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By Craig CollierSpecial to The Weekly

The City of Germantown held its 15th annual Arbor Day Tree Giveaway with 500 dogwood tree seedlings handed out to German-town residents. Mild tempera-tures and sunny skies brought out those seeking trees en masse as all 500 trees were given away within 20 minutes.

Even though Arbor Day is of-icially celebrated April 25, Ger-mantown’s tree giveaway came early this year and was combined with a fruit tree sale at the Bobby Lanier Farm Park.

This was the irst year the fruit tree sale was held.

The annual tree giveaway is a joint efort of the Germantown Tree Board, the Germantown Beautiication Commission and the Germantown Parks and Rec-reation Commission.

This year marks the 23rd year since the city of Germantown was irst designated a Tree City USA community. According to Sidney Kuehn, chairman of the Germantown Tree Board, there

are several requirements that must be met to be designated as a “Tree City.”

“The community must main-tain a tree board or department, there must be a community tree ordinance in place, a minimum spending limit of at least $2 per capita on urban forestry, and we must celebrate Arbor Day,” Kuehn said. Kuehn has achieved a Master Urban Forester designation from the Arbor Day Foundation.

Both the tree giveaway and the

fruit tree sale featured members of the beautiication commission, the tree board and the parks and recreation commission who were experts on the subjects of trees, forestry and gardening.

At one point during the tree giveaway Kuehn could be heard giving advice on the best way to be rid of beavers from ponds, lakes and streams. His advice was to buy a couple of inlatable alligators and the beavers will move out quickly.

By Jennifer [email protected]

901-529-2372

In an emergency meeting March 7, the Germantown Municipal School Board vot-ed 3-0 to rescind the tuition policy that drew criticism from a Collierville state rep-resentat ive earlier this week.

B o a r d m e m b e r s Mark Dely a nd Ken Hoover were not at Friday’s meeting, but the three m e m b e r s present reversed the decision made March 3 to charge non-residents $200 to attend the municipal district, which is scheduled to open this sum-mer.

Supt. Jason Manuel said Germantown city officials reached out to him Friday af-ternoon to tell him about the promise made to the state legislature before he was hired in December.

Early hearings in Nashville about the creation of munici-pal schools included testi-mony promising the districts would not charge tuition, a point raised by state Rep. Curry Todd, R-Collierville.

Manuel and the board members present also ex-pressed concerns that the tu-ition decision might havede-layed U.S. Dist. Judge Samuel “Hardy” Mays’ inal approval of the schools settlement.

On Monday, Mays ap-provedthe settlement be-tween the Shelby County Commission and the six mu-nicipal school districts over the special legislation that allowed the municipalities to create their own school districts.

SCHOOLS

G’town reverses tuition decision$200 fee waived for nonresidents

PHOTOS BY CRAIG COLLIER/SPECIAL TO THE WEEKLY

Sidney Kuehn, a member of the Germantown Tree Board, and Jef Terry manager of the Bobby Lanier Farm Park, look over the fruit trees that are available at the Fruit Tree sale at the Farm Park.

ARBOR DAY

Seed of success

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The Germantown Half Marathon and Mayor’s Cup 5k will be held Sun-day at 7:30 a.m. at German-town Athletic Club.

Before you hit the course, here’s some help-ful information from the race website:

How do I register? You may register either on-line (racesonline.com), at early packet pick up the day before the race, or on race day at the registration booth.

When and where do we pick up our packets? Ger-mantown Athletic Club, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sat-urday

Where is the race locat-ed? The race is located at the Germantown Athletic Club, 1801 Exeter Road.

What time/where does the race start? Half Mara-thon and 5k will begin at 7:30 a.m. at 7868 Neshoba.

What if it is raining/snowing on race morning? The race will happen rain, snow or shine.

Where are the water stops? There will be six aid stations on the courses. They are located at miles 1 1/2 in both races and 4, 6, 8, 9 1/2 and 10 3/4 in the half marathon. Water and Gatorade Endurance.

When should I arrive? Plan to arrive by 6:30 a.m.

Where do I park? Park-ing will be allowed in and around the Germantown Athletic Club. Don’t park in church parking lots, if you arrive too late to park at the Germantown Athlet-ic Club lot, try the parking lots just one block to the south at Farmington and Exeter. There are plenty of parking spots available.

Are baby joggers/baby strollers allowed in the race? Yes, please start to-ward the end of the pack.

Are runners allowed to run with dogs? Dogs are not allowed at the Ger-mantown Half Marathon and Mayor’s Cup 5k.

If you have any other questions, contact Dan-iel Shaffer at [email protected]

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500 trees quickly given away in Germantown

One of the best reasons to come to Germantown’s annual tree giveaway is the amount of expert advice that is available. Sidney Kuehn is a member of Germantown’s Tree Board and is a certiied urban forrester.

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An exhibit “Photographs from Parr’s Studio: Images of Collierville 100 Years Ago” will be featured in an opening from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Morton Museum of Collierville History, where museum director Ashley Carver prepares the photos. said. “It shows what made the town tick.”

MORTON MUSEUM OF COLLIERVILLE HISTORY

By Lela [email protected]

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From her second-story photo studio, Elizabeth “Bessie” Dean Parr aimed her camera outside the window, capturing the hustle and bustle of Collierville’s Town Square in the early 1900s.

There are boys wearing knickers and men hauling cotton bales on wagons along dirt streets. Mules and horses pulling car-riages are tied to a fence post.

During the Jim Crow era, Parr, a white woman married to a dentist with two small children, made portraits of many black people as well.

Whoever posed, she showed a sensitiv-ity and dignity and often used the same props. There’s a man in overalls sitting in front of his home. A girl holds a live rabbit. A well-dressed couple stand in front of a studio swing.

From 5 until 7 p.m. today, the Morton Museum of Collierville History and the Collierville Arts Council are hosting an opening of Parr’s work at the white brick museum at the corner of Main and Poplar.

“Photographs from Parr’s Studio: Im-ages of Collierville 100 years ago,” will be on display until May 17, along with art by Rebecca Shellabarger, and art by Carol Hamm at Harrell Theatre.

Parr’s 1907 studio-view camera, origi-nal glass plate negatives and artifacts from Collierville life during the 1910s also will be on display.

“I really wish Bessie had kept a journal. We don’t know why she took up photog-raphy. There’s a family story that Bessie’s mother didn’t like her working in the dark-room because the chemicals were messing up her hands,” said Katie Parr, 33. Bessie was her husband’s great-grandmother.

It was Katie Parr’s father, Richard Broer, and his wife, Jill, who helped salvage the glass-plate negatives in 1982.

Bessie Parr’s son, Dr. William Dean Parr, had given Broer boxes of the nega-tives his mother had taken decades ago. The boxes had been stored in a barn and damaged. Only about a fourth of them survived.

It was Katie Parr who took on the proj-ect by publishing a book of Bessie’s work, along with a private exhibition in 2007.

Until digital technology came along, Broer said it was diicult to work with glass negatives.

“This gives the town’s history of what we are building on,” Broer said. “She treat-ed all with great dignity and pride.”

Whatever Bessie Parr’s reasons for tak-ing up photography, the show gives a peek at the town’s past and proiles its people.

Museum to host opening for exhibition providing glimpse of life in the early 1900s

The past in pictures

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This is one of the photos that will be on display shot by Bessie Dean Parr during the early 1900s in Collierville.

“The last thing that we would want to do would be anything to jeopardize the start of our school system,” Manuel said.

Manuel called board president Lisa Parker around 4:30 p.m. March 7 to ask if the board could hold an emergency meet-ing. He didn’t know if the new information would change board members’ minds, but he thought the whole board needed to hear it.

At the meeting, The Commercial Appeal regis-tered the concern that the hastily called meeting was in violation of the state’s Sunshine law. The Open Meetings Act requires that “adequate public notice” of regular and special meet-ings must be given.

Parker said an an-nouncement was posted online about 3½ hours be-fore the 8 p.m. meeting.

Board members Parker, Linda Fisher and Natalie Williams voted against the fee.

Williams said she was

motivated to change her vote due to the new con-cerns from Manuel, not any political inluences.

Parker said both Hoover and Dely initially told her they would attend but then sent her text messages say-ing they would not. During board work sessions, both men were adamant that a nominal fee was fair, as Germantown residents would have to foot a por-tion of the bill for nonresi-dents.

Manuel, who opposed the tuition fee, was trou-bled by Hoover’s and De-ly’s absence.

“I feel like I’m being held hostage,” Manuel said. “I feel like they made a choice not to come to-night just for this reason.”

Neither Dely nor Hoover could be reached for comment.

Parker said after the meeting the vote helps the district save face in the wake of controversy over the irst tuition vote. She added that there was validity to concerns that the tuition could have torpedoed the municipal schools agreement.

“Not only are we im-

peding ourselves, we’re impeding the other munic-ipalities,” Parker said dur-ing the meeting. “That’s my fear. And I think we need to take a hard look at that.”

The board’s attorney, Steve Shields, agreed. He said Friday the judge could have looked at the tuition as a barrier for approving the inal schools agreement.

The emergency meet-ing came two days after Todd criticized the Ger-mantown school board’s decision to charge non-residents tuition.

Todd said Dr. Jim Mitch-ell, retired Shelby County Schools superintendent and now school consul-tant, and others testiied there would be no tuition or fee for those currently enrolled in schools that would be included in mu-nicipal districts.

Monday’s vote was for a $200 tuition for nonresi-dents, including those stu-dents who already attend the soon-to-be German-town municipal schools. There was a family cap of $500, and students requir-ing aid could apply for a waiver.

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MARCH 3

■ Vehicle struck the curb causing no injuries at Wolf river Boulevard and farmington Boulevard at 8:10 a.m.

■ Vehicle struck a light pole causing no injuries at Wolf river Boulevard and Kimbrough road at 8:20 a.m.

MARCH 4

■ two vehicles collide causing injuries at neshoba road and Brookside Drive at 7:35 a.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at farmington Boulevard and Germantown road at 8 a.m.

■ Vehicle collided into a utility pole causing no injuries at tyndale Drive at 11:02 a.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Popla and exeter road at 11:33 a.m.

MARCH 5

■ Someone telephoned the victim and defrauded them out of more than $1,000 in green dot cards in the 2400 block of lennox Drive at 11:35 a.m.

■ Someone fraudulently used victim’s credit card number for an online purchase in the 1900 block of mcclellan at 1:49 p.m.

■ Someone iled a fraudulent tax return with victim’s personal information in the 3600 block crestwyn Drive at 3 p.m.

■ Someone iled a fraudulent tax return in the victim’s personal information in the 8400 block of Woodlane Drive at 3:40 p.m.

■ Someone telephoned the victim reporting to be law enforcement in colorado and made some false statements in the 3100 block of Devonshire Way at 4:20 p.m.

■ three vehicles collided causing no injuries at Wolf river Boulevard and Germantown road at 8 a.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Wolf river Boulevard and Germantown road at 8:45 a.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing injuries at Germantown road and Wolf trail cove at 3:26 p.m.

MARCH 6

■ oicers arrested adult male for possessing marijuana in the 7600 block of Poplar at 10:32 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Wolf river and Germantown road at 11:15 a.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown road and Poplar at 5:01 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown road and Poplar Pike at 6:10 p.m.

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Collierville school board chairman Mark Hansen indicat-ed Tuesday night that Collierville oicials have discussed paying an undetermined fee for busing Collierville students who want to stay at Houston High or Houston Middle in Germantown.

Hansen said he wants to avoid a potential traic gridlock along Wolf River Boulevard resulting from Collierville students or

their parents driving to those two schools, which are within a few blocks of each other.

No interlocal agreement has been reached between the two municipal school districts. “We haven’t put an ofer on the table,” Hansen said, but he and Collier-ville Supt. John Aitken said they are optimistic such an agree-ment can be reached in light of Germantown rescinding its vote Friday night to charge non-Ger-mantown students tuition.

