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Collierville Weekly EDITOR’S NOTE

Weekly marks 1 year in C’ville

By David Boyd boyd@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2507

PHOTOS BY YALONDA M. JAMES/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

Director Daniel Page stands in the Germantown Community Library Wednesday. The library received the State of Tennessee’s Highest Community Participation in Summer Reading for Level IV Libraries for 2013. The award is given to the library with the highest youth participation rate based on its population.

GERMANTOWN

Library is honored Youth taking part in summer reading program propels it to the top

By Marlon W. Morgan morgan@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2792

One of the things that made becoming director of the Germantown Community Library enticing for Daniel Page six months ago was the library’s strong track record and the support it receives from the community.

Earlier this month, Page got conirmation of that when he and Emily Shade, also new to the library, were on hand to receive the inaugural State of Tennessee’s Summer Reading Program Award for 2013.

The award was passed out at the Tennessee Summer Reading Conference, which was held at Montgomery Bell State Park Feb. 10.

The award was given to the library with the highest youth participation rate based on its population.

Germantown, which had 6.14 percent participation, was able to overcome the fact that it has the highest median age in the state.

“To be the irst people to get the award, it was really nice,” Page said.

But that was just the cake. Page got the icing when he also learned the Germantown Community Library

not only had the highest percentage among Level 4 libraries, but it had the highest percentage of participants among all libraries in the state.

“That was really nice,” he said. “It was a wonderful thing the state is doing to encourage libraries to market their summer reading program and get as many See LIBRARY, 2

Has it been a year? Wow! It is hard to believe that a little over a year ago we were making our inal plans to launch the Collierville Weekly.

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Inside the Edition

GERMANTOWN MUNICIPAL SCHOOL BOARD

TRUE HEALERS

Board approves charging $200 tuition for nonresidents to attend city schools

Therapy dog teams spread joy, emotional healing to patients in Mid-South hospitals.

By Lela Garlington garlington@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2349

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CHAMPION MUSTANGS Houston’s girls basketball team defeats Ridgeway for region title and Dyer County in sectionals to qualify for state. SPORTS, 9

OSCAR WINNER Briarcrest alumnus’ work on animated movie ‘Frozen’ wins Academy Award. NEWS, 3 The Commercial Appeal © Copyright 2014

In a 3-2 vote Monday night, the Germantown Municipal School Board decided to charge tuition for nonresidents to attend its ive schools.

The vote came after a half-dozen or more Germantown and Collierville parents spoke against the fee, as well as some Germantown schools faculty and coaches.

About one out of four students in the Germantown school district live somewhere other than Germantown.

The new fee will afect about 1,000 Collierville

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families and 225 Cordova parents whose children attend Germantown’s Houston High, Houston Middle and Dogwood Elementary.

The resolution proposed by board member Mark Dely allows the district to charge parents $200 per child per year with a family cap of $500 per year.

The resolution allows for waivers for parents whose children are on the free and reduced-price lunch program or have other unforeseen circumstances that would prevent them from paying the fee.

Those circumstances would need approval of the superintendent or his staf.

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The vote was also against the wishes of Supt.

Jason Manuel. “I am more scared about the revenue walking out the doors,” Manuel said.

But some board members say there will be others willing to pay the fee.

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In other action, the board adopted a school calendar identical to Shelby County, Bartlett and Collierville and set new elementary and middle school attendance zones.

Germantown students who live south of Poplar and west of Hacks Cross will attend Riverdale elementary and middle schools. Germantown students who live south of Poplar and east of Hacks Cross or on both sides of Hacks Cross north of Poplar Pike would attend Dogwood Elementary and Houston Middle.

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In the News GERMANTOWN/ARBOR DAY

Tree giveaway precedes first fruit tree sale

By Stacey Ewell Special to The Weekly

The city of Germantown will give away 750 dogwood trees in celebration of Arbor Day. The ornamental lowering trees will be available between 9-11 a.m. Friday at Germantown Crossing Shopping Center parking lot at the corner of Germantown Road and Farmington Boulevard.

The rain date for the event is Saturday.

The trees are available to Germantown residents only. Residents are asked to show a valid driver’s

license or a current water bill.

“We are very excited to be celebrating Germantown’s 23rd year as a ‘Tree City USA’ and carrying on our tradition of making trees available,” said Pam Beasley, parks and recreation director.

Representatives from the Germantown Tree Board and Germantown Beautification Commission, sponsors of the Arbor Day event, will be on hand to answer questions and provide planting and tree care information.

Immediately following the dogwood tree give

away, organizers will move to the new Bobby Lanier Farm Park to conduct the city’s irst fruit tree sale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“This year we are encouraging citizens to consider planting fruit trees as a way to provide some shade and delicious food — the two for one plan,” said Beasley.

For more information contact the Germantown Parks and Recreation Department oice at 901-7577375.

Stacey Ewell is the assistant to the city administrator.

Germantown Police report

Q &A ABOUT THE FRUIT TREE SALE Q: What will be sold?

A: The fruit tree sale will include a variety of fruits and berries from local and regional growers. This is the irst year for the sale, so plants have been chosen that are delicious, productive, easy-tocare-for varieties that grow well in the mid-south.

Q: What do they cost?

A: A complete list of fruits and berries to be sold at the 2014 sale can be found on the Germantown Parks and Recreation Facebook page.

Just look for the link — “Fruit Tree Sale”.

Q: If I go, will I get what I want? Do items sell out?

A: Shoppers who are looking for something that is in short supply may want to consider pre-ordering. This can be done by completing the order form below and dropping it by the Parks and Recreation Oice

by March 4. On the day of the sale, plants will be sold on a irst come basis beginning at 11 a.m. All proceeds will support City beautiication projects.

Q: If the weather is bad, will the sale be postponed?

A: No, we will not postpone the fruit tree sale. If the

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weather is cold or rainy, we will use the stable at the Farm Park for the sale and distribution. We will do our best to help shoppers get their plants to the car.

Q: I want to buy several trees, how will I carry them?

A: Volunteers and city staf will be on hand to provide assistance.

Q: How do I pay for my plants?

A: All pre-orders can be paid for by credit card, debit card or check. On-site, day of event sales can be paid for by check or cash only (check is always preferred).

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

FEB. 24

Photography class

■ Someone forced entry into residence through rear door in the 1400 block of Green Orchard Cove at 8:44 a.m.

Nothing reported missing.

A free children’s photography workshop will be held at the Morton Museum March 13, from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The class is open to children 8 to 11 years old. Participants must bring a camera or a camera phone. Sign up by e-mailing museum@ ci.collierville.tn.us, or by calling 901-457-2650.

FEB. 25

■ Someone took two ladders from an outside storage area of the business in the 7600 block of Farmington boulevard at 8:59 a.m.

■ Someone used the victim’s personal information to open a cable television account in the 2600 block of S. Germantown Road at 11:45 a.m.

■ Oicers arrested an adult female after she threw a shoe at her sister striking her in the head in the 8500 block of Huntleigh Way at 3:28 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing injuries at Dogwood Road and Forest Hill Irene at 7:46 a.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown Road and Wolf River boulevard at 8:15 a.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown Road and Wolf River boulevard at 8:46 a.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Wolf River boulevard and Germantown Road at 1:35 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Farmwood boulevard and Farmington blvd. at 2:44 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown Road and Wolf Trail at 3:14 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries in the 7600 block of Wolf River Circle at 5:06 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries in the 7600 block of West Farmington at 8:30 p.m.

FEB. 26

■ Someone took a check from the victim’s residence in the 2000 block of Thorncroft Drive at 10:25 a.m.

■ Someone entered the victim’s unlocked vehicle and took a cellphone and cofee mug in the 1800 block of Exeter Road at 7:01 p.m.

■ Vehicle struck a deer causing no injures Poplar and Forest Hill Irene Road at 4:10 a.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries Poplar and Kirby Parkway at 7:01 a.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing injuries at Wolf River and Dogwood Hollow Road at 2:18 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries in the 6600 block of Poplar at 5:18 p.m.

FEB. 27

■ Someone broke the window out of the victim’s vehicle in the 7800 block of Wolf River boulevard at 7:45 a.m.

Computer classes

PHOTOS by KAREN PulFER FOCHT/THE COMMERCIAl APPEAl

Caroline Billions learns about a human heart while holding one in her hands. High School students at Briarcrest got to learn about anatomy on a real human heart last Thursday.

Heart-felt lesson Briarcrest Christian students have hands-on heart experience

By Marlon W. Morgan morgan@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2792

Andrew Foster, 15 at the time, was working out with the Briarcrest football team when he noticed he couldn’t keep up with his teammates.

It was initially thought that he had asthma. Later, an echogram showed Foster had an anomalous origin of the right coronary artery. In other words, his right coronary artery rose from the left coronary sinus.

Last Thursday morning, Foster, now a 17-year-old senior and healthy, got to hold an actual human heart while cardiologist Muhammad Janjua of St. Francis Hospital-Bartlett explained to Foster the surgery he underwent.

“It was crazy because it was so small,” Foster said, referring to the artery. “I was expecting to be able to see it very clearly, but it’s so deep in the heart that it made it even crazier that they were able to get to it. I’m even more thankful that it went well.”

Students of Darlene Buckner’s advanced science classes at Briarcrest had the opportunity of a lifetime — to actually see and

hold two human hearts.

With February being Heart Month, Lori Simpson of the American Heart Association arranged for this rare experience.

Janjua discussed with the class how heart attacks occur and explained the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

Then, Robin Bozarth, anatomical manager for the Medical Education and Research Institute displayed an enlarged heart of a 97-year-old woman, along with the heart of a 27-year-old woman, both of whom had died within the last three weeks.

Bozarth said it’s the irst time the MERI has brought live tissues into a school. Students were able to handle the hearts as they inquisitively asked questions.

“It’s strange that that was actually beating not too long ago,” said senior Alexis Sessions, 18. “I really like dissecting things and it’s so cool just to see it in person and actually touch it and see what it’s like.”

Ellie Eshun, 16, a junior, expected to be nervous. Before long, she was handling the heart as if she were a surgeon.

“It feels like Play-Doh,” Eshun said. “Like if I thought about it as

Play-Doh, it wasn’t such a big deal.

“I’ve always had an interest in medicine because my dad’s a doctor, but I never really had the experience to go with him and do things. Seeing this gives me a glimpse of what a doctor’s life is like. I’m more interested in it, deinitely.”

Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans, claiming the lives of one in every three people. With up to 80 percent of cardiovascular disease being preventable, Janjua stressed the importance of teaching students to make healthy lifestyle choices.

“A lot of heart attacks nowadays are happening in young kids,” Janjua said. “Part of the reasons are smoking, family history and obesity. Today, our plan is to make the young kids understand in the future you can have a better lifestyle and prevent a lot of factors that can lead to cardiovascular death.”

Buckner, who said her family has had its share of heart-related deaths and heart attacks, thought the experience was invaluable for her students.

“I’ve got some really good models,” Buckner said. “I’ve been able to tell some really good, true stories that happened to me. But to be able to actually see the real human heart, and to have a heart surgeon talk to them, it’s just going to take them to an entirely new level.”

Pickleball at YMCA

Play pickleball at the YMCA at Schilling Farms Thursdays, from 8:30-10:30 a.m. through April 24. Pickleball is a mixture between badminton, tennis and ping pong. Call 901-850-9622 for more information.

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

County Republican Women meeting

The Shelby County Republican Women’s Club will meet Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Germantown Country Club. Call 901-754-6209 to make reservations.

Lions Club banquet

The Germantown Lions Club will present Andrew Pouncey with the “Richard F. Benson” Citizen of the Year award during a dinner on Thursday at the Germantown Performing Arts Center at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person and may be purchased at the door. Reservations are required. E-mail 4LionRon@ comcast.net or Ron Roberson at 901-461-0182.

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LIBRARY from 1 children and their parents, guardians and grandparents to come. By ofering the award, it encourages participation and a good efort from the library’s staf.”

