Emphasis: Health Care

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November 29-December 5, 2013, Vol. 6, Issue 49
Emphasis:
Health Care
Local fitness organizations
like the Kroc Center have
seen increased membership
numbers as more people are
working to get fit and taking
an active role in their overall
health. P. 16
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Shelby
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Fayette
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Tipton
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Madison
Shopping Spree
Retailers hope Christmas season crowds outperform lukewarm forecast
P. 14
Shoppers
look to take
advantage of Black Friday
specials at a Super Target in Dallas
last year. Analysts expect a
slow shopping season
this holiday season.
(AP Photo/Dallas Morning News, Stan Olszewski)
Beaten Path
gets new look
Birthday Bash
at Shangri-la
The popular Tour de
Wolf Trail at Shelby
Farms wins grant for
makeover. P. 10
Venerable Midtown
music store turns 25
with party and threeday sale. P. 7
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digest: page 2
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Inked/recap: page 8
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standout: page 11
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sports: pages 12-13
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editorial: page 30
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This week in Memphis history:
>> 2012: The Yorktown, a 257-foot cruise boat,
left Memphis after a two-week stay on the
Memphis riverfront because of Hurricane
Sandy on the Atlantic Coast. Sandy caused the
cruise ship to arrive in Memphis a week early.
Meanwhile the Grand Caribe cruise ship was
due the second week in December. The Queen
of the Mississippi was in Memphis that Nov. 24
in advance of 24 scheduled stops in Memphis
in 2013. The American Queen, the world’s
largest steamboat, was due in its homeport of
Memphis that Dec. 2.
The 257-foot Yorktown
stayed in Memphis for
two weeks.
(Memphis News File/Lance Murphey)
>> 1983: Four contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination were
in Memphis for a forum at the annual meeting of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators – California Sen. Alan Cranston, Ohio Sen. John
Glenn, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and former Vice President Walter Mondale.
>> 1923: On the front page of The Daily News, the opening for development of the Bethel Grove subdivision in the larger area known as La
Belle Heights along Lamar Avenue. The development was described as
“the largest single subdivision of restricted residential property ever put
on the market in this section of the country.” Its opening for development followed Interstate Realty Co. selling every lot in La Belle Heights
within 13 days after it was opened. An ad in The Daily News a day later
for Bethel Grove offered a full size lot for $35 with $10 cash down and $5
a month in payments.
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Civil Rights Museum
President Retiring
Fox Meadows Nuisance
Petition Dismissed
National Civil Rights Museum President Beverly Robertson says she is retiring
in July.
Robertson said in a news release
Tuesday she’s retiring because she has
seen the Memphis museum through the
major goals she had set during her 16year tenure.
She said those goals include an expansion that brought the museum to international prominence, dramatic changes
to the museum’s demographics and the
Freedom Award program that brought
human rights leader Nelson Mandela to
Memphis.
The museum is undergoing a $27 million renovation and a $40 million capital
and endowment fundraising campaign.
Board Chairman Herbert Hilliard says
a national search for a successor will be
conducted.
The Knight Arnold Food and Fuel gas
station and convenience store is no longer under a nuisance petition in General
Sessions Environmental Court.
Environmental Court Judge Larry Potter dismissed the petition Monday, Nov.
25, against Sohail Hemani, the owner,
after he said Hemani had taken steps
including adding surveillance cameras
and guards to discourage gang activity
and drug sales on his property at Knight
Arnold and Mendenhall.
Potter also said the court will continue
to monitor the business, which was allowed to reopen in October. The monitoring continues under terms of a memorandum of understanding.
Neighbors of the business were vocal
in their complaints about the open drug
sales and gang activity in the store’s parking lot, and some were upset when the
business was allowed to reopen.
Real Estate Trends
In Focus at ULI Seminar
Local and national real estate experts
will gather Dec. 10 to discuss real estate
trends and forecast what awaits the industry in 2014.
ULI Memphis, the local district council of the Urban Land Institute, is hosting
its annual Mid-South Real Estate Outlook,
featuring the Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2014 report and a panel discussion on
the outlook for Memphis-area real estate.
The event will include presentations
from Dean Schwanke, the Urban Land
Institute’s senior vice president and
executive director of the newly formed
ULI Center for Capital Markets and Real
Estate. John Gnuschke, director of the
Sparks Bureau of Business and Economic
Research at the University of Memphis,
will also speak.
A panel discussion focusing on the
office, industrial, retail and multifamily
sectors will follow the presentations.
The event is sponsored by Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz
PC and is open to the public. Admission
is $65. The meeting will be held at the
Memphis Bioworks Foundation auditorium, 20 S. Dudley St., and begins with a
continental breakfast at 8 a.m. For more
information, visit memphis.uli.org.
Belz CEO to Receive
Honorary Degree
At Yeshiva University’s 89th annual
Hanukkah Convocation and Dinner Dec.
8 in New York City, university president
Richard Joel will confer honorary degrees
upon attendees who include Jack Belz,
chairman and CEO of Belz Enterprises in
Memphis.
The annual event draws nearly 1,000
of the country’s leading Jewish philanthropists and community leaders.
Belz is a benefactor and trustee of
Yeshiva University. He graduated from
Central High School in Memphis and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His company has developed and operates
a portfolio of more than 25 million square
feet of commercial and residential real
estate in several states.
US Home Prices Rose
More Slowly in September
U.S. home prices rose more slowly
in September than in August, a sign that
weaker sales are preventing the kinds of
sharp price gains that occurred earlier
this year.
The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller
20-city home price index rose 0.7 percent
from August to September, down from
a 1.3 percent gain from July to August.
That figure isn’t adjusted for seasonal
variations, so the change reflects, in part,
slower buying in late summer and fall.
Still, other recent reports show that
previous gains in home prices, higher
mortgage rates and the partial government shutdown last month have weighed
on the housing market. Home resales and
signed contracts to buy homes both fell in
October.
“Other data suggest a market beginning to shift to slower growth rather than
one about to accelerate,” said David
Blitzer, chairman of the S&P Dow Jones
index committee.
The Case-Shiller index covers roughly
half of U.S. homes. It measures prices
compared with those in January 2000 and
creates a three-month moving average.
The September figures are the latest available.
Monthly price gains slowed in 19 of
the 20 cities tracked by Case-Shiller index.
Prices rose 1.3 percent in Las Vegas compared with a 2.9 percent month-to-month
gain in August. Home prices rose just 0.2
percent in Tampa, Fla., after a 1.8 percent
gain in August.
Charlotte, N.C., was the only city
where prices declined from August to
September.
Year-over-year, prices jumped 13.3
percent from September 2012, the fastest
such gain since February 2006. Those
gains may be putting some homes out of
reach for many buyers. Mortgage rates
have also risen since the spring, though
they remain low by historical standards.
Consumer Confidence
Falls to 7-Month Low U.S. consumers’ confidence in the
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economy fell in November to the lowest
level in seven months, dragged down by
greater concerns about hiring and pay in
the coming months.
The Conference Board said Tuesday
that its index of consumer confidence
dropped to 70.4 from 72.4 in October. The
October reading was higher than initially
reported, but still well below the 80.2
reading in September.
November’s drop comes after the
16-day partial government shutdown
caused confidence to plunge in October.
The declines in both months were driven
by falling expectations for hiring and the
economy over the next six months.
Some economists also attributed the
weakening confidence to Americans’
frustrations and worries about the implementation of the Obama administration’s
health care reform.
“Disgust with politicians and government policy is what’s holding back
expectations,” said Ted Wieseman, an
economist at Morgan Stanley.
Less optimism among Americans
could slow the holiday shopping season
and weigh on economic growth. Consumer spending drives 70 percent of
economic activity.
But spending patterns don’t always
closely follow measures of confidence.
Americans sometimes shop more even
when they say they are less optimistic.
That’s what happened last month.
Despite a sharp fall in confidence in
October, consumers spent 0.4 percent
more at retail stores and restaurants than
in September.
Strong auto sales accounted for about
half the gain. Restaurants also reported a
healthy increase in spending. Americans
also spent more on furniture, electronics and clothing. There were some signs
of caution: Sales at grocery stores were
flat and department stores reported only
slightly higher sales.
Commission include Alvin Croo, who
pulled a petition for commission District
12. Attorney Van Turner already has a
petition out for that position.
Ron Fittes picked up a petition Monday, Nov. 25, for District 4 on the commission. George Chism pulled a petition for
District 2, the same race for which David
C. Bradford Jr. picked up a petition Friday.
The three new petitions bring to six
the number of possible contenders for
four of the seats on the 13-member legislative body.
In countywide races, three petitions
were pulled Friday, opening day of the
qualifying petition period, all by Republican incumbents – Juvenile Court Clerk Joy
Touliatos, Probate Court Clerk Paul Boyd
and County Clerk Wayne Mashburn.
Raymond James Donating
$430,000 in Memphis
The Tennessee Transportation Department commissioner said Monday that
the state won’t be able to start any new
highway projects if it loses federal funding
next year.
Gov. Bill Haslam wrapped up his
annual budget hearings with the department at the state Capitol.
Commissioner John Schroer told
Haslam that money from a measure
President Barack Obama signed in 2012 to
extend federal highway and transit funding will end on Oct. 1, 2014. If Congress
doesn’t extend it, then that would mean
a loss of more than a billion dollars for
Tennessee.
“We don’t know we’re going to lose it,”
Schroer said.
“They could come and pass a new
authorization ... and funding could be in
place. But there’s a possibility that won’t
happen, and so I thought the governor
needed to be aware of that.”
Schroer said the state would likely be
able to maintain current construction
projects, but not take on new ones.
When asked by a reporter after the
hearing if the state should consider ways
to increase revenue in case of the loss, the
commissioner said such discussion is premature, despite sluggish revenue reports
for the state.
Raymond James Financial Inc. will
distribute more than $430,000 in Memphis as part of the company’s distribution of $4.3 million around the country
through its annual United Way giving
campaign.
In Memphis, the funding will go
toward 89 partner agencies and impact
the lives of more than 300,000 people, the
company said.
Companywide this year, Raymond
James associate pledges totaled $2.4
million, surpassing the firm’s fundraising goal of $2.25 million, and the firm
contributed an additional $1.9 million
through a dollar-for-dollar match for
eligible associates.
Commission Races
Generate Early Interest
The first two days of the period for
candidates in the 2014 county elections to
pull qualifying petitions has been dominated by incumbents and contenders for
the newly configured district seats on the
Shelby County Commission.
The latest additions to the list of
declared candidates for Shelby County
Regalia to Host
‘Festive Night Out’
Regalia Shopping Center at Poplar
Avenue and Ridgeway Road is hosting A
Festive Night Out on Thursday, Dec. 5,
from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Shoppers can take advantage of extended holiday shopping hours and enjoy
caroling by DeltaCappella, complimentary refreshments, a wine tasting at Great
Wines & Spirits and a drawing for a $250
gift certificate to use at any of Regalia’s
shops and restaurants. In addition, Santa
will be strolling throughout the center,
handing out candy.
As part of the event, each of the shops
and restaurants at Regalia, which is
owned and managed by Memphis-based
Boyle Investment Co., will stay open late
and have a special sale, promotion or instore drawing.
For more information, visit regaliacenter.com.
Haslam Wraps Hearings
With Transportation Dept.
The state’s annual transportation budget is about $1.8 billion. The state makes
up about 44 percent of that funding,
largely from fuel taxes.
The governor has asked all departments to present potential spending cuts
because of the state’s sluggish economic
performance.
Banks Earn $36 Billion
In Third Quarter
U.S. banks earned less in the JulySeptember quarter than they did a year
earlier, marking the first year-over-year
decline in earnings since the spring of
2009, when the country was still mired in
the Great Recession.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
says the banking industry earned $36
billion in the third quarter, down $1.5 billion, or 3.9 percent, from the third quarter
of 2012.
The FDIC says the year-over-year
earnings decline came primarily from a
$4 billion increase in litigation expenses
at a single institution.
The FDIC did not name the institution.
Lower revenue from reduced mortgage activity and lower gains from asset
sales also contributed to the reduction in
earnings.
Half of the nation’s 6,891 insured
banking institutions had year-over-year
growth in earnings while half reported
declines.
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Tennessee Driving Records
Now Available Online
State officials are giving Tennessee
residents an online option to access driving records.
The Department of Safety and
Homeland Security announced this week
that it has launched an online service at
www.tn.gov/safety that allows people to
download or print copies of their official
driving records.
Officials hope the online option will
reduce the wait time at driver services
centers.
A $2 convenience fee will be assessed
to each online transaction, in addition
to the $5 state fee set by the Tennessee
General Assembly for a copy of a driver
record.
UPS, Monogram Foods
Set to Expand Locally
Two companies with major local
operations have won tax freezes for proposed expansions.
The board of the Economic Development Growth Engine of Memphis and
Shelby County has approved payment-inlieu-of-taxes agreements for United Parcel
Service and Memphis-based Monogram
Foods. The two expansions are expected
to add 40 new jobs between them.
UPS was awarded an 11-year PILOT
for its plan to invest around $80 million to
expand its existing facility at Memphis International Airport by 140,000 square feet.
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The expansion, which EDGE said would
bring in $1.62 in new taxes for every $1
abated, is expected to create 15 new jobs.
Monogram Foods was awarded an
eight-year PILOT for its plan to move to a
new headquarters at 530 Oak Court Drive
in East Memphis.
The $2.1 million project, which EDGE
said would produce $1.98 in new tax
revenue for every $1 abated, is expected
to create 25 new jobs.
Orpheum’s Latest Auction
Most Successful Yet
The Orpheum Theatre’s 35th Annual
Auction this month was the theater’s most
successful auction in the history of the
event.
According to The Orpheum, the
fundraiser brought in more than $330,000
through auctions, sponsorships and ticket
sales, and an additional $72,600 through
a raffle.
All proceeds benefit the Orpheum’s
new Centre for Performing Arts, scheduled to break ground in early 2014.
The $14.5 million facility will offer
advanced performing arts education
programs.
6 Candidates Pull Qualifying
Petitions on Opening Day
Three Republican incumbents and
three Shelby County Commission hopefuls were the first six candidates to pull
petitions on the opening day of the candidate filing season for the 2014 county
elections.
The incumbents with petitions out
on opening day were Probate Court Clerk
Paul Boyd, Shelby County Clerk Wayne
Mashburn and Juvenile Court Clerk Joy
Touliatos.
Shelby County Commission candidates pulling petitions were Colonel Gene
Billingsley in District 7, David C. Bradford
in District 2 and Van Turner in District 12.
The county commission’s district structure changes for the 2014 county elections to 13 single-member districts. The
commission is currently a body of 13 with
five districts: one single-member district
and four districts with three commissioners each.
The deadline for candidates to file
their petitions for the county ballot is Feb.
20. Election day for the county primaries
is May 6, with the county general election
on Aug. 7.
Haslam Holds Final Public
Budget Hearing Monday
Gov. Bill Haslam is wrapping up his
annual budget hearings as he prepares to
assemble his annual spending proposal.
The Republican governor was
expected to hear from the Tennessee
Department of Transportation at the state
Capitol on Monday.
Haslam has warned that much of the
modest growth in state revenues will be
consumed by cost increases in TennCare,
the state’s expanded Medicaid program.
The governor has asked all departments to present potential spending cuts
because of the state’s sluggish economic
performance.
The state’s annual transportation budget is about $1.8 billion. The state makes
up about 44 percent of that funding,
largely from fuel taxes.
Mississippi Lawmakers
Eye Internet Gambling
Mississippi lawmakers are watching
Tuesday’s launch of Internet gambling in
New Jersey.
House Gaming Committee Chairman
Richard Bennett, R-Long Beach, told the
Sun Herald in Biloxi that hearings and
discussions on Internet gambling are
planned during Mississippi’s 2014 legislative session.
However, he predicted no action, saying he’d rather let Nevada, New Jersey and
Delaware – the three states where Internet
gambling is legal – work things out.
“I don’t believe we’re going to have
anything come out on it this session,”
Bennett said. “It’s just too early right
now,” he said.
But Bennett said he doesn’t plan to
wait for long. And when lawmakers do
act, Bennett said he wants to license only
companies that own casinos in Mississippi to provide Internet gambling.
State Rep. Bobby Moak, a Bogue
Chitto Democrat and longtime gambling
legislation point man, introduced Internet gambling legislation the last two years
and says he plans to try again in 2014.
“You have to take some risk,” he said.
Moak said Internet gambling will give
the casinos and state treasury a boost.
Some websites claim online wagering is already legal in Mississippi because
state legislation doesn’t specifically ban
it. But Allen Godfrey, executive director of
the state Gaming Commission, said those
claims are wrong.
“Internet gambling is not a legal thing
in Mississippi,” he said.
Internet gambling in New Jersey isn’t
restricted to residents, but a gambler
must be in the state to wager and must be
a club member of a New Jersey casino.
Contracts for US Homes
Fall For Fifth Month
The number of Americans who signed
contracts to buy homes fell in October for
the fifth straight month. Higher mortgage
rates, price increases and the 16-day government shutdown held back sales.
The National Association of Realtors
said Monday that its seasonally adjusted
pending home sales index dipped 0.6
percent to 102.1. That’s the lowest level
since December. September’s reading was
revised slightly higher to 102.7.
There is generally a one- to twomonth lag between a signed contract
and a completed sale. The drop suggests
final sales will remain weak in the coming
months.
The Realtors’ group said the shutdown
prevented the IRS from verifying incomes,
a critical part of the mortgage-approval
process. The group said that 17 percent of
Realtors reported delays.
Sales may rebound a bit in November
as purchases delayed by the shutdown are
completed. But sales are not expected to
pick up much after that.