Germantown had initially voted to charge nonresidents

$200 per student or a $500 cap for families.

“The removal of the tuition component has cleared the single biggest impediment to our abil-ity to reach an agreement, in my view,” Hansen said. “While the terms are still being developed, we will ask Germantown to con-sider provisions to allow Collier-ville students currently enrolled in HMS and HHS to be given a seat at those schools until they reach an ‘exit grade,’ or gradua-tion from those schools.”

Paying for busing children to

schools is similar to what Lake-land is doing with the Arlington and Bartlett school districts.

Lakeland, which has only an elementary school, has agreed to pay roughly $137 per student for those who will be attending Arlington schools and $150 per student those who will be attend-ing a Bartlett middle school.

In other action Tuesday, the board unanimously approved new attendance zones for the eight Col-lierville schools; an agreement for shared planning services with the hiring of Nedra Jones, who will be

based in Bartlett; and the hiring of Evans Petree law irm as its legal counsel. Mike Marshall of Col-lierville will be the school board’s attorney.

At least for some Collierville parents, Germantown’s actions of waiving tuition may have come too late.

“When they initiated the tu-ition, it created a divide between Germantown and Collierville,” said Collierville parent Stephanie Sinn. Her son, a ninth-grader at Houston High, will be transfer-ring to Collierville High.

COLLIERVILLE SCHOOLS

Oicials consider plan to bus students to Germantown

By Jennifer [email protected]

901-529-2372

Shopping centers like Germantown Village Square and the Shops of Forest Hill could soon be home to liquor stores after the Germantown Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Monday approved legisla-tion expanding the zoning for liquor stores.

The vote was 4-1, with Alderman John Drinnon the single dissenting vote. No aldermen or members of the public spoke before the vote.

The legislation, which city officials previously called “housekeeping,” increases by about 50 per-cent the number of acres in the city that would be zoned to include liquor stores. The city previ-ously allowed liquor and wine stores to operate in the Commercial 2 district, which accounts for 162.4 acres. The new legislation adds the shopping center district’s 77.6 acres as an area where liquor stores could open.

The total number of li-quor stores allowed in the city will not change.

Alderman Forrest Owens previously said the matter had two purposes. The irst was to match the alcoholic beverage ordinance to the city’s zoning code, which was changed in 2007 to al-low liquor stores in most shopping areas. The sec-ond was to add the rest of the shopping district to the code. Owens said he was conident change wouldn’t create a windfall of liquor store applications.

“I don’t think one or two more would hurt anyone, and might foster a little bit of economic development and some competition as well, ” he said.

GERMANTOWN

Zoning for liquor stores expanded

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By Clay [email protected]

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U.S. Dist. Judge Samuel “Hardy” Mays granted a joint request Monday to dismiss the legal case re-garding the formation of municipal schools, ending the lengthy battle over edu-cation in Shelby County.

In the order, the judge said he reviewed the terms of the agreements and inds them reasonable.

Those agreements in-volve the accords reached between the Shelby County Schools Board and the six municipalities forming their own schools this summer. The agreement included financial con-siderations paid to the county to settle the matter in exchange for the sub-urbs receiving the school buildings within their boundaries.

The reaction from the suburban side was one of relief and excitement.

“There were times I

didn’t understand why it was taking so long,” Bartlett Mayor Keith Mc-Donald said as he answered the phone in Washington, where he is attending the National League of Cities meeting.

Litigation costs appear to be nearly $5 million.

The legal battle involved an array of parties from the state to the county com-mission, Memphis City Council and all six sub-urban governments. The commission brought a third-party complaint “on behalf of the schoolchil-dren of Shelby County” that alleged “violations of state and federal laws, in-cluding violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amend-ment.”

Once the sides reached the settlement involving all of the terms, including the school buildings, that seemed to leave the inal decision for Mays to grant the order.

Staf reporters Zack McMillin,

Samantha Bryson, Jennifer Pi-

gnolet, Kyle Veazey and Jennifer

Backer contributed to this story.

MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS LAWSUIT

Lengthy school legal battle is over

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By Jane [email protected]

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Shelby County Schools made some friends with its school rezoning proposals in the rural areas around Shelby Forest. The easy part is over.

School officials are now preparing for gritty, emotional nights — like they encountered March 6 in Cordova — as parents see, close up, what it re-ally means to live outside the cities and towns that will be running municipal schools next year.

For Larry Wolowski, who’s raising a 6-year-old granddaughter, it’s a mix of disbelief and anger. He and his wife moved to South Cordova two years ago. When the area was annexed (he says illegal-ly), his granddaughter had to change schools. Now, the plan is that she’ll go to another school next year, more than 7 miles away.

“We moved here with the idea of living in the un-incorporated area. Mem-phis raised our taxes. We were planning to send our child to Riverdale. Now, we are told we cannot. It’s tough,” he said.

Debbie Bounds is more direct: “Please, if some-thing can be worked out, you need to consider our children. … With all these changes they are having to go through, this right here I feel is just not necessary. We purchased a home be-cause of where we were told our children could go to school. It feels like a stab in the back. We love where we are … This is hard. This is very hard. It seems so un-fair,” she said to an audito-rium illed with applause.

Her children, now at Houston High and Collier-ville Middle, are scheduled to transfer to Germantown High, twice as far away.

The challenge for the school district is transfer-ring thousands of students to the nearest SCS cam-pus, which sometimes will mean leapfrogging around a land mass the size of Bartlett or Germantown. The district is also trying to avoid splitting neighbor-hoods, transferring stu-dents to poorer-performing schools and creating atten-dance boundaries out of sync with natural bound-aries.

Those goals are not al-ways achievable, district planner Denise Sharpe told parents at Cordova High School Thursday.

Parents say they can’t get answers about how many seats may be avail-able in the municipal districts, and if there are seats, how long their chil-dren will be able to stay.

For 145 children at high-performing Bailey Station Elementary in Collierville, the proposed alternative is Highland Oaks, where 46 percent of children are at grade level in math and an even smaller percent-age are on par in reading. Children assigned to Mt. Pisgah Middle from high-performing Collierville Middle will be in a school where about half the chil-dren read and write at grade level.

BOUNDARIES

School zoning angers parentsSCS braces for more questions

By Lela Garlington and Jennifer [email protected]

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[email protected],

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Germantown and Col-lierville residents looking to enroll students in munic-ipal school districts must come to zoned school’s residential enrollment nights to claim a place for the upcoming 2014-15 year.

The nights for German-town residents are March 18 and 20. The Collierville school nights are March 24, 25 and 27.

Nonresidents and resi-dents wishing to attend a school other than their zoned school will go through a separate transfer process, but should still at-tend their zoned school’s registration night.

Germantown: German-town Municipal District’s director of student services Chauncey Bland said the

registration days do not replace the mandatory July registration when students get their bus and teacher assignments.

Once they know how many spaces they will need for Germantown residents, they will know how many spaces remain for nonresidents.

The transfer process for both Germantown residents and nonresidents will be diferent, begin-ning March 18 and will ending April 4.

Collierville: In Col-lierville, the registration nights are aimed at families living within the city limits of Collierville, along with families who have a shared residence in the town.

Those who are cur-rently zoned to a Collier-ville school and seek a transfer to another Col-lierville school must ill out a transfer application, as well as the enrollment packet and bring it to the

desired school.The priority list deadline

is April 4 and appears on the Collierville nonresi-dent application.

Nonresident families should not report for Col-lierville residential enroll-ment night.

GERMANTOWN/COLLIERVILLE

School registration dates set

Judge Mays grants dismissal

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Collierville Schools Superintendent John Aitken congratulates PTA Lifetime achievement recipients (from left) Marty Barber, Joan Martin, Jan Gould and Zena Granger. Aitken recognized the winners during the Time for Tennessee program at Tara Oaks Elementary.

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Wednesday: Choice: crispito with chili and cheese, hot dog, chef salad with wheat roll or veggie salad; whole kernel corn; refried beans; chilled Mandarin oranges; assorted fruit; milk

Thursday: Choice: barbecue pork sandwich, beef steak with gravy, chef salad with wheat roll or soy butter and jelly Jammerz; baked beans; au gratin potatoes; chilled pineapples; assorted fruit; milk

Friday: Choice: pizza, mini chicken sandwiches or chef salad with wheat roll; mixed vegetables; veggies with dip; chilled fruit cocktail; fruit; milk.

Schools


HUGH SPEAKMANBriarcrest Christian School, second grade

Family: Dad, Brandon, mom, Katrina, brother, Jack

What is your favorite thing about school: It is a Christian school; I can worship God there.

What is your favorite subject: Math

What is your most challenging subject: English

What are some of your biggest accomplishments: Football, bas-ketball, baseball, chess club and Cub Scouts

What are some of your hobbies: Build LEGOS, read, play chess, Uno, football and Wii

What is your goal for the future: To be a pilot.

People you admire: God because he’s holy, my grandfather James Speakman because he is so smart and he can fix anything.

What is something most people would be surprised to know about you: I like to sing but I don’t like to perform. I also love to play the harmonica.

What would you do if you were principal for a day: Recess all day and play sports outside.

What famous person would you like to meet: Peyton Manning

What would you do with $1 mil-lion: Buy an airplane so I can fly it.

If you could change one thing in the world: There would be no sin.

If you know an outstanding student you’d

like to see featured, e-mail Matt Woo at

[email protected].

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Speakman loves sports, planes, aims to be a pilot

By Virginia DawsonSpecial to The Weekly

On Feb. 27, Tara Oaks Elementary hosted the second annual “Time for Tennessee” event. The celebration was entertaining as well as educational. Students and faculty enjoyed decorat-ing the hallways and preparing for the grand event. It was a great hands-on learning experience and the children benefited by learning a great deal about Collierville and the State of Tennessee.

The weeklong learning lesson began with a classroom tour of the Time for Tennessee room. The room, staged with several learning stations, was filled with games, bigger-than-life-size maps and tons of Tennessee information! Shan-non Shivers, PTA vice president of cultural arts, designed the room and worked to develop a lesson plan.

During the event, students and fac-ulty arrived to school dressed in red, white and blue. The festivities began with a parade of dignitaries through the halls of the school. The Boy Scouts led the learning parade followed by Tara Oaks administrators, Mayor Stan Joyner, Collierville Superintendent John Aitken and Collierville School Board representatives. Students cheered and

were given high fives as the Collierville dignitaries twisted and turned through the elaborately decorated hallways. After the conclusion of the parade, the Collierville dignitaries participated in a question-and-answer session with fifth grade students. The fifth graders posed a host of questions to the superinten-dent and board members. A few of these are, “Will we have school uniforms or

a new dress code?” and “Is there any way of having free recess time in middle school?” Students from the Collierville High School production department were on hand to film the event.

During the evening, the school held an open house for families and the com-munity. Artwork was on display in the hallways of the main building and spe-cial Collierville exhibits were featured in the cafeteria. Fifth graders dressed as famous Tennesseans were stationed throughout the school to provide educa-tional information to attendees.

At 6 p.m. everyone assembled in the gym for the PTA meeting and special Time for Tennessee performance. Principal Tricia Marshall welcomed Aitken and Municipal School Board members Wanda Chism, Mark Hansen and Cathy Messerly. After a brief intro-duction, attendees were entertained by student performances under the direc-tion of Judy Brauninger. PTA Life Time Achievement Awards were presented to faculty members Joan Martin, Marty Barber and PTA board members Jan Gould and Zena Granger. Tricia Sepko was the recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award and Aitken was given the key to Tara Oaks Elementary. At the conclusion of the program Aitken made a special appearance as Elvis Presley. He serenaded students as well as Mar-shall and former principal Sydney Bend-er. The Tara Oaks Elementary Time for Tennessee event was informative, en-gaging and entertaining! Families and students are likely to be talking about the event for months to come.

