July 31 Collierville Weekly

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Teachers, students and parents have been working at Riverdale Elementary to spruce up the building for the new school year that starts Monday. First-grader Lucy McClain and her family dusted and cleaned the library — one of the most popular rooms for public meetings, said Germantown Supt. Jason Manuel.

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Although the five campuses that make up German-town Municipal Schools are under new management, the buildings will still be open for public use when available.

Supt. Jason Manuel said an agreement with the city’s parks and recreation department and a district policy allowing for space rentals will keep the cam-puses in high demand for community use.

“The gyms at the high school are packed until 10 at night,” Manuel said. “It’s a constant flow.”

Earlier last week, the school board voted to allow the administration to enter into an agreement with the city’s parks and recreation department to use school property in exchange for landscaping help at the schools. The school board approved a policy ear-lier this month to allow community groups to use the

facilities. Shelby County Schools had a similar policy when it controlled the schools.

Manuel said the city will mow the lawns at all five schools throughout the year. He said when the dis-trict looked into landscaping costs, mowing estimates came in at $1,500 to $1,600 per cut for each of the five schools.

“There’s a huge cost savings” to the agreement, he said. The city and school district lawyers are still reviewing the final agreement before it is signed.

The city will be able to use the school buildings and grounds for the after school REACH program, as well as other classes.

Director of operations Josh Cathey said the admin-istration is working to develop a fee structure that will cover utilities and other costs. When an outside group is on campus, a facilities manager has to be there to lock doors, set the alarm system, and deal with lights,

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Students at Germantown High School will have use of Germantown city parks and athletic fields this school year after the Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved an agree-ment with Shelby County Schools on Monday night.

The board voted 5-0 to ap-prove the agreement, which will allow students use of the facilities for one year.

SCS board chairman Kevin Woods came to the German-town meeting to speak on be-half of SCS. He said students will begin using the fields almost immediately. School starts Monday for SCS and the municipal districts.

“We owe it to these kids to give them a quality education, and part of that is sports,” Woods said.

He also said the agree-ment was a step in the “heal-ing process” between the county school system and the municipalities after the long battle the suburbs fought to break away and start their own school systems.

The original version of the field agreement also caused controversy because Ger-mantown included a clause that SCS would have to change the names of German-town Elementary, Middle and High schools within a year.

Dozens of people came to a Germantown meeting to pro-test the idea of changing the names. SCS board members and administrators rejected the request and the final ver-sion does not contain that re-quirement.

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Athletic fields contract settled

By Kim OdomSpecial to The Weekly

More than 300 guests joined the Forever Young Senior Wish Organiza-tion’s fifth annual Dream-givers Gala at the Hilton Memphis in the Tennessee Ballroom for an evening of drinks, dinner, dancing and celebrating senior war veterans.

The Memphis Jazz Or-chestra provided the mu-sic, and guests had the opportunity to bid on an array of fine items, includ-ing jewelry and art donat-ed by various supporters.

Families of veterans and supporters of the event dressed in high fashion to attend the fundraiser honoring local heroes. The money raised will fund trips that will send 14 local Battle of the Bulge veterans, three who served on the same unit, back to Belgium in September. The gala helps cover the $5,270 all-inclusive trip expenses for World War II veterans.

“It’s very costly to take them back, but worth any sacrifice on our part,” said Diane Hight, found-ing president of Forever Young Senior Wish Or-ganization. “This was the biggest and largest battle of World War II, so their

sacrifice is monumental.” Veterans like Earl Wil-

liams of Raleigh and his daughter, Janis Richmond, in town from Maryland to celebrate her father’s 92nd birthday, enjoyed an elegant dinner menu of de-licious combo of beef sir-

loin and salmon, ridgelake salad, griddled polenta, sautéed greens and more.

Sandra Moak was pre-sented the Jack Taylor Vol-unteer of the Year Award for her endless giving to

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World War II Air Force veteran Ralph Parker of Collierville, with his wife Anne Parker, was with the 20th Air Force in Iwo Jima. Parker said that being with fellow veterans and being part of Forever Young Senior Wish Organization means everything to him. “It’s been a real blessing,” he said.

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Man sentenced to more than 153 years

A Memphis man has been sentenced to 153 years and 10 months in federal prison for a string of 2012 business robberies that included three Dollar Generals, a Family Dollar and two Walgreens, U.S. Dist. Atty. Edward Stan-ton’s oice announced last Thursday.

Ronnie Jackson Jr., 29, was convicted March 13 of 12 counts related to the robberies between April and May of 2012.

In his inal robbery at a Collierville Walgreens, Jackson and an accomplice ordered 19 people in the drugstore to the ground at gunpoint. They stole $6,000 from the safe. Col-lierville police arrested Jackson at the scene.

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Two will be inducted into journalism hall

Two Memphis journal-ists are among those who will be inducted into the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame next month.

The two are Otis San-ford, former managing edi-tor of The Commercial Ap-peal and current holder of the Hardin Chair of Excel-lence in Journalism at the University of Memphis; and Joe Birch, longtime anchor at WMC-TV.

They, along with four others, will be inducted into the hall on Aug. 12 at Middle Tennessee State University during the 60th annual conference of the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters.

Also included in the 2014 class are Bob John-son, co-anchor of WTVC in Chattanooga; Alex Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer with The New York Times; Luther Masingill, WDEF Radio/TV; and Sam Venable, col-umnist with the Knoxville News Sentinel.

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heat and air conditioning.A tiered priority system

will determine who gets to use the facilities if there are two groups competing for the same space.

Manuel said German-town students will always have priority in their own schools. After current students, school-related groups will be consid-ered, and then community groups.

“We want to be a cen-ter for the community,” Manuel said. “We want everyone from the city of Germantown, even if they don’t have kids,” to use the schools.

Another advantage of having outside people in the schools, he said, is to have the community vi-sualize the needs of each school and to motivate support for the schools.

Manuel said the de-mand for space isn’t going to change, although the process to reserve those spaces will be easier with Germantown in control than it was with Shelby County Schools.

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Woods said after the meeting that the cost to Shelby County for use of the ields is about $11,000. Supt. Dorsey Hopson has already signed the agree-ment, which does not need SCS board approval because the cost is under $100,000.

Students will be able to use C.O. Franklin Park tennis courts — as well as open space at that park for band practices and rugby — Red Devil Baseball Field, and the Soccerplex on C.D. Smith Road at pre-determined times.

Mayor Sharon Gold-sworthy said both parties have agreed to come back to the table by April 15 to discuss extending or rene-gotiating the contract for the following school year. City Administrator Patrick Lawton previously said the issue of the school names could come up again dur-ing that renegotiation.

In other business, the board also approved an agreement with the Ger-mantown Municipal School District to mow the lawns of all ive schools in ex-change for the Parks and Recreation Department being able to use school facilities for programs. The after-school program, called REACH, will be run by the parks department at the schools as part of this agreement.

Alderman Forrest Ow-ens said that as a parent who has used after-school services for his children, the program and agree-ment are much needed.

This is “exactly what I, what we envisioned when we brought this school dis-trict alive,” he said.

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the organization since joining Forever Young in 2010. The volunteer award got its name from Jack Tay-lor, a US Navy veteran who joined Forever Young after going on a trip to Washing-ton, D.C., with the group a couple of years ago. Tay-lor began reaching out to the community by writing letters to individuals and businesses throughout the area. He is responsible for raising more than $40,000 for the organization.

“This trip means every-thing to them (veterans), for most have never been back,” said Hight. “At their ages, 89 to 95, they would not be returning if we weren’t paying their way and caring for them.”

This year the group of veterans will be guided back to the very location where they fought 70 years ago. “Going back is very healing and helps them ind closure,” Hight said. Most of the veterans mak-ing the trip crossed the Rhine River into Germany and will be treated to a six-hour cruise down the river.

“We could never do this without our supporters,” said Hight. “The veterans are very thankful to ev-eryone who gives so they can return.” Throughout the years, Hight has seen the emotions of veterans making the trip back to Belgium. “They are really surprised people still re-member them, but are ex-tremely grateful they do,” she said. “It brings tears to their eyes to know people haven’t forgotten World War II and the Battle of the Bulge.

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By Lela [email protected]

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For the second time in a month, a robber grabbed the purse of an Asian salon worker after she left work and drove to her Collierville home.

No one has been arrested.On Saturday and late last

month, robbers struck on the weekend, targeting women who work along the Winchester cor-ridor of Bill Morris Parkway

in hair or beauty supply/nail salons.

About 4:30 p.m. Saturday, a robber pushed a woman in her garage before running away with her purse and jumping into a red getaway car, possibly a late 1990s model Toyota Camry. The purse held about $400 cash, a payroll check, a driver’s license and credit cards.

The 40-year-old Vietnamese woman had just parked her car in her garage at Forest Wind Cove of East Holmes Road and Bill Morris Parkway. Capt. Chris Locke, Criminal Investigations Division commander, said the victim told investigators she

saw someone approaching at a quick pace.

The victim was not hurt. She told police the robber didn’t ap-pear to be armed.

Collierville police canvassed the Winchester and Hacks Cross area Saturday afternoon, where the victim had just left the hair salon before the rob-bery.

“We are looking into the idea she may have been followed,” said Locke. He said police are uncertain whether cash is the motive or potential identity theft — or both.

Collierville police are work-ing with the Shelby County

Sherif’s oice and also Mem-phis police to see if there is a pattern of robbers targeting Asian salon workers. So far, there are no links to any orga-nized robbery ring working the area.

Last month, on the night of June 27, a robber shot a 51-year-old Korean woman in her drive-way, striking her right arm, right leg and left foot before snatching her purse.

The woman had just left her job at a beauty supply/nail sa-lon on Winchester of Bill Mor-ris Parkway. The irst robbery victim lives on Bechers Brook Cove, just of Grand Steeple

Drive east of Town Square. The second robbery victim lives about 10 miles away.

The victims were unable to provide much of a descrip-tion of the suspect or suspects. Saturday’s suspect is listed as a tall man, thin build, wearing a brown T-shirt and bluejeans. The robber in the earlier holdup is believed to be about 20 years old and wearing a hoodie.

If anyone notices a suspicious vehicle or person in their neigh-borhood, Locke said, “That is one of the best ways to solve these crimes. We want to dou-ble down on that. The irst call should be to us.”

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Oicials are collecting data on bike lanes and walking paths to determine just what people want, and how much they’re willing to spend to have it.

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After studying a display board of area photos with people riding their bikes or walking at Lakeland City Hall, Brenda Lockhart, the city’s acting parks director, took red dots and marked the ones she considered unsafe and used green dots for the ones that looked safe.

The bike lane along Hous-ton Levee earned a red dot. “It doesn’t look like it is 2½-foot wide. If they meet specs, it’s got to be to the inch,” she said.

Lockhart was among about dozen or so people who attended a public meeting in Lakeland July 22 on the 2014 regional bicycle and pedestrian plan update.

The planning exercise that Lookhart took part in will be in-cluded in data collected at other meetings, including a meeting Monday at the Germantown Eco-nomic & Community Develop-ment oice, 1920 S. Germantown Road (next to City Hall).

The Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization is gather-ing input from residents through-out Shelby and DeSoto counties and parts of Fayette and Marshall counties. MPO transportation planner Nicholas Oyler said oi-cials want to know what residents want in terms of bike and walk-ing trails, where they want them and how much they are willing to spend to get them.

While a similar plan was in-ished in 2011, Memphis MPO bicycle/pedestrian coordina-tor Kyle Wagenschutz said they want to see if priorities have changed in three years.

