may 15 germantown weekly

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The Tennessee Girls Lacrosse Association state championship game last Saturday at Hutchison came down to a matchup of two local teams — Hutchison, the 3-time defending state champ and upstart Houston. The Sting struggled early, but pulled away for a 17-2 victory and their fourth straight state title.

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Two local seniors are among the 141 students na-tionally who will be honored as 2014 U.S. Presidential Scholars.

Collierville High’s Kevin Sun and Mem-phis Univer-sity School’s William Lamb of Memphis are among four scholars in Tennessee. The other state winners are Joyce B. Kang of Brentwood High near Nashville and Thomas L . West of Mc-Callie School in Chattanoo-ga.

The stu-dents, select-ed from 3,900 c a n d i d a t e s among this year’s 3 million graduates, will receive their Presidential Scholar Medal-lions during a June 22 cer-emony in Washington.

When Sun got word that he had won, he double-checked online to make sure it wasn’t a mistake. The son of Chao Sun and Ying Zhang, both IT program developers, plans to attend Princeton University and major in electrical engi-neering.

Sun and Lamb each scored a perfect 5 on their Advanced Placement exams. Sun is a co-valedictorian of his class, with a 4.65 grade-point aver-age. Lamb has a 5.38 GPA.

ACHIEVEMENTS

MUS, C’ville seniors honoredTwo area seniors earn

Presidential Scholars

Kevin Sun

William Lamb

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There have been many words used to describe the Hutchison girls lacrosse team over the last several seasons. But the one that its best would be “dynasty.”

The host Sting won its fourth consecutive Tennes-see Girls Lacrosse Association state championship in impressive fashion Saturday, overcoming a slow start be-fore pulling away for a 17-2 victory over Houston.

The victory caps a 22-0 season for Hutchison, which has won 42

straight games overall.“It’s bittersweet,” said Stanford-bound senior Sandy

Smith, who had three goals Saturday. “We’ve worked really hard to make this the best season. And we’re all really good friends, on an of the ield.”

Added Loring Gearhardt, a Johns Hopkins signee who ended her prep career with a four-goal afternoon,

“From Day 1 of our freshman year, we’ve worked so hard and now it’s inally complete. I’m just so excited right now.”

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After her mother died two years ago, Hannah Kirkland gradually found hope and healing with other kids her age and with counselors at Camp Good Grief.

She still misses her mom, Margaret Kirkland, and still writes her letters. And now, Hannah, 13, and others are paying it for-ward to others who are facing similar losses.

The former Camp Good Grief campers spent a re-cent Saturday planting or-namental grass, begonias and ivy for patients at Bap-

tist Trinity Hospice House and for the Kemmons Wil-son Family Center for Good Grief. The secluded adjoin-ing buildings are tucked behind Baptist Collierville Hospital, away from the traic along Poplar.

By planting lowers for hospice patients and their families or by being a ju-nior counselor at the next Camp Good Grief, Hannah said, “It helps us by helping them.”

About 18 teenagers from Bartlett, Collierville, East Memphis, Germantown and Whitehaven are a part of a newly organized group called 1520.

Its name comes from the Poplar Avenue address in

Collierville where they have all spent considerable time dealing with their grief. The center ofers free grief counseling to any adult or child who has lost a close family member.

Olive Vaughn, 79, of Marked Tree, Arkansas, watched from her hus-

band’s hospice room as the teenagers carefully turned the soil in the lower beds. Her husband, Eugene Vaughn, 81, is bedridden and has inoperable pan-creatic cancer.

It touched her heart to

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Madison Ginnio (center) and other kids who attended Camp Good Grief clean out garden beds at the Kemmons Wilson Fam-ily Center for Good Grief and the Baptist Trinity Hospice House in Collierville.

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Hutchison players hoist the state lacrosse championship tro-phy for the fourth consecutive year after last Saturday’s win.

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Two schools get new principals

Collierville school oi-cials recently announced new principals to head Collierville High and Col-lierville Elementary.

Chip Blanchard, who has worked for the past year as the Collierville Middle School principal, will be moving up to take over at Collierville High after Russell Dyer left to become the Collierville School District’s human resources director.

Melissa McConnell has been selected to head Collierville Elementary, whose previous principal, Louise Claney, is now the director of curriculum and accountability.

Blanchard, 35, and Mc-Connell, 39, have worked their way up in the ranks within the Shelby County Schools system. Both will start their new jobs at the end of this school year.

Library expansion, courier service OK’d

Collierville has plans for a library expansion, renew-ing the private contract and adding extra work for cou-riers to deliver books and materials to teachers at the eight municipal schools in Collierville.

The Collierville Board of Mayor and Aldermen unanimously approved a $75,000 contract Monday night with Haizlip Studio and up to $3,000 in ex-penses.

Friends of the Col-lierville Burch Library pledged $25,000 toward the design contract with the town picking up the remaining $50,000 cost.

Town oicials want Hai-zlip Studio to seek commu-nity input and analyze the library’s needs and lay the groundwork for a $4 mil-lion expansion.

Since Collierville Burch Library opened in March 2001, the town’s population has jumped by 47 percent.

Collierville library di-rector Deanna Britton said teachers are excited: “It’s not for their person-al reading,” she stressed. “It’s to support them in their classrooms.”

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Dana Schillawski helps her mother, Joyce Aliperti, 85, at Page Robbins Adult Day Care Services in Collierville. Schil-lawski has been the primary caregiver for her mother since she developed signs of dementia 3½ years ago. She takes her mother to Page Robbins four days a week, which eases her own stress.


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Dana Schillawski of German-town felt guilty about putting her mother in an adult day care center for those with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

“It was like sending a child of to day care,” she said. “Are you ready to let go?”

But she quickly found on the two days her mother, Joyce Ali-perti, was at Page Robbins Adult Day Services in Collierville, that Aliperti enjoyed making new friends.

And over time Schillawski’s own health improved when she didn’t feel as much stress from being a round-the-clock caregiver.

For the past 18 months, Aliper-ti has been going to the center four days a week from about 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “If we didn’t have Page Robbins, we would have probably put my mother in a nursing home. It’s been a god-send,” said Schillawski, 51, who worked in sales for 20 years be-fore becoming a full-time care-giver 3½ years ago to her mother and her two teenage stepsons.

A recent study published online in the American Journal of Geri-atric Psychiatry found that family caregivers show an increase in the beneicial stress hormone DHEA-S on days when they use an adult day care service for their relatives with dementia.

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the Univer-sity of Texas at Austin found that DHEA-S is associated with bet-ter long-term health.

“This is one of the irst stud-ies to show that DHEA-S can be modiied by an intervention, which, in our case, was the use of an adult day care service,” said Steven Zarit, professor of human development and fam-ily studies at Penn State.

“We know that caregivers are at increased risk of illness, be-cause of the long hours of care they provide and the high lev-els of stress,” Zarit explained. “These indings suggest that use of adult day care services may protect caregivers against the harmful efects of stress associated with giving care to someone with dementia.”

DHEA-S he said, “helps calm the stress response down, pre-

vents tissue damage, and leads to a positive mood. In chronic stress situations, DHEA-S is de-pleted and cannot do this pro-tective job.” Schillawski, who didn’t participate in the study, said the time away from her mother “gives me a break dur-ing the day. It deinitely helps. I’m not worried about her.”

Because her mother has chronic bronchitis, she said, “If she starts coughing, her cough-ing can turn into choking. That irst and second week (of her be-ing at Page Robbins), I was con-stantly listening for her cough even though she wasn’t here.”

Schillawski also found the constant stress was jeopardizing her own health: “My whole body ached. I felt like I had the lu.”

When her doctor ran blood tests on her hormones, he told her, “I can’t believe you can walk or even function.”

Schillawski had a dormant thyroid disorder that she had kept at bay by eating healthy and exercising.

Herbie Krisle, executive di-rector of Page Robbins is not surprised by the study’s results.

“We have long known that caregivers beneit from their loved ones attending an adult day service program,” he said.

Care of caregiverAdult day services aid patients, families

see the care the teens put in their work. “I thought about what wonderful par-ents that they must have. I wanted to bow to the par-ents,” Olive Vaughn said.

Until a reporter told her, she didn’t know that the teens had sufered their own losses with the death of a parent or sibling.

“I just love those kids,” she said. “Their actions show that they care. I

would love to know each one of them.”

Hannah, a seventh-grader at White Station Middle School, attended Camp Good Grief last fall. During the three-day camp, she talked openly about her feelings with others experiencing the same loss she had. “I can’t usually do that with my friends,” she said.

While wanting to main-tain the camp contacts she made, she can’t wait to at-tend the next Camp Good Grief as a junior counselor.

“We know what it’s like to lose someone at a younger age,” she ex-plained. “I think it’s cool that we’re going to be help-ing younger kids who have lost their parents. It helps us to help them.”

Angela Hamblen, the center’s director, is over-seeing the new “1520” group in which members must be at least 13, have at-tended Camp Good Grief in the past and are in a good place with their own grief and making smart choices in their lives.

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Smith, Gearhardt, Chloe Duke (Johns Hopkins), Lauren Atkins, Parker Te-net, Shelton Wittenberg and Carolyn Kelley formed a senior class that went 83-3 over their four years.

“I’m excited, but I’m sad,” said Sting coach Sam Ziegler. “These seniors have contributed so much and I’m already thinking about next year and how much we’re going to miss them.”

But while the seniors played huge roles in Hutchison’s run to the ti-tle, the Sting’s prodigious underclass talent was on display as well.

Eighth-grader Elizabeth Farnsworth scored four goals and assisted on two, while freshman Griffin Gearhardt had three goals.

Sophomore Jennie Da-vis had an excellent game in goal, especially early on when Hutchison was hav-ing trouble putting shots on target.

“Wasn’t she amazing?,” said Loring Gearhardt of Davis. “We’re lucky to have her for the next two years.”

Hutchison was lead-ing only 1-0 deep into the irst half. But they closed with ive goals in the last six minutes to lead 6-0 at halftime and continued to pour it on after the break. After their slow start, the Sting made 16 of its last 23 shots.

“It think it was more what we weren’t doing,” said Ziegler. “We weren’t catching or connecting but once we started getting downield, the diference was night and day.”

Houston, which ends the year 17-6, didn’t score until Abigail Fuller got one with 10:40 left in the game. Olivia Flynn scored late and goaltender Lauren Lazure made several key stops to give Houston its chances in the irst half.

“My gosh, I’m just so proud of the way we pulled together,” said Houston coach Paige Mi-chael, whose team battled through a variety of in-jury problems to reach that championship game for the irst time in school history.

“When it was still 1-0 (in the irst half) I thought if we could have gotten a goal it would have given us a boost.”

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“I have worked with many brilliant students in my career, but Kevin stands out as one of the most accomplished and humble,” said Carolyn Co-mella, Collierville High di-rector of college advising.

Lamb, who scored a per-fect 36 on his ACT exams, plans to attend Pomona College in California, where he will major in math, science and robot-ics.

“To be recognized by

our government is a hum-bling experience for a high school student,” Lamb said.

Brian K. Smith, di-rector of MUS college counseling, noted Lamb’s tenacity and accomplish-ments: “Having battled a serious heart condition throughout most of his high school career, Wil-liam remained on top of his academic work de-spite what others might consider insurmountable circumstances.”

“We’re excited and hap-py,” said Lamb’s mother, Micki Lamb, a former

teacher. During the past four

years when her son would miss weeks of school, she said, “There were times when he’d have eight hours of homework at night to make up his work.”

Heart surgery was the solution to his ordeal, but the operation convinced the student — whose fa-ther, John Lamb, is a phar-macist — that he didn’t want to be a doctor.

“Getting stuck over 70 times with needles con-vinced me medicine is probably out,” he joked.

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Germantown Police reports

MAY 5

■ oicers initiated a traic stop and arrested an adult male found to be in possession of marijuana at poplar and poplar estates at 3:57 p. m. oicers arrested a juvenile male for ighting and found him in possession of marijuana in the 1600 block of hearty oaks at 6:57 p.m.

■ Three vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown road and wolf river Boulevard at 7:15 a.m.

MAY 6

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at winchester and Forest hill irene at 6:07 a.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at kimbrough and poplar at 8:20 a.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries in the 7600 block of west Farmington at 12:30 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at kirby and Bauxhall at 2:51 p.m.

MAY 7

■ Someone forced entry through a window on the front door and took antiques in the 7600 block of poplar pike at 9:42 a.m.

■ Victim reported that

someone took her makeup bag containing cash in the 7600 block of poplar pike at 11 a.m.

■ Someone took cash and a cellphone in the 2100 block of S. Germantown road at 3:02 p.m.

■ Victim was pushed to the ground and her purse, luggage and their contents were taken in the 9100 block of winchester road at 9:39 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries in the 2000 block of west Street at 7:50 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at wolf river Drive and wolf river Circle at 10:53 p.m.

MAY 8

■ Someone entered a home under construction and cut pipes causing the home to lood, damaging the interior in the 2200 block of Turpin’s Glen at 11 a.m.

■ Victim reported that her neighbor is following and harassing her in the 6500 block of S. poplar woods Circle at 7:52 p.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at kimbrough and wolf river Boulevard at 11:38 a.m.

■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at west Farmington Boulevard at 3:35 p.m.

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The County Commission on Monday approved a capital spending plan for Shelby County Schools that carved out an additional $4.8 million for schools that will soon be part of the new mu-nicipal districts.

By a vote of 8-3, the commission ap-proved a proposal from Commissioner Mike Ritz in which a total of $52.2 mil-lion will be spent on capital requests out of the current iscal year budget. That’s $47.4 million for current and future SCS

schools — almost all that the system asked for in its original $51.6 million request.

Ritz, Steve Basar, Walter Bailey, Terry Roland, Henri Brooks, Melvin Burgess, Mark Billingsley and Chris Thomas voted for the plan.

Justin Ford, James Harvey and Sid-ney Chism voted against it. Heidi Sha-fer abstained and Steve Mulroy was not present.

Ritz’s proposal includes 10 projects in all of the future suburban districts except for Millington, where a roof replacement for Millington High was already planned.

The vote marked an end to a bumpy path for SCS’ capital-improvement re-quests. SCS had originally sought $51.6 million, but Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell’s administration proposed fund-ing $13.9 million, saying the rest of the requests should be evaluated further and funded based on a study of priorities.

SCS Supt. Dorsey Hopson praised the “spirit of collaboration” between school and municipal interests and the commission, but said there was much work to go.

“We have so many needs — even with the vote today, we still have so many more,” he said.

