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C’ville weighs ofer by G’town Both would share new alt school space

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

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Germantown Red Devil Jonathhan Bins (right) works the ball up the court to get around Houston’s Kalen Nicholson. The Mustangs rallied to a 56-53 win over Germantown last Saturday night at the District 15-AAA championship at Collierville High.

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Wait is finally over Houston overtakes G’town 56-53, earns 15-AAA title

By Pete Wickham Special to The Weekly

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series of short, welltimed bursts of star power by senior Marlon Hunter helped Houston’s boys basketball team end a very long wait last Saturday night at Collierville High School.

Hunter’s 19 points, most coming at crucial points in the game, led the Mustangs to a 56-53 win over archrival Germantown — and a long-awaited District 15-AAA bas-

Michael Cohen sports a football helmet as he and his fellow Red Devil classmates cheer on their team.

ketball championship.

It was the Mustangs irst district tournament championship since 1995, and second in school history.

The wait had been ive days longer than expected because of

Collierville Schools is considering a change in how it handles long-term suspensions.

The district received an offer from Germantown Municipal School District for seats at its new alternative school, which would allow Collierville to end its $252,000-a-year contract to send students to Lakeside Behavioral Health.

Supt. John Aitken said Tuesday the ofer from Germantown was originally in exchange for Collierville waiving a penalty if Germantown changed start times, thus afecting the two districts’ abilities to share buses.

But the Germantown school board voted Monday, at least in the irst of two readings of its budget, not to fund a starttime change.

Aitken said the ofer from Germantown still stands, but the two districts would instead work out a payment. He said Germantown’s plan for its alternative school, to be held in sequestered classrooms at Houston High School, is an attractive ofer.

“We’re strongly considering it,” Aitken said.

Collierville is also considering bringing the service inhouse. Millington Municipal Schools also has an on-site alternative school. The program would not have to be held at a school.

“We’re trying to find a space,” Aitken said.

Students can be given longterm suspensions and sent

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ECS extended run ends this weekend

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By Mylissa Horrocks Special to The Weekly

GUS’S GOES NATIONAL The owner of Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken announces plans to expand to eight new locations across the U.S. NEWS, 2

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Evangelical Christian School’s latest production, “Shrek the Musical,” ends its two week run this weekend. It’s the irst time ECS’s longtime director, Rene Cave, has been awarded two weekends of performances by the school.

“The kids work for so long on these shows, and we have incredible talent,” said Cave. “We are thrilled to have been given two weekends, so the students’ work can really shine. This year, we can perform the

show eight times for various audiences.”

Louise Harris, 7, attended opening night with her little brother and grandmother. Louise commented that she loved the fairy tale characters. “‘Story of My Life’ was my favorite song,” Louise said.

Her little brother, Wilkes Harris, especially loved Donkey. Wilkes and Louise’s cousin Zoe Patrick plays Alice from “Alice in Wonderland” in the show.

Sophomore Stephen Timberlake is cast as Shrek. Timberlake is a veteran actor and singer, but he says this show has redeined teamwork for him.

“There are really three

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The cast and crew of “Shrek the Musical” sing a song to Shrek, played by Stephen Timberlake. Showtimes are 7 p.m. through Saturday at ECS’s Cordova campus on Macon Road.

leads in this show — Donkey, Fiona and Shrek,” Timberlake said. “It’s redeined how I view teamwork in a show, and it’s been a joy.” added Timberlake.

Trenton Jiles plays Donkey. He says that he has loved playing the silly, animated best friend of Shrek.

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Residents to learn more about school plans Survey put on hold until March 9 meeting

By John Stamm Special to The Commercial Appeal

Collierville Town Administrator James Lewellen said the public needs to know more about the plans and costs for a new high school before the town seeks input about a property tax hike to pay for it.

Lewellen was expected to present to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Monday a survey that would be sent to the town’s 14,000 homes. It would ask residents about a projected 22 percent property tax increase to pay for a $98.5 million bond to fund the $90 million school.

Instead, he will wait until the next board meeting March 9.

“We need to do a better job explaining the issues before we do the survey,” said Lewellen.

With the delay, Lewellen said it’s not likely the board will want to have a referendum on the tax hike. Alderman Billy Patton said at last week’s budget work session he was in favor of a referendum. The Lakeland Board of Commissioners has asked the Shelby County Election Commission to hold a referendum April 16 on its 55-cent property tax increase for a new school.

Collierville started its push to boost awareness Feb. 19, adding

a special section to the town’s website. It contains questions and answers and a chart showing examples of the tax increase affecting property taxes on homes of diferent values. Public information oicer Mark Heuberger said more information will be added and the site will be promoted on social media.

Lewellen said oicials struggled with the amount of information to include in the survey, but decided to keep it to no more

than a page and a half, relying on the website to provide the needed background.

Collierville oicials project a 34-cent boost to $1.87 per $100 of a home’s assessed value. For a $200,000 home, the tax would increase $175 to $940 annually.

Oicials also learned there is no 37-38 cent cap, as they irst thought, that would require a referendum. But the public could gather enough signatures to force a referendum.

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Mail truck lost in fire, driver uninjured

A United States Postal Service mail truck was destroyed in a ire in Germantown around 2:30 p.m.

Feb. 17.

Fire Chief John Selberg said the truck caught on ire on Gainesway Drive in the Aintree Farms subdivision.

The driver of the truck escaped uninjured, Selberg said.

A spokesman for the USPS said some mail was lost, although it’s unclear how much. Any afected customers will receive a letter in the mail notifying them their mail was lost.

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Waitress Krista Bailey and fry cook Anthony Martin can still find time for a laugh in the kitchen rush at Gus’s in Downtown. The local fried chicken chain will open eight new franchises across the country this year.

Gus’s goes national Local chicken legend adding eight locations across the country

By Sara K. Clarke sara.clarke@commercialappeal.com 901-529-5893

Wendy McCrory is going to be a busy lady in 2015.

The new owner of Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken announced Feb. 18 that the Memphis staple will be migrating well beyond the Mid-South, to eight new locations across the country.

It will be McCrory’s task to make sure that franchisees from Atlanta to Los Angeles deliver a spot-on version of Gus’s spicy blend, a perfect replica of the bronze crust that has become a Southern favorite.

Memphis has seen local chains such as Lenny’s and Back Yard Burgers expand outside the region, but McCrory is tasked with taking a special lavor of West Tennessee and sending it to diners around the country, a task that some say may be harder than it appears.

McCrory, who opened Gus’s Chicken on Front Street in November 2001 as a franchise owner, bought the brand this past summer from the Bonners. They are the family that founded it three generations ago in Mason, Tenn., about 40 miles northeast of Memphis.

“I’m glad to see it going worldwide,” said Terry Bonner, whose grandfather created the closely guarded recipe in 1953, and whose father, Gus, was the restaurant’s namesake. The Bonner family will continue to operate the Mason location, while McCrory works on fostering fans of Gus’s across the U.S. Restaurants are planned for Atlanta, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Fort Worth, Knoxville,

Kansas City, Kan., Chicago and Philadelphia, according to a Facebook post the company made last week. Atlanta and St. Louis are further along in the development process, and likely to open irst.

Fans around the country jumped on the news, sharing it through social media such as Facebook and Twitter with a level of enthusiasm that caught Gus’s owner of guard.

“It’s all very exciting, and now it’s our responsibility that we replicate what we have here,” said McCrory, who has called Memphis home since 1979.

Doing so will be no small task, said John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi.

Gus’s joins a long line of Southern cooks who have set their talents toward fried chicken fame, egged on by the success of Colonel Sanders and his Kentucky Fried Chicken.

“The South is a boneyard littered with previous attempts,” Edge said. “The knowledge accumulated and expertise nurtured in the South doesn’t always translate beyond the South.”

But Edge’s reverence for Southern fried chicken in general — and Gus’s in particular — is obvious. He recalls visitors making a pilgrimage to Gus’s for a tall boy beer and a platter of chicken, enjoyed in an ambience reminiscent of “a juke in the midst of upheaval.”

Acquaintances share his enthusiasm.

“Watching my Twitter feed this morning as this was announced, I watched just drooling retweets from Atlanta friends excited to see Gus’s come there,” he said.

Carol Silkes, owner of the Front Street Deli and assistant professor at the University of Memphis’ Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management, echoed similar enthusiasm for Gus’s recipe and caution for its expansion.

Gus’s identity is tied to Memphis, much like other regional food is tied to its homeland.

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to Lakeside for violations ranging from showing up to a school function intoxicated to bringing a weapon to school. Because it is a public school system, the district cannot fully expel a student, and must ind them an alternative education option per state law.

Aitken briely brought up the issue during the Collierville school board’s work session Tuesday. In other business, Aitken said the district is still reviewing sites for the new

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The Shelby County Trustee’s Oice will operate a number of temporary sites this week in advance of Saturday’s county property tax payment deadline.

Payments also will be accepted at the oice of David Lenoir, trustee, at

157 Poplar.

To pay online, go to shelbycountytrustee.com.

Today, extra payment locations are Bartlett City Hall, 6400 Stage Road, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Collierville Town Hall, 500 Poplar View Parkway, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Central Library, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Friday locations are Bartlett City Hall, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Central Library, 3030 Poplar, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Also on Friday, addi-

tional staf will be at the following kiosk locations to accept all payments except cash: County Clerk’s oice, 1075 Mullins Station, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Millington City Hall, 7930 Nelson, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Arlington Town Hall, 5854 Airline Road, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Germantown City Hall, 1930 S. Germantown, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Collierville Town Hall, 500 Poplar View Parkway, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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memory to a place and makes you want to go back,” she said, noting that Memphis’ people and culture help shape Gus’s experience. “It’s the Southern hospitality, and if that element’s not there, the experience will be good, but will it be the same? Will it replicate? No.” The people selected to carry Gus’s banner to states out West and up North were selected with care, out of a pool of more than 500 applicants. Franchise winners each pay a $75,000 fee for franchise rights, plus royalties. The fee includes branding, training and operational support. It costs an estimated $600,000 to $1.3 million to build each location and get it running, McCrory said.

To make sure they get it right, McCrory plans to spend the irst several weeks frying chicken at each franchise — and the next year and a half nurturing their eforts.

That means another expansion might not come until the end of 2016. The company isn’t even accepting new franchise applications, McCrory said.

“Most importantly, we want to get this round of stores open, operating, and spend as much time with them as they need,” she said. “We never want to have 500 stores. We want to always be considered a city’s local fried chicken, with deep ties to Memphis and Mason, Tennessee.”

