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Collierville Weekly CONVENTION

Baptist rally to bring 50,000 Largest convention comes Sept. 7-11 By Wayne Risher risher@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2874

PHOTOS BY MIKE BROWN/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

Students from the Madonna Learning Center, including Linsey Strawn (left), 27, and Elizabeth Ann Neel, 23, can’t hide their excitement as they see their new school for the first time. The grand reveal of the expansion gained drama as students arrived in buses with blacked-out windows.

MADONNA LEARNING CENTER

A joyous occasion Students receive VIP treatment as school’s makeover is revealed

Kaleb Doss, 9, explores the dance studio. The $7.25 million expansion project took 13 months to complete and expanded the school from 24,000 to 48,000 square feet.

By Jane Roberts robertsj@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2512

As the evening traic streamed by on Poplar Avenue, a most unusual spectacle was unrolling at Madonna Learning Center. With a mighty roar from the crowd of “Move these buses,” two FedEx buses pulled of the front parking lot, revealing the 24,000 square-foot-expansion finished just in time for school. The students, who minutes before had been on the bus — with the windows taped over in black paper — went nuts, cheering, jumping and hurrah-ing for the school that is their world. “It’s big and humongous,” said Timothy McDaniel, 19, one of doz-

ens of students in red Madonna shirts shouting themselves hoarse. “I never could believe it would happen.” Madonna, which serves spe-

cial needs students, has existed in borrowed spaces since it opened in 1969. It has moved four times,

The upcoming National Baptist Convention should provide motivation for Memphis to up its game in hospitality and meeting facilities, convention organizers and local oicials said Thursday. “We’re going to begin work real soon on our convention center,” Memphis Mayor A C Wharton told the convention’s host committee, which is projecting up to 50,000 people will descend on Memphis for the event Sept. 7-11. “Next time they come back, we’ll have a refurbished convention center. We’ll have more hotels, more restaurants,” Wharton added. If the convention’s projection holds up, the event would be larger than the Church of God in Christ annual Holy Convocation, which moved to St. Louis in 2010 because Memphis didn’t have enough hotels and convention space. COGIC’s big meeting draws more than 30,000. Before leaving Memphis, the church’s largest assembly booked the FedExForum and had a satellite space set up at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. The National Baptist event will be handled within the convention center, where maximum seating is 12,000 in the Main Hall. Wharton was referring to a $55 million to $60 million proposal to renovate and modernize original areas of the 1974 convention center, which only received nominal up-

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New Elvis Forever stamp dedicated during Graceland ceremony. NEWS, 2

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Police make arrest in Cordova shooting Felon charged in murder of woman By Katie Fretland fretland@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2785

A 36-year-old man with a criminal record was arrested and charged with irst-degree murder in the death of a woman outside a Cordova home Aug. 1. Police arrested Anthony Olivo

after an investigation by She was found about 6 the department’s homia.m. next to her vehicle cide bureau. and had been shot in He is charged in the the face. She died on the death of Susan McDonald, scene. Family reported 55, who was shot outside a she had been there to friend’s home in the 8400 pick up a friend for a race block of Bazemore. at Overton Park. According to an aida- Anthony According to a source vit, a witness identiied Ol- Olivo familiar with the invesivo, who gave a statement tigation, McDonald was that he and someone else “had armed at the time of the incident. planned to commit a theft and McDonald had time to pull her were in the act of attempting the weapon, the source said, but was theft” when McDonald was shot. unable to ire the gun.

Olivo pleaded guilty in September 2007 to possession of cocaine with the intent to manufacture, sell or deliver and guilty to being a felon in possession of a handgun. According to an aidavit, he was in a car at IHOP on Showcase Road and Perkins with a brown paper sack of cocaine and a handgun, which was reported stolen. He was sentenced to four years on the drug charge and two years on the gun charge, according to court records. In December 2008, a petition to

suspend the remainder of a sentence was granted, according to court records. Olivo also pleaded guilty in September 2004 to possession of marijuana with the intent to manufacture, deliver or sell and was sentenced to one year. His prior address was in the 3800 block of Warrington Cove in the area of Winchester and South Mendenhall. He was scheduled to appear in court Monday. Reporter Jody Callahan contributed to this story.

In brief

ELVIS WEEK

G E R M A N T OW N

Villages complex to have 31 apartments

Villages of Germantown plans to break ground next month on a three-story independent-living complex of 31 apartments. The project, which will feature underground parking, is expected to be completed in late 2016. The structure will link Villages’ existing independent-living center and extend over what is now an outdoor courtyard. When finished, Villages will have room to accommodate 300 people. Villages is also putting the inishing touches on an assistedand skilled-living addition, which will include accommodations for senior day care large enough for nine clients. It is also building a $22 million, 1,800 squarefoot rehabilitation facility. Jane Roberts CO L L I E RV I L L E

Wortman to have mental evaluation PHOTOS BY JIM WEBER/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

Postal Service employees Monica Anthony (left), Jerri Bolton and Karita Crews goof around in front of a mockup of the new Elvis Forever stamp after a ceremony at Graceland dedicating the King of Rock and Roll’s second postal stamp.

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The King of Rock and Roll proved once again to be royalty in the world of philately Aug. 12 as the United States Postal Service dedicated a new Elvis Presley stamp during ceremonies at Graceland. The event came as part of the annual “Elvis Week” festivities. Under the shade of the tall trees on the front lawn of the mansion, several hundred fans joined a group of government oicials, local politicians and dignitaries, including Presley’s former wife Priscilla, to dedicate what is the second Elvis Presley stamp. A 1993 U.S. commemorative stamp of Presley

CONVENTION from 1 grades during the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts addition a dozen years ago. An efort is also underway to attract a larger, convention-ready hotel to the Downtown area. The convention center update would be funded by an increase in the hotelmotel bed tax, currently 1.7 percent in the city, to 3.5 percent. An increase requires City Council approval. The bureau also proposed a $2 a room a night fee on hotel rooms in the city. The proposed convention center update is part of Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau’s concept to spend $500 million from hospitality-related taxes for a convention center expansion about 15 years from now, and attract $400 million in new hotel development connected to the complex. National Baptist Con-

Priscilla Presley greets enthusiastic Elvis fans and newlyweds Dawn and Phillip Pratt after a dedication ceremony for the new Elvis Forever stamp. Mayor AC Wharton, Mayor Mark Luttrell, and Megan Brennan, the USPS Postmaster General, spoke at the unveiling.