Last year’s summer program saw 2,417 participants at the Germantown library.

In the last ive years, the library has averaged about 2,500 registered participants each summer.

Shade, who joined the staf nearly ive months ago as the children and young adult supervisor, said she has noticed a resurgence in reading among young people.

“There have always been kids who love to read,” Shade said. “But now it’s like they’re especially obsessed with reading, the one’s who

Learn Microsoft Excel at the Collierville Burch Library’s free basic computer classes. The Microsoft Excel Pt. 1 and 2 sign ups begin Thursday and classes will be March 19 and 26. Call the library at 901-457-2601 or visit colliervillelibrary.org for information or to register.

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Librarians Emily Baker, Emily Shade, Amelia Simpson, and Eileen Scroggin helped make Germantown Community Library’s summer reading program a success.

love it. Technology helps them band together. They can ind friends who are elsewhere who also are as

obsessed about the books they love as they are. It’s not just a child sitting at home reading Harry Pot-

ter and thinking there’s no one else in the world who loves Harry Potter as much as they do. They

go online and they ind all these other kids who love it as much as they do.”

That goes for other popular series like Percy Jackson, the Hunger Games and Twilight.

Page and Shade are busy preparing for this year’s summer reading program.

The theme is “Fizz Boom Read,” and will focus on science and math.

Registration begins May 31. Each participant will receive prizes for reaching various milestones. The program will also feature visits from the Children’s Museum of Memphis, Tommy Terriic’s magic show, Animal Tales, Bricks4Kidz, Mr. Bond, Mad Science of the Mid-South, Natural History Educational Company of the Mid-South, and Bits, Bites and Bots.

There will also be a farm park and other hands-on activities.

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COLLIERVILLE SCHOOL BOARD

Briarcrest alumnus wins Oscar for ‘Frozen’ work

District won’t levy nonresident tuition

By Beth Rooks Special to The Weekly

Last Sunday was a big night for Briarcrest alumnus and Disney production coordinator Brandon Holmes, formerly of Lakeland. He was part of a team of fellow co-workers and ilm makers that won an Academy Award for the beloved animated feature “Frozen.�

BCS art teacher Jenna Fergus talked with his family immediately af-

ter he won the Oscar. His mom told her that his early years at Briarcrest he spent countless hours honing his art gift and produced a work ethic that has allowed him to shoot for the stars and strive for excellence in his chosen career in movie making.

With a heart of gratitude for his parents and encouragement from Fergus, Holmes pushed through the huge obstacles of the entertainment industry to attain his dream of work-

By Lela Garlington garlington@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2349

Briarcrest alumnus Brandon Holmes recently won the coveted Academy Award for his work with the animated hit “Frozen.�

Holmes was a production coordinator for the lick.

ing on animated feature films at Disney. When asked how he felt about the movie winning an Academy Award, he humbly said

that he was so honored.

Beth Rooks is the director of communications with Briarcrest Christian School.

CURTAIN COMING DOWN Poplar Pike Playhouse’s newest production “Hairspray� ends Saturday. To purchase tickets, call the box oice at 901-755-7775. Curtain opens at 7 p.m.

Unlike neighboring Germantown, the Collierville Board of Education unanimously voted Tuesday night to forgo any tuition for nonresidents.

In light of the $200-perstudent tuition that Germantown is charging for nonresidents this fall, Collierville school board chairman Mark Hansen assured the 76 parents and students in the audience, “We will have a seat for your child� for the new municipal school district.

In other action, the board set up a priority admissions list for its eight schools based on space and approved a school calendar identical to those of Shelby County Schools, Germantown and Bartlett.

About 425 current students in Collierville schools — or 6 percent — live outside the city limits.

Children of full-time Collierville school employees will have irst priority, followed by current Collierville students, siblings of current students, children of full-time town employees, students who are closer to a Collierville school if rezoning occurs, students within Shelby County, and students outside Shelby County but living in Tennessee.

If a student is accepted during open enrollment, he or she can re-enroll the

following year, but there is no guarantee of continued acceptance.

In a 3-2 vote, the Germantown school board voted Monday to charge a nonresident fee of $200 per child per year — or a $500-per-family maximum — when it starts its irst school year in August, although the board approved waivers in some circumstances.

During Monday night’s meeting in Germantown, school board member Linda Fisher said, “I am hoping Collierville will step up and pay for Collierville students� to attend Germantown schools.

That likely won’t be happening. “There won’t be (an interlocal agreement) at this point. We’re not paying it.

Period,� Hansen said before Tuesday’s board meeting. “They have yet to tell us why they need it.�

About 25 percent of students in Germantown schools live outside the city, including about 1,000 from Collierville.

While his oldest daughter wants to inish her last two years at Houston High in Germantown, Collierville parent Heath Hudspeth said, “I’m still not sure if I’m comfortable with her staying. It’s not the cost of tuition. It’s more the division the Germantown school board is causing. Adding tuition puts doubt in the stability of the system.�

GERMANTOWN

City’s western end could get revamp; Nottoway area neighbors anxious

By Jennifer Pignolet pignolet@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2372

A long-term plan to revamp the western end of Germantown has residents in the Nottoway subdivision upset over the potential for ive-story buildings behind their homes.

Several dozen residents came to Feb. 24’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting to contest the western gateway plan. The meeting included a public hearing on the rezoning plan.

Nottoway Homeowners Association board President Greg Fletcher called the changes “radical� and said many residents moved into the area because of the limitations on what could be built on adjacent property.

The western gateway plan includes the rezoning of 43 acres of mixed-use property from Poplar and Poplar Pike between the eastern boundary of 6755 Poplar and the western limits of the city. That area includes 10 unused acres known as Kirby Farms, which runs along the Nottoway neighborhood.

The zoning change for Kirby Farms would permit a ive-story building, or a six-story building with a warrant, at a minimum of 150 feet from the edge of the neighborhood. Buildings up to three stories tall could be built as close as 50 feet from the property line.

Other areas of the western gateway could see eightstory buildings.

In his presentation of the plan, economic and

community development director Cameron Ross called the project “responsible development.� The aim, he said, is to create a corridor of walkable commercial and residential areas conducive to a changing population.

Chief planner Wade Morgan showed the aldermen drawings of what kinds of buildings could go at certain intersections.

They included multigenerational housing units, oice spaces and storefronts, all with sidewalks accessible for people with disabilities.

Tax dollars for the city would also increase. Ross said the city has examined a few potential development scenarios, including hotels, residences and shopping centers, and estimated the increase in tax dollars to be anywhere from $300,000 to $2 million a year.

Aldermen Rocky Janda, Forrest Owens and Palazzolo voted to move the issue to a third and inal reading. Alderman John Drinnon was absent and Greg Marcom abstained due to a business conlict.

Owens said he understands the concerns of the neighbors but sees positives in the rezoning plan. “We’re a suburban area that is trying to remain sustainable,� Owens said. “I believe strongly we have to increase the density in our commercial centers to remain sustainable.�

He said he hoped for further discussions between the Kirby Farms developer and the neighbors before the inal vote, set for Monday.

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Schools DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Going to the dogs Briarcrest fourth-grader Karlie Ashlin Phillips loves horseback riding and math.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Phillips enjoys being active, sees college in future KARLIE ASHLIN PHILLIPS Briarcrest Christian School, fourth grade

What do you like most about your school: I like meeting new people

and serving the Lord in all that I do.

What is your favorite subject: Most mornings, Dogwood Elementary staf and teachers greet the dogs that arrive at the school with their owners. When Principal Susan Pittman greets Penny, she makes sure she has a tasty snack in hand.

Students and staf show love for their four-legged friends

By Joyce Lansky Special to The Weekly

Kona is a therapy dog and functions as a reading dog at Dogwood Elementary. Almost every week he visits the school for students to read to him.

Although Dogwood Elementary School’s mascot is the dolphin, maybe it should be the dog for there’s no shortage of love for these furry animals at this school.

For the past two years, dogs who accompany their kids to school receive a tasty treat and multiple pats on the head through the car window. These same dogs can gobble up a second goody at the end of the school day.

This Dogwood tradition provides a fun human/animal connection for fourth and ifth grade safety patrol members, staf working the car line and the dogs as well.

The kids eagerly watch the cars to see if Cookie or Max will be pulling in soon.

Math because I like to solve problems.

What is your most challenging subject: Science because I am not

good with liquid, solids and gases.

When the dogs arrive, students must learn compromising skills for determining who will be the lucky kid to give out a treat. The kids know all the dogs by name and what kind of car they will arrive in. As a staf member, I too enjoy visiting with our fur babies. I’ve especially enjoyed watching one puppy triple in size.

Many parents have reported stories about their dogs waiting at the door to go to school on Monday morning, as if they instinctively know the weekend is over.

Our snow day proved to be a huge disappointment for Penny without her twice daily visit to school. She arrives each morning with a puddle of drool dripping down the side of the van. Although her owner must constantly wipe the side of her car, she still brings our friend to school.

Penny’s owners even brought doughnuts to car lane workers to celebrate Christmas one

December morning.

Dogwood Elementary School also enjoys a therapy dog on Wednesdays. Kona has been certiied as a therapy dog and as a reading dog. He tries to visit school each week to allow special education students to read to him, as well as some struggling readers. The children light up at the chance to read to Kona. His services also provided a popular auction item at the fundraiser because every kid wants a chance to read to Kona.

So what’s next for Dogwood? Hollywood Feed plans to donate the biscuits for the dogs and two aprons with treat pockets for the lucky school auction winners who will get to feed biscuits to our friends during the morning drop of. This should be a great way to continue the dog love at Dogwood Elementary School.

Joyce Lansky is a staf member at Dogwood Elementary.

What are some of your biggest accomplishments: One of my biggest

accomplishments is that I am a very good horseback rider and playing mother in a school.

What are your hobbies: Riding horses, playing basketball, playing tennis with my dad.

What are your goals for the future:

I want to go to college, continue riding horses, play college basketball, learn how to drive and be a good hunter.

Who is someone you admire: I admire my dad because he is the most like me and he is very successful in life.

Favorite movies, TV shows and books: My favorite movie is “Fro-

zen,” my favorite TV show is “Heartland” and my favorite books are the Minnie and Moo series.

What is something most people would be surprised to know about you: That I killed two deer.

What would you do if you were principal for a day: I would have a

sock hop.

What famous person would you like to meet: Amber Marshall What would you do with $1 million:

I would buy more horses.

SNAPSHOTS

ST. GEORGE’S

Students nearing one million minutes of volunteer service

By Sarah Cowan Special to The Weekly

Students, faculty, and families of St. George’s Independent School are well on their way to collectively performing 1 million minutes of service during the 2013-14 academic year.

Launched by senior Calla Michalak, who organized the efort as part of her Senior Independent Study Project, the minutes of service are being tracked via the Presidential Service Awards website. Jars of rice at each campus also serve as visual reminders of the initiative, with each grain representing one minute.

Michalak has not only been responsible for helping community members register online, she has also been involved in several schoolwide service initiatives, including a food drive for the Mid-South Food Bank.

The initiative kicked of with a meal-packaging event during the August faculty in-service. Taking a cue from an annual St. George’s event in which fourth and ninth graders unite to package meals for the needy, faculty and staf from St. George’s Independent School spent one morning of their in-service week doing the same thing.

The result was the packaging of more than 20,000

meals with the help of Outreach International, a service organization dedicated to sustainable solutions to poverty.

“A key part of our mission statement is about preparing our students to make meaningful contributions,” said William W. Taylor, school president. “I can think of no better way to model this ethos than to spend part of our faculty planning and training time in service to others.

And, I believe that setting aside this time during our in-service encourages our faculty to be innovative and creative in their approach to service learning throughout the year.”

Taylor stated that St. George’s does not have a community service requirement for graduation — and that this is intentional. Noting that service is much more meaningful if students ind a cause about which they are passionate, he said, “This goes back to our mission of preparing students to make meaningful contributions.

