June 5 Collierville Weekly

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Home inspector and part time woodworker Jim McGhee demonstrates the use of tools dating to the 1850s, many of which belonged to his great-great-grand-father, a cabinetmaker from the Midwest. McGhee manned a table at the second annual How-To Festival at the Germantown Community Library.

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TO FRANCEForever Young helps World War II veterans travel to Normandy for 70th anniversary of D-Day. NEWS, 5

SUPPORTER, SABOTEUR?Partner’s encouragement is critical to success in starting — and sticking to — a new fitness program. HEALTH & FITNESS, 8

ZOMBIE INVASION

Collierville Middle pom squad gives ghoulish performance at Zombie Walk. NEWS, 2

Master Gardeners Jane Carter (in blue) and Brenda Higgins talk about container gardening with attendees at the sec-ond annual How-To Festival at the Germantown Community Library.

By Jason R. [email protected]

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Young Alma Morrison pointed to an auburn-col-ored hen near the side of a small, hay-lined enclosure and proudly proclaimed, “That’s RED!”

This wouldn’t be unusual if Alma was showing livestock at the fair.

But on this sunny afternoon she showed of her four chickens next to the information desk in the center of the Germantown Community Library.

Alma and her parents, Steve and Emily, were just a few of the presenters that represented 30 diferent areas of interest at this year’s How-To Festival held on May 31.

In its second year, the celebration of do-it-yourself skills brought together presenters through social me-

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FAITH IN ACTION

Pharmacist hopes to fill need for getting, managing medsBy David [email protected]

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I looked at my 78-year-old father’s list of pre-scribed medications the other day and felt bad that I hadn’t gone to medical school. Or at least to phar-macy school.

Other than two medica-tions I recognized and ac-tually could pronounce, I had no idea what the other 10 were for, how long he’d been taking them, or how much longer he should.

My 75-year-old mother helps him with his luctu-ating formulary, but she’s got her own pharmaceuti-cal regimen. And neither of them went to med school.

Fortunately, they have a primary care physician who helps them manage their mountain of meds, and they can aford to pay

what Medi-care doesn’t cover.

But, as the short-age of pri-mary docs wo r s e n s ,

as the population ages, as Medicare reimbursements decline, as Medicaid shrinks, and as Big Phar-ma gets even bigger, more people are going to need help getting and managing their medications.

“Health care has be-come an assembly line, a volume business,” said

Philip Baker, director of pharmacy at Baptist Re-habilitation Hospital in Germantown since 2011.

“As fewer providers attempt to see more pa-tients, the amount of time dedicated to each patient has gotten shorter. But pa-tients actually need more of our time these days.”

Baker, a Raleigh-Egypt High graduate who became a pharmacist a decade ago, wants to do more than ill prescriptions. He wants to ill what he sees as a trou-bling and growing need in primary health care.

That’s why he started Good Shepherd Medica-tion Management, a non-proit that plans to ofer free meds (though not

pain meds) and medication management to uninsured and low-income patients starting next year.

“New patients will be given a printed list of their medications explaining what each medicine is for and how it is to be taken,” Baker explained as he sat in Hickory Ridge Mall.

Pharmacist Philip Baker and his medical partners plan to open their charity pharmacy in January.

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Municipal school systems in Shelby County took a major step Monday toward opening this summer, oicially assum-ing ownership of their build-ings from the county school system.

While the responsibil-ity for the buildings now falls to the individual sub-urbs, nothing of signiicance changed at the facilities from the time employees left work on Friday. The county didn’t change the locks, and the buildings weren’t cleaned out by the former owners over the weekend.

They weren’t cleaned up, ei-ther. That responsibility now falls to the six municipalities taking over the properties.

In Germantown, Supt. Jason Manuel and his staf started making adjustments early in the day. Manuel and director of operations Josh Cathey met Shelby County Schools personnel in Arling-ton to retrieve the master key sets, but maintenance and ad-ministrative staf were in the buildings throughout the day.

“Every time you walk in the building, you see some-thing else you have to take care of,” Cathey said as he and Manuel strolled through Houston High.

Several signs in the schools, for example, have the Shelby County logo. A water main at the high school broke during inal exam week. Man-uel said Shelby County ixed

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MAY 26

■ Oicers initiated a traic stop and arrested an adult male found to have marijuana in his possession in the 7000 block of Poplar at 9:02 a.m.

MAY 27

■ Two male subjects took merchandise from the business and left without paying for it in the 1300 block of S. Germantown Road at 3:27 a.m.

■ Someone damaged construction equipment in the 2700 block of Calkins Creek at 9:21 a.m.

■ Oicers arrested a male juvenile after he was observed taking items from a vehicle in the 1800 block of Exeter Road at 9:21 a.m.

■ Someone opened credit accounts using the victim’s personal information in the 8800 block of Somerset Lane at 3 p.m.

■ Male and female subjects observed taking merchandise from the business without paying for it in the 7700 block of Farmington at 6:35 p.m.

■ Vehicle collided into a warning sign, crossed a gulley and struck a retaining wall causing injuries at Forest Hill and Farmoor Road at 10:39 p.m.

MAY 28

■ Someone cut a tire on the victim’s vehicle on the 7600 block of Cross Village at 9:54 a.m.

■ Someone used the victim’s Social Security number to open credit in California in the 7600 block of Cross Village at 11 a.m.

■ A known suspect used a ladder to enter the second story window of the residence and take prescription medication and a garage door opener in the 2100 block of Shallow Ford Cove at 12:50 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing injuries at Germantown Road and Watkins Road at 11:38 a.m.

MAY 29

■ Unknown suspects forced entry into business and took several irearms in the 6600 block of Poplar at 6:41 a.m.

■ Someone forced entry through the front door of the residence and took various electronics in the 7500 block of Conner Cove at 12:05 p.m.

■ Victim alleges that a co-worker’s husband is harassing and stalking him in the 3800 block of Forest Hill Irene at 3:45 p.m.

■ Someone took a delivery package from the front porch of the residence in the 1800 block of Woodridge Cove at 5:04 p.m.

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Members of the Collierville Middle School pom squad give a ghoulish rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” in front of the Orpheum theater last Friday.

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Germantown Alderman Rocky Janda says the lare-up over funding of the student-run TV station at Germantown High School is a misunderstanding he hopes can be worked out.

“The whole thing is based on having receipts for capital purchases,” Janda said. “I am not going to give someone $203,000 just because that is the way

it was done in the past.”For more than 20 years,

money that Germantown city officials collected from cable-television sub-scribers for the public TV access studio at the school was deposited quarterly into a foundation account managed by the city and the school. When the Shel-by County Schools district made purchases, it sent an invoice to the foundation, and the bill was paid, said Ted Horrell, former prin-cipal of GHS.

This year, Horrell says the money was not depos-ited in the account, and the studio leaders, nervous about spending money they didn’t have, made no purchases.

“They were not willing to take it on faith that the money would be forthcom-ing, particularly in light of the uncertainty with the school situation,” Horrell said in an e-mail Monday.

The city’s agreement with GHS-TV ends June 30.

Last Friday, German-

town City Administrator Patrick Lawton said the city was withholding the funds because SCS failed to meet a May 31, 2013, deadline for informing the city what it intended to purchase.

On Monday, Horrell, who is now superintendent of Lakeland city schools, presented the city with the e-mail he sent to Janda on May 22, 2013, listing equip-ment worth $203,000 the studio manager intended to purchase.

“I take exception to the idea that the terms of the contract were not met by GHS-TV and the commu-nity TV foundation,” Hor-rell said. “I was at numer-ous meetings and it was never mentioned that there was missing documenta-tion. We were reassured repeatedly that the money would be forthcoming.”

Shelby County Schools says Germantown is be-ing diicult because three schools in the city, includ-ing GHS, will continue to

be run by SCS. “It’s historically always

been done a certain way. Now all of a sudden, the game changes,” said SCS legal counsel Valerie Speakman. “It just seems very clear it’s a punish-ment to SCS for keeping those schools.”

Janda expects a solution can be worked out. “Right now, if I have documenta-tion for $203,000, which we don’t beneit from, com-mon sense is going to say, ‘Why would you do that?’ ”

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Baker is leasing 1,500 square feet of the old food court, next to the old the-ater. Dr. Leigh N. Hersey’s nonproit administration grad students at the Uni-versity of Memphis helped him develop a fundraising and marketing plan.

If all goes well, Baker and his medical partners plan to open the charity pharmacy in January.

“Patients will also be ofered this list on a jump drive they can keep in their wallets,” Baker said. “At every face-to-face follow-up appointment this jump drive will be updated and revised with recommenda-tions and action plans.”

Baker is working with pharmacy directors from Baptist and Le Bonheur hospitals, as well as Union University’s pharmacy program, a national medi-cation management orga-nization called Outcomes MTM, and Dispensary of Hope, a Nashville nonprof-it that distributes donated meds.

He also hopes to work with Christ Community Health Services and the Church Health Center.

“What good is a brilliant diagnosis if the patient cannot aford the medi-cine,” said Dr. Scott Mor-ris, executive director of the Church Health Center.

“There is deinitely a role for what Philip wants to do. We are certainly supportive.”

Nearly half of the U.S. population has at least one chronic condition that re-quires medication.

And yet, nearly half of the nation’s patients don’t take medications as pre-scribed, resulting in nearly $300 billion a year in trips to the emergency room, the hospital or other medi-cal facilities.

For Baker, what he does isn’t just a job. It’s a healing ministry.

“As pharmacists, we have been blessed with an intimate knowledge of medicine,” he said. “We have an obligation to use this knowledge to serve our patients.”

Only as prescribed, of course.

For more on Good Shepherd Medication Management, visit good shepherdmm.org.

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dia and by word-of-mouth that represented hobbies and interests as diverse as beekeeping, ingerprint-ing, knitting, jewelry-mak-ing and metal-detecting, just to name a few.

A inal count revealed that 930 people came through — up from 700 people last year.

According to library director Daniel Page, the festival was the brainchild of adult services librarian Emily Baker. Page said the festival has become the li-brary’s biggest single-day event.

The festival not only featured hands-on dem-onstrations of various arts, crafts and hobbies, but also had a live band and food vendors, as well.

While banjos and gui-tars played outside, in-side the Morrisons shared their stories and gave out advice culled from their experience of raising four chickens in the backyard of their East Memphis home. At peak production, the birds can lay 20 eggs per week which the family

consumes or shares with friends and neighbors.

Jim McGhee helped in-terested kids try out a few of the tools on display in his booth on woodwork-ing. McGhee, a home in-spector by day, says he likes working with power tools, but is proud to dem-onstrate the proper use of several 19th-century tools that belonged to his great-great-grandfather, a Ger-man cabinet maker from

the Mid-west who died in the 1870s.

Behind him was a booth teaching CPR skills and behind them were two master gardeners touting the beneits and ease of container gardening.

But, toward the end of the day, the longest line was at the booth of Lea Winield of Balloons by Lea who twisted and mold-ed balloons into animals for the kids.

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Steve Morrison talks about his pastime of raising chickens in the backyard of his East Memphis home. The four birds can provide the family with up to 20 eggs per week. Morrison, his wife, Emily, and daughter, Alma, shared their passion with visitors at the Second Annual How-To Festival.

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Instead of crawling out of a cemetery or breaching a biohazard quarantine, living-dead enthusiasts Jor-dan Geiger and her iancé Robert Frost arrived last Friday to the annual Memphis Zombie Walk in their 2001 Acura. After parking in front of the U.S. Post Oice on G.E. Patterson Avenue and Second Street, they joined the growing crowd of participants at Navy Park smearing faux gore on each other.

“This is our irst time here,” Frost said while splashing stage blood on Geiger’s white shirt. Both love zombie movies, Frost said, though he prefers the scary ones like “28 Days Later” while she favors comedies like “Zombieland.”

“Opposites do attract,” Geiger said.Even though the walk’s number of pretend-lesh

eaters has increased every year, the event is still loosely organized on Facebook, said coordinator Jeremy William.

“We have kept it pretty grass roots,” he said while looking up at the storm clouds. “If it rains it will be the irst time in eight years. But we walk rain or shine. Last time we had about a thousand people I expect more this year.” At about 5:30 p.m., rain washed on the roughly 300 early participants, turn-ing puddles at Navy Park pink with fake blood. But, half an hour before the walk, the rain eased up and

the number of undead more than tripled. The walk has changed since 2005, Williams said. While the mass moved along South Main, Wil-

liams and three other coordinators place boxes of donated canned food into their cars.

“This is a new element we added to the walk,” Rogers said. “Nobody’s forced to donate, but we have been able to give a lot to the local food banks thanks to this walk.”

Just as the reanimated horde reached the corner of South Main and Beale, a lash mob of girls limped under the Orpheum theater’s marquee and broke into a rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

The choreographed-zombie dance was “abso-lutely” not a coincidence, said Kanette Rodgers director of communications for the Orpheum. The girls were recruited from Collierville Middle School by the theater.

“Every year we look for a way to help this growing celebration of the undead,” Rodgers said.

Aside from organizing the lash mob, the Or-pheum kicked of its Summer Movie Series with a zombie double feature, the 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead” and 2009’s horror-comedy “Zom-bieland.”

Walkers were not turned away, Rodgers said. Those who donated to the Memphis Zombie Walk’s food drive received a $1 discount on their ticket price and “decontamination centers” outside the theater cleaned any damp “gore” from clothing while plas-tic bags were placed on seats to protect them from staining, Rodgers said.

“The Orpheum belongs to the city,” Rodgers said. “So in a way it belongs to Memphians both living and nonliving.”

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The Living EndZombie horde stumbles, dances through annual walk

the pipes, but not the con-crete broken to repair the break.

Manuel said he expects Shelby County to complete the work.

“I have good faith that that will happen,” he said.

The high school staf also went to work convert-ing two large rooms that the plant manager former-ly used into space for the new television studio.

The oicial transfer of title for the buildings from Shelby County occurs as the new suburban dis-tricts prepare to open for the 2014-15 school term, after years of legal and po-litical debate. Each suburb received most of the public school buildings within its boundaries as part of the lawsuit settlement for mu-nicipal schools. However, in Germantown, the three namesake schools — Ger-mantown Elementary, Middle and High schools — stayed with Shelby County Schools.

