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Germantown Athletic Club Youth Activities coordinator Leala McLaughlin (center) checks in toddlers at the gym’s Kids Klub, which provides itness activities for children as well as drop-in child care. An expanded Kid’s Klub is part of a $1.5 million renovation of the facility at 1801 Exeter.

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VINTAGE VROOMCollierville’s annual car and bike show draws classic cars of all makes and models. COMMUNITY, 3

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Special to The Weekly

The Town of Collierville launched a new website, noknock.collierville.com, devoted to the solicitation ordinance recently passed by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.

Residents may visit noknock.collierville.com to add their address to the town’s “No Knock” registry, and ind valuable informa-tion including solicitation safety tips and ordinance de-tails. Commercial solicitors may also use the site to read and print materials required to apply for a solicitation per-mit. The permit process, as well as the solicitation ordi-nance, will become efective Oct. 9.

If you are a Collierville resident, and do not want commercial solicitors to conduct door-to-door sales at your home, visit noknock.collierville.com, ind the “No Knock” registry tab on the main menu, ill out the re-quired ields and then click “Process Subscription.”

This two-minute process will prohibit commercial solicitors from visiting your home; this does not include non-commercial solicitors such as religious organiza-tions, scout troops, or chari-table organizations.

To prevent all forms of solicitation from engaging in door-to-door sales, home-owners must display a “No Soliciting” or “No Trespass-ing” sign near the entryway or door to their home.

Collierville residents will receive a free “No Soliciting” sticker and ordinance fact sheet in the mail soon.

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By Lizzie ChoySpecial to The Weekly

September is National Literacy Month, and for many, local libraries and online publications are easy to access with just a short drive or click of a mouse.

Still, there are some areas of Memphis where books are not that acces-sible, and one phenome-non that has been gaining momentum in that past few years and is changing that is Little Free Librar-ies. Modeled after bird-

houses, they are located in front of people’s homes and businesses with the words “Take a book. Leave a book.” They are free and are great ways to engage a community.

Simple in their design but big in their purpose, the number of Little Free Libraries is growing in Memphis, especially due to the involvement of the faculty, staf and stu-dents at Rhodes College. Prof. Victor Coonin, who teaches art history at the college says while run-ning in the neighborhood,

he often passed by Little Free Libraries and thought they were an interesting concept. Then when a resident of the Vollintine Evergreen Community Association contacted him last summer about build-ing one for her, he thought it would be a good idea to get the Rhodes community

involved.Sophia Mason, a Rhodes

senior and member of the Fine Arts Club, is one of the students who helped to build the Little Free Li-braries, and she even got her family to become stew-ards of a library at their

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Rhodes students, staf build Little Free Libraries

This Little Free Library can be found at the neighborhood pool at Almadale Place on the Germantown and Collierville border near Houston High.

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Eileen Joe is such a devotee of the Germantown Athletic Club, she’s there 30 or 40 minutes before her irst class every day, just to take in the vibe.

“The group classes are fantas-tic. They have lots of morning classes, lots of evening classes. I take three classes every day, yoga, Pilates, cardio kickboxing ...” she says, ticking of her favorites. “They change up the schedule, and the instructors are excellent.”

Truth is, as a Silver Sneakers member, a senior citizen with gym privileges through her insurance, Joe has a choice of a half-dozen participating gyms within 5 miles

of her home, and Germantown of-icials know it.

To keep her and the 12,753 other members, the suburb upped its game, starting eight years ago when it rebranded its athletic fa-cility, a hodgepodge of recreation

leagues, pottery classes and Nauti-lus equipment running at a deicit.

“Other clubs had started to come on the scene,” says City Administrator Patrick Lawton,

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Students in Tharwa Bil-beisi’s Gentle Yoga Class slowly move through a se-ries of stand-ing poses. Other popular instruction in-cludes Pilates and cardio kickboxing.

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Drug take back program is Saturday

Germantown is part-nering with the Drug Enforcement Administra-tion Tennessee District to conduct the 10th national prescription drug “Take-Back” program Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Germantown Police will be collecting expired, unused or unwanted pre-scription drugs at Kroger, 7735 Farmington, and Target, 9235 Poplar. Only pills or patches will be col-lected. The program is free and anonymous.

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Baby red panda named Scout

The Memphis Zoo’s baby red panda now has a name: Scout.

Zoo oicials announced the winning name Satur-day as part of International Red Panda Day. The win-ning entry was submitted by Sheila Goodman and 8-year-old Lauren Deer.

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Roland announces his committees

Newly elected Shelby County Commission chairman Terry Roland has named his standing committee assignments.

Committee appoint-ments are as follows: Walter Bailey, communi-ty services; Steve Basar, conservation; Mark Bill-ingsley, law enforcement, f ire, corrections and courts; Willie Brooks, economic development and tourism; Melvin Burgess, audit; George Chism, public works; Justin Ford, general gov-ernment; Eddie Jones, core city, neighborhoods and housing, delinquent tax property, land use planning, transportation and codes enforcement; Reginald Milton, hos-pitals and health; David Reaves, education; Heidi Shafer, legislative afairs; Van Turner, budget and inance.

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mentioning the aerobics boom that helped usher itness into vogue.

“We had an identity cri-sis on our hands. Did we want to remake the com-munity center or stay in that business?”

City leaders decided there was no reason the center should be a drain on the general fund and put together a business plan. For the irst time ever, they are about to execute a multiyear $5 million upgrade that is expected to be funded entirely with club proits.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved the irst phase this week, a $1.5 million renovation of mechanical systems and restrooms, plus work to triple the size of the children’s area and add amenities like licensing from the Department of Children Services for the drop-in day-care.

Phil Rogers, an exercise science major from the University of Mississippi, runs the 100,000 square-foot operation. Among other things, he is judged on how well he retains members.

“If I get 100 new mem-bers a month, that’s great, but if I’m losing 101 out the back door, we are not do-ing what we need to be do-ing,” he said.

The GAC ofers incen-tives for participation. It also ofers what Rogers calls “oppis,” or opportu-nities for improvement, small cards outside his of-ice members ill out when they see things that could be better.

“Cleanliness is always an issue in health clubs,” Rogers said. “And the way the music sounds.”

Besides the sound sys-tem, the irst phase will replace the 25-year-old heating and cooling sys-tem, relieving Rogers of the pressure of ordering parts for equipment barely manufactured any more. It also includes upgrades to looring throughout the club and focuses on Kids Klub, an expanding ofer-ing of exercise programs for young children and the drop-in child care center that got a boost this week with “Kids Night Out.”

The club at 1801 Ex-eter was built in 1990, the irst building in a row of municipal oferings that serve as the heart of how government can lead in building community.

Next door is the Ger-mantown Performing Arts Center that also is its own proit center. On the opposite end of the build-ing, adjacent to the GAC, is the Great Hall. Within an easy walk are the city library and City Hall.

Revenues should cover all the expenses for the GAC, which in 2011, turned its irst proit. But even af-ter the rebranding, “it took awhile to get our customers back,” Lawton said.

At the end of iscal year 2009, the athletic club was sufering from signiicant shortfalls in revenue com-pared to expenses. A few more draining years fol-lowed, but the bottom line was improving. When the city closed its books on FY15 in June, GAC was $800,000 in the black.

Single GAC member-ships cost $39 a month, in line with the neighboring Jewish Community Cen-ter but less than Life Time Fitness in Collierville.

Nearly 20 percent of Germantown residents belong to the club. About 40 percent of the mem-bers are nonresidents.

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home in Midtown.“There are many kinds

of art that serve diferent purposes, but I think the Little Free Libraries and other things that are open and visible to the pub-lic are important ways to engage people and get them to start talking about things they might not have a way to start talking about,” Mason said.

Mason mentions how in addition to books, her mother places unconven-tional items such as non-perishables or baby toys in their library to provide nice luxuries. Mason also provided a Little Free Li-brary to Shasta Central, a learning community and

resource center in the Midtown-North area that is sponsored by the col-lege.

Director Dorothy Cox says “having the Little Free Library truly has been an asset for the center.” One of the center’s patrons supplies books for the li-brary, especially children’s books and hopes for more people to donate books in that genre. The center also has a ire lieutenant who is a big supporter.

Lauren Sefton, associate director of admission at Rhodes and the irst Mem-phian to have a registered Little Free Library at her home in Harbor Town add-ed, “The biggest beneit of the Little Free Libraries is the community involve-ment. You get to meet your neighbors, and it’s a topic of conversation.”

Little Free Libraries aren’t just popping up in Memphis. In German-town, a miniature library

can be found at Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital and at Almadale Place near Houston High. In Bartlett, Anna Willis set up a library outside her home at 6547 Star Valley Drive. Edd Peyton and his son, Noah, both of Southaven, built their own library and placed it near the playground at the Lakes of Nicholas neigh-borhood.

No matter where they are, the Little Free Librar-ies are serving the purpose of promoting literacy and conversation among new people. For information or to ind a library in your area, visit littlefreelibrary.org.

Lizzie Choy is a Rhodes student

associate in the oice of commu-

nications at Rhodes College.

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By Dan McClearySpecial to The Weekly

Tennessee Shakespeare Com-pany, returns its popular South-ern Literary Salon to kick of its eighth performance season in which it commemorates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death.

Author Harper Lee and her

writing are the subjects of the season’s irst Salon set in the beautiful Germantown home of Anne and Andy McCarroll on Friday, from 6-8 p.m.

Curated by TSC’s Stephanie Shine and titled “Harper Lee’s Alabama Mystery,” the Salon features Monroeville-inspired appetizers, an Southern elixir and the consideration of Atti-cus Finch as he appears in the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird” and now in this summer’s release of “Go

Set a Watchman,” the much-discussed source work of Lee’s masterpiece. In addition to her masterworks, Lee’s signiicant essays will be spoken.

The party starts with food and drink, social conversation of Lee’s works and concludes with TSC’s actors reading from her published words.

Tickets are $55 and includes food, drinks and readings. Dis-counted tickets are available when purchasing both of TSC’s Literary Salons in the season.

On Feb. 26, TSC presents Er-nest Hemingway in Key West at Melia and Drew Murphy’s gracious Germantown home. The evening will pull text from Hemingway’s Key-inspired works, including “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “Green Hills of Africa,” “Death in the After-noon,” “A Farewell to Arms,” “Winner Take Nothing” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”

General admission tickets are on sale now, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at TSC’s

oice, 3092 Village Shops Drive. Call 901-759-0604, visit tnshake-speare.org or tweet at tnshake-speare for more information.

Salon performances are gen-eral admission; irst come/irst seated. Free parking. No refunds or exchanges. Credit card charg-es require a $1 per-ticket fee. Pro-grams and schedules are subject to change with notice.

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FedEx Corp. posted disap-pointing results and trimmed its

full-year proit outlook, although the carrier said it will need more than 55,000 seasonal hires nationally to handle another record peak.

The Memphis-based company lopped 20 cents of its earnings forecast for the year that began June 1. The 1.8 percent decrease was attributed to weaker less-than-truckload industry demand and higher-than-expected insur-ance reserves and operating costs at FedEx Ground.

The results drove down share prices 2.8 percent on Wall Street, closing at $149.63.

A peak season forecast won’t come out until October, but Fe-dEx executives remained bull-ish, despite predictions of modest economic growth in the U.S. and globally.

