February 26-March 4, 2021, Vol. 14, Issue 9

Lab confirms South African variant present in Memphis P. 3 AutoZone to offer bonuses for vaccinated employees P. 5

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Hyatt Director of Sales and Marketing Nicholas Janysek leads a preview of the Hyatt Centric at One Beale Downtown on Feb. 23, 2021. (Ziggy Mack/The West Tennessee News)

HYATT CENTRIC Hyatt Centric embraces ‘sights & sounds of Memphis’ P. 2

SPACE MISSION FACIAL TISSUE New equipment means St. Jude worker who’s also a Memphis plant can make former patient joins space 40M boxes of facial tissue mission P. 3 yearly P.5

A Publication of The Daily News Publishing Co. 2 February 26-March 4, 2021 The West Tennessee News Hyatt Centric embraces ‘sights & sounds of Memphis’

The Hyatt Centric at One Beale Downtown offered a preview on Feb. 23, 2021. (Ziggy Mack/The West Tennessee News)

TOM BAILEY The West Tennessee News Boxes upon boxes of the little items that complete a hotel room — tabletop coffeemakers, waste cans, facial-tissue dispenser and more — were stacked in the lobby of Hyatt Centric Beale Street, waiting to be distributed among the 227 guestrooms. That’s how far along most construc- tion of the $75 million hotel had pro- gressed by Tuesday, Feb. 23, when the ho- tel’s sales, marketing and event director Nicholas Janysek led journalists on a tour. The first guests can reserve rooms for as early as April 15, but the goal is to open the hotel by March 31 and the rooftop Beck & Call bar/restaurant by mid-April. The eight-story Hyatt Centric commands prime real estate at the southwest corner of Beale and Front. City views to the east, northeast and southeast. River views to the west, northwest and southwest. And the hotel touts the lyrical address of 33 Beale Street as well as claim to being Beale’s only hotel, for now. Which is one One of the suites of the Hyatt Centric at One Beale Downtown offers a river view, as seen Feb. 23, 2021. (Ziggy Mack/The West Tennessee News) reason why the Hyatt Centric’s windows are so big and so numerous. “Our goal is to bring in the sights and sounds of Mem- phis,” Janysek said. river,” the native Texan said. The place is historic Wm. E. Ellis & Sons machine The glassed-in showers of some guest- “That’s what the Hyatt Centric brand packed with not just Memphis sights and shop. The historic Ellis buildings next rooms have walls covered in a montage is all about, really being local and being sounds, but its symbols, too. The wall be- door are being adapted for the Foundry of Memphis names: “Orange Mound,” inspired by where you are. Being the first hind every bed is filled with a textured, Ballroom and meeting spaces with names hotel on Beale but also being right on the enlarged image of some detail from the like the Welding Shop and Pattern Shop. hyatt centric continued on P7 The West Tennessee News February 26-March 4, 2021 3 St. Jude worker who’s also a former patient joins space mission

JANE ROBERTS The mission name Inspira- The West Tennessee News tion4 recognizes the four-person Hayley Arceneaux, a physi- crew’s purpose – to send a hu- cian assistant at St. Jude Chil- manitarian message of possibil- dren’s Research Hospital, treated ity and inspire support for St. there as a child, is the employee Jude – and represents the pillars selected for the first all-civilian of Leadership, Hope, Generos- mission to space. “It’s an incred- ity and Prosperity. Arceneaux, ible honor to join the Inspiration4 Isaacman and the Inspiration4 crew,” said Arceneaux, 29. “This crew will undergo commercial seat represents the hope that St. astronaut training by SpaceX on Jude gave me — and continues the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and to give families from around the Dragon spacecraft, including a world, who, like me, find hope specific focus on orbital mechan- when they walk through the ics, operating in microgravity, doors of St. Jude.” zero gravity and other forms of Jared Isaacman, 38, founder stress testing. and CEO of Shift4 Payments, They will receive emergency will pilot the mission, which preparedness training, spacesuit is expected to raise more than and spacecraft ingress and egress $200 million for the hospital. exercises, as well as partial- and Isaacman donated the first $100 full-mission simulations. million. A random donor will The mission will launch from be selected to be the third crew NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in member on the mission. Florida and will be monitored by The fourth will be a business Elon Musk’s SpaceX mission con- owner that uses Isaacman’s web trol. The mission will orbit Earth services. That person will be se- every 90 minutes along a custom- lected based on a video describ- ized flight path. After the two- to ing the company’s attributes. The four-day mission, Dragon will fundraising effort will continue re-enter Earth’s atmosphere for through the mission launch, ex- a soft water landing off the coast St. Jude cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux will be the Inspiration4 Hope Seat crew member. (Submitted) pected in the fourth quarter. of Florida. Lab confirms South African variant present in Memphis