Since that time, he said, the metro area has seen a 33 percent increase in new bike lanes, side-walks and walking trails that total 112 miles. In addition, 233 miles of new bike and walking trails are in the works between now and 2017.

Based on the 2011 plan, he ad-mitted there was missing data regarding pedestrian pathways: “We didn’t know which schools allowed children to walk to school.

With the new plan it will be a much more robust analysis of pedestrian needs and desires.”

Several residents have com-plained about the lack of input from walkers. “It is important to recruit a cadre of pedestrian advocates — the city & region has plenty of bicycling advocates,” wrote one observer at an earlier meeting.

The public can see a proposed draft during a second round of meetings this fall. In addition to becoming a road map, the plan can help local governments when applying for state or fed-eral grants, Wagenschutz said. He expects the inal draft will be voted on in November at the Transportation Policy Board which is made up of all the may-ors in Shelby and DeSoto County and parts of Fayette and Mar-shall counties.

Lakeland Board Commissioner Clark Plunk said he would like to see “more trails everywhere. In my opinion it is all about the money. I can’t see us spending it on bike lanes right now. This room should be full and it’s not. The die-hard bi-cyclists are here. The walkers are not going to be here.”

Planners seek input on bike lanes

Opinions sought

Germantown Police report

JULY 21

■ Someone took a tablet computer from a business in the 1900 block of kirby parkway at 4:14 p.m.

■ Someone took a lawn mower from the backyard of the victim’s residence in the 7900 block of poplar pike at 6:18 p.m.

■ Someone forced entry into the victim’s vehicle and took assorted tools in the 7600 block of poplar at 7:18 p.m.

JUNE 22

■ Someone damaged the victim’s car doors by scratching the paint in the 7500 block of Corporate Center Drive at 7:31 p.m.

JULY 23

■ Someone took the right rear tire/rim from the victim’s vehicle in the 6500 block of poplar at 7:21 a.m.

JULY 24

■ male suspect posing as a utility worker contacted the victim by telephone and defrauded her out of more than $400 in the 7600 block of poplar pike at 8:49 a.m.

■ Father and son had a physical altercation in the 7100 block of Neshoba at 4:34 p.m.

■ Victim received a threatening telephone call in

the 8000 block of Wolf river Boulevard at 5:14 p.m.

■ Someone took two radar detectors from two unlocked vehicles in the 2200 block of Glenbar Drive at 7:24 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at poplar and West Street at 12:03 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Forest hill irene and Winchester at 12:41 p.m.

JULY 25

■ oicers arrested four juveniles after they broke into the building and damaged a loud speaker in the 2700 block of Cross Country at 2:18 a.m.

■ Someone entered a unlocked vehicle and took cash from a wallet and envelope left in the vehicle in the 2800 block of Cordie lee at 8:32 a.m.

■ Someone sprinkled baby powder across the lawn and left several broken eggs, plastic forks and toilet paper strewn across the grass in the 2000 block of New Fields at 9:01 a.m.

■ Someone entered a unlocked vehicle and took cash and a check in the 7900 block of Farindon at 6:11 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Forest hill and poplar at 8:15 a.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown and Brierbrook at 3:27 p.m.

JULY 26

■ Victim wired money to a suspect for the purchase of a boat on eBay and never received the boat in the 9300 block of hawthorn hill at 11:02 a.m.

■ Someone opened a credit card account using the victim’s name and made fraudulent purchases in the 1900 block of prestwick at 12:05 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Dogwood and Forest hill irene at 11:05 a.m.

JULY 27

■ oicers arrested adult male during a traic stop with a stolen license plate at poplar and aaron Brenner at 6:33 a.m.

■ Someone scratched the paint on two vehicles in the 8100 block of pine Valley at 1:55 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at poplar pike and Southern at 1 p.m.

■ two vehicles collided causing no injuries at 3:15 p.m.

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Germantown School Board member Ken Hoover last week likened the relationship between the Germantown and Col-lierville Municipal School districts to domestic vio-lence.

“We’re the battered wives,” Hoover told The Commercial Appeal late last Thursday, adding that Collierville was like a man who “hits me but he’s a good provider” so

they stay in the relation-ship.

The comments came after Bartlett City Schools officials criticized Ger-mantown’s interactions with Collierville over the municipal districts’ joint transportation contract.

After years of ighting together to create their own school districts, the discord has shifted in-ward as the six suburban districts now compete against each other while sharing several services. Hundreds of Collierville students also will contin-

ue to attend Germantown schools through an agree-ment between the two dis-tricts.

Germantown board chairwoman Lisa Parker said she did not want to comment on Hoover’s “perceived relationship with Collierville” but said she has positive relation-ships with Collierville school oicials.

“I want to have a com-fortable relationship with Collierville because we are neighbors and I would like to have a good relationship with my neighbor,” Parker said.

During the July 21 Ger-mantown School Board meeting, officials aired

concerns about Collier-ville’s addition of a clause to the bus contract that could make it inancially diicult for Germantown to merge its three bell times into two bell times for next school year. The following day, Collierville Supt. John Aitken said Ger-mantown’s concerns could be resolved.

Bartlett City Schools oicials weighed in on the matter at their meeting last Thursday, saying that Germantown was on the same page with everyone else until Germantown Supt. Jason Manuel spoke to his school board.

Bartlett Supt. David Stephens said his district

has kept quiet about frus-trations in working with Germantown.

Manuel said the clause in the contract, which would require any dis-trict to pay if it made a transportation change that inancially afected another district, ended up as a compromise. He said he intends to sign the bus contract as soon as he receives it back from Dur-ham Services.

As for working with Collierville, Manuel said Aitken “couldn’t be a bet-ter friend or mentor.”

“His impact on my pro-fessional life is the reason I am where I am now,” Manuel said, adding, “I

don’t feel like the battered wife.”

Aitken, who served as principal at Houston High School in Germantown and was the superinten-dent of Shelby County Schools, likened the re-lationship to a marriage. “You have bumps in the road but you sit down and work it out,” he said.

Hoover, who has been outspoken about sharing services with other dis-tricts, said last Friday he supports a mutually ben-eicial relationship, but not when one party is forced into that relationship. He said he believes that’s what happened with the bus contract.

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In with the new

Photos by William Deshazer/the CommerCial aPPeal

Parents, students tour

new Collierville School District

oicesMelynda Sammons (middle)

holds her daughter, Aubrey, 6, while touring the administra-tion central oices of the new

Collierville School District with her son, John David, 7, during an

open house. The event was held Sunday and ofered face painting,

food, entertainment, tours and prizes. The oices are located at

146 College St., formerly the loca-tion of Collierville’s Historic High School, and employ 60. Classes

start Monday.

School calendars & directory

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GERMANTOWN MUNICIPAL

SCHOOLS

Monday: First day of schoolSept. 1: labor Day holidaySept. 18: Parent conferencesSept. 19: Professional Dev. DayOct. 3: end of the irst quarterOct. 6-10: Fall breaknov. 11: Veterans Day holidaynov. 26-28: thanksgiving breakDec. 17-19: semester examsDec. 19: end of second quarterDec. 22-Jan. 2: Winter breakJan. 5: administrative DayJan. 6: beginning of the second semesterJan. 19: martin luther King Jr. holidayFeb. 12: Parent conferencesFeb. 16: Professional Dev. DayMarch 16-20: spring breakapril 3: Good FridayMay 19: houston high graduationMay 22: last day of school

COLLIERVILLE MUNICIPAL

SCHOOLS

Monday: First day of schoolSept. 1: labor Day holidaySept. 18: Parent conferencesSept. 19: Professional Dev. DayOct. 3: end of the irst quarterOct. 6-10: Fall breaknov. 11: Veterans Day holidaynov. 26-28: thanksgiving

breakDec. 17-19: semester examsDec. 19: end of second quarterDec. 22-Jan. 2: Winter breakJan. 5: administrative DayJan. 6: beginning of the second semesterJan. 19: martin luther King Jr. holidayFeb. 12: Parent conferencesFeb. 13: Professional Dev. DayMarch 16-20: spring breakapril 3: Good FridayMay 20-22: semester exams

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GERMANTOWN MUNICIPAL

SCHOOLS

Superintendent: Jason manuel, [email protected]: 6865 Poplar ave. suite 202, Germantown, tN 38138, open 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.Phone: 901-752-7900Fax: 901-757-6479

DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY

address: 8945 Dogwood roadPrincipal: susan Pittman, [email protected] start time: 9 a.m. Phone: 901-756-2310

FARMINGTON ELEMENTARY

address: 2085 Cordes roadPrincipal: zac Percoski, [email protected] start time: 8 a.m.Phone: 901-756-2320

RIVERDALE

address: 7391 Neshoba roadPrincipal: Joseph bond, [email protected] start time: 8 a.m.Phone: 901-756-2300

HOUSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL

address: 9400 Wolf river blvdPrincipal: liz Dias, [email protected] start time: 7 a.m.Phone: 901-756-2366

HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL

address: 9755 Wolf river blvd.Principal: Kyle Cherry, [email protected] start time: 7 a.m.Phone: 901-756-2370

COLLIERVILLE MUNICIPAL

SCHOOLS

Superintendent: John aitken, [email protected]: 146 College st., Collierville, tN 38017Phone: 901-861-7000e-mail: [email protected]

BAILEY STATION

ELEMENTARY

address: 3435 bailey station roadPrincipal: Cynthia tesreau, [email protected] start time: 9 a.m.Phone: 901-853-6380

COLLIERVILLE ELEMENTARY

address: 590 Peterson lake roadPrincipal: melissa mcConnell, [email protected] start time: 9 a.m.Phone: 901-853-3300

CROSSWIND ELEMENTARY

address: 831 shelton roadPrincipal: Patricia lampkins, [email protected] start time: 9 a.m.Phone: 901-853-3330

SYCAMORE ELEMENTARY

address: 1155 sycamore road Principal: Jennifer ragland, [email protected] start time: 9 a.m.Phone: 901-854-8202

TARA OAKS ELEMENTARY

address: 600 e. harpers Ferry Principal: tricia marshall, [email protected] start time: 9 a.m.Phone: 901-853-3337

COLLIERVILLE MIDDLE

address: 580 Quinn road Principal: roger Jones, [email protected] start time: 8 a.m.Phone: 901-853-3320

SCHILLING FARMS MIDDLE

address: 935 Colbert st. Principal: Jef Jones, jjones@

colliervilleschools.orgSchool start time: 8 a.m.Phone: 901-854-2345

COLLIERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

address: 1101 New byhalia road Principal: Chip blanchard, [email protected] start time: 7 a.m.Phone: 901-853-3310

SHELBY COUNTY SCHOOLS

Superintendent: Dorsey hopsonOice: 160 s. hollywood st.Phone: 901-416-5300

GERMANTOWN

ELEMENTARY

address: 2730 Cross Country Dr.Principal: Donna Crain Jones, [email protected] start time: 9 a.m.Phone: 901-756-2330

GERMANTOWN MIDDLE

address: 7925 C.D. smith Principal: amie marsh, [email protected] start time: 8 a.m.Phone: 901-756-2338

GERMANTOWN HIGH

address: 7653 old Poplar PikePrincipal: barbara harmon, [email protected] start time: 7 a.m.Phone: 901-756-2350

By Clay [email protected]

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Families showed up for registration at schools across the county Tuesday, including six municipal school districts opening for their inaugural terms.