“The recovery in home sales has clear-
ly at least stalled,” said Jim O’Sullivan,
chief U.S. economist with High Frequency
Economics, a forecasting firm. “With
other data showing the recovery in the
labor market still on track, and confidence moving up again, we expect home
sales to start trending up again in coming
months.”
A limited supply of homes has pushed
up prices in the past year. Prices of existing homes jumped 12 percent in September from the previous year, according to
real estate data provider CoreLogic.
Signed contracts fell sharply in the
West, where investors have snapped up
foreclosed homes and bid up prices in the
past year. Signed contracts also slipped in
the South, another area hit hard during
the crisis. But contracts rose last month in
the Northeast and Midwest.
Mortgage rates have eased but remain
nearly a point higher than they were in
the spring. The average rate on a 30-year
mortgage fell to 4.22 percent last week
from 4.35 percent the week before. That’s
down from a peak in August of nearly 4.6
percent and still low by historical standards.
Marston Group Adds
Courtenay to Practice
The Marston Group PLC, a Memphis
certified public accounting and financial
consulting firm, has added Terry Courtenay as a member of the firm’s practice.
Courtenay, a certified public accountant, has experience providing tax
and advisory services to predominantly
family-held businesses, and he’s worked
with a variety of businesses, including in
the fields of real estate and agriculture.
The Marston Group was founded in
1985.
Diamond Rio to Receive
Liberty Bowl Award
Country music group Diamond Rio is
being honored at the AutoZone Liberty
Bowl Classic game and will perform at
the halftime of this year’s matchup in
Memphis.
The group will receive an outstanding
achievement award, which is presented
each year in recognition of excellence in
the field of music and entertainment. The
group will perform at a gala function the
night before the game and then again at
halftime on New Year’s Eve.
Previous recipients of the award
include Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Little
Richard, Alabama, The Beach Boys, Clint
Black and more.
The Grammy award-winning group
has sold more than 10 million records
and been selected as the Country Music
Association’s Vocal Group of the Year four
times.
Lawmakers Urge Bidding
For Gates in Airline Merger
Four key members of Congress say
that all airlines – not just low-fare carriers
– should be able to bid on gates and landing rights that American Airlines and US
Airways will give up after their merger.
The leaders of the House and Senate
transportation committees say they’re
worried that unless the big airlines can
bid, service between Washington and
some smaller cities may be lost.
The U.S. Justice Department settled
a lawsuit against the merger earlier this
month after American and US Airways
agreed to give up gates and landing rights
at several big airports, notably Washington’s Reagan National Airport.
On Friday, top Democrats and Republicans on the transportation committees
released a letter that they sent to Attorney
General Eric Holder protesting terms of
that settlement.
US Job Openings, Hiring
Reach 5-Year Highs
U.S. job openings and overall hiring
both reached five-year highs in September, signaling steady improvement in the
job market.
Job postings rose 69,000 to a seasonally adjusted 3.9 million, the Labor Department said Friday. That’s the most since
March 2008, just a few months after the
Great Recession began. It’s also close to
the roughly 4 million job openings each
month that are consistent with healthier
job markets.
Total hiring increased 26,000 to 4.6
million, the highest level since August
2008. The gain suggests employers are not
only posting more jobs but are also taking
greater steps to fill them.
September’s total hiring is still below
the roughly 5 million people who are typically hired in sturdier job markets.
The number of people who quit their
jobs in September dipped from August
but was still about 15 percent higher than
a year earlier. People usually quit their
jobs when they have another one lined
up, or when they are certain they can find
one. More quits is a sign of confidence in
the job market.
The growth in hiring, job openings
and quits points to more movement in
the job market, which can create opportunities for those out of work or who are
looking for another job.
It also shows that competition for jobs
is easing. There were 2.88 unemployed
people, on average, for each available
job in September. That’s the lowest since
August 2008 and down from 7 to 1 in July
2009, just after the recession ended. In
a healthy economy, the ratio is usually
about 2 to 1.
Unemployment is still high at 7.3
percent. But other reports suggest the job
market is healing.
Mississippi Jobless
Rate Holds Steady
Mississippi’s unemployment rate held
at 8.5 percent in October, according to figures released Friday by the federal Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
The jobless rate in August and September also was 8.5 percent. The unemployment rate was 9.1 percent in October
2012.
The labor force declined by more than
7,000 people between September and October. Mississippi’s labor force has fallen
every month in 2013.
Mississippi had 109,000 unemployed
people in October, down 1,000 from
September and also down from 121,000 in
October 2012.
The national unemployment rate was
little changed from September at 7.3 percent and was 0.6 percentage point lower
than in October 2012.
Multiple Sclerosis
Society Adds Trustees
The Mid-South Chapter of the
National Multiple Sclerosis Society has
added 10 people from the Memphis area
to its board of trustees.
They are Andrew Forsdick, owner of
Addison Capital Advisors; Kerry Hayes,
director of public relations for Doug Carpenter & Associates LLC; Terry Lawrence,
project manager at AutoZone Inc.; Ginger
Leeke, esthetician with Eden Spa; Alan
Lindgren, owner of Speed of Sound LLC;
Karen Malogroski, owner of Bikes Plus;
Tracy Pearson, vice president and general
manager, food service, International
Paper Co.; Michelle Rappaport-Moore,
psychotherapist with The Experiential
Healing Center; Dr. N. Shah, pediatric
neurologist with Le Bonheur Children’s
Hospital; and Suzanne Williamson, vice
president of market, Boscos Corp./Roma
Pomodori Inc.
Social Lunch Event Prepares
For Memphis Launch
A new social lunch event called
Lunchbox is preparing to launch in Memphis next month, the product of business partners who left San Francisco this
summer to come to Memphis and build a
creative venture here.
Billy Bicket and Laney Strange relocated here to launch a creative studio,
and the first product from the resulting
Memphis Punch Studios was launched
in September – the Memphis Punch food
truck.
On Dec. 3, the team is scheduled to
roll out its new initiative, with Bicket – the
Memphis Punch CEO – describing Lunchbox as a way to strike up new friendships
and forge connections over a healthy
lunch.
The basic idea behind Lunchbox is
that its events will introduce healthy, affordable food choices to small groups of
Memphians. Those groups will gather at
different locations to enjoy healthy items
from different local restaurants.
“Recently, we started taking better
care of our health after all those years
stuck at a desk behind a computer
screen,” Bicket said.
“So we started a healthy food truck
here in the heart of Barbecue-landia. By
offering the same healthy options on our
food truck that we use in our own dayto-day diet, we provided an easy way for
others to think about integrating smoothies and other healthy food options into
their lives.
“As newcomers trying to plug in to
Memphis, we’ve found that it’s hard
enough to meet people through traditional social gatherings in the evening, at a
time when you’re tired from the workday
and have things to take care of at home.
The Lunchbox is scheduled during break
time at the peak of the day, when you
yearn to get out of the office and see some
fresh faces.”
Bicket previously worked for an organization in San Francisco called TechSoup
Global, as did Strange. She also teaches
computer science at the University of
Memphis.
The first Lunchbox event will be held
Downtown at Envison Memphis. The
Lunchbox gatherings will be invite-only,
and the plan is for them to be hosted at
different small businesses around the city.
Bitcoin Payment System
Gains Popularity Locally
Bitcoin has arrived in Memphis.
Businesses in the Memphis area and
slightly beyond that are now accepting
payment in the form of the new digital
currency include Memphis IT Works, an
information technology consultancy. The
company, which provides systems management for companies of various sizes as
well as offering computer safety consulting and testing, joins thousands around
the country now accepting bitcoin, a
number that’s continuing to grow.
Memphis IT Works principal Edward
Rothman, who also has worked as a
corporate chief information officer, is
a bitcoin enthusiast who estimates he’s
spent more than $10,000 in bitcoins since
he started using them.
His company accepts payment in the
form of the currency, he added, partly
because of its ease of use.
With bitcoin, no physical money is
exchanged. Bitcoins are transferred from
a kind of electronic wallet. And there’s not
really a learning curve for anyone familiar
with digital mobile payments.
Rothman’s customers scan a QR code
attached to their invoice to transfer bitcoins to Rothman’s company.
For now, it’s still a small slice of the
payments he receives, but he likes it for
reasons that include the transaction fees
being “extraordinarily low.”
“From my perspective, it was very easy
to do,” Rothman said.
“It’s very easy to get set up to take
bitcoin payments and very easy for clients
who have bitcoins to be able to send them
to me. It’s another route to market for
people, and it saves people from sending checks or using credit cards. It also
has the advantage of not requiring you to
go to the bank. Intrinsically, it’s no more
complicated to use than your Starbucks
card.”
University of Memphis Faces
Challenging End of Year
It is proving to be a restless fall at the
University of Memphis as interim President Brad Martin pulls into focus several
short-term goals that will have a longterm impact on the future of the city’s
largest institution of higher learning.
Martin has said his goal is to grow a
campus whose enrollment has dropped
in recent years as its completion rate, the
gauge by which state funding is determined, is about 10 percentage points below the national average. And an increase
in tuition could have an impact on both
of those goals.
“We are operating with a great deal
of intensity,” Martin said last month as
he spoke at the Memphis Rotary Club.
“The world in which the University of
Memphis operates today is highly, highly
competitive. … Our financial viability at
the university really relies upon our ability
to attract students. We get paid based on
tuition – that’s the biggest revenue source
– and the number of students that we
serve who graduate.”
But the Tennessee Board of Regents,
which governs the system of state schools
that included the university, is considering a tuition increase for the coming year.
Martin reacted quickly to word of the
tuition hike with a press release saying the
school will hold tuition flat for the 20142015 academic year.
“Effective allocation of available
resources and improved efficiencies at the
university will permit this to occur while
we focus on serving more students and
improving graduation rates,” Martin said
Nov. 19 in a written statement.
A tuition increase, however, is set by
the Regents and Martin conceded that
saying he hoped they would not increase
tuition.
Regents Chancellor John Morgan
and University of Tennessee President
Joseph DiPietro said this month that the
two systems are each likely to see tuition
increases for the next academic year but
weekly digest
that they expect the increases to be lower
– at 4 percent or less. But that estimate
comes with the administration of Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam agreeing to spend
$41 million more on higher education in
that academic year.
The Tennessee Higher Education
Commission, which oversees both systems, is recommending a 2- to 4-percent
tuition increase combined with the $41
million in new state spending, with $30
million of the new state spending for
operations.
New Wiggle Room For
Health Plan Sign-Ups
The Obama administration says people will have another eight days this year
to sign up for insurance under the health
care law and still get coverage by Jan. 1
The extra wiggle room announced
Friday is important because it could
prevent people from having a break in
coverage on account of the government’s
balky enrollment website. That’s critical
for those losing current individual policies that don’t measure up under the law,
and also for high-risk patients in a small
federal insurance program that ends Jan.
1. Under the change people will have until
Dec. 23 to enroll and still be covered the
first year.
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Anthony Embry from Southaven browses the vinyl at Shangri-La Records, which is turning 25.
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he concert that Memphis music
legends the Grifters are playing
Saturday, Nov. 30, at Minglewood Hall’s 1884 Lounge holds significance beyond the chance to see the
indie rockers one more time this year.
The bash also honors the 25th
anniversary of Shangri-La Records,
Memphis’ longest-running independent record shop, one so suffused with
history that Rolling Stone magazine
in 2012 noted “these walls have seen
it all” in tagging Shangri-La one of the
best record shops in the country.
Shangri-La has been at it since the
late 1980s, the digitization of music
notwithstanding, a proud throwback
to the days of browsing racks and
buying records that music lovers can
actually hold in their hands. And at
Shangri-La, there are thousands of
such records.
Which is why the upcoming
Minglewood show, plus some other
planned performances and store
events, is a celebration of the fact that
Shangri-La, much to the appreciation
of a certain kind of Memphis music
fan, is still very much alive.
“We’re pretty much – we are what
we are,” said Shangri-La owner Jared
McStay. “We’re a record store. That’s
what we’ve always focused on. We still
sell tons of CDs, but we never got away
from focusing on vinyl. A long time
ago I guess we decided we’re not going
to last unless we focus on what we’re
good at, and that’s vinyl.
“We’re now seeing a younger
generation come through the store
that maybe wasn’t coming in five years
ago. It’s exciting. It makes me feel like
we weathered a storm. Who knows
how long it’ll last, but it’s still a viable
business. We’re doing well, and I can’t
complain.”
It helps that the shop has picked
up mentions from the likes of the New
York Times and Wall Street Journal,
not to mention Rolling Stone. A New
York Times reporter in 2010 noted the
resilience of record shops in Memphis
like Shangri-La at a time when such
institutions were on the decline elsewhere. Rolling Stone reported that the
shop is now “a local landmark, stuffed
to the rafters with vinyl, CDs, DVDs
and memorabilia.”
Members of the public also show
up to sell their items at the shop. A
couple of times a year, Shangri-La
opens up its parking lot for a record
swap. For $10, anybody who wants to
can set up a table and sell anything
from their record collection.
It’s basically a big garage sale,
except with records.
“This whole thing this weekend
also is about us saying we’ve got so
many great customers,” McStay said.
“That, more than anything, is the reason we’ve survived. We’ve tried to cater
to them, and maybe that’s why they
keep coming.”
The Grifters’ show – which includes an appearance by the band
Ex-Cult – is part of a big weekend
for Shangri-La. McStay noted that
the Grifters are celebrating the 20th
anniversary of one of the band’s own
records, so it made sense to tie it all
together and have “one big party.”
Also, Shangri-La is holding a threeday sale starting Friday, Nov. 29. All
items will be 25 percent off, and, as
an added bonus, there will be free live
music Nov. 30 from J.D. Reager and
Dead Soldiers.
"I've been shopping at ShangriLa since I was 12 or so, and I bought
many of my first LPs and CDs here,”
said Reager, who also works at the
store. “It's an honor to be a part
of the long history of interesting
people who have stood behind the
counter here."
Rolling Stone magazine in 2012 noted “these walls have seen it all” in tagging Shangri-La
Records – Memphis’ longest-running independent record shop – one of the nation’s best.
helby County Schools board members
have schools agreements with suburban
leaders in Bartlett, Collierville and Millington on their agenda Tuesday, Nov. 26, a week
after approving the same type of agreements
with different dollar amounts with Arlington
and Lakeland.
The school board meets at 5:30 p.m. for its
regular voting meeting, followed by a special
meeting at which the board will consider the
Millington, Collierville and Bartlett agreements.
Meanwhile, Arlington Mayor Mike Wissman
said his city is already working with the Lakeland school system toward a shared superintendent and other interlocal agreements.
The Tennessee School Boards Association will assist in the superintendent search
for Arlington and Lakeland, including joint
interviews of the finalists by the school boards
in both towns.
“We do have an agreement set up to where
they will interview together and for the most
part they will hopefully select the same one,”
Wissman said on the WKNO-TV program “Behind The Headlines.” “If they (the two school
boards) choose to go separate, they still have
that.”
Wissman was joined on the show by Germantown Schools board member-elect Ken
Hoover and Millington Schools board memberelect Greg Ritter. “Behind the Headlines,”
hosted by Eric Barnes, publisher of The Daily
News, can be seen on The Daily News Video
page, video.memphisdailynews.com.
None of the suburban school boards elected Nov. 7 take office until Dec. 1 at the earliest,
which Hoover said has created a kind of “Alice
in Wonderland situation.”
Ritter agreed, noting he and other school
board members to be were advisory members
of that town’s transition committee on schools.
“On one hand, someone would say ‘That’s
a school board decision,’” Ritter recalled. “And
then 20 seconds later, it’s ‘You’re not a school
board yet.’”
In the process, there can be conflicting versions of the agreements that began emerging
last week publicly and are on their way to the
suburban school boards for final votes as soon
as the boards take office, probably the first
week in December.
For instance, Ritter was under the impression Millington schools could include students
in the Millington annexation reserve area but
not in the city now. Wissman added that’s not
how the agreements are playing out for legal
reasons, adding, “Your attorneys are the same
as ours.”
Hours after the show was recorded, Millington municipal leaders reached a tentative
agreement that involves Shelby County Schools
operating and keeping control of Lucy Elemenbehind the headlines continued on P25
New Groceries Seek Approval From Boards
Two planned high-profile grocery
stores will be seeking regulatory approval
in the coming weeks.
The Fresh Market is applying for a
special-use permit from the Land Use
Control Board Dec. 12 to convert the
existing Ike’s store on Union Avenue into
one of the chains upscale grocery stores.
Fresh Market wants to remove the
existing asphalt drive-through along the
building’s west side and replace it with
sidewalk areas, remove existing parking
spaces in front of the building and add
more sidewalk space and create new
parking spaces where the gas pumps
and canopy once stood. Fresh Market
also plans to turn the Ike’s drive-through
canopy into retail space.
The Fresh Market has a store at 835 S.
White Station Road, inside the Eastgate
Shopping Center, and one at 9375 Poplar
Ave. in Germantown.
Meanwhile, the team behind a new
Whole Foods location will seek approval
from the Germantown Planning Commission Dec. 3. If approved at the Dec. 3
public meeting, the project will proceed
to the city’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen
on Dec. 19.
Cypress Realty Holdings, in conjunction with Ford Jarratt Realty & Development Co., in October submitted plans
to the city of Germantown to develop a
41,000-square-foot, freestanding Whole
Foods store.
The proposed store would be on the
southeast corner of the intersection of
Poplar Avenue and Pete Mitchell Road, on
the eastern edge of Germantown’s Central
Business District and across Poplar from
the Germantown Collection shopping
center. The store is expected to employ
100-150 people.
While one of the largest lease transactions of the year was made official
this week when the state of Tennessee
officially inked its lease to occupy around
100,000 square feet of space at One Commerce Square, another major lease still
has not officially been consummated.
Wright Medical Group is in the process of finalizing its lease to move its corporate headquarters from Arlington to the
wooded office park at 1023 Cherry Road.
