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With Christmas just around the corner, local mu-nicipalities will host various events over the next month to spread a little holiday cheer.

Here’s a list of some of the big events going on in your area:

ARLINGTON

■ Arlington’s annual Christmas parade will be Dec. 5 at 3 p.m. The parade will make its way down Ches-ter and end at Depot Square. As usual, the parade will fea-ture loats, marching bands and performance groups.

BARTLETT

■ On Dec. 4 at Singleton Community Center, the City of Bartlett will put on its an-nual Christmas Tree Lighting event at 6 p.m. The festivities begin with live entertainment and soon after, Santa and Mrs. Claus will arrive and light the tree. Refreshments will be available after the lighting. Kids can get their pictures taken with Santa for a small fee and there will be several areas where children can make and take home Christ-mas crafts.

■ The Bartlett Christ-mas parade will be Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. This year’s theme is “The Magic of Christmas” and the parade route starts at Bartlett Boulevard and proceeds on Stage Road to Shelby Street.

■ “Let it snow!” Dec. 6 at the Bartlett Historical Society’s Christmas Open House at the Bartlett Muse-

COMMUNITY

City, suburbs spread the joyUpcoming holiday events around town

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Visitors join hands during a blessing by Rabbi Micah Greenstein as the new West Cancer Center in Germantown is dedicated Nov. 17. The 123,000- square-foot building at 7945 Wolf River Blvd., which was built in 1999, was formerly home to University of Tennessee physician practices.

By Kevin [email protected]

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Erich Mounce used three simple num-bers Nov. 17 to intro-

duce the crowd in a tent erected outside the West Cancer Center in Ger-mantown to the purpose of the new $60.5 million facility.

The number of cancer patients anticipated to walk through the doors in the next 12 months: 35,234. The number expected to be treated

with chemotherapy: 10,022. The number receiving radiation treat-ments: 18,200.

“This is why we stand here to-day,” Mounce, chief executive oi-cer of the West Cancer Center, said.

“The numbers are staggering.”Even as the ribbon-cutting cer-

emony marked the grand opening of the Germantown “east campus”

GERMANTOWN

West on a missionWest

Cancer Center opens clinic,

announces plans for Midtown

Visitors includ-ing Sheila Lewis (center) and Kimberly Parker (right) tour a rooftop terrace of the new West Cancer Clinic in Germantown during com-memoration ceremonies of the facility.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING Whether you’re looking for a date-night idea or entertainment for the kids, check out our local event listings. CALENDAR, 19

By Kim TunnellSpecial to The Weekly

The Tennessee Art Edu-cation Association has cho-sen Jennifer Harants for the 2015-16 TAEA West Region Art Educator of the Year.

Harants has served on the TAEA board as the West Tennessee regional representative for four years and has implement-ed four terriic regional conferences. She’s always looking for engaging activi-ties for the teachers while working well with several local partners (Memphis College of Art, Brooks Mu-seum, and Shelby County School’s art education

staf) to plan the confer-ences. She’s also utilized local artists as teachers and participants.

She attends the state

conference every year with the goal of looking for new and exciting ways to engage her students in the classroom. She’s passionate

about art and teaching and always striving to be the best teacher she can be.

Harants was honored with this award at the TAEA Fall Professional Development Conference at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlin-burg during an awards dinner at Arrowmont. The conference is sponsored in part by the Tennessee Arts Commission.

This award is given to recognize excellence in professional accomplish-ment and service by a dedicated art educator. Harants exemplifies the highly qualiied individu-als who are in the ield of art education today.

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Art teacher wins educator of the year

Bailey Station art teacher Jennifer Harrants was recently named the Tennessee Art Education Association’s West Region Art Educator of the Year.

Award recognizes excellence in class

HILLARY IN MEMPHISDemocratic hopeful stops by LeMoyne-Owen, meets with family of Darrius Stewart. NEWS, 3

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G E R M A N T OW N

Houston High band director to retire

Houston High School band director Jim Smith on Nov. 17 announced he will retire at the end of the school year.

Smith, who has been the school’s band director for 25 years, wrote a letter to band members to an-nounce his retirement.

His letter read, in part: “Over the past 25 years, I have enjoyed unparalleled levels of support from stu-dents, parents and alumni. To compare where we started to where we are now is truly humbling. You have allowed me to share a great number of experienc-es with you and, for that, I will be eternally grateful.”

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G E R M A N T OW N

Juried art show at St. George’s Church

St. George’s Episcopal Church, 2425 S. German-town Road, will host the Memphis/Germantown Art League of Memphis’ juried art exhibit, which opens today and ends Dec. 28 in the St. George’s Art Gallery.

Philip Jackson will jury and judge the exhibition. A reception to meet the art-ists will be held following the judging on Dec. 4, from 6-8 p.m. The show free and open to the public.

St. George’s Art Gal-lery is open on Tuesdays through Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sundays, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and other times by calling 901-754-7282.

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The Weekly

By Thomas Bailey [email protected]

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Oak Hall is branching out of town — to Nashville — after 156 years of selling clothes in Memphis.

“The timing with the real estate had a lot to do with it,’’ Will Levy said, referring to shop space in the Hill Center Green Hills lifestyle center in southwest Nashville. He’s in the sixth generation of a family that has run Oak Hall since 1859.

“But we also have built up our infrastructure where we feel we are able to serve customers (in Nashville) with the same service we have in Memphis.’’

The lagship store will remain at 6150 Poplar Ave. in Regalia Shop-ping Center. It has 17,000 square feet of selling space plus room for such operations as the back oice, alterations and online sales.

The Nashville store will open, initially, with 2,000 square feet in Hill Center Green Hills and expand to 10,000 square feet in 2017. Hill Center Green Hills is a relatively new lifestyle center in the Green Hills neighborhood pep-pered with such upscale retailers as Nordstrom, Trader Joe’s and Anthropologie.

The Levy family acknowledges

Nashville has other retailers that sell ine clothes, but says no one else ofers the kind of personal re-tail experience Oak Hall is about to export to the Music City.

“Everybody here we feel is part of the Oak Hall family and our customers are part of the extended family,’’ said Bill Levy, Will’s fa-ther. “We try to treat people right.’’

And it’s unlikely the competi-tion has a well-behaved Dalmatian named Jake — Bill’s dog — who follows Bill around the store, or homemade treats delivered to the store every Saturday by a Levy fam-ily aunt, or occasional cookouts for employees and customers to enjoy.

The Nashville store manager will be Will’s younger cousin, 28-year-old Chris Levy. He’s al-ready busy hiring a Nashville staf, working with architects on the store’s design and ordering the clothes.

“It’s kind of like you’ve got to work from the ground up,’’ said

Chris, who most recently worked as a senior merchandise planner for Neiman Marcus in Dallas. “... And now we’re just trying to get all the moving parts to work at the same time. It’s really a fun kind of strategy.’’

The idea of putting an Oak Hall in Nashville is nothing new. “We’ve been looking at Nashville for really 20 years,’’ Bill Levy said.

A market study conducted 15 years ago showed Oak Hall had relatively strong name recogni-tion in Nashville, he said, adding, “We think more people know of us now and we’ve got all kinds of cus-tomers that come here who live in Nashville and say ‘We wish there were an Oak Hall in Nashville.’ ”

Oak Hall specializes in men’s and women’s ready-to-wear ap-parel. The Levy family also owns and operates Vineyard Vines in the Regalia Shopping Center as well as in Hill Center Green Hills in Nashville and in Birmingham.

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“We’ve been looking at Nashville for nearly 20 years,” said Bill Levy (right) with son Will and Dalmatian, Jake. Will is the sixth generation of the family that has operated Oak Hall clothing store in Memphis since 1859. His cousin Chris Levy will manage the new shop in Southwest Nashville.

Branching out

Colorful socks are neatly displayed in cubbies at the store on Pop-lar Avenue.

Firmly rooted in Memphis, Oak Hall expands to Nashville

facility, oicials disclosed that a similar center is planned in Memphis on the Methodist University Hospital campus.

With a partnership formed in 2012 by The West Clinic, Methodist Healthcare and the Univer-sity of Tennessee Health Science Center, the West Cancer Center links cancer treatment, clinical trials, education and research to-gether under the same roof.

Dr. Lee Schwartzberg, executive director of the West Cancer Center, men-tioned the plans for a Mid-town center as he told the gathering about the cancer specialists, advanced tech-nology, training of UTHSC medical oncology fellows

and clinical trials for treat-ments the center makes available.

“And I’m also excited to tell you that very shortly, there will be an announce-ment about a building plan for a comprehensive cancer center on the grounds of the Methodist University Hospital that will duplicate what we do here, and inte-grate inpatient and outpa-tient facilities in one seam-less facility,” Schwartzberg said.

Methodist’s campus in the Medical District, at Union Avenue and Bel-levue Boulevard, is already home to the Methodist Uni-versity Hospital Transplant Institute.

Methodist executives will present campus expan-sion plans to the nonproit health care system’s board in December, said Donna

Abney, executive vice pres-ident for Methodist Le Bon-heur Healthcare.

Dr. Kurt Tauer, West Cancer Center chief of staf, said that “it’s going to be a huge enlargement of the MUH campus with a cancer hospital that will have a transplant wing to it,” although plans are still being formulated.

Methodist oicials have said that the campus up-grade will exceed $100 million.

On Nov. 17, the focus for the grand opening was the 123,000-square-foot building at 7945 Wolf Riv-er Blvd., originally built in 1999 and former home to UT physician practices.

It’s the new home for doctors of The West Clinic, founded 35 years ago and rebranded with the part-nership, and which has

been headquartered in East Memphis.

By next summer, the Humphreys location is expected to become the Le Bonheur Outpatient Center East Memphis.

Speakers hailed the West Cancer Center as a cutting-edge cancer facility where patients can receive services from diagnosis to treatment, with access to expanding clinical trials of new drugs being produced at an increasing pace.

Pioneering multidisci-plinary clinics will have the doctors treating a patient see the patient at the same time. Special-ists in all types of cancer are among 54 physicians and top scientist are be-ing recruited to more quickly link lab research at UTHSC to treatments in clinics.

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Troy Goode’s death was caused by his being hogtied for an extended period and had nothing to do with his ingestion of LSD, the family’s lawyer said in citing an independent autopsy conducted by Goode’s family.

Attorney Tim Edwards, repre-senting Goode’s family, released those results in a news confer-ence. However, citing client con-identiality, Edwards would not release the full autopsy report to the media.

The results from the oicial state autopsy have yet to be re-leased. DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion said he did not know when that report would be inished.

According to Edwards, Goode was left hogtied and on his stom-

ach for an extended period after his arrest in Southaven on July 18. That caused him to have trouble breathing, and when his heart couldn’t compensate, it went into cardiac arrhythmia.

“He was sufocating. His heart increased into what is called tachycardia,” Edwards said. “There is no scientiic basis to attribute his death to LSD.”

Edwards is asking the Depart-ment of Justice to open a civil-rights investigation into Goode’s death. He also said the family

plans to ile a lawsuit in early January asking for both compen-sation and a ban on these types of restraint.

The City of Southaven issued a statement, calling the death a “tragic situation” but denied any wrongdoing on the city’s part.

“At no time during the arrest or while receiving medical care from Southaven emergency re-sponders did Mr. Goode claim he could not breathe or appear short of breath,” the statement said.

The statement added that while the city is awaiting the oicial autopsy indings, “given some of the inaccurate asser-tions that have been circulated, the City of Southaven believed it appropriate to provide a state-ment on the matter.”

Edwards said the autopsy also found no evidence of a pre-exist-ing disease that would have led to his death. A previous toxicolo-gy report conirmed that Goode had used LSD and marijuana before he died.

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LSD didn’t cause death, lawyer saysBeing hogtied killed man, autopsy finds

um/Gotten House, 2969 Court St. There will be opportunities to view this extensive collection of snowmen from 2-4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Admission free but donations will be accepted.

COLLIERVILLE

■ On Dec. 1, the Town of Collierville will have its Christmas tree light-ing on the Town Square. Festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. and town leaders and employees will serve hot chocolate to guests. Enter-tainment begins at 6 p.m. and Santa will light the tree and Square at 7 p.m.

■ Collierville’s 39th annual Christmas Parade will be Dec. 4 at 6 p.m. Line up on Byhalia Road to view the parade. The rain date, if necessary, will be Dec. 5 at 6 p.m.

■ The Collierville Con-temporary Club will put on its annual Christmas in Collierville Home Tour Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be ive homes near the Town Square to tour, and the Morton Museum, 196 N. Main, will house a gift gazebo. Cost for advance tickets is $20 and $25 the day of the tour.

CORDOVA

■ Orion Starry Nights at Shelby Farms Park, one of the Mid-South’s most beloved holiday tra-ditions comes back big-ger and brighter. Shelby Farms will be lit up with more than 2 million LED. Drive through the park by car or carriage ride. Take pictures with Santa or ride a camel in the Mistle-toe Village. Starry Nights will run through Dec. 27. Cost is $20 for car, truck or minivan, $50 for limo or 15 passenger van or $150 for charter or school bus.

GERMANTOWN

■ Germantown’s Holi-day Tree Lighting will be Nov. 27 at Municipal Park Lake. Outdoor festivities begin at 5 p.m. and the tree will be lit at 5:30 p.m. At the tree lighting, listen to holiday selections per-formed by the German-town Chorus and roast marshmallows. Inside Mu-nicipal Center, guests can visit with Santa and enjoy refreshments.

■ The Germantown Holiday Parade will be Dec. 12 at 2 p.m. The tra-ditional parade includes decorated floats, youth groups, car clubs, march-ing bands and an appear-ance by Santa. The parade begins at the corner of Kimbrough and Farming-ton and will proceed on Farmington to Exeter and ending at Germantown Athletic Club. The rain date is Dec. 13.

LAKELAND

■ Lakeland presents its Christmas Festival Dec. 4, from 6-8:30 p.m. at I.H. Clubhouse, 4523 Canada Road. There will be a Christmas tree lighting ceremony, music, games, crafts and more. Santa will make his way to the Christmas Festival to hear the Christmas wishes from all the little boys and girls of Lakeland. Kids will have an opportunity to write a letter to Santa.

