ML$799

DEWARS SCOTCH1.75 L

$3599MatchThisOne!

CHIVAS REGAL1.75 L

$4999

TITOS VODKA1.75 L

$2549

APOTHIC RED750 ML$899

BOMBAY SAPPHIRE GIN1.75 L

$3599

ABSOLUT VODKA1.75 L

$2699

CROWN ROYAL1.75 L

$3799

SMOOTH AMBLER OLD SCOUT BOURBONPOPLAR PIKE EXCLUSIVE SINGLE BARREL

750 MLBOTA BOX

3 L$1499

WOODBRIDGE1.5 L

$899

TOASTED HEAD750 ML$699

MEIOMI PINOT NOIR750 ML

$1499

SIMI CHARDONNAY750 ML$799REG.

$34.99

DECOY750 ML

$2199 ALLREDVARIETIES

SMOKING LOON750 ML

$799 ALLVARIETIES

$90/Case

NEW AMSTERDAM GIN1.75 L

$1899

$1999

10% OFF 1 Wine Case OR 15% OFF 2 Wine Cases(On non-sale wines only)

Page 4: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

4 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

In the News

By Jennifer [email protected]

901-529-2372

Germantown Fire Chief John Selberg said watching his medical crews tend to

someone whose heart has just stopped is never easy.

Sometimes the patient’s spouse is watch-ing, and their kids are just of in another room while medics pound on their loved one’s chest, poke them with needles and deliver electric shocks.

Selberg said that’s usually when the spouse mentions something like, “He was complaining of pain in his left arm just this morning.”

“You’re thinking, ‘He was having a heart attack then and he didn’t tell anybody,’” Selberg said. “And now, by the time we got to him, chances of him making it are so much less.

“It angers you but you just feel sad, be-cause it was something that could have been prevented.”

Selberg’s goal, in partnership with the Ger-mantown community, is to eliminate as many of those preventable deaths as possible.

The initiative, dubbed the Heart Safe Program, involves the ire department, the Germantown Municipal School Dis-trict and Methodist Le Bonheur German-town Hospital. It begins with education in the form of cardiopulmonary resusci-tation and the use of automated external deibrillators.

A community’s cardiac survival num-bers can be hard to compare, as many cit-ies calculate them diferently. Selberg said Germantown’s overall rate of survival when someone has no heartbeat is 37.5 percent. For patients whose heart shows what’s deemed a “workable” rhythm, the depart-ment’s survival rate is closer to 60 percent.

Statewide, Tennessee ranked 45th in the country for heart disease-related deaths in 2013, according to the Kaiser Family Foun-dation. Mississippi ranked last.

The ire department teamed up with hospital staf this month to CPR certify the entire ninth-grade class at Houston High School.

In May, the department will train the 11th-grade class, and by the end of next year, 2,000 members of the community will be newly trained in the lifesaving skill.

An additional 80 to 90 percent of district staf members also will be certiied.

Brian Fisher, the district’s school health coordinator, said students were exposed to some CPR training but were not being certiied before the initiative. Fisher said the hope is that it will encourage parents to become CPR certiied, and that it will help students who are tasked with watching younger children or who are searching for summer jobs.

“What does a 14-year-old have to put on a resumé?” Fisher said. “Now they at least have that.”

Expanding to Germantown High School is also a goal, said hospital CEO William Kenley, as well as expanding to the busi-ness community. Businesses that train their employees in CPR and are willing to install AEDs inside their buildings could earn rec-ognition as a “heart-safe business.”

He said the hospital is seeking grants to pay for the AEDs to be distributed through-out the community.

“We all hope we never have to use it,” Kenley said. “But reality is some of us will, and if more people are trained, it’s just going to make for a better community overall.”

Germantown

Brandon dill/Special to the commercial appeal

Houston High freshman Matthew Wright, 15, demonstrates the proper way to check for breathing on a training mannequin while Germantown Fire para-medic Greg Breuer supervises during a CPR and AED certification course at the school. All ninth-grade students take the course.

Healthy heartsStudents,

community learn life saving techniques

By Jennifer [email protected]

901-529-2372

The bells at Houston High and Houston Middle schools will again ring at 7 a.m. next year.

The Germantown Munici-pal School Board on Monday, in front of a crowd of about 150 people split down the middle of the room at Houston Middle based on their side of the issue, declined to fund a move away from the early bell time.

The board conducted its irst of two readings on the 2015-16 school year budget. A inal read-ing at the board’s next meeting will make it oicial.

The budget option includes $1,050,000 for transportation. Director of operations Josh

Cathey said another $200,000 would have been required to fund any combination of chang-es that would move away from a 7 a.m. start. Germantown shares some buses with Collierville schools, and later start times would require more buses.

The board was 3-2 in its vote, with Mark Dely and Ken Hoover dissenting. Lisa Parker said the district cannot aford the change this year. She said Germantown has a target on its back “because Germantown has always been the best.”

“Everybody is looking for Ger-mantown to stumble,” she said. “As long as I’m sitting in this position, Germantown will not stumble.”

Supt. Jason Manuel said ahead of the vote that not everyone would be happy, but he hoped the community could heal after months of contentious debating.

While the meeting show-

cased opinions from both sides, a group of parents had formed an advocacy group in favor of changing the start times. They gathered more than 600 signa-tures on a petition before the meeting and had been the most vocal at previous meetings.

The board debated in a work session last week what to do with about $800,000 of discretionary

funding. The priorities funded in this budget are three inter-ventional teaching positions, a special education coordinator, a technology initiative and an extra $100,000 toward retire-ment liability. It also adds about $94,000 to the transportation budget to account for possibly increased ridership or routing, but not quite enough to change

the start times.Hoover advocated adding

start time changes to that same list of priorities and finding other areas of the budget to cut to pay for it. He mentioned the diesel fuel and legal fee budgets as possibilities. The board voted down that possibility.

The meeting featured more than an hour of passionate com-ments from 43 community mem-bers.

Houston High junior Antonio Scott, who spoke out against a time change for the high school, said after the meeting he was “proud” of the board’s decision.

Not all the students agreed.Junior Julia Harris said she

had a rough transition to high school after attending Riverdale School, which starts at 8 a.m.

“I came home exhausted on a regular basis and fell asleep for hours not waking up until din-ner,” she said.

Germantown

efort to change school start times fails

FEB. 15

■ oicers arrested a juvenile male after he was involved in a physical altercation with his father in the 8200 block of aldershot at 2:53 a.m.

■ Victim’s unlocked vehicle was entered but nothing was taken in the 2300 block of pikewood at 11:33 a.m.

■ Victim’s unlocked vehicle was entered and coins stolen in the 2200 block of cornwall at 11:51 a.m.

■ Someone shot a BB gun through the victim’s house window in the 7100 block of Bell manor at 2:05 p.m.

■ a victim was struck by a moving vehicle’s side mirror after a disturbance with an acquaintance in the 2100 block of idlewood at 3:11 p.m.

■ oicers arrested an adult male after he was involved in a physical altercation with his father in the 7200 block of riverwood at 8:18 p.m.

■ oicer initiated a traic stop and arrested an adult female for possession of marijuana at mcVay cove and mcVay road at 11:08 p.m.

FEB. 16

■ Business entered by unknown means and computers stolen in the 8500 block of cordes at 7:49 a.m.

■ mother and son were engaged in an argument that became physical in the 8500 block huntleigh Way at 9:15 p.m.

FEB. 17

■ employee is suspected of taking money from the business since october 2014 in the 900 block of corporate Gardens at 4:35 p.m.

■ Juveniles are suspected in denting a vehicle from throwing ice in the 7700 block of Wolf river at 5:17 p.m.

■ oicer initiated a traic stop and arrested two adult males for possession of marijuana at poplar pike and Germantown at 6:07 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Farmington at 9:07 p.m.

FEB. 18

■ Juvenile issued a summons for borrowing a vehicle without permission at Scruggs and poplar at 4:25 a.m.

■ Victim’s cell phone was taken from an unlocked vehicle in the 2100 block of ealing at 8:12 p.m.

■ Victim had jewelry stolen by an acquaintance in the 1800 block of park trail at 10:19 p.m.

■ Vehicle struck guide wire causing no injuries at cd Smith and Winner at 11:20 a.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Wolf river and Germantown at 1:21 p.m.

FEB. 19

■ oicers arrested adult male after he had entered an unlocked vehicle looking for items to steal in the 7000 block of eastern at 1:24 a.m.

■ oicers arrested adult male after he had entered an unlocked vehicle looking for items to steal in the 2100 block of howard at 3:07 a.m.

■ a female passed a counterfeit check in the 2100 block of Germantown at 2:36 p.m.

■ Someone cracked the windshield of the victim’s vehicle in the 8100 block of poplar at 4:34 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing injuries at dogwood and thorncroft at 9:10 a.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Johnson and poplar at 6:19 p.m.

■ Vehicle struck a curb causing injuries at Farmington and Germantown at 1:30 a.m.

provided by the Germantown

police department

Germantown Police Reports

Board declines to foot the bill for later bells

Special to the Weekly

Members of the Col-lierville Police Depart-ment celebrated several milestones Feb. 11 at the Collierville Municipal Courthouse.

Chris Roberts, formal-ly a patrolman, was pro-moted to detective in the Criminal Investigations Division. Roberts served the Collierville Police Department for 16 years as a patrolman, school re-source oicer and SWAT

Team member.During the presenta-

tion, Police Chief Larry Goodwin presented Rob-erts with his certiicate of promotion and detec-tive badge. Along with the promotion of Roberts, the Collierville Police De-partment celebrated the anniversaries of two Col-lierville Police officers. Lt. Jimmy Anthony was recognized for 35 years of service and Lt. David Townsend was recognized for 20 years of service.

Collierville

Police staf recognizes milestones, promotions at Courthouse

Lt. David Townsend recently celebrated 20 years of service with the Collierville Police Department.

Goodwin (left) presents newly-appointed detective Chris Roberts with his certifi-cate and badge.

Collierville Police Chief Larry Goodwin (left) congratulates Lt. Jimmy Anthony for 35 years of service.

The German-town Mu-nicipal School Board on Monday voted to keep the starting times at Houston Middle and High at 7 a.m.

JenniFer piGnolet

the commercial

appeal

Page 5: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 5

ON CALL 24 Hours7 Days A Week

OFFERS LIMITEDTIME ONLY!

www.globalcentralairservicesinc.com

901-794-3144

FREE Dryer Vent Cleaningwith Purchase

Coupon good for 12 vents,1 main and 1 return

25% off any competitor’s written estimate!

Limit one per household. Offer valid with whole house cleaning only. Not valid withany other offer or prior services. Additional fees may be incurred. Expires 2/28/15.

WHOLE HOUSECLEANING

$25 BEFORE CLEANING:• Mites • Mold • Fungus• Pollen •Germs • Dust

• Allergens • Dirt• Pet Dander • Pathogens• Dead Bugs • Bacteria

AFTER CLEANING

DustMites

Bacteria

Mold

Coupon Coupon

Coupon Coupons

FREE DUCTWORK

INSPECTION• Air low eficiency• Leaks and/or broken ducts• Proper insulation

Limit one per household. Not valid with any other offer or priorservices. Additional fees may be incurred. Expires 2/28/15

BASIC PACKAGE INCLUDES• Debris Removal to the Curb• Check All Lines for Leaks• Dead Animal Rodent Removal• Full Inspection & Evaluation of Undercarriage of Home• Estimate for Recommended Work

FREE ESTIMATES FOR CRAWL SPACE CLEAN-UP!

KILL MOLD & MILDEW!Germicidal UV protectionkills up to .005 microns

$299**Includes:

• Installation • 1 year warranty labor• 3 year warranty parts

$300 OFFLennox Pure-Air Air Puriication System

OR$100 OFF

Healthy Climate

High Eficiency Media Filters

Limit one per household. Not valid with any other offer or priorservices. Additional fees may be incurred. Expires 2/28/15

CRAWL SPACE SPECIALStarting at

$249.UP TO 300SQ. FT.

Limit one per household. Not valid with any other offer or priorservices. Additional fees may be incurred. Expires 2/28/15

Limit one per household. Not valid with any other offer or priorservices. Additional fees may be incurred. Expires 2/28/15

Specializing in Pre-Owned Mercedes Benz and other Fine ImportsLow Prices, High Quality Since 1985 • Phone: (901) 332-2130 Memphis, TN

C Class36 Heavily Equipped C’s In stock CLEARANCE2013 C250 Sport, Steel Grey/Black, 14k............................................................................... $26,9502013 C300 Sport, Black/Black, 9k ......................................................................................... $26,8002013 C300 Sport, Black/Black, 32k ....................................................................................... $24,9502012 C300 Sport, Sapphire Grey/Almond, 23k ................................................................... $24,950E Class25 E’s In Stock2014 E350, DiamondWhite/Brown, 9k, Super Loaded, MSRP, $67,225 .............................. $46,9502013 E350 Luxury, Iridium Silver/Black, 31k, LOGIC7, LaneTracking, Heated .................. $31,9502012 E350 Luxury, Palladium Silver/Almond, 35k, P1 Pkg, Nav, Back Up, Heated .......... $29,9502011 E350 Sport Bluetec, Palladium Silver/Ash, 36k, P1 Pkg, Nav, Back Up, Heated .... $28,650

Sales * Service * Bodyshop2 Indoor Showrooms, Excellent Finance Rates

Trade-InsWelcomeLarge Inventory – Most In FactoryWarranty

We Service For Less

WWW.SM ITH IMPORTS .COMPartial Listing Only.View our complete inventory at:

Pricing cannot be combined with any other offer.Smith Imports is not responsible for typographical errors.

S Class14 S550’s In Stock2015 S550, Obsidian Black/Metallic Black, 1k...................................................................... $99,6502013 S550, Lunar Blue/Tan, 19k............................................................................................. $56,9502013 S550, Black/Black, 23k ................................................................................................... $56,5002013 S550, DiamondWhite/Metallic Cashmere, 10k ........................................................ incoming2012 S550, Iridium Silver/Ash, 39K....................................................................................... $44,750SUV’s2014 GL450, Palladium Silver/Black, 9k................................................................................ $64,5002014 GLK350, Pebble Grey/Black, 4k .................................................................................... $33,8602013 GL450, Steel Grey/Black, 11k. ....................................................................................... $56,1802013 GLK350, PolarWhite/Almond, 44k............................................................................... $31,6002012 GLK350, Iridium Silver/Black, 19k ................................................................................ $29,5552012 ML350, ArcticWhite/Almond, 22k................................................................................ $39,500Coupes2013 C250 Coupe, ArcticWhite/Beige, 26k.......................................................................... $28,6452012 CLS550, Iridium Silver/Black, 49k, P1 Pkg, Keyless Go, Ventilated/Heated .............. $43,5002012 C250 Coupe, Palladium Silver/Black, 12k ................................................................... $24,875Convertibles2014 SLSAMG GT Roadster, Obsidian Black/Red, 655mi., Keyless, Heated, Nav, Blind Spot .......$179,5002013 SL63 AMG, Black/Black, 2k......................................................................................... $109,5002013 SL550, Black/Tan, 15k .................................................................................................... $76,5852012 SL550, Black/Beige, 21k ................................................................................................ $61,6582012 SLK350, Black/Black, 27k, Keyless Go, P1 Pkg, Heated, Nav .................................... $33,605Additional Inventory2013Volkswagen Jetta, Diesel,White/Black...................................................................... $19,9502012 BMW X5, Silver/Black, 60k ........................................................................................... $34,5002012 Lexus RX350, Black/Tan, 37k....................................................................................... $32,8502012Volkswagen Passat, Black/Black, 45k ........................................................................ $20,8502012 BMW 740Li, Black/Tan.................................................................................................. $50,850

2013 MERCEDES-BENZ SL550MSRP $120,845

$81,675SPECIAL!

PRICEDTO SELL

Beer School WednesdaysWine Tasting Daily

We reserve the right to change the offerings. Prices are good through February 28. No further discounts apply.

2136West Poplar Ave., Collierville TN 38017 | Mon-Thurs 9am-9pm | Fri, Sat 9am-11pm

WoodbridgeAll Varietals

Jose CuervoAuthentic

Lime Margaritas1.75L

$12.99

Bud Light12 Pack Cans Only

$10.99

Featuring our new insulated growlers.Visit the growler station to ill up!

We have high grav beer.We have low grav beer.We have draft beer.We have craft beer.

We have draft craft beer.Too many to list here!

Smirnoff 801.75ML

$16.99

Stone JapaneseGreen Tea IPA

22 oz. $8.99NEWITEM

!

NEWITEM

!

Adelsheim Willamette ValleyPinot Noir 2012

92 Points from Wine Spectator$27.99

NEW

LOWER

PRICE!Wiseacre

BoomslangGrowler

New BelgiumLips of FaithCocoa Molé

22 oz. $8.99

Toasted HeadChardonnay

750 ML $7.99

1.5L$10.99

6 bottle Case$56.05

YOUR DESTINATION STORE FOR:*SPECIALTY BEER *NEW PRODUCTS

*QUALITY & SERVICE

SmallBatch Borboun

750 ML $23.991.75 ML $41.99

Page 6: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

6 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

Schools

Jennifer Swanner hopes to instill a lifelong love of learning in her students.

Jennifer SwannerIncarnation Catholic School, middle school language arts and K-8 gifted and talented

Q What do you like most about your school?

A I really enjoy the small class sizes because I get to truly

know my students and freely talk about my faith.

Q What was your favorite subject as a kid and why?

A I loved science because of the intrigue of how things work.

Q What was the most challenging subject for you as a kid and why?

A Math was the most challenging for me because I didn’t under-

stand its necessity.

Q What is the greatest challenge you face as an educator?

A My greatest challenge is two-fold. It is the delicate balance

between connecting with the stu-dents, while at the same time try-ing to teach to the various levels as well as learning styles present in the classroom.

Q What do you hope to accomplish as an educator?

A As an educator, I hope to instill a passion in students for learn-

ing so they become lifelong learners.

Q What is the most rewarding mo-ment you’ve had as a teacher?

A There are rewarding moments almost every day as a teacher,

you just have to look for them. But one of the most rewarding moments for me is when you see the light bulb go of and they inally get it.

Q Who is your teaching inspiration and why?

A My junior English teacher Mrs. Gaines is one that I admire the

most. The irst six weeks I received a D in her class. It devastated me and I was in tears. She talked with me and assured me it was going to be OK. That evening, she called my mom. She said if I stayed in the honors English class she could guarantee it would prepare me for college. Not only did I stay in the course, but I passed and learned a lot about reading and writing. What she taught me was the importance of really caring about your students and how it is more than a job.

Q When did you know you wanted to be an educator?

A I was working at a preschool teaching pre-kindergarten.

Part of my class schedule was an hour of free centers time. One day, a child came to sit with me. He shared some details of what hap-pened at his house the night before. I knew from that instance that the world of education was my calling.

Q If you weren’t a teacher, what would you be?

A Working in a free clinic pro-viding health care to those in

need in a developing nation.

Q What are some things you enjoy doing outside the classroom?

A Crafting, reading, bowling and couponing

Q What would you do with $1 mil-lion?

A With $1 million, I would pay of my student loans, travel to

Europe and invest the rest.

Q If you could change one thing in the world what would it be?

A If I could change one thing in the world, I would love for

people to see people for who they truly are on the inside and not be caught up in the outside and that person’s current circumstance.

To nominate an outstanding educator to be

featured, e-mail Matt Woo at woo@com-

mercialappeal.com.

TEACHER SPOTLIGHT

Swanner enjoys Incarnation’s small classes

raSil ShamShuddin KhoteaFarmington Elementary, second grade

what do you like most about your school: My teachers. Mrs. Taylor, who is my second-grade teacher, and Mrs. Breggren, who was my irst-grade teacher.

favorite subject (and why): Math, because I like calcula-tions.

most challenging subject (and why): Science, because we work with chemicals.

what are some of your biggest

accomplishments: I got my high-est honors in second grade.

hobbies: I like to read books and play with Legos.

Goals for the future: Become a good citizen.

Person you most admire (and why): My mom, because she is the one who taught me every-thing about right and wrong.

favorite movies, tV shows, books: “Toy Story” and “The Lego Movie,” “Mickey Mouse Club House,” “Magic Tree House”

People would be surprised to know about me: That I can build

anything from Legos. Also, I in-ished all my Magic Tree House series.

what would do if you were prin-cipal for a day: I would change our playground to a carnival and change break time from half an hour to one hour.

famous person would you like to meet (and why): The author of Magic Tree House.

what would you do with $1 mil-lion: I will help poor kids and send them to school, and if some is left I will buy Legos.

if you could change one thing in the world: I would change older

people’s voices to make a nice and cute voice like a baby and for my parents to never leave this world.

To nominate a star student, e-mail Matt

Woo at [email protected].

Rasil Shamshuddin Khotea’s enjoys the Magic Tree House series of books.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Farmington second-grader Khotea loves playing, building with Legos

By Beth rooksSpecial to The Weekly

when 2014 Briar-crest valedictorian Lindsey Taylor announced she

was attending the University of Alabama at graduation last May, the two-sport letterman was contemplating walking onto the Alabama softball team, but a funny thing hap-pened.

As an incoming freshman, she was in-vited to try out for rowing — an activity she had never tried before.

“All the freshmen got this e-mail invit-ing them to try out for the rowing team, which is a varsity sport at Alabama,” said Taylor. “Early in the summer, I contacted the coach and told her I was interested. I started working out on a rowing machine and running nearly every day.”

“I would have to say this is the most challenging and focused sport I have ever played,” added Taylor. “It requires so much focus at one point in time, and you can never slip up because your team-mates in your boat are counting on you. Also, there are so many muscles involved that you are constantly sore. I don’t go a

day without a sore muscle, but surpris-ingly, I love it. It has taught me how to clear my mind and focus on the task at hand whether that be rowing for one minute or 45 minutes.”

And her hard work paid of. After spending the fall trying to earn a spot on the team as a walk-on, Taylor was given a spot on one of the eight-plus crews (eight rowers with one oar each, plus a coxswain).

She is now one of nearly 50 women who represent the Crimson Tide in row-ing and will have a chance for an athletic scholarship next fall.

Beth Rooks is the director of communications for

Briarcrest.

ACHIEVEMENT

Row Tide Row

Former Briarcrest student Lindsey Taylor recently earned a spot with the University of Alabama’s rowing team. She is one of 50 women on the team. “I would have to say this is the most challenging and focused sport I have ever played,” Taylor said.

Former Briarcrest valedictorian part of Alabama rowing team

By Sarah acufSpecial to The Weekly

St. George’s Independent School athletic director Tom Densford recently hired Scott Reall as the new strength and conditioning coach. Reall joins St. George’s from the Tennessee Titans where he has been the assistant strength and condi-tioning coach since 2011.

“We are very excited to have Scott join the St. George’s com-munity,” said Densford. “Scott’s extensive knowledge, experi-

ence and passion made him the perfect candidate for this position. Adding Scott to our athletic de-partment will be a tre-mendous opportunity for all of our students.”

Reall has held intern-ships with two of the most prestigious football programs in the coun-try. For the 2009-10 season, he acted as the football strength and conditioning intern at the University of Alabama. The Crimson Tide was undefeated

that season, tackling the Texas Longhorns in the BCS national champion-ship game in Pasadena, Calif. Reall also spent a season as a football per-formance intern with the Ohio State football program from 2007-08, when the Buckeyes won the Big 10 Championship

and advanced to the national championship game.