Wright Medical in August was awarded a
15-year tax freeze to allow the company
to retain 225 jobs, add 35 new jobs and
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invest $10.6 million into a new headquarters. Company officials said at the time
that they hoped the transaction would be
complete by the end of the year.
In leasing news, Supply Chain
Systems has leased space in
DeSoto County.
Supply Chain Systems leased
51,000 square feet of warehouse space at 8970 Deerfield
inside Metro Industrial Park
in Olive Branch.
Dan Wilkinson and Allen
Wilkinson of Colliers International Memphis represented
the landlord in the transaction.
The Covington Way and Crestview properties have seen a flurry
of leasing activity.
At the 126,500-square-foot
Covington Way I property, L&J
Service Centers has leased
6,000 square feet while PDI
Solutions leased another
6,000 square feet.
Amos Maki
At the 116,000-squareInked
foot Crestview I property,
Best Value Arches, a shutter manufacturing company, leased
3,000 square feet. Southern Amp and
In other leasing news, Pure Barre in
Electric leased 3,000 square feet at the
Germantown is moving from its current
111,000-square-foot Crestview II property.
location.
Roger McLemore with Makowsky Ringel
Pure Barre, a franchise owned locally
Greenberg represented the landlords in
by Kimberly Morgan and Lindsey Lauthe lease transactions.
renzi, has leased 2,018 square feet at the
Germantown Collection Shopping Center.
Send commercial lease announcePure Barre is a national franchise that
ments to Amos Maki, who can be reached
focuses on using ballet barre movements
at 521-2464 or amos@memphisdailynews.
for exercise and toning. Andrew Philcom.
lips with Colliers International Memphis
Grove Road in East Memphis.
The affiliate, 1022 South Shady
Grove LLC, bought the 220-room
hotel in a Nov. 13 special warranty
deed from 1022 Shady Grove LLC,
an affiliate of Potomac, Md.-based
Haberhill LLC.
That company had acquired the
hotel in 2007 for $18.9 million from
Embassy Equity Development Corp.
Built in 1989, the 173,019-squarefoot hotel sits on almost 4 acres
along the east side of South Shady
Grove Road north of its intersection with Poplar Avenue. The Shelby
County Assessor of Property’s 2013
appraisal is $18.7 million.
The hotel is home to Frank Grisanti
restaurant, and the facility also
features an open-air atrium with a
koi pond and waterfall.
In conjunction with the purchase,
1022 South Shady Grove LLC filed a
deed of trust, fixture filing, assignment of rents and security agreement through Great American Life
Insurance Co. Lodging Capital Partners principal and general counsel
Bradley Folk signed the trust deed
on behalf of the borrower.
6010 Macon Cove
Memphis, TN 38134
1022 S. Shady Grove Road
Memphis, TN 38119
Sale Amount: $24.8 million
Sale Date: Nov. 15, 2013
Buyer: 1022 South Shady Grove LLC
Seller: 1022 Shady Grove LLC
Loan Amount: $22.6 million
Loan Date: Nov. 15, 2013
Maturity Date: N/A
Lender: Great American Life Insurance Co.
Details: An affiliate of Chicago-based hotel asset manager Lodging Capital Partners
LLC has paid $24.8 million for the Embassy Suites Memphis hotel at 1022 S. Shady
represented the tenant while Ed Thomas
with Colliers International Memphis represented the landlord, GA Poplar Avenue
Germantown LLC. Sale Amount: $2.3 million
Buyer: Minesh Patel
Seller: RLJ II – F Memphis LLC (c/o
RLJ Lodging Trust)
Maturity Date: Nov. 18, 2017
Borrower: Minesh Patel and Jagruti
Patel
Lender: Centennial Bank
Details: Minesh Patel of Memphis
has paid $2.3 million for the 63room Fairfield Inn & Suites at 6010
Macon Cove in Northeast Memphis.
Patel bought the 30,2010-squarefoot, three-story hotel in a Nov. 18
special warranty deed from RLJ
II – F Memphis LLC, an affiliate of
Bethesda, Md.-based RLJ Lodging
Trust. That company bought the
hotel in June 2006 for $2.3 million
from Limited Service – Austin North
Airport LLC.
Built in 1995, the hotel sits on 1.5
acres along the north side of Macon
Cove near its intersection with Sycamore View Road. The assessor’s 2013
appraisal is $1.6 million.
3025 Kate Bond Road
Bartlett, TN 38133
Sale Amount: $1.2 million
Buyer: AZAL LLC
Seller: Senter C. Crook (aka Senter
Crook Taylor, Senter Cawthon Taylor
and Senter Cawthon Crook), authorized trustee of The Crook Trusts
Maturity Date:
Lender: SunTrust Bank
Details: The 26,568-square-foot
warehouse at 3025 Kate Bond Blvd.
in Bartlett has sold to a local buyer
for $1.2 million.
AZAL LLC of Germantown bought
the Class A warehouse in a Nov.
12 warranty deed from Senter C.
Crook (a/k/a Senter Crook Taylor,
Senter Cawthon Taylor and Senter
Cawthon Crook), authorized trustee
of The Crook Trusts. Russell E.
Bloodworth Jr. also is listed by the
Shelby County Assessor of Property
as an owner.
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took advantage of the burgeoning athletic gear
market. The company leveraged its presence in
athletic footwear to expand into athletic apparel
and, ultimately, into athletic equipment many
times over. Beginning with running, Nike would
eventually expand into basketball, tennis, soccer,
golf and other sports by repeating this growth
formula over and over again, in the U.S. and internationally.
There are many lessons entrepreneurs and
business leaders can learn from Nike’s success,
but certainly one key lesson is to define your core
business. This lesson appears very straightforward and easy to understand, but we find that
many businesses never define their core because
they were built to take advantage of an initial
opportunity. They often lose their way once the
initial opportunity begins to erode and have no
long-term strategy for the next phase of their
business growth. As Bill Gates said, “Success is a
lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
While Nike was successful, Reebok, its chief
rival with similar market share, ultimately failed
due to inconsistent moves into adjacent markets
like soft goods, non-athletic footwear and even
boat manufacturing. Reebok never defined its
core business and ultimately had no compass to
guide its growth efforts.
So how can you define the core of your business? We suggest that you answer seven key
questions:
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market?
Nike leveraged its core customer segment
(athletes), delivery model (retail channel) and
brand position (“Just Do It”) to successfully offer
adjacent products. Meanwhile, Reebok chose to
enter new markets that required new distribution
relationships with an inconsistent brand position.
In hindsight, Reebok fell into four key traps in
defining its core: They allowed adjacent opportunities to distract themselves from their core; they
extended too far beyond their core capabilities;
they redefined their core as a lifestyle brand as
opposed to an athletic brand; and they abandoned their core too quickly.
The ancient Greeks inscribed the phrase
“Know Thyself” in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
Business expert Stephen Covey famously said,
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the
main thing.” Both knew that such an easy concept
can be so difficult to follow in practice.
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Grant brings facelift to Shelby Farms Park’s popular Tour de Wolf
Bill Dries
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A $40,000 grant from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation will bring a makeover to the
Tour de Wolf trail at Shelby Farms Park.
F
ootprints and fat tires have
taken their toll on the Tour
de Wolf Trail at Shelby Farms
Park, and signs of its overuse are
evident all along the roughly 6-mile
path.
Some of the hills are barer than
they should be on a wet fall day, loose
dirt has hardened over time to form
ruts and tree roots have ventured
into the trail that winds through the
eastern section of the popular park
and attracts walkers, joggers and
mountain bikers.
Approximately five miles of the
trail is about to get a makeover, from
safety features like new bridges to a
rerouting around tree roots to mulch
that should help footing in other
areas.
The two-year process of sprucing
up the trail, first laid out by Outdoors Inc. co-owner Joe Royer in the
1980s, is being funded with a $40,000
grant from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
“We’re going to use it for the trail’s
enhancement,” said Larry Pickens,
park operations manager for the
Shelby Farms Park Conservancy. “We
are trying to use as little for staffing
and contracting as possible.”
The conservancy’s 20 percent
local match is contributing another
$8,000 through in-kind services like
volunteer labor on the trail as well
as donated material for the project.
Pickens said the public can volunteer
for some of the work and park rangers will be involved in other tasks. A
few of the tasks will probably involve
using heavy equipment for items like
a small culvert and berms.
The conservancy, which operates
and maintains the park for Shelby
County government, will hold planning sessions, tentatively set for February, with the work beginning once
the contract with the state is signed.
Conservancy vice chairman Tom
Grimes said the trail is an important
part of the park now, even as the
conservancy continues working on
its larger master plan, which so far
has resulted in $17 million in new
features.
“This is an important sort of
maintenance opportunity for us to
improve what we have,” Grimes said.
“This is just one of continuing to take
care of this great park. It’s not enough
to make it better and add things;
we’ve got to make sure we take care
of and do continual regular maintenance on the park.”
Pickens said the trail will remain
a multiuse trail for runners, walkers
and bicycle riders. The maintenance
on the trail will focus on taking out
some especially treacherous ruts
for bicycle riders as well as pruning
limbs at body level with those riding
on horseback.
“The main thing is we are adding
a safety feature to this that it does
not have now,” Pickens said. “It will
probably draw in a lot more visitors
than we are having now just because
of the safety factor. The challenge
will be obviously to make it where
the novice biker can enjoy the trail as
well as the experienced biker, hiker
and runners.”
“It’s not easy to get money from
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us,” joked Brock Hill, deputy state
commissioner for parks and conservation in the TDEC organization.
Hill said the Tour de Wolf renovations won state funding because
the idea is in keeping with the state’s
concept of such trails as a reflection
of local communities. The money
comes from the department’s conservation recreational trails program specifically set aside for such
projects.
On a cold, rainy day after most
of the leaves have vanished from the
trees, it is easy to see the trail’s age
and use.
An early sign marking one end
of the trail, which is designed for a
cross-country experience for running
and mountain biking, still bears the
original spelling of the trail as “Tour
d’ Wolf.”
The name was also on an annual
mountain bike race that drew as
many as 1,500 riders. It ended several
years ago, but a version of it is the annual Outdoors Inc. Cyclocross Championship, which was held earlier this
month at Mud Island’s Greenbelt
Park. The Wolfman Duathlon, held
each April, includes a trail run and
mountain bike ride on the Tour de
Wolf.
The trail will remain a dirt trail
in which the changing terrain, from
wooded areas to open fields, is the
concept. Pickens said in the last few
weeks, as word of the state grant has
circulated, a mountain biking group
contacted him about bringing an
event back to the course.
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Rainey Kizer’s Dexter Named
Board Chair for Girls Inc.
DEXTER
Richard J. Alley
Special to The Memphis News
L
atosha Dexter, an attorney with
Rainey Kizer Reviere & Bell PLC,
has been named board chair of
Girls Inc. of Memphis, as well as the organization’s Mentor of the Year.
She has been involved with Girls Inc.
since 2007, but her passion for helping
began at an early age.
“Mentoring has always been a big
thing for me even at home growing up in
Jackson (Tenn.),” she said. “I started mentoring with the Boys & Girls Club when I
was in ninth grade.”
Dexter had an interest in becoming
a pediatrician, yet she later discovered
a greater interest in history and English.
In conversation with a friend in college
administration, she worked through these
interests to learn where they might lead
as a career, and law became the obvious
choice for her.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in
political science from Middle Tennessee
State University before heading farther
east for a law degree from the University
of Tennessee College of Law in 2000.
Dexter’s area of practice at Rainey
Kizer focuses on employment law.
“I really had an interest in that, specifically from a defense perspective just
because I enjoy helping, but I also enjoy
teaching, so I do a lot of preventive advice
and counseling,” she said. “It just fit with
my overall personality.”
Within that specialty, Dexter’s focus
is on municipalities and governmental
liability issues. Municipalities will have
concerns that do not apply to a private
employer such as First Amendment issues,
due process rights and constitutional
rights in law enforcement issues. “They
have their own unique issues that makes it
a lot more interesting, and then you’ve got
that political aspect of it too.”
Dexter left the practice of law briefly
to become program management adviser
with FedEx Corp. in the human resources
department, an experience that gave her
more insight into working with employers
and human resources specialists. She is
now certified as a Senior Professional in
Human Resources (SPHR).
It was her love of helping that would
see her go on to serve on the board of the
Boys & Girls Club in Jackson. When she
moved to Memphis in 2003 to get married
and open an office for Rainey Kizer here,
she looked for an opportunity to become
involved civically, saying, “I always liked
anything that has to do with children because I believe that that’s where it starts.”
She made a serendipitous phone call
to Girls Inc., which had just received a
grant from the Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation to begin a mentoring
program.
“I ended up being their first mentor,”
Dexter said.
Currently in the Executive Program
with Leadership Memphis, Dexter is working with Kingsbury High School. She has
been impressed with the students and
faculty, and finds that one of the challenges facing them both is resources. She’s
working with seniors toward goals such as
identifying the colleges they might want to
attend and filling out applications.
In addition to her legal work and
mentoring, Dexter participates in speaking engagements, is an adjunct professor
with ITT Technical Institute, teaching a
paralegal class, and writes for HR Professional Magazine.
Her husband, Michael Dexter, works
for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and
is the incoming president for the Memphis Chapter of the National Association
of Health Services Executives. The couple
has two children – Aaliyah, 10, and Jazz
Mason, 19, a sophomore at University of
Central Arkansas.
Though she didn’t follow the path to
pediatrician, Dexter has made a life of
serving and helping those in need. She has
been proactive in addressing the concerns
of her community through working with
children at the Boys & Girls Club and Girls
Inc., as well as with clients in her work as
an employment law attorney.
“I don’t think my job is just to fix the
immediate problem that I’m focused with
for the client,” she said. “I think my job is
to fix the immediate problem and to also
advise them and provide counsel for how
they can avoid the problem in the future.
So it’s more about training and coaching
than just providing legal advice and that’s
the aspect I really enjoy about it.”
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Choosing Memphis Right Path for Carroll
Richard Alley
A
lthough John Carroll
didn’t grow up a part of
Memphis, the city has
become a part of him.
The Murfreesboro, Tenn., native moved here in 2004, and has
become a force for good with his
City Leadership consulting group
and Choose901 initiative.
After attending Union University in Jackson, Tenn., to study
public relations, he returned
to Murfreesboro and Middle
Tennessee State University for a
Bachelor of Science in political
science and business administration. Work took him to Dallas,
where he met his wife and stayed
for four years.
Nine years ago, wanting
to take a career path that was
for-profit, but also benefited
society in some way, he came
to Memphis as vice president of
Ugly Mug Coffee, the company
with a conscience that worked in
organic and fair trade goods.
He also was a part of a movement of people from around the
country who relocated here for
the church Fellowship Memphis.
He worked as operations director,
overseeing building, finances and
programming.
During his first week with
Fellowship Memphis, Carroll was
approached by someone looking
to start a homeless ministry.
“I thought, ‘that’d be great,
we should do that,’” Carroll said.
“And about five minutes later
someone walked up to me and
said, ‘Hey, can you help me out,
I’d be really interested in starting
a tutoring ministry.’ I realized in
that moment that I wasn’t going
to be able to manage all those
kinds of things.”
Instead of starting a group of
individual ministries, Carroll and
others on staff sought to create a system where their church
could “help and be a part of, and
significantly engage in other
nonprofits,” he said. “There are
too many nonprofits in Memphis
not to engage in them.”
He went to these organizations to collect information on
where and how to send and
train volunteers, and what other
resources they might need that
Fellowship Memphis could help
them acquire. They were working
with close to 40 nonprofits and
the church began City Leadership
Residency, hiring people to work
specifically with those nonprofits.
Carroll had seen Fellowship
Memphis through its growth and
realized a skill set that facilitated
such growth. He separated the
residency from the church in
2010 to create City Leadership, a
nonprofit consulting firm to help
catalyze leaders for the city of
Memphis.
“What I started finding was
these nonprofits where I could
help them manage their transi-
tion, serve their leaders, be an
adviser for them, research for
them, consult with them, help
them make the right decisions,”
he said.
It has grown over just a few
years working with a variety of
organizations and employing a
staff of 11.
Carroll calls himself a workaholic and says he gets “really
excited about seeing pockets
of change and making things
happen that others didn’t think
was possible.” When he moved
to Memphis, he said, he encountered people who were down on
the city, negative speak that didn’t
quite fit with what he was seeing
every day.
“Don’t get me wrong,
Memphis has its problems, but
Memphis is awesome,” he said. “I
fell in love with the place and fell
in love with the people and fell in
love with the culture, the city just
wooed me.”
To counteract the negativity,
CARROLL
and as a tool to help his client
organizations without a budget
for national recruitment, recruit
and retain leaders in the city,
he created the not-for-profit
Choose901. It’s a slogan prevalent on social media and T-shirts
– 4,000 sold already – since its
launch in March 2012, and has
quickly become a rallying cry
for those citizens who fall within
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NBA Uses More Ways to Prove
‘Numbers Don’t Lie’
Walk onto an NBA court
during game time, and you’re
not only on camera but every
movement you make – or
don’t make – will be tracked,
sifted, analyzed. At its core,
that’s what the advanced
statistics movement is about –
seeing and learning everything
possible. Finding out to what
degree each player is doing
his job and if a team is getting
John Hollinger, Grizzlies VP of basketball operations, says NBA player tracking is delivering a “torrent of information.”
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alk up to an ATM, and you’re
on camera. Walk into a convenience store, and you’re on
camera. Walk onto an NBA court during
game time, and you’re not only on camera
but every movement you make – or don’t
make – will be tracked, sifted, analyzed.
“There’s no way to hide anything,”
Grizzlies swingman Quincy Pondexter
said.