While the buildings were transferred to the suburban cities for token

costs, the suburbs are paying various amounts annually over the next 12 years to settle the lawsuit regarding formation of the schools. The money is designated to cover re-tiree beneits through the county school system.

The Collierville school board was moving into its new oices Monday.

Collierville Supt. John Aitken spent most of the morning supervising movers hauling boxes, ile cabinets and some furni-ture from Town Hall to Collierville Historic High School near Town Square at Poplar and Walnut. The central oice will occupy the irst loor of the cam-pus, last used as Collier-ville Middle School.

Aitken was wearing shorts and tennis shoes when he arrived to pick up the keys for the eight schools in Collierville.

“It’s a culmination of hard work and efort by a lot of people,” Aitken said. “Once we pick up the re-corded and signed deeds, the bills of sale and the keys, it makes it real.”

Staf reporter Lela Garlington

contributed to this story.

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Meghan Claney (left), health and wellness

specialist, and Nancy Kel-ley, school

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supervisor, help bring in boxes

at the newly renovated Col-

lierville Historic High School

building Monday morning. The

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Human resources clerk Cindy Mills dusted her desk inside Collierville’s Historic High School Mon-day morning and placed a planter between two fam-ily photos. Her daughter had painted the new mu-nicipal school’s logo on the planter.

Like other school em-ployees, Mills illed her car with oice items be-fore workers from General Moving Co. arrived at 9:25 a.m. Monday at Town Hall.

She was one of about 20 or so employees arranging their oice spaces for the town’s irst central oice for Collierville’s municipal school district. The cam-

pus at 146 College fronts Poplar and is two blocks from Town Square.

The IT department with another 10 employees will work out of nearby Collier-ville Elementary.

Town officials spent about $200,000 getting the irst loor of the build-ing ready and are planning a $2 million renovation in 2015 at the city-owned fa-cility by tearing down an addition and renovating the upstairs, the basement and the auditorium.

“I think everybody has enjoyed — the chaos,” said Town Administrator James Lewellen as Supt. John Ait-ken and others left their temporary home at Town Hall for their new school digs. “It’s a milestone in our progress.”

For Collierville, the property has been hal-lowed school grounds since 1872, when Bellevue College opened on the site as a private college for women. It became a Shelby County school in 1899, but the original buildings have since been replaced

In some ways, the recent ight of merger/de-merger between Memphis City and Shelby County schools re-sembles the contentious arguments when afflu-ent Collierville parents opposed free or public schools in the late 1800s. “The less affluent were of the opinion that it was not the school’s purpose to teach students, ‘To speak Greek like pigs squealing, but to teach them, black and white, to know their duty and the right that ev-ery youth may learn to love justice and truth,’ ” wrote Clarene Pinkston Russell in her book, “Collierville,

Tennessee: Her People and Neighbors.”

The two-story building with a basement features modern and neoclassi-cal architecture common when construction started in 1930 and was inished in 1936 under President Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Projects Adminis-tration. It even has an out-door sunken garden.

For the town’s irst mu-nicipal school superin-tendent, Monday’s move turned into a homecom-ing. “I started my Shelby County school career here as a math teacher and assis-tant basketball coach,” said Aitken, who had ditched his usual coat and tie for shorts and tennis shoes.

Stopping in to see the school, Mayor Stan Joyner, a 1968 CHS graduate, said, “This is just a natural loca-tion to anchor Collierville schools.”

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The Germantown Mu-nicipal School Board voted 5-0 on Monday to tenta-tively move forward with two start times for its ive schools this coming school year.

The motion was vague in its language, asking the administration to bring the schools to “less than three start times … as soon as possible.” The vote means the administration will work on a plan to have the ive schools start at two different times as soon as this school year. If the administration discovers it can’t be done this year, then the board can recon-sider.

The board members and administrators have said they agree two start times are preferable to three, as some schools are starting as early as 7 a.m. and oth-ers as late as 9. The debate has been the feasibility of making the change this year.

Supt. Jason Manuel said if the board moves forward with two start times, it may cost several hundreds of thousands of extra dol-lars, and the district may have to go back to the city and ask for more money to make it happen.

Preliminary estimates from bus company Dur-ham Services indicated it could cost as much as $500,000 to merge three start times into two. Man-uel said there is no extra room in his budget to come up with that much money.

Board member Mark Dely said his goal is to exhaust all possible ways to change the start times this year before resigning to the idea that the change is impossible.

“Let’s go charge down the road, see if we can do it, and if we need more money, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” he said.

In a work session before the meeting, the board heard from Durham rep-resentative David Braben-der, the regional manager for the company. Braben-der said the change is not impossible for this year, and he would do his best to make it happen if that’s what the board wanted. But he cautioned it could come at a price, not just inancially, but of smooth logistics on the irst day of school.

Manuel said last year’s change, with Shelby Coun-ty Schools merging with Memphis City Schools, often left students hanging around school at the end of the day or on their street corners in the morning.

Brabender said he thought he could find enough buses for Ger-mantown to do two start times instead of three, but the issue is hiring enough staf. Because the company will now be servicing all of Shelby County Schools and the municipal dis-tricts, the irm is already stretched thin trying to hire an additional 400 drivers. Merging start times would mean an ad-ditional 10-15 drivers to hire in less than 60 days.

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Collierville oicials ap-proved a resolution May 27 that changes how the town sets the pay scale for salaries of the mayor and aldermen.

The resolution was passed unanimously by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen with no discus-sion.

In other action during a nonvoting work session that followed the board’s business meeting, Collier-ville — along with Arling-

ton, Bartlett, Lakeland and Millington — are looking at having the same health insurance administrator as the towns’ ive munici-pal school districts to save health care costs.

The Collierville school board approved the health insurance component as a part of its shared services agreement with the other municipal school districts except for Germantown. Germantown’s school district and the city’s mu-nicipal staf may join forc-es to open a health clinic for both city and school workers.

Collierville would still have its same separate self-insured health plan and beneits it has now but the company that administers the plan may change.

Town oicials consid-ered last year more than doubling the salaries of the mayor and aldermen after the next two election cycles in 2014 and in 2016. The town has staggered terms with the mayor and two aldermen running in 2014, and three aldermen running in 2016.

“You can’t give your-self a raise while you are sitting in that seat during

that term,” said Collier-ville Mayor Stan Joyner after the meeting.

The aldermen talked last year about increasing the mayor’s annual salary to $35,000 from $15,000, the aldermen’s salaries to $12,000 from $4,800 and $5,200 for vice mayor, who is an aldermen.

Joyner said he expects a resolution to change the pay rates in the next two or three months. If ap-proved, this would be the first change in salaries since 2001.

The salaries of elected oicials are part of the

town’s charter, which makes changing them more diicult.

During the discussion about health care costs, Human Resources direc-tor Jay Jefries said Aetna proposed a $5 million a year contract compared to $8.9 million from the cur-rent provider, Health Cost Solutions, and $8.4 million from HCC.

If approved, the group’s size will grow from the town’s 422 employees to a combined workforce of about 3,100 employees with ive school systems and five city govern-

ments.The change is making

the premiums more attrac-tive because the claims risk is spread out over a larger group.

Jefries said Collierville initially projected single health coverage would cost about $105 a month and family health cover-age at about $249 monthly. Now he said, it likely will be $96 a month for singles and $224 for families of town workers.

After the presentation, Alderman Tom Allen said, “I don’t think we have a choice.”

BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN

Collierville to consider raises for mayor, aldermen


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The 66th annual Ger-mantown Charity Horse Show kicked of Tuesday with ive days of equestri-an competition in multiple disciplines.

More than 900 horses and their riders will de-scend on Germantown through this weekend for the show, which cul-minates in a Grand Prix jumper show on Saturday.

Show president Jimmy Chancellor said the eco-nomic impact on the re-gion is estimated at $2.5 million to $3.5 million every year.

“We don’t have enough stalls. There were more people who wanted to come,” Chancellor said before the show began. “I think we’re going to have a real good show.”

The show features com-petitions for all ages and levels of ability, including

children and some of the country’s top professionals.

Chancellor’s sister, publicity chairwoman Wanda Chancellor, said the number of horse train-ing barns in the area helps

make the show so successful.

“It’s not just a lo-cal show, a lt houg h

it is a big show for all of our locals,” she said.

One local addition this year will be a perfor-mance from a group of teenagers from Eads who perform a drill team-style routine with their horses. They call themselves the Old West Special Trail Brand Entry Team and often are the opening act for major competitions. Chancellor said they will perform after the Grand Prix on Saturday.

Also new this year is announcer Melanie Smith Taylor. A Germantown

native and Olympic gold medalist, Taylor has been the NBC commentator for the equestrian events in the Olympics, and will provide the announcing for the Charity Horse Show’s Grand Prix.

“We’re really happy to have Melanie because she is a Germantown person,” Chancellor said. “She start-ed riding at the German-town Charity Horse Show.”

The show beneits the Exchange Club Family Center, which works to bring an end to child abuse in the Mid-South.

The events take place at 7745 Poplar Pike and are all open to the public. Parking is available behind Germantown High School.

Entry is free in the mornings, and $5 for the evening shows.

The Grand Prix, spon-sored by local heating and cooling company Conway Services, and worth a total of $25,000 in prize money, is Saturday at 5 p.m.

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World War II veteran Bob Bedford is greeted by Bill Ledford with the Patriot Guard Riders inside the terminal at Memphis International Airport before traveling to Normandy, France with fellow veter-ans who fought in the D-Day invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944.

By David [email protected]

901-529-2377

The last time Phillip Nicastro went to France, he was a it and fearless 17-year-old Navy machine-gunner in a 5,000-ship armada sent to rescue Eu-rope from the Nazis.

“I wasn’t scared of the devil back then,” Nicastro said. “None of us were. We were all kids when we went to ight that war.”

A few months before, Nicastro had boarded LST-495, a new transport ship laid down and launched in Evansville, Indiana.

LST stood for Large Ship Tanks, but sailors dubbed it a Large Slow Target. The 495 was designed to trans-port troops and tanks from shore to shore, not to ight.

The ship passed by Memphis on its way to the gulf, the ocean, and then the English Channel.

Nicastro and his mates arrived on the coast of Normandy, France, at a beach dubbed Omaha, on June 6, 1944.

D-Day.They were met by lines

of logs, metal hedgehogs and other mined anti-tank barriers, as well as Ger-man machine guns and artillery.

“The closer we got to the beach, there were dead bodies loating ev-erywhere upside down,” said Nicastro. “The bod-ies were just parting as the ship moved closer to shore.”

Nicastro, a ship’s cook, was manning a 20mm machine gun on his loat-ing target, trying to pro-vide cover for the soldiers storming the beaches.

“When a plane would go down, everyone would say, ‘I got ’em.’ I’d say it, too, but I hope I didn’t,” Nicastro said.

“Shoot, I didn’t want to kill nobody. The Ger-mans were kids just like me. They were just doing what they were told to do just like I was.”

Nicastro served on the 495 through 1944. The ship was decommissioned in 1946 and sold for scrapping in 1948.

“To me it was the best ship in the leet,” Nicas-

tro said. “It brought me home.”

Seven decades, nearly 26,000 days, have passed since Nicastro took part in D-Day, history’s larg-est seaborne invasion, which included 11,000 planes, 50,000 vehicles and 150,000 Allied troops.

After the war, Nicastro met a girl at a post in Vir-ginia. They were married in 1946 — but not before he removed one of his ive tattoos.

“I told him that he wasn’t going to hug me with an arm that said ‘Betty,’” said Ramona Nicastro.

Nicastro brought his new wife home to Mem-phis. He made a living by working in a body shop.

The couple lived in the same house in Byhalia, Miss., for 45 years. They raised three children who gave them seven grand-children and a dozen great-grandchildren.

D-Day resulted in 10,000 Allied casualties, including 4,000 dead, Ger-man casualties were prob-ably about the same. The Battle of Normandy also killed more than 20,000 French civilians.

Friday, President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, and other European leaders will gather near Omaha to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day.

Nicastro and seven oth-er Memphis-area D-Day veterans will have front-row seats.

“Didn’t want the front-row seats I had 70 years ago,” said Jack Claiborne, 90, a seaman who was driving troops to shore at Omaha.

The Memphis veter-ans also will join Michael Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan, for the opening of a new exhibit

at the Airborne Museum in Normandy.

The trip was arranged by the Forever Young Se-nior Wish Organization and its founding president, Diane Hight.

Hight and several Mem-phis-area veterans met Michael Reagan when they visited Normandy a year ago. Reagan donated $25,000 to help fund this year’s trip.

“Most of these men haven’t been back to Normandy since D-Day,” Hight said. “Not physically anyway.”

Monday morning, Nica-stro, seven other D-day veterans and more than a dozen of their family members boarded a Bel-levue Baptist Church bus.

An armada of Harleys, mounted by police oicers and veterans of more re-cent wars, escorted them to the airport, where they were met by a Navy band and a line of American lag-holding well-wishers.

“I didn’t expect the es-cort,” Nicastro said as he walked into the airport. “We had an escort on D-Day too, but people were shooting at us that time.”

This time, Nicastro is taking a commercial light to France.

This time he’s traveling with his wife, Ramona.

This time, the only equipment he’s carrying that might qualify as a weapon is his walking cane.

“This trip will be much easier and a lot quieter,” Nicastro said. “Thank God.”

Forever Young will host a trip to Belgium Sept. 20-28 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.

For more information, visit ForeverYoungSenior-Wish.org or contact Hight at 901-299-7516.

