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NEW YEAR, NEW DISTRICT The Germantown Municipal School District will host a kickof party Saturday at Municipal Park, while Collierville Schools will have a blessing and open house Sunday.
Read up on some of the races before heading to the polls. Early voting continues through Aug. 2. Page 3
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With limited real estate surrounding the Shelby County oice building where early voting began last Friday, General Sessions Court Division 5 Judge Betty Thomas Moore moves a campaign sign for Sherif Bill Oldham from blocking her campaign sign along Poplar Avenue.
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Balloting begins Early voting underway at 21 locations time, critics said the Election Commisveazey@commercialappeal.com sion was trying to stile turnout by lim901-529-2799 iting satellite days; the SCEC said it was making the best use of its resources in The inal phase of the Shelby County a low-turnout election. campaign summer began last Friday, About 47 percent of voters cast early as early voting in advance of the ballots in the May primary, though Aug. 7 general election kicked total turnout hovered around 10 VOTE of at the Shelby County Elecpercent of the county’s registion Commission’s Downtown tered voters. location. Shelby County’s most recent Early voting has since spread to county general election may ofer 20 satellite locations across the county. a better guide for expectations. In that All locations will be open through Aug. election, 93,736 early votes were cast, 2, with 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. hours on week- about 52 percent of the entire turnout days and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. of 178,833. Registered voters may cast their ballots That turnout was just shy of 30 perat any location during the early voting cent of the county’s registered voters. period. The number of early voters, though, The 12 days of voting at satellite lo- was markedly higher than in 2006, cations are double what was ofered when 78,899 voters cast ballots, sugin advance of the May primary. At the gesting a trend. By Kyle Veazey
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EArlY VOTINg lOCATIONS polls are open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays Shelby County Oice Building, 157 poplar ave. Agricenter International, 7777 walnut Grove Anointed Temple of Praise, 3939 riverdale road Baker Community Center, 7942 Church road Bellevue Baptist Church, 2000 appling road Berclair Church of Christ, 4536 Summer Bethel Church, 5586 Stage road Abundant grace Church, 1574 Shelby Drive Collierville Church of Christ, 575 Shelton Drive Dave Wells Community Center, 915 Chelsea glenview Community Center, 1141 S. Barksdale greater lewis Street Baptist Church, 152 e. parkway n. greater Middle Baptist Church, 4982 knight arnold Mississippi Blvd. Church, 70 n. Bellevue Blvd. Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 60 S. parkway e. New Bethel Baptist Church, 7786 poplar pike raleigh U.M. Church, 3295 powers road refuge Church, 9817 huf n puf road riverside Baptist Church, 3560 S. Third St. Shiloh Baptist Church, 3121 range line road White Station Church of Christ, 1106 Colonial road
An engineering study presented to Germantown city oicials on Monday recommends not reactivating the red light enforcement cameras at three intersections, but to consider adding them at three others. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen and city administrators held a work session to hear a presentation from design consulting irm KimleyHorn. The city has cameras installed, although not functioning, at the intersections of Poplar and Germantown, Poplar and Farmington, and Wolf River Boulevard and Germantown. The study recommended adding cameras at Poplar and Kimbrough, at Farmington and Germantown, and after Whole Foods is built, at Poplar and Exeter. James Collins of KimleyHorn said reactivating the existing cameras would not help cut down on accidents in those areas because most people driving through the area already assume the cameras are working. “It appears from what we can see from the data, the beneit has already been realized,” Collins said. “The public is blufed into thinking they’re still there.” State law requires a city to conduct an engineering study before installing traffic-enforcement cameras. The study cost Germantown $30,100. City Administrator Patrick Lawton said previously that See CAMErAS, 2
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When St. James CME Church in Collierville decided to replace the carpet in the foyer and hallway with tile, the church’s minister was there on his hands and knees gluing and grouting the 12-inch pieces. “To be 74, he was working harder than me,” said church trustee Terry Craft, 40, of Collierville. “He didn’t wait for someone else to do the work. He was all onboard. He made
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it happen.” Now at 78, Rev. Louis T. Purham is retiring from the ministry after 56 years, and will preach his last sermon Sunday. He took his irst pastoral job in 1958. His replacement will be named July 30. Officially, he retired at the annual Christian Methodist Episcopal conference in July 2010. But at that conference, the bishop asked him to immediately to take over at St. James, which was struggling to stay a loat as its supply — or transitional — pastor. Before his assignment as supply pastor, Purham had been the Collierville church’s elder for a number of years.
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Rev. Louis T. Purham baptizes Hannah Wilson with help from Terry Craft in the sanctuary of St. James CME Church in Collierville. After 56 years in ministry, four of them at St. James, Purham is retiring.
“There were kind of in a bind,” Purham said. “They wanted an old man.” But this “old man” rides his bike, lifts weights and watches his diet. He was eager to help the church financially and spiritu-
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