Virginia Dawson is with the Tara Oaks PTA.

TARA OAKS ELEMENTARY

‘Time for Tennessee’

During the open house, assistant principal Jennifer Scharf visits with Alyssa Cotham, who was dressed as Ann Dallas Dudley, a prominent activist in the women’s sufrage movement in the United States.

Students put on special program for Town staf, parents, teachers

Bailey Station Elementary School’s third annual Students vs. Faculty basketball game was a fun-illed time, with proceeds going to a former BSE student currently undergoing treatment at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Fourth grade students went head to head with faculty members in front of a kindergarten, irst and second grade crowd. The faculty members won in an overtime battle by two points. The ifth grade students took the faculty team into overtime and won by two.

Kent Emerson enjoyed qual-

ity time with his sons Carter, 7 and

Benjamin, 10, at the Donuts with

Dad event at Tara Oaks Elementary.

The second an-nual event was

sponsored by the Tara Oaks PTA. Students loved having the opportunity to spend time

with their dad over breakfast at the Donuts with Dad’s event at Tara Oaks Elementary. Collierville Middle School principal, Chip Blanchard stopped by to have a few sweet treats with his kids Belle Anna, 5 and Tripp, 3.

Tara Oaks Elementary welcomed fathers and father igures to its Donuts with Dads event. The event gave fathers an opportunity to connect with students and to become more involved on campus. Javier Cer-vantes spent the morning eating doughnuts with his 10-year-old daughter Andrea.

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Shelby County Schools

PHOTOS BY KIM ODOM | SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

Say Cheese!


“Cheerios and chocolate milk; a breakfast sandwich and milk.”

MADDOX

STRICKLAND

and TOMAS GOMEZ

We asked kids at the Literature for Tots class at Singleton

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What’s your favorite

breakfast food and

drink?

“Oreo Pop-Tarts and chocolate milk; I like Pop-Tarts (all flavors), Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and orange juice.”

MAKAYLA MARTIN and NOLA WHALEN

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“Pancakes and eggs, water, juice, or chocolate milk; Eggs and bacon, and juice.”

BEN SMITH and GRAHAM LEAR


A&E

By Renee Davis BrameSpecial to The Weekly

Germantown Commu-nity Theatre begins its 43rd season with Sond-heim musical “Company” and closes with the Ken Ludwig comedy “The Fox on the Fairway.”

To celebrate the exciting season, GCT will throw a Spring Forward Bash on April 19 at the Clark Opera Memphis Center. The cele-bration will include spirits, hors d’oeuvres, a silent auc-tion, and a sneak preview of shows in the 2014-2015 sea-son. Tickets for this special event are $75.

For tickets or more infor-mation, call 901-937-3023 or visit us online at gctcome-play.org.

COMPANYShow Dates: Sept. 12-28Music and lyrics: Ste-

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GO BACK FOR MURDERShow Dates: Oct. 24-

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THE VELVETEEN RABBIT

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ALL MY SONSShow Dates: March 6-22,

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YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN

Show Dates: April 9-26, 2015

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Music and Lyrics: Clark Gesner; Book: John Gordon

Director: Justin AsherAn all adult cast and all

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Show Dates: May 15-31, 2015

Author: Ken LudwigDirector: Tony IsbellA modern farce set in

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Family

Ulmer, a Blufton, S.C., resident, is one of many men who have taken on the role of stay-at-home dad. He cares for Jorja, 5, and Hunter, 3, while his wife, Cathy, goes to work as a pharmacist. They’re expecting their third child in May.

Most people Nate knows say it’s pretty awesome that he gets to stay at home with the children. His buddies pick on him sometimes, but he doesn’t care. He knows they’re just messing with him.

“I just enjoy being a parent,” he said. “I’ve witnessed a lot of dads (who) just don’t like being a parent at all.”

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2012 about 189,000 fathers stayed at home with their children while their wives worked.

Brad Harrington, executive director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family, said there are two main reasons fathers decide to stay at home to care for their children:

First, they like the idea of having one par-ent at home to raise the children if possible. Second, the decision about who should stay at home depended on who made less money. In most cases, Harrington said, the mothers made signiicantly more money or had the potential to make more money than the fa-thers. Those reasons were the most common given in the center’s 2012 national study of 31 men who stay at home with their children.

The study found that many stay-at-home fathers do worry about how others per-ceive them, though. The survey asked the men how they respond when they meet new people who ask what they do for a living.

Most said they were stay-at-home fathers. Some said they would answer the question with what they used to do and add that they are home with the children for a little while.

“Once they get past that, a lot of the guys said that what they’re doing now is tre-mendously meaningful,” Harrington said.

Dave Scheifele of Blufton has been a stay-at-home dad since his daughter, Eliza-beth, was born four years ago.

A retired ireighter, paramedic and psychiatric nurse, Scheifele is not able to work a full-time job because of injuries sustained on the job. He does work part-time from home, doing IT consulting while caring for Elizabeth.

Scheifele said he doesn’t really get reac-tions from people when he tells them what he does.

“I think society has changed to where there’s a lot more women in the working world and there’s a lot more stay-at-home dads,” he said.

In the Boston College study, the wives of stay-at-home fathers were also surveyed. What they found was that most of the men are married to ambitious, well-educated pro-fessional women. The wives were incred-ibly positive about their husbands raising the children.

In all cases except one, the women couldn’t say enough about how grateful they were for having one parent at home. They said their own careers could lourish because of it.

Scheifele’s wife, Alison, is a security clerk at Wexford Plantation on Hilton Head

Island, S.C. She stayed home for about six weeks after the baby was born. Then Dave took over.

“Who doesn’t want to be home?” she said. “But then again, after two days home on the weekend, I’m kind of ready to go back to work.”

Nate knew for years he would be the pri-mary caretaker for his children. When he and Cathy were dating more than a decade ago, they knew they wanted to have kids. Cathy was in school to be a pharmacist, and Nate worked many jobs, including survey-ing land for about 10 years.

He said he never found a job he enjoyed. So they decided then that Cathy would be the breadwinner, and Nate would stay at home with their future children.

“We planned a lot of stuf out,” Nate said. “(We) wanted to make sure everything was just right for our children.”

Neither Dave nor Nate had dreams of being stay-at-home dads when they were growing up, but such a title probably didn’t even exist back then.

When Nate was a child, he thought he would end up working in a factory when he grew up. He does work one day a week at Messex One Stop Service in Blufton. But he never imagined he’d be spending six days a week caring for small children.

Meanwhile, Dave dreamed of becoming an astronaut. His plan was to join the Air Force because that was the irst step to get into the astronaut program. Unfortunately, he was turned down because of a bad knee.

As far as going back to work full-time, Nate said, “I keep myself busy enough to not worry about that.”

Dave admits that sometimes he feels isolated not socializing with other adults much during the day.

But Dave said the beneits of being a stay-at-home dad far outweigh the pitfalls, and he wouldn’t trade it for the world.

He has a 17-year-old son, William, from a previous marriage and worked a lot when William was a baby. So when Elizabeth came along, he really wanted to be at home with her. “I jumped at the chance,” he said. “I get to have the irst years of molding my daughter.”

By Amy Coyne BredesonThe Island Packet (Hilton Head Island, S.C.)

HILTON HEAD, S.C. — When Nate Ulmer takes his children to the playground during the day, he is usually the only father there.

If there are mothers around, they don’t talk to him, which makes him feel a little out of place — but he doesn’t let it bother him.

“I’m not going to bring up Tupperware or anything like that,” he said with a laugh.

Days with Dad

THE ISLAND PACKET

Nate Ulmer, left, holds still while daughter Jorja, 5, and son Hunter, 2, right, work on a chalk outline to “draw daddy” as niece Krystal, 5, and his wife, Cathy, watch behind the family’s home.

Stay-at-home father of two just ‘enjoys being a parent’

By John RosemondMCT Information Service

Q I’ve been using the method described in

your toilet-training book with my 18-month-old daughter and she’s been doing great during the day. She rarely has an ac-cident. However, I’m still using a diaper at nap time and during the night (wait-ing for some consistency in dryness before taking that away). Is that correct? The only problem is she’s igured out the routine and now only poops in her dia-per when I put her down to sleep. She has not gone poop on the potty during the day for several weeks. Is that cause for concern? Should I take away the dia-pers totally? I don’t want to create a bad habit. Thanks!

A You and your daugh-ter are doing just ine.

In fact, you’re both doing great and are living proof of the incontrovertible fact that most pediatricians have been giving very bad toilet-training advice for the past 45 years.

Specifically, they’ve been promoting the “child-centered” philosophy that has caused toilet training to become such a huge problem during this same time period.

Keep up the good com-mon sense, and don’t be-come discouraged, much less anxious, if your daugh-ter has a setback now and then. There will be, as you’ve already discovered, bumps in the road. In that regard, the fact she’s wait-ing until nap time or night-time to poop is no cause for concern. It may take a while — several months, perhaps — but this will resolve itself. In the mean-time, celebrate her success and pay little to no atten-tion to her reluctance to use the potty for pooping.

That said, there are some strategies that might move this process along. One especially creative parent folded a diaper in the bowl of the potty and told her child that the doctor had said he should poop in his diaper that way. The child promptly pooped in the diaper-lined potty and continued to do so from that point for-ward. That’s a testament to thinking outside the box if there ever was one.

In any case, stay the course. Patience will be the cure.

Family psychologist John Rosemond answers parents’ questions at parentguru.com.

LIVING WITH

CHILDREN

Trust in patience for potty training

By Ina Paiva CordleThe Miami Herald

MIAMI — Johanna Evers, 6, has a routine each morn-ing and night: She brushes her teeth, losses and rins-es with luoridated mouth-wash.

She also has been vis-iting a dentist for twice-yearly cleanings since she was 2.

“I’m thinking of my daughter’s future,” said her mother, Brigid McKe-on, 43, who takes Johanna to Miami Children’s Hos-pital’s Pediatric Dental Center in Doral, Fla. “I want her to be able to carry it on when she gets older and has her own family.”

Dental hygiene is a vi-tal part of overall health, dentists and doctors say. According to the Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health in America, oral diseases and disorders af-fect health and well-being throughout one’s life.

In fact, a research study — in which doctors at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine partic-ipated — has linked peri-odontal (gum) disease to a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke. Other research has linked poor dental health to Alzheim-er’s disease.

It all points to the im-portance of brushing, flossing and visiting a dentist regularly, starting in infancy.

“Cavities can happen as early as nine months of age,” said Dr. Rosie Roldan, director of the Pediatric Dental Center at Miami Children’s Hos-pital and director of its pediatric dental residency program. “The teeth start erupting at six months, so they haven’t been in the mouth three months be-fore we can start seeing cavities.”

Roldan advises parents to bring their children to

the dentist beginning at 12 months, and every six months after that. Par-ents should also ensure that their children’s teeth are brushed twice a day, as soon as the irst tooth appears. That creates a habit, so children grow up to not be resistant to brushing.

“Prevention is key,” Roldan said. “We want to see them early, teach about properly brushing teeth and give fluoride supplementation to get luoride incorporated into the teeth, if needed.”

Baby teeth are space holders for permanent teeth. They aid in speech development and are nec-essary for chewing. Aes-thetically, they also play a key role, she said.

“A lot of kids know ex-actly how they look and how they smile,” Roldan said. “And it’s important to develop the self-esteem of the child.”

Parents need to be aware that an enemy is brewing in bacteria that develops in the mouth, and thrives during the night when the saliva is thick.

“If the last thing you eat is sugar, which is what bac-teria live on, the bacteria will use that medium to grow and produce acid,” Roldan said. “They’ll have a party on your teeth every night if you don’t brush.”

When very young chil-dren develop dental prob-lems, they can wind up in the operating room. Roldan said her center sees 700 patients in the operat-

ing room for dental work each year. The majority are under 4.

Children can even re-quire root canals and ex-tractions.

