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NEW YEAR, NEW DISTRICT

The Germantown Municipal School District will host a

kickof party Saturday at Municipal Park, while Collierville

Schools will have a blessing and open house Sunday.

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With limited real estate surrounding the Shelby County oice building where early voting began last Friday, General Sessions Court Division 5 Judge Betty Thomas Moore moves a campaign sign for Sherif Bill Oldham from blocking her campaign sign along Poplar Avenue.

By Kyle [email protected]

901-529-2799

The inal phase of the Shelby County campaign summer began last Friday, as early voting in advance of the Aug. 7 general election kicked of at the Shelby County Elec-tion Commission’s Downtown location.

Early voting has since spread to 20 satellite locations across the county. All locations will be open through Aug. 2, with 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. hours on week-days and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Registered voters may cast their ballots at any location during the early voting period.

The 12 days of voting at satellite lo-cations are double what was ofered in advance of the May primary. At the

time, critics said the Election Commis-sion was trying to stile turnout by lim-iting satellite days; the SCEC said it was making the best use of its resources in a low-turnout election.

About 47 percent of voters cast early ballots in the May primary, though

total turnout hovered around 10 percent of the county’s regis-tered voters.

Shelby County’s most recent county general election may ofer

a better guide for expectations. In that election, 93,736 early votes were cast, about 52 percent of the entire turnout of 178,833.

That turnout was just shy of 30 per-cent of the county’s registered voters.

The number of early voters, though, was markedly higher than in 2006, when 78,899 voters cast ballots, sug-gesting a trend.

ELECTION

Balloting beginsEarly voting underway at 21 locations EArlY VOTINg lOCATIONS

polls are open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays

Shelby County Oice Building, 157 poplar ave. Agricenter International, 7777 walnut Grove Anointed Temple of Praise, 3939 riverdale roadBaker Community Center, 7942 Church roadBellevue Baptist Church, 2000 appling roadBerclair Church of Christ, 4536 SummerBethel Church, 5586 Stage roadAbundant grace Church, 1574 Shelby DriveCollierville Church of Christ, 575 Shelton DriveDave Wells Community Center, 915 Chelseaglenview Community Center, 1141 S. Barksdalegreater lewis Street Baptist Church, 152 e. parkway n.greater Middle Baptist Church, 4982 knight arnoldMississippi Blvd. Church, 70 n. Bellevue Blvd. Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 60 S. parkway e.New Bethel Baptist Church, 7786 poplar pikeraleigh U.M. Church, 3295 powers roadrefuge Church, 9817 huf n puf roadriverside Baptist Church, 3560 S. Third St.Shiloh Baptist Church, 3121 range line roadWhite Station Church of Christ, 1106 Colonial road

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2014

By Jennifer [email protected]

901-529-2372

An engineering study pre-sented to Germantown city oicials on Monday recom-mends not reactivating the red light enforcement cam-eras at three intersections, but to consider adding them at three others.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen and city adminis-trators held a work session to hear a presentation from de-sign consulting irm Kimley-Horn.

The city has cameras in-stalled, although not func-tioning, at the intersections of Poplar and Germantown, Poplar and Farmington, and Wolf River Boulevard and Germantown. The study rec-ommended adding cameras at Poplar and Kimbrough, at Farmington and German-town, and after Whole Foods is built, at Poplar and Exeter.

James Collins of Kimley-Horn said reactivating the existing cameras would not help cut down on accidents in those areas because most people driving through the area already assume the cam-eras are working.

“It appears from what we can see from the data, the beneit has already been re-alized,” Collins said. “The public is blufed into think-ing they’re still there.”

State law requires a city to conduct an engineering study before installing traf-fic-enforcement cameras. The study cost Germantown $30,100.

City Administrator Patrick Lawton said previously that

GERMANTOWN

Traic cams being studied3 new intersections under consideration

By lela [email protected]

901-529-2349

When St. James CME Church in Collierville de-cided to replace the carpet in the foyer and hallway with tile, the church’s minister was there on his hands and knees gluing and grouting the 12-inch pieces.

“To be 74, he was work-ing harder than me,” said church trustee Terry Craft, 40, of Collierville. “He didn’t wait for some-one else to do the work. He was all onboard. He made

it happen.”Now at 78, Rev. Louis

T. Purham is retiring from the ministry after 56 years, and will preach his last sermon Sunday. He took his irst pastoral job in 1958. His replacement will be named July 30.

Officially, he retired at the annual Christian Methodist Episcopal con-ference in July 2010.

But at that conference, the bishop asked him to immediately to take over at St. James, which was struggling to stay a loat as its supply — or transi-tional — pastor. Before his assignment as supply pas-tor, Purham had been the Collierville church’s elder for a number of years.

“There were kind of in a bind,” Purham said. “They wanted an old man.”

But this “old man” rides his bike, lifts weights and watches his diet. He was eager to help the church financially and spiritu-

ally but he also wanted the congregation to “see a sermon,” as the poet Ed-gar Guest aptly wrote.

Lifelong St. James mem-ber Sabrina Walker, 46, of

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Rev. Purham retiring after 56 years

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Rev. Louis T. Purham baptizes Hannah Wilson with help from Terry Craft in the sanctuary of St. James CME Church in Col-lierville. After 56 years in ministry, four of them at St. James, Purham is retiring.

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Collierville was among those who became more involved because of Pur-ham’s hands-on example. When he preaches, Walker said, “He has a voice that makes you want to listen and think..”

Explained Purham,“In working with people, I’ve found that if you can help them meet a need, it is easier for them to identify with you.”

About 75 to 80 members regularly attend the red brick church with a ceme-tery in back. The church is in a modest neighborhood at 569 Harris just of the now construction-laden U.S. 72.

The oldest male of 11 siblings, Purham grew up in Covington in Tipton County. He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Barbee, on Christ-mas Day after graduating from high school in 1955.

The son of a minister-farmer and a homemaker, Purham and his wife, who is a retired Memphis City schoolteacher, raised sev-en children.

“I realized you aren’t go-ing to make much money pastoring a church,” Pur-ham said. Over the years he’s made and sold furni-ture, run an ice cream cart, taught college courses and bought rental property, which he manages.

“I’m my own mainte-nance man,” he admitted.

He earned his under-graduate degree in religion and psychology at Lane College in Jackson, Ten-nessee, and received his theological training at In-terdenominational Theo-logical Center in Atlanta. He later taught classes at Lane and served as a trust-ee at both Lane and ITC.

Purham lives in Raleigh, plans on staying active af-ter retiring. The city of Memphis just renewed his contract for its Grass Mitigation Services pro-gram that helps clean up blighted properties. Pur-ham supervises and works with his crew of ive young men who have been unable to get jobs because of their past felony records.

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the city’s contract with the vendor expired in 2012, and it was not renewed while two of the three intersections were under heavy construction.

Collins said enforce-ment cameras at intersec-tions reduce right-angle crashes by 26 percent but increase rear-end crashes by 18 percent. From a i-nancial standpoint, right-angle crashes are on av-erage more expensive, Collins said, from medical bills to vehicle repairs.

Another advantage, he said, is that police oicers don’t have to risk crossing intersections to go after red-light ofenders.

“It’s manpower inten-sive and it’s a very dan-gerous way of doing it,” he said.

Lawton said the en-forcement program, which includes a police oicer who reviews the video to approve every ticket is-sued, pays for itself with the ticket fees. By city ordinance, the money can only be used for the enforcement program or educational programs.

He said the city has al-ready sought bids, and the next step will be for the administration to make a recommendation to the board.

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In brief

S H E L BY CO U N T Y

Resolution fails on GHS TV funds

A resolution urging the city of Germantown to release $273,080 to the Germantown Communi-ty Television Foundation failed to get approval from the County Commission on Monday.

The resolution was sponsored by commission chairman James Harvey and was intended to get the city to release funds intended for the 2013-2014 school year. Foundation officials said the funds were owed to pay for ex-penses associated with the Germantown High School television station.

However, Germantown city oicials have said they are not releasing the funds, blaming Shelby County Schools’ failure to follow through on an agreement.

Medical examiner reappointed

Dr. Karen E. Chancellor was reappointed on Mon-day by the County Com-mission to a ive-year term as county medical exam-iner. Chancellor was irst appointed in 2004.

Linda A. Moore

M E M P H I S

More than 300 apply to be firefighters

More than 300 people applied to be ire recruits last week, according to the Memphis Fire Department.

The application process opened July 16 and by July 18, 314 had applied, said Lt. Wayne Cooke.

Recruiting plans pre-date the recent contro-versy over cuts in retiree beneits and an increase in health care insurance pre-miums for city of Memphis employees, oicials said. “This has been in place for a while,” Cooke said of the recruitment efort.

The department is holding an orientation for candidates at 9 a.m. Satur-day at the Memphis Cook Convention Center, 255 N. Main.

Katie Fretland

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Darrin Devault, coordinator of the online journalism program at the University of Memphis, and Tom Graves, an author and assistant professor of English at LeMoyne-Owen College, have ventured into e-book publishing to resurrect over-looked classics by such authors as J.D. Salinger.

BUSINESS

By John [email protected]

901-529-2394

When “Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Robert Johnson” appeared in 2008, Memphis au-thor Tom Graves wasn’t entirely happy with the launch of his painstakingly researched book about the mysterious Mississippi blues legend.

The book appeared in a nice trade paperback edition, but “the publisher didn’t want to fool with e-books, so I knew that was a revenue stream I was missing,” Graves said.

When the rights to “Crossroads” converted back to the author, Graves decided to put out his own electronic book edition, to be purchased and downloaded on e-book devices such as the Ama-zon Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook.

Electronic books have revolutionized the U.S. publishing industry, eating away at sales of tra-ditional books but also opening up business op-portunities for enterprising authors.

Sales of print books have shrunk 8 percent since 2008, but overall book sales have jumped 14 per-cent, thanks to e-books.

Now the 60-year-old English professor is two years into a new entrepreneurial line — electronic publishing.

“I learned everything there was about doing an e-book,” Graves said. He even recorded himself reading “Crossroads” for a downloadable audio edition. “I said, ‘Nobody’s going to make a penny out of this book but me.’ ”

The experience helped inspire the literature-loving Graves — an assistant professor of Eng-lish at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis — to give new life to other forgotten, overlooked and out-of-print books. He and friend Darrin Devault launched the Devault-Graves Agency, a publishing business in Graves’ Midtown home specializing in e-books.

The company’s business model includes negoti-ating with authors who have regained the rights to their books as well as mining the public domain for overlooked classics available due to what Graves calls the “vagaries” of copyright law.

The two-year-old agency had a coming-out party of sorts on July 16 at The Booksellers at Laurelwood, where Devault and Graves discussed

their eforts and ofered copies of their most high-proile release to date, “Three Early Stories” by J.D. Salinger.

The slim paperback returns to print three little-known stories by the author of “The Catcher in the Rye.”

Not coincidentally, Wednesday is the anniver-sary of the 1951 release of “Rye,” an instant classic published by Little, Brown and Co. that never has gone out of print.

“Three Early Stories” is Devault-Graves Agen-cy’s irst traditionally published physical book (complete with new illustrations by former Mem-phian Anna Rose Yoken).

Also available as an e-book and audio book, it joins a small but impressively curated catalog of e-books that includes such titles as “Big Sur” by Jack Kerouac; three once best-selling volumes of celebrity proiles by New York entertainment re-porter and movie critic Rex Reed and noir iction by such genre masters as Jim Thompson and David Goodis.

Devault, 48, coordinator of the online journal-ism program at the University of Memphis, said the company’s goal is for each book to pay for itself in one to two years.

The initial investment for each title includes re-search and design, plus contracting with the Book-Baby e-book company, which distributes titles to Amazon and other online retailers.

Many companies ofer e-book editions of such public-domain classics as “The War of the Worlds” and “Pride and Prejudice,” often in shoddily edited or ugly downloads.

Devault said his company is dedicated to ind-ing more elusive books and presenting them in attractive editions, with Graves the “bird dog” who braves the thickets of U.S. copyright law to snif out worthy material available for reprint.

The reclusive Salinger, who died in 2010 at 91, published 21 stories before he inally broke into The New Yorker.

He regained the rights to most of them and never allowed them to be republished, considering them inferior to his later output.

However, “three of them fell between the cracks,” Graves said.

“Would Salinger be angry with us?” Graves asked. “Well, yeah, he’d say, ‘I never wanted those stories to be out.’ But that’s wishful thinking. He was an important author with a voice that had a sort of great American vibe, and all of his work needs to be out there.”

Under the radarMemphis entrepreneurs establish e-book business for classics

Germantown Police reports

JULY 14

■ someone took a leather briefcase and personal documents from the victim’s residence in the 7500 block of stout road at 11:20 a.m.

■ someone obtained the victim’s personal information and opened a fraudulent credit account in the 7600 block of Mchenry Circle at 3:16 p.m.

■ someone shoplifted merchandise from the business in the 2000 block of exeter road at 5:04 p.m.

■ Vehicle collided into a curb and tree causing injuries at oakleigh at 9:02 p.m.

JULY 15

■ Victim reported that subjects performing yard work took her wallet and its contents

in the 2500 block of rosehaven at 12:23 p.m.

■ Victim reported that she was physical assaulted by an unknown adult female at old Mill and neshoba road at 1:30 p.m.

■ security guard advised a male subject pulled a knife on him when he confronted him about panhandling in the 7700 block of poplar at 6:15 p.m.

■ Victim reported that two subjects took her purse and its contents in the 7800 block of Grove Lake Court at 10:26 p.m.

JULY 16

■ someone forced entry through the rear door of the victim’s residence and took electronics in the 6500 block of s. poplar Woods Circle at 9:57

a.m. ■ someone took the victim’s

jewelry 2100 exeter road at

11:36 a.m..

JULY 17

■ oicers arrested an adult male for shoplifting meat in the 9300 block poplar at 7:37 p.m.

■ someone took tools, electronics and several handguns from the victim’s residence in the 7300 block of deep Balley at 8:31 p.m.

