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The Town of Collier-ville’s Geographic Infor-mation Services Depart-ment received an award last week from Esri, devel-opers of GIS software.

The Special Achieve-ment in GIS award was given for Collierville’s ap-plication of GIS software in the town’s stormwater management process. Em-ployees Kevin Bingham, GIS manager, and Brant Hollis, GIS technician, worked with Clay Ticer and John Fox of the town’s

public services department to increase eiciency and streamline the stormwa-ter management process. Prior to the development teams’ research work into how GIS could be used here, the public services maintenance crew took notes on paper and then transferred that informa-tion to the computer.

With the use of Esri’s Ar-cGIS Collector application on tablets, a public services crew is able to cut down on the number of times the information must be manually entered into the system. It goes from Arc-GIS Collector into a geoda-tabase in ArcGIS Online. Town employees can then

manage the information using Esri’s Operations Database.

The Town of Collierville provides a comprehensive stormwater program to protect life and property from looding, and to min-imize the impact on the environment from surface water runof. The contin-ued monitoring of water levels and the eiciency

of drainage systems may seem tedious to most peo-ple, but these details are critical in helping the town comply with EPA regula-tions and prevent looding. Eliminating one full step in the process has saved the town approximately 118 labor hours. That time savings translates into i-nancial savings as well — to the tune of $20,000.

ACHIEVEMENT

C’ville GIS honored by app developers

Brant Hollis works on the development of more mapping fea-tures in the GIS Department.

Utilized in stormwater management

By Jason R. [email protected]

901-529-2509

When it comes to dramatic plays with polarizing characters and themes,

it’s hard to match Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee’s play, “In-herit the Wind.”

But, the youth cast at German-town Community Theatre mas-tered the high intensity drama of this play based on the real Scopes Trial held in Dayton, TN in 1925 that elevated the debate about the teaching of evolution in the public schools.

The play is directed by Ryan Kathman and sports a large cast including Ben Chapell, Zephyr Barlow, Jonathan Gibson, Maggie

Luther, Emma Johnson and Gabby Velasquez, just to name a few.

Showtimes are Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

The play runs through August 9. For tickets or more info, go to

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INSIDEFor more photos from GCT’s production of “Inherit the Wind.” 6

PHOTOS BY JASON R. TERRELL

Defense attorney Helen Drummond (right) (Gabby Valasquez) challenges the beliefs of Matthew Harrison Brady (Ben Chappell) in “Inherit the Wind.”

Defendant Bertram Cates (Jonathan Gibson) pleads with girlfriend Rachel Brown (Emma Johnson) not to share his se-crets while on the stand. Balif Meeker (Lizzie Dean Friend) tries to calm Cates down.

COURT-LY MANNERS?New Grizzly Matt Barnes happy to join team

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HONORING AN ICON Shelby County courthouse

renamed in honor of the late

Judge D’Army Bailey. Page 2

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The 32nd annual National Night Out is tonight in Mem-phis, Collierville and Bartlett. Local communities in the Mid-South are expected to team up with their police de-partments to work together on this day to ight crime.

The goal of “NNO” is for all residents to get together in their neighborhoods and communicate with each oth-er to form strong community bonds. The activities help to build safer neighborhoods where everyone looks out for one another and takes a stand against crime to decrease criminal behavior.

NNO is designed to height-en crime and violence pre-vention awareness, generate support for and participate in local anti-crime programs, strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships and send a mes-sage to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and ighting back.

Neighborhoods may par-ticipate by having block par-ties, cookouts, community walks, ice cream socials and more. During these events, participants will “turn on their porch lights and stand together in turning of the lights on crime.” In addition, neighborhoods that register their event with the police will be visited by oicers and town leaders to meet and discuss is-sues within the community.

On Oct. 6, Bartlett will host another event, Bartlett Night Out, and the police depart-ment is asking for neighbor-hoods to organize events such as block parties, carnivals, lashlight walks and youth programs.

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

Car salesman convicted of fraud

A luxury-car sales-man was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison for defrauding several peo-ple, including former NBA player Julius “Dr. J” Erving, according to U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton’s oice.

According to the indict-ment, from October 2010 to September 2013, Mi-chael Gerard Brown of-fered upscale vehicles for sale through his business, Valkry Corporation and Exotic Cars South with oices in Collierville and the Atlanta area. The in-dictment stated that once Brown received payments from customers, he would partially satisfy purchase orders for the vehicles or fail to deliver the vehicles.

As a result, Brown, 57, fraudulently obtained more than $2 million that he used for his personal beneit, as well as travel and business expenses, ac-cording to the indictment. Brown also used the funds to purchase more vehicles.

Brown’s victims in-cluded Erving, according to the indictment. In Feb-ruary, Erving wired Brown $251,934 to purchase a 2015 Rolls-Royce Wraith. Brown never delivered the car nor provided Erving a refund. There were three other victims, including two luxury-car dealer-ships in England and Ma-cau, China.

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AROUND CORDOVA

One person shot, killed on Bazemore

Memphis officers re-sponded to a call of shots ired at about 8 a.m. in the 8400 block of Bazemore in Cordova said Memphis police Sgt. Karen Ru-dolph.

“The victim was pro-nounced deceased on the scene,” Rudolph said.

Police identiied the vic-tim as Susan McDonald.

McDonald was appar-ently visiting the home of a friend when she was shot in the 8400 block of Baze-more Road.

Staf reports

By Kelly [email protected]

901-529-2355

Germantown police are in-vestigating a domestic violence incident where a man was killed and a woman was injured Friday morning.

The incident occurred around 8:15 a.m. at a home in the 7900 block of Elm Leaf Drive near Poplar Pike and Hacks Cross.

When police arrived at the home, oicers found two adults injured. The woman, 38, was found in the garage. The man, 36, was found in the driveway and

pronounced dead on the scene.The woman was taken to the

Regional Medical Center in criti-cal condition. Neither victim’s name has been released by law enforcement pending the notii-cation of family members.

According to a Germantown Police Department news release, both victims appeared to have sufered head wounds, and a semi-automatic pistol was found under the man’s leg.

Police said they are not active-ly looking for additional individ-uals involved in the incident, and according to the release, oicers searched the residence for signs

of any possible suspects, but the home was clear.

Terry Ryan, who lives a few streets over on Cotton Cross Drive, drove up to check on the house around 12:45 p.m.

Ryan worked with the woman for two years at Curtis Stout, an electrical supply company near Memphis International Airport.

The woman had talked about her “bad relationship” with her live-in boyfriend at work, but “she never mentioned any kind of abuse other than maybe yell-ing at each other,” Ryan said.

He said that although the woman had not shown up for

work Friday, she was not ex-pected to do so because she was moving out — the house had a ‘Sold’ sign in the front yard — because “they were splitting up.”

Ryan decided to check on his co-worker after he heard of the incident on the news. Ryan rec-ognized the house because he had picked her up on the way to work before. The woman has a daughter from a previous mar-riage, Ryan said.

“A female juvenile who was at the home was safe and in the care of the caller when oicers arrived,” Germantown police said in a release, though they

did not specify whether the ju-venile was the victim’s daughter, or identify the caller.

Paula Smith, who lives one street over but parallel to the crime scene, drove up to the caution tape in her golf cart with her 5-year-old grandson, Parker, realizing what she and her hus-band had heard early this Friday morning. Smith said she and her husband heard two big “pows” around 8 or 8:15 a.m.

The last homicide in the suburb was in April 2013 when Christopher Jones was charged with killing his wife, a kinder-garten teacher.

Man killed, woman critically injured in shooting

JULY 25

■ Oicers arrested an adult for possession of a handgun at Poplar Pike and Burfordi at 1:49 a.m.

■ Victim’s credit card was used in the 8200 block of Pine Creek Cove East at 4:06 p.m.

■ Victim’s handgun and cash were stolen from a hotel room in the 9300 block of Poplar Pike at 4:21 p.m.

■ Victim’s vehicle tire was intentional damaged in the 8400 block of Stockton at 5:07 p.m.

JULY 26

■ Victim’s cash was stolen from an unlocked gym locker in the 1800 block of Exeter at 3:09 p.m.

■ Three vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown and Wolf River at 12:12 p.m.

JULY 27

■ Victim’s identity was used on a computer by an ex-boyfriend to apply for credit in the 2000 block of Dalkeith at 12:22 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown and Poplar at 7:28 p.m.

JULY 28

■ Victim’s check was stolen and

later presented to an unknown bank in the 8100 block of Poplar at 9:50 a.m.

■ Victim’s personal information was used to open a fraudulent credit account in the 2400 block of Brachton at 4:16 p.m.

JULY 29

■ Germantown police oicers arrested a suspect for attempting to pass a forged check in the 7700 block of W. Farmington at 10:40 a.m.

■ Someone attempted to pass a forged check in the 7500 block of W. Farmington at 10:40 a.m.

■ Oicers arrested two suspects for breaking into a home and stealing tools in the 1800 block of River Valley at 12:53 p.m.

■ Victim’s trailer was stolen from a backyard in the 9500 block of Ednam at 1 p.m.

■ Oicers arrested an adult for taking merchandise in the 1200 block of S. Germantown at 2:08 p.m.

■ Victim’s vehicle window was broken and a bag containing cash and credit cards were stolen in the 8600 block of Farmington at 2:37 p.m.

Germantown Police Reports

By Linda A. [email protected]

901-529-2702

The Shelby County Commission, in an 11-0 vote last week, approved a resolution that renames the county courthouse the D’Army Bailey Courthouse Building, in honor of the late Circuit Court judge and founder of the National Civil Rights Museum.

The resolution was sponsored by Commis-sioner Terry Roland, who said he wanted to recog-nize both Judge Bailey and his family.

“I hurt for the Bailey fam-ily,” Roland said. “If this can bring a little solace to y’all, it means a lot to me and I know it means a lot to y’all.”

Two signs, both 8 feet by 3 feet, will be placed at the southwest and the southeast entrances of the courthouse at 140 Adams.

A ceremony will be held to unveil the new signs, but the details have not been inalized, Roland said.

The resolution was co-sponsored by com-missioners Eddie Jones, Justin Ford, Van

Turner (who was absent), Reginald Milton, Willie Brooks, Melvin Burgess, Mark Bill-ingsley and Steve Basar. Also voting in favor was Commissioner Heidi Shafer.

Commissioner David Reaves abstained.“He was a great man; he stood up for

right,” Burgess said.“I think it’s the right thing to do; in

fact I know it’s the right thing to do,” said Brooks.

Judge Bailey, the brother of County Commissioner Walter Bailey, died on July 12 after a battle with cancer.

He was 73.Attending the commission meeting were

Judge Bailey’s widow, Adrienne Bailey, and sons Justin Bailey and Merritt Bailey.

The family received a standing ovation from those in the commission chambers.

“As everyone here knows, he served the community with everything he had for a long time,” Justin Bailey said. “He gave a lot; he gave everything he had. And to

honor him this way is beitting, also hum-bling. We just can’t thank you enough for this consideration.”

“My husband, what a champion,” said Adrienne Bailey, who was presented with a bouquet of pink roses. “I know he’s so happy, so happy with all the love and out-pouring of appreciation. He knows what’s happening now because D’Army knows everything. I appreciate this. This is a great honor.”

Judge Bailey served as a Circuit Court judge from 1990 to 2006, when he retired.

He was elected to the bench again in 2014.

It was Judge Bailey who took the lead in the work to transform the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was as-sassinated in 1968, into the National Civil Rights Museum.

With funds amassed from a contingent of donors and supporters, he bought the motel on the courthouse steps in 1982 for $144,000, and after years of work and fun-draising, the $9.2 million museum opened in 1991.

Last year, the museum completed a $28 million renovation and expansion with events that also praised Bailey’s contri-bution.

SHELBY COUNTY

A fitting tributeCourthouse to be

renamed in honor of late Judge D’Army Bailey

Jim WEBER/ThE COmmERCial aPPEal

Annie Chaleunsak (left) and Steven Coughlin pass by the Liberty statue on their way out of the Shelby County Courthouse. The County Commission voted to rename the building in honor of late Circuit Court Judge D’Army Bailey.