“Customers are requesting more capacity, not less,” said Mike Glenn, executive vice president, market development and corpo-rate communications. “We view that as a good sign, and that’s why we think we’re well positioned for another record peak.”

The company hired about 50,000 seasonals last year to help move about 290 million packages between Black Friday and Christ-

mas Eve.Rival UPS announced plans

to hire 90,000 to 95,000 seasonal workers, about the same as last year.

Analysts said share prices fell because investors had expected the company to beat earnings forecasts.

Earnings were $2.42 a share for the June-August quarter, slightly below analysts’ expectations of $2.44 a share but 7 percent ahead of last year’s $2.26 a share, or $2.12 a share on an adjusted basis.

The full-year earnings range, which stood at $10.60 to $11.10 in June, was lowered to $10.40 to $10.90, before year-end adjust-ments due to pension accounting rules.

“I think there was some sense the numbers would be a lot bet-ter than they were,” said airline analyst Helane Becker, managing director of Cowen & Co.

Cowen revised its target price for FedEx shares to $190, down from $210, after the earnings call. Becker said that’s still plenty of room for growth. “We expect the shares to move up.”

Art Hatield, Memphis-based analyst with Raymond James, said in a research note: “The takeaway here is that fundamentally, the story at FedEx remains very much intact, though clouded by a tran-sitory hiccup from self-insurance reserves.”

“FedEx Corp. is performing sol-idly given weaker-than-expected economic conditions, especially in

manufacturing and global trade,” FedEx Chairman Frederick W. Smith said. “Our proit improve-ment program is on track and delivering impressive results, and I am very conident FedEx is well positioned to deliver value for share owners, customers and team members in iscal 2016 and beyond.”

The proit improvement pro-gram, announced in 2012, seeks to increase proits at FedEx Ex-press by $1.6 billion a year by next year.

Alan B. Graf Jr., the carrier’s chief inancial oicer, called the results at cargo airline FedEx Ex-press “incredible” considering revenue was down signiicantly.

Express’ operating income in-creased $545 million as revenues fell to $6.59 billion from $6.86 billion. “That’s only possible be-cause of our cost management,” he said.

Graf said the proit outlook as-sumes gains from productivity and aircraft leet modernization and includes higher labor costs from a proposed new pilot con-tract.

The Air Line Pilots Association FedEx master executive council has recommended ratiication of the pilot contract that would bring a 10 percent pay increase this year and raise pay about 26 percent over six years. A vote is scheduled for Sept. 28 through Oct. 20.

“In our outlook going forward is the pilot contract, which we think is fair and balanced for the pilots, their families, the company, the shareholders,” Graf said. “As you know we’re expecting to continue to grow our earnings, our cash low and our returns. Nothing’s changed in that regard.”

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Despite a diicult quarter, FedEx said it is prepping for another record holiday shipping peak and will hire more than 55,000 seasonal workers this year.

Tough quarterFedEx cuts full-year

profit range, but expects record holiday

The biggest benefit of the Little Free Libraries is the

community involvement. You get to meet your neighbors, and it’s a topic of conversation.”

Lauren Sefton, associate director of admissions at Rhodes

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Community

By Craig CollierSpecial to The Weekly

The Town of Collierville staged its 15th Col-lierville Police Classic

Car & Bike Show at Central Church on Saturday.

Under clear blue skies, the visitors’ parking lot illed up quickly as car enthusiasts arrived early to walk along the many rows of classic and current makes and models of cars, trucks and motorcycles.

Viewing the cars, trucks and motor-cycles on display brings back images of a diferent time, a time when cars were so simply made the repair work was often performed by “shade tree mechanics.”

Stop and talk to the vehicle owners and stories often bubble up to the sur-face. A great example is Randy Lewis. Lewis had several Ford Mustangs on dis-play. The oldest was a copper-colored 1965 Ford Mustang and the newest was a 2015 50th anniversary special edition Mustang 5.0. Only 1,964 were made. Lewis’ irst car? A Ford Mustang, of course.

While not every vehicle on display has a story like Lewis’, many brought back memories to both those who at-tended and those who displayed these rolling pieces of history.

While spectators entered for free, owners of the classic vehicles paid a fee to show of their vehicles and were given a chance to win cash prizes.

Proceeds from the event go to the Col-lierville Education Foundation, which issues grants to local educators.

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Classic beauties

Julie Eaves holds a tray to it onto the driver’s window of her 1957 Metro-politan. Eaves has owned her classic vehicle for ive years.

Gary Elam and Marilyn Lander dress up for the annual Collierville Classic Car and Bike Show. Elam brought his 1926 Model T Ford Sedan to the show.

Theresa Cable (left) with Bumpus Harley-Davidson sits in the splash pool while Judy Carr gets ready to throw a ball at the target.

Harold Man-grum proudly shows of the interior of his rebuilt 1954 Chevrolet pickup.

Kenneth Jones’ 1948 Chevrolet C.O.E. car hauler holds a 1960 Chevrolet Corvette convertable and a 1956 Cushman Eagle scooter.

Mike Clark, his son-in-law, Scott Guyette, and his grandson, Jacob Guyette, lean in to get a better look at the 1967 Mus-tang owned by Randy Lewis.

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The “Nuns on the Bus” are on a tight schedule, but I wish they’d spent a little more quality time in Memphis.

They stopped by Sept. 14 for a few hours on their way to see Pope Francis in Washington.

T h e i r “Bridge the D i v i d e s : Tra nsfor m Politics” bus tour is tak-ing them to seven South-ern a nd Midwestern states and 33 events over 13 days and 2,000 miles.

Memphis, a city of wide bridges and wider divides, was their sixth stop in ive days.

Last Monday afternoon, they said prayers at the National Civil Rights Mu-seum and grace at Central Barbecue.

That evening, they conducted a “town hall” meeting at the immaculate Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

Frankly, I was a little disappointed. The “town hall” discussions, while interesting, felt more like a one-sided political focus group.

Sister Simone Campbell, the tour direc-tor, said the bus trips’ goal is to visit “places where there are diferences of opinion.”

That “town hall” was not that place. It was conducted by a dozen nuns from NET-WORK, a Catholic social justice lobby. It was attended by several dozen local peace and social justice advocates and activists.

Whatever diferences of opinion there might have been they were not the kind that got these and other U.S. nuns into hot water with the Vatican a few years ago.

Sister Simone and thousands of her sis-ters were censured for addressing poverty and economic injustice issues while ignor-ing or challenging the church hierarchy’s opposition to abortion and same-sex mar-riage.

In other words, they gave too much time and attention to the poor and not enough to religious authorities — the sort of stuf that got Jesus into trouble.

“We were getting in trouble for doing the very thing Pope Francis is doing,” said Sister Simone, who caught holy hell for promoting the Afordable Care Act.

Francis noticed. He ended the Vatican’s crackdown on U.S. nuns and thanked them publicly for their faithful service to Christ

and the church.“We cannot insist only on issues related

to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods,” he said after he was elected pope in 2013.

“I see the church as a ield hospital after battle ... Heal the wounds. Heal the wounds ... The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or govern-ment oicials.”

Or lobbyists.The purpose of the bus tour is to “listen

to the problems and challenges of Ameri-cans on the economic margins,” Sister Simone said. “We will take those stories to Congress to further strengthen the people’s bold call for change. ... To have an economy of inclusion we need a politics of inclusion.”

First, we need a spirit of inclusion.I understand why progressive nuns

would feel called to engage more directly in a national political discussion increas-

ingly dominated by male conservative Catholics, clergy and lay.

That includes a majority of Supreme Court justices, the Speaker of the House, the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee, and six of 15 Republican presidential can-didates. But in these politically and reli-giously polarized times, we need fewer lobbyists and more witnesses.

Nuns have always been the busiest staf workers in God’s ield hospital, even here in the predominantly Protestant Memphis area.

They have bridged theological and po-litical divides with their compassion and countless acts of mercy in North Memphis and South Memphis, eastern Arkansas and northern Mississippi and all across the dirt-poor Delta.

They transform politics by transcend-ing it.

That’s why I wish the nuns had spent a bit more time in Memphis.

They could have gone with Dr. Pete Gathje to Manna House to talk to men and women struggling with addiction, mental illness, homelessness and hopelessness.

Or with Sister Maureen Griner to the Dorothy Day House of Hospitality to talk to homeless and fearful families cast out by unemployment, illness, abuse and apathy.

Or with Veronica Marquez to Comu-nidades Unidas para Una Voz, a group of immigrants ighting for their human, civil and God-given rights to participate freely and equally in society.

Or to visit with anyone here who is liv-ing and somehow surviving on the eco-nomic margins of the richest and most religious nation on earth.

Then they could have asked some of those folks to join them on the bus to take their own stories to Congress.

Not to lobby, but to witness.That’s how nuns roll.

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Fire safety education starts early for children attending Collierville pre-schools.

The Collierville Fire Department’s Public Edu-cation Division leads a pro-gram called “Kid Safe” in preschool and child care centers in the hopes that burns, injuries and fire deaths may be prevented. Over the last two years, 15 local preschool and child care facilities participated in the Kid Safe program.

Nine hundred children were taught fire safety lessons in the 2013-2014

school year, and more than 1,000 preschoolers were in attendance in 2014-2015.

The Kid Safe curricu-lum is presented in seven lessons culminating in a year-end graduation with a visit from a Collierville firetruck and its crew. Each monthly lesson presents a topic that is reinforced with an activity and/or a song with a take-home handout to share with par-ents. The lessons are de-signed for each new topic to be built upon the last. The topics covered include “Firefighters are Commu-nity Helpers,” “Matches and Lights are Tools for

Adults,” “Exit Drills in the Home” and more.

Each year, hundreds of children are burned (or killed) in residential fires, and the majority of these children are five years or younger. According to case studies, if these young children were taught a few basic concepts about fire and burn safety and pro-vided proper supervision at home, many of these unfortunate accidents and deaths could have been prevented.

“It is our goal to teach young children how to prevent fires and how to properly respond in a

fire situation,” said Erin Daniels, public education specialist. “The Kid Safe curriculum encourages children to practice and to remember fire safety skills. Furthermore, Kid Safe les-sons encourage important family discussions about fire safety at home.”

The Collierville Fire Department is committed to keeping students, their families and the com-munity safe from fire. At home, visit colliervillefd.org/Fire_Prevention/Pluggie’s_Firehouse for online children’s activi-ties centered around fire safety.

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Fire department teaches kids about fire safety

Collierville firefighters Joe Billings, Nathan Webb and Dusty Johnson present a les-son on “Don’t Fear Firefighter in their Gear” at Central Learn-ing Center.

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The Collierville Planning and Development Department has received an environmental grant from the National Fish and Wild-life Department for the Sustain-able Collierville Project.

Emily Harrell is a civil engi-neer in the department, and is in charge of implementing the use of the grant money. She has some big plans with very direct goals.

Harrell’s original proposal for the grant involved stream and coastal restoration and educa-tion. When that proved to be too expensive a task, she moved the focus to environmental education. Her plans for the funds include building outdoor classrooms at the schools, providing water testing kits for students and rain garden education for residents, which could include teaching them to build rain barrels. Har-rell has already begun talking to

the schools. Collierville High and Schil-

ling Farms Middle already have outdoor classrooms that are like small amphitheaters with bench-es for the students and lecterns for the teachers, but Harrell said that they need improvements like planting more trees to block the sun.