EAST MEMPHIS

■ Stroll through the Memphis Zoo at night dur-ing Zoo Lights. The annual holiday event will end Dec. 30. Tickets are $6 for zoo members and $8 for non members. Zoo lights is open 5:30-9:30 p.m.

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By Linda A. [email protected]

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The Memphis City Council approved on Nov. 17, on third and inal read-ing, an ordinance that es-tablishes a mow-to-own program, giving the city and its residents another tool to help eradicate blight.

The ordinance, spon-sored by Councilman Berlin Boyd, is an avenue for property owners to mow an adjoining city- or county-owned vacant lot to earn credits toward buy-ing it.

With the ordinance now approved, Boyd said he’ll convene the ad hoc committee that developed the program to iron out the details. He hopes to have it up and running in January.

“We’re probably going to convene next week so we can start the overall implementation phase,” he said.

That process will in-clude coordinating with Shelby County and the city’s real estate depart-ment, Boyd said.

Participants will pay a $175 administrative fee and receive a $25 credit

for each cut over a three-year period, with a maxi-mum credit of $1,350. If the value of the property exceeds that amount, the participant will pay the diference.

This program is ex-pected to work jointly with Blight Authority of Mem-phis Inc., the city’s newly established nonproit land bank.

BAM will be able to ac-cess federal grant funds to tear down structures on abandoned properties, potentially rendering the lots eligible for inclusion in the mow-to-own pro-gram.

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Mow-to-own program tackles blight

By Kyle [email protected]

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In public, in front of some 1,500 at LeMoyne-Owen College, Hillary Clinton’s message mostly focused on the economy.

In private, to the parents of Darrius Stewart, her message was more person-al: She ofered condolences, Stewart’s attorney said, and expressed concern about such incidents.

Clinton’s irst campaign visit to Memphis in her bid for the 2016 Demo-cratic nomination began with meeting the parents of Stewart, the 19-year-old unarmed black man killed by a white police of-icer following a July traic stop.

With some in the au-dience wearing Stewart shirts, Clinton’s rally re-marks were largely focused

on the economy. She said her candidacy is “to get the economy working for ev-erybody,” while she touted a variety of programs and initiatives that she claims would do just that.

The new policy kernel that came from Clinton Friday was this: a tax cred-it of up to $5,000 to fami-lies who have “excessive health care costs.” The credit would be $2,500 for an individual, and Clinton plans to unveil more pro-posals aimed at the mid-dle class Sunday in Iowa, home of the irst presiden-tial caucuses.

She vowed to defend the Afordable Care Act, which drew a pointed re-sponse from the Tennes-see Republican Party.

“Hillary Clinton refus-es to admit it’s not work-ing,” TRP chairman Ryan Haynes said in an emailed statement. “Instead, she’s

once again doubling down on a failed policy.”

Speaking on the Islamic State group, Clinton said, “We can win this struggle if we stay true to who we are as Americans.”

The former Arkansas irst lady, who spoke for 25 minutes, gave a nod to her past in a neighboring state.

“I love coming to Mem-phis,” she said. “You know, I didn’t live too far away for a long time, just across the river.”

She appeared onstage in Memphis with longtime backer U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen.”

State Rep. Raumesh Akbari, D-Memphis, and LeMoyne-Owen’s new president, Andrea Miller, appeared before Cohen and Clinton. “C’mon, y’all, she’s a bad sister,” Akbari said, to applause, outlining times she said Clinton was “a ighter for us.”

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An audience of about 1,500 cheers Hillary Clinton Friday at Bruce/Johnson Hall at LeMoyne-Owen College. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, stands to the right of the Democratic presidential hopeful. Clinton also met privately with the family of Darrius Stewart.

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At a church called Heartsong, people of faith welcomed

Syrian war refugees and other former strangers to supper.

Meanwhile, at the U.S. Capi-tol, people of fear voted to tear up the welcome mat for strang-ers who happen to be Syrian war refugees.

At the church, the doors were wide open. Methodists lined up with Muslims for turkey and dressing, corn and cranberry sauce, fellowship and thanks-giving.

As they all stood in the sweet tea line, they walked past a sign that read: “Love your neighbor, I mean it. God.”

At the Capitol, Democrats lined up with Republicans to pass a bill to require various fed-eral agencies to certify stringent security procedures already in place. They didn’t change the locks, they just rattled the keys.

As they voted, they sat under a dome crowned with a statue of a female igure wearing a military helmet and holding a sheathed sword in one hand and a laurel wreath in the other.

At the church, people of faith talked about the park they are building together between the church on one side of the street and the mosque on the other side.

The call it Friendship Park.“This park will represent who

we are as Americans — people with a desire to love our neigh-bor, not people of bigotry and fear,” said Heartsong’s pastor, Rev. Steve Stone.

At the Capitol, people of fear talked about the new line of de-fense they say they are building between immigrants who want to come to America and those already here.

They call it the American Se-curity Against Foreign Enemies Act, or the SAFE Act.

“This relects our values; this relects our responsibilities,” said House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, whose ancestors were Irish and German immigrants.

At the church, Methodist busi-nessmen ate with Muslim doc-tors and joked about whether the cardiologist should be standing guard at the dessert table.

“I’m always on call,” said Dr. Bashar Shala, a Memphis cardi-ologist, father of ive, and presi-dent of the Memphis Islamic Center.

Shala, a U.S. citizen, grew up in Syria. When he was in the eighth grade, Syrian soldiers

stormed into his house and stuck an AK-47 in his face. He came to America to escape tyranny.

At the Capitol, the descen-dants of immigrants who came to America for the same reasons argued about who else should be standing guard at the Statue of Liberty.

The two-year vetting process for all Syrian refugees already involves the U.N. and nine U.S. law enforcement, intelligence and security agencies.

They perform “the most rigor-ous screening of any traveler to the U.S.,” said Amy Pope, deputy Homeland Security adviser. That includes matching ingerprints and iris scans to criminal and terrorist databases. The SAFE

Act would require the heads of the FBI, national intelligence and homeland security to verify that each Syrian refugee has been vetted and poses no security risk.

“To ask me to have my FBI di-rector or other members of the administration make personal guarantees would effectively grind the program to a halt,” U.S. Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch told re-porters.

Over the past year, about 1,800 Syrian war refugees “yearning to breathe free” have been admitted to America, including about 20 who came to Memphis.

According to U.S. oicials, about half of the resettled refu-gees are children, a quarter are over 60, and 2 percent are single

males of “combat age.”At the church Thursday, a

dozen refugee children played with children whose parents are helping them ind refuge.

Meanwhile, young men in jeans and older men in jackets talked about the Grizzlies and the Tigers and the food and toys they are collecting for holiday charities.

“We want to help those in need,” said Bilal Siddiq, a senior at Memphis University School and a member of MIC’s youth group.

Young women in colorful head- scarves talked with older women wearing colorful neck scarves about the Memphis heat and Southern drawls.

“I say you all, but I say it so fast it sounds like y’all,” said Nazia Amhed, who grew up in Boston and moved to Memphis after she married Danish Siddiqui, a Ger-mantown native.

“She’ll learn to speak South-ern,” joked her father-in-law, Ray Siddiqui, a former county engi-neer who grew up in Pakistan.

Siddiqui worked as an archi-tect for St. Jude Children’s Re-search Hospital, founded more than 50 years ago by Amos Muzyad Yakhoob, the son of Lebanese immigrants and better known as Danny Thomas.

St. Jude was established by the American Lebanese Syrian As-sociated Charities, or ALSAC. The preamble to ALSAC’s con-stitution includes this:

“We who are proud of our heritage have formed a nonproit, nonsectarian, charitable Corp. titled ALSAC ... dedicated to the parable of the good Samaritan, to love and care for our neighbor, regardless of color or creed.”

The parable is a story told by people of faith for people of fear.

Contact columnist David Waters at

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FAITH, NOT FEAR

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Members of Heartsong United Methodist Church and Memphis Islamic Center are served food during an interfaith meal at Heartsong. Hundreds attended the event, which was organized by leaders of both groups. Land between the church and mosque is being developed as Friendship Park. “This park will represent who we are as Americans — people with a desire to love our neighbor, not people of bigotry and fear,” said Heartsong pastor Rev. Steve Stone.

Neighborly Muslims, Methodists choose to embrace spirit of friendship

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By Erinn FiggSpecial to The Weekly

While the holidays are a par-ticularly meaningful time for most people, the season holds special signiicance for the family of the late Don Pelts, founder of Memphis’ signature Corky’s Ribs

and BBQ brand.People who

knew Pelts de-scribe him as a caring, gener-ous businessman who embodied a spirit of giving throughout the year. Christmas, however, was al-ways special for

both Pelts and his employees, but for diferent reasons.

“Dad was born on Dec. 24. We’re Jewish, but everyone calls him the Christmas Eve baby,” said Pelts’ daughter, Tri-cia Woodman. “Every year on Christmas Eve, all the employees would come and have a big cake for him. But that’s also when he distributed bonus checks. He re-ally wanted to celebrate them, and that’s kind of the story of who he’s always been.”

It’s been more than two years since Pelts passed away from a heart attack in 2013, but his legacy lives on through the family busi-ness, a staple in the Memphis community since the company’s beginnings in 1984. Pelts’ strong work ethic, commitment to qual-ity, dedication to Corky’s employ-ees and generous contributions to the community are still pillars of the brand to this day.

And then there’s the food, of course. It remains a local stand-out and — especially now, as the holidays approach — a way for the Pelts family to make events and celebratory gather-

ings extra special. “Of course our barbecue always had to be good, but Dad was really about the full experience — the décor, the service, the Southern hospi-tality — and that’s what we do with our Corky’s catering and Simply Delicious as well,” said Woodman, who participates in all aspects of the business, in-cluding overseeing Simply De-licious Caterings, the company’s high-end, “beyond barbecue” ca-tering division. “We’re not just going to deliver food. We’re go-ing to make it an experience for the clients and make each event special.”

Launched in 2011, Simply Deli-cious is just one example of the extensive evolution of the fam-ily operation, helmed by Wood-man, her husband Andy Wood-man, her brother Barry Pelts and her mother Linda Pelts, who has stepped back in her involvement but still ofers input.

Most Memphians know how the Corky’s story began: With a prime Poplar Avenue loca-tion where Pelts manifested his dream of an upscale barbecue restaurant with consistently good food, a lively atmosphere and the added bonus of a drive-thru window — a novelty for that caliber of restaurant at the time.

Today, that original restau-rant has grown to a full-ledged barbecue company, thanks in part to the leadership of Barry Pelts, who came onboard with the company in 1991, and Andy Woodman, who joined the team in 1995.

“Don always believed one restaurant was enough until the guys came in,” Linda Pelts said. “They pushed the idea of more and he was always so supportive of their visions.”

Now the restaurant has four Mid-South locations, plus fran-chises. In addition, Corky’s is the featured barbecue brand on the QVC home shopping television network, and its gro-cery products are sold in more than 3,000 locations. The com-pany has a fulillment center

division, Prime Time Strategic Partners, in an 80,000-square-foot warehouse, along with a 35,000-square-foot USDA-in-spected processing facility. Then there are the catering divisions, along with Corky’s concessions services. Most recently, the com-

pany has launched a revamped website at corkysbbq.com — just in time for ordering holiday gifts.

“What separates us from most barbecue restaurants is that they’re restaurants and we’re a barbecue company with eight di-visions,” Barry Pelts said. “We’ve

seen double-digit sales growth since the day we opened.”

Among those accomplish-ments, the family is especially proud of the number of Mem-phians they’ve employed, cur-rently about 400, and how happy those employees are, Pelts said.

“Our average manager has been with us for 22 years and our average hourly employee has been with us about 16 years. That’s totally unheard of in the restaurant business,” Barry Pelts said.

Warehouse manager Gregory Harris is one of those employ-ees. He’s been with the company for 27 years, starting as a bus-boy when he was 16. Like most people who knew Don Pelts, Harris has fond memories of the Corky’s founder, including a time when Harris was about to leave to pursue a career in the military.

“Don called my mother and said, ‘I want you to understand that if he stays, I’m going to take care of him; I’m going to advance him in the company,’” Harris said.

He stayed. And that level of caring is still prominent in the Pelts family, he said.

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Simply Delicious Caterings is another success story in the Corky’s brand. Daughter of founder Jim Pelts, Tricia Woodman is involved in all aspects of the business. “We’re not just going to deliver food. We’re going to make it an experience for the clients and make each event special, Woodman said.”

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“What separates us from most barbecue restaurants is that they’re restau-rants and we’re a barbecue company with eight divisions,” Barry Pelts said. “We’ve seen double-digit sales growth since the day we opened.”

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My colleague Scott Hill told me about the BLT at The Links at Galloway golf course.

“They really pile up the bacon,” he said as he measured an inch or so with his ingers. “Not two slices.” And, he said, “It’s really tasty.”

First of all, I love the Galloway clubhouse. It reminds me of a mini Churchill Downs without the horses. Footage from a golf tournament played on a wide screen TV when I stopped by on a weekday. It was lunchtime, so golf-ers already were illing up tables.

One solitary BLT wrapped in cellophane was left on a plate on the counter. The bacon really was an inch or so high. I grabbed the sandwich.

Trip Campbell and Andrea Smith with the pro shop gave me the his-tory of the Galloway BLT. “Mickey Barker, our pro

here for 12 years, and his wife had done some food at clubs they worked for,” Campbell said. “He was the pro, she was over food services.”

They came up with ba-con, lettuce and tomato because it was a sandwich that was easy to “grab and go,” Campbell said.

Galloway uses ive to six slices of applewood smoked “thick cut” bacon per sandwich. They bake the bacon for 15 to 20 min-utes on a big baking sheet in the oven instead of fry-ing it, Campbell said.

A lot of the grease runs of when it’s baked, but not all of it. They believe in “the power of bacon grease” for the great lavor, he said.

