March 26 Germantown Weekly

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Jimmy Conlan (left), John Phillips and Steve Madden are the owners of On Tap Growlers in Collierville, where a recent ordinance change by the Collierville Board of Mayor and Aldermen allows the store to ofer samples.

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By Kristi RansomSpecial to The Weekly

On March 11, Governor Bill Haslam selected the city of Germantown as a pilot com-munity for the Governor’s Foundation for a Healthier Tennessee. Representing Germantown at the an-nouncement was Alderman Forrest Owens and city of Germantown HR director Steve Wilensky.

Germantown is among nine pilot cities for the Healthier Tennessee Com-munities Program and the only city in west Tennessee. Other communities selected for the initiative are Decatur, Dyer, Loudon, McMinn and Rhea counties, along with the cities of Franklin, King-sport and Tullahoma.

“The opportunity to participate in Governor Haslam’s initiative is a tre-mendous honor and a perfect fit for Germantown. We have an award winning parks de-partment, a family-friendly athletic club, extensive city-wide bike lanes, plans to expand our Greenway and a robust health care sector,” said Mayor Mike Palazzolo.

Owens and Wilensky will serve as chairmen for a Ger-mantown Wellness Council. This council will concen-trate on improving the health of Germantown residents through measurable focus in three key lifestyle areas: physical activity, healthy eating habits and smoking cessation.

To become involved in Healthy Germantown or for more information, call Wilensky, Healthy German-town Wellness Champion, at 901-757-7250.

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By Jennifer Pignoletpignolet@commercialappeal.com

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The Iranian American Association of Memphis brought Persian culture to Germantown on March 17 for the annual Fire Jump-ing Festival.

The event is a tradition-al part of the Persian New Year celebration. The new year begins on the first day of spring.

Shahab Sadeghi, one of the group’s organizers, said the fire jumping tradi-tion dates back thousands

of years.“It’s supposed to bring

power and life to your new year,” he said.

Sadehi said the group has about 300 active members.

About 150 attended the March 17 festivities, which included a perfor-mance from Amber Lea, a professional fire dancer from Cordova.

Sadehi said with “ev-erything go on” politically with Iran, the group hopes to show the Memphis area another side of their heri-tage. Their events are open to the public.

“We are hoping to in-troduce the true Iranian culture,” he said.

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Amber Lea juggles ire at the Iranians of Memphis Fire Jumping Festival, which was held in Germantown.

Farrah Rector, 9, leaps over a small ire at the Iranians of Memphis Fire Jumping Festival.

By John StammSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

The doorbell rang frequently, signal-ing customers

arriving at Collierville’s On Tap Growlers, as co-owner Steve Madden watched admiringly.

He says business at the sub-urbs’ only craft beer shop has exceeded expectations, consider-ing it opened Jan. 27 and two bad weather weeks chilled business.

Still, he and co-owners John Phillips and Jimmy Conlan had a plan on tap to boost sales of the increasingly popular brew — one sip at a time.

As allowed at state-regulated liquor stores, they wanted pa-trons to sample from among the shop’s 28 beers before choosing what to fill a 32- or 64-ounce growler.

“Everyone wants to have a taste,” said Madden, whose store is at 911 W. Poplar. “We’re selling the same product they’re selling, but I have to sell it with my hand tied behind my back.”

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WEEKLY

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When Jane Finney, a kinder-garten teacher at St. George’s Independent School, decided a quarter-century ago that every grade at the school deserved a day outside, it began a tradition that continued last Friday at the school’s Collierville campus.

Five- and 6-year-olds spent the day with their fathers tromping through the wooded areas of the campus a short distance south of the Wolf River, interacting and bonding not only with their par-ent, but also their classmates in one of the school’s sweetest traditions.

“Fifth-graders have the Mud Trudge. Fourth-graders go to Reelfoot,” Finney said in explain-ing Dads in the Woods Day at St. George’s. “If you just look at the children’s faces, it tells the whole story.”

Besides having an honest-to-goodness woods on its upper school campus in Collierville, St. George’s also has city and sub-urban students, whose lives are miles apart on both the physical and metaphysical map.

In the one time students from the Germantown and Memphis campuses come together as kin-dergartners, it helps if everyone is on the same footing, muddy as it was. In nine stations in the woods, the students and their fathers stretched their limits, self-consciously at irst, singing, measuring, drawing and trusting people they barely knew to stay upright on obstacle courses thick with leaves and winter detritus.

“At this age, mothers usually take care of everything,” Finney said. “We planned this for the dads, and we remind them all year to keep this day open.”

On paper, the idea is to build ties strong enough so when kin-dergartners are sixth-graders, and all are attending the middle school at the Collierville campus, they’ll have a kinship that extends through to their families.

Fourteen years ago, St. George’s opened the Memphis campus 3749 Kimball. Most of the students are on scholarship. Of the roughly 20 students who were the kindergarten class seven years ago, 16-17 arrived at the Col-lierville campus last fall as sixth-graders, naturally adding diver-sity, part of the school’s mission.

“We took the school to them, but at some point, everyone is going to come together,” said Bill Taylor, the school president. “If they know each other, it’s a more natural transition.”

In that spirit, second-grad-ers from both campuses were Downtown last Friday, building more bridges.

The day in the woods for kin-dergartners and their dads started at 11:30 with a picnic, followed by team-building sites and conclud-ing with a cookies and lemonade send-of at 2 p.m.

“You could tell the kids who are used to hunting with their dads

and are used to being the woods,” said Terrence Brooks, watching his daughter Jamiya Brooks, 6, dance over puddles. “Kids from the city are a little more appre-hensive about getting muddy.

“Just to see her experience this and enjoying herself is all the en-joyment I need,” he said.

Jake Coleman, who works at Raymond James, took the day of with some apprehension, he said, because he could think of no easy way to be away from work from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

“It was so worth it,” he said.Ricky Higginbottom was hav-

ing his own transformation. The bus driver and maintenance worker at St. George’s was re-cruited March 16 to stand in as a dad for a boy whose father couldn’t attend.

“I was overwhelmed by it,” he said quietly from an impromptu seat on a damp log. “I was just like a stranger, but he took to me real great. We ate lunch together. Then he asked me to hold his jack-et while he got organized.

“If his parents can’t come the next time, I told (school lead-ers) to make sure they notify me. I would like to be a mentor to him.”

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“If you look at the children’s faces, it tells the whole story,” said Jane Finney, a kindergarten teacher who started the Dads in the Woods Day, an annual event for 5- and 6-year-olds to hang out with their fathers.

Kids and grown-ups had a picnic and went through about 10 diferent team-building obstacles in the course stations set up in the school’s adjacent woods. As part of a scavenger hunt game, Michael Clark (right) is pulled on a sled by the group of his daughter Allie (third from right).

When kids, dads mix in an outdoor setting, it’s magical

By Tish LewisSpecial to The Weekly

The YMCA at Schilling Farms hosts its annual Healthy Kids Day on April 25, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Come participate in fun and active games, go through the “A-Mazing”

obstacle course and get creative with crafts and building activities, along with moon bounce and face painting.

“Children need to be physically active each day along with a healthy diet every day. Parents need to set an example,” said child

care director Pam Hipp.The basketball free

throw contest for ages 5-12 will begin at 11 a.m., followed by a freeze dance contest at 11:30 a.m.

This fun packed morn-ing is free and open to the community.

Summer day camp reg-

istration will be available as well for ages 5-15 years. Summer day camp runs May 26 through Aug. 7, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

For more information, call 901-850-9622.

Tish Lewis is the YMCA commu-

nity program director.

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YMCA at Schilling Farms to host Healthy Kids Day

CO L L I E RV I L L E

Alcohol, Xanax in cBhS wreck victims

Two Christian Brothers students killed in a Feb. 14 traic accident both were legally drunk — the driver more than three times the presumptive limit of intoxi-cation — and had evidence of Xanax in their systems, Collierville police said.

Capt. S.P. Williams, quoting from the Shelby County medical examin-er’s report, said the driver showed a blood-alcohol level of .251, while the pas-senger’s BAC registered .119. Tennessee driving under the inluence laws consider a blood-alcohol level of .08 a presumption of intoxication.

The initial accident report states police were called to the area after a witness saw a 2009 Ininiti sedan of the side of Reyn-olds Road. The victims still were inside the car.

The car struck one tree, continued south and struck a second tree be-fore it inally hit a third tree, coming to rest with its back wheels in the air.

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city to ofer free emergency classes

The city of Germantown is ofering a free class on emergency preparedness.

The 20-hour course covers disaster prepared-ness, fire suppression, basic medical operations, light search and rescue and team operations, the city said in a release.

The training will allow participants to be part of the Community Emer-gency Response Team, in which members help in their neighborhoods or workplaces during an emergency until profes-sional crews arrive.

Classes take place Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 8:30 a.m. and April 11 at 8:30 a.m. at Fire Station 4, 3031 Forest Hill-Irene Road. For more information or to register, contact Sherrye Harris at 901-757-7203 or saharris@germantown-tn.gov.

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The Germantown Municipal School Board on Monday gave inal approval to a 2015-16 bud-get that gives a 2 percent pay in-crease to classiied staf but does not give teachers additional pay if they have advanced degrees.

The $44 million budget also in-cludes $1 million more than was spent this school year on new textbooks, but does not provide extra funding to the transporta-tion department to help do away with a 7 a.m. start time at two schools.

The board approved the bud-get 4-0, with member Mark Dely absent, on second reading in a meeting at Riverdale School.

For the irst reading of the budget during a meeting at Houston Middle last month,

more than 200 people came and more than 40 spoke on the start-time issue.

The room was split down the middle, with some wanting a lat-er start time and others wanting the district to save the money it would take to pay for extra buses if schools started later.

About two dozen people came to Monday’s meeting, but no one spoke on any issue.

Before the meeting, Supt. Ja-son Manuel said the classiied staf, which includes clerical

workers, received a raise be-cause it had not had one in at least four years.

The increase will cost the dis-trict about $36,000.

Teachers will receive step raises as part of the budget. But paying teachers more for ad-vanced degrees, Manuel said, would have cost $114,000 for just this year.

He said he has heard com-plaints from several teachers about Germantown not paying more for advanced degrees, a

concept known as paying along “educational lanes.”

It’s also something that could hurt Germantown’s competition for the best teachers, as Collier-ville Schools pays both step in-creases and funds educational lanes.

Other additions to next year’s budget include a special-education coordinator, three elementary school interven-tionists and three additional positions to teach Chinese in the elementary schools.

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municipal School Board approves budgetTextbooks, classiied staf get funds boost

First, however, Collier-ville would need to amend its alcoholic beverages ordinance since on-site drinking is only permit-ted where at least one hot meal is served daily and 70 percent of revenues are food sales. That meant the Board of Mayor and Alder-men would have to approve a new beer permit classi-ication for growler stores.

“I was very apprehen-sive about it,” said Madden, 45, who has lived in Col-lierville since high school. “I had always heard there’s only going to be three li-quor stores in Collierville. To some, this came across as this was just going to be another liquor store.”

Assistant Town Admin-istrator Josh Suddath was contacted and started re-searching.

He checked compara-ble cities in the state and found Cleveland tweaked its ordinance in 2013 to allow growler stations to serve samples.

“We weren’t commis-erating with his circum-stances,” he said. “We saw it was something that it with our peer cities.”

Suddath said he dis-cussed the ordinance change with Mayor Stan Joyner, aldermen and beer board members before it went on the agenda. On March 9, the mayor and aldermen approved a per-mit allowing a customer to have as many as ive 1-ounce samples. The beer board gave its OK on March 10. Tasting started the next day at On Tap Growlers.

Changes are brewing across the state following last year’s adjustments to wine and beer laws.

Last July, liquor stores were allowed to open growler stations and start selling low-gravity beer (6.25 percent or less alco-hol by volume) as well as food and accessories.

The stores will face in-creased competition in July 2016 when wine hits super-market and convenience store shelves. Beginning in January 2017, high-gravity beer (10 percent alcohol by volume) will be available at supermarkets, conve-nience stores and growler stations.

In Collierville, Poplar Wine and Spirits, 2136 W. Poplar, opened an eight-tap growler station in July. Cheers Wine and Spirits, 366 New Byhalia, plans to feature a station soon.

“We as a market are a couple years behind the trend,” said Jason North-cutt of Poplar Wine and Spirits. “People are waking up to the idea that there are other kinds of beer they can try.”

There are several places in Memphis besides liquor stores and breweries to get a growler illed.

At Whole Foods, 5104 Poplar, samples are al-lowed because the store features a restaurant. Pe-riodic tastings are held at the Madison Growler and Bottle Shop in Cash Saver, 1620 Madison. Da-vid Smith, owner of The Growler at 921 S. Cooper, said the Memphis Alco-hol Commission approved sampling despite food not being served.

Smith sees more growl-er shops opening once high-gravity sales start. Other suburban cities may have to adjust their ordi-nances to accommodate.

“I would think the beer boards want to see Ger-mantown, Collierville and other places do well,’’ he said, “so they’ll make concessions.”

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ACHIEVEMENT

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Susie Wilder’s “Cotton Dress” earned her the National American Visions Medal. The dress was made of cotton burlap, raw cotton with stems, cotton tarlatan, cotton yarns and buttons.

‘Cotton Dress’ earns senior Briarcrest artist national awardBy Beth RooksSpecial to The Weekly

Briarcrest senior Susie Wilder was awarded one of the highest art awards in the country.

She received the National American Visions Medal by Scholastic Art and Writing. More than 4,000 pieces of art were submitted for this prestigious award.

Her piece, “Cotton Dress,” will be includ-ed in the national publication of Scholastic

Art and Writing, which fea-tures artwork from some of the finest middle school and high school art students in the country. She is invited to attend the prestigious award ceremony Carnegie Hall in New York. The work will then be on exhibition in Washington, D.C., at the Corcoran Museum. This award will give her oppor-

tunities for scholarships to the most elite colleges for fashion.

“Cotton Dress” is a 3-D piece constructed from cotton burlap, raw cotton with stems from Wilder’s farm, cotton tarlatan, cotton yarns, and large buttons. Wilder made the dress last year as a junior. It was her final piece for Advanced Placement Studio Art.

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MARCH 15

■ Victim had a tool stolen from the bed of this truck in the 6900 block of Redield at 4:51 p.m.

■ Vehicle collided into a curb causing no injuries at Dogwood and Pete Mitchell at 12:45 a.m.

MARCH 16

■ Someone took the victim’s 2001 GMC Sierra from the parking lot in the 7600 block of Poplar at 3:10 a.m.

■ Victim is receiving harassing messages on Facebook in the 8800 block of Somerset at 12:58 p.m.

■ Male suspect threatened female victim after a traic altercation in the 7500 block of Wolf River at 6:24 p.m.

■ Someone iled a fraudulent tax return using the victim’s personal information in the 7600 block of Hollow Fork at 7:21 p.m.

■ Oicers arrested adult male after he attempted to force entry into the vehicle shop in the 7600 block of Exeter at 8:15 p.m.

MARCH 17

■ Someone spray painted over a sign in the 7700 block of Poplar at 9:22 a.m.

■ Someone fraudulently used the victim’s identity to ile a tax return in the 8800 block of Red Maple at 1:10 p.m.

■ Someone fraudulently used the victim’s identity to ile a tax return in the 2100 block of Dalkeith at 6:20 p.m.

MARCH 18

■ Someone entered an unlocked vehicle and took electronics and a pistol in the 3100 block of Bedford at 8:10 a.m.

■ Someone entered an unlocked vehicle and took small electronic cables in the 2400 block of Bedford at 8:33 a.m.

■ Someone entered an unlocked vehicle and took small electronic cables in the 9700 block of Lipsey at 9:21 a.m.

■ A female suspect attempted to pass a counterfeit check in the 1200 block of S. Germantown at 1:48 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Poplar Pike and Germantown at 7:57 a.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries in the 2100 block of Exeter at 11:45 a.m.