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Fitness events

st. Jude Children’s Research Hospital hosts “Yoga Gives to st. Jude Kids”: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Danny Thomas Pavilion, 262 Danny Thomas Place. Call 901-373-5051 or go to visit stjudeyoga.org.national Kidney Foundation of West tennessee 12th annual Kidney Walk: 9 a.m. Saturday at Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway. 8 a.m. registration. Noncompetitive 1- to 3-mile walk. 901-683-6185. kidneywalk.org.2014 Memphis Walk to Cure Arthritis: 9 a.m. Saturday at Shelby Farms Park. Walk features a three-mile and a one-mile course. Pet owners encouraged to bring their dogs. 901-322-1517. memphiswalktocurearthritis.kintera.org.Heel to Heal 5K Run: 9 a.m. Saturday (rain or shine) at Advent Presbyterian Church, 1879 N. Germantown Parkway, Cordova. Registration $20, benefiting Advent’s mission work in Honduras. No strollers or pets allowed. adventpres.com.the navy 10 nautical Miler: 6 a.m. Sunday at Naval Support Activity Mid-South in Millington. $65 if you register on or before Wednesday, $80 if you register on day of Expo. No race-day registration. This is the first foot race measured in nautical miles. 901-874-5179. thenavy10nm.com.LUvWiG 5K Fun Run at the Memphis israel Festival: 11 a.m. Sunday in Audubon Park. $35/single, $65/2-person team, $120/4-person team, $35/part of a team but registering individually, $25 for ages 10 and under. 901-218-1882. memphisfoi.org/5K-racewalk.html.Mid-south transplant Foundation Ride for Life: 2 p.m. Sunday. Memorial Park (at I-240) in East Memphis. 25-mile bike ride and kids 1-mile fun ride. $15/single, $25/2- to 5-person team, $10/1-Mile Fun Ride. midsouthtransplantrfl.racesonline.com

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Mid-south Area Pulmonary Hypertension support Group: Thursday meeting at Bartlett Banquet Hall, 2758 Bartlett Blvd. Meet ‘n greet 6 p.m.; dinner, guest speaker Mary Alice Beebe at 7 p.m. Topic, “Insights on Sodium, Fluid Management & pH.” 901-463-8688 or e-mail [email protected] eye & Allergy screening at eyewear Gallery: 2-5 p.m. Thursday-Friday at Eyewear Gallery, 428 Perkins Ext. Dr. Warren Johnson, Dr. Do Nguyen, Dr. Burt Bodan. Call to schedule: 901-763-2020. TheEyewearGallery.com.Life Line screening — stroke and Osteoporosis screenings: Saturday at HeartLand Church, 385 Stateline Road, Southaven. Packages start at $149. Preregistration required. Call 877-237-1287. lifelinescreening.com.Women Helping Other Women — A breast cancer support group: 7 p.m. Tuesday meeting at Baptist Women’s Health Center, 50 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 23. Newly or previously diagnosed.

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No matter where each of them is on the road to making healthy lifestyle changes, “hopefully the couple is going in the same direction together,” says Dr. Donald Hensrud, medical director of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program.

By Pamela KnudsonGrand Forks Herald

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — One of the irst things Dr. Donald Hensrud learned when he began working with patients in the area of well-ness and prevention is the futil-ity of trying to change another’s behavior.

“I realized quickly you can’t change someone else,” said Hen-srud, medical director of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Pro-gram, Rochester, Minn.

“Change is diicult for people. Some are ready; some are not.”

For example, “one of the part-ners in a relationship may be held back from starting a itness pro-gram because he or she is not as ready,” he said.

That person may even be threatened by his or her partner’s interest in physical itness, and try to undermine it.

In his work, Hensrud has seen instances where one partner gives chocolate to the other — who’s try-ing to lose weight — in an attempt to derail that person’s progress.

“We should be supportive of our partner’s eforts at self-im-provement,” he said.

“If one partner isn’t supportive, the other has to take a step back and relect. It may say something about the person who’s not giving support.

“You have to realize that it might be someone else’s insecu-

rity.”In general, “we tend to resist

change,” he said. “Our routine is safe. We like the status quo; it’s easier to do what we know, and maintain it, than to make changes — even if the changes are benei-cial in many ways.”

“If we’re comfortable in our own habits, and the other per-son is making changes, it may be viewed not so much as making an improvement but as ‘rocking the boat.’”

Committing to an exercise pro-gram takes time and involves an emotional investment, Hensrud said.

“Some people may feel that it’s taking time away from the relationship,” he said. “It’s good to look at the speciic reasons be-hind those feelings.”

Support is critical in starting and sticking with an exercise pro-gram, whether or not you exercise together as a couple, he said.

“Having the support of some-one we really care about can make a big diference. It matters what people we care about say about what we do.

“On the lip side, the lack of support can be very detrimental.”

If your partner is not sup-portive of your itness goals, try to remain supportive of him or her anyway “to help them come along,” Hensrud said.

“We all have diferent strengths and insecurities.”

He warns against adopting a “holier-than-thou” attitude, he said. And avoid taking a competi-tive stance with your partner.

Instead, “you might say some-thing like, ‘Do you want to come on a walk with me. I always feel better afterward.’

“Invite them and involve them to the degree that they want to be involved.”

If you are the one who’s not sup-portive of your partner’s itness goals, “try to do some honest self-relection,” Hensrud said. “You may need to look at your reasons.

“Support goes along with re-spect, and we need to have re-spect for each other’s boundar-ies.”

As an example, he pointed to the relentless campaign that some people levy to convince their partners to quit smoking which “always backires.”

No matter where each of them is on the road to making healthy lifestyle changes, “hopefully the couple is going in the same direc-tion together,” he said.

Getting into an exercise pro-gram together “would be a plus,” he said. “Take baby steps. Start by walking ive or 10 minutes at a time, and then build up to longer walks.”

Sometimes, couples “have dif-ferent things that they like to do,” he said. “It’s great if it works out” that they can pursue physical it-ness activities together, but even if they have diferent schedules and can’t exercise together mu-tual support goes a long way.

“Enjoying the journey together can be tremendously rewarding.”

RELATIONSHIPS

Supporter or saboteur?

Partner’s encouragement is critical in starting, sticking to fitness program

By Melissa DribbenPhiladelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Wonder-ing about the best shoes to wear for spring running?

Neutral? Minimalist? Stability? Motion control? Cushioned heel?

Confused? Of course you are. Well, sports medi-cine specialists have good news. Stop worrying about fallen arches, overprona-tion, and putting your feet on a Paleolithic regimen.

The latest thinking about how to choose the best running shoe is to let comfort be your guide.

Since the 1970s, run-ning shoes have evolved from puny slabs of rubber sewn to canvas shells into engineering feats rivaling 3-D-printed surveillance drones.

Far beyond the latest Nike Flyknit Lunar 2 are plans for running shoes made of computer-gener-ated molecules that will link to living organisms and conform to your foot’s

ever-changing needs.In the somewhat-less-

distant future are Google Bluetooth-enabled shoes that talk to you and tell you how your run is going.

For now, runners have a hard enough time picking from hundreds of mute, inorganic options.

“Historically, the push has always been to look at foot pronation,” said Bryan Heiderscheit, a professor in the department of bio-medical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Runners were told to wear shoes that would correct for the foot’s tendency to roll inward or outward, on the theory that this would correct biomechanical laws and prevent injuries to the knees and lower back.

“But the best studies that have been done in the last 10 years,” said Heider-scheit, “have not substanti-ated that claim.”

In 2010, the American Journal of Sports Medicine published a study of 1,400

Marine Corps recruits. Half the group was given shoes based on a careful evaluation of the shape of their feet. The control group’s shoes were chosen randomly.

“Assigning shoes based on the shape of the plantar foot surface,” the authors concluded, “had little in-luence on injuries.”

When Heiderscheit tries to explain this to members of the running-shoe indus-try, he gets “pushback.”

Not surprising, he said, considering that the $20 billion athletic-shoe mar-ket sustains itself on in-novation.

The idea that almost any shoe is ine if it’s comfort-able is also apt to meet re-sistance from runners for whom theory has become dogma. Believers in bare-foot running or minimal-ist shoes, for instance, are unlikely to be convinced.

Both are fine, said Heiderscheit, as long as re-cent converts do not make the switch too abruptly.

Speaking from personal experience, Heiderscheit said, it is easy to get in-jured if you decide to toss your cushiony sneakers and immediately start racking up miles in a pair of barely-theres.

It can take months to adapt, he said. He rec-ommends exercises to strengthen muscles in the calf and foot and using the minimalist shoes for short, easy runs at irst.

“You should feel so comfortable in a shoe that you could sleep in them,” said Jon Woo, a sports medicine specialist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Experts say that just as everyone’s feet are unique, so are their running styles. “There is no absolute bio-mechanical ideal,” said Heiderscheit.

Still, Heiderscheit said, there are “laws” to avoid.

“You don’t want to bounce too much. You don’t want to overstride. And the one thing we ab-

solutely don’t want people to do is a hard heel strike — truly coming down on your heel with your foot pointed high in air.”

Jeptoo, for the record, runs in Nike Zoom Streak 3s, a lightweight, breath-able shoe with some sup-

port and cushioning. On-line reviews of the shoe range from “I got huge blisters” to “Perfect!”

If this proves anything, experts said, it is that the one true authority on which shoes are best is the runner who wears them.

APPAREL

Runners, let comfort guide shoe choices; research doesn’t back industry claims

MELISSA DRIBBEN/PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER/MCT

Danielle Tolbert tries on a pair of running shoes in Philadelphia. Runners can choose from a broad range of shoe styles, from cushy to barely there.

By Dr. Anthony L. KomarofUniversal Uclick

Dear Doctor K: I have a lot of wax in my ear. Should I try to remove it? How?

Answer: Earwax is creat-ed when the oily substance made by cells lining the ear canal mixes with dead skin and debris. Normally, the mixture slowly moves out of the ear on its own.

But sometimes earwax gets blocked in the ear. Certain conditions make this more likely:

■ An especially narrow or curvy ear canal.

■ A skin condition, such as eczema, that is afecting the canal.

■ Excessive hair growth in the canal.

■ Cleaning your ears with Q-tip. This can push the wax farther back into the ear canal, where it builds up and hardens.

■ Wearing a hearing aid or earplugs.

By collecting dead skin and debris, earwax helps clean the ear. It also helps prevent dryness and itch-ing in the ear canal, pro-tects the canal and ear-drum from damage, and helps prevent infection.

In many people, the ear-wax continuously oozes out of the ear canal and onto the skin around the ear, where it is washed away when you bathe or shower. However, when the wax does not seep out of the ear, it builds up in-side the ear.

If the wax buildup in your ear isn’t causing trouble, leave it alone. You need to remove earwax only if it causes problems, such as interfering with your hearing.

To unblock the wax, try using an over-the-coun-ter ear-cleaning treat-ment, such as Debrox, to lush out the wax. If this doesn’t work, or if you have a history of ear drum perforation or have had ear surgery, make an appoint-ment with your doctor.

Never try to dig out ear-wax with something like a Q-tip, paper clip or hair-pin. That could push the wax farther into the canal or injure your eardrum. Also avoid ear candling. That’s when you stick a lighted hollow candle into the ear.

In general, your best bet is simply to clean your outer ear with a washcloth. That makes it easier for the wax that’s deeper in-side the ear canal to ooze out. Above all, don’t do something that will injure your ear.

YOUR HEALTH

When clearing earwax, be delicate

Food


By Noelle CarterLos Angeles Times

With the smells of char-coal and propane begin-ning to perfume backyards across the nation, now is the perfect time to take stock of your equipment. Whether you’re an old hand or are new to this most primal of cooking methods, proper tools count.

Outside of the grill it-self, here’s a basic list of all the tools you’ll need so you’re ready when your in-ner chef hears the call of the great outdoors. All of the equipment should be generally available wher-ever grills and grilling sup-plies are sold. They’re also available online.

■ Gloves: When you’re working over high heat, gloves and grill mitts are a great way to keep your hands protected from heat

and occasional lare-ups. Look for heat-resistant gloves that cover at least part of the forearm for maximum protection. Prices vary by type and material used, but gener-ally $15 to $30.

■ Chimney: A gas grill is a wonderfully easy way to ire up the grilling season, but for real lavor, nothing beats cooking over char-coal — that is, as long as that great charcoal lavor isn’t ruined by the taste of lighter luid. For a quick, sureire way to light char-coal without having to douse the hardwood or briquettes with lighter lu-id, try a charcoal chimney starter. It’s simple to use: Crumple some newspaper and stuf it in the bottom of the chimney, then place the charcoal on top. Light the newspaper, and in 15 to 20 minutes your coals will

be ready for their moment. $10 to $15.

■ Tongs: Put the fork away. A good set of tongs will give you a much bet-ter grip on your steaks and vegetables, and you won’t have to repeatedly punc-ture what you’re cooking (remember, it’s already dead). When looking for tongs, reach for a pair of spring-loaded or lexible bent tongs as opposed to a pair joined by a swivel pin (similar to scissors or pliers), as they ofer more control. And consider size. Tongs range from as short as 6 inches to well over a foot in length. The shorter the tongs, the more control you will have. $5 to $10.

■ Spatula: Like a good set of tongs, a proper spat-ula is a must-have tool when handling foods on the grill. Standard metal spatulas are thicker and

work well when you’re lipping burgers and larger cuts of meat and poultry. For delicate items, consid-er a thin and lexible ish spatula. Consider buying a spatula with wide slats or holes; this allows liquids to drain while minimiz-ing surface contact with food so it doesn’t stick to the spatula. $10 to $20.

■ Grill basket: If you plan to grill small or delicate items such as cut vegetables or fish, consider investing in a grill basket. Perforated open baskets help to keep smaller foods from slip-ping through the racks, and closed mesh baskets keep delicate foods from crumbling as they’re grilled. Baskets are avail-able at cooking supply stores and where grilling supplies are sold, as well as online. $15 to $20.

■ Thermometer: When cooking meats or any items for which food safety is a concern, a dependable thermometer is a must. It can give a quick veriica-tion when you want to be sure of the temperature on a chicken breast or steak. Many digital thermome-ters have probes attached by wire to the temperature gauge so the probe alone can be left in a larger cut of meat as you check its progress. Remember to clean the probe between

each use to prevent cross-contamination; $5 for a simple dial thermometer to $30 or more for a digi-tal thermometer with a remote probe.

■ Grill brush: A basic grill brush is all you need to keep your grill and racks in working order. Simply heat the grill on high after cooking to char any stuck foods and sauces, then run the stainless steel bristles of a cheap grill brush over the mess to clean it of. $5 to $10.

OUTDOOR COOKING

Basic tools make backyard grilling easier

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Having the right tools makes summer grilling easier.

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Once you master the formula, feel free to try variations like Rocking Chair Lemonade (left) and strawberry lemonade.

By Elizabeth KarmelAssociated Press

Homemade lemonade is an essential taste of sum-mer. But concentrates and powders simply won’t do.

Luckily, great home-made lemonade is as easy as remembering a few numbers — 3-1-1-1. Three cups of cold water, 1 cup of lemon juice, 1 cup of sugar and 1 more cup of water to make the sugar syrup.