remains the postal service’s biggest seller of all time. The new stamp is part of the postal service’s Music Icon Series. “Today we honor a man. Not the image, not the aura or the phenomenon. We’re here to

vention host committee chairman Marvin Mercer said people driving to the event are expected to book hotel rooms as far away as Brownsville and Jackson, Tennessee, in addition to helping sell out Greater Memphis’ 22,000-plus hotel rooms. Many members have family ties in the MidSouth and will stay with relatives, Mercer said. Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell said he was elated that as many as 50,000 “prayer warriors” would be in Memphis. “I don’t care what you do when you get here as long as you pray,” Luttrell said. Frank E. Ray, pastor of New Salem Baptist Church in Memphis, said the church has eight cities that it rotates among for its two largest annual meetings. “If Memphis is good to us, we may come more often,” Ray said. The church held a world congress in Memphis in 2004 and an annual session in 2009.

honor Elvis Presley — a very human and real person who shook up the world of music and left an indelible mark on the culture of our country,” said U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan, as a giant rep-

MADONNA from 1 including last summer when parents, teachers, volunteers and board members packed it up to move to donated space at Hope Presbyterian so construction could begin. Less than two weeks ago, the same crew packed and moved the whole school back to 7007 Poplar, where school started Aug. 13 in a $7.25 million expansion that includes an art room, music and dance room and a gymnasium. “We’ve never had a gymnasium,” said executive director Jo Gilbert. She envisioned the “Extreme Makeover” moment when the students, returned to their renovated home, would see the artistry from the curb. “As beautiful as this school is, we wanted it to be a really big celebration where we could all see it at the same time,” she said. The expansion, on the

lica of the stamp was unveiled on stage. The Elvis Forever stamp uses a 1955 black-and-white portrait of Presley taken by photographer William Speer in Memphis, just a year after the release of his debut recording for the Sun Records label. The bottom left corner of the stamp features a small gold crown, nodding to his status as “The King of Rock and Roll.” Presley’s signature, done in gold ink, is included on right side of the stamp. Priscilla Presley said that he would have been humbled by such an honor. “To have a stamp made after him, not just once … but twice. He would truly have appreciated this — though he never would’ve believed his image would be on a stamp,” she said. “It’s sort of surreal.” Other speakers included Elvis Presley Enterprises President and CEO Jack Soden, Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell and Memphis Mayor A C Wharton.

east side of Madonna’s existing structure, doubles the school’s size and is accented with backlit stained glass from the Germantown Church of Christ chapel. Until last year, its adult vocational classes were held in the chapel’s basement, part of the church campus Madonna later bought for its permanent address. “The chapel was 60 years old, and we could only use the space for a limited amount of time because of ire regulations,” Gilbert said. “The classrooms were small. The roof leaked. We’d been putting a Band-Aid on the building for so long...” Madonna, which serves children and adults with developmental disabilities started in the late 1960s when former Memphis and Shelby County ire chief Bob Winield and his wife, Mary, tried to ind a faithbased school for their disabled son. They believed he had more potential than what was available for chil-

dren with special needs in public schools. When the Winfields were told the nearest such center was in Evansville, Ind., they went to visit and ended up persuading the Benedictine nun who ran it, Sister Mary Mark Graf, to start a school in Memphis. It opened in 1969 at St. Peter’s Home for Children in Midtown, and then moved to St. James Catholic Church. In 1996, the school moved to Poplar, where it shared space with a succession of churches. The new building is wheelchair-accessible and meets Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, which means no student will have to navigate a wheelchair outside in heat, cold or rain to get to another part of the school, which happened daily before. It also will allow the school to grow from 68 students to 80 to 100, including serving preschoolers, which it has never done before.

Criminal Court Judge Bobby Carter granted a defense request to conduct a mental evaluation for a Collierville attorney facing charges he tried three times to kill his wife. The appearance of Fred Auston Wortman III, who was brought from Fayette County, where he faces two of the charges, was brief. Beyond the mental evaluation, attorneys on both sides said they will see if they can streamline the three cases to handle them in an eicient manner. The 39-year-old Wortman faces a charge of criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder in Shelby County, where authorities say he tried to poison his wife, Staci, with tainted toothpaste. He also is charged with aggravated child endangerment after one of the couple’s children used the toothpaste. In Fayette County, Wortman faces two counts of solicitation of irst-degree murder. Wortman’s next appearance in Carter’s court was set for Sept. 21. He remains in custody in Fayette County under a $15 million bond.

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The Indie Memphis Film Festival is expanding to Downtown, with five of its eight days of screenings set to take place at the new Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education. Weekday screenings during the 18th annual festival will take place at the new 361-seat Halloran Centre. Weekend screenings will be in Overton Square at the 220-seat Circuit Playhouse and in multiple auditoriums of the Malco Studio on the Square. The festival is set for Nov. 3-10. The Indie Memphis festival has not been Downtown since 2006. The event for a time was based at the defunct Muvico Peabody Place 22, and during its early years, screenings took place at the Orpheum and various Beale Street venues. The return to Downtown is an attempt to make the festival more accessible to Downtown residents and to tap into the Downtown tourism market. Indie Memphis typically attracts some 10,000 attendees a year, according to Ryan Watt, a local filmmaker who is board president and interim executive director for the nonprofit organization, which promotes film as an artistic and economic community benefit. “We want to be a tourist destination,” Watt

said. The geographic expansion matches the expanded Indie Memphis schedule. This year’s eight-day event marks a change from recent festivals, which packed a great deal of activity — and many competing screenings — into a single long weekend near or including Halloween. This year, fewer events will take place per day. Weekend film panels will be at the Hattiloo Theatre in Overton Square, while weekday panels and parties will be at various Downtown locations. Named for longtime Orpheum president Pat Halloran, the $14.5 million Halloran Centre is set to open in September as a state-of-the-art complement to the historic Orpheum theater next door at 203 S. Main. The Indie Memphis Film Festival will not be the first film event held at the Halloran. This year’s season of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers begins Sept. 9 at the Halloran with a 7 p.m. screening of director Joseph East’s “I Will Dance,” a documentary about a Selma, Alabama, theater company for at-risk youths. The Indie Memphis film schedule likely will be announced in late September or early October. Investment banking firm Duncan-Williams Inc. returns as the event’s “presenting sponsor” for the fifth consecutive year. Festival dates at the Halloran are Nov. 3-5 and Nov. 9-10. The Overton Square dates are Nov. 6-8.