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Collierville police are investigating after thieves made of with more than $13,000 worth of items from the Buckle Store in the Carriage Crossing shopping area shortly after 1 a.m. Feb. 18.

Surveillance cameras show four men entering the store, all wearing gloves.

The men used screwdrivers to pry open the cash registers and a sledgehammer to break the glass at the front door, oicials said.

A security guard saw a man run from the store and get into a blue four-door Saturn, police reported.

high school, and hopes to present the top contenders soon. A public meeting on the project is scheduled for March 31.

The board also heard a presentation from David Pickler from the Tennessee School Boards Association regarding an opportunity to join a trust to set aside money for the district’s future retirement liabilities. Aitken said the district is still in the process of an actuarial review to determine the extent of its liability. The district has not yet set aside money for other post-employment beneits.

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Death causes shutdown on I-40

A 16-year-old sophomore at Arlington High School died Monday night after apparently jumping of an overpass onto Interstate 40.

The situation led to portions of the highway near Canada Road being shut down for several hours, according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

The boy’s name was not released.

Jody Callahan

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In the News Germantown

efort to change school start times fails Board declines to foot the bill for later bells

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

The bells at Houston High and Houston Middle schools will again ring at 7 a.m. next year.

The Germantown Municipal School Board on Monday, in front of a crowd of about 150 people split down the middle of the room at Houston Middle based on their side of the issue, declined to fund a move away from the early bell time.

The board conducted its irst of two readings on the 2015-16 school year budget. A inal reading at the board’s next meeting will make it oicial.

The budget option includes $1,050,000 for transportation.

Director of operations Josh

Cathey said another $200,000 would have been required to fund any combination of changes that would move away from a 7 a.m. start. Germantown shares some buses with Collierville schools, and later start times would require more buses.

The board was 3-2 in its vote, with Mark Dely and Ken Hoover dissenting. Lisa Parker said the district cannot aford the change this year. She said Germantown has a target on its back “because Germantown has always been the best.”

“Everybody is looking for Germantown to stumble,” she said.

“As long as I’m sitting in this position, Germantown will not stumble.”

Supt. Jason Manuel said ahead of the vote that not everyone would be happy, but he hoped the community could heal after months of contentious debating.

While the meeting show-

The Germantown Municipal School Board on Monday voted to keep the starting times at Houston Middle and High at 7 a.m.

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cased opinions from both sides, a group of parents had formed an advocacy group in favor of changing the start times. They gathered more than 600 signatures on a petition before the meeting and had been the most vocal at previous meetings.

The board debated in a work session last week what to do with about $800,000 of discretionary

funding. The priorities funded in this budget are three interventional teaching positions, a special education coordinator, a technology initiative and an extra $100,000 toward retirement liability. It also adds about $94,000 to the transportation budget to account for possibly increased ridership or routing, but not quite enough to change

the start times.

Hoover advocated adding start time changes to that same list of priorities and finding other areas of the budget to cut to pay for it. He mentioned the diesel fuel and legal fee budgets as possibilities. The board voted down that possibility.

The meeting featured more than an hour of passionate comments from 43 community members.

Houston High junior Antonio Scott, who spoke out against a time change for the high school, said after the meeting he was “proud” of the board’s decision.

Not all the students agreed.

Junior Julia Harris said she had a rough transition to high school after attending Riverdale School, which starts at 8 a.m.

“I came home exhausted on a regular basis and fell asleep for hours not waking up until dinner,” she said.

Germantown Police Reports

Germantown

FEB. 15

■ oicers arrested a juvenile male after he was involved in a physical altercation with his father in the 8200 block of aldershot at 2:53 a.m.

■ Victim’s unlocked vehicle was entered but nothing was taken in the 2300 block of pikewood at 11:33 a.m.

■ Victim’s unlocked vehicle was entered and coins stolen in the 2200 block of cornwall at 11:51 a.m.

■ Someone shot a BB gun through the victim’s house window in the 7100 block of Bell manor at 2:05 p.m.

■ a victim was struck by a moving vehicle’s side mirror after a disturbance with an acquaintance in the 2100 block of idlewood at 3:11 p.m.

■ oicers arrested an adult male after he was involved in a physical altercation with his father in the 7200 block of riverwood at 8:18 p.m.

■ oicer initiated a traic stop and arrested an adult female for possession of marijuana at mcVay cove and mcVay road at 11:08 p.m.

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Houston High freshman Matthew Wright, 15, demonstrates the proper way to check for breathing on a training mannequin while Germantown Fire paramedic Greg Breuer supervises during a CPR and AED certification course at the school. All ninth-grade students take the course.

Healthy hearts

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

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ermantown Fire Chief John Selberg said watching his medical crews tend to someone whose heart has just stopped is never easy.

Sometimes the patient’s spouse is watching, and their kids are just of in another room while medics pound on their loved one’s chest, poke them with needles and deliver electric shocks.

Selberg said that’s usually when the spouse mentions something like, “He was complaining of pain in his left arm just this morning.”

“You’re thinking, ‘He was having a heart attack then and he didn’t tell anybody,’” Selberg said. “And now, by the time we got to him, chances of him making it are so much less.

“It angers you but you just feel sad, because it was something that could have been prevented.”

Selberg’s goal, in partnership with the Germantown community, is to eliminate as many of those preventable deaths as possible.

Students, community learn life saving techniques The initiative, dubbed the Heart Safe Program, involves the ire department, the Germantown Municipal School District and Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital. It begins with education in the form of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automated external deibrillators.

A community’s cardiac survival numbers can be hard to compare, as many cities calculate them diferently. Selberg said Germantown’s overall rate of survival when someone has no heartbeat is 37.5 percent.

For patients whose heart shows what’s deemed a “workable” rhythm, the department’s survival rate is closer to 60 percent.

Statewide, Tennessee ranked 45th in the country for heart disease-related deaths in 2013, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Mississippi ranked last.

The ire department teamed up with hospital staf this month to CPR certify the entire ninth-grade class at Houston High School.

In May, the department will train the 11th-grade class, and by the end of next year, 2,000 members of the community will be newly trained in the lifesaving skill.

An additional 80 to 90 percent of district staf members also will be certiied.

Brian Fisher, the district’s school health coordinator, said students were exposed to some CPR training but were not being certiied before the initiative. Fisher said the hope is that it will encourage parents to become CPR certiied, and that it will help students who are tasked with watching younger children or who are searching for summer jobs.

“What does a 14-year-old have to put on a resumé?” Fisher said. “Now they at least have that.”

Expanding to Germantown High School is also a goal, said hospital CEO William Kenley, as well as expanding to the business community. Businesses that train their employees in CPR and are willing to install AEDs inside their buildings could earn recognition as a “heart-safe business.”

He said the hospital is seeking grants to pay for the AEDs to be distributed throughout the community.

“We all hope we never have to use it,” Kenley said. “But reality is some of us will, and if more people are trained, it’s just going to make for a better community overall.”

Collierville

Police staf recognizes milestones, promotions at Courthouse Special to the Weekly

Members of the Collierville Police Department celebrated several milestones Feb. 11 at the Collierville Municipal Courthouse.

Chris Roberts, formally a patrolman, was promoted to detective in the Criminal Investigations Division. Roberts served the Collierville Police Department for 16 years as a patrolman, school resource oicer and SWAT

Team member.

During the presentation, Police Chief Larry Goodwin presented Roberts with his certiicate of promotion and detective badge. Along with the promotion of Roberts, the Collierville Police Department celebrated the anniversaries of two Collierville Police officers.

Lt. Jimmy Anthony was recognized for 35 years of service and Lt. David Townsend was recognized for 20 years of service.

Lt. David Townsend recently celebrated 20 years of service with the Collierville Police Department.

Collierville Police Chief Larry Goodwin (left) congratulates Lt. Jimmy Anthony for 35 years of service.

Goodwin (left) presents newly-appointed detective Chris Roberts with his certificate and badge.

■ Business entered by unknown means and computers stolen in the 8500 block of cordes at 7:49 a.m.

■ mother and son were engaged in an argument that became physical in the 8500 block huntleigh Way at 9:15 p.m.

FEB. 17

■ employee is suspected of taking money from the business since october 2014 in the 900 block of corporate Gardens at 4:35 p.m.

■ Juveniles are suspected in denting a vehicle from throwing ice in the 7700 block of Wolf river at 5:17 p.m.

■ oicer initiated a traic stop and arrested two adult males for possession of marijuana at poplar pike and Germantown at 6:07 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Farmington at 9:07 p.m.

FEB. 18

■ Juvenile issued a summons for borrowing a vehicle without permission at Scruggs and poplar at 4:25 a.m.

■ Victim’s cell phone was taken from an unlocked vehicle in the 2100 block of ealing at 8:12 p.m.

■ Victim had jewelry stolen by an acquaintance in the 1800 block of park trail at 10:19 p.m.

■ Vehicle struck guide wire causing no injuries at cd Smith and Winner at 11:20 a.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Wolf river and Germantown at 1:21 p.m.

FEB. 19

■ oicers arrested adult male after he had entered an unlocked vehicle looking for items to steal in the 7000 block of eastern at 1:24 a.m.

■ oicers arrested adult male after he had entered an unlocked vehicle looking for items to steal in the 2100 block of howard at 3:07 a.m.

■ a female passed a counterfeit check in the 2100 block of Germantown at 2:36 p.m.

■ Someone cracked the windshield of the victim’s vehicle in the 8100 block of poplar at 4:34 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing injuries at dogwood and thorncroft at 9:10 a.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Johnson and poplar at 6:19 p.m.

■ Vehicle struck a curb causing injuries at Farmington and Germantown at 1:30 a.m. provided by the Germantown police department

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Schools ACHIEVEMENT

Row Tide Row Jennifer Swanner hopes to instill a lifelong love of learning in her students.

TEACHER SPOTLIGHT

Swanner enjoys Incarnation’s small classes Former Briarcrest student Lindsey Taylor recently earned a spot with the University of Alabama’s rowing team. She is one of 50 women on the team. “I would have to say this is the most challenging and focused sport I have ever played,” Taylor said.

Former Briarcrest valedictorian part of Alabama rowing team

By Beth rooks Special to The Weekly

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hen 2014 Briarcrest valedictorian Lindsey Taylor announced she was attending the University of Alabama at graduation last May, the two-sport letterman was contemplating walking onto the Alabama softball team, but a funny thing happened.

As an incoming freshman, she was invited to try out for rowing — an activity she had never tried before.