In the worst case, when problems are left untreat-ed, an abscess, or accumu-lation of pus, can result. The pus can migrate and move to the brain or eyes, leading to a periorbital (eye) infection, or a brain abscess, which can be po-tentially fatal.

For adults, health risks associated with oral health are particularly signifi-cant.

Researchers from the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom last year found that people with poor oral hygiene or gum disease could be at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s, compared with those who have healthy teeth.

The researchers dis-covered the presence of a bacterium called Porphy-romonas gingivalis in the brains of patients who had dementia when they were alive. The bacteria are usually associated with chronic periodontal (gum) disease.

For good dental health, start young to develop healthy habits Regular dental

visits are key to good health. Some dentists suggest begin-ning dental appointments at 1-years-old and every six months after that.

CW GRIFFIN

MIAMI HERALD/MCT


Food


FISH TACOS WITH MANGO SLAWServes 4.

INGREDIENTS

For the Mango Slaw: 2 cups inely shredded green cabbage 1 ½ cups inely shredded red cabbage 1 cup small-diced mango ¼ cup thinly sliced red onion (about half a small

onion) 2 tablespoons seeded and inely diced fresh

jalapeños 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice 2 tablespoons olive oil — Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh cilantro

leavesFor the Avocado Crema: 2 large ripe avocados, peeled, pitted and

coarsely chopped 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice ¼ cup sour cream — Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepperFor the Fish Tacos: ¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon olive oil, divided 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice 1 clove garlic, minced ½ teaspoon chili powder 4 tilapia illets (6 ounces each) -- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon olive oil 8 small (4-inch) lour tortillas, warmed

DIRECTIONS

1 To make the mango slaw: In a large mixing bowl, combine the green cabbage, red cabbage, mango, red onion and jalapeño. Add the lime juice and olive oil and toss until well combined. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Fold in the cilantro just before serving.

2 To make the avocado crema: In a food proces-sor, purée the avocado and lime juice until smooth. Blend in sour cream. Place crema in a bowl and season to taste with salt and pepper.

3 To make the ish tacos: In small bowl, whisk together 1/4 cup of the olive oil, lime juice, gar-lic and chili powder until well blended. Place the tilapia in a shallow dish, and pour the mari-nade over the ish. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or up to 1 hour. Remove the ish from the marinade, drain of any excess, and discard the marinade. Season both sides of the ish with salt and pepper to taste.

4 In a large skillet over medium-high heat, warm the remaining tablespoon of oil until a few droplets of water sizzle when carefully sprin-kled in the pan. Sear the ish on one side until the meat is well browned and releases easily from the pan, about 4 to 5 minutes. Turn and cook until the ish is cooked through, about 5 minutes more. Transfer the ish to a plate and break into large pieces.

5 Assemble the tacos by placing the ish (about half a illet per taco) in the center of the tor-tillas. Garnish with desired amounts of the mango slaw and avocado crema. Serve warm.

Do ahead: The slaw can be made up to 2 hours ahead. Store covered in your refrigerator until ready to serve.

By Jennifer ChandlerSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

Lent began March 5, which for many means no meat on Fridays for six weeks. Just because you may be abstaining on Fri-days during this Lenten season does not mean you have to give up enjoying a delicious meal. Fish tacos are a prime example of a dish that can make “Fish Fridays” something to look forward to.

Preparing a fish taco is much like preparing a sandwich. It’s all in the as-sembly.

The main ingredient is obviously the fish. Fish tacos can be filled with either fried or marinated fish. I find that the mari-nated version is easier to prepare than the fried ver-sion. As an added bonus, it’s healthier.

A simple marinade of lime juice, chili powder and garlic lends the tilapia in these fish tacos a delightful citrusy flavor. After a quick marinade, the fish can ei-ther be pan-seared as in this recipe or cooked on a grill. You can always substitute your favorite white fish or even shrimp for the tilapia in this recipe.

To dress up the taco, I like to add a mango slaw. Mango adds sweetness and color to a simple cabbage slaw. A dressing of lime juice and olive oil comple-ments the citrus tones of the marinated fish better than a mayonnaise-based dressing would. The ad-dition of jalapeño adds a little kick. As a time saver, pick up a package of shred-ded coleslaw in your pro-duce department instead

of shredding the cabbage yourself.

To finish the taco, drizzle a little avocado crema over the top. Avocado crema is simply a ripe avocado pu-réed with sour cream and

a little lime juice. It makes a delicious sauce to garnish a fish taco.

Whether you observe the traditional Friday ab-stinence or not, you can use this recipe every Friday of

the year!

Jennifer Chandler lives in East

Memphis with her husband and

two daughters. For more recipes

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A look behind the labels: No ‘one size fits all’ healthy pet dietBy Erinn FiggSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

Shawn McGhee, presi-dent of Memphis-based pet supply store Holly-wood Feed, speaks about pet food with enthusiasm and authority, which isn’t surprising considering he spends so much time think-ing about our animal com-panions and what they eat.

“It’s really only been during the past 20 years that good research has been put into canine and feline diets,” McGhee said. “Now our knowledge is evolving almost daily.”

Some pet owners may feel bombarded with the abundance of information available these days. Tele-vision commercials urge consumers to scrutinize pet food labels. Veterinar-ians often tout the beneits of speciic brands. A trip down the pet food aisle in the grocery store not only reveals dozens of brands but also what seems like dozens of formulas within those dozens of brands.

What’s a responsible pet parent to do?

As with humans, Mc-Ghee said, there’s no “one

size its all” approach to healthy pet diets — or even one perfect brand, for that matter — although market-ing campaigns and even well-meaning veterinar-ians may lead us to think diferently. McGhee should know. The employees at his 24 stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee undergo at least 40 hours of classroom training on pet nutrition, along with frequent tours of pet food facilities and information sessions with veterinarians.

“If you go out and re-search human nutrition, you’ll ind at least 10 dif-ferent diets out there rec-ommended as foods you should be eating if you want to live a long, healthy life,” he said. “The same can be said for pets.”

When choosing a pet food, McGhee says it’s im-portant to recognize that diferent pets need difer-ent food.

“If you come into one of our stores and ask me what kind of pet food to buy, I’m going to ask you some very specific questions,” he said. “What is the breed? How old is your pet? Are

they over or underweight? Do they have any health issues? What’s your price point?”

Dr. Megan Arevalo, a veterinarian at McGehee Clinic for Animals, says concerned pet owners of-ten come to her for help determining their pets’ nu-trition needs. Along with traditional veterinary ser-vices, McGehee Clinic of-fers holistic services such as nutritional counseling and acupuncture.

“There’s a lot of misin-formation out there, and often the pet food market-ing messages are oversim-plifying the subject of pet nutrition,” Arevalo said.

Arevalo also recom-mends a consultation with a veterinarian who specializes in pet nutri-tion, especially if a speciic health issue is present.

If pet owners opt for online research, Arevalo encourages them to seek information in unbiased places.

“The American College of Veterinary Nutrition website (acvn.org) is a good place to educate your-self on how to understand pet food labels, as it’s run

by actual nutritionists and not someone with a vested interest in one particular product,” she said. The site also includes links to other credible resources.

If owners want to cook for their pets, Arevalo recommends doing it oc-casionally for variety.

“Pet food should be 90 percent or more of what your pet needs, with 10 percent left to play around a little,” she said. “These can be diferent things that don’t cause digestive prob-lems, such as carrots and cottage cheese for dogs.”

The website BalanceIT.com generates nutrition-ally balanced recipes, many of them free, based on the speciics of the pet: canine or feline, weight, age, health issues and other factors.

Gerbils, reptiles and birds are apparently out of luck.

By Katie PembertonSpecial to The Weekly

The Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County will host Project STOP Vaccination Station, a $5 pet vaccination event for pet owners who are Shelby County residents and who income-qualify, on March 22, from 9 a.m. to noon, at Hollywood Feed at 2648 Broad Ave.

In order to qualify for $5 vaccinations, pet owners must show proof of residence in Shelby County and participation in a needs-based public assistance program, such as Social Security, disabil-ity, unemployment, food stamps, Tenn Care, Medi-care, or Medicaid, WIC, Reduced Lunch or Sec-tion 8 Housing. Dr. Jenni-fer Dunlap will be present, along with vet staf and volunteers, to administer the full complement of dog and cat vaccinations, in-cluding rabies. Dogs must be on leash and cats must be in cat carriers. Rabies licenses will be available for purchase for $6 for spayed/neutered dogs or $16 for intact dogs. Rabies licenses are not required

for cats.Project STOP (Solving

the Overpopulation Prob-lem) includes any HSMSC program that provides low-cost or free vaccina-tions, spays/neuters or microchips to pet owners in need. In 2013, as part of Project STOP, the Humane Society vaccinated more than 950 pets, and spayed and neutered more than 550 pets. One major com-ponent of Project STOP is still in progress: a mo-bile spay/neuter unit, for which the organization is currently raising funds to purchase the unit and run it for the irst ive years. “Our mission focuses on rescuing and rehabilitat-ing injured and abused an-imals, but in recent years, we have really added an extra focus on at-risk pets in the community through Project STOP,” said Matt Womack, community out-reach and humane educa-tion manager at HSMSC. “The goal of Project STOP is to decrease preventable disease, pets being aban-doned, and unwanted lit-ters, and these low-cost vaccination clinics are just one way that we’re work-ing to accomplish that.”

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WHAT’S YOUR PET EATING?According to Dr. Megan Arevalo of McGehee Clinic for Animals, the following symptoms may be indicators of a nutrition deiciency, food allergy or other illness:

■ Change in water intake ■ Increase or decrease in appetite

■ Change in stool ■ Frequent vomiting ■ Hair loss ■ Frequent scratching

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— Katie W., Memphis

A Running on a treadmill is a totally diferent

than running outdoors. To start with, all you are do-ing is “keeping up” on a treadmill because you are not dealing with constantly changing terrain or weath-er. There is nothing better than running outdoors to get you ready for race day.

But if you don’t/can’t run outside there are a couple things you can do on a treadmill including interval, elevation and pace training. Interval training will help you run outside your comfort zone. Do this by sprinting for a short amount of time or distance as fast as you can and then reducing your speed to re-cover. Repeat as needed. Treat elevation training like interval training but adjust the elevation while maintaining a consistent speed. Pace training to help you have a good feel for the pace you want to keep. Pick a mile time to main-tain and set the treadmill to that speed for the full 5K distance.

Q Do you recommend supplements for clients

trying to gain muscle? If so, what kind?

— Matt W., Collierville

A Supplements are very big in today’s itness

market and they do help you achieve goals and break through plateaus but remember, supplements only work as hard as you do. You have to put in the work to make supplemen-tation worth your time and money. Now, the most ba-sic muscle building sup-plement I recommend is protein, more speciically whey protein. This supple-ment provides the body with key nutrients to help build muscle. If you want to go a step further, Cre-atine increases muscle cell volume, speeds up recov-ery and, of course, helps build muscle. Both of these supplements are produced by the body naturally so you’re just enhancing what your body already does to see faster, more noticeable results.

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If unable to train outdoors, switch it up

By Cindy WolfSpecial to Good Health

If your new treadmill or the latest ex-o-sizer has already be-come the newest clothes rack at your home, maybe it’s time to quit trying to plod that mo-notonous, mechanical road to nowhere and ind an exercise partner who will keep you on track.

Look no further than your feet, where a four-legged, whirling dervish of a dog is suited up and ready for action. There stands a stalwart exer-cise partner whose internal clock will alert you when it’s time to get on your shoes and get out the door.

Studies have shown that peo-ple who exercise with their dogs are more energetic and dedi-cated to a itness routine than people who don’t own dogs.

For some, it’s a reason to get out of bed, get moving and stop a sedentary lifestyle — all at the end of the leash. Fitness trainers point out that the ben-eit goes both ways, keeping a dog healthy and active.

