Thursday, November 13, 2014
Head to the Pink Palace on Saturday at 9 a.m. to see Santa land in his Pedi-Flight helicopter to oicially open the 2014 Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees.
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Josue Antonio, 16, and members of the Kingsbury ROTC check their spacing before the annual Memphis Veterans Day Parade. A man who would only identify himself as “Uncle Sam” stands with members of the Knights of Columbus. Vietnam veteran Paul Presley waves from his Thunderbird.
& SERVICESACRIFICE Area Veterans Day events celebrate past, present service members
At the West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery, James Seymour Jr. (above) visits the graves of his father, father-in-law, and uncle before a Veterans Day memorial service. Brothers Doug Carr, 71, (left) and Billy Carr, 86, both Army veterans, salute as the colors are retired. Magdalena Crews, 70, embraces her husband’s grave marker. Gene Crews, who died in 2009, served in the Army in Vietnam. JIM WEBER/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
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Houston High was named Reserve Grand Champion for the third consecutive year at Bandmaster’s Championship. SCHOOLS, 8
LOGAN’S RUN Memphis’ famous young foodie is on TV’s “Master Chef Junior.” FOOD, 19 The Commercial Appeal © Copyright 2014
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NASHVILLE — Another million-dollar Tennessee Lottery ticket was sold in Shelby County last week — the fourth million-dollar plus winning ticket sold in Greater Memphis within the last two months. A ticket sold at Coby’s Food Mart, 679 West Poplar in Collierville, turned into a milliondollar winner in last Friday night’s multistate “Monopoly Millionaires’ Club” drawing. The winning ticket hasn’t been presented to the Tennessee Lottery yet but the retailer will receive $5,000 for selling the ticket. Winners have 180 days from the drawing to present their winning tickets. The “Monopoly Millionaires’ Club” launched three weeks ago and last Friday’s drawing was the irst time the game’s top prize was won, a $21 million winner in New Jersey. There were also 14 million-dollar winners, including the ticket sold in Collierville. A trust fund in the name of TCL Trust presented the winning $2 million Oct. 11 Powerball ticket sold at Riverdale Gas & Grocery, 4219 Riverdale Road in Hickory Hill, according to Tennessee Lottery spokeswoman Kym Gerlock. The holder of a Sept. 24 Powerball ticket worth $1 million sold at Perkins BP, 2760 South Perkins, still has not claimed that prize, Gerlock said. And the holder of a $1 million instant ticket sold in Brownsville presented that ticket Sept. 29, she said. Gerlock advised lottery purchasers to sign the backs of their tickets.
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Henry Hubert Weaver Jr. has been resting in peace in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Water Valley, Miss., for nearly a quartercentury. He died of complications from heart surgery and lung disease at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center in January 1990. He couldn’t breathe. He was 65. Last January, his widow, Mayva Sue Williams Weaver, also of Water Valley, was admitted to Baptist Reynolds Home Care
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and talked, reaching into a tray that extended over her bed. Inside the tray was a cardboard box containing a spool of thin copper wire and two boxes of stainless steel masonry nails. “Can you believe Hubert passed away in 1990,” she said as she worked. See HOSPICE, 2
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