Memphis Nonprofit Shifts Vision to Feed Children in Pandemic
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Public Records & Notices Monitoring local real estate since 1968 View a complete day’s public records Subscribe Presented by and notices today for our at memphisdailynews.com. free report www.chandlerreports.com Friday, March 19, 2021 MemphisDailyNews.com Vol. 136 | No. 34 Rack–50¢/Delivery–39¢ St. Jude receives $10 million to fight hard-to-treat cancers JANE ROBERTS opened a lemonade stand in her go to projects guided by St. Jude factors that drive acute leuke- transcription factors are hall- Courtesy of The Daily Memphian family’s front yard to raise money scientists. mias and medulloblastoma, the marks of childhood leukemia St. Jude Children’s Research for research. Dr. Charles Mullighan in the two leading causes of childhood and medulloblastoma and are ex- Hospital scientists will play key The foundation awarded hospital’s department of pathol- cancer death. ceedingly difficult to inhibit with roles in research announced $18.5 million to fund four proj- ogy and deputy director of its Transcription factors are traditional drugs. Researchers Wednesday, March 17, by Alex’s ects to improve cure rates for comprehensive Cancer Center, proteins that regulate gene ex- will use a new technology called Lemonade Stand Foundation, the childhood cancer. More than half will lead a team in Memphis tar- pression. Mutations altering legacy of a child with cancer who of the funding, $9.9 million, will geting aberrant transcription the expression or function of CANCERS CONTINUED ON P2 from orange chicken and rice; to soul food and each comes with a vegan or vegetarian option. Memphis nonprofit shifts vision The program is part of FTK’s goal to feed 10% of children ages 18 and under in the 38128 five meals a week. More than half of children in 38128 (54.5%) live at or below the poverty line, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. to feed children in pandemic That’s 1,800 people. Through mid-March, the nonprofit is serving about 600 people daily. The hope is this program will slowly change the nar- rative and long-term growth of Raleigh. “One of the main joys of this job is knowing that it’s free but it doesn’t look free,” said Lakei- sha Edwards, FTK’s director of food solutions and partnerships. “These are high-quality meals that are created by trained chefs. It just brings me joy to give people access to that when you know this may be the only opportunity they may have to that type of nutrition.” The work is done in the middle of FTK’s 100- acre site at 4100 Raleigh-Millington Rd. — an under-the-radar campsite used as a hub to make food to feed Raleigh residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. FTK was founded in 1997 by Memphis Lead- ership Foundation on the old Stax Party House site. It’s primarily used for hosting youth summer camps and literacy programming, church retreats and community meetings through various office spaces. “It’s like an escape in the city for the city,” said Torrey Bates, FTK’s executive director. “We’re the best kept secret. We’re like Gatlinburg in Memphis.” The nonprofit’s location and design represents “God’s kingdom on Earth,” an aspect crucial to its initiative. It’s part of larger framework to help the community through its Christ-like values and For The Kingdom executive chef Rebecca Phillips (left) and chef Kearrow Gibbs prepare a huge portion of mashed potatoes in vision. their Raleigh kitchen March 17, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) Bates moved from the Atlanta-area to lead FTK three years ago. When coronavirus hit Shelby OMER YUSUF children. Each day around 9 a.m., For and drivers are ready to deliver dinner County, he and other FTK staff had a meeting to Courtesy of The Daily Memphian The Kingdom’s kitchen staff arrives through FTK’s Feed the Block initiative discuss how they could benefit their community The site is one of Raleigh’s best-kept at its dining hall to prepare hundreds to daycare centers, individual homes during the pandemic. It was a short conversation secrets and home to an organization of free meals to delivered to Raleigh and apartments, and to the homeless as the Feed the Block program came to life. addressing a significant community residents later that afternoon. About population throughout the 38128 ZIP challenge — food insecurity among noon, staff begins plating those meals code, primarily Raleigh. Meals range NONPROFIT CONTINUED ON P3 INSIDE Public Records ���������������� 4 Public Notices ��������������� 16 memphisdailynews.com chandlerreports.com Marriage licenses are unavailable ©2020 The Daily News Publishing Company A division of The Daily News Publishing Company while Shelby County Clerk’s Office Memphis, Tennessee The standard for premium real estate Established 1886 • 135th year information since 1968 reviews internal