David and Anne Tuttle, both avid marathon runners, found weekend runs with Darwin, their mixed-breed dog, gave the couple a chance to share their sport, improved Darwin’s heath and gave the couple a break in the distance running.

“We always felt bad when we would leave him while we went running,” David Tuttle said. “So we decided to teach him how to run with us.”

When they irst began, there were plenty starts and stops as Darwin put the brakes on to snif out an area. Over time, Darwin learned to ignore the surroundings and focus on his pace. The runners started with about a third of a mile and taught to him to not crisscross in front of them.

Darwin soon got the hang of it and they were up to a couple of miles when David entered himself and Darwin in the 2011 Fast and Furriest 5k run. It was a mile or so more than Darwin had ever run.

“We lined up in the back with the rest of the dogs,” Da-vid said. “I thought we’d start out slower and then build, but he just started passing people. We ended up winning the whole thing, 3.1 miles, his per-sonal best.”

Darwin’s trophies, hand-painted food and water bowls, are in the living room.

Then there are the people who start exercising because of their dogs.

Debbie Clift was a light at-tendant whose only exercise was walking through terminals and pushing drink carts back and forth on an airplane. She was raised with cats, her only

pets, until she spotted a stray black Labrador retriever run-ning in her neighborhood. The dog didn’t have any identiica-tion and Clift never found the owner. She’d changed jobs and became a massage therapist, which gave her more time to start an exercise routine.

That routine’s name is Ben. Since her backyard was hard-ly a place for a large breed to play, she and Ben began to take walks four times a day, adding up to two miles or more, de-pending on the weather.

A few years later, Clift found another black lab, this one run-ning around in the Wolfchase Galleria parking lot. She again searched for an owner with no luck.

This lab, who she named Abby, was about eight years younger than Ben. Abby ramped up their routine.

“Ben liked to mosey when we walked, but after Abby came along he had to step up his

pace,” Clift said. “We have our routine. I get up in the morn-ing, feed them, and then a bit later we go walking. I wouldn’t have gotten this much exercise without them.”

Before you drag your dog of the sofa and set of for a long walk, talk to your veterinarian. Certain breeds aren’t suited for strenuous exercise, particular-ly not when the weather is hot. Your dog may have medical conditions that might require a diferent exercise routine than you envisioned.

“Breeds with lat-faces or snub noses like pugs or bull-dogs don’t do well on long walks, especially not in the heat,” said veterinarian Dr. Jon Romines, who is a runner. “Some dog breeds are born ath-letes, high energy dogs that are used to herding, hunting or just love to run. Others are ine sit-ting in your lap.”

If your dog is overweight or you and your dog are just start-

ing an exercise routine, start slow, maybe 30 minutes a day. That distance can be increased depending on how quickly your dog acclimates. In the summer, it’s better to walk or run with your pet early in the morning. And sometimes it’s still too hot.

Pay attention to your dog during summer months. Since dogs cool down by panting, they can get out of breath and sufer heat exhaustion or heat stroke. Just plan ahead and be willing to tell your dog “no” even if they constantly bark, wag and beg for their daily exercise. Make sure to bring a water bottle. If your dog won’t drink it, you can pour it on his shoulders to help cool him down.

Make sure to invite your dogless friends out with you. They may end up adopting their own exercise partner, one that won’t back out or try to talk them into going to the mall instead.

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David Tuttle runs with his mixed-breed dog, Darwin. Studies have shown that training with a dog helps keep you more dedicated and more energetic to your workout routine.

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Bill Regenold, a inancial adviser at Shoemaker Financial, and his wife, Jeanne, recently experienced the “trip of a lifetime.” They had always wanted to go to Israel, so they were interested when Eleanor Moskovitz and her husband, Richard, announced that their church had a group going there. Faith Baptist Church in Germantown had a group of 26 people that went on the trip. They saw Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Sea of Galilee, Bethlehem, Masada, Golan Heights and even rode a camel and loated in the Dead Sea.

Tommy White, governor for the Rotary District 6800, visited the Germantown club. In his speech he outlined his goals for the district and encouraged Rotarians to attend the District Conference in April. He was very complimentary of various projects club is involved in the ish pond project, Germantown International Festival, support for Poplar Pike Playhouse and more. Last year the Germantown club was the recipient of the presidential citation and is No. 1 in the district for the annual giving. Also attending the meeting were president Mable Barringer, Linda White and past district governor Vijay Surpuriya. The Rotary Club of Germantown meets every Wednesday at noon at the Southwind Country Club. For more information on Rotary, call Surpuriya at 901-210-6039.

Germantown residents Jim Jacobs and Jim Briske and Collier-ville residents Margaret and Glen Stewart traveled to Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park. Bryce Canyon consists of a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters. While in Bryce Canyon they drove to the 15 diferent sightseeing spots. Rainbow Point was the highest at 9,115 feet, and it was a cold 28 degrees. The previous day they toured Zion National Park. They hiked to the beginning of the Narrows, which is a 16-mile route with the de-mands of river hiking, slippery rocks, and swift water crossings. While staying in St. George, they visited the Dinosaur Discovery site at Johnson farm. At the site, which was unearthed in 2000, visitors can see 200 million-year-old dinosaur tracks. Days before their sight-seeing trips they ran the Snow Canyon half-marathon. This was the Stewarts 25th state in which to run a race.

Pam and John Nelson recently attended St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church’s annual dinner dance.

Rev. Brian Henderson, Parkway Gardens United Presbyte-rian Church, visits with Bonnie Blair, organizer of the Rebirth, Renewal and Restoration series at Farmington Presbyterian, during a reception following the service.

Charles Billings, music director of

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following the last in a multi-day series

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an ofering of music and Rev. Brian

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sage. A reception followed capping four nights of ser-

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Clark Doan leads the Mardi Gras-themed party at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church’s annual dinner celebration.

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Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Singer Bocelli 7 Almond-flavored

liqueurs 16 Backyard

building 20 Talking

amorously 21 Picked up while

hitchhiking, say 22 Island off

Scotland 23 1969 Liza

Minnelli film 25 Scrawny 26 Locality 27 — -TASS (news

agency) 28 Nation whose

capital is Abuja 30 1975 Robert

Redford film 37 Highway

hauler 38 Málaga Mrs. 39 Boozehound 40 “C’— la vie!” 43 Actress Sofer 45 Cake coating 47 Asia’s largest

desert 51 1997 Helena

Bonham Carter film

57 Con’s place 58 Like an angel’s

head 59 Grammy

nominee Zadora

60 Iraq neighbor 61 Bugling animal 62 Foil’s heavier

cousin

63 Common jazz chords

66 Suffix with hotel or front

67 Gore and Franken

68 Cong. member 69 2001 Josh

Hartnett film 73 Columnist

Hentoff 74 “Sands of

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diner 77 Meat-stamping

org. 78 Baden article 79 Bar assoc.

members 82 Roman 700 83 Conan of TV 85 Hood’s pistol 86 1976 Michael

Caine film 90 Lead-in for

“while” 92 Avant-garde

composer Erik 93 Rock’s Jethro — 94 Hectic hosp.

areas 95 Clumsy ox 98 Cuts again,

as a plank 101 Alternative

to Alpo 103 1970 Barbra

Streisand film 110 Rules about

legal wrongs 111 Bites from

puppies

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114 1977 Scott Turow book

115 1941 Humphrey Bogart film

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Texas 125 Former Brit.

Airways jets 126 Saclike larval

stage of some flatworms

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of Thais 9 Disinclined (to) 10 — room (place

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manuscript 33 Taking care of

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Melissa 41 Some form-

shifting garments

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(Balzac novel) 48 Area next to the

sea 49 Love song singer 50 Places to dip

quill pens 52 Calamity 53 Sty noise 54 Jazz pianist Earl

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wood

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have visible ones

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compound 116 Punk music

offshoot 117 Sea, to Yves 118 — -Z 119 Fond du — 120 Nourished 121 — Baba

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“Carrie” and “Scarface”

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walls 21 Does some

farrier’s work on

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Mandela? [1995, 1985]

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unreliable testimony? [1976, 1985*]

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mynas 50 Muckraker

Tarbell 51 Flips over 53 Reason for

missing a flight? [1970*, 2000*]

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58 ? 60 “With the

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62 First name in tyranny

63 Real enthusiast 65 Ending for

acro- or homo- 66 Look-alike 68 Part of a line at

O’Hare? [2002, 1976*]

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connector 75 ___ cologne 76 Put away

79 Leader of the pack

82 Insurance giant 84 Part of a jazz

duo? 85 Noted provider

of pictorial instructions

86 Cheesy pickup line? [1944, 1995*]

90 Bears, but not Cubs

92 Novelist Patchett

93 Forfeits 94 Degrees for

attys. 96 “Hound Dog”

or “What’s New Pussycat?”

97 Baseball’s Iron Man

99 Snowmobile brand

102 River to the Rhine

104 V-shaped fortification

106 Reason why all the computers are down? [1976*, 2005]

111 Gallic girlfriend 113 Surgically

remove 116 Pulitzer winner

James 117 Locale in Gray’s

“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

118 Seaside outing? [1955*, 1954]

123 Former Gracie Mansion resident

124 Repeat 125 Lying face up 126 ___ Channel

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127 Successfully impersonate

128 Early Apple computers

DOWN 1 Yellow shade 2 Thomas of TV 3 Caravaggio’s

“The Sacrifice of ___”

4 End of some URLs

5 Individually 6 Annual N.B.A.

event 7 Auction

ending? 8 The Oscars are

awarded on it: Abbr.

9 When repeated, a plea of Richard III

10 Daughter in “The Sound of Music”

11 1986 World Series champs

12 “Dilbert” intern 13 Reciprocal

raising of tariffs, e.g.

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hanging

17 Deficiency 18 Some P.A.

announce-ments

20 Knitted wrap

24 TurboTax option

25 “Yuk!” 31 Target

competitor 32 Not yet final,

legally 33 Linda of

Broadway’s “Jekyll & Hyde”

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“Mr. Hulot’s Holiday”

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52 Enliven, with “up”

54 Like Gamal Abdel Nasser’s movement

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condition 59 Ocean

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through trickery

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67 Expand 69 Chemistry

Nobelist Otto

70 Award won 21 times by Harold Prince

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Anderson 81 Small

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mamas 85 “No one’s

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figure 98 Excited about 100 Moves slowly 101 Scares off

103 Astronaut Thomas on four space shuttle flights

105 Prefix with natal

107 Western 108 Dr. Alzheimer 109 Medicinal

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portrayed by Beyoncé

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Rose, my club member whose courtesy toward her fellow players is so admirable, is blessed with a winning at-titude.

“I’ve heard you say that too many people complain about the thorns when they ought to rejoice in the roses,” I told her.

Rose’s positive outlook helps her as declarer, where she never gives up until the last card is played. She tries to find every chance for the contract. When today’s deal arose in a team match, both North-Souths got to six spades, and both Wests led the ten of clubs: jack from dummy, queen, ru�.

At one table, declarer drew trumps and took the queen, king and ace of diamonds. A 3-3 break would have let him dis-card a heart from dummy on the 13th diamond, assuring the slam, but West threw a club. South then ru�ed his fourth diamond in dummy and tried a heart to his queen. West pro-duced the king, returned the jack and got another heart at the end. Down one.

Could you do better? Rose was declarer at the

other table. She also drew trumps and took the top dia-monds, but when West dis-carded, Rose was reluctant to stake the slam on the heart finesse. Wanting an extra chance, she ru�ed her last diamond in dummy and re-turned the king of clubs: ace, ru�. She then went to dummy with a trump and led the seven of clubs, and when East played low, Rose discarded a heart — a loser on a loser.

West won with the eight and was end-played. Wheth-er he led a club, conceding a ru�-slu�, or a heart from his king, Rose would get her 12th trick.