Smith said she bakes the bacon at 450 degrees. “I crank it all the way up,” she said. “There’s nothing worse than undercooked bacon.”

You can order the sand-wich, which comes with bibb lettuce, on lightly toasted white or wheat bread. They add mayon-

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They make 30 BLTs on a busy day, Smith said. The clubhouse is open “sunup to sundown” every day, Campbell said. But if you want a BLT, it’s best to come in between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

And you don’t have to play golf to eat at the club-house. “We have people who come in here to eat lunch,” Campbell said.

I could have waited for Smith to bake more bacon, but I wanted a BLT right away so I ate the one from the counter. It was deli-cious.

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In the spring of 1988 at a Collierville Rotary Club meeting, a conversation about giving back to local teachers sparked the be-ginning of the Collierville Education Foundation.

John Green of John Green & Company took im-mediate action and began asking area realtors and home builders to help fund a Teachers’ Appreciation Luncheon before the start of the next school year.

“People wanted to live in Collierville because of our great schools, and our suc-cess as realtors and home-builders was a direct re-lection upon our teachers. Many of us wanted to give back” said Green. On Aug. 19, 1988 the irst Teachers’ Appreciation Luncheon was held by contributions of only $50 from 26 spon-sors. The following year, sponsorship grew to 150 local businesses and indi-viduals contributing to the luncheon.

For nearly 10 years the Teacher Appreciation Luncheons continued through the organization of a committee under the Collierville Chamber of Commerce.

In 1996, Green started the process to transform the charitable efort into a foundation, with the mis-sion of providing educa-tional opportunities be-yond the regular school budget. Earning its 501c3 status in 1997, the Collier-ville Education Founda-tion (CEF) was oicially formed.

While the annual Teach-er Appreciation Luncheon still continues today, CEF also hosts a Bowl-a-thon for teachers, administra-tors and PTA members, as well as two fundraising events, the Drive for Educa-tion Golf Tournament and

the Classic Car and Bike Show, hosted at Central Church. For the past six years, the Collierville Po-lice Department and Land-ers Ford donated proceeds from the car show totaling more than $134,000. The Town of Collierville also supports CEF through an annual grant.

Currently, CEF is award-ing $65,000 in grants to six Collierville schools. On Nov. 12, three teachers at Sycamore Elementary School received grants for various program needs. Lynn Rushdi, Sycamore li-brarian, said that students often have requests for new books that the library simply doesn’t have on its shelves.

“We have a lot of upper level readers at Sycamore,” commented Rushdi, “With-out the support of the Col-lierville Education Founda-tion and local businesses,

we wouldn’t be able to pur-chase their requests.” With supplementing educational programs as the goal for the foundation, the board’s selection process, and the board itself, is extremely fair. Using a blind merit selection, board members choose a grant recipient with requests that meet the needs of certain criteria in-cluding number of students impacted, originality, prac-ticality and future use. The board members themselves are also nonbiased mem-bers of the community, ex-cluding educators, school board members and politi-cians. In addition to non-partisan board members, CEF awards grants solely to Collierville Schools.

“We had to have the bi-laws rewritten recently to relect the new school sys-tem,” said Green.

While Green is not as ac-tive in CEF as he was in the

beginning, he is a lifetime member of the foundation. One of his last major proj-ects with CEF was creating an endowment named after wife and former teacher, Marilyn.

He wants to make sure that the foundation will still be able to contribute annually to Collierville teachers even during hard economic times.

A 100 percent volunteer organization, CEF awards an average of $65,000 to $75,000 in grant money ev-ery year. In 2014, the total was more than $100,000. Since CEF was established, the group has raised more than $1.3 million in grants for Collierville educators. The current president, Dr. Molly Henderson, wants to continue growing support for CEF including the de-velopment of more corpo-rate partnerships.

“We have a lot of lo-

cal support. Carrier and Landers Ford have been Platinum Sponsors for years, and we are ex-tremely grateful for their contributions,” said Hen-derson. “However, there is opportunity out there to gain even more.” Platinum Sponsors contribute more than $3,000 annually and typically request a speciic area for the grant to cover. For example, the Car-rier Corporation supports STEM programming.

Other Platinum Spon-sors include Central Church, the Collierville Police Department, John Green & Company Re-altors, and the Town of Collierville. CEF also has Friends of Education Spon-sorship with a long list of individuals and businesses who annually give toward the grants.

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in place, Henderson is also looking for fresh ideas.

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“I don’t even let my 15-year-old son attend that one,” said Hender-son. “It’s a fun, social event for teachers and PTA members to have an adult night out. All the proceeds raised from ticket sales go toward the grant pro-gram.”

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LEFT: Adnan Shihaibar, Kaitlyn Denny and Cooper Nelson, all students at Schilling Farms Middle, attended the school’s Mini Maker Faire, which was held at the Collierville Barnes & Noble.

Mario Aviles’s Farmington Falcons 5K Club qualified for the Tennessee State Cross Country Elementary Championships in Knoxville. While competing on Oct. 24, the girls team came in sixth place and the boys team came in fourth. Tannon Wilson came in 38th place for the boys team and Adley Aaron came in 18th place for the girls team. She was named to the All State Team.

Donuts with Dad is a Riverdale tradition. During the event, Riverdale fathers had a chance to enjoy a few sweet treats with their kids.

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Schools

By Courtney EllettSpecial to The Weekly

Coll iervi l le High School’s varsity and junior varsity pom teams com-peted in the 2015 TSSAA Dance Championship on Nov. 14 at MTSU where they took home irst-place honors and respective di-vision titles for their pom routine.

“These wins were the result of a season full of hard work by our teams,” said Terrance Moore, the team’s teacher sponsor. “We’re excited to take that energy and dedication to the national stage in a few months.”

Both teams also com-peted at Mid-South re-gionals in October and both snagged a irst-place

win at that competition, as well. State and regional competitions are hosted by the Universal Dance Asso-ciation. The varsity and JV squads will compete for a national title at UDA’s 2016 National Dance Team Championship in Orlando in January. The teams will appear in the Town of Col-lierville’s Christmas Pa-rade on Dec. 4.

Members of the 2015-16 CHS varsity dance team are Lizzy Boyd, Hannah Adams, Madison Molnar, Abby Smither, Kaitlyn Brown, Emily Duke, Me-gan Calitri, Anna May, Jewelia Carrier, Ashton Martin, Anna Lauren Ko-rnegay, Rebecca Manseau, Robin Edwards, Sage Har-ris, Savannah Liebenrood, Ashley Maxwell, Brae

Michelotti, Kristin Smith, Kennedi Hamilton, Car-leigh Schaefer, Julianne Murphy, Sophie Pittman, Conner Johnson, Morgan Molnar, Madeline Thom-as, Emily Marszalek and Maggie Miles.

The junior varsity squad members are Jeri Raines, Lauren Hurley, Amanda Jack, Haley Rodgers, Vic-toria Person, Amelia Mc-Gowan, Abigail Baker, Mirielle Erpelding, Han-nah Proctor, Carlie Gra-ham, Haylee Burton, Anna Marie Haycook, Alexia Wooten, Ashley Stephen-son, Keagan Coile, Anna Hicks, Blaklee Martin, Victoria Smith, Taylor Mercer and Anna Lewis.

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Collierville High teams win state titles

The Collierville High School varsity and JV pom teams took home first place in their respective divisions at the 2015 TSSAA Dance Championship. The Collierville Middle School pom team also took first place in pom in their division. All three teams are coached by Carol Lloyd.

ETHAN MAYFourth grader at Dogwood Elementary

Family: Parents, Susan and Robert, one brother

What do you like most about your school: I have so many amazing friends and teachers.

What is your favorite subject: I love science because I love nature and bi-ology.

What is your most challenging sub-ject: I have a little bit of trouble with social studies because the subject is not very interesting to me.

What are some of your biggest ac-complishments: I run many 5Ks and I can run multiple nonstop miles.

Hobbies: Drawing, reading, riding my bike and playing video games.

Goals for the future: To become a vet, to have a wonderful family and

have my own tech company.Person you most admire: Steve

Jobs because he never gave up and designed a great company.

Favorite movies, TV shows, books: I love the Harry Potter movie series, I love the Percy Jackson and the Olym-pians books and loved “Good Luck, Charlie!”

What is something most people would be surprised to know about you: I am very advanced in piano for my age.

What would you do if you were prin-cipal for a day: I would have a half day and one hour of recess and party un-til school was over with the other students.

What famous person would you like to meet: I would like to meet Barack Obama to talk about our country.

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If you could change one thing in the world: I would bring world peace and happiness.

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Ethan May wants to be a veterinarian, entrepreneur

Ethan May is a fourth grader at Dogwood Elementary. One day he hopes to become a veterinarian and own his own business.

Special to The Weekly

In early November, Dr. B’s Pediatric Dentistry (Michael Blen, DDS) hosted its eighth annual Halloween Loot for the Troops candy buy-back event.

This year, with the help of Riverdale and Dog-wood schools, nearly 1,600 pounds of donated candy was shipped to Operation Gratitude, a non-profit, all volunteer corporation sending care packages to the troops deployed around the world.

This event, held at Dr. B’s oice at Poplar and Massey, allowed children to receive raffle tickets per pound of donated col-

lected candy for donated door prizes. The kids also were treated to meeting three servicemen who have seen for themselves the blessing of receiving treats from home while serving overseas.

Children not only re-ceived these rale tickets, they also received a goodie bag, T-shirt, healthy snack and the chance to color/write a card to the service-men and women.

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By Jason WilliamsSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

After the inal high school game of his career, Christian Brothers’ run-ning back Austin Lee tried describing the impact his irst-year head coach, Thomas McDaniel, has had on him, but words were not enough. Instead Lee broke down crying in McDaniel’s arms after a 35-14 loss to Montgomery Bell Academy.

“You’ve got bigger things ahead of you,” McDaniel told Lee. “You’ve had an unbelievable year.”

Lee was the quiet leader of a resur-gent Purple Wave team that made it to the semiinals of the Division 2-AA playofs one year after a 6-5 season. He inished the season with 1,594 yards and 25 touchdowns along with being nomi-nated for Mr. Football honors.

“I love Coach McDaniel,” Lee said. “He’s made such a big diference. I

wouldn’t choose to play with anybody else. I love this team.”

Lee scored two touchdowns for the Purple Wave and rushed for 184 yards. After starting quarterback Keagan Voss limped of the ield in the irst quarter, Lee carried an even heavier load. He responded with a 48-yard touchdown where he broke a couple arm tackles by Big Red defenders.

Sophomore Connor DeFreece re-placed Voss at quarterback for the Purple Wave.

MBA matched CBHS’ Austin Lee with their own star running back in junior Ty Chandler. Chandler rushed for 309 yards and four touchdowns.

Chandler, the other nominee for Division 2-AA Back of the Year along with Lee, scored on runs of 55, 6, 20 and 3.

While the season ends with a 9-3 record and semiinal appearance, Mc-Daniel said the program is heading in the right direction.

“We made great strides this year,” McDaniel said. “It’s not where we want to be at the end of the year, but this senior group really took this program a long ways one year removed from a 6-5 season...”

MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY 35, CBHS 14

CHRIS DESMOND / SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

Christian Brothers senior Austin Lee (left) rushed for 184 yards and scored two touchdowns in his inal game for the Purple Wave. CBHS fell to Montgomery Bell 35-14 on Friday night.

EMOTIONAL ENDCBHS’ irst season under McDaniel ends with semiinal loss

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As one of Northpoint’s captains Friday night, Christian Saulsberry ges-tured emphatically after his team won the coin toss.

The message was clear: “Give me the ball.” And it worked like a charm.

Saulsberry returned the opening kickof 93 yards for a touchdown and add-ed two more scoring runs before halftime as the Tro-jans improved to 13-0 and advanced to the Division 2-A state championship game with an emphatic 38-14 victory over University School of Jackson.

Their opponent Dec. 3 in Cookeville will be St. George’s, which got three touchdowns from Mr. Football finalist Chase Hayden in a 28-6 victory over Harding.

“It’s surreal; it really hasn’t sunk in yet,” said Northpoint coach Greg Wallace. “This isn’t some-thing that happens every day. We have some kids that have been playing hurt all year, but they’re playing for each other and playing the right way.”

After Northpoint la-bored to a victory in last week’s game against Do-nelson Christian Academy, Saulsberry got things of to a much better start Friday, taking the opening kickof back 93 yards.

Saulsberry then added touchdown runs of 13 and 5 yards in the second quarter to send the Trojans into halftime leading 24-0.

The senior ended the game with 198 yards on 32 car-ries.

While Saulsberry did the damage on ofense, Tyree Bryant led a fero-cious defensive efort that left Bruins quarterback Easton Underwood scram-bling for his life on several occasions.

Blake Hardin snufed

out one USJ drive with a goal-line interception and Matthew Whiting got another pick in the third quarter that set up Nelson Fabrizius’ 38 yard scor-ing run that made it 31-0. Fabrizius, who ran for 122 yards on 17 carries, added a 2-yard touchdown run in the fourth.

St. George’s (12-1) used a big efort from Hayden, who ran for 137 yards on 23 carries.

The junior opened the scoring with a 38-yard run in the irst quarter. Hard-ing (10-2) made it 7-6 when Zac Montgomery connect-ed with Calvin Austin on a 39-yard touchdown pass.

Quarterback Ben Glass (15 carries, 100 yards) then made it 14-6 with a 1-yard sneak before Hayden put it away with touchdown runs of 2 and 3 yards in the second half. The latter was set up by a 53-yard run.

“(St. George’s) coach (David) Carter does a great job with that pro-gram and these are the types of games you want to play,” Wallace said of the title game matchup. “They’re going to bring it. It’s going to be a war.”