COUNTY COMMISSION

Schools to split $52.2M for upgradesADDED PROJECTS

Ten projects for schools that will soon be part of municipal districts were given funding Monday by the County Commission:

■ rivercrest elementary, Bartlett, re-rooing, $990,000

■ arlington elementary, hVaC replacement, $300,000

■ arlington elementary, cafeteria and kitchen re-rooing, $40,000

■ arlington elementary, hVaC controls, $88,000 ■ arlington high, painting, $342,000 ■ arlington high, gym re-rooing, $80,000 ■ Collierville high, re-rerooing, $1 million ■ Farmington elementary, Germantown, window

replacement, $975,000 ■ lakeland elementary, re-rooing, $750,000 ■ lakeland elementary, replace 83 hVaC units,

$240,000Note: a $1.1 million roof for Millington high was

already included in the Shelby County Schools’ earlier funding request.

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With the beat of Calyp-so music playing, students at Collierville Elementary traipsed past crisscrossed oars, an old trunk and a short gangplank before boarding a “cruise ship” on May 5 inside the school’s gym for a daylong trip to Memphis in May’s hon-ored country, Panama.

Since August, teach-ers and a band of 35 PTA volunteers with a budget of $2,000 planned how to make the skinny Central American country come alive for 850 students from kindergarten through fifth grade.

Like other schools throughout Shelby Coun-ty, Collierville Elementary has celebrated each of the honored MIM countries for at least 30 years.

With their passports stamped at each station, students visited a rain for-est with three live goldfish swimming in a tub, sailed toy boats down a simpli-fied working model of a canal, sampled plantain chips and coconut rice, made music with maracas, claves, guiros or drums, and designed paper molas, an indigenous art form of turtles, dogs, sunfish, birds and other animals.

Each student wore red, white and blue headbands symbolizing the colors of the Panamanian flag.

“They may not ever visit Panama, but this will give them a glimpse of what the country is like and what you would see and hear,” said first-grade teacher and social studies leader Michele Greene.

The apparent biggest hits involved food as stu-dents tasted coconut rice

and plantain chips. “If you crumble it up together it was like cottage cheese and bacon bits,” said fifth-grader Taryn Miskowiec, 11.

Volunteers played short videos or slideshow pre-sentations at some of the stations.

Overseeing the Panama Canal, PTA volunteer An-gie Evers wore a tradition-al Panamanian gauzy skirt and top that she bought while living there when she was an Air Force pi-lot. “It is hotter in Panama than it is here in July,” she told the students. “Can you believe that?”

Fifth-grader Ben Stroud, liked the canal: “It’s inter-esting how the locks work and raise up the ships,” he said.

As the day came to end, Greene said, “It made me smile to see kids dancing down the hallway just enjoying the day learn-ing about Panama. This is good for them to see all the pieces of the culture.”

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All aboard!Collierville Elementary students ‘cruise’ to Panama, ‘navigate’ canal

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Kindergarten students Sanjana Kulasekhar, 6, Keegen Britt, 5, and Preston Young, 7, play with toy boats as they roll them down a model of the Panama Canal at Collierville Elementary School.

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By Meena ViswanathanSpecial to The Weekly

Mahatma Gandhi once said: “I have always felt that the true textbook for the pupil is his teacher.”

Taking this message to heart, Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh Memphis hosted the Guru Vandana (Salutations to the Teacher) program May 3 at the Collierville Burch Library to coincide with the Teacher Apprecia-tion Week.

The children of HSS Memphis Balagokulam sent invitations to their respective school teachers requesting them to join the celebration. Those invited included teachers from Grahamwood Elemen-tary, Tara Oaks Elemen-tary, Germantown Middle, Schilling Farms Middle, and Briarcrest Christian School.

After the welcome speech by emcee Manoj Bhaskaran, the program oicially started with the lighting of the lamp. One of the students explained the signiicance of how this ritual removes darkness of ignorance and brings light of knowledge into our lives. This was followed by students singing prayer songs under the guidance of music teacher Shankari Manoj.

HSS Mid-South Region-al Secretary Ravi Sahas-rabudhe gave an overview of HSS, a voluntary, non-proit, social and cultural organization and its ac-tivities across the country. He went on to introduce Balagokulam, a weekly program where families come together to partici-pate in yoga, games, songs, stories, and discussion re-lating to Hindu heritage

and culture.HSS volunteer Ravi

Yarramsetty touched upon the time-honored “Guru-Shishya Parampa-ra” (teacher-student tradi-tion) and talked about the importance of recogniz-ing teacher contributions at every opportunity. He then invited the teachers to share their thoughts on the occasion.

“It’s like a two-way street when you get to know chil-dren from other cultures,” said Theresa Case, a sec-ond-grade teacher at Gra-hamwood Elementary. She also pointed out that hav-ing such a diverse group of children in class gives her the opportunity to learn about their diferent cul-tures and also allows stu-dents to learn from each other as well.

Katie Kerekes, Spanish teacher at Schilling Farms

Middle, said, “Teaching these children broadens our outlook, and I wish I had more kids like this who are eager to learn.”

Dr. Vinay Jain, an as-sistant professor at the University of Tennessee

Health Science Center College of Dentistry talk-ed about the challenges in teaching young children and appreciated the im-mense efort put by school teachers in raising a whole new generation.

The children then hon-ored their teachers with a rose and a memento.

The cultural segment featured a yoga demonstra-tion by Collierville Yoga in-structors, Troy Taylor and Jaisree Pudukotai.

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Teachers recognized with special program

By Lisa StachowskiSpecial to The Weekly

Brenda Wells from Mitchell High School has been named the local win-ner of the Barnes & Noble My Favorite Teacher Con-test. Wells was chosen from many entries at the Barnes & Noble in Collier-ville. Wells was nominated by Kyris Gainey.

Students were invited to nominate their favor-ite teacher by writing es-says, poems or thank-you letters that explain how their teacher has inlu-enced their life and reveal why they appreciate and admire him or her. En-tries were judged on the compelling nature of the teacher’s qualities, the sin-cerity of the student’s ap-preciation and the quality of expression and writing.

Wells was recognized during a surprise visit at one of the school’s faculty meetings. She received a special award acknowl-edging her achievement and additional recogni-tion and praise from the community. Gainey, who wrote the winning essay, received a certiicate of recognition and was also honored at the faculty meeting.

Wells will now be en-tered into the regional

competition where five winners will be chosen. Each regional winner will receive a $500 Barnes & Noble gift card. From the pool of ive regional winners, Barnes & Noble will name one teacher the Barnes & Noble National Teacher of the Year.

The winning teacher will receive $5,000 and the title of Teacher of the Year. The winner will be recog-nized at a special commu-nity celebration at a local Barnes & Noble store. The winning teacher’s school will receive $5,000 as well.

The Barnes & Noble My Favorite Teacher Contest provides students with

the opportunity to tell their communities how much they appreciate their teachers. Students enrolled in middle or high schools in the United States are eligible to par-ticipate; and only educa-tors employed by private or public elementary, middle, or high schools are eligible to be nominat-ed. Awards include cash prizes for the teachers and schools, and more.

More on the contest can be found at BN.com/my favorite teacher.

Lisa Stachowski is the community

relations manager at Barnes &

Noble, Inc.

MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOL

Barnes & Noble Collierville names Wells teacher of year

The Bailey Sta-tion Elemen-tary book fair at Barnes and Noble was a huge suc-cess. During the event, the Bear Chorus performed several songs for parents, teachers and customers.

By Katherine PerrySpecial to The Weekly

Students, parents, teachers, grandparents and friends all gathered for a wonderful evening of “Reading Under the Stars” at the Bailey Station Elementary book fair held at Barnes & Noble.

BSE librarian, Jenni-fer Boren, coordinated the event with Barnes & Noble education special-ist Lisa Stachowski, who said the event was one of the best she’s ever seen. The event was held to kick of the school’s Summer Reading Challenge.

“Our main goal is to fos-ter a love of reading that will carry the students through the summer as we all work together to accumulate one million minutes of reading by Sep-tember,” says Boren.

Students and parents took the opportunity to select books that were on the school’s suggested summer reading list as well as titles that appealed to them personally.

Throughout the eve-ning, teachers read their favorite stories to chil-dren and the Bailey Sta-tion Choruses performed special musical selections.

Fifth grade students en-gaged in a Poetry Slam in the café, where the Bear Claw, a unique BSE-themed beverage, was served. Drawings were held for door prizes and students were encour-aged to “catch a teacher reading” as they shopped throughout the store. Once caught, teachers re-warded the students with prizes. In addition, stu-dents enjoyed having their faces painted and creating special bookmarks to use over the summer.

Katherine Perry teaches at Bailey

Station.

BAILEY STATION ELEMENTARY

School partners with Barnes & Noble to hold book fair

SNAPSHOTS

Sycamore PTA President Melissa Gunter spent a little quality time with her daughter Gracen during the school’s Morning with Mom event.

Jacob Tran and his mother Allie share a sweet treat during Sycamore Elementary’s Morning with Moms.

Collierville Ele-mentary school resource oicer

Lance McKinney gets dunked as the Collierville

High football team serves as

volunteers at CES’ Fair in the

Lair.

Upper school students at St. George’s Independent School are recognized for excellence dur-ing a Cum Laude and Honor Society induction ceremony at the Collierville campus. Students inducted into the St. George’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society are recognized for their superior academic achievement in secondary school. To qualify for membership to this selec-tive organization, a school must have four graduating classes and undergo a thorough review of its academic program, college acceptances and matriculations of graduates. In addition, St. George’s inducted members into the National Honor Society, National Junior Classical League Latin Honor Society, French Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Science National Honor Society, Quill and Scroll International Honorary Society, National Art Honor Society, International Thespian Honor Society, National English Honor Society, National His-tory Scholars Society, and Tri-M Music Honor Society. Members were received into these honor societies during a ceremony where they recited their pledge before and audience of family, faculty, and peers.

LAUREN KIMEighth grade, ECS

Family: In Ja Kim, Young Kim, Jousha Kim and Sha-ron Kim

What do you like most about your school: My friends.

What is your favorite subject: Bible because we learn something new about the Bible every time.

What is your most chal-lenging subject: Literature because I’m very bad with books.

What are some of your biggest accomplishments: I’ve been selected to play at Carnegie Hall, winning the state competition for TMTA in 2013, principal lute for honor band for two years in a row.

What are some of your

hobbies: Fishing and shop-ping

Goals for the future: Go to Vanderbilt and major in lute (music) and minor in pharmacy

Who do you most ad-mire: My mom because she always pushes me to do something that I don’t want to do but later I’m happy I did it.

What are your favorite movies, TV shows, books: “Divergent,” “Fault in the

Stars,” “Dance Moms,” “The Walking Dead”

What would you do if you were principal for a day: Bring pets to school.

What famous person would you like to meet: Theo James because he’s hot.

What would you do with $1 million: Donate half, keep the rest for a car.

If you could change one thing in the world: End abortion.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

ECS eighth-grader Kim’s interests span Bible, TV’s ‘Walking Dead’

ECS’ Lauren Kim was recently chosen to perform at Carnegie Hall, as part of the Honors Perfor-mance Series.

Brenda Wells, who is a teacher at Mitchell High School, was named the winner of the Barnes & Noble My Favorite Teacher Contest. She was selected from entries at the Barnes & Noble in Collierville. Mitchell student Kyris Gainey nominated Wells.

Teachers Jennifer Byrd, Theresa Case, Robbie Page, Katie Kerekes, Angie Sneathern, Angela Ellis, and assistant professor Dr. Vinay Jain attend the Guru Vandana Program at Collierville Burch Library.

PHOTOS BY KIM ODOM | SPECIAL TO THE WEEKLY

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“Corky’s even though I hear the Royals like the Rendezvous.”

TERESA SCHWARTZ of Germantown

In honor of Memphis In May and National Barbecue

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What’s your favorite barbecue

restaurant?

“Fat Larry’s in Bartlett — not because it’s close to home, the barbecue is great.”

EDWARD MCLELLAN of Bartlett

“The good ol’ Rendezvous.”

BELINDA COFFMAN of Bartlett

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BILL SMITH of Bartlett

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RICHARD JAMISON of Cordova


Business

GEM OF A GYMThe Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting for UFC Gym, 9091 Poplar in Germantown. UFC Gym is the only fitness facility of its kind and the only one inspired by the world’s undisputed leader in mixed martial arts. Helping cut the ribbon are Trey Manley (left), Nick Davis, owners Lisa and Tom Brackett, chamber executive director Janie Day, Matt Wierman, Conrad Polz and Jason Turnage. For more information call 901-756-8328 or visit ufcgym.com/germantown.

Business/location/contact information: Stay Organized With Us LLC, German-town, stayorganizedwithus.com, [email protected] or 901-651-0432, [email protected] or 901-651-0157

Hometown: Amy and Fran are both from east Tennessee — born and raised in Greeneville, nestled near Knoxville and Johnson City. For a bit of trivia, it’s home to the 17th president, Andrew Johnson.

Family: Amy’s husband Carter works for BNSF Railway. It’s what brought them to Memphis from St. Louis. They have two lively, fun daughters, Ella and Abby, ages 7 and 9. The girls absolutely love spending time with their Mimi Fran.

Education: Amy has a BS degree in communication from East Tennessee State University. Fran has an AS degree in business management and an AS in physical therapy assistant technology from Walters State Community College.

Civic involvement: Amy is the (volun-teer) community relations coordinator for the Greater Memphis Operation Christ-mas Child team, a project of Samaritan’s Purse. She is currently helping to plan a benefit car show for June 14.

First job: Amy’s first job was in graphic design for a newspaper and Fran’s was in

accounting. Most recent job: Amy was a senior

graphic designer for Mercy Health Sys-tem for the past 12 years. Fran was a physi-cal therapist assistant for the last 18 years.

Most satisfying career moment: For Amy, that would be working to orga-nize and maintain a cataloging system for many year’s worth of digital assets (photographs, videos and artwork) for Mercy. For Fran, when patients in rehab progressed to their prior level of function-ing and returned home.

Career advice: Amy believes a positive attitude and good work ethic can do won-ders — along with a smile. Even on the toughest, craziest of days. Fran’s advice is education and training in a field of in-terest with a plan to balance career and personal life.

MY LIFE/MY JOB

Work ethic, education plays key role in ‘Stay Organized’

Amy Tuggle and Fran Cutshall are the co-owners of Stay Organized With Us, which is based out of Germantown.

Big League Mov-ers, a business that Steven Reed started in college, has grown to 56 workers and re-cently expand-ed to Atlanta. He believes customers want to know who will be moving their belong-ings, so he posts employee biographies on the company website.

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By Lesley YoungSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

Steven Reed picked up a side job helping friends and family move while he attended the University of Memphis.

Word kept spreading, and upon graduation, Reed, 29, who is from the Germantown area, saw an opportunity.