JULY 18

■ someone took the victim’s cable box during home renovations in the 2900 block

of sandy Creek at 5:32 p.m.

JULY 19

■ Victim reported that a patron pushed her over poor

service in the 1200 block of s. Germantown road at 3:55 a.m.

■ Victim reported that he received a phone from someone posing as the irs asking for money in the 2400 block of stratield at 2:48 p.m.

JULY 20

■ oicers arrested two adult males after they were observed trying to gain entry into a residence in the 2900 block of Crye Crest Cove at 8:02 a.m.

■ Victim reported that after her alarm sounded she discovered someone tampered with a window in the 9200 block of Longwood Lane at 2:39 p.m.

provided by the Germantown

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When oicers found 24-year-old Justin Neil Davis, a veteran they’d been told was suicidal, he was sitting in a black Dodge Charger sipping on a beer, smok-ing a cigarette and iddling with a rile, according to a German-town police report.

The newly released report ofered details about the inal 15

minutes of Davis’ life in Camer-on Brown Park the night of July 15, as police tried in vain to ind a “peaceful resolution” to what became a standof with a vet they’d been told sufered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Members of GPD’s Crisis In-tervention Team got to the park at 9:50 p.m. but, despite their at-tempt to talk with Davis over a loudspeaker and by cellphone, he threatened to shoot at them and “made statements about kill-ing himself.” He asked them to turn of their bright lights.

Then Davis pointed the bar-rel of the rile out the passenger side window toward police. Three of-icers opened ire, hitting Davis mul-tiple times.

When the am-bulance got to the park at 10:05 p.m., he was dead.

Davis, a veteran of the Ken-tucky National Guard, had served two tours in Iraq, the most recent ending in 2012, ac-

cording to records.Spokesman David Altom said

Davis was a vehicle mechanic in the infantry and was deployed from June 2011 to February 2012, in addition to a four-month de-ployment in 2010.

Altom said that during the second deployment, the unit was charged with assisting in the withdrawal of U.S. troops and equipment. The unit saw minimal combat and did not suf-fer any fatalities.

Altom cautioned against mak-ing assumptions about how a de-

ployment, even without combat, can afect a soldier.

Before his fatal encounter with police, Davis struggled with alcohol abuse and was released from a 30-day rehabilitation pro-gram in September, according to divorce papers iled by his wife in October. His father, a Navy veteran, died in February. By March, Davis was without a job.

Fellow veteran and Houston High School classmate McNeal Vallandinghan said Davis suf-fered from PTSD and took medi-cation to help him sleep.

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Police detail circumstances of veteran’s deathReport says Davis aimed rifle at cops

Justin Davis

Election

By Kyle [email protected]

901-529-2799

It was standing room only at Mark Luttrell’s campaign headquarters in a small shop-ping strip on South Yates shortly after 9 one recent Saturday morning when the county mayor delivered a pep talk to a couple dozen volun-teers.

“You don’t win campaigns with signs,” he told the group. “You win it by going out, ask-ing for votes.”

That’s precisely what he was about to do. Luttrell would take a crew to White-haven. Another would leave soon for Midtown. Those who remained behind manned phones on two rows of folding tables. White T-shirt-wearing volunteers sat around what looked like a family’s old din-ner table.

A half-hour earlier, Lut-trell’s opponent, Democratic nominee Deidre Malone, had pulled out of the driveway of her Midtown home into the soupy mid-July air.

In a two-hour slice of her day a few hours later, she would duck her head into doors in a shopping center on Millbranch, speak to a group of irst-time homebuy-ers, knock on doors and take the mic for a quick pitch at a union picnic.

“Democrats win when we get out and vote,” she told the group.

Voting started Friday, when the irst early ballots were cast at a Downtown location. It spread to 20 satellite locations across the county on Monday. On Aug. 7, residents will cast the inal votes in what has been called the biggest bal-lot in the county’s history — a full eight pages long in sample form.

Luttrell and Malone ap-peared at a candidate forum at a Lakeland church July 10, and allowed a reporter and photographer for The Com-mercial Appeal to tag along July 12 for a glimpse at two candidates heading for the Aug. 7 inish line in the race for the county’s top job.

BEING MORE SPECIFICMalone had a message for

a few dozen people gathered at a home mortgage seminar at a tired oice building on Airways, and it was one she would repeat with variations over the next couple of hours.

“I’m the Democrat in the race,” she said. “Mark Luttrell is the Republican.”

Malone is more in-your-face than Luttrell; it comes with the challenger’s role. While Luttrell greeted vot-ers with a smile and an intro-duction, Malone shared some bullet-points: She spent eight years on the County Commis-sion, served as budget chair-man, owns a small business, used to work at St. Jude Chil-dren’s Research Hospital. Her

priorities are jobs — “good jobs,” she was quick to add — and fully funding education.

Walking between houses a bit later, she noted that she — not the former sherif — had been endorsed by the Shelby County Deputy Sherif’s Asso-ciation. “Wonder what Luttrell thinks about that?” she asked.

Malone, 51, sought the Democratic nomination in 2010 but lost to Joe Ford in the primary. If she were to win this year, she would be the irst elected female mayor in county history. She didn’t stress that angle in her pitches to voters that day, though.

At Renee’s Hair Salon on Millbranch, as the Malone team headed toward lunch at Uncle Lou’s a few doors down, Malone clasped hands and shared an extended con-versation with Loreane Wil-liams, the shop’s manager. Williams was familiar with Malone, liking what she had heard from her in the news. She plans to vote for Malone, and told her that.

And that she could be the first female mayor? “That doesn’t make any diference at all,” Williams said.

ASKING ‘THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY’

Luttrell, campaign chair-man Cary Vaughn and politi-cal consultant Adam Nickas loaded into the mayor’s red Ford F-150 truck — with a giant American lag sticker on the tailgate — and looped around Interstate 240 toward Whitehaven.

The destination was the Bluebird Lane home of a sup-porter, where Luttrell made small talk while water bottles were passed out.

Despite the hospitality, this was a road game for the Repub-lican incumbent. In 2010, the precinct that contains the front doors Luttrell would knock on went 90-10 for his opponent Ford, a 1,203-to-135 trouncing. The two-term sherif won the whole county, though, by al-most 30,000 votes.

Luttrell said he tries to split his canvassing eforts — that’s campaign-speak for knocking on doors and leaving cards — 50-50 between areas he considers his base and areas where he’s probably at a disad-vantage. On this morning, he wore a blue Memphis Tigers cap, green cargo pants and a

white T-shirt with his cam-paign logo — which was soaked with sweat within an hour.

The irst door he knocked on belonged to Art Gilliam, owner of WLOK-AM. He told Gilliam this was is his irst stop. “Well, you’re up, 1-0,” Gilliam said, and they laughed.

Luttrell, 67, is a tall man with long legs; he used them to glide down the street with the speed at which others might run. Many people weren’t home this morning.

The mayor waited spent about 10 seconds after ring-ing a doorbell, to see if some-one will answer, then left his card in the door if not no one answered. He’s at ease with this part of campaigning; he said it’s equal parts good ex-ercise and a good way to stay in touch with the people he represents.

“Good morning, may I in-troduce myself?” he asked one person who opened a door. “I’m out asking for votes the old-fashioned way.”

But Luttrell has used the newfangled way, too. He spent more than $200,000 on television advertisements in April, May and June.

SHELBY COUNTY MAYORAL CAMPAIGN

Taking it to the streets

By Katie [email protected]

901-529-2785

Candidates: Cheyenne Johnson, the incumbent Democrat; Keith Al-exander, Republican; John Bogan, Independent

What the assessor does: The as-sessor of property is in charge of appraising taxable property and head-ing up a reappraisal of property across Shelby County ev-ery four years. The assessor keeps a da-tabase online that allows the public to search and compare property informa-tion by address, owner name, busi-ness or parcel num-ber.

Salary: $108,617About the can-

didates: Johnson, 58, has been Shelby County assessor since 2008. She was re-elected in 2012. Before she became as-sessor, she was chief administrator of the assessor’s oice.

Alexander, 63, is an attorney with experience in real estate law.

He ran for Gen-eral Sessions judge in 2006.

Bogan, 70, is an appraiser in the assessor’s office and a retired Navy commander. He ran two previous campaigns for the assessor’s job.

Johnson’s top issues: Johnson said voters can expect a fair and equitable property assessment and appeals process if she is re-elected. “I promise to give them the most professional service possible,” she said.

“When they come into the of-fice or if they make any type of contact with the office, I will ensure them regardless of where they live, be it North Memphis, South Memphis, East Memphis, Germantown or Arlington, ev-erybody will be served with the same level of respect and be giv-en the same level of professional courtesy.”

Alexander’s top issues: Alexan-der said the current property ap-praisal process in Shelby County is lawed and residents are being excessively taxed.

“This causes Shelby County to either incur the enormous trou-ble, effort and expense of appeal-ing erroneous property apprais-als, or submit to unfairness and overtaxation due to the expense of appeal,” he said.

Bogan’s top issues: Bogan said he would run an efficient and ac-countable office that would save money for taxpayers.

He said he aims “to keep mil-lions of dollars from bleeding out of a system that is run without any concern for quality,” he said. “When a system is run on the ba-sis of GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) and no quality control, then this system is utterly inefficient and wastes the taxpayer millions of dollars every year.”

COUNTY ASSESSOR

Johnson faces two challengers for assessor

By Michael [email protected]

202-408-2711

LAFOLLETTE, Tenn. — The well-wishers swarm U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander as soon as he walks through the door.

“I haven’t seen you in a hundred years!” he says, pumping the hand of a gray-haired man in a navy suit.

For the next half-hour, the senator works the room like the seasoned politician he is. There’s lots of handshaking, lots of small talk, and lots of pos-ing for cellphone photos.

When he inally takes the microphone at the Campbell County Lin-coln-Reagan Day Dinner, where the main speaker will be former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, Alexander jokes that he’s

like a warm-up act at the Grand Ole Opry. But when he segues to the matter on everyone’s mind — this fall’s elections, speciical-ly, his own bid for a third Senate term — the warm-up artist disappears and the skilled campaigner is center stage.

“We have an election coming up this November in which we have a chance to have a (Senate) Repub-lican majority,” Alexander says, looking beyond Ten-nessee’s Aug. 7 primary and casting his race as a piece of a larger political puzzle.

“I’d like to be a part of that majority and get our country moving in a more conservative direction,” he continues, making his case for re-election. Then, the big pitch: “If we do our job, then we will have a chance to inish the job and elect a

Republican president of the United States two years later.”

A l e x -a n d e r ’ s l e n g t h y p o l i t i c a l résumé — 12 years as

a senator, eight years as governor, two years as U.S. education secretary, two-time presidential can-didate — is paradoxically his strongest selling point and perhaps his biggest liability as he tries to per-suade voters to send him back to Washington for another six years.

With congressional ap-proval at abysmally low levels, this has been a dif-icult year for entrenched incumbents. House Ma-jority Leader Eric Can-tor’s loss in Virginia and

U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s recent scare in Mississippi have invigorated tea party groups, who are now gun-ning for Alexander.

State Rep. Joe Carr, the most formidable of Al-exander’s six Republican primary challengers, has pummeled him relentless-ly, arguing the deal-making senator is out of touch and isn’t conservative enough for Tennessee votes.

Alexander’s response to Carr’s attacks has been to basically ignore him. He never mentions Carr by name on the campaign trail or in conversations with reporters. He has refused Carr’s calls for a debate, saying at this point in the campaign — early voting started Friday — that put-ting all seven candidates on a stage and letting them go at each other would not be of much use to voters.

Alexander, 74, doesn’t act like a man who’s wor-ried that his days in oice might soon be over, as tea party activists like to boast.

“By all measures, things seem to be in pretty good shape,” the senator said, sizing up his campaign over lunch at Nashville’s Midtown Café, just steps from Music Row.

Alexander has good rea-son to be conident. Polls show him leading Carr and his other Republican chal-lengers. He enters the inal stretch of the campaign with more than $3 million in the bank, while Carr has just un-der $500,000. What’s more, his decades in Tennessee politics have made him a household name across the state, while Carr remains an unknown igure to many voters, particularly in East Tennessee.

In Sevierville, ham-burgers sizzle on the grill and steam rises from a pot of cofee at Frank Allen’s Market and Grill as the lunchtime conversation turns to politics. Alexander is the clear favorite around these parts, where people admire him for standing up to President Barack Obama on health care reform and say he has done a good job of representing the state on most issues.

“His past record — he has shown that he is a conservative,” said Joe Woods of Pigeon Forge, a former agriculture exten-sion agent.

Don Clasby, an Army retiree, said any doubts he might have had about Alexander being a real conservative were erased when Huckabee ilmed a campaign spot on his be-half.

U.S. SENATE

Sen. Lamar Alexander confident, not taking anything for granted

Lamar Alexander

Keith Alexander

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“You don’t win campaigns with signs. You win it by going out, asking for votes,” said County Mayor Mark Luttrell, whose door-to-door canvass includes a stop at the Whitehaven home of Tisheica Jamison Smoot and her daughter, Aariel Smoot, 1.

Deidre Malone, the challenger in the county mayoral race, gets a hug of encouragement from Derick Taylor as she knocks on doors in Whitehaven with former state Sen. Beverly Marrero. If elected, Malone would be the county’s first elected female mayor.

Luttrell, Malone focus on face-to-face, grass-roots campaigning

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“I like a boiled hot dog on a bun.”

MEKHAILA

PALMER, 6

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Schools

By Lela [email protected]

901-529-2349

The town of Collierville is giv-ing its eight municipal schools a little sprucing up before the doors open Aug. 4 by illing pot holes, paving main driveways and mow-ing the school grounds.

In addition, architects are de-signing plans for renovating the Collierville Historic High School and for demolishing the library and cafeteria building there.

In all, the funds totaling $561,500 will come from the town’s cofers rather than the school system.

“It wasn’t something we had to do. It was something that the BMA (Board of Mayor and Aldermen) wanted to do. The high school parking lot really, really needed to be done as a safety measure and to bring it up to town standards,” said Asst. Town Administrator Josh Suddath.