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Loeb Properties snags prime Poplar frontage By Thomas Bailey Jr. tom.bailey@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2388

Loeb Properties has just purchased an entire block of buildings fronting Poplar and now dominates commercial real estate along a mile-long stretch of the busy East Memphis street. Loeb paid $3.2 million for the Shops of Chickasaw Gardens with plans to renovate the run-down and foreclosed-upon hodgepodge of buildings that run 900 feet from Lafayette Street on the west to Marne Street on the east. Tenants there include Goodwill, Lamplighter, Cricket, Memphis Nails Salon, PPG Paints, David’s Frame & Art, Boost Mobile, E’s 24 Hour Cafe, Memphis Gold Buyers, Signs First and Memphis Donuts. Loeb, the company behind the $40 million redevelopment of the Overton Square entertainment district, bought at auction six buildings, including 3137 Poplar, 3163 Poplar and 3181 Poplar. In all, the property comprises 54,000 square feet, including 40,342 square feet of retail and 13,627 of oice space. Loeb not only plans substantial improvements, but also plans to create a brand identity and cohesion for the property across Poplar from East High’s athletic ield. Now, passers-by

The Collierville Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting for Memphis IT Solutions, formerly Achill Computer Services.

The Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting for Eye Level Learning Center. Eye Level Learning Center of Germantown is an after-school Math and English supplementary education program for students from Preschool to early High School. Eye Level is based on the approach that learning is most efective when teaching is delivered with the individual student perspective in mind. This principle enables student to grow in “height’ or capability at their own pace in a systematic step-by-step approach. The program is designed to nurture a passion for lifelong learning along with critical thinking and problem solving skills. Eye Level program encourages self-directed learning where the child is the key to his/her own learning. There are more than 250 Eye Level Learning Centers nationwide.

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Loeb Properties has purchased a string of commercial buildings along a block of Poplar between Lafayette and Marne streets.

could hardly know that one entity owns the whole block front. The renovation will create more green space. “It’s 900 feet of concrete right now,’’ said Aaron Petree, vice president brokerage for Loeb Properties. “It’s one giant curb cut. We’d like to green it up. We’d like to add some type of continuity between the buildings so people wouldn’t pass by and not realize it was not all one. To create it as a destination.’’ Loeb will likely raze a building in the middle to add parking. “What we learned in Overton Square, restaurants have become the new anchor tenant for shopping centers,’’ Petree said. “We hope to create a situation where we have an exciting restaurant anchor to lease.’’ Loeb, which has

128-year-old roots in Memphis commercial real estate, now owns a string of shopping centers on Poplar from Highland Street on the east to Union Extended on the west. “That’s a pretty impressive statement for anybody to own most everything in a mile, or whatever that stretch is,’’ said Danny Buring of The Shopping Center Group, who is a broker for retail space in Memphis. Having such a critical mass of property in a commercial district not only gives Loeb an advantage over the competition, Buring said, but also “you have a better chance of knowing the outcome and knowing what it’s going to look like in ive or 10 years.” Loeb owns more than 2 million square feet of property, mainly in Tennessee but also in Mississippi.

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As oicials broke ground on a 4.1-mile extension of the Shelby Farms Greenline from Farm Road to the old Cordova Rail House, Shelby County Public Works Director Tom Needham announced a $2.5 million TDOT grant to extend the trail 2.3 miles eastward to Lenow Road.

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As extension work begins, grant awarded to lengthen trail By Tom Charlier charlier@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2572

As work got underway last week on a 4.1-mile extension of the Shelby Farms Greenline, local oicials were awarded a grant ensuring the paved multiuse trail will grow even more. Shelby County Public Works Director Tom Needham announced Aug. 7 that the Tennessee Department of Transportation has approved a $2.5 million grant that will fund a 2.3-mile extension from the old Cordova Rail House eastward to Lenow Road. The announcement came during groundbreaking ceremonies for a project to extend the greenline from its current terminus at Farm Road in Shelby Farms to the old rail house, located along

Macon Road near B Street in Cordova. The two extension projects will roughly double the existing 6.5-mile length of the greenline, taking it from the urban core of Memphis, at Tillman in Binghamton, all the way to the middle of farmland. The 4.1-mile extension should be largely completed in time for next year’s Memphis in May International Festival, Needham said. Wagner General Contractors of Memphis won the $1.44 million contract. The total cost of the project, including land-acquisition and engineering and design, is about $4.4 million — most of it funded through a $3.3 million grant awarded by TDOT in 2011 under the federal Congestion Mitigation Air Quality program.

The extension includes a two-phase crossing at busy Germantown Parkway, where trail users will activate signals to cross to a median island protected by concrete barriers. They then will walk north or south to the other crossing, using a second signal to cross there. The extension from Cordova to near the Tennessee Valley Authority substation on Lenow is at least a year away from the start of construction. The county irst must acquire the railroad right of way from CSX before proceeding to engineering, design and construction. It will be diicult to extend the trail beyond the Lenow site because from that point eastward, the former rail right of way bed is owned by several individual landowners, not CSX, Needham said.

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In his 45th year, clock still turns back for SCS teacher Aug. 10 might have been the last irst day of school for Goldie Terrell, who has been teaching longer than anyone else in Shelby County Schools. “I’m thinking this could be my last year. It might be time to retire,” Terrell said as he prepared to begin his 45th consecutive year as a teacher in Shelby County — his 41st at Germantown High. Four years of high school felt like an eternity to me. But four decades? No wonder he’s hobbling. “I had hip-replacement surgery in late June, but I’m moving pretty well,” Terrell said early Aug. 10 as he stood in the rain, under a big red umbrella, directing buses and students. “I’m feeling good. I’m ready to go.” Terrell seemed readier than many of the blearyeyed freshmen who iled into his irst-period English class on Aug. 10. The irst assignment, due the following day, already was on the board. So was the reading list for the irst nine weeks. That includes Homer’s “The Odyssey” — which includes this line: “There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” The time for sleep is not in coach Terrell’s English class. He has only 179 more days, less than 179 hours to teach them what they need to know about grammar and syntax, mythology and philology, Homer and Shakespeare, Truth (Sojourner) and Jobs (Steve). He doesn’t have a minute to spare. “He’s one of those teachers who teaches