He knew he could le-verage his employment of responsible workers, his reputation, and his un-derstanding of just what it took to move a family’s house full of goods.

So he pooled his savings and formed Big League Movers.

Since the company opened in Memphis in 2008, Big League sales have grown an average of 40 percent each year.

The company has ex-panded to Atlanta.

Now, Reed plans to add three trucks to his fleet of 19.

One key to growth: He posts short biographies of

the employees on the Big League website.

That’s because he senses customers want to know just who it is who will be handling their possessions.

The other day, Reed sat down to discuss running a business.

What was your biggest breakthrough?

Reed: We received sev-eral recognitions. We won in The Commercial Ap-peal’s Memphis Most.

We’ve won awards on Yelp, and recognition on Angie’s List, the Better Business Bureau and mov-

ingcompanyreviews.com.It’s been a big year for

us, and the fact that our customers voted for us is exciting.

What has been your big-gest mistake?

Growing too quickly. We slowed down to make sure we give our custom-ers the best service and hire the right team for our customers.

We want to do qual-ity work over quantity and have everybody fully trained so that our custom-ers have the best moving experience possible.

What do you consider your best business practices?

Choose quality over quantity. We will not over-book and give our custom-ers any less than our major league standards.

What sets you apart?We can do an exact pric-

ing based on inventory and goods. Our internal and external processes reflect from our sales team to our movers. We try to custom-ize the experience for cus-tomers.

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By Katie PembertonSpecial to The Weekly

The Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby Coun-ty will host the Bark After Dark Bike Ride & Glow Bash on May 23, at 8 p.m. This second annual event will be one of very few op-portunities to ride through Shelby Farms at night.

Bark After Dark will feature a 4.5-mile bicycle course through Shelby Farms, starting and end-ing at HSMSC at 935 Farm Road. Cyclists have the option of completing the course twice. The course, which will feature exciting lighting installations, is not dog-friendly. The ride is a fun ride and not a race, and helmets are required. Cy-clists and others will enjoy a glow bash on the HSMSC after the fun ride with One & Only BBQ; beer from

Bluf City Brewers, Cash Saver, Memphis Made Brewing, Schlaly and Ya-zoo Brewing and live music from Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster.

Participation in the fun ride and glow bash is $50 and includes the ride, a T-shirt, and admission to the glow bash with food and two drink tickets included. Admission to only the glow bash is $25 and includes food and two drink tickets.

All proceeds will ben-eit the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County, which rescues and rehabili-tates injured and abused animals. Participants may register in advance at mem-phishumane.org or call 901-937-3943 for more informa-tion.”

Katie Pemberton is the marketing

and PR specialist for the Humane

Society.

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PETS OF THE WEEK

Name: Charlie BrownAge: 2 yearsBreed: PuggleDescription: Sweet and gentile.

Name: PeanutAge: 9 weeksBreed: Domestic short hairDescription: Loves to play with his toys.

Germantown Animal Shelter, 7700 Southern, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

By Marlon W. [email protected]

901-529-2792

The Outback is the coun-try’s largest off-leash dog park, nestled away on a 120-acre plot in the northeastern end of Shelby Farms Park. Dog lovers are familiar with it, but staf members at the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy want to introduce others to the site.

That’s why they created the Dog-A-Roo Festival, spon-sored by Memphis Veterinary Specialists, held last Saturday.

“There are plenty of park users that this is the only area of the park that they use, so it’ll be a new and exciting way for them to engage with the area,” said Rebecca Dailey, commu-nications coordinator for the conservancy. “But there are people that deinitely haven’t

been over here before.“We’re excited to introduce

them to this space and hope to see them use it for many years to come.”

Saturday’s event included a talent and costume contest, a 2.7-mile run/walk that took owners and their dogs on a scenic tour of The Outback, trainer demonstrations and workshops, working-dog demonstrations and an agil-

ity course for dogs.Conservancy event man-

ager Natalie Wilson is hoping the Dog-A-Roo Festival will become an annual event.

“What’s unique about the Dog-A-Roo is it’s for the ev-eryday dog,” Wilson said.

“It’s for the everyday own-er. You don’t have to be a breed standard dog to come to the Dog-A-Roo. Every dog has a place.”

SHELBY FARMS

Tater, a Shih Tzu, is dressed as a cowboy by owner Katherine Booker at the Dog-A-Roo costume contest.

Pooches’ dayDog-A-Roo to show of ‘Outback’ canine park

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Health & Fitness calendar

By Leslie SchillingSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

Stress impacts all of us. How you deal with that stress can ultimately make or break your health. You may be experienc-ing a physical stress such as a muscle or bone injury or even getting ready for a surgical pro-cedure. Even if you’re not feel-ing physical stress, that doesn’t mean you’re immune. You may be facing emotional stressors like job issues, inancial worries or depression. The bottom line is that regardless of its origin, stress is cumulative, and it can manifest itself physically.

No matter where your stress comes from, fueling your body in healthful way can help. So often we allow our busy (stress-ful) lives to trump getting to the grocery store, cooking, exercis-ing or spending our hard-earned cash on high-quality foods. By taking the time and efort to feed your body well, you can improve your overall well-being and your ability to ight physical and emo-tional stress.

Let’s focus on adding protein-rich foods to your diet. When you have times of physical stress like injury or a surgery, your overall protein needs to increase due to muscle tissue damage, the need for muscle tissue repair and recovery. During the acute stag-es of injury, our protein needs can increase dramatically. De-pending on the amount of dam-age sustained and healing that may need to occur, your protein needs can almost double. So, if you’re in an acute stage of injury, surgery, or healing it’s important to focus on this key ingredient.

Believe it or not, your protein intake can impact your emotion-al stress as well. Studies suggest that increased protein at meals leads to increased satiety. When we’re more satisied physically, we’re less likely to use food for comfort or emotional reasons. I don’t know about you, but most everyone I encounter (including myself from time to time) uses food for things other than fuel. Planning a satisfying diet with protein-rich meals may be your next step in stress management.

Try protein-rich foods like eggs, cheese or Greek yogurt to pump up your breakfast. Add leftover meats to salads or sandwiches for a satisfying lunch. Throw a couple cheese sticks or almonds into your af-ternoon snack for staying power until dinner. And, last but not least, plan your meals ahead so you’ll have time to prepare a tasty evening meal. Some of our favorite dinner-time protein sources include lat-iron steak, grilled chicken, baked salmon and pork tenderloin. What are your favorite protein sources? Write them down now and in-clude them in your plan for a lower-stress week.

Leslie Schilling is a Memphis-based,

nationally recognized nutrition expert.

She owns Schilling Nutrition Therapy, LLC,

a nutrition counseling practice in East

Memphis.

FOOD CLUES

Use protein to power through the stress

HEALTH EVENTS

Lifeblood Blood Drives: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 2949 Davies Road, Lakeland; 9:30 a.m. to noon at New Direction, 114 U.S. 72 S., Collierville.Healthy Living Expo: 9-11:30 a.m. Thursday at the YMCA at Schilling Farms, 1185 Schilling Blvd. E., Collierville. Over 30 vendors, door prizes, and more. Free health screenings: blood pressure check, spinal screening, mini-massages, heel scans, blood sugar checks, and more. B-12 shots $10. 901-850-9622.Free Safer Sex Kit Day: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday at Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region, 2430 Poplar-Suite 100. Free safer sex kits for first 50 female clients. 901-725-1717.Family Caregiver Class: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 21. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis (Seminar Room 2), 6027 Walnut Grove Road.

FITNESS EVENTS

Memphis in May 10K: 6

p.m. Friday at Harrah’s Resort Tunica, 13615 Old Highway 61 N., Robinsonville, Miss. Part of Memphis in May Triathlon Sports and Fitness Expo Weekend. 615-567-6671. mim10K.racesonline.comRunning of the Rams 5K: 6 p.m. Friday at Oak Elementary School, 3573 Oak Road, Bartlett. $25 ($20 for ages 17 and under). Hosted by Oak Elementary PTA, proceeds will go toward the purchase 40 or more new computers for students. Visit runningoftherams.racesonline.com.Rylee’s Run 5K: 7 p.m. Friday through the Mike Rose Soccer complex, finishing in the stadium. 5K commemorates the life of Rylee Rae Vinson, who died due to complications of premature birth. $25 ($15 age 14-under). memphissoccer.com/league/ribs. 205-531-1851.Memphis in May Sprint Triathlon: 8 a.m. Saturday at Harrah’s Resort Tunica, 13615 Old Highway 61 N., Robinsonville, Miss. A ¼-Mile Swim, 12-Mile Road Bike, and

3-Mile Run. A salute to Panama. 901-274-2202. mimsprint.racesonline.com and mimtri.racesonline.com.Lupus Foundation of America, Memphis area chapter, “Walk to End Lupus Now 5K”: 9 a.m. Saturday at the Overton Park Pavilion. Preregistration: $35 ($20 children ages 11-under), $5 higher on day of walk. Call 901-458-5302 or e-mail: [email protected] Me Colorful Relay for Life Color Run: Noon Saturday at Aycock Park in Millington, Tenn. $20. All proceeds raised go to the American Cancer Society. 901-355-9903. [email protected] Run for Scouting 5K: 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Chickasaw Trail, Shelby Farms Park. $20 ($10 youth) in advance; $25 ($15 youth) race day. 901-327-4193. scoutbasebsa.org/event/1500446.

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By Erinn FiggSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

In the gym, on the streets or at the salad bar, it’s common to meet people on a mis-sion to lose those 10 to 15 extra pounds. But for more than one-third of Americans, ighting the battle of the bulge can equate to ighting the battle of a lifetime. When that war against the epidemic of obesity begins, many Americans choose bariatric surgery as their weapon of choice.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 78 million or 34.9 percent of U.S. adults sufer from obesity, which is categorized as having a Body Mass Index of 30 or more. Closer to home, a 2013 Gallup-Healthways report showed that Tennessee had the seventh highest obesity rate in the nation last year, with 29.6 percent of the state’s residents weighing in as obese.

When most people hear the word “obese,” they immediately think “large,” or worse, “fat,” but the issue extends far beyond appearance. More than 40 diseas-es, known as comorbidities, are linked to obesity, including Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and several kinds of cancer.

In 2006, Julia Mills of Cordova, then 51, learned about comorbidities irsthand when she was diagnosed with Type 2 dia-betes related to excess weight.

“Over the years, I had tried all sorts of diferent things to lose weight, but diabetes was the kicker for me in the decision to have surgery,” she said.

While 99 percent of weight-loss surgery patients choose one of three American So-ciety for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery-approved surgeries — an adjustable gastric band, a sleeve gastrectomy or a gastric by-pass — the remaining one percent, includ-ing Mills, opt for an alternative method. After much research, Mills chose to have a patented procedure called a mini gastric bypass at an out-of-state clinic and was extremely satisied with the results.

“Two weeks after surgery, my blood sug-ar was normal and it’s been normal ever since,” said Mills, who lost 75 pounds and has kept it of after having the surgery in 2008.

In March, new results from a three-year study spearheaded by the Cleveland

Clinic’s Bariatric and Metabolic Institute showed that either gastric bypass sur-gery or sleeve gastrectomy did more to improve the symptoms of diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol in overweight and obese participants than intensive treatment with drugs alone. In addition, study participants who had one of the two surgeries lost more weight, had better kidney function and saw greater im-provements in quality of life than those who did not have surgery.

Dr. George Woodman of Baptist Weight Loss Center at Baptist Memorial Health Care is on a mission to educate area pri-mary care physicians on the importance of recognizing and referring weight loss surgery candidates before comorbid con-ditions occur.

According to the most recent statistics from ASMBS, in 2010 there were 150,000 to 160,000 bariatric surgeries, which re-lected just one percent of the population eligible for them. In most areas, to qualify for bariatric surgery, patients must either have a BMI of 40 or greater or have a BMI of 35 and at least two obesity-related co-morbidities. (A BMI calculator is available online at asmbs.org/calculate-your-bmi.) Many insurance plans cover at least some bariatric surgery costs.

“About half the people primary care doctors see every day are candidates for surgery,” Woodman said. “We would much rather see somebody when they’re younger and before they’ve developed the comorbid conditions that come with obesity. Why wait to develop diabetes? Why wait to de-velop high blood pressure? Why wait until you need a knee replacement? Let’s start seeing these patients earlier.”

Bronwyn Morgan, 43, a principal sci-entist at Merck Consumer Care in Mem-phis, is one such patient who saw comorbid complications on her horizon and decided to prevent them.

“I had gotten to where I was considered morbidly obese,” she said. “I couldn’t do some of the things I wanted to do with my kids. I was lucky I didn’t have any serious comorbidities like high blood pressure or diabetes, but they were a real possibility in my future.”

Morgan had weight-loss surgery at St. Francis Center for Surgical Weight Loss

last June. She had planned on getting an adjustable gastric band, but after attend-ing one of the center’s free educational seminars, she decided to get gastric bypass surgery instead.

“In our seminars, we teach that in order to see long-term success with any weight-loss surgery, you have to change your mind and your whole life,” said Leslie Albers, the center’s bariatric program manager. “What we do is not a magic bullet. Some people think this surgery is all they’re go-ing to need, but that’s not the case. What our doctors say is the surgery is a tool to get you where you need to be. Our patients are required to go through two education classes about nutrition and post-operation lifestyle changes.”

Since her surgery, Morgan has lost 120 pounds. She pays attention to what she eats and exercises, something she couldn’t do comfortably before her surgery.

“There are so many things I can do now,” she said. “Little things you never think of, like having the seatbelt in my car it me better. Or I can pop down on the loor and play a game with my kids without being uncomfortable. It makes all the dif-ference in the world.”

WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY

Weighing options

PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. FRANCIS CENTER FOR SURGICAL WEIGHT LOSS

St. Francis Center for SurgicalWeight Loss patients model during a fashion show celebrating the center’s 10th anniversary.

In struggle with obesity, many choose weight-loss surgery as best option

TYPES OF BARIATRIC SURGERY PROCEDURESThere are three primary types of bariatric surgery procedures approved by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.Adjustable Gastric Band: An inflatable band is placed around the upper portion of the stomach, creating a small stomach pouch above the band, reducing the amount of food the stomach can hold and creating a feeling of fullness. Induces excess weight loss of 40 to 50 percent.Sleeve Gastrectomy: More than 80 percent of the stomach is removed, leaving a tubular pouch that holds a smaller volume of food. Causes favorable changes in gut hormones that suppress hunger and improve satiety. Induces excess weight loss of 50 percent or greater.Gastric Bypass: Stomach is reduced to the size of a walnut and attached to the middle of the small intestine. Restricts the amount of food that can be consumed; produces favorable changes in gut hormones that reduce appetite. Induces excess weight loss of 60 to 80 percent.