Dear Harriette: My husband and I started our family late. I had my first child when I was 34 years old, and I had my second child when I turned 39. I am 41 years old now, and I would like to have another child before it is not possible. My hus-band does not think it is a good idea because we are getting older and our busy schedules would not allow it. Should I respect my husband’s wishes, or should I nag him until I get my third child?

— Happy Wife, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Answer: As far as age goes, you should have a checkup with your OB-GYN to see if you are healthy enough to have another child. Plenty of people have babies after 40. Yes, the risk for birth defects rises, but this should be evaluated specifically for you with your doctor.

As far as your fi-nances and lifestyle go, sit down and map out a budget based on time and resources to see where

you and your husband stand in your vision of the future. Talk about whether you believe you can comfortably “a�ord” to bring a third child into the world. Take the time to go through all of your hopes and dreams and fears — from both of your perspectives. This is a decision you should make together, one that is not based on nagging or fear, but on conscious intention.

Tell him that you would like to approach it in a respectful, mature way. Chances are, he will agree.

Man disagrees with wife about having third child

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Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You’ll perk up in the morning and suddenly have all the energy one could de-sire. Tonight: Forget tomor-row. Stay in the now.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ You will want some downtime. You might have been social and available until now. Tonight: Only where you want to be.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ Assume a greater role with a relative. Take this person to breakfast and en-joy his or her company. To-night: Where the action is.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You can move past a problem . You also might be the person who convinces others that this path is the best one. Tonight: Up late.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★★ Logic might not coincide with your in-tuition right now. Follow that highly tuned sense of yours. Tonight: Use your imagination.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Be more forth-right and direct with a fam-ily member who often tests your limits. Tonight: Do not be alone.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ Pace yourself, and follow your mental sched-ule with self-d i sc ipl i ne . Tonight: En-joy all the in-vitations.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★ You know what to

do. You might go from frol-icking to feeling exhausted. You could opt to spend some time catnapping or reading the paper. Tonight: Snooze all you want.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★★ You seem to function on a more intuitive level in the morning. Later in the day, everything could fall into place. Tonight: Do only what feels right.

What the stars mean:

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Dynamic ★★★★

Positive ★★★

Average ★★

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Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you open up to change and diversity more than you have in the past. If you are single, you need to trust your feelings and act accordingly. The person you choose this year might not work next year. If you are attached, the two of you will be emotional together. Your significant other might be seeing a different side of your personality. You can tune in to CANCER.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Oscar Double Features

By Alan Arbesfeld / Edited By Will Shortz

3-9-14

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

BLACK’S BEST MOVE?Hint: Better than … f2.

Solution: 1. … Rxc5! (threatens 2. … Rxc7, as well as 2. … f2 followed by 3.

… f1=Q mate).

V D C Y D K C G B Y R E P F D U ’ V X L U X M Y

K M D T Y U V T Y U Y C D U Y Y O H Y M M Y B S

S P W B C R B Y . H M Y W U M G

R P W A F Y Y B D L S - X P M D O Y A .

3-9 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: K equals F

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.



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SUDOKU

MAGIC NUMBER

PREMIER CROSSWORD

WEEKENDPUZZLE

SOLUTIONS

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Saturday’s editions.

This is thesolution to

the KingFeatures

crossword on

Page 2M.

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TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: SOME OF MY NEIGHBOR’S PURPLE FLOWERS WERE MORE EXCELLENT THAN MINE. CLEARLY I HAD BEEN OUT-PHLOXED.

ACROSS 1 Dainty

drinks 5 Throw

away 10 Arduous

journey 11 Inventor

Edison 13 Depend 14 Milne’s

morose donkey

15 Stag’s rack 17 Sewer

rodent 18 Longs for 19 Make a

choice 20 Sticky stuff 21 Sword fight

22 Weary sounds

25 Hurriedness 26 Easy gait 27 Utter 28 Go bad 29 Crumples,

as a sheet of paper

33 Termite’s cousin

34 Solar event

35 Shower-cleaning buy

37 Bike part 38 Car part 39 Witches 40 Did shoe

work

41 Nest setting

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violin 2 Marie

Curie’s daughter

3 Furs 4 Ceiling

window 5 Sound

system

6 Mating game

7 Singer Orbison

8 Lustful 9 Castle part 12 End a

lawsuit 16 Aphrodite’s

son 21 Vampire’s

undoing 22 Rake with

gunfire

23 Some patches

24 “I’m outta here!”

25 Corridor 27 Holy 29 Designer

Geoffrey 30 Harpoon 31 Grammar

topic 32 In itself 36 Wire

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Sudoku

■ Talk show host Ralph Emery is 81.

■ Actress Aloma Wright is 64.

■ Actress Sharon Stone is 56.

■ Rock musician Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) is 51.

■ Music producer Rick Rubin is 51.

■ Britain’s Prince Edward is 50.

■ Actor Stephen Mailer is 48.

■ Singer Robin Thicke is 37.

■ Actress Bree Turner is 37.

■ Olympic gold medal gymnast Shannon Miller is 37.

■ Actress Olivia Wilde is 30.

Dear Annie: I switched doctors six years ago — and my world fell apart. My new doctor insisted on all kinds of new tests, and I’m glad she did. Simple blood and urine tests let me know that there was a good possibil-ity my kidneys weren’t functioning well.

I didn’t know that there are rarely any symptoms until the kidneys are failing. I didn’t know that one in three American adults is at risk for kidney disease. I didn’t know that high blood pressure and diabetes are two of the leading causes of this disease. But I learned quickly that early detec-tion and proper treatment can slow its progress.

I learned so much in the following months: why I need to watch my weight, why regular exercise helps and why I need to make sure my high blood pressure is under control. I’ve been able to maintain the same degree of kidney function since being di-agnosed, but not without lots of information and changes in my lifestyle.

March is National Kid-ney Month. March 13th is World Kidney Day. Won’t you help me join the National Kidney Founda-tion in urging Americans to learn about the risk factors and simple blood and urine tests for kidney disease? There are many free kidney health screen-ings around the country. The National Kidney Foundation at kidney.org provides information about these screenings and about staying healthy. Thank you.

— Gail Rae-Garwood, Glendale, Ariz.

Dear Gail Rae-Garwood: Thank you so much for sharing your story. We hope our readers will take your advice and check for screenings in their area or discuss their kidney health with their personal physicians.

Dear Annie: I think “Grandpa in South Dakota” could teach his voracious reader of a grandson cursive writing himself. I have heard of schools that have Cursive Clubs because it is no longer taught. It would be a fun project to do with a grandchild.

— I Would

Dear Would: An excel-lent idea. Schools have only so many hours in a day and cannot cover everything. We are sorry to see cursive go, but we understand why and think it’s a great idea to learn these skills outside of school.

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

3/10/14

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle

Chess Quiz

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

with several given numbers. The object is to place the

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

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

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to

Sunday.

WHITE’S BEST MOVE?Hint: Better than Qxg8.

Solution: 1. Qd6ch! Ka7 2.b6 mate! If instead 1. … Ka5, 2. b4 mate!

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

Jumble Daily Bridge Club

My wife and daughter were away, and I was dining alone.

“I think too much of you to ask you over for dinner,” Unlucky Louie said. “I’m not suggesting that it’s dangerous to eat my wife’s cooking, but we take 20 minutes to say grace.”

Louie was today’s declarer. (North’s bid of two hearts was a “transfer.”) West led a heart, and Louie lived dangerously by capturing East’s king with the ace. He led a trump to dummy’s jack and took the ace.

When East discarded, Louie started the clubs. West ru�ed the third club, cashed his queen of hearts and led a diamond to East’s A-Q. Down one.

HEART TRICK Louie will succeed unless West gets

in for a fatal diamond shift. Louie must duck the first heart, making sure West can’t win a heart trick. He next lets the queen of trumps ride, not caring if East wins.

When West actually covers the queen, Louie assures his game (and makes an

overtrick as the cards lie) by returning a club to his hand and leading a trump to dummy’s eight.

By Frank Stewart Tribune Content Agency

Questions and comments: Email Stewart at [email protected]

Aries (March 21-April 19)★★★★ You have a flair for creating ten-sion, as people find you to be unpredictable. However, a role reversal seems to be at play: Tonight: Do some yoga or take a walk.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ How you handle the key people in your daily environment reflects who you are. You intuitively know what others want or need. Tonight: Hang out.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)★★★ You are able to juggle your finances with the best of them. You are likely to discover how di�cult a situation can be, especially if it revolves around a friend or loved one. Tonight: Pay bills first.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ While others play out their Monday-itis, you seem to be full of unusual and e�ec-tive ideas. Test them out on several people. Tonight: Only as you like it.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)★★ You might not want to share too many of your thoughts right now; instead, listen carefully to a partner or friend. Tonight: Not wanting to socialize.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ You seem to know what to do in order to achieve specific results. Listen to a loved one when discussing an unpredictable associate or partner. Tonight: Make plans with a friend.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)★★★ Others expect you to come to the rescue for them when they aren’t able to help themselves. You could be a little ticked o� by this attitude. Your plate is full. Tonight: Do something just for you.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★★ You are bound to make a di�erence by expressing a more complete perspective of a problem. Tonight: Let your mind drift — you need some R and R.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Someone gladly would take up all of your time and attention, if you would allow it. Only you can decide if this is OK. State your boundaries clearly. Tonight: Say “yes” to an invitation.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★★ Others can’t seem to get enough of you. However, you have a strong need to go a certain way, and you don’t want anyone holding you back. Tonight: Carve out the correct situation for you.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★ You seem more than capable of staying away from problems today, as long as you don’t take an unusual financial risk. Tonight: In the whirlwind of living.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ You could be taken aback by a sud-den and unexpected financial change. Tap into your creativity. Tonight: Act like there is no tomorrow!

Horoscope

This year a lot happens very quickly in your life. You barely have enough time to adjust to one surprise be-fore another one pops again. Stay flexible, and be willing to look at the glass as being half-full rather than half-empty. If you are single, you might nearly commit several times, possibly to different people. Take your time, and get to know your po-tential suitors. If you are attached, the two of you enjoy a more playful and fun time together, as if you were just starting to date. Give up being rigid or determined to have your way. Just enjoy your sweetie. CANCER is as emotional as you are!

What the stars Mean

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAYBy Jacqueline Bigar King Features Syndicate


MARCY SUGAR & KATHY MITCHELL

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

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

Free kidney screening helps keep you healthy

CRYPTOQUIP: SOME OF MY NEIGHBOR’S PURPLE

FLOWERS WERE MORE EXCELLENT THAN MINE.

CLEARLY I HAD BEEN OUT-PHLOXED.


The average solution time for this crossword is 67 minutes.

By Judith Martin and Jacobina MartinUniversal Uclick

Dear Miss Manners: I am the godmother of a lovely girl who will be turning 2. Her mother and I have decided that we want to throw her a nice casual party at a fall festival that includes hay rides, party favors, live music, a deco-rated gazebo, etc., for a reasonable price that I am happy to cover.

The cost of the party reservation does not in-clude the cost of the en-trance fee into the festival, which is $15 per person. Is it the responsibility of the hosts (my friend and me) to front the ticket cost for our guests? Or is it rea-sonable to ask the guests to take on this payment? I am a single 20-something young woman with limited income and my friend is a single parent. We are just not sure how to go about

this with fairness and grace.

Gentle Reader: If the party reservation does not include the entrance fee to any of the festival’s enticements, Miss Man-ners is not surprised that the price is so reason-able. Unfortunately, fair-ness and grace will not be forefront on your guests’ minds if they are invited to a party for which they have to pay.

As compromised as you and your friend’s financial situations may be, you are making the assumption that your guests’ are ex-pendable.

Miss Manners is afraid that you must find an al-ternate venue — perhaps someone’s backyard where you could create a similar-ly festive atmosphere? At 2 years old, the birthday girl and her friends will have just as good of a time — and their parents will have

an even better one for not being charged for the fun.