“All the freshmen got this e-mail inviting them to try out for the rowing team, which is a varsity sport at Alabama,” said Taylor. “Early in the summer, I contacted the coach and told her I was interested. I started working out on a rowing machine and running nearly every day.”

“I would have to say this is the most challenging and focused sport I have ever played,” added Taylor. “It requires so much focus at one point in time, and you can never slip up because your teammates in your boat are counting on you.

Also, there are so many muscles involved that you are constantly sore. I don’t go a

day without a sore muscle, but surprisingly, I love it. It has taught me how to clear my mind and focus on the task at hand whether that be rowing for one minute or 45 minutes.”

And her hard work paid of. After spending the fall trying to earn a spot on the team as a walk-on, Taylor was given a spot on one of the eight-plus crews (eight rowers with one oar each, plus a coxswain).

She is now one of nearly 50 women who represent the Crimson Tide in rowing and will have a chance for an athletic scholarship next fall.

Beth Rooks is the director of communications for Briarcrest.

Farmington second-grader Khotea loves playing, building with Legos Farmington Elementary, second grade

what do you like most about your school: My teachers. Mrs.

Taylor, who is my second-grade teacher, and Mrs. Breggren, who was my irst-grade teacher. favorite subject (and why):

Math, because I like calculations. most challenging subject (and why): Science, because we work

with chemicals. what are some of your biggest

accomplishments: I got my high-

est honors in second grade. hobbies: I like to read books and play with Legos.

Goals for the future: Become a good citizen. the one who taught me everything about right and wrong.

famous person would you like to meet (and why): The author

favorite movies, tV shows, books: “Toy Story” and “The

of Magic Tree House. what would you do with $1 million: I will help poor kids and

Lego Movie,” “Mickey Mouse Club House,” “Magic Tree House”

send them to school, and if some is left I will buy Legos.

People would be surprised to know about me: That I can build

if you could change one thing in the world: I would change older

St. George’s Independent School athletic director Tom Densford recently hired Scott Reall as the new strength and conditioning coach. Reall joins St. George’s from the Tennessee Titans where he has been the assistant strength and conditioning coach since 2011.

“We are very excited to have Scott join the St. George’s community,” said Densford. “Scott’s extensive knowledge, experi-

ence and passion made him the perfect candidate for this position. Adding Scott to our athletic department will be a tremendous opportunity for all of our students.”

Reall has held internships with two of the Scott most prestigious football Reall programs in the country. For the 2009-10 season, he acted as the football strength and conditioning intern at the University of Alabama. The Crimson Tide was undefeated

that season, tackling the Texas Longhorns in the BCS national championship game in Pasadena, Calif. Reall also spent a season as a football performance intern with the Ohio State football program from 2007-08, when the Buckeyes won the Big 10 Championship and advanced to the national championship game.

Reall has trained many professional athletes over the years including: Olympic gold medal-

was your favorite subject Q What as a kid and why?

loved science because of the A Iintrigue of how things work. was the most challenging Q What subject for you as a kid and why?

was the most challenging A Math for me because I didn’t understand its necessity. is the greatest challenge Q What you face as an educator?

greatest challenge is twoA My fold. It is the delicate balance

is the most rewarding moQ What ment you’ve had as a teacher?

are rewarding moments A There almost every day as a teacher,

you just have to look for them. But one of the most rewarding moments for me is when you see the light bulb go of and they inally get it.

Rasil Shamshuddin Khotea’s enjoys the Magic Tree House series of books.

people’s voices to make a nice and cute voice like a baby and for my parents to never leave this world.

To nominate a star student, e-mail Matt Woo at woo@commercialappeal.com.

Scott Reall is new strength and conditioning coach Special to The Weekly

know my students and freely talk about my faith.

ing so they become lifelong learners.

ST. GEORGE’S

By Sarah acuf

really enjoy the small class A Isizes because I get to truly

an educator, I hope to instill A As a passion in students for learn-

what would do if you were principal for a day: I would change

our playground to a carnival and change break time from half an hour to one hour.

do you like most about Q What your school?

do you hope to accomplish Q What as an educator?

anything from Legos. Also, I inished all my Magic Tree House series.

Person you most admire (and why): My mom, because she is

Incarnation Catholic School, middle school language arts and K-8 gifted and talented

between connecting with the students, while at the same time trying to teach to the various levels as well as learning styles present in the classroom.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

raSil ShamShuddin Khotea

Jennifer Swanner

ist Shawn Johnson; LPGA golfer Megan Grehan; NBA player Brandan Wright; and former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck.

“I am honored to be a part of the St. George’s family,” said Reall. “I look forward to working with such talented students and to serve as a part of the culture of change and growth that is to come through the strength and conditioning program.”

Sarah Acuf is the coordinator of development communications and assistant director of communications at St. George’s.

is your teaching inspiration Q Who and why?

junior English teacher Mrs. A My Gaines is one that I admire the

most. The irst six weeks I received a D in her class. It devastated me and I was in tears. She talked with me and assured me it was going to be OK. That evening, she called my mom. She said if I stayed in the honors English class she could guarantee it would prepare me for college. Not only did I stay in the course, but I passed and learned a lot about reading and writing. What she taught me was the importance of really caring about your students and how it is more than a job. did you know you wanted Q When to be an educator?

was working at a preschool A Iteaching pre-kindergarten.

Part of my class schedule was an hour of free centers time. One day, a child came to sit with me. He shared some details of what happened at his house the night before.

I knew from that instance that the world of education was my calling. you weren’t a teacher, what Q Ifwould you be?

in a free clinic proA Working viding health care to those in need in a developing nation.

SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS

are some things you enjoy Q What doing outside the classroom?

reading, bowling and A Crafting, couponing would you do with $1 milQ What lion?

Each quarter, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School chooses one student from each grade for being Christ-like to others through their actions and words. For the second quarter, Joseph Mangin, Camilla Tran, Aidan Sessler and Matthew Lamanilao where chosen as Chirst-like Award recipients. Julia Mocny (not pictured) also was chosen.

$1 million, I would pay A With of my student loans, travel to Europe and invest the rest.

could change one thing in Q Iftheyouworld what would it be?

change one thing A Ifin Ithecould world, I would love for Students at Germantown Elementary Optional School had the opportunity to learn hockey skills and techniques from players with the Mississippi RiverKings. Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders each spent an hour learning about hockey and playing a scrimmage game. The students really enjoyed trying on the equipment and spending time with Sheldon, the RiverKings’ mascot.

people to see people for who they truly are on the inside and not be caught up in the outside and that person’s current circumstance.

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This year, 59 Briarcrest eighth-graders were granted membership into the National Junior Honor Society. To be inducted, the students had to meet the rigorous standard of a 3.7 cumulative GPA (grade-point average) throughout middle school while maintaining good citizenship. An induction ceremony was held Feb. 11.

Germantown Elementary Technology Club members gather around to see which robot can knock over or push the cup out of the ring. The club consists of 30 thirdthrough ifth-grade students who have spent the school year learning about computer programming, gaming, computer software and robotics.

St. George’s senior Justin Wertner (No. 4), who recently signed with the University of California-Irvine, was named a Division II-A Mr. Basketball Finalist for the second consecutive year. This season, Wertner led St. George’s to a 25-4 record and the DII-A West Region title. On the season, he averaged 18.4 points and 9.7 rebounds while being named District Player of the Year. Wertner is the school’s all time leader in three-pointers made and free throw percentage. St. George’s defeated Franklin Road Academy, 53-49, in a sub-state game Tuesday to advance to the state tournament that begins Friday in Nashville. The Gryphons will play Davidson Academy at 2:45 p.m.

Jane Scott’s irst-grade class spreads the love at Dogwood Elementary during Valentine’s Day.

The Collierville Education Foundation recently awarded more than $12,000 in grants to Bailey Station Elementary. The grants are to provide funding for a variety of instructional resources that teachers might not otherwise be able to ofer. The numerous grant-funded projects include a 3-D printer to complement the APEX curriculum and an iPad cart for use in the speech therapy program. BSE teachers and administrators are extremely grateful for the community support provided by the CEF.

Several Briarcrest fourth- and ifth-graders participated in the ACSI Geography Bee. The Briarcrest team practiced their geography skills to prepare for this competition against other area Christian schools.

Briarcrest swept the fourth- and ifth-grade divisions.

SEND US YOUR SNAPSHOTS The St. George’s seventh-grade girls basketball team recently capped of a terriic season by winning the Shelby League seventh-grade championship game. Holding up their championship plaque is River Allbritton (front, left), Anna Larizza, Maggie Kay Imorde, Kathryn Robinson; Ashley Wilson (back), Mary Virginia McWaters, Adi Thrasher, Grace Eber, Isabel Dlabach, Caroline Finch and coach Curtis Jones.

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Home & Garden

ONE SWEET YEAR Celebrate the shades, flavors of peppers The National Garden Bureau has declared 2015 the “Year of the Sweet Pepper.”

And what’s not to like about that?

It’s a vegetable (technically a fruit, but let’s not go there) that comes with a list of positive attributes: ■ Peppers’ sweetness can be enjoyed by almost everyone in both a raw and crunchy state and also roasted, sautéed or simmered and added to other ingredients as an underpinning of lavor for numerous dishes.

■ To my eye, their bright yellow, red, orange, purple and almost black colors make them gorgeous garden plants.

The pepper photos supplied by the garden bureau evoked thoughts of summer and gave me a psychological boost in temperature on a wintry day.

■ Peppers aren’t just pretty.

They’re also an alphabet soup of vitamins such as C (as much or more than oranges), several of the Bs and A, and they have beneicial minerals as well.

For the highest levels of nutrients, choose red, orange and yellow peppers over the green ones.

■ The garden bureau’s press materials say peppers are easy to grow, but not for me.

Now I know it’s probably because I’ve been planting them either in the same place every year or in a place formerly occupied by a tomato plant.

Both of those veggies as well as Irish potatoes and eggplants must be rotated annually to avoid soil-borne diseases, said vegetable gardening guru Bill Colvard.

He does it by dividing his growing area into four parts and then rotating crops clockwise each year.

By the time the troublesome

Easy-to-grow sweet peppers are available in a rainbow of colors.

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vegetables get back to their original space, the diseases should be gone.

This year, I will put my peppers into some virgin soil or even a container and hope for better results.

In its press materials, the NGB notes small pepper plants seem to transplant more easily than those that are root-bound in those tiny nursery pots or already in bloom.

Pepper plants love warm soil and full sun but like the shade their own leaves provide.