policies for its digital Call 901.523.1561 to subscribe Call 901.458.6419 for more information platforms� Page 2 MemphisDailyNews.com Friday, March 19, 2021 Tax incentive approved for first Memphis automaker in 63 years in retrofitting an empty South- calculates, the auto firm would to the east. The Southern Cali- wind warehouse for assembling generate $52.8 million in local fornia company has yet to make all-electric vehicles. taxes during the 15-year PILOT. a car, but operates a handful of Mullen’s top executives re- Mullen plans to lease the car-related businesses: Mullen vealed the brand name for the 817,000-square-foot warehouse Automotive, Mullen Energy, Mul- first car — a “premium” cross- complex at 8400 Winchester, a len Auto Sales, Mullen Funding over SUV priced at $58,000 to 39-year-old building Nike vacat- Corp., and CarHub. $78,0000 — will be Octava. ed about five years ago. Mullen already is accepting The name derives from the Large pine trees and an em- $100, refundable deposits from music term octave, which is fit- ployee gazebo front the mas- front-of-line customers for the ting because it refers to a pro- sive building that sits on 37 compact, crossover SUV now gression in notes just as the car acres on the northeast corner known as the MX-05. industry is progressing in tech- of Winchester and Avenue of The company will start with nology and sustainability, execu- Commerce. direct sales, setting up a network tives said. If all goes to plan for the of its own dealerships. Mullen Technologies plans to make electric vehicles at 8400 Winchester. The term is also fitting since startup company, the plant will Critical to electric vehicles (Tom Bailey/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) Memphis has such a music heri- hire more than 700 people as a is the battery, and Mullen plans tage, they added. second car model is added, sales to install next-generation lith- TOM BAILEY The audio connection for grow from 5,000 units in 2024 ium-sulfur batteries instead of Courtesy of The Daily Memphian Memphis & Shelby County. In re- the online meeting was spotty, to 22,000 in 2027, and revenues the more common lithium-ion The first company to an- turn for those projected savings making it difficult to understand increase to $2 billion, the execu- batteries. nounce plans to manufacture on its city and county properties some of what the executives were tives said. Lithium-sulfur batteries have cars in Memphis since Ford taxes, Mullen Technologies — a telling the EDGE board. The industrial complex is advantages including being light- Motor Co. (1912-1958) received self-described “emerging elec- The board voted unanimous- wedged between TPC South- er-weight and less expensive. approval for a $40.6 million tax tric vehicle (EV) manufactur- ly to approve the payment in wind golf course on the north, The disadvantage engineers incentive Wednesday, March er”— would commit to hire 434 lieu of taxes (PILOT) for Mul- Windyke Country Club on the have worked to overcome has 17, from the Economic Develop- people, pay them $53,109 on av- len Technologies. Even with the south, FedEx World Headquar- been limited capacity for stor- ment Growth Engine (EDGE) of erage, and invest $362.4 million tax reduction, the EDGE staff ters to the west and some woods ing energy. CANCERS CONTINUED FROM P1 Roussel in tumor cell biology. Roussel molecular glues to degrade transcription is also co-investigator on another of the factors. foundation’s projects at Children’s Hos- Molecular glues bind structures by pital of Philadelphia. changing the surface of the target mol- The team includes researchers from ecule, allowing it to attach to another the U.S. and Germany focused on creat- protein. ing a drug to target the transcription fac- The “glues” were first discovered in tor MYCN, which drives medulloblastoma plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, a and other aggressive pediatric solid tu- small flowering plant native to Eurasia mors such as neuroblastoma. and Africa. Researchers will employ technology In medical science, molecular glues called targeted degradation to design a are a recent development, providing ways drug that tricks cancer cells to dissolve to treat disease that does not respond to MYCN, leading to cancer cell death. current therapeutics. “The grant will help “Transcription factors have been thought us expand a library of molecular glues that to be ‘undruggable’ but new technolo- will be used to find therapeutic targets in gies now offer novel approaches to target these tumors,” Mullighan said. them,” Roussel said. “The success of these “This is a new area of drug develop- projects could not be possible without the ment that holds great promise. If success- close collaboration of structural biolo- ful, we expect this approach will be able to gists, chemical biologists and molecular be applied to many other tumor types.