D’Army Bailey

By Kyle [email protected]

901-529-2799

State Sen. Brian Kelsey said Saturday he would join state Rep. G.A. Hardaway’s legis-lative efort to require the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to con-duct investigations when someone is critically in-jured or killed in an in-cident involving a law enforcement oicer.

In an e-mail to con-stituents, Kelsey, R-Ger-mantown, said the bill would “allow” disclosure of the results of the TBI investigations.

Those iles are sealed, which has led to criti-cism on transparency grounds.

H a r d -away, D-Memphis, said Sat-u r d a y t h e r e must be transpar-ency and the pub-lic should be able to

view the results of the investigations to ensure justice.

“It’s pretty simple,” Hardaway said.

“When you talk about democracy, the key is oversight by the people.”

Hardaway said TBI is an “objective organiza-tion, that is apolitical.”

“They would deliver the truth, the whole truth and nothing but

the truth,” he said. TBI Director Mark

Gwyn told The Commer-cial Appeal last month he would support “a mechanism (in the leg-islation) that those iles can be opened.”

The bill won’t be debated until at least January, when the Gen-eral Assembly convenes again.

“The recent shooting death of Darrius Stew-art by a Memphis police oicer has brought the national debate about the reliability of inves-tigating oicer-involved deaths close to home,” Kelsey wrote.

Commercial appeal reporter

Katie Fretland contributed to

this report.

Sen. Kelsey: Let TBI probe policeJoins Rep. Hardaway’s bid for openness

Sen. Brian Kelsey

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By Jennifer [email protected]

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Students in Shelby County Schools still struggle with reading on grade level, but made gains in math and science, test results from the Ten-nessee Comprehensive Assessment Program re-leased on July 29 show.

Statewide, the percent-age of students proicient in elementary and middle school reading dropped 1.1 percentage points. SCS outpaced the state in growth for both elemen-tary math and science, but still lags behind the state in overall proiciency in all three tested areas. Just un-der a third of SCS students are reading on grade level or above, 40.4 percent are proicient or advanced in math and 47.1 percent are proicient or advanced in science.

The Achievement School District outpaced the state in growth for el-ementary and middle math and science. Other subjects showed steep declines, but the district also took over 23 schools this year that were all in the bottom 5 percent in the state.

Of the 17 schools in the SCS Innovation Zone, which uses additional state money for locally controlled turnaround programs, 13 showed im-provement.

SHELBY COUNTYSCS students made at

least minimal gains in nine of 10 test subjects across all grade levels. The district rated a level 5, the highest score, on the scale measur-ing one year’s growth, for the fourth year in a row. A level 3 means students ad-

vanced one year’s worth of growth in one year’s time. A high score means more growth in the same amount of time.

Superintendant Dorsey Hopson said the results show the district knows how to improve — and un-der the threat of state take-over, is motivated to do so.

“We still have a long way to go,” Hopson said. “By no means are we pounding our chest and saying we’ve igured this thing out.”

Hopson said they are re-viewing what went wrong at the four i-Zone schools that took steps backward, noting that some of them dealt with “cultural issues” over the last year, resulting in new leadership set to take over this year.

Four schools — Raleigh-Egypt High, A. Maceo Walker Middle, American Way Middle and LaRose

Elementary — improved enough to stave of state takeover for at least an-other year.

Those schools were among 21 Shelby County Schools ranked in the bot-tom 5 percent last year. Fifteen schools remain on the state’s priority list and could be considered for either the ASD or i-Zone programs.

“We just started holding everybody accountable,” said Bo Griin, principal at Raleigh-Egypt High School, which gained 15.4 points in Algebra I, 28 points in Algebra II and 14.6 points in English III.

Other notable scores include a 32.1-point gain in science at Cherokee Elementary School and a 21.6-point gain in math at White Station Elemen-tary. At Trezevant High School, less than 6 per-

cent of students were pro-icient or better in Algebra II last year. That number climbed to almost a third of students this year.

The three schools with-in Germantown’s borders that remained with Shelby County Schools showed declines.

Germantown Elemen-tary lost 15.1 proiciency percentage points in sci-ence, 8.7 points in reading and 1.2 points in math. Ger-mantown Middle lost 7.4 points in science, 9 points in reading and 2.8 points in math. Germantown High lost the most ground in chemistry, with a decline of 15.7 percentage points,

and 7.4 points in reading, but gained ground in Al-gebra I.

The schools lost many suburban students last year with the creation of the municipal school dis-tricts.

“On irst blush, some of the more traditionally high-performing students did leave,” Hopson said. “But that’s not an excuse.”

ACHIEVEMENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

While elementary and middle school reading pro-iciency dropped 1.1 per-centage points, students in third through eighth grade made a 6.4-point gain in

math, ahead of the state’s 4.3-point growth, and 4.7 points in science, ahead of the state’s 0.9-point growth.

Overall, however, ele-mentary reading levels in the ASD are down 4.3 per-centage points from 2012. Only 13.8 percent of el-ementary school students in the ASD are reading on grade level.

ASD Superintendant Chris Barbic said the chal-lenges of teaching reading are compounded in a low-income school.

Schools new to the ASD last year only averaged a level 1 out of 5 on growth, but Barbic said that’s due to a culture that has to be implemented in the irst year. Schools in the district for two and three years av-eraged a level 5.

Four of the ive schools the ASD runs in Frayser received a level-5 growth rating. Notable improve-ments came at Whitney Achievement Elementary, which saw an increase of 31.2 proiciency percent-age points in math and 20.7 points in science in a single year. But the school also lost 7.4 points in reading.

Georgian Hills Achieve-ment Elementary was the only one of the ive Fray-ser schools to improve in all areas, with 26.1 points in math, 9 points in read-ing and 1 point in science. Frayser Achievement Elementary saw double-digit growth in math and science, but lost 1.3 points in reading.

The goal of the ASD is to move schools from the bot-tom 5 percent to the top 25 percent in ive years.

“It’s still a goal that we’re aiming for,” Barbic said. “We’re as optimis-tic today as we were four years ago.”

SHELBY COUNTY SCHOOLS

TCAP data: Reading still an SCS struggleBut students make gains in math, science

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ASD teachers and administrators, including Georgian Hills Achievement Elementary academic support Chemise Williams (right), cheer TCAP numbers announced for the district Wednesday.

Bobby White, executive director of Frayser Community Schools, speaks July 29 to the room full of faculty, parents and students during an event to celebrate the Achievement Schools’ TCAP results at Whitney Achievement Elementary.


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By Mylissa HorrocksSpecial to The Weekly

Ten Evangelical Christian School students, both current and alumni, joined two faculty members on a re-cent educational trip to the United Kingdom.

“When we realized we had all young men signed up for this study tour, we thought we’d change things up a bit,” said Student Leadership ini-tiative advisor and high school Eng-lish teacher Ryan Dixon. “It made sense on this trip to travel light and stay in hostels. Our ECS team loved our ‘immersion-style’ tour, dropping the typical charter bus setup and fully experiencing the culture and life of the United Kingdom.”

ECS holds three study tours that rotate on a regular schedule. The England/U.K. trip focuses on litera-ture and language, while 2016’s Italy Study Tour focuses on art and the Re-naissance. In 2017, the cycle will com-plete with a study tour to Western Eu-rope. This tour will give students the opportunity to experience war and reformation history first hand, with stops at Wittenberg and Versailles.

“The trips combine theory with real-life experience and cultural per-spective,” said Jenny Shorten, the di-rector of enrichment and electives at ECS. “They give students the chance to see other countries in a meaning-ful way.”

Students also have the opportuni-ty to participate in Sunday worship

while on the study tours. Dixon re-calls a particularly meaningful mo-ment during the Sunday service at Westminster Abbey.

“While singing hymns to our Lord within a building that has deep histor-ic presence for the Church of England, we were reminded of the roots of our Christian heritage in America,” Dixon said. “It was an important experience for our students as they pondered the state of their personal faith in Christ and their role as believers in a chang-ing American nation.”

TRAVEL

ECS students visit United Kingdom on educational trip

During their sight seeing trip across the United Kingdom, ECS students visited famous tourist destinations including

Westminster Bridge.

By Jane [email protected]

901-529-2512

The new municipal school districts overall outperformed state gains on TCAP and end-of-course exams students took this spring. The notable exception is Millington Municipal Schools. Besides trailing the state, stu-dents in grades 3-8 lost ground in each tested subject — includ-ing significant drops in reading.

But the biggest blow is the 17 percentage points it lost in Al-gebra I proficiency, a fact that means nearly half the freshman class (47.6 percent) cannot do be-ginning algebra.

“Our schools have had chal-lenges comparing accountability proficiency data from the 2013-14 school year (when our schools were still part of the Shelby County Schools) to the 2014-15 year,” said Supt. David Roper.

With new attendance zones, transfers from other schools and the elimination of a modified test for students with mild dis-abilities, “we naturally expected unusual data results,” Roper said.

Children in grades 3-8 there lost more than 7 percentage points in reading. Overall, nearly 60 percent of children (57.9 per-cent) cannot read at grade level in the suburb.

The other municipal districts posted strong showings. Arling-ton, Bartlett and Lakeland (with one school) made gains in every subject. Bartlett City Schools racked up 15.9 and 12.7 percentage gains in Algebra I and II. Arling-ton followed with 15.2 point bump in Algebra I and 13.3 in Algebra II.

“I am pleased with the founda-tion we are building in Bartlett City Schools,” said Supt. David Stephens, “and the hard work of our teachers, students and fami-lies this past school year.”

While Bartlett students made a 3.6-point gain in chemistry, 63.8 percent of its students did not pass the high school exam.

Collierville has the largest per-centage of students proficient in the most subjects, including seven where 80 to 90 percent of children performed at the highest levels. But the district’s reading scores fell 1.1 percent this year in grades 3-8. It also made only small gains in Algebra I and neg-ligible progress in elementary science.

While Supt. John Aitken praised teachers for their work, he noted there was room for im-provement. “We will face those opportunities and find ways to ensure student learning is tak-ing place at a high level.

Germantown, which also has high levels of proficiency, lost ground in English III and elemen-tary science.

The state exams given this

spring were based on standards the state used before it began teaching the Common Core State Standards more than four years ago. Next spring, the exams will change to reflect the state’s TN-Ready curriculum, approved by the General Assembly last ses-sion. Instead of multiple-choice questions, the new tests will have essay questions and short-answer responses.

School districts are also ex-pected to administer the tests on-line next spring for the first time.

All districts are expected to see declines in scores until teachers and students adjust. In districts like Millington, where more than half of students in grades 3-8 lack proficiency in math and reading, the change could have deeper re-percussions.

While high school students in Millington beat state gains in English II and English III, they fared worse in every other sub-

ject.School board chairman Greg

Ritter said he would see the scores when the board discusses them at its next meeting.

Roper intends to “aggressively target reading and language arts” in the coming year, plus work to strengthen high school math pro-grams.

“We also plan to address defi-cit areas with our students with disabilities as we go forward to implement the new more rigor-ous standards and the new state testing instrument,” he said.

Last year, about 16,000 special education students with mild dis-abilities took the written TCAP test without modification for the first time. Roughly 65 to 70 percent of students who qualify for special education services have what are considered mildly handicapping conditions, includ-ing learning disabilities and hy-peractivity disorders.

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Grammy nominee, Blues Hall of Famer and Hi Records veteran Otis Clay will headline the 2015 Cooper-Young Festival.

The 28th edition of the annual outdoor arts and music event is set for Sept. 19, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Organizers have announced 15 acts playing on three stages spread throughout the Cooper-Young neighborhood.

Notable locals set to appear on the main stage — located in

front of the Young Avenue Deli — include roots duo Deering and Down, singer Alexis Grace and Chinese Dub Connection Embassy.