Meaningful contributions happen when students are engaged and positive about the service work they do, not when they’re simply trying to ill a certain quota of hours.”

Sarah Cowan is the director of communications for St. George’s Independent School.

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GERMANTOWN

Lindsey Taylor wins Youth Excellence Award

By Beth Rooks Special to The Weekly

Tara Oaks Elementary School in Collierville celebrated “Time for Tennessee” day with a parade winding through the halls of the school and singing a special song, “Tennessee is Our Great State.” Enjoying time with some students at Tara Oaks Elementary School in Collierville are (back, from left) Collierville Police Department Resource Oicer Ryan Lambert, vice Mayor Maureen Fraser, Tara Oaks principal Tricia Marshall, Collierville Schools board member Kevin Vaughan, superintendent John Aitken, Collierville School Board member Wright Cox, Alderman John Worley, Collierville School Board member Wanda Chism and Collierville Mayor Stan Joyner.

Morgan Cox, former University of Tennessee football player and current long snapper for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, visited Schilling Farms Middle School to speak with students. Cox is a Collierville native and graduate of ECS. His visit to Schilling Farms was sponsored by the NFL’s “Fuel Up to Play 60” initiative, a program founded by the National Dairy Council and NFL, in collaboration with the USDA, that empowers students to take charge in making small, everyday changes at school, including eating healthy and being active.

Briarcrest senior Lindsey Ann Taylor is the February winner of the Germantown Education Commission for the Youth Excellence Award.

The nominees must attend a public or private school outside of Germantown, but must be a resident of Germantown and have a GPA of 3.25 or higher.

Taylor was chosen for her excellent academic achieve- Lindsey Ann ment and her vol- Taylor unteer/community service eforts.

The purpose of the Youth Excellence Award is to recognize a high school senior who has made a significant difference in the lives of others, the school he/she attends and/or the Germantown community. The nominee must demonstrate academic achievement, volunteer efort, community service or participation in school activities.

The Germantown Youth Excellence Scholarship will be awarded to one of the monthly winners.

Beth Rooks is the director of communications for Briarcrest Christian School.

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In the News SCHOOLS

School choice tough task for many families Changes in districts create limbo for students in G’town, Cordova

By Jennifer Pignolet pignolet@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2372

It’s the question any parent with school-age children in the suburban Memphis area has likely heard countless times in the last several months. “Where are your kids going next year?�

Some families have easy answers to the question, and some are still left working through the decision.

Until zoning plans are inalized and oicials know how many transfers each school can accept, those who live outside a municipality but want to attend a school inside those limits will remain in limbo.

In Germantown, the debate is one of the most heated in the region, with large populations of Collierville and Cordova students attending Houston Middle, Riverdale School and Houston High School. Those who live in Germantown but attend one of the three namesake schools that are not included in the municipal district have the choice to transfer or stay with Shelby County Schools. Some families will have children in each district.

These are the stories of some families who either live in Germantown or currently attend one of the eight schools within the city limits, and how they are navigating the decision of where to attend next year.

THE PAYNE FAMILY Shanda and Bill Payne moved from Cordova to Germantown a year ago to make sure their children would be a part of the Germantown Municipal School District.

They got one out of two.

Daughter Reagan, 16, is a junior at Germantown High School. She will stay in the Shelby County district for her senior year. “I love Germantown, and all my friends are staying,� Reagan said.

Her 13-year-old brother, Tanner, will be in the municipal district. Tanner is now a seventh-grader at Riverdale. Because the family moved into the city limits, he will get to stay.

If they had stayed in Cordova, he would have had to take his chances with open enrollment.

Shanda Payne said she and her husband gave Reagan the choice of where to attend school for her senior year. “After we moved over here to keep them in the schools they’ve been going to, I didn’t want to make them change to a diferent one,� she said, adding that they ofered to enroll their kids in private school before they moved, but both children declined.

The family said they loved their Cordova home,

“The teachers and the principal, they’re the ones that make it how great it really is,� Jason Stewart said. “Nobody knows where they’re going to go, what’s going to happen.�

where they had lived since 1994, but were willing to move to guarantee a spot in the municipal district.

To stay in the zones for Riverdale and Germantown High School, they had about eight houses to choose from.

THE COLWELL FAMILY Rylan Colwell is a 16-year-old junior at Houston High School. But because he has a Memphis address — despite the sign mere feet from his apartment complex that says “Welcome to Germantown� — Rylan doesn’t know where he is going to school next year.

His mother, Robin Colwell, is determined he will inish out his high school years at Houston. “If I need to change my address, I can,� she said. “But I need to know. If it came down to that, I would do everything I could to move into that school zone so he can graduate from the high school he started with.�

With optional schools en rollment sta rti ng weeks ago, but no zoning plan released from Shelby County, Colwell said she was caught in the middle not knowing if she should move or try to enroll her son in another school.

They are currently zoned for Houston, which is why they moved to that complex, Colwell said.

But next year, without a Germantown address, the zoning will change. They don’t know yet if there will be room for Rylan through open enrollment at Houston. Shelby County’s latest zoning proposal has him rezoned for Germantown High School.

Rylan is in the visual arts honors society, creates hip-hop music with a group of other Germantown classmates and is on the football team. “It would be horrible making me transfer to the rival school senior year,� he said.

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Parents Bill (left) and Shanda Payne (third from left) have decided to split their schooling, with one child, Reagan (right), 16, remaining at her current SCS school for her senior year, and Tanner, 13, attending Germantown schools.

THE BARRETT FAMILY Brooke and Geoffrey Barrett have seen several of their Cordova neighbors flee to Germantown to make sure they get a spot in the municipal district.

Their approach is more of a wait-and-see. “We made a pledge that whatever happens, we’ll see what it’s like for a year and then go from there,�

Geoffrey Barrett said. “I’m not going to go making conclusions and selling my house or anything just because we’re not staying at Riverdale.�

The couple has two children, 9-year-old Gabi, a Riverdale fourth-grader, and 4-year-old Charlotte, who will go to kindergarten next year. Where she will attend is still unknown.

Gabi has attended Riverdale since kindergarten, and would like to stay there if she can. “I don’t like that we have to switch,� she said.

As Cordova residents, her parents know there is a good chance she may not be able to stay at Riverdale. With the most recent Shelby County plan, they would be headed for Cordova Elementary.

Brooke Barrett said they have no problems with their children attending

Cordova Elementary, other than the stress for Gabi of changing schools. “It may be a better situation, we just don’t know,� she said.

THE STEWART FAMILY Colleen and Jason Stewart said they have loved having their kids attend Germantown Elementary.

Their son Connor is 10 and in the fourth grade, and 7-year-old Carson is in the irst grade. Colleen Stewart took over as president of the Germantown Parent Teacher Association in January.

But they voted for Germantown to have its own municipal district, assuming that would include Germantown Elementary. “We really never thought that the three (Germantown namesake schools) wouldn’t be included,� Colleen Stewart said. “We just never thought that would

happen.�

The couple will be pulling their kids out of Germantown Elementary to attend a municipal school, likely Dogwood Elementary. “I feel like I’m turning my back on the school, and I hate that feeling,� Stewart said. “But I know I have to make the decision that’s best for them.�

Jason Stewart said the family has toured Dogwood and knows it will be a good it for the boys. “We know it’s a great school,� he said.

Connor said he was impressed with the size of the school and “could tell the teachers were nice there.�

His dad said they were nervous about continuing at Germantown Elementary with all the changes, even with the addition of the optional program, as it was unclear which teachers and administrators would stay at the school.

THE SHENNETT FAMILY Germantown residents Kelly and Bob Shennett let their daughters, Taylor, 17, and Nicole, 16, make their own decisions about where to attend school next year.

The sisters are juniors at Germantown High School and have decided to remain there for their senior year. “We’ve been going to school and going through high school together,�

Taylor said. “You want to graduate with the friends you started with.�

Taylor is involved heavily with the production program at the high school, as well as several other clubs and activities. Her parents said she wasn’t even interested in considering a different school for her senior year.

Nicole wasn’t initially as sure. She toured Houston High School during the open house and said she was impressed. “I was surprised how nice it actually was,� Nicole said. “But I still feel the same way Taylor does.

You just want to stick with your home school, where you’re comfortable with.�

Their mother said she was disappointed the high school wasn’t included in the new municipal district. “I wanted my kids in the Germantown Municipal District because it was something that a lot of people have fought long and hard for, and I think it will be a superior school system,� she said. “It’s just been devastating. Heartbreaking, to feel like we’ve lost our school.�

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Business CHAMBER CORNER Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce ambassador chairman TJ Rivera with Landmark Bank presented the Ambassador of the Month Award for January to Amanda Morgan with the Reserve at Dexter Lake.

The Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of Huey’s, located at 7677 Farmington Blvd. in Germantown. Helping cut the ribbon are (front, from left) area director Steve Voss, special projects coordinator Samantha Dean, President Lauren McHugh, vice president of operations Ashley Robilio, Germantown Mayor Sharon Goldsworthy and Chamber executive director Janie Day.

A ribbon cutting was held for American Dental Staing at the Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce oice. Philji Johns, Syam Ramachandran, Renee Topham, Dr. Veena Ammal, Chamber executive director Janie Day, Sreeja Sathish and Sathish Venugopalan cut the ceremonial ribbon. “Our knowledge of the dentistry, our management skills and tenacity for credentialing enables us to successfully assist dental practices across the Mid-South Region in inding the staf member which best its your practice.” For more information call, Renee Topham at 901-853-1797.

Stan Moser and David Gregory with EnvironClean set up a booth at the Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce’s February membership luncheon.

Cindy Udell with APG Oice Furnishings is a new member with the Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce. She recently spoke at the chamber’s February membership luncheon.

George Cogswell, president and publisher of The Commercial Appeal, was a guest speaker at the Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce’s membership luncheon.

The Collierville Chamber recently held a ribbon-cutting for new member, Our Little Secret MedSpa, 147 N. Main St. Owners Bob and Tracy Hendry, along with staf members, Meredith Koski, aesthetician and Katri Howell, nail artist, celebrated the big day with chamber President Fran Persechini and several chamber board members and chamber ambassadors. Visit ourlittlesecretspa. com for information.

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Say Cheese!

In honor of the one-year birthday of the Bartlett, Collierville and Germantown Weekly, we asked:

“When I was 5, we went to Chuck E. Cheese for my birthday. We all rode the roller coaster, jumped in the moon bounce, and won a ton of prizes.”

What’s your most memorable birthday?

CHAYLIA JENNINGS, 12

“My 13th birthday is my most memorable. My dad asked me what I wanted, and I told him to go out to eat and dancing. We went to Houston’s for dinner, then went to the old Hyatt Regency to dance. My dad still talks about it every year on my birthday.”

CHRISTINE HUGHES, music teacher at Bartlett Elementary

“When I turned 6 I had my birthday party at Pump It Up.” JORDAN PARNELL, 9

“Turning 10. I got a Disney laptop and lots of Pokémon cards. It was great.”

ADAM RIDGELL, 10

“My 8th birthday. It was held at the Cordova Skating Center.”

ANDREW RIDGELL, 8 PHOTOS BY KIM ODOM | SPECIAL TO THE WEEKLY

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In the News EDUCATION

Schools may screen edited version of ‘12 Years a Slave’

By Christina M. Wright cwright@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2510

An edited version of the Oscar-winning movie “12 Years a Slave” could be used as a teaching tool in high schools next school year as part of an initiative backed by a member of the Shelby County Schools Board of Education.

David Pickler, the local school board member who is also president of the National School Boards Association, spoke about the idea at the end of the school board meeting on Feb. 25.

Pickler and the Shelby County Schools board chairman said the lesson plan could provide a cultural learning tool in county schools, but only if parents, schools and the rest of the board agree.

The movie is based on the true n a r rative written by Solomon Northup, an affluent David free black Pickler man who was living in New York in 1841, when he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Southern states.