At its core, that’s what the advanced
statistics movement is about – seeing and
learning everything possible. Finding out
to what degree each player is doing his
job and if a team is getting proper oncourt return for its financial investment.
“We’re movable assets,” said Toronto
forward Austin Daye, who was part of the
Grizzlies’ three-team trade in January
that also sent Rudy Gay and his bloated
contract to the Raptors.
Last season, about half the league’s
teams – the Grizzlies were not one of
them – had cameras installed in the
rafters of their arenas for player tracking.
This season, the NBA entered into a multiyear agreement with STATS’ SportVU
player tracking technology that uses six
cameras and STATS’ proprietary software
in every NBA arena to “calibrate and measure the movements of all players and the
ball on the court,” according to the NBA.
Steve Hellmuth, NBA executive vice
president of operations and technology,
says the data coming from the cameras is
“just another layer of information.” But
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the layers are going ever-deeper. Between
relatively new – advanced – statistics being used to measure players’ performance
alongside traditional stats such as points,
rebounds and assists per game, teams
also tap into Synergy Sports, a technology
company that combines statistical data
with video to offer helpful information on
shots taken, pick-and-rolls, etc.
John Hollinger, Grizzlies vice president of basketball operations, says the
player tracking is delivering a “torrent of
information.”
Hellmuth offers Los Angeles Clippers
point guard Chris Paul as an example of
how that information might be used. Paul,
arguably, the league’s best point guard,
became the only player other than Magic
Johnson to record 10-plus points and
10-plus assists through the first 11 games
in a season.
Player tracking more precisely shows
how crucial Paul is to the Clippers’ offense. In the category of “passes per
game” Paul led with 79.9. In “points created by assist per game,” he was first with
28.6. His “touches per game” averaged
a league-leading 103.9; Grizzlies point
guard Mike Conley was tied for fifth at
87.2.
However, there also was this surprise: Paul’s 5.0 drives to the basket per
game ranked 39th. Denver’s Ty Lawson
led with 11.6; Conley was tied for 20th at
6.7.
Another player tracking category,
speed/distance, measures the distance
covered, per 48 minutes, and the speed of
all movements: sprinting, jogging, walking, standing – forward and backward. It’s
difficult to know what to make of this stat
because through games of Nov. 17, three
players covered 3.9 miles per 48 minutes
and they all played for the San Antonio
Spurs: little-used players Nando De Colo
and Cory Joseph, and rotation player
Patty Mills.
“I do think it’s cool when they tell you
how much you done ran and all like that,”
said Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan. “But you can’t let cameras or whatever depict what kind of player you are or
what you can do on a given night.”
Golden State Warriors coach Mark
Jackson played point guard in the NBA
for 17 years. There was no “player tracking” then and the stats, like the players themselves, were more old-school.
Successful coaches, Jackson says, “always
used data to tell a story. But the way
we’re building it up today almost makes
it seem like the coaches of yesterday, or
the coaches of last year, didn’t use this
information.
“You pick and choose,” Jackson said.
“Some of it actually is very useful. But
some of it makes no sense.”
One of the more intriguing categories tracks the number of times a player
is within 3.5 feet of a rebound and what
percentage of the time the player makes
good on the rebound opportunity. A
subset category is “contested rebounds
per game.” Through 11 games, Clippers
big man DeAndre Jordan led at 6.0 and
Memphis power forward Zach Randolph
was tied for 13th at 4.3.
Conley says he has learned from some
advanced stats – “I didn’t know I shot a
low percentage in a certain area” – but he
also trusts his own ability to “scout” in the
moment.
proper on-court return for its
financial investment.
“At the end of the day, this is a readand-react game,” Conley said. “You can
know all you want about a guy – he goes
right on you 100 percent of the time, and
then he’ll go left on you that one time.”
Said the Grizzlies’ Mike Miller: “The
longer (the advanced stats) are around,
the more you’ll probably trust it. It’s
what they always say, numbers don’t lie,
right?”
The new Grizzlies ownership and
management team – controlling owner
Robert J. Pera and team CEO Jason Levien
– brought in Hollinger and are dedicated
to using advanced stats for the greater
good. First-year head coach Dave Joerger
clearly embraces the new metrics more
than his predecessor Lionel Hollins did
and favors the stats that track player
combinations.
“To me, that’s very interesting – who
plays well together,” Joerger said.
What the Grizzlies, or other teams, are
gleaning from all this new information is
difficult to quantify to any certainty.
“Teams are very close-lipped and
proprietary with what they’re doing with
statistics,” the NBA’s Hellmuth said.
Hollinger has researched the aging
curve for players by position: “It was a
little different than I thought. I don’t want
to give away the answers to the test, but it
surprised me a little bit.”
Hellmuth is excited about what player
tracking will reveal, but at this point he’s
not willing to say it will be full of surprises.
“It’s too early to say if it’s a mythbuster,” he said. “But I’d be happy to
have that conversation with you at the
All-Star break.”
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Abundance of Diet Soda Starts Stats Revolution
One man, one room, one microfridge stocked with diet soda.
In his Lawrence, Kan., home, this is
where Bill James would hunker down
and create his yearly “Baseball Abstract.”
It was an obsessive, solitary labor of
love that started a statistical revolution
in baseball. It’s just that it took another
generation and Brad Pitt starring in a
movie inspired by a book, “Moneyball,”
for much of the world to notice numbers
in a new way.
But a young Jersey boy named John
Hollinger noticed.
“All through the ’80s I was getting
his book and just devouring it,” said
Hollinger, the Grizzlies’ vice president of
basketball operations, and considered
one of the NBA’s advanced statistics
pioneers. “First one was when I was 13.
Read it, re-read it.”
Even though Hollinger grew up in
New Jersey, he was a Milwaukee Brewers
fan – specifically, a fan of future Hall-ofFamers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.
But as much as Hollinger loved baseball,
basketball was the sport he enjoyed
playing as a teenager.
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“Naturally, I started thinking about
ways to apply what (James) had done
to basketball,” Hollinger said. “Over time,
I experimented – a lot of trial and error,
worked a couple of jobs, and finally this
thing called the Internet came along and
I was able to create a website and put
some of my ideas out there.
“Bill James is the father of this whole
thing. And the entire reason people like
me have a job in this business now.”
As a writer for ESPN.com, Hollinger
developed a following. His best-known
“idea” is an advanced stat called the
Player Efficiency Rating (PER). Like just
about any other advanced metric, we
could use up a lot of space attempting
to explain it in full. In essence, it rates
a player’s effectiveness on a perminute platform.
That’s my oversimplification, mind
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you, and though I have occasionally
poked fun at the new Memphis management team’s all-in commitment to advanced analytics, I believe analytics have
their place and that it is smart to employ
people such as John Hollinger.
Consider, just for one example, how
things might have gone differently back
in the Vancouver Grizzlies days if there
had been more data and someone like
Hollinger on staff to weigh in on the decision to use the overall No. 2 pick in the
NBA draft on Stromile Swift.
You remember the “Stro Show,”
don’t you? Stro was good for several
spectacular dunks each season – he had
a great PER for highlight footage – but
despite being 6-10, and crazy athletic,
Swift was out of the league before age
30. Over nine seasons, he averaged just
8.4 points, shot 47 percent despite many
of his points coming on dunks, averaged
4.6 rebounds despite being able to leap
over tall buildings in a single bound, and
averaged 0.5 assists and 1.3 turnovers
(which doesn’t even seem possible).
And those are just the traditional
stats; a major part of the Stro Show was
his disappearing act.
“Almost play to play,” Hollinger said
with a laugh. “That’s where scouting
information can give you some insight.”
Yes, he said it. Hollinger believes
scouting has its place, still, and does not
believe advanced data, including what
comes from the cameras now installed
in the rafters of all 30 NBA arenas, are
the be-all, end-all.
So when it is suggested that the
more we know the more we realize how
far there still is to go, he doesn’t argue.
“That’s a really fair statement, yeah,”
he said. “You start out and you think
you’re pretty close to solving everything.
It’s really phenomenal how quickly you
realize how much you don’t know.”
That’s why Bill James had to re-stock
the micro-fridge. And why John Hollinger has reason to get up and come to
work every day.
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the halls of Wolfchase
Galleria during last year’s
Christmas shopping.
Retailers hope Christmas season crowds outperform lukewarm forecast
Shopping
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Retailers have been gearing up for a
frenzied Black Friday, marking the beginning of the holiday shopping season, but
industry experts expect a lukewarm year
compared to moderate growth in 2012.
Both nationally and locally, many
stores opened earlier than ever before in
an attempt to capture customers before
their competitors and maximize a shorterthan-usual shopping season.
Wolfchase Galleria and Oak Court Mall,
both owned by Simon Property Group,
will have extended holiday hours this year.
Wolfchase opened at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 28, and Oak Court Mall opened
at midnight on Friday, Nov. 29. The two
enclosed malls encompass more than 185
combined retailers.
“In response to customer demand,
Wolfchase Galleria will be opening at 8
p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 28, for 25 hours of
Black Friday savings, allowing shoppers to
come early and stay late,” said A.J. Coffee, Wolfchase general manager. “We are
committed to meeting the needs of our
shoppers with different preferences and
schedules, providing them with better
access to all of the great holiday deals at
Wolfchase Galleria.”
As a potential good sign for the holiday
season, retail sales rose in October, according to the National Retail Federation. October retail sales, excluding automobiles,
gas stations and restaurants, increased 2.5
percent seasonally adjusted over September, and 4.2 percent unadjusted from 2012.
Despite those positive numbers, the
industry was bracing for a potentially less
frantic Black Friday this year.
“Black Friday is less important than it
used to be because it is now spreading out
over the holiday shopping season,” said Dr.
John Gnuschke, director of the Sparks Bureau of Business and Economic Research
and co-director of Center for Real Estate
Research at the University of Memphis.
“The ability of merchants to have pricing
power is being reduced by the heavy competition from other retailers and by online
retailers.”
Gnuschke expects retail sales growth
will be low to moderate this year, much
like last year. Last year registered a 4.1
percent sales increase during the holiday
shopping season, considered moderately
healthy, but early projections this year
forecast a lower percentage.
“The economic conditions and the lack
of income growth, along with consumer
fears and lack of confidence, will keep
spending growth at a low to moderate level
of 2 percent to 4 percent,” Gnuschke said.
“We need a strong economic recovery and
strong growth before we will get higher
levels of sales growth.”
Danny Buring, partner with The Shopping Center Group LLC, agrees.
“Consumer confidence is flat, which
will keep spending for this year’s holiday
down, but with household earnings up we
still expect a national increase somewhere
in the mid-3 percent range over last year,”
he said.
Buring said he believes the holiday
shopping surge during the past 10-year
span has been fairly flat because the
economy was so strong up until 2008.
“If you look at the last few years, I think
we are seeing positive nominal increases
on a year-to-year basis,” he said. “A few
years ago, Black Friday and the holiday
season was the determining factor in
whether or not certain retailers were going
to be around for the next year.” For many other retailers, Black Friday
and the weeks following determine
whether they will end the year in the red
or black.
“Black Friday is the beginning of the
make-or-break holiday season for retailers,” Buring said. “Historically, up to 40
percent of their revenue is made in this
short window. The shopping season will be
several days shorter this year, and I think
that is scaring retailers. This year, for the
first time Black Friday is really starting on
Thanksgiving Day, with many retailers
open on what was historically a non-shopping day.”
Most national chains are opening earlier this year – some on Thanksgiving Day. “Promotions are happening across the
board and center around social media,
where consumers are influenced by the
experiences and reactions of their friends
to products of interest,” Buring said.
Wolfchase is even offering shoppers a
chance to win a $10,000 shopping spree on
behalf of Simon Malls through a Facebook
promotion. Buring said some retailers are
doing away with any additional expense
associated with layaway sales, and some
that have never offered to sell merchandise
on a “rent-to-own program” are starting to
do so. The most popular items are anticipated to stay the same as in years prior.
“Electronics and toys will continue to
be the sales leaders,” Buring said.
Stores like Target, Walmart and Best
Buy have experienced large crowds lining
up outside their buildings hours before
opening time over the past few Black
Fridays thanks to exclusive “door buster”
deals to lure in shoppers. Best Buy, which
opened its stores at midnight the past few
years, opened earlier this year.
“We are opening at 6 p.m. on Thursday
this year,” said Charlie Peterson, general
manager at Best Buy’s Wolfchase area
location. “We will have door buster items
beginning at 6 p.m. and midnight on
Thursday and at 10 a.m. on Friday morning.”
Peterson expects to see strong sales
from the recently released PS4 and Xbox
One video gaming systems, as well as
from new handheld tablets from various
manufacturers.
In a move to get a step ahead, the
retailer had special online sales earlier in
the week (Monday and Tuesday) to entice
shoppers to grab hot deals early and avoid
the crowds on Black Friday. Best
Buy has four locations in the area,
including the Wolfchase location,
two stores in East Memphis and
one in Southaven. Germantown
resident Lawrence Norton said he
planned to test the Black Friday
waters for the first time this year.
“I’ve got my eye on a 50-inch
flat screen television for $299,” he
said. “I just want to get out there
this year and see what all the fuss
is about.”
The National Retail Federation forecasts the average holiday
shopper will spend roughly $738
on gifts, décor, and greeting cards
this year, 2 percent less than
last year. Over the past couple
of years, more and more people
are doing their shopping from
the comfort of their own homes
versus shopping in brick-andmortar locations.
“The growth of online sales
has a negative impact on traditional retailers and, to some
extent, on sales tax revenues for
state and local government,”
Gnuschke said. “Online transactions are on a positive growth
path and will continue to grow in
the future. Next-day delivery services make this a viable alternative to traditional shopping.”
Only 13 percent of the population plans visits to physical
stores, down from 17 percent last
year, according to Nielsen’s annual Holiday Spending Forecast.
Interest in holiday shopping has
Silinda Page, right, of Arlington does some holiday shopping last year with her children at Target.
dropped each of the last four
years, from 20 percent of those
participating in 2010.
“Online shopping is growing
at a rate significantly higher than
brick-and-mortar retail shopping,” Buring said. “At the same
time, e-commerce often has a
positive effect on brick-and-
mortar in that it increases interest
in shopping in general. Retailers
are focusing a significant amount
of their energy and investment
into online shopping and fast and
reliable platforms of delivery. In
many cases, a retailer’s growth
strategies are directed toward
their distribution and freight
fulfillment centers rather than
new stores.”
Nearly half of shoppers, 46
percent, plan to shop online, up
from only 30 percent in 2012.
Morgan Stanley predicts this
year’s holiday shopping season
could be the worst since 2008.
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U.S. macroeconomic backdrop,
unfavorable calendar shifts, continued big ticket item strength
(autos, appliances, home
improvement) and increased promotional activity likely inhibits
2013 holiday sales as well as overall near-term retail sales growth,”
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Health Care Impact
Salvation Army Kroc Center playing role in improving city’s fitness
Michael Waddell
[email protected]
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The 104,000-square-foot Kroc Center now serves 7,708 individual
members, and that number is expected to grow.
ocal fitness organizations
like the Kroc Center have
seen increased membership numbers this year as
more people in the MidSouth are working to get fit
and taking an active role in their
overall health.
Open only since Feb. 23,
the 104,000-square-foot Kroc
Center – formally the Salvation
Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps
Community Center – now serves
7,708 individual members, and
that number is expected to grow
throughout the holidays and into
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centers, membership always
grows in January because people
are inspired and make great resolutions,” said Ellen Westbrook,
Salvation Army director of community relations and development. “The membership certainly exceeds our expectations,
and that’s why we’ve had to grow
the number of classes. People are
really using the center, and that’s
good news.”
Westbrook attributes the regular attendance of its members in
part to the center’s encouraging
staff.
“Attendance across the board
keeps this center self-supporting,
and donations help our shelters
and keep our men’s center selfsupporting,” Westbrook said. “So
the memberships are not only
building better, stronger people
and neighborhoods, they are also
building this center and keeping
it serving all of Memphis.”
The center recently partnered
with Christian Brothers University to offer memberships for its
student body and faculty.
“Instead of building, and
duplicating, two great facilities
a block apart, this will be their
fitness center,” Westbrook said.
“And they are already using the
center in great numbers.”
Built at the Mid-South Fairgrounds property, the facility was
funded by $31 million from the
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Kroc trust and an additional $25 million
raised from more than 750 local donors.
The center is also endowed with another
$55 million to run the facility, which will
eventually staff more than 100 people.
There are now 27 Kroc Centers across
the country, and the Memphis Kroc Center is the only one to feature the AutoZone
Challenge Center, designed by a team
responsible for some of Universal Studios
in Orlando.
The three-story interactive
20,000-square-foot room features lasers,
touchpads and robotics, as well as a slide
and zip line.
The Kroc Center also houses the
300-seat Nancy R. Crosby Worship and
Performing Arts Center that has already
been used for numerous musical and theatrical performances, the FedEx gymnasium with two full-sized basketball courts,
an indoor soccer field, an Olympic-sized
pool, and an aquatic center.
“The concerts and plays are drawing
good crowds. We have cooperative efforts
with local theaters, and we have launched
some of our own productions,” Westbrook
said. “And our Assisi Foundation Aquatic
Center is like a water park with so many
interactive features built in.”
Other onsite amenities include the
Durham Foundation Kroc Café/demonstration kitchen and an education center
with recording and multi-media production equipment, iPads and large-screen
TVs.
The 15-acre site also contains two
NCAA regulation outdoor soccer fields
and the John M. Tully Sr. competitive outdoor splash park with squirt stations and
dancing waters. Baptist Memorial Health
Care Fitness Center is home to the center’s exercise equipment, which includes
nine treadmills, nine elliptical machines,
six stationery bikes, and a full range of
weight machines.
The center’s popularity is seen in the
number of classes offered.