Plant them in soil amended with compost, and fertilize every two weeks until you see lowers. Then stop giving it ni-

trogen so the plant can put its energy into making peppers instead of leaves.

If your plant has abundant leaves but no lowers, it’s getting too much nitrogen. Pale leaves may indicate a need for fertilizer.

■ Pepper plants are attractive enough to grow in containers with ornamentals. Containers should hold at least 2 gallons of soil and be deeper than wide.

Be sure to water often during July and August.

NEW AT THE GARDEN Scott McCormick’s first week as executive director of the Memphis Botanic Garden was anything but laid back.

The staff and numerous volunteers were busy getting 5,600 indoor plants ready to sell at the garden’s annual “Green Your Home Winter Houseplant Sale.”

But it gave him a chance to get to know them and some of the 500 or so people who came.

“We have a great staf that’s very energetic,” said, McCormick, 55. “I want to build on the work Jim (Duncan) did so the next 10 years are just as great.”

Duncan, who retired at the end of January, was a driving force in increasing attendance, enlarging membership roles and completing capital improvement projects such as the children’s garden, My Big Backyard; the herb garden, Blecken Pavilion and a $6.5 million outdoor entertainment complex that includes the Jim Duncan Stage.

McCormick seems well suited to his new job. As a city councilman from 2004-2008, he became familiar with the operation of the botanic garden as a member of the council’s Parks Committee.

When he was executive director of the Plough Foundation, he was closely involved in the development of the Woodland Discovery Playground at Shelby Farms.

And in that role, he learned what grant proposals are exciting enough to get funded, a skill that he can use from the other side of the desk in his new position.

He chose his last job, inancial adviser at Duncan-Williams, because the company is heavily involved in supporting community endeavors including sponsorship of the Live at the Garden concert series at the botanic garden.

“I try to be involved in the community with everything I do,” he said.

McCormick doesn’t boast a green thumb, but he enjoys growing vegetables in raised beds at his home in Cordova.

His wife, Carolyn, is into ornamentals.

“I’ve grown pumpkins, tomatoes and other vegetables with moderate success,” he said. “My goal is always to grow enough tomatoes to make a big pot of marinara sauce. I think it’s happened twice.”

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Community FAITH

St. George’s to host World Day of Prayer service All are welcome at March 6 event

By Kit Decker Special to The Weekly

The community is invited to attend a World Day of Prayer service that has been planned by an ecumenical group representing seven area churches.

The local service will join in prayer that will reach all the way around the world.

Brenda Kindelan, a lay leader from Church of the Holy Spirit Memphis,

will present the message.

The service will be held at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 2425 S. Germantown Road, on March 6 at noon with a light lunch reception following.

World Day of Prayer is a worldwide ecumenical movement of Christian women of many traditions who come together to observe a common day of prayer each year on the irst Friday in March.

World Day of Prayer was founded on the idea that prayer and action are inseparable. Services begin at sunrise in the Paciic

and follow the sun across the globe on the day of celebration. Each year a diferent country’s World Day of Prayer committee serves as the writers of the WDP worship service.

Women, men and children in more than 170 countries and regions will celebrate World Day of Prayer.

For more information, go to wdp-usa.org. or contact St. George’s Episcopal Church at 901-754-7282 or stgchurch.org.

Mary Rogers (left) from Germantown Presbyterian Church and Kit Decker from St. George’s Episcopal Church display the poster for this year’s World Day of Prayer Service, which will be held at St. George’s Episcopal Church on March 6.

Kit Decker is the publications writer/editor for St. George’s Episcopal Church.

SNAPSHOTS

The FedEx Pilots Wives Association hosted a Mardi Gras party Feb. 13 at the home of Kimberly and Toby Bolan in Collierville. The party was a fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House. The house recently had a broken pipe, which set of the sprinkler system, looded the family rooms and displaced 15 families displaced and they have been working to repair all the damage. Helping raise money for the cause is Jenn (left) and JB Stettler and Lisa and Mark Martens.

Jim Moore (left) and Neil Aronson, residents at The Village at Germantown, make wooden crosses to hang in patients’ rooms at Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital. Moore donated his woodworking equipment to The Village at Germantown when he moved in. The shop is busy with woodworkers repairing furniture for its residents and staf. They have also made a doll house, menu boards and now wooden trucks for their grandchildren.

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In its continuing support and partnership with the Germantown Community Theatre, the Germantown Women’s Club presented a $500 check to theater executive director Dr. Michael Miles. The check was matched by the theater’s enhancement grant. The theater concluded a successful run of “Miss Firecracker Contest,” during which GWC held a Dinner Theatre Night event for club members and guests.

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Diane Rivenbark of the United Daughters of the Confederacy poses in front of a booth run

by Graydon Swisher.

PHOTOS BY JASON R. TERRELL/THE WEEKLY

Bill Kelsey (center) of Collierville and fellow members of Bankhead’s Battery Civil War living history unit prepare to fire a reproduction Noble Brother’s 6-lb., smooth-bore cannon back into its trailer outside the Mid-South Military History & Civil War Show.

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HISTORY Enthusiasts gather for annual Military History & Civil War Show

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The men stood in formation in the cold and damp, their uniforms barely keeping out the rain and their red kepis pushed down over their eyes. And then, on a signal from their commander, a squad member pulled the cord and the resulting boom rang out so loud that it set of car alarms around the area of Germantown Parkway.

The men in question are members of Bankhead’s Battery, a Civil War artillery re-enactment group that is connected with the Robert E. Lee Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

The men of Bankhead’s were out in the parking lot of the Shelby ShowPlace Arena at the Agricenter last weekend as part of the Mid-South Military History & Civil War Show and the boom heard around the neighborhood came from their reproduction Noble Brothers 6-lb. ield cannon.

Bill Rivenbark of Memphis, a member of Bankhead’s Battery artillery re-enactment group, attended the annual event with his son, Will, and granddaughter, Olivia.

Joe Burns of Germantown (right), president of the Tennessee Genealogical Society, helps attendees look up their ancestors.

The show was a combined efort of James Chalmers Camp, Robert E. Lee Camp and Bankhead’s Battery, which provided the cannons. Featured were numerous re-enactors in period clothing and about 120 vendors including representatives from several area history groups and lineage societies. Items for sale included everything from books and CDs to period-style clothing. Some items dated from the Civil War period all the way through World War II. Vendors were also on hand displaying and selling antique irearms with some dating back to the 1860s.

Meanwhile, members of the Battery seemed to enjoy the fellowship and the opportunity to share their passion for history with the public.

Event coordinator Lee Ann Robertson shared a story about a family who stopped by on the last day of the show with kids in tow. When the members of the Battery ired the cannon for the last time, their three-year-old put his hands to his ears and cried out, “It’s a miracle!”

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Aviation Afterlife operations coordinator Jeremy Watts works on an executive desk, which will include a stabilizer from a Boeing 737 airplane.

PHOTOS BY BRANDON DILL/SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

Universal Asset Management employees Billy Bullock (left) and John Broyles sit in seats from the irst-class section of an airplane as they eat lunch on a table made from the horizontal stabilizer of a Boeing 737 at the company’s Tupelo, Miss., facility. Aviation Afterlife, a division of UAM, manufactures such tables and other furniture and décor from parts of retired aircraft.

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nstead of patio chairs, Jeremy and Tina Watts relaxed in chairs made from converted irst-class aircraft seats at last year’s World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

Their “Rub Me Tender” booth also was furnished with a bar and service table made from a 330 Airbus.

Jeremy Watts, 37, is operations coordinator of Aviation Afterlife, which makes furniture and objects from retired aircraft. It’s a division of Memphis-based Universal Asset Management, which buys, sells, leases, manages, disassembles and recycles commercial planes for companies all over the world.

“When an aircraft gets to the end of its life span, we get the plane and sell the parts back to the airline industry,” said Abby Horn, Universal Asset Management business development manager. “What’s left of the plane, the actual shell of the plane, we take those parts and turn into furniture. We recycle what’s left.”

They want to recycle “every ounce of that aircraft,” said Universal Asset Management chairman and CEO Keri Wright. “We’re always looking for ways to reduce the carbon footprint in that aspect of the business.”

Aviation Afterlife is “reincarnation in its most exotic form so the airplane can continue to live on,” Wright said.

Watts, she said, is “instrumental in the design of new ideas, new prototypes of furniture.”

The planes are disassembled at the company’s Tupelo facility, where the furniture is made.

Aviation Afterlife’s irst pieces were picture frames made from windows cut out of the fuselage. They then took the inlets — the outer covering or shrouds of the engine — and made desks. “There is a certain select aircraft we have to use because some of the ones cannot be used,” Watts said. “But we can use a large one like a 747.

It has a 9.5-foot circumference on it, so it makes a huge desk. A reception desk is what they’re more commonly used for.”

Inlets also make great wet bars to use outside by the pool,

Watts said.

“We sold a few items to just a few people who were in the aviation ield. For their homes, for their oices,” Watts said.

“We did a few Christmas gifts for loyal UAM customers to kind of show them what we can do. Then it kind of grew from there.”

Aviation Afterlife “literally took of,” Watts said.

Converted plane seats are popular, he said. “We take the irst-class seats. They like to use them for a man cave, or they’ll buy them for children’s rooms.

A few people have bought them for home theaters. We’ve sold everything from the standard seating to the nice, leather ones.

It really just depends on what the customer wants. I’ve actually got some of the standard economy seating that I use in my home. We have a little work room. And we use them on our carport.”

Aviation Aircraft makes long tables, including the ones in the Tupelo facility’s break room and conference rooms, from wings, slats and laps.

They also make counters and bars from slats, fuselage windows and galley carts — the

Mike Oswald does prep work on a stabilizer from a Boeing 737 airplane that will be made into an executive desk.

Repurposed parts from retired airplanes can ind new life as furniture and décor such as a podium made from a plane’s window panel.

little wheeled vehicles used for serving drinks and snacks on planes. They make cofee tables from 737 landing gear wheels and pub tables from the rims.

They make patio umbrellas and clocks from bulkheads.

“The bulkhead is the very rear of the cabin of the aircraft,” Watts said.

The clocks are a popular item just because they’re made from bulkheads, Watts said. “There is only one per aircraft, so when you get that, you deinitely get a one-of-a-kind piece.”

But, he said, “The things we sell the most of are the picture frames and the galley carts because they are a very identii-

able item.”

Sometimes people come up with their own plane-inspired ideas, which Aviation Afterlife tries to turn into reality.

