March 19 Germantown Weekly

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City seeks public’s input Survey on proposed high school coming By Jennifer Pignolet pignolet@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2372

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Chris Walls jumps in place while warming up at the starting line before the 17th annual Germantown Half Marathon and 30th Mayor’s Cup 5K races that were held last Sunday in Germantown. Walls, from Arlington, won the half marathon’s 15-19 year-old age group male division with a time of 1:27:03.

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Cup runneth over More than 1,600 run in annual Mayor’s Cup 5K and Half Marathon

By Craig Collier Special to The Weekly

Germantown Performing Arts Center was the staging area for this year’s Germantown Half Marathon and Mayor’s Cup 5K. This was the 17th year for the Germantown Half Marathon and the 30th for the Mayor’s Cup 5K. Although weather INSIDE in March can be unSee more predictable, the comphotos from last weekend’s bination of sunny skies with temperaraces. 8 tures in the mid-50s brought out both experienced and new runners. This year’s race had more than 1,600 participants. After the race, participants had plenty of space at GPAC to stretch, enjoy some music and grab a bite to eat.

Runners begin the Mayor’s Cup 5K run and 13.1-mile Half Marathon last Sunday morning through the streets of Germantown.

■ Overall winner: Rob Ramsey ■ Women’s winner: Rita Jorgensen Half Marathon

■ Overall winner: Daniel Kirwa

Kroger Expands; Whole Foods, Sprouts move in

PIE FRENZY ON PI DAY However you add it, Pi Day was good for pie sales at bakeries from Germantown to East Memphis. NEWS, 7

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

ANNUAL SPRING FLING Two-day garden show and plant sale at the Agricenter whets gardeners’ appetites for spring planting season. HOME & GARDEN, 11 © Copyright 2015

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■ Overall winner: John Payne For additional results, visit germantownhalfmarathon.racesonline.com/results.

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■ Women’s winner: Amy McCrory

The winners were: Mayor’s Cup 5K

Collierville residents will be receiving a survey in the mail from the town requesting feedback about plans to build a new high school and the tax increase that will come with it. The one-page mailer, sent to about 15,000 homes, informs residents a property tax increase would be necessary to pay of bonds that would be issued to fund the school, estimated to cost $90 million. Public information oicer Mark Heubeger said the survey, which includes a postage paid return card, will ask residents to respond yes or no to the following statement: “I support a property tax increase up to and not to exceed 38 cents to support the construction of the new high school.” Residents should have received the survey beginning last Friday. Residents are asked to complete the survey and return it by March 27, after which the Board of Mayor and Aldermen will hold a work session to review the results. A date for that has not been set, although a town meeting on the high school plan is scheduled for March 31. Additional information on the project can be found on the town’s website, collierville.com. Heubeger said the mailer cost the town $8,900. The aldermen previously said they supported the idea of a public-opinion poll to avoid a referendum, which could cost $100,000.

Whole Foods southern region representative Darrah Gist joked she was nervous when she heard their store in East Memphis would have its own barbecue restaurant. “You don’t go into Memphis and open a barbecue joint,” she said. “They don’t take that lightly.” But the response has been positive, Gist said, not just for the ribs but the entire store. So much that they heard from customers

who wanted a second one in the suburbs, and before long a 41,000-square-foot Whole Foods store was approved for Germantown. Construction is underway at the corner of Poplar and Pete Mitchell Road. But it’s not the only grocery project in progress in the city. Kroger is in the middle of an expansion at 7735 Farmington Blvd., which will grow from 60,000 square feet to about 100,000 square feet. A Sprouts Farmers Market is also in the works at 3150 Village Shops Drive in what used

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Construction progresses at a Whole Foods on Poplar near Pete Mitchell Road. A Sprouts Farmers Market is moving into the former Schnuck’s at 3150 Village Shops Drive, and the Kroger at 7735 Farmington Blvd. is expanding.

to be a Schnuck’s grocery. The three projects, all expected to open this year, represent a sharp increase in grocery oferings in Germantown. Since Schnuck’s closed two stores in the city in 2011, Germantown residents have had two Krogers — one on Farmington and the other almost across the street at 2130 Ex-

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