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One of the true trea-sures Memphis has to ofer is Shelby

Farms Park.

With its 4,500 acres, walking paths and biking areas and paddle boats, it is one of the largest public parks located within a major city in the United States.

In order to pay for the cost of the park’s operation, an annual fund-raiser at the park has become one of the great seasonal destinations — Starry Nights, which ended Sunday.

This year, more than 1.5 million lights illuminated the park. The theme was iconic places of Mem-phis, as well as traditional light displays from years past.

“The tradition of Starry Nights has gotten to be bigger and better with each year,” said Natalie Wil-son, senior manager of events and programs for Shelby Farms. “Each year we have seen a growth in the distance people travel to take part in Starry Nights. We expect to see over 140,000 visitors to this year’s ive-week event.”

As John Morrisson, the park’s

grounds supervisor turned on the displays, he noted the pride the park’s staf takes in this event.

“We started working on repair and maintenance of existing dis-plays as well as design and con-struction the newest displays the irst week in July.” Morrisson also noted the value of the volunteers who take part in every phase of the annual fundraiser.

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Starry Nights, with its 1.5 million lights illuminating Shelby Farms Park, drew people from all over the Mid-South during December. The display ended Sunday.

The entry to the Starry Night display at Shelby Farms Park was all aglow.

By Daniel Connollydaniel.connolly@commercialappeal.com,

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Mark Billingsley, a long-time on-air personality with country radio station WGKX KIX 106, died last Tuesday afternoon following several weeks of illness, the radio station announced.

“He was an extraordinary Memphis Tigers fan,” said Alan Kirsh-bom, spokes-man for the station’s own-ership group. “Just a gre-garious, fun, outgoing guy. Everyone who came across him felt he was their best friend and they had known him for years.”

Billingsley, nicknamed “Memphis Mark,” was on the air with the station for more than 20 years, Kirsh-bom said.

He suffered a medical emergency while doing his afternoon show at the sta-tion Nov. 23 and was taken to the hospital, where he un-derwent brain surgery, Kir-shbom said.

He never regained con-sciousness and died at Bap-tist Memorial Hospital-Memphis at age 53.

Billingsley is not to be confused with the Shelby County commissioner with the same name.

The station’s program di-rector Duane Shannon said Billingsley died surrounded by family and friends. Shan-

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RENO, Nev. — Memphian Gary Faulkner Jr. defeated top qualiier E.J. Tackett of Huntington, Indiana, 216-178, to win the Rolltech Professional Bowlers As-sociation World Cham-pionship on Dec. 17 at the National Bowling Stadium. Faulkner is the second African-American in the PBA’s 57-year history to win a Tour title.

“The irst shot I was ner-vous, but after that I didn’t think about anything,” Faulkner said. “My mind

was free. I didn’t watch the other guys. I don’t show a lot of emotions. My goal is always to win; I didn’t come here to lose.”

The PBA World Cham-pionship was the cul-mination of 66 games of qualifying and match play contested on ive lanes. The inals aired live on ESPN.

Faulkner, a 25-year-old third-year PBA member, qualified third for the World Championship i-nals and won three straight matches to join George Branham III of Indianapo-lis as the PBA’s only Afri-can-American champions. Faulkner won $60,000.

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N A S H V I L L E

Tenn. majority leader honored

Tennessee Senate Ma-jority Leader Mark Norris has been honored for his service to the states.

The Collierville Re-publican received the Dis-tinguished Service to the States medal from The Council of State Govern-ments at the close of its na-tional conference in Nash-ville last week.

The medal is the highest honor awarded by CSG for outstanding and sustained leadership on behalf of the states.

CSG executive director David Adkins said the CSG executive committee pre-sented the award to Norris for his “transformative lead-ership” during his tenure as CSG national chair.

Norris, whose chairman-ship ended last year, was the irst Tennessean to serve as CSG national chair.

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R E G I O N

Temps reach record high for Dec. 26

The mercury in Mem-phis was in record territo-ry at 74 degrees by 10 a.m. Saturday, a high tempera-ture for Dec. 26 not experi-enced here since 1889.

By around 1 p.m., it had climbed to 80 degrees, coming within one degree of the highest temperature ever recorded in Decem-ber in Memphis, and mak-ing weather more than just a topic of passing conver-sation.

The Weather Service has been keeping track of temperatures since 1875. Memphis hit 81 degrees on Dec. 2, 1982.

The warm air is more likely caused by El Niño than the planet heating up, said National Weather Service forecaster Jona-than Howell, pointing to the unusually warm water along the eastern coast of South America that, be-sides causing looding in Paraguay, Uruguay and Ecuador, has altered the jet stream, bringing spring-like temperatures.

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By Jane Robertsrobertsj@commercialappeal.com

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Germantown is so weary of bailing out garbage contractor In-land Waste Solutions, the city has put it on notice that it intends to ile claims against the company’s performance bond if it doesn’t shape up.

Through Nov. 30, the city had spent $396,400 picking up behind Inland, including hiring temps to help answer the complaint calls looding into the city.

Germantown required a $3.06 million bond to cover its losses in the event Inland defaulted or could not do the work. The annu-al contract is worth $3.2 million.

The city also has the right to reduce its payments to Inland to cover the amount of the losses. In the event the deductions are not allowed or uncollectable, Ger-

mantown’s city attorney notiied Inland’s insurer, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., that it may have a claim on its performance bond.

The letter is dated Dec. 10.“We have kept meticulous re-

cords,” Mayor Mike Palazzolo said. “We send reports three or four times a day. Our staf has worked tirelessly; we’ve con-tracted with contractors to work the phones just to keep up on the call volume. We are working very hard to let people know we are trying to make our contractor do

their work.”Jerry Church, Inland’s vice

president for operations, refused to comment last Tuesday, but said he would call back when he had more information.

Inland, based in Austin, Texas, assumed the contract German-town had with BFI Services in October 2014. Problems began al-most immediately and had lared up again last summer when city oicials asked Inland leaders to spend a week listening to com-plaints and riding the routes.

Inland retooled some process-es, including giving crews tools to ix or replace broken bins.

When leaf season rolled around this fall, complaints esca-lated again. A couple weeks ago, the Board of Mayor and Alder-men voted to spend up to $70,000 to hire two contractors to pick up behind Inland.

“They’ve been out in force this week,” Palazzolo said.

Inland’s contract expires June 30. The city’s request for new pro-posals will be out in early January.

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Branham, now retired, won ive times, including the 1986 Brunswick Me-morial World Open and the 1993 Firestone Tournament of Champions.

Faulkner, who threw two bad shots in three games, threw six strikes on his irst eight attempts. Tack-ett, the only right-hander in the inals, left three splits in his irst ive frames to fall behind by 49 pins, and Faulkner never gave him an opening.

“Over the past year, I felt it coming,” Faulkner said. “I was making small mis-takes, but I’d go home and check my stats and ix my mistakes. Those small pins add up over time. I knew I could do it. I visualized it. I had maybe a half-hour of nervousness, but I took a nap and came over here to bowl, and that was it.”

Faulkner said he never

saw Branham bowl, but he was aware he had a chance to become the second Afri-can-American champ.

“That’s definitely one thing I tried not to think about, but it’s amazing. To be honest, what I did think about is I wanted to shoot 300 on TV.”

Faulkner, who anchored Webber International Uni-versity in Babson Park, Florida, to the 2012 Inter-

collegiate Team Champion-ship, won his way into the title match with a 247-237 victory over Ryan Ciminelli of Cheektowaga, New York.

Faulkner started his sec-ond game with 10 strikes on his irst 11 shots, run-ning away to a 262-218 win over Scott Norton of Mis-sion Viejo, California, who left single pins four times that prevented him from the strikes he needed to keep up. Faulkner started the semiinal with a spare and four strikes; Ciminelli struck only once in the irst ive frames to fall into a 31-pin deicit he couldn’t over-come. Faulkner clinched the win by converting a seven-pin in the 10th frame.

In the irst match, Norton bowled an error-free game in defeating Rhino Page of Orlando, Florida, 215-202. Page left a 7-10 split in the fourth frame and a 3-6-7 split in the sixth, failing to convert both, and he couldn’t recover from the open frames.

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By Kevin McKenziemckenzie@commercialappeal.com

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Le Bonheur Chil-dren’s Hospital is planning a $55 mil-

lion expansion, the lat-est sign of growth at the facility, which anticipates its pediatric emergency room could be the busiest in the country in 2016.

Le Bonheur’s 12-story, $340 mil-lion hospital celebrated its ifth birthday on Dec. 5, but already needs 34 to 36 more beds to bolster the 255 it has, oicials said Dec. 21. With an average occupancy rate surpassing 80 percent, outpatient surgeries up 25 percent in ive years and 90,000 emergency department visits expected this year, the hospi-tal has had “a remarkable trajectory over the last ive years,” said Meri Armour, CEO of Le Bonheur.

Armour said Le Bonheur expects 100,000 emergency room visits next year. That could surpass the number at the children’s hospital in Dallas, Texas, which Armour says is the country’s busiest.

But Le Bonheur, part of the Mem-phis-based Methodist Le Bonheur

Healthcare system, isn’t seeing double-digit patient growth only because of new facilities, she said in a recent interview.

“It really is about the ‘who’ we’ve recruited in terms of physicians. It’s about the programs we’ve put together and started so they really provide new and diferentiated op-portunities for families,” Armour said. “What’s happened is we’ve really sort of realized our dream, which was to really be a resource for the region in terms of taking care of kids for all problems.”

Signs of growth range from bricks and mortar to services stretching through the region.

■ In the past two years, Le Bon-heur has recruited about 80 doc-tors. There are about 185 physicians in the hospital’s practice with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and about 60 more in other practices. That doesn’t include about 2,300 hospital em-ployees.

■ A new 275-oice faculty build-ing opened in November, accom-panying a new parking garage and outpatient center renovations that represent a $68 million investment. The former hospital is now the Chil-dren’s Foundation Research Center and outpatient dialysis center.

■ Some clinics are operating at the Le Bonheur Outpatient Center East Memphis, a project of about $26 million that will add pediatric

clinics, outpatient rehabilitation and imaging services in the for-mer West Clinic on Humphreys Boulevard.

■ Le Bonheur staf on Jan. 4 will begin running the pediatric emer-gency department at Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital. That will ease demand on the Mem-phis hospital, Armour said.

■ Le Bonheur is building a large clinic to replace a smaller one in Jackson, Tennessee.

■ Le Bonheur is the regional pediatric trauma hospital. Its pro-grams to handle complex pediatric health care problems have grown to include neuroscience, heart and epilepsy.

The plan announced Dec. 21 would add 34 to 36 cardiovascu-lar intensive care unit beds with a two-story expansion on the Dunlap side of the hospital, between Poplar and Washington. The Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare board also gave the green light last week to a $275 million expansion for Method-ist University Hospital.

Le Bonheur plans to seek state approval for the children’s expan-sion by mid-2016. With construc-tion beginning in 2017, the expan-sion could be completed by 2018.

“We really are adding to the economy in a big way,” Armour said. “I still say that outside of Fe-dEx, the biggest business in Mem-phis is health care.”

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

Growing stronger

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Growth at the 5-year-old Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has led oicials to plan a $55 million expansion that would add about three dozen beds.

Le Bonheur

unveils $55M

expansion plan

... Those small

pins add up over time. I knew I could do it. I visualized it. I had maybe a half-hour of nervousness ... and that was it.”

Gary Faulkner Jr., PBA champion

non said his colleague had a big personality and left a big impression. When he did broadcasts at live events, a crowd would gather around him.

“I felt like a girl com-pared to this guy. He had this big, deep, resonating voice, man,” Shannon said. He said Billingsley liked to pepper his radio delivery with catchphras-

es.Callers were greeted

with “Hellooooooooo Bartlett!” or “Well hel loooooooo Holly Springs!”

When Bi l l ingsley signed of at the end of the day, he’d say some-thing like, “I’m headed to my little piece of America in Fayette County.”

By early last Tuesday evening, more than 100 people had left comments honoring Billingsley on the station’s Facebook page.

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In the News

By Ken WoodmanseeSpecial to The Weekly

After a national search, Dr. Milton Moreland has been named vice presi-dent for academic afairs and dean of the faculty at Rhodes College.

“Dr. Moreland has served as interim dean for the last eighteen months, working closely with our trustees, administrative

staff, departmen-tal chairs and fac-ulty committees, and students to ensure the college is achieving the Rhodes Vision in every way,” said President William E. Troutt.

A professor of religious studies, More-land served as chair of the Archaeology Program, director of the Memphis Center, and coordinator of the Institute for Re-gional Studies at Rhodes. Since arriving at Rhodes in 2003, he has garnered

respect among his colleagues on cam-pus and beyond for his student-cen-tered approach to teaching, research, and service. In 2012, he received the college’s James-on M. Jones Award for Faculty Service.

“I thank Dr. Moreland for his willingness to serve as our academic leader,” said President Troutt.

Ken Woodmansee is the director

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Milton Moreland

By Linda A. Moorelmoore@commercialappeal.com

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The redevelopment of Central Station, which will include a movie theater, hotel, apartments, retail space and transit hub, will absolve the Memphis Area Transit Authority from its obligation to maintain its 101 year-old Main Street train station through a 99-year ground lease.

MATA will also turn over about $1.4 million in deferred maintenance to development partners Henry Turley Co. and Community Capital, said Ron Garrison, president and general manager.

And it will no longer lose $80,000 to $100,000 annually in facilities costs for security, staing and other expenses, making it “a really good private/public partnership,” Gar-rison said.

But while MATA will

receive 50 percent of the revenues from the proj-ect, an amount that’s ex-pected to start at between $120,000 and $160,000 a year and could rise to as much as $1 million a year, it still won’t be enough to relieve the transit author-ity of its inancial troubles.

“This is a drop in the bucket that might allow someone to tread water a little longer,” Garrison said.

He speculates that rev-enues from the Central Station deal could grow by another $200,000 or $300,000 over the next six or eight years. Oicials with Turley and Commu-nity Capital projected this spring that Central Station will generate a net operat-ing income for MATA of nearly $1 million by 2026.

“It will be some lag time between now and when leases are actually signed before MATA begins to re-ceive their portion of rev-enues,” said Archie Willis

III, Community Capital president.

The apartments and movie theater are slated to begin construction irst, he said.

MATA will be paid an-nually, he said, based on a year’s worth of results.

Even so, the new rev-enue stream won’t go far enough.

MATA has an operat-ing budget of about $58 million with about 40 percent coming from the city. Federal funds make up between 20-22 percent and fares account for 15-20 percent. It receives about 15 percent from the state and 2-5 percent from other sources, like advertising.