“The grant is $20,000, and it’s a 50/50 match, so we have to match that amount,” Harrell said. “We will do that with in-kind services and volunteer work.”

Harrell said that there are also private sponsors involved with the project, such as Collierville Schools and the Collierville Envi-ronmental Association. The Wolf River Conservancy is also a spon-sor. It received a grant from Na-tional Fish and Wildlife last year and will be helping out the project in Collierville with funds remain-ing from their own work. FedEx also is a major sponsor and will

partner with the town in a huge cleanup project that will employ 50-100 volunteers.

The exact location for the clean-up is undecided, but the agenda could include removing trash and invasive species, as well as re-planting with species which are native to the area and with plants attractive to monarch butterflies.

The Board of Mayor and Al-dermen accepted the grant at the Sept. 14 meeting, and Harrell said planning will begin as soon as possible. She says they may start at work at Collierville High School later this month, with hands-on work on the project as a whole be-ginning in late fall or in the spring.

Harrell said she believes more outdoor learning will be benefi-cial to the students. She says she hopes that their involvement in hands-on projects to maintain and replenish their natural surround-ings will influence their parents to get involved in similar projects.

ENVIRONMENT

Planning and Development Dept. wins grant for Sustainable Collierville Project

The Collierville Planning and Development Department recently earned a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Department for its Sustainable Collierville Project.


In the News

Like Memphians everywhere, Justin Taylor fretted over whether Marc Gasol would sign a new con-tract with the Grizzlies.

He monitored the reports of NBA writers. He wondered what was taking so long.

“It got a little tense,” he said. “We were waiting on the oicial word.”

Then, inally, came the magical day. The Grizzlies announced the deal.

Gasol was returning! What a moment of celebration! The corn planting could begin!

Yes, the corn planting. You thought we were talking about wins and playofs and stuf?

Not that Taylor doesn’t enjoy wins and playofs. He’s an enthusi-astic Griz fan. But he also happens to be a co-owner of the Mid-South Maze, which opened last Friday, and which is in the shape of a cer-tain 7-foot NBA basketball player.

He’s not just an all-star center. He’s now an agri-center.

“We thought it would be itting tribute,” said Taylor.

Big Spain meets Big Corn.And, no, this is not the irst time

a sports igure has been captured in agricultural splendor. It’s be-come a part of the American fall.

The very irst corn maze — cut out of a Pennsylvania ield in 1992 — was a dinosaur named Cornelius the Cobasaurus. But sports igures soon became a growing (har!) fad.

LeBron James has been carved into a cornield. So have Rex Ryan, the Chicago Blackhawks and Ma-rio Lemieux.

There was a John Calipari corn maze in Kentucky a few years back. Insert your own “how long does it take to vacate that maze” joke here.

Justin Taylor and his partner (no relation) Chris Taylor got the idea for building a Memphis corn maze back when they were college stu-dents at Lewis & Clark College in

Portland, Ore.“A friend’s father was a farmer

in eastern Oregon,” he said. “He gave us the idea. We realized there wasn’t one in the Memphis area so we decided to give it a try.”

The first Mid-South Maze opened on Sept. 12, 2001. So the timing could certainly have been better, but the concept has taken hold.

“The irst one was the Memphis skyline,” said Taylor. “We’ve done a lot of things. King Tut’s death mask. The Elvis stamp. The Ameri-can Gothic painting. Last year, we did alien crop circles.”

The Mid-South Maze has been the Grizzlies logo and the Mem-phis Tiger logo. But it had never before been cast to look like an in-dividual athlete.

“We just thought it was obvi-ous,” said Taylor. “Marc grew up here. He’s a local boy made good. We just had to know he was com-ing back.”

The Grizzlies announced Gas-ol’s new deal two days before Tay-lor needed to settle on this year’s design. It’s an emotional Gasol, roaring, with clenched ists.

“We came up with the concept, then we work with a man in Utah to do the inal design,” Taylor said. “We plant the corn in mid-July and cut it when it is still low, on Aug. 1.”

Then it’s just a matter of wait-ing, and watching, and hoping it all turns out OK. Not unlike what the Grizzlies themselves once did with Gasol, come to think of it.

It’s the quintessential American success story. From pudgy little

brother to all-star center to agri-cultural immortality.

“We think people will have fun with it,” said Taylor. “Now there’s a chance to get lost in the mind of Marc Gasol.”

You could wander through that mind for a good long time, couldn’t you? Sometimes, Marc himself has a hard time inding his way out. In that way, life imitates corn.

But don’t take my word for it. Head over to the Agricenter and see for yourself. And if you happen to be the woman featured in Craig Brewer’s Gasol recruitment ilm — the one who said she wanted to climb to the top of Gasol — this is your chance.

“We hope Marc likes it,” said Taylor. “We wanted to do some-thing to honor the guy.”

Now that Gasol is planted in Memphis, for good.

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Jonathan Miller (left) and Justin Taylor attach a sign to a walking bridge in preparation for the opening of the Mid-South Maze, which is in the shape of Griz center Marc Gasol. The announcement of Gasol’s new contract came just two days before Taylor needed to settle on this year’s design.

“We hope Marc likes it,” said Taylor, co-owner of the maze. “We wanted to do something to honor the guy.”

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Benjamin and Audrey Reid gave their grandparents a tour of their classroom during Bailey Station’s annual Grandparents’ Breakfast.

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Our Lady of Perpetual Help students went on a local hunt during a recent class exercise. “We’re going on a bear hunt, and we are going to catch a big one,” chanted the children in Rosemary Tullis’ 3K class. The students used their spe-cial binoculars to look closely at their sur-roundings so that they could find the bears.

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Vanessa Tejada, a student at St. Benedict, won Best Overall Student Art, First Award and the Memphis College of Art Award at the Delta Fair.

Germantown’s Courtney Melvin won the Chair-man’s Choice Award at the Delta Fair art contest.

By Sharon MastersonSpecial to The Weekly

St. Benedict at Auburndale seniors Vanessa Tejada and Courtney Melvin of Germantown received the top art awards at the recent Delta Fair competition and exhibition.

Tejada’s outstanding fruit stand piece was chosen Best Overall Student Art. She also won a First Award and the Memphis College of Art Award.

Melvin’s drawing of a dog garnered the Chairman’s Choice Award.

Both students have previously placed in the Brooks Student Scholastic Art Competition and both are AP Art stu-dents at SBA.

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By Jennifer [email protected]

901-529-2372

Seventy-nine Shelby County students were named semiinalists in the National Merit Scholarship program this week.

The approximately 16,000 semifinalists na-tionwide will compete for roughly 7,400 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million. The scholarships will be award-ed next spring.

The semifinalists are chosen based on Prelimi-nary SAT scores, known as the PSAT, usually taken

in the junior year. Finalists and the award winners are chosen based on an appli-cation including an essay, SAT scores their senior year, their overall academic record and extracurricular involvement.

The following students are semiinalists (arranged by city and school):

ARLINGTONArlington High: Ryan A.

Brightwell, Daniel Ma

BARTLETTBartlett High: Matthew

T. Scott

COLLIERVILLE

Collierville High: Jackson S. Bentley, Yue He, Vance F. Hudson, Sean T. Kirwan, Sneha Mittal, Morgan N. Stefey

St. George’s Independent: Carter B. Burgess, Frances-ca Healy, Michael C. Squil-lacioti

EADSBriarcrest Christian High:

Nicholas R. Collins, Jenna M. Dula, Brittany N. Hat-maker, Taylor L. Morgan

GERMANTOWNGermantown High: Ven-

kat Sai A. Kanneganti, Lea J. Makhloui

Home school: Aidan T.

PowersHouston High: Nicholas

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MEMPHISCentral High: Kira A.

Tucker, Samuel M. WarrenChristian Brothers High:

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Lausanne Collegiate School: Eleanor S. Bates, Benjamin B. Calkins, Tony A. Chen, Thomas K. Day,

Abigail Grayson, Hannah R. Jordan, Raghav Ranga, Emily Thomas

Memphis University School: Reed T. Barnes, Samuel E. Bartz, Chandler M. Clayton, William F. Colerick, William T. Fes-mire, John G. Humphreys, Grayson A. Lee, Saatvik Mohan, Thomas Morri-son, Walter P. Orr, Jackson P. Pacheco, Daniel L. Tan-credi, Colin M. Threlkeld, Theodore E. Wayt, John W. Wells

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erine G. Norwood, Anne R. Parker, Swarna Sakshi, Maire C. Sweeneyk

Westminster Academy: Turner D. Peckham

White Station High School: Calvin D. Alley, Benjamin D. Armstrong, Mary Katherine DeWane, Max A. Friedman, Victor B. Gardner, Francesca E. Giorgianni, Tian L. Liu, Isaac O. Lurie, Quinn M. Mulroy, Hannah M. Pie-cuch, John A. Thomason, Alicia H. Tirone

MILLINGTONFaith Heritage Christian

Academy: Reagan M. Mol-loy, Jacob D. Seboly

ACHIEVEMENT

Nat’l Merit Scholarship semifinalists named, 79 in Shelby Co.

By Dina FosheeSpecial to The Weekly

After assessing the growing need for quality toddler care in the Collierville community, Faith Lutheran Church voted to expand its preschool ministry for the 2016/2017 school year.

Parishioners are raising $7,000 per month for the next seven months to cover the cost of renovations to the building “B” wing, adding ive classrooms dedicated to serving children in the 1 and 2-year-old age groups.

In adding these ive classrooms, ad-ditional three and four year-old classes will open in the recently added preschool and junior kindergarten wing. With this expansion, Faith Lutheran preschool will become one of the top 10 freestanding Lu-theran preschools in the United States.

Faith Lutheran Preschool is one of 95 Nationally Accredited Lutheran Pre-school in the country, has a three star rating from the State of Tennessee, and earned a 6.33/7.0 for our most recent state assessment through the Department of Human Services.

Registration for the 2016/2017 school year begins Jan. 11, ofering a traditional

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Miguel Del Rosario, 3, is congratulated by his dad, Marc, after completing the triathlon and being awarded his competitor’s medal.

Rylie DeWeese, 3, and her dad, Britton DeWeese, practice their warm up routine prior to the start of the Germantown Small Fry Triathlon.

Amanda Evans, who runs the Crossfit Training Center in Germantown, helps the entrants warm up by doing a few jumping jacks.

Parents, volunteers and competitors wait their turn to get to the starting line.

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Mustangs prevail

By John [email protected]

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After three good days of practice this week, Col-lierville girls soccer coach Brittany Streger told her team that she expected to see a good performance Thursday against visiting White Station.

She deinitely got that.The Dragons, ranked

second in The Commer-cial Appeal’s Super Six, took control with a lurry of early goals and went on to defeat the injury-depleted and sixth-ranked Spartans,

8-1.Kammy McGee opened

the scoring for the Drag-ons (7-1-1) just a couple of minutes into the match be-fore Maggie Van de Vuurst doubled the margin less than three minutes later. A Lindsay Hale penalty made it 3-0 13 minutes in before Emilee Crocker got the fourth with a nice long-range strike.

Crocker later added a second, with Hallie Scharf (two) and Liza Slavinsky also getting on the score sheet.

The Spartans, who fall to 7-3-1, were without the ser-vices of several key players, most notably sophomore standout Caroline Duncan.