“We don’t do a lot of sketching.

The only time we do any kind of sketching is if a customer is curious if we can make a certain piece.”

Not everything they make is functional; they made an art piece out of a wing for a company in North Carolina.

“Instead of laying it down as a table, we actually stood it up like the tail of an aircraft and gave it a real high gloss inish,” Watts said. “So, when you walk in the door, you have this outstanding piece that’s right there in front of you. It’s a horizontal wing, but when you stand it up the average person thinks it’s the tail of an aircraft ’cause it’s such a large piece.

“We sold several things to that company. They did buy some large fuselage cutouts.

Their oice was divided up with fuselage; their cubicles were done with fuselage walls.

(While) they’re sitting in their chair, they can look through the window to the person sitting beside them.”

Some people request furniture made from a particular aircraft. “A lot of people like 747s just because it’s a very popular aircraft,” Watts said.

Not everybody who buys their products has an ailiation with aircraft, Watts said. “The people that bought the dividers — that company doesn’t have anything to do with aircraft.

They’re actually a marketing company. They just wanted some art décor — something diferent in their oice.”

Prices range from $495 for high-polish fuselage picture frames to $12,000 and up for customized pieces.

“Each individual piece we build has its own authenticity,” Watts said. “Each piece has certain laws, certain dings, certain dents, a certain light history. It’s taking something and refurbishing it and creating something new.”

And, Watts said, “It’s been in the air. It’s not something you drive down the road every day.

It’s had millions of miles on it.”

To see a video on Aviation Afterlife, go to commercialappeal.com.

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This past fall, Briana was selected to represent New Ballet Ensemble in Washington and accept the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for her dance studio. As part of this experience, she met First Lady Michelle Obama, who presented the awards. She also was chosen to attend the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Seminar and performed for the Special Olympics as part of this program.

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Lindsly Penny | Hernando High School | Drama & Speech

Lindsly, a senior, is a bright student with a wide range of talent. She holds a 4.15 weighted grade point average and scored 29 on the ACT. She has a love for the ine arts. She has been in a number of plays including “Toga! Toga! Toga!” and “Hairspray.” She also was part of the school’s “The Insanity of Mary Girard,” for which she was nominated for an Allie Award for best cameo performance. She has been inducted into the National Thespian Honor Society and is a two-year member of the Drama Club. She often is asked to do hair and makeup for productions such as Kudzu Playhouse’s “The Giver” and “Willy Wonka.”

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Olivia Bernabe | St. Mary’s Episcopal School | Drama & Speech

Olivia, a senior, is a talented actress whose style, social graces, sincerity and genuine spirit are reminiscent of an earlier classical era.

She holds a 4.47 weighted grade point average and scored 30 on the ACT. Her acting skills have been enriched by growing up in the United States and Mexico and her love of history, music, English, literature and art. She not only acts but dances and sings as well. She was accepted into the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts and was a member of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Master Class. As an active member of the school’s Speech Team, Olivia placed irst in Duet Musical Theatre, irst in Duet Improvisation and second in poetry.

In addition, Olivia has trained her soprano voice in both classical and musical theatre. As a dancer, she has been a tap dancing assistant and has trained in tap, ballet and ballroom dancing. In theatre, she has played leads and supporting parts. Whether it’s the Queen in “Cinderella,” Shelby in “Steel Magnolias,” or Dr. Emmett in “The Curious Savage,” Olivia gives her characters a speciic demeanor and personality.

Nadia Readus | Overton High School | Drama & Speech

Nadia, a senior, is an important member of the school’s Creative and Performing Arts Theatre program. She holds a 3.1 unweighted grade point average and will graduate with all Honors courses. She is a three-year participant in the theatre arts program and has performed in three of the largest musicals. She played the role of Frenchy in “Grease,” Alice in “Bye Bye Birdie,” and a munchkin as well as the Head Winged Monkey in “The Wiz.” She also has worked backstage as the prop manager during “110 in the Shade” and assisted in the production of “Don’t Drink the Water” and “12 Angry Jurors.”

A Memphis Ambassador, Nadia spends time reading to special needs students. She is the student leader for the Special Olympics. One of her proudest moments was when she raised more than 500 canned goods and $200 for the Kids Kan Drive. She also is a member of the Interact Club and Key Club, both of which focus on community service. Nadia is a role model for her classmates as she seeks out ways to acknowledge the accomplishments of others.

Kyle Van Frank | St. Benedict High School | Drama & Speech

Kyle, a senior, is a rare talent. He has been involved in nine school theatrical productions where he shows an instinctive knack for performance – pinpoint comic timing, a deep understanding of human behavior, and a wide variety of character voices and physicality.

He is a gifted musician, playing the piano, trumpet and accordion. He also helped to start and coach a competitive forensics team, where he took home several irst place awards the irst year. Kyle holds a 4.36 weighted grade point average, expertly balancing extracurricular commitments with a tough schedule of AP, Dual Enrollment and Honors classes.

Selected to the Orpheum Theatre STAR Council, Kyle earned the 2014 Best Supporting Actor award for his portrayal of Action in the school’s production of “West Side Story.” He played the beloved role of Nathan Detroit in a production of “Guys and Dolls” at the Bartlett Performing Arts Center. He co-directed the show choir musical, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” and has tried his hand at costuming in this year’s show choir production of “Aida.” Recently, he played the lead role of Brutus in “Julius Caesar.” He also attended the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts.

Rachel Thomas | Tipton-Rosemark Academy | Drama & Speech

Rachel, a senior, is a dynamic performer who is passionate about using her talents for community service. She holds a 3.774 grade point average and is a disciplined Honor Student. She was cast in the two lead actress roles, Abby and Martha, in “Arsenic and Old Lace,” after an impressive portrayal of both characters during auditions. She also had leading roles of Golde in “Fiddler on the Roof,” and Jane Austen in “Pride and Prejudice the Musical.” She was selected to attend the 2014 West Star Conference at UT-Martin for leadership training, Disney-Newsies Workshop in New York City for acting instruction, Orpheum Broadway 101 Master Class for “Once” to study Acting/Voice and Dance and the Orpheum Musical Theatre Intensive Workshop for outstanding student actors.

In addition, Rachel is actively involved as the alto section leader for the school’s Concert Choir, Show Choir, Women’s Choir and Girls Jazz Ensemble. The choirs won irst place and overall high school choir at the Festivals of Music Competition in New York last spring.

Rachel is an outstanding mentor to younger students, a soloist at Veterans’ Day programs and a volunteer with the Memphis Union Mission.

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‘It was a slaughter’ Iwo Jima battle survivor prepares for return trip

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Malcolm “Jimmy” Keep admits that, deep down, he really doesn’t want to go back. Not to that sulfurous little spit of an island — that place where the volcanic-ash surface teemed with lice, and the tunnel-laced underground was crawling with enemy soldiers eager to kill him.

It was 70 years ago today that Keep, a scrawny but tough 18-year-old kid from South Memphis, made his irst trip to Iwo Jima, landing with the Fourth Marine Division. He already had endured ierce combat on Guam and Saipan, but so savage was the ighting on Iwo that he usually refers to the island by other, unprintable names.

“It was a slaughter ...,” Keep said of the legendary ive-week World War II battle that began Feb. 19, 1945, and claimed the lives of nearly 7,000 Marines.

“It was a 24/7 situation of kill or be killed.”

Now 88 and living in Raleigh, Keep is the one of the last surviving veterans of the battle who live in Shelby County, said Diane Hight, founder and president of the group Forever Young Senior Veterans. Sidney Ryan, 90, a Cordova resident, is another.

Keep is preparing to return to the island.

Hight’s group is raising money — it’ll take $10,000, with $6,000 still to go — to fund the trip by Keep and his son Mickey, 67.

They will join 60-70 other Marine veterans for a 70th anniversary gathering on the island next month, lying to Hawaii, then Guam, where the two will stay before making a one-day shuttle trip to Iwo. “He deserves it so much,” Hight said. “He’s been through so much.”

Keep said he’s going mostly for his son’s sake. Like many World War II vets, he spent much of his postwar life suppressing memories of combat.

“He just started talking about this stuf three or four years ago,” said Mickey Keep.

As horriic as his experiences during the war were, Keep’s childhood often wasn’t much better. Born in Orlando, Fla., he moved with his family to Memphis while he was an infant. His mother died from tuberculosis when he was young, and that, coupled with his poor relationship with his father, resulted in Keep being raised by his grandmother and her live-in boyfriend.

In school, he never made it past sixth grade, a consequence of his breaking a leg while playing football. Instead of returning to school after the injury, Keep took a job paying 25 cents an hour at a lumber company. It was during the Depression, and the $11 a week he earned helped the household greatly.

But the sweatshop conditions of the plant made him seek an escape. At 17, with his father signing his consent, Keep joined the Marines. It was July 1943, and the war was going full-bore.

“My grandmother had a it,” he said.

Standing only a shade over 5-foot-5, and weighing just 132 pounds, Keep didn’t cut an imposing proile. But his toughness became evident during a series of boxing matches among recruits in which he took on, and eventually beat, bigger men.

During training, Keep was assigned to reconnaissance duty and paired with another little guy, Charlie Cirulla of Massachusetts. The two fought together through the remainder of the war, experiencing intense combat irst on Guam, then Saipan.

It was on Saipan that Keep manned a 50-caliber machine gun during one of the infamous banzai charges in which Japanese soldiers threw themselves at Marine lines in human-wave assaults. “It was the bloodiest

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“It was a 24/7 situation of kill or be killed,” recalls Malcolm “Jimmy” Keep, 88, at home in Raleigh. One of the last Iwo Jima veterans in Shelby County, he’ll join dozens of others returning to the infamous island next month for the first time since World War II. The trip will mark the 70th anniversary of the five-week battle in which nearly 7,000 Marines died.

VETERANS’ TRIPS Anyone interested in making donations to help pay for veterans’ trips back to Europe, the Pacific and other former war zones can call Diane Hight, president and founder of the group Forever Young Senior Veterans, at 901-2997516. The group’s website is foreveryoungvets.org.

thing you ever saw,” he said.

“The damn fools wouldn’t quit coming.”

Afterward, a “spit-and-polish” lieutenant walked by and congratulated Keep because his “pile of bodies was bigger” than those of the other Marine defenders. The compliment enraged Keep.

“I was going to kill that son of a bitch. I could still hear them (the Japanese) scream. I could hear myself scream. Something in me snapped.”

