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COLLIERVILLE WEEKLY I THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 MG HH Collierville Weekly VALENTINE PHOTOS Send a photo of you and your spouse to kumpe@ commercialappeal.com by Friday for publication in next week’s Weekly. Include your names, how long you’ve been married and where you live. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of U.S. women, claiming more lives than all forms of cancer combined. Celebrate National Wear Red Day on Friday to support the fight against heart disease in women. Free — Every Thursday POPLAR PIKE WINE & LIQUOR “The Friendliest Store in Town” EASIEST IN & OUT!!! 9330 Poplar Pike 901-309-0202 Behind Walgreens - Next to Fresh Market $ 9 99 1.5L Price Good Through 2/11/14 Barefoot All Varieties Check Out Specials At poplarpikewines.com $6 OFF Chateau St. Michelle Chardonnay $ 8 99 750ML $8 OFF Decoy All Red Varietals $ 21 99 750ML By Jennifer Pignolet [email protected] 901-529-2372 More than 1,600 people joined a Facebook group to plead for a Whole Foods Mar- ket in Germantown, but not everyone in the city is happy about the incoming business. With its final zoning war- rants approved last Monday, Whole Foods Corp. is moving forward with Germantown- based developer Cypress Realty Holding Co. to de- molish a few empty homes, clear forest and construct a 41,050-square-foot store at the corner of Poplar Avenue and Pete Mitchell Road, just east of Germantown Road. The store will be 5.5 miles from the Memphis area’s only open Whole Foods store on Poplar in East Memphis. Construction is slated to start in September. But Dogwood Road resi- dent Joan Terry told the Board of Mayor and Aldermen last Monday night: “We have been extremely distressed by this.” She said she had hoped for more accommodations and better communication be- tween the developer and the neighborhood association. The association’s presi- dent, Richard Glassman, said he has yet to hear from the developers directly, although public meetings were held. “We know this is good for Germantown,” Glassman said. “No question about it. But why won’t this develop- er and his representatives sit down and talk with us?” Ralph Berry, a German- town resident and executive vice president of public rela- tions firm Sullivan Branding, GERMANTOWN Whole Foods causing ‘distress’ Neighbors want input on project See GROCER, 2 By Christina M. Wright [email protected] 901-529-2510 Dwight Moore Jr., a tall 13-year-old with braces, started the school year with a goal to compete in the Scripps National Spell- ing Bee. After six hours of or- thography at the Mem- phis-Shelby County Spelling Bee on Saturday, it came down to the word, “ketone.” Dwight asked for the definition. He asked it to be used in a sentence. He was thinking, c-i-t-o-n-e. When the pronouncer said the word was of Ger- man origin, it gave Dwight a hint that maybe the word started with a “k.” “I thought, ‘If you don’t know it, spell it how it sounds.’ That’s what some- one told me,” Moore said. That someone was his mother, Geneva Moore, who sat in the front row looking anywhere but at her son. As moms tend to be, she was right. And with that golden rule tucked in his noggin, Dwight will represent the city and county in the national bee at the end of May af- ter correctly spelling his last word of the day at Al Chymia Shrine Center. The bee is sponsored by The Commercial Appeal. Dwight, an eighth-grad- er at Central Day School in Collierville, beat out 127 spellers in 23 rounds to win the big trophy. He also won a Merriam-Webster dictionary, an iPad, $100 of gift cards for the Apple Store and a digital camera to record his trip to Wash- ington. “I just thought I got the dictionary,” Dwight said. Dwight’s parents said he diligently studied for the spelling bee. His mom said her son is an avid reader SPELLING BEE Eighth-grader wins by sounding it out MARK WEBER/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL “We knew he was prepared,” Geneva Moore said of her son Dwight Moore, 13, who won the Memphis-Shelby County Spelling Bee Saturday. Dwight is an eighth-grader at Central Day School in Collierville. See BEE, 2 The Commercial Appeal © Copyright 2014 Inside the Edition CURTAIN RISES Briarcrest prepares for the first production in its new theater. NEWS, 2 DRINK UP YOUR MILK Experts recommend keeping milk in your diet, even if you prefer popular alternatives. GOOD HEALTH, 7 ALL BY MY‘SELFIE’ Child development experts worry so much focus on self will have drawbacks for first truly “smartphone generation.” FAMILY, 5 PHOTOS BY KYLE KURLICK/SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL One of the popular classes at the Germantown Athletic Club is the Zumba dance class, which takes up nearly two-thirds of the gym. Noise issues can arise between group fitness classes and basketball players also in the gym and joggers on the second-floor track. By Jennifer Pignolet [email protected] 901-529-2372 The risks of going to the gym right around 5 p.m. on a weekday are in- herent: No open machines, bump- ing elbows in the pool, and packed group-fitness classes. The Germantown Athletic Club is hoping to minimize those annoy- ances with a multiyear, multimillion- dollar renovation project. The Board of Mayor and Alder- men last week approved spending $256,500 to hire two architectural design firms to develop plans to reno- vate the athletic club. City Administrator Patrick Lawton said the renovations could total up to $3.5 million. The club’s nearly 12,000 mem- bers have helped Germantown build enough savings to pay for the renova- tions over the next several years. But with that increase in membership comes an increase in needs. “As it grows, we’re going to con- tinue to grow with it and we need to make the facilities improvements GERMANTOWN ATHLETIC CLUB Back into SHAPE Multimillion-dollar renovation project kicks into motion; public input sought See CLUB, 2 Jafar Mirza attends a yoga class at the Germantown Athletic Club. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen last week approved an expenditure for an engineering firm to start design on a major renovation for the club.