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Houston’s girls and boys golf teams are headed to the state tournament af-ter sweeping the Region

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Baili Park shot 73 to medal for Houston’s girls, who defeated White Sta-tion by 22 strokes. Quali-fying as individuals were White Station’s Bethany Dockery and Dani Rotz, Davielle Moore of German-town and Central’s Haili Smith, who won a playof for the last spot.

Andrew Wood’s 73 was the low score for Hous-ton’s boys, with teammates Gavin Malone (75) and Brett Kittleson (76) com-ing in second and third. Germantown’s Hunter Armwine and Webb De-Witt, Hall Squires and Max McMillian of second-place Collierville qualiied as in-dividuals.

The AAA tournament will take place Sept. 29-30 at WillowBrook Golf Club in Manchester.

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Collierville forward Hallie Scharf (front) scores Thursday evening as White Station goalie Anna Morgan takes a tumble during the irst half at Collierville. The Dragons won, 8-1.

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South Panola 49, (1) MUS 28: Turnovers hurt the Owls, who drop to 4-1 on the year. Steven Regis threw for 325 yards and two touchdowns but was intercepted ive times. Thomas Pickens caught a 22-yard scoring pass for MUS and had a pair of 1-yard TD runs while Jalon Love caught a 13-yard touchdown. Turner Rotenberry scored on a 91-yard kickof return and a 45-yard interception return for the Tigers (4-0).ECS 28, Nashville Father Ryan 14: Keegan Westbrook threw for 259 yards and had scoring passes of 56 to Dawson Williams and 25 to Drew Croegaert and also had a two-yard touchdown run as the Eagles (1-4) won their irst game of the year. Croegaert also scored on a 4-yard run for ECS.Hernando 21, Briarcrest 19: The Tigers got rushing touchdowns from Karleke Oliver (4), Robert Wilcke (2) and Quentin Frazier (26) to improve to 5-0. Charles Elliot had scoring runs of 13 and 8 yards for the Saints (3-2).St. Benedict 46, Catholic 0: Jack Samsel threw for 282 yards and ive touchdowns as the Eagles (2-2) blanked the Chargers (0-5). Samsel had scoring passes of 25 yards to Johnny Aeschliman, 18 to Colton Cochran, 10 to Brennan Ryan, 4 to Shemar Nash and 21 to Hakeem Vance.St. George’s 49, Rossville 0: Chase Hayden ran for 171 yards on just four carries and had scoring plays of 41, 30 and 80 — all in the irst quarter — as the Gryphons (4-1, 1-0 D2-A West) cruised over Rossville (1-4, 0-1). Ben Glass threw scoring passes of 46 yards to Corey Jones and 18 to Will Patterson and also scored on a 19-yard run.Whitehaven 37, Germantown 0: The Red Devils had a diicult time with the 4th-ranked Tigers. Germantown (2-3) will host unbeaten Cordova Friday at Red Devil ield.

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Dragons fall 27-10 to Wolves

ABOVE: Cordova kicker Jose Hernandez made two fields goals and three extra points to help Cordova to the 27-10 victory.

Cordova’s Shemar Collier finds a small hole in the Collierville defense. The Wolves won 27-10.

LEFT: Cordova senior running back Donta Franklin sweeps around the left corner against Collierville’s defense.

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ABOVE: Matt Connors of Collierville scored the first touchdown of the game on a 10-yard run.

LEFT: Collierville kicker Dylan Scott drills a 38-yard field goal dur-ing last Friday’s game against Cordova.

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By Linda K. BourassaSpecial to The Weekly

Maury Okun is a huge Ole Miss Rebels fan.

That is one of the irst things that people learn upon meeting Okun. A visit to his apartment at Germantown Plantation Senior Living reveals a vast collection of photos of him with the famed Manning football fam-ily, Rebel jerseys, signed footballs and other memo-rabilia.

Okun grew up in Clarksdale, Miss., where his parents were the founders of the well-known Okun’s Shoe Store. He worked in the fam-ily business as he grew up and later joined the staf as a shoe salesman. During his early years in Clarksdale, he and a friend took a road trip to Ole Miss where he had the pleasure of meeting quar-

terback Archie Manning. He has since visited with Manning and his wife, Olivia. Then, later he met their son, Eli.

His eyes light up as he discusses the wonderful Manning family and Ole Miss football in general.

While his nephew now owns and runs the vari-ous Okun’s Shoe Store lo-cations, Okun has many pleasant memories of the store and remains very close with all the family members. When he was looking for a senior living community, he fell in love with Germantown Planta-tion and said it is exactly what he needs and wants. Family members come to visit him there and, of course, they love to catch up on the latest news and discuss Rebels football.

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Maury Okun, a resident at Germantown Plantation, shows a part of his memorabilia for Ole Miss Rebels football. Okun had a chance to meet former Ole Miss quarterback and two-time Super Bowl champion Eli Manning.

By Sharon MastersonSpecial to The Weekly

In cooperation with the Catholic Diocese of Mem-phis and A2H Architects, St. Benedict at Auburndale High School resurfaced its football ield during the summer in anticipation of the 2015 football season. The blessing and opening of the ield took place Sept. 4 just before the irst home game of the season.

Vicar General of the Di-ocese of Memphis Monsi-gnor Peter Buchignani oi-ciated at the blessing of the ield ceremonies and was assisted by The Rev. Rob-ert Marshall, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Church. Both priests are members of the St. Benedict at Au-burndale Advisory Board. Also assisting were the school’s Chaplain Father Herbert Ene and Father Mauricio Abeldano, asso-ciate pastor of St. Francis of Assisi.

It was a special night for the SBA Eagles family.

“We are blessed and humbled by the generous donations and support that we have received from so many,” said athletic direc-tor Caleb Marcum. “With-out their help, this dream would not be a reality. We want to say, ‘Thank you,’ for the countless hours of preparation, the vision of our donors and the great students who paved the way for us to be where we are today.”

Hundreds of students, parents, alumni and friends field the home-side stands as Buchignani began the blessing prayer, followed with readings by Marshall. Buchignani blessed all areas of the ield from corner to cor-ner while representatives of the Diocese of Mem-phis, members of the SBA

advisory board, sisters of the St. Cecilia’s Dominican Community who teach at SBA, representatives of St. Francis School and major contributors looked on. The SBA football team, also on the ield for this historic night, was joined by those who call the ield their home — St. Francis School football teams, the SBA cheerleaders along with the Eagle mascot, SBA dance team and SBA lacrosse teams.

During the last school year, St. Benedict award-ed the turf installation bid to Hellas Construction of Austin, Texas. They sup-plied a Matrix Turf with a monoilament artiicial surface with a sand and black rubber inill.

With this type of Cush-drain E-pad surface, the ield has a life expectancy of up to at least 17 years without year-to-year maintenance expense that a natural ield has. Artii-

cial turf installed on the football ield allows both SBA and St. Francis teams to practice on a regulation size ield without damage to the surface. Research has proved that artiicial turf ields are safe and can serve as a viable al-ternate for a natural grass football ield. St. Benedict will also beneit by using the old practice ields as new parking areas in the future. Artiicial turf will also allow the school to better serve the commu-nity by hosting camps and community events for all ages.

The new turf ield sports the St. Benedict at Au-burndale “Coat of Arms” in deep, blue, red and gold at center ield. School ad-ministrators chose this image for the center of the ield as they felt this image with the Benedic-tine Cross best exempliies the mission of the school in the spirit Benedictine

charism, strong with vir-tue and love of Christ. As a Roman Catholic School of the Diocese of Memphis, the school has a mission to teach as Jesus did and provide young people with a virtue-based education for this life and to bring them to next. Not to be left out, the“Mighty Eagle” mascot vestige appears on the back of the press box tower, visible to all as they come into the stadium.

“We are extremely ex-cited about the future of our athletic facilities,” said SBA Principal Son-dra Morris. “When we built Tully Fieldhouse and enlarged our stadium in the early nineties, we had a state of the art facil-ity. These facilities have served us well, but with our school expanding to upwards of 1,000 students, our football facilities need-ed these renovations. We are indebted to the donors who brought us Tully and helped us grow and we are grateful to all those mak-ing this new phase in our history happen.”

New SBA football coach Scott Samsel and the SBA football team have looked forward during summer conditioning and fall prac-tice to being able to get on the ield.

They started their work-outs on the ield just days prior to opening game.

“SBA indicated that they were looking to en-hance our facilities and we’re excited about this state-of-the-art ield. We believe that this will serve well our program and we know that there are many great things to come,” Samsel said.

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The Board of Mayor and Aldermen in Germantown has watched with concern as the school board strug-gles with building plans, including a project that has nearly doubled in cost since January.

After several hours of administrative-level meet-ings Sept. 14, the city decid-ed to delay the $12 million bond sale for the projects, giving the school board at least another month to work out the kinks in plan-ning and budgeting.

“We want to make sure the dollars we are request-ing from the Board of May-or and Aldermen relect the capital projects and the to-tal amount that the district was requesting going for-ward,” said city administra-tor Patrick Lawton.

The city also is ofering the district free access to its experts in engineering and bidding, hoping to get the projects on irmer footing.

In nine months, the pro-posed expansion at River-dale Elementary, the larg-est endeavor, has gone from a project that would relect the Germantown brand with a brick, steel and glass facade to a structure that now could be more cinder block. Costs have risen so much, the board is coming to terms with the possibil-ity that it may have to move old desks and cabinets from the 23 portables it is trying to replace into the new building.

In a meeting last week to help the school board understand what caused costs to rise from $7 mil-lion to nearly $12 million at Riverdale, A2H architect Stewart Smith said the ear-ly estimate did not include site work, additional roads, parking and construction to connect the expansion to the rest of the school. It also did not including fur-nishings and equipment, plus an array of soft costs — engineering, architects’ fees and permit costs.

Paring the project from 63,000 square feet to 49,000 square feet would bring the total cost with furnishings closer to $12 million. But that means there would not be enough money to build the gym ex-pansion at Houston High, originally expected to cost about $2.8 million.

In August, Supt. Jason Manuel told the city’s Fi-nancial Advisory Com-mission that the district would need $12 million to build both. He pledged $5 million over 30 years from district’s own general fund.

The city made plans to start the process for amending its budget. But the city can’t sell bonds on plans that are not inal.

“We don’t know what the true amount is,” said alder-man Rocky Janda. “I have a concern about (it). This is because we are new at running schools. But if we are going from $7 million to $12 million, we need to take a hard look at who’s doing what.”

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School bond sale delayed to work kinks out of plans

By Mary Alice TaylorSpecial to The Weekly

The Village at Germantown, 7820 Walking Horse Circle, celebrated the opening of its new Health Care Center on Sept. 14. The day’s special event included a ribbon-cutting and open house.

“Our new Health Care Center has given us the space we need to meet the growing needs of our existing residents as well as provide additional apartments for new residents to call home,” said Ron Rukstad, executive director for The Village at Germantown.

The Village at Germantown is a continuing care retirement community that ofers levels of care corresponding to the needs of its residents as they age. The facility provides independent and assisted living, as well as skilled nursing care and memory care.

“The additional space enables us to ofer ad-vanced levels of care as our residents need them so they can age in place,” explained Rukstad. “Ag-ing in place makes transitioning to the next level of care much easier for our residents.”