Filmmaker Fox Searchlight has not finalized which parts of the movie will be edited, but Pickler said it’s likely that nudity and other images considered age-inappropriate will be taken out.

The school board association also will develop a lesson plan for the book and ilm, including discussions to prepare the stu-

dents for what they will see. The plan should be available to school districts in September.

Pickler said he has spoken to Shelby County Schools Supt. Dorsey Hopson about the lesson plan and Hopson had “a positive reaction.”

Shelby County Schools board chairman Kevin Woods said his irst step in deciding whether he will support the lesson plan will be to see the movie.

“The idea is that we need to be focused on diferent curriculum other than your maths and sciences,” Woods said.

He wants input from parents and individual schools on the issue, and said he can’t make a blanket decision about whether all high school students are ready for such a topic.

EDUCATION

Gov. Haslam wants to shift funding to community, technology colleges

By Richard Locker

locker@commercialappeal.com 615-255-4923

NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration wants to shift inancial incentives for students more toward attending community colleges and the state’s colleges of applied technology and less toward fouryear universities, his top aide told lawmakers.

That’s one reason the governor’s “Tennessee Promise” plan for free tuition for high school graduates at the two-year schools

would be partly funded by reducing the basic Hope Scholarship for freshmen and sophomores at fouryear schools.

Under the plan, the Hope award would drop from the current $4,000 per school year to $3,000 in a student’s irst and second years at the universities, and increase from the current $2,000 per year at the two-year schools to $3,000.

“If you are leaving high school and you say, ‘Well I can either get $4,000 a year on Hope to go to a four-year institution or get $2,000 to

go to a community college,’ we think there is somewhat of a disincentive just appearance-wise in the dollar amount to go to a four-year versus a two-year,” Mark Cate, the governor’s chief of staf, told the House Education Committee.

“So part of our hypothesis is, there are students that are choosing to go on to four-year institutions that perhaps are better served at a two-year institution — yet they make that choice because of the gap between the” $4,000 and $2,000, he said.

Doug Burris, president of the North East Shelby County Rotary Club, prays with Wendy Arnold, 17, in her room at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.

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Heart of Memphis Gift of Life group ofers hope for ill Belize teen

By David Waters waters@commercialappeal.com.

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Memphis might be the poorest big city in America, but it’s awash in wealth compared to Double Head Cabbage.

That’s the name of a village in Belize, a small slice of Central America and home for a slip of a 17-year-old girl named Wendy Arnold.

Wendy came to Memphis two weeks ago with two holes in her heart, one in the upper chamber that takes in used blood, and another in the lower chamber that pumps it out to be refreshed in the lungs.

The hole in the bottom of Wendy’s heart was particularly troubling. It was damaging the blood vessels in her lungs and made her especially susceptible to strokes and brain infections.

Wendy was especially susceptible for another reason.

“I love to run,” Wendy said before her surgery Feb. 27.

“She would rather run than walk,” said her mother, Jonnelle Bood, who traveled to Memphis with her daughter. “She run before she could walk.

She can run far but she gets so tired and is breathing so hard. It doesn’t stop her. She is not afraid. She loves to run.”

If Wendy had been born 1,200 miles west or northwest or northeast of Memphis, the holes in her heart would have been routinely repaired when she was an infant. Pediatric cardiac sur-

geons at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital repair hundreds of congenital heart defects every year.

There are no heart surgeons in Belize, one of the hemisphere’s poorest countries, a place that’s smaller than West Tennessee with half the population of Memphis. Congenital heart defects like Wendy’s can be managed there, but not surgically repaired. Geography overrules anatomy.

“Every child is entitled to lifesaving health care,” said Bill Pickens, a member of Second Presbyterian Church and chairman of Gift of Life Mid-South. “Where you happen to be born shouldn’t matter.” Gift of Life Mid-South, sponsored by local Rotary Clubs, brings Third World children to Memphis for lifesaving heart surgery.

Wendy is the 47th Gift of Life child to come to Memphis since the program began in 2007. Le Bonheur donates its services. The families stay at the FedExFamilyHouse across the street.

Members of local Rotary clubs provide transportation, recreation and moral support.

Doug Burris and other members of the Northeast Shelby Rotary Club in Bartlett met them at the airport.

“I never heard of Memphis before we came here,” Jonnelle said as she looked out a window of the FedExFamilyHouse toward the hospital with a big red heart on top. “I love Memphis.

There are so many vehicles here. And so many good people who want to help my daughter, I don’t know why.”

It’s just your typical interracial, interfaith, international Memphis hospitality.

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Sports PREPS BASKETBALL

Houston girls beat Ridgeway to win region title

By Pete Wickham Special to The Commercial Appeal

Jaida Roper and Aysha Harris weren’t going to dwell on the little details — like the way they managed to score in double igures, or that their extremities were still in one piece.

All the two Houston stars had to do was look at the plaque that proclaimed them Region 8-AAA girls basketball champions after the Mustangs eked out a 36-27 alley ight with district rival Ridgeway on Feb. 26 at Central.

The Mustangs (27-7),

who hadn’t won a regional title since the middle of the Sarah Watkins era nearly a decade ago, earned a game at home against Dyer County for a berth in this week’s state tournament at Murfreesboro.

Roper took charge late in the third quarter and early in the fourth, scoring seven straight points to open a 26-18 lead. It started with a 3-pointer of a drive and dish by Harris. “A game like this against someone you know really well always has a feelingout process. It was hard getting an opening, but

the coach told me to keep shooting and after that 3, I felt better,� said Roper, who inished with 11 points.

Harris, whose two 3-pointers were her team’s lone irst-quarter scores, hit 5 of 6 free throws down the stretch to inish with 13 points and earn MVP honors. The Mustangs were 12 of 14 from the line for the game and 8 of 10 in the inal period. “The free throws pulled us through again,� said Harris, who will play for West Georgia next year. “But when we took the lead (16-15 on her two free

throws with 1:24 left in the irst half) ‌ we weren’t going to let that go.�

Houston coach Chad Becker said, “We have playmakers and we inally got them in space where they could make plays.�

Ridgeway, which lost 43-42 to Houston in the district inal, dominated early. The Roadrunners blocked four Houston shots in the opening quarter and took a 14-6 lead on a three-point play

by Tierany Paylor to open the second.

After that, Houston went into a zone and dared

Ridgeway to ire long. “We stopped chasing them all over the loor,� Roper said.

And the Roadrunners misfired, scoring just 13 points the rest of the game. Ashley Jackson was the lone Ridgeway player in double igures with 10 points. “We’re a good shooting team, but tonight nothing was falling,� Ridgeway coach Rhonda Kendall said. “We have one more chance (to reach state) and we’ll work to regroup.�

ClASS AAA SeCtionAl Jaida Roper scored 21

points, Alise Parker 19 and shutdown defense in the middle two quarters powered Houston to a 5033 win over Dyer County (25-4) in last Saturday’s Class AAA sectional at Houston High School.

The win sent Houston to this week’s state tournament where the Mustangs were scheduled to play Murfreesboro Blackman (31-1) in Wednesday’s afternoon quarterfinal round. Blackman enters the game ranked irst in the nation according to MaxPreps and USA Today.

BASKETBALL

St. George’s had best season in school history

By Sarah Acuf Special to The Weekly

With family and school oicials watching, St. Agnes Academy’s Caroline Cook signs a cross country and track scholarship with Savannah College of Art and Design.

SIGNING DAY

St. Agnes’ Caroline Cook signs to run in college

By Ginger Jordan Special to The Weekly

St. Agnes Academy senior Caroline Cook signed a cross country and track scholarship to Savannah College of Art and Design.

A talented athlete, artist and student, Cook has won multiple region and state titles.

Cook helped the Stars to four cross country regional titles, and she has been named a cross country inalist for the Best of the Preps the last four years.

In track she was a member of the state championship 3,200-meter relay team in 2012 and 2013. As a sophomore she won the D2 state title in the mile.

Cook was also a key member of the SAA basketball team.

Cook’s artwork was recently selected by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art to be included in a teen art exhibit entitled “Art Pop Culture.�

Cook is the daughter of Andy and Shannon Cook.

Her cross country and track coach is Jay Mathis.

The St. George’s basketball season came to a close as they fell to Franklin Road Academy 55-52 in the Division 2-A sub-state game. While the season ended prematurely, the season was one the most successful in school history.

The 24-1 record during the regular season set an all-time school high for wins and winning percentage. The Gryphons also boasted a perfect 12-0 record in region play. At the end of the regular season, the Associated Press ranked the Gryphons as the No. 1 Division 2 basketball team in the state.

In addition, The Commercial Appeal slotted St. George’s as the No. 9

The St. George’s basketball team wrapped up one of its most successful seasons in school history.

The team went 24-1 in the regular season, which is a school best.

team in the Dandy Dozen.

Three members of the team were selected to the All-Region team in Justin Wertner, Connor Green and Chase Hayden. Colin Kraus and Noah Pope were selected as honorable mention. Addition-

ally, Wertner was named the District Player of the Year and was a Mr. Basketball inalist. He averaged 21 points and 8 rebounds per game and set a school record for 3-pointers made in a season with 87. “Our team had an out-

standing season. We were able to notch some very impressive wins over some quality teams,� said coach Jef Ruin.

Sarah Acuf is the assistant director of communication with St. George’s Independent Schools.

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On her 100th day of hospital bed rest, Lindsay Henry received a muchneeded visit from a pair of furry physicians.

Therapy dogs Gizmo and Piper strutted into Henry’s room at Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital, tongues out and tails wagging.

Gizmo, a 3-year-old Cairn Terrier, found a warm spot to lie on Henry’s bed while Piper, a 7-year-old golden retriever, propped up on hind legs so Henry could pet both pups at once.

Even though both of the dogs had been cleaned and groomed to near perfection, their smiles were still contagious.

“Every Wednesday I look forward to these visits,” said Henry, who has been cooped up in the hospital for the majority of her pregnancy. “It helps a lot. It just brightens the spirits.”

Gizmo and Piper, along with their respective handlers Jenny Thomas and Laurie Goldman, are volunteers with the nonproit organization MidSouth Therapy Dogs and Friends.

The organization has been providing patients with istfuls of fur since 1999.

“Not all medicine comes in a bottle,” said Mary Ehrhart, the organization’s executive director. “The energy of the rooms — of the whole hospital, really — changes as soon as we walk in.”

Gizmo and Piper received red carpet treatment at their last visit, with staf and visitors swarming the dogs in the hallways and on the elevators.

Due to copious amounts of training, neither therapy dog seemed spooked by the attention.

“We do it for the smiles,” said Thomas, 30. She and Gizmo began volunteering about a year ago and make four or ive visits per month to area hospitals. Thomas said that, in addition to being “good for the soul,” the therapeutic beneits of the animals’ visits with patients include less stress and lowered blood pressure levels.

A natural extension of the Petfinder website, this application allows users to browse adoptable pets. You can browse in your area or nationwide and search by breed, age, gender and size. Once you’ve downloaded the app, you can select a photo to view more details about a pet or share with friends on Facebook, Twitter or e-mail. The app also has breed guides and touching adoption stories.

Cost: Free

MAPMYDOGWALK

by MapMyFitness This smartphone application uses the iPhone’s built-in GPS to track your dog walks. The app will display your time, distance, pace, speed and elevation. It also contains an interactive map that allows you to view your current location and where you have traveled along your route.

Cost: Free

TALKING TOM CAT

by Out Fit 7 Ltd. Not ready or able to care for a real kitten?

The next best thing is probably Tom, the silly cartoon kitty who repeats everything you say in a funny voice.

Once you download the app, you can pet Tom to make him purr; poke his head, belly or feet; grab his tail; pour him a glass of milk, etc., etc. Tom can play the cymbals and throw cake at the screen. The app, which would be fun for kids or adults, is also available in seven languages.

Cost: Free

Piper visits with a patient at Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital. Piper and her handler, Laurie Goldman, are part of Mid-South Therapy Dogs and Friends.