R&B great Clay will be

backed by a group of musicians dubbed the “Take Me to the Riv-er Band,” put together by Royal Studios producer Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell and featuring alumni of the Hi Rhythm Sec-

tion and Stax Records. Cooper-Young-based rock

label and retail store Goner Re-cords is teaming up with the Memphis Grizzlies to present a joint stage located at Young and Meda Street. Goner acts Nots and Aquarian Blood will be among those performing.

Also, members of the Mem-phis Grizzlies are expected to appear, and signed items from the team will be raled of.

The School of Rock will host a third stage located in the First Congo Church parking lot. A se-ries of student bands — paying tribute to classic rockers like Al-ice Cooper and Tom Petty — will be playing throughout the day.

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And, if you think it’s been hotter than normal this month, you are right. We are on pace to have one of the hottest Julys on record, says Marlene Mickelson, a me-teorologist with the National Weather Service in Memphis. This year might evoke sweaty memories of 2012, when we had a similar streak of days when the heat index rose above 100. Since July 7, the heat index has pierced 100 each day with one exception, July 9. And it was a heat index igure of 98 that day. The heat index topped out at 112 July 29.

And, for folks who work outside, there’s no escaping the oppressive weath-er. Outside workers got a slight break from the heat July 30-31 when the temps only hit the low 90s.

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FOOTBALL TEAM’S TOUGHEST FOEFor the St. George’s Independent

School football team, the gallon jug has become as important as the football.

Similar to a running back learning to “protect the football” by carrying it everywhere he goes, the Gryphons are required to keep their personal water jugs close at hand during these days of extreme heat. Coach David Carter and his staf make sure players drink two gallons of water a day so they stay hydrated.

By certain times of the day, players

are required to reach certain marks on the jug.

“With the exception of coming out here to practice, every meeting, every meal, they have their water jug with them and we keep up with how much they drink,” Carter said at the July 29 practice. “Because they have to inish that gallon and start the other gallon during the day.”

On July 27 — when the heat index was recorded at 103 degrees by 11 a.m. — an East High School player was taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion. According

to Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association rules implemented in 2009, no outdoor activities are permitted if the heat index is above 104 degrees.

St. George’s holds an early practice around 7 a.m. and the day’s second prac-tice is at 6 p.m. That later session can be moved to 7 p.m. if the heat index is too high. Carter adjusted his practice sched-ule so the Gryphons could hold their two-a-days and stay within TSSAA rules.

“It’s not as hot,” senior ofensive guard and nose tackle Jacob Still said of the ad-

justed practice schedule, but, “we still get the reps in and we don’t have to cancel practice early.”

Along with staying hydrated, play-ers are also being served breakfast and lunch. It’s all part of the coaching staf’s strategy for dealing with the oppressive opponent that is the Memphis heat.

“You aren’t going to make them better players or tougher players by them being completely dehydrated and exhausted,” Carter said. “We’re trying to get the best performance out of our kids, and for us

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ing over a smoking hot 10-foot steel cylinder. That’s how Robert Carpenter spends his days.

“On Friday and Saturday, we’ll have two, maybe three of them going,” said the pitmaster at The Grille, a to-go res-taurant on Lamar that specializes in chicken on a stick and chicken wings. “It gets pretty hot out here.”

He starts in the cool of the day at 6 a.m., clearing yesterday’s charcoal from the pits and starting with a new batch.

“By 10:30, 10:45 or so, I take in the irst batch so we’ll have enough ready when people get here at 11,” he said.

Before a typical weekday is done, 600 wings will have been smoked; on Fridays and Saturdays, it’s closer to 1,000. Every time he opens that pit, the heat spikes.

“It might feel like 25 (degrees hotter) to some people, but to me it feels like 50,” he said.

Co-owner Anita Tate said she thinks business is down a little because of the heat.

“I’ve noticed a drop, and I under-stand because I know what the heat does to my appetite,” she said.

Carpenter keeps an industrial fan blowing and a wet towel draped over his head. But short of seeking a spot of shade or, better, going inside an air-conditioned building, there’s one key to staying on top of the pit in the heat: “Water, water and more water,” he said.

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AIRPORT WORKERSCharlie Douglass had a question for

his boss, Levmarco Johnson, July 29 as Memphis International Airport airield workers sweltered through another triple-digit heat index.

“What’s the deal on the ice machine? Is it broken or something?” asked Dou-glass, a lead painter whose crew was re-painting touchdown strips at the south end of Runway 18L/36R.

Supply and demand, explained John-son, who handed out the last of 20 bags of ice ive minutes earlier.

A contractor’s workers raided the airfield maintenance department’s ice machines overnight and icemak-ers didn’t have time to recover before the day shift arrived, Johnson said. He bought reinforcements of-site and dis-tributed the bags among crews engaged in painting, electrical work, grounds maintenance and other tasks.

Douglass said a westerly breeze and temporary cloud cover made it feel

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Christopher Hicks, a white towel draped over his head beneath a Mem-phis International Airport ball cap, said, “You’ve got to work smart,” to be productive in the heat. Hicks drinks water and Gatorade from coolers on the work truck, works at a steady pace and cools of during breaks.

“We’re used to this,” Hicks said. “The beginning of the summer wasn’t bad. It took awhile, but when it hit, it came in with a vengeance.”

Sweat dripped from Marvin Jones’ face as he paused from raking a lower bed on Cargo Road. His grounds crew started at 7 a.m. to beat the heat, but temperatures in the 90s weren’t the only enemy. “Right now, it’s more the humidity than the heat,” Jones said.

Johnson, who manages 57 airield workers, said monthly safety training has emphasized proper ways to work in the heat and recognize warning signs of heat-related illnesses.

“Since it’s been hot, that’s what we’ve been focusing on: heat stroke and tak-ing care of your neighbor,” Johnson said.

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BRANDON DILL/SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

You won’t find any shade on a runway at Memphis International Airport, where Christopher Hicks is part of a team painting threshold bars. “You’ve got to work smart” to be productive in the heat, said Hicks, who keeps a steady pace and stays hydrated.

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By Jennifer CaseyIn My Own Words

I signed up for the Citizens Police Academy during

the spring after writ-ing a press release to promote the upcoming summer session. After reading about what the class covered, it cer-tainly piqued my inter-est from a professional standpoint to learn more about a town depart-ment, but I was curious as a citizen, as well.

What exactly is the Collier-ville Police Department doing that keeps Collierville a safe community?

That question was answered the irst day of class and it was not what I expected: traic stops. When assistant chief, David Til-ner led the irst discussion about the department’s “Community Oriented Policing” structure, he asked for everyone to raise a hand if he/she had ever been pulled over by a Collierville po-lice oicer.

With almost every hand in the air, it was not a surprise to anyone to see a room full of people with this past, and most likely future, experience. The Collierville Police Department has a reputation of strict traic enforcement, and that reputation is a strategy that we continued to learn about throughout the fol-lowing classes.

Experiencing a traic stop from a patrol oicer’s perspec-tive is a truly unique experi-ence. Walking up the side of an unfamiliar vehicle with tinted windows gets your heart racing before even seeing what is wait-ing inside.

While we had Collierville police oicers pretending to be unruly drivers, they enjoyed sur-prising the class with unexpect-

ed behavior. Shuling around through a glove box may appear to be a harmless search for an insurance card until a weapon is pointed in your direction. What seemed like unusual scenarios to the class were real situations the oicers experienced on patrol.

Lt. David Townsend, the acad-emy coordinator, shared that he worked on patrol in the past as a traic reconstructionist.

We learned, and even tested, the dangers of impaired and dis-tracted driving by driving a golf cart around a complex maze of orange cones with altered gog-gles to simulate the vision of a legal blood alcohol level. We also used a computer simulator set up like a video game with a steer-ing wheel and gas pedal. The program sent text messages to our personal cell phones as we drove, and the results weren’t very good.

While we experienced fake crashes and arrests, we were shown a slideshow of car wrecks in Collierville that was, at times, hard to watch.

While enforcing traic rules keeps roadways safer, it also proves to be a deterrent for criminal activity. However, there are times when crimes do hap-pen in Collierville, one of the most common being theft from vehicles.

If a crime became more seri-ous, we learned about diferent divisions of the police depart-ment that are highly trained to assist speciic needs. We saw

irst-hand the incredible abil-ity of police K-9, Leno, a Belgian Malinois, keenly listening to his trainer’s commands, the inner-workings of the dispatch center as a live 911 call came through and the impressive tracking abil-ity of the STAR team who use heightened senses to ind a crim-inal leeing a scene or perhaps a loved one lost in the woods.

The crisis intervention team specializes in assisting people who are experiencing a stress-ful crisis while maintaining professionalism and compas-sion. These oicers help citizens with mental disorders or any-

one experiencing some form of emotional trauma or shock. We were told a touching story of a CIT oicer singing “Amazing Grace” with an individual to help ease his stress level while safely traveling in the patrol car to seek medical attention.

The SWAT members have a similar responsibility to re-spond to people in an emotion-ally charged situation. However, the scenario will have a greater risk to safety of the individual or others.

Class members were given a “bank robbery” exercise and either played hostages being detained by actual SWAT of-icers, acting as robbers or put on the SWAT gear and entered the building to save the innocent bystanders.

I wore the heavy SWAT vest and uncomfortable helmet, and hesitantly entered the “bank” after having a brieing with my team. Although the scene wasn’t real, I felt very nervous clearing dark rooms and was slow to react when one of my team members was involved in a stand-of with a suspect.

“You will react in the way you have been trained,” said police chief Larry Goodwin.

As citizens from all walks of life, some of us had more experi-ence than others with military backgrounds or aspirations to join a police department as a future career. There were also school faculty, salesmen, stu-dents, inancial advisors and a few town employees, like myself, who did not necessarily have much knowledge about the com-plexities of law enforcement. We all learned that Collierville police oicers are trained and ready to react to any scene at any moment.

During the graduation cer-emony, Mayor Stan Joyner and Goodwin encouraged the class to continue supporting the Col-lierville Police Department by joining other volunteer organi-zations associated with the de-partment, but more importantly to be ambassadors to the com-munity.

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Communication be-tween the languages is an age-old challenge. But the Collierville Police Depart-ment will soon be getting help from a new technol-ogy aimed at instantly bridging the gap. The device is called Enabling Language Service Any-where, or ELSA.

ELSA is a simple black box that is clipped to the belt of the user. With the push of a button, live trans-lators are available over a wireless network to assist with translating 180 dif-ferent languages and dia-

lects. The live translators interact with the oicer and client.

This service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

“This ability to provide real-time communication between people who speak diferent languages in vir-tually any situation or en-vironment is key in assist-ing the police department to better serve our citizens and guests in Collierville,” assistant chief Jef Abeln said.

The developer of ELSA, RTT Mobile Interpreta-tion, originally designed the device for law enforce-ment but is now seeing its use in many applications, including irst respond-ers and other health care workers, government agency employees, and

financial services em-ployees. Their company mission is to provide af-fordable and highly mobile interpretation solutions to overcome language barri-ers and to improve com-munication through their technology platform.

The Collierville Police Department is among several Mid- South public safety agencies that have recognized the value of such a device.

“Once this becomes ful-ly functional and running, it’s going to break down a lot of barriers in commu-nication,” said police chief Larry Goodwin.

He said that the depart-ment is currently training its oicers on the device and that residents should see it on the streets very shortly.

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Collierville attorney Fred Auston Wortman III plead-ed not guilty Thursday in Fayette County Court of trying to kill his wife.

After a grand jury in-dictment, Wortman, 39, was charged with one count of attempted irst-degree murder and two counts of solicitation of irst-degree murder.

He was arraigned before Judge Weber McGraw on the three-count indict-ment that stemmed from a Tennessee Bureau of In-vestigation operation that was announced July 28. Wortman’s trial date is set for Dec. 1.

Wortman was arrested by several police oicers June 5 at a Fayette County

gas station following a TBI investigation.

Wortman allegedly gave an undercover agent, who was posing as a hit man, instructions and a down payment to have his wife, Staci Wortman, murdered.