The expansion includes an additional 52,268 square feet, 32 assisted living apartments, 16 Mem-ory Care private suites and adult day care available

for residents and the community.

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William Kenley, CEO, Method-ist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital, cuts the ribbon for the grand opening of The Village at Germantown’s Health Care Cen-ter Expansion.

The Village at Germantown conducted tours of its new Health Care Center expansion. The expansion adds 52,268 square feet, 32 assisted living apartments, and 16 Memory Care private suites. The Village provides independent and assisted living, as well as skilled nursing care, and memory care.

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BartlettThe Bartlett Library, 5884 Stage, invites kids to

READ with Tootsie Sept. 26, from 10 a.m. to noon. Chil-dren ages 5-11 can read to Tootsie, a registered pet therapy dog, for 15 minutes. Registration is required and opens the irst of each month for that month’s session. Call 901-386-8968.

The Marguerite Francis Music @ Noon concert series at Bartlett United Methodist Church, 5676 Stage, con-tinues through December. The free concerts are held from 12:10-12:40 p.m. each Wednesday in the church’s sanctuary, with a light lunch available for purchase following each performance. Visit bartlettumc.org. Wednesday: Barrie Cooper, Memphis Symphony Orch. Concertmaster

Bartlett Police Department oicers will host a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Drug Takeback for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Kroger, 7615 U.S. 70. They will ac-cept prescription medicine, over-the-counter (OTC) medicine and pet medicine. Tablets, pills, gels and liquids are all ine, but hypodermic needles will not be accepted. All donated drugs will be incinerated.

The Bartlett Festival and Car Show is this weekend at W.J Freeman Park, 2620 Bartlett Blvd. Make plans to be a part of this fun-illed family event. Friday evening will begin with live musical entertainment from some of the area’s best musicians, hot air balloons, a midway carnival and concessions. Come back on Saturday for an amateur BBQ & Chili cooking contest, live musical entertainment, arts and crafts, a classic car show, a children’s area, business vendors, concessions and much more. Times are 6-9:30 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. If you, your company or or-ganization would like to be a part of this event, call 901-385-5589 or email [email protected].

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, 3663 Appling Road, presents Mike Farris and The Rose-land Rhythm Revue at 8 p.m. Oct. 3. He sings “blue-eyed soul” to soothe the spirit, and surrounds himself

with a heavenly sound that slides efortlessly between Stax soul, New Orleans gospel and shuling Southern blues, all of it punctuated with his smoldering vocals. Tickets are $25. Visit bpacc.org or call 901-385-6440.

ColliervilleAdult Tutor Training at Collierville Literacy Coun-

cil, 167 Washington St., is Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. ELL (English as a Learned Language) Tutor Training. Class size is limited. No teaching or foreign language experience required. Trained tutors will work weekly one-on-one with adult students who have come to the council in need of help. Most tutors volunteer one and a half to two hours per week. To register, call 901-854-0288 or email [email protected].

The Morton Museum of Collierville History, 196 Main, presents “Tennessee and the War of 1812” Sat-urday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lectures discussing the legacy of the conlict in West Tennessee and curator’s tour of exhibition. Free to attend. Lunch provided. Email Stacey Graham at [email protected] to register or learn more.

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

CordovaTom’s Classic Car Cruise is Tuesdays, from 5:30-8:30

p.m., through Sept. 29 at Countrywood Crossing Shop-ping Center, 2257-2393 Germantown Parkway. Bring your classic car and enjoy the family atmosphere with “Oldies” music and more. No entry fee. Sponsored by Gail’s Line Promotions. Call 901-818-9774 or visit gailsline.com.

SFA Oktoberfest is this weekend at Saint Francis of Assissi Catholic Church, 8151 Chimneyrock. Fea-turing food, music, games, cooking, arts, and more. Times are 5-10 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sat-urday. Sponsorship, Brat Cooking Contest and Arts and Crafts openings available, visit stfrancismemphis.org for information and registration.

The Mid-South Corn Maze will run through Oct. 31 at Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove. Haunted Maze Fridays and Saturdays in October. Cost is $7-10. Visit midsouthmaze.com for times.

Also coming up: ■ This weekend: Memphis Circus Spectacular in

the Showplace Arena. Three days of family-friendly shows, including pony rides, face painting and meet and greet with clowns. Tickets are $20, $24 for seats on the Ringmaster Floor and $9 for earlybird sales before Friday. For more information and times, visit circusmemphis.com or call 855-973-1564.

■ This weekend: MEMPHEX Stamp & Postcard Show, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Free admission and free stamps for kids.

■ Monday: Memphis College Night, 6-8 p.m. Learn from more than 100 schools what it takes to apply, attend and succeed. Free admission. Email [email protected] or visit memphiscolleg-

enight.com.Join the Memphis Astronomical Society in Shelby

Farms Park, 500 N. Pine Lake, for the total lunar eclipse Sunday, from 7:30-10 p.m. This month’s supermoon coincides with a full lunar eclipse, making it a super-moon lunar eclipse, which has only happened ive times in the last 105 years. Visit shelbyfarmspark.org.

The 2015 AIA Memphis Golf Open is 10 a.m. Friday at Colonial Country Club, 2736 Countrywood Parkway. Cost is $125 for members, $150 nonmembers. Includes lunch, green fees, a golf cart, beer and water and hors d’oeuvres. For spectator, participant or sponsorship information, visit aiamemphis.org.

GermantownThe Farm Park Farmers’ Market is every Thursday,

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

Shelby County Republican Women’s Club hosts its “Out With the Old, In With the New” fashion show and luncheon 11 a.m. today, at Germantown Country Club. SCRWC will also be collecting new or gently used women’s career wear for donation to “Dress for Success.” Call 901-755-3283.

Did you know September is yoga month? Pike Yoga, 7853 Farmington Blvd., ofers free classes to new stu-dents. Call 901-277-7136. Friday: Wine Down Yoga, 5:30 p.m.

Author Patricia LaPointe McFarland to Speak about the history of medicine in Memphis at the Brown Bag Lunch Series, an adventure in learning sponsored by the Older Adult Council. Meeting will be 11 a.m. Oct. 2 in the Mike Wilson Fellowship Hall at Germantown United Methodist Church, 2331 S Germantown Road. Lunch at noon. No reservations are needed. Just bring your sack lunch and enjoy the program and the fel-lowship. Call Luci Cromer, 901-755-0803, or Beverly Rhoads, 901-754-7216, ext. 107. Activities are open to anyone age 55 and up.

Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter, hosts Jazz in the Box, featuring Joe Alterman, 7 p.m. Friday. A pianist and composer, Joe Alterman has per-formed at venues around the world including the Blue Note Jazz Club in Milan, Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., and Preservation Hall in New Orleans. Tickets are $25. Visit gpacweb.com or call 901-751-7500.

LakelandThe Delta Blues Winery, 6585 Stewart Road, contin-

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

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By Fredric KoeppelSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

“There is no salvation outside the church,” said fearsome St. Au-gustine, yet what is a church? A building or an idea?

To the Romantic poets and philosophers, all of nature was a church, while artists and compos-ers make a church of their tran-scendent works. To the ardent Marxist or atheist activist, even anti-religion becomes a hide-bound sanctuary.

Visit a church of a diferent order — though how diferent is the question — at Clough-Hanson Gallery, where an installation or construction of exactly that name — “Church” — ills the main area through Oct. 10. In-geniously designed and erected by the collaborative team of Sebura & Gar-telmann, sounding like a small law irm or a vaudeville duo, this combination of skateboard pipe, chapel and mini-labyrinth pays homage to the pair’s skateboard-ing youth and mythologizes the hopes and aspirations of a gen-eration, admittedly of the niche variety. The show is part of “This Must Be the Place,” a series of ex-hibitions and events at Clough-Hanson that explore the connec-tion between place and art.

Jonas Sebura and Alex Gartel-mann met while working toward their master of ine art degrees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and have been collaborat-ing since 2009. One imagines the two young men initially talking about their backgrounds and their lives, discovering that each was an avid skateboarder and decid-ing, at some point, to create a work of art — a sculpture, an ediice, a temple — that embodied the zest, danger and addictive thrill of the

craft and sport of their obsession.“Church” is a sturdily built

wood structure, a compact Pan-theon, which viewers see irst as two parallel curving forms that project from a larger curving shape going the opposite direction and protected by a deep overhang. These shapes inhabit a house-like box with a small chamber at the back punctuated by several doorless openings. The outside of this monument is completely covered by rough plaques of vari-ous shapes and sizes that espouse the ideas, the fears, the concepts of skateboarding speciically and youth generally, while the inside, like an ancient Egyptian tomb, is marked by myriad hand-drawn symbols.

In a way, the inside and outside of this church represent, respec-tively, the sacred and the profane, and the tension and resolution

between these two aspects and the wild exuberance of the entire enterprise ill the gallery with undeniable energy, while at the same time conveying a feeling of awesome dignity and solid inevitability. The mottoes, quips and

sayings fastened to the outside of the structure relect the naivety of youth, the fears and uncertain-ties but also and mainly a curious optimism that this viewer felt as a heartening inluence. While many of the texts range from wry to downright hilarious, such stratagems as “All I’ve Got Is My Work and My Character” and “Damaged Broke Free to Chal-lenge All Limits” transcend their Facebook workaday familiarity to achieve a sort of Poor Richard’s universality.

The sacred is where you ind it, and the denotation and shaping of space become themselves a deini-tion of art. Why should a Church of Skateboarding be any less holy than the Church of Elvis or a col-or-shattering sunset or the nave of Notre-Dame de Paris? Whatever the case, “Church” is worth a visit.

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Fitting tribute to skateboarding obsessionPut another way, what is a church?

Collaborative artists Sebura & Gartelmann created the 12-by-12-by-12-foot plywood piece “Church,” which is on display at the Clough-Han-son Gallery at Rhodes College.

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Flicker Street Studio, 74 Flicker: ArtBash on Flicker Street, 5-8 p.m. Friday, displaying “The Work Room Exhibition.”

Also, David Lusk Gallery-Temp at 64 Flicker presents “200 Miles Away.”

And a book release/signing for Audrey Taylor Gonzalez’s “South of Everything.” flickerstreetstudio.com and davidluskgallery.com.

National Ornamental Metal Museum, 374 Metal Museum Drive: Linda Threadgill: “Master Metalsmith,” Friday through Dec. 6. “Gallery Talk” 5-6 p.m. Sept. 26. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday; closed Mondays. 901-774-6380. metalmuseum.org

Southside Art Gallery, 150 Courthouse Square, Oxford, Miss: “Portable Nature Graphics” (.PNG), a group show featuring work by Claire Whitehurst, Vivian Liddell, Alexander Valentine, Patrick Brien, Jennifer Macdonald; curated by Hannah Spears. Through Oct. 4. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Tuesday (coincides with September Arts Crawl). Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. 662-234-9090. southsideartgallery.com

Southside Art Gallery, 150 Courthouse Square, Oxford, Miss: Tim High and Carl Blackledge: New Works, through Oct. 12.

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SEBURA & GARTELMANN, ‘CHURCH’Through Oct. 10 at Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College. Call 901-843-3442 or visit rhodes.edu/gallery.

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By Selena SilvestroSpecial to The Weekly

For the fourth year, the Memphis area Little Help-ers group and Cub Scout Pack 53 brought “Treats for Heroes” in memory of Sept. 11, 2001.