The sugar syrup — also called simple syrup — is the key to perfect homemade lemonade. As anyone who has tried to sweeten iced tea knows, sugar does not dissolve well in cold liquids. But simple syrup — a blend of (typically) equal parts sugar and water that was heated briely to help the sugar dissolve — mixes beautifully into lemonade, iced tea or cocktails.

When shopping for lem-ons for lemonade, buy large lemons that feel heavy and are squeezable. I always buy a couple extra. If I think I can get 1 cup of juice from 6 lemons, I buy 8.

As soon as I bring them home, I soak the lemons in a solution of white vinegar and water to minimize any molding or rotting. Often, a bag of lemons with one slightly moldy lemon be-comes a whole bag of rot-ten lemons overnight if you don’t do this. And you don’t have to stop at lemons; this is a great way to wash all fruits and vegetables.

Before you juice them, soak the lemons in warm water, or microwave them for 10 seconds. The heat relaxes the juice pouches and makes it easier to ex-tract the most juice from each lemon. Then, before you cut them in half, roll the lemons on the counter with your palm, exerting some pressure. This also helps get the juices lowing.

Once the juice is strained of excess pulp and seeds, and the simple syrup is cooled, you are ready to mix your lemon-ade. This can be done up to 2 days in advance. Also, be careful not to add too much water. The lemon-ade should be slightly con-centrated because the ice in the glass will dilute it.

Once you master the base recipe, you are ready to try variations. My fa-vorite is strawberry lem-onade, but don’t stop there. Try any summer berry, honeydew melon, peaches and summer herbs.

I use the rule of thumb that 2 cups of ripe fruit should yield more or less a cup of juice once it is strained. I use my juicer, but you can use a blender and a ine mesh strainer just as easily.

elizabeth Karmel is a grilling and

southern foods expert and execu-

tive chef at hill country Barbecue

Market restaurants.

SUMMER TREAT

Simple recipe assures great results for summer lemonade

ROCKING CHAIR LEMONADEMakes 6 servings.

INGREDIENTS

1 cup warm tap water 1 cup sugar 1 cup freshly squeezed

lemon juice (about 6 lemons)

3 cups cold water 1 lemon, thinly sliced — Fresh mint leaves

(optional)

DIRECTIONS

1 in a small, heavy-bot-tom saucepan over low heat, stir together the warm water and sugar. Bring to a simmer, stir-ring, until the sugar has dissolved. increase heat to medium and bring to a boil. cook for 2 min-utes, then set aside of the heat to cool.

2 once the syrup is cool, pour it into a 2-quart pitcher. Add the lemon juice and cold water, then stir well. garnish with lemon slices and fresh mint. serve over ice.

Note: if you are concerned that the lemonade will be too sweet, start with ½ cup or ¾ cup of the sugar syrup, then taste before adding more.

Strawberry lemonade: Purée 2 cups of cleaned, hulled fresh strawberries. if using a blender, press the purée through a mesh strainer to remove any large pieces of pulp. Add the strawberry purée to the lemonade recipe above, but reduce the cold water to 2 cups.


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When the call came from Food Network, Memphian Aryen Moore-Alston was excited but wary. At the end of 2012, the self-taught cook submitted a YouTube video to “Food Network Star” and was selected.

“I signed the contracts, did ev-erything,” she said. “But nothing happened. I never heard anything else.”

In December, almost a year later, the phone rang.

“They said, ‘Hi, Aryen. This is Food Network, and we want you.’ I said, ‘Yeah, that’s what you said last time.’ ”

But this time it was for sure, and she had to move fast. The 31-year-old single mother had to quit her job as a contract techni-cian for Apple and make arrange-ments for care of her 3-year-old daughter. A couple of weeks later, she was on her way to ilm the show that debuts Sunday at 8 p.m. on Food Network.

The winner of the contest gets a show on Food Network and pos-sibly stardom: The judges are Al-ton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay. It’s how Guy Fieri got his big break.

“He’s everywhere,” Aryen said. “Can you believe he has his own Hasbro game?”

That Aryen is a contestant is something that her mother, Karen Moore, says amazes her — and not because she doesn’t have con-idence in her youngest daughter.

Moore was an actress and her husband, Gary Alston, a musi-cian. They raised their daughters in Naples, Italy, for most of their childhood, and they encouraged them to explore their artistic sides. Aryen was a dancer; sister Keisha, a singer.

“I just knew I had artistic chil-dren, and we did everything we could to encourage them,” Moore said. “But I had absolutely no idea that culinary arts was something

we should have encouraged. Re-member, when we left for Italy, there was no Food Network — it was just Julia Child. When we came back, everything had changed.”

But Aryen, whose name is pronounced almost like the con-stellation Orion, took to cooking anyway. Her father liked to do it and she liked to help.

“When she was 6 years old, we asked the girls what they wanted for Christmas, and Keisha told us what she wanted, then Aryen piped up and said she wanted a cookbook,” Moore said. “Six years old! Of course she got other things, too, but I guess she got a cookbook for Christmas every year after that.”

When she was 11, Aryen want-ed to surprise the family with a pancake breakfast. She awoke early and went to ask her dad if it was OK. It was his youngest child who found him; he’d died in the night because of sleep apnea.

“After that, she sort of took over the cooking,” Moore said. “She liked to do it. It reminded her of him.”

Sister Keisha Moore-Alston re-members her pineapple upside-down cake.

“That was one of the best things I ever tasted,” she said. “When she kind of took over the cooking, we just all started get-ting fat.”

They stayed in Italy three more years. “During that time I’d say she really became a cook,” Moore said. “I had a woman who helped me with the girls and the house, and Aryen learned a lot about Ital-ian cooking from her.”

When they moved to Memphis (Alston and Moore met in Mem-phis, though neither is originally from here), the girls enrolled in Overton High School and Moore started working in real estate, public relations and television. When she graduated, Aryen went to Spelman College in Atlanta, and spent a year as a student in Ja-pan. She graduated with a degree

in computer science and Japanese studies.

But neither particularly excited her. She was living in Los Angeles in 2007 when her mother called.

“She came up with this idea for a show to spotlight homes for sale by cooking in them,” Aryen said. “The motto was ‘a house is not a home until you cook in it.’ So she had this idea for a cooking show, but I knew she wasn’t going to be the one doing the cooking. I said ‘Who’s going to cook?’ She said ‘You are.’ ”

So she came back to Memphis and they ilmed a few shows — Moore thinks four — in 2008. She stayed here, where her mother, sister and boyfriend were, and went to work for Apple.

And she cooked. Like she did in Italy, when she cooked for large groups of friends, she entertained people in Memphis.

When her daughter started eat-ing solid foods, Aryen naturally made everything from scratch. A favorite was a cupcake made with sweet potatoes.

“That has to be my favorite thing that she makes, and it’s hard to pick something because it’s all so good,” Keisha said.

“I never cook exactly from a recipe,” Aryen said. “I always add a little something to it.

FOOD NETWORK

Rising ‘Star’

PhoTos By yALondA M. JAMes/The coMMerciAL APPeAL

“I’ve traveled all over,” says Aryen Moore-Alston, 31. “My thing is international cuisine with a twist, and from the comfort of your own home.” Moore-Alston appears on the “Food Network Star,” which debuts Sunday on Food Network.

Moore-Alston ofers a line of cupcakes called Sweet Potato Baby, sold to groups that use them for fundraisers, and each contains fruit or vegetables.

Memphian gets shot at big time on Food Network, hopes it opens doors


Schools

By Michael [email protected]

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — It wasn’t stage fright that kept Maria Kaltchenko of Tupelo, Missis-sippi, out of the inals of the 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee.

It was a computer test. Two tests, to be precise.

Maria, a seventh-grader at Tupelo Middle School, spelled lawlessly during the bee’s four rounds of oral competition, ighting of nervousness and ac-

ing words “poin-telle” and “xeroph-thalmia” from the stage of the annual contest. By the end of the bee’s sixth round last Thurs-day afternoon, she was one of 31 spellers still in the competition.

But her hopes of going on to compete for the title of cham-pion speller ended when the 12 inalists were announced and she failed to make the cut.

The inalists were determined by their overall scores on the two computer tests and the four rounds of onstage spelling. The 12 inalists had an overall score

of at least 62; Maria’s was 47.The second computer test

was harder than she expected — “probably 10 times harder than the irst,” said the 12-year-old, who had worried that she’d get so nervous that she’d lub her words on stage.

Maria earned a trip to the na-tional contest, held just outside of Washington, by winning the Mid-South Spelling Bee back in March.

Maria’s mother, Svetlana Kaltchenko, and her two broth-ers, Michael and Nicholas, watched from the audience as Maria strolled across the stage four times and easily spelled words that many people could not even pronounce.

“It was nerve wracking,” said her mother, a violinist and or-chestra teacher who grew up in Moscow.

In the ifth round last Thurs-day, Maria stood in front of the microphone, hands folded in front of her, and slowly spelled “pointelle,” which is a design in the shape of chevrons on a fabric. In the sixth round, she correctly spelled “xerophthalmia,” which is a dry, thickened, lusterless condition of the eyeball.

Though she failed to make the inals, Maria said she was thrilled to get as far as she did, and hopes to return to next year. To get ready, she said she’ll prob-ably spend more time studying root words.

First, however, she wants to relax. “I am drained,” she said. The next stop on her itinerary: A two-week family trip to Russia.

Dwight Moore Jr., an eighth-grader at Central Day School in Collierville, was eliminated from the competition in the third round when he got tripped up on “uliginous,” which means grow-ing in wet or swampy ground. Dwight incorrectly spelled the word “uligenous.”

Dwight said he knew he was in trouble as soon as the pronounc-er gave him the word. “That was the only one I didn’t know,” said Dwight, who earned a spot in the national bee by winning the Memphis-Shelby County Spell-ing Bee in February.

SCRIPPS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE

Tupelo speller almost reaches Scripps finals

By Katherine PerrySpecial to The Weekly

Students from prekin-dergarten through ifth grade enjoyed fun illed days of games and chal-lenging activities during Bailey Station Elemen-tary’s recent Field Days.

Coaches Cheryl White and Brian Mitchell coor-dinated the programs to celebrate the end of the year and encourage an

active lifestyle for all stu-dents.

“We place great im-portance on healthy lifestyles here at Bailey Station, from eating nu-tritious foods to keeping our bodies active,” says White. “For us, ield day is just another example of how we celebrate those healthy choices.”

Parents and grandpar-ents joined in the fun by cheering, volunteering

and providing water for the participants. The ifth graders ran the sta-tions for grades kinder-garten through fourth and did an awesome job. Students loved the games and contests, such as the marble water dip and tar-get challenge. Many of the students said it was the best ield day ever.

Katherin Perry is a teacher at

Bailey Station Elementary.

BAILEY STATION ELEMENTARY

Students participate in Field Days

Name: Mary-Addison Wolfe

School: Briarcrest third-grader

What do you like most about your school: I receive a great education.

What is your favorite sub-ject: Math

What is your most chal-lenging subject: English

What are some of your biggest accomplishments: On a math test I got 40 questions right.

What are some of your hobbies: I like to work on math, play outside, read and write plays.

Goals for the future: I want to be an actress.

People you admire: I most admire my parents because they encourage me.

Favorite movies, TV shows and books: My fa-vorite movie is “Teen Beach Movie.” My favor-

ite TV show is “Good Luck Charlie.” My favorite se-ries is Magic Tree House.

People would be sur-prised to know: I am really interested in the Titanic.

What would you do if you were principal for a day: We would start out with math, we would do science next, then eat lunch. Then we would go outside and read and then math.

What famous person would you like to meet: I would like to meet Wil-liam Shakespeare.

What would you do with $1 million: I would add stuf to Briarcrest.

If you could change one thing in the world: I would make sure boats and air-planes would not crash.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Mary-Addison Wolfe loves math and wants to be an actress

By Kelly HatleySpecial to The Weekly

Joseph Zitynar of Cordo-va and Greer Bell Crocker of Germantown were re-cently inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kap-pa Phi at the University of Tennessee at Martin.

Membership is based upon academic achieve-ments and exemplary character. Those eligible include graduate students in the upper 10 percent of their class, seniors in the upper 10 percent and juniors in the upper 7.5 percent. Also eligible are faculty members who pos-sess outstanding academ-ic, research, creative and service achievements.

An internationally re-spected honor society, Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest and most selective organiza-tion that recognizes and promotes academic excel-

lence in all ields of higher education. The society was founded at the Univer-sity of Maine in 1897 and currently has chapters on the campuses of more than 300 colleges and universi-

ties in the United States, the Philippines and Puerto Rico.

Kelly Hatley is the University of

Tennessee at Martin university

relations publications intern.

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTIN

Area students inducted into Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Maria Kaltchenko

C’ville champ trips over ‘uliginous’

Briarcrest third-grader, Mary-Addison Wolfe, likes her school because she’s “receiv-ing a great education.”

University of Tennessee at Martin students Joseph Zitynar of Cordova and Greer Bell Crocker of Germantown were inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

On May 9 Tara Oaks third grader Meredith Dai (right) was named as the school’s artist of the year. Each year, the school recognizes artistic talent by framing a student’s artwork for display in the Tara Oaks Art-work Gallery. During a special ceremony, Tara Oaks art teacher Barbara Fry unveiled the framed artwork.

Braxton Hart, a fifth-grader at Sycamore Elementary, was awarded top honors for the Accelerated Reader program for the fifth year in a row. It was another record year for him with 2,295 points. He also received the Presidential Edu-cation Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement.

Ryan Ferguson recently signed a National Let-ter of Intent to play lacrosse at. Lincoln Memo-rial University in Harrogate, Tenn. He was joined by Scott and Teri Barber and Avery Barber.

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“Linda Cole of Bartlett has been my best friend for 24 years. She’s loving and generous.”

CAROL KABAKOFF of Collierville

In honor of Best Friends

Day on Sunday, we asked area

residents taking a pottery class

at Singleton Community

Center in Bartlett to tell us a little

bit about their best friend.

“Ellen and I have been best friends for 24 years. We do

everything together.”

SHARON WALKER of Brighton

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ELLEN SAVOY of Mason, Tenn.

“My best friend, Debbie Stephens, lives in Germantown. She is ... thoughtful and takes care of everybody.”