“Early in the year we started out doing
less than 60 classes per week, and by summer we were doing more than 80 classes
per week,” said Katie Pearson, Kroc Center fitness manager.
New classes include water aerobics
and lower-impact Zoomba Gold for seniors and beginners.
“We are constantly offering new things
for our membership and meeting that
demand and need,” Pearson said.
This summer the Kroc Center also
hosted 42 day camps, all of which were
packed to capacity.
“We have a lot of activities for kids,
including the café and the pool, so we see
a lot of families here,” Pearson said.
Families can join for $50 per month
for a family of four, with an additional $10
per month per extra family member, and
single memberships are $30 per month.
Members also get a 25 percent discount
on some classes, concerts and other
events.
“Rentals are a huge part of the support
of the building. People can rent out rooms
for a banquet or corporate meeting or
outing, and members get a discount on
that as well,” Westbrook said.
She expects to hold a membership
renewal drive for the center’s initial members in January and February.
Over the holidays,
the center’s new
“Aim to Maintain”
incentive program
will allow members
who maintain their
weight to be entered
for a chance to win
prizes for a $3 fee.
The Salvation
Army has had a presence in Memphis
since 1900, focusing
on providing shelter
and feeding programs while helping
people get into housing and jobs.
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(Left): Heather Jordan instructs the Silver Steppers, an exercise class for seniors, at the Kroc Center.
(Right): Xolani Pair, left, goes one on one with Michael Collins in the Kroc Center’s basketball facility.
Ludlow’s Boot Camp Takes Fitness to Higher Level
LUDLOW
Richard Alley
W
hile there are those people who
jump headlong into exercise,
pulled in by the rush of endorphins and an eagerness to look and feel
better, others need a push.
That’s where Tony Ludlow comes in.
The former staff sergeant for the U.S.
Marine Corps leads participants five days a
week in push-ups, crunches, weight training and jumping jacks through his USMC
Fitness Boot Camp in the parking lot of
Christ United Methodist Church in East
Memphis. Ludlow hails from Fort Smith,
Ark., and a military family.
“I’ve got family members that have
served in the Marine Corps going back
generations,” he said. “Military service was
kind of expected. It wasn’t really a matter
of whether or not you would serve, just
which branch you’d serve in.”
He enlisted after high school and
served from 1975 to 1985. After leaving the
Corps, he went into education and taught
world history and English as a second language in Japan at an international school
and a Japanese University. He had served
in Millington and came back to Memphis
in 1998, where he taught and was the
athletic director at Memphis Catholic High
School. He began a similar boot camp
program while in Japan.
“The parents would drop the kids off
at school in the morning and then they
would work out with me, and then they’d
go on their way to their jobs,” he said.
He coached multiple sports at Catholic and restarted the boot camp program
in 1999. When his sport was in season,
he would be on campus by 7:15 a.m. and
might not leave school until 10 p.m., going
home to grade papers and complete lesson
plans. The boot camp grew from his desire
to stay fit while making some extra money
on the side.
“I had to carve out some time in my
own day to work out and early in the
morning was the only time I had.”
A 5:30 a.m. class was implemented.
“It did not take off,” he said, joking that
“I started out with five and by the time
we got to the end of the first month, I had
grown it to three. So I didn’t really think
this was going anywhere.”
Despite that slow start, it had grown
to a dozen by 2000, adding another class
when his basketball season was over and
time became available. Now retired from
teaching, there are three classes with about
150 regulars, the 5:30 a.m. class averaging
about 65. Ludlow says that at the time he
began his program there were only five
similar programs in the country. After being featured in a Wall Street Journal article
in 2005, he said, “it was like last week’s step
aerobics instructor became this week’s
boot camp instructor.”
Though others claim to be bringing
boot camp to the masses, Ludlow has
experienced the real deal. The workout is
conducted at a fast pace and is varied depending on the day, but focuses on pushups, sit-ups, jumping jacks, lunges and
squats, and some light dumbbell work.
“I try and vary the workouts from day
to day because I’m doing the workouts
three times a day and I don’t want to be
bored,” he said. “It’s the full-body workout,
it’s not a body-builder workout; it’s really
to emphasize all aspects of fitness, which
would be muscle strength and stamina,
cardio-respiratory strength and stamina,
balance, flexibility and agility.”
Ludlow said people come to him to
regain some youth and for the camaraderie of a “shared misery.” His client base is a
cross-section, from former college athletes
wanting to get back in shape to those who
have never worked out at all; the youngest
is 18 and the oldest is 67.
“What we had as a gift of youth, we no
longer have as we get older,” he said. “That
gift gets taken away, in the middle of the
night somewhere, I guess, someone comes
in and steals it from us and our metabolism has changed and our abilities have
changed along with them.”
Ludlow pushes the Marine Corps discipline to the edge of the cliff, yet understands when to back off and does so with
good-natured ribbing instead of insults.
“When you’ve got recruits on a small
island off the coast of South Carolina,
they’re not going anywhere,” he said. “That
lawyer that shows up at my place driving
his BMW, if I do the drill instructor routine
on him, he can get in his BMW and drive
home and never come back.”
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Barrett’s Business Has Races
Covered From Start to Finish
Richard Alley
F
or Brent Barrett of Start2Finish
Events, small-business ownership is a marathon, not a sprint.
The racing events management and
production service, begun in 2004, has
grown out of Barrett’s custom-printed
apparel business, Bluff City Sports, and
RacesOnline.com, the events calendar
and registration portal of the footrace
world.
“We’ve kind of created this onestop shop for events to come in here
and we’re able to build their website,
do their online registration, help them
market, help promote, print their Tshirts, do their awards,” Barrett said.
Having worked with screen print
during college and after, Barrett moved
back to Memphis and opened his
own apparel shop in 1991. He’d begun
participating in triathlons as a hobby
several years earlier and found it was
difficult to find information on upcoming events.
A niche made itself apparent, and
in the nascent World Wide Web of 1994,
RacesOnline became the fill for that
niche as a simple cyber calendar of
events.
They made cards with a logo and
website address, and put them into
every race shirt they printed. “So we
were putting those in probably 300,000
or 400,000 shirts a year and they were
going all throughout the Mid-South,”
Barrett said.
It was not meant to be a revenue
generator in the beginning, but a “sales
tool,” Barrett said, opening a door for
Bluff City Sports to contact the race
directors and bid on their shirt production.
This pulled them ahead of the com-
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and functionality to the site to allow for
online registration. The site has about
12,000 active events listed at any given
time and is free for race directors with
revenue now coming from a service fee
when a participant registers for a race.
“It is self-supporting, actually a very
good, solid business,” he said. “We do
probably close to 300,000 transactions
a year with that now.”
The most recent part of the puzzle
within the building at Cooper Street
and York Avenue – the starting line for
the Cooper-Young 4-miler every year –
is Start2Finish.
The race management and production company has grown from managing five events nine years ago to 180
events throughout the Mid-South with
offices in Nashville and Charlotte, N.C.
An office in Little Rock will open soon.
In addition to the management and
production of others’ races, Start2Finish owns events such as the Memphis
In May Triathlon, the Germantown Half
Marathon and 5K, Dragonfly Triathlon
and the upcoming Turkey Trot, which
now boasts around 3,000 participants.
While racing itself may be linear, Barrett’s enterprise with its 32
employees is vertical, offering race
registration, T-shirt and bib (a runner’s
number worn while racing) printing,
and full management of the race. There
is very little waste or surprise when it
comes to number of shirts, amount of
food or portable toilets needed with
the team keeping up-to-the-minute
tallies on registrants.
The amount of work that goes into
a single 5K race is difficult for many
to imagine. The majority of clients –
Barrett estimates it at 99 percent – are
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Impulse Buying
Can Come At A
High Price
Ray’s Take
There’s a billion-dollar reason the racks
of magazines, candy, and soft drinks are right
by the checkout counters and at check-out
on many a website. It’s called impulse buying, and it’s as bad for your budget as those
candy bars are for your waistline. There are
marketing geniuses throughout the retail
industry. Their only job is to make impulse
buying irresistible, at your expense. Take that
candy bar, for example. Just a few feet away
in the supermarket, you can buy a package of
those same candy bars at a much lower costper-item. However, when you’re standing in
line waiting, it’s harder to resist that higherpriced and right-in-front-of-you treat.
That’s why you should consider the cost
of everything – not just big-ticket items like
housing and transportation. Think about that
morning coffee you buy on the way to work.
If it’s $3 a cup, that’s $15 a week, $750 a year
(subtracting vacation and weekends). It all
adds up. This is not to say that all “impulse”
buying is inherently bad. If you have a plan to
reach your important goals and you are on
track, “treats” can be fun and rewarding.
There’s an old saying “Watch the pennies
and the dollars will take care of themselves.”
While that’s not exactly true – your saved
dollars need to be invested and watched over
wisely – it isn’t a bad policy to follow. Every
habit, every expenditure – no matter how
innocuous – has an impact on your budget,
your savings, and your future. Every purchase
comes with two price tags – the price outof-pocket you pay today and price to your
financial security you pay in the future.
Dana’s Take
Impulse buying brings other costs along
with the financial ones – regret and guilt, not
just for the wasted money but also the time.
That solid rationalization you used to justify
an impulse purchase in the excitement of the
moment of purchase doesn’t seem nearly as
strong when you get home
and realize
that you
neither
needed
nor really
even
wanted
your
ray & dana Brandon
rays of wisdom
impulse
buy.
Then, you spend double the time and gas by
driving back to return all the impulse purchases. Talk about buyer’s remorse.
The easiest way to reduce impulse buying
is not to browse, and that includes online as
well as in stores. Don’t make shopping – even
so-called window shopping – a recreation
activity. Be purposeful in your purchases.
After years of buying clothes that don’t
work, I’m admitting defeat and hiring a wardrobe consultant. I’m hoping she will save me
lots of time and frustration and maybe even
some money in the long run. Here’s one thing
to keep in mind: one often regrets impulse
purchases, but one seldom mourns over the
purchases walked away from.
Church Health Center Expands Wellness Facility
Michael Waddell
[email protected]
C
hurch Health Center
Wellness is expanding its
medical presence within
its 80,000-square-foot wellness
and fitness center as part of an
increasingly integrated health
care philosophy, adding five
exam rooms to accommodate
demand from its uninsured,
working patient population.
The wellness center is open
to the entire community, while
the Church Health Center medical clinic is available only to the
working uninsured. Both operate
on an affordable sliding cost
scale, with the lowest priced Wellness memberships starting at $15
per month and the average clinic
visit costing around $25.
“All of the bells and whistles
for you to succeed in living a
healthier life are contained under
this roof,” said Marvin Stockwell,
Church Health Center director
of communications. “We are
especially good at helping people
who need lots of interventions,
and we take the steps to keep
them engaged.”
The wellness center offers
everything from personalized
exercise plans and cooking
classes to group exercise classes,
activities for children and teens,
aquatic exercise sessions, and
even prayer services.
“Everything we do here
overall is tied into our Model
for Healthy Living,” said Randy
Kostiuk, Church Health Center
Wellness manager of wellness education and nutrition
and one of a team of 10 health
educators. “Everything you do to
improve your wellness is going
to have a positive effect on your
medical life.”
Kostiuk estimates membership at the center fluctuates between 1,600 and 2,500,
considering members are not
under contractual obligation of
any kind and simply pay month
to month.
The main focus of the center’s
kitchen is how to cook healthy
meals that are convenient, inexpensive and taste good.
“People in general, and
especially in the Mid-South, are
misinformed that it costs a lot
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more to eat healthy than it does
to eat unhealthy. That’s simply
not true, but there is the planning
process, the shopping and the
preparation that go into keeping
the cost down,” Kostiuk said.
The center’s 230 employees are heavily encouraged to
improve their own wellness
with incentives that include an
extra week of paid vacation or
$500 per year.
Church Health Center Wellness just implemented a new
curriculum around the Model
for Healthy Living for a partnership with the Memphis Grizzlies called “Team Up,” in which
the Grizzlies will help mentor
seventh graders throughout the
city in classes on wellness, stress
management, exercise, nutrition and portion control. Church
Health Center Wellness is also
partnering with Baptist Memorial
Hospital on a diabetes education
class. The center opened its new
medical exam rooms for patients
on Nov. 4 and has remained
busy since.
“We plan to add a third family
practice provider in December,”
said registered nurse Jacinta
Powers. “Right now we are really
focusing on diabetes and hypertension, two chronic conditions
that will not change only with
medicine.”
The Church Health Center
has provided care for more than
61,000 unique patients in the
last 10 years without relying on
government funding, and the
clinic logged roughly 46,000 patient visits last year. As part of the
continuing integration of health
care and wellness, all patient
visits now involve a health coach
who is imbedded into all of the
center’s provider teams. Research
supports the fact that more
involvement with activities at the
center result in healthier patients
and better patient outcomes.
“Once the patient is referred
into one of our Wellness for
Life programs, they will have a
health coach that will work with
them hand in hand to set some
specific behavioral goals to help
them manage their diabetes,
lose the 10 to 15 pounds they
need to manage their hypertension, remind them to take their
medications, and help them
to get started with exercise,”
Kostiuk said.
On the exercise side, the
center offers a full slate of classes,
including aerobics, yoga, Pilates,
dance, Zoomba, spin classes,
and movement and balance and
stress and strength sessions for
seniors.
“We are learning to work
within the medical system to
help people to evaluate the
preventions they can do, as well
as what they can do to provide
ongoing maintenance to complement their medical situations,”
said Richard Kelly, Church Health
Center Wellness exercise and
movement manager. “Looking at
the health crisis in our nation, it
has so much to do with learning
to eat well and move more. You
cannot outrun bad eating habits.”
Dr. Scott Morris, a family practice physician and
ordained United Methodist
minister, founded the Church
Health Center in 1987 to provide
quality, affordable health care
for uninsured working people
and their families. The wellness center opened in 1998,
and last year logged more than
117,000 member visits.
Mobile Health Clinic
Hits Streets to Help
City’s Homeless
Michael Waddell
[email protected]
The new Baptist Operation
Outreach mobile health clinic
debuted in October, providing
more much-needed medical
services for the homeless.
The new state-of-the-art
mobile health clinic is run by
Baptist Operation Outreach,
a joint venture between
Baptist Memorial Health
Care and Christ Community
Health Services.
B
aptist Memorial Health Care and
Christ Community Health Services
rolled out a new state-of-the-art
mobile health clinic earlier this month,
and the larger, modernized vehicle will
give Baptist Operation Outreach the ability to treat more of the area’s homeless
population in need of medical care.
The organization’s previous mobile
clinic, dubbed simply “The Van,” had been
in use since 1997, and is much older than
that, as it had been originally gifted in
used condition. The vehicle became exclusively used for treatment of the homeless in 2003, but after nearly a decade
of service the van was badly in need of
replacement.
“It was in pretty bad shape. We could
only go 30 miles per hour, and it would
not climb hills very well,” said Jan Taylor,
program director of Baptist Operation
Outreach in partnership with Christ Community Health Services. Taylor previously
had to map out routes to and from event
destinations to avoid the steeper hills.
“There also was no heating and air for
the cab driver, so many times in the summer the temperature in the cab could be
110 (degrees),” she said.
The old clinic also featured only one
exam room and there was also only one
provider, so that limited the clinic’s ability
to see more patients.
“The new bus has two exam rooms
and an extension that gives us more space
to move around,” Taylor said. “We now
staff one doctor and one nurse practitioner on the bus, so we can serve more
homeless patients.”
The primary physician at the new
clinic is Dr. Tim Potter, and the nurse
practitioner is Mitzy Smith.
The new bus also includes its own
router and antennas, which allows staff to
better access patients’ electronic medical records through laptops. Clinics and
hospitals across the country are converting to use of electronic medical records
as part of compliance with the Affordable
Care Act.
“We also have new exam tables, more
storage space for our medications, an
emergency cart with a defibrillator and
EKG machine, and a Hoyer lift to take on
patients in wheelchairs,” said Taylor, who
explained the lift also would be used in
emergency situations for moving patients
on stretchers from an ambulance to the
bus.
Baptist Operation Outreach officials
worked closely with Farber Vehicles of
Columbus, Ohio, to design the vehicle,
including functional spaces, countertops
and color schemes.
“It’s very bright and colorful for the patients because we want to add some cheer
into their lives while providing them with
needed medical care,” Taylor said.
The overall cost for the new clinic was
slightly more than $300,000, and it was
funded through a grant from the Baptist
Memorial Health Care Foundation.
Taylor expects the clinic to see an average of 35 to 40 patients per day, compared
to about 20 to 25 patients per day at the
old van. Last year, Baptist Operation Outreach served more than 3,000 patient visits providing primary care across the city
in the mobile clinic, and Taylor expects to
grow that number by at least 500 to 600
patients next year.
One of the first patients to receive care
at the new clinic was William Larkett, who
had a large grapefruit-sized growth removed from his neck last week after being
referred by the clinic to Baptist specialists.
“They do great work here. They make
you feel like you’re somebody,” said
Larkett, who had the growth on his neck
for approximately 14 years but had been
without a permanent home and unable
to afford medical care. “They’ve helped
turn my life around, and I feel like a king
spiritually and physically.”
He plans to complete a drug treatment
program on his road to recovery.
Each week the mobile clinic is parked
at the Memphis Union Mission at 383
Poplar Ave. on Mondays and at 69 N.
Cleveland St. on Tuesdays through Thursdays, and it visits the Salvation Army on
Jackson Avenue on the second and fourth
Wednesday afternoons of each month.
Hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“We are also looking into being able
to go to some other sites since we know
that our new vehicle will be able to make it
safely to those new locations,” Taylor said.
The clinic will also be in use for the
Baptist Operation Outreach Thanksgiving
Day event at the Memphis Cook Convention Center and the “Tree of Faith, Hope
and Love” event for the homeless at 60 N.