Wortman’s charge of attempted first-degree murder and one of the charges of solicitation of irst-degree murder came from this incident, accord-ing to the indictment.

On July 1, while in jail, Wortman allegedly ap-proached another inmate, soliciting him to kill his wife. That incident led to the second solicitation of irst-degree murder charge in the indictment.

Since the TBI is investi-gating that, Dist. Atty. Gen. Michael Dunavant said he cannot provide further details.

Wortman is being held in the Fayette County Jail on a $15 million bond, which his defense attor-ney, Robert Brannon, said he has no plans to chal-lenge at this time.

“The bond was original-ly set on two charges. He also has a case pending in Shelby County,” said Bran-non, who is representing Wortman in both courts. “It just doesn’t seem fea-sible at this time to lower the bond when you’ve got the trial date on Dec. 1.”

Wortman also faces one charge of attempted murder in Shelby County. That refers to an incident in which Wortman alleg-edly tried to kill his wife by poisoning her toothpaste, which one of their three children — all of whom are under age 10 — also appar-ently used.

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Germantown police have arrested two 19-year-old men who allegedly forced their way into a home July 29 afternoon while a 13-year-old girl was inside.

Diego Valdemar Resen-dez and Ivan Mejia Ange-les both of Memphis were charged with aggravated burglary and theft of prop-erty.

Police said the suspects forced their way into the home in the 1800 block of River Valley Drive just be-fore 1 p.m.

Resendez and Angeles allegedly knocked on the front door of the home and then went around back and broke out a window of a door used to gain entry into the home, police said in a release.

The girl’s father arrived home and confronted the suspects, who led in an older model Ford F-150

pickup, police said. The men, who stole

assorted tools, were not armed and no one was in-jured.

One suspect was ar-rested July 29 when police found his truck in the in the 6600 block of Mallard Nest Cove in Memphis. The other suspect was ar-rested later July 29.

Detectives were able to link and charge Angeles to a previous burglary in the 7000 block of Westminster in October 2014.

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So about the trash can, the one Matt Barnes demolished as he left the FedEx-Forum loor after a playof game in 2013.

“I remember it,” said Barnes. “There was a woman or a younger girl who said something about it. It was a close game and I was mad that we lost and I kicked a can. I’m l o o k i n g forward to inviting that young lady back to the irst game and show her I’m not the person she thought I was back then.”

Awwwwww, what a nice gesture, eh?Except here’s the thing. Barnes is ex-

actly the person he seemed to be back then. But the next time you see him, he’ll be that person in a Grizzlies uni-form. And you will love him for it.

Barnes — acquired by Memphis in a draft-day deal for Janis Timma — was introduced as the latest member of the Grizzlies July 28 at a Fed-ExForum press conference. Not since the heyday of Memphis wrestling has a heel turned hero with quite such dispatch.

This was a man who played for the hated Los Angeles Clippers. This was a man who destroyed FedExForum prop-erty with his foot.

“I realize I’m one of those guys that if I’m not with you, you hate me,” said Barnes. “But if I’m with you, you un-derstand who I am and what I’m about and love me. I’m looking forward to winning this crowd and winning this city over and helping to bring a cham-pionship here.”

Well, a championship would do it, certainly. But the press conference was a ine start. As Griz GM Chris Wallace put it, “If there’s any player who was de-signed to be a Grizzly, it’s Matt Barnes.”

Like the Grizzlies, Barnes is all about defense and toughness. Like the Griz-zlies, Barnes is a little nuts.

In a six-month period this past sea-son, Barnes was ined $25,000 for kick-ing a water bottle and cursing a Wiz-ards fan, ined $25,000 for cursing a Suns fan and $50,000 for cursing James Harden’s mother.

Just last month, Barnes said on ESPN that he and Oklahoma City forward Serge Ibaka would “ight right now.”

Question: Is there any better way to endear yourself to Memphis basket-ball fans than suggesting you’d like to throw down with another player? And does that kind of thing happen in any other town?

Small wonder Barnes was happy when he found out he’d been shipped to Memphis. As he put it, “When I kind of took a deep breath, I thought, ‘This

is a whole — not just team, but city — with my ideal, my grind mentality.’ I’ve never been on a team where everybody has the same mindset I do.”

Barnes seemed particularly thrilled to be playing alongside Tony Allen, whom he considers a kindred spirit. As he put it, “It’s going to be an honor playing next to that dude.”

None of which means Barnes is the missing piece to a championship or any such thing.

He’s a 35-year-old wing player who is making his 10th NBA stop. But at a time when more NBA teams are opt-ing for lowing, beautiful basketball, the Grizzlies seem content to beat the snot out of you.

Indeed, Joerger seemed to revel in

it, as he delivered a preview of the sea-son’s theme. “Going into this season, we’re going to try to be nasty,” he said. “Nasty is a word that is going to come up a lot as we go into training camp. We’re going to be nasty. You come into the paint and things are not going to be happy for you.”

Like they ever were?So here’s to another season of glorious

mayhem. Here’s to the league’s toughest team getting tougher still. Or, as Barnes put it, when asked about the challenge ahead: “I’m just glad that I’ve got a whole team that thinks the way I do.”

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There’s a handful of places around town where I meet friends for a bite or a drink when I’m not working. While there are many places I’d like to visit again and again, none of us is made of time; we must spend it wisely.

Alchemy in Cooper-Young is one of those places where time can be pleasantly frittered away over cocktails and small plates, where laughter and convivial conversation waft across the big, slick but comfortable room, where a community of strollers and runners can be watched through the big windows, where friendly dogs on leashes stop for a quick chin scratch from those settled on the small patio. Cooper-Young in general has recovered nicely from the temporary hit it took from the revitalization of Overton Square; the crowds are back.

I’ve never eaten a bad dish at Alchemy —

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some are better than oth-ers, of course — and I’ve never had a bad drink. I was there last month for the tasting of this year’s house bourbon, which turned out to be W.L. Weller barrel 49. It was the Friday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality, and it was a festive night in Cooper-Young; a cel-ebration was taking place in front of the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Commu-nity Center. A specialty cocktail is created daily and that night, bartender David Parks whipped up a concoction he named Ma-rie Antoinette Scalia. Tak-ing it all in, I was struck by how solid Alchemy has remained through a num-ber of changes, and how unusual it is for a restau-rant that isn’t chef-driven to stay so vibrant.

But Alchemy started with a chef in the kitchen. Karen Roth, who had been at various places and most immediately before Al-chemy at Erling Jensen: The Restaurant, opened the restaurant with owners Bert Smythe, John Little-ield and Stewart Wingate (along with former general manager Ben McLean, now at Belly Acres) in Novem-ber 2011. While she created many of the dishes that re-main today, mixologists were hard at work creating a fabulous cocktail roster, and many of those remain today, too. Still, things have evolved.

A year later, Nick Sea-bergh, who had been with John Currence at City Gro-cery in Oxford, took over the kitchen when Roth left and stayed until May 2014 (a Nashville-bound de-serter). After two strong and influential chefs in the kitchen, Smythe and company decided to forgo a chef. Instead, two ex-ceedingly capable cooks, Catrina McKee and Celina Webb, already with Alche-my, took charge. The food is as good as ever, contin-ues to rotate periodically (new items have recently

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Atmosphere: HHH½Address: 940 S. Cooper St.Telephone: 901-726-4444Hours: Sunday brunch, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. (kitchen closes at 3 p.m.); Monday through Thursday, 4-11 p.m. (kitchen closes at 10 p.m.); Friday and Saturday, 4 p.m.-1:30 a.m. (kitchen closes at midnight).Reviewer’s recommendations: Smokey shiitake salad ($9); Southern antipasta ($15); chili-roasted fish tacos ($12.50); bacon-wrapped figs ($12); mac and cheese ($11.50); loaded grits ($11); biscuits and gravy ($7)Alcohol: Full and creative bar. Some recommendations are: Bourbon, Bourbon Whisky Mash and The Hound Dog (named one of the country’s best 50 cocktails by New York magazine); vodka, Dancin’ Jimmy’s Secret; rum, Cooper Street Swizzle, Alchemy Mojito

been added), and I can’t tell that there’s a cook in-stead of a chef preparing my food.

First to brunch. Served on Sunday only, this is well worth adding to the list of places to end a long week or jump-start a new one, depending on how you view your Sunday. Many cocktails are $5, and you’ll be given a sushi-like menu to build your own Bloody Mary. Choose your rim-mer, your heat level, your mix (two house-made, one of those vegan, plus V-8, tomato juice or Clamato) and from a laundry list of garnishes. Pick your Bellini from a list of a dozen fruit purees, go for a simple mimosa — the choices go on. Everything at the bar is fresh, there are herbs to muddle, fruit to squeeze, syrups just made, so if you want something else, just ask. It was scorching hot on Sunday; I asked for a refreshing drink of grape-fruit, vodka, rosemary simple syrup and lime zest, a cocktail I make at home. The bartender had never

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The heat didn’t impair our appetite, and we or-dered too much food yet managed to make a re-spectable dent in it. The loaded grits, a bowl of cheesy grits topped with Benton’s bacon, peppers, onion, country ham and an optional fried egg, was superb. I was tiptop on Sunday, but if I’d been in need of rejuvenation, that dish would’ve restored me. The biscuits were as good as any I’ve had and better than many, big and light, but sturdy enough for the sausage gravy.

Alchemy offers four poached egg dishes, though the corned beef hash wasn’t available when we were there and Smythe says it’s probably coming of the menu. There’s a pulled pork and barbecue sauce version, crab cake Bene-dict, or shrimp and bacon hash, which was an excel-lent choice. A slab of toasted sourdough was topped with

skillet-browned bacon lar-dons and shrimp, seasoned with cayenne, thyme, garlic — bold spices — and topped with salsa fresca, cotija cheese and two perfectly poached eggs. Divine.

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The Tennessee Lyme Disease Support Network’s monthly meeting will be Thursday at 7 p.m. at Faith Baptist Church, 3755 N. Germantown Road Room 140. Call 901-275-5650 for information.

The Bartlett Station Farmer’s Market will be open every Saturday, from 8 a.m. to noon, through Sept. 19 at W.J. Freeman Park, 2629 Bartlett Boulevard. New vendors added each week. Some 2015 vendors include: J Brooks Cofee Roasters, Las Delicias, Mammaw Melton’s Heirloom Gardens, Donna’s Kettle Corn, Ver-non Farms and more.

The City of Bartlett, the Bartlett Recreation Center and Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett hosts the annual Bartlett Kids Triathlon Saturday, starting at 7:30 a.m. It will be held on the streets of Bartlett and at the Bartlett Recreation Center, 7700 Flaherty Place. Cost is $25 plus $10 USAT insurance fee. Register at racesonline.com. Call 901-385-6470 or visit cityofbartlett.org/bkt.

ColliervillePre-school Story Time is every Friday, from 10:30-

11 a.m., at the Morton Museum, 196 N. Main. Stories, songs and play related to Collierville History. For ages 5 and under. Event is free to attend. E-mail [email protected] or call 901-457-2650.

Also coming up: ■Today: “Veteran Voices,” 5-6:30 p.m. Jake Bousson

presents his Eagle Scout project coordinating inter-

views and video recordings with WWII Veterans for The Morton Museum Veteran History Project.

The Collierville Burch Library, 501 Poplar View Parkway, will ofer Basic Computing for Beginners in three sessions Aug. 12, 19 and 26, from 10 a.m. to noon. Designed for beginners with little or no experience, will cover basics of Windows 7, Internet and e-mail. Keyboarding skills helpful. Register online at collier-villelibrary.org.

The Collierville Farmers Market is open every Thurs-day, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the rear parking lot of Col-lierville United Methodist Church, 454 West Poplar. The market provides a reliable source of fresh, locally-grown fruits and veggies and related agricultural pro-duce. Visit colliervillefarmersmarket.org.”

The Carriage Crossing Farmer’s Market will be open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Friday through Sept. 25. Farmers and vendors ofer locally grown produce. Located in Central Park roundabout. In case of inclement weather, visit facebook.com/shopcarriagecrossing for updates.