Reall has trained many pro-fessional athletes over the years including: Olympic gold medal-

ist Shawn Johnson; LPGA golfer Megan Grehan; NBA player Brandan Wright; and former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck.

“I am honored to be a part of the St. George’s family,” said Re-all. “I look forward to working with such talented students and to serve as a part of the culture of change and growth that is to come through the strength and conditioning program.”

Sarah Acuf is the coordinator of develop-

ment communications and assistant di-

rector of communications at St. George’s.

ST. GEORGE’S

Scott Reall is new strength and conditioning coach

Scott Reall

SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS

Students at Germantown Elementary Optional School had the op-portunity to learn hockey skills and techniques from players with the Mississippi RiverKings. Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders each spent an hour learning about hockey and playing a scrimmage game. The students really enjoyed trying on the equipment and spending time with Sheldon, the RiverKings’ mascot.

Each quarter, Our Lady of Perpetual

Help Catholic School chooses one student

from each grade for be-ing Christ-like to others

through their actions and words. For the

second quarter, Joseph Mangin, Camilla Tran,

Aidan Sessler and Mat-thew Lamanilao where

chosen as Chirst-like Award recipients. Julia

Mocny (not pictured) also was chosen.

Page 7: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 7

Schools

Several Briarcrest fourth- and ifth-graders participated in the ACSI Geography Bee. The Briarcrest team practiced their geography skills to prepare for this competition against other area Christian schools. Briarcrest swept the fourth- and ifth-grade divisions.

Germantown El-ementary Technol-ogy Club members gather around to see which robot can knock over or push the cup out of the ring. The club consists of 30 third- through ifth-grade students who have spent the school year learning about computer program-ming, gaming, computer software and robotics.

The Collierville Education Foundation recently awarded more than $12,000 in grants to Bailey Station Elementary. The grants are to provide funding for a variety of instructional resources that teachers might not otherwise be able to ofer. The numerous grant-funded projects include a 3-D printer to complement the APEX curriculum and an iPad cart for use in the speech therapy program. BSE teachers and administrators are extremely grateful for the community support provided by the CEF.

This year, 59 Briarcrest eighth-graders were granted membership into the National Junior Honor Society. To be inducted, the students had to meet the rigorous standard of a 3.7 cumulative GPA (grade-point average) throughout middle school while maintaining good citizenship. An induction ceremony was held Feb. 11.

Jane Scott’s irst-grade

class spreads the love at

Dogwood Elementary

during Valen-tine’s Day.

St. George’s senior Justin Wertner (No. 4), who recently signed with the University of California-Irvine, was named a Division II-A Mr. Basketball Finalist for the second con-secutive year. This season, Wertner led St. George’s to a 25-4 record and the DII-A West Region title. On the season, he averaged 18.4 points and 9.7 rebounds while being named District Player of the Year. Wertner is the school’s all time leader in three-point-ers made and free throw percentage. St. George’s defeated Franklin Road Academy, 53-49, in a sub-state game Tuesday to advance to the state tournament that begins Friday in Nashville. The Gryphons will play Davidson Academy at 2:45 p.m.

SNAPSHOTS

SEND US YOUR SNAPSHOTSWe’d love to see what you’re up to in your community. Send snapshots of family gatherings, community events, out-of-town adventures and more to share in The Weekly. E-mail JPEG images 1-2 MB in size to Matt Woo at [email protected]. Please include first and last names of everyone pictured and all the pertinent details.

The St. George’s seventh-grade girls basketball team recently capped of a terriic season by winning the Shelby League seventh-grade championship game. Holding up their championship plaque is River Allbritton (front, left), Anna Larizza, Maggie Kay Imorde, Kathryn Robinson; Ashley Wilson (back), Mary Virginia McWaters, Adi Thrasher, Grace Eber, Isabel Dlabach, Caroline Finch and coach Curtis Jones.

Page 8: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

8 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

The National Garden Bureau has declared 2015 the “Year of the Sweet Pepper.”

And what’s not to like about that?

It’s a vegetable (technically a fruit, but let’s not go there) that comes with a list of positive at-tributes:

■ Peppers’ sweetness can be enjoyed by almost everyone in both a raw and crunchy state and also roasted, sautéed or simmered and added to other ingredients as an underpinning of lavor for numerous dishes.

■ To my eye, their bright yellow, red, orange, purple and almost black colors make them gorgeous garden plants.

The pepper photos supplied by the garden bureau evoked thoughts of summer and gave me a psychological boost in temperature on a wintry day.

■ Peppers aren’t just pretty. They’re also an alphabet soup of vitamins such as C (as much or more than oranges), several of the Bs and A, and they have beneicial minerals as well.

For the highest levels of nu-trients, choose red, orange and yellow peppers over the green ones.

■ The garden bureau’s press materials say peppers are easy to grow, but not for me.

Now I know it’s probably be-cause I’ve been planting them either in the same place every year or in a place formerly oc-cupied by a tomato plant.

Both of those veggies as well as Irish potatoes and eggplants must be rotated annually to avoid soil-borne diseases, said vegetable gardening guru Bill Colvard.

He does it by dividing his growing area into four parts and then rotating crops clock-wise each year.

By the time the troublesome

vegetables get back to their original space, the diseases should be gone.

This year, I will put my pep-pers into some virgin soil or even a container and hope for better results.

In its press materials, the NGB notes small pepper plants seem to transplant more easily than those that are root-bound in those tiny nursery pots or already in bloom.

Pepper plants love warm soil and full sun but like the shade their own leaves provide.

Plant them in soil amended with compost, and fertilize every two weeks until you see lowers. Then stop giving it ni-

trogen so the plant can put its energy into making peppers instead of leaves.

If your plant has abundant leaves but no lowers, it’s get-ting too much nitrogen. Pale leaves may indicate a need for fertilizer.

■ Pepper plants are attrac-tive enough to grow in contain-ers with ornamentals. Contain-ers should hold at least 2 gallons of soil and be deeper than wide. Be sure to water often during July and August.

NEW AT THE GARDEN

Scott McCormick’s first week as executive director of the Memphis Botanic Garden was anything but laid back.

The staff and numerous volunteers were busy getting 5,600 indoor plants ready to sell at the garden’s annual “Green Your Home Winter Houseplant Sale.”

But it gave him a chance to get to know them and some of the 500 or so people who came.

“We have a great staf that’s very energetic,” said, McCor-mick, 55. “I want to build on the work Jim (Duncan) did so the next 10 years are just as great.”

Duncan, who retired at the end of January, was a driv-ing force in increasing atten-dance, enlarging membership roles and completing capital improvement projects such as the children’s garden, My Big Backyard; the herb garden, Blecken Pavilion and a $6.5 million outdoor entertainment complex that includes the Jim Duncan Stage.

McCormick seems well suited to his new job. As a city councilman from 2004-2008, he became familiar with the op-eration of the botanic garden as a member of the council’s Parks Committee.

When he was executive di-rector of the Plough Founda-tion, he was closely involved in the development of the Wood-land Discovery Playground at Shelby Farms.

And in that role, he learned what grant proposals are ex-citing enough to get funded, a skill that he can use from the other side of the desk in his new position.

He chose his last job, inan-cial adviser at Duncan-Wil-liams, because the company is heavily involved in supporting community endeavors includ-ing sponsorship of the Live at the Garden concert series at the botanic garden.

“I try to be involved in the community with everything I do,” he said.

McCormick doesn’t boast a green thumb, but he enjoys growing vegetables in raised beds at his home in Cordova. His wife, Carolyn, is into orna-mentals.

“I’ve grown pumpkins, to-matoes and other vegetables with moderate success,” he said. “My goal is always to grow enough tomatoes to make a big pot of marinara sauce. I think it’s happened twice.”

ONE SWEET YEAR

Easy-to-grow sweet peppers are available in a rainbow of colors.

NATIONAL GARDEN

BUREAU

Celebrate the shades, flavorsof peppers

Home & Garden

CHRISTINE ARPEGANG

GREEN THUMB

WADE CLAYTON, DDSDREWMEFFORD, DMD

1329 Cordova Cove • Germantown • 901-509-28232705 Appling Road • Memphis • 901-388-9110www.TheMemphisDentist.com

CLAYTONMEFFORD DENTAL

• Cosmetic Dentistry • Invisalign• Dental Implants • 12 Months No Interest Available

Relaxing, Spa-like atmosphere for all dental procedures

FREE ZOOM WHITENINGAvailable at Germantown location only

New patients only.Requires new patient exam,

cleaning & x-rays.Candidate must qualify.

Results may vary.Offer expires March 20, 2015.

Page 9: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 9

Community

By Kit DeckerSpecial to The Weekly

The community is invit-ed to attend a World Day of Prayer service that has been planned by an ecu-menical group represent-ing seven area churches. The local service will join in prayer that will reach all the way around the world.

Brenda Kindelan, a lay leader from Church of the Holy Spirit Memphis,

will present the message. The service will be held at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 2425 S. German-town Road, on March 6 at noon with a light lunch reception following.

World Day of Prayer is a worldwide ecumenical movement of Christian women of many tradi-tions who come together to observe a common day of prayer each year on the irst Friday in March. World Day of Prayer was founded on the idea that prayer and action are in-separable. Services begin at sunrise in the Paciic

and follow the sun across the globe on the day of celebration. Each year a diferent country’s World Day of Prayer committee serves as the writers of the WDP worship service. Women, men and children in more than 170 countries and regions will celebrate World Day of Prayer.

For more information, go to wdp-usa.org. or con-tact St. George’s Episcopal Church at 901-754-7282 or stgchurch.org.

Kit Decker is the publications

writer/editor for St. George’s

Episcopal Church.

FAITH

St. George’s to host World Day of Prayer serviceMary Rogers (left) from Germantown Presbyterian Church and Kit Decker from St. George’s Episcopal Church display the poster for this year’s World Day of Prayer Service, which will be held at St. George’s Epis-copal Church on March 6.

All are welcome at March 6 event

SNAPSHOTS

Jim Moore (left) and Neil Aronson, residents at The Village at Germantown, make wooden crosses to hang in patients’ rooms at Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital. Moore donated his woodworking equipment to The Village at Germantown when he moved in. The shop is busy with woodworkers repairing furniture for its residents and staf. They have also made a doll house, menu boards and now wooden trucks for their grandchildren.

In its continuing support and partnership with the Germantown Community Theatre, the Germantown Women’s Club presented a $500 check to theater execu-tive director Dr. Michael Miles. The check was matched by the theater’s enhancement grant. The theater concluded a successful run of “Miss Firecracker Contest,” during which GWC held a Dinner Theatre Night event for club members and guests.

The FedEx Pilots Wives Association hosted a Mardi Gras party Feb. 13 at the home of Kimberly and Toby Bolan in Collierville. The party was a fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House. The house recently had a broken pipe, which set of the sprinkler system, looded the family rooms and displaced 15 families displaced and they have been working to repair all the damage. Helping raise money for the cause is Jenn (left) and JB Stettler and Lisa and Mark Martens.

SEND US YOUR NEWS, PHOTOSWe want The Weekly to be your go-to for community news. Tell us what you like, what you don’t like. Better yet, be a part of our team by sending us your news. Brag on your kids (or pets!), tell us about upcoming events or special people in the community. Send us photos of church events, youth sports, summer vacations and

everything happening right here.E-mail JPEG images 1-2 MB in size to Matt Woo at [email protected]. Please include first and last names of everyone pictured, the city in which they live, and all the pertinent details.

AND COMMENTS

th

Discount Tickets at Walgreens

800.849.0248A Southern Shows Inc.

Production

Jessa Duggar Seewald from19 Kids and Counting Gone Cupcaking Tour Rock Your Hair with a Free Haircut

Food | Fashion | Celebrity GuestsHealth | Beauty | Shopping | Fun

March 13-15, 2015AgricenterFriday 10am-8pm | Saturday 10am-7pm | Sunday 11am-6pmAdults $10 at the Door | Youth (6–12) $5Under 6 FREE with Paying Adult

PROUDSPONSORS

www.SouthernWomensShow.com

Page 10: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

10 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

In the News

PHOTOS BY JASON R. TERRELL/THE WEEKLY

Bill Kelsey (center) of Collierville and fellow members of Bankhead’s Battery Civil War living his-tory unit prepare to fire a reproduction Noble Brother’s 6-lb., smooth-bore cannon back into its trailer outside the Mid-South Military History & Civil War Show.

Joe Burns of German-town (right), president of the Tennessee Genealogical Society, helps attendees look up their ances-tors.

Bill Rivenbark of Memphis, a member of Bankhead’s Battery artillery re-enactment group, at-tended the annual event with his son, Will, and granddaughter, Olivia.

Diane Rivenbark of the United Daughters of the Confederacy poses in front of a booth run by Graydon Swisher.

By Jason R. [email protected]

901-529-2509

The men stood in formation in the cold and damp, their uniforms barely keeping out the rain and their red ke-pis pushed down over their eyes. And then, on a signal from their commander, a squad member pulled the cord and the resulting boom rang out so loud that it set of car alarms around the area of Germantown Parkway.

The men in question are members of Bankhead’s Battery, a Civil War artillery re-enactment group that is connected with the Robert E. Lee Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

The men of Bankhead’s were out in the parking lot of the Shelby Show-Place Arena at the Agricenter last weekend as part of the Mid-South Military History & Civil War Show and the boom heard around the neigh-borhood came from their reproduction Noble Brothers 6-lb. ield cannon.

The show was a combined efort of James Chalmers Camp, Robert E. Lee Camp and Bankhead’s Battery, which provided the cannons. Featured were numerous re-enactors in period cloth-ing and about 120 vendors including representatives from several area his-tory groups and lineage societies. Items for sale included everything from books and CDs to period-style clothing. Some items dated from the Civil War period all the way through World War II. Vendors were also on hand displaying and selling antique irearms with some dating back to the 1860s.

Meanwhile, members of the Battery seemed to enjoy the fellowship and the opportunity to share their passion for history with the public.

Event coordinator Lee Ann Robert-son shared a story about a family who stopped by on the last day of the show with kids in tow. When the members of the Battery ired the cannon for the last time, their three-year-old put his hands to his ears and cried out, “It’s a miracle!”

ACTING OUT

HISTORYEnthusiasts gather for annual

Military History & Civil War Show

TammyBunnellLife Member Multi-Million

Dollar Club

7700 Poplar Ave., Suite 216Germantown, TN 38138

Ofice: 901.754.0800Cell: 901.870.4181Fax: [email protected]

http://tammybunnell.crye-leike.com

Dillard’s Rewards. All about choice. All about you.Earn Rewards when you shop using your Dillard’s Credit Card.*

Visit dillards.com/rewards for more details.*Subject to credit approval. See stores for details.

STARTS TODAY!TAKE AN EXTRA

ENTIRESTOCK

...of all permanentlyreduced merchandisethroughout the store.

40%off

Page 11: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

In the News

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 11

PHOTOS BY BRANDON DILL/SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

Universal Asset Management employees Billy Bullock (left) and John Broyles sit in seats from the irst-class section of an airplane as they eat lunch on a table made from the horizontal stabilizer of a Boeing 737 at the company’s Tupelo, Miss., facility. Aviation Afterlife, a division of UAM, manufactures such tables and other furniture and décor from parts of retired aircraft.

Furnishings fashioned from retired planes take of

Aviation Afterlife operations coor-dinator Jeremy Watts works on an executive desk, which will include a stabilizer from a Boeing 737 airplane.

A WING and a

CHAIR

They want to recycle “ev-ery ounce of that aircraft,” said Universal Asset Manage-ment chairman and CEO Keri Wright. “We’re always looking for ways to reduce the carbon footprint in that aspect of the business.”

Aviation Afterlife is “rein-carnation in its most exotic form so the airplane can con-tinue to live on,” Wright said.

Watts, she said, is “instru-mental in the design of new ideas, new prototypes of fur-niture.”

The planes are disassembled at the company’s Tupelo facil-ity, where the furniture is made. Aviation Afterlife’s irst pieces were picture frames made from windows cut out of the fuselage. They then took the inlets — the outer covering or shrouds of the engine — and made desks. “There is a certain select aircraft we have to use because some of the ones can-not be used,” Watts said. “But we can use a large one like a 747. It has a 9.5-foot circumference on it, so it makes a huge desk. A reception desk is what they’re more commonly used for.”

Inlets also make great wet bars to use outside by the pool,

Watts said.“We sold a few items to just

a few people who were in the aviation ield. For their homes, for their oices,” Watts said. “We did a few Christmas gifts for loyal UAM customers to kind of show them what we can do. Then it kind of grew from there.”

Aviation Afterlife “literally took of,” Watts said.

Converted plane seats are popular, he said. “We take the irst-class seats. They like to use them for a man cave, or they’ll buy them for children’s rooms. A few people have bought them for home theaters. We’ve sold everything from the standard seating to the nice, leather ones. It really just depends on what the customer wants. I’ve actu-ally got some of the standard economy seating that I use in my home. We have a little work room. And we use them on our carport.”

Aviation Aircraft makes long tables, including the ones in the Tupelo facility’s break room and conference rooms, from wings, slats and laps. They also make counters and bars from slats, fuselage win-dows and galley carts — the

little wheeled vehicles used for serving drinks and snacks on planes. They make cofee tables from 737 landing gear wheels and pub tables from the rims.

They make patio umbrellas and clocks from bulkheads. “The bulkhead is the very rear of the cabin of the aircraft,” Watts said.

The clocks are a popular item just because they’re made from bulkheads, Watts said. “There is only one per aircraft, so when you get that, you deinitely get a one-of-a-kind piece.”

But, he said, “The things we sell the most of are the picture frames and the galley carts be-cause they are a very identii-

able item.”Sometimes people come up

with their own plane-inspired ideas, which Aviation After-life tries to turn into reality. “We don’t do a lot of sketching. The only time we do any kind of sketching is if a customer is curious if we can make a cer-tain piece.”

Not everything they make is functional; they made an art piece out of a wing for a company in North Carolina. “Instead of laying it down as a table, we actually stood it up like the tail of an aircraft and gave it a real high gloss inish,” Watts said. “So, when you walk in the door, you have this out-standing piece that’s right there in front of you. It’s a horizontal wing, but when you stand it up the average person thinks it’s the tail of an aircraft ’cause it’s such a large piece.

“We sold several things to that company. They did buy some large fuselage cutouts. Their oice was divided up with fuselage; their cubicles were done with fuselage walls. (While) they’re sitting in their chair, they can look through the window to the person sitting beside them.”

Some people request furni-ture made from a particular air-craft. “A lot of people like 747s just because it’s a very popular aircraft,” Watts said.

Not everybody who buys their products has an ailiation with aircraft, Watts said. “The people that bought the dividers — that company doesn’t have anything to do with aircraft. They’re actually a marketing company. They just wanted some art décor — something diferent in their oice.”

Prices range from $495 for high-polish fuselage picture frames to $12,000 and up for customized pieces.

“Each individual piece we build has its own authenticity,” Watts said. “Each piece has certain laws, certain dings, certain dents, a certain light history. It’s taking something and refurbishing it and creat-ing something new.”

And, Watts said, “It’s been in the air. It’s not something you drive down the road every day. It’s had millions of miles on it.”

To see a video on Aviation Afterlife, go to

commercialappeal.com.

By Michael [email protected]

901-529-2797

Instead of patio chairs, Jeremy and Tina Watts relaxed in chairs made from converted irst-class aircraft seats at last year’s World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. Their “Rub Me Tender” booth also was fur-

nished with a bar and service table made from a 330 Airbus.

Jeremy Watts, 37, is operations coordinator of Aviation Afterlife, which makes furniture and objects from retired aircraft. It’s a division of Memphis-based Universal Asset Management, which buys, sells, leases, manages, disassembles and recycles commercial planes for companies all over the world.

“When an aircraft gets to the end of its life span, we get the plane and sell the parts back to the airline industry,” said Abby Horn, Universal Asset Management business development man-ager. “What’s left of the plane, the actual shell of the plane, we take those parts and turn into fur-niture. We recycle what’s left.”

Mike Oswald does prep work on a stabilizer from a Boeing 737 airplane that will be made into an executive desk.

Repurposed parts from retired airplanes can ind new life as furniture and décor such as a podium made from a plane’s window panel.

Page 12: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

12 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

ACADEMICALL-STARS

Congratulates these Memphis-area high school studentswho have earned the Academic All-Stars Award.

Rachel Thomas | Tipton-Rosemark Academy | Drama & SpeechRachel, a senior, is a dynamic performer who is passionate about using her talents for community service. She holds a 3.774 grade

point average and is a disciplined Honor Student. She was cast in the two lead actress roles, Abby and Martha, in “Arsenic and Old Lace,”after an impressive portrayal of both characters during auditions. She also had leading roles of Golde in “Fiddler on the Roof,” and JaneAusten in “Pride and Prejudice the Musical.” She was selected to attend the 2014 West Star Conference at UT-Martin for leadershiptraining, Disney-Newsies Workshop in New York City for acting instruction, Orpheum Broadway 101 Master Class for “Once” to studyActing/Voice and Dance and the Orpheum Musical Theatre Intensive Workshop for outstanding student actors.

In addition, Rachel is actively involved as the alto section leader for the school’s Concert Choir, Show Choir, Women’s Choir and GirlsJazz Ensemble. The choirs won irst place and overall high school choir at the Festivals of Music Competition in New York last spring.Rachel is an outstanding mentor to younger students, a soloist at Veterans’ Day programs and a volunteer with the Memphis Union Mission.

Nadia Readus |Overton High School | Drama & SpeechNadia, a senior, is an important member of the school’s Creative and Performing Arts Theatre program. She holds a 3.1 unweighted

grade point average and will graduate with all Honors courses. She is a three-year participant in the theatre arts program and hasperformed in three of the largest musicals. She played the role of Frenchy in “Grease,” Alice in “Bye Bye Birdie,” and a munchkin as wellas the Head Winged Monkey in “The Wiz.” She also has worked backstage as the prop manager during “110 in the Shade” and assisted inthe production of “Don’t Drink the Water” and “12 Angry Jurors.”

A Memphis Ambassador, Nadia spends time reading to special needs students. She is the student leader for the Special Olympics. Oneof her proudest moments was when she raised more than 500 canned goods and $200 for the Kids Kan Drive. She also is a member of theInteract Club and Key Club, both of which focus on community service. Nadia is a role model for her classmates as she seeks out ways toacknowledge the accomplishments of others.

Briana Brown | Immaculate Conception Cathedral School | Drama & SpeechBriana, a senior, is a serious student who has a love for dance. She holds a 3.79 unweighted grade point average while spending

23 hours per week and extended hours in the summers practicing ballet technique, lamenco and modern dance. Briana, who has beendancing for 12 years, is a student at the New Ballet Ensemble in Memphis. She has danced the lead roles in many classical performancesincluding “Coppelia,” “The Nutcracker,” and the school’s annual “Spring Loaded.” During the summer, Briana volunteered her time as ateacher’s assistant at the summer youth program, Peter and the Wolf Camp.