City funds have not in-creased since 2009, but federal dollars have been cut by $1.6 million, a result of declines in the city’s population and riders, which the federal govern-ment uses to determine funding, Garrison said.

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A MATA driver boards a Main Street Trolley stopped on South Main outside Central Station. A 99-year lease has been signed with MATA for the redevelopment of Central Station and the property surrounding it that will provide a dedicated funding source for the transportation agency.

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By John StammSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

Even in retirement, Jane Bevill knows it will be dif-icult escaping her work as Collierville’s Finance Di-rector. Traveling around town, she sees reminders and dollar signs.

She comes to a traic light and recalls the cost. There’s this road and how much was spent or bor-rowed. How costly was the sewer plant or the iretrucks.

“You’re always kind of thinking in that mode,” she said.

Saying you know when it’s time, Bevill, 67, an-nounced months ago she’d be retiring in late December after 25 years. Last Wednesday was her last day.

Leaders and co-workers praise her professionalism, trustworthiness and com-passion.

“It will take years for us to really appreciate what she did for us,” said Town Administrator James

Lewellen.Said Mayor Stan Joyner:

“The only thing I asked her to do was not change her telephone number. So if we need her, we can call her.”

Insisting she’ll answer the call, Bevill looks back fondly at her time at Town Hall that was marked by dramatic changes.

From her irst day in 1990 to now, the town’s population tripled to an es-timated 48,517. In the same span, the operating budget increased from $5.1 million to $48.5 million.

She started with a staf of ive and left managing 41 in three departments. Lewellen said she put in place the town’s proce-dures and internal con-trols.

“We’ve done nothing but change for 25 years,” said a laughing Bevill, who has lived in Bartlett for 31 years. “There was just a lot going on all the time, but it was fun.”

Bevill will be replaced by Assistant Finance Di-rector Mark Krock, who was a purchasing agent 20 years ago and returned in April to ease the transition. Also retiring is Assistant

Finance Director Sharon Skinner, who teamed with Bevill for 20 years.

In what Lewellen re-gards as Bevill’s toughest task and greatest accom-plishment, she spearhead-ed eforts this year result-ing in bonds totaling $111.8 million, including $93.5 million for construction of the new high school. The school bond required a 25-cent property tax increase to help fund the average an-nual debt payment of $5.4 million.

But most importantly, say Joyner and Lewellen, the town’s coveted AAA bond rating, the highest given by Moody’s Investors Service, was preserved.

“I think our bond rat-ing is a relection of how much credibility they put in Jane’s inancial leader-ship,” Lewellen said.

Joyner commended her patient guidance working with the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.“I don’t re-call ever being in a situa-tion where anyone argued with Jane,” said Lewellen. “When she said we can’t af-ford it or we don’t have the money to do it, that’s as far as it went.”

COLLIERVILLE

Finance director says ‘it’s time’ to retire

Jane Bevill, who is in her 25th year as Col-lierville finance director, is retir-ing after seeing many changes. JIM WEBER

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By Daniel Connollydaniel.connolly@commercialappeal.

com

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A proposal to build a two-story restaurant on Collierville’s historic town square took another step toward completion on Dec. 14 when the Board of Mayor and Aldermen unanimously approved a preliminary site plan.

A final development plan for the restaurant is now expected to go back to the board, possibly by its Feb. 22 meeting.

The Dec. 14 vote means the architects and other professionals working on the project can inalize engineering plans, said Nancy Boatwright, as-sistant town planner. She said developers must also reach an understanding with the Norfolk South-ern railroad company. The plans call for the develop-ers to make improvements in the railroad’s right of way, including a sidewalk.

The restaurant would be built on a now-vacant lot near the tracks at the southeastern corner of

the town square. The land belongs to John Green and his family. Jim Gannaway is leading the construction project on their behalf.

Gannaway said the project will cost about $1.3 million and the Greens would then lease the building to a restau-rant tenant. He would not reveal the tenant’s name, saying that the tenant re-quested it be kept quiet for now.

A hotel had stood on the site until it was destroyed by ire in 1986, planning documents say.

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Plan for two-story restaurant on Town Square moving forward

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NASHVILLE — The State Funding Board on Dec. 21 approved economic de-velopment grants for the Orgill Inc. corporate head-quarters in Collierville.

The Funding Board must approve the taxpay-er-funded state incentives before deals reached be-tween the state and busi-ness enterprises moving to or expanding inside Ten-nessee are inal. The board approved state grants to-taling nearly $18 million for eight separate projects across Tennessee on Dec. 28.

The largest was the $6,050,000 in state fund-ing toward the new $553 million Advanced Muni-

tions International facil-ity in Blount County. Gov. Bill Haslam and AMI ex-ecutives announced Oct. 20 that the Payson, Ariz., based company will build its headquarters and a mu-nitions manufacturing, distribution, and research and development facil-ity in Alcoa’s Partnership Park, ultimately creating 605 new jobs. The com-pany expects to start con-struction next spring and open in late 2018.

The Orgill Inc. project in Shelby County is a new 100,000-square-foot head-quarters building in Col-lierville, replacing leased space in Germantown. The state’s $2 million in-centive is based on the company’s plans to create 115 new jobs, ECD Assis-tant Commissioner Allen

Borden said, in addition to the 265 existing jobs at its current facility.

Orgill, a hardware wholesaler, considered moving its new offices to northern Mississippi where it already has an operation in Olive Branch. The company expects to start construction in 2016 and open in 2017.

State Treasurer David Lillard said Orgill “is one of the oldest companies in Memphis and Shelby County and I believe it’s the largest independently owned distributor of hard line products, that is hard-ware and other things sold in various supply houses throughout the United States. They are a sig-niicant economic driver of Memphis and Shelby County.”

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A group of young boys and girls gathered at a play-ground in Shelby Farms

Park the morning of Dec. 19 to spend the day riding new bikes for the irst time.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Bike Recycle is a program ofered in partnership with the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, Oasis of Hope, Renasant Bank, YMCA of Mem-phis & the Mid-South and Girls Inc.

The program provides children across Shelby County with new bikes and teaches them how to ride and maintain them safely.

YMCA and Girls Inc. referred the chil-dren, looking for those without bikes or the opportunity to purchase one on their own, said Natalie Wilson, senior manager of events and programs for the conservancy.

“Here we are in a park space that sits in the middle of our city but the citizens, the kids and families, we have a responsibility of serving them, too,” Wilson said. “Part of what we look at is how can we transform the city through children and their fami-lies by providing education.”

This year the program gave bikes and helmets to 28 5- to 12-year-olds. Before they could take anything home, each child took three bike safety courses that taught them the rules of the road, as well as main-tenance tips like how to remove a chain or tire, Wilson said.

After the inal safety course, the riders took of on a “graduation ride” in the park with an adult “bike buddy” before return-ing to the parking lot where they could pedal around a bufalo in a park ranger hat.

Bike buddy Calvin Anderson is a mem-

ber of the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy Board and a senior oicer at Blue Cross Blue Shield. He spent the morning biking alongside the girls and boys who were ap-plying what they learned in the workshops to the real world.

“This is an opportunity to not only put bikes in the hands of kids, but to promote and encourage physical itness and out-door activity,” he said. “This sort of teaches the kids not only safe riding but also how to care for the bikes that they have.”

Parent Anastasia Davis said the pro-gram gave her the opportunity for one-on-one time with her 6-year-old daughter Jada Alexander, who spent the morning with her mother atop a tiny purple Schwinn.

She said the courses were very helpful and educational.

“It’s more than just a bike,” Davis said. “It teaches them to actually be safe, how to check the bike and tires.

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She has been part of Hernando bands for seven years and plans to continue playing the lute in college. She currently is irst chair in theSymphonic Band, the top band for concert season. The band was asked to play as the “feature band” at the Mississippi BandmastersState Clinic in Natchez this month. In the fall Marching Band Competition, Paige had a beautiful solo and the band won irst place in the6A Division.

A disciplined student, Paige practices her lute and piccolo with dedication, improving her musical skills consistently. She is the lutesection leader, helping her section with marching skills. This winter she has agreed to be part of the pit orchestra for Kudzu Playhouse’sproduction of “Hairspray.” She has been selected for the Mississippi State Honor Band, Delta State Honor Band, Hernando DeSoto HonorBand and The University of Memphis Honor Band.

In addition, Paige has been inducted into the National Honor Society and works in small group projects with handicapped students. Sheuses her musical talents to serve in her church.

Carl Palmer | Central High School | MusicCarl, a senior, is a star saxophone player in four distinct, award-winning bands. He holds a 4.51 weighted grade point average and

scored 30 on the ACT. He has chosen a challenging course of study in the school’s Optional Program and is ranked in the top ten of hisclass. He plays saxophone in the Marching Band, Jazz Band, Symphonic Band and the Wind Ensemble, while serving as the Drum Majorfor the Marching Band two times. He also is the section leader in the Symphonic Band. He does all this…rehearsals, marches andparades, while maintaining his class standing and excellent grades.

In addition, Carl has been inducted into the National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta, the math honor society. He earned All-WestTennessee Honors Band in 2013, the APSU Honors Band in 2014, and The University of Memphis Honors Band. He also was named tothe All-West Jazz Band for tenor saxophone. He received an award as part of the Best Saxophone Section at Savannah Swing Central.

Carl is involved with the Student Council and the French Club. He participates in Race to Erase Racism, Children’s Museum ofMemphis and Reach Memphis.

Sophie Bougeois | St. Benedict High School | MusicSophie, a senior, is an exceptional vocalist and talented actress. She ranks in the top ten of her class of 214 seniors, holds a 4.3 weighted grade

point average and scored 29 on the ACT. She has appeared in many concerts on the school stage as well as in the community. She performed in theJohn Angotti “Come Home for Christmas” Concert at the Cannon Center. She was a member of the Chamber Choir as a freshman and has been amember of the school Show Choir the last three years. Both choirs won either irst place or superior awards at national competitions.

A gifted musician, Sophie aspires toward a double major in vocal performance and music education. She auditioned for and was acceptedinto the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. She recently participated in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition at TheUniversity of Memphis, placing second for musical theatre and third for classical. She advances to state competition. She received the OutstandingLead Actress Award for a performance at another school

Sophie is vice president of the National Spanish Honor Society and a member of the National Honor Society, National Thespian Society,Mu Alpha Theta, and National Science Honor Society.

Kathryn Miesse | St. Mary’s Episcopal School | MusicKathryn, a senior, has amazing natural talent as a vocalist and wants to become a theatre professional. A National Merit

Commended Student, she holds a 3.89 weighted grade point average. As her theatre load increased, she worked to maintain topgrades. As a result, she was inducted into the Mu Alpha Theta, the National Thespian Honor Society and the Tri-M Music Honor Society.

With all of her academic and stage commitments, Kathryn still inds time to be involved in school life. She is president of the DebateClub and vice-president of the Drama Club. This is her third year to work on the Belles Melodies staff, where a student can produce aCD showcasing his or her musical and dramatic accomplishments. This is Kathryn’s second year as a tutor for The Write Place,a student-run program committed to assisting students with major writing assignments.

Following her passion for music, Kathryn has volunteered during “30 Days of Opera” at Opera Memphis. She attendedSt. John’s College Summer Academy for voice two years ago and the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts: Voice last summer.In non-performer roles for plays, she typically spends 50 hours learning, conducting and teaching the players in the cast.

Blake Glass | Covington High School | MusicBlake, a senior, is a well-rounded student, a gifted singer and an exceptional pianist. He holds a 3.89 grade point average and

scored 27 on the ACT. He is the Tenor 2 Section Leader of the school’s Charger Voices Chamber and Advanced Choirs. He competed inThe University of Memphis’ National Association of Teachers of Singing voice competition and placed irst in his category. Last year, heattended the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts—Chorus.

In addition to his choir leadership, Blake has made the All Northwest Tennessee Honor Choir for ive years. He made the Tennessee AllState Choir all three years of eligibility and also made the 2014 Quad State Chorus at Murray State University. This year, he was chosenas a guest soloist for Mozart’s “Sparrow Mass” at the 2015 Quad State Choral Festival.

Known as the “singing bag boy” at a local grocery story, Blake is very involved in school activities. He is president of the StudentCouncil and was class president as a sophomore. He is a member of HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America), National HonorSociety, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, National Spanish Honor Society and TOTAL Youth Leadership.

Cameron Bertram | Collierville High School | MusicCameron, a senior, is a motivated student who thrives when challenged. Ranked seventh out of 467 seniors, he holds a 4.52 weighted grade

point average and scored 34 on the ACT. He is President of the Tri-M Music Honor Society, a member of the Cum Laude Society and captain of thesoccer team. He has been selected for the All-West Orchestra for the past two years and seated irst chair. He was selected as the principal violistand section leader for the high school orchestra and is a member of the prestigious Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra. With a great passion andresponsibility, Cameron leads the orchestra in learning new music, performing and conducting professional recitals.

In addition, Cameron attended the Tennessee Governor’s School for Business and IT Leadership. He was appointed CEO and his team wasrewarded with “Best Business Plan 2014,” the top award among all competing teams. This past summer Cameron was accepted into the Gen-CyberCamp at Marymount University in Virginia. Sponsored by the National Security Council, the camp exposed Cameron to extensive cyber-curriculum.

Cameron has learned life lessons of composure and discipline by playing music. He recently was selected to the school’s “Hall of Fame,” which isthe top 20 students as voted by teachers and staff.

Kenneth Gillespie | Overton High School | MusicKenneth, a senior, is talented academically and is dedicated to his music. He currently ranks third in his class and holds a 4.41

weighted grade point average while taking a rigorous course load of Advanced Placement, Honors and Dual Enrollment classes. Hereceived the former Memphis City Schools William H. Sweet Award for Academic Excellence, the Distinguished Honor Roll and the GoodCitizenship Award. He is an important member of the school orchestra.

Recently, Kenneth was named one of three students from Overton High School to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York next February,where he will play the viola. While there, he will have the opportunity to work with and learn from renowned conductors. He’ll then be partof a special performance for New York concert-going patrons, educators and family. Kenneth also was named the Assistant Principal forthe viola section in the All-State High School Strings in West Tennessee.

Kenneth is a member of the Memphis Repertory Orchestra, Corinth Symphony Orchestra, Bellevue Baptist Church Orchestra, andMemphis Youth Symphony Orchestra. He attended the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, where he performed in its orchestra.Performing in these groups has encouraged him to not only play music but also to teach others.

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MemphisTree Recycling at The Yard, 1735 Thomas, will run

through January. The Yard will accept your tree to be recycled into reusable materials. Mention Mem-phis Botanic Garden and $5 will be donated. Visit theyardmemphis.com.