Bring the kids and come enjoy some of their favorites with Movie Night at Carriage Crossing, 4674 Merchants Park Circle. Movies begin at dusk in Central Park. Fri-day: “101 Dalmatians”

New Neighbors is a nonproit organization of neigh-bors meeting neighbors through social activities and community service. The group has several events com-ing up in August. For more information about becoming a member of New Neighbors, contact Julia Williams at 901-626-3649 or Carolyn Steiner at [email protected].

■Aug: 13: Welcome Cofee, 9:30 a.m. The cofee, held the second Thursday of each month, will be at the home of Denise Leyes.

■Aug. 19: Luncheon, 11:15 a.m. The luncheon, held the third Wednesday of each month, takes place at South-wind Country Club.

CordovaMastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. I will be Fri-

day, from 6-9 p.m., at L’Ecole Culinaire, 1245 N. Ger-mantown. Learn the basic techniques of the original celebrity chef, Julia Child. Includes instruction, three course meal, and wine. Cost is $95. Call 901-754-7115 or visit lecole.edu/memphis/memphis-public-cooking-classes.asp.

Also coming up: ■ Saturday: Brown Bag Upgrade, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Learn alternatives to the classic midday sandwich and chips. Includes instruction and three lunches to take home Cost is $55.

Hope Presbyterian Church, 8500 Walnut Grove, hosts the Miss Princess Pageant Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. Spe-cial needs beauty pageant. Visit missprincesspageant.eventbrite.com or call 901-338-6047.

Those interested in acting in this year’s Spooky Nights events must attend one information session at Shelby Farms Park. Sessions are 6 p.m. Aug. 19 and Sept. 9. To sign up, contact Irene Montanez at [email protected] or 901-222-7266. Spooky Nights is a spook-tacular event that supports Shelby Farms Park Convservancy and takes place every Friday and Saturday in October.

Chuckles Comedy Club, 1770 Dexter Springs Loop, will host LOL Memphis Sketch & Improv Comedy Show the

second and fourth Monday of every month, from 7-9 p.m. Featuring improv games and sketch parodies. Cast members perform small sets throughout the show to introduce what’s coming next. Tickets are $10. E-mail [email protected], visit chucklescomedy-house.com or call 901-654-8594.

Also coming up: ■Thursday: Comedian A.C. live taping, “I Really

Think Like This” at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10. ■This weekend: Comedian Michael Blackson for ive

shows. Times are 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $27.50.

The Memphis Flea Market returns to Agricenter In-ternational, 7777 Walnut Grove, Aug. 15-16. Featuring indoor booths overlowing with options in home décor, jewelry vendors, collectibles and more. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $3 for adults and free for children 12 and under. Call 901-276-3532 or visit memphisleamarket.com.

Also coming up: ■Today: Aldi Job Fair, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the C

Wing of Agricenter International. ■This weekend: Mid-South Hunting & Fishing Extrav-

aganza. Kids come ish the live Trout Pond, Big Buck Contest, Duck Calling Contest and the Taxidermy Con-test. Seminars and even more vendors. Times are 2-9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for children ages 5-12 and free for children 4 and under. For additional info, call 901-867-7007 or visit memphishuntshow.com.

GermantownThe Farm Park Farmers’ Market is every Thursday,

from 4-7:30 p.m. at Farm Park, 2660 Cross Country Drive. Features fresh locally grown fruits and vegeta-bles. Enjoy live music, art by local artists, delicious and healthy foods from our food truck vendors, children’s activities, and cooking demonstrations in a beautiful and relaxing farm setting.

All Children’s Theatre presents “Inherit the Wind” at Germantown Community Theatre, 3037 Forest Hill Irene. Based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, this play follows Ben Cates as he is put on a trial for teach-ing Darwin’s theory of evolution to his high school science class. Tickets are $10, $7 for children 18 and under. Times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Visit gctcomeplay.org or call 901-937-3023.

LakelandThe Delta Blues Winery, 6585 Stewart Road, contin-

ues its Re-Wine Concert Series Fridays, from 7-10 p.m., through October. Families are invited to bring lounge chairs and/or a blanket and enjoy the entertainment. No dogs allowed. A picnic is welcome but no outside alcohol allowed. Free entry. Wine, cold drinks, water, cheese and crackers available for purchase. For more in-formation, visit on.fb.me/1KPJmJy or call 901-829-4685.

Coming up: ■ Friday: More Parrothead music with Rick Williams,

7-10 p.m. ■Aug. 14: Terry Wall & The Wallbangers, 7-10 p.m.

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Art Museum of the University of Memphis, 3750 Norriswood (142 CFA Building): Samuel H. Crone, through Sept. 19. Highlights from a collection of drawings and sketches tracing the artistic development of this 19th century “Memphis” artist who traveled through the art capitals of Europe for almost four decades. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 901-678-2224. memphis.edu/amum.

Levy Gallery (Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School), 60 Perkins Ext.: Brad Troxel: “Fables,” through Sept. 21. Opening reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday. Paintings (New Works). Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday, or 1 hour prior to a performance. Call 901-537-1483. buckmanartscenter.com

Circuitous Succession Gallery, 500 S. Second: James Bockelman, Thomas Murray, Kelli Tilton, and Baleigh Kuhar, through Aug. 24. Call 901-229-1041. circuitoussuccession.com

DLG-TEMP, 64 Flicker: David Lusk Gallery-Memphis hosts “Price is Right: Art Under $1,000,” Thursday through Aug. 22. Opening 6-8 p.m. Aug. 7. Artists all showing original works priced under $1,000. Call 901-767-3800. davidluskgallery.com

Gallery Ten Ninety One, 7151 Cherry Farms Road, Cordova: Memphis/Germantown Art League National Art League Juried Exhibition, Wednesday through Aug. 28. Awards reception 6-8 p.m. Saturday. Biennial exhibition features some of the best work of 65 talented artists from around the United States. Call 901-458-2521.

Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry Road (Audubon Park): Randy Burns: “Vertical Plant Portraits,” through Aug. 26. Opening reception 3-5 p.m. Sunday. Oil and acrylic paintings. All exhibited works for sale. 901-636-4100.

Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry Road (Audubon Park): Lee West: “Nature Inspired,” through Aug. 26 in Fratelli’s Café Gallery. An

exhibition of paintings on both paper and canvas. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday. All exhibited work for sale. 901-636-4100.

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Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 4339 Park: Jun Kaneko sculptures, through Nov. 22. Kaneko is a ceramic artist specializing in large-scale hand-built sculptures. 901-761-5250. dixon.org

National Ornamental Metal Museum, 374 Metal Museum Drive: “A Kind of Confession,” through Sept. 13. Showcasing critical and contemporary metalwork from both tenured and emerging African-American metal artists. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday; closed Mondays. Call 901-774-6380. metalmuseum.org

Southside Gallery, 150 Courthouse Square, Oxford, Miss.: Andrew Blanchard, William Dunlap, Steven Chapp, Philip McGuire: “Faulkner on Paper,” through Aug. 15. Group exhibition. 662-234-9090. southsideartgallery.com

Southside Gallery, 150 Courthouse Square, Oxford, Miss.: Terry Lynn: “Beyond the Fields,” through Aug. 29. Mixed media collages. Artist’s lecture (5:30 p.m.) and reception (6:30-8:30 p.m.) Aug. 27. Call 662-234-9090. southsideartgallery.com

Tops Gallery, 400 S. Front St.: Dana Frankfort and Jackie Gendel: “Talk,” ends Saturday. An exhibition of collaborative paintings. Call 901-340-0134. topsgallery.com

OTHER EXHIBITIONS

Eclectic Eye, 242 S. Cooper St.: Josie Sullivan: “An Artist’s Vision,” through Aug. 19. Hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Call 901-276-3937. eclectic-eye.com

Shady Grove Presbyterian Church, 5530 Shady Grove (at Yates): Maggie Russell: “Bring It To The Light,” through Friday. Portraiture. 901-683-7329. shadygrovepres.org

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I am bewitched but thankfully not bothered or bewil-dered by the color-ful, whimsical and thoughtful exhibi-tion “Walking Eyes,” a collaboration between married artists Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum, on view at Cross-town Arts through Aug. 15.

Some creative couples seem so divisive that it would be impossible to envision a collaboration. A joint painting by Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner? No way. A novel co-writ-ten by Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett? Uh-uh, brother. “Walking Eyes,” however, the response of a monthlong sojourn in Southeast Asia, feels al-most divinely inspired. Pang is originally from Malaysia, moving to the United States in 2001. She has a master of fine arts degree from Memphis Col-lege of Art. Crum was born in New Orleans and also has an MFA from the Col-lege of Art. In 2009, he and Pang founded TaroPop, a small studio that produces T-shirt designs and limited edition art prints.

That conjunction of art and design, playful-ness and graphic acumen, completely informs the 25 pieces plus one intricate installation that comprise “Walking Eyes.” Each mixed media work could be the fractured narra-tion of a tropical dream, a symbolic rendition of landscape, animal life and

customs, a page from a very cool children’s book. The artists draw on — or have totally subsumed as ideas and influences — batik patterns, Chinese nature painting, various styles of Asian calligraphy and a sort of Seussian approach to the perspectiveless pic-ture plane and the engag-ing, eccentric detail. The result is a group of pictures that handily toes the line between decoration, sto-rytelling and fine art.

The pieces occur in various sizes — measure-ments are not given — and grouped together as such, from medium to tall and bannerlike to large. Look closely at each one. Pang

and Crum fill these works, most on paper but the last group of six on pongee, a soft woven silk, with the most fantastic notions of plants, vegetables and animals, with the latter being especially inventive and ranging from cats and dogs and birds to pigs and cows and tapirs to crea-tures undreamed of in any peaceable kingdom. Many of these singu-larities are tucked away within swirling patterns of earthly and celestial dots and signets, flowing water, rice paddies, fields and forests, mountains, waves and dragon tails and even the occasional urban setting.

The artists hold a sweet balance between abstraction and expres-sion, though do not pre-sume that anything ac-tually realistic is going on here. These boats and floating houses, skies and clouds and creatures, are all absorbed into a sense of a dynamic pattern and ritual, seeming both de-liberate and spontaneous. Perhaps the most rigor-ously composed of these pieces is “Ingredients 1,” a kind of abstract catalog of foodstuff structured, like a face-card, in mirror reverse, that’s my favor-ite, though I also cotton to “Pixel Plaza,” “Lost Sym-posium,” “Cloud Land” and “Walking Eyes.”

Truly, this graceful ex-hibition feels like a respite during which politicians and polls, war and worry and the price of prescrip-tion drugs are checked at the door.

Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum, “Passing Ships 1,” giclee with embossing (left) and “Ingredients 1,” giclee with embossing (right).

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Gardeners are always inding a new plant or two or three that tug at our hearts. We decide we have to have them before pondering where we will put them. The result is a hodgepodge of plants that are great by themselves but don’t play so well with the others in the bed.

Tom Pellett, a Memphis garden designer known for his prowess with peren-nials, once gave me some great advice that can be used by any gardener who tends to plant in groups of one instead of drifts of many as the design pros suggest.

His advice for turning my collection of diverse plants into a landscape is to limit lower colors in each bed — blue and yel-low blooms in one, pink and purple in an-other and white lowers OK in both. Plants with hot colored lowers go into a bed in full blazing sun.

I’m sure this plan would improve my landscape immensely, but I never got around to digging up all of my plants to rearrange them. I wish I had the energy to take my garden from “never quite there” to done. I realize, of course, that gardens are never truly inished, but many get much closer to the end zone than mine.

Andy Pulte, a horticulturist in the plant sciences department at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, also had some rec-ommendations for simplifying but not oversimplifying garden designs during his presentation at Summer Celebration, an expo for ornamental plants held recently at the UT gardens in Jackson, Tennessee.

His inspiration comes from the late Brit-ish garden writer Adrian Bloom and his book, “Bloom’s Best Perennials and Grass-es: Expert Plant Choices and Dramatic Combinations for Year-Round Gardens.”