JODIE GIBSON of Bartlett

“My best friend, Forest Goldberg, has been

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DENISE GRAHAM of West Memphis, Ark.

“My best friend is Gena Granger of Memphis. She looks for the

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Pets

Special to The Weekly

Dog owners who are interested in member-ship at Forgey Dog Park are invited to register at the Germantown Parks and Recreation oice be-fore June 30. The oice is open weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. New and returning members must complete an application and sign an insurance waiver, provide proof of residency and a copy of current pet vacci-nation records and view a ive-minute presentation. Resident member fees are $40 for the irst dog and $10 for each additional dog. Nonresidents pay a slightly higher fee to use the park. Membership is required for access to the area.

Forgey Dog Park, lo-cated at 1665 Riverdale Road, is open to members from dawn to dusk, 365 days per year. Members

enjoy a secure, fenced area where dogs can socialize with others. Germantown Park Rangers monitor the area where there is plenty of open space for dogs to run and jump.

Large and small breeds have separate spaces to enjoy.

Long time member Catherine King of Ger-

mantown visits the park regularly with her two retrievers, Jake and Sadie.

“Without space to run and others to play with, I’m not sure we would ever have any peace at home,” said King.

For more information, contact Germantown Parks and Recreation at 901-757-7375.

FORGEY DOG PARK

New, returning members invited to register by June 30

Catherine King of Germantown visits the park regularly with her two retriev-ers, Jake and Sadie.

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The Humane Society, 935 Farm Road, is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Germantown Animal Shelter, 7700 Southern, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

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Name: MissyAge: 7 years

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shepherd/spitz mix.

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Name: ShenziAge: 1 yearBreed: Boxer mixDescription: Sweet disposition; loves people.

Name: TailsAge: 1 yearBreed: Domestic short hairDescription: Likes other cats.

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The YMCA at Schilling Farms recent-ly hosted its Healthy Living Expo in the gym. Vendors ofered information on a variety of topics including itness and nutrition, Medicare, assisted living and home-care options, inancial informa-tion, and more.

The Mid-South Line Dancers, led by in-structor Answorth Robinson, performed several line dances to help promote the upcoming Livestrong at the YMCA Line Dance Jam on June 21, from 3:30-5:30 p.m. at the YMCA at Schilling Farms. There was a cake and plant walk, as well.

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Oicials with the Mem-phis Mid-South ailiate of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure reached their goal and handed out more than a half-million dollars in grants recently to help local programs provide breast exams and mam-mograms for those who cannot aford them.

For the irst time, the October race was held at a new site — Carriage Crossing in Collierville, rather than Saddle Creek in Germantown.

“There are more than 1 million women in the Mid-South and one in eight women could be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime,” said Elaine Hare, executive director of the lo-cal ailiate. “We are proud to share with our commu-nity how our grantees will have the greatest impact in serving uninsured or un-derinsured women in our 21-county service area.”

The grant winners for the $510,000 include:

■ Alliance Charitable Foundation, through the Alliance Healthcare Sys-tem — $15,000 in Marshall and Benton counties.

■ Baptist Medical Group, Memphis Breast Care — $20,000

■ Baptist Memorial

Hospital for Women — $130,000

■ Bapt ist Memo-rial Hospital-DeSoto — $60,000 for DeSoto, Mar-shall, Tate and Tunica counties.

■ Church Health Cen-ter — $30,000

■ Julie B. Baier Founda-tion, Inc. through the Mroz Baier Breast Care Clinic, PC — $90,000

■ New Bethel M.B. Church, through its Sur-viving, Thriving, African-Americans Rallying Sup-port — $7,500 for breast health education sessions, monthly breast cancer support group meetings and funding for screening mammograms for those who are inancially eligible

■ Methodist Healthcare Foundation — $50,000 Regional One Health — $100,000

■ Urban Health Educa-tion and Support Services — $7,500 for education, support and awareness to primarily African Ameri-can and underserved women who are newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, survivors and/or have relapsed.

This year’s race is set again at Carriage Crossing on Oct. 25 in Collierville.

The shopping center is just of Tenn. 385 and Houston Levee Road exit. For more information, vis-itkomenmemphis.org.

rACe for the Cure

Komen grant winners share $510,000

Answorth Robinson, instructor, leads the Mid-South Line Dancers in a dance at the Healthy Living Expo.

Alma Jean Fittes talks with

Joyce Quintrell at the Page

Robbins Adult Day Care Center

booth.


Main Street Collierville will present the 23rd annual Sunset on the Square Summer Concert Series starting Thursday.

Opening entertainment of the series will feature the Rhythm Rockets Band. The ive piece band features Lonnie Davidson. They will be rocking out R & B

tunes, classic rock and soul hits.Bryan Hayes and the Retriev-

ers will perform June 12, the AIMS Gang will play June 19 and Six Degrees will perform June 26. Josh Threlkeld will play July 10, Sandy Carroll will perform July 17, the Wolf River Rednecks will play July 24 and the last concert will feature the Def Tonz on July 31.

The concert series is spon-sored by title sponsor First Tennessee, Co-sponsor Town of Collierville, Entertainment sponsor John Green & Company Realtors, Concert sponsor All-state Insurance-Rod Lovelace, community partners: Andy B’s Family Entertainment Center, Baptist Hospital, The Commer-cial Appeal-Collierville Weekly,

Kaz’s Main Street Garage, State Farm Insurance- Preston Car-penter and the Twentieth Cen-tury Club. Picnic in the Park sponsor- The Farms at Bailey Station and cup sponsors: Achill Computer Services, Barrios Fi-nancial Services, The Brooks Collection, Café Piazza, Collier-ville Insurance Agency, Curtis Printing, Joyce McKenzie of

Crye-Leike Realtors, Superior Auto Body of Collierville, Our Little Secret Med Spa on the Square, Lasting Expressions, State Farm Insurance- Joe Sar-rio, Pepsi, and YoLo.

The concerts are from 7-9 p.m. No pets or alcohol al-lowed. For more information, visit mainstreetcolliervile.org or its Facebook page.

Collierville

Sunset on the Square Concert Series kicks of


Applications are now being accepted for the city’s Education Com-mission. Residents will serve one-year appoint-ments, which begin July 1. Current commission members interested in continuing to serve are asked to complete an ap-plication, along with those applicants who have not previously served.

The Education Com-mission studies ways to deal with educational is-

sues of general commu-nity interest. Commission members award a Teacher of the Month and Youth Excellence winner each month during the school year. Battle of the Brains, a math and science com-petition for students from Germantown and Houston High Schools, and the an-

nual Education Celebra-tion are also arranged by the commission.

Applications are avail-able online at german-town-tn.gov/commissions or at the information desk inside Municipal Cen-ter, 1930 S. Germantown Road. Applications are due July 1. Completed

forms may be returned to the city of Germantown, ATTN: Dotty Johnson, City Clerk, P.O. Box 38809, Germantown, TN 38183-0809.

For more information, e-mail City Clerk Dotty Johnson, at [email protected] or call 901-757-7251.

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Anglers here in the Mid-South take a very serious approach to their crappie ishing.

When the fishing’s good, they take vacation time, leave work early and brave all sorts of nasty weather just to make a few extra casts.

When it’s bad — which isn’t very often — they want to know right away what the problem is and what should be done to ix it.

Crappie ishing enthu-siasts on Kentucky Lake showed remarkable pa-tience in 2013 when the spring spawning run wasn’t as good as it had been in previous years.

But then when the ishing seemed to decline even more this spring, they started searching for an-swers.

A public meeting was held May 28 at the Henry County Fairgrounds to discuss the situation with various members of the Tennessee Wildlife Re-sources Agency and Ten-nessee Fish and Wildlife

Commission.While some suggested

drastic measures like low-ering the lake’s creel limit from 30 to 20 and raising the minimum length limit from 10 inches to 11 or 12, the conservation oicials basically said they believe Mother Nature needs time to right the ship on her own before extreme regu-latory help is considered.

“We think what was to blame more than any-thing for the drop-of this year was the extremely cold winter and even the cold spring that we had,” said TWRA chief of ish-eries Bobby Wilson, who attended the meeting. “It threw everything of by

about three weeks, and that could mess things up for the whole year. It’s not that it’s going to be delayed three weeks and then ev-erything just goes back to normal.”

Some of the folks who attended the meeting had other suggestions for why the ishing’s been tough.

Some wondered out loud if the growing num-ber of Asian carp on the lake could be part of the problem, while oth-ers pointed toward the drought conditions that have plagued the region the past ive years.

Longtime Kentucky Lake ishing guide Steve McCadams said some

are also wondering if in-creased ishing pressure on the lake in recent years could be partly to blame.

“A few years back, they lowered the creel limits in Kentucky from 30 to 20,” McCadams said. “They’ve done the same thing on some of the lakes down in Mississippi — and now, a lot of folks from Missouri and other places who were visiting those states are coming here because it’s closer and they can still keep 30 ish. That has a lot of people concerned.”

It certainly makes sense that increased ish-ing pressure could have left fewer crappie to go around for the anglers

who’ve enjoyed Kentucky Lake at its best, and it might eventually be smart for the lake to conform to the same rules as other nearby lakes in similar situations.

But at the same time, lo-cal guides like McCadams and other business owners who depend on the lake don’t want an overreaction to discourage out-of-state tourism.

Changes might be nec-essary, but it’s too early to make that call.

A couple of subpar years just don’t warrant a long list of knee-jerk reactions for a lake that has featured a lot more good than bad for a long, long time.

Mississippi angler Phil King is a master at finding massive catfish

FISHING

No reason to panic over Kentucky Lake crappie woes

By Bryan [email protected]

901-529-2343

COUNCE, Tenn. — When 82-year-old angler Rheuben McGee boarded Phil King’s 24-foot SeaArk below Pickwick Land-ing Dam on May 26, he told King the biggest catish he’d ever caught weighed a modest 12 pounds.

King, a longtime catfish guide and winner of numerous major tournaments, took that as a challenge.

He set out trying to put McGee on the catish of a life-time — and by the time they left the water around 9 p.m., they had boated one cat that weighed 12.5 pounds and two that weighed more than 20.

“I’ve spent a lot of time out here bumping bottom for catish, and I’ve caught a lot of them,” McGee said. “But I never caught any really big ish. That’s what we were hoping to get on today.”

McGee and his son, Jimmy, who both live near King in Corinth, Miss., came to ish with the famed catish guru because of his reputation for catching big ish. He rarely goes without catching at least one big cat, and he knows how to ind them during any season.

Right now, he’s targeting cat-ish in the post-spawn phase.

“A lot of the catish have just inished spawning, and you’re catching ish that are just coming of the beds,” King said. “The ish that I’m catch-ing from deep water right now are all scratched up with scars that are scabbing over. That tells me they’re just now com-ing of the beds, and there’s a certain way you have to ish for post-spawn catish that are just getting back into their regular feeding habits.”

A DELICATE APPROACHAfter a harsh winter that

saw the surface water tem-peratures on Pickwick dip into the 30s for the irst time since 1988, King expected the blue cat spawn to happen a little later than it has in years past. But when he went out looking for blues in deep water during April and early May, he found they had already moved shal-low to spawn much earlier than usual.

While that threw a kink into King’s typical springtime rou-tine, it’s made for some excel-lent ishing during this valuable portion of the year when school has just let out and daytime temperatures are still relatively mild. But a delicate approach has been necessary for catch-ing catish that are still a little ragged after the rigors of the spawn.

“The females we caught Tuesday night were still slick and in pretty good condition except for the weight loss and egg loss,” King said. “But the male ish are really beat up, and they’ve lost about a third of their body weight. Their tails are all beat up and cut up, and they look pretty rough.”

Since post-spawn ish have usually gone long periods with-out eating, King said it’s impor-tant to downsize your bait.

“In a normal situation, we use some really big baits be-cause we’re trying to catch re-ally big ish,” King said. “But in a post-spawn situation, the catish don’t always feel like eating a whole lot. If you use too big a bait, they might just grab the end of it and then let go as soon as you pick up the rod to set the hook.”

One of the 20-pounders King and the McGees caught May 27 bit a one-inch piece of cut bait.

“Think of a person who just lost 50 pounds in a short time,” King said. “That person is likely to be a little weak and probably won’t feel like eating a whole lot. It’s the same way with catish.”

LOOKING TO FIND POST-SPAWN FISH

Unlike crappie and bass — two species that move slowly back toward deep water after

spawning in the shallows — King said catish don’t waste any time making their way back to the deep-water struc-ture they call home for most of the year.

He uses a Humminbird 1199 depth inder with a 10-inch screen to identify big ish — and there’s no water on local isheries he considers too deep.

“In a smaller river, ‘deep water’ might mean 20, 25 or 30 feet,” King said. “But on the Mississippi River, it might mean 60, 70, 80 or up to 100 feet. The Tennessee River has some 70-80 feet water, and all of it holds big catish.”

Besides searching for deep water, he also looks for dramat-ic structural elements along the bottom.

“The bigger the structure, the better for big cats,” King said. “Instead of a slow, slop-ing drop-of that tapers from

40 feet to 70 feet over a half a mile, I prefer one that goes im-mediately from 40 to 70 feet.”

King said he looks for all types of structure — ledges, drop-offs, boulders, sunken brush, standing timber, etc. — and he uses the side-scan and down-scan features of his Humminbird unit to actually distinguish between “good” ish in the 20-pound range and “really good” ish in the 40- to 60-pound range.

“The electronics we have available today really are amaz-ing,” King said. “If I’ve got my unit on 4X or 6X zoom and I lay my hand next to the screen and see an arc the size of my little inger, that’s a good indication there’s a 40- to 50-pound ish I just rolled over.

“That takes a whole lot of the guess work out of searching for big ish.”

CATFISH KING

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Longtime catfish guide and tournament champion Phil King (left) helps Rheuben McGee of Corinth, Miss., hold the 12.5-pound catfish McGee caught Tuesday evening below Pickwick Landing Dam. They landed two more catfish in the 20-pound range before their five-hour trip was over.

Corinth, Miss., resident Phil King is recognized by many as one of the top catfishing guides in the country, and he’s won numerous major catfish tournaments with lots of big cats like this one.