The six, plus the Achievement School Dis-trict and Shelby County Schools, all start classes Monday under the most significant local educa-tional reconiguration in recent history.

Initial reports from the suburbs Tuesday indicated little more than the annual annoyances accompany-ing registrations.

“Everything seems good,” said Bartlett Supt. David Stephens.

Collierville Supt. John Aitken reported that reg-istration went smoothly at Collierville’s eight schools as well. He said oicials from the suburban districts will talk individually with their planner Nedra Jones about student populations to see if staf additions or adjustments are necessary.

“People are getting in and out quickly,” German-town Supt. Jason Manuel reported from that district early in the day.

Manuel said a rush of people came in the morn-ing, some of whom had not preregistered.

“They had a lot of new students show up,” Manuel said.

Germantown parent Cris Moore brought her sons, Reagan, 12, and Gar-rett, 9, to Houston Middle and Dogwood Elementary to register Tuesday.

They were among those who had not preregistered. Moore said it wasn’t due to indecision. The family moved from Cordova to Germantown last week and couldn’t register un-til they were officially residents, even bringing closing documents on the purchase of their German-town home to registration.

Her younger son previ-ously attended Cordova Elementary, but her older son was in private school.

“It was like having a sec-ond mortgage,” she said.

Even though they had to register individually at Houston Middle and Dog-wood, Moore said the pro-cess was easy.

“It took way less time than I had anticipated,” she said.

Patrick and Brandi Gar-ner toured Collierville High for the first time Tuesday with their daugh-ters daughter, Hannah, 15, and Katie, 8. They moved to Collierville this year from the unincorporated area near Millington.

When asked why, Pat-rick Garner said simply: “Aitken. Reputation.”

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By Andrea WeiglThe News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Summertime is high season for eating outdoors; week-end plans are illed with cookouts, backyard parties and picnics.

That often means bringing a dish, usually a dessert or salad, to go with the host’s main course. With salads, the lineup is often the same: potato salad, coleslaw, pasta salad, baked beans, bean salad.

We wanted modern takes on these classics, and this spring’s crop of cookbooks ofered plenty of inspiration.

In his new cookbook, “Down South,” New Orleans chef and restaurateur Donald Link spices up a carrot and raisin salad with homemade curry powder. Link also updates an apple and raisin slaw by adding ginger, jalapeños and cooked bits of country ham or prosciutto for heat, crunch and saltiness.

Food writer and memoirist Kim Sunee cleverly pairs coconut milk, ginger and chilies with black-eyed peas for a fresh take on hoppin’ John. In “A Mouthful of Stars,” Sunee writes that she considers black-eyed peas to be “the catish of the legume family — musky and murky if not cooked properly.” She discovered that the murkiness vanishes when the peas are cooked like an Indian-spiced lentil dish. The recipe was delicious at room temperature and without rice, which makes it a contender for taking to the outdoor feast.

Food blogger Lisa Fain updates Texas macaroni salad in her book, “The Homesick Texan’s Family Table.” Fain explains that a Texas macaroni salad involves pasta, pickles, peas, peppers and a mayo dressing. But it wasn’t to Fain’s taste: “It’s a little cloying with the sweet pickles and sweet mayonnaise.”

Fain’s version adds cabbage for crunch, lime juice and mustard for balance and chipotle peppers for heat.

“It’s a little more modern taste, a little more to my taste,” Fain said.

That’s exactly what we’re looking to bring to the next picnic.

Update a favorite salad for a summertime potluck or picnic

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Coconut black-eyed peas, from “A Mouthful of Wonderful” by Kim Sunee, can be served warm with rice but is equally wonder-ful at room temperature.

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“Making the flavors is my creative outlet,” said Hugh Balthrop (right), hand-packing ice cream with employee Donald Sutton at the Sweet Magnolia Ice Cream Co. warehouse in Clarksdale, Miss. The business evolved after Balthrop started making ice cream at home for his children.


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Hugh Balthrop glides his hand over ribbons of ingredient labels that line a wall of his Clarksdale, Miss., ice cream factory, Sweet Magnolia. There’s Banana Moon

Pie gelato, just a space or two over from Benton’s Bacon gelato, but half a wall away from Gravel Road gelato, Honey Lavender gelato and Muscadine sorbet. There’s popcorn and pistachio, choco-late in a variety of lavors, and plenty more.

“Making the lavors is my creative outlet,” he said.

Balthrop grew up in Washington, the nation’s capital, with no reason to expect that he’d ind himself living in Mississip-pi or that he would make a living making ice cream. He owned an art gallery in the hip Adams Morgan neighborhood when he met his wife while she was on vaca-tion. She was doing a residency in Chi-cago, and when they married less than a year after they met, Balthrop moved there while she inished.

When she was done, Erica Balthrop wanted to come home to Clarksdale, where her grandparents lived and where she is a practicing obstetrician/gyne-cologist, so they moved in 1999. They bought seven acres and built a house and a guesthouse, where her grandfa-ther lived until he died one week before his 100th birthday.

That guesthouse was Balthrop’s irst production facility, but let’s back up a bit.

He was mostly a stay-at-home dad for the couple’s three children, ages 5, 7 and 12, and he was the primary cook in the family. He started playing around with ice cream because, well, who doesn’t like ice cream? So Balthrop made his

kids happy — and made sure they were eating top-quality food — by making them ice cream.

“But everybody liked it so much that I started making it for friends, too, and it sort of grew from there,” Balthrop said.

He researched methods online, prac-ticed, and then spent a weekend at Penn State taking a class on the science of making ice cream and a class at the French Culinary Institute in Chicago.

He set up shop in the guesthouse in 2011.

“We started out with a Cuisinart countertop unit at home,” he said. “I came up with the name when I was in the yard at home, too. It was the time of year when the magnolias were fragrant and I said, ‘That’s it.’”

He moved on to a Bravo gelato maker, and now into a 4,500-square-foot facil-ity inside the Clarksdale/Coahoma County Chamber of Commerce build-ing, using incubator space for small businesses. He has a commercial gelato machine from Italy that allows him to produce about 700 pints weekly, plus enough 3-gallon containers to keep the restaurateurs who sell his gelato and sorbet happy.

The machine pasteurizes and ho-mogenizes the milk, and soft freezes

the gelato. But the initial mixing is done by hand and the containers are illed by hand, by Balthrop and a few help-ers. The plastic — reuse is encouraged — one-pint containers even have the variety name handwritten in marker. After packing, containers are stored in big freezers until Balthrop makes his deliveries to the 25 restaurant and retail outlets around Memphis and Mississip-pi that carry Sweet Magnolia.

Charles Shirley at High Point Gro-cery sells about 150 pints a week at $7.99 each. “Some of the older ladies call and want to be sure we have the whiskey pecan, and they ask us to hold it for them,” he said. Shirley’s favorite is German chocolate.

“My wife’s favorite is the watermelon with lemon sorbet,” he said. “But the great thing about Hugh is that if you think of something you want, just tell him and he’ll make it if he can.”

Shirley, whose father bought the small grocery store on High Point Ter-race in 1971, makes a point of stocking local items. His philosophy ties in with Balthrop’s, who buys local products to use in his gelato and buys organic when he can.

“That’s important to us,” he said. “We’re going to support the local farm-ers as much as we can. Our milk comes from Brown Family Dairy in Oxford, where they know the names of all their cows. It’s organic, and even though they’re just over in Oxford, I found out about them when I read a story in The New York Times.”

Balthrop started his Memphis distri-bution, as many small purveyors do, at Miss Cordelia’s. He added High Point Terrace, just recently Lucchesi’s, and has secured space with Whole Foods in Memphis and Jackson, Miss.

“That was a big goal, getting in Whole Foods,” he said. “We did it, and we’re moving forward.”

HOW SWEET IT IS

COCONUT BLACK-EYED PEASYield: 8-10 servings.

INGREDIENTS

1 tablespoon olive oil or vegetable oil ¾ cup diced carrots (about 2 small carrots) ¾ cup diced yellow onion 1 tablespoon peeled and minced fresh ginger 2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 Granny Smith apple, cored and diced 1 pound dried black-eyed peas, rinsed and picked through

(soaked overnight, if needed) 5 cups water 1 ½ tablespoons hot curry powder or garam masala 2 teaspoons sea salt 1 teaspoon ground cumin ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 large juicy orange ½ to ¾ cup canned unsweetened coconut milk, shaken ½ cup fresh cilantro — Garnish: chopped red onion, chopped fresh jalapeño, lime

wedges

DIRECTIONS

1 Heat oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium heat; add carrots, onion, ginger, garlic and apple. Stir and let cook about 3 minutes, being careful not to burn. Add black-eyed peas, water, curry powder, salt, cumin and black pepper; stir and bring to a boil. Skim the froth, decrease heat to medium-low, and simmer about 40 minutes, until peas are almost tender. Stir occasion-ally, mashing some of the peas against the side of the pot for creaminess. Add more water, as needed, if peas are dry.

2 Add zest from one-quarter of the orange, then cut orange in half and squeeze juice into the peas. Add coconut milk and stir. Sim-mer, covered, for another 7 to 10 minutes, until peas are tender. Taste peas and adjust the seasonings as needed. Pour peas into a large serving dish. Garnish with cilantro, red onion, jalapeños and lime wedges.

From “A Mouthful of Stars,” by Kim Sunee (Andrews McNeel, 2014).

MISSISSIPPI MARY POUND CAKE ICE CREAMMakes 1 generous quart.

INGREDIENTS

4 egg yolks ¾ cup sugar 2 cups whole milk 1 cup heavy cream 1 vanilla bean 1 cup cubed pound cake, chilled

(preferably lemon)

DIRECTIONS

1 Fill a large bowl with ice water. Set aside.

2 Whisk the egg yolks and sugar in a medium bowl until pale in color. Set aside.

3 Combine the milk and cream in a medium saucepan. Cut open the vanilla bean and scrape the seeds in the milk mixture, adding the pod as well. Set over medium heat and warm until bubbles begin to form.

4 Temper the eggs by slowly pouring a half cup of warm milk in the yolks, whisking constantly until combined. Return the warm yolks to the pan with the warm milk mix. Heat over medium-low heat, stirring con-stantly, until the custard thickens and coats the back of a spoon.

5 Remove from heat and pour through a fine-mesh sieve into a medium bowl. Set the bowl in the ice water to cool, whisking occasion-ally, about 20 minutes. Chill at least 4 hours, or overnight.

6 Once chilled, pour into ice cream maker and prepare according to manufacturer’s instructions. When churning is complete, fold in pound cake pieces. Transfer to a freezer-safe container and freeze at least 4 hours before serving.

Source: “Scoop Adventures: The Best Ice Creams of the 50

States,” Lindsay Clendaniel (Recipe from Sweet Magnolia)

MANDARIN SORBETTOMakes 1 quart.

INGREDIENTS

2 cups freshly squeezed mandarin or tangerine juice plus 1 cup water OR 3 cups juice

— Grated zest of 2 mandarins or tan-gerines

1 cup sugar, or to taste 1-2 egg whites, beaten (optional)

DIRECTIONS

1 Place water or 1 cup juice, zest and sugar in a pan and bring to a boil, then stir until sugar has dissolved. Cool chill and add juice. Strain if desired and add egg whites if using.

2 Churn, according to ice cream maker’s instructions, then freeze at least 4 hours. Soften in the refrig-erator for 15 minutes before serving.

Source: “Gelato, Sorbet and Ice Cream,” Elsa Petersen-

Schepelern

ZABAGLIONE GELATOMakes 3 cups.