Source: American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (asmbs.org/

obesity-and-surgery-learning-center)

By Sara P. [email protected]

901-529-6513

Bradyn Lorimer, 4, is the face of arthritis.

Last February, while the Lorimer family was at church, Bradyn’s mother, Michelle, noticed her daughter limping.

Some six weeks later, af-ter multiple visits to difer-ent hospitals and special-ists, the Millington family received an oicial diag-nosis. Bradyn, who was 3 at the time, had juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

“There have been many mornings where (Bradyn) has been unable to stand, let alone walk,” the Lorimer family shared in a media

statement. “Long baths and medi-cine each day provide some relief.”

Bradyn’s story is one of many that will be shared dur-

ing the Memphis Walk to Cure Arthritis on June 7. Bradyn has been named the 2014 Junior Honoree.

Arthritis is a crippling disease that impacts more than 50 million adults and 300,000 children — or ap-proximately 22 percent of the U.S. population. In Tennessee, 1.5 million adults and nearly 6,000 children have some form

of arthritis. The disease costs the U.S. economy $128 billion dollars a year, and is a more frequent cause of activity limitation than heart disease, cancer or diabetes.

Funds raised through the Memphis Walk to Cure Arthritis will go to-ward programs, research and advocacy initiatives to help people today while inding a cure for tomor-row.

To register for the Mem-phis Walk to Cure Arthri-tis, visit memphiswalkto-curearthritis.kintera.org or call Michelle Dooner at 901-322-1517. To learn more about the ight to cure ar-thritis, visit arthritiswalk.org.

ARTHRITIS

Millington 4-year-old to be honoredduring 2014 Walk to Cure Arthritis

Bradyn Lorimer

I’ve always kept a stash of images that speak to me from magazines and blogs. If I see a photo of a room or a vignette I think is awesome, I’ll clip it out or print it and stick it in a folder or pin it to a board (real or vir-tual), just so I can glance at it from time to time when I need inspiration.

A few years back, I started collecting pictures of gallery walls. I didn’t even realize I was doing it until I looked up one day and noticed that the group-ing of images on my bulletin board had a deining theme.

It was around that time that I also started collecting random pieces of artwork I found in random places. I’m not talking solely about ine art, though I buy that too, when I ind a piece I love that I can aford. I’m talk-ing about truly quirky inds — dusty lea market art, local works from pop-up shops, thrift shop paint-by-numbers and vin-tage store treasures.

And I came to realize that all of it has meaning, and that building an art collection is more than walking into a gal-lery and taking home a piece that its in your space.

Memphis artist Hillary But-ler collects art along with creat-ing it, and she treats her prized pieces as she would any other type of collection. That means that along with scattering art throughout her house, she cre-ates groupings of artwork, lay-ering it to develop an interest-ing tapestry of images, colors and designs.

“I personally like book-shelves,” said Butler, whose bold abstract landscapes are available on her website (hilla-rybutler.bigcartel.com) and in gallery shops in Memphis and New York. “I like to take the ex-tra shelves out to create larger bookshelf areas to display art

— to create an ‘art scene.’ I use pieces of art as a backdrop and style it with books and acces-sories.”

To create vignettes like this, or to create a gallery wall like the images I gathered on my own bulletin board, Butler rec-ommends collecting works in varying sizes and styles.

“Mix types of art — a painting with a piece of typography with a black-and-white photograph,” she said. “The more genres you can mix, the more interesting a collection you can have.”

Also, carefully consider framing. Placing difering styles of artwork in the same or simi-lar frames can add cohesion to a

collection — but framing pieces diferently can add interest. Fig-ure out what works best for the pieces you’ve collected.

To create a gallery wall, irst gather the pieces you’d like to display, and arrange them on a lat surface — a large table or the loor. Aim for balance and harmony, though not necessar-ily symmetry, and play with negative space. Once you’ve arranged the works in your col-lection to your liking, measure its outer dimensions, and take a photo so you remember the spacing and arrangement as you transfer it to your wall.

Another, simpler way to dis-play a grouping of art is to layer it on a shelf, a mantel or even on the loor — it’s a stylish look that’s less structured, more ca-sual and easier to achieve than a wall collage. Said Butler: “Stack pieces of varying heights, and layer them so they overlap. You can start with a larger poster print; those are chic right now.”

Here are more tips from But-

ler on starting and displaying your collection:

■ Buy what you like. I can’t say that enough, because you’ll look at it every day.

■ Decorate around your art; don’t buy your art around your décor. You want pieces that are timeless that you’ll always love. Also, don’t necessarily let color drive your art purchases. Find a way to work it into your home because good art stands alone.

■ If you don’t have a lot of money to start your collection, start with what you can aford, and present it well, and then start building on it. How you frame a piece is very important — you can take a $5 print and turn it into a piece of ine art.

■ Your home should be a unique collection that you can’t ind anywhere else. Art is a wonderful way to tell your life story.

Stacey Wiedower is a Memphis-based

freelance interior design writer. Contact

her at [email protected].

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Artfully arranged

Hillary Butler created an “art scene” in her home using her own artwork and works by others. She creates groupings of artwork, layering it to develop an interesting tapestry of images, colors and designs.

Collection of art brings personal meaning to room

By Emily Adams KeplingerSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

Everyone knows that packing up personal items, whether for a move, re-modeling or home repairs, can be an overwhelming experience. Enter Janine Willis, president of Good to Go Home Packing and Senior Moves. She has made a business out of be-ing in other people’s busi-ness. And her presence is welcomed.

Armed with a team of up to 10 people available to work on a single move, Good To Go takes pride in attention to detail.

“Good to Go ofers their services turn-key and a la carte,” Willis explained. “We allow homeowners the choice of how much or how little they would like to have done for them. Because the company has 10 people available on the team, we require little ad-

vance notice, and can ac-commodate most requests. Unlike traditional moving companies, we pack with the ‘unpack’ in mind. For instance, we group and label items to make the unpacking process much smoother. We even take pictures of how items were originally arranged to make it easier to set them up again. Items like the contents in china cabinets, bedside tables and desks can be put away quickly with the use of these visual guides.”

If the situation involves a move, Good to Go will help the homeowner de-termine what to take and what to donate or pass on to others. Once that step is completed, Good to Go then begins carefully sort-ing and packing all items that are making the move. Tricks of the trade include color-coded labels to fa-cilitate the sort and sift

process. Homeowners are given a set of labels to indicate which items are going to be moved and which are not. The com-pany not only provides the labor but also brings its own packing supplies and boxes.

An average job requires packing in one day, mov-ing on the second day, and unpacking on the third day. Willis and her team will handle all of the steps, leaving the homeowners free to deal with other moving details, like recon-necting utilities and cable.

“Our moving coordina-tors assist with unpack-ing on the arrival day at the new location,” Wil-lis said. “And more than just unpacking boxes, we try to help the clients re-

ally get settled. We’re like their personal welcoming committee We ind the cofee pot and get the cof-fee brewing, set up lamps and lighting, and set up the bathroom and kitchen essentials. Everything right down to making the beds for the homeowners. We try to do whatever it takes to make it a com-fortable irst night for the homeowners in their new abode.”

And if the homeowners are moving out of town, Good to Go can still help. As a founding member of the national Association of Senior Move Manag-ers, Willis has colleagues to partner with in various cities.

When the company was founded over 13 years, it

went by the name of Se-niors Moves, Inc. to indi-cate a specialty in working with the elderly. But Willis soon found her methodol-ogy and personal service were prized by others who wanted to call on her ex-pertise.

“People with young children and those with demanding jobs also found themselves in need of moving assistance,” Wil-lis said. “And an emerging trend is the clients who need to pack up items dur-ing renovations or house-hold repairs. Good to Go come can to their rescue as well.”

For more information about Good to Go, contact Willis at (901) 753-6683, or visit goodtogomemphis.com.

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Janine Willis, owner of Good to Go Home Packing and Senior Moves, says, “Unlike traditional mov-ing companies, we pack with the ‘unpack’ in mind.”

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Not exactly. While those factors play impor-tant roles in every home garden, none alone make a garden “great.”

But you do. Every gar-den, like its keeper, is unique. It’s time to give these labors of love their due recognition.

In celebration of the

creative beauty of Mid-South gardens, Fix Home and Garden Magazine, a bimonthly publication of The Commercial Appeal, is holding its annual Show Us Your Green Thumb Garden Contest. The con-test winner will receive more than $2,000 in prizes from our sponsors.

To enter, e-mail pho-tos of your garden to Fix magazine editor Sara Pat-terson Shirley at [email protected]. Include 5 to 10 high-resolution JPEG images of your garden, and give

a brief description of your work. What are you most proud of? What was the greatest challenge for you along the way? What kinds of plants have you cultivat-ed? Don’t forget to include your name, age, address, phone number and e-mail address in the submission

Local gardening experts and representatives from our sponsors will judge en-tries. The panel will con-sider originality, variety of plants, use of hardscapes and ornamental elements, as well as overall design and atmosphere during the

judging. The winner will be announced at a party this summer, hosted by our presenting sponsor, Graham’s Lighting and Outdoor Living.

The deadline for en-tries is June 13. This year, a people’s choice award has been added. Details on how to vote will be in-cluded in the next issue of Fix magazine. Updates are also available at Facebook.com/ixmagazine.

For information about the contest, call 901-529-6513 or e-mail [email protected].

GARDEN CONTEST

Got a good-looking garden? Go ahead and brag about it

COURTESY OF JULIE AND KEITH PATTERSON

In 2013, Julie and Keith Patterson of Lakeland won Fix Home and Garden Magazine’s annual Show Us Your Green Thumb contest. Entries for the competition will be accepted through June 13.

GARDENING EVENTS

Saturdays through June 28: Free Mini-Tours: 9-11 a.m. at Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Garden docents lead 20-minute mini-tours and are available to answer questions. Garden history, design and spring bloom will be discussed. Free admission until noon. 901-761-5250. dixon.org.Tuesdays and Fridays, through June 27: Plant 4 Habitat Team at Collierville Victory Garden: 8-10 a.m. Fridays and 5:30 p.m.-dusk Tuesdays behind Collierville Christian Church, 707 N. Byhalia Road, Collierville. Split and maintain perennials in holding beds for Habitat for Humanity landscapes. Bring bottled water, gloves, small garden tools. sites.google.com/site/plants4habitat/Calendar. Call 901-854-7046.Wednesdays, through Oct. 29: Farmers’ Market: 2-6 p.m. at Memphis Botanic Garden. Free admission.May 16-18: Memphis Orchid Society annual Show and Sale: Noon-5 p.m. Friday (sales only); 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday (exhibit and sales) at Memphis Botanic Garden. Free. 901-268-1445. memphisorchids.org.May 17: Garden Ornament Workshop: 10:30 a.m.-noon at Dixon Gallery and Gardens. $55 ($45 Dixon members). All supplies provided. Reservations required. Limit 20. 901-761-5250. dixon.org.May 19: Dick Preston on the Prothonotary Warbler: 6:30-8 p.m. at Memphis Botanic Garden. $4 (free to MBG and Wolf River Conservancy members). 901-636-4116; 901-452-6500. wolfriver.org.May 19: The Memphis Fern Society: 7:15 p.m. meeting at Town Village, 950 Cherry Road. Dr. Eugene McKenzie talks about “Ferns of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.” Visitors welcome.May 22: Memphis Herb Society: 7 p.m. meeting at the Memphis Botanic Garden, Goldsmith Room. Eone Rials speaks on “Languages of Herbs and Flowers.” 6:30 p.m. $5 for visitors (members free).May 23: 2014 Herbal Celebration: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Memphis Botanic Garden. Event free with MBG admission. Experts give hourly talks and demos on cooking and crafting with herbs. Herbal food and snacks available for purchase.May 23: Herbal Celebration Cocktail Party: 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Memphis Botanic Garden. $35 ($25 MBG members). Live music by Paul Little, herbal cocktails and other beverages; treats featured in Memphis Herb Society cookbooks. Carol Reese shares uses, folklore and stories about herbs. 901-636-4100. memphisbotanicgarden.com.May 27: Vine to Wine at the Garden: “All Things Southern”: 6-8 p.m. at Memphis Botanic Garden. $35 ($25 MBG members). 21 and older. memphisbotanicgarden.com/winetastings.May 31: Garden Family Day: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Free admission. Create original works of art, learn about plants, dirt, trees; participate in contests, dance to live music, and more.

HOME & DESIGN EVENTS

Through June 27: Woman’s Exchange Consignment Shop: At 88 Racine. 10 a.m.to 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Sterling, vintage and antique plated silver, lamps, china, crystal, linens, rugs, antiques, collectibles. 901-327-5681.May 30-June 1: Memphis Potters’ Guild annual Spring Show and Sale: 5-8 p.m. May 30 opening reception. Show and sale: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. May 31-June 1. Memphis Botanic Garden, Goldsmith Civic Center. Free admission. Meet artists working in porcelain, stoneware, earthenware, and other ceramic techniques. 901-636-4100. thememphispottersguild.com.

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By Sarah AcufSpecial to The Weekly

St. George’s Indepen-dent School students re-cently gathered in the chapel/performing arts center on the Germantown campus and they eagerly awaited the 12th annual Rebecca’s Light Concert.

This special music pro-gram is held in memory of a St. George’s student, Re-becca Meriwether Cooper Klyce. Through the gener-osity of Rebecca’s family, the Rebecca’s Light pro-gram brings visiting art-ists to St. George’s for an annual performance, ex-posing students to a vari-ety of musical talent from around the globe. The en-tire Klyce family, as well as close family friends and classmates, were able to be present at this year’s per-formance.

This year, the school was honored to have the

Excelsa Quartet perform. They were recently named the University of Mary-land’s Graduate String Quartet Fellows for the 2013-14 Academic Year. St. George’s was also very proud to welcome back St. George’s alumna and vio-linist Laura Colgate.

“It was an honor to be able to return to St. George’s and share my passion of music with ev-eryone there. ”

Thanks to the gener-osity of the Klyce fam-ily, Rebecca’s Light has brought many wonderful musicians to campus over the years. This endow-ment program will lay the foundation for vibrant the-atre/arts programs at St. George’s for years to come.

Sarah Acuf is the coordinator

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Rebecca’s Light Concert brings Excelsa Quartet

By Isabelle BlaisSpecial to The Weekly

Paragon Bank’s Saddle Creek location, 7600 Pop-lar, is showcasing art from 15 Westminster Acad-emy students during the month. The Westminster installation is the eighth student exhibit Paragon has hosted during the 2013-2014 school year.