This year, the groups were treated to a wonder-ful tour courtesy of Col-lierville ireighters from ire station No. 3 on Pe-terson Lake Road and the Rural Metro Ambulance team. During their tour, Little Helpers handed out thank you cards, snacks, treats and lots of appre-ciation.

Each year, Little Help-ers groups from around the country take time in September to honor local ireighters, EMS/rescue workers, police oicers, sherif’s deputies and war veterans.

Little Helpers encour-age families all month

long to stop by a ire/po-lice station, VA hospital or military recruiting of-ice to say thank you to the brave men and women who protect us. It’s also a teaching opportunity to talk to your children about why they are taking part in this project, before and after the visit. Little Helper

parents want to teach their children about Sept. 11 and about bravery, sacrifice and those who were lost and why it is so important.

To learn more, visit Little Helpers on Face-book.

Selena Silvestro is the Memphis

area Little Helpers coordinator.

GIVING BACK

Little Helpers deliver sweet treats to hometown heroes

The Little Helpers and Cub Scout Pack 53 groups brought treats to Fire Station No. 3 on Peterson Lake in Collierville.

Little Helpers members Lewis, Nathan and Kyle Silvestro and Jackson and Ava Smith delivered a box full of sweets during their group’s recent volunteer activity, “Treats for Heroes.”

By Linda BourassaSpecial to The Weekly

Residents and staf at Germantown Plantation have had a busy month celebrating the 10th year since Germantown Planta-tion Senior Living opened with their independent living and assisted living apartments.

Many activities were planned and enjoyed by all. Residents participated in a wild watermelon eat-ing contest where seeds were lying. There was a scavenger hunt, which pro-vided many laughs for par-ticipants and observers, as well as a lovely fashion show hosted by Dillard’s at Carriage Crossing in Col-lierville.

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Horoscopes

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.

Premier Crossword | Prefixes Su�xed

CONTACT USChris Herrington, 529-6510, herrington @commercialappeal.com, or Mark Richens, 529-2373, [email protected].

SUNDAY BREAK

By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Thick-skinned

river critters 7 Women’s soft

hats of old 14 Crouches, as a

catcher 20 Dream up 21 Turkey’s

landmass 22 Career-track

type 23 British hero

sandwich? 25 Cut in half 26 Aunts, e.g. 27 Maglie of the old

Giants 28 Be sickly 29 Give off 31 Certain tennis

edge 33 “America”

contraction 35 Person born to

be an apartment manager?

42 Car made in an Alabama port?

45 Schoolyard rejoinder

46 Gap 47 Small brawl 48 “Drop — line” 49 Place for petri

dishes 51 Hold tightly 54 Syringe causing

a bad skin reaction?

58 Gmail rival 59 World finance

org. 62 Holiday quaff

63 Thin, white mushroom

64 CBS drama 65 Advil rival 67 “Yipes!” 69 Printer

resolution stat 70 Kids’ author

Silverstein 71 Very busy

checkout area? 75 “— to You” (2009

Lady Antebellum hit)

77 Lamprey lookalike

78 Pepsi or RC 79 Easily duped

sort 82 Body filled with

eau 83 Old TV’s Desi 85 The, to Jules 86 Pitchfork-shaped

letter 87 Trim grass 88 Put-down during

a visit with the doc?

92 John of plows 94 Takes as one’s

own 95 Tar’s “Help!” 96 Doofus 99 Any of three

English rivers 100 Pets that purr 102 Gregarious

protester? 106 Beloved big rig? 110 Pal, to Jules 111 Big name in

faucets 112 Process part

113 “As I see it,” online

115 Ending for percent

117 Harass 118 Like rabbis and

shuls 122 PC shortcut

used by inflation calculators?

127 Broad road 128 Celestial body

circlers 129 Let the wind

freshen 130 Not as bold 131 Deluge 132 Vagabonds

DOWN 1 “October Sky”

memoir-ist Homer

2 Eager volunteer’s repetitive response

3 Ballpoint tip 4 Butter unit 5 Big name in

elevators 6 State political

bodies 7 GQ target 8 Take — loan 9 Brief mental

glitch 10 Arum lily 11 Equine beast 12 More, to a

maestro 13 Duel tools 14 1976 Sally Field

title role

15 Packs it in 16 FedEx rival 17 Kong, e.g. 18 Small jerk 19 TV unit 24 Koteas of

“Crash” 30 China’s —

Zedong 32 Future lice 34 1973 novel by

Toni Morrison 36 Theater level 37 Data plan

datum 38 “Whoops!” 39 Multicolored 40 Tick by 41 Bring past a

simmer again 43 Ida of old films 44 Early online

protocol 48 Units of a million

watts per ampere

49 Skimpy swimsuits

50 Here, to Jules 51 Gun, in slang 52 Senator Blunt 53 Very versatile 55 Rationale 56 Inner: Prefix 57 Like bit-free

orange juice 60 Folks not living

in the past 61 Spoken with

ease 66 Suffix with

northeast 68 Struck out in

editing

70 Realize 72 Quahog or

geoduck 73 Spot for slots 74 Big small-screen

star 75 Sgt. Friday

catchphrase 76 Get from a

pitcher anew 80 —’easter 81 She-sheep 83 British islet 84 Gives relish 89 Big oil gp. 90 Muzzle part 91 “The Bicycle

Thief” director Vittorio De —

93 Dutch cheese 97 Act like 98 Denounces 100 Stage signal 101 Angle 102 Playwright de

Beauvoir 103 PFC, e.g. 104 Rip to shreds 105 Bullion bars 107 Time release 108 Alternate 109 Underage 114 Arab country 116 Arab bigwig 118 Gridlock 119 Day before 120 Really little 121 Sign 123 Cote sound 124 Rink great

Bobby 125 Banjo finale? 126 Coaching great

Parseghian

ACROSS 1 “We must go” 8 Spiral-horned

grazer 12 Santa ____,

Calif. 17 View with

disapproval 18 Quills 20 Email folder 21 Complete

plan 24 Brewer’s

supply 25 Round figures 26 Where Hecuba

was queen 27 Certain

monthly bill: Abbr.

28 “____ & the Women” (2000 Gere film)

29 Kind of paper 31 Many 34 Gray fox 39 It may help you

get a grip on things

41 Skips 42 Subduer, of a

sort 46 Like dams 47 Certain

absentee 49 Lady of la casa 50 Big deals 54 What may

unfold in Japanese theater?

55 Place for plates 56 Roly-poly 57 Annoy no end 59 Easter sight 61 Abbr.

preceding a year

62 Grp. of women drivers

65 Whole slew 67 Sweeties 69 Like the book

“Zhuangzi” 71 “No argument

here” 73 “A deadline

every minute” sloganeer

75 Newspaper route

80 Series of lows 82 Saws 83 It signals a lack

of support

84 Dish name 85 Door ____ 86 Says, “You

no-good son of a ...,” say

88 More united 92 42-Across, for

example 95 School boards 96 Make a

selection 99 Letters in a

return address? 100 Pause 103 Star trek

figures? 104 Harmoniously 106 Go figure 112 Houses named

after an old house

113 Not dead, as a football

114 One in business?

115 Malibu ____ (“The Simpsons” parody doll)

116 Top 117 Spoke

impulsively

DOWN 1 Borderline 2 Heard 3 Echolocation

device 4 Come down

wrong, maybe 5 Part of V.M.I.:

Abbr. 6 ____-jongg 7 Greek vowel 8 Joshes 9 ____ Chicago

Grill 10 Skillful 11 1991 breakup

newsmaker 12 A wink or a

nod, maybe 13 Ford sold

during Ford’s presidency

14 Touches 15 Loggers’

jamboree 16 1985

instrumental hit named after the main character in “Beverly Hills Cop”

18 Something an “o” lacks

19 ____ Sandoval, 2012 World Series M.V.P.

20 Words to someone who 8-Down

22 Skill sharpener 23 Pop group 29 Part of some

showers 30 Sports org.

whose first champ was the Pittsburgh Pipers

32 Bears witness 33 Cannon of

“Heaven Can Wait”

35 Neuter 36 Certain

Kindle download, for short

37 Hampers, say

38 Grammy-winning James

39 Wind or fire, maybe, but not earth

40 “Stupid me” 43 Lightweight

protective vest 44 Progress-

ive ____ 45 Led ... or bled 46 Three-pointers:

Abbr.

47 Carpentry fastener

48 A waste of good food?

49 Domain of some international law

51 Stressful work?

52 Many figures in the “Doctor Who” universe, for short

53 Something to lead with?

58 Players eligible to suit up

60 In need of coffee, maybe

62 Sprinter’s assignment

63 Sci-fi vehicles

64 “Beat it!” 66 Airs from

pairs 68 Item in a

mechanic’s back pocket

69 Nutrition bar introduced in the 1960s

70 Figures after a decimal

72 Ethnic ending

73 One speaking “out”?

74 “Al Aaraaf” writer

76 [Gross!] 77 PC menu

heading 78 Confusion 79 Mall bag 81 Monopoly

token replaced in 2013

85 Board 86 Recurring

element 87 Sport-____ 89 Dough

that’s been raised overseas?

90 De la Garza of “Law & Order”

91 Pestering, in a way

92 Sorts (out) 93 Steelhead,

e.g. 94 Old F.D.A.

guideline 97 Identify

someone in a lineup, say

98 Conservative I.R.A. asset

101 Get worse 102 Pitch 104 Rights org. 105 Sooner city 107 Cozy

footwear, informally

108 Food item dipped in ketchup

109 Largest New Deal agcy.

110 Kind of port

111 No score

Difficulty level ★★★★★

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

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

object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the

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

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from

Monday to Sunday.

The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 65 minutes.

9-20-15

In late 1941, England was still trying to recover from The Blitz. On October 29, Win-ston Churchill was invited to address the boys at the Har-row School, which he himself had attended. The story goes that Churchill rose and spoke thus:

“Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.”

And he sat down. The story is apocryphal

since Churchill’s remarks were actually extended (and typi-cally eloquent). Still, his advice was and is worth taking.

In today’s deal, North-South had a slight miscalculation in the bidding. They had a com-bined 32 high-card points and two five-card suits, so to reach 6NT was normal. But as it happened, seven of the miss-ing points were the A-K of dia-monds — and there were only 11 top tricks as well.

When West led the ten of spades, South won with the queen and proceeded to cash the queen, king and ace of clubs. If the clubs had split 3-3, the slam would have been home with an overtrick, but when West showed out, South shrugged and conceded down one.

If you had been South, would you have given up so easily?

Suppose South takes his three spade tricks and then five hearts, discarding a club and two diamonds from dum-my. East, who has room for five cards, falls victim to a “squeeze without the count.” If he throws a club, dummy takes four clubs. If East throws the king of dia-monds, South leads his jack of diamonds, setting up his queen for the 12th trick with the queen of clubs as an entry.

You never know what may happen if you refuse to give up.

Dear Harriette: I ran into my old boss this sum-mer, and it was pleasant on the surface, but I have to admit that I still hold a grudge against her. I felt like I was not treated well during my last days on the job. I felt like I was being taken advantage of, and, ultimately, she fired me because I called her on it. I have moved on, as this was many years ago. But I do not trust her. So when we saw each other, we were pleasant to each other, but the memories came flooding in. There were other former co-workers at this gathering, and they were all going down memory lane talk-ing about the “good old days,” and it was hard for me to participate in the conversation because that’s not how I remember it. I mainly stayed quiet. I didn’t see any good in reminiscing about what I would call the bad times. How can I let go of the bad feelings? I think that’s the only way I can fully move on.