The extra pair of helping hands along with the town paying for the work is a plus. “This helps with the bottom line,” said Dr. Russell Dyer, Collierville’s school sys-tem’s chief of staf.

Collierville Mayor Stan Joyner said the town planned for these expenses all along. “Those needs have been there for a number of years,” he said regarding the de-ferred maintenance on driveways and parking lots.

The board unanimously agreed

this week to amend its contract with Standard Construction Co. for repairing and resurfacing parking lots and driveways at all the schools except for town’s new-est campus — Collierville Middle. The cost is not to exceed $155,000.

Public Services director Bill Kilp said contract crews, along with public services workers ill-ing in pot holes, can inish the work by Aug. 1.

The board also amended its parks mowing contract with Above All Landscape Mainte-nance and added $44,000 to manage the school grounds main-tenance until the irst frost or 12 mowing cycles.

In addition, the board hired WALKERarch to do the renova-tion, demolition and design work

of the Historic High School build-ing for $362,500. The town set aside $2.04 million for the reno-vation and demolition.

So far, only the irst loor of the two-story structure has been given a $175,000 face lift and is now used by most of the munici-pal school’s district staf. Some personnel are working at Collier-ville and Tara Oaks Elementary schools.

The design proposal calls for razing the library and cafeteria building, which was added in the late 1960s so that a new front en-trance and atrium can be built in its place facing Poplar.

Designers also will prioritize what upgrades are needed for heating, cooling, ire protection, electrical, plumbing and the roof.

COLLIERVILLE

A little help from friendsBy Lela Garlington [email protected]

901-529-2349

and Jennifer [email protected]

901-529-2372

A day after German-town Municipal Schools officials bristled over changes to a shared school bus contract, Collierville Supt. John Aitken said Tuesday that German-town’s concerns can be resolved.

“I think a gentleman’s agreement is there. All of us are entering uncertain budgets and enrollments,” Aitken said. “ ... You are go-ing to have things come up and we’re going to work it out — that has been hap-pening since January.”

At a Germantown school board meeting Monday, oicials said the bus contract with Dur-ham Services has not been signed because of a clause Collierville school oicials added regarding inances.

District counsel Debra Owen said Collierville de-manded that the contract state that any munici-pal district that makes a change that would afect another district inancially would be responsible for making up the diference.

The financial impact would have to be greater than 2.5 percent of the afected district’s trans-portation budget. The six

suburban school districts in the county will have a uniform contract with Durham, but will each be billed separately.

Owen added that the clause was in response to Germantown’s request to include a line that would guarantee any district could change its number of bell times starting with the 2015-16 school year.

If two districts share buses, as Collierville and Germantown will, and one district switched bell times, it would cause the other district’s costs to go up because they wouldn’t share as many buses. Both districts will have three bell times when school begins Aug. 4.

Germantown Supt. Jason Manuel said the 2.5 per-cent number means that if Germantown moved to two bell times next year and Collierville didn’t, Germantown would owe Collierville about $90,000. That would be an annual fee if Collierville went mul-tiple years without switch-ing bell times. Manuel said the district could aford it, but he would not advocate doing that.

Germantown school board members called the change “completely unac-ceptable,” but Collierville board chairman Mark Hansen said he wasn’t aware that the proposed language was a problem.

GERMANTOWN/COLLIERVILLE

Aitken says bus issues can be worked out

By Jennifer [email protected]

901-529-2372

The three Germantown namesake schools appar-ently will be able to hang on to their names, at least for now.

Germantown and Shel-by County Schools are prepared to enter into a one-year agreement for use of the city’s fields without having to change the names of German-town Elementary, Middle and High schools, oicials from said Tuesday.

In its first proposal, Germantown asked Shel-by County to change the names of the three schools, which remained in the county system after the formation of the municipal school districts. The idea, Germantown oicials said at the time, was to elimi-nate confusion between the municipal schools and the namesake schools that will remain with Shelby County.

Germantown City Ad-ministrator Patrick Law-ton said the city decided to drop that part of the agreement after a negative response from SCS.

“Their board had made it clear that they didn’t want to consider the names as

part of this,” Lawton said, adding that the issue could come up again.

SCS Supt. Dorsey Hop-son announced during a board meeting Tuesday that he had spoken with Germantown oicials and they had formed a one-year agreement that did not in-clude any name changes.

A large group of commu-nity members representing the three namesake schools came to a Germantown

Board of Mayor and Alder-men meeting last month to plead with the administra-tion to let them keep the names of their schools.

SCS needs a place for several high school sports, including soccer, which starts in a few weeks.

“The main thing is we want to make sure the kids have got a ield to play on,” Lawton said. “We want to get something in place now.”

The irst version of the agreement was for two years for some of the ields and ive years for others.

The new proposed agree-ment would be for one year. After one year, Lawton said, both sides can review

what worked and what didn’t work, and whether the name issue can be re-solved.

GERMANTOWN/SHELBY COUNTY

Schools to retain Germantown name; SCS use of fields agreed

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Gary Dees, Jonah Coleman and Justin Wilburn of the Streets and Drainage Division for Collierville Public Services dig up pavement at Sycamore Elementary. “It’s in pretty bad shape,” Wilburn said.

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Faith

A cheer camp, put on by ManRise ministries, taught life skills to campers at Germantown Baptist Church.

By Beth ReedSpecial to The Weekly

ManRise ministries re-cently hosted its annual cheer camp at German-town Baptist Church.

Cheerleaders from Kirby, Melrose, Wooddale and the MHEA all partici-pated. Their weekend cul-minated with an exciting team competition and the presentation of individual awards.

Camp benefitted the cheerleaders on a variety of levels. They received skill and technique train-ing from a talented group of instructors, led by Ashley Reed. They also received self-defense training from Don Den-nis. Most importantly, they received life skill and character training from ManRise leader, Sam Bondurant.

The ManRise founda-

tion works with area high schools to help teach stu-dents character, discipline and faith. In early August, ManRise will host its an-nual football camp at Ger-mantown Baptist. GBC is delighted to open its fa-cilities to a ministry like ManRise. An investment in students is an invest-ment in the future.

Beth Reed is the director of

women’s ministry.

GERMANTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH

Annual cheer camp teaches life skills

By Billy GrahamTribune Media Services

Q You preachers are always are saying we

need to change our be-havior and become better people, but I don’t agree. I think we need to learn to accept ourselves just as we are, and quit feeling guilty over our shortcom-ings. We’ll never be per-fect anyway, so why worry about it?

— L.N.S.

A You’re right on one point; we’ll never be

perfect in this life. But does that mean we ought to sit back and do nothing about our bad habits, or

other things we do wrong? No, of course not.

One reason we need to be concerned about what you call our “shortcom-ings” is because they have an impact on others. If I’m selfish and unconcerned about the needs of others, they will be hurt. If I ha-bitually lie and cheat, oth-ers will be hurt. If I ignore my social responsibilities or act immorally, others will be hurt. As the Bible says, “None of us lives for ourselves alone” (Romans 14:7).

But we’ll also end up hurting ourselves. Bad habits always have bad consequences — always. It may not be obvious

at first; in fact, we may deceive ourselves into thinking we’re on the right road. But we aren’t. The Bible is clear: “You may be sure that your sin will find you out” (Num-bers 32:23).

We should never be content to “accept our-selves just as we are” (as you put it). But God does accept us just as we are! He knows all about us, including our sins and our failures — and yet He still loves us and wants to come into our lives to forgive us and change us. And this can happen to you, as you turn to Jesus Christ and invite Him into your life.

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It is not uncommon for large trees on properties to create concern when those trees are both close to buildings, car parking, or people-use areas and at the same time exhibiting holes in the trunk or strange hard growths around the lower trunk and/or root areas. This worry may be elevated when the ac-tual size or nature of the cavity or law is largely unknown. In a time-to-time worse case scenario these internal laws are not visible at all, giving no hint or early warning of an impending disaster. What is a homeowner to do to at least minimize the probability of something “sneaking up on him?”

One simple and very ba-sic diagnostic tool in the hands of a homeowner is an ordinary department store rubber mallet. It does not take a lot of training to dis-cern the tonal sound difer-ences made when tapping on solid wood versus that made when similarly tap-ping on rotted or — worse case again — that made when rapping on a few inches of wood overlay-ing an internal cavity. Of course it should be said that the “mallet test” will not work nearly so well when the decayed or hol-low area is surrounded by a thicker circumference of solid wood. But then in that case, that same thick wall of good wood may make all the diference, making the tree less susceptible to failure in the irst place, in-ternally hollow or not.

Though very simple and inexpensive, this mallet test is a good place to start when suspicious areas or spots on important trees are accessible. But also the scope of information to be gained is limited. If results prove positive with this simple irst test, there may be another follow-up diag-nostic step remaining in the homeowner’s tool bag. It is the use of a 12-inch long by 1/8-inch diameter drill bit, also available at most hardware stores. This test will produce better results if this bit is full-fluted, rather than with a smooth surface along most of the length of the shank. It is also better if this bit has a brad-point tip.

By using a cordless drill and repeatedly drill-ing slowly and then with-drawing the bit in short half-inch insertions at the suspicious point, the op-erator can detect, by tex-ture, color and appearance of the material extracted, the difference between good wood and decay.

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ABOUT TREES

By Melissa Kossler DuttonAssociated Press

Although glass and screens have eliminated the practical need for shut-ters, they’re still popular for decoration. “They add another layer of thoughtful detailing to a house,” said Ted Cleary, a landscape architect in Charlotte, N.C.

But to get the right look, you still have to consider function when choosing and hanging shutters.

“Beauty in architecture, as with many objects, of-ten stems from seeing a detail that illustrates its purpose,” Cleary said.

A pair of shutters can cost anywhere from $100 to more than $1,000. Some tips on choosing the right ones for your home:

SIZEOriginally, shutters

were used to keep out

weather, noise and ani-mals; when closed, they had to cover the whole window.

So shutter size is the most important thing to consider, said Lindsay Daniel, a Charlotte ar-chitect, who agrees with Cleary that homeowners must “think function irst, not decoration.”

Make sure the shutters meet and completely cover the window opening. Oth-erwise, she said, the shut-ter “looks like a stupid af-terthought.”

This means that shut-ters don’t work on double-width or picture windows, said Richard Taylor, an architect and president of RTA Studio in Dublin, Ohio. “To my eye anyway, it looks ridiculous,” he said.

And take care about their shape when hanging shutters on arched win-

dows, Cleary added. “Shut-ters are perfectly legiti-mate on arched windows as long as the (closed) shutter covers it,” he said.

MATERIALShutters are primarily

made of wood, composite material or vinyl.

Vinyl shutters are typi-cally mounted directly onto the side of the house, which means they break the rule about looking functional, Taylor said.

He prefers wood, which looks the most authentic but does require regular maintenance, or compos-ite products, a low-main-tenance alternative.

STYLESLouvered shutters,

made with horizontally slanted boards, are proba-bly the most common style in America, Cleary said. When shutters served as

the primary window cov-ering, people in hotter cli-mates used louvered ones to allow fresh air into the house.

Panel shutters have a traditional look. They are solid pieces that resemble small doors and are often inset with square or rect-angle patterns. They were regularly used on Colo-nial-era homes in New England and were a good against snow and rain.

Board and batten shut-ters are made with three or four vertical boards of the same size connected with narrow horizontal boards. They have a rustic appearance and were often used on country houses or barns. They are the easiest style for do-it-yourselfers to make, Cleary said.

HARDWAREShutters look best

when they are hung as

though they are going to be opened and closed, Cleary said. That means using hinges and mount-ing them onto the window casing — not attaching them to the house.

Cleary also recom-mends adding metal tie-backs, sometimes called shutter dogs, to hold open shutters in place. The hardware, including shut-ter dogs and hinges, can cost up to $100 for a pair of shutters.

BE CONSISTENTDon’t feel you have

to put shutters on every window. It’s better to have some windows without shutters than to put them on windows that are too wide for them.

Don’t use a shutter on one side of a window where a door or the corner of the house prevents you from adding its mate.

Do consider painting shutters the same color as your front door.

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Shutters add thoughtful detail to home

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Architects agree that size is the most important consideration when choosing shutters. They say shutters should be wide enough cover the entire window if closed.

My irst vegetable garden was such a surprising triumph I thought there was nothing to it.

With the help of a friend who is an experienced vegetable gardener, a small urban plot of land that had been neglected and abused as a trash heap (not by us) was tilled, synthetically fertilized and heaped into rows for the garden.

My friend probably cringed when he learned I was going to cover it all in black plastic, a technique touted back for its ability to control weeds and hold moisture in the soil.

Now we know some its drawbacks too, like heating the soil beyond the comfort level of plants and beneicial microbes in the soil.

Beginner’s luck must have been in full force because we harvested more squash than we wanted to eat, lots of eggplant, numerous tomatoes, bountiful basil and some of the most deli-cious melons I have ever tasted — Crenshaws.

Crenshaws are large hybrid cantaloupes with dark green skin that turns yellow when ripe. You don’t have to guess when it’s time to harvest.

Since that experience 30 years ago, I have learned a lot more about growing vegeta-bles, mainly from experienced gardeners like Bill Colvard, Carl Wayne Hardeman, Tom Mashour, Chris Cosby and others willing to share their knowledge with me and my readers.

So it pains me to report that I just don’t think I’m meant to have another proliic vegetable garden despite following lots of their advice, adding compost to

the soil and even encouraging microbes with Bio-Tone, a fer-tilizer that is supposed to give seedlings a great start.

My teeny suburban vegeta-ble plot looked especially puny after visiting the Bobby Lanier Farm Park in Germantown ear-lier last week.

There I saw tall vines heavy with large green tomatoes, lush muscadine vines, fruit-ful squash, eggplant, cucum-bers, okra, pepper and bean plants and young watermel-ons and cantaloupes spilling over the walls of some waist-high planters cultivated by children.

I couldn’t resist munching on some peppery nasturtium blooms and arugula leaves.

I didn’t worry about washing the veggies before eating them. “We’re all organic here,” said farm park manager Jef Terry. “We don’t use pesticides or her-bicides.”