MARCH 19

■ Female victim alleges that her neighbor is harassing and stalking her in the 2200 block of W. Germantown Square at 8:50 a.m.

■ Oicers arrested adult male for taking merchandise without paying for it in the 1900 block of Exeter at 12:15 p.m.

■ Someone broke eggs and the mirror on the victim’s vehicle in the 8900 block of C.D. Smith at 3:15 p.m.

■ Vehicle struck a parked car causing no injuries at Wheatland and Oaklawn at 11:30 p.m.

MARCH 20

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown and Wolf Trail at 10:34 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Calkins and Calkins Hill at 1:58 p.m.

MARCH 21

■ Oicers initiated a traic stop and arrested three juveniles for possession of marijuana and curfew violation in the 9000 block of Bedford at 12:30 a.m.

■ Victim’s identity was used in a fraudulent tax return in the 9600 block of Spring Loop at 10:33 a.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing injuries at Apple Valley at Old Mill at 8:52 a.m.

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By Julia ParkerSpecial to The Weekly

BankTennessee is sponsoring a food drive at its Collierville branches through April 17.

The community is invited to bring canned and non-perish-able items, or monetary dona-tions, to beneit the Collierville Food Pantry.

“Lets get together to end hunger in Collierville,” said Jim Rout, president and chief executive oicer for BankTen-

nessee. “Robyne Earnest, our branch manager, brought it to our attention that there are an alarming number of families in need living in our community, and we want to do our part to help.”

Wright Cox, community president of BankTennessee, added, “We take our role as a community bank seriously. BankTennessee is here to serve our community in any way we can and are proud to support the Collierville Food Pantry.”

People can bring canned goods and non-perishable items to either Collierville banks loca-tions, 1125 Poplar or 100 West Mulberry on the Town Square. Monetary donations also will be accepted.

For additional information about the “Yes! Collierville Can!” food drive, contact Ear-nest at BankTennessee at 901-854-0854.

Julia W. Parker is the senior vice presi-

dent of marketing for BankTennessee.

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Bank sponsors food pantry donations

By Linda BourassaSpecial to The Weekly

Nobody said it quite like base-ball great, Yogi Berra: “It’s like déjà vu all over again!”

The past repeats itself at Silver-creek Senior Living Community in Olive Branch, where ive sets of siblings ind themselves living happily under the same roof.

Virginia Strickland Walker and her sister, Mary Ann Wheel-er, have apartments near each other. They enjoy their fun time at meals together. According to Virginia, “The food is fabulous and the employees are great.”

Fran Foley and her sister, Mae Facello, are from Sardis, and as Fran says, “I love her dearly. Glad she and I are together. She has a great sense of humor and is very witty.” They especially enjoy the Bingo parties at Silvercreek.

Juanita Carr and her broth-er, William Crosno, each have apartments at Silvercreek. Wil-liam and his wife, Dorothy, are happy to be so near Juanita and especially enjoy the afternoons with her. Meals together are a special time and bring back sweet memories of their child-hood.

Mazie Vinson and elder sis-ter, Juanita Olsteen, lived in the tri-state area most of their lives. Born in Jonesboro, Ark., they grew up in the Collierville area, and then moved back to Stuttgart, Ark. With a younger brother living in Memphis,

it made sense that the sisters would relocate to be near fam-ily. They now enjoy apartments near each other.

Sisters Lenora Anthony and Lorene Anthony were married to brothers and lived most of their lives in the Germantown/Collierville area. Now they have apartments down the hall from each other and can have meals together and visit any time they like. In true “sisters” fashion, Le-nora notes that her older sister Lorene is “loving and thoughtful. And always the boss.”

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Five sets of siblings find home at Silvercreek

Siblings Mae Facello and sister Fran Foley, Bill Crosno and sister Juanita Carr, Mary Ann Wheeler and Sister Virginia Strickland Walker, and Lorene and Le-nora Anthony.

Sisters Mazie Vinson and Juanita “Sissy” Olsteen enjoy being together at Silvercreek Senior Living.

Special to The Weekly

In 2014, the Collierville Fire Department responded to 3,062 emergency medical calls with an average response time of 4 minutes, 58 seconds.

To respond and take control of emergency situations is the outcome of more than 3,800 hours of annual specialized training.

“Collierville ireighters do three things — train, train and train,” said Collierville Fire Chief Jerry Crawford. “There is no time to train during a live, emergency situation, which is why we simulate these scenar-ios.”

Earlier this month, the Col-lierville Fire Department re-ceived a donation of wrecked cars from Pull-A-Part, a used auto parts store in Memphis, to use for training. On a vacant ield of Progress Road, ireight-ers created simulated scenarios of vehicular accidents. Starting with a call from dispatch, the crew arrived fully dressed on a iretruck.

“This particular scenario is a wrecked car on an interstate,” explained paramedic Lt. Joe Lee Rape. “It is lipped over and rest-ing on a concrete traic barrier. Fireighters identiied the num-

ber of patients and now must sta-bilize the vehicle in order to re-move the patients from the car.”

Once they unloaded from the truck, the ireighters worked the scene as if it were a real emer-gency. Constantly communicat-ing, the crew worked together to stabilize the car — using tools in-cluding hydraulic rescue mecha-nisms such as the “Jaws of Life” to safely remove the car doors.

“The ‘Jaws of Life’ has the power to move 15,000 pounds,” said Crawford. “Our ire ighters are learning to use this in a con-

trolled environment to be able to safely respond during a live emergency.”

After removing all four doors of the vehicle, Rape said they were going to move the car back on its wheels to practice taking the top of for the next scenario. “We need to be able to practice getting in a car with limited ac-cess. These guys did really well with this irst one,” Rape said.

To view a video of Collierville ireighters removing parts of the car, visit the town’s YouTube channel.

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Once the car was stabilized, Collierville firefighters used hydraulic rescue tools to remove the four doors.

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Family: I am the only child of Tom and Emily Hall.

What do you like most about your school: My favorite thing about Incarnation Catholic School is the fact that the other students and I are able to freely express our Christian beliefs.

Favorite subject (and why): I would have to say that algebra is my favorite subject, the rea-son being that I aspire to be an architect, and this occupation involves quite a bit of math.

Most challenging subject (and why): Ironically, and despite my great love of reading, language arts is my least favorite subject. I don’t particularly enjoy lan-guage arts because of the fact that I’m simply not interested in the plethora of ways to classify irregular verbs and their tenses.

What are some of your biggest accomplishments: Several of my accomplishments are winning fourth place in the state for my school in the talent competition at the Tennessee Junior Beta Club Convention, winning ifth in the state, along with several of my friends, for the Book Battle competition at the Tennessee Junior Beta Convention and achieving my goal of all A’s in middle school.

Hobbies: Running, playing soccer, reading, playing piano, singing, inventing new items, drawing and DIY projects.

Goals for the future: My goals for the future are to be the most faithful servant of Christ I pos-sibly can and to become a world renowned architect.

Person you most admire (and why): One of the people that I greatly admire is Stephen Hawking. Even though he has a disability, he doesn’t let it get in

the way of achieving his goals. His perseverance and intellect extend to levels that we should all strive to reach.

Favorite movies, TV shows, books: Favorite movie is “Har-old and Maude,” favorite tele-vision shows are “Outrageous Acts of Science” and “How It’s Made.” Favorite books are “Atlas Shrugged,” “April Morning,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” “Fahrenheit 451” and “The Help.”

People would be surprised to know about me: Some people might be surprised to know that I am able to weld.

What would do if you were prin-cipal for a day: If I were principal for a day, I would invite a theo-retical physicist to speak to the students at my school.

Famous person would you like to meet (and why): I would choose to meet Paul McCartney because the Beatles were abso-lute musical geniuses.

What would you do with $1 mil-lion: I would make sure that my parents would be able to retire without any worry. I would in-vest the remainder of the money in a college education at Vander-bilt University and stocks.

If you could change one thing in the world: I would make sure that everyone was exposed to Christ. If you think about it, ev-eryone having Christ in their lives would solve all of the prob-lems in the world today.

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Collierville High choir teacher Emily Taylor hopes to share her passion for music with students.

Emily Grace Hall enjoys running, playing piano and DIY projects.

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Incarnation eight-grader Emily Grace Hall wants to be a famous architect

EMILY TAYLORCollierville High School, choir 9-12

Q What do you like most about your school?

A I like the mutual respect be-tween administrators and

teachers. We are expected to be experts in our ield and are given the encouragement and freedom to do what we do best.

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

A Math and spelling were my favorite subjects in childhood

because they were easy for me. I loved the exactness of each. As I got older, my music classes (band and choir) took over irst place.

Q What was the most challeng-ing subject for you as a kid and

A Science was never that inter-esting to me. I guess I was not

a curious sort, so doing various ex-periments was not my thing. My creativity lowed in art and music.

Q What is the greatest challenge you face as an educator?

A Teaching high school music is always challenging since the

students I work with come from so many diferent backgrounds musi-cally. Although some have studied piano or have been in band, the great majority of students have no musical knowledge prior to high school. Teaching them the basics quickly and bringing them all to a high level of musicianship is always the greatest challenge.

Q What do you hope to accomplish as an educator?

A My hope has always been to pass on my passion for music to

as many young people as I can. My desire is to create literate musicians who can take the experience of sing-ing classic choral music into their future, whether that means singing in a community or church choir, or even being in musical endeavors as a career.

Q What is the most rewarding mo-ment you’ve had as a teacher?

A There have been numerous moments of pride through the

years. However, it’s some of the things I hear the students say that warm my heart the most. A few years ago as we were preparing to perform Schubert’s Mass in G Ma-jor, I overheard one of my young men say as we turned to the open-ing piece, “Kyrie Eleison,” “I love the Kyrie! I just love it!” This was a young man who had never read a note of music prior to coming to choir in high school.

Q Who is your teaching inspiration and why?

A I was blessed to study un-der many expert musicians

throughout my life. The most in-luential, I’m sure, were my band director in high school and my voice teacher in college. Both were “old school” in their approach, but pas-sionate in their love of music and its history.

Q Who is the person you most ad-mire?

A My mother is a musician and educator and someone who

has passed on her passion for mu-sic to all ive of her children and to countless piano students through the years.

Q If you weren’t a teacher, what would you be?

A If I had not been a teacher with a husband and family, I would

have used all of my energy in an opera career in the U.S. and abroad.

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Music is a passion for Collierville’s Emily Taylor

Students at Germantown Mu-nicipal School District’s River-dale Elementary School recent-ly had the opportunity to enjoy indoor tennis, cafeteria-style.

At the February PTSA meet-ing, GMSD’s school health coordinator Brian Fisher shared information about the in-school tennis programs. Because of GMSD’s strong belief in providing many “op-portunities for our students to be involved in life-long physi-cal activities,” the coordinated school health department part-nered with the United States Tennis Association and Mem-phis Tennis Association to bring community youth tennis programs to all Germantown kindergarten through eighth-grade schools.

At the recent USTA Tennes-see annual meeting in Nash-ville, Fisher was awarded the Educational Merit Award.

In their partnership with the USTA, each school has been equipped with racquets, age-appropriate tennis balls and modiied nets.

To further their experience and to follow the USTA player development pathway, students will have the opportunity to grow their game by participat-ing in free USTA Play Days.

The on-court fun at the up-coming spring Play Days will be served up from the teaching

professionals of Smashing Aces Tennis, with support from Ger-mantown Parks and Recreation, USTA Tennessee and Memphis Tennis Association.

To prepare teachers for suc-cess with in-school tennis cur-riculum, USTA Tennessee pro-vided free teacher workshops that included class manage-ment techniques, basic tennis skills, station activities, super-vised play formats and “Tennis Skillastics” activities.

Workshop attendees each received a certiicate of atten-dance and a participant guide.

Also on hand for on-court fun at Riverdale Elementary were Steven Duggan and Laura Huss. Duggan represented Smashing Aces Tennis, where he is the assistant teaching pro working alongside head pro Carla Bran-genberg.

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Germantown students learn tennis from the prosSteven Dug-gan shows Eddie Hedrick of Riverdale El-ementary how to properly hit a forehand shot as part of a tennis basics exercise ofered in Germantown schools.

By Beth RooksSpecial to The Weekly

“National Agriculture Day” was cel-ebrated on March 18 at Agricenter In-ternational.

To honor farmers and workers who harvest food, the Agricenter hosted its annual poster contest where students visually interpreted this year’s theme, “Agriculture Fielding our Dreams.”

Four BCS students were awarded cer-tiicates and cash prizes at a luncheon held in their honor. Ava Freeman won irst place in the third/fourth-grade division, Keira Bowers came in third in the third/fourth-grade division, Anshita Mantri came in second in the ifth/sixth-grade division and Taylor Elliott took home irst place in

the seventh/eighth-grade division. They were each presented with certii-

cates from Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, the Shelby County Board of Commissioners, Sen. Mark Norris and the Tennessee Commissioner of Agri-

culture. Each student’s winning artwork was framed and will displayed in Norris’ Nashville oice until April 2016. After that, the artwork will be returned to Memphis and will remain on permanent display at Agricenter International.

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Briarcrest Elementary School student Ava Freeman, 9, (center) stands with her mother Kelly LaJeunesse (left) and grandmother Jeanna Freeman as they look at Ava’s drawing, which won irst place in the 3-4 grade division of the 2015 Ag Day Poster Contest at Agricenter International.

Briarcrest students place in Agricenter art contest

Ava Freeman (left), Anshita Mantri, Taylor Elliott and Keira Bow-ers all won awards in the Agricenter’s Agricultural art contest.

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Bailey Station irst-graders Ashlyne Gerrey (left), Margo Burch and Elise Pate love the “Trufula Tree Seeds” they received as part of Read Across America week.

Spencer Cotham (left), Mishal Shaique, Molly Smith, Jensen Lewis and Cary Robbins, mem-bers of St. George’s middle school forensics team, participated in the St. Francis Middle School Forensics Tournament. Cotham won irst place in audition monologue and third place in prose. Lewis took irst place in humorous interpretation.

Kindergarten and irst-grade students at Bailey Station Elementary celebrated Read Across America Day on March 2. Special guest, Grizzly cheerleader Caitlin Fenton, read to the kindergarten classes. Students were excited to hear Fenton read the Dr. Seuss classic,”One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.” Painting ish, as well as graphing colorful Goldish crackers and creating equa-tions, were also a part of this fun-illed day. Both kindergarten and irst-grade students continued the celebration of well-loved author Dr. Seuss throughout the week by dressing up as the Cat in the Hat, eating a special no-cook recipe of green eggs and ham and learning about conservation from “The Lorax.”

Natalie Wingo’s second-grade class collected 1,688 cans for Riverdale’s Kids Kan Campaign and were the grand prize winners. For taking the top spot, the students had the opportunity to tape principal Joseph Bond to the wall. Riverdale collected 19, 739 cans for the Mid-South Food Bank.

Fifth-graders from Tara Oaks Elementary performed at the PTA meeting on March 12. The theme of the performance was the “Kindness Revolution.”

Wilks Biggs (left), Liam Moore and Ma-son Grace, all irst-graders at Bailey Station Elementary, dress up as characters from “The Cat in the Hat.”

Taylor Owens, a student at St. George’s Independent School was named the Zachariah Davies Good Citizen award winner by the Daughters of the American Revolution group. Presenting Owens the award is Betty Chinery (left) and Melanie Sim-monds, both with DAR. As an award winner, Owens goes on to compete with other chapter winners for a scholarship from the group.

Portraits created by Briarcrest Middle School students Aleix Scott and Jackson Eller recently were selected to be displayed along with the work of their art teacher, Melody Weintraub, at the University of Memphis Art Education Alumni Exhibit, “Who Am I?” The annual exhibit high-lights the personal work and impact of K-12 art teachers from across the region who have completed coursework with the U of M’s art education program.

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“Johnny just ordered two more pine trees.”

Clad in a hard hat and con-struction boots, Alan Barner nods to a dim corner of what soon will resemble a cypress swamp, complete with live ish, inside The Pyramid.