This past fall, Briana was selected to represent New Ballet Ensemble in Washington and accept the National Arts and HumanitiesYouth Program Award for her dance studio. As part of this experience, she met First Lady Michelle Obama, who presented the awards. Shealso was chosen to attend the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Seminar and performed for the Special Olympics as part of this program.Last summer, Briana was accepted into the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Summer Intensive Program in New York. She spent sixweeks improving her craft.

Kyle Van Frank | St. Benedict High School | Drama & SpeechKyle, a senior, is a rare talent. He has been involved in nine school theatrical productions where he shows an instinctive knack for

performance – pinpoint comic timing, a deep understanding of human behavior, and a wide variety of character voices and physicality.He is a gifted musician, playing the piano, trumpet and accordion. He also helped to start and coach a competitive forensics team, wherehe took home several irst place awards the irst year. Kyle holds a 4.36 weighted grade point average, expertly balancing extracurricularcommitments with a tough schedule of AP, Dual Enrollment and Honors classes.

Selected to the Orpheum Theatre STAR Council, Kyle earned the 2014 Best Supporting Actor award for his portrayal of Action in theschool’s production of “West Side Story.” He played the beloved role of Nathan Detroit in a production of “Guys and Dolls” at the BartlettPerforming Arts Center. He co-directed the show choir musical, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” and has tried his hand at costumingin this year’s show choir production of “Aida.” Recently, he played the lead role of Brutus in “Julius Caesar.” He also attended theTennessee Governor’s School for the Arts.

Olivia Bernabe | St. Mary’s Episcopal School | Drama & SpeechOlivia, a senior, is a talented actress whose style, social graces, sincerity and genuine spirit are reminiscent of an earlier classical era.

She holds a 4.47 weighted grade point average and scored 30 on the ACT. Her acting skills have been enriched by growing up in the UnitedStates and Mexico and her love of history, music, English, literature and art. She not only acts but dances and sings as well. She wasaccepted into the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts and was a member of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Master Class. As an activemember of the school’s Speech Team, Olivia placed irst in Duet Musical Theatre, irst in Duet Improvisation and second in poetry.

In addition, Olivia has trained her soprano voice in both classical and musical theatre. As a dancer, she has been a tap dancingassistant and has trained in tap, ballet and ballroom dancing. In theatre, she has played leads and supporting parts. Whether it’sthe Queen in “Cinderella,” Shelby in “Steel Magnolias,” or Dr. Emmett in “The Curious Savage,” Olivia gives her characters a speciicdemeanor and personality.

Lindsly Penny |Hernando High School | Drama & SpeechLindsly, a senior, is a bright student with a wide range of talent. She holds a 4.15 weighted grade point average and scored 29 on the

ACT. She has a love for the ine arts. She has been in a number of plays including “Toga! Toga! Toga!” and “Hairspray.” She also was partof the school’s “The Insanity of Mary Girard,” for which she was nominated for an Allie Award for best cameo performance. She has beeninducted into the National Thespian Honor Society and is a two-year member of the Drama Club. She often is asked to do hair and makeupfor productions such as Kudzu Playhouse’s “The Giver” and “Willy Wonka.”

A focused and determined student, Lindsly maintains top grades while pushing herself to write cogently and to think critically. She isa member of the National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, the Interact Club, Goalie Girls and the Mayor’s Youth Council.Lindsly has taken part in the Mississippi Theatre Association’s competition the last two years. Each year her team of thespians hasadvanced to the state competition. This year they presented a moving short piece, “The Cagebirds.”

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

You have unique needs. We have solutions to meet them.

We’ll handle it from here.TM

Waste Collection | Electronics Recycling | Sharps DisposalAll-in-One Recycling | Yard Waste | And More

Proud Sponsor of Academic All-Stars

Nathan Weinreich | St. George’s Independent School | Drama & SpeechNathan, a senior, is gifted academically and artistically. He holds a 4.45 weighted grade point average and scored 34 on the ACT. He

has taken nine Advanced Placement classes and four honors classes. The school had to create classes for Nathan so he could continuehis intentional study of art. He has participated in many theatre projects including design, assistant direction and stage management(“Seussical the Musical”), shift crew (“The Foreigner”), and stage performance (“To Kill a Mockingbird”). Nathan’s true passion is ilm.The ilm he made for his senior thesis debuted recently at Studio on the Square.

A National Merit Commended Student, Nathan has been inducted into the International Thespian Society and the National Art HonorSociety. He has been named an AP Scholar with Distinction. He was accepted for the highly selective Tennessee Governor’s School forthe Arts in ilm as a rising junior. He is the co-creator and president of the Director’s Cut Club. He also lends his ilm talents to fellowstudents as they work on videos for their Senior Independent Study projects.

Page 13: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

Say Cheese!

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 13

PHOTOS BY CRAIG COLLIER | SPECIAL TO THE WEEKLY

“We are heading to Pensacola to get some sunshine.”

CLIFFERY SUGGS

We asked folks at the

District 15-AAA championship

game at Collierville High:

What are your plans for spring

break?

“I am heading to Hammond, Indiana, to visit my 97-year-old grandma.”

CANDACE SMITH

“My husband and I still need to decide on where we want to go.”

CRISTI PARKER

“I can’t go anywhere on spring break.

I have to work.”

NEGEEN ARAGHIAN (right) with Ashion Safdari

“I am going to

Bogota, Colombia

for a cousin’s

wedding.”

WES CRUMP

Page 14: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

14 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

GERMANTOWN9091 POPLAR AVE. SUITE 110GERMANTOWN, TN 38138 | 901.756.8328UFCGYM.COM/GERMANTOWN

©2015 UFC GYM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

1 FREECLASS

BOXING • KICKBOXINGMUAY THAI

Activate by 2/28/15.

Available for non-members

at participating locations. No

purchase necessary. Restrictions

apply. Must be over 18 or

accompanied by parent or

guardian. No cash value.

TWOMONTHSFOR $99

Activate by 2/28/15.

Available for non-members

at participating locations.

Must be over 18 or accompanied

by parent or guardian.

No cash value.

TRAINDIFFERENT®

MORE THAN 110 LOCATIONS NATIONWIDE.VISIT UFCGYM.COMFOR LOCATION INFORMATION

drinkm.e.n.u

woodbridgewines1.5 l

ketelonevodka1.75 l

johnnywalkerred1.75l

mer soleilsilver unoakedchardonnay750 ml

woodfordreservebourbon750ml

fetzerwines1.5 l

j lohrchardonnay750 ml

silver palmcabernetsauvignon750 ml

$9.99

$10.99

$35.99

$8.99

$15.99

$26.99

$9.99

$9.99

$17.99

relaxriesling750 ml

The Wine and LiquorCapital of Germantown

Monday-Saturday 9am-10pm7730 Poplar Avenue, Suite 5 & 6

901-737-3174

#NeverRunOutofWinePrices valid through March 11, 2015

menage atrois red750 ml

m

$19.99

skyyvodka1.75 l

erverveveveenbonb

$34.99yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

ededddedd

jimbeambourbon1.75 l

$24.99

1660 Bonnie LaneCordova TN

cordovamedical.com

Page 15: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 15

Community

By Tom [email protected]

901-529-2572

Malcolm “Jimmy” Keep ad-mits that, deep down, he really doesn’t want to go back. Not to that sulfurous little spit of an island — that place where the volcanic-ash surface teemed with lice, and the tunnel-laced underground was crawling with enemy soldiers eager to kill him.

It was 70 years ago today that Keep, a scrawny but tough 18-year-old kid from South Mem-phis, made his irst trip to Iwo Jima, landing with the Fourth Marine Division. He already had endured ierce combat on Guam and Saipan, but so savage was the ighting on Iwo that he usually refers to the island by other, unprintable names.

“It was a slaughter ...,” Keep said of the legendary ive-week World War II battle that began Feb. 19, 1945, and claimed the lives of nearly 7,000 Marines. “It was a 24/7 situation of kill or be killed.”

Now 88 and living in Raleigh, Keep is the one of the last sur-viving veterans of the battle who live in Shelby County, said Diane Hight, founder and president of the group Forever Young Se-nior Veterans. Sidney Ryan, 90, a Cordova resident, is another.

Keep is preparing to return to the island.

Hight’s group is raising money — it’ll take $10,000, with $6,000 still to go — to fund the trip by Keep and his son Mickey, 67. They will join 60-70 other Ma-rine veterans for a 70th anniver-sary gathering on the island next month, lying to Hawaii, then Guam, where the two will stay before making a one-day shuttle trip to Iwo.

“He deserves it so much,” Hight said. “He’s been through so much.”

Keep said he’s going mostly for his son’s sake. Like many World War II vets, he spent much of his postwar life suppressing memo-ries of combat.

“He just started talking about this stuf three or four years ago,” said Mickey Keep.

As horriic as his experiences during the war were, Keep’s childhood often wasn’t much better. Born in Orlando, Fla., he moved with his family to Memphis while he was an in-fant. His mother died from tu-berculosis when he was young, and that, coupled with his poor relationship with his father, re-sulted in Keep being raised by his grandmother and her live-in boyfriend.

In school, he never made it past sixth grade, a consequence of his breaking a leg while play-ing football. Instead of return-ing to school after the injury, Keep took a job paying 25 cents an hour at a lumber company. It was during the Depression, and the $11 a week he earned helped the household greatly.

But the sweatshop conditions of the plant made him seek an es-cape. At 17, with his father sign-ing his consent, Keep joined the Marines. It was July 1943, and the war was going full-bore.

“My grandmother had a it,” he said.

Standing only a shade over 5-foot-5, and weighing just 132 pounds, Keep didn’t cut an im-posing proile. But his toughness became evident during a series of boxing matches among re-cruits in which he took on, and eventually beat, bigger men.

During training, Keep was as-signed to reconnaissance duty and paired with another little guy, Charlie Cirulla of Massa-chusetts. The two fought togeth-er through the remainder of the war, experiencing intense com-bat irst on Guam, then Saipan.

It was on Saipan that Keep manned a 50-caliber machine gun during one of the infamous banzai charges in which Japa-nese soldiers threw themselves at Marine lines in human-wave assaults. “It was the bloodiest

thing you ever saw,” he said. “The damn fools wouldn’t quit coming.”

Afterward, a “spit-and-pol-ish” lieutenant walked by and congratulated Keep because his “pile of bodies was bigger” than those of the other Marine defenders. The compliment en-raged Keep.

“I was going to kill that son of a bitch. I could still hear them (the Japanese) scream. I could hear myself scream. Something in me snapped.”

As the assault on Iwo Jima began, Keep and Cirulla were ordered to drive an amphibious tank across the narrow neck of the island below Mount Suriba-chi to scout the beach on the op-

posite shore. But an enemy shell disabled the vehicle, forcing the two to dash across the island on foot.

“Every Japanese soldier ever born was shooting at us,” Keep said.

Somehow, neither man was hit. From that point on, other Marines called them “rain-walk-ers” — a name suggesting that if they could run through intense enemy ire without getting hit, surely they could walk through rain without getting wet.

Keep and Cirulla saw other Marines raise both U.S. lags — the initial lag and the second, larger one immortalized in the iconic photo — on Suribachi.

But the battle was far from won. The Marines still had to ight their way down the length of the island, and casualties were mounting

“What was so bad about Iwo is that, early on, Marines would fall dead from gunshot wounds, and no one knew where it was coming from,” Keep said.

“Turns out, there were tunnels under there — huge tunnels, you could drive a car through them.”

As recon men, Keep and Cirulla were among those

charged with the task of clearing the tunnels. Every other day for about two weeks, they descend-ed into the darkness to lush out the enemy.

The close-quarter fighting was beyond terrifying. Once, when Keep and Cirulla neared a corner in a tunnel, they knew there were many Japanese troops on the other side — they could smell them. “I imagine they could smell us, too,” Keep said.

The two Marines lobbed gre-nades, ricocheting them of tun-nel walls. The Japanese — entire squad of 15 or so — responded by charging at Keep and Cirulla, only to be mowed down.

At some point during the ighting on Iwo, a Navy photog-rapher took an image of Keep helping a wounded Marine back to the beach. Keep remembers it well, saying he was giving the man — an oicer — an earful. “Because he was crying like a baby, saying he was scarred for life. I said, ‘You’re getting of this rock. I’ll trade places with you.’”

After the war, Keep became an electrician and raised a fam-ily, including a son and daugh-ter. His irst marriage ended in divorce, and he remarried. Both his ex-wife and second wife are now deceased, and he lost his daughter to cancer.

He had put the war behind him. As close as he was to Cirul-la, who also is now deceased, Keep never got back in touch, fearing that if he did “the war would come back to me.”

As much as he tried to forget the war, Keep said, “Now that I’m older, it’s all there again.”

The prospect of returning to Iwo raises mixed emotions. “They’re not going to make me go back in those tunnels, are they?” he only half-kiddingly asks his son.

If there’s a place he’d really like to go, it’s Japan. Keep said he’d visit the Shinto shrines of Japan’s indigenous faith. “I don’t believe in their gods,” he said. “But I’d like to go to their gods and ask for forgiveness, because I killed a lot of people.”

‘It was a slaughter’

BRAD VEST/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

“It was a 24/7 situation of kill or be killed,” recalls Malcolm “Jimmy” Keep, 88, at home in Raleigh. One of the last Iwo Jima veterans in Shelby County, he’ll join dozens of others returning to the infamous island next month for the first time since World War II. The trip will mark the 70th anniversary of the five-week battle in which nearly 7,000 Marines died.

Iwo Jima battle survivor prepares for return trip

VETERANS’ TRIPSAnyone interested in making donations to help pay for veterans’ trips back to Europe, the Pacific and other former war zones can call Diane Hight, president and founder of the group Forever Young Senior Veterans, at 901-299-7516. The group’s website is foreveryoungvets.org.

What does finding your true north mean? It is finding your orienting

point. It’s your primary source of inspiration. We’ve found that Jesus

Christ is the true north. Whatever their interests, when we equip our

I found myTrueNorth

Formerly SBEC

7400 Getwell Road Southaven, MS 38672662.349.5127 www.ncstrojans.com

children with a Biblically-based college

prep education, they are prepared

not only for college,

but also for life.

ALL WORK BACKED BY A NAPA NATIONWIDEWARRANTY 24 MONTHS/24,000 MILES

WALMARTWest Poplar AvenueAbbington

Road

OPEN 6 DAYSConvenient HoursMonday-Friday

7:00 AM - 5:30 PMSaturday

7:00 AM - 2:00 PM

TOWING SERVICE AVAILABLE10% OFF WITH YOUR IDFedex, Nike, Carrier, Pepsi,

Police or Fire

COMPLIMENTARY LOCALSHUTTLE SERVICE

“Where your business is appreciated!”

www.southtireautomotive.com

COLLIERVILLE • 177 Abbington Road • 861-3700

Let our professionals show you how to get the maximummileage out of your vehicle!

901-861-3700

,,•Tires & Custom Wheels•Computer Diagnostics•Fuel Injection Service•Transmission Service•Shocks & Struts

•Suspension Service•Custom Mufflers& Exhaust

•A/C Service•Alignments

•Oil Changes•Tune Ups•Brakes•Flat Repair

ANY REPAIR OVER $100

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

ANY REPAIR OVER $200

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

PLUS FLUIDS

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 42424242424242429595959595 Instant Rebateper Axel

20202020202020202020200000000000

With coupon. Most cars and light trucks.Not valid with any other offers.

Expires 2/28/15

With coupon. Most cars and light trucks.Not valid with any other offers.

Expires 2/28/15

With coupon. Most cars and light trucks.Not valid with any other offers.

Expires 2/28/15

COLLIERVILLE

Across from Walmartbehind Trustmark Bank

Bring in your Sweetheart,pay for your Oil Change andyour Sweethearts is FREE

RadiatorCoolant

Flush & Fill

Must present offer at time of purchase. Both oil changes must be completed on the same day.Up to 5 qts. of oil; most cars and light trucks. Excludes AMS, diesel and full synthetic oils.

Page 16: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

16 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

Payments are for a 2015 CADILLAC ATS Sedan 2WD Preferred Equipment Group with an MSRP of $33,215. 36 monthly payments total $11,844. Option to purchase at lease end for an amount to be determined at lease signing. Lessor must approve lease.Take delivery by 03-02-2015. Lessee pays for maintenance, repair and excess wear. Payments may be higher in some states. Not available with other offers. Residency restrictions apply.

5433 POPLAR AVENUE | MEMPHIS, TN 38119 | (901) 761-1900

VISIT US ON BUDDAVISCADILLAC.COM

INC.

2015 ATS SEDAN

ULTRA-LOW MILEAGE LEASEFOR WELL-QUALIFIED LESSEES

DUE AT SIGNINGAFTER ALL OFFERS$2,809 MONTHS36

Tax, title, license, dealer fees and optional equipment extra. Mileage chargeof $0.25/mile over 30,000 miles.

ATTRACTIVE LOYALTYLEASE AND PURCHASE

OFFERS AVAILABLE NOW

$329 PERMONTH

2.5L engine

Page 17: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 17

Sports

By Beth RooksSpecial to The Weekly

Briarcrest senior Alexis Bonanno and family and friends gathered recently to celebrate an once-in-a-lifetime event for the senior. She signed a National Letter of Intent to play softball for Chatta-nooga State Com-munity College.

As a transfer from Arlington High School last year, Bonanno lettered in softball and bowling.

Bonanno is a member of the National Spanish Honor Society and National Honor Society. She was voted Top Hitter in the Mem-phis area this year and has won numerous “top athlete” awards at regional collegiate softball camps over the past three years.

Bonanno plans to study fi-nance and business. She is the daughter of Katherine and Mi-chael Bonanno of Lakeland.

Beth Rooks is the director of communica-

tions for Briarcrest.

PREPS

Bonanno signs to play collegiate softball

SNAPSHOTS

The Viper 13 vol-leyball team won

gold at the MLK Kickof Classic.

Team members are Becca An-

thony (left), Lily Mascari, Kaycee

Long, Isabel Hollis, Raegan

Hartdegan, Rich-lyn Ross, Rylee Wilkins, Ralyn

Hannah, Kelsey Keough, Bes-

sette Panchikal, Ashley Stovall

and coach Wendy Stewart.

The Viper 16 Purple volleyball team took home irst place at the MLK Kickof Classic. The irst-place winners are (front, left) Hope Phipps, Annalee Parker, Meredith Dickey, Savannah Pruitt; (back, left) coach Eric Bouchoc (back), Marley Bennett, Lizzie Waldrup, Gabi Catt, Allie Bramucci and Sara Burford.

The Briarcrest varsity football cheerleaders took a huge bite out of the National High School Cheerleading Championships in Orlando. The Saints advanced to semiinals in routine and inals in GameDay and took home the silver medal in medium varsity GameDay.

OB Brazilian Soccer School, coached by Rafa Rodriguez (back), won the U9 3v3 tournament in Oxford. The win-ning team members are Ellett Smith of Germantown, Isabella Rivino, Michelle Betancourt and Lucy Walt Smith of Germantown.

Alexis Bonanno

JON DICKENSCell: 496-5702 | Ofice: 682-1868Email: [email protected]

Pristine Custom home! Fabulous chefs kitchenw/large pantry. Butlers pantry w/wine fridge(3 zone cooling). Generous master suite, 2ndbedroom on main level can be private oficew/full bath. Giant bonus w/refreshment center &1/2 bathroom, Cozy media Rm (ofice measure)3 FP’s & 4 Car extd Garage for anything youneed! Covered outdoor entertaining areaw/separate grilling area & wood burningFP accessible from Hearth RM & LR! Internalexpansion!

10362 N. Duncan Woods DrCollierville, TN 38017 Shelby County $699,000

Fabulous Magnolia built home w/ 3 bedroomsdown/1 up, ofice/Large Game Rm. Loft areaupstairs, heavily landscaped yard w/irrigationsystem. Large Screened in porch, stacked stonefp in Den,upgraded cabinets w/real ventahood,2 pantries, laundry, extensive trim work, cornerlot w/exceptional backyard, circle drive w/3car side load garage w/ built in storm shelter!This home was originally built as the “Make AWish” home. A lot of attention to detail and niceupgrades throughout!

25 Oak Run LnRossville, TN 38066 Fayette County $437,750

Price Reduced!!! Beautiful 5BR/4.5BA in gatedcomm. Beautiful hardwood loors, heavy crownmolding & millwork, Custom built-ins, 10’ smoothceilings, stainless appliance package &decorative ornamental iron, 2nd BR dn. could beofice with full bathroom or guest suite, 3/BR +huge bonus up! Lake lot with landscaped patioare great for relaxing or entertaining.

6656 Vinings Creek CvMemphis, TN 38119 Shelby County $410,000

PRICE REDUCED! This beautiful home is boastingw/ upgrades in excess of $40,000! Kitchen w/granite counters & New Electrolux (High-End)SS appliances/ Custom closets in most rooms/New roof/ Custom Landscaping w/irrigatedbeds & Outdoor lighting/Large patio w/stoneboarder & covered pergola. Spacious yard w/Invisible fence around entire property (Propertyline goes beyond backyard fence on East side) &this just scratches the surface! Property is walkingdistance to great Golf Course !!

220 Fair View LnOakland, TN 38060 Fayette County $200,000

Looking to build your dream home ?Call about Lots & Land Available For Sale

Closed $18.5 Million w/60 Transactions in2014 ! Let my proven success get you

in the right direction

W W W . T I L E S H O P . C O M

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13th - SUNDAYMARCH 1st

UP TO75%OFFSELECT ITEMS

VISITOURCORDOVASHOWROOM

Germantown Square1245NGermantown Pkwy.

(901) 312-5123

Page 18: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

18 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

Prep SportsHOUSTON HIGH GRABS 15-AAA TITLE

winter weather closings throughout the school week. “We couldn’t play or practice, and it showed in spots tonight. But our kids hung in there and did what they had to do when it counted,” Hous-ton coach William Bu-ford said.

Hunter kept setting the tone at the right times. Early in the game he hit his only three of the night, then followed with a mid-range jumper that opened an early 10-3 lead.

Just before the half, he followed up a court-length driving layup with another steal and bucket to help the Mustangs (22-8) to a 36-32 halftime lead.

Germantown (24-10) has made it a habit to nev-er go away, especially in a game against its cross-town rival.

Never go away, ha-rass the dickens out of an opponent and keep ‘em guessing as to who is holding the dagger.

Michael Bambrick and Rodney Williams each had a dozen points, Rod-ney Brown added 11 last Saturday.

The Red Devils poked into the lead 42-40 late in the third quarter. But Hunter was there again with a couple of mid-range jumpers of silky head fakes that put Hous-ton on top 45-42 going into the inal quarter.

“I work on that. I try to shoot 500 mid-range shots a day,” said tourney MVP Hunter, headed to West-

ern Kentucky next year. “But tonight we won with our energy and hustle as a group.”

Stil l Germantown wouldn’t lay down. A three-point play by Wil-liams made it 48-47 Dev-ils. Bambrick countered a Williams basket to make it 51-50.

The Mustangs then seemed to take control with a 7-0 run as Jus-tin Benton, Hunter and freshman Ryan Boyce each hit baskets, Hunter mixing a free throw along the way to make it 56-50 with 1:04 left.

Then they left the door open, as Jimmy Jenkins (8 points) and Hunter each missed one-and-one tries. Dacoda Stone hit a three for Germantown to close the gap, and after a missed three the Devils grabbed an ofensive rebound with 13.8 seconds left on the clock.