Dear Miss Manners: The mother of a childhood friend is dying of cancer. I no longer live near this friend and have not been in contact with her since high school, but I always get news of the family from my mom, who still lives in the small town where we grew up. I am very sad to hear this news and have very fond memories of this woman.

Is it kind or selfish of me to write a short note to this woman to let her know she matters to me and that my thoughts are with her?

Gentle Reader: How it could be construed as self-ish to let someone who is dying know that she is im-portant to you, Miss Man-ners cannot imagine.

Submit your questions online at missmanners.com.

MISS MANNERS

Don’t spring birthday expense on guests By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Your creativity can spin a wild tale. You might feel the need to loosen up a loved one who often gets uptight with you. You could feel pressured by the sheer presence of a key person. Make a point to go of and enjoy some “you” time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You keep cater-ing to a diicult person in your life. You might not be sure as to what else to do. Perhaps if you pull back a little, you might feel much better. Decide to give this person time to relect.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Understanding will evolve to a new level. You could be of base in your approach at the moment. Keep focusing on the long term, rather than on the immediate results of proceed-ing in the way you have been. Fatigue is a factor.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You could feel pressure to perform to your max. Your ability to get to the bottom of a problem will allow you a little time to relax. Don’t get uptight

about a workaholic in your life.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

HHHH You might be working through a rather intense issue involving your domestic life. You could be wavering between be-ing optimistic and getting upset. You will need patience to move past this problem.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HH Know when to back of from a diicult situation. You could be more of-kilter than you realize. Take some quiet time. Awk-wardness is likely to occur when trying to have a discussion with a loved one, as he or she might be clever at avoiding the topic.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Listen to news, and be more forthright with friends and co-workers about a situation. A meeting could be beneicial, yet it also might cause some stress. Your major concern revolves around your inances and not overcommitting.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You tend to change your mind about a situation so frequently that others could be left feeling rather confused. You might feel pressured to such an extent that you won’t be able to get your work done. Try to

release some of the tension. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-

Dec. 21) HHHHH Keep reach-ing out to someone who has more information than you do about a certain topic. You could feel ready to make a major move, only to suddenly experi-ence some trepidation. Confu-sion surrounds communication.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH A close associate might be putting his or her focus into making a decision about an important matter that concerns both of you. Understand where this person is coming from. Confusion could be the basis of a misunderstanding.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Defer to others and encourage them to express their thoughts and passions on a new level. You could feel overwhelmed by someone’s attitude, which has a very cold tone. Bypass this person.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20 HHHH You could be seeing a situation diferently now that you are in the midst of it. Con-sider making a change in order to handle issues in a more efec-tive way. Understand the natu-ral limitations of the problem.



Sports


901-529-2349

Coaches and parents are ready to play ball now that Collierville town of-icials have lowered the price to rent its ball ields for practice for the com-petitive and middle school teams who use them.

“I think it’s very fair,” said Mayor Stan Joyner. “It was a compromise be-tween the Parks Advisory Board and the competitive baseball organizers.”

The two-tier rate is based on a percentage of Collierville kids who play on the teams. Teams in which at least 90 percent of its players are Collierville residents will pay $15 for a 1½-hour practice session rather than the previous rate of $25. Teams that have at least 70 percent of play-ers living in Collierville will pay $25 rather than $35 for a practice session.

The new fee applies to the 16 competitive base-ball teams, the four com-petitive softball teams and the middle school teams from Collierville and Schilling Farms.

“It was a long process but they listened and worked with us. Our kids can go play now and rep-resent the town of Collier-ville,” said Brad Kornegay, vice president of the Col-lierville Dragons Baseball Club, which has 13 of the 16 competitive baseball teams.

Last year, town oicials initially adopted a much higher fee of $50 per hour for teams with 90 per-cent local children play-ing and $75 per hour for teams with a minimum of 70 percent local children playing.

Town oicials dropped the price to $25 and $35 and hour, but team manag-ers objected and brought 25-30 players, parents and coaches to a recent board meeting.

While the Parks Advi-sory Board considered a one-time fee versus a pay to play rental agreement, the parks board decided a “pay to play” was more equitable.

The Parks and Recre-ation staf report said in part, “a one-time fee could allow some teams more use than others yet pay the same price.”

Depending on the competitive team, play-ers practice two to three times a week and play be-tween 30 and 80 games a season depending on the age bracket. Some teams have both a spring and fall season.

Town park officials said it costs $27.50 an hour in labor costs to get the ields ready for basic use. Those costs do not include mowing and turf maintenance such as ir-rigation, fertilization and spraying two to three times a week.

BASEBALL

C’ville lowers rent for fields

By Jason [email protected]

901-529-5804

The weekly honors continue to roll in for University of Memphis freshman forward Austin Nichols, who was named the American Athletic Conference’s Rookie of the

Week for a third consecu-tive week Monday and on Tuesday was a unanimous selection to the AAC All-Rookie team.

Nichols, a former star play at Briarcrest Chris-tian School, averaged 15.5 points and six rebounds last week as Memphis (23-8, 12-6) split a pair of

games against nationally ranked opponents.

A 6-8, 212-pound power forward, Nichols scored 17 points on 7 of 12 shooting in Memphis’ 97-84 loss at Cincinnati on March 6. He followed that up with a 14-point, nine-rebound performance last Satur-day in the Tigers’ 67-58

win over SMU.It’s the fourth time this

season that Nichols, who has scored in double ig-ures in six straight games, has earned the weekly honor.

Nichols leads the Ti-gers in ield goal percent-age (60.0) and is second in blocked shots (41).

U OF M TIGERS

Austin Nichols picks up more honors

Collierville Dragons catcher

Jacqueline Conlan prepares to make contact

with a pitch in first inning play

against White Station. The

Lady Drag-ons won the

season-opener 15-0.

PHOTOS BY CRAIG COLLIER/SPECIAL TO THE WEEKLY

Collierville High pitcher Bayleigh Wisher pitched a shutout in the first game of the season as the Lady Dragons cruised to a 15-0 win over White Station. Wisher also hit a home run.

The Gymstars Gymnastics competitive teams hosted a

meet at the Cook Convention Center. The Level 8s had a

great meet and took home the first place team trophy.

The winning team members are Kitty Guenther (left),

Grace Woolfolk, Grace Bardes, Hailey Paige Baroni, Addi

Newby and Conner Johnson.

GYMSTARS

WIN FIRST

PLACE

Roundup

ECS run ends in state semifinals

After a surprising run to the TSSAA BlueCross Division 2-A boys bas-ketball state semiinals, the Evangelical Christian School Eagles ran out of upsets and lost to Frank-lin’s Battle Ground Acad-emy, 61-40, in a D2-A state semiinal Feb. 27 at Lip-scomb University.

The Eagles’ chances took a big blow when se-nior point guard Isaac James, the regional tour-nament MVP, got caught under a pile early in the second quarter and suf-fered what coach Terry Tippett called a “shoulder stinger.” Two other key players, Marcus Lytle and Jack Oliver, missed much of the third quarter with foul trouble.

“It’s very frustrating,” said Lytle. “It killed us when Isaac went out.”

Lytle led ECS with 10 points and Mitch Weath-erford added nine, but the Eagles (17-13) never really got going after falling be-hind by double digits early. Still, Tippett was proud of what his team accom-plished, especially consid-ering it played all but two games this season without star 6-11 junior Skal Labis-siere.

“When you have talent, you expect to win big,” said Tippett, who said he’s planning to return next year, “Lord willing.”

“If you don’t have talent, then your job is to coach them up and get them to be better than they are. We knew we couldn’t run up and down (and compete). We played the best way we could to give ourselves a chance to win.”

Briarcrest boys lose in state semifinals

Briarcrest Christian School boys basketball team got of to a slow start in last Friday’s BlueCross Division 2-AA state semiinal at Allen Arena in Nashville and never could recovery losing 41-23 to Memphis University School.

Briarcrest (20-10) made just 2 of 17 ield-goal at-tempts in the irst half, in which they trailed 19-8. They inished 7 of 34.

Will Hrubes led the Saints in scoring with nine, but for the rest of the team, it was an uncharac-teristically bad game.

“We’re a good 3-point-shooting team,” said Saints coach John Harrington. “Mark (French) is over 40 percent (for the season). Micah (Thomas) is over 40 percent. Will is over 40 percent. Adam (Pike) is right at 40 percent. And we shoot 2 for 19.”

Said Hrubes, “Basically, we couldn’t get anything going from deep. We made a few mistakes. ... And they were more successful at making shots.”

BCS girls unbeaten year ends at state

It was déjà vu all over again for the Briarcrest girls basketball team.

For the second year in a row, the Saints entered the BlueCross Division 2-AA state semifinal against Brentwood Academy with an impressive record and plenty of conidence. But for the second straight year they endured a night-mare irst half and ended up short of expectations.

The Eagles advanced to last Saturday’s champion-ship game, knocking of the Saints, 53-36, at Lip-scomb University’s Allen Arena. The loss was the irst of the year for Briar-crest, which ends the year 28-1.

“If you had bet me that we would come up here and play this poorly, I would have thought you were crazy,” said Saints coach Lee Smith. “I would have taken the bet.”

For the Saints and their fans, the parallels to 2013 were scary. Last season Briarcrest entered the semiinals with a 26-1 re-cord but went the entire irst half without a bucket en route to a loss.

This year, the Saints nearly did the same thing, getting a layup from Elise Holden at the first-half buzzer for their only bas-ket.

Lady Dragons on fire

By John [email protected]

901-529-2350

NASHVILLE — Briarcrest basketball standout Jas-mine Cincore said winning her second consecutive Di-vision 2-AA Miss Basket-ball award March 1 was “huge.” Well actually, it was a little more than that.

“It’s huge. Huge, huge, huge, huge,” she said.

Cincore, a 5-9 senior who plays guard and for-ward for the Saints, won

the award at Lip-s c o m b ’s Allen Are-na, follow-ing the D 2 - A A girls state

champion-ship game.

A n d while there might have been a couple of more “huges” in there, Cincore was clearly delighted to repeat.

“It feels great,” she said. ‘It feels like all my hard work has paid of. I’ve got a great family, great parents and a huge support system. I just feel so honored.”

Cincore, who will play at Nebraska next season, averaged 15.2 points, eight rebounds, 3.1 assists and 3.1 steals for the Saints this season. She shot 49 percent from the loor and 74 per-cent from the free-throw line.

But perhaps the most impressive number at-tached to Cincore’s career is this: In her two seasons on the Briarcrest varsity after transferring from Central, her team won 54 of 57 games, including a 28-1 inish this year that ended with a loss to state champ Brentwood Acad-emy in the semiinals.

“It’s still eating me up

inside,” said Cincore. “But it’s great to walk away (with this honor). I really never expected to have this much success.”

Kennesha Echols of state champion Ensworth and Kennedy Potts of Har-peth Hall were the other two finalists in D2-AA girls.

Cincore, who joins Al-liesha Easley (2006), Jada Mincy (2003) and Ashley Earley (2001) as Briarcrest players who have won the award, was the only Mem-phis player honored Sat-urday.

Micah Sheetz of Knox-ville Webb, who was named Most Valuable

Player after leading her team to the state champi-onship on Saturday, won the D2-A girls award over a pair of Memphians, junior Kaylan Pugh of St. Mary’s and sophomore Emily Ly-tle of Evangelical Christian School.

Franklin Road Academy senior Rob Marberry was the boys winner in D2-A, beating out St. George’s ju-nior standout Justin Wert-ner and Clay Hertel of Do-nelson Christian Academy.

The D2-AA award went to Andrew Fleming of En-sworth, ahead of CBHS senior Josh Bougher and Slate Rider of Father Ryan.

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Briarcrest’s Cincore repeats for awardSaints standout named Miss Basketball again

Jasmine Cincore


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By Marlon W. [email protected]

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Jenna Fergus irst heard of the na-tional call for artists to submit art-work for an exhibit titled Clothesline Musings through a friend on Face-book.