For months, about 600 work-ers have labored to strip out the 20,142 seats and remake the riv-erside arena into Bass Pro Shops at The Pyramid, a $100 million-plus tourist destination sched-uled to open May 1.

Memphians have heard talk of an observation deck, waterfowl museum, bowling alley, target ranges, alligators, luxury hotel and America’s biggest retail store. What they haven’t heard is who dreamed all this up.

His name is Johnny Morris. Bass Pro Inc.’s founder, age 67, is wagering his Memphis creation can draw more than 1 million visitors each year from through-out the nation.

“This is really Johnny’s lega-cy project,” said Barner, senior project manager at The Pyramid for O.T. Marshall Architects of Memphis. “He’s spent countless hours inside this building.”

Ten years ago, Memphis civic leaders called on Morris in his oice in Springield, Mo. They urged him to ill an aged sports arena on a faded block in a worn part of their old river city with a new store. He did not dismiss the idea as the worst he had ever heard.

“I did kind of scratch my head,” said the soft-spoken for-

mer ishing lure salesman.No stranger to ishing the

Mississippi River, Morris then visited the Memphis riverfront, entered The Pyramid, started

thinking, and said he sensed an ex-traordinary store might be in reach.

“I don’t know of any other re-tail project in the country that can match the physi-cal space and all that’s going into this store,” Mor-

ris said. “This is so vast.”Once a pro angler, he started

Bass Pro in 1972 in a former Springfield liquor store. He launched Bass Tracker boats six years later.

Each year, about 100 million people walk into Morris’ chain of Bass Pro Shops and walk out with enough hunting, ishing and outdoor gear to make him the 405th-richest person on Earth by Forbes magazine’s latest count.

The original Springield su-perstore attracts nearly 4 mil-lion visitors each year. Other than Springield, none of the stores — there are about ive dozen in the United States and Canada with combined annual sales surpassing $2.6 billion — stands out as the appealing draw for someone in say, Atlanta, to drive hour after hour expressly to visit a distant Bass Pro.

Morris said he decided he could ramp up that national des-tination by making The Pyramid a tribute to waterfowl, the Mis-sissippi River, the seasonal con-tinental migration of wild ducks and Bass Pro itself.

“It certainly sounds like a des-tination that will draw people from a broad region,” said mar-ket analyst John O’Neil, who studies the $50 billion outdoor lifestyle industry for investment bank Imperial Capital in Boston.

Morris early on copied the Wal-Mart and Sears model of relying on catalogs and stores. Now he’s moving ahead with a concept the big retailers never tried — display wares in a set-ting that looks like the place where merchandise is intended to be used.

And there’s the arms race. Bass Pro is adding two dozen U.S. and Canadian stores as chief ri-val Cabela’s expands across the continent. Each sells products stamped with its own name. Ca-bela’s leans toward hunters, Bass Pro anglers, although Wal-Mart sells more hunting and ishing goods than both combined.

“It’s a roll of the dice but it’s not that much of a roll,” said Robert Lipscomb, Memphis’ housing and community development direc-tor, who visited Morris 10 years ago to let him know an empty riverfront arena was available.

“People don’t realize how dif-icult this is for Bass Pro to do,” Lipscomb said. “It wasn’t like they were looking for a Pyramid. It’s outside their business model. It’s really Johnny Morris.”

The city has committed $176 million to the project using bonds, a kind of loan, to be re-paid over 30 years using Down-town sales tax revenue. Part of the money was spent shoring up The Pyramid against lood and earthquakes, including $100 million for projects unrelated directly to The Pyramid.

Bass Pro hasn’t revealed its spending. Asked if the total was $30 million, Morris replied, “More. Way, way more.”

Morris almost backed of. Early on, the magnitude stunned him.

“That physical structure is al-most intimidating,” Morris said. “To me it wasn’t an easy decision to commit to building. Right up to the day we had to make our press announcement, I was often torn by the decision.”

He tells this story: A few days before he had to say yes or no, he took friend Bill Dance, a pro angler well known in Memphis, and Jack Emmit, Bass Pro’s irst fishing department manager, ishing.

Morris decided if they hauled in a big catish it was a sign to proceed. If not, he would walk away from The Pyramid. They caught and released a 40-pound-er. He dialed the oice, and re-members he told his staf, “It’s meant to be.”

Morris now is ready to open a massive store spread through what resembles a rustic ish-ing camp located in a cypress swamp.

“Our success is dependent on this truly becoming more of a destination store,” Morris said. “When things are over the top enough, when you get that word-of-mouth, people saying, ‘You have to see this,’ and when hunting and ishing buddies say, ‘I’ve heard about this and we’ve got to go see it,’ we think that’s going to be a big key to our suc-cess.”

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A mermaid sculpture overlooks Uncle Buck’s Fishbowl and Grill, one of the attractions in the megastore set to open May 1 at The Pyramid. Each detail of the massive project has progressed under the watchful eye of Bass Pro founder Johnny Morris, who said he was at first intimidated by the size of the undertaking.

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By ThE nuMBErs$176 million: City of memphis bonds repaid from downtown sales taxes, including about $100 million to buy shelby County’s portion of the Pyramid$30 million-plus: bass Pro shops expenditure1 million: annual visitors projected535,000: square-feet for retail loor space1,800: live ish in ponds, tanks1,000-plus: stufed animals600: employees100: hotel rooms32: cypress, pine and other trees13: bowling alley lanes3: aquariums, restaurants, pistol range lanes, archery range lanes1: observation deck, spa

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Entering Bass Pro Shops at The Pyramid is like walking into a huge store set inside a natural science museum made to resemble a charming old fishing camp.

During a recent tour, merchandise was being stocked and exhibits were being completed, although the project was far enough along to provide a sense of what it will look like on opening day May 1.

Pathways weave among ponds to be stocked with live ish and fed by a three-story waterfall running over a rock wall.

Spread along the main loor and the pathways is 535,000 square-feet of loor space for merchandise.

Paths converge at a large elevator running to the 32nd-floor observa-tion deck looking out on the city, the Delta and the Mississippi River. A catish aquarium and upscale res-taurant are planned here.

At the foot of the el-evators are live alligator ponds.

Look up, and it’s as if trees 100 feet tall stretch toward the roof. Coveys of mallards, wood duck and other wildfowl fashioned like live birds hang in the air. The original Pyramid ceiling also remains visible.

Look ahead and repli-cas of 32 cypress, pine and

other lora tower over the ponds. Plans call for 1,800 live ish in the ponds and aquariums and more than 1,000 stufed animals.

Nearby, a tin-roofed fishing shack serves as a general store. Another contains a restaurant. On the second loor, a ish-ing shack sells ly-ishing supplies. Its loft contains a hotel suite.

Rimming loors two and three — no fourth story is inside the building — are the 80 rooms and 20 suites of Big Cypress Lodge, a Bass Pro luxury hotel.

Inside Big Cypress rooms, deer antlers serve as doorknobs on the closet doors. Each bathroom con-tains a Jacuzzi, bathtub, shower, twin vanity and gas ireplace. A screened porch with rocking chairs overlooks the tree trunks ahead and shoppers below. Nearby are a 200-person conference center and a massage and nail salon.

The wooden craftsman theme, carried throughout the facility, is used to set of the special rooms. One houses the 13-lane bowling alley and accompanying bar and restaurant, where Bass Pro’s mural artists hand-painted underwater scenes.

There’s also the 12-foot diameter saltwater aquari-um, Ducks Unlimited heri-tage museum, laser-gun duck hunting counter, and the three-lane pistol and archery target ranges.

Waterfall, fish, gators feed rustic camp vibe

One of the many large cypress trees is seen covered in moss inside of the new Bass Pro Shops megastore in The Pyramid.

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At the Collierville Chamber of Commerce’s general membership meet-ing, the Person of the Year and Business Champion awards were given out.

About 233 attended the luncheon at Ridgeway Country Club.

Chairman of the Board Matt VanCleve presented the Business Champion Award by saying, “In these tough economic times, some of our chamber members have faced and will face many challenges and obstacles. Our cham-ber board reflected on our outstanding business community. As a commu-nity, we are truly blessed by the diversity we have in Collierville. There is a common thread among our business community — they believe in Collier-

ville and care about its citi-zens and community. One such company came to

mind immediately — Hel-ena Chemical Company, as evidenced by their com-

mitment and expansion in Collierville.”

A heartfelt tribute to 2014 Collierville Person of the Year was given by the Chairman John Barrios. Lin-da R. Dick won the award.

“Today, it’s my pleasure to make a surprise an-nouncement of the newest recipient of the Person of the Year Award, the most prestigious award pre-sented by the Collierville Chamber of Commerce,” Barrios said.

“The program was es-tablished in 1990 and is

presented annually to an individual in recognition of exemplary accomplish-ments and contributions to Collierville, its businesses and citizens through ex-ceptional volunteerism and commitment to the betterment of life within the Collierville commu-nity.”

The past winners are Nancy Joyner Chute, John W. Green, Tom Brown, Taylor Stamps, Thomas W. Hart, Clarene Pinkston Russell, Sherry Douglas and Barrios.

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Paragon Bank is dis-playing a new round of lo-cal student artwork in the main lobby of its Saddle Creek banking center, 7600 Poplar, until the end of the month.

The art installation in-cludes pieces from West-minster Academy students in both the upper and low-er schools.

“Our employees and customers love seeing the creative work of tal-ented young artists in our community,” said Robert Shaw, chief executive of-ficer at Paragon Bank. “We’re thankful for the Westminster Academy students and feel confident our customers will enjoy the showcase.”

Westminster art teach-ers Jocelyn Collins, from the upper school, and Tirzah Rhodes, from the lower school worked,

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The art was created by Sloane Banks and Sloane Ebach in kindergarten; Au-brey Banks, Graham Otey and Emerson Thorne in second grade; Abby Car-ney and Jack Rhodes in fourth grade; Annalise El-lard in sixth grade. Student

artists in the upper school include Lucy Jones, Lizzy Jorgensen, Hannah New-some and Sophie Tusant in ninth grade; Addison Furst and Cy Leist in 10th grade; Evan Furst, Charli Hale, Rachel Halford, Spencer Harris, Laura Johnson and Margaret Walker in 12th grade.

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Paragon Bank showcases student artwork from Westminster Academy

Paragon Bank is currently showcasing artwork from Westmin-ster Academy students in the lobby of its Saddle Creek banking center for the community to enjoy throughout March.

Linda R. Dick (second from left) won the Person of the Year Award. Chairman John Barrios, past chamber president Fran Persechini and Mayor Stan Joyner con-gratulate her on the award.

Linda R. Dick, Helena Chemical take honors

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Germantown Community Theatre’s 2015-2016 season will blend music, theater for youth, classic literature and raucous fun.

■ All Children’s Theatre will put on “Inherit the Wind” July 31-Aug. 9. Based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, the play is a high-intensity le-gal drama that GCT is proud to present through its All Chil-dren’s Theatre Program.

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■ “Rumors” runs Sept. 11-27 at GCT. Guests are invited to the craziest dinner party of the season. This farce opens with a seemingly innocent anniversary party that quick-ly becomes a tangle of gun-shots, afairs, politicians and, of course, rumors.

■ “Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash” opens Oct. 23 and ends Nov. 8. Any fan of Johnny Cash’s music will in-stantly fall in love with “Ring of Fire.” The play weaves a generations-long story of home and family, all through the music of the Man in Black.

■ The Christmas classic, “Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Radio Play” will run Dec. 4-20. Families will be delighted in this 1940s style radio play pre-sented live on the GCT stage. The show is complete with on-stage sound efects and Hol-lywood starlets.

■ “Love Letters” opens Jan. 29 and runs until Valentine’s Day. “Love Letters” is a 50-year love afair carried out through the art of the pen.

■ “Dirty Rotten Scoun-drels,” a musical comedy, is based on the 1988 ilm of the same name and set in the color-ful world of the French Riviera. Master con-artists Lawrence and Freddy challenge each other to a bet. The irst one to swindle $50,000 out of an un-suspecting woman, wins. The play runs March 11-26.

■ The classic novel “A Street Car Named Desire” makes its way to GCT April 15-May 1. One of Tennessee William’s most popular plays, “A Street Car Named Desire” tells the story of fragile South-ern belle, Blanche, who leaves the family plantation house and moves to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella, and her animalistic husband, Stan-ley. Once there, she quickly gets a gritty life lesson in the steamy underbelly of 1940s French Quarter life.

■ “I Hate Hamlet” runs May 20-June 5. The play’s plot revolves around hot, young television star, Andrew Rally, who needs to make a big career move. He moves to New York, where he is ofered the role of a lifetime in “Hamlet.” One big problem — he hates Hamlet.

■ All Children’s Theatre wraps up the season with “Disney’s My Son Pinocchio Jr.” June 24-July 3. The play is the classic Pinocchio story told from Geppetto’s perspec-tive.

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GERMANTOWN

GCT announces 2015-2016 lineup, schedule

Chris McKinley, a former Ger-mantown resident and graduate of Germantown High School, recent-ly attended the Academy Awards in Hollywood to celebrate the nomination of the documentary “Finding Vivian Maier,” which he worked on as West Coast editor and associate producer.

McKinley’s career started at Germantown High School with his most inf luential teacher, friend and mentor, Frank Blues-

tein, former chairman of the GHS ine arts department. As the general manager of GHS TV and lighting director for both the TV station and Poplar Pike Playhouse, McKinley built a good foundation for what was to come.

He later attended and graduat-ed from the University of South-ern California’s ilm school where between classes, he worked at TrojanVision, the USC TV sta-tion on campus.

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ACHIEVEMENT

Former GHS student works on nominated film, attends Academy Awards

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The Memphis Symphony Or-chestra has received a gift of $1 million to expand its education and outreach programs and thus increase the income of its musi-cians, who this year experienced deep pay cuts.

The donation from the Mem-phis-based Helen and Jabie Har-din Charitable Trust will consist of two $500,000 awards, ear-marked for the symphony’s 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons.

“This is an extraordinary gift that we hope will serve as a build-ing block to ensure the orchestra’s success for some time to come,” said Roland Valliere, symphony president and CEO, who formally announced the donation before last Saturday night’s Masterworks concert at the Cannon Center.

“This really ofers reason for hope,” said Valliere. “The mu-sicians have experienced such

sacriice over the past year, so here’s an investment in them.”

The symphony’s con-tracted musicians this year accepted their second pay cut in ive years, as the inancially struggling or-chestra’s season was re-duced from 39 to 24 weeks. This resulted in a pay cut of about 38 percent per musician, symphony oicials said. The cuts were needed to enable the sym-phony to reduce its budget to $3.2 million, Valliere said.

The musicians include 36 “core” players, who receive weekly sala-ries, and 39 others who are paid on a per-service basis. The reduced season meant not only fewer con-certs, but also fewer of the educa-tion and outreach opportunities that provide the musicians with a great deal of extra income.

The Hardin gift isn’t intended to enable the symphony to ex-pand its concert season, Valliere said, although a small expansion

is possible. Instead, it en-ables the organization to increase its outreach to schools, libraries and else-where, with the money be-ing used to compensate the musicians for their partici-pation in the events.

“I think the musicians are worthy of having some help,” said Jeanette Cooley,

a long-standing member of the Memphis Symphony League, which supports the orchestra. She is also a member of the commit-tee that oversees the six-year-old Hardin Charitable Trust, which is administered through First Ten-nessee Bank and has made major contributions to the Memphis Zoo, the Salvation Army, the Uni-versity of Memphis and Memphis Botanic Garden.

The trust was established by the late philanthropist Helen Hardin, a year after the death of her husband, Jabez Sanford “Ja-bie” Hardin, founder of Hardin-Sysco Food Services.

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Chris McKinley, a Germantown High School graduate, recently attended the Academy Awards. McKinley worked on the Oscar nominated film “Finding Vivian Maier.”

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By the time summer nears, Bartlett and Collierville will be their usual scary selves on the baseball ield, irmly in the mix for a shot at a state Class AAA championship.