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BLUE TEAM

1. London McGhee, WR, Manassas, 6-0, 185; 2. Cedric Carter, DB, Cordova, 6-1, 185; 3. Lilotis Walker, RB, Ridgeway, 5-10, 200; 4. Marcus Moore, DL, Douglass, 6-3, 215; 5. James Smith, QB, Manassas, 6-3, 230; 6. Aaron Davis, DB, Christian Brothers, 5-10, 175; 7. Everett Mitchell, WR, Arlington, 5-10, 160; 8. Eldon Tyms, QB, Millington, 5-11, 190; 9. Josh Malone, DB, Ridgeway, 5-10, 180; 10. Justin Swift, LB, Trezevant, 6-1, 200; 11. Cole Kelly, WR, Christian Brothers, 5-10, 190; 12. John Johnson, Cordova, WR, 6-12, 185; 13. Christion Willett, Germantown, LB, 6-1, 180; 14. A.J. Hightower, Tipton-Rosemark Academy, 6-2, 180; 15. Flavyous Warren, LB, Northside, 5-9, 185; 17. LaMarcus Young, DB, Bartlett, 5-10, 175; 18. Bryan Lewis, WR, Arlington, 6-1, 175; 19. Hunter Hill, WR, Briarcrest, 5-10, 185; 20. Drew Croegaert, RB, Evangelical Christian School, 5-9, 180; 22. LiDarrion Seymour, RB, Manassas, 5-7, 160; 24. LaZachary Rhodes, RB, Bolton, 5-10, 180; 25. Eric Thomas, ATH, KIPP, 5-10, 170; 32. Zach Camp, LB, Brighton, 6-0, 210; 33. Austin Lee, RB, Christian Brothers, 5-7, 195; 40. Jalen Steward, DL, Overton, 6-3, 240; 44. Ben Hill, DL, Christian Brothers, 6-4, 240; 45. Chris Parrino, DB, Collierville, 5-10, 165; 50. Frank Clemons, DL, Cordova, 6-2, 225; 51. Clarence Thornton, OL, Ridgeway, 6-3, 285; 52. Terrance Brown, DL, Martin Luther King Prep, 5-11, 195; 54. Spencer Glass, OL, St. George’s, 6-1, 235; 55. Nicholas Wiseman, OL, Ridgeway, 6-2, 311; 59. Darron Johnson, LB, Ridgeway, 6-1, 225; 60. Cameron Freeman, OL, Arlington, 6-1, 255; 62. Jake McFerran, OL, Bartlett, 6-2, 260; 66. Ryan Young, OL, St. George’s, 6-4, 260; 68. Billy White, DL, Craigmont, 6-2, 290; 72. Jacob Still, OL, St. George’s, 6-2, 290; 74. Marquez Robinson, OL, Cordova, 6-5, 285; 76. Paul Robinson, DL, Millington, 6-3, 320; 81. Jose Hernandez, K-P, Cordova, 6-0, 185; 88. Carter Oliver, DL, Briarcrest, 6-2, 220.

Head coach: Tom Nix (Christian Brothers). Assistant

coaches: David Carter (St. George’s); Carl Coleman (Manassas); Anthony Jones (Cordova); Carson Hunter (Rossville); Thomas McDaniel (Christian Brothers); Teli White (Trezevant).

RED TEAM

1. Tim Hart, LB, MUS, 6-1, 215; 2. Donte Vaughn, DB, Whitehaven, 6-2, 195; 3. Adam Boyce, Wr, Lausanne, 5-9, 152; 4. Anthony Foster, QB, Carver, 6-2, 180; 5. Tyree Bryant, DL, Northpoint, 6-2, 230; 6. Nickell Herron, LB, Southwind, 6-0, 180; 7. Jonathan Robinson, ATH, Hamilton, 6-0, 180; 8. Chanse Pullen, WR, Houston, 6-3, 205; 9. Collin Tatko, TE, Northpoint, 6-6, 245; 10. Rodney Saulsberry Jr., DB, Whitehaven, 5-9, 170; 11. Kerrick Jones, WR, Whitehaven, 5-11, 170; 12. Burk Williams, QB, White Station, 5-11, 170; 14. Eric Banks, QB, East, 6-5, 215; 15. Thomas Pickens, WR, MUS, 6-2, 190; 16. Colton Cochran, WR, St. Benedict, 6-0, 195; 17. Curtis Warr, Sheield, TE, 5-11, 213; 18. Derek Garner, WR, Wooddale, 5-10, 155; 19. Brian Puckett, WR, Central, 6-0, 165; 20. Ramsey Hailey, WR, White Station, 5-8, 175; 21. Isaiah Thompson, WR, Mitchell, 6-1, 180; 22. Christian Saulsberry, RB, Northpoint, 5-7, 188; 24. Jeremiah Evans, DB, Fairley, 5-11, 180; 25. Calvan Scott, LB, Mitchell, 6-0, 220; 27. Herb McGowan, DB, Kirby, 5-11, 175; 28. Khari Henley, DB, FACS, 6-0, 160; 30. LaDarius Burks, RB, MAHS, 5-10, 204; 32. Tyler Brewer, RB, Southwind, 5-9, 200; 35. Doni Thomas, K, Lausanne, 6-0, 170; 41. R.J. Myers, DL, Houston, 6-0, 275; 43. Amadou Fofana, DL, Mitchell, 6-5, 240; 47. Jason Harris, LB, Carver, 6-1, 210; 50. Wayne Eades, DL, Central, 6-1, 250; 52. Cameron Sesley, DL, Hillcrest, 6-0, 250; 54. Jesse Brookins, OL, East, 6-2, 265; 55. Jeremiah Newson, DL, Southwind, 5-11, 240; 56. Corey Ladley, OL, Northpoint, 6-2, 265; 57. Terrance Johnson, LB, BTW, 5-11, 218; 70. Acari Mason, OL, Southwind, 6-3, 290; 71. David Nelson, OL, MUS, 6-3, 260; 72. Tommie Harper, OL, Central, 6-1, 200; 75. Jamecole Banks, 5-10, 265; 76. Michael Perry, DL, White Station, 6-2, 320; Delvin Salter, Whitehaven, OL (injured).

Head coach: Glenn Rogers Sr. (South Side).

Assistant coaches: Will Hudgens (Houston); Joe Rocconi (Wh. Station); Glenn Rogers Jr. (MUS); Rodney Saulsberry (Whitehaven); Rahnmann Slocum (Southwind), Greg Wallace (Northpoint Christian).


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Three Mr. Football inalists head the rosters for the AutoZone Liberty Bowl high school all-star football game, presented by Con-way Services ARS and the Gover-nor’s highway safety oice.

CBHS running back Austin Lee — who is a inalist in the Division 2-AA back category — and St. George’s ofensive lineman Jacob Still (D2-A lineman) will both play for the Blue team in the 14th an-nual game, which takes place at Memphis University School and kicks of at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 12.

Whitehaven ofensive lineman Delvin Salter, who is a inalist in the 6A lineman category, was named to the Red team but is in-jured and won’t play.

Several players who have al-ready made their college choices known will also play, headed by Whitehaven defensive back Donte Vaughn (Notre Dame), wide re-ceiver Kerrick Jones (Navy) and defensive tackle Michael Perry (Jacksonville State) along with MUS linebacker Tim Hart (Ten-nessee) and wide receiver Thomas Pickens (Memphis).

Whitehaven — which defeated Wilson Central in a AAA quar-terinal game on Friday — had six players chosen, more than any other school. Ridgeway had ive players selected.

Tickets for the game are $10 and $5 for children six and under. The game will be broadcast on 87.7 FM.

SOCCER STARS HONOREDSeveral local girls soccer play-

ers have received all-state honors from the Tennessee High School Soccer Coaches Association.

Houston — which won its sec-ond Class AAA state title in three years on Oct. 31 — led the local contingent with ive players: for-ward Gabby Little; midfielder

Paola Ellis; defenders Taylor White and Katrina Ostrom; and goalkeeper Kaylee Hammer. Di-vision 2-AA state champion Bri-arcrest is represented by forward Brittany Hatmaker and midielder Alyssa Neuberger while forward Molly Martin, midielders Jordan Ricketts and Maddy Stolnicki and defender Catelyn Somogyi were chosen from D2-A winner ECS.

Other local players honored in AAA: Collierville forward Kami McGhee and defender Emily

Woods; Arlington defender Erin Yonak and goalkeeper Ashton Shields; Bartlett defender Carly Eakin; White Station defender Caroline Duncan; and Munford defender Emily Montgomery.

Also named in Division 2-AA were St. Agnes forward Cora Turner and midielder Amanda Lammey. St. George’s forward Sydney Brown and defender Kari-na Jensen and St. Mary’s defender Olivia House made the Division 2-A squad.

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Christian Brothers High School’s Austin Lee is scheduled to play in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl High School All-Star game on Dec. 12 at Memphis University School. The game, presented by Conway Services ARS and the Governor’s high-way safety oice, kicks of at 2:30 p.m.

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Emily Cooper | Brighton High School | Career-Technical/ROTCEmily, a senior, is a top student in the career-technical education program. She holds a 3.6042 grade point average and scored 29 on

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Jordan Chestney | Lewisburg High School | Career-Technical/ROTCJordan, a senior, excels in the CTC East Logistics program through DeSoto County Schools. He holds a 3.3462 grade point average while

establishing himself as a leader in operational terms and human resource management. He was selected by his peers to be the OverallManager for the live distribution book processing center and warehouse. Jordan’s experiences in the Logistics program include a widevariety of operational methodology, resource management and higher level decision making processes. Recently, Jordan earned the rankof Eagle Scout, where he served as Senior Patrol Leader. He is a member of the SkillsUSA organization that partners with students andteachers to ensure America has a skilled workforce.While a CTC student, Jordan has earned the highest academic average for Transportation and Logistics. He also was named Student

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Rebecca Buchanan | Bolton High School | Career-Technical/ROTCRebecca, a senior, is a self-motivated student with a keen interest in medicine. She holds a 4.10 weighted grade point average and

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Jackson Bentley | Collierville High School | Career-Technical/ROTCJackson, a senior, is an outstanding student and top member of the Health Science Education Department in the school. He holds a 4.59

weighted grade point average and scored 35 on the ACT. He is ranked third in a competitive class of 468 seniors. A four-year member ofHOSA (Health Occupations Students of America), Jackson has played a major role in organizing and executing blood drives for students. Hehas served as treasurer of the organization and was nominated as the school’s representative for Careers in Medicine Program.In addition, Jackson is a National Merit Semiinalist, an AP Scholar with Distinction and member of the Cum Laude Society. He earned

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Natasha Maclin | Overton High School | Career-Technical/ROTCNatasha, a senior, is a well-rounded student who is gifted academically. She has maintained a 4.34 weighted grade point average in

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“Star Wars.”More speciically: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”For many, this annual survey of “holiday movies” —

the ilms opening in local theaters from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, more or less — can end right now.

For these folks, the season — the year, the decade — is all about the new “Star Wars” movie, pointedly not advertised in trailers or posters as “Episode VII,” what-ever the Internet Movie Database claims.

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The lack of Roman numerals is evidence the franchise’s new owner, the Walt Disney Co., is banking on the good vibes of the original trilogy (1977-1983) and more or less pretend-ing the divisive prequel trilogy (1999-2005) — with its controversial comi-cal Gungan and its towheaded Jake Lloyd — didn’t exist.

As a new era of “Star Wars” begins, another science-fiction franchise ends. “The Hunger Games” series concludes with this weekend’s open-ing of “Mockingjay — Part 2,” which is expected to pretty much rule the box-oice roost until “Star Wars” arrives.

In other words, moviegoers un-interested in the worlds of Suzanne Collins and George Lucas should not despair. David O. Russell, Patricia Highsmith, Sylvester Stallone, the an-imators at Pixar, the mother of Fran-kenstein (Mary Shelley) and the father of the Chipmunks (Ross Bagdasarian) are among the creators represented in the roster of new releases.

Here’s a preview of movies set to open in Memphis, from Thanksgiving eve through the end of the year.

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“The Good Dinosaur”: The one hero who could rival young Katniss Everdeen and old Han Solo at the box oice is Arlo the Apatosaurus, star of this animated adventure set on an Earth where dinosaurs escaped extinction.

“Victor Frankenstein”: James McAvoy is the scientist and Daniel Radclife his assistant, Igor, in this serio-comic revamp of Mary Shelley’s moral parable of a man who made a monster (or, in this case, several monsters).

“Brooklyn”: Saoirse Ronan is a shoo-in for a Best Actress Oscar nomination in this almost universally acclaimed immigration story about a young woman who relocates from Ireland to New York in 1952. The script is by Nick Hornby, from the novel by Colm Tóibín.

“Creed”: Sylvester Stallone rejuvenates the Rocky saga by making the aging prizeighter the trainer of Adonis Creed (Anthony Mackie), son of Balboa’s old nemesis, Apollo Creed.

“Trumbo”: This story of political opportunism and Hollywood hypocrisy stars “Breaking Bad” alumnus Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted screenwriter of “Spartacus” and other classic ilms. Supporting characters include Helen Mirren as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, Michael Stuhlbarg as progressive Edward G. Robinson and David James Elliott as the right-wing John Wayne.

DEC. 4

“Krampus”: The Alpine folk legend of a scary anti-Santa inspired this horror comedy in which a hoofed-and-antlered bogeyman terrorizes Toni Collette, Adam Scott and the other naughty members of a Scroogey suburban household.

“The Letters”: A drama about Mother

TOP TO BOTTOM: Daisy Ridley and John Boyega in “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens”; Natalie Dormer and Jennifer Lawrence in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 2”; James McAvoy and Daniel Rad-clife in “Victor Frankenstein”; and Sylvester Stallone and Michael B. Jordan in “Creed.”

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“Chi-Raq”: Sounds fascinating: Director Spike lee examines gang violence in Chicago’s South Side via an adaptation of Aristophanes’ “lysistrata,” a Greek comedy from 411 B.C. in which women put an end to war by withholding sex from male warriors. The title combines“Chicago” with “Iraq,” to suggest the city has become a war zone.

DEC. 11

“Big Stone Gap”: Ashley Judd is a “self-proclaimed spinster” in this hopes-to-be-heartwarming Appalachian comedy, written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, from her own best-seller.