Artists were asked to submit art that was inspired by the clothesline. Fergus recently had two of her pieces chosen to be in the exhibition at Phil-adelphia’s Painted Bride Art Center.

Her work will be on display through April 12 as part of an exhibit that explores historical and contem-

porary visual artists’ relationship with the clothesline.

It’s a subject that resonates well with Fergus, an art teacher at Briarcrest Christian School.

During her intercul-tural studies in Union University’s graduate program, Fergus spent time in Ramallah, Isra-

el, just outside of Jerusalem. While there, she noticed clotheslines hang-ing throughout living spaces every-where — in apartment buildings, on houses, in rural and urban settings.

“Very few people actually have clothes dryers,” Fergus said. “It’s re-ally an indicative part of their culture.”

Fergus set up a clothesline at Shelby Farms and from it she hung items, such as her grandmother’s slip, in which she transferred photos to them. She also shot video of the items, which will be shown during the exhibit.

This will be the irst time Fergus, 56, has had her work shown in an ex-hibit outside of Memphis.

“I had one show at The Elegant Farmer (restaurant),” she said. “They hung nine of my paintings two years

ago. This is a big deal because it was a national call for artists.”

Fergus is a late bloomer in the art world. She was a 35-year old waitress at Shoney’s with no art background when she decided to get a teaching degree in art after being involved with the Richland Elementary PTA.

She has been an art teacher at Bri-arcrest for 15 years.

Fergus said because of prior ar-rangements, she will be unable to attend her exhibit. Friday through Sunday, there will also be The Clothesline Muse, a performance that includes dance, percussive mu-sic, spoken word, interview text, video, and interactive art.

A cast of six dancers and a jazz vo-calist will explore the clothesline as a metaphor of our community lifeline and its ties to our environment.

In the future, Fergus said she would like to take artifacts of women her age, such as tea towels or hand-embroidered napkins, and transfer photos from people’s history to them, eventually featuring a 1,000-piece clothesline in a cotton ield.

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Artist puts her work on the (clothes) line

By Kathy K. MartinSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

They can’t hear the mu-sic, but these choir mem-bers sing with their hearts and their hands.

As members of Silent Praising Hands, which is part of Kirby Woods Bap-tist Church Deaf Ministry, they seek to show others that they don’t have to hear the music to feel it.

The choir became the irst deaf group to sign the national anthem before a Memphis Grizzlies basket-ball game March 1. Accom-panied by Kirby Woods vocalist Vicki Stewart, 10 members of the choir signed before the game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Choir director Rosita Tate said that the choir members were more excit-ed than she had ever seen them. “They did an excel-lent job and the crowd exploded with applause when we were done. It was an amazing night for all of us.”

Ranging in age from late 20s to late 80s, the choir

members sing in their own deaf worship service at Kirby Woods, which is located at 6325 Poplar, and every fourth Sunday in the main church’s worship ser-vice. They also perform at women’s ministries events and nursing homes.

Tate said that people seem to be moved by the beauty of a song as it’s signed. She became involved with the deaf ministry in 1977 when she and her husband, Charles, who is deaf, married and began attending First Bap-tist Church in Memphis, where the ministry irst began over 60 years ago.

Choir member Aman-da Miller, 29, who is deaf, joined the ministry in 1990 when she was just 6 years old. After graduating from Southwest Tennessee Community College in 2011, she joined the choir.

Miller’s mother, Connie Farmer, is the choir’s assis-tant director. She became involved in the ministry when she and her family moved to Memphis for her daughter’s education. She said that her duties vary,

but she leads the choir when Tate is out, helps with the sound system, interprets as needed and assists Tate in changing words to songs to better convey the concept of the original written words.

Leslie Howat joined the church because both she and her husband, Rodney, are deaf and the church had a strong deaf ministry.

“The choir has created a force in me that makes me want to have a connec-tion with God and my faith has never been stronger,” she said. She wants others to know that deaf people aren’t that diferent from those who hear. “Many people don’t realize this, but we don’t see being deaf as a weakness to endure, but strength to make us appreciate who we are and what we do have.”

Rebecca Hammond and her husband, Jim, are mem-bers of the deaf church even though they can hear. “I don’t know what God’s reason for me being here is, but I do know that I love the deaf members of the church and they have fully embraced my husband and me. … I am growing in my faith through the Word be-ing taught in Sunday school and the worship service.”

KIRBY WOODS BAPTIST CHURCH

Praising hands in silent song

Rosita Tate di-rects the choir of the Kirby Woods

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By Jeremy C. ParkSpecial to The Weekly

Memphis enjoys a dis-tinct competitive advan-tage when it comes to our water supply. We are situated on the blufs of the Mighty Mississippi River, which plays an important role in the prominence of our logistics industry, but experts in the ield of wa-ter quality tout Memphis water as some of the most clean, clear, and odor-free water in the world.

We have the beneit of the Memphis Sands Aqui-fer extending approxi-mately 3,500 feet below the earth’s surface creating a natural ilter of sand that provides us with an abun-dant water supply requir-ing little treatment when withdrawn. So, while other cities and states ight over access to clean water, the Mid-South is sitting on a globally-desired source of relatively inexpensive and

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The Wolf River and its 522,000 acre water-shed play an impor-tant role in our water supply. The

Wolf is a spring-fed river rising in north Mississippi that lows north and west through rural, wild and mostly forested West Ten-nessee joining the Missis-sippi River at Downtown Memphis.

The Wolf River Con-servancy, established in 1985, has helped to pro-tect approximately 14,000 acres with a focus on land and water conservation, planning and policy, en-vironmental education, and outdoor recreation. Annually, their outreach and education programs teach around 10,000 chil-dren and adults including

school ield trips, outdoor adventures, hikes, and ca-noe trips.

There are many ways to help the Conservancy’s eforts and play a part in protecting the river, lands, and life around it. Partici-pate in upcoming events, like their ninth annual Tree Plant on March 29, from 9 a.m. to noon at Shel-by Farms Park. Approxi-mately 7,000 trees will be planted by volunteers.

Enjoy the Wolf River Greenway or paddle the Wolf River with your family or co-workers and a volunteer tour guide. As a member supported orga-nization, consider joining the Conservancy for as lit-tle as $35 for an individual membership. Subscribe to their free e-mail newslet-ter or simply visit their website, wolfriver.org, to learn more.

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By Kim Motschman CribbSpecial to The Weekly

March is Red Cross Month and the American Red Cross would like to recognize the nation’s Ev-eryday Heroes who reach out to help their neighbors when they are in need.

“Our heroes are our vol-unteers, our blood donors, people who take our classes or those who make a inan-cial contribution to help us help others here in the Mid-South,” said chapter execu-tive Laura Vaughn. “During Red Cross Month we thank them and encourage every-one to discover their inner hero by giving time to help people in our community.”

For more than 70 years, March has been designat-ed as Red Cross Month to

recognize how the Ameri-can Red Cross helps peo-ple across the country and around the world.

The Red Cross responds to nearly 70,000 national disasters big and small ev-ery year. Over the last six months, the Mid-South Chapter responded to 419 local emergencies, assisted 607 military families and trained 3,749 people in lifesaving skills. And, vol-unteers and staf from the chapter taught prepared-ness education to 3,522 adults and children in the Mid-South.

“Red Cross Month is also a great time for people to become part of the Red

Cross. It’s easy,” Vaughn said. “They can become a Red Cross volunteer, work on a preparedness plan for their household, give blood, or take a Red Cross class.”

The Red Cross is not a government agency and relies on donations of time, money and blood to do its work. An average of 91 cents of every dollar given to the Red Cross is invested in helping people in need.

If you are interested in having a Red Cross rep-resentative speak to your group or business and/or teach a free prepared-ness education for Red Cross Month, call 901-672-6353 or e-mail [email protected].

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

Trivia night beneitA trivia night fundraiser

will be held for Leadership Collierville April 5 at the Church of the Incarnation, gymnasium, 360 Bray Sta-tion Road. The games be-gin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 each and a table of eight is $240. If you reserve a table before Monday you will re-ceive one free ticket. Call Terry Dean at 901-853-1949 or e-mail [email protected] for in-formation.

Fashion show

The United Methodist Women of CrossRoads lo-cated at 9315 E. Shelby Dr. will hold its annual Fash-ion Show and Luncheon March 22. Along with the fashions, there will be door prizes and a silent auction. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. with lunch being served at 11 a.m. Tickets are $15. Call 901-737-3776 to reserve tickets.

Pickleball at YMca

Play pickleball at the YMCA at Schilling Farms Thursdays, from 8:30-10:30 a.m. through April 24. Pick-leball is a mixture of bad-

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Kiser’s Floor Fashions is opening a store at 573 W. Poplar and to celebrate the grand opening there will be a ribbon cutting Tuesday at 2 p.m.

The grand opening will feature special incentives from flooring manufac-turers of 20 to 50 percent of selected carpets and hardwoods. There will also be refreshments and giveaways.

Spring Fling beneit

Tara Oaks Elementary will host its Spring Fling Fundraiser on March 20, from 4:40-7:30 p.m.

There will be kid-friend-ly activities, vendors and a silent auction. The fund-raiser is open to the com-munity.

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Social Security classAn “Understanding So-

cial Security” seminar will be held at the Germantown Community Library March 22. There is no cost to at-tend. Call 901-485-2031 to sign up.

Golf clinics oferedRegistration is open for

golf clinics at Germantown Country Club, which will run March 18 to April 8. The cost is $130 for four sessions or $35 per indi-vidual lesson. The clinic will be held at the club, 1780 Kimbrough Road. To register, call Craig Melton at 901-757-7389 or e-mail [email protected].

Spring Bridge event

The annual Spring Bridge Benefit will be April 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Germantown United Methodist Church Life Enrichment Center, 2323 West St. Registra-tion forms are available at the church’s information counter or in the Owings Life Enrichment Center. Call Jan Dacus at 901-754-3876 for more information. The registration deadline is April 3.

GHS open house

Germantown High School is holding its an-nual Open House March 20 beginning at 6 p.m. During the evening, guests will have the opportunity to attend a Q&A session.

By Monty CrosbySpecial to The Weekly

Houston High School’s A Guard performed “The Hunt” at Houston’s 2014 Colorfest competition, which is an indoor band competition hosted an-nually by the Houston band drumlines and color guards.

Participants from the Memphis area competed and this year’s irst place winners were:

■ Class A percussion: Desoto Central High School drumline

■ Concert Percussion: Northpoint Christian School, Germantown Middle and St. George’s Elementary Gryphon bri-gade

■ Class A Winterguard: Desoto Central High School and Houston Mid-dle School.

In recent competitions, Houston’s indoor A Guard received irst place at both SCGC Rhythm and Silk Competition in Nashville on Feb. 1 and the Missis-sippi Indoor Association competition in Horn Lake on Jan. 18. The guard is an auditioned group within the Houston Band and competes around the area during indoor guard sea-son each spring.

The guard also received irst place at Collierville High School’s indoor comptetition, where they and performed later that day at the Mississippi In-door Association Competi-tion in Southaven and won second place. Houston’s A and B winterguards, as well as the indoor drum-

lines, will compete at Ar-lington High’s competition on March 22.

Led by director Sarah Tyer, guard instructors, Jennifer Parson and Mar-cus Onezime, and captain Margaret Bones, Hous-ton’s Winterguard will travel to Goodman, Miss. on March 29 and conclude its 2014 season with state championships at Holmes Community College.

The Houston band leads the state with the most stu-dent musicians chosen for any All-District clinic in Tennessee. The Houston band wind ensemble was selected through audition to perform at the upcom-ing Tennessee Music Edu-cators’ Conference at the Cannon Center in April.

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At the Colorfest competition, Houston High’s A Guard per-formed “The Hunt.” The group will next compete ar Arlington High March 22.

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