But on one of the irst real springlike nights of the year Monday, the Panthers and Drag-ons slogged through the kind of early-season game that usually happens following a harsh win-ter.

In the end, the host Panthers (7-2) scratched out a 6-5 victory as senior irst baseman Jonathan Bowlan stroked a seventh-inning leadof double against reliever Clay Murphy (0-1), moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a walk-of pinch single by ju-nior Landon Caldwell.

“He’s one of the best bunters on the team, and we brought him in for the sacriice,” Bartlett coach Josh Stewart said. “But when Jonathan moved to third, we let him swing away.”

Both teams are senior-laden with plenty of stars who have committed to, or signed with, area colleges for next season. And Monday featured a pitch-ing matchup of right-handers — Bartlett’s Nick Bramlett and Col-lierville’s Alex Hicks — who will be among the area’s best aces by season’s end.

Hicks, a University of Mem-phis signee, had been of to a strong start — until Monday night. In ive innings he walked

ive, and gave up ive earned runs. Two scored on an Andrew Miller double in the irst, and the Panthers made it 5-0 in the third on an RBI single by Bowlan, a ielders choice and a run-scoring double by Christian Busby. Hicks struck out eight, but allowed the leadof hitter to reach in each of the ive innings he worked.

“We’ve had trouble scoring runs, but our pitching has been outstanding, especially Alex, but tonight he just didn’t have it,” said Collierville coach Jef Hopkins, whose Dragons (7-6) have lost four of their last ive — all one-run defeats. “Normally, Alex has that good sinking fast-ball, but tonight it stayed lat, and Bartlett didn’t miss on too many opportunities.”

Bramlett, 8-3 a year ago, is one of eight senior pitchers who cut their teeth a year ago and will be the backbone for this Pan-ther squad. The Columbia State Community College commit-ment cruised through the irst three innings, giving up two hits and fanning three. The Dragons strung together three straight singles, the last by C.J. Flem-ing making it 5-1 in the fourth. Bartlett then had its mini-night-mare in the ifth.

Bramlett issued back-to-back one-out walks, and then the Pan-thers sufered back-to-back in-ield miscues to make it 5-2. After a strikeout, it looked like Flem-ing had hit an inning-ending ly ball to right, but it was mis-played. That cleared the bases, and tied the game.

Bramlett struck out the next batter, and got through the sixth with just an inield hit. Senior Jackson South (2-0) kept the Dragons of the board in the sev-enth, striking out two, and was rewarded with the win.

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Collierville’s Ryan Tow attempts to slide to safety, but Bartlett’s Jonathan Bowlan beats him to the plate.

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Wasn’t it just yester-day that Bayleigh Wisher and her Collierville Dragon

teammates were all just little kids? Didn’t know enough to be scared of the competition, ready to let the world know “Here we are … Deal with it.”

But in high school sports, that begin-ning always comes with an ending. Kids grow up fast and suddenly ind that there are more yesterdays than there are to-morrows when it comes to their prep careers. So it is with the bulk of a very accomplished Dragons squad that went 64-24 the past two years, years that ended with too-brief appearances in the state Class AAA tournament.

It’s the last time around for Wisher & Co., and Dragons coach Mike Bradley said they are ready.

“The season can be very special,” said Bradley, whose team is of to a 7-1 start, including a runner-up inish in an early-season tournament in Alabama. “They’ve already proven they can play. They’ve tasted success. But they would love to inish it on a high note, inish what they started. To do that, we’ve got to keep playing team ball and avoid injuries.”

Wisher, a University of Memphis sign-ee, certainly ills the bill. She led her team from the mound, where she went 20-5 with a 1.22 ERA and 165 strikeouts in 120

innings. And from the plate, where she hit .477 (.561 OBP) with 13 homers and 54 RBI. And the Dragons are double-bar-reled in the pitching department with junior Kelsey Gross (15-7, 1.40 ERA, 131 K in 109.2 innings, .396 BA, 6 homers, 34 RBI). Wisher won The Commercial Ap-

peal’s Best of the Preps Softball Player of the Year award, while Gross was also among the nominees.

That’s the focal point, but there are ive other senior starters with the same sense of urgency — C Jacqueline Conlan (.241, 12 RBI), 3B Kari Kennel (.302), LF Brooke Castillo, CF Hannah Oliver (.298, 22 RBI, 11 steals), and RF Eli Burriss. Collectively this team hit .309 with a .435 OBP. Con-lon, Kennel, Oliver, Wisher and Gross were named to the BOP All-Metro squad. Oliver and Conlan will be headed to CBU while Castillo is committed to Dyersburg State Community College.

Equally senior-laden is rival Houston (20-17), who lost out to Munford in the sectional round. Pitcher Jenna Cotter (2.90 ERA, .425 BA), SS Kathryn Peterson (.485), C Mary Collins (365), CF Madi-son Studstill (.351) and OF Maggie Crigler (.350) are back for coach Matt Parker’s squad, which has started the year 3-2. So is sophomore 2B Michelle Myers, who hit .398 as a freshman. Collins, Cotter and Peterson were All-Metro picks as juniors. Cotter will play for CBU next year, while Collins is headed to Trevecca Nazarene.

Germantown is of to a 2-2 start with ive starters returning for coach Katie Martin, including two seniors, C and team leader Nava Fisher and Quena John-son. They are backed by junior Abbey Johnson, sophomores Madeline Cum-mings and Savanna Cici, and Martin has high hopes for freshman Elizabeth Laboe.

St. George’s and coach Ben Todd are looking to move forward from a 5-18 season behind senior .300 hitters Kelsey Pepper in the inield and Heather Schae-fer in the outield. Senior OF-1B Kate Stoddard has also stepped into the Gry-phons’ lineup.

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Best of the Preps Player of the Year Bayleigh Wisher (center) returns for Collierville after compiling a 20-5 record with a 1.22 ERA, and hitting .477 with 13 home runs and 55 RBIs.

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High school baseball is in full swing. So with that in mind, here are some teams that will compete for postseason honors.

Arlington: Chris Ring’s Tigers won District 14-AAA last season en route to a 29-6 finish. Reese Brewer, a 6-6 right-hander, anchors the pitching staf, but several young players will have to step up, led by freshmen Hunter Good-man and Tate Kolwyck and sophomore Tyler Gentry.

Briarcrest: The Saints have the talent to make it to state, led by highly regarded junior Thomas Dillard and slugging out-ielder Von Watson. And coach Brian Stewart will be delighted to have MUS transfer Hugh Fisher, a 6-4 sophomore lefty who has committed to Vanderbilt.

CBHS: Tragedy struck the Brothers when Mem-phis signee Colin Kilgore was killed in a Feb. 14 car crash. But Kilgore’s mem-ory will be strong all year as the Brothers chase their ninth state title. Vanderbilt signee Walker Grisanti and Memphis-bound pitcher James Muse will lead the way for Buster Kelso, the all-time winningest coach in Tennessee. Infielders Zane Phillips and Landon Kelly and inielder-pitcher Dallas Broughton will also play big roles.

Collierville: The Dragons look loaded as they aim for their second AAA title in the last three years under Jeff Hopkins. Memphis signee Alex Hicks (10-2, 0.51 ERA) and Arkansas State signee Peyton Culbertson (4-2 1.79) head a deep pitch-ing staf that also features Bo Sutton (5-0, 0.73), Purdue signee Hunter Hollis (2-0, 1.43) and Alex Johnson (3-1, 1.58). Hicks leads the return-ees with 28 RBIs; irst base-man Parker Phillips (.427, 25 RBIs) also has plenty of pop. Second baseman C.J. Flem-ing (CBU) returns after be-ing injured all last year.

ECS: A promising soph-omore class should mix well with the veterans un-der irst-year coach Duke Williams. Pitchers Sadler Goodwin (2.81 ERA) and Riley Watkins are solid and outielder-pitcher Alex Smith should contribute plenty after tearing his ACL early in the football season.

Germantown: Veterans Chris Howell and Dacoda Stone return to lead Casey Calloway’s Red Devils, who are also counting on big things from a player with one of the best names in the area, junior Andruw Jones.

Harding: Division 2-A state runners-up in 2012 and 2013, the Lions will be a fac-tor again despite key losses. Junior Jake Criswell is just eight victories from break-ing the school mark of 21. Batterymate Nolan Stevens, son of head coach Al, batted .310 last year. Coach Stevens says the bullpen — featur-ing senior Robert Mihalko and sophomore Noah Sharp — will be a key.

Houston: Lane McCart-er’s AAA runners-up have a great shot to make it back to Murfreesboro. Jared Schmidt (.424, 8 HRs, 50 RBIs) and Ayrton Scha-fer are terriic hitters and the pitching staf — led by senior right-handers Jack Rude, Walter Rook and Nikko Warmus and junior Brandon Maxwell — is deep and talented. Twins Cullen and Conrad Ray, who transferred from Germantown, should also contribute plenty, along with inielder Jack Kinley and catcher Alex Sala.

MUS: John Jarnigan re-places Johnny Beard in the Owls dugout and he inherits a good group of senior veterans, led by out-ielder-pitcher Colton Neel (Memphis signee), inielder Connor Wright, catcher A.J. Hunt, pitcher Mike Frymire and outielder-pitcher Pres-ton White.

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The high school soccer season is still in its open-ing act. But Bartlett coach Robby Midyett feels like has team has already earned some positive re-views.

The visiting Panthers played Collierville — last season’s AAA state runners-up — to a virtual standstill Tuesday inish-ing all tied at 1-1. And al-though Midyett was a little unhappy not to get the vic-tory, he certainly wasn’t complaining.

“Sure we’re a little disappointed,” he said.

“But we’re out to rewrite some scripts this year. We haven’t beaten the Collier-villes and Houstons in the past.

“But we have nine se-niors this year and a heavy junior class and they want to do what other teams (before) haven’t been able to. It would have been nice to edge it out, but I’m happy.”

One of those veterans — senior Ebrahim Al-louzi — set up Bartlett’s goal 10 minutes into the game, delivering a ine corner kick that sopho-more Semir Eldahan headed into the net.

The goal seemed to ignite Collierville (2-0-3), which had started a bit slowly. The Dragons tied it up 13 minutes later when junior Justin Motro-ni scored on a breakaway after Collierville caught

Bartlett napping as Jack-son Bentley took a quick free kick after a foul.

“That’s not a time for a

mental break” said Collier-ville coach Drew Hensar-ling. “We get the ball and (claps hands) bam! We’re

of. We didn’t come out to play, and I think Bartlett had this game circled on their calendar.

“We ended their season last year in the sectionals, and that Monday morning, they were turning in their jerseys while we were getting on a bus going to state.”

Bartlett was perhaps unlucky not to get a win-ner, especially in the clos-ing moments when a pair of brave saves from new Collierville keeper Caleb Enzor preserved the tie.

“At halftime, I told them ‘if it’s not broken, don’t ix it,’” said Midyett. “But after our goal, I think we played a little of their game. But we kept our composure.”

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Sample the culinary oferings of area restaurants and businesses at the annual Arlington Chamber of Commerce Taste of Arlington from 5-7 p.m. April 12 at the Arlington High School Rotunda. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for children ages 5-12. Af-ter Wednesday, tickets will be $20 for adults. Visit ArlingtonTNChamber.com or call 901-867-0545. There will be a silent auction beneiting the Arling-ton Chapter of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities. To donate items for the silent auction, call Diane Pfohl at 901-833-6055.

BartlettFirst Citizens National Bank, 7580 Highway 70,

in cooperation with the Bartlett Police Department, will host Community Document Shred-it Day, a free on-site personal document shred on April 4, from 9 a.m. to noon. There is a 100-pound limit on materials per person. Call 901-213-9900.

On April 10-11, more than 200 pickleball players will compete in the second Bartlett Pickleball Tour-nament beneiting Youth Villages. The tournament, open to all levels and ages, will be held at the Bartlett Recreation Center and Singleton Community Center. Games begin at 6 p.m. April 10 and 9 a.m. April 11. Cost is $30, and the registration deadline is 6 p.m. Friday. Call Rick Darling at 901-604-5668.

Lisa Johnson will be the speaker at the Bartlett Historical Society on April 13 at 7 p.m. There will be a PowerPoint presentation on Chalk the Walk, with drawings by local artists from 2013 and 2014 events. The featured artist was Jennifer Hughes. Bartlett Historical Society is located in the Bartlett Museum/Gotten House at 2969 Court Street. Admission is free. Donations will be accepted.

Don’t miss the annual Bartlett Parks and Recre-ation Children’s Easter Egg Hunt and Easter Basket Decorating Contest on Saturday at W.J. Freeman Park, 2629 Bartlett Blvd. The hunt, for children 10 and un-der, will feature lots of candy and plenty of special golden eggs that will win bigger prizes. Stick around and enjoy inlatables, face painting, crafts and have a picture made with the Easter Bunny. Basket judging at 9:30 a.m. and Easter egg hunt at 10 a.m.

Side Car Cafe, 2194 Whitten, will host the 18th an-nual Wild Pigs Poker Run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 12. Ride starts at Side Car Cafe and commences with a barbecue, live music and door prizes beneiting the families of fallen and injured law enforcement oicers. Cost is $25 per rider, $10 per passenger. E-mail wildpigsmemphistennessee@yahoo.com, visit wildpigsmemphis.net or call 782-636-8515.

ColliervilleThe Easter Bunny is available for photos 11 a.m. to

7 p.m. through April 4 at the Shops of Saddle Creek, in Suite 214, near Zales. Visits with the Easter Bunny are always free, and a variety of photo packages are available for purchase. Call 231-392-5225.

Collierville Women’s Club Spring Luncheon, Fash-ion Show and Silent Auction will be today at Wood-land Hills, 10000 Woodland Hills Drive. Fashions from Chico’s, White House/Black Market, Soma and children’s fashions from Sass-It-Up on Collierville’s Town Square. Tickets are $25. Call Sally Reynolds 901-853-5634 or Gail Watson 901-861-0746.

Leadership Collierville’s 7th annual Trivia Night will be 6-10 p.m. Saturday at The Quonset, 178 S. Cen-ter. There will be complimentary food, beer, wine and snacks, as well as door prizes, silent auction and wine pull. Hosted by Jef Martindale. Tickets are $30 each or $240 for a table of eight. Call Terry Dean at 901-853-1949 or e-mail director@leadershipcollier-ville.org to reserve a table.

The Senior Lunch n’ Learn series at the Morton Mu-seum, 196 N. Main, continues the second and fourth Thursday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Attendees are asked to bring a lunch. Drink and dessert provided. Programs are free and all materials included.

Also coming up: ■ Preschool story time from 10:30-11 a.m. every

Friday in March. Featuring stories, songs and play related to Collierville History. Free event for ages 5 and under. E-mail museum@ci.collierville.tn.us or call 901-457-2650.

The Collierville Burch Library, 501 Poplar View Parkway, presents Organize Your Life!, from noon to 1:30 in the Halle Room. On April 2, get organized with “Paperwork and Household Documents.” Pre-registration required at colliervillelibrary.org.

The Easter Eggstravaganza at the YMCA at Schil-ling Farms is April 4. Children collect loating plastic eggs in the indoor pool. The times are: ages 3-5 at 1:30 p.m. with a parent/guardian in the water with the child; ages 6-7 at 1:45 p.m.; ages 8-9 at 2 p.m.; and ages 10-14 at 2:15 p.m. Bring a basket and lotation device. Reserve your spot by April 2. The cost to participate is $3 for YMCA members and $5 for non-members.

CordovaThe Caring Bunny will be at Wolfchase Galleria,

2760 N. Germantown Parkway, 9:30-11 a.m. Sunday to ofer families that have children with special needs a subdued environment to participate in the

bunny photo experience. Visit wolfchasegalleriac-aringbunny2015.eventbrite.com or call 901-372-9409.

Spring Market will be this weekend at Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove. Featuring 175 mer-chants showcasing the latest and hottest fashions. Tickets are $8 for an adult one-day pass or $15 for all three days. Children 12 and under get in free. Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Call 662-890-3359 or visit midsouthmediagroup.com.