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from bell to bell,” said Martha Morris, a librarian at the school. “He’s the consummate gentleman, but he’s also going to push his students to do more than they think they can or should.” Terrell grew up in Millington. His father, Goldie Sr., grew cotton and soybeans. He also drove a school bus. “I rode to school with him when I was a sophomore and junior,” Terrell said. “He let me drive to school when I was a senior, but only straight to school and then straight home. He didn’t put up with any nonsense.” Neither does coach Terrell. “The most important rule: Be on time to class,” he told his irst-period class, instructions he would give all six of his freshman classes. “Bring your best behavior. Do your homework.” Terrell is serious about homework. “I didn’t understand at the time why he was giving us such trivial homework that often did not coincide with everything we were learning in the classroom,” said Shannon Goldsworthy Phillips, who was in Terrell’s class in the late 1980s. “In a time of encyclopedias, the answers were not always easily found. He was challenging us.” The challenge begins

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On the first day of school, Germantown High teacher Goldie Terrell tells the students in his firstperiod freshman English class what his expectations are for the year. In his 45th year, Terrell is SCS’ longest-serving teacher.

Terrell walks out to the buses on the first day of school to help students make it inside safely.

on the irst day of school. “You got double-duty this year. Get ready for 10th grade and prepare for your exams,” he said. “I want everyone to pass. I want everyone to get a good grade. But we can’t

give you that grade. You have to earrrrnnnn it.” Terrell speaks with the assurance of an experienced teacher and the authority of a veteran coach. He’s had double-duty for decades. He has been

coaching various girls and boys teams at Germantown High since the mid-1970s. His freshman girls basketball team won the county championship in 2005. “To be honest with

you, I was more focused on coaching the irst 15-20 years of my career,” Terrell said. “But I didn’t want my co-workers to win all the accolades for our great test scores here, so I worked harder and became a better teacher. We’re all competing to make this the best school, but we all help and learn from each other. It’s a team efort.” Spoken like a coach. I asked Terrell what makes a great coach. “Great players,” Terrell said with a chuckle. And what makes a great teacher? “Hard work. Dedication. Caring. Great coworkers,” he said. “It’s really a team efort. You can teach alone, but you can’t be a good teacher on your own.” Anything else? “Great students. We have always been blessed with great students.” Terrell, a member of the congregation and choir at West Canaan Baptist Church in Millington, feels blessed. His wife, Karen, is a registered nurse. His son, Jonathan, just graduated from law school. And he will be spending another year in high school — even though it might be his last. “Then again,” he said, “I might come back next year. I haven’t decided. We’ll see how it goes. I get in here with the kids and I get younger. I still love it. “And I don’t know what else I’d do. I’m not a golfer.” Not with that hip.

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Schools STEM SCHOLARS

On the fast track C’ville launches intensive math, science program By Jane Roberts robertsj@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2512

The municipal districts started last year in a dash to get school doors opened. This year, their personalities are taking shape. Bartlett is providing takehome laptops for all sixththrough ninth-graders. The district conducted its inaugural Twitter chat, an hourlong Q-andA on what kids (and parents) can expect. Into this fold come Schilling Farms and Collierville middle schools, both ofering an invitation-only STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) intensive track, starting with 48 sixth-graders, 24 in each school. For the next three years, the STEM Scholars in Collierville Schools will take advanced math, language arts and STEM courses together, a trajectory and mix district oicials expect will produce higher achievement heading into high school. “These children are going from ifth grade to pre-algebra in sixth, algebra in seventh and geometry in eighth,” said Beth Robbins, secondary curriculum supervisor in a school system with some of the highest math scores in the state. Collierville is also one of only two ofering Calculus III, the course beyond AP Calculus. That means any self- or otherwise directed sixth-grader in Collierville Schools has access to six years of math if they start early enough and a total of 27 AP courses, many like AP Environmental Science, in the STEM bandwidth. Collierville High put itself on the national radar for STEM in 2013 when underclassman Vance

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Schilling Farms Middle School teacher Erik Shoemake (right) jokes with eighth-grade students Ashwin Suryaram (left) and Harrison Stewart as they work to prepare a STEM lab classroom for mock day, an orientation event for sixthgraders. Schilling Farms and Collierville middle schools ofer select sixth-graders a STEM Scholars track focused on advanced math, science and technology classes.

Hudson took top honors (and $1,000) in the Ivor Sikorsky Helicopter of the Future Challenge. Runner-up was Sabrina Curley, also a CHS student. Suddenly, the media were beating a path to Collierville High. “It was a spark for me as an administrator,” said Robbins, who also noticed the kids enrolled in STEM weren’t just those who played with Legos or entered canbuilding competitions. “These were kids in sports, in band, or in no activities at all, and they were blossoming,” she said. Teachers and administrators started to notice that kids who loved building spaghetti and marshmallow towers in STEM

lab were also doing better in other courses. “If you take a child who may not consider themselves the smartest math kid, but they like STEM (classes), all of a sudden, they love school,” Robbins said. “Guess what happens to them? “In the real world — the way the world is now — STEM can help them build the bridge to whatever is next.” Besides school clubs and Inventions and Innovations — a broad intro class for seventhgraders taught by Erik Shoemake — Collierville didn’t have a middle school STEM track. “We decided we wanted to take this a step further,” said Roger