“We always look for-ward to seeing the imagi-native art the students in our community have cre-ated with the help of their art teachers,” said Robert Shaw, chief executive of-ficer of Paragon.

Paragon partnered with Westminster art teachers Tirzah Rhodes and Joc-elyn Collins to select and display the assortment

of artwork in the bank’s main lobby. This month’s creative pieces include an iris painting, oil pastels and self-portraits. The work was created by Gin-ny Bratton, Sarah Gentry, Eliana Harris, Elizabeth Ann Hickman, Peter Hale, Eastin Lowther, Aislin McCaulla, Jacob Orel-lana, Harrison Ray, Sarah Statom and Elizabeth Wil-son from the elementary school; and Emilee Barclay, William Berger, Emily Jor-dan and Cy Leist from the high school.

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The Excelsa Quartet performed at the 12th annual Rebecca’s Light Concert held at St. George’s Germantown concert. The concert is in memory of Rebecca Meriwether Cooper Klyce.

One of the pieces on display at Paragon Bank’s Saddle Creek banking center was cre-ated by Emilee Barclay.

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A cluster of small cafes in the Istanbul neighborhood of Karakoy lies near a small church and galleries. Istanbul ofers interesting neighborhoods to explore, like Karakoy, an up-and-coming area hemming the Bosporus Strait.

By Sisi TangAssociated Press

ISTANBUL — Istanbul, the noisy me-tropolis on the Bosporus Strait lauded by many a travel ranking, has much more to ofer than grand mosques and bazaars. Away from

the din of typical tourist haunts, a walk around the neighborhoods of Karakoy, Balat and Kuzguncuk will peel back the surface to reveal the city’s multilayered history, and the lifestyles of those who’ve lived it.

And while headlines persist on Turkey’s uneasy political situation, which included a recent government shutdown of Twitter to silence critics, protests have dwindled for now. For tourism, it’s business as usual, with the government counting 35 million people visiting last year, a 10 percent increase over the previous year. As proof of Turkey’s popularity among travelers, TripAdvisor just named the country the world’s top destination, based on the website’s ratings and user reviews.

KARAKOYDescending from the Galata Tower

in the Beyoglu district, often regard-ed as the “pulse of Istanbul,” one of the city’s steepest hills will lead to Karakoy, an up-and-coming area hemming the Bosporus Strait.

This one-time industrial neigh-borhood is still home to a number of shops where anything from ishing equipment to Bunsen burners can be procured. But the hardware stores and workshops must now negotiate their space with new galleries and ca-fes that have created a hub for young hipsters.

Past the Karakoy ferry terminal, one street over from the water, look for Namli Gurme, a restaurant and small marketplace ofering a large selection of “mezes,” or cold appetiz-ers. Also served here is a cut of meat called “lokum,” which means Turkish delight and is the term for anything wildly tasty and juicy (unlike the nar-rower meaning of the term Turkish delight outside the country, referring only to chewy sugary candies).

One of Istanbul’s busiest baklava shops is next door, known for “sutlu Nuriye” or milky Nuriye, a puier and creamier version of baklava. Farther north along the road parallel to the Bosporus, past a few deserted build-ings and construction sites, a green iron gate opens into the Franciz Ge-cidi Is Merkezi, a small collection of cafes and restaurants. Around an eas-ily missed corner toward the Mother Mary Turkish Orthodox church near-by is another hidden nook for cafes that are usually full on the weekends.

You can wander through galler-ies and boutique shops punctuating rows of nondescript buildings before reaching the luxurious renovated Kil-ic Ali Pasha Hamam and the more widely known Istanbul Museum of Modern Art.

BALATThe Balat district is a quiet historic

area by the Golden Horn, the narrow-est stretch of the Bosporus. Its twist-ing streets and weathered houses, like antiques in an open museum, echo a past occupied by waves of Jewish, Greek, Bulgarian and Arme-nian residents. These ethnic groups were forced out or chose to move in response to political events or so-cioeconomic conditions at various points in the 20th century, and the area is now home mainly to working-class Turks from Black Sea towns and Central Anatolia. Adventurous tour-ists who can ind the beauty in the decaying buildings and who are will-ing to forgo the reliability of a map or deinitive street names, will enjoy wandering the hilly streets.

Walking from the Galata Bridge by the seaside toward the end of the Golden Horn, the Gul Mosque is not to be missed. Formerly known as Saint Theodosia church, the cross-in-square orthodox church was con-verted into a mosque by Ottomans. Farther along the spine of the horn, the Church of St. Mary of the Mon-gols, which has not been converted to a mosque, and St. Stephen’s Bul-

garian Church, made entirely of iron, are among the markers of the neigh-borhood’s mixed history. The former seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Church of St. George, can also be found here.

A walk uphill toward the Fener quarter will reveal the Rum Lisesi (Greek Boys School), which fea-tures prominently on the Golden Horn skyline, perched at the top of a hill, drawing spectators with its lacquered, bloody red hue. Near the foot of the structure is a famous street corner, which appears in many Turkish TV series and ilms. Dur-ing Ottoman times, Fener was the residential neighborhood for the dragoman, multilingual Greeks who often served as diplomatic linkages between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbors. It was also the seat of the Greek patriarchate, and a refuge for Bulgarians, Armenians and Jews.

Restoration projects have risen up in recent years to address some of the dilapidation, seeking to turn the district into a cafe-illed bou-tique neighborhood of ateliers. The municipality for instance, convert-ed a historic building into a gallery space and workshop for glass art, now called Camhane. Like many neigh-borhoods in Istanbul, Balat deserves a stroll before bulldozers and prop-erty developers have their way.

KUZGUNCUKOn the Asia side of this continental

crossroads of a city, the quiet, picto-rial village of Kuzguncuk is minutes away from the Uskudar ferry ter-minal by “dolmus,” one of the city’s many minibuses. Kuzguncuk is not a village in the traditional sense, but a leafy residential district lined with shops and restaurants, lauded as a quieter, perhaps less jaded version of upscale Ortakoy on the European

side. It is another well-known Jewish quarter, home to two synagogues.

Among the seaside ish restaurants bearing views of the Bosporus Bridge, Ismet Baba generates the most fan-fare. Uryanizade Sokak, running perpendicularly from Ismet Baba and the seaside, is a restored street lined with Ottoman houses and studios for artists.

Farther north, the waterside show-cases a string of Istanbul’s famous classic wooden-framed mansions, known as “yali.”

A bit beyond the Bosporus Bridge is Cengelkoy district, with its part of the shoreline caving in for about half a mile, showing few signs of strain.

Among the most conspicuous structures of this village is the red yali named after Sa’dullah Pasha, a literary igure during the mid-1800s. Another notable feature of the wa-terfront, Sumahan on the Water is a boutique hotel converted from a distillery for raki, Turkey’s much-loved aperitif. Both Kuzguncuk and Cengelkoy cater to a nostalgia com-mon among Istanbulites for a bygone era of neighborhood camaraderie and chivalry, when ine street manners were the norm against a backdrop of local shops, tea gardens and ish restaurants

Turkish delightsStroll the culture of Istanbul’s many neighborhoods

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Historical Greek Orthodox high school (left) is next to a mosque in Istanbul’s Fener neighborhood. Istanbul has a number of interest-ing neighborhoods worth exploring, with attractions ranging from well-known landmarks like this to small shops, galleries and cafes.

Classic wood-framed mansions called “yali,” line the waterfront along the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul.

“Sutlu Nuriye,” a puier and creamier ver-sion of baklava, can be found in a shop in the neighborhood of Karakoy.



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STATE LACROSSE TOURNAMENT

Hutchison tops Houston in finals

Houston lacrosse players prepare to go back to the ield after their halftime talk with coaches during last Friday’s state semiinal match with Franklin. The Mustangs upset Franklin 16-15 on a game-winning goal by Abigail Fuller.

Hutchison’s Sandy Smith (3) inds heavy traic in front of Houston’s goalie Lauren Lazure (25), as Madison Burford (27) and Ruthie German (11) defend.

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Hutchison players, coaches and administrators celebrate the Sting’s fourth consecutive girls lacrosse state championship.

Hutchinson’s Chloe Duke (28) attempts to gather a rebound from a shot on goal as Houston’s Lauren Lazure (25) and Olivia Holmes close in.

Hutchison’s sophomore goalkeeper Jennie Davis warms up with teammates prior to the state championship match.

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The St. George’s co-ed water polo team captured the state title May 3. St. George’s defeated St. Benedict 15-10 in the final game.

Sports


By Pete WickhamSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

The boys doubles ten-nis inal at Monday’s AAA Sectionals at the Eldon Roark Tennis Center in Whitehaven was a taut, emotional afair as senior Thomas George and his sophomore brother Joe of Germantown High School had to rally for a 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 win over Houston High seniors Michael Hof and Robert Frederick. The decision reversed a loss to the Mustang duo in the district inals.

“I had to take the middle and start attacking and take whatever happened,” Thomas George said. “We didn’t want to lose again.”

The girls doubles inal will be decided today be-tween two Houston teams at Windyke. Julia Hostetter and Hanna Wolford will play Darby Laschober and Megan Mars, who needed

a third-set tiebreaker to eliminate Austin Todd and Mallissa Sirimoungk-hons of White Station. “We thought it would be fair if the girls would play fresh for the title,” Houston coach Tony Benzing said.

Efficiency was the watchword for White Sta-tion standouts Kenya Jones and Sairam Gudiseva as the two Spartans easily clinched a return trip to Murfreesboro for next week’s state Class AAA tournament with sectional singles wins.

Sophomore Jones, the defending state champion and the USTA Southern Region’s No. 1-ranked Girls 18s player, pitched two 6-0, 6-0 shutouts, the second against Collierville junior Claire DeGeorge in the inals.

“It’s about getting through as quickly as possible,” said Jones, a 16-year-old who after

Spring Fling will try and qualify for the Southern Open tournament in Chat-tanooga, USTA Girls 18 Hardcourts in California and USTA Clay Courts at The Racquet Club on the summer schedule. “I’ve been working on my serve, trying to get the velocity

up, and it’s getting close to where I want it.”

Gudiseva, a junior scored a 6-3 6-3 win over Germantown junior Will Spencer, claiming his third straight state tournament berth. He had just come back from inishing ifth in the Alabama Spring

Open junior tournament in Birmingham and said, “I didn’t want to have this one stretch out on me.”

Houston’s girls and Ger-mantown’s boys will meet Hardin County today at Germantown in the AAA sectional team inals.

In BaseBallHouston (30-9) gave

Walter Rook (5-0) plenty of run support and a short day as the host Mustangs rolled over Central 15-1 in a Region 8-AAA semi-inal that lasted just 4 ½ innings. … Germantown blanked White Station 5-0 to advance to Wednesday’s regional inals at Houston.

In softBallHost Collierville (33-

10-1) racked up 10 runs in the irst inning and Kelsey Gross (14-6-1) needed just three innings of no-hit work as the Dragons put away Central (9-11) 16-0 in

the Region 8-AAA semii-nals. … At White Station, Mary Collins hit a pair of home runs and Jenna Cot-ter (17-16) threw a one-hitter over ive innings as Houston (20-16) blanked White Station (19-5) by a 15-0 count.

In soccerSt. George’s won the

Division 2-A West Region title by defeating Univer-sity School of Jackson 3-0. The Gryphons (9-4-5) got goals from Colin Kraus, James Harris and John Hankes. ... Evangelical Christian School won the third-place match 6-1 over Harding.

James Bedwell scored twice, Michel Swift add-ed a goal and an assist and keeper William Mer-riman had a clean sheet as MUS (8-6-1) scored a 4-0 Division 2-AA Sub-State round win over Briarcrest (2-12).

PREP ROUNDUP

Germantown brothers capture region doubles title

BrAd VeST/The CommerCiAl AppeAl

Germantown’s Will Spencer returns the ball while playing against White Station’s Sairan Gudiseva during a final match at the state tennis qualifying tournament Monday evening.

SOCCER

Region semifinals

eriC GlemSer/SpeCiAl To The Weekly

Memphis Central defender Avery Gathright keeps a pass from Collierville’s Jeremy Atkin-son as he attempts to flick the ball through during Tuesday’s regional semifinal match.

Nikki BoerTmAN/The CommerCiAl AppeAl

Houston’s Josh Moss (7) and White Station’s Victor Estrada battle for the ball during their region semifinal match Tues-day at Rhodes. The Spartans eliminated the Mustangs 4-2.

Collierville’s Jacqueline Conlan makes a play behind the plate in the District 15-AAA title game.

By sarah acufSpecial to The Weekly

St. George’s Indepen-dent School co-ed water polo team won its irst state championship May 3, defeating St. Benedict 15-10. The Gyphons played six games in 29 hours, ul-timately winning the title.

During the tournament, St. George’s defeated Stew-art’s Creek 25-18, Blount County 17-9, Sevier 19-15, KMA of Cleveland 27-14, Christian Brothers 17-15 and St. Benedict 15-10.

“We knew we were the underdog going into the tournament. But know-ing that, we worked really hard. Just like the team I knew we were all along! Winning the state cham-pionship two weeks be-fore graduation felt really rewarding to me and to all of the seniors,” said team co-captain and senior Cal-la Michalak. “I am just so proud of the whole team. Getting to hoist the state champion trophy in the pool as a team was a really rewarding way to end the

season.” The St. George’s water

polo team includes Wil Ad-kins, Brynna Bartlett, John Barton, Wil Barton, Caro-line Cannon, Hannah Di-etz, Sam Hyde, Karina Jen-sen, John Kutteh, Michael Kutteh, Lauren Marotta, William McBride, Payton McGough, Calla Michalak, Matthew Mullahey, Sarah Thompson, Grant Webb and Jared Whitaker.

Sarah Acuf is the assistant direc-

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independent School.

WATER POLO

St. George’s co-ed team wins state

By norm KennelSpecial to The Weekly

The Collierville High School softball team won the District 15-AAA softball tournament the hard way by defeating Houston twice on May 7.

In the irst game, junior Bayleigh Wisher got the win by tossing seven innings of shutout ball in a 6-0 victory. She struck out 12, walked one and surrendered eight hits. Sophomore Kelsey Gross racked up two RBIs on one hit when she hit her sixth homer of the season in the irst in-ning. Freshman Sydney Eu-bank hit her irst homer of the year in the second inning. The Dragons also scored two runs in the sixth to cement the game and get the chance to play one more game for the championship on an RBI dou-ble by junior Hannah Oliver and an RBI single by junior Brooke Castillo. Junior Kari Kennel went 3-3 in the game at the plate.

In the second game Kelsey Gross pitched seven strong innings to carry the Lady Dragons to a 2-1 win over Houston to clinch the tour-nament championship. The Dragons came from behind to score two runs in the sixth in-ning. Hannah Oliver doubled to get on base and went from second to third on a single by junior Brooke Castillo. Kelsey Gross drove in both Dragon runners with a single.