As the assault on Iwo Jima began, Keep and Cirulla were ordered to drive an amphibious tank across the narrow neck of the island below Mount Suribachi to scout the beach on the op-

posite shore. But an enemy shell disabled the vehicle, forcing the two to dash across the island on foot.

“Every Japanese soldier ever born was shooting at us,” Keep said.

Somehow, neither man was hit. From that point on, other Marines called them “rain-walkers” — a name suggesting that if they could run through intense enemy ire without getting hit, surely they could walk through rain without getting wet.

Keep and Cirulla saw other Marines raise both U.S. lags — the initial lag and the second, larger one immortalized in the iconic photo — on Suribachi.

But the battle was far from won. The Marines still had to ight their way down the length of the island, and casualties were mounting “What was so bad about Iwo is that, early on, Marines would fall dead from gunshot wounds, and no one knew where it was coming from,” Keep said.

“Turns out, there were tunnels under there — huge tunnels, you could drive a car through them.”

As recon men, Keep and Cirulla were among those

charged with the task of clearing the tunnels. Every other day for about two weeks, they descended into the darkness to lush out the enemy.

The close-quarter fighting was beyond terrifying. Once, when Keep and Cirulla neared a corner in a tunnel, they knew there were many Japanese troops on the other side — they could smell them. “I imagine they could smell us, too,” Keep said.

The two Marines lobbed grenades, ricocheting them of tunnel walls. The Japanese — entire squad of 15 or so — responded by charging at Keep and Cirulla, only to be mowed down.

At some point during the ighting on Iwo, a Navy photographer took an image of Keep helping a wounded Marine back to the beach. Keep remembers it well, saying he was giving the man — an oicer — an earful.

“Because he was crying like a baby, saying he was scarred for life. I said, ‘You’re getting of this rock. I’ll trade places with you.’”

After the war, Keep became an electrician and raised a family, including a son and daughter. His irst marriage ended in divorce, and he remarried. Both his ex-wife and second wife are now deceased, and he lost his daughter to cancer.

He had put the war behind him. As close as he was to Cirulla, who also is now deceased, Keep never got back in touch, fearing that if he did “the war would come back to me.”

As much as he tried to forget the war, Keep said, “Now that I’m older, it’s all there again.”

The prospect of returning to Iwo raises mixed emotions.

“They’re not going to make me go back in those tunnels, are they?” he only half-kiddingly asks his son.

If there’s a place he’d really like to go, it’s Japan. Keep said he’d visit the Shinto shrines of Japan’s indigenous faith. “I don’t believe in their gods,” he said.

“But I’d like to go to their gods and ask for forgiveness, because I killed a lot of people.”

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OB Brazilian Soccer School, coached by Rafa Rodriguez (back), won the U9 3v3 tournament in Oxford. The winning team members are Ellett Smith of Germantown, Isabella Rivino, Michelle Betancourt and Lucy Walt Smith of Germantown.

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Houston’s Brian Harper works to get around Germantown’s Darrell Brown during last Saturday’s District 15-AAA championship game at Collierville High School..

Players on both teams fight for the rebound after a missed shot under the Germantown basket during last Saturday’s District 15-AAA title game won by Houston 56-53.

Germantown’s cheer squad gathers around for the starting lineup introductions.

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Germantown’s Rodney Williams swats away a shot by a Houston player during last Saturday’s championship game.

Germantown’s cheerleaders cheer on the Red Devils as they took on their crosstown rival Houston.

Germantown’s Rodney Williams scores an easy two points as he dunks over the Houston defenders during the title game.

winter weather closings throughout the school week. “We couldn’t play or practice, and it showed in spots tonight. But our kids hung in there and did what they had to do when it counted,” Houston coach William Buford said.

Hunter kept setting the tone at the right times.

Early in the game he hit his only three of the night, then followed with a midrange jumper that opened an early 10-3 lead.

Just before the half, he followed up a court-length driving layup with another steal and bucket to help the Mustangs (22-8) to a 36-32 halftime lead.

Germantown (24-10) has made it a habit to never go away, especially in a game against its crosstown rival.

Never go away, harass the dickens out of an opponent and keep ‘em guessing as to who is holding the dagger.

Michael Bambrick and Rodney Williams each had a dozen points, Rodney Brown added 11 last Saturday.

The Red Devils poked into the lead 42-40 late in the third quarter. But Hunter was there again with a couple of midrange jumpers of silky head fakes that put Houston on top 45-42 going into the inal quarter.

“I work on that. I try to shoot 500 mid-range shots a day,” said tourney MVP Hunter, headed to West-

ern Kentucky next year.

“But tonight we won with our energy and hustle as a group.”

Still Germa ntown wouldn’t lay down. A three-point play by Williams made it 48-47 Devils. Bambrick countered a Williams basket to make it 51-50.

The Mustangs then seemed to take control with a 7-0 run as Justin Benton, Hunter and freshman Ryan Boyce each hit baskets, Hunter mixing a free throw along the way to make it 56-50 with 1:04 left.

Then they left the door open, as Jimmy Jenkins (8 points) and Hunter each missed one-and-one tries.

Dacoda Stone hit a three for Germantown to close the gap, and after a missed three the Devils grabbed an ofensive rebound with 13.8 seconds left on the clock.

Houston still had two fouls to give at that point, and did off inbounds plays to scrub ive seconds of the clock. And the Devils’ last gasp was an of-balance three that found nothing but iron.

“We didn’t play well when we needed to, and missed a lot of inside shots when we gave ourselves chances,” said Germantown coach Marvis Davis, whose team was looking to gain the school’s irst 15-AAA tournament title since 1980. “We had the opportunity.”

Hunter, Benton and Jenkins made the AllTournament team along with Williams and Brown of Germantown and Brett Warner of Collierville.

Houston High School boys basketball coach William Buford talks strategy with his players during a timeout.

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Houston’s Marlon Hunter elevates for a quick jumper against Germantown. Hunter was named MVP of the tournament.

Germantown High School students show their support as the Red Devils faced Houston for the district championship.

The Germantown student section was lively. The Red Devils boys team was trying to win its first district title since 1980.

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Community ANNIVERSARY

Germantown Athletic Club turns 25 City opened doors Feb. 1990

By Krisit Ransom Special to The Weekly

On Feb. 19, 1990, the city of Germantown opened the doors to what is now the Germantown Athletic Club.

Over the past 25 years, GAC has become one of the most popular athletic clubs in Shelby County.

Germantown Mayor

Mike Palazzolo said, “Our Germantown Athletic Club has been a ixture in our community for a quarter century, a place of gathering for every generation, part of the core for the community’s health and wellness. Once constructed as a premier community center, and known to the members as the Center, it has grown over the years with multiple expansions, upgrades and renovations, now known to the members as the Club. And (it’s) still healthy and in

great shape after 25 years ... Happy birthday GAC!” Later this year, GAC will undergo renovations. GAC club director Phil Rogers said, “Club membership has seen an increase in the family demographic, which had led to the need for expanded nursery and child care space.”

Rogers shared plans to also add a new designated space for group fitness classes as the popularity of the classes continues to increase.

Currently the classes

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Kristi Ransom is the marketing communications coordinator for the city of Germantown.

Taylor Box and Bill Thomas hold up their Germantown Athletic Club towels celebrating 25 years.

In brief

Lydia Summers to attend American Ballet Theatre summer program Special to The Weekly

Collierville Arts Academy dancer and Briarcrest Christian School student Lydia Summers recently auditioned for the prestigious American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive program and was accepted into the summer study program.

The program has earned a reputation for being the most thorough and rewarding dance experience a student can have during the summer. Under the supervision of ABT’s artistic director, Kevin McKenzie, and artistic director of summer intensives, Melissa Allen Bowman, the program ofers top-quality teachers and master guest teachers that are dedicated to the learning process and growth of each individual student.

share space with the basketball courts.

City Administrator Patrick Lawton added, “We are extremely proud of the facilities and programs we are able to ofer residents.

As the needs of residents have changed, GAC has listened to their needs and continues to reinvest to keep the Club relevant to the community and its members.”

Lydia Summers, a student at Collierville Arts Academy, will participate in the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive program.

Julie Knowles, artistic director of Collierville Arts Academy said, “We are all so proud of Lydia’s accomplishment as a ballerina. Auditioning and being accepted into the American Ballet Theatre Summer Inten-

sive requires outstanding technical ability in classical ballet. We know that Lydia will do very well at the ABT Summer Intensive; and we are looking forward to helping her achieve more of her goals in dance.”

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

Healing Service for sick at St. George’s On Sunday at 5:30 p.m., St. George’s Episcopal Church, 2425 S. Germantown, will ofer a healing service with its blessing of hands.

This service will provide a time for the laying on of hands for the healing of the sick. Individuals are invited to come forward to receive prayers for healing for themselves and for others.

Pastoral care team members, medical professionals, counselors and those who provide care for family members or loved ones are especially invited to have their hands blessed so that they may continue to be a blessing in the care of others.

Annual Arbor Day tree giveaway The Germantown Tree Board, Beautiication, Environmental and Parks and Recreation Commis-

sions will host the annual Arbor Day tree giveaway.

The free event will be March 6, from 9-11 a.m. at the Germantown Crossing shopping center, 7735 Farmington.

Tree seedlings will be given to residents who show proof of residency with a utility bill and valid driver’s license. Trees are subject to availability.

All seedlings are Tennessee grown and are given out on a irst-come basis. Discount coupons for the Farm Park Fruit Tree Sale will be available for the irst 100 customers.

The rain date, if necessary, is March 7. For more information, contact Joni Roberts at 901-757-7378 or e-mail jroberts@germantown-tn.gov.

Nocturnal wildlife walk March 7 Discover mysterious nocturnal wildlife during a talk and walk led by a park ranger. Search for owls, deer, bats and other night-time dwellers in the heart of the Wolf River Na-

ture Area.

In addition to the wildlife, leaders will teach participants how to use their night vision and other senses to navigate in the night.

A bonire and marshmallow roast will end the evening. Bring insect repellent, a head lamp or lashlight and jacket. The free nature activity will be March 7, from 7-9 p.m. at the Wolf River Nature Area Trialhead, 7250 Wolf River.

For more information or to make reservations, call 901-757-7375. In the event of inclement weather, call 901-751-5669 for program status.

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

VA benefits seminar at Culpepper Place

Visit Culpepper Place of Collierville, 601 Wolf River, for a VA Beneits seminar March 7 at 10 a.m.

To RSVP, call Lisa Fashier at 901-854-6590.