INGREDIENTS

½ cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar 1 cup water 3 egg yolks 1 cup heavy cream, lightly whipped 6 tablespoons sweet Marsala

DIRECTIONS

1 Place sugar and water in a pan and boil until the sugar has completely dissolved. Remove from heat.

2 Beat egg yolks until pale and creamy. Beat 2 tablespoons of the hot syrup into the yolks, then gradu-ally beat egg mixture back into the syrup. The mixture will froth, like zabaglione.

3 Fold in the whipped cream and Marsala, the churn according to ice cream maker’s instructions. Freeze at least 4 hours before serving. Because the alcohol will make the ice cream soft, you might not need to soften before serving.

Source: “Gelato, Sorbet and Ice Cream,” Elsa Petersen-

Schepelern

Mississippi ice cream maker enjoys taste of success

Pistachio gelato is one of the flavors pro-duced by Sweet Magnolia. Others include popcorn, Banana Moon Pie, Benton’s Bacon, Gravel Road, Honey Lavender and Muscadine.

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“English will be a big challenge this year.”

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We asked teens at Singleton

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What is your most

challenging issue for the upcoming

school year?

“Getting back into the swing of things, being able to pay attention and not falling asleep.”

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“It will be waking up early again.”

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“I think algebra and geometry will be

challenging.”CAMILLA HENAO, 15,

Collierville High School

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Schools


By Beth RooksSpecial to The Weekly

Briarcrest middle school art teacher Melody Weintraub directed an art camp this summer for children at Memphis Chi-nese Evangelical Church. Two of her former middle school students, Josiah Fahhoum and Briarcrest alumni Christina Conner assisted in teaching and setting up the camp, which was held at Union Avenue Baptist Church.

“This is our third year to serve the children at the church. I have always loved to use art to teach Biblical principles,” said Weintraub. “Years ago when I began the art camp model at my own church, First Evangelical Church, Briarcrest high school art teacher Jenna Fergus, sug-gested that we take this concept to China. I thought at the time that was a lofty goal, however, God has ful-filled that vision by bring-ing the Chinese children to Memphis. MCEC is such a precious body of believers. I am encouraged by their faith,” she added.

In the two-day camp,

students learned water-color, mixed-media col-lage and participated in several craft-making workshops. Also assisting with teaching and mentor-ing the children was Jackie Zwicki and teens Olivia Grace Sistrunk and Megan Cascarella.

“What I love about be-ing able to serve at the MCEC Art Camp,” said Conner, “is not only being able to see the delight on the faces of the children as we teach them about art and about God, but also be-ing able to fellowship and serve with the other mem-bers of our art camp team.”

Briarcrest helped in many ways by supplying materials and equipment for this camp. Briarcrest middle school students also assisted with materi-als by donating their end-of-the year art supplies at locker clean-out in May.

“Some of these MCEC families will have gone back to China when we meet next year,” says Weintraub. “It is really nice to know that we have been able to show them Biblical principles through art that they will hopefully

be able teach others.”“I am so grateful to wit-

ness the way God works in our church, the love from fellow Christians, the joy that flows among the teachers and the children are all evidence that God is real,” said Cindy Lin, a member of the church.

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Briarcrest teacher runs summer art camp with her former students

Collierville Schools’ principals (front, left) Melissa McConnell, Jennifer Ragland, Cynthia Tesreau, Patricia Lampkins, Tricia Marshall; Jef Jones (back), Chip Blanchard and Roger Jones, spent time at town hall for in-service training conducted by Collierville Schools central oice administration staf. School employees illed the town hall board chambers as Mayor Stan Joyner and aldermen greeted the group. Personnel from all departments including assistant principals, nutrition, inance, human resources, transportation and IT were in attendance, along with Supt. John Aitken and members of the Collierville Schools Board of Education. The irst day of classes is Monday.

Several Germantown Elementary kids got their hands dirty as the planted new lowers and bushes in front of the school sign.

Germantown Elementary PTA volunteers, students, faculty and administrators came out to spend the day “beautifying” the school before students arrive on Monday. The lower beds at the front entrance, outdoor classroom and annex lower beds were all replanted with new lowers and bushes.

Joyce Le Qin, an 11-year-old ifth grader at Farmington Elementary School, was the 2014 grand prize win-ner of the National Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl Poster Contest. She was honored at an awards ceremony at the National Forest Service Head-quarters in Washington, D.C., by Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell (left) with friends Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl looking on with approval. This annual poster contest is open to all elemen-tary school students across the U.S.

Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell spoke to parents, students, teachers and town employees who gathered at Collierville Municipal School District oices for the kickof celebration.

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By Sarah AcufSpecial to The Weekly

Tom Densford is the new athletic director at St. George’s Independent School. Densford has been the dean of students at St. George’s since 2006, but his past coaching experi-ence and love for all sports brought him back on the ield.

“It’s an honor and a privilege to become the athletic director at St. George’s,” Densford said. “I am excited to work with such a great athletic staf, and I look forward to what the future holds for this

p r o g r a m and all of our student athletes.”

S c h o o l pres ident Bill Taylor said, “Tom’s deep knowl-edge of the school cul-

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“Moreover, he has a pas-sion for the role that athlet-ics plays in the develop-ment of young people and the role it has in the aca-demic life of a school. Tom

has both the experience and the enthusiasm neces-sary for this position, and I am conident he will do a great job leading our ath-letic program,” Taylor said.

Densford’s coaching experience spans 19 years in various tournaments, academies and schools. He was assistant baseball coach at Christian Broth-ers University, the NABF World Series Tournament director and was also the professional baseball in-structor at Dulin’s Sports Academy as well as the director for all of Dulin’s baseball camps, clinics, and leagues.

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Deedee Holmes’ fairy village includes a collection of little houses.

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There’s an aviary and tiny animals in a petting zoo in a miniature garden at Millstone Nursery.

A little fairy with butterfly wings sits in a whimsical miniature gar-den at Millstone Nursery.

By Christine Arpe GangSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

When it comes to inding enchantment in their work, gardeners are thinking small.

“My fairy gardens are like little ‘spots of heaven,’” said Scott Sellers, who owns several. “I keep them on my screened porch and the kitchen table so I can have living gar-dens through all of the seasons.”

Fairy gardens, which blossomed on the local gardening scene about eight years ago, are whimsical creations designed to attract fairies — mythical miniature creatures thought to bring beauty and joy to a garden when they are happy and mayhem and mischief when they are not.

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Fairy gardening is a lot like playing with an outdoor dollhouse except that garden benches, watering cans, birdbaths and trel-lises take the place of sofas, lamps and pictures.

Holmes and Sellers are frequent visitors to Mill-stone Nursery, where they indulge their passion by purchasing items to enhance their miniature gar-dens. You can spend a lot for a fairy garden with sturdy buildings enhanced by irresistibly cute ac-cessories. Or you can create one that costs very little.

Through their workshops at the Memphis Bo-tanic Garden, nurseryman Paul Little and Master Gardener Emelia Miekicki have shown hundreds of youngsters and adults how to make fairy gardens using natural materials such as bark, rocks, moss and sedums and other small succulents that root easily in a shallow tray of soil.

“We always bring some samples of fairy gardens to the workshops, but the children know what to do as soon as they see the materials,” said Little, owner of Little Hill Nursery, a wholesale source for sedums and other ground cover.

The houses or shelters for fairies are typically built with twigs and big pieces of bark. Moss covers most of the surface of the shallow plastic dish that holds the garden.

Pebbles form paths, and lat glass marbles be-come creeks. Garage sales, thrift stores and any-thing-for-a-dollar stores are sources for inexpen-sive embellishments.

“These gardens are meant to be ephemeral,” Lit-tle said. Because they are intact for only a season or two, there is always an opportunity to create another.

They don’t last forever, said Ginny Nearn, who has several concrete fairy houses in her garden and also creates them for others at Millstone, where she is a part-time loral designer.

“They certainly do last longer than a bouquet of cut lowers,” she said. “I took one to a friend in the hospital, and she loved it.”

Miniature or fairy gardens bring unexpected visual delights when constructed on the ground in front of trees or in tree stumps that have been allowed to rot for several years. After soil is worked into the stump cavities caused by decay, they can be planted and “decorated.”

As a hobby, miniature gardening has moved past the leeting-fad stage, according to Garden Me-dia Group, a Philadelphia-based public relations company that surveys its clients about gardening trends. Increased consumer demand for diminu-tive plants and miniature accessories relects its popularity.

Not all miniature gardening pursuits are whimsi-cal and ephemeral like fairy gardens. Bonsai plants have been prized for centuries for their understated elegance and long lives when properly maintained.

With bonsai, the ancient art of growing minia-ture trees in containers, you can have a grove of trees on an apartment balcony.

Bonsai hobbyists carefully choose their contain-ers. And they might add a stone or two to the ground beneath the trees. But it’s hard to imagine them placing a fairy igure on a meticulously sculpted and clipped branch.

Terrariums, which date to the early 1800s, lend themselves to a bit of whimsy when accessories like people, animals, shells and glass beads are placed in the glass container with the plants.

You can ind lots of information and photos on the hobby online through Pinterest and other websites. YouTube ofers step-by-step videos. The Millstone Nursery website and Facebook page also have lots of photos.

MYTHICAL MINIS

Rich in tiny details, fairy gardens provide whimsical ‘spots of heaven’ for owners

CHRISTINE ARPEGANG

GREEN THUMB

Cryptoquip

Sudoku

For the kids

Sudoku is a number-

placing puzzle based on a

9x9 grid with several given

numbers. The object is to

place the numbers 1 to 9 in

the empty squares so that

each row, each column and

each 3x3 box contains the

same number only once.

SOLUTIONS: See BELOW for solutions to these puzzles

Premier Crossword | Discard Pile

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SUNDAY BREAK

By Frank StewartTribune Content Agency

Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope

ACROSS 1 Merchandise

taken back, briefly

5 London or Manhattan area

12 Divs. of dollars 15 Leaf support 19 Mimicry pro 20 Angle units 21 Girls’ night out,

perhaps 23 Small-scale golf

variety 25 Massive 26 Fr. holy woman 27 Pop artist

Warhol 28 Utter fibs 29 To be, in Québec 30 Wedding chapel

vow 31 Like — of

sunshine 33 Draft lottery org. 35 Insult-hurling

sort 38 Conversed with 40 Settle a debt 42 The, in Québec 43 Stop 44 Food cart’s

counterpart on a ranch

46 Bummed out 47 “I get it!” 48 FDR’s follower 49 Grill master’s

cover-up 50 Opera parts 52 Actor Jack of

“Barney Miller” 55 Wichita resident

57 Execute a long slap shot, maybe

60 Snooping (about)

63 Juan or Eva of Argentina

65 Exact copy 66 Backed — corner 67 Phrase with

synonyms starting this puzzle’s eight longest Across answers

70 Indonesian skewered meat dish

71 Less quiet 73 Analyze the

makeup of 74 Clan emblems 75 Expert

witnesses’ unproven theories, say

78 Kia minivan 80 Noah’s craft 81 “L’shanah —!”

(Hebrew “Happy holidays!”)