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COLLIERVILLE WEEKLY I THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 MG HH
Collierville Weekly
VALENTINE PHOTOS Send a photo of you and your spouse to [email protected] by Friday for publication in next week’s Weekly. Include your names, how long you’ve been married and where you live.
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of U.S. women, claiming more lives than all forms of cancer combined. Celebrate National Wear Red Day on Friday to support the fight against heart disease in women.
Free — Every Thursday
POPLARPIKE
WINE & LIQUOR“The Friendliest Store in Town”
EASIEST IN & OUT!!!9330 Poplar Pike
901-309-0202Behind Walgreens - Next to Fresh Market
$9991.5L
Price Good Through 2/11/14
BarefootAll VarietiesCheck
OutSpecials
Atpoplarpikewines.com $6 OFF
ChateauSt. Michelle
Chardonnay
$899750ML
$8 OFF
DecoyAll Red Varietals
$2199750ML
By Jennifer [email protected] 901-529-2372
More than 1,600 people joined a Facebook group to plead for a Whole Foods Mar-ket in Germantown, but not everyone in the city is happy about the incoming business.
With its final zoning war-rants approved last Monday, Whole Foods Corp. is moving forward with Germantown-based developer Cypress Realty Holding Co. to de-molish a few empty homes, clear forest and construct a 41,050-square-foot store at the corner of Poplar Avenue and Pete Mitchell Road, just east of Germantown Road. The store will be 5.5 miles from the Memphis area’s only open Whole Foods store on Poplar in East Memphis.
Construction is slated to start in September.
But Dogwood Road resi-dent Joan Terry told the Board of Mayor and Aldermen last Monday night: “We have been extremely distressed by this.”
She said she had hoped for more accommodations and better communication be-tween the developer and the neighborhood association.
The association’s presi-dent, Richard Glassman, said he has yet to hear from the developers directly, although public meetings were held.
“We know this is good for Germantown,” Glassman said. “No question about it. But why won’t this develop-er and his representatives sit down and talk with us?”
Ralph Berry, a German-town resident and executive vice president of public rela-tions firm Sullivan Branding,
GERMANTOWN
Whole Foods causing ‘distress’Neighbors want input on project
See GROCER, 2
By Christina M. [email protected] 901-529-2510
Dwight Moore Jr., a tall 13-year-old with braces, started the school year with a goal to compete in the Scripps National Spell-ing Bee.
After six hours of or-thography at the Mem-phis-Shelby County Spelling Bee on Saturday, it came down to the word, “ketone.”
Dwight asked for the definition. He asked it to be used in a sentence. He was thinking, c-i-t-o-n-e.
When the pronouncer said the word was of Ger-man origin, it gave Dwight a hint that maybe the word
started with a “k.” “I thought, ‘If you don’t
know it, spell it how it sounds.’ That’s what some-one told me,” Moore said.
That someone was his mother, Geneva Moore, who sat in the front row looking anywhere but at her son. As moms tend to be, she was right. And with that golden rule tucked in his noggin, Dwight will represent the city and county in the national bee at the end of May af-ter correctly spelling his last word of the day at Al Chymia Shrine Center. The bee is sponsored by The Commercial Appeal.
Dwight, an eighth-grad-er at Central Day School in Collierville, beat out 127
spellers in 23 rounds to win the big trophy. He also won a Merriam-Webster dictionary, an iPad, $100 of gift cards for the Apple Store and a digital camera to record his trip to Wash-ington.
“I just thought I got the dictionary,” Dwight said.
Dwight’s parents said he diligently studied for the spelling bee. His mom said her son is an avid reader
SPELLING BEE
Eighth-grader wins by sounding it out
MARK WEBER/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
“We knew he was prepared,” Geneva Moore said of her son Dwight Moore, 13, who won the Memphis-Shelby County Spelling Bee Saturday. Dwight is an eighth-grader at Central Day School in Collierville.
See BEE, 2The Commercial Appeal © Copyright 2014
Inside the Edition
CURTAIN RISESBriarcrest prepares for the first production in its new theater. NEWS, 2
DRINK UP YOUR MILKExperts recommend keeping milk in your diet, even if you prefer popular alternatives. GOOD HEALTH, 7
ALL BY MY‘SELFIE’Child development experts worry so much focus on self will have drawbacks for first truly “smartphone generation.” FAMILY, 5
PHOTOS BY KYLE KURLICK/SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
One of the popular classes at the Germantown Athletic Club is the Zumba dance class, which takes up nearly two-thirds of the gym. Noise issues can arise between group fitness classes and basketball players also in the gym and joggers on the second-floor track.
By Jennifer [email protected] 901-529-2372
The risks of going to the gym right around 5 p.m. on a weekday are in-herent: No open machines, bump-ing elbows in the pool, and packed group-fitness classes.
The Germantown Athletic Club is hoping to minimize those annoy-ances with a multiyear, multimillion-dollar renovation project.
The Board of Mayor and Alder-men last week approved spending $256,500 to hire two architectural
design firms to develop plans to reno-vate the athletic club.
City Administrator Patrick Lawton said the renovations could total up to $3.5 million.
The club’s nearly 12,000 mem-bers have helped Germantown build enough savings to pay for the renova-tions over the next several years. But with that increase in membership comes an increase in needs.
“As it grows, we’re going to con-tinue to grow with it and we need to make the facilities improvements
GERMANTOWN ATHLETIC CLUB
Back into SHAPEMultimillion-dollar renovation project kicks into motion; public input sought
See CLUB, 2
Jafar Mirza attends a yoga class at the Germantown Athletic Club. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen last week approved an expenditure for an engineering firm to start design on a major renovation for the club.