A week later, the U.S. Biocontainment advantage we have without doing our Laboratory at UTHSC confirmed that it very best to vaccinate everyone we can had also sequenced the genome of the very quickly because what we don’t know Brazilian variant. is whether or not these variants are going “The person whose test specimen se- to gradually become increasingly resis- quenced out with the South African strain tant to the immune response these vac- variant had no travel history outside of cines generate in us,” he said. Shelby County,” said Health Department The vaccines being used around the Deputy Director David Sweat. world have proven effective in fighting “She did, however, have a close con- serious COVID-19 disease, the kind that tact who traveled to Colorado and Wash- puts people in the hospital. ington state, and then came to visit the “But there has been some failure to Shelby County resident (her). That person protect against lesser disease,’ Threlkeld had COVID-19 and is believed to be the said. “It is concerning and little bit scary source case,” he said. that after all we have done, we might have Strome says the finding is not a an increasing number of viral variants surprise. that can outsmart our immune system “It was expected. It was totally ex- such that people who have had the infec- pected,” he said. “It’s one case, but there tion already could get it again.” National Guard medics collect nasal swabs as hundreds of Memphians line up for COVID-19 are probably more than that because we For weeks, the UTHSC lab has been testing at the Christ Community testing site in Frayser on April 25, 2020. (The West Tennessee News) do random sampling in the community.” sequencing about 100 samples of local The South African variant is not as COVID specimens a week in an effort to contagious as the U.K. variant. quickly identify mutations in the SARS JANE ROBERTS College of Medicine at UTHSC, said Mon- “But there is some concern that it may CoV-2 virus and whether troubling strains The West Tennessee News day afternoon, Feb. 22. be a little less susceptible to the vaccine,” from around the world are here. A single case of the South African vari- This is the third variant of the SARS Strome said. Several local labs, including Poplar ant in Shelby County has been sequenced CoV-2 virus to be confirmed in the county. But most vaccines still are effec- Healthcare, use processing equipment and confirmed by the University of Ten- The first was the U.K. strain, B.1.1.7. It its tive against the strain, said Dr. Stephen that identifies the COVID samples that nessee Health Science Center. considered to be 30% to 40% more con- Threlkeld, head of infectious disease at fit a broad genetic fingerprint of variants. “We just got the confirmation,” Dr. tagious and was identified here in early Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Scott Strome, executive dean of the February. “But we cannot afford to waste the variant continued on P7 4 February 26-March 4, 2021 The West Tennessee News

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Bobby Ellis, who died Feb. 22, made a career at the Rendezvous restaurant. & Notices (Houston Cofield/The West Tennessee News) View a complete JENNIFER BIGGS and everyone, if he wasn’t checking on day’s public records The West Tennessee News the pit. “He did everything,” Vergos said. Around 1970 or so, John Vergos “Bobby ran it all. He had complete access and notices. worked at Perky’s Pancake House in to the Rendezvous. If there was a problem, the Downtowner Motor Inn, which was my first call was never to an electrician, a where he met Nelson “Bobby” Ellis. plumber or MLGW. It was to Bobby. “I was out of college and working in “We have a big key ring of about 70 a corporate training program and Bobby keys and Bobby and I are probably the was a busboy at Perky’s,” Vergos said. only two people who know where they go. “He heard you could make more Two to get in the front, two for the back, money at the Rendezvous, so he left and the men’s room, the elevator and so on. I didn’t have a busboy.” You collect keys over the years.” It worked out OK for both of them. Ellis has traveled all over with Vergos Ellis worked his way up and made a ca- on behalf of the Rendezvous. reer at the Rendezvous, the Vergos family “We went to cook in New York City, in restaurant. Australia, to South Beach,” Vergos said. He died Feb. 22 at age 66, after an ex- “Bobby went because Bobby was the tended illness. guy who knew how to do everything.” “I could not have asked for a better He overcame a drug addiction in the father,” said Nelson Ellis, Jr. “Me and my 1980s and never faltered after getting brothers never did without anything. clean. “He was a hard man, but he was a lov- “He came to me and told me his prob- ing man. Anything he could do for you, lems and I asked what he wanted to do,”

Powered by he would do it. He had unconditional Vergos said. “He said he wanted to get www.memphisdailynews.com love for every person he ever came in clean, to go to rehab, and he did it.” contact with.” He was close to Charlie Vergos, John One of those was Robert Stewart Jr., Vergos’ father and the founder of the res- known around the Rendezvous as Robert taurant. “He saw him as a role model,” Jr.; his father, Big Robert, also worked at Vergos said. “He was just like Big Charlie,” the restaurant for many years. Stewart said. Bobby Ellis “was like a father figure “He was tough, he was hard, but big- from the first day I started working there, hearted. I’d get so mad sometimes, then back when I was in junior high school, in the next thing you know, he’d bring me 1982,” Stewart said. a sandwich and I’d be like, ‘Hey, wasn’t “He took me up under his wing. that you cussing me 10 minutes ago?’ You In fact, I had more fathers down there could get mad at him, but how can you than anyone needed. I could never get stay mad at a man who’s like your dad?” in trouble.” Besides Nelson Ellis Jr., Ellis is sur- SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOR OUR FREE REPORT! Ellis was 13 when he went to work at vived by his wife, Thelma Delois Ellis, the Rendezvous and never left. He was his son Willie Nelson, and 12 grandchil- often seated next to the hostess stand, dren. His oldest son, Bobby Nelson, died chandlerreports.com where he could keep an eye on everything last year. The West Tennessee News February 26-March 4, 2021 5 AutoZone to offer bonuses for vaccinated employees