“In the Heart of the Sea”: Thar she blows! Director Ron Howard directs a 3D maritime epic, inspired by the 1820 tragedy of the whaling ship Essex, which provided inspiration for “Moby-Dick.” Expect star Chris Hemsworth’s muscle-lexing to be overshadowed by the computer-generated luke-lexing of the story’s angry bull sperm whale.

DEC. 18

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”: Can writer-director J.J. Abrams — whose script collaborators include lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote fan favorite “The Empire Strikes Back” — create a sequel that meets the impossibly high expectations of devotees while also satisfying moviegoers who simply crave a good action-adventure? Abrams certainly is going to try, but as Yoda advised: “Do. Or do not. There is no try.”

“Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Road Chip”: The warbling

rodents created by novelty-record producer Ross Bagdasarian in 1958 return for the fourth ilm in the current live-action-plus-CGI franchise. Coming after “The Squeakquel” (movie No. 2) and “Chipwrecked,” (No. 3). The pun of the subtitle — promoting Alvin, Simon and Theodore’s road trip to Miami — is pretty dang lame.

“Sisters”: Hoping to reach the left-in-the-lurch signiicant others of “Star Wars” nerds, universal counterprograms with a comedy reunion of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.

DEC. 25

“Carol”: This Oscar-aspiring adaptation of a little-known same-sex love story from suspense specialist Patricia Highsmith (“The Talented Mr. Ripley”) stars should-be-nominated Rooney Mara as an inexperienced shopgirl wooed by a wealthy society matron, played by will-be-nominated Cate Blanchett. The director is Todd Haynes, returning to the 1950s period glamour of his “Far from Heaven.”

“The Danish Girl”: More Oscar talk as Eddie Redmayne, who won an Academy Award earlier this year for portraying Dr. Stephen Hawking, tackles another challenging, transformative role: He plays lili Elbe, one of the irst known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery. The director is fellow Oscar-scooper Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech”).

“Concussion”: Will Smith is Dr. Bennet Omalu, the crusading real-life forensic pathologist who tried to get the NFl to recognize the link between football and brain injury.

“Joy”: The team of director David O. Russell and actress

Jennifer lawrence follows “Silver linings Playbook” and “American Hustle” with an oddball biopic about the single mother who invented the “Miracle Mop.”

“Youth”: Michael Caine meets Harvey Keitel? Sounds like a dream team for a geriatric gangster saga, but this is the story of a retired orchestra conductor (Caine) who is invited by Queen Elizabeth to perform at Prince Phillip’s birthday concert. Keitel plays a ilm director, but this ilm’s director is Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty”).

“The Big Short”: Christian Bale, Brad Pitt and Steve Carell head the ensemble cast of this drama about the bursting of the housing and credit bubbles. The ilm was inspired by the noniction best-seller by Michael lewis, author of “The Blind Side.”

“Point Break”: No Oscar talk here, as Edgar Ramirez and luke Bracey take the Patrick Swayze/Keanu Reeves roles in a remake of the 1991 heist cult classic, with extreme sports replacing suring.

“Daddy’s Home”: Mild-mannered stepdad Will Ferrell is threatened by the return of his wife’s ex-husband, Mark Wahlberg. Gotta say, those trailers promise a very funny movie.

And now, dear reader, it’s your turn to say: That’s all ine and good, but when will Memphis get that much-publicized bloody/snowy revenge Western?

Oddly, I don’t even have to ask “Which one?,” be-cause both Quentin Tar-antino’s “The Hateful 8” and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “The Reve-

nant” are set to open here Jan. 8.

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Will Smith stars as Dr. Bennet Omalu in the movie “Concussion.”

A Memphis-made mas-terpiece will take its place in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

James Carr’s 1967 re-cording of “The Dark End of the Street” — a South-ern soul classic penned by Memphians Dan Penn and Lincoln “Chips” Mo-man and released on the local Goldwax label — was included among the 26 tracks that will be added to the Grammy’s roll call of all-time great records. The Recording Academy conirmed this year’s addi-tions to the hall on Nov. 18.

Other tracks included in this year’s class were “Cold Sweat — Part 1” by James Brown, “You Are So Beautiful” by Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac’s “Land-slide” and John Lee Hook-er’s “Boom Boom.”

The news of the Hall of Fame serves as a prelude to the nomination an-nouncement for the 58th annual Grammy Awards. The nominees will be re-vealed on Dec. 7. Several major categories will be conirmed live on “CBS This Morning,” while the balance of the 83 catego-ries will be announced via news release and made available on grammy.com immediately afterward.

Expected in mid-Decem-ber is the announcement of the Grammy Merit Awards for Lifetime Achievement and Trustees honors.

BAKER TAKES TO THE ROAD

Fast-rising Memphis singer-songwriter Julien Baker will be carrying the momentum she gained this year into 2016. The 20-year-old Baker has an-nounced a January tour in support of her critically acclaimed debut album, “Sprained Ankle.” The Southern and East Coast jaunt will start in Louis-

ville on Jan. 14 and carry on a week later through New York City where she’s playing the Mercury Lounge, and will wrap up in Atlanta on Jan. 28.

Over the past year, Bak-er has opened shows for El Vy and Wye Oak, and been feted with major plaudits and comparisons to fellow singer-songwriters such as Jenny Lewis and Natalie Prass.

Baker’s debut was re-corded at Richmond, Va.’s Spacebomb Studio, and its introspective indie-folk songs chronicle her move from the Bluf City to Murfreesboro, where she’s been attending college at Middle Tennessee State. Released just last month on 6131 Records, the record has been written up by Pitchfork, N.Y. magazine’s Vulture blog, and by The New York Times, which hailed “Sprained Ankle” as a “bracing debut.”

Baker’s January tour doesn’t include a Memphis

date, but she’s expected to conirm a Bluf City show for later in the winter.

PAVÉ PREVAILSFollowing up last week’s

story on Marco Pavé, the Memphis rapper’s debut EP, “Perception,” was the most added hip-hop record on the CMJ (College Music Journal) charts this past week, with 35 stations put-ting it in their rotations.

The 22-year-old Pavé performed a release show this past weekend in Mem-phis. Released on his Ra-dio Rahim Music label, the ive-track “Perception” is the product of a period Pavé spent in Los Angeles last year working with a crew of noted producers, including Kenny Wayne, Ezi Cut, Fridae Blaque, TayTay The Pro, and Grammy-winning Mem-phis native Carlos Broady.

The CMJ success fol-lows up a strong showing for Pavé’s irst two singles, which earned notices in The Source, Respect, All-hiphop and Soul Train websites. “Perception” will be followed by a full-length album, set to drop in early 2016.

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It’s easy to assert that abstract art and repre-sentational art exist in diferent spheres. After all, abstract art has no content, so to speak, and representational art is all content, or so it would seem. The truth is that every painting creates its relationship with con-tent, the world in which it lives and in which we perceive and understand it. Abstraction and rep-resentation often are much closer in spirit than we might suspect, a proposition conirmed, I think, in the exhibitions “Oh Happy Day,” by Beth Edwards, that closes to-day at DLG-TEMP, and “Layers: Work through the Decades,” by Anton Weiss, that closes Satur-day at L Ross Gallery.

“Layers” is a career retrospective display for Nashville artist Weiss, who is 79 and in the early stages of Alzheimer’s dis-ease. Billed by the gallery as his last exhibition, the show ofers myriad points in the development of the artist’s skill and intuition about abstraction as well as a few melancholy mo-ments in which we ob-serve his abilities waning,

though so far his energy and desire seem to be robust. Here, then, in 24 works, lie the history of an artist, the evolution of his gesture and sense of meaning, the chronicle of their making.

The revelations oc-cur among a handful of works from the late 1980s through the late 1990s. These are a large mono-type on paper, “Black and White Monotype with Brown,” and four un-titled watercolors, each displaying remarkable luidity and diversity of movement and the re-lationship of forms and colors, all embodying a sense of ininite freedom. I wrote the word “beauti-ful” in my notes for each of them.

Weiss’ technique and vision — I mean imagina-tive vision, not eyesight — sharpened a great deal when he switched medi-ums from oil to acrylic in the early 21st century, and his paintings took on size and depth and risk, becoming imposing and digniied yet with a skit-tish playful factor. Pieces like “Fortitude #2” from 2009, “Remnants 004” from 2011 and “Blue Ho-rizon” from 2013 seem to me to be undisputed mas-terpieces.

“What could be so great about paintings of lowers?,” you may ask, in relation to Beth Ed-wards’ exhibition at Da-vid Lusk Gallery’s tem-porary space. You might as well ask of Cezanne, “What’s so great about apples?” The point is that Edwards’ work in this compact show achieves a state of transcendence rare in representational art. A painter of the ut-most meticulousness, Edwards focuses closely on lowers like hydran-geas, day-lilies and pop-pies, with their stems and leaves and all the at-tendant aspects of light and shadow, and renders them into a state of the Platonic ideal, meaning in a state close to abstrac-tion. What is abstraction, after all, but individuality subsumed by the import of inevitable?

We sense in these hypnotic paintings the burgeoning and the las-situde of life, the multi-plicity and fecundity of nature and the incipi-ence of decline. “Death is the mother of beauty,” Wallace Stevens wrote in “Sunday Morning,” one of the greatest poems of the 20th century, and we feel in these gorgeous light- and color-illed works the

closing in of darkness. I always say that it’s folly to pick a favorite piece in an exhibition, yet I continue to exercise that reckless privilege. Oddly enough, “Fall II,” a por-

trait of a yellow rose, is the only one of the group that includes something other than a lower. In the background stands a portion of a red brick suburban house, of which

there are thousands in Memphis, a feature that lends a wholly diferent context to this painting, a feeling of a distant life beyond the intensity of the loral.

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ANF Architects, 1500 Union Ave.: Sally Hughes Smith’s 47th solo exhibit. Show runs through Jan. 10, 2016. Call 901-278-6868. anfa.com

David Lusk Gallery-Memphis, 64 Flicker: David Lusk Gallery hosts Ted Faiers: “Seasons Greetings,” Tuesday through Dec. 23. 10 a.m.-5:30

p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. 901-767-3800. davidluskgallery.com

Memphis College of Art’s Nesin Graduate School, 477 S. Main: “Breaking Narratives: MFA Thesis Exhibition,” through Dec. 12 in Hyde Gallery. Artists include Carrington Lemons, Annie

Lynne, Gil Ngolè, Ryan Steed and Olivia Wall. Media of work ranges from photographic series to video projections, sculpture and interactive installations. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday through Friday; noon-7 p.m. Saturday. 901-272-5100. mca.edu

Memphis College of Art, 1930 Poplar (Overton Park): “Fall BFA Exhibition,” Tuesday

through Dec. 10 in Rust Hall Main Gallery. Reception 6-8 p.m. Dec. 4. Work from 15 students in a variety of media including graphic design, painting, sculpture, drawing, animation, photography, sequential narrative, digital cinema. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; noon-4 p.m. Sunday. 901-272-5100. mca.

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Memphis College of Art, 1930 Poplar (Overton Park): Betsy Brackin Burch: “Knowing Places,” Tuesday through Dec. 10 in Rust Hall Alumni Gallery. Reception 6-8 p.m. Dec. 4. Artist’s work is tied to the beauty of the distinctive regions where she has lived and traveled. Hours: 8 a.m.-

5 p.m. weekdays; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; noon-4 p.m. Sunday. Call 901-272-5100. mca.edu.

Southside Gallery, 150 Courthouse Square, Oxford, Miss.: Andrew Blanchard and William Dunlap: “Southlandia,” through Dec. 12. Call 662-234-9090. southsideartgallery.com.

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Bartlett’s Annual Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony will be 6 p.m. Dec. 4 at Singleton Community Center, 7266 Third Road. The festivities begin with live en-tertainment and soon after, Santa and Mrs. Claus will arrive and light the tree. Refreshments will follow. Pictures with Santa for a nominal fee and there will be several areas where children can make and take home Christmas crafts.

The Bartlett Holiday Market is Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Bartlett Station Municipal Center, 5868 Stage. One stop shop for all of your holiday needs featuring vendors with crafts, handmade items, décor, jewelry, gifts and more. Email [email protected] or visit on.fb.me/1HYWbPk.

The Bartlett Library, 5884 Stage, invites kids to READ with Tootsie Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to noon. Children ages 5-11 can read to Tootsie, a registered pet therapy dog, for 15 minutes. Registration is required and opens the first of each month for that month’s session. Call 901-386-8968.

The Missoula Children’s Theater will hold auditions at Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, 3663 Appling Road, Monday at 4:30 p.m. There’s no charge to participate and 50 kids will be chosen for the one-hour production of “Aladdin” that will be rehearsed and performed over a one-week period. Performances are Dec. 5 at 2:30 and 7 p.m. Visit bpacc.org.

Also coming up: ■ Dec. 12: Vivace Christmas, 8 p.m. — Canadian vo-

cal ensemble’s modern and passion-filled combination of classical and pop music performance. The powerful male voices with the emotionally driven female vo-calists moved everyone to beg for their return. Their holiday concert will certainly be the highlight of your Christmas season. Tickets are $25.

The Davies Manor Plantation Christmas Party will be Dec. 13, from 2-4 p.m. at the Hillwood Barn. The manor house will also be open for the festivities. Ad-mission is free, and guests are encouraged to RSVP at 901-386-0715.

The Marguerite Francis Music @ Noon concert series at Bartlett United Methodist Church, 5676 Stage, continues through December. The free concerts are held from 12:10-12:40 p.m. each Wednesday in the church’s sanctuary, with a light lunch available for purchase following each performance. Visit bartlet-tumc.org. Dec. 2: Martha Israel, Cantor, Trinity Lu-theran Church.

“Let it snow!” at the Bartlett Historical Society’s Christmas Open House at the Bartlett Museum/Gotten House, 2969 Court St. There will be two opportunities to view this extensive collection of snowmen, Dec.

6, from 2-4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Admission free with donations accepted.