82 Shoulder lift 83 Bee chaser? 86 Bygone Olds 88 Eden woman 89 Beanbag tic-

tac-toe game 92 Stand by for 95 Medical scan,

briefly 96 — -Puf (body

sponge) 97 “Billy Budd” star

Stamp

98 Worker in the trenches?

101 Antitrust org. 103 Old Cuzco native 104 Portuguese for

“year” 105 Tony winner

Carter 106 Plant pouch 108 “Woe is me!” 110 Pollution-

fighting org. 112 Ally of Rodan 114 Bit from a

shredder 117 Charged 118 Trip for nature

lovers 119 — -Alt-Del 120 Kiln used for

drying hops 121 Modern art? 122 “Ain’t gonna

happen” 123 Former U.S.

gas brand

DOWN 1 Smart blows 2 Tombstone

inscriptions 3 Dwindle 4 Tolkien monster 5 Ocean Spray

prefix 6 Dial, Zest and

Coast 7 Arnold, Duchin

and Merckx 8 Rim 9 Writer Bellow 10 Actual thing 11 Daisy’s kin

12 Common crudités go-with

13 Fractions for many agents

14 Bull’s sound 15 Sleuth Spade 16 Russian carriage 17 Chopin’s 27 18 Southern Indian

city 22 Moralize from

a pulpit 24 Actress Salma — 32 Dog show gp. 34 Sound-swapping

reverend 36 Eye-opener? 37 Grazing area 38 Educ. inst. 39 Nashville

nasality 41 The Atlantic’s

Cape — 45 Pictorial plot 46 Sweatboxes 47 Tennis pro

Arthur 51 Give it — 52 Set of rooms 53 William of —

(“razor” philosopher)

54 Green-lights 55 Newsstand 56 Novelist Nin 57 Seek water with

a divining rod 58 Printer brand 59 “Oro y —” 60 Martial-arts

mercenary 61 “God is — side” 62 Smell nasty

64 “Law & Order” actor Linus

67 Common jazz combo

68 Rinse 69 Australia’s

— Rock 72 Prefix for

“outer” 74 Old Roman

wraps 76 Marshy tract

of land 77 What GPS aids

in: Abbr. 79 Nebula, in part 82 Bassist Sutcliffe 83 Notions 84 Performers like

Houdini 85 Suffix with

journal 86 Rock’s Ocasek 87 Cultural 90 Brittle 91 Stimpy’s cartoon

bud 92 Slow, to Solti 93 Ryder of film 94 In conflict 95 “Lite” beer 96 Lorraine of “The

Sopranos” 99 D, in Greece 100 Ruhr hub 102 Knock at gently 107 Nile critter 109 Retro hairdo 111 Guthrie with

a guitar 113 Facial flaw 115 — distance 116 Star pitcher

The answer to each starred clue must have two consecutive letters removed before it is written into the grid. These letters will move to a pair of circles elsewhere in the puzzle. (In all cases, new words will be formed.) The nine letter pairs, when properly arranged, will spell an appropriate answer at 72-Across.

ACROSS 1 Swaddles, e.g. 8 *Turn, as a

wheel 12 Edible plant

extract 19 Be too fearful

to 20 Former

Nebraska senator James

21 Burger go-with 22 Yolk surrounder 23 Bit of sweat 24 Most hip 25 Low numero 26 Cowboys’

activity 29 Cologne

conjunction 30 Slushy drink 32 Kitten sounds 33 Detailed plans 35 Use a straw 39 Idea 41 Hides away 43 *Words of

praise 44 Thingamajig 45 Strangle 47 Cartoon dog 49 Italian dish that

needs much stirring

51 Openly defy 53 *Royal

messenger 57 Tony-winning

musical with the song “Find Your Grail”

60 Long March participant

61 Not ___ (none) 63 Raised

transports

64 Unchanged 66 Classic muscle

cars 67 Not just slow 69 Theater

supporters 72 See

instructions 78 Wise men 79 Is on the brink 81 Get rid of 85 ___ menu 86 Eagle’s org. 88 *Piddling 89 Smear 91 Locks up again 95 Painterish 96 Plain to see 98 Stir up 100 Trickster of

American Indian mythology

101 Close overlap of fugue voices

104 Attack 109 K.C.-to-Detroit

dir. 110 She rules 112 Indigenous 114 Caroled 116 “___ deal?” 117 Prix ___ 118 Sci-fi’s

Hubbard 119 Appeared in

print 121 Beast of

burden 123 Young seal 124 Many ski

lodges 128 Legitimate 129 Formed from

a mold 133 Babble on 134 Cathedral area 135 Stay-at-home

workers? 136 Tot-watched 137 Peevish state 138 Asparagus

unit

DOWN 1 One of eight

Eng. kings 2 Informal

turndown 3 Email, say 4 Used tire 5 Pay to play 6 Glad-handing

sort 7 Two-channel

8 *Upbraids 9 Field team 10 Mushroom 11 Reach,

eventually 12 Cpl.’s inferior 13 Stir up 14 *Great in

number 15 Card

combinations 16 Low number 17 Checks at the

door, say 18 W.W. II craft 27 Soccer

blooper 28 Bother 30 Neither blue

nor red?: Abbr. 31 Say sweet

words 32 Some dresses 34 Saucier’s boss 36 In the mood 37 Tenor from

Naples

38 Don of “The Andy Griffith Show”

40 Sticky stuff 41 Mex. miss 42 41-Down’s

room 46 Convenience-

store sights 48 Slow, hard

progress 50 Stepped in for 52 French fine 53 Witch 54 “___

Enchanted” 55 Mideast

currency 56 701, once 58 Bone: Prefix 59 Fictional

estate 62 Chanteuse

Eartha 65 State with the

motto “Oro y plata”

68 Half sister of Ares

69 Greedy sort 70 Bird: Prefix 71 “Undo” mark 73 Overseas

prince 74 Box office 75 ___ Plus 76 Actor

Dullea 77 Latin “was

to be” 80 Underhanded 81 Three-

ingredient treats

82 World capital where Monopoly is banned

83 Football team 84 Terrible 86 *Old West

robber 87 “Shaddup!” 90 *Not rough

92 Like the cry “Veni, vidi, vici”

93 Abbr. in some city names

94 Old West transport

97 Shortening in recipes?

99 Spanish “that”

102 Windy City paper, with “the”

103 Election-night data

105 One of the Windward Islands

106 Facility for small planes

107 Nobel- winning writer Andric

108 N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Dawson

111 Former transportation secretary Norman

113 Large-scale evacuation

115 *Newton subject

117 Choice cut 120 Latin “you

love” 122 Sitarist

Shankar 123 Nickname

for José 124 P.D. alert 125 Brother’s title 126 Poke fun at 127 Collection 130 Prankster 131 Bishop’s

domain 132 Classic

fantasy game co. 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 66 minutes.

7-27-14

When South opens 1NT, North’s correct action is enigmatic. Maybe half of all players would raise to 3NT because of the 4-3-3-3 pattern and secondary values, includ-ing tens and nines that will be useful at notrump.

The other half would bid two clubs, Stayman. Though North’s pattern is flat, South’s may not be, and a spade con-tract on a 4-4 fit may be best. To raise to 3NT would look silly if South held A Q 10 5, A 9 8, A Q 7 2, 5 2.

My view: North should bid his own hand instead of spec-ulating about South’s hand. I would bid 3NT.

In fact, 3NT was the better contract, and South made four spades only because East-West had a signaling snafu. When West led the king of clubs, East played the deuce. West treated that card as asking for a shift and led the deuce of diamonds next.

Dummy played low, and East had to play the queen. South took the ace, drew trumps and forced out the ace of clubs. He won the club re-turn, took the K-J of diamonds and led the queen of hearts. East covered, so South lost one heart and made his game. If West had held the K-J of hearts, he would have been end-played when he took the king.

East might have signaled with the eight of clubs at Trick One since he didn’t want a shift to anything, but West was more at fault. Dummy had no good source of tricks, so passive defense was indi-cated; no shift was impera-tive. West should have treated East’s deuce of clubs as merely noncommittal.

If West correctly continues with the ace and a third club, South goes down.

Dear Harriette: I have recently been spending time with people who are clearly out of my league. I met one woman on the beach a few summers ago when I was visiting friends. We liked each other instantly, and she has introduced me to her friend group. I totally enjoy spending time with them, but I don’t even begin to know how to reciprocate. I feel weird inviting them over to my home, because it is tiny by comparison. I do have other friends over. I don’t have a second home, a boat, a timeshare in the Caribbean or any of that stu�. I do have an interesting life, and these people seem to like me a lot. Should I just relax and be me? How do I show them how I live without turning them o�?

— Feeling Less Than, Jackson, Mississippi

Answer: Chances are great that your friends already know more about you than you think. They probably like you for who you are as a person and

how you fit in with them wherever you find your-selves. If you think it is possible for you to learn to enjoy the moment that you are in, it will be eas-ier for you to find ways to invite them into your world.If you feel comfort-able in your home, invite the one you like the most over for dinner. Share your life with that friend and see how it goes. Honestly, though, it starts with you feeling comfort-able with who you are. That comfortwill rub o� on whoever authentically cares about you. Anyone else does not deserve a seat at your table.

Reader feels inadequate with new group of friends

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) ★★★★ Your instincts will guide you as an older person or friend tries to manipulate a situation. Tonight: A must appearance.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★ You might opt to stay close to home, where you feel more comfortable. Tonight: Stay away from someone controlling.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ Your communica-tion excels, and if someone doesn’t get your message, it is probably because he or she doesn’t want to. Tonight: Opt for togetherness.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You might be notic-ing how much a partner is changing in front of your eyes. Don’t make it a big deal. Tonight: Make nice.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★★ Your personality melts barriers. You might not be sure how to handle a family member. Tonight: Go with the moment.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ Know when to disap-pear and be your own com-pany. A call from a child might energize you. To-night: Full of excitement.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You might have pushed a friend into a niche where he or she would pre-fer not to be. Tonight: Go for something fun.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★ Those who are close to you might not know how to respond to you. Be careful in a conversation. Tonight: Noticed wherever you are.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ You might need to sort through many invitations before deciding where you want to be. Stay relaxed. Tonight: Do not feel constrained.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ You could be exhausted by having to be so responsive with a part-ner. Tonight: Let someone else decide.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★

You might want to identify what is going on with loved ones. An older person could cop an attitude. Tonight: Go along with someone else’s wishes.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Pace yourself. Schedule a massage if you can. Do not fuss about what has not happened, but rather enjoy what is available. To-night: Play it easy.

What the stars mean:

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

So-so ★Difficult

Today’s birthdayThis year you start a new 12-year life and luck cycle. The first year will be the most for-tunate. Wish upon a star, and then check in with yourself to make sure you really want what you are asking for. Re-view your goals every so often to prevent any problems from occurring. A fellow LEO loves people, but he or she is more introverted than you are.

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Moving Parts

By Eric Berlin / Edited By Will Shortz

7-27-14

Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz

WHITE’S QUICKEST MATE? Hint: Eliminate a Black.move.

Solution: 1. c3! a4 (it is now the only legal move) 2. bxa4 mate!

D J M Z M E Q J W Z R U Z R H N E U Z R H K N D L

D U A J A J M G M A M V W Z W Q A N V

D J N S K W P M C V N H S M A V U M ,

P N F L J N F K C A V P A N C M Q X G W Z C P X M .

7-27 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: H equals B

By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate

Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.