BLAKE FONTENAY is our top priority,” Bill Rhodes, employees deal with the chal- 2,500 in the Memphis area.Since being rolled out to different de- The West Tennessee News the company’s chairman, presi- lenges caused by COVID-19. the pandemic began, there have mographic groups at different If AutoZone workers are dent and CEO, said in a prepared In December, AutoZone said been discussions about whether times and vaccine availability willing to get a literal shot in statement. it had extended a COVID-19 paid businesses could legally require isn’t always guaranteed, it also the arm, their employer is will- “AutoZoners’ response to time off program into 2021, pro- employees to get vaccinated. would be problematic to set ing to give them a financial shot COVID-19, throughout the en- viding eligible employees with State law suggests that em- a deadline by which employ- in the arm. tire organization, has been an extra week of time off on top ployers could take that step, ees would have to meet that AutoZone announced tremendous. As a company, of two weeks in 2020. but large employers typically requirement. Wednesday, Feb. 24, that each we are removing any potential Employees who didn’t use have not. So some companies have of its employees who is vacci- work-related barriers, strongly emergency time off in 2020 Employees could challenge taken a softer approach, offering nated against COVID-19 will encouraging and incentivizing could roll the hours into 2021 such a requirement under the incentives to employees who are receive $100 from the company. AutoZoners to get a COVID-19 or cash them in and receive bo- federal Americans with Dis- vaccinated. “The health and safety of vaccine when they are eligible.” nuses of $800 to $1,600 in Janu- abilities Act and a provision For example, Dollar Gen- AutoZoners, customers, and the AutoZone has invested ary. AutoZone has about 100,000 of the federal Civil Rights Act. eral promises four hours’ pay to communities we proudly serve more than $125 million to help employees, including about Given that the vaccinations are workers who get the shots.

New equipment means Memphis plant can make 40M boxes of facial tissue yearly

the incoming facial converter equipment products for customers like Walmart. without having to expand its footprint. The Walmart products are sold as And it’s among the largest manufac- the White Cloud brand. Other brand turing employers. names and private-label products in- The new facial converter line will clude Great Value, Scotties, Purex and require the hiring of another 27 peo- Sponge Towels. ple, bringing the total full-time pay- The Memphis plant is one of eight roll to more than 530, said Fred Ce- Kruger manufacturing sites, and the ruti, Kruger Products’ vice president of only one inside the U.S. Kruger, which ac- manufacturing. quired the plant in 2002 from Kimberly- The new hires on the facial converter Clark, completed a $350 million expan- line will earn more than $20 an hour, he sion and upgrade of the facility in 2013. said. Anyone wanting to apply for a job There aren’t many such manufactur- can visit the “Careers” section at KT- ing plants around the Mid-South. GUSA.com. K.T.G. makes paper prod- The nearest plants that make simi- ucts under Kruger’s own brand names lar products are in Kentucky and Tulsa, such as Cashmere, but also private-label Oklahoma, Ceruti said.

Kruger Products employee Brandon Bishop prepares facial tissue for packing on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (Mark Weber/The West Tennessee News)

TOM BAILEY tissues soft enough for our sensitive nos- The West Tennessee News es and faces. A parent roll looks like a gi- What’s happening at the K.T.G (USA) ant role of toilet paper; they weigh 3,000 plant in North Memphis is nothing to to 5,000 pounds each. The new equip- sneeze at, and yet it is. ment will more than double the plant’s The mammoth facility will be able to capacity for making facial tissue, from produce 40 million boxes of facial tissue about 16 million boxes to about 40 mil- annually about a year from now, after it lion boxes a year. completes installation of new equipment. And that’s in addition to the toilet Its Canadian-based parent company, paper and paper towels that the facility Kruger Products, announced last month makes. In fact, about 80% of the product that it will spend more than $20 mil- made by the K.T.G. (USA) plant is toilet lion adding a second, more modern “fa- paper. The company prefers the term cial converter line” to its facility at 400 “bathroom tissue.” Mahannah. At 1.4 million square feet, the com- That is equipment that converts a plex is the largest manufacturing plant in Kruger Products employee Lorie Painter prepares a parent roll of paper that will be merged “parent roll” of paper into the folded Memphis. It’s also large enough to house with another roll to make two-ply paper on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (Mark Weber/The West Tennessee News) 6 February 26-March 4, 2021 The West Tennessee News Michigan grocery business looks to Midtown Memphis location