PHIL KING’S CAREERBesides building a reputation as one of the top catfishing guides in the country, Corinth, Mississippi, resident Phil King has won a long list of major tournaments, including the 2007 and 2009 Bass Pro Shops Big Cat Quest events on the Memphis portions of the Mississippi River. During that 2007 event, King and his partners became the first anglers to land a 100 pound-plus catfish in an organized event with a blue that weighed 103.10 pounds.His website at h2ow.com/catfish/ features tips and tricks to help anglers catch more and bigger catfish.

DEER MANAGEMENT

MSU Deer Management Workshop: June 13-14 at Heartland Church, 385 Stateline Road, Southaven. Topics will include camera survey setup, deer nutrition, food plots, deer habitat, deer ecology, harvest management, predator management, camera survey picture analysis, deer harvest data analysis, aging deer and wild pig management. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. each day with the program lasting from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost is $95 per daily workshop or $180 for both. Register online at cfr.msstate.edu/workshops/deer2014.

EDUCATIONAL

Live Fish Feedings: Every Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 4 p.m. at Bass Pro Shops in Memphis. Learn about fish kept in the aquarium at Bass Pro. Contact: 901-213-5800.

YOUTH FISHING RODEOS

Lakeland Youth Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 7-11 a.m. at Harvester Park Lake, Lakeland. Contact: Bristol Roberts at 901-867-2717.West Tennessee NWTF Jakes Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at Lake Graham, Access Area 2, Cotton Grove Road, Jackson, Tenn. Contact: David Johnson at 731-695-2109T.O. Fuller State Park Youth Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 9-11 a.m. at T.O Fuller State Park Wildlife Enhancement Area, Memphis. Contact: Michael Champagne at 901-543-7581.Villages of Bennington Junior Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon at Bennington’s Park, Memphis. Contact: Abdullah Hassan at 901-859-2917.Meeman-Shelby State Park Annual Kids Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 7-11 a.m. at the Meeman-Shelby State Park Nature Center, Millington. Contact: Samantha Cox at 901-876-5215.Tipton County Youth Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 7:30-11 a.m. at First Baptist Church, Covington, Tennessee. Contact: Jake Yoes at 731-446-2422.Haywood County Youth Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 8-11 a.m. at Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge, Tanner Adams Pond, Brownsville, Tenn. Contact: Rob Colvin at 615-483-5213.23rd Annual Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge Youth Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon at Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge, Walnut Log, Obion County, Tenn. Contact: Tara Dowdy at 731-538-2481.Steve McCadams Casting for a Cure Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 7-11 a.m. at Carroll Lake, McKenzie, Tenn. Contact: Lance Rider at 731-234-6093.Mid-South Jr. Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 7-11 a.m. at Johnson Road Park, Germantown. Contact: Dave Rizzuto at 731-423-5734.Jackson/Madison County Youth Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 9-11 a.m. at Muse Park Lake, Jackson, Tenn. Contact: Sandy McDiarmid at 731-425-8316.Inman E. Pettigrew Memorial Youth Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 7:30-11 a.m. at Whiteville Lake, Whiteville, Tenn. Contact: Charles Morrow at 731-225-3114.Herb Parsons Lake Kids Fishing Rodeo: Saturday from 7-11 a.m. at Herb Parsons Lake, Fisherville, Tenn. Contact: Damon Boyce at 901-277-8657.City of Bartlett Children’s Fishing Rodeo: June 28, 6-9 a.m., at Appling Lake, Bartlett. Contact: Debbie Morrison at 901-385-5589.

FISHING TOURNAMENTS

Bass Pro Shops Big Cat Quest Catfish Tournament on the Mississippi River: June 14 in Tunica, Miss. Entry fee is $200 per team. A third team member can fish for $50 as long as person is between 12-17 or 65 and over. Visit bigcatquest.com.Kids First Adult/Child Team Bass Tournament on Pickwick Lake: June 21 at J.P. Coleman State Park. Entry fee is $25. Visit kidsfirstfishing.com. Kids FLW Tour on Kentucky Lake: June 26-29 in Paris, Tenn. Daily weigh-ins on flwlive.com.

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ACROSS 1 Contact by

phone 5 Jack of

nursery rhymes

10 Opera solo 11 Written

exemption 13 Fix 14 Sweater

yarn 15 Eternal 17 Little rascal 18 Homes for

horses 19 Party staple 20 Luau music

maker 21 Ballet leap 22 Rough peaks

25 Less polite 26 Chops

down 27 Sweetie 28 “Now

— seen every-thing!”

29 Iroquois tribe

33 Treat rudely, in slang

34 Mobile setting

35 Change over time

37 River of Russia

38 “The Omen” child

39 Intent look

40 Lusty looks 41 Rose part

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Plague” author

2 “— we all?” 3 Singer

Ronstadt 4 Spotted

insects 5 Al Jolson

song

6 Hunger signals

7 Outfit 8 Steered

clear of 9 Wood-

damaging pest

12 Drake or Dre

16 Sorts 21 Leaf-eating

insects 22 Scolded

23 New version of a musical

24 Impressive 25 Writer Jaffe 27 Mount St. — 29 Thrifty

person 30 Diamond

unit 31 Knock for

a loop 32 Oregon’s

capital 36 Tell tales

Sudoku

■ Actress-singer Sally Kellerman is 77.

■ Actor Ron Ely is 76.

■ Actor Stacy Keach is 73.

■ Rock musician Charlie Watts is 73.

■ Comedian Dana Carvey is 59.

■ Actor Liam Cunningham (“Game of Thrones”) is 53.

■ Actor-comedian Wayne Brady is 42.

■ Actor Wentworth Miller is 42.

■ Actor Dominic Cooper is 36.

■ Actress Nikki Cox is 36.

■ Actor Justin Long is 36.

■ Actor Deon Richmond is 36.

Dear Annie: Thirteen years ago, my son met “Nadia.” She became pregnant and brought my first beautiful grandchild into the world. After they married, I did many things for her and enjoyed her company. They now have another child, a son who is 8.

Nadia was fired from her job after breaking some rules — I don’t know which ones — and hasn’t worked since. She also doesn’t cook, clean or do laundry. My son does all of these things after a full day at work and then helps the kids with their homework and bedtime routines.

I’m a former private investigator. A few years ago, I caught Nadia cheat-ing and discovered that the other man lived with his mother and had cus-tody of his child.

I didn’t want my grand-children to have divorced parents, so instead of telling my son, I called this man’s mother. I told her to end things, or I’d inform her ex-daughter-in-law about the a�air and she could gain custody of those kids. The a�air ended.

Last year, I noticed that Nadia was paying a lot of attention to my granddaughter’s horse trainer. A mutual friend told me that Nadia has been sleeping with this man for two years. Nadia texted graphic details to this friend, which she forwarded to me.

The friend told my son about the a�air, and he sent Nadia packing. But she convinced him that the friend was lying, and he took her back.

Annie, I have the proof in those text messages, but I don’t think my son can handle it. Their home life is a disaster. My grandson has stress migraines, and my grand-daughter is angry.

It upsets me terribly to see my son treated in such a degrading way. Do I share the truth or wait until the children are grown?

— Grandmother in Distress

Dear Grandmother: We understand your concern, but you are already overly involved in your son’s messed-up marriage. Please don’t put evidence in front of him, forcing him to confront a situa-tion he is trying to deal with in his own way.

The very best thing you can do is encourage your son to get his family into counseling.

Explain that it is for the children’s sake. They are truly su�ering.

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

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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 HAS A CRUSHERHint: An “interference” theme.

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Jumble Daily Bridge Club

“My partner and I had a ti� over this deal,” a club player told me. “He not only went down at a cold slam but didn’t seem contrite about it.”

South had won the first diamond and hopefully cashed the A-K of trumps.

“When East discarded,” North said, “my partner took the king of spades and led a spade to ... the ace.

When East discarded again, South set up dummy’s fifth spade for a diamond discard but still lost a trump and a dia-mond.

DOWN THREE “I think partner should play the nine

on the second spade. He can make the slam only if West has four spades; a 3-2 break won’t help. Partner said my play would lose in the long run: If East had a spade honor, the result would be down three instead of down one — an extra 100 points lost.”

I understand how South felt, but not every play problem can be resolved with cold numbers. If you lose a makable slam, the psychological damage to your

partnership will be significant. Maybe South should have taken his best play for 12 tricks.

By Frank Stewart Tribune Content Agency

Questions and comments: Email Stewart at [email protected]

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★★ Your creativity surges. A partner has been on the warpath, so choose your words with care. Tonight: Act as if you don’t have a care in the world.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★ Do not push someone too far, as you could get an unusually strong reaction. Maintaining an even pace will be di�cult. Tonight: Happily head home.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)★★★★ Count on your intuition to take the lead should you become insecure when deal-ing with one of the many people you count on. Tonight: Hang with a friend or two.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ Stay on top of your finances. A mis-take made right now could be rather costly. You also might need to get several estimates before doing some work on your home. To-night: Stay close to home.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★★ You’ll feel empowered and ready to tackle any task that might appear. A situa-tion with a boss could demand extra time and attention. Tonight: Be in the limelight.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ You might want to see a situation in a new light. First, determine how much your innate prejudices could be a�ecting your perspective. Use care with spending. Tonight: A must appearance.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)★★★★ You’ll want to get through a problem quickly. Be careful as to how assertive you are. Your actions could make someone more defensive than need be. Tonight: Find your friends.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★★ Approach forthcoming news with an eye toward making the right decision, and others will follow your lead. Tonight: Out late.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ You might want to look at a situation that surrounds a potential trip. You have a unique way of handling pressure, and you will use this skill in a meeting. Tonight: Try something new.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★★ You could be worn out by a sequence of events that emerge from out of the blue. Know when to push back and say “enough.” A partner will fill in for you, should you re-quest it. Tonight: Let the good times roll.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ You could be taking on too much, even for you. Allow greater give-and-take within a relationship. News will be exhila-rating. Tonight: Sort through invitations.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Dive into work, and get as much done as possible. Everyone has his or her limits, and you are no di�erent. Tonight: Relax at home.

Horoscope

This year you say what you feel in a direct yet charming way. You often discover that life has a surprise for you waiting just around the corner. When you’re upset, you tend to with-draw. Communication is one of your strengths. Remember to be sensi-tive with your tone of voice, as your words could carry a lot of anger in the way they are expressed. If you are single, someone you meet from mid-July on could be significant in your daily life. If you are attached, you are more direct about your feel-ings. You might opt to take a couples’ class with your significant other. LEO demands to be on center stage.

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Horoscope

ACROSS 1 “—, peel me a

grape” (Mae West line)

7 “— Adven-tures in Wonderland”

13 Mobile locale 20 Pacific weather

phe-nomenon 21 Sullen 22 Neighbor of

Ukraine 23 Eccentric,

corrupt rascals?

26 Part of A/C 27 “World Cafe”

broadcaster 28 “Mama” of pop

music 29 Spiritualists’

event 30 Seize illegally 33 Coarse 36 African

mongooses 38 One dealing in

red meat for a living?

40 Selling points 42 June hrs. 43 Bit of intimate

apparel 45 Suffix with prop- 46 Number of

Stooges 51 Audio system

part 54 Lovable male

turkeys? 59 Jews living

outside Israel 62 Conveys

63 Alternative to Red Roof

64 En — (as a whole)

65 Bit of formal apparel

67 Zee lead-in 68 AT&T rival, once 69 Hi-speed

connection 70 Actor Depp

being mushy? 75 Hit in a ring 77 “Really?

— who?!” 78 King, in Toulon 79 Barfly, say 80 Charles for

whom a chair is named

83 One of golf’s majors

85 Request in blackjack

87 More tempes-tuous

89 Stroke from the tee made while wearing a tee?

92 Strike marks,in bowling

93 Little squirts 94 Trains to

Wrigley Field 95 Scand. land 96 Mini-devil 99 Perón of

Argentina 101 Press chinos

and corduroys? 107 Classical

pieces 112 Inborn

114 Bea Arthur title role

115 Believer in God 116 Onetime teen

idol Paul 118 Onetime flight

inits. 120 They cross aves. 121 Use glue to

mend pants? 127 Immunity trigger 128 Swooning fan,

e.g. 129 Laud 130 Mosaic piece 131 Throws 132 Sacred places

DOWN 1 Smear 2 Plaza Hotel

heroine 3 Erroneous 4 Set aflame 5 “Is there

— hope?” 6 It’s honked 7 Acela runner 8 Building site 9 Choler 10 Spiral shell 11 English class

assignments 12 Min. parts 13 — Dhabi 14 Zooms, e.g. 15 Tree of the birch

family 16 Israel’s Ehud 17 Boxing venue 18 Punish by fine 19 Burros 24 Intl. oil group

25 Singers Donny and Marie

31 “Mayberry —” (old sitcom)

32 Nighty-night garb

34 Union foes 35 Neophytes 37 Saber’s kin 39 “High Noon”

actor Kruger 41 — “Messiah”

(oratorio) 44 Twice or thrice 46 Gym hiree 47 “Let me see ...” 48 Having pre-

blended ingredients

49 Finales 50 Series finale?:

Abbr. 51 Nav. rank 52 Hamm on a

soccer field 53 Deposits are

recorded in it 55 David of the Red

Sox 56 Really injure 57 “Book of Days”

singer 58 Brow shape 60 Cleveland-to-

Raleigh dir. 61 Multipiece

office gifts 66 Most weird 68 Maxim 71 Certain till fill 72 Tube addict’s

punishment 73 Kid around

74 ’60s war site 75 Barely 76 Pasty-faced 81 Wide shoe

width 82 Yearbook div. 84 Kin of ante- 85 Spiral 86 Moses or

Meese 88 Of ears 90 — Strauss 91 Immunizing

fluids 97 May VIP 98 Sch. group 99 Sitcom actress

Rolle 100 Alternative to

judo 102 River critters 103 Current events 104 Like the Kazakh

language 105 Most weird 106 Tetley rival 107 Hitter’s turn to

hit 108 French river 109 Fair shelters 110 Calf-length

skirts 111 Gas bill info 113 Small iPods 117 No-clutter 119 Tablet extras 122 “Leaving —

Jet Plane” 123 Surg. centers 124 Born, to Fifi 125 “... cup

— cone?” 126 Eighty-six

ACROSS 1 Part of a

rainbow 7 Blanket 14 Rear admiral’s

rear 19 Invader of 1066 20 Comment upon

heading off 21 Catch ___

(surf) 22 Like farmland 23 Stoners’

memoirs? 25 ___ New

Guinea 26 Freud disciple

Alfred 27 Coaches 28 Leverage

in divorce negotiations?