Norm kennel is a team parent.

SOFTBALL

Dragons twice top Houston to win district

eriC GlemSer/SpeCiAl To The Weekly

Collierville junior Jonathan Barrett heads a corner into the near post past Central keeper Deontrez Todd during Tuesday’s Region 8-AAA semifinal match at Collierville. The Dragons won 5-0 and advance to today’s region final against White Station. The Dragons are now 15-1-3 on the season.

By Bryan [email protected]

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For as little as $50, landown-ers and leaseholders can pur-chase an infrared trail camera that will snap digital pictures around the clock of anything that walks within range on their property.

People use them for ev-erything from monitoring trespassers to learning more about the big deer that might be roaming their land — and they certainly work well on both fronts.

But with so many cameras hanging on trees and fence posts across the country, peo-ple often see pictures of things they really weren’t looking for.

From deer ighting with rac-coons, to bears, mountain lions and other critters they never knew were there, trail-camera surprises have become a com-mon thing.

“There is actually a study being conducted right now to determine just how much of the country is being monitored by trail cameras,” said Mike Whittlin of Nontypical Inc., the company that produces the popular Cuddeback Scouting Camera. “You’re talking about millions of cameras taking pic-tures of everything that moves. It seems kind of inevitable that people are going to get some re-ally interesting shots from time to time.”

Those who aren’t familiar with the history of trail cam-eras would likely be surprised to learn the irst cameras were invented during the late 1880s. National Geographic magazine published the irst trail camera photo in 1906, showing deer that had activated the camera by tripping a wire as they en-tered a baited trap.

The irst cameras, which would take only one picture, eventually evolved to make use of motion-sensing technol-ogy that eliminated the need for primitive elements like the trip wire. By the middle of the 20th Century, cameras were using 35-milimeter ilm to snap as many as 36 photos without maintenance — and today, digi-tal trail cameras are available that can take thousands of pho-tos on a single data card.

WILDLIFE BEING WILDWhittlin said one thing that

makes oddball trail-camera photos so common is the cam-eras’ ability to snap shots of unsuspecting animals in their natural environment.

His company invites trail-camera owners to post their best photos online at cud-deback.com, and site visitors are allowed to vote for their favorites each week. The win-ner usually has a picture of an animal doing something rarely seen with the naked eye.

“Things like a hawk coming down and grabbing a squirrel from a corn pile or a deer stand-ing with one foot on a raccoon

— those are the kinds of things that seem to always win our contest,” Whittlin said. “You could sit outside for hours and hours holding a regular cam-era and probably never get that kind of shot. The trail camera does all of the waiting for you.”

Tom Matthews and Allen Hughes, Jr., the co-owners of Memphis-based Avery Out-doors, are also dedicated land managers who use dozens of trail cameras to monitor the deer on their property. They use the cameras to identify mature bucks that are ready for harvest, even going so far as naming the deer and charting their antler growth from one year to the next.

Matthews has sifted through thousands of trail-camera pics, and he has a special ile on his laptop for the weird and the wild.

“I don’t know which photo is the weirdest, but I have some pretty cool stuf for sure,” Mat-thews said. “I have a coyote with a dead fawn in its mouth walking past several does and yearlings that are only a few yards away. I have a coyote standing right in the middle

of a bunch of turkeys at a corn feeder, and several of the tur-keys are strutting.”

Trail camera photos have also helped Matthews see the most interesting phases of ant-ler evolution.

“I have two photos of the same buck taken 24 hours apart showing his antlers in full vel-vet in the irst photo and no vel-vet in the second photo,” Mat-thews said. “Those are pretty cool, especially since he is in the exact same place and pos-ture in both photos.”

THE WEIRD, THE WILD AND THE OUT OF THIS WORLD

In addition to National Geo-graphic-worthy wildlife pho-tos, trail-camera owners some-times present pics that range from disturbing to downright ridiculous.

In April, Jackson County, Mississippi, residents Rainer and Edith Shattles shared a trail camera photo with lo-cal media that they believed showed a UFO shining its lights toward a deer on their prop-erty. But trail-camera experts later revealed it to be nothing more than a distorted photo of

a deer with its own glowing eyes loating above its head.

Back in 2010, a Louisiana hunter made national waves with a photo of a creepy-look-ing igure he labeled “Hill-billy Willi” prowling near his tree stand. But the supposed “swamp monster” was de-bunked as Photoshop work when another of the hunter’s photos — a normal photo of a deer — was shown to have the exact same snap time, right down to the second.

“You hear and see a lot of weird stuf,” Whittlin said. “I had a guy call me a little while back who said he was going to use our cameras to ind Bigfoot. You just never know what it’s going to be.”

Whittlin believes the lack of trail-camera photos actu-ally disproves the existence of certain critters,

For example, thousands of sightings of large, black, preda-tory cats are reported in Ten-nessee each year. But despite the multitude of cameras be-ing used in the state, no trail-camera photo of the infamous “black panther” has ever been veriied.

“You never say never,” Whit-tlin said. “But you’d think with all of those cameras covering so much ground, if there were many of them running around, a good picture would eventu-ally turn up.”

Calendar

DEER MANAGEMENT

MSU Deer Management Workshop: June 13-14 at Heartland Church, 385 Stateline Road, Southaven. Topics will include camera survey setup, deer nutrition, food plots, deer habitat, deer ecology, harvest management, predator management, camera survey picture analysis, deer harvest data analysis, aging deer and wild pig management. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. each day with the program lasting from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost is $95 per daily workshop or $180 for both. Register online at cfr.msstate.edu/workshops/deer2014.

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Live Fish Feedings: Every Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 4 p.m. at Bass Pro Shops in Memphis. Learn about ish kept in the aquarium at Bass Pro. Contact: 901-213-5800.

FISHING TOURNAMENTS

Bassmaster Elite Series Tournament on Lake Dardanelle: Thursday through Sunday in Russellville, Arkansas. Daily weigh-ins on bassmaster.com.

42nd Annual St. Jude Bass Classic on Sardis Lake: May 25 from Engineers Point. Entry fee is $250 per team. This year’s grand attendance prize will be a fully-rigged War Eagle 761 Renegade boat with a Yamaha outboard. There will also be a guaranteed payout of $5,000 for irst place, $3,000 for second and $2,000 for third. Contact: Rick Lesley at 901-412-7683 or Gary Conklin at 901-832-7720. Special guests: Liz Cavalier, known as the Queen of the Swamp on TV’s “Swamp People,” her husband, Justin, and Glen Guist, will be at the tournament’s check-in on May 24 at Performance Marine in Sardis from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “They will be signing autographs on St. Jude caps and T-shirts,” Lesley said. The cost will be $5 for caps and $10 for a T-shirt with all proceeds going to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “We will also have on display a Mossberg model 500 12-gauge shotgun autographed by members of ‘Duck Dynasty,’ ” he said. “This will be auctioned at the weigh-in on Sunday at Engineers Point. Food and drinks will be available for a donation to the hospital. There will also be a rale for a $500 Bass Pro gift card.”

EverStart Series Central Division Bass Tournament on Kentucky Lake: May 29-31 in Gilbertsville, Kentucky. Daily weigh-ins on lwlive.com.

Bass Pro Shops Big Cat Quest Catfish Tournament: May 31 in Palestine, Texas. Entry fee is $200 per team. A third team member can ish for $50 as long as person is between the ages of 12-17 or 65 and over. Visit bigcatquest.com. �

Kids First Adult/Child Team Bass Tournament on Pickwick Lake: May 31 at Pickwick Landing State Park. Entry fee is $25. Visit kidsirstishing.com.

FLW Tour on Pickwick Lake: June 5-8 in Florence, Alabama. Daily weigh-ins on lwlive.com.

FLW Tour on Kentucky Lake: June 26-29 in Paris, Tennessee. Daily weigh-ins on lwlive.com.

Bass Pro Shops Big Cat Quest Catfish Tournament on the Mississippi River: June 14 in Tunica, Miss. Entry fee is $200 per team. A third team member can ish for $50 as long as person is between 12-17 or 65 and over. Visit bigcatquest.com.

Kids First Adult/Child Team Bass Tournament on Pickwick Lake: June 21 at J.P. Coleman State Park. Entry fee is $25. Visit kidsirstishing.com.

Kids First Adult/Child Team Bass Tournament on Pickwick Lake: July 19 at J.P. Coleman State Park. Entry fee is $25. Visit kidsirstishing.com.

FLW Tour Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Murray: Aug. 14-17 in Columbia, South Carolina. Daily weigh-ins on lwlive.com.

Kids First Adult/Child Team Bass Tournament on Pickwick Lake: Sept. 6 at Pickwick Landing State Park. Entry fee is $25. Visit kidsirstishing.com.

EverStart Series Central Division Bass Tournament on the Mississippi River: Sept. 18-20 in La Crosse, Wisc. Daily weigh-ins on lwlive.com.

Kids First Adult/Child Team Bass Tournament on Pickwick Lake: Oct. 18 at Pickwick Landing State Park. Entry fee is $25. Visit kidsirstishing.com.

EverStart Series Central Division Championship Bass Tournament on Wheeler Lake: Oct. 30-Nov. 1 in Florence, Alabama. Daily weigh-ins on lwlive.com.

A Cuddeback trail camera captured this picture of a bobcat trying to get into the basket that rests on the bottom of a corn feeder. The cat is attempting to nab the squirrel hiding inside the basket.

An Arkansas hunter arrived at his feeder to find it toppled over and im-mediately suspected wild hogs were to blame. But he checked his trail camera to find this buck had somehow gotten his antlers tangled in the structure and pulled it over trying to free himself.

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PHOTOS PROViDED

A trail camera in Texas captured this picture of a small buck that obviously objects to sharing a feeder with a gray fox.

SHOW US YOUR PHOTOS

if you have a trail-camera pic that goes a little (or a lot) beyond the norm, we’d love to see it. E-mail your wild photos to [email protected] or share them at facebook.com/commercialappeal.outdoors. Photos received by e-mail will be posted on The Commercial Appeal Outdoors Facebook page.

When using trail cameras, expect to capture the unexpected

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Sunrise salutes our customer, HerbertWatson. Herbert is pictured here with RandyBoyd and his brand new 2014 GMC Acadia.Herbert served in the U.S. Navy from 1959 to 1978.He started out as a mechanic in Flight and Aviationand eventually retired as Instructor on Duty. In his freetime, he enjoys ishing and four-wheeling.

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Tom EdwardsTom Edwards is the Service Manager at Sunrise ChevroletBuick GMC in Collierville. He has been with us for 5 1/2years, but has more than 41 years of experience in the

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Mike EanesMike Eanes is the Finance Manager at Sunrise Collierville. He

started with Sunrise in 1994 and continues to be a valued team

member. Outside of work, Mike enjoys family time with his wife,

Tammy, and four children, Bailee, Tanner, Jerrod and Garrett. You

may see him at Bellevue Baptist or playing Candy Crush!

NewArrivals

Covington PikeBurt Dunavant, 11 years

Phillip Shelton, 1 year

Paula Meek, 1 year

Anniversaries ColliervilleLaddie Boyce, 8 years

Dennis Dean, 8 years

Ricky Franklin, 8 years

WolfchaseJames King, 12 years

Butch Cohen, 11 years

Robert Ashwander, 4 years

DETROIT- From today until June 30,all active, reserve, retired

and veteran military – regardless of separation date – can

receive the General Motors military discount on Chevrolet,

Buick and GMC.

GM extended military pricing to the more than 21 million

U.S. veterans from all service branches: U.S.Air Force,Army,

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“GM has supported the U.S. military for 100 years.

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SUDOKUPREMIER CROSSWORD

WEEKENDPUZZLE

SOLUTIONS

This is the solution to the crossword puzzle in

Saturday’s editions.

This is thesolution to

the KingFeatures

crossword on

Page 2M.


The New York

Timescrossword

onPage 2M.

TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: BECAUSE MY REGULAR DENTIST WON’T BE REPAIRING CAVITIES TODAY, I SUPPOSE SOMEBODY WILL HAVE TO FILL IN FOR HIM.

ACROSS 1 Abounds 6 Lively dance

for two 11 Brother of

Moses 12 Whale’s

home 13 Drain cover 14 Overly

theatrical 15 Skirt edges 17 Indulgent 18 Striped baby 22 Stench 23 Dishwashing

aid 27 Clark’s

partner 29 Teakettle

output

30 Tony winner Blythe

32 Injure 33 Math

class 35 Guitar

booster 38 Constel-

lation part 39 First Lady

before Michelle

41 Solemn ceremonies

45 Archery item

46 Really impressed

47 Requires 48 Concur

DOWN 1 Playground

game 2 Corn unit 3 Memorable

period 4 Caring

for 5 Snide

look 6 Hard-to-call

contests 7 Play division 8 Patricia of

“Hud”

9 Music’s Lady —

10 Cameo stone

16 Rap performers

18 Narrated 19 Notion 20 Bride’s

wear 21 Pestering 24 Tidy 25 Teri of

“Mr. Mom” 26 TV award

28 Playground sights

31 Go bad 34 Opera’s

Callas 35 Astronaut

Shepard 36 Stallion’s

mate 37 Undiluted 40 Curtain

holder 42 Black goo 43 Ram’s mate 44 Behold

Sudoku

■ Baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra is 89.

■ Critic John Simon is 89.

■ Composer Burt Bacharach is 86.

■ Actress Millie Perkins is 76.

■ Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 64.

■ Singer Billy Squier is 64.

■ Country singer Kix Brooks is 59.

■ Actor Ving Rhames is 55.

■ Rock musician Billy Duffy is 53.

■ Actor Emilio Estevez is 52.

■ Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 49.

■ Actor Stephen Baldwin is 48.

■ Actor Jason Biggs is 36.

Dear Annie: Our neph-ew recently announced his engagement and wed-ding date. His fiancee’s older sister is getting mar-ried two weeks before.

The sister’s future hus-band called my nephew and flat-out stated that it is inappropriate that they have chosen a date so close to theirs, as it will take away from their special day.

He suggested my nephew move his wed-ding to December at the earliest.

However, the sister has not mentioned a word of this to my nephew’s fiancee. We can’t help but think that she, too, is upset about this and asked her fiance to handle it. We are disappointed that what could be the happi-est time of our nephew’s life is filled with stress. What is the wedding pro-tocol in this instance?

— Aunt and Uncle from Wisconsin

Dear Aunt and Uncle: It was very inconsiderate of your nephew and his bride to schedule their wedding two weeks after her sister’s already-chosen date.