Jones, principal at Collierville Middle. “Building from air,” the district designed an aptitude test in math, science and language arts for ifth-graders and set aside a Saturday in January to give it. More than 150 students — about 32 percent of the ifth-graders in the town — took the test. School leaders couldn’t believe the vein they’d struck. In a blind pool, they identiied the strongest 30 to 40 headed to each middle school, then went to the ive elementary schools they attended to interview 10- and 11-year-old inalists. “We asked them about clubs they belong to, their hobbies,” said Collierville Middle STEM

coordinator Shelley Pitts. “‘What do you know about STEM? Why do you want to be part of this?’ “What I noticed, they were all amazing readers. There were similarities among them all. They had a natural curiosity,” Robbins said. Twenty-four headed to each middle school made the cut; 44 percent of them are girls. A counselor will stay with the group through eighth grade, helping students access their strengths and deal with competition school leaders expect will develop. “We know we can’t keep them all together in every class,” Jones said. “Even parents said: ‘I don’t want them together all the time.’ You want them to be able to get out there and meet just regular kids.” The push to get students interested in math and science emerged in 1957, when Russia launched Sputnik, Dr. Melissa Gresali, a Vanderbilt University associate professor, said. Research shows the structure of middle school, with separate classes and “way fewer personal connections,” is hard on students who are in an “emotionally volatile time of life anyway.” “Kids tend to have more phobias about math than any other subject. If they are getting kids enthused about math and science and showing them how it connects, that’s great,” said Gresali, who also is pleased with the number of girls in the program. The STEM Scholars were together for the irst time two weeks ago in morning camp icebreakers, engineering competitions and listening to guest speakers Shoemake, Pitts and Schilling Farms STEM coordinator Julia Sellers invited to set the tone. “Every dad stopped me to say: ‘I cannot tell you how excited my child is about coming every day,’” Robbins said. “And how less stressed they were to be sending their child to sixth grade.”

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Collierville Middle teachers and staf celebrated the return from summer break at their “Back to School Breakfast.”

Students at Bailey Station are eager to get the school year started. Kids returned to school Aug. 10.

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Brooke Johnson, Arianna Johnson, Elizabeth Flood and Celeste Johnson are all smiles as they head back to school after a short summer break. All four are students at Collierville Middle.

Before the school year began, Chris and Hudson Myatt spent a warm summer day sprucing up the outside of Farmington Elementary.

Collierville Middle staf members Stacey Johnston, Angela Elrod, Cynthia Kallaher and Kim Braxton share a snack during the “Back to School Breakfast.”

Holly Grace, a fourth-grade teacher at Bailey Station Elementary, greets Cole Fairchild with a big smile and a irm handshake during the irst day of school.

Deanna and Sam Gilbert didn’t mind getting their hands dirty as they joined other Farmington students and parents to clean up the outside of the school.

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Teachers, administrators and students at Farmington Elementary celebrate the school’s 40th birthday. This year’s theme is “Peace, Love and Falcons.”

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Revised door-to-door sales ordinance goes into efect Oct. 12 Special to The Weekly

Parents and their kids register for Conirmation Class at Collierville United Methodist Church.

Andrew Blackburn, a seventh-grader at Collierville Elementary, qualiied and competed in the Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympics. He competed in the 100 meter dash.

Collierville United Methodist Church recently held its Fall Launch event. Volunteers assisted parents and their kids while registering online for Sunday school.

Paul Chandler, executive director at the Germantown Performing Arts Center spoke to the members of the Rotary Club of Germantown. Chandler said the mission of the GPAC is to serve the community by presenting the highest quality artistic endeavors and to engage, enrich and transform. Welcoming Chandler to the club meeting is Sandra Hayne and Chuck Blake.

Girl Scout Daisy Troop No. 13782 members Riley Novarese, Kate Howell, Sarah Mayo, Priscilla Carter, Lillian Freeman, Zoe Van Drimmelen, Brooke White and Meaghan McManus enjoyed some fun in the sun with a swim party with Mermaid Alaina.

Collierville Town Beautiful Commission member Jef Brandon (third from left) presented Ricky Evans, Annette Barbee and Stacie Johnson, all with Backyard Burgers, the Business of the Month award.

Wellington Ridge Homeowners Association won Collierville Town Beautiful Commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Homeowners Association of the Month plaque. Commission members Jef Brandon (left) and Polly Shipley (right) presented the award to Gene Dianetti, Sara Hale, Ashely Kink and Johnny Adelman.

The Collierville Board of Mayor and Aldermen have passed an ordinance regulating door-to-door sales in Collierville, which will go into efect Oct. 12. This ordinance replaces a previously established Collierville ordinance that was determined unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Following the ruling, the town received notice from Vivint Incorporated, headquartered in Provo, Utah, who intended to â&#x20AC;&#x153;take all necessary steps to enforce its rights, including â&#x20AC;Ś a lawsuitâ&#x20AC;? to force a change the ordinance. The townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal counsel advised that the ordinance should be amended to avoid costly litigation. The town of Collierville has a substantial interest in protecting the well-being, safety and privacy of its citizens, including the ability to protect citizens from unwanted intrusions, fraud, unfair consumer sales practices, as well as criminal activity. The new ordinance provides the town with a means to regulate solicitors while protecting the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safety by requiring all people, businesses and organizations wishing to solicit in Collierville for commercial purposes to obtain a permit. Solicitors are prohibited from soliciting at any location listed on the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Knockâ&#x20AC;? registry, or from any location with a sign posted prohibiting solicitation. The new or-

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Pets COLLIERVILLE

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Volunteers pitch in at Animal Shelter Special to The Weekly

Volunteers make up a large percentage of the personnel at the Collierville Animal Shelter. More than 50 percent of the “steady eddie” regular volunteers are 55 years and older. These “regulars” can be dog or cat people, and each group has a particular job description. One of the greatest needs at CAS right now are dog walkers. Volunteer Cathy Priester is the CAS’s master dog walker. She began volunteering at the shelter in 2010 after having lost her Jack Russell terrier in 2009. Priester said she wasn’t ready to own another dog yet, but found that spending time with the shelter animals was rewarding in many ways. She trained in both cats and dogs, but decided to concentrate on the dog walking program. “The dogs have to go outside in extreme temperatures, and the shelter needs volunteers who are willing and able to do that,” said Priester.

The dogs and their walkers go around the pond on the shelter grounds, but the beneits go beyond fresh air, exercise and taking care of their business. “The goal in the dog walking program is to socialize, love on and increase the adoptability of the shelter dogs,” said Priester. Some of the dogs who are abandoned at the shelter have incomplete histories on ile, so getting to know them and their needs is a large part of a dog walker’s job. Because it can be challenging to put a leash on a dog who has never worn one, Priester teaches a class in walking shelter dogs one Sunday each month at CAS. Annie Stout has been a foster mom for puppies at the CAS since 2009. Since retiring in 2013, she has been illing another great need at the shelter — helping out on surgery days. Stout also serves as a liaison between Marshall County and CAS for the Rescue Waggin’ program, a PetSmart charity which transports homeless dogs and puppies to commu-

Collierville Animal Shelter volunteer, JoAnne Cobb, walks Banjo, a male Shih Tzu, who is available for adoption.