30 Mixologist 32 Went from

black to red, say

33 Home with a view

34 Whinny 38 Sound in a hot

tub 41 Mallard relative 44 Berth 45 Theater

opening 46 Dumbstruck

duo? 50 Moolah 51 Blemished 52 Admit (to) 53 Calculus

calculation 55 Makes the

connection 56 Zero-star movie 57 Balkan capital 59 ___ Beach, Fla. 61 Susan of “L.A.

Law” 62 Tale of

metropolitan religious diversity?

67 Word before or after “down”

70 Yam or turnip 71 They’re big in

barns 72 Huskers’

targets 75 ’12 or ’13, now

77 Western followers?

80 Wire service inits.

81 Some lapses 83 Like many

men’s ties 85 Grant Wood

portrayal? 88 “The

Canterbury Tales” inn

89 Yemeni port 90 Wrapped (up) 91 Conciliatory

gesture 92 Kitchen

drawer? 93 Some sites for

sightseers 94 Eke ___ living 97 Maltreated 99 Having trouble

slowing down? 105 Like radon

among all gaseous elements

108 Popped up 109 “Appointment

in Samarra” novelist

110 Cobbler’s heirloom?

113 Bet 114 Aplomb 115 “Spamalot”

writer and lyricist

116 Forward 117 Heavens 118 Clear-cuts, e.g. 119 Off course

DOWN 1 Not on

point 2 Singer Jones 3 Hang (over) 4 Saturated 5 Samsung

smartphone 6 With 10-Down,

certain punch 7 Marshy

lowland 8 Features of

many kids’ place mats

9 Legal hearing 10 See 6-Down

11 Star of reality TV’s “The Girls Next Door,” briefly

12 Immodest display

13 Oscar nominee for “The Wrestler”

14 Highlight 15 Double takes? 16 Gutter site 17 One with a

home away from home

18 Crime-fighting Eliot

20 Extra: Abbr. 24 Actress ___

Dawn Chong 26 Mentored,

e.g. 29 Celebrated 30 Poe poem, with

“The”

31 “The Tempest” spirit

33 Hieroglyphic symbol

35 “___ Love,” 1987 LL Cool J hit

36 Stylist’s goop 37 ___ fit 38 Rest stop

convenience, for short

39 1956 Gregory Peck role

40 “Don’t be a ___!”

42 Confronts 43 Certain back-

scratcher 45 “The

Rapture of Canaan” author Reynolds

47 See 49-Down

48 Big name in barbecue grills

49 With 47-Down, angry

50 Building needs, informally

54 Not straight up 57 Tolerated 58 Focusing

problem, for short

60 Ferrell’s cheerleading partner on “S.N.L.”

63 Dealt (with) 64 A musical

might be on one

65 Neighbors of Navajos

66 Sale site, maybe

67 Popular pre-marathon meal

68 Wedding site 69 Engine booster 73 Tropicana Field

team 74 W.W. II invasion

site 76 Tight spot in

South Florida? 78 ___ Hawkins

Day 79 Correct 81 Taedium vitae 82 View from Lake

Como 84 Relatives of

turtles 86 Neon frame? 87 Stirred 89 Spare 93 In a hurry 95 Govt. securities 96 Left open-

mouthed, say 98 Rent 99 Wedding sight

100 Fancy wheels, familiarly

101 “... so long ___ both shall live?”

102 Part of an old military alphabet

103 Big band’s booking

104 Pops 105 Comes to pass,

old-style 106 “Star Wars”

furball 107 Others,

to Ovid 108 In 111 End of un film 112 Puncture

preceder 113 Mme.’s cousin Difficulty level ★★★★★

Answer to yesterday's puzzle

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based

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

object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the

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

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from

Monday to Sunday.

The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 66 minutes.

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Cy the Cynic’s team had lost a close match, thanks in part to today’s deal.

“Maybe now Cy will adopt ‘transfer’ responses,” his team-mates told me.

Both Norths had opened 1NT, but one South bid two diamonds, a transfer. When North bid two hearts, South tried 3NT, but North con-verted to four hearts. East led the A-K and a third spade, and North ru�ed, drew trumps and gave himself an extra chance by leading a diamond toward dummy’s jack. When East took the queen, North had 10 tricks. If West had held the queen, North could have finessed in clubs.

A contract of four hearts played by North was cold. But at the other table, Cy re-sponded three hearts to 1NT, and North raised. West led the eight of clubs: queen, king. East took the K-A of spades and led the jack of clubs, and the Cynic lost another club.

Most experts use transfers. They make the stronger hand declarer and allow a more flexible auction. Still, Cy might make four hearts. He plays low from dummy on the first club. East wins with the ten, cash-es two spades (not best) and leads a trump. Cy ru�s his last spade in dummy and takes all but one of his trumps, pitch-ing the queen of clubs from dummy.

Dummy is left with the A-K-6-4 of diamonds and ace of clubs. Cy has a trump, J-3 of diamonds and 9-5 of clubs. East can keep five cards. If he saves four diamonds and the bare king of clubs, South takes the ace of clubs and wins the 13th trick with the nine. If instead East keeps only three diamonds, Cy takes the A-K and ru�s a diamond. Dummy is high.

Dear Harriette: My college boyfriend and I have been dating since freshman year, and we just graduated. I have a job in Boston, and he has one in Chicago. We love each other very much and have even talked about marriage, but I’m not sure how our rela-tionship can withstand the distance. We both tried to find jobs in the same city, but we agreed we were o�ered jobs that we could not pass up. Travel costs are going to be expensive, and the stress of not seeing each other won’t be healthy for either of us. Is it better to end our relationship now, on a high note, or should we give a long-distance relationship a shot?

— Going The Distance, Nashville, Tennessee

Answer: Do not give up before you give it a try. Believe it or not, many couples that are truly de-voted to each other have been able to weather the long-distance storm. It requires devotion, plan-ning, budgeting and faith.

You can build into your budget the funds needed to visit each other regu-larly. You must also make space for each of you to cultivate friendships and do your jobs. If you trust that you are the partners for each other and you want to stick it out, work to make that happen. Create a sign together, a code of some kind, that will let the other know if either of you feels the need to make adjust-ments. That way, even if you eventually decide not to stay together, it does not have to be a surprise. You can work through that respectfully, too.

Recent grads should try long-distance romance

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) ★★★★ You’ll notice how en-ergetic you are. You’ll also pick up on how others seem to be ready to go. Tonight: Happily at home.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ Make the most of the daylight hours, when you feel empowered. Make a point of meeting a friend. Tonight: Maintain a low profile.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ You could be con-cerned about a purchase, which makes maintaining your budget an even bigger concern. Tonight: Keep the mood positive.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You might want to get moving early, especially if you’re meeting up with people. Tonight: Make it your treat.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★ Make it OK to take a lazy day or two. You will relax and enjoy yourself. Schedule plans around din-ner. Tonight: As you like it.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ You might be more willing to go along with sev-eral friends’ requests. Make yourself available. Tonight: Not to be found.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★ You might be more aware of the importance of dealing with an older rela-tive. Tonight: Join friends.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ You could be in a position where you want to take charge of a project. Tonight: A must appear-ance.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ You’ll want to schedule some quality one-on-one time with a loved one today. Take a walk in the countryside. Tonight: Go for some exotic cuisine.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ Others want to take the reins. Be smart and let this hap-pen, rather than get into a testy situa-tion.Tonight: Dinner for two.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ Mellow out a little today. You could have a mini-project that you might need to complete. Tonight: Accept a dinner invitation.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ You could be involved with a sudden change, and you’ll see that it has the potential to be prof-itable. Tonight: Get a head start on tomorrow.

What the stars mean:

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Positive ★★★

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Today’s birthdayThis year could be very ex-citing if you are in any field involving communication. If you are single, you will meet many, many people this year. Your social circle widens, and the possibility of meeting the right person becomes higher after July. If you are attached, the two of you connect on a deeper level than you are used to. LEO always draws out the best in you.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Change Of Program

By Dan Schoenholz / Edited By Will Shortz

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Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

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Horoscopes


ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Make time to reach out to someone you deal with on a regular basis. Tension might build around a money matter. Optimism seems to surround a roommate or family member.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Your imagination could go haywire, visiting nearly every topic except the one that is pertinent to the moment. At-tempts to discipline your mind might fail. If you can, take a per-sonal day. You will feel refreshed soon enough.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Pressure builds on the homefront. A partner, fam-ily member or roommate could become demanding, or a prob-lem involving your home might become more obvious. Don’t expect to accomplish a lot with this issue looming over you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Listen to news more openly. Your perspective could change, and you also might have a more active interaction as a re-sult. The experience might make you feel more sure of yourself as

well. A discussion in private will give you more information.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Sometimes you under-estimate the efect you have on others. Therefore, you’ll make a point of being very dramatic. Trust that you don’t need to present an exaggerated form of yourself. Refuse to become critical of someone.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You might wonder what is needed to follow through on a long-term commitment. You could be even more detail-oriented than usual. Confusion seems to surround a partner.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH How you deal with a loved one could change radi-cally because of the confusion that surrounds this person. You might want to be very clear in your communication.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH A boss or higher-up could be cheering you on, despite what you might think. Give up a newfound level of fussiness, and open up to a loved one. Consider the possi-bility of a long-term trip with a fun orientation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-

Dec. 21) HHHH You might ind that taking the lead could entail far more responsibility than you had originally thought. Loosen up, and stay on top of a project. Others might be withholding what they know. Make it a point to open up when others reveal some information.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You could have dif-iculty letting go of a problem. You might feel as if you have to shake a friend or loved one just to get him or her to listen to you. It is possible that this person is not as relaxed as you originally believed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You might want to move forward. Get some-one’s support by sharing your thoughts and by incorporating some of his or her feedback. Optimism seems to surround a personal issue.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You might want to open up a discussion about a key decision. The more feed-back you get, the stronger you will become. You also will make a better decision. Someone you keep reaching out to seems to be unavailable.

By Judith Martin and Jacobina MartinUniversal Uclick

Dear Miss Manners: My husband and I are ex-pecting our irst baby in a month. We have named her Natalie, but my best friend has been referring to her as Nat Nat, which I hate. It makes me cringe every time she does it.

How do I ask her not to call my baby that without sounding too mean? My husband says to leave it alone and not be one of “those” moms, but I se-riously can’t handle the nickname while Natalie is just a little baby.

Gentle Reader: Cor-recting the behavior of well-meaning friends and family will be among the hardest to resist right now, but you must — especially if you want help from them during the irst few dii-cult and sleep-deprived months.

Miss Manners is afraid that you must come to terms with the idea that your child will be nick-named whether you like it or not. Revenge will be yours, however, when your daughter becomes old enough to come up with nicknames for everyone herself.

Dear Miss Manners: What is the proper re-sponse to someone who wishes my husband or me a happy Mother’s or Fa-ther’s Day, when we were not blessed with the ability to have children?

Gentle Reader: Why some people think they are being charming to distrib-ute congratulations to peo-ple of whose circumstanc-es they are ignorant, Miss Manners cannot imagine. As a response from child-less people, she suggests something like, “I’ll give my father your good wish-es” or, “I’m afraid I’ve lost my mother.”

Dear Miss Manners: Is there a tactful, or at least socially acceptable, way to articulate to your friends that it was your pleasure to reserve and pay for their hotel rooms in advance (as was required by the book-ing service) — but that now that the event is over, it would really be nice if everyone reimbursed you?

While $100 for one per-son is not a lot, it starts to add up when you’ve had to do it for several people.

Gentle Reader: Write to them, saying that you have received the hotel bill and it comes out to X amount per person. Include your address, even if you’re sure that they already know it. The message, after you state how happy you were to have them attend, is a business transaction, and there is no shame in being businesslike about it.

E-mail questions to dearmiss-

[email protected].

MISS MANNERS

Expectant mom irked by nickname for child


TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP

ALL I CAN SEEM TO THINK ABOUT TODAY IS THAT WONDERFUL ICE SHOW I SAW

YESTERDAY. I’M SO SKATER-BRAINED!



Faith

By Linda BourassaSpecial to The Weekly

Farmington Presbyte-rian Church is seeking volunteers to participate in one of three mission trips to Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Trips will take place June 17-25, July 8-15 and July 15-22, 2014. Part-nering with the Yucatán Water Harvest Mission and the Mexico Cistern Ministry, volunteers on each trip will build cis-terns to provide clean drinking water to families in rural areas of Mexico.

“In areas with little or no clean drinking water, these cisterns are liter-ally a lifesaver,” said Todd Luke, associate member of the Campechano Presby-tery in Mexico and leader of the cistern-building mission project. “The cis-terns are low-tech to en-

sure their longevity, and each one can provide up to 15,000 gallons of clean water annually.”

Since the Presbytery of the Mid-South began par-ticipating in these trips in 2002, Mid-South volun-teers have built more than 30 cisterns, which provide clean water to hundreds of people throughout the Yucatán Peninsula. This year, participating churches include Farm-ington Presbyterian, First Presbyterian Brownsville, Cordova Presbyterian, Germantown Presbyte-rian, Balmoral Presbyte-rian, Trinity Presbyterian — Martin, First Presbyte-rian Blytheville and Ever-green Presbyterian. Ad-ditionally, student groups from the University of Memphis, Rhodes Col-lege and The University of Tennessee-Martin will

send volunteers. The cost of the trip is

approximately $1,500 per person, which includes airfare, lodging and meals. Of that cost, $400 will go toward building materi-als for the cisterns. Ad-ditionally, as part of the program, families receiv-ing cisterns help cover the cost by working on cisterns for other families. Some churches, including Farmington Presbyterian, are making partial schol-arships available for par-ticipants, who must raise $600 toward the trip be-fore applying for a schol-arship.

“Farmington strives to give back to our local community daily through outreach, educational and other programs,” said Rev. Rebecca Luter, pastor of Farmington Presbyterian Church. “These mission

trips give us an opportu-nity to reach beyond our comfort zone in the Mid-South to help people who lack even the most basic of needs — clean drinking water. Of course, we re-

ceive much more than we give as we come to person-ally know our brothers and sisters in an impoverished area of the world.”