Houston still had two fouls to give at that point, and did off inbounds plays to scrub ive sec-onds of the clock. And the Devils’ last gasp was an of-balance three that found nothing but iron.

“We didn’t play well when we needed to, and missed a lot of inside shots when we gave ourselves chances,” said German-town coach Marvis Davis, whose team was looking to gain the school’s irst 15-AAA tournament title since 1980. “We had the opportunity.”

Hunter, Benton and Jenkins made the All-Tournament team along with Williams and Brown of Germantown and Brett Warner of Collierville.

CHAMPS from 1

Houston High School boys basketball coach William Buford talks strategy with his players during a timeout.

The Germantown student section was lively. The Red Devils boys team was trying to win its first district title since 1980.

Germantown’s cheerleaders cheer on the Red Devils as they took on their crosstown rival Houston.

Germantown’s Rodney Williams scores an easy two points as he dunks over the Houston defenders during the title game.

Germantown’s Rodney Williams swats away a shot by a Houston player during last Saturday’s championship game.

Houston’s Brian Harper works to get around Germantown’sDarrell Brown during last Saturday’s District 15-AAA champion-ship game at Collierville High School..

Players on both teams fight for the rebound after a missed shot under the Germantown basket during last Saturday’s District 15-AAA title game won by Houston 56-53.

Houston’s Marlon Hunter elevates for a quick jumper against Germantown. Hunter was named MVP of the tournament.

Germantown’s cheer squad gathers around for the starting lineup introductions.

Germantown High School students show their support as the Red Devils faced Houston for the district championship.

PHOTOS BY CRAIG COLLIER | SPECIAL TO THE WEEKLY

Page 19: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 19

Inspire

www.Midsouthhomeexpressions.com

YourselfRenovating, Remodeling orDecorating Your Home

But Don’t KnowWhere to Start?

Right Here!

Brought to you by

4 FREE ChancesTo Win

4 $25,000Home Makeovers

Join the fun at the MidSouth HomeExpressions Show.

Register for 4 FREE chances to win 4 $25,000Home Makeovers!

Express Your HomeWith Original Art

Visit our new “Home is Where The Art Is”art/craft exhibit at the MidSouth Home

Expressions Show!

Win A Year’s Supplyof Pet Food!

Enter your pup’s photo in ourMost Adorable Dog Photo Contest

and you could win a year’s supply of dog food!

Visit www.midsouthhomeexpressions.com for details.

Fri.: noon-7p.m. / Sat.: 10a.m.-7p.m.Sun.: 10a.m.-5p.m.

Gen.Admission $8 Seniors $7 Youth (7-14) $4

March 6-8, 2015

NEW NAME! NEW LOCATION!SAME GREAT SHOW!

2015 Exeter Road,Germantown, TN 38138

(901) 309-2191www.grandbufetgermantown.com

FREE*DINE-IN ONLY. With purchase of two beverages.

Must Present Coupon for Discount.Expires March 4, 2015.

Buy One Bufet,Get the Second One

MODERN CHINESE, AMERICAN& JAPANESE CUISINE

ONEWEEKONLY!

Page 20: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

Horoscopes

Cryptoquip

Sudoku

For the kids

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 number only once.

SOLUTIONS: See BELOW for solutions to these puzzles

Premier Crossword | Reordering Parts

CONTACT USChris Herrington, 529-6510, herrington @commercialappeal.com, or Mark Richens, 529-2373, [email protected].

SUNDAY BREAK

By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Display

shimmering milky colors

9 Reinforcing eyelet

16 Shapes of parentheses

20 Like a Williams-burg district

21 Eyeglass 22 0 23 Sharp-witted

response from a creep?

25 Eye part 26 Energy-filled 27 Provide (with) 28 Hiatus 29 Gut-punch

response 32 Mello —

(drink brand) 34 Like someone

doing an oil change under a car?

38 Plane part 40 Gaelic language 42 Columnist

Barrett 43 Took charge 44 Sale on items

having a quintet of hanging decorative threads?

51 Suds-filled 52 Bible bk. before

Job 53 Siesta, e.g. 57 Greatest

importance

59 One-sixth of a foot?

64 Circumspect 67 Hula — 69 Open, as a

bolted door 70 19th Greek letter 71 Palette part 72 Hold PC fixers

dear? 76 Work unit 77 Lyric penner

Gershwin 78 Pulls down 79 Jorge’s “this” 80 Hawkish god 81 One telling

fortunes by gazing into artificial light sources?

84 Equally billed headliners

88 Alternatively 89 “— pity!” 91 Working

properly 95 Bistro that’s

beautiful and also has great food?

101 “I see now!” 104 “It’s — of words” 105 They counter

nays 106 Ill-fated whaler 107 What it used to

take to get word in prehistoric times?

111 8-pointer in Scrabble

115 They cross rds.

116 Fiery fits 117 Steer snarer 119 Nautilus VIP 121 Hot-rod rod 122 Lament from

somebody who wants one of their sons to be named after director De Palma?

129 Mad, with “off” 130 Indian oven 131 Oil conduit 132 Water swirl 133 Novelist

Sábato 134 Endeavoring

anew

DOWN 1 Suffix with hill 2 “Lenore” poet 3 Brit’s brew 4 Extended 5 Savor 6 Attack tactic 7 Noel 8 Wapiti 9 Govt. agents 10 Train track

supporters 11 Well-timed 12 Orbitz listing 13 Old AT&T rival 14 “Twilight” rock

gp. 15 Olympic ideal 16 Sky color 17 Expose 18 Wrinkle 19 Really wet 24 Corp. shuffle

28 Oat husk 29 Sign- —

(approvals) 30 Mishmash 31 — beans 33 Helped out 35 Tolkien

villain 36 Seek to win 37 Wildebeest 39 Energy-filled 41 “Ciao” 45 Yule tree 46 Outdoor gear

retailer 47 Suffix with

20-Across 48 “— better

be good!” 49 Yell at from

a distance 50 Three: Prefix 54 Come in 55 Startle 56 Violent sorts 58 Mollycoddles 60 Least

comfortable 61 U.K. channel 62 “— -di-dah!” 63 Hosp. areas 64 As long as 65 Ear-relevant 66 Stationery

store units 68 Marital

beginning? 72 Artist Gerard

— Borch 73 Comic

Charlotte 74 Age 75 Flee from

80 Humane org. of the U.S.

82 Fence (in) 83 Slowing down,

in mus. 85 Blast cause 86 Craft 87 San Luis — 90 Speaks

volumes 92 Spa sighs 93 — all possible 94 Yanks’ foes 96 Klutzy ones 97 A pair 98 Honey holder 99 Vase type 100 Indian noble 101 Make fizzy 102 Humbugged 103 Used a hook

and line 108 Sordid 109 Rub away 110 Tippling types 112 Film festival

flick, often 113 Sprang 114 Dying fire bit 118 Trainee 120 Airport near

Paris 122 Manhattan

chaser? 123 Way-off 124 Red Roof — 125 Busy mo.

for the IRS 126 VI / II 127 Raggedy —

(doll) 128 Like some

nos.

ACROSS 1 ‘‘Everyone

who’s anyone is attending!’’

8 Shoot for the moon

13 Much-anthologized Frank R. Stockton short story

20 Herald, as a new year

21 Mitchell heroine 22 One calling it

quits 23 Is a rat 24 Chimes, e.g. 25 Short thing for

a diva 26 Big ___ 27 Rarely 29 Long John

Silver, for one 31 Not standard:

Abbr. 32 Word with

coffee or water 34 Bird that’s also

the name of an Irish river

35 Sped 36 Canon

competitor 38 Cookies with

a ‘‘Golden’’ variety

39 Slowing, in music: Abbr.

40 Audible pauses 41 Knot again 42 Miranda

warning receiver, informally

43 Remote button with ‘‘+’’ and ‘‘–’’

45 Govt. construction overseer

46 Founded, on city signs

47 Word before ‘‘I didn’t know that!’’

49 Heavy metal band?

51 Some fraternity men

54 Proverbial matter of perspective

59 John who played Harold in the ‘‘Harold & Kumar’’ films

60 Question asked in classic 1970s ads

66 Jeopardized 67 Ask 69 Greek goddess

of vengeance 70 Like Lake Mead

or Lake Powell 71 Strunk and

White topic 72 They’re of no

concern to cougars

73 ‘‘M*A*S*H’’ role 75 Cry from a

damsel in distress

77 Part of I.M.F.: Abbr.

79 Stickup line 83 Just 86 Laughed

harshly 88 Overstress 89 Foe of Mr.

Fantastic in the comics

91 Reception vessel

92 Some samples 94 Figure skater

Midori 95 ‘‘Now it makes

sense!’’ 97 Mop & ___ 98 Frontier sheriff’s

badge 100 In the style of 102 Whistleblower’s

target? 104 ‘‘Bye for now,’’

in textspeak 105 Rummage

(through) 107 No longer

hungry 109 D.C. club 110 Indian music 111 Langston

Hughes poem 112 William

___, British general in the Revolutionary War

113 Assist, as an outlaw

114 Colored like ink in ‘‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’’

115 Song by the Clash on Rolling Stone’s ‘‘500 Greatest Songs of All Time’’ list

119 Material for many a ski lodge

120 Part of an Adirondack chair

121 ___ Conference 122 Command

to Fido 123 Before 124 Tech grad:

Abbr. 125 Gets fixed 126 Parisian

possessive 127 ‘‘Maid in

Manhattan’’ star, informally

128 Rx signers 129 General ___

chicken

DOWN 1 Dot on a transit

map 2 — 3 Cartoonist

who wrote the caption ‘‘Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?’’

4 Titter sound 5 Backspaces,

say 6 Incense 7 Eve who wrote

‘‘The Vagina Monologues’’

8 Mounted 9 — 10 Test ___ 11 Beginning of

an attorney’s ending

12 Like four of the eight planets

13 Subjects of apprenticeships

14 Superman, e.g.

15 — 16 Rough

position? 17 Ones in the oil

field? 18 Historic filer

for bankruptcy in 2013

19 Was lovesick, say

28 Blather 30 ___ Exchange 33 Cut (off) 37 April second? 44 Center of

activity 45 Physicist

Ohm 47 Virgil, for

Dante 48 Queen of

mystery 50 Flightless bird 52 Org. with the

motto ‘‘Not for self but for country’’

53 Battle of the Alamo, e.g.

54 ‘‘For ___’’ (store sign around Father’s Day)

55 California’s Santa ___ River

56 I.C.U. worker 57 — 58 Most feeble 61 — 62 Map part

63 ‘‘Life ___ Highway’’

64 One given the velvet-rope treatment, for short

65 Sigmoid shape

67 Get in line 68 Kind of

question 74 Kernel keepers 76 Prefix with

-form 77 Crabby 78 Female with

a beard 80 — 81 Stone who

co-created ‘‘South Park’’

82 Cousins of clarinets

84 Little houses on the prairie

85 Indie band whose name means, literally, ‘‘I have it’’

86 Brace

87 Anaïs Nin and Franz Kafka, notably

89 Straight shooters?

90 Family members

93 Please, to a Puritan

96 Sommelier 99 Angles 100 Baseball

family name 101 Pompom

wielder’s cries

103 Sulking 106 Things

found in a pyramid

108 Sacred symbol

116 ___ Library (Austin, Tex., attraction)

117 Atl. Coast state 118 —

Difficulty level ★★★★★

Answer to yesterday's puzzleSudoku 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 65 minutes.

2-22-15

Hercules, having completed his eighth labor by getting the man-eating mares of King Di-omedes, was charged by King Eurystheus to bring back the belt of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons.

“You can have the belt,” Hippolyta told the hero, “but first, to prove yourself worthy, you must make seven spades in this deal. West leads the nine of clubs. Be warned: The last ‘hero’ who came here failed and tasted the point of my spear.”

Hercules surveyed the lay-out. He could see 12 tricks: five trumps in his hand, two hearts, two heart ru�s in dummy, two clubs and a diamond. To make the grand slam, Hercules also had to set up and cash dum-my’s fifth club, so he had to as-sume that clubs would break 3-3 or 4-2. He began by taking the A-K of trumps, and East discarded a diamond.

Suppose declarer next took the king of clubs, ru�ed a club, cashed the A-K of hearts, ru�ed a heart and ru�ed a club. He could then ru� his last heart but would be stuck in dummy; he couldn’t cash the fifth club.

So beginning at Trick Four, Hercules took the A-K of hearts. He ru�ed a heart, cashed the king of clubs, ru�ed a club, ru�ed a heart and ru�ed a club. He could then draw the last trump, go to the ace of diamonds to discard his losing diamond on the fifth club, and claim the prize.

“Excellent timing,” said the queen with an eye on Hercu-les’ imposing physique. “Won’t you stay and be my partner?”

“No, thanks,” Hercules sighed. “I have to see a man about a three-headed dog.”

Dear Harriette: I have been going to a new hair-dresser that is a lot more a�ordable than where I used to go. The people at this new place are so nice, but they don’t do hair nearly as well as my old salon. I changed be-cause my husband asked me to cut back on our ex-penses. This seemed like a natural place to cut.

But when it comes to cutting — no pun intend-ed — they really miss the mark. I have curly hair, and my last haircut ended up being seriously uneven when I washed it at home and blew it out straight. I don’t know what to do. Like my mother used to say, you get what you pay for. But I really need a better cut. This is awkward. What should I do?

— Bad Hair Salon, Jackson, Mississippi

Dear Bad Hair: Start by contacting your salon and complaining about your haircut. Schedule an appointment for a free consultation where you show them your uneven

cut, and ask for them to fix it. Based on the redo, you can decide if this salon has the ability to do an adequate job or if you have to move on. Be clear with them where you find their services challeng-ing for you so that you give them clear guide-lines on how to improve.

Know that there is more than one a�ordable salon in your town that should be able to service you. Get recommenda-tions from people who have similar hair texture, and get a consultation at several prospective salons before you make a final choice.

Reader ends up with bad cut after switching salons

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) ★★★★ Get an early start, as the best part of your day will be the morning. Your ener-gy is high. Tonight: Make it your treat.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You might not think you will be up for much ac-tivity when you wake up. Just go with the flow. To-night: Only as you like it.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ Schedule a brunch with some friends in the morning. By late afternoon, you might wish to socialize less and relax on your own. Tonight: All smiles.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You’ll have the time and the desire to bring friends together and throw a spontaneous get-together Tonight: Let the party go on.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Getting out of town is likely to mellow your mood and help you relax. Tonight: Drop in on an older relative for a quick visit.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Your way of ex-pressing your needs might not mesh well with a part-ner or loved one right now. Tonight: Try a new type of cuisine.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★★ Relax, and you will see that a partner comes through for you in a mean-ingful way. Tonight: Opt for togetherness.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ You have a way of letting others know exactly what you want. A dear friend

is likely to reach out to you. Be gracious. Tonight: Let go of a need for control.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ A good friend who makes you laugh might

come to you with an in-vitation. To-night: Make it an early night.

C a p r i -corn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ Deal with a per-sonal matter head-on. You might want

to spend some quiet time at home. Tonight: Order in.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★★ Recognize that you can’t do more than what it is possible. Tonight: Don’t feel as though you have to go anywhere.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Be aware of your budget. In fact, check your balance and see where your funds are. Tonight: Meet friends for dinner.

What the stars mean:

★★★★★Dynamic ★★★★Positive ★★★Average ★★

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year will be divided into two distinct parts. The first part, through most of sum-mer, you will be busy with work, projects, a new interest and day-to-day matters. Take good care of yourself during this time. The second part of the year, you will be more people-oriented. If you are single, you could meet Mr. or Ms. Right. TAURUS is full of information.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Split Ends

By Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen / Edited By Will Shortz

2-22-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE TO PLAY Hint: Force checkmate.

Solution: 1. Qc7ch! Ka8 2. b6! (threatens both 2. Qa7 mate and 2. Qc8 mate) etc. [Potkin-Klein ’15].

M G D K M V Q Z B F F V U D S W D B Y D B

M A W D Q F E G X E ’ F G B S E M G S W B S ’ F

A B Y A Y M U S W D F D B E F

X G M K G B F E G Q B G Z A E G Q B G Z .

2-22 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: E equals I

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

Premier Crossword | Reordering Parts

CONTACT USChris Herrington, 529-6510, herrington @commercialappeal.com, or Mark Richens, 529-2373, [email protected].

SUNDAY BREAK

By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Display

shimmering milky colors

9 Reinforcing eyelet

16 Shapes of parentheses

20 Like a Williams-burg district

21 Eyeglass 22 0 23 Sharp-witted

response from a creep?

25 Eye part 26 Energy-filled 27 Provide (with) 28 Hiatus 29 Gut-punch

response 32 Mello —

(drink brand) 34 Like someone

doing an oil change under a car?

38 Plane part 40 Gaelic language 42 Columnist

Barrett 43 Took charge 44 Sale on items

having a quintet of hanging decorative threads?

51 Suds-filled 52 Bible bk. before

Job 53 Siesta, e.g. 57 Greatest

importance

59 One-sixth of a foot?

64 Circumspect 67 Hula — 69 Open, as a

bolted door 70 19th Greek letter 71 Palette part 72 Hold PC fixers

dear? 76 Work unit 77 Lyric penner

Gershwin 78 Pulls down 79 Jorge’s “this” 80 Hawkish god 81 One telling

fortunes by gazing into artificial light sources?

84 Equally billed headliners

88 Alternatively 89 “— pity!” 91 Working

properly 95 Bistro that’s

beautiful and also has great food?

101 “I see now!” 104 “It’s — of words” 105 They counter

nays 106 Ill-fated whaler 107 What it used to

take to get word in prehistoric times?

111 8-pointer in Scrabble

115 They cross rds.

116 Fiery fits 117 Steer snarer 119 Nautilus VIP 121 Hot-rod rod 122 Lament from

somebody who wants one of their sons to be named after director De Palma?

129 Mad, with “off” 130 Indian oven 131 Oil conduit 132 Water swirl 133 Novelist

Sábato 134 Endeavoring

anew

DOWN 1 Suffix with hill 2 “Lenore” poet 3 Brit’s brew 4 Extended 5 Savor 6 Attack tactic 7 Noel 8 Wapiti 9 Govt. agents 10 Train track

supporters 11 Well-timed 12 Orbitz listing 13 Old AT&T rival 14 “Twilight” rock

gp. 15 Olympic ideal 16 Sky color 17 Expose 18 Wrinkle 19 Really wet 24 Corp. shuffle

28 Oat husk 29 Sign- —

(approvals) 30 Mishmash 31 — beans 33 Helped out 35 Tolkien

villain 36 Seek to win 37 Wildebeest 39 Energy-filled 41 “Ciao” 45 Yule tree 46 Outdoor gear

retailer 47 Suffix with

20-Across 48 “— better

be good!” 49 Yell at from

a distance 50 Three: Prefix 54 Come in 55 Startle 56 Violent sorts 58 Mollycoddles 60 Least

comfortable 61 U.K. channel 62 “— -di-dah!” 63 Hosp. areas 64 As long as 65 Ear-relevant 66 Stationery

store units 68 Marital

beginning? 72 Artist Gerard

— Borch 73 Comic

Charlotte 74 Age 75 Flee from

80 Humane org. of the U.S.

82 Fence (in) 83 Slowing down,

in mus. 85 Blast cause 86 Craft 87 San Luis — 90 Speaks

volumes 92 Spa sighs 93 — all possible 94 Yanks’ foes 96 Klutzy ones 97 A pair 98 Honey holder 99 Vase type 100 Indian noble 101 Make fizzy 102 Humbugged 103 Used a hook

and line 108 Sordid 109 Rub away 110 Tippling types 112 Film festival

flick, often 113 Sprang 114 Dying fire bit 118 Trainee 120 Airport near

Paris 122 Manhattan

chaser? 123 Way-off 124 Red Roof — 125 Busy mo.

for the IRS 126 VI / II 127 Raggedy —

(doll) 128 Like some

nos.

ACROSS 1 ‘‘Everyone

who’s anyone is attending!’’

8 Shoot for the moon

13 Much-anthologized Frank R. Stockton short story

20 Herald, as a new year

21 Mitchell heroine 22 One calling it

quits 23 Is a rat 24 Chimes, e.g. 25 Short thing for

a diva 26 Big ___ 27 Rarely 29 Long John

Silver, for one 31 Not standard:

Abbr. 32 Word with

coffee or water 34 Bird that’s also

the name of an Irish river

35 Sped 36 Canon

competitor 38 Cookies with

a ‘‘Golden’’ variety

39 Slowing, in music: Abbr.

40 Audible pauses 41 Knot again 42 Miranda

warning receiver, informally

43 Remote button with ‘‘+’’ and ‘‘–’’

45 Govt. construction overseer

46 Founded, on city signs

47 Word before ‘‘I didn’t know that!’’

49 Heavy metal band?

51 Some fraternity men

54 Proverbial matter of perspective

59 John who played Harold in the ‘‘Harold & Kumar’’ films

60 Question asked in classic 1970s ads

66 Jeopardized 67 Ask 69 Greek goddess

of vengeance 70 Like Lake Mead

or Lake Powell 71 Strunk and

White topic 72 They’re of no

concern to cougars

73 ‘‘M*A*S*H’’ role 75 Cry from a

damsel in distress

77 Part of I.M.F.: Abbr.

79 Stickup line 83 Just 86 Laughed

harshly 88 Overstress 89 Foe of Mr.

Fantastic in the comics

91 Reception vessel

92 Some samples 94 Figure skater

Midori 95 ‘‘Now it makes

sense!’’ 97 Mop & ___ 98 Frontier sheriff’s

badge 100 In the style of 102 Whistleblower’s

target? 104 ‘‘Bye for now,’’

in textspeak 105 Rummage

(through) 107 No longer

hungry 109 D.C. club 110 Indian music 111 Langston

Hughes poem 112 William

___, British general in the Revolutionary War

113 Assist, as an outlaw

114 Colored like ink in ‘‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’’

115 Song by the Clash on Rolling Stone’s ‘‘500 Greatest Songs of All Time’’ list

119 Material for many a ski lodge

120 Part of an Adirondack chair

121 ___ Conference 122 Command

to Fido 123 Before 124 Tech grad:

Abbr. 125 Gets fixed 126 Parisian

possessive 127 ‘‘Maid in

Manhattan’’ star, informally

128 Rx signers 129 General ___

chicken

DOWN 1 Dot on a transit

map 2 — 3 Cartoonist

who wrote the caption ‘‘Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?’’