It does indeed take away from their special day, and more important-ly, it puts a terrible burden on family and friends in terms of gifts and travel expenses. It also appears to others as though your nephew’s bride resents her older sister.

We hope you can con-vince your nephew to give his guests a few months to recover from the first wedding before attending the next.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Blue-Collar Grandparents,” whose grandchildren are pulling out their hair. I’d like to suggest that they bring up the possibility of PAN-DAS (pediatric autoim-mune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with strep).

If either of these kids has had numerous strep infections, perhaps they should be tested and as-sessed.

I realize now that my son must have had this when he was 4, but I’d never heard of it then. He had seven strep infections in a row.

He began displaying OCD behavior, which included pulling out nearly half of the hair on his head.

If your child has multiple strep infections, it might be worthwhile to check for PANDAS, if only to rule it out.

— A Sympathetic Grandmother

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

5/12/14

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle

Chess Quiz

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

with several given numbers. The object is to place the

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

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

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to

Sunday.

WHITE WINS A PIECEHint: Just take it.

Solution: 1. Bxc5! does it. If ... dxc5, 2. Qg2! (threatens both Qxg7 mate

and 2. Rxd8).

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 it’s easy to become known as a prophet: Just keep saying that bad things are going to happen.

West led the queen of hearts against today’s four spades. South took the ace and cashed the ace of trumps ... and something bad happened: East showed out.

“I’m no prophet, but I might have known,” South grumbled.

He cashed the king of trumps and next led a diamond to dummy’s king. The defense took three diamonds, and West’s queen of trumps won the setting trick.

CLUB RUFF Despite what Cy says, we’re all non-

prophets. The idea is to make a profit even when things go wrong.

After South takes the top trumps, he can cash the A-K of clubs, ru� a club, go to the king of hearts and lead the last club. When East follows, South discards a diamond.

East is end-played. If he leads a dia-mond, dummy’s king wins a trick; South loses only one diamond. If instead East

leads a heart, South discards a diamond as dummy ru�s, again losing only three tricks in all.

By Frank Stewart Tribune Content Agency

Questions and comments: Email Stewart at [email protected]

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You might be uncomfortable with what an associate and/or friend verbal-izes. You understand that this person is not seeing the big picture. Tonight: Visit over dinner.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)★★★★★ You might be deferring to someone else more than you need to be. You could feel as if this person has a better grasp on a situa-tion. Tonight: Say “yes” to an o�er.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)★★★★ Curbing your playfulness could be di�cult, or even impossible. You’ll want to see the big picture. Tonight: Use your ingenuity!

Cancer (June 21-July 22)★★★★ Be more playful and forthright about a situation. Know what you want, and inves-tigate a problem more fully. Tonight: Nap, then decide.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)★★★★ You might want to encourage a discussion. You have many ideas, as do those around you. Some of them will be better than others. Tonight: Make it easy.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)★★★★ Listen to news with an eye to change. The impact could be financial. You might want to step back and observe more. Be aware of the costs involved at this point. Tonight: Time for a two-way talk.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You might be less grounded than someone you’re working with, but your cre-ativity and intellectual resourcefulness are likely to point to the correct path. Tonight: As you like it.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★ Assume a low profile in how you deal with a personal matter. You also might not want to lie low in other areas. Tonight: Get some extra R and R.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)★★★★ You’ll want to zero in on the real issue behind a problem that keeps being debated in a meeting; otherwise, you and the others in the group will not come to a con-sensus. Tonight: Stop and visit with a friend.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★★ Take charge of a problem in order to prevent a significant fallout from happening. Allow your creativity to flow as you figure out what might be appropriate. Tonight: Join some friends for a fun adventure.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)★★★ You might be more stuck on a profes-sional matter than you realize. Remain sen-sitive to a friend or loved one at a distance. Tonight: Consider taking a trip.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)★★★★ You might want to revise your think-ing about an investment. A discussion with a partner could be di�cult. Speak your mind. Tonight: Return calls.

Horoscope

This year you often feel uncomfort-able in what normally are easy situ-ations; you could feel awkward at work or at the dentist’s office. This same feeling might permeate impor-tant conversations. Take good care of yourself, and make sure you see the dentist and doctor on a regular schedule. If you are single, you easily could meet someone through your daily travels or through a co-worker; this person could knock your socks off. If you are attached, the two of you will get into many conversations and come to agreements more often than you have in the past. LIBRA is as gentle as you are.

What the stars Mean

★★★★★

Dynamic★★★★

Positive★★★

Average★★

So-so★

Difficult

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYBy Jacqueline Bigar King Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.

MARCY SUGAR & KATHY MITCHELL

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

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Inconsiderate wedding date choice causes controversy

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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SUNDAY BREAK

By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 “I.Q.” co-star

Walter 8 Hearing-airing

channel 13 1990s

Oldsmobile model

20 Most sore 21 Singer Katy 22 Two-time 23 Start of a riddle 25 Sweet Italian

wine 26 Swizzle 27 Co- — (some

apartments) 28 Blood

classification system

29 Insects in the woodwork

30 Filled to the very top

32 Macchio or Nader

34 “Who’s in charge here?” reply

35 Riddle, part 2 42 Wary 43 Class for U.S.

immigrants 44 Tiny building

block 45 Sinful habit 46 Family reunion

mem. 47 Funnyman Foxx 50 Andes animals 52 — large extent 53 Riddle, part 3

58 Greenish-blue colors

60 Places to secure ships

61 Countless centuries

62 Be fraught with meaning

64 Student transcript fig.

65 Traveled via canoe

68 Category 69 Egypt’s — Stone 73 Leech, e.g. 74 Oft-pierced

body parts 79 January, to José 80 Riddle, part 4 83 Fragrant

neckwear 84 Earnest attempt 86 Fish that wriggle 87 Ocean off N.C. 88 “— wrap!” 90 Soprano Jenny 91 Tacoma-to-

Spokane dir. 93 F sharp’s

equivalent 95 End of the riddle 101 — Wee Reese 102 Concepts, in

Québec 103 The Hunter in

the sky 104 No-show 108 151, in old Rome 109 Indian flatbread 110 Large Sicilian

volcano 114 Pinpoints

115 Riddle’s answer 118 Least tight 119 Not satisfied,

as needs 120 Slippery 121 Friendly pact 122 Wearing a

housecoat 123 Spayed, say

DOWN 1 Greedy mouths 2 Eight, in

Germany 3 Tongue of

Bangkok 4 Measure via

a reagant 5 Males 6 “Michael Row

the Boat —” 7 Ideal place 8 Rank below Sgt. 9 “Me Talk Pretty

One Day” author David

10 The major leagues

11 “The Stupids” star Tom

12 TV scientist Bill 13 High point 14 Alluring

magnetism 15 Writer Melville 16 1994 sci-fi

writer’s memoir 17 Coup d’—

(rebellion) 18 Meadow rodent 19 Santa — (desert

winds)

24 Branch of the mil.

29 They precede iotas

31 Globe-circler Nellie

33 Nutty confection 35 Cardio workout

system 36 Icy home 37 Old screen star

Lamarr 38 “Enough!,” in

El Salvador 39 Crucial 40 — Lodge (motel) 41 Minimum 42 Squeeze (in) 47 Charged, as in

battle 48 Thing to hatch

out of 49 Evening time 50 Cry before

“No hands!” 51 Caught

between — and Charybdis

54 One prodding 55 Walk very

quietly 56 Exit door 57 Listened to 59 Comedian

— Smirnoff 63 Buenos —,

Argentina 66 Given out as

deserved 67 Frankie Avalon’s

“— Dinah” 69 Saintly article

70 “I’m not — complain ...”

71 Earthquake 72 Attach 75 Hole-making

tool 76 Blues street of

Memphis 77 “Cómo —?” 78 Sodium 81 Country singer

Milsap 82 — -do-well 85 Most speedy 89 Mollify 91 Baby female

sheep 92 “Forget it!” 93 Mop & — 94 Diplomacy 96 Pre-Easter 97 Dance music

genre 98 Hawaiian coffee 99 Speechified 100 Music ending 104 Everyone, in

Germany 105 Great benefit 106 Local near a loch 107 Punta del —,

Uruguay 111 Candy bar

from Mars 112 Actress

Campbell 113 Sacked out 115 Mangy mutt 116 British corp.

designation 117 They precede

xis

ACROSS 1 Like many

shotguns 9 Mole 14 Back-to-back

games 20 Singer

Christina 21 ___ gin fizz 22 “Twelfth Night”

lover 23 Oil and

gasoline giant 24 Very vexed 25 Leonardo ___,

a.k.a. Fibonacci 26 ___-pitch

softball 27 What a

detective tries to reconstruct

29 “Platoon” setting

30 Sommelier’s prefix

31 Flavor 32 Lozenge brand 34 “Platoon”

director 37 Suckling site 38 “The Man Who

Mistook His Wife for ___” (1985 best seller)

42 Old Baby Bell based in the Big Apple

43 Assents 45 Stretch out 47 Neuter 50 Literary inits. 52 Jai alai basket 53 Water checker? 56 Going out for

the afternoon? 60 The Who’s “My

Generation,” e.g.

64 Pelvic parts 66 Musician’s

practice with four sharps

68 Former Obama social secretary Rogers

69 Over 70 Like some

swords ... or a hint to this puzzle’s theme

72 Balkan native 75 Old Jewish

villages

77 Start of a Beatles refrain

78 Old Highlands dagger

79 Thelma and Louise, e.g.

82 Davis and Midler

84 Cover some ground?

85 Dizzy 86 Bit 88 “___ put it

another way...” 90 Persevered 94 Spurs 98 Landmark tech

product of 1981 102 Latin “to be” 103 Biblical name

of ancient Syria 105 Dispel

differences 108 “CSI” setting 110 Coal or pine

product 111 Melted

chocolate, e.g. 112 Kind of algebra 116 “Is it in you?”

sloganeer 118 Write-___ 119 Renter’s dream,

maybe 120 Lhasa ___

(dogs) 121 Some sheet

fabrics 124 Nothing, in

Napoli 125 Tuscany town 126 Sign-up 127 Classic London

transport 128 Genetic

structure 129 Source of some

discrimination

DOWN 1 Wind

instrument pitched an octave lower than its smaller cousin

2 How ballerinas move

3 “Enter quickly!”

4 Rock’s Ocasek

5 Pipe fitting 6 Renter

7 Heath evergreens

8 Thinks maybe one can

9 Huffington of the Huffington Post

10 Teri of “Tootsie”

11 Subject of some computer settings

12 Closeted 13 Lao-___ 14 Enter quickly 15 Native New

Yorkers 16 ___ D.A. 17 Primatologist

Fossey 18 Sicilian city 19 Hotel accom-

modation for more than one

28 Kindle competitor

29 ___ chops 31 Battle of

the ___ 33 Letter that’s

also a name 35 Chillax 36 Art

appreciation 38 Forever young 39 Dimmed stars? 40 Aleutian isle 41 Gang up on, as

in basketball 44 “How ___” 46 Tar Heels’

state: Abbr. 48 German

musical entertainment

49 Auto sponsor of Groucho Marx’s “You Bet Your Life”

51 Hawk 53 Commit a chip-

eating faux pas

54 King lead-in 55 Boo-boos 57 Shell seen

around water

58 Formatting feature on a typewriter

59 Totality 61 Sired 62 Unfazed by 63 Better at

picking things up?

65 Jock 67 Job listing inits. 71 Descent 73 Old car make

that’s a homophone of a modern car model

74 Relative of a twin

76 Anatomical tissue

79 Reaction of surprise

80 Ticks off 81 Need a lift? 83 Brand of power

tools 87 Vet, e.g. 89 Queen’s

honour: Abbr. 91 Brightly

colored bird 92 Country whose

flag says “God is great” 22 times

93 Chess champ Mikhail

95 Part of a jazz combo

96 Precious 97 Mexican

shawls 99 ___ Gorilla,

1960s TV cartoon character

100 First of a kind 101 Betrayed 104 Raucous bird 106 Squirrel, e.g. 107 South

American land 108 Al ___ 109 Swiss city on

the Rhine 112 Attraction in a

carbon dioxide molecule

113 Baby’s boo-boo 114 Equivalent of

20 fins 115 Something

clickable 117 Collette of

“United States of Tara”

120 Blond shade 122 Bamboozle 123 City council

rep. Difficulty level ★★★★★

Answer to yesterday's puzzle

Sudoku 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 68 minutes.

5-11-14

“I’ve pleaded with Minnie to get new glasses,” Cy the Cynic told me. “She said she doesn’t need any. She said she drinks straight from the carton.”

“I hope she had a twinkle in her eye when she said that,” I laughed.

Minnie Bottoms, my club’s senior member, wears an ancient pair of bifocals that make her mix up kings and jacks, often to her opponents’ dismay. Cy has been Minnie’s chief victim.

“She got me again in a team match yesterday,” Cy fumed. “The contract at both tables was four hearts. At one table, West led the jack of diamonds, and East took the ace and re-turned a diamond to the king. West got out with a club.

“South won with the ace, cashed the ace of trumps and took the queen and king of clubs. He then exited with a trump, and when West won, he was end-played. He had to lead from the king of spades or concede a ru�-slu�, so South made his contract.”

“Declarer played it well,” I observed. “He gave himself an extra chance.”

“I was declarer at the other table,” Cy growled, “and Min-nie was West. Her opening lead was the KING of dia-monds. She thought she was leading the jack, of course. When the king won, she led a second diamond to East, and he shifted to a spade. I was helpless. I had to lose a spade and a trump.”

Minnie found the killing lead. Unless the defenders take their two diamond tricks, South can discard a diamond from dummy on his fourth club. But if West wins the sec-ond diamond, she can’t shift to a spade, and South can pull o� his end play.

Dear Harriette: I’m worried that my son is going to turn out to be a player. He’s only 18, but already he has had multiple girlfriends at the same time, broken several hearts and smiled about it. I don’t like this behavior. He is charming, much like his dad used to be, and is turning out to be bad news for girls. As his mother, I don’t want to sit around and watch him turn into a regular old lothario. How can I get him to curb his behavior? His dad does nothing but egg him on. That’s part of the reason why I divorced him. He didn’t see the value in a monogamous marriage. I want my son to share my values. Help!

— Playboy’s Mom, Los Angeles

Answer: You can con-tinue to reinforce your values to your son. Talk to him about his behavior and how it a�ects those around him. Ask him if he really thinks it is OK to hurt women’s feel-ings, to lead them on and

to date more than one person at a time. As he answers, talk openly with him about his beliefs and counter with yours. De-scribe to him how women feel when they believe a boyfriend duped them.

If you are clear that he is going to be a so-called “lothario,” suggest that he be honest with his dates and let them know up front that he is not the monogamous type. At least then they will know what they are getting into. If at all possible, talk to his father about resist-ing the temptation to encourage his disrespect-ful behavior.