ColliervilleThe YMCA at Schilling Farms, 1185 Schilling Blvd.,

hosts an informative talk on “Diabetes Management” Dec. 2. Learn about the importance of checking blood sugar levels, meal planning, medical tests, and more. Free and open to the community. Call 901-850-9622.

Christmas In Collierville every Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., through Dec. 19 on the Collierville Town Square. Children of all ages are invited to bring a Christmas wish list to give to Santa. Bring a camera to take all the photos you want.

Matthew Lee will present his art work exhibit at the Collierville Library, 501 Poplar View Parkway, start-ing Dec. 1. A reception for the artist will be Dec. 5, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Halle Room. The exhibit will be on display throughout the month. Visit colliervillelibrary.org or call 901-457-2600.

Also coming up: ■ Monday: Book signing by Barry Wolverton, 6 p.m.

Author discusses and signs “The Vanishing Island.” ■ Dec. 11: Star Wars Party, 4-6 p.m. Celebrate the

release of the much-anticipated new Star Wars film with a lot of Star Wars fun. Participate in activities and games including lightsaber duels, building your own droid and fighting the Empire.

CordovaThe Memphis Flea Market returns to Agricenter In-

ternational, 7777 Walnut Grove, Dec. 5-6. Featuring indoor booths overflowing with options in home décor, jewelry vendors, collectibles and more. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $3 for adults and free for children 12 and under. Call 901-276-3532 or visit memphisfleamarket.com.

Also coming up: ■ Dec. 5: Holiday Craft Fair, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. the Ag-

ricenter’s annual Holiday Crafts Fair, featuring hand made crafts and baked goods from local artists. Con-tact Mark Hoggard at 901-355-1977.

Neshoba Unitarian Universalist Church, 7350 Ra-leigh-Lagrange, hosts The Metamorphosis Project Dec. 12, from 5-8 p.m. Live auction to benefit LGBTQ home-less youth and the MGLCC youth services program. Admission is $50 and includes open bar and appetizers from local restaurants. Visit mglcc.org.

The Mid-South’s most beloved holiday tradition comes back bigger and brighter during Orion Starry Nights at Shelby Farms Park. Experience more than 2 million LED lights illuminating the park. Take pictures with Santa or ride a camel in the Mistletoe Village. Starry Nights opens Friday and will run through Dec. 27. Cost is $20 for car, truck or minivan, $50 for limo or 15 passenger van or $150 for charter or school bus. Visit shelbyfarmspark.org/starrynights.

Chuckles Comedy Club, 1770 Dexter Springs Loop, will host LOL Memphis Sketch & Improv Comedy Show the second and fourth Monday of every month, from 7-9 p.m. Featuring improv games and sketch parodies. Cast members perform small sets throughout the show to introduce what’s coming next. Tickets are $10. Email [email protected], visit chucklescomedy-house.com or call 901-654-8594.

Also coming up:

■ This weekend: Actor and comedian, Bill Bellamy for five shows. Performances are 7:30 and 10 p.m. Fri-day and Saturday and 8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $27.50.

■ Dec. 4-5: Actress and comedian, Mo’Nique for four shows. Performances are 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $37.50.

GermantownGermantown Presbyterian, Germantown United

Methodist and St. George’s Episcopal churches will hold a Thanksgiving Service at 7 p.m. today, hosted by St. George’s Episcopal Church, 2425 S. Germantown Road. The Rev. Will Jones from Germantown Presby-terian Church will be the preacher and Germantown United Methodist Church will provide the music. The community is invited to this annual tri-church event.

PB&J presents: Holiday Sing-a-Long 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Ex-eter. Jump in your most comfy pajamas and join us for a special holiday inspired PB & Jammies. Jeremy Shrader and friends are back for an all new show fea-turing your favorite Christmas and Hanukkah tunes inspired by the festivity of the season. Join us in the lobby afterward for some wintry craft activities and sweet treats. Tickets are $8. Visit gpacweb.com or call 901-751-7500.

Also coming up: ■ Dec. 5-6: Musicians of IRIS, 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m.

Sunday. IRIS opens its annual concert highlighting the string virtuosi of IRIS Orchestra with a “Sweet Sixteen” work from the great American composer Samuel Barber. Tickets are $45-65.

■ Dec. 12: Holiday Concert featuring the German-town Symphony with the Germantown Community Chorus, 7 p.m. Festive concert in celebration of the holiday session with both new and familiar holiday hits, always with a sing-along. Tickets are $14 for adults, $12 students and seniors (plus handling fee).

Germantown United Methodist Church, 2331 South Germantown Road, will host James A. Corn-foot during its Dec. 3 edition of the Brown Bag Lunch Series. The topic is “O Come All Ye Faithful: A His-tory of Christmas Caroling” and program starts at 11 a.m. with lunch at noon. Free to attend. No reserva-tions needed. Bring your sack lunch and enjoy the program and the fellowship; beverages provided. Call Luci Cromer at 901-755-0803 or Beverly Rhoads at 901-754-7216 ext. 107.

The Uncommon Threads Quilt Guild meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at 6:15 p.m. at Ger-mantown United Methodist Church, 2331 German-town Road. First two meetings are free to prospec-tive members and a yearly membership is $25. Each meeting includes a lecture, snacks and meet and greet. Email [email protected] or call 901-853-6921.

LakelandLakeland presents its Christmas Festival Dec. 4,

from 6-8:30 p.m. at I.H. Clubhouse, 4523 Canada Road. Christmas tree lighting ceremony, music, games, crafts and more. Santa will make his way to Canada Road’s North Pole, to hear the Christ-mas wishes of all the good little boys and girls of Lakeland. Kids will have an opportunity to write a letter to Santa.

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New Neighbors members Patty Hawk (left) and Nancy Boatright (right) present a check from the New Neighbors Friends Fantasy Fundraiser to Suzanne Ware (center) of the Collierville Animal Shelter. They also delivered pet supplies donated by group members. The Collierville Animal Shelter is one of the many organizations that New Neighbors sup-ports.

During a recent meeting, new members were inducted to Pega-sus of Germantown. The newest club members are Gabriella Baker, Jan Aycock and Delia McPherson. They were joined by Hope Cook, Lisa Hale and Patricia Cook.

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Faith Lutheran Church and Preschool were involved in a project called S.E.R.V.E. Mid-South. Faith Lutheran students collected more than 24 cases of food for the Collierville Food Pantry.

James Coleman recently became an Eagle Scout. He earned 27 Merit badges and was inducted to Order of the Arrow. James’s Eagle Scout service project was leading 110 hours of service building a trail walkway for Big Hill Pond State Park. James is a senior at St. George’s Independent School.

Brett Sanchez was awarded Eagle rank. So far, Brett has earned 24 Merit badges and was inducted to Order of the Ar-row and earned his Brotherhood. Brett’s Eagle Scout service project was building a footbridge, improving a trail and cleaning a sump well for Big Hill Pond State Park. Brett will graduate from Christian Brothers High School in May.

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Home & Garden

The horticulture community lost a sage when Ray Bennett died Nov. 12 at age 90.

For those of us who partici-pated in the herb gardening re-vival of the 1980s, he was our go-to guy for information on growing herbs and selecting the tastiest and hardiest varieties.

Many of us who met Bennett through the nascent Memphis Herb Society were at zero in our hands-on experience with herbs while he was already hovering at 10.

Fortunately, he was just as keen on sharing what he knew as he was in practicing it, irst as a wholesale grower and later as the full-time herbalist at the old Trees by Touliatos.

“He grew some of the most beautiful herbs you’ve ever seen in our greenhouse,” said Sarah Touliatos, who worked with Bennett in elevating the importance of herbs at the Whitehaven nursery founded by her late husband, Plato Tou-liatos.

Under Bennett’s guidance, the nursery held Saturday morning seminars focusing on growing and using herbs.

Evelyn Mosley remembers attending one where Bennett shared his soil-mix recipe. “I came home and told my hus-band we were going to mix up his dirt and plant herbs,” said Mosley, who became so pas-sionate about herbs she served as president of the herb society and continues to speak to gar-dening groups about herbs, es-pecially those with medicinal properties.

Growing plants was in Ben-nett’s DNA. His father was a dairy farmer in the Bartlett area who switched to row crops when he moved to the Hughes, Arkansas, area.

After a four-year stint as an Air Force bombardier during World War II, Bennett studied agriculture at Iowa State Uni-versity and Mississippi State

University.He raised soybeans and

rice in the Marianna, Arkan-sas, area, about 20 miles from Hughes, where he lived with his late wife, Dorothy, and their children, Raeanne Collins and Michael Bennett.

Collins remembers her father always being interested in us-ing herbs in cooking, which he enjoyed as a hobby.

“When he was recovering from pancreatitis and could not farm, he started growing some herbs just for us,” she said.

It was then in the early 1980s that he began researching the possibility of growing herbs in-stead of crops.

I always marveled at how he knew so much about herbs at a time when there were very few books available on growing herbs commercially or person-ally and certainly no Internet to speed the learning process.

He did research in the Mem-phis library, contacted people in the extension service, agri-culture business and seed cata-logs, Collins said. “He wasn’t shy about writing to authors to get more information from then. He was voracious about it.”

His passion for growing herbs corresponded with another big change in his life: his own re-covery from alcoholism and a lifelong commitment to helping others achieve sobriety. “Herbs were essential to his recovery,” Collins said.

Bennett was a frequent speak-er at the annual herb festivals held at Anthony’s Herb Farm in Brighton, Tennessee. His sub-ject often was scented gerani-ums, South African plants with fragrant leaves that he held in special esteem.

“People came to the festival

just to hear him,” said Jean An-thony, who operated the herb farm with her husband, Bob, until their retirement two years ago. “He made everything he talked about so interesting.”

Lorraine Ferguson, also a past president of the herb so-ciety, remembers being one of several female society mem-bers who helped Bennett put on workshops on propagating herbs at the Memphis Botanic Garden.

“We called ourselves ‘the herbie girls,’” she said. “Ray had propagating from cuttings down to a science,” she said.

During his tenure at Tou-liatos, Bennett sold more than herbs. He also helped customers select trees, shrubs and other plants.

“When I went down there to buy a tree, he told me I needed to get a coral bark maple instead of the one I thought I wanted,” Skaggs said. “Every time I look at that tree, I am so glad Ray made me buy it.”

GARDENING CALENDARIt’s amazing how much plant

and gardener information area Master Gardeners pack into their annual gardening calen-dar.

And all of it is geared to local gardeners and the issues they face.

You’ll ind tips for monthly

garden tasks, kitchen garden guides, lists of heat- and drought- tolerant plants, deer-resistant plants, recommended native plants, contacts for resources with gardening information, meeting dates for various gar-dening groups and horticultural events and much more.

Each month is illustrated by a photo taken by a Master Gar-dener, like the brightly colored conelowers featured on the cover by Master Gardener Tom Rieman, who is also the outgo-ing president of the Memphis Horticultural Society.

Calendars, which cost $15, are available at memphisareamas-tergardeners.org and at the mas-ter gardeners’ oice at Agricen-ter International; the Memphis Botanic Garden, Dixon Gallery and Gardens and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

Several independent nurser-ies are carrying them, as are three local bookstores and other retail outlets.

As a nonproit organization, MAMG can only have two fun-draisers per year and can sell the calendars only for 30 days or until Dec. 12.

These make great Christmas gifts.

For more information, call the Shelby County Extension Service at 901-752-1207.

Ray Bennett shared his passion for herbs

Colorful cone-flowers are seenon the front of the 2016 “Gar-dening in ShelbyCounty” calen-dar produced by Memphis Area Master Garden-ers. TOM RIEMAN

Well-known herbalist Ray Bennett died Nov. 12 at age 90.

CHRISTINE ARPEGANG

GREEN THUMB

He (Bennett) grew some

of the most beauti-ful herbs you’ve ever seen in our greenhouse.”

Sarah Touliatos, Touliatos Nursery

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placing puzzle based on a

9x9 grid with several given

numbers. The object is to

place the numbers 1 to 9 in

the empty squares so that

each row, each column and

each 3x3 box contains the

same number only once.