4 Titter sound 5 Backspaces,

say 6 Incense 7 Eve who wrote

‘‘The Vagina Monologues’’

8 Mounted 9 — 10 Test ___ 11 Beginning of

an attorney’s ending

12 Like four of the eight planets

13 Subjects of apprenticeships

14 Superman, e.g.

15 — 16 Rough

position? 17 Ones in the oil

field? 18 Historic filer

for bankruptcy in 2013

19 Was lovesick, say

28 Blather 30 ___ Exchange 33 Cut (off) 37 April second? 44 Center of

activity 45 Physicist

Ohm 47 Virgil, for

Dante 48 Queen of

mystery 50 Flightless bird 52 Org. with the

motto ‘‘Not for self but for country’’

53 Battle of the Alamo, e.g.

54 ‘‘For ___’’ (store sign around Father’s Day)

55 California’s Santa ___ River

56 I.C.U. worker 57 — 58 Most feeble 61 — 62 Map part

63 ‘‘Life ___ Highway’’

64 One given the velvet-rope treatment, for short

65 Sigmoid shape

67 Get in line 68 Kind of

question 74 Kernel keepers 76 Prefix with

-form 77 Crabby 78 Female with

a beard 80 — 81 Stone who

co-created ‘‘South Park’’

82 Cousins of clarinets

84 Little houses on the prairie

85 Indie band whose name means, literally, ‘‘I have it’’

86 Brace

87 Anaïs Nin and Franz Kafka, notably

89 Straight shooters?

90 Family members

93 Please, to a Puritan

96 Sommelier 99 Angles 100 Baseball

family name 101 Pompom

wielder’s cries

103 Sulking 106 Things

found in a pyramid

108 Sacred symbol

116 ___ Library (Austin, Tex., attraction)

117 Atl. Coast state 118 —

Difficulty level ★★★★★

Answer to yesterday's puzzleSudoku 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 65 minutes.

2-22-15

Hercules, having completed his eighth labor by getting the man-eating mares of King Di-omedes, was charged by King Eurystheus to bring back the belt of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons.

“You can have the belt,” Hippolyta told the hero, “but first, to prove yourself worthy, you must make seven spades in this deal. West leads the nine of clubs. Be warned: The last ‘hero’ who came here failed and tasted the point of my spear.”

Hercules surveyed the lay-out. He could see 12 tricks: five trumps in his hand, two hearts, two heart ru�s in dummy, two clubs and a diamond. To make the grand slam, Hercules also had to set up and cash dum-my’s fifth club, so he had to as-sume that clubs would break 3-3 or 4-2. He began by taking the A-K of trumps, and East discarded a diamond.

Suppose declarer next took the king of clubs, ru�ed a club, cashed the A-K of hearts, ru�ed a heart and ru�ed a club. He could then ru� his last heart but would be stuck in dummy; he couldn’t cash the fifth club.

So beginning at Trick Four, Hercules took the A-K of hearts. He ru�ed a heart, cashed the king of clubs, ru�ed a club, ru�ed a heart and ru�ed a club. He could then draw the last trump, go to the ace of diamonds to discard his losing diamond on the fifth club, and claim the prize.

“Excellent timing,” said the queen with an eye on Hercu-les’ imposing physique. “Won’t you stay and be my partner?”

“No, thanks,” Hercules sighed. “I have to see a man about a three-headed dog.”

Dear Harriette: I have been going to a new hair-dresser that is a lot more a�ordable than where I used to go. The people at this new place are so nice, but they don’t do hair nearly as well as my old salon. I changed be-cause my husband asked me to cut back on our ex-penses. This seemed like a natural place to cut.

But when it comes to cutting — no pun intend-ed — they really miss the mark. I have curly hair, and my last haircut ended up being seriously uneven when I washed it at home and blew it out straight. I don’t know what to do. Like my mother used to say, you get what you pay for. But I really need a better cut. This is awkward. What should I do?

— Bad Hair Salon, Jackson, Mississippi

Dear Bad Hair: Start by contacting your salon and complaining about your haircut. Schedule an appointment for a free consultation where you show them your uneven

cut, and ask for them to fix it. Based on the redo, you can decide if this salon has the ability to do an adequate job or if you have to move on. Be clear with them where you find their services challeng-ing for you so that you give them clear guide-lines on how to improve.

Know that there is more than one a�ordable salon in your town that should be able to service you. Get recommenda-tions from people who have similar hair texture, and get a consultation at several prospective salons before you make a final choice.

Reader ends up with bad cut after switching salons

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) ★★★★ Get an early start, as the best part of your day will be the morning. Your ener-gy is high. Tonight: Make it your treat.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You might not think you will be up for much ac-tivity when you wake up. Just go with the flow. To-night: Only as you like it.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ Schedule a brunch with some friends in the morning. By late afternoon, you might wish to socialize less and relax on your own. Tonight: All smiles.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You’ll have the time and the desire to bring friends together and throw a spontaneous get-together Tonight: Let the party go on.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Getting out of town is likely to mellow your mood and help you relax. Tonight: Drop in on an older relative for a quick visit.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Your way of ex-pressing your needs might not mesh well with a part-ner or loved one right now. Tonight: Try a new type of cuisine.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★★ Relax, and you will see that a partner comes through for you in a mean-ingful way. Tonight: Opt for togetherness.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ You have a way of letting others know exactly what you want. A dear friend

is likely to reach out to you. Be gracious. Tonight: Let go of a need for control.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ A good friend who makes you laugh might

come to you with an in-vitation. To-night: Make it an early night.

C a p r i -corn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ Deal with a per-sonal matter head-on. You might want

to spend some quiet time at home. Tonight: Order in.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★★ Recognize that you can’t do more than what it is possible. Tonight: Don’t feel as though you have to go anywhere.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Be aware of your budget. In fact, check your balance and see where your funds are. Tonight: Meet friends for dinner.

What the stars mean:

★★★★★Dynamic ★★★★Positive ★★★Average ★★

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year will be divided into two distinct parts. The first part, through most of sum-mer, you will be busy with work, projects, a new interest and day-to-day matters. Take good care of yourself during this time. The second part of the year, you will be more people-oriented. If you are single, you could meet Mr. or Ms. Right. TAURUS is full of information.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Split Ends

By Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen / Edited By Will Shortz

2-22-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE TO PLAY Hint: Force checkmate.

Solution: 1. Qc7ch! Ka8 2. b6! (threatens both 2. Qa7 mate and 2. Qc8 mate) etc. [Potkin-Klein ’15].

M G D K M V Q Z B F F V U D S W D B Y D B

M A W D Q F E G X E ’ F G B S E M G S W B S ’ F

A B Y A Y M U S W D F D B E F

X G M K G B F E G Q B G Z A E G Q B G Z .

2-22 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: E equals I

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

Premier Crossword | Reordering Parts

CONTACT USChris Herrington, 529-6510, herrington @commercialappeal.com, or Mark Richens, 529-2373, [email protected].

SUNDAY BREAK

By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Display

shimmering milky colors

9 Reinforcing eyelet

16 Shapes of parentheses

20 Like a Williams-burg district

21 Eyeglass 22 0 23 Sharp-witted

response from a creep?

25 Eye part 26 Energy-filled 27 Provide (with) 28 Hiatus 29 Gut-punch

response 32 Mello —

(drink brand) 34 Like someone

doing an oil change under a car?

38 Plane part 40 Gaelic language 42 Columnist

Barrett 43 Took charge 44 Sale on items

having a quintet of hanging decorative threads?

51 Suds-filled 52 Bible bk. before

Job 53 Siesta, e.g. 57 Greatest

importance

59 One-sixth of a foot?

64 Circumspect 67 Hula — 69 Open, as a

bolted door 70 19th Greek letter 71 Palette part 72 Hold PC fixers

dear? 76 Work unit 77 Lyric penner

Gershwin 78 Pulls down 79 Jorge’s “this” 80 Hawkish god 81 One telling

fortunes by gazing into artificial light sources?

84 Equally billed headliners

88 Alternatively 89 “— pity!” 91 Working

properly 95 Bistro that’s

beautiful and also has great food?

101 “I see now!” 104 “It’s — of words” 105 They counter

nays 106 Ill-fated whaler 107 What it used to

take to get word in prehistoric times?

111 8-pointer in Scrabble

115 They cross rds.

116 Fiery fits 117 Steer snarer 119 Nautilus VIP 121 Hot-rod rod 122 Lament from

somebody who wants one of their sons to be named after director De Palma?

129 Mad, with “off” 130 Indian oven 131 Oil conduit 132 Water swirl 133 Novelist

Sábato 134 Endeavoring

anew

DOWN 1 Suffix with hill 2 “Lenore” poet 3 Brit’s brew 4 Extended 5 Savor 6 Attack tactic 7 Noel 8 Wapiti 9 Govt. agents 10 Train track

supporters 11 Well-timed 12 Orbitz listing 13 Old AT&T rival 14 “Twilight” rock

gp. 15 Olympic ideal 16 Sky color 17 Expose 18 Wrinkle 19 Really wet 24 Corp. shuffle

28 Oat husk 29 Sign- —

(approvals) 30 Mishmash 31 — beans 33 Helped out 35 Tolkien

villain 36 Seek to win 37 Wildebeest 39 Energy-filled 41 “Ciao” 45 Yule tree 46 Outdoor gear

retailer 47 Suffix with

20-Across 48 “— better

be good!” 49 Yell at from

a distance 50 Three: Prefix 54 Come in 55 Startle 56 Violent sorts 58 Mollycoddles 60 Least

comfortable 61 U.K. channel 62 “— -di-dah!” 63 Hosp. areas 64 As long as 65 Ear-relevant 66 Stationery

store units 68 Marital

beginning? 72 Artist Gerard

— Borch 73 Comic

Charlotte 74 Age 75 Flee from

80 Humane org. of the U.S.

82 Fence (in) 83 Slowing down,

in mus. 85 Blast cause 86 Craft 87 San Luis — 90 Speaks

volumes 92 Spa sighs 93 — all possible 94 Yanks’ foes 96 Klutzy ones 97 A pair 98 Honey holder 99 Vase type 100 Indian noble 101 Make fizzy 102 Humbugged 103 Used a hook

and line 108 Sordid 109 Rub away 110 Tippling types 112 Film festival

flick, often 113 Sprang 114 Dying fire bit 118 Trainee 120 Airport near

Paris 122 Manhattan

chaser? 123 Way-off 124 Red Roof — 125 Busy mo.

for the IRS 126 VI / II 127 Raggedy —

(doll) 128 Like some

nos.

ACROSS 1 ‘‘Everyone

who’s anyone is attending!’’

8 Shoot for the moon

13 Much-anthologized Frank R. Stockton short story

20 Herald, as a new year

21 Mitchell heroine 22 One calling it

quits 23 Is a rat 24 Chimes, e.g. 25 Short thing for

a diva 26 Big ___ 27 Rarely 29 Long John

Silver, for one 31 Not standard:

Abbr. 32 Word with

coffee or water 34 Bird that’s also

the name of an Irish river

35 Sped 36 Canon

competitor 38 Cookies with

a ‘‘Golden’’ variety

39 Slowing, in music: Abbr.

40 Audible pauses 41 Knot again 42 Miranda

warning receiver, informally

43 Remote button with ‘‘+’’ and ‘‘–’’

45 Govt. construction overseer

46 Founded, on city signs

47 Word before ‘‘I didn’t know that!’’

49 Heavy metal band?

51 Some fraternity men

54 Proverbial matter of perspective

59 John who played Harold in the ‘‘Harold & Kumar’’ films

60 Question asked in classic 1970s ads

66 Jeopardized 67 Ask 69 Greek goddess

of vengeance 70 Like Lake Mead

or Lake Powell 71 Strunk and

White topic 72 They’re of no

concern to cougars

73 ‘‘M*A*S*H’’ role 75 Cry from a

damsel in distress

77 Part of I.M.F.: Abbr.

79 Stickup line 83 Just 86 Laughed

harshly 88 Overstress 89 Foe of Mr.

Fantastic in the comics

91 Reception vessel

92 Some samples 94 Figure skater

Midori 95 ‘‘Now it makes

sense!’’ 97 Mop & ___ 98 Frontier sheriff’s

badge 100 In the style of 102 Whistleblower’s

target? 104 ‘‘Bye for now,’’

in textspeak 105 Rummage

(through) 107 No longer

hungry 109 D.C. club 110 Indian music 111 Langston

Hughes poem 112 William

___, British general in the Revolutionary War

113 Assist, as an outlaw

114 Colored like ink in ‘‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’’

115 Song by the Clash on Rolling Stone’s ‘‘500 Greatest Songs of All Time’’ list

119 Material for many a ski lodge

120 Part of an Adirondack chair

121 ___ Conference 122 Command

to Fido 123 Before 124 Tech grad:

Abbr. 125 Gets fixed 126 Parisian

possessive 127 ‘‘Maid in

Manhattan’’ star, informally

128 Rx signers 129 General ___

chicken

DOWN 1 Dot on a transit

map 2 — 3 Cartoonist

who wrote the caption ‘‘Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?’’

4 Titter sound 5 Backspaces,

say 6 Incense 7 Eve who wrote

‘‘The Vagina Monologues’’

8 Mounted 9 — 10 Test ___ 11 Beginning of

an attorney’s ending

12 Like four of the eight planets

13 Subjects of apprenticeships

14 Superman, e.g.

15 — 16 Rough

position? 17 Ones in the oil

field? 18 Historic filer

for bankruptcy in 2013

19 Was lovesick, say

28 Blather 30 ___ Exchange 33 Cut (off) 37 April second? 44 Center of

activity 45 Physicist

Ohm 47 Virgil, for

Dante 48 Queen of

mystery 50 Flightless bird 52 Org. with the

motto ‘‘Not for self but for country’’

53 Battle of the Alamo, e.g.

54 ‘‘For ___’’ (store sign around Father’s Day)

55 California’s Santa ___ River

56 I.C.U. worker 57 — 58 Most feeble 61 — 62 Map part

63 ‘‘Life ___ Highway’’

64 One given the velvet-rope treatment, for short

65 Sigmoid shape

67 Get in line 68 Kind of

question 74 Kernel keepers 76 Prefix with

-form 77 Crabby 78 Female with

a beard 80 — 81 Stone who

co-created ‘‘South Park’’

82 Cousins of clarinets

84 Little houses on the prairie

85 Indie band whose name means, literally, ‘‘I have it’’

86 Brace

87 Anaïs Nin and Franz Kafka, notably

89 Straight shooters?

90 Family members

93 Please, to a Puritan

96 Sommelier 99 Angles 100 Baseball

family name 101 Pompom

wielder’s cries

103 Sulking 106 Things

found in a pyramid

108 Sacred symbol

116 ___ Library (Austin, Tex., attraction)

117 Atl. Coast state 118 —

Difficulty level ★★★★★

Answer to yesterday's puzzleSudoku 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 65 minutes.

2-22-15

Hercules, having completed his eighth labor by getting the man-eating mares of King Di-omedes, was charged by King Eurystheus to bring back the belt of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons.

“You can have the belt,” Hippolyta told the hero, “but first, to prove yourself worthy, you must make seven spades in this deal. West leads the nine of clubs. Be warned: The last ‘hero’ who came here failed and tasted the point of my spear.”

Hercules surveyed the lay-out. He could see 12 tricks: five trumps in his hand, two hearts, two heart ru�s in dummy, two clubs and a diamond. To make the grand slam, Hercules also had to set up and cash dum-my’s fifth club, so he had to as-sume that clubs would break 3-3 or 4-2. He began by taking the A-K of trumps, and East discarded a diamond.

Suppose declarer next took the king of clubs, ru�ed a club, cashed the A-K of hearts, ru�ed a heart and ru�ed a club. He could then ru� his last heart but would be stuck in dummy; he couldn’t cash the fifth club.

So beginning at Trick Four, Hercules took the A-K of hearts. He ru�ed a heart, cashed the king of clubs, ru�ed a club, ru�ed a heart and ru�ed a club. He could then draw the last trump, go to the ace of diamonds to discard his losing diamond on the fifth club, and claim the prize.

“Excellent timing,” said the queen with an eye on Hercu-les’ imposing physique. “Won’t you stay and be my partner?”

“No, thanks,” Hercules sighed. “I have to see a man about a three-headed dog.”

Dear Harriette: I have been going to a new hair-dresser that is a lot more a�ordable than where I used to go. The people at this new place are so nice, but they don’t do hair nearly as well as my old salon. I changed be-cause my husband asked me to cut back on our ex-penses. This seemed like a natural place to cut.

But when it comes to cutting — no pun intend-ed — they really miss the mark. I have curly hair, and my last haircut ended up being seriously uneven when I washed it at home and blew it out straight. I don’t know what to do. Like my mother used to say, you get what you pay for. But I really need a better cut. This is awkward. What should I do?

— Bad Hair Salon, Jackson, Mississippi

Dear Bad Hair: Start by contacting your salon and complaining about your haircut. Schedule an appointment for a free consultation where you show them your uneven

cut, and ask for them to fix it. Based on the redo, you can decide if this salon has the ability to do an adequate job or if you have to move on. Be clear with them where you find their services challeng-ing for you so that you give them clear guide-lines on how to improve.

Know that there is more than one a�ordable salon in your town that should be able to service you. Get recommenda-tions from people who have similar hair texture, and get a consultation at several prospective salons before you make a final choice.

Reader ends up with bad cut after switching salons

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) ★★★★ Get an early start, as the best part of your day will be the morning. Your ener-gy is high. Tonight: Make it your treat.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You might not think you will be up for much ac-tivity when you wake up. Just go with the flow. To-night: Only as you like it.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ Schedule a brunch with some friends in the morning. By late afternoon, you might wish to socialize less and relax on your own. Tonight: All smiles.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You’ll have the time and the desire to bring friends together and throw a spontaneous get-together Tonight: Let the party go on.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Getting out of town is likely to mellow your mood and help you relax. Tonight: Drop in on an older relative for a quick visit.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Your way of ex-pressing your needs might not mesh well with a part-ner or loved one right now. Tonight: Try a new type of cuisine.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★★ Relax, and you will see that a partner comes through for you in a mean-ingful way. Tonight: Opt for togetherness.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ You have a way of letting others know exactly what you want. A dear friend

is likely to reach out to you. Be gracious. Tonight: Let go of a need for control.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ A good friend who makes you laugh might

come to you with an in-vitation. To-night: Make it an early night.

C a p r i -corn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ Deal with a per-sonal matter head-on. You might want

to spend some quiet time at home. Tonight: Order in.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★★ Recognize that you can’t do more than what it is possible. Tonight: Don’t feel as though you have to go anywhere.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Be aware of your budget. In fact, check your balance and see where your funds are. Tonight: Meet friends for dinner.

What the stars mean:

★★★★★Dynamic ★★★★Positive ★★★Average ★★

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year will be divided into two distinct parts. The first part, through most of sum-mer, you will be busy with work, projects, a new interest and day-to-day matters. Take good care of yourself during this time. The second part of the year, you will be more people-oriented. If you are single, you could meet Mr. or Ms. Right. TAURUS is full of information.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Split Ends

By Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen / Edited By Will Shortz

2-22-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE TO PLAY Hint: Force checkmate.

Solution: 1. Qc7ch! Ka8 2. b6! (threatens both 2. Qa7 mate and 2. Qc8 mate) etc. [Potkin-Klein ’15].

M G D K M V Q Z B F F V U D S W D B Y D B

M A W D Q F E G X E ’ F G B S E M G S W B S ’ F

A B Y A Y M U S W D F D B E F

X G M K G B F E G Q B G Z A E G Q B G Z .

2-22 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: E equals I

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

Premier Crossword | Reordering Parts

CONTACT USChris Herrington, 529-6510, herrington @commercialappeal.com, or Mark Richens, 529-2373, [email protected].

SUNDAY BREAK

By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Display

shimmering milky colors

9 Reinforcing eyelet

16 Shapes of parentheses

20 Like a Williams-burg district

21 Eyeglass 22 0 23 Sharp-witted

response from a creep?

25 Eye part 26 Energy-filled 27 Provide (with) 28 Hiatus 29 Gut-punch

response 32 Mello —

(drink brand) 34 Like someone

doing an oil change under a car?

38 Plane part 40 Gaelic language 42 Columnist

Barrett 43 Took charge 44 Sale on items

having a quintet of hanging decorative threads?

51 Suds-filled 52 Bible bk. before

Job 53 Siesta, e.g. 57 Greatest

importance

59 One-sixth of a foot?

64 Circumspect 67 Hula — 69 Open, as a

bolted door 70 19th Greek letter 71 Palette part 72 Hold PC fixers

dear? 76 Work unit 77 Lyric penner

Gershwin 78 Pulls down 79 Jorge’s “this” 80 Hawkish god 81 One telling

fortunes by gazing into artificial light sources?

84 Equally billed headliners

88 Alternatively 89 “— pity!” 91 Working

properly 95 Bistro that’s

beautiful and also has great food?

101 “I see now!” 104 “It’s — of words” 105 They counter

nays 106 Ill-fated whaler 107 What it used to

take to get word in prehistoric times?

111 8-pointer in Scrabble

115 They cross rds.

116 Fiery fits 117 Steer snarer 119 Nautilus VIP 121 Hot-rod rod 122 Lament from

somebody who wants one of their sons to be named after director De Palma?

129 Mad, with “off” 130 Indian oven 131 Oil conduit 132 Water swirl 133 Novelist

Sábato 134 Endeavoring

anew

DOWN 1 Suffix with hill 2 “Lenore” poet 3 Brit’s brew 4 Extended 5 Savor 6 Attack tactic 7 Noel 8 Wapiti 9 Govt. agents 10 Train track

supporters 11 Well-timed 12 Orbitz listing 13 Old AT&T rival 14 “Twilight” rock

gp. 15 Olympic ideal 16 Sky color 17 Expose 18 Wrinkle 19 Really wet 24 Corp. shuffle

28 Oat husk 29 Sign- —

(approvals) 30 Mishmash 31 — beans 33 Helped out 35 Tolkien

villain 36 Seek to win 37 Wildebeest 39 Energy-filled 41 “Ciao” 45 Yule tree 46 Outdoor gear

retailer 47 Suffix with

20-Across 48 “— better

be good!” 49 Yell at from

a distance 50 Three: Prefix 54 Come in 55 Startle 56 Violent sorts 58 Mollycoddles 60 Least

comfortable 61 U.K. channel 62 “— -di-dah!” 63 Hosp. areas 64 As long as 65 Ear-relevant 66 Stationery

store units 68 Marital

beginning? 72 Artist Gerard

— Borch 73 Comic

Charlotte 74 Age 75 Flee from

80 Humane org. of the U.S.

82 Fence (in) 83 Slowing down,

in mus. 85 Blast cause 86 Craft 87 San Luis — 90 Speaks

volumes 92 Spa sighs 93 — all possible 94 Yanks’ foes 96 Klutzy ones 97 A pair 98 Honey holder 99 Vase type 100 Indian noble 101 Make fizzy 102 Humbugged 103 Used a hook

and line 108 Sordid 109 Rub away 110 Tippling types 112 Film festival

flick, often 113 Sprang 114 Dying fire bit 118 Trainee 120 Airport near

Paris 122 Manhattan

chaser? 123 Way-off 124 Red Roof — 125 Busy mo.

for the IRS 126 VI / II 127 Raggedy —

(doll) 128 Like some

nos.

ACROSS 1 ‘‘Everyone

who’s anyone is attending!’’