The aptly named Bloom and Pulte ad-vise editing your palette to 12 super-reli-able plants that you love and then inding out everything you can about their habits and needs.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? Just pick a doz-en diferent kinds of plants and run with them. I can do it, and so can you.

Then Pulte went on to suggest a list of overachieving plants he likes to use for their beauty, toughness and multi-season

interest: ■ He’s so fond of Rozanne, a hardy

geranium with violet-purple lowers, he planted a 100-foot-long “river” of them in

a new garden at UT-Knox-ville where he works.

They bloom for months if given afternoon shade and an occasional haircut when lowers lag.

■ Moonbean coreopsis is a popular choice for its long-blooming lemon-yellow lowers and its needlelike foliage that gives it an airy

texture. ■ Little Lime, the diminutive progeny of

Limelight, is a sun-loving hydrangea with panicle lowers that start out lime color and then turn pink in the fall. I’m proud to report I actually “massed” three of these in my garden.

■ Purple conelowers and Goldstrum rudbeckia have been a classic combo in the Mid-South for years. A new rudbeckia, Little Goldstar, ofers improvements like its compact size and more reined, less prairie-like looks. It is also less susceptible to leaf spot diseases.

■ Pulte notes that many of the new echi-nacea varieties with dramatic yellow and orange lowers including some pompons are not as winter-hardy as the old reliable types.

But the newest kid on the block with a fun name, Echibeckia, exhibits the winter hardiness of echinacea with the looks of rudbeckia.

Yellow Summerina echibeckia has large lowers with orange petals and a rusty-or-ange “halo” around the dark brown cone. Look for these next year.

■ Because he believes every garden should have a great backdrop, Pulte rec-ommends a new version of the common Eastern cedars that naturalize in open spaces in 37 states.

It’s Taylor, a columnar evergreen tree that grows as tall as 30 feet but remains just a little over 3 feet in width. Similarly shaped and hardy is the shorter Degroot spires, a thuja or arborvitae that reaches 20 feet in height and 4 to 5 feet in width.

■ Other plants Pulte puts in his dozen picks are Peek-a-Blue Russian sage, a more compact version of this drought-tolerant

plant that grows 12 to 36 inches tall and 24 to 36 inches wide and doesn’t lop over.

■ The new lavender, Phenomenal, is the best variety for hot humid climates. Orna-mental grasses such as pink mulhy grass and Morning Light, a variegated miscan-thus, bring movement to the garden as they sway in the wind and glow in the sunlight.

■ Mattie Mae Smith, a sweet bay mag-

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The West Tennessee Iris Society will host its 30th annual iris rhizome sale on Aug. 15, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Pick-ering Center, 7771 Poplar Pike.

More than 175 named tall bearded varieties will be on sale to the general public. A small selection of other iris varieties and inexpensive unnamed tall bearded rhizome collec-tions also will be for sale.

Plan to come early to view the best selection, as many varieties and colors were sold out before clos-ing time last year.

Club members will be on hand to answer all your questions about grow-ing the Tennessee’s state

lower.Proceeds from the sale

are used to maintain the West Tennessee Iris So-ciety Garden, located at the corner of Poplar Pike and West Street. This ed-ucational garden is well known for its beautiful display of newly-intro-duced tall bearded irises, as well as other varieties. The WTIS also holds a horticultural show each year at the end of April, which is also open to the public.

“The irises we’re sell-ing have performed well locally and sell for a frac-tion of catalog prices,” said Chuck Winters, presi-dent of the WTIS. “Irises are one of the easiest pe-rennials to grow in the Mid-South and require no

special spraying or fertil-izing. They are not fussy about soil type and thrive on neglect, provided they get 5-6 hours of sunlight per day. They make ex-cellent companion plants for dafodils, daylilies and other perennials since they do not require extra watering in this climate.”

“We appreciate the sup-port of the community for our annual sale, since it permits us to continue to purchase, plant and display new varieties and maintain the display gar-den for the citizens’ enjoy-ment, which we have done for more than 30 years.”

More information about the display garden, sale, show, club member-ship and activities can be found at wtis-iris.com.

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Collierville Reads 2015 invites residents to its kick-of event, “Striving for the American Dream,” which features two-time Olym-pic track and ield medal-ist Rochelle Stevens, Aug. 15 at 2 p.m. at the Morton Museum in Collierville. A native Memphian, Ste-vens will tell her remark-able story, display her gold medal and be available for questions and pictures.

In addition, Collierville Reads 2015 will introduce its choice for its third community-wide reading program. “Spare Parts” by Joshua Davis is the true story of “four undocu-mented teenagers, one ugly robot and the battle for the American dream.” It celebrates grit, ingenu-ity, teamwork and inspired

teaching. Davis, a writer for Wired magazine, bal-ances the realities of the personal lives of four un-derprivileged Phoenix teens with the technical details of their quest for a national underwater robotics championship. Theirs is a classic under-dog story.

The Collierville Reads 2015 program is sponsored by Collierville Literacy Council, a nonproit orga-nization that helps adults achieve their basic litera-cy, GED, or English-as-a-Learned-Language goals.

The community-wide reading program aims to encourage reading for pleasure across age lines and to inspire a sense of community. Collierville Schools’ students and teachers also will par-ticipate by reading and by

showcasing the STEM pro-gram. The junior reading selection is “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. Students and their families are en-couraged to read both of these inspiring and true stories. Upcoming events and contests in September and November will high-light STEM, robotics, art and recycling.

The Aug. 15 event with Rochelle Stevens is free to attend. The Morton Museum is located at 196 N. Main. Books will be of-fered for sale at the event and the irst 50 people to purchase a book at the event will receive a $5 dis-count. Refreshments will be served.

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Mississippi RiverKings head coach Derek Land-messer and head athletic trainer Rick Hanlon vis-ited the sports summer camp at Germantown United Methodist July 23 as part of the RiverKings “Sticks are for Kids” pro-gram.

“This is a great pro-gram that the RiverKings have,” said camp director Patrick Peavy. “Person-ally I love hockey and this program is a great way to teach the game to the kids

who haven’t played before and don’t have knowledge about hockey.”

Landmesser taught kids how to properly hold a hockey stick, how to pass and shoot, how to wear goalie equipment and the basic rules and regulations in hockey. After the dem-onstration, the kids were split up into groups by age and had a chance to play a game. For many of the kids, it was the irst time playing hockey.

“Coach Landmesser is really the face of hockey in the Mid-South,” Peavy

said. “The fact that he comes to our camp is amazing. A lot of the kids haven’t played hockey be-fore, so this is a great op-portunity to learn about the game.”

Mississippi RiverKings mascot RiverThing also was in attendance to hang out and take pictures with the kids. After the game, kids were given noisemak-ers, bookmarks and Face Of Field Trip booklets. The RiverKings will host two Face Of Field Trips this upcoming season on Dec. 8 and Jan. 26.

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Campers at Germantown United Methodist Church learned the basics of hockey when Mississippi RiveKings head coach Derek Landmesser and head athletic trainer Rick Hanlon stopped by the summer camp.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You easily will ind answers to an issue that demands creativity. A loved one might be very receptive to your ideas at this time. Be impulsive, brainstorm, and as a result, you’ll be delighted by the outcome.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Don’t overcommit. You need to be in touch with your feelings, as someone you meet today could be a little of. Be ready to follow through on a key matter that involves travel.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Zero in on a long-de-sired goal. Assess how you feel about this desire, as it will be helpful to pursue it. Be aware of what is being ofered by another person, and be grateful for this new opportunity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Note how much you are bringing in as well as what you are spending. An item that ap-peals to you might not be worth the cost. Avoid a tendency to go to extremes. Steer clear of a

power-hungry person. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

HHHHH Reach out to some-one at a distance. You might be taken aback by all the vitality that surges around you. You are likely to ind yourself in a situation that calls for more creativity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Deal with a friend directly and with caring. You could be overwhelmed by a choice you seem to be facing right now. Know that luck is on your side; you have more options than you might realize.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH Others will make the irst move. You will feel much better when you relax. You could feel as if you are walking on eggshells. Take your time when dealing with a personal issue that needs your attention.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH You have a lot to get done, and quickly at that. You will see a situation far difer-ently from how your associates see it. Your style of communica-tion could evoke some powerful reactions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-

Dec. 21) HHHH No matter what you do, you’ll ind a rea-son to be impulsive. If you can detach, you will cease to be triggered, and you might ind a solution that works better. Use caution with inancial agree-ments.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH A proposition might be too intriguing for your own good. You will find the right solution. Brainstorm with someone who doesn’t hesitate to question your thinking. You could change your mind about a decision.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Be more upbeat about the possibilities being ofered. Someone will be com-ing from a heartfelt perspective. You might want to follow his or her lead. Stay on top of a per-sonal matter.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You have a way of being very dramatic in your daily life. You could draw some strong responses that might not be as positive as usual. Be aware that you will need to hear from the other parties involved.

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Dear Miss Manners: My parents are taking my husband and me on an is-land vacation with them this summer. We haven’t always had the best rela-tionship, although things have been going well for some time now.

Could you provide some tips on how to vacation with parents and/or in-laws, what to remember and what to avoid, that might help me (and oth-ers) to contribute to the creation of a memorable experience for all?

Gentle Reader: The an-swer to your question is: relentless good manners. That would bar any com-plaints, whether about the conditions of the trip or the history of the relationship, in favor of showing appre-ciation of this opportunity.

Oh, and don’t talk politics.That may be counter-

intuitive in an age that considers rudeness more relaxing and therefore more appropriate to a va-cation. It might also help to preserve some time for separate activities.

Dear Miss Manners: Is there a polite way to get away from boring people?

Gentle Reader: There are many, but application — and efectiveness — de-pends on context.

The person at a cock-tail party bufet can be es-caped with a simple, “Ex-cuse me.” The person on your left at a dinner party can — after a decent inter-val — be dismissed with the excuse of attending to the person on your right. (If the right-hand person is equally dull, you may have to wait for dessert.)

For spouses and other relatives, Miss Manners cautions that lasting so-

lutions lie outside the boundaries of etiquette.

Dear Miss Manners: How should I respond when a supervisor at work apolo-gizes for being cranky?

It is nice that they apol-ogized because they were cranky. However, I some-how feel that acknowl-edging that they were cranky could be an insult to them, and so simply say-ing “thank you” might not work toward my career goals.

Gentle Reader: Illogical as such behavior would be on the part of your su-pervisor, Miss Manners recognizes that you may be right. The trick is to downplay the impact of the behavior without de-nying its existence: “That’s kind of you to apologize, but please, don’t worry about it.”

Send your queries to Miss Manners

at [email protected].

MISS MANNERS

Family vacation requires good manners

Cryptoquip

Sudoku

For the kids

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 number only once.