Cleveland in December.
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with sites in Nashville and Knoxville, but
r. Marie Chisholm-Burns has
all first-year students start out in Memphis
been busy in her first two years as
and then have the option to stay or transdean of the College of Pharmacy
fer to another campus.
at the University of Tennessee Health Sci“We plan to increase our presence
ence Center.
in Nashville since many of our students
This year she has maintained a focus
spend the final year and a half there,”
on overseeing the college’s diverse student
body and on keeping costs of attending the Chisholm-Burns said.
On the Memphis campus, the college
college much lower than its competitors,
while also completing a Master of Business moved into a new building on Madison
Avenue early last year, and classes have
Administration program in August and
operated on the first four floors. The fifth
being honored this month as the recipient
floor will be built out early next year with
of the 2013 Literature Award for Sustained
lab space, conference rooms and office
Contributions, given by the American
space. The bid process is not complete yet
Society of Health-System Pharmacists
for selection of the construction contractor
Research and Education Foundation.
for the fifth floor. That process should be
“We have stayed very busy in the last
completed in the next few weeks, and work
year and a half,” said Chisholm-Burns,
on the sixth floor will get underway in the
who was appointed dean of the College
second half of next
of Pharmacy in late
year.
2011 and took over on
Post-graduation,
campus near the end of
the college’s students
February 2012. “This is a
had a 100 percent
great school to be a part
success rate in June
of, and I’m honored that
on the North AmeriI’m here.”
can Pharmacist LiThis year the college
censure Examination,
has teamed up with
or NAPLEX, administhe College of Allied
We’re very proud of
tered by the National
Health to offer more
Association of Boards
options for students
our diversity in age,
of Pharmacy.
and has introduced
gender, race and
“We typically
a new certification
ethnic background.”
have a 98 percent or
program in medication
higher board pass
therapy management.
– Dr. Marie Chisholm-Burns
Dean, College of Pharmacy, UTHSC
rate, but to get 100
Chisholm-Burns has
percent is certainly
also expanded on the
something we are
college’s strong relationproud of,” Chisholm-Burns said. “After
ship with the University of Memphis.
graduating from pharmacy school, many
“Now we have a strong PharmD MBA,
of our students do residencies. We have a
dual-degree program. Before, we had one
strong residency program, and we are afor two students graduate per year with
filiated with about 37 residencies per year.”
a PharmD MBA, and now we have more
Student debt is an issue for many hopthan 10 students enrolled in the program
ing to attend college, and Chisholm-Burns
at the University of Memphis," she said.
Adding to her hectic schedule this year, touts the fact one year of classes at the
Chisholm-Burns completed and graduated UTHSC College of Pharmacy costs roughly
$22,000, while at competing colleges, that
from the MBA program in August in order
figure generally runs in the low- to midto be able to better advise her students.
$30,000s per year and as much as $40,000
Enrollment numbers at the College
per year in a few cases.
of Pharmacy over the past two years have
“More than 97 percent of our students
held steady, with this year’s first-year class
that graduated last year had jobs within
totaling 166 students. The student body
ranges in age from 20 to 47, and 60 percent three months of graduating,” she said.
Capping off an eventful year, Chof students are female.
isholm-Burns was honored last week with
“We’re very proud of our diversity
the American Society of Health-System
in terms of age, gender, race and ethnic
Pharmacists Foundation’s 2013 Literature
background,” said Chisholm-Burns, who
Award for Sustained Contributions, which
prior to coming to UTHSC spent 13 years
honors important contributions by pharworking at the University of Georgia in
macists to biomedical literature.
the area of transplant medicine and then
Chisholm-Burns’ extensive work has
spent five years as a department head at
appeared in more than 260 publications,
the University of Arizona. She has worked
and she has received approximately $8
as a pharmacist since 1992.
million in external funding from various
The UTHSC College of Pharmacy
maintains a footprint throughout the state, organizations.
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Baptist Begins Work on Germantown Rehab Facility
Michael Waddell
[email protected]
B
aptist Memorial Health
Care Corp. is moving
ahead with a new rehabilitation facility on South Germantown Road, aimed at helping
meet increased demand from an
aging population seeking to continue their independence after a
devastating injury or illness.
Baptist broke ground earlier
this fall on the clinic, at 1240
S. Germantown Road near the
intersection of Wolf River Boulevard. It will replace Baptist’s
Exeter Road facility.
“The patients most likely to
be treated by inpatient rehab include those from complex neurological conditions, strokes, brain
and spinal cord injuries, complex
orthopedic injuries, amputations
and other conditions,” said Brian
Hogan, CEO and administrator of
Baptist Rehab-Germantown.
The approximate cost of the
project is $33 million, and the
potential move-in date is Oct. 1,
2014. The clinic will be leased to
the rehab hospital under a longterm lease by Indianapolis-based
commercial real developer Duke
Realty Corp.
Earl Swensson Associates is
the project architect, and Brasfield & Gorrie, with which Baptist
has worked in the past, is the
general contractor.
The planned 60,000-squarefoot facility will include 49
single-occupancy rooms and
will contain specialized features
such as a dedicated stroke unit,
an activity of daily living space, a
mobility courtyard and a therapy
gym. The stroke unit will include
large, private rooms; lift equipment as needed; an activity of
daily living suite; and common
areas for patients and families.
The hospital gym will encompass
lift equipment, a body weightsupported treadmill, Bioness,
private treatment areas, and a
large outdoor mobility garden.
Stroke is the leading cause of
serious, long-term disability in
the country, according to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Each year, approximately 795,000 people suffer a
stroke. Roughly 600,000 of those
are first attacks.
“Memphis is part of the
maps
nscreensoftheDixonHughesblue.Locationsthatneed
e.
‘stroke belt,’ and more and more
stroke patients need extensive
stroke rehabilitation following
their inpatient hospital stay. Rehabilitation can be an important
part of recovery for many stroke
survivors,” Hogan said. “The
effects of stroke may mean that
patients must change, relearn
or redefine how they live. Stroke
rehabilitation helps them return
to independent living.”
Stroke rehab includes skills
such as walking, talking, interacting with others, self-care and
cognitive skills such as memory
and problem-solving.
“When the new facility opens,
all inpatient services will move
into it, and outpatient will stay at
the current facility,” Hogan said.
Earlier this year, the Tennessee Health Services and
Development Agency approved
a certificate of need request for
Baptist to build a new inpatient
rehabilitation facility in partnership with Nashville-based
Centerre Healthcare Corp.
“Baptist leadership wanted to
work with an organization that
is a national leader in rehab service,” said Zach Chandler, metro
(BMHCC)
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. is building a 60,000-square-foot
rehabilitation center at 1240 S. Germantown Road.
market leader for Baptist Memorial Health Care.
Centerre currently manages eight rehabilitation hospitals, which are in Indianapolis;
Lancaster, Pa.; Chesterfield,
Mo.; Oklahoma City; Dallas; Fort
Worth, Texas; Waukesha, Wis.;
and Beachwood, Ohio. Three hospitals that will be
added to Centerre’s roster are
under construction, including the
Baptist Hospital in Germantown
and new facilities in Langhorne,
Pa., and Springfield, Mo.
Centerre Healthcare is a national provider of inpatient acute
rehabilitation services dedicated
solely to partnering with medical centers to complement their
health care continuum through
joint development and operation
of acute rehabilitation hospitals
and units.
Modern Healthcare named
Centerre as the fastest-growing hospital company in the
U.S. in 2012.
memPHiS office
The Dixon Hughes Goodman Healthcare Services Group
Partners
has become a critical part of the healthcare delivery
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system. We represent over 1,000 hospitals, physician
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groups, senior housing and care, and home health/hospice
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providers with an entrepreneurial spirit and an emphasis
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on innovative solutions to seemingly chronic conditions.
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Gifts That
Keep On
Giving
Let the holiday season begin! Thanksgiving ushers in six weeks of busyness as we
reunite with family and friends for dinners,
parties, and holidays such as Hanukkah,
Christmas and New Year’s Eve. This is a time
of gift giving. In addition to daily business
and family activities our minds find time to
weigh questions such as “What would my
children enjoy?” and “When should I order
the turkey?” and, of course, “How can I give to
all the people I love without going broke?” In
the midst of all this holiday activity comes the
busy season for nonprofit fundraising. Some
organizations and institutions encourage us
to give before the year-end to take advantage
of tax benefits, while others offer opportunities to remember those who are less fortunate. Still others invite us to imagine new
expressions and manifestations of the arts,
leadership, education, and science.
If you can take a moment to escape the
hustle and bustle of the season you may find
a way to combine celebrations, gift giving
and support for nonprofits that are important to you and your family. You can put the
busyness of the season in perspective by
spending the afternoon with your children
volunteering at St Jude Children’s Research
Hospital, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital,
MIFA or your local senior center. When considering what to give, consider underwriting
a child’s pre-K education by giving to a program that had their funds cut this year. You’ll
be giving a gift that will make an impact for a
lifetime. You can make that gift in honor of a
family member. Other ideas include purchasing gloves or socks in bulk to give to people
who are homeless in our city.
Talk with your faith leader, college representative or another trusted person “in-theknow” to find out which out-ofstate (or out-ofcountry!)
college
students
need a home
for the holidays and
MEL & Pearl shaw open your
FUNdraising Good Times home and
heart. If your
neighbor is in need, purchase a Kroger gift
card she can use for groceries. This is an ideal
time for a gift to the Mid-South Food Bank.
Gifts to scholarship funds are easily made
online and are more important than ever as
so many students are losing access to Parents PLUS loans. Give to help those halfway
around the world by supporting victims of
the typhoon in the Philippines. If you are
purchasing a pet consider adopting one from
the animal shelter or the Humane Society of
Memphis & Shelby County. Many nonprofits publish beautiful calendars – consider
giving one as a gift. Purchase your Christmas
tree from a nonprofit. Send holiday greetings
with cards from the Women’s Foundation
for a Greater Memphis. Most importantly, sit
down as a family and share the gratitude you
experience. Then find a way to give in ways
that speak to your hearts.
Newsmakers
Nelson Takes New Role
At Nonprofit Alliance
Kate Simone
[email protected]
Amanda C. Nelson has joined the Alliance for
Nonprofit Excellence as director of consulting,
a newly created position. Nelson will oversee,
coordinate and promote the alliance’s management
consulting services, and manage its three-year
capacity-building program, the Program for
Nonprofit Excellence.
Hometown: San Francisco
Experience: Bachelor of Arts in
liberal arts from University of California, Berkeley; 25-plus years of
managing and consulting to a diverse
group of nonprofit organizations in
Seattle, San Francisco, New York,
Santa Barbara, and now, Memphis!
Family: Currently living with two
rescue pups, both of whom are
thoroughly enjoying their new city –
Shelby Farms and Germantown dog
parks in particular.
Favorite quote: “Security is mostly
a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a
whole experience it. Avoiding danger
is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” – Helen
Keller
The sports team(s) you root for:
The best, San Francisco Giants!
What’s playing on your stereo
right now? NPR. All. The. Time.
When I need some melodies, I reach
for Pearl Jam, Frank Sinatra and
Al Green. Also loving Macklemore
right now.
Paul Anderson has joined
U.S. Trust as a senior vice
president and private client
adviser. Anderson previously
served as CEO of Centennial
Partners, a privately owned
hedge fund, and as chief
investment officer of Union
Planters Corp.
Dr. Ronald “Nick” Laribee,
an assistant professor in
the University of Tennessee
Health Science Center Department of Pathology, has
been awarded $1.4 million
from the National Institute
of General Medical Sciences
for cancer drug development
research over a five-year
period.
Clayton Beatse has joined
the Memphis office of Hospitality Real Estate Counselors
What talent do you wish
you had? The ability to
make people feel heard,
seen and complete, and to
sing like Ella Fitzgerald.
Who has had the greatest influence on you? I
have been blessed with a
wonderful mix of strong
NELSON
and compassionate people throughout my life,
beginning with my family. I am still connected
to many of these “influencers” and
meet that need, I want to expand and
am meeting new ones along the
deepen the outreach of our consultway, as well.
ing, training and research, and advocacy programs and services, along
What attracted you to the Alliwith recruiting and training some
ance for Nonprofit Excellence?
excellent consultants.
Two things: the concept of a management support organization for
If you could give one piece of adnonprofits, and the excellent work
vice to young people, what would
and track record that CEO Nancy
it be? Always be curious. Failure is
McGee and her talented staff have
an option, an instance to welcome
produced.
and learn from often – and every
so often, to create something truly
What are your goals in your new
wonderful from. When you have the
position? Lots! I believe so strongly
thought that some thing/person/
in this work, helping to build the inplace/idea might interest you, follow
frastructure of nonprofit organizait, even if others don’t think it’s cool.
tions, and have already seen that
Often these pursuits can lead you
there is a real need for it here. To
down some very inspired paths.
as an associate. Beatse previously served in front- and
back-of-house operations
roles at the Madison Hotel.
Dr. Benny Weksler has been
named the first EastridgeCole Professor and chief
of the Division of Thoracic
Surgery at the University of
Tennessee Health Science
Center. He will also serve as
chief of thoracic surgery for
UT Methodist Physicians.
Weksler most recently held
senior-level positions at
the University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center.
Methodist Le Bonheur
Germantown Hospital has
been recognized by Healthstream Inc. with an Excellence Through Insight award
for Overall Satisfaction in
Inpatient Maternity and Inpatient Step-Down Units for
large hospitals.
W. Steven West, John I
Houseal Jr. and William L.
Bomar of Glankler Brown
PLLC have been named top
lawyers in American Lawyer/Corporate Counsel’s
“2013 Top Rated Lawyers in
Healthcare” based on Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminant ratings.
Kelley & Associates Advertising has received a gold
award in the 2013 MarCom
Awards for its AOC Resins
print ad, and an honorable mention for Catholic
Charities of West Tennessee’s
annual report.
Glankler Brown PLLC has
been named a 2014 Best Law
Firm in U.S. News-Best Lawyers’ 2014 “Best Law Firms,”
with designations in 35
practice areas.
Hilton Garden Inn has
received a bronze award
in the 2013 Brandon Hall
Group Excellence in Learning Awards in the Best Team
Effectiveness category for
its “You Can Count on Us
Skills & Service” internal
training video.
Image180 Branding & Marketing has been named the
creative agency of record
for the Sickle Cell Foundation of Tennessee and the
Shelby County Democratic
Party. Image180 will develop
visual branding for both
organizations.
»
happenings
Small Business Saturday will be held Saturday, Nov. 30,
at participating small businesses across Memphis. The
nationwide event includes retailers, restaurants, museums,
entertainment venues and more. Visit shopsmall.com for a
list of participating businesses.
» Community
WinterArts Memphis, featuring artwork and
gifts by more than 30 local artists, will be held
Friday, Nov. 29, through Dec. 24 at The Shops
of Saddle Creek South, 2055 West St. Visit
winterartsmemphis.com for hours and other
information.
Snowy Nights in My Big Backyard will be
held Fridays and Saturdays Nov. 29 to Dec.
14 and daily Dec. 17 to Dec. 30, except for
Dec. 24-25, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at
Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry Road.
Activities include winter crafts, games, campfire pits, a light show and more. Tickets are $7
for MBG members and $10 for nonmembers.
Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com.
Starry Nights will be held Friday, Nov. 29 to
Dec. 27 at Shelby Farms Park. Hours are 6
p.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays,
standout continued from P11
the area code.
He has researched and written on the
challenges of recruitment of a specific
age and class of leaders, and Choose901
was fostered as “an umbrella where we
can create a message to millennials
about the opportunity to invest their
life and enjoy their life right here in
Memphis.”
Carroll and his wife, Ashley, a nurse
at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital,
have four children. Jac, 9, and Charis, 7,
are biological, while 6-year-old Abigail,
behind the headlines continued from P7
tary School in Millington.
The school board members-elect and
suburban town and city leaders are also
starting to better define what local control means. Hoover likes the idea of the
suburban school districts sharing some
services among themselves. But he sees
problems in a similar arrangement with
Shelby County Schools.
“There is a balance issue,” Hoover
said. “If the six of us are in a shared services agreement with the unified district,
there’s no balance in that relationship.
We are along for the ride. And that may
be OK. If the six suburban municipalities
are building a coalition to operate some
infrastructure, they are all relatively the
same size. It is a team effort.”
“No matter how much you share …
each board is still going to have their
own local control,” Wissman said, as he
acknowledged there is some sentiment
to isolate as well as have local control.
He described the sentiment in some
quarters of the six suburban towns and
cities as, “We want to isolate ourselves
from everybody else.”
and 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
The light show and festival includes 1.5 million
lights, plus shopping, live music and activities in Mistletoe Village. Mondays are Run,
Walk, Ride Nights, and are closed to cars. Visit
shelbyfarmspark.org/starrynights for more
information.
Memphis Botanic Garden will host the Holly
Hike self-guided tour, featuring its extensive
holly collection, Sunday, Dec. 1, to Dec. 31
at the garden, 750 Cherry Road. Maps are
available at the front desk. Cost is free with
admission during regular hours. Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com.
The WRVR Toy Truck, which collects toys
and gifts for Porter-Leath, will be at Bud Davis
Cadillac, 5433 Poplar Ave., from Monday, Dec.
2, to Friday, Dec. 6. New, unwrapped toys can
be dropped off between 5 a.m. and 7 p.m. Visit
porterleath.org.
and 5-year-old Jones are adopted. The
Carrolls are outspoken advocates for
adoptive families, as they are advocates for the city they’ve adopted as
their home and strive to make better
every day.
“Memphis is the premier city in the
country to invest in and enjoy your life,
there’s no other city where you can go
make a quicker, more significant investment, get on the front lines and make
a difference that people are going to
recognize,” he said. “There’s all sorts of
room for people who want to be passionate about this work.”