8 Shoot for the moon

13 Much-anthologized Frank R. Stockton short story

20 Herald, as a new year

21 Mitchell heroine 22 One calling it

quits 23 Is a rat 24 Chimes, e.g. 25 Short thing for

a diva 26 Big ___ 27 Rarely 29 Long John

Silver, for one 31 Not standard:

Abbr. 32 Word with

coffee or water 34 Bird that’s also

the name of an Irish river

35 Sped 36 Canon

competitor 38 Cookies with

a ‘‘Golden’’ variety

39 Slowing, in music: Abbr.

40 Audible pauses 41 Knot again 42 Miranda

warning receiver, informally

43 Remote button with ‘‘+’’ and ‘‘–’’

45 Govt. construction overseer

46 Founded, on city signs

47 Word before ‘‘I didn’t know that!’’

49 Heavy metal band?

51 Some fraternity men

54 Proverbial matter of perspective

59 John who played Harold in the ‘‘Harold & Kumar’’ films

60 Question asked in classic 1970s ads

66 Jeopardized 67 Ask 69 Greek goddess

of vengeance 70 Like Lake Mead

or Lake Powell 71 Strunk and

White topic 72 They’re of no

concern to cougars

73 ‘‘M*A*S*H’’ role 75 Cry from a

damsel in distress

77 Part of I.M.F.: Abbr.

79 Stickup line 83 Just 86 Laughed

harshly 88 Overstress 89 Foe of Mr.

Fantastic in the comics

91 Reception vessel

92 Some samples 94 Figure skater

Midori 95 ‘‘Now it makes

sense!’’ 97 Mop & ___ 98 Frontier sheriff’s

badge 100 In the style of 102 Whistleblower’s

target? 104 ‘‘Bye for now,’’

in textspeak 105 Rummage

(through) 107 No longer

hungry 109 D.C. club 110 Indian music 111 Langston

Hughes poem 112 William

___, British general in the Revolutionary War

113 Assist, as an outlaw

114 Colored like ink in ‘‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’’

115 Song by the Clash on Rolling Stone’s ‘‘500 Greatest Songs of All Time’’ list

119 Material for many a ski lodge

120 Part of an Adirondack chair

121 ___ Conference 122 Command

to Fido 123 Before 124 Tech grad:

Abbr. 125 Gets fixed 126 Parisian

possessive 127 ‘‘Maid in

Manhattan’’ star, informally

128 Rx signers 129 General ___

chicken

DOWN 1 Dot on a transit

map 2 — 3 Cartoonist

who wrote the caption ‘‘Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?’’

4 Titter sound 5 Backspaces,

say 6 Incense 7 Eve who wrote

‘‘The Vagina Monologues’’

8 Mounted 9 — 10 Test ___ 11 Beginning of

an attorney’s ending

12 Like four of the eight planets

13 Subjects of apprenticeships

14 Superman, e.g.

15 — 16 Rough

position? 17 Ones in the oil

field? 18 Historic filer

for bankruptcy in 2013

19 Was lovesick, say

28 Blather 30 ___ Exchange 33 Cut (off) 37 April second? 44 Center of

activity 45 Physicist

Ohm 47 Virgil, for

Dante 48 Queen of

mystery 50 Flightless bird 52 Org. with the

motto ‘‘Not for self but for country’’

53 Battle of the Alamo, e.g.

54 ‘‘For ___’’ (store sign around Father’s Day)

55 California’s Santa ___ River

56 I.C.U. worker 57 — 58 Most feeble 61 — 62 Map part

63 ‘‘Life ___ Highway’’

64 One given the velvet-rope treatment, for short

65 Sigmoid shape

67 Get in line 68 Kind of

question 74 Kernel keepers 76 Prefix with

-form 77 Crabby 78 Female with

a beard 80 — 81 Stone who

co-created ‘‘South Park’’

82 Cousins of clarinets

84 Little houses on the prairie

85 Indie band whose name means, literally, ‘‘I have it’’

86 Brace

87 Anaïs Nin and Franz Kafka, notably

89 Straight shooters?

90 Family members

93 Please, to a Puritan

96 Sommelier 99 Angles 100 Baseball

family name 101 Pompom

wielder’s cries

103 Sulking 106 Things

found in a pyramid

108 Sacred symbol

116 ___ Library (Austin, Tex., attraction)

117 Atl. Coast state 118 —

Difficulty level ★★★★★

Answer to yesterday's puzzleSudoku 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 65 minutes.

2-22-15

Hercules, having completed his eighth labor by getting the man-eating mares of King Di-omedes, was charged by King Eurystheus to bring back the belt of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons.

“You can have the belt,” Hippolyta told the hero, “but first, to prove yourself worthy, you must make seven spades in this deal. West leads the nine of clubs. Be warned: The last ‘hero’ who came here failed and tasted the point of my spear.”

Hercules surveyed the lay-out. He could see 12 tricks: five trumps in his hand, two hearts, two heart ru�s in dummy, two clubs and a diamond. To make the grand slam, Hercules also had to set up and cash dum-my’s fifth club, so he had to as-sume that clubs would break 3-3 or 4-2. He began by taking the A-K of trumps, and East discarded a diamond.

Suppose declarer next took the king of clubs, ru�ed a club, cashed the A-K of hearts, ru�ed a heart and ru�ed a club. He could then ru� his last heart but would be stuck in dummy; he couldn’t cash the fifth club.

So beginning at Trick Four, Hercules took the A-K of hearts. He ru�ed a heart, cashed the king of clubs, ru�ed a club, ru�ed a heart and ru�ed a club. He could then draw the last trump, go to the ace of diamonds to discard his losing diamond on the fifth club, and claim the prize.

“Excellent timing,” said the queen with an eye on Hercu-les’ imposing physique. “Won’t you stay and be my partner?”

“No, thanks,” Hercules sighed. “I have to see a man about a three-headed dog.”

Dear Harriette: I have been going to a new hair-dresser that is a lot more a�ordable than where I used to go. The people at this new place are so nice, but they don’t do hair nearly as well as my old salon. I changed be-cause my husband asked me to cut back on our ex-penses. This seemed like a natural place to cut.

But when it comes to cutting — no pun intend-ed — they really miss the mark. I have curly hair, and my last haircut ended up being seriously uneven when I washed it at home and blew it out straight. I don’t know what to do. Like my mother used to say, you get what you pay for. But I really need a better cut. This is awkward. What should I do?

— Bad Hair Salon, Jackson, Mississippi

Dear Bad Hair: Start by contacting your salon and complaining about your haircut. Schedule an appointment for a free consultation where you show them your uneven

cut, and ask for them to fix it. Based on the redo, you can decide if this salon has the ability to do an adequate job or if you have to move on. Be clear with them where you find their services challeng-ing for you so that you give them clear guide-lines on how to improve.

Know that there is more than one a�ordable salon in your town that should be able to service you. Get recommenda-tions from people who have similar hair texture, and get a consultation at several prospective salons before you make a final choice.

Reader ends up with bad cut after switching salons

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) ★★★★ Get an early start, as the best part of your day will be the morning. Your ener-gy is high. Tonight: Make it your treat.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You might not think you will be up for much ac-tivity when you wake up. Just go with the flow. To-night: Only as you like it.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ Schedule a brunch with some friends in the morning. By late afternoon, you might wish to socialize less and relax on your own. Tonight: All smiles.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You’ll have the time and the desire to bring friends together and throw a spontaneous get-together Tonight: Let the party go on.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Getting out of town is likely to mellow your mood and help you relax. Tonight: Drop in on an older relative for a quick visit.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Your way of ex-pressing your needs might not mesh well with a part-ner or loved one right now. Tonight: Try a new type of cuisine.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★★ Relax, and you will see that a partner comes through for you in a mean-ingful way. Tonight: Opt for togetherness.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ You have a way of letting others know exactly what you want. A dear friend

is likely to reach out to you. Be gracious. Tonight: Let go of a need for control.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ A good friend who makes you laugh might

come to you with an in-vitation. To-night: Make it an early night.

C a p r i -corn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ Deal with a per-sonal matter head-on. You might want

to spend some quiet time at home. Tonight: Order in.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★★ Recognize that you can’t do more than what it is possible. Tonight: Don’t feel as though you have to go anywhere.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Be aware of your budget. In fact, check your balance and see where your funds are. Tonight: Meet friends for dinner.

What the stars mean:

★★★★★Dynamic ★★★★Positive ★★★Average ★★

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year will be divided into two distinct parts. The first part, through most of sum-mer, you will be busy with work, projects, a new interest and day-to-day matters. Take good care of yourself during this time. The second part of the year, you will be more people-oriented. If you are single, you could meet Mr. or Ms. Right. TAURUS is full of information.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Split Ends

By Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen / Edited By Will Shortz

2-22-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE TO PLAY Hint: Force checkmate.

Solution: 1. Qc7ch! Ka8 2. b6! (threatens both 2. Qa7 mate and 2. Qc8 mate) etc. [Potkin-Klein ’15].

M G D K M V Q Z B F F V U D S W D B Y D B

M A W D Q F E G X E ’ F G B S E M G S W B S ’ F

A B Y A Y M U S W D F D B E F

X G M K G B F E G Q B G Z A E G Q B G Z .

2-22 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: E equals I

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

Amusement20 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

SUDOKUPREMIER CROSSWORD

Puzzle solutions

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: ONE WOULD ASSUME THE AREA OF HELSINKI’S NATION THAT’S FAR FROM THE SEA IS KNOWN AS INLAND FINLAND.

ACROSS 1 Constructed 5 Stepped

down 9 First perfor-

mance 10 Tablecloth

material 12 Make

suitable 13 Basil-based

sauce 14 Curator’s

place 16 Make

mistakes 17 Previously

owned 18 Flowering

shrub 21 Small tablet 22 Is real

23 Narrow cuts

24 Cold and damp

26 Cribbage marker

29 “Bye!” 30 Opera set

in Egypt 31 Stretch of

history 32 Champagne

bottle 34 Bona fide 37 Secretary

of state under Carter

38 Rob Petrie’s wife

39 Fencing swords

40 Spring 41 Cincinnati

team

DOWN 1 One of the

Gorgons 2 Humbled 3 Hood-

winked 4 “—, Brute?” 5 Swiss

peak 6 Tell tales 7 Fly or flea

8 Block-dropping pastime

9 Block 11 Nick

Charles’ wife

15 Upper limit 19 Metropolis 20 Braying

beast 22 Sailors’

saint 23 Put into

words

24 Breakfast choice

25 Group of teams

26 Like losing wrestlers

27 Draws out 28 Toy store

section 29 Vend 30 Visibly

stunned 33 Declare 35 S&L offering 36 Spigot

Sudoku

Dear Annie: I am a healthy 50-years-young woman in the midst of menopause. I also have been diagnosed as men-tally ill with depression. I refuse to seek treatment. I come from a culture where the shame of admitting a mental illness is a fate worse than death. So I sleep a lot.

I have a fine husband who wishes nothing more than to be in a happy, healthy relationship with me and our two young children. I hurt everyone in my family with my mercurial temper, fre-quent yelling over trivial matters and causing gen-eral upset. For a while now, I have refused any intimacy whatsoever with my husband, including sweet talk and touching. I am completely disinter-ested in sex. I know I am starving my husband. I’ve told him to find someone else. What should I do? Please don’t tell me to get counseling. I have spoken to counselors in the past, and nothing has helped because I insist I am a victim and that all of my problems are someone else’s fault. I cannot admit that I need assistance. I am miserable.

— Frigid in New Hampshire

Dear Frigid: You’ve ad-mitted to us that you need mental health assistance, and we agree. You are being unfair to yourself, as well as your family. So do you want to continue being miserable, alienat-ing your husband and children simply to avoid shame (of which there should be none), or do you genuinely want to make your life better? Whatever underlying issues you may have are likely exac-erbated by menopause. If you cannot admit that you need help for depression, perhaps you would seek help to alleviate some of your menopausal symp-toms. Your gynecologist can recommend medica-tion that can do both. Please try.

Dear Annie: I could relate to the letter from “Frustrated.” When my husband lost interest in sex, I began to mastur-bate. I went to confession, and the priest explained that it is not a sin to accept the lesser of two evils. He told me to allow my hus-band to pleasure me when he is willing. Otherwise, I should do what I need to avoid the worst alterna-tives, such as adultery.

It was so simple, and I am forever grateful to him. My wonderful hus-band and I still love each other, just not physically.

— Faithful and Satisfied

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

2/23/15

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 WINS A PIECEHint: Target the knight.

Solution: 1. f4! does it. If ... Nc4, 2. Bxc4! dxc4 3. Qxd6.

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

Because bridge is flourishing in China, and due to financial incentives, the World Bridge Federation staged its 2014 championships in Sanya. That was a long way to travel, and attendance was low. The meager turnout meant that many teams and pairs were multinational.

In the Open Teams, Sjoert Brink of the Netherlands shone as declarer. At five diamonds, he won the first club with dummy’s ace and led a spade: deuce, king, ace.

West led another spade, and Brink ru�ed, took the king of clubs, ru�ed a club with dummy’s jack of trumps, ru�ed a spade and ru�ed his last club with the king.

TRUMP EXIT Brink next led a trump to his ten and

took the ace. When West showed out, de-clarer exited with a trump, and East had to lead a heart from his king. Well done!

I may be accused of 20/20 hindsight by suggesting that West’s bid of two spades helped declarer find the winning

play. West was vulnerable, and both his opponents had shown strength. What had he to gain by bidding?

Questions and comments: Email Stewart at [email protected]

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★ Many thoughts will be running through your mind this morning. Take charge and handle a matter that has financial implications. Tonight: Connect with a dear friend.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You might feel pressured, but you have the capacity to clear out what you must. Stop judging your performance. Tonight: Good news heads your way!

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ Read between the lines in an early day conversation. Changes could result from someone else’s suggestion. Finances might be a key issue. Tonight: Get some R and R.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)★★★★ You know what you want, but you might not think you have the energy to get it. Tap into a friend’s ideas. Tonight: Run an errand or two.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)★★★★ Assume your natural role and get a conversation moving. Ultimately your sug-gestions will define what happens. Tonight: Out till the wee hours.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)★★★★ How you see a matter is often dif-ferent from how others see it. Today, you’ll gain insight through your ability to detach. Perhaps your response will be di�erent. Tonight: Read between the lines.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)★★★★ Deal with others directly, and you will be pleased with the rapport you estab-lish and the tidbits you hear as well. You can’t help but make people feel special. Tonight: A friend drops in on you.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★★ You won’t intend to challenge some-one, but you will do just that by pointing out a problem. The response you get could be quite subtle. Tonight: Say “yes” to an o�er.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★ The idea of diving into a project will appeal to you, but plan on fighting o� distractions in all forms. Tonight: Choose a favorite stressbuster.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★ You have focus, high energy and creativity on your side today. There could be disagreement, but ultimately you’ll have the right argument and make the correct choice. Tonight: Try out a wild lifestyle.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)★★★★ You might feel the need to stay close to home. Your abilities to state your feelings and your choices could intimidate someone. Tonight: Order in.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ Speak your mind, and listen to the responses you get. Honor a change, and be willing to go with it. Just because you might not agree does not mean you need to back away. Tonight: Hang out.

Horoscope

This year you often are unsure of yourself, as you see many differ-ent paths you would like to travel. You are unusually idealistic at this point in your life, and you try to see the best in everyone. You also com-municate with excellence. At times, you could feel deceived by others. If you are single, you could meet someone quite exciting anywhere from August on. Take your time getting to know this person. If you are attached, work on being more realistic with your expectations of your sweetie, and both of you will be happier. TAURUS is grounded.

What the stars Mean

★★★★★Dynamic★★★★

Positive★★★

Average★★

So-so★

Difficult

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

MARCY SUGAR & KATHY MITCHELL

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

CONTACT US Chris Herrington, 529-6510, herrington @commercialappeal.com, or Mark Richens, 529-2373, richens@ commercialappeal.com

Wife with depression doesn’t want counseling

By Jacqueline Bigar King Features Syndicate

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised the American flag. (There were actually two flag-raisings, the second of which was captured in the iconic photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal of The Associated Press.)In 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.In 1863, British explorers John H. Speke and James A. Grant announced they had found the source of the Nile River to be Lake Victoria.In 1870, Mississippi was readmitted to the Union.In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an agreement with Cuba to lease the area around Guantanamo Bay to the United States.In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission.

In 1934, Leopold III succeeded his late father, Albert I, as King of the Belgians.

In 1954, the first mass inoculation of schoolchildren against polio using the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh as some 5,000 students were vaccinated.

In 1965, film comedian Stan Laurel, 74, died in Santa Monica, California.

In 1970, Guyana became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.

In 1989, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 11-9 along party lines to recommend rejection of John Tower as President George H.W. Bush’s defense secretary. (Tower’s nomination went down to defeat in the full Senate the following month.)

In 1995, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 4,000 mark for the first time, ending the day at 4,003.33.

TODAY IN HISTORYToday is Monday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2015. There are 311 days left in the year.

MY ANSWER

Do not wait to seek forgiveness from God

Q: Maybe God will forgive me for some of the things I’ve done, but I’ll never be able to forgive myself. I’ve done so many bad things and hurt so many people along the way that I’ll always feel guilty. I wish I could live my life over again, but I can’t. Is there any hope for me?

— R.F.G.

A: I’ve often said that one of life’s hard-est lessons is that we can’t change the past. We can try to forget it, or come up with excuses for what we did, even convince ourselves it wasn’t as bad as it really was, but we can’t change it.

But listen: God can forgive our past — totally and completely! Why would he do this? The reason is because he loves us and wants us to spend all eternity with him in heaven.

Only one thing can keep us out of heav-en, and that is our sin. But God wants to forgive our sins, and not only forgive them,

but cleanse us of them. Yes, what you’ve done is wrong, but God still loves you and wants to forgive you.

How is this possible? It’s possible be-cause of Jesus Christ. He came from heaven to become the final and complete sacrifice for our sins. Think of it: Every sin you ever committed — without excep-tion — was placed on Him, and he took upon Himself the judgment that you and I deserve.

Don’t let another day go by without Christ. By faith turn to Him, telling him you’re sorry for your sins and that you trust him alone for your salvation. Then ask him to help you forgive yourself, just as he has forgiven you, fully and completely. The Bible says, “As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our trans-gressions from us” (Psalm 103:12).

By Billy GrahamTribune Content Agency

Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit billygraham.org.

By Frank Stewart Tribune Content Agency

TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: ONE WOULD ASSUME

THEAREA OF HELSINKI’S NATION THAT’S FAR FROM

THE SEA IS KNOWN AS INLAND FINLAND.

By Judith Martin andNicholas Ivor MartinTribune Content Agency

Dear Miss Manners: At a friend’s party, the dispos-able glasses he took out for us had our names written on them, though there were just 10 of us. Even if we had a soft drink, we were supposed to have water later on in the same glass. Is this the correct way, or am I just overre-acting?

Gentle Reader: Was the party on a small raft at sea?

If not, Miss Manners is hard-pressed to under-stand the host’s behavior. If your friend was con-cerned about waste, per-haps it would be a good idea to invest in glassware.

Your reaction is under-standable, and she trusts that your behavior was not the cause of your be-ing adrift in the life raft in the irst place.

Dear Miss Manners: My

boyfriend and I attended the wedding of my friends a month ago, but left be-fore the reception dinner because I found myself having a panic attack.

I sufer from an anxi-ety disorder and severe depression. I didn’t feel that it was right for me to stay and potentially bring down the mood of a joyous occasion.

While the wedding was large enough that I feel our absence may have gone unnoticed, I still feel hor-rible for not being there for my friends.

The couple has now returned from their hon-eymoon, and I don’t know if I should mention my ab-sence, or if I should ofer to pay for the uneaten meals.

Gentle Reader: While Miss Manners does not allow illness to excuse rudeness, she does allow ill people to be excused from situations they can-not handle.

You were right to leave, and right not to announce it to your friends at such a large, busy event. If you were already seated, you need only have said to your tablemates, “Please excuse me; I don’t feel well” and left quickly and quietly before they started asking what was the matter and whether they could help. They will probably assume stomach trouble and that would have made you an undesirable dinner part-ner, anyway.

What you should do now is to write your friends a letter about how lovely the wedding was, only adding at the end that you had to slip out early because you felt ill, and deeply regret-ted not being able to see them of.

Ofering to pay for your uneaten dinner would only suggest that you believe them to be crass enough to weigh that against your misfortune.

MISS MANNERS

Disposable glasses into multiple service By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Save worrying for a diferent day. You might be on the path to a mistake, but a sequence of events could unfold in your favor and save the day. A child or new friend seems to have a lot to share. The question remains: Can you relax?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Be careful with your inances. Focus on your security, home and family matters. You could be surprised by the sup-port that someone gives you. Try to understand what is hap-pening with a situation at home.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You might want to under-stand exactly what is motivat-ing someone who suddenly has become a little too friendly. For the moment, you might need to observe more and say less.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Listen to news that involves others in your life. Your inances will need to be handled with kid gloves. An as-sociate might ask for a share of a project that doesn’t feel right to you. Listen to your instincts.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Be aware of what must be done to get where you want to go. A meeting might prove to be a stronger guideline and motivator than you consid-ered. Honor a change of pace, and know when you have had enough.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You could be greeting a lot more opportunities than you originally thought. If you feel overwhelmed by everything you are hearing, slow down. Under-stand what might be needed in order to feel more comfortable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Friends surround and support you. You could have a lot on your mind, and you might need to do some research and deep thinking. A loved one seems likely to interfere with your train of thought. Close the door if you must.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You will want to see a situation diferently. You could be encouraged by a high-er-up to revise your impressions, as you might be of-base. Be as gracious as possible, even if you happen to disagree.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-

Dec. 21) HHHH Graciously accept an opportunity to step outside your comfort zone. Though you might not want to give up the time, you will beneit enormously from taking a men-tal break from the here and now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You might want to hear news from a loved one. Do not stand on ceremony; make a call to this person, rather than torture yourself. You could be overwhelmed by everything that is happening and might need to talk through your choices.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH An offer comes through that simply will be too enticing to say “no” to. In fact, you might have two ofers and have to make choice. Good luck will come through those who are closest to you. A big smile goes a long way.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You could be a bit uptight about your choices. How you deal with a co-worker and explain a situation is very likely to color your day. Stay positive, and help this person stay posi-tive too. You’ll have so much en-ergy, so make sure you get some exercise.

Premier Crossword | Reordering Parts

JABBERBLABBER

Page 21: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 21

Community

Special to The Weekly

Collierville Arts Acad-emy dancer and Briarcrest Christian School student Lydia Summers recently auditioned for the pres-tigious American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive program and was accept-ed into the summer study program.

The program has earned a reputation for being the most thorough and re-warding dance experience a student can have during the summer. Under the su-pervision of ABT’s artistic director, Kevin McKenzie, and artistic director of summer intensives, Me-lissa Allen Bowman, the program ofers top-quality teachers and master guest teachers that are dedicated to the learning process and growth of each individual student.

Julie Knowles, artis-tic director of Collier-ville Arts Academy said, “We are all so proud of Lydia’s accomplishment as a ballerina. Audition-ing and being accepted into the American Ballet Theatre Summer Inten-

sive requires outstanding technical ability in classi-cal ballet. We know that Lydia will do very well at the ABT Summer Inten-sive; and we are looking forward to helping her achieve more of her goals in dance.”

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Lydia Summers to attend American Ballet Theatre summer program

By Krisit RansomSpecial to The Weekly

On Feb. 19, 1990, the city of Germantown opened the doors to what is now the Germantown Athletic Club.

Over the past 25 years, GAC has become one of the most popular athletic clubs in Shelby County.