SOLUTIONS: See BELOW for solutions to these puzzles

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Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Arrange in steps 8 Nova — (Halifax

native) 15 Suspect’s excuse 20 Sailor lurer 21 Texas city near

El Paso 22 Tyke’s hauler 23 Totally dumb 24 With 41- and 60-

Across, question whose answer is hidden in this puzzle

26 Primatologist Fossey

27 Mister 29 Ending for Nepal 30 Dangerous

African fly 31 Baseball exec

Bud 33 Kind of navel 35 Gallivant 38 Drinking site 39 — Paulo 41 See 24-Across 45 Tanning lotion

spec 48 Kind of navel 50 Drooling hounds 51 — Stanley

Gardner 53 Grassland 54 Former Saturn

SUV 56 Rolaids, e.g. 60 See 24-Across 65 Gossipy Barrett 66 Low opera voices 67 Debt slip

68 Trompe — (visual illusion)

71 The Andes, e.g.: Abbr.

72 Flamboyant flamenco entertainer

73 Armada ship 75 Heat’s city 77 Resistance

unit 78 Not active 80 Oerter and

Unser 81 Lung-related

prefix 83 First step of

progress 85 With 101- and

123-Across, how to find the hidden answer

89 Singer Flack 92 Camping gear

retailer 93 OR figures 94 Statistician

Silver 95 “The Barber

of Seville” composer

98 Desert plants 100 The, to Henri 101 See 85-Across 106 Turn — dime 108 Romania’s basic

currency unit 109 Makes mad 110 Spanish hero of

yore 112 Fur king John

Jacob —

116 Job follows it 119 With 127-Down,

China’s — -tung 120 — -tac-toe 122 “You bet,

amigo!” 123 See 85-Across 128 Detectives 130 Hollywood’s

Eastwood 131 — Obispo,

California 132 National dish of

Korea 133 Boundary

bushes 134 University life 135 Response

to news you already knew about

DOWN 1 Iris relatives, for

short 2 TV’s O’Donnell 3 Popular font 4 Comics

“menace” 5 Ring legend 6 Wallet bills 7 Kiddie-song

letters 8 180 degrees

from NNE 9 Joint beneficiary 10 Singer Ric of the

Cars 11 Carry along 12 Roth — 13 Upper limb 14 — -TURN

15 Dazzles 16 Pathetic 17 “It’s enough to

live on” 18 Potted tree 19 Buries 25 Actor Seagal 28 Indonesia’s basic

currency unit 32 Moo goo — pan 34 — kwon do 35 Sharp rival 36 “Fifth qtrs.” 37 Look on one’s

face 40 Sole male

offspring 42 Cain and — 43 Sitcom cousin 44 Old emperor 45 Vojvodina

native 46 Direct a sermon

at 47 Seemingly

spontaneous public assembly

49 Snare 52 “Frozen”

heroine 54 Cello’s ancestor 55 Howl in grief 57 Public 58 Private 59 The, to Hans 61 Actress Petty 62 Cow catcher 63 “You win” 64 Sine qua — 69 Paint applied

thickly 70 Ding-a- —

73 U. senior’s test 74 K-12 76 Time on end 77 Paddle’s kin 79 Slate clearer 82 Bullring cries 84 Road’s shoulder 86 Wet blanket 87 “Curses!” 88 Kin of Ltd. 90 Get rancid 91 Jeans go-with 96 Social finish? 97 Denials 98 Ozone-depleting

compound, for short

99 — bad way 101 1985 Chevy

Chase film 102 Fix, as a shoe

part 103 Beat at eBay 104 Federation 105 God, in the

Hebrew Bible 107 In itself 111 Spine parts 113 Church gift 114 Actor Milo 115 Step part 117 — Kong 118 Kin of -trix 119 Temperate 121 Ad award 124 She-bear, in

Spanish 125 Apple buy 126 Viroid stuff 127 See 119-Across 129 British record

co.

ACROSS 1 Drug charge? 6 Petition 10 War ____ 13 Govt. health org. 16 Conductor’s

resistance 17 Mark’s

replacement 18 Laugh syllable 19 Scenic drapery

fabric 21 Novella that

served as the basis for “Apocalypse Now”

24 Like dough after baking

25 Actress Suvari of “American Beauty”

26 Mercedes-Benz competitor

27 Panama part 28 Remove a piece

from? 29 “The Phantom

Menace” in the “Star Wars” series

31 Feminist of 1970s TV

32 “Silas Marner” girl

33 Chemical ending

34 ____ conten-dere

37 Hooey 39 Short lines at

the checkout? 40 To whom Dionne

Warwick asked “What’s it all about?” in a 1967 hit

43 Idol worshiper? 45 From scratch 47 Idol worship 50 ____ of

Abraham (place of comfort)

51 Asian capital 52 Canadian

N.H.L. team, on scoreboards

53 Lender’s security

55 Dearie 56 Loped 59 Long, in Lahaina 60 Damage to

a wall made in hanging a picture

62 Mouth, slangily

63 Comment that might start with 96-Across

64 Maui or Bali: Abbr.

65 Having more liabilities than assets

66 Secret spot 68 Catch 69 Milan’s

La ____ 71 Primitive kind of

camera 72 Fracking

opening 73 Atlanta sch. 74 Some written

rants 76 StubHub

purchase: Abbr.

79 Like fine wine 81 It may be filled

in with a No. 2 pencil

82 Postpone 83 Paris’s ____-

Coeur 85 Batting

positions 87 “Aargh!” 89 Drinking

songs? 91 Go after

following a hung jury, say

92 “Casablanca” escape-route city

93 50 or more people?

95 Tour grp. since 1950

96 “Incidentally,” in a text

97 Button material 99 Biblical spy 101 “Friday the

13th” movies, e.g.

106 Sign up to receive email alerts, say

107 Like 108 Tree spirit 110 Jordan’s

Queen ____ International Airport

111 Hollywood director Sam

112 Tightrope walker’s concern

115 Unlike wild horses

116 Multinational bank

117 Cry outside an airport

118 Glacial ridges 119 Ending with

walk or run 120 Idiot 121 River with

a “dreadful shore,” in Shakespeare

122 They line many ski runs

DOWN 1 Sound like a bird 2 Certain Arabian 3 Soar above the

sea, say 4 Fed, e.g.: Abbr. 5 Quaint sign

starter 6 Caution for

drivers on city streets

7 Party on a beach 8 Blows it

9 “Ready for takeoff!”

10 Pair of figures in Raphael’s “Sistine Madonna”

11 Remains 12 Rubber

stamps 13 Change

places 14 Avoidance

maneuver 15 Priests, e.g. 16 “Heavens!” 19 “You have a

point” 20 Tangle up 22 Greens ____ 23 What L.A. is

represented in twice

30 Baseball’s Buck 31 Place to set a

trap 35 Poet’s planet 36 Tax dodger’s

discovery

38 Madeline of “What’s Up, Doc?”

40 Put an end to 41 French play

that inspired an Italian opera

42 1987 Michael Douglas/Glenn Close blockbuster

44 Tire hazard 46 Palestinian

political group 48 ____ Fein

(Irish political group)

49 Savory dish with a crust

51 Toy poodles, e.g.

54 Nothing 56 Old Olds 57 Santa Claus

player in a 2003 comedy

58 “Clair de Lune” composer

61 “Dancing With the Stars” judge Goodman

62 Ogle 65 “But, soft! What

light through yonder window breaks?” e.g.

67 “Yeah, whatever you say”

70 Singer with the 1997 3x platinum single “How Do I Live”

75 Ski area in the Wasatch Mountains

76 Small, dirty, uncomfortable room

77 The middle of this puzzle’s grid, symbolically

78 Ship window 80 Game with rings 83 Nursery

purchases

84 Heart test, for short

86 Ivy League home

87 Certain angels 88 Great Plains

Indian 89 Mythical

monsters 90 Simple solution 94 Mimosa, for one 96 Undeserved

reputation 98 Woman of

Camelot 100 “The Lord of the

Rings” creature 102 Not keep up 103 Like Navy SEALs 104 Some contents

of a Masonic manual

105 “____ who?” 108 “Darn!” 109 Classic theater

name 113 Mork and Worf 114 Jackie’s Onassis

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 62 minutes.

8-2-15

In the Open Pairs at the ACBL’s Spring NABC, Shan Huang of Toronto pulled o� some highway robbery as today’s West. Against four spades, Huang led the jack of hearts, and declarer won with the king and led the jack of dia-monds: king, ace. He led a sec-ond diamond to his nine, and Huang won and exited with a heart to dummy’s ace.

Wanting to start the trumps from his hand, South ru�ed dummy’s low diamond and led a trump: five, king, deuce. He next threw a club on the ten of diamonds, and Huang ru�ed ... with the ACE of trumps. He got out with a club, and South took the A-K and ru�ed a club. He must have been stunned when Huang overru�ed with the ten. East’s queen also scored: down one.

If West ru�s the fourth di-amond with his ten, as most of us would, South will lead another trump when he gets back in, dropping the A-Q and making his game.

After the king of trumps won, perhaps South should have led another trump. Only 16 points were missing, and South might have judged that West had opened a light hand and East, for his raise to two hearts, had both black-suit queens and the queen of hearts.

South might have succeed-ed despite Huang’s excellent falsecard. If the ace of trumps were a true card, South had al-ready gone wrong by not lead-ing a second trump earlier. He was going down one since East’s remaining Q-10 would be worth two tricks. True, if South led a second trump, he might go down two, but his matchpoint score might not be much worse.

Dear Harriette: I am planning to take a trip at the end of the year to visit a friend I met when I was in college. It has been about three years since we have seen each other, because she lives in Asia. I have been saving my money and talking to her, and I’m very excited about taking this trip and visiting her. We were good friends in school, and we have remained friends ever since. When I tell my friends about my plans, they think I am crazy. They pester me about hanging out with them instead and going to the beach this summer or doing other things that I can’t a�ord if I am going to be able to make this trip. They also talk about me like I’m crazy for spending so much money to go see somebody who is not my girlfriend. I feel perfectly happy about my decision. She and I are friends, and I am excited to have a new experience and strengthen a great friendship. Do you think I am being naive?

— Headed East, Detroit

Answer: You sound like you have a level head even as you are looking to expand your horizons. Stick to your plan. Keep saving. Make sure that you stay in close touch with your friend in Asia. Find out about local customs and any expec-tations there may be of you when you arrive. Ask her how much money you will need in order to be comfortable during your stay. Be honest with her about the resources that you do have. Congratu-late yourself on making a decision for your own life even if it goes against the grain of your friends.

Would-be world traveler is discouraged by friends

HARRIETTECOLE

SENSE & SENSITIVITY

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Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You’ll discover a need for some solitude. Make plans accordingly, whether they involve going to the beach or o� to a spiri-tual retreat.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ Listen to news, and be more realistic about what you want. Your sense of hu-mor draws in others, as they enjoy your perspective.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ You’ll accomplish a lot, and quickly at that. You might want to plan a meet-ing or get-together with friends and loved ones.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★★ Your ability to change your direction is part of your flexible nature. You’re likely to detach and see a situation di�erently.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Someone you care about will make an overture in your direction. You might think that this person is sub-tly reeling you in.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Someone has a way of letting you know that your choices don’t really suit you. Open up to a more dynamic relationship than you have experienced.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ How you view their lives might be best kept to yourself. Remember that it is your opinion and no one else’s.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ You might not be able to see a situation dif-ferently, nor can you make the changes you want. You

have a strong feeling that a lot is about to transform.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Your intuition is right-on as far as a fam-ily member and a domestic

situation go. Deal with this person accordingly.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★★ Make calls in the morn-ing, and catch up on your friends’ news. You could be taken aback

by all the gossip.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.

18) ★★★★ You will need to listen more to what is being said. Your sense of humor emerges when having a con-versation with someone who is in a controlling mood.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★★ A friend might be involved in a situation where he or she would ap-preciate your support. Some of your ideas could help.

What the stars mean:

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

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you might be more sensitive and diplomatic, espe-cially with those close to you. It is possible that you will receive a pay raise or promotion. If you are single, you could meet someone this month who dazzles you. Oth-erwise, the person who walks into your life in the period that follows could be hard on you. If you are attached, treat your significant other as you would like to be treated. AQUARIUS is just as loyal as you are.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | No Escape

By Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen / Edited By Will Shortz

8-2-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE’S BEST MOVE? Hint: Win a queen, not Qxe2.

Solution: 1. Qe8ch! Kh7 2. b4! at-tacks and wins it.

D C G D M S K G D C G K H Q Z S C S Q I S M M Q G D S T M C G

M S Y D C G Q B S B M C G Z H I U T G M . U D V Y Y S D G

D C G Q U F G D M S F G G Y C G K D Y U K U M D V Y .

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Korea 133 Boundary












face 40 Sole male



at 47 Seemingly






compound, for short






co.














33 Chemical ending

34 ____ conten-dere











62 Mouth, slangily






camera 72 Fracking


rants 76 StubHub

purchase: Abbr.