TOM BAILEY produce, groceries, frozen foods and The West Tennessee News other products. A Memphis store would Gordon Food Service plans to open a likely offer more fresh produce than some store in Midtown Memphis. of Gordon’s legacy locations. The Michigan-based grocery busi- Gordon refers to its locations more ness that serves both food service busi- as neighborhood markets than super- nesses like restaurants and the public has markets. Typical store sizes are 20,000 filed an application to erect store signs to 25,000 square feet. at the building that has long housed Of- The Gordon business model is not to ficeMax, at 1460 Union Ave in Memphis. replace for customers a store like Kroger The 28,393-square-foot store on one or Walmart, but to be easier to shop be- acre is owned by an Atlanta firm. cause of its size and perhaps be a place The 124-year-old company based to shop between supermarket visits. Gor- in Grand Rapids already has opened don stores also have what its executives stores in Tennessee: Nashville, Knoxville, consider unique product offerings. Clarksville and Murfreesboro. Gordon operates in the Midwest, The stores are cash-and-carry, with Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest re- no membership fee. gions of the United States and coast-to- Gordon Food Service stores offer coast in Canada, according to the store’s products in larger, food-service sizes website. There are more than 175 Gordon as well as retail sizes. They carry meat, Food Service Store locations in the U.S. The company recently opened a store in Michigan City, Indiana. (Courtesy Gordon Food Service)

How Hutchison was able to bring students back to campus during the pandemic

DON WADE Hutchison’s 835 students, 85 have had it isolated case, the tape could show close Soon, the Shelby County system’s stu- The West Tennessee News (10.2%), with 62 of the cases coming in contacts. dents will return to the classroom for the Recently, Mother Nature accom- the Upper School, 10 in Middle School, 8 And whenever any student registers first time since the pandemic shuttered plished what COVID-19 could not as in Lower School, and 5 in the Early Child- a positive test, the school goes into im- schools last March. Tonya Faulkner was snow and ice forced closure of the cam- hood division. Those numbers have been mediate action. “We do our own contact hired to be an Upper School service di- pus at Hutchison, a private all-girls available to parents from the start. tracing,” Ring said. “We have a high trust rector at Hutchison but is teaching 5th- school in East Memphis. “What’s been most important is the level with our families. If anyone else was grade social studies to help hold down “We were less prepared for it,” said transparency,” said Dr. Shari Jefferies, a to do it, we were going to have a time lag.” class size. She knows how fortunate their Kristen Ring, Hutchison’s president child psychiatrist and also the mother of Time — along with more knowledge students have been to have the classroom and head of school. “I live in a house on a 4th-grader at Hutchison. “We’ve been about this novel coronavirus and how experience since late summer. campus and we don’t even have a snow kept very aware of the numbers and it spreads — also has changed points of “My heart goes out to those students shovel.” The story here, of course, isn’t where the cases were. emphasis. who were not able to be in a classroom,” about what this and every other Memphis “So, you don’t get a lot of people mak- “Surfaces don’t scare me like they did Faulkner said. school failed to do amid a winter storm; ing assumptions or guesses. That has in July,” Ring said. “And people can pass Although Hutchison’s largest high rather, the story is what this Memphis made me more comfortable as a parent.” in a hallway and be just fine masked.” school classes might reach 20-22 stu- school has done to successfully navigate Following some positive tests in the First semester, lunch service wasn’t dents, classes in the Middle and Lower a pandemic. high school after fall break, the Upper offered. Second semester, lunches were schools don’t exceed 18 students and Many of Hutchison’s students were School went virtual-only for a week “out served in to-go boxes. many are much smaller. in-class when school re-opened last Au- of an abundance of caution,” Ring said, Outdoor learning has been embraced “I recognize that it’s different at a lot gust. Almost all were there by the end “because we knew a lot of them had been and Ring says they have been intentional of schools,” Ring said. “I’m grateful for of October. to the beach.” about providing time for the girls to just the staffing that we have.” Think of it this way: Had the pan- Adjusting in real time is never easy, “run around” outside, in part to ease the The smaller class sizes make success- demic been a prolific wintry mix, every but it goes to the core of the Hutchison stress of so much time sitting at desks ful masking and social distancing more member of the administration, faculty mission. As Ring says on the school web- with their faces covered. achievable, but nothing is 100%. and support staff, would have been site: “I want every girl to have an experi- Hutchison’s administration also has “It’s impossible. But we definitely try,” armed with a shovel and they would have ence that allows here to see the joy in more freedom to try and accommodate Faulkner said. “You’d be impressed with all had snow removal assignments plot- learning, whatever she’s learning.” teachers with health problems or who how important it is to them to practice ted on a grid. Which doesn’t mean the In this case, the girls are learning that just have a heightened level of concern. the rules.” And when a mask does slip journey to and through has been perfect. sometimes life is hard, and everyone has Only “a handful of teachers,” Ring says, below a nose, or even a mouth? But there was, is, and will continue to be to do a little more. have tested positive and almost all those “Teachers are good about just mo- forethought. For example, Hutchison athletes, cases could be traced to exposure outside tioning to the student so they’re not nag- Ring says they have approached this Ring says, have been especially commit- of the school. ging,” Ring said. as an athletic competition in need of a ted to safe behavior outside of school so Some teachers, however, are con- As for social distancing, “Hutchison game plan, albeit with the understand- as not to jeopardize their seasons. While cerned enough to be double-masking. has made it easier by putting physical ing that the best game plans are flex- a positive test definitely would put an And where possible, Ring says, they are reminders in place,” Faulkner said. “And ible enough for adjustment. “Commu- indoor sport such as basketball on the trying to provide more than six feet of each grade has its own entrance and nication is critical,” she said. “We have sideline, outdoor sports such as soccer separation in the classroom for those exit, and each grade has its own color. timely discussions about what’s working and lacrosse would have more latitude. teachers, and “give them more of a bub- and what’s not.” Even so, the school has So soccer and lacrosse practices ble. “We have 52 acres,” she said, “and hutchison continued on P7 not been spared from COVID cases. Of are being videotaped; in the event of an we’re using every square inch.” Week of 3/1/21 - 3/7/21