— Stuck In The Past, Cincinnati

Dear Stuck In The Past: Forgiveness is one of the most powerful practices and also one of the most di�cult. Whatever hap-pened between you and your old boss is in the past. Clearly, she hurt you. There’s a chance you had some role in this as well. Rather than continuing to rehash and hold onto the dregs of the past, stay in the moment. Remind yourself of what is good about your life. Give your-self permission to forgive yourself and your boss for whatever occurred before so that you can reap what-ever benefits await you. You deserve that freedom.

Reader cannot get past former boss’s behavior

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) ★★★★ You will respond to an o�er that takes you away from the here and now. The newness of this adventure appeals to you, but it also appeals to a loved one.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ Your patience is one of your strongest qualities. Today, that characteristic will create a better foun-dation between you and a loved one.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ As dexterous as you are, you should be able to easily jump over any ob-stacles in your way.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You might not have the time to indulge a child. You also could need to do some shopping, even if you would prefer not to.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Your playfulness will be appreciated by a new friend. Before you know it, you both could be acting as if there were no tomorrow.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ You might feel drained by what is happening around you. Be smart and take some much-needed time o�.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You have a very caring friend whom you shouldn’t ignore, unless you want to have a bigger prob-lem on your hands than you thought possible.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★ Be aware of what is happening with your fi-nances. Instrument good sense and self-discipline. There is always an occasion

to spend. Take a hard look at your budget.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★★ Know that you have what it takes to do what you want to do. A car-

ing call from someone at a distance will set your imagination afire.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ Take your time. With-draw from the social cir-cuit you have

been a part of lately. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.

18) ★★★★ You could be taken aback by a friend and what he or she has planned. A loved one will decide to join in, too.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Demands from a parent or boss will disrupt your plans. You actually like hanging out with this per-son, though, as you often learn a lot.

What the stars mean:

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

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you will take a hard look at your life. The opportunity to revitalize or change a situa-tion will occur in the later part of your birthday year. At that point, you will enter the first year of a new life and luck cycle. If you are single, romance will knock on your door. If you are at-tached, the two of you need to plan on going on more getaways together. SAGITTARIUS has no time for details.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | To Put It Di�erently

By Joe DiPietro / Edited By Will Shortz

9-20-15

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

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Amusement

By Judith Martin and Nicholas Ivor MartinUniversal Uclick

Dear Miss Manners: Our family is traveling to an out-of-town wedding. The invitation requests “Cock-tail attire, ties required for men and dresses for women.”

My teenage grand-daughter doesn’t like to wear dresses, and though she has worn them in the past, said she doesn’t wear dresses anymore and will wear a suit.

So is a suit a reasonable alternative for a middle school girl?

Gentle Reader: George Sand may have raised eyebrows when she wore men’s clothing in mid-19th-century Paris, but it is Miss Manners’ observa-tion that any correlation between sexual orienta-tion and suits for ladies is — if it ever existed — long gone. She allows that your granddaughter may wear a

dressy suit without violat-ing the spirit of the dress code — or attracting un-wanted speculation as to its purpose.

Fearing undue attention at a wedding is a fruitless pursuit. There will un-doubtedly be other guests attracting it away from the bridal couple in the form of unusual dress, alcohol overindulgence or general adorableness, factors that seem to be ubiquitous at any social gathering.

Dear Miss Manners: How quickly should one re-spond to personal e-mail?

I seem to remember a snail-mail rule that one was supposed to have a re-ply ready for the next post. Does a similar guideline exist in netiquette?

I’m asking because I have a list of several dozen far-flung friends to whom I send a group e-mail every week or so. I should hasten to point out that I respond swiftly to personal and work-related e-mails.

Gentle Reader: There was a moment when Miss Manners wondered if all those people who never look up from their devices were merely trying to be polite by responding in-stantly to their correspon-dents. But the requirement to respond instantaneous-ly to every instant message would unfortunately re-move the polite from the gene pool.

As you have discovered, etiquette rules based on technological limitations (such as how long it takes the mail carrier to cross the road) have as short a shelf life as modern elec-tronics. Miss Manners re-quires only that business and personal correspon-dence (from which defini-tion she excludes group e-mails — no matter how witty or well-intentioned) be answered reasonably promptly.

E-mail your questions to

[email protected].

MISS MANNERS

Woman in suit not violating dress code By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

HHH Someone you look up to could be unusually touchy, which might result in a misunderstand-ing. Your actions and choices are likely to shock others. Everyone will regroup and make better decisions by tomorrow.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Keep reaching out to someone at a distance whom you care about tremendously. You might wonder why you put up with as much as you do from a friend you see almost every day. You’ll gain an insight that might be profoundly upsetting.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Deal with people on a one-on-one level in order to keep the ties between you tight. You are more likely to hear the truth when you maintain your friend-ships. A friend or a meeting could take an unanticipated twist.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Others seek you out, which could displease a boss or associate. This person would like you to pitch in on a project. Confusion surrounds the unex-pected. As a result, you’ll gain a better understanding of some-

one you need to work with.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

HHHH Pace yourself. You have only so much time to do what you want. Sort through mixed messages. Recognize you might not have the complete story. De-tach, and you could be surprised by what comes up.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Focusing on work might be close to impossible, as your imagination seems to drift to-ward your relationship with an important person in your life. You don’t often tap into your creativity, but it is a great source of ideas.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Tension revolves around your domestic and personal lives. When close friends or loved ones ind out what has happened, their reactions will echo your own. Recognize what you can change and what you can’t.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Make calls, return messages and check your email before you make any plans; oth-erwise, you might experience an upset during your day. A prob-lem also could develop from unanswered questions. You can’t aford to ignore anyone at this time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Avoid a clash over funds, especially if you feel as though someone is pushing too hard. Solutions will pop up out of the blue, though you might wonder if you even want to be involved at this point.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Just because you feel invincible doesn’t mean someone else won’t challenge you. This person could push very hard to get what he or she wants. Let this individual’s drive roll right of you. A family member or a situation at home might arise.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You’ll have a lot on your mind you might choose not to share with others. As you ponder different situations, you’ll see a potential misunder-standing. Know that the unex-pected could occur at any time.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Where your friends are is where you’ll want to be. When in a meeting, even if it is regarding a business matter, you could turn the event into a party. Don’t sit on a misunderstanding. A disagreement might become even worse if you don’t handle it soon.

SUDOKUPREMIER CROSSWORD

Puzzle solutions

WEEKENDPUZZLE

SOLUTIONS

This is the solution to the crossword puzzle in

Saturday’s editions.

This is thesolution to

the KingFeatures

crossword on

Page 2M.

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TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: THE ASTRONAUTS ON THE MOON ACTED MUCH MORE SILLY ON THE FOLLOW-UP TRIP. I’D SAY THAT WAS A LOONIER MISSION.

ACROSS 1 Mouse

chasers 5 Girder

metal 10 Fairy tale

monster 11 “Catch-22”

author 13 Slimming

plan 14 Prison

resident 15 Went by 17 Nervous

habit 18 Responds

to a busy signal

19 Call — day 20 Finish

21 Corn cores 22 Rough hut 25 “Water

Lilies” painter

26 Mandolin’s cousin

27 Lawn material

28 Littlerascal 29 Paper

fasteners 33 Buck’s

mate 34 Long-

suffering 35 Pencil part 37 Simplicity 38 Modern 39 Rock’s

Motley —

40 Title documents

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Dear Annie: Our daugh-ter and her husband are major hoarders. They have two teenage children who have to climb over things to get into their beds. Ev-ery room has piles of junk. They will not get rid of anything because “one day, it may be valuable.” Their home is in major disrepair.

We are concerned for their health, but we’re afraid that if we challenge them, we will be cut o�. We are also concerned that their home is a fire risk. There is so much flamma-ble stu�, and so few clear pathways, that were there ever a fire, they would all likely die. How can we ap-proach this?

— Worried Mother

Dear Mother: First, check to see if your area has a Hoarding Task Force. Then contact the Interna-tional OCD Foundation (ocfoundation.org) for in-formation. The organiza-tion also provides referrals and suggestions for talking to someone with a hoard-ing problem, stressing positive talk about safety, without using judgmental terms such as “junk” or telling them they live in a “trash heap.” Please look into it and find out how you can best approach your daughter.

Dear Annie: I’ve been fighting a terminal illness for close to three years. I never cease to be amazed by what some “friends” say to me. One friend said, “Well, least your mother isn’t living with you.” (Hers is.) Another told me, “At least you’re not going through a divorce.” (She is.) And the best one: “At least you didn’t have to watch your screaming grandkids all weekend.” (She did.)

Please share this advice with your readers: If you aren’t sure what to say to someone in my circum-stances, simply say, “I’m so sorry you have to go through all of this.”

— Dying Too Young

Dear Too Young: Your friends, like the rest of us, see our own problems as huge hurdles, but yours puts theirs into perspec-tive. Your friends also are trying to minimize the seriousness of your situa-tion because that provides comfort for them, and they assume it does for you, as well. They are mistaken, but they won’t know un-less you are brave enough to tell them. You shouldn’t have to spend your social encounters resenting your friends for these thought-less comments. Explain that you’d rather talk about other things and tell them why.

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

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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 TO PLAYHint: Force checkmate.

Solution: 1. Rxh6ch! gxh6 2. Qa1 mate!

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

Jumble Daily Bridge Club

Cy the Cynic says that you don’t have a habit, it has you. Perhaps the most dangerous habit some players have is the costliest: hasty play.

Today’s North opened two clubs, preparing to bid 2NT next to show a balanced 23 or 24 points. When South jumped to 3NT, North raised to slam.

West led the jack of hearts, and South — perhaps from force of habit — thoughtlessly won in his hand. He led a diamond to the king, returned a club to his ace and led a second diamond.

LAST ENTRY West took the ace and accurately led

a second club, killing South’s last entry to his hand. South couldn’t use his long diamonds, and dummy had a club loser at the end.

South would succeed if he kicked the habit of playing in haste. He must win the first heart in dummy, keeping his entries fluid. He leads a club to his hand, a diamond to the king, a club to his hand and another diamond. He wins West’s

return, takes the queen of diamonds, and comes to the king of hearts to run the diamonds.

Questions and comments: Email Stewart at [email protected]

Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★ Follow through on what you have planned for today. You might be more visible than you would like to be. A discussion with someone in the know will help you consider other options.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)★★★★★ You’ll express a willingness to blaze a new trail, as long as it will help you to manifest a long-term desire. Allow your imagination to roam free.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)★★★★ Deal with key people directly. In fact, they are likely to seek you out before you even try to connect with them. Listen to what they have to say.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ Act in a direct way, and others will respond to your clarity. As a result, you fi-nally will be able to grasp the big picture and see where you fit in.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)★★★★ Your e�ectiveness and organization might be put to the test. A partner is likely to contribute a lot of ideas and playfulness to whatever you share with him or her.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)★★★★★ Where others seem to encounter hassles, your ingenuity emerges to find solutions to potential problems. A partner or friend will add fun to your day. You might decide to go out for lunch with this person.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★ Don’t get yourself into a tizzy over a problem. Know that the situation could ef-fectively be handled in a di�erent way. You might not see eye to eye with the other party involved.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ You’ll be coming from a solid per-spective, whether you’re speaking about a heartfelt interest or allowing your imagina-tion to tackle a di�cult problem for a close friend or loved one.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★ Money dominates whatever you do right now. Use caution when handling fi-nancial matters, even if you’re just counting your change.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★★ You seem to wake up with high energy. Follow your intuition in a discussion. Listen to what others share. Don’t dismiss someone else’s point of view simply because it is not relevant to you.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)★★ You might need some downtime away from the people who punctuate your day-to-day life. You could be dealing with a person-al issue, and would prefer not to share.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ You might be giving a problem more thought than you had in the past. A discus-sion with a special friend will shed a di�er-ent light on a situation.