Coeur 85 Batting


songs? 91 Go after




























stamps 13 Change

places 14 Avoidance






discovery






















purchases


86 Ivy League home


Indian 89 Mythical





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Amusement

SUDOKUPREMIER CROSSWORD

Puzzle solutions

WEEKENDPUZZLE

SOLUTIONS

This is the solution to the crossword puzzle in

Saturday’s editions.

This is thesolution to

the KingFeatures

crossword on

Page 2M.

This is thesolution to

The New York

Timescrossword

onPage 2M.

TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: SHE STORES HER ALCOHOL BOTTLES ON THE TOP SHELF OF THE CABINET. I SUPPOSE SHE LIKES TO KEEP HER SPIRITS UP.

ACROSS 1 Sets of cards 6 Taken —

(surprised) 11 German sub 12 Boston

airport 13 French

“thanks 14 Untethered 15 Tarragon or

thyme 17 “My word!” 18 Put out a

new edition 22 St. Louis

landmark 23 Shred 27 Baker’s

need 29 Plant life 30 Sawbuck

32 Cocoa servings

33 Estimated delivery times

35 Mass of gum 38 Italy’s shape 39 Similar 41 Raises 45 Laundry

problem 46 Mystical

deck 47 Grasps 48 Comes down

in flakes

DOWN 1 Rhythmic

sound 2 Lincoln

nickname

3 Neither follower

4 Short dog 5 Pigs’ pens 6 Like some

franks 7 Scary

shout 8 Wildly

excited 9 Job for

Sherlock 10 Patella’s

place

16 Deep groove

18 River vessel 19 Writer —

Stanley Gardner

20 Computer image

21 Spotted dog

24 One-sided victory

25 Spur on 26 Go by

28 Sandwiches with sauerkraut

31 Old roadster 34 Blockheads 35 Scrub 36 Singing

voice 37 Watch part 40 Youngster 42 To’s opposite 43 Highway

rescue 44 Ave. crossers

Sudoku

Dear Annie: Your answer to “Torn Son” was good, but not complete. He said he tries to help his father, who lost his job, but Dad spends money on alcohol and drugs.

By suggesting that “Son” pay Dad’s rent and utilities directly, he is still indirectly giving Dad money. Any money sup-plied for Dad’s care allows him to spend his own on drugs and alcohol.

Instead, when Dad gets food stamps, take him shopping for food. If he receives cash assistance, make sure he pays his rent and utilities the same day.

Go with him to the doc-tor and ask about rehab. Do not pay for anything until all of his money is used up. Then he won’t have any money to buy drugs.

We learned this lesson the hard way. My nephew would frequently claim he had no cash on him, so we’d buy his deodorant and shaving cream. When he said his food card was empty, we’d buy his groceries.

Little did we know, he had the money, but he wanted us to buy these necessities so he could use his own to pay for alcohol.

He drank himself to death the day after he got his monthly cash allow-ance. He was 29.

— Missing My Nephew

Dear Missing: How heartbreaking for your family. Since Dad was unemployed, we were not certain there was any money other than what the son was giving him. But you are right that ad-dicts will buy drugs and alcohol before they will pay their rent, and any cash they receive will go directly into their addic-tion.

It can be di�cult to say “no” when someone tells you they have no money for groceries or toothpaste, but you have pointed out the perils of assuming they are telling the truth.

Dear Annie: I felt compelled when I read the letter from “Feeling Annoyed,” who asked how to tell her friend that her gum chewing was annoying.

Many years ago, I carpooled with four other people. One day, one of the riders snapped at me, “Sally, would you PLEASE stop smacking your gum — it’s hurting my head-ache!” I never smacked my gum again. Sometimes the direct approach is the most e�ective. — Smack-in’ Sally No More

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

8/3/15

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 MATES IN 2Hint: First a quiet move.

Solution: 1. ... Nd7! followed by ... g6 mate!

Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Jumble Daily Bridge Club

Cy the Cynic says the secret to suc-cess is to make your mistakes when nobody is looking. I’d bet that in an average game, most mistakes pass by unnoticed.

At today’s slam, South took dummy’s ace of spades and cashed the A-K of trumps hopefully. When East-West played low, South came to his ace of clubs and conceded a trump to East. If East had led a high spade next, South could have survived with a complex “double squeeze.” But East shifted to the jack of diamonds, and South had to fail.

NORMAL Few players would call South’s taking

the A-K of trumps a mistake — that play looked natural and normal — but South loses nothing by ru�ng a spade at Trick Two, then leading to a high trump and ru�ng a spade.

South next takes dummy’s second high trump. He ru�s another spade and cashes the A-K of clubs, A-K of dia-monds and queen of clubs, as East must

follow suit. South then leads dummy’s last club at the 12th trick, and what-ever East does, South scores his jack of trumps.

Questions and comments: Email Stewart at [email protected]

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You could feel out of sorts until later today. You would be well-advised to play it low-key. Swap ideas, but be sure not to push anyone too hard.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)★★★★★ Zero in on an important matter. You might not be able to convince a key per-son of the rightness of your ideas just yet, but trust that you will, given some time.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ Assume responsibility when some-one else refuses to. An element of fatigue runs through your day. You might not be able to engage others in a conversation as you would like to.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)★★★★ Your mind pushes past certain boundaries, and you’ll be able to detach. As a result, you will see matters in a new light. Be willing to let go of self-imposed restrictions.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)★★★★ You will be part of a one-on-one conversation. A family member might be hesitant to get feedback. Open the door to a meeting of the minds.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)★★★★ No matter what you do, you need to listen to your instincts. Follow through on a personal matter that could a�ect you finan-cially. An associate might push you hard. Understand your limits.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)★★★ Tap into your enthusiasm and high energy. Understand that someone could be jealous. Let it go; don’t even consider pursu-ing a conversation. This person might not be in tune with his or her feelings.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★★★ Your mind keeps coming up with unusual and creative ideas. With the help of a trusted friend, decipher what will succeed. Focus on an important relationship.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ You could be in a position where you will need to deal with stress on a personal level. You might come to the conclusion that there is no other solution than just letting it go.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★★★ You have a way of intuitively know-ing what to do next. You could feel as though someone doesn’t appreciate or understand the seriousness of a personal matter.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)★★★★ Deal with a money matter without causing yourself a problem. A boss could be extremely di�cult, as he or she might want to have a situation handled a certain way.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ Today, you’ll have an edge over oth-ers. How you see a situation could change radically because of a conversation and an interaction. Be aware of your influence, but don’t run someone over just to get your way.

Horoscope

This year you become much more verbal, but others often don’t get the gist of what you’re saying. Learn to clarify your ideas in terms that suit the person to whom you are speak-ing. You will relate best on a one-on-one level. Travel, education and/or a foreigner could play a significant role in your year. If you are single, you are likely to attract someone from a very different background from yours. If you are attached, you might be sur-prised by how much the relationship flourishes. PISCES loves romance as much as you do.

What the stars Mean

★★★★★Dynamic★★★★

Positive★★★

Average★★

So-so★

Difficult

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY


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Reader who lost family to addiction o�ers advice

By Jacqueline Bigar King Features Syndicate

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial before a federal court in Richmond, Virginia, charged with treason. (He was acquitted less than a month later.)In 1863, the first thoroughbred horse races took place at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.In 1914, Germany declared war on France at the onset of World War I.In 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.In 1943, Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice. (Patton was later ordered by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to apologize for this and a second, similar episode.)

In 1949, the National Basketball Association was formed as a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.

In 1958, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.

In 1966, comedian Lenny Bruce, 40, was found dead in his Los Angeles home.

In 1972, the U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. (The U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)

In 1981, U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, despite a warning from President Ronald Reagan they would be fired, which they were.

In 1993, the Senate voted 96-3 to confirm U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

TODAY IN HISTORYToday is Monday, August 3, the 215th day of 2015. There are 150 days left in the year.

MY ANSWER

Reach out to others who might be lonely

Q: I’m an old man now, and for me the worst part of getting old has been loneli-ness. My wife has passed away, none of our children live nearby, and when I go to church, almost no one talks to me. I don’t have a question, but maybe you can encourage people to pay more attention to those who are older.

— M.R.

A: Thank you for your letter, and I certainly can sympathize with your con-cerns. As friends or loved ones pass away and our health limits our contact with others, it’s easy to feel isolated and lonely. We even may be tempted to say with the psalmist, “No one is concerned for me.... no one cares for my life” (Psalm 142:4).

But it doesn’t need to be this way! For one thing, we can reach out to others and make new friends. In your letter you men-tion that almost no one speaks to you at

church, but what’s to prevent you from taking the initiative and speaking to them? Some may be just as lonely as you, and even a few words of friendship will encourage them and cheer their day. Ask God to make you a blessing to others.

But the most important thing I can tell you is that we are never alone when we know Christ. God loves you just as much now as he did 50 years ago, and he is with you every moment of the day. God’s prom-ise is true: “Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you” (Isaiah 46:4).

Make prayer and the promises of God’s Word part of your life every day. Above all, never forget that someday soon you’ll never be lonely again, for you will be with Christ in heaven forever.

By Billy GrahamTribune Content Agency

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

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The ifth annual Furry Affair at Bonne Terre is Saturday, from 7-10 p.m., at Bonne Terre Country Inn & Cafe, 4715 Church Road W. Culinary delights, entertainment by Three Flights Up, silent auction and more. Beneits DeSoto Animal Rescue Society. Tickets are $30/person, $55/couple. Two drink tickets included. Cash bar with wine and beer avail-able. Visit desotoanimal-rescue.org or call 662-342-9448.

The Memphis Pet Expo will be Aug. 15, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Agricen-ter International, 7777 Walnut Grove. Dozens of rescue groups and a mega-adoption event, discounted vaccinations, microchip-ping and heartworm and lea preventatives, free nail trims and much more. Free admission. Visit memphis-petexpo.com.

The 2015 Paw Prints Party at the Racquet Club of Memphis, 5111 Sanderlin Ave., will be Aug. 22, from 5:30-11 p.m. This event beneits the Humane Soci-ety of Memphis & Shelby County. Includes seated dinner, open bar, live music and dancing with “Front & Beale,” silent and live auctions and wine pull. If interested in donat-ing an item for the auction or wine for the wine pull,

contact Katie Pemberton at 901-488-9033 or [email protected].

The YMCA at Schilling Farms will host a Doggie Pool Pawty beneiting the Collierville Animal Shel-ter Sept. 12, from 2-4 p.m.

Come to Shelby Farms on Sundays, from 3-4 p.m., for the K9 Academy — Agil-ity for Fun. Ron Lewis with K9 Kraze Agility + Rescue introduces a course open to all levels of obedience, ofering a variety of jumps, obstacles, weave poles

and stations. Course is for people and dog-friendly dogs. Visit shelbyfarms.org/dogs or contact Coral O’Connor at [email protected] or 901-222-7265.

Every Tuesday night, members of Memphis Pets Alive! meet from 5:30-7 p.m. at Memphis Animal Ser-vices, 2350 Appling City Cove, to take pictures of current animals in hopes of getting more exposure for adoptable pets. Visit memphispetsalive.org or call 901-636-1416.

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Name: Butter Age: 10 weeksBreed: TabbyDescription: Butter loves to snuggle.

Germantown Animal Shelter is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

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SNAPSHOTS

Shoemaker Financial in Germantown recently celebrated the birthdays of several people at the irm with a luncheon at the Crescent Club. the luncheon was hosted by Jim Shoemaker, president. Celebrating the big day is monty Gordo (left), latrice mclin, emily Knack, Candida Fuller, Carolyn tomlinson, Katie Brashear, tommy armstrong and terry rogers.

moriah house, a ministry of the memphis Union mission, represented by ariyana rimson (left), accepted a fundraiser check from Vicki mclean, president of new neighbors of Greater memphis area.

Frank lamanna (left), Steve reynolds, howard Giin, tom wilson, Scott hamblen, erin Fristick, melba Fristick, roberta hamblen, marvin Schaefer, Vincent morelli and nathan hamblen are helping set up the annual Germantown Festival. this year’s event will be Sept. 12-13.

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