SUNDAY BREAK


Sudoku

Bridge

Horoscope


taken back, briefly






vow 31 Like — of








60 Snooping (about)














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gas brand




































to 20 Former



activity 29 Cologne



needs much stirring






transports



supporters 72 See







print 121 Beast of





unit

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sort 7 Two-channel



number 15 Card






Naples








estate 62 Chanteuse








ingredient treats

















115 *Newton subject





domain 132 Classic







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vow 31 Like — of








60 Snooping (about)














Stamp










gas brand




































to 20 Former



activity 29 Cologne



needs much stirring






transports



supporters 72 See







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unit

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sort 7 Two-channel



number 15 Card






Naples








estate 62 Chanteuse








ingredient treats

















115 *Newton subject





domain 132 Classic







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taken back, briefly






vow 31 Like — of








60 Snooping (about)














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gas brand




































to 20 Former



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needs much stirring






transports



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sort 7 Two-channel



number 15 Card






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estate 62 Chanteuse








ingredient treats

















115 *Newton subject





domain 132 Classic







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Horoscopes


TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Tap into your creativity. A friend or associate will brainstorm with you. In the afternoon, settle in and take a hard look at your inances as well as your long-term goals. You’ll gain insight into a friend’s attitude.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

HHHH Take your time in the morning. In fact, if you can stay at home, do. A special oppor-tunity seems impossible to say “no” to. Choose to go with the moment, and you’ll see what lies ahead. Tap into your sense of adventure.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Visualize more of what you want from a certain situation. You also might want to discuss it with a trusted friend or adviser. By verbaliz-ing what you want, you’ll help turn a desire into reality. Touch base with a roommate in the evening.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Take care of practical matters first. You will want some time in the afternoon

for a lengthy lunch with an ac-quaintance or friend. Catching up on news could prove to be a real mind opener. You might be surprised by some of what you hear.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You could be taken aback by what a partner, friend or associate might share. Eye a risk with care, but ultimately go with your sixth sense. The vari-ables with a money matter still might be too hefty. You won’t want to sustain damage.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22 HHHH You might want to take the morning of, consider-ing how out of sorts you feel. Consider taking the whole day of if you can. Lie low, no matter how many ofers come your way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Zero in on what you want in the morning. By the afternoon, you might want to do some research, take a nap or enjoy a favorite pastime. You’ll need to pull away from oth-ers for a while. Don’t forget to schedule an important doctor’s appointment.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You’ll fulill your obligations irst, and then

you’ll enjoy the assortment of people around you with whom you would like to visit. A meet-ing might evolve into a social happening. A loved one could want his or her share of time, too!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Detach early on, and you will gain a deeper insight into what is going on. In the afternoon, you can act on your perception. A loved one or family member is highly recep-tive to you. Ask this person for the support and feedback you feel you need.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Get past a very seri-ous discussion in the morning. Take a walk or indulge in some other type of distraction after this talk. Allow your empathy to come out when thinking through the issue.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Others seem to know where you are coming from. No matter what goes on, you’ll be able to have a discus-sion that lets you know that your position is being weighed. Use care with manipulative people. A loved one needs your attention.

By Judith Martin and Jacobina MartinUniversal Uclick

Dear Miss Manners: I am a picky eater. I like some foods; I hate some foods; some foods make me sick even to consider eating. I am an adult and eat what I like.

My problem comes with my family. They are con-stantly harassing me about what I do and don’t eat. When we plan meals to-gether, it is always, “what are you going to eat?”

I am never rude when people make things I do not like, but it seems as though they still expect me to eat it, or give them a valid excuse (and not lik-ing a food doesn’t count).

My mother-in-law has gone so far into being in-sulted that one Thanksgiv-ing she told me she wanted me to put a little bit of all the food on my plate and move it around, pretend-

ing that I ate some.Why can’t I be allowed

to decline food, for what-ever reason, and not be made to feel bad or have it pointed out that it is yet another thing I don’t like?

Gentle Reader: In polite society, no one is supposed to notice what is or is not eaten. It should not be the subject of conversation at all.

But we are not talking about polite society; we are talking about family.

First, you should be complimenting the dishes you do like.

Then you could show of your cooking skills by in-viting them, or by bringing a dish to share — as long as it is clear that you’re not bringing it only for your-self, or as an alternative to what is ofered.

The point is not to en-gage in defending your eat-ing habits, but to appreciate their eforts and make an efort of your own.

Dear Miss Manners: I am a man who is legally wed to another man. At the time of our wedding, I kept my surname on our marriage certiicate, but after the Windsor decision in the Supreme Court, I legally changed my surname to my husband’s.

In the past, when a woman changed her sur-name to her husband’s, her birth surname became her “maiden name.”

Is there a term to de-scribe what my previous last name was?

Gentle Reader: You have thoughtfully provided your own answer in the question, and Miss Man-ners thanks you for saving her the trouble. The desig-nation “birth name” may be used by anyone of any gender who has changed names for any reason.

Submit etiquette questions to

Miss Manners online at miss

manners.com.

MISS MANNERS

Picky eater can use tact to deflect criticism

SUDOKUPREMIER CROSSWORD

Puzzle solutions

WEEKENDPUZZLE

SOLUTIONS

This is the solution to the crossword puzzle in

Saturday’s editions.

This is thesolution to

the KingFeatures

crossword on

Page 2M.

This is thesolution to

The New York

Timescrossword

onPage 2M.

TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: WHEN EXCHANGING BOXING BLOWS WITH THE VETERAN ACTOR WHO PLAYED ROB PETRIE, YOU SHOULD TRY TO DECK VAN DYKE.

ACROSS 1 Plumbing

problem 5 Suppress 10 Singer

McEntire 11 Joins forces 13 Gets older 14 Look up to 15 Blunder 17 Actor Ayres 18 Soft-shell

clam 19 Tell

whoppers 20 Silent

assent 21 Tolerate 22 Report card

listing

25 Tax paperwork

26 Brewpub choices

27 “Holy smokes!”

28 Sick 29 Sports

vehicle feature

33 Me, to Michel

34 Spain neighbor

35 Blinker 37 Conceited 38 Dream

up 39 — out

(got by)

40 Hinder 41 Depend

DOWN 1 Studies all

night 2 Authentic 3 More than

pudgy 4 Siphoning

targets 5 Trembled 6 Beneath

7 Objective 8 Ben of

“Tower Heist”

9 Cry on arriving

12 Under-ground passages

16 Singer Tori

21 Astonish 22 Mutilated

23 Combined, as metals

24 Fill in for 25 Do origami 27 Awe 29 Worker’s

reward 30 Car pedal 31 Disney

mermaid 32 Singer

Travis 36 Illuminated

Sudoku

■ Actor Darryl Hickman is 83.

■ Former Senator and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Bradley is 71.

■ “Garfield” creator Jim Davis is 69.

■ Actress Sally Struthers is 66.

■ Actress Georgia Engel is 66.

■ Actress Lori Loughlin is 50.

■ Jazz musician-producer Delfeayo Marsalis is 49.

■ Former hockey player turned general manager Garth Snow is 45.

■ Rock singer Jacoby Shaddix (Papa Roach) is 38.

■ Country singer Carly Goodwin is 33.

Dear Annie: When my daughter was 14, she false-ly accused me of physi-cal abuse. She is now 33 and brings up these false charges whenever she is having di�cult issues in her own life. She blames me for all of her problems. Even worse, my sister enables and promotes her negative view of me.

I want closure for all the pain she has caused my family and me. I don’t know whether I should take legal action or whether it is simply better not to have any further contact with her.

I’ve tried my whole life to be a good person. But no matter what I do, my daughter uses our past to smear and embarrass me. Can you help me?

— Mother in Iowa

Dear Iowa: Have you ever gone for counseling so your daughter could express why she accused you of abuse and you could work through it together?

Even though you say the charges are false, she may believe di�er-ently, and this needs to be addressed. And if she is simply trying to ruin your reputation, that, too, deserves an airing so you can find out why she is holding on to such animosity.

If she rebu�s your at-tempts at reconciliation and refuses counseling, we agree that ending contact may be the best way to regain your equi-librium.

Dear Annie: A while back, you printed a letter from “Sad in Kansas,” whose younger brother claimed the family home as compensation for time spent caring for the folks.

I have four sons. One lives near me and is al-ways helping out, whether it’s fixing the computer or making a house repair. When I die, he will inherit the house. My other three sons have been advised of the transfer and the reasons for it. They have been understanding and supportive of that deci-sion.

— Phyllis

Dear Phyllis: We agree that children who take on the majority of care for their parents should be compensated in some fashion.

You wisely discussed these arrangements in advance, so there will be no unpleasant surprises and consequent sibling resentments.

To All of Our Muslim Readers: Happy Eid.

Answer to Saturday’s puzzle

by Thomas Joseph

Crossword

7/28/14

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle

Chess Quiz

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

with several given numbers. The object is to place the

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

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

level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to

Sunday.

WHITE’S BEST MOVE?Hint: Win a piece, not Bxa6.

Solution: 1. Bd7! (attacks and wins a knight). If ... Na5 (or ... Nd8), simply

2. Be7 mate!

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“My bid was a ‘shutout,’” North com-plained as he tabled dummy. “You can’t bid a slam.”

East’s 4NT had shown some type of two-suited hand and had suggested a sacrifice. South had leaped straight to six spades.

West led the jack of clubs, and South took the ace, drew trumps and cashed the king of clubs. When East discarded, declarer shrugged and conceded a club and a diamond.

“That’s what you get for bidding again when I tried to sign o�,” North snorted.

What do you think of North’s re-marks?

BIG SPADE FITNorth was wrong. His leap to four

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In fact, South’s bid was fine: Six spades was cold. After South wins the first club, he takes the ace of hearts, ru�s a heart, draws trumps and ru�s his last heart.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ Your e�orts to come to an agreement with someone could fizzle. You are likely to pick up on some rigidity from this person. Tonight: Tap into your imagination.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★ Being stubborn, as you tend to be, might not get you the results you want. A change on a very basic, anchored level will be important to you. Tonight: Stay home.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)★★★★ Make and return calls immediately. You don’t want a last-minute misunder-standing to a�ect your schedule, do you? Tonight: Visit with a friend.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★ You will be the source of your own stress, and you might not be sure how to handle a money matter. You are naturally giving. Tonight: Get some shopping done.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Your magnetism peaks, and you will be at ease no matter what you encounter. Know that there could be more going on behind the scenes. Tonight: Whatever feels right.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ A friend might mean well, but he or she could add an element of confusion. You need to tap into your ingenuity to bypass a prob-lem. A loved one might throw a tantrum. Tonight: Go where your friends are.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)★★★★ You could feel as if you don’t have the control you want. Recognize that you are the only person you can control. Look around, and you’ll see that you have many support-ers. Tonight: Catch up on a pal’s news.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★ Tension builds when dealing with an older friend, relative or boss. You might have little say in this situation, and you’ll find it to be frustrating. Tonight: Don’t get too mischievous.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ You’ll want a mellow day, but you could discover that you’re in the midst of a financial power play. Tonight: Watch a favorite movie.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★★ Someone knows how to appeal to you. You might decline this person’s o�er, but he or she is unlikely to back o�. You could have quite a few temptations thrown in your path. Tonight: Have a chat.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ Others will seek you out for a variety of reasons, so enjoy the moment. Don’t get uptight about someone pushing in. Tonight: Say “yes” to an appealing o�er.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ Build on what already exists in an important day-to-day interaction. You might decide that the time has come for a new health resolution. Tonight: Nap, then decide.

Horoscope

This year could be spectacular if you can resist getting into petty quar-rels. You have a new beginning in some area of your life, as you are beginning a new life and luck cycle. If you are single, you are unusually magnetic, and others notice this quality. You could be overwhelmed by your choices. Consider what type of relationship you want. If you are attached, you seem far more domi-nant than usual. Remember, a rela-tionship is 50-50; include your sweet-ie in your life more. CAPRICORN can be a stick in the mud.