BartlettBartlett Lights will run through Thursday at 4064

Sunny Meadows. Tune your radio to FM 101.7 while viewing. Donations beneit local charities. Visit bartlettlights.com.

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, 3663 Appling Road, will host Taylor Hicks on Jan. 16, from 8-10 p.m. Hicks is one of the most beloved and popular “American Idol” winners of all time. Tickets are $25. Visit bpacc.org or call 901-385-6440.

Also coming up: ■ Jan. 30: Sarah Darling, 8 p.m. Called “a sophis-

ticated songwriter with a crisp, powerful voice” by “The New York Times,” Darling pairs her uncanny knack for songwriting with her crystal clear vocals and beautiful tone to solidify the Iowa native as one of America’s newest breakout sensations. Tickets are $25.

ColliervilleCollierville United Methodist Church presents the

Chamber Music Series. The series, held at the historic Sanctuary on the Square, 104 Rowlett St., will run through April 24. All concerts begin at 7 p.m. with no admission fee. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Contact Jeannie Stevens Jones at jonesw9586@bellsouth.net or 901-826-5069.

Chamber Music Series:Feb. 21: “An Evening of Opera,” presented by The

University of Memphis Opera Department with Mr. Mark Ensley, director of Opera Studies

March 20: “Rhodes Singers,” directed by Dr. Wil-liam Skoog.

April 24: “Shakespeare in Song,” presented by Luna Nova and featuring Mr. Paul Murray, Baritone, Ms. Sabrina Laney Warren, soprano, and Mr. Perry War-ren, piano.

Anne Enochs presents her art work exhibit in the Halle Room at the Collierville Burch Library, 501 Poplar View Pkwy., through January. Enochs’ paintings have won awards in national juried shows and is a founding member of the Professional Artists League of Mississippi. Visit colliervillelibrary.org or call 901-457-2600.

The Morton Museum of Collierville History, 196 Main, hosts a book signing by John Babb Jan. 14, from 11 a.m. to noon. Author discusses and signs “Orphan Hero, a Novel of the Civil War.” Visit colliervillemu-seum.org, email museum@ci.collierville.tn.us or call 901-457-2650.

Also coming up: ■ Jan. 28: Willy Bearden: “Documenting Your Life

(and Mine),” 11 a.m. to noon. Writer and ilmmaker Willy Bearden will talk about his experience docu-menting the Mid-South and the Delta, along with ideas for documenting your own life. Free to attend.

■ Starting Jan. 8, the Morton Museum hosts “Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation,” an exhibition of personal accounts, artifacts and ilms from a 13,000 acre tobacco plantation that existed in Robertson County examining the institution of slavery and its impact on the state and the nation. Email acarver@ci.collierville.tn.us.

Collierville’s annual Mother/Son Bowling Night will be Jan. 15, from 5:30-8 p.m., at Fundquest Bowling Center, 440 U.S. 72. Cost is $30 per team, $15 for each additional son. Call 901-457-2770.

CordovaThe Spartan City Poetry Club is for adults who have

a passion for poetry and writing. The group meets once per month at the Cordova Branch Library, 8457 Trinity Road. Writing tips and techniques, poetry readings, critiquing and conversation. Free to attend. Email spartancitywriters@yahoo.com or visitliving-breathingpoetry.com/spartan-city-poetry-club.

Creative Writing for Veterans is every 21 days, from 6-9 p.m., at Southwest Tennessee Community Col-lege, 5983 Macon Cove. For U.S. Veterans and active duty military members. Meets Wednesdays during the Spring 2016 semester. Email tcockrill@southwest.tn.edu, visit southwest.tn.edu or call 901-333-5208.

Covenant United Methodist Church, 8350 Walnut Grove, hosts the Snowball Gala Jan. 9, from 7-10 p.m. Welcome the new year with USA Dance, featuring ballroom recorded DJ music and dance mixers. Cost is $10 for members, $13 nonmembers. Visit usadance-memphis.com or call 662-349-3720 or 901-853-1413.

Chuckles Comedy Club, 1770 Dexter Springs Loop, will host LOL Memphis Sketch & Improv Comedy Show the second and fourth Monday of every month, from 7-9 p.m. Featuring improv games and sketch parodies. Cast members perform small sets throughout the show to introduce what’s coming next. Tickets are $10. Email lolmemphis10@gmail.com, visit chucklescomedy-house.com or call 901-654-8594.

Also coming up:Actor and comedian, Scruncho, for two shows, to-

night and Wednesday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $17.50.Comedian, Karlous Miller for seven shows, Thursday

through Saturday at 7:30 and 10 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $17.50.

GermantownShelby County Republican Women’s Club will hold its

irst general meeting of the new year on Jan. 19, at 11 a.m. at Germantown Country Club, 1780 Kimbrough Road, featuring guest speaker John Ryder, General Counsel for the Republican National Committee. Call 901-754-6209.

Learn about “Making the Most of Storage and Space” at the Jan. 8 edition of the Brown Bag Lunch series. Amy Tuggle and Fran Cutshall, owners of Stay Organized with Us, will speak about organizing your home in the Mike Wilson Fellowship Hall at German-town United Methodist Church, 2331 S. Germantown Road. Program starts at 11 a.m., with lunch at noon. Free to attend. Bring a sack lunch; church will sup-ply beverages. Call Luci Cromer at 901-755-0803 or Beverly Rhoads at 901-754-7216, ext. 107.

Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter, hosts PB&J presents: Mömandpöp Jan. 9 at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Created by songwriting duo Virginia Ralph and Bobby Matthews, the mömandpöp show is a mu-sical comedy treat combining original pop music for kids with out-of-this-world characters. Tickets are $8 per child, up to two parents may attend free. Visit gpacweb.com or call 901-751-7500.

Also coming up: ■ Jan. 9: Larry Gatlin with Jason D. Williams, 8 p.m.

Country music’s chart-topping legend Larry Gatlin performs a rare solo, acoustic set in GPAC intimate listening hall. Setting the stage for the golden-voiced singer-songwriter Gatlin is Jason D. Williams, the rockabilly sensation who has been dazzling crowds live for three decades. Tickets are $28.50-75.

■ Jan. 16: Dianne Reeves, 8 p.m. One of the foremost jazz vocalists in the world, Dianne Reeves is recog-nized for her virtuosity, improvisational prowess, and unique jazz and R&B stylings. Tickets are $38.50-75.

■ Jan. 23-24: IRIS Midori, 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. The beloved artist Midori, a violin power-house since her teenage years, returns to IRIS to perform Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. Tickets are $45-65.

■ Jan. 29: Jazz in the Box presents Gerald Stephens, 7 and 8:30 p.m. Stephens has been in demand as a blues and jazz pianist in the Mid-South area since 1995, and has performed with many notable musicians of local and international fame, including Levon Helm, Hugh Masekela, The Memphis Horns, Antonio Hart, Annie Sellick, and Valerie June. While performing solo, with various groups and recording his own music, Ste-phens teaches at Rhodes College and the University of Memphis. Tickets are $25.

■ Jan. 30: Koresh Dance Company, 8 p.m. Known for their athleticism, diversity, and dynamic dance, the critically acclaimed Koresh Dance Company was founded by Israeli-born choreographer Ronen Ko-resh. Both eloquent and explosive, this dance troupe presents an exciting blend of ballet, modern and jazz choreography. Tickets are $35-75.

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.

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Sports

By Tom Schadtom.schad@commercialappeal.com

901-529-2525

Mike Norvell sat at a conference table in the Billy J. Murphy Athletic Complex early last week, his ever-buzzing cellphone in front of him.

What’s life been like since he became the head football coach at the Uni-versity of Memphis?

“I guess the way to de-scribe it — most people have said it to me and I never truly understood it until I went through it — is it’s kind of like you’re trying to take a sip out of a ire hydrant,” Norvell said with a laugh. “Everything is extremely fast.”

Norvell, 34, has been a head coach for a little more than three weeks. He’s

made the media rounds, met high-school coaches in the area and been in-troduced at a Tiger basket-ball game. He’s observed a handful of practices and met individually with Memphis players. He’s re-cruited four junior-college transfers and hired assis-tant coaches.

He has not had much time to catch his breath, or explore the city he will now call home.

“I’m really good at being able to go from the Holiday Inn to my oice,” Norvell said. “And that’s about it.”

Norvell has been pre-paring for this job for nine years. One of his closest mentors, Arizona State coach Todd Gra-ham, taught him long ago to approach every day as if he were the head coach.

Norvell took that lesson to heart, even during his days as a graduate assistant at Tulsa. So when his head coaching opportunity came, he was ready.

When Norvell was hired as Justin Fuente’s replacement, he had all

of the usual responsibili-ties — assembling a staf, for example — with the added pressure of the live recruiting period. NCAA rules permitted coaches to visit recruits at their homes until Dec. 14, which is the beginning of a dead period. As an incoming head coach, Norvell had to make good use of that time.

“We’re going to be ask-

ing a lot of people in this irst year to really take a leap of faith almost,” Nor-vell said. “You can look at the success that we’ve been able to have as a pro-gram — people understand there’s a culture of win-ning here — but I’m going to sit down and I’m going to talk to people about re-lationships. I’m going to talk to them about family.”

In the meantime, Mem-phis also has one more game to play. The Tigers will face Auburn in the Birmingham Bowl on Wednesday, with Darrell Dickey serving as interim head coach.

Norvell has observed practices in recent weeks and will be in Birmingham to watch the game, but he has not had a role in the preparations and will

leave it up to the current staf on game day.

After the Birmingham Bowl, Norvell will turn his attention to another im-portant matter: the move itself. Norvell’s wife, Ma-ria, has sent him links to information about houses and neighborhoods that he, admittedly, has not had much time to read.

“It’s something that we’ve kind of been up against the clock there, es-pecially with signing day, and trying to make sure we get everything done on the road that we need to get done,” Norvell said. “After the bowl game, I’m going to come up and my wife and I are going to be able to do a little bit of house hunting. So I’m sure I’ll be able to ind out all the turns and places I need to be at.”

U OF M FOOTBALL

Norvell’s life now moving at high speed

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New Tigers coach Mike Norvell has been busy lately.

By Dave SkrettaAssociated Press

MANHATTAN, Kan. — The University of Arkansas followed a season-open-ing victory with three straight losses and was spiraling down the drain when Bret Bielema picked up the phone and dialed a familiar number.

A familiar voice an-swered.

It wasn’t the irst time the Razorbacks’ coach had called Kansas State counterpart Bill Snyder when things were rough, nor will it be the last. And while Snyder is quick to downplay how much help he gave his old protégé, there is no disputing his wisdom from ive decades

in the game.“I just asked about, you

know, when he hadn’t won one in a while, how he would turn the corner,” Bielema recalled of that September conversation. “I’m always leaning on him for stuf like that.

“Obviously, it’s some stuf I leaned on and took some notes and it worked.”

It worked so well that Arkansas won six of its last eight games, earned a bid to the AutoZone Lib-erty Bowl and will face Snyder and his Wildcats on Saturday at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

“I don’t want this to be about me and Coach Snyder by any means,” Bielema said. “I want the bowl game to be about our players and our fans, but for me it’s just going to be really cool ... to be around him. There’s so many peo-ple I’m close with on their staf. It will be really, re-ally unique.”

Both coaches trace their roots to Iowa, when they learned at the knee of Hayden Fry. Snyder had followed him from North

Texas as his ofensive co-ordinator and quarterback guru, and Bielema played for Fry before joining the Hawkeyes’ staf as a graduate assistant and linebackers coach.

Eventually, Snyder took over Kansas State and rebuilt one of the worst programs in Division 1 football. But that success came with a price: Many of his assistants got head jobs elsewhere.

So, in 2002, it was Snyder who picked up the phone and gave Bielema a call.

“I thought for me to grow, I had to get out of my comfort zone,” said Bielema, who was en-couraged by Wisconsin’s Barry Alvarez and others to take the job. “They kind

of said to me, ‘No matter what you’ve heard or what you do, if you’re at Kan-sas State for six days or six weeks or six years, you’re going to be a better coach in the end,’ and they were exactly right.”

It wound up being two years. Bielema’s phone rang again; Alvarez want-ed him for defensive coor-dinator. The catch? Some-day soon, Bielema could take over the Badgers.

His departure irked Snyder at the time, but it never threatened to dis-solve their friendship.

“I was not enamored by it when that happened,” Snyder acknowledged, “but by the same token, it turned out to be a good move. That was part of the

package, so to speak, that there was that opportu-nity for him when Barry stepped down for him to step into that role.”

Bielema had plenty of success leading Wis-consin before jumping to Arkansas three years ago, and has the Razor-backs (7-5) in their second consecutive bowl game.

It just happens to be against the coach who helped him igure things out.

“We have a decent amount of dialogue,” Sny-der said.

“Bret calls when he has issues and we talk about what those are — not that I have answers, but I ap-preciate the fact that he asks.”

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Schools

By Daniel Connollydaniel.connolly@commercialappeal.

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Collierville officials are considering redraw-ing school district lines to relieve crowding at Schil-ling Farms Middle School by shifting students to Col-lierville Middle, the town’s other school for students in grades 6, 7 and 8.

The new zoning lines would go into efect for the 2016-2017 school year. Education oicials won’t make any decision without a series of public meetings and a vote by the school board, said Russell Dyer, chief of staf for Collier-ville schools.

“My thinking is we would have to get it to the board by late spring,” he said.

Any redrawing of the district lines will likely bring attention and con-cern from parents because it might mean students have to switch schools.

“Rezoning is never an easy process to go through,” Dyer said.

A committee of educa-tion and local oicials is meeting to come up with possible rezoning plans, he said.

The school system is keeping the rezoning com-mittee meetings closed for now. The state open meet-ings law says two or more members of a school board or similar body cannot de-liberate toward a decision outside of a public meet-ing.

But at the moment, there is only one school board member on the rezoning committee, Wright Cox.

Other members of the committee include Supt. John S. Aitken and Nedra Jones, a planning special-ist who uses powerful software to calculate the impact of moving district lines on school enrollment. Jones works for Bartlett schools but is helping Col-lierville through an agree-ment among the recently created municipal school systems, Dyer said.

The rezoning commit-tee is expected to inish its work in the next few months and present some recommended options to the public.

Students wouldn’t nec-essarily have to switch schools.

“Traditionally, we have allowed a student who started at that school to inish at the school, but you might not have bus trans-portation there,” Dyer said.

He cautioned that he couldn’t promise that in this case.

Schilling Farms has a capacity of 976 students but has an enrollment of about 1,090, Dyer said. The school uses portables to ac-commodate the overlow.

Collierville Middle has an enrollment of about 870 students, just short of its capacity of 914.

“We don’t want to have one school that’s way over capacity,” said Mark Han-sen, school board chair-man.