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hyatt centric continued from P2 hutchison continued from P6 The Weekly Crossword by Margie E. Burke “Elvis Presley Blvd.,” “Arcade,” “Metal The Hutchison COVID Task Force went ACROSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Museum,” “Midtown,” “The Brooks,” “In- above and beyond in making the proto- Boat's berth 1 14 15 16 side the Loop,” “Lucille,” “Cooper Young,” cols easy to follow.” 5 Part of a repair “Binghampton,” etc. The hallway carpet Motivation, Ring notes, had more bill 17 18 19 10 Skewed view is patterned to suggest musical patterns. than a little bit to do with it: 20 21 22 The wall sconces outside each guestroom “The girls want to be in school so 14 Multinational money 23 24 25 door are shaped like musical notes. badly they’re willing to be incredibly 15 Come about The natural light-filled lobby is sur- compliant.” 16 A while ago 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 rounded on nearly three sides by a space “Masks create a barrier, even psy- 17 Flashcards 33 34 35 36 that morphs from coffee and snack bar chologically, and we are very relational,” subject in front – overlooking the corner of Beale Ring said. “As an all-girls school, we en- 19 Kind of ID 37 38 39 40 20 Renter and Front – to the CIMAS restaurant and courage hugs.” 41 42 43 21 Courting music bar that overlooks the river. Cima is the The pandemic is stressful for kids in 23 Put up, as a 44 45 46 47 48 Spanish word for summit or peak, as in school and for kids out of school. The ef- picture 49 50 51 the top of Beale Street. fect of that stress, Dr. Jefferies says, prob- 25 Flinch, say The sprawling outdoor patio will have ably won’t really be known for years. 26 Varied 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 30 Biased against seating and tables to the northwest and a So, yes, the pandemic has created 59 60 61 pool, cabanas, music stage and outdoor something of a culture change at Hutchi- seniors Bird feeder filler event space to the south and southwest. son. Especially in the Upper School, 33 62 63 64 34 Small sample The Hyatt Centric’s rooftop restau- where contact with mentors and guest 36 80's group who 65 66 67 rant/bar is named Beck & Call, but it’s speakers, and full college visits and oth- sang "Take On Copyright 2021 by The Puzzle Syndicate more like Eye Candy because of the river er about-to-launch opportunities have Me" and city views. Beck & Call’s interior is a been lost. 37 Melville setting 2 Tackle box item 43 Mistake in print 54 Spanish dark-brown, long rectangle with a high “That robust programming,” Ring 38 Talk like Porky 3 Blue flower 45 Runway figures sparkling wine ceiling, long bar and windows behind the said, “can’t be duplicated.” Pig 4 Cheap insult 47 Safe from 56 Monetary 40 Slot machine 5 Sing the blues hackers penalty bar to let in the views and light. The space But again, this isn’t about seeking icon 6 You-here link 48 "Fame" singer 57 Type of list opens to large patios on three sides: east, perfection. It’s about carrying on, mov- 41 Pop-ups, e.g. 7 Tiny amounts 50 Fare with onions 58 Winter coat? north and west. ing forward. 42 Cheyenne 8 Willow for 52 Aquatic plant 61 Conducted Hyatt Centric must anticipate that Most studies leave no doubt that in- shelter basketmaking 53 TV cable, for Beck & Call will be a popular spot: An person learning is preferable to virtual 43 Ticklish Muppet 9 Craft anew short express elevator will deliver its patrons learning, Dr. Jefferies says, even when ac- 44 Navy clerk 10 Pep in one's step 46 Tactful 11 Impossible to fill from the lobby. Hyatt Centric will be the counting for the mask as a barrier: 49 Koontz creation 12 Got an A+ on first of three Hyatt hotels to be built in “And most children, once they get 51 Within earshot 13 Parched Answers to Last Week's Crossword: Carlisle Corp.’s One Beale mixed-use de- used to the mask, they can do it. Adults 52 Ivory tower 18 Try, as a case velopment. Construction has started on have a harder time adjusting.” inhabitant 22 Raring to go F R O M B A C K S C I T E the boutique, 136-room Caption by Hyatt. Jefferies also likes that students are 55 Etsy wares 24 ____ and go L A R A A W A I T O N Y X A V A N T G A R D E R O L E And work is estimated to start by late not being taught to merely settle: “The 59 Piercing site 26 Test, as ore 60 Assessment 27 Glove leather B E L I E R E D P E P P E R 2022 or early 2023 on the 350-room Grand faculty and administration have really 62 Chutzpah 28 Like some C R U D I N S E R T Hyatt. The three hotels will complement stepped up and created expectations, 63 Now or _____ temperatures S T R U N G C A N T E R each other, Janysek said. The Centric will not only for the girls, but for the families. 