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By Kit DeckerSpecial to The Weekly

On Sept. 1, St. George’s Episcopal, Germantown United Methodist, Ger-mantown Presbyterian, Kingsway Christian and New Bethel Baptist are joining together to serve the community in a Labor of Love.

Partnering with MIFA, the five churches will give members the choice of several ministry opportu-nities to serve neighbors in need. Members can fill bags for MIFA’s emergen-cy services, clean yards or do minor home repairs or deliver meals in selected areas.

Senior ministers of the

churches are the Rev. Dorothy Sanders Wells, Rev. Richard Smith, Rev. Will Jones, Rev. Ryan Starr and Rev. Donald Ester. All have been in dialogue about ways to bring their congregations together for shared worship or community ministry op-portunities and from that dialogue the concept of La-bor of Love was born.

The churches will gath-er on Labor Day morning at 8 a.m. at St. George’s for a time of reflection and prayer. Members will then head out to share their love with everyone in the great-er community.

Church members who will be unable to partici-pate are still encouraged to

take part in Labor of Love by bringing items to fill the bags for MIFA’s emergen-cy services, provide yard tools, trash bags, coolers of water or provide trailers for transporting the yard equipment.

The ministers are en-couraging their mem-bers to look at the many ways that they can serve their neighbors on La-bor Day, and find their place in Labor of Love. Church members can sign up for activities at SignUpGenius.com/go/ 10C0B4EA9AE2AAAFC1-labor.

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Episcopal Church.

GERMANTOWN

Five churches team for ‘Labor of Love’

JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDRENVolunteers at the Farmington Presbyterian Church’s “Weird Animals” vacation Bible school included Marissa Hyman (left), Lauren Teague, Elizabeth Demaree, Cristaldawn Smith, Chloe Cross, Alexis Williams, Abby Robinson, Camille Young and Hayley Ferrell. There were 121 children signed up for a week illed with learning about Jesus’ one-of-a-kind love. Through each of the stations, the week showed children that when they feel left out or feel diferent, or when they don’t understand, Jesus loves them.

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Community

Several Daughters of the American Revolution Chapters at-tended the Tennessee Genealogical Society’s 60th anniversary celebration at the Pickering Center in Germantown. Chapters represented are Chief Piomingo, Hermitage, Tishomingo, Wau-tauga, Chucalissa and Zachariah Davies.

Aury Kangelos (third from left), community transportation planner at the Department of Transportation State of Tennes-see, spoke to the members of the Rotary Club of Germantown. Kangelos talked about the 25-year transportation plan for Tennessee. His department works on reducing congestion and thereby recommends building roads, bridges and more. Also attending the meeting is (from left) Rotarian Jim Pope, Carlos McCloud from the Department of Transportation and Rotar-ian Jerry Klein. The Rotary Club of Germantown meets every Wednesday at noon at TPC at Southwind Country Club.

The Collierville Fire Department

brought their fire-truck to the YMCA at Schilling Farms

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safety and to see the firetruck. Will Porada, 11, holds

the fire hose.

SNAPSHOTS

By Lesley YoungSpecial to The Commercial Appeal

Nearly a college football player, David Wicker always considered himself to be physically it.

A bout with necrotizing pneumonia sidelined him in 2009, and not only did he lose part of a lung during a lifesaving surgery, but he also lost his activity level.

And the pounds packed on the athlete.“It was pretty catastrophic for me

from an ability standpoint. I went from being well-maintained and physically it to being bedridden, moving in with my parents and taking time of from school,” said the procurement specialist for Inter-national Paper.

Once he got back into the swing of things, Wicker’s doctor recommended he try exercise classes with Dexter Tenison of Fitness Revolution.

Wicker, 29, along with his wife, signed up for six weeks of the trainer’s boot camps.

While he experienced results — main-ly transforming body fat into muscle mass — he still wanted more.

The couple then decided to join Teni-son’s group personal training classes, and in those classes the trainer ofered an incentive to the couple.

If one of them lost 20 pounds in six weeks, they could both win a trip to Las Vegas.

That was a month ago, and Wicker, of Collierville, has already won the trip.

“I’ve seen tremendous results. I’ve lost over 20 pounds,” Wicker said.

While the workouts have changed from the cardio type exercises in boot camp to more personalized weight and cardio exercises in the group training classes, Wicker points to his dietary changes for his success.

“Prior to this, I was taking special in-dulgences and making them routine. I would have dessert at every meal. In-stead of one craft beer and enjoying that for what it is, I would have multiple ones at meals,” Wicker said.

With the encouragement of Tenison, Wicker chose the Paleo diet, eating mostly meats and vegetables, but adapt-ing it to exclude fruit.

“After the six-week period, I can grad-ually introduce these restrictions back

into my diet,” he said.If he still inds himself craving them,

that is.“We love the meals we make now. I

never thought I’d be craving salmon with Brussels sprouts, but it’s what my body enjoys now, and it tastes good,” he said.

As of now Wicker needs only maintain his progress and in a month he and his wife are on a plane to Vegas.

He doesn’t see that as a big challenge.“This is just a catalyst. I see this as a

lifestyle for me. This is what I do now,” he said. “What I’m doing can be sustained, and I’m just enjoying the journey.”

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David Wicker, 29, of Collierville, lost more than 20 pounds in a month after adding the Paleo diet to his weekly group personal training workouts. He also gets in some form of cardio on the weekends, including interval training jumping rope.

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The inal Sunset on the Square concert will be 7 p.m. Thursday. The inal performer is Def Tonz.

CUMC Fall Launch, tailgate on Sunday

On Sunday, Collierville United Methodist Church will host a Fresh Start Fall Launch, with worship cel-ebrations at 8:30 a.m. at the Sanctuary on the Square and Poplar Sanctuary, as well as at 10:45 a.m. at the Poplar Sanctuary and the contemporary celebration in Coats Hall. At 9:30 a.m. there will be opportunities to meet the pastors and to attend Explore & Connect. Immediately following the 10:45 celebrations, there will be a Home Team Tail-gate on the church’s Poplar location north lawn.

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Learn how to use Win-dows 8.1 Aug. 12, 14 and 19, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the parks and recreation oice, 2276 West St. Guests are asked to bring their lap-top/tablet. The class will cover the new Windows start screen, the charms menu and more. Cost is $25. Register at the parks and recreation oices.

Teen parenting program at GUMC

The McVay Counseling Center of Germantown United Methodist Church will host a free 6-week fo-rum for parents of teens. The group will meet at noon on Thursdays from Aug. 14 to Sept. 18 in the Mike Wilson Fellowship Hall. Register at german-townumc.org.

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PHOTOS BY DIANE STONEBACK/ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL/MCT

The home of author Pearl Buck in Perkasie, Penn., remains largely the same as when she lived there.

American Novelist Pearl S. Buck at the typewriter in May 1967 at the Pearl S. Buck Foundation in Philadelphia.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

By Diane W. StonebackThe Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.)

Tour Pearl S. Buck’s home in Bucks County, Penn., and you’ll feel as if you’ve discovered a

treasure as prized as an oys-ter’s pearl.

Layer after layer of Buck’s story will peel away and inspire you as you go room to room, walk the grounds and visit her grave. A best-selling author, Buck was the irst American woman to win both the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes for litera-ture. But her work went far beyond the printed page.

Buck counseled presidents, moth-ered a brood of children (one birth child, seven adopted children and at least 10 foster children), changed the lives of thousands more children and fought for racial harmony through cultural understanding. The daugh-ter of missionaries, she used her vast knowledge of China, where she lived for 40 years, to bridge major gaps in understanding between the East and the West.

Beloved and admired, she also ac-cepted keys to more than 30 cities, collected 13 honorary degrees and was featured on a postage stamp. She deserves as much admiration as other Bucks County luminaries, including Henry Chapman Mercer, James A. Michener and David Burpee.

“We worry young people will not know who she is because ‘The Good Earth’ is gone from most school read-ing lists,” says Janet Mintzer, CEO of Pearl S. Buck International, referring to Buck’s famous novel about the lives of a Chinese peasant family. Buck, who died in 1973, was born in West Virginia in 1892, grew up in China and lived for nearly 40 years at Green Hills Farm in Hilltown Township near Perkasie.

To keep her memory alive, Pearl Buck International not only keeps up her home, but also ofers a teen lead-ership program and summer culture camps for children. It also continues Buck’s legacy of inding loving homes for children who need them via its Welcome House program and pro-viding still more children and their families with health care, education

and support through its Opportunity House.

Pearl Buck’s house, itself, also was endangered, in disrepair and needing major work despite being one of only a few National Historic Sites focusing on a woman and even fewer containing an intact collection of her belongings.

But times are looking up for Buck and her home. A new and previously unpublished manuscript has been discovered and published as “Eternal Wonder,” stirring new interest in the author. The home was removed from a list of Pennsylvania’s 10 most endan-gered historic houses and reopened in 2013, after eight years of extensive repairs and restoration.

Today, the 1825 stone farmhouse and surrounding 60 acres play a ma-jor role in telling Buck’s story and continuing her legacy. Buck and her second husband, Richard Walsh, made major changes in the home to accom-modate their large family and provide oice space.

But how and why did Buck ind her way to Bucks County?

Bucks County, already known for its peace and quiet, appealed to art-ists of all kinds. The property was within a few hours drive of her New York City publisher’s oice and also enabled Buck to be close to her only natural-born child, Carol, who had the progressive mental deterioration phenylketonuria in a time when it was unknown. Carol lived at New Jersey’s Vineland Training School from 1929 until her death in 1992.

Taking a guided tour of Buck’s home opens doors to her world and ofers more intimate glimpses of this woman who balanced career and children, long before feminists tackled the issue.

Her weekday routine was ixed. Af-ter making sure the children were of to school, she’d write from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Then, she would spend the rest of the day running the household, helping the children with homework or teaching them other skills, includ-ing playing chess, the piano and the organ.

Although the author had help on weekdays (a housekeeper and a cook), she was on her own to mother her brood in the evenings and on week-ends.

Furnishings range from the senti-mental, such as the deacon’s bench from the John Day Publishing Co. where Buck was sitting when she irst met future husband Walsh and learned he would publish her irst novel, “East Wind, West Wind,” to the entirely practical — a specially designed closet outside her bedroom containing equipment she needed to heat a child’s bottle in the middle of the night. Decor also is cross-cultural, including many Chinese, Indian and Japanese pieces brought back from the Far East mingled with antique inds the Walshes made in Pennsylvania Dutch country.

One of the home’s two libraries con-tains Buck’s “Good Earth” desk and the secondhand 1911 Royal typewriter she used while writing in the attic of

her cottage on the grounds of the Uni-versity of Nanking, where she and her irst husband, John Lossing Buck, were teachers.

Among books crowded into the home’s second library are a few left from a set of Charles Dickens works which Buck read over and over again as a child growing up in China.

The home’s living room, where the idea for Pearl S. Buck International’s “Welcome House” was born, is one of its most historically signiicant loca-tions. The author invited inluential friends, including Michener and Oscar Hammerstein, to help solve a problem she discovered in 1949.

She was asked to ind a home for a biracial child and inally realized, af-ter hours of calling, that no adoption agency would accept him for place-ment. She declared, “Every child de-serves a home,” and rallied friends to help her start her own adoption agency.

Although Buck died at her Ver-mont retreat, she wanted to be buried at Green Hills Farm. She speciied it should be sheltered from view by pines and bamboo so it would not be distracting or upsetting to visitors.