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By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Neighbor of

Rwanda 7 Only OK 11 Lucky mystique 15 Odist, e.g. 19 Bagel shape 20 “— Excited” 21 Baldwin of film 22 Duncan of

education 23 Decorative

window option 25 Grown-up eft 26 Dryer fuzz 27 Tendril, e.g. 28 Atop, to a

15-Across 29 Washed-out 31 Slowly, on a

score 33 Hurdle for a new

driver’s-license applicant

38 See 24-Down 41 Wall St. news 42 Prefix with

vision 43 Superhero film

of 2015 44 Apple pic

application 46 Bottom-row PC

key 47 “— Miniver” 48 Mimics a wolf 51 Totem pole,

essentially 53 Item in an

election box 56 Ocean’s hue 57 Ocean’s kin

58 Cleveland cager, briefly

59 Subsides 60 Oxidizes 62 Upright height 65 Coach Riley 66 Pick up on 68 What can

follow eight key words in this puzzle to get phrases meaning “permanent”

70 SSA part 75 City area,

informally 77 Deny, as a fact 79 Mambo relative 80 “No, not true!” 84 Mine rocks 85 Bang into 87 Fix, as a cat 88 Vase inserts 90 Fixed goal 93 State, to Luc 94 Alias initials 95 Jacob’s first

wife 96 Secondary 97 Venerate 100 Objectives 101 24-hr. cash

source 102 Serpentine letter 103 Fancy wedding

mailing 108 Frosh topper 109 Seedy loaf 110 Salem-to-L.A.

dir. 111 It’s a no-no 115 Greek liqueur

116 White-dwarf explosion

119 Feature of a body-builder’s tummy

122 Dunkable cookie 123 Smack hard 124 Gofer, e.g. 125 Isis’ brother 126 “Freak on a

Leash” rock band

127 In times past 128 Fulfill 129 Cloud layers

DOWN 1 Colorado natives 2 Alternative style

to emo 3 Former BP gas

brand 4 Not at all,

informally 5 Classic cola

brand 6 Count up 7 — mignon 8 Italian liqueur 9 Specific mag.

printing 10 UFO museum

city 11 Miracle food

from above 12 Bullfighting yell 13 Hanukkah

observer 14 Eighth of a circle 15 Tasty 16 They’re not

facsimiles

17 Film scorer Morricone

18 “Grand” mountain

24 With 38-Across, deteriorate

30 Logger’s tool 32 Block (up) 34 Apple items with

earbuds 35 Geeky sort 36 Rover’s planet 37 Foot section 38 Jean-Luc of

the U.S.S. Enterprise

39 Light-blocking 40 Propulsion 45 Egg-shaped 46 Raccoon

lookalike 47 Experts 49 “__ name it!” 50 Brand of fuel

additives 52 “Gone” actor

Bentley 53 “Lili” actress

Leslie 54 Dolly’s calls 55 Fur tycoon on

the Titanic 58 “Aw” inspirer 61 Certain oar 63 Longhair cat 64 Romanov

bigwigs 67 Half a sextet 69 Neighbor of

36-Down 71 Tooth parts 72 Horn in (on)

73 Demeans 74 Parfait parts 76 Look out for 78 Talk shrilly 80 Cola cooler 81 “Tsk, tsk!” 82 Daydreamer 83 Matinée time 86 Prefix with

faceted 89 Barely earned,

with “out” 90 Rig on a road 91 Manhattan

area 92 Most distant 95 Equipment

for real-time viewing on the Net

98 Steve of rock guitar

99 “All the same ...” 100 Above zero 101 To __

(unerringly) 103 Nook reading 104 Prefix with

physiologist 105 Beyond mad 106 Good point 107 Low point 112 Silents vamp

Theda 113 Somber paper

notice 114 Greek mount 117 Have 118 Carpet sweeper,

briefly 120 Move hastily 121 UCLA part

ACROSS 1 Animals at a

football game 8 Antithesis of

brashness 16 One carrying

a spiked club, maybe

20 Case for a lawyer

21 Lay bare 22 Worker hardly

making a living wage

23 “So You Think You Can Dance,” say?

25 School for James Bond

26 Plenty 27 East German

secret police 28 Some letter

enclosures, for short

29 A or B, but not O

30 Punk offshoot 31 Kigali native 33 A mean Amin 34 Toni Morrison

novel 35 One with

monthly payments

37 Shakespeare’s Claudius and others

39 Added on, botanically

41 Roller coaster shout from Queen Elizabeth?

45 Geezers 46 Sprinkling on a

deviled egg 49 Nuevo ____,

state in Mexico 50 Klingon on “Star

Trek: T.N.G.” 51 It may lead to an

unearned run 52 Make out 56 Sad sack 58 AOL competitor 61 Actor Hirsch of

“Into the Wild” 62 Without doubt 65 Antique photo 67 ____ Ration (old

dog food brand) 68 “Did you mean

Doom or Dolittle?”?

70 Tools for cobblers

71 Inverse trig function

73 Succinctly 74 Battlefield cry 75 Literary inits. 76 Actress Streep 78 Coolness, in

modern slang 79 Lisa, to Patty

and Selma, on “The Simpsons”

80 One-____ (old ball game)

82 Is sick 85 Made an effort 87 Easily 89 Mob Boss Hall of

Fame? 93 Like some jeans

and apartment buildings

95 Onetime place for Saddam Hussein’s image

96 Elite groups 100 Spillane’s “____

Jury” 101 Camouflaged 103 Snowbird’s

destination 105 Wisk competitor 106 Sci-fi/historical

fiction writer Stephenson

107 Decorative moldings

110 John ____, “The House of Blue Leaves” playwright

111 “Argo” setting 112 Some salad

greens 113 Making a

complaint at a restaurant?

116 Iowa State locale

117 Trigger autocorrect, say

118 Beat to the finish 119 Eighty-six 120 Traps in a net 121 You may want

to stop reading when you see this

DOWN 1 Hot Wheels

maker 2 In 3 “Mad Men”

extras 4 Crows’ cries 5 “Gee,” in

Glasgow

6 “Meet the Press” competitor

7 Company that encourages people to lie?

8 Mardi Gras time

9 Locale of the Battle of Tippecanoe

10 Runs the show, briefly

11 Dots in la mer 12 ____ Maar

(Picasso’s muse)

13 Formal identification

14 Bono bandmate 15 Answer with a

salute 16 Precedes at a

concert 17 “That milky

liquid belongs to me!”?

18 Cousin of a tendril

19 Baseball or Supreme Court lineups

24 Calrissian of “Star Wars” films

31 Put back on the payroll

32 Dudley Do-Right’s love

36 Moseys along 38 E.U. member

not in NATO: Abbr.

40 Part of a winter stash

42 One with brand loyalty?

43 “Oh ... my ... God!”

44 Brian who wrote the score for “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”

46 Glimpse on the sly

47 Munitions suppliers

48 One in line to rule the ocean?

50 Peter who directed “Picnic at Hanging Rock”

53 Man’s name that’s Hebrew for “my God”

54 1970 hit with the lyric “I’m down on my knees,/I’m begging you please to come home”

55 Roger who wrote “The Boys of Summer”

57 Stick-in-the-mud types

59 Edit some film 60 Like measuring

cups, often 63 Nutritional fig. 64 Cattle calls

66 ____ Trail (Everglades highway)

68 PBS station in the Big Apple

69 Chorus-line leader?

72 Japanese porcelain

74 Dis but not dat?

77 “Fargo” assent 81 Negligent 83 Screen abbr. 84 Things found

between the poles?

86 Closed tight 87 Show some

dumbfounded-ness about

88 Declaration on Día de San Valentín

89 Add one’s two cents

90 Get cozy

91 Books often not read

92 Built-up 94 “Prove it!” 97 Kind of

number 98 Cataleptic state 99 Margaret

who founded Planned Parenthood

102 Jefferson’s religious belief

104 Mathematician who was the subject of the book “The Man Who Loved Only Numbers”

108 Start of the Bay State’s motto

109 Nurses at a bar 111 Calvary

inscription 114 Book before

Esth. 115 Skater Midori

Difficulty level ★★★★★

Answer to yesterday's puzzleSudoku is a number-placing puzzle based

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

object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the

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

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from

Monday to Sunday.

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

11-22-15

The “par” result on a deal occurs if both sides bid and play perfectly. Since bridge is played by imperfect creatures, “par” is often achieved when both sides make errors that cancel each other.

In today’s deal, North’s first two bids showed some diamonds and about 11 points. (North did not promise bal-anced pattern, though he would often have it.) When South rebid three spades to sign o�, North should have passed. Instead, he looked at his three top tricks and broke discipline by raising to game.

West led a heart, and South was faced with four losers: two hearts, a club and at least one trump. East took the K-A and led a third heart, and South ru�ed and cashed the A-K of trumps. When East-West fol-lowed, declarer shrugged and conceded down one.

Clearly, North-South failed to meet par in the auction. Did either side come up short in the play?

After the first three tricks, South’s game was cold. He could cash the A-K of trumps and next go to the ace of dia-monds and ru� dummy’s last heart. South could then take the king of diamonds, ru� a diamond and cash the K-A of clubs. Having won nine tricks, he could lead dummy’s last diamond and ru� it, as West had to follow.

Could the defense do any-thing about that? When East led a third heart, he helped South score his low trumps. If instead East shifts to a dia-mond at Trick Three, he upsets the timing for any winning play, and South goes down.

The par result is plus 140 to North-South.

Dear Harriette: My brother has special needs, and he recently graduated from a special school that trained him to be able to do a simple job to make some money for himself. My family had a big cel-ebration for him when he graduated.

I am incredibly proud of my brother because this is a big step toward his inde-pendence. However, as I have grown older, I realize that I have begun to resent events that my mother insists on throwing for my brother. I never received any parties in my honor, other than small birthdays.

I know this sour attitude is petty, and I should get over things that happened when I was a teenager. But we did not even celebrate my graduation from col-lege. How can I move on from this and celebrate my brother wholeheartedly?

— Can’t Let Go, Cincinnati

Dear Can’t Let Go: I bet you have never spoken to your parents about this. Too often when one child needs extra care, parents focus their attention on

that child while inadver-tently neglecting the other children in the family. The intention is good, but the execution falls o�. Chanc-es are, your parents think a party is not necessary for you.

You have to say some-thing. Tell your parents the truth. Without dumping on them, let them know that you would like to be acknowledged for your successes. By letting them know how you feel, hopefully without anger but with compassion, you can forgive them and your brother for not providing you with all that you have desired.

Special-needs brother gets all the attention

HARRIETTECOLE

SENSE & SENSITIVITY

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

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★★ Whatever your plans are, you’ll enjoy a friend or loved one to no end. Others will want to hang out with you.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You’ll find spending quality time with a loved one to be most relaxing. You will find the appropriate time to hang out with each other.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★★ Your friends sur-round you, but they all seem to have very di�erent ideas. A partner will want to claim the moment.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ Though you’ll want to have control of plans, you won’t care as much if events take place close to home. Your home is your castle.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Reach out to a loved one at a distance. Rearrange your plans in order to visit with this person in the near future.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ No matter what is going on, you’ll find a reason to enjoy the moment. You tend to be self-indulgent, but you also enjoy indulging and doting on others.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★★ You sense a change in your energy. Communi-cation suddenly seems to flow, and others are likely to become more easygoing as a result.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★ Pace yourself, and rec-ognize that you have only so many hours in the day and only so much energy. You

might want to squeeze more plans into your schedule.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★★ You could make the next 24 hours close to perfect. You need

to be willing to allow your inner child to come out and play.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ Your family expects cer-tain behavior from you. If you nix plans with them,

you could be on the receiv-ing end of some uproar.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ Remain open to others’ suggestions. You might be invited to join a friend or loved one, though travel could be necessary.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ A partner seems to understand much more than you do about what is taking place here. Listen to his or her suggestion.

What the stars mean:

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

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year holds unusual poten-tial for you if you can focus on your image and career. Come fall, you’ll want to concen-trate on a long-term goal. If you are single, your sociable nature is likely to be how you meet someone significant to your life’s history. If you are attached, you become more visible as a couple. ARIES is a live wire with whom you have a lot of fun!

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Having Aspirations

By Alan Arbesfeld / Edited By Will Shortz

11-22-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE TO PLAYHint: Force checkmate.

Solution: 1. Qg3ch! Kf8 2. Rd8ch Ke7 3. Qd6 mate! [Durabayli-Aldama ’15].

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Amusement

By Judith Martin and Nicholas Ivor MartinUniversal Uclick

Complaint letters used to be seen only by the hapless elected oicials, newspaper publishers and corporate complaint departments to whom they were addressed.

Technology has now ixed things so one cannot go a day without seeing a stranger’s written com-plaints, whether append-ed as comments to posted articles or blogs, deliv-ered as reviews on sellers’ websites or forwarded in round-robin e-mails.

This outpouring of ef-fort has not, unfortunate-ly, elevated the form. It is time for a gentle reminder on how to complain.

The proper purpose of a complaint letter is not, counterintuitive though this may be, to complain. The purpose is to persuade the recipient to solve the problem.

The letter that begins “Dear Idiot, you ruined my life” serves only a therapeutic purpose, and a pyrrhic one at that. While there is a growing online audience that ap-plauds vitriol, it does not include the object of the customer’s wrath. Every-one with constituents, customers or subscribers has seen enough angry and sarcastic letters to become immune to the usual form.

Therefore, a good com-plaint letter dispassion-ately enumerates facts and concludes with one or more solutions that should be acceptable to reason-able parties. Statements about the recipient’s men-tal acuity or other personal attributes do not fall within Miss Manners’ deinition of “facts.” Exaggeration only makes it easy to dismiss the writer as hysterical.

As to what constitutes a “solution,” Miss Manners hastens to clarify that she is talking about ixing the

original problem, not the writer’s resulting mental state. Her preferred solu-tions do not include vio-lence.

If the consequences of the mistake that gave rise to the complaint are so ter-rible that an unemotional response is truly impos-sible, then it may be one of those times where eti-quette must defer to legal action.

However, it may be of some comfort to hear that eschewing violence and emotion does not rule out the thoughtful threat — so long as it is not idle and does not happen too early in the process.

“I’m going to sue you for all you’re worth!” has no impact on those who hear it hourly. Try, “In reference to the attached complaint and subsequent follow-up letters, please be advised that if this situation is not rectiied within three days, I will be advising the housing authority.”

MISS MANNERS

Proper complaint should ofer solution By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Someone might be critical of your actions, but if you take his or her words with humor and understanding, you won’t be ofended. Use your in-stincts with your inances. Lady Luck will show up when dealing with a routine matter.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You could feel pres-sured by someone at a distance. As a result, you might become unresponsive for a while. Try not to be so serious with this person right now. Reach out to others who are feeling the same pres-sure — you’ll be glad you did.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Heed your own counsel and play it low-key, despite a need to act on a creative idea. You can take action, but you don’t need to make a public announcement. Avoid having a heavy discussion. Think through a decision.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH Zero in on what you want from a loved one. You might be witnessing this per-son’s transformation and want to let him know how you feel.

Remain upbeat, no matter what occurs. Your words could change a situation for the better.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Assume the role of leader. You might want to ap-proach a work-related situation quite diferently from how many others have. This originality makes you highly desirable in projects, as it tends to add to your success.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

HHHH Look at the big picture before making any decisions. You might change your opin-ion as a result of having more insight. It wouldn’t hurt to con-irm what you think you are see-ing with a friend in order to get some feedback.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You may want to change course in a financial matter. Give this idea some hard thought. Recognize that what originally was a good idea might not work for you now. Be graceful in a discussion.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH You’ll want to make a close friend or associate feel valued. This person might be surprised by your actions and could have diiculty respond-ing gracefully. Try not to take

his response personally.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-

Dec. 21) HHHH You might be saturated with options that you are not comfortable with. A boss is likely to congratulate you on pursuing your present course. You could be in line for a pay raise or promotion. You seem to have diiculty relaxing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Relate to an au-thority igure directly. You might want to express an idea that you believe is helpful, even if you feel less than conident about it. A child or loved one appears to be diicult and touchy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You could be in a position where you have to stay close to home or deal with a family member directly. Plans might need to be adjusted ac-cordingly. Reach out to a trusted friend or loved one. You will gain a better perspective as a result.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Don’t hesitate to speak your mind. How you deal with others deines who you are. Be ready to head in a new direction, even if you don’t want to. Ultimately, you will see the wisdom of letting go of what doesn’t work.