He said the rezoning is only a temporary solution to the crowding. The town plans to build a new high school that would open in 2018, and the school sys-tem would turn the current high school into the town’s third middle school.

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and clean up.

Farmington Elementary teachers Brianna Gould (front) and Caryn Daugherty show their school pride while marching in the Germantown Holiday Parade. FES opened in 1975 and is celebrating its 40th this year.

Dogwood Elementary hosted its irst father daughter dance called the Dolphin Tale Ball. The school hosted more than 500 guests. Dogwood music teacher Peter Simons was the dance DJ for the event and the girls and their “dates” enjoyed a photo booth, snacks and dance lessons.

Recently, more than 60 Collierville High School retirees gath-ered at the CHS library for a reunion of retired teachers. Retirees included James Hayslip, former CHS principal. The event was hosted by Kathryn Tebbe, Mary Alice Brock and Mattie Hamp-ton.

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Home & Garden

Since winter oicially be-gan a week ago, it’s time to look back on the autumn of

2015. It was a season of surprises — some good and some not so good.

It was not a great year for ob-serving brilliant fall color in our naturally forested areas.

“I always notice the color on black gums because they are usually the irst to turn and usually have some of the brightest orange red foliage in the forest,” said Dr. Mark Follis, a certiied arborist and owner of Follis Tree Preservation. “This year, most of them had lost their leaves by the end of summer.”

Chestnut oaks, whose leaves turn a more subtle orange, were also disappointing, he said.

Carol Reese was also un-impressed with fall color she found in the rural areas around Jackson where she is an orna-mental horticulture specialist with University of Tennessee Extension.

“I think it was too hot and dry for great color,” Reese said. “But once the rain came in No-vember, fall lowers like gold-enrods, native asters, swamp sunlowers and liatris were wonderful.”

I’ve been enjoying the deep pink lowers on a sasanqua ca-mellia in my yard but wonder why the light pink lowers lin-gering on some Encore azaleas strike me as less appropriate for the season?

In recent weeks, Reese and Follis noticed the subtle tawny orange-yellow tones on the leaves of oaks that don’t typi-cally catch their attention.

But in driving around neigh-borhoods, I’ve seen some spec-tacular and long-lasting foliage on ginkgos, Japanese maples, sweet gums and even the much-maligned Bradford pears, which had gorgeous orange-red leaves this year.

“For 15 years, Bradford pears are great trees,” said Follis, leav-ing unsaid their widely known tendency to break apart during storms as they mature.

When back- or top-lit by the sun, the pears and other orna-mental trees glowed so much I felt compelled to slow down or

even stop to seal their splendor in my mind.

By now, trees in the forests are mostly bare of leaves, notes certiied arborist Wes Hopper.

“In the urban and suburban heat island, some are still hang-ing on to their leaves and look-ing good,” Hopper said.

I love fall, even a lackluster one, although it always means my least favorite season is on the way. I recently happened upon a brief essay on the appeal of autumn called “Mellowness,” by the late Lin Yutang:

“I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, it colors richer and it is tinged a

little with sorrow.“Its golden richness speaks

not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but

of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitation of life and is content.”

LATE BLOOMER

Farfugiums are more than a plant with a funny name. Their tough, sometimes spotted or blotched foliage is a great ad-dition to the shaded or partly shaded areas that typify most of our residential landscapes.

And they can be used as vole-resistant companion for hostas, ferns and other shade plants.

“They have bold leaves like hostas, and they bloom at a time of the year when almost nothing else does,” said garden designer Tom Pellett. The blooms may last from late August to mid-December, depending on the weather.

Less than three weeks ago, tall stems with clusters of daisy-like yellow lowers were rising from the large shiny leaves of farfu-giums planted in front of the Visitors Center at the Memphis Botanic Garden.

The leaves of Farfugium “Gi-ganteum” can reach 15 inches across and the clump spreads to 30 inches in width. Flower spikes can be 4 feet tall.

They like conditions similar to those suited to hostas and hy-drangeas, said Chris Cosby, se-nior manager of gardens at the botanic garden. Morning sun and afternoon shade are ideal.

“They will lag in the hot af-ternoon sun,” he added. “And they must have evenly moist soil at all times.”

Pellett is more familiar with a smaller farfugium variety com-monly called leopard plant be-cause of the yellow spots on the leaves. The foliage stays about 8 to 10 inches above the ground while the airy lower spikes rise as much as 24 inches.

Leopard plant is easier to ind at local nurseries than the giant ones seen at the botanic garden.

Even rarer but worth seeking out are the crested type with ruled leaves and argenteum, which has white blotches on dark green leaves.

Farfugiums, especially the giant type, Cosby said, provide bold texture for shady gardens that often rely solely on hostas and elephant ears.

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Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Picasso of art 6 Left dumbstruck 10 Give form to 15 Very top 19 Israeli leader

Sharon 20 Give up rights to 21 On-call

attachment 22 Sandbox player’s

tote 23 Sense that stays

with you 26 Wintour of

fashion 27 Abundance 28 Crimean resort

port 29 Go quickly 30 People’s genus 33 Mil. figure 34 In various

places 36 Big concert

sites 38 Some gems 40 Middle 41 Jimmy Dean

product 43 R&B singer —

Marie 45 Hail, e.g. 48 Secret store 49 Stimpy’s canine

bud 50 Enterprise

empath Deanna 52 “— so sure” 54 IM “ha ha” 55 Tomorrow, to

Pedro

58 Fair and equal 61 Abrades 63 Longoria and

Cassidy 65 5% of LX 66 Title slave of

opera 67 Child’s cognitive

growth 72 Thon Buri

resident 74 Rival of Sony

and LG 75 Island goose 76 Westerns,

informally 79 Influence in

the choice of a ruler

82 Make insane, old-style

85 Lusterless 86 Lopez of pop 87 Schreiber of

“Scream” 89 Made-up tale 90 Acclivity 92 Bus dep. 93 Twine fiber 96 Big name in

daredeviltry 99 Tex-Mex dip, for

short 100 Globular 101 Consume 102 Contests with

knights 107 Simple bed 109 Partner of

crafts 110 Actor Lash of

76-Across

111 Officer over a 33-Across, in brief

112 Like some lower vertebrae

114 Jai — 115 VIPs’ purchasing

consultants 120 Sit still 121 Jung’s inner self 122 Activist 123 Malia’s little

sister 124 “For” votes 125 Mission to

gather info 126 Basilica part 127 Cineplex — (old

theater chain)

DOWN 1 Bud 2 Meyers of TV 3 Coal box 4 Femurs, e.g. 5 Bread spread 6 Getting 100 on,

as a test 7 Shoved off 8 Antsy 9 Excellent,

slangily 10 Fishing tools 11 Best Actress

Berry 12 Anxiety 13 It’s done to

atone for sin 14 Tiny bit of work 15 Geronimo, e.g. 16 Rapids craft 17 Not serious

18 Give a thrill 24 Baseball Hall of

Famer Tony La — 25 Shoe hole 29 Narrow

waterway 30 Bug no end 31 Public speaker 32 Delusions of

grandeur 34 Gorgon, e.g. 35 Dress up in 37 Trash collectors 39 Gave an awful

review 42 Catering hall

dispenser 43 “Mazel —!” 44 Kiddie-song

refrain 45 Asked to a

neighbor’s house, say

46 Admitting both sexes

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aspera” 57 Get back at 59 Pinch lightly 60 Pop’s Carly 62 Condescend (to) 64 “Hail, Ovid!” 68 “Oh, no!,” in

comics 69 Boxer Ali 70 “Max” actress

Sobieski 71 Has a TV dinner,

say

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relatively easy to treat

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88 Actor Ben 91 Yellow writing

tablet 94 Reply to “Are

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garments 100 Lima resident 102 Santa — 103 “Roots” writer

Alex 104 Wipe away 105 Shaped like a

doughnut 106 Vodka drink, for

short 108 Earth tone, to a

Brit 112 Pig’s food 113 Lhasa — 115 So-so, in golf 116 Nabokov title

heroine 117 Suffix with

Bhutan 118 Fraternity P 119 UCSD part

ACROSS 1 Chipped beef

go-with 6 Plugged in 11 Subjects of

frequent updates

15 Tennis’s Wawrinka, winner of the 2015 French Open

19 Wet spot 20 Sophomore’s

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22 “Duh, I get it” 23 “Corrected”

slogan for a tech company?

26 Matriarch of six of the 12 Tribes of Israel

27 Bounce 28 Regarding 29 Keeper of the

flame? 30 Majority of

Saudi Arabians

31 Kind of tone 33 “Corrected”

slogan for an office-supply chain?

37 Anna Karenina’s lover

39 Deer hunter’s prize

40 Skaters’ leaps 41 Who might say,

“I’m I. M.” 42 Rating for many

HBO shows 44 Early co-host of

“The View” 49 “Corrected”

slogan for a fast-food franchise?

52 Feudal superiors

53 “The Boy Next Door” star, to fans

56 Elbow 57 Sources of

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handful 59 Earnings, so to

speak 62 Tubs

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66 “Corrected” slogan for a dessert brand?

71 Gambit 72 Gambit 73 Molly who

wrote “Bill of Wrongs”

74 Hogwarts delivery system

75 Dweeb 77 Confine 81 Measure of

inflation, for short

82 Calligraphers 83 “Corrected”

slogan for a hairstyling product?

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shoes 90 Short note? 91 “When in ____,

tell the truth”: Mark Twain

93 Second 95 Took, as a test 97 “Corrected”

slogan for a frozen breakfast food?

102 Aunt in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

103 Reflective writing

104 Certification for eco-friendly buildings, for short

105 “Funny bumping into you here”

107 “Unfortunately ... ”

110 Seaside scavenger

111 “Corrected” slogan for a dairy product?

115 Hot rod’s rod 116 Took a card 117 President-____ 118 “Duck Dynasty”

network 119 Action-

oriented sorts, supposedly

120 Surfaces, in a way

121 Targets of cons 122 Work with the

hands

DOWN 1 “Africa” band,

1982 2 First Ironman

locale 3 “From my

perspective ...” 4 Possible black

market cause 5 “Naughty!” 6 Buggy people? 7 Drift 8 Driver who won

the Indy 500, Daytona 500 and Le Mans

9 European deer 10 Get things

wrong 11 “The

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12 Bit of marketing 13 Oktoberfest

dance 14 It’s a mess 15 Signs of respect

16 Hurricanes’ grp. 17 Yoga poses 18 Like three Cy

Young games 24 Indirect objects,

grammatically speaking

25 “Oh, gross!” 30 What

indicate 32 “Acoustic

guitar” or “terrestrial radio”

34 “Hey, relax!” 35 ____ Pepper 36 Hudgens of

“High School Musical”

37 Big lug 38 Shepherd’s

workplace 39 Pioneering

stand-up comedian

43 El Paso setting: Abbr.

45 Admission of 1959

46 Josh 47 Gibes 48 Figures in

bedtime stories 50 Nordic wonders 51 Charge 53 “Romeo Must

Die” star, 2000 54 Approach

evening 55 Missouri River

natives 57 It makes a turn

at the entrance 58 Globetrot 59 Some jazz 60 Promises 61 Ma uses them 63 Like ibexes 65 Cover’s

opposite 67 Greeted with

respect 68 Like shepherds’

charges

69 Holds to be 70 Scrutinized 76 Mint 78 Subject for

one studying onomastics

79 Ottawa-based media inits.

80 Flooded with 82 Submarine near

the Gulf Coast 83 TV character

with the catchphrase “Booyakasha!”

84 Rope from a ship, say

85 “Whoop-de-____”

86 Start of the Lord’s Prayer

87 Band with the first video on MTV, with “the”

88 Connectivity issue

91 Having all the add-ons, say

92 Singer of the aria “Ora e per sempre addio”

94 Let, e.g. 96 Barring no one 97 Corporate

department 98 Plants 99 Stephenie

who wrote “Twilight”

100 Cartoonish shrieks

101 URL ender 102 I.M. sessions 106 “Fiddlesticks!” 108 Photographer/

writer Arlene 109 Short

timetable? 111 Chemical used

to fight malaria 112 Border line? 113 Like 114 Talk up a storm

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Against seven spades, West led a diamond, and declarer threw a heart on dummy’s ace and took two high trumps. When West discarded, South saw that she probably had to ru� at least one heart in dummy.

“My partner next led a heart to the king,” North told us, “and East dropped the queen! Naturally, my partner thought it was safe to draw the last trump. If East had Q-J dou-bleton in hearts, there would be no problem, and if he held the singleton queen, declarer could set up the hearts by tak-ing a ru�ng finesse against West’s jack.

“But when my partner took the ace of hearts, West discarded! South then had to lose a heart to East’s jack. East is a con artist and should be arrested. Collar him!”

We took the suspect into custody on a charge of decep-tive practice. He was found guilty, and the judge said he wished he defended so well. If East follows low to the king of hearts, South will continue with a heart to her ace. When West discards, South can safe-ly ru� two hearts in dummy and make the slam.

Dear Harriette: My mother was in her mid-to-late 40s when she had me. This age is a little older than some of my friends’ mothers, while much older than others. When I was in school, it’d be a topic of comparison, but now that I am an adult, age doesn’t get mentioned much. My mother is now facing health issues associated with old age, and if I ever discuss this, everyone as-sumes our mothers are the same age and lament about how she’s too young to be going through something like arthritis or hyperten-sion. I never know what to say, because although she is older, it isn’t always a justification for the health problems she is facing. Would it be rude of me to tell people that my mother is older than they’re prob-ably expecting?

— Hush-Hush About Age, Salt Lake City

Dear Hush-Hush: Rather than revealing your moth-er’s age, you may want to stop talking about her ailments. Unless she has told you it’s OK to go into

detail about her health, it is not your place to tell your friends about your mother’s ailments. Instead, you can be generic in your responses.

You are right that people su�er various illnesses at di�erent stages in life, and also based on their own personal health. When it comes to health issues, I consider them private and personal. If the person ex-periencing them chooses to share, that’s fine. Other-wise, keep your mother’s health matters to yourself. When asked how is she doing, choose something positive to share, and leave it at that.

It is disrespectful to mom to talk about her ailments

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) ★★★★ You seem some-what reticent to give in to your own desires. You feel the need to check in with an older relative.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You could be more than willing to handle a problem, but others will demand to manage the mat-ter in question. Reach out to someone at a distance.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ Say what you want. You will receive powerful feedback that you might prefer not to hear, but it could give you insight.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★ Be aware of what is being o�ered, and don’t automatically turn it down. Sometimes you react imme-diately and don’t consider your best interests.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★★ You’ll feel as if you finally can come up for air. Remind yourself that you still have to christen 2016. Do it in your classic Leo style, but start thinking of a resolution.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ You might have en-joyed the past few weeks, but you need a break. Get as much R and R before New Year’s Eve.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You seem to get a second hit of the holiday spirit. Embrace it, and look toward New Year’s Eve. Make plans that feel right.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★ Some of you will catch up with an older friend or

relative; others might de-cide to get a project or some work done.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ A friend finally will get you on the phone.

