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FOOTBALL FEVER Find out how your favorite high school football team is shaping up for this season’s gridiron showdowns. INSIDE
Sir Michael Donahue reveals the 2014 Memphis Most winners. IN SUNDAY’S COMMERCIAL APPEAL
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Final tuneup for local teams Jamboree is last chance to get ready By John Varlas varlas@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2350
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Danny Rae Williams still pumps gas for patrons of McGinnis Service Station on the Historic Town Square in Collierville. The station also is a gathering place for Williams’ friends to come and spin a yarn or two. Collierville and its square are featured as a cover story in last Sunday’s Parade Magazine.
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out of thousands of nominations, here are the other top 14 towns with the best main Streets. ■ corinth, miss.: corinth’s fillmore Street ofers a charming blend of the old and new, thanks to historic buildings mixed with boutiques and galleries that “always keep their doors propped open.” ■ Siloam Springs, ark.: ten years ago, residents say, this main Street was dying. Since then, citizens have restored historic buildings and opened new businesses, and today the town is “alive with new energy.” ■ Deland, fla.; ellicott city, md.; excelsior, minn.; flagstaf, ariz.; Galena, ill.; Georgetown, texas; Greenville, S.c.; holland, mich.; montpelier, Vt.; Placerville, calif.; ridgeield, conn.; and rockland, maine.
Among chants of, “We’re No. 1. We’re No. 1,” about 250 Collierville residents and town oicials celebrated the news Monday of being named America’s Best Main Street in 2014 in a contest by Parade Magazine. Collierville, which was featured on last Sunday’s magazine cover, beat the wine-country town of McMinnville, Oregon for the top honors among 16 contenders. Readers selected their favorite cities in an NCAA tournamentstyle bracket, voting daily over a four-day period. “The eforts by Collierville’s citizens to have their Main Street voted the best downtown in America were nothing short of inspirational,” said Maggie Murphy, See MAIN, 2
When you’re coming of a three-win season, there’s no such thing as a meaningless game. And that’s why Bartlett was probably the happiest team at last Friday’s municipalities jamboree. Johnnie Shepherd’s long fumble return for a touchdown gave the Panthers a 7-6 victory over Germantown at Arlington. And even though the jamboree format — featuring 25-minute games and a running clock — didn’t totally lend itself to what the teams will face this week, it was good for Bartlett to be smiling at the end of the contest. “It feels good,” said Shepherd, a 205-pound senior who doubles at linebacker and fullback. “We’ve worked hard in the weight room and in the ofseason. Now we’re hoping to get better each and every week.” In the most competitive matchup of the evening, Germantown took a 6-0 lead on a short keeper by quarterback Jacob Ivy. And the Red Devils were driving for another potential score when Shepherd scooped up a fumble around the 20-yard line and took it back the other way. Manny Barrientos, the goalkeeper on the Panthers soccer team who only recently joined the football team, put the extra point right down the middle to provide the winning margin. “That was great defense,” said Panthers coach Jef McSee JAMBOREE, 9
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Dentist, church aid villagers in Belize
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OUT OF FUNDS Part rescue truck, part all-terrain vehicle, Germantown’s mini-ambulance bought with last of Homeland Security grant. NEWS, 2
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returned from a vacation Bible school mission trip with the teens from Highland Church of Christ in 2000. “She suggested I go to Belize to help the people. There were maybe 10 dentists in the whole country of Belize at that time,” said Frizzell. “But like now, there were no dentists practicing in the central part.” The first year Frizzell checked out the area where he wanted to practice. He took one friend and borrowed equipment from another dental ministry. Each year since that irst visit, Frizzell has taken various dentist friends from his church. They
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He has come to know Belize and some of its people have come to know and admire him. After leading a ive day dental mission trip to the area once a year for the last 13 years, Memphis dentist Dr. Jef Frizzell is pretty familiar with the Central American country. “Although there are many places in Belize that are extremely poor, I have never felt the desperation that seems to drive people to leave other (Central American) countries,” said Frizzell. Frizzell began ministering after his daughter
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