Mom wants to curb son’s insensitive dating habits

HARRIETTECOLE

SENSE & SENSITIVITY

Send questions to [email protected] or c/o Universal Uclick, 1130 Wal-nut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ Someone might be rather challenging. Recog-nize the inevitable change of roles. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★ No one knows how to lounge and be laidback like you do, though you often do not permit that behavior. Tonight: Put your feet up.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ Make time for a child. Perhaps you’ll opt to join him or her for a fun activity. Tonight: Ever play-ful.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★ Be more sensitive to a family member. Arguments could erupt, especially as others seem to be control-ling. Tonight: Be a couch potato.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ You might feel slightly overburdened by what needs to be done, but a phone call could cheer you up. Tonight: Catch up on a pal’s news.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ Be conscious of a need to overspend. This activ-ity might be OK once in a while, but in general it does not work out well. Tonight: Review your budget.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You could be in-volved in an argument. Lat-er you might wish that you had not lost your temper. Tonight: As you like it.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★ Take some much-needed personal time o�; you will feel much better as

a result. If you want to take a walk alone, do. Tonight: Be mysterious.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Join a group of friends in an activity or pas-

time that you all enjoy. To-night: Happy as a clam.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ Defer to someone else. You could be far more con-tent if you let others take c o m m a n d . Tonight: The

only answer is “yes.”

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ Someone could make an overture that is quite touching. Decide to let go. Tonight: Watch a fa-vorite show.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ Remain respon-sive to a loved one. Don’t get sucked into the blaming game. Tonight: Make it din-ner for two.

What the stars mean:

★★★★★

Dynamic ★★★★

Positive ★★★

Average ★★

So-so ★

Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you view your day-to-day life differently. You are inspired in many ways by a desire for change. If you are single, you are likely to meet someone in a strange way, per-haps while having an argument with someone else. If you are attached, the two of you will want to develop a common in-terest or hobby. LIBRA is quite generous with his or her time when interacting with you.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Joined Sides

By Mary Lou Guizzo / Edited By Will Shortz

5-11-14

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE MATES IN 2Hint: Divert a key defender.

Solution: 1. Qh7ch Nxh7 2. Rg6 mate [Hoi-Gulko ’88].

A H Q F W C H R P T H D W I F T B H S U E C U V Z S ’ U

A H T H J F E T E S D Q F Y E U E H C U Z B F P ,

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X F Y H U Z L E I I E S L Z T X E R .

5-11 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: V equals W

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate




SUNDAY BREAK


Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope



channel 13 1990s

Oldsmobile model







32 Macchio or Nader
























Germany 3 Tongue of











winds)






























xis

ACROSS 1 Like many


games 20 Singer


lover 23 Oil and



softball 27 What a










Generation,” e.g.







villages




82 Davis and Midler







product 111 Melted



maybe 120 Lhasa ___






discrimination

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH A risk will pay of in a surprising way. A discussion is long overdue. Be ready to move forward and let go of confusion. Ultimately, you will resolve the issue.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Deal with a partner directly. You can’t keep putting this situation on the back burner. The end results could surprise you, as there is likely to be an unexpected turn.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Others might assume more control than they have in a while. Though someone could become quite diicult, he or she will respond eventually. This person values the tie between you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Defer to an associ-ate who seems more grounded than he or she has been in a while. You have become rather familiar with having some up-roar on the homefront. The re-sponsible party might be willing to compromise; listen to what he or she shares.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Your love of life comes out in nearly everything you do. Understand that someone might feel pressured by a situa-tion that keeps causing you a bit of a problem. Let impulsiveness call the shots, at least for today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Be more forthright and direct in how you are dealing with a family member, even if you view this person as cagey. A partner will appreciate the way you are handling a tension-lad-en situation. A boss or higher-up could be observing you as well.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could be rather dis-associated from what is going on. Your mind, though respon-sive to those in your present environment, seems to drift to a diferent person or place. Be as direct as possible when dealing with others. Clear up confusion.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Honor a inancial agreement, even if there was or is confusion around it. A partner has similar concerns, but he or she is likely to proceed difer-ently. Coming to an agreement with this person could take sig-niicant efort on your part.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Beam in more of what you want. A certain ele-ment of excitement surrounds what you do. The unexpected could occur when dealing with a loved one. Maintain a sense of humor, and everything will go well.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Note what is going on behind the scenes. Follow your instincts when dealing with a family member. You could be more confused than you real-ize. Take your time addressing a problem. Try not to make a inal decision just yet.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Zero in on what you want. Have a long-overdue conversation with someone you care about. This person could be very excited to inally air out some issues. Tap into your cre-ativity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You might want to have a discussion with a family member before you relax. Be willing to invest more in your home life. Your environment can make all the diference in how you feel. Make that extra efort, and you will be happier.

By Judith Martin and Jacobina MartinUniversal Uclick

Dear Miss Manners: There is a wonderful smartphone app that I use shamelessly to spy on my children. It’s the teenage equivalent of toddler walk-ing reins and allows me to (a) reassure myself they are where they’re meant to be and there’s been no mis-hap, (b) time dinner on the table to the minute, and (c) time pickup arrangements to the minute.

I appreciate that at some point it will no longer be appropriate to do this to my children, but right now it is useful. I’m so pleased with it, I’ve told all my friends — who have also been very pleased. The problem is that my friends now want to be able to see where I am at any given point.

There’s a button on the app to electronically invite people, and the invitee can

then accept or decline. So far I’ve ignored it, which doesn’t seem quite nice, but I don’t want to accept, and a cold decline seems unkind. I thought of say-ing that I thought they must have sent it to me by mistake, but am worried they might reply that it was quite deliberate.

I love these people dearly and I really want to avoid hurt feelings. How do I gracefully exclude myself from an app that I think is wonderful for keeping an eye on chil-dren, and everyone else thinks is good for keeping an eye on adults, too?

Gentle Reader: It is perfectly acceptable to ignore the request from your friends or acciden-tally erase it. Then if it comes up in conversation, you may delect it as you said: “Oh, I thought this was only for spying on the children. I never dreamed it would be used for adults.

How funny it would be to know a person’s every move! Can you imagine?”

Presumably this would help them understand that maybe they wouldn’t want to be similarly stalked.

Dear Miss Manners: Good friends of ours have two adult children. One re-cently married in a family-only ceremony with only six people in attendance. The other child is having a lavish afair at a country club, which we will attend.

We plan on giving checks as gifts. Do we give the same amount to both, even though one is invit-ing us to the afair while the other chose a private ceremony?

Gentle Reader: Are you under the impression that wedding presents consti-tute payment for enter-tainment?

Send your questions to [email protected].

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Germantown native Michael Petrina, a promis-ing young oicer with the Metropolitan Nasvhille Police Department, was struck and killed by a mo-tor home while assisting at the scene of an accident Saturday.

Petrina, 25, was hit by the oversized vehicle as he was guiding traic at the Old Hickory on-ramp of Interstate 65. He died at the scene at 9:48 a.m.

Although Petrina had moved east to Nashville last year to begin his ca-reer in law enforcement, the rookie oicer’s roots ran deep in the Memphis area.

Petrina graduated from Houston High in 2008 and went on to study criminol-ogy at the University of Memphis.

Professor K.B. Turner, chairman of the univer-sity’s criminology depart-ment, said in an e-mail Sunday that he remem-bered his former student well, and ofered condo-lences to the Petrina fam-ily on behalf of the univer-sity and his department.

“What I remember most about him was his sincer-ity and level of respect toward others,” Turner said. “He would often chat with me about his classes and his future plans as a military oicer and a law enforcement oicer. I will always remember the talks we had.”

Petrina joined the Ten-nessee National Guard in 2010 and graduated from the university in 2012.

Petrina began volun-

teering with the Forever Young Se-nior Veter-an Wish Or-ganization during his junior year, and ac-companied a group of

World War II veterans to the memorial in Washing-ton in 2011.

Founder and president Diane Hight said Petrina’s passion for honoring the legacy of World War II veterans moved many of them to tears during the 2011 trip.

“The world has lost something great, and that’s the truth,” Hight said. “I always thought: This guy is going to do something great. That’s the way you felt about him, you just

knew that he was really going to be a great man.”

When Petrina gradu-ated from Nashville’s po-lice academy in September 2013, we was awarded the Oicer Christy Dedman Spirit Award, named in honor of a Metro police oicer who was similarly struck and killed by a trac-tor-trailer in 2004.

Petrina’s parents, Jim and Joyce, still live in Germantown. His brother, Anthony Petrina, has been The Peabody’s duckmaster since 2012.

Reached by phone Sun-day, Jim Petrina said he wasn’t ready to talk about his son’s death but knew that he was happy working in law enforcement.

“He loved what was he was doing, and he was do-ing it when he died,” he said.

Community


By Trena StreetSpecial to The Weekly

When Collierville po-lice oicer Steve Borders received the Memphis Shelby County Optimist Club “Respect for Law Of-icer of the Year” award, his wife, Pam, and chil-dren, Isabella, Samantha and Jared, were among those in attendance illing the chambers at the town of Collierville courthouse.

Collierville Police Chief Larry Goodwin recom-mended Borders for the award.

Goodwin acknowl-edged Borders as a gradu-ate of the Memphis Police Training Academy’s 18th regional class and noted his “strong work ethic and leadership” which makes him “an obvious choice for the department’s ield training oicer position.”

“He continues to set the bar as a traic oicer,” Goodwin said. “He was recognized as Oicer of

the Month by CPD in De-cember 2013, which cul-minated in an outstanding year of performance as he worked 242 crashes, issued 579 citations and made 97 arrests. His stats equate to an average of over 48 cita-tions a month and over eight arrests a month.”

Since 1964, Evonne Siemer of the Memphis and Shelby County Opti-mist Club Respect the Law Committee said the award, which originated in Shelby County, is now a national-ly recognized award and Borders’ recognition is one of seven awards presented in Shelby County.

A proclamation by Mayor Stan Joyner ac-knowledged May 5-10 as

“Respect for Law Week” in Collierville. Gary Swinger, on behalf of Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, also presented a proclamation.

Presented annually, the program aims at combat-ing crime, respect for the law and to maintain faith in the preservation of the law and the appreciation and importance of law en-forcement oicers.

In accepting the award, Borders said, “This is an honor, blessing and a privi-lege ... I would be nothing without God, my family and my fellow brothers and sisters in blue.”

Trena Street is with the Town of

Collierville’s public information

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Borders wins Optimist Club’s Oicer of the Year

Donnie Walden (right), County Optimist Club Respect for Law committee chairman, congratulates Steve Borders for being named “Respect for Law Oicer of the Year.”

IN MEMORIAM

Fallen oicer had roots in G’town

Michael Petrina

In brief

G E R M A N T OW N

VBS at St. George’s“Faith on the Farm”

will be the theme for St. George’s Episcopal Church’s vacation Bible school for children in fourth and fifth grades. The program will be June 16-20, from 9 a.m. to noon at the church, 2425 S. Ger-mantown Road. The cost is $20 per child with a family maximum charge of $40. The last day to sign up is May 22.

Baseball Camp

The irst Houston Mus-tang Baseball Camp, cov-ering fundamentals, will be June 2-5, from 9 a.m. to noon for kindergarten through eighth graders.

The second camp, cover-ing hitting and competition camps, will be June 9-23, from 9 a.m. to noon. Call Lane McCarter, 901-626-1215 for information. Also, visit mustangsbaseball.com or e-mail [email protected]. To sign up online, visit camp-scui.active.com/orgs/mus-tangsbaseball. The cost for each camp is $75, or $140 for both.

WW II vets meeting

The Mid-South WWII Veterans will meet Thurs-day at Germantown Baptist Church at 10:30 a.m. Gene Coe will speak, which will include Omaha Beach D-Day veteran Vince Rowell. For more information, call 901-299-7516.

CO L L I E RV I L L E

Healthy Living ExpoThe YMCA at Schilling

Farms will have its an-nual Healthy Living Expo Thursday, from 9-11:30 a.m. There will be free health screenings, blood pressure checks, spinal screenings, heel scans and more. There also will be vendors pro-viding information on how to live a healthier lifestyle, cake and plant walk.

Meet and greet Grizzlies’ mascot

There will be a meet and greet with Memphis Grizzlies mascot, Grizz, Sunday at PT Squared, 110 N. Main St. Grizz will be on hand to meet fans and sign autographs.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2014

ST. GEORGE’S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL

Dean Brown, Valedictorian

Dean is a dedicated student, a varsity athlete, and an activevolunteer. He has been named a National Merit Finalist andreceived the University of Virginia Book Award last year.

of Virginia in the fall and has been accepted into their highselective Echols Scholars Program. Upon commencement, he

has been inducted into the math, history, art, Spanish, andLatin honors societies and is a member of the National HonorSociety and the Cum Laude Society. In co-curricular activi-ties, he served as captain of the Knowledge Bowl Team, vicepresident of the Student Senate, and was a member of the PeerLeadership Council. He also spent his senior year serving asPrefect for Academics (prefects are the highest leadership po-sition in the school). During the fall, he was the quarterbackand captain of the school’s football team, a team that madeit to the state championship game in the fall. Dean is also animpact player on the state championship varsity soccer team.Additionally, he spends his time coaching a middle schoolrecreational basketball team with a friend. Finally, Dean is co-president of Ali’s Way, an organization that supports childrenwith cancer. He has been instrumental in changing the struc-ture of the programming this year and raising thousands ofdollars for the charity in the process.

Jason Crawford, Salutatorian

Not one to shy away from a challenge, Jason will graduatehaving completed the most challenging schedule possible,

American Experience, a discussion-based, college-level hu-manities course taught by the school president. He will grad-uate having taken nine AP courses (in English, math, science,and history/social science) and four honors courses. Jasonspends the majority of his time working to support others. Heis employed ten hours each week as a tutor at Mathnasium,

with younger students. He also tutors privately for a numberof middle and upper school students and is a tutor in theschool’s peer-led Writing Center, a clear nod to his strengthsand interests across the board. Jason is an active member ofthe Peer Leadership Council, a highly selective leadershipopportunity where juniors and seniors are paired with smalladvisory groups in the middle school to discuss everythingfrom schoolwork to peer pressure. Finally, Jason is a memberof the Institute for Citizenship, a two-year curricular optionthat examines issues in-depth on local, national, internation-al, and environmental levels. Jason will be attending TexasTech University in the fall, and was was accepted into theircompetitive Rawls Business Leadership Program. In additionto scholarship funds and individual attention from mentorsand faculty through this program, Jason will also receive astipend to further his education overseas during his under-graduate experience.

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