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PHOTOS BY SAM MCMANIS/SACRAMENTO BEE/TNS

The Legoland Hotel in Carlsbad, Calif., is only about 50 steps from the park itself. It’s a quirky, though not cheap, place: Nightly rates run from $250 to $349, plus a fee.

Built for kids

By Sam McManis The Sacramento Bee (TNS)

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ARLSBAD, Calif.

— All morning, rain did not just fall. No, it biblically lashed and pelted greater San Diego County, horizontally hammered the entire region, particularly the theme park dedicated to Denmark’s most lucrative manufacturing export. Come early afternoon, though, the storm clouds parted, and the sun had reclaimed its rightful star billing, giving the grounds at Legoland an alluring sheen, a glistening burst of festive primary colors.

By this time, though, the precipitation was a river of children’s tears.

Legoland, perhaps the only amusement park based on a toy that improves ine motor skills, was closed and would remain so the rest of the day. A single, blue-and-yellow-uniformed worker stood at the shuttered turnstiles, giving the bad news. Kids’ reactions ranged from lip-quivering acceptance to full Three Mile Island meltdowns. Parents had that shell-shocked survivor’s look, facing the daunting prospect of inding something, anything, to entertain the brood and restore familial equanimity.

If they were smart — and, of course, had the not-insignificant financial means — their answer was only about 50 paces away.

The Legoland Hotel, not merely a logistical extension of the park, is almost an attraction unto itself. Now, most kids can be entertained for a while by the novelty of sleeping away from home, jumping on the bed with abandon and reveling in the wonders of the ice machine down the hall. But rare is the hotel built and geared almost exclusively for children, from its exclusively plastic brick artwork lining the hallways to the room-door keyhole placed strategically at toddler height.

In the chaotic welter of the lobby on this rainy afternoon, kids sprawled on the loor as if it were their living rooms, scooping pieces from the pretend fountain and snapping pieces into place on elaborate, ever-morphing fantasy forts and (mostly the boys) weapons of mass distraction. Parents either hovered at a safe distance, discreetly checking their smartphones, or shed their shoes and got down on the carpet with the little ones and created.

A literal river of Legos, under Lucite looring, led from the lobby up to an adjoining Castle play area, replete with forts and a mazelike pirate ship. Stray Legos lay strewn across the landscape like a Pollock canvas, while inished objets d’art adorned every wall and countertop. Around happy hour — but, really, for kids, isn’t that every hour?

— as pajama-clad children participated in “Elf Games” and prepped for the cutthroat nightly Model Building Competition, many parents retreated to the nearby Minis Lounge to nurse a

At Legoland kids and adults can have a grand adventure without leaving the hotel

ABOVE: At the Legoland Hotel in Carlsbad, Calif., characters roam the hallways and interact with little guests.

LEFT: A young guest staying at the hotel decides to eat his breakfast in a hole in the wall in Bricks restaurant.

well-earned craft beer or glass or two of red wine and decompress from the day’s prepubescent dramas.

“It’s been fantastic,” said Melissa Schlichtling, of Helena, Mont., as son Zane, 9, disappeared into the castle and daughter Sonja, 7, put the inishing

touches on a tri-colored Lego “wand of dreams” she igured had a good shot at winning the model-building contest.

“I don’t know what we would’ve done without (the hotel) today. I like that it’s not just kid-friendly but actually made for the kids.”

Across the lounge, a 30-something dad named Wayne from Littleton, Colo., grasped a beer in each hand, which is why he declined to give his last name. With mussed hair and a thousand-yard stare, Wayne conided that it had been a rough day having their Legoland excursion aborted. But the kids, and Wayne, too, rallied gamely. They found plenty to do, Wayne said, but the park had better be open the next day, the family’s last in town, or who knows what fury might be unleashed by his restless brood.

“They are in their element right now,” he said. “The rides at the park are really secondary. It’s really anything Legos for them. So, the hotel was a good call.”

A good call, sure. But also a little pricey, mind you, starting at $250 a night and running up to $349, plus a $25 resort fee. But many parents said that what you get for your money, this full immersion in Lego lore, is more than worth the expense.

Hang around the lobby awhile during check-in time, and observe the initial reactions of the kids as they pass under the hulking green dragon, made of no fewer than 400,000 Legos, at the front entrance. They are, to a one, transported to another realm. Some are so initially overstimulated that they spontaneously burst into tears; others simply drop their bags and sprint to the Lego pit. Their parents, too, sport goofy grins, enchanted, perhaps, by how the cliches of an upscale hotel (the “fountain,” the “artwork,” the elegant sconces ringing the bar) are reproduced a la Legos.

No one stays in the room long, though, because the hotel staf keeps things hopping in the lobby. On the night of the rain-induced park closure, the Castle Play Area was SRO, with pajama-clad kids running headlong into one another prepping for the Model Building Competition, presided over by Princess Snowlake and Rosie the Elf. Schlichtling’s daughter, Sonja, checked out the competition, while Mom mused that perhaps some families were unsure on the rule that parents cannot help their kids in construction.

By the end of the pajama party, near 10 o’clock, and the onset of “Quiet Time,” kids were strewn on the lobby carpet as if cast by a sleeping spell. Parents scooped them up and whisked them of to bed, hoping that the weather would hold and Legoland itself would be open the next morning.

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Turnstiles twirled, and kids and parents gladly left behind the fun of the hotel for the fun of the park.

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Weekly community events Bartlett The Bartlett Public Library, 5884 Stage Road, will host its Family Tunes & Tales program, presented by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, at 11 a.m. Saturday. Performance is open to all ages. Craft session immediately following for ages 4-12. Registration is required for the craft session only. Call 901-386-8968.

TheatreKids presents an adaptation of the 1984 blockbuster “Footloose” at Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, 2663 Appling, at 7 p.m. through Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $8. Call 901-385-6440 or visit bpacc.org.

Collierville The Senior Lunch n’ Learn series at the Morton Museum, 196 N. Main, continues the second and fourth Thursday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., through April. Lunch n’ Learn is an educational and social program that brings artists, authors and historians to the Museum for discussions over lunch. Attendees are asked to bring a lunch. Drink and dessert provided. Programs are free and all materials included. Coming up: ■ Today, Printmaking: Explore the art of relief block printmaking and produce an individual block print to take home.

■ March 12, The New Deal in Collierville, 1935-1940: Learn about the latest exhibit at the museum.

The Young Professional Council Mixer will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m. today at Take Home Gourmet, 2130 W. Poplar Ave. Suite 105. This month’s event is hosted

by Chef John Wilson. Bring plenty of business cards and invite a friend. Contact Caitlin Soma at soma@ collins-maury.com.

Heart Health for Women, presented by the Fatigue Clinic, will be at the YMCA at Schilling Farms at 11:30 a.m. Friday. B-12 shots will be available for $10.

Free and open to the community. Call 901-850-9622 for information.

The Harrell Theatre, 440 W. Powell Road, hosts “Freckleface Strawberry, The Musical” presented by New Day Children’s Theatre at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 for children 12 and under and $12 for adults. Visit newdaytheatre. org or call 901-828-2318.

The Collierville Burch Library, 501 Poplar View Parkway, will ofer free SAT and ACT practice tests for students in grades 9-12. Get realistic practice and try your hand at the types of questions you’ll face on the actual exam. Online registration is required.

Visit colliervillelibrary.org. Also, register for the Scores Back session March 10, when you will receive

your scores along with score explanations and advice on the college application process.

Also upcoming at the Collierville Burch Library: ■ Teen Pajama Reading Fest from 1:30-4 p.m. Sunday. Don’t feel like taking your pajamas of to go out in public? Well, you don’t need to. Come in your PJ’s and with a good book. Activities include reading and enjoying good snacks and company.

Cordova Dance for Charity from 6-11 p.m. Saturday at Woodland Hills Ballroom, 10000 Woodland Hills. Enjoy stand-up comedian Rajiv Satyal at his irst show in the Mid-South and dance nonstop to Bollywood music by a professional DJ. Tickets are $90. Visit aaictrust. org or e-mail infor@aaictrust.org.

As part of its series of public cooking classes for the amateur chef, L’Ecole Culinaire, 1245 N. Germantown Parkway, presents Cupcakes Galore from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday. Cost is $55. Also, from 6-9 p.m. you can experience China: International Series Cooking Class for $95.

Call 314-264-1812 or e-mail robin.levan@vatterott.edu.

The West TN Children’s Chorus and the West TN Youth Chorus will hold auditions at Cordova Community Center, 1017 Sanga, until March 15 for boys and girls ages 9-15. To schedule an audition, call 901-7533918 or visit westtennesseeyouthchorus.com.

Comedian Dominique will be at Chuckles Comedy House, 1770 Dexter Springs Loop, for six shows through Sunday. Tickets are $20. Shows start at 8 p.m. tonight and Sunday and 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Diamond L Productions presents the St. Jude Barrel of Hope barrel race through Sunday at the Show Place Arena at Agricenter International, 105 S. Germantown Parkway. Visit diamondlproductionsllc.com.

Germantown The Germantown Community Garden Association is seeking members for the upcoming growing season.

The season startup and new member orientation will be today, from 7-8:30 p.m., at the Pickering Center, 7771 Poplar Pike. Applications will be accepted through May 1 or until capacity is reached. Contact Joni Roberts at 901-757-7378 or jroberts@germantown-tn.gov.

Registration has begun for the Germantown Half Marathon and the Mayor’s Cup 5K. The races will be March 15 at 7:30 a.m. at Germantown Athletic Club, 1801 Exeter.

Cost for the half-marathon is $55 through Friday and $65 through March 14. Cost for the 5K is $22.50 through Friday and $25 through March 14. Packet pickup and last registration will be available on March 14 at the Sports and Fitness Expo at the Germantown Athletic Club.

Jazz in the Box presents Shelly Berg at Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter, at 7 p.m. Friday.

Berg is widely acclaimed for his energetic and innovative approaches to performance, composition and pedagogy. Tickets are $65. Visit gpacweb.com or call 901-757-7500.

Kodo — Drummers of Japan turns traditional Japanese music into a stunning spectacle and a vibrant expression of artistic excellence at Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter, at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Tickets are $35 and up. Call 901-751-7500 or visit gpacweb.com.

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Center, 1900 S. Germantown, to beneit the MemphisMidSouth Ailiate of Susan G. Komen at Rock the Ribbon. Enjoy Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster, appetizers, and complimentary beer and wine from 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday. Tickets are $40. Call 901757-8686 e-mail info@komenmemphis.org or visit komenmemphis.org/rock-the-ribbon.