Germantown Mayor

Mike Palazzolo said, “Our Germantown Athletic Club has been a ixture in our community for a quarter century, a place of gathering for every gener-ation, part of the core for the community’s health and wellness. Once con-structed as a premier com-munity center, and known to the members as the Cen-ter, it has grown over the years with multiple expan-sions, upgrades and reno-vations, now known to the members as the Club. And (it’s) still healthy and in

great shape after 25 years ... Happy birthday GAC!”

Later this year, GAC will undergo renovations. GAC club director Phil Rogers said, “Club membership has seen an increase in the family demographic, which had led to the need for expanded nursery and child care space.”

Rogers shared plans to also add a new designated space for group fitness classes as the popularity of the classes continues to increase.

Currently the classes

share space with the bas-ketball courts.

City Administrator Pat-rick Lawton added, “We are extremely proud of the facilities and programs we are able to ofer residents. As the needs of residents have changed, GAC has listened to their needs and continues to reinvest to keep the Club relevant to the community and its members.”

Kristi Ransom is the marketing

communications coordinator for

the city of Germantown.

ANNIVERSARY

Germantown Athletic Club turns 25

Lydia Sum-mers, a student at Collierville Arts Academy, will participate in the American Ballet Theatre Summer Inten-sive program.

Taylor Box and Bill Thomas hold up their Germantown Athletic Club towels celebrating 25 years.

In brief

A R O U N D G E R M A N T OW N

Healing Service for sick at St. George’s

On Sunday at 5:30 p.m., St. George’s Episcopal Church, 2425 S. German-town, will ofer a healing service with its blessing of hands.

This service will pro-vide a time for the laying on of hands for the healing of the sick. Individuals are invited to come forward to receive prayers for healing for themselves and for oth-ers.

Pastoral care team members, medical profes-sionals, counselors and those who provide care for family members or loved ones are especially invited to have their hands blessed so that they may continue to be a blessing in the care of others.

Annual Arbor Day tree giveaway

The Germantown Tree Board, Beautiication, En-vironmental and Parks and Recreation Commis-

sions will host the annual Arbor Day tree giveaway. The free event will be March 6, from 9-11 a.m. at the Germantown Cross-ing shopping center, 7735 Farmington.

Tree seedlings will be given to residents who show proof of residency with a utility bill and valid driver’s license. Trees are subject to availability.

All seedlings are Ten-nessee grown and are given out on a irst-come basis. Discount coupons for the Farm Park Fruit Tree Sale will be available for the irst 100 customers.

The rain date, if neces-sary, is March 7. For more information, contact Joni Roberts at 901-757-7378 or e-mail [email protected].

Nocturnal wildlife walk March 7

Discover mysterious nocturnal wildlife dur-ing a talk and walk led by a park ranger. Search for owls, deer, bats and other night-time dwellers in the heart of the Wolf River Na-

ture Area. In addition to the wild-

life, leaders will teach par-ticipants how to use their night vision and other senses to navigate in the night.

A bonire and marsh-mallow roast will end the evening. Bring insect repellent, a head lamp or lashlight and jacket. The free nature activity will be March 7, from 7-9 p.m. at the Wolf River Nature Area Trialhead, 7250 Wolf River.

For more information or to make reservations, call 901-757-7375. In the event of inclement weather, call 901-751-5669 for program status.

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

VA benefits seminar at Culpepper Place

Visit Culpepper Place of Collierville, 601 Wolf River, for a VA Beneits seminar March 7 at 10 a.m.

To RSVP, call Lisa Fash-ier at 901-854-6590.

The Weekly

City opened doors Feb. 1990

MEMPHIS BRIGHTON COLLIERVILLE COVINGTON MILLINGTON WEST MEMPHIS

Dr. Paul BiermanDr. Rande Smith Dr. Ken FieldsDr. Gerald Lieberman

901.201.6200 www.colonscreening.com

Dr. Edward Friedman

Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for both men and women in the U.S. but it doesn’t have to be —

its highly preventable and treatable through screening. If you are 50 or older, you should have a colonoscopy every 10

years. GI Specialists have been at the forefront of digestive disease care for over 20 years, from IBS and liver disorders to

esophageal, pancreatic and all forms of gastrointestinal cancers. Call us and schedule your screening today.

BEAT COLON CANCER BEFORE IT STARTS WITH EARLY SCREENING

Born before 1965?

it can save your life.TIME FOR YOUR COLONOSCOPY . . .

COLON CANCEREST. 2000

AWARENESS MONTH

Page 22: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

Travel

PHOTOS BY SAM MCMANIS/SACRAMENTO BEE/TNS

The Legoland Hotel in Carlsbad, Calif., is only about 50 steps from the park itself. It’s a quirky, though not cheap, place: Nightly rates run from $250 to $349, plus a fee.

By Sam McManisThe Sacramento Bee (TNS)

CARLSBAD, Calif. — All morning, rain did not just fall. No, it bibli-cally lashed and

pelted greater San Diego County, horizontally ham-mered the entire region, particularly the theme park dedicated to Denmark’s most lucrative manufac-turing export. Come early afternoon, though, the storm clouds parted, and the sun had reclaimed its rightful star billing, giving the grounds at Legoland an alluring sheen, a glistening burst of festive primary colors.

By this time, though, the precipi-tation was a river of children’s tears. Legoland, perhaps the only amusement park based on a toy that improves ine motor skills, was closed and would re-main so the rest of the day. A single, blue-and-yellow-uniformed worker stood at the shuttered turnstiles, giving the bad news. Kids’ reactions ranged from lip-quivering acceptance to full Three Mile Island meltdowns. Parents had that shell-shocked survivor’s look, facing the daunting prospect of inding something, anything, to entertain the brood and restore familial equanimity.

If they were smart — and, of course, had the not-insignificant financial means — their answer was only about 50 paces away.

The Legoland Hotel, not merely a logistical extension of the park, is al-most an attraction unto itself. Now, most kids can be entertained for a while by the novelty of sleeping away from home, jumping on the bed with abandon and reveling in the wonders of the ice machine down the hall. But rare is the hotel built and geared al-most exclusively for children, from its exclusively plastic brick artwork lining the hallways to the room-door keyhole placed strategically at toddler height.

In the chaotic welter of the lobby on this rainy afternoon, kids sprawled on the loor as if it were their living rooms, scooping pieces from the pretend foun-tain and snapping pieces into place on elaborate, ever-morphing fantasy forts and (mostly the boys) weapons of mass distraction. Parents either hovered at a safe distance, discreetly checking their smartphones, or shed their shoes and got down on the carpet with the little ones and created.

A literal river of Legos, under Lucite looring, led from the lobby up to an adjoining Castle play area, replete with forts and a mazelike pirate ship. Stray Legos lay strewn across the landscape like a Pollock canvas, while inished objets d’art adorned every wall and countertop. Around happy hour — but, really, for kids, isn’t that every hour? — as pajama-clad children partici-pated in “Elf Games” and prepped for the cutthroat nightly Model Building Competition, many parents retreated to the nearby Minis Lounge to nurse a

well-earned craft beer or glass or two of red wine and decompress from the day’s prepubescent dramas.

“It’s been fantastic,” said Melissa Schlichtling, of Helena, Mont., as son Zane, 9, disappeared into the castle and daughter Sonja, 7, put the inishing

touches on a tri-colored Lego “wand of dreams” she igured had a good shot at winning the model-building contest. “I don’t know what we would’ve done without (the hotel) today. I like that it’s not just kid-friendly but actually made for the kids.”

Across the lounge, a 30-something dad named Wayne from Littleton, Colo., grasped a beer in each hand, which is why he declined to give his last name. With mussed hair and a thousand-yard stare, Wayne conided that it had been a rough day having their Legoland excursion aborted. But the kids, and Wayne, too, rallied game-ly. They found plenty to do, Wayne said, but the park had better be open the next day, the family’s last in town, or who knows what fury might be un-leashed by his restless brood.

“They are in their element right now,” he said. “The rides at the park are really secondary. It’s really any-thing Legos for them. So, the hotel was a good call.”

A good call, sure. But also a little pricey, mind you, starting at $250 a night and running up to $349, plus a $25 resort fee. But many parents said that what you get for your money, this full immersion in Lego lore, is more than worth the expense.

Hang around the lobby awhile dur-ing check-in time, and observe the ini-tial reactions of the kids as they pass under the hulking green dragon, made of no fewer than 400,000 Legos, at the front entrance. They are, to a one, transported to another realm. Some are so initially overstimulated that they spontaneously burst into tears; others simply drop their bags and sprint to the Lego pit. Their parents, too, sport goofy grins, enchanted, per-haps, by how the cliches of an upscale hotel (the “fountain,” the “artwork,” the elegant sconces ringing the bar) are reproduced a la Legos.

No one stays in the room long, though, because the hotel staf keeps things hopping in the lobby. On the night of the rain-induced park clo-sure, the Castle Play Area was SRO, with pajama-clad kids running head-long into one another prepping for the Model Building Competition, pre-sided over by Princess Snowlake and Rosie the Elf. Schlichtling’s daughter, Sonja, checked out the competition, while Mom mused that perhaps some families were unsure on the rule that parents cannot help their kids in con-struction.

By the end of the pajama party, near 10 o’clock, and the onset of “Qui-et Time,” kids were strewn on the lobby carpet as if cast by a sleeping spell. Parents scooped them up and whisked them of to bed, hoping that the weather would hold and Legoland itself would be open the next morning.

By 10 a.m., the rain that had resumed at irst light had passed, the sun shone brightly and the park was drying out. Turnstiles twirled, and kids and par-ents gladly left behind the fun of the hotel for the fun of the park.

Built for kids

ABOVE: At the Legoland Hotel in Carlsbad, Calif., charac-ters roam the hallways and interact with little guests.

LEFT: A young guest staying at the hotel decides to eat his breakfast in a hole in the wall in Bricks restaurant.

IF YOU GO: LEGOLANDWhere: 1 Legoland Drive, Carlsbad, Calif.; Legoland Hotel, 5885 The Crossings Drive, CarlsbadWinter hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays)Cost: Legoland: $73-$83; Resort Hopper (including Sea Life Aquarium and Water Park): $97-$107Information: california.legoland.com; (877) 534-6526

At Legoland kids and adults can have a grand adventure without

leaving the hotel

22 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

Page 23: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 23

WINTER CLEAN UP SALE!

AMAZING50% OFFONE OF OUR LIGHTEST UPRIGHTS EVER!

Is your old vacuum heavyand hard to push?

The Oreck® Magnesium® weighs lessthan 8lbs* Cleans easier and faster!Pushes easily through frieze

and soft carpets.

So easy to maneuver and lays lat to get under furniture!

Magnesium® SPLimited Time Only!

$249997 YEAR WARRANTY** • 3 ANNUAL TUNEUPS

• HEPA Filtration traps dust mites, dander, & pollen.• Powerful! Oreck® cleans over 50,000 hotels!• High speed brush roll picks up pet hair in one pass!• Cleans wood & tile, as well as carpet

MSRP NOW

LAYS FLAT TO GET UNDER BEDS!

OUR LOWESTPRICE

OF THE YEAR!

*Approximate weight without cord. **Some limitations apply. For details in product user’s guide, see store for details. Any commercial use on non-commercialproducts voids applicable warranties. ©2015 Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited.

$49999

Bartlett7780 Hwy 64

901-384-9004Across from Carmax

Southaven, MSSouth Lake Center

662-349-1887Goodman Rd. / Airways

GermantownStonecreek Centre

901-624-0774Poplar Ave. / Forest Hill Irene

LaurelwoodPerkins & Poplar

901-820-0014Across from Kroger

ORECK ® STORESLOWEST PRICE GUARANTEED! WE REPAIR ALL BRANDS!

Hours:Mon-Sat 10-6

Sun 1-5at Germantown,

Wolfchase& Southaven

COUPON EXPIRES 3/4/15

$99Reg. $199.99

CompactCanisterPowerful withtools forcleaningstairs,hardwood,furniture,& autos.

COUPON EXPIRES 3/4/15

COUPON EXPIRES 17/12/14COUPON EXPIRES 3/4/15

SALE $7999REG:$99.99

HAVE TILE ORWOOD FLOORS?

Steam Clean Them!Heats up quicklywith a swivel head.

SALE $99

• Cordless/Rechargeable• Hand held unit detaches fromdocking unit for quick clean ups

2-in1 PowerfulFloor Vac & Hand Vac!SAVE $30!

ORECK®

STEAM-GLIDE®

fulVac!

Page 24: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

BartlettThe Bartlett Public Library, 5884 Stage Road, will

host its Family Tunes & Tales program, presented by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, at 11 a.m. Satur-day. Performance is open to all ages. Craft session immediately following for ages 4-12. Registration is required for the craft session only. Call 901-386-8968.

TheatreKids presents an adaptation of the 1984 blockbuster “Footloose” at Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, 2663 Appling, at 7 p.m. through Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $8. Call 901-385-6440 or visit bpacc.org.

Collierville

The Senior Lunch n’ Learn series at the Morton Mu-seum, 196 N. Main, continues the second and fourth Thursday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., through April. Lunch n’ Learn is an educational and social program that brings artists, authors and historians to the Museum for discussions over lunch. Attendees are asked to bring a lunch. Drink and dessert provided. Programs are free and all materials included. Coming up:

■ Today, Printmaking: Explore the art of relief block printmaking and produce an individual block print to take home.

■ March 12, The New Deal in Collierville, 1935-1940: Learn about the latest exhibit at the museum.

The Young Professional Council Mixer will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m. today at Take Home Gourmet, 2130 W. Poplar Ave. Suite 105. This month’s event is hosted by Chef John Wilson. Bring plenty of business cards and invite a friend. Contact Caitlin Soma at [email protected].

Heart Health for Women, presented by the Fatigue Clinic, will be at the YMCA at Schilling Farms at 11:30 a.m. Friday. B-12 shots will be available for $10. Free and open to the community. Call 901-850-9622 for information.

The Harrell Theatre, 440 W. Powell Road, hosts “Freckleface Strawberry, The Musical” presented by New Day Children’s Theatre at 7 p.m. Friday and Sat-urday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 for children 12 and under and $12 for adults. Visit newdaytheatre.org or call 901-828-2318.

The Collierville Burch Library, 501 Poplar View Parkway, will ofer free SAT and ACT practice tests for students in grades 9-12. Get realistic practice and try your hand at the types of questions you’ll face on the actual exam. Online registration is required. Visit colliervillelibrary.org. Also, register for the Scores Back session March 10, when you will receive

your scores along with score explanations and ad-vice on the college application process.

Also upcoming at the Collierville Burch Library: ■ Teen Pajama Reading Fest from 1:30-4 p.m. Sun-

day. Don’t feel like taking your pajamas of to go out in public? Well, you don’t need to. Come in your PJ’s and with a good book. Activities include reading and enjoying good snacks and company.

CordovaDance for Charity from 6-11 p.m. Saturday at Wood-

land Hills Ballroom, 10000 Woodland Hills. Enjoy stand-up comedian Rajiv Satyal at his irst show in the Mid-South and dance nonstop to Bollywood music by a professional DJ. Tickets are $90. Visit aaictrust.org or e-mail [email protected].

As part of its series of public cooking classes for the amateur chef, L’Ecole Culinaire, 1245 N. Germantown Parkway, presents Cupcakes Galore from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Cost is $55. Also, from 6-9 p.m. you can expe-rience China: International Series Cooking Class for $95. Call 314-264-1812 or e-mail [email protected].

The West TN Children’s Chorus and the West TN Youth Chorus will hold auditions at Cordova Com-munity Center, 1017 Sanga, until March 15 for boys and girls ages 9-15. To schedule an audition, call 901-753-3918 or visit westtennesseeyouthchorus.com.

Comedian Dominique will be at Chuckles Com-edy House, 1770 Dexter Springs Loop, for six shows through Sunday. Tickets are $20. Shows start at 8 p.m. tonight and Sunday and 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Diamond L Productions presents the St. Jude Barrel of Hope barrel race through Sunday at the Show Place Arena at Agricenter International, 105 S. Germantown Parkway. Visit diamondlproductionsllc.com.

GermantownThe Germantown Community Garden Association is

seeking members for the upcoming growing season. The season startup and new member orientation will be today, from 7-8:30 p.m., at the Pickering Center, 7771 Poplar Pike. Applications will be accepted through May 1 or until capacity is reached. Contact Joni Rob-erts at 901-757-7378 or [email protected].

Registration has begun for the Germantown Half Mara-thon and the Mayor’s Cup 5K. The races will be March 15 at 7:30 a.m. at Germantown Athletic Club, 1801 Exeter. Cost for the half-marathon is $55 through Friday and $65 through March 14. Cost for the 5K is $22.50 through Friday and $25 through March 14. Packet pickup and last registration will be available on March 14 at the Sports and Fitness Expo at the Germantown Athletic Club.

Jazz in the Box presents Shelly Berg at Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter, at 7 p.m. Friday. Berg is widely acclaimed for his energetic and in-novative approaches to performance, composition and pedagogy. Tickets are $65. Visit gpacweb.com or call 901-757-7500.

Kodo — Drummers of Japan turns traditional Japanese music into a stunning spectacle and a vibrant expres-sion of artistic excellence at Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter, at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Tickets are $35 and up. Call 901-751-7500 or visit gpacweb.com.

Party all night at The Great Hall and Conference

Center, 1900 S. Germantown, to beneit the Memphis-MidSouth Ailiate of Susan G. Komen at Rock the Ribbon. Enjoy Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster, ap-petizers, and complimentary beer and wine from 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday. Tickets are $40. Call 901-757-8686 e-mail [email protected] or visit komenmemphis.org/rock-the-ribbon.

Enjoy a stunning display of Cuban-born master trumpet player Arturo Sandoval’s musical range and instrumental eclecticism at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Ger-mantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter. Tick-ets are $58.50. Call 901-751-7500 or visit gpacweb.com.

The Pickering Center, 7771 Poplar Pike, will host “Garden Talk,” an educational series, starting Satur-day. Join Farm Park staf from 10-11 a.m. and learn how to set up your own backyard chicken coop, select the right kind of chickens, and care for chickens from hatching to maturity. Local ordinances and guide-lines will be discussed. Free, but preregistration is required. Call 901-757-720.

The Germantown Animal Shelter will host its third annual silent auction beneiting the shelter on March 7 at the Pickering Center, 7777 Poplar Pike. The event will run from 5-7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of the event. Tickets can be purchased at the Germantown Animal Shelter, 7700 Southern Ave., or by calling Steve Morley at 901-826-7123 or Barbara Montgomery at 901-754-6091.

MemphisThe Hutchison junior class will host the eighth an-

nual Hutchison Beeline Bazaar in the Hutchison Good-lett Gym Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Handmade goods such as jewelry, art, food, textiles, décor and more will be on sale. There is no cost to attend. A majority of the proceeds will beneit the Hutchison Community Service Endowment Fund, which sup-ports a grant program directed by Hutchison’s student Philanthropic Literacy Board.

A Taste of CBHS will be 5-7:30 p.m. Sunday at Chris-tian Brothers High School. More than 40 restaurants, vendors, and sponsors will participate. Tickets are $75 per person and are available for purchase at the CBHS Development Oice, online at cbhs.org, Luc-chesi’s Ravioli & Pasta Company or Buster’s Liquors & Wines. Call 901-261-4930.

DESOTO COUNTY

SouthavenJoin in on the fun at Community Bank’s 5K & Kids

Fun Run, 7 p.m. Saturday at Snowden Grove Park, 6208 Getwell. Awards will be distributed by age groups. All proceeds beneit Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center. Participants can register online at community-bank.net/glow5k. Preregistration entry fee is $25 or $30 day of race. Kids fun run preregistration fee is $12/15.

Fillin’ Station Grille West, 4840 Venture Drive, hosts the 5th annual Mumbo Gumbo Cook-Of at 10 a.m. Sun-day. Enjoy live music and all the gumbo you can eat. Visit illinstationgrille.com or call 662-510-5423. Pro-ceeds will beneit DeSoto Art Council’s Art for Autism.

E-mail information on upcoming community events to Matt Woo at

[email protected].

Calendar

The

Weeklycommunity events

24 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

“You’re perfect the wayyou are. Your oil couldprobably use a change.”

midasmemphis.com

*OC910USOTH*Most vehicles. Up to 5 quarts of conventional oil. High mileage, synthetic, synthetic blend oilsextra. Plus shop fee up to 10% where permitted of non-discounted retail price, not to exceed $35.Plus applicable tax. Tire rotation at time of service. No cash value. Not valid with other offers. Atparticipating Midas locations, with coupon. Expires: 04-30-15

Save on oil changes

OIL CHANGE PLUS

Memphis • 798 Brookhaven Circle • 901-682-6622

INCLUDES TIRE ROTATION

$2499 • Oil & filter change• Courtesy check including visualbrake check, battery, air filter,fluid, belts and hoses

• 4 wheel tire rotation

MID-WEEK SPECIAL (TUESDAY-THURSDAY ONLY)

• Brakes• Exhaust

• Suspension• Wheel Alignments

• Headlamps• Bulbs and More!

• Belts• Hoses

$10OFF

SERVICESOVER$100

$20OFF

SERVICESOVER$200

$30OFF

SERVICESOVER$300

Save on brakes, tires,maintenance and total car care.

We employ technicians6 MONTHS SPECIAL FINANCINGAvailable at participating shops with approved credit. Minimum monthlypayment required. See manager for details

*FL301NAOTH*

*Bd124NAOTH*

Discount off regular price. Consumer pays all tax. Most vehicles. Plus shop fee up to 10%where permitted of non-discounted retail price, not to exceed $35. No cash value. Not validwith other offers. At participating Midas locations, with coupon. Expires: 04-30-15

Excludes tax. Excludes tires, batteries and oil changes. Discount off regular price. Consumerpays all tax. Most vehicles. Plus shop fee up to 10% where permitted of non-discounted retailprice, not to exceed $35. No cash value. Not valid with other offers. At participating Midaslocations, with coupon. Expires: 04-30-15

Save on maintenance

Save on maintenance

ANY FLUID EXCHANGE

$10 OFF• Transmission• Radiator/Coolant• Power Steering• Brake

$32.99

Wholesale Nutrition2130W Poplar Avenue,Suite 102 901.457.7595

NEW! Protein witha Kick of Energy.

Enjoy our discountedintroductory price.

Love what you eat whilestaying nutritious. QuestProtein Bars & Powdershave amazing taste andexcellent nutrition.

• 50 Calories• <1g Carbohydrates• Vitamins E,B6,B12• Green Tea Extract• Caffeine

QUALITY SUPPLEMENTSLOW PRICES • SMOOTHIE BAR

Page 25: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 25

Get on the Path to Healthy Eating... All Fresh Ingredients... No MSG

Asian EateryDine In Carry out

2072 West Street Germantown, TN 38138Phone 901-737-3988 Fax 901-737-3985

Mon-Thurs 11:00am-9:00pm;Friday 11:00am-10:00pm;

Saturday 4:00pm-10:00pm; Sunday 11:00am-9:00pmOPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

*Free Wireless Internet Access To Customers*www.Asianeatery.net

Are you planning foryour future?

Join us for lunch on Thursday, March 12, 2015from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm and learn more

about re�rement living, the real estatemarket, and how to “rightsize.”