64 Edit menu choice 29 Old-fashioned L A I R H O A R S E A M C be a high-end, luxury hotel for leisure “It’s gone smoother than I expected.” 65 Gives the 31 Cause of a red O C T E T G I G R E B E L travelers. They may be attending a premier pri- heave-ho faceWeek of 3/1/21B O -A 3/7/21H A R R O W A L G A The Caption will be about $20 per vate school, but they’re still just kids— 66 WTO's concern 32 Medium's card M A I D E N I N S E A M Pound sound Oktoberfest A B O U N D O N I T night less expensive. And the Grand will whether they’re 4 years old, in 5th grade, 67 35 souvenir F O R G E R I E S S W A Z I be for conventions and big groups. The or about to graduate and go to college. DOWN 38 Forestall, with O G E E E N V I S I O N E D Centric represents the return to Memphis Sometimes, Kristen Ring catches her- 1 Close, as an "off" U L N A S T E E P O N T O of a full-service Hyatt hotel, Janysek said. self thinking about that, too, and how envelope 39 Urban housing L E O S S O R R Y D E A L What is now Hilton Memphis — the despite everything they do for the girls, round tower at the northeast quadrant some of the school’s longest-running of Interstate 240 and Poplar — was built traditions — more than 115 years in the SUDOKU Edited by Margie E. Burke as a Hyatt but changed brands years ago, making -- are having to be, well, compro- Difficulty: Easy he said. mised. She only hopes that it won’t tem- HOW TO SOLVE: per the girls’ fondness for Hutchison in 1 9 Each row must contain the the years ahead. “This May Day there will numbers 1 to 9; each column must variant continued from P3 contain the numbers 1 to 9; and be eight May Day poles instead of one. 2 5 1 each set of 3 by 3 boxes must And Black & Gold Day, truly my favorite contain the numbers 1 to 9. Those are sent to the UTHSC lab along day of the year, everybody’s favorite day, 7 2 4 with random samples from testing sites with a parade and games … well, we know 8 7 9 Answers to Last Week’s Sudoku: across the city. Now, the labs are studying we can’t have a bouncy house, but we’ll 6 8 5 1 7 9 2 3 4 how to put in processes to test every posi- do something. And it’ll be fun, darn it.” 6 2 3 1 2 5 4 6 9 7 8 tive sample with a low-cost reflex test that Meanwhile, In Tonya Faulkner’s so- 7 4 9 3 8 2 6 1 5 can quickly identify mutant strains, said cial studies class, it is business as usual 4 8 5 2 4 8 9 7 1 6 3 infectious disease expert Dr. Manoj Jain. – sort of. 9 7 1 4 6 3 5 8 2 “You don’t have to go through the entire “Our first priority is making sure they 2 3 8 3 6 2 5 1 4 9 7 sequencing process,” he said of the reflex understand they’re in a safe place,” she 5 6 7 8 test. “All the labs are looking into it. The said. “The world may be turned upside 4 5 3 9 1 8 7 2 6 technology exists, and they are working down, but your parents support you and 8 3 1 5 1 6 8 7 2 4 3 5 9 on putting those processes in place. your teachers support you. I always tell Copyright 2021 by The Puzzle Syndicate 2 9 7 6 3 5 8 4 1 “Hopefully, in one to two weeks, we’ll them, `you’re a part of history.’” These have some of the labs running that,” said 5th-graders have been studying an oft- Jain, who has been advising the City of repeated history: wars. Right now, they Memphis on COVID issues since last are on World War II and learning about March. Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and the Jain also helped design the testing bombing of Pearl Harbor. capacity in Shelby County and pushed Big stuff. to begin sequencing the virus in a larger, But perhaps someday, 5th-graders methodical way in January. of the future will be reading about the “This is the benefit of collaboration. global war with COVID-19, about a time One of the lab directors learned about when masks were as common at schools the reflex test, researched it and shared as milk, No. 2 pencils and backpacks. it with the others. We discussed how it “They actually think it’s pretty neat,” could benefit us and how to go about Faulkner said, “that what they’ve been adding this tool,” he said. “Now, it’s ‘OK, living through is going to be in the his- let’s go ahead and move ahead with this.’” tory books.”