Horoscope

This year you will be starting a new life and luck cycle. You will feel as if you are on a roll come summer 2016. You expand your immediate circle and enjoy your day-to-day life far more. You also learn not to get involved in power plays. If you are single, the kind of person you choose might be very atypical for you. This bond could be long-term. If you are attached, the two of you will want to clear up a disagreement. You will become a lot closer in 2016, and this issue will seem irrelevant. CAPRICORN entices you.

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In 1792, the French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.In 1893, one of America’s first horseless carriages was taken for a short test drive in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Frank Duryea, who had designed the vehicle with his brother, Charles.In 1897, the New York Sun ran its famous editorial, written anonymously by Francis P. Church, which declared, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.”In 1912, magician Harry Houdini first publicly performed his “Water Torture Cell” trick at the Circus Busch in Berlin.In 1925, the Rudolf Friml operetta “The Vagabond King” opened on Broadway.In 1938, a hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming some 700 lives.In 1948, Milton Berle made his debut as permanent host of “The Texaco Star Theater” on NBC-TV.

In 1957, Norway’s King Haakon VII died in Oslo at age 85. The legal mystery-drama “Perry Mason,” starring Raymond Burr, premiered on CBS-TV.In 1964, Malta gained independence from Britain.In 1970, “NFL Monday Night Football” made its debut on ABC-TV as the Cleveland Browns defeated the visiting New York Jets, 31-21.In 1975, the Warner Bros. motion picture “Dog Day Afternoon,” starring Al Pacino, opened in New York.In 1989, Hurricane Hugo crashed into Charleston, South Carolina (the storm was blamed for 56 deaths in the Caribbean and 29 in the United States). Twenty-one students in Alton, Texas, died when their school bus, hit by a soft-drink delivery truck, careened into a water-filled pit.In 1996, John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island, Georgia.

TODAY IN HISTORYToday is Monday, September 21, the 264th day of 2015. There are 101 days left in the year.

MY ANSWER

We can see evidence of God all around us

Q: I have a lot of questions about God, but my aunt tells me not to think about them and just have faith. But how can I have faith in something, when I don’t even know if it exists?

— C.S.

A: If faith were simply a blind leap in the dark (as some have described it), then you’d be right; you’d have no reason to take that leap.

But true faith, the kind of faith the Bible urges us to have, isn’t like this. True faith is not a blind leap in the dark, with no reason or evidence to support it. Instead, our faith is in the living God, and he has given us all the evidence we’ll ever need to show us he is real and wor-thy of our faith and trust.

God has not hidden Himself from us; all around us we see evidence of his existence. Look, for example, at the

worlds he created. Did this amazing uni-verse just happen by chance? Not at all; it would take far more faith to believe that, than to believe God created it. As the Bible says, “Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, his eter-nal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made” (Romans 1:20).

But God revealed Himself to us in a far greater and more personal way: by coming down from heaven and walking among us in the person of Jesus Christ. Do you want to know what God is like? Look at Jesus Christ, for he was God in human flesh. And when you see him as he really is, you’ll realize not only that God exists, but that he loves you, and he is worthy of your complete faith and trust and commitment.

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“We can go anywhere that anyone has ever lived.”

“What was once a migration is now a vacation.”

“Everywhere we go, we find pieces of everywhere else.”

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Screening through November as the main feature at the CTI Giant Theater in the Memphis Pink Palace Museum, the ilm hopes to reawaken an apprecia-tion for the wonder of aviation in people who may now ind air travel more an-noying than exciting, thanks to inva-sive security precautions, seating and baggage hassles, high ticket prices and other discouragements that diminish what should be an awe-inspiring ex-perience, unique to the past century of human history. “It’s easy to forget how extraordinary it is that we can ly,” Ford adds.

That line more or less represents the mission statement of director (and pilot) Brian J. Terwilliger, an in-dependent documentary ilmmaker who spent close to six years crafting “Living in the Age of Airplanes” from 260 hours of footage. That six years includes almost two years of inanc-ing and pre-production planning; two years of editing (the 47-minute ilm was sculpted from 260 hours of foot-age); and, in between, 18 months of

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FedEx represents “the ultimate ex-ample of the world on the move,” said the Connecticut-born, Los Angeles-based Terwilliger, 39. He said he and his crew spent three days shooting at FedEx in 2010; he returned to Memphis this month for a Sept. 10 preview of the ilm at the Pink Palace that was attended by FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith, Mayor A C Wharton and others with a special interest in Memphis’ reputation as “America’s Distribution Center.”

That “distribution” might mean peo-ple as well as goods. Although travel rates have declined greatly during the past decade, Memphis International Airport handled 3.6 million passengers in 2014, according to the Memphis-Shel-by County Airport Authority.

“Everyone alive today was born in the age of aviation, so it’s become hard-er for us to appreciate it,” Terwilliger said. “To go extremely long distances — distances that in the past would have taken a lifetime to travel — and then come home again, that’s not normal to human experience.” He pointed out after a person arrives at an airport, he or she is able to essentially walk to an-other continent by ambling to the gate, boarding the plane, waiting a while, and then disembarking at the destination. “The way it changes our relationship to speed, time and distance, the airport is the closest thing we have to a time ma-chine, but we don’t think of it like that.”

Terwilliger’s company, Terwilliger Productions, specializes in so-called “institutional” documentaries, pro-duced for museums, IMAX auditoriums and other (often nonproit) venues with state-of-the-art giant-screen capability. Although eligible for Academy Award consideration, such movies rarely are nominated or even reviewed by critics. They generally receive less mainstream attention than the more auteur-driven documentaries that sometimes receive distribution to commercial cinemas, such as Morgan Neville’s “20 Feet from

Stardom” and Laura Poitras’ “Citizen-four.”

The upside is that these ilms are ex-perienced on huge screens with state-of-the-art visual and audio clarity, to best show of the epic scale of their photography and soundtracks. (“Living in the Age of Airplanes” features one of the last scores by composer Oscar-winning “Titanic” composer James Horner.)

More important, according to Ter-williger, is that the typical giant-screen ilm is seen by “hundreds of thousands” of people during its pre-television, pre-home video run, which means these movies generally outdraw even the most acclaimed general-cinema docu-mentaries. This is because giant-screen ilms stick around for months at a time, and are screened multiple times a day. “Living in the Age of Airplanes,” for ex-ample, will screen at least twice a day through Nov. 13 as the lead ilm at the Pink Palace’s 400-seat CTI theater, and will continue to be shown as one of the theater’s secondary ilms for months after that. It premiered in April at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, and will be booked into a total of 39 giant-screen theaters before the end of the year.

Ronda Cloud, marketing manager at the Pink Palace, said the museum’s CTI Giant Theater attracted 138,232 patrons between March, 2014 — when the the-ater reopened with 3D capability, after closing for seven weeks for renovation and a tech upgrade — and June of this year. Of that number, 10,385 attended the museum’s “repertory” screenings: Weekend revivals of older blockbusters, including “Jurassic Park” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” which began in July, 2014. (The museum currently is screen-ing the “Harry Potter” series.)

The CTI theater screen is 35 feet high and 50 feet across, so “even if you’ve seen a movie a million times, you see things on this huge, detailed screen that you have never been aware of before,” Cloud said. “It really draws you into it.”

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The Watauga DAR Chapter meets on the fourth Monday of August, October, November, Janu-ary, February, April and May at First Presbyterian Church in Germantown. Watauga regent Kathy Veazey (left) welcomes new members Alice Bolton, Lucy Beckham, Patricia Cook, Hope Cook, Donna Flinn, Therese Hoss, Dianne Beauregard and Yancey Tallent.

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After attending tutor training in May, Ruth Goodman (front), Marie Knight, Ellen Weatherly, Natalie Price, Brenda Carter (back), Mike Sumner and Joan Sumner are now trained and certiied through ProLiteracy to meet with Collierville Literacy Council students. The CLC will hold its next English Language Learners Adult Tutor Training on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the CLC oice, located at 167 Washington St. No foreign language or teaching experience is required. For more information or to register for the tutor training, e-mail Christina Morgan at [email protected] or call 901-854-0288.

The West Tennessee Chapter of Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC) hosted a Sporting Clays Tournament on Sept. 11. This event was created three years ago to ofer a diferent type of net-working event for members who enjoy the outdoors. Since the irst event’s formation two years ago, participation and sponsorships have doubled in size. This year’s event was sold out with 28 teams and 140 shooters. David Rochester, inancial advisor with Shoemaker Financial, (second from left) has been a member of ABC for 15 years and has sponsored a team each year of this event. With him for the 2015 tournament are Gary Rhodes, Craig Shaw, Branson Davis and Randy Davis.

Kendal Strand attempts to spike the ball over the St. George’s defender during a recent vol-leyball match. Briarcrest won three straight games.

Briarcrest’s Han-nah Cox sets up a shot for her team-mate as the Lady Saints take on the St. George’s Gry-phons. Briarcrest won 25-16, 25-17, 25-10.

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$45,920

STK# J704908A

2014 FORD F-150LARIAT

53,359 MILES

$33,943

STK# J710922B

2014 CHEVROLETSILVERADO LT

1,569 MILES

$26,500

STK# 1294

2015 JEEP WRANGLERUNLIMITED1,184 MILES

$57,665

STK# 1273

2015 DODGECHALLENGER SXT

16,022 MILES

$24,602

STK# J556275B

2008 MINICOOPER69,000 MILES

$10,966

STK# J770374A

2015 DODGEDURANGO R/T

9,429 MILES

$37,995

STK# R170493A

2013 HYUNDAIELANTRA LIMITED

28,000 MILES

$14,883

STK# R771190A

2013 HONDAODYSSEY42,339 MILES

$27,295

STK# 1276A

2010 DODGECHALLENGER RT

51,840 MILES

$23,689

STK# R726356A

2006 AUDIA4 1.8T

101,119 MILES

$8,941

STK# 1247A

2010 ACURATSX

77,482 MILES

$14,234

STK# D719403A

2012 NISSANALTIMA 2.5 SL

94,605 MILES

$12,844

STK# R660459A

2013 TOYOTA TUNDRAPLATINUM CREWMAX

35,349 MILES

$40,028

STK# 1293

2012 VOLKSWAGENPASSAT62,143 MILES

$17,165

STK# J748423B

2012 NISSANROGUE SV40,223 MILES

$15,698STK# J727256A

2013TOYOTARAV 4

30,085 MILES

$20,630

STK# J118835A

2013HONDACRV

27,946 MILES

$23,980

STK# R543817A

2015CHEVROLET

COLORADO Z713,285 MILES

$34,980

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