For pesky infestations, dia-tomaceous earth is carefully sprinkled on the soil. When insects come in contact with the sharp fossilized remains of prehistoric crustaceous called diatoms, their bodies are cut and they die of dehydration. Grizzly but efective.

Because diatomaceous earth doesn’t discriminate, beneicial insects die from it too. That’s why it is used sparingly

Old-fashioned ways also work.

“We do a lot of bug squish-ing,” said volunteer Debbie LaChappelle as she demon-strated her technique of rub-bing her thumb and two irst ingers together.

Because 85 or so volunteers trade their labor for a share in the harvest, the plants stay well picked.

The “garden associates” also get to take home fresh eggs from 16 laying hens. Another 28 young chickens will be joining the working lock when they are able.

All of the tomatoes at the farm are heirloom varieties, except for a row of Sweet 100s, planted in honor of Terry’s mother-in-law, Lorraine Fer-guson, a past president of the Memphis Herb Society who organized our ield trip to the park.

“We always had them in our garden to pop in our mouths as we worked,” Ferguson said.

I can attest that the sweet little red orbs are impossi-

ble to resist.Asian long beans, both the

green and red varieties, will reach about 24 inches. A Chi-nese volunteer at the farm said they are best when cut into bite-size lengths, sautéed in oil and lightly moistened with soy and oyster sauces.

Climbing on a tepee of bam-boo supports, Malabar spinach is as pretty as it is tasty with its red stems and deep green leaves. Although no kin to real spinach, the leaves of this hot-hardy vine can be prepared and eaten as spinach.

Arkansas black apples are beginning to ripen in the or-chard and some blueberry bushes are maturing in the main garden.

The Bobby Lanier Farm Park, which is entered at 2700 Cross Country of Stout Road in Germantown, is open from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday through Saturday. On Thursday it re-opens from 4 to 7:30 p.m. for a farmers market.

For more information, call 901-757-7375.

VEGETABLE GARDENING

PHOTOS BY CHRIS GANG/SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

The Bobby Lanier Farm Park in Germantown is open 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday through Saturday. On Thursday’s it reopens from 4-7:30 p.m. for a farmers market.

Crops like okra, eggplant, Mala-bar spinach and beans are now being harvested at Bobby Lanier Farm Park in Germantown.

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GREEN THUMB

‘Garden associates’ get sweat equity in bounty at park garden


Business

By Wayne [email protected]

901-529-2874

A Collierville developer has purchased a 253-acre expanse of farmland with plans for a mixed-use de-velopment that includes several hundred residen-tial lots and a commercial area complementing near-by Carriage Crossing.

The Crews family, own-ers of protective equip-ment maker MCR Safety, earlier this week closed on the $2 million pur-chase from out-of-town landowners of a tract in the northwest quadrant of Bill Morris Parkway and Houston Levee.

“We feel like it’s a prop-erty that’s strategically located between German-town and Collierville. It’s a great location,” said David Gribble, vice president of

Crews Realty.The site probably can

accommodate 300 to 400 homes plus a retail center, which probably would be located near where Bailey Station would intersect Houston Levee, he said.

The project in Memphis’ second-largest suburb rep-resents one of the region’s largest commercial devel-opments since the 2008 crash.

“We know it will be mixed use,” Gribble said. “We have thought about residential and retail and the possibility of a hotel. We haven’t contacted any-body in the hotel business, but we are in the process of doing that.”

Crews is working with The Shopping Center Group on attracting region-al retailers that wouldn’t directly compete with up-scale Carriage Crossing.

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McKinley, Betsy McKinleyEducation: University of Ten-

nessee Knoxville and University of Memphis

Civic involvement: Streets Min-istries, a mentor for two separate students. Student Ministry at Hope Presbyterian Church

First job: Chick-il-A cashierMost recent job: Mathnasium;

math tutorMost satisfying career moment:

Finding out that student, after much efort and many long hours, received suicient ACT score to attend col-lege.

Career advice: Work hard, be lexible and willing to go any extra miles, as well as be creative and friendly.

Person you most admire (and why): Dr. Jay Strack, because of his relent-

less and tireless eforts in pursuing excellence for both himself and oth-ers around him, as well as fostering leadership qualities in the multitude of students whom he receives at Stu-dent Leadership University. He is the founder of the university itself.

Hobbies: Reading, exercise, sports such as golf, tennis and basketball.

Last book you read: “The Sympo-sium”

Favorite film or TV show: “Good Will Hunting”

Favorite vacation spot: Disney World

Something people would be sur-prised to know about me: I have gone sky-diving as well as jumped of of the Stratosphere (in Las Ve-gas). I can multiply up to three-digit numbers by themselves or in some cases other three-digit numbers in my head.

If I could change one thing in the world, it would be: Laws would be substantially altered from an inter-national standpoint to exclude any and all oppressive dictatorships and

tendencies in any form or fashion (including religious as well as po-litical) to include solely the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

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McKinley begins tutoring company to help others

Chase McKinley is the owner of C.P.M. Tutoring on Eagle Branch Cove in Ger-mantown.

Republican PrimaryGOVERNORMark Coonrippy BrownBill HaslamBasil Marceaux, Sr.Donald Ray McFolinU.S. SENATEChristian AgnewLamar AlexanderJoe CarrGeorge Shea FlinnJohn D. KingBrenda S. LenardErin Kent Magee

U.S. HOUSE DIST. 8Stephen Lee FincherDana MathenyJohn Mills

U.S. HOUSE DIST. 9Charlotte Bergmann

TENNESSEE SENATEDist. 29: James R. “Jim” Finney

Anthony D. Herron, Jr.Dist. 31: Brian Kelsey

TENNESSEE HOUSEDist. 83: Mark WhiteDist. 86: George T. Edwards, IIIDist. 88: Harry BarberDist. 91: Samuel A. Arthur Watkins

Orrden Williams, JrDist. 93: Colonel G. BillingsleyDist. 95: Curry ToddDist. 96: Steve McManusDist. 97: Jim ColeyDist. 99: Ron Lollar

STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEDist. 29 Man: Terry RolandDist. 29 Woman: Kelley HankinsDist. 30 Man: Sam Cooper

David Wicker, Jr.Dist. 30 Woman: Sherrye Crawford

Lora JobeDist. 31 Man: Frank Colvett

Mitchell MorrisonDist. 31 Woman: Mary Chick Hill

Annabel WoodallDist. 32 Man: Chris Connolly

Larry A. McKeeJohn R. Wilkerson

Dist. 33 Man: Drew DanielDist. 33 Woman: Mary L. Wagner

Judicial Elections

County General

County School

CIRCUIT COURTDIV. 1Julie Dichtel ByrdFelicia Corbin-JohnsonLeah J. RoenKyle Wiggins

CIRCUIT COURTDIV. 2Kevin E. ReedJames F. RussellRobert A. WamplerCIRCUIT COURTDIV. 3D’Army BaileyLee Ann Pafford DobsonCIRCUIT COURTDIV. 4Gina Carol HigginsMatthew Steven Russell

CIRCUIT COURTDIV. 5Joseph E. “Joe” GarrettRhynette Northcross HurdDwight T. Moore

CIRCUIT COURTDIV. 6Jerry Stokes

CIRCUIT COURTDIV. 7Donna M. FieldsCIRCUIT COURTDIV. 8

Venita Martin AndrewsCharles W. McDonaldRobert “Bob” WeissCedrick D. WootenCIRCUIT COURTDIV. 9Robert L. (Butch) Childers

CHANCERYCOURTPART3Kenny Armstrong

PROBATECOURTDIV. 1Damita DandridgeKathleen N. GomesRichard ParksPROBATECOURTDIV. 2Danny W. KailKaren D. WebsterCRIMINALCOURTDIV. 1Michael G. FloydNigel R. LewisPaula Skahan

CRIMINALCOURTDIV. 2Glenn Wright

CRIMINALCOURTDIV. 3Latonya Sue BurrowBobby CarterCRIMINALCOURTDIV. 4Carolyn Wade Blackett

CRIMINALCOURTDIV. 5Jim LammeyMozella T. RossCRIMINALCOURTDIV. 6John W. CampbellAlicia HowardCRIMINALCOURTDIV. 7Kenya BrooksLee V. CoffeeCRIMINALCOURTDIV. 8Chris CraftCRIMINALCOURTDIV. 9Christine CaneMark WardCRIMINALCOURTDIV. 10James C. Beasley, Jr.

CHANCERYCOURTPART1Walter L. EvansMichael Richards

CHANCERYCOURTPART2Ken BesserJim KyleJim NewsomPaul A. Robinson, Jr.

DISTRICTATTORNEYGENERALAmy Weirich - Rep.Joe Brown - Dem.

COUNTYMAYORMark H. Luttrell - RepublicanDeidre Malone - DemocraticLeo Awgowhat - IndependentCharles Nelson - Independent

ASSESSOROFPROPERTYKeith Alexander - RepublicanCheyenne Johnson - Dem.John C. Bogan - Independent

SHERIFFBill Oldham - RepublicanBennie Cobb - Democratic

CIRCUIT COURTCLERKJimmy Moore - RepRhonda Banks - Dem.

CRIMINALCOURTCLERKR. L. DeSaussure, III - Rep.Wanda Halbert - Democratic

JUVENILE COURTCLERKJoy Touliatos - Rep.Henri Brooks - Dem.Morrie E. Noel - Ind.PROBATECOURTCLERKPaul Boyd - RepublicanWilliam Chism, Jr. - Dem.

COUNTYCLERKWayne Mashburn - Rep.Charlotte B. Draper - Dem.Isaac Wright - Independent

REGISTEROFDEEDST. Leatherwood - Rep.C. Thompson - Dem.

COUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 1Terry Roland - RepublicanCOUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 2George Chism - RepublicanCOUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 3David Reaves - RepublicanCOUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 4Mark Billingsley - RepublicanJackie D. Jackson - DemocraticCOUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 5Heidi Shafer - RepublicanTaylor Berger - DemocraticCOUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 6David Shiffman - RepublicanWillie Brooks - DemocraticCOUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 7Melvin Burgess - DemocraticCOUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 8Julie D. Ray - RepublicanWalter Bailey - DemocraticCOUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 9Justin Ford - DemocraticCOUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 10Geoff Diaz - RepublicanReginald Milton - DemocraticChris Boyd - Independent

COUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 11Eddie Jones - Democratic

COUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 12Van Turner - DemocraticAlvin Theo Crook, III - Indp.

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 10Cathy Anderson-KentChris Turner

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 13Louis Montesi

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 1Sheila Bruce-RenfroeLynn CobbGENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 2

Phyllis B. GardnerMyra May-HamiltonGENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 3

John A. DonaldDavid L. PoolGENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 4

Deborah A. Means Henderson

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 5Ellen FiteBetty Thomas Moore

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 6Christian JohnsonLonnie Thompson

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 7Bill Anderson, Jr.James Jones, Jr.

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 8Tim J. DwyerJ. Nathan Toney

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 9Melissa Boyd

Gerald Skahan

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 11Mischelle Alexander-BestKaren Lynne Massey

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 12Bryan A. DavisS. Ronald LucchesiGwen Rooks

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 14Kim Gilmore-SimsLarry Potter

GENERAL SESSIONSDIV. 15Loyce Lambert Ryan

JUVENILE COURT JUDGEDan Holman MichaelTarik B. Sugarmon

COLLIERVILLE JUDGEWm. Craig Hall

GERMANTOWN JUDGEDIV. 1Raymond Clift

GERMANTOWN JUDGEDIV. 2Bob BrannonMILLINGTON JUDGEA. Wilson Wages

COUNTYTRUSTEEDavid Lenoir - RepublicanDerrick Bennett - DemocraticDavid K. Kemp - Independent

DISTRICT1Chris G. CaldwellFreda Garner-Williams

DISTRICT3Teddy KingAnthony D. LockhartStephanie Love

DISTRICT5Scott McCormickDavid Winston

DISTRICT7Miska Clay Bibbs

DISTRICT8William E. Orgel

DISTRICT9Roshun AustinMike KernellDamon Curry Morris

DISTRICT6Shante K. AvantJimmy L. Warren

COUNTYCOMMISSIONDIST. 13Steve Basar - RepublicanM. Jain - Democratic

REPUBLICAN SAMPLE BALLOT

2014 Republican BallotEarly Voting: July 21 - August 2 • Election Day: August 7

he candidates listed in this ballot for the Shelby County General Election have been endorsed by theShelby County Republican Party Steering Committee. he Steering Committee only endorsed candidates inthe non-partisan judicial elections. he Republican nominees in the partisan county general elections were

the winners of the county primary in May.Take this for use at the polls as you vote and then share it with you family and friends.

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he East Shelby Republican Club meets the 4th Tuesday of eachmonth at 7pm at the Pickering Center in Germantown.

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Visit www.ShelbyVote.com for voter registration and voting locations, dates and times.

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THE FOLLOWINGSTATE WIDE JUDGES

SUPREMECOURTCornelia A. (Connie) ClarkSharon Gail LeeGary R. Wade

COURTOFAPPEALS

Thomas“Skip” FriersonJohn W. McClartyCharles SusanoMichael SwineyAndy D. BennettFrank ClementRichard DinkinsNeal McBrayerHolly KirbySteve StaffordCOURTOFCRIMINAL

APPEALS

Norma McGee OgleD. Kelly Thomas, Jr.James C. Whitt, Jr.Jeffrey S. BivinsRobert W. WedemeyerThomas T. WoodallAlan GlennCamille R. McMullenRoger A. PageJohn Everett Williams

Germantown’s Closest Early Voting location is New Bethel Baptist Church 7786 Poplar Pikeor Agri-Center International 7777Walnut Grove Rd.

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The Collierville Dragons 9-and-under baseball team celebrates after they captured USSSA World Series championship in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

By Chandler [email protected]

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Heavy rains at the USS-SA Global World Series in Gulf Shores, Ala., forced the 9-and-under Collier-ville Dragons baseball team to play its semifinal game of the tournament at 9 p.m., a game that if the Dragons emerged victori-ous would send them into the championship final.