Therapy dog, Gizmo, and his handler, Jenny Thomas are one of many such teams that makeup Mid-South Therapy Dogs and Friends.

“This is a great distraction,” said Ron Smith, a renal cell cancer patient who visited with Piper as she made

her hospital rounds on a recent Friday. Smith’s wife, Jen, said she’s “always thought” her husband would be able to better handle the pain associated with his disease if he could visit with his pets while in the hospital.

Piper’s handler is a registered nurse, and her team also helps patients in rehabilitation settings. Goldman spends nearly three hours preparing Piper for each visit and said the process includes bathing, blowdrying, teeth brushing and toenail clipping.

To become a therapy dog team, each dog and handler go through a rigorous training regimen that can take more than a year to complete.

Ehrhart said the organization is looking for more volunteers, as they have more requests for visits than teams.

Goldman said the reward outweighs the work.

“I might be having the worst day before we come to the hospital, but as soon as we walk in a room and see a patient’s face light up, it is so worth it. It’s really a blessing. This helps us as much as it helps them.”

ASK THE EXPERT

When animal lovers and pet allergies collide: Fact and fiction

By Sara P. Shirley patterson@commercialappeal.com 901-529-6513

in the day when docWith treatment, can a pet alA Back tors would ind out that you Q lergy be cured?

There’s some evidence that had the allergy, they used to say, “Get rid of the pet.” Now, A the injection of allergens at

For animal lovers, the discovery of a pet allergy can be a hard pill to swallow. To make matters worse, the abundance of information about allergies and home remedies on the Internet can be confusing and sometimes, misleading.

Dr. Christie Michael, a pediatric allergy and immunology specialist with Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, answered the following questions about allergies:

we know that there are a lot of things you can do. Bathe your pet twice a week. Hardwood floors are much better than carpet. Buy furniture that is easy to clean. Use a HEPA ilter.

There is an old saying that patients will get rid of their allergist before they get rid of their pets, so now we try to avoid having to tell people that.

Q

Remember that “hypo” just means less. A hairless cat will still have dander.

If you find out you are allergic to your pet, do you have to give the pet away?

Good Health Memphis

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If you have a known allergy, can you sidestep it with the purchase of a “hypoallergenic” pet?

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mixed-level concentrations over a long period of time (3-5 years) can reverse someone’s sensitivity to environmental allergens long term. When it comes to animals, however, there are a lot of complications. The potency of the shots that would be required to desensitize someone to cat dander would be hard to tolerate. parents immunize their Q Can children against allergies by having pets early on in the child’s life?

some evidence sugA There’s gesting that children who grow up with multiple pets and are exposed to high levels of

allergens, very early in life, can build up a tolerance. At this point, nobody knows what level of exposure is required or what Dr. Christie other mitigating Michael factors come into play. The most evidence we have is anecdotal.

For example, I’ve had patients who didn’t develop an allergy until they got to college.

Because they were exposed so early and so often to pets as children, they seemed to have formed a tolerance. When they moved away from home and into the pet-free dorms, that tolerance was lost. After they graduated, moved into a new home

and got a pet of their own, they became allergic. question sort of counts Q This because it is insect related.

Can a person treat seasonal allergies with local honey?

so the idea behind this A OK, is that the honey can de-

sensitize you to pollen because bees deposit low levels of pollen spores into the honey. Here’s the problem: How much honey do you have to eat? How local does the honey have to be? There’s no scientiic evidence that you can gain a tolerance based on eating honey.

Dr. Christie Michael is an allergy and immunology specialist at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and The University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

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Sports SNAPSHOTS

The Junior Riverkings, a group of young men and coaches from Collierville, Germantown and surrounding cities, were undefeated this season with 37 wins and one tie. The team also won two tournaments, with a recent championship run at a competition held in Franklin, Tenn.

Briarcrest senior Grant Kelton made it to the medal stand twice as he competed in the Tennessee State Swimming Championships held recently in Nashville. He placed sixthplace overall. He swam his best personal time and he broke the school record with a 51.51 in the 100-yard ly. He also was sixth-place in 100yard backstroke.

Briarcrest senior George Kawell signs his letter of intent in golf with Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Kawell has been at Briarcrest for 13 years and played golf and tennis in high school. Kawell went to the state championships all four years of high school. He plans to major in business. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Kawell.

Houston High’s (left) Colin Rains and his teammates surround the Arlington High player and attempt to stop him from scoring. The defenders were successful as the Mustangs beat Arlington 14-0. Houston’s lacrosse program recently hired new head coach, Garrett Wimberly, who also is the head coach for University of Memphis lacrosse program.

Houston High’s varsity lacrosse team won its irst game of the season with a 14-0 win at home against Arlington. Ethan Billions (left) and Zach Smith helped lead the Mustangs to a shutout victory.

Briarcrest senior Gus Gran signs his letter of intent to play football with the University of Memphis. Gran has been at Briarcrest for two years and has played football, basketball, baseball and ran track both years. He was named to the Best of the Preps All-Metro and All-Region team this year.

He plans to major in Sports Medicine. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gran.

Collierville’s Kari Kennel takes a cut during a recent scrimmage. The Lady Dragons softball team hosted a preseason scrimmage day at Johnson Park. Twelve high school teams from west Tennessee participated. It was a good way to shake of the winter rust in preparation for the 2014 season for the Lady Dragons, which starts with a home game at Bradley Field on Monday against White Station. The game starts at 5 p.m.

Collierville’s Kelsey Gross is surrounded by her teammates as she heads to the mound.

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Home & Garden BOOKER LEIGH Garden tips

Ornamental grasses are great, easy to maintain

JAN CASTILLo

The Yoshino cherry, like these examples along Cherry Road, is one of four species of seedlings that will be given away Friday on Arbor Day at Memphis Botanic Garden.

ARBOR DAY

Boughs all around Memphis to receive oicial ‘Tree City USA’ designation There has never been a question that Memphis is a city abundantly blessed with trees.

But to get its oicial designation as a “Tree City USA,” which will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday (Arbor Day) at the Memphis Botanic Garden, took efort and perseverance.

“Our tree canopy is vast, impressive and historic,” said Eldra White, executive director of Memphis City Beautiful, which partnered with Memphis Parks and Neighborhood Services, the Memphis Botanic Garden and the West Tennessee Chapter of the Tennessee Urban Forestry Council to get the certiication from the Arbor Day Foundation.

“This designation demonstrates our community’s commitment to maintaining this reputation as well as caring for and managing public trees.

Most of all, it brings honor, pride and a positive community spirit to the city.”

To become a Tree City USA, communities are required to maintain a tree board or department, have a community tree ordinance, spend at least $2 per capita on urban forestry and celebrate Arbor Day. Celebrating Arbor Day was easy. Memphis has been doing that for decades, and this year the ceremony will be especially meaningful. It will be the oicial state Arbor Day Ceremony and is expected to be attended

by Tennessee Urban Forester Brian Rucker and Julius John-

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son, Tennessee commissioner of agriculture.

The process of getting the designation accelerated when Janet Hooks, director of Public Services and Neighborhoods, appointed her deputy operations director Larry Smith to calculate the expenditures and to draft the tree ordinance.

He soon discovered the city was already spending more than $2 per capita in tree-related services, such as tree trimming, planting, purchasing and removal; leaf collection, limb and stump chipping; irrigation and landscaping.

“On the application, we submitted a budget of $1.693 million in tree expenditures for our population of 646,889 people,” Smith said, adding that the ordinance establishing a sevenmember tree board and setting guidelines was passed by the City Council in early 2013.

Dr. Mark Follis, a certiied arborist and owner of Follis Tree Preservation, is chairman of the new tree board; White is co-chairman. Members include professional arborists Wes Hopper, Eric Bridges and Chris O’Bryan; and community

upcominG home & Garden events GARDENING EVENTS

saturday: the eighth annual dafodil dash 3-miler & Family Fun run: 10 a.m. at Memphis Botanic Garden (8 a.m. registration). $25, $10 ages 12 and younger (Family Fun Run only), $1 discount MBG and MRTC members). 901-636-4102. memphisbotanicgarden.com/ dafodildash sunday: Great Gardens: the Gardens of Japan: 4-5 p.m.

Memphis Botanic Garden. $10 ($5 MBG members). Nick Esthus, curator of Seijaku-en at MBG, shares his experience at the 15th annual Japanese Garden Seminar, presented by Research Center for Japanese Garden Art & Historical Heritage, held at the Kyoto University of Art & Design. Call 901-636-4128 for reservations. march 15: “bartlett Gardening

tree advocates Jan Castillo and Andree Glenn.

Smith, Follis and others have been told by the Tennessee Department of Forestry that the designation for Memphis is a “done deal,” but have not seen an oicial certiicate issued by Tree City USA. “I just want to see that certiicate,” said Smith, who will also be involved in the annual recertiication to maintain the designation. “We have so many trees here, it’s a natural for us to be certiied.”

It’s traditional for free tree seedlings to be given out on Arbor Day, and this year four species will be available after the ceremony on a irst-come, irst-served basis. They are:

university” — hydrangeas: 2:30 p.m. lecture featuring Linda Lanier, president and founder of Mid-South Hydrangea Society, at Bartlett Library, 5884 Stage Road. Sponsored by Bartlett City Beautiful in conjunction with Memphis Area Master Gardeners and Bartlett Library.

HOME & DESIGN EVENTS

Friday-sunday: southern Women’s show: Shopping, cooking classes, makeovers, lifeenhancing educations seminars, celebrity appearances. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove. $9 discount tickets online at: southernshows.com, $8 at participating Walgreens, $10 at the door, $5 for children ages 6-12. Call 800-849-0248 for information.

yoshino cherries like the ones that bloom so beautifully every spring on Cherry Road and all around the city; lowering dogwoods, black tupelo and northern red oaks.

Memphis City Beautiful is also making 6,500 black tupelo seedlings available to fourthgraders in 77 public and private schools in Shelby County.

Packaged with each seedling is an instruction sheet on how to plant and care for the young plant that looks more like an unimpressive twig than a magniicent tree. But if you nurture and water it, especially during our long hot, dry summers, your rewards will be great.

Once established, most trees require very little to thrive.

Ornamental grasses enhance the landscape and are very easy to grow with very little maintenance.

If you are a new gardener and thinking about planting some ornamental grasses, early fall or early spring is probably the best time to plant. This gives the grass adequate time to develop a good root system before winter. If you do plant in the winter make sure the soil is not frozen and a freeze is not predicted within 24 hours.

Ornamental grasses grow best in full sun, but can be grown in partial shade. With any perennial, success starts with soil preparation. Theses grasses prefer well-drained soil that is rich in organic matter. This helps the roots get established.

Ornamental grasses should not be planted any deeper than they were grown in their original container. When planted too deeply, they develop problems such as root disease, or they rot in the ground.

Watch your grasses for signs of thinning, where new growth appears only on the sides of the clump, leaving a naked center.

This indicates old growth has smothered out room for the new growth to come through. This is when it is time to divide and replant your grass; the best time for this is in the spring.

Dig the plant up, and then cut the clump into three or four pieces with a spade or an ax. Replant the new pieces the same way you would a new plant.

Provide at least an inch of water a week, until the plant becomes established. Keep your plants well mulched and watered during the summer when conditions are dry.

If you already have ornamental grasses in your landscape and are thinking about cutting them back, you should wait until you begin to see some new growth in the spring.

Then you should cut them back 6 to 8 inches from the ground, apply a general purpose fertilizer like 6-12-12 to the soil around the plant, then water well to keep the fertilizer from burning the blades of grass.

If you are thinking about planting some ornamental grasses, early fall or early spring is probably the best time to plant.

Booker T. Leigh is an extension agent for Shelby County. For more gardening information, call his oice at 901-752-1207.

Eco-friendly ‘green’ design is here to stay A few years back, you couldn’t hear the word “design” without “sustainable” mentioned in the same breath — green was the hottest color in the industry.