Volunteers at Hope Church in Cordova are so egg-cited about the Special Kids & Adults Ministry Easter egg hunt and talent show Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. This free event is for families who have a child or children with special needs. Enjoy the bunny trail egg hunt, face painting, games, cake walk, inlat-ables, food and more. E-mail KarenWalls@hope-churchmemphis.com or call 901-921-8320.

Shelby Farms Park will host a cadre of races this weekend. The Pray, Race and Yell for a Cure 5K will be Saturday, from 9 a.m. to noon, beneiting the Stephanie Vasofsky Cervical Cancer Foundation. Later that night, hit up The Glo Run at 7148 Mullins Station, from 6-11 p.m. Start your multisport season on Sunday with the Wolfman Duathlon, from 9 a.m. to noon. Featuring post-race hamburgers, hot dogs and music. Visit shelbyfarmspark.org.

The Cordova Branch Library, 8457 Trinity, will host National Poetry Month Open Mic & Poetry Slam on April 4, from 2-4 p.m. Featuring poetry reading, adult and teen poetry competition and door prizes. E-mail SpartanCityWriters@yahoo.com, visit living-breathingpoetry.com or call 901-415-2764.

Join Best Buddies Tennessee’s Friendship Walk on April 11 at Hope Church, 8500 Walnut Grove. There is no fee to register, but each participant is encouraged to fundraise a minimum of $50 to receive an event day T-shirt. Register online at bestbuddiestennessee.org/memphiswalk. Registration the day of the walk begins at 11 a.m., with the walk at noon and post-walk celebra-tion from 1-2 p.m. The mission of Best Buddies is to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Actor and comedian Gary Owen will be at Chuck-les Comedy Club, 1770 Dexter Springs Loop, for six shows through Sunday. Tickets are $25. Shows start at 8 p.m. Thursday and Sunday and 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Bill Pickett Rodeo presents Rodeo for Kidz Sake on Friday and the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo on Saturday at the Show Place Arena at Agricenter In-ternational, 105 S. Germantown Parkway. Admission is $24 at the door and $21 in advance for adults and $15/12 for kids. Visit billpickettrodeo.com.

HopeWorks’ Morning of Hope breakfast and fun-draising event featuring keynote speaker Lucille O’Neal, mother of NBA star Shaquille O’Neal will be Saturday, from 8:30-10:30 a.m., at Woodland Hills Ballroom, 10000 Woodland Hills. Cost is $60. Visit whyhopeworks.org or call 901-272-3700.

Join the fun at Shelby Farms Park, 500 N. Pine Lake Drive, for Eco EGGstravaganza from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 4. Featuring egg hunting, treetop adventure course, kids ishing rodeo, nature hikes, live music, food trucks and more. Visit shelbyfarmspark.org or call 901-767-PARK.

GermantownThe Germantown Community Garden Association is

seeking members for the upcoming growing season. Applications will be accepted through May 1 or until capacity is reached. Contact Joni Roberts at 901-757-7378 or jroberts@germantown-tn.gov.

The Germantown 50+ Group ofers opportunities to meet people, socialize with friends, eat, dance or take a trip. Events include:

■ ACBL sanctioned duplicate bridge Wednesdays at 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Pickering Center, 7771 Poplar Pike. Cost is $5. Bring a lunch and a partner.

■ Improve coordination, memory skill and energy level while learning a variety of country and west-ern, soul and Latino line dances. Beginner dances are taught during the irst hour, and intermediate dances will be taught the last half-hour. The class is 1:30-3 p.m. Mondays at the Pickering Center. The $10 punch card includes ive classes.

■ Potluck and Bingo is the irst Thursday of each month at noon. The cost is $1, a gift worth $1 and a main dish or dessert. Additional prizes will be awarded.

“Garden Talk” Education Series continues April 19, 2-4 p.m. with “Starting a Container Garden” at Germantown Community Library, 1925 Exeter. Tips and tricks for successful container gardening, plus a sneak peek at upcoming Farm Park events will be presented by staf. A hands-on demonstration will be included.

The Tour of Remodeled Homes and Landscapes will be April 26, starting at 2 p.m. Germantown residents who have recently renovated or re-landscaped en-couraged to showcase improvements on this free tour. Homeowners will need to be present during the tour to explain and give details of the changes. Contact Cathy Phillips at GermantownHomeTour@gmail.com or Sherrye Harris at saharris@german-town-tn.gov or call 901-757-7203.

LakelandThe Lakeland Women’s Tennis Group plays Tues-

days and Thursdays from 9-11 a.m. at Windward Slopes Park, 9822 Beverle Rivera Drive. Contact Peggy Young at peggyyoung7@comcast.net or 901-606-8269.

The Los Locos Duathlon will be 8 a.m. April 12 at Lakeland Factory Outlet Mall, 3536 Canada Road. A 2-mile run followed by a 15-mile bike ride. Visit loslocos.racesonline.com.

MemphisPhilip Ashley Chocolates, 798 Cooper, will wel-

come emerging artist Rachel Ford to the store’s gal-lery tonight from 6-8 p.m. for its “Meet the Artist” reception. Ford specializes in acrylic on reclaimed

wood, repurposed to create beautiful nature scenes and other inspired paintings. Ford will donate 20 percent of sales to the Tennessee Wildlife Federa-tion. Call 901-207-6259.

The Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 3050 Cen-tral, presents Animal Grossology through April 19. Interactive exhibition takes science information and incorporates it into interactive entertainment featuring some of the stinkiest, slimiest and down-right yuckiest creatures. Free for members, $12.75 nonmembers. Visit memphismuseums.org.

Linen and Lace, the Ladies’ of Charity Tea and Fashion Show, will be 2-4:30 p.m. Sunday in Hef-fernan Hall at Christian Brothers High School. Re-freshments will be served, plus a silent auction, wine pull and more. Tickets are $20/person, $25 at door.

Scrapping For A Cure: Cystic Fibrosis this weekend at Memphis Hilton, 939 Ridge Lake. Featuring 36 hours of craft time, classes, goody bags, silent auc-tion, rale, door prices, meals, vendors and more beneiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Cost is $70-130. Noon to 11:45 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. Saturday. E-mail scrapping4acure@gmail.com, visit scrappingforacure.com or call 901-827-7386.

Head on down to the Orpheum at 7:30 p.m. Satur-day and 2 p.m. Sunday for Disney In Concert: Magical Music from the Movies. See Disney’s most beloved songs including music from “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Mary Poppins,” “Aladdin,” “The Lion King,” “Pocahontas,” “Frozen” and others Tickets are $25-$250. Visit orpheum-memphis.com/events/detail/disneyinconcert.

The Children’s Museum of Memphis, 2525 Cen-tral, will host the Yummy Bunny Breakfast on Satur-day at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Enjoy a plate of pancakes, sausage, pastries, and orange juice with the Easter Bunny. Photos and Easter crafts available. Reserva-tions required. Cost is $12 members, $15 nonmem-bers. Visit cmom.com or call 901-320-3170.

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HernandoThe 7th annual Taste of Hernando will be 6-9 p.m.

Friday at Cedar Hill Farm, 8 Love Road. An evening of delicious local food, beverages, a silent auction and music. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door and can be purchased at the Hernando Main Street Chamber of Commerce. Call 662-429-9055.

The Cedar Hill Farms annual Easter Egg Hunt will be Friday through April 4 at 008 Love Road. Enjoy pony rides, face painting, petting animals, egg hunts and pictures with the Easter Bunny. Cost for adults is $8.50 plus tax and $9.25 for children 3-10. Children 2 and under get in free. Coolers and picnics welcome. No reservations required. Call 662-429-2540 or visit gocedarhillfarm.com.

Board the Titanic & Turn Back the Clock at 7 p.m. Tuesday at First Regional Public Library, 370 Com-merce. A harpist, pianist and cellist musical trio will perform music played on the Titanic and other pieces of the time period. Attendees will be given a boarding ticket with the name of a passenger. Find out at the end of the performance if you survived. Call 662-429-4439 or visit irstregional.org.

Horn LakePlanes, Trains and Automobiles at Latimer Lakes

Park, 5633 Tulane, from 1-4 p.m. Saturday will feature North Mississippi Remote Control Airplane Club, Ca-nadian National ‘Lil Obie Train and Antique Corvette Club activities. Free admission. Call 662-393-5654.

Lake CormorantThere will be a casserole sale at Hinds Chapel

United Methodist Church, 5105 Church Road, Sat-urday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Vegetable casseroles are $8, and meat casseroles are $10. Proceeds will beneit the church’s mission projects.

Olive BranchThe Olive Branch annual Arbor Day Celebration

is 10 a.m. Friday at Olive Branch City Park Amphi-theater, 305 College St. Remember someone special and purchase a tree to be planted at the park. Call 662-895-5219 or visit obms.us.

The Whispering Woods Half Marathon & Twig 5K will be 8 a.m. Saturday at Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center, 7300 Hacks Cross. Featuring music, food, awards, door prizes and fun. Proceeds beneit Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, as well as scholarships to several local Desoto County Schools. E-mail runnergirl0526@gmail.com, call 901-500-6998 or visit facebook.com/midsouth.runner and whispering5k.racesonline.com.

Spring Hootenanny Hoedown at Old Towne will be 7-9 p.m. April 2 at Old Towne Main Street, Pigeon Roost Road. Bring your lawn chair and listen to local musicians each Thursday evening through June 25. Free gathering takes place in front of Olive Branch Pickers Music Store. Visit olivebrancholdtowne.org or call 662-893-0888.

SouthavenThe 16th annual Southaven Easter Egg Hunt will

be 11 a.m. Saturday at Snowden Grove Park, 6208 Getwell Road. Meet the Easter Bunny and enjoy the fun with over 50,000 candy-illed eggs, moon bounc-es, face painting, petting zoo and train rides. Explore iretrucks and enjoy free popcorn and drinks. Age groups: 0-4 years, 5-7 years and 8-10 years. Call 662-393-6939 or visitsouthaven.org.

The Mid-South Swap Meet & Flea Market will be this weekend at The Arena at Southaven, 7360 Highway 51. Vendors ofer new and used merchandise including trading cards, collectibles, antiques, jewelry, electron-ics, clothing, furniture, gardening supplies and more. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Contact Pat Gibson at 901-831-9519 or Rowle Cardosi at 901-412-6195. The is no cost to attend.

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Congratulates these Memphis-area high school studentswho have earned the Academic All-Stars Award.

Shelbi Sellers | Tipton-Rosemark Academy | MusicShelbi, a senior, excels in all areas of the ine arts. She is a dynamic singer, actress, dancer and choreographer. She also is a gifted

artist and writer. She holds a 3.8 grade point average while easily balancing academics and a full schedule of extracurricular activities.She has been the assistant director and choreographer for the middle school choir and theatre productions for two years. She recentlyearned the starring role of Elizabeth Bennett in the musical production of “An Evening with the Characters of Pride and Prejudice.”

In addition, Shelbi is an outstanding AP honors student. She has been inducted into the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, andBeta Club. She is a member of the Science Club, Bible Club, Drama Club and International Thespian Society. She is a ive-year awardrecipient for the All-Northwest Tennessee Honor Choir and was ranked as a top 10 chair every year. She is a four-year All-State Honor Choirqualiier and ranked 2nd Chair in 2014. She has received “Superior” ratings in Vocal Solo Performance at the Solo and Ensemble Festivalfor the past six years. She was a featured soloist for the Show Choir, when it took irst place and the National Title of “Best Overall Choir”in New York in 2014.

Luke Folse | Houston High School | MusicLuke, a senior, excels in music not only with the Tennessee All-State Band but also as a Tennessee All-State Choir member. He holds a

4.55 weighted grade point average and scored 35 on the ACT. He qualiied for the band on clarinet for four year in a row. He has served aspresident of a 340-member band program, where he leads by example. He is a dedicated musician who works hard to reach the pinnacleof success. In addition to playing his own instrument, Luke often inds himself pushing a broom or moving equipment. He also shares histalents by tutoring other music students.

A member of the school’s Honors Academy, Luke currently ranks eighth in his senior class. He has taken 10 AP courses and has beeninducted into the National Honor Society and the Beta Club. In 2013, Luke was selected for the prestigious Tennessee Governor’s Schoolfor the Arts, where he earned the spot of 1st chair. Luke is a Boy Scout on the Eagle Scout Trail. He also was Houston’s representative tothe Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Conference.

Ben Larsen | Center Hill High School | MusicBen, a senior, is a musically gifted student who has participated in band and choir all four years of high school. He holds a

4.0345 weighted grade point average and scored 29 on the ACT. He is the tenor section leader in the Chamber Choir as well as thesaxophone section leader in the band. He was selected to attend the Mississippi Governor’s School last summer. There he joined theGovernor School’s choir. Ranked in the top 20% of his senior class, Ben has challenged himself academically with AP and Honors classes.He is a member of the school’s marching band, Men’s Quartet and Chamber Singers.

A hardworking student and leader, Ben helped the choir earn honors including District II Honor Choir, Delta State University HonorChoir and Mississippi All-State Chorus. As saxophone section leader, Ben earned seats in the Mississippi State, University of Memphis,Delta State, Ole Miss, Hernando-DeSoto, I-55 and Mississippi Band Directors Honor Bands. He also uses his musical gifts to help youngerstudents correct problems during rehearsals. He uses his musical experiences to turn around and lead other students.

Andre Moore | Central High School | MusicAndre, a senior, has an infectious smile and zest for life. He holds a 4.43 weighted grade point average and scored 26 on the ACT.

He has earned a spot for six years in the All-West Tennessee Honors Choir. He works with enthusiasm and dedication whether he isstudying in the classroom, working in the community or singing in the school’s award-winning choir. He says “music has made me whoI am today.” He emphasizes that music kept him out of trouble and sparked his imagination and curiosity.

By graduation, Andre will have successfully completed six Advanced Placement courses in addition to Honor core courses as part ofthe school’s college preparatory optional program. He is a member of the Mixed Chorale, Men’s Choir, Concert Singers, Chamber Choir andJazz Choir. The earned Tennessee All-State Honor Choir honors in 2014-2015. He is the National Honor Society Treasurer and a MemphisAmbassador. He is a member of the Student Council, Mu Alpha Theta, Key Club, Bridge Builders, Tennis Team and Math Competition Team.He volunteers by tutoring and helping with community cleanups, blood drives and Christmas basket giveaways.

Jayla Woodard | Overton High School | MusicJayla, a senior, is the principal cellist for the Overton High School Orchestra. She has been playing for nine years and has been

selected to participate in All-West for the past four years as a member of the senior orchestra. She earned “superior” ratings in solo andensemble for the past seven years through the West Tennessee Strings Band and Orchestra competition. During the 2013-2014 schoolyear, the school’s Symphonic Orchestra was chosen to open for the National Association for Music Education Conference. The orchestraalso was nominated for the Orpheum’s High School Musical Theatre Awards for best orchestra pit.

A dedicated student, Jayla actively participates in the school’s Creative and Performing Arts Orchestra Program. She holds a 4.0weighted grade point average and currently ranks 17th in her senior class. She received the Memphis City School’s William H. Sweet Awardfor Academic Excellence ive times. She is the Senior Class Vice President of the Student Government Association, president of the InteractClub, Spanish Club Photography Director and assistant editor of the yearbook. She holds the 1st Chair of the Cello Section in the school’sString and Symphonic Orchestras.

Katherine Fleck | The Hutchison School | MusicKatherine, a senior, is an extremely gifted and accomplished musician and dancer, who balances a demanding performance schedule

with an equally demanding academic workload. She holds a 5.03 weighted grade point average, scored 35 on the ACT and 2230 on the SAT.She has been named a National Merit Semiinalist, an AP Scholar with Distinction and a candidate for the U.S. Presidential Scholars program.She is a member of both the Germantown Youth Symphony and the Hutchison Orchestra. She also inds time to practice four days a week withBallet Memphis. She plays the viola and performs as an essential member of the pit orchestra for the school’s annual fall musical theatricalproductions. Each year, she has been named to the All-West Senior Orchestra.