On the precipice of a title, the group of 9-year-olds paid little mind to the delays and the clock as it slowly ticked past their bedtime and into the morning on Saturday, July 12.

“It was such a good baseball game,” Dragons manager Jay Locastro said of the tight 2-1 semifinal win against the Georgia-based Foundation A’s. “Clean baseball, no errors, kids hitting the ball, put-ting it in play, kids making

plays. The kids managed to stay focused and stay in that one.”

“The excitement of winning that one and knowing what they were playing for and being out of town, they were pretty hyped up (for the champi-onship).”

The Dragons carried the momentum from the narrow semifinal win for a 12-0 rout of the Houston Bengals in the champi-onship final to claim the World Series champion-ship in a game that ended at nearly 2 a.m.

Locastro, along with as-sistant coaches JJ Zmudz-inski, Gary Smith and Pat-rick McCalla, guided the team through the West Tennessee State Tourna-ment before reaching the World Series in Alabama, where the coaches initially weren’t sure of how their team would fare.

“We went down there expecting to be able to

compete, but had no idea that we would win it all,” Locastro said. “It was amazing. It was amazing to watch the kids. They’re probably more excited than watching college kids win national champion-ships. They were jumping up and down and it’s mem-ories for kids and parents that will last forever.”

The four volunteer coaches were rewarded mightily with the champi-onship experience, as each got to spend it coaching their sons.

“This will be some-thing as he gets older that becomes really special to him,” Locastro said of the experience with his son, Wyatt, a catcher. “It’s a real bonding point for a dad and son to be able to share an experience like that.

“To get that big ol’ hug after the trophy presenta-tion on the field was some-thing.”

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Dragons stay up late, capture USSSA Global World Series

Lecolion Washington (center), executive director of the Prizm Ensemble spoke to John Remsen, Gray Carter and other members at a recent Rotary Club of Germantown meeting. The Prizm Ensemble consists of a group of art-ists from various organizations and disciplines who are interested in creating fun and exciting performances and exhibitions with a commitment to arts education and to bridging the gap between the performer and the audi-ence to enhance the overall performance experience. The Rotary Club of Germantown meets every Wednes-day at noon at the Southwind Country Club.

At the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis Club of German-town, Brandy Miller (third from left) was inducted into membership. Inducting Miller to the club is (from left) Kiwanis President Steve Green, new member spon-sor Susan Threlkeld and membership chairman Steve Jackson. The Kiwanis Club of Germantown meets each Thursday from 7-8 a.m. in the Pickering Community Center for a bufet breakfast and program.

Amy Cole (left) was recently recognized as the 2014 recipient of the Nat Watson Service Award for outstanding service to our organization and the community. Cole joined New Neighbors after retiring from International Paper in 2009. Amy has served as New Neighbors newsletter co-editor for two years and is the current leader of the Daytrippers activity group for 2014-2015. She also is a member of the Ways and Means and Charity Nominations Com-mittees. She is an active member of her church, and has served as a volunteer for the FedEx/St. Jude Golf tournament for 26 years. Congratulating Cole is Mary Jane Boals.

Kohl’s associates David Granger, Marquitta Avart, Cas-sandra Peeler, Colleen Harbor, Byron Hamilton, Joshua Scruggs and Corey Cox volunteered at the YMCA at Schilling Farms for Kohl’s National Go Green event. They planted lowers and cleaned the community garden beds and pathway.

Jennifer Xiao, a rising 10th-grader at White Station, is a gold medal-ist in Wordsmith Writing Olym-pics. She also won ifth place in the National Manningham Poetry Trust Contest 2012 and second place in 2014 the Poetry Society of Tennessee Contest. Other achievements include placing second in the American Math-ematics Contest and the selected as the only female to represent Tennessee and compete in the MIT Math Prize in September. She is also a top winner in the Vanderbilt University High School Math Competition. Xiao of Col-lierville also won the silver key award in the MidSouth Scholastic Art Awards Competition and tied for irst in the Youth and Archi-tecture Design Competition.

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By Annysa JohnsonMilwaukee Journal Sentinel

MILWAUKEE — Charonne and Kevin Ganiere never pictured themselves as foster parents.

They’d always talked about adopting, maybe when their two small sons were older. But they couldn’t envision bring-ing children into their lives, loving them as their own and then letting them go — back to their biological parents or an adoptive family. It just seemed too painful.

That was then. Today, the Ganieres are parents to ive children younger than 10, in-cluding three toddlers wel-comed through the local foster care system, with no guaran-tees that they will be able to adopt them.

Devout Christians, the Ger-mantown, Wis., couple sees their change of heart as di-vinely inspired. Now they’ve launched a ledgling nonproit aimed at encouraging more Christians to open their hearts and homes to children in tem-porary need of families and helping churches support their members who do so.

“There are a lot of kids in the greater Milwaukee area in need of a good, Christian home,” said Charonne, who with husband Kevin is dual-licensed to take children both preapproved for adoption and those who are not.

“As we started going through the process, it just stirred our hearts to the greater need,” she said.

The Ganieres are founders of OneHope27, named for a Biblical passage that exhorts

Christians to care for widows and orphans. Theirs, and simi-lar initiatives around the world, are part of the larger so-called orphan care movement that has exploded in some Christian cir-cles over the past two decades.

That movement had been dominated for years by inter-national adoptions. However, that has waned as criticisms arose about corruption, the traicking of children not truly orphaned and other concerns, and countries imposing tighter restrictions. As international adoptions declined from a peak of 24,000 in 2004 to 9,000 last year, many Christian organiza-tions turned their attention to children in their home coun-tries.

“In terms of foster care, there has always been a Christian presence but what we’re see-ing now is a signiicant growth in the engagement of ordi-nary Christians in fostering, fostering-to-adopt, mentor-ing and family preservation,” said Jedd Mediind, president of the Christian Alliance for Orphans.

Advocates believe that good people with the right motives and proper training can help improve the lives of children and families in their own com-munities.

“We’ve seen through Char-onne and our other faith-based recruiters that there are a lot of great families out there,” said Laura Goba of Children’s Hos-pital of Wisconsin Community Services, an agency that licens-es foster families.

“It’s not about being a sav-ior to these kids. It’s about sup-porting the children and their

families,” said Goba, whose agency is collaborating with OneHope27 on its recruitment eforts.

At any one time, Milwau-kee County has about 2,000 children in foster care, with fewer than 700 licensed foster families. Across the state, some 6,000 children are in tempo-rary need of care.

The Ganieres, who attend Life Church in Germantown, are piloting the program there and at two other sites — The Ridge Community Church in Greenield and Christ Church in Mequon. And they’ve com-piled a list of about 25 other candidates, churches that have 30 or more foster families al-ready in their pews.

The program will difer de-pending on the site, but it might include informational sessions for families exploring the pos-sibility of foster care, get-to-gethers for foster families and their children, meal programs, clothing banks or other initia-tives that would be helpful to foster families.

“Not everybody can fos-ter a child. But everyone can

do something,” said Ganiere, “whether that is a meal when a family gets a new placement, supplies or clothing dona-tions, or just someone to talk to when kids are running around screaming and you need some sanity.”

Families that are licensed to accept children in foster care are limited in just how much religious inluence they can exert.

Judges and placement agen-cies go out of their way to place children raised in a particular tradition with a family that holds similar beliefs. Likewise, foster parents are prohibited from forcing their religion on children they bring into their homes.

The Ganieres understand that and say it’s not about strong-armed conversions but sharing the love of Christ whether that child embraces it or not.

“Children who come into foster care are there often be-cause of abuse and neglect, and I can’t think of anybody who needs love and hope more than they do,” Ganiere said.

Families

Kids really do say the darndest things, don’t they?

In the 1950s and ’60s, entertainer Art Linkletter built an empire of the silly things issued forth from the mouths of babes.

I’ve been saying it in my own way right here in this column for six years. My oldest son, as a toddler, once referred to the plumber my wife had called to the house for a middle-of-the-day emergency as “diferent daddy.”

Such a delightful scamp.Linkletter had other

grand ideas beyond asking earnest questions of unas-suming children. In 1960, he, along with business partner Clyde Vanden-burg, proposed a redevel-opment of the Mid-South Fairgrounds to include

such amenities as a new arena and a 700-foot-long lagoon to stretch along East Parkway. Of that plan, the Mid-South Coliseum was the only feature to see the light of day.

Recently, the city loat-ed a plan for a Tourism Development Zone in and around the Fairgrounds in an efort to pay for rede-velopment of the property. The city is also grappling with ways to pay for the pensions and beneits of ireighters and police of-icers.

I don’t claim to have all — or any — of the an-swers to such issues. Nor do I have any plans as outlandish as a Memphis blues lagoon. I have my own issues at home with budgeting the cost of four children who continually redevelop the landscape of my days and bank account.

Among these kids is an 8-year-old daughter who doesn’t yet have a job or a pension. Occasionally, though, she’ll complete a chore around the house and, once inished, will then tell me how much I owe her. And with Gen-evieve, there are no nego-tiations.

She recently presented me with an invoice — an actual paper bill — for having rolled the garbage can to the curb for pickup. According to her cryptic

handwriting, she’s owed fees in the amount of $10 for the weight of the can and $5 for the “stink.” Despite already being charged for the odor, she tacked on $20 because she had to hold her breath. There is a $100 balance that has been carried for-ward; from what, I have no idea.

In all, I owe this child who lives in my house and eats my food $135, essen-tially for walking 20 yards down the driveway.

I think she may be on to something.

Fiscal matters matter, even to children. They won’t stay kids forever, and the things they say and do won’t be all that cute, or profitable, for too long. They need to be taught early about budgets and bank accounts and the

dangers of overextending oneself. One day, Gene-vieve will need to manage her own pension and may even, heaven help us, ad-minister that of an entire city’s worth of employees.

When that day comes, she’ll need to know how to spend wisely and when to save. These darned kids will have to under-stand when it’s imprudent to purchase a new televi-

sion or car, and that it’s good business to honor all promises of payment. And they’ll want to know when to prioritize the cost of a plumber over a new la-goon.

Richard J. Alley is the father of

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By John RosemondMcClatchy-Tribune News Service

Q Since our daughter, now 2-years-old, was

born we have lived with my parents. Being the irst and only grandchild, she has been the center of attention. Several months ago, our son was born, and we moved into our own home. Almost immedi-ately, our daughter began pulling her hair out, some-times in handfuls. Doctors have said she does it for attention and we should ignore it. That’s what we’ve done but it has not stopped. It’s now gotten so bad that I’ve cut her hair because the side she pulls has gotten so short. I just don’t know what to do.

A The idea that a tod-dler pulls her hair out

by the handfuls as a means of seeking attention is un-veriiable. It’s the sort of thing that professionals say when they have no explanation. Under those circumstances, “she’s do-ing it (whatever it might be) for attention” becomes a default explanation. As such, it’s meaningless and decidedly unhelpful. It’s unhelpful because it implies that something is wrong in the child’s life; that her parents are fail-ing to meet some critical psychological need. The result is a lot of parental guilt and anxiety, neither of which are conducive to solving problems involv-ing child behavior of any sort.

Then we come to “just ignore it.” That’s a de-fault recommendation — again, the sort of thing professionals advise when they’re at a loss for advice. The fact is that misbehav-ior of any sort is very dif-icult to ignore. It’s harder still to ignore a child who is causing herself harm. Then, when attempts to ig-nore don’t work (as in your situation), the parents are likely to begin exaggerat-ing the psychological sig-niicance of the problem. The result is more guilt and more anxiety.

The simple explanation for your daughter’s hair-pulling is “children do odd things, and odd things are more likely when lots of change is taking place in a child’s life.” In short order, you moved from one home to another and a second child was born. That’s a lot of change. Maybe there’s a relationship between all that change and your daughter’s hair-pulling. Maybe there isn’t.

Who knows? Further-more, why does one need to know?

You said you don’t know what to do, but you’ve al-ready done it: cut her hair. Cut it so short she has nothing to grab and yank.

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CHILDREN

If toddler pulls hair out, cut it short

FOSTER FAMILIES NEEDED IN SHELBY CO.Youth Villages, a nonproit organization helping children with

emotional and behavioral troubles, is in great need of foster homes in Shelby County, especially for siblings and teenagers.

“We get phone calls just about every day about children needing homes,” said recruiter Genesha Dorris. “If we can ind homes that can take the sibling groups so we don’t have to separate them, that’s ideal.”

There were more than 900 children in state custody in Shelby County at the end of June, according to the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services.

Youth Villages is looking for foster parents who are Tennessee residents over 25-years-old. They should have a sustainable income, transportation and be able to pass a background check and home study.

“Youth Villages provides foster parents with 24-hour access to counselors, support groups and a monthly stipend to ofset the cost of adding a child to the home,” according to the organization. “Foster parents also often have the irst right to adopt if the child becomes available for adoption.”

— Katie Fretland, [email protected]

Religious families find calling to foster, mentor children

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A mural by Ruben Aguirre decorates Simone’s Bar in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood three miles southwest of Chicago’s downtown. The neighborhood is rich with local art and culture.

By Ceil Miller BouchetSpecial To The Washington Post

Outside Thalia Hall, the most happen-ing new spot in Chicago’s emerging Pilsen neighbor-hood, I do a double

take. It’s a freezing night, and there’s a small woman with a guitar slung over her back standing in the recess of a doorway. “Come into my oice,” she beckons, so I do. She tells me that her name is Kez Ban, and would I like to hear her play?

“This is the song I used to audition for ‘American Idol,’ ” she says, stepping out onto the sidewalk across from St. Procopius Church, the opu-lent brick heart of this Latino community. She begins strumming her guitar. I listen in disbelief as the husky mel-ody spills out of her mouth. A South Asian man who says that his name is Girsh walks by and smiles. “She’s fantas-tic,” he says. “Did you know she was on ‘American Idol’? You should get her CD.”