You might not be able to visit as long as you would like, though,.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ You might be holding back some information. Choose your r e s p o n s e

carefully. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.

18) ★★★★ Get back to feel-ing normal by handling some of your usual errands. You might become more re-laxed just by taking care of these matters.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Pace yourself, and allow more flexibility between you and a friend whom you might want to know better.

What the stars mean:

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

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you will be more in touch with your nurturing qualities. Others often come to you for solutions and feedback, and they might be surprised to see this caring stance. If you are single, you easily could stumble into an intense rela-tionship. If you are attached, you enjoy being a duo. You love that special one-on-one time. LEO often understands your bottom line.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Rebranding

By Peter Wentz / Edited By Will Shortz

12-27-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE WINS THE QUEENHint: First stop its escape.

Solution: 1. Qe1ch! Ne7 2. Be4! does it.

S G O P G K ’ M I R K M E J M G O F J M A R M

Y R Q M L B O D R Q E J M A G P M G P L W L P J M A L F

L K M G M I G Y R Q M F ? A R D W J L M S G O Q I R S !

12-27 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: A equals H

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

Premier Crossword | Opening And Closing Quartets

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

SUNDAY BREAK

By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Picasso of art 6 Left dumbstruck 10 Give form to 15 Very top 19 Israeli leader

Sharon 20 Give up rights to 21 On-call

attachment 22 Sandbox player’s

tote 23 Sense that stays

with you 26 Wintour of

fashion 27 Abundance 28 Crimean resort

port 29 Go quickly 30 People’s genus 33 Mil. figure 34 In various

places 36 Big concert

sites 38 Some gems 40 Middle 41 Jimmy Dean

product 43 R&B singer —

Marie 45 Hail, e.g. 48 Secret store 49 Stimpy’s canine

bud 50 Enterprise

empath Deanna 52 “— so sure” 54 IM “ha ha” 55 Tomorrow, to

Pedro

58 Fair and equal 61 Abrades 63 Longoria and

Cassidy 65 5% of LX 66 Title slave of

opera 67 Child’s cognitive

growth 72 Thon Buri

resident 74 Rival of Sony

and LG 75 Island goose 76 Westerns,

informally 79 Influence in

the choice of a ruler

82 Make insane, old-style

85 Lusterless 86 Lopez of pop 87 Schreiber of

“Scream” 89 Made-up tale 90 Acclivity 92 Bus dep. 93 Twine fiber 96 Big name in

daredeviltry 99 Tex-Mex dip, for

short 100 Globular 101 Consume 102 Contests with

knights 107 Simple bed 109 Partner of

crafts 110 Actor Lash of

76-Across

111 Officer over a 33-Across, in brief

112 Like some lower vertebrae

114 Jai — 115 VIPs’ purchasing

consultants 120 Sit still 121 Jung’s inner self 122 Activist 123 Malia’s little

sister 124 “For” votes 125 Mission to

gather info 126 Basilica part 127 Cineplex — (old

theater chain)

DOWN 1 Bud 2 Meyers of TV 3 Coal box 4 Femurs, e.g. 5 Bread spread 6 Getting 100 on,

as a test 7 Shoved off 8 Antsy 9 Excellent,

slangily 10 Fishing tools 11 Best Actress

Berry 12 Anxiety 13 It’s done to

atone for sin 14 Tiny bit of work 15 Geronimo, e.g. 16 Rapids craft 17 Not serious

18 Give a thrill 24 Baseball Hall of

Famer Tony La — 25 Shoe hole 29 Narrow

waterway 30 Bug no end 31 Public speaker 32 Delusions of

grandeur 34 Gorgon, e.g. 35 Dress up in 37 Trash collectors 39 Gave an awful

review 42 Catering hall

dispenser 43 “Mazel —!” 44 Kiddie-song

refrain 45 Asked to a

neighbor’s house, say

46 Admitting both sexes

47 Sicily’s erupter 51 Forward, e.g. 53 Symbolized 56 “Ad — per

aspera” 57 Get back at 59 Pinch lightly 60 Pop’s Carly 62 Condescend (to) 64 “Hail, Ovid!” 68 “Oh, no!,” in

comics 69 Boxer Ali 70 “Max” actress

Sobieski 71 Has a TV dinner,

say

72 B’way booth in Times Square

73 Trumpeter Al 77 Most mature 78 Refines, as ore 80 Apply wrongly 81 Not one 83 They’re

relatively easy to treat

84 “Oh no!,” in comics

88 Actor Ben 91 Yellow writing

tablet 94 Reply to “Are

you?” 95 Triangle type 97 Action wds. 98 Racecar fuel 99 Test pilots’

garments 100 Lima resident 102 Santa — 103 “Roots” writer

Alex 104 Wipe away 105 Shaped like a

doughnut 106 Vodka drink, for

short 108 Earth tone, to a

Brit 112 Pig’s food 113 Lhasa — 115 So-so, in golf 116 Nabokov title

heroine 117 Suffix with

Bhutan 118 Fraternity P 119 UCSD part

ACROSS 1 Chipped beef

go-with 6 Plugged in 11 Subjects of

frequent updates

15 Tennis’s Wawrinka, winner of the 2015 French Open

19 Wet spot 20 Sophomore’s

choice 21 “Language of

the unheard,” per Martin Luther King Jr.

22 “Duh, I get it” 23 “Corrected”

slogan for a tech company?

26 Matriarch of six of the 12 Tribes of Israel

27 Bounce 28 Regarding 29 Keeper of the

flame? 30 Majority of

Saudi Arabians

31 Kind of tone 33 “Corrected”

slogan for an office-supply chain?

37 Anna Karenina’s lover

39 Deer hunter’s prize

40 Skaters’ leaps 41 Who might say,

“I’m I. M.” 42 Rating for many

HBO shows 44 Early co-host of

“The View” 49 “Corrected”

slogan for a fast-food franchise?

52 Feudal superiors

53 “The Boy Next Door” star, to fans

56 Elbow 57 Sources of

some rattling 58 Milkmaid’s

handful 59 Earnings, so to

speak 62 Tubs

64 Fall back on, as in desperation

66 “Corrected” slogan for a dessert brand?

71 Gambit 72 Gambit 73 Molly who

wrote “Bill of Wrongs”

74 Hogwarts delivery system

75 Dweeb 77 Confine 81 Measure of

inflation, for short

82 Calligraphers 83 “Corrected”

slogan for a hairstyling product?

87 Shows promise 89 Thom ____

shoes 90 Short note? 91 “When in ____,

tell the truth”: Mark Twain

93 Second 95 Took, as a test 97 “Corrected”

slogan for a frozen breakfast food?

102 Aunt in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

103 Reflective writing

104 Certification for eco-friendly buildings, for short

105 “Funny bumping into you here”

107 “Unfortunately ... ”

110 Seaside scavenger

111 “Corrected” slogan for a dairy product?

115 Hot rod’s rod 116 Took a card 117 President-____ 118 “Duck Dynasty”

network 119 Action-

oriented sorts, supposedly

120 Surfaces, in a way

121 Targets of cons 122 Work with the

hands

DOWN 1 “Africa” band,

1982 2 First Ironman

locale 3 “From my

perspective ...” 4 Possible black

market cause 5 “Naughty!” 6 Buggy people? 7 Drift 8 Driver who won

the Indy 500, Daytona 500 and Le Mans

9 European deer 10 Get things

wrong 11 “The

Terminator” star, to fans

12 Bit of marketing 13 Oktoberfest

dance 14 It’s a mess 15 Signs of respect

16 Hurricanes’ grp. 17 Yoga poses 18 Like three Cy

Young games 24 Indirect objects,

grammatically speaking

25 “Oh, gross!” 30 What

indicate 32 “Acoustic

guitar” or “terrestrial radio”

34 “Hey, relax!” 35 ____ Pepper 36 Hudgens of

“High School Musical”

37 Big lug 38 Shepherd’s

workplace 39 Pioneering

stand-up comedian

43 El Paso setting: Abbr.

45 Admission of 1959

46 Josh 47 Gibes 48 Figures in

bedtime stories 50 Nordic wonders 51 Charge 53 “Romeo Must

Die” star, 2000 54 Approach

evening 55 Missouri River

natives 57 It makes a turn

at the entrance 58 Globetrot 59 Some jazz 60 Promises 61 Ma uses them 63 Like ibexes 65 Cover’s

opposite 67 Greeted with

respect 68 Like shepherds’

charges

69 Holds to be 70 Scrutinized 76 Mint 78 Subject for

one studying onomastics

79 Ottawa-based media inits.

80 Flooded with 82 Submarine near

the Gulf Coast 83 TV character

with the catchphrase “Booyakasha!”

84 Rope from a ship, say

85 “Whoop-de-____”

86 Start of the Lord’s Prayer

87 Band with the first video on MTV, with “the”

88 Connectivity issue

91 Having all the add-ons, say

92 Singer of the aria “Ora e per sempre addio”

94 Let, e.g. 96 Barring no one 97 Corporate

department 98 Plants 99 Stephenie

who wrote “Twilight”

100 Cartoonish shrieks

101 URL ender 102 I.M. sessions 106 “Fiddlesticks!” 108 Photographer/

writer Arlene 109 Short

timetable? 111 Chemical used

to fight malaria 112 Border line? 113 Like 114 Talk up a storm

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.

12-27-15

Sunday, December 27. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the daywatch out of Bunco. The boss is Cap-tain Stewart. My partner’s Bill Gannon. He’s a good player. My name’s Friday.

We got a call about a scam at a club in Ventura. We checked it out. The suspect was still playing. One of his opponents spoke with us.

“It was terrible, o�cer.” “Just the facts, ma’am.” “I’ll tell you the facts: That

man sitting East swindled my partner out of a grand slam.”

Against seven spades, West led a diamond, and declarer threw a heart on dummy’s ace and took two high trumps. When West discarded, South saw that she probably had to ru� at least one heart in dummy.

“My partner next led a heart to the king,” North told us, “and East dropped the queen! Naturally, my partner thought it was safe to draw the last trump. If East had Q-J dou-bleton in hearts, there would be no problem, and if he held the singleton queen, declarer could set up the hearts by tak-ing a ru�ng finesse against West’s jack.

“But when my partner took the ace of hearts, West discarded! South then had to lose a heart to East’s jack. East is a con artist and should be arrested. Collar him!”

We took the suspect into custody on a charge of decep-tive practice. He was found guilty, and the judge said he wished he defended so well. If East follows low to the king of hearts, South will continue with a heart to her ace. When West discards, South can safe-ly ru� two hearts in dummy and make the slam.

Dear Harriette: My mother was in her mid-to-late 40s when she had me. This age is a little older than some of my friends’ mothers, while much older than others. When I was in school, it’d be a topic of comparison, but now that I am an adult, age doesn’t get mentioned much. My mother is now facing health issues associated with old age, and if I ever discuss this, everyone as-sumes our mothers are the same age and lament about how she’s too young to be going through something like arthritis or hyperten-sion. I never know what to say, because although she is older, it isn’t always a justification for the health problems she is facing. Would it be rude of me to tell people that my mother is older than they’re prob-ably expecting?

— Hush-Hush About Age, Salt Lake City

Dear Hush-Hush: Rather than revealing your moth-er’s age, you may want to stop talking about her ailments. Unless she has told you it’s OK to go into

detail about her health, it is not your place to tell your friends about your mother’s ailments. Instead, you can be generic in your responses.

You are right that people su�er various illnesses at di�erent stages in life, and also based on their own personal health. When it comes to health issues, I consider them private and personal. If the person ex-periencing them chooses to share, that’s fine. Other-wise, keep your mother’s health matters to yourself. When asked how is she doing, choose something positive to share, and leave it at that.

It is disrespectful to mom to talk about her ailments

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) ★★★★ You seem some-what reticent to give in to your own desires. You feel the need to check in with an older relative.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You could be more than willing to handle a problem, but others will demand to manage the mat-ter in question. Reach out to someone at a distance.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ Say what you want. You will receive powerful feedback that you might prefer not to hear, but it could give you insight.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★ Be aware of what is being o�ered, and don’t automatically turn it down. Sometimes you react imme-diately and don’t consider your best interests.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★★ You’ll feel as if you finally can come up for air. Remind yourself that you still have to christen 2016. Do it in your classic Leo style, but start thinking of a resolution.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ You might have en-joyed the past few weeks, but you need a break. Get as much R and R before New Year’s Eve.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You seem to get a second hit of the holiday spirit. Embrace it, and look toward New Year’s Eve. Make plans that feel right.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★ Some of you will catch up with an older friend or

relative; others might de-cide to get a project or some work done.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ A friend finally will get you on the phone.

You might not be able to visit as long as you would like, though,.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ You might be holding back some information. Choose your r e s p o n s e

carefully. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.

18) ★★★★ Get back to feel-ing normal by handling some of your usual errands. You might become more re-laxed just by taking care of these matters.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Pace yourself, and allow more flexibility between you and a friend whom you might want to know better.

What the stars mean:

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

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you will be more in touch with your nurturing qualities. Others often come to you for solutions and feedback, and they might be surprised to see this caring stance. If you are single, you easily could stumble into an intense rela-tionship. If you are attached, you enjoy being a duo. You love that special one-on-one time. LEO often understands your bottom line.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Rebranding

By Peter Wentz / Edited By Will Shortz

12-27-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE WINS THE QUEENHint: First stop its escape.

Solution: 1. Qe1ch! Ne7 2. Be4! does it.

S G O P G K ’ M I R K M E J M G O F J M A R M

Y R Q M L B O D R Q E J M A G P M G P L W L P J M A L F

L K M G M I G Y R Q M F ? A R D W J L M S G O Q I R S !