Like any trend, that mania eventually calmed down.

That’s not to say green design has gone away; it’s still a major buzzword at design markets, and more eco-friendly products (or products that claim to be eco-friendly) are available now than ever before. But the craziest part of the craze seems to be over, and that has me wondering: Now that the “fad” is past, what does that mean for the future? What lasting impact will the green movement have on the way we build and design houses?

For one thing, the products are here to stay, said architect David M. Schuermann, president of Memphis-based

STACEY WIEDOWER inside desiGn

Architecture Inc. “It’s taken a while, but sustainable design has gotten into the residential market I think solidly,” he said. Reclaimed woods, low-voltage lighting, bamboo looring — these are the types of sustainable products Schuermann’s clients are requesting. And he doesn’t see that changing any time soon.

But even more than sustainable products, said builder Jimmy Burditt, consumers want energy eiciency. And that does relect a shift in attitude from years past.

“I still have people who are really passionate about

doing things green, but I’ve found that a lot of it has fallen by the wayside unless they can recoup the costs dollar for dollar,” said Burditt, vice president of custom homebuilder and remodeler Creative Development Inc. He sees more homeowners seeking low-E windows (low thermal emissivity), energy-efficient heating and cooling units and Energy Star appliances — products that result in direct, visible savings on their monthly utility bills.

What’s more, he said, government policy is changing to make these types of products a necessity.

Take low-low toilets, for instance. The number of gallons-per-lush allowed by federal regulations has dropped dramatically in the past two decades. And now, consumers face the phasing out of incandescent bulbs in favor of more energy-

eicient forms of lighting.

“The government has dictated what you can do,” Burditt said. “That’s something that’s been a real challenge to manufacturers.”

In his own house, Burditt recently replaced the compact luorescent (CFL) bulbs in his recessed can lights with LED bulbs. Thanks to increased production that’s resulted from new federal lighting guidelines, the cost of LED lighting is inally dropping to levels homeowners can aford.

“They’re still premium, but the payback is so much quicker now,” he said. “I paid $5 a can, versus ive years ago, when that would have been $45 a can.”

In my house, the green movement has caused my family and me to think more about not just energy eiciency, but waste in general. When an old appliance breaks down (which we let happen be-

CoURTESy oF JIMMy BURDITT

A worker installs dense-packed cellulose in the wall cavities of a new house. It’s environmentally friendly, made up of 85 percent recycled material, and is treated with a ire retardant and acts as a natural air barrier because of its density.

fore we replace it), we look for the Energy Star label on its replacement.

When we’re in the market for a “new” piece of furniture, I scout secondhand shops for potential trash-to-treasure opportunities, because there’s no greener product than one that already exists. And when I do buy something new, I sell or give away the

old in hopes that someone else will give it new life.

Interior design is like fashion in that trends are leeting — what’s hot today is on the curb tomorrow.

But I hope green design is more than a passing fad.

Stacey Wiedower is a Memphisbased freelance interior design writer. Contact her at stacey. wiedower@gmail.com.

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Food YOUR HEALTH DINNER FOR TWO

Meatloaf trims up Greek-inspired fancy version fit for entertaining

By Anthony L. Komarof Universal Uclick

By Carol Borchardt Special to the Commercial Appeal

Meat loaf is considered to be an American invention; however, the concept of combining ground meat with other ingredients and then cooking them together in loaf form goes back centuries. Meatloaf became popular in this country around World War II as a thrifty way to use up ingredients before they spoiled.

Meatloaf is one of my most requested items from clients, but they also request it be more healthful than what they grew up with. This Greek-inspired spinach and feta cheese-stufed turkey meat loaf is certainly that and is also dressy enough to prepare for guests.

This recipe makes slightly more than two servings. We love to have an extra serving or two left over; dinner the irst night — a tasty hot sandwich the next.

Frozen chopped spinach is a wonderful convenience item. When starting with fresh spinach, it’s not always easy to gauge how much you’re going to need because it shrinks so much. Frozen chopped spinach is already cooked, so it’s easier to determine the amount required for a recipe.

Spinach is full of water, and although much of the water in frozen spinach has been eliminated, more will result when thawed. The easiest way I have found to squeeze moisture from spinach is with a potato ricer. Place the thawed spinach into the well of the ricer, and then squeeze as if ricing potatoes.

I’ve tried both fresh and dry bread crumbs in meat loaf, and the result from using fresh is far superior to that of dry. Every so often, I clean out the freezer of bread odds-and-ends, thaw, and then run through a food processor to coarse crumb consistency. I place them in a zipper-top bag and store in the freezer, where they’re ready and waiting for any recipe requiring fresh bread crumbs.

It seems that even after reconstituting dry bread crumbs in milk, their thirst for moisture is insatiable, and they will continue to draw moisture from one of the most important parts of your meat loaf — the meat.

If you want to use dry bread crumbs, try panko (Japanese bread crumbs) for the best texture, and use half of what’s called for in the recipe.

Serve with roasted green beans, broccoli or broccolini. If a starch is desired, serve with lightly buttered whole-wheat orzo or quinoa.

Carol Borchardt owns A Thought For Food Personal Chef Service. She creates diet and palate-speciic meals for clients in their homes. To ind out more, visit her website and blog at athoughtforfood.com.

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For best results, use frozen spinach and fresh or panko bread crumbs.

SPINACH- AND FETA-STUFFED TURKEY MEATLOAF

DIRECTIONS

Serves 2-3 INGREDIENTS

— 1 1 4 ½ 2 ½ — 1 1 ¾ ¼ 1 1 1 2 1

Cooking spray tablespoon olive oil small onion, inely chopped cloves garlic, minced, divided (12-ounce) bag frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed (about 1 cup before water is removed) tablespoons chopped sun-dried tomatoes (or sun-dried tomato pesto) cup crumbled feta cheese (regular, reduced fat or fat-free) salt and black pepper egg white large egg cup fresh bread crumbs cup milk can (8-ounce) tomato sauce, divided teaspoon dried basil teaspoon dried oregano tablespoons chopped fresh parsley pound ground turkey or chicken

1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9- by 5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.

2 Heat olive oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and reduce heat to medium-low.

Cook 4-5 minutes or until beginning to soften.

Transfer ¦ of the onion to a bowl to cool. Mix in half the garlic.

3 Add spinach to sauté pan and cook briely for any remaining moisture to evaporate. Let cool slightly, then stir in sun-dried tomatoes, feta cheese and salt and black pepper to taste. Add egg white and set aside.

4 To bowl with onions, add whole egg, bread crumbs, milk, 2 tablespoons tomato sauce, basil, oregano, parsley, 1 teaspoon salt, black pepper and remaining 2 cloves minced garlic and mix well.

Mix in ground turkey or chicken.

5 Place ¦ of the meat mixture in the loaf pan, creating a small well down the center. Mound spinach mixture in the well. Top with remaining ground turkey. Bake for 50-55 minutes or until a thermometer inserted in the center registers 165 degrees.

Top with tomato sauce after 30 minutes, then bake to completion. Let rest 5-8 minutes before slicing.

Recipe from Carol Borchardt

For added flavor from broccoli, cauliflower, try a little tenderness

By Russ Parsons Los Angeles Times

Anyone who can turn on an oven knows the diference between broccoli and caulilower, right?

One is green and shaped like a tree and the other is white and looks more like a brain. Well, it turns out it’s a little trickier than that. In fact, these two heady members of the brassica family are a lot more closely related than might be apparent.

Actually, there are many members of the family that fall in between. There are even white broccolis, oddly enough. Perhaps the most recognizable example is the gorgeous romanesco broccoli, which looks like an experiment in fractal geometry that can it on your dinner plate. Or, should I say, romanesco caulilower because, despite the name it’s commonly given, it’s actually closer to that than broccoli, even if it is a pale shade of green.

Besides that tricky bit

Paleo diet may sound healthy, has deficiencies

of food geekery, another thing broccoli and caulilower share in common is how well they respond to being cooked until they are fairly soft. This will come as a shock to those who still cling to the old “tender-crisp” style of vegetable cookery. But you really should give it a try.

It took a while for me to be convinced as well.

But after repeatedly being served versions of broccoli with pasta in which the vegetable, though still vivid green, had been cooked to almost a smearing texture, I had to admit that the lavor was better than the way I had been preparing it, where the lorets were barely fork-tender.

Just to be clear: I’m not talking about cooking these the way your grandma might have done. You don’t need to boil them into stinking sulfurous submission to get this effect. Try adding just another minute or two to the cooking time and I think you’ll be surprised by the

Dear Doctor K: My daughter and several of her college friends are on the “paleo” diet. What is that? Is it healthy?

Answer: The paleo diet, short for “Paleolithic” diet, restricts what you eat to foods the hunter-gatherers of the Stone Age ate 10,000 years ago. While the diet doesn’t require you to live like a cave man, it does require you to eat like one.

Here’s an example of what you can and can’t eat on the paleo diet: Do eat: meat (especially game meat), poultry, ish and shellish; fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, eggs, seeds, nuts, and olive, coconut and laxseed oils.

Don’t eat: Any food that is processed, man-made or prepackaged; all grains; legumes (including peanuts); dairy, salt, sugar, vegetable oils, potatoes.

At irst glance, the paleo diet appears reasonable.

But there’s a downside.

Following the paleo diet increases the risk of certain nutritional deficiencies. For example, cutting out all grains and legumes removes sources of certain B vitamins from the diet. Excluding dairy could lead to a calcium deiciency.

There are ways around these issues. Organ meats, particularly liver, provide B vitamins, and dark leafy greens and ish (such as sardines with the bones) are good sources of calcium.

Bottom line: At this time, there is no strong scientiic evidence for claims that a paleo diet helps prevent or treat certain medical conditions.

Please don’t misunderstand: I’m not making fun of the basic idea behind the paleo diet. In fact, I’m sympathetic to it.

But the world is full of reasonable ideas about how to improve health, and some of them turn out to be dead wrong. Only long-term scientiic studies could tell us if the paleo diet really is healthy.

This is what I tell my patients who have asked about it: Try it to see if you like it.

If so, vitamin B and calcium supplements may be a good idea.

Dr. Komarof is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. To send questions, go to AskDoctorK. com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

PASTA WITH BROCCOLI, OLIVES AND PISTACHIOS Serves 6 INGREDIENTS

1½ 2 2 2 ½

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In this pasta dish, the broccoli is cooked to the point that you can break it up with a spatula — first blanched and then sauteed in olive oil with pistachios, anchovies and chopped olives.

6 1 1 6

Salt pounds broccoli cloves garlic anchovy illets, drained and blotted dry if oil-packed, rinsed and cleaned if salt-packed tablespoons capers, preferably salt-packed, rinsed and drained cup pitted black olives, preferably gaeta, taggiasche or kalamata (3 ounces) cup shelled unsalted pistachios (1½ ounces) tablespoons very fruity extra-virgin olive oil small piece dried chili, about an inch long pound pasta, preferably penne, orecchiette or rigatoni rounded tablespoons grated pecorino Romano cheese DIRECTIONS

diference.

In the Sicilian broccoli pasta recipe from Oretta Zanini de Vita’s and Maureen B. Fant’s quite wonderful new book “Pasta the Italian Way: Sauces & Shapes,” the broccoli is cooked to the point that you can break it up with a spatula — irst blanched and then sauteed in olive oil with pistachios, anchovies and chopped olives.

Cut the cooking short and the broccoli is wild and a bit bitter. Give it the full run and you’ll be surprised at how sweet and mellow it turns.

I’ve had the same experience with caulilower.

Cook it until it’s barely tender and it’s an “American Idol” type of vegetable, kind of sweet, a little bland and ultimately forgettable.

Push it a little bit; cook it until it’s just soft enough to smash between your ingers, and it’s a completely diferent thing, deep and complex with a flavor that’s slightly mustardy and even has a whif of trule to it (or is that my imagination?).