For more information or to volunteer, call Andy

Combs at 731-780-1800 or visitfarmingtonpres.org/loating9.php

Linda K. Bourassa is the president

of Blue Moon Inc. Marketing &

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FARMINGTON PRESBYTERIAN

Volunteers needed for Mexico mission trips

By Katie [email protected]

901-529-2785

CrossRoads United Methodist Church in Collierville is raising money for mosquito nets as part of an interna-tional project to combat malaria.

Gabriel Unda Yemba, a bishop of the United Methodist Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is visiting Tennessee and spoke last Sun-day at the church.

The bishop’s wife and daughter died of malaria, said Birgitte French, pastor of the church.

Malaria “can be prevented by sleep-ing under mosquito nets,” she said. “We’ve raised over $500 in our little church to help that.”

There were 207 million cases of ma-laria in 2012 and an estimated 627,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Ninety percent of ma-laria deaths happen in sub-Saharan Af-rica with pregnant women and young children being at the highest risk for the mosquito-borne disease.

The “Nothing But Nets” campaign was sparked in 2006 with journalist Rick Reilly’s column in Sports Illus-trated in which he called on people to help save lives by making dona-tions for mosquito nets through the United Nations Foundation. The do-

nations are used to buy and distribute bed nets that are treated with in-secticide.

In April for World Malaria Day, Kathy Calvin, the United Na-tions Foundation presi-dent, said the mortality rate for malaria has de-creased by 48 percent for children under 5

years old and by 42 percent for all ages over the last 10 years, but a child continues to die of malaria every min-ute.

The United Methodist Church is a founding partner of the global project.

“We lost many, many people,” Yem-ba said. “In my family, I lost my wife, I lost my child. We thank so much the program.”

French and her husband, Niels, met when they were both mission-aries in South Congo. She arrived in South Congo in 1983 from Copenha-gen, Denmark, where she grew up. He was raised in the Congo by mission-ary parents, attended Nebraska Wes-leyan University in Lincoln, Neb., and returned in 1985. They were married in 1987 and were missionaries for 13 years in Congo, Algeria and Kenya.

For more information, visit nothing-butnets.net.

CROSSROADS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Funds raised for mosquito nets to ight malaria in Africa

By Beth ReedSpecial to The Weekly

Beginning this year, Germantown Baptist Church is making a sig-nificant investment in moms throughout vaca-tion Bible school week. Church members recently announced the launch of the VBS “Moms Track.” Moms Track ofers a new enrichment opportunity each day for the mothers of VBS participants, June 9-13.

Moms can release their inner creativity on

Monday in Art Class led by Kim Rasche. Guests can enhance their over-all sense of wellness on Tuesday as instructors Tonya Walters and Karen Chaney lead a seminar on itness and nutrition. Explore the beneits and uses of essential oils on Wednesday with Kim Moss. Solve the daily dilemma of dinnertime with a workshop on Meal Planning Thursday, led by Jacky Lawler. Moms can rejuvenate and refresh their spirit on Friday dur-ing a fellowship time led

by Beth Reed.Moms Track meets dai-

ly during VBS week from 9-10:30 a.m. Meet in the Grand Lobby each morn-ing of VBS. From there, guests will be greeted and escorted to the day’s adventure. vacation Bible school is open to children ages 4 through ifth grade. To register your children for vacation Bible school, visit germantownbaptist.org/vbs.

Beth Reed is the director of

Women’s Ministry at Germantown

Baptist.

GERMANTOWN BAPTIST

First ‘Moms Track’ VBS ofers opportunity to be creative

By Billy GrahamTribune Content Agency

Q: I prayed and prayed that God would heal my grandmother, but He didn’t. She was old and in poor health, but I’d always depended on her. Why didn’t God answer my prayers?

— M.F.A: We don’t always know

why God doesn’t answer our prayers the way we think He should. I think of Job’s cry when he mistak-enly thought God didn’t hear his prayers: “Why do

you hide your face and con-sider me your enemy?” (Job 13:24).

Yes, you prayed that your grandmother would be healed, and apparently she wasn’t. But listen: she was! She is in heaven — and all her weaknesses are gone! Thank God that your grandmother is free from all her earthly ills.

Send queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Park-way, Charlotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visitbil-lygraham.org.

MY ANSWER

Be patient when God answers in His way

Gabriel Unda Yemba

Members of the Farmington Presbyterian group from the last mission trip to build cisterns, included (from left) Jenny How-ell, Bonnie Blair, Jayme White and Rosanne Crocker.

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Director of the German-town Community Library, 1925 Exeter Road

Hometown: Harrisburg, Ark.

Family: Wife, Caprisha, daughter, Chloe

Civic involvement: Ci-vitan Club, Exchange Club, Lions Club, Cordova Church of Christ

First job: Student worker in the basement of Arkan-sas State University Jones-

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s a t i s f y i n g career mo-ment: Ev-eryday lov-ing what I do.

Career ad-vice: Serve! S e r v e ! Serve!

Person you admire and why: My wife. She puts up with me more than anyone else.

Hobbies: Fishing — I’m not any good at it but there’s nothing more relax-ing than ishing and catch-ing nothing.

What is the last book you read: Encounter in Rende-sham Forest: The Inside Story of the World’s Best Documented UFO Incident

Favorite film or TV show: Anything that cause my daughter or wife to squeeze my arm.

Favorite vacation spot: Anywhere with water.

People would be surprised to know: I don’t read very much.

If I could change one thing in the world: Open easily accessible information for everyone.

BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT

G’town library director loves his job, fishing

Daniel Page

By Kevin [email protected]

901-529-2348

As a pharmacist at a Fred’s Super Dollar store in Bartlett, Bryan Benton knows about drug inter-actions, side efects and potential savings that pa-tients illing prescriptions may not know.

With a Medicare and insurer-driven practice known as medication therapy management, front-line pharmacists like Benton are being tapped to play a more hands-on role in providing higher quality and more eicient health care.

“It truly is a team and pharmacists, we have not used them to their po-tential,” said Sonya King, pharmacy director for

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

Chatta nooga-based BlueCross selected a Des Moines, Iowa company founded by pharmacists, OutcomesMTM, to step up the medication therapy management.

The program serves high-risk patients with Medicare Advantage cov-erage. At high risk are those people with three or more chronic health conditions with a number of medications.

Medicare Advantage, which has private com-panies deliver Medicare benefits, has required medication therapy man-agement since 2007, King said. BlueCross, with some 80,000 patients in the pro-gram, previously used tele-phone calls for medication

therapy management, but has “stepped up our game” with the goal of higher quality care, she said.

OutcomesMTM, which serves dozens of compa-nies like BlueCross, pro-

vides software that phar-macists like Benton use to identify the customers who arrive at their counters and receive the extra care.

The pharmacists have been specially trained

for the program. At chain pharmacies like Fred’s, a Memphis-based retailer, the revenue for providing the service lows to the company.

For independent phar-macies, it goes to the phar-macist, King said. Benton said he contacts covered customers by phone or at the counter. Usually he asks them to set aside about 30 minutes to visit

and bring all of their med-ications, including over-the-counter drugs.

In addition he spends about an hour studying their prescription lists and histories beforehand. He’s looking not only for trouble spots, like drug interactions and disease interactions. He’s looking for cost savings where a lower-cost drug may be available.

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Pharmacist Bryan Benton fills prescription orders at the Fred’s Super Dollar store pharmacy in Bartlett. Benton also visits one-on-one with customers to educate about their medications.

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SAVE THE DATEMonda ,Ma 18, 2015 - the best kept golf secret… the ord is

out! Don’t be left out!

Thirty-four Teams ‘Golfed Fore Progress”…. In the Collierville Chamber

FedEx | First Tennessee | Carrier CorporationMemphis National Golf Classic

Monday, May 19, 2014, was the perfect day for golf…onehundred thirty-six golfers played in the annual event atMemphisNational Golf Club.

he Chamber would like to thank our Title Sponsors:FedEx;First Tennessee;Carrier Corporation; and, MemphisNational Golf Club; Platinum Sponsor: Philips EmergencyLighting; Gold Sponsor: IPS Corporation; Beverage CartSponsors: Triumph Bank and Abra Auto Body & Glass; Hole-in-one sponsors: Landers Ford and Travel Leaders; premierplayer gift sponsor: First Tennessee; Putting Green sponsor:ServPro; Driving Range Sponsors: BMH-Collierville, MCRSafety and Contemporary Media; Closest to the Pin sponsoredby Mercedes-Benz of Collierville; Longest Drive sponsoredby he Sedona Group. Out of the 18 holes, 11 had selectedsponsorships where our members could engage the golfers in avariety of fun activities ranging from corn hole toss,dressing likea lady, stopping by for grilled hot dogs, tastingMoe’s and DonutHutt, just to name a few. A S Barbaro, Amodeo ChiropracticClinic, Costco and Pepsi Beverages Company provided thebeverages for our players. Chick-il-A provided breakfast forour morning light. Surprise player in the morning light wasMike Miller! Lots of happy golfers went home with amazingsilent auction items. Every player received a special door prize,enjoyed networking with other business professionals andelected oicials; had a great lunch, beverages all day and lots offun throughout the day!

Many thanks to Golf Chairmen Cheryl & Jerry homas withhe Sedona Group and Greg Cotton with Cotton Law Firmand to our entire golf committee, volunteers, sponsors andcontributors who worked tirelessly for many months planningthis successful event.

Presented by the Collierville Chamber of Commerce, the eventbeneits on-goingbusiness andeconomicdevelopmentprogramsof the Chamber. Each year, the Collierville Chamber ofers aDrive for $$ for Leadership Collierville to beneit LeadershipCollierville. For a small donation golfers had the opportunity todrive their ball on hole 2 from 175 yards from the green.

It was a win-win for the golfers and Leadership Collierville.hanks to everyone who participated—monies raised go directlyto the programs of Leadership Collierville.

Mission Statement: he mission of the Collierville Chamber

of Commerce is to provide quality services and programs to its

membership and to provide business leadership 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 be the leading advocate for growth andproitability

of the business community and to promote corporate citizenship.

Guiding Principle: Our Unity Creates Community

.Collier illeChamber.com | .Collier illeExpo.com

Chamber GeneralMembershipMeetingWednesda ,Ma 14 – Ridge a Countr Club

University of Memphis Head Football Coach Justin Fuente was the keynotespeaker at the May General Membership Luncheon at Ridgeway CountryClub. A very energized, loyal University of Memphis audience welcomedCoach Fuente. Coach Fuente’s passion was evident throughout his message.Over 185 members, elected oicials and guests thoroughly enjoyed meetingCoach Fuente and enjoyed being able to participate in a brief Q&A.We are proud of the University of Memphis and the football program!

As part of the agenda, the distinguished H. R Houston Leadership Awardwas presented by Jef Martindale, President; and, Terry Dean, Directorof Leadership Collierville. Leading up to the surprise announcement,Martindale read the criteria and some excerpts from the submittednomination form about the recipient. hen, the surprise announcementwas made – Da e Nelson was named the recipient of the distinguishedH. R. Houston Award. A humble Dave Nelson was greeted by his familyas he approached the podium to accept the award. Congratulations to DaveNelson on this well-deserved honor! He is a dynamic leader with the perfectcombination of entrepreneurship, proven leadership, philanthropy, and agreat sense of humor,with a true love of our town, nonproits and communitymixed in between. Long-time Chamber member Collierville Funeral Homewas our meeting sponsor.

Save the Date: June 11 General Membership Meeting. We will welcomeUniversity of Memphis Head Basketball Coach Josh Pastner as our keynotespeaker. Info: 901-853-1949

MEMBER ORIENTATION BREAKFASTAs a way to say thank you and welcometo our new members, he ColliervilleChamber hosted, Breakfast & Business,What’s In It For You - a memberbreakfast, to educate existing and newmembers on the return of investmenton their membership. Testimonials were

made by fellow members, fellowship and networking was at its best amongfellowmembers,Chamber boardmembers andChamber staf!OurChamberBoardroom was full of excitement and positive energy!Man thanks to our sponsors: Chick-il-A, Donut Hutt, Costco andHampton Inn – Collierville.

Chamber of CommerceCollierville

RIBBON CUTTINGSGrill Gas E press - he Collierville

Chamber of Commerce recently held

a ribbon cutting for our new member,

Grill Gas Express. Grill Gas Express

is the leading propane tank delivery

service eliminating the hassle of propane

reills in Memphis and the Mid-South.

Pictured cutting the ribbon is owner,

Jason Jordan; Collierville Chamber Ambassadors; Bonnie Allman, Ambassador

Chair & Board Member; Fran Persechini, Chamber President & CEO; Becky

Hammond, Chamber Membership Director; Michael Meindl, Paradigm Business

Images and chamber board member. Visit .grillgase press.com

Chamber elcomes Mercedes-Benz

of Collier ille – Mercedes-Benz

of Collierville celebrated the irst

of TWO grand opening events on

hursday, May 8, 2014. Collierville

Chamber oicials, Collierville elected

oicials, Mercedes-Benz owners,

employees, vendors, friends and

partners gathered to oicially open

Mercedes-Benz to Collierville. Look

for their second family community event on June 14. .mbcollier ille.com

Culpepper Place of Collier ille

Assisted Li ing – he Collierville

Chamber of Commerce celebrated

the grand opening of Culpepper

Place of Collierville with a ribbon

cutting ceremony. Culpepper Place

of Collierville has been providing

exceptional senior living for over 50

years with locations in Missouri and

Arkansas. his is their irst location

in Tennessee and they are excited to bring their rich heritage for providing senior

living to the seniors and their families of Collierville.Pictured cutting the ribbon, are

owners John and Susan Foster; Director Tim Johnson; residents and staf members;

Mayor Stan Joyner, Chamber President Fran Persechini; Chamber board member,

Greg Cotton; and chamber ambassadors. .culpepperplace.net

Roto-Rooter, Plumbing and Drain

Ser ices have been a household name

since 1935. he Collierville Chamber

oicials and ambassadors, along

with Shelby County Mayor Mark

Luttrell and Pierre Landaiche, Vice

President, General Manager Memphis

Management Group, celebrated with

Lee & Liese Leonard, independent

owners and operators since May 2011

of Roto-Rooter Memphis, in their re-grand opening festivities to celebrate their

new location in Cordova.hey service Shelby County and many other surrounding

counties in the mid-south. .rotorooter.com

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