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Rescue Waggin’ eases overcrowding Special to The Weekly

The PetSmart Charities Rescue Waggin’ van made a stop at the Collierville Animal Shelter recently. While a downpour of rain had just fallen, the future was getting brighter for several shelter dogs. The Rescue Waggin’ picks up dogs from shelters where there is overpopulation and transports them to shelters where there is more likelihood for adoption. CAS was selected to participate in the program last year and is one of 79 animal shelters in the

dog-saving network. CAS manager John Harper was overseeing the transfer which took 19 dogs to a shelter in Michigan. A representative from the Rescue Waggin’ program stood behind a table at the front of the shelter and examined each puppy before he or she boarded the van. As a CAS staf member or volunteer held the puppy, the Rescue Waggin’ rep checked for signs of illness. The puppies conirmed their itness for travel by becoming squirmy a few minutes into the exam. There was a lot of laughter in

the room as each person/ puppy pair made their way through the assembly line and a lot of goodbye hugs as the it puppies were passed through hands at the front door. CAS’s system of giving each litter alphabetically similar names was helpful in making sure every dog was where he or she was supposed to be. The Rescue Waggin’ is one of PetSmart’s many charitable programs. Staff members are trained by Rescue Waggin’ to recognize which dogs are physically and behaviorally eligible to be transported.

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hood of them being adopted. JoAnne Cobb and Beth Vornbeck are “cat handlers” at the CAS. Both spend two or three days a week following the shelter’s schedule of cleaning in the morning and playing in the afternoon. “The goal is to know the cats,” said Vornbeck. She and Cobb agree that one of the best things about CAS is making a good match between animals and people. All four ladies agree that one of the rewards of their work is seeing a stray or abandoned animal go from fearful to loving due to the care they receive from volunteers and foster parents. Priester was inally “ready” three years ago. She adopted an 11-year-old Pekinese who needed dental work. “He was the one for me,” she said. “He’s 14 now, but he acts like he is 3 years old.” For more information on volunteering at CAS, call 901-457-2670.

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of Memphis, 5111 Sanderlin Ave., will be Saturday, from 5:30-11 p.m. This event is a fun, memorable night of bones, blues, paws and booze that beneits the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County. Includes seated dinner, open bar, live music and dancing with “Front & Beale,” silent and live auctions and wine pull. If interested in donating an item for the auction or wine for the wine pull, contact Katie Pemberton at 901-4889033 or kpemberton@ memphishumane.org. The Painting for a Paws fundraiser for Tails of Hope Dog Rescue is Sunday, from 4-6 p.m., at Let’s Paint, 3334 Goodman Road. A portion of every paid canvas donated to Tails of Hope. Choose from ive bright, fun pictures, an artist will pre-sketch and have it ready the day of the event for you to paint. Each canvas is 9 inches by 12 inches. Cost is $35. Visit letspaintinc.com/calendar.html to sign up. The Southaven Animal Shelter will hold an adoption event Aug. 27, from 5-8 p.m., at Fox & Hound, 6565 Towne Center Crossing. Proceeds will beneit the shelter. E-mail kellis@ southaven.org. Burritos for a good cause. On Aug. 28, Moe’s Southwest Grill at 6300 Poplar hosts Give Back Night, from 6-9 p.m. The restaurant will donate 15 percent of all sales to the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County. For the remainder of the month, the Germantown Animal Shelter is offering $40 cat and kitten adoption fees. All felines at the shelter and the Hacks Cross/Winchester PetSmart habitat are eligible for this reduced fee. The shelter is located at 7700 Southern Ave.

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The Memphis Grizzlies open the 2015-16 regular season Oct. 28 against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in FedExForum. Memphis plays 13 of its irst 17 games against teams that earned a playof berth last season, according to the NBA’s regularseason schedule released last week. The Grizzlies’ last home game will be April 9 against the Golden State Warriors, who also host the Griz on April 13 for the regular-season inale. Memphis will be featured on national television 19 times (ive on ESPN, ive on TNT and nine on NBA TV). The Grizzlies’ NBA TV appearances include games against Cleveland, Dallas, Golden State, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento and Utah. The New Orleans Pelicans’ visit to FedExForum Jan. 18 at 1:30 p.m. will mark the 14th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day game. Here are several other highlights for the Grizzlies’ 2015-16 campaign: Marquee matchups: Matt Barnes, whom the Grizzlies acquired in a June

trade, will face his former squad, the Los Angeles Clippers, on Nov. 9 in Staples Center. LaMarcus Aldridge visits FedExForum for the irst time with his new team, the San Antonio Spurs, on Nov. 21. Derrick Rose and Pau Gasol visit April 5 with the Chicago Bulls. Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers come to Memphis on Dec. 27. Longest home stand:

The Grizzlies play six consecutive games in FedExForum from Jan. 8-18. Denver, Boston, Houston, Detroit, New York and New Orleans are on the bill. Longest road trip: A ivegame road slate is in front of the Griz from Nov. 2-9 with Golden State, Sacramento, Portland, Utah and the Los Angeles Clippers as the opponents. Back-to-backs: The Griz

have 18 back-to-back sets. And Memphis is one of eight teams that do not play four games in ive days. The others: Charlotte, Detroit, Indiana, New York, Golden State, Houston and San Antonio. Reducing the number of back-to-back games and four games in ive days that NBA teams play was high on Commissioner Adam Silver’s agenda. Back-tobacks have been reduced to 17.8 percent per team

for 2015-16, down from 19.3 percent last season. No team has more than 20 back-to-backs this season. “I think this is the best schedule that we’ve ever produced,” NBA senior vice president of basketball operations Kiki VanDeWeghe told USA TODAY Sports. “We are extremely mindful of player rest, recuperation and we were able to reduce four games in ive nights and back-to-backs to alltime lows. ... We want to be mindful of putting the best product on the loor that we possibly can. The rigors of an NBA season are tough. Nobody denies that.” The Griz will tip of a seven-game exhibition slate Oct. 6 against the Houston Rockets in FedExForum. Memphis hosts three additional preseason games at home against Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Super League (Oct. 8), Oklahoma City Thunder (Oct. 16) and Minnesota Timberwolves (Oct. 18). The Grizzlies travel to Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 12 to face LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on the campus of Ohio State. Memphis inishes its preseason schedule with consecutive road games against the Atlanta Hawks (Oct. 21) and Orlando Magic (Oct. 23).