In addition, Katherine completed a summer program at the prestigious Interlochen Camp for the Arts and completed a tour of Europewith the Germantown Youth Symphony. Her passion for music is relected in an independent project she completed in which she created anoriginal arrangement of Vivaldi’s Concerto in G Minor for Two Cellos in order to be played by two violas and an ostinato of violins, violas andcellos.

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John Ferguson | Fayette Academy | MusicJohn, a senior, is an exceptional musician and disciplined student. He holds a 4.48 weighted grade point average and scored 32 on the ACT.

He has been the percussion section leader of the school’s band for the past two years. He has been a member of the UT-Martin HonorBand, The University of Memphis Honor Band and the Mississippi State Honor Band. He earned a chair in the All-West Honor Band. He wasselected for the Wind Ensemble, the top band, for the past three years. He made the Tennessee All-State Band in 2014. He also earned the“Percussion of the Year” Award at the school and the “Director’s Award” in both 2013 and 2014.

Currently, John ranks second in his senior class. He excels in all academic areas. He has been inducted into the National HonorSociety and Mu Alpha Theta. In addition, he has been named a National Merit Commended Scholar. He has participated in the MemphisYouth Symphony Orchestra for the past three years. He also played in the Lafayette Ragsdale Annual Memorial Concert Series PercussionEnsemble and the APA Percussion Ensemble and Drumline. He participated in the Sewanee Summer Music Festival last summer.

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Sure, there’s a Romano’s Maca-roni Grill at one corner and a Bahama Breeze across the street — just in front of a Red Lobster, all a stone’s throw

away from J. Alexander’s, Logan’s Roadhouse, On the Border and Joe’s Crab Shack.

There are six Starbucks, including the one in Super Target, next door, of course, to the Walmart Supercenter.

And, yes indeedy, the traic is hor-rendous. Paying the required attention to the cars all around you makes it hard to look behind all those big restaurants and big-box stores that dominate Ger-mantown Parkway. But hidden back there, tucked in this strip center or that one, you’ll ind more than 50 local restaurants serving burgers, barbecue, pizza and home cooking as well as more exotic fare. So let’s get started on the latest in our Eat the Street series — Ger-mantown Parkway: Chains, Plantains and Automobiles.

It’s really Germantown Road until roughly the Wolf River, and the major-ity of our trip is in Cordova; there’s a wee bit in Bartlett, and we’ll start with a few in Germantown proper. Elfo’s (2285 S. Germantown Road, 901-753-4017) is Alex Grisanti’s place, and in addition to serving family meals of Grisanti fa-vorites such as Elfo’s Special and Miss Mary’s salad, there’s a nice bar and bar menu, and pizzas include a barbecue one — made, of course, with pork from Germantown Commissary, just across the street (2290 S. Germantown Road; 901-754-5540). You can’t go wrong in the Commissary, probably the oldest res-taurant in Germantown. Eat the pork sandwich, the ribs, the tamales or the cheese plate. But whatever you do, save room for the coconut cream pie, made fresh daily and so good it’s worth the

trip just for dessert.Just across Poplar, you’ll encounter

the irst of two Huey’s as we head north. It’s a Memphis institution, and you’ll never go wrong with a burger and fries or the huge onion rings. Find them at 7677 Farmington in Germantown (but it faces Germantown Road), 901-318-3030; and 1771 N. Germantown Parkway in Cordova; 901-754-3885.

As long as we’re on Farmington (and we’re going to make a few detours), don’t miss The Pie Folks, Audrey Ander-son’s bakery best known for her award-winning Slap Yo Mama Chocolate Pie (7781 Farmington Blvd.; 901-752-5454). She has a list of about 20 others, avail-able whole or by the slice.

We still haven’t hit the Parkway; just one more stop: Las Tortugas Deli Mexi-cana (1215 S. Germantown Road; 901-751-1200), home of the $20 shrimp sand-wich (I kid you not) and the best cheese dip in town (I kid you now). Pepe and Jonathan Magallanes pride themselves on fresh, fresh, fresh — and authentic.

Across the street, IPop Gourmet Pop-

corn (420 S. Germantown Parkway, 901-239-4767) is a nice mom-and-pop (heh) business that sells popcorn in a dozen or more lavors daily. It also marks our entry into Cordova.

Jody’s Donuts & Bakery (420 S. Ger-mantown Parkway; 901-737-1515) is one of a handful of places along the street where you can swing in for a sweet treat. Others are Cocoa Van (7990 Trin-ity; 901-308-1536), a boutique bakery where the cupcake selection changes frequently; Gigi’s Cupcakes, (2200 N. Germantown Parkway; 901-888-2253), which is not local, but is close enough, as it started in Nashville; and Howard’s Donuts (8130 Bellevue Parkway; 901-213-1100). (And there’s John’s Pantry, but more on that to come.)

The Butcher Shop (107 S. Germantown Parkway; 901-757-4244) still greets guests with a big grill just inside the entry. This is where your steaks are cooked, or your burger if you show up for burger Friday lunch.

Two taco trucks, both with home bases on Summer Avenue, have what appear to be permanent spots along the street. Taco Los Jarochos is parked at Exxon, 610 N. Germantown Park-way, and in the parking lot of Cordova Farmer’s Market, 1150 N. Germantown Parkway, you’ll ind a Taqueria La Gua-dalupana truck. Love ’em both.

TJ Mulligan’s (8071 Trinity Road; 901-756-4480) is more of a bar, but the food is pretty dang good. Lots of sandwich choices.

El Mezcal (694 N. Germantown Park-way; 901-755-1447) is one of several local Mexican restaurant chains that dot the street, all with a menu full of the usual suspects. Others include El Porton (1805 N. Germantown Parkway; 901-624-9358) and La Hacienda (1760 N. Germantown Parkway; 901-624-2920), where Mexican lasagna and homemade tamales open up the choices.

Marrakech (694 N. Germantown Park-way; 901-754-6366) was Zaytoon and has recently changed its name (though just to keep us guessing, the temporary sign was down last time I drove by, and only

the Zaytoon sign on the door remained). Villa Castrioti (714 N. Germantown

Parkway; 901-753-3894) is popular among Cordovans and folks from all around. The food is solid, from pizzas to steaks to ish.

Friday Tuna (750 N. Germantown Park-way; 901-751-8888) is owned by the same folks who have Fuji Café in Collierville — which means it also has the tempura-fried tuna-stufed jalapeño appetizer.

John’s Pantry (8046 Willow Tree Lane; 901-308-2404) is run by two of the nicest folks in Cordova, John Moberly and his assistant, Patrick. They’ll talk bread, pasta, local products and spices with you as long as you want to linger, and share ideas about how to use every-

thing in the little store. Tannoor Grill (830 N. Germantown

Parkway; 901-443-5222) is brilliant: A Middle Eastern churrascaria. All the meat you can eat, and, hey, while you’re at it, ill up on hummus, baba ghanoush, fattoush salad and pita bread.

My Favorite Place Mexican Restaurant (880 N. Germantown Parkway; 901-757-8900) stands on its own, away from the other clustered Mexican restaurants, and the reason is: grilled margarita. Yes — grilled. Go for Triple T Tuesday — tacos, tequila and trivia — and make it a party.

Green Bamboo (990 N. Germantown Parkway; 901-753-5488) serves up a nice bowl of pho and a menu of Vietnamese dishes that includes spring rolls, cur-ries and vermicelli bowls.

3 Guys Pizza Pies (1014 N. Germantown Parkway; 901-737-0062) was a pleasant surprise. We stopped in for lunch and tried two of the daily specials: Two slices for $5.99 (every day) and a stromboli.

Ultimate Foods (8100 Macon Station; 901-207-5337) is where you go if you’re feeling virtuous or know that you want something healthy to take home after a day of feasting. Stop in here for a grab-and-go meal built around the 40/40/20 eating plan (40 percent of calories from protein, 40 percent from carbohydrates and 20 percent from healthy fats).

Pasta Italia (8130 Macon Station, 901-751-0009) is undoubtedly the shining star of the list, though you’ll pay to hitch your wagon to it.

Chang’s Bubble Tea (8095 Macon Road; 901-737-8839) is more than bub-ble tea. There’s also a full menu of Chi-nese restaurant standards, from broc-coli beef to Hunan shrimp.

All-Star Hot Wings (8095 Macon Road; 901-244-6930) serves the whole wing, from seasoned to suicide, plus burgers and sandwiches.

BOUNTIFUL ’BURBSLook closely: Germantown Parkway is full of tasty surprises

Friday Tuna ofers this dish of seared tuna tataki on a bed of cucumber, smelt roe, and green onion with ponzu sauce.

A variety of tacos from Las

Tortugas Deli Mexicana.

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A shish kabob cooks over an open lame alongside shish taouk at the Tannoor Grill in Cordova.

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It’s mostly known as an Italian place, but one of Villa Castrioti’s specialties is the prime petite ilet.

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An order of egg rolls at Green Bamboo includes 10 egg rolls, a nice selection of fresh veggies to wrap them in, and a variety of sauces for dipping.

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Darlene Fuller adds meringue to a chocolate pie at Germantown Commissary at 2290 S. Germantown Road.

EAT THE STREET GERMANTOWN PARKWAY

Ron Sheets, assistant general manager at 3 Guys Pizza Pies on Germantown Parkway, checks on a pepperoni, bacon and feta stromboli.

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Caitlyn Gilliam found a new use for Huey’s huge onion rings.

NEXT WEEK

Check back next week for Part 2 of “Eat the Street: Germantown Parkway” and let your appetite carry you north of Macon Road.

Home & Garden

Everyone loves dafodils, right? That’s what I thought, and I almost

started this column with such a proc-lamation.

But the voices of my journalism teachers drowned my enthusiasm. Avoid statements proclaiming all or everybody, the irst or the only, the best and the worst because readers will be quick to say you’re wrong.

The profs were right again. An on-line search for “I hate dafodils” did turn up a curmudgeon or two who criti-cized the yellow lowers for exactly the reasons most people love them — they are easy to grow, come back year after year, have no garden pests other than poor drainage and are inexpensive.

In the eyes of some, that last attri-bute appears to be their worst. Because dafodils are afordable, everyone can plant some, and that will never do for garden snobs such as John Crace, a fea-ture writer at British newspaper The Guardian.

Instead of oh-so-common dafodils that can be purchased for about $10 for 50, Crace recommends planting Crown Impe-rial frittilarias, which sell for about $15 per bulb when you can ind them online.

They are tall, dramat-ic plants with clusters of bell-shaped yellow or red lowers topped with tufts of green leaves. I’d love to have some even though some sources say “not recommended for the South.”

In his blog, Crace notes just six of these bulbs make a show; eight make a statement. The “statement” they make for me is to stick with dafodils.

And who knows? You (and I) might just have a champion dafodil in our gardens right now.

Ruthie Taylor surprised herself as well as those who have been growing and showing dafodils for years when she, a relative novice, won a best-of-

show ribbon for her entry, Magic Lan-tern, at the show put on by the Mid-

South Dafodil Society.Taylor and her moth-

er, Mayrene Buxton, got hooked on showing dafodils when several of the inexpensive daf-fodils they had been enjoying in their yards for years won blue rib-bons in the fun show, a competition at the show

designed to be easy for beginners to enter.

Now Taylor is a member of the so-ciety and volunteers to help other be-ginners identify their dafodils and get them ready for the judges’ eyes.

This year’s show will be held at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Entries will be accepted from noon until 4 p.m. Friday and from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the Winegardner Au-ditorium at the Dixon.

Children in grades one through six have a special competition, too.

To further demystify the details involved in entering a dafodil show, the society is ofering a free one-hour workshop on grooming and staging your dafodils at noon Friday, also in the auditorium at the Dixon.

Dutch bulb merchant Philipp Laa-gland will discuss the magnitude of the Dutch bulb business, including his family’s company, which was estab-lished in 1910 and continues today as one of the largest lower bulb export-ers in the world.

All the events are free.

SPIRITED DESIGN

When it comes to taking on new projects, garden designer Jon Car-loftis has two requirements “I have to like the people and the project,” said Carloftis, an award-winning designer who will speak on “spirited design” at 3:30 p.m. today at Dixon Gallery and Gardens.

The Kentucky native is currently

working with Suntory, a Japanese company that last year purchased Maker’s Mark, to create a new land-scape and garden at the historic dis-tillery in Loretto, Ky.

In addition to its vast beverage busi-ness, Suntory owns Suntory Flowers Ltd., a company specializing in devel-oping and marketing new seedling va-rieties including the irst blue-toned roses and carnations.

“It’s going to be beautiful,” said Car-loftis, who has homes in Lexington and in Bucks County, Penn. “It’s one of the happiest little jobs I’ve ever had.”

It blends so well with another of his passions — drinking bourbon — that he is also adept at leading tastings, which he will do after his lecture. Admission to the lecture alone is $10; admission to the lecture and bourbon tasting/cocktail party, which begins at 5 p.m., is $50. Reservations are re-quired for the tasting. Call 761-5250.

I spoke with Carloftis on a snowy day in February about his gardening advice for do-it-yourselfers who often don’t know where to begin improving their landscapes.

“Focus on the spaces you use and see every day,” he advises. If you al-ways enter your home at the rear door, make that area beautiful. If you enter-tain on your deck or patio, be sure that area is enhanced with plants.

GET A BEAD ON BULBS

Suzy Askew, Dixon’s garden educa-tion and volunteer coordinator, will present a program focusing on adding bulbs to your landscapes and gardens at 7 p.m. today at Temple Israel, 1376 E. Massey.

Askew, an accomplished lower ar-ranger, lower show judge and educa-tor, will show members and guests of Temple’s Sisterhood (Women of Re-form Judasim) the best methods for storing, planting and displaying bulbs and the lowers they produce.

It’s bound to be an eager audience since members of the organization have sold dafodil, tulip, hyacinth, amaryllis and other bulbs as a major fundraiser for more than 65 years.

The event is free to sisterhood members and $5 for visitors.

Enjoy the program along with ap-petizers and desserts. E-mail or call 901-937-2790 to RSVP.

DAFFODIL DAYS

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June Davidson (right), a past president of the Mid-South Dafodil Society, helps Caroline Evans get her dafodil ready for a show. This year’s show will take place Saturday and Sunday at Dixon Gallery and Gardens.