“That’s not really the case,” he countered. “The case is you have your own
board. Your board still controls what goes
on in your town. … Beyond that, you just
work together, collaboratively with the
other municipal systems or Shelby County Schools. You still have that autonomy.”
Hoover, meanwhile, said there is no
difference of opinion between Germantown city leaders and the Germantown Schools board members-elect as
Germantown municipal leaders were the
last of the six towns and cities to continue negotiations with Shelby County
Schools.
Those negotiations involve the fate
of Germantown Elementary, Middle
and High schools, which Shelby County
Schools leaders want to keep within SCS.
Germantown leaders oppose not having
the three Germantown-named schools in
their school system to come.
“I don’t think there’s any difference
between the objectives of the administration and the wants and desires of
the five people that are going to be the
school board,” he said, referring to comments the day after the school board
elections by Paige Michael.
Germantown Performing Arts Center will
host a visual arts exhibition by Ron Olson and
Saj Crone Tuesday, Dec. 3, to Jan. 3 in the
GPAC lobby, 1801 Exeter Road. Cost is free.
Visit gpacweb.com.
Agape Child & Family Services will host a
Pictures of Hope Reveal Party and Meet the
Young Artist reception Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 4
p.m. at Chuck Hutton Chevrolet, 2471 Mount
Moriah Road. The reception is free; sets of 15
Pictures of Hope holiday cards are $25. Visit
agapemeanslove.org.
Webster University will host an information
session Tuesday, Dec. 3, from 6 p.m. to 7:45
p.m. at the Bartlett Public Library, 5884 Stage
Road. The session is free and open to adults
interested in earning a graduate degree by
taking evening classes. Call 873-1531.
The Shelby County Trustee’s Office will
host a “Home Sweet Home” workshop for
seniors Thursday, Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to noon
at the McWherter Senior Center, 1355 Estate
Drive. Trustee staff will provide information
on senior property taxes and how to effectively pass property to heirs. Cost is free. Visit
shelbycountytrustee.com.
The Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division board will meet Thursday, Dec. 5, at 1:30
p.m. in the MLGW board room, 220 S. Main St.
Visit mlgw.com.
Cooper Young Night Out will be held Thursday, Dec. 5, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at businesses in the Cooper-Young neighborhood. Visit
cooperyoung.biz for a list of activities.
spotlight continued from P19
nonprofits looking to raise money or
awareness.
Start2Finish gets calls regularly from
someone who ran a race the weekend
before and decided it would be good for
their nonprofit. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t,
and Start2Finish helps them determine
which by laying out the cost of permits,
police, registration, promotion, goodie
bags, timing, etc.
“Outside of them raising sponsor dollars, we pretty much handle everything
for them,” Barrett said.
Barrett says there are as many races
in the month of October now as there
were total yearly races when he first got
into the business. As the number of races
grows and nonprofits bring in supporters
from their organization, there may be a
few hardcore runners, but, Barrett said,
» THE ARTS
The South Main Art Trolley Tour will be held
Friday, Nov. 29, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the
South Main Historic Arts District. Email info@
southmainmemphis.net.
Ballet Memphis will host the 2013 Nutcracker Tea Sunday, Dec. 1, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at
The Peabody hotel, 149 Union Ave. The event
will include crafts, snacks and dancing with
the cast of “Nutcracker.” Tickets are $45. Visit
balletmemphis.org.
Lindenwood Christian Church will present
“The Christmas Spectacular 2013” holiday
concert Sunday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the
church sanctuary, 2400 Union Ave. The
Lindenwood Chancel Choir and Orchestra
will perform the most-requested pieces in
the concert’s 35-year history. Tickets are $15.
Visit lindenwoodcc.com.
The Orpheum Theatre will present “Sister
Act” Tuesday, Dec. 3, through Sunday, Dec. 8,
at the theater, 203 S. Main St. Visit orpheummemphis.com or call 525-3000 for showtimes and tickets.
Memphis Botanic Garden will host an
opening reception for the Martha Kelly and
Elizabeth Alley art exhibit Tuesday, Dec. 3,
from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Visitors
Center, 750 Cherry Road. The exhibit will be
on display through Dec. 31. Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com.
Hattiloo Theatre will present “The North
Star: An Urban Nativity” Thursday, Dec. 5, to
Dec. 22 at the theater, 656 Marshall Ave. Visit
hattiloo.org.
“we’ve seen this huge increase in population at races, but the good thing about it
is that they’re bringing 500 to 600 people
to an event who probably hadn’t planned
to do another event, and hopefully they
get the bug.”
Whether the number of people
wanting to get healthier and more active
has increased the participation in races
or vice versa is an unknown. It’s the
chicken-and-egg conundrum. Either way
Barrett and Start2Finish are far ahead
of the pack, and he sees the upsurge
and amenities such as the Shelby Farms
Greenline and citywide bike lanes, as well
as a collective consciousness in the city
regarding runners and other pedestrians,
as a plus.
“It’s great,” he said. “The direction we need our populace to go in is
more healthy than where we’ve been,
obviously.”
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Foreclosure Notices
Madison County
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
WHEREAS, default has occurred
in the performance of the covenants,
terms, and conditions of a Deed of Trust
Note dated January 16, 2009, and the
Deed of Trust of even date securing the
same, recorded January 20, 2009, at
Book T1849, Page 622 in Office of the
Register of Deeds for Madison County,
Tennessee, executed by Marcus Lyles
and Twanna Lyles, conveying certain
property therein described to Sheila
B. Stevenson as Trustee for Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,
as nominee for American Financial
Resources, Inc., its successors and
assigns; and the undersigned, Wilson
& Associates, P.L.L.C., having been
appointed Successor Trustee.
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby
given that the entire indebtedness has
been declared due and payable; and
that an agent of Wilson & Associates,
P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by
virtue of the power, duty, and authority vested in and imposed upon said
Successor Trustee will, on January 9,
2014 on or about 11:00 A.M., at the
Madison County Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee, offer for sale certain
property hereinafter described to the
highest bidder FOR certified funds paid
at the conclusion of the sale, or credit
bid from a bank or other lending entity
pre-approved by the successor trustee.
The sale is free from all exemptions,
which are expressly waived in the Deed
of Trust, said property being real estate
situated in Madison County, Tennessee,
and being more particularly described
as follows:
Beginning at an iron pin on the North
margin of Fairmont Street (30 feet
from centerline at right angles) located South 88 degrees 00 minutes
00 seconds East a distance of 84.60
feet from the East margin of Briggs
Street; thence North 01 degree 44
minutes 40 seconds East a distance
of 105.48 feet to an iron pin; thence
North 89 degrees 12 minutes 33
seconds West a distance of 15.39
feet to an iron pin; thence North 01
degree 44 minutes 40 seconds East
a distance of 35.00 feet to an iron
pin at the Southwest corner of a lot
owned by Nora Stewart (Deed Book
581, Page 419); thence with the
South line of the Stewart lot, South 89
degrees 12 minutes 23 seconds East
a distance of 65.39 feet to an iron pin
in the West margin of a 15 feet alley;
thence with the West margin of said
alley South 01 degree 44 minutes 30
seconds West a distance of 141.53
feet to an iron pin on the North margin
of Fairmont Street; thence with the
North margin of Fairmont Street North
83 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds
West a distance of 50.00 feet to the
point of beginning.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 311 Fairmont
Avenue, Jackson, Tennessee 383014119
This sale is subject to all matters
shown on any applicable recorded plat;
any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines
that may be applicable; any statutory
rights of redemption of any governmental
agency, state or federal; any prior liens
or encumbrances as well as any priority
created by a fixture filing; and to any
matter that an accurate survey of the
premises might disclose. In addition, the
following parties may claim an interest in
the above-referenced property: Marcus
Lyles; Twanna Lyles
The sale held pursuant to this Notice
may be rescinded at the Successor
Trustee’s option at any time. The right
is reserved to adjourn the day of the
sale to another day, time, and place
certain without further publication, upon
announcement at the time and place
for the sale set forth above. W&A No.
1286-237057
DATED November 8, 2013
WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C.,
Successor Trustee
FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.
MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC.
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Nov. 15, 22, 29, 2013
Fin11657
WHEREAS, default has occurred in the
performance of the covenants, terms,
and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note
dated July 12, 2002, and the Deed of
Trust of even date securing the same,
recorded July 16, 2002, at Book T1392,
Page 569 in Office of the Register of
Deeds for Madison County, Tennessee,
executed by Christy Kirk and Randy C.
Kirk, conveying certain property therein
described to Arnold M. Weiss, Esq. as
Trustee for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage,
Inc.; and the undersigned, Wilson &
Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee.
P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue
of the power, duty, and authority vested
in and imposed upon said Successor
Trustee will, on January 23, 2014 on
or about 10:00 A.M., at the Madison
County Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property
hereinafter described to the highest
bidder FOR certified funds paid at the
conclusion of the sale, or credit bid
from a bank or other lending entity preapproved by the successor trustee. The
sale is free from all exemptions, which
are expressly waived in the Deed of
Trust, said property being real estate
as follows:
Beginning on a stake in the East
margin of Southside Drive and in
the North line of JC Stanfill and runs
thence in a Northerly direction with
the East margin of Southside Drive
70 feet to a stake in the Southwest
corner ofalot conveyed to Bobby G.
Scoggins and wife by deed of record
in Deed Book 190, Page 303; thence
South 79 degrees East with Scoggins
South line 140 feet to a stake; thence
in a Southerly direction and parallel
with the East margin of Southside
Drive 70 feet to the North line of JC
Stanfill thence North 79 degrees west
JC Stanfills North line 140 feet to the
East margin of Southside Drive, the
point of beginning.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 56 Southside Drive,
Jackson, Tennessee 38301-7631
the above-referenced property: Christy
Kirk; Randy C. Kirk; First Tennessee
Bank National Association
1286-173797
Successor Trustee
AUCTION.COM
Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 6, 2013 Fin11660
dated February 14, 2006, and the Deed
of Trust of even date securing the same,
recorded February 16, 2006, at Book
T1738, Page 164 in Office of the Register
of Deeds for Madison County, Tennessee, executed by Phillip H. Wilken, Jr.
and Connie F. Wilken, conveying certain
property therein described to Arnold M.
Weiss, Esq. as Trustee for Wells Fargo
Bank, N.A.; and the undersigned, Wilson
& Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee.
as follows:
Being Lot 724 in Section VII of Seven
Oaks Subdivision, a revised plat of
which appears of record in Plat Book
10, Page 2, in the Register’s Office
of Madison County, Tennessee, reference to which plat is hereby made
for a more particular description of
said Lot showing its location and the
length and direction of its boundary
lines.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 178 Cambridge
Drive, Jackson, Tennessee 383057128
following parties may claim an interest
in the above-referenced property: Phillip
H. Wilken, Jr.; Connie F. Wilken
1286-238975
Successor Trustee
AUCTION.COM
Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 6, 2013 Fin11661
dated September 18, 2007, and the
same, recorded September 21, 2007, at
Tennessee, executed by Julia Wilson and
Tim Wilson, conveying certain property
therein described to Kathy Winstead as
Trustee for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.;
and the undersigned, Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed
Successor Trustee.
virtue of the power, duty, and authority
vested in and imposed upon said Successor Trustee will, on December 19,
as follows:
The following described lot or parcel
of real estate located, lying and being
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in the Sixth Civil District of Madison
County, Tennessee, and more particularly bounded and described as
follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a point in the West rightof-way of Lakeshore Drive, said point
is the Southeast corner of Lot Number
Seventeen (17) of Section I of Lake
Deforest Estates as recorded in Plat
Book 2, Page 217, in the Register’s
Office of Madison County, Tennessee;
thence South 09 degrees 51 minutes
East with the West right-of-way of
Lakeshore Drive a distance of 111.43
feet to a point; thence Southwesterly
around a curve that has a radius of
15 feet a distance of 26.36 feet to a
point in the North right-of-way of an
unopened street; thence North 89
degrees 09 minutes West with the
North right-of-way of said unopened
street a distance of 183.04 feet to
point; thence North 11 degrees 16
minutes West a distance of 94.68
feet to the Southwest corner of Lot
Number Seventeen (17); thence North
81 degrees 36 minutes East with the
South line of Lot Number Seventeen
(17) a distance of 197 feet to the
point of beginning and containing
0.49 acres, more or less.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 15 Shorepoint
Road, Oakfield, Tennessee 38362
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in the above-referenced property: Julia
Wilson; Tim Wilson
700-240973
Successor Trustee
AUCTION.COM
Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 6, 2013 Fin11662
recorded July 26, 2012, at Book T1931,
executed by Betty Ann Livingston, conveying certain property therein described
to Holmes, Rich & Sigler as Trustee for
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Generation
Mortgage Company, its successors and
assigns; and the undersigned, Wilson
& Associates, P.L.L.C., having been
appointed Successor Trustee.
as follows:
Being Lot Number Two Hundred
Ninety-eight (298), Section XV, Northmeade Woods Subdivision, a plat of
which appears of record in Plat Book
6 at Page 65 in the Register’s Office
of Madison County, Tennessee.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 35 Dawson Cove,
Jackson, Tennessee 38305
in the above-referenced property: Betty
Ann Livingston; Estate of Betty Ann
Livingston; Unknown Heirs of Betty
Ann Livingston; Secretary of Housing
& Urban Development; Dell Livingston,
as Executor of the Estate of Betty Ann
Livingston
1513-239474
Successor Trustee
COM
Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 6, 2013 Fin11664
WHEREAS, default has occurred
in the performance of the covenants,
terms, and conditions of a Deed of Trust
Note dated October 24, 2006, and the
same, recorded November 1, 2006, at
Tennessee, executed by Tony L. Jackson, conveying certain property therein
described to Arnold M. Weiss, Esq. as
Trustee for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; and
the undersigned, Wilson & Associates,
P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee.
virtue of the power, duty, and authority vested in and imposed upon said
Successor Trustee will, on January 2,
as follows:
Being Lot 312, Section XXI, Northfield
Estates Subdivision, a plat of which
appears of record in Plat Book 4, Page
252, in the Register’s Office of Madison County, Tennessee, reference to
which plat is hereby made for a more
particular description of said lot.
Legal description revised by Scrivener’s Affidavit recorded September
23, 2013 Book T1963, Page 1427.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 56 Brianfield Drive,
Jackson, Tennessee 38305
in the above-referenced property: Tony
L. Jackson; Jerilyn D. Jackson; Bruce
Haltom; Bruce Haltom; Bancorpsouth
Bank
1286-216479
Successor Trustee
COM
Nov. 29, Dec. 6, 13, 2013 Fin11666
dated April 30, 2004, and the Deed of
recorded May 5, 2004, at Book T1579,
executed by Franklin L. Compton and
Annie S. Compton, conveying certain
property therein described to Arnold M.
Weiss, Esq. as Trustee for Wells Fargo
Home Mortgage, Inc.
; and the undersigned, Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed
Successor Trustee.
Trustee will, on February 13, 2014 on
as follows:
Being Lot Number One Hundred Six
(106), Phase 2, Section 1, Station
Oaks, a Plat of which appears of
record in Plat Book 9 at Page 302
in the Register’s Office of Madison
County, Tennessee.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 42 Union Fort Drive,
Jackson, Tennessee 38305-6484
the above-referenced property: Franklin
L. Compton; Annie S. Compton; Capital
One Bank USA N.A.
1286-237656
Successor Trustee
AUCTION.COM
Nov. 29, Dec. 6, 13, 2013 Fid11670
Foreclosure Notices
Tipton County
recorded August 4, 2006, at Book 1291,
Deeds for Tipton County, Tennessee,
executed by Carol Smith Michael K.
Smith Carol Smith Michael K. Smith
and Michael K. Smith, conveying certain
property therein described to Griffin,
Clift & Everton as Trustee for Mortgage
as nominee for Fremont Investment &
Loan, its successors and assigns.; and
Trustee will, on December 11, 2013
on or about 10:00 A.M., at the Tipton
County Courthouse, Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property
situated in Tipton County, Tennessee,
as follows:
Lot 26, Section C, Faulkner Heights
Subdivision, as shown on plat of
record in Cabinet B, Slides 166 and
167A, in the Register’s Office of
Tipton County, Tennessee, to which
plat reference is hereby made for a
more particular description of said
property.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 253 Faulkner
Heights Drive, Atoka, Tennessee
38004-6857
in the above-referenced property: Carol
Smith; Michael K. Smith; Carol Smith;
Michael K. Smith; Michael K. Smith
1286-222366
Successor Trustee
COM
Nov. 15, 22, 29, 2013
Fin11656
recorded May 2, 2013, at Book 1588,
executed by Racheal Belcher, conveying
certain property therein described to
Charles M. Ennis as Trustee for Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as
nominee for Patriot Bank, its successors and assigns; and the undersigned,
Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having
been appointed Successor Trustee.
as follows:
Described property in Tipton County,
Tennessee being Lot 46 of Rolling
Oaks Subdivision, Section B, Plat
Cabinet B, Slide 87, in the Tipton
County Register’s Office. Said Lot
being located on the West side of
Rolling Oaks Drive and situated in
the 6th Civil District of Tipton County,
Tennessee.