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According to his friends, Elvis didn’t drink much alcohol. He liked Pepsi, and in the spirit of cola solidarity he might have liked the Jailhouse on the Rocks cocktail at Babalu.

The classic Elvis sandwich in the classic Elvis place: the PB&B (peanut butter and banana) sandwich at the Arcade served here in the oicial Elvis booth.

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butter frosting, is topped with chocolate ganache and served in a pool of banana Anglaise and chocolate sauce. For something a little diferent, slip into the Zebra Lounge piano bar (2114 Trimble Place, 901-249-8147) for an Aloha Elvis Cocktail and tunes requests. The King loved barbecue pizza at Coletta’s Restaurant (1063 South Parkway E., 901-948-7652) and you can order it just the way the he did — it hasn’t changed — and eat it in a room surrounded by Elvis memorabilia, including the ticket

for his last ambulance ride to the hospital (along with lots of photos, movie posters and other such stuf). Though Priscilla often picked up pizza and took it back to Graceland, Elvis did eat at Coletta’s; he once tried to order ravioli but was happy with the spaghetti when told they’d sold out. There’s an Elvis booth at the Arcade Restaurant (540 South Main, 901-5265757), the city’s oldest restaurant, and you can get a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich year-round.

But there’s more going on, too. Elvis loved home cooking — meatloaf, mashed potatoes, biscuits and banana pudding. David Scott Walker at Schweinehaus (2110 Madison; 901-347-3060) is one of the Overton Square restaurants ofering a special for Elvis Week (through Sunday), and he’s a long way from bananas as he’s serving barbecue bologna on brioche. The sandwich, which comes with slaw and sauce on it and fries on the side, is called “(You’re the) Schwein in Disguise.” Across the street at Babalu (2115 Madison, 901-274-0100), they’ll have King creme brulee, the classic custard dessert, here infused with peanut butter, banana and banana liqueur. Need something to wash it down? Try a Jailhouse on the Rocks, made with Zaya rum and Mexican Coke. Lafayette’s Music Room (2119 Madison, 901-207-5097) serves Elvis French toast on its regular brunch menu but will have it all day every day to help you eat like the King. It’s French toast made with banana bread, topped with peanut butter caramel, maple syrup and pecans. Yolo (6 South Cooper; 901-343-0438) has a peanut butter and banana gelato, banana pudding, and two specialty cupcakes: The Elvis Presley cupcake is vanilla, decked out in sparkles, and there’s also a peanut butter, banana and graham cracker cupcake. At Bar Louie (2125 Madison, 901-2071436), they’re adding bacon to the peanut butter and banana sandwich. Sweet Noshings (2113 Madison, 901-288-4753), a candy store, has chocolate peanut butter and banana popcorn. Local (2109 Madison; 901-761-3333) goes back to the savory side with a pork tenderloin sandwich with peanut sauce. Boscos (2120 Madison, 901-432-2222) has the Elvis Special, a fried catish plate with hush puppies, creamed corn and slaw, and banana cake that will have even scofers admitting they can’t help falling in love. The cake has peanut

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Out in Bartlett, you’ll ind Elvis Dippers at Memphis Mojo Cafe (7124 Highway 64, Suite 101, 901-207-6041). They’re Nutter Butter cookies and sliced banana, dipped in a maple wale batter and deep fried. You dip them in butterscotch banana cream. In East Memphis, stop by Muddy’s Bake Shop (5101 Sanderlin, 901-6838844), where you can get the King cupcake through Saturday — banana cake, peanut butter frosting and a banana chip on top. There’s a Graceland wale on the brunch menu at Cafe Ole in CooperYoung (959 S. Cooper, 901-343-0103), which is just across the street from the Beauty Shop, (966 S. Cooper, 901-2727111) a restaurant that used to be a real beauty shop and where Priscilla got her updos did, and sort of kitty-cornered from Alchemy (940 S. Cooper, 901-7264444), where the Hound Dog bourbon cocktail was named one of the Top 50 drinks in the country by New York magazine. Automatic Slim’s (83 S. Second, 901525-7948) serves Elvis pancakes, banana with peanut butter sauce and sliced bananas, of course, at Saturday and Sunday brunch. Of course, the King was anything but a food snob and loved a Krystal burger and his jelly doughnuts. There are about a dozen Krystals around town. Keep it local with the doughnuts and go to Gibson’s Donuts (760 Mt. Moriah, 901682-8200). And there’s Marlowe’s (4381 Elvis Presley Boulevard, 901-332-4199), just about the most popular place in town for Elvis fans, a little shy of Graceland. Hinds calls it the clubhouse for Elvis week, the place where everyone gathers. You can ind a Hunka Hunka apple pie, a Blue Suede burger, an Elvis burger or The King steak. There’s barbecue, fried green tomatoes, even hand-breaded chicken tenders with just one law: They should be named Love Me Tenders.

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Weekly community events Arlington Every Monday at the Arlington Senior Citizen Center, 6265 Chester, there will be Gentlemen’s Cofee at 8:30 a.m. Men 50 and older are invited. E-mail eequi@ townofarlington.org or call 901-867-7698. Upcoming events: ■ Aug. 25: Music and Dancing with Glenn and Doug, noon. ■ Aug. 26: Be an informed Medicare Consumer and get ready for Medicare Part D enrollment, 11:30 a.m. Vicki Thompson from the Aging Commission of the MidSouth provides information about Medicare and picking the plan that works best for you. Snacks provided.