This is the way you cook those suddenly trendy caulilower steaks. Saute them long enough to get the caramelization started and then inish them in the oven until they are golden brown and can be pierced easily with a fork. Be careful, they’re fragile. You can get much the same lavor without nearly the efort by separating the caulilower into lorets, tossing them with olive oil and simply roasting them until they’re tender.

1 Bring a large pot of generously salted water to a boil.

2 Trim the broccoli: Remove the lorets and peel and dice the stems, keeping separate. You should have about 5 cups.

3 Chop coarsely together by hand the garlic, anchovy illets, capers, olives and pistachios.

4 Heat the oil gently in a skillet large enough to hold the pasta later. Add the chili and discard when it begins to color. Add the garlic mixture to the pan and cook gently in the oil until it just begins to turn gold, about 2 minutes.

5 When the water is boiling rapidly, add the broccoli stems and cook for 2 minutes. Add the lorets and continue cooking until they are bright green and tender, but still slightly crisp and not mushy, 4 to 5 minutes.

6 Lift the cooked broccoli out of the pot with a slotted spoon or spider strainer right into the skillet, leaving the water boiling in the pot. Stir the broccoli and garlic mixture together, breaking up any large lorets with the spoon; the broccoli pieces should be small enough to coat the pasta.

Taste the broccoli mixture and add more salt if necessary and let the lavors blend for a few minutes over low heat.

7 Meanwhile, add the pasta to the boiling water and cook, stirring occasionally, until it is al dente, 8 to 10 minutes.

8 When the pasta is done, lift it out of the water and transfer it, rather wet, to the skillet. Mix well over low heat for about 30 seconds, sprinkle with the cheese and mix again.

Transfer to a warm serving dish or serve directly from the skillet. Serve immediately.

Adapted from “Pasta the italian Way: Sauces & Shapes” by oretta Zanini de Vita and Maureen B. Fant.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE MEMPHIS-AREA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO HAVE EARNED THE ACADEMIC ALL-STARS AWARD. Morgan Patrick

ACADEMIC ALL-STARS

St. Benedict High School General Scholarship

About Academic All-Stars

Morgan, a senior, is an exceptional student who excels in the study of math and science. She holds a 4.3 weighted grade point average and scored 34 on the ACT, with a perfect 36 on the science portion and a near-perfect 35 on the English portion of the test. She currently ranks in the top 10 percent of a class of 237 seniors. She has taken a course load filled with AP and Honors classes. She has been tapped for the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta and Rho Kappa History Honor Society.

An involved student, Morgan is vice-president of the senior class, a team leader for Students for Life, a Student Ambassador, Senior Retreat Leader and Business Manager for the yearbook staff. She also has been a four-year starter on the softball team. She received the “Bobby Russell” Scholarship for an essay on what education means to her.

Morgan takes community service to heart. She holds several leadership positions and is always willing to serve. She was a member of the 2013 Relay for Life and currently is working on a Habitat for Humanity project.

Shamessia Lee DeSoto Central High School General Scholarship Shamessia, a senior, is a talented and intelligent student. She holds a 4.33 weighted grade point average and scored 28 on the ACT. She currently ranks in the top nine percent of her class of 373 seniors and has been named a National Achievement Semifinalist.

She takes the initiative in and out of the classroom. She found and was selected for the University of Mississippi’s Mandarin Chinese StarTalk Program. She is a member of Mu Alpha Theta and was selected to participate in the Moody’s MegaMath Challenge.

A member of the schools Personal Leadership mentoring program, Shamessia serves as a role model to students at a local elementary school. She is a member of the Invisible Children Club, Chess Team and Interact Club. She is the vicepresident of FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America). She has served as a representative to the Student Council and spends many hours as a Diamond Girl.

Through BridgeBuilders, Shamessia attended a leadership conference at Christian Brothers University. She also attended the Ole Miss APEX Leadership Summit and was chosen by Northcentral Electric Power to attend leadership conferences in Jackson, Miss., and Washington.

Daniel Rose Overton High School General Scholarship Daniel, a senior, is an excellent student who is driven to succeed. He holds a 4.77 weighted grade point average and scored 27 on the ACT. He currently ranks second in his graduating class.

He is the first recipient in West Tennessee to receive the Ben Carson Scholarship, which he has now received three times. He was accepted into the Memphis Prep program and attended John Hopkins University during the summer of 2012, where he studied neuroscience and film-making.

Active in his community and school, Daniel is vice president of the Interact Club, Student Council president and delegate for the state of Tennessee to the Youth Senate Program. He also is a trained peer mediator. He spearheads projects and takes the initiative in all leadership roles.

One project that he developed was the Inner L.I.G.H.T., which brought Dr. Ben Carson to Memphis to speak. In 2010, he received the CEO Award from the OBAP (Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals).

Daniel is dedicated to giving back to his community through performing arts and the school.

He is an outstanding pianist and disciplined music composer.

Isaac Graber Cooper Yeshiva High School for Boys General Scholarship Isaac, a senior, exemplifies the Renaissance Man. By his involvement in and contributions to a variety of social, cultural and educational organizations, he has been exposed to diverse communities. He holds a 5.19 weighted grade point average and scored 2240 on the SAT. Currently slated to be the valedictorian of his class, Isaac is a National Merit Commended Student and member of the National Honor Society. He has taken seven AP courses and 25 Honors classes.

As a junior, he received the Yale Book Award for outstanding potential.

As president of the Student Council, Isaac plans many school events. He also leads the engineering team as they compete in the TEAMS competition at the University of Arkansas. After attending the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) High School Summit in Washington in 2011, Isaac discovered a passion for Israel and Israel advocacy. He has made it his mission to educate his peers and the community about Israel.

After Isaac attended the BridgeBuilder’s Summer Leadership Conference, he became very involved and now collaborates with other young Memphians committed to diversity.

Mary Ann Smith Houston High School General Scholarship Mary Ann, a senior, is an outstanding student who balances a rigorous academic schedule with community service. She holds a 4.498 weighted grade point average and scored 34 on the ACT. She currently is projected to be the 2014 Salutatorian. She was named a NASA Aerospace Engineering Scholar. She spent a week at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where she participated in NASA’s Exploration Design Challenge. The challenge was to design a Mars rover and develop an innovative radiation shield so man could visit the Martian surface in person. By completing the challenge, Mary Ann’s name is slated to be sent into space onboard the Orion Module test flight in September.

In addition, Mary Ann founded the school’s Re-Use and Re-Cycle Program. She participates in the Battle of the Brains and earned a Gold Medal on the National Latin Exam. She earned first place for Green Roof Technology and third place for a Solar-Powered Water Filtration System. She also made the All-State Band.

Mary Ann regularly volunteers with the Collierville Animal Shelter. She also works with the Mid-South Food Bank, Autism Society of the Mid-South, Houston vs. Hunger and Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Monique Barksdale Central High School General Scholarship Monique, a senior, is a witty and engaging student, who is known for her work ethic and diligence in the classroom. She holds a 4.83 weighted grade point average and is set to be the Salutatorian of a strong class of more than 400 seniors. She is part of the Optional Schools program and challenges herself with demanding AP and honors courses. She has been on the Distinguished Honor Roll and has earned the William H. Sweet Award for Academic Excellence recipient each year of high school.

In addition, Monique holds memberships in both the National Honor Society and the school’s award-winning Student Council, where she serves as vice-president. She is a member of the National English Honor Society, Memphis Challenge, Memphis Prep and Mu Alpha Theta. She was a three-year member of the marching band, playing clarinet.

Monique has served the faculty and worked as a peer tutor. She helps to lead the Student Council (300 members) as they perform weekly school activities and volunteer work in the community. While she is soft-spoken, Monique always has a smile and a willingness to help others.

Robert Roach Munford High School General Scholarship Robert, a senior, is a top student and quiet leader. He holds a 4.0 grade point average and scored 30 on the ACT. He currently is slated to be Valedictorian of his graduating class. He has 18 hours of college credit through the school’s Dual Enrollment program. He has earned Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards for each year of high school and is a member of the National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society and the ACT 30+ Club.

He also received the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Academic Award.

In addition, Robert is one of the senior captains of the Varsity Soccer Team and received the “Most Improved” and “Sportsmanship” awards. He is active in DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America), a CTE organization that runs the school’s store. He also has perfect attendance. His involvement in many school organizations and activities has made a difference in the school. He is highly respected and is known for his keen sense of humor.

Robert volunteers with the Tipton County Food Bank, Munford Middle School’s Summer Soccer Camp and the Munford Clean UP Day.

Now in its 8th year, the Academic All-Stars program identiies and recognizes high school students in the Memphis metro area for their excellence in academics, leadership and community service.

Each week during the school year, six to seven Academic All-Stars are proiled in The Commercial Appeal. Winners are selected by geographic areas that include Bartlett, Cordova, Fayette County, Germantown, Collierville, DeSoto County, Millington, Tipton County, Whitehaven, South Memphis, East Memphis, Midtown and Downtown Memphis. There are 10 categories of achievement: Art, Drama & Speech, English & Literature, Foreign Language, General Scholarship, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Sciences & History, and Career-Technical.

The Commercial Appeal compiles the nominations submitted by schools. Representatives from area universities judge the student resumes and select the award recipients.

For more information, call or email Mary Lou Brown, Community Relations Manager for The Commercial Appeal at 901-529-2508 or brownmarylou@commercialappeal.com

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Community COLLIERVILLE

Collierville High School students Emily Ricks (front, left), Maggie Gembala, Brooks Taylor, Isabella Bologna and Danielle Cueria, won top honors in this year’s Fair on the Square post contest.

All are students in either Abby Brooks (back) or Jennifer Burford’s art classes.

Youth boys lacrosse players clean up fields near Tara Oaks Elementary

By Molly Henderson Special to The Weekly

COLLIERVILLE

Taylor wins Fair on the Square poster contest Special to The Weekly

Twentieth Century Club of Collierville members named the winners of the annual Fair on the Square poster contest.

Collierville High School students, under the direction of teachers Jennifer Burford and Abby Brooks, submitted original artwork of the Collierville Town Square or something that

would represent the fair.

The winners are Brooks Taylor, first place; Maggie Gembala, second place; Isabella Bologna, third place; Emily Ricks, honorable mention; and Danielle Cueria, honorable mention.

Taylor’s winning drawing of the town square and clock will appear on the 2014 Fair on the Square poster. He won a $100 prize. The second and third

place winners won $75 and $50, respectively.

Visitors to this year’s Fair on the Square, held May 3-4, will enjoy food, local and regional arts and crafts for sale and entertainment from civic and school groups. For more information about the fair, including applications for vendors or entertainment, go to colliervillefaironthesquare1950.org.

DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE

The Collierville Boys Youth Lacrosse program took part in a field workday Feb. 15 at Tara Oaks.

The parents and players from the seventh- and eighth-grade Collierville boys youth lacrosse program worked on the field located just west of the Tara Oaks Elementary School by hauling, shoveling and spreading sand on the field to smooth out rough spots and fill in holes.

All work was done by volunteer parents and the players in the program.

The field is one of two fields in Collierville available for practices and games for the boys youth lacrosse program. In addition, the two seventh- and eighth-grade teams have the opportunity on Friday evenings to practice on one of the turf fields at Johnson Park.

The Collierville la-

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crosse program has seen a dramatic increase in participants in the last two years. The Collierville program has four teams, a third- and fourth-grade team, a fifth- and sixthgrade team and two seventh- and eighth-grade teams. Almost 100 players have registered this year

for the youth boys program with new players registering weekly.

Interested players can learn more about the program and register at our website, colliervillelax. com/cmsboys78/index. php.

Molly Henderson is a team parent.

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The Collierville Police Department currently has seven members who are graduates from the FBI Academy. The graduates are (from left) Capt. Chris Locke, Capt. Mike Moore, Asst. Chief David Tillner, Chief L. E. Goodwin, Asst. Chief Jef Abeln and Lt. David Townsend. A total of 15 members of the CPD are graduates of the Academy.