12-27 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: A equals H

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

Premier Crossword | Opening And Closing Quartets

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

SUNDAY BREAK

By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Picasso of art 6 Left dumbstruck 10 Give form to 15 Very top 19 Israeli leader

Sharon 20 Give up rights to 21 On-call

attachment 22 Sandbox player’s

tote 23 Sense that stays

with you 26 Wintour of

fashion 27 Abundance 28 Crimean resort

port 29 Go quickly 30 People’s genus 33 Mil. figure 34 In various

places 36 Big concert

sites 38 Some gems 40 Middle 41 Jimmy Dean

product 43 R&B singer —

Marie 45 Hail, e.g. 48 Secret store 49 Stimpy’s canine

bud 50 Enterprise

empath Deanna 52 “— so sure” 54 IM “ha ha” 55 Tomorrow, to

Pedro

58 Fair and equal 61 Abrades 63 Longoria and

Cassidy 65 5% of LX 66 Title slave of

opera 67 Child’s cognitive

growth 72 Thon Buri

resident 74 Rival of Sony

and LG 75 Island goose 76 Westerns,

informally 79 Influence in

the choice of a ruler

82 Make insane, old-style

85 Lusterless 86 Lopez of pop 87 Schreiber of

“Scream” 89 Made-up tale 90 Acclivity 92 Bus dep. 93 Twine fiber 96 Big name in

daredeviltry 99 Tex-Mex dip, for

short 100 Globular 101 Consume 102 Contests with

knights 107 Simple bed 109 Partner of

crafts 110 Actor Lash of

76-Across

111 Officer over a 33-Across, in brief

112 Like some lower vertebrae

114 Jai — 115 VIPs’ purchasing

consultants 120 Sit still 121 Jung’s inner self 122 Activist 123 Malia’s little

sister 124 “For” votes 125 Mission to

gather info 126 Basilica part 127 Cineplex — (old

theater chain)

DOWN 1 Bud 2 Meyers of TV 3 Coal box 4 Femurs, e.g. 5 Bread spread 6 Getting 100 on,

as a test 7 Shoved off 8 Antsy 9 Excellent,

slangily 10 Fishing tools 11 Best Actress

Berry 12 Anxiety 13 It’s done to

atone for sin 14 Tiny bit of work 15 Geronimo, e.g. 16 Rapids craft 17 Not serious

18 Give a thrill 24 Baseball Hall of

Famer Tony La — 25 Shoe hole 29 Narrow

waterway 30 Bug no end 31 Public speaker 32 Delusions of

grandeur 34 Gorgon, e.g. 35 Dress up in 37 Trash collectors 39 Gave an awful

review 42 Catering hall

dispenser 43 “Mazel —!” 44 Kiddie-song

refrain 45 Asked to a

neighbor’s house, say

46 Admitting both sexes

47 Sicily’s erupter 51 Forward, e.g. 53 Symbolized 56 “Ad — per

aspera” 57 Get back at 59 Pinch lightly 60 Pop’s Carly 62 Condescend (to) 64 “Hail, Ovid!” 68 “Oh, no!,” in

comics 69 Boxer Ali 70 “Max” actress

Sobieski 71 Has a TV dinner,

say

72 B’way booth in Times Square

73 Trumpeter Al 77 Most mature 78 Refines, as ore 80 Apply wrongly 81 Not one 83 They’re

relatively easy to treat

84 “Oh no!,” in comics

88 Actor Ben 91 Yellow writing

tablet 94 Reply to “Are

you?” 95 Triangle type 97 Action wds. 98 Racecar fuel 99 Test pilots’

garments 100 Lima resident 102 Santa — 103 “Roots” writer

Alex 104 Wipe away 105 Shaped like a

doughnut 106 Vodka drink, for

short 108 Earth tone, to a

Brit 112 Pig’s food 113 Lhasa — 115 So-so, in golf 116 Nabokov title

heroine 117 Suffix with

Bhutan 118 Fraternity P 119 UCSD part

ACROSS 1 Chipped beef

go-with 6 Plugged in 11 Subjects of

frequent updates

15 Tennis’s Wawrinka, winner of the 2015 French Open

19 Wet spot 20 Sophomore’s

choice 21 “Language of

the unheard,” per Martin Luther King Jr.

22 “Duh, I get it” 23 “Corrected”

slogan for a tech company?

26 Matriarch of six of the 12 Tribes of Israel

27 Bounce 28 Regarding 29 Keeper of the

flame? 30 Majority of

Saudi Arabians

31 Kind of tone 33 “Corrected”

slogan for an office-supply chain?

37 Anna Karenina’s lover

39 Deer hunter’s prize

40 Skaters’ leaps 41 Who might say,

“I’m I. M.” 42 Rating for many

HBO shows 44 Early co-host of

“The View” 49 “Corrected”

slogan for a fast-food franchise?

52 Feudal superiors

53 “The Boy Next Door” star, to fans

56 Elbow 57 Sources of

some rattling 58 Milkmaid’s

handful 59 Earnings, so to

speak 62 Tubs

64 Fall back on, as in desperation

66 “Corrected” slogan for a dessert brand?

71 Gambit 72 Gambit 73 Molly who

wrote “Bill of Wrongs”

74 Hogwarts delivery system

75 Dweeb 77 Confine 81 Measure of

inflation, for short

82 Calligraphers 83 “Corrected”

slogan for a hairstyling product?

87 Shows promise 89 Thom ____

shoes 90 Short note? 91 “When in ____,

tell the truth”: Mark Twain

93 Second 95 Took, as a test 97 “Corrected”

slogan for a frozen breakfast food?

102 Aunt in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

103 Reflective writing

104 Certification for eco-friendly buildings, for short

105 “Funny bumping into you here”

107 “Unfortunately ... ”

110 Seaside scavenger

111 “Corrected” slogan for a dairy product?

115 Hot rod’s rod 116 Took a card 117 President-____ 118 “Duck Dynasty”

network 119 Action-

oriented sorts, supposedly

120 Surfaces, in a way

121 Targets of cons 122 Work with the

hands

DOWN 1 “Africa” band,

1982 2 First Ironman

locale 3 “From my

perspective ...” 4 Possible black

market cause 5 “Naughty!” 6 Buggy people? 7 Drift 8 Driver who won

the Indy 500, Daytona 500 and Le Mans

9 European deer 10 Get things

wrong 11 “The

Terminator” star, to fans

12 Bit of marketing 13 Oktoberfest

dance 14 It’s a mess 15 Signs of respect

16 Hurricanes’ grp. 17 Yoga poses 18 Like three Cy

Young games 24 Indirect objects,

grammatically speaking

25 “Oh, gross!” 30 What

indicate 32 “Acoustic

guitar” or “terrestrial radio”

34 “Hey, relax!” 35 ____ Pepper 36 Hudgens of

“High School Musical”

37 Big lug 38 Shepherd’s

workplace 39 Pioneering

stand-up comedian

43 El Paso setting: Abbr.

45 Admission of 1959

46 Josh 47 Gibes 48 Figures in

bedtime stories 50 Nordic wonders 51 Charge 53 “Romeo Must

Die” star, 2000 54 Approach

evening 55 Missouri River

natives 57 It makes a turn

at the entrance 58 Globetrot 59 Some jazz 60 Promises 61 Ma uses them 63 Like ibexes 65 Cover’s

opposite 67 Greeted with

respect 68 Like shepherds’

charges

69 Holds to be 70 Scrutinized 76 Mint 78 Subject for

one studying onomastics

79 Ottawa-based media inits.

80 Flooded with 82 Submarine near

the Gulf Coast 83 TV character

with the catchphrase “Booyakasha!”

84 Rope from a ship, say

85 “Whoop-de-____”

86 Start of the Lord’s Prayer

87 Band with the first video on MTV, with “the”

88 Connectivity issue

91 Having all the add-ons, say

92 Singer of the aria “Ora e per sempre addio”

94 Let, e.g. 96 Barring no one 97 Corporate

department 98 Plants 99 Stephenie

who wrote “Twilight”

100 Cartoonish shrieks

101 URL ender 102 I.M. sessions 106 “Fiddlesticks!” 108 Photographer/

writer Arlene 109 Short

timetable? 111 Chemical used

to fight malaria 112 Border line? 113 Like 114 Talk up a storm

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.

12-27-15

Sunday, December 27. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the daywatch out of Bunco. The boss is Cap-tain Stewart. My partner’s Bill Gannon. He’s a good player. My name’s Friday.

We got a call about a scam at a club in Ventura. We checked it out. The suspect was still playing. One of his opponents spoke with us.

“It was terrible, o�cer.” “Just the facts, ma’am.” “I’ll tell you the facts: That

man sitting East swindled my partner out of a grand slam.”

Against seven spades, West led a diamond, and declarer threw a heart on dummy’s ace and took two high trumps. When West discarded, South saw that she probably had to ru� at least one heart in dummy.

“My partner next led a heart to the king,” North told us, “and East dropped the queen! Naturally, my partner thought it was safe to draw the last trump. If East had Q-J dou-bleton in hearts, there would be no problem, and if he held the singleton queen, declarer could set up the hearts by tak-ing a ru�ng finesse against West’s jack.

“But when my partner took the ace of hearts, West discarded! South then had to lose a heart to East’s jack. East is a con artist and should be arrested. Collar him!”

We took the suspect into custody on a charge of decep-tive practice. He was found guilty, and the judge said he wished he defended so well. If East follows low to the king of hearts, South will continue with a heart to her ace. When West discards, South can safe-ly ru� two hearts in dummy and make the slam.

Dear Harriette: My mother was in her mid-to-late 40s when she had me. This age is a little older than some of my friends’ mothers, while much older than others. When I was in school, it’d be a topic of comparison, but now that I am an adult, age doesn’t get mentioned much. My mother is now facing health issues associated with old age, and if I ever discuss this, everyone as-sumes our mothers are the same age and lament about how she’s too young to be going through something like arthritis or hyperten-sion. I never know what to say, because although she is older, it isn’t always a justification for the health problems she is facing. Would it be rude of me to tell people that my mother is older than they’re prob-ably expecting?

— Hush-Hush About Age, Salt Lake City

Dear Hush-Hush: Rather than revealing your moth-er’s age, you may want to stop talking about her ailments. Unless she has told you it’s OK to go into

detail about her health, it is not your place to tell your friends about your mother’s ailments. Instead, you can be generic in your responses.

You are right that people su�er various illnesses at di�erent stages in life, and also based on their own personal health. When it comes to health issues, I consider them private and personal. If the person ex-periencing them chooses to share, that’s fine. Other-wise, keep your mother’s health matters to yourself. When asked how is she doing, choose something positive to share, and leave it at that.

It is disrespectful to mom to talk about her ailments

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) ★★★★ You seem some-what reticent to give in to your own desires. You feel the need to check in with an older relative.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You could be more than willing to handle a problem, but others will demand to manage the mat-ter in question. Reach out to someone at a distance.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ Say what you want. You will receive powerful feedback that you might prefer not to hear, but it could give you insight.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★ Be aware of what is being o�ered, and don’t automatically turn it down. Sometimes you react imme-diately and don’t consider your best interests.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★★ You’ll feel as if you finally can come up for air. Remind yourself that you still have to christen 2016. Do it in your classic Leo style, but start thinking of a resolution.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ You might have en-joyed the past few weeks, but you need a break. Get as much R and R before New Year’s Eve.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You seem to get a second hit of the holiday spirit. Embrace it, and look toward New Year’s Eve. Make plans that feel right.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★ Some of you will catch up with an older friend or

relative; others might de-cide to get a project or some work done.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ A friend finally will get you on the phone.

You might not be able to visit as long as you would like, though,.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ You might be holding back some information. Choose your r e s p o n s e

carefully. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.

18) ★★★★ Get back to feel-ing normal by handling some of your usual errands. You might become more re-laxed just by taking care of these matters.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Pace yourself, and allow more flexibility between you and a friend whom you might want to know better.

What the stars mean:

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

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you will be more in touch with your nurturing qualities. Others often come to you for solutions and feedback, and they might be surprised to see this caring stance. If you are single, you easily could stumble into an intense rela-tionship. If you are attached, you enjoy being a duo. You love that special one-on-one time. LEO often understands your bottom line.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Rebranding

By Peter Wentz / Edited By Will Shortz

12-27-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE WINS THE QUEENHint: First stop its escape.

Solution: 1. Qe1ch! Ne7 2. Be4! does it.

S G O P G K ’ M I R K M E J M G O F J M A R M

Y R Q M L B O D R Q E J M A G P M G P L W L P J M A L F

L K M G M I G Y R Q M F ? A R D W J L M S G O Q I R S !

12-27 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: A equals H

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

Premier Crossword | Opening And Closing Quartets

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

SUNDAY BREAK

By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Picasso of art 6 Left dumbstruck 10 Give form to 15 Very top 19 Israeli leader

Sharon 20 Give up rights to 21 On-call

attachment 22 Sandbox player’s

tote 23 Sense that stays

with you 26 Wintour of

fashion 27 Abundance 28 Crimean resort

port 29 Go quickly 30 People’s genus 33 Mil. figure 34 In various

places 36 Big concert

sites 38 Some gems 40 Middle 41 Jimmy Dean

product 43 R&B singer —

Marie 45 Hail, e.g. 48 Secret store 49 Stimpy’s canine

bud 50 Enterprise

empath Deanna 52 “— so sure” 54 IM “ha ha” 55 Tomorrow, to

Pedro

58 Fair and equal 61 Abrades 63 Longoria and

Cassidy 65 5% of LX 66 Title slave of

opera 67 Child’s cognitive

growth 72 Thon Buri

resident 74 Rival of Sony

and LG 75 Island goose 76 Westerns,

informally 79 Influence in

the choice of a ruler

82 Make insane, old-style

85 Lusterless 86 Lopez of pop 87 Schreiber of

“Scream” 89 Made-up tale 90 Acclivity 92 Bus dep. 93 Twine fiber 96 Big name in

daredeviltry 99 Tex-Mex dip, for

short 100 Globular 101 Consume 102 Contests with

knights 107 Simple bed 109 Partner of

crafts 110 Actor Lash of

76-Across

111 Officer over a 33-Across, in brief

112 Like some lower vertebrae

114 Jai — 115 VIPs’ purchasing

consultants 120 Sit still 121 Jung’s inner self 122 Activist 123 Malia’s little

sister 124 “For” votes 125 Mission to

gather info 126 Basilica part 127 Cineplex — (old

theater chain)

DOWN 1 Bud 2 Meyers of TV 3 Coal box 4 Femurs, e.g. 5 Bread spread 6 Getting 100 on,

as a test 7 Shoved off 8 Antsy 9 Excellent,

slangily 10 Fishing tools 11 Best Actress

Berry 12 Anxiety 13 It’s done to

atone for sin 14 Tiny bit of work 15 Geronimo, e.g. 16 Rapids craft 17 Not serious

18 Give a thrill 24 Baseball Hall of

Famer Tony La — 25 Shoe hole 29 Narrow

waterway 30 Bug no end 31 Public speaker 32 Delusions of

grandeur 34 Gorgon, e.g. 35 Dress up in 37 Trash collectors 39 Gave an awful

review 42 Catering hall

dispenser 43 “Mazel —!” 44 Kiddie-song

refrain 45 Asked to a

neighbor’s house, say

46 Admitting both sexes

47 Sicily’s erupter 51 Forward, e.g. 53 Symbolized 56 “Ad — per

aspera” 57 Get back at 59 Pinch lightly 60 Pop’s Carly 62 Condescend (to) 64 “Hail, Ovid!” 68 “Oh, no!,” in

comics 69 Boxer Ali 70 “Max” actress

Sobieski 71 Has a TV dinner,

say

72 B’way booth in Times Square

73 Trumpeter Al 77 Most mature 78 Refines, as ore 80 Apply wrongly 81 Not one 83 They’re

relatively easy to treat

84 “Oh no!,” in comics

88 Actor Ben 91 Yellow writing

tablet 94 Reply to “Are

you?” 95 Triangle type 97 Action wds. 98 Racecar fuel 99 Test pilots’

garments 100 Lima resident 102 Santa — 103 “Roots” writer

Alex 104 Wipe away 105 Shaped like a

doughnut 106 Vodka drink, for

short 108 Earth tone, to a

Brit 112 Pig’s food 113 Lhasa — 115 So-so, in golf 116 Nabokov title

heroine 117 Suffix with

Bhutan 118 Fraternity P 119 UCSD part

ACROSS 1 Chipped beef

go-with 6 Plugged in 11 Subjects of

frequent updates

15 Tennis’s Wawrinka, winner of the 2015 French Open

19 Wet spot 20 Sophomore’s

choice 21 “Language of

the unheard,” per Martin Luther King Jr.