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Foreclosure Notices certified funds ONLY, the following or otherwise, homestead, and dower Substitute Trustee by instrument to be described property situated in Fayette are expressly waived in said Deed of filed for record in the Register’s Office Foreclosure Notices Fayette County County, Tennessee, to wit: Trust, and the title is believed to be of Fayette County, Tennessee. LOT 156, OAKLAND MEADOWS SUB- good, but the undersigned will sell and NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby Madison County DIVISION, SECTION D, AS SHOWN ON convey only as Substitute Trustee. The given that the entire indebtedness has NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 8, Property is sold as is, where is, without been declared due and payable, and SALE PAGE 117, IN THE REGISTER`S OFFICE representations or warranties of any that the undersigned, Rubin Lublin TN, NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, default has occurred in the OF FAYETTE COUNTY, TENNESSEE, TO kind, including fitness for a particular PLLC, as Substitute Trustee or his duly WHEREAS, default has occurred in performance of the covenants, terms WHICH PLAT REFERENCE IS HEREBY use or purpose. appointed agent, by virtue of the power, the performance of the covenants, terms, and conditions of a Deed of Trust dated MADE FOR A MORE PARTICULAR DE- THIS LAW FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO duty and authority vested and imposed and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note October 13, 2006, executed by WILMA SCRIPTION OF SAID PROPERTY. COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION upon said Substitute Trustee will, on dated August 29, 2005, and the Deed DOUGLAS, LATRESE BOYD, conveying Parcel ID: 087I-F-001.00 OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT March 18, 2021 at 3:00 PM inside the of Trust of even date securing the same, certain real property therein described PROPERTY ADDRESS: The street PURPOSE. South Entrance of the Fayette County recorded September 1, 2005, in Book to HERITAGE CLOSING SERVICES, as address of the property is believed Rubin Lublin TN, PLLC, Substitute Courthouse, Somerville, Tennessee, No. T1699, at Page 757, in Office of the Trustee, as same appears of record to be 70 MOSSY SPRINGS DRIVE, Trustee proceed to sell at public outcry to the Register of Deeds for Madison County, in the Register’s Office of Fayette OAKLAND, TN 38060. In the event of 119 S. Main Street, Suite 500 highest and best bidder for cash or Tennessee, executed by Basil B Bakpa County, Tennessee recorded October any discrepancy between this street Memphis, TN 38103 certified funds ONLY, the following and Imeh R Bakpa, conveying certain 24, 2006, at Instrument Number address and the legal description of rlselaw.com/property-listing described property situated in Fayette property therein described to Shelia 06009502; and the property, the legal description Tel: (877) 813-0992 County, Tennessee, to wit: Boykin Stevenson, Attorney at Law as WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of shall control. Fax: (470) 508-9401 THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Regis- said Deed of Trust was last transferred CURRENT OWNER(S): ESTATE AND/OR Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 5, 2021 Fqn14694 ESTATE SITUATED IN CIVIL DISTRICT tration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, and assigned to U.S. Bank National HEIRS AT LAW OF WILMA DOUGLAS # 3, FAYETTE COUNTY, TENNESSEE, as nominee for Wilmington Finance, a Association, as indenture trustee, for OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S TO WIT: BEGINNING AT A STEEL FENCE division of AIG Federal Savings Bank, the holders of the CIM Trust 2017- TENNESSEE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT SALE POST IN THE NORTH MARGIN RIGHT its successors and assigns; and the 1, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series AGENCY WHEREAS, default has occurred in the OF WAY OF THE MT. MORIAH BLACK- undersigned, Wilson & Associates, 2017-1 who is now the owner of said The sale of the above-described performance of the covenants, terms TOP ROAD, SAID POST BEING THE P.L.L.C., having been appointed Suc- debt; and property shall be subject to all mat- and conditions of a Deed of Trust SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE NOVA cessor Trustee by Wilmington Trust, WHEREAS, the undersigned,Rubin Lub- ters shown on any recorded plat; any dated November 30, 2001, executed HILLIARD 33.61 ACRE TRACT, OF National Association, as Successor lin TN, PLLC, having been appointed as unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, by CHARLES A MCCLURE, CHERYL A WHICH HEREIN DESCRIBED TRACT IS Trustee to Citibank, N.A. as trustee for Substitute Trustee by instrument to be easements or set-back lines that MCCLURE, conveying certain real prop- A PART; RUNS THENCE WITH THE EAST Bear Stearns Second Lien Trust 2007- filed for record in the Register’s Office may be applicable; any prior liens or erty therein described to ARNOLD M. BOUNDARY LINE OF HILLIARD AND THE SV1, Mortgage-Backed Certificates, of Fayette County, Tennessee. encumbrances as well as any priority WEISS, as Trustee, as same appears WEST BOUNDARY LINE OF MRS. J. A. Series 2007-SV1. NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby created by a fixture filing; and to any of record in the Register’s Office of ROGERS 36.5 ACRE TRACT, NORTH NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has matter that an accurate survey of the Fayette County, Tennessee recorded 00 DEGREES 15 MINUTES EAST A given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable, and premises might disclose. This property December 5, 2001, in Deed Book D602, DISTANCE OF 415 FEET TO A CORNER been declared due and payable; and that the undersigned, Rubin Lublin TN, is being sold with the express reserva- Page 966 ; and FENCE POST; RUNS THENCE NORTH 88 that an agent of Wilson & Associates, PLLC, as Substitute Trustee or his duly tion that it is subject to confirmation by WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of DEGREES 15 MINUTES WEST ALONG