Enjoy a stunning display of Cuban-born master trumpet player Arturo Sandoval’s musical range and instrumental eclecticism at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter. Tickets are $58.50. Call 901-751-7500 or visit gpacweb.com.

The Pickering Center, 7771 Poplar Pike, will host “Garden Talk,” an educational series, starting Saturday. Join Farm Park staf from 10-11 a.m. and learn how to set up your own backyard chicken coop, select the right kind of chickens, and care for chickens from hatching to maturity. Local ordinances and guidelines will be discussed. Free, but preregistration is required. Call 901-757-720.

The Germantown Animal Shelter will host its third annual silent auction beneiting the shelter on March 7 at the Pickering Center, 7777 Poplar Pike. The event will run from 5-7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of the event. Tickets can be purchased at the Germantown Animal Shelter, 7700 Southern Ave., or by calling Steve Morley at 901-826-7123 or Barbara Montgomery at 901-754-6091.

Memphis The Hutchison junior class will host the eighth annual Hutchison Beeline Bazaar in the Hutchison Goodlett Gym Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Handmade goods such as jewelry, art, food, textiles, décor and more will be on sale. There is no cost to attend. A majority of the proceeds will beneit the Hutchison Community Service Endowment Fund, which supports a grant program directed by Hutchison’s student Philanthropic Literacy Board.

A Taste of CBHS will be 5-7:30 p.m. Sunday at Christian Brothers High School. More than 40 restaurants, vendors, and sponsors will participate. Tickets are $75 per person and are available for purchase at the CBHS Development Oice, online at cbhs.org, Lucchesi’s Ravioli & Pasta Company or Buster’s Liquors & Wines. Call 901-261-4930.

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All proceeds beneit Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center. Participants can register online at communitybank.net/glow5k. Preregistration entry fee is $25 or $30 day of race. Kids fun run preregistration fee is $12/15.

Fillin’ Station Grille West, 4840 Venture Drive, hosts the 5th annual Mumbo Gumbo Cook-Of at 10 a.m. Sunday. Enjoy live music and all the gumbo you can eat.

Visit illinstationgrille.com or call 662-510-5423. Proceeds will beneit DeSoto Art Council’s Art for Autism.

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The volunteer group Little Helpers crafted paper lowers and handdecorated vases for all the seniors at Culpepper Place in Collierville on Feb. 22.

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Chamber of Commerce hank you message to our Ambassadors from Fran Persechini, President | CEO

February was a very special month for me… On February 4, at our monthly Ambassadors’ meeting, our amazing Ambassadors surprised me with a farewell luncheon. Being surrounded by over 30 of our incredible business leaders and Chamber champions was heartwarming. We were treated

to a delicious Moe’s catered lunch and yummy Costco cake. hey shared heartfelt messages and cards. hey showered with me love and beautiful gifts…a gorgeous silver engraved tray, friendship

inspirational picture and ‘heart shaped’ pottery bowl. It was such a very beautiful luncheon and felt

so loved and honored. Our Ambassadors have a special spot in my heart and I have a lifetime of happy, wonderful memories. You all have become more than business associates—you have become

dear friends. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so very much!

Below is a photo of our amazing Ambassadors… they are our lifeline—we can do what we do

because of our Ambassadors! Our Ambassadors promote goodwill and communicate the mission

of the Chamber to new and existing members; encourage all members to get involved with the Chamber; and support Chamber membership and staf. Our Ambassadors are often the irst link

new members have with the Chamber. Our goal is to help members feel welcome and comfortable

with the Chamber. We do this by attending ribbon cutting ceremonies to welcome new businesses and by contacting new members to answer any questions they may have. We are also the oicial

hosts of all Chamber events, where we pay special attention to irst-time attendees, meeting them and introducing them to other members. Ambassadors have the responsibility to be Chamber

advocates for all members. To be involved as an Ambassador, contact Becky Hammond, 853-1949 or bhammond@colliervillechamber.com

On February 11, we witnessed the symbolic passing of the gavel... I would like to personally thank Matt VanCleve, Alliance Law & Counseling, for serving as Chairman of our Chamber and community volunteer with integrity, humbleness, dedication and a great sense of humor. Your leadership had inluence that created respect among other leaders and distinguished the Collierville Chamber among other chambers. We are so proud of you. Congratulations!

John Barrios, incoming Chairman, seasoned leader in the community, thank you for accepting the reins of this dynamic business organization. We are very excited about the future of our organization under your leadership. Upon accepting the reins of the Collierville Chamber, Chairman John Barrios, is conident about the future of the Collierville Chamber. “Because of Fran and her staf ’s hard work, we have this positive momentum at our Chamber, and it will be up to us to carry that on.” he Collierville Chamber boasts of 720 businesses as members, which is an all-time high. “We have a strong board of directors, competent staf and a great relationship with the Town of Collierville’s administration,” adds Barrios.

Seated from left: Becky Hammond, Chamber Membership Director; Fran Persechini, Chamber President | CEO; Bonnie Allman, Chairman Membership; Liese Leonard.

1st row from left: Lyndsey Drotar, Layla Morgan, Penny Moore, Terry Dean, Kim Colletta, Sue Silva, Amber Lombardo.

2nd row from left: Trena Street, Amy Wood, Barbara May, Katie Schillinger, Mel Samish,

Jessica Billings, Martie Watson, Rosemary Hart, Debra Wheeler, Tammy Piker, Judi Davis.

Back row from left: Matt Payne, Polly Shipley, Pansy Hall, Carrie Bullock, Michael Ward,

Vicki Parker, Teresa Kaczmarek, Becky McAlexander, John Christensen.

he Collierville Chamber of Commerce Annual Membership Luncheon Relections from Fran

As my retirement is nearing, how can I begin to express my inner most feelings of gratitude to

all of you? hank you all for making me feel like the luckiest Chamber executive in the world!

It is with a humble, heavy and proud heart that I send you my relections. here were many reasons

for the anticipation of the Chamber Annual Membership Luncheon—the oicial “ Passing of

the Gavel” ceremony took place; a “year in review” from outgoing Chairman Matt VanCleve,

Alliance Law & Counseling, of the many achievements in 2014 and a look ahead to 2015 from

Chairman John Barrios, Barrios Financial Services; a special tribute and retirement celebration for

me. Ridgeway Country Club was bursting at the seams with approximately 240 guests including

chamber directors, members, elected oicials, business and community leaders and my family…

Front row: Left to Right: Wright Cox, Linda Dick, Fran Persechini, E. Dale Jamieson Second Row: Left to Right: Michael Green, Ty Stamps, Terry Cochran, Dave Nelson hird Row: Left to Right: Matt VanCleve, Taylor Stamps, Matt White It will be an exciting year to work with the outstanding leaders on our board that represent our chamber members.he transition team is working diligently to select the next Chamber President | CEO.Together, the Chamber will continue to provide quality services and programs to our membership and to provide business leadership for the entire community in the vital areas of economic prosperity, education and quality of life.

Together, the Chamber will be the leading advocate for growth and proitability of the business community and to promote corporate citizenship. Our leadership ‘trinity’ (Past – Present – Future Chairmen) and entire board held its strategic planning meeting on January 22. Our focus is to continue to add value – growth and retention. Focus on membership, business community and workforce development. Continue the work begun in economic development with strategic planning and collaboration with John Duncan, Mike Sayres and Terry Cochran. We have a membership of over 720 and counting – we have a wonderful partnership with the MBA and Town administration – we are truly blessed. It is going to be a GREAT YEAR – the bar is raised each year and now I am challenging all of you to help the Chamber raise the bar even higher in 2015. We have increased our board members to have a better representation of our increased chamber membership. I would like to introduce our 2015 Oicers and Board of Directors”: he Chamber’s continued success depends on all of you. We are surrounded by the greatest of leaders; we have the greatest Chamber; and the greatest community in the world! Henry Ford simply stated, “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress and working together is success.” Our future is bright!

Front row from left: Matt White; Don Kitchens, Chairman-Elect; Fran Persechini, President |CEO; John Barrios, Chairman; Matt VanCleve, Immediate Past Chairman; Stan Joyner, Mayor; Bill Samisch 2nd row from left: Shelley Smith, Mike Sayres, Cathy Messerly, Tamara Swain, Kelle Lovelace, Andrea Duncan, Susan Eads, Bonnie Allman, Nick Cassella, Roger Lewis Back row from left: Tom Mascari, Glen Herald, James Lewellen, Terry Cochran, Michael Meindl, Greg Cotton, Kevin Baltier, John Duncan, Amy Speropolous, Dave Nelson

SAVE THE DATES!

A special reception and Open House is planned for March 19 at the chamber oices.

March 11 Chamber luncheon - Don’t miss the announcement of the Collierville Person of the Year, Business Champion Award and C.H Harrell Award . For reservations call the chamber 901.853.1949.

March 27- 29 – Community Weekend in Collierville – Sidewalk Sale – Live Life Local 38017 he Collierville Chamber Golf Classic will be held Monday, May 18 at Memphis National Golf Club.

Sponsorships available! For more information contact the Chamber @ 901-853-1949

I want to thank my board and team members for organizing the Chamber membership luncheon

on February 11. Dave Nelson, Terry Cochran, Matt VanCleve, Matt White, John Barrios, Becky Hammond, Cathy Wilhelm and Cheryl Edge have been preparing and planning this tribute

for over a month… all behind closed doors, so I would have this wonderful surprise! I still cannot

believe it was real! hank you all for pouring your hearts and souls into my celebration—the

special tribute video is an amazing keepsake and am truly touched by this memory; the vacation to North Carolina is incredible; the gorgeous hand-made pin will be a beautiful reminder of my

Chamber family and career; a commemorate book relecting First Tennessee’s 150 years of business

in Memphis presented and inscribed by meeting sponsor, Bruce Hopkins, President, West Tennessee Region, First Tennessee Bank; Collierville Magazine poster signed by many of my friends; the

special recognitions from Mayor Stan Joyner and State Representative Mark White presented by his wife, Kathy White.

www.ColliervilleChamber.com | www.ColliervilleExpo.com Mission Statement: he mission of the Collierville Chamber of Commerce is to provide quality services and programs to its membership and to provide business leadership for the entire community in the vital areas of economic prosperity, education, and quality of life.

Vision Statement:he vision of the Collierville Chamber of Commerce is to be the leading advocate for growth and proitability of the business community and to promote corporate citizenship.

Guiding Principle: “Our Unity Creates Community”