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deli container 12 “Bewitched”

witch 20 Stinky stream

system 21 Confession 22 Acquired 23 They have bases

of romaine 25 Common way to

sell goods 26 Boxing double-

whammy 27 Prefix with

hazardous 28 What cleats

improve 29 Article of

Cologne 30 Young ’un 31 Leading 33 Try to find a safe

place 36 Irishmen, e.g. 38 Jokester Jay 39 Skit show since

’75 40 Onetime popular

pair in Vegas 46 Spring in a dry

stretch 50 Doctrine suffix 51 Nunnery 52 Lawn stuff 54 Ending for duct 55 Shampoo

additive 57 Embellish richly 58 Book by a bed

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60 Hardly harsh 63 Halt, legally 66 Pale violet 68 See 6-Across 69 Socialist

philosopher Georges

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76 Less trustful 79 Place 80 Chocolate

stand-in 81 Petty of

Hollywood 83 “I never

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86 They’re hit at parties

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of 97 Royals manager

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origin 110 One with a B.A.,

111 Jazz band’s engagement

112 Appease 114 Guy hawking 116 Alternate title

for this puzzle 119 Geico alternative 120 Grosset & —

(book publisher) 121 Denoted 122 Social climbers’

concerns 123 Smiles derisively 124 Old politico

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savings 5 No-win situation 6 Ballet step 7 Goran of tennis 8 Two-dot mark 9 Michelle of

figure skating 10 Young ’un 11 Letters before

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ender 14 Changes

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spread 17 Property 18 German poet

Heinrich

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28 Atlanta locale 32 Ding- — 33 Email folder

heading 34 Last part 35 905-year-old in

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land 41 Capri or Ely 42 Skin softener 43 Proof mark 44 City in Algeria 45 Prison parts 47 Pastoral folk

dance of Italy 48 Troubles 49 See 104-Down 53 “The Exorcist”

actor Max von — 56 Doolittle of

“Pygmalion” 58 Run-down 59 Exploitative

sorts 61 Shout to a

matador 62 Timepiece 64 Cooke with soul 65 MLB stat 67 Burns partly 70 Car from

Sweden 71 Rubik of Rubik’s

Cube 72 Funny Idle

73 Sauntered 74 It’s prohibited 75 Trip-taking

equipment 77 “Star Wars”

furball 78 “Shoot!” 82 Bullet points 85 At the home of,

to Henri 86 Galileo’s

birthplace 87 Songlike 88 35mm camera

choice 91 Least far-off 93 —’wester 94 Diffuses

gradually 96 Sets of doctrines 99 Houses, in

Havana 100 Praise highly 101 — Wafers 102 Plenty angry 103 Alternatives to

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option for an air passenger

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film 108 Lab activities 111 Heredity unit 113 “My treat” 115 Role in “The

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ACROSS 1 Opportunity 9 So-called

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20 Mayor’s title 21 Mr. Darcy’s

creator 22 Circle 23 “You can never

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26 Fashion portmanteau

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Hawaii’s Molokini Crater

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Peloponnesian War

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others: Abbr. 57 Pvt. Pyle’s

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97 Diet? 101 Jack-in-the-box

part 102 “Lucy” star, in

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Chevrolet 104 Madonna’s

“Into the Groove,” originally

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directed “Jerry Maguire”

112 Diapers? 117 Popular website

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119 Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors,” e.g.

120 How to make money “the old-fashioned way”

121 Disrespectful, in a way

122 ____ Mountains

123 Heavy-lidded 124 Visitor to a

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Harald 4 Shepherd

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13 Roll by a cashier

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31 Morn’s counterpart

33 Bloods’ rivals 34 Coastal region

of Hawaii 36 What the

Spanish Armada fought

37 Shakespeare’s world?

38 Proven 39 Japanese

porcelain 40 A drag 41 ____ acid

(vitamin B9) 42 Interlocking

piece 43 Became peeved 47 Oil-rich land

ruled by a sultan

49 Writer Nin 50 Pair of fins 52 Bits of music 55 Atty. gen.’s

employer 56 Word with get

or smart 58 Some ski-resort

rentals 61 Throb 62 City about

100 miles ENE of Cleveland, O.

63 Paper featured in the documentary “Page One,” for short

64 No. often between 15 and 50

66 Belligerent, in Britspeak

68 Three on a 6 69 Poorly 70 Go poof

71 Without variation

72 Get educated (on)

75 More outré 76 Memorable

mission 77 Disinfecting

Wipes brand 80 Like light

that causes chemical change

81 “Gladiator” locale

84 Resistance 86 “Gladiator,” for

one 87 Smirnoff of

comedy 88 “____ Como

Va” (Santana hit)

89 Cold 92 Country singer

Kenny 93 Grandeur

94 “Mazel ____!” 98 Bottom sirloin

cut of beef 99 Made out 100 One who takes

the bull by the horns

102 Plant part 105 Turns a

different shade, say

107 Alternatively 109 Sleipnir’s

master, in myth

110 Drunk’s favorite radio station?

111 App creator, perhaps: Abbr.

112 Uncertainties 113 ’60s war zone 114 Back the other

way 115 See 87-Across 116 Uptown dir. in

N.Y.C. 118 –: Abbr.

Difficulty level ★★★★★

Answer to yesterday's puzzleSudoku is a number-placing puzzle based

on a 9x9 grid with sev-eral given numbers. The

object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the

empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box con-tains the same number only once. The difficulty

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from

Monday to Sunday.

The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 61 minutes.

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Cy the Cynic had su�ered through another losing session in his penny Chicago game. As so often happens, Ed, the club expert, had come out the big winner.

“The man beats me up,” Cy said sourly, “he beats me down and he beats me into the ground. He beats me coming and going. He beats me like a rug, a drum and an egg. He beats me like he’s a beating machine.”

“I sense that you’re not having too much luck playing against Ed,” I said.

In today’s deal, Cy had be-come declarer at a routine con-tract of 3NT, and Ed, West, led the five of spades. Cy played low from dummy hopefully, but East put up the jack. Cy played low and won the spade return with dummy’s king. He next led a diamond to his queen, and Ed ... followed low without so much as a flicker.

“When I led a second dia-mond, Ed played the jack,” the Cynic told me. “I played low from dummy, of course. If ‘East’s’ ace fell, I would make an overtrick. But East played the ten, and Ed then led a third spade to my ace.”

Cy thought he was safe for at least nine tricks, but when he led a third diamond, Ed pro-duced the ace — much to Cy’s amazement — and then two good spades for down one.

“He defends to beat the devil,” Cy grumbled.

Ed defended well by cling-ing to his entry. Cy would make 3NT if Ed won the first diamond. After Cy won the spade return with the ace, he could lead a diamond to dum-my’s nine, passing his second diamond loser to East, who had no more spades. (If East did have a fourth spade, Cy would lose only two spades and two diamonds.)

Dear Harriette: I met my best friend’s ex-boy-friend the other day. She has talked about him for 20 years.

Though she never told me exactly why they broke up, she certainly has told me endless stories about their time together.

For some reason, he got married to somebody else. While he and my friend have remained close, I cannot figure out how they sorted out their relationship.

Now that I have met him, I am curious all over again.

Since my friend has talked about him for so long, I feel like I should be able to ask her. What do you think?

— Want To Know, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Answer: I totally un-derstand your curiosity. You are intrigued by this ancient love story that your friend has romanti-cized over the decades.

There’s also an ele-ment of just being nosy in there, too, you know!

If you can go to your friend completely trans-parently and tell her you are dying to learn more about this old beau and their time together, then do so.

Make it clear to her that she has built up her stories for so long that you want the soap opera version of the saga, meaning with all the juicy details.

Will she tell you? Who knows?

But your honesty for why you want to know in the first place should help her to make a decision as to what she chooses to reveal.

Reader wants friend to open up about past love

HARRIETTECOLE

SENSE & SENSITIVITY

Send questions to askharriette@harriettecole.com or c/o Universal Uclick, 1130 Wal-nut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ Right now you might feel justified, but you are likely to change your mind. Tonight: The chatter could go till the wee hours.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You could be in a sit-uation where you feel as if you must play a certain role. Just be yourself. Tonight: Greet spring.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ Sometimes taking o� without giving too many ex-planations is good for you and those around you. To-night: Relax.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★★ Seeing a special friend always makes you smile. Get into a favorite mutual pastime. Tonight: A quiet night at home.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Though you might not be interested in assum-ing someone else’s responsi-bility, you still will. Tonight: Let it all hang out.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★★ Listen to what someone has to share. Con-sider what it would be like to walk in his or her shoes. To-night: Add some romance.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★★ Someone could try to intertwine his or her life with yours. A discussion is likely to define your posi-tion. Tonight: Think about a trip in the near future.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ You understand bet-ter than most the role that arguing plays in reinforcing a strong attraction. Tonight: A close encounter.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★★ Ease up on yourself and say “yes” to an invitation. The fun will help you relax. Tonight: Party the night away!

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ S o m e o n e might try to test your mettle. Make time for a loved one. Tonight: Opt for spontane-ity!

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★

You could feel as if someone is limiting you. How you handle this situation could determine the nature of the relationship. Tonight: Live life intensely.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★★ You might see a considerable di�erence between you and someone else. Avoid putting this per-son on a pedestal, and try to be more realistic.

What the stars mean:

★★★★★Dynamic ★★★★Positive ★★★Average ★★

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year your dynamic energy merges with a never-ending source of creativity. Boredom will not be an issue. Tone down a tendency to be me-oriented, especially with so much hap-pening around you. If you are single, romance might knock on your door any day now. If you are attached, your signifi-cant other will appreciate your caring approach. TAURUS has many great ideas.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Making Connections

By Dan Feyer / Edited By Will Shortz

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Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE FORCES MATEHint: Sacrifice and mate.

Solution: 1. Rh8ch! Kxh8 2. Bf7 mate.

A Q J E K W U D Q X Z Q R K G W J K L W C A E S L

K M R F Q L W L W P Q W U K G T S R F A E W P A L

X K K . A ’ J K E T Z A E A W M K D W P F J K E C F Z .

3-22 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: K equals O

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

SUNDAY BREAK

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

philosopher Georges

(clothing retailer)

Kefauver

ender 14 Changes

Heinrich

sorts 61 Shout to a

Cube 72 Funny Idle

Baghdad by the Bay

Peloponnesian War

shell 67 Removing a

Band-Aid too early?

tabloids 103 Bygone

122 ____ Mountains

fertility clinic

DOWN 1 2 Place for

Harald 4 Shepherd

charge 19 Ordinal

ending

ruled by a sultan

one 87 Smirnoff of

Va” (Santana hit)

Kenny 93 Grandeur

master, in myth

N.Y.C. 118 –: Abbr.

Monday to Sunday.

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HARRIETTECOLE

SENSE & SENSITIVITY

So-so ★Difficult

3-22-15

SUNDAY BREAK

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

philosopher Georges

(clothing retailer)

Kefauver

ender 14 Changes

Heinrich

sorts 61 Shout to a

Cube 72 Funny Idle

Baghdad by the Bay

Peloponnesian War

shell 67 Removing a

Band-Aid too early?

tabloids 103 Bygone

122 ____ Mountains

fertility clinic

DOWN 1 2 Place for

Harald 4 Shepherd

charge 19 Ordinal

ending

ruled by a sultan

one 87 Smirnoff of

Va” (Santana hit)

Kenny 93 Grandeur

master, in myth

N.Y.C. 118 –: Abbr.

Monday to Sunday.

3-22-15

HARRIETTECOLE

SENSE & SENSITIVITY

So-so ★Difficult

3-22-15

SUNDAY BREAK

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

philosopher Georges

(clothing retailer)

Kefauver

ender 14 Changes

Heinrich

sorts 61 Shout to a

Cube 72 Funny Idle

Baghdad by the Bay

Peloponnesian War

shell 67 Removing a

Band-Aid too early?

tabloids 103 Bygone

122 ____ Mountains

fertility clinic

DOWN 1 2 Place for

Harald 4 Shepherd

charge 19 Ordinal

ending

ruled by a sultan

one 87 Smirnoff of

Va” (Santana hit)

Kenny 93 Grandeur

master, in myth

N.Y.C. 118 –: Abbr.

Monday to Sunday.

3-22-15

HARRIETTECOLE

SENSE & SENSITIVITY

So-so ★Difficult

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Amusement

SUDOKUPREMIER CROSSWORD

Puzzle solutions

WEEKENDPUZZLE

SOLUTIONS

This is the solution to the crossword puzzle in

Saturday’s editions.

This is thesolution to

the KingFeatures

crossword on

This is thesolution to

The New York

Timescrossword

onPage 2M.

TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: I AM NOT CRAZY ABOUT MOST KINDS OF BEASTS THAT COULD BE IN THIS ZOO. I’M ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONKEY.

ACROSS 1 Prepare

potatoes 5 Diplomatic

skill 9 Words to

live by 10 Oscar or

Tony 12 Victorious 13 Ohio city 14 Hot dish

support 16 Purr

producer 17 Golf

target 18 Wane 21 Neptune’s

realm 22 Adversaries

23 Make broader

24 Hard worker 26 Bar bill 29 2013 Disney

hit 30 Facts and

figures 31 Motor need 32 Camera

support 34 Steer clear

of 37 Cake

coating 38 Delroy of

“Get Shorty” 39 Yard sur-

rounder 40 Wildly

41 Perimeter

DOWN 1 Fifth

president 2 Hun leader 3 Burner

setting 4 Aspiration 5 Price add-on 6 Wonder 7 Annul 8 Musical

chords

9 Fluttery insects

11 Postmark part

15 Prop for Poseidon

19 At any time

20 Soup buy 22 Annoy 23 Expert, in

slang 24 Quiz show

fodder

25 Tea type 26 Studio

event 27 Immediately 28 Police ID 29 Young horse 30 Cut into

cubes 33 Abundant 35 Wedding

words 36 Beagle or

Sudoku

Dear Annie: I am a 55-year-old man, divorced for the past 15 years. My daughter is 24 years old and married to a good guy, and they have two lovely boys.

Although I have struggled with depression over the years, I try to live a good, honest Christian life. I raised my two chil-dren as a single parent, and my ex has become a deadbeat mother. My ex has married several times since our divorce. Each of her subsequent husbands has been an alcoholic or a drug user.

My problem is that my daughter and her mother seldom speak or see each other. My ex will see my son on occasion, but not much. She’s the kind of person who cannot admit fault. When my ex was married to one of her drunken drug users, she let him kick my daughter out of their home because she broke curfew once.

I can see how much this estrangement hurts my daughter, and I want so much for her to reconcile with her mother.

My daughter reaches out to my ex through mail, birthday party invitations and occasional voice-mails. Her mother never responds.

I recently texted both of them stating that I am sorry for my part in the divorce, hoping it would open up communication. I encouraged them to meet at a neutral location without finding fault in each other and just spend time together.

I feel that a large amount of responsibil-ity has been placed on my shoulders due to my ex’s refusal to be a decent parent. My question is whether or not I should say anymore regarding this. I worry so much for my daughter.

— Dad

Dear Dad: Your sugges-tion to meet in a neutral location is a good one, and we hope they will take you up on it. But please understand that you can-not force your ex-wife to be a better, more caring mother.

And there is no way to prevent her behav-ior from hurting your daughter. What you can do, however, is make sure your daughter knows how much she is loved and valued by her father and others, and that her mother’s lack of a�ection is not about her — it’s about Mom’s issues, and only Mom can remedy that.

Help her limit the hurt by accepting Mom as she is.

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

3/23/15

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle

Chess Quiz

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid

with several given numbers. The object is to place the

numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3

box contains the same num-ber only once. The difficulty

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to

Sunday.

WHITE WINS A ROOKHint: Create a double threat.

Solution: 1. Nh5ch! If ... Kf8 2. Qf6! gets a rook. If 1. ... Kg8, 2. Qf6! (threatening

both 3. Qxd8ch and 3. Qg7 mate).

Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Jumble Daily Bridge Club

Marty Bergen is known as one of the most original bidding theorists of his generation.

Bergen retired from an outstanding career as a competitor to focus on writ-ing and teaching. Among the excellent materials he has produced is a series of 36 booklets, most on good bidding judg-ment, some on play.

One Bergen dictum is “Thou shalt not get overru�ed.” After coming in with four spades, today’s South wins the diamond lead with the ace and sees only two club losers.

TRUMP QUEEN “As long as you can ru� your low

hearts,” Bergen advises, “you can a�ord to lose to the trump queen. What you can’t do is have an opponent overru� you with the queen and lead a trump.”

South must take the ace of hearts at Trick Two, ru� a heart with the king of trumps, ru� a diamond with the ace and ru� his last heart. His game is safe.

For information on Bergen’s many

publications and price discounts, see martybergen.com or call (800) 386-7432. Mention this column with an order, receive a gift.