Bartlett The Bartlett Library, 5884 Stage, invites kids to READ with Tootsie Saturday, from 10 a.m. to noon. Children ages 5-11 can read to Tootsie, a registered pet therapy dog, for 15 minutes. Registration is required and opens the irst of each month for that month’s session. Call 901-386-8968. The Bartlett Small Fry Tri is 9 a.m. Aug. 29 at Bartlett Recreation Center, 7700 Flaherty Place. An introductory triathlon where kids run, bike and swim (OK, just run through the sprinklers), to the inish line, and where everyone receives an award. Cost is $15. Register at racesonline.com/events/brc-small-fry-tri. An Evening with Jim Brickman will be Aug. 29, from 8-10 p.m., at Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, 3663 Appling Road. America’s romantic piano sensation, weaves a musical tapestry that captures the timeless beauty of classical standards with the lively energy of contemporary pop music. Visit bpacc.org or call 901-385-6440. Also coming up: ■ Sept. 10-12: Bartlett Repertory Company presents “A Party to Murder.” It’s all about murder mysteries with BPACC’s professional theatre ensemble. In this irst installment, six people have come in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage. Secret passageways, incriminating letters, hidden compartments and a twenty ive year old unsolved mystery twist and turn toward an unexpected and terrifying conclusion. Performances at 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10. The Bartlett Station Farmer’s Market will be open every Saturday, from 8 a.m. to noon, through Sept. 19 at W.J. Freeman Park, 2629 Bartlett Boulevard. New vendors added each week. Some 2015 vendors include: J Brooks Cofee Roasters, Las Delicias, Mammaw Melton’s Heirloom Gardens, Donna’s Kettle Corn, Vernon Farms and more.

Pre-school Story Time is every Friday, from 10:3011 a.m., at the Morton Museum, 196 N. Main. Stories, songs and play related to Collierville History. For ages 5 and under. Event is free to attend. E-mail museum@ ci.collierville.tn.us or call 901-457-2650. The Collierville Farmers Market is open every Thursday, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the rear parking lot of Collierville United Methodist Church, 454 West Poplar Ave. The market provides a reliable source of fresh, locally-grown fruits and veggies and related agricultural produce. Visit colliervillefarmersmarket.org.” Bring the kids and come enjoy some of their favorites with Movie Night at Carriage Crossing, 4674 Merchants Park Circle. Movies begin at dusk in Central Park. Friday: “Big Hero 6” New Neighbors is a nonproit organization of neighbors meeting neighbors through social activities and community service. The group has several events coming up in August. For more information about becoming a member of New Neighbors, contact Julia Williams at 901-626-3649 or Carolyn Steiner at CarolynSteiner51@ yahoo.com. Wednesday: Luncheon, 11:15 a.m. The luncheon, held the third Wednesday of each month, takes place at Southwind Country Club.

Cordova Tom’s Classic Car Cruise is Tuesdays, from 5:30-8:30 p.m., through Sept. 29 at Countrywood Crossing Shopping Center, 2257-2393 Germantown Parkway. Bring your classic car and enjoy the family atmosphere with “Oldies” music and more. No entry fee. Sponsored by Gail’s Line Promotions. The Memphis College Consortium presents the 2015 Career Expo Aug. 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Bellevue Baptist Church, 2000 Appling Road. Free to attend. For more information, contact Michael Carroll at 901921-8210 HP’s ifth annual 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament will be 10 a.m. Aug. 29 at Bellevue Baptist Church, 2000 Appling Road, in the Grace Family Life Center. The tournament is open to guys and girls; age groups, 14 and under; 15-17; 18 and up. A minimum of three players per team, maximum of four players. It will be double elimination brackets. Cost is $20 per player. Beneits Life Choices Memphis. Visit hp3on3tournament.com. L’Ecole Culinaire, 1245 N. Germantown, presents Playing With Fire Class Aug. 28, from 6-9 p.m. By rapidly burning volatile alcohol, lambéing infuses a dish with additional lavor and moderates the harshness of raw spirits. Includes instruction, three course meal, and wine. Cost is $95. Visit lecole.edu or call 901-754-7115. Also coming up: ■ Aug. 29: Petit Fours Class, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Petit fours can be a savory bite-sized appetizer served at cocktail hour. Learn to create an assortment of delectable pastries with plenty to take home and share. Cost is $55. Join Immanuel Lutheran Church, 6325 Raleigh LaGrange Road, for its God Connects classes, Sundays at 9:50 a.m. in the School, Spanish Room 23. Come learn about the Christian faith. Whether you have questions about Christ or want to deepen your faith in Him, this class will explore what the Bible says about our God. No obligations, everyone is invited. Child care provided.

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Chuckles Comedy Club, 1770 Dexter Springs Loop, will host LOL Memphis Sketch & Improv Comedy Show the second and fourth Monday of every month, from 7-9 p.m. Featuring improv games and sketch parodies. Cast members perform small sets throughout the show to introduce what’s coming next. Tickets are $10. E-mail lolmemphis10@gmail.com, visit chucklescomedyhouse.com or call 901-654-8594. Also coming up: ■ This weekend: Comedian Sheryl Underwood for four shows. Times are 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $37.50. The Mid-South Renaissance Faire starts Saturday at Shelby Farms Park, 500 N. Pine Lake. Family-friendly gathering emulating the Renaissance period. Featuring jousting, roaming Queen & court, entertainment, vendors, games, demonstrations and more. Admission is $12.50. Times are Saturdays and Sundays, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., through Aug. 31. Visit midsouthrenfaire. com, e-mail aundrea_lowery@hotmail.com or call 901692-2372.

Germantown The Farm Park Farmers’ Market is every Thursday, from 4-7:30 p.m. at Farm Park, 2660 Cross Country Drive. Features fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables. Enjoy live music, art by local artists, delicious and healthy foods from our food truck vendors, children’s activities, and cooking demonstrations in a beautiful and relaxing farm setting. Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter, presents Jimmie Vaughan & The Tilt-a-Whirl Band 8 p.m. Saturday. Artfully combining R&B, jazz and the blues with 21st century style, Jimmie Vaughan is one of the greatest and most respected guitarists in the world of popular music. Jimmie is joined by his Tilt-a-Whirl band featuring vocalist Lou Ann Barton at GPAC for one night only. Tickets are $29.50-49.50. Visit gpacweb. com or call 901-751-7500. Also coming up: ■ Sept. 3: Belinda Carlisle, 7:30 p.m. Known worldwide as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go’s-one of the most successful all female bands of all time-Belinda Carlisle transitioned from front person to pop star. She is one of the 80’s ultimate performers whose top selling singles are deinitive examples of the decade. ■ Register for Germantown’s smallest triathlon, for children ages 2 to 6. Young ones will run, bike, and swim (run through ire truck spray) to the inish line, where everyone receives a gold medal. Bring a bicycle or tricycle. A size-appropriate helmet is required. The triathlon Sept. 19. The start time for 2 to 3 years old is 10 a.m., 4 to 6 years old at 10:30 a.m., at Farmington Park, 2085 Cordes. The $7 includes a T-shirt for those who register by Aug. 28. No event day registration.

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