P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue appointed agent, by virtue of the power, the lender or Substitute Trustee. This said Deed of Trust was last transferred THE FENCE LINE A DISTANCE OF 210 of the power, duty, and authority vested duty and authority vested and imposed sale may be rescinded at any time. The and assigned to U.S. Bank National FEET TO A CORNER FENCE POST; RUNS in and imposed upon said Successor upon said Substitute Trustee will, on right is reserved to adjourn the day of Association, as trustee for the hold- THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 15 MIN- Trustee, by Wilmington Trust, National March 18, 2021 at 3:00 PM inside the the sale to another day, time, and place ers of the Asset Backed Pass-Through UTES WEST ALONG ANOTHER FENCE Association, as Successor Trustee to South Entrance of the Fayette County certain without further publication, upon Certificates, Series 2002-HE1 who is LINE A DISTANCE OF 415 FEET TO A Citibank, N.A. as trustee for Bear Stearns Courthouse, Somerville, Tennessee, announcement at the time and place now the owner of said debt; and CORNER FENCE POST IN THE NORTH Second Lien Trust 2007-SV1, Mortgage- proceed to sell at public outcry to the for the sale set forth above. All right WHEREAS, the undersigned,Rubin Lub- MARGIN OF THE MT. MORIAH ROAD; Backed Certificates, Series 2007-SV1, highest and best bidder for cash or and equity of redemption, statutory lin TN, PLLC, having been appointed as RUNS THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES will, on March 11, 2021 on or about 15 MINUTES EAST WITH THE NORTH 10:00 AM, at the Madison County LINE OF THE MT. MORIAH ROAD A DIS- Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee, of- TANCE OF 210 FEET TO THE POINT OF fer for sale certain property hereinafter BEGINNING. CONTAINING 2.00 ACRES described to the highest bidder FOR AS SURVEYED BY THOMAS L. DEAN AS- certified funds paid at the conclusion SOCIATES ON APRIL 30, 1988. THIS IS of the sale, or credit bid from a bank NOT A CURRENT SURVEY. THIS LEGAL or other lending entity pre- approved DESCRIPTION IS THE SAME AS IN DEED by the successor trustee. The sale is BOOK 306, PAGE 865. free from all exemptions, which are Parcel ID: 049-003.04 expressly waived in the Deed of Trust, TEXTING PROPERTY ADDRESS: The street ad- said property being real estate situated dress of the property is believed to be in Madison County, Tennessee, and being 1275 MT MORIAH DR, SOMERVILLE, more particularly described as follows: TN 38068. In the event of any discrep- Beginning in the west line of the right ancy between this street address and of way of North Highland Avenue, also the legal description of the property, the known as State Highway No. 5, and AND DRIVING legal description shall control. formerly known as Trenton Road, at CURRENT OWNER(S): CHARLES A MC- a cement post, marked “R,W.” said CLURE, CHERYL A MCCLURE beginning point being C.E. Castle’s OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: northeast corner, runs thence with The sale of the above-described Castle’s line west 435.6 feet to property shall be subject to all mat- Castle’s northwest corner, thence MAKES ters shown on any recorded plat; any north 7 degrees 15 minutes west unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, 250 feet, thence east 425 feet to easements or set-back lines that the west line of right of way of said may be applicable; any prior liens or North Highland Avenue, also known encumbrances as well as any priority as State Highway No. 5, thence created by a fixture filing; and to any south 10 degrees east 250 feet to matter that an accurate survey of the the point of beginning. GOOD PEOPLE premises might disclose. This property ALSO KNOWN AS: 1725 North High- is being sold with the express reserva- land Avenue, Jackson, TN 38301 tion that it is subject to confirmation by This sale is subject to all matters the lender or Substitute Trustee. This shown on any applicable recorded plat; sale may be rescinded at any time. The any unpaid taxes; any restrictive cov- right is reserved to adjourn the day of enants, easements, or setback lines LOOK BAD. the sale to another day, time, and place that may be applicable; any statutory certain without further publication, upon rights of redemption of any governmental announcement at the time and place agency, state or federal; any prior liens for the sale set forth above. All right or encumbrances as well as any priority STOPTEXTSSTOPWRECKS.ORG and equity of redemption, statutory created by a fixture filing; and to any or otherwise, homestead, and dower matter that an accurate survey of the are expressly waived in said Deed of premises might disclose. In addition, the Trust, and the title is believed to be following parties may claim an interest good, but the undersigned will sell and in the above- referenced property: convey only as Substitute Trustee. The BASIL B BAKPA Property is sold as is, where is, without IMEH R BAKPA representations or warranties of any The sale held pursuant to this Notice kind, including fitness for a particular may be rescinded at the Successor use or purpose. Trustee’s option at any time. The right THIS LAW FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO is reserved to adjourn the day of the COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION sale to another day, time, and place OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT certain without further publication, upon PURPOSE. announcement at the time and place Rubin Lublin TN, PLLC, Substitute for the sale set forth above. In the Trustee event of inclement weather, the trustee 119 S. Main Street, Suite 500 hereby announces that the sale will be Memphis, TN 38103 postponed for a period of two weeks. The West Tennessee News rlselaw.com/property-listing In such situations, notices will be Tel: (877) 813-0992 mailed to interested parties of record. Fax: (470) 508-9401 W&A No. 349204 Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 5, 2021 Fqn14695 DATED February 11, 2021 WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C., Call 523-1561 Successor Trustee Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 5, 2021 Fqn14696