A decade ago, unless you were a fan of authentic mom-and-pop Mexi-can cuisine, a pilgrimage to Chicago’s National Museum of Mexican Art was practically the only reason a “Northsid-er” like me would trek down to Pilsen, the gritty community three miles southwest of Chicago’s downtown. In fact, the last time I visited Chicago’s Mexican enclave, my kids were small, and we spent an enjoyable afternoon at the pocket-size museum in a former boathouse.

Since then, the museum, the neigh-borhood and my kids have evolved. To-day, my 18-year-old son could be one of the lanky guys in knit caps visiting the crop of new Pilsen art galleries on the monthly “2nd Friday” nocturnal gal-lery crawls. My 16-year-old daughter awaits the “House on Mango Street” exhibit, based on the beloved book by Chicago-born author Sandra Cisneros, that opens next January at the expand-ed National Museum of Mexican Art, now a renowned center for Mexican and Mexican-American art and cul-ture.

And, well, my husband and I drive down for Thalia Hall, where you can sip a punch cocktail in the ‘80s throw-back basement bar, eat a succulent tag-ine baked in the ground-loor restau-rant’s wood-ired oven and, as of May, enjoy live music upstairs (I vote for “American Idol’s” Kez Ban; she’s just outside!), all in one gorgeously restored 19th century limestone building that

was originally built as a Czech com-munity social hall.

Dat’s Chicago for you. Or, rather, así es Pilsen, which, as I learned on recent visits to Chicago’s latest gentrifying neighborhood, is home to one of the largest Mexican communities in the United States. And before Mexicans, the area hosted Czech and Slovak im-migrants. Hence the Pilsen moniker.

Today, a stroll through the neigh-borhood brings a wondrous sense of cultural whiplash, both artistic and culinary.

“Hope, Respect, Jobs, Dignidad.” Proud heritage is trumpeted from mu-rals splashed on the walls of brick two-lats near the museum and from street art such as the lovely rendering of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos that I spot painted on a locked metal door along 18th Street between Western and Hal-sted, the community’s commercial epi-center.

Farther east along 18th, cars are parked two deep in front of Carnitas Don Pedro. Five patrons wait patiently in line by the restaurant’s sidewalk stand for the best taco in the neighborhood, or so I’ve been told, where “you can get, like, a pound of roast pork and tortillas, fantastically delicious, for $6.50!”

The person who shared this taco tid-bit, Jared Rouben, is a good authority, a new Pilsen resident and business own-er who recently opened a craft brew-ery called the Moody Tongue. I meet Rouben, who was formerly head brew-

master at Chicago’s Goose Island Brew-ery, one Sunday morning at the Pilsen farmers market. He’s hovering over the homemade organic salsas at Yvolina’s Tamales stand. “These are great salsas,” he says before asking, “Have you been to the chicken place?”

Yes, in fact, I have. On a previous vis-it to 18th Street, I’d followed my nose, drawn to Pollo Express by the rich aroma of charred chicken and smoky spices. Inside, I found a long, narrow room with a few bare tables and 25 plump birds, split and splayed and siz-zling away on the charcoal grill across the counter.

Down the street, murals cover the outer brick walls of Simone’s Bar. Inside, Simone’s new “Art Lab” curator, Jessica Gorse, tells me that the murals are by Chicago artist Ruben Aguirre and that she’s hoping to feature Chicago’s vibrant urban art in an upcoming show.

Creativity thrives here, especially on the second Friday of each month, be-tween 6 and 10 p.m., when most small businesses — plus studios and galler-ies — stay open late, and one section of South Halsted, between 18th Street and South Canalport Avenue, takes on a life of its own.

My husband and I met for din-ner at Nightwood. In honor of early Pilsenites, many of whom toiled at the now-demolished Chicago Stockyards, we began with pig ears. “You can still see the hair!” my husband noted, as we devoured the crispy morsels glistening

with maple glaze. The rest of our meal mirrored the happy ambiance: unpre-tentious, local, enjoyable.

We worked it of across the street at 1932 S. Halsted, a cavernous converted manufacturing space where artists live and work. We found the back stairwell and climbed up to where artist Bryan Sperry, who transforms vintage manne-quins into dystopian creatures dripping with found objects, was holding court in his trippy ifth-loor gallery.

Cultural community In Chicago, Pilsen neighborhood broadens its palate

PILSEN IN CHICAGO

WHERE TO STAY ■ Kinzie Hotel

20 W. Kinzie St.312-395-9000; www.kinziehotel.comdowntown River North area. Rooms from $189.

■ Palmer House Hilton17 E. Monroe St.312-726-7500; palmerhousehiltonhotel.com Centrally located Chicago landmark. Rooms from $139.

WHERE TO EAT ■ Dusek’s

1227 W. 18th St.312-526-3851; dusekschicago.comWear your beret, or your baseball cap, for daily specials like “Kentucky-fried quail, foie gras cornbread, red beans, country gravy, pickled okra.” Entrées start at $13.

■ Nightwood Restaurant2119 S. Halsted St.312-526-3385; nightwoodrestaurant.comAward-winning seasonal locavore food, terrific wine list. Entrées start at $16.

■ Nuevo León1515 W. 18th St.; 312-421-1517 Classic and colorful Mexican comfort food like barbacoa and flour tortillas. Entrées start around $6.WHAT TO DONational Museum of Mexican Art1852 W. 19th St.312-738-1503; nationalmuseum ofmexicanart.orgShowcasing Mexican and Mexican-American art and culture, with more than 7,500 pieces in the permanent collection. Rotating special exhibits. Free.

■ Simone’s Lab960 W. 18th St.312-666-8601; simonesbarchicago.comThe airy “Art Lab” room at Simone’s Bar (and grill) sports former chem lab tables, plus always-fresh, ever-changing artwork. Bike-sharing station just outside.

■ 2nd Fridays Gallery Night1821 S. Halsted (information center)www.chicagoartsdistrict.orgPilsen galleries, art studios and small businesses stay open 6-10 p.m. on the second Friday of each month.

■ Thalia Hall1807 S. Allport St.thaliahallchicago.comNewly restored and refitted concert venue in an opulent former Bohemian dance hall first opened in 1892.

INFORMATIONchicagoartsdistrict.orgpilsenportal.org

— Ceil Miller Bouchet, Special to The Washington Post

Chicago’s Mexican-American community is an emerging scene of culture and culinary hot spots like Dusek’s, where daily specials can include anything from “Kentucky-fried quail” to “foie gras cornbread.”

The most hap-pening new spot in Chicago’s emerging Pilsen neighborhood is Thalia Hall, where you can sip a cocktail in the throwback basement bar, dine in a ground-floor restaurant and enjoy live music upstairs.

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Pets

By Jeremy C. ParkSpecial to The Weekly

Ask any dog lover if their pet is part of the family and you will get an emphatic “absolutely!” If you ask my parents, they will proudly share how a dog saved one member of our family. Their adopted Tan Labra-dor, Max, was a military bomb-sniffing dog, who served four tours of duty and saved my brother’s life when his unit was am-bushed in Afghanistan.

Growing up with dogs, having a dog, and knowing a dog saved my brother’s life, I can attest to the power of owning a pet and the bond shared. Unfortu-nately, not all dogs have

a loving home and many end up abused, abandoned, and ne-g l e c t e d . They find themselves r o a m i n g the streets covered in mange, sick, wounded, and scared.

The Streetdog Foun-dation is focused on res-cuing, rehabilitating, and inding loving, for-ever homes for stray and abandoned dogs in our Memphis area. Melanie and Kent Paford started the organization several years ago after seeing the need to help these animals.

What started with three rescue dogs and a dream has rapidly grown into an established network with numerous success stories.

Streetdog is not a shelter and does not have a facil-ity. They rely on volun-teers, foster families, and donations to keep their organization alive. They hold adoption events ev-ery Saturday to help ind homes for the animals. Grace Animal Hospital graciously helps with any medical needs.

Outside of fostering and adoption, there are many ways to help the Streetdog Foundation, like donating dog food, treats, leashes, and toys. Learn more at streetdogfoundation.com.

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Sudoku

■ Singer Kay Starr is 92.

■ Actor Edward Herrmann is 71.

■ Comedian-actor Robin Williams is 63.

■ Rock singer-musician Eric Bazilian (The Hooters) is 61.

■ Comedian Jon Lovitz is 57.

■ Actor Lance Guest is 54.

■ Actor Matt Mulhern is 54.

■ Comedian Greg Behrendt is 51.

■ Actress Alysia Reiner (“Orange is the New Black”) is 44.

■ Country singer Paul Brandt is 42.

■ Actress Ali Landry is 41.

■ Actor Josh Hartnett is 36.

Dear Annie: My signifi-cant other of 20 years is a great guy, and he’s been wonderful to me. Here’s the problem: “Bob” has an 11-year-old autistic grandson. Every time we have taken “Russell” on vacation with us, it hasn’t exactly been relaxing. I am 62 years old and work a di�cult full-time job. I’d like a real vacation instead of babysitting a child with special needs. I have o�ered to take Russell on the weekends, but he says that isn’t good enough.

Here’s the kicker: Russell lives nearby, and Bob can see him anytime all year round, but won’t visit at all. Yet in the past 10 months, Bob has taken several short trips with his friends, mostly to go fishing.

These two weeks are my only vacation, and frankly, I am not up to having Russell the entire time. My daughter says I should be more compas-sionate and would feel di�erently if this were her child instead of Bob’s grandson. Am I being selfish?

— Can’t Handle It Again

Dear Can’t: No, al-though we understand why your daughter wants you to be more compas-sionate. It bothers us that Bob won’t spend time with his grandson unless you are around to take care of the boy. This is un-fair to you. It is also unfair to Russell and his parents, who undoubtedly resent that Grandpa isn’t willing to visit during the year.

Your o�er to take Russell on weekends is kind, and we think Bob should take you up on it. So here’s the compromise: You have two weeks of vacation. Spend one week relaxing, and take Rus-sell for the other. If Bob insists on taking him for two weeks, we recom-mend you spend one week on your own and let Bob learn how to deal with his grandson until you get there. And then take the boy on an occasional weekend.

Dear Annie: I had to chuckle when I read the letter from “Flu�y’s Competition,” because my husband told me I loved our Jack Russell terrier more than I did him. My response was that I loved her, but it was a di�erent type of love.

She has since died, and we have another Jack Russell, and she is my husband’s little girl. He now knows how much you can love a pet, and it is completely di�erent.

— R.

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

7/21/14

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle

Chess Quiz

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

with several given numbers. The object is to place the

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

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

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to

Sunday.

WHITE WINS A PAWNHint: Key is a double attack.

Solution: 1. Bxf7ch (wins it). If ... Kxf7, 2. Qb3ch! (gets a rook) .[Frid-

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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

Cy the Cynic says that friction is a drag, and I agree that it’s something a partnership must avoid. To keep your partner happy, signal properly on de-fense and interpret his signals correctly.

When West led the king of diamonds against four spades, East played the eight.

That card was high enough for West, who continued with the ace.

South ru�ed and drew trumps. He led a club to the king, returned a trump to his hand and led a second club. West won and led a heart.

South lost a finesse to East’s king but later threw a heart on dummy’s fourth club. Making four.

LOWEST I often hear silly remarks about how

a six or higher is an encouraging signal, a five or lower is discouraging. In this deal, West can see that East’s eight is his lowest diamond.

Since East had many diamonds from which to choose, West should treat the eight as discouraging — urging a shift

— and lead the jack of hearts at Trick Two. South loses two hearts to go down.

This week: signals.

By Frank Stewart Tribune Content Agency

Questions and comments: Email Stewart at [email protected]

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★ You could be making an expenditure more di�cult than it needs to be. The other party involved is not likely to back o� right now. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ Use the morning to make a point. Sometimes you try to be subtle, and it doesn’t work. Then you might stomp around to make your point clear. Tonight: Balance your checkbook.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)★★★ Lie low, especially with regard to a money discussion. The final word might not be decided yet, and there could be changes ahead. Tonight: A fun happening.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★ You hear what your friends say, and you’re likely to incorporate their thoughts into your plans. Take the afternoon o�. To-night: Get some extra R and R.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Be willing to take a stand. You will need to let your instincts guide you. Other-wise, you could be subject to a misrepresen-tation. Tonight: Join a friend.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ You’ll have a lot of di�erent ideas, but if you pull back and look at a situation from an outside perspective, you will be likely to come to a conclusion that surprises you. Tonight: Make it a late night.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)★★★★★ An associate will give you conser-vative yet significant feedback. What you do with it is up to you. You even might want to sit on this information for a day or so. Tonight: Be present.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★★ Defer to others, and see what devel-ops. You will want to open up a discussion later today. A child or new friend is likely to surprise you. Tonight: Be direct with a partner or loved one.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Make appointments, decide on your plans and figure out whether a new exercise program will be helpful. Tonight: Listen to others as they share their stories of the day!

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★ Your creativity will come forward. The most unexpected developments could put you back to square one. Tonight: Hang out with friends.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ It might take a lot for you to get go-ing, but a surprise or unexpected develop-ment will energize you. One of the issues around you involves your finances and a change. Tonight: Use your imagination.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ You could feel as if you have no control over a di�cult situation. Lie low, and try to understand what someone wants from you. Tonight: Out and about.

Horoscope

This year, just when you think you have everything under control, the unexpected will occur. Your flexibil-ity and willingness to adapt could determine your success or failure. If you are single, someone could enter your life from out of left field. You might decide that this person is too different from you. Know that there is someone else waiting just around the corner. If you are attached, the two of you could decide to make a heartfelt desire a reality. You might share less of your time as a couple with others, as you thrive from time alone together. GEMINI thinks he or she understands you.