Beginning at a found iron post in the
West right of way line of Rolling Oaks
Drive (60 foot right of way) being the
North corner of Lot 46 and the Southeast corner of Lot 45 of Rolling Oaks
Subdivision, Section B, Plat Cabinet
B, Slide 87; thence Southwestwardly
along the West right of way line of
Rolling Oaks Drive and the East line of
Lot 46, South 13 degrees 41 minutes
57 seconds West, a distance called
150.00 feet, but measured 150.15
feet to a found iron post In the West
right of way line of Rolling Oaks Drive
being the Southeast corner of Lot 46
and the Northeast corner of Lot 47;
thence Northwestwardly along the
South line of Lot of 46 and the North
line of Lot 47, North 76 degrees 16
minutes 25 seconds West, passing
through a found iron post on line at
254.47 feet, but in all a distance
called and measured 293.61 feet to
a point in the center of Cane Creek
and being the Southwest corner of
Lot 46 and the Northwest corner
of Lot 47; thence Northwestwardly
along the centerline of Cane Creek
and the West line of Lot 46, North
20 degrees 29 minutes 57 seconds
West a distance called and measured
102.67 feet to an angle point in said
Creek; thence continuing along the
centerline of said Creek and the West
line of Lot 46, North 17 degrees 21
minutes 16 seconds West, a distance
a point in the center of Cane Creek
being the Northwest corner of Lot 46
and the Southwest corner of Lot 45;
thence Southeastwardly along the
North line of Lot 46 and the South
line of Lot 45, South 76 degrees 15
minutes 43 seconds East, passing
through a found iron post on line
at 38.04 feet, but in all a distance
the point of beginning.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 117 Rolling Oaks
Drive, Munford, Tennessee 380584431
the above-referenced property: Racheal
Belcher
1286-240407
Successor Trustee
COM
Nov. 15, 22, 29, 2013
Fin11659
dated September 21, 2005, and the
same, recorded September 28, 2005, at
Book 1233, Page 640 and re-recorded
on October 12, 2005, at Book 1236,
executed by Andrew W. Hefner and Lena
S. Hefner, conveying certain property
therein described to Monte S. Connell
as Trustee for American Mortgage
Services, Inc.; and the undersigned,
as follows:
Beginning at the Southwest corner
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public notices
of the residue of David Bradshaw’s
property recorded in Deed Book 695,
Page 590, of which this partition is a
part, said point being in the centerline
of Kellys Chapel Road (50 foot right
of way); then North 03 degrees 20
minutes 22 seconds East, 458.26
feet along the said centerline to a
point; then South 86 degrees 00
minutes 00 seconds East passing an
iron pipe found on the East right of
way line at 25.00 feet, but continuing
along the South line of Gina Morris
(Deed Book 874, Page 360) to an iron
pipe found; then North 04 degrees 00
minutes 00 seconds East, 165.00
feet along Morris’ East line to an iron
pipe found; then North 86 degrees 00
minutes 00 seconds West along Morris’ North line, passing an iron pipe
found at 264.00 feet, but continuing
for a total distance of 289.00 feet to
the centerline of Kellys Chapel Road;
then North 04 degrees 58 minutes
29 seconds East, 183.06 feet along
the said centerline to a PK nail set;
then South 85 degrees 01 minutes
31 seconds East along the North line
of this partition, passing an iron pin
at 25.00 feet, but continuing for a
total distance of 603.10 feet to an
iron pin set in the West line of Theta
Rone (Deed Book 897, Page 721);
then South 03 degrees 03 minutes
38 seconds West, 776.51 feet along
Rone’s West line to an iron pin found
at the Northeast corner of Jimmy
Gurley’s tract (Deed Book 878, Page
372); then North 87 degrees 49 minutes 45 seconds West along Gurley’s
North line, passing an iron pin found
at 588.87 feet, but continuing for a
total distance of 613.89 feet to the
point of beginning.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 2028 Kelleys
Chapel Road, Burlison, Tennessee
38015-6452
the above-referenced property: Andrew
W. Hefner; Lena S. Hefner
848-238944
DATED October 30, 2013
Successor Trustee
COM
Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 6, 2013 Fin11663
dated May 24, 2006, and the Deed of
recorded May 26, 2006, at Book 1277,
Deeds for Tipton County, Tennessee, executed by Douglas Wescott and Melissa
L. Wescott, conveying certain property
therein described to Danny Goulder as
Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First
Franklin a division of Nat. City Bank of
IN, its successors and assigns; and
Trustee will, on January 8, 2014 on or
about 10:00 A.M., at the Tipton County
Courthouse, Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property hereinafter
described to the highest bidder FOR
certified funds paid at the conclusion
of the sale, or credit bid from a bank
or other lending entity pre-approved by
the successor trustee. The sale is free
from all exemptions, which are expressly
waived in the Deed of Trust, said property being real estate situated in Tipton
County, Tennessee, and being more
particularly described as follows:
Lot 26, Cherokee Hills, Section D
as recorded in Plat Cabinet E, Slide
184 In the Tipton County Register’s
Office to which plat reference is
hereby made for a more particular
description of said lot.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 134 Cherokee Hills
Lane, Munford, Tennessee 38058
the above-referenced property: Douglas
Wescott; Melissa L. Wescott; Internal
Revenue Service; Capital One Bank
(USA), N.A.
1286-216843
Successor Trustee
COM
Nov. 29, Dec. 6, 13, 2013 Fin11665
recorded July 27, 2007, at Book 1354,
executed by Stephen Lynn VanDouser
June R. Hurt Vandouser and June R.
Hurt Vandouser, conveying certain
property therein described to First Title
Corporation as Trustee for Mortgage
as nominee for BNC Mortgage, Inc., a
Delaware Corporation, its successors
and assigns; and the undersigned,
All that certain property situated in
City of Munford in the County of Tipton, and State of Tennessee and being
described in a deed dated January
25, 1996 and recorded February 22,
1996 in Book 764 Page 1025 among
the land records of the County and
state set forth above and referenced
as follows:
Beginning at a point in the Southwest
line of Charles Place, said point being
a common corner of Lots 6 and 5;
thence Northwestwardly along said
Southwest line a distance of 206.4
feet to a point in the North boundary line of the subdivision; thence
Westwardly along said North line a
distance of 396.5 feet to a point in
the West boundary line of the subdivision; thence Southwardly along said
West line a distance of 330.4 feet to
a corner of Lot 5; thence Northeastwardly along the line dividing Lots 5
and 6 a distance of 485.0 feet to a
point of beginning.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 179 Charles Place,
Munford, Tennessee 38058
premises might disclose. In addition,
the following parties may claim an interest in the above-referenced property:
Stephen Lynn VanDouser; June R. Hurt
Vandouser; June R. Hurt Vandouser
1455-131158
Successor Trustee
COM
Nov. 29, Dec. 6, 13, 2013 Fin11667
dated June 13, 2009, and the Deed of
recorded July 30, 2009, at Book 1446,
executed by Ronald W. Hamby and
Traci Hamby, conveying certain property
therein described to Joseph B. Pitt, Jr.
as Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for
Republic State Mortgage Co., its successors and assigns; and the undersigned,
All that parcel of land in Tipton County, State of Tennessee, as more fully
described in Deed Book 1221, Page
804, ID# 127N-B-34.00, being known
and designated as Lot 34, Section D,
Tipton Crossing Subdivision, filed in
Plat Cabinet H, Slide 99.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 57 Melissa Avenue,
Atoka, Tennessee 38004
the above-referenced property: Ronald
W. Hamby; Traci Hamby
817-222371
Successor Trustee
COM
Nov. 29, Dec. 6, 13, 2013 Fin11668
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S
SALE
Default having been made in the terms
and conditions of payments, pursuant
to a certain Deed of Trust executed by
Oakley Armstrong Jr., Jeanne Armstrong
Hess, Joanzell Lomas, Hilda D. Parker to
Kenneth C. Berko, Trustee, dated the 4th
day of August, 1999 and being of record
in Book 875, Page 310, Register’s Office
for Tipton County, Tennessee, referred
to herein as the deed of trust, said
deed of trust, which conveyed certain
real property, appurtenances, estate,
title and interest therein in trust to
secure the default by the lawful owner
thereof, Household Financial Center,
Inc. Appointment of Substitute Trustee
having been duly executed by the holder
of the note and beneficiary of said Deed
of Trust, and appointing William Timothy
Hill as Substitute Trustee.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, William Timothy
Hill, Trustee, pursuant to the said Deed
of Trust, having been requested by the
owner and holder of said indebtedness
so to do, by virtue of the authority and
power vested in me by said deed of trust
and appointing of Substitute Trustee will
on the 20th day of December, 2013, at
12:00 noon., on the front door of the
Tipton County Courthouse, Covington,
Tennessee, sell at public outcry to the
highest bidder for cash (or credit upon
the indebtedness secured, if the holder
is the successful purchaser) the following described property located in Tipton
County, Tennessee, to wit:
Description of a 30.61 acre tract of the
Oakley Armstrong property as recorded
in Will Book “F”, Page 192 said property
located on the south side of Davidson
Road and situate in the 6th Civil District of Tipton County, Tennessee, as
described in record Books 628, Page
080, Book 628, Page 083, Book 628,
Page 500 and Book 628, Page 503, as
recorded in Deed Book 286, Page 382,
in the Register office of Tipton County,
Tennessee.
There is further excepted out of the above
the following: Beginning at a point in the
centerline of Davidson Road (gravel) being the Northwest corner of the Oakley
Armstrong property as recorded in Will
Book “F”, Page 192 and the Northeast
corner of the Terrance Armstrong property as recorded in Deed Book 615,
Page 432, containing 10.20 acres,
more or less. Tax Id#06-113-028.05;
ID06-113-028.12; ID#06-113-028.13
and ID#06-113-028.14
Being the same property conveyed to
Oakley Armstrong, Jr., Jeanne Armstrong
Hess, Joanzell
Lomax, and Hilda D. Parker, by Deeds
of record Books 628, Page 080, Book
628, Page 083, Book
628, Page 500 and Book 628, Page
503 in Book 129, Page 198, and also
Will Book F, Page 192, Register’s Office
of Tipton County, Tennessee.
Property known as: 569 Davidson Rd,
Atoka, TN.
Other interested parties: Raymond Parker; Parker Living Trust; Chevelle Hess
and Household Financial Center, Inc.
If there is any discrepancy with the
street address, the legal description
will control
At the time of this publication, the §
35‐5‐117 notice of the right to foreclose
was timely forwarded. The sale of the
property described in said Deed of Trust
shall be subject to any and all instrument
of record, prior liens, encumbrances,
deeds of trust, easements, restrictions,
building lines, unpaid taxes, assessments, penalties and interest, if any. All
right and equity of redemption, homestead, dower and all other exceptions are
expressly waived in said Deed of Trust,
and the title is believed to be good, but
the Substitute Trustee will convey and
sell only as Substitute Trustee. The right
is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale
to another day or time certain without
further publication, upon announcement
at the time for the above.
William Timothy Hill, Substitute
Trustee
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opinion
Time to Give Thanks
For Each Other
T
he first Thanksgiving
wasn’t called Thanksgiving and it was probably
in October, according
to “Mayflower,” Nathanial Philbrick’s
recent chronicle of the founding of the
first English colony in America.
There were probably more Native
Americans than Pilgrims at what was a
modest meal to mark the harvest. Also
aboard the Mayflower and in Plymouth
were others fleeing religious persecution but who were not Pilgrims.
We bring this up not to make your
Thanksgiving more complicated, but to
not that our interpretation of Thanksgiving at times says more about our
desire for simpler times than it does
about the complex times that brought
a permanent European settlement to
these shores.
Those on board the Mayflower did
not land where they were supposed to
land. The way up the Hudson River was
too dangerous.
Lacking accurate maps after
months at sea, they went into an area
that had recently been ravaged by disease and which was politically unstable
with the Native American nations shifting in allegiance and power. And the
European presence was not new. Native
American leaders had seen it before.
And they had seen it fail in the starkest
definition of failure.
So after a bit less than a year, the
community marked the harvest probably with little thought of posterity.
There was much more of the story to
come. There would be more hard times,
alliances would shift, wars would be
fought, peace would be made and tensions would keep company with hopes.
Soon enough, when their immediacy passed and still other events
rendered them into history, they would
become chapters in books.
And families would mark the milestones they still mark today, remembering departed loved ones, thinking of
those far away, welcoming new arrivals
and additions.
Perhaps that is why we continue to
return to Thanksgiving and adapt that
specific story of 17th century America
to our experience.
We make the harvest meal a feast
at a long table in a well lit, heated
and spacious cabin with all involved
wearing their best clothes. It would be
another decade before Massachusetts
Bay Colony governor John Winthrop,
aboard the Arabella, would write: “For
we must consider that we shall be as a
city upon a hill. The eyes of all people
are upon us.”
We don’t know all of the traditions
or alliances or tensions. The context we
identify with is life at its most basic –
families.
In this world, there are few guarantees as enduring as our commitment
to each other and with each other. The
future will change us and our specific
plans even as it is informed by what
we have done in the past. It will take
us to places we never imagined as
well as places we have imagined all
too well. What remains and endures is
far more substantial than what is on a
map or the wish list of an orderly life –
each other.
Renewal of Life
MEMPHASIS
dan conaway
LOOK FOR THE WONDER. REPEAT.
I wrote about this last year. This
year, just last week, it happened again.
Right outside my window is a ginkgo
tree, and another on the other side of
the house. Every fall they engage in an
ancient mating dance, a spectacular
competition for attention. So exhausting is the effort, it doesn’t last long. So
intense is the result, it’s explosive. And
then it’s gone, leaving only a memory.
One morning they’re both green, a
bit less green by afternoon. Overnight,
they turn. The next morning, they shed
light, a brilliant yellow so bright it shines
through window shades and burns off
gloom, a yellow that turns every other
yellow green.
And the next day, it seems, it’s all
gone. Their leaves fall as one, leaving
the host naked and alone, covering
the patio and everything on it with
their loss.
“Watch your step out there,” Nora
said, “the dogs just left a message in the
ginkgo leaves and I got it.”
So it goes. One day, it’s all beautiful. The next day, it all turns to crap. Or
maybe that’s not the message at all.
My family has been visited by death,
near death and deadly threat, by deceit
and heartbreak, by cancer in varying
form, by Alzheimer’s and plain old dementia, by diabetes, alcoholism, kidney
disease and kidney stones, emphysema, bankruptcy, divorce, blown dreams
Entrepreneurs Not Always
Leaders, And Vice Versa
Seventy percent of startup businesses fail
within the first 10 years, according to a
2013 study conducted by Bradley University and the University of Tennessee. It’s
a devastating reality given that the lion’s
share of those are small businesses, from
which more than half of domestic sales are
generated.
More often than not, the reason for the failure is a lack of solid management abilities.
Ironically, the very qualities that inspire
most entrepreneurs to take a risk and start
a new business can work against them
when it comes to actually leading that business day to day.
There are inherent differences between entrepreneurs and leaders. An entrepreneur
is a visionary and innovator who may tire
when it comes to execution. Entrepreneurs
tend to favor the newest strategy versus a
tried-and-true strategy, which makes them
more comfortable with risk. While they
don’t enjoy executing day-to-day tasks,
they may struggle in effectively delegating
those responsibilities to others.
A leader’s natural strengths lie in consistently executing company strategy. They
appreciate both the need to hire a seasoned management team and the benefits
of empowering them to make decisions
autonomously. Often, however, leaders
lack the entrepreneurial trait – the ability
to inspire a workforce toward a greater vision – and they may struggle to maintain a
culture of innovation.
For a startup business to find success, it
takes either a strong, balanced partnership between an entrepreneur and a leader
or the rare, uniquely skilled entrepreneurial
leader – somewhat of a unicorn. These
and blue toe, broken bones and torn
muscles, curved spines and crooked
deals, stupid mistakes and senseless
loss, rejection and reflux, gum disease,
blood disease and general disease.
And I’m due for a check-up.
But we’ve also been visited by each
other, by shared experience and gained
appreciation, by children and grandchildren, by a lot of friends and a lot
of delightful silliness, by unforgettable
moments and uncontrolled laughter,
by faith and hope, and love. And by
waking up today.
We’ve been visited by the privilege
of life, the gift of perception, and the opportunity of choice.
Last Thanksgiving, the 1-year-old
was bleeding on several adults and
three dogs, on everything and everybody, as she screamed her way around
the big room. The tip of her finger had
been nipped by errant fingernail clippers and she was a fountain of misery. A
bit later, she was wearing her very first
Band-Aid and a very big smile as she
are the people that
inspire us with both
their vision and ability to see it through
– people such as
Steve Jobs, Sam
Walton, Henry
Ford and Bill
Lori turnerGates.
wilson
Too many
guerrilla sales
businesses fail
and marketing
simply due to a
lack of balance between entrepreneurial
innovation and leadership. To ensure your
business thrives, recognize your natural
strengths and truly empower trusted business partners to balance out your management team.
When a management imbalance occurs, a
sales and marketing strategy is not likely
to produce a strong return on investment.
If an entrepreneur is solely at the helm,
seemingly continuous changes in sales
and marketing direction can result in team
confusion and the spinning of wheels
with little result. With a leader alone in the
driver’s seat, the business may become
stagnant, focused too much on strategies of the past without an eye to future
innovation. Neither environment is suitable
for sustainable growth. A combination of
entrepreneurial leadership is the key to
long-term success.
Lori Turner-Wilson is an awardwinning columnist and CEO/founder of
RedRover Sales & Marketing, www.redrovercompany.com. You can follow RedRover
on Twitter (@redrovercompany and @
loriturner) and Facebook (facebook.com/
redrovercompany).
held it up high and waddled across the
same room to proudly show it to her
grandfather.
All better now.
The ginkgo trees are regarded as living fossils, literally writing their history
in stone dating back almost 300 million
years. And they’ve done that dance every one of those years a few billion times
around the world, and right outside my
window. To see the wonder of it, I only
need to look.
The ginkgo trees don’t leave you
with a memory, they leave you with the
promise of their return.
This year, that 1-year-old is 2, and
she’s just been joined by a brand-new
baby brother.
I’m a Memphian, and, this week, I’m
especially thankful.
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, longtime adman and aspiring
local character in a city known for them.
Reach him at dan@wakesomebodyup.
com.
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