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City receives trail grant Greenway to get emergency signs By Stacey Ewell Special to The Weekly
PHOTOS BY CRAIG COLLIER/SPECIAL TO THE WEEKLY
The first woman to complete the Superhero 5K was Paige Parker. The 5K was held in part to honor Cohen Warren-Sloan who saved his brother from drowning.
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HEROICS INDEED Runners gather for Superhero 5K
Since then Charlie has undergone extensive therapy at Le Bonheur and is showing steady signs of progress. On Oct. 18 friends and family of Cohen and Charlie sponsored a 5K fun run at Herb Parsons Lake. In addiINSIDE tion to raising money More photos to help with Charlie’s from the recovery, the event Superhero 5K. also was held to honor PAGE 5 Cohen for his heroic eforts. Charlie’s father, Daniel Warren, added that he wanted to make certain the public gets the word on the importance of swimming pool safety: “Among children aged 1 to 14 years old, fatal drowning remains the second-leading cause of death behind motor vehicle crashes,” Warren said.
By Craig Collier Special to The Weekly
If you ask Farmington Elementary third grader Cohen Warren-Sloan what he did this summer, don’t be surprised if he tells you he became a real life superhero. In the eyes of his family, he would be telling you the truth. On June 2, Cohen discovered his little brother Charlie loating face down is a swimming pool. Like a superhero, Cohen yelled out for help and jumped in to get Charlie out of the pool.
Cohen WarrenSloan dressed up as Superman but is a real life superhero. Cohen saved his younger brother from drowning in a family pool in June.
Stacey Ewell is the assistant to the City Administrator.
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Students rehearse for ‘Our Town’
About 400 dogs and 700 walkers, runners support Humane Society at annual event. COMMUNITY, 21
Play to run Nov. 6-9 at Collierville High Special to The Weekly
PREP SPORTS Middle school girls soccer team grows stronger, flourishes at Evangelical Christian School. SPORTS, 17
MY LIFE/MY JOB Mark McMinn’s life has always been intertwined with Dyer’s Cafe. BUSINESS, 11 The Commercial Appeal © Copyright 2014
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Theater students at Collierville High School, in rehearsals for their newest production of the classic American play, “Our Town,” by Thornton Wilder, are making a few alterations to one of the main characters. The stage manager, who acts as narrator and commentator of what is occurring onstage, will be played by two actors rather than one. “Whether you do it the traditional way with one stage manager or with two, the character(s)
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serve the same purpose as the Greek Chorus did in ancient Greece. They are the liaison between the characters and the audience,” said Keith Salter, theater director at Collierville High School. The stage managers are played by Joseph Piercey, who recently student-directed “Charlotte’s Web: The Musical” at CHS and Charlotte Piper, who played the beloved spider Charlotte in the same production. “There’s a lot to memorize as one of the stage managers. It’s not like most shows where you’re speaking a sentence or two back and forth. Instead, a lot of the show is page
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Mark Elich plays George Gibbs and Becca McFall plays Emily Webb in Collierville High School’s upcoming production “Our Town.”
after page of only one of us speaking,” said Piper. Piercey, who is also President of CHS’s chapter of the International Thespian Society, acknowledges the volume of lines, but also sees another challenge. “I would say that the biggest challenge in playing the stage manager is
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The City of Germantown was recently awarded a $1,250 grant through TennGreen Connections, a small program generously funded in West Tennessee by John and Estie Sheahan and the Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation. The grant will be used to purchase and install 9-1-1 locator signs along the Germantown Greenway Trail. The signs will use an alphanumeric regionally standardized coding system easily recognizable to trail users. In an emergency, the locator information will allow irst responders to locate and promptly provide emergency services to those in need. Sponsored by the Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation, the TennGreen Connections grant program helps to fund greenway or trail projects connecting nearby communities to or near Tennessee’s beautiful State Parks and State Natural Areas. Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation is a statewide nonproit organization founded in 1998. Their vision is to create a network of parks, greenways, and wildlife areas across Tennessee from the mighty Mississippi River to the Great Smoky Mountains and beyond. The foundation strives to accomplish this vision through conserving Tennessee treasures, creating corridor connections and fostering initiatives by others through conservation education and advocacy.
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making everything seem natural. Although I’m playing a role, I’m essentially playing myself. Since my character is basically running a “rehearsal” of the show, everything needs to seem very laid back and less “acty,” says Piercey. Both actors comSee PLAY, 2
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