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Collierville resident Peter Colclasure went out to feed his family’s Shetland pony one morning a couple weeks ago and noticed the food bowl was still full from the previous day. He didn’t think too much about it until he returned after work that same day to feed the 3½-foot-tall Dakota again, and noticed the food was still untouched. “He was just gone,” Colclasure said of his discovery. “And trailer tire tracks are leaving from the gate.” Now, Collierville police are investigating the apparent theft of the 18-year-old horse from the family’s ive-acre lot in the 4000 block of Fleming Road. Collierville Police posted a photo of Dakota on the department’s Facebook page and got thousands of hits, Police Chief Larry Goodwin said. “The horse is not branded and only identiied as white and brown with white blaze marking,” the posting states. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Riley at 901-457-2555 or at mriley@ci.collierville.tn.us. The only real identifying markings on the horse are two mole-like growths on the inside of his front legs, Colclasure said, adding, “They almost touch when he walks.” Dakota has been in the Colclasure family about ive years and has the playful personality of a puppy. “I’ve taken him to several friends’ birthday parties,” Colclasure said. “Children want to love and feed him. He’s almost like a big dog.”
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Nancy Fahrmann did some last-minute Christmas shopping last Tuesday at Nancy Grider’s Checkerberry Shoppe, in Old Germantown. “Christmas shopping isn’t done until I make a trip to the Checkerberry,” Fahrmann said. Among the items sold are miniatures of iconic Germantown landmarks.
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Old Germantown Iconic landmarks for sale — in miniature versions
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he replica of the Kirby Farms House in the window of Nancy Grider’s Old Germantown business looks a bit diferent from the last time the historic home was on public display. The smaller version was created before the house’s recent well-publicized
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More than 1,500 Lifeblood donors took part in the nonproit’s “Bears for Le Bonheur” program — giving blood and platelets in the weeks following Thanksgiving. Donors were asked to sign a holiday tag that accompanied a stufed polar bear that was given to every patient in Le Bonheur’s care for the holidays. Lifeblood employees visited Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital on Dec. 16 and delivered the stufed bears to the hospital’s patients. Blood donations typically decrease during winter months due to school being out and holiday travel plans. Lifeblood, the MidSouth’s only local indepen-
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dent blood center, encouraged donors to give blood and platelets to maintain a safe level of blood for the region’s hospitals and also give a gift to pediatric patients. “The connection that Lifeblood donors feel to patients is very strong,” remarked Lifeblood’s
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