22 “Duh, I get it” 23 “Corrected”

slogan for a tech company?

26 Matriarch of six of the 12 Tribes of Israel

27 Bounce 28 Regarding 29 Keeper of the

flame? 30 Majority of

Saudi Arabians

31 Kind of tone 33 “Corrected”

slogan for an office-supply chain?

37 Anna Karenina’s lover

39 Deer hunter’s prize

40 Skaters’ leaps 41 Who might say,

“I’m I. M.” 42 Rating for many

HBO shows 44 Early co-host of

“The View” 49 “Corrected”

slogan for a fast-food franchise?

52 Feudal superiors

53 “The Boy Next Door” star, to fans

56 Elbow 57 Sources of

some rattling 58 Milkmaid’s

handful 59 Earnings, so to

speak 62 Tubs

64 Fall back on, as in desperation

66 “Corrected” slogan for a dessert brand?

71 Gambit 72 Gambit 73 Molly who

wrote “Bill of Wrongs”

74 Hogwarts delivery system

75 Dweeb 77 Confine 81 Measure of

inflation, for short

82 Calligraphers 83 “Corrected”

slogan for a hairstyling product?

87 Shows promise 89 Thom ____

shoes 90 Short note? 91 “When in ____,

tell the truth”: Mark Twain

93 Second 95 Took, as a test 97 “Corrected”

slogan for a frozen breakfast food?

102 Aunt in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

103 Reflective writing

104 Certification for eco-friendly buildings, for short

105 “Funny bumping into you here”

107 “Unfortunately ... ”

110 Seaside scavenger

111 “Corrected” slogan for a dairy product?

115 Hot rod’s rod 116 Took a card 117 President-____ 118 “Duck Dynasty”

network 119 Action-

oriented sorts, supposedly

120 Surfaces, in a way

121 Targets of cons 122 Work with the

hands

DOWN 1 “Africa” band,

1982 2 First Ironman

locale 3 “From my

perspective ...” 4 Possible black

market cause 5 “Naughty!” 6 Buggy people? 7 Drift 8 Driver who won

the Indy 500, Daytona 500 and Le Mans

9 European deer 10 Get things

wrong 11 “The

Terminator” star, to fans

12 Bit of marketing 13 Oktoberfest

dance 14 It’s a mess 15 Signs of respect

16 Hurricanes’ grp. 17 Yoga poses 18 Like three Cy

Young games 24 Indirect objects,

grammatically speaking

25 “Oh, gross!” 30 What

indicate 32 “Acoustic

guitar” or “terrestrial radio”

34 “Hey, relax!” 35 ____ Pepper 36 Hudgens of

“High School Musical”

37 Big lug 38 Shepherd’s

workplace 39 Pioneering

stand-up comedian

43 El Paso setting: Abbr.

45 Admission of 1959

46 Josh 47 Gibes 48 Figures in

bedtime stories 50 Nordic wonders 51 Charge 53 “Romeo Must

Die” star, 2000 54 Approach

evening 55 Missouri River

natives 57 It makes a turn

at the entrance 58 Globetrot 59 Some jazz 60 Promises 61 Ma uses them 63 Like ibexes 65 Cover’s

opposite 67 Greeted with

respect 68 Like shepherds’

charges

69 Holds to be 70 Scrutinized 76 Mint 78 Subject for

one studying onomastics

79 Ottawa-based media inits.

80 Flooded with 82 Submarine near

the Gulf Coast 83 TV character

with the catchphrase “Booyakasha!”

84 Rope from a ship, say

85 “Whoop-de-____”

86 Start of the Lord’s Prayer

87 Band with the first video on MTV, with “the”

88 Connectivity issue

91 Having all the add-ons, say

92 Singer of the aria “Ora e per sempre addio”

94 Let, e.g. 96 Barring no one 97 Corporate

department 98 Plants 99 Stephenie

who wrote “Twilight”

100 Cartoonish shrieks

101 URL ender 102 I.M. sessions 106 “Fiddlesticks!” 108 Photographer/

writer Arlene 109 Short

timetable? 111 Chemical used

to fight malaria 112 Border line? 113 Like 114 Talk up a storm

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.

12-27-15

Sunday, December 27. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the daywatch out of Bunco. The boss is Cap-tain Stewart. My partner’s Bill Gannon. He’s a good player. My name’s Friday.

We got a call about a scam at a club in Ventura. We checked it out. The suspect was still playing. One of his opponents spoke with us.

“It was terrible, o�cer.” “Just the facts, ma’am.” “I’ll tell you the facts: That

man sitting East swindled my partner out of a grand slam.”

Against seven spades, West led a diamond, and declarer threw a heart on dummy’s ace and took two high trumps. When West discarded, South saw that she probably had to ru� at least one heart in dummy.

“My partner next led a heart to the king,” North told us, “and East dropped the queen! Naturally, my partner thought it was safe to draw the last trump. If East had Q-J dou-bleton in hearts, there would be no problem, and if he held the singleton queen, declarer could set up the hearts by tak-ing a ru�ng finesse against West’s jack.

“But when my partner took the ace of hearts, West discarded! South then had to lose a heart to East’s jack. East is a con artist and should be arrested. Collar him!”

We took the suspect into custody on a charge of decep-tive practice. He was found guilty, and the judge said he wished he defended so well. If East follows low to the king of hearts, South will continue with a heart to her ace. When West discards, South can safe-ly ru� two hearts in dummy and make the slam.

Dear Harriette: My mother was in her mid-to-late 40s when she had me. This age is a little older than some of my friends’ mothers, while much older than others. When I was in school, it’d be a topic of comparison, but now that I am an adult, age doesn’t get mentioned much. My mother is now facing health issues associated with old age, and if I ever discuss this, everyone as-sumes our mothers are the same age and lament about how she’s too young to be going through something like arthritis or hyperten-sion. I never know what to say, because although she is older, it isn’t always a justification for the health problems she is facing. Would it be rude of me to tell people that my mother is older than they’re prob-ably expecting?

— Hush-Hush About Age, Salt Lake City

Dear Hush-Hush: Rather than revealing your moth-er’s age, you may want to stop talking about her ailments. Unless she has told you it’s OK to go into

detail about her health, it is not your place to tell your friends about your mother’s ailments. Instead, you can be generic in your responses.

You are right that people su�er various illnesses at di�erent stages in life, and also based on their own personal health. When it comes to health issues, I consider them private and personal. If the person ex-periencing them chooses to share, that’s fine. Other-wise, keep your mother’s health matters to yourself. When asked how is she doing, choose something positive to share, and leave it at that.

It is disrespectful to mom to talk about her ailments

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) ★★★★ You seem some-what reticent to give in to your own desires. You feel the need to check in with an older relative.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You could be more than willing to handle a problem, but others will demand to manage the mat-ter in question. Reach out to someone at a distance.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ Say what you want. You will receive powerful feedback that you might prefer not to hear, but it could give you insight.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★ Be aware of what is being o�ered, and don’t automatically turn it down. Sometimes you react imme-diately and don’t consider your best interests.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★★ You’ll feel as if you finally can come up for air. Remind yourself that you still have to christen 2016. Do it in your classic Leo style, but start thinking of a resolution.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ You might have en-joyed the past few weeks, but you need a break. Get as much R and R before New Year’s Eve.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You seem to get a second hit of the holiday spirit. Embrace it, and look toward New Year’s Eve. Make plans that feel right.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★ Some of you will catch up with an older friend or

relative; others might de-cide to get a project or some work done.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ A friend finally will get you on the phone.

You might not be able to visit as long as you would like, though,.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ You might be holding back some information. Choose your r e s p o n s e

carefully. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.

18) ★★★★ Get back to feel-ing normal by handling some of your usual errands. You might become more re-laxed just by taking care of these matters.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Pace yourself, and allow more flexibility between you and a friend whom you might want to know better.

What the stars mean:

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

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you will be more in touch with your nurturing qualities. Others often come to you for solutions and feedback, and they might be surprised to see this caring stance. If you are single, you easily could stumble into an intense rela-tionship. If you are attached, you enjoy being a duo. You love that special one-on-one time. LEO often understands your bottom line.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Rebranding

By Peter Wentz / Edited By Will Shortz

12-27-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE WINS THE QUEENHint: First stop its escape.

Solution: 1. Qe1ch! Ne7 2. Be4! does it.

S G O P G K ’ M I R K M E J M G O F J M A R M

Y R Q M L B O D R Q E J M A G P M G P L W L P J M A L F

L K M G M I G Y R Q M F ? A R D W J L M S G O Q I R S !

12-27 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: A equals H

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

Amusement

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Take charge and follow through, even when the unex-pected tosses you into a dynam-ic situation. Others often head down the same path. You could be on top of a problem, but your leadership might be questioned by those behind the scenes.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Reach out. You see a matter in a more creative vein and are willing to take ac-tion. You might wonder whether a new attitude would help you come to a better understanding. A family member wants to share how he or she feels.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You could be far more tired than you have been, as you have been giving 100 percent to make what you want hap-pen. Someone might be taking a stand, so try to understand why. Allow your imagination to lead the way, and move forward.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Defer to others and let them express their ideas more often. You have a tendency to monopolize the moment. Let people know that you value

them. You might believe you are right, but so do they. Try to be more open-minded.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Pace yourself; know what you must do. Understand what is occurring around you and pri-oritize. Even when you decide to isolate yourself, someone comes shining through with an expression of his or her afec-tion.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Complete some per-sonal matters that might be on hold. Observe rather than act. Know your limits, and be kind. Others will respond with greater understanding and a willingness to pitch in. You will ind a resolu-tion to a diicult situation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could be overdoing it by using your connections to carry your perspective into pre-dominance. You suddenly might witness others shutting down. You seem to be pushing them more than you realize.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Take a stand against someone’s pressure to act a certain way. How you express this opinion will make a diference in how far your in-luence goes. Ask yourself what

you want others to get out of your ability to clarify.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Your iery per-sonality will melt barriers if you add that touch of vulnerability. Understand what is happening within your immediate circle of friends. Listen to news, and get to the bottom of a problem.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You could be in touch with many diferent peo-ple. You have a vision that will change dramatically after you get more feedback. Understand where others are coming from. You will start to understand the validity of all points of view.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Others seek you out with a lot of ideas and want feedback. On some level, you will feel overwhelmed. Decide where your interests lie. Don’t feel so obligated that you feel as if you can’t say “no” to some-one.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH One-on-one relat-ing allows you to see a diferent perspective; however, you don’t have the time to have this type of interaction. Wait until you are free of obligations. Your sched-ule will lighten up as a result.

By Judith Martin and Nicholas Ivor MartinUniversal Uclick

Dear Miss Manners: My 15-year-old son is hearing-impaired and wears hear-ing aids, which are, by de-sign, hard to see. He is very polite when he asks people to repeat themselves when he cannot hear them, and he explains he is hearing-impaired.

A couple of times, peo-ple have questioned this. One time he was chastised for “joking,” and I inally had to step in and say he is hearing-impaired and has been since he was 2.

Recently he was getting a haircut and had given his hearing aids to me to hold, and the stylist chas-tised him when he asked her to repeat herself. She said hearing impairment was not something to joke about — and I again had to step in.

I am not sure what to tell him to say to people

without sounding rude or having to take his hearing aids out to show them as proof, which I do not feel is appropriate or neces-sary. Although he inds it annoying, he expects people to react that way sometimes.

Gentle Reader: Your son needs to master a two-step response. In step one, he re-explains the situation with convincing serious-ness but without rancor. Waving around medical devices of any kind at this stage might be efective, but is certainly not digni-ied. Mentioning the fact that it has been this way since he was 2 should be convincing.

He should then pause while the information sinks in. Only when the listener realizes what she has done is it time for step two: as-suring her that he under-stands her mistake, as the disability is not obvious.

Miss Manners is sorry to say that it is likely your

son will have many oppor-tunities to practice.

Dear Miss Manners: A friend of mine invited me to a (friendship, not date) social outing. I said I would go, but he didn’t tell me until the last minute that it was also a singles group. I completely dis-agree with singles groups, but I agreed to go before he told me that.

What’s your thought about people not disclos-ing all the information about a social event when inviting someone, and would it be rude for me to now say I don’t want to go?

Gentle Reader: Insis-tent as is Miss Manners that invitations, once ac-cepted, must be honored, the rule is not absolute. If the bride changes the date — whether due to uncer-tainly about the catering or the groom — guests are also given an opportunity to re-evaluate. Miss Man-ners extends the same ex-emption to your situation.

MISS MANNERS

Unseen disability explained without anger

SUDOKUPREMIER CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1 Book unit 5 Bidding

option 9 Used a

stopwatch 10 Inquired 12 Fuming 13 Safari

sighting 14 Taking it

easy 16 Drake’s

music 17 School on

the Thames 18 Prove false 21 Bear’s lair 22 Deep

gorge 23 Eggs buy

24 Polish composer

26 Dog warning 29 Defeated 30 Region 31 Ornate

planter 32 Looking

intently 34 Greek

sorceress 37 Indian coin 38 Sea dogs 39 Ship staffs 40 Spring 41 Towel word

DOWN 1 Buccaneer 2 Warrior

woman

3 Invitation to a hitchhiker

4 Genesis garden

5 Golf goal 6 Fireplace bit 7 Aspen

feature 8 Capitol

group 9 Like some

bathroom floors

11 Blockhead 15 Pasture

activity 19 Divisible by

two 20 Shark

feature 22 Lasso 23 Period 24 Breakfast

choice 25 Valise

piece

26 Person with a beef

27 Extends, as a subscription

28 Is furious 29 Loafers 30 Blue hue 33 St. Louis

sight 35 Greek

vowel 36 Nile serpent

Sudoku

Dear Annie: Our oldest daughter is married to a nice man and they have a sweet 2-year-old daughter. My son-in-law makes good money and my daughter can a�ord to stay home, but they never seem to have enough to get ahead. My daughter has been known to spend foolishly. They only have one car and it doesn’t run half the time. They can’t a�ord another. We let them live in our home for a year rent-free, so they could save enough to purchase their first house.