Questions and comments: Email Stewart at frs1016@centurylink.net

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You will decide to share your thoughts with friends and loved ones whose opinions you care about. Tonight: Be the master of your domain.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★★ All eyes look to you for advice about important issues. No matter what your status might be, you’ll have several admir-ers who can’t seem to get enough of you. Tonight: Decide who and what.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ When you are less assertive, others will step up to the plate, and you will learn a lot more about the people who surround you. Tonight: Practice your vanishing act.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)★★★★★ You can count on your supporters, especially as you will be focused on achiev-ing certain results. Defer to a close friend or loved one. Tonight: At a favorite spot.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)★★★★ Your positive approach will a�ect how events turn out. Brainstorm with oth-ers. Touch base with someone whom you care a lot about. Tonight: Out late.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)★★★ Take an overview of a particular aspect of your life. Understand that someone who cares a lot about you could be some-what secretive about who he or she really is. Tonight: Take in new vistas.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You could have a di�erent perspec-tive from most of your associates. Relate to each individual in your life directly, and ev-eryone will feel more appreciated as a result. Tonight: Make the most of the night.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★★ Defer to someone whom you would like to get to know better. Encourage this person to come out of his or her shell. To-night: Listen to suggestions.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★★ You will be more direct than you have been in a while. Consider taking a vaca-tion, especially if you have not been on one in years. Tonight: Do for you.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★★★ The thought of spring and romance is likely to make your heart soar. Consider what you expect from a relationship. To-night: Be open to spontaneity.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)★★★★ Stay close to home, as you will be happiest there. Be aware that a friend might have a di�erent idea of what you should do. Stand your ground and do what you want. Tonight: Make the most of the moment.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ Speak your mind. You are capable of conducting successful negotiations. Tap into your imagination, but be aware that you could be wearing rose-colored glasses. To-night: Meet a pal at a mutually favored spot.

Horoscope

This year you have a new kind of energy that emanates from your creativity. You will discipline your imagination and become much more detail-oriented and efficient. The combination of these qualities will point you toward success. If you are single, you are likely to find your sweetie before winter 2015. Trust that this person will appear on his or her own. If you are attached, this year could be one of the most roman-tic years of your life. TAURUS often serves as an anchor for you, espe-cially when you lose your focus.

What the stars Mean

★★★★★Dynamic★★★★

Positive★★★

Average★★

So-so★

Difficult

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY

MARCY SUGAR & KATHY MITCHELL

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

CONTACT US Chris Herrington, 529-6510, herrington @commercialappeal.com, or Mark Richens, 529-2373, richens@ commercialappeal.com

Ex’s refusal to step up weighs on divorced dad

By Jacqueline Bigar King Features Syndicate

In 1775, Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”In 1914, the first installment of “The Perils of Pauline,” the legendary silent film serial starring Pearl White, premiered in the greater New York City area.In 1919, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.In 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.In 1940, the radio program “Truth or Consequences,” hosted by Ralph Edwards, was first broadcast over four CBS radio stations in New York and New England.In 1942, the first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, California.

In 1956, Pakistan became an Islamic republic.In 1973, before sentencing a group of Watergate break-in defendants, Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica read aloud a letter he’d received from James W. McCord Jr. which said there had been “political pressure” to “plead guilty and remain silent.”In 1983, President Ronald Reagan first proposed developing technology to intercept incoming enemy missiles — an idea that came to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of a Jarvik permanent artificial heart, died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device.In 1990, the romantic comedy “Pretty Woman,” starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, was released by Buena Vista Pictures.In 2011, Academy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor died in Los Angeles at age 79.

TODAY IN HISTORYToday is Monday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2015. There are 283 days left in the year.

MY ANSWER

Put your life, abilities into Christ’s hands

Q: Is it wrong to be successful and make lots of money and have nice things? My parents were always poor, and I don’t want to be like that if I can help it. But maybe God doesn’t want us to be successful.

— M.M.

A: It’s not necessarily wrong in God’s eyes to be successful — if we have the right motives. In fact, some of God’s most dedi-cated servants in the Bible were men and women who were financially successful — people like Abraham, Job and Lydia. Je-sus’ little band of disciples was supported financially by several people of wealth (see Luke 8:3).

At the same time, the Bible repeatedly warns us against greed and covetousness, which are sins. When things become more important to us than God, we’re in grave spiritual and moral danger. Instead of con-trolling our money and using it for good, our money begins to control us and causes

great harm. Jesus warned, “No one can serve two masters.... You cannot serve both God and money” (Matthew 6:24).

Greed not only hurts us, but it also makes us insensitive to the needs of oth-ers. Do you remember the story of King Ahab in the Old Testament?

He already had all the wealth anyone could ever want, but he wanted more, and greedily coveted a vineyard belonging to a man named Naboth.

Eventually he arranged for Naboth to be killed so he could get the vineyard. But Elijah condemned him: “You have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the lord” (1 Kings 21:20).

Don’t sell your soul to money or things. Instead, put your life and your abilities into Christ’s hands, and ask him to use you for his glory. The greatest wealth we can ever have is a heart filled with Christ.

By Billy GrahamTribune Content Agency

Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit billygraham.org.

By Frank Stewart Tribune Content Agency

TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: I AM NOT CRAZY ABOUT MOST KINDS OF BEASTS THAT COULD BE IN THIS ZOO. I’M ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONKEY.

By Judith Martin andNicholas Ivor MartinTribune Content Agency

Dear Miss Manners: What do you think of a daughter who sends her mother the following re-quirement for a “cordial” relationship with her?

“Accept that husband is going to call you by your irst name. We need you never again to register a verbal or nonverbal com-plaint about this.”

This couple both hold Ph.D.s and appear to be-lieve they are above all rules. The mother has no objection to being called “Mrs. Smith,” or has even suggested MIL or Milly (for mother-in-law) but the couple insists it’s their way or the highway.

They have also pushed of their family tree an aunt who verbalized that she and her husband did not appreciate being referred to by their irst names by

the nephew-in-law. This couple had invited them-selves to visit the now-out-cast aunt. After the visit, the aunt wrote that future visits would not be in the cards until nephew-in-law referred to them with their familial status.

When has it become standard practice that the younger generation calls the shots on what to call family members? Is it that courteousness has given way to higher education?

Gentle Reader: Miss Manners does not ex-pect universities to teach etiquette. Nor should eti-quette training be expect-ed in lower schools, where teachers have the burden of doing the parents’ job in addition to their own.

Home education should include not only the eti-quette rules necessary to navigate life, but the underlying principles of manners. These include respect (such as address-

ing people as they wish to be addressed), fair-ness (granting others the privileges one claims for oneself) and congeniality (not using threats as an ar-gument).

Apparently this couple failed home education. If you attempt to do remedial work, Miss Manners sug-gests lecturing irst on the principles before taking up the example of name choice.

Dear Miss Manners: I am a teenage boy who appar-ently has impregnated a teenage girl. She says she’s in love with me still, but also she will not get an abortion and insists that I pay support. I think this is all mood swings. How do I support her morally but not monetarily?

Gentle Reader: That is neither a moral nor a legal position. Miss Manners trusts that the young lady’s lawyer will explain that to you.

MISS MANNERS

Don’t blame higher education for rudeness By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Anger and frustration could be close to the surface. Take a walk to calm down. You could be very efective when dealing with others, as you’ll excel in your communication.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You might want to give some more thought to how you want to present yourself in public. Evaluate your presenta-tion and see whether it relects your inner self. Be more authen-tic, and others will respond well to this change.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Your energy seems end-less to many people, especially if they try to keep up with you. You simply are motivated and social. You’ll have to maintain a healthy lifestyle in order to ac-complish what you want.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You’ll pick up and feel more engaged in the afternoon. As of late, you have been drag-ging and handling more than your fair share of tension. Your mental outlook could suddenly change and help you see the

possibilities. Be open to feed-back.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You’ll move through a meeting like lightning; In the afternoon, slow down and re-lect on your choices. Speak to a friend whose judgment you trust, and air your concerns.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You might feel as if you have to respond to nearly everyone right now. Prioritize in order to stay on top of what you must be. Meet a friend or asso-ciate for an early dinner. Outside of a pressured situation, both of you will be more open.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You see situations from a broader perspective than your contemporaries do. You might not choose to share what you see at present. You have some research to do, and you’ll need to check out some facts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Relate to others individually in order to get the results you seek. A discussion could drop some juicy gossip, which you might want to keep to yourself. Use good sense with your inances.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-

Dec. 21) HHHHH Others will express interest in what you are doing. Still, you might feel a disconnect that makes you uptight. How you deal with this uneasiness is up to you. An open discussion could help more than you realize.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH All work and no play might not work for you right now. You recently realized the importance of having a well-balanced life. You could feel pushed by someone who de-mands to have things his way. Laugh, and let this go for now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH You seem to be in the position of being everyone’s adviser. Yes, you are resource-ful, and will be all day, but be-ing so needed might hinder your desire for freedom. Today you can juggle everything, but you won’t always be able to sustain this pace.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Hopefully you have decided to slow your pace, even if you initially believed it was impossible. Everyone needs some time away from work and demanding people. Relax and do only what you must.

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

Republican Women’s meeting April 14

The Shelby County Re-publican Women’s Club will meet April 14 at 11 a.m. at Germantown Country Club with featured speak-er Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich. For luncheon res-ervations or for more infor-mation, call 901-754-6209.

Create a thriving backyard garden

Germantown Commu-nity Library, 1925 Exeter Road, will host Master Gardener Debbie Pittman on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. She will teach how to enliven a sterile yard by creating a healthy, thriving garden.

Pre-registration is re-quired. To learn more about this program, or to register, call 901-757-7323.

Xtra, Young and Zesty outing

Germantown United Methodist Church’s Xtra, Young and Zesty group will see a play at Playhouse on the Square on May 8. The cost is $22 per per-

son. The deadline to reg-ister is April 10. To reserve a seat, call Luci Cromer at 901-755-0803, Louise Mc-Ghee at 901-755-3463 or Gretchen Blair at 901-755-0797. You do not have a be a member of the church to participate but you must be over 55 years old.

John Ryder speaks at luncheon Wednesday

Republican Women of Purpose will meet at Southwind Country Club Wednesday at 11 a.m. The speaker will be John Ry-der. To reserve a seat, call Kindsey Donovan at 901-748-4899 or e-mail lind-seydonovan@gmail.com.

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

Bake sale fundraiserBankTennessee will

host a bake sale to ben-eit March of Dimes at its branches at Schilling Farms in Collierville, 1125 Poplar, and Forest Hill in Germantown, 2915 Forest Hill Irene, on April 2-3.

Library book sale

The friends of the Col-lierville Burch library will

have its book sale April 9-11. The preview sale is April 8, from 5-7 p.m.

CHS club to host recycling drive

The Collierville High’s Environmental Club will host an electronics recy-cling drive Saturday, from 1-5 p.m., in the school’s parking lot. Items that can be recycled include com-puters, monitors, printers, cellphones, video game consoles and more.

New Neighbors meeting April 9

New Neighbors will have its cofee get togeth-er April 9 at the home of Marianne Foster at 9:30 a.m. For more information about the cofee or be-coming a member of New Neighbors, contact Julia Williams at 901-850-7772.

Stroke awareness seminar at YMCA

“Recognizing Stroke Symptoms,” presented by the Fatigue Clinic, will be at the YMCA at Schil-ling Farms, Friday at 11:30 a.m. B-12 shots available for $10.

SNAPSHOTS

Saturday pet adoptions

■ The Mid-South Grey-hound Adoption Option will be at Hollywood Feed, 2648 Broad Ave., from noon to 2 p.m. Adoption cost is $275.

■ The Tails of Hope pet rescue will be at the Col-lierville Hollywood Feed, 3615 Houston Levee, from noon to 4 p.m.

■ Southern Friends Ani-mal Society will be at the Southaven Hollywood Feed, 352 E. Goodman Road, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

■ The Cordova Holly-wood Feed, 1001 N. Ger-mantown Parkway, will host an adoption day for Meows and BowWows

Rescue from 1-5 p.m. ■ Save 1 Pet will be at

the Olive Branch Holly-wood Feed, 5070 Good-man, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

■ Real Good Dog Rescue will be at the East Mem-phis Hollywood Feed, 4864 Poplar, from noon to 3 p.m.

In brief

PETS OF THE WEEK COLLIERVILLE ANIMAL SHELTERGERMANTOWN ANIMAL SHELTER

Name: Goldilocks

Age: 1 yearBreed:

Labrador/retriever mix

Description: She likes to play with other dogs.

Name: IzzyAge: 4 years

Breed: Calico tabby

Description: She loves to

snuggle.

Name: Blue BoyAge: 1-2 yearsBreed: Russian blue mixDescription: Does well with other cats.

Name: PriscillaAge: Young femaleBreed: Domestic short hairDescription: Has extra toes on her paws.

The Germantown Animal Shelter, 7700 Southern, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The Collierville Animal Shelter, 559 E. South St., is open Wednesday through Sundays, 1-4 p.m. After-hours adoption appointments can be scheduled.

Cameron Ross (center), direc-tor of economic and com-munity development services, spoke to the members of the Rotary Club of Germantown. Ross talked about the mission of the city of Germantown, which is guided by a 2020 plan, smart growth plan and more. Greeting Ross is Jim Pope (left) and Jerry Klein. The Rotary Club of German-town meets every Wednesday at noon at TPC Southwind. For more information on Rotary, call Vijay Surpuriya at 901-210-6039.

Attending training on Jan. 31, these tutors are now trained and certiied through ProLiteracy to meet with Collierville Literacy Council adult students. Nyla Alderton (front, left), Terry Harvey, Shannon Lehman, Sherri Baker, LaDean Stewart, Catherine Willner, Pam Demato (second row, left), Betty Cowan, Tifany Siegel, Mark Ellis, Gary Tigert (back row) and Lance Yarbrough are all certiied. The CLC will hold its next English Language Learners adult tutor training on Friday, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Collierville Chamber of Commerce, 485 Halle Parkway. For more information or to register, e-mail Christina Morgan at c.morgan@colliervilleliteracy.org or call 901-854-0288.

Recently, the town of Collierville was named a “Tree City” for the 10th year. A tree was planted at Collierville Middle School, and Mayor Stan Joyner (second from left) read a proclamation designating March 20 as Arbor Day in Collierville. Joining Joyner at the tree planting celebration is Gary Siebenschuh (left), Col-lierville Environmental Commission member; Bill Kilp, director of public services; Wayne Kneipp, CEC vice-chairman; Sheila Bentley, CEC member; Emily Harrell, town engineer; Shawn Posey, regional urban forester; Al Grobyer, CEC member; and Crystal Warren, CEC chairwoman.

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housewares, and more.Plus a giant tent full of fur-niture, lawn equipmentand bikes. Lots of greatitems for all ages. No largebags or purses allowed in.

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BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘11 EXT Pre-mium, 42K miles, bronze,like new, $49,959 includes$499 doc, excludes ttl.

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BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘14 Escalade,grounded loaner, $58,964includes $499 doc, excludesttl. #26019. Alex, 901-288-7600

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BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘13 ATS, white,Premium, loaner car, 12Kmiles, $32,988 incl $499 doc,excl ttl. #26059. Tony Heeg,

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BUDDAVIS CADILLACCadillac ‘12 SRX, mocha,certified, Luxury pk, $29,955incl $499 doc+ttl. #26059.Ken Walsen, 901-340-1492

BUDDAVIS CADILLACCADILLAC ‘10 DTS, black,only 24K miles, $23,988 incl$499 doc, excl ttl. #15136A.

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BUDDAVIS CADILLACCHEVROLET ‘13MALIBU & CRUZE!

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BUDDAVIS CADILLACCHEVROLET ‘07 Corvette,don’t get many ‘07s! Won’tlast! 65K miles. 901-218-9105,Dial for a deal, Keith Dial.

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Approximately 233 chamber directorsand members, elected oicials, businessand community leaders and their guests,attended the Collierville Chamberof Commerce General MembershipLuncheon held at Ridgeway CountryClub on Wednesday, March 11. herewere many reasons for the anticipation of

the event—an opportunity to hear irst-hand the surprise announcements of the2014 Collierville Chamber Person of the Year, the C.H. Harrell Award and theBusiness Champion Award; to receive a welcome and look ahead to 2015 fromChairman John Barrios, Barrios Financial Services and Chamber President FranPersechini.Ridgeway Country Club was turned into a gathering place where everyone enjoyed

networking, camaraderieand friendship—each tablewas adorned with a colorfularrangement of birthdayballoons celebrating the 160thbirthday of the YMCA—created by event sponsor,YMCA-Schilling Farms.

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