901-612-2711RSVP by March 7, 2015 -- Limited Sea�ng

Transporta�on AvailableRobinwoodRe�rement.com

2795 Kirby Whi�en Pkwy.Bartle�, TN 38134

ALL-INCLUSIVERetirement Living

Today

ENJOY

Page 26: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

26 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

Advertisement

Erectile Dysfunction

Ofice visit AND ALL Testing only $199

ASK DR. JOHNSON:Does AnythingActually Work?

The Answeris YES!Anyone who knowsme will tell youI am a straight upguy. I’ve held off oncommenting on theerectile dysfunction(ED) controversy untilI was able to really domy homework. Wellthe results are in.

Erectile dysfunctionis a fact of life.Whether it occursdue to an accident, arecent surgery(prostate cancer is abiggie), diabetes, orsimply due to aging,the accompanyingloss of self esteemis something thateffects millionsof men every day.And in a nutshell,that seems to bethe problem - everyman’s ED problem isdifferent and requiresdifferent treatment.

What color is yourfavorite pill?Drug companies havejumped all over thislike a --- well a drugcompany. I don’t haveto say the names--- we’ve all seen theads --- but they’vespent millions tryingto convince you allthat one pill ixes all--- when in actualitythey fail over 50% ofthe time. And that’sjust a fact.

Somebody whospecializes in men’ssexual health.After extensiveresearch, the onlyapproach that makessense comes fromcompanies called theMen’s Clinic that havebeen opening acrossthe country. There’sone here in Memphis.The Memphis Men’sClinic specializes inED and that’s all theydo. Their doctorsseem to be the onlyones who realizethat ED effects everyman differently.They have uniquelycombined threemedically approvedingredients for EDinto 70 differentformulations --- oneof which will make“it” start happeningimmediately --- and Imean immediately forover 92% of all menexperiencing ED. Infact, if “it” doesn’t starthappening on the irstvisit, you don’t pay asingle penny.

Why didn’t mydoctor tell me?Don’t expect much helpfrom your family doctor.How you perform in thebedroom is not reallyhis concern and he willprobably just prescribesome “pills”.

Regardless of yourage -Regardless of yourmedical history oryour age --- they havesatisied patientsranging from 23 to 91--- if you suffer fromED you should call the---Memphis Men’s Clinicat ------901-443-0485today to schedule anappointment and regainyour sexual health.

Dr. Johnson is aboard-certiiedphysician specializingin men’s health atthe Memphis Men’sClinic.

For more information and to schedule your private exam with our doctors call901.443.0480!

5050 Poplar Ave., Suite 718, Memphis, TN 38157www.memphismensclinic.com

Therewhen youneed us.Seriously.

www.primeurgentmedicalclinic.com

URGENTMEDICAL CLINIC

PRIME

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEKMEMPHIS - COLLIERVILLE - SOUTHAVEN

Page 27: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

M G «« T H E W E E K LY « Thursday, February 26, 2015 « 27

Community

GERMANTOWN ANIMAL SHELTER

PETS OF THE WEEK

■ Mid-South Greyhound Adoption Option will be at Hollywood Feed, 2648 Broad Ave., noon to 2 p.m.

■ Southern Friends Ani-mal Society will be at the Southaven Hollywood Feed, 352 E. Goodman Road, with adoptable pets from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Weekly Pet Adoptions

SEND US YOUR NEWS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTSWe want The Weekly to be your go-to for community news. Tell us what you like, what you don’t like. Better yet, be a part of our team by sending us your news. Brag on your kids (or pets!), tell us about upcoming events or special people in the community. Send us photos of church events, youth sports, summer vacations and everything happening right here.E-mail JPEG images 1-2 MB in size to Matt Woo at [email protected]. Please include first and last names of everyone pictured, the city in which they live, and all the pertinent details.

Name: AveryAge: 4 years

Breed: Border Collie mix

Description: Avery loves to

play fetch.

Name: ChloeAge: 1 1/2 years

Breed: Domestic short

hairDescription:

She loves to snuggle.

COLLIERVILLE ANIMAL SHELTER

Name: BoscoAge: 10 yearsBreed: CorgiDescription: Well-mannered and sweet.

Name: CrawfordAge: 2-3 yearsBreed: Domestic short hairDescription: Very sweet cat.

The Germantown Animal Shelter, 7700 Southern, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The Collierville Animal Shelter, 60 E. South St., is open Wednesday through Sunday, from 1-4 p.m. The Paw Prints Pet Adoption Center at Carriage Crossing is open Saturday and Sundays, from 1-4 p.m. every other weekend.

By Selena SilvestroSpecial to The Weekly

The volunteer group Little Helpers crafted paper lowers and hand-decorated vases for all the seniors at Culpepper Place in Collierville on Feb. 22.

Many of the residents joined the fun and colored paper lowers with the chil-dren. After the lower vases were assembled, the color-ful “spring blossoms” were delivered to every resident at the senior center.

Little Helpers has been helping children help oth-ers since December 2010. The family volunteer group holds monthly service proj-ects for children of all ages. The program is designed to help young people un-derstand the value of vol-unteering, recognize the

blessings in their lives, broaden their community perspective and feel the sense of accomplishment from lending a helping hand. The ultimate goal of the program is to raise conident children who see

giving back as a normal as-pect of their lives.

For more information, please visit “Little Help-ers” on Facebook.

Selena Silvestro is the Memphis

area Little Helpers coordinator.

COLLIERVILLE

Little Helpers volunteer group pays a visit to Culpepper Place residents

For their latest project, Little Helpers created paper flowers and decorated vases for seniors at Culpepper Place in Collierville.

By Renee Davis BrameSpecial to The Weekly

Germantown Commu-nity Theatre’s newest play “All My Sons” runs March 6-22. Show times are Fri-day and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

Based on a true story and set just after World War II, “All My Sons” tells the story of two partners accused of selling defective airplane parts. Will one man pay for the sins of both? What about the love afair be-tween their children?

Written by Arthur Mill-er in 1947, the themes of justice, morality and fam-ily endure today in this modern classic.

In addition to several Broadway and West End productions, the play also has been adapted for ra-dio, television and ilm. After the play was irst produced, it won the New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award and Tony Award for Best Author. The GCT cast includes Lena Wallace

(Ostrander Award winner for last season’s “Miracle Worker”), Greg Boller and Marques Brown.

Tickets are $21, $15 for se-niors and students and $10 for children 10 and under.

Renee Davis Brame is operations

director at Germantown Com-

munity Theatre.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

WWII play ‘All My Sons’ opens at GCTGreg Boller stars as Joe Keller in “All My Sons.” See it March 6-22 at Germantown Community Theatre.

COURTESY OF RENEE

DAVIS BRAME

www.commercialappeal.com COLLIERVILLE APPEAL Thursday, February 26, 2015 CL1

Block

5 x x 313.23

C L A S S I F I E D/

GeneralHelp Wanted 161´´´´´

FORKLIFT OPERATORS$10.00/Hr. - $12.00/Hr.

ALL 3 SHIFTSFL Operators must haveReach, Order Pickerand Sit Down Exp.

APPLY AT:www.applyplx.com

PROLOGISTIX

´´´´´

SERVICE TECHNICIANSeeking experiencein the following areas:

• Refrigeration• HVAC• Plumbing• Electrical• Commercial CookingEquipment

Competitive salary, stableenvironment and strongbenefit package. Must beEPA Certified. Apply in

person or mail resume andsalary requirements to:

CenturyManagement, LLC5645 Murray RoadMemphis, TN 38119Call: 901-767-9330Fax: 901-761-1390Email Resume to:

[email protected]

Legals 165** LEGAL SECRETARY **Excellent Salary andBenefits; Large EastMemphis plaintiff law

firm seeks individual thatis detail oriented; has

excellent organizational,computer and people skills.Experience in the personalinjury field preferred.

Fax confidential resume to901-746-1521 or email [email protected]

Logistics/Transportation166**Class A CDL Drivers**$3,000 Sign on Bonus**$100 on 1st Paycheck**

Pay up to 40cpm2 yrs OTR required

Call DTi @ 866-677-4333www.dancortransit.com

OPERATIONS/DISPATCHIntermodal trucking co

needs an experienced teamplayer for operations.

Full benefits package andcompetitive pay for theright person. Respond inconfidence to: employment

@atltrucking.com

To Place Your Ad Call901-529-2700

Black2

5 x x 187.00

Logistics/Transportation166Driver Tractor Trailer

No Experience? SomeExperience? LOTS of

Experience? - Let’s Talk!No matter what stage

in your career,it’s time to call CentralRefrigeration Home.Great Miles ~ Top Pay!CDL Training Available

(855) 738-6575www.centraltruckdrivingjobs.com

Manufacturing177Purchasing Manager

Our growing mfg. companyis seeking an exp’dPurchasingManager

to issue purchase ordersto existing suppliers, track& expedite orders, and

review & analyze inventorymovement. Requires exp.in volume purchasing,

3+ years of exp. in a mfg.environment, knowledgeof material requirementplanning, ability to work ina fast-paced environment.

Bachelor’s Degree,MS Office & JD Edwardssoftware exp. req’d.

Prefer CPM designation.Must pass pre-employmentbkgrnd check/drug test.

For immediateconsideration please

email your resume withsalary requirements:[email protected] M/V/F/D

Medical/Healthcare 180

CAREGIVERSCOMFORT KEEPERSLeading provider of

non-medical in-home carefor seniors is seeking

Caregivers, CNAs for VAvisits, & LIVE-INS.We offerhealth benefits & 401K plan.

Must have a currentdriver’s lic., social securitycard & car insurance.Call 901-541-5118, leave a

msg. & an office repwill callto schedule an interview.

Community Sale?Advertise Today

Call 901-529-2700

Community Sale?Advertise Today

Call 901-529-2700Call 529-2700

to place your classified ad

205-240

Dogs andSupplies/Services 205

Dogue De Bordeaux.ACA 17wks, 2males red/redmask white on chest utds/w. $1000.00, 870-371-0393

GERMAN SHEPHERDPuppies. AKC Takingreservation. Male/fem.Parents hip tested. FatherGerman import. www.gsd-

puppies.com $1.000(731) 935-9095

MAREMMA PUPPIESBeautiful!!

$500 Males $600 FemalesPuppies for sale ! They arewell socialized with live-stock and people. We haveplaced Maremmas in thecity and the country. Theyare wonderful dogs with avery easy going personal-ity. They only bark whennecessary and are contentto watch the house, yard,or field. We have 14 pup-pies that are waiting for agreat home. Females getto be about 75-90 lbs andmales 85-100. They are thebest guardian dogs wehave ever had. Please con-tact me at 901-299-3806 orweesnermeadow.com totake a look at these beau-ties.

302-399

EstateSales 347CHARLOTTE'S ESTATE

SALESWonderful High End sale2715 Kelmscott Cove

Kirby to Stout to Greenmillto Kelmscott. Antiques,

great furniture, lots of toolsgenerator & more.Fri. Feb. 27, 10-4,Sat. 10-4 Sun. 12-4

info: www.estatesales.net901-692-7493

To Place Your Ad Call901-529-2700

HouseholdGoods 365DINING TABLE/CHAIRSOblong solid teakwoodTbl.67" x 45". 2 leaves + protec-tion pads. Great condition.$400.00; 2 End + 4 SideChairs, Padded seats,Good Condition, $60.00 forall six. (901)481-8354

Store andRestaurantEquipment 392

SMOKER TRAILERCustom built 8 ft. ReverseFlow Smoker on Trailer.Covered with awnings HD

12 volt battery with1600/800 Wt inverter.Dry storage box. Woodstorage area. 60 sq feetof cooking area. Lights.$8500. Call for more info.,

(501)209-5084.

Trucks, SUV’sand Vans 955Cadillac ‘08 SRX CrossoverSUV, 3rd row seat, only 35Kmi,well kept,mature owner901-218-9105, Keith Dial

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘14 Escalade,grounded loaner, $58,964includes $499 doc, excludes

ttl. #26019. Alex,901-288-7600

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘11 EXT Pre-mium, 42K miles, bronze,like new, $49,959 includes$499 doc, excludes ttl.

#26079. Oscar, 901-761-1900

BUDDAVIS CADILLAC

AutomobilesFor Sale 960CADILLAC ‘09 XLR Plati-num, Hard-top Convertible,30K miles, must see. Dialfor a deal, 901-218-9105, ask

for Keith DIal

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘09 XLR

Platinum, only 34K miles.#26092. Barbara Wright,

901-761-1900

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘13 XTS, FullSize Luxury! 14K mile

loaner car, $34,652 incl $499doc fee, excl ttl. Call Keith

Dial, 901-218-9105

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘13 ATS, white,Premium, loaner car, 12Kmiles, $32,988 incl $499 doc,excl ttl. #26059. Tony Heeg,

901-761-1900

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘11 DTS Pre-mium, silver mist, Cer-

tified! $28,955 includes $499doc, excludes ttl. #26112.Tyrone, 901-761-1900

BUDDAVIS CADILLAC

AutomobilesFor Sale 960Cadillac ‘12 SRX, mocha,certified, Luxury pk, $29,955incl $499 doc+ttl. #26059.Ken Walsen, 901-340-1492

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘10 DTS, black,only 24K miles, $23,988 incl$499 doc, excl ttl. #15136A.

Keino, 901-761-1900

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘13 XTS, 14Kmiles, service loaner.

#26059. It’s a deal! Ask forKeith Dial, 901-218-9105

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCadillac 10 DTS, luxury car,only 24K mi, priced to sell,real nice.KeithDial 218-9105

BUDDAVIS CADILLAC

CADILLACDlr/Costco/On-

Star/CarFax certified2005 Cadillac DevilleLOWMILES & underwarranty $7995/OBO.

901-730-4541.

CHEVROLET ‘13MALIBU & CRUZE!

Several to choose from.Tesh Dotson, 901-761-1900

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCHEVROLET ‘07 Corvette,don’t get many ‘07s! Won’tlast! 65K miles. 901-218-9105,Dial for a deal, Keith Dial.

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCHEVROLET ‘07 CorvetteConv, red/blk lthr, Nav.,

heads up, pwr top, #15381A.Stephen, 901-288-4946

BUDDAVIS CADILLACFORD ‘14MustangGT,Pre-miumpkg, auto., $28,988 incl$499 doc, excl. ttl. #26095.Steve Harris, 901-288-4946

BUDDAVIS CADILLAC

´MERCEDES-BENZ´Low price High qlty since 85´2 Indoor Showrooms´50+ Mercedes in stock-miles as low as 998

Most in factory warranty,w/100Kextended warranty

available15,000 + Happy Clients!All trades welcome,Excellent finance ratesw/approved credit.

Sales Service BodyshopPlease View

SMITHIMPORTS.COM2965 S. 3RD 901-332-2130

Community Sale?Advertise Today

Call 901-529-2700To Place Your Ad Call

901-529-2700

SHELBYCOUNTY

SPECTACULARSERVICE!

JOYCE McKENZIE

A TOP PRODUCERFOR THEMONTH OFJANUARY

CLOSED IN EXCESS

OF 3.1 MILLIONDOLLARS

Congratulations!

COLLIERVILLEO: 901.854.5050D: 901.335.8460

Page 28: Feb. 26 Collierville Weekly

28 » Thursday, February 26, 2015 » T H E W E E K LY «« M G

www.ColliervilleChamber.com | www.ColliervilleExpo.com

Chamber of CommerceCollierville

Mission Statement: he mission of the Collierville Chamber ofCommerce is to providequality services andprograms to itsmembershipand to provide business leadership for the entire community in the vitalareas of economic prosperity, education, and quality of life.VisionStatement:hevisionof theColliervilleChamber ofCommerceis to be the leading advocate for growth and proitability of the businesscommunity and to promote corporate citizenship.Guiding Principle: “Our Unity Creates Community”

hank youmessage to our Ambassadors from Fran Persechini,President | CEOFebruary was a very special month for me…On February 4, at our monthly Ambassadors’meeting,our amazing Ambassadors surprised me with a farewell luncheon. Being surrounded by over30 of our incredible business leaders and Chamber champions was heartwarming.We were treatedto a delicious Moe’s catered lunch and yummy Costco cake. hey shared heartfelt messages andcards.hey showered with me love and beautiful gifts…a gorgeous silver engraved tray, friendshipinspirational picture and ‘heart shaped’ pottery bowl. It was such a very beautiful luncheon and feltso loved and honored. Our Ambassadors have a special spot in my heart and I have a lifetime ofhappy, wonderful memories. You all have become more than business associates—you have becomedear friends. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so very much!Below is a photo of our amazing Ambassadors… they are our lifeline—we can do what we dobecause of our Ambassadors! Our Ambassadors promote goodwill and communicate the missionof the Chamber to new and existing members; encourage all members to get involved with theChamber; and support Chamber membership and staf. Our Ambassadors are often the irst linknew members have with the Chamber. Our goal is to help members feel welcome and comfortablewith the Chamber.We do this by attending ribbon cutting ceremonies to welcome new businessesand by contacting new members to answer any questions they may have. We are also the oicialhosts of all Chamber events, where we pay special attention to irst-time attendees, meeting themand introducing them to other members. Ambassadors have the responsibility to be Chamberadvocates for all members. To be involved as an Ambassador, contact Becky Hammond, 853-1949or [email protected]

Seated from left: Becky Hammond, Chamber Membership Director; Fran Persechini,Chamber President | CEO; Bonnie Allman, Chairman Membership; Liese Leonard.1st row from left: Lyndsey Drotar, Layla Morgan, Penny Moore, Terry Dean, Kim Colletta,Sue Silva, Amber Lombardo.2nd row from left: Trena Street, Amy Wood, Barbara May, Katie Schillinger, Mel Samish,Jessica Billings,Martie Watson, Rosemary Hart, Debra Wheeler,Tammy Piker, Judi Davis.Back row from left: Matt Payne, Polly Shipley, Pansy Hall, Carrie Bullock, Michael Ward,Vicki Parker,Teresa Kaczmarek, Becky McAlexander, John Christensen.

heCollierville Chamber of Commerce AnnualMembership LuncheonRelections from FranAs my retirement is nearing, how can I begin to express my inner most feelings of gratitude toall of you? hank you all for making me feel like the luckiest Chamber executive in the world!It is with a humble, heavy and proud heart that I send you my relections.here were many reasonsfor the anticipation of the Chamber Annual Membership Luncheon—the oicial “ Passing ofthe Gavel” ceremony took place; a “year in review” from outgoing Chairman Matt VanCleve,Alliance Law & Counseling, of the many achievements in 2014 and a look ahead to 2015 fromChairman John Barrios, Barrios Financial Services; a special tribute and retirement celebration forme. Ridgeway Country Club was bursting at the seams with approximately 240 guests includingchamber directors, members, elected oicials, business and community leaders and my family…

I want to thank my board and team members for organizing the Chamber membership luncheonon February 11. Dave Nelson, Terry Cochran, Matt VanCleve, Matt White, John Barrios,Becky Hammond,CathyWilhelm and Cheryl Edge have been preparing and planning this tributefor over a month… all behind closed doors, so I would have this wonderful surprise! I still cannotbelieve it was real! hank you all for pouring your hearts and souls into my celebration—thespecial tribute video is an amazing keepsake and am truly touched by this memory; the vacationto North Carolina is incredible; the gorgeous hand-made pin will be a beautiful reminder of myChamber family and career; a commemorate book relecting First Tennessee’s 150 years of businessinMemphis presented and inscribed bymeeting sponsor,BruceHopkins,President,WestTennesseeRegion, First Tennessee Bank; Collierville Magazine poster signed by many of my friends; thespecial recognitions from Mayor Stan Joyner and State Representative Mark White presented byhis wife, Kathy White.

On February 11, we witnessed the symbolic passing of the gavel... I would like to personally thankMatt VanCleve, Alliance Law & Counseling, for serving as Chairman of our Chamber andcommunity volunteer with integrity, humbleness, dedication and a great sense of humor.Your leadershiphad inluence that created respect among other leaders and distinguished the Collierville Chamberamong other chambers.We are so proud of you. Congratulations!John Barrios, incoming Chairman, seasoned leader in the community, thank you for accepting the reins ofthis dynamic business organization.We are very excited about the future of our organization under yourleadership. Upon accepting the reins of the Collierville Chamber, Chairman John Barrios, is conidentabout the future of the Collierville Chamber. “Because of Fran and her staf ’s hard work, we have thispositive momentum at our Chamber, and it will be up to us to carry that on.”he Collierville Chamberboasts of 720 businesses as members, which is an all-time high. “We have a strong board of directors,competent staf and a great relationship with the Town of Collierville’s administration,” adds Barrios.

Front row: Left to Right: Wright Cox, Linda Dick, Fran Persechini, E. Dale JamiesonSecond Row: Left to Right: Michael Green,Ty Stamps,Terry Cochran, Dave Nelsonhird Row: Left to Right: Matt VanCleve,Taylor Stamps,Matt WhiteIt will be an exciting year to work with the outstanding leaders on our board that represent our chambermembers.he transition team is working diligently to select the next Chamber President | CEO.Together, theChamber will continue to provide quality services and programs to our membership and to provide businessleadership for the entire community in the vital areas of economic prosperity, education and quality of life.Together, the Chamber will be the leading advocate for growth and proitability of the business communityand to promote corporate citizenship. Our leadership ‘trinity’ (Past – Present – Future Chairmen) and entireboard held its strategic planning meeting on January 22. Our focus is to continue to add value – growth andretention. Focus on membership, business community and workforce development. Continue the work begunin economic development with strategic planning and collaboration with John Duncan, Mike Sayres andTerry Cochran.We have a membership of over 720 and counting – we have a wonderful partnership with theMBA and Town administration – we are truly blessed. It is going to be a GREAT YEAR – the bar is raisedeach year and now I am challenging all of you to help the Chamber raise the bar even higher in 2015.We haveincreased our board members to have a better representation of our increased chamber membership. I wouldlike to introduce our 2015 Oicers and Board of Directors”:he Chamber’s continued success depends on all of you.We are surrounded by the greatest of leaders; we havethe greatest Chamber; and the greatest community in the world! Henry Ford simply stated, “Coming togetheris a beginning, keeping together is progress and working together is success.”Our future is bright!

Front row from left: Matt White; Don Kitchens, Chairman-Elect; Fran Persechini, President |CEO;John Barrios,Chairman;Matt VanCleve, Immediate Past Chairman; Stan Joyner,Mayor; Bill Samisch2nd row from left: Shelley Smith, Mike Sayres, Cathy Messerly, Tamara Swain, Kelle Lovelace,Andrea Duncan, Susan Eads, Bonnie Allman, Nick Cassella, Roger LewisBack row from left: Tom Mascari, Glen Herald, James Lewellen, Terry Cochran, Michael Meindl,Greg Cotton, Kevin Baltier, John Duncan, Amy Speropolous, Dave Nelson

SAVE THE DATES!A special reception and Open House is planned for March 19 at the chamber oices.March 11 Chamber luncheon - Don’t miss the announcement of the Collierville Person of the Year,Business Champion Award and C.H Harrell Award . For reservations call the chamber 901.853.1949.March 27- 29 – Community Weekend in Collierville – Sidewalk Sale – Live Life Local 38017he Collierville Chamber Golf Classic will be held Monday,May 18 at Memphis National Golf Club.Sponsorships available! For more information contact the Chamber @ 901-853-1949