What the stars Mean

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Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS1 NFL standout 7 Treat kindly 15 Costumes 20 Like forests 21 Tangles 22 Be nuts over 23 RED 25 Entertainer Zsa

Zsa 26 — -Caps (candy) 27 Great Lakes’

— Locks 28 First full mo.

of autumn 29 Spurring (on) 30 ELLE 36 Russian ruler

of yore 39 German car

make 40 “— to say this,

but ...” 41 SAGE 46 — -Z

(thoroughly) 47 Low-value wallet

wad 51 Pop lover 52 Want badly 53 RAN 56 Luau bowlful 57 In the second-

best category 59 Insect-catching

tool 60 Having some

benefit 61 Filmmaker

Preminger 63 Critical hosp.

area

64 Empire until ’91

66 Places of learning, in French

67 PORT 72 Frosh’s cap 74 Plane feature 75 “Not a word!” 76 Watch sound 79 Lou Grant

portrayer Ed 80 Agent’s take 81 Malia and

Sasha 84 Cap for a

bagpiper 85 ACRE 89 Allan- —

(“Robin Hood” narrator)

90 “— Little Teapot”

91 Chop — 92 Nimble deer 93 SEA 96 Fuzzy fabrics 98 One who has

regrets 99 Sonny & Cher’s

“— You Babe” 100 SLAT 108 Illusory 109 “... bug

— feature?” 110 Biceps’ place 111 Actress

Charlotte 114 Lab vial 115 HUM 121 Like a prebirth

body position

122 One who quarantines

123 Señor’s nap 124 Account 125 “Cagney &

Lacey” co-star 126 Peddled

DOWN 1 Shoemaking

tools 2 Money to be

paid back 3 Wacky 4 Chop-chop 5 Get more

mileage from 6 “— a Grecian

Urn” 7 Honey maker 8 Objective 9 Abbr. stamped

on a bad check 10 Suffix in some

pasta names 11 Camp craft 12 Swedish king

between John I and Canute II

13 Hang-up for an optometrist?

14 —Kosh B’Gosh 15 Flock of geese 16 Old saw 17 Redbreast 18 Horse to be

busted 19 Suit fabric 24 Turn bad 29 “Daniel” singer

John 30 — -Magnon

31 Relaxes 32 Corrodes,

in a way 33 — Mae Brown

(psychic in “Ghost”)

34 Pear-shaped fruits

35 “... could — horse!”

36 Musical rate 37 Stuck-up type 38 Entry 42 U.S. media

watchdog 43 Illinois city on

the Mississippi 44 Some rescue ops 45 A long time in

the past 47 Decide not to

join in 48 Super-

suspenseful 49 Author —

Stanley Gardner 50 Beatified Mlles. 54 Smart-alecky 55 “Yowie!” 58 Interring

individuals 62 Very testy 65 Amtrak stop:

Abbr. 66 Surround with a

saintly light 68 Suffix with

zillion 69 “I — lot to you” 70 Dancer Duncan 71 “Holy cow!” 72 Low voice

73 Favorite son of Isaac

77 Wee role 78 Rival of Target 80 Have bad flu

symptoms, say 82 Swiss city on

the Rhine 83 Mo. in which

autumn starts 86 What hungry

wolves do 87 Ungulate

feature 88 Actress

Hatcher 94 Neighbor of

Hung. 95 One, in Ulm 96 Feeble 97 Pulpit speech 100 Bits of wind 101 Coastal arm 102 Poetic Muse 103 Hotelier Ritz 104 Actor Clark 105 Present label 106 Like Dublin

denizens 107 “— vincit amor”

(“Love conquers all”)

111 Hazard 112 Poker post 113 “Holy cow!” 115 Collide with 116 Young fellow 117 LGA datum 118 Ty-D- — 119 Suffix with witch

or trick 120 Unlike reruns

The circled letters, when read clockwise, will reveal a quote from Gertrude Stein.

ACROSS 1 Fighting group 6 Understood 9 Scientific truth 12 Lives 18 Opposite of

wind up 20 Bobby on the

ice 21 Memphis-to-

Nashville dir. 22 Like yesterday 23 Classic excuse

for some misdemeanors

26 Intimidating words

27 Prefix with -graphic

28 Mercury, but not Earth

29 Workman’s aid 30 Heavy work 32 Carrier to

Tokyo 33 World’s largest

particle physics lab, in Switzerland

34 Many a drive-thru installation

35 Declaration from Popeye

38 ___ Anne’s (popular pretzel purveyor)

41 Smugglers’ worries

42 ___ mortal 43 Doubt-

dispelling words from Lady Macbeth

48 Follower of lop 49 Follower of lop 50 Formerly, once 51 Spectrum 53 “Alea iacta

___” (“The die is cast”)

54 Mutt’s mutter? 57 “When You’re

Good to ___” (“Chicago” song)

60 Aside, e.g. 63 Encyclopedic 65 Frequent

features of John Constable landscapes

68 Atypical 70 Bearing in mind 72 Famous

Yogiism 76 Traditional

Gaelic singer 77 Falafel holder 78 Food often with

pentagonal cross sections

79 “All ___” 80 Holy ___ 82 Makes loop-

the-loops? 84 Chicken ___

diable 86 Spanish “that” 87 One summing

things up 89 They may

come with covenants

92 Property areas 94 Match game? 97 Words

dismissive of detractors

102 Send, in a way

103 Urge to attack 104 Top choice 105 Expression of

resignation 109 Baseball stat. 110 “Did gyre

and gimble in the ___”: “Jabberwocky”

114 Take it easy 115 Cast 116 Sushi topper,

maybe 117 Hardly

highbrow reading

118 Material blocked by parental controls

119 Fantasy title character whose name is one letter different from the creature he rides

121 “We will tolerate this no more!”

125 Least plausible 126 Certain

wardrobe malfunction

127 Filler of la mer 128 Mess up 129 Covers with

goo

130 Austin Powers, e.g.

131 Record stat 132 Guide

DOWN 1 Like some

measures 2 Cell part 3 Whirlpool

product 4 Strike a

chord 5 “Gross!” 6 Source of great

profit 7 Mercury or

Earth 8 District in

Rome 9 Sheldon’s

apartment-mate on “The Big Bang Theory”

10 “___ questions?”

11 Emmy-winning drama four years in a row, with “The”

12 Some memory triggers

13 Stereotypical beatnik accessory

14 Hard water 15 Pushed back 16 Capture 17 Fuming 19 Bonding

molecule 24 Kind of ticket 25 Howl 31 “My, my!” 36 Card game with

a “Chairman” 37 Ape 39 Letters of

certification? 40 Ending for

how or who, for Shakespeare

43 One that’s a bore?

44 Fights 45 Where prints

may be picked up

46 Movement 47 Send in troops,

say 48 Some wrestlers 52 Bonkers 55 Went back over 56 Rapper ___

Rida 58 Juin preceder 59 1968 live folk

album 61 “Tender Is the

Night” locale, with “the”

62 Mideast legislature

64 Determines the concentration of a dissolved substance

66 Team V.I.P.

67 Ocho – dos 69 Certain

ruminant 71 “Summer

Nights” musical 73 Colorful,

pebble-like candies

74 Bit of trip planning: Abbr.

75 Roth ___ 81 Take up again,

as a case 83 Yearbook sect. 85 Small power

sources 88 Ones that warn

before they attack

90 Former employer for Vladimir Putin, for short

91 Sunny room 93 Reams 94 Takes a turn 95 Strict

96 Work for a folder

98 What you might be in France?

99 Degree of disorder in a system

100 Pop stars? 101 Bit of wisdom 103 Pushes aside 106 “___ Baby Are

You?” (1920 show tune)

107 Debt note 108 Rocker Bob 111 Beguile 112 Corn chip

since 1966 113 Clear sky 120 Pip 122 Barely beat 123 Chance,

poetically 124 Refusals

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 67 minutes.

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I found Cy the Cynic, a shameless chauvinist, and Wendy, my club’s feminist, arguing again — this time over who holds sway in a household.

“The husband is the boss at home,” Cy insisted.

“Some husbands are,” Wen-dy said. “Their wives put them in charge.”

“Listen,” the Cynic retorted, “when I was married I wore the pants in my family.”

“They probably didn’t fit,” Wendy sni�ed. “Most men are too big for their britches.”

Smoldering, the two headed for a Chicago game, where they cut as partners. As West, Cy led the ten of spades against 3NT, and South won with the queen and led a heart to the king and a heart back to his ten. Cy took the queen and shifted to the eight of dia-monds.

When dummy played the king, Wendy couldn’t a�ord to win and lead another diamond — South might have held five — nor could she a�ord to sig-nal with the jack. She followed low.

Declarer next took the ace and nine of hearts. Wendy let go a low club. South then led a club, and when the Cynic played low, South put up the king; he had no choice. Mak-ing three.

“Thanks, partner,” Cy growled. “Anyone accustomed to being in charge would have beaten that contract.”

Wendy can count 10 tricks for South if he has the ace of clubs, but if Cy has it, Wendy wants him to take it at his first chance to lead another diamond. Since that may not be clear to Cy, Wendy should take charge of the defense by discarding the queen of clubs on the fourth heart. Cy would have no chance to go wrong.

Dear Harriette: I just got my grades back from college, and they are not good. I knew I was having a tough year, but I didn’t think it was quite as bad as my grades reflect. Now I am in jeopardy of losing my scholarship. I am so scared. I don’t want to tell my parents, but I have to let them know. They are paying for the di�erence from the scholarship, but now they may have to pay more. I don’t even know if they can a�ord it. I know they said I shouldn’t take out student loans, but I really want to finish school. I don’t want to be a bad student. It was just harder than I thought this year. What can I do?

— Bad Grades, Boston

Answer: Talk to your school immediately to find out about the status of your scholarship and to see if you can take any of your exams over during the course of the summer to possibly change your grade. Ask if there are any summer classes that you can take that would help you to

strengthen your skills in any of the subject areas where you feel weak. You need to prove to them that you are serious about your education.

Talk to your parents and let them know about your grades as well as about your proactivity regarding keeping your scholarship. Ask them for their support and guidance in navigating this di�cult period. Be frank and talk to them about money. If you do lose your scholarship, you need to come up with a plan about how you will a�ord to complete your education.

Student with bad grades fears losing scholarship

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) ★★★ A restrictive situ-ation will move forward in the next few days. Tonight: Relax and get some much-needed downtime.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ Your words carry magic and energy to others, with the exception of one person. Tonight: As you like it.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ Slow down and take some much-needed person-al time. You could feel out of touch with many people . Tonight: Do your thing.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★★ Focus on what you want, and decide what is best for you. Rethink a per-sonal relationship. Tonight: Do what you want.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★ You could have second thoughts about a family mat-ter, but an insight will force you to re-evaluate. Tonight: A must appearance.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Make an e�ort to explore a new area, and leave your worries at home. Tonight: Be willing to try a new dinner spot.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ A partner or close associate has a habit of making heavy demands. Tonight: Go for together-ness.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ You might wonder what would be best to do to warm up a relationship. Your response in the morn-ing could be very di�erent from your response at the

end of the day. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Remain in touch with your needs. You might want to take care of certain

issues. To-night: Con-sider yourself unavailable.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★★ Today is one of those days when you can’t seem to contain your t h o u g h t s . Tonight: Let your imagi-

nation emerge.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.

18) ★★★ You might want to stay home and play it low-key. You will sense a change heading your way. Tonight: Order in.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ Reach out to a neighbor. You will feel as if you can’t make a deci-sion. Tonight: At a favorite haunt.

What the stars mean:

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

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you open up to new ideas. You are willing to em-brace new concepts. Many people around you might be amazed by how easily you can let go. If you are single, you could meet someone of interest in the next few months. If you are attached, the two of you connect on a more profound level. TAURUS might be very different than you realize.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | We Hold These Truths To Be Self-evident by Tom McCoy / Edited by Will Shortz

By Tom McCoy / Edited By Will Shortz

7-20-14

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

BLACK’S BEST MOVE?Hint: Better than 1. ... Qxg5.

Solution: 1. ... Qb6ch! 2. Kf1 Qf2 mate!

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T M Q V D I C A A I Q A Y Q V M T V D I

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Horoscopes


ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Focus on what is im-portant to you. Your intuitive side will help you appreciate a loved one. An opportunity that taps into your creativity could arise. Tension is likely to build around a decision you need to make.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Your sense of direc-tion will make a big diference in a meeting where others are un-usually idealistic. You seem to be unusually secure right now. Take a leap of faith with a personal or domestic matter. As a result, you’ll gain a sudden insight.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Pressure from someone you look up to could force you to move in a direction that you would prefer to avoid. Use cau-tion when making a purchase for someone else. Keep a conversa-tion moving, but make as few comments as possible.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH A friend will help you solidify an idea and make it more realistic. The unexpected might occur as you deal with a loved one who is diicult. Avoid

a power play, and you will shock the other party.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Though you have a lot of energy, you might opt to play it low-key. A partner or associate understands where you are com-ing from. Use care with someone you meet for the irst time. This person easily could be diferent than he or she projects.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH A loved one will un-derstand where you are coming from. Zero in on a goal that might involve a female or a heartfelt desire. You could be surprised by the actions of someone close to you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Someone is likely to ex-press his or her appreciation for your eforts. This person might want and expect more from you. It will be necessary to establish some boundaries. A loved one or a partner could be full of sur-prises.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You hold yourself back often because of your unwill-ingness to reveal more of your feelings. Relax, and take on the perspective of someone who is not involved.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Your take on a situation is diferent from many people. You are willing to do whatever is necessary to make it work. Optimism surrounds a trip or a workshop. Maintain a positive attitude, and ignore the uproar that might be close by.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Others continue to seek you out. You are prepared to have an important discus-sion with someone. Once you have this talk, both of you will have much to celebrate. What you feared might be diicult will turn out to be a piece of cake.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Throw yourself into a project that you feel you must get done in order to feel better. You often get overwhelmed. Good news comes will come to you through others. Someone you meet today could be very special to you ultimately.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Tap into your cre-ativity, whether you’re in a con-versation or simply handling a problem. Some people might be amazed by your imagination and its results. Certainly, a won-derful idea or two will surface.

By Judith Martin and Nicholas Ivor MartinUniversal Uclick

Dear Miss Manners: When a death announce-ment says, “In lieu of low-ers, the family suggests donations to XYZ charity” beneiting research into a cure for the disease that caused the death, what do you think of someone who sends lowers despite knowing of that request?