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Pennsylvania home of Pearl Buck

inspires visitors and generations

and

A writing desk and typewriter remain in the study of the Pearl Buck home.

PEARL S. BUCK HOUSEWhat: Home for nearly 40 years to author of “The Good Earth” and the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Award for Literature. Houses the headquarters of Pearl S. Buck International, which continues her work of helping children and families through adoption, child sponsorship and community programs.

Where: 520 Dublin Road, Hilltown Township, near Perkasie, Penn.; pearlsbuckhouse.org, 215-249-0100

When: Guided tours at 11 a.m., 1 and 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 and 2 p.m. Sundays, through Nov. 9

How much: $15; $12, seniors; $8, students

WHAT TO DO ■ Taking a tour during the annual

Holiday Festival of Trees makes a visit here even more special. Available Nov. 11-Dec. 30, these tours are $1 more than regular house tours and are available Monday through Saturday at 11 a.m., noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m.; and noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Sundays. A Community Holiday Open House is 6-8 p.m. Dec. 11.

■ From August through December, the 50th anniversary of Pearl S. Buck International exhibition recounts Buck’s humanitarian work, from her earliest field work in South Korea to her legacy, which continues to change the lives of children today.


Community

The Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce held its “City Day” membership breakfast July 17 at Germantown Country Club. Baptist Rehabilitation-Germantown was the sponsor and Brian Hogan, CEO, spoke on their behalf. The main speaker was Germantown Mayor Sharon Gold-sworthy, (left). Dr. Joey Edwards with Webster University was introduced as the newest chamber member. During the meeting, Goldswothy presented Bobby and Melissa Terry of Gillespie’s Termite and Pest control with an award acknowledging 25 years in business.

Ron Fittes won the Ambassador of the Month award at the Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce’s July luncheon. Presenting the award is Brett Carter and TJ Rivera. The Ambassador of the Month award was spon-sored by Shops of Saddle Creek.

During the Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce’s recent luncheon, Germantown Mayor Sharon Gold-swothy presented Michael and Janet Baty of Chestnut Hall Interiors with an award acknowledging 25 years in business.

CHAMBER CORNER

By Larry ReaSpecial to The Weekly

For more than a decade, the Mid-South Hunting and Fishing Extravaganza has served as the kickof event for the fall hunting and ishing seasons. It’s a three-day get-together for area sportsmen to forget about the summer heat and humidity and talk about hunting, ishing, camping and the multitude of other fall outdoor activities with-in easy driving distance of the Memphis area.

The Expo South pro-duced MSHFE will roll out its annual outdoor showcase Aug. 8-10 at Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove Road. Show hours are 2-9 p.m. Aug. 8, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 9 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Aug. 10. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for youth.

As promised, this one will touch a lot of outdoor bases, such as competitive duck calling and a big buck contest. And, of course, there will be a trout tank and vendors from not only the Mid-South but across the nation.

The MSHFE’s biggest and best duck calling com-petition is set for Aug. 10, featuring three classes with registration from 10 a.m. to noon and compe-tition set to start at 12:30 p.m. Competition will in-clude Main Street (90-sec-ond limit), senior (any age), youth (16 or younger) and meat (Arkansas Style, 90-second limit). There will also be team compe-tition (anything goes for 90 second/four-person

limit). Registration will be from 2-7 p.m. Aug. 8 and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 9. The duck calling competition is presented by Toxic Calls of Kimberly, Idaho, and directed by Brad Wheat of Paris, Tenn., a member of the Toxic Calls pro staf. Registration will be held in the Toxic Calls booth.

Award-winning taxider-mist Jody Shults of Como, Miss., will conduct the show’s annual Big Buck Contest. Shults, owner of Whitetail Classics & Af-rican Classics Taxidermy in Como, is a professional wildlife artist and master taxidermist who in his 25-year career has won more than 125 awards in taxider-my competition, including irst place at the National Taxidermy Convention competition with whitetail

deer, as well as the Nation-al Taxidermy Association Award of Excellence in the whitetail deer and game head divisions..

This year’s MSHFE Big Buck Contest winners will be decided by popular vote. All winners will be deter-mined by popular vote by the MSHFE attendees, not by the highest score. Prizes will also be awarded about 2 p.m. Aug. 10.

And, of course, there will be 15-plus hours of seminars, hundreds of ex-hibitors with everything you’ll need for the hunting season and a lot more.

For more information go to memphishuntshow.com or call 901-867-7007.

Larry Rea is the Mid-South Hunt-

ing and Fishing Extravaganza

media coordinator.

AGRICENTER

Sporting expo starts Aug. 8

By Jennifer CaseySpecial to The Weekly

Collierville’s veteran cake designer and deco-rator, Harriet Cobb, will be teaching a series at the Collierville Burch Library called “FastTrak to Cake Decorating.”

In three sessions, Cobb will have guests baking, making icing and decorat-ing cakes and cupcakes like a pro.

The course also will in-clude basic food safety, ba-sic American Buttercream

skills, and techniques in-cluding tips, gel transfers, flowers, borders, swags, drop strings and the all-important rose.

Cobb began her career in cake decorating in the early nineties when she grew tired of standard, store-bought cakes.

After some training through Wilton cake deco-rating classes and winning a few awards, she started Harriet’s Creations.

For more than a decade, Cobb has been serving the Collierville area with

treats.The classes will be held

Tuesdays, Aug. 12, 19 and 26, from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Halle Room at the Collierville Burch Library, 501 Poplar View Pkwy.

Preregistration is re-quired by Aug. 10. Sign up by e-mailing Cobb at [email protected] or 901-854-1104. The course fee is $47.50 and the supply kit will cost $45.

Enrollment is limited. For more information about this program, visit

colliervillelibrary.org or call the library’s Informa-tion Desk at 901-457-2601.

COLLIERVILLE

Cake decorating classes to be held at library

By Trena StreetSpecial to The Weekly

The Town of Collier-ville Planning Depart-ment, Main Street Collier-ville and Morton Museum staf were ecstatic when they were notiied by the Washington, D.C., Oice of Preservation Initia-tives/Advisory Council on Historic Preservation that Collierville has been designated as a Preserve

America CommunityIn a letter from first

lady Michelle Obama ad-dressed to “The Citizens of Collierville,” she said, “Thank you for all you do, for your continuing com-mitment to our Nation’s heritage.”

An official certificate and road sign are forth-coming for public display. Town planner Jaime Groce said the application for the designation was originally

submitted by Main Street Collierville and the Town in 2012. Preserve America responded with an inquiry about the Morton Museum and the historic resource survey of the Town.

“They asked for more information on the Mor-ton Museum of Collierville History and were compli-mentary of the reuse of the historic building, with written and oral history of the Town, a library with

books on the Civil War and other historic events, plus permanent and traveling exhibits,” Groce said.

The oicial announce-ment stated, “Preserve America Communities receive national recogni-tion for accomplishments in preserving our special places and telling the na-tion’s story.”

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Teacher (PreK - Grade 8)for the 2014-2015 schoolyear. Applicants mustmeet MS state teacher

certification andlicensure requirements.

Qualified applicantsshould send a cover letter

and resume to:Principal, Sacred HeartSchool, 5150 TchulahomaRoad, Southaven, MS38671 or Fax to:

662-349-0690 or E-mail to:[email protected]

School OpeningsHOLY FAMILY SCHOOL,

a Catholic PreK-8elementary school

operated by Sacred HeartSouthern Missions, locatedin Holly Springs, MS,is seeking to fill the

following school position:

Physical EducationTeacher

Instructs children inactivities designed to

promote social, physical,and intellectual growth.Bachelor’s Degree,minimum. Must haveor be eligible for

Mississippi Licensure.

Send a letter of interestand resume in confidence

to: Principal, HolyFamily School, 395 N.West Street, Holly

Springs, MS 38635 or Faxto: 662-252-3694 or E-mailto: [email protected]

Engineering/TechnicalHelp Wanted 155PROCESS ENGINEERPOSITION with View, Inc.in Olive Branch, MS.View manufactureselectrochromic glass

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letter and resume to View,Inc., HR Dept., 12380 KirkRoad, Olive Branch, MS

38654

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Philanthropist Beverly Babb Elliott thought she had an agreement: She would give Collierville $500,000 for a surgical care wing at a new animal shel-ter building and the town would use her donation as she speciied.

But when bids came in higher than expected, town oicials axed plans for the surgery clinic. Instead, the board of Mayor and Alder-man voted last month to build a multipurpose Hu-mane Education building with space for day camps and children’s parties.

Elliott read about the change in The Commer-cial Appeal and asked for her money back.

“I went to great pains to let them know I wanted it to be used for a surgical

and isolation wing,” Elliott said. “I don’t agree with a Humane Education build-ing. I think it’s a waste of money. If that’s what they want to build, that’s their choice. I want the animals to beneit.”

Town oicials, who last week issued its largest re-fund on a charitable dona-tion, are calling the costly misstep “an oversight.”

“For me, it’s embarrass-ing,” said Mayor Stan Joyner. “I should have remembered — as others should have re-membered — that it was a designated donation.”

Joyner considers the mis-take a teaching moment. “I should have asked the ques-tion: Does Ms. Elliott know how this is going to be used? If the buck has got to stop, it stops with the board.”

Elliott, a former ranch-er and horse trainer who struck it rich when oil and gas reserves were discov-

ered on her Texas property, has a home in Collierville and a farm in Mt. Juliet, a suburb of Nashville. She has given to the town’s Morton Museum and Animal Ser-vices division in the past.

On June 23, the Collier-ville Board of Mayor and Aldermen unanimously approved hiring Jaycon Development Corp. for $874,000 to build a scaled-back Humane Education building and outdoor cov-ered area on the grounds of the shelter at 603 E. South Street not far from Town Square. The scaled-back building did not include a surgery center.

The project irst stalled in May 2013 when the origi-nal bids came back well over projections. When the plans were redrawn and re-bid, that is when town oi-cials dropped the proposed surgery wing, a sally port and other items.

“If I hadn’t read it in the paper, I may not have ever known until it was built,” Elliott said.

After Elliott asked for a refund, Parks Director Chip Petersen and Animal Services Director Wing-ield tried to negotiate a compromise. They sug-gested turning the build-ing’s library and volunteer room turned into a surgical wing and isolation ward in-side the Humane Education building. Elliott said no.

Town Administrator James Lewellen said he didn’t realize her donation was conditional until El-liott called and asked that the $500,000 be returned. Once he checked the iles, he said he realized, “It was an oversight on our part.”

The town sent Elliott a check by certiied mail July 11.

For now, plans for a Humane Education build-ing are on hold. Once the town is serious about a new surgery center, Elliott said she’d return the donation. “I’m real softhearted,” El-liott said July 23. “I don’t want any animals to suf-fer.”

COLLIERVILLE

City refunds $500,000 to donorFunds given specifically for surgical care wing at new animal shelter

MANUEL TO OVERSEE

ANNUAL WEENIE RACE

Germantown Schools superintendent Jason Manuel pets Cinnamon as Alina Lesniak, animal services manager with Germantown Animal Shelter, holds her at the Germantown Horse Show Arena July 26. He has agreed to be the Weenie Race Master at the Germantown Festival in September.

SEND US YOUR PET PHOTOSShare pictures of your furry friend, scaly sidekick, winged wingman and more in the pages of The Weekly. E-mail JPEG images 1-2 MB in size to Matt Woo at [email protected]. Please include your name, your pet’s name, the city in which you live, and any special factoids about your pet.

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