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Collierville has seven oicers who are graduates of the FBI Academy

By Trena Street Special to The Weekly

The Collierville Police Department is comprised of outstanding men and women who are highly trained and dedicated to serving the town of Collierville. Additionally, currently there are seven oicers who are graduates of the prestigious FBI National Academy.

Each was hand-picked by the department and about 250 other oicers throughout the United States completed the 10week course at the FBI Training Academy, located inside the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va. Collierville Police Chief, Larry Goodwin, also an FBI Academy graduate, said, “One of the major advantages, other than the education opportunities, is the ability to network within your session or other sessions around the world. To be able to pick up a telephone and reach out to another department with a contact liaison is invaluable�.

The FBI National Academy is dedicated to the improvement of law enforcement standards and

has long been a benchmark for professional continuing education. Participants are drawn from every state in the union, from U.S. territories and from more than 150 partner nations.

Police oicers who attend the academy return to their communities better prepared to meet criminal challenges.

In addition to Goodwin, a graduate of the 167th session, FBI Academy graduates currently serving with the Collierville Police Department are: ■Lt. Tom Beard — 186th session ■Asst. Chief Jef Abeln — 197th session ■Asst. Chief David Tillner — 208th session ■Capt. Chris Locke — 227th session ■Capt. Mike Moore — 235th session ■Lt. David Townsend — 249th session The overall goal of the academy is to support, promote and enhance the personal and professional development of law enforcement leaders by preparing them for complex, dynamic and contemporary challenges through innovative techniques,

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SALES EMPIRE TODAY, LLC, WARREN UNILUBE, INC. a leading home improveis hiring an experienced ment and home furnishing Warehouse Manager to shop-at-home company featuring quality namedirect & coordinate daily brand Carpet, Flooring operations of the Inventory and Window Treatments & Warehouse Depts. with next day installation, Responsibilities will is currently hiring: include but not limited to: 601-685 Administering cycle counts, Monitoring inventory control system to ensure Cemetery accuracy, Processing of Realistic $70K earning op- Lots orders in an accurate & portunity.

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LOImages Do you need customized Coffee Mugs, T-shirts, Hoodies and more? Are you looking for Social Club, Reunion and Sport shirts? Please contact LOImages today!

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HARLEY Davidson 2003 Softail standard, anniv. edition, blue custom paint, 1450 cc, 20K mi, Excellent condition. $7500. 901-486-7377

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Eliza Marguerita “Coco� Valle of Denver recently celebrated her 4-month birthday. Her nana, Jonnie Smith, lives in Germantown.

Give me ive! Cade Rhoades of Collierville will soon celebrate his ifth birthday later this month.

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BUICK ‘12 Verano, white w/tan lthr, heated seats, 22K mi, like new, $18,981 incl $499 doc, excl ttl. #1479A. Keino Spring, 901-301-4912

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CADILLAC ‘08 CTS, silver, only 39K mi, $21,951 incl $499 doc, excl ttl. #47767A. Ron Lewis, 901-570-6650

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Cadillac ‘12 CTS Cpe, 10Kmi white, Premium pk, Cadillac loaner, Certified! $43,989 inc $499 doc+ttl #25713. Barbara Wright, 901-832-3375

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Cadillac ‘13 XTS, Premium pkg, factory company cars, 3 to choose from starting @ $46,921 inc. $499 doc+ttl.

Glenn Curry, 901-355-8490

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Cadillac ‘10 CTS Premium Wgn, fully loaded, red/tan, very rare! Certified! $31,951 incl $499 doc, excl ttl. #25759.

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CADILLAC ‘10 DTS, silver, Certified! $23,923 incl $499 doc, excl ttl. #14303A. Tyrone Knolls, 901-240-4432

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CHEVROLET ‘14 Impala, new body style, 1 white, 1 gold, $27,988 inc. $499 doc+ttl. #25764. Brett Hubbard, 901-761-1900

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DODGE ‘06 Intrepid, ONLY 68K mi, non-smoker, sharp interior, must see & drive, Cash Car! Ask for Keith Dial, 901-218-9105

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CADILLAC ‘11 Escalade, Certified thru Jan. 2017! $45,989 incl. $499 doc, excl. ttl. #25729. Oscar Bunch, 901-282-7772

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901-218-9105 for special deal!

All trades welcome, Excellent finance rates w/approved credit.

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Leon, 901-273-6498.

2965 S. 3RD 901-332-2130 MINI COOPER‘13 ConvertLINCOLN ‘10 MKX, like ible, leather, 10K miles, like new, mature owner, nonnew. #14838A. Jesse smoker, low miles, on 1-10 Sanders, 901-761-1900 it’s a TEN! See Keith Dial, 901-281-9105 for Deal!

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When Collierville Mayor Stan Joyner walked into Town Hall on Feb. 27, he was greeted with big smiles and good wishes from several who had gathered to congratulate him and sing a jovial rendition of “Happy Birthday.�

The gathering was a real surprise as the big day was actually Feb. 26 but Joyner was in Nashville on business. “Thank you so much,� Joyner said. “I thought since I was out of town for the real day, this wouldn’t happen, but I really appreciate it.� A variety of breakfast treats were enjoyed by all, including Alderman John Worley (right).

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and the Child Advocacy Center. Safety topics cover ires, animals, weather, bicycles, guns, pools, pedestrian crossings, cars and seat belts, boats and homes, etc.

Children also travel about Safety City daily and learn to follow the “rules of the road� by riding bicycles or walking as pedestrians along its streets and sidewalks. At least one adult and several teenage volunteers supervise each group of students.

Registration forms are available online at germantown-tn.gov. For more information, e-mail publicsafetyed@comcast. net or call Ron Roberson at 901-754-1668.

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facilitating excellence in education and research and forging partnerships throughout the world.

Collierville Police Department has employed 15 graduates of the FBI National Academy, with eight remaining on the force. Those graduating and since retired include former Collierville Police Chief Dennis Joyner-123rd session; Jerome Burgess134th session; Dwight Hood-137th session; Tommy McCaskill-149th session; David Boling-156th session; William Hamric164th session; Terry Cochran-176th session; and the late Steve Williams219th session.

As FBI National Academy graduates, these oficers enter into a select group made up of less than one percent of the country’s law enforcement oicers. The course includes instruction in law, behavioral science, forensic science, understanding terrorism/ terrorist mindsets, leadership development, communication, and health/ itness. For more information on the CPD, go to colliervillepolice.org.

Young children are invited to learn good safety habits by attending Germantown Safety City June 9-13, from 9-11:30 a.m. each day.

Safety City is an education program for 5 and 6 year olds who will enter kindergarten or irst grade next fall. The Germantown Public Safety Education Commission sponsors Safety City annually.

Germantown Church of Christ hosts the program and holds the event on their campus at 8723 Poplar Pike in Germantown.

Enrollment is limited to 125 children on a irstcome, irst-served basis.

Registration is required and a tuition fee must be paid at the time of registration. Applications are available at Germantown Municipal Center, Germantown Parks and Recreation Oice, Germantown Community Library, Germantown Athletic Club and most area preschools.

Safety City consists of short classes taught by community experts from Germantown Police and Fire Departments, Germantown Animal Control, Germantown Athletic Club, Operation Lifesaver, Safe Kids Coalition headquartered at LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center, U. S. Coast Guard, Tennessee Department of Safety

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Pets COLLIERVILLE

Warmer weather brings more dogs, owners out to Suggs Park

Veterinarian Kassie Newton (right) cares for a feral cat before it is neutered during a neuter campaign at the Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County.

Special to The Weekly

Jim Weber The CommerCial appeal

HUMANE SOCIETY

Vets, volunteers help 52 feral felines get free Spay Day ‘fix’

By Erinn Figg Special to The Commercial appeal

Feb. 25 was an eventful day for dozens of feral felines in the Memphis area.

Aided by a team of local veterinary professionals, the Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County provided free spay and neuter surgeries to 52 feral cats from four colonies in the Berclair and North Memphis areas. The event, held at the group’s Shelby Farms facility, was in recognition of World Spay Day. “World Spay Day has been a special day since it started in 1995,” said Alexis Amorose, Humane Society executive director. “In the past, we’ve always promoted this day through social media eforts. This is the irst year we’re celebrating it with a special highvolume surgery event.”

After touring the society’s surgery and prep rooms, Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell applauded the organization’s animal population control

eforts.

Several Memphis veterinary professionals, volunteers and donors came together to make the event possible. Memphis residents Kent and Dana Farmer donated the cost of the surgeries for the 52 cats.

Dr. Norris McGehee of McGehee Clinic for Animals, Dr. Drew McWatters and Dr. Kassie Newton of The Pet Hospitals, and relief veterinarian Dr. Heather Wright, who ills in at a number of Memphis-area clinics, contributed their medical services.

A team of veterinary technicians and assistants, many of them volunteering their time, assisted the veterinarians.

Volunteer Angie White and members of the nonprofit Memphis Pets Alive! rescue organization captured almost 50 of the feral cats, while Facebook and Twitter followers of the Humane Society brought in more. Once the cats recover from the surgeries, they’ll be released back into their colonies as

part of the Trap-NeuterReturn method promoted by the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Memphis residents who would like to contribute to the cause can donate the $35 cost of a spay or neuter surgery at memphishumane.org. In return, they’ll get a T-shirt that says, “I Memphis.”

HSMSC has worked since 2012 to proactively spay and neuter community animals through its Project STOP (Solving The Overpopulation Problem) program, which ofers low-cost spay and neuter surgeries to petowners on government assistance. Since Project STOP’s inception, HSMSC has spayed and neutered more than 1,000 community pets.

HSMSC partners with regional animal clinics to ofer spay and neuter surgery vouchers for $50. For more information, visit memphishumane.org, call 937-3900 or visit the facility at 935 Farm Road.

receive annual rabies vaccinations. The Collierville Animal Shelter will also participate in the drive and will even provide micro-chipping through the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The Collierville Animal Shelter also will host a Dog Park 101 seminar in March.

This weekend class will be lead by professional trainers who will ease any hesitations about bringing your dog to an of leash park.

For general information about Collierville Animal Services, visit collierville. com/departments/animalservices.

ordinance is that every dog must have a current rabies vaccination. Unfortunately, rabies is on the rise in Tennessee, and while it hasn’t spread very far west, middle and eastern parts of the state have become victim to this unnerving trend.

Our pets are at the most risk to contract rabies and by giving them their annual vaccination we are keeping them and our community much safer.

As a resident, you are required to obtain a Town of Collierville rabies tag for your pet. If your pet is ever lost and taken to the shelter, he/she will be returned home much faster. On the last two Saturdays in April, Shelby County holds a Rabies Drive to help animals

By Mark Heuberger

Not only do we want to enjoy the warmer temperatures approaching, but our dogs do too.

Suggs Park, located at 163 E. South St., has a spacious and recently updated Of Leash Area for your dog to enjoy. It has many amenities including a water fountain, dog waste bags, large shade trees and separate areas for large and small dogs. Open daily from dawn until dusk, the park is ready and available for your four-legged friend.

For everyone’s enjoyment and safety, there are rules that must be followed when visiting the Of Leash Area. The most important

mark heuberger is the Town of Collierville’s public information oicer.

PETS OF THE WEEK GERMANTOWN ANIMAL SHELTER

HUMANE SOCIETY

Name: Cleo Age: 2 years Breed: Domestic short hair Description: a very vocal cat.

Name: Finnegan Age: 1 year Breed: Domestic short hair Description: Weighs about 10 pounds. Found as a stray.

Name: Clover Age: 7 months Breed: Terrier mix Description: brown and a very sweet dog.

Name: persephone Age: 10 months Breed: beagle mix Description: Very sweet; does well with other dogs.

The humane Society, 935 Farm road, is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Germantown animal Shelter, 7700 Southern, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. monday-Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. humane Society photos by phillip Van Zandt photography.

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