SUDOKUPREMIER CROSSWORD

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TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: THE HOOLIGANS-IN-TRAINING HAD A BIG GROUP FIGHT IN THE CORRIDOR. I BELIEVE IT COULD’VE BEEN A RIOT OF PASSAGE.

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grove 6 Orlando

team 11 Bring

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help 13 On a

cruise 14 Barbra

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Dear Annie: I am six months into a separa-tion from my husband of seven years. I thought our relationship was solid and was completely blindsided when he told me he felt deserted and lonely.

While I am still hoping for reconciliation, I have recently begun seeing someone else. I have no desire to actually date him (we want very di�erent things in life), and at any rate, he is leaving the area in a couple of months.

If I reconcile with my husband, am I required to disclose this liaison? My husband has been seeing other women for quite some time, although this was not a factor in our separation. We have a “don’t-ask-don’t-tell” type of open marriage and see-ing others is accepted.

— Still Married

Dear Still: If your husband feels lonely and abandoned, you might want to rethink the type of marriage you have. Open marriages don’t work for everyone, and yours may not be as satisfying as either of you expected.

The two of you should have a frank and hon-est discussion and see whether you can get to the root of your issues. Then you can work on making the necessary adjustments so things improve.

Dear Annie: There’s another option to consider when it comes to “Guilty by Accusation,” the 20-year-old whose parents accused him of taking their Xanax.

Xanax is prescribed for anxiety. For those who experience it, anxiety is a truly troubling ailment. The Xanax calms this and helps them “let go” a bit easier.

So one needs to take the parents’ response into consideration — that they were more anxious about the missing pills than they were convinced that their son had stolen them.

Most of us have done something when we were young that we’d like to take back. I hope “Guilty” realizes that his youthful slip-up doesn’t define who he is. He sounds like a guy who cares. So when he asks what else he can say to his parents, I suggest he say, “How can I help you find the Xanax?”

— Retired Pharmacist

Dear Pharmacist: You make a good point that people with anxiety issues might worry tremendously about their misplaced medication. We hope the Xanax turns up soon so that their son is o� the hook.

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

11/23/15

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle

Chess Quiz

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

with several given numbers. The object is to place the

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

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

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to

Sunday.

WHITE GETS A NEW QUEENHint: Block the key defender.

Solution: 1. Bc6! (c8=Q cannot be prevented), etc.

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

Many excellent books appeared or reappeared this year. One that came out in an updated edition is Mike Lawrence’s “Tips on Competitive Bidding.” Classics such as Dorothy Truscott’s “Bid Better, Play Better” still make good reading.

A useful publication is “Larry Teaches Defense,” an overview of basic defen-sive play by noted player/teacher Larry Cohen. Today’s West leads the queen of hearts against four spades. Say South takes dummy’s ace and leads a diamond: deuce, eight, nine. Then West need not continue hearts: If the defense has a heart trick, they will always get it.

LOSERS “The only possible thing declarer can

do with losers is trump them in dummy,” Cohen notes, “and you want to stop him. Shift to a trump.”

East is sure to get in to continue trumps, and South will end a trick short.

For information about Larry Cohen’s writings and bridge-related activities, see larryco.com. For all books in print,

software and other bridge-related items, see baronbarclay.com.

Questions and comments: Email Stewart at [email protected]

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You’ll be on a roll until noon, when you suddenly might need to switch gears. You might find someone to be a bit overbear-ing. You could feel awkward discussing an investment with a dear friend.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ Make it OK to feel out of sorts in the morning. Not everyone is a morning person. Give yourself time and space to acclimate to the fact that it is Monday.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)★★★ A meeting in the morning might have much more influence on your plans than you realize. Sometimes a friend is the source of misunderstanding.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You might be forced to give an extra push to a project. You will discover that a lot happens in the most unexpected way. Reach out to a loved one at a distance.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ You might be too focused for some-one’s liking. This person wants to get you to do something that you are resistant to try. Allow your creativity to emerge.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Reach out to someone at a distance. Though you don’t always agree with this person, you find it beneficial to get his or her feedback. Use care with your spending. You easily could overindulge and regret it later.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)★★★★ You nearly always enjoy relating on a one-on-one level with others. You might relax once you start discussing a problem more completely. To your surprise, you sud-denly could become irritable.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★★ Defer to a partner, as you will have little choice anyway. This person wants what he or she wants, and there is no way around it. You’ll lighten up the moment with a fun statement that forces others to laugh.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ You might feel as if you have nearly everything under control. You still could be a little disappointed by someone you had counted on.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★ You might get a strong premonition about what would be best to do, but you also realize that you have been a bit o� when it comes to trusting your instincts.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★ You could find that your tendency to be obstinate comes up when dealing with a roommate or family member. You might be-come so engrossed in this conflict that you see no possible solution.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ Keep conversations moving, even if you feel awkward. You could have a sud-den realization about a financial matter that could be profoundly upsetting.

Horoscope

This year you often are stubborn and assertive. This tendency throws people off, as they never know what to expect. Communication could be confusing at times. Work on your listening and speaking skills, and others will respond in kind. If you are single, you might have difficulty keeping a relationship in balance. Don’t worry; the person you should be with will delight in the variations of your personality. If you are at-tached, the two of you benefit from recreating a couple of your early dates together. Nothing beats chat-ting over dinner, just the two of you. TAURUS is as stubborn as you are.

What the stars Mean

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Open marriage is not the best arrangement

By Jacqueline Bigar King Features Syndicate

In 1765, Frederick County, Maryland, became the first colonial American entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act.

In 1804, the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, was born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire.

In 1889, the first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. (The coin-operated device consisted of four listening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.)

In 1890, William III, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, died, ending 75 years of Dutch rule over Luxembourg.

In 1903, Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in “Rigoletto.”

In 1914, the seven-month U.S. military occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, ended.

In 1936, Life, the photojournalism magazine

created by Henry R. Luce, was first published.

In 1945, most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, was set to expire by day’s end.

In 1959, the musical “Fiorello!,” starring Tom Bosley as legendary New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, opened on Broadway.

In 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

In 1971, the People’s Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.

In 1980, some 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.

In 1995, movie director Louis Malle (“Pretty Baby”; “Atlantic City”; “My Dinner with Andre”) died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 63.

TODAY IN HISTORYToday is Monday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2015. There are 38 days left in the year.

MY ANSWER

Take time to reflect on God’s goodness

Q: Every year some people we used to work with invite us for Thanksgiving. We always go, but to be honest we dread it. We hardly know anyone, and they usually end up arguing about politics or something. Would it be wrong to call at the last min-ute and say we’re sick, so we could have Thanksgiving on our own?

— Mrs. L.S.

A: Yes, it would be wrong to do this, be-cause you’d be lying — and lying is never right. Not only would you inconvenience your hosts, but in the long run you’d solve nothing; they still would probably invite you next year. One of the things the lord hates, the Bible says, is “a lying tongue” (Proverbs 6:17).

You have two choices, it seems to me (other than to go and be miserable). The first choice is to accept — and then to go with a positive attitude. In other words, ask God to help you reach out and be a friend

to those you’ll meet. O�er to bring food or help your hosts; express sincere interest in others; encourage them to tell what Thanks-giving means to them. Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9).

Your other choice (if it’s not too late) is to politely decline the invitation, honestly saying that you have decided instead to cel-ebrate this Thanksgiving as a family. Are there others (perhaps in your church) you could invite to be with you also on Thanks-giving — people who might otherwise be alone? The Bible says, “Share with the lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospital-ity” (Romans 12:13).

Above all, no matter where you are this Thanksgiving, take time to reflect on God’s goodness to you, and to thank him for all his blessings. This is the true meaning of Thanksgiving.

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Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit billygraham.org.

By Frank Stewart Tribune Content Agency

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Community

By Tish LewisSpecial to The Weekly

The YMCA at Schilling Farms recently celebrated Veterans Day honoring past and present veterans.

The gym was filled with patriotic music provided by the Collierville Middle eighth-grade band, led by Jason Seek. John H. Rogers, Capt. U.S. Navy Retired, opened the ceremony and Mark Hansen, president of Collierville School board, introduced the guests.

The speaker, Jim Wal-ther, Major U.S. Army Re-tired, spoke on his 20 year military career and encour-aged people to go ask vet-erans to tell their story of their military service.

J.E. Barnes, a chaplain with Crossroads Hospice, did a blessing and recogni-tion of veterans.

Tish Lewis is with the YMCA of

Memphis & the Mid-South.

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Veterans honored at YMCA at Schilling Farms

Area scouts presented the colors during the YMCA at Schilling Farms’ annual Veterans Day celebration.

Jason Seek, conductor of the Collierville Middle eighth-grade band, leads the group through several patriotic songs during the ceremony.

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Chamber of CommerceCollierville

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Mission Statement: The mission of the Collierville Chamber of Commerceis to provide quality services and programs to its membership and to providebusiness leadership for the entire community in the vital areas of economicprosperity, education, and quality of life.

The November general membership luncheon was held November 11 at RidgewayCountry Club. The invocation and pledge was led by Daniel Hight, Director at ForeverYoung Senior Veteran’s Organization. He led a special invocation honoring our nation’sveterans. At this meeting, members learned about our new programs, took a tour of ournew website, met our new staff members, and discovered how they can get more out oftheir membership! For information on membership in the Collierville Chamber visitwww.colliervillechamber.com.

The luncheon was generously sponsored by Dignity Memorial Funeral Home of Collierville.

In conjunction with the Collierville Chamber of Commerce, BancorpSouth Houston Levee branch hostedtheir Annual Wine Down Business After Hours Event on Thursday, November 5 where bank staff , clients andchamber members gathered for a fun evening of networking and fellowship!

The Collierville Chamber hosted a ribbon cutting for Signature at Schilling Farms luxury apartments locatedat 1074 Signature Hill Drive in Collierville. Southern charm meets state-of-the-art convenience at brandnew Signature at Schilling Farms apartments in historic Collierville, Tennessee. Elegant architecture itsseamlessly within the well-planned streets and avenues of 443-acre Schilling Farms, a mixed-use communitywhere you can live, work, and play. Collierville Mayor Stan Joyner helped cut the ribbon! For more info visitwww.mrgapartments.com

The Collierville Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting for Mid-South ENT & Hearing Aid Center,Dr. Sri Naidu. Mid-South ENT Collierville location is 1458 W. Poplar Ave. Mid-South Ear, Nose andThroat has been in the business of caring for people since 1979. The practice has eight board-certiiedotolaryngologists dedicated to providing quality care and treatment to the pediatric and adult community in themid-south. Pictured cutting the ribbon is Dr. Sri Niadu and staff, chamber board members and Ambassadors.Visit www.mid-southent.com for more information.

The Collierville Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting for Pak-Mail under New Ownership locatedat 1016 W. Poplar Suite 106 in Collierville. Pak-Mail is locally owned. We are one of the world’s premierpacking and shipping companies for commercial and residential customers. Pictured cutting the ribbon isnew owner Karen Febles and staff, chamber board members and Ambassadors. Fore more information visitwww.pakmail.com

The Collierville Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting for Taylor Hearing Centers located at2028 W. Poplar Ave Suite 208 in Collierville. Pictured cutting the ribbon is Dr. Michael Steer and staff.Also pictured are chamber board members and Ambassadors. Taylor Hearing Centers services include a freecomprehensive hearing evaluation as well as an expert consultation to discuss the results of the evaluation asit relates to helping you understand any degree of hearing loss that may exist and possible solutions to treatthe effects. This comprehensive hearing evaluation includes an audiometric examination through an audiogram.Taylor Hearing Centers offer a variety of services to accommodate your personal hearing needs.

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The Economic Development Committee of the Collierville Chamber hosted its annual Industrial Roundtable onTuesday, November 17 at MCR Safety headquarters in Collierville. Pictured is our Guest Speaker Dr. Gary Fenterwith the Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workforce. The GMACW is an initiative of the Memphis& Shelby County Regional Economic Development Plan whose mission is to solve the Greater Memphis skillsgap by aligning training and education programs with employers’ skills requirement, connect employers to cost-effecting training and hiring support and drive coordination and improved outcomes among providers servingjob candidates.

WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP NETWORK

INDUSTRIAL ROUNDTABLE

December 9 - Collierville Chamber of CommerceGeneralMembershipMeeting. Come hear Rick Gering, Lead Pastor of Central Churchdeliver a special Christmas Message and hear the Central ChurchEnsemble perform beautiful holiday music. This month’s sponsoris Central Church. 11:30 AM-1:00 PM at Ridgeway Country Club.Reservations required. Register online atcolliervillechamber.com.

Please visit the Collierville Chamber website @www.colliervillechamber.com for all the upcoming Holiday Events!

UPCOMING CHAMBER EVENTS:

November General Membership Luncheon

Harbor Freight Tools Coming Soon to Collierville!WELCOME NEWMEMBERS:

BUSINESS AFTER HOURS

The new Collierville Chamber Women’s Leadership

Network held their kick-off luncheon Thursday, November

19 at Ridgeway Country Club. Guest Speaker was Carolyn

Hardy, President | CEO of Blues City Brewery. The WLN

is a new group that will help our members develop valuable

business relationships, sharpen their leadership skills, grow

professionally and personally and give them the opportunity

to participate in activities that support local charitable, civic

and cultural organizations. For more information about

this exciting new program designed just for women visit

www.colliervillechamber.com

Gary TaylorGeneral Manager,Collierville Funeral Home

Nov. 24 Collierville

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