I know I’ve enabled my daughter for her entire life. Regularly, I surrender to her selfishness and give her money or run errands for her, even though I work full-time. I do these things because she is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, and I fear she will oth-erwise return to that life again. She doesn’t attend her meetings anymore.

I don’t know how to handle her. I’m either forced to defend myself or give in to her whims. She never appreciates anything I do for her and she never does anything for me. Her husband is no better. He is selfish and spoiled by his mother, and he also enables my daughter.

She’s a good mother, but I babysit a lot. Her husband doesn’t complain when she gets together with her friends, but he works long hours and they don’t have much time together. I think he feels neglected.

How do I know when to do things for her and when not to? How do I tell the di�erence between enabling and being a good mother? When she gets into one of her moods, how do I handle that?

— Mother of a Narcissist

Dear Mom: You should back away from some of this drama. The hardest thing for a parent to do is watch a child fail, but you may need to step back and let it happen. Your daugh-ter cannot learn to stand on her own two feet if Mom is always holding her up. Her marriage issues and whether she attends meetings are no longer your business. Don’t give her money if she cannot manage it responsibly. When she blames you for not indulging her, remain calm and say, “I’m sorry you feel that way.” Walk away if she cannot stop berating you. Look into Al-Anon for yourself (al-anon.org). A good mother teaches her child to be independent and self-reli-ant, even when the process is painful to watch, and helps her accept that the universe doesn’t owe her everything she demands.

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

12/28/15

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.

BLACK TO PLAYHint: Force checkmate.

Solution: 1. ... Nd2ch! 2. Kg1 Nf3ch 3. Kh1 Rxh2 mate. If instead 3. Kf1,

... Rf2 mate.

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Jumble Daily Bridge Club

The laws of bridge prohibit bids of more than seven (though I once had an opponent who, when I bid five clubs, joc-ularly bid “ten clubs” in lieu of doubling me). Today’s South landed at a good six spades but handled the play as if he were higher, much higher.

South took the ace of clubs, ru�ed a club in dummy and led a trump to his jack. West ducked smoothly. South then ru�ed another club in dummy, returned to his queen of diamonds and cashed the ace of trumps.

When East discarded, South took the king of trumps and led a second dia-mond. He would have been safe if West had held another diamond, but West ru�ed and cashed a club.

SAFE PLAY South played as if the bid were nine

spades. To safeguard his contract, he leads a heart to dummy at Trick Two and returns a trump to his jack.

If West ducks, South leads the ten of trumps or goes to the ace of hearts and

leads a trump to his ten. He can win any return and is sure of 12 tricks: four trumps, two hearts, five diamonds and one club.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You have been mulling over a good idea in your mind for a while. Your ability to develop a workable, dynamic solution emerges.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)★★★★ Stay anchored, and know what is needed to make you feel cared about and productive. A partner has been reticent about what he or she feels, and scarcely ex-presses anything but negative feedback.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)★★★★★ You have worked hard to create much more of what you need and desire. A loved one could be very di�cult. You might need to redefine your relationship.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★ Make a point of handling a money matter quickly. You can’t seem to get around it. Someone you look up to will act in a most unpredictable way.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★★ Your creative ability emerges. You seem to be able to transform a high-prior-ity area of your life by making just a minor adjustment.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ You might be holding back strong feel-ings. Others could be taken aback by what happens within a partnership or an agree-ment in which you are involved. Know what needs to occur for you within your circle.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)★★★★★ You could be hesitant to reach out to someone who seems cold. You might need to make a bigger e�ort to handle the unex-pected. Listen to what is being shared by those whom you depend on for new insights.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★★ You might want to have an overdue conversation with a loved one. However, up-roar in a facet of your day-to-day life could take over the moment.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Your fellow fire signs will get carried away with their high energy, but you’ll put on the brakes. Use caution, but consider tak-ing more risks. Try letting go, and let the fire within you blaze bright.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★★ You could be in the mood to explore a new alternative. Your spontaneity might floor others, kind of like an unexpected vol-canic eruption.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)★★★★ You might be trying to move in a di�erent direction, and quickly at that. Your ability to move on a concept in a concrete and creative way could be challenged by others.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Listen to news and how it overcomes a higher-up. Watch a touch of skepticism take over. You might decide to go for whatever you want.

Horoscope

This year you will make a difference if you can get past a need to stick with the tried and true. If you choose to be more in sync with the inner you, a sense of liberation will result. Oth-er times, the comfort of the status quo encourages you to stay in your groove. The voice you decide to lis-ten to could define this year. If you are single, don’t commit until you are very sure of yourself and your feel-ings. You are likely to be enchanted by a new person you meet. If you are attached, the two of you decide to explore a new facet of your bond. LEO understands what is going on much more than you realize.

What the stars Mean

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In 1612, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed the planet Neptune, but mistook it for a star. (Neptune wasn’t officially discovered until 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle.)In 1832, John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down because of differences with President Andrew Jackson.In 1846, Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.In 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton, Virginia.In 1895, the Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, held the first public showing of their movies in Paris.In 1917, the New York Evening Mail published “A Neglected Anniversary,” a facetious essay by H.L. Mencken supposedly recounting the history of bathtubs in America.

In 1937, composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris at age 62.In 1944, the musical “On the Town,” with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, opened on Broadway.In 1961, the Tennessee Williams play “Night of the Iguana” opened on Broadway. Former first lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington at age 89.In 1975, the “Hail Mary pass” entered the football lexicon as Dallas quarterback Roger Staubach tossed the ball to Drew Pearson for an improbable 50-yard touchdown with 24 seconds left to help the Cowboys come back to edge the Minnesota Vikings 17-14.In 1989, Alexander Dubcek, the former Czechoslovak Communist leader who was deposed in a Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, was named president of the country’s parliament.

TODAY IN HISTORYToday is Monday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2015. There are three days left in the year.

MY ANSWER

Pray that your son can find Christ again

Q: We’re in shock because our son came home from college for Thanksgiving and announced he didn’t believe in God any-more. He even refused to go to church with us. Where did we go wrong? What can we do?

— Mrs. R.M.

A: Don’t blame yourself for the decision your son has made; ultimately he alone is responsible for it. But don’t despair either; many young people pass through times of doubt or rebellion, but later realize how much they need God.

What can you do? First, pray for your son. Pray that the holy spirit will help him see the emptiness of his ways, and will create within him a desire for the living God. Athe-ism can never satisfy our deepest spiritual longings, nor can it answer our deepest questions of why we are here or where we are going. Only Christ could say, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will

never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12).

Pray too that God will bring across his path people who are committed to Christ and can answer his questions. Right now he’s probably being influenced by people who seem intelligent and articulate, and he finds their arguments very persuasive. But pray he’ll also meet people who can answer their arguments and point him to Jesus Christ. Only in Christ, the Bible says, “are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3).

In the meantime, do all you can to let your son know that although you disagree with him, you still love him and want what is best for him. In addition, examine your own commitment to Christ, and make it your goal to be an example to your son of Christ’s transforming love. Remember: Our example often speaks louder than our words.

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By Marci WoodmanseeSpecial to The Weekly

The Memphis Univer-sity School math team achieved a perfect score on the national Team Scram-ble math contest, marking the irst time any team en-tered has scored 100 out of 100 since the competition began in 2003. This year, teams from 106 schools (including a half-dozen in-ternationally) participated in the test, administered by National Assessment & Testing, based in Seattle, Wash. The next highest score was 81.

The Owl team com-prised of about 100 stu-dents, including a few from St. Agnes Academy, gathered in the MUS Din-ing Hall after school Nov. 4 and got to work. The 100-question exam en-compassed math problems ranging from simple sub-traction to basic calculus, all of which had to be com-pleted within 30 minutes.

After brainstorming dis-cussions among Advanced Topics math students prior to the contest, senior Pat-rick Murphy devised and implemented a new or-ganizational system for prooing and scoring that contributed to the success

of the event. Senior Dan-iel Tancredi helped keep the fast-paced event mov-ing smoothly. Sophomore Chang Yu and junior Ohm Patel also made valuable contributions, complet-ing more challenging problems as well as proof-ing calculations and cor-recting errors that had been overlooked in easier problems, before the inal answers were submitted.

“I am still stunned by the amazing performance of the MUS math team in achieving the irst per-fect score in the 13 years of this contest, which is given across the nation and even overseas,” said

math instructor Dr. Steve Gadbois

Coach Gadbois pre-pared students for the irst major competition of the academic year. On the Fall Startup, an individual stu-dent attempts to answer as many fast and easy ques-tions as possible in half an hour.

With so many ques-tions and so little time, competitors must not only have strong mathemati-cal skills, but also be able to quickly decide which problems to solve or skip.

Marci Woodmansee is the associ-

ate director of communications

for MUS.

ACHIEVEMENT

MUS math team earns perfect score on contest

Ammaar Kazi, Grady Hecht, Ishan Biswas and Darius Cowan, all students with the MUS Scramble team, review their problems before time is up.

Special to The Weekly

When the St. Vincent de Paul soup kitchen was van-dalized, the eighth graders at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School wanted to help.

They have all served at the soup kitchen and know the importance of the meals that are served there every day of the year.

The class decided to raise funds to assist the organization in their ef-fort to repair 20 broken windows.

A plea was made to families of OLPH school and there was tremendous outpouring of generosity. Nathan Helms chaired the fund drive.

“The people of Mem-phis deserve a safe, lov-ing place to go where they can have good food and be with people who care

about them,” Helms said. “The soup kitchen is that kind of place so we need to support it.”

OLPH School was able to give $2,153 to Dea-con Bill Herbers, who is a member of the SVDP board.

Patricia Wyckof, school principal said, “We are blessed to be a part such a loving community. I am very proud of our eighth graders for reaching out to make such a big dif-ference for the people of Memphis.”

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Funds raised to help St. Vincent de Paul Society soup kitchen

Our Lady of Perpetual Help students helped raise funds for the St. Vincent de Paul soup kitchen. Recently, the kitchen was vandalized and 20 windows needed to be replaced.

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Chamber of CommerceCollierville

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Mission Statement: The mission of the Collierville Chamberof Commerce is to provide quality services and programs to itsmembership and to provide business leadership for the entirecommunity in the vital areas of economic prosperity, education,and quality of life.

December General Membership Luncheon

The December general membership luncheon was held December9 at Ridgeway Country Club. Pastor Rick Gering delivered aspecial Christmas message. Guests were treated to beautifulholiday music performed by the Central Church Ensemble Choir.Gene Sauls, Adult Pastor, delivered the Invocation.

The luncheon was generously sponsored by Central Church.

WELCOME NEWMEMBERS:

• Ashtoria Aesthetics &Wellness• Closetrak• Get Air Memphis Indoor Trampoline Park• Henderson Hutcherson & McCullough, PLLC• RDJ Specialties

The Collierville Chamber of Commerce hosted a Grand OpeningRibbon Cutting for Get Air Trampoline Park. Pictured cuttingthe ribbon are Leon Yarbrough, General Manager; Nate Smithwith SI International; Ben Eden with Trampoline Parks, LLC;Mayor Stan Joyner, Town of Collierville Aldermen, ChamberBoard Members and Staff and Chamber ambassadors. Get AirTrampoline Park is located at 952 W. Poplar Ave in Collierville.Visit their website at http://getairmemphis.com/ for moreinformation.

The Collierville Chamber of Commerce held a food driveto supplement the Collierville Food Pantry. There was anoverwhelming response by the Collierville community!Pictured left to right Becky Hammond, Collierville Chamber;Liz Deely, Tastefully Simple; Kanette Keough-Rodgers,Collierville Chamber and Terry Dean, Leadership Collierville.Liz andTerry (pictured) are bothmembers of a local networkinggroup, The Collierville Connection, who contributed a largedonation to the food pantry. Thank you to all who supportedthis great cause!

RIBBON CUTTINGS

January 13 - The Collierville Chamber of Commerce GeneralMembership Meeting will be co-hosted by the Collierville BurchLibrary and will feature a very special guest speaker. Can you guessthe name of our mystery speaker? Here are a few hints:He graduatedfrom Harvard, but dropped out of Columbia Law School; His motherand his irst wife both died on the same day.He was a New YorkCity police commissioner at one time.He went skinny-dipping in thePotomac River.He won the Nobel Peace Prize.A boxing accident lefthim virtually blind in one eye. He once scaled the Matterhorn.Join usfor the 1st Chamber luncheon of 2016! We promise you’ll be inspiredand entertained!

Start 2016 off with a bang by joining us for our 1st luncheon of theyear! 11:30 AM-1:00 PM at Ridgeway Country Club. Reservationsrequired. Register online at colliervillechamber.com.

Look for new and exciting programs offered by the ColliervilleChamber for the upcoming year at www.colliervillechamber.com

Please visit the Collierville Chamber website @www.colliervillechamber.com for additional community and memberevents.

UPCOMING CHAMBER EVENTS:

The Collierville Chamber Women’s Leadership NetworkLuncheon was held Thursday, December 17 at RidgewayCountry Club. Our Guest Speaker was Angela Hamblen ofthe Kemmons Wilson Family Center for Good Grief. AngelaHamblen, children’s author, licensed clinical social worker,and healthcare professional, shared her story. The KemmonsWilson Family Center for Good Grief is a comprehensivebereavement center, located adjacent to the Hospice House.Its mission is to provide a safe environment for children,teens, and adults to explore and express their feelings relatedto the death of a loved one and learn to thrive in a worldwithout that special person.Services include grief counseling,grief support groups and grief camp programs for children,teens and adults .Bereavement services are free of charge andare made possible through individual donations and grantsfunded by the Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation,The Kemmons Wilson Family, and various organizations andindividuals.

The WLN is a new group that will help our members developvaluable business relationships, sharpen their leadershipskills, grow professionally and personally and give themthe opportunity to participate in activities that supportlocal charitable, civic and cultural organizations. For moreinformation about this exciting new program designed justfor women visit www.colliervillechamber.com

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