Albeit rooted in a sup-portive impulse, to me sending flowers seems to presume that the giver knows better than the fam-ily itself what will be most comforting. No doubt the family is grateful for any expression of sympathy, but as a contributor to a group efort, I found this somewhat wrongheaded.

Gentle Reader: Now that baby showers, births, birthdays, christenings, bar and bat mitzvahs, graduations, engagements,

weddings, illnesses, recov-eries and divorces have all become excuses for fund-raising, Miss Manners had hoped that the impulse to collect would be sated be-fore the funeral.

While she is reason-ably conident that this is the case for the deceased, it does not appear to be so for the mourners.

The purpose of a funeral is to show respect for the deceased and sympathy for the living. While Miss Manners does not agree with the practice of solic-iting, even for charities, on behalf of the deceased, she will refrain from leveling criticisms at such a diicult time. In return, she expects survivors who do so to re-frain from criticizing those who chose to show their re-spect in other ways.

Dear Miss Manners: Last night, my neighbors were being very loud after mid-night. I confronted them and asked them to please

lower the volume.My neighbor put his

hand on my elbow to apol-ogize, and I instinctively stepped back and told him not to touch me.

He seemed shocked by this. I know I should have handled it better. What is the proper way to respond to such unwanted physical contact?

Gentle Reader: By all means, recoil. You may even scowl. Then apolo-gize, explaining that you would not have reacted so strongly were you not ex-hausted from lack of sleep.

Miss Manners assures you that the memory of your initial physical reac-tion will discourage your neighbor from future touching, while the apol-ogy will prevent him from deciding that you are now even and he may therefore continue to play his music.

E-mail your etiquette questions

[email protected].

MISS MANNERS

Graciously accept gestures of sympathy

CRYPTOQUIP: AT FIRST WE USED ROUGH STUCCO FOR THE UPPER PART OF THE

BUILDING, BUT FROM THERE IT WAS SMOOTH CEILING.


Community

Tom Wilson (bottom row, from left), Frank Lamanna, Howard Giin, Melba Fristick, Vince Morelli, Marvin Schaefer, (top row, from left) Jessica Cooper, Scott Hamblen, Steve Reynolds and Roberta Hamblen, all with the Germantown Festival commit-tee, are busy planning the annual event for Sept. 6-7.

Special to The Weekly

Germantown Festival Committee invites every-one out for the 43rd annu-al Germantown Festival, which will be held Sept. 6-7 at the Germantown Civic Club Complex, 7745 Poplar Pike.

More than 400 local and national arts and crafts vendors along with foods, games, kiddie rides, com-munity attractions, live stage entertainment and new car exhibits will be on display.

There is something for all ages to enjoy. Each year more than 50,000 people attend this annual family friendly event, ranking it

among the largest festivals in the area.

One of the most popu-lar attractions of the fes-tival is the Running of the Weenies Dachshund Race and costume contest, will be held Sept. 6 at 11 a.m.

The festival will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 6 and 12-6 p.m. Sept. 7. Admission is free and there will be free shuttle bus service.

Coordinator Melba Fri-stick said, “Germantown Festival is always looking for new vendors and en-tries in the Weenie Race, so alert all your arts-and-crafty friends and start training those racing dachshunds now.”

GERMANTOWN

Annual festival, weenie race to be Sept. 6-7

By Jennifer CaseySpecial to The Weekly

The Collierville Burch Library will continue its free computer classes in August, covering the fun-damentals of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and Basic Computing for Beginners.

The Microsoft classes, both Excel and Word, will both be two sessions and will cover the basic func-tions of each program. The Excel class will cover creating and working with spreadsheets. The Word class will cover compos-ing a document and per-forming format and text changes.

Basic Computing for Beginners will be three sessions covering the ba-sics of Windows 7, Inter-net and email. This class is designed for beginners with little or no computer experience. Topics include basic parts of a computer, mouse skills, exploring the Windows 7 environment, file management, basic In-ternet navigation, and ba-sics of email.

The Microsoft Excel class is a two-part series on Aug. 6 and Aug. 13, from 10 a.m. until noon. Online registration will begin Thursday. The Microsoft Word class is a two-part series on Aug. 20 and Aug. 27 from 10 a.m. until noon. Online registration will begin Aug. 7. Basic Com-puting for Beginners, cov-ering Windows 7, Internet and email, is a three-part series taking place on Aug. 11, Aug. 18, and Aug. 25 from 10 a.m. until noon. Online registration will begin on July 29. Online registration may be found at colliervil-lelibrary. org. For more in-formation, stop by the Col-lierville Burch Library, 501 Poplar View Pkwy. or call the library’s information desk at 901-457-2601.

Jennifer W. Casey is with the town

of Collierville Public Information

Oice.

COLLIERVILLE

Free computer classes ofered

By Trena Packer StreetSpecial to The Weekly

Neighborhoods through-out Collierville are invited to again join communities nationwide by participat-ing in the annual National Night Out set for Aug. 5, from 6-9 p.m.

The Collierville Police Department encourages residents to take the “night out” and bring together friends, family and neigh-borhoods to show support of local anti-crime aware-ness.

National Night Out is also called “America’s Night Out Against Crime.” The nationwide event is designed to heighten drug prevention and crime awareness, generate sup-port and participation in

local anti-crime efforts and strengthen neighbor-hood spirit and police community partnerships. National Night Out now involves more than 37.8 million people and 16,124 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Ca-nadian cities and military bases worldwide.

The Collierville Police Department coordinates the evening and last year’s event had more than 30 neighborhoods partici-pating. To participate, go tocolliervillepolice.org/forms/national-night-out, to sign up.

Members from the Col-lierville Police Depart-ment and representatives of Collierville Mayor and Board of Aldermen will use registered events to

visit as many of the loca-tions as possible.

“It would be great if we could double participa-tion over last year’s Na-tional Night Out groups,” Collierville Police Chief Larry Goodwin said. “By staying highly visible as a Police force and uniting as a Town for this event, the stronger position we pres-ent against crime,” he said.

For more information on National Night Out, con-tact Lt. David Townsend at (901) 457-2560 or to regis-ter, colliervillepolice.org/forms/national-night-out.

Germantown will host its National Night Out event Oct. 7.

Trena Packer Street is with the

Town of Collierville Public Informa-

tion Oice.

COLLIERVILLE

National Night Out is Aug. 5

In brief

A R O U N D G E R M A N T OW N

Parenting of teens program at GUMC

The McVay Counsel-ing Center of German-town United Methodist Church will host a free six-week forum for par-ents of teens. The group, led by Christina Burns, LPC/MHSP, will meet from noon until 1 p.m. on Thursdays from Aug. 14 to Sept. 18 in the Mike Wilson Fellowship Hall, located at 2331 South Ger-

mantown Road. Register at germantownumc.org or call Monica Christian at 901-754-7216.

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

‘Dreamgivers Gala’ at Hilton Memphis

The fifth annual Forever Young Dreamgivers Gala will be Saturday, from 5:30-10:30 p.m. at the Hil-ton Memphis. The Mem-phis Jazz Orchestra will perform and tickets are $75 per person. Funds raised

will be used to send World War II Battle of the Bulge veterans back to Belgium for the 70th anniversary. For more information, call Diane Hight at 901-299-7516.

Classic car show on the Square

A classic car show will be held during Thurs-day’s Sunset on the Square. The evening’s performers will feature the Wolf River Rednecks beginning at 7 p.m.

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Businesses…Have you heard…?he Collierville town-wide sidewalk sale date is set…

September 19 – 21, 2014Just twice per year, residents andvisitors alike can take advantageof a town-wide sidewalk saleorganized by the ColliervilleChamber of Commerce andapproved by the Town ofCollierville.“he purpose of this event is toraise awareness of the local shopsand businesses that are righthere in our own backyard and tothank them for establishing theirbusiness in Collierville,” statedFran Persechini, ColliervilleChamber President.Participating businesses canchoose to show of their wares infront of their locations or simply have a special display inside the store. Shopowner and Chairman of the Tourism Commission, Watty Brooks-Hall of heBrooks Collection is very excited about the event stating, “his was a hugesuccess when we had it in the spring so take advantage of all the goodies thatwill be ofered this fall.”Watty continued, “Saving money always puts you in agreat mood. Bring a friend and hit the sale!”Non-retail businesses are invited to participate by advertising specialdiscounts or ofers. Store hours of operation vary, check with individualshops for their hoursWhether it’s ‘retail therapy’ or a well-deserved break, try a weekend Staycationright here in Collierville! Arm yourselves with our visitors guide and map. Savegas, shop at our stores, use our friendly services, rest-a-spell from the fabulousshopping at your favorite restaurant – Live Life Local 38017 in Collierville…Many thanks to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen for approving thesesemi-annual sidewalk sales.

Collierville,Tennessee….ParadeMagazine….What dowe have inCommon…hanks to everyone who voted for Collierville in the Parade competition forAmerica’s best Main Street! We saw so many wonderful tweets, FaceBook posts,newspaper articles and was also on the news! It is wonderful seeing the love andenthusiasm for Collierville,Tennessee!On August 17, the Parade Magazine will unveil the winner! But, regardlessof the outcome, each community should be proud of having this wonderfulopportunity.We are blessed to be in Collierville, the best Town in America!

Live Life Local … 38017! - Now - summer is here - visitors are here - and weare here - let’s Live Life Local 38017! When you have visitors in or just wantto spend a relaxing day - “Live Life Local 38017” and, tour Collierville irst!We have it all right here-antiques, shopping, Historic Town Square, Civil Warbattle sites, parks, recreation, walking trails, culture, museums, restaurants andmost importantly, warm, friendly people. Plan a getaway day in Collierville; weknow you’ll have a memorable visit! his destination is yours! his destination isours!his destination is Collierville! Live Life Local 38017 - “Our Unity CreatesCommunity” - Collierville Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors

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SAVE THE DATEhursday,October 23, 2014 – 25th Annual Collierville Business Expo – sponsored bytheTownofCollierville and theColliervilleChamberofCommerce |CoxCommunityCenter | 440West Powell Rd.| Collierville,TN.Over 100 vendors participating!

www.ColliervilleChamber.com | www.ColliervilleExpo.com | Like us on Facebook

Chamber GeneralMembershipMeetingWednesday, August 13Ridgeway Country Club

SavetheDate:August 13 -GeneralMembershipMeeting -WewillwelcomeJohn Aitken, Superintendent of the new Collierville School System as ourkeynote Speaker. Our sponsor is Carrier Corporation. For reservationsvisit www.colliervillechamber.com or call the chamber @ 901-853-1949.

GatewayTire& Service CenterheCollierville Chamber of Commercerecently held a ribbon cutting for thenew Gateway Tire & Service Centerin Collierville. Pictured cutting theribbon for Gateway Tire is BryanDismuke, Manager; Joey Simon,Asst. Manager; other Gateway stafmembers, Chamber ambassadors: Sue Silva, Kendra East, Terry Dean, Larryand Judi Davis, Becky McAlexander, Rosemary Hart, Penny Moore; JackieButler & daughter, Collierville Independent Newspaper; representativesfrom he Madison at Schilling Farms; Chamber board members: BonnieAllman, American Marsh Pumps; Greg Cotton, Cotton Law Firm; JohnBarrios, Barrios Financial Services. Gateway Tire & Service Center islocated at 1964 W. Poplar in Collierville. Visit www.gatewaytire.net.Plato’s Closet – he ColliervilleChamber of Commerce held aribbon cutting ceremony for Plato’sCloset in Collierville. Picture frontrow from left: Chip Dudley, TriciaDudley, Allie Dudley holding BrownDudley V, Brown Dudley, IV, ownerPlato’s closet; Kristi Croom, storemanager, holding Cooper and Charlie Croom; Rosemary Hart, Funquest; SueSilva, Chick-il-A; Becky Hammond, Collierville Chamber of Commercemembership director; Back row from left: Becky McAlexander, ComcastSpotlight; Chuck Croom; Terry Dean, Leadership Collierville; and ElizabethBuchanan. Plato’s Closet is located at 1204 W. Poplar Ave in Collierville.Visit www.platosclosetmemphis.comToastmasters International – Collierville ChamberSpeakers Toastmasters Club 03234693 – Distric t 43Onhursday, July 3,he Collierville Chamber SpeakersToastmasters Club celebrated the Passing of the Gavelceremony from inaugural president Noel Coward to2014 President Chandler Peterson. Our Club hada successful irst year and received the prestigiousSelect Distinguished Club 2013-2014.he Club meetsevery hursday at noon at the Collierville Chamberof Commerce, 484 Halle Park Drive, Collierville, TN.his is a community club andall are invited.ToastmastersInternational is a worldwide non-proit fellowship of women and men whomeet together, usually weekly, to teach to and learn from one another the artsof public speaking and leadership. Since 1924, we have served over four millionmembers. Currently, some 300,000 members in 14,000 clubs in 116 countriesenjoy the personal and business beneits of Toastmasters membership.

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RIBBON CUTTINGS

The Collierville Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Collierville areproud to present its 25th Annual Business Expo – Collierville’s premierbusiness-building event!The Expo, scheduled for Thursday, October 23, will be held at the CoxCommunity Center located at 440 West Powell Road. The event which is freeto the public will feature over 100 booths showcasing local businesses andtheir services and/or products.The Collierville Chamber has begun taking reservations for the limitedbooth space and offers an “Early Bird” special discount to current Chambermembers. The deadline for special pricing is August 31. Vendors offer doorprizes, show specials and giveaways to attendees and fellow exhibitors as theymarket their business.Gold Sponsors of the event include: First Tennessee, Baptist MemorialHospital-Collierville, The Farms at Bailey Station and Kirby Pines.To register online or for more informationvisit www.ColliervilleExpo.com or call the Chamber office at (901) 853-1949.

Mission Statement: he mission of the Collierville Chamber of Commerce is toprovide quality services and programs to its membership and to provide businessleadership for the entire community in the vital areas of economic prosperity,education, and quality of life.Vision Statement: he vision of the Collierville Chamber of Commerce is to bethe leading advocate for growth and proitability of the business community and topromote corporate citizenship.Guiding Principle: “Our Unity Creates Community”

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