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Whole Foods causing ‘distress’ Neighbors want input on project By Jennifer Pignolet pignolet@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2372
More than 1,600 people joined a Facebook group to plead for a Whole Foods Market in Germantown, but not everyone in the city is happy about the incoming business. With its final zoning warrants approved last Monday, Whole Foods Corp. is moving forward with Germantownbased developer Cypress Realty Holding Co. to demolish a few empty homes, clear forest and construct a 41,050-square-foot store at the corner of Poplar Avenue and Pete Mitchell Road, just east of Germantown Road. The store will be 5.5 miles from the Memphis area’s only open Whole Foods store on Poplar in East Memphis. Construction is slated to start in September. But Dogwood Road resident Joan Terry told the Board of Mayor and Aldermen last Monday night: “We have been extremely distressed by this.” She said she had hoped for more accommodations and better communication between the developer and the neighborhood association. The association’s president, Richard Glassman, said he has yet to hear from the developers directly, although public meetings were held. “We know this is good for Germantown,” Glassman said. “No question about it. But why won’t this developer and his representatives sit down and talk with us?” Ralph Berry, a Germantown resident and executive vice president of public relations firm Sullivan Branding,
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One of the popular classes at the Germantown Athletic Club is the Zumba dance class, which takes up nearly two-thirds of the gym. Noise issues can arise between group fitness classes and basketball players also in the gym and joggers on the second-floor track.
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Back into SHAPE Multimillion-dollar renovation project kicks into motion; public input sought By Jennifer Pignolet pignolet@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2372
Jafar Mirza attends a yoga class at the Germantown Athletic Club. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen last week approved an expenditure for an engineering firm to start design on a major renovation for the club.
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Eighth-grader wins by sounding it out
DRINK UP YOUR MILK Experts recommend keeping milk in your diet, even if you prefer popular alternatives.
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Dwight Moore Jr., a tall 13-year-old with braces, started the school year with a goal to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. After six hours of orthography at the Memph is-Shelby County Spelling Bee on Saturday, it came down to the word, “ketone.” Dwight asked for the definition. He asked it to be used in a sentence. He was thinking, c-i-t-o-n-e. When the pronouncer said the word was of German origin, it gave Dwight a hint that maybe the word
ALL BY MY‘SELFIE’ Child development experts worry so much focus on self will have drawbacks for first truly “smartphone generation.” FAMILY, 5
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The risks of going to the gym right around 5 p.m. on a weekday are inherent: No open machines, bumping elbows in the pool, and packed group-fitness classes. The Germantown Athletic Club is hoping to minimize those annoyances with a multiyear, multimilliondollar renovation project. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen last week approved spending $256,500 to hire two architectural
design firms to develop plans to renovate the athletic club. City Administrator Patrick Lawton said the renovations could total up to $3.5 million. The club’s nearly 12,000 members have helped Germantown build enough savings to pay for the renovations over the next several years. But with that increase in membership comes an increase in needs. “As it grows, we’re going to continue to grow with it and we need to make the facilities improvements
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started with a “k.” “I thought, ‘If you don’t know it, spell it how it sounds.’ That’s what someone told me,” Moore said. That someone was his mother, Geneva Moore, who sat in the front row looking anywhere but at her son. As moms tend to be, she was right. And with that golden rule tucked in his noggin, Dwight will represent the city and county in the national bee at the end of May after correctly spelling his last word of the day at Al Chymia Shrine Center. The bee is sponsored by The Commercial Appeal. Dwight, an eighth-grader at Central Day School in Collierville, beat out 127
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“We knew he was prepared,” Geneva Moore said of her son Dwight Moore, 13, who won the Memphis-Shelby County Spelling Bee Saturday. Dwight is an eighth-grader at Central Day School in Collierville.
spellers in 23 rounds to win the big trophy. He also won a Merriam-Webster dictionary, an iPad, $100 of gift cards for the Apple Store and a digital camera to record his trip to Washington.
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“I just thought I got the dictionary,” Dwight said. Dwight’s parents said he diligently studied for the spelling bee. His mom said her son is an avid reader
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